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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
REASON By Ff aAspis

hONT vote for me or against because ain
~ woman!" shouts Ruth Hanna Mccormick to
her Illinois audiences. as she campaigns against
Deneen Tor the Republican senatorial nomination. a
quality of bluntneSs which suggests her late father
Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio.
II she proves effective on the stump as her
father did, Deneen will return to the practice of law
in Chicago.
Mark Hanna had & sense of huInor in addition to
his sledgehammer nature.
Long sufferer from indigestion, he used to look
over the lunch card with many regrets then order
something he did not want.
One day in the senate restaurant he looked at a
steaning dinner the plate of friend then glanced
toward Senator Pettgrew whom he bitterly disliked
and then he said: Il wish I could eat that dinner
and make Pettigrew digest it."
Representative Longworth of Cincinnati is the
speaker of the national house of representatives but
Representative La Guardia of New York City does
practically all speaking.
DRNCEss MARIE JOSE of Belgium. now the wife
of Prince Humbert of Italy, has a ten-foot train
to her nightgown
If she is inclined to be sleepess how she will thrash
that around in her rolling and tossing.
It's with pang of regret one reads that old St
Johns church in Richmond, Va, where Patrick
Henry made his Liberty or Death speech may be
closed account Of The fire hazard to the famous ole
building.
Some way should be found to save it and keep il
open to the public.
When Patrick Henry started to make that speech
he was an obscure country lawyer, but when he fin
sshed 1t he world famous
MAN in Chicago has been sent to the psyche
pathic hospital for observation because he tried
to reShape his 14yearold daughters head by making
her wear heavy leather helmet
II the head needed to be reshapened the gentle
starred about fourteen years too late The time
to DO such a thing is when the child arrives and
thereafter and the way to do 1t Is to turn its head
from side to SIDE on the pillow.
No matter how he may want TO forget it. every
where former Governor Smith goes somebody greets
him with grind orssn playing The Sidewalks OF
New York"
That's a horrible fate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
A Carload of Soup

Donations and gifts to meet great public crises and
nrevent human suffering in times of disaster and
distress are expected.
The Red Cross is built upon the fundamental
sympathy of human beings for each other. The cry
OF the anguished when of Nature strip men OF
safeguards and protection and leave them helpless
and homeless never goes unanswered.
But there is something worth more than casual
notice In the fact that among the early answers to
the Red Cross appeal for aid for flood sufferers was
donation of a carload of soup by the Columbia Con-
serve Company of this city.
It would be worth notice were it only because it
was practical and may save human life and GER
tainly will prevent great suffering.
1t is more significant when the fact is added that
this company is owned, in common, by the 144 work
rs who make and distribute its product and that the
retail value of the donation would amount to more
than $50 for each OF these workers.
Business men in general have been somewhat
skeptical of the experiment that is being conducted
IN this plant Somehow it does not fit with the pre-
conceived ideas of profit and safety and the old fear
Of robbing men of incentive by taking away hope of
personal gain.
Those trained in the usual schools OF economics
are more than skeptcal of concern that endeavors
to fix wages on the basis of needs rather than eff
cheney.
Nor can most of understand business enter
prise which has individual owners and no Bosses
no super genius who demands large returns for ability
in finance or in management.
The Skeptics may be right. But somehow when
crisis occurs in which there great suffering, such
as the present food or the hungry Christmas at
Bicknell year ago, this company seems to have soup
for the needy and to be ready to give 1t freely and
without price.
Far be it to make comparisons between gifts But
it may be worth remembering that had that donation
OF soup from these IA workers been bought from
grocery counter the cost would have been $4,000 The
total gifts to the Red Cross to date from the rest
Of the state are about $4,000 Write your own COM
ent or dismiss the thing too sociastic to be worth
while.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
No Shoppers Need Apply

The department of justice has Strengthened UP
from the keyhoe and is looking the world squarey in
the eyes these days.
1t no longer is going to play the degrading role of
Snooper. 1t will not tap telephone wires If the
supreme court has given it legal right to do So and
it will not disguise its prisoners and send them
TO spy in federal pententiaries
Instead, under orders of Attorney General William
D. Mitchell the principles of decency are to be ap-
piled to the business of law enforcement
The new order established by Mitchell should be
widely felt. His example will. perhaps be followed
by other law enforcement agencies OF the government
1t will help to restore tagging confidence in the en-
tire structure There is no way for governments-or
individuas-to win respect except by deserving it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor Times-I noticed in last
Thursdays Times that you asked
officials of our city just what they
thought about the eighteenth
amendment, and I noticed that they
gave you the answer. Why not ask
the laboring class of people just
what they think of it? We think,
in fact We know, it has been a fall
ure from the very beginning, only
ten years ago. We hope it has not
long to go. The rich can get a
drink when they want it, and good
stuff, too. But a poor man, if he
can get it at all. has to pay so OF
so cents for a drink, and may not
live until he gets home.
This is what we call taxation
without representation" Remem-
Der the Boston tea party.
Is it right for the rich class to
be able to get it? Is it right fol
our senators and congressman to
get it? Then it is right for the poor
man to get it. Why, the poor man
can't get a good quality. even though
his Or his loved ones life depends
on 1t.
The anti-saloon people used tc
say that the government pays out tc
convict criminals sic to every 81
/ they received. But now they pay
millions and no revenue. No saloons
but more jails. pens and crazy
houses than ever before. Full ones
| too.
TWO READERS AND TAxPAY-
ERS.
Editor The Times-I agree with
the old-fashioned mother. The
girls and women have taken the
place of the men, at least these
places not filed by girls are filled
by men from other towns, such as
Franklin, Greenwood. Beech Grove
and other places.
They spend their money In those
towns and the men and taxpayers
of this city are walking the streets
| looking for work
A TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
Undulant Fever Is Virulent Malady

become sterile as the result OF in
lection.
1t is the opinion of the celebrated
authority, DR.. Theobald Smith, that
the existence of the disease in the
United ST, ~es in recent times is due
to the infection of cattle with a
strain acquired originally from cat
tie in the middle west.
Years ago the famous French
physician, DR.. Charles Nicolle, said
that Mediterranean fever (malta
fever or undulant fever, is in the
course of evolution and is tending
to become chronic.
ut is a malady which, on account
of its manifestations and its chro-
nicity, will become one OF the COM
monest and most stubborn dis
cases."
We continually must remember
that diseases change exactly as do
man and animals. Apparently the
prophecy of Nicolle is being real
izeG.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

I though it does prevent the normal
birth of the calf.
1t is the general opinion that
cattle infect each other through
eating food which has been con-
taminated by litter in the COW sheds
or by eating grass in the meadows
contaminated by the products of
the disease.
The germs also are to be found
in the milk of an infected cow.
Sometimes a COW, which otherwise
is quite healthful, but which has
become infected with this disease,
will secrete milk containing the
germs.
Apparently the human being be-
comes infected not only through
drinking milk taken from cow
which has had the disease Of con-
tagious abortion, but also from
handling infected cattle alive or
dead.
Sometimes farmers send to the
slaughter house COWS which have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
&ZZEEXSSSsm
ls1Ttlef7
IAMN(VER$ARY|
Gss1tH5
UNION ARSENAL SEIZED
Jan. "a

lNN Jan. "a, 1861, the state OF
~ Georgia authorized the seizure
Of the federal arsenal at Augusta
and also Forts Pulaski and jackson
This action, following closely that
states vote for secession. was one OF
the important events which fore
Swallowed the Civil war.
Coincident with this belligerent
gesture on the part of the Georgians
came the seizure of important fed
eral properties in other southern
states. The federal arsenals at
Charleston, S. c.; Mobile, Ala, and
Baton Rouge, La. all heavily garri-
soned, were among the principal
Union possessions to fall into the
clutches Of the Secessionists.
So 1t came TO pass that before
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated,
the southern states had captured
most of the thirty defensive forti-
fications in their territory. The forts.
with 1900 guns they were estimated
to contain, represented $40, 100000
seizure.
This date in history also comnen1-
crates the ordering of the battleship
Maine TO Cuba. after public feeling
in the United States was aroused by
the terrible state of suffering in
Cuba resulting from Spanish meth
DDS of dealing with the insured
ton there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
History

1T is interesting to note how slow
L. the world of art has been to take
advantage of the mobility and the
fluidity of electric lighting.
The first. electric lights merely
were attached to gas fixtures al
ready in place. Later, houses were
equipped with combination electric
and gas fixtures. so that the house
holder could fall back upon the gas
If the new-fangled electric lights
went out.
Gradually, trust was placed in the
electric light, but the fixture con-
tinued to occupy its old place, dan
Cling from the ceiling in the center
of the room.
A few more years and electric
Lighting broke away from the in
fuence Of gas lighting. but only to
recede still farther into the past.
It became the vogue to initiate kero~
sene lamps and candlesticks.
1t is only within the last few years
that decorators have turned boldly
TO the designing Of electric light
fixtures based solely on the posi-
bilitfes of the medium without re-
gard for the past
Perhaps the use Of f1ood-Hgllting
In theaters and also outdoors for
the f1ood-lighting Of skyscrapers and
public monuments, has had much
to do with recent developments in
interior decorating.
1t Is interesting to speculate what
house lighting may become ones
decorators get up enough courage
to pioneer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

of departments; he directs Law
officers throughout the country in
the performance of their duties; and
he may be directed by the attorney
general to appear in behalf of the
United States in any federal OF
state court.
What is the best way to extermi-
nate bedbugS?
The most efficient remedy Is to
fumigate the house with hydrocy-
anic acid gas. This penetrates every
creyice and has immediate effect. 1t
should only be used by an expert.
The fumes of sulphur also are eff
fective as means Of destroying the
insect. Corrosive sublimate is also
of great value and oil of turpentine
may be used.
Is it true that first year men are
not permitted to play on the varsity
football team of the United States
military academy? Why was eagle
permitted to play four years?
First year men (plebes) are no.
permitted to play on the varsity
football team of the academy. Ca
gle. however, is playing his fourth
year on the army team, because he
entered the academy before the rule
was established.
Is the coast line of the United
States longer than that of the
British Isles?
The general coast line of the
United States is approximately
1888 statute miles long. The total
general coast line of the British
Isles is approximately 7,100 miles;
England and Wales, 1900 miles;
Ireland, 5000 miles, and Scotland,
1880 miles.
Is Howard university at Wash
ington supported by the federal gov
eminent? What is its enrolment
and who is the president?
Howard university, a nonsectarian
university supported part by endow-
ment and in part by the United
States government. There are 2,26e
students, practically all Negroes, OF
whom LOO are in the undergraduate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

What is the present value of the
two and four mark Zeppelin stamp
of 1928?
The two mark, ultramarine, Yep
pelin, German stamp of 1923, Is
catalogued uncancelled at 81; and
the four mark, black, brown stamp
is catalogued at So uncancelled. No
catalogued price is given for these
stamps cancelled.
Is the solicitor general of the
United States a cabinet officer?
What are his duties?
The officer is not cabinet posi-
ton. The solicitor general is the
chief legal officer of the United
States under the attorney general.
He has charge Of all cases in which
the United States is a party before
the supreme court, preparing briefs
and making arguments in person,
wit hthe approval of the attorney
general. He also prepares legal
opinions for the President and heads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

will be judged.
No amount Of technicalities or alibis should be
permitted 70 obscure that issue.
That issue is naval reduction-within the parity
already conceded to in formal statements of the
British government.
The issue is not limitation or a brief build
ing holiday on basis of the status quo Such post
ponemen of the issue could have been achieved with
greater speed and much less friction by simple ex
change of diplomatic notes. If that is all the con-
ference achieves, 1t will be failure.
President Hoover has stated repeatedly since en-
tering the White House that the American govern
ment ard people demand reduction. We regret that
secetary Stimson in his opening address at London
did not emphasize this test issue the President
done In that opening session 1t remained for the
Italian and the japanese to insist the distinction
between mere limitation and actual reduction.
Just the high mark of the preconference ne
gotiations the Hoover pledge that ornaments
not be cut too low to suit the United States
the high point in the inaugural session of the con-
ference the Japanese declaration that she ready
to go "the limit in naval disarmament"
Limitation is not enough. There must be reduc-
ton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TN 8 survey of the increased in
l. cidence of undulant fever, the
condition now quite definitely asso-
ciated with contagious abortion in
cattle, the British ministry of
health has become convinced that
the disease actually is increasing in
extent and that this is largely due
to the spread of the disease among
the cattle.
Contagious abortion occurs in
goats, cattle, sheep, swine, mules,
horses, dogs, cats. rabbits. guinea
pigs, rats and mice, and cases have
been found in even chickens and
ducks.
1t is apparently the disease as it
occurs in cattle, however, which pri-
marty is related to undulant fever
in man.
In cattle, the condition may not
produce symptoms sufficient to af-
feet the animals general health, al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
It's Still Folly

.NNE can admit that prohibition
~ is "a noble experiment" and
still see the folly of trying to bring
it about by force.
One can admit that We all would
be better off if alcohol and its by
products were expurgated from the
scheme of things, and still appre-
ciate the utter impoSSibility Of eX-
purgating it,
One can admit that the ConSti-
tuition of the United States should
be respected, no matter what it
contains, and realize the futility of
such dictum, when it contains
something that is contrary to the
sentiment of even a large minority.
One can admit the desirability of
obedience to all law, and still
recognize that obedience can't be
mad unless people regard it as is
in keeping with common sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
Waste ViYidIy Shown

TIME waste and impotence which
L prohibition involves wildly is
illustrated by the case Of William
Powers, Negro, who went on trial
before Judge Bondy in the New
York federal court Wednesday.
Practically the entire day was
spent in selecting a jury. Out OF
sixty taleSmen su1nmOnded, thirty
five were rejected, largely because
of opposition to dry laws.
mo. I like to drink too much my
self, said one, when asked if he
would convict a person for their
violation.
mo, there is no moral trpitude
involved" SAID another.
81 am opposed to the Volstead act
and more than that to the Jones
law" said another.
Eventually, jury seemingly
qualified to render fair verdict
between the defendant and the law
was impaneled, and the case went
to trial.
After the evidence and argument
had teen heard, this jury acquitted
Powers in less than ten minutes.
"This man has been in jail seven
teen days" commented Judge
Bondy, and is found not guilty.
Who is going to give him back those
seventeen Gays"
BY the same token, who is going
to give The government back its
wasted time and expense, or the
public its loss of respect?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
Patterns

TINE lighting scheme is mace
Il possible by the use Of thou
sands of electric lights concealed
around the walls in a series OF coves
and flutes. These lamps range from
ffty-watt to 1,o00watt lamps.
The lamps are equipped with color
filters of red, green and blue.
Despite the fact that only three
colors are used, it is possible through
a control of the intensity of the va
rious colors to produce thousands OF
shades of gray. orange, yellow, pur-
pie and ceriSe as we'll as the pastel
shades of red, blue, green, yellow
and purple
BY dimming one set of lights and
gradually turning on another set, 1t
is possible to make one shade grad
ually fade into another.
The lights so are arranged that
patterns of various colorS can be
thrown upon the walls. A huge con-
troll board contains more than 500
control buttons. These, however,
are operated automatically when
desired, so that a constant shifting
or fading of one pattern into an
other can be obtained.
The installation cost $4,000 The
The engineers III charge, however,
point to the fact that the ballroom
does not have any decorations on
the walls and does not have any Of
the familiar sorts of lighting fix
lures. They say that this resulted
in a saving of at least $4,000, II
not more.
AS a result, they are of the opln-
ion that the new lighting method
can claim the virture Of economy as
well as beauty and originality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

A NEW phase of illuminating en-
N cheering, interior decorating
and art was inaugurated recently
with the opening of the new ball
room In the st. George hotel in
Brooklyn, N. Y. A group of scien-
lists. engineers and decorators at
! tended the demonstration at the in
vitation of the Illuminating Engi-
neering Society.
The ballroom, one of the largest
in the country, has $500 feet of floor
space. The ceiling is 20 feet 6 inches
high. The room has no windows
and no visible lighting fixture. The
entire room, walls and ceiling, is
painted a fat white.
The new lighting system, devised
by the National Lamp Works Of the
General Electric Company, has been
christened "colorama," or painting
with light"
The ballroom can be made cool
light green for luncheon, white ard
amber for an afternoon bridge, or
deep rose for an evening benqueG
Any other color of the rsinhoy's
or any combination OF colors, Tor
that matter, can be furnished upon
moments notice to suit the COM
mittee on arrangements.
IF a color scheme, which changes
ever five minutes. is wanted, that
can be furnished as easily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
Prohibition to Fore

MOT only that, but the kind OF
~ laws we pass have great deal
to do with the prevalence OF respect
or diSrespect toward law in general.
In other words, taking Wicker
shams word for it, that the law en-
forcement commission was created
to decrease criminality on the one
hand, and increase respect for law
on the other, how can prohibition
be regarded otherwise than as con-
shutting a most important part OF
It's task?
Certainly, this law has placed
more people in the light OF Offend
ers, has caused more arrests. has
created more resentment, and has
led to a greater degree Of disre-
spect than anything the federal
government has done since its crea-
ton.
Not that the law was, or could
be, 100 per cent efficient without the
eighteenth amendment and Volstead
act, but they have multiplied It's
difficulties, complicated its proceed
ure, and added to its burdens IN an
immeaSurable way.
In certain sections of this coun-
try it has become wellnigh impos-
sible to get convictions without an
ironclad case for the prosecution.
You can call it rebellion, as some
fanatics do, or harp ons the sacred
ness OF the Constitution, as others
prefer, but the fact remains that in
no respect has our judicial system
50 completely broken down as in the
enforcement of prohibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

song composer recently was sent to prison for
SIX months Take the words bars. keys and fats and
see what you do with that one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
Daily Thought

o Lord. how manifold are Thy
works. In wisdom hast Thou
made them all; the earth is full
of the riehes.-PSaIm 104:24.
y
1he God, o men, seems to me to
be really wise; and by His oracle
to mean this. that the wisdom of
the world is foolishness and Of none
effect.--Plato.
What IS yeast?
A growth, consisting Of minute
cells of ascomycetous fungus that
collect together, forming a yellow,
frothy, viscous substance that, in
contact with saccharine liquids, de-
velops or increases by termination,
producing alcoholic fermentation by
means of enzynS.
What has become Of the United
States battleship North Dakota?
1t was replaced by the U. S. S.
West Virginia, Dec. /, 1928. The
North Dakota was rendered inca
pable CT further warlike service
May %, 1924, and transferred to I'M
classified, as a mobile target
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

Where are the Unknown Soldiers
Of England and France buried.
IN Westminster Abbey, London.
7n7land and in Arc de Tfiomphe,
Taris. France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24
SAYS:

We Can Create, as Well as
Punish, Crime by Statute,
and Much of This Depends
on the Kind of La1Cs We
Pass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-24

What was the population of the
United States in 1860?
31,443, 1921.