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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Don't Blame Macdonald

Ramsay Macdonald has been subjected to some
pretty heavy lambasting in the last few weeks
pacifs in his personal philosophy, he has been de-
nounced for acquiescing the disarmament asco at
London It is said that he should have insisted on
cutting down all ravies Failing in this, he should
have condemned the supporters of ornaments in no
uncertain terms.
Even more bitter has been the criticism leveled
against him for permitting the falling OF Gandhi.
A. j. Music chairman of the Conference for Progress
sve Labor Action has this to say about Macdonald;
For Ramsay Macdonald who dozen years ago
was hunted by mobs through British cities for his
opposition to war now to throw great pacist
into jail and to countenance violent measures for
breaking up a campaign of non-violence marks the
breakdown o. an outstanding personality and leaves
his friends Towerless to say word in his defense
Such criticism is unfair when directed against Mac
Donald the British prime minister. 1t shows mis-
understanding OF the way in which foreign affairs are
conducted III England. The premier is far from
absolute in British foreign policy.
Active control is delegated to the foreign minister
But in actual practice the foreign secretary is guided
if not controlled, by the permanent bureaucracy of
the foreign ONCE and the diplomatic service Cabi-
nets and ministers frequently change Foreign affairs
must be carried OF with continuity. AS Robert Night
ineale says in an authoritative article in The
RealiSt:
Just as parliament has delegated foreign affairs
tary so the foreign secretary is compelled by the
pressure Of business delegate an increasing
ton Of bis authority to his chief permanent ocaIa
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
A DipIOnat for Geneva

Apuointment of Prentiss B. Gilbert as American
consul at Geneva to handle affairs relating 10 tne
League of Nations is significant.
Gilbert is one of the outstanding men in our pro-
fessona diplomatic service He has brilliant record
at the state department and in foreign conferences
T7olloUinq his service as chief in the military IN
telipence division he acted for four years as chief
of the division of political economic intelligence
f the state department Since then he has been as
sistant and acting chief of the western European
division
President Hoover has made more political appoint
nents to major foreign posts than any PresloenV
since Taft This has lowered the morale OF the pro-
fessional service and has weakened American rep
resentation abroad Recently the President replaced
a professional diplomat in the difficult Ottawa post
with a second-rate politician
Cilbert's appointment encourages the foreign
service officers to hope that Hoover has not entirely
forgotten their prior claim and their superior equip
ment for such posts.
Moreover in raising the status of the American
contact official with the League of Nations from VICE
consul to consul and diplomatic secretary, WaShlng-
ton is beginning to take a realistic position
It is not question of slipping the United States
into the league through the back door. That could
not be done. and no responsible washington official
wants to do it. But there is great deal of abso-
lutelv necessary contact between Washington and
the league. Last year we participated IN many al
ferent league conferences ard commissions, cnlety
on technical or humanitarian subjects
EFFICIENCY requires that this increasingly impor-
tant work be in charge of able and experienced
professional diplomatic officer. Gilbert is one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
A IIninn That Wins

At time when many labor unions are languishing
or dropping back the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers successfully organizes the Philadelphia field and
plans to organize the Baltimore field; prepares to
clinch the present fortyfour-hour week and to ask
for the forty-hour week when present agreements
expire.
Why is this union so unusually successful?
BECAUSE 1T is MORE MILITANT FOR THE
RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS THAN THE AVER
AGE UNION and at the same time is more intelll-
gently and earnestly interested in the business success
Of the employers.
To reconcile union miitancy and business prosper
1T. is a Job which takes big man. The AmaAga-
mated has such a man in its farSighted president
Sidney Hillman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ
Saturn Shines Noa0 With
Warm, YeIIot0ish Light;
Venus and Jupiter Are
White, Mars Is Red.

TN the twilight these evenings,
4 Jupiter and Venus shine with
brilliant white color. Jupiter is low
in the western sky and sinks below
the horizon soon after the sun.
Venus is higher in the western
sky and so keeps the earth COM
pany for another hour or so after
Jupiter has disappeared.
Then the sky is left without plan
cts until midnight, when Saturn
rises majestically over the eastern
horizon. Slowly the planet ascends
the eastern sky, IT'S brilliance in
creasing, until at about a. m. it is
directly overhead.
BY that time, ruddy Mars also
has appeared upon the eastern
horizon and begun it's climb into
the sky. And so Saturn and Mars
hold sway until the rising sun dims
their light and the light of the
stars.
Saturn shines with a warm, yell
lowish light, contrasting with the
white of Venus and Jupiter and the
red of Mars.
The ancients regarded the yell
Iowish color of Saturn with a sus-
picious eye, feeling that the planet
exercised baneful influence upon
the affairs of men.
Today, astronomers regard Saturn
as an object OF great interest be-
cause of it's marvellous system of
rings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

cidental to fatigue, worry or hard
work.
If the child tends to be of this
body structure, the parents may do
lnuch for it by early education in
posture and by proper control OF, its
general hygiene and diet.
The information has been widely
circulated for many years that the
chief cause of a rheumatic attack is
infection al. the roots of the teeth or
the tonsils. Not all people who have
infection at the roots of the teeth or
in the tonsils have rheumatism, but
many people who have rheumatism
have infection at the roots of the
teeth and in the tonsils.
Obviously there are other factors
besides the possibility of the germ
getting into the blood and locating
in the joints.
If such persons diet is bad, if
his general hygiene is bad, if he is
of body type that tends toward
rheumatic infection, the germ is
more likely to set up disturbance
than in a person not SO afflicted.
Doctor Penberton emphasizes
particularly the Importance OF rest
for the rheumatic type.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Violations Count

1T is a false theory that law en-
b. forcement can be measured by
the number of arrests.
What really counts is the num-
Der of violations.
Violations can become so COM
mon as to make law imperative,
no matter how many arrests are
made.
There are few states without blue
laws violated every Sunday, if not
every day in the week.
Ordinary intelligence suggests
that they ought to be repealed, but
instead we let them die by process
Of notification.
1t looks as though that were what
we are going to do with the
eighteenth amendment and Vol
stead act
The method is easy and effective
especially for politicians, but it Id
it's :isks. Some of those risks are
revealed in the rise of the gang
spirit and the spread of corruption.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

a NYONE with a pain, ache, or
4 n trouble anywhere in his bones,
muscles, or joints is likely to say
that he has rheumatism.
Arthritis is the scientific word for
pain in a joint. It may, of course,
be rheumatism involving muscles
and not localized in the joints.
DR.. Ralph Pimberton has de-
scribed iii Hygeia two types of
arthritis-one affecting people par
ticularly at and below mid-life,
which runs Gripping and devas-
tating course; the other affecting
people beyond middle life and likely
to be little milder.
While rheumatic constitutions are
not inherited, apparently the body
structure or makeup which is rheu-
matte runs in families. Pemberton
describes the rheumatic type as
people with fiat chests, weak backs
and prominent abdomens who do
not stand the strain and stress in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Over the Presidents Veto
CFrOm the St. Louis starr

st. Louis Starr
President Hoover'S veto of the Spanish war vet
Grams pension bill was based details which could
have been and should have been remedied by brief
remodeling. Mr. Hoover had agreed to a tentative
compromise. Yet both house and senate passed the
bill over his veto. Why?
Apparently the repasSing of the bill intended to
express congressional opinion of the leadership Mr..
Hoover has offered during the last year. 1t no
ication by two-thirds majority that senators and
congressman will pay less attention to the White
House in the future than in the past.
If Mr.. Hoover wants to regain control Of the sit
uation there is only possible way for him to do
it. That is by veto of the tariff bill. He would
find his position amazingly altered if he gathered up
enough to follow his inner convictions regard
ing the Smoot- Hawley bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Law Not Enforced
THINGS have come to a poll

THINGS have come to a point
4 where judges, district attorneys,
and peace officers haven't time
enough to read the law, much less
to enforce it.
Scarcely day goes by but what
sore responsible official or learned
attorney is found to have forgotten
something.
Isidor Gottlieb, Sing Sing con-
vict, studies law during his first
eighteen months of confinement,
discovers that the court has made
mistake, appeals for a rehearing,
and gets 20 per cent reduction in
his sentence.
The average criminal has learned
to do his studying beforehand or
hire a lawyer to do it for him. and
organization makes the program
effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

CHARLIE CHAPLIN had been
~ the idol of the masses for six
or seven years before he was dis
covered by the intellectuals. Little
journals of opinion acted as if they
were possessed Of extraordinary acu-
men in detecting the artistry of this
man who was, after all, motlon
picture actor.
Little journals generally are
amazed to find that merit can actu-
ally exist in anything which COM
mands wide popularity.
Critics gravely distrust all books
which sell above hundred thou
sand or plays which run more than
six months. Marc Connolly is be-
ginning to feel this heavy hand of
second thought in regard to his
play, 1.-THE Green Pastures"
Nothing in twenty years began
with such a hearty welcome from
both newspaper and periodical re-
viewers. But once the Pulitzer prize
had been bestowed and the ticket
SPECTATOR began to demand heavy
advances for orchestra seats, the
rumor grew up among the intellec-
tuals that there must be something
wrong in the entertainment.
For the most part this carping
has taken the form of naive no
ton that Mr.. Connolly made a play
by the simple process Of FASTING up
a certain number of lines from
Roark Bradford's book, "Old Man
Adam and His Chillun."
It seems to me extraordinary that
there should be SO much turmoil
about the division of credit. Surely
if Mr.. Bradford has been sighted
in the venture he well might be ex-
pected to make the complaint. Since
nothing has come from that quarter,
it seems fair to assume that his in
terests have been in no way sighted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

might we'll be called the first radio
novel. The fact that it enthralls a
nightly audience of many million is
not necessarily against it.
Indeed, think it shows that the
new art form has potency at least
in its favor. Whether it can also
be made to include subtlety, beauty,
and emotion remains to be seen.
I speak as one who takes great
delight in the work of Amos and
Andy. The material seems to me
excellent and the performance adj
mirable. Not, you understand,
would I contend that the dramatic
material presented over the air is
actually a searching study of Negro
life and character. 1t is farced a
whole scale above reality.
Yet, there is undoubted contact
with the world in which we live. Out
of the vast audience there are many
who accept the various characters
as living, breathing persons. Only
the other day I was startled when
a young woman Of high degree of
intelligence remarked: Wasn't it
pity that the S o S had to come
last night?"
And when I asked her "why?" she
said with all seriousness, lit was
the evening that Ruby Taylor was
coming to town."
1t is well to make the point that
Amos and Andy are not putting on
one of those fearful things called a
radio play.
Only an audacious critic would
be bold enough to say that drama
never may be done effectively over
the air, but I am willing to COM
NIT myself to the statement that it
has not been done as ye' At least
not on the night when was listen
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Resemblance

EXCEPT for the rings, Saturn
Il resembles Jupiter in many
ways. Jupiter, it will be recalled,
is the big brother of the solar sys-
tenn, having diameter of 86,720
miles.
Saturn is the next in size, having
an average diameter of 1880 miles.
Saturn is even more f1attened at the
poles than is Jupiter. The equatorial
diameter of Saturn is $4,000 miles,
while the polar diameter is only
$1,000.
Like Jupiter, Saturn is marked
with number of belts or bands
parallel to the equator. These are
believed to be clouds.
AS in the case Of Jupiter, bright
spots occur occasionally on the
planet and then disappear from
view again.
Saturn is believed to rotate upon
its axis once in ten hours and thir-
ty-six minutes.
Study of the rings Of Saturn con-
vinces astronomers that they are
composed of millions of small
chunks of rock, revolving around
the planet and adhering to the ring
shaped formation.
The rings are three in number.
The innermost one is OF dusky
color and is known as the crepe
ring. The crepe ring is about 1000
miles wide, the central ring 10000
and the outer ring 10000.
The diameter of the outer ring,
that is the distance from one edge
of the outer ring through the center
of the planet to the opposite edge,
is 10000 miles.
In addition to the rings, Saturn
has nine moons. The planet is 1885,
100000 miles from the sun and
completes one revolution about the
sun in 1914 years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Waste of Money

CPEAKING of prohibition, federal
- dry agents have made $1,000
arrests since the beginning Of the
year, and have captured 1900 stills
and distilleries.
In April alone, 5,912 persons were
arrested and 2,075 stills and distil-
leries were seized, not to mention
$4,000 gallons of malt liquor, $4,000
gallons of distilled spirits, and ITO
automobiles.
Such figures would be vastly more
impressive if any one with a real
thirst had experienced difficulty in
satisfying it.
Since no one has made such a
report, the figures stand for about
SO much useless waste of time and
money,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
A Comic Strip

Amos and Andy are offering to
their public continued story. If
you don't like the phrase radio
novel" it might be described as a
radio comic strip"
But this is lodging the question.
fer many commentators already
have noted the fact that the news
paper comic strip is departing
rapidly from its old manner. The
old-style structure of a brief con-
versation, a quip, a blow and pow
has all but gone.
Today the more popular strips
nave heroes and her0ines. Charac
tiers are marooned on desert islands,
20 into business. fail. fall. in love
and fall out again Indeed many OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Something to Fear

THERE is little danger as long
L as notification is brought about
by apathetic majorities, but when
organized ninorities get to work,
look outl
That is one of the problems we
face in this country and it is not
one of the least important.
While prohibition has done a great
deal to aggravate it, it originated in
the slothful custom of piling up
mountains of new laws without re-
pealing those that had become OBJ
solete.
Bootlegging may have taught the
criminal fraternity how to get to-
gether and how to obtain the money.
but back of that was the slovenly
extravaganza with which we have
permitted laws to accumulate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's believe It or Not which
appeared in Wednesdays Times:
Sword Swallowers Can Swallow
a Red-hot Sword-The feat of
swallowing a red-hot sword is &C
companied by swallowing the scab-
bard first, and then inserting the
red-hot blade into it. The sword
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
M. E. Tracy
The Huge Number of Vol
stee:ss Arrests Stand for
jus. So Mach Money and
Time Wasted.
SAYS:

ENGLAND may be hard up, but
H the derby brings out its usual
100000.
India may be boiling with zeal
for independence and opposition to
British rule. but Aga Khan, Million
aire leader of the Mohammedans,
enters a horse in the race and is
cheered when he wins.
Bishop Cannon may have raised a
great issue in refusing to tell the
senate committee about his anti
Smith campaign. but not such a
great issue as to bring out quorum
on the second day.
Freylinghuysen, Republican can
didate for senatorial nomination in
Jersey, may be honest in demand
ing that Dwight w. Morrow, one of
his two opponents, meet all issues,
but most people will take 1t to mean
that he doesn't want to talk pro-
hibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
TT SEEMS TO ME By HR REogS

them are not in the least comic
nor so intended.
And my admiration for Amos and
Andy is much whetted by the fact
that their humor has almost no re-
lations to "gas."
Save for rather heavy indebted
iiess to the fun of diSpronunciation
the laughter arises naturally out Of
character and situation.
am wondering what may come
out of this. 1t may be that in an
other ten or twenty years even one
dollar books will be much too ex-
pcnsive. Possibly in that day the
radio will be regarded as the nor
ma vehicle of any author who has
u story to tell.
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

When they are made to breathe
air more frequently, or when placed
in shallow lakes with wave-washed
shores, they make the transforma-
ton into an adult salamander, and
are capable of reproduction in their
adult state.
Friday: One man has been ar
rested 1,OO1 times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Calico

A PAIR of prism binoculars will
N reveal that there is something
unusual about Saturn. They will
show Saturn in approximately the
way Calico saw it when he built his
little telescope and turned it upon
the heavens for the first time in
1910.
Calico could not make out the
rings 1t looked to him as though
the planet had a triple body, con-
sisting of large planet with a
smaller one upon either side
But to Galileo's great surprise
the appendages grew smaller and
smaller during the next few years
and finally disappeared entirely
from view.
Later, the appendages returned
to view, but continued to perplex
Calico and others, for no instru-
ment of the day was powerful
enough to reveal the true situation.
1t was not until 1865 that Huy-
ghens succeeded in making out the
true nature Of the rings. Beset by
the desire to obtain credit for his
discovery, and yet not being sure of
it, he published his discovery in the
form of an anagram, or word puzzle,
revealing the nature of the anagram
later.
The reason the rings had dis
appeared from view was that, due
to the motion of the planet, Saturn
got into a position where the rings
were presented edgewise to the
earth.
At such times, due to the extreme
thinness of the rings, they dis
appeared completely from view. This
is true, even today, in the most
powerful telescope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
How NeXDONu
HnOW'NW.RIhh2
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. Who made the golden calf and
who destroyed it?
2. Finish the quotation, "a good
name is rather to be chosen y
8. What king of Israel was slain
as he was drinking himself drunk?'
(. What is the source of the
phrase, 1.-THE powers that be?"'
5. What weapons did David use
against Goliath?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
l. Peter, Peter 81.
2. Holiness to the Lord" Ex-
odus 1886.
8. Jealousy is cruel as the
grave" Song of Solomon SO.
4. JOB; Job 1925.
5. Fourteen years; Genesis 90:
1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

What are the prescribed weights,
heights and ages for enlistment in
the marine corps?
To enlist in the United States ma
rines one must be a native born or
naturalized citizen of the United
States; not less than feet inches,
nor more than feet inches in
height; weight not less than 1913
pounds, nor more than 240 pounds;
not less thar 10 or more than 40
years of age for enlistment as pri-
vate: able tc speak, read and write
the English language with ease; no
one wholly dependent upon him for
support; of good health and strongly
built and not given to the use Of
liquor or drugs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Discovering Others

nUT this is a depression. from my
D chief curiosity. I am wonder
ing how long it will take the intel
lectuals to discover Amos and Andy.
The boys, to be sure, are not pre-
cisely obscure at the moment, but I
have yet to see their existence noted
or their worth evaluated by any Of
the serious thinkers.
And decidedly the highbrow pub
locations can not forever neglect
these entertainers, for here before
the esthetes a new art form is being
created in America.
And it seems to me that this is a
form deserving Of a future. Amos
and Andy are collaborating IN what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

must be removed before its heat is
impaired to the scabbard.
The Axolotl-The most eXtraordi-
nary thing about the axolotl is that
in it's native Mexican lakes it never
develops into an adult amblystoma.
yet it becomes sexually mature in
it's larval state, and is able to re-
produce when about six months old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

ideals and opinions expressed
n this column are those CO
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 paDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05
Daily Thought

And they shall bear the punish
ment of their iniquity; the pun
ishment of the prophet shall be
even as the punishment of him
that seeketh unto him.-Hzelnel
14:10.
There is no greater punishment
of wickedness than that it Is dis
satisfied with itself and its deeds
Seneca.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

The statistician who said that the average Ameri-
can takes 1seos steps day must have found it be-
yond him to compute the number of jumps the aver
age pedestrian takes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

Farmers near Fl Salisbury, Del, asked the COM
mandant there to stop gunrng to protect their tlr-
Key eggs from cracking AS if the soldiers didn't have
shells of their own to worry about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-05

What is harpiscOrd?
It resembles a piano but the
strings are plucked by quilts moved
by finger keys.