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A Couple of Tens for a Five Americans love to think of themselves as the world's premier business men, but the British can give them cards and spades and trim them any day. Not only would our cousins across the Atlantic willingly accept from us a couple of tens tor a five, but, what’s more, they already have done it more often than we like to admit. Their new naval armament limitation suggestion, just made at Geneva, sounds like another one of those magnanimous offers. Having just completed a couple of the latest model battleships, the last word in floating fortifications, and otherwise got their navy where they want it, they now propose that all future battleships shall not exceed 30,090 tons (their new ones being 35,000 tons); that the guns carried shall be 13.5 inches instead of 16 inches; and that we make our present ships do us twenty-six years instead of twenty. All of which smacks of the 1922 agreement of Washington. At that time we agreed with Britain that henceforth the two nations would maintain equality of naval tonnage, so we blithely scrapped 531,000 tons of battleships as against Britain’s 98,000. Os course 531,000 tons for 98,000 was big odds, but, as Charles Evans Hughes, our chief delegate, said, it was worth it, because “this treaty ends, absolutely ends, the race in competition in naval armament.” I Which, of course, it did not do, as all the world now knows. While we signed in good faith, the rest did so with their fingers crossed, with the result that today, six years from the signing of the treaty, the United States navy is far outranked by the British navy and barely equals that of Japan. Why? Because Britain and Japan, since Washington, have concentrated on cruisers and naval craft, which we foolishly did not insist upon including in the formal agreement, Britain's latest Geneva gesture would mean another advantage for her. Ship for ship, the British craft are of a more advanced type than ours and it does not take a Philadelphia lawyer to see that the longer our old ships are made to last before we replace them, the longer our fleet will be at a disadvantage. At the Washington conference, it was the hope of the American delegation that the size, armament and total tonnage of battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, submarines and so on, would be limited to certain agreed proportions. This hope was far from realized. Only battleships and aircraft carriers really were limited and for this agreement we paid a stupendous price. We thought we were buying what Chairman Hughes said, /‘The absolute end of the race in naval armament,” but we were badly fooled. A singed baby, so they say, stops grabbing at every bright lookly object it sees. A perfectly adequate reply to this new offer of Britain’s is: “Let’s first make good on the agreement of Washington. After that, we’ll see.” , Harry Sinclair’s Horses Harry Sinclair owns a big racing stable. His horses run under the Rancocas colors—whatever they are. Horses being what they are and having no souls— because they are not human beings—don't do some of the things that human beings do. And they don't know as much as human beings know. , For instance, the horses in the Sincalir racing don’t know that Harry Sinclair owns them. W They would run just as fast if somebody else owned them. One of the joys that come from not being able to talk or read the newspapers is the joy of not knowing what is going on in the world outside of the stable, the pasture, and the race track. So Sinclair's horses don't know a thing about Teapot Dome. They don’t know the difference between Republicans and Democrats, and never take part in controversies over religion and alcohol. They don’t belong to the Elks, the Masons, the Knights of Columbus or the Ku-Klux Klan. They don't know the difference between’a cigar store coupon and a Liberty bond. And they don’t care whether the income tax is high or low. Nevertheless, Sinclair's horseS have been barred from the race tracks of the great State of Maryland. Not because they are as horses different in character from any other race horses. Their standing in horse society circles is as good as that of any other horses. But they belong to Harry Sinclair, and Sinclair’s standing just now isn’t exactly what it might be. So Sinclair’s horses are not to be permitted to meet on terms of social equality with horses of good horse standing—at least in Maryland. They are outcasts because through ownership they are associated with Sinclair. If horses were human, the horse-loving public would sympathize with them for this seeming degradation. But, fortunately, horses are not human and don’t know any such thing as degradation. They know neither morality nor immorality. They know neither vice nor virtue. Besides, they don’t know one State from another. They don’t know a Maryland track from the one at Tia Juana. %So Harry Sinclair’s horses don’t know they are barred from Maryland tracks. They don’t know anything about it. Being horses they are horse-happy, no matter what happens to Sinclair. There appears to be some advantage in being a horse. Dull Children Thß Federal Department of Education, in a recent bulletin, emphasizes anew the importance of giving every school child periodic physical examinations. It points out that many a supposedly “dull” pupil merely has poor eyes and can’t see the blackboard. Many a well-meaning youngster incurs wrath of the teacher for inattention when he really has defective hearing and can’t tell what she says to him. These are real tragedies for the children involved. Every city and village owes it to its children to see that such things don’t happen. Boston telephone operators give customers forty wrong numbers per minute, says a telephone company bulletin. Operators elsewhere, however, are hoping to better this record. Senator Willis of Ohio, breaks out in a bitter attack upon the Scripps-Howard publications in Ohio which are supporting Hoover. Perhaps he’s just trying to rattle the chain newspapers.

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American Humor Through the foul,fog of present political events breaks an occasional laugh; * Two: When Representative Brand staged his antiHoover show, advertising it in advance, and thereby giving his opponent, Burton, time to search the records and dig up the glowing tribute Brand himself had once paid to Hoover. The reading of that tribute as a complete answer to Brand’s attack presented a boomerang performance more striking than ever seen on stage. Then stepped up Senator Robinson of Indiana with his attack on A1 Smith, and his unfortunate reference to “birds of a feather.” Another boomerang, consisting of all of Indiana's unholy political birds roosting quickly on the shoulders of the nonplussed Hoosier solon. Such humor is a bit crude, and even contains certain elements of cruelty. It’s the slip-on-the-banana-peel sort, or falling in a manhole, or hit by a custard pie. But it’s the kind that America likes. If you don’t believe so, ask Charlie Chaplin. Was Kipling right when, in 1894, in his poem called, “An American,” lie wrote the following on the American sense of humor: “Through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole— The cunic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; “That bids him flout the Law he makes. That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, he wakes The drumming guns that—have no doubts; “That checks him foolish-hot and fond, That chuckles through his deepest ire. That gilds the slough of his despond But dims the goal of his desire.”

. Dark Horses The chances of some favorite son getting the presidential nomination are not at all bright. The pubile understands that game better than it did in 1920. But there is danger of something even worse tlian a third-rate favorite son—and that is a dark horse kept locked up in a bedroom closet, to be trotted out after all the favorite sons have run their legs off and have been put back In their stalls. That is the menace in this year’s presidential campaign. A favorite son has to show up in front of the grandstand where the folks can look him over and see all his ringbones and spavines. But the dark horse doesn't have to show at all. The public gets no chance to look him over until the nomination is made. He can be kept in the dark until the favorite sons of the various States have blocked the popular favorite of the rank and file, and then hand-picked at a midnight conference and put over by the bosses in convention. The nominee of the G. O. P. at Kansas City will not be any of the favorite sons now out in the open. It will be either Hoover or a dark horse now under cover.

Those Police Morons A group of citizens recently made a national survey of crime and reported that 30 per cent of the police in the average city are morons. Maybe so. But listen to this: In Cleveland, Ohio, the other day a motorcycle patrolman was speeding down a main street after a fleeing law violator. Out of a side street, without warning, came a big sedan, whose driver blithely ignored the law requiring him to stop before he entered the main thoroughfare. The policeman had no time to swerve; he crashed into the sedan and was killed. / If there are morons on the police force, there are also morons driving automobiles. And now and then these brainless creatures cause the death of policemen.

.David Diclz on Science .

It Is International

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SCIENCE is international. The history of every important advance in science proves it. The development of our knowledge of the nature of matter is no exception. Our modern understanding of the nature of matter began with the construction of the Crookes tube by Sir William Crookes of Great Britain. The next great advance came when Prof. Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, working with a Crookes tube in his

exposed to sunlight. That is, these substances after being exposed to sunlight, will glow with a pale light when taken into a dark room. It occurred to Becquerel that these substances might also give off rays like the X-rays which Roentgen had discovered. He tried exposing many substances to sunlight. Then one day a lucky accident, such as that which had led Roentgen to the discovery of X-rays, led Becquerel to an important discovery. His luck lay in the fact that the day happened to be cloudy and that he had chosen a uranium salt to work with that day. He wrapped up the radium salt and laid it away on top of the photographic plate he intended using for the experiment. A metal cross, which he intended using, was laid between the salt and the plate. To his surprise, he found an image of the cross on the plate. Apparently the uranium salt was giving out some sort of ray which could penetrate opaque objects in just the same way that X-rays did. Here was a tremendous discovery which at once electrified the entire scientific world. The new rays were called Becquerel rays for the time. Many scientists began to experiment with substances to learn the nature of the Becquerel rays. The problem was solved by a woman, and her case again proves the international character of science, for she was the Polish wife of a French professor. She was Madame Curie.

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

(Abbreviations: A—are; K—king: Q puren: J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. What do you bid initially on spades—K 10 XXXX XX; hearts —X X ; diamonds—Q; clubs— JK? 2. Declarer bids one no-trump. All pass. Dummy holds A Q 10. Declarer holds X X; what should declarer play when opponent leads small card through dummy? 3. What is meant by a “Bridge Hog?” The Answers 1. Pass. 2. 10. 3. One who hogs all bids and ignores the partnership element.

Mr. Fixit Gets Slop Signs Repainted

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 given will not be published. Police will repaint the yellow “stop” warnings along Thirtieth St., in accordance with a request of Mr. Fixit today. Dear Mr. Fixit: For some time the yellow “stop” signs painted along Thirtieth St. have been worn off. I narrowly missed a serious accident at Thirtieth and Talbott recently because the party on Talbott Ave. failed to stop. It would certainly be much safer to have the sign:- renewed, on account of the heavy traffic on Thirtieth St, and a few of the side streets. Sincerely, R. T. J. Police Chief Claude M. Worley ordered the signs repained at the earliest posssible date. Signs all over the city, which have not been replaced by the “frog” type stop sign, are being repainted as result of spring weather. Dear Mr. Fixit: I own property in 5100 block on E. Michigan St., and am continually annoyed by a neighbor's chickens which run on the sidew’alk and yard. ' They have scratched up all or my bulbs. The owners have been asked to pen them up, but fail to do it. Can I force them to pen the chickens or should I kill them? W. B. Police Lieutenant Ralph Lean advised that you file a warrant against the owner for failure to fence his flock.

Questions and Answers

You can 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 stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other Questions will receive n personal replv Unsigned requests cannot be answered All leters are confidential. You arc cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. Where fs the island of St. Helena? What Is its population and to whom does it belong? It is an island in the south Atlantic, 800 miles southeast of Ascension Island and belongs to Great Britain. The natives are of the Latin race. The population in 1924 was 3,703. The area is forty-seven square miles. Fishing and gardening are the chief Industries. How many times has “Camille” been produced on the screen and who have played the title roles? Six times, with Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara. Mae Busch. Sara Bernhardt, Nazimova and Norma Talmadge each taking the leading role. What makes the Mexican jumping bean jump? Jumping is caused by a worm inside the bean striking its head against the shell. The plants from which they are obtained are members of the botanical family Euphorbiaccae and genera Sebastiania and Croton. Is a passport required of an American citizen to go to Bermuda? No. What is the meaning and nationality of the name Coletta? It is Spanish and means “of noble birth.”

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la bo r a tory in Germany, discovered X-rays. The third great step was taken in France by Prof. Henri Be c q ue re 1 of France. His experiments were inspired by the discovery of Xrays. It had been known for many years that certain substances become phosphorescent when

The Rules 1. The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, or a given number of strokes. Thus, to change COW to HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW. HEN. - 2. You can change only one letter at a time. 3. You must have a complete word of common usage for each jump. Slang words and abbreviations don’t count. 4. The order of letters can not be changed.

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FOR almost a century architects and workers labored at Chartres; now we think to absorb it all in an hour. We shall never absorb it, because we do not believe as those men and women believed; here Anselm is right, and we must believe in order to understand. But at least we can sit across the way and let this west portal and facade speak to us. But why are the two towers so different? It is the same at Amiens and many another Gothic shrine; for a time it irritates us; we are children, and want identical symmetry, as if to reduce, by half, the task of understanding. And here, surely, the diversity hurts the unity of the facade; unless we lose ourselves in the separate beauty of each tower, we cannot resist the feeling (hat the two diverse cathedrals have coalesced and formed a hybrid, as if animals of different species had mated. In truth, the two towers speak two languages, and come of two times and tastes; one was built in 1091, and still shows the rugged simplicity of the Norman style—powerful elemental lines, seeking not beauty but sublimity; the other came a generation later, from another hand, and is thoroughly Gothic and ornate —beautified with a thousand details, patiently carved in every inch of stone: one does not know whether to fall down before its loveliness or to turn away from it, as a woman too carefully primped and powdered and painted and curled, to its demurer comrade on our right, quiet and modest like a woman made for motherhood. Between the towers is the west portal—three massive entrances, crowded with statues of a hundred saints; here through these holymen, as St. Augustine would say, is the door to the City of God. There are too many statues, we feel, and, because we are not of the faithful, loyal to hope against every evidence, these saints seem all alike to us; we do not know their distinctive legends, and the varied gifts which they severally promise to those who invoke their intercession; they are a species to us, not individuals. n n a Nevertheless, let us look closely and leisurely; it deepens us to understand the misunderstanding of others (or do we merely misunderstand their understanding?). Here in one complex pillar are several saints; at first we do not like them for saints are not to our taste in these days; we are loyal to the earth, and deprecate other worldliness; when a man is too pious we watch our pocketbooks. But look, here is a saint that smiles; and this lady saint here is fair to behold; surely she was not a stranger to love! And this figure on the left, with curly hair and comely beard; his piety is not of the sort that makes us guard our daughter; every line of his face is kindly, and there is an infinte tenderness in the eyes; can this bd* stone that so reveals the heart? Perhaps th sombre worship of the early Christians has become now a religion of joy, full of sculpture and painting, drama and poetry and music, every color of art woven into the harmony of man and God? If you think these statutes monotonously religious, consider the gargoyles; here is a population of riotously laughable figures, animals and men; these gargling spouts for the falling rain do not hesitate to satirize the clergy, or make friendly fun of Satan. At Rheims, during the restoration of the cathedral after the war called Great, a score of queer figures were heaped together and photographed as a group; no one looking at them could doubt the medieval sense of humor. # No, It Is not the sombreness of the cathedral statutes that arouses doubt, it Is their number; here, perhaps, the critic of Gothic is not without reason, and renascent art has fallen into adolescent excess.

The Only Place Too Clean for Hinu

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

Sight of Cathedral Inspires Awe

Written for The Times by Will Durant

Seven hundred full-sized statutes, innumerable smaller ones; it is too much for the sense or the soul to absorb we are overwhelmed, and do not feel, as we should, a beauty that is so swamped in number. But “beyond doubt.” says Huysmans, “the most beautiful sculpture in the world is in this place.” a tt tt WE pass through the great portal and stand in the nave. It Is almost deserted; only a few broken-hearted women are here, free to love Christ, now that their earthly loves are dead, wandering from altar to altar with diverse prayers and offerings, and with the the poet's line ever in their hearts: "Mary, pity women!” But once 10,000 people knelt here: lordly barons in armor or silk, stately women who worshiped the Virgin in church, and then in their chateaux held courts of love; great merchants and guildsmen, artists and troubadours, rough peasants and their sturdy wives, ana lads that looked at lasses as they prayed. They are gone, and that unity of soul is gone; we are tqrn into a thousand faiths, a little harder than that one. and not much more rational; each little group of us has a church for itself now. and smiles as it sees another group passing to an alien and untelligible shrine. Ever since Europe was torn into states the soul has been torn with doubt.

With Other Editors

Richmond Palladium Senator Arthur Robinson, who represented the Klan in the capacity of attorney when D. C. Stephenson was a big man in Indianapolis, found the sledding rough when he attacked Governor A1 Smith of New York in the Senate. Old Democratic war horses, veterans of many a forensic contest in the Senate, kicked Indiana’s junior Senator unmercifully in the tilt which he precipitated. Indiana's unsavory political mess was paraded for the edification of the whole nation. Political friends of the Senator who have been busy in Indiana trying to hush references to the political scandals of the State and asserting that the publicity is hurting the State will now have a splendid chance to advise the young Senator to keep silent. Friends of good government in Indiana have insisted all along that more publicity and r less silence was needed to expose the whole rotten situation. They have refused to keep silent. Senator Robinson played into the hands of a strong minority when he, the Senator of a State whose record has been besmirched by political corruption, tried to hold up to scorn the chief executive of another State. Democratic Senators could not overlook so good a chance to take a fling at our rotten State administration. And they made the most of their opportunity. Neither Senator Watson nor any of his Republican colleagues came to Senator Robinson’s assistance under the Democratic barrage. Muncie Frfss It took an Indianapolis jury thirteen minutes to find Boynton J. Moore, a city councilman, guilty of bribery. Five other members of the body are to go to trial on like charges early in April. The public conscience of Indianapolis has been notably aroused of late. No longer is it sufficient for one to have influence in a political faction or gang, or to be a power in a party, in order to “get away” with criminal acts. Grand juries there are not now fearful of finding indictments against those of high estate, nor are prosecuting attorneys fearful

Look up. Here is height; 122 feet, but seemingly much more; for the secret of Gothic is elevation of height and mind; every line points upward as if luring us to the infinite; and every vertical distance is magnified by subtle delusions of the sense; this ceiling seems to be the floor of heaven. You see the pillars first; they are the one element of strength in this interior, and they are not too strong; with all the reinforcements which the buttresses can bring, these walls are frail to hold so vast a roof. The Gothic architect wishes to admit the light, as the architects of the south wish to exclude it; there the sun hurts and bakes us, here in the north it befriends us with its warmth, and every moment of its il- ; lumination is a blessing, j So the windows here are more than the wall, et lux facta cst. Let | the stained glass remain unseen for ' a moment; look up past that upper | row' of window’s (the clerestory, or i clear-story), which illumines one j part of the nave, while the lower j windows light the rest; follow the I lines of support as they curve like j living things to meet at the top; here again, woven with elevation, is unity; everything comes to that line at the top, and that, lines passes forward to meet the lines of the apse and transepts. (Copyright. 1928. by Will Durant)

(To Be Continued)

of prosecuting them and petit juries of convicting them. Even the Governor of Indiana was not too high to escape indictment on a charge of conspiring to offer a bribe to a former Governor, and only the statute of limitations which (he Governor pleaded, prevented his possible conviction. His acquittal was ordered on a legal technicality by the presiding judge after damning evidence against him had been presented juries, the prosecuting attorney and the trial juries continue their work of trying to clean house among traitorous public officers. They will succeed sometimes, and occasionally they may fail, but they have the spirit that is worthy of emulation by other communities of Indiana and elsewhere. Rlufttou Bannrr Senator Robinson got hold of a tarred stick in the Senate and before he got loose he was a much chastened young man. In the course of a running debate in which the Indiana Senator had admitted that Governor Smith of New York, had accepted some Sinclair bonds, a statement which has been proved untrue, the Senator in his excitement made the remark that birds of a feather flock together." Very unfortunate remark, and before the boys got through with him he was made to see the error. They linked him up with D. C. Stephenson, the klan. Governor Jackson, the statute of limitations governor, Clyde Walb, State chairman under indictment for irregularities' in that LaGrange bank, with George Coffin and John Duvall two more worthies under indictment for fraud of some kind, and had the honorable Senator from Indiana gasping for breath. This is the second or- third time the boy from Indiana has gone in where angels fear to trod and came out with his feathers badly ruffled, but he thinks he needs the advertising, evidently. What music is played with the motion picture “Beau Gestc? “The Marching Song ot the French Foreign Legion,” an original composition by Hugo Reisenfeld, who made up the musical score,

MARCH 29, 1928

TRACY SAYS: “Has It Become the Policy to Guarantee ‘Fair Elections’ in Other Countries? Would the United States Undertake to Pursue Such a Policy Toward England? Why Pick on Nicaragua ?”

The outside world, but especially Latin America, is more impressed by what we are doing in Nicaragua than by what we are saying about treaties to outlaw war. The treaties stand for what we preach; the marines for what we practice. It is just another proof that action speaks louder than words. n tt n 111 Will for U, S. The worst feature of the Nicaraguan situation is the way it Is I being used to stir up ill will against ! the United States. Anti-American propaganda is be- ' ing spread from the Rio Grande to j Cape Horn. Most of the spreading is done by i European agitators, and a good many of them come from countries I that encouraged, if they did not demand, intervention. It is very humiliating to see the i United Sttaes denounced by English, French. Spanish and Italian newspapers for a mess into which those countries helped push it. u n u Where Did We Start? One wonders whether our Government knew where it was going, or appreciated the eventualities when it set out to discipline Nicaragua. From the varying excuses it has offered, the assumption is warranted I that it did not. First, it was the Red terror that j called for action, then it was Anteri- ! can lives and property that had to i be protected, but now it is a “fair | election” that must be guaranteed. The ridiculousness of our situation j is Illustrated vividly by the fact that Iwe are hand in glove with the j Liberal party which we started out j to suppress, while we have turned | our backs on the Conservative party which we started out to save. President Diaz is no longer the I outstanding exponent of our ideals, I the Stonewall Jackson standing beI tween Bolshevism and the western ' hemisphere, the friend of honest and ; legitimate business, i By the same token. Moncada is no j longer the cat's paw of Russia, the j apostle of Communism, the leader ■ of a plot to dynamite the Panama | Canal. n n tt Sandino, an Idol President Diaz, our former | protege, would be more conspicuous jas an opponent were it not for Sandino, who has not only run away | with the show, but has furnished \ one more proof of our Government's ! inability to appraise men and events. Sandino was a bandit to begin j with, then a revolutionary leader, but now some folks are wondering ! if he is not a patriot, and whether ! he can be killed off without giving I anti-American sentiment an opportunity to thrive on hero-worship. Our Marines can get him, of course, though they have not been able to do so in eight months of strenuous effort, but to what end? Are W'e making an idol or wasting time on an unimportant agitator? n tt Policy—or Mistake Such details are interesting, but j not particularly important when compared to the larger issue. What the Latin-Americans want to know is what our meddling in Nicaragua stands for. Does it represent a policy or a mistake? Should other governments expect similar treatment, or should they understand that we have singled out Nicaraguan for purely experimental purposes 9 They have heard Mr. Hughes say that we are not looking for territory south of the Rio Grande, yet they see us occupying it. They have heard him say, too, that it is not our intention to interfere with the rights and liberties of other people, yet they find us doing it. n After Marines Leave The proposal to keep our marines in Nicaragua until a “fair election" is held and then withdraw them is not so enlightening. Latin-Americans construe it as merely substituting one army for another. They are too familiar with the situation not to realize that whoever controls the guns controls the vote, and all they see in this “fair election" is American bayonets where those of Diaz or Moncada might have been. If the American bayonets did guarantee a greater degree of independent voting at one election, what would it amount to? Latin-Americans are not fooled, even if we are. They understand perfectly well that the customs and traditions of a century can not# be bowled over by any such short-cut methods. Assuming that our marines would and could guarantee a “fair election" while they are in Nicaragua, they certainly could not do anything cf the kind after they leave. tt tt tt Whose Business? Apart from that, has it become the policy of the United States to guarantee “fair elections” in other countries? Would the United Stales undertake to pursue such a policy toward England. Argentina or even Peru? If not, why pick on Nicaragua? It is time that we gave such questions serious consideration, that w r e asked ourselves whether w'e are developing a policy in terms of principleor i nterms of expediency. . i