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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
We Kill Women Too

In Hungary two women were dragged to the gall
lows unconscious and hanged, while tears streamed
down the cheeks Of the hangman.
Americans, shocked at the brutality of that for
en scene should realize that their own country soon
IS to be RECALLED with a similar picture An Ohio
jury just has condemned to the chair Julia Lowther
quarer-breed Indian GIRL for the murder of the wife
of her paramount Tilby Smith, also to be executed.
The coming double-execution will recall to the
newspapers similar expiation" in 1928 in New York
when they filed their columns with gruesone accounts
of the last moments of Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd
Gray More thoughtful Americans will see in it just
another proof of the utter futty OF capital punish
ment
Lacking exact crime statistics. we only can guess
at the number Of male executions in this country.
The estimate is that they average 100 year, which
would make the number some $4,000 since the be-
ginning Of the nineteenth century. Since that same
gear Of Our Lord, have records Of only twAaysix
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
CoSmic Ghost
THE second item contributed

THE second item contributed to
a Regener's view by Einstein is
the curvature of space. According
to the Einstein theory, space is fin
tie and curved.
By travelling the proper number
Of millions of light-years in any
direction, you would get back to
your starting point, just as in
travelling over the earthS surface
you, get back to your starting point
if you keep going long enough.
Now Sir James Jeans has said
that all present evidence points to
beginning of our universe at
some definite date, many trillions
Of years ago, perhaps fifteen or
twenty trillions Of years.
He also has suggested that 1t is
possible that our present universe
may have been preceded by others.
He says that there is room within
the space of our present universe
for the spent radiations, the ghosts
if you want to call them that, of
million past universes.
the idea that in the cosmic rays
we actually have the ghost Of
former universe.
1t is early to speculate-and
speculations are always dangerous
but the first implication of Re
gener's theory is that the former
universe must have been very much
different from the present ones.
This is because the coSnic rays
are a thousand times shorter than
the shortest radium rays known
today.
According to the second law Of
thermodynanics, waves of energy
grow longer, not shorter.
Therefore If cosmic rays are the
remnant Of a past universe, it
would have been one in which the
prevalent radiations were of such
wave-lengths as the cosmic rays
now exhibit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Pure Food Birthday

Strangely, the United States department of agri-
culture in announcing the twentyflfth anniversary of
the signing Of the pure food and drug act to-
day. takes up pages of laudaton of the law without
mentioning it's crusading father the late DR.. Harvey
W. Wiley whose death occurred just year ago today.
The omission is as surprising as would be me-
mortal to emancipation without mention of Lincoln,
Professionalism without the of Luther, the Red
Cross without that of Clara Barton We propose here
to mention Dr. Wiley and to invoke his fighting spirit
now so rare in the councils of government in Wash
ington.
The law, we are told came into being on a tide of
popular indignation over food and drug scandals,
such as revealed by Upton Sinclairs expose of the
Chicago stockyards in THE Jungle" and in the deaths
of Spanish American war soldiers from "embalmed
beef
It would be more accurate to say that it was born
Of the grim and puritan will of this honest Hooser,
who, chief chemist for the department Of agricu-
ture helped frame the act fought it through congress-
defended it in the courts and deed two Presidents
in its enforcement That he finally forced out by
Tafts attorney general, Wickersham, what
worlds Work" called "a microscopic legal techni-
cality' to be indicated later by house committee,
only shows the power of food interests to influence
high government officials
Bureaucracy can not belittle the services OF this
man, who for wentynine sought to protect the
public health against food adulterers poisoners mis-
labeers country that lives largely from tin cans
and bottles his fight against crooked packers and can
ners should be carried even more intensively
Laws scraps of paper without honest and mill
tant humans to administer them. Before he died
Wiley charged that the pure food and drug law al
most dead letter. Is that trueP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
The Poor Sardine

Chickens, we had thought, were immune from
most Of the petty annoyances besetting human
beings.
But mistaken. Chickens, too, must have
their vtamins in this day of scientific feeding for
and beast, we are assured by no less authority
than the bureau of fisheries of the department Of
commerce.
And the bureau by its research. is making it easier
for chickens to be healthy and robust and awaken
the morning full Of pep and ambition for the days
tasks.
Certain fish oils it has been found are extremely
potent in vitamin D, which it seems the chickens
need Sardine oil in particular has large amount
Of whatever vitamin is, discovery which benefits
poultry rasers and fishermen alike.
Also OF course. it benefits the chicken leaving
everybody happy but the poor sardines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Indiana Limestone

Despite the announcement Of the COM
missioners for the George Rogers Clark me-
mortal that there is no basis for the criticism
that Indiana limestone has been eliminated
from large portion of the Vincennes mon
ument, The figures strongly suggest that
such has beel- the case.
Just Why it is necessary 10 use marble or
granite for any part of that monument will
need explanation to the citizens Of Indiana
This stone is used for great state buildings
in other parts of the country. So far no one
has known Of any crumbling Of this stone. 1t
has rested for ages beneath the ground. It
has stood, so far, as long as it has been
erected.
Nor can there be any argument on the
ground Of beauty that marble or granite is
needed. The only reason for their use at all
is that they have been more available in
other DAYS and in other localities.
This stone has been and is a great adver-
tisement for this state and it's production has
added to the resources of the state.
1t gives employment to many men. It
helps support the state government which
contributes large amount of the funds for
this memorial.
The commission which had charge of
erecting the great World war memorial in
this city have had no reason to regret their
use of this material The civic center when
completed will be one of the great artistic
centers of this country and it will be built of
this stone.
What better monument could be raised to
the great explorer whose daring and cour-
age opened to the nation and the world this
great section of the nation than one built Of
the rocks over which he led his small army?
Possibly a survey of the work thus far
done by this commission, not only on this
matter, but on other phases will now be in
order.
Tributes to the great of history must be
above suspicion of either stupidity or self
interest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Views of Times Readers

Editor Tirnes-ThiS has to do
with the newly enacted ordinance
on traffic regulation. Why prohibit
parking in the entire mile square
before 9:15 a. m? Is the council
playing into the hands of the ga
rage owners and the parking lot
operators?
What is wrong with parking be-
fore OILS a. m? If anybody at all
is put out or suffers any incon-
venience, it is the public. Well!
Who owns the streets but the tax
paying public?
We can not all be councilmen or
city officials and come down to work
at $50. Ninety per cent Of the
laboring men go to work by 8 and
where are these men going to park
their cars? Some one sponsoring
this ordinance must have had in
mind, of course, that these people
would have to patronize the garages
and parking lots.
Then, as if to add insult to in: y.
they put in the "tow-in" clause to
provide more business for the ga
RACES.
Put the parking problem up to the
people who own the streets and see
how many Of them favor this neZ
plan. Take straw vote anywhere
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Wanted: a Farm Policy

The federal farm board is laundering about in an
effort to comply with the request of the President
that it fix more definite policy with respect to
sales of some 2O0O0O0O0 bushels of wheat now held
by the sterilization corporation.
The boards assignment is not an easy one. It
can of course, formulate and announce policy but
there is no way by which it can extricate itself from
the mess in which it has become involved without
heavy losses And there seems to be little it can do
to bolster the sagging price of grain
The board continue its present policy of SELL
ing wheat at loss for export and to millers, and
attempting to maintain the palpabe fiction that this
can be done without depressing prices But as long
it does, its holdings will remain threat to the
wheat market and will keep the market in an I'M
settled condition
1t was in fact this policy that aroused the clamor
in the west and brought the pressure on the PreSi-
dent that caused him to act Wheat growers are de-
manding definite assurances that the boards grain
be kept off the market
They now are harvesting crop largely in ex-
cess of domestic needs, and export demands are
light. At best the prospect for prices that will pay
cost of production are not good
The board can do as the farmers wish and give
definite that its hoard will be kept off
the market be held until wheat reaches dollar
bushel. But this obviously would rot solve the
boards difficulties.
Storage charges would continue to eat up the
boards funds and the effect would be only to defer
the day of eventual reckoning.
It seems safe bet that the board will take the
latter course since this apparently what the Pre
dent wants.
Meantime, the taxpayers will foot the bills for
the boards disastrous orgy of speculaton-in cotton
as well as wheat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Neglect Inexcusable in Rabies Cases

name is associated with the method
of treatment given to those who
have been bitten by mad animals,
with view to preventing the de-
velopment of hydrophobia.
At times when rabies is prevalent
in the the community the lives Of
both dogs and children may be
freed from menace by protecting
them against exposure to the bite
Of maddened animal.
Homeless animals should be
picked up and disposed of by the
usual methods.
Failure to enforce the laws regu-
lating the control Of homeless ami
mails represents nothing in the way
Of friendship for the animal and
exposes innumerable human beings
to the danger Of one of the most
serious of all diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

It's a Pity That We Can't
Make as Much Improve
ment in Justice as We
Have IN Trace.
NEW YORK, June 30.-No event
IN is so big or impressive as to
exclude the whiTns and capriceS OF
human nature.
NJ. Flandin gives a luncheon for
Secretary Mellon.
When the distinguished guests ar
rive, it is discovered that there are
thirteen.
Ye gods! No one present will ad-
nit being superstitious, but M.
Flandin summons his wife, and no
one protests.
1t is not entirely coincidence that
the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
should have been assassinated and
the treaty of Versailles signed On
June %. With their well-known in
stinct for the dramatic, the French
did everything they could to end
the war officially on the anniversary
of the event which started it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Paving the Nation

TORTY- -FOUR miles of concrete
4 road were completed in New
York state last week and more than
200 miles have been completed this
spring.
Contractors doing work for the
state are employing $4,000 men,
while 5000 more are on the pay
roll of the highway department.
Every state in the Union is do
ing equally good work.
The United States is building
more and better roads each year
than the famed empires of old built
in a century.
Tt costs us about three times as
much to operate our automobiles
as it does to run the federal gov
eminent.
Automobiles and the kind Of roads
necessary for their use have come
into being during the last thirty
five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

among representative citizens ID
let the council see the result.
Furthermore, under this new Or
dinance, tow in the cars of city and
county officials, the private cars OF
policemen and all other citizens
without distinction, when tmprop-
erly parked.
Fix it SO no one, whether he Is a
rich man, poor man, city official OF
what-not, can Elk" a sticker, and
then, after a fair trial, see how
many people believe that the coun-
Gil in fostering this abominable Bit
of legislation on the people of In
dianapoliS, believe that they did IL
with the real interest Of the people
who own the streets in mind.
One who believes that a govern
ment, whether it be city, state OF
federal, should be "of the pee
by the people, and for the people
Can light rays travel around a
corner without the aid of any spe-
cial directing device?
No.
How many drug stores are there
in the United States?
54.272.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
ANA%A AOO4N Lands

WE hope that President Hoovers proposed NOR
w atorium may prove to be the golden chariot
in which the beautiful and elusive dase prosperity
may be induced to return to an impoverished wor!d
and play an engagement of long duration, but -
have doubts
We have doubts, because we have done little
since the World war but make financial concessions to
Tom Dick, and Harry on the other side of the Allan
tic ocean and between concessions reap the ingrattude
and vtuperation of those who owe us.
They always hang garlands on us while we are
producing or while they expecting us to produce
but IN the backs Of their heads they always the
idea of ultimate debt cancellation and this is the
dream of Europe now.
GERMANY is feeling her oats for the moment
~ since payments are likely to be suspended for
year. but what will be her frame of mind in one
year from now, when she is expected to put on the
heavy harness again and try to pull herself out the
mlre OF war 1ndemnites.
1t is very likely that again she will stage national
emergency and threaten to go bolshevik unless an
other holiday be granted to her.
You may have noticed that France fears this very
thing She fears that if payments are suspended for
one year they never will be resumed
France remembers also that at the end of the
Franco Prussian war, Germany named an indemnity
which she thought would break the back of France
and she kept her army in Paris until the last cent
forked over.
And had Germany won the World war there would
have been no moratoriums; there would have been
nothing but the iron heel until the last payment
XXTE have been fim-fammed out-Smarted and
w abused since the treaty of Versailles; we have
been waving olive branches while Europe has been
making cannon; we have proposed this and we have
proposed that and no matter what we have proposed
Europe always has replied by saying that it was a
grand idea, but debt cancellation should ha nourIe5
with it.
Every time we go into conference with Euro
peans our fellows stand around in felt boots and ear
nuns and Europe fills their pockets with gold bricks
and they come back home happy
We nope Mr.. Hoover'S experience with Europe will
be more pleasant than former have been but we
have our doubtG - 4 ST.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

members of this community have
scored their revenge.
Many time and often Jean Nor
riS looked down upon some poor
street walker and gave her the full
limit Of sentence which the law pre-
scribed. She tempered her justice
with no mercy. She judged, and
she has been judged.
Out of the episode I hope there
may come some realization of the
fact that no man or woman rising
up to the seats Of the mighty ever
should leave behind him or her the
dictates Of a reasonable humanity
Copyright. 1881. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
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ANNIVERSARY
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REPORT ON u. S. TROOPS
.June 30


ON June 80, 1917, General Perish
" ing, on returning to his head
quarters in Paris, issued state
ment lauding the success Of the
transportation Of the first contin-
gent Of American troops to France.
The statement read:
1.-THE landing Of the first Ameri-
can troops has been a complete sue
cess. In this remarkable transfer
Of a large force across the ocean
not a man or an animal was lost
or injured, and there was not a
single case Of serious sickness.
"The men landed in splendid NOR
ale, with keen, confident, and eager
spirit.
1.-THE physical appearance Of our
men is truly inspiring. They are
all fine, husky young fellows, with
the glow of energy. good health,
and physical vigor which will make
them a credit alongside any troops.
"They are exceptionally well
camped and cared for, with sub
stantial wooden barracks, good beds,
good food and the best sanitary
arrangements. They are located on
high ground.
For all Of this, we are deeply
indebted to French cooperation
with members Of my stafT."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30

That California now should be in
the midst of such a serious stu
alton with relationship to hydro
phobia is due to the fact that the
people of many California communi-
ties have not taken sufficient in
terest in law enforcement in this
connection and due probably also to
the fact that more peculiar oppo-
nents to scientific medicine reside
in that state in proportion to the
total population than in any other
state in our country.
The death of any child from by
drophobia must be considered par
ticularly a tragedy when the
method Of spread and the method
of control of the disease are known
so definitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
We Get Too Explicit

XETHILE the city ordinances OF
w Coney Island forbid women
to parade in bathing suits, they are
silent regarding pajamas. night
gowns and other peculiar garbs.
That shows what trouble we car
get into by being too specific.
Make a general rule, based on
general principles, and you have
something to go on, no matter what
occurs.
Make a particular rule for par
ticular purpose, and a little change
in style can upset the whole apple
cart.
Much of our law is too explicit for
its own good.
The same is true of much Of our
striving to improve moral conditions
by censorship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EES45S

TEAN NORRIS no longer is a mag
- istrate. Of all the victories
gained through the investigation
into our courts of first instance, this
seems to me the most valuable.
AS a matter of fact, the tech
nical aspects of the case interest
me very little. The rebuke goes be-
yond the conduct Of an individual.
And the removal of Mrs. Norris may
help to set a new standard of jul
dicial mood.
The five counts which went
against her constituted grave in
dictment. But above and behind
them lay one much more severe.
Jean Norris did not grace the
bench in New York, because of all
those who sat, she became the most
high and mighty. The Office went to
her head. Her concern lay not
with the plight of the cu1prit, but
with her own judicial dignity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
How Ear Around WorId7

IF the good old custom prevails,
i children still are taught that it
is $4,000 miles around the world.
According to newspaper reports,
Post and Gatty will de the trick by
covering less than $4,000 miles.
You can't blame children for
being puzzled by such discrepancy
The point is, of course, that Post
and Gatty are not going around
the world at it's middle, but about
half way up to the pole. If they
were clear up at the pole, they could
20 around the world in less than
minute on foot.
Some one will do that very trick
Hefore long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Colonel and Judy OIGrady

r AM not among those who cry out
l. in horror, saying that suffrage
has been a CHASTITY failure and that
elections swing on about the same
issues as they did in the days when
the franchise was restricted to adult
males.
What do these alarm viewers ex-
pect? Of course, the general intel
ligence Of the electorate remains
unchanged. It is, after all, the
strongest argument for all forms of
feminine emancipation.
Indeed, the romantics are the ones
who would conf1ne the activities of
women under the pretense that he
female of the species is more pre-
cious than the male.
The argument always ran that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Questions and
Answers

How many games did Lefty Grove
Of the Philadelphia Athletics win
in the 1880 world series?
He won two and lost one.
What Is the address of Lowell
Thomas?
Clover Brook, Pawling, N. z.
What do the names Anna and
TriIi mean?
Anna is from the Bible, Hebrew,
and means grace. Trili is Swiss
name from the German and means
pure.
On what day did Labor day fall
in 1894?
Monday, Sept. :.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
Custom Is Sunerior

THERE is, and always has been
4 a well-defned understanding
on the part of average people as to
what constitutes obscenity, i'm
morality and indecency.
It is matter of custom rather
than definition, and leaves no neces-
sary for picking out words or desig-
mating garments.
Custom is superior to temporary
fads and fashions.
If the law makers and reformers
only would recognize that simple
fact, we would have far less diff
Guilty in dealing with novel problems
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-30
The | aW Lays

XXTHAT a pity it is that we can't
wv make the same progress in
improving justice that We have in
improving travel.
Two high school kids can buy a
second hand fivver and go from
New York to San Francisco quic' er
than George Washington could go
from Mount Vernon to New York,
When it comes to law, however,
our brightest attorneys can not dis
pose of a case any quicker than
than their grandfathers could, or
with any better assurance that right
has prevailed.