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Now For a New Naval Program The failure of the bill to provide the United States With some very much needed naval vessels ought to be A lesson to all concerned It failed, first, because of the self-contradictory attitude of the Washington Administration and, second, because the real need for the new ships completely was lost sight of in a flood of propaganda, pro and con, leaving both Congress and the public completely befuddled. Originally the measure called for a five-year program of seventy-one ships of all categories, to cost approximately $725,000,000. But as the committee hearings went on, the public caught dribbles of ten-year programs, twenty-year programs, and what would happen after that. Billions and billions seemed to be involved ' and (finally vhe people got the idea that somebody had "gone stark mad. Meanwhile, the familiar raw-head-and-bloody--scones was being paraded. Admiral Plunkett told the country an early war with Great Britain over trade was inevitable—which, incidentally, few believed, and which, therefore, caused widespread loss of confidence in the Navy’s cause. Then, as if to make the Navy's plight worse, Secretary of State Kellogg about this time launched his celehrated outlawry of war plan. The United State*, France, Britain, Italy, Germany and Japan—the world's only navail powers—would agree to outlaw war, not only aggressive war, but every kind of war, even defensive, so it seemed. We would agree not to fight in defense of the Monroe doctrine or anything else, if the Kellogg prpposal was to be taken at face value. Small wonder that the public became hopelessly confused. It could see no sense in spending billions on a navy, the use of which we, ourselves, were bent on banning before the keels of the new ships were laid. Os course, as it subsequently turned out, Secretary Kellogg did not mean all he said. We would fight for the Monroe doctrine, or anything else we deemed sufficient cause, whenever we felt like it. And Britain made it plain she would do the same if 6he signed the proposed pact, which leaves matters pretty much where thay were, except, perhaps, to inI crease our own international obligations if the treaty goes through. But the fat already was in the fire. The public had shied off, grown skeptical in the face of so much jockeying. And Congress, extra cautious in election years, went home without passing a bill toward which It once had been quite favorable., Next time a different line of action should be followed. Our needs are perfectly plain under the Washington pact of 1922. Our Navy should equal Britain’s and be 40 per cent stronger than Japan’s. It is not so now. The people should be told in what we are lacking, without folderol, jingoism or war scares, and they will do the rest. Every Amercian knows his country is the richest and most envied of all nations and therefore in a position of some danger. He knows, too, that it is penny wise and pound foolish to maintain a large, but still not quite big enough, navy for years at great expense, only to have it sunk in the first hour of some battle on which the safety of the Nation depends. So if Washington only can make up its mind as to what really is required to give us the fleet the Washington treaty calls for, the public will respond, as it always has responded when informed of the country’s needs.

Apply the Test with Muscle Shoals For the first time, this Nation has been presented With the pracital means by whiqh the answer to a great controversy can be brought forth. Involved are questions of price and service that affect more people and in a larger way than does ' the postal system. The controversy, about the relative merits of public or private production of electrical power from great water sites, has raged and raged, and will continue to rage until a test is made. Muscle Shoals will" be the test—if President Coolidge signs the bill. He has but a few more days in which to act. In the interests of arriving at the truth, whatever *lt may be, whether favorable to public ownership or unfavorable, the Muscle Shoals measure is one of the most important ever passed by Congress. It is inconceivable that the President, regardless of his own views in the cr..„tuv. rsy, will by inaction prevent the proof from being applied. The Farmers’ Uprising Farmers of the West, it would seem, are not so Wrought up over failure of the McNary-Haugen bill as some of their leaders and some of the politicians would have us believe. The proposal to have the farmers march to the Kansas City convention by the thousands is not meeting with a very enthusiastic response from the farm- • ers themselves. “The farmers of Kansas recognize this movement as politics,” says Henry J. Allen, former Governor of Kansas. It is obviously an effort to organize a political demonstration, Allen holds, by the same men who played politics with farm relief in Washington all winter. Farmers in his State are busy gamering a 140,000,000-bushel wheat crop, Allen points out. A. L. Nichols, magazine editor of the farm publications owned by Senator Arthur Capper, would be surprised greatly if the movement is “taken seriously” by the wheat larmers. He believes they are “not interested.” • Another farm paper editor, Carl Williams of Oklahoma, says that actual surveys have shown that 1 ■„>> than 30 per cent of the farmers of the Southwest have heen definitely in favor of the McNary-Haugen bill. About half gladly would accept any form of farm relief legislation, he says, while 20 per cent have no confidence in any farm relief legislation whatsoever. “Some farm politicians will be at Kansas City, but hot many farmers,” says Williams, who, incidentally, is a Democrat. Meantime, Robert M. Chambers, manager of the Lowden campaign at Kansas City, asserts 100,000 will be on hand, which is a pretty good indication of the source of the agitation. But Mr. Lowden, and his friend, Banker Dawes, may find it more difficult to kid the farmers and the public than they have anticipated. *

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Progress “Our investments and trade relations are such,” said President Coolidgs in his Gettysburg address, “that it is almost impossible to conceive of any conflict anywhere on earth which would not affect us injuriously. “The one thing that we want above all else for ourselves and ior other nations is a continuation of peace. “Whether so intended or not, any nations engaged in war thereby necessari’y would be engaged in a course prejudicial to us.” These sentiments have a familiar ring to readers of this newspaper. It has been sounding them steadily for years. To hear them now, therefore, coming from no less a person than the chief executive of the Nation, is indeed a pleasure. For, sooner or later, in a typically American, business-like way, this most powerlul of all countries will be cooperating with the rest of the world for peace. This daily is becoming more obvious. Wars anywnere on earth can not fail to be prejudicial to our prosperity. Therefore, as a sensible, practical people, we must use our influence to stop wpr. What progress we have made since those days eight short years ago when our politicians stubbornly insisted upon our complete isolation and told the rest of the world to go stew in its own juice! New England’s Compensation A century ago New England was the great manufacturing section'of the United States. In recent years other sections have risen as competitors, aided by natural advantages New England lacks. A number of New Englanders have felt rather pessimistic about the future. But there is a silver lining to the cloud. The American Automobile Association estimates that more than 2,000,000 motorists will visit New England this summer, spending in that section fully $150,000,000. That is a lot of money—enough to make up for a sizable industrial slump. What the automobile association might well have added is that the visitors will get their money's worth. There is no other part of the country any richer in scenic and historic values than New r England. It deserves to be a vacation spot of the first magnitude. The Manhunt Why is it that there is something about a manhunt that stirs human emotions more powerfully than any other event? The flight of the four bandits across western Kansas and Colorado, with airplanes, machine guns and horsemen mingled in the pursuit and dead bodies littering the trail, has absorbed public attention throughout the nation. The progress of political campaigns, the activities of Congress, the course of world events in China and Europe—things far more significant than this western flare-up of criminality—were forgotten as we read of the wild chase for a human quarry. Apparently we are still pretty much uncivilized at heart. We respond to the elemental things as our ancestors did. We have not yet outgrown the love of excitement and battle that characterized the old American frontier. An Ohio woman wants a divorce because her husband would rather listen to the radio than to her. Maybe the real reason is because a radio can be turned off. General Lincoln C. Andrews, former prohibition chief, has been named czar of the rubber industry. Still trying to keep the people dry? Bridge playing discourages conversation, says a doctor. But otten, like golf, improves the vocabulary. People used to drop in for a visit; now they visit for a drop.

David Dietz on Science Medicine and Magnetism No. 65 OUR modem scientific understanding of the earth’s magnetism and the behavior of the magnetic compass is usually said to date to the year 1600. Important discoveries about the compass had been made previously to that year, as already pointed out in these articles. But the year 1600 is considered the beginning of modern knowledge in the field because it was in that

Colchester, England. He was the eldest of five sons. At the age of 18 he entered St. John's College of Cambridge University. He spent eleven years at the university, obtaining his B. A. and M. A. degrees, becoming a mathematical examiner and then studying medicine. He obtained his doctorate in 1569. He spent the next four years upon the Continent, returning to London to practice medicine at the end of that time. He obtained great success and in 1600 was elected president of the Royal College of Physicians. In that same year, Queen Elizabeth appointed him one of her own physicians. And, as already noted, he published his “De Magnate’’ in the same year. It is difficult to understand how Gilbert with his successful practice of medicine found time to devote himself to his exhaustive studies of magnetism. • The chief thing about his book is that it shows so clearly the result of careful and painstaking experimentation. He writes at the beginning of the work, “There is naught in these books that has not been Investigated and again and again done and repeated under our eyes.” It is believed that Gilbert spent 5,000 pounds, about $25,000, in the course of his experiments. He says truly, “stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than probable conjectures, and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.” Gilbert had only one weakness. He was a little averse to giving credit to previous workers in the field, consequently, we must bear in mind that everything set forth by Gilbert was not new at the time.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Inventiveness Has Enabled Us Not Only to Do Surprising Things, but to Live on Terms of Surl prising Intimacy With Others

THOUGH returns from West Virginia are still incomplete, it would seem that Governor Smith of New York has beaten James A. Reed in the Democratic primaries, by a small margin, while Senator Goff has nosed out Hoover in the Republican primaries. If Goff has won, the victory is not for him. but for another. Admitting his statement that he is not a stalking horse for any one, it is still a foregone conclusion that he has no chance for the presidential nomination and that the delegates accredited to him must be delivered to someone else in the end. Senator Goff has accomplished nothing but to assist the anti-Hoo-ver politicians in their compaign. , Whether he is for Dawes, which he says he is not, he will eventually line up for some candidate who is put forward for no other reason than to beat the Secretary of Commerce. tt a a Party Vote Unchanged Like California, the West Virginia vote suggests that the relative strength of the two parties has not changed materially since the last election. With equally interesting contests, the Republicans appear to have polled nearly twice as many votes as the Democrats. Thus far primary votes have not shown any considerable drift from one party to the other. If they are to be taken as any- j thing like an accurate index, the j Republicans are holding their strength. In spite of all the noise and dissension which have characterized several Republican . campaigns, there is nothing to indicate a wide defection of votes. Even the farm revolt has gone no farther than to propose a march on Kansas City. a a a World Intimacy With Captain Kingsford-Smith and his three companions on the way to Hawaii, we have another ocean flight to follow. People have tried to measure the value of such ventures by the risk they involve fer the fliers. Later on some smart psychologist may attempt to measure them by the nervous strain they involve for the millions of people who wait. Inventiveness has enabled us not only to do surprising things but to live on terms of surprising intimacy with each other. Thanks to the radio, telegraph and high-powered press, we are privileged to share the thrills and sorrows of Innumerable undertakings. When a man made a voyage of discovery in the old days, or started out to perform some unheard of feat, ordinary folks could go on with their work undisturbed. Today it is different. They move with him in spirit from the time he sets out until the end. If success crowns his effort their applause can be heard in the space of moments. If it results in failure they know it almost as soon as he does. All of which increases the burdens as well as the romance. tt tt a China in Public Eye China furnishes, perhaps, the most vivid illustration of how the world has shriveled in response to the devices of modern civilization. One hundred, or even fifty years ago, news from China was a matter of months. Now it is a matter of hours. It is not always as accurate as it might be, but that is not the fault of the means of communication between China and the rest of the world. On the rim, China is fairly wellconnected with the civilized world, but on the inside, she is still China. At the same time, and in spite of all the chaos, we are able to follow the drift of her many-sided conflicts with considerable intelligence. Though Pekin has not fallen as predicted ten days or two weeks ago, it is still the object of persistent, and apparently unbroken attack. Evidently, the Nationalists, or Southern group have been helped by the general reaction against Japan. At all events they appear to be cooperating with increased enthusiasm. tt tt tt Fear of Russia It is commonly believed not only by the Chinese, but by the rest of the world, that Japan is pursuing a policy which will give her control, if not actual possession of Manchuria, and that her decision to prevent fighting in that province is merely a phase of the larger program. It is commonly believed morover, that Japan seeks control of Manchuria not only because of its great resources, but to checkmate Russia. In this respect she is pursuing a policy similar to that of England in western Asia. England is as afraid of Russia in western Asia as Japan is in eastern Asia, which explains the significance of the Afghan-Turkish past just arranged. England sought such a pact in order that these two countries might form a buffer state between Russia and India. Russia sought to arrange a pact between Turkey, Afghanistan, Persia and herself in order to open the way to India’s back door. This conflict of interest explains all the entertaining the King and Queen of Afghanistan received first in London and then in Moscow. Back of the social functions there was being played such a game as determines the destiny of empires.

year that Dr. William Gilbert published at London his monumental book, “De Magnete.” Gilbert pointed out the important fact that the earth itself is a great magnet. William Gilbert—the name was originally written Gilberd, it seems was born in 1540 at

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LUTHER comes to the point very specifically in his recommendations; and some of them proved of prime importance to history. Firts he suggested a limitation of the authority of the church; let the Pope abandon those kingdoms of Italy in which he exercises a temporal power so inconsistent with the life of Christ and the early Christians; let him stop the silly business of having men kiss his feet; let papal indulgences and pilgrimages to Rome be abolished, and let the marriage of the clergy be restored as the only alternative to the immorality which was destroying religion in Germany. Secondly, let the princes of Germany take over all temporal power; “temporal power has been ordained by God for the chastisement of the wicked and the protection of the good,” and must be “unhampered whether it strikes Popes, bishops, priests. Monks, nuns, or anybody else.” Here was bern the modern form of the divine right of kings. It was a subtle appeal; only by basing the reform of religion on anew emonomic and political power could a real reformation be effected. The princes of Germany listened with interest to this proposal that they should resume the right of filling all eccles'asical benefices, and should constitute themselves the owners of all church property in the land. Half of Luther's battle was won. tt u a THE other half would be with the agents of the Inquisition. In 1520 Luther received a papal bull excommunicating him, and directing the civil authorities to arrest him. At the same time Charles V, King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, called the princes and ecclesiastics of Germany to the Diet of Worms, and instructed them to summon and try Luther, and put an end to the turmoil he had raised. Luther publicly burned Leo’s bull, doing it in “trembling and prayer; but afterwards I felt better over it than over any act in all my life.” Those who remembered Huss marveled at the man’s audacity. They marveled all the more, remembering the treachery of the Council of Constance, when Luther, with the Saxon Elector’s safe conduct, went bravely to Worms. The Diet asked him to recant; he 'refused. “Unless,” he said to them, “I am convicted by Scripture or by right reason (for I trust neither Popes nor councils since they have often erred and contradicted themselves) . . , I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to act against conscience. God help me. Amen.” The essence of Protestantism was in those words: the supremacy of individual conscience and judgment, and the exclusive authority of Scripture and reason over the soul. The next great battle would be between Scripture and reason. The Diet condemned him, and Charles V, who was nothing, if not Catholic and everything but Christian, ordered him to be seized. But the Elector of Saxony carried him off to a castle in the Wartburg, and hid him there till it should be safer for him to appear in the streets. Luther busied his solitude by translating the Bible; he could not know that he was making a supreme contribution to German literature, and adding incalculably to the strength and richness of the German language; but he prayed that his translation, by letting the people of Germany contrast the life of the church in their own days with the life portrayed in the New Testament, might stir up the nation to support their princes in rebellion against Rome. tt tt a HIS revolt was more successful than he wished. The peasants had taken up the couse of religious reform, in the belief that It would bring an alleviation of the evils from which they suffered; but when they found that the princes were even more ruthless than the bishops and the Monks, they added a social gospel to Luther’s creed, proclaimed the return of primitive Christian communism, and declared

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

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a revolution against both church and state. Some of the followers of Luther had idealized the peasant in the fashion of Dostoievsky and Tolstoi in the nineteenth century; Carlstadt proclaimed that the peasant knew better the word of God and the way of salvation than the most learned professor. "The man with the hoe”—under the name of Karsthans—became one of the watchwords of the day. In 1521 three “prophets” from Zwickau—Munzer, Storch and Stub-ner—-appeared in Wittenberg, announced that property was theft, and hailed the birth of the communist Utopia. A group of peasants, formed about them, drew up “Twelve Articles,” demanding popular election of all offl-

South Bond News-Times (Independent) The ghost of v. Governor will ride the ghost l of a horse named “Senator” to the Kansas City convention. And James Eli Watson, senior Senator from Indiana and presumptive candidate for President, will be none too pleased to see that ghostly horse and rider gallop, like the headless horseman of Washington Irvington's story (pardon: Washington Irving: we were thinking of the Indianapolis suburb where D. C. Stephenson lived) along the roads to the place where the Republican delegates, in solemn convention assembled, will nominate their standardbearer. Watson did his Hoosier best to keep Jackson off the Indiana delegation. He succeeded in keeping the suddenly unpopular Governor off the “Big Seven” of delegates-at-large by agreeing, with Senator Robinson, -to stay off that group himself. He prevented the Governor from addressing the convention by likewise refraining, again with Senator Robinson, from the plseaure of addressing the convention himself. And the sudden whack of a gavel on the first day of the Republican State convention ended Jackson’s hopes of delivering his long-promised vindication speech. Vainly did the Governor sit on the platform through the second day hoping against hope that he would have an opportunity to speak. Senator Jim, arms folded and with a grim expression around his mouth, sat on the platform to see that Jackson did not speak—and possibly embarrass Watson in his hopes of controlling the Indiana delegation and such other scattering votes as he may command. But the notorious Coffin organization in Indianapolis slipped Jackson across as one of the Marion County delegates before the delegation knew what it was all about. So Governor Jackson will go to Kansas City and Senator Watson may find it hard to explain that

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cials, the right to choose and dismiss pastors, the abolition of serfdom, etc. They based these demands on what seemed to them the communism of Christ, who had “redeemed and delivered us all without exception, the lowly as well as the great.” The aristocracy, frightened, called upon Luther to rescue them; this revolt, they told him, was partly his work, for it was he who had let loose the under-dog from his chains; had he not in his earlier preaching called the barons hangmen who only knew how to swindle the poor?—had he not said of the barons, “Such fellows were formerly called scoundrels, but now we must call them ‘Christian and revered princes?’ ” (Copyright. 1928. Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

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he himself is not one of the feathered tribe. New deal, old deal or raw leal? Many thinking Indiana Republicans believe it was the latter that they got at the Indianapolis convention. Ar.d possibly Senator Watson agrees with them.

Questions and Answers

What is the difference between slang and profanity? To profane is to regard sacred things irreverently; to vulgarize; desecrate; blaspheme. Slang is inelegant and unauthorized popular language consisting of words of low or illiterate origin and a grotesque use of legitimate expressions. Slang is not necessarily profanity, but in its import and expression often borders on the profane. Why docs a balloon tire hold better than a cord tire on an icy road? Because the greater square surface area gives it more contact and the relative softness makes it cling to the road. Balloon tires hold better under all road conditions. Who Invented the electric chair that is used for capital punishment? A New York commission, consisting of Elbridge Gerry, A. P. Southwick and Matthew Hale, was appointed to investigate humane ways of inflicting the death penalty. They reported in 1888 and suggested the construction of a chair in which the criminal could be placed for electrocution. Such a chair was devised by E. F. Davis, State electrician of New York in 1888-1889.

Daily Thought

Love Is the fulfilling of the law. —Romans 13:10. tt tt u IT IS love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.—St. Augustine.

JUNE 1, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

WEST VIRGINIA, last of the major presidential primaries, confirms Smith’s almost certain nomination by ijxe Democrats and indicates Hoover t'. ill must fight the field to win at the Republican con - vention. Incomplete West Virginia returns give Senator Goff, favorite son, a 10,000 margin over Hoover, witn Smith leading Senator Jim Reed of Missouri by 7.000. With only nineteen delegates at stake the effect on the Republican race is psychological rather than mathematical, and the same is true for the Democrats. Smith already was so overwhelmingly in the lead nationally that the loss of this primary could not have checked him, nor made Reed a dangerous rival. But the result further deflates the anti-Smith movement. It also raises Democratic hopes that Smith may be able to carry this border State in the election, which is apt to be determined by border States. Hoover managers had hoped for a West Virginia victory, because, coming less than two weeks before the Kansas City convention, it would have encouraged some of the holdouts elsewhere to scramble aboard the band wagon. tt tt u THE anti-Hoover alliance of Lowden-Dawes-Watson-Curtis-Goff-Hilles as of course using his West Virginia defeat to argue that. Hoover’s chances reached the peak in the Ohio and Massachusetts primaries, definitely started down grade in the Indiana primary, and still are falling. , It is doubtful, however, that Lowden and Dawes have Hoover stopped though they dispute 175 of the 615 delegates claimed by him, he is the only candidate with a widely distributed popular following and the only one now within shooting distance of the necessary 545 convention votes. Hoover managers apparently do not fear Lowden and Dawes, who now are almost entitrely dependent upon using the farm revolt to carry them forward. Neutral political observers are inclined to doubt the ability of the Farm Bloc to dominate the Kansas City convention, and to discount much of'the alleged psychological effect of the West Virginia primary. There is a growing conviction that Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge in the end will dominate the convention. The President is deeply resentful, as indicated by his bitter veto message on the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, against what he considers efforts of his political enemies, Lowden and Dawes, to discredit his administration, split the Republican party, and capture control through a "fallacious” panacea. tt tt a THIS war within the party has reached the stage where neither side can withdraw, and where it no longer is merely Hoover, but also the President, who is involved in the struggle with Lowden and Dawes for party control. It therefore appears probable that the President, when the Kansas City fight is hottest, will use his great organizational power to thwart the attempt to block Hoover’s nomination. Many believe that If Hoover unexpectedly is sidetracked, the President will not hesitate to take the nomination himself to keep the party from falling into the hands of his opponents. Mellon, with his large Pennsylvania delegation, is the key man under the circumstances. If he throws his strength to Hoover on the first or second ballot, others doubtless wall follow, giving the commerce secretary an early victor)’. But if Mellon withholds his votes from Hoover, whom he recently praised as the best candidate, then Pennsylvania and the uninstructed delegations from New York and elsewhere will soon form a considerable center bloc. Such a bloc would hold the balance of power between Lowden and Dawes and Hoover, preventing the latter from increasing his long lead into the necessary majority. a tt tt IN such a deadlocked convention the final result Drobably would be similar to the Republican convention of eight years ago and the Democratic convention of four years; ago, when the leading candidates were deserted in favor of ”oul - f-iders.” But the delegates as well a c the leaders at Kansas City, in event of such a deadlock, would net v.ant to accept a “second string” candidate. There is a. rather general conviction among Republicans that it will take the strongest man they can get to prevent the election of A1 Smili That disposes of the hopes of most of the favorite sons and of candidates whose drawing power is only' sectional. All the candidates for presidents l nomination have been asked by Professor John Dewey and the People's Lobby to make their position clear on the issue of economic imperialism. Tire lobby submits a plank on international relations, adopted by a conference of peace, labor, farm and women’s organizations. It calls for settlement of economic disputes between nations of this hemisphere by representative Joint commissions and for joint action in protecting foreign nationals in countries such as Nicaragua where the Ur.‘ted State now acts alone.

This Date in U. S. History

June 1 1785—John Adams, first American ambassador, met George IV. 1792—Kentucky admitted to the Union. 1796—Tennessee admitted to the Union. 1861 —Communication by mail with # the southern States prohibited; Confederate capital moved to Richmond, Va. 1908 —Two-cent postage rates established between United States and Great Britain.