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Mr.. Macdonald and Miss Smith

"I seen ,ern as in a dream John Macdonald.
.sMy doubts come and go"-EsteIe Smith
typical remarks, these, of very common type
of psychopath who springs up at every great crime
to swear away mems lives liberty for the sake OF
financial reward notoriety
Frank Oman has been dis tied wholly by
Governor Young and the California supreme court,
sitting now again on the Mooney Billings pardon
pleas The Edeaus, Crowley and other dscredited
witnesses in the San Francisco bomb case Of 1916
are not even to be called. There remain Macdonald
and Miss Smith
Macdonald has sworn he was drunk when ne
identified Mooney and Billings as the men he seen
as in dream" Miss Smith has sworn she was TAX
ing narcotics during Billings trial.
Both originally identified their victims" and told
stories circumstantial enough for ures to believe
Both later repudiated these identifcatons. And now
both have come forth with new stories to justify
their actions by blaming others.
Both claim to have been under some sort Of spell.
It is hattering but hardly possible that the spell
was that Of liquor or morphine and perhaps also
of money.
VIII the Governor and the judges believe
Macdonald or Miss Smith? They can not believe
both for the stories contradict each other. MacDon-
aid "seen 'em"-Mooney and Billngs-at Steuart and
Market streets between 1850 and o'clock. Miss
Smith saw Billings at 721 Market street, nearly a
mile away, at Isl.
It is hard to understand how in 1916, when pas
sions were running high, such witnesses could be
believed. It is impossible to understand how the
testimony of such witnesses can be accepted now.
If all this discredited testimony is thrown out,
as it should be- Mooney and Billings will go free
after fourteen years of unjust Imprisonment.
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The commission Must Act.

Indiana win know tomorrow whether us SOa1e
highway commission has the will and the courage
70 relieve the starvation wage situation prevailing on
state road projects.
The commission is scheduled to meet Wednesday
and Chairman Albert j. wedeking has declared that
something viii be done" about the lucent wage
scale which is dsgracing the state
The commission has been given the facts by The
Times Investigation during the last two weeks Com
ssioners know that greedy contractors are squeez-
ing and gougng out the last cent Of profit by taxing
advantage Of the unemployment situation They
know that hundreds of men are engaged in heart
breaking toll on road jobs for miserable wages, wages
so low that their families the verge OF
starvation.
The commission can put the screws" to these
contractors and force them to operate with some
consideration for justice and common decency They
can be dubbed into line. if necessary and public
sentiment demands that the commission take drastic
action.
The Times. investigation today discloses that
Iaborers on State Road 54 from Ellison to Linton,
are being paid little 20 cents an hour, with water
boys getting only Is cents. On this job Chicago
contractor was the successful bidder with labor fig
ured at a minimum of 40 cents hour.
This Chicago contractor sublet the job to an In
diana firm took his profit and faded out of the
picture The Indiana firm cut wages in two to In
crease its profits The laborer takes his choice OF
starving or accepting this wage that approximates
slavery.
There has been no rain in that vicinity for weeks.
Men toll in dust their shoetops, with clouds OF
dust and cement swrling about, choking and blind
ing them, from a. m to p. with thirty minutes
for lunch For this outing they draw the magnificent
sum Of $40 each night.
number of the men interviewed by Times report
ers have from three to six children Rent food cloth
ing, doctors attention, all the thousand and one
other things family of six to eight persons needs
and S21O day to buy them With
Let the state highway commission think this over
Every consideration of decency and mercy demands
that action be immediate. If the commission fails,
then let public sentiment decide that no member of
that commission ever hold public Office again, and
that greedy contractors, responsible for the present
shocking injustice be ruled out forever, when there
are state contracts to be awarded.
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TT SEEMS TO ME BY H EEg2;S

DEFORE' departing for a vacation
10 Gwo weeks, I feel that I ought
to express my thanks to everybody
who has read this column. This ex-
preston of appreciation goes most
fervently to those who have, upon
occasion, liked it. But I owe some
thing as well to the many who say,
you bore the life out of me every
morning" After all, a reader is a
reader. Each. may enlist upon his
own terms.
I would like to say that after a
fortnight's rest I expect to return
refreshed. and full of vigor. But I
feel all right now.
The column even after my period
of rustication will remain about the
same. I've never noticed that a
couple of weeks did much one way
or another.
And yet this period Of absence is
extremely important because even if
the colunnist does not particularly
need q vacation it is likely that his
readers may.
Accordingly, I extend to you every
good wish for your period of recre-
alton with Joe Williams in charge of
this green pasture. hope upon my
return to find you refreshed, vigor-
GUS and even twice as lively as you
have been before.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

which aids the modern physician in
making a difficult diagnosis or in
treating serious diseases in formerly
inaccessible portions of the human
body.
Around 1880, the discoveries made
by Pasteur changed definitely the
trend of modern medicine. The
establishment of the fact that
germs cause disease brought about
control of the acute infectious dis
eases.
It became possible to prevent
their transmission from one person
to another and to stop the devastat-
ing plaques which used to wipe out
one-half of an entire community;
in a period of few weeks, as a
result of the discovery of the germ
causes of many conditions and of
reed for raising germs and studying
their chemistry, it became possible
to prevent infections by inoculating
people against them.
Associated with this knowledge
came new concentration on the
blood as the important medium in
che human body for aiding resist
ance to disease and for taking care
of disease conditions when they de-
veloped.
. Obviously new machines had to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-05
DE CnN1, FREDERICK
NLEAOO1N lands

n NIX. COOLIDGE may try to cheer the country by
wi pointing out that there has been relief in the
form of reductions for those who pay income TAX
but the fact remains that there has been no tax
relief for those who really need it, those who have
no incomes but who do have lot OF unproductive
real estate.
The real remedy for permanent tax relief is to
revise our system of government and cut out thou
sands of useless Offices
Island said that the national government could be
run more efficiently for two-thirdS the expense and
the same be said for the government OF almost
every state.
nut these useless offices will never be abolished
ID except by constitutional conventions composed of
taxpayers interested in efficiency and economy The
politicians will do it, for public ONCE Is their
base of supplies
Ma Fergusons strong showing in the Texas primary
race for the governorship and her probable nonina-
ton in the rn-o contest in August should give hope
to all those who have been sent to the Texas peni-
Tertiary since she left the statehouse.
Sir Oliver Lodge of England may think that the
future will find the worlds police power in the hands
of the United States but Uncle Sam has no ambition
in this direction.
If he ever does find such large lemon in his mitt
he viii drop it promptly.
TT is almost beyond belief that Admiral Moffet
i chief of naval aeronautics, should tell the world
that We are now building mystery" cruisers ca
pable of taking care of twenty airplanes.
This is the only nation In the world which per-
mits its officials to broadcast its secrets to the
world.
Rebellion In India and turbulence in Egypt must
cause Mr.. John Bull to reflect that there certain
disadvantages about having flag upon which the
sun never sets
AS the Lindberghs read of the baby mixup be-
tween the Bambergers and the Weakness of Chicago
they must shake hands with themselves that they
had enough gumption to have their child born at
home
That canary in Omaha which died as result Of
being compelled to listen to Jazz 6er the radio rep
resented higher degree Of civilization than most
human beings
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ton which has come to grief in the
desert. There is enough food and
water left to enable three people to
get to the nearest outpost Of civili-
zation. The rest must perish. Your
companions are: ID A brilliant sci
enlist, So years old; Cd two half
breed guides, ages SO and 81; CD the
scientists wife-interested mainly
in society matter, aged SO; "a her
little son, age 6; 90 the girl you
are engaged to marry; (6) your
best friend, young man of your
own age who has shown great
promise in the field of science; Cd
yourself.
(which would you choose to live
and which to die? Give your rea-
sons"
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goods. Our farm board restricts the
market for American wheat; our
farmers are caught both coming and
going. They are the goat in both
cases.
Mr.. Stone, another member of the
farm board, has an original idea
for farm relief. He said over the
radio from Columbus, O.: Farmers
should not buy land with their sur
plus CD money, but should invest
in stocks and bonds"
With Mr.. Stone promoting the
sale Of stocks and bonds, with Mr..
Legge promoting the sale Of South
American grain. it appears that Mr..
Hoover's farm board is taking in too
much territory.
It is perfectly all right to pro-
mote the sale of stocks and bonds;
it is perfectly all right to promote
the sale of South American grain,
but Mr.. Stone and Mr.. Legge should
do this work as paid agents Of the
beneficiarieS FARMER
MartiusYille md
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Wizards Works

MIR. EDISON never has seemed
1V1 to me precisely a wizard in
the matter of framing examination
questions. He appears naively
tricky in the catches which he puts
into tests designed to reveal the
character of the applicant.
But if Mr.. Edison and his famous
assistants seem less than wonder
workers in the matter of their re-
searches in the secret places of the
heart, they at least display consid-
cradle ability in press agentry. Year
after year the East Orange ordeal
turns up something which makes
good front-page stuff.
Cne of the inquiries this year has
great news appeal. I refer to the
following item in the Edison ques-
tionnaire:
'You are the head of an expedi-
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T TELESCOPE

ERAUNHOFER, however, made a
Il decided improvement over New
tons method. He set up a small
telescope, taken from a. surveying
instrument, Immediately behind his
prism.
In this way. he was able to ex-
anime the spectrum formed by the
prism through the telescope. This
gave him a magnified view of the
suns spectrum and enabled him to
study it in detail.
He noticed at once that the suns
spectrum was crossed with. great
number of dark lines. He noted the
true state Of affairs, which was that
the lines were not boundaries for
the different colors, but were scat
tered in great profusion over the
colorS.
He succeeded in counting SIG lines
Of varying thicknesses and intensi-
ties. He designated the brighter
lines with letters of the alphabet.
We still use Fraunhofer's desig-
natlon Tor the more prominent lines.
Improved apparatus, however, has
demonstrated that actually there
are more than 10000 dark lines in
the solar spectrum.
Fraunhofer, born research ex-
pert, next examined moonlight and
the light of the planets. These OBJ
jects shine by reflected sunlight.
Again, Fraunhofer found the same
dark lines in their spectra.
But while Fraunhofer had dis
covered these dark lines of the spec
trum, he was not able to offer an
explanation for them.
These "Fraunhofer lines" as SCI
entists began to call them, baffled
the world for almost half century
before they yielded up their secret
to two Heidelberg professors, Kirch-
OF and B,nsen.
1t was they who showed how the
spectrum lines were key to the
chemical elements contained in the
outer regions of the sun.
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Freedom

MYTH part of the eighteen
w ducats, young Joseph Fraun-
hofer purchased his freedom from
the looking-glasS manufacturer.
With the rest, he bought books and
equipment and opened a place OF
his own as lens-maker.
In time his little shop grew into a
huge establishment. He became the
most skillful lens-maker in all Eu-
rope. He made lenses for the great
est telescopes of his day.
In addition, he carried on expert
mentS of his own, advancing the
science of optics and inventing
many new optical instruments.
Had it not been for the work of
Fraunhofer, our knowledge of the
sun and the stars, our knowledge OF
physical and chemical phenomena,
our ability to utilize chemical ele-
ments, and our grasp of many engi-
neering methods, might have been
delayed another century.
Sir Isaac Newton in 1866 and the
Years 1ILlIllCO4dVSly 4O41OW1145 OAROAA-
mented with prisms, proving that
white light consisted of a combina-
ton of light waves Of different COL
ors and that the prism separated the
various waves, stringing Them out
into the rainbow or spectrum.
Practically nothing was done in
the way OF research on the spectrum
until 1902, when DR.. w. H. Wollas-
ton, a London physician, performed
an experiment in which he used a
prism held close to the eye to view
beam Of light which was admitted
into dark room through narrow
slit.
He noticed that the rainbow which
he saw was crossed with a number
of dark lines, but he made the mis-
take of thinking that these dark
lines marked off the various colors.
In 1914, Fraunhofer, without being
aware of the experiment which VOL
laston had performed twelve years
before, undertook to repeat New
tons work.
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An Easy Way Out

.NNE of the most amazing aspects
Oof our system Of justice is the
nonchalance with which it. excuses
its own plumbers and the ease with
which it can wiggle out of them.
A dog was sentenced to death in
New Jersey the other day, after
which the owner sent him to New
York.
The New Jersey court says that
since the law demanded that the
dog be either killed or removed"
and since his going to New York
constitutes removal" the ends Of
justice have been satisfied.
Wouldn't it be wonderful If some
cases in which human beings play
the principal role could be disposed
Of the same way? And wouldn't 1t
be even more wonderful if common
people could squirn1 out Of en-
barrassing situations with as little
difficulty?
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---BI DAV IU UIEAIsss.''.''''
Collapse of a House Indirect
III Caused NesO Discoveries
in Field of Science.
Try DAVID .DIEIZ-

TINE collapse Of a house sounds
IL like calamity. And indeed it
is. But the collapse Of house in
Munich, while being a calamity for
all its occupants but one, set in
motion one Of the most fortunate
trains of events in the history Of
science.
It was on July 81, 1901, that the
house collapsed. All its occupants
were killed but one, that one being
youth who was apprenticed to a
maker of looking glasses.
The EIector Macmillan Joseph
happened to be walking along the
street at the time. Moved by the
obvious distress of the boy who had
Just escaped death, he reached in
his pocket, drew out handful Of
gold coins and gave them to the
boy.
The sum amounted to eighteen
ducats.
It would be practically impossible
to figure the rate at which those
eighteen ducats have paid dividends
to the world in general. A million
per cent would be mild statement
of the case.
For the boy was Joseph Fraurl-
rofer and those eighteen ducats led
him on career which earned him
the title of the father of spectre
Scopy.
Spectroscopy, or spe C t r u m
analysis, is employed in astronomy,
geology, physics, chemistry and
biology. 1t has advanced mans
knowledge of the universe and
mans abiiiCy to utilize the gifts OF
nature.
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EdiSonIS Mind

before elnbarking on an answer
ID to the problem I want to inter-
rupt long enough to remark that
the query reveals far more of the
quality of Mr.. Edison's mind than
it ever will unearth out of any of
the applicants.
Even the most casual sxamina-
ton will show that Mr.. Edison owes
his success in life to his defects as
well as to his virtues. He is wholly
a or1e-track man. Outside Of inven-
ton, he has no interests whatsoever.
But he is not wholly a happy man.
Something has been denied him.
But the chief factor which should
arouse the ire of all wonlen's or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-05
This Man Macdonald

TOHN MACDONALD is what you
y might call a complacent- soul.
Having confessed to one of the
worst perjuries on record, he seems
to think that nothing remains for
the California authorities to do but
shake hands and bid him good-by.
One even gets the idea that he
wouldn't take friendly pat on the
back, or a little tip, as inappropri-
ate.
81 have told them lied in 1916
and 1917, when I testified against
Billings and Mooney in the Pre-
paredness day dynamiting trials"
he says. THAT'S all I can do.
want to get back to my Job In Bal
timore. That is, If I still have
Job"
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BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY
Aug. 5

BATTLE OF MOBILE BAY
Aug. S
ON Aug. 5, 1864, Admiral David
" G. Farragut began one of the
most significant battles of the Civil
war when he entered the Bay of
Mobile, then the most important
port held by the Confederates on
the gulf.
The entrance to the bay was de-
Tended by forts on opposite sides, by
a thickly rammed line Of piles and
by a triple line of torpedoes which
left only narrow opening into the
harbor.
Besides the Tennessee, q
formidable ironclad ram, stood in
the way ready to receive the at
lacking party
Undaunted by the opposition,
Farragut, with feet Of four IRON
clads and fifteen wooden vessels,
fought his way foot by foot into the
harbor.
After the battle began, Farragut
climbed the rigging to get above the
thickest of the smoke. He was
dashed there so that, If wounded, he
might not fall to the deck.
After terrific bombardment, the
forts were obliged to surrender to
the attack OF a land force, and the
last important port on the gull was
occupied by Union forces.
The victory, which Farragut said
vas zone of the hardest earned" Of
his life, cost the Union feet 335 men
The losses IN the Confederate feet
weTe ten killed and sixteen wounded
and 2ao prisoners taken.
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Perjury Popular

1T would not be surprising if
Il California authorities took Mac
Donald's view of the situation.
At any rate, they have shown a
weakness for perjurers throughout
the Mooney Billings case.
Indeed, plain lying seems to have
impressed them as only one more
obstacle to overcome.
BY right, Mooney and Billings are
about the only ones connected with
the case who should not be In jail.
Justice calls for something more
than their liberation. Dynamite is
no worse than lying when it comes
to personal injury or social offense.
PerjUred testimony came mighty
near doing for Mooney and Billings
what the bomb did for It's victims,
If patriotism warranted so much
mistaken credulity, truth deserves a
little righteous indignation.
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BungIing Here

DUT there is more than lack OF
ID logic in the situation. There is
stupidity and bungling.
Whether prohibition and protec-
ton were responsible for the pros
perity we enjoyed until last fall,
the way the former has been mis-
managed and the latter abused
under Republican rule has definite
bearing on the present state Of
business.
How else can the lawlessness from
which we are suffering at home. and
the growth of antagonism which is
interfering with our trade abroad,
be explained?
During the last ten years we have
drifted from state of idealism
which was essentially constructive,
if little overdone, to a state Of
mid-Victorian provincialism, and re-
dictionary leadership at Washington
is chiefly responsible.
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ExpIain This Off

TWO years ago, Republican lead
l. ers told us that prohibition and
protection were responsible for the
great degree of prosperity we then
we're enjoying.
If that was true, what is response
BILE for the lack of it now?
With speakeasies flourishing and
exports declining, aren't the people
justified in holding dry laws and
tariff bills somewhat to blame?
Whether they are or not, they will.
The came lack of logic which
made Republican arguments effec-
tive in 1923, turns them sour in
1880.
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Justice without Color

one Of seven white men charged with the murder
of young Negro college student in Atlanta has been
found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced
to from twelve TO fifteen years in the state peniten
tiary. The others await trial
We do not rejoice because any man IS sent to
prison but it is gratifying TO observe that ceOrsaS
Dnthoritsz are making coed their promise to punish
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ganizations in America is the de-
lineation Of the younger woman in
the party. She is set down simply
as .tlle girl you are engaged to
marry" We never will know
whether she was of scientific, ar
tistic, or business turn of mind.
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The Some Lack Of Logic
Which Made Republican
Arguments Effective IN
1928 Turns Them Sour IN
1880.
SAYS

MYTH former Governor Smith
w calling for wet platform and
Senator Swanson of Virginia de-
handing revision of the Smoot-
Hawley bill, there is some hope OF
the Democratic party accepting pro-
hibition and the tariff as
paramount issues"
This is doubly gratifying--first,
because 1t would give the public a
chance to express itself on these
issues, and, second, because 1t
suggests that the Democrats are re-
gaining a certain sense Of value.
With the Republican party COM
nitted to protection and Volstead-
ism and with the American people
demanding nothing so inSistently as
an opportunity to line UP with re-
gard to both, the Democratic party
should have opened the way loI :
ere this.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.