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Hasten Sunnyside Action The Marion County council has an urgent duty to perform and it is vital to the safety of scores of patients at Sunnyside sanatorium that this duty be placed first on the council calendar. That is, safeguarding of the institution against fire, which is a constant menace at the sanatorium. Several times in recent months it has been necessary to transfer many of the patients to their homes, due to a water shortage. This difficulty may in part be remedied by the strict conservation plan, to be adhered to until a sedimentation bed type of plant is installed, as contemplated. It is believed that this plan can be used successfully during the five months necessary for completion of the work of installation. But the fact remains that this million-dollar institution will be at the mercy of fire during this period. It behooves the council to waste no time in its decision. Devices available for fighting flames would be effective only in the initial stages of a blaze, according to engineers’ reports, and a shocking fire tragedy might result. Sunnyside’s water problem should be made a matter of business of first importance with the council. The lives of scores of practically helpless patients are at stake. To End Unemployment William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a speech at Detroit, recommended as an immediate remedy for the unemployment situation the passage of legislation providing for the expenditure of Government funds in public improvements. “If Congress would pass the flodd control bill, the Army housing, naval construction and general housing legislation, and make the appropriations for this work available at once, our present problem of unemployment would be solved quickly,” said Green. Federal expenditures, he added, could be supplemented by States and municipalities planning public improvements. Green’s position, is sound. New York State has taken the lead in arranging for the immediate beginning of a large construction program. Several resolutions pending in Congress seek to commit the Federal Government to the same policy. Labor Secretary Davis remarked in a recent speech that we have an unemployment problem, and that there is no use blinking at the fact. He said, as have others who have studied the situation, that this condition exists despite the fact that the country as a whole is generally prosperous. Time will be required to adjust the situation brought about by the displacement of men by machines and other economic factors which have created the existing unusual situation. The final solution may be shorter hours for labor, or some other process. Meantime, men now idle must be put to work if the country is to maintain its purchasing power, ana if the ranks of those now out of work are not to be increased.

Sometimes We’re Democratic Our country is ordinarily called a democracy. But now and then something happens that hardly sounds ai if the democratic ideal had penetrated to all strata of our society. The other day. New Jersey police were hunting a murderer. A police captain announced that they had an excellent case against a rich New Yorker, but that "because of his social prominence” he would not be arrested until the last details of the case were complete. Now that’s a fine idea, to be sure. But suppose the suspect had been plain Giuseppe Cadorna, a ditch digger; would the police have waited so long? Probably they would have seized him at the first breath of suspicion and applied the third degree until he confessed. Yes, it's a democratic country. But your financial and social status does make a difference, at times. Spring on the Way There are sections of this broad land where snow still lies deep. In parts of our country winter's back, far from being broken, has hardly even been strained. Yet, for all that, we insist that spring is about here. No, we haven’t seen any robins. We have been reading the sports pages. And the sports pages teU us that the big league ball clubs have begun their training in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and other favored places. Now everyone knows that this means the end of winter. Ball players don't start limbering up without cause. The opening of the season is less than two months away. Winter is on the run; spring, howdy!

You car, get an answer to-any answerable question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor. The Indianapolis Times, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents in stamos for reply. Medical and le?al advice cannot bo given, nor can exended research be made. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All leters are confidential. You are cordially Invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. Who holds the record for the shortest time for circling the bases in a baseball game? The record is 13 4-5 seconds made by Maurice Archdeacon of the Rochester International League Club in 1921. What is the object of putting rubber pads between the shoes and the hoof of a horse? They act the same as rubber heels on the shoes of people, and absorb the Jar. . How nlanr members are there in tha tribe of Illinois Indians? Tha Illinois Indians are an extinct branch of the Algonquin family, ffhe tribes of the Illinois Con-

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estimated at between 6,500 and 9,000 originally lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, lowa and Missouri. They were visited by La Salle in the seventeenth century. Reduced by the fierce wars waged against them—especially by the Lake Indians in revenge for the murder of Pontiac (1769)— they numbered only 150 in 1800. They have since disappeared as a distinct tribe, having consolidated with the Wea and Piankashaw Indians in Oklahoma. In 1910 the combined tribes numbered only 200. What is an asteroid? One of a group of planets more correctly called planetoids revolving in orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter and generally visible to the naked eye. What artist decorated the ceiling i of the Sistine Chapel? Michaelangelo. How high is Pike’S Peak in Colorado? 14,107 feet.

A 2100-Mile Memorial Sam Hill, president of the Pacific Highway Association, wants to lay out a memorial garden 2,100 miles long, fringing the entire length of the Pacific highway from the Mexican border to the Canadian line. It is his plan to have space in this tremendous garden for memorials of all kinds—to States, individuals, causes and ideals. Up and down the west coast road, trees and flowers would grow as perpetual, ever-green monuments. This is anew idea, and a good one. Why not expand it to other highways as wall? Trees and flowers certainly would look better than the present system of gaudy billboards that line most of our main trunk roads. Investigating “Charity” The American Bankers’ Association keeps hammering away at the cry: “Before you invest, investigate;” and it is doing all of us a service thereby. The latest easy-money racket it has uncovered is the “charity raffle.” It has discovered that millions of dollars go to line the pockets of promoters of these affairs. The promoters contract with some charitable institution to raise money by raffling off an automobile or some other valuable article: they sell the tickets to a public that thinks it is contributing to a worthy cause; but the charitable organization usually collects only about 26 cents on every dollar taken in, the remainder going to the promoters. “Whether you give for charity or make an investment, it will pay you to get the facts,” remarks an official of the Bankers’ Association. Such Language! James Joyce, author of that monumental volume of gibberish "Ulysses,” has evolved what he is pleased to call anew vocabulary. He has employed a dozen languages to supply what are supposed to be words, and the result is amazing. Listen: “A slink dab was frankily at the manuel airth sure which was bekase he knowed from his cradle no boy better whatfor to fife with.” Presumably Joyce is seeking anew medium of expression, like the writers of free verse and the impressionistic painters. His effort is interesting—perhaps even praiseworthy—but quite useless. Language isn’t manufactured. It grows. A New Dirigible Factory Three big cities—Baltimore, Los Angeles and Cleveland—are making strenuous efforts to get the new Goodyear dirigible factory. As American factories go this project isn't unusually large. The company at present has contracts for only two dirigibles. Yet these three cities are looking to the future. In a few years, they believe, I the making of dirigibles will be one of the country's j great industries. Tlris gives an indication of the future that wise i business men see for air travel. If vast developments j were not definitely on the horizon, these cities would not be scrambling to get that factory quite so eagerly.

The Recoil of Cruelty BY BRUCE CATTON There are terrible possibilities of hatred and fury in the human sou-. A writer in the current Atlantic Monthly, describing the last days of Czar Nicholas of Russia, presents a picture of cruelty and vengefulness that makes the heart sick. He tells how Nicholas and the twelve members of his retinue—his wife, children and four faithful retainers—were imprisoned in a house at Ekaterinburg and subjected to cruelties of the most refined nature for many weeks; how, at last, they were led at midnight to a small cellar and there shot down by soldiers with automatic pistols; how, afterward, their bodies were taken to a dense forest and burned in a deep pit. His article does not make nice reading. It is horrifying to think that such things can happen. Yet it was inevitable; the tragic events that culminated in the cellar at Ekaterinburg were germinating ever since that August day in 1914, when Russia went to war with Germany and Austria. Indeed, they had their genesis long before that—three centuries before. The Romanoffs had piled up. a terrible score. Cruelty and tyranny charge a nation with explosives. The World War merely applied the spark. Luckless Czar Nicholas, least reprehensible of all the czars, happened to be the man to whom the bill was presented. It is Idle to deplore the price that the Bolsheviki exacted. It was fated. For repression and high handed autocracy have a way of bringing about their own downfall. Sooner or later there is the inevitable overturn. Restraint and fairness can not be expected when a nation explodes in revolution. Since the death of Nicholas, Russia has not been a pleasant spectacle. Yet it has been, and is, well worth our earnest study. There Is a lesson in it for us. We trust it would not be impertinent for someone to call this lesson to the attention of, let us say, some of these Pennsylvania soft coal operators who are evicting miners from their houses in the dead of winter, and hiring armed plug-uglies to shoot them. That method of handling a labor dispute is not American; it is Russian. Tire American way—of negotiation, conciliation, forbearance —may be slower; it may, at times be less decisive. But it has far better after effects. The Russian method is dangerous; dangerous to no one more than to the person or class that applies it.

What is the coloring in hnman hair and why does it turn gray? Coloring is due primarily to the nature and amount of the pigment present in the fibrous layer. When minute air bubbles appear in this layer the hair is white. The color of the hair is affected also by the color of the medulla, when present, for it may also contain bubbles, whose presence, in this instance imparts a dark color. As age advances the hair becomes gray. This is a natural and physiological process, but it may be hastened by severe troubles or other causes. In many cases premature bleaching of the hair is hereditary. Why does an object seem lighter in water than in air? feecause the density of water being greater than that of air, the difference in the weight of an object as compared with that of the medium in which it rests, is decreased. Where is the grave of Daniel Boone? “"PYanVfort, Ky." ~ " ' '

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(Abbreviations; A—ace: K—king; Q—queen; J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. Should you lead a singleton, holding four or more trumps? 2. Should you lead a singleton when holding less than three trumps? 3. Name three tenance combinations. The Answers 1. No. 2. Not unless your partner has bid the suit. 3. A Q; K J; A Q 10.

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: I am not much of a politician or a prophet, but there are some things that I would like to see happen and they have got to happen or this Government is going to serfdom. Just think what might have happened, if we had not had a man like Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who had the nerve to tackle that oil scandal. See how those in charge trieed to head him off. If they had succeeded, anything might have happened. Millions of the people's money would have slipped away. I have voted for thirteen presidents. I hope to live to vote for one more and I would like for that man to be Burton K. Wheeler. If not him, some man like him. I had an idol for some thirty years, but he has gone to his reward and now I would like to have another. I have been very unfortunate in my voting, but out of thirteen voted for, thank God, I am not ashamed of these two, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. There always has been a man to take the helm when | the old ship began to flounder. But all law-abiding people must get to j work and turn the rascals out or, as j Lincoln once said, "I fear for my country.” W. D. PIERCE, 817 N. Courtland Ave., Kokomo, j To the Editor: This is a letter I should like to i address to Sheriff Ben Stong of Gary: Will you please furnish me with a deputy sheriff's badge? I want to peddle moonshine and be exempt from arrest by anyone except a coroner. I just learned this trick today, j seeing and hearing one of your J deputies telling about this stuff. Please comply with my request, j as I am a citizen and have the j same right as any other person. He also said he knew right where j the liquor went that was hijacked j near Michigan City lately. He said one man got twenty cases | and that they only captured enough j to break a few bottles to make the people believe that they got it all. J. F. FELT. 548 Adams St., Gary, Ind. P. S.—This was told in a fruit store on Broadway, just north of: the riaduct bus station, Sunday,) Feb. 19. 1928. How true the officer's | statefnents were I do not know, but i I heard the statements to them all. To the Editor: Please print the following either on the front page or somewhere else, so that the Indianapolis Police Department won't overlook it! An excited man rushed out of a bank. "BANDITS! A HOLDUP! POLICE!” he shouted, but not a single policeman was in sight. A pedestrian ran north to find a policeman. A messenger boy on a bicycle dashed south to find a policeman. A driver of a delivery truck sped cast to find a policeman. "FOOLS.” muttered a friend. “I'll get a half dozen policemen!” and he parked his car beside a hydrant. As if by magic six policemen appeared. While he explained the bandits got away. *• G - c * Td the Editor: Last month we requested the local park board to grant permission for us to stretch a banner across Meridian St. This banner was to announce that we are equipped to render scientific brake service. Our request was refused, as was one also requested by a local auto dealer. As there are a number of advertising banners stretched across different streets of this city, the writer would like to know if the policy of the city administration is discriminate against some legitimate business institutions and also how is it that some are allowed banners and some are not? Thanking you in advance. F, B. S.

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World in Grip of Feudal System

FROM the ninth century to the thirteenth the feudal barons were supreme, and established during that period the aristocracies that dominated Europe until the revolutions of 1689 in England, 1789 ir France. 1917 in Russia, and 1910 in Germany. In some measure the new system owed its origin to ancient Rome. The conquering empire had left governors for each subject domain: these governors had established villas as their homes, and had engaged peasants as villani. or villeins, to till the land are care for the estate. From these villani, and from the coloni icolere. to till) who had been attached to their master’s estates by Imperial deerpe, the serfs (servi, servants) of the Middle Ages might have traced their lineage; and from these Roman governors descended many a lord (or law -ward) or feudal days. The baron reserved a portion of the vil or manor for his own use, and his villains planted and reaped his crops for him without pay. In return he assigned to them strips of his land, bound each family to a strip, and transmitted them, as “souls," with the soil. They were adscripti glebae, tied to the earth; they were part and parcel of it, like the one-or-two-roomed huts in which they lived The baron protected them from external aggression, and conscripted them for the same; and unless the war lasted for more than forty without interruption, the peasants had to pay their own expenses while enjoying this military vacation iron; their slavery. Each serf worked for his master from one to three days per week, and gave him annually a part of the produce of his soil; in return he was permitted to keep the rest. He held his land in flef (faith), —i. e.. on his promise to obey all the rules of the manor and to keep all his obligations to his lord. It was from

ft. Wayne Vena-Sentinel In a day when many thoughtless persons go about whining that the rich can get away with just about anything in this country, the heavy and apparently well merited sentence imposed in the Sinclair case should be highly gratifying to all the friends of free and impartial justice. Neither w’ealth nor prominence will avail to arrest sentence when guilt has been established in an American court, and that is exactly as it should be. For contempt of court in an action growing out of his connivances in naval oil land deals, Harry F. Sinclair, a rich and powerful petroleum magnate, has been sentenced to six months in a common jail. Another sentence of three months may be added. But Sinclair is not the only one in that case to experience the wrath of justice. While the trial was In progress it became known that Sinclair had hired the Burns detective agency to shadow’ members of thel jury. So Burns officials are also in bad. The trailers were trailed, and the detectives will be punished, although not, it seems to us, as heavily as might have been desired. We are, on the whole, pleased with the outcome of the Sinclair trial, however, for Sinclair has believed that he and his money were beyond the reach of the law. He was too rich and too smart to come to justice. That's what he thought, but he was wrong. He has been sentenced to jail for six months. Os course, he has taken an appeal, but the end of his legal fight must some day arrive, and it looks verymuch as though Mr. Sinclair was well on his way to the hoosegow. Munrie Press Supposing you had been out of work a long time and your wife and kids - were-hungry; that you

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this relationship of fief that the feudal system was named. # u IF he killed his lord by accident 4 the serf was put to death; if he killed him purposely, he was tortured to death by slow degrees. He might be beaten or imprisoned at his master’s will, without law or explanation; if he was killed, his master paid a fine. Any goods left by him when he died went not to his children, but to the lord. If the lord’s daughter married, the serfs had to provide a dowry; if the lord was captured they had to ransome him. If a serf’s son or daughter married or entered the church, the lord had to be paid a fee. His children could not marry without the lord's consent, and sometimes more than this was exacted of the bride. An edict of Aragon in the thirteenth century reads; "We decide and declare that the barons shall neither sleep the first night with the bride of a peasant, nor shall they on the first night, after the woman has gone to bed, step over said woman or bed in sign of their authority. Neither shall the aforesaid barons use the daughter or son of a peasant, with or without pay, against their will.” iSugenheim. Serfdom, page 35.) Entering the lord’s house the serf had to kneel in homage—i. e., declare himself the lord’s "man” (homo). If the lord visited him he must feed and shelter him with his best. The food was scarce and unvaried; and as today, fresh vegetables were almost unknown in the farmer's house. The hut was usually of nfud, with a roof of straw; it was ill-lit, and had no chimney; here, in the smoke of the fire, lived father, mother, children, cows and pigs. Ignorance ran riot under these conditions; disease took a heavy toll; and because the roads were poor and the old Roman highways

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were too proud to ask help, and so, broke into a neighborhood grocery and stole food for them. Then supposing you w ere arrested. convicted and sentenced on a burglary charge to spend two years or so of your life in the Michigan City prison. Supposing, also, you were to ap-

Mr. Fixit Finds Better Home for Abused Puppy

Let Mr. Fixit, The Times’ representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven will not be published. A better home for a ‘‘south side” pup was forthcoming today as a result of a letter to Mr. Fixit, Dear Mr. Fixit: At a house on S. Capitol Ave., is a poor little dog that has to stay chained up all day. The dog has only an old box or barrel to sleep in. It is only a young pup and howls half the day and all night long. Os course it is cold. Even when it was zero the people would not take it in the. house. Hoping for a better home and restful night in the future of the pup, I am. AN ADMIRER OF YOUR COLUMN Sergeant Thomas Bledsoe of the Indianapolis Humane Society agrees the pup should have better housing conditions. He said if the owner does not supply a better home for the dog he will file a charge of “cruelty to animals.” DEAR MR. FIXIT: There is a bad place in the track between Palmer St. and the boulevard on Shelby St. As the cars go south on Shelby they make a terrible noise. The interurbans shake the whole house. Hope you will give this your attention. MRS. C. K. City Engineer A. H. Moore ordered the street railway company to repair the track.

bad been left to decay, famine was a frequent and unimpeded visitor. jt u IN 1348 the Bubonic plague killed one-half the peasant population of England, and nine-tenths of it in many places on the continent; those who were stricken died in two days; and for a long time five hundred bodies were carried daily from the great hospital.-of Paris. The only recreation and relief from it all was in whisky, adultery, and divine worship. Doubtless the adaptability of the human mind, and the anesthesia of routine made it all tolerable; life was peacefully regular, and the income, however small, was secure; laughter and song spread their salve over the wounds of every day; and in the door-yards lilacs bloomed. The lord himself lived in a great castle or chateau, usually built as a combined fortress or home upon some strateg.c hill. Round about the castle ran a moat, hardly to be crossed except when the drawbridge was down; and nearly every corner had a tower from which attacks could be repulsed. The village grew around the villa, as the town grew up at the foci of trade. Many of these old chateaux still survive, so strongly were they made; they are masterpieces of architecteure without, and prisons of darkness within. Here the baron felt that his home was his castle in a very literal sense; his serfs produced all his necessities, and stood guard over his person and his property; and though Charlemagne or Otho might be called the emperor, and many a lesser man king, his rule stopped with the threshold, where feudal independence and personality began. It was in these chateaux, redeemed from their gloom by courtly women end artistic furniture, that the aristocratic families, traditions, and manors of Europe began. (Copyright. 1937, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

peal to Ed Jackson, governor of Indiana, in whom is vested the sole pardoning power, to parole or pardon you so that you might be able to care for the family that otherwise would be throwm upon the mercies of the world. And supposing Ed Jackson would refuse to help you. Supposing, too, that you knew Ed Jackson had been accused in criminal court by a former governor of the State, a highly reputable former prosecuting attorney of Marion County, a onetime close friend of Jackson and others with having conspired to pay a bribe of SIO,OOO to a former governor of Indiana to induce the latter to violate his oath of office. And supposing that Ed Jackson had been given the opportunity to controvert this testimony with his own witnesses but instead of doing so had taken advantage of a legal technicality in order to gain his freedom, so that the testimony against this Jackson accusing him of bribery stands unrefuted and undisputed in any legal way before the world. And suposing Ed Jackson continued to occupy the highest office within the gift of the people of Indiana. What would you think about this thing called justice, anyway? And how about giving three rousing cheers for Old Glory? And when you got out of prison would you become a good citizen—or just a “slick” one? Or, maybe, an Anarchist? Who were members of the cabinet of President John Adams? State, T. Pickering and John Marshall: treasury, Oliver Wolcott and Samuel Dexter; war, James McHenry, John Marshall, Samuel Dexter and R. Grisworld; navy, Benjamin Stoddart; postmaster general, Joe Habersham: attorney general, Charles Lee and Theo. Parsons.

MARCH 1,1928

M. E. TRA C Y SAYS: “As Far as the Present Campaign Goes, the Prohibition Issue Is Like the Weather. Everybody Will Talk, About It, but Nobody Will Do Anything.'’

A New York bank and trucking company lias decided that it is worth real money to know that such men exist -as that Brooklyn painters who picked up $52,000 and returned it, though he had been out of work two months. It is worth real money, and appreciation expressed in the form of real money goes farther than anything else to guai’antee the continued existence of such men. The idea that virtue is its own reward may be beautiful, but you cannot make ordinary mortals believe it unless it brings home the bacon now and then. a an Drys Give Orders Representatives of thirty-two dry organizations gather In Washington to tell both parties what nulst be done. Whatever else one may think of the venture, it is not without political significance. These organizations not only have the sincere support of millions, but the lip support of three out of every four Congressmen. What is more to the point, they will be helped by a multitude of scared, bewildered and jumpy politicians. tt n n Clever Politics The dry conference was clever in refusing to draft a specific plank for the parties to adopt. f That would have afforded the platform writers a chance to hedge at Kansas City and Houston. They could have changed a sentence, a phrase or even a word, and called on the country to observe how they had defied the AntiSaloon League. As things now stand, they are simply told to adopt a dry plank and nominate dry candidates. ft ft ft Absurd and Obvious Dr. Eugene. L. Crawford of the Methodist church. South, and a prominent dry leader, says that if Governor Smith ir nominated there will be a third ticket, which is so doubtful as to be absurd. John B. Hammond, former chief of police of Des Moines, lowa, sa ys that present enforcement of prohibition is an absolute failure, which is so obvious that no one needs to say it. tt tt ft Al Dodges Nothing Norman Hapgood accuses me of trying to make it appear that Governor Smith is 'a dodger. That is not the case of all Governor Smith dodges nothing, as Mr. Hapgood avers. In this particular instance, he won’t even have to prove it. The Democratic party will do all the necessary dodging. If Mr. Hapgood is skeptical, let him observe the convention, read the platform and see what occurs afterward. a it a Like the Weather So far as the present campaign goes, the prohibition issue is like the weather. Everybody will talk about it, but nobody will do anything. The outstanding reason for this is that nobody knows what to do, or more accurately perhaps, everybody has a different plan of doing it. Getting back of the yell for modification. you find that it is 90 per cent discontent, and that it has not gone for enough as yet to crystalize around any practical program. S. Harrison White, recently elected congressman from Denver, Colo., is one of the few to come forward with such a program, but when it gets t.o the voting stage, he will find himself snowed under by the wets before he ever has a chance to tackle the drys. Cheer Row With U, S, Argentine delegates to the League of Nations have attacked the Monroe Doctrine as a "mere declaration of policy” by the United States, and "not a regional agreement.” This is hailed by certain European statesmen as important. What they really mean is that they like it. Nothing would suit them better than a row between Latin America and the United States. Some of them indeed, have been busier about nothing than trying to stir up such a row. Making due allowance for the causes we have given Latin America to complain, nine-tenths of the complaining is of European manufacture. Liberty of 50,000,000 The Monroe Doctrine irks these European statesmen for precisely the same reason that it helps Latin America. Technically speaking, it may have been no more than a "mere declaration of policy” by the United States, but the effect of that policy was to guarantee liberty and independence for some 50,000.000 people. Taking the Argentine delegation's word for It, the United States has backed up the Monroe Doctrine alone, but Latin America has been the gainer. # tt a a Plunder Prevented, What hurts "European statemen'* is the lack of opportunity to cut up and parcel out Latin America just as they have Africa and Asia. Latin America is one region where they have not been able to grab, plunder and repress. None other than your Uncle Samuel has prevented them from so doing. Os course, they would like to see the Monroe Doctrine go by the boards and a colonizing "free for all” started in this hemisphere, and, of course, they are talking fear and distrust of the United States to every Latin American they can buttonhole.