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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
Tax Collections

Success or failure of any special system of taxation
depends great deal upon the manner in which those
taxes are collected
With axity or favoritism they may open the door
to not only loss to the state but the creation of
cia privileges under which there can be unfair COM
petition between those in similar lines of business.
The new store tax, for instance, if improperly
administered, open the door to many evils
The state had some experience in the collection of
a gasoline tax. There were scandals. There was loss
to the state.
Conditions are changed under the administration
of Auditor Floyd Williamson who makes this state
ment concerning the present collections:
From Dec. to May 49, our field auditors have
examined Seventy-three companies and in approx
mately twenty-five of these we found their books
correct and all taxes had been paid, the remaining
fftythree melted the state in taxes and penalties
$108219, or an average of approximately $4,000 per
company
Our force has worked faithfully and whole
heartedly to enforce this gasoline tax law the
above record reveals. Most of the above amount
has been collected and satisfactory arrangement
has been made with the different firms in which
shortages have been found to make substantial
payments in addition to their regular tax each
month.
In addition to the above much attention has
been given by this department in educating the
farmers of the state to file proper and legal claims
Tor the refund OF gasoline tax and have forced in
many instances the return of money that has been
refunded by the state fraudulent claims. APP
proximately $4,000 has been collected through this
means
The department has formed friendly co-opera-
tive working agreement with each of our border
states working together harmonously in the hope
of making the boot-legging of gasoline in Indiana
lost art
While the amount of money collected is important,
of import is the fact unfair advantages between
dealers esopped by vgilant collection of the tax
1t would be unfortunate if the new tax scheme
reverted to the conditions of the gasoline tax depart
ment before the advent of Williamson
Special taxes are always a special invitation to
urfairness. To be tolerabe at all any tax plan must
be rgidly enforced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

arteries that have lost their elias
ITCHY or with tissues that do not
have the resiIency of youth to
submit himself to such agitation
as is brought about by the shak-
ing device.
Exercise after middle age must
be moderate. Golf and walking
are the ideal exercises for persons
of advanced years.
Modern tennis, d-ball, and
even speedy or long distance SWIM
ming may be considered as for
hidden to the man beyond 40 years
of age.
When the tissues are young,
elastic, and possess reparative and
recuperative properties, they may
be submitted to such violence as
is associated with football, base
ball, modern tennis and similar
sports.
Those of advanced years must
conf1ne their exercise to the more
gentle forms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
A Ringing Answer

D EADY as we may be to let oul
An battle fleet go with decks un-
polished, we are not ready to adj
NIT aliens, unless they promise etc
bear arms" The supreme court
has decided that by another 5 to
opinion.
The four dissenterS were Hughes
Brandeis, Holmes and Stone.
Chief Justice Hughes, who wrote
the dissenting opinion, said:
Among the specific requirements
as to beliefs, we find none to the
effect that one shall not be
naturalized if by reason of his
religious convictions he is opposed
to war and is unwilling to bear
arms.
In view of the questions which
repeatedly have been brought to
the attention of the congress in
relation to such beliefs, and hav-
ing regard to the action of the
congress when it's decision was of
immediate Importance in the
raising of armies, the omission
of such express statement from
the naturalization statute is high
ly significant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
REASON BY FH IASBIs

ONCE in a while Nicholas Murray Butler, president
~ of Columbia university, says something that is
right and he did it the other day when he said we
need adult education in the United States.
Butler hits the nail on the head when he states
that very few Of us develop mentally after leave
school and scarcely any of us after we reach the age
Of 40 years.
The fact is that lot of us regard the school pc
Rod punishment rather than opportunity and after
graduation those who dc not go to college indulge in
one long, delicious spree of mental rust.
ND all the tendency of the age is against study
IA We are stepping on the gas these days and the
libraries that used to enjoy intimate contact with
the members of the family receive only passing nod
and hardly that
when some one chances to open them to see he has
left his gas receipt in them
We listen to the radio; dash away twenty miles
for supper read headlines-if the are big
enough
Lincoln was one of the very few who studied all
his life and he did it because he had no schooling
He didn't go to school one whole term put to-
gether
II he had done so he might have Joined the indif-
ferent majority.
7 INCOLNs great impulse to prepare himself for
IL the battle came late in life 1t by accident
in way. 1t came when he suffered great humilia-
ton in a law suit at Cincinnati. He was bruSquely
brushed aside and not permitted 70 make an argu-
ment
He sat in court day after day and listened to the
arguments of Edwin NJ Stanton, later to be his Sec
rotary of war, and many other eminent eastern law
yers.
Then when the triS was over he went back to Hi
nois and buckled down to the hardest work he ever
had known.
He told his associates: These young eastern law
yers, just Of college. coming the west with
their learnings, and old ways will not do.
II am going to study, and when they come 20
Springfield viii be ready for then"
Aand he wasl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HF EE63fS

MY familiarity with gangsters is
Iva not great, and I never had the
privilege of knowing Mr.. Legs
Diamond. But on a few occasions
I have run into several Of his in
Inmates.
Few accents of the life of the
wounded racketeer have taken up
the esthetic interests of Mr.. Dia-
mond. I am in the position to say
that he was excessively fond of
music.
When he ran a New York speak
easy called the Hotsy- Totsy Club, he
maintained a trio, composed Of a
violin player, pianist and a singer.
This was not done purely out of a
love for art. The trio was hired to
play for the entertainment Of pa
irons in the place.
But the proprietor's interest was
more than a sheerly professional
one. It was his custom to remain
after the evenings trade had abated
or ended and incite a command
performance.
Often he sat until the very early
morning hours, suggesting one tune
after another. Legs Diamond is,
among other things, sentimental
person.
And when his brother, who later
died, was lying upstate in search of
health, Jack would say to the leader
of the trio, play something that
Eddie used to like"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
HEALTH SERVICE
Dangers Are Hidden in Vibrations

/ of intestinal ulcer with subsequent
shock and peritonitis.
Certainly any one suffering from
irritation of the intestinal tract
should avoid the use of such vigor-
GUS agitation as is produced by the
various vibrating machines.
A report now has become avail
able Of the case Of an elderly man
who thought to massage his scalp
by the use Of one of the vibrating
devices.
During the course of vibration
he suddenly ceased to see and a
specialist in ophthalmology made
a diagnosis of detachment of the
retina, which is likely to lead to
permanent blindness.
The retina is the tissue at the
back of the eye composed largely
of nerve cells which conveys the
sense of things seen to the brain.
Obviously, it is highly undesir-
able for any one with hardened
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
Moral Loss Immense

DASING his calculations on what
ID New York could, or would, be
getting in taxes had the saloon been
let alone, some mathematical sharp
has figured the city's loss at $38,000,-
600 because of prohibition.
1t sounds like figuring the loss
on margined stock that was sold in
the panic, but let that pass.
1t must be obvious to any one
that prohibition is costing this
country a great deal in one way
or another.
The money loss, however, is small
compared to the moral loss.
Whether prohibition was symp-
tomato Of changed attitude, or
whether the changed attitude is due
to prohibition, we Americans GER
tainly do not regard either law or
it's violations with the same serious
ness as we did twenty-five years
ago.
This is not theory, but statistics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

part of Legs Diamonds mob, al
though, as I remember, we were moi
introduced formally.
The situation had a dramatic
quality of which I was unaware al
the moment.
BY some coincidence one of the
party at the table where I sat was
federal man from the state OF
Rhode Island. He was present in
New York for the purpose of ap-
pretending Eddie Diamond on some
charge.
Fifteen or twenty minutes later
three men sauntered in. They
seemed rather rough customers. and
the formation into which they fell
suggested their membership in
gangland-that is, two went over
to the bar and ordered drinks.
The third fingered in the door
way, leaning against the wall and
facing the entrance to the speak
easy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
Density of Cream

TN "This Mechanical World" DR..
L Mott-Smith deals with the ele-
mentary consideration of the sci
ence Of physics. Moreover. he
deals with them in a most satisfac-
tory and interesting way.
The reader, who may have gained
the idea from the technical terms
employed of necessity in this re-
view that DR.. Mott Smiths book is
a sort of text book, is asked to take
the reviewers word for it that such
is not the case.
The author mixes interesting bits
OF history and many examples from
everyday life with his scientific
facts. The language never is too
technical for the layman.
In the opening chapter of the
book DR.. Mott-Smith gives a most
amusing example of the confusion
which arises from the different
ways in which the scientists and the
layman use certain words.
zone day." he writes, while the
author Of these pages was teach
ing q class IN physics, he happened
casually to remark that cream rises
because it is less dense than milk.
This statement was Immediately
greeted with looks of pain and sur
prise. The students seemed to think
that their teacher himself was at
t1lcted with certain density often
ascribed to college professors, and
which is supposed to incapacitate
them from dealing with the com
mon things of life.
But such was not the case. He
was merely using the word dense
IN its technical sense.
when the class insisted that
cream is denser than milk thew
really meant that it is thicker
which is one of the common mean
1ngs of the word dense This the
scientist would call more 'viscolIs
When he says that cream is less
dense than milk he means that vol
ume Tor volume it is lighter. That
IS why it rises. Density for him
means one and only one thing
namely, the mass Cor weight of q
body in proportion to its volume"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
Questions and
Answers

How is Sim Fein pronounced?
What does it mean?
1t is pronounced shin fame. It
means eve ourselves
How many feet on each side is
an acre that is square in shape?
Approximately 208.7 feet on each
side.
Has the United States Supreme
Court ever passed on the eonstitu-
tionality of the eighteenth amend
ment?
Yes. It ruled that the amend
ment was constitutional.
What is the average height of
American women?
About feet inches.
Where is Benjamin Franklin
buried?
Christ church burying ground,
Philadelphia.
What Is caviar?
The sailed roe of sturgeon.
What is the displacement of the
q. S. S. Saratoga?
$4,000 tons.
When was Princeton university es-
tablished? k
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
The Great AIihi

TUST how far prohibition can be
- held responsible for our numerous
social and economic aches still is the
great mystery.
1t certainly takes first rank as an
excuse for every official who feels
the need of an alibi and every
politician who can't think of a
better argument.
To hear the chatter, one would
imagine that prohibition is the one
thing which prevents our law en-
forcement machine from function
ing efficiently.
Like red propaganda" it has be-
come a magic word.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
GaIiIeo'S Great Work

.DR. MOTT-SMITH deals with
- such topics as density and sDc-
CHIC gravity, the nature of gases
Che meaning of a vacuum and the
way in which pumps operate.
AN interesting chapter is devoted
10 the elementary laws which nm
oerlle all machines, the PRINCIPLES
OF the lever, the inclined plane the
wheel the pulley and the screw.
his examples range from the lisa
OF hammer in pulling out nails
10 the operation of an automobile
another chapter is devoted IN
Calico. Most people think of Cal
lleo as an astronomer. as the man
VINO first turned a telescope mon
Inc heavens, discovering the noun
CalnS OF the moon, the moons of
Jupiter, the crescent phase of Venus
ana the true nature of the Milky
Way. w "A'iNS
But Calico also was a great pfv-
SlclsC. In the years after he had
gone blind, he devoted himself IN
thinking upon the phenomena If
motion and formulated the laws
which later were extended by New
ton into the three Newtonian laws
for motion. COWS
DR.. Mott-smith has an interesting
discussion of GaliIeo's work in
physics and the way in which it has
influenced all modern engineering
This Mechanical Wor15D - a.
NTH book to be published by Apple
tons in the New World of Science
Series"
The other four, all Of which have
been previously recommended bv
this writer, are New Frontiers of
Physics" by DR.. Paul Heyl; ANT
arctic Adventure and Research" BY
panyi, and "The Green Leaf" by
DR.. Griffith Taylor; 1.-THE Conquest
Of Life" by DR.. Theodore Kop-
DR.. D. T. MacDougaI.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
By Request
nNE of the two newcomers

NNE of the two newcomers at
" the bar felt a musical urge
after the second drink. He turned
around and inquired in a loud
voice whether anybody objected to
his singing.
1t seemed the tactful thing to do
to acquiesce, and we all expressed
enthusiasm for are addition.
Straightway he went into a high
tenor version of Mother Machree. +"
It was not too good and yet not
bad.
The method was perhaps shade
too ford. A rather good natural
voice was impaired by the singers
tendency toward sobs and flour
iSheS.
The applause, however, was deaf
ening. And the singer took an en-
core-that is, he sang Mother
Machree'' a second time. With that,
the trio left the place and went out
into the night.
had observed that the hostess of
the establishment seemed a little
nervous during the concert. When
the three visitors were safely gone
she beckoned to me to indicate that
she wanted me to come over into
the corner where it was quiet.
When we got there she said, do
you know who that man WASP"
said, THE singer?"
She said mo the faIIouy with him
standing at the bar"
I confessed ignorance.
That" she said, "was Eddie
Diamond, the man your federal
friend is after. And he was sitting
there not ten feet away with all
those photographs in his pocket.
I was afraid that he might catch
on and make move, which would
have started a Shooting. I don't
think I ever want to hear Mother
Machree" sung again"
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which he has scored in his numer-
Gus court appearances.
Yet Strangest of all is the fact
that this man so often pictured in
the newspapers has been able on
occasion to move through the busy
streets of Manhattan with all the
safety Of some Arabian Nights
character clad in cloak comforting
invisibility.
1t may be now that Diamond has
plunged into jam from which he
can not escape, and it looks as
though he had committed an error
not uncommon among city jewellers.
Here he might have gone on for
years with his trade and his must
cal avocations But he went back to
nature. It seems to have been
fatal.
Copyright. 1881 by The Tinesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
New Kinds of Crime

A LII the old-fasoihned crimes
IN have shown tendency to in
crease, while many new-fashioned
ones have appeared to plague and
confuse the situation.
The nations capital, which was
supposed to become a model city,
under the present administration,
shows a higher murder rate than
Chicago for the first four months of
1881.
In spite of conditions worse than
we yet have known, England has
found it possible to tear down three
large prisons, while we are forced
to spend millions for enlargement of
ours.
If it's economy that we want, why
look farther than the constantly
growing cost of crime and cor
ruption?
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Edition. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TROM time to time various de-
IL vices for electrical vibration to
be used in lieu of exercise have been
advertised widely and sold to the
public.
No doubt, these devices have value
for contributing passive motion to
muscles that are little used. The
average person today has a motor
car and does very little walking.
None of the vibrating devices will
reduce weight unless their use is
accompanied by strict diet and SINH
lar measures.
Recently, medical literature has
contained reports of several in
stances in which persons with ulcers
Of the stomach or of the intestines
have vibrated themselves so Yigor-
ously as to bring about perforation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
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b1TE4e|
fMMNlVGR$ARYI
65s15H5
CENSORSHIP RULES
Nav 81

ON May 81, 1917, the committee
" on public information, of
which George Creel was chairman,
gave out for publication a set of
proposed regulations for the news
papers under the title of "Prelimi-
nary Statement to the Press
The document was described as
regulations for the periodical
press of the United States during
the war"
The most interesting excerpts are
as follows:
"The department of state con-
Siders it dangerous and of service
to the enemy to discuss differences
of opinions between the allies and
difficulties with neutral countries. .
Speculation about possible peace
Is another topic which may possess
elements Of danger, as peace reports
may be of enemy origin, put out to
weaken the combination against
Germany"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
M. E. Tracy
The Money Loss Due to
Prohibition Is Small Com
pared to the Moral Loss.
.CAYS..

NEW YORK. May 27.-with
' Leon Daudet, head Of the
French royalists, advocating an
academy Of wine" New York boot
leggers forming a union, and dry
leaders scoffing at the estimate of
our drink bill recently made by wet
leaders, prohibition resumes its
wonted place in the news.
The boys certainly are doing noble
work to make it an issue in 1882,
but the political setup is against
them.
Prohibition is a perfectly good
issue, save and except during ma
tional campaigns.
When the time comes for us to
line up as 100 per cent Republicans,
or 100 per cent Democrats, we Just
can't talk about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
So This Is Economy

CPEAKING of economy, Secretary
~ of Navy Adams just has ordered
the use of holystoneS discontinued.
1t wears out the deck too fast, he
explains, especially on the new TO-
OOO-ton cruisers, the decks of which
are comparatively thin.
Taxpayers could ask no better re-
assurance that their interests are
being Safeguarded with the utmost
care.
1t only remains for the head of
some department to stop window
washing, on the ground that it
wears out glass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
Sadder SONGS

THE Diamond family taste ran
L for the most part to songs deal
ing with home, mother, and moon
light in the Carolinas. They had
no liking for more spirited ditties
or any bordering upon the risque.
So generous a patron of the arts
was Legs Diamond that in these
after-hour concerts he would reach
into his pocket every now and again
and tip the musicians, although
they were employed by him.
Once on alien territory ran into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreemen: or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
We Can ICussl

THROUGH the case is closed, we
l. still have the God-given right
inherited from our English forbears
to "go to the tavern and cusS the
court" and that is what millions Of
people will do.
Law or no law, it is a queer thing
that, in this age. when the whole
world pretends to be working for
peace, the United States of Amer
lea should be barring people from
citizenship because they won't
promise to participate in war.
Not only that, but it seems con-
trary to the principles and ideals
on which this republic was founded.
We can only be thankful that,
though the court was able to over
ride them, such men as Hughes,
Brandies. Holmes, and Stone are on
the bench.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ.

BY DAVID DlEIZ
Literature of Popular Sci
ence Is Enriched By DR..
Morton Mott-Smith's This
Mechanical World"
THIS MECHANICAL WORLD, ("
4 by DR.. Morton Mott-S Smith.
fills an important gap in the litera-
ture Of popular science. (The book
just has been published by Apple
tons at 50 in its excellent New
World Of Science Series.D
Practically all the recent publica-
tons dealing with the science Of
physics have been devoted to the
atom, the electron, the cuantum
theory, wave mechanics. or relativ-
ity.
Such books have, of necessity
taken 1t for granted that the reader
had background of such old-fash-
Toned subjects as the mechanics OF
solids, the mechanics of liquids, the
laws of motion, and so on.
Now it may be that those readers
whose high school days included q
course Of physics may find those
phrases slightly reminiscent. But it
is to be doubted if the average lay
man, kept busy with the problem of
earning a living, raising a family.
keeping up with the new novels.
etc., has had time to acquaint him
self with the exact meaning which
scientists attach to such terms as
mass" inertia" "acceleration,"
density specific gravity" and
so on.
Yet these elementary considera-
tions Of mechanics underlie such
theories as the quantum theory and
relatively. to say nothing Of the fact
that they are at the very founda-
ton Of all mechanical, chemical and
electrical engineering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27
Diamonds Cloak

THE imperviousness Of Legs Dia-
Il mond to physical attack twice
has been demonstrated. And some
comment has been made upon the
remarkable record Of legal successes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-27

When Will Shakespeare said, Sweet are the uses
of adversely" he couldn't have foreseen of course,
such thing as depression.
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Daily Thought

Let your speech be always With
grace, seasoned V ! SAL, TIA ye
may know ho-v - c--ft to c-7--er
every na1.- IS