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The Message Center

(TimeS readers are invited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 CORDS or Iess.)
BY Fred Stultz.
Not all beliefs can be reduced to
numbers, and often an inference is
more powerful than open state
ment. But here are a few facts and
figures cleaned from government
bulletins, federal pamphlets, census
reports, national publications, and
other sources.
Much has been made of revenues
to the state from alcoholic sources.
You and know we pay taxes, much
of which goes to support our cor
rectional and charitable institutions.
In 1910, for every million of our ma
tional population there were SPIT
prisoners, 1859 of whom were for
alcoholic causes. In 1923, prohi-
bition times, these numbers had de-
creased to 3,251. of which 831 were
for alcohol.
In the good old days" alcohol was
shown to be responsible for Is per
cent of the insane in our land, 40
per cent of the neglected children,
so per cent of the convicts, and 80
per cent of the inmates Of jails and
warehouses.
No less an authority than Amos
w. Woodcock, national director of
prohibition, cites that enforcement
has not been expensive to Uncle
Sam. Total cost of enforcement
1920-1929 was 1924, l56,124. Total
collections from fines, penalties and
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somebody else, wouldn't be the
one to begrudge them even that.
For you may be sure they merit the
promotion.
The woman stenographer as she
now exists is the last word in in
dustrial efflciency-,and much more.
Not only is she compelled to be an
expert in her line, but she must
understand enough about business
to qualify for a financier, and
enough about human nature to set
up as philosopher in her own
right. And no kings mistress ever
understood better mans susceptible
ity to flattery.
Make no mistake about it. once
you have been a really excellent
business woman, you are capable of
holding any job, domestic, execu-
tive, political or romantic.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

in a family medicine chest include
liquid petrolatum, or mineral oil,
which is mechanical lubricant
without possibility of serious harm.
Other common preparations much
used include, Of course, the old
fashioned castor oil, seidlitz powders,
milk Of magnesia, pyllium seed,
sodium phosphate, aromatic cas-
cara, and mineral oil mixed with
agar.
The next most commonly used
preparations in a family medicine
chest, aside from the cosmetics, are
pain BELIEVERS.
Most Of these are used for head
aches, although sometimes they are
used for what are called neuritis,
neuralgia, toothache and other pains
Of unknown origin, as well as to
produce sleep.
Most headache powders bought
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tent, requires no physicians pre-
scription for hard liquor. These are
left entirely to the eighteenth
| amendment and its attendant legis-
lation. Under our present state
laws, hard liquor can be sold next
door to your home, your school, your
church, day or night, Sundays and
holidays, and you are pOWerless to
prevent it.
Is it good business to legalize an
industry that will increase our taxes
more than it pays in revenue?
When money is so scarce and bust
ness is SO crippled, are we to invite
in a competitor that will take the
lions share for his own? Shall We
open wide the doors of our fair
state to a traffic that always has
defed the law, threatened our
homes, broken the hearts of our
women, and orphaned our children?
You would save the eighteenth
amendment; vote against the pro-
posed twenty-drst. Put your x in
the middle circle Tuesday, June 6.
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THURSDAY. JUNE /. 1888.
BE RIGHT - VOTE FOR REPEAL

BE RIGHT - VOTE FOR REPEAL
NEXT Tuesday Indiana will speak it's mind
on repeal Of the eighteenth amendment
There is little doubt of how the citizens actually
feel about prohibition. They demonstrated
disgust with it pretty thoroughly last Novem-
Der
But convictions are worthless unless they
are acted upon. The voters must go to the
polls and vote. Otherwise a small minority of
Jealous drys may throw the state into the dry
column
Never have the people faced more impor-
tant issue President Roosevelt needs $220,-
10000 extra a year for the next two years if
he IS to meet the tremendous problem of I'M
employment
To raise this money he will have to increase
the gasoline tax by three-quarters of a cent
gallon and income taxes must be jumped by to
per cent. These additional taxes would add
almost intolerably to an already crushing load
on the man of moderate means
There is an alternative and the President
has pointed it out. That is the legislation and
taxation of liquor. Every one but the most
ignorant and bigoted know that prohibition
has failed to prohibit Well-nformed drys,
while admitting the truth of this plead for
another chance:
Thirteen years is long enough for an expert
ment, no matter how noble in purpose" The
nation no longer can afford to spend millions
of dollars year to enforce law which has
become an idle gesture Nor can it any more
tolerate the lounting of its laws by millionaire
racketeers, whose henchmen patrol the streets
Of the principal cities with machine gun and
bomb
The issue on Tuesday is clear-cut. Shall
liquor profits continue to go to the bootleggers?
On shall they go to the relief of wage earners
and to the feeding of the millions of worthy
unemployed and their families?
Indiana common sense already has decided
Make sure that the decision is put into force
at the polls
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[M.E.TracySays:

TITO the extent that our foreign policy lacks
l. def1nitiveness, Secretary Hull is quite right in
asserting that it remains unchanged. Those
proverbial best minds as well as men on the
street, are unable to say whether we have
abandoned isolation" Most Europeans prefer
to believe we have, but they obviously make a
wish father to the thought.
What Ambassador Davis said at Geneva and
what Secretary Hull said at washington leaves
the majority Of people up in the air.
According to the ambassador, this government
will join a consultative pact" under certain
conditions.
To put it little palmer, this government will
agree to talk things over, it, when and as a
European row occurs and will do nothing to balk
! the efforts Of other governments to maintain
peace, provided that they can agree on who
started it and that the United States finds their
verdict acceptable.
That does not sound very specific or very
binding, especially in the light of Secretary
Hulls declaration that our traditional policy"
remains unchanged.
MANY observers have accepted Ambassador
1VA Davis statement as quite revolutionary
and as presaging a new era in the foreign rela-
tons of this government.
Maybe they are right but an Unconditional
reading of his words and phrases, particularly
those of a qualifying character, reveals woe
full lack of teeth
The proposition he made, if such it can be
called, is SO hedged about with ifs butts and
provideds as to leave any number of loopholes
No doubt European statesmen will catch on
after the first mild wave Of enthusiasm has
spent itself, and no doubt some of our alarmists
will get over the present attack of the filters
at about the same time.
True to custom, we are playing with words
rather than ideas Isolation, for instance has
come to assume a meaning, not only here but
abroad which hardly squares with history. In
the sense that the United States has been less
imperialistc than some other nations, her at
titude might fairly be described as isolated or
aloof but the late President Harding drew on
fancy rather than historical facts when he ad-
vocated return TO splendid isolation"
| A LII things considered, few great governments
1 n ever have meddled more consistently with
outside affairs than our own. The fact that it
has done so without the expectation of direct
reward in many cases does not alter the habit
implied.
Panama Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba, the Phil
lipines participation in the Boxer war, the cap
ture of Vera Cruz, and other similar incidents
beSpeak anything but policy of isolation.
While our entrance into the European war
represented meddling on grander scale than
ever, it was strictly in line with an attitude
which We had built up toward trouble in the
western hemisphere
! The Monroe Doctrine itself rests on the idea
of arbitrary interference with policies and poll
tics outside of our own domain The one type
of interference We have avoided is that which
goes with international collision. diplomatic in
trigue and trumpedup alliances
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TN slushy stories the stenographer
i always gets her man. She has a
devastating way with bosses. Ac-
cording to the best of the blah- blah
authors, the life Of the average city
typist is one of palpitations and
passion.
Her chief duty consists in beguil-
ing the mind Of the harassed busi-
ness man from the sterner facts of
life and of bringing romance into
the office. A lovely illusion, as every
girl who goes in for shorthand and
typewriting soon will find out.
I've seen many a stenographer
and private secretary in my day
and plenty of them were pretty
but I've yet to meet the one whose
life was the pleasure jaunt that the
pulp writers describe. Believe me,
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revenues for this period, $548, 433 ,260.
The difference is about "a million
dollars a year in favor of the eight
zenith amendment. Has your bust
ness shown profit of 100000 a
month?
Medical inspection in the schools
of New York revealed that So per
cent of the children of alcoholic
parents were "dullards" as compared
with 10 per cent of the children of
abstainers. DR.. Taav Lapinen made
an extensive study of children in
one community. He found that chill
dren of drinking parents were six
times as susceptible to disease as
the children of abStainerS.
The u. S. Census Bulletin for 1910
furnishes this information! Of each
500 spent by the user, thirteen in
duStrieS, such as automobiles, bread,
and furniture, average $1975 paid
to labor and $55.21 passed on to the
producer of the raw material. If
this 500 is spent for liquor, labor
gets but $763 and raw material
draws only $23.49.
Liquor claims it will pay the farm
er S24OO00,000 for his grain. From
1917 to 1929 the increase in the use
of milk in the United States was
800, from 755 pounds per person to
997 pounds. The increase alone at
cents a pint for a population Of
100 million is worth $720,OOO,OOO.
We have had eight depressions in
the United States. 1887, 1857, 1873,
1884, 1893 1907 we're wet times. The
one in 1920 and the present one
came in prohibition times.
Indiana's present beer act places
no limitation on the alcoholic con-
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So They Say

The cricket is an intellec-
tual little fellow with certain at
tainments OF refinement and an
indefatigable musician par excel
lence.-Judge Nicholas M. Pettee of
Flushing, L. l., in deciding against
tenant who complained crickets
bothered him.
I've been through every depres-
sion since the one of 1873. They
are all the same. Business always
comes up quicker than it goes down.
Samuel M Vauclain, chairman Of
the board of Baldwin Locomotive
Works.
II l had my way about national
parks, 1 would create one without a
road in it, I would have it impene-
trable forever to automobiles, a
place where man would rot try to
improve upon God.-Secretary of
Interior Harold L. Ickes.
The New Deal" is one of the few
campaign slogans in the history of
American politics to outlive the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in
November of an election year-Roy
w. Howard, publisher.
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It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. June SENATOR
~ Carter Glass has been pro-
testing that he can find no logical
scheme animating the Investigation
into the affairs of the House Of
Morgan.
1t seems to me that few con-
gresSional committees have faced an
issue more clearly drawn. More
over. Mr.. Morgan himself did much
to clarity and establish the battle
lines when he read his statement on
the Code of the Private Banker"
In this statement Mr.. Morgan
said
The private banker IS a member
OF a profession which has been
practiced since the middle ages.
In the process of time there has
grown up code of professional
ethics and customs, on the obServ-
ance Of which depend his reputa-
ton, his fortune and his usefulness
to the community in which he
works.
Some private bankers. as indeed
is the case in some Of the other
professions, are not as observant Of
this code as they should be: but if
in the exercise of his profession. the
private banker diSregards this code.
which could never be expressed in
legislation, but has a force far
greater than any law he will sacri-
fee his credit This credit is his
most valuable possession"
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The Code of MOrQan

T\HE point has been made that
Il in spite of Mr.. Pecora's find
ings the House of Morgan has lived
up to its code. Arthur Krock. writ
ing in the New York Times. OBJ
serves quite truthfully, I think,
When all the evidence in the in
qulry shall have been taken, it is
the opinion of this observer that
j. P. Morgan & Co. will, in some
instances, shine by comparison with
certain others during the bull mar
ket days"
That is 'praising with faint
damnS,' as Percy Hammond once
said, but l am perfectly willing to
admit that by and large Mr.. Nor
gan has lived up to the code I
mean the code of the private banker.
And that is where the rub comes
IN. Even if it were not possible
to find a single deviation from this
philosophy, founded in the Middle
Ages, the House Of Morgan still
would be half of one hundredth
good enough to be allowed to live on.
l am quite ready to admit that
j. P. Morgan is a courteous gentle
man, and that in all probability he
regards himself as a model of prob
lty. And. from his point of view,
he is. But America can not af-
ford to be crucified merely because
Mr.. Morgan knows not What he
does.
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under patent trade marks contain
phenacetin or acetanilid, sometimes
in considerable dosage 1t is not
well to experiment with acetanilid,
because it may, in large dosage,
have serious effects on the body,
including particularly the blood and
the heart.
Moreover, there is a tendency to
to form the habit of taking such
preparations.
Other drugs much used to pro-
duce sleep are derivatives of bar
bituic acid, Of which some of the
best examples are veronal, trionaI
and combinations of bartituric acids
with other drugs.
The family medicine chest is bet
ter off without preparations of this
character, as the possibilities for
harm are sufficiently great to sug-
gest that these preparations be not
used except with medical advice.
Next-Safe and unsafe home
remedies.
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Here Is the Issue

NOW, I think that on this state
~ ment alone, even without the
details of the working of the code as
brought out by Mr.. Pecora. an ex-
cellent case can be made for the
necessity of abolition of private
banking in democracy.
From the Middle Ages down to
the present day, the Guild of the
Private Banker has accounted itself
a separate entity within the govern
mental unit in which it functioned.
Its force has been greater than any
law.
To the private banker. the fact of
Fascist dictatorship monarchy or
republic, has been of little mo-
ment. He still ruled by divine right
and complete autocracy within his
own kingdom.
Palpably, the contests between the
major political parties in America
never have ebeen a matter of grave
concern to the House of Morgan.
The greatest private banker of them
all could afford to look on these
sham battles as amusing Spectacles.
And any private banker well could
afford to send out sandwiches and
pop to the doughty warriors of both
sides as some small return for the
entertainment which they had fur
nished him.
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Questions and

Q-Give the number of bones
in the human body?
A-Two hundred and fourteen.
Q-What does balance of
trade" mean?
A-The difference between the
money value of exports and i'm
ports, often said to be in favor
of a nation when the value of its
exports exceeds that of it's imports
and unfavorable vice versa.
Q-What was the highest price
for which the tickets to the Army
Navy football game of Dec. Is,
1880, sold?
A-Fifty dollars.
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The Eternal
BY EUGENE RICHERT

BY EUGENE RICHERT
If go deaf tomorrow,
Always 1 should hear
All the music that I've loved
Singing in my ear.
If I go blind tomorrow,
Always I should see
The spring-time loveliness
Of a cherry tree.
If should die tomorrow,
My soul, all silver white,
Would go floating thankfully
Through the cool. black night.
And there would be a vivid mark
For a scarlet sin
Startling red against the white
Where your lips have been.
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And So Takes Men Unawares'
AN EDITORIAL

and which wealth thinks it can rightfully wage
because of its social predominance and pres
tige.
Power great wealth and high responsibility
confer privileges which plain folks should not
question-there is the unspoken Morgan thesis,
in all its simplicity and menace
THAT Mr.. Morgan and his partners. with
their houses, yachts, and large personal
incomes, nevertheless legally could make their
capital losses wipe out their federal income
taxes called public attention to one OF the
gross injustices of the federal income tax law.
The law, not Mr.. Morgan, was to blame
But don't forget that many laws are drafted
and passed under heavy secret pressure and
suggestion from wealth-pressure often de-
veloped by practices of concealed "benevolence"
closely akin to the Morgan happy thoughts
for the benefit and profit of selected friends.
Unless the facts concerning Mr. Morgan's
income tax had been disclosed congress would
not have moved to correct at least one glaring
inequity of the federal income tax law.
Unless the even more significant facts of
the Morgan plum" distribution among a
American people might have been deprived, at
a crucial time of economic readjustment of
evidence profoundly important to the estab-
lishment of safer standards and responsibilities
among those who control huge portions of the
nations privately owned wealth. and who exert
immense influence in national and inter-
national finance.
Criticism of Attorney Pecora, complaints that
privacy is violated, bubbles over whether GER
tain Morgan benefciaries ever actually realized
their profits; whether they felt no obligation
or, like Mr.. Raskob, were frankly eager to
"reciprocate"; whether Mr. Woodin could have
had the slightest idea he might some day be
secretary of the treasury-an seem to us puny
and beside the point compared with the larger
disclosure, its legitimacy, it's tinleliness and
its plain ethical meaning
"DUBLIC opinion" declares Lord Bryce, "is
u even more important than law, since
more flexible and able to reach cases not
amenable to legal process.
Opinion forms in public life that atmos-
phere which we call Tone and on whose purity
the honor and worth Of public life depend"
n pO4lCy VI COFC1li4S uP 1ll oACIlCC CdIl LOG
raise that tone. Public opinion can not thrive,
can not continue healthy and effective on
theory that what it does not know will not
hurt it."
Wealth and its worshipperS would like to
keep this theory still in force for the sake of
the privileges and the percolative kind Of
wealth. distribution that go with it,
But the theory is doomed to crash. The
Morgan testimony has fastened the crash. The
country, the tone of its business, finance and
government, the whole capitalistic structure
will. be better, safer, and more stable when this
long-standing notion of wealths high preroga-
tives and immunities has finally gone into the
discard
We have suffered too long and too much
from the smooth, resourceful power that masks
its purposes and takes men unawares."
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Exercise Care in Use of Laxatives

Editors Note: This is the third article
in a series of six on the Family Medicine
Chest.
T EFT us consider now the items
IL that really should be in any
first-claSs family medicine chest.
Most families want To keep on
hand a laxative or cathartic I'm
der certain circumstances any lax
alive or cathartic may be exceed
ingly dangerous.
The most conspicuous example is
appendicitis. This at first is just an
infected spot on little organ which
comes off the large bowel and which
apparently has no serious function
in the human body.
If this infection develops the way
a boil develops from a pimple, it is
in danger of bursting and spreading
throughout the body.
Therefore, no laxative or ca
thartic ever should be taken when
the abdomen is exceedingly pain
full.
The most common laxatives used
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GiUe Us Service

BY One who Waited.
1T is amazing how little con-
Il sideration bus patrons of the
city are given on holidays, with
Memorial days as an especially
glazing example. On a stree
traversed by three bus lines, I
waited exactly forty4eight minutes
for a bus Tuesday morning.
1 realize that holiday schedules
are different from those of work
days, but every one is not home
resting on a holiday. Many of us
have to get to work, and the boss
takes no excuse, such as "The
buses weren't running"
How about a little consideration
for the one who goes to work on
holiday?
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To uphold the honor of his department.
Jealous police chief in Hutchinson, Kan, fined
his own wife 81 for overtime parking But
you can guess who paid it.
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Some men never will be satisfied that the
governments New Deal" really has arrived
until the local postoffce begins using grade
of ink that won't clog up their fountain pens
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Daily Thought

And who is he that will harm you,
if We be followers Of that which is
good?-Peter 3:13.
IT is virtue that gives glory; that
l. will endenizen a man every
wheye.-Ben johnson.
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The people of the country are not inter
ested in patronage" admonishes Postmaster
General Farley. Yes. but it so happens that
most of the would-be postmasters live in the
cities
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Suns heat will be less intense during the
next two years, report Smithsonian scientists.
Probably the effects of our frozen assets are
being felt there now.