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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
The Jewish Holidays

Because bigotry is more blatant than tolerance ana
religious hatred too ugly to forget sometimes America
seems the most intolerant of nations. We listen to
the narrow-rninded sectarians who shout so loudly
and forget that in most communities of the country
Protestant Catholic and Jew living playing and
working side by side in mutual respect
Most Americans are happy in observing the spirit
as well as the letter of the constitutional provision
giving religious freedom equally to all.
In that spirit Christians greet Jews who now
observing their holy days Beginning yesterday with
Rosh Hashanah their new year day, the observance
will reach its height on Yom Kippur, their day of
atonement Oct l.
Expression of that American spirit Of religious
freedom and unity has been given this year by the
Federal Churches Of Christ in America in its mes
sage Of Rosh Hashanah greetings to the synagogue
council of America:
Jews and Christians alike share concern for
scunder morality and ever higher levels of attain
ment in personal character In the pursuit OF those
ends for which you are working through the syna-
gogue. and We are working through the churches,
earnestly wish for you another year crowned with
increasing success"
Americans Of every faith must appreciate the
great contribution which the Jewish people and lead
ers are making each year to national social hetter-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24

At 4:3794 the prisoner gave indi-
cation that he smelled the gas,
taking a very small inspiration. At
1873 he took a deep inspiration,
turning his head toward the gas
md giving a spasmodic cough.
His head fell forward and he be-
:ame unconscious.
Following this first deep inspira-
ton there was a complete stopping
Of the heart action for fifteen sec
onds. Then the heart began to beat
again irregularly, continuing thus
for fifteen seconds, when it became
regular and strong.
For two minutes nothing further
occurred, until the heart became
slower, beating 100 times a minute,
then 80 times a minute, and finally
after ten minutes the heart beats
were regular, but becoming weaker.
After eleven minutes the prisoners
heart stopped. The breathing dur
ing the same period of time was con-
vulsive and irregular and there was
not the slightest doubt that the
prisoner was completely unconscious
after the first deep breath.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
SCIENCE
Tests Fail to Uphold Chdl-
Ienger of Einstein Theory.
3Y DAEID DfETZ-

TESTS going on at Mt. Wilson
l. observatory in California IN
hope Of settling the dispute over the
Einstein theory serve to illustrate
the complexities of modern scientific
theories and the vast amount OF
care and work involved IN present.
day experimentation.
According to the Einstein theory,
it is impossible to detect the mo-
ton of the earth through the ether
of space. Einstein fret stated this
in his special theory Of relatively in
1905.
This theory was based on an ex-
pertinent performed in 1887 by Pro-
lessor Albert A. Nicholson and the
late Professor E. w. Morley. Mich
son and Morley, using an inter
.rometer, an instrument invented
by Nicholson, sought to- find proof
of the earth's motion around the
sun.
DR.. Dayton G. Miller, who sue
ceeded Nicholson as professor of
physics at Case School Of Applied
Science in Cleveland, did not agree
with Einstein's Interpretation Of the
NIichels on Morley experiment.
Shortly after the World war, DR..
Miller embarked upon a prolonged
series Of experiments to demonstrate
his belief that the interferometer
did give evidence of the earth's mo-
ton through the ether of space.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
Punish All the GniltY Ones

Mavor Sullivan Police Chief Kinney and the board
~ safety have acted with commemorate promptness in
starting their cleanup Of the police department Shit
ing of patrolmen in seventeen districts today shouo
be an effective first step in roofing out corruption
But it is only first short step and long road beset
with obstacles faces the city administration before It's
work is complete.
Eighteen members of the police force are accused
Of betraying their trust by taking protection money
from trafckers in liquor Determination OF the guilt
or innocence Of these men will not close the chapter
IF conditions in the city had reached such wide
open stage that eighteen men could fout the law
with little fear of exposure and punishment, 1t is
safe conclusion that many more involved in crook
edness The investigation must go from top to bot
tom These eighteen men only the FIRST draft"
From the general expression Of sentiment the pub
lie has confidence in Sullivan, Kinney and members
of the safety board. Some has been directed
at them-and it probably justifed-because CT the
proportions the corruption wave had assumed before
they realized its extent But prompt action to remedy
conditions and effective measures to insure punishment
of all the guilty ones will redeem them in the eyes
Of the public.
one danger always is present in a cleanup of this
kind and it must be stamped out at the start That
is political interference and wire pulling.
This cleanup should be conducted with every po-
tcaI factor eliminated. And that brings up the
stand of Prosecutor Stark who asserts that he has
been conducting an investigation for month and
contemplates action against a number of members
of the police department.
1t would appear that the city and federal author
tiles would be able to handle the situation with the
evidence that they have accumulated and still are
obtaining
If stark wishes to perform public service, 1t seems
that he could center his activities the county to far
better advantage Along with all protests against
wide-open city have come number of reports that
the lid was off in the county
If that is true, Stark's duty is clear. Let him be
as active and as prompt in remedying the situation as
the mayor and his co-workers are in cleaning up the
city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
Called "'Tony'S''
THE blunt answer to Mr.. Boards

ME olunt answer to Mr.. Boards
4 question must be, Anywhere
from sixty to seventy"
He has made a most unfortunate
choice of territory with which to
Illustrate the virtues of Volsteadism.
Here, at least, we are not talking Of
opinion.
If Mr.. Beard will come out of the
woods I will promise to show him
not less than 1000 saloons lying
between Fifty ninth street and the
Grand Central Station.
In all sincerity I can not pretend
to be one who mourns this mush-
room growth. I hope nobody ever
has interpreted my opposition to
Volsteadism as resting upon the
contention that the eighteenth
amendment does not work
It is true, of course, that the
eighteenth amendment does not
work, but that is merely incidental.
I would like it even less if it did
work.
Parisians of the wet cause are be-
ing asked now, "All right, but what
would you substitute for prohibi-
tion?" I have one simple regula-
ton which I would like to see in
corporated into the laws of the state
of New York once the amendment,
or the VolStead act, has been abol-
ished.
The statute which I have in mind
would read: mo license shall be
granted for the sale of alcoholic
liquors in any premises where men
and women are not received upon
an equal basis"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
Tide of Defiance Rises

Cautiously feeling their way, the politicians
gradually trying to escape from the clerical reign
Of terror that has made towards of them for the long
years during which the Apti-Saloon League and allied
organizations of professional prohibitonists have
ruled the American roost.
Since Dwight Morrow, Republican, blazed the trail
in New jersey courageously took his stand against
the eighteenth amendment, forced his party to take
the same stand and won Overwhelmingly in the pri
maries, others in both parties have mustered up
enough courage to favor repeal of the amendment.
But many of them are tinid about it-reaching
forward Gnto the future with one hand and holding
on to the past with the other. In Ohio, for ilustra
ton, the vets nominated the Democratic candidate
for senator, but the Democratic party nominated a
profesed dry for Governor and lodged the issue in
their platform.
With the Republican candidates for senator and
Governor bone dry. Ohio Democrats had
chance to sweep the state by going wet. But they
trimmed Nothing to gain by trimming, for the drys
will go along with the Republican ticket-as they
always have done. The truth is the Anti-Saloon
League has been essentially Republican from its
ganzation, and has made monkeys of the Democrats.
This year there are literally millions Of voters
throughout the country who going to vote for
vets without caring a darn what party ticket they
are running on In Ohio both Republican and Demo-
cratic vets will get back of Buckley, the Democrat,
for senator and care little about what happens to
the candidates for Governor.
The drys will be enthusiastic in their support OF
Governor Cooper for reelection, but there will be
no enthusiastic support of vets for George White
Democrat for Governor because he is betwiXt and
Between neither one thing another. Cooper is
a militant dry.
The Democratic opportunity in Ohio was IN get
ting back to jefferson and the bill of rights but their
candidate for United States senator is the only one
who has taken Jeffersonian stand and he likely will
be the next United States senator from Ohio. Be
cause of their tmid pussyfooting it doesn't make
much difference to liberal voters what happens to
the rest of the Democratic ticket.
Constitutional vets are mad clear through this
year They are sick and tired of prohibition. They
want that police ordinance known the eighteenth
amendment out of the Constitution and the regula-
ton of the liquor traffic left to the states where 1t
belongs.
The interesting thing about the evolution OF
American politics from now to the next presiden-
tia election is the race to see which party will be-
come the liberal party.
So far Dwight Morrow has given the Republican
party the jump He really is more popular right now
than Hoover is 1t is the difference between political
courage and pussyfootng tnnidity-or cowardice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
1T SEEMS TO ME BY. H EE997s

has been established. Drunkenness
is not common.
The old slogan, Shall we join the
ladies?" tends to disappear And
1 say, Good ridance." I never have
heard a new story or any interest
ing conversation during those inter-
ludes prescribed by Victorian pre-
cedent for the separation of the
sheep and goats.
If prohibition has played some
part in advancing the feminist
movement (and I feel that it has
this contribution should, in all Sc
riousness, be set down to it's credit.
If I am taxed with wanting to de-
bauch American womanhood I can
only answer that this is not the
idea. But I might add that if men
can he raised two steps by women
coming down quarter of a step
I'm all for the establishment of such
a common footing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24

TINE Christian Herald has been
4 running, recently, a series of
articles by famous drys on the
benefits of prohibition. Not long
ago I observed an interview with
Daniel Carter Beard, the 8O-year-
old founder of the Boy Scouts of
America.
Mr.. Beard has done valuable work
in so far as he has interested young
people in the fascination which
outdoor life can afford. But fear
that this venerable leader is him,
self too forest-bound to be familiar
with conditions as they exist in our
great cities.
For instance, I was startled to
find the old gentleman quoted as
saying: Il remember walking down
from Fifty-ninth street to the
Grand Central one day before the
war and counting nine saloons on
one side of the street. Heaven only
knows how many there were on the
other side! How many will you find
there noW?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
SuperStItiOn Rife

MEANWHILE, vast numbers Of
w Chinese are convinced that
things soon will take a turn and
most of them hope that it will be
a turn for the better.
Two grim portents have emerged
from the NAV Of inscrutable fate.
The first consists of nine mice
pitched together by one tail.
The second is a many-headed
dragon at the bottom Of a we'll.
According to Chinese law, such
monstroSf0es never appear save to
foreshadoW mOmentouS events.
According to western law. thew
either are mere freaks, or the prod
ucts of some fertile imagination.
Still, we weSterners are not suf-
ficiently emancipated from a be-
lief in the supernatural to discard
astrology.
Many Germans read the horo-
scope recently cast for DR.. Hitler.
head of the Fascist party. which
predicted his overthrow after a
spectacular rise to power during the
next three years, not only with deep
interest, but a disposition to credit
it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
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JOHN MARSHALL'S BIRTH
September "a

ON September "a, 1855, John
~ Marshall, most famous of
American juristS, and for thirty
four years chief justice of the
United States supreme court, was
born in Fauquier county, Virginia.
He attended an academy in West
moreland county and studied law
until the outbreak of the Revolu-
ton, when he entered the army as
a volunteer. He served in most of
the major battles and by the time
he reached % he already was a
captain
The war over, he returned to his
home town to practice law. He soon
rose to the head of the Virginia
bar.
He was a member of the Virginia
state legislature and of the state
convention that adopted the Consti-
tuition. In 1898, a year after he
had been sent to France as an en-
voy to help remove the restrictions
laid on American commerce, he was
elected to congress.
Two years later he was invited by
President Adams to become his Sec
rotary of war, but declined. He ac-
cepted, however, the position of
secretary of state, which he held for
short time.
In 1901 he was commissioned
chief justice of the supreme court.
His accession to the bench marks
not only a turning point in his life
but also in the legal and constitu-
tional history of the United States.
MarshalIs decisions on constitu-
tional questions established prece-
dents in the Interpretation Of the
Constitution that have been accept
ed ever since.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24

TIME MT. Wilson people have un-
dertalzar1 tn make q test of nr

TINE MT. Wilson people have I'M
i dertaken to make a test of DR..
Niller's results.
They made their first tests in 1926,
using an. interferometer of slightly
different design. This instrument
was mounted on heavy steel frame
so that the observer, instead of
walking around the instrument, rode
on it.
The experimenters felt that pc
riodic errors we're being caused by
the design of the apparatus and SO
it was changed.
These experiments gave no evil
dence of motion through the ether
such as Miller found, but the astron-
omers felt that the work was not
conclusive.
Another series Of experiments was
begun in 1927 in which the optical
parts of the interferometer were
mounted on a great cast-iron plate
weighing 1000 pounds.
Changes we're also made in the
optical system so that the light beam
was reflected into stationary eye
piece above the interferometer.
This enabled the observer to be
seated comfortably at all times.
Subsequently, number of
changes were made to improve and
refine the instrument. A series of
readings was made, extending from
october, 1927, to August, 1928.
These observations were subjected
to long mathematical analysis and it
now is announced that they do not
agree with Miller's results or sup
port his views.
The Mt. Wilson people are now
getting ready to try new series of
observations in which the interior
ometer will be kept in constant
temperature room.
A year or more will probably
elapse before q definite conclusion
is reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
Expensive Economy

Surely it is a short-sghted policy for the poSto1-
flee department to cut down its pay roll such time
as this in an attempt deficit into surplus
Such are the charges made against Postmaster-Gen-
eral Brown No men are being fired because they are
protected by civil service but there are deaths and
destinations and it is claimed that these vacancies
are not being filled.
The country also will view with dsfavor an at
tempt to raise its rst-class postage rates. 1t long
has been known that the postofice department does
not lose money on its frst-class postage.
A number Of other methods of reducing postal eX-
penses have been suggested. thorough examination
into rentals of postofce buildings is about to take
place Where these are exorbtant the government
can save money and should do so.
Franked mail is carried at definite loss II we
wish to give the frankng privilege to our congress-
men, and also want the postofce department to carry
all government business mail free of charge appro-
priations for this purpose should be made.
Finally it perhaps may be suggested to PostnlaS-
er-General Brown that while deficit is to be alb
horred the postal service is after ALL primarily
service to the people It originally was not intended
as a money making proposition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
A Terrific Test

nR. CALVIN BRIDGES of the
~ California Institute of Tech
nology announces certain discoveries
with respect to sex control.
He makes no claim that thew eve.
can or will be applied to human be-
ingS.
Indeed, he seems to think that
they indicate such hopelessly COM
plicated mechanism as eliminates
the possibility Of sex control through
any artificial process.
The question this raises, however.
still is intriguing. Suppose we could
control the sex OF our children,
what would We have gained?
On the other hand, what a ter
rife responsibility we would face,
not only from an individual, but
from a social standpoint.
In the final analysis, to whom
would we delegate the privilege of
determining whether male or female
offspring were needed most?
Would it be left to the parents, a
board of experts, or popular cleo
ton?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
liver SINCE capital punishment
IL was adopted by organized So
ciety as punishment for the GRIM
inal, humanitarians have been con-
cerned greatly with the type of ma
terials used in bringing about death
and in the mechanism by which
death is brought about.
The monarchs of an earlier day
condemned men to be quartered,
bringing about death by fastening
a horse to each of the subjects
legs and tearing him apart. Other
allegedly civilized groups caused
daeth by having the man beheaded
with sword or battleax.
Militaristic countries, and indeed
even modern armies, destroyed the
condemned man by the bullets of a
firing squad.
The hangman's moose was reserved
in medieval periods for criminals in
disrepute, but in modern times is
the legal method of destruction of
men in many states and nations.
In some states, death is brought
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
A 125-MiIe Walk

TINE interferometer used by DR..
i Miller consists of a great steel
cross with arms sixteen feet long
f1oated on a mercury bearing, SO
that it rotates freely in horizontal
plane.
A system of mirrors splits beam
of light into two halves, reflects
them along the arms of the cross
and unites them again in a small
telescope eyepiece. When the two
halves of the beam unite they create
a series of light and dark bands in
the eyepiece, known as interference
fringes.
According to the theory of the in
Strument, an absolute motion Of the
earth through the ether would result
in a changing speed Of the light
beams as the interferometer re-
volved. This would result in back
and forth movement of the iringes
in the eyepiece.
DR.. Miller's task, therefore, has
been to walk around the interior
ometer as it revolved, keeping his
eye glued to the little telescope on it.
During each revolution of the in
strument, he would make sixteen
observations of the position of the
fringes.
Between 1921 and 1926, DR.. Miller
walked a distance of 125 miles
around the interferometer. He
made $4,000 readings of the posi-
ton of the fringes.
These were noted down by an as
sistant as DR.. Miller called them out
to him. All of these observations
then were averaged into the calcu-
lations by which Dr. Miller arrived
at his conclusions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-24
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor. Times-There is no doubt
that the underlying principles of
both Democratic and Republican
parties in this country primarily
are what seem to leaders Of these
organizations as the best policies to
pursue in the administration of the
government for the best interests
of all the people.
While there is a marked similar
ity in the fundamental principles
Of both parties, there is at the
same time some widely dissimilar
ideas and courses of action in the
actual course of administration.
One of the most apparent differ
ences, according to historical rec
ords, is that the Democratic party
has championed the cause Of the
workingman and has sought to re-
strict and regulate capital to a sane
and just policy in its dealings with
the laboring class of our people,
while the Republican policy seems
to be to keep the governments
hands off business and let it do
as it pleases and go where it viii.
Well, the hands OFF policy Of the
Coolidge administration led to a
wild orgy of business activity which
ended in a grand crash, as most
speculative orgies do, which proves
that if you turn big business loose
it will soon tie up the traffic.
There, I believe, is the funda-
mental difference in the two great
parties. The Democratic idea is to
regulate industry and finance to
sound principles and fair dealing
with the public and the Republican
policy seems to be that big bust
ness is able to run both itself and
the government also. So we all are
run down, in fact, we are exhausted
financially.
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