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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
REASON By Ff aASbIs

TINE papers carry the story of an Indiana wedding
l. which planned for 1880, but did not catch
fire until 1880.
Down at NoblesviIe, fifty years ago, Charles w
Sapp aged Is, all set to marry Jessie Stringnan
aged 90 but just as the bell to tap they separated
Sapp going west and in due time marrying another
while the young lady stayed in Noblesville and did
the thing.
Then after both of their mates had passed away
Sapp returned to the old home town and the belated
date was filled.
But all deferred Hoosier ronances are not brought
to conclusion which is satisfactory to the audience
for instance the one which involved Miss Phoebe
Meeks of the little town of BrookVile, down in the
southeastern pocket of the state where the tall
leaders of the pioneer commonwealth used to grow,
This foremost romance of old Brookvlle enveoped
in its folds Miss Meeks and her lover whose name is
now out Of mind.
The wedding day had been set and Brookville's
social cream had assembled at the Meeks home to
celebrate, and there music and dancing when the
happy pair stole away to stroll.
In little while the prospective bride returned
holly pursued by her beseeching mate and deaf to
his entreaties flew up to her room to remain.
MYTH conjecture the guests put on their things
w and departed and for weeks the episode was the
engrosSing theme of the little outpost of civilization
Time went with the mystery unfathomed, the
fair young lady refusing to meet any of her friends
and from that day forth of her former ntimates
were to speak to her. for she to live and die a
hermit.
The story was told to us years ago by white
haired lady, of the girl friends of Phoebe Meeks
and of the guests at the fatal party and some
the incidents of it have taken flight, but it remained
the town ghost for generations.
First Miss Meeks took never to leave her
garden and then the ebittering years passed she
retired to her never to emerge until they car
ried her out.
THE young Romeo, crucified on the cross of mys-
terry, sought audience and remained in the
town. hoping she would relent and at least give him
an idea of what the indignation all about but all
in vain, and so in year Of he packed his trunk
and sought his fortune in the west
The old Meeks home at Brookville became thing
Of neglect and legend and in due time took its place
at the head of the haunted houses
Some forty years more after the young lover had
taken his broken heart beyond the Rocky mountains
he returned, still single and still hopeful.
He registered at the old Brookville hotel and from
few questions learned that Phoebe Meeks still lived
in the old home. With uncertain feet, he wandered
thither.
In response to the old brass knocker the door
opened and an aged ,oiored woman opened the door
and IN her he recognized the youthful servant of his
lost Juliet Handing her a card he waited without
gazing upon the desolation around, and then the
servant returned and said: Miss Meeks can not bs
seen"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
Absurd and Dangerous

II you put allegiance to conscience first, then you
not be true to the principles OF the United States
Constitution and can not be good citizen. Such is
the absurd and dangerous decision of Federal Judge
Burrows of New Haven. Conn
In denying on Thursday the citizenship application
of the Rev DR.. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, the judge
ruled:
It appearing that the said petitioner, considering
his allegiance to be first to the will of God would
promise in advance to bear arms in defense OF the
United States under all circumstances but only if he
believed the war to be morally justified it is decided
that the petitioner is not attached to the principles
of the Constitution of the United States and further
decreed that aaid petition for citizenship is denied
For country founded the principles OF religious
freedom such dctum is untrue
For a country with a Quaker President, it is in
conceivable.
For country in which millions OF splendid citizens
hold the views thus outlawed it is mockery.
For country which initiated and signed inter
national treaty for the remuneration Of war; it is
hypocrisy
We will welcome to citizenship men Of the semi
lterate and even semi-crimnal classes cast off by
other countries who neither understand nor respect
our Constitution but who will lie if necessary to get
in. We will accept them citizens But Dr. MacIn-
tosh is too grave risk! e
And who is this terrible threat to safety?
He is a Baptist minister.
He is, and has been for twenty years, professor
at Yale university.
He was chaplain in the World
He has intelligence, integrity, loyalty. character.
He has the respect and admiration of his fellows
He loves our country and the principles for which
it was founded.
But he is guilty of one "crime"-he thinks he can
be good American citizen by following his conscience
and the will of God as it comes to him.
To that Judge his bench in New Haven, and to
those naturalization officials who Willingly unwit
tingy would betray the principles of Constitution
by such un-American standards quote the opinion
of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United
States supreme court:
eff there is any principle Of the Constitution that
more mperatvey calls for attachment than any other
it is the principle of free thoughnot free thought for
those that agree with but freedom for the thought
that hate. think that We should adhere TO that
principle with regards to admission into vel
life within this country
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What part does Richard BartheI-
mess play in THE Fighting Blade?"
He plays the part of Karl Van
Kerstenbroock, young Dutch
Swordsman. The picture is based
on a novel entitled The Fighting
Blade" by Beulah Marie Dix, story
which begins In England in the year
1913.
What Is the area of the Azores
and how many islands are In the
group?
They are situated between lati-
tude $3.50 and 1914 and longitude
rs and 3l-16. There are nine is
lands and several islets comprising
922 square miles.
What Is the immigration quota
for Wales?
1t Is included in the general
quota for Great Britain and North
ern Ireland, which Is 65,9S4 annu-
ally.
What company produced the
movie "Oliver Twist and who was
the director?
oliver Twist" was a First Ma
tional production. directed by Frank
Lloyd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11

"A TTACKS made upon prohibition
"a by confirmed and avowed par
tisans of modification probably gain
few converts. I do not mean that
such campaigns are wholly useless.
Some day the United States will
honor La Guardia for the persistent
and skillful fight which ne has
made in congress against volstead-
ism. He has won the respect even
of his opponents.
The vets constitute small
minority in congress, and yet,
through the force of personality and
ability, this little band has managed
to put the dryS on the defensive.
The speakers for the majority al
ways are in the position Of being
called upon to explain something.
and, in spite OF the abStainerS' pas
sion to cheer each new report Of
death and dreadfulness, a note Of
apology frequently creepS into the
speeches Of the Volstead supporters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
The World Does Move

1.-THE years not many before people will look
back with the amazement church opposi-
ton to birth control as they look back on the
nqusition of the middle ages"
Are these the words of Havelock Ellis or Margaret
Sanger of Haywood Broun? No, they pro-
nounced by other than Rev. Dr. George Maychin
Sockdale, pastor Of the ST. James Methodist Episco-
pal church in New York City.
Whereupon he introduced DR.. James F. Cooper,
medical director of the American Birth Control
League whom he had invited to speak from his pulpit
DR.. Cooper dealt at length with the social aadjust
ments and misery which arise from unrestricted
birth rate and ignorance of birth control methods.
1t is little difficult to enysage outstanding liberals
like DR.. Stockdale fellow servants in the same
fold with those who persecute Mary Ware bennett
in providing rational instruction hygiene and
ncite raids the clinics of the birth control league
At least it shows that there is little motion In
the ecclesiastical world when Methodist parson
utterS bold and modern words which might have
been expected only from radical Unitarans.
When the Stockdaes to top the Canon
ChaSes, the Clarence True Wilson's and the Guy Fitch
Phelpses in the Christian faith the church rightfuy
may assume that place in social leadership to which
it now pretends. Let hope that the years which
intervene are as few as DR.. Stockdale opines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
Questions and AnSzCe7S

What is the birthstone and the
flower for September?
The birthstone for September is
the sapphire, signifying peace. The
flower is the morning-glory, for con-
tentment.
When was the Battle of Falkland
Islands?
1t was a naval battle between
German and British squadrons, on
Dec. 8, 1914, off the Falkland Is
lands. in the south Atlantic, and
resulted in the destruction of the
German ships under Won Spec by
the British Admiral Sturdee.
What is the nationality and mean
ing of the family name Weir?
1t Is from the Anglo Saxon wear"
and means family living at the
dam.
How could the eighteenth amend
mcnt to the Constitution be repealed
or prohibition abolished?
It would require another amend
ment to the Constitution to repeal
or change the present prohibition
amendment. The Volstead enforce
rlent act, however, could be modified
by congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
Just Give 1t ROpe

The Anti-Saoon League did not kill the saloon
The saloon killed itself by its ruthless methods.
1t begin5 to look as though the drys are the ones
who will kill prohibition at last Even Representative
Charles L. Clifford of Massachusetts,, prohbitionist
though he is, conveyed warning to congress, In
discussing the Black Duck killings Said he:
when couple OF young from my district
lose their lives in the sort of We have had
our people, prohibitionists and all, stop to wonder
what the verdict will be on the part of congress
Il fear that going too far in enthusiasms
when we permit shooting and killing without extreme
rrovocaton."
Yes, Mr.. Clifford. If members of the United States
coast guard, including the ten who pleaded guilty
stealing and drinking evidence in Boston, are against
prohibition, they help in bringing about modifca
ton. All they'll have to do is to keep shooting.
Evil, including VolsteadSm, nurtures the germs of
Its own death.
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system under which one shoots first
and inquiries later. They. too, are
under the sway Of some man higher
I'D. I wonder how he sleeps ~
night!
Save in the case Of few pow
erful and fanatical leaders, prohl-
bition sentiment Is largely artificial
It does not rest in the heart OF the
American people.
I do not mean that millions are
not against any uge OF alcohol what
soever. think this Is true OF the
majority of Americans.
Exaggerated
DUT I do mean that the gravity
D Of offenses against the Volstead
act is enlarged Enthusiastically by the
provisions of our prevailing statutes.
Even among the drys, there must
be many who do not actually think
that drinking is a sin reriting the
death penalty.
One of the most successful at
tacks yet launched against the dry
cause came in the recent debate be-
tween La Guardia and Representa-
tive Carroll M. Beedy Of Maine.
Beedy is Republican and dry
Of years standing. He was the
spokesman chosen to answer the
40 poarous Ia. Guarfiia. and in his
answer, Beedy made slip.
1t was an unconscious slip, which
makes It the more memorable, for
the unconscious never lies. It would
be interesting to call a messnerist
into the house some day and let
him hypnotic Beedy and then
ask him what he really thinks Of
prohibition.
Answering La Guardia's charge
that members Of the coast guard
had pilfered liquor from rum-run-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11

Severe Exercise Causes Heart to Shrink

known Is the appearance in the
secretion of the kidneys Of albumin
immediately after severe exercise In
people who may not have had al
bumin previously.
Swiss marathon runners examined
In 1928 invariably revealed this con-
dition, whereas previously not one
had shown any excretion OF albu-
min previous TO the race.
Some Of the runners still were
excreting casts and albumin and red
blood cells eight to fourteen days
after the race, which is an indica-
ton OF the damage that may be
done to the organs by severe efforts
Of this character.
1t has been suggested that possibly
the severity of the symptoms in the
particular instance reported was due
to the fact that the race was run
on a very hot day, and that, there
fore, extra strain was placed on the
organs of excretion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
COnvicts as Civic Idealists

Critics of educational system frequently call
attention to the alleged inadequacy of instructions in
the realities of good citizenship. Whether not
schools deficient this regard there certainly
is no shortage of volunteer and mpromptu instructors
in what they believe to be the principles of American
citizenship.
Various societies appropriate vast sums for carry
mfg what they hold to be civic philosophy designed
to from revolution and disorder Jurists like
Magistrate Sabstino of Brooklyn arise from time to
time to instil civic idealisn in the minds Of skepca
q questioning youths
latest recruit to the staff Of citizenship faculty
rden p. e Thomas Of the Ohio state peniten-
johnson and Charles Guynn recently were
of criminal syndicalism at st. Clarsvile and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
Guarantee

DR. FAY-COOPER COLE in de-
- veloping his idea that there is
no innately superior race, told how
one people after another dominated
civilization.
In $500 B. c. it was the Egyptian.
In 1900 B. c., it was the Cretan. A
hundred years later, the shepherd
kings of the Had and Odyssey ruled
civilization.
By 500 B. c., Greece ruled the
world, and at the start of the
Christian era, it was Rome. AS DR..
Cole pointed out, Cicero and Caesar
wrote contemptuously of the north
ern barbarians."
There is no guarantee that our
present culture will not go the way
Of previous ones, DR.. Cole said
Perhaps there is no such guar
antee. And perhaps, again, there
is. Perhaps that army of scientists,
gazing through telescopes, peering
through microscopes, Wading
through complicated mathematical
formula, tracking disease germs and
new chemical compounds and atoms
and electronS, is the guarantee of
the future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
The Shaping of the Destiny
of Empires By Sugar
Proves That We Are Cred-
lures Of Appetite.
SAYS
CUGAR as a rare and expensive

CUGAR as rare and expensive
- curiosity 500 years ago.
Sugar as magic drug peddled by
Quacks 400 years ago.
Sugar as factor in the slave
trade 300 years ago.
Sugar as good spoil for pirate and
privateer 200 years ago.
Sugar as the source Of rum 100
years ago.
Sugar as a source of revenue dur
ing the nineteenth century.
Sugar as an excuse for Philippine
independence now.
Sugar as a basis Of the candy
trade, as the cause of kidney trou-
bic, as indispensable in many forms
of food, as an argument for farm
relief in Louisiana, Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Utah and ten or a dozen
ether states-what a wonderful and
romantic part this commodity has
played in human affairs since it
came into use, and what a still more
wonderful and romantic part it
promises to play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
Prohibition

THESE friends of prohibition are
Il not nearly as callous as they
would have the country believe.
Many of them probably are kindly
and considerate men when not upon
the floor of the house.
1t is the McBrides and the Clar-
ence True Wilson's who have eStab-
lished the rule that prohibition
comes first, and that justice and
mercy must trail behind.
I venture to say that many a
congressman has gone home to toss
uneasily at night over the shame
full memory of the fact that he
raised a raucous and obscene din in
public over The unnecessary death OF
fellow human beings.
AS for the coast guard men, it Is
folly to think of them as arch
villains. They did not devise the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

1t is the opinion of the investi-
gators that the changes brought
about in the heart by exercise are
not the result OF changes in the
character of the blood due TO the
exercise itself, but represent the re-
Spouse of the heart tissue to the
new conditions.
One OF the most interesting or
gans In the body is the spleen, the
function of which has been a puzzle
to the physicians for more than a
century.
Apparently. this organ also con-
tracts In size following muscular
exercise, and 1t Is coming 10 be
the opinion that the spleen Is one
of the organs which controls the
volume Of the blood.
During exercise more blood Is re-
quired for the activities OF the
muscles and the spleen acts to force
more blood into circulation.
Another fact which long has been
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ANNIVERSARY
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Jan. IL

ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Jan. IL
INN Jan. II, 1857, Alexander
" Hamilton, the famous Arneri-
can statesman, was born at Charles
Town, in the island of Nevis, West
Indies.
At the age of IL, the future
statesman was placed In counting
house. But when he showed co1lsid-
cradle literary ability he was sent to
the English colonies on the CONT
nent to continue his education.
Hamilton distinguished himself In
several engagements during the
Revolutionary war and acted as
Washington's confidential secretary.
attending to much of the CORE
spondence from headquarters.
Hamilton took an active part In
the organization Of the new gov
eminent and was named the first
secretary of the treasury Of the
United States In 1889.
Today also Is the anniversary Of
the meeting of the Continental
congress In New York on Jan. IL.
1875.
And on Jan. II. 1905. Michigan
territory separated from Indiana
territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
It's Pulling Question

TINE question of how much tariff
L. imported sugar should bear
goes back to the question Of whether
the average consumer should be
charged more for 100 pounds so the
average cane and beet sugar grower
may get more for twenty pounds, or
whether the average cane and beet
grower should be disregarded to
guarantee the consumer lower
price.
But the worst of 1t Is that no
tariff can safeguard the cane and
beet growers as long as Porto Rico
and the Philippines, especially the
latter, remain under the American
flag.
We easily could kill off Cuban
competition by raising the duty to
4 or 5 cents, but we couldn't kill Off
Porto Rican and Philippine compe-
tition.
Wherefore, certain senators and
representatives who have consist
emily fought Philippine independ-
ence, see a new light.
For the first time, since we as
sumed control of those unhappy
islands, it seems possible, If not prob
able, that we may cast them adrift.
What an impressive bit of ideal
ism this would be, were it not for thu
part sugar has played.
Without sugar, we honestly could
claim that Philippine independence
appealed to us as a matter of I'M
adulterated justice, as an example
to the world, as a voluntary contri-
button in the interest of fair play.
But, with senators and representa-
tives seeking to accomplish nothing
but softer place for American beet
and cane growers, and willing to de-
stroy an industry which has more
than doubled in the Philippines in
the last twenty years, our sudden
conversion to the idea of granting
them independence proves that We
are only human after all.
Our attitude toward Cuba Is
equally paradoxical.
Having saved" the island from
Spanish tyranny, We now consider
the possibility of destroying its
greatest industry with FLOODED
indifference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-11
SCIENCE
Many Great Advances in Sci
ence We're Made Public at
Recent Conference in Des
M0tnes.
Bv DAVID DIETZ

/ CCTERTI5T5 Of the nation recent
, IL completed the annual session
ot tar American Association for the
Advancement Of Science. For seven
days they listened to one another
lecture and read scientific papers.
Several hundred papers were read
at sessions held morning, afternoon
and night. New year eve and new
year day were celebrated by keep
ing the program Of paper reading
going without break.
The assembled scientists heard
DR.. Henry Fairfield Osborn, presi-
dent Of the American museum OF
natural history, advance the theory
that mankind is at least 100000
wears old and sprung from a dawn
man" who may be ten times as old.
They heard DR.. Robert A. Mile"
kan, famous physicist and president
of the association, defend science
against the charges of alleged sins. -
They heard DIR. Harlan Stetson Of
the Perkins observatory OF Ohio
Wesleyan university tell OF the con-
nection between sun spots and radio.
They heard DR.. Fay-Cooper Cole
of the University of Chicago adj
vance arguments to prove that there
was no such thing as racial super
iority.
These were some of the papers
which the reading public also heard
Of, because they caught the atten-
ton of the newspaper men present.
But there we're hundreds Of other
papers which did not break into
print.
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THESE other papers. OF less ORA
L matte interest, represent the
great offensive of the army Of sci
ence upon the forces of nature.
Each paper was a report from
some sector in this great battle,
some laboratory or observatory or
research institution, where the at
tack upon ignorance is going for
ward.
1t is these continuous offensives
which pave the way for the major
victories which the public hears
about. When some disease germ is
discovered, the credit belongs rightly
to the discoverer.
But also 1t belongs to hundreds OF
others who contributed new tech,
nique, minute observations here and
there, and in other ways paved the
way for the great discovery.
Marconi made radio commercial
possibility. But many workers,
Hertz, Lodge, Brandy and others,
paved the way.
So it is always with science. No
one really can say what paper read
at the convention just concluded was
really the most important paper.
The germ of the worlds greatest
scientific discovery may lie within
any one of a hundred of them. Only
time will bring it forth.
Sir Norman Lockyer, discovering
the existence of helium. not on
earth. but in the atmosphere of the
sun, little suspected that some day
the gas would be recovered from
Texas gas wells and used to ffll
giant airships.