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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
The Supreme Court

The country will be surprised at the resignation
of Chief Justice Taft and the appointment Of Charles
Evans Hughes as his successor. 1t had not been
known that Tafts illness such to require pro-
onged rest. Nor had it been known that Hughes
was ready to return to public ife from which he twice
has withdrawn.
Taft has the admiration of his fellow citizens The
many who disagreed with his presidential policies,
and questioned some of his court decisions respect the
sincerity and genial qualities of the man. The coun-
try will wish for him a speedy and complete recovery
of health and happy retirement, following his long
and varied public labors.
Substitution of Hughes will not materially change
the supreme court. Hughes and Taft represent the
same conservative opinion which has dominated the
majority decisions of the court in recent years.
Certainly Hughes is brilliant lawyer and dis
tinguished man. His public experience has been ex-
ceptionally wide as Governor of New York. as secre-
tary of state and justice of the world court. He
was an associate justice of the supreme court when
he resigned in 1916 to his unsuccessful for
the presidency.
Since leaving the state department to return to
private practice, has participated in many impor-
ant cases. practically always the attorney for large
corporations.
Now he will preside the tribunal which has
become the most powerful branch of our government.
BY its power to throw out laws unconstitutional by
a ve-to-four opinion and to render decisions which
have the effect of law the growing authority OF the
supreme court is unprecedented.
Too often the court has used its power to make
property rights supreme over human rights. AS in
the Seattle overlapping case and the Schwimmer
citizenship the majority of the court has seemed
to depart from the constitutional guarantees of civil
liberty AS in the recent Baltimore public utility rate
case has seemed to buttress private interests at the
expense of the public interest
Only small mnority-represented by Justice
Holmes and Justice Brandes, and sometimes by JUS
tice Suone-has stood out in brilliant and vigorous
dissent against these dangerous majority decisions of
the court. The legal eminence Of that minority is
as notable its constitutional loyalty.
Therefore the people hope for day when the ap-
proach of that minority to it's duties will be the atti
tude of the supreme court majority.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
REASON By Ff LASpIs

THAT American juries have very tender passion
i for ladies' charged with crime, shown, oh so
beautifully, last week by the jury at Wabash, Ind,
which practically acquitted Gene Ayers wife by dis
agreeing and by the jury at Chicago which set free
Mrs Geneve OBrien, charged with completely in the
murder of her husband by her paramour, under con-
ditions so Sordid and frigid they would have given
goose flesh to head hunter.
The more We see of juries the more we think of
mobs
Surgeon General Cumming warns the people that
they must kiss their parrots during this epidemic
of parrot fever. but what is life worth if not
kiss parrot!
NNE member of the Brazilian congress shoots an
~ other a result of a parliamentary difficulty
Thanks to our moral sense greatly quckened by
the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron
Burr, have made impossible such sanguinary ses
sions between statesmen, otherwise Caraway and
Grundy would probably now be training their artil
lery each other to the ultimate loss of the republic
After gazing at the pictures of the eight European
princeSses from among whom the prince of Wales
is expected to select life mate, readily under
stands why he went to Africa to hunt elephants.
Of course. Secretary Mellon is glad to have pro-
hbition enforcement handed over to the department
of justice, for things were he was watched by
12o,O0O0OO people every time he went down cellar.
MIR. JoUETT sHOUsE, national Democratic chair
wi man. announces that Al Smith is regarded
out the running for 1882 ndiscreet remark for
a POLITICAL commander in chief, since Mr. Smith
should be permitted to make that announcement for
himself.
If Roosevelt is reelected Governor of New York
and it looks that way he will be nominated for Pres
dent and Smith viii put him in nomination.
And what is even more interesting, he VIII be
very hard man to beat.
The former kaiser Is wise to turn down that offer
10 go into the takies for he would just be another
Charley Chaplin
The prospects for unloading these floating noun
tans of iron would be encouraging If the dele
gates TO the London conference would spend more
time trying to put something on the god Of war
and less time trying to put something over on enc
another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
--DAHY HEALTH SERVICE
Clothing Has Effect on Health

dress than do the outfits they wear
in their daily work.
Whereas the average woman has
not more than one or two pieces OF
clothing, the average man will have
four or five thicknesses of clothing
over his chest and abdomen.
Dress reform has been OF advan-
tage to women, particularly those in
industry, but has accomplished little
for man.
Various fabrics vary in their abil-
ity to retain heat and moisture and
to permit ventilation. They vary
also in the extent to which they
hold dust and germs.
Perhaps a little more serious con-
sideration of such problems would
result in diminishing to some extent
the high rate of incidence of res
piratory diseases which prevails
throughout the world today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
Size Not Everything

NNE of the most amazing aspects
" of human progress is the ex-
tent to which it has been shaped
by the work OF comparatively small
countries.
Greek literature, Hebrew myth
oIogy. Egyptian science-what would
civilization be today without them?
We are wrong in confusing great
ness with bigness.
AS a matter of common sense,
there is an element of danger in
bigness, especially if it comes too
quick.
That, and nothing else, is what
caused the empire of Alexander to
crumble.
But we Americans are afflicted
with the illuSionment.
Our philosophy, if we have one,
runs to the worship Of size.
We like nothing better than to
count the stories of the newest and
tallest skyscraper, unless it is to
count the dollars in the latest and
biggest bank merger.
The Greeks regarded quality as
more important than Quantity, and
in that lay their wisdom.
u r
One result of our bigness obses-
sion is mad race to build cities.
Practically everything we do is de-
signed to accomplish that end.
Industry, education, and even art
are promoted on the ground that
they will make the home town grow
One need not be a crystal gazer to
suspect that we are OVERRIDING the
lob. that our rural districts are be-
ing drained too rapidly, that too
much of a strain is being put on our
cities. to take care of an unhealthy
increase, and that our social, if not
our economic situation, is becoming
unbalanced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
HEALTH SERVICE =

and infants must be watched par
ticularly with this fact in mind.
Most of the weight of the cloth
ing should come on the hip bones
rather than on the shoulders and
waist. During recent years the
value of sunlight has brought the
sunsuit into use as the one article
for summer wear and for southern
resorts in winter.
The move is in the right direc-
ton
Men have passed through all sorts
Of fashions in underwear. The ma
jority of experts believe that the
one-piece suit has advantages over
two-piece outfits, but fashion seems
to govern such factors for man as
we'll as for woman.
The sport clothes of men ap-
proach more nearly the hygienic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
Grows Loo Fast

TTERE is Chicago, virtually bank
Il L rupt, and for no better reason
than too rapid growth.
Her unhappy plight can be ex-
planned as due to Big Bill Thomp-
son. but that is only half the story.
Big Bill never could have done
what he did. except that Chicago
was too busy growing to think of
anything else.
AS it was. Chicago swallowed him
largely because of a catch phrase
which portrayed him as "The
Builder"
More than one American city has
fallen for similar bunk, has taken
a demagog and winked at political
corruption in the hope of more paw
ing, more parks. or more schools
to attract many people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
A DevOut Hope

1t is deyoutly to be hoped that congress will be
willing and able to enact the law which the New York
legislature asks forbiddng utility companies to ap
peal the federal court for rate relief until they have
exhausted resources of state courts.
But it is the duty OF the supreme court of the
United States revise the attitude of the federal
courts. which now are seen to have placed the New
York Telephone Company in the position of mock
ing the power of the New York public service COM
mission.
To salvage the last vestige of its power, the COM
mission proposes strategy which under the cir
cumsances perhaps not be criticsedto raise the
c0mpanys rates 10 per cent, thus hoping to foresta
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
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ANNIVERSARY
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CONSULTATIONS VICTORY
February 4

4ODA ANA
NN Feb. 4, 1897, the thirty eight
" gun frigate Constellation cap
turned the powerful French frigate
L'InSurgente in the Caribbean sea.
This event is important in history
in that it avoided an almost inev-
liable war between France and the
United States. France, enraged be-
cause the United States had made
the Jay treaty with Great Britain,
began to attack our shipping and,
by its actions, indicated that it was
pointing for war.
When, for example, President
Adams sent a commission to Paris
to arrange matters peacefully, the
government refused to receive them.
The commissions, on the other hand,
were approached with the PROPOSE
ton that if they gave money to GER
tain members Of the French govern
ment, all would be well.
This news, made public in con-
gress, gave rise to the popular war
cry, Millions for defense and not
one cent for tribute"
An army was quickly raised and
few warships built. One of these
was the Constellation. After its
victory in the Caribbean, the Con-
stelIation, under Captain Thomas
Truxton, defeated and captured the
frigate La Vengeance. After these
blows, the French government sig
nified its wish to avoid war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

might have made the leap of de-
handing none at all.
GraVely do I doubt whether vir-
tue can be secured, even through
the most generous payment by the
day or hour. So much do respect
righteousness that I feel it to be be-
yond price.
By the time the boy is old enough
to go to college and girl sufficiently
mature to get invited out to parties,
both man and woman should be Suf-
ficiently set in character to look out
for themselves. 1t isn't possible to
chaperon people into goodness.
The faculty of Dartmouth ought
not to act toward students in good
standing as if it we're the congress
of the United States dealing with
free-boEn American citizens.
Copyright. 1880. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

Editor Times-We have read much
lately of the enormous property
loss and some loss of lives in the
flooded districts of southern Indi-
ana. This should not be and can be
prevented with nominal cost, as
compared with the losses. This loss
in these districts is irretrievable,
and many losers, with what assist
ance may be given them, never will
get back to the same financial con-
dition they were in when the dam
age occurred.
Compared to this dead loss, an
amount of money equal to this loss
expended for prevention, in the
right way-and there is only one
right way-would go into right
channels of trade with several turn
overs in year, thus proving profit
able to the community in which the
money is expended, both to bust
ness and the unemployed, who are
very numerous.
There is only one right way,
which a moments reasoning will
prove If levees are to be depended
on, they will have to be built higher
and stronger each year. We do not
have to be centenarians to remem-
Der when, with small cities, unpaved
streets and. roads, limited drainage,
and heavy wooded lands, it took
weeks for the water to reach the
large streams that now so quickly
are filled to the flood stage.
Compared with that condition
we have il Indiana thousands of
acres of paved streets and roads,
many thousands of acres Of roofs,
thousands of miles of drainage
bitches, all of which quickly empty
into the larger streams which
quickly brings them up to flood
stage.
A concrete example: Between the
Pennsylvania railroad and Brook
vile road, on Pleasant Run, is at
least two acres, too low to be salts
factory to build on without filling.
Filling such ground as this not only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
Loved by Nation
BESIDES being the only President

ID ESIDES being the only President
- to attain the age of 70 since
the Civil war, Taft is the only man
to have held the highest executive
and judicial offices within the gift
Of the American people.
What is even more remarkable, ne
regained as chief justice the popu-
laVity he lost as President.
Eighteen years ago, and for no
better reason than the capricious-
ness of partisan politics, he left the
White House without sympathy or
applause.
Today he is one of the most re-
spected and best loved men in
America.
Greco celebrates the one hun
dredth anniversary of her indepen-
dence, which must sound queer to
Pericles and others of his time, if
they are where they can listen in.
Greece not only was independent,
but Democratic before most of the
modern world came into existence.
Indeed, the modern world owes
many OF its political ideas to Greek
democracy.
Some of them are to be found in
the Constitution of the United
States, while others are reflected in
Soviet Russia.
For twenty-seven centuries Greece
has played an important part in
human affairs, though she made her
greatest contribution during the first
four.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

TINE bureau of home economics
- of the United States depart
ment of agriculture has rendered a
service to science and to health by
summarizing all the available sci
entific literature on the relation of
clothing to health.
AS far back as 1901, a German
expert argued that trousers for the
growing boy should be looser and
that suspenders were not SO health
full as buttons on a waist.
1t has been realized for The last
few years that clothing which over
heats the body is not hygienic. On
the other hand, children must be
clothed more warmly than the adult
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

We Haze Ertended the Life
Span IN Other Fields, bit
Not Among Occupants of
the White House.
SAYS:

CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT resigns
~ at the age Of 70, which seems
rather young considering how well
Justice Holmes bears up at SO, but
rather old when one recalls that
he is the only President 10 have
reached such age since James
Buchanan.
Of the first fifteen Presidents,
one reached 90, one IS, one 83, one
80 and one 70.
OF the last fifteen. only two be-
sides Taft reached 10.
n
Whatever we may have accom-
plished to extend life in other fields,
we seem to have suffered a signal
defeat in the White House.
People will tell you that this is
because public life has become more
burdensome, especially for Presi-
dents, but who Supposes that Cool
idge, Harding or even Taft, worked
harder, or were subjected to great
err nervous strain than Jefferson,
the Adamses or Jackson?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
Questions
and AnSzOers

What is the home address of
Gertrude Ederle, the swimmer?
108 Amsterdam avenue, New
York.
What is libertine?
One who disregards religious,
moral and social restraints, giving
free rein to the passions; disso-
lutte person; one who is licentious.
What causes waves?
Waves are caused by winds and
tide, also by counter currents.
What is a hybrid?
An animal or plant produced
from the mixture of different
breeds. The mule bred between q
horse and the ass, is the most
familiar example Of hybrid among
animals.
What is the population of Los
Angeles?
Approximately 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
Subs Needed

THERE ought to be a swell
l. three-act comedy for some
body in this theme. Why not a
play in which the discovery is made
at the end of the dance that every
body is present and accounted for,
except the chaperon and a sub
st'tute end?
Or, If the scene is laid in Dart
mouth, haze all three chaperons
out in the loose. Of course, in the
case, it would be necessary to throw
in a couple Of quarterbacks.
The college paper suggests rad
ical remedy. It would have the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
Daily Thought

What profit hath he that work
eth in that wherein he laboureth.
-Ecclesiastes 3:9.
Labor ribs us of three great evils
vice and poverty
Voltaire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
higher and more complicated rate increases by the

higher and more complicated rate increases by the
company itself.
The supreme court in the Interboroughs 7-cent
fare case rebuked that company for seeking help in
the federal court before it had exhausted of
relief in the state court
Why does not the supreme court apply the same
logical and admirable doctrine in all public utility
cases?
The present plight Of the public service commits
sion shows at last what havoc federal interference
is playing with the rate making agencies which the
people have built up to control the great monopolies
TO which they are compelled to insure fair invest
ment return.
No longer does real regulatory power exist in the
states but only great confusion by which the COM
panies with their vast resources, profit.
Responsibility for this breakdown Of state regula
ton and of local government must be placed at the
door of the federal court. And in the absence of
voluntary change of heart it only can be hoped that
the sheer burden of utility appeals from state
thority will in time cause the supreme court to revise
its policy and restore to the states their rights.
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None Needed

II COULD wish that the suggestion
l. of the Dartmouth paper had
been even more radical. Instead
of intrust decorum to a single
hireling in each fraternity house, 1t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

Many visitors to Washington have been impressed
by the United States senate Yes the architecture is
unusual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

The prohibition forces seem to have been doing
plenty of shooting, but most of the big shots in the
racket are immune
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
What are lime iuicers?

The phrase is American slang for
British sailors who were obliged by
law to use lime juice as an anti
scorbutic. It was also used in ref
erence to the sailing vessels on
which the crew was given a weekly
allowance of lime juice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
SCIENCE
By DAVID DIETZ
-
of CRYSTALS Expected to
Be of Great Value IN Chem
istry, Engineering and
Metdllurgy.
Nv DAXID DIETZ-


A FIELD Of present day scientific
IA research expected to yield even
tual results of immense value to
engineers, metallurgistS and chem
lists, Is that of the structure of crys-
tails. 1t is expected to lead TO the
production Of special types of steel
and alloys and of a type needed for
special purposes.
One of the most astounding re-
suits of recent physical 1nvestiga-
tons has been the discovery of the
universally of crystals. 1t has been
common for the layman to consider
the crystal as something special in
nature.
Recent research has shown that
almost every solid substance consists
of crystals. These range from large,
beautiful crystals, such as the dia-
mond or ruby, for example, to crys-
tails so small that only the micro
scope will reveal them.
In fact, there are crystals yet
smaller, so small that only X-ray
analysis will reveal their presence.
The reason that ordinary sub
stances do not reveal their crystal
structure is because the crystals are
so small and thrown together In
such hit-and-miss or helter-skel-
ter fashion that the structure is not
apparent.
Microscopic investigation, how
ever, has shown that steel, for eX~
ample, is composed of masses of
crystals thrown together in this ir-
regular fashion. The same thing is
true of other metals.
Pioneers
TTSE of the X-ray to examine
~ crystal structure rapidly is be-
coming one of the most important
fields of research. Work of this sort
is being carried on in universities
and research institutions in all parts
of America and Europe.
The newness Of the field is at
UCSJCO W w bllC AiNO OlldO blAC ptO
neerS in it are still among its lead
ers. DR.. Max Won Laue of Berlin
and the Braggs of London, Sir Will
liam Bragg and his son. Prof. w. L.
Bragg, were the founders of this
branch of science.
The work to date has yielded in
tereSting results. 1t has shown that
the molecules of matter have def
mite shapes AS Sir william Bragg
has said, molecules possess shapes
or structures as definite as those Of
the girders which compose a bridge.
The study also has revealed that
the molecules join to form the crys-
| tails in just as definite a way as do
the Orders which form a bridge. 1t
has been shown that there is a unit
pattern made up of several mole
culeS and that the crystal con-
Sists of a continuous repetition of
this pattern.
In this respect, the crystal can be
compared to wallpaper. but whereas
the pattern of wallpaper is in two
dimensions, the crystal patterns is
in three.
Recent work has shown that the
properties of solids, such as density,
hardness, elasticity, ability to con-
duct heat and electricity and other
characteristics, are all to be eX-
planned on the basis of the shape OF
the molecules, the way in which
they are bound together into crys-
tails and the strength of the ties
| between molecules.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04

Tho was the uurderess in the
Greene Murder Case?" Who
played the part?
The murderess was Ada Greene.
played by Jean Arthur.