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Time to Inquire Banditry is becoming altogeth.®* too common in this city for the city’s good. The bold holdup of guests at the Broadmoor Country Club has been followed by numerous bolder holdups of private citizens. Now a man and woman are dying at a hospital, victims of men who tried to take away from them their hard earned dollars made by long hours of labor in a market, stand. There is always c. cause when crime increases and criminals grow bold. Conditions produce criminals just as certainly as the spring rains produce flowers. Nothing ever just happens. Men steal when they want money—badly. The old theory was that fear of punishment protected society from its weaklings. There may be something to that. It is worth thinking about —not whether laws providing life sentences for bandits frighten them, but whether they are not afraid of being caught. There are other factors. In a community Where every man can earn a living and a good living who wishes to work, increasing crime ought not to occur. There may be temptations to which the weak and the young succumb, which are taking away their earnings and transforming boys, for most of these holdups are mere youths, from ambitious youngsters into killers and robbers. It is time to check up and find the factory of crime, the real factory which makes criminals. It is time to hit at the cause. Politics and Progressives Certain inspired political writers, in dispatches from Kansas City, undertake to tell that the formation of a third party this summer depends on the nomination of Governor Smith by the Democrats. “It plainly is indicated,” says one such writer, "that if there is no Smith nomination at Houston, there will be no third party movement, for its projectors acknowledge that a strong southern adhesion is indispensable.” The idea behind this suggestion is that the promoters of a third party would hope to win a tot of Southern votes by appealing to the prejudice, of those who fear Smith because of his religion and his views on prohibition. Hardly a sound idea and one not likely to be entertained by progressive Republicans. If for no other reason, this is true because these progressives understand quite well that winning a lot of Southern votes and winning any Southern States are two different things. There is room for doubt that an independent movement seriously would affect election results in the normally Republican States of the North and West. But there is no doubt that such a movement would have no effect on the habitually Democratic States of the South. So, ordinary political judgment would prevent the formation of a third party that staked its hopes on South hostility toward Smith. But that is not the most important reason for discounting the whole suggestion. The most important reason is this: Those men about whom an independent movement necessarily would form are progressive as a matter of. principle. They believe in their creed. That is why you find them so frequently out of line with the regular party organization. Scarcely on,e among them that hasn’t had the opportunity time and again to further his personal political interests by bowing to the will of the organization managers. Neither the party's interest nor their personal interest has sufficed to keep them regular. They are ready enough to vote with the Democrats In Congress when they consider the Democrats in the right. They waste no time trying to lead the Democrats into courses they themselves regard as erroneous. Being, in short, moved primarily by their conception of the country’s good, their natural desire will be to see the best man possible, the most progressive Democrat available, nominated at Houston. That man happens to be Governor Smith. Some of these progressive leaders have as grave misgivings concerning the prohibition amendment as Smith has. None of them has arty sympathy with the brand of politics that fosters religious fevers at the expense of the people’s economic welfare. There may or may not be a third party, but its formation does not depend on tbo nomination of th New York Governor. Progress Toward Tolerance For all the talk about bigotry and intolerance, this land of ours is making progress. Every so often some little development comes to flash encouragement to us. Dr. Lynn Harold Hough has been pastor of the Central Methodist Church at Detroit. He recently resigned to accept a pastorate in another city. And the other day on the eve of his departure, he was called to the campus of Detroit University and given the degree of Doctor of Laws. That is interesting because of the fact that the University of Detroit is a Catholic institution. Presentation of the degree was made by the Very Rev. John P. McNichols, a Jesuit. The incident makes good reading. When a Methodist pastor can be honored by a Catholic university the land can’t be gripped quite as sharply by religious rivalry as some people have tried to make us think. A blurb on the jacket of a recent book calls it “a search for an answer to the riddle of the universe.” We were disappointed, though, as the book really doesn’t say a thing about national political conventions. But then some of the Republicans who go to Houston, if any, probably will think there’s a sales meeting of cough-drop people. We eat a dozen barrels of air annually, write a well known physician in a current magazine. And some people store up their supply for four year.'!.

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Here’s A Job for Hoover There was a time when It did not matter much whether our President thought the earth was round or flat. We were a pretty self-contained Nation. His job was mostly a domestic one. Our hookup with the rest of the world was trifling. National production was hard put to keep up with national consumption. Now It’s different. Production has doubled and quadrupled. Population has slowed down, thanks to the immigration quota. We have an enormous and growing surplus, for which it is vital that we find an outlet, otherwise millions of our workers will be thrown out of jobs. But where can we find a market? Abroad, of course. But England, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and a lot of other nations also are producing enormous surpluses which they, too, must dispose of abroad. And this they are doing in competition with us, in China, Latin America and elsewhere. Thus it would seem that we are up against a stiff proposition when it comes to increasing our foreign trade. If there is just so much trade in the world, and this already is divided, what then? Shall we set about the old game of stealing the other fellow’s business, grabbing it by hook or crook? That would mean war, as certainly as water runs down hill. Shall the strong powers gobble up the weaker ones and exploit the inhabitants? That, too, would mean 'war —among the exploiters—aside from the right or wrong of the procedure. The answer is to be found elsewhere. There are approximately a billion six hundred million people on earth. Os these less than one-fourth really have begun to buy things. The rest still are in varying stages of emergence from the dark ages. Many don’t wear any clothes at all. Millions more never had on a pair of shoes. Hundreds of millions have not advanced much beyond the flour sack stage and to many, many more our barest necessities are still undreamed of luxuries. Wte must educate these backward peoples Into consumers. Here is how we can expand our foreign market without stepping on anybody’s toes. \ It used to be said that 1,000,000 automobiles would ba the absolute maximum the people of the United States could absorb. Then the figures were raised to 2,000,000; then to five, ten and twenty million. Now manufacturers agree there is no limit. They already have sold 25,000,000 automotive machines to the American people and are preparing to sell another to each owner of one of these. If this is true of the United States and automobiles, it is true of the rest of the world and the *rest of the things we sell. Take China. She-has a population of more than 400,000,000. On an American basis the Chinese would have 75,000,000 automobiles. Canada's enlightened population of 10,000,000 buys somp $650,000,000 worth of our products every year. On a Canadian basis China would buy $26,000,000,000 worth of our goods, or five times our present total exports to the entire world, China included! The figures are staggering. The great exporting nations of the world like Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Japan, do not have to steal one another’s trade, by war or otherwise. If they will have the good sense to cease trying to exploit the backward peoples and go to work to increase these people’s purchasing power, they will have solved the problem of an increased market for their surplus goods. Here is one of the keys to prosperity, not only tor us, but for the world. And if we know Herbert Hoover at all, problems like this are just his meat. Four lions were offered for sale by a New York zoo the other day. There’s a chance to get even with your neighbor’s chickens. Probably the International Union of Ladles’ Garment Workers wants a five-day week because it takes them three days every week to find something more to leave out.

-David Dietz on Science

Dipper Points to North

-No. 79

BEFORE the invention of the compass, sailors found their tfay across the seas at night by the aid of Polaris, the north or pole star. The north star is easy to find if you are acquainted with the constellation of the Great Dipper. The two stars which form the outer side of the bowl of the dipper, Dubhe and Merak, will always help you find Polaris. They are called “the pointers,” because a straight line drav/n through these two stqrs lead directly to

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ence objects on the ground, such as buildings or trees, you will soon make an interesting discovery. The dipper is slowly making a great circle in the sky, moving in a circle at the center of which is Polaris. If you make your observations a few hours apart, you will see that the Great Dipper has moved over a wide area cf the sky. If you notice the other stars, you will see that they seem to be circling around the north star also. It is just as though the whole dome of the sky was turning on an axis that passed through the north star. Os course the dome of the sky isn’t turning any more than is the sun moving across the sky, although it seems to us each day as though the sun traveled across the sky from east to west. What is really happening is that the earth Is rotating on its axis from west to east. Just as this rotation of the earth makes the sun appear to rise in the east and set in the west, so it makes the stars appear to rotate from east to west in a great circle around the pole star. The reason that the pole star stands still is because it is directly above the north pole of the earth. If the earth’s axis was projected from the north star into the isky, it would touch Polaris. It is important that the student of the stars have some understanding of the apparent motions of the stars.

M. E. TR'A C Y SAYS: “The Farmers Are Being Helped Vastly More by the Greatly Improved Highway System Than They Could Be by Most of the Legislative Schemes That Have Been Proposed.”

Oklahoma city, okia., June 17. Anti-,Smith sentiment grows as one travels South, which is one more reminder of the deadly parallel between the Smith and Hoover campaigns. Just as the bulk of the opposition to Hoover came from solidly Republican States, so the opposition to Smith is strongest in Democratic States. If the parallel follows through, the opposition will collapse at Houston exactly as it did at Kansas City. Lack of leadership is the outstanding weakness in each case. There is even more lack of leadership in the opposition to Smith than there was in the opposition to Hoover. Senator Reed, who is regarded as Smith’s strongest opponent, will go to Houston with scarcely half as many votes as former Governor Lowden, who was supposed to be Hoover’s outstanding opponent at Kansas City. Dry Smoke Screen Prohibition will be the smokescreen at Houston, just as farm relief was at Kansas City. Political leaders opposed to Smith are ardent in the cause of prohibition right now, but their ador is based on the hope of capitalizing religious prejudice. They are handicapped not only by their inability to organize around some single candidate, but by the stupidity of fanatics like “Tom Tom” Heflin has made vastly more votes for Governor Smith than for anyone else. The ridiculousness of his charges has disgusted thousands of people. The wild assertions with regard to a huge campaign fund, which he failed to prove when put on the witness stand, the childish shrieks of alarm, and above all else, the simple traps he set for others only to get caught in them him self, have converted his appeal boomerang. This was vividly illustrated by the way he approached the open-air meeting at Albany on Sunday. Having agreed to address that meeting, he advertised his fear that “Governor Smith's friends,” would attempt to break it up. Governor Smith replied by ordering the head of the New York State constabulary to “see that Senator Heflin has every protection.” Putting aside the decency and justice of the thing, the cleverness of the latter stands out in such sharp contrast to the stupidity of the former that no one could be deceived. a a a Farm Relievers Having failed to get what they wanted at Kansas City, the professional farm relievers are planning to move on Houston, with the idea of obtaining a platform plank assuring the equalization bill in agriculture relief measures. But what is a little thing like that in politics? Where they threatened to bolt the Republican party if they did not get what they wanted, they will now suggest the possibility of pooling interests with the Democrats. One wonders whether the Democrats will be as indifferent to their appeal as the Republicans were to their bluster farm condition in Oklahoma as seen from the train window. As reported by those who ought to know and as revealed in a survey recently completed by experts from the State agricultural college, do not appead so pathetic as they have heen described in other sections. Oklahoma is said to be harvesting one of the largest winter wheat crops, if not the very largest in its history. Barring a terrific slump in price, which no one expects right now, this crop will bring splendid returns. Os more reliable significance, is the result of the thirtyseven farm studies referred to above. These studies indicate that the average farm investment in Oklahoma is $17,000, that the average gross income is $3,500, and that the average net return to the farmer is about $1,200 a year for his labor, which is not so bad considering that he has to pay no house rent. It is certainly far better than that of the average city man who receives twice that amount for his services. B B B Link Farms, Towns The farmers are being helped vastly more by the greatly improved highway system than they could be by most of the legislative schemes that have been proposed. They are not only able to market their crops at less expense, but to establish social contacts, lack of which has made the farm so unattractive for women and children. The telephone, electricity, radio and particularly hard surface roads are not only transforming rural life, but are developing a far better and more wholesome acquaintance between city and country than ever existed before. Those who look for a political conflict between city and country are not paying proper attention to this phase of the situation. Travel, was made possible, by 200,000 miles of hard surface highways and 23,000,000 automobiles, is obliterating those distinctions, prejudices, and mental attitudes which formerly separated “Ruben,” from the “city dude.” There are more farmers living in town today and more town people who have business or social connections in the country than ever before. For how long have people been using soap? The use of soap Is of great antiquity. A well equipped soap factory was found by the excavators of Pompeii. Historical records of Italy and Spain show that soap was in use in those countries in the eighth century.

Polaris. Try it for yourself. Go outdoors tonight, if it is cloudless. Trace an imaginary line through the pointers. It will lead directly to a yellowish, white star of considerable brightness. That star is Polaris. And new, if you watch the Great Dipper and Polaris for some + ime, keeping in miud some refer-

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Jlurnal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the • Health Magazint. ONE of the differences between education today and in past is the amount of time being given in schools to :he proper conduct of life from both the mental and physical points of view. A textbook, just issued by Miss K. W. Kinyon. director of Home Economics in the public schools of Denver, and Professor L. Thomas Hopkins of the Department of Education in the University of Colorado, provides an outline of material for use in teaching to high school girls the proper conduct of the home. In preparing their book the authors have been advised by many other specialists. They have outlined a sound system, beginning with an explanation of the position of the home in social lifeThey list also a series of physical habits for high school girls which are obviously worthy of considera-

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kins: Q—queen: J—Jack; X—any card lower than 10.) HERE are illi trative hands and explanations of what opening bids should be made: I—Spades A X X X Hearts A X X X Diamonds A X X X Clubs X This hand is too strong to pass. No trump is inadvisable on account of the singleton. If you bid a major suit, you may not encourage partner if he holds normal support for you in the major. The most advisable bid is one diamond, as it may encourage a game-going declaration. 2—Spades A J X X Hearts K X X Diamonds K Q X Clubs A J X The hand contains a fair spade bid. The cards are perfectly distributed for a no-trump—4-3-3-3, with all suits stopped and assistance for either major. A no-trump is most advisable, as it may encourage the most desirable major suit declaration if not played at notrump. 3—Spades X X Hearts A Q 10 X Diamonds A K X X X Clubs X X Tire hand contains only two suits stopped and two worthless doubletons, making it inadvisable to bid no-trump. The hand contains a sound heart bid. 4—Spades A J X X Hearts K X X Diamonds X Clubs AKQXX The hand contains a weak spade suit. No trump is inadvisable on account of singleton. Having support for either major, bid a club to encourage bidding by partner. s—Spades A 10 9 Hearts K Q X Diamonds J 10 X X X Clubs A X This hand contains support in both majors with every suit stopped. A no-trump bid offers the best prospects for game. Note the 10 and 9 in the spade suit. Such cards are of very great value in a hand. The expert establishes them where the average player fails. You should recognize padding of this kind and endeavor to utilize it. 6—Spades A J X X Hearts X X Diamonds A K J X X Clubs X X No-trump is inadvisable on account of two worthless doubletons. Bid one diamond in preference to a weak spade suit to encourage bidding as a spade bid may shut out bidding. (Copyright,

For every man shall bear his own burden.—Galatians. 6:5. BUB YOU will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know It.—Emerson.

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on reauest will not oe published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: Indiana is making an edifying spectacle of itself at Kansas City. No respecting Republican can point with pride to its record. Led by Watscn, who never had a chance to be nominated, it voted like cattle at his bidding. The whole campaign of Watson does not sit well with old line Republicans, who have been true and loyal to the G. O. P. when many of those now dominating the machine were running off after false gods. Chief among such is Edgar D. Bush, the “hot air” statesman from Salem. He was one of the Bull Mooses, who in 1912, split the party and followed the frenzied, ambitious Roosevelt and gave the Democrats eight years of power. To conciliate the Moosers, Bush was nominated and elected Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in 1916. During all his term he was a thorn in the flesh of the party and opposed nearly all the policies of Governor Goodrich. Now at Kansas City he is in front again and making an ass of himself. The fight on Hoover by an “army” of farmers that was reported to be 100,000 strong petered down to 250, led by the red-headed Bush and William Settle, Democrat of Indiana. Indiana delegates, at Watson’s bidding, voted against Hoover delegates in the South. Being in Florida last winter and spring I know about conditions in that State. For years the Republican of that State have been dominated by a little machine that trafficked in patronage. They did not want the party to win in Florida, as they would be out of jobs. Bean, the national committeeman, was another D. C. Stephenson in politics, using the patronage for Drofit. The true Republicans of Florida, like those of Indiana, wanted a “new deal.” In May they held a large, enthusiastic convention at Daytona, cleaned house and nominated a strong ticket that probably will be elected this fall. Bean was routed and thoroughly discredited. He held a small rump convention cf his own and elected delegates to Kansas City and Watson and hie hirelings voted to seat the discredited boss and his rump delegates. Now the shoe is on the other foot. In 1908 Roosevelt “fixed” the southern delegates for his friend Taft. But in 1912, when Taft got the delegates by the Roosevelt methods this “Teddy” went wild. ’ Roosevelt and Watson are much alike. When they got the delegates it was all right, but when the other fellow gets them it is all wrong. It is very evident that the fight on Hoover by the Indiana State machine is an alibi for what is coming. When the State cleans house next November and elects Frank Dailey, Governor the machine wants to

The mental habits suggested are equally worth while. A girl who considers herself to be in the best of mental health should have developed habits of; Adjusting herself easily to her environment. Keeping cool in an emergency. Meeting difficulties calmly and settling them without delay. Persevering in spite of difficulties. Acknowledging error. Correcting mistakes if there is an opportunity. Concentrating on the work at hand. Thinking clearly, accurately and constructively before acting. Securing happiness in whatever work she undertakes. Assuming responsibility without nervousness or worry. Believing in her ideals. Recognizing but not advertising her own shortcomings. The success of life under modern social conditions depends upon adaptabilities of people to each other. The person who is ill either physicially or mantally is not adaptable.

throw the blame on Hoover. But when the record of Hoover is made known and it is shown that the farmers had no better friend during the war than Herbert Hoover, then Indiana will give its electoral vote to Hoover, but snow under the State ticket by an avalanche of votes. The people are long-suffering and patient, but sometimes patience ceases to be a virtue. WILL H. CRAIG, Noblesville, Ind.

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This Date in U. S. History

June 18 1783—Washington issued his last circular to the States. 1798—Congress made fourteen years’ residence necessary for naturalization. 1812—Congress declared war on Great Britain. 1861—Governor of Texas proclaimed the payment of debt to northern creditors. 1873—Susan B. Anthony, feminist, . fined for illegal voting.

-JUNE 18,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY TTOUSTON. Texas. June 18—Ini the East they will tell you A1 Smith’s nomination for President by the Democrats is certain. But the South is not convinced. Here in Texas, where West and South meet, there is a grim attempt not to let anti-Smith partisanship mar hospitality to the Smith forces from the North and East, but they can not disguise their hatred and fear of the New York Governor. This feeling against Smith is general. You find it in talking with people in day coaches and Pullmans. You find it in Dallas and in Houston. And it is even stronger, if possible, in the advance guard of delegations arriving in this convention city from the States south of the MasonDixon line and east of the Mississippi. One gets the idea that opposition to Smith is not a thing imposed from above by the political bosses, and net essentially the result of outside propaganda. Politicians and propagandists of the South and Southwest have taken advantage of the anti-South sentiment for their own purposes, but they found, rather than created, the fear of Smith, which split the Democratic party four years ago, and which will be a major factor In this convention. As the politicians have not caused this movement, neither can they control it. Therein is the danger, so far as Democratic unity and victory is concerned. Most of these Democratic politicians, like their Republican brethren, are interested above everything else in party victory. They are less ready now than four years ago to split the party. B B B TyCANY or perhaps most of the iVJL anti-Smith politicians have come -round belatedly to the view that Smith is the candidate with the best chance of carrying the election. Anyway, they know that the alternative to Smith may be death of the Democratic party or something mighty close to it. Therefore, most of them already are willing to “compromise” and accept Smith, if they can do this without alienating their constituent. That is the sharp difference between the Kansas City Republican convention last week and the Houston convention. There a majority of the Republican bosses combined unsuccessfully against Hoover, who had the support of the majority rank and file. It was an attempt to thwart a popular preference. But in the South and Southwest both the politicians and people are opposed to the leading Democratic candidate, and the bosses who accept Smith for expediency sake will be defying popular preference. That it why everyone here is expecting a bitter convention fight. Even though most of the southern politicians apparently are in the mood to accept Smith as a necessary evil and to strive for unity on that basis, they are now and will continue to be under hysterical pressure to walk out cf the convention if that is the only way to stop Smith. How much cf the hatred for Smith by this dry Protestant rank and file is caused by his Roman Catholic religion and how much by his wet convictions is difficult to determine. Nor does it matter much. For in the South and Southwest, orthodox Protestantism and extreme prohibitionism are almost identical. In these regions prohibition is not an economic or political question—not even an ethical question, in the sense that personal choice is involved, but a •'religious’* question. Liquor is the devil and the-devil is liquor. If you compromise with the devil you go to hell—the oldfashioned fire and brimstone hell, i B B B TO many of the common people of the South, Smith is the personal emissary of Satan. He is not to be treated or discussed as a man. When, for instance, one of the rare Smith advocates points out that the President can not wipe out the Eighteenth Amendment, nor modify the Volstead act, and that Congress alone has legislative power, the answer! is that these are th arguments of satan. That Smith is an honest man, who would try to enforce the dry law as long as it is on the statute books and that he could not do much worse than Secretary an ex-distiller, is doing, is also considered the voice of the devil from which the God-fearing, must flee. The religious opposition to Smith in its extreme form takes the belief that he is the forerunner of the “Anti-Christ,” whom Catholics reverence as a holy father. The Pope is to move from the Vatican in Rome to the White House in Washington, or at any rate the people will be the actual President if Smith is elected, they fear. Less extreme Protestant Democrats form a minority. They deplore the attitude of the majority to which they give the harsh names of “bigotry” and “intolerance.’’ But this minority is not so ready as citizens of similar conviction in other parts of the country to say, “the sooner we uphold the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and equality by nominating a Catholic, the better it will be for the country, for democracy, and for Americanism.” The minority in this section fear that Smith’s nomination will increase the “intolerance” they deplore. They J think this thing will slowly die if let alone, bul that the declining Klan and the forces whiclt made the Klan possible will be stimulated and strengthened by nomination of a “wet Catholic candidate." It is already clear, however, from Smith's six hundred or more delegates out of a total of 1,100 that the New Yorker has the support of bulk of Democrats in the country at large. How Smith can be stopped from getting the nomination even hia enemies do not profess to know. To add to their discomfort Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, the only other major candidate, is also wet.