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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
IF the Tariff Bill Passes

After two-year attempt to stabilize the coal in
dustry and prevent overproduction, unemployment
and wage-cuts John D. Rockefeller Jr has been COM
PEELED to admit that he has taken licking.
The Consolidated Coal Company, Rockefeller con-
Germ and the largest producer of soft coal in the world
just has announced that circumstances make its bet
terment program impractcable at this time.
Why? The basic trouble is overproduction There
is more coal than buyers. And in its wake, overpro-
duction has brought whole train Of evils including
Is to Is per cent decline in wages and further I'M
employment. Furthermore, the cut-throat tactics OF
desperate producers struggling for market prov
ing disastrous both to themselves and the workers.
This incident, isolated though it is, is warning
sample of what to expect if congress kills foreign
trade by passing its vicious tariff
Today industrial America is selling approximately
10 per cent of it's output abroad Prevented from
porting this surplus, it requires vast amount of
imagination to realize that we would have a danger
overproduction problem on our hands.
Coming at time when industry already is striving
to recoup from the recent slump further loss simply
would play havoc with it. Just as reproduction
killed reconstruction in the coal fields it would check
business revival and sterilization generally and inten-
sfy the unemployment crisis with which the nation
now is at grips
When the wheels of industry slow down and work.
walk the streets looking for jobs; when the bot
tom drops out of prices and the farmer can't make
ends meet retailers and wholesalers bankers real
tate Dealers and everybody else suffer, because the
purchasing power of the entire nation tumbles
Just conditions in the coal fields have foiled the
best intentions of those determined to better them
the Grundian tariff measure, if it becomes law men
with defeat the heroic attempt now being made to
check the present business depression and head us
back toward prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
REASON By Ff hzaBfs

THERE'S lawsuit down in New York City which
Il presents Our alleged civilization in very cheap
and sordd light, for an aged mother has been com
PEELED to go to court and ask judge to keep maya
zine from publishing disgraceful biography Of her
dead daughter
Had any publication sought to do such ghoulsh
thing in the days of the old frontier its proprietor
would have been found the and its equipment
would have been found in the river, but such is the
anemia and materlalism of day, this judge must
sit and ponder gravely whether the magazine in queS
ton shall be permitted to rob this grave.
THE girl, above whose remains the magazine now
H. hove.s was known to the theatrical world as
Jeanne Eagles the star of the celebrated play Rain
and the story which is about to be printed refers to
her as "a genius, drunkard hellion' and various
others things.
1t is a sad rerroach that after than cen
fury of universal education and religious endeavor,
sufficiently large number of depraved readers could be
found to make the publication of such story profit
able but it is sadder reproach that rich magazine
should be willing to turn hyena to get money it does
not need.
On one side of this trial table in New York CITY
sits the aged mother seeking to shield the nfeless
body of her girl the other side of the table sits
the magazine publisher not in the person of its
ers, who would not have the brass to sit there but
through its attorney. who speaks eloquently about
The Liberty of the Press
T BERTY of the press conferred upon pub
IL fishers in order that they might expose great
evils which threatened the public welfare. and the
spirit of it was that those in public life constantly
should oe under public surveillance and those who
emerged from private life to work disaster should pe
uncovered.
Those venerable Constitution builders never
dreamed that in some distant day magazine
should drape this guarantee about its miserable form
and demand the right to turn buzzard for the deec-
tation of its readers and the increase of its
circulation.
Had these fathers of liberty foreseen such con-
tngency they would have placed such magazine in
a strait-jacket.
If, under our law, there is no protection for the
dead from such CHASTITY publication then We should
call home our missionaries from lands where graves
respected and put them to work among the Amer
lean publishers. whose hands are fun OF cemetery
earth.
such publishers are disgrace to the i
family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
One Sure Straw

If anv evidence were needed of a widespread
change of opinion prohibition and revolt against
present conditions it is found in the new attitude
of Senator James Watson, who now announces that
he favors referendum on the question In Indiana
"Our Jim" has a classy record of riding the band
wagon He catches it almost before it starts. That
sense of what the people will think tomorrow has
kept him in Office for many years, despite some very
obvious reasons for his retirement from public life.
When the dry wave swept the state, no one was
louder in his denuncation Of the Demon Rum than
Watson He became the darling of the professional
reformers. He always had the Endorsement OF the
Anti-Saloon League.
The same has been true of every other movement
that has come to the state He could change from
niehtgown to cassock or back again with speed
that would arouse envy in any quick change artist
Of the stage.
Therefore it means something when Watson an
nounces that the people of Indiana should vote on
prohibition
Quite true is it that Watson is unhappy as senate
leader trying to put over the most infamous tariff
measure in all history He has heard from Indiana He
knows that workers and capitalists in rebellion
against the plain invitation to bankruptcy and panic
involved in the measure.
But the adroit Watson would hardly drag out the
dry issue as red herring his tariff trail I'M
less he were convinced that very large number OF
people are dissatisfied with prohibition enforcement
This means parting with old friends. 1t means
divorce from his largest single bloc of supporters
There can be but one reason Watson knows the dry
cause is no longer popular He knows that the peo-
pie resent the evils that it has brought into govern
ment the debauchery of courts and public officials,
the breakdown of morality. the increase in crime,
the great burden of prisons and prosecution.
When Watson veers far as to give the people
a chance to vote on any issue you may be very
that Jim is scared He usually lets the bosses decide
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Book and Man

I'LL match the book against II
l. Duce any day in the week. AS
long as "All Quiet" continues to
grow and spread and find its way
into the homes, the hearts and the
minds of the millions, no fat man
in a black shirt can destroy the
solid foundations of war adherence
which it is creating.
In fact, the tactics of the mill
tarists all over the world seem ILL
devised. Only a little while ago
great swarrns of planes flew over
New York and it was whispered
about that the demonstration was
intended to make the city air con-
scious and to prove to the average
citizen that it would be easily pos
sible to mutilate New York by
hombers.
But is this way in which to
make the average New Yorker kind
ly disposed to the possibility of an
other conflict?
BY now, too, many men and too
many women know the facts of
war. The agony and the wounds Of
civilization still are too fresh TO be
brushed away by aerial press agents.
Copyright. 1890. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ :
Venus Is a Complete Mystery,
With Dense, Heavy Clouds
Surrounding It.

THE real nature Of the planet
\ Jupiter, big brother of the solar
system, is almost as much mystery
as is that of the earth's sister
planet, Venus.
Both planets are now visible in
the western sky each evening in the
hour or two after sunset. Venus,
the brightest starlike object in the
sky, is now faily high in the west
ern heavens.
Jupiter is nearer the horizon,
sinking lower each evening. In two
or three days, Jupiter will be so
close to the sun that it will be lost
in the bright rays Of the setting sun.
Venus is a complete mystery.
Dense heavy clouds surround it and
the telescope reveals nothing but
the outer surface of this blanket
of clouds. An occasional dark spot
is thought to be a mountain peak
sticking its head cut on a day when
the clouds are Bit low.
But though Jupiter exhibits a
wealth of interesting detail in the
telescope, the Interpretation of what
the telescope reveals is a subject
Of controversy.
Jupiter shows many colors in the
telescope. Reds and browns pre-
dominate with here and there an
occasional olive green.
The most conspicuous feature of
the planet is that the markings are
arranged in belts or bands parallel
to the planets equator.
The belts vary in number, width,
and position from year to year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Memorial Day

Once again the people of the north journey to the
graves of their soldier dead, to place flower above
the dust and pay tribute to the sacrifice OF those VINO
served in war.
The hates which burned and scared have long peen
forgotten The sons of those who wore the blue
fought at the side of the Of the men garbed IN
gray during the most tragic period of our national
history when the Spanish war beckoned men from
peace to ba tlehelds.
The sons of these went across the sea 10 nsne size
by side in the world conflict.
Only a remnant of the armies which fought the
most bitter of all wars. that between the states OF
common heritage of freedom remains. The few VINO
survive the years and their comrades will live again
the scenes of their early youth They VIII tnlnK OF
those who sleep eternally But none Of them will be
able even # they wished to recall the spirit Of enty
and of bitterness which burned keenly in the day
Of strife.
Even the causes for which men fought are 1or-
gotten in the new civilization that grew upon the old
A race obtained its freedom But so much is freedom
part of life that few remember the day when human
slavery was =. very real thing and human hesh was
bought and owned by other human beings.
That progress and change have come from the
shedding of human blood is one Of the indictments
of our civilization. 1t is still dark SHADE" that
some men feel that necessary and that SET
Element of human problems must come through might
and force.
To the valor and the courage and the patriotism
which nspre men to fight the nations battles the day
will bring its tribute and memory.
1t is glorious that the hate of war dies SO quickly
and that those who struggled to kill each other SO
short a time ago now fraternize on terms of friend
ship and companionship.
1t will be more glorious when mankind learns well
the futility of force and finds way that will forever
Danish the -reat of war, the menace of death upon
battlefeds the tragedy of broken lives and broken
homes that comes with war.
To the heroes of other days who sleep let there be
a generous tribute of memory. To the heroes of
tomorrow let / re come vision of human brother
hood in which hate and bitterness and strife have
no part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Red Spot

MORE puzzling even than these
I've shifting belts are the semi
permanent markings which con-
tinue sometimes for many years,
with only slight changes.
The most remarkable of these is
the great red spot which appeared
in 1878. This spot was far larger
than our earth. The diameter of
Jupiter, it will be recalled, is more
than ten times that of the earth.
When first noted, the spot was
10000 miles long, 1000 miles wide,
and brick-red in color. With the
passage of years it's color faded and
its shape became more round.
While the spot is barely visible
today, its location is marked by a
notch or bay in the great southern
belt.
In the belt south of the great red
spot, dark region, about $4,000
miles long, has persisted since 1901.
1t is known as the south tropical
disturbance"
The disturbance" is rotating
faster than the great red spot, so
that it overtakes it at intervals of
about two years, drifting past it at
rate of about sixteen miles an
hour.
DR.. Henry Norris Russell, dean Of
American astronomers, writes: "It is
evident that both these markings
are floating in q fluid medium and
not rooted to anything solid within
the planet"
1t can be seen by now why the
Interpretation of Jupiter's appear
ance is so difficult.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
No Great SomerSauIt

CONVERSION of the Orient to
~ BolShevism would represent no
greater somersault in human affairs
than did conversion of Russia.
twenty years ago no living man ex-
pected to see Russia become a Soviet
republic, though there were op-
timists who thought that China
might become another United States
without commotion.
Twenty years ago the world was
lar different from what it is today.
yet the world of today had been in
the making for a long time.
one of the most curious phases
OF progress is the length of time
men can manufacture political dy-
Mantle without realizing it.
We Americans see little good in
communism, chiefly because it
would force us to give up our per-
Sonal possessions.
But suppose we had no personal
possessions, no houses, land, stock
or money in the bank? Suppose we
could become Communists by dis
possessing comparatively few over
lords who had grown rich through
exploitation or banditry2 Would
communism seem SO bad?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
TT SEEMS TO ME By HR RYo4%

sands of followers greet his wild
words with loud applause.
The. italian populace has done as
much for native tenors who were
not more than third-rate. Any man
with loud voice and a trick hat
can exicte some attention from a
milling crowd. After all, the en-
tertainment is free.
There is, strongly suspect, a
ten-day clause in Mussolini's con-
tract.
Even the greatest of the worlds
orators never have had much actual
effect upon the conduct Of those
round about. Words spoken to large
groups in public squares have q
tendency to go in one ear and race
out the other.
One cheers because he has caught
the contagion of the crowd, but
when the curtain has descended, he
goes home and forgets it all as il
it were no more than little old last
years costume melodrama.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
The Same Old CooIie

WITHOUT rejecting on the
wv missionary spirit which has
built schools and hospitals, as well
as churches, or the commercial spirit
which has developed some man
ufacturing establishments and Gre
ated a certain amount of trade, it
still can be admitted that white
civilization has not done much of
practical value for the Orient.
1t has done SO little, indeed, that
the average oriental well might be
excused for thinking that Com
munism could do no less.
Getting right down to where the
swarming millions swelter and per-
ish, what blessings has Christian de-
mocracy brought them? Or, to come
a little closer home, what blessings
has it brought the swarming mil
lions of India?
What debt of gratitude does the
coolie owe the great orthodox gov
ernments of Europe and America
that he should remain deaf to red
propaganda? In spite of all the
preaching. teaching, trading and ex-
plotting, is he not the same old
coolie?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
The Spirit of 1776 or 1919?

The judicial ynching of the I. w. w. at Centralia
Wash. in 1920, ranks next to the Mooney Billings
case among the standing examples of fragrant in
justice in the United States today.
The facts are well established. Centralia is a
lumber town The business men there are lumber
barons The L w. w. in Centralia were lumberjacks.
The members of the American Legion were either
lumber barons or employed by them.
There was, then, a social and economic basis for
intense feeling between the Legion and the I. W. w.
1t was much the same set-up in California, where
the public utilities crowd hated Mooney and his
group as labor organizers.
These Centralia business men met Oct. 20, 1919.
They demanded that the L w, w. hall be raided and
the "Wobblies" run out Of town. The I. w. w. MEM
bers appealed vain for police protection Aris
tice day, 1919 They also distributed leaflets asking
the citizens for a square deal
On Armistice day. 1919. the American Legion
raided the nall. The I. w. w. members defended
themselves as best they could and Lieutenant Warren
o. Grimm was killed.
Ten I. W. W. members were seized and tried for
murder in the first degree 1t was charged that they
deliberately and without provocation fired on the
Legion parade as was passing the hall peacefully.
Seven were found guilty of second degree murder
and given sentences of twenty-five to forty years.
Two were acquitted One, Loren Roberts. ad-
judged insane but has been kept in the state peni
Tertiary for the last ten years.
jury has just declared Roberts sane and eligible
to freedom. But the state Of Washington has ap-
pealed from the verdict and Roberts still is held in
custody.
The state case against the Centralia L w. w. has
eyapcrated to nearly the same extent as the case
against Mooney and Billings. The main contentious
Of the prosecution have been proved totally false.
Seven Of the jurors have signed afadavits swearing
that the verdict Of second degree murder was agreed
upon TO save the men from ynching in case the jury
disagreed.
1--WE Of the juror personally have requested the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Child Dull in School? See an OculiSt

/ properly corrected by glasses is a
joke in the game of golf.
Because Of the fact that he eXcels
in sports, the far-sighted boy may
refuse to wear glasses, on the
ground that they make him look
like a sissy. Hence he quits school
early and fails to get suitable
education.
The far-sighted girl is tomboy
in many instances, but girls are less
sensitive about wearing glasses
than are boys and are less likely to
want to spend most of their time
outdoors.
Doctor Rice ends his discussion
with single sentence of common
sense advice: "If your child is bright
at home and outdoors, but is doing
poorly at school, take him or her to
an oculiSt."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30

~ITIZENS of Cape May county
W New Jersey, will try to exter-
inmate mosquitoes by importing a
fierce Florida insect called gambusia
aspinis. This flying avenger is half
an inch long, and, according to ex-
perts, it devours sixty times It's
weight in mosquito larvae in twenty
four hours.
To me there seems to be two OBJ
iections to the scheme, one practlcal
and the other sentimental. Loyal
Jersey men are not doing quite right
by a home product. Indeed, Jer-
sey's fame throughout America rests
largely on applejack and mosqui-
toes. Both are more potent than
can be produced in any other COM
munity.
And now the burghers of Cape
May purpose going far af1eld to find
a foreign bully to loose upon their
local insects. It may be that the
scientists are mistaken. Possibly
the gambusia apinis never yet has
met a really f1rst-class mosquito.
Until convincing proof is fur
nished, I doubt the ability OF any
bantam bug, scarce half an inch in
length, to get so much as a good
draw, let alone a decision, over a
mature and full-grown jersey mos
quito. It's something like matching
FideI LIE Barba against Jack Shar-
key.
But suppose the gambusia lives
I'D to its gymnasium reputation,
what then? If this Florida insect
can do what is claimed for it, I
would not care to have any great
number Of such tough customers
around.
When the gambuSis has disposed
of the mosquitoes the Jerseyites are
going to be faced with the problem
of what to do with the gambusia
The mosquitoes being gone, he
might turn his attention to old gen.
tlemen or airedales. The first thing
Cap May knows it will be import
ing Russian wolfhounds to rid itself
of the gambuSia apiniS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Anything Is Better

WE Americans can discount the
w claims Of Communism by re-
verting to our own conditions. When
the Russian laborer begins to boast
Of how much better he is of than
he was under the old regime we
easily can demonstrate that he is
still far from being as well OF as
we are.
But that is not true Of the aver
age oriental.
From his viewpoint Communism
has worked wonders for people
whose miserable lot was much like
his own. He is in mood to be
converted, especially by gospellers
who come promising more bread and
meat, and he cares little whether
the hovel in which he dwells be-
longs to the state or to landlord.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

because they spend most of their
time at home.
In his discussion Of the relation
ship of far-sightedneSs to character,
DR.. Thurman B. Rice mentions par
ticularly the far sighted boy. His
teachers are likely to call him lazy
and inattentive; his parents may
say he is bright enough but will not
study. It is noticed that he is likely
to be interested in machinery and
Skillful with tools.
Doctor Rice points out that these
are the attributes of a person who
sees distant things with ease and
close things with difficulty.
The farSighted person is likely TO
be a hunter and fisherman. He may
make a good baseball player and
basketball player, whereas the
nearsighted man with vision not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Cold

4 GENERATION ago, many
1 "A astronomers assumed that
Jupiter still was in a semi-moIten
condition. It was thought that the
surface had not completely solidi-
fed, but consisted of molten lava in
many places.
Such markings as that of the
great red spot were believed to be
pools of lava, while the belts were
thought to be dense clouds contain
ing many chemical elements at high
temperature.
This view, however, was complete
ly upset by the temperature mea-
surements made in 1914 and 1922
by DR.. w. w. Coblentz of the United
States bureau of standards. DR..
Coblentz used delicate electrical
thermometer known as the thermo-
couple.
These measurements indicate that
the radiation from Jupiter is only
reflected sunlight and that the
belts have a temperature OF about
lao degrees below zero, Centigrade.
Astronomers today agree that the
belts are clouds, but they think now
that they are clouds of such gaseous
materials as carbon dioxide or other
gases, which liquify at temperatures
far below zero.
One view held by some astron-
omers today is that the actual
planet is much smaller than previ-
ously supposed and that it is sur
rounded by layers Of clouds which
are more than 10000 miles in thick
ness.
Some astronomers think that the
planet itself is very hot, while the
temperature falls away very rapidly
in the cloud layers. But Jeffreys,
famous British astronomer, holds to
the view that the surface of the
planet must be covered with a thick
layer of ice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Just So Much Rice

THE average Chinese could be-
Il come Communist without
ever knowing the difference.
So, too, could the average native
Of India.
Life to them represents little more
OF a problem than how to get so
much rice from one day to another.
They never have known the Joy
OF selecting Queen Anne bedroom
suite in preference to a William and
Mary, or of debating to which col
lege they will send the kid.
They have no bungalows to be
conf1scated, no f1ivvers to surrender,
or property for the state to claim.