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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Words and Action

THERE is harm enough in let
Il ting our domestic laws go I'M
enforced, but there is more in
adopting a similar attitude toward
the foreign policy.
If we would have the respect of
outsiders, especially in Latin
America, we must show that we
mean what we say or that we say
no more than we mean.
Too many times, our words have
failed to square with our actions.
We did not make Huerta salute
the flag, for instance, though we
declared he must, and we did not
get Pancho Villa, though we sent
an army across the border for that
purpose.
Such incidents are measurably
responsible for the fear, suspicion
and distrust with which our dec
larations are regarded.
Under different circumstances
the obvious efforts of this revolution
to gain control of border towns in
order to obtain arms and ammuni-
ton through smuggling would be
regarded as a brazen affront, if not
insulting.
Theoretically the border is closed
to them, yet the revolutionary
leaders make it their first goal.
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| In treating inf1ammations of the
eyes and the eyelids the doctor
usually advises hot lamentations
laid on The eyes for five. minutes at
a time. Sometimes he suggests that
witch hazel or boric acid be added
to the hot water.
Infections and infiammations of
the eyes should not be taken light
ly. 1t is better to be certain of the
exact nature Of the condition.
There are some infections such as
trachoma which are extremely
serious and which may go on to
the point of destruction of the eye
sight.
The ordinary Inflammation tends
to get well with simple hygienic
procedures but the serious infec-
tons will not succumb to such
treatment.
All sorts of eye-drops are offered
for use as panaceas for the ailments
that concern the eyes. 1t is not
well to put into the eyes any drops
of unknown composition.
The eye is one Of the most deli
cate tissues in the human body and
if it is damaged it does not tend to
recover as easily as portions of the
skin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Border Gun Running

TUN running has begun along
W the border. Who supposed it
wouldn't? Who supposed that the
rebels struck for border towns with
any other thing in mind?
Most Mexicans believe not only
that the United States is unable to
stop smuggling, but it wouldn't if it
could because of the cash involved.
Heaven knows they have good rea-
son for such a belief. Their country
has run red more than once because
of guns and bullets sneaked across
the border.
Are we going to disillusion them
this time or laugh and let the game
go on?
Such patrols as we have on the
border are helpless, of course. There
are 1900 miles of border-half of it
marked by a shallow river which
can be easily waded in places; half
of it marked by nothing.
Many men would be required to
stop smuggling on such a frontier.
1t is time we were putting more
on it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
HooVer'S Problem

XXTHAT has occurred = the past
w even the very recent past
constitutes no reflection on the Hoo
yer administration.
1t can not justly be held response
BILE for the gun-running that has oc-
CURED, or for the resultant belief
on the part of Mexicans.
The Hoover administration in
herits a bad Situation-a situation
which is somewhat analogous to that
'of prohibition, except that it deals
with bullets instead of booze.
The Hoover administration is
committed to a creed that has been
stultifled by lack of performance
and faces a revolution in Mexico
that pins vastly more faith on the
lack of performance than to any
thing else.
Drastic and effective measures
will be required to correct such a
misunderstanding.
If Mexico is to be convinced that
We mean what we say, which is the
first essential of happy relations n
anything like a permanent basis, the
border must be closed in TACT, as
well as by declaration, closed much
tighter than it ever was before
closed in such a way that no one
will forget.
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THE FRENCH PACT
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March Is
NNE hundred f1fty-one years
" ago today, the Marquis de
NoailleS, French ambassador in
London, announced to the British
government that his country recog-
1ized 5he independence of the
struggling American colonies, and
that it had formed a treaty of
friendship and commerce with
them.
The treaty had actually been
signed several months before. I'M
mediately after the surrender of
Burgoyne at Saratoga had proved
that the American cause was not
altogether hopeless.
War-weary America received the
news of French aid with great en-
thusiasrl. It was received with
other emotions in Europe.
Lord Stormont, British ambassa-
dor to France. left Paris immediate
~ without informing the French
~rnent of his intention. And
Spain, whose old American colonial
possessions gave her finger in the
American pie, likewise resented the
treaty.
Within a month France and Eng
land were at war and Spain was
kept friendly to France only by a
secret treaty, which promised that
France would recognize United
States dominion only as far west
as the Mississippi river.
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ProfitIeSS Education

DR. CLARK of Teachers college
~ has reported that college edu-
cation at the present day does not
yield dividends. This estimate is
based upon long and careful sur
vey.
Such inquiry may we'll ss.tye a
useful purpose. 1t is time 70 call
public attention to the fact That the
professions are oyercrowded Why
on earth should ny happy land
need so many lawy rs?
But after admitting the benefits
which may accrue from investiga-
ton, it is we'll TO point out that the
success or failure of modern educa-
ton must not be judged wholly By
d mere process Of arithmetic.
1t is ridiculous to class every per-
son of moderate means, or less. as
one who has been marred by his
years at college. I have always sup
posed that the chief purpose of
higher education was to fit the in
dividuaI to lead a fuller and hap
pier life.
I don't see how that can be meas
ured in terms of dollars. There
are thousands OF citizens more
worthy of national regard than Jack
Dempsey, and several Of them make
quite a little less money.
Copyright. 1879, for The 1imesl
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vt is no particular benefit to
l. President Hoover to have the
word go forth that ex-President
Taft induced him to appoint Slim
son secretary of state and Mitchell
encouragement, also that Taft in
duced him to place the revision OF
legal procedure before the country
as the paramount issue.
Taft ran his party into an open
switch, hence does not rank among
the aces of political wisdom.
The government will not get very
far in it's campaign to educate the
people along the line of the wisdom
of prohibition enforcement, for that
job is so big it can be done only
by the vast organizations which
waged the campaign which put pro-
hibition over.
Without such great educational
campaign against alcohol, the pro-
hibition law will not be enforced in
10000 years.
4
What tragic contrast in the case
of Marshal Foch. A little while ago
he spoke for the world and the CEN
trail powers accepted his ultimatum,
and now, mere shell of man, he
is carried by his nurse!
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TAFT is NOT AN ACE
ONE GREAT ADVANCE
GOOD LUCK TO ELSIE

IT'S all right for Hoover to let
4 Curtis sit in at cabinet meet
inbs, for Curtis is nice, quiet old
gentleman, but Coolidge knew bet
ter than to let Charley Dawes put
his feet under the cabinet mahog-
any, for Dawes would have told
them"
Inasmuch as both sides in this
Mexican war always kill all their
prisoners, one fails to get the view
point of those who surrender, since
it would be much more satisfactory
TO drop while fighting.
We have made one great advance.
In the old days tariff revision caused
national stagnation, manufacturers
closing their doors and merchants
not buying, but now, thanks to our
sense in changing only a few
schedules and in taking the tariff
out of politics, the business of the
country goes right on.
It
If it be true that Viscount D,Alte,
minister Of Portugal to this country,
intends to stop the use of liquor,
out of difference to our dry laws, it
will cause the greatest sensation in
his native land since the Lisbon
earthquake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Chinese Famine

In China there are 100000 famine victims. Re-
lief depends in large American generosity
Part of ~ responsibility and privilege of Ameri-
tunate than ourselves. And we shall not find a bet
ter place for our relief funds than those nine stricken
Chinese provinces
It never has been said that Americans are slow to
help others. We are criticised abroad for many
things But our enemies join with friends in adj
tvities in Belgium d. ring the war; in central and
eastern Europe during the postwar chaos in the Near
East and Far East, and wherever foreign communi-
ties have suffered from earthquake, Storm famine and
other disasters.
China has been included in our relief in the past
But Just because Chinese famneS lack the spectacular
quality of unexpected disasters, Americans are slower
to meet this latest emergency. There is also perhaps
the feeling that the Chinese to blame in far
as the recurring revolutions and disorders multiply
the famine evils
That is doubtless true in limited areas, but it is not
there is less civil wsr in China now than there has
been in several years. and more promise of stable
government Political conditions not account
for lack of rain chief of the present starvation
Reliable reports pile horror upon horror 1t is not
alone the slow death from starvation but the attend
ant evils of forced cannibasm and plague.
Once Americans understand the terrible need, they
will be quick to aid the Chinese famine relief COM
mission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Questions and AnSU,erS

/ the ball may be tossed or batted into
the air once at the beginning of a
dribble or during a dribble. The
instant the ball comes to rest in
either one or both hands, or touches
both hands simultaneously, the
dribble ceases and the player must
either pass the ball or throw for
goal. A player may pivot after a
legal dribble.
What is the largest known bird?
The ostrich. The male is some
what larger than the female ano
measures seven feet more or less in
| height from the top of head to the
feet and weighs upward of zoe
pounds.
Who won the Indian marathon
held in june, 1921, on the Pacific
coast?
The marathon from San Fran
cisco, Cal, to Grant Pass. Ore.
was won by Mad Bull. who covered
the distance in 7 days IL hours "a
minutes. He averaged about sixty
miles a day.
Where can O'DOnohOe, who wrote
the scenario for What Price
Glc.y," be addressed?
j. r. O'Donohoe may be addressed
care Of the Fox Film Corporation
Tenth avenue and Fifty-fifth street
New York City.
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energy seemed to be released steps instead of in
continuous flow.
EinStein in 1905 wrote a brilliant paper in which
he showed that this could be explained if we arbi-
rarily assumed that energy consisted of small part-
cles or bullets instead Of waves
This theory, known as the quantum theory has
since been confirmed by number of brilliant ex-
perimentS.
The most recent ones are those of the American
Compton-and the Englishman Wilson. The two
were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for their
work.
Compton showed that reflected x-rays were low
cred in frequency by the reflection This could be
explained only the basis that the X-rays con-
sisted of individual particles of energy which lost
energy by collision in the process of reflection
Wilson, by the Of ingenious apparatus. showed
certain effects which assumed to be the result of
he actual collision of single quantm particle of
x-ray with an atom of air
But while the quantum theory was thus eStab-
ished by these experiments the theory was not
verthrown.
No one has yet come forward with any adequate
explanation of the phenomena of interference other
han that of the wave theory
Compton himself has expressed the situation by
comparing the contest between the two theories as
football game in which the score is nothing to Moth
ing and the ball is in the middle OF the field.
One critic expressed The situation by saying that
physicists use the quantum theory on Monday.
Wednesday and Friday and the wave theory on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
EnsteinS new theory does not solve this difficulty.
Perhaps it paves the way TO extent. But one
thing is certain. Many new theories perhaps one or
two from Einstein car be expected, for any theory
which does not explain the nature Of light can not
be a final theory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Tariff Reprisals

How beautiF,I are t.! dreams of the high tariff
addcts, until they are shattered by realities. What
Utopia profits Is built up with the rising wall of
protection until that Utopia is destroyed by retalia
ton abroad.
For just as we prepare to increase our tariffs in
special session of congress to please farmers and
manufacturers the wicked foreigners threaten to give
us some of own medicine.
Even our long-suff4ring friends the Canadians,
beginning to turn us. That is bad N terms of in
ternational frien nip. But it is in terms of
trade and profits.
Canada is our best customer, her annual pur-
chases from running close to billion dollars.
Our foreign trade, in which Canada is such i'm
portant factor. represents in large measure the diff
ference between American depression and American
prosperity as Hoover frequently has pointed out.
That this important foreign trade is jeopardized
by Canadian resentment proposed American
tariff increases is shown by growing agitation for
prisals in the Canadian press and by statements of
Canadian officials. James A. Rohb Canadian minis
ter of finance in his recent budget report warned that
his government in making its future tariff adjust
ments necessarily would consider the possible effects
on trade of changes neng proposed in the tariff
schedules of other countries"
In session of the Canadian house of commons
last Monday conservatives and progressives joined in
attacking the American tariff proposals and threat
ened TO penalze the United States by lowering the
tariff British imports competing with American
goods
Resentment is not limited to Canada. President
Quezon of the Philippine senate cabled Washington
this week that the proposed tariff has convinced us
more than ever that Immediate independence will not
only be politically beneficial to but in the long
win have less injurious economic effect than the in
definite continuation of the present status"
Argentina, our best Latin American customer
officially has warned OF retaliation in connection
with the proposed tariff increase on corn and other
farm products. The Cuban ambassador in Washing
ton says frankly that an increase in sugar tariff
would mean an abrogation of the Plat amendment
under which We exercise protectorate powers over
Cuba
Already we are in the thick OF bitter tariT disputes
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I I
SEEMS
TO ME
BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

IT WILL be an excellent thing for
L us at the outset to accept the
fact that the war in Mexico is q
private fight. On the basis of pres
ent reports, the revolution seems to
have been fomented by military
| leaders desiring dictatorship.
1t will be to our advantage to
have the existing government main
tain its authority. Woodrow Wilson
asked the impossible during the
great war when he urged Americans
to be neutral in thought as well as
in deed.
The SyanpathieS of a nation can
not be swayed or muzzled. But it is
perfectly feasible for us to maintain
the StricteSt sort Of neutrality in
practice.
After all, the causes of tie present
uprising are obscure. Few of us arc
competent to pass upon the rights
and wrongs of the conflict. Indeed,
we have no divine assignment to
render official approval or censure.
Mexico never has intrusted to us a
veto power upon the composition Of
its government,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Our Foreign Policy
FOREIGN policY is Ike a !

A FOREIGN policy is like law
N no good unless enforced.
Our policy toward Mexico as
established by Coolidge, is to back
the recognized government by clos
ing the border to revolutionists.
That policy calls for something
more than declared intent. 1t counts
only insofar as it is made to stick.
Who believes we have guards
enough to make it stick, that arms
and ammunition have not already
found their way into Mexico and
that more will?
Who believes that the revolution
lists are not depending on this as
their most reliable guarantee of sue
cess?
Who believes that traders are
lacking to help them, that the stage
has not already been set in certain
American centers and arrangements
made for transportation?
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By
Frederick
Lands

XXTE hope Elsie Janis RECEIVERS,
w for she did a service for the
American army during the World
war which entities her to the pray
ers Of the country.
Il
The most promising member Of
the Hohenzollern family is Prince
Louis Ferdinand, second son of the
former crown prince, who has
turned his back on Germany and
started for Argentina to seek his
fortune.
If he succeeds, the crown prince
will promptly touch him, for the
crown prince is now engaged in put
ting a large number of notes in
circulation.
Since Coolidge took his electric
horse from the White House, Pres
ident Hoover has nothing TO mount,
but the Republican elephant, and
there's no thrill in this between
campaigns.
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Lindbergh in Danger


r AM fearful that something will
A. happen in Mexico which will give
our militarists grounds to whip up
excitement and call for interven-
ton.
Specifically 1 wish that somebody
in Washington would unoff1cially
ask Colonel Lindbergh to cease fly
ing over or near any fighting area.
If some irresponsible soldier should
fire at the aviator and injure him
in any way it would be extremely
difficult to check the demand for
vengeance.
For the sake of peace I think the
colonel should come home. 1t never
has seemed to me sound that a coun-
try>should try to guarantee its ma
tionals protection in all parts Of
the world. There must be circum-
stances in which the traveller moves
at his own risk.
Certainly it is fantastic TO pro-
tect an American when he desires
no such thing. I am thinking of
an American missionary in China
whom L know. The college where
he taught was seized by some one
of the many revolutionary groups
and he returned to America After
a bit, when conditions modified a
little, he was anxious to go back
and take up his work again, but
the state department refused to is
sue him a passport.
They said that the area TO which
he purposed to go was still danger
GUS and they did not want him to
get into any trouble which would
necessitate the sending of marines.
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Doesn't Want II

"DUT," the missionary insisted, Il
- don't want any protection. I'm
not asking for it. In fact, re-
fuse it. Let me sign a paper say
ing that against your advice I went
back to the college. Then if I get
killed everybody will know that I
took the risk of my own free will"
But the American officials would
not allow the missionary his own
latchkey, and fol all I know .ss is
still waiting for permission TO do
the thing he wants to do.
Sometimes / wonder what use
passports are in any case. OF course,
I know that in theory they aid the
various countries in identifying
dangerous radicals and criminals
and other undesirable
But as me war proved a oesp5--
ate man can always manage to get
hold Of a forged document
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Unfortunate

IF military dictatorship is set
i up to the south of lis, it will be
unfortunate. America has not and
should not refuse to recognize Mus
solini's Italy merely because some
of his processes may seem to us
high handed.
1t would be silly for us to pass by
any man in the saddle in any for
eign land. Even though he comes
to us with bloody hands, we still
should say good morning"
If the internal affairs Of Poland
are none of our business neither are
those Of Mexico, no matter if she
is our neighbor. We are in no po-
sition to settle her problems. No
government existing solely by our
favor can hope to stand with any
grace or permanence.
Naturally it is essential for the
American army to see to it that
fighters keep on their own side of
the river. 1t is also well for us to
protect life and property Of Amer
leans in Mexico as far as possible.
But this can be only a limited
activity. There has never been a
wal in which neutrals did not fare
badly.
We ourselves did not always avoid
the giving of offense to citizens OF
noncombatant nations when the
war fever griuped us.
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light waves. The
existence of such
waves appeared to
be clinched by
such experiments
as the one by
Y o u II 6 demon
strating the in
t er ferenc &c of
light.
But as early as
1900, it became
apparent that the
way in which en-
ergy was radiated
from hot bodies
did not follow the
wave theory. The
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with France, Spain and other European countries,
which would be intensified by proposed increases.
No wonder the President is holding out against the
powerful Republican group demanding general up
ward tariff revision But the more moderate
Hoover program for slight adjustments industrial
schedules and larger increases farm products may
endanger our lucrative foreign trade with Latin
America and Canada.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-13
Daily Thought

Can a maid forget her orna-
mentS, or a bride her attire? Yet
my people have forgotten me days
without number.-Jeremiah 2:S2.
NHEN are men: the best some
1Y1 times forget. Shakespeare.
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The American Home Economics Association il
working out an efficient arrangement of kitchen IA
cilities. Has father been complaining?
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Bullets or Light WAGES?
No. 3O2

r IGHT, according to the brilliant work of a long
IL line of physcists-Huyghen Young, Frensel and
MaXwel-conssts of in space, or if you prefer
to fill space with a hypothetical medium, in
the ether of space.
Maxwell worked out beautiful set of equations
which fundamentally explain the behavior of these
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days later they will be very red
the lids will be glued together in
the morning and become swollen
and puffy.
Little red spots will show in the
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Hold old is Ethel Barrymore?
She was born Aug. Is, 1879.
Where is the University of Michi-
gan located?
Ann Arbor. Mich.
When did Lent begin in 1928?
Feb. %, which was Ash Wednes-
day.
Is it too late to convert war risk
insurance into regular government
insurance?
All war risk insurance automat-
ically became void July 2, 1927, I'M
less converted before that time.
What is the rule for dribbIe in
basketball?
A dribble is made by a player CIV
ing impetus to the ball by throw
ing, batting, bouncing, fumbling OF
mufing it and touching it again
before it touches another player. II
a dfibble the ball must come in
contact with the floor, except that