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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
WAR ON LIQUOR
is ONE WEAPON
IN INDIA REVOLT
Women Fling Themselves
Over Threshold to Keep
Out Buyers.
This Is the fourth in = series Of Eve
nneensored articles on India By Webb
Miller Who recently returned from an
EXTENDED inyestiration in that country.
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press staH Correspondent

LAHORE. Aug. 21.-Women fling
themselves across the thresholds Of
liquor shops TO prevent entrance.
Others help their men chop down
thousands Of toddy palm trees from
which liquor is extracted.
Women participate in massed at
tscks upon liquor shops smashing
the fittings and stock.
Men and women attack carts
Carrying liquor TO the shops ana
burst open the barrels and set fire
TO the liquor.
Those scenes are occurring in
scores Of towns in India in the cam
paign OF the Nationalist to make
India dry.
IN the struggle with Britain for
freedom Gandhi made total prohi-
bitiOn for India one of the eleven
cardinal points of his program.
For the first time in the history
OF India women are playing
prominent part in political
struggle. They are concentrating
their activities upon prohibition.
Drinking Is Prevalent
BY religion and custom India
nominally is a prohibition country.
The religions Of both the Moham-
medans and Hindus impose absti-
hence from liquor.
But the advance of modern west
ern civilization brought in its train
widespread use OF liquor and drunk
enness. There now are some $4,000
liquor shops in British India alone.
Drinking is most prevalent in the
great industrial centers.
The Nationalist campaign for
prohibition has a three-fold pur-
pose-to cut of revenue which the
government of India derives from
the liquor traffic: to enforce the
tenetS of their religion and to pro-
mote the health and well-being Of
the nation.
BY his religion and by personal
conviction Gandhi is an ardent dry.
Shops Are Pickcted
According to my observations
during a 4OO0-mile trip through
India the movement toward pro-
hibition is making much Roadway
and considerably decreasing sales
and the governments revenue.
The most extensive and effective
weapon of the Nationalist is pick
citing of shops by women volunteers
who stand outside the place and
implOre people not to aid the gov
eminent by buying liquor or ha-
rangue would-be customers regard
ing the evils Of drinking.
Besides direct action against the
use of liquor Nationalist women are
carrying on an educational cam
paign somewhat similar TO the cam
paign Of the w. c. T. U. in the
United States years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
STEAL MOVIE MACHINE
Taken From Show Window Of
Sporting Goods Store.

A motion picture machine valued
at $11O was stolen Wednesday night
from the showcase of the Emroe
sporting goods store, 209 West
Washington street, according to a
report to police by store officials
TODAY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
SAFE TAKEN BY YEGGS
$50 Is Stolen; Tire Company's
StrOngbOx Is Abandoned.

Breaking through the front door
of the Billy Grimes Tire Company.
924 Shelby street, early today, yeggs
carried out the safe. The abandoned
safe with $50 in cash missing was
found at Emerson avenue and Pros
pect street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
FAMOUS FEUDIST WORSE
Cap" Hatfield Sinking as Three
Day Coma at Hospital Continues.

BIZ United Press
BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. 21.-The
condition of William Anderson
Cap Hatfield, last of the famous
Hatfield-McCoy feudists, was termed
critical at Johns Hopkins hospital
today.
According to DR.. B. D. Smith
Hatfields personal physician who
accompanied the 67-year-old feudist
from his home in Logan. w. Va,
Hatfield has been in a coma for
three days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
HINT RUSS IMPORTS
NOT LAW VIOLATION
Treasury Officials Point Out Lack
of Competition.

BU Htfd Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-TIeas-
ury officials intimated today that
no importations from Soviet Rus
STA were in violation of laws for
bidding products of forced labor or
dumping conspiracies to appear in
the American market.
1t was pointed out that such So
Wet Russian products as spruce
Russian lumber, pulpwood and
manganese are being imported.
But these are not considered as
creating unfair competition with
American products. The United
States produces considerably less
manganese than the American steel
industry requires.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21

When Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd visits Indianapolis Monday
he will be presented with medal
by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.
The medal, shown in the above
photo. is inscribed on the reverse
side: Presented to Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd, u s. N. in hon.
or Of his conquest of the north
and south poles"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
DEMONSTRATIONS FOR
SACCO-VANZETTI SET
L. S., Latin America and Europe to
DeplOre Deaths Friday.

Bu Ulifed Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-The Sac
co-Vanzetti memorial demonstra-
ton, organized by the international
Labor Defense, has been set for 5
p. m. in Union square Friday
Similar demonstrations arc
planned in fifty other cities in the
United States, Latin America and
Europe. Among the chief issues of
the demonstration will be demand
for the unconditional freedom of the
six labor organizers who now are in
prison in Atlanta, Ga, and for the
abolition of lynching.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
GarfeId's Daughtcr-in-Law, Dies
BN [ mad Prcss

BIZ { nitcd PreSS
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 21.-
The body of Mrs. Helen Newell
Garfield, "a, daughter-in-law of for
mer President Garfield, is to be sent
today to her home in Mentor, O.,
following her death at local hos
pital from injuries suffered in an
automobile accident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police
belong to:
R. " Watt 6255 Washington boulevard.
Ford roadster. found at Twenty eighth
and Pennsylvania streets.
Leland Hammer 92o Sanders street.
Oakland sedan. found at Kelly and Me-
rfdiaQ streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
How to recognize
a low blood count

Blood is Life! You cannot count
your own red -blood-cells-that is
technical! But you should know
that they are the "ships" that
sail in the blood and carry nour-
ishment to all parts of the body.
Also, they remove impurities
from the tissues.
You can recognize a lowered
count by the way you look and
feel-such as body weakness,
lack of appetite, underweight,
paleness, saIIow complexion, bOils
and pimpIes. They may indicate
that you need S.S.S.
S.S.S.-the great blood tonic
stimulates the blood building
organs to supply the necessary
red-cells. If your vitality and
clear skin are slipping away from
you, try S.S.S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to.
Harry Harrison. s16ia East Main street.
Broad Ripple. Ford roadster. 1928. from
entrance OF Broad Ripple park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21
A fact you should not overlook

MORE red-cells in the blood!
WI Good health and resistance
to infection and disease, depend
on that. If a lowered red-cell
count is allowed to continue,
ANEMIA often results.
S.S.S. should be your safeguard.
A hundred years of experience
has proved its usefulness in build
ing red-cells in the blood. Take it
before meals. Millions of people
have found it the easiest and
surest way to restore their red
blood-cells. The appetite picks
up, the whole body is strength
ened, invigorated! Get S.S.S.-
take it and possess wonderful
power of new life and vitality.
Ask for the large size. At all
drug stores. @ s.S.s. Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
Safe F1Ying.

When Col. Lindbergl few across the
Atlantic he was christened Lucky
Indy" This cognomen stuck to him
for some time after his epochal feat
But as the expert and the layman began
to ponder on the ability 1t took to blaze
the way on an uncharted course of over
thirty-three hundred miles of the At
lantic Ocean the colonel was less and less
often referred to as Lucky" When he
came back to this country and made his
trip to Mexico and South America the
title that had been first given him was
relegated to the limbo of forgotten
things.
In the past month the colonel has
shown just what makes him the out
standing flyer that he is. From Cali
fornia to New York, breaking the world
record by more than three hours, and
from New York to Panama over q new
course that required the most expert
navigation and back again to the East
ern metropolis in space of time Of less
than three weeks surely demonstrates
ability Of the highest degree. Always on
schedule and amazingly free from acct
dent, Lindbergh, single handed, has
probably given the public more conf
dence in flying than any other individ-
ual. Lucky is no more. In his place is
q man who by sheer skill and good
equipment has given the world lesson
in safe flying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13

city order. by making repairs to prem
ises, setting outside blinds straight that
are now askew, patching up decrepit
porches, painting walls. Tenant occu-
pants should cooperate by keeping
premises in order once they are straight
ented out by owners.
The cost Of city housekeeping Is not
great, even in the aggregate. To the
individual the bill Of expense for the
necessary sprueing up Of property is
very small. Most Of the expenditure is
In physical labor. And there is scarce
ly a householder who will not be bet
ter for the exercise of Cleanup week.
1t is impossible to be proud of the
city, however enthusiastic one may be
regarding the evolution of the Capitals
great building equipment, so long as
slovenly conditions exist throughout
both business and residential sections.
II the present summons of the Commits
sioners. so strongly seconded by the Vice
President, is generally needed and the
city is put in order In every block next
week then it will be possible to feel safe
in showing visitors around the Capital,
in every quarter, without lodging dirty
corners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
Handling of Prisoners
Regarded as Difficult

From the Cincinnati Star-Times.
It seems reasonably clear that the
people of Ohio want two things done
about the handling of prisoners in the
penitentiary.
In the frst place they want order
maintained, with the authorities, not the
convicts, in charge. In the second
place, they want new prison facilities
provided SO that the majority OF prts-
oners who are. not hard-boiled trouble
makers will finish their terms something
better than a menace and scourge
to the rest of society. There Is no
has been. has been . place for making
all convicts hard. and hardened con-
victs harder.
But even with ideal prison conditions,
what is TO be the end Of our penitentiary
problem? It Is not the problem of a
State, but of the Nation. A mushy
sentimentalism is our worst national
fault. We refuse to send murderers to
the electric chair, but cheerfully consign
them to life imprisonment, thinking that
that gets the problem OF our hands In
the easiest and most humane way. As
a result our penitentiaries are crowded
with desperate criminals for whom life
holds little of promise. Once let them
get organized and imbued with the idea
that.they have nothing to lose and per-
haps something to gain by fighting their
guards, and such widespread prison re-
volts as we have seen In recent months
are inevitable.
Proper conditions and opportunity for
healthful work, preferably In the omen,
should make our penitentiaries no longer
q place of horror for the better element
among the prisoners. But how we are
going to pile UP great prison popula-
ton of offers" ready for sullen and
persistent warfare aaginst the prison
without unpleasant results
no one has been able to explain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
Effects of Candhi's Arrest
Widely Discussed in America

violent mobs of fanatics, whether led
by the pacific Gandhi or some other
volatile and erratic product OF the
race" contends the Utica Observer.
Dispatch, saying further, "She must
hang on and in some way preserve
orders giving protection to her own
and other nationalitieS within that
country and to the natives themselves"
Especially Is this true, since, as the
Louisville Courier journal points out,
"over the greater extent Of the empire
there Is no sign Of trouble"
Discussing the movement toward
Indian independence, the Boston Eve
ming Transcript says, "Gandhi himself
has lately declared that he does not
contemplate anything like immediate
independence, but only the removal
or abatement of certain grievances"
Continuing, this paper remarks, IL
the movement Is but partial, II the
really controlling influences IN the
country ut large are hostile to it or
unready for it-that will be made to
Reviewing the recent history in India
and touching upon the personality OF
the Indian leader now in prison, the
Wheeling Intelligencer observes: ITO
India, Gandhi Is even more than George
was to his followers. He Is
a modern saint. Of unimpeachable
character, thought. action and ideals.
Even his British masters respect him
To arrest such man
for a political offense, which he de-
liberately committed for the cause OF
self-rule by his people, Is matter OF
great consequence. The British are
the shrewdest governors In the world:
IF they can work themselves out OF
the situation precipitated by the arrest
of Gandhi, without drenching India
in blood, that will be a masterpiece OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13

or stain was not used until much later;
say. 174o.
q. Have any languages more letters
in their alphsbets than English has?-
A. 8.
A. A number Of languages have al
phabets containing more letters than
the English alphabet, as, for instance,
the Russian. which has IS. Other
Slavic languages allied to the Russian
also have more characters. The Chi
nese far exceeds in the number Of char
acters the alphabet of any other Ian
guage.
@. What proportion Of the people
listed in Who's Who in America" was
born In the United States2-P. D.
A. OF the persons included in the
volume S9.77 per cent are OF native
birth.
@. Is it correct to say I'VE will have
friend for dinner"?-C. A. M.
A. I'VE will have friend for din
ner" would imply that the friend Is to
be eaten. Say I'VE will have a friend
at dinner" or I'VE have invited friend
to dinner"
@. Please give some information
about President Van Buren's old home
in New York State.-H. e. B.
A. It is called Lindenwald, and is
located within two miles Of the village
Of Undertook, in Columbia County
N. Y. The house Is on the old Post road.
The mansion Is now owned by q DR..
Birney, who has lived there for several
years, leaving only this Winter. Lin
denwald has seven rooms and two large
halls on the first floor, and five rooms
and q hall on the second floor. The
third floor Is the attic, containing few
rooms. There also is a basement. The
mansion was not built by Van Buren,,
but by William H. Van Ness, with whom
Van Buren, studied law in New York.
There are some 200 or more acres In
the property. In the hall the wall paper
| Is the original, an Alsatian hunting
scene, full of color and most charming.
Some hangings and carpets which are
there now are those of Van Buren's, as
| we'll as some furniture, including the
bed on which the former President died.
@. What proportion Of the manu-
scripts submitted to them do magazines
actually buys. H. J.
A. That would depend upon condi-
tions. The editor of one national weekly
| states that his magazine purchases ap-
proximately .004 per cent Of the manu-
scripts submitted TO 1t from years end
| to years end. He adds that from 80 to
| w pGI CCAlb "a IkCblOIl SuDIIllSSlO1S CU1IIC
from people Of no professional expert
ence or training whatever.
@. What did the Clayton act do in
the way Of modifying the Sherman
! antitrust law2-F. g. N.
A. The Clayton act Of 1914 prohibits
local price discrimination. tying con-
tracts, holding companies and tnterlock-
| ing directorates.
@. How old was Marie Bashkirtse6
when she died, and when was her diary
published?-G. M. B.
A. Marie Bashkirtseff died at the age
, Of "A. Her diary was published in 1887.
@. When was pressed glass FIRST
| made?-H. r.. r.
A. In 1927 Enoch Robinson Of the
Cambridge Glass Industries invented
the first crude pressing machine, which
was almost immediately improved hW
Jarvis. BY 1888 the invention was per-
fected and pressed glass became popu-
lar, although 1t did not become q house
hold commodity until about 1S45.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
Water Rate Compromise.

Senator Howells amendment to the
District bill is more acceptable So
luton of the problem of raising revenue
for the Water Department than the
general increase in water taxes pro-
posed by the House. 1t does create an
additional, and probably a permanent,
tax. But the effect is not, as at first
construed from the committee hearings,
to levy a separate tax upon property
holders in the sense that real estate
or other taxes now are levied. It
taxes the whole community of taxpay-
ers by levying socalled hydrant tax,
computed on the basis of SAG per n.y.
drant, against the general revenues of
the District, and transfers the total,
$234, 800, to the credit Of the Water
Department. The United States Gov
eminent. a large property holder In the
District and beneficiary of fire pro-
lection, Contributes to the payment of
this tax In the same proportion that
It contributes to the general revenues
Of the District.
The Stars contention has been that
the capital expenditures made by the
Water Department should not be financed
from earnings, but from the general
revenues of the District. Senator How
ellis amendment increases the revenues
Of the Water Department from other
sources and thereby lessons the demand
upon revenues from sale of water
alone. The principle could logically be
extended by levying temporary water
plant improvement tax" against the
general revenues of the District, and
abandoning it when the improvements
now contemplated are paid for. The evil
that results from financing Water De-
partment extensions from earnings OF
the Water Department is that rates fol-
water, which should tend to decrease
toward the desideratum of free water
actually increase. Increasing rates fol
water to pay for these Improvements Il
sfort-sighted and illogical, and, in the
case of the District Water Department
places wholly unfair burden on tas
local consumers.
It is to be hoped that Senator Howell'l
amendment. with its resulting effect o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
A Week of Housec1eaning.

Next Monday will start Cleanup
week" in Washington. The people Of
the Capital will be urged by the Com
missioners to clean up their premises,
collect and dispose Of all trash, scrub
the dirty places, trim the hedges and
the lawns, put things in order generally
It Is hoped that with this beginning
may come the habit of cleanliness in
civic housekeeping, and that the shabby,
ugly, disiguring conditions may not re-
cur. This hope is qualified, however,
by the reflection that it takes more than
a single Cleanup week" to teach the
lesson Of good order. If Washington Is
to be made clean and kept clean some
thing more than an annual good-ex-
ample endeavor for seven days must be
had.
Vice President Curtis, an official
Washingtonian of many years Of resi-
dence, writes the following message to
the jewellers Of the Capital on this sub
ject:
Hundreds Of thousands of visitors are
QIaWu 10 w dSLllLlktOll CdLt yCdLs 4AC
beauty Of the city, with its monumental
buildings, national parks and other OBJ
jectS of almost sacred historic interest,
Is stimulus to the patriotism Of almost
any true American. Upon us who have
the privilege Of residing within this Ma
tional City rests a responsibility OF
maintaining its beauty at the highest
possible standard. Loyal support OF all
should be given to the District Commits
sionerS not only during the special week
of May 10, which they have designated
for civic identification, but throughout
the entire year.
This is not merely matter Of gather
ing up and destroying or otherwise dis
posing Of the trash that has collected
and been allowed to remain in public
view. It is not simply question OF
sprucing up the fronts Of houses. There
are the front yards to be put In order,
CRASHES plats to be sodded or seeded
for lawn, tangles Of vines TO be trimmed
or torn down, higgledy-piggledy lenses
to be Strengthened. There are, in fact,
thousand and one things to be done
in general to put premises In decent
order.
Landlords should do their bit toward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-13
Rescue of Thrush Seen
Revealing Hidden Trait

From the Akron Beacon Journal.
Chicago knows now of a truth that
there Is divinity that marks the SPAR
rows fall. The story Of a thrush, cap
tive in the 23-story hollow square of
skyscraper and unable to lift itself
to freedom, whose plight enlisted the
aid of the fire department and of the
hundreds of tenants of the building,
was an example in point The whole
city had related interest in the effort
to save the life of this bird. For a mo-
ment its fate overshadowed all other
popular concerns. When a community
can muster so much of applied effort
and sympathy in a cause so trivial as
this 1t should not confess its failure
to meet much larger problems. There
is, for example, the incident of law
lessness and official misrule, of human
distress and individual interest, of con-
tempt for human life, and the breaking
down of reverence for institutions and
customs upon which the integrity of
government rests. The soul Of q CITY
that could go into such collective &C.
stasy for the welfare of bird ought to
be able to marshal its resources to bring
solution to these larger affairs that are
no less a challenge to its attention.