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along the alleys of the park, repairs to
roads, pavilions, the entire restoration
of the Apollo Fountain, 'replanting Of
trees
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assembled at Geneva with more nations
represented than were gathered to-
gether at either of the Hague confer
ences OF 1899 and 1907. In each of
these years, too, the Council of the
League, consisting of IS nations, has
met at least every three months and
sometimes oftener. In this brief pc
riod, too, a steady succession of inter-
national bodies and committees has
met under the auspices of the League,
dealing with many kinds of human
problems.
Scale Widened AppreciabIy.
In brief, the spasmodic employment
before 1914 of the conference method
of handling international interests has
given way to general acceptance of
this new technique. What we did in
1887 in broadening and regularizing
the scope of social contact in our own
country is now being done on a far
wider scale.
Judged by the slow process of evolu-
ton, 1914 is ages back. 1t is difacult
to think OF the world as it was then.
Let us imagine a business says DR..
Abraham FleXner, with various de-
partments whose heads do not for the
most part confer until bankruptcy
threatens. Very rarely would such
eleventh-hour conference avert catas-
trophe. Yet thus has the business of
the world hitherto been mainly con-
Quoted. Each Departmental this in
stance nation-has been pursuing its
own course, not only without regard for
or conference with other departments
(nations), but usually with the pur-
pose of obtaining for itself some adj
vantage at some other departments
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Visitors to Iceland Celebration to See
Vast Progress Made in Last Is Years
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that in few years will go to Europe
via Hudson Strait.
There are acrimonious debates be-
tween those who want to introduce sane
large scale manufacturing industry be-
cause they consider it necessary for the
maintenance of proper balance Of ex-
ports, and those who fear that the evils
OF industry-slumS, distinct laboring
classes, labor troubles-will destroy the
peace and friendliness Of their country.
And there is much to be said for the
Americans can furnish plenty of ex-
amples to bear out the argument that
when progress comes in the front door
peace and tranquility slip out the back.
But since progress, once begun, is likely
to become a cumulative and almost ir-
resistible force, the chances are that
Iceland will some day have to develop
her water power and join the ranks of
industrial nations.
In the meantime the power is being
developed for local use-principally TO
furnish electricity to the cities and
towns. And many a farmer has bought
a generator, built himself a water wheel
and installed his own power plant that
supplies him with electric light and
heat.
The fishing industry is keeping pace
with agriculture in modernization. Ice
landic trawlers, modern in every respect,
and feet of motor boats, have to q
large extent replaced the old open row.
boats that called for hardy, fearless
fishermen and yearly took their toll of
lives through drowning and freezing.
Airplanes, too, are being put to work for
spotting shoals of herring.
Indifferent to Discomfort.
have made a number of trips on
trawlers of various nationalities, and I
have never seen the equal of the Ice
landic fishermen. Their independence
and skill is matched by supreme in
difference to physical discomfort, their
fearlessness amounts almost to reckless
ness. The calamity Of a few years ago,
when several of their boats were sunk in
a storm between Greenland and Iceland,
came as a distinct surprise. Up to that
time they had put their trawlers through
so many miracles that they considered
them practically unsuitable.
The catching methods Of the industry
are as up to date In Iceland as any
where in the world, but the curing and
w
be desired. The catch is still cured in
an age-hallowed way-by being spread
in the sun to dry. The introduction Of
canneries, modern freezing, packing and
marketing methods is a problem for the
future, the solution of which not only
promises higher prices for the nations
fish but should tend to shift the market
from far-away Spain to nearby Eng
land.
Where will 1t all end? During Is
years of effective effort Iceland, with a
total population equal to that of a
minor American city, has pulled itself
by its bootstraps to high place among
modern nations. Those who have a
leaning toward statistical facts may
ponder over the statement made be-
fore-that no country in the world has
as large a foreign trade per inhabitant
They may be interested, too, in know
ing that Iceland stands tenth among
nations in the number of telephones
per inhabitant, being in this respect
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an ancient Roman once building. which
was covered with q green glow, while
the medieval Tore dele Milizie doomed
above in q mass Of red light. The
Coliseum, most impressive Of all Roman
monuments, was covered with blazing
white lights from dozens OF flood lights,
and the comparatively new monument
of Victor Emmanuel was outlined in
living fire, furnished by thousands OF
torches. The front Of the Pincian Hill.
facing on Piazza del Popolo, was also
lined with countless electric lights,
while the monolith in the square, sur
mounted by the colorful tri-colored nag
of Italy, was ingeniously Illuminated
by concealed lights. Late in the eve
ming fireworks we're sent into the sky
from the surrounding hills, giving the
impression Of a giant worlds fair.
staged in the worlds most impressive
setting.
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Fiume Electricity
Purchased by Serbs

Business Is business. JuRoslavs and
and Italians periodically eat each other
up for breakfast over political issues
involving their countries But the Eneo
River, separating Plume from Sussex
has momentarily put halt to this state
of affairs.
Now comes the good news that ma
tional sentiment could not hamper the
realization Of a business deal. Fiume
promises to supply the town of Sussex
with 100000 Eilowatts Of electricity each
year. The contract ID valid for three
years and Jugoslavs must pay 2 cents
per AloWStt Tor more Light
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Fascist Birthday Fete
Bathes Rome in Color

Rome still maintains it's reputation
as the place after which Roman
candles" we're named. The entire city
was bathed in flood of multi-colored
lights on the occasion of Fascism' S
seventh birthday. and the coincident
betrothal Of Crown Prince Humbert to
Marie-Jose of Belgium creating an
liant sight of all was that provided by
the newly excavated Mercati Traianei,
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neer he began tntelligently to discuss
the problems of water-power develop
ment, but when he heard was from
New York he began to laugh. THAT is
where they build their buildings so
high" he said, that. the fire department
can't squirt water to the tops" And SO
had my first, news Of the famous
Sherry Netherland fire.
1t is this intelligence and active Gu
riosity on the part of the population
that lies behind the present reawaken-
ing of Iceland and the amazing amount
of work the country has done in the
last quarter century.
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palace IN which 70 enjoy the 1nperlouS
SIRENS charms.
Loses Charm for King.
When the freshness of his ardor for
Nine. de Montespan wore of, the porce-
lain love nest lost its charm for the
King. 1t boasted only one story. 1t
was not glorious enough. He had 1t
pulled down. In its place went up q
regular palace Of marble and porphyry
with statues, fountains and gardens to
match. This was the Grand Trianon
Some memoirs of the period record
that while it was building Louis had q
dispute with Louvois, his surintendant
des batiments, who was also his minis
ter for war, about the dimensions OF
one Of the windows. The King main
tanned that they were out OF proper
ton. The minister insisted they were
all right. The King, trusting the
straightness Of his eye, privately sent
for an architect and had the window
measured. It was wrong.
Then the King burst out in a rage
againt Louvois. Obstinate fool! If
had let you have your way you woulc
have finished the whole building witt
that window as 1t is-and then should
have had to pull 1t all down again Il
put the window right"
Louvois went away and told hi
friends he had lost his influence. give
him a war that will put his building
out of his head" advised Villacerf, ont
Of his intimates, land he will soon SCI
that you are indispensable" by God
you are right" agreed Louvois. AnC
the War of 1888 was the result.
A legend perhaps, but one in true
character with Versailles and q KIM
who took his Queen and his mistress
on his campaigns, and who on hi
deathhed said to the little dauphin
Little one. ! have often begun Wa;
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Brazil's Cotton Output.

/ PARAHYBA. Brazil R.-The four
northern states of Brazil produce the
bulk Of the country's cotton crop. This
this state produced $4,000, Ceara, 10000;
Pernambuco, ~ 900 and Rio Grande do
Marta. 11,000 to0S
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BuTnSteadSW OrmSyrup

''TO children an angel Of mercy" where
directions are followed. 1T NEVER
cost Of 2SToSI ss & Contains am fH doSs
Stood sixty years. test. sold everywhere
or by mail. soc q bottle.
Est. C. A. Voorhees,. II. D.. PhIlAdelphio
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09
sesTpSS-Eo~ARI
A Woman Wins

All citizens not only the women VIII De hIeieS'e0
in the noninetinn Of Ruth Hanna Mccormick LOT Ihe
United States asnate.
The people of Illinois have jumped one huroe 0i
nreidice by giving her the chance to run IN the gen.
eral election in state where nomination Is almost
equal to an election.
Most significant Is the fact that Mrs McCornlcA
did not make an appeal to women voters as woman
but asked for votes only the basis OF htneSs ana
principles. -,....,.,.
That is long step forward. In the past poilVcialS
have tried to catch votes by naming women TO some
minor position under the deuson that this would N
subtly flattering to all women
In Illinois it appears that the women and the rnea'
have forgotten the accident of sex and are Judging
candidates only on their qualifications.
Mrs. Mccormick is unusually fitted for politics her
father was the master mind of his times Her husband
now dead devoted his life to public matters She hao
lived in the atmosphere OF politics all her life and
now sits in congress.
There are women in every state whose QUALIFICATIONS
cornDare favoraby with those of men who hold high
positions As matter of fact 1t would be no difficult
matter to find two Indiana who could prohtaoy be
sent to Join Mrs. Mccormick if she should win the
senate seat with no loss of prestige to the state and
with fewer occasions for apology.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09
What Does Mitchell Mean?

Attornev-General Mitchell is getting nowhere
NTH his prohibition propaganda. If he speaks for
tho administration then the public must conclude
that the administration is houndering helpesSy on
this important issue.
such situation is apt to increase the split within
the Republican party, which gives the g. O. P leaders
beebeieebies every time they think of the November
election.
Twice within less than a week the encouragement
has found time to propagate the most extreme dry
IDEAS First he defended the notorious Jones FIVE
and-ten enforcement law which even many drys
would like to repeal Then he proclaimed the sue
cess" of enforcement.
In his defense of the Jones law, Mitchell supported
t,uo bills favored by the Wickersham commission
one bill under the guise Of defining slight violations
NJ the prohibition law, gives district attorney power
IN trv such petty offenses under the Jones law ana
ts extreme sentences In the entire matter OF jury
less trials and protection OF citizens rights the atCo
nev-general was equivocal or worse
Now he has appeared before the senate commIttee'
arguinp that enforcement is improving rapidly be-
cause Of alleged figures showing larger number OF
prosecutions and convictions during the last hall OF
1929 COMPARED with the similar period OF 1928
A larger number of prosecutions certainly does not
s,,goest wider law observance, but if anything an
increase in violations And that indication OF course
il II, line with general belief and observation that the
law is less respected than ever.
That the department of justice is becoming more
effective IN its enforcement Of an menforceaole
1aw-that is enforcement in the sense OF punishment
rather than prevention-may may not be legltl-
mate inference from the Mitchell figures mat can
not be known until the figures are made public.
Meanwhile it is well known that the department
Of Justice always has had the choice of concentrating
on the big fellows in the wholesale liquor trade or
the small fry of the pint pedding class. The big
fellows are alleged to have local political protection
NJ one kind or another The little fellows don't
Prosecuting thousands of the little fellows may
make political show but it certainly can not ory
nm a single acre of this wet continent.
In any case we not understand Mtcheus
efforts to kill the Norrs-Borah plan for senate in
vesteation OF alleged corruption in the prohibition
bureau OF course that doubtless would show that
liquor corruption of politics is as bad or worse under
nrohibition than under the discredited saloon But
such an expose might at least improve enforcement
az sincere drys like Norris and Borah desire.
Is the attorney general more interested IN dry
nronaganda than in enforcement?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09
The Dry Law Poll

One NJ the interesting revelations of the Literary
Digest prohibition poll is that quite generally the vote
for repeal of the eighteenth amendment exceeds the
vote for modification of the vostead act
Repeal Of the amendment is the most difficult way
of getting rid of prohibition, because any thirteen
states can prevent repeal owing to the constitutional
requirement that only by vote of the legislatures of
fourths of the states the Constitution be
changed
To modify or repeal the volstead act, only a ma
jorty Of both houses of congress is necessary; except
of course, In the event Of presidential Veto No
amendment to the Constitution is seenforcing, and
without the volstead enforcing act the prohibition
amendment wouldn't amount o anything
If the Vostead act should be repealed enforcement
Of prohibition would be thrown back the states,
and each state could go far as it likes between
bonedryness and wrnging wetness. The states where
the people prohibition could have it, but couldn't
impose their will upon states that don't want it.
Neither could wet states impose their will upon states
that want prohibition.
The federal government would be out of the pic
tue If the Volstead act were repealed but would be
decidedly in it if the act modified to authorize
congress forbid regulate transportation between
states for then Uncle Sam could step in and protect
dry states from shipments of liquor from adjoining
wet states
Probably the crux of the problem would be the
saloon Many who went along with the Anti-Sa1oon
League in its efforts to put the saloon out of business
not in favor of prohibition Doubtless many who
voted in the Digest poll for modification or repeal
would have voted against return of the saloon that
had been the issue; and in making their issue against
prohibition the vets will be wise to make provision
for eliminating the saloon and keeping it eliminated
With that evil out of the picture, the sentiment
against bonedry absolute prohibition doubtless will
continue to grow, along with determination to force
the federal government to stick to its bill of rights
One thing seem certain, and that is that no pussy
footing by politicians will prevent prohibition being
the Invest issue in politics until the problem is solved
in the interest of temperance.
Unfortunately, members of both houses of congress
this year will be elected largely that issue and their
fitness in other directions will be subordlnated to
whether they are dependably wet or dependabIy dry
II the larger vote for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment means anything, it must be a growing
sentiment that the federal government went too far
when it put police regulation in the federal Const-
tuition and one that is swapping the guarantees of
liberty in the bill of rights
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09
Aluminium Trust Wins

The Governments third antitrust proceedings
against the Melons Aluminium Company OF America
ended with a twenty-four-word announcement that
the federal trade commission had dismissed the case
There was no formal opinion, public estimate OF the
evidence.
The commissions twenty-four words constitute
anal determination of case which has been building
M for five years So far as the public record goes
thev are the complete answer TO some 5000 pages OF
testimony and more than 1000 documentary exhibits
which. the examiners argued sustained charges that
the company pursued policy calculated to monopo-
lie the aluminium sand castings industry.
II has been eighteen years since the government
first attacked the aluminium monopoly. Through
consent decree Of the United States district court at
Pittsburgh, June T. 1912. the Aluminium Company OF
America and all its subsidiaries were enjoined per-
manently from any action tending TO fix or Illegally
affect the price" OF aluminium.
A series Of inter-company contracts apportioning
the world aluminium markets nullihed by the
decress
On Oct s, 1924 the federal trade commission
found that certain practices Of the company violated
the 1912 decree. Summarizing the evidence in this
case. Acknowledgement Stone informed the commits
sion on Jan. So 1925, that:
THE Aluminium Company Of America at present
controls more than 90 per cent of all known deposits
Of bauxite. 1t is in a position to- and does,
control the domestic price Of sheet aluminium to uensn
manufacturers"
year later, Stone having been elevated &c the
supreme court, the next attorney John 9.
Sargent informed the commission that the justice de-
partments investigation disclosed evidence sup
porting charges that monopOstc practices had been
resumed.
Meanwhile, the federal trade commission on July
Il. 1925. again had cited the aluminium company for
marketing practices declared to operate in restraint
Of trade. Following q 1Ve-yeaE inquiry, which ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09
REASON By Ff EzRbfs

before it adjourns congress should provide for
- suspension Of immigration during industrial de-
PRESTON since it is economic folly to glad hand null
utudes OF European job hunters when own people
are out OF work.
European nations do not have our immigration
problem but If they did, they would handle it solely
with reference to their welfare not with reference
to the desires Of those who wish to enter their gates
The other day, England told Negro jazz band to
beat it back to the U. S. A. because English jazz
artists were out of work and M Bull with his Gus
omary habit of looking out for his own decided that
English Saxophones should do whatever blowing
there to be done.
NTHAT howl would ascend from Europe if We
w should cart back across the Atlantic all the
unnaturalized aliens who came here to find work.
While may not want to follow England's ex-
ample and do this should keep any more from
coming in until the slack is taken up
Such action would be appropriate just now when
a tariff law is being framed to protect the farm
and the working men, for it is stupidity to keep
out goods made by cheap labor yet admit the cheap
labor under conditions which will keep it cheap
XXTHILE our congressman it, they should also
w cast an eye toward the Rio Grande, which
Mexcans stream without any restrictions whatever to
take the places Of Italians railroad work and the
places Of Negroes in cotton fields forcing the Negroes
into northern cities.
AS raw material for citizenship, these Mexicans are
inferior to most Europeans, and when Our people
looking for work, when ex-service men walking
the streets asking for employment it is dsoyal to let
these MeXicans continue to pour in without any
strictions whatever.
We must plan to restrict immigration drastcay, to
meet the inroads which improved machinery continu
ally makes the demand for labor and we might as
well start now.
After all, we are supposed 20 be nation, you know
bot an ash can .,.ssauSSlsms -
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STEINNTETZ' BIRTH
April 9

I'M April 9, 1865. Charles Proteus
~ Steinmetz, American electrical
wizard, and called one of the great
est scientific minds the world ever
has known, was born at Breslau,
Germany.
Congenitally deformed, Steinlnetz
devoted to study the time he might
have spent at play. At the univer-
sites of Breslau and Berlin, where
he made brilliant records, he got
himself into difficulty because of his
pronounced Socialistic views. He
fed to this country to escape gov
ernmental prosecution.
Arriving in New York pennilesS,
Steinmetz got a job in a Yonkers
factory for 50 a day. He quickly
attracted attention through his in
ventions for electric motors and
generators and by his writings.
Eventually, he became chief con-
Sulting engineer for the General
Electric Company.
Some Of his most important con-
tributions were: The mercury lamp;
the first plan for the transmission
of light and power great distances;
a formula for producing energy as
by-product of heat; process by
which smoke could be eliminated.
and perfection Of a theory proving
that microbes could be cultivated to
provide food for the world. ...sn..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09

A LTHOUGH no veteran OF the
IA air, I've been allowed to wheeze
down the microphone a few times,
and when Sherman Of the Give a
Job Campaign Committee dated me
for twenty broadcasts in ten days,
I began to feel that I had left my
apprenticeship behind.
But I'm afraid it isn't going to
work out quite that way. The kind
woman at WOR on Thursday night
greeted me as T came Keeling and
dripping out of the studio with an
encouraging, "Why, that wasn't bad
at all for your first time on the air. :"
Something must have been aIniss
with me or the mike, because later
in the evening I ran into SWope,
one of my ex-employerS, who had
heard the program, and he COM
planned, II couldn't understand a
word you said. You sounded as if
you had something in your mouth. .
Maybe it was job," suggested
Mrs S., who up to now had taken
no part in the conversations.
Perhaps" I retorted, with acid
dignity, 1T was the milk of human
kindness, that could make it unin-
telligible to YOU"
But, as matter of fact, I didn't
say it. The idea didn't come to me
until I was leaving the house, sew
eral hours later. 1t was one of those
afterthoughts for a snappy come
back which Charles Hanson Towne
has identified as "repartee."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-09
Green Vegetables Best Source of Iron

try has more iron than light meat.
In a recent survey with modern
methods of the amount of iron in
bananas and apricots, these are
found to be three or four times
higher than the figures quoted in
tables perfected some years ago.
Whereas milk is for many pur-
poses an excellent food, it Is not
particularly good source Of iron or
of copper.
Studies were made Of the copper
content of milk from cows, sheep
and goats, and also of concentrated
cows milk. The milk of cows and
sheep contained more copper than
did that of goats, but none Of these
is a significant source Of copper.
These determinations are of i'm
portance in selecting suitable diets
for human beings.