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The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
The R-1OO

Another dirgible has flown safely across the
ocean, The passage of the R-1OO from Cardington'
England to Montreal brings aviation one step nearer
q regular transoceanic dirigible service.
Never has lighter -than-air craft which started
across the ocean been lost at sea. The result is
public confidence in overwater transportation by
clrigibles which the airplane lacks. DirigbleS at
present are the logical vehicles for the supsrswift
transoceanic commerce. Some day the airplane may
at in but Just now the risk is too great.
Great Britain deserves much credit for building
this levathan Of the skies and for patience in de-
laying the ocean flight until she was sure OF her ship
The result was success and brilliant contribution
to the sane and steady growth Of aeronautics as
twentieth century transportation medium that viii
not be ignored.
With Germany. England and the United States
all building and experimenting with bigger and faster
drgibes the era of regular two-day air service be-
tween Europe and America can not be far away. We
wish the R-1OO an equally pleasant voyage on her
homeward trip.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
We Can Stand 1t

.NF course, there does exist gap
" between what the Russians
think they are doing or trying to do
and what actually has been accom-
plished. But, rest assured, even
when described in the most glow
ing terms, there still will be enough
about the Soviet idea to ALLEVIATE
support of most Americans.
There is no getting away from
the fact that our economic systems
seem diametrically opposed. But
even this difference may be greater
on the surface than ir essence.
Being mutually stiff-necked has
not helped much. The Russians,
like all recent converts, are fired
with a fanatic zeal to evangelize the
whole world. 1t is a land abound
ing in millions of nascent Billy Sun
days Anything which isn't Com
munism to them is depraved and
evil.
Yet, are we wholly innocent of a
somewhat similar sort of thinking?
Isn't there a disposition here to look
upon the Soviet republic as a mon
ster because it is so unlike our own?
Maybe Communism is good for
Russia. At any rate, its choice in
f1avors is no business Of ours. This
good rule works both ways.
Even if both sides insist on max
ing faces at each other, I can't for
the life of me understand why that
should stop all trade.
lL.nr1s.rirIat taan hv The Timesl
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Nervous Dyspeptic Needs Mind Cure

He must find out the particular
worry or anxiety or fear that is at
the bottom of the difficulty, make
the patient realize that fact, and
perhaps encourages q complete
change in the social relationships
of the patient to bring about relief.
This is not an easy task and quite
frequently fails, so that these pa
tients are seen touring from one
physician to another; they are
found in the large clinics over the
country; in sanitariums and in
various medical institutions; and
their cure, indeed, they are always
carrying around with them in their
own brains.
Here is a problem that taxes the
finest qualities of the physician,
who applies not only the science of
medicine, but what is known par
ticularly as the art of medicine.
Most important is the confidence
which the patient must have in his
doctor.
Given that confidence the physi-
clan can, by system, of education,
training, proper diet, diversion and
proper hygiene start the patient on
the road to recovery.
But let the circumstances persist
or develop again which brought
about the downfall and the patient
promptly relapses.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01

What are the barking sands of
Hawaii?
The so-called barking sands Of
Hawaii, and many other places, are
varieties of sand known as musical
sand. These exhibit remarkable
sonorous qualities when struck or
subjected to friction. The sand must
consist of rounded and polished
grains Of tolerably uniform size and
must be clean. The sounds emitted
are often decidedly musical. and dis
tinct notes can be produced, high or
low, according to the nature Of the
friction and the quantity OF the
sand operated upon. There is moth
ing in its appearance to distinguish
it from mute sand-sonorou and
non-sonorous sand of precisely SINH
lar aspect lie side by side on the
same beach. No satisfactory ex-
planation Of the phenomenon has
been given.
Is there tribe Of people in the
Philippines called Ita?
In some parts of the Philippines
the Negrito tribes are called Ita.
It is local term.
Is Jockey Earl Sande married?
He is a widower, his wife, Marion
Casey Sande. having died Sept. 2.
1927. at Saratoga Springs, New
York. she was niece Of Mrs. Sam
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

comfort, difficulty of swallowing,
distaste for food and possibly an
idea that the heart is palpitatirg.
The person with nervous dyspep-
sia usually begins to attribute his
difficulties to one food after another
that he thinks is responsible. He
begins to narrow down the list of
things that he thinks he can eat
comfortably and soon he becomes a
general nuisance around the home.
Because of his phobias for various
types of food, he begins to lose
weight rapidly.
On the other hand, in certain
number of cases the nervous dys-
peptic gets the idea that the way
to overcome his condition is to force
his unwilling organs and he begins
to overeat, particularly of indigesti-
BILE foods. The result is havoc and
disaster in the interior department.
Obviously a person with nervous
dyspepsia makes a very difficult
patient for any physician. In the
first place the doctor has to make
certain that the condition is wholly
a nervous disorder and not related
to any actual degeneration or in
fammation of the organs involved.
Then when the diagnosis is GER
tainly made, the doctor is confront
ed with the problem of making the
patient realize that the mental sit,
uation is at fault.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Belts
PRACTICALLY all sun sr

PRACTICALLY all sun spots oc-
l. cur in one of two belts. These
belts start on either side of the
equator in latitudes degrees north
and south, respectively.
The northern belt extends to lat
itude 40 degrees north. The south
ern belt extends to latitude 40 de-
greeS south.
Sun spots vary in number in a.
cycle. At the time of sun spot maxi
mum, a few spots occur near the
equator.
Russell states that a few small
and short-lived spots have, on occa-
sion, been observed in latitudes as
high as 65 degrees and even 70 de-
grees.
Generally about the same number
of spots occur in the northern belt
as in the southern belt. But some
times there will be a period of years
in which one belt will have more
spots than the 'ther.
An interesting bit of history is
connected with this fact. From 1872
to 1704 not single spot occurred
in the northern belt.
The result was that when a few
did appear there in 1705, they
caused great excitement among as
tronomers and were reported to the
French Academy of Science as an
unusual occurrence.
Russell states that during the last
fifty years there have been about
one-t1fth more spots in the southern
belt than in the northern one. AS
is the case with so many details of
sun spot behavior, no reason for
this state of affairs has been adj
vanced.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Another Dry Pledge

No one is apt to get very excited over the latest
plan for prohibition enforcement, announced by
Federal Director Woodcock
Long and arduous experiment has proved rather
conclusively that this law can not be enforced
strictly There nothing surprising about that It
always is true of laws that lack the respect and
moral support of a large part of the population.
Only those laws which voluntarily and freely ac-
cepted and obeyed by an overwhelming majority of
citizens can be forced upon the minority.
Bascally, prohibition enforcement had failed be-
cause the law itself has failed to hold or win the
consent of a sufficiently large majority.
In addition the methods of enforcement in them
selves have alienated increasing numbers of citizens
from respect for the law. This is recognized by
Woodcock. 'I think much of the criticism of pro-
hibiton in the United States is due to blunders and
misconduct of agents and investigators" he says.
So Woodcock proposes that the federal machine
be creased and the personnel be trained to eliminate
the sensational and lawless methods used in the
past That certainly, is all to the good The viola
tions of constitutional rights limiting search and
SEIZURE and the murder of innocent motorists by pro-
hibiton agents. has become a national menace.
There would be more enthusiasm for the new
form pledges, perhaps if they really new They
are not Periodically, under the Coolidge admin
istraton and even frequently under the Hoover
administration, such promises have been made, with
out results
Therefore, the public while wishing Woodcock luck
in his latest revival of reform plans, can not be
blamed if it reserves its cheers for something
effective than easy promises
In any case, there is no reason to believe that
the most perfect enforcement system possible would
stop the steady swing of American public opinion to
prohibition repeal.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
MARYLAND and California

The picture of two young Baltimore BrahmlnS Oh
the bar. Charles Ruzcka and Hilary Cans, paying
their own and John MacDonald's way from Maryland
IN California to bring their cent" to the scene OF ms
perirv and allow him to confess is an unusual and an
inspiring one.
The two youthful lawyers are reported 70 nave
known little of the Mooney-Biings "frame-up' nuI
IN have become progressively more amazed and out
RACED as they read the shameful story en- route 70
California Their mission, quite simply, was not a
crusade but one as they said TO uphold the tradton
Of the American bar" and see that the truth be told
At first blush it seems almost bizarre that Balti-
more LAWYERS should be shocked while California law
vers-eyen its supreme court-vew the fourteen-year-
old scandal of Mooney and Billings unmoyed Yet IL
isn't so strange.
Law and respect for law thrive only IN rlpeneo
civilizations Marylands is such civilization; Call
fornia with all its amazing growth and tradition
smashing innovations still is frontier state There
are men in San Francisco today who lived through the
vieilante DAYS who recall the Lynch Law of Hang
town who remember the Terry-Broderick duel the
hair-trigger justice Of the Argonauts.
Does this explain in part how California supreme
Justices Governor and pardon board react emotion
ally to the Mooney Billings case?
II this case serves to teach California lesson In
law and its dignity, the martyrdom OF Mooney and
Billings will not have been altogether in vain Cali
fornia too, must grow up The Mooney Billings
scandal is one of its growing pains.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01

seek to protect the officers of the law in 1915 from
charges Of improper identhcations.
The latter are the two clocks that tell the ire
futable story of where Tom Mooney and his wife
were and where Billings was not
Like all the unfortunate human beings who
emerge from the haf-word on the occasion Of every
great crime where a reward is offered, Macdonald
and Estelle Smith have overtalked themselves. Mac
Donald has told the judges he was at Steuart and
Market streets, and there Billings, or some one
he says now was not Billings plant the lethal suit
case about 1850 or o'clock
Estelle Smith on wednesday said that at that time
she was at 721 Market street. nearly mile away,
and saw Billings leaving that place to meet the
Moneys. She sets the time when the head of the
Preparedness parade passing her Office from
which she leaned out to wave towel to Mayor
Rolph
Aside from the fact that Billings could not have
been at both places and that hence the judges must
choose as between two perjurers' stories the clocks
will tell the real truth.
The clock in front Of the dental office where
Estelle Smith worked showed the time when Rolph
passed at Isl. OF course Billings could not have
oeen there she says and at the same time have
nearly mile away, planting suitcase, where
Macdonald seen him" at the same time
The other clock presents perfect alibi for the
MONEYS. Here on top of the Eiler building, 5000
feet from the explosion scene the two plainly are
shown by three pictures also showing street cleck
below, the last one pointing the time 2:01 only
five minutes before the explosion occurred.
One by one the sorry witnesses have come upon
the stage and gone. Oxman, Crowley, the EdeauS
Macdonald and now Estelle Smith, with her absurd
curtain ca-Estelle Smith, who year ago swore
she "a morphine addict" and never was sure it
was Billings she saw, and who now would mplicate
Billings.
Which will the supreme judges believe, the two
confessed perjurers the two clocks?
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Action, Not Words

Some comfort may be had from state"
ments of the members of the highway COM
mission that they are "unalterably opposed
to the practice of some contractors in reduc-
ing wages of workers to below living levels
It sounds pleasant. But it means moth
ing, especially to the jobless men who are
forced to take this work and accept reduc-
tions of wages because of an. overstocked
labor market.
The commission has standards for every
thing else except treatment of human beings.
1t buys cement. If an attempt were made to
short weight, the commission, could, II SO
DISPOSED. force Justice. If crushed stone or
gravel are below standards, vendors could be
forced to furnish the right kinds.
The contracts for state roads are based
on estimates of cost by state engineers In
the compilation of these costs, the wages OF
labor is the largest item. On every contract
for which funds are now being borrowed
from reserves, the labor cost was based on
figure far above the 20 or even 30 cents an
hour being paid by some.
The people have definite rights In this
matter. They have the right of seeing their
money spent decently. They have the right
to labor scales in accoro ance with the estl-
mates upon which bids were made and
awarded.
That the state, even Indirectly, should
ioin in any movement to treat labor as a COM
modify and to take advantage OF a bad
market for toll is vicious public policy.
The commission could remedy the sltua-
ton. if it had any real desire to do so.
If any contractor were discovered TO oe
consistently starving his horses the commits
sion would hardly consider him reliable bid
der in the future If he underfed his ANIMALS,
public sentiment would compel the commits
sion to bar him from public work. The hu-
name society would put him IN Jail.
A simple notice to those who obtain pubic
contracts that the commission will tolerate
no anti-social practices would suffice.
That other public bodies are permitting
similar wage cuts is no excuse for the state.
The situation demands action, not words.
Peonage, under whatever name it may ap-
near. should not be tolerated nor should the
greed of few who have power be allowed to
menace in any manner return OF general
prosperity.
The greatest deterrent to prosperity
would be the reduction of the wage scales OF
labor to slave standards of living.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
INA1 AOO4 Lands
treasury.

T~HE papers tell how Secretary Stimson and Sec
i retary Adams to go, forth gayy to play tennis on
the White House courts, but if Mr.. Hoover wishes
to retain his counselors he should tell them to play
golf or pitch horSeshoes.
Tennis is a runaway for the heart and gentlemen
SO not play it without flirting with the
undertaken.
Speaking of horseshoe pitching, it's delight to
find that this fine sport is finding favor with the
white collar boys.
The city fellows used to make great sport of us
in former days because we did it.
DIR HENRY GOUvAIN eminent English physician,
- says that excessive sun-tan treatment has the
same effect as too much champagne.
This is likely to impress America as an inspiration,
rather than warning, for to those who yearn for
bun. it's much cheaper and safer than the bootleg
route.
Unusually large numbers of American tourists are
going to South America this summer, which is en-
couragng. for if we keep them away from Europe
and in this hemisphere we may in time be able to in
duce them to see their own country
Dr. Ewell Neil. Nashville CTennO dentist has glad
tdings for fappers in the frivolous ffties. He an
nounces that false teeth now be made to provide
the coy veteran with baby lisp.
Her map may be changed also; if she has profile
like Norway and Sweden, it can be changed to re-
semble Spain and Portugal.
UIENNA now plans to become the worlds center
' of music.
Probably she got the idea from paying the fiddler
these last twelve years after dancing with the former
kaiser from 1914 to 1918.
The ladies Of the Philippines serve their country
by sitting on duck eggs to hatch them out.
What a great opportunity for the Vice-President
of the United States
There are hundreds of kids now sitting in trees
all over the country. but If the idea had struck US
back in tho days Of the old wood PIE the response
would have been unanimous.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Arrest Everybody

DUT we are making headWay in
ID what seems to have become the
great American objective Of a stat
ute to cover every conceivable sit
uation, and while it is necessary to
lay 95 per cent of them on the shelf
some Of the time, or all Of them on
the shelf IS per cent Of the time,
We still are chasing the rainbow Of
honest, impartial and complete en-
forcement.
The only question that bothers us
right now is whether we can build
prisons fast enough and get a suf-
ficient number of peace officers on
the public pay roll, but the way ar
rests are increasing offers much en-
couragement.
According to a report covering
eighty-eig of our principal cities,
just issued by the Travellers In
Surance Company, no less than
100000 people ran afoul CT the law
last year, though the total popula-
ton was only 25,000,000.
One in twelve, counting women
and children who generally behave
themselves properly, and an in
crease of nearly $50 per cent with
in ten years.!
Arrests for theft and XII dred Of
fenses more than doubled, those for
intoXications more than trebled,
and those for traffic violations more
than quadrupled.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HFE%99D FHo2fS

CEYMOUR LOWMAN, assistant
- secretary of the treasury, seems
to take the attitude that we are too
proud to trade. I haven't the
slightest idea whether the recently
banned cargoes from Russia are the
product of convict labor, and Mr..
Lowman is in no position to know
much more.
It seems safe to say that the pulp
wood is being kept out because of
the pleas of American manufacturers
who fear competition.
But it is well to remember that
we can not expect to sell to Russia
and take nothing in exchange. l
can not see what the complexion OF
the Soviet republic has to do with
the matter in hand. Surely trade
relationship does not imply the
presence of a profound admiration
on either side.
In the past we have sold our
goods, with all goodwill, to peoples
ruled by emperors, sultans, rajahs
and nikados. Surely we are not 60
ing to begin now to maintain that
no bale of goods shall come in un-
less accompanied by a letter from
the local pastor.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Overdue COLLAPSE

EOR years in public and private
4 the fiction has been maintained
that Soviet rule was about to totter.
1t is silly to go on with that fairy
tale any longer. Every competent
observer who has been to Russia
agrees upon the solidity Of the
Soviet republic.
It is fair to say that the Russians
themselves have done much to
foster the idea that their expert
ment still is in the powder mill
stage.
Soviet leaders forever are discov-
ering counter within
their borders and they have used
that old device of acquiring prestige
at home by proclaiming that for
eign lands are about to leap upon
them.
The truth is that at the moment
no government in the world is in
position to wage war against Rus
sia. Our own profound ignorance
of Russian conditions is matched,
or overmatched. by theirs about, us.
American tourists are forever en-
countering good Communists in
Moscow who ask in all seeming sim
cerity: "Just when do you think
you will have your revolution?"
This notion of a United States
teetering on the brink of a proletar-
ian dictatorship is part of the wish
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
SCIENCE
Observation of Sun Spots
Gaze Scientists the Knot0l-
edge That the Sun Rotates
on It's A1is.
BY DAVID DIETZ.

THE study of sun spots has re-
Il vealed many interesting facts,
many of which still are awaiting
satisfactory explanation. In gen.
eral, astronomers feel that sun spots
merely are the surface manifesto
ton of some sort Of disturbance
deep within the interior Of the sun
and that a complete understanding
Of sun spots would unraveI many
mysteries about the nature of the
sun.
The fact that the sun rotates
upon its axis first was learned from
observation of the sun spots, for if
the sun is watched from day to day,
the spots can be seen moving stead
lily across the face of the sun.
But, in addition, study has re-
veaied that the spots are them
selves drifting on the surface of the
sun. Recent studies show that there
does not seem to be any general
direction of drift, but that spots
anywhere on the sun are likely to
drift in any direction.
In general, however, the amount
of drift east or west is likely to be
double the amount of drift north
or south.
Akesson computes that the av-
erage daily drift in longitude to be
about 43 minutes and that in lati-
tude about "a minutes. This cor
responds to distances on the suns
surface of 5,400 and 5000 miles, re-
spectively.
He also finds that small spots
move faster than large ones.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
One Virtue at a Time

OUTSIDERS, and especially Rus
~ slams, should understand that
the United States has become the
greatest producing machine on
earth, and that though we drive
four times as many automobiles as
all other nations put together, there
is nothing in which we excel so
completely as in the multitude,
variety, and inconsistence Of our
statutes.
We have so many that our Off
Gals don't live long enough to read
them through, much less execute
them.
The job of enforcement has to be
taken piecemeal.
Like Benjamin Franklin, we find
it necessary to live up to our vir-
tues one at a time.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
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LAMMAS DAY
Arro1rSf 4

ON Aug. 1, Lammas day, an old
~ English holiday, was celebrated
in commemoration Of the harvest.
Loaves of bread from the first ripe
grain were consecrated at mass as
an offering Of the first fruits or new
bread.
In Italy, landowners were in the
custom of bringing lambs to mass
on this occasion and this is how
LammaS day is believed to have de-
rived its name.
Lammas day is full of antique SUR
vivals, but the one great custom
which marks it as a link with the
very remote past is the removal Of
the fences from many lands
throughout the country and the
throwing open to common pastur-
age of privately owned property.
Wherever we find LammaS Gus
toms in England" says writer of
that country, I'VE may take it for
granted that it is the last remain
ing link of anwhole group of GUS
toms which Wgether make up the
history of the primitive village CONF
munity.s
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-01
Common Sense

IN fact, little less posturing and
Il more common sense would do a
great deal to lessen the friction be-
tween the Soviet republic and us.
Surely it was not necessary to ap-
point a congressional committee to
ascertain the admitted fact that the
Russians do not like our government
or our economic structure. 1t is
not even news that the powers
which be IN Moscow would like to
see a proletarian revolution over
here.
To this you may answer that the
men of Moscow would do well to
mind their own business and quit
meddling in our affairs. Their own
experiment might well occupy their