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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-06
Times Readers
Voice ViezOS

Editor Times-According to the
papers, more gasoline is being pur-
chased this year than ever before,
despite the present economic con-
dition. This being true, the oil COM
panies evidently are prosperous and
not included among those unable to
sell their produce.
Nevertheless, service station at
tendants are being paid less money
than ever before, which only goes to
show how the big industries are
taking advantage of the present
labor conditions.
I am acquainted with an attend
ant connected with one of the
largest companies, who was paid
but $40 last month for thirty one
days work. This country is sup
posed to be free from peonage and
slavery of any sort, yet these con-
ditions abound. Almost any station
attendant will tell you of these con-
ditions if approached properly.
Capital is only hurting itself all
the more by this nefarious practice.
Workers are losing confidence In
their employers and reduced morale
will not help any business concern
Perhaps some day they will learn
that low wages and depressions GO
hand in hand and that the only way
we can become prosperous is to pay
men what they are worth and not
what they can be hired for.
A TIMES READER.
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The High Price of Yachting

Betty Carstairs' nonchalant announcement that
she has spent more than 100000 in the last few
years in her attempt to wrest the speed boat cham
pionship from American hands is an illuminating
commentary on the expensiveness of this particular
brand Of sport.
Indeed yachting probably stands today as the most
expensive sport available. There simply is no limit
to the amount of money that enthusiast can pour
into it, The sailboats that competed for the honor
of defending the Americas cup cost more than $1,000
600 apiece pleasure yacht like Vincent Astor's or
J. P. Morgan's can cost 100000 year simply for
upkeep.
Nevertheless, the poor man can have his whack at
it, too For few hundred dollars he can get boat
and cupboard motor that will take him over the
water at a dizzy clip. For little more he buy
a neat cabined cruiser or sailboat. Yachting is an
aristocratic sport but it does have democratic side
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Water or Oxygen? Which Comes First

died because a sufficient amount OF
water was not available to the body.
1t has been estimated by several
Investigators that the amount of wa
ter put in represents about 1894
grams, or two quarts, a day, usually
taken in the form of drinking wa
ter; of water in coffee, milk and
soup; of water in solid foods, and of
water developed by chemical
changes within the body.
It has been estimated that the
amount of water passing out each
day represents a relatively similar
amount, 1,750 grams, short about
one-half pint.
The water put out is in the usual
excretions of the body, and particu-
larly in water vaporized through
the skin and through breathing.
The average man ought to drink
at least eight glasses of water a day.
He seldom realizes, however, that
many of the foods that he takes
must also supply additional water.
Such solid foods as steak, eggs,
potatoes, oysters, tomatoes, aspara-
gus, celery and lettuce will vary
from rs to 95 per cent Of water in
their content.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

perature of the human being is
regulated carefully. A famous Ger
man psychologist proved that a hui
man being could lose, 40 per cent
of his body weight and still recover,
but that serious trouble would fol-
low 10 per cent loss Of water in the
body, and that death after the loss
ST 20 per cent was certain.
Obviously the control of such an
important substance in the human
body through the thousands of years
in which the human being has de-
veloped had to become an automatic
procedure.
A person in good health is quite
able to regulate the amount Of wa
ter that he drinks. However, man
who is unconscious due to brain
hemorrhage or who is paralyzed and
unable to help himself, or who is
i'll in any manner which prevents
him from satisfying his thirst, has
to be looked after by some one else
who must see to it that the supply
of water is regularly maintained.
Undoubtedly in many instances of
skull fracture or of brain hemor-
image or of shock the person has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-06

even to the candidate of the most noble Intentions
and entirely chaste methods No poor man even can
think of running for Office unless he has rich friends
or friendly corporate interests.
What have we done to prevent elections from BE-
ing walkaWay for the extremely wealthy? We have;
Cd outlawed contributions from employees Of the
federal government; 90 forbidden contributions from
national banks and corporations; CD limited the
amount which may be spent in elections for federal
offices; "a made it illegal to promise job re-
ward for political support; go tabooed brides for
voting; and 90 ordered publicity for expenses.
Have these methods proved effective do they
embody loopholes which render them Ineffective?
DR.. Beard inclines to the latter opinion: % the law
exempts from election expenses everything spent for
personal expenses stationery postage printing tele
phoning telegraphing and the like-in short, most
legitimate electioneering expenses; CO friends
friendly interests may spend unlimited funds for the
candidate Cd not all need be spent during the cam
paign great deficits may be allowed to pile up and
made up after the expense report has been filed;
a. the reporting of expenditures is perfunctory and
gets any publicity unless there alert enemies
or newspapers scent scandal; 90 there is no ade-
quate machinery for enforcing existing legislation;
60 finally primaries are exempted from these restric-
tive laws and in many cases the primaries and not
the elections count-witness Pennsylvania and nearly
all the southern states where one party is dominant
In short we may agree with Professor Beard that
the dice all loaded for the Croesus who years to
be solon under the Capitol dome The long head is
no match for the long purse.
Maybe this is all right but we only are kidding
ourselves if we think we are living in democracy.
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Does the man with brains and little money stand
a chance with the possessor of an expansive check
book when running for Office in this great democracy
OF ours?
This question has been raised once more in con-
necton with the voluptuous expenditures of Ruth
Hanna Mccormick in the recent Illinois primaries
and the purchase Of judicial Offices in New York
City The matter is dealt with by Or. Charles A.
Beard in an article on Money in National Politics
in the New Republic.
When politics was a matter Of neighborhood agita-
ton. the poor could circulate about freely and
stood some chance against his rich competitor Today
millions
! The inevitable and wholly legitimate expenses of
spolitical education" and eectoneering are great
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Interest

PROFESSOR SWIFT says that
l. there is evidence of new and
enthusiastic interest in the fine arts
throughout the entire United States.
up to the beginning of the pres
ent century, the fine arts in Amer
lea concerned few of our people save
small group Of foreign trained ar
lists and wealthy amateurs, who,
more by chance than inclination,
had Travelled or studied abroad and
thereby had acquired a genuine in
terest in some phase or period Of
what they felt to be a fascinating
subject" Professor Swift says.
1.-THE vast majority still were in
clined to regard painting and sculp-
ture as too exotic, too far removed
from the affairs Of daily life, to
warrant their giving them any par
ticular thought or attention, while
architecture was beneath their no
tice.
1.-THE reason for this state Of af-
fairs is not far to seek. A back
ground of almost three centuries of
rough pioneering, of feverish ex-
ploitation Of the vast resources of a
virgin continent, of an austere puri-
tanical spirit which had frowned
upon all artistic expression as a
snare of the devil-such a tradition,
together with the inbred habits of
thought which it engendered, had
provided but barren soil for the
growth Of art"
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SCIENCE
America Awakening to Value
of Fine Arts, Belief of Co.
lumbiG University Profess
sor.
-RY DAVID DIETZ

A DEVELOPMENT Of the fine
IN arts which will rival that Of
ancient Athens is beginning in the
United States.
That is the opinion of Professor
Emerson H. Swift of the department
Of fine arts Of Columbia university,
who just has completed a survey
of art activities throughout the
United States.
History is repeating itself. A
great outpouring of art always has
followed a great accumulation Of
wealth.
Increasing wealth, which is
bringing leisure, travel and associa-
ton with older cultures, is the
handspring of the new American
renaissance" says Professor Swift.
His opinion is particularly inter-
esting in view of the pessimistic
comment of many critics who see a
decline in art, as a result of the
advance of science.
Professor Swift just takes the OPP
posite view. Science has created
machines. Machines have brought
wealth and leisure. And now they
in turn bring new Towering of the
fine arts.
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Can't Blame Hoover

DOLIT1CAL leaders, who suppose
i they can gloss over such a
sinking stew by building benches in
the city hall park, waving flags, or
making funny speeches, are only
fooling themselves.
The fact that they could get away
with it during a season Of paper
prosperity and general whoopla,
means nothing.
Unemployment and bread lines
constitute a greater urge 70 serious
thinking than the Vallee Groom, not
only on the part Of those who suffer-
but by those who are merely scared.
The New York of 1880 is not the
New York of 1929. Neither can
politicians make people think it is
by blaming the hard times on Hoo
yer.
If the national government can
be held responsible for certain con-
ditions, the local government can
be held responsible for others, and
if the Republicans have something
to explain because of what has oc-
CURED throughout the country, the
Walker administration has some
thing to explain because Of what
has occurred in New York City.
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H7d5A9f :B|1TE7sH:|
IAMNlVGR$ARYI
.4+E8
SHOOTING OF M'KNLEY
Sept. 6

Sept.
ON Sept. 6, 1901, President Nc
" Kinley, while attending a pub
lie reception at the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo, was shot by
an assassin, Leon Czolgosz.
On the day preceding, the Pres
ident had devievered an address on
commercial reciprocity among the
various nations and it was believed
he soon was to propose a policy In
this connection which might have
made his second administration full
~ as momentous as his first.
The surgeons who were sum-
moned operated almost immediate
ly on the wounded President, and
thus made possible the fight Tor
life which then was carried on.
There seemed to be some hope he
would pull through, but on Friday
the 18th he took a turn for the
worse and died the following day.
The actual end came suddenly and
made a profound impression both
in this country and abroad.
McKinley's body lay in state in
the Capitol at Washington on the
nth and then taken to his home
city, Canton, o., for burial.
In his message to congress, Dec. 3,
1901, President Roosevelt declared,
1T is not too much to say that at
the time of President Mckinley
death he was the most WIDELY loved
man il the United safes"
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Tariff on Opinion
TT is bad enough to set up tariff

TT is bad enough to set up tariff
barriers which are so high that
they prevent the free flow Of goods.
It is even worse, think, to stif1e
the exchange of information and
opinion.
Much of our own folly in our
hide-and-see relations with Russia
may be traced to the early days OF
the Soviet regime.
At that time such news as filtered
through was pitifully nleager and
almost wholly unreliable. The ,serv-
ice is much better by now, and
when it breaks down the fault often
does not lie with the news-gather-
ing agencies but with restrictions,
defined or implied, upon the part
of Soviet authorities.
The Russians still are going along
on the ld-fashioned and conven-
tional notion that only the best foot
of their progress may be exposed
to foreign visitors.
The visitor, lay or journalistic,
still finds it difficult to see anything
but model villages and model fac
tories. And Mussolini follows much
the same system in his treatment
of foreign correspondents
But neither Italy nor Russia &C
knowldges debt of worship to free
speech. To the Soviets its sacred
ness is a sentimental notion fos-
tered by the bouryeoisie. To Muso-
lini it is a device for the propaga-
ton Of destructive radical propa-
ganda.
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WiSecrackS No Cure

IF the bench Of New York has suf-
y fered from some disgusting reve-
lations who had the courage to tell
ticians who ha dthe courage to tell
what they knew, but of magistrates
who failed to discriminate betweeu
what was due corrupt political.
machine and what they owed To
their profession.
If political machines lack the hon.
esty or common sense to keep their
own houses in order, the public has
no recourse but to accept the serv-
ices Of independent critics.
The fact that those critics may be
long to party which casts a small
vote, or represent theories of govern
ment which are not generally ac-
cepted, is Of small consequence COM
pared to the good they do in un-
covering filth.
To call spade a spade. Mayor
Walker faces a bigger job than
singing wisecracks at Norman
Thomas and other liberals.
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Fish or Cut Bait

NEITHER can the Republicans
IN make capital out of the mess
by continuing to swap federal
patronage for city favors.
The time has come when some
body must either fish or cut bait.
Though New York may have suf-
fered from less machine gun fire
than Chicago, it has not suffered
from less tribute to gangdom and
thuggery.
Nor are its 10000 speakesSies the
only evidence of failure to enforce
the law.
More than half of its murderers
are walking the streets, according
to the police records.
One of its garbage scows has been
employed by bootleggerS through
seizure or connivance.
Two judges and two magistrates
have gone down in disgrace within
the year.
Disappearance Of a third judge
leads not only to all kinds of rulnors
and suspicion, but to an astonish-
ing lack Of interest and activity on
the part of the authorities.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BFSSS
RANDOLPH HEARST

XXTILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
w has been ordered to leave
France, and his action hardly re-
fleets credit upon the wisdom of the
French government.
This opinion comes from one who
has certainly not been in sympathy
with many phases of Hearst edi-
torial policies or Hearst news tech
nique.
But the order of expulsion is GER
tainly a notice served on all news
paper men that foreign correspon-
dents in France may function only
so long as they take an attitude
favorable toward the policy of the
ruling party.
France, of course, is not the only
country to act in this fashion, Italy
has penalized journalists who were
not satisfactory to Mussolini. Rus
STA and Mexico have refused to toll
crate news gatherers whose opinions
were disturbing.
Much of the muddle- medicines
of the world can be traced to in
adequacy in the dissemination of
information.
Even the tragedy of the World
war might have been avoided II
only the peoples in all the warning
countries had had access to every
detail of the dispute.
Any fair minded man must know
by now that not one nation got
anything like a complete picture.
Each saw the situation through its
own particular lenses carefully col
ored by the men higher up.
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gesture to talk against war when no
war threatens. The hour when it is
vital and necessary for us to hear
the arguments against conflict is
during the time when war is actually
on, or at least imminent. And then
we shut it off.
Of spilled blood much has been
said. 1t is better, perhaps, to direct
attention to days which are ahead of
us.
Suppose the clock were to be
pushed ahead a full thirteen years.
just what the state of the republic
may be then no man knows.
The best we can do is to organize
the thought of all men and women
into fealty to free speech, into a
determination that, whatever the
circumstances, no one shall be de-
MED the right to be heard.
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loo Many RacketS
.HE issue raised bv AM ever-in

THE issue raised by an ever-in-
Il creasing number Of scandals
in connection with New York pol
tics, has gone beyond the bounds Of
partisanship.
The idea of swapping Democrats
for Republicans. or even Socialists,
is no longer adequate.
What the people of New York
want to know is whether by any
hook or crook they can rid them
selves Of multitude of rackets and
return organized government to a.
decent semblance of honesty and
fair play.
The depression has walked them
up to the nonsense they mistook
for progress.
From now on, they will expect
something more than sideshoys at
city hall.
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M. E. Tracy.
Unemployment and Bread
Lines Constitute a Greater
Urge to Serious ThinkinA
Than the VaLIee Groom.
SAYS:

A S a part of his official greeting
"A to 300 visiting lawyers from
abroad, Mayor Walker Of New York
iambastS certain unnamed poli-
ticians.
Even the bench is not safe from
them" he says; especially the poll
ticians without a platform, nor a
purpose. nor hope"
It is justifiable to assume that he
refers to such footloose critics as the
Socialists and good government
leaguers who have committed the
deadly sin of not conforming to
TaInmany Hall, or its catspaw, the
Republican organization.
Though Mayor Walker hardly can
be blamed for his annoyance at the
rottennesS they already have ex-
posed, and the still greater amount
ct rottennesS they are likely to ex-
pose, he shows poor judgment in de-
nying them credit for undertaking
cleanup which badly was needed,
but which he lacked the courage to
institute, though it lay within his
power and was an obvious part OF
his responsibility to do so.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association, and Of Hygeiap the Health
MAGAZINE.

A GOOD subject for a debating
A society with some knowledge
of science would be the question
as to whether water or oxygen is
more important for the human
body Without oxygen one dies
promptly, and without water more
slowly.
Death from lack of oxygen is
sudden and relatively painless;
death from lack of water may be
long and involve terrific upsets in
the machinery of the human body.
Water carries materials into the
body and out of it. AS part of the
blood, it is concerned with inter-
change of materials within the
body.
Through its function of passing
through membranes, it makes pos
sible the continuous transfer of ma
terial from one cell to another and
from one organ to another.
BY the evaporation of water from
the surface of the body the tenn
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ANA<A AOOA lands

XXTE more than reconciled to the fact that
w we do not belong to the League of Nations as
we read how the league hayed John Bull for the
way he handled the Palestine mandate, holding him
responsible for 200 deaths caused by recent riots.
If we had stack of chips in this game our SOL
diers would now be rendering soothing syrup on the
point of bayonet to rebellious hordes all over
the map.
If Uncle Sam ever bankers for mandate for the
heather he went have to go clear to Asia; he can
just 60 to Chicago
ar he can accept mandate for New York City,
~ where it's impossible to hold the funeral Of a
star without a riot
There was a disgracefuI melee when Leopold
Auer the great teacher of the violin, buried and
the same thing occurred before when Rudolph VAL
entino's funeral was held
But even more disgracefui on the part Of New
York City is her failure to complete or even main
tain the tomb of General Grant on Riverside drive
The G. A. R. convention at Cincinnati considered
taking its small fund and devoting it to the Grant
tomb which should get under the rhinoceros hide
OF Father Knickerbocker.
TN his indianapolis speech Admiral Byrd told Of its
being SO cold at the south pole could hear his
breath freeze
We've never had this experience, but we used to
sleep IN a room where it cold could see our
conversation photographed.
1t is unjust to say that in her campaign for the
senatorship in Illinois Ruth Hanna Mccormick is
carrying water on bot hshorlders; sehe is carrying
water on one shoulder and booze on the other
borans independent attitude IN the senate may
deprive him of the homage which goes to regular
but he has just been renonated by the Republicans
without going back to Idaho, and the Democrats are
not going to nominate anybody against him.
That is what you call putting it over"
This Peoria citizen who threatened to kill man
over quarrel at miniature golf would knock ali of
Cooney Bogeys tteth out if he played the real game
Just once.
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War
MYTH the change of the cen

MYTH the change of the CEN
w tury, however, a change took
place, according to Professor Swift.
Increasing wealth and leisure
not only encouraged the habit of
collecting works Of art for private
delight as we'll as public satisfac-
ton, but also gave rise to contin-
ually growing stream of travel,
spread itself broadcast upon the
continent of Europe" he said.
"A powerful impulse of another
sort was generated by the shipping
to France of some millions of our
citizens from all walks Of life to
take part in-the war, and for the
first time the tabled man in the
street became acutely, perhaps too
acutely, aware Of the existence of
Europe.
what the doughboy saw of
France, sordid and dispiriting
enough at times, proved sufficient
to arouse his curiosity and inspire
him with keen desire to know
something more about the cathe-
dralS, the pictures and Cne STATUES
which he often had found so baf-
fling and at the same time so NOV
ing.
1.-THE result of all these forces,
their reaction upon the life and
thought of America today, has
been aptly termed the American
Renaissance
"That this is no mere figure of
speech recent survey has demon
strated amply, proving beyond
doubt that the country is expert
encing truly amazing revival of
interest in the fine arts in all their
branches; proving further that this
revival is not merely academic,
since it manifests itself in varied
and vital fashion in all the creative
Forms of art"
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VoItaire's France

DUT France has a tradition.
ID France should respect it. Vol
taire was one of the first men to see
through the problem of free speech
clearly.
He understood that your chief
concern must be for the opinion
which seems to you false. malicious,
and Uniformed. Many Of Us have
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter.
esting writer's and are pre.
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.--The Editor.