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Certain Skin Diseases Inherited

ton may not have acted, in their
cases.
When the irritant comes into the
situation, the response usually is an
eruption.
There are many forms of skin
disease that are called allergic.
These represent special sensitiza-
ton of the body to certain protein
substances, such as may be taken
in by the food or through the in
vasion of bacteria.
OF this character is strawberry
rash and also blisters following the
eating of other foods in some peo-
pie. Perhaps the constitution of
the person at birth contains the
substances which react in this way.
The growth of the hair and its
distribution also are governed by
heredity. Thus one case was de-
scribed in which child lost all
of the hair on his head during
childhood and a tracing of the an
cestry indicated that the child was
the fourth generation to reveal this
defect.
The hair Of the great-grandfather
had fallen out when he was 6 years
of age, and every one of the direct
male descendants had had the same
disturbance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
REASON By Ff EzRBFs

THE events of last week presented Texas as poor
Il sport, for while she lynched two Negroes for
crimes against women she did not manifest the same
chivalric hatred in the of distinguished white
offender.
John w. Brady. former member of the Texas
supreme court, murdered girl in cold blood and
after rSt jury disagreed, second one let him off
with term of three years and now his lawyers Sav
they will get new trial and clear him.
It's not the offense. but the color and the influence
of the offender.
THOSE cattle down in Virginia which held the road
against the Presidents automobile evidently had
heard of that recent decision which said they
had the right of way.
Those thirty Italan-born American citizens who
went back home and we're impressed into the army,
but released after Uncle Sans protest, should
future trouble by staying in the land of their
adoption.
A bottle which was thrown into the water at Bos-
ton travelled all the way to San Francisco. but he
who drinks from the BE travels only from his resi-
dence to the cemetery
before making any more mailed fist speeches
- sucn as he delivered ut Florence, it might be a
good idea Tor Mussolini to submit his remarks to a
certain white WHISPERED exile at Doom, who used to
broadcast In the same fashion.
The Turkish government is going to sell the late
sultans Jewels, valued at $500 100000.
If the Turks and the Russians get to cutting prices
it should bring diamonds within the reach of all
Our government has not recognized Russia, but
she doesn't mind this so much since 200 American
engineers there teaching the Bolshevsts
how to make tractors
In recent years Mrs Joseph vacich of Oakland.
CAL has given birth to two children in taxicabs
result Of being caught in trafnc jams while on her
way 70 the hospital. 81
II only she lived in Chicago she now would have
q large family
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IT SEEMS TO ME By H EEc2%

were not only unknown to me, but
who also appeared, at first sight,
to be devoid of any charm what
soever.
Character I will have to grant
them. They were such q persistent
lot that for time I seriously con-
sidered the plan of hiring by the day
somebody called Rosie who might
serve to end the arguments.
Next door an all-night speakeasy
held sway. 1t was from this house
that some one tossed, in the midst
of revelS, a gin bottle, an empty gin
bottle, which went crashing through
my bathroom window and into my
tub.
BY happy coincidence I was
not bathing at the moment. Yet,
though I knew that my home was
situated among neighbors rather
less respectable than they should be,
I got quite a bit of turn the other
day when a man spoke of new
speakeasy which he had visited and
mentioned the number Of my domi-
Gle of just year ago.
This impinged upon my hopes and
plans. In fantasy 1 always had
dreamed Of the day when some So
ciety for the preservation of ma
tional shrines would place bronze
tablet by the door containing no
more than the simple inscription:
Haywood Broun Lived Here" But
now I would much rather they
didn't.
lCopvright. 1890 BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
Another Argument

That 300 cases on appeal to the supreme
court await decision presents new argu-
ment for constitutional convention which
might devise safeguards against evils in gov
eminent.
The Constitution plainly guarantees
speedy justice to every citizen, either in the
protection of his person and liberty or in de-
Tense of his property rights.
1t is submitted in all candor that delay
of two, three or more years in obtaining
final decision is not reasonable interpreta-
tion of this guarantee
At the present time the only remedy in
the hands of the people against inaction on
the part of courts, lethargy if you care to
call it such, or an inability to reach decisions,
which is the first duty of good judges, is the
slow process of electing new judges. To re-
place court whose record for speed affronts
public conscience with one which would
more nearly comply with the purpose of the
Constitution would take several years.
Several remedies have been proposed to
control the courts on behalf of the public
welfare. One of these is the recall, by which
NOI6IS COulu I6pldCG JuuSO WIN IdllCh III
his service and did not meet the public ex
pectation. That has been denounced by the
conservatives as too socialistic to be con-
sidzred.
Possibly an easier impeachment on
grounds of failure to perform duties might
act as a spur to justice.
1t seems little to demand that so simple
a question as the one concerning the power
of the legislature to give to the appellate
court final jurisdiction for two years over
misdemeanor cases should be settled before
the expiration of the term during which the
power was delegated in order to relieve the
higher court of too arduous duties.
That is an important question in that
some thirty-four cases now depend upon that
decision. These thirty-four have been con-
vcted in the lower courts. The verdicts of
guilt have been approved by the appellate
court. Yet the thirty-four are at liberty.
Such condition can not fail but have an
important effect upon the public mind.
Possibly a constitutional convention
would find some method of impressing
judges with the presence in the Constitution
of the guarantee of swift justice. Or it
might decide that such a guarantee is no
longer an essential right. Either would be
preferable to the present situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
Ten Years-Three Hours!

The federal governments development at Muscle
Shoals-the great Wilson DAM the nitrate and steam
power plants and the rest-cost approximately $780,
100000.
Disposition of Muscle Shoals has been vital topic
in congress for ten years.
Before the house of representatives now is bill
that provide. for leasing Muscle Shoals to one or
several private corporations
Thursday the rules committee, which determines
what legislation may be considered by the house and
how long bills may be debated, decided that the
Shoals leasing bill may up before the house
Tuesday for debate
1t also decreed that general debate shall last three
hoursl
Three hours for 435 representatives to decide
whether this project which cost the people $150O000OO
shall be leased to private corporations
Three hours!
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Daytime

TINE spectacle should be I'M
Il usually beautiful just after
sunset. 1t should be possible to see
both the crescent moon and Venus
before the last rays of the sun have
died from the sky.
AS the twilight deepens, the sill
very glow of the moon and Venus
will become more pronounced, while
other stars gradually will appear in
the sky to join them.
Both the moon and Venus will be
fairly low in the sky at sunset. They
will set or disappear below the west
ern horizon themselves about two
hours after sunset.
1t ought to be possible, however,
to see the conjunction before SUM-
set.
AS most readers know, it is fire.
quently easy to see the moon in the
sky in the daytime.
When planets are above the hori-
zon in the daytime, astronomers,
knowing exactly where to look for
them, have no difficulty in seeing
them with their telescopes.
Since Venus is quite bright and
since it will be within three degrees
of the moon, it is quite possible that
it will be easy to find Venus with
the unaided eye on May 30.
The sight of a planet in the day
time is most unusual and so it will
be we'll worth looking for. Rather
late in the afternoon, perhaps. will
be the best time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
Liberty Must Be Basis

THOUGH many of the fourteen
Il points raised by woodrow Will
son were ignored at Versailles, all
found a warm spot somewhere
which the world will hear about
later.
A great many people think of the
League of Nations, the world court,
disarmament conferences, and other
phases of the peace movement as
representing the paramount aim OF
the allies.
Maybe it did, but they talked
about other aims-about liberty for
the oppressed, about the injustice
and iniquities of the colonial sys-
tenn, about mandates with independ-
ence as the ultimate object.
While the world in general may
have rejoiced at the thought of a
new order, people who had been
brought under the rule of out
siders we're more interested in the
prospect of liberation.
That is why we find revolution
playing such big part in human
affairs.
Nor is the situation inconsistent
with peace through orderly adjust
ment.
The world can not become demo-
cratic, with courts and tribunals 90
adjust international disputes, until
freedom has been made the basis Of
national action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

A black-eyed person has blue as
well as black in his iris, which is
the colored portion of the eye, and
if he marries a person with black
eyes, the children are likely to be
black-eyed.
Through scientific studies of
heredity many such facts have been
determined, and it is possible to
predict with a certain amount of &C
curacy about what is likely to oc-
cur.
There are some disorders of the
skin which seem to have an heredi-
tary basis. Most Of them are also
associated with disturbances Of the
glands of internal secretion, so that
it is believed that the skin disease
is inherited through an heredity Of
certain type of gland substance.
In a survey of heredity in re-
lationship to skin diseases, DR..
Charles M. Williams points out that
the answer to some of the skin dis
eases of unknown origin as, for ex-
ample, psoriasis, may be found in
heredity either directly or so far
as relates to the glands.
The reason all the people who
might develop the disease do not
show it is because the specific irri-
tant that might set up the condi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
Signs of Flood

The Anti-Saoon League has an alibi for the Lit
erary Digest prohibition poll F. Scott Mcbride, the
league boss, explains that the drys did not vote.
Obviously that is absurdly inadequate excuse.
But what was the poor dry leader to say? If a
man must deny that white is white. there is moth
ing much left for him to do but to insist that white
is black. Not that this convinces any one.
The average citizen is apt to remember that two
Literary Digest national polls have predicted presi
Dental elections with uncanny accuracy Therefore
he is not disposed to laugh off the results of this
prohibition poll.
For the sake of argument this poll could be dis
counted so per cent and still its significance would
be startling. For, even discounted it proves two
things beyond cavl:
One there is rapidly growing public recognition
Of prohibition as a national ISSUE More and more
people refuse swallow the dry assertion that this
question has been settled, that there can be no
change. Almost five million voted in this poll The
vote was relatively larger-that is the popular in
terest greater-than in the DigeSts last preSi-
Dental election poll.
TWO there is rapidly growing wet sentiment.
Tested by any standard it is fair to compare the re-
suits of the Digests prohibition polls in 1922 and in
$780, Eight years ago the wet vote was so per cent
Of the total. This year it was approximately 10
per cent.
Cut that figure in half and say that only IS per
cent of the country desires modification or repeal
and stll no one can deny honestly that such wet
sentiment is growing and already has reached suf-
cient proportions break down all efforts at strict
enforcement
But no one has to depend on the Literary Digest
poll for demonstration of this rising wet tide. 1t is
only one Of many signs. Hardly month passes with
out some such evidence daily newspaper poll, a
state or congressional primary or election.
The latest sign is the following wet resolution
passed by the Republican state convention in
Washington:
1T has become apparent that. in spite OF ire
naendous and costly efforts strict enforcement of
ese laws is uneconomic and impossible" lhere-
~ the convention demanded such modification Of
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Dollar Books Here

|THOSE who enjoy reading are
Il gratified to learn that certain
publishers will put out dollar books
They are even more gratif1ed to
learn that the quality will not be
affected.
Possibly it couldn't; but let that
pass.
The mystery of the situation con-
sists in what we have been paying.
Either the publishers have been
making unreasonable profits, or they
are going to lose lot of money.
So far as prices are concerned
they never did have much effect on
the quality Of fiction.
During the war allied spokesman
were buster about nothing than ad-
vocating revolution for enemy
peoples.
1t was struggle to save the world
for democracy, they said, and those
subject to undemocratic rule ought
to rebel.
The chickens came to roost in
their own camp first, with Russia
going Bolshevik.
Just now England is getting q
taste of their presence.
Even Malta has joined the clam
or for autonomy, or dominion status
or independence.
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Eastward

TINE conjunction Of May so will
l. serve as an excellent excuse
for renewing acquaintance with the
motions of the moon.
The moon is revolving around the
earth in a counter-clockwise direc-
ton.
The result of this is that the
moon moves eastward a distance of
Is degrees each day. Because Of
this motion, the moon rises about
fifty minutes later each night. This
means that it also sets about fifty
minutes later each night.
At the same time also, of course,
the phase of the moon is slowly
changing. New moon occurs to-
night So the thin crescent will
grow thicker each night until first
quarter is reached on June 3, and
then still fatter until full moon
occurs on June 10.
If the sky is observed again on
the evening of May 81, it will be
noticed that the moon has pulled
away from Venus and now is con-
siderably to the east.
Venus itself is also moving to the
east, but only about a degree
day. Both the motions of Venus
and the moon can be followed and
compared by noticing their relations
to the background Of stars as well
as to each other.
On May l Venus set about an
hour after sunset. Because Of its
slow motion to the east, it is a little
higher in the sky each night at sun
set. BY the end of June, it will set
about two hours after sunset.
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the present laws on intoxicating liquor as will pro-
vide lawful use of such liquor to the end that the
traffic in liquor may be controlled properly and its
use regulated by law that can be universally re-
spected and enforced"
This is from the state which the Anti-Saloon
League claims as its This is from the state and
the party which is represented in congress by Senator
Jones' author of the f1ve-and-ten enforcement law.
AS if the drys already were not having enough
troubles, the United States supreme court Monday
ruled unanimously that it is not illegal to buy liquor
from bootlegger The government brought test
case and failed completely The decision, of course,
will make prohibition enforcement more diff
cult than in the past.
There is nothing to prevent Senator Sheppard
and other extremists from amending the law to make
buyers equally guilty with bootleggers-n nothing that
is except fear of the present dry majority in congress
that such logical carrying out of the law would be
the straw that breaks the dromedary'S spine.
So the drys today are in the position where they
will lose if they do and lose if they don't. What
they do and what they say can not make an unwork-
able law work. and laws that do not work have way
inevitably of going out of use.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
The Popular Girl

COMETIMES is was Myrtle. but
y Rosie seemed to be the most
popular girl in our block. Just
where Rosie lived and why her
friends came around at such un-
earthly hours, I never knew.
I imagine that was living in
what is euphemistically known as
a bad neighborhood. 1t wasn't the
being walked up which annoyed me
so much as the persistence of the
visitors.
When I replied with some shade
of annoyance that knew no Rosie
and would they please go about their
business, they always argued with
me.
It seemed to be their notion that
I had her concealed somewhere
about the premises.
How should I know the flaws, if
any. in the character Of Myrtle?
1t was not a problem into which I
cared to go extensively at 4 o'clock
in the morning with gentlemen who
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How MXDO@U
lHnOwNmRIbR:?
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES


/. What was most characteristic
of the laws of the Modes and Per-
slams?
2. What disciple was chosen to
take the place of Judas among the
twelve?
3. Who was Rabab?
4. Quote a Bible verse on respect
Of persons.
5. What two archangels are named
in the Bible?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
l. The brother Of Moses and the
first high priest of Israel.
2. jeremiah BIS.
8. I'VE are not saved" Jeremiah
$40.
(. They let him down through a
hole which they opened in the roof
Mark 2.1-4.
5. I'm the fnultitude Of COUNSEL
lors there IS safety" Proverbs 11:1z,
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tucked away in the backyards of
Manhattan.
It seems to me that they are
rightfully entitled to more emo
tional tribute than should go to
forests out where the hills begin.
I know that the redwoods of Cali
fornia grow very tall, but after all,
what is there to stop them?
A tree which can survive, even
though they've put an Office build
ing in front and apartment houses
all around, has in it a stamina
which must arouse the admiration
of every lover of tenacity.
I sold my house without much
wrench and went into an apart
ment, but I wish I could have taken
tree along.
The old brownstone was not for
tunately situated. People used to
ring the bell at 4 in the morning,
along about the time that was
getting off to sleep, and when I went
to the door there would be one or
more somewhat unsteady strangers,
and the most articulate Of the lot
would ask in aggressive fashion:
Where's Rosie? I want to see
Rosie"
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TN a recent column I said the
Il skyline of New York changes
almost daily but that the spirit of
the town remains the same.
didn't mean to suggest that I
was in favor of this fierce fidgeting
around with Manhattan's physical
aspects, I rather wish we could all
settle down.
1t isn't just the early din of rivet-
ing machines which makes me wish
we could get our city built and set
tied.
1 wouldn't want it to stagnate,
but there ought to be zones OF
completion, certain areas where not
one more girder is to be set up on
another for a period of, say, one
year. Or anyhow, six months.
1t hurts the back of the neck to
be continually obliged to look aloft
and scan new features in the sky.
For the tall buildings of the town,
have the greatest respect and ad-
miration. But even this new type
of architecture can be overdone.
Ten Woolworth buildings rarely
would be as effective as one.
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All Want to Be Free

TINE allies had lot to say about
Il minority rights and self-deter-
mination, not only during the war,
but at Versailles.
1t was intended, first, to weaken
the central powers by promoting
discord, and then to furnish a le-
ultimate excuse for breaking up the
Austrian empire.
But other people heard the Cos
pei, and began to wonder why they
shouldn't share in its blessings.
If a free Hungary, why not free
India, and if a new Poland, why not
new Egypt?
Though most of us fail to realize
it, We have a long way to go before
we are through liquidating the
idealism produced for enemy con-
sumption during the war.
The same logic that was called
forth to prove the evils of PruS-
sianism can be applied, and is be-
ing applied, to other cases of arbi-
trary rule.
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Long and Short

THE thing which fascinates me
Il now about the aspect of New
York is its broken lines, the extraor-
binary contracts in dimensions,
such as no other city knows.
Accordingly, every time some
eighty-story structure is reared we
ought to build next door little
cottage with a sloping roof.
I'm sorry to see the frame houses
go down one by one. A few are
left. Here and there in odd cor
ners one may find front yard,
couple of trees and brave attempt
to preserve lawn.
For all our rocky soil, there still
are a certain number of fine trees
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ANNIVERSARY
H4s11t4t5
JULIA WARD HowE's BIRTH
May ~.

JULIA WARD HOWE'S bAkAh
May ~.
I'm May 81, 1919. Julia Ward
" Howe, American author and
reformer noted for her Civil war
poem. 1.-THE Battle Hymn Of the
Republic" was born in New York
city.
Although the poem made her ia
nous and won for her the honor OF
being the only woman elected to
the American Academy Of Arts and
Letters, Mrs. Howe was one OF the
most active and versatile person.
alities of her day.
She advocated prohibition,
preached occasionally from Unfair
ian pulpits, was one of the organ
izers of the American Woman Suf-
frage Association and was a Jealous
worker for prison reform, for world
peace and other humanitarian
movements.
Mrs. Howe wrote the Battle
Hymn" at the request Of James
Freeman Clarke, who went with
her and others to visit an army
post near washington.
She heard soldiers singing John
Browns Body as they returned
from skirmisf. and while the
wounded we're being carried to their
pallets, she was inspired to write
her roen1.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

MO doubt many human beings
IN carry constantly about upon
the surface of their bodies the
marks conferred upon them by their
ancestors.
It long has been recognized that
complete lack of pigment in the
skin and hair or the eye is char
acter inherited by some people and
that when they lack this they are
not likely to confer upon their Off
spring the power of developing pig
ment.
If one albino married another al
bino, their children are all albinos.
If an albino marrieS person who
has normal pigments in the hair
and skin, all of the children are
likely to have normal pigments.
A person with blue eyes can not
confer brown eyes on his children
and the offspring of two blue-eyed
people are practically always blue
eyed.
When brown-eyed people marry,
the color of the eyes of the off,
spring is a matter of chance, since
the brown represents the power to
carry both blue and black.