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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01
Is Constitution OutgrOwn?

Are we through with the Democracy of Jefferson
and the Republicanism of Lincoln?
That question is involved in the between
Senator Norris and Executive Director Lucas of the
Republican national committee The eight is funda-
mental
Maybe We have outgrown Jeffersonian Democracy
and Lincoln Republicanism. don't know. But if
we have then leaders in both parties who believe we
have should out in the open and give convincing
reasons for their new policies
Possibly we have outgrown the Constitution, along
with its plan Of checks and balances and three
branches of government. Possibly the legislative
branch has outgrown its usefulness The machine
of big business may demand absolute dictatorship
a dictatorship by committee.
Anyhow, that's what is involved in the determined
fight of Director Lucas of the Republican national
committee to drive Senator Norrisand of course all
other Republican insugents-from the party. And
that from charmanships of senate committees.
The word is that President Hoover isn't interested.
He will stand aloof and let Lucas have his head.
Leader Watson OF the senate isn't interested He
won't take hand in the fight
Democrats are not interested They will stand off
spectators and let the reaconares lick the progress
sive insurgents Some Of them will Cooperate"
however. And If they don't know that that kind of
cooperation spells death for insurgency, they
dumbbells
The reactfonary Democrats know just what their
Cooperation means to independence and insurgency
in the senate. They have been travelling away from
Jefersonian Democracy in a high-powered car ever
since they abandoned Woodrow Wilson'S progressive
policies passed the Volstead act his veto, sup
ported sumptuary legislation kicked religious liberty
the Stats and threw the Bill of Rights to the wolves
of reaction and puritanism.
And the fundamental Repubicanism of Lincoln
has Jared no better with the leaders of the modern
Republican party who are vigorously and viciously
represented by Executive Director Robert H. Lucas
of the Republican national committee and personal
choice Of President Herbert Hoover for that particular
lob.
Let's get this into heads-throwing the Con-
stitution into the ashcan is tough job and will take
long time If do it by constitutional methods, but
the same end be accomplished by permitting the
national committee of any party to control the execu
tive branch of government and at the time make
a rubber stamp of the legislative branch
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01
Material Things First

TN spite of their mid Victorian
A. traditions, which commonly are
supposed to be rather transcenden-
tai and abstruse, most people see
the greatness of this age in such
things as the skyscraper, automo-
bile, electric light and vacuum
cleaner.
No matter how much we may
have read Emerson, we can't seem
to get away from the influence of
purely physical symbols. which is
why churches have steeples, and
why we feel the need of a pipe
organ to tell God what it's all
about.
But the mind of man remains
the driving force of human prog
ress, and what happens to the mind
eventually will find g. reflection in
everything.
Back of all the churches was con-
version of heather world to Chris
tianity, and back of literature were
not only such giants as Homer and
Shakespeare, but the development
of a widespread taste for good writ
ing-a taste which was not con-
tent to sit idly by and absorb, but
which forever was attempting to do
the thing.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-A recent issue of
The Times exhibits a fragrant ex-
ample Of the abuse of your news
columns, which has become habitual
where prohibition is concerned.
On the "All-Indiana News" page,
you give top-column, three-line
heads to three stories inimical to
prohibition. First, featuring the in
consequential opinion of an timer
ant preacher who condemns prohi-
bition after serving a term in Jail.
Second, the opinion of a Kokomo
lawyer convicted of conspiracy to
violate the prohibition law, support
ing Judge Clark's opinion that the
Eighteenth amendment is invalid.
Third, playing up the alleged
anger of the TT. Wayne w. c. 7. U.
because one Of its members testified
for the defense n a local trial. A
careful reading IF the three stories
fails to reveal any news value what
ever, except as they may be used to
discredit prohibition in the popular
mind.
Contrast If you will, the treatment
accorded the opinion of the con-
victed Kokomo lawyer with the
treatment accorded the opinion of
the National w. G. T. U. on Judge
Clark's decision. The convicted law
violator gets top-column on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01
The Vocational Bogey in Education

Abraham F1exner's book Universities" is a
great, wise and courageous work. It is the most
searching examination of American higher educa-
ton ever written. Nearly every aspect of peda-
gogical sham is probed and exposed. If there is not
some self-examination and voluntary housekeeping
the wake of this book, then American higher edu
cation is in a bad way.
On one point however, one perhaps may raise
the question as to whether DR.. FleXner is not
distressed than the facts warrant. That is in agi
tston in regard to practical" and vocational
courses in the curriculum of the college and university
He lists those striking deviations from the old
classical curriculum which long have been the butt
of the ests in the Americana section of the Amer
lean Mercury-the wel-known courses in practical
poultry raising. parenthood problems, milk analysis,
ice cream design, hog calling wrestling ianor
ice, hotel management stenogrsphy, etiquette and
hospitality and the like.
1t would be quite possible for a sensible observer
to declare such these the most gratifying
and reassuring development in higher education in
the last two generations. Some Of these courses are
q be SIZE preposterous But in general thsg rspEe-
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has been anything but a phase of
farm politics. It's leaders have COM
mitted themselves only to one
economic reform.
They feel this would be happier
world if the farmer got a higher
price for his wheat. The price of
bread never has engaged their at
tention.
There is nothing in any Norris
program to combine the agricultur
ist and the industrial worker. To
George Norris, as to SIlipStead and
La Toilette, economics is a local
issue. None Of these men ever is
internationally minded, although
courageous in the cause of peace.
But these are not the militant
pacif1sts of whom Professor Einstein
has spoken. They will make an
emotional commitment against war,
but they are wholly unwilling to
organize or plan for peace.
The particular political result of
Norris schisn would have been
to assure the defeat of the Repub-
ucan party in 1882. This is a, con-
summation to be wished, although
[ can not say devoutly.
There is ample evidence that gov
eminent in America varies little
whether Republicans or Democrats
hold office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01
Irons Scattered

TINE typical Canyon Diablo irons
l. were scattered over the desert
in a radius of four miles and also
have been found in the debris on
the rim Of the crater, Prof. Fair
child says. He continues:
1.-THE largest one weighed about
1,400 pounds. The total weight of all
the discovered irons can be only sew
eral tons, and they certainly are
only a small percentage of the
giant bolide.
"On the supposition that the
meteor was wholly nickellferous
iron, ballistic calculations have sug-
gested a diameter of about 400 feet
and weight of some 100000 tons.
The velocity factor, against which
the mass must be computed, is UNI
known. The facts, however, do not
favor a meteor composed wholly of
iron.
Early exploration of the crater
assumed that the meteor lay buried
under the ninety feet OF lacustrine
sediment in the floor of the crater
and in the subsequent rock debris.
after a shaft was found imprac-
ticable, because of the copious
ground water, drilling was done dur
ing the years 19O5-1908. Only par
ticles of nickeliron and some green
stain of nickel we're found by the.
drills
But an important discovery was
that the deeper rock strata were in
continuous and undisturbed posi-
ton. This ruled out any idea of a
volcanic vent or chimney"
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Hoover DAM

When man is dead and buried his fame ought
10 be reasonably Some halls of fame pav safe
Dy playing no favorites until they have been dead
long enough for anybody minded to dig into tbel.
past ana expose any dirt they may find
Political government would be wise to be as con-
servatiye Loading down physical things which OFF,
last mortal man with the names of living men how
ever exalted for the moment, is taking chances
WIN the experience of two WiburS in presidential
caonetS and plenty Of evidence that wisdom and tact
oont run IN the family, something ought to be done
10 unit The discretion of cabinet members in the mat
Ter OF naming public works that still will be working
generations after the Wilbur will be forgotten
Farncular objection should be made to the gall of
secretary OF the Interior Wilbur in arbitrarily wping
OUT the name OF Boulder Dam and playing the part of
q nunky In calling it Hoover Dam. During all the
years In which the building of this dam has been
advocated, 1t has been known as Boulder Dam.
That name was characteristic enough for a ma
uohal project To tack on to it the name of any
man. dead or alive, wouldn't improve the name
Calling Boulder Dam Hoover Dam won't add to or
detract from Herbert Hoover's fame That is some
thing he must make himself and by his own qualities
OF leadership We don't know how big or little anv
ma MS while he is alive and subject to the preudiced
criticism of both idolators and detractors
Washington Jefferson and Lincoln have been dead
long enough to have their real greatness established
as historical record It will be years before thu real
part Roosevelt and Wilson played in our history can
be judged fairly, and at least generation after Cool
1dge and Hoover dead before they can stand ont in
their real character stripped of any narrow partisan
Judgment
The name Boulder Dam should stick to that ma
tona1 project
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-01
Dancer in system

THE reason that the world pro-
L duced SO many good writer's
during the nineteenth century is
that many people tried to write,
and that the set-up gave them a
chance to get something out of it
locally if they couldn't make the
grade nationally.
The same Is true regarding sing
ers, scientists, painters, and engi-
neers.
There is little hope of producing
genius without an active interested
mass.
Listening to music isn't music;
looking at pictures, or even paying
a high price for them, isn't art;
occupying a ringside seat isn't box
ing, and getting cut and dried pro-
grams over the air isn't intellect.
People can't appreciate thing,
much less become proficient in it,
without doing it for themselves. If
they could, monarchy would be the
best form of government and a
small educated class the best guar
antee Of social progress.
No job in this world ever will be
done right unless large numbers of
people take enough interest in it to
know whether it is being done
right.
Any system that discourages such
attitude, especially toward the more
important phases of mental and
emotional development, is bound to
be dangerous.
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sent the effort to bring education down to earth and
give practical relation to life and its problems
1t is doubtful If the most ludicrous and side
splitting of these vocational courses actually
as absurd as the backbone of the old respectable
classical education, much of which still is continued
in the English colleges which DR.. F7exner praises
rather fulsomely.
If one had to choose between a modern American
agricultural or domestic science college in the mid
west and oxford or Cambridge land their American
imitators of forty years ago. as place in which
to educate his daughter he should not hesitate
to put them aboard the train for Manhattan or
Pittsburgh, Kan.
What could be more utterly ridiculous as a
preparation for any type of life than classical synax
higher mathematics, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, sterile
metaphysics incomprehensibe literature from an
alien age, history of wars, political campaigns and
court scandals fallacious economic doctrines and
most of the other items Of respectable education in
the Edinburgh oxford and Cambridge today and
in the Amherst, Williams Princeton and Bowdon of
yesterday?
Manifestly, these vocational courses do not repre-
sent the ideal college curriculum This would be
something like the present Columbia university course
on contemporary civilization" expanded into a.
complete two Or fow-year college education. But
as between the parrot-like chant Of "amo amas,
amat" and good substantial course in hog calling.
everything is in favor of seductive believing at the
swine.
OF course, it would not be necessary to give the
A. B. degree for proficiency in ice cream design but
II one knew little more about the history of the
A. B. degree he might not be impatient to string
1t along behind his name. Appropriate and worthy
degrees easily could be found for the new curriculum
Some day we may let vocationalism run away
with us but certainly for the next half century the
chief obstacle to rational education will remain the
Inertia Of resistance of the traditional but utterly
useless courses which still constitute rs per cent of
Inc curriculum Of every reputable American college.
The blight Of Donatus Quintilian, Cassiodorus.
Aneiard Perarch and their successors still is far more
FuouS than the effects of teachers college or the
social science research council
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Just Drab Monotony

TWO thousand miles through this
J. country, and not a show adj
vertised that we couldn't see back
home.
Drab monotony, standardized Ell
tertainment, bought and paid for
culture, with a pitifully small num-
Der doing all the talking and sing
ing, while the great mass settles
down to the novel luxury of just
looking or listening.
No hand organs, no hurdy-g urdies,
no street musicians; no such gath
ering around the piano at home as
there used to be; no such incen-
tive to provide entertainment for
ourselves or develop local talent.
Something terrific is happening
to those customs and practices
which we once regarded as essen
tial to healthy appreciation of
art, culture and sport-something
that hardly can fail to have a pro-
found bearing on the future.
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$3.50 ~ Lands

NTE don't know what anybody else put in Mr..
w Hoovers stocking Christmas eve, but it is
very apparent that Mr. Lucas of the internal revenue
service gave him very explosive political bomb the
same being his attack Senator Norris Of Nebraska
We do not recall anything half so stupid since the
administration OF the late Mr. Taft for this is time
when the administration should pass out salye and
soothing syrup when it should lock up all the porch
pines and endeavor to make all things work together
for 1882
THERE'S senatorial spirit that makes the bretb-
rem stand together when assaied from without
and when Lucas entered the arena against the Ne
nraska insurgent he Knocked fifteen or twenty
beehives and now he probably wishes he had taken a
ew lessons in politics ere he did So
For Borah Cutting and others have rushed TO the
side OF Norris and now the Lucas group hastens to
assure the lnsrgent mates of Norris that the admin
esteem for them
No matter what you may think of other people, YOU
must not take the lid of your opinions you are in
pubic office; you may rumble and molder and be i'll
at ease but you must not become candid for nobody
in politics is candid-that u.s. nobody holding public
Office.
IT'S the grand pastime where public servants pretty
Il much hate and plot against each other; they call
each other pet names and slap each other on the
PACK, but all the time they are yearning to slip a
lizard in each others soup.
It seems to be the particular political limitation of
Mr.. Hoover that he can not play the game; he can
not stand opposition; he not have an old ac-
quaintance shoot him full of holes, then fall on the
shooters neck and weep for. joy
If Mr.. Hoover does not can Mr. Lucas, then he
stands as ndorsng the Lucas blunder and that means
to mper the Republican leadership in the next SEN
ate, for it's close margin with all shades and
stripes Of the brethren within the fold when the
showdown comes
Politics is a great game-n you have the hide of
rhinOceros
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TT CEENTC TN MT NV HAYWOOD
~ O4lA1VAO i ~ 1V11 ID BROUN

CHRISTMAS seems to have been
~ big day for the Communists.
The Young Pioneers got together
and kicked Santa Claus in the shins,
which means that the capitalist sys-
tenn is going to fall almost any
minute.
But S. Claus was not the only one
to come down in the crash of mistle-
toe and holly. Although I was not
present, I observed by the accounts
that signal honor was paid to still
another mythical character called
Haywood Broun.
In fact, the story in the New York
Times says that the interpreter of
this role was plainly labeled in
front and back"
If the interpreter was in any wise
adequate, the back should have
been sufficiently broad for purposes
Of easy identification. This Broun
person appeared as part of the
heavenly host. This, I fear, is a
misrepresentation.
In fight between two characters
labeled kid Science and knock
out Religion Mr.. Broun acted as
referee. The news account says
with the aid of g bottle" I am
puzzled as to the nature of this
reference.
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SAYS:

Something Terrific Is Hap
pening to Those Customs
Which We Once SGao as
Necessary to Art, Culture
and Sport.
THIS has become an age of
Il sound and shadow.
Ten thousand theaters function
with no actor present, while there
is music everywhere, with no per-
former in sight.
Snatches Of conversation and
snatches of song aSsail you as you
ride along the road, even in sparse
ly settled neighborhoods.
Each afternoon or evening, the
people of innumerable towns and
cities assemble to laugh, weep, or
just chew gum over the latest
pantonime from Hollywood.
It is all a by-product of stark
materialiSm, yet vastly more lack
ing in substance than any of the
so-called spiritual ages preceding it.
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ASSaiIed Twice

A PPARENTLY the referee Jared
N worst of ALL since both Science
and Religion swung on him during
the course of the encounter. This is
probably the inevitable fate of any
one who tries to stand against both
mystical and intellectual dogma.
At the end Haywood Broun and
Knockout Religion went down to-
gether. 1 hope that Bishop Manning
will be duly informed of the martyr
dom which 1 have suffered in de-
Tense of the faithful.
1 am naturally f1attered, but dis
tinctly puzzled. How did I manage
to crash in among the hates with
Santa Claus and Science, not to
mention Religion? And was this a
purely local function, or did Moscow
lay down the nature of the show
and cable over left wing wiSecracks?
If the young Communists don't
leave me alone, warn them that
presently I shall have decisions of
grandeur. 1 might even develop g.
persecution complex and report to
Ham Fish that Stain is not doing
right by our Haywood.
Can it be that along the corridors
of the Kremlin a great shout echoes,
Get Broun and Rockefeller, Santa
Claus and Morgan!"?
I have neither dimes nor reindeer.
Is it not possible for me to ask for
a truce under the contention that,
even if I am completely overthrown,
it really will not matter much to
any one? With the exception of me,
of course.
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leader of sufficient prominence and
spirit were found. I do not know
of such leader.
But even if Senator Norris is to
live on and on, he hardly could
serve at some remotely future date
as the inspired commander of a
radical party. He is an insurgent
and not a revolutionary. There is
all the difference in the world.
Though holder than Borah, he is
member of the same clan. Each Is
distinctly a parochial prophet.
Neither has had any vision of de-
preston and unemployment as
problems extending across the sea
and to the furtherest shores. They
are still talking in terms OF trust"
chain stores" and mergers"
They have no desire to go for
ward, but merely long for a more
ancient day of smaller units and
f1ercer competition. They are not
convinced that unscrambling Of eggs
is futile.
copyright. 1880. by The Ttmes)
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

ployed in industry and the nature
Of the occupations in which they
are employed; accidents to women
we're actually and relatively fewer
than those to men.
A much larger proportion Of
women injured than of men were
under q years Of age. More than
one-half of injuries to women oc-
Cured in manufacturing.
There also were considerable
numbers among workers in hotels
and restaurants, and among women
who served as scrubwonen or jani-
treSses in buildings.
In factories in which women were
most frequently injured, the sub
stances manufactured we're food,
clothing, textiles, metals and We
hicles. Among women, machinery
was the principal cause of accidents
and falls was second. The handling
Of objects came as third cause.
Among men, the handling of OBJ
jects, and to a less extent, falls
caused more accidents than did
machinery. In the state of. New
York, sewing machines, power press
es, and food products machinery
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were most frequently responsible for
accidents to women workers.
In a survey of the situation,
the United States department of
labor points out that machinery
is more frequently responsible for
accidents to women, particularly to
those under 81 years of age, and
that boys are injured almost as
frequently by machines as are girls.
Dangerous machines for employees
under q years of age include power
punches, drill presses, stamping ma
chimes and woodworking machines.
In many states certain occupa-
tons are prohibited to young peo-
pie. Apparently under present
regulations, insufficient protection
is given to young workers.
Boys and girls are certainly not
as careful as adults and are much
more likely to take chances. One
of the first steps in lowering the
number of accidents in industry
would seem to be the establish
ment of better regulations con-
trolling the ages of the workers
permitted to operate dangerous
machines,
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~ $50
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ANNIVERSARY
PAUL REVERE'S BIRTH
Jan. l.

NN Jan. l, 1735, Paul Revere,
~ famed American patriot, was
born in Boston, Mass.
He learned from his father the
trade Of goldsmith and soon be-
came skillful as an engraver on sill
verware. He engraved the plates
and printed the paper money
ordered in ITS by the provincial
congress and in the same year estab-
lished a powder mill in Boston.
Revere took an active interest in
the disputes with the English. He
participated in the tea party and
carried the news Of it to New York
and Philadelphia.
On April 1919, TITS, at the re-
quest Of Joseph Warren, Revere
made his memorable midnight ride
to Lexington to warn Hancock and
Samuel Adams Of the approach of
English troops.
Then, passing on toward Con-
cord to warn the people there, he
was captured by party of British
soldiers, and was brought back to
Lexington, where he was released
the next day.
This ride was the theme OF Long
fellows celebrated poem, The Mid
night Ride Of Paul Revere"