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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08

partment Of Justice has been called by
Col. A. w. w. Woodcock, new director
of prohibition, for late this month.
It will be a conference similar to the
one held annually by the old Treasury
Department Prohibition Bureau, for the
purpose of discussing problems of en-
forcement. and for personal get-together
conferences among the administrators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
Two Get Commissions.

Commissions in the Reserve Corps of
the Army have been issued to Ferris
MacA. Smith of the Aeronautics Branch
Department of Commerce, as a second
lieutenant and specialist, and to An
thony B. C. Graves of Kensington, Nd,
as second lieutenant of Infantry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
$50 PER CENT GROWTH
IN INSURANCE SOUGHT
Oil Wells and Resultant Fire Hax-
ard in Oklahoma City
Given as Reason.
Nv the Asaociated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, July e.-Because
Of the additional hazard caused by the
drilling Of oil wells IN residential Sec
tons, fire insurance companies have
for a $50 per cent increase in rates In
Oklahoma City. A fiat increase Of o.
q hundred Is asked. The present rate
on residence property is 40 cents per
500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
FLORIDA CENSUS 500, 900
omoiaI Returns Filed From e5 OF
81 Counties.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July Dr.
Offisial census er1ugnerations made pub.
lie today from 65 of the 81 counties In
Florida showed population of ! Az ,645.
Census oficials said indications were
that reports from the other counties
would place the States popula ton ct
approximately 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
Fined on Traffic Charge.
y a Stan Correspondent q, The Star

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
LAUREL, Md, July 8.-Convicted of
driving while intoxicated, Thomas w.
Matthews, colored, was fined 500 by
Police Court Judge J. Chew Sheriff
yesterday. The man was arrested by
State Policemen Henry G. Clark and
G.. G.. Serman. He was also charged
with reckless driving and having made
quate brakes and drew fines totaling So
for those offenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
Gives Boating Lessons.

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., July 8 up.
Having rescued Olive Hamilton, for.
mer telephone operator, from the ocean,
William B. Leeds, jr., has been teach
fell out O. q rowboat near his Yacht.
Fully clothed, he dived in after her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
VILLAGE SWALLOWED
BY QUAKE IN INDIA

By the Associated Press
DHUBRI, Assam, India, July 8.-An
unconfirmed report reached here today
that the Sahkt hills had been cleft
asunder by an earthquake and q Vil-
lage In Kanchigaon completely swal-
lowed up.
The quake which caused the tragedy
wa&among the first of liz shocks reg
tstered in the last few days.
The local hospital treasury build-s
ings and match factory have been dam
ased seriously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08
W0ODCOCK CALLS AIDES

First omcial Conference Under
New Dry Law Head Is Announced.
The first official conference Of pro-
1ibition administrators under the De-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-08

bullets whizzing around her, to milk
the COW. Later the family was forced
to the attic by the firing and could not
get to their we'll.
Her mother died from typhoid fever
as result of drinking the impure water
they were forced to use. Orphaned,
Mary came to Iowa to live with an aunt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
This, After Ten Years

From the house military affairs committee has
come Muscle Shoals bill.
Ten years and more and still new Muscle Shoals
bill
And, judging from the way this new one is drawn
the end is not yet
The military affairs committee finally, has
scrapped the Norris BILL calling for government op-
Grafton of the great power and nitrate plants on the
Tennessee river in Alabama.
It has substituted a bill allowing lease of the
shoals to one or several private corporations
Those who sponsor this lease claim it is the first
ever to fix definite amount of fertilizer to be
featured at Muscle Shoals. They apparently have
forgotten that the shoals longer is a fertilizer
project It's chief value to the country and to Tennes-
see and Alabama is a power plant.
These same sponsors point with pride to the fact
that their bill bars power companies from leasing the
shoals They seem to have forgotten that the power
companies have not openly sought the shoals for
years.
They also seem to have forgotten that the senate
lobby investigating committee showed that the
pany that tried hardest to get the shoals had tacit
or secret agreement whereby the power companies
would receive the surplus power.
1t is not hard to see that those who had the new
bill drafted did not intend that there should be final
legislation Muscle Shoals at this session.
They realized that the senate, twice committed to
government operation would not agree to leasing
bill
The shoals will be idle for another long period
Once more it will become political plaything.
Certainly the house of representatives must real
ize that in the end it is the Norris bill nothing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
Another Tariff Warming

To the Warming OF 1923 leading economists of the
country that enactment Of the Grundy billion dollar
tariff bill would be disastrous to industrial life and
to international relations now is added the warning
of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia
university and of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter
national Peace.
Butler spoke from London over an international
lookup He declared that the proposed general high
tariff increase if made effective, was certain to do
more harm to Americas prosperity, Americas trade,
and Americas international relations than any tariff
which has preceded it"
The economists and Butler only repeating in
different words what Herbert Hoover said in his
paign speeches and messages to congress, opposing
general tariff revision Hoover speaking not only
from his theoretical knowledge and from his long
observation abroad but a result of his experience
of eight years as head of the United States depart
ment of commerce, in close contact with the nations
business and financial leaders
Many business men, who formerly supported the
idea of unrestricted tariff, coming around to
that the net effect of raising the already high tariff
would be a boomerang to their foreign trade.
All idea Of international good will aside all theories
aside the proposed law would hurt business That is
the hard practical consideration which is causing the
reaction of business men against GrundyiSm
The reason for this has been stated very clearly
by Hoover in pointing out that we have become
manufacturing export nation dependent upon a for
eign outlet for the surplus created by pro-
duction The export of that surplus makes the diff
ference between American depression and American
prosperity.
Despite his fact and despite the agricultural and
industrial slump in along come the short
sighted Grundy politicians and start tariff war in
which other nations close their markets to
This is Lot what is going to happen 1t is what
is happening now.
The mere writing of this Grundy bill much less
its passage has provoked serious foreign retaliation
and threats of more retaliation Canada, our largest
customer has Just put up countervalng duties which
strike at s3UOO0OOOO of our trade
France IS hitting American automobiles and other
commodities Argentina and Australia are acting
against us Thirty nations in all have submitted pro-
tests to the Washington government
Those foreign countries are not to blame They
do not want a tariff war with us. They want to buy
our goods which we must sell to achieve prosperity
at home. But they have choice. There is no
way in which they can buy our goods, unless we
permit them to sell us something-whch they could
not do over the proposed prohibitive wall.
There are few more ronical spectacles than that
of the American government as it seeks, on the one
hand, to promote exports through the activity of
the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. while,
on the other hand, by increasing tariffs it makes
portation ever more difficult the 1923 economists
pointed out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09

Editor The Times-The recent
disaster at the Ohio state peniten-
itary was one of the most horrible
tragedies I have ever heard of-all
the fault of the ones in charge who
would not liberate the prisoners
when they knew they we're facing
a terrible death-death by fire.
Surely the ones in charge are
murderers as much as any prisoner
in the institution.
Crimel Most of it originates
within prison walls.
A man is sentenced for minor
offense, and during his term suffers
maltreatment and acquires more
knowledge of the racket.
When he is released he is then
a full-hedged criminal and is con-
stantly reminded of it by flock 70
bounding detectives.
When he needs new start, work
and friends, he has none. What is
he to do?
Crime and the overcrowded con-
dition of the prisons are due to
graft and unemployment. Back
of it all is prohibition.
Something must be done and il
must be done quick if we wish to
continue as a prosperous nation. II
remains for the American people
to do it.
Our Constitution provides ths
principle Of "a government Of tia
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
Rugged Individualism"
pointed out

What would we think Of druggist who kept his
old bottles and labels and then filled thes receptacles
with altogether different drugs and chemicals? How
could his clerks function efficiently and how could his
customers rely on his prescriptions
Yet this is exactly what statesmen and poll
tcians are doing all the time And go on trusting
them implicitly even though their phrases do not coin
eide with any existing reality.
It has been a bedrock assumption of respectable
POLITICAL rhetoric and conventional economic teach
ings that free and unlimited competition is the basis
Of the American system Of industry and the foundation
of our economic development and prosperity. Presi-
dent Hoover, as late as the campaign of 1928, laid
great stress upon the rugged individualism" which
characterizes American economic life.
IN an article in the League for Industrial DemOc-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
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NORTH POLE FLIGHT


ON May 9, 1926, Richard E. Byrd,
" American naval officer and
aeronautic explorer, flew over the
north pole in a trimotored Fokker
monoplane piloted by Floyd Ben
nett. He was the first to achieve
the feat.
About an hour after leaving Spitz-
bergen on the final dash to the pole
the oil tank sprang a leak. But
the plane was so far away from
land that it was impossible to turn
back with any degree of safety. This
is the situation which Byrd later
called the most thrilling experience
of his life.
On reaching the pole Byrd cir
cled several times and verified the
observations of Admiral Peary who
discovered it in 1909.
The appearance Of the pole Is
described by him as follows: 1T
did not look different from other
miles of ice we had just passed.
There was the same stretch Of bril-
liant white marked by ridges, hum
mocks and a few leads recently fro
zen, showing green against white.
This was the desolate top Of the
earth and We were over it"
After recording his observations,
Byrd few a little farther, changing
from north to south in an instant.
Then he circled the Eole again
and few back to his starting point.
Byrd recently returned from an ex-
petition to the south pole, which
he crossed also BY airplane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
REASON By FE kERBfs

CI1IES ruled by the alliance between politicians
~ and gangsterS will be cheered to hear that Uncle
Sam will help dissolve the alliance by going after the
gangsters for failure to pay their income tax
Except in prohibition cases, criminals have a
wholesome fear of federal courts; they play
horse with state judges but not with federal judges.
black-handers local authorities being too crooked
too cowardly to handle them but when the defend
ants were taken into the federal court for using the
mails unlawfully one nervy judge broke up the black
hand business by sending fifty to the penitentiary.
A UTHORTTIES at the Columbus prison gained
IA control as soon as they showed they meant bust
ness.
In America we are long of maudlin sentiment and
short direct action
Instead of trying to get rubber out of golden rod
Edison should get it out of law enforcement Of
fcers; they have enough to supply the world-and
then some.
Mussoni the leading advocate of the mass produc-
ton OF posterity gave two father each for turn
ing out the largest number of children.
If anybody is entitled to such a reward we should
say it's the mothers
DR. ROSS and Or. Tassel of Drake univer-
lFsity informs the American Association for the
Advancement of Science that grasshoppers have
hair-like tubes all them supplying them with
air.
We wish the learned doctors now would tell us
where the grasshoprers get the tobacco they chew.
Manassa johnson, former slave of Kansas City
PASSED away at the age of $50 years.
His folks overlooked great bet when they failed
to have Manassa inform the world what particular
brand Of cigarettes gave him his clutch on life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
Get the Crooks

Grave and very general charges of fraud
have been made in connection with the prl-
mary vote.
In Lake county arrests have been made
for importing voters from Chicago to change
the results Of the vote by residents of In
diana.
One candidate has committed suicide in
that county. Heretofore the federal investi-
cations of similar episodes have been barren
Of results. All that has happened was the ar
rest and conviction of few bootleggers.
It is time, and past time, for the federal
government to get results in the Calumet
where fraud has changed results in the entire
state
In this county it is difficult to see how
Prosecutor Stark can fail to accept the chal-
lenge Of the numerous charges of fraud. De
feated candidates openly assert that the final
ticket was the result of compromise and de-
termination, not of the votes cast.
The sinister suggestion is made that those
who were intent on fraud believed that the
hand of the prosecutor would be stayed and
criticism quoted if he were given a renom-
IIdIlOU
In one election precinct, where charges
were made that officials were caught red
handed in marking ballots some arrests have
been made.
1t is quite probable that if fraud was
committed in this precinct, in one of the
highest class residential sections other
frauds were perpetrated where temptation
is greater and civic spirit presumed to be less
keen.
The issue is plain, clear and direct.
viii the machinery of government UNI
earth and prosecute the frauds and send the
violators to Jail before November?
This will be test for such candidates for
reelection who now occupy places of power.
The greatest crime is a violation of the
election law. That is anarchy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09

vt is curious that SUCH Scant SYM
Il pathy should be shown for Ma
hatma Gandhi in the American
press. Indeed, am shocked to find
the Indian leader largely regarded
hereabouts as a comic figure.
For instance, I find one Of my
newspaper idols, H. I. Phillips, writ
ing a column in which the mans
arerst is treated as a joke. And
the point of the burleSque lies in
the not to be denied fact that
Gandhi courted arrest and well
coined it.
He is quoted by Phillips as greet
ing the police and crying, This is
very splendid of you. You want me
to go with you at once, I hope"
Now, this would all be very funny
if it were not for the disturbing
analogy which comes at once to
mind How can that analogy be
kept out of mind by any citizen of
this unofficially Christian land?
1t is customary for a very con-
siderable proportion of Americans
to profess admiration for the teach
ings of a Jesus Christ. However,
there is a disposition to admit that
the rule of life is extremely difficult
and most of us are frank enough to
confess the extent of the gap be-
tween our professions and our prac-
tire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
TT SEEMS TO ME By H BYo2f%

have been kindled by the herOiSm
of an individual setting his deter
mination and his will against the
power of bayonets and battalions.
It is my belief that armies can
not prevail against such man. An
idea can break down every brigade
which is mustered against it. Sc
it has been from the beginning. So
it will be again.
We forget, of course, the previous
instances of this fact because they
have been set before us in colored
glass which is not the warmest me-
dunn of communication.
But here upon the front page of
the daily papers walks a man as
current as Herbert Hoover or Babe
Ruth and he has invoked in this
day Of the cable and telegraph and
the radio the power of an ancient
and respected rule A rule largely
honored in the breach, I will admit.
But to me it seems as if Gandhi's
campaign might serve almost as a
test of the validity of Christian
philosophy. The attack of scientists
upon religion largely has taken the
form of questioning rather than
downright denial
Where are your proofs?" they
have asked and answer has been
difficult for any save those who
believe in the literal and entire di-
vine inspiration of the Bible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
Endorsed

NARROW has undertaken to tell
~ the events which led to this
fusion and to explain for the lay
man both the old theories and the
new. His efforts have met with the
approval of the distinguished COM
mittee Of the Scientific Book Club
who recommend his book.
This committee consists of DR..
Kirtley F. Mather, the geologist;
DR.. Arthur H. Compton, physicist
and Nobel prize winner; DR.. Harlan
T. StetSon, astronomer; DR.. Edward
L. Thorndike, psychologist, and DR..
Edwin c. Conklin, biologist
After an Introductory chapter
about the wonders of the present
century, Darrow settles down to the
historical side of his theme, tracing
the beginnings of modern physics
in the laws of motion worked out
by Gallileo and the study of the
solar system by Copernicus, Kepler,
TychO Brahe, and Calico.
Then he discusses the age OF
Newton" the great period of dis
covery dominated by Newton, which
contained such famous men as
Boyle, Hooke and HALEY in Eng
land, and Liebnitz, Hugens and
Torricelli among others on the con-
tinent.
This period reached its culmina-
ton in Newton's Principal" i'll
which he set forth his law Of uni
versal gravitation, the law which
states that every body in the uni
verse attracts every other with a
force proportional to the product of
their masses and inversely proper
tional to the square of the distances
between them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09

racy Monthly Dr. Harry w. Ladder shows how far the
rugged indvidualism label is removed from descrb-
ing the actual nature of our existing economic sys-
tenn. Turning to natural resources, he says
In the Of most of our natural resources free
competition has given way to the combination and the
trust. Two corporations already control onehaf OF
iron resources four corporations control half of our
"copper" eight corporations dominate more than 80 per
cent of anthracite Our lead, lumber water
power is controlled by a handful of corporations"
1t is hardly necessary to point to the existence of
gigantic combinations in manufacturing, trade and
finance. To the earlier developments in this line must
oe added the chain stores, which have challenged
seriously what freedom Of trade existed Certainly,
large-scale combination has become the dominant rule
and practice in American industry
1t need not be contended that this trend is
sarily wrong uneconomical. 1t may be the inev-
liable result of the selectve process in economic evo
luton. 1t may be the industrial, commercial and
financial exemplcation of the survival of the ttest
What may assert with confidence is that it will
accomplish no good purpose to refuse to recognize
what has taken place and to adjust thinking and
phrases to these existing realities There is moth
ing to be gained and perhaps much to be lost by slap
ping the labels of Andrew Jackson's age upon the
products of the Coolidge and Hoover era.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
= DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

many a child suffered the Stortures
that result from liberal doses of sui
phur and molasses.
Today the great spring tonic is
sunshine and fresh air. With the
first signs of warm breezes and early
sunlight, one begins to waken earlier
in the morning. There is no ten
dency to lie late in bed.
The best spring tonic is an early
rising, a brisk walk in the open air
a breakfast with fresh fruit, and
plenty of outdoor exercise before
darkness in the evening. The hu-
man body has a marvellous system
of self-regulation. 1t requires no
cleaning after the winter season.
The formation of regular habits
in relationship to the evacuation of
waste products is just as important
in the winter as in the spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
Get Lots of Sunshine for Real Tonic

A diet containing plenty of fresh
fruits and fresh vegetables will do
much to aid, and for those whose
digestive tracts require more stimu-
lation, cereal products containing
roughage are sometimes recon-
mended by physicians.
The bodybuilding foods are not
alcoholic nor necessarily medicinal.
Calcium, iron and the necessary
vitamins can be had in properly Sc
lected diets and, if the diet is per-
force deficient in these substances,
cod liver oil, butter and egg yolk
provide vitamins A and D; yeast
and wheat provide B; spinach, let
tuce, tomatoes and the citrous fruits
take care of B and G.
These are the modern scientific
spring tones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-09
New IDEAS

NARROW then proceeds to intro
- duce the new ideas one at
time. Chapter 4 of his book is titled
Heat or the Dance of the Mole
cules," Chapter is "The Rise OF
Electricity" the story from the work
of William Gilbert, who was born
in 1910 and frequently is called the
father of electricity" through the
work of Volta and Ampere and
Faraday and Franklin, to the dis
covery of radio waves
Chapter 6. titled THE Nature OF
Things" tells the story Of the de-
velopment Of the atomic theory,
beginning with the work Of Sir Will
liam Crookes and the discovery Of
X-rays and Roentgen.
With Chapter 7, Darrow plunges
into the turmoil Of present-day
theories, introducing the quantum
theory, that puzzling theory which
holds that energy exists in little
particles or bullets called quanta.
Chapter 8 is "Relativity for Every
body" discussion Of the views Of
| Professor ElnSCeln. barrow Goes an
excellent job with relatively, tracing
the development of the theory from
the Nicholson Morley experiment
as well as the theory itself.
He closes the book with two chap
terS on some of the qualifications Of
physical progress. One is titled
physical Discovery and the Heav-
ems" and outlines the effect which
modern physical theories are having
on astronomical research. The
other, the final chapter of the book,
is titled Physical Discovery and
Civilization"
A brief, but excellent list of ref
erence books is appended at the
close of the book.