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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
The Peoples Victory

There is such a thing as the power Of public
ounion after all Any one doubling that should take
long look at the vote of the senate judiciary COM
.nittee against confirmation of Judge John j. Parker
for she United States supreme court. An untayor-
able report was voted, 10 to 6.
To get the full force of that just think back four
weeks ago to the time President Hoover made the
nomination. When the scripps-Howard newspapers
and labor organizations protested, it seemed to every
one hopeless fight. When progressive senators and
Negro organizations joined in the protest, it still
seemed impossible to defeat him.
But within these short weeks marvellous thing
has happened-the most significant thing that can
happen in a democracy There has been an awaken
ms Of the press and of public opinion
That public opinion has spoken, and Washington
has heard. This explains the 10-to-6 vote in a
ate committee nominaly controlled by the admin
istraton and in the teeth of the administration de-
mand for confirmation.
The voice from back home, as it has been beating
down upon the senators, has been saying:
We will not stand for more supreme court
dictionaries to nullify rights and sacrifice
interests.
We will not stand for yellow dog contract
and injunction judges on the supreme court bench.
We will not stand for more judges inclined toward
unfair racial discrimination being elevated to bench
which should be above prejudice
We VIII not stand for more political mediocrities
being promoted to positions of highest judicial power
for party purposes
We will not stand for John j. Parker OF North
Carolina,
Perhaps some OF this criticism of Parker has been
overdone We have no desire to rejoice over his per-
sona defeat. We assume that he is an honorable and
sincere man. according to his lights.
But there tens OF thousands of honorable and
sincere lawyers in the country who have not the
ceptional ability the fearless Americanism nor
despotic power now possessed by the supreme court
And on the basis of his public record the people have
been able to that Parker be trusted with
that power.
For his sake We hope Parker will have the
grace to request withdrawal of his name.
And for the Presidents sake we hope the President
now will accept the committee vote as evidence of the
"adviceto use the constitutional term-of the SEN
ate, and Withdraw the nomination.
But altogether apart from the personal fortunes of
the President and Parker the country will not lose if
the issue is forced to the senate floor The senate
is not apt reverse the committees action-especially
since that debate would almost have be the open
due to the success of the United Press last year in
spiking secret sessions.
An open senate debate would destroy further
hush-hush that has protected the supreme court 1t
would focus light upon that all powerful institu
ton.
Parker is an incident. The supreme court is the
issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
New World Power

Just little while ago we thought Of utility
pany regulation as a problem Tor local governments
to handle.
Now, before we have grasped fully the significance
of great holding companies reaching across the
ton and laughing at state commissions, before the
federal government has learned how to deal with
them this growth of utilities has become a world
problem.
Electric Bond and Share, Goliath of the holding
companies, is international holding machine, the
federal trade commission has disclosed 1t reaches into
twelve foreign countries From Shanghai to New
York. from Montana to the Argentine, its wires and
its power extend
1t is not remarkable that this company has played
a leading part in organizing the world power confer
which meets in Berlin next June. Even the
phrase world power" taken meaning in
the last few years. 1t refers to the utility
pany product
1t is not unthinkable that world power in the new
sense and world power in its older meaning may
to be Identical That possibility calls for serious con-
sideration Beside it, and its potenalitieS for shaping
world history. such problems prohibition are
nursery prattle.
The need to understand what is happening to us
and what may happen to because of electric power
calls for the best thinking do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
III 49,
R7do Akt Is tTI4e|
| ANNIVERSARY
.t1
BATTLE OF YPRES
April %

ON April %, 1915, the second bat
~ tie of YpreS, in which poison, +"
or chlorine, gas was used for the first
time, was begun by the Germans at
5 o'clock in the evening.
The French Colonial troops, the
first to experience the deadly vapor,
found it impossible to withstand it
and broke in disorder.
In their retreat they uncovered
the left wing of the Canadian line
and thus endangered the whole po-
sition of the allied forces. At this
juncture the enemy opened up a
heavy artillery attack and smashed
the French front.
Following several fruitless coun-
ter attacks made by the British and
Canadians the following day the
Germans, on April "a, launched an
other gas attack. Again the British
counter attacked, only to find the
enemy securely intrenched.
After resisting the allied counter
attacks for a month the Germans
gave up hope Of obtaining victory
by gas attacks and closed the Battle
on May Is.
The casualties on both sides were
extremely heavy. The total British
loss in the battle vas $3.50 officers
and SIPS otner ranks, while the
German losses were returned at $50
officers and 34,l73 other ranks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Civilization

49,. ,v,,,red or two hundred years hence human
beings will read with incredulity Of the burning 10
death Of the 300 convicts in the Ohio prison
rbev will wonder why a society that created ar
r1anes and automobiles built great roads, nVeo III
Injurious mansions, gave millions to art galerleS'
found il necessary to drive other human DelnsS -
death in FIRE with machine guns
They will perhaps smile at the literature Oh 'oU"y
which boasts of a civilization Ihey may eve" "'i
the meaning Of such word.
The truth of course, is that the prisons OF Vooa8
ara overcrowded not only the Ohio prison, but every
prison
The conditions there as elsewhere, make for
,aenora+eness in which fires may be expected, as
are riots and outbreaks.
Conditions produce criminals, and criminals IN
turn, produce the conditions which existed IN 'ile
Ohio penitentiary.
Only the most cynical can say that society loses
little when the lives Of these three hundred and more
men were taken by a fire. The lives Of the men may
not he ir1portant The attitude of free men toward
the prisoners is important and thus far it is not such
as to cause any great elaton or qualification.
If we are to continue to fill prisons and to find no
better way to protect life and property than by bars II
seems little to demand that the prisons be safe and
ample Men who sent there should be treated IN
manner that will restore them to society fitted to
take up orderly lives They should not be turned into
beasts and then roasted to death.
Work IN the open air for those whose morality and
mentality make for crime may furnish part Of the
solution Certain it is that civilization is very thin
when human beings are crowded into fire traps as
means OF reformation
An investigation might proftably be made by
every state to discover whether conditions in its own
prisons are such as to make possible such tragedies as
that of Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
REASON By FR RERPFs

VXTHILE Mr.. Coolidge announces that he will not
w run for office in the ordinary course of events
he assures the country that he might come forth in
the event of a great crisis.
It's great comfort to know that we have such
a dreadnaught in reserve.
From the business standpoint 1t was a mistake
for the eXPresident to declare himself for his manu-
scripts worth so long as people regard him
a live one.
When fellow becomes a bronze bust, he is
marked down in price.
This is interesting word from the east that Mayor
Jimmie Walker is to go to the United States senate
to succeed Wagner provided he get enough votes
on election day.
OF course Wagner would like to stay, but the first
rule of Tammany is obedience and if Tammany
should tell Wagner to step aside, he would step.
THIS suggestion revives memory of the rivalry be-
L tween former Governor Smith and the mayor, for
this senatorial niche was supposed to be the consoa
ton prize of the national leader Of 1928.
The hatred which exists between Smith and
Walker is as old as politics-jealousy.
Illinois was given the privilege Of staging the
campaign between Lincoln and Douglas which pre-
ciuitated the climax of the slavery question and now
she is to stage the campaign between Ruth McCor-
mick and James Hamilton Lewis which VIII result
in the most impressive verdict prohibition since
the adoption of the eighteenth amendment.
TT would not mean anything for New York or MaSsa-
chusetts to vote wet for everybody knows they are
rinning and it wouldn't mean anything for Kansas or
Nebraska to vote dry for everybody knows they IRE
marched but for Illinois go way or the other by
an overwhelming majority would be very effective
It will be the greatest senatorial fight waged since
the Fail Splitter and the Little Giant crossed swords
and the ablest vets and dys from all corners OF the
nation will be summoned to the fray.
Both principals will watch their steps, Tor II she
wins Ruth Hanna Mccormick will find herself the
militant leader of the drys, and if he wins, James
Hamilton Lewis will find himself the crusader of the
vets
Just what that will mean politically remains to be
seen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
II All DEFENDS

president HOOVER has haro-
L " strengthened his appeal for
observance of all laws willy-nilly by
nominating for the supreme court
bench a gentleman who openly has
advocated the practical nulliflc alton
of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.
In fact the only obvious reason
for the naming of Judge Parker
seems to be the fact that he hap
pens to be a Republican resident in
North Carolina.
Come to think of it, wasn't there
a good deal of commotion raised
during the campaign by Hoover's
supporters about Al Smiths Tam
many connection? I seem to re-
member the charge that his ap-
pointmentS might be governed by
political eXpediency.
Nobody, as far as I know, has
questioned the honesty of Judge
Parker, but isn't it true that if John
]. Parker were in private practice
any client wanting the best services
obtainable would be certain to turn
over in his mind at least 800 names
before he would even think Of John
]. Parker?
1t seems to me that the great
white experimental in Washington
has slipped several cogs in deciding
that actual ability is of less inpor-
lance than solidifying Republican
gains in the south. The appoint
ment is politics and brazen politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Purity Via Police or Censorship?

Mae VESTS Pleasure Man" may have been a
trivial and indecent play The trial indecisive.
But the case has brought out some sound sense in
regard to the effort to secure purity through police
action and criminal prosecution.
Eleven members of the jury which tried the case
have sent letter to Governor Roosevelt urging
more sensible method Of determining the fitness of
a play than police raids and prosecution by the dis
trict attorney The jury holds that censorship is to
be preferred to criminal litigation 1t also contends
that the time to judge play is while it is being pre-
sented II can not be reproduced faithfully on the
witness stand. The jurys letter states that:
Failure Of the jury to agree tends to demonstrate
Cd the unrelability If not the futility Of criminal
litigation as a method Of censoring plays; C) that
the npractcability of faithfully portraying by court
testimony the performance as it actually was given
on the stage with all the gestures actions expressions
ntonations Of voice, accuracy of dialogue etc. tends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
. DAILY HEALTH SERVICE .
Jake Paralysis Due to Liquor Poison

been found by the authorities of
the state department of health, and
although some time has elapsed, it
is still possible to give only a few
definite facts concerning the Situa
ton.
Chemical and laboratory investi-
cations require considerable time,
particularly as they are elaborate
and are planned to be conclusive.
At present the authorities are con-
WINGED that these cases are the re-
suit of taking into the body of two
or more toxic substances, one OF
which is preparation Of alcohol
and the other some heavy substance
These conclusions were reached
by both the physicians and the pub
lie health authorities for several
definite reasons.
The Inflammation Of the nerves
which resulted in the paralysis SIM
ply had to do with the action Of
some toxic inorganic substance or
of the action of some bacterial
poison.
Practically all data were against
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Gaseous
TIME sun is believed to

THE sun is believed to be gaseous
Il from its outer surface to its
very center. A number of facts
support this view. One is that de-
spite the fact that the spectroscope
reveals the presence of the vapors
OF many metals in the sun, the
average density of the sun is only
one and a half times that of water.
There is, of course, no question
about the outer regions of the sun
being gaseous.
The most conspicuous features of
the suns surface are the sun
spots. These are easily studied with
a telescope equipped with a special
solar eyepiece of dark glass. (Any
attempt to study the sun without
proper precautions would result in
severe injuries to the eyes, even
total blindness.)
A study of the sun-spots reveals
that the sun is rotating upon it's
axis. This study also reveals that
the suns equator is tipped at an
angle of a little more than seven
degrees with reference to the plane
of the earth's orbit.
But one Of the most startling dis
coveries is that the sun is not
rotating with a uniform speed.
The equatorial regions of the sun
rotate in about twenty-four and
one-half days. The speed of rota-
ton slows up as distance from the
equator increases until in the polar
regions it is thirty-four days.
The gaseous surface of the sun
upon which the sun-spots are to be
seen, is known to astronomers as
the photosphere. photos" is the
Greek word for light. This name is
Appropriate, for the bright white
light Of the sun is given off from
the philosophers.
The sun-spots are now known to
be great whirlpools in the photo
sphere. They appear darker than
the philosophers because they are
cooler.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
TT SEEMS TO ME By HF EE04i%

winters, and answered, Madame,
when I was a student at West Point
my mind fingered a good deal on
the fact that Napoleon won the
battle of Austerlitz before he was 30
and that Hannibal led his troops
across the Alps while still in his
early 20s. Now e. find that my mind
dwells on the fact that Ludendorf
is IS and that Hindenburg is TO-"
In fact there are many things to
be said in favor of the man Of 40
from the employers standpoint
Some of us have done with going
to night clubs when we reach that
age. Some of us haven't.
Speaking for myself I can say
that I am now doing a hard days
work for the first time in my life.
At Is or % I couldn't have done it.
I wouldn't have had the stamina.
From now on / have small hopes
of standing below very many bal
comics. We Of the 40-year-old con-
tingent aren't asking for as many
valentines as we used to get, but we
do demand our share Of jobs.
Copyright. 1880. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Fire

ORDINARILY we are only aware
" of the philosophers of the sun.
But during an eclipse of the sun,
other details of its outer structure
become visible.
At the moment of totality, when
the dark disc of the moon cuts of
the bright light from the photo
sphere magnificent spectacle oc-
ours.
Around the disc Of the moon q
great rim of red fire becomes Wis
ible. Here and there tongues of red
extend out from it. And surround
ing it all is a great silvery halo.
The rim of red is the chrome
sphere of the sun. The tongues of
fire extending upward from the
chromosphere are known to astron-
omers as the solar prominences.
Both are composed of light gases,
chiefly hydrogen and helium, st a
temperature of about 5000 degrees
centigrade.
The great silvery halo Is the
corona of the sun. It is composed
of thin gaseous material, but its
exact nature is not completely
understood.
The chromoSphere for many CEN
turies could be studied only at the
time of a total eclipse. Since the
invention of the spectroheliograph
in 1890, it has been possible to
photograph the chromosphere at
any time.
1t was not possible to see it
usually at any time until just a
few years ago.
At that time, DR.. George Ellery
Hale, inventor of the device, per-
fected an attachment which made
it possible to study the chrome
sphere usually.
The corona, however, still is hid
den from view at all times except
during an eclipse.
1t is one reason why astronomers
are so eager to photograph the
eclipse. The corona always appears
to be shaped differently at each
eclipse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22

to work together to get their home
and assure their future against de-
pendence on charity, I take OF my
hat to them, for since have been
married seven years and work con-
tinuously, know it Is not an easy
lob
Every man and his wife have the
same privilege. I certainly wouldn't
sit back and envy another woman
her clothes, her ambition 10 take
care of her personal appearance,
when I had had the same opportu-
nifty and didn't care to make use
Of 1t.
A woman owes it first to herself,
second to her husband, and last to
the world In general TO keep up her
personal appearance, and that does
not necessarily mean fur coats"
There are a lot Of people in this
old world who simply we're not pre-
pared, either mentally or financially.
to start on the career Of rearing O
large family. but why blame this
on the couple smart enough to real
ize the fact? A READER
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22

an infectious origin. For instance,
80 per cent of the people affected
were men, 70 per cent Of those wee
between 20 and IS years Of age, and
there was not one case in the entire
group that was under 10 years OF
age.
There is, however, also a histori-
cal precedent for an incidence of
this character.
More than twenty-five years ago
there were in Great Britain hun
dreds of cases of paralysis caused by
the drinking Of beer which had been
made in such way as to become
heavily contaminated with arsenic
In those cases also paralysis was
the chief symptom, however, includ-
ing prostration and nauesa.
No doubt when the chemists have
completed their studies, it will be
found that the particular bootleg
involved had been made by men
quite unfamiliar with >toxicology
and a great many sadder and wiser
drinkers will limit themselves, at
least for a while, to ginger ale and
root beer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Still in the Dark

TN spite of all the economic
1 progress we have made, We face
those age-old political problems
which have to do with personal
liberty, the right Of self-eXpression,
and the difficulty Of striking a
workable balance between society
ard it's members.
Politics is the only field in which
we appear unable to have
formulated anything Ike scientific
conceptions.
The engineer can take blueprint
and tell whether the device it por-
trays will work, the chemist can
create new combinations by the
simple process Of drawing diagrams.
and the architect can see how a
structure will look in his minds eye,
before a stone Is laid.
But when it comes to making law,
no one can tell how it will work,
or whether it will work at all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor Tirnes-JusC line to de-
fend the much-abused married
woman who has the gumption to
hold down two jobs. have three
women friends in mind and all are
working to help buy their homes,
working in Offices all day and doing
their homework in the evening. Not
one of these women has a fur coat.
All wear silk hose, but so do the
school girls whose fathers still are
buying their clothes.
These women's husbands are en-
gagged six days a week, flfty-tWo
weeks in a year in the following:
One is a machinist in a railroad
shop; one is meat packing truck
driver; and one a meter reader. A
person simply does not know what
he is talking about if he thinks the
man worthless" who is industrious
enough to work at any Of the above.
Two of the men work all day and
study at night school. Of course
if man is foolish enough to try to
rear three to eight children with
nothing more than a part time job
in an Indianapolis automobile fac
tory, that is where he didn't look
far enough into the future to see
that it can't be done.
1t is truly deplorable condition
this problem Of people out Of work,
but most Of the men doing the
most complaining about married
women working couldn't hold the
position the married girl Is holding.
How many of the unemployed men
know double entry bookkeeping from
single entry or how many could take
dictation, or how many could take
OF trial balance?
Just remember, too. that this still
is a free country. # couple chooses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
0Verrated Events

I'D FADING history in the light Of
IN politics and war, we overrate
the Importance of many events, be-
cause of the bloodshed and de-
struction they involved.
Looking at present day events,
we are inclined to doubt their sig
because these tragic fac
tors are less conspicuous.
We think Of the Caesars, Alexan-
derS and Genghis Khans as men
who changed the basic currents of
history, of Marathon, Chalons and
Tours as determining not only the
fate Of empires, but Of civilization
itself.
But what did the common people
get out of it, compared to what
they have gotten out of the changes
occurring in more recent times?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Form and Substance of World Affairs

The Kellogg pact reads in part as follows:
"The high contracting parties solemnly declare in
the name of their respective peoples that they
denim to for the solution of international
controversies and renounce it as an instrument of
national policy in their relations with one another
The high contracting parties agree that the settle
ment solution Of all disputes conflicts of what
nature or whatever origin they may be, which
may arise among them, shall be sought except
by pacific means
The United States of America is signatory power
to the treaty So all of her potential enemies
the great powers of the east and west
A press dispatch just announces that:
1.-THE navy department revealed today that it has
contracted for the manufacture of Hudsons new gun
capable of firing 50-calber bullets nine miles at the
rate of 800 a minute. The gun is said to be one of
the most deadly weapons ever invented"
Does the navy expect to use this for practice on
porpoises or guls? Or does it contemplate turn
ing it loose on rum runners?