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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
REASON By Ff aASpIs

XXTE fret and we fume but nothing counts if we're
w in health and ahead of the hounds. This Is no
fancy conclusion, embroidered from abstraction, but
grim reaction from having one OF the kids up against
the saws and knives of the operating room.
That's when it hurts
It was CHASTITY that first glimpse of the hospital and
we tried to Jolly him along but overdid it, we en-
ployed preposerouS guSto and he handed frigid
eye which reminded us of cod fish we bought out
of the ice last week.
Never get it into your head that kid of yours doesn't
know you for he has complete blue prints of you; he
has been through you with lantern from cellar to
cupola.
We entered the door-and the smell of antiSeptics
that same old aroma Icing broadcast this minute by
every hospital from Indiana to India
Why don't they try bay rum Or bear grease van
liza or aSsafetda, like used round necks
in sacks to keep off the neebe eebies if they can't
do any better why don't they chase pole cat through
the place. '-'
WE went to the Office and they took out card
w and asked the patients age and on, and that
was creepy; those dates had been lying around the
house like pile of old shoes, but it got you to line
them up in formal parade, so we were glad to end
it and go to the where the kid peeled off his
buds and they gave him thing called nightie, but
it wasn't; it was more like dickie with founce.
He lay there in bed and-how long fellow looks
when he's stretched out under Sheet
He asked eighty five times what hour it was then
explained that he wondering how long it till
supper but ne wasn't he was figuring how close he
to the guns
Then there rap the door and they wheeled
a stretcher put him it and walked along like
a Newfoundland dog.
We went into room that was eXcruciatingy white
and the surgeons powdered their hands and put on
rubber gloves, then they put the nose of
that kid of ours and commenced to sprinkle ether and
we suddenly discovered we were all india rubber.
Then the whte-robed wielder of the knife gave us
the once over and handed us the air.
DACK to the room We numbered with leaden feet.
- then walked five miles from door to window and
from window to door then to snap out of it. we COM
menced to write this article and when we're al
most done there's rap the door and they wheel
him in and it's back to bed for the patient.
We know he's all right for he gives us the wink.
How spiritual he looks with flushed face against
the white pillow and how spiritual he must be at this
particular crisiS-nothing gross nor earthly about him.
None but starry thoughts can be gliding through
his nina as with glisening eyes he us and
We bend over to receive the celestial message and
then he whispers: That thing always made me
weak, but I'm going to be strong and in six
weeks or seven can lick Freckles McGinniss"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
The Shoals Lobby

Private interests have tried for years to get control
OF Muscle Shoals That they have used lobbyists to
influence congressional votes goes without saying.
Just how vast this lobby has been and just what
methods it has employed soon will be determined by
the senate lobby committee.
1t will be interesting to know who pays the ex-
penses and salaries of the numerous individuals who
hover about the corridors of congress when Shoals
legislation is considered
It will be interesting to know whether the fertilizer
interests have tied in with the power companies
in seeking to get possession of the water power and
nitrate facilities there has been charged by Senator
Norris repeatedly.
Meantime the Norris bill languiSheS on the senate
calendar 1t is the only Shoals legislation which
passed both houses of congress- Coolidge vetoed it. Its
early adoption will insure public benefit from the
manufacture of power and nitrates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
A New Constitution

That the head of the local lawyers union
should oppose the proposal for new Con-
stitution is not surprising. Lawyers, as
general rule, are reactionaries and partlcu-
larly so when it comes to a matter of new
laws.
The people will vote upon the question
next fall. They win decide on a convention
to draft a new Constitution. The demand
came from those who believe that changed
conditions make the present charter OF
liberty" not only obsolete, but protection
for all sorts Of injustices.
The necessity for a new Constitution is
shown in the fact chat it is practically I'M
possible to amend the present Constitution.
Even so mild a change as one to fix some
standards of education of those who practice
law is impossible.
1t is possible that a large part of the pro-
test comes from what the courts have writ
ten into the Constitution in the way of In
depreciation, rather than what was intended
by those who drafted it.
1t seems inconceivable that it was ever
intended that the legislature should have no
power to impeach Judge for acts of tyranny
and oppression. Yet that is the interpreta
ton of the high court. 1t is now safe for any
Judge to perpetrate any sort of injustice as
long as he keeps out of his own jail.
Nor does it seem probable that the Con
stitution ever intended that judges should
have unlimited power to punish the critics OF
Judges. Yet the supreme court very recently
decided that truth is no defense in charge
of constructive contempt, decision which
practically places every editor at the mercy
of any Judge who cares to exercise his auto
cratic powers.
It does not seem probable that the Con-
stitution was ever designed to prevent tax
alton of incomes as the fairest basis of rails
ing revenues, yet such seems to be the judi
cial view.
The people feel the wrongs. They find
them imbedded in the Constitution or the
Interpretation of the Constitution. They
have seen too many futile efforts to obtain
relief by laws that are later nullifed by judi
cial DEGREES.
If there were no other reason for a new
Constitution it might be found in the neces-
sity of very definitely fixing the powers of
the high court to set aside laws passed by
the legislature.
AS long as injustice and inequality exists
and the people are powerless, the plea of
lawyers against change will not convince.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
Informal Lynching

Lynching appears to be fading gradually from
American mobwayS. Year by year the torch the rope
and the fagot are found in fewer hands. The sheer
power of public inion gives promise that another
decade may rec the final eradication of this most
horrible of our remaining barbarouS institutions.
The TuSkegee institute reports ten lynchngs in the
United States in 1929 Will, the National Association
for Advancement Colored People lists twelve. There
we're eleven in 1929 sixteen in 1927 nineteen in 1926
and 2S5 in 1892.
Seven of last years victims were Negroes and three
whites Thirty-four potential victims of lynchng
mobS were saved during the year by vigorous action
of the responsible officers of the law. OF the twenty
seven frustrated attempts. twentyfour in south
ern states.
These figures encouraging, but do not justify
necessarily the conclusion to which they to point
namely that terrorization is declining at the same
pace The homicide rate in a number of southern
cities initiates against such conclusion.
Horace 3. Davis member of the research staff
of Southwestern college Memphis asks in The Nation
il there has not in fact grown up in this country
substitute for lynching" He builds a challenging
thesis around the following facts:
The American homicide rate In 1922 was 81 per
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
4 = .
That Weight

THE point is that weight reduc-
l. ton is proving much more diff
ficult than I supposed. The fault
is not mine.
I've stuck to my schedule with
great fortitude, but the community
is not cooperating properly. Every
mans hand seems to be against the
ascetic who wishes to grow thin.
Often drinkers are charged with
a desire to force the poisonous stuff
they use upon all innocent bystand-
erS round about. This l haven't
noticed particularly.
In fact, I've been around several
places recently where partisans OF
vile connections seemed to be tossing
off tankard after tankard without
giving me tumble.
can say in all honesty that not
one of these drinkers tried to cor
rupt me, even though I fingered at
tables and Happy-New-Yeared them
in droveS.
wish I could say as much for
the eaters Unfortunately, every
man who makes a god of his stom-
ach seems intent upon PROSECUTING.
Fried chicken and waffle addicts are
worst of the lot.
Oh, I forgot to say that the mu-
nicipal notice warning restaurant
men about Broun should contain a
special paragraph in raised red let
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09

NNE of the cities of central Eu-
~ rope just has decided to do
away with an ancient custom. In
this town, the name of which
escapes me, each tavern keeper re-
ceived a list of customers to whom
he might not sell alcoholic liquors,
under pain of being fined.
Thus, for their own good, topers
were protected, while the more mod
crate went their merry way without
molestation.
I do not know why the scheme
was abandoned, for I would like to
see something of the sort done over
here. I am not interested in new
scheme of prohibition, however, but
in another sort of tavern blacklist
which would be of direct benefit to
myself.
I would like to have Wha1en or
Walker send to every lunchroom
and restaurant a folder containing
my photograph and detailed de-
scription of my appearance. You
know: Intelligent eyes, massive
forehead, wavy chestnut hair, and
SO on. The description is not i'm
portant. Any great master of Eng
lish prose could do the subject JUS
tice.
The vital point Is that the circu-
lar should say in large and promi-
nent type, under penalty of revo-
cation of your license, sell this man
no fried potatoes, mashed potatoes,
boiled potatoes, butter, English muf-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Injections Into Heart Are Risky

heart. Revival follows not because
of the treatment, but in spite of it.
There is, moreover, grave danger
of causing hemorrhage around the
heart or infection by such methods.
When these methods are used they
are sensational and therefore re-
ceive great publicity.
The heart, like every other tissue
in the body, receives its nourish-
ment and gets the effects of
remedies through the blood that is
brought to the heart by its own
blood vessels.
These blood vessels supply the
tissues with oxygen, sugar and the
other materials necessary for the
functioning of the muscle.
1t therefore is much better to get
the remedies through to the heart
by putting them into the circulation
than by trying to inject them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09

directly into the heart muscle.
When person has become I'M
conscious and fails to breathe, the
one method of immediate i'm
portance is artificial respiration.
This is best accomplished by what
is known as the prone pressure
method, standing over the body of
the patient and forcing his respira-
ton by alternately raising and
lowering the body and by pressure
on the region of the diaphragm.
This method now is taught in
every Red Gross center and first
aid station.
At the same time, the patient
must be kept warm. His breathing
may be stimulated by the inhaling
of a mixture of carbon dioxid and
oxygen. There are special inhala-
ton devices available for this pur-
pose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
ESkinOS
TINE Eskimos, according to DR..

TINE ESklmoS, accordlng 10 Dr'
L Hrdlicka, present a more diff
cultsproblem than do the Indians.
Following the groups from which
developed the American Indians.
there either came or were developed
somewhere about the Boring sea,
other groups from which resulted
the Eskimo" he said.
1.-THE origin of the Eskimo has al
ways been mooted question. The
recent explorations of the Smith
sonian Institution give hope that
this problem may be solved def
niteIy before many years have
passed.
"a great amount Of new evidence,
both archaeological and skeletal, has
been collected within the last few
years by the Smithsonian Institu-
ton and this throws much new light
on the problem.
There are thus reasons Tor eX-
pectations that within a relatively
short time to come, American
science may be able to offer a def
mite solution to both the problem Of
the origin of the Indian and that of
the origin of the Eskimo"
DR.. Hrdlicka said that while ex-
ploring in the. waters between
Alaska and Asia, it often seemed to
him as though he were sailing on an
inland lake, the coast of America
seeming like one side Of the lake
and the coast of Asia, the other.
1T is clear that the boat journey
from Asia to America could not have
caused early man any difficulty" he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
Questions and AnSzUe1s

depths. Seagoing submarines are
constructed for depths ranging from
200 to 300 feet. The greatest depth
a submarine of the United States
has submerged and emerged to date
is 299 feet.
What is the total area and the
population of the British provinces?
The total area of the British
provinces and protected native
states or agencies is 1,805,332 square
miles. The population Of British
provinces was PAT, 003, 1893 according
to the 1921 census.
Where and when did the May
flower arrive first in America?
At Cape Cod bay, near Province
town harbor, Mass, Nov. II, 1920.
How long was Philadelphia the
capital of the United States?
From 1880 to 1900
Where is the grave of Molly
Pitcher, the Revolutionary war
heroine?
In Carlisle, Pa, where monu-
ment was erected to her memory.
Who played the part of the prose-
cutting attorney in the motion pic
ture ION Tr.al?"
Richard Tucker.
How do the Victory Falls In
Africa and the InguaSsu Falls In
Brazil compare in height with Nj
agara Falls?
Igassu Falls are 30 feet high;
Victoria Falls are 400 feet and Nj
agara Falls are 167 feet.
Where are the largest woolen mills
In the United States?
Lawrence, Mas; Lowell, Mass;
Providence, r. l.: Woonsocket,
r. L; Cleveland, O.; jamestown,
n. z, and Philadelphia, Pa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
? Must Join in Bargaining

I'm the old days, no one ever
l. thought of quarreling with a
man because he demanded more
pay and quit his job if he failed to
get 1t.
In the old days, when most enter
prises and most employment were
on an individual basis, that was
enough for the working mans pro-
lection.
In these days Of mergers and
mass production, it is not, and the
only way to protect the individual
in his right to bargain is to let
him exercise it en- a collective basis.
It is prepoSterouS for any one
to suppose that industry can enjoy
the advantage of massed wealth,
and, at the same time, deny workers
the advantage of massed movement
1t is equally preposterous to sup
pose that industry can demonstrate
the efficiency of organization, with
out convincing the workers that
they should try it.
1t is more preposterouS still to
suppose that if they are prevented
from trying it in accord with Amer
lean ideals, they will hesitate to
try it in accord with some others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
SCIENCE
Eskimo and Indian We're Of
Asiatic Origin, Viei0 of DR..
Aler Hrdlickd Before Sci
ence Contention.
BY DAVID DIETZ

TINE American Indian and the
Eskimo both were OF Aslatlc
origin, entering the American con-
tinent by way of Alaska, DR.. AleS
Hrdlicka, famous anthropologlst OF
the Smithsonian Institution, told
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science In annual
convention.
Just as the white man enGred
America by crossing the Atlantic IN
sailing vessels in the years following
1892 and then gradually progressed
across the country in the following
centuries. so DR.. Hrdlicka believes
the Indian and the Eskimo entered
America by crossing the Berlng
straits. Bering sea and Bristol bay
by canoe some thousands OF years
earlier.
He believes that Indians entered
by successive waves of immigration,
starting after the last glacial age.
The final retreat of the glaciers
is estimated to have taken place
25. 900 years ago. He believes thai
the first wave of immigration began
about $4,000 years ago.
DR.. Hrdlicka bases his views on an
investigation which he began for
the Smithsonian Institution in 1926.
In that year, he studied types Of
natives in Siberia whom he found
to resemble the American Indian
both in appearance and in dress. He
since has continued his studies in
Alaska and the Aleutian islands.
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7 he Lure
THOUGH young I found my false

THROUGH young I found my false
l. friends hardened. No sooner
was a password given and the IRON
stripped door tightly locked than
one of the desperadoes in the party
would call out to the proprietor,
"Paicho, fried chicken for me-"
Another would shout gleefully,
1.-The same for me, but make mine
with waff1eS." And then, as tor
turer might give the thumbscrews
just another twist, he added, quite
audibly, land bring me plenty Of
Sirup."
Flight was useless. The spirit of
the debauch was in my blood,
though I tried to defend myself by
parroting in what meant to pass
as a resolute voice, "No chicken for
me. Nothing for me at all. Just a
Tom Collins"
When I came to, it was dawn.
The fried chicken den was deserted,
but upon each plate remained moth
ing but some fragmentary second
joints. I looked at my hands and
found grease there.
I shuddered. The pity of it! IN
stead of having honest vine leaves in
my hair, I was smeared with maple
Sirup!
I do not know or care much what
became of my companions. Per-
haps they fled when the madness
seized me. Or, with any luck, it may
be that I killed them all, and stuffed
them under the floor. Maybe, like
Samson of old, I beat them down
with a drumstiCk.
I can only hope for the best. All
T know is that I never went to see
any of them again. Each leering
eye would seem fresh insult, each
face a waffle!
CConvri1ht 1890 nv The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

A GAIN and again items appear
IN to the effect that a person who
has been killed by drowning, by
shock, or by various other methods
has been restored to life by injection
directly into the heart of adrenalln
or some other powerful remedy.
In a protest against such heroic
measures, The Journal of the Amer
lean Medical Association calls at
tention to the fact that such in
jections are seldom if ever of any
use because they actually can &C
complish little or nothing in the
heart.
If the death was real, of course,
no harm has been to the patient
by injecting something into his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
Chief Justice Taft

The public will read with relief of Chief Justice
Taft's smiling confidence on entering a Washington
hospital for rest. He said not to worry, that he
would get along all right
Not every agrees with all his political and
legal opinions, but all admire the ovial and faithful
man. The fact that he has worked himself into 8
state of exhaustion in line of duty as head of the
supreme court endears him all the to his fellow
citizens They hope for his speedy and complete
recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
MigratiOnS

THE farthest northwest OF the
Il American continent is Alaska"
DR.. Hrdlicka said. Here America
approaches closest to the old world.
Less than fifty miles separates the
two continents at their nearest
points and even this distance is cut
in half by the Diomede islands.
ct is here that the passing Of
man from the old to the new world
was not only very feasible, but in
evitable. According to the best SCI
entific evidence of today, it was
through this portal that America
was peopled after the decline of
the ice age.
Land connections were unneceS-
sary for this purpose and would not
have been used had they existed.
Travelling by water is far more
simple and comfortable in those
regions than is travelling by land.
There are substantial reasons
now for the conclusion that there
we're no great migrations from Asia.
The comings over we're in small
groups, carrying with them differ
ences in type and differences in
language which had already de-
veloped in Asia.
However, all the immigrants be-
Ionged to the same family of man
kind, the yellow-brown.
Migration from Asia to Amer
lea by way of Alaska continued for
thousands of years, extending right
up to historic times.
ITO this day, the Asiatics are in
direct connection with the nearest
parts of Alaska and make the
Journey across the Boring Strait,
though migration is no longer pos
Sible."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09

100000 of population But the rate in Memphis that
year was COS; in Birmingham $40; in Jacksonville,
526; in Atlanta Ash compared with 1873 in Chicago
and 81 in New York. The ten ranking cities in the
United States homicide table for 1923 were in the
south.
Unfortunately" says Davis, figures on the color
of the murderer not available. Most murders of
Negroes probably by other Negroes The high rate
for the colored race is due in part however to the
fact that in many sections it is considered hardly
crime to kill Negro"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
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| ANNIVERSARY
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MISSISSIPPI SECEDES
Jan. 8

Jan. 8
ON Jan. 9, 1861, Mississippi
" seeded from the Union.
The question of secession had
been agitated for some time, but
it remained for the election of Lin
coin to bring the movement to
head.
The ordinance of secession was
passed by a convention, "a to Is, and
the state Constitution was amended
to bring it into conformity with the
Constitution of the Confederate
states.
During the Civil war, the people
of Mississippi suffered greatly and
in 1868 and 1864, especially, a large
part of the state was devastated by
the contending armies.
Today also is the anniversary of
the first balloon ascension in Amer
lea, made in Philadelphia on Jan.
9, 1893.
And on Jan. 9, 1888, Connecticut
ratified the United States Con-
stitution, the fifth state to do so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
TT SEEMS TO ME By Hf BRoGS

tiers, saying: Don't sell this man
any fried chicken and waffleS, under
penalty of $4,000 fine, and ten
years"
Probably the most damaging thing
for a man intent upon reducing is
fried chicken and waf1es. Just to
walk by a table where this delicacy
of the depraved is being served will
often add many ounces to the total
poundage of an unfortunate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09
Daily Thought

AS saith the proverb of the an
clients, wickedness prOceedeth from
the wicked.-I Samuel 24:I3,
y Il
The wickedness of the few makes
the calamity of the many.-Publius
Syrus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-09

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.