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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
FINDING THE TAX LIMIT

A the life Of federal prohibition becomes
n matter to be numbered in days instead
Of months, legislators everywhere are turning
their attention to the question OF taxes which
can be levied on the traffic in hard liquor
Unquestionably one Of the reasons which
impelled Americans to vote prohibition of the
books was the fact that federal and state gov
ernments can get good deal of revenue by
taxing this traffic. It is equally unquestion-
able that the traffic can stand tax; unques-
tionable, also that the various taxing bodies
involved need the money very much.
But there is chance to make bad mis-
take in this connection. The one thing all
Americans agree on Is that bootlegging must
stop; and if liquor taxes are put too high,
bootleggers will be able to operate after pro-
hibition ends just as they did before.
Finding just the right figures for taxation
is apt to prove pretty difficult sort of job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27

new federal penitentiaries are models Of what
such institutions should be. The government
requires certain standards Of the 1900 local
jails in which it boards its short-term Offend
ers and those awaiting trial. Although these
standards are reasonable enough, only two out
Of 600 inspected local units rated above 80
per cent.
Now the government is prepared to go fur
Their and loan Of its public works fund to build
modern prisons. II localities lack funds they
may borrow money from Washington. Unfor-
tunately only two communities so far have
qualified for loans for building new prisons.
They are Marshall No. and Norfolk, Mass
To house prisoners as human beings Is not
sentimentality, but insurance against more
crime. The herding of men of all sorts. the
young with the old, the sick with the well, the
degenerate with the fairly normal, is to spread
the germs of evil-doing, to school men in de-
basement.
Anti-crime crusades spend too much
thought on the alumni of these crime colleges
too little on the undergraduates. They should
be encouraging towns cities, counties and
states to make use of public credit to modern
lie the nations jails
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
= ROADS WITHOUT BILLBOARDs

IT seems almost too good to be true-yet
stories from Washington say that some
thing is to be done at last about billboards
along our highways.
Wherever possible, the public works admin
istration is going to see that roads con-
structed with federal money are built on 15o-
feet rights-of-way, so that trees and natural
screening which exist may be kept and new
screening may be planted where it does not
exist. Driving along these roads of the fu-
ture our eyes will rest on cool green foliage,
scarlet dogwood, tall pines or eucalyptus and
not some ones blaring bid for our money
These wider rights-of-way will provide
room for footpaths where pedestrians may
walk in safety, as well. Planted on either side
they will protect the road from soil erosion
as well as sheltering it from heat and cold
More fundamental reforms athan this are
issuing from Washington, but few which fill
us with greater satisfaction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
CRIME COLLEGES

NEXT to destroying its crime-breeding
slums. one Of Americas most important
rebuilding jobs is to rae its crime-breeding
jails and erect modern penal institutions.
The wickersham commission reported that
more than a third Of the nations prisons and
penitentiaries were built more than seventy
years ago. They are for the most part crowded
indecently, il-ventilated and morally degrad-
ing. The county jails we're described as ''medi-
eyal." Of these the federal bureau of prisons
reports:
1.-The iails. warehouses and lockups of the
country, taken as 4 whole. have been con-
demned unanimously by all investigators as
unspeakably dirty, fountainheads Of crime and
corruption-a menace to the wen-being of the
country"
The federal government has sought by pre-
Tept and example to lift local standards. Its
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
Scientists Stress Child Health

MEDICINAL scientists, at least,
1V1 have been doing things lately
that will make the world safer for
your children. They have sue
ceeded, to a considerable extent,
in bringing three of the most seri-
Gus children's diseases - measles,
scarlet fever, and diphtheria-un-
der control.
Since the time when germs we're
discovered to be the cause Of in
fictitious diseases, attempts have
been made repeatedly to find the
specific germ for measles, but thus
far the search has been unavailing.
Nevertheless, because of the
established infectious character of
the disease, methods have been
developed which seem to be helpful
in preventing the disease, and also
in treating cases.
For instance, it is known that
when person develops an infec-
ton, he is likely to build in his
blood a protective substance against
the disease. Therefore, one of the
measures that has been suggested
for the prevention of measles is
the taking of blood from a child
who recently has recovered from
the disease, and the injection of
this blood into child who has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uiet0s In these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or IesS)
BY John r. White.
Seldom have I seen packed into
one page of a newspaper SO much
worthwhile and mentally stimulat-
ing reading matter as was the edi-
torial page of The Times on Satur-
day, Oct. 81. Particularly meritori-
Gus, as evidence of clear thinking
and courageous expression in pres
ent day circumstances, were the two
editorials, one under the heading
America and Russia" and the other
Still Tagging" with Haywood
Broun and Mrs. Walter Ferguson
contributing incisive and interesting
articles on timely subjects.
If Walter Lippman's To-day and
Tomorrow contribution on the same
day is added to the above collection
The Times had presented in it's COL
unlns in one issue an imposing SYM
postum on some of the most vital of
our public problems, all discussed
from such a sane and forward look
ing point of view that was in happy
disregard of blind conservatism and
an encouragement to liberal and free
lines of thought and expression.
Some of the amazing things in this
advanced day is the stiff-necked
opposition to the recognition of Rus
STA by the United States govern
ment from such organizations as the
D. A. r., the American Legion and
the American Federation of Labor.
All of these organizations are, theo-
retically at least, ardently commit
ted to the Constitution of our ma
tional government, and are not
openly disregarding the provisions of
that document which provide guar
anteeS of free speech and sets up the
right of the people to govern them
selves in any way they may deter
mine.
The pretense that the Russian
government is committed to the
overthrow of this government by
force and violence is so uttery I'M
supported by the facts as to be IN
worthy of respect by any one who
has an intelligent understanding of
circumstances, and is at the same
time sincerely committed to the fun
damentalS of our American insti-
buttons.
The United States government is,
itself, the child of revolution, and
the glorious revolutionary soldiers
who fought and the devoted revo-
lutionary patriots who supported
the revolutionary war for American
independence were the Bolsheviks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27

The scarlet fever antitoxin given
in this manner protects the child
for one or two months. 1t is pos
sible, however, to protect against
scarlet fever for a longer time by
use of the Dick toxin.
1t has been established, in a series
of cases studied in Canada, that
from so to 10 per cent of children
immunized by this method become
free from the danger of catching
scarlet fever.
More recently, scientists have
been able to prepare toxoid that
is free from the possibility Of sensi-
tization to serum, such as occus
when the toxin in serum is used.
Among children injected with the
toxoid, SO per cent gained the i'm
munity which prevented their catch
ing the disease.
The program against diphtheria
practically is complete. There is
available a toxoid for inoculating
children so that they will not catch
diphther1a. There also is an excel
lent antitoxin which, if given early
in the disease and in sufficient dos
age, will prevent death and serious
complications in the vast majority
Of cases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
THE OLD STORY

THE story about the country lad who went
u to the city, worked hard to make money,
and finally returned, rich, to his old home
town to enjoy peaceful old age is one of the
most popular tales that ever gets told.
It's plot takes an ironic new twist however,
in the adventures of John McKinstry of Ire
land
NcKinStry left Ireland for New York years
ago to make his fortune The jobs ne got in
New York were nothing much but he worked
hard and saved money; and this year, after
fifty years of toll with upward of $25 900 saved,
he returned to Ireland to go back to the scenes
of his youth and enjoy life.
But things had changed in those fifty years
The town didn't look the same. His old friends
and relatives were gone. Nobody knew him,
nobody even remembered his name, nobody
could tell him anything about his family. In
stead of returning to pleasant old age, he
found that he had come back to loneliness and
disappointment.
The shock made him i'll. He spent weeks in
a hospital and on his recovery he said he was
going to head back to New York His home
town meant nothing to him and his money
- cant nothing. He had scraped and saved all
mis- life for nothing.
The whole pathetic little story is a sar-
donic sort of warning for youthful ambition.
All of us, at one time or another, get an
idea similar to the one about which McKinstry
built his life the idea that we shall deny our
selves this that and the other thing through
out youth and middle age so that, when the
end Of life approaches. We can take things easy
and enjoy the good things we missed when we
were younger,
But the man who does it runs the chance Of
discovering. too late, that putting off enjoy
ment too long is apt to mean missing it alto
gether. Save your good times for your old age
and you are gambling with time.
Happiness is the most elusive thing any one
can seek Unless we can learn how to get our
share of it in day-to-day living We run the
chance of missing it altogether.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27

high adventure and truth the only
object worthy of any quest.
1t is mans fate to grow up. Per-
haps that is the hell we suffer for
the fall in Eden. Certainly few of
us would ask more Of our Paradises
than that we might recapture once
again the glamour that surrounds
every happy childhood, because We
are assured the greatest deprivation
any human can suffer on this earth
is to have lived without experience
ing one. AS for me I give thanks to
books. How wonderful it is that by
the turn Of a page, can go back
for while to the enchanted land
where play, forever carefree and
glad, the Alices, the Huck Films, the
Buds and Biddies Of literature, and
the little girl who used to be ma.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27

of 1776 in the sight and in the en-
vironment of the world of nations of
that day. A democratic nation in
America was as abhorrent to the
monarchs of Europe, and caused as
much apprehension regarding the
stability of their thrones by reason
Of the influence of the rampant de-
mocracy let loose then as seems to
react in the minds of some of our
present day superpatriots who, Tory
like, see nothing of the lasting sig
nificance of the American revolu-
ton, and are equally blind, in most
cases, to the betrayal of our revo-
lutionary ideals by the insidious
growth of privileged interests that
have come about and the privileged
positions into which some of our
citizenship have gravitated. Re-
cent disclosures are making this in
creasingly clear, and Lippmann sig
nif1cantly is calling attention to this
phase of American life as a chal-
lenge to the efficacy or intimating
the decay of democratic inStitu-
lions.
That our social system is tagging
far behind our material develop
ment is clear to every sincere stu
dent of social problems, and The
Times is entitled to commentator
for it's courage and intelligence in
exploring this human problem.
Fundamental Americanism-the
right of free speech and a free
press; the right of private property
and free competition, but carrying
no governmental privilege as against
the common welfare; the right to
change the forms of governmental
administration at will; the arrange
r1ent of institutions to preserve and
utilize natural resources for human
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
FRIDAY. OCT. a. 1893.
A COOLING-OFF PERIOD

THANKS largely to the United States the
world disarmament conference will not
disband indefinitely. but will meet again on
Dec. 4. If by that time Herr Hitler has
cooled of and desires to re-enter the confer
ence, there will be some one to receive him.
That is the better way
This does not mean that the United States
government has any definite assurances that
Hitler will revoke his withdrawal. 1t is rather
that the United States does not want the door
closed on future negotiations
To many it must seem utterly futile to
hope that Fascist Germany will ever return
to the arms conference in good faith. But
stranger things have happened. International
affairs are no more logical than life For
instance, Mussolini the Fascist and war
monger, was largely responsible for preserving
peace this summer through his refusal to act
with his tmitator, Hitler.
1t is not at all impossible that Hitler in
time may change his tune. The economic boy
colt Of Germany which has reached world
proportions and which was recently joined by
the American Federation Of Labor, already is
being felt in Germany 1t will be felt more
Anu OSTIndIys more IIlaH LnOSI udClOIlS, Is
dependent on foreign trade.
Perhaps even more devastating is the moral
and political boycott Although there has been
no formal break in diplomatic relations, Ger
many during the last few months has isolated
herself from the rest of the world.
At Geneva, before she withdrew, she stood
alone. This was all the more shock to her be-
cause it represented reversal of world SYM
under a peaceful republican government.
In the long rum no government can stand
up against the sort of economic pressure and
political isolation to which Hitler is being sub
jected today from the outside.
The question is not so much whether Hitler
will be forced to change his international
policy ultimately, as whether German opinion
will then permit any such change. BY sup
pressing all democratic and liberal German
though, and by inflaming all the reactionary
and mitarist elements of the nation, the die
tator has created type of mob insanity which
even he may not be able to control
That is the worst feature of the so-called
German election which is to register the tempo
of the Hitler tom-tom. Again Hitler is whip
ping up the passions of the extremists
Assuming that Hitler may be ready by De-
cember to negotiate in a more reasonable
spirit at Geneva, the danger is that his Frank
enstein may destroy such faint hopes of peace
full compromise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
The Parade Catches Up

MOREOVER, the gentleman from
1V1 California has suffered the
fate which is meted out to most adj
vanced thinkers They make a sud-
den sprint and get hundred years
ahead, but seldom do they succeed
in stealing the coveted lap. The pack
catches up. 1t may even leave them
far behind.
I will admit that in few quarters
Upton Sinclair still is regarded as a
dangerous radical, but he hardly be-
longs in these fluid days to any bat
talon of the more flaming reds.
Twenty years ago meat packers and
other big business men trembled at
the mere mention of his name. And
now he is going to run in the Demo-
cratic primaries in California as a,
candidate for Governor.
Life goes on, and it may even be
possible that as old a slow coach as
the Democratic party has now
caught up with Sinclair somewhere
along the middle Of the highway.
II he seems little tame and tired
1AVCA A4Cy-1lFe years ana IOrUy-SeVen
books the fault is somewhat his own.
He has sought too many bypaths. 1t
was always confusing to receive in
any single week two books by Upton
Sinclair, both designed to bring
about the immed ate occurrence of
Utopia. In one the reader would be
told that nothing stood between him
and his happiness but the capitalist
system. Very often the reader be-
came a convert and accepted the
theory without question. AS a good
Slnclairian he would pick up the
other current treatise and learn
mat, IN addition to abolishing CAPT.
tallsm, it would be necessary to live
on lettuce and a few hickory nuts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
To q Broader Court

r WROTE something to the same
l. effect a good many years ago and
promptly received a cheerful letter
from the author in which he said, as
nearly as I can remember: Your
opinion of my books is not matter
of consequence as far as I'm con-
cerned. 1 do not write to please you
or other members of your group. The
audience to which I appeal is COM
posed Of the toiling masses. AS long
as can hold their attention it will
be enough. The next time I write
book why don't you send it out to
same worker and get his Onion? I
would be interested in such a re-
view"
1t was necessary for me to wait
almost a month before another Sim
clair novel appeared, and picked
plumber to read it and to write the
criticism. The plumber liked the
book very much.
I thought he would. Indeed, I
have never been under any miSap-
prehension as to Upton SinclairS
mass appeal. Until very recently, at
any rate, he has been read vastly in
all foreign lands. Visitors to America
for many years always have inquired
first about Sinclair when the talk
veered around to the American nov
ell. The English and the French and
particularly the Russians expressed
surprise that Upton received such a
small amount of critical acclaim in
his own land.
For the most part he has sold very
well, even in this country, although
by now the edge is beginning to wear
off. A certain number of former fol-
lowers are now content to wait until
book bites Upton Sinclair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27

THE best way to forget the sorry
i state of the world in which
you live is to plunge into a book.
Lethe has nothing on literature as a
sweet narcotic.
That's why 7 make my bow to
Rhys James for writing such story
as Worth Remembering" With
Bunnypie, Biddy and Bud We take
magic journey back to childhood
which. according to James Stephens,
the wise, is the only time in our
lives that is worthy to be cherished
in memory.
This book regards the world
through children's eyes. 1t will make
you laugh a great deal, but it also
viii make you think and wonder.
You wonder at ali the trouble we
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
Vision
BY EUGENE RICHART

BY EUGENE RICHART
Last night I went to the house
where We had been
Once-oh, so long ago!-Where we
were lovers.
And suddenly in the dusk I knew
how keen
Sorrow can be in a place where
memory hovers.
There at the dusty closed piano
where you sat
L stood, deaf, mute, and blind, re-
membering you;
Unseeing. stared at the worn place
in the mat
Where once. dim ages past, you had
stood, too.
The blinds were drawn. and the last
rays Of the sun
Made vague designs on the table and
the floor.
This was the end Of day. and love
was done.
Like stiff corpse walking, I started
toward the door.
Leaving. I am so sure I saw you
there
I felt half-stunned to find an empty
chair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-27
M. Tracy Says:

A FTER being indicted for murder in Virginia,
IA George Crawford, a Negro was arrested
and jailed in Massachusetts. AS is usual under
such circumstances, Virginia asked for his ex-
tradition and, as is usual, it granted Before
Crawford could be removed however, his lawyers
obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Judge
James A. Lowell of the federal court. In grant,
ing this writ and setting Crawford free. Judge
Lowell said:
why send this Negro back to Virginia, when
I know and everybody knows that the supreme
court will say the trial is illegal? The only
that would get anything out of it would be the
lawyers"
In celebrating his opinion, Judge Lowell made
it perfectly clear that he thought Crawford en-
joyed no guarantee of fair trial in state
where it was the practice not to have Negroes
serve on juries.
The assumption that crime had been COM
mitted and that freeing a possible criminal
would serve to obstruct the ends of justice seem
to have played no part in Judge Lowell's reason
ing. He disregarded the fact that he was deal
ing with legitimate legal process for the detec-
ton and punishment of crime
TITO him, the case appears to have included
l. little except custom which he did not like
Further than that, he ignored Crawford's right
to raise the issue of an unfair trial in Virginia
and, if necessary, bring it into the federal
courts.
Judge Lowell had the misfortune to cross
bridge before he came to it, as higher courts have
pointed out in reversing his decision. 1t is not
good sense or good law to interfere with normal
proceedings for fear that somebody along the
line will make mistake later on.
Had Judge Lowells decision been sustained
door would have been opened for the escape of
Negro murderers not only from Virginia, but
half dozen other states. All they would have
had to do is get to Massachusetts and obtain a
writ Of habeas corpus from Judge Lowell.
Happily the case did not turn out that way
Judge Lowell was reversed not only by the cir
cult court of appeals, but by the supreme court
Of whose concurrence he was so naively trustful
"TT was not intended by congress-" declared
l. the former, that the federal courts should
by writ of habeas corpus obstruct the orderly
administration of the criminal laws of a state
through its own tribunals"
And that does not conclude the matter by
any means. Two days after he issued the writ
Of habeas corpus in Crawford's favor the house
of representatives voted to entertain charges
against Judge Lowell Those charges are now
on file with the judiciary committee They I'M
doubtedly will be brought up at the next session
which opens in January. It is no more than
Just that they should be.
Such arrogant interference with regular pro-
cedure is not to be condoned. 1t stands for an
intolerable assumption of authority and for such
q legalistic conception of constitutional provi-
sions would substitute pure theorizing for
common sense.
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the Health Magazine.
the disease or who has been ex-
posed to it.
Sometimes the whole blood is in
jected. Sometimes the red blood
corpuScles or the solid materials
of the blood are allowed to filter
out and only the fluid of the blood
is injected.
1t now quite generally is agreed
that certain forms of streptococci
are the cause of scarlet fever. AS
a result, it has been possible to
prepare an antitoxin against scar
let fever by injecting horse with
the streptococci and then obtaining
the serum from the blood of the
horse.
In the hospital for sick children
in Toronto, all patients who are
found by the Dick test, when they
arrive in the hospital, to be sus-
ceptible to scarlet fever receive a
dose Of scarlet fever antitoxin with
a view to preventing them from
catching the disease.
The figures show that there have
been just one-tenth as many cases
of scarlet fever among the children
since this procedure was estab-
lished as before.