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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
REASON By Ff EERBfs

IF Russia has made war upon religion it will be the
rock upon which the Bolshevk bark shall break for
no law of man can repeal the hope of immortality.
Persecution makes martyrs not infdels; and his
tory of all religions proves it.
Young Russians, half a century from the cemetery,
may shake their fists at the sky, but years pass
and, by they bury those they love- they will
change their minds.
1t is almost unbelievable that men presumed to
know enough TO pilot RuSSiaS political experiment
should think possible to prohibit World-old yearn-
ing to live again, when they found it impossible to
prohibit yearnng to drink vodka.
CUFERSTITION the tool of Russia tyrantS for
~ centuries but the shrewd statesman knows and
respects inhorn need of religion and around it
weaveS a faith in harmony with the government he
seeks TO perpetIate
These Russians should have taken the Bible per-
ver,ed by their cars and by its pages proved those
to have been impoStors.
They should have revealed the Christ as the friend
of the poor the oppressed and made the hope they
can not kill their ally rather than their foe.
TgNHERE is no finer apostrophe to this hope than
L that offered by Ingersol, the American agnostc.
Nver the coffin of his brother.
Life is narrow vale between the cold and barren
peaks of two eternites. We strive in vain to look
IS the echo of waiing cry. From the voceesS lips
Of the unreplying dead there comes no word but in
he night of death Hope star and listening Love
hear the rustic of wing.
1t we're grotesque stupidity to seek to close legal
door against the sky and hang upon that door the
crepe of humiliation.
For testimony, We need go only to the French ag-
nostc, Voltaire who said: If there were no God 1t
would be necessary to invent one"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Mitchell'S OppOrtunitY

Dispatches from New York relate that federal au-
thortes will persist in their efforts to punish Mrs.
Mary Ware bennett author of the tract The Sex
Side OF Life"
Mrs. bennett, told in these columns yesterday,
convicted in federal district court and fined $780,
put was eXOnerated when appeal taken to circuit
court. Now the United States attorney in Brooklyn
has decided to ask the solicitor general in Washington
10 request the United States supreme court enter
tain appeal
The whole prosecution OF Mrs bennett has been
stupid from the beginning In addition the govern
ment proceeded on framed" evidence. Her case has
been fragrant example Of government censorship a.
It's worst.
Attorney General Mitchell and his solicitor general
viii do well to call of their agents in New York And
It would be helpful if they to DO it publicly. ex-
planning why This would notice that tactics Of
the sort employed in the bennett are to have nc
place in federal law enforcement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
II Fellowship, nP A
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I DaiIq \
I Lenten Devotion
Thursday, March 6

IHE MEANING OF LIFE
Read James 4:13-27) Memory
verse: What is your life?" Games
4:14)
MEDITATION
This is the question of questions
1t will engage us during this Lenten
season. The answer we give to this
question will determine the answer
we give to all of our other questions.
James does not answer it. He says
that it is very transient thing, like
a morning mist that the sun carries
away. But to say that life is short
does not tell us what it is. The
Bible nowhere defines life, but it
uses many symbols of life. The Book
OF Revelation calls it "a river of wa
ter" 1t springs from hidden depths.
is replenished from the sky, and
flows down its winding course max
ing the valley green, quenching
mems thirst and giving them life.
The question for today is: What is
your life?
PRAYER
O Thou, from whom life comes
and to whom it returns, We thank
Thee for our lives. Grant us to
know better than we do hfe's divine
meaning and majestice purposes, to
the end that we may not live in
vain. but become Thy profitable
servants. Amen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Drastic

A MONG the earliest records OF
n eclipses is an account in the
Chinese annals Of one which took
place in 1000 B. c. 1t was the duty
of the royal astronomers to warn
the emperor of an approaching
eclipse. so that the priests might
perform rites TO ward off any evil
effects which the event otherwise
might bring.
But it seems that the two royal
astronomers failed to warn MS
majesty. According to one version
of the incident, they had drunk TOO
much rice wine.
Suddenly the eclipse started. The
emperor naturally was greatly wor-
ried. He felt that the situation re-
uuired most drastic measures. Ac-
cordingly. he ordered the eXecu-'
toner to behead the two astrono-
mers.
III 557 B. c. Cyrus. king of Per-
sla, was besieging Larissa, an am
cient city on the eastern banks of
the River Tigris The siege was
unsuccessful until an eclipse Of the
sun occurred.
The defenders fled from the walls
of the city in terror. Cyrus men
who either were more sophisticated
or. perhaps, had been told OF thu
eclipse by one of Cyrus astronomer
priests, captured the city,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Bitter SUGAR

Inc senate has joined the house in boosting the
tariff on sugar The high protectonists from the beet
states are happy. 1t is heralded as a victory
But not all political victories are alike Some are
snort lived Occasionally the people at the polls over
turn not only the work Of the politicians but also
upset the politicians themselves Precisely that has
happened more than once in our history when the
voters have revolted against high tariff laws
AS a rule, the people are not very much interested
in technical legislative questons-and what is drie
than tariff debate? Nevertheless the most indif-
erent voter is interested in the price of his daily food
There is something about sugar which makes peo-
pie mad when they have to go without or have to
pay more to get it.
So we are not at all sure that the voters ont
through the country will let the politicians get awav
With this latest scheme for gouging the consumer E-
pecially as there some three to six million unem
poyed in the country and other millions on part time
work and wages, who simply can not stand such a
Jump in the cost of living
To reverse the senate vote of last summer to re-
tain the present duty the beet sugar people entered
a three-cornered legislative deal with the oil and
lumber interests. Such is the brazen log-rolng by
which the senate has shot up the sugar tariff from
S176 to So
That is slick work, all right-slck enough to
furnish skids for several senator's perhaps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Problems Solve Selves
XXTHAT did those races think OF
Wv alcohol commandments mar

WHAT did those races think of
w alcohol, companionate mar
riage, or the possibility of promoting
peace by agreement?
Something, no. doubt, even If they
never enjoyed the advantage Of an
eighteenth amendment, a free love
compaign, or a naval conference.
And by the same token. what will
the people who accupy this country
a thousand, or two thousand, years
hence be thinking, or will the
chatter which takes up so much Of
our time and attention have passed
into oblivion?
Most Of the problems over which
men get excited solve themselves,
because they are not problems at
all, but conditions.
, Most of our moralizing and law
making is of temporary value, be-
cause it originates in temporary eX-
element and is designed as tenn
porary correctives.
When we get too drunk we have
headache, and after that We be-
come very sorry for ourselves, swear
off, sign the pledge, and consecrate
ourselves to the promotion Of world
wide drouth.
Eventually we cool off, and realize
that temperance, whether with re-
gard to hooch, health, or legislation
is the most dependable virtue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
The Two Theories

There ere two theories of payment OF
public officials. especially high officials who
stand out as the representatives Of the gov
eminent.
One of these is that the heads Of govern
ment should be pad on the same basis as
nigh executives, given large sums for what
in private life would be called front, with
salaries that should remove them from any
temptation to privately profit from their
power. That theory suggests that the public
should pay more for honesty in Office than
private interests would pay for privileges.
The other theory IS that the government
be KEPT very close to the people and that
those who administer it have everything in
common with the average of the citizenship,
thereby having a deeper sympathy with
common problems and greater understand
ing of the attitude ard desires and diff
culties of those upon whom government IS
most burdensOme.
The lavish theory runs back to the tradi-
tons Of monarchy. The symbol Of govern
ment, even when monarchs are stripped Of
power through parliaments is set up, as
splendidy and gorgeously, to be wOrshlped,
aloof from sordid cares, unhampered by any
of the worries that come to the herd
The theory of plain living and high think
ing was born in the spirit of democracy. One
of the choice stories of history is that of JEFF
ferson riding on his horse to the national
Capitol hitching the animal to a post ana
calmly entering the building to take his oath
as chief of the new nation.
In these days of difficulties and vexations,
the people might all ponder on the proper
course The high cost of government re-
suits IN heavy taXations. There are neces-
5ary economies. Sometimes schools are
closed, The problem of unemployment fire.
QuentIy enters into the necessary discussions
of public problems
We may have reached the stage where it
is necessary in order to have the proper re-
spect for law and our democratic institutions
to set apart the great and illustrious, sur
round them with Injuries denied to the 0rdi-
nary citizen, remove them to rarified at4
mosphere that symboHzes the goal rather
than the achievement of the vast majority
This may breed respect for authority.
Or perhaps the experiment of having
those who lead and serve live under the same
conditions as do the citizens who want moth
ing from government but an unhampered OPP
pOrtunity for the exercise of their own
talents might be tired with some hope of re-
suits That would be an experiment. at least
as noble as some others.
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A FIRST GLASS writing man is
L n dead and I can't help feeling
that the yapping of the censors had
something to do with driving a
flaming spirit out of frail body.
D. H. Lawrence had the pack at
his back almost throughout his
whole career. The Justice Fords
and Summers of America and their
English equivalents prowled and
shifted around each book he wrote.
Men not worthy to touch the toe
of his shoe were empowered to lay
violent hands on his novels.
Of course, the customs inspectors
and cops and agents who trailed
him here and abroad all will be for
gotten, every one, when Lawrence
takes his place among the we'll
remembered masters of English
prose.
One can't be sure about such
things, but if posterity fails to fur
nish a haven for Lawrence that will
be posterity'S dumb-headedness and
misfortune.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Keep in Good Condition to Foil Colds

In many instances the nose is SO
constr ucted that it is not possible
to breathe easily through both sides;
the air currents do not circulate
properly, and the obstruction pre-
vents the discharge of material from
the nose.
In such instances it may Ne neces-
sary to open the breathing space
by various methods Of lessening the
size Of the structures within the
nose, by shrinking the membranes
or by changes in the septum.
The tissues Of the human body
tend to self-regulation. However,
they respond readily to abnormal
conditions and if they are to regu-
late themselves well, they must be
given a fair opportunity. In many
instances modern surgery is physi-
OlOgic surgery.
1t restores the normal conditions
under which tissues can function
efficiently
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06

nit to having boundaries fixed be-
yond which he may not venture. He
can accept no territorial limits short
of the borders set by Einstein.
Nothing which exists can be Who'll
ly foreign to his interest, nor should
it be denied him. Beyond the as
terisks lies the truth to set us free.
Conventions still in existence re-
duce the novelist to the status of
a mere approximater. know there
is much talk about modern litera-
lures preoccupation with sex. Isn't
there anything else to write about?'
complain certain peevish critics.
And even so, it seems to me that
this important phase of human life
still receives less than its due from
the fictionists. The American novel
has gone only a little way beyond
the familiar stencil: And so they
we're married and lived happily ever
after"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Columbus

A N eclipse OF the moon occurln
IA on March /, 1901, When Chr
TOPPER Columbus was on The islad
of Jamaica. That eclipse was :
sponsible for saving the great d.
coverer's life
The natives had refused to suply
Columbus with food and his rem
we're faced with starvation. COIN
bus, knowing that the eclipse vas
due. sent word to the natives nat
he would blot out the moon urcss
food was forthcoming.
When the eclipse began at the
moment Columbus had sale it
would, the natives were termed.
They implorcd him to restore tie
moon to the heavens and promised
him all the food he wanted.
Columbus. knowing that the
eclipse would last a certain leigth
of time, told the natives that brng-
ing the moon back was hard Iece
of work and that they would lave
to give him a little time in which
to do it,
Of course, in due time the eclipse
came to an end. AS the end OF the
eclipse approached Columbus came
out of his cabin to which he had
retired, and told the natives he was
ready to restore the moon.
No doubt they sighed with relief
as the shadow began to leave tha
moons face and its light returned
to its full strength.
1t is interesting to contemplate
what Columbus would have done
had the night been cloudy for
obviously, in that case, the natl>es
would not have known that an
eclipse was taking place.
There is an Indian tradition that
an eclipse Of the sun prevented a
war between the MohaWks and The
Senecas.
The war was Just about to begin
when the eclipse occurred. Both
tribes took it to be sign of heav-
enly displeasure and a truce was
agreed upon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

branes extends to the lining of the
sinuses, the large cavities adjacent
to the nose cavity, which serve to
give resonance to the voice and to
warm the air passing into the lungs
for other purposes.
A common cold is not like other
infectious diseases, which occur once
and then do not usually appear in
the life of the individual. One may
have a cold again and again, for
the simple reason that the germs
which cause cold may be taken in
with the air or on the hands or in
various other ways and set up infec-
ton whenever the mucous mem
branes are lowered in their resist
ance.
Hence, most physicians recon-
mend that the one best method for
preventing colds is to keep the body
in as good a condition as possible.
This is done by proper food, the
proper amount of rest, exercise and
fresh air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
<SZZ SSS
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ANNIVERSARY
SHERIDAN'S BIRTH
March 6

NN March 6, 1881, Philip Sheri-
~ dan. famous American soldier,
was born at Albany, N. Y.
In 1862, nine years after he was
graduated from West Point, Sheri-
dan was appointed colonel Of the
Second Michigan cavalry. At the
outbreak of the Civil war he gained
early recognition for his courage
and daring.
Recognized by Grant as a stub
born fighter, Sheridan was appoint
ed commander of the army at She
nandoah. While he won praise in
this command for his brilliant de-
feat of General Early and the cap
ture of 5000 of his men and several
guns. Sheridan was censured widely
Tor his ruthless destruction Of She
nandoah valley.
After the war, Sheridan visited
Europe to witness the Franco-Prus
sian war. On his return he va
named to succeed Sherman as CHI
commander of the army. He die
al Nonquitt, Mass, Aug. 5, 1888.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal OF the American Medical
Association and If Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

ONE of the first symptoms of
" common cold is free discharge
of fluid from the nose. When the
body discharges fluid from any It's
sue, the reaction is a protective
one. The fluid serves, first of all,
to wash away infectious and toxic
material; second, to bring to the in
fected spot the material from the
blood which attacks the germs.
If the cold does not promptly i'm
prove, the secretion stops and the
nose becomes for a while quite dry.
The organisms do not live in a dry
state and tends to die on the surface
of the mucous membranes which
then secret fluid to remove the in
fictitious material.
Not infrequently the cold is not
limited to the nose, but the infec-
ton and Inflammation of the mem
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Bad Words

1T will be a long time before the
4 Anglo Saxon world grows up be-
yond a fear of thinG5 it calls OBJ
scene. Words, even the blunt ones,
are not gorgons to transfix the be-
holder into stone. To be sure, the
process of acknowledgements does
move on.
Phrases, which once might have
created a tempest in any drawing
room are uttered freely now on the
stage. I haven't noticed that this
has made any particular change in
the fabric of morality.
Words are the ghosts of things
and it is stupid to suppose that any
fact can be banished out of life by
the mere process of refusing to per-
nit the utterance of it's name.
Still more silly is the notion that
evil can be exercised by using a long
and fancy name instead of a short
and simple one. There's no saliva
ton on that road Heaven never
was meant to be a home for
hinters.
But the censors did more than
break the body of D. H. Lawrence.
1t seems to me that in recent
years they maTed the quality of
his work. I don't agree with the
dead authors own estimate that
Lady Chatterley's Lover was his
finest book.
Lawrence walked bit beyond his
goal in order to shock people.
Not that there's any harm in that.
If smugness and complacency are
not listed generally among the car
dinal sins, they ought to be.
Nobody is quite alive unless he
gets shocked with some reasonable
degree Of regularity once year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Achievements M0Cked
.ALKALATs death cast some

TALKALATS death cast some
Il thing of a shadow over the
dedication of the great Coolidge
dam in Arizona as far as the
Apaches were concerned.
In spite of the crowd, the gla-
mour, the presence of Mr.. Coolidge
himself, and even the promise Of
prosperity, they could not forget
their old chief, under whom they
had lived so long.
Just another Illustration of how
mortality mocks our achievements.
and as though it were not graphic
enough, there comes from France
the news of $50 dead and 5000
homeless through the breaking of a
dam, and again, as though it were
not graphic enough, Psychologists
constantly are unearthing ruins of
irrigation projects in the southwest
that fertilized the land for races
whom we hardly can name or
identify.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06

When 1t Comes to Prohibition
and other Perplering Prob
lens, Most of Us Are Little
Better Than GrO1On-Up
Children, Crying out on
Impulse.
SAYS:

A BIGGER, buster country be-
"A cause of prohibition, to let the
drys tell it, with fifteen billion dol
lars spent for something better than
hooch during the last ten years.
Whatever you may think of the
change, it represents a curious twist.
Ten years ago it was the dry who
moralized, while the vets talked
about loss of revenue.
Now it is the vets who moralize,
while the drys talk about prosperity.
n
Among others coming to the de-
tense Of prohibition are Henry Ford
and Thomas A. Edison.
THE greatest experiment yet
made for the benefit of man." &C
cording to the latter, while the for
mer believes that "the sane people
of this country never will see the
eighteenth amendment repealed, or
dangerous modification effected"
Set this against the views recently
expressed by Du Pont, Atterbury,
ct a.. and what have you?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ -
Eclipses of SIN and Moon
Hare Played Important
Parts in History of Past
Centuries.
by DAVID DIETZ
THE dramatic bill of fare for next

THE dramatic bill Of fare for next
Il month includes a couple of
spectacles staged by Mother Nature.
They will be among the most i'm
pressive and inspiring which she
has in her repertoire.
On April Is there will be an
eclipse OF the moon. On April 20
there will be an eclipse of the sun
The lunar eclipse will be visible as
a partial eclipse in all parts of the
United States.
The solar eclipse will be total
along a narrow track from pOlus
north of San Francisco to a point
near Butte, Mont. 1t will be visible.
however, as partial eclipse in all
parts Of the United States.
Few occurrences are more ave-
inspiring than an eclipse, particular
" an eclipse of the sun. Here are
spectacles in which the chief actors
are the great blazing sun, monarch
of the solar system, the earth itself,
and the beautiful moon.
In the early days OF civilization
eclipses were regarded with panic
and terror. Many thought that they
heralded war and pestilence and
even the end of the world.
But the astronomer priests OF an
Gent Chaldea already understood
the causes of eclipses in prehistoric
times and possessed sufficient
knowledge Of them to predict their
! occurrence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Farm Board Troubles

An inquiry into the policies Of the federal farm
board by the senate committee on agriculture, as pro-
posed in resolution by Senator Nye, should be useful
in clearing some of the confusion that has surrounded
The boards operations
Whether rightfuIly not there has been much
dissatisfaction with what the board has done. Some
farm groups have complained. on the hand. that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
Left Out

MTONE but the brave dare to VEN
~ ture into those realms of hu-
man conduct and intimacy which
have such vital significance in the
life of every man and woman born
into the world alive.
These things can not be legislated
out of life even if we would, and
why must they be left in the limbo
which lies between the last line Of