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La gaceta., 1931-03-03

los empaQuetadores de frutas
para usar libremente bora en-
Ell lavado de la fruta, tendien-
do asi a evitar Sc pudra con
rapidez.
Fue la decision en- ell case de
Brogde v Co. contra la Ameri-
can Fruit Growers, Inc, recla-
mando la primera 100000
de danos por habersele infrin-
gido su patente para el uso de
bora.
BESIDE ell ano 1926 Sc encon-
traba pendiente l2 causa, Que
afectaba a toda 4 industria-c CT
trica de la nacih.
La gaceta., 1931-03-03

Jun CIEGo TRATABA De
ROBAR?
Jacksonville, AFRO SIN
hombre ciego y isiaao, Leo Lee
wis, de 80 amos, fue hefido NOR
talmente en- Ia madrugada de
hoy por F. W. Bendy, de Ga q
mes, quien acusa d su vfctifna de
Itratar de robarle Las gallinas.
Randy Sc apoder6 de una es-
'copeta, al sentir ruido en- 50 ga
llinero, Y sali6 a investigar. Al
Iver a Lewis con varias gallinas
en- sus manos, Ell viejo dispar6'
no sabiendO que era ciego 2 in
Waldo.
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La gaceta., 1931-03-03

&3ld2dngA
ible, sometida a la ped
rvidumbres, Ia del saBS
asignada en- ningdn C6digo,
IpTohibida por todas las leyes<
estigmatizada por la historic 7
por todos los principles univer-
sales de la moral Y el derecho.
De la vida patriarcal de los
siboneyes pas6 Cuba al regimen
colonial, al imperio del sable,
odiado Y maldecido por los GU
banos mas de cuatrocientos
amos. Era l6gico esperar que
aquel grupo de soldados acct
dentales, verdaderos heroes de
una gigantesca epopeya, no
igualada por pueblo aIguno de
la terra, siguiera ell ejempIo de
Lucio Quincio Cincinato, quien
como todos sabemos, despues dc
salvar a Roma de los ejercitos
enemigos Y rechazar la dictadu-
"a, volvi6 con no igualada SEN
cillez a sus faenas campesinas.
Como 81 ha procedido la mayo
ria de nuestros Libertadores,
convirtiendose por segunda vez
en- padres de la patria, resuel-
tos a defender en- la paz las Ii
bertades publicas Y a no ser nj
considerarse de nuevo soldados
sino en- ell case de que peligrara
la Independence conquistada
con Ell rifle y ell machete.
FL estudiante termin6 sus es-
tudios; ell abogado volvi6 a su
bufete; Ell medico reanud6 sus
visitas y manej6 ell Disturb; el
Pharmaceutical, la espatula; ell ar
quitecto guerra que todos sus a.
migos fabricaran edificios, y,
La gaceta., 1931-03-03

Condnuando en- la aftmacio6n de que la Salud P1lblca
es 10 primero-snuendo los mas fmos en- todos Certfi-
cados y Pasteurzados Productos de la Leche.-Una
antigua frma y famiia de Tampa ista para abastecer
todas las firmas y famiias.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
j, S, Holds the Bag

TOR country that claims to be
l. intellectually in favor Of
peace, fair play, good will and a
better understanding among all peo-
pie, we are doing some queer things,
with our eighteenth amendment, our
Grundy bill, our Japanese exclusion
act, and our indifference to the
world court.
Yes, and don't forget those debt
settlements, by which we are stand
ing in the way of general rehabilita-
ton and thwarting the natural pro-
cesSes Of reconstruction, and in
which we once more treat some
countries differently than we treat
others.
England pays in full, because she
is too proud to ask favors. France
pays less, because she is smart
enough to measure our bluff. Italy
pays less still, because we seem to
have peculiar weakness for Jump
ing whenever Mussolini bares his
teeth.
Back Of it all looms a vast, COM
plicated and, perhaps, hopeless net
work Of paper obligations which is
tying up international trade through
the coagulation Of gold in centers
where it can do the least good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Less Criminal

The administration is trying to prettfy prohi-
bition Killings by dry agents, hootch poisoning by
the government, and overlapping by law officers
made the public question the nobility of the expert
ment Now the government is curbing some of its
criminal methods.
Dry agents are shooting innocent motorists less
frequently. People still dying from liquor
poisoned before JAM l. but since that date the gov
eminent is spikng alcohol in way TO sicken with
out killing the drinker.
The attorney-genera told a congressional COM
mittee Thursday that he had issued an order against
overlapping by federal agents. Unfortunately, he
had to confess that the order is only temporary and
that exceptions to the order are allowed in cases
approved by bureau chiefs.
These halfway reforms are all to the good When
the reforms completed they may revive public
respect for the governments sadly weakened by its own
legal lawessness.
But they can not convert the country to prohi-
biton. Too much liquor has passed over the dam
since the eighteenth amendment was forced on the
country for the people to believe that the unenforce-
able law can be enforced-or that it should be
enforced.
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velopment of the industry in the
United States.
These are only two cases in point,
but they serve to emphasize a very
real economic law. AS permanent
thing, foreign trade to any great
extent with so-called backward peo-
pies is a chimera.
Teach people to wear shoes and
they soon learn to make them.
Having cheaper land than you have,
they can also buy cheaper hides.
Being what they are industrially,
they also generally can find cheaper
labor.
OF course, for unalterable reasons
Of climate and geography, there al
ways will be certain tasks that can
be performed more efficiently in one
country than in another, and hence
an economically logical amount of
profitable foreign trade for any
country. But in times of peace this
factor is, likewise for any country,
distinctly limited.
1t is fact that it is pure fallacy
for the leaders of a country like the
United States to count on a con-
s5antly increasing foreign trade as
a cure-all for the current economic
i'll, i. e., the excess of potential per
capita productivity over per capita
home consumption possibilities I'M
der the present system of wealth
distribution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
We're in the Wrong

XXTE'VE got the gold-more than
w we know what to do with
and double the credit for which we
can find good security, yet the big
idea seems to be that we must go
on boarding and accommodating,
throwing up protective barbados
and making it ever harder for those
whom we ought to be helping for
the sake Of our own selfish inter-
ests. if nothing else.
The depression, from which we
barely have begun to emerge, is a
warning. Though worldwide in
scope, it was largely of American
origin.
We alone had the power to clear
the channels of trade, but failed
to exercise it. We alone had the
credit with which to finance an
obviously demoralized commerce, but
failed to use it.
We alone practically could have
wiped the slate clean of those repa-
ration and debt entanglements, but
wouldn't. We alone could have
stopped the tariff, restriction, and
embargo craze by setting the right
kind of example, but, instead, we
encouraged it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Practical Religious Unity


There has been much talk about religious unity
in years yet little Of practical significance has
been achieved A chief reason is that the movement
has been backward looking. 1t has tried to find
basis of unity in harmonizing theological creeds
which evolved in the dim past-in wholly different
Intellectual age Of
Relatively minor theological differences still are
adequate to keep jew Catholic and Protestant apart,
often in savage controversy and conflict which ex-
tends to the political realm.
If these groups would project their interests into
the solution Of those problems of social justice today
on which there can be no differences of opinion
among reasonable men, union would not be long in
coming.
The problems Of the nature Of God and the means
centuries but the issues of common humanity most
certainly would hasten harmony good will and
mon front.
A splendid example is afforded by the current
nouncement in the press that religious committee
is being formed to agitate for the release Of Mooney
man, and the committee numbers among its members
such eminent representatives Of different faiths
Charles K Gilbert, Harry Emerson Fosdick, w. Rus
sell Bowie, Sherwood Eddy, John Haynes Holmes
Stephen S. Wise and John A. Ryan.
Few selections Of in the country would be
but they unite with enthusiasm a plan to end
this notorious judicial lynching in California Let
this be a precedent for further developments
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ing the pacihst legend Fourth of July orators dwell
at length upon our always having been on the de-
fensive, repellng ardent but unwse invaders. Pom
pous pubciss even have gone far to declare that
We never have fought an aggressive war.
Historians know well enough that such talk Is
nonsense, much for for other states. But the
on the street may regard the historian as a
Bolshevik, dreamer, or impractical Hence it is
gratifying to find brave dog Of war like General
John & Organ showing the courage to come out
candidly and tell the truth about our war record
He shows that all our foreign wars except the
World war have been wars of aggression We started
the Revolutionary and refused George IT'S offer
Of Cancellation. We made war on Tripon because we
would not recognize her right to tax foreign shipping
We assailed the mother country to grab Canada
in 1872 We attacked Mexico though, it must be adj
mitteda great provocation and wrested vast ter
ritory from her. We attacked Spain in the Spanish
American war after Spain had conceded all of
McKnleys demands Hence the rest of the world looks
askance at our pacifst pretensions:
Europeans, pointing to military history, accord
the worlds record for effective military conquest
within short period of time. They regard us as
people Who starting from scratch with population
of but 100000 inhabiting strip along the Atlantic
seaboard, expanded themselves with the aid of ag-
gressive warfare into more than a hundred million
people, occupying vast and far-flung territories"
General Organ might have added the World war
to list, for all fair minded students have to adj
NIT that either we should not have fought at ALL or
else should have defended our rights against both
Britain and Germany.
In the light of this record, Europeans hardly can
be expected to take too seriously our claim that we do
not need the league or world court to be good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
We're the Monkeys

T AM not arguing that the daily
l. trek should be stopped, but it
does seem as though we might do
something one way or the other to
make it more consistent with our
general immigration policy.
If we have quota law, why not
let it apply to everybody. And if
such law is intended to protect
our own labor, why leave the pay
roll to aliens who can work among
us, while they eat and sleep under
their own flag?
The idea of restriction undoubted-
ly is sound, but why one kind for the
Japanese, another kind for the Irish,
and still another kind for the
Canadians and Mexicans?
AS between the two, isn't that
foreign labor which comes in for
eight or ten hours each day more
perniciouS than that which once
was imported for two or three
years?
AS things now stand, it looks as
though we were making fish out of
some, foul out of others, and
monkeys out of ourselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
The Price of Bread

Chain bakeries in Washington and elsewhere
are lowering the price Of broad as the result
of an investigation by senate committee under Sen
stor Capper.
This is as it should be, with many people hungry
and the price OF wheat about half what it was when
the bread prices were established.
And with many men out Of work congress
reluctantly giving help and then only to persons out
side cities while elevators bursting with grain
a quotation from Thomas Hood comes in mind. It's
more than century old-and Hood strangely enough
was rated humorist as well as poet
ooh, God That bread should be so dear.
And flesh and blood so cheap"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
90 '21 ,23 '24-'31

In 1920. Herbert Hoover vce-chairman of
President Wilson's industrial conference which recon-
mended enactment of appropriate legislation by
gress making provision for employment clearing
house under federal control
In 1921 Herbert Hoover was chairman of Presi-
dent Hardngs conference unemployment which
recommended IAN adequate permanent system of en-
ployment officers"
In 1923 Herbert Hoover as secretary Of commerce,
appointed committee on business cycles and unem-
ploynent which recommended "a national system Of
employment bureaus"
In 1924 Herbert Hoover appointed a committee on
seasonal operations in the construction industries,
which in it's report, called attention to the recon-
mendatons of the 1921 conference regarding per-
manent system of unemployment exchanges
In 1929 Herbert Hoover became President of the
United states Since then there has been pending in
congress the Wagner employment agency bill to en-
act into law Herbert Hoovers recommendations of the
last ten years. During that time the presidential
hand has not been lifted in its behalf.
Instead, Hoovers new secretary of labor, Doak
advocate of the Wagner bill until he took Office, has
drawn substitute measure! And the administration
controlled house is preparing to pass it.
The substitute bill is a futile and meaningless col
lection of words 1t provides for nothing that could
not be done under existing law.
Playing politics with human misery is just as
reprehensibe now as it month ago, when Pres
ident Hoover misdrected the phrase at the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Cannne on the Snnt

Detroits latest contribution to the conquest of
crime is the prohibition of the sale of gangster BIZ
ographies. Lives of AL Capone have been put on
the spot by the police commissioner.
That will not bother Al, of course. Busy as he
is at the moment getting free publicity directing
soup kitchens in Chicago from his Florida arsenal
mansion, Scarface probably won't even hear of the
Detroit crusade.
Anyway, he is used to being put on the spot
In one way and another that the news probably only
would bore him.
The Detroit method of fighting gangsters i'm
presses us as a clear case of cribbing from some
volume of anthropology. 1t was the custom of GER
tain savage tribes to conquer an enemy by making
an image of him and then destroying the image
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
NJ. E. Tracy

For q Country That Claims to
FGUor Fair Play and Good
WI, We Are Doing Some
Queer Things.
III PASO, Tex, Feb. 20.-Mexi-
Il cans charge that they are
being forced to leave FL Paso, either
by United States immigration OFF,
GERS or by persons posing as such.
One Mexican declares that he was
stopped on the street by two men
who told him they were inspectors;
that he was asked for his immigra-
ton papers, which were torn up
when he handed them over; that
he was told he would be put in Jail
for thirty days if he didn't leave
the country, and that, when he pro-
tested, the two men forced him into
their automobile, carried him to
within few feet of the Santa Fe
street bridge, dumped him out, and
told him to beat it across the river
and stay there.
Both the Mexican consulate and
the American immigration authori-
ties have started an investigation.
Local opinion is inclined to be-
lieve that there may be some truth
in the complaints, because of the
feeling to which a tense labor Sit
uation has given rise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Foreign Trade Often Proves Chimera

gentinian shoe factories are rolling
their own"-and of course with rela-
lively cheap Argentine hides as
their raw material.
In the first decade of this century
the cotton spinning business of
Manchester, England, waxed very
profitable indeed, turning Egyptian
and Indian raw cotton into print
goods for consumption, to a large
extent, in those very countries.
Now India, at least, has her own
looms, and because of Indian cheap
labor, as well as because of the elm
ination Of carrying charges, Man
chester can not compete. Man
chester looms, and Manchester spin
nerS, are idle.
It is true Manchester capital and
Manchester management largely
have financed and organized the In
dian spinning industry, and that
considerable profits come home to a
few individuals who maintain at
least legal residence in that smoky
city, but this benefits Manchester
laborers and tradesnnen to a very
slight degree. The city, as such, is
in decidedly bad way.
u n
TT is interesting to reflect that the
IL English cotton-spinning indus
try experienced similar period of
prosperity, followed by depression,
preceding and succeeding the de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Policy Is silly

ZACH morning some 1900 Mex
~ leans come across the two
bridges from Juarez to FL Paso, do
a days work, for which they get an
American days pay, and then go
back in the evening to take advan-
tage Of the cheaper living conditions
which prevail on their side of the
river.
Nor is such condition confined
to FL Paso. You find it at Laredo,
Brownsville, Detroit and Buffalo, as
well as every other American city on
the Mexican or Canadian border.
Whatever else may be said of it, it
makes our immigration policy APP
pear rather ridiculous.
Though barring those out who
would like to make permanent
homes among us, become citizens Of
the country, and accept their share
Of responsibility for its protection
and support, we let any one get on
the pay roll who lives near enough
to go back and forth each day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20

WELL said the driver, "of course,
We'll have to go over the mountains
now. T should say it was about
twenty -one miles
We were just barely holding our
own. For moment I wondered
whether it would not be quicker to
turn toward New York and make for
Tony's. Then my iron will asserted
itself. Drive over the mountain, y
I said in a chill, steel voice.
1t was, as I have remarked, a
moonless night, or there would have
been less chill, less steel and no
detour.
During the subsequent thirty
three miles was aware of the fact
that we seemed to be turning con-
siderably, but I was happily ig-
norant of what lay below and the
manner in which the daring young
ster overlooked the frequent sign
Soft Shoulders" o
Below-oh, far below-the valley
turned and twisted. Around bend
we slid, and then we saw the lights
of Nogales, twin town of the south
west. A little lane called Interna-
tional street draws hairline be-
tween two divergent civilizations.
Law and language are split by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
No More Privacy

TNOWER telescopes similar to the
l. ones designed by DR.. Hale for
the Mt. Wilson observatory, since
have been built in other parts of
the world. There is one at Meudon,
France, for example, and another
at Kodoikanal in India.
The result is that the sun-to use
Irwin Cobb's famous eXpression-has
no more privacy than gold fish.
Old Sol now is under observation
right around the clock. Somewhere,
during every hour of the twenty
four, he is under the watch Of one
of these great towers.
The spectroheliograph, as de-
signed originally by DR.. Hale, made
if possible to photograph the sun.
II did not, however, enable the
astronomer to make direct visible
observations.
More recently, DR.. Hale has de-
signed an improvement on the
acknowledgement. He calls the new
instrument the observation-disclosures.
This makes it possible for the
astronomer to make visual obser-
vations.
With this new device, for ex-
ample, it is possible to watch the
minute by minute changes in a
sun spot or a solar prominence.
The Mt. Wilson observatory has
plans to place g. number of these
new devices in various parts Of the
world, so that they may be used in
keeping the sun under continuous
observation.
It is hoped that new and I'M
portant knowledge will result from
this intensive study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
SCIENCE
Temperature Of Suns Surface
Is Calculated as 1860 De-
grees Fahrenheit.
BY DAVID DIETz.
THE temperature Of the sun.s

THE temperature OF the suns
Il surface, fixed in the past as
approximately 10000 degrees, Fahr-
snheit, has been calculated exactly
by Miss Charlotte E. Moore, one
Of the Mt. Wilson astronomers. She
finds it to be 1850 degrees.
Her observations also fix the
temperature Of the sun-spots. These
spots are darker than the general
surface Of the sun, because they
are cooler. She finds the exact
temperature Of spot to be 1888
degrees.
a spectrum Is q rainbow. Every
one knows that If q glass prism is
held in the sunlight. it splits the
sunbeam into a little rainbow of
colors.
Scientists attach a series Of prisnls
called the spectroscope, to a tele-
scope. They call the resulting rain
bow a spectrum.
The suns spectrum is found to
be crossed with thousands OF black
lines, the so-called Fraunhofer
lines. Laboratory experiments show
that these lines are caused by va
rious chemical elements, and that
they change with changes in tenn
perature. pressure, electrical condi-
ton and SO on.
1t is this fact which enabled Miss
Moore to use the suns spectrum as
a means of calculating Old Soils
exact temperature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Tower TeIeScopes

THE vast amount of exact knowl-
Il edge which modern astronom-
ers have been able to accumulate
about the sun represents one of the
triumphS of twentieth century
science.
Much of the information has
come from Mt. Wilson, where a bril-
liant group of astronomers, includ-
ing DR.. Charles z. st. John and DR..
Seth B. Nicholson, devote a major
portion Of their time to the study
Of the sun.
Perhaps chief credit for the ad-
Vances in knowledge of the sun
should go to DR.. George Ellery Hale.
for many years director and now
honorary director of the Mt. Will
son observatory.
A quarter century ago the Car
negie Institution of Washington de-
cided to build its great observatory
on the top of Mt. Wilson and called
upon DR.. Hale to direct the work.
There he designed and built the
two great tower telescopes for the
study of the sun, one seventy-five
feet high and the other $50 He also
designed an attachment for them
which he named the spectrohelio-
graph.
The spectroheliograph furnished
photographs of the suns surface
showing the actual structure of sun
spots and many other interesting
features.
1t is impossible to see these things
when photographing the sun
through an ordinary telescope, be-
cause the bright glare of the suns
light browns out" al details.
The spectroheliograph, by utilizing
a single wavelength of light, elirni-
mates this glare.
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ANNlVER$ARY|
H4tsssI4J
j. JEFFERSON'S BIRTH
February 20.

nN Feb. 20, 1929, Joseph Jeffer-
W son, one of the most famous of
all American actors. was born at
Philadelphia. He was the third
actor of this name in a family Of
actors and managers.
He made his first stage appear
ance at the age of and through
out his early youth he underwent
all the hardships connected with
theatrical touring in those days.
He was 10 when he made his first
pronounced success as Asa Tren-
chared In Our American Cousin. :"
This play proved to be the turn
ing point Of his career.
A year later Jefferson made a
dramatic version of Rip Van Wrinkle
and acted it with success at Wash
jngton. In 1865 the play was given
its permanent form by Dion Bou-
cicault in London, where it ran
10 nights, with Jefferson in the
leading part.
jefferson was one of the first to
establish the travelling combina-
tons which superseded the old sys-
tenn of local stock companies. He
died in 1905.