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Aren’t We a Bit Touchy? Is the Pan-American Union to be maintained and controlled mostly by and for the United States, or is it to be a really cooperative body, made up of the twenty-one republics of the Western world, each on exactly the same footing with the rest? This is the big interrogation mark hovering over the Pan-American conference at Havana. Let us not deceive ourselves to the contrary. It is the real question before the meeting, and according to the way it Is answered the twenty Latin-American delegations there, and the nations they represent, are going to be genuinely pleased or resentful. We can not believe, therefore, the report that members of our delegation at Havana “plainly were amazed and taken aback by the scope of the Mexican project’’ to reorganize the Pan-American Union which sits at Washington, as one correspondent expressed it. Nor can we credit the impression some of the dispatches give that an attempt is being made to stab American prestige in the back. Nothing could be more absurd. The Mexican proposition for the reorganization of the Pan-American Union contains five points, not one of which impresses the impartial observer as anything but fair —that is, if the desire is to make the Pan-American body a truly cooperative one. First, the Mexican delegation suggests that the twenty Latin-American nations should not, of necessity, be represented in the union by their accredited diplomats in Washington. If they so desire they should be permitted to name representatives specially for the job. Second, it is proposed that the posts of chairman and vice chairman rotate annually in alphabetical order among the twenty-one nations members of the Union. Third, that the post of director general shall rotate aimilarly. Fourth, that the director general shall not hold any other posts or commissions under his government other than purely educational ones. Fifth, that the governing board of the union decide the allotment of posts on the staff of the PanAmerican Union. Whether these changes would improve the efficiency of the Pan-American Union, we are not prepared to say. Nor, for the moment, is it important. Is the Mexican proposal anti-American in nature, or is it not? Let us try to be fair instead of thin-skinned in the matter. The permanent seat of the Pan-Ameri-can Union, be it understood, is in Washington. Already that gives us an advantage. Next, the present rules of the union make the Latin-American ministers and ambassadors accredited to the United Stales members of the governing board. Inasmuch as the United States passes upon every such diplomatic appointment it can, therefore, to that extent, control the composition of the board. Furthermore, as a diplomat may not wish to make himself persona non grata with the Government at Washingeon, he is hardly a free agent when fighting his country’s battles in his other job as a member of the board. So much for that. Custom dictates that the presiding officer of an international conference shall be a national of the country in which the conference is held. As the Pan-American board sits in Washington, the Secretary of 4 State of the United States always has been its chairman. As the Pan-American Union is a permanent thing, and not something that meets here and there in different countries, it is suggested that its chairman be named in rotation from among all the countries represented in the union. And so on. Without going further into the details, the point is that the Pan-American union is now and has been since its inception, managed and officered principally by citizens of the .United States. Now Latin-American countries, deeming themselves members, in equal standing, of the Pan-Ameri-can club, want to share and share alike in its management. What could be fairer, or more natural?

Ford’s Flivver Plane - Has the “flivver airplane" come at last? For a number of years there have been imaginative articles in the magazines and elsewhere predicting that airplanes some day would be as common as automobiles. For a long time people have been wondering if Henry Ford might not try his hand at making a cheap, capable airplane and swamping the country with them. Now he brings forth a tiny little monoplane—its wingspread is only twenty feet, it will do between twenty-five and 'thirty miles to the gallon of gas and it can be sold for around $2,300 under present conditions. Is this the beginning of the era of aerial flivvers that so many of us have been talking about? Probably it isn’t. Or, if it’s the beginning, the early stages of development probably will last somewhat longer than they did with the automobile. Ford himself said not long ago that ownership of airplanes by ordinary citizens could not develop as automobile ownership did, for the simple reason that it is much harder and more dangerous to learn to fly than it is to learn to drive a car on a road. So it looks as If we have to wait a while yet before jumping Into an airplane, for a jaunt to the next State will be as common as getting into the auto to go downtown is now. And yet—you never can tell. Improvements in safety and reliability features on airplanes are being made with amazing rapidity. Colonel Lindbergh insists that flying is not dangerous. Americans have shown an astonishing aptitude for things mechanical; who can say positively that the average citizen couldn’t learn to fly a plane in a short time? It may come. Ford himself, in spite of his statements, must have a hunch; else why should he be introducing this wee plane? We hope it does. Already we have perfected an astonishing list of mechanical contrivances to free us from the ordinary bonds of time and space. The flivver airplane would be the final step. It would sever the last ties. With it brought into daily use thft American citizen could doff his hat—perhaps we should say his aviator’s helmet—to the American Stele on equal terms. {

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Eating 80 Pancakes A young man in a Middle Western city the other day entered on a griddle cake eating contest with a friend. The two sat at a lunch counter and began an endura: .ce eating contest. The winner eventually stowed away some eighty buckwheat cakes. All of which probably is very trivial and repellant. Yet there was a certain fitness in the food selected. The griddle cake, especially the buckwheat cake, has always been the food of gargantuan eaters. The buckwheat cake was born on the farm, and the city chap has little business eating it. It was not meant for the office worker; it was not born to be pushed over a restaurant counter in groups of three, with thin, synthetic syrup to accompany it. Ah, no! The buckwheat cake belongs in the farm kitchen, where three or four husky men need inner fortification for a hard day’s work in the open air. It should be served in bulk; one has not eaten buckwheat cakes until one begins on the seventh or eighth. It needs real maple syrup, dark and thick. One should have worked for an hour or two in the open air before coming to the table. Thus, we repeat; the young man doubtless made rather a spectacle of himself, but his judgment was soynd when he chose buckwheat cakes for his spree. Buckwheat cakes were invented for two-handed, hearty eaters. The Middle of the Road The middle of the road man is seldom popular. There is something in human nature which makes us dislike the person who refuses to take definite sides on any disputed question, but insists that the proper course is about halfwaj between the two extremes. This is unfortunate, for it often happens that the middle-of-the-road man is right. Consider the Nicaraguan situation, for instance. One party insists that we have no right there at all; Another party insists that we should go even further than we have gone and put Nicaragua squarely under the rule of the American flag forever. We suggest that the truth must lie somewhere between those two extremes. The vast majority of Americans undoubtedly have benevolent feelings toward the Central American republics and want to see them remain free and independent; yet it is undeniably true that constant disturbances such as Nicaragua indulges in are unhealthy conditions for our own back yard. The middle course! It’s so unpopular; yet it's so often correct. Hitching Wagons to Stars A Florida man is laying plans for the construction of a giant rocket, in which he hopes to be shot from the earth to the planet Venus. This is altogether a laudable ambition, even though reports thus far published fail to state just what he expects to do after he gets there or how he thinks he is going to get back. A great many of us, at one time or another, have wanted very much to go sailing off to a distant star. Indeed, you might say that the yearning to do that is every man’s heritage. This is especially true in youth. There are times, particularly when one is young and easily hurt, when the breaking of illusions is so painful that this earth seems rather a makeshift planet, at best, and the unattainable stars shine very invitingly. This spirit, too, is very valuable. It propels men in all manner of ways and into all manner of pursuits. It causes some to write poetry, to paint pictures, to compose music; it leads others into paths of industrial success, turning them into powerful men of money; it sends still others into public life, making senators, judges or presidents of them. For no one ever rose vary far without first becoming dissatisfied with his surroundings. The desire to leap to the farthest star must, of necessity, remain ungratified, unless perchance the Florida man should find his rocket unexpectedly practical; but in his vain efforts to gratify his desires a man will, sometimes in spite of himself, do good service for himself and his times. So perhaps it wlil be just as well if this big rocket proves a dud. If it should be perfected the earth would suffer too great an exodus. Not one of us but would, at some time or other, try his luck on another planet in preference to this one. But, lacking rockets, we stay here and do the best we can —and, unconsciously, make this earth a better place to live.

The Merchant Marine Recent discussions in Congress concerning the country’s dwindling merchant marine have served to emphasize the difficulties surrounding the problem of keeping the American flag on the seas. There is apparent a growing disagreement with the announced policy of President Coolidge to dispose of the present Government-owned fleet as rapidly as possible, and to undertake no new construction. The House, for instance, has voted $13,400,000 to recondition ten vessels for the coal-carrying trade and to refit the liners Mount Vernon and Monticello for North Atlantic service. This action was taken over the objection of the Republican leaders. In the Senate, Senator Jones of Washington, chairman of the Commerce Committee, is following a course directly opposed to the policy of the Administration. The committee has reported his bill stipulating that no further vessels be sold except by the unanimous vote of the shipping board, and committing Congress to a policy of replacement. The Replacement program of the shipping board calls for construction of fifteen ships a year for fifteen years, at an annual cost of $20,000,000 or $25 000,000. Jones shares the opposition of most Republicans to Government operation, but he and others have been persuaded that this is the only way out. He states the problem simply. Either the Government or private interests must supply ships. Private interests will not build ships without Government help. The Government will give no help. The inevitable result, as Jones sees it, is that American shipping will disappear unless the Government operates and builds vessels. This will cost money, he says, but if the country wants a merchant marine, it will have to pay. The problem is one of first importance, and should be solved at this session. At best, much time must elapse before tonnage can be increased materially.

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king; Q—queen; J —Jack; X—any card lower than IU.) 1— A five bid in a major indicates how many tricks? 2 A bid of four? 3 Holding K 10 X X X, how many other tricks are needed to bid it initially? THE ANSWERS 1— Eleven. 2 Nine. 3 Two.

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The name and address ol the author must accompany every contribution, but oil request will not be Published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor; The act of the prosecutor in the recent Kimble murder trial in testing the veracity of the State's star witness before attempting for the second time to send a man to the electric chair is a very commendable feat. If it were possibie for all prosecutors to test the truthfulness of their own witnesses ftrsi, in preference to establishing thier own self in the eyes of the public as a successful prosecutor, they would be taking a great step forward in eliminating unscrupulous persons from taking undue advantage of the law for the sake of revenge. To send, or attempt to send, a person to the electric chair or to prison on manufactured evidence and prejudiced testimony, thereby casting u stain on that person and their innocent family is a damnable thing. Yet it is being done every day, not only in criminal cases, but in civil cases as well. It has become such a common practice that It is scarcely noticed in the courts today. Both the plaintiff and defendant in all cases solemnly swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. One side sets out the facts, and the other side promptly denies them, unless it is a most unusual case, both can not be right. Someone has deliberately lied. One side sets out to prove their contentions, and the other side endeavors to substantiate facts that the first party has not proved its contentions. The fact that one party has deliberately lied seldom comes to the front, because it is not an issue. And it takes a mighty smart judge or jury to determine in its own mind who is right. There is no question our statutes need a radical revision and our judicial system can stand improvement; but even if we had both it would not improve conditions, so long as the people disregard the solemn respect of the courts and the sanctity of their own oaths. The people today do not want justice—they want revenge or selfsatisfaction. H. W. RINGENBERGER. Indianapolis, Ind. To the Editor: It seems really unfortunate that Mr. E. E. Neal’s detailed tabulation of the personal virtues and accomplishments of Indiana Chief Executive should have been so tardy in its publication. Not only would it likely have received more careful consideration in times past, when the personal activities of Mr. Jackson were not so prominently advertised, but the chief publicity agent for the Hoosier G. O. P. might have been privileged to have been first to chronicle other interesting facts w’hich he is now compelled to omit because of their previous publication. While Mr. Neal’s bigraphical splurge discloses some interesting traits of character previously undiscovered by the unlettered layman, yet how much more thrilling and comprehensive it might have been had the editor been accorded the pleasure of divulging for the first time, the Governor’s exceptional finesse in the horse-trading game. It is possible of course, that regard for the inordinate modesty of the party idol would have prevented any mention of this special talent, yet even now, when tangible evidences of business acumen ought to command a premium, it would seem that the exploitation of this rare gift would have added much to the Governor’s prestige and given Mr. Neal’s literary masterpiece that element of human interest so universally demanded in current fiction. A WAYFARER.

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Roman Aristocrats Patrons of Art

THE POETS OF ROME IET us go then into the homes v of the aristocracy; we shall fare a little better there. Here at Sirmione, on a bit of land that reaches out into Lake Garda, is the summer cotage of Catullus, “tenderest of Roman poets.” His father is a rich gentleman of Verona, a friend and often the host of Caesar; therefore Catullus receives the best education, and falls in love with the loftiest lasses. One of them. "Lesbia.” though she is thirty-two when he is twenty-five, proves the most charming of all, because the most unwilling; and perhaps the poet describes his wishes rather than history when he sings his little epic of osculation. "Love me. Lesbia, while we live, Value all the cross advice That the surly graybeards give At a single farthing s price. Suns that set again may rise; We, when once our fleeting light. Once our day In darkness d.es. Sleep in one eternal night. Give me kisses thousand fold. Add to them a hundred more; Other thousands still be told. Other hundreds o’er and o er. But with thousands when we burn. Miss, confuse the sums at last. That vve mav not blushing learn All that have between us passed. None shall know to what amount Envy's due for so much bliss; None, for none shall ever count All the kisses we shall kiss." (Tr. Georgs Lamb.l But Lesbie does not care for mathematics; she sends Catullus off, knowing that this is the only way to inspire amorous poetry. We find him self-exiled to Bithynia. in distant Asia Minor, visiting the grave of his brother and addressing to him the most renowned

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Kokomo Tribune (Republican) The records of the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1927 show that 545 trade disputes were handled by the representatives of this service. Os this number twentyfour cases were pending at the close of the year, 395 cases (plus forty-one from the preceding fiscal year) were adjusted, sixty-nine cases were closed without assistance from the commissioners or were called off or settled with the assistance of local or State agencies and fifty-seven are listed as “unable to adjust.” The cases presented for settlement during the year directly or indirectly affected 575,723 workers. Official experience, according to James J. Davis, secretary of labor, shows that in approximately 85 per cent of the cases submitted to the Conciliation Service for mediatory counsel satisfactory settlements have been secured, and this has been accomplished under the theory and practice that commissioners of conciliation have no power to compel contesting parties to accept mediation. Neither have they authority to make awards or decide issues in dispute. Their duties are. rather, to negotiate, advise and counsel with management and men, with the view to bringing about industrial peace upon the best possible basis for all concerned. Elkhart Truth (Independent) An illustration of the Impotence of the United States Senate in the regulation of its own affairs was the recent bitter debate between Democrats, over the religious issue. Senator Heflin of Alabama Is regarded as a nuisance by his Democratic as well as his Republican brethren. Although few pay the slightest attention to his remarks as having any weight with them, he talks on most occasions and on all manner of subjects. If the value of the Senate’s time he wastes could be estimated it would be found that the public pays dearly for having hin> at the Nation's capital. One of Heflin’s favorite themes is denunciation of the Roman CathoL'c Church and the Knights of Coiumbus. His tactics are as distasteful to Protestant Senators as they are to Catholics, who feel that our legislative chambers are not the proper places for religious controversy. Getting tired

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of all valedictories: Ave, fra ter, atque vale! “Hail, brother, and farewell!” His poetry becomes as despondent as Byron's; he anticipates a line of Keats, and says that the promises of a woman should be written in wind and flowing water. But when he returns to his home in northern Italy nature heals him, and he sings with quiet good cheer again: "Oli, what more sweet than when, from care set free. The spirit lays Its burden down, and we. With distant travel spent, come home and , spread Our limbs to rest along the wished-for bed! This, this alone repays such toils as these! Smile, then, fair Sirmio, and thy master please— And vou. ye dancing waters of the lake. Rejoice, and every smile of home awake.” (Tr. Sir Theodore- Martin.) His brother in the south is Ovid, also a lover, also rich, and also dying in despair, as if wealth were of no account to happiness at all. Like Heine, Ovid is destined for the law, and takes to poetry. He teaches the “Art of Love” in verses whose joy suffers no stint from morality; and then he sings the great tales of the “Metamorphoses” (or Changing Shapes), and brings to Italy the fairest legends of the Greeks; here, for example, is the noble story of Daedalus and Icarus, and man's first attempt to fly. * a tt BUT the greatest of these Roman poets are those whom Augustus gathers about him to grace his table and immortalize his reign. One of them is the modest and'

of a two-and-a-half hours’ tirade by Heflin, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, minority leader of the Senate, sharply reproved him, whereupon Heflin challenged Robinson’s Democratic leadership. At a caucus of Democratic Senators following the debate, all but one present voted confidence in Robinson, thus reproving Heflin. However. that will hardly be effective in stopping Heflin’s two-and-a half-hours tirades. Vice President Dawes was right when he said the Senate rules and procedure should be revised. It is childish for Senators not to be able to limit debate of the nuisance class. Protestants and Catholics alike should make an earnest effort to keep religion out of politics.

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rhythmic Virgil; the other is Horace, subtlest and profoundest of them all. Virgil has sung simple Georgies of the rural life as he has lived it near Mantua, at the foot of the Alps; why should not one tell in placid verse of the growing corn and the ripening olives and vines, of oxen grazing leisurely in the grass, and livers gliding quietly through sleeping towns on the Italian hills? Augustus listens and is pleased, for being an urban soul he relishes rural poetry; he rescues Virgil from misfortune, gives him a small estate, and encourages him to write his best for Rome. And so Virgil, grateful, composes his friendly and flowing epic, the Aeneid; tells of the flight of Aeneas from fallen Troy, his pleasant dalliance with Dido, the Carthaginian queen, and his desertion of her to come up north and help establish he Eternal City Here is a strange feminine perfection of metre and language and style, many centuries away from the boisterous and masculine narrative of Homer; and besides, Virgil is an Italian, not a Roman soul, as tender as the Petrarch who loved him so. and no fit herald or symbol of ruthless warriors. Therefore the Christians will venerate him as “anima naturaliter Christian,”—“a soul by nature Christian”—and Dante will seek his guildance through Hell and Purgatory, even to the portals of Paradise. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant)

Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel (Republican) The widow of William E. English of Indianapolis has been happily inspired to offer a prize of SI,OOO to the reporter on an Indiana newspaper who, during the year, shall be judged to have performed the most important work in the way of clarifying the State’s political atmosphere, and SSOO to the reporter who has rendered the most outstanding nonpolitical service. It is encouraging to find that, at length, the effectiveness of the Fourth Estate in settlement of pressing problems is gaining recognition, after many years in which there has assuredly been Inadequate appreciation of the work of the newspaper man.

northeast of Mindanao. Philippine Islands. There Is, however, no official verification of this sounding. Prior to this report the greatest ocean depth known as 32,113 feet. Can you give me the names of existing companies that operated sailing vessels at the time steamships were first introduced? Black Ball line, Red Star line, Swallow Trail line and Dramatic line. Wlfat is the reason for the dots over “i” and “j”? Dotting the “i” dates back to the fourteenth century and was done to distinguish this letter from others in the alphabet, “j” is the most recently added letter to our script and was formerly used interchangeably with the “i.” It is dotted for the same reason as “i”. The “j” was appropriated for constant sounds and the “i” for vowel sounds. How can whitewash be removed from plastered walls? Soften the whitewash by wetting it liberally and repeatedly with a solution of two pounds potash in five gallons of water and when softened, remove with a scrapper. Who were the feature players in “Twelve Miles Out”? John Gilbert, Ernest Torrance and Joan Crawford. What does it mean to dream of pearls and a pearl necklace? According to one superstition to dream of pearls means tears—to dream of a pearl necklace indicates a legacy. _

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “A Leisure Class, Such as the Old World Has Known for a Thousand Years, Is About to Make Its Appearance in This Country; an Aristocratic Social Crust Seems to Be an Inescapable ByProduct of Prosperity .”

Mrs. Anna M. Harkness, of whom few people ever heard, leaves an estate of $107,000,000. It is the largest yet taxed in New York. The' State will collect a tax of $3,000,000 on it, while the Federal Government will collect one of $18,000,000 minus death benefits due other States. She died less than a year ago, but her estate has increased some $8,000,000 since that time. Not only that, but it doubled during the twenty-eight years which she held it after her husband’s death and in spite of her many gifts. Although one of the richest women in the country, she owned no real estate except a small garage, left a wardrobe valued at only s7ll, and had two old autos which are appraised at S4OO. Her property consisted almost wholly of stocks and bonds. Stocks and bonds go right on earning interest as long as business is good. With such trust companies and legal advice as are now available, it is easy for a widow, or a child to inherit $15,000,000 or $20,000,000, live like a lord and see it double in twenty years, without doing more than have a good time. tt tt u Film Magnate’s Success William Fox, president of the Fox Film Company, started in business twenty-five years ago with a single theater in Brooklyn which had 146 chairs. A full house brought him i $7.30. 1 Mr. Fox has just closed a deal for 1250 theaters, with a seating capacity !of 350,000, which are said to earn ! a gross income of $35,000,000 annually. You cannot help admiring a man who gets ahead in that way, and you cannot help being grateful that you live in a land which offers such opportunities to get ahead. tt tt a Heirs to Take It Easy When Mr. Fox dies, he can leave his estate in the hands of a trust company or some great legal firm, while his heirs face no harder task | than watching it pile up. j That is the other side of accumu- | lated wealth. i The kind of people who can go out j and make a fortune are not the same kind who inherit it. The same blood may flow in their veins, their eyes and hair may be of the same color and in childhood they may have the same outlook on life, but the very fact that they came into money, that other people are ready to look after it for them and that they face no necessity of earning it for themselves soon enters and changes their character. tt tt it New Leisure Class Up to this time, America has been distinguished by people who made something out of nothing. From now on she is going to be distinguished by people who can afford to make nothing out of something. A leisure class, such as the old world has known for a thousand years, is about to make its appearance in this country. Big business has already begun to found its “families.” Those families have already begun to isolate themselves, to form a distinct social stratum, to be conscious to anew and superior caste, to think of intermarriage as not only desirable biit necessary. tt tt Top Gets the Gravy An aristocratic social crust seems an inescapable by-product of prosperity. If bolshevism has proved that “you can't make poor men by making rich men poor,” as Lord Curzon says, no theory of government has proved how to make poor men better off without making rich men richer. No matter how high wages go, or how good prices are, those at the top not only get the gravy, but find ways to preserve it. There never was and probably never will be any great clanger in the accumulation of wealth by individuals who start with nothing. The danger lies in pickled wealth, and that is what America approaches. a u a Ties Pile Up in Trust Modern business methods, especially as expressed in the trust company, promise to destroy that good old rule of “three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.” Our democratic institutions no longer can depend on the practical certainty that what grandpa hoarded his grandchildren will blow. Your twentieth century grandpa ties his pile up in a trust, leaves nothing free but the income, provides against the ravages of flapper, ne'er-do-well, idiot and an-about-town, and makes it impossible for children, grandchildren or greatgrandchildren to dissipate it, no matter how much they might enjoy doing so. tt it it Instinct to Earn No matter what the problems or consequences, we all want prosperity. The instinct to earn more, get more and accumulate more is ono of the strongest. You can hardly put a man in any position that wUI destroy it. Though confined in a Massachusetts insane asylum for fifty-three years, William Scott refused to glv* up working and saving. He barbered the patients and attendants, kept a little stand where he sold tobacco, candy and knick-knacks and left an estate of more than $3,000 when he died the other day. The question arises whether the money will be disposed of according to the will he left, or whether it will be confiscated by the State to repay for his board and keep.