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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Vote Tomorrow

Every citizen who has party preference
should vote in the primary election tomorrow
Two good tickets, composed Of men and
women of equal intelligence and honesty, IS
the goal for which the voters of both parties
should strive.
The venal the crooked, the seeker for
special privileges, the crafty and the selfish
citizen will be sure to vote. The only way
in which these forces can be overthrow IS by
a large primary vote.
The larger the vote, the less chance Is
there for any group of selfish people, anxious
to obtain power that they may betray the
public interest, to be victorious.
A big vote in both parties is likely to IN
sure good candidates on both tickets.
There are many states, prepared and
scattered by those who have special purposes
to serve. 1t will be well to ask who prepared
any slate you are asked to vote. That may
serve as a guide. 1t may be warning.
Machine government is always bad gov
eminent. The primary offers the chance to
crush the machine. 1t is the chance for the
common citizen to express himself.
The man or woman who fails to vote to-
morrow counts for nothing.
s If you wish to protect your own inter-
sests, vote for men and women whom you be-
slieve to be in sympathy with your interests.
"a light vote always helps the fixer and the
boss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Law of the Road

s. PSYCHOLOGIST talking over the radio and answer
ling questions tried to letter asking why the
writer felt an urge pass people on the lett instead
s of the right when walking on the sidewalk
The psychologist SAID he did that very thing MINI
self and his reason was that he always was in hurry
and was delayed by people in front OF him when ne
walked on the right because they might meander
one way or another and interfere with his progress;
whereas if he walked along the left side he could
dodge people coming his way or they could dodge
him and get out of his way.
s, The trouble with that answer was that 1t was
violation of law however good it might be as pSy-
chology In walking on the left side of the walk he
sefishy was VIOLATING the law of the road for his own
convenience, and taking advantage of the fact that
people coming his way were observing the law OF the
road
s If he tried the tactics while driving an auto
mobile he would get himself in trouble.
Most people obey the law of the road when walking
Son sidewalk. If they didn't there would be con-
fusion and nobody would have rights in the mat
ter of passing others. What the psychologist did was
to violate for his own selfish purpose, law which
sothers obeyed He lucky that he didn't get punch
in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
REASON By Ff HAHBfS .

TT is said that FARO Agha the 156-year-old Turk
who never has dipped his tonss in strong drink
VIII be brought to the United States by the American
Ant-Acoho Society," and presented as an example of
the benefits of total abstinence.
If FARO comes he will be accompanied by his pratt
ting grandchild who is only 100 years of age
The vets probably will come back at Zaro nv re
terrlng to Noah, the first admiral he having been
quite oevotee of the flowing bowl so much so that
he is reported to have celebrated the end of the flood
by planting vineyard and getting drunk as boiled
OWL
Despite this Noah lived to be $50 years of age be-
ing as We recall, the runner-up to Methusaleh his
grandfather in the contest for the longevity cup.
MethuSelah turning in a score of 969 years.
D EGARDLESS of the merits of the matter by their
demands that the present warden be removed,
the convctS Of the Ohio state prison have made that
officials retention imperative
Whenever the time comes that those behind the
bars can tell organized society where to head in then
organized society should go into the hand of receiver
With three Americans kidnapped and held for ran
som by Mexican bandits in the last two weeks Mexico
appears TO be hungry Tor the iron hand of Diaz
When Diaz was president he ended the bandit
business by calling the greatest of them and max
ing them captains of his police twice their
former revenues.
those who are hard up and out of work doubt
Il less will be delighted to learn that the treasury
department has granted 1856 379 refund to John D.
Rockefeller on account of his income tax.
II this age wonders shrink to commonplace in one
brief hour
little while ago Lindbergh's dawn-to-dusk flight
the Caribbean from Havana to Crisobal canal
would have brought the entire country to the
bulletin boards but last Sunday it was regarded
mere matter of routine
So it win be with Atlantic aiss before sonc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Eventually, Why Not Now?
Webster says politics is the science of COVER

Webster saws notifies is the science of government
In the house of representatives, politics is the
s'science of compromise That science" is being in
evoked now to please Republican leaders and the power
trust.
The senate repassed the Norris bill for govern
ment operation of Muscle Shoals
The bill was sent to the house. There it lay on the
Speakers desk for time and eventually was referred
to the house military affairs committee.
Weeks passed. The subcommittee worked behind
Eclosed DOORS the members enjoined from telling of
eheir discussions. Those doors closed, in fact,
TO newspaper reporters. They open, in effect to
Representative Tilson the Republican leader Through
those doors seeped the desires of the powerful house
srules committee.
Tfson told the committee that nothing that even
looked ike the Norris bill should be reported out.
chairman Smell OF the rules committee-himSelf
power magnate-indcated that only bill allowing
private lease of Muscle Shoals would be allowed the
floor of the house.
The subcommittee chairman started his deliber-
ations with the announced determination to draft
leasing bill as ordered but also to make the Norris
bill an alternative to it.
The masters refused such bill. So the leasing bill
was drafted 1t has reported to the full commit
tee which, this week expected to present it to the
Mouse.
3, But what of the Norris bill? What of government
separation? Will the American Cyanamid Company get
the shoals? The senate lobby committee showed that
Sthers was a tact agreement between the Cyanamid
company and the power companies.
Now enters that evasive thing called practical
political strategy.
st Here is how it will work. its proponents say:
i The house will pass the leasing bill. Its leaders
salready have seen to that The bill will be sent to
conference with the senate.
Then these strategiSts contend, the conferees will
invoke the science" of compromise; the senate will
accept the leasing BILL the house will accept the Nor
iris bill and out of the conference will leasing
proposal with government operation an alternative.
But these strateglsS forget that the senate, twice
having passed the Norris bll is committed TO govern
nent operation They forge that Norris will not agree
80 leasing proposal. They forget that the natioa
wants tie Norris Dill.
Isl They forget that the states most concerned Ten
neSsee ard Alabama-want action, but more especially
they want TO help save one of the countrys great
natural resources from the fertilizer trust the Amer
lean Cyanamid Company the electro-chemical
Germs.
Is When will they how to the inevitable and accept
the Norris bi9
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ANNIVERSARY
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ARBOR DAY
May 5.

A RBOR DAY, the annual tree
IN planting day now generally
observed throughout the United
States and in parts OF Canada and
Great Britain, was originated In
Nebraska in 1872.
While Nebraska commentaries
the day on April %, most states
observe it on May 5. The partlcu-
lar date selected necessarily varies
with the climate and the season,
from January in Florida to April
or May in most Of the northern
states.
The pioneer mover was j. Ster-
ling Morton, member OF the Ne
braska state board of agriculture
during President Cleveland's sec
ond term.
He offered a resolution that
people throughout the state plant
trees on the day named, with the
stipulation that the board offer a
prize of 500 to the agricultural
society of that county which should
plant the greatest number OF trees.
In 1876 Michigan and Mime
sofa took up the Arbor day idea
and similar action was soon taken
in other states. The day is now
the occasion OF impressing upon
children in the schools the i'm
portance Of forestry.
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h, S, Called Poser

r A NACION, one of the leading
IL newspapers in Argentina, says
that our imperialistic tendencies
would not be so bad, if we spent less
time trying to cover them up with
pose and pretenSe.
Tracing the rapid growth of the
United States as illustrated by the
requirement of territory from Mex
leo and the acquisition of control
over the Caribbean and Gulf OF
Mexico, following the war with
Spain, it asserts that such eXpan-
sion was not abnormal, but the log
ical development of nation exer-
cising its natural right to grow.
The trouble is, it argues, we
Americans won't admit as much. but
continually harp on our sympathy
and solicitude for weaker peoples.
The world has grown accustomed
to the frank and open imperialist
ambitions" of America, France and
Germany, it claims, but regards our
Latin American policy as a scan
dal," because we chatter so much
about our ideals.
"The day the United States has
a President" it declares, who, like
Bismarck, calls things by their real
names, and, instead of trying to
mask the imperialism of the United
States, sincerely proclaims that i'm
perialism, the colossus of America
will begin to be respected, even if
not loved"
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7 abIet

IN a Babylonian tablet which dates
u back to 568 B. c., mention is
made Of the failure to observe an
eclipse of the moon which was to
have occurred on certain date.
Calculations show that an eclipse
really did take place but was not
visible in Babylon.
This would indicate that at that
time predictions Of eclipses based
on the Saros were being made.
Tables of eclipse predictions based
on the Saros date from the fourth
century, B. C..
From their studies of eclipses, the
Chaldean astronomer-p priests made
a number of interesting discoveries.
Among them was the discovery of
the westward motion of the moon s
nodes as the two points where the
orbit Of the moon cuts the orbit Of
the earth are called.
Nauburiann, one of the most IA
nous Of the early Chaldean astron-
omers, arrived at surprisingly accu-
rate values for the apparent mo-
tons of the sun and moon in 500
B. c., while still better values were
calculated by Kidinnu in 1913 B. G.
We usually think Of accurate as
Economical observation as beginning
with the Greeks, but as DR.. Fother-
ingham points out, the Greeks owed
q great debt to Naburiannu and
Kidinnu
The Greek astronomer, Hippar-
chus, is believed to have made use
OF Kidinnu's calculations of the mo-
tons Of the sun and moon.
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How UeXDONu
NOwNM.RhR?
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. When and why did two bears
kill forty-two children?
2. What is the beginning of the
sentence e.. please not himself?"
8. What is the Decalogue?
4. Who said, "A living dog is bet
ter than dead lion?"
5. Where in the Bible is vivid
description of thunderstorm?
Answers to Saturdays Questions
l. TheISraelites awaiting the res
toration of Jerusalem; zechariah
9:12.
2. The man with the unclean
spirit; Mark SO.
8. In the New Jerusalem; REVEAL
tons 1872.
4. David: See Psalm %.
5. Andrew; John 1:40.
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India's Death Rate in Childbirth High

was five and half times as great
as in the series in which the infant
was born alive.
AS might be expected, in accord
ance with the customs of India, the
deaths we're more numerous among
the youngest and Oldest of the
mothers who were undergoing child
birth for the first time.
The problem existing in India ap-
proaches more closely the primitive
conditions that formerly existed in
this country generally and which
still exist in some portions.
In Switzerland, for instance, the
mortality in childbirth varies from
1.3 to 2.3 for every 1000 cases. Ger
tainly what can be accomplished
under conditions in Switzerland
should be accomplished equally well
in other parts of the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
The Billion Dollar Tariff

1t is estimated that the Grundy tariff bill now
being ground out will cost the consumers of this coun
try $1,OO0OOOOOO year
The word billion falls trippingly from the tongue
and is nc harder to say than million We have heard
SO much that a4 to visualize the full extent of
that sum of money.
So We are going to give once again an example al
ready published in these columns:
If one billion dollars had been accumulated 500
years B. C., and had been paid out at the rate of
$1,000 day. every day since up to May s. there would
still be $112,7O2,OOO yet to pay out
Therefore, let's not take lightly this tax on the
American consumer that the ex-lobbyst Grundy is
trying to assess.
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preiudices Forget his conduct Of the war fraud har-


ness case, condemned by the trial judge
Forget all the things proved against Parker. For
good measure, give him credit for complete honesty
and sincerity. And then what have We? Only a
mediocre lawyer and unsuccessful Republican
southern politician.
supreme court made up of such not
retain the respect of the people. If Parker is con-
frrned he will not be elevated to the high bench;
it will be pulled down to his level-n the public
mind.
Confirmation would be equally costly for the repu-
tation OF the administration Admitting that the
Presidents choice of this man in the first place
an innocent mistake the most charitable observer
not wipe out the political tracks which smear the
record.
The letter from Assistant Secretary Of the In
terror Dixon the Presidents political secretary
ing the appointment of Parker "a major political
stroke" to hold North Carolina for the Republican
party is not the only dirt.
The lobbying and political pressure of admins
traon aids around the senate offensive it is
undigniied Reports of attempted patronage deals are
so nsistent that an official investigation is being dis
cussed by some senators.
That the administration repeatedly has delayed
vote because all polls showed that the senate would
reject Parker as its judiciary committee already has
rejected him. is admitted by administration leaders
themselves.
Confirmation can be had, if at all, only by ques-
tionable political means. Whatever such confrma-
ton would do to the reputation Of Parker and the
supreme court it would not help the reputation of
the administration
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05

a STORY which I saw spoke of
IN Major CampbelIs raid upon
the fraternity clubs and explained
that the prohibition director had
sent a group of the most intelligent
looking men from his staff.
But there was no record of just
how far they got in perpetrating
this deception. I have my doubts
as to their proficiency in the roles
assigned. Indeed, I feel that the
newspaper headlines might well
have proclaimed, DRY Agents Mas
querade as Morons."
You may remember in the late
Iamented Little Show" Fred Allen
spoke of the hero of one of the
sketches as man who was studying
to be a moron, but found that he
would have to give it up.
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about one third of all of the cases,
since the number of trained physi-
clans in India is not proportionate
to that of other sections of the
world.
In contrast to the death rates
cited in the previous article in this
series, the death rates of mothers
in this series was 1889 for 1000
births. This is a rate which COM
pares most unfavorably with that
of other countries for which re-
liable statistics are available.
Furthermore, the number of in
stances in which the child was born
dead YVES far greater than for other
countries. Actually, 1887 infants
died out of every 1000 in the first
month of life.
The number of mothers who died
in relationship to infants born dead
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Many Semi BarbarouS

A S to the rest of the world, more
L n than half of it justly can be
described as semi barbarous, accord
ing to our standards.
At least one billion human beings
lack not only the mechanical knowl-
edge which makes us prosperous, but
the social conceptions that enable
us to maintain order.
Religious enthusiasts think such
situation calls for more missionary
work, and statesmen think it calls
for imperialism, while idealists say
that it will right itself if we mind
our own business.
The worst of it IS, commerce will
act permit us to sit down and deter
mine who is right in a detached,
academic way, but persists in ex-
tending its search for markets and
raw materials to every corner of
the world, and then yelling for help
when it gets into trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
Under Fire

A POLITICAL leader kneeling by
IN his bed at night may be par
doned if he prays with bitterness,
Good Lord, deliver me from ever
having to depend upon support from
liberals"
They are smooth stones like those
which David gathered from the
brook, and no man in difficulties
does well to rest his entire weight
upon them.
Surely at the present time there
ought to be a liberal revolt against
the personality and policies of
President Hoover. His nominations
for the supreme court show clearly
enough which side he is on.
To be sure, there has been fierce
senatorial fighting against both
Hughes and Parker, but this move
ment hardly could be called a re-
volt.
Many so-called liberals still fol-
low in the train of the man now in
the White House. He numbers
among his supporters certain
number who believe fervently in the
modification of the VolStead act.
Hoover has been magnif1cently
successful in making crumbs suffice
to comfort vast multitudes of his
supporters. A few still cling to the
hope that he will become less dry,
though their hope rests on nothing
more than the fact that he called
prohibition an experiment.
In some respects I am just about
as tolerant as an Irish orator whose
speech I had the privilege of re-
porting one night, long years ago,
at Carnegie hall.
He was speaking for peace and
unity in his distressed country. AL
though Catholic and a champion
of an Irish republic, he tried to
prove that there was no inevitable
breach between himself and the
men of Ulster. BrandiShing his
arms above his head, he declared to
an enraptured audience:
Il have never said an unkind
word against the Orangemen, ig-
norant, bigoted and deluded though
they may be-"
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pursued by wolves, the bite of which
is even worse than their bowling.
He cracks the whip and beats his
horse without avail. There is no
shaking off these ravenous pursuers.
Call them wolves or editors-it
makes no difference.
But bear with me in patience.
Saturday we filed the 1,O00th job,
and a few over for good measure.
The Give-a-Job-Till-June campaign
has ended. I shall make one final
report and then go back to the Sc
date and private life of being a
newspaper columnist.
Copyright. 1890. by The Times)
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TIN CEENGC TO MT p. HAYWOOD
L OLA4VAO l. ~ AVAA ~ BROUN

there is every chance that he will
be permitted to write more COL
umns, and, after that, more and
more and more. And, unlike the
seals, there is no closed season for
columnistS.
Moreover, I forgot to say that
sometimes the owner losses a bit of
fish to the seals.
But comparison need not be re-
stricted wholly to seals. A column
ist also is mighty like a Russian. 1
mean a Russian in his sled driving
across the frozen steppes, closely
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-05
The Truth Hurts

THERE is a disagreeable amount
l. of truth in what La Nacion has
to say on this subject. To a r1easur-
able extent, we have preached a Cos
pei which we find it difficult, if not
impossible, to practice on occasion.
We forced Europe to accept a
league of nations, for instance, and
then refused to join it.
Small wonder other people often
find it hard to reconcile what we
do with what we say.
We keep on telling them that
what we say is all right no matter
what we do, but somehow they can't
seem to get the point.
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NJ. E. Tracy
Civilization Is Only Skin
Deep, as Crimes Contin-
uaily Committed Prove to
the Observer.
SAYS:

T AURA INGALLS,. the 25-year-
- old aviatrix, loops the lopp 344
times without interruption, and
would have made it 400, she says, if
she hadn't been obliged to stop and
pump some gasoline out of the re-
serve tank.
1t seems only yesterday when Line
Beachey gained worldwide fame by
looping the loop six times.
So, too, it seems only yesterday
when a parachute jump was the
biggest event at the county fair,
and when we believe that man
couldn't fall more than few hun
bred feet without losing conscious
ness.
Times not only have changed, but
with great rapidity, during the last
two generations.
The change has not been SO uni
versal, however, as one would like
to believe, even among the most
civilized people.
Witchcraft has made its appear
ance at the American bar of JUS
tice three or four times within re-
cent months. Jungle law has
cropped out in several of our great
est cities, while the character of
crimes constantly being committed
reminds us that civilization is only
skin deep.
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| ike Our Rows

The house of representatives votes
to reject the debenture amendment
and retain the flexible tariff.
1.-TWO victories for Hoover" reads
a headline, just as though that were
all there were to it.
Sadder still, that is about all many
people think there is to it.
We uncrowned kings are never so
happy over politics as when a scrap
occurs, especially if it is between
the President and congress.
Even a tariff bill which may cost
us all kinds of money arouses lit
tie interest, unless it leads to a row.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN,

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
60 much has been said of the high
~ death rate of mothers in India,
that it is valuable to have available
actual figures concerning child
birth in at least one section.
Two Hindu physicians, DrS. N.
r. Ubhaya and r. Adiseshan,
analysed the records of 1924 in
stances of childbirth in four cities.
In per cent of the cases opera
tive or surgical help was necessary.
According to the records, expert
assistance was available only for
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A Hard Life

oh, how I need a vacationl But
~ none is imminent. A columnist
is a good deal like a trained seal.
Filling column is work of some
what the same sort as balancing
lighted lamp on the end of your
nose.
1t is a stunt which must be per-
formed over and over again. If
the seal succeeds in balancing the
lamp with prettiness and precision,
he has his reward. 1t will be his
privilege to balance the same lamp
at the matinee next day and so on
through the season.
And il columnist does well,
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Dangerous Methods

If John j. Parker Unexpectedly is confirmed by
the senate as associate justice of the United States
supreme court it will be at very high price, both
for the administration and for the court.
Discount nine-tenths of the evidence against
Parker and he remains in the public mind unfit For
gsthat he is an anti-labor judge. Forget his ciaf