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PUBLIC SERVICE ON TOP D OLITICS met defeat and public service triumphed when _£ the State board of tax commissioners flatlj' rejected for the third time bond issues for two Terre Haute roads. The mere bond case would be of little general interest if it were not for other factors. For weeks the State board has been subject to political pressure to approve contracts held by the Carpenter Construction Company of Terre Haute, in which Natt Kemper, Terre Haute, is a leading official and stockholder. Three times taxpayers remonstrated vigorously, citing the cost of $60,000 to $70,000 higher than contemplated and deemed necessary. Kemper was a leading figure in the Vigo County McCray campaign in 1920. Hence the political pressure which had become a matter of open comment at the Statehouse. The State board should be commended. Rights of the public must be safeguarded. PAGE CHIEF RIKHOFF! f7T|LEAN up the crime cesspools. Don’t waste time bawling out people who make left-hand turns. You catch the bandits.* Never mind chasing a couple of blocks after automobiles without tail lights. Politics and the police department are divorced. No invisible government will threaten any policeman.” So read “General Orders No. 1,” issued by a fighting general, S. D. Butler of the marines, now head of the Philadelphia police department. These instructions should be given policemen throughout the country and kept before them continuously. This applies to Indianapolis as elsewhere. Too much attention is given to petty investigations and arrests. Too much time is devoted to sticking notices on windshields and not enough to bandits who are sticking up banks. This fault is not peculiar with the Indianapolis department, but it exists here as elsewhere. WOW! WHAT A HOWL! EINEMIES of the League of Nations, in the United States Senate and out, seem to have gone stark, raving mad over Bok’s SIOO,OOO peace plan. They charge it is only the league covenant, with reservations. Which, frankly, is about what it is. But what of it? And, they protest, American participation in the league was killed by the Senate and buried under a 7,000,000 majority of popular votes. Then why the howl? If it is dead and buried, the nationwide referendum now under way will but serve to emphasize that fact. The whole thing is “league propaganda,” they say angrily. What if it is? Propaganda for world peace is surely as commendable as, for instance, Wall Street’s propaganda in favor of Mellon’s big tax cut plan. An effort is under way among Senate irreconcilables to “probe” the origin of this peace propaganda. Fine. If they go deep enough they will find St. Luke had a hand in starting it when, inspired by God, he uttered that phrase about “on earth peace and good will towards men.” SENDING SICK TO JAIL O' 1 |NE of the most serious problems before the community is the humane care of the insane. Slowly public officials and citizens generally are beginning to realize that an insane person is a sick person, just as much as a person suffering from any other disease, and that he is just as much in need of expert attention. Still, under the law, insane persons are committed to jail and housed with criminals, sometimes for weeks, before they arc removed to hospitals. We are punishing men. and women by imprisonment because they are sick! -> The Times has in the past repeatedly called attention to this state of affairs. At last some official action seems probable. The judge of the city court, the county clerk, the Governor and the county commissioners are looking into the situation. The latest proposal is that the State take over the county hospital for the insane and that additional facilities be supplied at the State hospital. That more facilities are needed no one will dispute. There appears to be no very good reason why both the county and the State should care for these unfortunates. Another proposal is that additional accommodations, together with medical attention, be supplied at the jail. This may be very well in an emergency, but there is no reason why there should bo any connection between a person suffering from a mental disease and a jail. We don’t send persons suffering from pneumonia to jail. Indiana is spending millions for a model reformatory to house able-bodied prisoners. And we are sending sick people to jail! THE UNNECESSARY LASH OVERNMENTS are such sensitive plants, aren’t they? Over ip the Philippines the Supreme Court of the islands has just decided that Isaac Perez must go to prison for all v of two months just because he dropped a casual remark that General Wood’s head should be cut off with a bolo. They call his offense sedition, and that sounds ominous. The soviets in Russia are more severe—more sensitive. They have sent Mme. Akharinia, famous actress, to prison for three years of hard labor because she “insulted the workmen’s celebration” by boredly referring to it as “a rabble.” Governments in cases like these seek to gain respect by the application of unconvincing oppression, and they produce fear, perhaps hate, rather than respect. And they give too much heed to the mouthy vaporings of irresponsible and thoughtless persons who lead no cause and have no influence. Governments do not totter and fall before attacks that gain prominence only because they are unduly noticed. No government ever has fallen that way and no stable government ever will. And stable government does not need to notice or recognize the empty words of individuals. It weakens its power when it does. THE CHINESE still cling to the antiquated custom of celebrating the holidays by paying their lebts, despit# all efforts of the Missionaries to convert them fronuheathenism.

SUN IS NOT LORDLY MONARCH OF SKIES Old Sol Is Small Fry as Compared to Some of Stars That Appear as Mere Pin Points,

f '-v tx \ if 1 On. Jupiter On The Earth On The Moon

THE FORCE OF GRAVITY UPON THE SURFACE OF ANY HEAVENLY BODY IS A RESULT OF ITS SIZE. THE SKETCH REPRODUCED HERE SERVES TO INDICATE THE VARYING FORCE OF GRAVITY. THE CENTER FIGURE SHOWS AN AVERAGE JUMP ON THE EARTH. THE SAME ATHLETE COULD JUMP SIX TIMES AS HIGH ON THE MOON. ON JUPITER HE COULD ONLY JUMP HALF AS HIGH. ON THE SUN THE FORCE OF GRAVITY WOULD BE TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES AS GREAT AS ON THE EARTH. UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS OUR ATHLETE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO JUMP AT ALL. IN FACT, IF HE WERE TO LIE DOWN HE WOULD FIND THE FORCE OF GRAVITY SO GREAT HE WOULD BE UNABLE TO GET UP.

This is the third article of a series by Diets on "Secrets of Science.” Ho discusses scientific facts and phenomena in every day terms. By DAVID DIETZ Science Editor of The Times Copyright by David Dietz |HE sun. we learn from astronomy, is not the lordw__J ly monarch of the skies that It appears to be. It only appears so to us. because this earth of ours is so very much closer to the sun than it is to any of the stars. Many of the stars which appear to us as mere pin-points o. light are anywhere from fifty to five hundred times larger than the sun. The reason for the difference in appearance to us is that the sun is 93,000,000 miles from us. while the /qOM SIMS -/- -/- Says He’s 70 and she's 69. They live in New York. Both go to dances and dance. That shows sense. A bride of five months left home tn Detroit, A rrran can’t shave every morning before breakfast. Leap Year news from Chicago. School teacher shortage reported. New Orleans cops caught a William Desmond Taylor murder suspect, the first one this year. A Denver judge gave a movie actor two years in the pen, but it wasn’t for being a movie actor. Rodolph Valentino, the aideburn movie star, would make an Ideal brother. He has 150 suits. Movie stars are getting to be as bad as many other people. Fortune is their misfortune. A pumpkin in Fresno, Cal., weighs eighty-nine pounds and would mako pies enough to keep 300 people awake. Los Angeles song writer’s wife got a divorce. We don't blame her. Leap Year news from Spokane Is alarming. Woman's Club head says women should propose. About 40,000 schooners went down off the Florida coast when a beer ship ran on the rocks. Michigan bean growers will meet in Owosso. Fine chance for boarders to get in some dirty work. Poor sailor married a rich girl in Manistee, Mich, poor sailor. Here’s great news for the soap makers. A woman in San Francisco is refusing to wear stockings. Boston had a cat show. When we get mad enough we will say the first cat show was a sewing circle. Fire destroyed a $250,000 school in Woodland, Cal., and proved that wLhes do come true. News from North Africa. Italians are fighting the Arabs, and the Arabian nights are bad.

Needy old women will be given the chorus girls’ jobs in Germany. Sherman spoke a mouthful. What could be more daring than a French soldier getting shaved in a German barber shop? A Thought Let not him that eateth despise him which eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth; for God hath received him. —Rom. 14:3. mHE most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.—Aughey.

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EHE subject in the smoking room was the sightseeing trips in various towns of the country. 'A friend of mine tells me that Springfield, 111., boasts the greatest bores among its sightseeing guides that he jver met up with,” said one of the 3mokers. "He w T as there recently and he hired one of the town’s oab drivers to take him around. The cabby was

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distance to the nearest star is 25C 00,000,000 miles. Everyone now, with the exception of Voliva and his followers, believes the earth and the seven other planets circle around the sun. This belief is stated today as a matter of fact. Took Much Courage It is accordingly Interesting to note that it once took a great deal of courage to proclaim that fact. It was an extremely dangerous thing to do. In the year 1600 the Astronomer Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for daring to say the earth was not the center of the universe, but it revolved around the sun. In 1616, Galileo was thrown into prison for making the same assertion. The sun, as has been said, is rather small fry compared to some Os the stars. But there's nothing small about the sun tn comparison to the earth. The diameter of the earth is about 8,000 miles. The diameter of the sun is more than 100 time* that or 866,000 miles. In bulk the sun is 1,300,000 times the slzs of the earth. The sun is a great seething furnace of a temperature beyond human understanding. Its surface is a white-hot boiling sea of vapors. Earth Would Melt If the earth was suddenly thrust I into the sun, it would melt as quickly as a snowflake falling on a red-hot stove. Astronomers believe if all the coal fields of the earth could be piled together and hurried, the total heat would not equal that given out by the sun during the fraction of a second. The earth is protected from the rays of the sun by the atmosphere or blanket of air Butrounding the earth. Were it not for this, even though the earth Is 93,000,000 miles from j the sun, so much heat would strike it the great ice fields at. the north and south poles would be melted i and within a year ail the oceans | would begin to boll. Life, of course, would he impos- ! eible under such conditions. NEXT: A “Close-up” of the Sun, What Editors Are Saying Goat (Michigan City Evening Dispatch) Auto owners must pay the increased fees for their license plates just the same as if the St. Joseps Court had not declared the law unconstitutional and If the Supreme Court sustains the lower court it is the opinion of the attorney general that it will require a special act of the Legislature to authorize the return of the extra money paid by the owners for licenses. And the Legislature does not meet, until January. 1925, either. As usual the poor citizen is the goat. • • • Universal (Kokomo Dispatch) The demand for tax reduction sweeping over the country can now be heard by any listener without putting his ear to the ground. Business, labor and every other element of our economic life is weary of high taxes and would draw a freer breath if Congress enacted any reduction .measure, no matter how small the rate cut. It does not look like a partisan issue. Every person with an income above the rudimental living level pays direct taxes to the Government. Every person, whether having any visible income or not, pays indirect taxes through what he buys or what is bought for him. Taxation is universal. Tax relief, therefore, should be universal.

loquacious and tiresome. He insisted on regaling my friend, a very polite man, with local news of no interest whatsoever to strangers. After a long ride and much talk by the cabby they passed one house and the driver pointed an unclean finger at it and said, impressivley: ‘Lincoln’s home.’ ‘ls he, inde#g.?’ replied my friend, bored, but still polite.”

ODDS LONG POLAR TRIP WILL FAIL Quick Declares Naval Secretary Is Betting With Other Men’s Lives, BY HERBERT QUICK m DON’T know that our Secretary of the Navy is a betting man, but if he has the gambling instinct, I respectfully suggest in the proposed expedition of the great dirigible, the Shenandoah, to the polar regions next summer, he is taking long odds. The odds are the Shenandoah will be lost with all on board. If the secretary were betting his money against money, I should not object. I do object when he bets the lives of a large number of human beings on the ability of the Shenandoah to make that voyage over the ice and come back from the solitudes safe. , I don’t believe he has any moral right to do it. I refuse to assent to the preposition that any of their superior officers have the right to send men out on a venture when nothing important is to be gained by success and where it is ten to one that they will fill be lost. Even Money mi Failure In the language of the gambling fraternity, it is even money that the Shenandoah will be lost before she even gets to her point of take-off for the polar trip. It is ten to one she will be lost If she takes off for the voyage. Os course, the officers and men who are scheduled to go will say they are willing. They are good soldiers. They do not think of their own safety. It Is thsrefore tho duty of the Secretary of the Navy to think of it for them. The dirigible Is, except under favorable conditions, an unmanageable, easily wrecked machine. The French General Dumont was interviewed re cently and stated the building of the dirigible should be abandoned. The loss of the Dixmude marked the end, he said. It ought to mark the end. Every great airship has been lost before It was long In use. Tragedy Is Predicted General Dumont asserted the Shenandoah will surely be lost. He did not say it will be lost if it starts on this polar trip, but the inference aa to his Judgment Is plain. The Bhenandoah voyage was planned before the loss of the Dixmude. That sad affair should bring about a reconsideration. The Secretary of the Navy has this in his hands. If this voyage is undertaken and the boys are lost, he will be responsible. The people will applaud an abandonment of the trip. I should not like to be in his place If he has to bear tho responsibility—l had almost written the guilt —of the probable tragedy, if this foolish tiling goes on. UNUSUAL PEOPLE Showman Once Penniless ■ ———. — —_ H>l v f'A Srrrirn OLE DO, Jan. 9.—Eleven years ago 11. V. Buelow came to To-j tedo broke He slept on park benches ands forty-eight hours had! nothing to e Today Buelow is the head of the National Farmers’ Exposition, which is to the farm dls- \ ""'"Spl P*ay world what I the International! 'f Livestock Exposl- ’ J tlon Is to the beef BfYv ; • and dairy world, i More than a half j|i| Y million people ML. -'' will attend In tho j few days it holds Besides bantiling this expo--1 *' JNUI sltion Buelow L stages ail of the Ik, big affairs in Toi mßii'fS™* lodo, Including two auto shows ! BUELOW during the year. He spends his j summers at his villa on Lake Erie | and with the beginning of each new year he tours to his winter home in Florida. Buelow is an old friend of Henry Ford, having known the magnate before tho days of his financial success. Tongue Tips The Rev. R. P.rannstein, eastern preacher: “Religion is the revelation of God through Jesus Christ to the heart of man. Theology is what other men have said of that revelation. We are not Christians because we are theologians. We are theologians because we are Christians. Before we had the science of botany wo had (lowers. Before- we had the science of astronomy we had stars. Before we had the science of theology we had God.” ■ V Dr. Charles H. Willits, medical dlrectoi’ of Provident Insurance Company: “Vacations, living out of doors, the taking of more exercise, the less frequent use of trolleys and trains, the simpler diet of fruits and vegetables, help to keep the death rate low in summer. It begins to rise in the latter part of September, after the effects of the summer vacations have worn off. If people took vacations twice a year—in February as well as July and August—paid more attention to personal and public hygiene, our death rate might be lowered. At least it would he more uniform throughout the year.” M. O. Eldrldge, executive chairman of American Automobile Association: “We all believe in traffic laws, but the most of us do not think of enforcing them until we find ourselves picking ourselves up out of the street, or being picked up.” Henry Ford: “I have little confidence in these professional schools of religion. By the time they get through with religion It is a very thin product. But I believe In a movement to put religion in the schools.”

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Pals BY BERTON BRALEY Some kids I know are ’fraid of a cop, Whenever he comes, they run; They think he's cornin’ around to stop The fellers that’s havin’ fun. But I've found out he’s a dam good scout, As good as you could design. An’ I feel safer when he’s about; The cop is a friend of mine. He doesn’t fuss at a little noise When we’re playin’ around the street. An’ he’s lookin’ after the girls an’ boys That’s livin’ along his beat. He sees that the motor-cars don’t whiz Too close to our football line, I’m tellin’ you I’m a friend of his, An’ he is a friend of mine. If a kid behaves like he’d ought to do If he had any sense a tall, He’d know that the cop is a friend that’s true To fellers that’s big or small. He's one of the gang, that’s wljat he is, f If you treat him that way—he's fine, An’ that’s why I am a friend of his An* he Is a friend of mine! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Family Fun IJne’s Busy A man who believed he knew all about parrots undertook to teach what he thought to be a young, mute bird to say “Hello” In one lesson. Going up to the cage, he repeated that word in a clear voice for several minutes, the parrot paying not the slightest attention. At the final “Hello” the bird opened one eye, gazed at the man and snapped out, "Line's busy!”-‘-Suceeßsful Farming. Says Pa to Ma "If the human body is renewed every Beven years, I can’t be the same woman that you married.” "Pve been suspecting that for some time.”—Boston Transcript. WilUe Sticks Dad "Pa. teacher says we are here to help others.” "Yes. that's so.” "Well, what are the others here for?”—New Zealand Farmer.

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Editor’s Mail The editor Is willinj to print views of Times readers on interesting subjects. Make your comment brief. Sign your name as an evidence of good faith. It will not be printed if you object. Plea for Pigeons To the Editor of The Times Now that the earth has been wrapped in a mantle of white and the gurgle of the fountain in University Park has been silcenced by Old Winter, the swarms of humanity of all classes that frequented that beautiful park in the good old summer time have ceased to lounge therein. But how about the pigeons that all visitors to the place were so anxious to have flop all over hem in their zest to get the crumbs? Are they to be left to dire hunger now, while their friends of yore sIl toasting their toes? A few million German marks will save the birds. WILLIAM C. U. LATEN. Against Soviet To the Editor of The Times A writer in The Times, J. R. Martin, makes a plea for the recognition of soviet Russia by the American Government. The soviet and the communist are making every effort possible to overthrow the Government of the United States and fly the red flag over the White House and have a government of the proletariat, such as Russia now has. If the United States Government recognizes the soviet it simply means that under the cloak of diplomatic establishments the communist horde could work undisturbed in its attempt to overthrow this Government. I wonder if J. R. Martin ever thought about when he laments so sadly over Russia’s condition? The communists and bolsheviks have exploited Russia and they are still doing it. While America may feel a profound pity for the peasantry of Russia, she does not propose to load up this nation with dynamite in the form of Russia recognition. If Russia wants soviet rule, let her have it, but the United States wants none of it, and what’s more, will not tolerate anything that looks like it. This nation is not taking any wolves in sheep’s clothing at this time. P. T. J. For Sister’s Feller "I'd offer myself to you for a, Christmas present if I thought you'd take me.” “I'm afraid I'd have trouble in exchanging you.”—Boston Transcript.