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' ;;f Indianapolis Times MARTTN. Editor ill Chief ROY W. HOWARD. President. • fSoMER PETERS. Editor. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Mgr. ’■ ' of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers * • * Client of th* Enited News. United Financial and NEA Service and -.-**' : Scripps Newspaper Alliance. • • • Member of the Audit ' "^^H^weulatlons ' i1 r except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing :2."Vy fn rents a Week Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week T*ssMrjp'NE MAIN 3MO ■e^H c °ME TO RAINBOW VETERANS ■ f: "v roar': they came hack. Remember the column '#pWound its way through Monument Plaee for hours and how we all eheered until we were hoarse and still ■a hearty shout of “atta-bov” for the very last man? ■ Remember that jaunty, tin-hatted outfit that led that marW/Us procession? * Remember Welcome Home day? Os course 1 Who and ever ■-•get it ? W Well, they’re coming back to visit us, those boys who headed ■he parade, those Rainbow veterans. All of them who can get here, will be in Indianapolis July ■ 3 to 15 for the annual convention of the Rainbow Division \ ct- ■ rans’ Association. Not only all Indiana members, but about |s,ooo others from all over the country. There’s one convention we mustn’t overlook. Those in charge haven’t told exactly what will be expected of citizens, but let’s all stand ready tp do a real job as soon as the word comes. THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT fr> RESIDENT HARDING, of course, is right.. We refer to his JL Helena (Mont.) speech. Suppose there were another war such as the last. Suppose after the first flush of excitement subsided, the young men of the country ceased to volunteer in great numbers. Suppose a few of them said to the recruiting officers, “We can’t afford to fight at S3O a month, our time is too valuable. We are being offered better jobs-fttjbigher wages every day. You’ll have to pay us what the risk is worth or we won’t take on your fighting jobs.” • • As the death toll increased and men became scarcer and Scarcer, soldiers would be drawing very fancy wages. J And yet, what is there illogical in the idea ? Don t the same I men who supply their sons to the army at S3O a month charge all they can get for everything else they supply to the army? But a way was found long ago to prevent young men from profiteering in their own flesh and blood in wartime. In recent years the labor party ‘in Tngland has been advocating the application of the sarnie method to prevent profiteering in the flesh of cattle and hogs, in wheat and corn, in lumber and iron, in ships and railroads, and, above all, in money, in wartime. If men can be conscripted, there can be no legal or moral ground for failing to conscript every other of the nation. y The British “radicals” have' been right all along. Harding is right now. There is this difference —the British workers, as their power continues to increase in the British government, show an unrelenting purpose to practice what they preach.

SPIRIT OF SERVICE J HEN Commander Donald. .-MacMillan sailed away toward Vs the north pole the other day, he carried with him a bronze? tablet which he will erect on the scene of one of the most tragic disasters in the history of arctic- exploration. Far up in the frozen north, it will stand as a perpetual memorial to sixteen Americans of the Greely scientific expedition who died the slow and terrible death of starvation and exposure after two promised annual relief expeditions had failed to reach them. Without fuel or food, they fought for life through the winter and spring of 1883-84. chewing scraps of old sealskin and lichens after they became too weak to hunt. One by one, they sickened and died, but the survivors kept up the scientific observations for which they had been sent into the arctic. The original party of twenty-three was reduced to seven when on June 22. 1884. they were finally rescued. Os the seven, only one was strong enough to rise to his feet. But the scientific records, which added greatly to thg" world's geographic, meteorologic and magnetic knowledge, had been carefully kept until forty hours before the rescueWe have wondered, sometimes, what causes men to voluntarily risk death when no occasion demands it and when success holds no tangible reward. The tragic experience of the illfated Greely party, paying for the advancement of human knowledge at the price of their lives and keeping their scientific records up-to-date until creeping death stilled their benumbed fingers. gives the answer. ' u . \ It is man’s love and devotion for the work that he has set out to accomplish; the unswervable desire for success for the mere reward of being successful in a chosen ambition. Arctic explorers have little tb gain in material things, but the man in a work-a-day job can profit by their example. His success, to the greater or less degree, will be governed by the spirit with which he goes at his daily task, whether it be selling shoes, laying brick or running a bank. YOU AND 17 YEAR LOCUST IF you think you have a difficult time here on earth, compare with the seventeen-year locust which is swarming by billions \again this year, attacking the The unwelcome visitor has reported in several'sections of Indiana. \ The United States Department of Agriculture says these insect pests are “undoubtedly the most interesting of all the insects peculiar to the American continent.” After their 1923 visitation, running to form, they ought not to show up again until 1940. The seventeen-year locusts, which really are giant flies instead of locusts or grasshoppers, make their appearance out of the ground. They live only a few weeks, then fall to the ground dead. During this short life, all effort is devoted to reproduction. The female begins on a tree branch. She is equipped with a sort of plow, which she- uses to make a line of holes in the bark to the end of the branch. In these holes she lays her eggs, two in a nest. - About a fortnight later the eggs hatch, larvae crawls out, drop to the ground, burrow down and entomb themselves deep enough to be immune to all kinds of weather. For seventeen years they sleep, then crawl forth, mount to a tree branch and start the process of reproduction all over again. They come and go and repeat with perfect regularity, all maturing and laying eggs and dying at almost identically the same time. In their wake they leave a trail of ruined orchards, which they prefer to forest trees or vegetables. Seventeen years of preparation for a few weeks of life l After all, it is much like human existence—9s per cent preparation and toil, 5 per cent realizlition and pleasure. Nature’s activities are infinitely fcaried and\nysterious. It would be n X, \ ’y, equally amazing a^^j^cventeen-ye* locusts, that we take instead purpose on earth.

U. S. HOST TO 30,000 IN CAMPS Barracks at Knox to House 3,600 Men of R. 0. T. C. BUILT IN KENTUCKY HILLS Remodeled Cottages of Little Town Turned Into Officers’ Quarters. By DOROTHY STANHOPE, Time* special correspondent who will report activities of Indiana men taking military training at Camp Knox. CAMP KNOX. Ky.. June 30—This camp is built around the little town of Stithton, up in the Kentucky hills. The simple cottages remain as the quarters of officers: they have been remodeled and fitted with electricity, water and other modern conveniences, unknown to the villagers. The largest of the churches has become a moving picture theater, another has fallen into decay, the third is the camp chapel. The Government was generous in Its payment for property, but firm; no protest, no plea, awaited to turn aside the military hand In its purpose to take possession. Exiles Were Old Some of the exiles were old —to them the monetary value of their property meant little. It could not buy elsewhere the old home, the tiny garden plot, the neighbors, the hundreds of associations that clung to their humble cottages. And so it happens that for those who live in these cottages there are ghosts. For a while after the owners were dispossessed, these ghosts were materialized in the pitable figures found seated on doorsteps—exiles who had wandered back to have a glimpse of the old home. Immediately after the village was bought, the pastoral scene was changed to one of the greatest activity. Workmen moved in and this big camp, of mushroom growth, was constructed. The barracks are of the type built everywhere during the war. They have never been painted and the elements have given them the appearance of many times their five years. Housed in Barraclts It is in some of these barracks that the R. O. T. C. men are housed, and that the other military organizations will be, lr turn, during the mmmer. Throughout the nation 30.000 men will be stationed at various training camps in the Nation, learning the game of “war.” Os this number 3.600 will he at Camp Knox. The camps were started in 1921 and are meeting with steadily Increasing'. popularity. Next year; it Is ectimated 60,0(10 men will be received into the camps. “It is’nt true, because a young.man learns to use a rifle he's going to rush out immediately and insist on using It Cne somebody,” declares Nathan H. Lord, civil aid to the secretary of war for the State of New York. Training Invaluable "If a war does come, however, the training in military discipline which these young men have received will be of invaluable aid to the country.” Men who have taken the summer training, he states, have shown marked increase of efficiency in business. while large commercial concerns are now giving their men the month off to lake the training as a special reward of merit.

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A BEVY of newspaper men in the Pullman smoker were telling racial yarns, and when it came to the San Francisco Argonaut man’s turn, he said: "An Irishman, in order to celebrate the advent of anew era, went out on a little lark. He did not get home until 3 o’clock in the morning, and wm barely in, the house before a

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Jobs for All Who Will Work Hit Times Special WASHINGTON, June 30—In July, 1921, Secretary of Labor Davis called the Nation's attention to the alarming fact that there were more than five million wage-earners out of employment. “Today,” says Francis I. Jones, director general of the United States Employment Service, “there is a job in this country for every able-bodied man who wants to work.” Twenty-three months of unhroken improvement, with the bare exception of December, 1921, when the upward curve of employment sagged Just once, has been capped this month by what .Tones describes as “probably the greatest demand for labor in normal times that this country has ever known.”

TOM SIMS SAYS: WE saw a presidenial possibility lose two votes when a certain kind of auto hit a fence. * * • This weather seem* to he going crazy with the heat. * • • It is not true that recent earthquakes were caused by a bride dropping a biscuit. * * * Amundsen may not try to flv to the north pole. If summer keeps on we may try it, though. • • * The quickest way to reduce is have you ever seen a fat postman? * • • Cold cream helps sunburns, but nothing helps sideburns. * • • Unofficial report says several June brides are learning to cook. * • Doctors claim anew rheumatic serum limbers stiff joints quicker than sitting on a tack. • * • They say one bad effect of the war is 2,000,000 crap shooters. The bad effect, however, is the unlucky one? * • • While most other countries need it the most, the United States uses the most perfume. • • * New Hampshire permits divorce on fourteen grounds, ail battle grounds. • • • King George is a stamp collector, but is considered harmless. • * * Goatskin is the favorite material for Orient water bottles, much to the goats’ disgust. • • • A watchspring is more likely to break during a 6torm, and a rolling pin during an argument. • • • California operates about 260 stage lines, but the movie stars have the best stage lines. • • • Only one farmer in fifty in the United States has a truck, shovirg how few- truck farmers we have. • • • A penniless man who went to the Kansas oil fields to get rich owes $1,500,000 now. • • • Many June college graduates are still trying to prove it.

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have married Sir Thomas Holland. She became Countess of Kent (1352) and on Holland's death married the Black Prince and became the mother of Richard 11. A reader of this column asks for a history of coal mining, the origin of coal, etc. Any other reader desiring similar information may obtain a bulletin on the subject by writing to our Washington Bureau, inclosing a 2-cent postage stamp. How can one present piano wires from rusting? By sprinkling them with unslaked lime. How can a mackintosh be cleaned? . , Scrub it on both sides with soap and water, rinse with clear water until the soap is removed, smooth as much as possible with the hands, and hang up to dry without wringing. What are the meaning of the names Gerald, Owen and Algernon? Gerald, strong with the spear; Owen, young warrior, well descended; Algernon, whiskered. What can he done to prevent an ageing neck? First of all give it plenty of cold cream; never sleep with the head high; massage the neck night and morning with cream. What should one do for bee stings? If the sting remains in the flesh it should be pulled out and a drop or two of diluted ammonia water ap plied to the wound. A compress wet in cold water or cold boric solution will help to allay the pain.

nurse rushed up and, uncovering a bunch of soft goods, showed him triplets. "The Irishman looked up at the clock, which said three, then at the three of a kind in the nurse’s arms, and said: “Oi'm not superstitious, but thank hivens that Ol .didn’t come home at 11" y

COURTS SUBJECT TO CURB Judiciary Must Bow to Legislative Power Vested in People, SOVEREIGNTY IN HOUSE George Washington Known to Have Opposed Any Veto of Laws, By ROBERT L. OWEN U. S. Senator from Oklahoma. XT was never intended the Supreme Court should have the power to declare laws unconstitutional. The truth is. people of the American colonies, who lived under the English practice, recognized as a fixed principle the judiciary Is subject to the legislative power of the people. It Is true Rhode Island did, about this time, pass an act which its Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. It is also true the Legislature put the court out of office for that offense. It Is also true two or three other States had a similar experience, and the court was rebuked by the people for Its conduct. The Legislature of New Hampshire removed Its Supreme Court four times on the ground of policy. Judiciary Council In the constitutional convention which framed our Constitution, Edmund Randolph proposed a national judiciary council of revision which was to examine every act before it shall operate and the dissent of this council was to reject the act unless the Legislature again passed it. They did not propose finally to veto an act of Congress and never let it go into effect. They only proposed to have a temporary veto and if Congress insisted on passing it, then let it be the law. Eleven Favored Courts Only eleven members of the Constitutional Convention out of sixtyfive favored giving the judiciary any control. They were Blair, Gerry, Hamilton, King, Mason, Morris, Williamson, Wilson, Baldwin, Brearly and Livingston. George Washington, Charlie Pinkney, James Madison and many others, twenty-two in number, were known to have expressly opposed any judicial veto. The Constitution speaks for itself, however. It puts the sovereign power In Congress.

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Muncie tobacco dealers say pipes are coming into high favor among young men. Women stick to cigarettes, however. County Commissioner B. F. Breiner, Decatur, measured the growth of his corn during the extreme hot weather, and reports it grew thirteen inches in five days. Rufus Green, Fairmount, is sitting on a pinnacle of fame contentedly and swinging his legs today, as the result of a “catch” he made in a gravel pit. He hooked a six-pound bass. But the gravel pit in which he caught the fish is Rufus’ own secret guarded with Sphinx-like silence. Bluffton claims the most bashful man in the State. Louis Zink. 50, who was so bashful he couldn’t get on in the world and and had to go to the poor farm, was set to carrying water to workers in a field. A kindly motorist gave him and his water bucket a lift. But Louie was so bashful he wouldn’t ask the motorist to stop when he arrived at the field. Searchers found him trudging back to the poor farm with his water, from a town ten miles away. The Red Cross is cooperating with State health authorities in planning health clinics for children of pre-school age. The first Is set for July 16. Ft. Wayne Optimists w r ill award a distinguished service cup annually to the citizen who accomplishes the greatest good for the city. The Mechanic By BERTON BRALEY A Primrose by the rivers rim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more; So people of the cultured kind Regarded him as crude of mind, With no artistic lore. Yet he could take a/car apart, Repair it with his cunning art. And, when the job was done, The motor, like a living thing, For very joy would purr and sing. So smoothly did it run. To make a halting engine function With true efficiency and unction, Was art enough for him. It thrilled him as a primrose might, Which came upon a poet’s sight Along the river's rim. It takes artistic eyes to see The beauty of a flower or tree; There’s also art in knowing The beauty of machines and such, Os gear and valve and brush and clutch, And how to keep ’em going! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Points Made by Poets He—dying—leaveth as the sum of him A life count clos’d, whose ills are dead and quit, Whose good is quick and mighty, far and near. So that fruits follow it. —A mold. Bobby Sticks Dad “Dad, what is it that mother seldom sees; you often see, and God never sees?” "Give it up. Bobby. Shoot!” “An equal.’’

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(Continued From Page 1) would have accomplished by deceit — by deceiving their allies and by being faithless to the treaty to which their country had appended Its signature. That Is one French school of thought on the treaty of Versailles. It is the one which has brought Europe to Sts present state of perturbation. There is a second school which reads into the treaty powers and provisions which it does not contain and never contemplated. These critics maintain stoutly that M. Briand and all other French Prime Ministers except M. Poincare betrayed their trust by failing to enforce these imaginary stipulations. They still honestly believe that M. Poincare Is the first French prime minister to have made a genuine attempt to enforce French rights under the treaty. Tliiixl Party’ Afraid There is in the background a third school which knows exactly what the treaty means but dare not say so in the present state of French opinion. But perhaps they think it is better to bide their time. That time is coming. When it does arrive let us hope it will not be too late to save Europe from the welter. In America there are also two or three divergent trends of opinion about this treaty. One which regards it as an insidious attempt to trap America into the European cockpit so as to pluck its feathers in order to line French and English bolsters. If anything could justify so insular an estimate it would be the entirely selfish interpretation which is put upon the treaty by one or two of the allied governments. The other American party, I understand, defends it with vigor as a, great human instrument second only in importance to the Declaration of Independence. There may be a third who think that On the whole it is not a bad settlement, and that it Is a pity a little more tact was not displayed in getting it through the various stages of approval and ratification. In England there are at least three schools. There are critics w r ho denounce it as a brutal outrage upon International Justice. It is to them a device for extorting incalculable sums out of an impoverished Germany as reparation for damages artificially worked up. Then there Is the other extreme. The/ “Diehard” section — more Influential since it became less numerous. They think the treaty let Germany off much too lightly. In fact they are in complete agreement with the French Chauvinists as to the reprehensible moderation of Its terms. In Britain also there is a third party which regard its provisions as constituting the best settlement when you take Into account the conflicting alms. Interests and traditions of the pastries who had to negotiate and agree. Masses Are Ignorant But take all these variegated schools together or separately and you will not And one in a thousand o f their pupils could give you an intelligent and comprehensive summary cf the main principles of the treaty. Most of the disputants are content to take their views from press comments and denunciatory speeches. Unhappily, the explanatory -speeches have been few. Some there a''e who have in their possession the full text —nominally for reference; but you will find parts of the reparation clauses in their copies black with the thumb marks which note the perspiring dialectician searching for projectiles to hurl at the object of his fury. Clauses which ease and modify the full demand are treated with stern neglect and the remainder of the pages are as pure as untrodden snow. You can trace no footprints of politicians. publicists or journalists in the whole provinces of this unexplored treaty. The covenant of the League of Nations is lifted bodily out of the text and it is delivered to the public as a separate testament for the faithful so that the saints may not defile their hands with the polluted print which exacts justice. They have npw come to believe that it never was incorporated In the treaty of Versailles. and that. It has nothing to do with that vile and sanguinary instrument. And yet the first words of this treaty are the following; “The high contracting parties. in order to promote international cooperation and to achieve International peace and security by the acceptance of obligations to resort to war, by the prescription

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of open, Just and honorable relations between nations, by the first establishment of understandings of international law as actual rule of conduct among governments, by the maintenanace of justice and scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in dealings of organized peoples with one another, agree to this covenant of the League of Nations.” A speaker who took part recently in a university debate on the subject told me that the undergraduates exhibited the greatest surprise when he Informed them that the League cf Nations was founded by the Versailles Treaty. A few days ago I had a similar experience at the Oxford Union. I was speaking against a motion framed to condemn the principles of the treaty as unwise and unjust. In its defense I recalled some of Its outstanding features. But as most of my narrative had no bearing on reparations, it was greeted with impatience and cries of “question” from a group of anti-Versaillists. Thought It Inconsistent They honestly thought I Was travelling outside the motion in giving a short summary of other sections of the treaty. To them it is all condensed in Mr. Keynes’ book and other hostile commentaries. Anything which is inconsistent ,with these, or supplements the scanty or misleading statements they make, is deemed to be tainted and biased. To refer to the text itself they regard as unfair and as playing into the hands of the defenders of a wicked and oppressive pact. The actual treaty has been already put by them out of bounds, and you wander into its forbidden clauses on pain of being put into the guard room by one or other of the intolerant factions who patrol the highways and byways of international politics. In all debates on the subject in the House of' Commons I have only once heard the treaty itself quoted by a critic, and, strangely enough, that was by way of approval. Take another large and Important section which is completely Ignored by the critic —that which reconstructs. Central Europe on a basis of nationality and free choice of people instead of on a basis of strategy and military convenience. This is the section that liberated Poland from the claws of three carnivorous empires that were preying on Its vitals and restored it to life, liberty and independence. It is a section that frees the Danes of Schleswig and the Frenchman of Alsace-Lorraine. For these oppressed provinces the Treaty of Versailles is the title deed of freedom. Why are these clauses all suppressed in controversial literature? Lere Is another of the ignored provisions—that which sets up permanent machinery for dealing with labor problems throughout the world and for raising the standard of life amongst the industrial workers by means of a great international effort. No more beneficent or more fruitful provision was ever made in any treaty. It is so momentous, and so completely overlooked in general discussion, that I think it worth while quoting at length the general principles laid down by a provision which will one day be claimed as the first great international charter of the worker. “The high contracting parties recognize that differences of climate, habits and customs of economic opportunity and industrial tradi tion, make strict uniformity in conditions of labor difficult of immediate attainment. But. holding. as they do. that labor should not be regarded merely as an ar-~-tide of commerce, they think that

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there are methods and principles for regulating labor conditions which all industrial communities should endeavor to apply so far as their special circumstances will permitAmong these methods and principles, the following seem to the high contracting parties to be of special and urgent importance; first, the guiding principle above enunciated. that labor should not" be regarded merely as a commodity or article of commerce. Second, the right of association for all lawful purposes by employed as well as by employers. Third, payment to employed of wages adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country. Fourth, adoption of an eight-hour day. or forty-eight hour week as a standard to be aimed at where it has not already been attained. Fifth, adoption of a weekly rest of at least twenty-four hours, which should include Sunday whenever practicable. Sixth, abolition of child labor and imposition of such limitations on labor of young persons as shall permit continuation (’ of their education and assure their L proper physical development. Seventh, the principle that men and ) women should receive equal remuneration for work of equal value. Eighth, a standard set by law in each country with respect to condition of labor should have due regard to the equitable economic treatment of all workers lawfully resident therein. Ninth, each State should make provision for a system of inspection, in which women should take part, in order to ensure enforcement of laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.” It will take long before the principles propounded In the covenant of the league under labor articles ere fully and faithfully carried out. but in both a good deal of quiet and steady progress has already been attained. M. Albert Thomas Is an admirable chief for the Labor Bureau. He has zeal, sympathy, tact, energy and great organizing talent. He is pressing along with patience as well as persistence. But that Is another question. Tt raises grave Issues aa to the execution of the treaty. What I have to deal with today Is the misunderstandings which exist as to the character of the treaty Itself. The British public are certainly being deliberately misled on this point. Why are these sections which emancipate oppressed races, which seelc to lift the worker to a condition above destitution and degradation, and which build up a breakwater against the raging passions which make for war, never placed to the credit of Treaty of Versailles? That type of controversialist who is I always advertising his idealism has made a point of withholding these salient facts from the publio which lia professes to enlighten and instruct. There is no more unscrupulous debater In the ring than one who affects to be specially hlghmlnded. I do not mean the man who is possessed of a really high mind, but the sort which is always posing as having been exalted by grace above his fellows. He is the pharisee of the controversy. Beware of him. for he garbles and misquotes and suppresses to suit his arguments or prejudices in a way that would make a child of this world blush. That is why I venture to put in a, bumble, although, I fear, belated, plaa for a reading of the text, the whole text, and nothing but the text of tne Treaty of Versailles. It is the only fair way of arriving at a Just conclusion of the merits of the treaty which holds In Its hands the destiny of Europe for many generations.