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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
A Real Remedy

One sure way to avoid the easy frauds in
elections, SO easy to perpetrate and so difficult
to punish apparently, is new Constitution
that would shorten the ballot and make rep
resentative government possible.
All of the evils of the primary system
can be traced to the long list Of elected
officials.
The purpose of making officials respon-
sible to the people is defeated by the election
of so many officers that an intelligent ballot
is almost an impossibility.
A new Constitution could remedy this
situation by reducing the list of elected Off
Gals and then providing for a stronger check
on those to whom responsibility is given.
Outside of members of the legislature,
state officials could be reduced to very few.
But these few would be chosen more care
fully.
The same could be done with county Off
Gals. If ali responsibility were centered IN
a board of commissioners, these offices would
not be looked upon as unimpOrtant by the
voter. There is no reason why a surveyor
or coroner. for examples, should be chosen
in primaries and at election. If the commits
sioners were unfaithful or negligent, they
should be removable by easy methods.
The whole purpose should be to center
responsibility and so definitely fix it that
the people will not be confused by buckpass-
ing officials who shoulder the blame for their
misdeeds on others.
The one way to secure these reforms is
through a new Constitution. That document,
if drawn, should make city manager systems
Of government legal for cities, and not per-
nit supreme courts to take away the right
of the people to run their own affairs.
Far more important than any partisan
campaigns this fall, and these are important
in getting rid of some state officials who have
proven themselves unfit, is the question of
new Constitution.
No voter who still believes that the people
are fit to rule themselves should be msled
by any specious pleas for stability. The
trouble is that the present Constitution has
been SO distorted by legal Interpretation that
the people do very little governing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08

tried to organize the melon workers in that rich dis
trict.
They were seized under the criminal syndicalsnl
law and held in jail. Bail was fixed at $4,000 each
1t later was reduced to s150oo still an outrageous
figure Now the trial is over Six of the defendants
have been sent to the pententiary for term of from
one to fourteen years. on each Of three points.
AS the sentences are to run consecutively rather
than concurrently, these may be kept in prison
from three forty-two years. 1t is the first convc-
ton under the law in six years. Two have applied
for probation. One given suspended sentence
on condition that he leave the country.
What the accused actually we're trying to do was
unionize the farms workers. What they charged
with was criminal syndicalism. The American Civil
Liberties Union proposes to appeal the case Director
Forrest Daley says of the situation:
THE conviction of these nine Communists and
the heavy sentences imposed six of them are quite
in line with the vicious hysteria that marked the red
raids in Los Angeles and the Red Flag Cases in San
Bernardino county. They are the first convictions
under the California criminal syndicalism statute
since 1924
California now is running true to form she
showed in the l. w. w. prosecutions in the postwar
period. She has caught up with the competitors
who tried to take from her the glory of being the
state where civil liberties are least secure
The American Civil Liberties Union holds that
the attempt Of agricultural workers to organize and
hold meetings for the improvement of wages and
working conditions does not bring them within the
scope of the criminal syndicalism statute. 1t sees
these prosecutions an effort to outlaw the Com
munist party in California. On these grounds the
union interested in seeing the convictions appealed
and will lend its aid to that end
Six of these may be kept in the hoosegow
for more than forty years. Mooney celebrated only
his thirteenth anniversary this year. But we must
note some improvement In 1880 California frankly
jails men for their opinions In 1857 it was
deemed necessary to bring murder charge into the
picture. The Red Squad" of Los Angeles and its
leader, Walter Hines have replaced the OxnanS and
Estelle Smiths.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

rheumatic infections, and scientific
Investigations in various places have
established The fact that persons
who are chronic sufferers with rheu-
matism can predict changes in the
weather by changes or sensations in
their joints.
People with asthma and hay-fever
feel better in dry climates which are
somewhat warm and sufferers with
chronic diseases report the same
conclusion.
It occurred to a British investi-
gator to study the relationship of
rheumatic diseases to the occupa-
ton of mining. These workers spend
at least one-third of their lives
underground excluded from sunlight
in a more or less uniformly warm
atmosphere with a high degree of
humidity.
When they leave the mine at
night, they seldom change to dry
clothing but proceed home in damp
clothing and increase the risk of
chills.
OF course, similar factor occurs
in workers in other occupations. A
study of the available statistics in
Dictated that miners were likely to
suffer particularly with a high in
cidence of one type of rheumatism
but they suffered less with acute
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
Chills Seem Tied Up With Rheumatism

I rheumatic fever and infections Of
the joints than workers in other
occupations.
The type of rheumatic condition
from which they suffer is called
rheumatic fibrositis, including
chronic pains and inf1ammations
not directly related to infections in
volving the heart.
1t seems quite likely that changes
in temperature, humidity and sun
light can not be regarded as the
cause of rheumatic disease, but that
undesirable combinations of these
factors may lower the resistance of
the persons SO that variations may
result in a greater likelihood Of in
volment of the tissue by rheu-
matte flbrositis, and by such con-
ditions as pneumonia.
AS should be quite clear to every
one, human beings differ one from
the other and their response to va
rious outside factors varies.
1t becomes quite possible, how
ever, to generalize concerning the
effects of these factors on a large
scale, and experience over a period
of years seems to have established
definitely the relationship of damp
ness and chilling to rheumatic dis
orders and infections in the nose
and throat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.
New York City Planning
Committee Studies District
Containing 40 Separate
Municipalities. e.

TOUR hundred twenty separate
Il municipalities, spreading over
twenty-five counties in three states.
That is the extent Of the territory
for which the committee on Region
al Plan of New York and It's En-
virons is planning.
The committee, IN existence since
1921, has published its survey in ten
volumes. These are summarized in
a clear and fascinating manner by
R. L. Duffus, well-known journalist,
in Mastering E, Metropolis" (Harp-
er & Bros. published the book re-
Gently at So
The New York planners realize
that they must expand the word city
beyond it's political significance.
They feel, and rightly SO, that they
must deal with region unified by
economic and social conditions.
ut will be convenient to use the
word city, because it is short" Duff
fus writes, but our interest will not
stop with the legal boundaries Of
the City of New York.
Because the influence of the city
spills over those boundary lines, we
shall expand the term to include
what is called the New York Region
that is, all that territory in which
peoples ways Of living and working
are directly affected by the pres
ence of the metropolis"
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Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor TimeS-It seems that
enough has been said regarding
working conditions, but we all have
a right to our opinions, although it
isn't best to express them at all
times.
They say that while Governor
Harry Leslie was on his vacation in
Florida, he said business was good
in Indiana, except a little slack in
the mining district. In order to
make our Governors statement true,
we're compelled to say that Indiana
is a mining district altogether.
Although I know that Governor
Leslie isn't The cause of the present
situation, he doesn't know anything
about walking the streets hungry.
Some one said the census figures
showed 2 per cent of the people are
unemployed. They should have read
two parts, meaning two halves. I'm
now employed at beggar wages, not
meager, for meager means thin, and
I've got so thin on my wages that
I'm afraid III blow away, but that's
not the question.
If I knew ] was employed per-
manently at living wage, I'd be in
sympathy with my hungry comrades
who are walking the streets, because
I've had the same experience.
SHERMAN LONG.
101 South Liberty sreet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
Circle

TINE late Charles D. Norton,
L father of the New York re-
gional plant project, and the first
chairman of the committee, sug-
gested that the New York region
be defined by a circle drawn from
city hall large enough to include
THE Atlantic Highlands and Prince
ton; the lovely Jersey hills back of
Morristown and Tuxedo; the in
comparable Hudson as far as New
burg; the Westchester lakes and
ridges to Bridgeport and beyond,
and all of Long island"
Duffus writes: "This is a good
working definition, though as we
shall see, it includes some land
which is almost virginia. as it was
on the day Columbus discovered
America, and some that actually
has lost population during the last
one or two generations.
Our CITY, viewed in this way,
contains 5,523 square miles. 1t is as
large as the state of Connecticut,
four and half times as large as
Rhode Island and $50 times as large
as Manhattan island-which started
all the trouble.
"a little more than half of it
1887 square niles-lies in New York
state; 1928 square miles in New
Jersey, and 413 square miles in Con-
necticut.
ut contains more than 420 mu-
inequalities. It's population is about
100000, or more than that of any
state, except New York. About one
person in every twelve in the United
States lives within it. AS Paul
said of Tarsus, this is no mean city.
More human beings are gathered
within committing distance of the
New York city hall than have lived
in any similar area since the world
began"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HyKeia, the
Health Magazine.

THE impression has existed
4 among men since they were
able to take notice of their sur
roundings that all factors associated
with climate have some influence on
the health of man.
Noah Webster, who wrote the
dictionary, kept careful records for
many years of changes in the
weather and of associated epidem-
les Included in the general sub
ject of climate are such questions
as barometric pressure, humidity,
temperature. sunlight and rainfall
as we'll as prevailing winds.
Enough has already been said in
many places, and particularly in
these columns, to indicate that sun
light has definite effect on the
body growth and health, and every
one must have considerat
amount of sunlight if he is to main
tain his body in the best condition.
For years the belief has been
prevalent that dampness and drafts
are associated with catching cold
and with the increase of pneu-
moT1ia.
Expert psychologists insist that
damp places are associated with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
REASON By pE kASbIS

TINE cup of the climber of the family tree is filed
il to overlooking when he finds one of his ances-
tors signed the Declaration of Independence for as
architects of world epoch those gentlemen are I'M
surpassed.
The document, now a dim parchment, is kept
from the light in Washington vault to preserve
the faint lines all but obliterated by the impression
taken from it to furnish the country with copies.
But its consequences are everlastingly written in
the wreckage for those arstocraS in lace and broad
cloth wrought for the oppressed of earth and in
time their sentences were to turn to flags Of freedom
in lands unknown.
UTHILE the tree climber is elated to trace his line
wv back to one of those signers they far from
elated, and though John Hancock wrote with -four
sh saying: Il want John Bull to read my name with
out his spectaces," he knew his signature might
become a hangman's rope
After his jest he turned and said: Now we must
all hang together" whereupon Benjamin Franklin
replied: Yes, we must all hang together, or we
shall hang separately"
Then Benjamin Harrison, great-grandfather of
Indianas President, added little mirth- A heavy
chusetts and observed: 1T will be all with me
long before you have done kicking in the air"
The vast decision, embodied in the declaration
was TeacNeQ Reluctantly JeLeTSOn, duCnOI, pro-
testing his desire live under English rule if only
England should soften the attitude which driv-
ing her brilliant subjects TO rebellion
THE debate was bitter, Jefferson writhing under
i it. but through it all he said not word, for this
master OF the pen speaker the eloquence being
provided by volcanic John Adams, whom jefferson
called the colossus Of that debate"
The most romantic event in history is the death
of Adams and Jefferson only few hours apart fifty
years from the day when they gave that declaration
TO mankind: on the Fourth of July. 1926, the land
rang with Libertys Golden Jubilee, those two i'm
mortals went out into the unknown together.
Some in this but coincidence, but others
see the hand of the Master Dramatist.
One hundred ffty-four years. only little way
down the pathway OF the race, but in those years
the has climbed higher than in all the ages gone
and Phadelphias protest has ripened into the most
powerful nation but with all its power, true to its
washington. its Adams its jefferson, its franklin
the friend Of justice, the refuge . the exile. the
prophet Of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
The ataI u

4 S the villain darts down the
N fire escape, we hear the hero
coming up the hail. He is return
ing after the opening of a new
musical revue and he's whistling the
song hit from the piece which is a
ditty called ''Litigating Lizzie-Don't
Tryito Two-Time Me-" AS he comes
in the audience hears him hum
ming:
Each night before I reach your
domicile,
Your talk always seems to grow
little breach of promisal."
Removing his coat the hero sits
down at the typewriter to dash of
his criticism of the show he has just
seen. It was advertised as Man
haitian Review" and naturally the
audience is worried because it seems
as if the hero will surely blow him.
self up with his first paragraph.
Fortunately, ne turns elegant and
spells it Revue"
Suddenly, ne pauses and begins
to think. What's up now? The
sight of a dramatic critic thinking
makes the tensions even greater.
Fortunately. ae happens to do his
thinking out LOUD and says: =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
Growth

TINE interesting record of how
Il New York grew is traced by
DuffuS. He writes:
New York began, as everyone
knows, at the lower tip of the is
land of Manhattan. If we think
over the greatest cities of the world,
past and present, we can see that
most of them owe at least their
beginnings to the fact that they
were situated on bodies Of water
over which trade had to pass"
But Duffus points out that the
waterways which created New York
have been obstacles to it's growth.
"The Hudson river, the East
river, the arms of the bay and
Long Island sound, are obstacles
which compel us to build ferries,
bridges and tunnels" he writes.
"Manhattan's population had to
spread north, during many decades,
for the simple reason that it could
not spread in any other direction.
1.-THE building of the bridges
across East river enabled it to spread
east, just as tubes, tunnels, and be-
fore long a great bridge will assist
it to spread west.
But even with these aids New
York could not grow as Chicago has
done, by sprawling out until the
outward thrust from the center had
spread its force.
1.-THE city and the neighboring
groups of population which have
become practically part of it were
hemmed in not only by water
barriers, but by the ridges between
the watersheds.
THE ridge of the Hackensack
valley, the Palisades and the crestS
of southern WestcheSter and Fair
field counties have DISTRACTED the
building of highways and railroads. y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
TT SEEMS TO ME By HE EEn4%

TOR at least ten years the thea
Z tiers of America have been
afflicted with mystery plays. In the
beginning I liked them. That is,
the first couple Of thousand.
But now when a ghostly hand
reaches out from The curtains in the
haunted house and seizes the hero
inc by the neck, my chief wish is
that the girl shall be choked as
quickly as possible. thus ending the
suspense and also the play.
I am not amused any more when
all the lights go out suddenly and
some character OF stage screecheS
in a blood-curdllng manner. No
longer do 1 sit with bated breath
for the solution which will come one
mimi before the final curtain.
But lest I be accused of INDUCING
in destructive criticism, plan to do
something about this condition.
purpose to write a mystery play to
end all mystery plays.
The hero will he dramatic critic.
That's the first novelty. The villain
is an actor, which I grant you is
conventional enough. The villain
wants to kill the hero.
All that is set forth in the prolog
when the hero writes a review of a
new play and diSniSseS the actors
performance as adequate"
The wronged man gains access to
the library Of The dramatic critic
and attaches an internal machine
to the reviewers typewriter. The
continuance is adjusted in such a
way that if the critic touches a GER
tain key he will be blown to smith
Greens.
The villain, although no more
than an adequate actor, is not a
fool. Before making his getaway
from the library, he delivers a short
soliloquy and says. There now, I've
topped up that bomb containing 318
pounds of nitroglycerin with the "I''
on his typewriter. Just let him get
personal and mes lost"
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H7d6 AEF Is17F1eI'
| ANNIVERSARY
HSSH2143tt5
RoCKEFELLER,s BIRTH

July
ON July 8, 1889, John D. Rookie
" Teller, American capitalist, who
before his retirement in 1911 was
regarded the wealthiest man in
modern history, possessing for
tune estimated as high as $1,000
600 900, was born at Richford, N. Y.
At the age Of IA he moved to
Cleveland, O., where, after receiv-
ing public school education, be-
came clerk in commission house.
In less than four years he became
a partner.
With his partner he invested in
new business of coil refining. F"
Within ten years this company, I'M
der Rockefeller's leadership, eStab-
lished itself as the most important
factor in the petroleum industry in
America.
In 1866 the Standard Oil Works
was built at Cleveland and five years
later was consolidated with others
to form the Standard Oil Company.
In forming his company it was
found he had created a trust" in
violation of the law and therefore
was compelled to dissolve it. He
then formed separately operated
companies.
Rockefeller devoted much time
and money to the promotion Of
various educational, religious and
charitable interests. In 1892 he es-
tablished the University of Chicago,
to which he made gifts exceeding
S23, 000, 900.
He built and initially endowed the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research at a cost of $4,000. 900. At
the end of 1921 it was estimated
his benefactions exeaeded $780,
O00, O00s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
GangIand Breaks Out Again

Chicagos gangs do not seem to tame easily. Their
latest outbreak marks new step in insoent daring
the attempt to kill rival gangster while he was
riding in police squad car, after he had been queS-
toned by detectives in connection with the Linge
murder
The gangster escaped unhurt, but innocent by
stander killed; and the killing emphasizes once
the fatuousness of saying that these gang wars
do not really harm the city since the victims all
gangsters In this case, lawabiding citizen, stroll
ing along downtown street, was shot dead.
To be sure, the gangsters didn't mean to kill him
But the episode shows clearly how dangerous it is for
any city to harbor unrestrained gang warfare in its
midst The deaths of the murdered gangsters are
not lamentable, of course, but law abiding citizens
have right to look for safety downtown streets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
A Gesture of Hope

TN one sense the naval treaty is a
L specific agreement as to the
number and kind of ships our gov
eminent can build in comparison to
England and Japan, and presumes
the eventuality of conflict.
In another sense it is a move in
the general direction of peace, a
gesture of hope which intrigues us
more because of what it promises
than what it completes.
1t is essentially e compromise be-
tween two irreconcilable theories.
Those who believe in the old
order nave yielded just as little as
they could, fighting over every inch
Of ground, appealing to every posi-
BILE prejudice, taking advantage of
every conceivable technicality and
waving the flag when they couldn't
think of anything else to do.
Those who believe in the new
order have yielded many minor
points to get the main idea across.
The result is that each of the
great governments concerned jeop-
ardized certain advantages. has
weakened it's position by compar-
ison, and has made lot Of pretty
talking points for the jingoes.
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must think up something nice to
say about Kathryn Monger because
I love her"
Everybody in the audience says
katherine" and shudders. They
haven't learned yet that she spells
her name with ~"
Yet, even with that hurdle past,
the poor reviewer still remains in
deadly danger.
He gets up and crosses the room
to look in the dictionary. Every eye
follows him. He opens the book at
the page labeled ''intort-intuitive +"
With bated breath the audience
watches as his glance flashes past
"intreat," ''intrench," "intrench-
ment," intrepid" intricate"
Il = Il
Suspense
FINALLY, a woman in the third
L row can stand the strain no
longer. In a piercing whisper which
resounds throughout the auditorium
she explains TO her escort, Poor
fellow. Can you imagine, he's look
ing up intriguing and he doesn't
know how to spell it,"
The whisper breaks into a Sob
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-08
We Grope in Dark

TWENTY years ago, life insur-
L ance experts probably would
have regarded Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle as a better risk than Rookie
Teller, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
is dead at II.
In spite of all we have learned
about hygiene and medicine, we still
don't know who will be taken next
or why. More than that, we don't
know what we will be doing next
year, or why we will want to do 1t.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started
out to be a doctor, and was getting
along very we'll when he decided to
become an author; as an author he
won world wide renown, especially
through the creation of the immor-
tai Sherlock Holmes. Then came
the great war, carrying his son into
eternity along with millions Of
others, and he became a convert to
spiritualism. During the last years
Of his life he wanted to be a preach
er, if not a prophet, but it was too
late.
Generations yet unborn not only
will remember, but honor, him as
the writer of very original and very
entertaining detective stories.