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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
Devious Paths

i Little wisdom and less regard for the law
is exhibited in the devious paths suggested
for the highway commission to get and spend
money to help the farmers in the drought
area.
& The obvious, simple, direct and legal way
of calling together the legislature to appro-
pirate funds for an emergency is entirely
overlooked Instead it is proposed to pay the
highway contractors with certificates of in
debtedness, although the law forbids the
state going into debt, and then proceeding to
build roads in a most expensive manner.
In order to give work to more farmers, it
is proposed to discard labor saving machin-
cry. Of course, all the people will later pay
the bills for such an absurdity.
If an attempt were made to give in
dustrial workers relief from unemployment,
a similar policy would call for a return to
handmade wagons instead of machine-made
automobiles, to the setting of type by hand,
the making Of shoes by individual cobblers
and the lighting of houses with candles.
There is no real charity in forcing human
beings to do unnecessary labor. 1t would be
much better to hand over the money to those
who need it, rather than turn back the
wheels of progress and resort to such I'M
economic methods Of production.
One very evident fact is that those in
charge of the attempt to help the farmers
have little imagination, common sense or
capacity.
Highways are not the only public projects
which call for labor. Some could employ men
and teams for which machinery as yet offers
no easy substitutes.
incidentally, the legislature at the regular
session may find it necessary to consider not
only the cropless farmer, but the jobless
worker in cities. He also deserves some at
tention.
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The LAWYERS Fail
the scientlS'

Lawyers profess to show everybody else how to
run their business, but still can not run their own
The American Bar Association meets annually, has
few business sessions feast Of CAB and good time
socially, does nothing worth mentioning, and then
adiourns to meet somewhere else next year and go
through the same futile riganarole.
No profession has anything like the power the
legal profession has to govern itself With local
union in every city and county in the country, and
every judge on every bench a member OF the union,
the legal profession can't even clean its own house.
1t doesn't lack power, for through the courts 1t
could disbar every crooked lawyer in the country and
drive him out of business. The only inference is that
it lacks both brains and backbone.
If the lawyers of New York City, for example, had
enough of both of these stimuli to intelligent action,
no political organization could get away with the sale
of judicial jobs and such judicial scandals recently
have amazed the public wouldn't be possible. Yet
there isn't an intelligent lawyer in New York who
doesn't know how judges get on the bench
There isn't an intelligent lawyer in any city in the
country who doesn't know the local lawyers who are
in league with the criminal underworld and make
money showing known crooks how to laugh at the
law and keep out of jail.
One reason may be that some of the most emf
nently respectable members of the bar are reluc-
tant to tackle the job because they have proted by
showing the law-evading but respectable overworld
how to Go the same thing.
Yet at the Chicago meeting of the American Bar
Association justice of the Minnesota supreme court
whines that there have been nineteen centuries of
constant criticism Of our profession and isn't this
criticism and continued nagging now being capital
lied by agencies seeking to usurp functions?
Bankers and trust officers are seeking to take over
as much of our business as they can"
If lawyers won't govern themselves and throw
out the crooks may become necessary political
government to clean their house for them.
But business has such power as the lawyers
have to be elf-governing and so tighten up their
union that membership in bar association or law
yers union, will be a guarantee to the public that it
is safe to trust ones fortune to lawyer who hasn't
proved through years of honest practice that he isn't
a crook.
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-- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Kidney Main Control of Body's Water

body with materials, the giving OF
small amounts of sugar with large
amount of water sometimes is fol-
lowed by prompt improvement tend
ing toward recovery.
The person who is short Of water
in his system has been described
wildly by DR.. j. S. McLester: with
his drawn face, the patient looks
tired. The mucous membranes are
dry and the skin is dry and wriy-
killed..
1.-THE lips are drawn and cracked
and the tongue is assured. The
deep respirations of air hunger in
dictate the always present acidosiS.
1.-The extremities are cold, and in
extreme cases the knee kicks may
be absent. The circulation often is
impaired and if the desiccation is
great there is a rapid thready pulse.
Nervous symptoms appear or
those already incident to the illness
are made worse. There may be
dizziness or perhaps delirium or
coma"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
The Beam in the Scientific Eye

The cogency of the observation attributed to
Christ relative the beam and the mote is illustrated
most admirably in the article by Lawrence Hyde on
Can Science Control Lfe?" in the Atlantic Monthly
The article is long argument against sociology
As a guide to life and against the present trend to
nut our trust in social science Mr. Hyde especially
depores the fact that We have come TO place our
faith in men rather than in God: THE faith of the
average educated person today is in MANN man
as opposed to God 1t is this fact, more perhaps
than any other which to determine the char
acteristic quality of modern thought"
Mr. Hyde draws up long Indictment Of the pre-
tensions of social science as of understanding
and guiding human life Sociologists ignore the as
sumptions on which their theories based. There
are great technical difficulties in the way of apply
Ing the scientific method to man-it is difficult TO be
perfectly detached and many human qualities and
acts are hardly measurable.
Then the sociologist is an extrovert who looks
outward for his facts rather than inward to his soul
FINALLY the socoIogis often spins his theories merely
% furnish himself with an abb for violating the
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basic moral laws or eyading the finer spiritual
responsibilities.
Suppose one applies the method to Mr..
Lawrences religious view of life. Man had faith
in God for thousands of years What the result?
Faith and interest in man have been the force which
has led us out of barbarism into twentieth century
civilization
If sociologists ignore their basic assumptions what
about the theoogians? Do not the latter ignore the
whole logic of the situation well as the underlying
assumptions Of their doctrines? What about the
transient inhabitant of petty and ephemera planet
assuming that he can envisage such a problem
as God?
If it is hard to measure and his thoughts
and actions how about measuring God and the hu-
man soul? Is the parson less moved by his emotions
than the sociologist? Can he greater detach
ment from his data? Are all sociologists alike in
being extroverts? Not if we know sociclogistS.
But even If they we're, is group of extroverts
more reliable than society of introverts? And is it
the social scientists who trying to evade the re-
sponsbilities of life here and now9
Has not religion gained its chief force as sort
of day dream which allows an escape from the harsh
reality of everyday life and offers hope of an ulti-
mate escape from earthly life altogether?
Criticisms of the limits of social science are useful
and they should be welcomed. If unchecked, the
social scientist is in danger of falling into the
Olympian dogmatism of the theologian.
But theological criticism of social science will be
more convincing when the theologian prefaces his
structures upon social science by a frank exposure
of the weaknesses Of his methods. Let him
take the mote out of his own eye, that he may
distinguish more clearly the beam in the eye OF
the scientist.
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TT SEEMS TO ME BY H FR0IP%

of American life with his short daily
observations.
It will be said that MIR. Rogers is
merely a funny man and that no
body takes him seriously.
But surely this can not be said
against Calvin Coolidge. 1t is ir-
relevant to argue that the ex-Presi-
dent and current columnist deals
largely in platitudes. For better or
worse, hasn't the country largely
been living on platitudes during the
last two years?
We are not discussing at the mo-
nent whether it is a good thing for
this nation to be ruled by an oil
garchy of fifty-nine men, several of
whom have no claim to leadership
except the possession of vast wealth.
I don't think it is a good thing at
all. I think it is very bad thing.
But that need not blind me to the
fundamental truth of the indictment
drawn by James w. Gerard.
He may not even consider it an
indictment, but the average citizen
will not be content to have his fate
rest permanently in the hands of so
small q number. Particularly since
in most cases he has no means of
recourse against his rulers.
In the case of newspaper publish
ers the common man has at least
the chance to get even by abstaining
from buying the papers which he
does not like. But in the case Of
power, telephones and railroads we
have not such field of choice.
Copyright. 1880. by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
A\AA AVA Lands

VOU may be disposed to smile as you read that
l. the inhabitants of Naples rang the church bells
in an effort to calm the earthquake which recently
ravaged Italy, yet the church bell originated in the
belief that it drove away the evil spirits which
lowered near
Common sense Canada calls her cabinet council
together to consider the way to reduce foreign i'm
migration and help her people who are out of
work. but mutton headed America continues to admit
the foreigners regardless of their effect on unen-
poyment.
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT may think twice before
" ordering an investigation of Tammany, for
while that's always good thing to do, it might
prove disastrous politically to the Governor as it did
to former Governor Smith, who had the nerve to
order the investigation when he knew the conse-
quences.
It's funny with all these endurance tests that none
of them has been directed in useful direction.
We haven't heard of any wood-sawing marathonS,
any dishwashng or sweeping endurance tests
It's silly for our over-patriotic ladies and gentle
men to try to make the Communists hoist the Amer
lean flag over their assemblies, but if they unfurl
the Russian banner. we would make them eat it
and like it.
THOSE three fellows, representing some booze out
fit may have conspired to remove the Governor by
Florida but if he isn't any greater obstacle to run
running than his predecessors, We don't why the
rum hounds should care about him.
Unless it's an ex-Vce-President, there's nothing
in this country half so obscure as an ex-champior
endurance flier.
Millions of rats marching in perfect formation are
said be leaving Siberia but it is not stated whether
they displeased with the rations unable tc
reconcile themselves to the Soviet government
Carol can't be crowned king of Rumania, because
his former wife refuses to be reconciled TO him.
We hope she holds out and that Carol has tc
round cut his career carrying the bod.
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SCIENCE
Real Danger Lies IN At
tempts of Many Persons to
Acquire Coat Of Tan.
BY DAVID DIETZ.

DONT try to acquire a coat Of
II tan, If you are heliophobe. 1t
can't be done. If you are a men,
Der of the fair sex, you can use sun
tan powder Of some sort. If you
are one of the so-called sterner sex,
about all you can do is to prove
your right to the title by sternly
foregoing any attempt to reach the
state of a bronzed hero.
DR.. Charles F. Pabst, chief derma-
tologist of the Greenpoint hospital
of Brooklyn, N. Y, explains what a
heliophobe is in the Medical Men
tor. He says:
"a heliophobe is an individual
who is morbidly sensitive to the
effects of the suns rays and whose
skin will redden, blister, and burn,
but never tan.
"A heliophobe should not try to
become a bronze Venus or AdoniS.
I realize that sun-tan has become
quite fashionable and is. the goal of
thousands of vacationists, yet there
is a constant danger that turks in
the sun.
Serious illness and even death
often has followed injudicious ex-
posture to the suns rays during the
summer months.
Every year 100000 working days
are lost because Of illness due to
sunburn which represents an an
nual loss Of $1,4O0,OOO.
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. DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The remainder of water in the
blood must be maintained and even
small changes in it's content are &C
companied by severe general re-
actions.
OF course, some water must be
eliminated to carry out poisonous
waste products which may bring
death unless they are eliminated
Therefore, the kidneys continue to
get rid of some water until the
whole body is pretty we'll dried out
1t is an interesting commentary
that prize fighters who attempt to
make certain weights to fight in
certain classes subject themselves
before the fight to this intensive
drying out process, and as result
sometimes enter the ring so COM
pletely shattered by distortion OF
their water regulating system that
defeat is Inevitable.
In many diseases in which pa
TENTS have been unable to take en-
ergy food, so that their tissues
have been exhausted to provide the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
Good Brush Work

"DUT do you know he added,
ID chat when I looked at the
painting it was entirely changed.
And for the better.
Harsh outlines had been Softened
and by now the color was all beau
tifully blended. That COW was a
fairy godmother or an art critic in
disguise. I have never done as
good water color since"
The idea fascinated me. 81 won
DER" unused, whether could find
a COW, two or three COWS, with few
spare hours in the afternoon the
next time I do an oil painting up
in Connecticut"
ooh, don't do that" exclaimed the
third painter in much agitation. ut
will kill il"
And was perturbed, too. 1.-THE
painting?" I asked.
NO." he said, "the cow"
However, I did go away from the
conference with an idea for an eff
fective slogan to use in peddling my
wares. Hereafter my professional
card will read: early Brouns-
Marines, Landscapes, and New York
Sky Lines. Three years in the bust
ness and never killed a COW"
But, at that, I was not altogether
complimented at the artists con-
sternation. What if COW should
put the finishing touches to one of
my landscapes and then die? Might
not the animal herself say with
moving eloquence, Better an early
Broun than a beefsteak?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26

Editor Tines-Indianapolis po-
lice always are boasting about
their efficiency and the splendid
work done by the law in Indian
apolis.
They always are making runs to
outlying districts and getting some
body on petty offenses.
Now let me tell you Of some in
voluntary observations I have made
recently. I parked my car on the
Alabama street side of the court
house to await party who was
going to ride home with me. had
not been there ten minutes until q
burn hit me for a cigaret.
I noticed he went over and sat
down on the curb bordering the
courthouse lawn at the Alabama
street entrance. He was joined
presently by a bunch of filthy look
ing stews. 1 was there about an
hour and saw them make at least
five trips about 300 feet east on
Court street, and each time they
returned they had had more to
drink.
I saw three policemen pass with
out looking at him. Several times
since I've seen the gang there and
today saw a worthless looking
specimen empty a bay rum bottle
and a quart beer bottle before
passersby.
There are any number Of people
in Indianapolis who will tell you the
same story. What sort of an i'm
preston will visitors receive?
You can 60 around the court
house any time and see a gang Of
hoodlums parked like buzzards.
Iney are not job hunters or UNI
employed persons, but just sots and
buns. You can't walk around the
building twice without being
bunlmed for money or cigarets.
Today I watched the gang I
mentioned and they made numerous
trips around the block. and 1 saw
one of them touch four persons in
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ten minutes. They then met under
tree and pooled their Cummings"
and sent for bay rum or whatever
they were drinking.
Why can't we, at least, give people
who are visiting here good i'm
preston? DRINKS to the left Of
them, DRINKS to the right of them.
yet the police charge through and
burn their gas to arrest some Of
fender in an outlying district.
Why not clean up their front
door? That's prohibition for you.
1 like a drink of wine or beer but
these activities in the shadow of the
courthouse and police headquarters
make me sick.
If you think I'm kidding, Just
send reporter up there any Sat-
urday afternoon. I've never been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
Public Not That Dumb

a FRENCH journalist says that
IA President Hoover is not only
awake to the depression here, but
that he finds little consolation in the
fact that a similar depression exists
in many other countries.
One hardly would guess as much
by reading the political tripe, which
is put out by either Republicans or
Democrats.
Republicans picture him as COM
placently optimistic, while Demo-
Gratis charge him with cold-blooded
indifference.
What is worse, both do so with the
idea that they are moulding public
opinion, that the American people
are SO dumb as not TO recognize the
bunk for what it is, and that, in
stead Of strengthening either organ
ization, they slowly, but irreyocably,
are destroying public confidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
Mud Flies Freely

THE Republican national COM
Il nnittee denounced the publicity
being put out by the Democratic
press agent as not only unfair. but
slanderous. misrepresentation of
President Hoover.
Whatever grounds it may have for
so doing are destroyed by the fact
that it would treat the country to a
similar dose if President Hoover
we're a Democrat.
If one were to take the OPP
POSITIONS word for it, there isn't
President Of the United States but
who has been incompetent or
criminally negligent Of his duty.
If one were to take either party's
word for it, the other is composed
of crooks or nit-wits.
Still, we tell our children that
truth is a virtue.
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uct. All Of them have been carried
along with the tide
And one very vital omission is the
lack of any direct representatives Of
the radio business. It seems to me
that the radio influences public
thought even more profoundly than
the motion picture screen.
Again, there is mentioned not a
single leader of organized labor.
From my point of view, leadership
of the American Federation of La
Dor is far less vigorous and effective
than it ought to be. But even ad-
hitting that much, don't see how
Mr.. Green's name can be left of
the list.
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rHE other two were both profes'

TINE other two were both profess
Il sional artists and so, naturally,
I tried to get them to talk about
painting. Their painting, or Rem
brandts painting, my painting or
anybody's painting.
One of them confessed that GER
tain accidental quality of success
might happen even in the case of
masterpieces.
81 was doing water color Of a
lake once" he explained, land it
wasn't working out right. It was
too stiff and formal and wooden.
I'm despair 1 propped it up
against tree and went in SWIM
ming. was out in the middle Of
the lake when I noticed that a
COW had wandered over to the tree
and was licking my picture with
great enthusiasm.
"I shouted at her, but she paid no
attention. Even when swan ashore
she wouldn't quit until beat her
with a stick"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-26
80 Varieties

IT is an interesting list which
L James w. Gerard has made UP
OF flfty-nine rulers of America. And
yet I can not quite swallow his list
Of prize mixed pickles whole Many
of the names are correctly selected
beyond question.
His major thesis that America is
governed by f1nancierS, capitalists
and industrial leaders rather than
ofhceholders is fundamentally sound.
But at least a few Of the names
seem to me spurious.
For instance, have grave doubts
as to whether H. M. Warner, pres' :
dent of Warner Brothers Pictures
Inc, is a vital factor in shaping the
destinieS Of America.
Admitting that the screen is a
vital factor in fashioning public
opinion, I think that not one Of
the amusement company owners has
placed a strong hand in shaping the
industry and the nature Of the prod
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B1T al :
LAVOISIER'S BIRTH
August 26


ON Aug. &c, 1743, Antoine Lavoi-
~ sier, French chemist, and one
of the founders of modern chem
istry, was born in Paris.
Showing great precocity as boy
in mathematics and the physical
sciences, Lavoisier was carefully
educated at Mazarin college.
When only % he received the
prize offered by the French Acade-
my of Sciences for the best and
cheapest means of lighting city
streets. Two years later he was
elected a member of the academy.
He first turned his attention to
chemistry in ITO, when he began
experiments in combustion. After
four years he published his "Phys-
ical and Chemical Essays, in which
he described his own theory of COM
bustion which later was to form the
corner stone of modern chemistry.
He determined that in all cases
of combustion, the matter with
which the combustible substance
combines is, in all instances, vital
air" termed today oxygen.
Layoiser was of considerable serv-
ice to his government. He intro
duced valuable improvements in the
manufacture Of gunpowoer. i'm
proved methods of agriculture and
scientific principles, participated in
the preparation of the metric sys-
tenn and formed a plan for simpli-
flying the collection of taxes.
After the revolution this connec-
ton with the government was the
occasion of his indictment before
the Revolutionary tribunal, by which
he was condemned to the guillotine.
He was executed on May 8, 1894.
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No CoIunniSt2

TN the realm of journalism would
i admit all the newspaper men
named by Mr.. Gerard, but think
he makes mistake in combining his
selection to actual owners.
am thinking specifically of
Arthur Brisbane. Very many of
his opinions I deplore, but if I had
some cause to promote I would
much prefer to have his support
than that of, let's say, Frederick E.
Weyerhaeuser, millionaire lumber
king.
And I would ask a couple of other
financierS to make way for couple
of columnists. Or at least one. Pos
sibly there will be a certain amount
Of dissent if I contend that Will
Rogers actually can affect the course
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No Enforcement

I AW enforcement seems to be
H largely a matter of converse
ton in this country. and that goes
for other things besides prohibition.
A survey just completed by the
New York Telegram indicates that
only one murder out of 1874 draws
the death penalty in New York
City, while only one of sixteen re-
suits in a conviction for anything.
People say that the average killer
never considers the risk.
Maybe he does not. Maybe the
fact that fifteen of sixteen can get
away with it has nothing to do with
the increase Of murder. but II that
is so, human nature has ceased to
be human.