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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-26
WOMAN STRUCK BY CAR
Is REFUSED DAMAGES
Circuit Court Rules She Failed to
Prove Son Drove Auto by
Fathers Consent.

Ella Greer. 2030 North Capitol street,
lost her suit for damages against Albert
z. Printz In Circuit Court yesterday
when Justice James NJ. Proctor directed
the jury to return a verdict favorable to
the defendant.
Miss Greer brought suit against Printz
for injuries received when struck by the
defendants automobile, driven by his
son. on October IS. 1925 Justice Proc
tor ruled the plaintiff had failed to
prove the son was operating the car
with his fathers permission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-26
RAZOR BRINGS 36O-DAY
JAIL TERM FOR TOTEH
Colored Mans Plea Instrument
Was for Trimming Corns Fails
to Impress Judge.

London Mitchell, colored, told Police
Judge Gus A. Schuldt yesterday that the
5-inch razor which he has been carry
ing was used only for trimming his
corns."
The explanation failed TO save him
from q sentence of $50 days in Jail, the
maximum penalty given persons carry
ing concealed weapons.
Mitchell had told police he used the
instrument for shaving purposes only,
but when Judge Schuldt detected a
large gap IL the blade he changed his
story
Police found the razor in Mitchells
pocket after he had been arrested at
Ninth and g streets northeast on a
traffic charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-26

Secretary will go as far north as Sc
attic along the Pacific Coast and re-
turn by way Of Nevada, Wyoming and
Utah.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-26
RENAMED BY HOOVER

President Hoover has signed commits
sions reappointing Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins Rev. Ulysses @. B. Pierce and Rear
Admiral Charles E. Riggs surgeon gen.
eral. U. g. NJ, as members OF the Board
of Visitors TO ST. Elizabeths Hospital
The appointments are for six-year
terms beginning July /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-26

La, for the dedication Of q new air
field.
Stops in Texas will be made at San
Antonio and Fort Bliss, after which the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-26
REITFC Governing
NOLA0 Award of Prizes

First prize will Ike awarded
for the best solution of the
above problem, taking into
consideration, CORE q II e 5 8,
neatneSS and tniqueness.
Solution can be made out on
the newspaper, or in any
unique form conte ST.
ant desires. The End, 3rd.
4th and other prizes to be
awarded according to their
respective merits. In the
event OF ties. prizes alike
and of same value will be
awarded to each of the tying
contestants. Solutions will be
accepted up 10 p. M,
Wednesday, June 3rd. Solu-
lions may be mailed or de-
livered in person, before clos.
ing date, at p. IN. Prizes
will be awarded Thursday.
June 4th, and the successful
contestants will be notified.
Useful souvenirs will be pre-
scented to every contestant
calling at our store. Remem-
Der: Contest closes Wednes-
day, June Ord. p. m. Mail
answers to
CONTEST DEPARTMENT"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
The Eighteenth Amendment

Few citizens. If any, will be surprised by the
,,anin,ous decision OF the United Circuit court OF
anneals in New York Monday that the prohibition
amendment was adopted constitutionany.
When an opposite decision was handed down re-
Gently by Federal Judge William Clark IN newark
not many persons believed that other courts "ouu
auree with him Although the United States supreme
court has not yet passed on the government appeal
from Clarks opinion, it generally is assumed that
the high court will uphold the constitutionalty OF
the amendment.
II seems fairly clear that the United States SUI
preme court in the national prohibition cases did
mass upon the specific point raised by Clark but TO
prevent any misunderstanding it is well that the
issue has been raised beatedy, so the high court
At the earliest possible moment can remove any
existing doubt.
For that reason it is to be regretted that counsel
supporting the Clark decision Monday asked the SUI
preme court to postpone its hearing Of the govern
ments appeal
The question is fairly stated we believe in Mon
days opinion of the circuit court Of appeals:
1T IS argued that after ratification of the tenth
amendment no amendment giving the national gov
crnment additional power over the people of their
rights can be adopted save by the people in conven-
ton The eighteenth amendment was adopted by
the legislatures of threefoths of the several states
But as the circuit court of appeals points out
"al (amendments) even the first ten were proposed
and ratified in like manner to the eighteenth"
So far as we can see Judge Clark did not prove
chat the method Of ratification by state legislatures
is unconstitutional What he did prove, we are in
clined to believe is that the alternative method Of
ratification by popular convention is the better and
more democratic method, though it is not the
only constitutional method
Unless we are mistaken, the key to Cark's opinion
is not any effect it will have upon the prohibition
amendment but its possible effect upon the public
attitude toward the Constitution and future amend
rnents AS Clark himself said in his decision:
even if this opinion meets with cold reception
in the appellate courts hope that it at least will
have the effect of focusing the courys thought upon
the neglected method of considering constitutional
amendments in conventions"
We hope So too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Official Seal

A N official seal of approval was
L n placed upon Pluto by the AS
Economical Society of the Pacific
with the publication of a study of
the objects orbit made by DR..
Frederick c. Leonard of the Univer-
sity Of California.
His studies indicated the planet
was about the size of Mars, that is,
about one-half the diameter of the
earth. Very recent studies, how
ever, have indicated that the planet
may be as large as the earth.
DR.. Leonard's study revealed two
interesting facts about the orbit of
Pluto. One was that while all the
orbits of the other planets lie in
approximately one plane, the orbit
of Pluto is titled so as to make an
angle Of about II degrees with this
plane.
The other interesting fact was
that the orbit of Pluto is consider
ably more fiattened or elliptical than
that of any of the other planets.
AS a result, when the planet is
closest to the sun, it is just a little
closer than Neptune. But at its
furtherest point from the sun, it is
much farther away than is Neptune.
The average distance of Neptune
from the sun is about 2,80n 600, 900
miles. Pluto, at is closest to the
sun, is just a little closer than this.
At its maximum, it is 4,60O,0OO 900
miles from the sun.
The average distance of Pluto
from the sun is 3,7o0,OOO,00o miles.
This is about forty times the dis
lance from the earth to the sun
which is 100000 miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Banking Law Changes

Within the last ten years. $500 banks have failed
ty ng up deposits of nearly $1IOOOOOOOO0.
For the first ten months of 1880, there 742
b.k failures in the United States with deposits Of
$500 100000.
This is the distressing report Of Controller OF the
Currency John W. Pole
One thousand banks closed during 1890, tying up
deposits in excess of $60OOOOOOO and involving large
capital losses to men and women who regarded bank
stocks as legitimate and safe form of investment
This situation Controller Pole tells congress- makes
remedial legislation of great present Importance"
Nearly 90 per cent of the bank failures occurred
In the agricultural sections of the south the middle
west and the west Those who have suffered most IN
these failures the controller said persons of small
means-country business men, farmers and savings
depositors
But the losses have not been confined to rural
communities alone Many depositors in large and
small cities have seen their savings either lost
entirely, indefinitely tied up, or greatly curtaied
The controller makes definite recommendations for
strengthening the nations banking structure. He
would have the facilities of the stronger national banks
Gin the larger cities extended in the industrial areas
through branch banks.
He would impose greater restrictions on group
banking and investment corporations of banks, de-
velopment of the last few years
whether Controller Poles recommendations meet
Inc present situation is for congress to decide.
Banking and currency committees of the senate
and the house are about to start inquiries into the
entire banking structure Need for amendments TO the
national banking laws seems clear.
The national banking system was established in
1865 Major changes we're made in 1900; in 1908
when the AldrichVreeland law was enacted as stop
gap for the federal reserve system which was created
in 1918, and the more recent McFadden law OF four
wears ago. In each instance there have been ex-
haustive congressional studies
It is to be hoped that congressional committees Will
recommend needed changes with minimum OF delay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Rolph and Mooney-B BILLINGS

This week James Rolph Jr, veteran and pic
turesque mayor of San Francisco takes Office as Gov
ernor and as such becomes custodian of CALIFORNIA;
skeleton, the Mooney Billings case.
Clement Young, who might have made himself
immortal by being just, passes into oblivion. The
cup Of decision which he held waveringly for four
years passes now to his more fortunate rival What
will Rolph do about it?
Governor Rolph is liberal. He loves people. not
only those of his own class, but the
as well. Recently he allowed the unemployed openly
to parade San Francisco streets and present their
complaints to him the steps of the city hall His
campaign slogan was Live and let live"
Governor Rolph can act Immediately to effect the
pardon of Thomas Mooney He commute the
sentence of Warren Billings regardless of the stu
pidy reactionary supreme court judges
He knows the case well better than did
Young for he has lived with it for fourteen years
He can help wipe out the blot the state he loves
and whose typically western spirit he persones. He
can halt the worldwide agitation against California
and its Justice"
Governor Rolph also is a good politician. Well he
long to Mooney and Billings He will learn that since
Mooney and Billings went to their cells not Cali
fornia Governor has been reelected. William D.
Stephens, Friend Richardson, Clement Young-all
failed to do justice to these two labortes. All we're
retired after term.
Will Rolph join them in four years, because he was
afraid to do right?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Bridges Are MINIS
TUAREz saloons would be do

TUAREZ saloons would be doing
~ a much bigger business were it
not for bootleggers and toll bridges.
Both bridges spanning the Rio
Grande are owned by the FL Paso
Power Company.
Americans are charged 2 cents
for the privilege of walking, or 25
cents for the privilege Of driving a
car, while Mexicans are charged 2
or 25 centavos, respectively, for the
same privilege.
FL Pasoans claim that the toll is
sufficient to liquidate the cost of
the bridges every three or four
years. Outside of that, they want
to know why they should be taxed
twice as much as their neighbors
across the river for exactly the same
thing.
If one paid each way, the differ
ence would even itself, but one can't
do that. One has to buy round
trip.
The Ell Paso Power Company ad-
mits that it make good profit out
of the tolls, but claims that it
barely breaks even on the street car
line, which it runs into Juarez over
the bridges, and explains that the
idea of collecting the same amount
in Mexican money at one end,
which is collected in American
money at the other, goes back to a
custom of long standing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Stock Market Speculation

Newcomb Carlton, president of Western Union
evidently thinks there is something wrong with
operations of the New York stock market, Tor ne
saws that if speculation made more difficult Tor
the small investor it might prevent recurrence OF the
ruin of thousands of them
mo man." he said, within my knowledge has
become permanently wealthy as a result of dealing
in margins and the slack has been taken up in al
most every case by the small gambler"
Gambling is gambling, whether on the New York
stock market the Tia Juana track, in Chicago
gambling joint or by the little fellows who risk their
nickels and dimes on policy all over the country
Calling it stock speculation doesn't make it any
thing more or less than gambling.
Nearly everybody in every walk of life CANDLES
in one way or another. In fact, most business is
a gamble. Statistics by Dun and Bradstreet show
that the great majority of people who go into bust
ness fail That is, they bet their money they can
win in that business. but they lose.
All the laws ever passed to prevent gambling
haven't put dent in the human instinct to gamble
Their purpose generally has been to the money
OF the little fellows who can't afford to lose.
Professional gamblers as rule don't care whether
losers can afford to lose or not. Many thousands
who couldn't afford to lose went broke in the late
stock market crash. Nobody viii give their
money back
Practically all of them are suffering from the
after effects of that wild gambling debauch which
caused more damage to the nation in a few months
than all the race track and other kinds of gambling
do in lifetime.
j Sc 1t is vastly more important that gambling on
the stock market be regulated than it is to pass laws
trying to stop other forms of gambling No gambling
should be permitted that has such widespread
vicious infiuence the prosperity and happiness of
: whole people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
REASON BY FE T51S11S

TINE other day the war department sent some mill
Il tary planes to New York and they covered it
with smoke screen thick hostile bombing
plane could have seen the place.
Buttfis does good, after all, for hostile plane
easily could smell Tammany
Word comes from London to the effect that $780,
900 Americans visited Great Britain the last nine
months of 1880, increase of 5000 over the same
period the year before.
It would be interesting to know how many OF them
had seen the Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
What do you think of this?
Down at Cincinnati man arrested for stealing
a pair OF shoes and the judge asked him whim he
did it and the man said he wante to give them to
his mother-in-law TO Christmas.
The judge let him CO.
It would have been wrong to put that man in a
prison; they should have put him in a museum
CILAS H. STRAwN, Chicago lawyer, just home
- from abroad, says Europe thinks it would help
her economically if we should cancel her debts
When it comes to pure altruism and utter un-
sefshness you have to pin large blue ribbon on
dear old Europel
The papers made lot of the fact that the newly
elected senator from North Carolina delivered a
speech four days after he sworn in.
This doesn't take any courage and it wasn't any,
thing new.
But it did take nerve some thirty-two years ago
when the late Albert j. Bevridge broke down the icy
precedent that newly elected senator should be
seen, not heard.
DEvERIDGE was lected to the senate in 1898 and
- went to the Philippines. then only few days
acquired from Spain.
He made trip over the islands and came home
and few days after he was sworn in. he arose to
address the senate and the senate walked out him.
But that didn't stop Beveridge, and when he sat
down the abSentees had missed mighty good speech
and their arctic precedent had been melted, never
to CONCEAL again
It seems strange to recall that the day after he
spoke, Older senators actually and abused him
for it.
In addition to writing John Marshall" the
greatest biography in language, Beverage took
newly elected senators out of mothballs he brought
the constitutional guarantee of free speech to the
United States senate, and that enough for one
man to do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE EF015S

noon and morning papers the pre-
else reason why Mrs. Doe will no
longer maintain home with Mr..
Doe.
Why blame the newspapers? The
State of New York says that Jane
may not be rid of John unless she
will go to a public tribunal and tell
in detail the time and place, hotel
register, hotel clerk and just what
happened to convince her that this
was no longer a marriage worth pre-
serving.
1t is not reasonable to ask that
newspapers should be more civilized
than the community which they
serve. When we have an age e
which John and Jane may say,
"Good-by! Glad to have met you, "
without spreading details before
court stenographers, then 1 will
agree that there should exist hooks
and crannies in private conduct
which are none of the public's bust
ness.
Till that day I think that I would
argue that even tabloid journalism
represents the current state of
communal standards. 1t isn't the
press which debases the people, but
the people who debase the press.
However, by now L am getting
quite a distance away from Louis
Weitzenkorn's new, live, and jerky
tragedy, called Five Star Final" It
has all the virtue and all the defects
of yesterdays newspaper. Or of to-
morrow's. 1t gave me a thrilling
evening in the theater, and I recon-
mend it to you.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06

Reward Doctors for CURLING Anemia

creased it later to a half pound a
day.
Finally, in 1926, he announced
that the feeling of liver to patients
with pernicious anemia would pro-
long their lives by keeping the red
blood cells constantly up to the re-
CURED number.
1t is, of course, a mistake to speak
of the use of liver as a cure for per-
nicious anemia. Apparently it does
not overcome the basic cause in the
human body which produces the
disease.
However, as long as the person
affected continues to take liver,
either in the form Of whole liver or
of liver extract, his blood seems to
go on building up the red cells and
he is enabled to live a useful life.
The method of treatment has not
been known for a sufficiently long
time to indicate to what degree the
treatment will affect the longevity
of these people in general.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Great for BootIegger

DUT, as the Ell Pace Post points
- out the power company dis
regards this good old custom when
it comes to establishing street car
fares and electric light rates.
In Ell PaSo, street car riders pay
cents, while in Juarez they pay
II centavos, and in Juarez. con-
sumers of electricity pay exactly
the same rates DIS prevail in Ell Paso,
whether they figure it in cents or
centavos.
AS to the bootleggers, they enjoy
not only the usual advantages
which go with an international
border, but the unusual ones which
the capricious Rio Grande provides.
The Rio Grande forever is chang
ing its mind, turning that way and
leaving hunk of Mexico on this
side, or turning this way and leav-
ing hunk of the United States on
that side.
Right now there is a little island,
or peninsula, just below FL Paso
which, though attached to us geo.
graphically, remains hitched to
Mexico politically.
What rum runner could ask for
more, or Smuggler or aliens, or high
binder in other forms of illicit and
illegal traffic?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
Front Page News
IT was on March IL. 1890 that

1 was on March IS, 1880, that the
4 solar system suddenly became
front page news in the newspapers
OF America. That was the day that
the Lowell observatory electrified
the world with its announcement Of
the discovery of a ninth planet in
the solar system.
They announced that they had
discovered the Planet X of the late
Professor Percival Lowell, the So
called trans-Neptunian planet.
whose existence Lowell had pre-
dicted.
1t was called ans-Neptunian be-
cause it was more distant from the
sun than Neptune, which until then
was the most distant of the known
planets.
Later the name of Planet X was
changed to Pluto, name thought
excellent for two reasons. One was
that Pluto was the god of outer
darkness and this planet was on
the very rim of the solar system.
The other was that the first two
letters of the name were the mi
tials of PerciYal Lowell's name.
P. L.
After the first excitement over the
discovery of Pluto wore off, a con-
troverSy arose over its nature. Ger
tain astronomers said that it was
not planet at all, but only a
comet.
Still others insisted it was merely
a small object like the asteroids.
The asteroids are groups of minia-
ture planets which revolve in an
orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
They have been regarded as either
the debris of an exploded planet or
the remnants of a planet which was
spoiled in the making"
DR.. V. M. SliFher, director of the
Lowell observatory, came to the de-
Tense of Pluto, insisting that it was
the Lowell trans-Neptunian Pla-
net x.
This view has been sustained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
His Masters Voice

The recommendation just announced by the in
vestigaton committee of the Association of American
University Professors relative to pedagogy and public
utilities will be regarded generally fair and states
manike 1t calls for the fullest publicity regarding
"any close connection between public utilities and
the academic profession"
The need for such publicity is indicated in a
further section of the report in which it is pointed
out that many otherwise cramped and impecunious
pedagog receives much $4,000 annually for
research" into public utility problems.
1t may be going too far to urge the invariable
truth of the old scrptural adage that where mans
treasure is there will his heart be also But in
where DR.. x labors along for $500 year
sistant professor of economics, public speaking
electrical engineering and receives $4,000 for not
exactng research in behalf of the utilities there
be doubt of some palpitations of gratitude
for the honorarium which enables the recipient to
discard his Ford and purchase Cadillac Wis.
1t probably would be best if, in all controversial
academic subjects, professors were paid sufficiently
to live decently and then forbidden to receive
any other benefactions. But such condition would
be hard to bring about Further. it never could be
alright.
What about the professor who had inherited rail-
road stocks and bonds, from which he derived more
income than from his salary? What if he had
married wife who drew $4,000 year in dividends
from Mr. insults companies?
For the time being, a great step forward will be
taken if the professor who grabs off cold ten thou
sand year from the benevoence of the utility COM
panies is labeled fairly. it known that he speaks
as a ward of a great electrical concern he will do
little harm
But as long he pretends to speak as
Professor x, PHI. D., great and impartial authority
on public finance, tax problems and applied eco
nomics the dice are all loaded to the detriment of
his students and the public which respects him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

human beings was the work of DR..
Minot.
Previous to these discoveries, per-
nicious anemia was considered an
invariably fatal disorder. DR.. Mi
not experimental on animals, prin-
cipally dogs, whose diets closely re-
semble those of man, and found
that the liver, the kidney and the
heart tissues contained chemical
substances which stimulated the
formation of red blood cells.
Dr. Whipple first began his work
thirteen years ago when he was pro-
feSSor of research medicine in the
University of California. 1t &C.
CURED to DR.. Minot to adapt DR..
Whipple's investigation to the treat
ment of patients with pernicious
anemia.
When DR.. Minot began to feed
liver to patients with the disease
in. 1924 and continued through
1925, he began at first with a
quarter of a pound a day and in