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One Law Enforced

Citizens viii be very happy, of course, to
discover that one law--or is it a city ordi-
nance?-is being enforced by very alert,
jealous police force.
True, the same ordinance is often dis
regarded, but when jobless men hang ban
ner on the side Of borrowed truck you can
depend upon the minions of the law to see
that justice is done promptly and zestfully.
When fearful men gather to deplore the
rise of the spirit Of bolshevism, they may
find some connection between arbitrary
actions of police and the growth Of spirit
of unrest and revolt.
More sentiment for the soviets can be
created by denial of civil liberties than by
all the soap box oratory of year. The hired
leaders of revolt understand that They want
just such episodes as occurred in this city.
It helps their business. 1t makes converts.
Keeping men in Jail overnight on the
charge of having banner on truck is so
stupid that it can not fail to call attention to
the fact that the charge is a subterfuge and
the real crime of the men the fact that they
are iobless and ask for some sort Of relief.
It no longer shocks sensibilities when
men demand work or wages. 1t is no Ion
ger a disgrace to be without work, for it no
longer is true that all men who want work
can find it. Great industrialists understand.
Only stupid policemen seem to think that
force can stop protest.
AS matter of fundamental American
ISM these iobless men have the same right
to meet in this city and petition the Governor
as has any other group. It is true that they
did not bring high-priced lawyers to ask for
privilege or for forged laws 1t is true that
they came without money and that their
appeals sound grotesque and impossible.
But the right of assemblage and petition
is fundamental to all liberty. When denied,
free institutions are attacked. When blud-
geoned by policeman, resentment should be
inspired in every breast.
A little disciplinary action on the part
of the police board or a little education of
officers in fundamental rights seems in order
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goes to build roads. What per cent
Of the railroad taxes go to build
roads?
These figures are on two trucks
only. Besides all this, we lose 1875
per cent depreciation, Z per cent
interest and 2 per cent for repairs
and 2.5 per cent insurance. All this
totaled is $2,152.
You can't stop progress. The trains
took the place of the wagon freights,
so why shouldn't trucks take the
place of trains?
What the public wants is service
Store to door service" Trains can
not do this without handling the
merchandise two or three times.
Take all the trucks of the road
and see what kind of roads you have
when these are gone. NJ. & H.
Editor Times-Why all the hula
buloo about prohibition? 1t is a
well-known fact that any one can
obtain liquor when wanted. Maybe
the quality isn't what it used to be,
but in this prohibition age that will
improve gradually. The home
brewing industry must not be over
looked. Even the driest dry will
admit it is the most thriving trade
today.
Why shouldn't the "wets" be con-
tented? If they would stay silent
for a short time, the Anti Saloon
League and the w. G. T. U. would
have to quit business for lack OF
something to do. Their mission was
filed when the licensed saloon was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-05
The Penalties of Publicity

The American College Publicity Association has
been meeting in Chapel Hill, N. C. In a communi-
cton to the press, it states that 1.-The stupendous
sum of SsOOOOO0OO in capital investments toward
American higher education has been built up largely
through the cooperation of the American press and
other agencies of organized publicity"
We well can believe these figures, but building
institutions of higher learning by publicity carries
with it heavy penalties 1t makes these institutions
almost Historically afraid Of "unfavorable publicity
namely, publicity indicating any unconventionalty
of thought or conduct on the part Of administration
faculty or student body.
Millions may hang m the balance. Over against
such a prize what is mere idea which, if actually
applied greatly might improve our national we'll
being? Of all forces making for academic tmidity
and futity none is greater than the fear of unfavor
able comment in the press and elsewhere. This is
the price paid for stadiums built by publicity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-05
D Il n COM ~, FREDERICK
1N1%1 ANVIL Lands

TT~TIE newly elected Spanish republic displayed its
Il good sense when it changed its mind and decided
not to send us ambassador who had said many
friendly things about u.s. for if he had given any
Of his yawp we would have sent him back to Spain
c. o. D
A lot Of high brows of Europe have no use for US
which is terrible to contemplate, of course.
It makes us very unhappy, in fact, it makes us
feel as have lived in vain but We are consoIed
by the fact that the common people of Europe are
At least they all want to come here
GREAT BRITAIN picked up lot of foreign trade
Aby sending the prince of Wales to South America,
and the only wayne can come back at John Bull is to
send Lindbergh some of motion picture stars
down to replensh our invaded commerce
What crime modern government is-and always
has been for that matter.
Here are the people of France and Italy the COM
mon people, and as individuals they have nothing
earth against each other yet they dragged up to
the national boundary and made to snarl at each
other by a bunch of politicians.
The rank and file of both countries particularly
in Italy are so poor they would look with abhorance
upon the necessary purchase of a bunch Of fire.
crackers, yet they hypnotized by Mussolinis
whoop-la and eagerly embrace the burdens Of large
and unnecessary navy, just as the French peasants
are bufaloed by their politicians
VXTE read that the bones of Myles Standish just
w have been buried for the third time and the
old boy not expect much sympathy from the peo-
pie of this country who in their school days had to
commit miles Of poetry and all because Nyes Standsh
didn't have enough gumpton to propose in person
to Priscilla.
At other time in the history of the human race
was so much hardship ever visited upon so many
innocent victims the result of chicken-livered
sutors sending somebody else to ask for a fair
lady's hand
We used to regret that John Alden hadn't thrown
Standish in the Atlantic ocean.
1t is distressing to read that Rosa Joy, II years
old and the second wife OF Joseph JOY aged 78, Of
Wabash md has sued for divorce, charging Joseph
with having pulled the OF of her one cold
night.
She doesn't say whether he yaqked them or Just
rolled up in them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-05
Legalizing the Sermon on the Mount

In the case Of Madame schwimmer Judge Holmes
denounced his colleagues for excluding from citizen
ship those who took the Sermon the Mount liter
ally.
His admonitions have had little effect. Judges
almost uniformly have debarred from citizenship
those who propose to any intelligence in regard to
fighting Wooden soldiers rather than thoughtful men
and women normally are preferred as citizens.
Hence, we may commend two recent judicial deci-
sons which indicate juristc enlightenment and high
grade conceptions Of citizenship Gunner Brobold, a
Norwegian divinity student admitted a citizen
by Judge James Lowell in Boston, though he stated
that he objected to all wars
The same action was taken on Johann Willnns, a
Russian by Judges Croft and Alice in Lancaster, Pa
These real victories for enlightenment Professor
Macintosh Of Yale barred from citizenship, though
he admitted that he would fight if his conscience told
him the war was a just one. Citizenship ideals and
the repue of courts looking up, for the time
being.
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of 80 and S5, although at present
there is a tendency for younger men
to go into the work.
The condition tends to progress to
some extent the longer the man
remains at the occupation, but does
not tend to go to the point of total
disability, as in the case of nystag-
mus among miners.
Another interesting observation
made on the train dispatcherS was
the fact that many of them have
some degree of hardness of hearing.
This is related to the fact that
the train dispatcherS wear close-fit-
ting hearing apparatus over the left
ear through which there is a con-
tinuous importing of sound waves,
and also due to the fact that the
work is carried on amidst noise and
din, producing extra dependence on
bone conduction Of sound rather
than air conduction.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-With regard to the
new parking law which will be in
effect soon: The automobile owner
pays his license and taxes and
and everything that is expected of
him, and in return the noble city
council refuses him a place to park
downtown within four blocks north,
south, east and west.
What we need is a lively town
with busy streets instead Of a dead
looking town. Things are bad
enough as they are.
Just stay away from the down.
town garages and see what effect
that will have.
TIMES READER.
Editor TimeS-In answer to A. H.
G. Of Sheridan, Ind.
I read your views as to the diff
ference between the taxes Of rail-
roads and trucks. You undoubtedly
do not know just the amount of
taxes that must be paid on trucks.
For instance, two of our trucks are
national household vans and their
original cost was $1,000 each. There
are three taxes to be paid on these
trucks. personal tax, at 8. per cent,
$3.50; license, $40, and gasoline
road tax, 4 cents a gallon. These
trucks average $500 miles each
month and about five miles on a
gallon. This tax totals $500 year,
and bridge tolls S36.
Therefore, the taxes on an in
veStment Of S12,500 are $743.SO, or
Approximately II per cent. which all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-05
Hnnver's Great Sneech

President Hoover was at his best in addressing
the International Chamber Of Commerce convention
Monday. Many will rate it the greatest speech of
his career.
His subject was close to the heart of all the world
the futility of war; and the threat of another
ment race leading to war. With simplicity and
sincerity that appeared to come from deep emotion,
he appealed to the business leaders and statesmen
of the world to call off that dangerous competition
in arms One thousand international delegates APP
plauded their assent
"The whole history OF the world is filed with
chapter after chapter of the failure to secure peace
through either competitive arms OF intimidation" was
the way the President stated the truism which can
not be repeated too often.
And yet, knowing this to be true. and the other
nations go on with the costly and mad competition
lust as though we had forgotten the experience of
Yesterday Why? Not because we lack treaties. Eve
are all signatores to the Kellogg-Briand pact, by
which we have renowned war as an instrument of
national policy and agreed to settle all controversies
by pacific means
Still the nations continue to rely more on guns
and soldiers until today they spending 70 per
cent more for this purpose than before the great
Now 5,50oOo0 men are in barracks and 100000
trained in reserve ready to spring forward with their
guns to repeat the insane murder of 1914-1918
Horrible as this is why should President Hoover
carry this supreme problem Of governments to I'M
official business conference for help? For two reasons
First because commercial rivalries and conflicts
a major cause of competitive ornaments and wars
Second, because the late war is the chief cause of
the present world depression, from which the inter
national chamber is trying to find a way out
This depression doubt is contributed to by
many very important, immediate, economic causes,
to which each of you will give different weight, but
I believe you will all agree with me that the de-
struction of life and property the great tax burdens
and the social and political instability which resulted
from the great war have had large responsibilities
in its origin" the President said.
After the war the world put OF the day OF fnan-
ciaI reckoning by further mortgaging its future with
international loans abroad and mstallment buying
at home. Now beginning to pay for the de-
struction, paying with interest compounded with the
misery OF depression.
The world can not pay for that past folly and
at the time spend the s5.oooOoOOOO now being
wasted every year on new ornaments. Certainly the
near-bankrupted European nations cannot Nor
can we.
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Dispatcher Has Peculiar Eye Trouble

of the eyes, the head and the sheet
may produce undue strain on the
mechanism of the eye, producing
not only the abnormal eye move
ments known as nystagmus, but also
a twitching of the eyelids due to
fatigue and defects of vision.
Doctor McCord examined 121
train dispatcherS in widely sepa-
rated sections of the country and
from seventeen different railroads.
He found some nystagmus in eighty
one, or 81 per cent.
There is a form of nystagmus
which is related TO disturbances of
the internal ear, but that which
appears in train dispatcherS is not
of this character.
It is important to realize that the
visual disturbance is wholly asso-
ciated with the occupation.
The train dispatcher ordinarily
begins this work between the ages
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-05
Didn't Turn the Rug

RUT this did not content the
- police. They took & brief look
under the bed and then into the
kitchen closet. I raised a humble
prayer of thanks for the fact that ]
had no private life.
Within the closet were two cans
of tomato soup and a jar of picked
pigs feet, but no skeleton Whatso-
ever.
After that the police tried the
upper roof as I lay in bed and tried
to catch up on sleep. It couldn't be
done. In all the world there is no
sound heavier and more penetrating
than the squish, squash, plunk of a
policeman's feet.
Failing to find any fugitive in the
water tank, they went away. And
what happened to the culprit with
the clothes I never heard.
But it had left me little shaken
and with some slight forebodings.
1 have not thought much about the
chances of burglary, and the apart
ment door is never locked because
it would be so easy for anybody to
crawl in the windows.
That's the way used to get in in
the days when carried key and
always lost it.
But let me make this public appeal
to any marauder. Take, if you must,
the blue suit and the brown. But
leave, I beg of you. the early
Brouns.
can assure you in all honesty
that these are worth far more to
me than you ever can realize on
them.
Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HR REg2%

II WAS touched" writes Frank
l. Sullivan, when you included
me in that group of people you
think are all right or somewhere
near all right. It bucked me up a
lot because I have been very de-
pressed lately.
cts about the buffalo. A short
time ago Give years, to be exact, I
went to a social gathering and there
found John T. Parker, a friend of
mine, sitting in a corner weeping.
mfr. Broun, it is an awesome
sight to see a strong man weep,
especially when, as in the case of
Mr.. Parker, he has mustaches which
stretch practically from ear to ear.
'"The tears, leaving the eyes,
course down the cheeks into the
muStacheS, flooding same. The brine
absorbed in the mustacheS mingles
with any dust that may have &C
cumulated there and upon drying,
becomes caked.
This pulls the lip upward, inter
feres with speech, exposes the
teeth to the erosive action of sun,
wind and other elements and gen.
eraly throws the face out Of plumb.
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ZZH -
H7d 6AEF b1TEae
ANNIVERSARY
A.. W. - c'-.l - -. ! !
So -.
AISNE OFFENSTVE

AAS4NE OE r ENOAFE
May 5
I'm May 5, 1917, the French
~ gained another brilliant VIC
tory on the front north Of the river
Aisne, and successfully achieved the
objects they had in view. More than
1900 prisoners were taken.
Commenting on this triumph,
General Sir Douglas Haig, English
commander, reported:
1.-The decisive action which It had
been hoped might follow from the
French offensive had not yet proved
capable Of realization; but the mag
nitude of the results actually
achieved strengthened Our belief in
its ultimate possibility.
ION the British front alone, IN
less than one months fighting, we
had captured more than 19 500 pris-
oners, including more than 400 on
GERS, and had also taken 257 guns,
including 90 heavy guns and
immense quantities of other war
material.
Our line had been advanced to a
greatest depth exceeding five miles
on q total front Of over twenty
miles, representing a gain Of some
sixty square miles of territory"
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Lo the Poor Buffalo
"a mr.. PARKER Informed me tina

MR. PARKER Informed me that
I'VE he was crying because the
buffalo was extinct. The truth of
this and its pathos struck me i'm
mediately with such force that I,
too, began to weep, but having no
I came off rather better
than he.
"But the depression remained and
the sense of futility, Mr.. B., arising
from the realization that we can do
nothing now for the poor old buff
falo
Magnificent and gentle beast! We
didn't appreciate him when we had
him. Now it's too late. We have
locked the barn door after the buf-
falo has become extinct.
and I want to say to you, sir,
that if Mr.. Hoover thinks that by
raising the hue and cry about doing
something for the buffalo he can
distract the attention of the coun-
try from prohibition, slavery and
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NJ. E. Tracy
There VIII Be No Lack Of
Boys Like Bryan Untiedt
as Long as America Has
Mothers Like His.

NEW YORK, May 5.-The In
IN ternational Chamber of Com
merce meets at Washington, bring
ing together industrial leaders Of
forty-six countries.
Wise statesmen not only will lis
ten, but be guided by what these
leaders have to say.
Industry has become the unof1-
ciaI government of present-day life.
1t bears the same relation to this
age that militarism bore to Rome,
philosophy to Greece, and religion
to ancient Egypt.
Whether with regard to declining
foreign trade, a lopsided distribution
of gold, unemployment, or a demon
allied silver market, our major
problems are Of an industrial char
acter, and we must look to indus
trial leadership for their solution.
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anybody around here. But I'll look
and see if my wardrobe is all right.
The way I left it, I mean"
Even before / opened the closet
door it seemed to me that he would
be indeed a desperate criminal who
would run the risk of Jail and cap
ture to steal any Of my clothes.
After all, what could he do with
them If he did manage to make a
getaway? And, sure enough, there
neatly creased and Immaculate
lay both the blue and the brown.
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Food Still Leads

a CCORDING to the New York
IA Trust Company, our national
food bill amounts to about $22,000,-
COO annually, with hotels and res
taurants accounting for &c per cent,
hospitals, clubs and other institu-
tons 8 per cent, and housewives for
the remaining II per cent.
Of the average dollar spent for
food, SO cents goes for meat, poul-
try, fish and eggs, 20 cents for dairy
products, II cents for grain and
cereals, Is cents for fruit and vege-
tables, 5 cents for sugar and 5 cents
for sundries.
The raising, manufacturing and
distribution of food still remains
our largest industry, with the auto
Y.1171,7iTac oINco coOO7od
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abolished. Those organizations have
kept intact since that time for an
swering the cries Of few dis
satisfied "wets."
Conditions as they are now should
be O. k. to both "wets" and "drys,"
as they can get what they want to
drink readily.
The Eighteenth amendment will
stay in the Constitution for q long
time, because a very small per cent
of the people care for any strict
enforcement and the professional
"drys" know better than any one
that to enforce prohibition will re-
suit in its quick death.
c. v. WILLIAMS.
Editor Times-I just have finished
reading Mrs. w. A. Collins letter in
your paper. I would like to take
issue with her. I know from eZ-
perience that We are lot better of
without the saloons. Take a rela-
tive Of mine, for instance. He al
ways made good money, but always
was broke on account of the saloons.
There is nothing wrong with the
law. 1t is the enforcement of it.
Some of the officials surely must
have their hand behind their back
and the rest haven't the backbone
to do their duty. Talking Of boot
Logging, I lived across the street
from saloon and you could get all
the booze you wanted on a Sunday
morning, and the saloonkeeper was
arrested thirteen times and never
convicted once. Probably Mrs. Col
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Had Not Even Met

DUT when I confronted the police
IL neither made a gesture toward
me. But both exclaimed in tense
whisper, els he here?"
The fumes Of sleep having not yet
departed from my Enthusiastically
alert brain, I merely stared and
asked them, ''Is who here?"
We've got him trapped in the
building" the officers replied. "He
was seen going down the back stairs
with an armful of clothes. Could
they be yours?"
well, not an arn1ful,' I replied.
The brown suit and the blue one
don't bulk up to that. didn't hear
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
,ditor. Journal of the American Medics

BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
THE railway train dispatcher is
Il responsible for recording on
certain sheet the locations of trains,
the orders for their movements,
and other facts having to do with
the work of the road.
AS is pointed out by DR.. Carey
P. McCord, who recently investi-
gated a peculiar disturbance of the
eyes occurring particularly among
such workers, the dispatcher may
have as many as 200 telephone calls
in an hour regarding which he
must make decisions, and he must
enter on the train sheet, which con-
stantly is being moved back and
forth and up and down, decisions
thus made.
Obviously this continuous motion
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DUT for the auto, his majesty,
ID King Ibn Saud, who rules the
Arabian desert, still might be COM
PEELED to founder along without
the benefit of American recognition.
But for the annual pilgrimage
which faithful Mohammedans make
to Mecca and the obvious chance to
turn an honest penny by transport
ing them across the arid wastes of
Arabia with greater speed and COM
fort, the chances are that his
majesty never would have pur-
chased a sufficient number of au-
tolnobiles to gain our good graces.
It is vivid Illustration of how
ancient faith and the most up-to-
date machinery can combine, not
only to the mutual advantage of all
concerned, but to the general i'm
provement of diplomatic relations.