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The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Prisoners of MuSSOlini

Not few Americans have developed warm
admiration for MuSsolini and the Fascist regime IN
Italy. That powerful journal the Saturday Evening
Post has published many articles extolling the vir
tues of the Duce and the merits Of his work. What
attracts American partisans of Mussoln is his
advancement of Italy in material sense. Public
works have been improved streets are cleaner and
trains run on schedule time.
Quite another side of the noble experiment Of
Fascism in Italy Is presented in two articles on
prisoners of Mussolini" in the North American
Review They by Signor Francesca Fausto Nittt,
nephew Of the former premier.
These articles suggest that Americans who enjoy
our traditional rights of personal liberty and self
government would not be too happy in Italy, even
if they could depend upon having train pull into
the station on time Not few of these trains are
loaded with political prisoners. who herded off to
imprisonment or deportation with not so much as a
sembance of trial-indeed often with specific
statement of the charges lodged against the individual
On Nov g. 1926 MuSsolni promulgated the so
called Exceptional Laws for Defense of the Ma
ton" The laws were enforced by administrative
tribunal which could impose anything from death
sentence to imprisonment for short term. In Rome
alone, between Nov. 80 and Dec. 10, 1896 5000 per-
sons we're arrested for alleged political offenseS.
Signor Nitti was arrested on Dec. 2 1926 taken to
20 prison Inquiring as to the crime with which he
-sS charged. he told:
1T is not essential that you should have committed
crime Nor is it necessary that some magistrate
aould issue warrant. Yo,n Imprisonment .is an ad-
illustrative measure
Here in three lines is a sweeping demolition OF the
hole American Bill of Rghts-of all those gains Tor
Serty which British and Americans have fought for
nee the days Of the Tudors We are back in the
ays of absolute monarchs.
Hundreds of eminent some OF them members
the cnamher Of deputies, thus were seized and rail-
oaded t. prison ard penal colonies Even the vener-
Ole Professor Fipper, of MazziniS friend and
olaborator. and Of the most devoted of Italian
democrats and refcEmers OF time, shipped TO
rrsos and cooped up with criminals.
An imprisoned deputy protested his treatment in
he name of parliamentary immunity, but he met
with the following rejonder: In little while no
deputy who is not Fascist viii be deputy at all
So much tor the principles of representative govern
nent
Shortly after the appearance Of Sgnor Nitts book,
Escape" describing these experiences in full, the
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
REASON By FfzRFRECK kzRBRs
+ ORD PALFOuR'S

I ORD RALFOUR'S simple funeral was beautiful
IL climax of great career
For fifty years he stood in the forefront of Eng
lands public life and had he wished it for his funeral
infantry would have marched, cavalry would have
clatered brass bands would have crashed and cannon
would have doomed around the worldwide empire but
this statesman. with the modesty and sense of true
greatness asked only simple service in the village
of his birth.
One is grieved to learn that Nellie Durham
Names venerable fiddler who played for Henry Ford
lost his cid violin when his home burned
II reminds one Of the tradition that one day as
Thomas Jefferson rode homeward horseback. one OF
his slaves ran to meet him saying: THE house burned
MarSe Jefferson, but saved the furniture where
upon Jefferson asked: Did you save my dddle?"
The old slave shook his head and Jefferson said:
/ would lather have that fiddle than everything else
in the house!"
THOSE seven hundred marines coming home from
L steamy Nicaragua doubtless wonder what their
next Scurvy assignment will be-
The marines the guinea pigs of the national
defense; We try everything on them.
Representative Gable of Ohio has introduced bill
congress to establish parity of citizenship between
men and women which recalls the toast of the late
Here's to woman. once superior-but now our
equal"
Regardless OF the facts in the case this story from
Africa that the prince of Wales manifested utter in
difference when charged by mad bull elephant VIII
make him strong with the empire,
Had the prince only had enough presence Of mind
to bite of the elephant head. they would have de-
posed his father and gwen him the throne
A DVANCED students OF criminal jurisprudence
N please will note that while Doheny was
acquitted though the supreme court blistered him
when it set aside his oil lease. John Lispenard OF
North Tonawanda N. Y. has just been sent up FOR
ten years for stealing two chickens.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Censorship

TINE Office force got started on a
Il discussion. Of what character in
fiction each of us would take out to
dinner if he had his choice.
Most of the men spoke for Becky
Sharpe, although there were scat
to~ed bids for That's here and there.
Id put in hard day and when it
came my turn to choose I answered
Little Eva from Uncle Toms
Cabin"
Fortunately somebody asked me
why, and was able to answer, "be-
cause she probably would have to
go home early"
With the rapid development of
the talking picture new opportuni-
ties are being opened up for censor
ship. So far this important profess
sion has been carried on very large
ly by blessed and earnest amateurs.
It seems to me that we ought to
teach our censors. 1 don't mean
just to read and write, because many
of them can do that already. It is
my notion that they stand in need
of the higher education.
There could even be a college Of
censorship. I've got cheer ready
for them at such times as good old
C. G. meets some rival on the grid
iron. It runs. "Carnal Yell.
I Yell Carnal."
copyright. 1880. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Science Familiar With Germ Army

From this investigation the next
step was a study of the organism
that caused anthrax and killed ami
mails. AS a result of these studies,
PaSteur laid the groundwork for all
our modern knowledge of the way
in which vaccineS or attenuated col
lectionS of germs can help the hu-
man body resist disease.
He revealed methods Of inoculat-
ing animals with the organism in
order to study disease. He brought
into common use methods Of con-
trolling anthrax, chicken cholera
and hydrophobia.
He founded the modern science
Of preventive medicine and Of bac-
teriology and laid the basis for most
of our modern civilization.
Previous to the time of Pasteur,
progress was slow, because mankind
was constantly in fear of great
plaques and epidemics of disease.
Pasteur was perhaps the greatest
benefactor that man ever has had;
he freed man largely from the fear
of disease.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

way of making him i'll or making
him feel better, of producing fer
mented liquors, or in other ways
changing the conditions Of human
life.
Few people realize that Pasteur
discovered the germ primarily be-
cause he was interested in the
problems of fermentation. He ar
gued that the germs do not arise
spontaneously, but that they de-
veloped by process of reproduction
as do other forms of life.
He related the living organisms to
fermentation and was able by these
studies to be of great value to one
of the leading industries of France.
One of his first series of writings
in this field was on the diseases of
wines and beers and the things that
cause them to turn to vinegar and
the methods of preventing such
changes.
After he had completed these
studies he was asked to look into
the disease which was running the
silkworm industry in the south Of
France.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
SCIENCE
Early Arctic Voyages Ended
IN Tragedy, With Scores
Yielding Their LiueS on
Expeditions.
BY DAVID DIETZ :
THE first phase of modern Arctic

THE first phase of modern Arctic
a exploration, while a story Of
noble and high courage. is essential
ly tragedy. The grim cold of the
polar ice pack usually was victor
ious.
Only one OF these early explorer
met with large measure of vic
tory. Sir George Mares, the BrltisS-
explorer, attained farther north
than any previous explorer. He re-
turned home with both his ships. He
and his men, however, suffered .
we're hardships and several OF them
died during the course of the ex-
pedition.
Disaster again overlook those who
Immediately followed Mares.
Let US briefly summarize the first
phase of Arctic explorations. 1t be-
gan with the voyage OF Sir John
Franklin, British explorer, who
started out on June II. 1847 with
the ErebuS and Terror to sail the
Northwest Passage. He paid with Ea.
life. Subsequently all of the 1874 souls
In his expedition perished.
Captain Charles F.. HILL, American
explorer, set sail in June, 1871, in
the Polaris, with q crew of thirty
three. He reached latitude 80 de-
grees II minutes. On Nov. 8, how
ever, he died of apoplexy.
The ship subsequently was crushed
badly and some of the men were
cut oil from the ship and left drift
ing on an ice hummock. Both the
men on the ice and the men in the
snip were rescued by whalers after
great hardships.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Coolidge Buys an Estate

TINE Coolidges step out with the
l. purchase of a $4,000 estate In
Northampton, Mass.
The lady who sold it to them has
no cause to worry. They are not
the kind who buy, unless they are
able to pay cash.
When elected Vice-President of
United States Mr. Coolidge occupied
one-half a duplex house, for which
he paid $35 month.
When he retired from the presi-
dency he and Mrs. Coolidge went
back to that same house.
Some people have ridiculed this
as evidencing an exaggerated case
of thrift complex.
Others have regarded 1t as fine
example Of modesty.
After all, why should man strut
just because he has been President
or can buy f1ivver without signing
notes?
Calvin Coolidge has come to be
the great American exemplifier of
thrift and silence, yet when COM
pared to Joseph Stain, the Soviet
dictator, he resembles nothing so
distinctly as a garrulous spend
thrift.
Stain, though head of the most
talkatiye party on earth, never has
given a public interview.
More surprising still, he has no
hobbies, no particular form of rec
reation, no alI-important game to
rid his mind OF worry.
Stain does not even fish.
And when it comes to living
quarters, Stain can give that half
OF a duplex house in Northampton
the handicap of two beds, a flight
OF stairs and furnace and still
win, for he, his wife, and two boys
occupy an apartment of only three
rooms:
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Complains
THOMAS sToNEwALL JACI

THOMAS STONEWALL JACK
4 son Of New York writes to
complain about the amount of space
this column has given to the subject
of unemployment.
when I first came to your city
from Tennessee, thirty years ago,
he writes, I'VE had unemployment,
bread lines and pitiful conditions,
but not till now has SO much pub
hcity been given these unfortunate
circumstances-hrst by Socialists
Communists, or Reds, or Bolsheviks
or whatever one cares to dub them.
If it is Socialism to have a hearty
desire to try and get jobs for the
joblesS, then I am Socialist. And
if 1t is Communism, I'm that, too
Or any kind of Red which Jackson
cares to call me.
He says there was anguish thirty
years ago, even though not much
was said about it. And there is an
guish now. Evidently the policy OF
walking softly and carrying a tight
mouth and tight heart has not
worked out with eminent success.
Maybe we have been growing up
and by now have reached an age in
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Times Readers
Voice ViezCS

Editor Times - At recent
convention Of the Anti-Saloon
League in Detroit, a prominent pro-
hibition leader said: I'VE urge upon
the temperance forces of every state
the imperative necessity of reviving
the teaching of scientific (sicD
temperance in the public schools,
with due regard to those scientific
processes and we'll established rules
which belor to public education"
This is a foggy breath of words.
What does the chap mean? Who
ever heard of scientific" temper
ance? Does he mean prohibition?
Every man who knows the meaning
of words knows there iS no place
for temperance in prohibition phil
osophy; for in order shat there may
be temperance, there must be liquor
on which to exercise temperance
and there is no place for liquor in
the prohibition scheme.
Scientific temperance! Scientific
rubbishl Before the man talks of
science, let him learn the meanings
of words.
CHARLES HOOPER,
Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
De Long

CIR GEORGE MARES, British
~ explorer, set out on MAY 90
1875, with the Alert and Discovery.
the first steamships to be used in
polar exploration.
He penetrated to latitude 80 de-
grees IA minutes with the Alert. A.
party which then left the Alert and
proceeded with dogsleds, reached
latitude 83 degrees 20 minutes 26
seconds.
In 1879 George Washington De
Long, American explorer, set out in
the jeanette. On Sept. 5 the ship
was caught in the polar ice pack
and held prisoner. For two years.
the ship drifted helplessly with the
ice.
On June 10, 1881, the grinding
movements of the ice crushed the
ship and it sank. The members of
the expedition put to sea in three
small boats which the jeanette had
carried.
One was swallowed by the sea.
The others landed on the Siberian
coast at the mouth Of the Lena
River. Here De Long and his men
died of starvation.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Another Peril Turks

THIS spirit, which inspires mil
l. lions to work for their bed and
board, represents more than a philo-
Sophical divergence.
Where other people demand a
wage that will provide something
besides the bare necessities of life,
the Russian masses appear willing
to toll for the mere prospect of put
ting their doctrines and beliefs into
effect.
The result is that they can pro-
duce and sell things at price which
will aIlnihilate competition if they
have the hardihood to keep it up.
Two hundred fifty thousand ors
of Russian anthracite coal have
been delivered on American docks
at dollar less a ton than the mar
ket price of Pennsylvania anthra-
cite.
If the Russian miners are willing
to go on indefinitely at II cents a
day, and if other Russian workers
are willing to show a like devotion
in other fields. they will give us
something more serious to think
about than the abstract dogmas Of
Communism.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Soviet SCOTS at GLORY

XXTHEN it comes to disregard of
w the material trappings of
glory, no people on earth ever have
gone farther than the leaders of
Soviet Russia.
Lenin, Trotsky, zinovieff. Stain
and the rest have put up with liv-
ing conditions which the average
American laborer would call tough.
The sacrifices they have made in
this respect, and that the majority
Of Russians have made, for that
matter, speak of nothing so vivid
ly as the ardor and enthusiasm
which dominate the Communist
movement.
Those who describe this move
ment as religion are not exagger-
ating.
Though claiming to be material
istic in purpose, it is controlled by
just such spirit of blind emotion
as drove the followers of Moham-
med across the western world and
the Christian crusaders to Pales-
tine,
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
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I Daily !
Lenten Devotion
wednesday, April 2
ExALTING THE VALLEYS

wednesday, April 2
EXALTING THE VALLEYS
Read Isaiah 40:1-8. Memory
verse: Every valley shall be ex-
alted." Isaiah 40;4)
MEDITATION
Life is a cross-country journey
It lies over valley and hill. Isaiah
SAYS that every valley shall be ex-
allied and every mountain and hill
shall be made low. The order OF
the phrases may indicate that val
leys furnish the greatest problems
Men are not much intinidated by
mountains. There is a challenge IN
the mountains that stirs ones spirit.
It is the valleys that discourage. If
we can only get our problem or
difficulty into such shape that it
will challenge US, as a mountain
challenges we can usually handle 1t.
To conquer a valley, exalt it, make
hill out of it, and then climb the
hill.
PRAYER
o thou, through whom We are
more than conquerors, help us to
face this day without fear. May
every difficulty that arises be a
summons to our spirits to disclose
the vast divine resources that thou
has put within us. To him that
overcometh thou dost give the
crown Of life. Amen.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
GreeIy

IN 1881, the government of the
4 United States agreed to join with
number Of European governments
in establishing a ring OF circum-
polar stations TO make simultaneous
meteorological and other scientific
observations.
Lieutenant Adolphus Washington
Greely an American army officer:
was sent to establish an American
station at Lady Franklin bay.
He set sail in the Proteus, a
steamship which had been equipped
with a heavy iron pole TO help 1t
ram its way through the drift ice.
Greely picked a base for the ex-
pedition to the north of Discovery
bay, the place where Sir George
Mares ship, the Discovery, had spent
the winter of 1876.
Greely established an observing
station on land which was chris
tened Ft. Conger. A frame house
was built and provisions and instru-
ments moved into it. On Aug. 18
the ProteuS started back home, leav-
ing Greely and his men at Ft. Con-
ger.
The winter proved extremely Sc
we're. In the spring, exploring ex-
petitions were sent out in various
directions, one party going north.
reached the point to which Sir
George Mares had brought the Alert.
A relief steamer was expected be-
fore the second winter set in, but
none arrived. In the spring, Greely
decided to start south in some small
boats.
Soon the small boats we're frozen
in the ice. However, they were
drifting toward Cape Sabine where
Mares had left large store of sup
plies.
They reached Cape Sabine and
spent the next winter there. Gradu-
ely the supplies gave out and the
expedition faced starvation.
Relief did hot reach them until
June %, 1884, when Captain Schley,
commanding the Thetis, reached
them. Only Greely and six of his
men we're still alive.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02

When 1t Comes to Disregard
ing the Material TrappingS
Of Glory, No People Haze
Gone Farther Than the
Russians.

A S general proposition, the
N moving picture industry is to
be congratulated on its new code OF
ethics and practices.
A code of some kind is made
necessary not only because of the
influence this industry exercises on
public emotions, opinions and be-
liefs, but because it is under central
lied control.
The theater of FINLAND repre-
sents organized, rather than indi-
vidual, expression, and creates
situation in which opportunity to
spread propaganda overShadows the
right of unrestrained utterance.
Those in command show wisdom
in recognizing their responsibilities
in such way as should forestall the
necessity of censorship.
Il n
Claudius H. Huston is reported
as unwilling to resign under fire.
DENLY and Wilbur were reported
to feel the same way when the oil
scandal first broke out, but changed
their minds shortly afterward.
It is the size of the fire that
counts. Most of us can stand a
little, but that does not prove what
will happen when things get warm,
especially for our friends.
No doubt Huston visualizes the
impending Democratic attack as his
severest trial, but just wait until the
Republicans begin to lay down a
barrage of alarms.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

THERE still are people who use
Il the words germ theory" indi-
eating of course that they are not
familiar with the fact that germs
can be demonstrated as certainly as
any of the material things in life
Since the time of Pasteur it has
been recognized that germs are as
sociated with the causation of dis
ease, with changes in food products
with various commercial processes
and in fact with almost every aspect
OF orr daily existence.
The numbers and varieties Of the
germs that have been discovered are
in the thousands and for each OF
them the bacteriologists have been
able to define certain character
istics that make it as individual as
the races of man.
The average man and particular
ly the physician is interested Scien-
tif1cally in the character of the
germ, but he is far more concerned
with what the germ can do in the
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this DaDer.--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
AHy-Oop!

The Literary Digest straw vote shows that every
state heard from thus far is wet, with the exception
Oh kansas. The Wichita Beacon. owned by Senator
Henry j. Allen, commenting on the poll says:
"As Kansas is dry so stays America"
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
Daily Thought

Behold that which I have seen;
it is good and comely for one to
eat and to drink, and TO enjoy the
good of all his labour that he
takefh under the sun all the days
of his Ife.-EccleSiaStes 5:iS.
q
Pleasure has its time; so too has
wisdom. Make love in thy youth.
and in old age attend to thy saliva
tion.-Voltaire.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02

Is the elevation of Lake Michigan
greater than that of Lake Erie?
Lake Michigan has an elevation
Of 581 feet above sea leTel and Lake
Erie Is 573 feet.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
TT SEEMS TO ME By HRT%qSD REH9}S

which it is possible to look facts
right in the face and call them all
by their first names.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02
A Boulder Dam Joker?

you have your orders Kansas has spoken.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-04-02

she added. after all, they've only
got to stick together until June"
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-04

LES ANGELES. Mar. 4. U.p =
Experience won for Willie Feldman,
New York Jewish middlcwcight,
Whom he TOOK 4 - round decision
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-04
Safety Expert To
Address Meetings

r. y. Goodsell, Of the public safe.
ty bureau Of the Automobile Club of
southern California will address
both the senior and junior bodies
or the FL Centro Chamber of Com.
mercc at their meetings tomorrow
His talk at the luncheon, before the
senior body will be on "The degree
OF master motors Of the Kings High.
way" The junior organization at
their breakfast meeting will heal
an address 4 "The Science of Mot.
oroleogy." Goodsell is an unusually
fine speaker and his subjects prom.
ises to be full of interest.
Wednesday night at 7:30 the
board of directors Of the chamber
viii meet in executive session and
president Leo Hetzel urges full at
ndance as there is much business
10 transact owing to the fact that
last week no meeting was held be-
cause of the Imperial County Fair.
In addition to Goodsell's talk the
jnnior members will be enteretain-
ed by film entitled putting the
Win in Window, furnished through
the courtesy of the Office Supply
Company and by musical numbers
~ Alfred Garcia and Doug Decide.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-04
$50. California
Sport Briefs

AVALON, Catalina Island, Calf,
Mar. 1. U.H A forecast for con
tinucd unsettled weather, kept the
Chicago cabs squad scanning the
shY today in the fear that rain
might again keep them Off the train
ing field. The pitchers and catchers
had only half an hour of throwing
Yesterday because Of rain.
PASO ROBIES, Calf, Mar. i.
U.P) \ scheduled first workout of
the entire Pitts burgh Pirates
squad was expected to be held TO
day after rain kept the players off
the fic!d yesterday. Vice President
sam Drcytuss announced the release
cf Floyd Young, outficldcr, to Co
lambda in the South Atlantic league
and tie release outright of Tommy
Heath and Harold McTavish, Cali
fornia rockies.