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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, February 21-CUnited
States Department of Agricultural .-Po-
tatoes-Receipts, rs cars; on tracks, 248;
total United States shipment, 1882 cars;
trading slow; market dull; Wisconsin
sacked round whites, 2.45 to 2.60; Min
nesota sacked round whites 240; Idaho
sacked russets. 2.95 to 3.15 few 3.25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Beatrice Creamery Co.

NEW YORK, February 81 OF9.-The
Beatrice Creamery Co. has acquired
two ice cream companies and one pro-
duce company, operating in the Middle
West. The new acquisitions are the
Union Ice Cream Co. of st. Louis,
Kirkwood Ice Cream Co. of Kirkwood,
Mo, and the Hawkeye Produce Co. Of
Charlton, Cordyon, Red Oak and OF
tuna, Iowa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Regular,
INTEREST RATES.

~ the Associated Press,
Interest rates on collateral loans last
week, as averaged out by Census Blu
reau reports from money centers, re-
msined undisturbed at moderate levels
exper-ccced during recent weeks. Fig
ures for the week and comparable
periods follow:
Time money. Call loans
week ending February l5.. So az
Ereeedlng week ..:......... az 54-a'o
Same week last year, 7S4S re
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
NEW YORK CURB MARKET s: III. :: s":

NOtice-A stocks sold in one hundred share lots
excepting those designated by the letter (g5sl (2s5s
which shows those stocks to be sold lots only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21

Tres.
tcopyriEht, 1880. Standard Statistics Co
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
exceed orders and pending business is

exceed orders and pending business Is
good.
The Westinghouse Electric Co. of
South Africa, Ltd, has been formed to
handle the sales of products of the
Westinghouse Electric e. Manufacturing
Co. in that country.
Directors Of the Southern Surety Co.
win meet February IS 10 consider plans
for merging with the Detroit Fidelity
81 Surety Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
They Can't Read or Write

Higher and higher grows the pile of unfinished
tasks awaiting return of congress.
One of the first to receive attention should be
the matter of fighting illiteracy.
Somehow, somebody wrote into the census act of
1929 clause which threatens to cripple this work
just as a national commission to coordinate the eff
forts of state bodies begins to function, this i'm
portant subject clause is discovered in the act for
bidding the bureau to furnish amy informa-
ton by which any particular establishment indi
vdual be identified" and the attorney general
rules thai lists of illiterates not be given any
agency because of this wording.
1t will be difficult matter to teach and
women TO read and write unless the ones in need Of
such help be located and classes arranged to meet
their individual needs No intended apparently,
that the law should prevent this, and it should be
simple matter to have the wording altered
. resolution to do so will be presented as soon as
congress meets at the request of the national COM
mission on iliteracy.
We forget, too often, that the United States, as
we'll as China, has many thousands of adult citizens
who not read or write. We forget because it is
not pleasant to remember. But this is one Of our
social problems that can be solved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Labor Speaks It's Mind

Reaffrming its positions voiced at three previous
national conventions, the American Federation of
Labor at Boston passed resolution inStructing its
executive council to try to prevail upon the Governor
Of California to grant justice to Mooney and Billings
In the name of s5OO0OO workers, the A. F. OF L. de-
manded unconditional pardon for two fellow laborites
victized by fifteen years of perverted justice. The
resolution cited the 1916 mstria and deplored the
California law that made a retrial impossible 1t
pointed to the galaxy of confessed perjurers whose
evidence sent the pair to jail for life.
The A. F. of L. quoted the trial judge, Franklin
Griffin: ~The transcript of evidence which Mooney
and Billings were convicted longer exists 1t re-
minded the people of America that with the single
eepton Of ex-Prosecutor Fickert every official active
in those famous cases-incuding all the living Mooney
jurors - has joined with Judge Grifins appeal for
belated justice.
Confidence in our form of government and IN
orderly government by law not be maintained
unless cur citizens fully and confidently place re-
lance upon the justice of our court procedure the
resolution declared.
The Mooney Billings scandal is not merely labor
ISSUE nor is the pardon plea labors exclusive cause
The tragedy belongs to us all 1t is inclusive as
the boundaries Of these United States II making it
theirs the workers again earned the gratitude Of
sthe nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
A Swell Idea. But

We have been reading Vol. 1, No. 1, of Washing
ton, the new propaganda weekly, issued by some of
Hoovers friends to save the administration from
voters who threaten to elect Democratic congress
next month.
With hearty frankness, the editors write of Hoover
the greatest of Presidents and describe themselves
the greatest of writer's
The masthead lists as the two chief members of
its editorial staff William Allen White and Will Irwin
For the benefit of those who may not appreciate the
quality of its editors the paper states that Irwin
frequently has been described as the worlds great
worlds rarest and choicest spirits. Twins articles
in this paper are described masterpieces"
White is described as brilliant, penetrating
derstanding" and che is going to give summarized
estimate of the four speeches President Hoover
Gently made-speeches which Mr. White believes
rank as the greatest speeches. taken a group
delivered by any President"
That is spreading the hokum pretty thick-even
for the Republican national committee, which spon-
sors the paper
But apparently the paper is not published for the
wicked and sophisticated cities, which want their
propaganda ladled up with bit more skill This is
for the hicks back at the crossroads who take theirs
straight.
That is a swell idea except for the fact that most
of the hicks disappeared wpen the automobile, the
movie, the radio the daily newspaper and the state
college arrived
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

method of care for all of them can
be outlined.
The elderly man or woman who
has suffered from chronic dis
order has, no doubt, established
habits throughout life which are
practically a necessity for his or
her comfort. 1t is not wise to at
tempt to change all the habits of
the aged in times Of illness.
Smoking, small amounts of al
coholic liquor, coffee drinking, and
long sessions at bridge or pinochle
may be the factors Of happiness
which have made for old age, and
to attempt to remove them from the
aged may result in dissatisfaction,
unhappiness and perhaps even in an
earlier death.
There is a great tendency for the
aged person who is i'll to get into
bed and to stay there, in hope that
rest will bring about complete re-
covery.
Far too often, however, the better
procedure would be to get the old
man or old woman into chair and
out into the sunshine.
The four factors which DR.. Wor-
cester emphasized as most impor-
tant for the health of the aged are
more warmth, more rest less siren
uous work, and less food.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
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ROUSTON'S ELECTION
October %

I'M Oct. D, 1886, Sam Houston,
" an American soldier and po-
litical leader, was elected the first
president of Texas.
Houston. while visiting Texas in
December, 1882, was invited to set
tie there and become a leader of
the American colonists in their
struggle to achieve independence
from Mexico.
Up to this time he had won fame
for his legislation i'll behalf Of the
Cherokee Indians while a member
of congress. He had also served
term as Governor of Tennessee.
Accepting the Texas invitation.
Houston was elected delegate 70
the convention in which it was
sought to frame state constitution.
The rejection of the constitution
by the Mezicans and their attempt
to disarm the Americans led to open
warfare.
Houston was chosen commander
in-chief of the Texan army. At the
head of a small undrilled force Of
volunteers he annihilated the Mex
lean army at one blow at San
Jacinto and achieved the independ-
ence Of Texas.
Shortly after this victory he was
elected president Of Texas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Vote for This Convention

Nearly eighty years have passed since
adoption of the Indiana state Constitution.
In that time, the conditions under which the
world lives have changed in far greater
measure than in any like period of time IN
history.
Many of the laws under which the state
operates are archaic They are not conducive
to progress, they do not promote the welfare
of the states citizens. A thorough revision
is needed.
For these and several other reasons,
equally good every voter should be for the
constitutional convention. He Should cast his
vote for the proposal when he goes to the
polls on Nov A.
This issue may not seem as important to
him as the election of certain of his favorite
candidates, but there he is wrong. 1t is a
matter of vital import to the state that its
Constitution to be brought up to date.
There is taxation, for instance. Com
plant after complaint is heard daily OF the
Injustice of tax laws. But there is little hope
of relief with the Constitution in its present
form.
Most of the public utilities and other
great corporations will oppose the conven-
ton, for their own selfish interests with no
regard for the rights of the small property
owner, the worker in factory, store or else
where, the farmer and the small business
man.
SO it behooves every voter to study the
matter of a constitutional convention and
cast his vote in it's favor on Nov. A.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22

More Warmth, Less Food for Aged

Control OF the diet is most diff
cult. It has been said again and
again that man digs his grave with
his teeth. Before modern dentistry,
most human beings lost their teeth
by the age of As to SO and there
after had to eat less food and softer
food. These things protected the
intestinal tract.
With the coming of artificial
teeth, the aged are able to attempt
the eating of quantities Of food and
forms of food which formerly were
forbidden them.
1t seems likely that many of the
ills as well as the deaths of the
aged are due to overeating and I'M
favorable diets.
Constipation is associated with
strike on the part of the weak
ened muscuIature of the bowel
against too much work being
thrown upon it.
There is a tendency among some
Of the aged to force the weakened
musculature by cathartics. It is far
safer for them to take regularly
small amounts of mineral oil.
If the appetite disappears, it is
not wise to force food. 1t is prob
ably better to give the digestive
tract a rest until the appetite re-
turns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
- II \ CNN nv FREDERICK
NIL AOO4 Lands

VXTE wouldn't mind the gangsters and the rack
w eteers half so much if we didn't have to read
about them every day on the first page together with
their pet names and their slang.
George w Wickersham, chairman of President
Hoovers law enforcement commission, thinks that
hogging might bring an end to the bandit business.
AS a lawyer Wickersham ought to know that the
whip would fall to pieces and the fogger die of old
age before the courts finally would find fellow
guilty
The only ray of hope there is in the bandit bust
ness is that they will continue to wipe each other off
the earth.
If they didn't turn their guns on each other they
soon would overrun the country for there's ether
way to handle them
IT'S encouraging to read that more railroads are
electrifyng.
We are not interested in their finding it profit
able, If this means to throw remen out of work for
we need to save all the jobs we can but we like the
cleanliness OF the thing.
There are no cindeTs about electricity, and after
not feel like mop of mineral wool.
You can wear the same collar the rest of the day
and you don't have to take bath.
Electricity is the coming kng-and the only one
we're ever likely to have in this country
Heat light, power, refrigeration everything soon
will come from the invisible giant.
The only trouble about it will be the men it will
throw cut of work.
e 80
THIS question of unemployment is giving the stu
4 dents of economics more trouble than any other
thing right now. We don't mean the present unem-
ployment but the far greater unemployment which
is threatened by turning the work of the world
over to machinery.
In former days We. met the men who we're thrown
out of one job by machine by giving them jobs in
another line but it will not be long until every line
has its machines, and when that time comes will
face situation which will call for all the patience
and wisdom we have in our systems
In the meantime we should cut down on immi-
grafton and make the problem Of distributing the
employment simpler than it wills be with EuropeE
overflow on our hands to care for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
TT CEEMC TO ME Nv HAYWOOD
4 l. O1IA1V4O L ~ 4VAA d. BROUN

to it that the arrest was made in
an orderly and legal manner.
Nessin had no chance to escape.
There was no attempt at rescue
from the crowd Immediately around
him, for it was wholly hostile to
the Communist.
The police must be made to I'M
derstand that they have no right
to impose spot punishment. Even
in the instance of the gravest sort
of crime, the policeman's job con-
sists simply of getting the prisoner
to the station house expeditiously.
Nobody expects a policeman not
to fight back against any rioter who
attacks him. Here there was no at
tack. A small and helpless man was
beaten into insensibility Because the
mayor of New York had given the
nod
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Still MANY Suffer

VXTHATEVER else that system
w may be accomplishing, it is
building too many shacks beside the
country road, too many mean tene-
ments along the city street. No
matter how much variety it is con-
tributing to life ut the top, it is
putting an unhealthy amount of
monotony into life at the bottom.
To look at family f1ivver sour
rying along some smooth highway
after the days work is done, to join
a happy group listening to the radio
after the dishes have been washed,
is to get one side of the picture
But to stand beside some great con-
veyor system, or read book on
''The Psychology of Craftsmanship, :"
is to get another.
And that other isn't all OF it by
any means. The home, the family,
the freside, as our grandfathers, or
even many of our fathers, knew
them, are going by the board, not
necessarily because people prefer it
that way, but because the system.
the efficiency, the discipline called
fer by mechanical life leave less
room for them.
No one with sense can quarrel
with machinery per Sc. 1t already
has done wonders for our comfort
and convenience, and there is every
reason to believe it will no more.
But, like everything that is hu-
man in origin, or subject to human
control, machinery can be overdone,
and made to play an unwholesome
part in the scheme of things.
When you realize what some peo-
pie have, in contrast to what other
people need, the surplus of luxuries
on the one hand, the lack of neces-
sites on the other; the vacant land
and crowded cities; the cost Of first
class hotel accommodations and the
gathering bread-lines; the amount
Of cheap money available for GER
tain groups and the difficulty of
finding even poorly paid work for
others-you can't help wondering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Warning to Writers

MIR. WALKERS dignity and hon
4VA or had been attacked. Are they
so precious, then, that a man must
court death in order to make grave
and graceless charges against our
chief city official?
In all consistency, the mayor
should send armed policemen around
to the editorial rooms of most news
papers in New York and order the
clubbing of commentators and COL
uniStS
happen to believe in the personal
honesty of Mayor Walker, though I
have no doubt of the corruption Of
the machine under which he oper-
ates.
I am not an adherent Of the Com
munist cause. And I have every
right to take Mr.. Walker to task for
his ill-judged outburst of temper,
because :. IAN in a position to under
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Mayor Began We'll

T SAID in the beginning that We
4 are all of uShuman beings even
before we are radicals or members
Of Tammany hall or city officials.
1t is quite true that Mayor Walk
er was grayely tried A blatherskite
flung fighting phrase in his face.
up to the time of this incident Mr..
Walker had behaved himself well
under grave. provocation. But in the
crisis he failed.
The mayor is reported to have
said said to NesSin, THAT little re-
mark tempts me to come down and
thrash the life out Of you" And
then the executive head of the city
of New York gave the order, PUT
him out"
Even though Jimmy Walker lost
his head, he should have recovered
it in the next few minutes and seen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22

stand the precise nature of the
provocation.
During the last two months I have
been specifically singled out by Com
munists for abuse. I have been
called more and harSher names than
those flung at Jimmy Walker.
In print and in public, Commu-
nists have called me every kind Of
rogue and sneak. They have not
hesitated to invent the silliest anc
most petty sort of. lies.
For instance, when was arrested
for picketing a few weeks ago, the
Daily Worker announced in al
seriousness that I had paid the DO
liceman on the beat $40 to take me
into custody.
That, I will admit, is a farcical
rather than a fighting charge. Other
epithets and charges have been
more infammatory. I have been
compelled at meetings to stand and
take it while some heckler got UP
to make long and mendacious ha-
rangue.
None of this is presented as evil
dence that I am sanity person
Of course, it's made me mad. !
don't like Communists. But I have
been able to stand the gaf.
On at least one occasion I stopped
a cop who was just about to take a
swing at, Communist interrupter
Jimmy Walker has been in politics
and public life a long time. He
ought to know his way around.
Of course, he doesn't like Com
munists. Who does? The Commu-
nists don't even like one another
But there are fundamental rights
which belong to every member oil
mankind, and these. are the very
things upon which the mayor anc
his police have trampled.
(Copyright 1880. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22

Scientists Find Battling PuS-
zles IN Studying the Prob
lem of Human Grol0th.
THE problem of human growth IS
i one OF the most complex and
battling Of Me many which con-
front the bio 5gist, the medical man
and the pm biologist.
Growth IS a gypsy. says DR.. 7.
wingate Todd, director of the
Brush foundation, and it is to the
tracking down Of this elusive gypsy
that the foundation has launched
an elaborate five-year program.
"A very simple diagram OF the
charging composition of the body
Will introduce us to the problem.
says Or. Todd.
THE relative proportion Of bones,
muscle, fat and viscera differ
greatly in childhood from what they
are in adult life. It is clear then
that harmonious and well-co-ordi-
mated though the various mechan-
ismS may be throughout our life, the
expression Of our activities must
be forever changing.
New machines are being added
from time to time to our equip
ment, old ones going outof serv-
ice.
Nature has a habit of maintain
ing the CODY upon an economical
basis resembling the skeleton cadre5
OF the arm IN peace time. Only
those organs like heart. brain mus
Giles and stomach, which are in con-
slant or daily intermittent use, are
kept in full working order all the
time.
There are others, such as lynn
phatic glands, which develop only
when necessary and fade away
again when the need for them is
over"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Some Eye for Beauty

THERE are some wonderful
L plants around Charleston and
in the Kanawha valley. They are
huge, they house novel and gigantic
machines, and they convert what
looks like common dirt into great
wealth.
Many of them are scrupulously
neat in appearance, suggesting that
this age of industry is acquiring
something more than a taste for
gain. Many of them show that an
architect, as well as an engineer,
was called in to help work out the
plans.
All that is good. 1t makes one
feel that our economic structure is
not entirely sordid, and that ma
chinery has not destroyed that in
nate love Of beauty and refinement
without which we poor mortals seem
unable to develop synlmetrically.
The picture would be quite re-
assuring were it not for the obvious
condition of those who do the work,
who tend the machines, who run
when the whistle blows each morn
ing, who have become serfs, not of
their employers, but of a system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Childhood STAYS

DR. TODD tells that a paragraph
- from Thomas Hardy's Tess of
the D'UThc7ilIes' always stuck in
his mind because it so aptly de-
scribed the problem 1t read;
phases of her childhood lurked in
her aspect still. AS she walked along
today for all her bounding hand
some womanliness, you could some
times see her 18th year in her
cheeks, or her 9th sparkling from
her eyes; and even her 5th would
fit over the curves of her mouth
now and then"
DR.. Todd adds, Down through the
years that paragraph has remained
in my mental background to spur
me on. 1t is the beginning of the
study Of childhood"
For many years, DR. Todd car
r1ed on his studies in the Western
Reserve University Medical school,
where he is professor of anatomy.
Many false starts were made" he
says. eve had to realize that the
body does not grow as a unit or
CFSt 4AfNC q SOAoi COAllilul4ly, DuI
that each member and organ is
law to itself, its mechanism deity
fitting in order into the complex
pattern of the whole.
Some, like the heart and lungs,
the organs of special sense, sight,
smell and hearing, must be perfect
before or shortly after birth. Others.
the muscles for example, may delay
their final perfection.
There are organs of childhood
like the tonsils and organs of adult
life like the sex glands
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-22
Not Far From Jungle

ID EVOLUTION in Brazil-how out
N of place and out Of date it
seems to us Americans who have
dwelt in peace for sixty-fve years,
yet it was not six hours ago that
this writer rode by Lees Tree" 1t
stands, gnarled and gray, on a
bleak mountain top, more than
1900 feet high, where the great
Confederate general made his head
quarters for five weeks, within the
memory of more than one living
inhabitant.
So, too, the queer, Anticipated
ceremonies now going on in Abys-
sinia seem out Of place and date,
yet ten generations ago, what now
is West Virginia was ruled by chiefs
only one jump out of the jungle.
The world can be regarded as
speedy and progressive only when
looked at in spots. Half the human
race not only still is catching up,
but making a rather slow job of it.
Some Of that half is closer home
than one likes to think.