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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
THE GREAT SCOTT MYSTERY

Mystery is universal in its appeal. The human
race viii go to sleep over charts and graphs and
ergs and joules, but it will stay up all night with
detective story.
Howard Scott furnished the mystery. without
it, Technocracy might have been just more sta
tistics to public already srfeited with and bafied
by the outpourings Of experts. So give the tall
stranger credit for the part he played in dramatic
ing real land important problem-the problem of
chronological unemployment problem which Al
bert Eisten worlds greatest scientist on the very
day Of Mr. SCOTS exit, described as the chief cause
of our international misery.
The trail which led from Greenwich Village
through the lunch wagon and floor wax factory of
Pompton Lakes, N. j., seems to have ended in a
blind alley on Morningsde Heights
Just how Howard Scott got to be high priest of
Technocracy is yet to be explained But certain it
is that his bulky form no longer will darken the
doors of Columbia university. He is off the campus
for good. He has been disavowed by some of his
associates there.
But the energy survey lives on
That is well. And it is important The final
and factual results of that survey will be awaited
with anxious interest by a distressed world But
the world still is interested in mystery-the
mystery of how Howard Scott became high priest
In their leisure moments, they relax from their
slide rules and their blueprints will his ex-assocAtes
in Columbia tell the real story of how the massive
gentleman with the six-cylnder words got under
the tent in the first place?
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And this is not said by one
who believes that the city of New
York constitutes a peculiarly lib
eral community. L don't think it
does. I think that in very many
instances there has been inexcus-
able police violence against Com
munists, although I am aware of
the fact that upon certain occa-
sions pretty heavy provocation has
been offered.
On the whole it is my belief
that Police Commissioner Null
rooney has made a good try, and
I much prefer his tactics to those
suggested by Mr.. O'Rrien. I
mean Mayor OBrien, of course,
but it's hard to get used to it.
My chief point is that within
the borders of the same nation be-
havior which in one state can, at
the most, be no more than dis
orderly conduct can by transition
to another suddenly become a
capital crime.
If we are to be anything more
than the loosest sort of confeder-
acy, such violent discrepancies
must be wiped out. And the
change must come in the direction
Of justice and of mercy.
If Georgia intends to persist in
such savage lawlessneSS as the
Angelo Herndon conviction I sug-
gest that the President order the
marines lately arrived from Mica
ragua to land upon her coast and
restore order and protect Ameri-
can interests.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25

in those projections which it
oStensibly beStows upon the
Negro.
The courts of Georgia and the
prison system of that state re-
Gently have been under severe
attack. Georgians have resented
much of the criticism, and the
picture painted in Il Am a
Fugitive From a Chain Gang"
has been widely assailed by the
citizens involved as a lie and
libel.
I am in no position to say from
my own knowledge whether the
specific evils and cruelties pictured
in the film are wholly accurate. 1t
seems to me that much of the de-
tail might be dismissed and the
Indictment still remain.
The very existence of a chain
gang, no matter how benignly
administered, should be re-
proach to any state. And in the
light of the Angelo Herndon SEN
tence, it is difficult to accept any
assertions of sweetness and light
about Georgia justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
ENOUGH PROFIT

Usually federal court is almost the last agency
of government to reflect popular thought. In the
eastern district of Illinois, however such a court
has taken the lead in fixing utility rates in man
ner which deserves emulation by other courts and
by state utility commissions.
This court has found that return of SIT per
cent, allowed by the Illinois commerce commission
on the properties of the Kankakee Water Company.
is not confscatory and has refused to issue an in
junction against it.
In the past the courts frequently have found
rates yielding below and per cent return were
confscatory. But the Illinois judges say:
In this connection We have considered the evil
dence of present return in industrial enterprises OF
other character and that of similar utility COM
panies."
In other words. the court does not propose that
utility rates shall continue on boom time basis
when other businesses have been Debated, to say
nothing of wages and salaries. Thissis sound
reasoning.
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shortly thereafter the sore devel-
oped into an ulcer, then the
glands became involved and final
ly other organs of the body.
n Il
ID ABBIT meat, even from rab-
IN bits infected with this condi-
ton, is harmless as a food if it is
cooked thoroughly, since tenn
perature Of 1873 degrees F. will kill
the germ.
1t is safer, however, for every
one who is dressing rabbits for
use as food to wear rubber gloves
during the process.
Most people who become infect
ed with tularemia have to go TO
bed from ten days to three weeks,
but sometimes recovery is very
slow. There is no specific serum,
nor any special treatment for the
condition other than that which
competent physician can give by
prescribing remedies to relieve
pain, and by controlling second
airy assesses.
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enough. I emphasize them only
to point out that, even if I &C
copied without qualm the charge
of being the supine tool of a
vicious system, I still would rebel
against such a monstrouS outrage
as the Herndon conviction. l do
rebel.
Among other things, I wish to
point ont that this is still one
more instance of the cruel con-
fusion which arises through diff
ferenceS in the codes of various
states. Angelo Herndon could
stand night after night in Union
square or Columbus circle and
hurl at Morgan, Rockefeller and
Ford all the names he would care
to call any of these gentlemen if
they happened to be Socialists.
He could predict barbados and
the self determination" of the
black belt. He could go through
the entire Communist creed with
out much more than a Move on
now" Of course, he might be
dubbed. But no magistrate would
think of holding him for sentence
on the ground of expressed views
alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
Just Plain Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT is our nature to take the kindness of men for
granted while we condemn their crueIties. I have
for instance, five items from five widely separated
newspapers giving accounts of the saving of hui
man life by hremen, some of whom worked twenty
four hours pumping oxygen into congested lungs
Such items are common news and we pass them
over as the usual thing, with mere glance.
But for the first time have seen this common
thing-and as always is the case, common things
when really looked at common never more
sit here today with lifted spirit and gadder heart
because I realize once again for little time that
human kindness is immeasUrable and never will
vanish from the EARTH
For I saw men, big, heavy proved, hard looking
men, intent desperately intent upon the saving of
life. One, a brown-faced tender-eyed six-footer-
the sort you often ounging in front of the fire
station and of whom you sometimes say that he
seems never to be doing anything-labored for six
teen hours without rest, bending over the sck-bed
as if he had been nurse or the mother of child
who was helpless and i'll.
THINKING of such men as these in all the cities
of the land answering the hurry calls of baf-
fed science and frantic love, you must take newer
and clearer look at them.
FOR Lney, QulIe LITERALLY, perform miracles, they
are the modern ChristS who set the still heart to
beating again. Limp forms without breath for sew
eral hours walk once more Closed eyes reopen;
the dead tongue speaks.
1t is a miracle done before our doubling
eyes, miracle of which are not conscious long
enough.
So when I think of all kinds of men that I have
seen and of all their strange misbehaviors, never
shall fail to visualize the liremen hurryng here
there and everywhere with their blessed tanks of
oxygen
What does it matter, after all, if human beings
ommit thousand msdemeanors OF the flesh when
their spirits are so fine, their hands So willing to
perform labors Of love and when their faith is so
gallant and so sure?
Perhaps if we thought and talked more of the
essential goodness of mortals, OF their mean
nesses would vanish before tnes warm radiance OF
approval, like snow before the sun.
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a TLANTA, Jan. 25.-Angelo
IA Herndon, 19-year-old Gin
cinnati Negro who said he came
south with a message of Com
munism, was convicted of at
tempting to incite instruction and
sentenced today to eighteen to
twenty years Imprisonment"
This is the first paragraph of a
press dispatch and not the propa-
gandic assertion of any radical
group. And yet it seems to me to
stand as the most furnishing in
dictment of modern day society
which I have seen in a year.
A law had to be dug up from
musty archives before this savage
sentence could be pronounced. In
deed, under the statute which was
utilized the defendant could have
been condemned to death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
People Want No PeSSimiStic Leader

XXTHEN it comes to leadership people
w than the
his the possibility deny but they do
expect that he will try help them diminish
They willing for him been done
and tell them what bad pickle they
argument only to provide background
PessmiSm
ship People don't be
them nature was not born to
quit or to follow those who advise quitting
Men differ to the best way majority always
only those who try to find guides
Humanity has and many of its dreams
during the last two decades but it has
courage and intelligence still find road
out of this economic
realizes that ready to undertake the lob
and that it probably will worthless remedies but il
still has confidence in the goahead spirit -
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-.=-=-..-.--.==-=-SCIENCE-
Man Comes to Land
BY DAVID DIETz

Gregory, and shows the absurd
ity of the statement that there
are no links between classes"
These border-line creatures are
known as "icidosaurians.'
Stage No. 10 is represented by
two survivors or relatives of these
mammal-like reptiles, the duck
bill platypus and the spiny ant
eater Of Australia.
Both these forms lay large
reptilian eggs and have many
reptilian features in skull and
skeleton Professor Gregory SAYS.
They represent an early stage in
the evolution of mammalian char
aracterS, especially those that tend
to maintain higher, more stable
body temperature, and more
sustained activity.
These qualities have helped
mammals to conquer the world
and drive out the reptiles"
True mammals make their APP
pearance with stage No. Is. These
appeared at the beginning of the
Mesozic Age, or Age of Reptiles.
This was about 15O,O0O,0O0 years.
1t was during the Age of Rep
tiles that the gigantic dinosaurs
developed and ruled the earth. But
as Professor Gregory points out,
tiny mammals were beginning to
develop at the same time, getting
ready to take over the dominance
of the earth when the dinosaurs
found themselves too over-spe-
cialized to meet changing condi-
tionS.
These early mammals are repre-
sented mostly by fossils found in
England and Wyoming.
Professor Gregory's big parade"
will be continued Thursday.
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Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times-As the rumbling
thunder of protest rolls on, I can
not resist adding mine, also, at
least a tiny squeak.
Indiana artists are more than
justified in protesting Richard
Lieber's appointment of a New
York artist to paint the murals
depicting Indiana history and ira
dition in Indianas world fair
building.
However worthy Mr.. Benton
may be as an artist, it is unrea-
sonable to expect him to be able to
do justice to this assignment that
any number of Hoosier artists
could.
The way in which the Indiana
artists are taking this so-called
slap" is very interesting, and no
doubt will prove to be even more
so. Many opinions and sugges-
tions have been voiced, showing
almost every type Of elimination
Of righteous ire.
One prominent artist even
wants to disclaim his nativity as a
Hoosier artist, believing it to be
a stigma because Of Mr.. Lieber's
slap" at Indiana art. I be-
lieve he's taking the importance
of Mr.. Lieber's opinion too Sc
riously.
Another suggests that Indiana
artists should not exhibit single
canvas at the worlds fair. What?
Apparently bow down to Mr.. Ben
ton and leave him clear fed?
No competition or comparison?
No doubt that would please u r
B. and Mrs. L. nightly, but lets
not let them get away with IL
that easily.
Every Indiana artist ought to
contribute and strive to make
Indianas world fair exhibit OF
fine art the grandest everl VINO
knows that the murals might Aus'
even be noticed At least they q
be outshone. Don't hide our
proudest light under a bushel
What kind of bravery or SplIlV
is it that surrenders at a single
slap. political or otherwise? C%ne
on, every shoulder to the task
and shades of Caesar! Maybe
Indiana art will be given a New
York commission
D. MILDRED PORTER.
1885 Villa avenue.
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1.-TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MIL
4 LION years ago, mans an
cesGors climbed out of the ocean
and took to living on land. So
says Dr.. William K. Gregory, who
has traced twenty-five stages in
the "big parade" the evolution of
man through the geological ages.
DR.. Gregory is professor of YER
tebrate paleontology at Columbia
university and curator Of COM
parative anatomy at the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History.
I outlined the first six stages
in Dr. Gregory's big parade"
Tuesday. 1t started with print
tive "pre-hsh" which swan in the
oceans of 400,000000 years ago.
Stages 2, 3. and were better
developed fish. Stage No. 6 was
fish-like amphibian, a fish with
four legs" which started its life
in the water just as do frogs to-
day but which lived its adult life
on land
Stage No. 7 is represented by
the "stem reptiles" or cotylosaurs,
to give them their scientific name.
Unlike the amphibians, the rep
tiles could spend all their life on
land.
1.-THE most conspicuous advance
among the reptiles was elimina-
ton of the fish-like or aquatic
stage of individual development, "
Professor Gregory points out.
by inclosing an artificial wa
terry environment within a water
tight egg the reptiles hit upon
basic patent which enabled them
to invade the uplands and even
tually to conquer almost the whole
earth"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25

NEIDWINTER brings again the
1V1 danger of rabbit fever"
condition known to market men
for the last thirty years.
About 1907 certain cases were
described in medical literature,
but it was in 1912 that investiga-
tors of the United States public
health service found a plague-like
disease among the squirrels in
California county, and discovered
that this disease was caused by a
germ which they named in hon
or" of Tulare county, California,
the bacterium tularense.
Finally, Francis, another inves-
tigator from the United States
public health service, found in
1919 that this germ which caused
both the plague-like disease of ro-
dents and deer fly fever could in
feet human beings with a condi-
ton named tularemia.
= = q
VXTHILE the disease caused by
w that pacterium tularense is
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Every Day Religion
: BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

and sorrow. A flower crushed in
the budding, a f1eld-mouse turned
out OF its own home by a ploW-
share, wounded hare limping
along the road to dusty death, or
the memory of a tiny bird who
sang for him in days agone,
touched him to tears.
II
TINE poems of Burns did not
Il grow; they awoke complete.
He saw nature with the swift
glances of a child-saw beauty in
the fold of clouds, in the slant of
trees, in the Tilt and CLINT of
flowing waters, in the mists trail
ing over the hills. The sigh of
the wind in the forest filled him
with a kind of wild, sad JOY, and
the tender face of a mountain
daisy was like the thought of one
much loved and long dead.
Burns had sad life and soul
OF fire, the instincts of an angel in
the midst of hard poverty; yet he
lived with dash and daring, some
times with folly-oftener a sinner,
but never a hypocrite-and we
must add, else we do not know the
man, with a certain bubbling glee,
lyric joyousness as of a bird
singing on the bough.
Long live the spirit of Robert
Burns; may it grow to the con-
founding of all unkindness, all
injustice, all inhumanity!
The feet of the singer may be
in the furrow, but the nobility of
manhood was in his heart. on his
lips the voice Of eternal melody,
and in his face the light of the
morning star. He haunts his ma
tive Scotland as an immortal
youth; his hand guides every pillow
Copyright. 1888, United Features
Syndicate)
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Rabbit Fever Fatal in Few Cases
BY DIR, MORRIS FISHRETN

~ O10s MOILtL1O FlSdbElN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
not especially serious seventeen
out of 420 people who had it died.
The infection usually comes from
handling or dressing rabbits sick
with the disease.
The rabbit sick with tularemia
is not likely to be active, so health
authorities warn particularly
against eating rabbits that can be
knocked over with a stick.
If the rabbit gives a good chase
and has to be shot, he probably
is not a very sick rabbit.
The person who has tularemia
develops sweIlings of the skin
with the formation of assesses,
swelling of the lymph glands and
noduleS and small spots of infec-
ton in the internal organs.
The typical history Of such a
case is that the sufferer dressed
wild rabbits, had at the time a
sore on the finger. and that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
MEN WITHOUT MONEY

Mother Necessity keeps on giving birth to inven-
tons designed to men from starving in the
midst of plenty. Her latest offspring is wooden
money"
wooden money" scrip, has grown out of the
barter system Its use is spreading so rapidly that
economists are asking whether soon America may
not have created secondary money system with
out benefit of gold, silver or government print
ing press.
According to Stuart Chase, more than 100000
Americans now use other money than scrip. He
finds that in twenty-nine states IA jobless ex-
changes operate with their paper issues in place
of legal tender. In New York national organiza-
ton is forming behind the movement.
group of eminent economists and relief workers.
meeting at Princeton have petitioned for state and
federal aid in standardizing emergency exchanges
and money systems for the jobless.
Professor Irving Fisher of Yale is agtatng
plan that has worked we'll in Germany, for supple
menting our depleted currency with temporary
medium known stamp scrip"
Cities could issue scrip and stamps for redeem
ing it. If upon every 81 scrip 2-cent stamp were
to the city in year worth $1O4 The plan actually
is in operation in Hawarden, Ia.
Mr.. Chase says the United States must do one
of three things: Revise its economic system on the
principle of national planning; initiate with or
without a huge public works program encourage
the use of wooden money"
The growth of this movement is not without it's
encouraging features. Sprung from bitter soil, it
yet may bear sweet fruit 1t is teaching men to
cooperate for mutual salvation.
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A Steady AdUdnce

TIME earliest reptiles retained
Il generalized fve-rayed hands
and feet.
This constitutes one Of their
many claims to be on or near the
main line of ascent to man."
Professor Gregory says.
Stage No. 8 is represented by
better developed reptiles, which
lived about 20O,000,000 years ago.
These reptiles, known as the cap
torhinids," had jaw muscles more
like those of the mammals and
man.
Stage No. 8 is represented by
the "theremorphs," reptiles whose
fossil remains have been found in
Texas.
In them, there is reduction of
the bony armor of the head and
an increase in the muscular de-
velopment, a distinct advance
from reptilian to mammalian
characteristics.
Stage No. 10 brings us still
closer to the mammal. 1t is COM
posed of the earlier mammal-like
reptiles whose fossils have been
found in both South Africa and
Russia.
while their forerunners had
been clumsy beasts, crawling with
sharply bent elbows and knees,
these South African reptiles had
begun to lift the body off the
ground by bringing the fore and
hind feet under the body" Prof.
Gregory says.
Stage No. II are the "cyno-
donts," reptiles so mammal-like
that Professor Gregory calls them
"pro-mammals."
THE skeleton is now well fitted
for running, while the skull
abounds in new advanced features
directly foreshadowing the NAM
malian grade" he says.
Mammals Appear
CTAGE No. II is on the border
- line between reptiles and
mammals, according to Professor
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Back of the Book

THE law in question was passed
l. more than sixty years ago,
when Georgia was in the hands
of the "carpetbaggers." it was in
tended to punish those who re-
1elled against emancipation and
the later legislation which fol-
lowed the Union victory in the
Civil war.
There surely is irony in thus
turning a law designed to protect
Negroes in newly established
rights against a young revolution
list of that race.
If there is anything in the con-
stitutional guarantee against
"cruel and unusual" punishments
this verdict must be overturned.
But that document has been
great deal less than effective
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
Eyes See Nothing but Disaster

NC prominent figure
ected each succeeding his attitude and
uteIalces biography of Lloyd George
the lighter manifestations OF psychology which
drift of European
The is panderer sensitive He can
help voicing the emotions which he hppns
He can see nothing but disaster ahead for the
that is about all most people BY all laws
should be political power in England if not in the world
An understanding psychology
usually depended
No people foo
hopeless Indeed hopelessne
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ON the birthday of Robert

NN the birthday of Robert
~ Burns, we give thanks for
his songs, written swiftly as men
write letters, as spontaneous, as
artleSs and as lovely as the songs
of birds. That which lives in his
songs and will continue to live
while human nature is the same,
is his passion for liberty, his sense
of the worth of man and the dig
nifty of labor, his pictures of the
beauties Of nature, of the pathos
and hard lot of the lowly, of the
joys and woes and pieties of his
people; and, therefore, they find
response in every breast where
beats the heart of a man.
The lyrics of Burns, singing
of love and laughter and longing
of beauty and pity and pain, we're
little jets of music finding their
way through the assures in the
granite-like theology of his day.
They came fresh from the heart
of man whom the death of bird
set dreaming of as a world wherein
life is woven of music, mystery