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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-08
REASON By Ff 4zSB1s

T@HAT was a bright idea somebody offered to make
Il Ambassador Charles G. Dawes mayor of Chicago,
for that town needs a dynamic, fearless mayor as
much as any foul area ever needed publication by
lightning.
And il necessary he could run over to London
every ninety days and attend to the diplomatic work
over night.
AS mayor of Chicago. Dawes would cut the tie
between politics and crime; he would bathe the
underworld in carbolic acid; he would drag Father
Dearborn from his long slumber and rescue civic
consciousness from its coma; he would buckle the
tapping belt of law enforcement and comb the moss
from off ChicagoS Il will" ?
Stone mountain, down in Georgia, is the only ac-
tive volcano in the United States and 1t has been in
eruption almost constantly ever since the movement
started to chisel the Confederate memorial upon its
granite cheek.
The last hot lava thrown up is the indictment of
Gutzon Borglum for taking away his models when he
quit.
ID IGHT now when we are all so interested in
N STRENGTHENING law enforcement. 1t doesn't help
much for the treasury department to issue orders that
congressman and other high officials returning from
abroad may enter without having their baggage in
spected.
II will take a special dispensation Of Providence
to enforce the idea of the absolute equality of all men
before the law.
Costa RIGA has ratified the Kellogg pact. renounc-
INK IL NAAANAA 80
with goose-fesh-
y
We are not surprised to read in the papers that
ex-Secretary Fall registered illness when called to
washington to face another criminal trial. In fact
we warned you several weeks ago that he would snow
M with a relapse. for he always has done So.
Since he was first indicted, Fall has filed afhdavits,
showing that he had everything except tape worm,
and more people have looked at his tongue than ever
looked at the Leaning Tower OF Pisa. -
But even should Fall, Sinclair. and Doheny uti-
mately escape. they would give anything to blot out
the past. for all Of them have been branded by the
supreme court of the United States and Tor eight
long years they have been in the prison OF fear.
Every time they've seen a teapot they've had q
chill.
THIS last American Legion convention at LOUIS
Vile was a wonderful tonic for the country.
War is the sum Of all horrors. but without It's
sacrifices and its glories, we would have lew Things
to recall with pride.
These men Of the Legion are the great asset Of the
future.
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The Finest Convention

Candidate Glossbrenner performs a pub
lie service when he invites attention to the
meeting Of the Republican committee which
nominated him and praises it as the finest
example Of the convention system.
It was just the sort of a Convention"
which the foes of the primary system have
dreamed, for in that gathering was no man
with a mind Of his w no one who voted his
own preferences, no one who dared protest
against the edict of the boss.
The ticket of that gathering was ar
ranged as the enemies of the primary system
wish to arrange all tickets-in a secret con-
ference dominated by a boss.
No one is g%uileless enough to believe that
Mr.. GIossbrenner or any Of the other candi-
dates would have been considered had not
Boss Coffin in advance not only given APPROX
al but orders for their nomination.
Had the same names been presented to a
similar Coffin gathering four years ago, Mr..
Glossbrenner would have been hooted and
ieered and the candidate would still have
been Duvall.
This gathering was g convention in name
Ully. Lie lilcl ddU WOllCIl WIN WSliC CLIONSH
the motions knew that to oppose Coffin meant
removal from their position on the commit
tee. That was the threat, made possible
through supreme court interpretations of
election laws so that the chairman becomes
the master Of his party and the keeper of its
conscience.
Only the positive knowledge that to name
one of the old type of men who served him
meant defeat at the polls could induce Coffin
to select a ticket for which no apologies
needed to be made on the ground of respecta-
bility. Otherwise he would have named can
didates who were ready to believe the statute
of limitations is the bill of rights.
The repeal of the prlmarysmeans the end
of self government. 1t means that the decent
and orderly portion of society must bargain
with bosses for crumbs. 1t means that fear
alone will force concessions to honesty. 1t
means the end of popular government.
1t means, to those who have fought brave
battles for popular government, that the in
fluence of the Beverages who made such
fights is gone and that bossism, autocracy
and political tyranny have again returned.
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A MEXICAN newspapers have
IN been far too lenient in their
comments about the breakdown OF
law in North Carolina. Editorial
commentators have allowed the red
herring Of Communism to draw
them off the trail.
A somewhat perfunctory regret
has been expressed at mob action
but there has always been the post
script that "of course, much can be
said on both sides"
Many an editorial writer still
seems to feel that it is something
less than murder if a Communist
gets killed. I am ready to agree
that the presiding judge did every
thing in his power to afford a fair
trial to the workers of Gastonia.
Yet even this seems to me a thing
that should be taken as a matter
of course, rather than the subject
for celebration. I always had sup
posed that our scheme of govern
ment invariably guaranteed a fair
trial except, of course, in Massa-
chuSettS.
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for, after all, economic laws must ultimately rule the
world and political laws will have tosconform.
When Hoover and Macdonald finish their sessions
it might be well for them and political engineers in
the other countries to sit down, read Thompson's
book carefully, and then do a big Job of hard thinking.
With ever-increasing knowledge of science and the
steady triumph over disease, with the persistent in
naturalization Of agricultural countries, war, pesti-
lence and famine can no longer be trusted to regulate
population growth, and we will have to find new and
better ways than war to keep peace in the human
family.
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higher than that for 1927, but still
Is the second lowest infant death
rate ever recorded in this country.
There are, of course, many factors
which may influence the death rate
badly or favorably in some cases.
Obviously a city located like Seattle
or Portland is more healthfu1 than
one with a climate like that of many
of the cities in the south or south
eastern portions of the United
States. For years the rates of the
cities in the northwest have been
low.
In 1928, Seattle and Portland had
rates of 43, and San Francisco a
rate of Is. In 1927, Seattle was
first with Al, and Portland and
Minneapolis tied with II. Among
cities of over 100, 900 to 100000, Oak
land Cal, led with At, followed
by Spokane, Wash, with 40.
OF cities between $4,000 and 1oo,-
900, Berkeley was first with 81 and
Union City, N. Y, second with 80.
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Child Health Conditions Far Better

Among cities of $4,000 to $4,000,
Alameda, Cal, was first with Is;
Medford, Mass, second with 80, and
Oak Park, H.. and Everett, Mass,
third with 81. In the smallest pop
ulation group, Holland, Mich, was
low with 81, then Baintree, Mass.
with %, and Stonington, Conn, with
81.
Of the largest cities in the United
States, that of the rate of Los An
geles fell in ten years from SO to &c;
Cleveland in ten years from 100 to
go, and Baltimore from 122 to 80.
The states with the highest in
FAINT mortality rates during recent
years have been Arizona, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and
Mississippi.
Obviously the health work in our
large southern communities is in
fuenced badly by the large number
of Negro population and by similar
factors.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By EFo{}S

much truth in the assertion of mill
owners that they regarded them
selves as patriots fighting the Red
menace.
The American Federation of La
Dor was behind the Marion strike
ana members of this conservative
body have faced even worse at the
hands of the police than did the
more radical union in Gastonia.
There is every reason to believe
thai North Carolina mill owners are
plain and simple liars when they
bleat about the flag and aliens who
would tear 1t down. The only things
these business men are out to pro-
tect are profits.
In describing the outbreak of the
bloody riot at Marion, Sheriff Oscar
Adkins tried to convince the news
paper men that he vas a peace
maker dealing with d~esperadoes.
|. His version of the affair is some
what marred by the fact that all
four men who died were strikers
and that of the twenty or more
wounded only one was a sheriff's
deputy.
1t is also interesting to note that
the officers of the law were armed
while the pickets had no more than
perhaps a few sticks and stones.
If the necessity in Nicaragua is
no longer pressing. I suggest that
the President lands marines in
North Carolina to protect American
citizens in their inalienable right to
organize and agitate against a law
less tyranny.
Copyright. 1929. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-08
~ZHTSS&
47d Is
H4RAHt
GREAT FIRE

CHICAGO'S GREAT FIRE
Oct. 8
ON Oct. 8, 1915 Mrs. OLeary's
" cow kicked over the kerosene
lamp that started Chicago's great
fire.
The COW barn in which the fire
originated was on De Koven street,
near the corner of Jefferson, on
the west side of the river.
This region was composed largely
of shanties and the fire spread
rapidly, very soon crossing the river
to the south side and fastening on
that part of the city which con-
tanned nearly all the leading
| business houses.
Famed by a gale, the fire ragged
uncontrolled for two days and nights,
sweeping over 2,1O0 acres, destroying
17,540 buildings and causing 200
| deaths.
The amount of the total property
loss was estimated at 5000, 000,0 00. OF
this vast sum, about half was COW
cred by insurance, but under the
tremendous losses many Of the in
suranee companies were forced 70
the wall and the victims of the con-
f~agration recovered only about one
nth Of their aggregate losses.
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against whom it has not a scrap of
evidence.
It was entirely reasonable that
certain Communist leaders should
have been brought to trial after the
killing of the police chief, but it
was monstrous to use the killing as
an excuse for spreading a dragnet
to catch every radical organizer
connected with the strike.
The state of North Carolina will
be in no position to receive con-
gratuIations unless it shows the
same energy in running down the
killers who shot a woman striker as
it has bestowed upon the effort to
convict the slayers Of the police
chief.
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See War as Inevitable

IF we have become intelligent
L enough to do what we ought.
without fire, why haven't we become
intelligent enough to do what we
ought, without war?
To hear some folks talk, however,
one would suppose President Hoover
and Premier Macdonald were in a
conspiracy to destroy civilization,
that a disarmament conference
was one of the seven deadly sins,
and that any man who tried to pre-
vent war in any way, except by ad-
vocating bigger armies and navies,
was a traitor.
In their opinion, war is inevitable,
and the only way to postpone, or
avoid it, is to keep the other fellow
scared.
Time was when men looked upon
every kind of misfortune as
inevitable-fiood, famine, smallpox:
cholera, yellow fever, fire and war.
Time was, when they saw nc
other way of meeting epidemic than
by keeping a goodly supply OF
collins on hand, when their one
hope of escaping swollen rivers was
in flight, and when they could think
of nothing in the face of blighted
crops but prayer.
Time was when those who ad-
vocated scientific measures were re-
garded as in defiance of the divine
plan, and they actually were put to
death in some cases to foreStau the
wrath of an outraged God.
Time was when pain and suffer-
ing, whether inflicted by nature OF
man. were looked upon as essential
| purifiers of the human soul.
Within the last few hundred
years men have come to realizefthat
they could improve themselves and
their conditions without being
driven to it; the poverty was not
| indispensable to the production OF
genius; that a sense OF honor was
not irreconcilable with clean
clothes; that social order was a
matter of education. rather than Of
fear. and that suffering could be
avoided without breeding a race OF
towards.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Al Inv 4AOASASA0 AA0AAOGAAN
Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
vt long has been understood that
l. the infant mortality rate of the
community could be taken as a
fairly good measure of it's healthful-
ness.
The American Child Health Asso-
citation regularly reports on more
than TOO cities of the United States
as to their rates of deaths for in
fantS within the first year of life.
There was a time when some
cities had rates as high as 200 or
more to the thousand; in other
words, at least 200 babies out of
every 1000 that we're born died be-
fore they were l year old.
The latest studies by the Child
Health Association show that the
rate for TIC cities in 1928 was 69.2,
as compared with the rate Of 66.9
during 1927. The rate for 1928 is
therefore slightly over three points
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There She Stands

! T THE moment there remains
IA much for North Carolina to do
if she is to lift herself above the
level of the debased commonwealth
where Webster Thayer still sits up
on the bench unashamed. North
Carolina is not at this moment de-
serving of a place among civilized
American communities.
1t is true that a number of de-
PENDANTS in the Gastonia cas- have
been released, but this was strategy
rather than impartial justice. After
all, even a vindictive prosecution
hardly can afford to try prisoners
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Must Guarantee Peace

TIME issue thus raised includes
l. far more than the simple ques-
ton Of whether sovereign govern
ments shall continue the mad race
Of armed rivalry, and be permitted
to wage war at will.
If these time-honored privileges
are to be set aside, a new system
must be devised-a Sytem which will
offer guarantees of peace that are
as effective and as practical as those
disestablished.
Tradition says, "It can't be done"
but that is what tradition has said
with respect to everything new and
progressive since the dawn of time.
Who is opposed to fire prevention?
Who thinks it glorious to burn a
building, or reprehensible to keep
one from burning?
No one, of course, yet quite a
strong argument could be made in
defense of fire by adopting the logic
that some people employ in defense
of a
Fire has cleaned out more than
one slum district and given birth to
a sadly needed construction pro-
gram in more than one community.
Most people believe we have
grown sensible enough to do what
WI ought, without the spur of such
a costly incentive, and that we can
unite in an effort to prevent fires,
without losing our taste for better
buildings, or becoming indifferent to
filth.
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Questions and
AnSWerS

Was Kerensky or Lenin the leader
of the revolutionary movement
which overthrow the czar of Rus
STA?
Neither was the leader of the
revolution. On March IL, 1917, the
Russian duma carried through a
coup d'etat, as a result of which
the Emperor Nicholas II abdicated.
A provisional government under
Prince George Lvof was set up
which held office until May Is, 1917,
when it was reorganiZed. On Aug.
6, 1917, occurred what is sometimes
called the second revolution when a
new cabinet under Alexander Ke-
rensky was formed. This govern
ment maintained itself until Nov. z,
1917, when the Bolshevik revolution
or third revolution occurred under
the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky,
and the military revolutionary COM
mittee seized the government au-
thority and handed it over the next
day to the all-Russian congress of
the councils of workmen'S soldiers
and peasants deputies.
What has been the increase in the
Negro population of the United
States in the last twenty years?
According to the 1910 census there
were 9,827,763 Negroes in the United
States. The 1920 census showed
TO- 63, 131. There are more than
II, 0o0, 900 Negroes in the United
States today.
What place in the United States
has the greatest amount of rainfall?
Glenora. Tillarnook county, Ore
! gon, avering 1915 inches of rain
fall a year.
What is the smallest gold piece
ever issued by the United States?
The one dollar gold piece.
What Is the highest rank in the
| United army. u
General. =
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Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor Times-I notice the pic
lures of the Democratic city ticket
in your paper and also what church
they all belong to. Why is 1t, that
it is so important in Indiana that
every time a man moves to Indian
apolis, or is appointed, o. nominated
to any Office, they must tell what
church he belongs to? What differ
ence does it make, if the man is al
right? Was it always so?
A DAILY READER.
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NJ. E. Tracy
What People Want NoW and
What They Haze a Right to
Expect Is Freedom to Make
Use of the World.

premier MAcDoNALD's visit to


l. the United States overshadows
| every other event in the news.
The presence of the head Of the
British empire in Washington marks
the end of an era, especially since
it Is designed to promote progress
of international relations which
must include the civilized world to
be of practical benefit.
The British prime minister and
| the President of the United States
r revealed as working for the bet
torment of humanity, and as repre-
senting a new kind Of statesman
ship.
Who has the hardihood to hope
for failure? who wants another
| Shearer at the conference which will
meet In London next January?
Who believes that the further ad-
vancement of civilization offers
more than one choice?
Obviously, we have come to an
other parting of the ways, with the
alternative of accepting bigger and
broader responsibilities, or setting
the clock back.
Accumulated knowledge has led
mankind to break down national
barriers in every respect except
politics.
Trade, travel, art, culture and in
dustry no longer recognize them as
Of primary Importance.
What people want now, and what
they have a right to expect, is free
dom to make use of the world.
What they ask of craftsmanship
is ways and means of maintaining
the necessary order.
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Daily Though

And We be kind n to another,
tenderhearted. forgiving one an
other.-Ephesiains, 4:32.
y .
AS nice as we are in love. we for
give more faults in that than II
frieridship.-Henry Horne.
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Something Else

A ND the recent bloodshed in
IA Marion, where four union men
died under the fusillade of the sher-
ifs deputies, puts an entirely new
complexion upon the temper of the
states law officers.
Obviously, there was never very
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-08

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard tO Their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Ct
this paper.-The Editor.
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What Is the highest rank in the
United army. ~
General Z
New Britain herald., 1929-04-09

money.
 From Phillips. the thieves took
 s6o, overlooking $500 in a secret
 pocket. Among the loot, as reported 1 to police, was d diamond ring valued
 at $4,O0O, a pair of earrings worth i $2200 and bracelet valued at $l,- 000.
 Dr. Lee Shiffman, the cantor, lost sGo a diamond tiepin and $1.100 which lay on table and which was to have been paid him for his sery- ices.
 { As the robbers approached N. J. Braunstein, he slipped his watch in- i to the hands of his wife. At the
 same time Mrs. Ross Weissler gave Mrs. Blaunstcin S600 diamond ring. Mrs. Braunstein dropped the valuables into a box of doughnuts she carried, and when the robber
 approached she held the box out to them, offering them q doughnut, The
 thieves passed by. without exam i ming the contents of the box J. D. Raynes offered $1.90 to the robbers as they approached him. TT m the shamus janitor)," he said.
 Keep it." said the robber chief. One woman tainted. After the rob- bers had gone, Rabbi Goldstein of
 fered prayer of thanks that no
 lives had been taken.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-09
YOUNG HEFLIN IS
 WET 0N BROADWAY
(Continued from First Page)

that Young Hehin received couple of cuffs from a policeman and was escorted to the West 30th street sta ton. There he applied for lodging for the night, or what was left of it, and was refused Thornton ffnai- ly arrived to take him to the Hotel McAlpin.
 Some suggested Young Hefiin was depressed by statement issued by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, national presi- dent of the Womens Christian Tenn perance Union.
 If Young Hef1in had remained on the water wagon while in Panama. {. his father would not be heartbroken now" Mrs. Boole said
 When the Ancon arrived yesterday Hetlin was in a c6nvivial mood. He waved his large Panama hat at re- porters and announced his stand OH prohibition was almost directly op- posite to that taken by his father.
 Only Dry in Alabama
 "When l am in Alabama. I'm a dry" Heiiin said. But when 1 get in a wet state like New York. Pm a Wet. ! may catch from dad for saying that. but l have to say it.
 Where is Al Smith? He has the right idea. Give the states what they want. l think I'll go up to the Biltmore and see All
 Senator Tom Connally of Texas, decided that Hefin would not see Al smith or anyone else.
 T have son Of my own.' Con- nally said I'm going to take care of this boy
 Connally, who also was aboard th4 Ancon, refused 10 let Hetlin go any further in his in1orsement Of Smith. who is Senator Hefiin's most bitter political enemy.