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The Safety Campaign Safety campaigns grow increasingly important as greater use of machinery ami especially of automobiles creates more hazards to life. Behind the movement for a safety campaign and a permanent bureau to carry on a constant crusade of an educational nature is a fine idea. The manner in which it is handled shows just how a fine idea can be badly handled. Such campaigns cost money. Employers are interested and would be interested if shown the necessity of the movement. In the proposed campaign of this kind here, the letters soliciting funds carry the signature of a member of the public service commission. To the public service corporations of the State this signature changes a request to a command. It is small wonder, after some things that have happened in the State and by this commission that contributions from such companies are made, not with an idea of the benefits to be gained, but from a nice judgment as to just how much they ought to give in order to get favorable consideration the next time they come before that commission. The entire idea is one which depends upon the enthusiasm and earnestness of those who engage in it. It is unfortunate, to say the least, that the start of this movement should be hampered by making the public service commission the collection agency for its funds. Public officials who collect funds for voluntary organizations are, to say the least, unwise. The Reformers’ Lobby New proof of the power of the reformers’ lobby In Washington has just been given. The civil service commission some time ago gave written mental examinations to 4,000 dry agents, Congress having decided to put the prohibition forces on a civil service basis. Three-fourths of them flunked, although the questions, later made public, did not seem particularly difficult. Prohibition Commissioner James N. Doran protested. It would ruin his enforcement machinery, lie said, if three-fourths of his agents were forced out. The civil service commissioners in effect replied, “that is too bad, but we can’t help it.” They declined to give re-examinations. There the matter rested until the reformers swung into action. A delegation, including F. Scott McjBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League; Mrs. Lenna Yost, head of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Rev. Edwin C. Dinwiddle of the National Temperance Bureau, called at the civil service commission. Thereafter Mcßride issued a statement, in which he said the problem “will be worked out satisfactorily to the dry forces of the United States.” There will be new examinations. Presumably the questions will be made easier. What Commissioner Doran was unable to accomplish apparently was an easy task for the reformers. The civil service commission did a complete aboutface, and will do exactly what the reformers want done. Commissioner Doran, however, is in something of a hole. He announced that many of those agents who failed, knowing that they were going to lose their jobs, were “selling out.” Obviously these men were not and are not now fit to be agents. Are they to be given new examinations and allowed to retain their jobs? Admiral Plunkett Predicts a War Seldom has an officer of the Army or Navy, of this or any other country, been guilty of a grosser lapse of judgment than Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, who, while speaking before the National Republican Club in New York, took occasion to dangle before his hearers the raw-head-and-bloody-bones of anew and early war. Not only is the rear admiral quoted as saying that anew war is inevitable and that it may come at any time> in the near future, but he believes it will be between the United States and Great Britain over world trade. And, he is quoted as adding, the only way to avoid war “is to be a worm and into the nearest hole in the ground.” It would be difficult to cite a more mischievous pronouncement. It makes the flesh crawl, not because we believe in the inevitability of war with Great Britain, for we distinctly do not believe in it, but because of the consequences the admiral’s foolish words can not fail to have. The speech was mischievous because while what the officer said is not true, such expressions tend to build up a state of mind which does lead to war. War is not inevitable between any two countries, least of all between the United States and Britain, unless and until the statesmen of one or both countries become blithering idiots. It was mischievous because it will inevitably injure the cause of an adequate navy which this country very much needs and does not now possess. It was michievous because now, no matter hoy/ far behind our navy happens to be, every time we lay down a ship, the British will point their fingers at us and says: “So you’re commencing another ship to lick us with, are you?” and the rest of the world will egg us on, as the world has a habit of doing on such occasions, by remarking, “Yes, Uncle Sam is laying down another warship to fight Great Britain with. Remember what Admiral Plunkett said? Going to fight for the world’s trade.” Responsible officials simply have no business offering gratuitous forecasts of the Plunkett brand. Generally speaking, they are no better qualified to predict the coming of a war than any fairly-well informed private citizen whose predictions nothing at all, but, coming from an official, the warning takes on a weight and a gravity out of all proportion to its real significance. But Rear Admiral Plunkett did say one thing . that is absolutely true, though he probably did not

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mean it in the way we do. “SO long as we are proceeding on the lines we are following today,” he is reported to said, “war is absolutely inevitable.” That is gospel. War is inevitable if we keep on in the direction we are headed now. We are reaching out after world trade, quite as we should do, but our statesmanship and our diplomacy is not keeping pace. Such a war as the admiral suggest! would be the death of our trade and prosperity, yet we go on turning a deaf ear to every suggestion that we join with the other nations in a common effort, to keep the peace of the world by substituting law for war. We openly scorn the League of Nations. We flout the World Court. We needlessly antagonize foreign sensibilities, in the Americas as well as elsewhere, when a more tactful, intelligent diplomacy would serve us better and enable us to keep our friends. It is sheer nonsense to say the only way to avoid war is to crawl into a hole. The way to avoid war is through intelligent statesmanship. Competitive armaments, qnscrupulous trade-grab-bing and so forth do lead to war. But surely, if British and American statesmen have not gone suddenly and completely daft, naval parity and limitation, an open door and a free sea for trade, and all the rest can be settled without resort to the sword. If the English-speaking peoples of the world can not do that, they deserve the destruction which will surely be theirs. Life is a survival of the fittest and if they lack the brains to prevent them from committing suicide—which is what a war between them would mean—then let nature take Its course. What the Home Folks Think of Heflin Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama vociferously insists that the vote of the Democratic caucus sustaining the leadership of Senator Robinson of Arkansas must not be considered as a rebuke to him for his unbodied speeches from the floor. Naturally this would be his position. All his rantings, however, can not dispel the fact that Heflin challenged Robinson when Robinson took him to task, and that Robinson accepted the challenge and was overwhelmingly upheld. Most persons will regard this as a clear-cut rebuke. whatever Heflin may choose to believe. If there were any further doubt as to what his party thinks of the incident, it would be dispelled by nothing the attitude of the Alabama press. The Montgomery Advertiser replies by indorsing A1 Smith for president. “Speaking for itself, the Advertiser regards this as an especially happy moment to announce for Governor Smith,” says the Advertiser. “Speaking for itself, the Advertiser is glad to present this declaration as its conception of an appropriate answer on the part of Alabama Democrats to Senator J. Thomas Heflin’s fanatical outburst in the United States Senate.” 'The Mobile Register comments on Heflin’s assertion that Robinson could not repeat his speech in Alabama without fear of tar and feathers, and says, “Senator Heflin makes a poor return to the people of Alabama for the honors they have heaped upon him.” The Birmingham Post says Democratic leaders can not hope to stand before the people as the advocate of Jacksonian principles if they are kept busy defending themselves against such charges. “The Democratic party is the loser, but the shame is Alabama’s,” it adds. “What a callous and wretched demagogue Heflin is,” says the Alabama Journal of Montgomery. The Birmingham Age-Herald says citizens of Alabama will 4e mortified by his (Heflin’s) astounding exhibition of rabid intolerance, shockingly wretched taste, and naked disdain for the most precious of American principles.” The News of the same city says every Democrat in Alabama owes a debt of gratitude to Robinson for “his dignified and deserved rebuke.” The Decatur Daily News says Heflin “has no right to represent'the people of Alabama as an intolerant citizenship when the facts are that only a small minority of intolerants like himself bring this stigma upon the State.” “Heflin only speaks for Heflin,” says the Decatur Daily. Heflin was elected by a vote of twenty-eight per cent of the Democrats in a field of four, says the Selma Times-Journal. It adds a declaration that citizens everywhere will hope is true—“ The dominant majority in the State is yearning for an opportunity to smite his pretention hip and thigh.” Helping Addicts Congress soon will have before it for consideration a bill to establish a national hospital for the cure of drug addicts convicted in Federal courts. It is a bill that Congress might well study closely, and one that, we believe, should pass. The drug addict is often a criminal; but he Is always greatly to be pitied. At present an addict who runs afoul of the Federal law has to go to a regular Federal penitentiary, where there are not suitable facilities for his care. He is not cured of his affliction; indeed, he often spreads it to others. Anew hospital, we believe, would be a humane and enlightened answer to a very vexing problem. \ An Englishwoman says She doesn’t see how the slender women of America manage to dominate their husbands so well. But it always seemed to us a slender woman could weep Just as much and as often as a fat one. The weather'in Houston, Texas, isn’t so balmy in June, and neither is Kansas City’s, but the delegates of both parties will not fall down in this respect. < Women are taking men’s place in the world, all right, but we haven’t heard any stories yet about the traveling saleswoman. The only thing the matter with our system of criminal punishment is that convicted persons can’t get their paroles in advance. The only flaw in the Remus proceedings at Cincinnati will be corrected, doubtless, when someone starts a fund to erect a statue of him. A good barber is a bf,ld-headed man who sells hair tonic to at least half hi| customers. John J. Pershing has been named a bank director. Maybe because he knows his doughboys.

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name and ddr *s or the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive prexerence. To the Editor: Your story of recent date regardiiiß Henry Romine is at variance with the facts. It so happens that I am well acquainted with all the parties connected with this crime for which Henry Romine is now serving a life sentence, or, if I recall correctly, it was a determinate sentence which was thought would amount to the same as a life sentence owing to Romine’s age. This crime was committed in Jennings County and instead of being in some kind of a saloon brawl. Henry Romine, Rufus Clark, and (I believe), James Tyler drove out from North Vernon some four or five miles on a dark, rainy night to the residence of two old bachelor brothers and an invalid maiden sister, called the brothers out and shot and beat these old men to death, expecting to rob the house, as the brothers were supposed to have had considerable money about the house. It developed later that Romine did the shooting and Rufus Clark did the beating with a policeman's “billie,” as Clark was on the police force of North Vernon at the time. The man Tyler turned States evidence and got a sentence of, I believe, two to fourteen years, the case was taken to Columbus on a change of venue. Rufus Clark received a life sentence and is at this time in Michigan City prison serving that sentence, if I remember correctly Romine received a twenty-year sentence and it was thought that he would not live to serve that time. I very naturally suppose that politics has nothing to do with this case. But, Tyler was and Is a staunch Republican, Romine was a saloon keeper in North Vernon, and a regular Republican “henchman,” while Rufus Clark and all of his people were and are staunch Democrats. Will say further that these men even cut the telephone wires to prevent anyone calling for help, but it so happened that a neighbor heard the shooting and the old sister screaming, and ran to their assistance and frightened the men away and prevented the robbery. The name of the brothers who were killed was McQuaid, and were highly respected citizens. GEO. M. ROBINSON,, Brewersville, Ind. Editor’s Note.—Romine and Clark both received life sentences. To the Editor: Will you please fix a real ball park for our citjr? I want you to look this Ideal place for a park over and see what you think of it, and present it to Mr. Perry for his consideration : West New York St. from Bright or Blackford Sts. to Blake St.; from New Yor,k St. to Michigan St. For car service, run cars on New York St. east to Indiana'Ave., to Capitol Ave„ then south to terminal. Also W. Michigan from Blake St. to Indiana Ave., to Capitol Ave. line. This place is only nine blocks from the Monument and not far to walk. There will be no street to vacate east and west as Vermont St. does not go west farther than Bright St. Hoping to see this place as a park and oblige a fan, A. H. HAFER, 734 Sanders St.

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Isn’t It About Time for a Change of Front?

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Cultured Rome —City of Contrasts Written for The Times by Will Durant *— :

FOR everywhere now there are slaves. They do all the physicalwork, and much of the clerical work too; they till the fields and labor in factories, they polish shoes and teach the young, they carry burdens, take stenographic dictation, and lecture on philosophy. They are very reasonably priced: in some places they can be bought for 75 cents a head. There are so many of them that the philosopher Seneca warns against requiring them to wear a distinctive dress; they would become aware of their overwhelming preponderance, and might take it into their heads to establish a Proletarian dictatorship. Some palaces, we learn, have as many as 400 slaves; and rich men, dying, have been known to bequeath a thousand men along with other cattle. “The ministers of pomp and sensuality,” says Gibbon, "were multiplied beyond the conception of modern (i. e., eighteenth century) luxury . . . Almost every profession, whether laborer of mechanical, may be found in the household of an opulent senator.” “All the arrant sins that capital has been guilty of against nature and civilization in the modern world,” says Mommsen, “remain as far inferior to the abominations of the ancient capitalistic States as the free man, be he ever so poor, remains superior to the slave; and not until the dragon-seed of North America ripens, will the world reap similar fruit.” It is a slight exaggeration, both for the Romans and ourselves. By the time of the Emperors the more flagrant cruelties and abuses of the slave system had been brought to an end by legislation and t. growing sensitivity to Stoic (and. later, Christian) ethics; and there was nothing much to choose between a Roman slave in the days of Augustus and a “free” British navy, or an Italian factory hard, in the year of Our Lord 1928. But as to ourselves the doubt gnaws at our hearts: is America

Newcastle Times (Democratic) Samuel B. Wells of Scottsburg, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor and advocates the repeal of some sections of the Wright bone dry law . He is right, but will have the opposition of a lot of present day prohibitionists who were singing low when the cause needed help ten years ago. The writer has favored prohibition from the start, but he has opposed the fool amendments proposed by Wright and put through by the Ku-Klux and fanatics who have lost thousands cf friends to the prohibition cause by making it obnoxious. We are still for prohibition, but opposed to the fanatical amendments that will sooner or later break down much of the good work that has been done. Sam Wells is right, but he will have a lot of fanatical drys on his neck as soon as he gets in the race. Michigan City Dispatch (Democratic) For the last five or six years the Republican politicians have been fooling the people of Indiana. They betrayed those who voted for them worse than those who did not. Stephenson, Jackson, Robinson, Updike, Rowbottom, Coffin, Duvall, Davies of Kokomo, Walb—these are a few of the headliners of a long list. All of these were the product of organized minorities. It Was another case in government of the tail wagging the dog. Now to Senator Watson is assigned the ugly job of uprooting the deceivers and getting some man of character in whom the people have confidence, to run for Governor. They have not yet discussed the candidate for Senator. Can the job be done? asks Walter Myers of Indianapolis, Democratic candidate for United States Senator. Will Senator Watson be

I merely a modem Rome, destined to 6e rich and powerful above all other States at once, and yet coarse and crude and half savage to the end-*-producing comforts and luxuries which even Nero never dreamed of, but no more able than he, or all the Romans, to bring forth new goodness, new beauty, and new truth? It is not probable; our people hunger for knowledge, and are already discontented with idle wealth. But let us understand that it is a possibility hanging over our heads. Greatness is never inevitable, and it is a possibility hanging over our heads. Greatness is never inevitable, and it is forced on no man; every inch of it has to be won. tt a a CICERO AND now we are in the law courts and Cicero is speaking. At the end of the room sits a judge, but no jury, he is a senator, or otherwise a man of dignity and repute, who has been chosen by the Praetor to conduct the trial. The hall is filled, for when Cicero speaks, literature is created and history is made. What eloquence! What passionate invective and fiery denunciation! Who could survive this molten torrent? No wonder Catiline falls before it, proved guilty of conspiracy by Cicero alone when no other man dares assail him. There is some courage after all in this proud and lofty figure, this sensitive and worried face, this man so hesitant in action and so swift in speech. Here is oratory different from that of Demosthenes; his was blunt and powerful, and almost crude in its ferocity; but this is as smooth as a woman’s flesh, as graceful as her movements, and as feline as her strategy. The Latin tongue is made perfect in this man’s phrasing; it becomes an instrument of delicacy and yet of strength; never again in its long

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able to oust the groups and factions that have produced these false leaders, that have made possible D. C. Stephenson and his unsavory creations? Honest Republicans and honest Democrats, beware! These false politicians are going to try to threw their dead cat into your back yard. If you are going to stop it, you must be on guard now, and from now on. The only way for the faithless Republican politicians to purge their party is to get rid of the carcass. And the only way for the Democrats and honest Republicans to keep from being tainted is for them to see that the carcass is interred now and forever. Union Citizen In defense of the thousands of good, sincere and honorable church officials of the country the Citizen would venture the explan-

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history will it be so clear and beau- | tiful. I He has had a vivid career, this I greatest of Roman orators. From J a simple birth in the countryside he rises to be consul in 63 B. C., and in a single year of office destroys a dangerous rebellion. But hardly is his term complete when he finds himself exiled by the friends of the man whom he has deposed. He is overwhelmed with surprise and indignation: "This.” he says, “is how nations reward loyalty.” At Brindisi, on the way to Greece, he dispatches to his wife and children tender IcY.ers which Petrarch will discover at Verona in 1345. “My Darling Terentia, M!y Little i Tullia, and My Boy Cicero:” Here you see is no mere politician; this is a man. Within two years he is recalled, pleads many great cases again, and then retires to a small estate to spend his time in writing expositions of Greek philosophy, and charming essays on friends and old age. He speaks wisely of the things that bring friendship to an end, forgetting only loans. And in his dialogue “De Senectute,” we have a premonition of that Christian hope for immortality and a recompensing happiness, which, was soon to captivate the impoverished people of Rome: “I am convinced and I believe that since human minds are so swift and have such memory for the past and knowledge of the future, and have devised so many arts and branches of knowledge and made such great (jiscsoveries, the essence of that which impresses all these things cannot be mortal ... I depart, from life as from a hostelry, not as from a home; for nature has given it to us as an inn to rest in, not as a dwelling place. O, glorious day, when I shall leave this base multitude and go to the divine council and company of souls!” (Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

ation that when one of them does go wrUng, as in the case of deacon or elder Hotelling in Flint, Mich., who committed such a heinous crime, much ado is made of it. Because he was a church man much more is made of it than would be if he were a hardened and known criminal who had led a dissipated life. It is rather a favorable commentary to the good churchmen that this is so. The faults and shortcomings of an indiviudal are no reflection upon the church to which he happens to belong than is a breach of trust of an official upon the party to which he is attached. The fundamental principles of all churches and all political parties are good. If an individual member thereof goes wrong, that is no reflection upon either organization. The Citizen is broadminded enought to concede that point.

snakes can catch them. They also eat slugs o y small worms. Some snakes refuse to eat them in captivity. Full growth is attained about the second year, and depends somewhat on the food supply. If the snakes do not get enough food they grow very slowly. What was the first American-built ship to cross the Atlantic? The first American-built ship to cross the Atlantic ovean was the Virginia, built on the Kennebec river by forty-five disgruntled settlers of the first colony there, who sailed back to England in the ship. It was described as ‘a faire pennace of thirty tons” and made several voyages across the ocean after that. How old is Jackie Coogan? He is 131

JAN. 24, 1928

M. E . TRACY i SAYS: “The Family Is Incomplete Without a Father; the Child Has a Right Not Qnly to Know His Father's Name, but to Profit by the Benefit of , His Father's Guidance.”

Opinions of eugenics students are divided over the case of the eastern widow who “arranged” for the birth of her child, with the “hired” father having no responsibility for its care. Children come into the world with enough handicaps to overcome during their life without burdening them with doubtful experiments. If men and women can satisfy their ingenuity in no other way than breaking some custom or convention, they ought to select one which will hold them and them alone ~r esponsible. It is unfair for a woman to become a mother, or a man to become a father under circumstances which are bound to pi it the greater burden on some child. Putting aside such questions of morality, religion and custom as thig case presents, what problem does it solve, or what workable theory of social conduct does it reveal? Except as “eugenics” has been advanced as the excuse, where does it differ from thousands upon thousands of cases? It it were to become the vogue, which it will not, where would it land us but in the jungle? Unless civilization is all wrong, does not motherhood imply something beyond travail and milk, and unless we have been grossly overrated, has not fatherhood a place in the picture that amounts to one of more than mere convenience? tt tt tt Challenge to Gossip * | No matter how broadminded we i may become, blackmailers and scandal mongers will pursue their trade in the same old way. is the mother who thinks she can place a daughter under the handicap of such deliberate and widely published illegitimacy and still protect her from their wiles? If she has a right to select and dismiss the father, has not the father a right to reveal himself at some future time, and if he is man enough not to do so, what assurance is there that gossip will not do i’t for him? a tt tt Face Future Sneers This case calls to mind one that occurred in Texas some years ago, wh're a lady decided that wedlock was not essential to motherhood. Her son grew up to be a strong, wholesome youth, eventually finding work in a factory. For some reason which was unknown to him at the time, the engineer of that factory took a mean and nagging interest in his career, making life miserable for him in every possible way. * The young man stood it as long as he could, but finally demanded to know “by what right are you riding me?” With a sneer, the engineer replied, “by the best right in the world. I am your father. If you don’t believe it ask your mother.” That incident occurred one day just before noon. When the young man went home for lunch as was his custom, he did ask his mother, and she admitted that the engineer was telling the truth. The young man went to his bedroom, took a double-barrel shotgun, returned to the factory and killed hig father. He was tried for murder and acquitted. ‘ tt tt tt Family Needs Father Parenthood involves something besides bringing children into the world under conditions which are ideal from a biological standpoint. No eugenist, I believe, will contend that blood tells' the whole story, that environment counts for nothing and that a parent can defy conventions, ignore society, place children under an obvious disadvantage and fulfiill the obligations which parenthood should include. The family is, was and always will be the foundation of human society. The family is incomplete without a father. Marriage, as we know it, was established not only to make sex relations decent, but to provide children with the right kind of environment. i The child has a right not only to know his father’s name, but to profit by the benefit of his father's guidance. it Broad, but Shallow Broadmindedness is a beautiful thing, but it often runs too shallow. In cross-section, the human intellect has about so much area. The more you spread it, the thinner it becomes, and the more you deepen it the narrower. That is one reason why fanaticism cuts such a swath and why too much liberalism gets nowhere. We may have arrived at a point where we can do away with all the restraints and conventions without confusion, where we can take traffic cops off the street without increasing accidents and scrap our marriage customs without becoming promiscuous. Moral, as well as political, anarchists have been preaching that notion for some time, but who believes them? What is the origin of the term “honeymoon?” It was a custom of the ancient Teutons to drink mead, a beverage made of honey, for thirty days after an important wedding. Hence the origin of the term, honey moon, a f moon being a month. I How much irrigable land in the! United States is under irrigation? I A computation made in 1925 l shows 1,802,970 acres of irrigabldj land in the United States and 1,-fl 320,300 acres under irrigation. ’(H