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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Other Law Enforcement

Faced with charges that his ALLEGATION Of Boulder
dam power does not comply with law, Secretary OF In
terror Wilbur has obtaired a legal opinion from ms
solicitor. approving in every respect the plan outlined
by Wilbur several months ago.
Il is a remarkable opinion
If the courts find 1t to be sound law, then congress
must revrite the federal water power act. Further
more. congress is going to have to find new words
to make clear its meaning. Words which had seemed
Enthusiastically plain no longer are adequate.
It is doubtful whether any solicitor but the pres
ent one, E. c. Finney, who for more than thirty years
has helped secretaries OF interior do what they wished,
could have written the opinion on Boulder dam power.
This is the situation. The Boulder dam act says
the secretary Of interior shall divide the power gener-
ated at the dam in conformity with the policy ex-
pressed in the federal water power act.
And this is the act: "The commission shall give
preference to applications by states and municipalities,
provided the plans for the same are deemed by the
commission equally well adapted, or shall within a
reasonable time be fixed by the commission to be made
equally well adapted, to conserve and utilize in the
public interest the navigation and water resources OF
the region"
Wilbur already having decided to give approx
mstely one-fourth Of the power to private power COM
panies, Finney i~nterprets this section in the follow
ing way. He passed over the clause about states and
municipalities ana goes W JLe WOlOS PuDi4N NCAS0
Public interest" he says, is one Of those broad
terms ike public policy, capable Of different legitimate
interpretations in the discretion of the officer called
upon to administer it. The interest referred to is pri-
marilv the governments responsibility, financial and
otherwise, to all the people Of the United States
The primary public interest is in the Soundness OF the
contracts and the solvency of the contractor, not in the
corporate or municipal character of that contractor
Farther on, in reply to a question from Secretary
Wilbur as to what discretion ne is permitted by the
act, Finney says, in effect, that the preference clause
means nothing whatever. Finney then attempts to read
into the act a requirement that power must be avail
able to al adjacent areas, whether publicity or pri-
vately served.
These interpretations would confer on the secre-
tarv Of interior authority to do exactly as he pleases,
regardless Of the law. Whether wilfully or not, they
tend to cloak law violation with the s~anctity of legality.
If these Interpretation are not challenged, they
will establish a precedent threatening a future danger
worse than the wrong for which they pave the way at
Boulder dam
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

terfere with their proper opening
and closing.
In the vast majority the changes
that take place r insidious and
the individual seldom Is aware Of his
danger until considerable damage
has been done.
In discussing the future of medi-
cine, Sir James Mackenzie empha-
sized particularly the Importance of
detecting the symptoms of heart
disease in their earliest stages.
This detection is not the sort of
thing that the physician must do
primarily. The patient must come
to him before he a apply the spe-
cial knowledge that he possesses.
When the heart has been dam
aged it gives evidence in several
ways. The physician accustomed to
recognizing the normal sounds of
the heart "a detect changes in
their strength, their frequency, their
order, and any unusual sounds, such
as murmurS which are not heard
over a normal heart.
He al count the heart beats be-
fore and after effort and see if the
heart responds prmoptly and prop
erly to unusual work. and how
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
City Manager and Bosses

Clevelands city council has fired the city manager,
William r. Hopkins.
The Republicans acted on the orders of Maurice
Maschke, local boss. Six years ago Maschke named
Hopkins to Office, the first city manager i'll the largest
city ever to attempt that form of government.
Maschke now has removed him.
Maschke also has named Daniel E. Morgan, Cleve-
land lawyer and state senator, to succeed Hopkins.
AS soon as the formality Of a public hearing for Hop
kins is out of the way, it will be City Manager
Morgan.
For those who thought the city manager plan put
the parties out Of business, CleveIands experience will
be a disappointment For those who think city man.
ayers always are experienced administrators. it also
will be a disappointment.
There is no doubt that the firing Of Hopkins was
discreditable, and on fimsy evidence. There is no
denying that it was done by purely political means.
But the fact remains that Hopkins first was named
politically, and that he gave the city six years of
high-type government. marred only by the misdeeds
of a corrupt ring of hold-over councilmen.
It also is true that the new manager, Morgan.
will be an able executive, Judging from his past
record.
In both cases, the political naming Of the chief
executive went on as it would under a mayor plan
But in both cases, a better man was named than, nine
times out of ten, would be named under a mayor
plan.
This experience also has demonstrated that pub
lie influence can be brought strongly to bear on
councilmen, in naming a manager. The protest over
the firing of Hopkins in Cleveland forced the boss.
Maschke, TO name not his first choice, but his second
or third. and a much better man.
Clevelands charter is not ideal. It has weak spots,
and some unpopularity, as recent close votes on amend
ments have shown. But Cleveland's experience this
week has not injured the city. manager cause in that
city, nor weakened the charter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
HEALTH
IF You Get 'Winded,' Have Heart Test

quickly the rate returns to normal
after the effort is discontinued
He can determine how much eff
fort is required for the individual TO
become short Of breath.
Realizing the Importance of these
studies, special tests of heart func-
ton have been elaborated by which
the trained physician al determine
how capably the heart responds.
The tests are simple. They may be
simply repeated standing and Sit
ting, hopping a given number Of
times, bending over and Straighten-
ing up a certain number of times,
climbing a certain number of steps
and similar efforts.
Pain is not always, and indeed
not usually a symptom of heart dis
ease. Serious breathleSsneSs follow
ing slight effort, unusual fatigue
after brief exercise, a sense Of con-
Striction in the chest, may be far
more serious as symptoms than oc-
casional pain.
The first sign Of heart failure, rs
Mackenzie emphasizes, is frequently
merely a sensation Of distress when
the individual undertakes some eff
fort that he was previously accus-
toned to perform in comfort,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
REASON By Ff aaspIs

THERES a great deal of discussion because
L Gladys Moon Jones, Washington lobbyist and
press agent, wrote a speech for Mrs. Pratt, member
OF congress from New York City, but it's not SUI
ficiently unusual to merit extended reference.
1t has been quite the thing all through our ma
tional life for many OF those in public station to hire
somebody to write their speeches.
Many of our Presidents have done this. For in
stance, George Washington was benefited by the
literary genius of Alexander Hamilton and many
known writer's.
Secretary of State Seward suggested a minor
change or two in Lincoln's first inaugural address and
Secretary of the Treasury Chase suggested two
words in the emancipation proclamation, but the rail
splitter needed no help.
BANCROFT, the historian, wrote some OF the sturdy
ID state papers which Andrew Johnson sent to con-
greSS when he and it were at death grips and as the
years passed by the practice of having a finished
writer around the presidential premises was adopted.
Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Coolidge, without batting an
eye, delivered speeches which were prepared by others.
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Amusing stories are told of the pride which differ
ent Presidents have felt because such speeches went
over big. there being no percepttble diminution OF their
satisfaction because some one else did the work.
Possibly a fellow thinks he wrote it after he's been
complimented half a dozen times, just as a fellow gets
to believe the story he tells over and over.
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course. nobody wrote the speeches or state
papers of Theodore Roosevelt or woodrow VIII
son, for while in technical matter they may have
employed the suggestions of experts, neither of them
needed any literary aid society, they being the ablest
writer's in the White House since Lincoln.
Lincoln'S gifts in this direction are the more re-
markable when you recall that he never went to
school one whole year, all put together.
.
However, he read always and gained much Of his
clear and simple style from his reading of the Bible
He was far from being the uncultivated man his
enemies DaiNted him having read many of the great
authors with delight, particularly Shakespeare. from
whose plays he was able to quote by the page and
concerning the proper rendition of which he argued
with the great actors who came to Washington
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Judge Sabbatino Expounds Americanism

Recently there flashed forth in Brooklyn an en-
thuSiastic devotee of virile AmericaniSm- Magistrate
Sylvester Sabbatino was addressing a young Com
munist, David WeiSse, who with his sister had been
arrested for soliciting funds to aid the defense of
the Gastonia strikers. The magistrate made no effort
10 conceal his passionate devotion to Americanism
or his notions of civics and pedagogy. Addressing
Weiss, he said:
what you need is for me to have you in a two
by four room. What would I do TO you? I'd blacken
your eyes and give you some real American spirit"
The magistrate may have been a little careless
or hasty in choosing the dimensions Of his proposed
classroom, but Of his fine spirit there could be
40 doubt.
Magistrate Sabbatino just has been interviewed by
a representative Of the press and induced to elaborate
his conceptions Of AmericaniSm. Starting OF in good
Mayfower style, he chronicles the struggles Of his
forefathers to realize the ideals which they later en-
bodied in the Declaration OF independence and the
Constitution.
"AmericaniSm,7 he says, lis the strict adherence
to the ideals imbedded in the Constitution Of the
United States and in the Declaration of hide
pendence.'
Asked what he believed to oe the best method of
~instilIing Americanism into the youth Of the land,
he declared his preference for education. Going fur
ther, he asserted that the chief defect in education
today as an agency for intoxicating the ideals Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18

Americanism Is to be found in the lack of religion.
This is the primary menace to Americanism."
So much for Magistrate Sabbatinos declared belief
that he is for AmericaniSm Of the brand Of the
Declaration Of independence. Let us see how his
conception of Americanism in action conforms to the
ideals of the author of that document.
In one of his most famous statements, jefferson
asserted that he had sworn eternal enmity to every
form OF tyranny over the mind of man." Magistrate
Sabbatinos threats of nose punching and his epithets
Of "mongrel" and moron" come dangerously near
to mental tyranny.
But there is one classic passage from the writings
Of the sage Of Monticello SO cogent and timely that
it almost might have been written as a civil liberties
report on the Sabbatino case:
ITO suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his
powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the
profession or propagation of principles, on suppose
ton Of their i'll tendency, is a dangerous falacy.
which at once destroys all liberty, because he being,
of course, judge of that tendency, will make his
opinions the rule of judgment and approve or con-
denim the sentiments of others only as they shall
square with or differ from his own.
ut is time enough for the rightful purposes Of
civil government for its officers to interfere when
principles break out into overt acts against peace
and good order"
Nor will the magistrate measure up more sue
We assume that he is a Christian.
If SO, his nose-punching propensity hardly squares
with the admonition of his Master to turn the other
cheek. Nor will his "mongrel" and moron" line up
too we'll with the slogan, blessed are the meek"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Cause for Worry

ITO judge by the headlines, JUS
L. tice Hughes declaration that the
interests of this country were
sa%feguarded made a far deeper i'm
preston than did his explanation Of
The world court and its work.
What worries the American peo-
pie and the people of all other
contries for that matter is the posi-
bility that they can't get back.
thing that they can't get back.
Their attitude in this respect is
rooted in history and fertilized in
the Schoolroom.
H. G. Wells rails at the 'flimsy
Utopianism about peace now so cur
rent" meaning the idea that it can
be had by signing treaties without
force, and establishing courts with
out power, but is not his conception
Of the problem just as insane?
Does he suppose that people would
consent to an international police
force, without a thorough under
standing of its authority and their
rights?
And how could they arrive at such
understanding, except through Gre
alton of courts and gradual develop
ment of international law?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Admiration

A ND even here the country editor
"A betrays a suppressed, uncon-
scious admiration for the great
metropolitan journalist whom he
attacks.
Without apparent hesitation, this
man, who calls himself my foe, con-
cedeS me some Of the busiest
Ravens in this whole humming land.
I am much too modest to make
any such far-fung claims for my
self. Indeed, I must draw back and
say, "Sir, I fear that you exagger-
ate" Inevitably there must be re-
mote sausage shops where the name
and fame Of Broun are quite un-
known.
Nevertheless, 1t is a pretty COM
pliment which the Charlotte editor
has paid me with his traditional
southern hospitality.
He seems to say in his courtly
way that his free associations with
the phrase, 1T Seems to Me-" are
sustenance, polish and mustard.
Even the humble kraut Is known
by now to contain the vitamins by
which men live, and a small glass
very day will keep the doctor
urther away than any one who can
throw an apple.
Copyright. 1880. By The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18

If Disarmament We're Real,
the Nations Would Be More
Concerned With Airplanes
and Poison Gas.
SAYS.

DREMIER MACDONALD is
L wrong in proposing to scrap
battleships. They ought to be kept
as museum pieces. But let that
pass.
Even though nations are not In
a mood to destroy their up-to-date
engines of war, they may gain
something by junking those that
have become obsolete.
If disarmament were real, it
would be more concerned with air
planes and poison gas, as H. c..
Wells points out.
Those who expect it to be real
at this stage of the game, however,
expect too much.
1t is only within the last twenty
five years that we began to talk
about disarmament as a possibility.
How long ago was it that people
began to talk about the possibility
Of Republican government?
It n II
A pact outlawing war, but pro-
viding no method to keep it out
lawed; a world court to settle inter
national disputes, with no way to
make its decisions stick; a League
of Nations, with a council, assembly
and secretariat, but not a police
man on the beat.
Indeed, n can pick out a lot Of
flaws in tho performance bI1f tn
Whist end, or with what logic?
Revolutionary ideas are not put
into action over night, and never
have been. The power of tradition
Is too great, and what tradition lacks
is more than made up by fear.
Humanity still is sold on nation
alisn as a system, and still afraid
of world peace because of the sur
render of sovereignty it involves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN.
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

THE heart is a muscular pump,
l. pushing the blood around the
body through the arteries and veins,
and back into the heart again. The
blood is sent through the lungs
where it receives oxygen.
1t goes on and on through many
years of life, producing enough
work to lift the weight of the in
dividual thousands of feet in the
air.
It receives its own nutrition
through the blood supply that goes
to the heart directly. When the It's
sues of the heart are attacked by
infectious disease, or when poisonS
carried in the blood bring about
changes, or when too much con-
tinued strain is put upon the organ,
it revolts, as would any other mech
anism, and it responds in various
ways.
Some infections weaken the It's
sues so that they are stretched be-
yond repair. Others produce
growths upon the valves which in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Harmless

"THEIR writings, however" con-
L tinues the Observer in its 81
lent way. "are harmless, for 1t Is
very we'll understood that they are
not taken seriously by the public
they reach, and are meant mainly
for consumption around bootblack
stands and hotdog corners.
"They are of proper discount
among all intelligent readers over
the country, and the people have
cone to receive them with amuse-
ment, rather than indignation.
"If controverted, the opportunity
for continuation is developed, but
with Nominations of the kind per-
sistently unnoticed. they would soon
expire and be heard no more.
Controversy with fellows of this
kind only serves to keep their am
munition chest supplied. The silent
contempt treatment is the sort that
kills"
That may be well enough as far
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Hurry Is Dangerous

INSTEAD of being discouraged at
l. the slow progress of the peace
movement, we should be thankful
that it is not developing any faster.
To hurry it would be to run the
risk of making irreparable blunders
and creating such violent reactions
as might destroy it.
In this connection, the world Is
not dealing with the simple propo-
sion Of drawing pictures on a clean
slate, but of substituting a gigantic
scheme for one which has been
woven into the habits, customs and
thought processes Of the human
race.
The task of outlawing war. or ad-
justing international disputes by
peaceful means, and of putting
civilization on a cooperative basis
is more stupendous than was that
of converting the western world to
Christianity.
While it is true that we have de-
veloped a capacity for doing things
quickly, only fanatics could believe
that we have made enough progress
to accomplish in a decade what still
is incomplete after two thousand
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
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IANNtVER$ARY
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VERSAILLES CONFERENCE

NA~1<AAAALo AONNI LnENNk
Jan. 1S
ON Jan. 10, 1919, the Versailles
" peace conference formally
opened.
Out of this meeting came the
treaty Of peace signed by representa-
tiyes Of the allied powers and Ger
many, marking the close of the
World war.
Versailles Is a town in northern
France, capital of the department
Of Seine-et-Oise twelve miles south
west Of Paris. 1t has been the scene
Of many other historic events, in
Guiding the signing of the armistice
between Great Britain and the
United States in 1873, and was, for a
time, the capital of France.
Today also is the anniversary of
the institution of the United States
departments Of commerce and labor,
on Jan. 10, 1903.
On Jan. 10. IT'S. Georgia elected
delegates 70 the continental con-
gress.
On Jan. 10, 1882, Daniel webster
vas born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
SCIENCE
Theory That Man Is Not
Descended Directly From
Aps-Like Ancestors Creates
Stir Among Scientists.
By DAVID DIETZ.

1.-TWO events of the recent meet
l. ing of the American AsSocia-
ton for the Advancement OF Sci
ence continue to receive extended
comment in the editorial columns
Of the nations newspapers. They
are the contentious of DR.. Henry
Fairfield Osborn that mankind Is
more than a million years old and
not descended directly from ape
like ancestors. and the contentious
Of DR.. Robert A. Millikap that the
future of man is safe in the hands
Of science.
DR.. OSborn'S theory. perhaps, Is
receiving the greater amount OF
attention. In view of this fact,
therefore, it is of interest to ex-
anime the evidence in this interest"
ing field Of research. A
Fortunately an excellent sum-
mary has already been made by DR..
Gerrit S. Miller Jr.. curator Of the
United States National Museum.
AS DR.. Miller points out, only two
finds have been made which can be
considered in the nature of missing
links
They are the skull, teeth ard
thigh-bone found at Trinil. Java,
constituting the so-called Java man
or Pithecanthropus, and the skull.
jaw and nasal bones found at Pitt
down. Sussex. England, and con-
stituting the so-called Piltdown man
or Eoanthropus.
All discussion therefore must be
based chiefly or an Interpretation
of the age, the physical and the
mental characteristics of these two
specimens.
That there should be no general
agreement upon the subject, is not
surprising.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
SEEMS II ME By 1Fo32S

EUST what 1 have done is not
~ specified, but the Observer of
Charlotte, N. c., seems to be in
censed. I am honored with an n
tire editorial in the first column.
The leader is called occasion for
Silent Contempt" and reads as fol-
lows:
NOW and then from different
parts of the country friends Of the
south are sending the Observer clip
pings of the Nominations OF the
writer known as Broun, whose spe-
cialty is the casting of slime toward
the southern people.
"Of course, they want the OBJ
server to burn him up but notor1-
ETY. is just what fellows like Broun
court, and eagerly. The more notice
to themselves they are able to at
tract, the better it pleases them"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-18
Proportion Sense Lost

THE peace movement suffers no
Il wors handicap than the nom
sensical expectations of those who
look for it to mature in an unrea-
sonably short time.
Their preposterous criticisms serve
no purpose so distinctly as to dis
gust normal people.
Sometimes it seems as though
they had lost their sanse of pro-
portion, and as though they ex-
pected the greatest drama in hu-
man affairs to come to it's climax
within the space of hours.
To all intents and purposes, their
attitude is much like that of the
prohibitionists back in 1917. and ev-
cry one knows what happened be-
cause of that.