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Frank B. Willis The career of Frank*B. AVillis came to a tragic end last night. In Ins little home city, among his own people, gathered to cheer his candidacy for the office of president, he was stricken without warning by the hand of death. His going will be mourned sincerely by the thousands who knew him personally—and whom he knew as Jim, or Joe, or John —and by other thousands Avho looked to him as a leader. A native of Ohio, a graduate of the State's common schools and of one of the State's uiiiversities, his life followed a course not unlike that of many another Ohio Statesman. lie taught school, practiced law, was elected tq the State Legislature, then to Congress for" two terms, then to the governorship, and finally to the Unied States Senate, in which he was serving his second term. He placed Warren Cl. Harding in nomination for the presidency at the Republican convention in 1920 and this year aspired to the office for himself. Senator AVillis represented certain views in American politics and he represented’" these views with such personality and force as lo bring him into a natural leadership. It is needless to say that this newspaper has not been in accord with Senator Willis in many matters of public policy, but there never has been a time when it has failed to respect the earnestness of his purpose, or when it has failed to recognize him as a worthy opponent. It could not*be otherwise. AVillis’ death is of far-reaching importance ■politically, but this is scarcely the time to seek to estimate its effect. Rather is it a time to express our regrets at the passing of a redoubtable political focmau and o exend our sincere sympathy to his family and to that great host of Ohioans whom he called by their first names. Let’s Ask Ford The Senate committee investigating conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, is considering a request to Henry Ford to appear before it as a witness. The committee would not ask Ford, as it has Charles M. Schwab, John D. Rockefeller Jr.. R. B. Mellon and others concerning charges that employes 'in the coal mines are underpaid, denied their constitutional rights, and coerced through arbitrary court actions. On the contrary, the committee would ask Mr. Ford concerning reports that conditions in his mines in West Virginia are very pleasant. Committee members have been told that Ford pays his miners $8 a day, or more than provided by the Jacksonville agreement, which other operators repudiated to reduce wages. I It seems a fair assumption that Mr. Ford figures his coal mining pays, or he would not operate his miiies. How can he afford to pay his miners $8 a day? By all means let the committee ask Mr. Fold. It will be recalled that his high wage policy of earlier years was a shock to the elder industrialists, but that many of them since have been persuaded to his way of thinking. In any event, if he has given any thought at all to the problems of the coal industry, his suggestions would be helpful to the committee. Congress and the Nicaraguan Canal Before Congress adjourns for the summer it should start the ball rolling for the proposed canal across Nicaragua. Several bills already- have been introduced with that in view, notably one just presented by Senator .McKellar of Tennessee, and another by Senator Edge of New Jersey. But somehow none of these seems to fit the situation. The Edge resolution, for instance, merely authorizes the President to direct the Secretary of War to resurvey the Nicaraguan canal route at a cost of *500,000. And that does not go far enough. i On the other hand, the McKellar bill perhaps goes too far in the other direction, providing a complete program for the entire works, from a resurvey up to, ahd including, the issuance of $200,000,000 worth of 3 per cent bonds to finish the job. A cross between these two measures would seem' to be more to the poyit. Not only is a resurvey of the route desirable, but before Congress passes on the. other phases of this titanic undertaking the claims of Costa Rica, Honduras and Salvador—which countries contend that the project would infringe upon their rights as sovereign nations—should be adjusted. What Congress well might do, therefore, before it shuts up shop a few weeks, hence, is to take steps to have a complete report prepared by a competent commission, or commissions, dealing with both phases of the situation. After which it will be in possession of the data necessary for an intelligent discussion of the remainder of the-program. Senator McKellar, for example, would seem to have in mind a sea-level canal. That, of course, is an impracticable dream. The principal thing that recommends this particular site is the presence of Lake Nicaragua in the middle of the route, one of the largest inland bodies of water south of the Great Lakes, and already navigable for large vessels.. A sea-level canal would drain this lake and necessitate digging a colossal ditch some sixty-five miles across its dry bedFurthermoi'c, there is no use fooling ourselves as to the cost of a Nicaraguan canal—even one utilizing Lake Nicaragua for nearly half the distance across the isthmus. The $200,000,000 bond issue proposed by the McKellar bill, would not be anything like enough. The Panama canal cost $370,000,000 and the Nicaraguan project is bigger still. However, while the cost' of labor has gone up considerably since the Panama canal was dug, di'edging and steam shoveling have been improved tremendously, so it Is likely that the $1.003,000,000 estimate recently made by Gen. Lansing H. Beach for the War Department would be found high. * Bull even 'if it cost A billion dollars, a second

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'canal would be worth the price as additional national insurance. Anything could happen to the Panama canal if we went to war, and something almost surely would, with disastrous effects upon the United States. \7e ought not to carry all our eggs in one basket any longer than we have to. Let us not forget that when the Panama canal first was proposed, people said it never would be anything but a rathole down which would pour an endless stream of the people’s money. It never would pay commercially, they said. Last year it collected $25,544,000 in tolls, $14,000,000 of which was clear profit. It will pay for itself in another ten years. The indicatiorts are that Panama soon will be doing capacity business. This may come in ten on twelve years—much sooner than most people expect. The world seems tc> be on the eve of a great commercial awakening and certainly Central and South America are going to develop in the next few decades like the United States has developed in the recent past. All this will make for an immense increase of shipping at sea and the consequent need of additional facilities for passing from one ocean to the other. It would take from ten to fifteen years to dig the Nicaraguan canal, so we’ve no time to lose. Congress should take the first steps before it goes home. Our Growing Airplane Industry When someone tells you, ‘‘Oh, the airplane will never be as popular as the automobile,” don’t be too ready to believe him. The airplane industry in this country is enjoying the best of health right now. In 1926 there were Sixty-seven airplane factories; at the close of 1927 there were 103. Every one was, and is, working to capacity. More than 2,300 airplanes were sold in this country last year—more than half of them to private individuals. * There are other indications. Eddie Rickenbacker,returning from a trip to the far west, reports that at Portland, Ore., an airplane school is selling planes "faster than a good auto dealer sells cars,” and has 270 students in training. At Cleveland, Ohio, 25,000 i people went out to the airport on a spring Sunday, | drawn by a desire to see airplanes and talk with fliers, i These are straws showing which way the wind blows. It looks as though aviation in America is on the eve of a perfectly amazing development. Mellon and Couzens We do wish Senator Couzens and Secretary Mellon wouldn’t fight so. Both are very \Vealthy men. Anatole France remarked that in a democracy wealth is the only thing that is sacred. If we are to revere wealth as we should, we must never admit that either of these men could be wrong. Can't Secretary Mellon find a poorer senator to j tilt with? Or can't Senator Couzens attack some | Cabinet minister who only has a paltry million or | so? This spectacle is heart-rending. Surely, $100,000,000 can't be wrong. Yet one < r another of these men must be mistaken. It's all very confusing to one who wants to retain the proper reverence fm- men of great wealth. City of Long Life Various cities and towns find many different things ; so which they point with pride. We submit that the town of Monon, Ind., can put its- chest out for a very good reason. Monon has 1,500 inhabitants. During all of 1927 no child died in Monon, nor was there any death from a communicable disease. Here is a record that means something. Let's hope that there will be more towns in Monon’s class at the end of 1928. Here's a headline from some city in Illinois. “Union Agent Shot Five Times; Won’t Talk.” Guess the name of the city and how many times a man has to be shot there before he will gab a little. A lawyer, seeking a divorce in Chicago, sat on the j witness stand, asked himself questions and then answered At last, a case without objections.

David Dietz on Science - - Fame, and Then Tragedy No. 12

THE discovery of radium by Madame Curie was the climax of a sequence of important scientific events. Let us trace the steps briefly. . Sir William Crookes discovered that an electric discharge caused the walls of a vacuum tube to become phosphorescent. Prof. Wilhelm Roentgen dis- j covered that such a tube gave off X-rays. Prof. Henri Becquerel discovered that the salts of uranium gave off rays similar to the X-rays. That

covery of even greater importance. She found that an ore called pitchblende, which contained uranium, gave off more rays than did a pure uranium salt. This, she reasoned correctly, could only mean that there was something in pitchblende which was a more powerful source of the rays than was uranium. Pierre abandoned his own work to help his wife and the two set to work to find out if they could find the mysterious “something.” Two years later, in 1898, they announced tq the world the discovery of radium." ' They had started their experiments with a ton of pitchblende. Gradua’ly they had separated it into its constituent elements, eliminating them one by one, (is possible sources of the powerful rays. When they finished, their ton of pitchblende had been reduced to a few grains of radium. By 1900 tney had established many facts about radium and as a consequence new ideas concerning the nature of matter were beginning to be developed. In 1903 the Nobel prize was awarded to the Curies. On April 19, 1903 Pierre Curie attended a reunion | of the Association of Professors. After the meeting, he was crossing the Rue DauThino. Perhaps his mind was on radium instead of traffic. 4. wagon struck him. The wheels went over him. He died from concussion of the brain. . Few,greater tragedies are to be histouM Madame Curie was left to carrv WB

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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. Editor Times; The hope of Senator Watson that he may secure the nomination of his party for the presidency is by no means so unfounded as you seem to think. For more than two years he has been conducting a very adroit campaign. That he long has been subservient to the beneficiaries of our protective tariff cannot be doubted, and yet he hopes to get many votes from the agricultural States. He has supported the McNar**Haugen bill and perhaps has fooled many farmers to the extent of believing that if he were President he would do something to relieve their economic. ills. He is favorably located to do this. No candidate, of either party, east of Indiana and north of the Mason-Dixon line, can hope to get the united support of the farmers. Thus he can say to the East “You know me, Al.” To the West he can say, “Have I not supported the legislation you have been demanding for the iast two years?” When it comes to that stage of the convention when a few bosses meet at midnight in a hotel room to decide who shall receive the nomination, his henchmen can say, "Jim Watson is the only man who can get the votes of the farmers and at the same time make the/ East shell out the campaign funds. We must have him to win this election.” In case of his nomination and election, there can be little doubt that he would give his support to the manufacturers, rather than to the farmers. True, he might be willing to sign some bill, such as the McNary-Haugrn bill in its present emasculated form, in which it can be of no benefit to the farmers. But he would not, in face of those who benefit from our protective tariff, sign such a bill as was passed by the Congress and vetoed by the President a year ago. Please do not underrate the fact that "Jim is a slick one.” HORACE CHADWICK. Morristown, Ind. Editor Times; I have ofttimes wondered if it was not the publicity that was given to your fair city, of the recordbreaking mayoralty race, orV)f another Governor being jealous of a former Governor trying to break into the penitentiary, that has kept automobile manufacturers from putting horns or sirens on their cars that they send into this city, so that people would not recognize the make. If I had not recognized the fact and lifcd bten sleeping instead of keeping my eyes open. I would have been knocked down a dozen times the past week. I think one man didn't like it because I did not get in front of his car and he used vile language, but I didn't feel inclined to please him. The police department ought to be commended for the work it is doing, warring against these “hit and run” drivers. Why can’t the public help them by blowing their horns—l mean the automobile horns)? That would help considerably and it would mean another step toward a larger and better Indianapolis. Yours till the auto horns come in fashion. R. CLYDE NEILL.

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was in 1896. That same year Madame Curie, the wife of Pierre Curie, a French college instructor, decided to see if any other substances gave off these same rays. She discovered that thorium gave off similar rays. But she made a second dis-

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THE rest must be a catalog, which only travel can make real. The sojourner in England will feast upon the Gothic cathedrals at Ely. and Canterbury, and Lincoln, and Salisbury, and York, and Exeter; and he will marvel at the ornate complexity of Henry VH’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey. Perhaps some day we shall have leisure enough to return to the bicycle and wheel at whim through peaceful Flanders, not stopping so much for the cathedrals at Antwerp and Malines. but studying the signs of splendid merchant power and sturdy bourgeois taste in the belfry of Bruges, the city halls of Brussels and Louvain and Ghent, and that famous cloth hall of Ypres (“the greatest monument of the civic architecture of the middle ages”) which the French armies partly destroyed in 1792. and the German armies completely destroyed in 1914. Then at Cologne we may stop to see that great cathedral which it took 600 years to build (1280-1880). and which is marred by its inferior modern glass, and by the crowded buildings that hem it in; then we shall steam down the Rhine, comparing nature's architecture with that of the castles on the hills, until we come to Strassburg, whose cathedral seemed so fair to Goethe in his youth, and so “barbarous” to him when Rome had made him classical. Or shall we sail south through warmer seas to Spain, and see in Salamanca’s old cathedral the Romanesque becoming ■ Gothic in splendid union, and at Barcelona the Gothic mingled strangely with the Moorish and Byzantine styles; and at Burgos "the elements of stupendous size, of mysterious gloom, of grotesque and yet realistic energy, which are the dominant characteristics alike of Spanish architecture and of medieval romance” (Havelock Ellis); and at Seville, gising from a mosque whose minaret still graces it, the vast cathedral whose interior (the largest in the world, except St. Peter’s) reminds us that once not merely the women, but all the city came together to worship the same God in the same way? # a ITALY had less need of Gothic than the North; deprecating light, it cared little for windows, and shunning heat, it loved thick walls; hence it was not driven by circumstances to flying buttresses, pointed arches, or ribbed vaults; it was not Gothic by nature. There are Gothic churches at Siena, Pisa, Bologna. Naples and Rome, but they are secondary; the great Duomo, or Cathedral, at Florence, is partly Gothic, but mostly Renaissance; but Palazzo Vecchio, built there in 1298 by the greatest of Florence architects, has a sombre simplicity of its own, while at Venice the Doges’ Palace rises from the Grand Canal in all the grace of Gothic, and with a delicacy of proportions, and a nobility of design, which compare with the best of civic Gothic in France. And at Milan stands a powerful cathedral, gigantic and ornate, in which all the potential faults of Gothic leap to the wearied eye. Let us stand for a moment before this last masterpiece of Gothic (1386-1577), and see why the great style at last came to an end. This, you feel, is romanticism, an excess of feeling and ornament, the predominance of imagination over intelligence, a wanton exuberance which stands at the other end of the world from the Apollonian measure and calm of the Parthenon. The Parthenon is a naked athlete, but this cathedral is a laceflaunting courtesan; it *s like the language of Shakespeare, barbarously unrestrained; it is Gothic in the racial sense of the word. It has no supreme unity to which every part has been subjected in conception and construction; the independence of the individual worker has here brought the' same chaos which comes in a soul when some instinct or passion dominates the personality, and a part overides the whole. Other defects lay more inherent in Gothic, but one has hardly the heart to name them-The flying

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buttress was a vital imperfection, an external aid indicating internal weakness; crutches, the merciless Michelet called them; as absurd as scaffolding unremoved; a structure should stand by the strength of its own essential form. But if we take our place where the flying buttresses can not be seen, or if we return from Milan to Chartres and Rheims, the lure of Gothic is on us again; we see those hundred thousand spires rising toward heaven from Europe's soil, and we are lifted up, almost against our will, by these graceful lines that from every source and direction* mount and point to the sky. WHY did the great style decay? Was it because taste changed, or because belief began to die? Doubtless, the return of the Renaissano to Greek models in literature and art, the replacement of color by line, or decoration by design, undermined the hold of Gothic upon the European soul. But beneath that change was a deeper one; men relinquished interest in heaven, and took kindly to he earth again. The symbolism of spire and arch lose its significance for an age that had won its spiritual independence of the church, whether by the revival of letters or by the reformation; and the need for vast places of worship disappeared when faith was weakened with knowledge, and piety was forgotten in the wealth and luxury of the Renaissance. Science and industry came; and when the Renaissance was over.

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Richmond Palladium Under this caption, “Factional Politics," the Ft. Wayne NewsSentinel discusses a charge ot the Indianapolis Star that Secretary Hoover is being used as a stalking horse of those who are playing factional politics in Indiana. The Ft. Wayne paper rightly points out that Senator Watson for many years has capitalized on factional politics for his own good. The text of the editorial in the Ft. Wayne News follows: "The Indianapolis Star says that Secretary Hoover is being used as the stalking horse of those who are playing factional politics in Indiana. It certainly comes with poor grace for a newspaper that

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“civilization made a clean sweep of art.” The cathedrals began to decay, and the ravages of time and war had a diminishing resistance from the fidelity of men. In 1194 a fire burnt down all of the Chartres Cathedral except the towers; in 1792 revolutionists plundered the church of all its removable wealth; all through the nineteenth century middling artists, commissioned to restore these Gothic monuments, subjected them to their conception of how they might be improved, and in the great madness of 1914 a hundred shrines of beauty were injured cr destroyed. The time will come, no doubt, when changing faiths will let these glories utterly decay; mortality is written upon every life, every religion and every state. But still for our age they stand, apparently imperturbable amid our fallen creeds and our dissolving moral code. And perhaps when the fibre of our flesh, our character and our race has been weakened by wealth and suicidal strife, and those nations which strut the earth today shall be as poor and lowly as Egypt and Spain, and the eternal country side shall have won again its everlasting war with the city; those poems in stone which the middle ages wrote as homes and symbols of their simple hope will still stand to call men back to the worship of beauty and of peace. (Copyright, 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

is suppjrting Senator Watson to charge anybody with playing factional politics. "Watson never played any other kind of politics. Indeed, he has caused the Republican party in the State of Indiana more grief than, perhaps, any other man in the State. The only reason he entered his name in the Indiana primaries as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was for the purpose of controlling the delegation to use it as he sees fit. “He is no more sincere in this candidacy that he is when he promises appointment to every seeker for office who approaches him. Indeed, he is no more sincere than when he advocated county local option some years ago while a candidate for Governor. "He is no more sincere that he is when lie boasts of his loyal Republicanism and then turn s around and fights several of the administration’s major policies. He is no more sincere than he is when he declares himself opposed to the primary and then viciously criticises the resolutions committee of the Republican State convention for incorporating in the party platform a plank urging the repeal or modification of that measure. “The word ‘sincere’ is not a part of his vocabulary. Senator Watson promises all things to all men. He always has and he always will. "Mr. Hoover is more than a candidate, he is an opportunity for Indiana. His candidacy offers an opportunity to do the very thing that the Indianapolis Star some months ago insisted that Mr. Watson do, namely, to clean up the deplorable situation in Indiana and again place this grand old State in its rightful position among the States of the nation. “Mr. Watson has assumed the position of dictator of Republican politics in the State and therefore he cannot escape the responsibilities that go with the job. He has failed, and has failed miserably, and the Indianapilis Star knows he has failed.” Where are United States coins made? The coinage mints are located at Philadelphia, Pa.; San Francisco, Cal., and Denver, Colo. In addition, the assay office at New York: mints at New Orleans, La., and Carson City, Nev., are conducted as assay offices; and assay offices at Boise, Idaho; Helena, Mout.; Seattle, Wash., and Salt Lakft City, Utah, conduct important supplementary work.

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M. E. TRA CY, SAYS: “ You Would Find It Hard to Convince Any of the Favonite Sons That He Hasn't a Splendid Chance. What Is Worse, Our History Bears Him Out in This Conceit."

VIRGINIA MINERAL SPRINGS, Va., March 31.—Since leaving New York two weeks ago I have been in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia. With the exception of Alabama and Virginia, all these States have favorite sens in the presidential race. Illinois is blessed with two favorite sons and New York might be if Charley Hilles could only find someone to heed his earnest prayers. Poor Charley, he deserves better luck for ail he has suffered and made other folks suffer. nun Cook Convention Stew As hundreds of us scribes have pointed out, most of the favorite sonning is for no better purpose than to beat Smith for the Democratic nomination and Hoover for the Republican. Making due allowance for that, however, and admitting that the political highbinders of both camps are cooking up the usual pre-con-vention stew, you would find it hard to convince any of the favorite sons that he hasn’t a splendid chance. What is worse, our history bears him out in this conceit. Who, outside of his blindly optimistic supporters, expected Harding to be nominated by the Republicans eight years ago, or John W. Davis by the Democrats four years later? 1 Nothing has been more characteristic of our party conventions, especially when they did not feel bound to grant a second term or reward recognized services, than to make the most unexpected choice. Who does not recall that hectic summer of 1896 when the mild little Major McKinley became standard bearer of the G. O. P„ while Bryan stampeded the Democrats to every one's surprise; or 1912, when Roosevelt bolted and Wilson stole the show? tt n Hope of Dark Horses Hoover and Smith easily are the outstanding candidates, each in his own party, but neither of them has corralled a sufficient number of delegates thus far to prevent it from being anybody’s race. That, more than anything else, is what gives the favorite sons their excuse from surviving. Permitting ambition to father their thoughts, they hope for a repetition of what has happened on a dozen or more* occasions when some dark horse came out of the melee, leaving the country breathless with astonishment. Whether they realize the big boys arc pitying them for suckers, as is the obvious case in most instances, each and everyone of them persists in the alluring hope that some freak of fate will pull him through. tt tt tt Democrats’ Chance Best Just at present, the Democratic camp offers a better gamble for favorite sons than the Republican. This is because of the two-thirds rule. Governor Smith has much farther to go to insure his nomination than Herbert Hoover. While 546 del# gates are enough)to nominate latter, Governor Smith must have 732. So long as there are 367 delegates against Smith, fach and any favorite son can imagine that opportunity is knocking at his door, tt tt tt Long Way Ahead of A! No one knows just how many delegates either Smith or Hoover has sewed up right nov T . Hoover's most enthusiastic supporters are claiming 470, while his opponents concede 350. Smith's backers are claiming between' 400 and 500, while his foes admit nothing, except that he cannot be nominated. Averaging the result, It looks: as though Hoover might have something like 150 yet to gain while Smith needs about twice that number.

'The Manhattan Mind’ It popularly is is believed that If Smith goes to Houston with a majority, he will win, but that is hardly a safe bet. Most of those opposing him are bitter-enders for one reason or another. Even if they were not, the favorite sons could be depended on to stand by the ship just as long as they could muster 367 delegates among them. It will be recalled that Champ Clark went to Baltimore with more delegates than Woodrow Wilson, and that he gained until he had mustered enough strength to convince most people that he would be nominated. It will be recalled, also, that he did not lose until Tammay Hall came to his support. Tammy Hall is not the bugaboo it was sixteen years ago, but it is still something of a bugaboo in certain , sections of tne country. So, too. anil Wall Street, prohibition and whXL they boys at the forks of the cr</H call “’the Manhattan mind” all jfjvE which helps to make the to Smith peculiarly stubborn. put it bluntly, the man is the tim, not of one prejudice. three or four. fcjra&j If his personality were no®<*§s§ most romantic fact in polities today, he would chance. sVv'wfi What are the “Three Wisft keys?” W, ' “Little Apes of monkeys that appear in decoration among the ancient VMH of Nikko, Japan. The three follows: Mizaru, who sees no e'C9 Ilikazaru. who hears no evil, Mazaru, who speaks no evil. legend is simplv a moral to the wisdom of minding one's business.