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Sightseeing For two months the editor of this paper looked upon the historic and artistic treasures of Italy and France. He looked upon Mussolini as he sat in his capacity of five members of the cabinet, which .means dictatorship, as he opened a parliament composed of those who did nothing, said nothing and wrote nothing but what he dictated. He traveled in trains patrolled by soldiers whose chief duty it was to see that even in the moving cars no word of criticism was lettered against government, by force. He saw the ruins of ancient Koine, the spots where men have triumphed for a brief hour of history and then passed on. forgotten. He went into the eaves where Nero listened to the ( 'unman Sybil and where Dante, in his mad love, wandered in search of his Beatrice, believing that lie could rescue her from the journey across the Styx. He saw the work of great dreamers, immortal in canvas and in marine. He rode over highways that had lasted for centuries. He visited the spots where civilizations have risen and then fallen to decay. He saw countries ruled by soldiers. He saw men fear to speak. He lived in a land where protest must lie less than whisper and where men disappear into the cells of prisons for daring to be men. Everywhere, there was pride in the'monuments. pride in the history, pride in the:beaiity of historic treasure. It was all so interesting, very interesting. It wa> so easy In understand, easy for the guides to explain. Sightseeing in Indianapolis, on return, is also interesting. But it is so hard to understand. What would a guide say were he to wander into the State House and after pointing to the dome, begin to show the sources of pride? What would he say when he pointed to the office of the Governor? Would he say that here we have the only man in all history who has headed a great State and whose title to the office and indeed to his own liberty, rests upon the fact that he successfully hid the evidence of his crime for a period of two years? There, indeed, is something to be proud of. That truly is distinctively the possession of the State. When pitying the people of Italy, who must either whisper or disappear, for their lack of courage to face a firing squad, to defend their citizenship, what shall he said of a State which consents to rest under the shame of being governed by a man who escaped a cell by a plea that the statute of limitations had run against his crime? There are distinctions that are at least not to he envied. There are other things in the State House, of course, which would prove interesting to the visitor. Instead of original letters of dead men, there are official files which are rapidly becoming quite as ancient and quite as venerable. There is the record, for instance, of the case against the head of the Anti-Saloon League, charged with attempting to use his political influence to terrorize a court, which still awaits decision. Perhaps some local guide can explain to an inquisitive traveler, or even inquisitive citizen, a reason for delay in a decision i na land where speedy justice is guaranteed to every citizen and where no man should rest under such an imputation. * The primaries will be held early in May. The Ohio Game Goes On The determination of supporters of the late Senator Willis to go on with the fight in Ohio won’t surprise anybody who understands Ohio politics, and particularly the kind of politics of some of the professionals who pretended to be for Willis. They are eminently “practical,” so practical in fact that they gathered together at a funeral to arrange their plans to carry on; and they have madje plain what this newspaper has claimed right along—that some oi the most enthusiastic supporters of Willis were not sincerely for him at all, but were using his popularity in Ohio to get delegates who would cast a few complimentary ballots for the favorite son and then get back of the bedroom, midnight choice. And they hoped it would be Dawes. If they really were interested in Republican harmony and victory at the coming election, they might gracefully have Joined forces with the Republican rank and file of Ohio and helped elect a solid Hoover delegation to the national convention. Their policy is a selfish policy, which means, practically. rule or ruin. They don’t think they can run Hoover. So they join the favorite son crowd of other States and will make a fight for delegates who will play the game of first blocking Hoover, and then picking a candidate in secret conference—something the people won’t stand for this year so submissively as they did in 1920. The criticism does not apply to those of the rank and file of Ohio Republicanism who were sincerely supporting Willis and hoping for his nomination at Kansas City. It applies to Carmi Thompson, Harry Daugherty and others who were trying to play the game of 1920 and were for Willis only as a means to an end.

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The Invisible Party Line The partisan conscience is unusually elastic this year in California. The explanation of a largely increased Democratic registration is that thousands of Republicans registered as Democrats so they can take a hand in a real fight, Hoover's victory at the Republican primary being taken for granted. In Frisco, Democrats are jubilant, because they think it means that Republicans want to vote for Smith.' But in drier sections is may work the other way around. You never can tell. As there has been a tremendous growth in the business of growing wine grapes since prohibition, the growers may join bootleggers, the Anti-Saloon League, and others who find profit in prohibition and follow the leadership of Evangelist McAdoo and the hosts of righteousness. Anyhow, no matter which candidates benefit by the switch, it is interesting to note the ease with which Republicans and Democrats slip across the invisible line that divides the two old parties. Probably no one finds that he feels any different or suffers any violent change in his political convictions when he crosses the line. Even scientists couldn’t find the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, while the difference between such Republicans as Senators Norris and Smoot and such Democrats as Smith and McAdoo is visible to the naked eye. But it is a sign of growing political health, because it means more independent and intelligent voting. Big Bill Tells ’Em “So long as there’s prohibition, there'll be pineapples,” declared Big Bill Thompson, in an interview explaining Chicago crime. “Pineapples,” it should be explained, is thieves’ language for bombs. The mayor spoke of the parties who “cook alcohol” and of the “dimie” who didn't “come through.” * These phrases refer to the practice of rendering potable the denatured alcohol of trade, and the collection of bribes and graft for protection of the illfeit industry. The “dimie” is the party who figures as go-between. When a “dimie” collects and does not give the protection promised, he is, according to the ethics ! of the underworld, “bumped off,” that is, assassinated. What the eminent Bill intended to say was what has been intimated from time to time in these columns, namely, that prohibition has created a lucrative industry which is beyond the law and that the disputes in that industry are settled out of court. There is the pineapple on the back porch, the gunman who shoots from cpver without warning, the, machine gun, the blackjack and other implements by which one man imposes his will upon another. Mayor Thompson speaks as one having intimate knowledge of these matters and we are glad to have j his corroboration. If asked for a way out, it might be that Mayor Thompson also would suggest following what the Canadians have done. Thank You, Mr. Morrow Announcement from Mexico City that the Mexican and United States Governments have at last reached full agreement on the long-vexing oil problem is as encouraging a bit- of news as has been printed in months. In the past, the oil problem has always arisen to cloud the relations between the two nations. If it has finally been disposed of with satisfaction to both sides, as seems evident, the greatest barrier to harmony has been removed. To United States Ambassador Dwight Morrow and President Calles of Mexico, go the sincere thanks of! both nations for having found a solution. They have measurably advanced the cause of peace in the new world.

David Dietz on Science Synthetic Theories No. 18

SCIENCE today is going through one of the most interesting phases in its history. It might be termed a phase of synthesis or perhaps a phase of readjustment. What is hapening is that two theories developed in entirely different parts of the field of science suddenly turn into each other. Apparently they are antagonistic. It looks as though one or both must be wrong. But along comes a genius who envolves anew theory by which the other two are reconciled and by

physical universe. Four important theories have been developed in the last twenty-five years. We must bear these in mind if we are to understand wave mechanics, for wave mechanics is built upon them. The first one is the Bohr theory of the atom. According to this theory, every atom is a miniature solar system. There is a central nucleus composed of a mixture of positive and negative electrons. Other negative electrons revolve around this nucleus like planets revolving around the sun. The second theory is the quantum theory. According to this theory, radiant energy, like light, X-rays, the gamma rays of radium and so on, are made up of little driblets or bullets of energy each called a quantum. Tire third is the Einstein theory. According to this theory, space and time are united into a four-dimen-sional universe or space-time. Space-time is wrapped by the presence of matter. Gravitation is the manifestation of this warping or curving of space-time and measurements of length and time vary with the amount of warping or curving. The fourth is the theory of the equivalence of mass and energy. According to this theory, mass and energy are merely different manifestations of some more fundamental entity and it is believed that under the proper conditions mass or matter can be converted into energy or energy back into mass. This theory had its start in the work of James Clark Maxwell, who first pointed out the nature of light. We shall see next how the theory of wave mechanics was built upon these foundation stones and what the-theory, means.

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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 win receive preference. Editor Times: Has law and principle and justice no place in State or city government in this day and age? How can our councilmen, whom we trusted enough to elect, have the nerve to betray that trust, then come pawing up to our esteemed prosecutor and say "Don't punish us. let us go scot-free for this wrong?” The very suggestion that they be permitted to plead guilty to malfeasance charges and escape punishment by paying SI,OOO fine is adequate to convince we citizens of their guilt. The fact that Boynton Moore, who has admirably been starred in the role of ‘the goat, now faces a probeble sentence of two to twenty-one years in prison, has had sufficient strength to blufl the remaining guilty ones into action. Those men who betrayed the public trust do not deserve consideration of any kind in any form. If they were men of good principle to begin with, this bribery scandal would never have come up, and if they were even good crooks they would accept their punishment and not whine, for even criminals realize that crime must be punished by one law or other. Men who fear not the taint of bribe money need have no fear of prison; that’s what prisons were made for. It is high time citizens of Indianapolis awaken to the real situation, and for once demand that justice be done. It is time the various civic leagues get together and see that such men are removed from office and that men capable of handling a council job are installed. This city and State has been given an overdose of partyism and factions, and by this time each and every citizen should be converted to the cause of the City Manager League. It is our one and only hope of hauling the fair name of our State out of the mire in which factioalism has placed it. The only avenue of escape from political bosses, and the only form of government by which the voters may choose and elect men of high standing to public office. But until we can do that we must do our part by convicting men in our council who accept bribe money. We must make them feel the lash of the law just the same ts any other criminal feels it; in that way only can we clear the name of our city, that has heretofore gone untarnished. Here’s hoping all citizens will come forth and demand that these councilmen stand trial for the charges for which they were indicted, not malfeasance. A voter. MARGARET O. STEARNS.

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ST.. Bernard had preached the reality of hell fjre with sadistic severity; St. Thomas Aquinas had written, “The blessed in glory will have no compassion on the damned, for that would inpugn God’s justice.” Is it any wonder that that bloodthirsty god is dead, and that mankind today is struggling to re-con-ceive deity in a nobler image? There is something a little fulsome, then, in Ruskin's praise f Dante’s character: “The central man of all the world, as representing in perfect balance the imaginative, moral and intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante.” Let us not deceive ourselves; ho man was ever more revengeful and bitter; in the “inferno” is the Bible of Dante's vengeance, a pamphlet in the war of Guelph and Ghibelline; Dante invents hell, as man invented it, that his enemies might have ?. last resting place; it is a repository providentially designed for those who have opposed or differed from him in this world. We can understand why Voltaire, with his brilliant exaggeration, wrote to Father Bottinelli: “I estimate highly the courage with which you dare to say that Dante was a madman and his work a monstrosity”; and why. he could add, in the "philosophical dictionary:” “The Italians call him divine; but it is a hidden divinity; few people understand his oracles. He has commentators, which, perhaps, is another reason for his not being understood. His reputation will go on increasing, because scarcely anybody reads him.” But Voltaire was here as sympathetic as Dante himself; He forgot that “Divine Comedy” was written not as a narrative mciely, but as an allegory. The Middle Ages loved allegory, because they thought of spirit, and had to speak and picture in terms of matter. tt a tt LITERALLY,” says Dante of his terrible Comedy, "the subject is the state of souls after death, taken simply. If, however, the work is accepted allegorically, the subject is man. according as by merit or demerit through freedom of choice he is subject to Justics, rewarding or punitive.” And in the “onvivio” he writes of one of his poems: “since the literal sense is sufficiently explained, it is time toproceed to the allegorical and true explanation.” What then is the allegorical “and true” explanation of the Inferno? Essentially it is a description of the actual states of man on earth. Hell is the ruin and dispair that come of sin and crime; purgatory is the recognition of error, it is self-dis-cipline and self-reformation, it is the painful effort to acquire and practice wisdom; paradise is the possession and enjoyment of knowledge and beauty of love: these are stages in the Pilgrim’s Progress of the human soul. Had not Dante known all the sufferings of hell in his outcast life? Had he not sought through a thousand torments the guidance of wisdom (Virgil) to the blessedness of love (Beatrice)? By knowledge, he thinks, we can make our way out of hell; but only by wisdom and love can we enter into happiness. So, after Virgil has taken him through purgatory, whose inhabitants are in pain, and yet joyful with the sense of their movement towards liberation, the Roman poet leaves him at the gates of heaven; he, knowledge, can take him only to the gates; now wisdom and love must lead him. (We are reminded of Dostoievski’s definition of hell as the condition of one who is unable to love.) Beatrice comes, and ushers him into paradise; the ending is happy and so wins the name of Comedy, according to the usage of the time, for this humorless epic of human suffering. Sad to say, the Paradiso Is the least interesting of the places which Dante describes; virtue seems always less interesting and multiple than fiction; and besides, Dante had gone to hell and purgatory with his actual flesh, but could only dream

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of heaven; our earthly hie. as Schopenhauer argued, gives us more material for a description of hell than a descr ption of perfect bliss. Even Beatrice, for whose beauty and kindness we have waited some sixty-seven cantos, turns out to be a frigid statue of conscious virtue and Noli me tangere. Do-not-touch-me, loveliness; she dares not smile says Dante, with the preciosity of the troubadors, lest she be shrivelled up in the brilliance that would come upon her; and her last words to EJante are a ruthless denunciation of his sins. It is a little too perfect, and we long for the warmth and vivacity of hell. Shelly differs from us; "Dante's apotheosis of Beatrice,” he says, "and the graduations ot his own love and her loveliness by which, as by steps, he feigns himself to be ascended to the throne of the supreme cause, is the most glorious imagination of modern poetry.” tt tt tt SO DANTE rises through successive planets and neavens to the presence of God. At every step the light is increased, for light is the chief element in his conception of paradise, as wisdom is the chief element n his conception of happiness. At last the full light floods him, and he knows the Beatific Vision: “My vision now undimmed, more and more entered the beam of light which in itself is Truth.” He sees, at the summit of the heavens, a great point of light, radiating in every direction, and movng all thngs. God is light and truth. "And thou shouldst know that thev all have delight As much as their own vision penetrates The Truth, in which all intellect finds From this it mav he seen how blessedness Is founded in the faculty which secs. And not in that which loves, and follows next.” .. . It sounds like heresy, this lcentification of God with Truth, and of virtue and happiness with intelligence and wsdom. but it .s St. Thomas whom Dante follows here, and not Socrates and Aristotle. Yet love must be added; perfect felicity is the “light intellectual replete with love”; philosophy is defined anew and well as a “loving use of wis-

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dom": and the last, and almost the fairest line of all the poem, tells of “The love that moves the sun and other stars.” So Dante pictures himself as finding peace from his passions and his hates by rising to knowledge and love. Passion is a tormenting fire, its conquest by wisdom is a long pugatorial torture, but the victory brings a noble blessedness and peace. We must give in; the will of the world is greater than ours, and our happiness can only come when our will and the greater will are one. As Spinoza found rest for his weary heart in the “intellectual love of God.” the recognition of the inevitable law that governed every planet and every soul, so Dante, like Ficcarda in Paradise, found content at last by the Stoic’s way of following nature, of the will of God: “L sua volunte e nostra pace”—“ln his will and service is our peace.” It was all an inspiration, never to be quite realized by the Dante that walked the earth. He remained to th end an exile, dark of cmtenancc and bitter of soul, as Giotto painted him; people remarked that he was never known to smile, and they spoke of him, in awe, as the man who had returned from hell. Broken and worn, and prematurely old. he died at Ravenna in 1321, only fifty-six years of age. Seventy-five years later Florence begged for the ashes of him whom, alive, she would have burned to ashes; but Ravenna refused. His tomb still stands as one of the greatest monuments of that halfByzantine city. There, 500 years after Dante, another exile, Byron, knelt, wept, and understood. (Copvripht, 1928. by Wi!l Durant) (To Be Continued)

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South Bend News-Time* The presence of Arthur Robinson in the Senate of the United State, where he is daily hurling insults at men, living and dead, is also a standing insult to the people of Indiana who must bear the burden of his misrepresentation. Robinson stands alone, shunned by his own party colleagues, scorned by his opponents, digging himself deeper and deeper daily into the dislike and contempt of those who are forced to associate with him on the floor of the Senate. It is not a pleasant thing for Indiana to have the character of one of her Senators so forcefully brought to her attention. Yet it is, perhaps, a good’thing for us if it will help to rid us of such a man, particularly one who was the beneficiary of the most corrupt administration ever known to Indiana politics. * * * Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette Attorney-General Gilliom and Solon J. Carter, Republican candidates for the senatorial nomination, are strongly denouncing the discredited and infamous outj fit backing Senator Art Robin--1 son. What happens to them will tell its own story of the clean-up in their party.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “We Admire the Man Who Docs Things , No Matter How He Does Them. Success Has Become the Safest Alibi of Crooks.”

The Thompson-Crowe-Small machine is not looking to beer runners, bootleggers and anti-Britishers for victory in Chicago. All the yelling to save this country from King George is for no other purpose than to keep up the racket. Back of the flap-doodle and balderdash there is a more effective argument. “Big Bill, the Builder" is the slogan that Chicago's fat mayor and his associates are betting on to pull them through. a u a Getting Things Done To read the news coming out of Chicago the last few weeks ont 1 would imagine the “Windy City” had fallen blindly in love with a bunch of crooks. That is why outsiders find it difficult to understand the situation. To them it looks as though there were no issue but crime, graft and corruption; that the Thompson-Crowe-Sniall machine had no excuse to offer for its existence except a blatant degree of friendliness toward the elements of vice. Talking to Chicagoans, however, or at least some of them, one gets a different, story. “Well.” they will say, “conditions probably could be improved, but this chap Thompson gets things done —paves streets, puts in sewers, fixes up the parks and encourages business.” tt tt tt Era of Jazz From the standpoint of clean government, such an argument seems pitifully weak, but It has come to be listened to with profound respect in this land of bobbed hair, jazz, anti-evolution laws and home-brew. We admire the man who does things, no matter how he doer, them. Success has become the safest alibi of crooks. tt it a Prosperity at Any Price Prof. Andre Siegfried of France has written a book about us which many people do not like. They do not like it because It is too penetrating, tells too much of the truth and exposes our faults with painful candor. “In its pursuit of wealth and power.” says Professor Siegfried, “America has abandoned the ideal bf liberty to follow that of prosperity.” Nothing proves that more vividly than the political strength of such men and machines as now rule Chicago. Unpunished murderers are forgotten, a mounting crime wave is ignored and dens of vice are tolerated for the sake of upholding an administration which spends money, provides work and makes the city believe it is progressive. a a tt Nation Is Over-Anxious Every community in America suffers from the same complex and can be hoodwinked in the same way. Fifty years ago the people were buying watered stock, subscribing to foolish contracts and winking at corrupt practices in order to get railroads. Just now they are so anxious for electricity because of the industrial development it promises that they are ready to bind themselves by any kind of an agreement and shy at measures which are necessary to protect their own interests for fear it will slow up the game. a a Necessity for Graft The notion has become widespread that prosperity cannot br had without graft, that the big boys will not promote legitimate business without a rake-off and that honesty means slack times. Thousands of Chicagoans fear that they would not get paved streets and skyscrapers if bootlegging were to be stopped. tt tt tt Unprecedented Scandals Nothing affords crime and crookedness such a degree of protection in the United States today as the feeling that they cannot br suppressed without hurting prosperity. Prosperity has actually blinded this country to the significance of some of the worst political scandals that have cropped out since it was established. During the last four years we have been treated to exposures without precedent. There is nothing in our history to compare with the attempted theft of such properties as Teapot, Dome and Elk Hills, with the debauchery of the Pennsylvania and Illinois primaries, with the crooked transactions in alien property and with the mismanagement of the veterans' bureau. tt tt tt Dangerous Indifference We have seen three Cabinet members forced to resign under fire, and we have seen one of them escape conviction by a hung Jury. We have seen an alien property custodian found guilty and a chief of the veterans’ bureau sent to jail. We have seen two oil magnates dragged into court with an ex-Secretary of the Interior. The pathetic part of it is that we have seen such things without getting more than mildly interested. Prosperity has dulled our senses to what they imply. Our civilization is not only wrong, but doomed, if we cannot be well off without winking at dishonesty, or have a progressive Government without shutting our eyes to lawlessness.