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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-17

nations most famous lawyers and crime experts
wrestling with the muttudinous effects Of that
ingly simple proposition.
We find the once efficient and dignifed and smooth
running federal judiciary clogged and choked and
turned into police court.
We find the prisons jammed and wardens and
guards and communities terrified from fear of the
next outbreak.
We find, in the words Of the commission, mo re-
liable figures to show the size of the problem"
We find 1900 miles of boundary described a
focal point Of infection" Not to mention few mil
lion stills and Yats and home brew outfits in the in
terror
We find it proposed that the freedom Of friendly
intercourse between ourselves and our neghbors be
restricted by closing OF hundreds of roads.
We find proposals TO upset the machinery of judi
cial and executive branches of our government
We find it suggested that alter the Bill Of Rights
to fit the needs of The situation
And if we now will raise heads and look around
us We will find murder and hijacking and racketeer
ing and official lawlessness, killings on land and on
sea- cheered on by officials in high places; states
aligned against nation roting around the Cradle of
Liberty" graft and corruption rampant millions and
more millions for enfcrcement-and over it all the
thick haze of hypocrisy.
That's momentum for you.
We thought we were taking bicarbonate of soda to
that ailment of ours, but what we swallowed was
bichloride Of mercury.
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1T SEEMS TO ME By HF RFo8S

her old spirit of kindness and toll
erance, as preached by some great
humorist who can bring back her
sense Of the value of things and
poiSe."
Of course, we could do with lit
tie more kindliness and tolerance,
but if Frank Ward O'Malley walks
all way round the earth, seeking
some place to light, he never will
find any gIut of these qualities.
Many frailties which he picks out
as American belong, in fact, to the
whole human race.
The skies will not always be
bright blue along the Riviera. Even
F7renchman can be rude when
riled. Just let O'DIalley try to open
window in a stuffy train compart-
ment some night, and he will find
that there are bad manners in
lands which know no Volstead.
OMalley and I are both men Of
40-odd, and we have passed the
greater part of our lives in the same
community. He was already a sue
cessful newspaperman the day l
got my first reportorial assignment.
1t was to cover the picnic of a
Tammany leader, who took his fol-
lovers on an excursion boat up the
East river to Witzels Grove at Col
lege Point.
OMalley never had seen me be-
fore, and he helped me out by
telling me which were the tradition
al jokes to use in covering such
story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-17
More Progress in ReIigiOn

signs are not wanting that the church is leap:ng
on the band wagon Of social and intellectual progress
Only the other day the Rev. DR.. Stockdale Oh ne"
vor< Cit pronounced the intolerance of the church
in regard to birth control akin to the medieval IN
QUESTION.
Now We find the venerable DR.. Charles CarroA
AIbertson of Brooklyn gently undermining an even
more crucial corner stone Of the old orthodoxy namely
tbe other worldly vision of conventional religion,
No other tenet Of Christianity has been SO char
acterstic or so potent as the doctrine that the chief
burmese Of human life here on earth is to get ready
for the immortal existence which awaits us in heaven
Such attitude inevitably made the church much
less effective as an instrument of social progress than
would have been the case religion had been chiefly
concerned with the problems Of this life But grant
ing the premises Of the church relative to immortality
the position was sound and logical
The fleeing concerns of this life appear inslgnlh-
cant when compared with the issues of eternity with
ITS sharp choice between heaven and hell
As modern knowledge has undermined the founda-
tions of the older views of immortality the absorption
of the church in the problems Of salvation gave
religion progressively greater air Of unreality 1t
could no longer make the same promises as regards
the future life that it did in former years
Yet it did not come to grips more directly with
human and worldly situations. Many cergymen have
recognized is anomalous position Of religion and
have tried to correct it. We may probably discern
such an attitude in the announcement OF Dr. Albert
son, who said, among other things;
ut is easy and perhaps well to dispel the thoughts
of eternity and to think only of the early future
There is something vague in the term eternity We
are as much in eternity today as we ever shall be.
There are two kinds of Immortality. The first
is that Of the future world, and the second is that
of the present world Let not think OF future i'm
mortality, but rather that which may be ours here
"Then the light which we may leave behind us
may fall on the paths of future generations, and
memories shall bloom for us in beauty and in joy"
If the church is to be a considerable force for
social beterment it must indeed surrender its pri-
mary concern with heavenly mansions. 1t must take
cognizance of human slums. DR.. AlbertsonS words
may well add prestige and dignity to the much
needed process Of transition.
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We Save Fifty MiIlion-Maybe

Fifty-four million dollars is a lot of money But
that Is what the senate has saved American con-
sumers by voting down the proposed increase in the
tariff on sugar That is the public will get the
benefit of this saving unless the house makes the sem
ate accept higher rate in conference.
Meanwhile, the senate is to be congratulated on
its fine job.
There has been much criticism of the time spent
by the senate on the tariff Well here is the result
The house with its G. o. P. steamroler didn't waste
much time but by its unjustied boost in the rates
it was prepared to waste many millions of the peoples
money.
We prefer the senate method of stopping the
high tariff machine even if it takes much maneuver-
ing and some talk to do it.
The senate vote revealed the many cross-cur-
rents in this tariff stream There not the usual
two groups The low tariff group, represented by the
progressives and a majority of Democrats opposing
the higher tariff Republicans and few Democrats.
Both the progressves and the eastern conservative
Republicans split. Some Of the progressves voted
for higher tariff with the doubtful arguments that
it would help the American farmers. And some of
the high tariff conservative Republicans voted for the
low rate. Presumably because that helps American
capital which controls Cuban sugar.
If one single factor more than any other con-
trihuted to this consumers victory probably it was
the press of the country months since the house
voted to increase the rate from ITO to 2.4O, large
majority of the press has been hammering away on
the proposed steal The voters back home were
aroused They protested to Congress.
1t is to be hoped that the people will not mistake
this temporary senate success final victory. high
er rate will be substituted conference between the
senate and house unless the popular protest con-
tinues.
Finally, much depends upon President Hoover. He
is pledged against general high tariff increase. The
house, which betrayed his campaign pledge is con-
trolled completely by his party. Doubtless he will
find 1t easier to reaSSer his leadership in the house
now that the senate has defended successfully the
Hoover tariff position
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to grow and for long is held in check
by elements in the surrounding It's
sue, and that eventually the sur
rounding cells lose their power Of
resistance and the malignant cells
develop rapidly.
The famous German investigator,
Warburg, studied the metabolism of
the cancer cell as contraSted with
the normal cell and found out that
the normal cell can use oxygen
brought by the blood, to oXidize
sugar for its use, and that when
oxygen is withheld the cells split
sugar into Tactic acid.
The cancer cell can rely almost
wholly on the latter process and
gets along without oxygen much
better than does the normal cell.
This indicates why the malignant
cell may grow SO rapidly at the ex-
penSe of the rest of the body.
1t is known that radium affects
the cancer cell unfavorably, but the
exact mechanism of this has not
been understood. Now the imperial
cancer research fund is making a
special study of the effects of ra-
dunn.
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Maine Has Proof

THOSE who doubt that the thing
l. would work out this way should
consult the history of Maine, where
fines were very popular at one time,
and where prohibition resolved it
self into a virtual license system for
,SpeakeaSies, with honest magistrates
and corrupt peace officers fighting
for the loot.
Fines, as a punishment for crime,
never have and never will work any
other way. Yet if the purpose is to
avoid indictments and jury trials by
this new tangled scheme of handling
federal prohibition, who can doubt
that fines will play the big role?
In this connection, people should
remember that the jury system is
desirable, not only because it safe
guards the rights of an accused per-
son. but because it offers average
people chance to express them
selves with regard to the degree of
punishment that the violation of
any law deserves.
People also should remember that
any method which places a premium
on fines makes violation of the law
easier for rich men and harder for
poor men.
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Questions
and AnSzgers

What is the salary of the
Governor General of the Irish
Free State?
Ten thousands pounds sterling. OF
approximately $4,000.
What department of the govern
ment will have charge of the per-
sonnet of the Smoky Mountain
Park?
The United States National Park
Service, Interior Department, Wash
tngton.
How can grass on a brick wall be
destroyed?
A hot I've or hot brine solution
applied occasionally to the walk as
a wash will destroy any plant life
that makes its appearance.
What percentage of the popula-
ton of Mexico is illiterate?
Government statistics in 1925
showed 81 per cent illiterate.
Did the New York Yankee base
ball team win more games in 1927
than in 1928?
During the 1927 season the New
York Yankees won Ito and lost Al
games; during the 1928 season they
won lo1 and lost 50.
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HEALTH SERVICE
Science Needs Years to ROut Cancer

Within recent years much atten-
ton has been paid to the lead treat
ment of cancer developed by Blair
Bell. All over the world other sci
entists took up the method and
tested it's effects not only on the
experimental tumors of animals,
but also on human patients who
had not been able to gain hope Of
relief by other means.
Recent Investigations indicate that
the lead effect is not direct poi
soning effect on the cancer cell, but
a modification of the resistance Of
the whole body to the cancer inva-
sion, by the effects Of the lead on
the body cells.
In general the effects of lead
treatment have been disappearing.
In an occasional case the lead treat
ment has been followed promptly by
results which seemed striking, but
in the vast majority of cases such
results have not occurred.
Apparently the point for most
serious investigation just now is the
mechanism by which the forces of
the body which resist all disease
can be modified to resist cancer.
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Prohibition, 1t Would Seem,
Is Making Uncle Sam
ShriUel to the Proportions
of a Justice of the Peace.

n light and casual offenses, han
IL died by magistrates on infor-
nation, for the avowed object of
avoiding indictments and jury trials
what next in the name of prohi-
bition?
AS Chairman Wickersham points
out, this idea may involve little
more than the adaptation of police
court methods to federal need. but
is not that shocking enough in
itself?
Who could ask for a more vivid
illustration Of where prohibition has
brought us?
Federal courts used to deal with
big things, and that was not an
unimportant factor in creating re-
spect for federal law and the fed
eral government.
During the last ten years they
have been dealing with little things,
and now that the strain has grown
too great, little judges are recon-
mended to relieve the situation.
Not only that, but grand jurieS
and petit juries are going to be
sidetracked wherever possible.
Uncle Sam, it would seem, rapidly
is shriveling to the proportions OF
justice of the peace.
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Stock Picture

THEN there's that stock picture
l. of the cartoonists the tall thin
man in the rusty high hat-he's
generally labeled prohibition, or
motion picture censorship or the
Lords day alliance.
The picture has been used so
much that Americans abroad &C
tually begin to believe in his literal
existence. But if you come to ana
lyze it, this probably is merely a
modern manifestation of the old
superstition that underneath the
surface Of the earth there crouches
a gentleman in red tights, who
wears both horns and tail.
If O'Malley only will come home
and help out. We can convert some
of these prohibition people yet.
don't believe that they are half as
grim and cruel as they like to pre-
tend.
So 7 say. sun yourself to your
hearts content upon a foreign shore.
Frank. But come back by and by
to the city you useed to love. I know
a swell place on West Fifty-flrst
street"
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
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Would Avoid Jury Trials

THE obvious purpose of such pro-
l. cedure is to avoid indictments
and jury trials.
That being so, it goes without say
ing that everything possible would
be done to influence defendants
either to plead guilty or not to ask
for jury trials if they pleaded not
guilty.
It requires no straining of the i'm
agination to realize that defendants
would be more apt to ask for jury
trials If they faced Jail sentences
than if they faced fines, and that
the whole show would resolve itself
into series Of cash transactions.
Further than that, it requires no
straining of the imagination to real
ize that if fines became the fashion,
dry enforcement officers soon would
get the habit of collecting for them
selves instead of bothering the
courts.
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n n n
Nineti0S

I'm this connection, it is interesting
L to recall that the Gay Nineties'
was also a decade Of remarkable
discoveries in the field of science.
Many Of our present great adj
vance, including radio. never would
have occurred without the great
discoveries of that decade
At the beginning of that decade,
many scientists thought that all the
great discoveries in the field Of
physics had been made Then on
Christmas eve. 1895. Rontgen, at
meeting in Berlin of the German
Physical Society announced his
discovery OF the X-r2y.
This discovery started the world
Of science on a new era Of diScoy-
cry. X-rays led to Bacquerels dis
covery Of radio-activity. That. in
turn. pointed the way to the dis
covery of radium by the CURES.
Sir Ernest Rutherford's analysis
OF the rays of radium led to our
present theory Of the electron with
out which the radio vacuum tube,
the photo-electric cell used in tele-
vision, and many remarkable adj
vances in the fields of engineering
and chemistry would not have been
possible
1t is interesting also to note that
the present interest in science goes
deeper than a mere desire to use
the invention of science. There is a
genuine desire to understand them
and to understand science in gen.
eral
Thus, for example, crowds in Ber-
lin awaited the publication Of Elm
STEMS last theory. the socalled
field theory
New York newspapers felt that
there was sufficient interest in It
to have the six pages of intricate
mathematical formulae sent to this
country by the photo-radio process,
thus employing one marvel TO re-
port another.
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GOOdIY Company

A ND after twenty-five years OF
IN newspaper work, I could, in all
sincerity, report that the average
reporter and desk man and editor
is a person of generous disposition.
The hard-boiled Slave-driver in
troduced in pictures and in plays is
stranger to me. And my report
about cops and letter carriers, and
Wall Street men and actors and
taxi drivers, would be equally en-
thusiastic. 1t may all be in the
luck of the draw.
I don't mind leaving myself open
to the charge of Sentimentality, be-
cause I find a fairly general i'm
preston that am savagely cynical.
With such reputation can afford
to play with my luck.
Looking back, then, can say
that it would be impossible for me
to name a single individual in my
whole acquaintance who ever has
done to me what I honestly would
call a dirty trick.
VI COA1 &C. at l4I1lCo 4 VIC OCCI4 Vic
victim of what seemed to me in
justice. I've thought the other fell
low was dead wrong. But upon
later examination. I've discovered
that he felt the same way about
me.
That didn't necessarily make
him right, but I'm willing at any
time to take 10 per cent of for hon
est emotion.
I think that perhaps OMalley
has been looking too much at
papers and too little at people. For
instance, he had Volstead on his
mind.
I don't ike VoIsteadism any bet
ter than he does, but probably, If
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-17
ERANK WARD oMALLEY, who

ERANK WARD O'MALLEY, who
4 used to be one Of the best re-
porters in New York before he
turned to books and magazines, has
shaken the dust Of America from
his feet.
Writing from Nice, he says:
Every minute raise my eyes to the
skies and thank heaven I no longer
live in the Bible belt, among guz-
cling pharisees."
OMalley believes that he has
made himself unpopular over here.
II have been denounced as unpa-
triotic," he says, because I have
dared to criticise my native lands
bad manners, which have come
since Mr.. Volstead perpetrated his
theories on the American public"
AS one of O'Malley'S warm ad-
mirers, I guarantee to recruit a
welcoming committee and a brass
brand for that happy day when he
comes home again. 1t is his right
and privilege to soak us in print as
ne pleaseS. And some of what he
says is true, and some is so in part.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MaEaZine,

Heattn magazine
DROBABLY when the cause and
l. . a specific method of cure of
cancer are discovered, if ever any
single cause does prove to be re-
sponsibIe, the solution will come not
by accident or by pure speculation,
but as result OF the thousands of
studies of cancer be lg made in
Laboratories and institutes all over
the world.
In Great Britain year after year,
for some tWenty-seven years in all,
the Imperial Cancer Research fund
has been publishing its annual re-
ports.
To the average layman the obser-
vations may seem obstruse or even
futile, but each little step means
more knowledge concerning the ma
clre of the cancer cell and a little
more advancement toward the day
when prevention of cancer will be
an accomplished fact.
The more recent report brings out
the fact that the cancer cell begins
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Not the Crowd

DUT Mr.. Burke was eminently
ID right in saying that it is un-
just to indict a whole nation.
O'Malley, from across the water,
sees but two sane Americans, and
one is H. L. Mencken and the other
Clarence DarroW.
THE United States" he adds
docs not need a new Messiah
nearly so much as the recovery of
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ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one Of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard TO theiT
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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SSZZ-IZ.,->SSSs@
B1Tl4Ief'
| ANNIVERSARY
.4S2]ttt1
BEJAMIN FRANKLIN
January IL

I'm Jan. IT, 17o6, Bejanin Frank
" lin, famous American states
man, scientist and author, was born
in Boston.
His father, Joseph Franklin,
emigrated to American about 1886
and took up the business of tallow
chandler. His mother, second
wife, was the daughter of Peter Fol-
ger, a leading settler, noted for his
philanthropy and tolerance.
Benjamin, the fifteenth of seven
teen children. was named after his
fathers favorite brother.
Today also is the anniversary Of
the receipt in Milwaukee of the first
telegram sent from Chicago on
Jan. II, 1849.
On Jan. II, 1893, Rutherford
Hayes, the nineteenth President of
the United States, died.
And on Jan. II, 1910, statehood
bills for New Mexico and Arizona
were passed.
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Daily Thought

For in many things we offend
all. If any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man,
ard able also to bride the whole
body.-James 80.
We never can willingly offend
where We sincerely love.-Rowland
Hill
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SCIENCE
Decade Which VIII Close
With 1890 WiU Go DoaCn
IN History as Great Scien-
titic Era.
By DAVID DIETZ

THE decade which comes TO
Il close with 1880 promises to 60
down in history as a scientific
decade. The Cleveland Press has
asked its readers to suggest a name
for the decade and Max Cook. the
promotion editor, tells me that seven
out of every ten letters received
suggests a scientific name.
L The decade from 1890 to 1900 has
gone down in history as the Gay
COS" Theodore Roosevelt dominated
the period from 1900 to 1910. The
| World war was the outstanding
event Of the years between 1910 and
1920.
Many would assume that the
jazz age" would be the popular
name for the postwar decade. The
| Towering of jazz bands, jazz dane
ing, night clubs and the like was
spectacular development after the
armistice. Perhaps it came as an
inevitable reaction TO the emotional
intensity Of the World war
1t is significant, however, that
| those who have written to The
Press are more impressed by the
radio. the airplane, television, the
| development of automatic ma
chinery, polar exploration, the giant
zeppelins and such medical achieve
mentS as insulin than they are by
the saXophone. the short skirt, the
hip flask and "necking."
Contact
1T is not difficult to see why public
L interest in science has become so
great in the last ten years. 1t is
because laymen began to come into
contact with the developments OF
! science.
The radio is a good example of
that. While Professor Heinrich
Hertz, Sir Oliver Lodge, Signor
Marconi and the other pioneers Of
radio were carrying on their early
experiments, there was little public
interest in what they were doing.
Interest fared up for brief pc
Rod when Marconi succeeded in
spanning the Atlantic by wireless
telegraphy. It became keener when
wireless biography became the
means of saving lives in ocean dis
asters.
General widespread interest IN
radio was not forthcoming. how
ever, until it became possible for
every person to have a radio in his
own home.
The same thing is true of the air.
plane. It is possible now for any
one to fly. PROFESSIONALLY, many
people read Of polar exploration with
SO much interest because they are
looking forward to the day when
commercial routes will cross the ice
fields
The man who has flown in a
passenger plane from Cleveland to
Detroit or New York to Albany has
no difficulty in imagining that some
day he may fly from Montreal to
Stockholm by way of the north pole.
Many other scientific develop
ments have stimulated the average
persons interest in science. The list
is long 1t runs from towering
skyscrapers to artificial silk.
The average man is interested in
science today because science is no
longer something in distant labo-
ratory. It is the most spectacular
element of his everyday environ
ment