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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
The insult CoIIanse

One insult holding company is shown to have
rdehct" Of $4,000 OOO-that figure representing real
money which some one once earned and created and
Is now gone
The insult ownership Of public utilities ap-
parenty something more than vast organization
created for the purpose of running electric gas and
street railway plants 1t extended to the realms of
high finance by which the savings of the people, the
money Of widows and orphans gathered together
and then dissipated.
This state is much interested not only because
the insult companies own many properties in this
state but because for many years the insult influence
has dominated the state government and the legis-
laton Of Indiana in regard to utilities.
When the people demanded that there be regula-
ton Of holding companies owning public utilities, an
insult lobbyist attorney would carefully explain to
the legislators that the insult holding companies we're
most innocent organizations far suspicion and
only formed for the purpose of protecting investors
and not of robbing the public
The insult lobby for years was the most vicious
in the state. Even it is powerful and appears
each year to impress its will upon the laws.
In politics, the secret ramiications of the insult
Influence have been noted in both parties and espe
ciaIy powerful in the dominant one. No member of
the public service commission who affronted that
powerful machine could hold his Job No one not
labeled fair" which means something very different
than the dictionary definition, could receive an APP
pointment.
Receivers for such Of the insult holding companies
as are in bankruptcy discovering the methods
by which insult operated in Chicago. He had list
of 1900 men of influence in politics and finance.
When stocks to be offered to a gullibe public,
these politicians and nanciers were given the blocks
at less than market prices. They got in plain words,
share Of the loot for their aid their silence.
Just how he operated in Indiana does not yet
appear. He is in France on a pension. His brother
is in Canada
But the machine he created in this state still
lists. The people have control over the holding
companies. 1t will take new legislature and
Governor free from the old influences, to get proper
protection
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

I had been carried away by the bril-
liant aggression of his opponent.
Mr.. Seabury seems to stand in the
same relationship to the legal pro-
feSsion that Battling Nelson once
possessed in the fight game.
Neither one was equipped with
a punch sufficient to end matters in
short compass, and both were suck
ers for fast left jab. But Battling
Nelson and Sedulous Sam had the
great gift of stamina. They could
bore in and keep on coming, even
when hailstones big as Block benef1-
cenceS ratified upon their temples.
There were times when Seabury
seemed to be no more than stooge
for our alert and articulate Walker.
Any accurate transcript of the first
duel between the pedestrian inter-
rogator and his brilliant quarry
would have been studded with par
entheSes marking Laughter and ap-
plause"
!. James J. Walker won every Skin
mish. He lost nothing but the major
engagement.
I suppose one of Mr.. Seabury's
great gifts is his lack of humor.
When Walker shot a fast one across
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

Common Sense Suggests That
the Vote Result in Maine Is
Sympathetic of the General
Drift.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Four
IN years ago, the Republican
candidate for Governor of Maine
received a majority Of $4,000. Two
years ago, he received one of only
$4,000. This year finds him de-
feated.
Not only a surprising, but pro-
gressive, change of sentiment has
taken place in Maine. Since local
issues played very little part in
this years election, it Is fair to
assume that the change was due to
national issues.
1t does not follow necessarily
that the people of other states have
altered their attitude in like proper
ton, but common sense suggests
that the result in Maine is symp-
tomato Of a general drift.
AT all events, that is the way
politicians are interpreting it. AS
Senator Moses says, mo thoughtful
Republican can overlook the impli-
cations of yesterdays election in
Maine, nor can they be explained
away by the customary forms of
political alibi.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

VNWO blond and two brunei wives is the record OF
Il John Gilbert, great screen lover" chirrups a
moving picture magazine.
According to these popular publications the live
Hest form of barter and trade going on is in hus
bands and wives The Hollywood area is especially
active in this respect.
1t seems to me that the marital entanglements of
the stars offer the most depressing and degenerate
aspect of modern American life Those irving to re-
form the scenarios well might turn their attention
Tor time to the screen magazines whose readers
are RECALLED each month with urd tales OF love and
divorce
The old Police Gazette was credit to some of
these dispensers of dirt
Yet could pass them by careleSsIv If wa did moi
realize that millions of girls regard with the utmost
admiration the stars whose antics form the pist of
their copy =
The ambition of many 15-year-old is to be sec
ono constance Bennett For this reason the conduct
OF Hollywoods population hardly can be disregarded
IL is deadly serious TO half-chdish minds
GO serious is this, in fact that we can not estimate
~ the damage such publicity can do Bald an
nouncementS of casual divorce and casual marriage
JoAne references to Spshod morals and unstable love
read IKE the reports from the underworld The pages
TEEN with SalaciouS references
AND do not these men and women of screen fame
VINO have been given so much wealth. so much adu-
laticn, owe something to the public?
Is IL TOO much to ask them to set better examples
OF decent living to our young people? I think not
we expect ali other great industries to uphold stand
ARDS OF honor Why exact less from Hollywood?
Inc moving picture stars have been treated gen.
erously by the public. We demand that they recip-
rocate. =
AS American citizens. they must share in the ire
mendous responsibility for the future of American
morals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
More Grief for Hoover

MEANWHILE, results at the
4VA American Legion convention
seem likely to turn out as unfa-
vorably for the Hoover administra-
ton as those in Maine. If, the
convention fails to pass a resolution
OF censure, it will be out of respect
for the government, rather than in
obedience to sentiment.
The blast against the bonus
marchers has proved a boomerang.
II General Glassford is ousted as
head of the Washington police de-
partment because he denied Attor-
ney-General Mitchell'S charges of
crime and Communism among the
bonus marchers, it only will add
fuel to the fire.
At the same time it would be a
perfectly logical climax to the
course of useless laundering which
the Hoover administration has DUR
sued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
SideStepS and StraddIes

M HEIHER you take prohibi-
w ton, hard times, treatment
OF the bonus marchers, the tariff,
farm relief, Muscle Shoals, or the
st. Lawrence treaty as an issue. YOU
will find that the Hoover admins
tration has delayed, Sidestepped, or
straddled just as long as it could
and then did something stupid.
No one holds it responsible for
the depression, or the eighteenth
amendment. No one blames it for
the failure of European govern
mentS to pay their debts, or for the
Shrinkage of domestic revenue. The
people were in a mood to excuse it
as innocent of many of their mis-
fortunes.
What they could not and can not
excuse is its failure to take rene
dial action in prompt, straight
forward way.
Most of the things it finally did
could have been done long before.
Most of the measures it adopted
under pressure could have been
adopted sooner and voluntarily.
What inks most people is it's child
ish disposition to dilly-dally and
then do something on half-baked
impulse, or in huff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
Plant Diseases

hNE OF the most important ad-
~ vances which science has made
IN the field Of agriculture has been
IN the attack upon plant diseases
DR.. Woods says:
A new science, phytopatholoo
pas been developed in our efforts
70 cope with these diseases. The
first progress along control lines
was in the use of fungicides.
The United States department mr.
agriculture and the experiment sta
lions have led the world in this
development. The same is true in
regard to insect pests. The warfare
grows more intense every year.
The increasing ease of comnu-
nication between hitherto isolated
regions has made it possible for
many fungus and insect parasites
to move to cultivated plants related
to their wild hosts.
With the improved food cond,-
tions they multiply enormously and
become major pests.
Plant lice, leaf-hoppers. grass
hoppers, crickets, potato beetles. are
all well-known examples of those
that have moved from wild to Gull
tiYated plants.
The cotton boil weevil, the pink
boil worm, the japanese and Ash
attic beetles, the corn borers. the
Mediterranean fruit fly, and others
too numerous to mention, are some
that have been brought in. s..
Here, free from their enemies.
they have become a serious menace
to our agriculture.
Most of them can not be eradi-
Gated, so the best that we can do
is to import their enemies, when
those enemies are not likely to be
injurious, and also to develop other
means of suppression and control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
The New Botany

NOLD and drought resistant
~ wheats and alfalfas. wilt
resistant cottons, cowpeas, flax.
melons, sugar canes, resistant to
virus diseases, potatoes resistant to
these and other diseases, are among
the new production, DR.. Woods said.
The plant breeders constantly
are improving, developing, and ad-
JuSting crop plants to various limit
ing factors and quality require
mentS," he said.
Important investigations also are
oelng conducted into other fields of
botany. He continued:
1--WE long have realized how fun
damentally important plant life is
TO the existence of animal life. We
know that plants are able to COM
bine carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen
INTO forms available to animals.
They do this with energy absorbed
from sunlight.
I'VE have known a little of these
products of photoSynthesis. starch.
sugar celluloSe, pectin, organic
ACIDS, and host of other organic
products about which we know very
little.
Recently our investigators have
opened a new field in the so-called
vltamins that are found to have ex-
tremely important relations to ami
NAL development.
They control growth and repro-
auction, resistance to many diseases
In animals and man. Almost every
year our investigators are bringing
new aspects of these important
matters to light.
linen there are other light reIa-
lions that only recently have been
discovered, for example, the rela-
ton Of periodicity of light exposIIrs
10 the development Of plants.
In nature this is regulated by the
seasons and by day and night. We
nave developed some control of rest
ing periods and growth, but flower
ing and fruiting in the ma ioritv of
cases could not be controlled until
one OF our scientists discovered that
by changing the length of exposure
TO light and darkness he could
change the Towering and fruitin0
period.
This is proving to be a most
help1ul control in bringing plants to
oloom at a desired period, either for
commercial or research purposes. It
Is new field in which there is re-
search yet to be done"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MapaZine

oI Ohs N1OhhlS FlS dbElN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
r OMBROSO, famous Italian
IL criminologist, set up the the
DRY that all men of genius are
either actually or potentially in
sane.
He compiled a list of noted men
of distinction who became insane
or who were in some degree OBJ
normal.
Among the list are Nietzsche,
Rousseau, the poets Southey and
Cowper, the composers Schumann
and Gounod and Edgar Allen Poe
Lombroso also listed many ge-
muses. who had borderland defects.
In a recent review of the subject,
Prof. w. B. Pillsbury listed many
men of great distinction who had
speech defects.
Among those listed as stannerers
were Demosthenes, Aesop, Aristotle,
Virgil, Erasmus, Charles Lamb, OAR
win, and Charles V.
Lombroso also listed a great
many people who were left-handed,
but there is still some question as
to whether any one, except a left
handed baseball pitcher, is to be
considered abnormal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

ton during recent ten-year period In six states
where there is no capital punishment the rate was
3.6 per cent.
Nor can these figures be discredited by geographic
considerations for Michigan and Rhode Island both
industrial centers with heavy urban population are
included in the states which do not KILL as well as
others with more rural population
With the excuse Of crime difference taken away.
capital punishment is without justification of any
kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

ON Sept. IA, 1918, American
~ troops north of st. Mihiel re-
pulsed heavy German counter
attacks and pushed on for an addi-
tional gain of from two to three
miles on a 35-mile front.
Guns from the fortress of Metz
were brought into action by the
Germans in an effort to stop the
American advance, which was
threatening the railroad used as a
feeder for the German armies in
northern France.
British forces resumed the Of
fenSive near st. Quentin and cap
tured the village of MaisSemy and
adjoining positions in day of hard
fighting.
French troops continued their
drive, taking the plateau east of
Vauxaillon and the ridge north
west of Celles- sur AiSne.
The government of Austria Hun
gary invited all belligerent ma
tions to enter into nonbinding dis
cussions, with a view to ending the
war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
SCIENCE
Nel0 Types of Grains and
Cotton, Grass and Sugar
Cane Produced By Expert
BY DAVID DIETZ.


Cotton, Grass and Sugar
Cane Produced By Expert
1nents in Plant Breeding.
wow experiments in plant breed
II ing have produced new types
OF corn. wheat, sugar cane, cotton,
grass. clover, fruits and flowers were
described recently by DR.. A. F.
Woods. director of scientific work Of
the United States department OF
agriculture.
The new plants have been the re-
suit Of application Of scientific
methods to agriculture and Of a new
point Of view upon the part of scien-
fists interested in the subject Of
botany.
The old botany was largely the
naturalists interest in the orders,
species and varieties Of plants as
they occurred in nature" he said.
plants as well as animals every
where were considered as fixed enti-
ties that might vary a little under
changing conditions of environment,
but always remained within the
fixed bounds in which they we're
created.
This viewpoint has been changed
as the result of research. We still
have the families and species, but
they are more or less plastic In the
hands Of the geneticist.
I'VE have learned that the hered-
itary characters are carried in the
chromosomes Of the germ plasm nu-
cleus and that these chromosomes
are made up Of smaller bodies not
much larger or more complex than
some of our chemical molecules.
1--WE have learned that these have
a definite relation to each other in
the chromoSome and that this def
mite relation controls the form and
activity of the individual resulting
from the egg cell.
"Regrouping can be produced by
crossing or hybridization or can be
brought about by other means, such
as certain forms of radiation, thus
producing mutations in enormous
numbers from which selections may
be made"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
estlng writers and are pre-
, scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
TT CEEMC tn MT nv HAYWOOD
OAZA~AVAO Il ~ ANAA - BROUN

lam decidedly a belated band
l. wagon jumper in setting down a
few timid and awkward words in
praise of Samuel Seabury.
Within the last twenty-four hours
was informed by two scouts that
in newSreel theaters the picture Of
James j. Walker was greeted in, 81
lence, while the countenance of
Seabury aroused cheers and thun-
ders of appreciation.
was surprised at this informa-
ton. A long shot has come home
An entry against which a thousand
to one justly might have been
quoted has won by nose.
And nose is used advisedly, for
MIR. Seabury has been assigned
these many months to the role of
inquiring counsellor at-law. What
ever hopes might have been pinned
to his legal findings, there seemed
at the outset not the slightest
chance that anybody would like him
when his day was done.
The task was thankless. After
all Samuel Seabury was asked to
play the ogre in conflict with a 1.-the
and charming Jack-in-the-Bean-
stalk.
For Once the Ogre Wins
THIS duel between a stern,
l. frowning. and forbidding in
quisitor and gilded playboy
seemed in the beginning a COM
plete setup. A year ago would have
said that the plodding and humor-
less Seabury had not a chance in
the world to eclipse James j.
Walker.
But he has done so. Give a man
enough epigrams and he may not
hang himself, but in the long run
he will turn up rather neatly truSsed
in his own wiSecracks. And so it was
with Walker.
Any dictaphone record of Walkers
appearance at the hearing would
suggest complete triumph for him.
He was too quick for Seabury. He
moved around his cumbersome adj
verSary like a cooper putting the
last touches upon barrel.
The laughs were for Walker His
were the cheers and the headlines.
But Samuel Seabury still kept
wading in, although his nose was
both bowed and bloody and his ears
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

When and where does the cleo
toraI college meet?
1t does not meet as body, but
the electors meet in their respective
states and cast ballots, which are
transmitted to the President of the
United States senate, who. in the
presence of the senate and the
house of representatives, opens and
counts them.
What are the duties of the presi-
dent-emeritus of an institution?
The office is honorary, and some
times is accorded to those who have
retired from active participation in
an organization after years of
service. It does not carry any du-
ties, unless specially provided for
in the bylaws or constitution
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

the corner, the judge stood silent
and sincerely puzzled. And prob
ably he thought to himself, What
in the world is there to laugh at?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

Name the United States commits
sioner Of education?
william John Cooper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
Daily Thoughts

For a day in thy courts Is bet
ter than a thousand. had rather
be a dOorkeeper in the house Of
my God, than to dwell in the
tents of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 84:IO.
Oratory is the power to talk peo-
pie out Of their sober and natural
opinions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
At the Eleventh Hour

Al lfl6 EleVenIn Hour
A ND in the long run, Samuel
IA Seabury turned out to be right.
In leaping from point to point,
James j. Walker was as agile as
Eliza crossing the ice. But he could
not distance forever a bloodhound
who just kept nosing along.
Mr.. Seabury is a strange man in
our metropolitan community. He
proved himself a Cromwell come to
Judgment. He was the essence of
the roundhead cause. The gallan-
try, the showmanship, and the
charm of the quarry meant nothing
to him.
BY a strange accident, he hap
pened to be man with a real con
Germ" as the Quakers term it, for
the dictates Of decency and honesty
in office.
Long before the investigation hao
ended, 1t became the fashion for
people to say: "Of course, 1 hold
no brief for Jimmy, but this Sea-
bury is pain in the neck, as far as
I am concerned
But Samuel Seabury moved along
with a divine indifference to what
men and politicians might think of
him. He inched along in hobnailed
boots. do not suppose that even
the very best friends of the inves-
tigator would accuse him of bris-
ting with charm.
Tammany's few defeats have been
accomplished in the past by men
like Williams Travers Jerome, who
could dramatic graft and fit local
bIemishes into some smashing third
act climax
Mr.. Seabury could not do this.
At any rate, he didn't He crept
up upon the tiger, moving along I'M
gracefully upon his stomach. 1t was
not snowy in the least, but merely
effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
Work of Good Technician

NM ALkER could SIT IN the wit
w ness box and laughingly ex-
claim: Never touched mel" 1t was
not until he tried to turn his head
that he discovered that all the i'm
portant arteries had been severed.
For dinner, a dance, or an after
theater supper Jimmy still is your
man and mine. But the old Puritan
has down him down, for all that, in
the finish fight.
PERHAPS in the end even Walker
may acknowledge his debt to his
grim visaged adversary. Again and
again Walker cried out to all the
world that he wanted to have his
private life left out of the proceed
ings. He starred himself as one who
had no such privilege because of
politics and persecution. Now the
wish has come home to roost.
When Walker has cooled of a lit
tie during the restful months to
come, he should look up Sedulous
Sam and say TO him: Much
obliged" After all, if Walker once
again has a private life, he has no
one to thank for it but Mr.. Seabury.
tcopyright 1884. by Ths Tines
Evening star., 1932-11-19

I2IO-12lS Perry st. NE.
Some of BrooElands choicest apart
up. Nice. quiet section. Refrigeratior
on house. manager.
Evening star., 1932-11-19

1914 14th ST. NV.
Downtown. large rooms, kit, bath,