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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

II SPENT twelve hours in Homo
l. lulu twenty years ago; so I know
as much about the Hawaiian Is
lands as some Of the newspaper
commentators who are attempting
to fan race hatred.
No sane person is going to deny
that atrociouS crimes have been
committed, but it seems to me I'M
fair to make this the justification
for an attack upon the character
of an entire people.
And yet find in some newspapers
a tendency to assert that recent
events have shown that only Nor
dies are respecterS Of law and de-
cency.
Indeed, some editorialiStS have
gone on to say that the Nordic's
passion for law and justice is so
great that he will take it into his
own hands whenever the regular
administration of these functions
breaks down.
Our Share of Responsibility
DIT if it is true that orderly
ID government in Hawaii is a thing
of the past, I wonCer just how
Americans are going to escape from
sharing some of the responsibility
for this situation. After all, we took
the islands over years ago upon
the request Of q group which was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Moral CoWardice

DROHIBITTON will continue tt
L be the chief topic of CONVEX
sation among the people and the
chief worry of politicians, peace Of
f1cerS, prosecutors and prison war
denS during this summer, just as ii
has been during the last ten, but
nothing definite, or constructive will
be done about it.
The man who believes that such a
situation represents moral triumph
either is hopeleSsly stupid, or stu
pidly optimistic.
This oldest and greatest of all
democracieS actually has reached a
point where it won't face openly
and decide honestly the one cues
ton which interests and irritates
the majority of its citizens more
than all others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

Editor TimeS-'That Kentucky
judge and prosecutor who are try
ing to throttle the press, strike the
thinking person like a puppy bark
ing after a locomotive. These mis-
guided gentlemen are suffering
from puerility, provincialism, toady-
ism, or the same dreaded swollen
ego that made Henry VIII think
he was more powerful than the
Deity and then dictated accord
ingly.
Their silly, shallow howl that the
NewS-Sentinel of Knoxville (Tenn.)
published 'Hbelous, slanderouS, false
statements, and that the presence
of the papers representative is
"odious" to the prosecution, not
only smacks of Main street, but
makes them exceedingly odious to
millions Of American people who
honor the Constitution of these
United States, and believe in its
stipulation of free speech and free
dom of the press.
BY exposing their feeble minds by
this stupid opposition, they win call
forth the editorial wrath of this
nation; they Will be hooted from
the housetopS and make Kentucky
the laughing stock of the civilized
world.
If Kentucky Judge or prosecutor
virtually owns the courtroom, which
is supposed to be public property,
and is authorized to dictate who
shall or shall not enter it, there is
something lamentably wrong with
Kentucky laws which demand a
vigorous overhauling.
But the reading public recently
has learned that a few wealthy
mine owners hold the whip or the
pocketbook over a few petty off,
Gals, who In turn have resorted to
violence, brutality and murder, and
then made a stupid attempt to
silence the facts and the notable
writer's who have exposed them.
Consider the far-fetched squawk
they hurled at Mr.. Dressler.
Editorial associations should raise
fund of 100000 and haul this
bunch Of bigots into a senate in
vestigation. The revealed facts
would be interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
.JOhnson's Good lob

The country is indebted to Senator Hiram John
son Of California for the intelligence and courage
he Is showing in the investigation of American loans
and concessions in Colombia
Johnson standing virtually alone is bucking the
combined powers of the state department the New,
York bankers, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and
the Mellon Gulf Oil Company. In addition, johnson
has to operate through largely hostile committee
run by the willy and reactionary administration wheel
horse, Senator Reed Smoot.
Johnson does nothing more than uncover the
conspiracy of silence which the state department al
ways throws around its hand in international finance
he will accomplish lot For many years some state
department officials have tended to operate as thouOh
they were servants of banks and oil companies rather
than OF the American public. -
indeed, some of these ofdcialS-Such as J. Herbert
Staoler-haVe changed their employment almost from
year 10 year from the state department to the bank
erS or OIL companies and then back to the state de-
partment and then back again to the private inter-
eStS
Johnson, by cross-examination, has brought ont
that the state department got more monev out of the
New York bankers for Colombia after the president
OF colombia had notified the state department that
ne had taken of the rich Barco concession DO.
mands OF the Mellon-owned Gulf Oil COMPANY
Inc state departments secrecy policy was carried
70 an eXareme point, Assistant Secretary of State
"hiCe refusing to read the witness stand the dam
aging Barco cable from the president of Colombia
winch ne admitted the state department had read tn
the New York bankers.
We hope johnson will continue to nut the Sens+s
Searchlight on dollar diplomacy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
M. E. Tracy

This Democracy Hos Reached
a Place Where 1t Won't De-
eide H Honestly t h e One
Question Which Interests
It's Citizens MoSt-Proht-
bition.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The vets
IN have agreed upon a bill to be
placed before congress. 1t provides
for amending the eighteenth
amendment in such a way as would
return control Of liquor to the
states.
Since it calls for changing the
Constitution, a petition, signed by
las members is necessary to bring
action by the house of representa-
tiveS. After that, it win be killed
by the drys. If it ever reaches the
senate, it will be killed again by
the drys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Work of PtoIemy
"THE next important addition t,

"THE next important addition to
4 the development of thought,
after the coming of Christ, was
started by Ptolemy,'' DR.. MorehouSe
says.
HE was the propagation, If not
the author, of the first cosmic
theory of the universe, popularity
known as the geocentric theory
The influence of this man Is shown
in the greatest work Of antiquity,
The Almagest.'
eff any one will wade through its
thirteen books, he will find in them
the cosmology and the cosmogony
of his age. He will not only ind
the concept of life, but also the
ideas of eternity.
There is an air of finality to this
book which is not found In any
other work of this time. It seemed
to predict that the days OF science
had come to an end. AS MacPher-
son points out:
"'The Hellenic culture had large
ly exhausted itself and an air Of
hopelesSnesS and futility had settled
over the world.
"'The Stoics rather concerned
themselves with problems of con-
duct than with questions concern
ing the natural world, while the
early Christians, expecting the
early return of Christ, did not busy
themselves with the affairs Of this
world.
Accordingly, slowly but surely,
science and philosophy alike seemed
to die out.
"'During the next fourteen CEN
turtles, the Arabs, who were largely
imitators and commenters rather
than investigators, CARED on the
slender stream Of scientific
thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Just Shadow Boxing

VTTHEN congress has wound up
w this bit of shadow boxing,
prohibition will revert to the Re-
publican and Democratic parties as
their rightful and most cherished
plaything.
Each of them will Straddle it by
nominating a supposedly dry can
didate on doubtfully wet platform,
or doubtfully dry candidate on a
supposedly wet platform.
Since President Hoover has chosen
to play the role of dry champion,
and since the Republican party has
no choice but to renominate him,
one is justified in expecting some
rather damp phraseology in that
party's platform, while the Demo-
Gratis pick a moist candidate to be
decorated with dry sentiments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Psychic Phenomena

It's long from the Fox sisters their table rapping
to Sir Oliver Lodge and the modern investigation sprtuasc
psychic phenomena the national psycha
research
The mind had intrigued with
the problem of possible survival OF human negences
The problems of pychica research
known fraud and fakery connected with the subject
Our Washington bureau has ready for comprehensive
authoritative and interesting bulletin the
research 1t history explanation modern de-
veopment and OF spiruaic phenomena enjoy
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
FUEL ECONOMY ORDER
January is.

ON Jan. Is, 1918. DR.. H. A. Gar.
- field, United States fuel ad.
ministrator, issued an order direct
ing all factories not engaged in the
production of foodstuffs to suspend
operations for period of five days
beginning Jan. 10, and to remain
closed on each Monday from Jan
% to March IS, inclusive.
Daniel Willard, chairman of the
war industries board, resigned on
this date.
It was reported that Lenin of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

Russian Bolshevik government had
ordered that King Ferdinand Of
Rumania be arrested and impris-
oned at Petrograd now Lenin-
grad.
The Hungarian government re-
signed on account of failure to OBJ
tain necessary support for its mill
tary program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Daily Thought

For shame hath devoured the
labor of our fathers from our
youth; their nocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah 1924.
Shame is the dying embers Of
virtue.-H- w. Shaw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of HyKeiH, the
Health MaKazine.


INSANITY means mental disturb
Il ance. There is no single condi-
ton that can be called insanity.
There are many mental diseases
divided in groups according to their
causes and their manifestations.
In a recent consideration of the
subject, DR.. HI. L. Levin has divided
the causes of mental disease into
two large groupS-the prediSpoSing
causes and the exciting causes.
The predisposing causes are those
which long have existed within the
individual or in his surroundings.
Thus, predispoSing causes of tuber-
culosiS include a constitution that
gives way readily, an environment
that is crowded and dark and fall
ure of proper nutrition.
The exciting cause is the germ of
tuberculosis, which usually is con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
It Was Not Always So

SUSPECT that there is a shade
IL of exaggeration in this picture,
although in a sense it could be
made even stronger by saying that
under American rule the jungle and
its laws and customs have come
back into Honolulu itself.
And so may I ask-What price
civilization? What price the white
mans burden? What price the
mandate over backward nations?
Before the coming of the mission
airy and his friend, the business
man, Hawaii had developed civil
lizatien which was, of course, much
more primitive than ours. But these
were, out of all the world, happy is
lands. Even tribal wars had all but
ceased.
Very nearly the Polynesian in his
Pacific haven represented RouS-
seau'S idea of the perfection which
can come from the primitive. For
centuries the islanders were known
as the kindeSt and most friendly of
all people.
To the mind of most of us there is
something erotic in the word
Hawaiian" 1t is associated in the
thoughts of us who live along
Broadway with violent muscular
dances. We think of Hawaiians as
wearing grass skirts and dancing
the hula-hula up and down the
streets of Honolulu.
AS a matter of fact, in the old
days the dance was vigorously
restricted. 1t was part of religious
ceremonial. According to the RI
tual, it never was to be seen except
at marriage feast. The white man
made it advertisement for bur-
lesque shows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter.
eSttnG writer's and are pre.
Sented without regard 60 their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this Daper.-The Editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

Bat Battalno forfeited his featherweight title nv
oelng too heavy. Which goes to show that while
hgnterS get paid by the walIop only wrestlers get
paid by the pound e0O
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

xet' writer asks what the sexes think of each
other Well, they probably don't moi"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

man arrested by dry agents was acquitted when
II was found ne had bought his supply OF LIQUOR be-
lore pr0noition' After which it appears that the
pest way to beat the dry law is to buy your LIQUOR
fifteen years ago. -E"OA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

theatrical company was arrested in California
lor staging an ancient Greek drama. The ancient
greeks were TOO modern for us. Anyway, if that
greek drama was as bad as they say, Denmark wasn't
the only place there was something rotten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

Mayor Moore of Philadelphia wants the peon,e
on MS city to be happy, but will enforce the drv
law his predecessors have done quite bit in this
discretion. but this certainly is Moore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

FROZEN booze stopped sewage in Missouri citv
FROZEN assets have stopped more than that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

BY DAVID DIETZ-
Astronomy a Beautiful Mon
ument TO Progress of
Human Thought, Says UNI
versity President, Tracing
Mankind'S Culture.
A STRONOMY has colored our
= outlook upon every phase Of
life. The Importance Of the study
of stars in its influence upon hui
man thought was discussed recent
ly in an address by Professor D.
w. Morehouse, president Of Drake
university, and retiring chairman of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
DR.. MorehouSe began with a quo
tation from Laplace, one OF the
great astronomers OF the past.
Contemplated as one grand
whole" said Laplace. astronomy is
the most beautiful monument of
the human mind, the noblest record
of its intelligence"
THE development Of human
thought frequently has been COM
pared with the formation of a great
river" President Morehouse said.
mo single source can be named as
its origin.
Numerous streams from wholly
different sources flowing in dia-
metrically opposite directions con-
verge to give it being. Not infre-
quently it is difficult to determine
which is the main stream and
which is the tributary.
LAS the various races emerge
from their primitive concepts of
cosmology, we find some far In ad-
vance of others.
For example, the Hebrews and
the Greeks have been held up to
us from time immemorial as the
greatest peoples of their time"
= = =
Importance of EudoxuS
THE Hebrews, according to Presi-
Il dent MorehouSe, excelled in
their conception of the things of
the spirit, while the Greeks ex-
celled in art, science and philoSo-
ply.
1.-THE Hebrews" he continued,
having little interest in science,
disentangled religion from pseudo
science and crude materialiSm. The
Greeks, with their tranScendent
genius, founded science on actual
observation and based their theories
on fact.
Among the names Of antiquity,
Thales, Pythagoras, Mention, Arts
totle and Plato, one EudoXus stands
out above all others.
In point Of time, Eudoxus lived
409-356 B. c.. He, therefore,
touched the life of Plato in his
later years and that Of Aristotle in
his early days.
| EuQOAuS Is CONSIDERED CLle IlrSG
inductive thinker of his time. Berry
says:
'He may be regarded as repre-
sentative of the transition from
speculative to scientific astronomy,
and much of his work was taken
bodily by Aristotle. who, In COM
mon with other philosophers Of his
time, understood the influence Of
the concept of the physical world
upon the thinking of the times"
President Morehouse hastenS over
several centuries to find the next
great name in the history Of as
tronomy. It is that of Claudius
Ptolemaeus, better known as Ptole-
my. He lived from 100 A. D. to ITO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16

Upon Missing the Point
r AM aware that some will write
i me letters saying that em apa-
thetic about a savage crime COM
mitted against white woman. That
is very far from true. But ] do say
without hesitation that we have no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-16
Mr.. Hoover and che Aliens

sesfsSJ-HowAk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17
SYMPOSIUM WE'D.
EV E MN G ON
CHILD MISER Y

NEW YORK. - Wide interest has
been aroused in the symposium to
be held at the New School for Social
Research at 66 w. 18th ST.. on Child
Misery and starvation in the United
States" and child care in the Soviet
Union.
The speakers for this symposium
which is being held under the au
spices of the Workers International
Relief include Joseph Freeman, 90
ley johnson, Mrs. Alice Withrow
Fields, noted author and Max Weiss
The speakers will take up various
topics in connection with the main
subject. Special speakers will deal
with the situation of the working class
child in the United States, with the
conditions of the Negro child, the
child in the Soviet Union and other
similar aspects of the subject.
The mask of demagogy with which
the report of the White House Con-
ference on child health and welfare
is being circulated makes this SYM
postum particularly important.
The symposium will be held this
Wednesday evening at 1880. Admis-
sion is fifty cents. Tickets for sale
at the Workers Book Store, so e. 18th
Street
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17
Furriers Elect Today
and Tomorrow; Mass
Meeting on Thursday

NEW YORK.-The elections for
Trade Board, delegates to the execu-
tive council and organizers of the
Fur Department of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union begin this
morning at the office of the union,
131 W. 28th st, The present situa-
ton in the trade requires an able
leadership that will direct the strug-
gle of the fur workers against the
Wage-cuts and contracting.
All fur workers are called upon TO
participate in these elections.
There will be a mass meeting Of
all fur workers Thursday at 2 pm
at Irving Plaza to receive a report on
the so-called Fur Workers Conven-
ton"
Come and hear how kaufman, Nc
Grady and Vol unsested the duly
elected delegates from New York,
Toronto and Chicago and controlled
the convention,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17
FORCE BOSS TO
GRANT DEMANDS
Laundry Toilers Score
Victory

NEW YORK.-The boss of the
Bronx Home Laundry. which is also
called the Edison, was forced to
grant the demands of the drivers,
calling for an increase in wages from
IS to $40 a week.
For many months Mr. Bell, the
boss of the laundry, was maneuver-
ing and presented several schemes to
the drivers Every scheme meant a
wage-cut. The drivers we're terror
lied and accepted them.
Finally, the drivers, under the lead
ership of the union, elected a COM
mittee and on Saturday, May Ia, pre-
Sented their demands to the boss.
After a seven hours conference the
boss gave in. 1t is important to note
that the boss invited Mr.. Steinhorn
CIlS PASS4ueHC VI G4lS rSdOAe0 f1SSoCAd-
ton, who proposed to take Hoffman
the union organizer, in the garage
and Elk him up"
The Laundry Workers industrial
Union calls upon all laundry workers
to bring their grievances to the
union, to form shop committees and
Join the union, 260 e. 138th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17
Only s Days Left to Elect
City Conference Delegates
District Committee for Communist Campaign
Calls for More Signature Collections

NEW YORK. Credentials from
workers organizations and local
unions are coming in to the office
of the New York District Election
Campaign Committee daily. Work
erS' organizations are electing their
representatives to the City Confer
ence, which will elect delegates to
the National Nominating Convention
in Chicago This City Conference
will be in Manhattan Lyceum, May
%, and will start at II am.
The District Election Campaign
Committee points out that to get
out a large number of workers repre-
sentstives at this conference, to plan
the Communist Election Campaign
here and to give broad base for
the selection of national delegates,
all workers organizations in the city
should hurry to elect their represen-
tatives to the City Conference and
send in copies of their credentials
to Room sos 80 E. 18th St, New York
City. Delegates should be elected by
shop groups and by shop commit
tees and by minorities in the old
unions who stand for the points in
the Communist election program.
Union locals and all kinds of work
ers' organizations should send dele
gates.
The City Conference, says the Dis
trict Committee, must show the
present bosses corrupt government
that the workers of New York City
are determined to select and vote for
their own candidates-are deter
mined to do everything in their
power to elect people to represent
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17
PHOTOGRAPHERS
COON STRIKE
Fight Against Is Per
Cent Wage Cut

This workers of the Edison Jazsn-
jan Studio, located at 724 Fifth Ave.
near 57th ST., struck against an addi-
tional rs per cent wage-cut, after
having had two previous cuts of 10
and IS per cent.
This last wage-cut was attempted
in a disguised form, which the pho
tographers quickly saw. One of the
owners, Mr.. Kaidon, stated that in
order to relieve the depression he
will pay his workers with shares Of
the firm instead of money. That is.
one week they get full salary and
the next week they would get so per
cent money and so per cent in super
preferred stock" Some of the work
ers work 48 hours for as low as So
per week The highest skilled worker
gets as low as SIS, $50 and s27 a
week maximum.
The workers not only militantly
rejected the offer of the bosses, but
unanimously answered this proposed
dirty deal with 100 per cent Or
gained strike,
The strikers call upon all photog-
rarSers, especially those workers in
the immediate neighborhood. to as
sist in picketing and support The
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-17

were forced to slave. The boss she
further stated, put into effect one
wage-cut after another, until finally
the girls went on strike and turned
for aid to the Industrial Union. They
are determined to win their condi-
lions.
A delegation of knitgoods workers
from Philadelphia greeted the con-
ference.
NEW york;. Berg and Ida
Barshak, two hnitgoods workers, were
arrested at a picketing demonstra-
ton held Monday morning at the
Powell Underwear Co., AL Blake
Ave, Brooklyn, which is now on
strike against wage-cutS and dis
charges. They are accused of throw
ing rotten eggs at the few scabs that
made an attempt to go up to work.
The nitgoods department of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union calls on union members and
sympathizers to come to a mass dem
onstration Wednesday morning at
7:3o in front of the shop, AL Blake
Ave, Brooklyn, to support. these
young girls in their fight for better
conditions.