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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
REASON By FE kzRBRs

TINE other day we read a list of openwork fiction
l. recommended for hot weather reading, and it
reminded us of colloquy between the late Senator
william E. Mason and the late William Jennings
Bryan.
Mason was recovering from an illness after the
election of 1896 when Bryan had been beaten by
Mckinley, and his physician suggested that he con-
fine his reading to light matter, whereupon Mason
replied that he would read Bryan'S campaign
speeches
Bryan heard of it and morning at the White
House he referred to it and said: "ItS all right
Mason; we have had our Bull Run, but the next
time we will have our Appomattox.
Quick as flash, Mason replied: "AS recall, the
fellow who was in command at Bull Run was not
in command at Appomattox."
DUT Mason appreciated Bryan's oratorical ability,
d having debated the money question with him on
the Chautauqua circuit where Bryan delivered SUD-
Stantially the speech with which he swept the
Chicago convention of its feet.
He told Bryan that if he would make that speech
before the national convention he would nominate
him, and he did.
Mason had a reputation as a quick wit before he
went to washington as a representative of Chicago
district and in the house he Immediately made good
the expectations of his friends by being OF The
few new members who ever VIGOROUSLY crossed
swords with Thomas B. Reed
HGeQ
knowledged car recognizing only those who had ar
ranged in advance to be recognized.
Mason had bill which he wished to get action on,
but day after day he and vainly tried to get
recognition
BELIEVING that everything to him who
ID waits Mason bded his time, and one morn
ing matter relating to Reeds district in Maine was
brought up and unanimous consent asked for its
consideration
The word was passed that it was the Speakers
bill and smooth shedding anticipated.
To the amazement of everybody, Mason, the new
member, arose and objected His Republican aSsoci-
ateS Swarmed to him and explained that was Reeds
personal matter but Mason adamant.
The next day it was brought up and Mason again
objected
ATE that day Reed strolled down to Mason'S
IL desk and asked what objection he had to the bill
and Mason replied: have objection to your
bill, but you seem to be unaware of the fact that
am member Of this body: have risen day after
day to present matter Of my own, but you have
not been able to at all"
Reed gaSped and said at believe, Mr.. Mason,
that II you should rise tomorrow should be able to
you"
Next morning Reeds bill presented for the
third time and unanimous consent asked. Mason
did not object. and Immediately afterward he arose
and the Speaker smiling broadly. said: The chair
recognizes the gentleman from Illinois"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
Prophet Jim

Senator Watson predicts that within thirty days
from the signing of the tariff BILL industrial workers
will be back at work or at least large number OF
the very many who now jobless and hopeless.
Big business men and economists still have a
chance to defeat the tariff measure which they pre-
dict will ruin business and create more unemploy-
ment If they wire Presidert Hoover, now surrounded
by barrier of nattery and msinformation as to the
extent of protest against the measure.
Very many business mer and labor leaders IN IN
dianapos have protested to the President There is
yet time to get on record
II any added reason were needed to induce any
business man, big or small to wire the President it
is TO be found in the Watson prophecy. Those VINO
understand the senator know that political expedency
always rules his activities His proprecies in the past
give him no reputation fortune teller
If President Hoover signs the measure the men
who are hunting jobs at present will know thirty days
hence what to think of Watson If they have jobs
they will know that business and economists are
wrong and that Watson is a statesman If they are
iobless next winter, they amuse themselves by
reading copy of the congressional record OF June
the thirteenth.
Perhaps that will make them mad enough to keep
them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
Logic in Capital Punishment

Capital punishment has been made and
more humane. SHINING alive, throwing to wild
beasts, sewing in bag with poisonous snake and
the like longer practced among civilized peo-
pies. We have introduced more painless and humane
methods like hanging beheadng, shooting, elecSrocu-
ton, and aSphyxiation by lethal gas.
Likewise we have made executions more and more
private At one time the populace compelled to
to do so until & relatively recent time. Now the
executions are private. Only few selected and in
vited guests can attend.
Yet the great argument of the enthusiasts for
capital punishment is that the execution Of murderer
will prevent others from taking life In short, it is
the deterrent influence of capital punishment which
juStiies its continuance
But Difference requires horror and publicity How
man be deferred by relatively painless private
execution, of which he may never even have read?
If actually wanted to make the death penalty in
any way deterrent 1t would be desirable to make of
it great public spectacle and carry it out under
the most brutal and degrading circumstances.
We no longer would electrocute the murderers of
the New York district in the isolation and relative
privacy of the death chamber at Sing Sing Rather
would boil them in oil burn them at the stake
in the Polo grounds or the Yankee stadium and make
pulsory.
Let the friends of capital punishment be logical
and exhibit the courage Of their convictions else
let us get rid of this relic OF barbarism and pre-
scientific age Indeed for its friends to be logical
would be the surest way to rid ourselves of the
nuisance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
What Kind of a Record?

The department of justice in public statement
records the of what it regards noteworthy
cases of prohibition conviction under unusually adj
verse circumstances"
H. H. Brown Of Savannah, Ca. accused of con-
Spiracy to possess transport and sell liquor has been
convicted after years. and must two years
in the federal penitentiary and pay fine of $4,000.
The case was one of the Savannah big -Four cases."
Brown resisted prosecution at all points the depart
ment tells us
The conviction may be noteworthy and the de-
partment may be justified in the pride it takes in at
last landing Brown in jail.
In seven years, details OF the famous Savannah
have faded from memory. 1t is, however, sad
commentary on the processes of justice that seven
years are required to reach the conclusion of such
prosecution
If the accused man is guilty he long since should
have been in a cell at Atlanta. If he is innocent, he
long since should have been freed.
The case is striking example of the delays in
the administration of justice in criminal which
have made it SO difficult to repress crime-a difficulty
multiplied by prohibition.
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IF I have ever spoken Sneeringly
i about the radio, and it seems to
me that 1 must have done so, I take
it all back now. My newly kindled
admiration and interest has moth
ing to do with the fact that served
a month at broadcasting.
My memories of those four weeks
are pleasant enough. But since it
was feasible to listen to myself, I
might never have sought solace from
the air in odd moments.
The thing which has changed my
life is that late last night 1 got
Chicago. I got a band which was
playing, "You Do Something to Me-"
There are better bands and better
songs. The tune came through
family all garlanded with static.
Yet this tiny tinkle was for me
the most complete sort Of triumph.
The man who adjusted my machine
was not in the least optimistic. It
was his opinion that ] could never
get Chicago. Except, possibly, on
clear cold nights. He's certainly
going to be surprised when I tel
egraph him that we made it. And
in spite of several storm areas.
Time was when I could take
Chicago or, even better, leave it
alone. But it annoyed me when the
man said I couldn't have Chicago.
It became then a crescent moon of
green cheese or a tall gin drink.
I'll have Chicago or bust" I
muttered to myself. Neither Mayor
Thompson or static should keep me
ont.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
On the WAY to Bureaucracy

Tucked away in the obscurity of the Constitution
of the United States, it says that in all criminal
cases the accused shall enjoy the right to speedy
and public trial by impartial jury Of the state and
district wherein the crime shall have been committed
This clause embodied the fruits Of many centuries OF
struggle against arbitrary power.
Now congress. at the behest of the wickersham
commission seems likely to wipe aside this bulwark
against bureaucracy in the interest of expedition in
handling liquor cases. Magma Charta and after must
give way before the requirements of enforcing egsla
ton sponsored by Andy Volstead and Wesley Jones.
Jury trials are not rapid and efficient enough to
DISPOSE of lesser oenses against the prohibition acts
so it is proposed to abolish them and allow the trials
to be conducted smmariy by the United States COM
sionerS
minority Of the house judiciary committee de-
nounced the proposal. declaring that:
The bill provides an entirely new system of pro-
cedure It Is destructive of every fundamental pre-
cedent and custom in our federal practice"
But the house as a whole more fearful of be-
ing called wet than of surrendering of our funda
mental rights So like pack of scared rabbits they
voted for the bill by majority of 2l8 to III Unless
vigorously opposed the bill is likely to become law
Now no one need shed too many tears over serious
criticism of trial by jury. There nothing inherently
sacred about it. Man lived happily long before it
appeared Most scientific crininologists long have
been against it. It will have to be revised improved,
or eliminated before shall be able to arrive at any
scientific determination of guilt innocence in i'm
pcrtant criminal cases.
But there is one way in which a jury may exert
more healthy influence than any other body thus
far proposed for trial purposes That to be found
in its power to reflect local opinion and to protect
the community from the tyranny of federal bureau
crazy.
BY refusing to convict those whose acts generally
are approved in the locality it stand barrier
against autocracy from afar off, In short. the jury
is as useful IN liquor cases as it IS questionse for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
High Blood Pressure Not Always Peril

made at fairly regular intervals
over long periods Of time.
1t is important not to put too
much stress on the blood pres
sure rating alone. Far too often
men have become exceedingly
disturbed mentally over a hing
blood pressure when such dis
turbance was not warranted by
the physical state.
The competent physician takes
into account not one single obser-
walton concerning any phase of the
condition of the human body, but
concerns himself with all condi-
tons.
He then regulates the life of the
individual according to the physical
condition. 1t is known that rest
lowers the blood pressure, whereas
exercise raises it. Blood pressure
drops during sleep.
Overweight is usually associated
with some increaS III blood pressure,
but there are many fat people
whose blood pressure is not above
the average for their ages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
M. E. Tracy
HooUer NoiO Has a Chance
to Prove Whether He
Merely VIII Play Politics
or Be a Re1l President.
SAYS:

president HOOVER now faces
l. the responsibility of deciding
whether the Smoot-Hawley bill
shall become a law or go into the
waste basket. 1t is not light re-
sponsibility nor an easy decision.
Party regularity calls for one
thing; wise leadership for another.
The same kind of machine poli-
tics which framed and forced
through the bill expects obedience
from the White House. The people
hope for something better.
To play politics or be a real
President; to act as rubber stamp
for the old guard or assert his in
dependence; to heed the noisy
prayers Of special privilege. or con-
suit the public interest; to indorSe
trade war, or support economic
policies which square with the
peace movement - this is what
President Hoover faces.
From a political standpoint, he
would do himself and his party
more good than harm by vetoing
this worst of tariff bills, this make
shift compromise in the name of
farm relief.
From an economic standpoint,
and as chief executive of the ma
ton, he has but one choice.
With depression slowing up husi-
mes, not only in the United States,
but in other countries, this is no
time for measures which threaten
further curtailment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

age the blood pressure is usually
about stationary, averaging from
100 to 125 systolic and from 80 to
IS diaStolic in normal people.
From 40 years on the pressure
may rise gradually, reaching 1876
systolic at so, and SO or 80 diastolic.
It has become customary to re-
gard blood pressure above 140 Sys-
tolic in adults as abnormal, al
though there are some individuals
who normally exhibit blood pressure
above the average. At times the
blood pressure remains constant at a
higher than average figure.
This does not constitute a dis
ease in the usual understanding of
that term, because in diseases in
which the blod pressure is higher
than normal it tends to get still
higher as time goes on.
It is extremely difficult indeed to
tell on a single examination just
which cases represent normal types
of high blood pressure and which
abnormal types.
The olny way in which that can
be done is to have examinations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
Faraday

bragg is at present director OF
ID the Royal Institution of Great
Britain. This organization, which
is one of the great research centers
of the world, also has fostered the
capitalization of science.
The Royal institution, located in
Albermarle street, London, was
founded in 1899. It's early directors
included two famous scientists, Sir
Humphrey lazy and Michael Fara-
day. Faraday became its director
in 1925.
Faraday instituted the custom of
having a series of lectures for chill
dren delivered each year at Christ
mas time. The custom has been
continued, the most famous Scien-
fists in Great Britain devoting their
time to giving the lectures and ar
ranging experiments to accompany
them.
A series Of lectures which Bragg
gave a few years ago was reprinted
in book form by Harper g. Bros,
under the title of Concerning the
Nature of Things"
The book is to be heartily recon-
mended to all readers who want a
clear and entertaining exposition of
modern views of the nature of gases,
liquids, and solids.
Much of the book is devoted to
the nature of crystals, the field in
which Bragg and his son, Sir w. l..
Bragg, did much pioneer work.
The book is a complete refutation
of the claim sometimes made that
man can not do intensive scien-
tif1c work and retain the faculty of
explaining it In simple terms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
SCIENCE
The PopuIdrization OF Science
Is One of the Great Needs
of the World Today.
BY DAVID DIETZ

CIR WILLIAM BRAGG, famous
- British physicist and pioneer
X-ray student, also is a master in
the art of simplifying science for
the layman.
Bragg now is in the United
States, coming over upon the invi-
tation of the Franklin Institute OF
Philadelphia to receive that organi-
zation's gold medal.
A few years ago, heard Bragg,
during meeting Of the British As
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Science, give a lecture for children.
1t was amusing to note that scat
tered among the children at that
lecture were some of the worlds
famous physicists, Sir Oliver Lodge,
Sir Ernest Rutherford, Professor A.
s. Eddington, DR.. Ludwig Silberstein
and many others.
1t was hard to say who had the
better time, the children or the SCI
entists. For the faces of Bragg's
learned colleague beamed with de-
light at the way Bragg succeeded in
rephrasing complex scientific mat
tiers into language which children
could understand.
1t is interesting to note that the
best British scientists always have
prided themselves upon their ability
to make their researches plain to
the layman. Lodge, Rutherford, Ed
dington and Russell are examples
which come to mind at once.
It is true that the average reader
only gets a halfway notion of what
it is all about after a second read
ing of Eddington's "The Nature OF
the Physical World" But only the
scientist who has pored over the
original papers on relatively, ther-
modynamics and quantum theory,
realizes how monumental job Ed
dington did in Simplifying these
matters as far as he did.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
Times Readers
Voice ViezOS

Editor Times-There was another
mother who left her babe in Chi
cago, saying she would return July
1. Just going to Iowa to get enough
money to feed her baby on. Now
we wonder the how and why for all
that, too.
OF course we do not want to
condone such practices as the rain
baby" case or any other of that type.
But we do wonder why so many
mothers are alone in the world,
struggling to support their babies.
And it seems there are rare cases
where good-intentioned young men
will bestow their true love and pro-
lection of their name upon an
unfortunate girl, and take upon
themselves a duty that father
shirks. What woman is there who
does not crave and yearn for a true
affection and pure companionship
just as men do2
And how the rain baby's father
so complacently could tip OF the
mother because of her crime as if
he was entirely blameleSs is be-
yond comprehension.
Well, as 1 read of so many cases
OF crime and neglect and the sor-
row and degradation resultant, my
mind reverts to what Jesus said to
the women as they followed weep
ing and wailing with him on their
way to Calvary.
Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not
for me, but weep for yourselves and
children, for behold the days are
coming, in which they shall say
blessed are the barren. Then shall
they begin to say to the mountains,
fall on us and the hills cover us.
For if they do these things in
a green tree, what shall be done in
the dry?" duke %: 28-31)
None shall go unpublished that fail
to do right
believe most people are agreed
that to support a family now, even
when it is invited, is a difficult one,
owing to the economic situation. So
how could it be an easier task for
an unframed girl. practically alone
save for the helpless babe, making
it more difficult for her to struggle
along?
1t would indeed be "a cruel world
If none there were interested in
helping to lift up and encourage on
LIES way 70 happiness.
Oh, that God will put it in the
hearts of people the "sacredness of
true love marriage and mother
hood" BY true marriage I mean a
union of man and woman with God,
a tri-union obtained only through
prayer and communion with Him. a
real contact with God.
When mer and women alike real
ize and recognize their responsibility
to God and man, they will be mere
concerned about securing their real
proper mates. and recognize God rs
the only one that can direct them
IN their choice.
JUST A FRIEND.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
Pining for Chicago
DEOPLE no whit better than l an

DEOPLE no whit better than I am
l. have had Chicago. The radio
man was very patient about it all.
He tried to convince me that the
fault lay neither in me nor the ma
chine. He said it was the dentists
and the tall buildings.
I live in nest of extractors and
whenever they put an X-ray ma
chine upon some dubious tooth any,
where along this block a shudder
as of an uneasy patient sweeps up
and down my receiving set.
And I am canyoned in between
mighty steel structures which tower
far above my not very lofty pent-
house roof In particular the radio
man pointed an accusing finger at
the unfinished tower which lies just
to the north of me. That's very
bad for reception" he said.
I thought for a while of buying
the building. but it would be late
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
TIN CEENTC TO MT - HAYWOOD
i J. OAG4VAO L ~ ASA~ ~ BROUN

autumn before I could get it torn
down so that idea was abandoned.
Of course, it was always possible for
me to go to the home of some more
fortunately situated friend and get
Chicago on his radio set. But that
wouldn't be the same thing.
Moreover, all the radio owners I
knew behave precisely as if you
we're holding their new baby up
side down the moment you begin to
experiment with their receiving set.
The fun lies in getting distance on
your own set and without any help
or advice of any sort upon the part
of outsiders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
American

A MEXICAN Scient SITS are begin
IA ming more and more to turn
their attention to the capitalization
of science. 1t is a pleasure to re-
cord the fact that they have caught
up to European scientists in this re-
spect.
Within recent years, Millikan,
Shapley, Heyl, Darrow and Clark, to
name only G. few, have written ex-
cellent books for popular consump-
ton.
Non-technical lectures, prepared
for audiences of laymen, now are an
important part of every meeting OF
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
In general, scientists are willing
to cooperate with newspaper men
in the dissemination of scientific in
formation. This was not always the
attitude ten years ago, as this writer
can testify from personal expert
ence.
The popularization of science, &C
cording to the great historian, James
Harvey Robinson, is one of the
greatest needs of the world today.
The world today is a scientific
world. On every side the layman is
confronted with the product of Sci
ence-electric lights, street cars,
autos, airplanes, the radio.
Scientific medicine and public
health measures make life possible
in big cities. Until the present CEN
tury, the history of every big city
was succession Of epidenics and
even plaques.
Robinson and many other au-
thorities feel that the layman must
understand science if he is going to
live happily in this scientific en-
vironment.
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|AMNlVER$ARYl
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LA FOLLETTE'S BIRTH
June Ia

ON June IA, 1855, Robert M. La
" Toilette, lawyer and statesman,
was born at Primrose, Wis.
He was graduated from the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin, studied law
there and was admitted to the bar
in 1880. After serving as a district
attorney Of Dane county, he was
elected to congress, where, as a
member of the ways and means
committee, he helped draft the Nc
kinley tariff bill.
In 1901 he was elected Governor
of Wisconsin. but resigned on be-
ing elected to the United States
senate. He was reelected for three
succeeding terms.
La Toilette made important con-
tributions toward railroad regula-
ton and other public reforms, and
came to be regarded as one of the
ablest debators in the senate.
In March, 1917, he led the his
toric filibuster against authorizing
President Wilson to arm merchant
ships against German submarines.
When United States entered the
war he became a pronounced paci-
fist.
To him chiefly was due the in
vestigation disclosing the Teapot
Dome lease irregularities Of 1924.
Later in the same year he was NOM
mated for President by the Pro-
gressive party and received nearly
ZOO 900 votes in the ensuing cleo
ton.
On his death, the following year,
his son, Robert NJ. La Toilette, was
elected to fill his unexpired term,
and has served since.