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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
DANES WOULD INCREASE
LIQUOR TAX

The Danish government seems to be
satisfied from the fiscal and hygienic
points of view with the results of its ex-
pertinent of high taxation of distilled liq-
uor 1t has just proposed to Parliament
a further tax in the excise and customs
duties on spirits. The new revenue thus
realized would make up for the deficit
brought about by the suppression of the
10 per cent tax on all restaurant bills,
highly unpopular measure. The Parlia-
ment has accepted the increase in the du-
ties as proposed by the government.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
WICKERsHAM OPTIMISTIC

One of the recent significant utterances
is the optimistic statement of Chairman
George w. Wickersham, of the Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission, to the eff
feet that after eight months study of the
dry law he feels there is a steady i'm
proVement in prohibition. He also dis
counts the proposal for 2.75 per cent beer
as the real issue that would meet the "ro-
bust taste" of the majority of those who
want the Volstead Act modified.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
D. A. r. OFFICER PLEADS FOR
ENFORCEMENT

According to an International News
Service story for April IS, Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, of Cooksburg, Pa, demanded
the support C the national dry law in a
speech of welcome at the opening session
of the seth continental congress of the
Daughters of The American Revolution,
converting in Washington.
Mrs. Cook called prohibition the dom
inant Issue before the American people
today, and appealed for support of the
dry laws. She predicted that prohibition
enforcement would improve as time went
on.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
GANDHI WARS ON LIQUOR

An Associated Press dispaCcn from
Bombay, dated April II, states that Ma
hatma Gandhi has included a war on liq-
uor as a part of the Nationalist Civil Dis
obedience Campaign of which he is the
chief leader. Gandhi is advocating the
cutting down of the palm trees from
whose sap a native liquor is brewed and
the picketing of wine shops, where VOL
unteers are appealing to customers not to
buy.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
ANOTHER BOOTLEGGER
MARTYR

Charles Tornebena, bootlegger, OF
Valparaiso, Indiana, was sentenced re-
Gently by Federal Judge Thomas Slick, of
Hammond, Indiana, to serve three years
in prison and to pay $500 fine because
he refused to tell who his bosses we're.
Tornebena was convicted of operating two
large stills on his farm Judge Slick as
serted that the penitentiary is the only
fit place for bootleggers who refuse to
tell on their higher-upS.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
NEW SOUTH WALES PASSES
LICENSE BILL

A bill prohibiting any further licenses
being granted was recently carried in New
South Wales. Pending the formation of
amendment legislation it is expected to
put the liquor traffic on quite new basis
by employing definite temperance refor-
nation. The drys are hoping the new
measure will include the restoration of To-
cal option and will lead to the curtailing
Of liquor trading hours.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01
A GOOD RECORD

According to John D. Pennington, pro-
hibition administrator, three hundred and
twelve persons were arrested for liquor
law violations as a result of three hun
dred and two raids in Western Pennsyl-
wanna and West Virginia during the month
of January.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01

Another of Tinkham's prize exhibits was
a letter, sent out last June by Foster
Copeland, appealing for contributions to
the League. The money was for the pur-
pose of building public sentiment favor
able to prohibition said the Witness and
to "re-elect dry Congresses and dry
President"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-05-01

If one political party dominates wet
for Congress in your district and the other
nomnnates a dry, then, regardless of party,
vote for the dry and against the wet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25

P}Tdo Ar Is tTt4e8
| AMNlVGRSARYI
.ttEs
THE Ssh TRAGEDY
Sept. rs.

NN Sept. %, 1925, the worst sub
" marine disaster in the history
of the United States navy occurred
when the q. S. submarine Ssh sunk
near Block Island, off the Rhode
Island coast, after it had collided
with the passenger steamer, City of
Rome.
Thirty-four members of the sub
marines crew persisted; three were
rescued.
The accident occurred at about
1920 at night. Captain Diehl of
the City of Rome said that the S-51
sank in about fifteen seconds, and
that after he had drifted over the
spot where it went down for an
hour, in hopes of picking up sur
vivors, he proceeded to port.
For this action he was criticised
severely. 1t was the popular con-
tention at the time that he should
have stood by for e longer period.
preferably until daylight.
Although rescue ships were rushed
to the scene of the tragedy, efforts
to raise the sunken submarine
failed day after day, until the hope
of bringing any of the imprisoned
men to the surface alive had been
abandoned.
When the submarine was raised.
it was found that the crew had
drowned, not died of suffocation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Capital Punishment for Reds2

Snail the United States prescribe capital punish
nent for reds2 This is the question raised by the
deportation Of three Communists, serio Capuano and
Radekovtch. The first two are Italians The third
is Yugo-Slav.
Serio is charged with being an anarchist but the
other two branded merely as Communists. Serio,
arrested after meeting in Erie, Pa. May II, is
held $4,000 ball. said to be the highest ever set
in a deportation case.
Hitherto the department Of labor has permitted
in such cases what is known voluntary departure
This allows the person in question to go to the
try of his choice if he would be admitted This would
permit these three men to go to Russia.
Now the department denies this right of voluntary
departure, The men must be sent back to Italy and
Yugo-Slavia. In all probability they will receive
death sentences they fall into the hands of the
home authorities. BY deporting them, We are prac-
tcay imposing the death penalty for unconventional
opinions. Radekovitch already is en- route to Yugo-
SlaVia.
Perhaps anarchists and Communists are bad people
to have around though we seem to have gotten along
fairly well with a considerable number of them in
our own body polite. But it is far cry from the
land of asylum for radicals which our country was
in the beginning to collision in imposing the death
penalty for reds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Neiyhhor DictatOrs

one more Latin-American dictator has gone the
way of all dictators Today it is Irigoyen of Argen-
tina Yesterday it was Leguia of Peru. The day be-
fore it was Sies of Bolivia Before that it was Borno
of Haiti Vasquez of the Dominican Republic, and a
dozen Others Tomorrow, according to the dispatches
it may be Machado of Cuba
Like old Diaz of Mexico Irjgoyen and most of
these contemporary dictators so powerful that
their overthrow deemed impossible But then, sud-
DENLY the autocratc power coapses of its own weight
There would be more hope for democracy in this
inevitable fall of Latin American dictators II the
people rallied behind civilian berators. But in most
cases the change in power represents little more than
a split n the military clique. with a new man on
horseback taking advantage CT popular revolt
In Peru the people objected because the dictator,
Leguia was too pro-American. In Argentina APP
parently they thought the dictator Iigoyen carried
ant-Yankee sentiment too far. In Haiti the die
tator was openly puppet of the United States. And
in Cuba the dictator is little more than that.
So in one way or another the United States
through its vast financial holdings and loans, its
naval dominance, and political prestige-iS an issue
in these many Latin American relationships and
revolutions.
For better or for worse. the economic bonds be-
tween the two Americas are so close they must be
accepted, which is ell the why the United
states should refrain scrupuously from political in
reference direct or indirect. -
One form of indirect interference is the present
state department policy of using diplomatic recogn
tica as moral support and the withholding Of recog
milton a. a political club -Ansericsnh nainte
nance Of dictators and Latn-American NRVeN wv OF
those dctators Is equally none OF busA0es4
We should recognize as 1 matter Of c0Fs any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Protection Needed

NARRIS points out that recent
" developments in manufactur-
ing processes make the protection of
workers eyes more important than
ever before.
increase in use of destructive
chemicals in industry during recent
years." he says, lis reflected in the
data from miscellaneous manufac-
turing plants which recorded the
scattering Of both lenses with mol
ten metal or injurious chemicals in
the case of one employe out of every
hundred in the industry within a
year.
I'm practically all these instances
the glass lens was damaged so badly
by chemicals or molten metal that
it had to be replaced. Often even
the frame of the goggles or the en-
tire headmask had to be discarded
Much has been said concerning
the number of eyes lost in industry,
the cost of industrial eye injuries,
and the extent of blindness attribu-
table to the eye hazards OF indus
trial occupations.
Little has been said concerning
the number of eyes saved in indus
try, the economic gain Or this saw
ing to employer, employe, and nation,
or the extent to which blindness
from industrial causes may be
averted.
Little has been said concerning
these matters because practically no
authentic data covering the expert
ence of any large group of indus
tries was available until this study
was made"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Diet Deficiency Cause of Many Ills

because of the extensive use of
white flour.
The chief shortages we're in vita
Minis and in mineral salts. The
consumption of larger amounts Of
fish and of -four rendered an ade-
quate supply of phosphorus, but
the calcium was extremely made
quate.
AS result of this difference in
the proportion of phosphorus and
calcium, the children showed jaws
full of decayed and broken teeth
Due to the taking Of large amounts
of meat and molasses, iron in the
diet was sufficient.
When molasses was substituted
by sugar, it lowered the amount of
iron, in some instances to the point
of permitting a deficiency. There
was considerable lack of vitamins.
Night blindness is associated with
a deficiency in vitamin A; beriberi
is associated with a deficiency in
vitamin B; ricketts, and scurvy with
a deficiency in Vitamins D and G.
Moreover, lack of these vitamins
predispoSes to infections and to
lowered resistance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
A New Use for the TeIephoto

The telephoto process, by which pictures are
transmitted over long distances by wire, has been
used widely by newspapers and by advertising
agencies; and now a real estate salesman also has
found it valuable.
This salesman in Los Angeles, selling a
$4,000 house to Burton Holmes, the well-known
lecturer. But Mrs. Holmes was in New York; and
any householder that no man could buy
a house that his wife had never SEEN
But it didn't stump the salesman. He telephoned
picture of the house to Mrs Holmes, and followed
it, on her request with teephoto of the kitchen
She approved and the sale was made
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
NJ. E. Tracy
You Can Close the Saloon,
bat You Can't Stop Men
From Drinking.

A DvOCATING repeal of the
N eighteenth amendment, Colonel
William j. Donovan tells the Young
Republican club of Buffalo that the
Wing party persisted, because it at
tempted to straddle the slavery
question.
The Buffalo reinforcement
committee of 1900 declares that
Colonel Donovan is wrong and that
the Wing party persisted. not be-
cause of any straddling attempt, but
because it refused to adopt the I'M
compromising views of Abraham
Lincoln.
One could argue the point until
he was black in the face and prove
nothing.
This is not 1854 or 1864. Nor does
the slavery question represent very
sound parallel for prohibition.
Slavery was opposed to one of the
fundamentals of democracy, as
stated in the Declaration of In
dependence.
1t was abolished in the interest of
freedom and that is precisely WHY
the eighteenth amendment SHOULD
be repealed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Stick to the Facts

When will the administration learn that its re-
peated bull statements and prophecies, because not
supported by the official figures are hurting rather
than helping business? Does not Washington know
that the business community has been made so sus-
picious that almost every time bull statement Is
issued it Immediately bears the market?
Certainly any situation in which business gen
orally comes to discount government statements Of
facts is exceedingly dangerous for all concerned
And vet, Secretary of Commerce Lamont-doubt-
less with good intentions-has put his foot in it again
On Tuesday the headlines all across the country
announced:
Lamont Declares Decline Has Ceased" Lamont
stated 1T is perfectly clear that business on the
whole has ceased the marked decline which was char
acteristic of number Of earlier months and there
are some distinctly encouraging features"
But on the basis of Lamont's overoptimism, bust
ness was made more pessnistc than The stock
market and grain exchanges have gone lower
Today comes the regular monthly statement on
business conditions by the federal reserve board,
which, to put it gently. does not jibe with Lamont
statement It reports:
THE boards index of industrial production, which
makes allowance for seasonal variations continued 70
decline in August
Building contracts awarded, reported to the
F. W. Dodge Corporation, were in slightly smaller
volume during August.
"At the middle of August the latest date Tor
which figures are available, the number OF wage
earners and the volume of factory pay rolls were
smaller than in the middle of July.
It is too bad that such is the case. But as long
as that is the truth, American business has got 70
know it and plan accordingly.
We believe that American busness-thanks to the
economic soundness of the country and our superior
national resource-s capable of pulling out OF the
depression, especially if the government heips by
modifying the disastrous tariff.
But American business can not steer around the
rocks unless the facts and charts put out by the gov
ernment are scrupulously accurate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Times Readers
Voice Viez0S

Editor Times-The Indianapolis
Real Estate Board wishes to indorse
the cooperation and aid you have
given the Legion in Marion county
in the effort to convince the present
county commissioners that the ma
jority of the voters in Marion coun-
ty desires them to purchase imme-
diately the churches on the Plaza
site.
The Indianapolis Real Estate
Board has passed several resolutions
favcring purchase of these churches,
and at this time it is not of any
changed opinion.
1t would be well that this issue
be settled Immediately and the good
name of Marion county upheld be-
fore the rest of the state.
1t is not felt by this board that a
delay in the matter of this pur-
chase will in any way lessen the
load of the taxpayers. We believe
that it simply means that this body
prefers the purchase of these
churches to other means of incur
ring Indebtedness which will be
used in Marion county.
The American Legion in Marion
county has acted fairly and hon
orally in insisting upon this de-
mand.
The Indianapolis Real Estate
Board wishes it TO be known that
it is wholly on the side of the Amer
lean Legion, and most heartily in
dorses the cooperation given that
body by the press Of Indianapolis.
We hope that this additional ex-
preston by the Indianapolis Real
Estate Board viii lead other organi-
cations in Marion county to urge
the Marion county commissioners
to purchase these churches prior
to the time of election.
INDIANAPOLIS REAL ESTATE
BOARD.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tanned from traders in exchange Tor
the seasons catch Of fish.
The trading posts are so few, that
it is the custom to obtain i'll the fall
a tWelve-month supply of the sub
stances that are used in the diet
Thus some of the women were able
to tell exactly how much flour, mo-
lasses, oleo, and other substances the
family consumed each year.
DR.. Mitchell found in sections
where there were few gardens,
cattle, goats, sheep or hens, that
conditions are by far the worst. A
barrel of white flour for each adult
annually, molasses, salt pork, salt
beef, cleo, a few beans and peas, a
good supply of Goldfish and tea con-
stituted the diet of the majority
of these families.
A few thrifty farmers buy or raise
potatoes, turnips and cabbage, but
not enough to last even for one-half
the winter.
The diet contains plenty of CAL
cries to take care of the energy re-
quirement of the people and the
proteins, fats and carbohydrates
were in reasonable proportion, with
starches predominating over sugars,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
What Will G. o. P. Do?

So that plot to defeat Senator George w Nor
rs by running an unknown double" in the Nebraska
primary was the cheap trick of Republican managers
after all!
This was denied at first by the double-George
W. Norris, the grocery clerk of Broken Bow.
NOW. under grlling by the senatorial investigat-
ing committee and faced with detailed statement
by girl secretary of what occurred Grocer MOTIFS
and his attorney, Paul Johnson, have confessed.
That is they have admitted that Victor seymour oe
scrbed in news dispatches as western manager OF
the Republican senatorial campaign committee, die
tated announcement OF the grocers candidacy, paid
his ming fee and an additional $500 for the grocers
time and expenses This confirms the story told by
the girl, Seymours secretary.
Since Grocer Norris and his lawyer admit that
their original testimony false, the senate COM
mittee is considering the obvious step of turning that
part of the case over to the United States district
attorney for perjury prosecution. But the senate
committee will continue to probe the political mpli-
cations of the plot.
The fact that the plot was Matched little too late
to do any damage and that Nebraska supreme court
Justice threw out the grocers filing because it was
received two days late does not make the plot any
less despicable If it had succeeded it would IN et-
feet have nuihed the primary by preventing voters
from distinguishing between two candidates of eX-
acty the same name
That is going pretty far, for certain cid guard
politicians who determined apparently to soop to
almost anything to drive out OF the Republican party
and out of office all progresSves of the Norris type
Where do the Republican party managers in
Washington get off in all this low trickery? Was the
western manager" of the Republican senatorial
paien committee acting under their orders, with
their consent, or with their knowledge and silent
approval?
If not isn't it about time for the Republican party
leaders officially and formally to diSavow and con-
6emn such tactics? Isn't it time for them to drive
out of party office and authority all of the party
officials implicated?
Or will they remain silent and inactive until their
party is hlackened by the scandal and until public
protest forces resignation OF the cuprits happened
in the case of Chairman Huston of the Republican
natcliaI committee?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FTSHBEIN
Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
THERE was time when the food
L of the vast majority of Amer
lean people represented distinctly
unbalanced diet. A balanced diet
does not mean that the peas are
lifted on the knife; it means instead
that amounts of the important con-
Stituents are provided in sufficient
quantity to maintain health at an
optimum.
1t long has been recognized that
the fisher folk of Labrador and
northern Newfoundland do not have
a balanced diet. They suffer con-
siderably with such conditions as
night blindness, beriberi, ricketts,,
scuryy, and with general under
nutrition.
At the request of Sir Wilfred
Grenfell DR.. Helen S. Mitchell made
a survey during the summer of 1929
among these people. She found
that practically all food supplies used
by these people, except some fish,
game and a very small amount Of
edible vegetation, had to be OBJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
SCIENCE
Thousands of Eyes Sdved in
Industrial Plants By Cog
giles and Masks.
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE use Of masks and goggles in
Il industrial plants, a simple and
relatively inexpensive precaution,
has saved thousands Of eyes and
millions of dollars.
The story is told in Eyes Saved
in Industry" a report just issued
jointly by the National Society for
the Prevention of Blindness and the
National Safety Council.
The report contains statistics kept
for a period of two years in $50
plants employing total of 100000
men.
The report shows that the use OF
head-masks and goggles save TO-
900 eyes during that period. The
saving in money is estimated at
$46,000,0OO
The plants surveyed include
metal producing and fabricating
companies, chemical concerns,
mines, railways, foundries, rubber
companies, automotive plants, and
the like.
I'm this study, tn first of its kind
ever made" says Lewis H. Carris,
managing director of the National
Society for the Prevention of Blind
ness, sit was assumed that an object
which hit google lens with such
force as to pierce or shatter the lens
most certainly would have so dam
aged the eye, if the goggles had not
been worn, as to cause complete or
nearly complete loss of vision.
Il was assumed, further, that
every instance of a google lens
despatched by molten metal or by
corrosive or otherwise injurious
chemicals, represented an eye
saved"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
State Liberty Stolen

TINE eighteenth amendment not
4 lly presumed degree of per-
sonal regulation which would have
shocked the founders Of this repub-
lie, but goes far toward the annihi-
lation Of state sovereignty, which
was one of the principal barriers
they set up to prevent too much
Capitalization.
What it pretends to do for tenn
perance is well-nigh inconsequen-
tial compared to what it actually
does for centralized power at Wash.
ington.
Nothing in this country's career
has done so much to weaken local
Or state authority on the one hand,
while augmenting that Of the fed
eral government on the other
With one stroke of the pen United
States judges found themselves
taxed with the burden of policy
magistrates or justices of the peace.
Even the supreme court has been
called upon to decide cases which
belong properly to d village tribunal.
All of which goes to the bottom
of our political system and involves
much more perplexing questions
than whether a man should buy his
liquor straight over a licensed bar,
or sneak into speakeasy and pre-
pare the way for gang rule.