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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
new CUBAN HIGHWAY
WILL BOOST SALES
Good Demand for Cars and Trucks
Expected With Completion
of Road.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAVANA, Cuba, January 25.-A good
demand for automobiles and light trucks
Is expected in Cuba upon the compile
ton of the Cuban central highway.
An apparent stimulus to sales due to
the partial completion of the road was
noted as early as last June by Assistant
Trade Commissioner Strackbein of the
United States Department of Com
merce. At that time the highway had
been finished east from Havana to Ma
tanzaS, 65 miles, and, going west, to
about 35 miles from Havana. OBJ
servers of traffic on the opened Sec
tons are convinced that thousands of
cars will be required In Cuba in the
next few years. BY last October 1t had
been opened rs miles east and west of
Havana, and since that time at least
third more mileage has been turned
over to traffic.
BY the middle of next Summer the
highway will be open to CamAguey, CIV
ing clear route through $50 to 500
miles of productive country. Compile
ton through to Santiago de Cuba is
expected early in 1881; the total length
from Pinar de Rio City viii be 700
miles.
The official registration of motor We
hicles in Cuba is 40,527, according to
the United States Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce. An analysis
Of automobile imports made by the
Automobile Chamber of Commerce of
Cuba Is regarded by many as evidence
that the increased road mileage Is
stimulating the demand for automo-
bileS. Imports of automobiles for the
third quarter of 1928 were It'll auto
mobiles and 440 trucks; fourth quarter,
1928, 1,135 automobiles and 373 trucks
first quarter, 1929, 1929 automobiles
and 424 trucks; second quarter. 1929,
1873 automobiles and 962 trucks. It
must be remembered that the COM
pleted sections of the highway out of
Havana only came into use last Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
u. S. Gas and Oil
Bill During 1929
Passes 3 Billion

More than $4,000, 100000 was
spent by automobile owners of the
United States for gasoline and oil
during 1929, according to statistics
compiled by the research depart
. ment of the American Automobile
Association.
Consumption was at the rate of
100000 gallons Of gas and oil a
day, representing a revenue to the
refined petroleum industry Of So
100000 daily, or roughly, $4,000 a
minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
CYLINDER SCORING.
Weak Oil, Battery Tend to Score
Cylinders-Remedies Named.


Cy1inders-Remedies Named.
Diluted oil, weakened battery and
haste in getting under way make a good
combination for any one who wishes to
risk scoring the cylinders. Frequently
however, even the most impatient or
unthinking motorist discovers what is
happening and goes easy with the en-
CINE before the scoring becomes serious.
When the trouble isn't bad enough to
warrant having the cylinders rebored he
is, nevertheless, often badly puzzled.
In case of this sort he should know
of the simpler ways of meeting the
problem. One of these calls for using
graphite. A teaspoonful Of this to the
gallon Of oil win be effective in making
small scores harmless.
Another plan, effective where the
scores are deep, is to resort to soldering.
Mechanics who do this cut fairly wide
grove in the scored section Of the CYL
inder, I'LL it with solder and trim it OF
carefully.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
CLUTCH TROUBLE ENDED.
Tightening or Replacing Rear Emo
Main Bearing of Engine Remedy.


In view of the fact that clutches tend
to become rough in operation, and grab.
after they have been in use for some
time it is all the more puzzling to some
motorists to find that when their cars
become old and the clutch plates start
to slip, despite adjustments, which or
dinarily would cure this. The fact that
the car is getting old, however, fur
niShes the clue.
An old engine is likely to have a loose
end bearing next to the clutch. 1t is
around this bearing that engine oil may
leak into the clutch housing.
The best remedy, of course is to tight
en- or replace the rear end main bearing
OF the engine, but the situation can be
greatly improved by making the crank
case as air tight as possible. This is
done by tightly Gaping the oil filler
pipe and running pipe from this to the
intake manifold so that vapor will be
sucked out of the crankcase continually,
reducing oil leakage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26

Lubricating oil used each year will
I'LL lake mile square and 21z feet
deep, according to George E. Keneipp
manager of the District of Columbia
division Of the American Automobile
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
FLYMOUTH'S FIVE PEAKS OF VALUE
TOWER ABOVE THE LOW-PRICE FIELD

i LASTING ECONOMY-Economy in Plymouth
low fuel and oil consumption, freedom from con-
and excessive service costs and the long trouble
free life heretofore expected only of hehprced cars.
Il. FULLSIZE-Plymouth is the only fulLsize car in
its field Seats wide and deep There is resul ease
in Plymouth, ample Ieg-room and spaciousness.
y. ADVANCED ENGINEERING - A hish-com-
preston engine cushioned in live rubber mountnss air
cleaner; crankcase ventiIator; fourwheel hydraulic
brakes, weatherproof and selfequalizng- Plymouth
alone in its class provides these quality features.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26

4. STRIKING STYLE-The full-size dimensions of
Plymouth make it possible to achieve incompatible
beauty of line and contour. Plymouth inspires admira
ton, proving that lowcost be smart and arrest
ing, pleasing in proportion-modern in STYLE
y. STRIKING PERFORMANCE-Plym mounts
to peaks of performance formerly achieved only by high
priced cars delivering full measure of satisfaction that
compares with the best the market affords.
The improved Plymouth, product of ChrysIer Motors
is offered to the public the greatest in the
lowestpriced field You invited to it, to drive
it, and to learn for yourself what uIsize value means
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26

Ninety Per Cent of Cars Closed.
Approximately 90 per cent of all
cars manufactured are closed cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26

Benefit in Cut-0ut.
The cut-out helps the automobile by
taking the back-pressure on the CYL
inderS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
Speedy Justice

Let it. be hoped that in its selection OF
candidates for the supreme court Judgeshlps'
the delegates to the democratic convention
will select those who believe in the Consti-
tuition.
The long list of undecided cases before
that tribunal suggests very strongly that
the present court does not take seriously the
guarantee of the Constitution that justice
shall be speedy.
AS a result there are cases which nave
been before that court for years, although
the Judges have declared that many OF them
are deserving of early consideration by plac-
ing them upon the advanced docket.
Some of these men are in prison. Should
Il he finally determined that their convlc-
tons were illegal, they are being denied 1ree-
dom through lethargy, timidity or indl11er-
ence of judges.
In other cases, the money involved may
mean life itself to the htigants.
Especially is this true Of cases IN winch
widows and orphans sue for damages LOT
death of the husband and father. Inc or
phans. deprived of the support that might
come from proper ISpol oIA0AA 80 -
father, would be condemned to unfair start
in life, improper early surroundings, denial
of education.
There is no method by which judges can
be forced to act promptly. Under the Con-
stitution they can be impeached or removed
only for the commission OF felony alter
conviction Once elected, the judges are be-
yond control.
The one way in which regard for the Con-
stitution may be safeguarded is the selection
of Judges who really believe in the Constitu-
tion. not as tumble of phrases but as basis
of fundamental justice.
A congested docket of undecided cases
can only breed discomfort and disrespect
for law
Indecision easily amounts to denial OF
Justice. 1t strikes at the very foundation OF
our whole social system.
No partisan thought should enter into the
selection of these candidates. They must be
men who are beyond partisan influences,
Judges who believe in the law and in justice
as an ideal, in courts as the instrumentalities
of justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
"Alkv,, Spots OF the Sheepskin

Did Andy Volstead put crimp in campus drink
ing? Has the noble experiment made Sahara OF our
institutions of higher learningP This question mas
nrovoked a bitter controversy. Two famous univer-
sitv coaches Amos Alonzo Stagg and Fielding H. Yost
have declared that the prohibition legislation greatly
has lessened drinking in university circles.
Now the well-known sports writer, Bill Cunning
ham challenges this optimism and tells us why IN an
article in the North American Review He admits that
he is not as old as Yost Stage but he says he has
seen more representative students and colleges since
1919 than Yost and Stagg combined
Though he can not remember as far back as Stage
or Yost Mr. Cunningham observes that If it is lit
erav true that the od-tme students drank more than
the coegans of today don't see how my generation,
or such portion of it. at any rate sprang from col
leee-bred parents escaped being degenerateS and
lunatics."
Mr. Cunningham on the basis of an extremely wide
ACQUAINTANCE with our contemporary college scene be-
leves that the only two institutions of higher learn
ing in America where drink Of hard liquor can not
be raised quickly and easily are West Point and An
napols Here the penalties severe and the rooms
frequently searched.
The percentage of those who drink also tell the
story At Princeton 70 per cent drink; at Amherst 70
per cent; at Harvard, IS per cent at Dartmouth "a
per cent; at NJ I. t, 6ls per cent; at Brown, SOB
per cent? Pennsyvaa is the only college reporting
majority of 6rys, some so per cent
AS against this record Mr.. Cunningham estimates
that in his own college, when he was an undergrad
nate 90 per cent of the students never had taken
drink I'D to the time of graduation.
What is worse, the few heavy drinkers II The old
days went in chiefly for beer, not for the pa emit COL
lege favorte Of alcohol favored with synthetic
fruit extract the various forms Of pastel-shaded
poison that ulcerate stomachs and suppurae kidneys
the so-called Scotch and misnomered rye. in which
astounded chemists have found traces Of everything
from concentrated I've to sulphuric acid"
OF one popular college connection Mr. Cunning
ham writes with feeling The stun consisted q near
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
REASON By Ff haHBfg

THE nomination of James j. Davis for the senate
L from Pennsylvania recalls an incident of his
campaign for local Office when he was employed
in the tin mill at Elwood, Ind.
His opponent charged that Davis could not read
or write whereupon Davis appeared with blackboard
at public meeting and demonstrated his proficiency
and that was the end OF the opposition.
Senator Wesley Jones of the state of Washington
sponsored the law providing for fve-year term for
prohibition offenders and that the state conven-
ton of his party has declared against prohibition
Jones announces shat he will vote to amend repeal
the eighteenth amendment if his state wants it.
If Jones loses out in politics, he would make a
peachy acrobat for circus.
A AMBASSADOR DAWES is coming home from
IA London for months vacation.
The terrific labors of an ambassador call for much
relaxation.
These maudlin people at indianapolis who wasted
their sympathy on this mother who abandoned her
baby by the roadside rainy night should lavish
some of their generosity upon the many mothers who
slave day by day to support their children.
Ali men who fall for this new fashion which calls
for short pants rolled and bare legs should be
arrested if they appear on the streets without bag
pipes.
THESE contemplated church mergers will fail be-
Il cause this is one kind of merger which can not
water the stock increase rates and make the ultimate
consumers pay them
President Hoover may attend the Frontier days
celebration at Cheyenne, next July. but ones reco
lection of ex-PreSident Coolidge on the screen in
chaps. boots, spurs and ten-galon hat to
hope that Mr.. Hoover will not turn cowboy.
The growing between Germany and Poland and
the threats exchanged by France and Italy indicate
that at least four European nations had their fingers
crossed when they signed the Kellogg treaty, OUT
lawing war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
A Fundamental Test

To the thousands of independent voters OF the
state who are seeking some relief from the misrule
of state and county administrations, what happens
in the state Democratic convention is important.
To the farmer and the iobless, what it says about
the tariff will be carefully scrutinized That will de-
termine whether there is really any difference be-
tween the two parties.
The pending tariff measure is so completely the
voice of special privilege seeking more plumber at
the expense of every honest interest that 1t seems
denunciation by any Democratic convention at this
time should be as spontaneous as it is vigorous.
Attitude toward that measure is fundamental
test political party or candidate for otlce hesi
tating about such licensed robbery could not be
expected to act differently in other matters tnan
the present state administration whose chief tele-
eraphed an appeal for the wholly ndefensiole tarn1
on cement to still further enrich that monopoly
Failure to denounce the tariff should be followed
by adoption of new emblem for the Democratic
PARTY Perhaps the head of the donkey and the
bodv of an elephant might be used-an animal with
neither brains to think nor legs to rum
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
Intellectuals' Fail to Help Birth Rate

economic advantages that come with
limitation of offspring.
France has for years been con-
cerned with the problem of limita-
ton because of the unwillingness
to break UP estates into too many
divisions.
Obviously the answer to these
questions must come from two
points of Uew-education Of the
uneducated, the unintellectual, or
the peasant groups, in methods of
control of offspring, and in build
ing SUFFICIENT public interest in this
group so that it will consider the
general good.
Second, education of the intellec-
tual, the skilled and the farsighted
to the realization of their response
bility to the state.
Finally, far more research is need
ed in all problems Of eugenics, so
that human breeding may begin to
take advantage, at least to some
extent, of the great advances made
in the study Of breeding Of ami
mails.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

intellectual as their ancestors, for
the simple reason that mixed mar
riages frequently occur in which one
of the parents may be highly en-
dowed mentally and the other poor
ly endowed.
1t was found that in a single gen.
Grafton there is 43 per cent de-
crease in the average number of
children to family.
It has been noted frequently that
both in this country and abroad
the children of peasants and of I'M
skilled workmen are more nurner-
Gus than the children of intellectu-
ais and of skilled workmen.
Among peasant families six or
seven children were found frequent
" and the mortality is no greater
than among the intellectual groups.
It also is obvious throughout the
world that the better educated, the
skilled worknen, and the farseeing
limit definitely the number Of chill
dren so the family may have the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
Hardly a Red Menace

DUT when DR.. Butler began his
ID fight it was pretty reprehensi-
BILE to be anything but a bone dry
His attitude was an extraordinary
one for a college professor.
But the mere fact Of being anti
Volstead hardly would constitute q
sufficient performance to entitle DR.
Butler to a place among liberal
leaders. However, he went on and
embraced other unpopular causes
At the age Of 50-odd he had tasted
the wine Of non-conformity for the
first time.
I do not mean that DR.. Butler
ever failed to hola his revolu-
tionary impulses like a gentleman.
Even now I think that few would
be inclined to call him a Red Men
ace. He still is a member Of the
Republican party, but so is Norris.
Much of his party's program DR..
Butler has kicked in the face re-
peatedly.
Seemingly. he repented of his own
offenses against academic freedom
during the mania induced by the
last war or maybe he forgot them,
for in recent years DR.. Butler has
been a stalwart defender Of all
teachers placed in peril for opinions
sake.
Indeed at the moment can think
Of scarcely : single Republican who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
Rare

DRoF. PERCIvAL LOWELL, who
L made the predictions which led
to the discovery of Pluto, supposed
that there was one large planet be-
yond Neptune.
But Professor E. w. Brown, the
worlds chief authority on celestial
mechanics, has ruled that Pluto is
not the trans-Neptunian planet
predicted by Lowell. Its discovery
in the Lowell orbit must be set down
as a coincidence.
The preliminary orbit worked out
for Pluto shows that it has a most
unusual orbit, an orbit which is al
most comet-like. The orbit is so
f1attened that Pluto will sweep out
into space more than 10000, 900 ,OO0
miles beyond the sun.
It seems that Pluto was Fortunate
ly discovered when it was nearest to
the sun. 1t now is sweeping out into
open space and as a result may dis
appear for several centuries. Dis
covering it once more may prove a
real task.
DR.. John A. Miller, director of the
Swathmore college observatory, adj
vanceS the theory that Pluto may
be one or great number of small
planets IF similar behavior.
Such planets would sweep into the
view of our telescopes only once
every 5000 or 10000 years.
He points out that some of these
planets may have swept into view
in the past, but that they escaped
attention either for lack Of good
telescopes or because no one was
looking for them.
Only time and study can verify
DR.. Miller's theory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
It's All GarbLed

THERE are hundreds Of men in
l. Rumania who would make
better kings than Carol, but they
were not born of the royal breed,
their names lack magic, and for
that reason the multitude could not
be swayed so easily by their appear
ance.
So it becomes necessary for the
politicians to bring back the
pedigreed prince, regardless of what
he is or what he has done.
Einstein may be able to frame
equations that prove the unity Of
the cosmos. but neither he nor any
one else can frame equations to
square that kind of politics with
what average people teach their
children about virtue, morality,
justice, and the reward of merit. Yet
the latter proposition is of more i'm
portance to humanity than the
former.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09

0NE of the most amazing OF
" modern miracles is the second
blooming of Nicholas Murray But
Ter. I was reminded of the extraor-
binary change which has come over
this man in middle age by reading
the commencement address which
he made at Columbia. In it DR..
Butler deplored what he called the
insulated life"
At the beginning he said, There
are comparatively few men ana
women alive in the world, although
there are hundreds of millions OF
living beings"
And near the close he declared
that intellectual insulation stops the
flow "of that vitalizing current OF
spiritual and intellectual force
which turns living into life" The
marks of insulation, he added, are,
"narrowness Of knowledge, narrow
ness of conviction"
1t was all interesting address, but
it would have been still more fascl-
mating had DR.. Butler added an even
greater amount of photographed
material
Fifteen or twenty years ago 1t
would have been hard to find in all
America any public man more COM
pletely insulated than Nicholas Muir
ray Butler. I can go further back
than that. It was DR.. Butler who
in 1905 addressed the graduating
class of Horace Mann High School
and left them all tepid with series
of platitudes, in which the lads
were urged to conform and bind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
Ef7d0AkF !efT|F1e.l
EAfN|VSR3AfY)
sTEPHENsoNs BIRTH

June
I'm June 9, 1871, George Stephen
~ son, English engineer and in
ventor, and the founder of rail-
ways" was born at Wylam, England.
An ambitious boy, Stephenson
was too poor to go to school. He
worked on farm and then, at the
age of II, became fireman and
brakeman.
He heard that the engines CT
Watt and Boulton were to be found
described in books, so he went to
night school in order to learn the
elements of English and mathe-
mates.
In 1872 Stephenson became en-
ginewright at Kellingworth, where
he began his own experiments with
the engine. While others had shown
the practically OF fixed steam en-
gines, no one had devised means
of iraparting speed.
After three years of experiment.
ing Stephenson, in conjunction with
Dodds, took out patent for an
improved engine which more than
doubled the speed Of the engines
then existing.
Thirteen years later Stephenson
astonished every one, including
himself, by the success Of his
Rocket" in celebrated competitive
trial of locomotives over the Liver
pool & Manchester Railway.
The Rocket" attained a speed Of
thirty-five miles an hour. Stephen
son later founded and became the
president Of the first society Of civil
engineers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-09
Credit the ReformerS

THE bright-faced lad became a
l. newspaper columnist called
Haywood Broun, while DR.. Butler
grew up to be one of the most dash
ing leaders of liberal thought.
DR.. Butler was we'll into his 40's
when he started to grow. His lib
eralism is by-product of the Vol
stead act. This benefit at least can
be chalked down to the credit OF
the reformerS.
Anybody searching for liberals
would be fool to spend much time
among college faculties. Few men
of independent stripe emerge and
those get weeded out or trodden
down.
DR.. Butler was one Of the most
conservative of educational execu-
tives. He suppressed professors be-
cause of their opinions, he got HIM
self named as President on a
stand-pat Republican ticket after
the regular nominee for that ONCE
died.
He was for everything powerful
and SNUG and entrenched and
against any and all new ideas. He
was insulated. Indeed he was pretty
much what the bright-faced little
boy called him.
But national prohibition scraped
of the insulation. DR.. Butler came
roaring out of his monastic cell and
strobe into the world Of men and
affairs.
BY now it's perfectly respectable
to be wet, what with straw votes
and one thing and another, all kinds
Of prominent people are beginning
to stand up and declare themselves
in opposition to the politic-religious
tyranny.