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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Norris and the Drys

To the extent that any propaganda political or
SANITATION is sincere in its purpose ana honorable III
its methods 1t deserves and is apt 10 get the respect
of the country including its opponent That applies
eSnecialy to the much-criticsed Anti-Saoon League
and w. C. T. U.
Much of the criticism of those dry organizations
Is unfair Certainly to indct an entire ORGANIZATION
for the faults Of a few of its members is unjust.
But too frequently the leaders of the Anti-Saioon
League and W. C. T. U. take action, with apparent
support of their membership. which raises pretty
sharp question in the public mind as to the real ma
ttre and purpose of these organizations
The latest case in point is the Nebraska situation
Senator George W. Norris is running for the Repuo-
lcan nomination and for reelection
Now Senator Norris is, on the strength OF his long
career in congress known throughout the country Tor
three things He is recognized by all as man OF
unusual integrity and ability. He is recognized by
ali as sincere supporter Of prohibition He Is recog-
nized by all as a leader Of the progresSives
Norris is more than political dry. Unlike many
of the candidates supported b. the dry organizations
Norris does not drink His prohibition is not mat
ter of political expedency or pussyfooting, but OF
personal conviction.
Here surely is an ideal candidate for the Anti
Saloon League and the W. C. T. u
But those organizations in Nebraska are fighting
him. Why?
Because we are told he voted for wet candidate
for President That however obviously is not sum-
Gent excuse, for the Anti-Saloon League and the
W. c. T. u support many Democratic senators who
voted for Smith.
The test Of a senator's loyalty to the dry cause
the only open test exacted by these organizations
themseves-is his votes on legislation. And Norris
meets that test.
Rut there Is one other test unrelated to prohi-
bon that Norris does not meet That is the test OF
being a political reactionary and servant OF the
predatory interests He is their svowed enemy They
are leading the fight against him. 1t is natural
fight inevitable.
In that fight, how does it happen that the dry
organizations side with the interests against the dry
candidate?
1--WE don't know the answer. But We do know that
the dry organizations will have to do lot Of explain
ing to talk themselves out of the charge Of insin-
ccr1ty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
NG1 AOO4N Lands

NNE of the most inspiring and assuring things of
~ modern times is the spectacle of these two oil
millionaireS out in Oklahoma, now painting to be Of
service to the dear people, one of them Governor
and the other a United States senator.
Here's hoping both of them get cleaned!
These two particular potential pillars of the re-
public. ambitions to graduate from fabrication into
craftsmanship happen to be Democrats but there's
partisanship about the desire of the wealthy to
get into public Office, both parties having raffed off
their honors until session of the senate looks like
a meeting Of the board of directors.
WE remember the time, not so very long ago,
w when the people of the country had goosefeSh
when it announced that millionaire had made
his way into the United States senate but now they
exceeded in number only by the English sparrows.
And it's not only the senate; just look at the house
of representatives.
There not being enough opportunities for all the
millonaires to become CayS and Websters, the over
flow sought the less dazzling melight of the house.
We distinctly recall when we sat in a row OF
five mult-mionares in the house, poverty be-
ing sufficiently vast to bring the whole crowd back
to normal"
But we wish to be just to our coin-Iaden fellow
countrymen.
Most of them have succeeded in getting what the
between themselves and the wolf Of want and most
of them would make good senator's, as far as their
capabilities go.
THEW or none of these rich want public Office
l. to make more money. In fact they have found
nat there are many things more thrilling than the
possession of cash
There's another reason why they want to go to
washington.
II has become the social as well the political
capital Of the country.
Germany built. her castles on the Rhine, but We
are building ours along the Potomac and those who
yearn to stand beneath socetys gttering chandelier
instinctively think Of washington.
It's the place pre-eminent for ambitious ladies, and
many millionaire content to pitch horseshoes back
of the filing station has been derTicked out of his
environment into the District of Columbia because
mother desired to serve caviar to the Maharajah of
Indore. and daughter wished to unfrI her viShbone
to the zephyrs which are international
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
What a Primary

There has been much rejoicing in the seats OF
the mighty over the Republican primary victory
Of Representative B. Carroll Reece in the First Ten
neSsee district
Reece in congress is a spokesman Of the private
power interests. He largely responsible In tne
last session for preventing enactment Of the MOTIFS
bin for government operation Of Muscle Shoals which
has passed the senate so many times, and he also
blocked compromise bill
We are told that his in the primary proves
that not even the people living in the Muscle Shoals
territory much less the rest Of the country. object
TO handling that government-owned project over to
private exploters
But that explanation is too simple-much too
simple.
In fact. the people we're dubbed into voting for
Reece. Reece had what no other Republican primary
candidate has had anywhere in the entire United
States He had personal interference by the Presi-
dent in his favor
After all the President is the leader OF the Re-
publican party and when he goes to the unusual
length of battling for one Republican candidate
against another Republican candidate there natural
" arc good many Republican voters who feel that
the President has left them no choice but TO oney'
The significance Of the Tennessee primary, there
fore is not that the people have thrown down gov
eminent operation Of Muscle Shoals, but that the
president. despite his campaign promise, has
rejected 1t.
In view of the Hoover intervention, it is surprls-
inV that Reece did not poll large majority On tne
face of the returns. he just squeaked through
But maybe Reece did not win at all, even with
the White House pressure.
Votes were bought with an inexhauStole supply
Of money" supplied in part by outside interests ac
cording to Recess opponent, Judge Price the
method and manner of holding the primary were
unfair fraudulent corrupt and violative OF the hrst
principles Of the Republican party and OF common
decency" says the judge.
When those serious charges have been proved OF
disproved the public will be in better poSlCon "
understand the meaning OF this particular pililay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Apartments
THE most interesting structl

THE most interesting structures
Il in Germany from many points
of view are the so-called municipal
housing colonies, or "siedlung," to
give them their German name.
Here. apparently, necessity was
the mother of invention. They were
urgently needed when thousands of
families began to move into the
Rhine cities and Berlin in the post
war period. Gilman reports:
1.-THE first consideration in the
design of these buildings was the
most modern hygiene and conven-
fence for the tenants, together with
the strictest economy for the city.
"OutWardly the result is an i'm
menSely long, low building of stucco
with flat walls, broken only by
concrete balconies and perhaps flat
concrete shelves over the entrances.
Possibly there may be open
porches behind the balconies and a
band of brick to tie them together.
If perfectly flat, they may have a
color scheme, such as dull red for
the walls. dark blue for the window
frames.
"At first sight you revolt at the
idea of any one having to live in
such characterless barracks. But
after going through some of the
sunny apartments, or the cozy two
family houses, and comparing their
floods of light and air from a spa
ciouS court, their bathrooms and
steam laundries, with the red roofs
and small windows of the older ten
ements minus plumbing and plus
high rents, you readily vote for the
"Siediung."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Different Now

DUT today things are different.
ID Barbering isn't what it used to
be. A fellow has to be an electri-
clan, beauty specialist. Swedish
masseur and goodness knows what
all to work at the trade.
And, as Felix says. if Mussolln1
ever heard that he was a Swedish
Masseur or a Swedish anything else,
there'd be the very devil to pay.
Take a look around the modern
barber shop. Usually it's a vast
room done in marbles and tiles and
mirrors. The chairs are numbered.
If you failed to make an appoint
ment you wait your turn.
No longer does the raucous
NEXT" so dear to the inspired
pens of comic artists, boom across
the room. An attendant dripping
Tiffany poise from every pore
escorts you with no little ceremony
to the vacant chair.
Such things as shave, haircut,
shampoo, massage and manicure are
accepted as routine needs. But you
may crave an ice porlltice. Very
popular these days. Brings you back
after tough night.
It's applied to the back of the
neck. The trick is too keep it there
Just long enough. If you keep it
there too long hemorrhage or
something might happen.
How's the head today? Kinda
dizzy2 Tough on the old sinusitis,
eh9 out CORES q sort Of ylolet-ray
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

an intimate bearing on life and
health.
A famous Russian, Metchinkoff,
conceived the idea that the white
blood cells were the important dis
ment for attacking infectious dis
ease and he gave to them the name
'phagocyte," with the idea that they
ate and digested. However, the white
blood cells represent but one of the
many types of formed elements in
the blood. There are, in addition,
the red blood cells and the platelets.
The white blood cells number
about 5000 to 1000 for an amount
Of blood about the size of pin
head. The red blood cells number
from 4,5O0,OOO to 100000 for the
same quantity. The blood platelets
average from 10000 too 100000 for
the same amount.
Unquestionably all these cells
have special functions, some of
which have begun to be understood,
but about many of their functions
there is still a, great deal of doubt.
The red blood cells seem to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12

Russia and Lorraine for France. In 1917 POM
care wrote that the Germans seemed Determined on
reconciliation with France, but that France never
would permit it unless Alsace-Lorraine was returned
Alfred Fabre-Luce has shown how the Germans
worked steadfasty for good relations with France be-
fore 1914, until they saw it was hopeless
The French military historian. General Buat, has
admitted that in July, 1914 the French army was
larger than the German, in spite Of the fact that
Germanys population nearly twice that OF France
In Foreign Affairs for October 1926 Poincare admitted
that there was no evidence that Germany and
Austria had planned war for the summer of 1914 or
even that they planned after the archduke was
assassinated.
Georges Demartial has shown that France and
Russia did not dare openly to defend the cause Of
Serbia against Austria in 1914 Paleologue, French am
bassador in Russia in 1914, has told us how he and
Izvosk agreed that war was certain early as July
25 1914
Fabre-Luce has confessed that after Poincares be-
havior at St Petersburg July 20-22 1914 there was
little hope of peace. Demartia has shown how the
Russian general mobilization brought on the war at
time when the Anglo-Germ diplomatic proposals
seemed about to avert hostes and has revealed how
the French lied in their documents (the Yellow Book
to hide the fact that the Russian general mobilization
preceded that Of Germany and Austria.
Just before he was assassnated in July, 1914 Jaures
exclaimed that dog, Izvolski Rssian ambassador In
Paris now has got his war;"
Demartial has revealed the ways in which Poincare
and his group kept the French people from real
knowledge of the facts in 1914 and made them think
they were waging war of defense. AS Denartia puts
it, France was thrown into the war as helpless as
chicken handed in bag to the butcher"
Indeed, this great and noble French writer Is non
est enough to admit that the responsibility for the
calamity of 1914 was that of Serbia Russia and France
In Current History for March, 1926, he wrote we
are convinced that more can accept the thesis
of divided responsibility than we can accept that Oh
the exclusive responsibility of Germany"
For this outburst of candor and courage, Demartia
was dismissed from the Legion of Honor.
In the light of these statements and admissions of
able and distinguished Frenchmen, what becomes OF
the allegation that Germany provoked the war SIX
teen years ago today?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Research Shows Blood's Importance

charged primarily with the convey
ing of hemoglobil, which is the red
coloring matter, around the body.
The hemoglobin contains iron and
is concerned with the distribution
of oxygen, life-giving element.
If the hemoglobin, is lessened in
amount. there is less oxygen car
ried and the blood becomes exceed
tngly pale. The normal amount of
hemoglobin is listed at 100 per cent,
but person may have anywhere
from so to 20 per cent and still feel
fairly well.
If the hemoglobin drops much be-
low this amount, he is likely to in
dictate the deficiency by a shortnesS
of breath. The pallor associated
with lack of .hemoglobin is typical.
There are many conditions in
which the hemoglobin is altered or
destroyed so that it can not carry
oxygen. For instance, in poisoning
with carbon monoxide gas the
helmoglobin is changed to form
which can not carry oxygen and
the person gets purple.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
SCIENCE
German Architects Have
Broken Sharply With the
Past; Nation Forging Bold
IN Ahead in It's Buildings.
by DAVID DIETZ-

VXTHILE Americans are still
w standing in awe before the
pyramid-like setback" skyscrapers
Of New York City. Germany is forg-
ing boldly ahead in the field OF mod
ernistic architecture.
Every type of building, from
churches to theaters. is dominated
by modernism, according to a report
to the American Institution of
Architects by Roger Gilman of
Providence, R. I.
German architects have broken
sharply with the past, Gilman de-
clareS.
Changed economic conditions
and the postwar reactions in Ger
many. added to the really profound
influence of the Machine Age have
built up a totally new point Of
view" he says.
ITO an American searching dubi-
ously for modernism, the amount to
be found in Germany is revela-
tion," Gilman reports. I'm three
weeks trip, for instance, on the
Rhine, in the Ruin and Berlin, the
number of modernist buildings of
real interest totaled up 70 something
like seventy.
Most of them had been pro-
duced during the lasC five years.
Only three or four large new ones
we're not modern"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Russia Changes Tone

A CCORDING to press dispatches,
IA Soviet Russia is stiffening her
tone with regard to American trade,
limiting that it may be stopped if
recognition is not granted, and
calling attention to some of the
favorable agreements recently made
with other countries.
M. Kalmanovich, Soviet vice.
commissar, who sailed on the Ma
jestic last Friday, after spending
two months in this country, says
that he placed orders for farm
machinery and tractors totalli1g
more than forty millions dollars and
constituting one Of the largest single
purchases of farm machinery eva
made in similar period of time.
If money talks, Soviet Russia still
is content to do business in America.
If failure to get excited over all
the windjamnning talks, the great
body of American citizens are will
ing to let her.
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Banks

GILMAN indicates that the new
~ trend in architecture has a
genuine grip upon the people of
Germany. It is a nationwide move
ment and not merely fad cropping
out here and there.
The visitor to Germany is sur
prised by the varied type of mod
ernistic buildings, Gilman reports.
you expect this sort of thing in
shop fronts and CabaretS, but you
find it used for the rich old conser-
vative Bank of Dresden, in the
solemn Peace Memorial church at
Frankfort and the monumental Mu-
scum Group at Dusseldorf" he says.
For interiors there are the Capitol
theater, the rebuilt Renaissance
theater in Berlin. and the liner
Bremen.
"And beside the many stores and
office buildings there are every
where the hotel tenementS, count
less. huge and successful.
''The architectural schools, too,
both graduate and undergraduate,
have some of its leading spirits on
their stats, while the students with
the enthusiasm that might be ex-
pected, read lie Corbusier' and de-
sign opera houses ir plate glass.
"A modern German plan may
take any shape that the conditions
suggest. II is not controlled by any
predetermined composition, however
much sanctioned by precedent, as,
for instance, decorative entrance
on the axis.
"In fact, the entrance of the large
bank at Dresden consists of moth
ing more than the necessary width
of its opening in the wall and leads
into a corner of the banking room.
1.-THE Festival hall at Magdeburg,
for 5000 people, has only a series of
side entrances like stadium. Model
tenenmentS at Frankfort have ia
cadeS on a 'SaWtooth' plan"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Terre Haute Shows Way

A FTER two weeks of more or less
"A noisy exporting, climaxed by
spectacular air hop to New York, the
Detroit police have succeeded in
capturing one Of the three alleged
Buckley killers, who says he can
prove an alibi by at least thou
sand witnesses.
After nine weeks of even noisier
exporting, Chicago police have ac-
complished nothing in the Lingle
case, except to prove that AL Ca
pone and his gang are in full con-
troll of the town.
In contrast to the futile founder
ing of our expensive law-enforce-
ment machine, voluntary band of
vigilantes in Terre Haute traps
gang of four filling station bandits.
killing one and capturing the other
three.
While no law-abiding citizen cons
cientiously can advocate the substi-
tuition of ropes and telegraph poles
for the splendidly inefficient sys-
tenn of red tape and technicality
which has hog-tied every one but
criminals, he can predict its prob
ability.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Ask Dad

TINE barber shop that dad knew
i was nothing like this. There
was an intimacy and an individ-
ualism about the old-time shop that
meant something to a fellow, even
if it didn't wholly offset all the
doodads and gadgets and expert OPP
orators that are around today.
It must have fired up a fellows
sense cf Importance right smart to
walk into Tony's on a Saturday
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
| NJ. E. Tracy
-----SAYS:
The Drought VII Do Ten
Times the Damage to
Consumers That IL Has
Done to the Farmers, I'm
less They Organise.

MONDAYS front page was the
4VA usual bucket of blood, with two
ak murders adding some variety to
the grewsome mess.
One of the ak murders was COM
mitted by section hand of 35, in
love with boarding house mistress
of SO, whose discarded husband was
a paying guest, and who enraged
the section hand by accepting at
tentions from an iron molder Of IS.
The other was committed by a
man Of 10 on a roommate Of SO be-
cause he couldn't endure the latter's
habit Of continually shifting the fur
niture.
At first thought, an ak seems
rather out of place in these refined
days of machine guns and prussic
acid. but if poets, painters. and mu-
sicians must look to the jungle for
inspiration. why shouldn't the muir
derer go there for his tools?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12

Heywood Broun, who conducts this
column. is on his vacation. During his
absence Joe williams, sports editor Of
the New York Telegram, will pinch-hit
for Broun.-The Editor.
MAN and boy, Felix has been
Iva barbering around the town for
more than twenty years. And before
that he played staccato rhytl1ms on
some of the most prominent chins
in his native Naples.
He can go back to the time when
the barber took precedence over the
family doctor when succor was
needed at the bedside. This was an
old Latin custom.
Felix remembers going on one OF
these missions as an apprentice
barber years back and watching the
maestro applying two pedisreed
leeches to the forehead of a peas
ant, who had been under the sheets
for weeks.
The next day the peasant was up
and back in the fields and so far as
Felix knows he was never sick
again.
In those days the barber enjoyed
a high social rating. He was dis
tinctly somebody. He was in equal
parts a scientist and an artist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Consumer Is Goat

THE drought has hit New York,
l. with the price of certain green
vegetables up 100 per cent in the
wholesale market.
Not only because of custom, but
because they can't do anything else,
retailers will pass the buck to con-
Suiners.
Consumers are not dumb, but
merely unorganized.
They understand perfectly we'll
what is going on, but find them
selves helpless.
If the present situation calls for
one thing more than another, it is
for a revival of the Housewives
league.
otherwise, the drought will do
ten times The damage to consumers
than it has to farmers.
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night when the place was crowded
and have the head barber call out
to one of the help to get Squire
Abernathy's private shaving mug
down often the sllelf-the one with
General Robert E. Lees picture
on it.
Felix remembers those days well.
He was working in the Broadway
theater district then and all the ac-
tors had their private mugs.
The size and elegance swelled in
proportion to the self estimated
genius Of the owners.
(CopyriRht 1890, by The Times)
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ships position by computation. The
method is one of many credited to
st. Hillaire, which mariners use to-
day.
Puetz and Manner Rolled a Bar
rel Of Wine 500 Miles-On June "a,
1880, Josef Puetz and o. Manner
arrived in Berlin rolling a 1,000-litre
barrel of wine. They rolled the bar
rel from Bernkaste1, in the Rhine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Questions and
AnSzgerS

What is the origin and meaning
of the name Fife?
It is an ancient Scotch name de-
rived from Euphemia, a Greek
name meaning ''fair speech"
Do humans breathe air throurh
the pores of the skin?
No.
What is the average yield of to-
bacc0 per acre in Kentucky?
IN 1928 it was IT'S pounds.
What is the address of Professor
Albert Efnstein?
5 Haberlandstr, Berlin, Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's believe It or Not" which
appeared in Mondays Times:
st. Hillaire, Creator of Navigation,
Never Saw the Sea-Marig st. Hill
laire, the blind French monk, who
never saw the sea and yet to this
day is accepted as an authority on
navigation, gave the world the Saint
Hillaire method of establishing the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Weather Plays Franks

nLD MAN WEATHER appears to
~ be raising cain with every
body's plans this year.
The drought in America is
matched by floods in China which
not only drown ten thousand, but
Interfere with a carefully al Anged
battle.
Switzerland's grain crop has been
SO injured by violent storms that
the country is reported as looking
to American wheat for relief.
Meanwhile, ship captains say that
the drought is no mystery, because
all the rain has been falling in the
Atlantic ocean.