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editors lawyers and even few judges, entered
on the fearful and awful list of persons dangerous
to the stability and prosperity of the country.
Ultimately, the whole thing became a huge joke
and the laws dead letters. But this was due solely
to the liberalism and courage Of Governor Smith in
refusing to be stampeded. Had New York possessed
a hundred per cent" governor, almost anything
might have happened.
Most sensible people had hoped that this hysteria
was thing of the past which might forget profit
ably But a federal Lusk committee looms on the
horizon.
Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York has be-
come panic stricken over the prospect OF Musco-
vite invasion of our fair shores He has secured the
creation of congressional investigating committee
with liberal funds at its disposal to undertake an
immediate examination into the sinister plots OF
Stain and his subalterns this side of the Atlantic
He has been supported warmly by Albert Johnson
of the house immigration committee who doubtless
will try to use the material assembled by Fish as the
basis for agitation for more stringent immigration
legislation 1t is charged that Ralph Easley and
Matthew VOL actively are supporting Mr.. Fish ana
that Vol wrote the original Fish resolution.
AS far as any discoveries" are concerned, we may
be assured that the Fish committee only can follow
the example of Grover Whalen and rattle few dead
bones But even this might be dangerous with
reactionary administration.
A federal LUsk committee doubtless Will proVlde
much hunaor, but it's work must be scotched before
we have set of federal Lusk laws about our necKs.
Only relentless publicity on the doings of the Fish
committee can assure us that its deliberations Will
be entertaining rather than menacing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-10
A Silly Tariff Argument

Now that Secretary of Treasury Mellon, Senator
Reed Of Pennsylvania, and Joe Grundy, king OF the
lobbyists have begun to doubt the value OF the
suicidal rates of the tariff bill, need waste
much time arguing what at last has become clear to
virtually everybody.
With these higher -thar-hgh protectionistS hest
tating end most of the economists, bankers, manu-
facturers farmers and consumers Of the country
openly fighting the BILL senators and representatives
will have a mighty hard time finding an excuse to
vote for it. And the President definitely pledged
against such general tariff increase, will find it even
more difficult to sign measure destroying national
prosperity
One excuse however, is being offered to members
Of congress and to the President
1t is said that the flexible provision saves the bill.
That provision empowers the President, recon-
mendation of the tariff commission to change rates
I'D to SO per cent. According to this argument, the
rates are wrong but the President make them
right
Such argument is an insult to the intelligence OF
the country in general and &c members of congress
and the President in particular We don't go out and
break the dishes in the china closet just for chance
to use patent glue to put the pieces together again.
Nor will the voters swallow the idea that it is neces-
sary to pass bill with higher tariff rates so the
President can have chance to lower those rates.
Unfortunately for those guilty of such nonsense
their argument just eight years too late That
precisely was the argument used in 1922 to enact the
present tariff law carrying the highest rates in our
history and the highest in the world.
The flexible provision in force is virtually the
same as that in the pending bill 1t has not corrected
the unfair rates of 1922 1t has not saved the con-
sumner but has increased prizes 1t has not improved
the farmers plight, but made conditions worse. 1t
has not lowered high rates, it has raised high rates
higher.
But whether the flexible provision be good or bad
we don't have to pass the bill to get it. The Presi-
dent does not have to sign the bill to obtain such
power. He has it. He has used it. He can continue
to use it-ether to boost rates, or to lower them.
OF all the arguments used to support this bill, the
silest Is that the President must be given flexible
tariff power which he possesses already.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-10
Simmons Falls

The women, the drys the khan, the old party ma
chine would carry him back to the United States
ate where he had sat for nearly thirty years SO Sim
mons of North Carolina thought He mistaken.
His defeat in the Democratic primaries is overwhem-
ing
It was not only that he deserted Al Smith, the
presidential candidate of his party two years ago. He
did more than fight Smith. He fought unfairly. He
used weapons of religious bigory and racial intoer-
ance And even those who followed him then have
lived to be ashamed.
Josiah Bailey. who defeated him, may be as re-
dictionary on economic questions as Simmons, though
that seems hardly possible. At any rate, Bailey had
the courage to fight the khan and to assert the grow
ing evils of prohibition enforcement
Which would seem to indicate that North Caro-
lima voters not docile as the leaders OF both
parties considered them.
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Not Another Machine

Delegates to the Democratic convention,
meeting today, should not mistake the wide
spread revolt against the present administra-
ton Of state affairs for yen for Democratic
control.
The people have been cursed by machine
government which depends for its power up
on patronage and privilege. They under
stand the causes of high and unequal taxa
ton. They know that it comes from waste
and extravaganza, from favors granted to
those who contribute to Republican success,
from the placing ON pay rolls of politicians
who render little service or return for their
salaries except to work necessarily for the
machine.
More and more the people of this state
are losing their faith in labels. They are
learning that party brands carry no guaran-
tee of the contents of the package. More and
more are listing themselves as Independent
of party affiliations.
If the ticket nominated is such as to give
some assurance that there will be no effort to
duplicate past performances under different
set of political workers, that ticket should
have more than a fair chance of success.
No scheme has been too small to annoy
the citizen if it furnished fodder for those
whose feet were in the trough. One of the
petty grabs was the unnecessary notary fee
on a drivers license, law which has proved
its uselessness and it's worthlessness, but
which took from every driver a quarter for
some political favorite.
The guarantee of the ticket should be in
the character of the men named. The people
will look at these candidates closely.
They will want to be very sure that those
offered for office have different attitude and
a different viewpoint.
The people do not want another machine.
They demand that the state government be
taken from the clutches of any machine.
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Doctor Can Control Breast Cancer

by studies of hundreds of cases that
early diagnosis, early surgical re-
moval, and treatment with X-Ray
and radium means definite pro-
longation of life expectancy by
many years. American statistics
assembled by numerous investiga-
tors prove the same point.
Nobody knows the exact cause of
cancer of the breast or of any other
region of the body, yet there seems
70 be considerable proof to indicate
that such factors as repeated irri-
tation by various types of irritantA
have an effect in this direction.
Cancer of the breast should not
be treated by pastes put on exter-
nally, by medicines taken internally,
cr by injections, none of which has
proved to have real value in the
control of this condition.
The best possible advice is to get
a competent diagnosis as soon as
possible and to follow the advice OF
a reliable physician.
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Atoms

1T might be well, perhaps, before
l. entering further into the field
of philosophic argument, to con-
slider the evidence upon which Pro-
fessor Jeans basis his view.
It grows, chiefly, out of an at
tempt to explain the energy of the
sun and the stars. No ordinary
means are sufficient to explain
this energy.
Ordinary combustion, such as
takes place in fire, is not suff1-
Gent. If the sun were made of
solid coal, it could not give forth
it's present amount of energy for
more than a few centuries, at the
very most.
Yet all evidence leads to the con-
clus,c-1 that the sun is at least five
trilliCn years old. The same thing
is true Of the stars.
When it was established that
combustion could not supply the en-
ergy of the stars, the so-called con-
traction theory was advanced. This
held that the heat of a star was
due to the contraction Of the stars
material.
This theory, however, necessitates
a solid, or at least a liquid CEN
ter, for a great number of stars.
This is contradicted by large body
of evidence that all stars are CASE
Gus right to their very centers.
This last tact, coupled with a
study of the mass, of weights of
different types of stars, has led to
the conclusion that the stars OBJ
tain their energy from the the COM
plete annihilation of matter within
them.
Jeans has advanced the theory
chat the interior of stars contain
what he calls luminous atoms.
These break down by the loss and
destruction of electronS into radio
active atoms, which, in turn, break
down into ordinary atoms.
1t is from this theory that Jeans
draws his conclusion as to creation.
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Simmons Made Own Bed

THERE is nothing peculiar or
l. mysterious in the defeat of
Senator Simmons for denomination.
He merely sleeps in the bed he
made.
Certain Republicans have kidded
themselves because of what hap
pened in North Carolina and other
southern states two years ago, and
certain Democrats have been
worried unnecessarily.
The whole performance was
merely one of those political flare
ups which come ever so often-a
climax of Ku-Kluxism, prohibition
and general discomfort.
Governor Smith was the unfor-
tIlnate victim of it all, but any wet
New Yorker would have suffered
the same fate.
At that, Governor Smith receiv
more votes in North Carolina tina
did the Democratic candidate fou
years previously.
Hoover's majority can be &C
counted for by a shift of $4,000 or
10000 Democratic votes, or about
one-fifth of the total number.
They represented Senator Sim
mons strength as a bolter, and they
were sufficient to put North Caro-
lima in the Republican column.
When it came to a question Of re-
nominating Senator Simmons, how
ever, they did not represent suf-
ficient strength to save him.
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ANNIVERSARY
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DRAGoN-BOAT FEAST

DRAGON-BOAT FEAST
ON June 10, the Dragon Boat
" festival, boatman's holiday, is
celebrated throughout China with
much hilarity.
The holiday is said to have orig
mated in the fourth century be-
fore Christ. The story is that Ku-
Yuan, minister of state of Tsu, was
deposed because of his persistence
in pointing out the evil doingS OF
his master. He then drowned him
self in the Milo river despite the
efforts of an eyewitness, a fisher
man, who launched his boat to save
him.
Ever since, theanniversary Of the
suicide and the fisherman's at
tempt at rescue has been commem-
Grated by a procession of dragon
boats over the inland waters Of
China.
Each of these boats, owned by a
clan, can seat between fifty and
sixty men. The rowers are timed
by a drummer in the center, who
beats his instrument faster and fas-
ter as the fun grows more furious.
In the bow stands man who
pantomimeS the act Of throwing rice
on the water as a method Of ap-
peasing the evil spirits.
AS the races develop into hot
contests between the clans, deci-
sions of the judges in close races
often create more tumult than even
those Of the baseball umpire.
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Editor Times-We are much
pleased with your attitude shown
in your editorial concerning the
movement to repeal the Wright bone
dry law. The just would clouc
more important issues and would be
of little profit to any one.
A state referendum on the prohi-
bition question would be enlighten-
ing to both vets and dryS and no
one could complain about its fair
ness, for recent court decisions seem
to point out that a citizen still has
a right to an opinion and can ex-
press his opinion, and a referen-
dunn would allow this opinion to be
expressed.
If the drys have a majority, as
they claim, it would only strengthen
their case by showing to the world
that they have. If the vets are in
the majority it would have a ten
dency of fairness and bring about
the repeal of the law.
The writer has in mind two other
planks for the state platform which
he terms much more necessary than
quibbling about prohibition. One
plank would be to enact a law
whereby every citizen, to vote, must
present receipt for his or her poll
tax. That would eliminate f1oaters
and people who paid nothing for
support of government.
The second plank would be to re-
lieve the unemployment of many Of
our older men in the shortest pos
sible time. Under the law of In
diana young man can not secure
employment in a factory until he
is 10 years of age. There is only
one way of his securing employment
before he reaches that age, and that
is to become an automobile bandit.
He then is arrested, placed on the
penal farm, then an interest is taken
in him by good-meaning people, and
he is paroled, and these good-mean-
ing people secure him employment;
but unless he gets into jail, he must
violate the law to get work.
The older man, beyond the age Of
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The King

Carol of the three wives has put his comic opera
dynasty on the first pages again. Mother Marie is
shunted aside Wife Helene hasn't made up her mind
about forgiveness. Son Michael gets title OF duke
instead of boy king and perhaps new pony to make
up the difference.
Brother Nicholas gives up regency to betroth a
commoner while Carols sweetheart in exile signs for
the man who renowned throne for her-and
changed his mind
Premier Manu- resigns rather than recognize the
new king-and the next day becomes head Of Carols
government.
"The people cheered" They always do-those who
are herded on the stage.
But the millions of illiterate and oppressed peas
ants probably did not cheer. They probably do not
even know that down in the capital few politi-
clans and generals have swapped kings. In week
or month, perhaps, they will find out, as the news
crawls over the great plains and high into the
tains of Rumana.
When they learn the news they will turn back to
their work Harvest is near the crop poor the leak
in the hut must be fixed before the next baby comes;
times are hard.
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desert its young. When that darling
baby develops into manhood and
learns how his mother threw him
away when he was baby, what do
you think his attitude will be to-
ward her? Do you think that he
will have the love and affection for
her that a son should have for his
mother? I don't think she would
deserve it.
When she gets old and feeble.
would she want Robert Eugene to
lay her along the highway in the
rain and cold for some one to find
her and give her a home and care.
Her plea was she had no home, no
food, no money. Lots of mothers in
Indianapolis are in the same condi-
ton today, but they are staying with
their babies, working and praying
every day instead of discarding
them and riding around with young
men, smoking cigarets, and so forth.
If Sally Breedlove deserves $4,000
for placing her baby along high
way to die from cold and exposure,
what does real, pure mother de-
serve? I do not think her sentence
and fine should have been sus-
pended.
About two years ago a fellow was
making a hurried delivery on East
Washington street. He drove
through a stop and go sign, was
ordered to appear in court, and was
fined. The fine had to be paid, TOO.
Which did the. greater wrong, he or
Sally BreedIove?
Furthermore, I can not under
stand why the unknown" woman
gave her $4,000. If she has thou
sands to give away, why not spend
it to help the unemployed. Lots of
honest men with families are out
Of work today, and can not find
anything to do. People don't seem
to care if they turn the cold Shout
der to them. They never send them
gifts of fine clothes and money.
It's very little sympathy they ever
get.
AN INDIANAPOLIS RESIDENT
AND MOTHER.
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: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Modern medicine has done every
thing possible to educate the public
into a realization of the fact that a
cancer of the breast seen early and
attended to early is comfortable, but
that it is difficult to accomplish
anything valuable after the con-
dition has spread widely.
In the later stage, the mass in
the breast will be adherent to the
skin, Inflammation may occur, the
nipple may be drawn in, nodules
may be found around the breast
and the arm on the side affected
will be swollen.
Every lump in the breast is not
cancer; in fact, the majority are
not. However, the cancer is so
much more dangerous than any of
the other Jumps that it is wise to
be certain as soon as possible of the
exact nature of any lump that de-
velops.
British investigators have shown
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How NeXDONu|
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FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. What prophecy of the union of
his followers did Jesus make?
2. What king became a symbol of
fast driving?
8. Why has Thomas become
known as a doubter?
4. Where did the first Christian
missionaries begin their work?
5. What does the Psalmist COM
pare to "the pen of a ready writer?"
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
l. A dream in which Jacob saw
angels ascending and descending on
a ladder that reached to heaven;
Genesis 28:10-l6.
2. There Is no Cod" Psalm 53:1.
8. Job, referring to God; Job 1875.
4. Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel 4:33.
5. That they are numbered; Mat
thew 1890.
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UpheavaI Is Over

MYTH Senator Simmons beaten,
w with Democratic Governor
in Virginia, with Tom-Tom Helm
barred from the Democratic ticket
in Alabama, it looks as though the
upheavals of 1923 were about over.
With the Republican party hope
lessly split, with the country in the
throes of depression, and with
President Hoover apparently unable
to bring order out of chaos, there
is such obvious opportunity that
even Democrats can't fail to see it.
So we find them getting together,
healing old wounds and repairing
broken down fences, just as sensible
folks should.
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Shall We Have Federal Lusk Laws?

Back IN the excited days az LIe Close OF lIe "Olu
war, the fear of Kaiser Bill transformed into a
mortal terror of reds. Red hunts were organized
throughout the nation.
The most spectacular inquisition was that con-
Quoted by Senator Lusk OF New York state. This was
the famous Lusk committee. whose formidable DELHI
era.ions ultimately grew into the Lusk laws.
"Lusking" became term universally applied to
a patrioteerng nervousness about people Of liberal
and radical ideas. large number Of eminent
Americans. including college professors clergymen.
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Association and of Hygeia, the
va Health Magazins. ,..,.
TINE breast is a gland which
l. secretes milk. Shortly after
birth in both boy and girl the breast
contains a whitish fluid, but this
disappears and the breasts do not
secrete or develop until later on in
life.
AS adult life approaches, changes
take place in breasts of both boys
and girls. Moreover, at this time
they are sharply differentiated for
the particular function which the
woman serves.
Years ago it was the belief that
cancer of the breast was always a
large lump with the nipple drawn in
and with the glands under the arm
enlarged.
Such signs represent late stages
of cancer. The early signs are a
small hard lump in the breast,
thickness of the skin, and bloody
discharge from the nipple.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-10

Are tourists allowed to bring
articles into the United States from
Canada free of duty?
Tourists may bring not more than
500 worth of goods free of duty,
and on any amount above that duty
is charged.
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Readers of The Times Voice Vices

As, also is barred from steady en-
ployment in the factory. He must
pick up odd jobs, and at a time like
this he has a poor show of doing
even that, with SO many young men
out of employment.
It is a well-known fact that the
construction of highways of Indisna
does not supply employment to a
great many men in proportion to
the money being spent. Usually the
cement trust, the stone trust, the
road machinery trust and the politi-
clans get the lions share of the
money. The man, to secure a job on
the road, usually is requested to buy
a dump truck on the payment plan.
The bulk of his income goes into
payment on that truck and for its
upkeep, and when the job is done
and the truck is paid for it is worn
out, and he has had only the privi-
lege of paying tribute to some auto
mobile company, and to the gas and
oil companies.
If one-half Of the money which
we spend on these roads were di-
verted into an extensive program
Of reforesting the state of Indiana,
we Immediately could offer employ
ment to some thirty or forty thou
sand older men in clearing away
and preparing such lands purchased
for reforesting. The money avail
able would allow a program of
some 100000 acres of land to be
purchased per annum, and as the
program continued for ten years we
would have practically all the poor
land in Indiana set out in growing
timber and owned by the state.
This great forest reserve would
give employment to an army Of
men to care for it. It would bring
an income from hundreds of per-
mits for hunting and the like. 1t
would take the crawfish farms of
Indiana out of the market, letting
only farms for farming purposes
that will pay a dividend, and rails
ing the price of the better farms
considerable.
In fifty years, when this timber
land came into the market, there
would be sufficient revenue from
the vast amount of timber to take
care of the entire state and Indi-
anians would not have any taxes
from that time on.
In Spain, there is a certain por-
ton of the roadside, say six or
eight feet along the fences, that is
set aside to be planted in nut-bear-
ing trees, fruit trees, grapes and
berries. AS further suggestion,
which would touch upon an old-age
pension, we would suggest this same
plan.
These roads are divided into sec
tons, tended and cared for by the
older citizens, at certain wage.
They see to it that the plants are
taken care Of and nothing is de-
stroyed, but the fruits and nuts
belong to the public.
Just imagine a program like this
along the roadsides of Indiana, set
ting off our concrete highways,
cared for by men who are unable
to secure employment, and the
benefit that people of moderate
means could receive from the plan
when once it was in working order
Yours truly,
BERT WILHELM.