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EASIEST ’T’"T’ a child labor law or a minimum wage WAY FOR \/\/ law is declared “unconstitutional” by the CONGRES f Y United States Supreme Court, blame weak, toadying Congress, says Senator Owen, one of the first of the contemporary volunteers in the fight against the judicial oligarchy. “Let’s stop talking about the usurpation by the courts and talk about the abdication by Congress,” Owen says. Owen denounces Congress for not observing the right and power distinctly given by the Constitution, the right and the power to prevent a court from writing and rescinding laws. When John Marshall first took that liberty, the easier way for Congress to complain and do nothing. The easiest way, and for 100 years, the more popular way was to not only permit it, but to reward the thieves of jurisdiction. The habit grew, precedent was established, and nothing is so holy in the legal profession as is precedent. What is the remedy? Owen says Congress should not admit the Supreme Court has such power. If the court asserts that power, then Congress should impeach the court. Then we would have a clear issue. Not such a bad idea—as good today as it was when Thomas Jefferson suggested it. BUST on sugar.” is the battle cry of 600,0(10 SUGAR women in New York City alone. The depGOUGE! uty commissioner of markets in that city is co-operating with 250 women’s clubs in organizing the boycott of the New York housewives against the sugar gamblers. “A boycott on sugar and sweets, except for necessities, until the price comes down to normal” has been declared by women in Maryland. “No icings on cakes.” says another woman’s organization decisively. All this is part of a popular movement to put sugar where it ought to be by canning time. Every day the snowball grows larger. Women in San Diego. Lincoln (Neb.L Indianapolis. San Francisco. Dallas, Chicago, Kansas City and Boston have already expressed themselves and will act. or rather fail to act according to the expectations of the sugar profiteer. Come on in, housewives. Join in the movement to bust the sugar gouge.

WHAT IS A ND now Bill Borah trumpets defiance to all ALL THIS /\ connected with this world court idea, defiSHOOTIX’? XjL ance in general to the main idea, defiance specific and concrete against Hughes and Herbert Hooker. Whoop! ’ shouts Hiram of California, now overseas, as he buckles on his armor for the fray. The fight Is on. Some may imagine our entrance to the world court is the issue! Foolish ones! The fight is to determine who is to run this administration the next two years, name the candidate in 192-i and forecast the Republican nomination in 1928! Shall ’t be Jim Watson, Medill McCormick, Henry Cabot Lodjre and the Senate gang, or the little group in the President’s (’’Sbinet ? If Hughes and Hoover and Harding win out. that will be one thing. If Bill Borah and Hiram Johnson and Jim Watson and Henry Cabot Lodge win. that will be something else again MINDS CC r ' ft tn^a * v is toward pure democracy and DO NOT fl Ino pure democracy has ever long survived.” AGREE — President Harding. “It is rather for us to be here dedicated That we here highly resolve that this nation under God shall have anew birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”—Abraham Lincoln. W EVIDENTLY, the British don’t like our promtc wav H i hibitio " 3 little bit ' lhp Hous,? °f Commons HLS WAYS having voted 236 to 14 against the Scrymge- ,, _ . . raour Prohibition bill after its orators had ne.d America up as the horrible object lesson. It’s all right. The best that Uncle Sam can do is to set an example. He can not pour it down any nation’s gullet after the funnel fashion. Uncle was very sanitary long before John Bull knew much about plumbing and a lot of British are still relyin* on tallow candles. Old-fashioned John always takes his time in waking up to find innovations from abroad. He will likely stick to his saloons until he finds out that they are running his politics and, hence, his government.

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You can get an answer to ary Question 21 or information by writing to the Washing-tor. Bureau, 1322 N\ Y. Are,. Wasbinaton. D. C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps, jieoic&l. leyal, and lov© and marriage advice cannot oe given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or paper, speeches. ;tc. be prepared Unsigned letters cannot be answered but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies. —EDITOR. What is the bullion value of Ihe American silver dollar? About 48 cents. When were compressed paper wheels for locomotives introduced In this country? In 1888. When and by whom was St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, built? By Archbishop Hughes and Cardinal McCloskey from the plans of James Renwick; cornerstone laid. 1858. The edifice was dedicated 1879. The spires crowning the towers which flank the main entrance were completed in 1886, and the Lady Chapel and adjoining octagonal chapels at the eastern end were added in 1901-6. What are Benedictines? An order of monks following the rules of St. Benedict. When was Pope Innocent 111 born, and where? At Anagni in 1198. Hid King Tutankhamen have negro blood? He was an Egyptian—a branch of the Hamitic division of the Caucasian race. This race had very little mixture of Semitic or negro blood Are all the stars made of the same material? Analysis of the light from different st&rffcby means of the spectroscope apparently shows decided differences in

the composition of different types of stars. Recent researches, however, point to the probabability that ail the stars have the same chemical composition, the differences shown In the spectra being due to the difference in temperature A gas-like heli,um, for Instance, is so hard to set shining that It is only In the hotter stars that it can be detected. When, where and by whom was Jesse James killed? April 3. 1882. at his home in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert and Charles Ford, members of his own gang. How many negroes are there in the l nlted States? In 1920, 10,463,131. On what day of the week did June 20, 1906, come? Wednesday. How long has Judge landis been commissioner of the American and National Leagues of pro fessional baseball clubs? Since Nov. 12, 1920. Who won the typewriting speed contest at the Pageant of Progress, Aug. 9, 1922, and what was the speed? George L. Hossfield of Paterson, N. J., against a field of 160 entrants by writing 126 words a minute for thiity minutes. Where and what is Watkins Glen? A deep rocky ravine or minor canon in the vicinity of Watkins. X. V., about two and one-half miles long ami Has t{£iiiKiing walls of rock in place. 160 tos3oo feet high. It has numerous beautiful cascades

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BEHIND SCENES IN WORLD COURT Real Issue Is Hi Johnson Against Hughes and Hoover

Mother of Two College Boys Declares Moderate Hazing Good for Students

English Rector, Whose Son Committed Suicide, Disagrees With Matron,

By NEA Strrirr MIDDEEBURY, Vt., May 2.—ls hazing good for boys? amounts,” says Mrs. Maud O. Mason, for many years matron of one of the men’s dormitories at Middlesbury College, and herself mother of two boys. And this despite to recent deaths of freshmen at Northwestern Univer sity, blamed as a result of class wars. “Not at all,” says the Rev. C. N. Tanner, English rector, whose 14-year-old boy committed suicide because of the “ragging” of upper classmen in a British school. Between these divergent views lies a field of controversy as wide as the ocean itself. But one thing is agreed: The American ‘‘freshman,’’ no matter how severe, his hazing, gets off much easier than the British boy whose ‘‘bullying" starts in the public schools. These public schools are really pii vase Institutions. Was Studious Boy Vivian Merton Tanner, son of the rector, was sent to Christ's Hospital, better known as the “Bluecoat School." He was good looking, sensitive and very studious, being more interested in books than games. And that is a cardinal sin In a British public schools. The older hoys ‘'picked'’ on him in cessantly. The crisis came on after r.oon when he was ordered to act as linesman in a football match. He was pestered by his fellows; they charged him with making mistakes, and. It is said, several kicked him Driven to desperation, he went to his. locker, drew out a clasp knife, turned to his tormentors and said; ‘‘You made me do it You have killed me.” He then stabbed himself Asa result of this tragedy many persons are bitterly attacking the whole British school system Insofar as the conduct of the boys Is concerned. Tn some schools the younger boys are the .“fags” or servants of the older students N'o such extr*-m >. are common in the American schools. But the life of the freshman Is not one of too much comfort As It Should Be “This." says Mrs Mason, who has mothered thousands of boys at the New England College, “is as it should be If freshmen didn't get a little traditional attention from the sophomores. they would think they were being cheated out of part of their college course "Some of tl • proudest fellows I’ve ever seen were those freshmen who were singled out to be stolen' by the sophs the night before a game or Interclass contest.'' “Mother” Mason dries not approve of icy duckings or indiscriminate puddlings. She does believe, how ever, that a certain amount of class discipline administered firmly, and with good humor, is invaluable In making a man out of the high school youths who come to college.

THE HAGUE TO RULE ON •WET’ OCEAN By United A'eic* LONDON, May 2.—ln rev** the United States subscribes to the suggestion of President Harding that, she participate in the court of international Justice at the Hague, one of the first cases Involving America will probably be the ruling of the United States Supreme Court prohibiting ships from bringing liquor stores within the American three-mile limit. It was suggested consideration of the American Supreme Court’s decision would fall within the province of the Hague tribunal, inasmuch as the right of British. French and Italian ships to carry liquor anywhere is involved. Liverpool shipping interests have submitted the ruling of the Supreme Court to international lawyers and no action will be taken until the attorneys make their report. ROADS FEAR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP By C. C. LYON. WASHINGTON. May 2.-—A billion and a half dollars to silence the demands for lower freight rates„and for Government ownership is the sum which high railroad executives hope to spend this year The campaign launched by Senator Couzens of Michigan for •‘government ownership ns the onlv solution” of the railroad problem has thoroughly alarmed leaders in the rail road world. It is thought here that Government ownership of raihaods or else more drastic control over them is an inevitable political issue in the coming campaign. Both tiie activities ol the Government ownership group and Congress and of William G. McAdoo, who has been sounding out. sentiment on the Government ownership question. have pointed in this direction. In railroad circles, the eight-months’ ■st from sessions of Congress is re-: avded as a period of probation durwhieh the radraods must deinont rate whether or not they can satisfy the American public of their ability to render adequate service,

MOTHER” MAUD O. MASON. WHO THINKS HAZING IN' MODERATION IS GOOD Fort COLLEGE BOYS AND (INSET) VIVIAN MERTON TANNER. ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE BE CAUSE OF THE SEVERE ."RAGGING” AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL.

Only Nine but Not Too Little to Save Adult From Drowning

ft* NEA Service Auburn, n y. May 2^-a bronze medal awarded by the I’arncfl" Hero Fund Commission proves t Hat 9 y car old Katherine Ernsbergen Is a heroine. Katherine is little, but she was bly enough to av a grown-up from drowning. She did it when she dived off the dock at Owason last Ia bor day and saved the life of Mrs. I>oulse Westlake, 31, of Auburn. She saw the woman go down and she swam out to her went under water and brought hetup and towed her ashore. Katherine learned to swim with the Girl Scouts when she was 3. but she isn’t.an expert swimmer Put she had learned some thing about :lfe saving and about first aid to the drowning. “The first thing I thought of.” said Katherine, "was the motto we learned, 'keep cool in danger.’ Mrs. Westlake was unconscious when I grabbed her, and she was pretty heavy. But it wasn't so hard towing her ashore." Little Miss Emsberger is the youngest of sixteen persons whose acts of heroism were recognized in the Hero Fund Commission's latest report

PIGGLY HEAD NOV/ FACING BANKRUPTCY By I nitrvi Xrws MEMPHIS, Tenn , May 2. —Ciar ence Saunders, the Piggly Wiggly magnate whoso recent raid on shorts in Wall Street startled the financial world, is facing personal bankruptcy. Memphis newspapers today announced unless the people of Memphis come to his aid with subscriptions for $2,760,000 worth of Piggly Wiggly stock he will be finaneiajly ruined. A few weeks ago the shorts on Wall .Street were bidding frantically for this stock at fancy prices. Loss of his fortune would not affect the financial status of the Piggly Wiggly firm. Saunders said, except insofar as tho company would lose with Saunders out a.s its head. Despite the clean-up he recently made in his spectacular war oti Wail Street, the unredeemed debts incurred during that drive now threaten to win over the “small town grocery clerk.” lately hailed as a financial genius. GOVERNOR PRAISES I. U. OFFICERS' TRAINING UNIT School May Get Fourth “Gold Star” Recognition. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 2. Following inspection of Indiana unit R. O. T. C., Governor McCray complimented officers of the organization and school officials. “Indiana University R. O. T. O. is a splendid organiza tion and I want to compliment yon on the showing of your men.” the Governor, said. Confidence is expressed that for the fourth year Indiana University will gain recognitiA* from the War De partment as a 'gold star" unit.

M Jrat j KATHERINE ERNSBERGER

Os Course He Doesn’t By BERTON BRALEY i Santa Claim tniiftt bo quit© elriorlj Tho lit tl© boy unci© averred. A frown overclouded the little hoy’n brow 11 18 blue eye® grew jut a bit blurred: In vigorou* protewt lih shook hi* small head. The faith of hi* heart to uphold. And with deep conviction he boyishly ©aid. "Aw, Santa Claus doesn't Ret old!'* NO aaffo ever spoke any weig-htor word More freighted with frloriou* truth. The myths and the legends that childhood has heard Are dowered with undying youth So Peter Pan doesnt crow up with th? years. But ever ih blithesome and bold. Ami ‘Alice in Wonderland a sales* appears. And Santa Claus (lo©wit get old! LITTLE Rwl Ridinjr Ilootl still ib a ehild And Hop o My Thumb still a boy. The fatrl©* and poblins that roam through tho wild Keep always their youth and their joy: While tales are repeat I'd or lullabies puny Sweet Goldilocks' hair will be gold. Prince Charm in? will nevermore cease to be youns. And Santa will never set old! (Copyright, 1023. NEA Service. Inc. 1

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BITTERNESS GOES BACK NINE YEARS Cry of internationalism vs, Isolation Started in 1916 Campaign, By W. H. PORTERFIELD. Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 2.—lt was in the early fall of 1916. Charles Evaus Hughes. Republican candidate for President, had reached California in his Nation-wide campaign. Governor Hiram Johnson, then as now. California’s favorite son, was militant leader of the Progressive-Re-publicans, also head of the most powerful political organization in the history of the State, and candidate for the Senate. Tiut even so. Hiram's organization was not able to capture the entertainment committee which was to have charge of Candidate Hughes’ tour of the big Western State. The anti Johnson crowd captured Mr. Hughes. It was a serious tactical mistake. The reactionary crowd of Californians, Mike do Young, Sam Shortridge, ex Governor GiUctt. ex-Senator Frank Flint, and ail the rest of the old Southern Pacific gang, might have had the money, but Hiram had the votes Hiram and his friends sulked in their tents, refusing to shake hands wilh Hughes or even call on him at his sotel.

Hughes l,ost Fight Result; Hughes lost California and the presidency of the United States. To his intimates. Hughes is reported to have said, referring to Hiram, ‘‘There'll come another day.” Hiram whs elected to the United States Senate. Four years later in the fall of 1920, he was candidate for th< presidency before the Chicago convention. But Herbert Hoover, also j a famous Californian, had been perruaded to become a candidate ror the j same job. The issue, then .is now. was Internationalism vs. Isolation.” I Hiram, tn spite of his isolation program. carried his Stale, but lost the ! nomination. Hiram is quick to anger and slow j to forgive He has never forgiven Hughes for “1916'' nor Hoover for ‘ 1920. ' Today Hughes, as secretary of State and Hoover as secretary of commerce, are admittedly the political power of the Harding Cabinet and ; Administration. Hiram Johnson and all the “bitter curlers" who joined to defeat entrance i into the league of Nations as proposed b\ President Wilson, are on the : outside look rig in. Cpon Hiram s re turn from Europe next month, the fight will he on all along the line from Massachusetts with Henry Cabot Lodge in command to California where Hiram will range the Pacific slope. No Love for Watson Strange combination indeed Hiram hates Lodge He has no Jove for Jim Watson of Indiana or Medill McCormick of Illinois or Bra tide gee ;"f Connecticut and he even broke , with P.il! Boron a few months ago I iin the Senate, but here is an iasue ; all made ready tor hie hand and the issue is: "Shall Charles Evans Hughes and I Herbert Hoover dictate the presiden- j tial situation in 1924 and thus proba- j bly the nominations in 1928?" Hiram says: "No!” and it looks like a hot time this summer, when the ; country will be alternately splendidly ! saved or ignominously damned evertr j I night till snow flies, but the real Issue will be Hiram and the Senate gang against Charles Evans Hughes and Herbert HooverBONAR LAW ON VACATION FOR HEALTH ft* Cnttad .Yeir* SOUTHAMPTON, England. May 2. ! —Bonar Law. British premier, ; whose health has been under- j mined by his strenuous duties of j office, has left on his vacation during j which he hopes to recover his voice j which has been greatly impaired fori more than a month. The prime minister left on the Princess Juliana, a Dutch liner, for Genoa It is understood Bonßt is not to be bothered with the cares of office during his vacation and has instructed Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the ex chequer, to take over his full duties during the absence.

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LOTS of people think the world owes them two or three livings. - . • The latest boy wonder is “How long before vacation? * • • A young lady tells us that crying lor a man isn‘t half as quick as smiling for a man. • • • The biggest fish doesn’t always get away. Sometimes he goes home and says they wouldn’t bite.

One nice thing about radio in warm weather is you can put the thing up and go walking. No matter what kind of clothes the women wear next, they will not show their age. The political pof is boiling. It makes lots of smokes. * • * Who remembers the old-fashioned normalcy that lived just around a corner so long? • • * A gardener tells us he has raised his hopes. About the best way to make an enemy is to agree with a man when he says he looks bad. • • • Now is the time to begin resting up for your vacation. Daylight is getting more plentiful, but we ought to use it aIL^P • • • The reason some people slip is because they haven’t the sand. Only two classes of people fall for flattery—male and female. A man will give the preacher a nickel and then tell him how much he enjoyed the sermon Education is expensive, but it isn’t as expensive as ignorance. m • m Mixing your drinks is dangerous. A man has been arrested for selling milk and water mixed. Times are so bad with some people they won t, biu a single new automobile this spring. The main trouble with a reformer is he is liable to become a deformer. Never stop swatting flies until you run out of them. • One good thing about, a cheap waSoil is jou can always tell what time it isn’t. 'l on can t eet ahead by spending vour time getting even. Always getting into hot water will eventually cook your goose.

Boycott Will Drive Down Price of Sugar, Food Expert Declares

Ru Times Special WASHINGTON, May 2.—Do you want the price of sugar to go down? ‘Then, housekeepers, don't buy sugar.” urges Dr. Harvey Wiley, food expert, writer and former chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. Dr. Wiley says that a boycott is the only way in which housewives can protect themselves against the sugar profiteers. He says that the boycott should extend not only to sugar used on the table and in cooking, but to candies, cakes, pastry' and sweet things bought over the drug store soda fountain counter. "Asa matter of fact," says Dr. Wiley, ‘‘we eat far too much sugar in this country anyhow. It would be an excellent thing for our health if wa would cut our use of it in half. "If we didn't , uitiv.ite sweet teeth'

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument HISTORICAL SERIES By an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, passed at the session in ISS 7. Indianapolis was to have the first monument in the world erected In the honor of the private soldier. At a total cost of more than half a million dollars this magnificent structure was completed and dedicated on May 16. 1902. It Is regarded as one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the wuntry. Almost half a century before the passing of the Soldiers’ and Sailors' Monument act, Fletcher's Bank started to do business on Washington street, with a capital of SB,OOO. Eighty-three years of service to Indianapolis and Indiana—B3 years of safes, sound and conservative banking have placed Its successor, The Fletcher American National Bank, at the top with the most highly regarded banking institutions in the couutry. Fletcher American National Bank C'MvitM u. hnlM )UH^,

TOM SIMS SAYS:

from babyhood we wouldn't have this I terrible craving for sugar.” according to Dr. Wiley. He says that Eskimos, who eat mostly- meat, do not care at all for sugar when it is first given to them, and have a hard time learning to like it. Women's < mbs and organizations in various parts of thh United States are passing resolutions favoring a boycott of sugar. Local chapters of the National League of Women Voters are indorsing the movement. Mrs. Ruth Gardiner of the National League of Women Voters' headquarters here says that she expects local chapters in many more sections to follow the leadership of those in Boston and Maryland. She say-s: "The women will boy cott it. whether They are urged to do it o'- not."