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The Washington times., 1929-09-05
PAROLE MAY Be
TOO LATE FOR
SINCLAIR
By international News Service


Harry f. Sinclair, oil magnate
who is serving a term In the Dis.
trict Jail for contempt of the Senate
and the Federal court here, will
have nearly completed his sentence
before the Administration gets
around to considering his applica.
tion for parole, 1t appeared today.
Sinclair's sentence expires on
November %. with time off for
good behavior.
Attorney General Mitchell has not
yet got around to making a recon-
mendation 20 President Hoover. The
delay, 1t was explained today, Is
due to the fact that 1t has not been
possible to obtain opinions of Jus
tices Siddons and Gordon, the sen.
fencing judges, as both have been
on vacation.
Sinclair's plea for parole was
based upon two major points. that
his health Is suffering in Jail, and,
that he already has been sufficiently
punished.
The Washington times., 1929-09-05
Delegate Elected
To Methodist Pafley

FALLS CHURCH, Va, Sept. o.
At the fourth quarterly conference
Of the Southern Methodist Church
last week, at the residence Of the
Rev. Homer WEIGH, T. T. Taylor. Of
Dunn Loring, was elected delegate
to the annual conference at Cum.
berland, September "a.
r. p. Shaffer. c. v. Shreve, W. A.
Fravel and DR.. Henry Knowles
were elected stewards. Fravel was
elected superintendent of the Falls
Church Sunday School and DR..
Knowles assistant superintendent.
The Rev. E. V. REGISTER, Of Alex.
andFia presided. ...,
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illogical

A ND so I say that both judge and
IA prisoners were spiritually kin.
The judge said in effect, You want
to change the government of this
country by force, do you? I'll show
the evil of that philosophy by send
ing you to Jail for ten years"
It seems to me a most illogical
attitude. I don't see how you can
convince an individual that force is
wrong by using force against him.
Moreover, the Communists might
pertinently have pointed out to the
judge that the nation which he
professed to protect was itself
founded by a violent revolution
against constituted authority. 1
think there is no great stamina in
saying, But the first revolution was
revolution to end revolutions"
I believe that no armed conflict
in the world ever has settled any
thing. Certain developments may
have been fastened a little, but it is
misleading to talk Of decisive bat
ties"
The course of the world is gov
erned by subtle forces far more
powerful than the biggest cannon
or the sharpest bayonet. Slavery
would have been abolished without
the Civil war and America must in
evitably have won freedom from
Great Britain even if there never
had been a Yorktown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Coolidge Still Coy

After few months in the has-been class, Coolidge
ernerges as a maybe he have the Republican
nomination for United States senator from Massachu-
sets for the asking. That is as it should be- The
G. O. P must have an unusually strong candidate TO
win And if the prestige Of an ex-President can not
carry the party the election line, what can?
But Coolidge is coy ever. He is not saying what
he WIN do That means perhaps, that he is ready for
the lightning to strike he must feel sure Of victory
before he takes chance.
1t would be easy enough for him to say no, now
But that is not the Coolidge way
The impotence of the Massachusetts Republicans
is amusing.
They are bornbardng him with letters, pleading
for a quick and definite decision. They don't know
their Calvin. His long residence in Washington has
made the Boston politicians forget that their idol
never made a quick decision in his life
He didn't choose to make his withdrawal from
The presidential race until the very night before the
Kansas City convention.
Coolidge has many faults, but false pride does not
happen to be one of them The fact that he appar-
emily does not think an eX-Presdent too good to
serve his country junior senator shows that he
tees himself in proper perspective
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Children Still Work

twenty-five years work have been completed by the
national child labor committee yet children still
labor with the sanction of the law.
This is not said in disparagement of the commit
tee. 1t has done valuable and intelligent work and
has accomplished much.
Yet it is we'll to remember that child labor never
will be ended simply by passage Of child labor 1egs-
lation.
This is problem with deep-reaching roots 1t
goes far into the economic structure of the nation
Children do not work because they want to or be-
their parents want them to- They work so they
may eat.
When southern mill workers are paid for their days
and nights of grinding toll enough to buy adequate
food shelter and clothing for their families there
will be no more child labor in the south When men
who work in the mines enough they and their
families may live decently, there will be child
labor in the coal mines
Child labor legislation the offered for
grievous ill., is important, but the of the sickness
of the body polite must be eliminated before
tonal ideal of healhfu intelligent people be at
tanned
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Porto Rico StarveS

To combat the starvation and disease gripping
Porto Rico the American Red Cross announces q
ne~ appropriation of $4,000 This in addition to the
s3=50oOo expenditure following the hurricane of last
year and the 100000 loan voted by congress.
The stories OF hungry and suffering children told
to American audiences by Mrs Theodore Roosevelt
wife of the Governor of Porto Rico doubtless will
swell the relief funds Such funds needed quickly
But temporary palliatves can not touch the basic
problem OF the island Wholesale undernourishment
and unemployment existed before the hurricane.
The evils of the Porto Rican system not be
eradicated by charity Salve to economic sickness
They can not be charmed away by incarnation about
political independence. Porto Ricans have right
10 independence. if they want it; but the large
jority know that such change would only increase
their economic problems.
The major problem is over-p population At best,
not more than two-thirds of the people could be
supported on that small island And under present
editions less than one-third are above the near
katon mark
e land is being taken from the people by giant
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
REASON By Ff aASpaS

A CCORDING to the federal health service there
n has been increase of malaria, both in amount
and in severity in the southern states during the last
three years and those who old enough know the
habits and customs of the beast will favor its exter
minaton by the national government, if the states
not handle it,
Malaria the unrelenting foe of the pioneer
The swampS of the undeveoped regions being citadels
OF disease and most of those who laid the foundations
of civilization in the middle west were its Victims
Some it slew without delay and others it slew oy
inches, filling them with agony and making their skin
as yellow as gourd
When this Internal disease was at its height, the
natives called it chils and fever very appropriate
if not entcing name, since minute you would be
sitting the equator and the next minute you would
be perched on the north pole.
All in all, chillS and fever, constituted about the
poorest indoor sport Of older days.
1t usually came in summer when fellows pillow
would become hot fire. the victim vainly turning
his head from side to side in search of comfort.
There no ice packs in those days and greatest
touch Of high life, far artificial temperature
concerned a cloth, dipped in well water
and placed on the feverish brow.
VOUR blood would boil and your pulse would GAL
Il lop and your head would seem ready to burst.
Then all of a sudden you would have chill and the
folks would pile the covers you yard deep, but
you would shake until the old cord bed groaned and
until your teeth ratified.
And this is no figure OF speech.
How hot it used to be during those old blistering
summer days. and there wire screens at all.
In fact those who had mosquito netting regarded
blue boods and to keep the flies in circulation
faithful friend sat by the bedside with switch,
made of papers cut in ribbons
And to cheer you up neighbor would drop in
and tell of those who had died during the last
twenty-four hours.
The one and only medicine quinne and you
took it by the bushe You took it not only when you
were SICK you took it, thinking it might keep you up
and about while the rest were in bed; you used to
take it at breakfast time
And there were no capsules in those days. SO you
took it rawl
VOU were burning up with fever and poison and
u your system fairly yelled for acids and sour
things yet the old-tne doctor told you to avoid
everything you wanted and take everything you didn't
want
And the morsel you craved beyond all other joys
of earth was q cucumber pickle!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Fighting the Flu

After six years of study during which $500 diff
ferent kinds of microbes studied Dr. Isidore S.
Falk of the University of Chicago announced that he
has isolated the germ which is responsible for in
fluenzs:
The discovery of the flu germ is another epic to be
added to the heroic talk of the conquets of disease
Fourteen members of the university staff worked with
DR.. Falk, many of them contracting influenza a num-
Der of times during the work
The experiments meant ceaseless hours OF toll,
alarm clocks being set to ring every half hour when
the men became almost too tired to keep their eyes
open. The study matches the historic researches of
Pasteur, Koch, Roux and Walter Reed.
1t is to be presumed that if the work of Dr. Fak
is substantiated, that an antitoxin for treatment
against the flu will be forthcoming
Thus flu will go the way of smallpox diphtheria
and other dread plaques which mankind has learned
to control
AS man conquers, one by one, the plaques which
germs cause the question arises: When will he
quer the mani made plague of war?
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Get the Rest

Discovery by prohibition agents of whisky factory
of such proportions to ente it to respect as one
of the major industries of the state suggests that the
whole duty will not be performed by the capture of
three or four sleepy hired men,
The very size of the plant indicates the impossible
fty of its operation without very widespread know-
edge, wide enough at least for some word to have
reached high quarters long ago.
Installing huge boilers and tanks the purchase Of
vast quantities of sugar the necessary truckage of raw
materials and finished products, can not be done,
even in sparsey settled community, with no infor-
nation tricklng to the outside.
Nor can these operations be carried on by the
impecunous criminal, the yagrant vendor, or the
unorganized mobs of minor offenders.
Such an operation suggests first of ALL an executive
mind Some one had to plan. Some one had to
discover the markets and arrange for them. Some
one had to scheme at least for the safe conduct OF
the truck loads of alcohol and liquor that were manu-
featured daily in these gigantic watts.
talso suggests financing of no mean size. some
where there must be a bank whose officials should
have been curious of the size of particular deposits
and Withdrawals Somewhere a railroad knew of
vast shipments of sugar And somewhere vendor
of sugar surely knew that the market for his products
in the hills of Vermion county was not such as TO
absorb such vast shipments as were made
1t is possible, of course, that the plant had been
operated under the terrorism of few farmers in the
vicinity 1t is possible that one in official circles
had an inkng but were merely blind or indifferent or
lazy.
For many months rumor has carried tales of the
existence of a well organized and large proportOned
moonshne industry in that county.
If it be true that this particular plant has been in
existence but two brief months then there are other
plants still to be discovered.
II this be the only Vioator then the people will
be disappointed if the trail is not followed to the
logical SUBMITS and those who hired the truck drivers
and the menials be brought into the net.
There can be no chance of success for the noble
experiment if the is unable to ferret out
only the employees of criminal and outlawed business.
1t will be interesting to discover how far the forces
of law are able to go the direction of getting those
who must have reaped fortune during the months
operation of this plant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Unbelievable but True

That many thousands of adult men and women can
not read or write nation so progressive and civil
lied the United States seems almost unbelievable
but true that it is causing President Hoover and
his cabinet concern.
The President, through Interior Secretary Wilbur,
has named a special advisory committee of twenty
three to study and combat illiteracy, which long
has been regarded as menace to any democratic
form of government
The committees work will consist in gathering
data the extent of ieracy and the best means of
overcoming it.
The greatest lack of education is in the rural
districts and consideration is being given to of
the radio to reach those who no schools nearby
It is problem that has been taken up before
without definite success. Only by awakening the
states to the appalling need of action can the COM
mittee hope to bring improvement.
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IT SEEMS TO ME By HF BFo9S

is run by the capitalistic class for
capitalists and that salvation can
come only through an armed revo-
luton, which will set up the dicta-
torship of the proletariat.
AS a thoroughgoing radical, 1
have no faith at all in force, barri-
cades or any sort of dictatorship. 1
am radical enough, indeed, to be-
lieve in democracy and a majority
rule.
A Communist is sort of inverted
conservative. He is wholly devoted
to the class system, but he wants to
cut the cards and place the bottom
of the deck on top.
There is only one remedy and
force is not it. Reforms come to a
people when they are ready for
them and there can be no readiness
without education. This may seem
tedious process, but it is the only
sure one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
It Is Dangerous

XXTE might as well admit that
w we are up against a danger
Gus situation, and that something
needs to be done about it.
We always have told ourselves
that prosperity would solve the
crime problem, and here we are
more prosperous than ever before,
more prosperous than any people
in the world, with our prisons crowd
ed, our court dockets clogged and
our population of ex-convicts grow
ing by leaps and bounds.
The congressional and legislative
investigate MS which have become
so common and which generally are
futile, illustrate the mental mire
into which we have plunged.
Though well aware that things are
wrong, we still are deluded with the
hope that they can be righted by
conversation.
The agreeable notion that we
could become moral by lip music
has inspired us to believe that we
can correct our blunders the same
way.
90, we exclude the wares ar1d
- swallow the Grundys; bar hooch
and protect the bootlegger; expose
Hobbies and exalt lobbyists; smash
slot machines and gamble in stocks;
censor books and tell smutty sto-
ries; preach intolerance and boy
colt our neighbor because he goes
to a different church; shout for
China and exclude the Chinese;
glorify conscience and decide what
is right according to our appetites
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Sound Money

TINE theory of free speech is as
Il simple as it is sound. If Com
muniSm were truly convincing then
thwart it by cruel punishments. The
truth has moved slowly upstream
from the beginning of history even
against the thumbscrew and the
rack.
And if Communism is fallacious
and wrong-headed, as I believe,
then let its opponents convict them
selves Of folly out of their own
mouths.
The common sense of the matter
is that there is not the slightest
danger of Communist revolution.
even little abortive one, in Amer
lea at the present time.
1t can be made dangerous only
by judges and other men who be-
come panicky and slap on severe
and silly sentences as if some terror
actually were lurking just around
the corner.
In fact, the only effective Com
munist propaganda in this country
is the reactionary.
Copyright. 1929. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
Fight on T. B. Requires Herd Tests

In GIT per cent of those killed
there we're visible LESSONS Of the dis
ease seen in the post-mortem exam
nation. In more than 20 per cent of
the remaining animals the disease
was demonstrated positively in lab
oratory studies.
This should be more than suff1-
Gent evidence of the scientific
character of these methods for the
demonstration Of tuberculosis in
cattle and for the necessity of using
every possible means of stamping it
out of herds in which it is found to
exist. When herds are made free of
tuberculosis they can be kept free.
More than 1900 American mu-
inequalities have taken measures to
protect their citizens against the
possibility of having unsafe milk
from tuberculosis cattle.
If milk comes from clean herds
and is paStuerized properly there
can be no danger 1t is possible now
to vision the time when all the milk
consumed in this country will come
from tuberloSiS-free cattle.
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Not Original

DRESIDENT HOOVER'S crime
Il commission appears to have
decided that the failure of prohibi-
ton, is due to the laxity, incom-
petence, and corruption of officials.
That is neither original, nor en-
tertaining.
Men on the street have realized it
for the last nine years.
What is worse, they have realized
the same thing with regard to
other laws. The prevailing attitude
toward prohibition has become an
infection, with thugs, thieves and
even murderers profiting through
the protection of bootleggers.
It Is impossible to wink at one
class of criminals, without benefit
ing the whole criminal fraternity,
or deny that they are criminals be-
cause Of disbelief in a certain law,
without providing a similar excuse
for those who disbelieve in some
other law.
why should you pick on me?"
asks the dope peddler, "if bootleg
ging is all right?"
"Or me?" the confidence man
wants to know.
COR me?" whine the white slavers
and racketeers.
And every sister, cousin, aunt, fly
cop Shyster lawyer, ward boss and
crooked Judge who has an ak to
grind joins the chorus.
u
Prohibition has become not only
an alibi, but smoke screen, for all
kinds of graft, corruption and GRIM
inal fraternizing.
1t has put a. logical argument in
the mouth of every law breaker, has
provided 2 consistent defense for
every corrupt office holder and has
led to an epidemic of wrong-headed
reaSonaing regarding the duty and
obligations of citizenship.
It has become common to hear
people justify violation of the law
and disregard of the Constitution on
the ground of dissatisfaction.
Well, if that is sound with re-
gard to hooch, why not with regard
to morphine, arson or forgery?
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

breaks out among herds Of domesti-
Gated animals it spreads rapidly, in
capacitating the animals for nor
NAL functioning, reducing their
weight and stopping the production
OF milk among COWS.
Hence it has been ruled that the
spread of the disease must be
stopped as rapidly as possible, and
this is usually done by destroying
all animals in an infected herd.
The most menacing Of all the
diseases affecting animals is tuber-
culosis. There seems to be no doubt
that tuberculosis affecting COWS may
pass through the milk to children
and produce various forms of tu-
bercuIosis in them.
Since 1917 more than thirty-fve
million of cattle have been tested
Or retested with tuberoulin to find
out if they were afflicted with tu-
-berculosis. Up to Jan. 81, 1927, &C
cording to DR.. Herman, 1873, 626
cattle reacted to the test and prac-
ticaIly all were destroyed.
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THREE communists in Ohio just
Il have received what seems to
me heavy and unjust prison SEN
lenses for preaching the doctrine OF
their party.
Two young men who spoke at a
meeting will go to Jail for from five
to ten years, and girl, only Il, has
been committed to the reformatory
for an indefinite term.
These punishments were melted
out by Judge W. w. Cowen under
the Ohio criminal syndicaliSm stat
ute.
I say that the punishments were
heavy and unjust because I think
that there should be no punishment
whatsoever against the preaching
of doctrine no matter how far
fetched or fantastic.
AS it happens, am much more
out of sympathy with the Commun-
list doctrine than the judge who i'm
posed the cruel sentences. He and
the prisoners shared a belief.
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+ uture

TINE question one can not help
4 asking is: What Of the future?
Tho present theremin has lyric
tone in the cello register. Its range
seems rather limited.
But this seems only a mere engi-
neering detail. There Is no reason
why circuits can not be arranged
to give every possible range from
piccolo to bassoOn and every tone
quality from violin to bass tuba.
One noticeable thing is that the
volume can be made tremendous. 1t
is possible for example to bring the
ninety-piece symphony orchestra to
double forte and yet have the tones
of the theremin issue triumphantly
and clearly above the whole Or
chestra.
The rich vibrant tone Of the the
renlin is like the wind 1t can flow
lightly like a gentle breeze among
summer trees, or roar like the fury
of a thousand storm winds.
Many have felt the need Of new
musical medium to express the ma
chine age. Perhaps, here in the
tneremin, itself a product OF the
machine age, is the instrument.
Will another half century see vio-
Inns and cellos in museums along
with fourteen stringed lutes and
other instruments Of the middle
ages?
VIII the concert Of the future see
a battery of theremins occupying
the stage? Will a half dozen play
ers manipulate the whole battery
and produce more intricate effects
than an orchestra Of ninety men
can at the present?
These are the questions one can
not help asking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-14
NJ. E. Tracy
out of the Ware Case We Get
q Grumpy and out of Our
Prohibition We Get q
Crime Wave.
AVS:
WARE, whose supporters spent

WARE, whose supporters spent
v s785,00O in the 1926 primary, is
excluded from the senate.
Governor Fisher, whose supporters
spent more than twice as much in
the same primary, appoints Grundy
to take his place.
Senator Nye says that Grundy
should be kicked out for consist
ency's sake, but his colleagues hest
tate for the CONSTITUTIONS sake.
Looking back at the performance,
you can not help wondering what
has been gained.
The idea of making men right
eous by legislative acts is beautiful,
but dumb.
Out of the Ware case we get a
Grundy, and out of prohibition, we
get crime wave.
1t is the same old story of where
people land when they substitute
law for honor and regulation for
virtue.
Some day, perhaps, we shall learn
that human character can not be
manufactured.
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their conduct in court. They had
delivered what authorities called a
Communist address when they were
asked if they had anything to say
before sentence was passed"
But what sort Of an address did
the judge expect them to deliver?
Surely he did not anticipate that
they would devote their last few
minutes of freedom to praise of the
protective tariff?
And if a man is going to spend
the next ten years in jail, I think
ne should be privileged to speak his
mind without let or hindrance.