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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Twelve Peers

Ella Nav Virgins is dead. Her murderers are
free. She was a striker. 1t is hard to convict men
who murder strikers in North Carolina. 1t is easy to
convict strikers on Hmsy evidence.
So the feeling is growing that there are two kinds
Of Justice in North Caronaone for the textile COM
panes and their agents and another for labor unions
and sympathizers.
But despite the disgraceful record Of prejudicial
courts in that state dealing out injustice to labor
organizers and winking at lavlessness OF hundred
percenter5 the Virgins murder trial. which ended in
Charlotte Thursday can not be classed with the other
unfair labor trials.
For it appears tina. the authorities-under con-
demnation by the rest Of the country for past mis-
carriage OF ustice-did try TO convict the five textile
company men charged with the murder. The atmos-
phere was different from that in the same courtroom
last summer when labor organizers we're railrcaded
for the murder of Police Chief Aderhot of Gastonia
In the Aderholt trial the state prostuted the pro-
ceedings by convicting men for what they believed
rather than for what they did.
But in the virgins case, Judge Clement repeat
edly overruled attempts Of the company lawyers for
the defense to poison the evidence. The states case
was placed by the Governor in the hands of the at
torney- general who worked vigorously for conviction
Almost fifty witnesses we're presented by the state
The defense alibis were absurdly weak,
The issue was admirably summed up for the jury
by the attorney general, who pleaded:
Gentlemen you are not trying the morals OF Ella
May Virgins you are not trying the social order of
the day the industrial system, the beliefs or doc
trines of the dead woman Of the states witnesses.
You are trying these five men for the death CT Mrs
Ella May Virgins"
Then why have the leaders of the death mob been
scquittedP
Because apparently. of the failure of the jury sys-
tenn. AS in the acquittal verdcts in the oil scandal
trials in Washington and in other notorious cases,
the preudices OF the jury seemed stronger than the
evidence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
MONOPOLY Is Here

COMMUNISM is based on the
~ theory that monopoly is in
evitable and unavoidable, and it
'ooks as though that big business,
though denouncing the preachrnent,
we're putting the idea into practice.
We Americans have been trained
to believe that, though monopoly
might be necessary in certain lines,
1t could and should be avoided in
the great majority.
We have broken up combinations
and prevented mergers because Of
this belief, and tried to preserve the
competitive system, not only because
it seemed to insure lower prices, but
because it gave the individual a
chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
OntariO'S Example

interior Secretary wilbur and others in his de-
partment who seem to be preparing to let govern
ment-generated power at Boulder Dam Slip into
private hands will do well to consider figures on the
operation Of the Ontario Public Hydroelectrc system
recently announced.
During 1928, the state-owned system supplied
power to domestic consumers at I'll cents per kilo-
watt hour. The average rate for domestic consumers
in this country is than three times that figure.
1t is expected 1929 Ontario figures. when available.
will make an even more favorable showing
Some 500 towns and cities are supplied by the
system, in addition to many farms Last year 1850
miles of rural transmission lines were built New
extensions are planned for this year.
comparable development at Boulder Dam will
be impossible If private concerns are permitted to
gobbe up the from the project being built with
public funds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Toll Bridges

Congress continues to authorize private toll
bridges. More than dozen such projects were ap-
proved by the house last week
Toll bridges are valuable only because they are
on public highways which should be free. The vast
bodybuilding program of state and federal govern
mens in recent years enable the promoters to profit
as result of public expenditures.
Figures are available showing the enormous profits
that have been made. The United States bureau of
public roads repeatedly has urged against toll bridge
franchises There are numerous other examples of
publicly built bridges which have been rapidly paying
off the cost OF their construction.
1t is to be hoped the senate will give consideration
to the whole question when the house bills come be-
fore it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

NNE Of the most serious diseases
" that can afflict a child is rheu-
matte heart disease. The condition
strikes in the vast majority of
children between and Is years of
age and the damage wrought is
Gripping in almost every instance,
if not promptly fatal.
There seems to be no doubt that
the disease is caused by germs
somewhat like the streptococcuS
that infects the throat and pro-
duces tonsilitiS.
Apparently it is not the germ only
which is the deciding factor in the
mechanism of infection, but the
tissue OF the child himself.
1t was formerly thought that in
lection of the tonsils was the pri-
mary source of this disease, but in
at least one-third of all cases the
germ apparently enters even though
the tonsils are absent and even
though the throat itself may not
be inflamed
In the area around Bristol, Eng
land. rheumatic fever with rheu-
matte heart disease is exceedingly
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where as we'll as the earnest desire to give TO them
the helpful ministratons of brotherly love But the
first of the Christian Is microscopy prayer
to God, who has infinite power to work His gracious
will in His own way in the fulness Of time.
1t seems to me that this course, in which prac-
tcaly all church organizations are united is SO much
more logical than any effort Of human governments to
butt into the internal affairs of the Russian govern
ment, that friends Of Russia who swear by the
Bolshevik government should have enough common
sense not TO protest"
There is something admirable in the faith of DR.
Moorhead and who belong to no church at all
will join in the general prayer that the solution of
the Russian problem be left to the loving kindness
and to the infinite wisdom of God rather than to
the brutal ignorance of human armies and nayies
directed by bungling men,
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ANNIVERSARY
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JUSTICE HOLMES BIRTH

AAL lOLNEC III
ON March 8, 1S41, Oliver Wen
" dell Holmes, associate Justice
Of the supreme court Of the United
States, was born at Boston.
At the outbreak of the Civil
war, in 1861, the same year he
graduated from Harvard, young
Holmes enlisted and served for
three years in the Twentieth Massa-
chusettS volunteers. He was wound
ed three times-at Balls Bluff, An
tietam, and Fredericksburg. BY
the end Of the war, he had risen
to the rank of lieutenant colonel
In 1854 he began the study of
law at Harvard and three years
later was admitted to the bar.
After considerable experience in the
practice, writing and teaching of
law. Holmes was appointed asso-
ciate justice Of the supreme court
Of Massachusetts. He occupied
this position for seventeen years,
becoming chief justice on Aug. 2,
1899
On Dec. 4, 1902. he became as
sistant justice Of the United States
supreme court. AS a Judge, his
opinions always have favored a lib
eral Interpretation Of the Constitu-
ton.
He was awarded in 1924 the
Roosevelt Memorial Association
medal for the development Of public
law.
Justice Holmes father was Oliver
Wendell Holmes. famous New Eng
land poet and essayist
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l trll!prusl1fTo of /
| Praqera !
/ Daily \
7 Lenten Devotion
Saturday, March s

AN HONEST HEART
(Read Psalms 1916; %, 24)
Memory Verse: 20 Lord, Thou hast
searched me and know me-" psalm
1879
MEDITATION
Our theme these Lenten weeks is
Coming to Terms With Life" To
accomplish this. one must adjust
ones self to life. This frequently
will call for readjustment. To do
this intelligently, one must know
ones self. One must face ones self
honestly. The evil that is in one
must be clearly confronted and
acknowledged and called by the
same name that one would apply
to 1t in others. Unless We know
our flaws and weaknesses, we shall
not know where life needs mending.
PRAYER
Almighty God. Spirit of purity, of
sincerity and of all truth, grant
unto us the holy gift of a fearless
and honest mind, that We may be-
hold ourselves as We are, truly con-
Tossing our sins and failures,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Want Only Chaos

TINE issue has ceased to be one OF
l. free speech, or police brutality.
We are spared the threat of revolu-
ton only through lack of numbers.
The agitators who planned this
stupid performance by instruction
from the Third Internationale are
not interested in work for the job
less, or constitutional liberty, as We
understand it.
What they have in mind Is chaos
and destruction, regardless of the
suffering involved, and what buoys
them up is the hope that they can
create enough disturbance to over
throw the government.
Another huge bank merger NJ
mored, with the Chase National and
Equitable Trust OF New York plan
ming to unite and form the most gi-
gantic financial institution on earth.
Here is more to worry about than
half baked Communist demonstra-
tons.
The craze for combination, as L.
Illustrated by scores of mergers with
in the recent past, is far more likely
to popularize communistic doctrines
than anything else.
BY and by people are going to ask
themselves why the state should
not be in control if monopoly and
centralized power are essential.
When we come to a point where
there Is room for only one board of
directors in each particular field,
where competition plays no further
part, and where there is nothing left
for the individual but to get in line
with some monopoly and do the
gooSe-step, what arguments are we
going to have left for private enter
prise?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Listening

TN this land of opportunity, it is
L fair to hope that the Nutley lad
looks on his present triumph as no
more than a stepping stone to
something bigger and better.
Quite possibly, it is his notion
that he learns as he goes. Out OF
200 hours in front of the loud
sneaker, a vast amount Of informa-
ton must have come to his ears.
BY now, Petillo knows why teeth
should be kept clear Of film. He
can hum the chorus OF MY Fate
Is In Your Hands" He can tell
you just what lubricating oils are
best for motor cars in winter, and
why some soaps are good for ten
der skins.
lie can give you the correct time
anc whistle Moaning Low in al
most the same breath. He has been
informed that French is an infected
language, and that Jannisen wants
to see him.
Just ask him how many sheep
were shipped before noon yesterday,
and the closing price Of American
Smelling & Refining.
Tomorrow's weather IS no secret
to him, nor the most expeditions
way to bake cake. If pressed, he
could even reveal why Peter Skunk
does not like Clarence Rabbit.
After $50 hours of rapt attention,
Michael Petillo must have learned,
among other things, that he lives
in an articulate world, and that it
is full of takers. From parity to
prohibition, there's not theme
which lacks its eager propaganda.
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M. E. Tracy
The Agitators Who Planned
the Riotous Communist
Demonstrations We're Not
Interested IN Work for the
Jobless.
SAYS:

d EGARDLESS Of what he may
Az have done in other respects, or
what may be carved on his tomb
stone for the wanderer to read, the
obituary of Won Tirpitz will consist
of an endless discussion regarding
the submarine.
He was the man who visualized
this instrument in all its efficiency
and ugliness.
When everything else about him
has been for sotten, that will be re-
membered.
And who knows but its effect on
our attitude toward war may turn
out a great blessing?
Il =
Writing in the current issue of
the Cosmopolitan magazine. the
countess of Warwick predicts that
George v will be the last of the
British kings. and that his reign
will be followed by establishment of
full-fedged republic.
More than that, she has a clever
explanation for the idea.
IF the present king is the last of
his line she says. "it will be be-
cause he and his few immediate
ancestors have been such admirable
monarchs that they have made their
kingship entirely superauous."
Putting that aside, if a Warick
could make kings, why shouldn't
Warwick unmake them, and what
could be more in keeping with the
grim humor of history?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
That Necessary Drunk

A CCORDING to Frazier Hunt,
"A George Bernard Shaw thinks
that prohibition will prove a failure,
unless some form of substitute jag
can be found to console the working
classes.
ITO the poor man." Shaw Is
quoted as saying. 'liquor is the
chloroform that allows him to en-
dure the painful operation OF
living"
Shaw obviously reasons from the
situation prevailing in Great
Britain, where most of the working
men still ride bicycles, and most Of
the homes are without electric
lights, not to mention telephones,
victrolas. and radio sets.
When the average American feels
the need of that Saturday night
drunk" which Shaw regards as so
essential, all he has to do is step
on the gas and run over somebody,
or sit in the living room and pound
his ear with three hours Of jazz.
-Four dead, 300 injured, and 500
under arrest, as the result of Com
munist ructions which disturbed
Irage centers on both sides Of the
Atlantic Thursday.
While proclaimed as worldwide
demonstration in behalf of the I'M
employed, disorder seems to have
been the real object.
This is brought out clearly by a
declaration of the central committee
of the Communist party Of the
United States, which halls the
rioting as "the first really national
mass action Of the working classes
in the United States" and as mot
only on economic battle, but also a
major political action, against the
bourgeois state, and its political
forces"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
YOUNG man in Nutley, N. j.,

A YOUNG man in Nutley, N. j.,
N listened continuously to a
radio for 155 hours. He kept on to
set new world record, for already
he had won the prize for the par
ticular competition in which he had
been participating. The trophy, I
understand, is a handsome receiv-
ing set.
An irritant is useful in any mans
life, but I wonder whether Michael
Petilo has given thought to his
future. Suppose he succeeds in set
ting a mark of 200 hours OF I'M
broken radio reception, what next?
Personally, should take little in
terest in another contest in which
Petillo might undertake to estab-
lish new record Of $50 or even
300 hours. When you've seen one
radio listener, you've seen them all.
After watching Michael on the job
for even half on hour, l think I
might quite possibly get the idea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Times Readers
Voice Vie10S

Editor Times-Two Of the great
problems of this nation are crime
and unemployment. I believe If
every one was employed it would
play a great part in reducing crime
and I also believe we, as a great
nation, should be able TO bring about
something that would harmonic
and socialize the great masses Of
people Of the nation.
All working in harmony for adj
vancement of the great cause Of
humanity would result. For some
time past we have been divided. Now
let us get together and unite and We
can accomplish great things, for
united we stand, divided we fall.
JAMES HAYES,
o36 South Belle Vieu place.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HE BEO95%

fed for such post. Probably he
needs more experience.
It's no small thing, will admit,
to listen through Turn on the
Heat" twelve times in twenty-four
hours, but into each jazz orchestra
some change must fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Shakespeare

TINE idea that the man IN Che
4 moon had been banished there
for theft and that he carried a
bush of thorns over his shoulder is
met with repeatedly in old English
literature.
A seal found on a legal document
Of the fourteenth century bears a
picture of the crescent moon within
which there stands a man carrying
a thorn bush over his shoulder. The
man is accompanied by dog.
A similar description of the man
in the moon occurs in "Troylus and
Creseide," the authorship of which
generally is credited to Chaucer.
In "a Midsummer Nights Dream"
Shakespeare has Ounce, the car
penter, in giving directions for the
performance of the sad romance Of
Pyramus and Thisby who met by
moonlight, say:
"One must come in with bush
of thorns and a lanthorn, and say
he comes to disfgure, or to present.
the person Of Moonshine!"
Later, the character representing
Moonshine says, "All that 1 have to
say is, to tell you that the lanthorn
Is the moon; I, the man in the
moon; this thorn-busf, my thorn
bush; and this dog, my dog"
An old church, Gyffyn church,
near Conway in Wales, has a paint
ing upon the roof of the chancel
Of the man in the moon with his
thorn-bush.
Old French legends represent the
man in the moon as the biblical
figure Of his own proposed sacrifice.
as Cain, and as Judas Iscariot.
The man in the moon is also rep
resented as Cain by Dante in his
Paradise Lost"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

Princeton professor breaks into the news with
the statement: "Today's moving pictures will look
crude twenty-five years from now" But what we're
interested in is how they'll sound then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Daily Thought

Therefore vent about to cause
my heart to desi air of all the
labor which / took under the sun.
-Ecclesiastes 2:19.
o Godl o God! How weary
stale, fat and Improbable seem to
me all the uses Of this world
Shakespeare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

Now that COW has been MIXED while riding ir
airplane St. Louis, We suppose vogue will
be started in that city for plane milk shakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

bridegroom in Kentucky tried to get married
with dogs license. But maybe that was the kinc
of life he expected to lead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
Conclusion

IF he maintained his post for 1000
IL hours, or even million, there
would still ring in his ears an ag-
gressively pleasant voice. exclaim-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

J. Hamilton Lewis is going to run again for sena-
tor from Illinois. If Mr.. Hughes get by with
whiskers like that so can j. Ham.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08
SCIENCE
-BY DAVID DIETZ
by DAVID DIEIZ -
Noon Pictured as Drinker
and Smoker IN Ancient
Ballads; Also Fashionable
Dandy.

IT seems almost impossible these
i days to discuss any topic without
the subject of prohibition cropping
in. So perhaps. in again calling
attention of readers to the lunar
eclipse of April 10, We may be per-
mitted to remark that according to
old legends, the man in the moon
was no prohibitionist.
According to the folio collection
of the Bagford Ballads at the
British Museum. one old ballad lin
its original spelling states:
Our man in the moon drinks
clarret,
With powder-beef, turnep, anG
carrot
If he doth so, why should not you
Drink until the SKY looks blew"
Milton, the great English poet,
pictured the moon as shining
serenely.
above the smoke and stir of this
dim spot
Which men call earth"
But many of the old legends pic
ture the man in the moon as an
inveterate smoker. An old shop
bill" several centuries old, pictures
the man in the moon as a fashion
able dandy with a tankard OF ale
in one hand and a long clay pipe
in the other. His hunting dog
stands near by.
The bill asks, in archaic spelling
Who'll smoak with We man in We
moon?'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

Scotchman held up in Chicago the other
day. Those Chicago gunner won't even stop at muir
der.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-08

What is the maximum strength of
the army of France?
The active army has a strength Of
666, 945.
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Ancient

THE trick of imagining that the
/ spots to be noticed on the
moon form some sort Of figure Is as
old as mankind
But the figure has not always
been imagined to be that Of man.
Sometimes it was imagined to be
that of a woman, and at other
times that of various animals, in
Guiding a hare and frog.
According to Greek legend. the
man in the moon was the Shepherd
Endymion, the beloved OF Dianna,
the goddess of the moon.
An old legend to be found in the
Talmud, the ancient Hebrew COM
mentary on the Bible, the face in
the moon is supposed to be that Of
Jacob.
According to an old German leg
end, the man in the moon is an old
man who bears a great bundle OF
firewood upon his shoulders.
This legend says that he is an old
wood cutter who was transported to
the moon for desecrating the Sab
bath by cutting wood on it.
Similar legends have it that the
markings on the lunar surface form
a woman who was banished to the
moon for churning butter on Sun
day.
According to many old British
legends the man in the moon Is a
thief and an old verse states:
The Rustic in the moon,
Whose burden weighs him down,
This changeless truth reveals,
He profits not who steal"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-26
Robbers Kill Man
For Showing Smile

GLEN VIEW. Ill. Nov. 26-(P-
Because he smiled when four mask
ed robbers commanded the pat ans
Of a roadside saloon TO throw I'd
YOUR hands" Russell Thompson. IS.
Evanston broker, was shot down and
Instantly killed today.
Don't smile" the bandit leader
ordered. when Thompson. one OF
three men at a side table. looked his
way. AT the same time he raised
his gun and fired pointblank, the
charge striking the broker in the
left breast.
You can see we're tough" the
slayer called to Frank Ensel, owner
of the place. Nov open I'D that
safe. We're in a hurry"
While one Of the robbers guarded
him. Engel nervously dialed the
combination. The robbers Scooped
I'D about $3.50 and fled with two
companions. who had remained out
site. in a large sedan for Chicago.
IL miles distant.