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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-16
POINT NO. 6

THAT using the subject oil and during
each test, greater gasoline mileage
for economy was obtained than dur.
ing the use of the comparables."
Continental Oil Company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
The Other Side of the Picture

Ford, Edison, Rockefeller and others have defended
prohibition as boon to the worker 1t prevents him
from spending his money foolishly in the saloon,
enables him to work hard and consistently encour-
ages thrift and makes him prosperous and happy
Further, 1t tends to him doce and law abiding
Prohibition thus makes the aborer both happy and
conservative
A different view is presented by Bernard Shaw
in an interview with Frazier Hunt in the April num-
Der of the Cosmopolitan According to Shaw, liquor
indispensable to the average worker today It en-
ahes him to forget his misery and poverty in tempo
rary flights of alcoholic exaltation. The Shawian
view is set forth in the following observations:
ITO the poor man liquor is the chloroform that
allows him to endure the painful operation of living
His Saturday night drunk enables him for a little
while to forget his awful poverty and the cruelty
of his lot.
Despite all the roSe-colored accounts of Amer
lean prosperity there is hideous volume of the pow
erty that disgraced England after the industrial revo-
luton With booze you can keep the victims from
Violence except to another. Take their booze
away from them and give them nothing in its place
and yoL have potential revolutionsts of the most
dangerous sort because they upset all govern
ent without being able to reconstruct society after
having wrecked it. -.
1.-THE only way you can fight booze is by ceasng
to make life chroncaly painful for the masses Tenn
perance lectures wasted on the unsatis1ed . .
The world will get rid of booze when it gets rid of
poverty and cruelty and satisfies our souls as well
as our bodies Such satisfaction will cure the drink
problem just it will cure most of the ills of the
rest of the world"
In the above remarks we venture to think that
we have Shaw at his best. Here is something more
than brilliant paradoxes and wise cracks 1t is sound
common sense. To the opulent civilized drinker
alcoholic beverages may be only stimulus to the
conviviality and good fellowship. But to the aver
age laborer, close to poverty or pauperism, drink
affords the only escape from an intolerable reality.
To attempt to end misery merely by taking away
alcohol is like trying to smallpox with BARRIERS
face lotion
Let Ford, Edison, Rockefeller and company roll
up their sleeves and get down to the real business
Of deviSing an economic and social system in which
the majority of laborers will have no reason for try
ing to run away from their everyday existence
through an alcoholic debauch. Happy and contented
workers will have incentive to turn to chronic
drunkenness. But prohibition will not make them
happy and contented in civilization in which mil
lions can get no work at all and the majority can
not obtain decent living wage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
Character Is Ruined

TT~HERE is no doubt that We are
l. getting certain comforts out of
organized industry and mass pro-
duction that otherwise would be
unobtainable.
There is no doubt that we are able
to construct things that otherwise
would be impossible.
But Orientals contend that We
are losing something Of vital i'm
portance in the process.
They say that the material prog
ress We have made is more than
offset by the destruction of human
character; that the faster we go,
the less time we have to think, and
that the more we subject ourselves
to system and machinery, the less
able we become to take care Of our
selves.
We do not believe it. We be-
lieve that life is broadening, that
though our field of operation may be
narrowing as producers, we are
gaining as consumers; that the
faster we can go, the more We can
see and learn, and that whatever
sacrifices we may be making for the
sake Of efficiency will be compen-
stated for by the prosperity, leisure
and convenience it affords.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
Peace Policy Reversed

Nothing more discouraging has come out OF the
London naval reduction conference than the an
nouncement that the American delegation, after
cable instructions from President Hoover has refused
to participate in any kind Of consultation treaty.
The cost of this unexpected American decision
is very high-hgh in terms of naval construction
high in terms of peace leadership that sacrifice
high terms Of the London conference, whose sue
cess this decision jeopardizes
As result Of this American decision France-and
who can blame herbs insisting larger tonnage
quota. That in turn threatens to boost the British
tonnage to which We shall build to achieve parity.
Before this happened, We were told that we would
have TO spend billion dollars reach British parity
Now the prospective increase will be far above
billion, if this decision stands
And this was the conference which President
Hoover said was called to obtain mere limitation
but actual reduction!
We will reduce our naval strength in proportion
to any other Having said that, it only remains for
the others to say how low they will go. 1t can not
be too low for US"
The American decision is inexplicable. 1t Is
reversal OF American policy expressed in the Pacific
pact of 1922 1t is reversal OF the American policy
rs expressed In the kellogg pact, by which
pledged TO seek peaceful settlement Of disputes 1t is
a violation OF the American popular demand, as ex
pressed by majority of the press and by the 1900
representative leaders of public opinion who petit
toned the President and the London delegation.
Why this reversal OF policy? Because of senate
opposition we are told. Yet only a very small
minority of the senate opposes consultation pact
and even one OF the rreconciable leaders. Senator
Moses favors such treaty.
Why shouldn't Moses, or the most narrow nation
alist favor such treaty? 1t would not take into
a military alliance. It would not involve in foreign
sptarcspoents II would commit us to one and only
one thing which we already have formally and re-
peatedly committed ourseves-to confer with others
if war threatens
America Is either for the war method the peace
method America is pledged to the peace method.
But America now has renowned the peace method
OF friendly consultation in time of trouble.
What Is the meaning Of it ane
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
Huston on the Stand

The senate lobby investigating committee was able
Yesterday TO get from Claudius H Huston but little
of the information it has been seeking about the ap-
nareutly we-organized and financed campaign to In
fuencs legislation for lease of Muscle Shoals, the
governments gigantic power development
Huston, now chairman Of the Republican national
committee was until last August president OF the Ten
nessee River Improvement Association The association
has been active in advocating passage OF the Wright
Madden bill for lease Of the project to the American
Cyanarld Company.
According to Hustons own estimate, the association
has spent between $500 900 and 100000 in recent years
Huston. who was treasurer of the organization for
two years before he became its president unable to
produce records to show where the money came from
and how it was spent. Records of the company were
kept on check stubs while he was treasurer he said
Huston said he had collected funds for the associa
ton from 1918 1919 but that he did not know where
the records were He said that up until 1925 conri-
buttons largely had come from chambers of commerce
in interested communities but since then chiefly from
private sources" 1t not developed to satisfaction
of the committee what these private sources
Committee members charged openly that their eff
forts to get facts being baked deliberately and
we're outspoken in their criticism of Huston. He will
he recalled today for further questioning.
1t is to be hoped the committee will persist in its
efforts to get the whole story There has been plenty
of evidence before it and before the federal trade
commission to show that large were being spent
for the two-fod purpose of blocking public operation
Of Muscle Shoals and obtaining its lease to private
concern.
Huston because of his position in his party, should
give the committee full information. Nothing less is
likely to satisfy either congress or the public
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
A Just Judge

On May day last number Of Communists in
Bethlehem, Pa, distributing circulars announc-
ing that they planning meeting among
Bethlehem steel workers. They we're arrested sum-
marily and three William Murdoch, Anna Burlak and
William Brown, held for trial under the Penn
sylvania sedtion law The outlook appeared dark
Pennsylvania judge thus far had directed an &C
quttal in a case where Communists were charged with
scdtion.
The case came up before Judge Stewart. The
defense moved that the judge direct verdict of
acquittal, the ground that there was nothing in
the circulars distributed which showed any intent to
employ force or to ncite to violence
Judge Stewart granted their motion. took the case
from the jury and ordered verdict for acquittal.
He agreed that the circulars contained no matter
which advocated oyerthroUing the government by
force, and that the defendants could not be convicted
merely on general principles
1t is gratifying to discover judge who does not
believe that should railroad people to the hoosegow
merely because they hold convictions divergent from
those of the majority 1t is the victory of American
principles and not of a handful of Communist agi-
tators which furnishes the cause for rejoicing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
REASON By F EzRb4s

GTALIN, head Of the Soviet government, predicted
~ that this country would run red with riots
March o, but its failure to do so will not embarrass
Stain in the least for he direct the Bolshevic
papers to tell the Russian people that New York was
destroyed by Communists Washington burned to the
ground and Mayor Bill Thompson of Chicago chased
into Lake Michigan, and the Russian people will be-
lieve it.
General weyler, Spanish commander in Cuba,
whose reconcenrado system starved thousands before
the Spanish war, is now said to be dying
What beautiful phantonls must hover round his
bed
president HOOVER demands that congress
L smash the tariff jam but the trouble is that too
many members of the house and senate have their
fingers in the JAM
King George of England IS said to follow six
inns in his business each maxim beginning with the
word teach"
He could combine all six in the one maxim:
Teach me to do what the prime minister tells me.
Secretary of Labor James j. Davis, who is going
TO try 20 remove the senatorial toga from the i'm
mortal GTndy, is direct result OF the tariff on tin,
established by the Mckinley bill
Attracted by the prospect Of employment IN the
pioneer tin mill built at Elwood Ind, Davis entered
that city a freight train found work later being
elected 70 county Office after that organizing the
Moose lodge and then serving in the cabinets of three
Presidents.
MOT being an exploiter, the governing of distant
~ lands is thankless job for Uncle Sam, asshown
by the uprising Of the Filipnos and the Haitians.
Subject peoples have respect for foreign power,
only when it knocks them down and robs them.
Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana rated as
the original friend of the people and now he
stands revealed as one who wears green silk paiamas
satin lounging robes and green morocco slippers. ,
Whom can we trustg
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
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ANNIVERSARY
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PRIESTLEY'S BIRTH
March Ii

ON March 10, 1873. Joseph Priest
~ ley, discoverer of oxygen, was
born in Yorkshire, England.
At % he determined he would
become a minister, despite his I'M
orthodox views and serious I'M
pediment in his speech.
While living next door to a
brewery in Leeds. where he held an
early pastorate, the young preacher
became interested in the production
Of carbonic acid and succeeded in
forcing it into water.
In 1774 he made his oxygen dis
covery, which is now considered
one Of the greatest in science. Un-
fortunately, he failed 10 realize
the consequences Of his discovery
and it remained for a Frenchman,
Lavoisier, to interpret the process
Of combustion.
Priestley made considerable OF a
reputation also as philosopher and
political writer. He opposed his
governments attitude toward the
American colonies and made a
strong reply to Edmund Burke's
Reflections Of the French Revolt
ton"
Although France made him q
citizen en- this account. a mob
burned his chapel and house and
destroyed all his books, manuscripts
and scientific Instruments ...-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
HEALTH SERVICE -----
Proper Sleep Essential to Health

varies throughout twenty-four
hours, being highest in the late aft
ernoon between and 6, and lowest
in the early morning between !
and 3.
Maximum variation In tempera-
ture is about 11s degrees Fahrenheit
In night workers who sleep by day,
reversal of this order occurs. No
one knows just how sleep effects
this change, but the fact is estab-
lished that the change actually
exists.
Sleeplessness is a serious synp-
tom. The prevention of sleep has
been used as a form Of torture and
it has been reported that investi-
gators of crime have availed them
selves of this form of control of
criminals IN order to obtain confess
sions. Animals deprived of sleep be-
| come vicious and unmanageable.
The effects of loss of sleep are
similar to disturbances of the brain.
Human beings who voluntarily de-
prive themselves of sleep are better
able to keep awake when kept NOV
ing. AS soon as muscular relaxation
takes place, they are unable to re-
main awake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
A Significant Plea

When the lawyers of the state appeal to
the political parties to revise their usual pro-
cedure for the nomination of high judges IN
order that nominations may be less likely to
come as the result of trades and manipula-
ton, they imply that political considerations
have had much to do with the selection OF
Judges in the past.
That the mere change Of order of nom1-
nations will reduce this factor is matter OF
opinion. Men who would stoop to question
able methods to obtain places on the higher
benches of justice would probably be shrewd
enough TO find way of injecting their po-
ljfical assets into such contests.
The significant part of the plea is the
open admission of the lawyers, for it can
not be considered in any light but confess
sion. that the courts need reformation and
liberation from not only politics, but very
bad politics.
When Justice is bartered, either by deals
that place its administration in the hands OF
mediocrity, or subject to secret influences
that elevate the unfit, the people should do
something to rescue themselves.
Il seems very little to ask that both po-
Iitical parties, no matter at what time they
name their candidates. will name no one
whose viewpoint is that truth is no defense
against arbitrary use of the power to pun
ish for contempt by arrogant judges who
object to criticism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE So

fairly promptly and then gradually
becomes less and less deeply asleep,
so that the curve of intensity is less
toward morning.
An Austrian investigator found
that in children there are two
depths Of sleep, one being reached
in the first or second hour after 60
ing to sleep and the other about the
seventh to the ninth hour.
Various methods have been de-
veloped for testing the amount OF
movement during sleep, recording
this automatically by various de-
vices, depending on stimulation of a
writing needle by an air-f1lled tube
or by electrical contacts. In children
the amount of movement is in
creased in case the child takes caf-
fein, or tea or coffee which con-
tain this drug, before going to bed.
The blood pressure usually falls
during the first two hours Of sleep
and rises gradually later In the
night. There may be a slight rise
in the blood pressure before the
person wakes up. Breathing is US
ually slower in quiet sleep than on
waking.
Temperature of the human body
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
Crops

A GENERATION or so ago, it
n was common in rural commu-
mites to consult the almanac before
planting crops. The phases Of the
moon were believed to have great
influence upon their growth.
An old English writer states Gin
his original spelling):
"sowe peason and beans. in the wane
Of the income. 4
Who soweth them sooner. he sowetn
too Soone.
That they with the planet may rest
and arise,
And flourish. with bearing most
plentiful wise
AS these lines indicate, lunar SUI
perstitions are very old. Plutarch
writes:
THE moon showeth her power
most evidently even in those bodies,
which have neither sense nor lively
breath; for carpenters reject the
timbers of trees fallen in the full
moon, as being soft and tender, SUBJ
ject also to the worm and putrefac-
ton, and that quickly, by reason of
excessive moisture; huSbandmen,
likewise, make haste to gather up
their wheat and other grain from
the thrashing floor in the wane Of
the moon and toward the end of
the month"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
Gandhi Is Creator

ANDHI is not dangerous as a
" maker of war, though some Of
his followers might be.
He is the type that creates move
ments, especially of a spiritual
character, slow, difficult to gauge,
and consequently, hard either to
stop or suppress.
There seems no likelihood that
India will break into flame, that
viciousnesS will take command, or
that British authority will fall be-
fore a reign of lawlessness and
terror.
There does seem a good prob
ability, however, that the seeds of
nonco-operation now being soWn
will lead to a situation which may
one day appeal to British authority
as not worth clearing up.
After studying the subject for
two years, DR.. Harry Dexter Kit
son of Columbia university finds
that the great majority Of people
are dissatisfied with their work.
Probably, that always has been
the case, but never to such extent
as at present.
AS life becomes mechanical, work
grows less satisfying, because the
individual is robbed of the only
pleasure it ever provided--the feel
ing of pride and satisfaction which
goes with doing something, or COM
plotting something, by ones self.
Work today, even in the skilled
and professional lines, is so ar
ranged that the individual can do
little more than perform minor
part.
The result is that most people re-
gard their work not as something
useful, or essential to society, but as
merely a means by which to get
ahead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
Back to Primeyal WAYS

THIS conflict of opinion is the
Il seat of trouble in India.
Gandhi is calling on his people to
go back to primitive customs, print
tive methods and primitive ideals
to weave their cloth by hand, to
think out their own philosophy of
life, to be self-suStaining Individ-
uals, even though they must forego
automobiles, electric lights and all
the other modern conveniences which
we regard as necessary.
To us. such doctrines seem prepos-
ferrous. Our hope is based in science.
in the things that men can do by
studying, experimenting and labor
ing together.
But. as KipIing says, East is East
and West is West"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13
BarkiS

THE moon of course, by means
l. Of its gravitational pull, does
cause the tides. This is natural
phenomenon. But superstition has
connected the tide with human
mortality.
The fact that the ebbing away
Of life can be compared with the
flowing out Of the tide may have
had something to do with this.
A few generations ago it was a
common superstition in England
that most deaths occur at ebb tide.
Charles Dickens made use of this
superstition in David Copperf1eld"
in depicting the death of Barkis.
Hes a-going out with the tide,'
said Mr.. Peggotty to me behind his
hand.
my eyes we're dim, and SO were@
Mr.. Peggotty's; but I repeated in
whisper, With the tide?'
people can't die along the
coast, said Mr.. Peggotty, except
when the tides pretty nigh out.
They can't be born, unless it's pretty
nigh in-not properly born. till
food.
He's a-going out with the tide.
It's ebb at haH-arter 8, slack water
half an hour. II he lives till it
turns, he'll hold his own till past
the food, and go out with the next
tide
Hes coming to himself said
Peggotty.
Mr.. Peggotty touched me, and
whispered with much awe and
reverence, They are both a-going
out fast.
"He now opened his eyes.
Il was on the point of asking him
if he knew me, when he tried to
stretch out his arm, and said to me
distinctly, and with a pleasant
smile
"'Barkis is willin'."
"And, it being low water, he went
out with the tide
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-13

SuperStitions That Connect
the Moon With Weather,
Health and Crops HGue No
Basis IN Fact. $
by DAVID DIETZ,

I UNAR superstitions-Sttll be-
IL lieved today in some quarters
connect the phases Of the moon
with the weather, with the growth
of crops, with good and bad fortune
and with good and bad health.
Needless to say, none of these SUI
perstitions have any basis in fact.
Yet many of them survive.
A common superstition about the
moon which illustrates why such
beliefs survive Is the one which
holds that the full moon drives the
clouds out Of the sky.
Now an examination OF weather
records will show that it is cloudy
at the time of full moon just as
often as it is clear.
But the point is that most people
pay little attention to the phases Of
the moon and hence only realize
that the moon is full when they see
the full moon in the sky.
When the moon is full and the
sky is clear they see the moon.
When the moon is full and the sky
is cloudy, they do not see the moon
and. consequently, do not realize
that the moon is full.
Hence the superstition persists
that the full moon drives the clouds
out Of the sky.
A little thought will serve to show
how foolish the superstition is The
moon is 100000 miles away. Clouds
are in our own atmosphere.
Moreover, on any given night, it
will be clear in some localities and
cloudy in others The moon can not
be responsible for both conditions.