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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
Lowest of the Low

EIRST, comes a dapper little
Il Chilean, who made as much as
$3.50 week Spotting women for the
vice squad, and who blandly adj
mits that many were convicted
without a scrap of evidence against
them, and that all were blackmailed,
whether guilty or not.
Then come two lawyers, with
several more to follow, confessing
their part in the sorry combine.
And there isn't even the excuse
Of sex appeal to justify the mess.
In the whole outfit no one played
the part Of q herman.
At the bottom of the heap crawlS
the stool pigeon, getting tips from
the barber, the hash-slinger, the
push-cart peddler, or any one else
low enough to spread the muck,
tracking girls into cheap lodging
houses, quizzing janitors and re-
porting what he finds to those MEM
bers of the vice squad who are so
degraded as not only to be willing
to listen, but to pay.
The character of evidence OBJ
tanned cuts little figure, the all
important question being whether
the girl has some dough, and
whether she can be scared into CIV
inc il I'D
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Baby's Water Needs Are Great

deal of waste material to be put
out. The waste matter is not put
out in solid form, but is dissolved
and water is required for this pur-
pose.
OF all the water taken in, about
so to so per cent goes out through
the kidneys; 80 to IS per cent by
evaporation from the skin and the
lungs, and to 10 per cent by way
of the bowels.
Some 2 per cent is retained in the
body to carry on the necessary
chemical interchanges.
Obviously, various external condi-
tons can influence greatly the con-
troll of the water. If the room is
hot, an excess amount of water has
to be evaporated from the skin to
maintain the temperature Of the
body at normal.
If the child cries great deal and
exercises its limbs, the amount of
water lost from the skin and the
lungs is increased.
If it has diarrhea for any of the
reasons that have been mentioned
in this series, the amount of water
lost from the bowels may equal or
actually exceed the amount of fluid
taken in.
If vomiting results because of in
lection or any other reason, water
taken by mouth may be returned
promptly and be of no benefit to
the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
Scarface Al,s Daddy

To separate AL Capone from prohibition is impos-
sble. Prohibition violation is Capone's business
When President Hoover tells the states and
tiles to attend to their Capones he is in effect
telling them to enforce prohibition-whch the fed
eral government has been unable to do.
AS long as there are millions Of decent American
citizens who want to buy liquor, there will be men
to produce and sell it. If it can not be sold legally
it will be sold Illegally. And if it must be sold ieg-
ally, racketeering is the inevitable result Such
racketeering involves not only the colorfu Capones
but the corrupt politicians from whom they buy i'm
munty.
Certainly the President is right in refusing to
burden the federal government with the local problem
of racketeerng control, which Washington should not
handle and could not if it would.
But if the federal government, can not help the
states it at least stop hindering them It stop
passing unenforceable laws which create armies
Of racketeers preying upon local communities 1t can
repeal prohibition, which is Scarface AIS daddy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29

Finally, if for any reason the
rate of breathing is increased great
ly, as occurs in pneumonia or in
severe conditions of acidosis, the
amount of water lost by way OF
the lungs is increased greatly.
The average normal infant fed
by it's mother on the breast should
receive throughout the first year
of it's life about 21a ounces Of water
for each pound of its body weight
each day.
Thus, the infant weighing 1C
pounds should receive 25 ounces Of
water. This takes care of its needs
when there is hot weather, diarrhea
or vomiting.
In the case of artificial feeding
the proteinS and salts in the diet
are usually higher and there is in
creased elimination, so that more
water is required in order to take
care of the output from the kidney
Extra amounts of water may BIZ
given to infants between feelings
to supply any reasonable needs.
A small excess of water will not
produce any serious disturbance
but too much water given with food
will interfere with it's absorption
because the size of the cavity OF
the stomach is limited.
If the material given to the in
FAINT is diluted too greatly, it will
vomit or in other ways get rid OF
the excess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
The Rattle Gets Hot

The federal water power act is under fire. If it
is not to be blown from the statute books, des-
perate fight must be made in its behalf.
The fight viii not be made by the federal power
commission the logical defender Of the act Instead
the power commission has written into its annual
report the discredted doctrine that control over
water power developments is primarily response
bility of the individual states"
That doctrine was rejected ten years ago, when
congress found state control of power resources was
inadequateeven before the day Of large interstate
power movements and holding companies.
The fight will not be made by the United States
encouragement, another logical defender of the
law He wrote an opinion two months ago in which
he made the FIRST public suggestion that the consti-
nationality Of the power act might be questioned.
II was not long after this that the Clarion River
Power Company went to court for an injunction to
tie the hands of the federal power commission and
the Appalachian Electric Power Company said it
would build power plant without license from the
commission if it could not secure license free OF
all regulation
The fight will not be made by the President OF
the United States While secretary of commerce, he
said: private utilities should be left free from
hampering restrictions" There most weighty
reasons against federal regulation" "rhe growing
encroachment Of federal power threatens disaster"
Il can imagine no more profound invasion of state
sovereignty than the substitution Of federal for state
control of electric utilities
Hoover will select the members of the new fed
eral power commission.
There remain only the members of congress who
have devoted so much time and thought to protect
ing the public in this matter, the scattered public
servants like Solicitor Russell of the power commits
sion and the hundreds Of men and women outside
the government who spent SO many years working
for the federal water power act
The power commissions annual report is defiant
notice that the legal guardians of the law are arrayed
against the law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29

Editor Times-Senator Sheppard,
accredited author of the Eighteenth
amendment, must have had a good
time with the w. c. T. U. ladies
down in Texas. He still is so proud
of his child and its playfellows, the
Volstead act, that he tells these good
w. c. T. U. ladies that chose who
violate or help to violate one law
today eve suppose the VolStead
law), can not be heard to complain
if the burglar or the murderer en-
tiers their home tomorrow under
claim of equal rights to violate an
other law"
The dear senator's English might
be open to different interpretations,
but we suppose, being addressed to
these ladies, he intended them to
believe he meant that it is just as
great a crime to buy or sell a drink
of liquor as it would be for some one
to rob his home or to murder him
self or one of his family.
Shame on you, senator. for so de-
ceiving these good people. We are
quite sure you were kidding them,
but we are just as sure they enjoyed
the kidding, SC, you may have been
justified in giving them so much
happiness. The senator also quite
exhausts the English language in
describing the evils of alcoholic
drink.
And again the ladies, no doubt,
clapped and cheered. Many Of us
who personally are as dry or it may
be, dryer than the senator, will in
dorse his views on the evils Of alco-
holic drink as a beverage, although
it perhaps will not be necessary for
us to use such breath taking words,
since we are not addressing the
ladies.
The truth is, that a highly organ
lied minority led by the Anti
Saloon League, the w. c. T. u. and
kindred organizations mas been
dominating our elections and in
timidating our lawmakers, both
state and national. Instead of a
democracy, we have had a dictator
ship.
If it simply was deciding that
alcoholic drink as beverage is an
evil, we are sure the verdict would
easily be in the affirmative. So far
the senator surely is right, but it is
not as simple as that.
The people resent the invasion Of
their personal rights; the killing Of
innocent people or those who have
committed small offenses; the i'm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29

of these subjects There are innumerable religious
hours from daybreak until bedtime. One of our great
religious organizations gives much Of its time the
air to denunciation of divorce birth control and
modern views of sex.
Patriotism is extolled and paciflsn derided by
eminent defenders of our public safety The virtues
Of capitalism, general and specific, daily pointed
out with thoroughness and deep conviction.
SO it would seem that controversy on the air
means the progressive views religion, SEX peace
and the economic order. Clarence Darrow can not
talk against religion, but DR.. Cadman may speak for
it, Less than half dozen stations in the United
States will allow birth control to be presented in
the most general terms by those sympathetic with the
movement.
break through this barrier But there seems to be
objection to the most vigorous denuncation of birth
control over the most famous stations Pac1sts have
had their talks cut short when they have been able
to get the air at ALL but there is no record of turning
of valiant patrioteer. Communism frequently is
saulted but no eminent Communist resident in this
country seems to have been invited to defend the
Russian experiment.
Radio is one of the great intellectual and cultural
forces in the world today. 1t not afford to link
itself up with any single faction. It must not tai
itself with any brush.
1t serves the whole American public and this public
deserves information and guidance on all subjects
perhaps most of all these very subjects which today
are branded AMI barred as controversial"
To compel anybody to listen to doctrines he abhors
would be unfortunate But to prevent any sane
from listening to vital problem in which he is inter-
ested is more defensible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
REASON BY FR IaSDiS

THERE'S very intimate relationship between the
Il thermometer and crime, and as the red line
goes down the tube you may look for more and
more strong arm methods to separate man from
his substance.
The Mississippi Valley states are right in their
insistence that work be started on waterways, and
while are this subject, let us rise to remark
that in the light of unemployment. it would be a
good idea to start to dig a few reservoirs, in con-
nection with contemplated Mississippi flood relief
In nation, the size Of this, there should always
be enough great public improvement projects to give
employment to those who can't get it elsewhere.
We have the national need for the improvements,
but we have not the machinery to start the ball
rolling.
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THIS next session Of congress could start the work
with the approval of The President, construction
could be begun on flood prevention projects that
would take hundreds of thousands out Of bread lines
and put them to work Charity Is better than Moth
ing, but 1t is next to nothing.
The idea of building several great trans-conti-
mental highways unquestionaby is sound, and we are
going to do it some day. If eventually why not
now, when the work is needed so Sorely.
Mr.. RaSkob didn't originate this idea, you know;
it has been urged upon the government for the last
twenty years.
Some day. not far in the future We viii have pave
ments from Atlantic to Pacific at intervals, all the
way from the northern to the southern boundary,
which, Of course, will not any additional pros
perity to the railroads, but by that time they prob
ably win be in the trucking business on scale COM
mensurate with the opportunity.
DUT the main thing now is to furnish work for
II those who not live without 1t, for the world
owes every one chance to exist and If the world
denies OF fails to furnish this chance the result is
crime and Communism for Laws and flags have little
n1pressiyeness for the man whose children cold
and hungry.
And in the meantime the immigration gates should
be slammed shut and kept shut until every fellow
In this country has job, and they should not then
be opened until there is assurance Of work for
the newcomers.
SO far IS We are concerned personally, they can
keep the gates closed for long time to come.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
NJ. E. Tracy

Humanity" Has Sunk to the
Last Depths of Depravity
in the "Skakedo1Cn' of In
nocent Women IN Neio
York.
CROOKED as he may be, there
~ still is something robust about
the racketeer who makes hard
boiled bootleggers his dirty work, or
gets control Of city government
by putting It's ward-heelers on his
pay roll.
So, too, there is something robust
about the cop who shakes down
dives, speakeasies, and gambling
dens which those higher up oblige
him to protect.
Both take their lives in their
hands. Though criminal and cor
rupt, they still possess some qualities
which one can find it possible to
admire.
But when it comes to these Peep
ing Toms who sell what they see
through the keyhole, and to those
lawyers and court officials who
divide the loot, with them, one looks
in vain for that spark of manhood
which generally survives, no matter
how rotten or depraved the mind.
An element of brutal courage has
served to soften the shock Of AL
Capone's conquest of Chicago, and
an element of financial shrewdness
has helped to relieve the ugly dis
closures with regard to judges and
magistrates who have been run of
the New York bench, but this latest
revelation lacks even so much as
single drop of red blood to. color
the filth.
Officers in uniform, lawyers under
oath, representatives of the pros
ecutor's Office, professional bonds
men and stool pigeons divide loot
which would make a pirnp blush.
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CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH


Nov. 20
ON Nov. %, 177S. the British cap
~ tured Savannah, Ga, in their
successful expedition into the south
during the Revolutionary war.
Despairing, after Burgoyne'S sur
render in Saratoga, of winning sue
cess in the north, the British de-
cided to concentrate in the extreme
south and conquer the country by
cutting off one state after another
A British detachment sent by boat
from New York and another already
stationed IN Georgia, combined to
subdue Savannah.
After the city was taken, many OF
the colonistS, pleased by treatment
accorded them by their conquerors,
flocked in great numbers to British
standards.
Georgia subsequently was con-
quered and royal Governor rein
stated. The following year the
Americans, under General Lincoln
tried to capture Savannah, but
were defeated with heavy losses.
Not long after this Sir Henry
Clinton conducted a British! expe-
dition against Charleston, ard cap
tured the city with Lincoln and his
whole army.
When Gates, with a new Ameri-
can army, sought TO retrieve the
south from the British, he. too, was
defeated badly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
The Public VIII Act

WHETHER we have struck bot
w tom or not, housekeeping OBJ
viously is in order, and if consti-
tuted authority has become so cor
irupt, weak, or immobile that it CAM
attend to it, the public will.
One need only recall what oc-
Cured in New Orleans some forty
years ago, or in San Francisco some
seventy-fve years ago, to realize
where we are headed if those re-
sponsible for law enforcement and
the administration of justice con-
tinue to dawdle.
Though nationwide in scope, this
compound of lawleSsness and degeh-
eracy represents the same problem
that frontier communities, mining
camps, and oil boonls produce. II
there is no other alternative, it will
be met in ways they found it neces-
sary to adopt.
We don't want that, don't want
vigilance committees, mobs and bar
rel-head convictions, but if the Law
can't handle the situation, what else
is there to expect?
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Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TIME average adult should take
Il seven glasses of water day,
the usual rule being a glass on aris-
ing, a glass before going to bed, a
glass at each meal, and glass be-
tween each meal. In addition to
that, much water is taken in the
food.
The water requirement of an in
FAINT is high; in fact, about three
times that of grown up, The rea-
son for this high water require
ment is that the infant is carrying
ON much more activity in it's It's
sues, because of its rapid rate of
growth.
Furthermore, in the infant, the
output of heat is greater in pro-
portion to its weight than that of a
grownup individual.
The heat is removed from the
body chiefly by evaporation of water
and, therefore, more water is re-
quired.
Large amounts of food taken in
require constant circulation Of
water from the blood to The in
testines and back again, to take
care of digestion and absorption of
the food constituents.
Furthermore, since so much food
material is taken in, there is a great
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
Share in Shame

INNOCENT or guilty, she is
il dragged into court. Then comes
the lawyer for his share, the pro-
fessionai bondsmen for his share
the representative of the prosecu-
tors Office for his share, and a
fifth person." who remains to be
identified.
Thus we come to the dregs Of an
era, to the settings of a noble ex-
pertinent, to the last word in human
depravity, as made possible by or
gained vice and political corrup-
ton.
The hootch business, it seems
with all its expansion, has failed to
provide loot enough to go arc nd,
while the warped mentality bred by
protected crime has sunk so low
that nothing is too vile to appeal
to it.
The one consoling feature of the
mess is that the human imagina-
ton thus far has failed to con-
ceive anything worse, which war
rants the hope that we have struck
bottom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
When Is Controversial Talk Controversial?

When Is controversial TAX controversial!
It is an announced policy OF most of the great
broadcasting companies to exclude controversial"
material from the air.
This raises the interesting question of what is
controversial" Interpreted in any literal sense such
ruling would prevent Floyd Gibbons from lecturing
the wonders Of the General Electric Laboratory This
involves electro-physics and today there is fierce
controversy raging over che latest electro-physcal
theories of the atom.
But the controversial is in practice limited to
controversy over social doctrines Even here there
no Mteralness Politics is discussed openly over the
air yet there is plenty Of controversy here.
For all practical purposes. the test OF "controver
sa on the radio runs pretty close to the primitive
conception Of taboo. Those things controversial
which are subversive OF conservative opinion and in
sttutionsi in religion. sex. patriotism. and
economic system.
yet there Is plenty Of talk over the air on all four
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month 481 men have been sent TO
us by the police department, and
cur own office has been given free
beds. The hotel will be able to
collect 35 cents each for one-third
Of this number only-the remainder
-305 beds-will show no income
whatsoever. The hotel operates for
men who can pay a little and do
not care to have their names on a
charity list.
In addition to this, men who have
no money are cared for to our ca
pacity, to the best of our ability. The
hotel is open twenty-four hours a
day, and all day and into the morn
ing hours men come to us and are
welcome to such warmth and shelter
as we can give. Mr.. Smith might
tell where he got his misinforma-
ton. MALCOLM SALMOND,
Manager.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29

What bureaus are consolidated
into the veterans bureau by the re-
cent act of congress? What IS the
new bureau called?
BY act Of congress Of July 8, 1880
the bureau of pensions, the national
home for disabled volunteer soldiers
and the United States veterans bu-
reau were consolidated into an
establishment to be known as the
veterans administration under the
supervision Of the administrator Of
veterans affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29

Following is the explanation Of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not,
which appeared in Fridays
Times:
The Hunger Rock of Germany
The famous "Hungerstein" in
the River Elbe, near Tetscher.
= Germany, has lived up to its evil
omen since 1417. when a low
level OF the river first was record
ed. The legend attached to it is
that when the waters of the Elbe
fall to a record low level, hard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29

ships are sure to follow. In 1918
the waters of the river sank again
to the lowest mark in the history
Of the "Hungerstein," and the
fortunes of the German people
reached their lowest ebb in that
year, thus justifying once more
the sinister prediction of the rock.
Observation-Disclosures, who
lived in the fifth century, B. c.,
is considered a model Of antique
virtue and simplicity. When the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-29
Times Readers Voice Their Views

priSonment for life for selling a
small quantity of liquor; the snoop-
ing and spying into their homes;
the hiring of ex-convicts as investi-
eating agents; the breeding of gang
sters and boetleggers and its re-
sulting evils.
One in authority in Indianapolis
tells. us that almost every block in
the city has from one to many boot
leg joints selling either home brew
or liquor or both. A police chief Of
one of our reputable Indiana. cities
tells us that home brew is made in a
thousand homes. When the ingredi-
entS to make home brew cost less
than cents for quart of the brew
which sells for so cents, and when
the people generally are Indifferent
to this condition, what may we ex-
pect? The answer is that the law
is unenforceable; that police will
wink at the conditions.
The Wright bone dry law is dis
grace to Indiana Will the dictators
be able to intirnidate our legislature?
Under many tests it has been shown
that the people are opposed TO the
liquor laws as they now stand. I'M
less these good fanatics rub the film
from their eyes and look at the con-
ditions sanely, we will lose all the
gain in temperance made in the last
fifty years.
| Congress may be dry, but the peo-
pie are wet. Are our law makers
going to represent the people or will
they be intimidated by the dicta-
tors? The people will stand much,
but unless our nonrepresentative law
makers take heed. they viii be re-
tired to private life.
STRICTLY TEMPERATE.
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