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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
Coincidence or What?

Another ant-Russan campaign is being drummed
up in Europe. 1t has a suspicious resemblance to
the propaganda that has preceded the various allied
military interventions and subsequent economic block
AIDES. Within fortnight, France, Germany and
Britain have been infamed against Russia and the
pope in Rome has added his attack.
Though the alleged causes of this campaign In
the several countries nomnally different foreign
observers are asking whether this revival Of anti
Soviet crusade in so many places at the time
is the result of coincidence or concerted plan.
In France the Soviet government is blamed for
improved completely in the disappearance from Paris
of notorious czarist general In Britain the cam
paign is led by the group trying to unseat Macdonald
the group which overthrow the last labor government
faxed Russian ISSUE the forged zinoviev letter.
These antl-Russian movements tend to head up
the so-caed religious ISSUE The pope has denounced
alleged religious persecution by the BolShevks. In
England the archbishop of Canterbury has followed
the pope. And now the echo comes from Dr. Man
ming, Episcopal bishop in New York.
Reports of American correspondence in Russia.
however, seem to indicate that the church dis
pute basicaly economic and political rather than
religious
Tens of thousands of churches are reported open
and freely attended by members, unmoested either
by populace civil authorities Though the govern
ment seized church property several years ago.
gregations OF adequate size allowed to continue
use Of their churches
The closed churches are said to be those deserted
by the congregations in American rural dis
tricts, those of the disbanded monastic orders.
According to a statement Saturday by the chief
patriarch of the Orthodox church. there religious
persecution He says that individual priests have been
prosecuted for specific political and anti-government
acts but not for religious beliefs.
Press dispatches from Russia agree that many
village priests have joined with the rich peasants in
revolutionary activities against the govern
ment. Probably that has created anti-church
movement, by which some innocent priests have suf-
fered.
That, unfortunately, has happened in every coun-
try which has freed itself from state church. proc
ess which was spared America by the initial separa-
ton of church and state here.
The full facts of the Russian church-state con-
troversy not be known by foreigners. But what
the facts, Americans have more right to in
terfere there than Russians have to right to mix in
domestic political dispute prohibition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
REASON By Ff EERBEs

THIS new commission is to go down to Haiti. look
i things over, then inform Uncle Sam whether he
should stay in that country or get out of it.
We need commission to tell this, for we have
right to talk about duty to restore order in
any foreign land until we have restored order in the
United States.
We should take our marines out of Haiti and send
them to Chicago
The other day Chicago gave an informal reception
for thousand of her leading criminals served them
lady fingers and after playing bridge the whole bunch
was turned loose again
Mussolini would handle that crime situation in one
week, but Chicago will not handle it in century.
DUT Chicago is not the only futile figure In law
- enforcement she is only little bigger than
the rest of the towns where the great American
game of horse is played in courthouses all the year
around.
1t is nothing new, for the same monkey business
was played in the days of your grandfather. for
never have enforced law in America as other coun-
tries have done it.
Most of our old-time statesmen gained their ora
torical laurels saving the necks of those who had
worked overtime to get the rope; yes, this true
of almost all of them
1t was considered wonderful proof OF theiS
ability to serve the nation. but we now reaping
the long accommodating whirlwind Of such fooshness
XXTE now have sitting on state and national crime
w commissions enough men and women to milk
all the COWS in America and these men and women
sit around, holding hands, looking into each others
fawn-ke eyes and knitting sweet ideas of kindness
by which they are going to make bishops out Of
bandits and grand opera singers out of ladies who
poison their husbands.
1t is all rot!
The great majority of all crime can be handled
with club, but we've never had one single club in
the United States.
The criminal lawyers always have played horse
and they always WILL unless the lawyers of character
take the situation in hand and get speedy trials and
unless the judges cut out the hocus pocus down
TO earth and do business judges in other lands do it.
Then let the appellate judges sustain the speedy
action Of the trial judges and your judicial procedure
will be Smplihed: it is not question OF making new
laws feeling the glands of burglar it is the mat
ter of making punishment swift and sure
We've never done it, but the time has come to
start.
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Roar of Laughter

n AM aware that the decision of
Il the court went to the side which
Bryan and his associates eSpOuSed,
but palpably this was no suit tried
merely before a little judge III a
backward community.
America, and indeed the entire
world, sat in judgment on the issue.
And the verdict of this higher and
wider tribunal was hearty and
somewhat ribald burst of laughter
Bryan had made himself ridiculous.
Not at all did I feel that the I'M
DERIVING mood was wholly f2rcical.
1t was inevitable that one should
weep for Bryan as we'll as laugh at
him. His place is secure among the
most tragic figures in American
public life.
Only the supercilious and the I'M
observant can dismiss him as a
mountebank. He was, until the final
phase, a very gallant and effective
fighter for human rights.
Many of his political defeats we're
glorious. Although never a man of
high intellectual attainments, his in
buttons were remarkably sound.
Certain of his causes, which seemed
fantastic to the majority came into
acceptance even before his death.
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A STUDY Of the stars tempela-
~ lures shows it to be extremely
low" DR.. Joy continued Our sun
has a temperature at the surface
of 5000 degrees.
The temperature of this star
ranges from 2,400 degrees at maxi
mum down to LOO degrees at mini
mum.
1.-THE study also shows that while
the star gives 300 times less light
at minimum than at maximum, the
amount of heat radiated by the star
is only two and half times less at
minimum than at maximum.
THE spectroscope reveals what
happens. At the high temperature
we have many elements, such as
titanlum. existing in the atomic
state. But as the temperature falls
this element and others begin TO
form compounds with the oxygen in
the star.
TT is, therefore, just as though a
veil composed of these compounds
were drawn around the star, letting
through mt st of the heat, but shut
ting off the light"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
The Muscle Shoals Lobby

The first week Of senate investigation of the
Muscle Shoals lobby has shown that here is lid
that should be pried off. When the Caraway COM
mittee gets through with Colonel J. w Worthington.
leader of the tenyear campaign for private operation
of Muscle Shoals it should proceed with its de-
termination to examine Claudius H. Huston, chair
man of the Republican national committee
The committee learned with shock last week
that. less than year ago, Huston as president of
the Tennessee River Improvement Association. cir
cuarzed congress in favor of the WrghtMadden bill
to turn Muscle Shoals over to the American Cyanamid
Company
What do the rank and file of Republican voters
think about this activity by Huston shortly before
he resigned from the association to become the parys
national chairman?
When the committee has concluded with Huston,
1t should call Chester H Gray Washington repre-
sentative of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
He is supposed to speak for 100000 farmers Did
they know that Worthington and Gray were work.
ing In close harmony against government operation
and IN favor of the Cyanamid company's bid?
Worthington, it has been shown submitted draft
of resolution supporting the Cyanamid bid to Ed
ward A. ONeal, president of the Alabama Farm
Bureau Federation, for adoption by that organization
last August. The resolution as adopted strangely
similar to one found in the files at Worthington's
headquarters. In the same files found other ma
teral Of the farm bureau federation.
When the senate committee has probed the con-
necton between officials of that great farm organiza
ton and the Tennessee River Improvement AssOOia-
tion it doubtless also will question w. B. Bell pres
dent IF the Cyanamid company.
Bell already has told house committee that his
company spent more than $1,000 to distribute one
of Grays articles concerning his conpanys bid.
Did the farmers themselyeS-who put up so cents
4 head annually to finance their entirely legitimate
activities as organization-realize that those pr
vate funds we're being used?
The Muscle SnoaIs LOBBY disclosures warrant the
investigating committee in ripping the lid clear off,
Only a corner of it has been lifted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
At Last a Moses

A decidedly fine even though somewhat
unfamiliar note was struck in the CIVIC lie
of this city when G. NJ. Williams, president
of the Marmon company, took the leadership
OF the movement to secure jobs for the Joo-
less.
Instead of the usual effort to minimize
the situation or to turn away from an uh-
welcome situation, he struck boldly out Ior
practical plan.
He gave real meaning to the word Co
oneration." when he declared that LABOR
emergencies should be met in the same spirit
which is shown in great disasters and men
must work togethe. AMI make common sac
rifices for the good OF all.
eve are the same kind Of people, 1t Is
not the ordinary bunk about being the best
civ. The men who are out of work come from
the same race stock as those of us who are
there. They have the same ambitions ana
the same desires, the same pride IN their III
dependence.
"That they are idle is no fault of theirs.
They are the victims of conditions that arose
in the last two months OF last year. If there
is onlv so much work to be done until things
brighten and demand grows, it must be
shared. lust as food would be shared in
great fire or flood"
Coming from the biggest industrialist IN
the CITY, this has a refreshing and encourag-
ing sound.
It differs from the attitude so often taken
by those who stupidity believe that there is
constant warfare between capital and labor
and whose only remedy for trouble is po-
hceman and machine guns. 1t is decidedly
better than the soup kitchen or the dole sys-
tenn.
1t is intelligent, not laundering. 1t may
even-point the way for a national movement,
or at least a study Of the whole employment
situation, that will make it impossible for
recurrence of periods of wide unemployment
followed by seasons of overwork.
If it does nothing more than to place men
of all classes in life in an attitude where CO.
operation means something very real and
tangible, the movement will be worth while
In the meantime, the success of any pro-
gram depends upon the spirit behind it. The
employers alone can not solve the problem
Those who work and have jobs must be ready
to sacrifice for the common good. The day
when there will be jobs for all will come more
quickly if such a spirit is shown
The city owes a debt to Mr.. Williams. He
has given it new idea and higher ideal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
CHANGES Sides

nTHERS are just around the cor
" ner. Only a few would laugh
now at his preoccupation with world
peace. He detected the danger Of
an imperative America when it was
no more than vague shadow cast
by some far-f1ung islands upon a
distant ocean.
He fought through many years for
the rights of the individual against
the intrenched mass.
In the beginning he was not de-
TERED by the fact that the Fill
pinos were few and weak, and we
were many and powerful.
Blu before the end, Bryan
changed sides. He marched from
one trench to the other with all
his banners Tapping dejectedly.
Both of his last fights were made
in favor of the strong against the
weak. Bryan lacked spiritual ten
acity.
He traded of dream for tangible
advantages whose weight he could
feel in his two cupped hands. That's
always a bad bargain. The wild
young man from Nebraska became
a complacent Florida realtor. He
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1T SEEMS TO ME By HE ETo45%

fed his love of Christ and voted
for the Ku-Klux Klan.
This man, who had led forlorn
hope against imperialism a genera
ton before, did himself embrace the
philosophy that might and power
and compulSion make for righteous
ness.
When professors in precarious
jobs disagreed with him about evo-
luton, Bryan was not content to
argue the issue, but, instead, turned
bully and burned fiery crosses at
their doors.
Some few years before the Scopes
trial he wrote to a friend:
eve will drive Darwinism from
the schools. The agnotics who are
undermining the faith of our stu
dents will be glad enough to teach
anything the people want taught
when the people speak with en-
phasiS-only those who believe they
are made IN the image of God will
die for a truth. We have all the
ElijahS on our side
Copyright. 1880, BY The Tineg)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
Cats and Dogs Can Carry Diseases

man from the point of view of its
severity is rabies, or hydrophobia.
This is spread primarily by the bite
of dog, although other animals
may be affected.
In addition, the dog is undoubt~
eddy the source Of certain tape
worms which spread to man, and
occasionally certain forms of ring
worm will be passed from dog to
man.
Distemper and respiratory infec-
tons occur in dogs as well as in
human beings, but differ in their
nature. 1t has been reported that
the dog may act as carrier of
scarlet fever or of diphtheria, but
obviously opportunity for such
transmission is relatively rare.
The cat is fairly resistant to most
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human diseases, but apparently the
cat can be infected with undulant
fever and transfer it to man.
1t can develop hydrophobia. 1t
carries around multiple parasites
and tapeworms, but is not likely to
carry plague or tularemia.
The cat or the dog obviously may
be the carrier Of various insects
that transfer from them to man
when opportunity offers. A pet ami
NAL in the household therefore must
receive the same attention from
a hygienic point of view as are
given to children.
Regular washing, prompt treat
ment of diseases, and similar n.y.
gienic procedures are necessary to
avoid transferring Of contagious Of
animals to man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
Time to Wake Up

.TTOW long are sensible people
4 i going to be fooled by the argu-
ment that only those who want
drink, or see chance to turn a
penny in the liquor business, are
against prohibition?
The movement to repeal, or modi-
fly, this attempt to save humanity
by law no longer draws its chief
support from professional vets.
Its most aggressive leaders are
men not only of great intelligence,
but of high moral quality.
One might dismiss the paid
agents of associations, the hired
publicity experts and those whose
former training and experience was
such as to align them with the anti
prohibition drive as motivated by
prejudice. or pay.
But when it comes to men like
Richmond Pearson Hobson and
Randolph Ray, pastor of the Little
Church Around the Corner, it is
necessary to look for more convinc-
ing reasons.
Prohibition Is contrary to temper
ance in principle, and some folks
are beginning to realize it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
SCIENCE
Mira, the Variable Star,
Seems to Expand and Con-
tract in the Sky Like O
Beating Heart.
BY DAVID DIETZ

4 STAR that apparently expands
IA and contracts, not unlike
beating heart, exists in the sky. 1t
is the variable star known to as"
tronomers as Mira.
Variable stars are ones which
change their brightness periodically.
shining with a strong light at GER
tain times and with dim light at
others.
Mira was the first variable star
ever noted in the heavens. The dis
covery was made in 1895 by David
Fabricius. He named it Mira
from the Latin, meaning wonder"
full"
But it remained for DR.. Alfred H.
JOY, secretary of the Mt. Wilson
observatory, to discover just how
wonderful a star Mira really was.
DR.. Joy made a ten-year study OF
that star, bringing to bear upon the
problem the 100-inch telescope Of
the Mt. Wilson observatory, the
largest telescope in the world, and
the other marvelouSly delicate app
paratus which is located at the OBJ
Servatory.
The apparent expansion and con-
traction Of the star was one Of the
outstanding features of the study
The study possessed double valUe,
for the facts brought to light about
this star will serve as foundation
for the Interpretation OF other stol-
lar phenomena.
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Giant

VXTHEN at maximum brightness
w Mira is about a second or
third magnitude star" DR.. Joy says
THAT is, it is among the second
brightest or third brightest class Of
stars.
when it sinks to its minimum,
it becomes entirely invisible to the
naked eye. The telescope shows
that it drops to the ninth magni-
tude.
Until the 1O0-inch telescope was
built, it was impossible to make a
Spectroscopic study of Mira at its
minimum brightness.
Much of the new information
which has been amassed during this
ten-year study Of the star was
made possible through the ability
to follow the star at its minimum
with the aid of the l00-inch tele-
scope.
THE star goes through its varla-
tons in brightness in a period Of
$50 days. 1t is 300 times as bright
at maximum as at minimum.
In addition to studying the star
with the spectroscope, which en-
ables one by measuring the lines in
the spectrum to compute the stars
temperature, motion, composition
and the like, I have enlisted the sid
of some Of my colleagues here at
the observatory.
Or. Nicholson and DR.. Petit
helped check the temperature with
the thermocouple by which they
measured the temperatures of the
planets recently, while DR.. Pease
measured the stars diameter with
the Nicholson interferometer.
The study shows that the star is
one of the largest in our universe.
1t has a diameter of 310,000,C00
miles.
1T is composed of extremely rare
gases, however. Its density at the
center is about one-ten thousandth
of the density Of the earth's st
mosphere, while the density of the
outer portions of this gigantic star
is about one-ten millionth Of the
earth's atmosphere, what we con-
slider a pretty high vacuum here on
earth.
I'm other words. this giaganJic
star in many ways resembles nebu-
Ia except that it has the shape Of
a star"
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CONFEDERATE CONGRESS
Feb. IL

req. 10
NN Feb. 10, 1862. the first con-
~ gress Of the permanent con-
federate government convened at
Richmond, Va.
Just a year before this date
seven southern states had with
drawn from the Union and sent
delegates to Montgomery, Ala, to
frame a government. This done.
they elected jefferson Davis Of
Mississippi president of the Con
federate States of America"
After the confederate congress
held its Richmond session, Davis
was formally inaugurated for
term Of six years. Although the
first congress met four times and
the second congress twice, there
never was much popular confidence
in either.
|. This was because the congress held
secret sessions, cabinet officers exer-
cised their right to sit in congress
and many personal controversies,
arose among civil and military OIL
Gals.
This date also commentaries the
taking over of the combined con-
federate forces in 1865 by General
Robert E. Lee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
Law Is Weak
TIME roundup of three or TO

TINE roundup Of three or four
IL thousand criminals in Chicago
is chiefly significant because it
shows what the police failed to do
during many preceding weeks.
That is the great weakness Of law
enforcement throughout America.
We can not seem to accept law
enforcement as an everyday, routine
matter.
Most of the time we do little more
than is absolutely necessary.
Then, when things get iatolerable,
we have a great spasm of self
righteousness, which generally re-
suits in vastly more hardship for in
nocent people than justice to
criminals.
One of the three or four thousand
arrested in Chicago, how many
committed a worse crime than to be
poor, or out of work?
On the other hand, how many Of
those who had done something
wrong could not have been picked
up by the police long ago, II the
latter had been attending to their
business?
Maybe it's good thing to visit all
the dives, fophouses and speak
easies once in a while, round up the
buns, hoboes and thugs, and stage
a grand judicial spree, but what
happens Setween Whiles is not a
good thing.
To the criminal world. such
roundups mean little more than a
warning to lie low until the spasm
has spent itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-18
Farmers and the Tariff

Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota we believe,
correctly voices the views of the agricultural states
on the pending tariff bill, revision of which was
undertaken primarily to help the farmers, Nye said
in speech:
at the best there far less help possible In the
tariff for agriculture than appears to be upon the
surface But there is a chance through the making OF
the present tariff BILL to legislate possibly much
as 8 billion dollars Of additional into the
pockets Of the American farmer OF that opportunity
the farm states have made the most in the present
tariff Tight
sBut Of what good to the American farmer would
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be additional income of billion dollars year If
tariff revision afforded such rates would tax the
American farmer two, three four billions OF addi-
tional dollars for his purchases of essentials in the
way of manufactured products?
This additional income for the American farmer
and improved economic status is possible only in
the event that industry can be held to its present
level in the tariff structure. :.
THE farmer. a general thing has been believer
in high protective tariff policies, but his faith has been
seriously shaken in recent years and I venture to
guess that if the tariff bill in the making does
not afford that better economic balance which is
sought by agriculture through the tariff system, then
Mr.. American Farmer is going to become an instru-
mental part in any program which looks to such
general revamping Of tariff policy will keep it
from being privileged legislation which affords ad-
vantage for the few as compared with the many"
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Questions and
AnSzOeYs

Why was Mary, queen of Scots,
beheaded?
She was tried for completely in
the plot to assaSsinate Queen Eliza
beth of England, was declared guilty
and beheaded in 1887.
How long we're Indian head one
cent pieces issued by the q. S.?
They were first issued in 1859 and
discontinued in 1909.
Has the supreme court of the
United States the power to declare
state law unconstitutional?
Yes.
Are there any Jews in Spain?
There are approximately 1000.
What is Photographic will?
A will that is entirely written.
dated and signed by the hand of
the testator.