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The Silent Senators Thus far the two, Senators from Indiana, on whose recommendation Frank Rozelle was named United States marshal for the northern district, are significantly silent in regard to the very grave charges made against that official by Robert E. Hicks, editor of the Specialty Salesman of South Whitley and nationally known as the big game hunter of mail order frauds. Hicks wrote the Senators a week ago making very specific charges and very grave charges. He declared that Rozelle has operated and is still operating a fraudulent business, getting money from hopeless and helpless people who respond to advertisements which promise great rewards for easy work. The advertisements appeal to women who, for the most part, are shut-ins, women to whom a very few dollars mean much, women who are eager to add to the family budget. He appealed to women to paint pillow tops, and his literature held out the idea that the world is eager and waiting for hand-painted covers, marked in designs of secret societies, California poppies, landscapes or what have you. _ The real purpose, says Hicks, was not to get painted pillow tops, but to sell to those who answered his appeals, a little outfit of liquid colors and a few toothpicks for six dollars. The profit on these outfits, says Hicks, was enormous and very few pillow tops were ever purchased. Most of them, he says, were returned as unsaleable. The letter to the Senators raised an even more serious charge and one that deserves something more than silence as a reply. He says that political influence is now protecting Rozelle and that it enters the organization of the court in which Rozelle is now an official. The position of marshal is an important one. He is the high sheriff, an office of increasing importance in days when the Federal Government is gradually assuming police powers and regulating most of the human affairs. The marshal has much to do with the drawing of juries which try cases of citizens in civil matters and pass upon the guilt or innocence of those accused of crimes. The charge that politics is entering the Federal courts is most important. For Federal courts have held the respect and confidence of citizens to a degree not given to local tribunals. In other days fear of that court by the guilty was traditional and universal. Certainly if the charge of Hicks that the marshal runs a fraudulent business of a kind for which other men are serving sentences in prison are true, Rozelle should not be an official of this court. Mbre certain it is that if political influence is protecting him, the Senators should relieve themselves of any responsibility by quick and decisive action. The fact that Rozelle boasted that he was important in political campaigns, that he directed the speakers bureau in the campaign in which the Senators were elected, that he told the orators where to go and what to say, should urge action, rather than impede it. There is a very easy way to discover whether Hicks is telling the truth when he makes his charges or whether he is all wrong. An inspection of the books of the Rozelle concern, of the records of the postoffice at La Grange, where he operated, interviews with those who answered his advertisements, will give all the facts. It would be too bad if the people, knowing the seriousness of the charge, found the silence of the Senators is more significant than the charge itself. Why He Killed Her A New Jersey man walked into a police station the other day and confessed he had killed his wife. “Ever since we were married my wife wanted pleasure, pleasure, pleasure,” he explained. "She wanted to go t > the movies all the time but I could not afford it. “She wanted me to go to dances but I don’t dance. Today she insisted that I take her to an amusement park, though I told her I had no money for such things.” Doubtless the man’s wife may have been a bit insistent. Yet it does seem as if a man could take the trouble to learn a woman’s tastes in such matters before he marries her. Once the ceremony is over it is time to make the best of it. Rushing into matrimony on the basis of a passing infatuation, without stopping to learn whether tastes and likes are at all suited, is sure to lead to trouble. It is a bit hard to work up very much sympathy over this wife murderer, even if his complaint is true. Obregon is president of Mexico again, having won out in the regular elimination contest which takes place every six years. Not being shot, Obregon was elected. You usually can tell a Scotchman by what he reads. Just take a peek over his shoulder and see if it isn’t a free verse.

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Working in the Open The surprising effectiveness of the Federal Trade Commission’s exposure of the power trust propaganda machinery has brought a variety of explanations. One is that the commission, irked by being continually characterized as over-friendly to big business, decided as „i matter of self-defense that it was necessary to do a thorough-going job on the power inquiry. Another is that the commission’s newly appointed chief counsel, in charge of the investigation, has taken the instructions in the Walsh resolution literally, and done a much rftore thorough job of examination than even those on the commission anticipated. Such explanations as these overlook what well may be the principal reason for the effectiveness of the investigation thus far. This is the instruction, embodied in the Walsh resolution, that the power inquiry hearings shall be open to the public, a departure from the procedure followed by the commission in making economic inquiries. In the past the economic division of the commission has made its inquiries behind closed doors, and then promptly bur’ed them in voluminous and forbidding printed reports. In a report submitted to the Senate a year ago, the commission presented a great deal of tha information covered Dy the recent hearings; and much of the story that will be told when the commission starts its hearings on power holding companies. It was a sensational report, but, prepared in silence and obscured by a mass of dull reading matter, it quickly was lost in the shuffle. If it could have been given to the public in small doses through the medium of public hearings, valuable time, from the standpoint of the. public interest, could have been saved in gaining some understanding of what has been going on in the -power industry. If the commission, on its own motion or by direction from Congress, will make public hearings the standard practice in its economic inquiries, it greatly will increase its usefulness to the public. The Tariff Issue In spite of Secretary Work’s suggestion that it would make a good campaign issue, the tariff is about to go into eclipse as a major party difference. That is true if for no other reason than because the Democrats at Houston parted company with their traditions of a century and abandoned their low tariff position. If this ever should mean that the two major parties would vie w? ; h each other in distributing political favors in the form of tariff protection, it would be a real tragedy. Although people long since have become bored with arguments about it, the tariff is one of the most vital factors in the welfare of the common man in this country, occasionally helping him by safeguarding him against foreign labor competition, and frequently harming him through high prices resulting from exorbitant tariff rates. It is quite possible, however, that tha approximate agreement of the two major party platforms on the tariff may l ave a very fortunate effect. It may d'seourage stupid political harangues about the abstract virtues of free trade and protection, which have occupied major party orators for generations, and divert public attention to the tariff protection afforded to particular commodities and industries. In the past the tariff debate has been waged in generalities which only have puzzled the people and left them blind to the much more important consideration of just how the tariff works in practical application. If general agreement by the Republicans and Democrats on the basic principles to be followed in tariff making brings discussion of its detailed application, it will be a real gain. What is it that makes a woman tell you how many years she has had a dress when you compliment her on it?

[>avid Diets on Science There’s ‘W’ In The Sky

No. 97 ■ ■ THE stars of the contsellation of Cassiopeia are easy to learn. We assume that by now you have learned to find the “W” in the sky which forms tha basis o. 1 ’ this constellationThe iccompanying illustration shows the constellation ana the names of the stars. Such Arabic names as have come down to us for some of the stars are indicated in the diagram. In addition, the Greek letters by which modern astronomers know the stars are also indicated. Modern astronomers name the brightest star of each constellation Alpha, the first letter of the Greek

alphabet, the next one Beta, the second letter, and so on. The first star in the “W” is Zeta, so called for the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet because it is sixth in brightness. The second star in the “W” is Delta, the fourth in brightness. Its Arabic name is Ruchbah, meaning

i ' & Kappa Gamma ZE.TA . & •fry X /Beta \ / \ / to) Delta W Et^Va.pha Mu Marmk Cassiopeia

“the knee.” It was given that name because in the imagined figure of Queen Cassiopeia this star forms the knee of the left leg. The third star in the “W” is also the third in brightness and, therefore, called Gamma. The brightest star of i;he constellation is the fourth star in the “W,” known, therefore, as Alpha. Its Arabic name is Schedar, which means "the breast.” The last star of the “W” is Beta, the second in brightness. Its Arabic name is Caph, meaning “ .he hand.” Near Alpha is a fairly faint star, Eta. Above the “W” is the small star Kappa and below it two more, Mu and Marfak. Marfak means “the elbow.” Alpha is a particularly interesting star because it is what the astronomers call a variable star. That is, it does not shine with a constant brilliance but it varies in brightness or magnitude. The telescope reveals that both Alpha and Gamma are double stars. They look like single stars to the eye but the telescope reveals that in each case there are really two stars close together. If it is cloudless tonight, take the accompanying diagram outdoors and make sure that you can identify each of the stars in the constellation. If you learn them in that way, you will not forget them easily.

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M. E. / TRACY, ’ SAYS: “Human Existence Has Become a Continuous Drama. Hardly a Moment Passes but What Something Novel Occurs.” f

"TT seems to me,” said the lady, “though John D. Rockefeller had a birthday every three months. “The years go faster as we grow older,” explained her companion. “I suppose they do,” she admitted, “but I hate to be reminded of it.” So does Mr. Rockefeller, no doubt. It is not an altogether pleasant experience to see the night descend, especially if one has had a perfectly glorious time during the day. However satisfying the memory of a busy life may be, it can never match the fun of building air castles. Still, there comes a time when we must be contented with our memories and throw the torch to other hands. Mr. Rockefeller has displayed his genius in nothing more vividly than in his graceful retirement from business. He is one of the few who did not permit great Wealth to make him either a miser or a slave. That, more than anything else, perhaps, has won him the respect he now enjoys. # Drama of Life This is an easy age for men to retire. It furnishes enough thrills to make life interesting even for the spectator. In olden times, 'the show ei.ded when a man ceased stirring things up for himself, but that is not true today. Human existence has become a continuous drama. Hardly a moment passes but what something novel occurs. Not only has Ingenuity taken charge of civilization, but modern means of communication enable us to keep up with the performance. If the Chinese celebrate the rebirth of “Nationalism,” or if a transport sinks in a Chilean harbor, we know it within the hour. If an Arctic expedition is lost, we are not only informed immediately, but are able to follow the rescuers in all the details of their hazardous work. For the first time since consciousness dawned, we can live with each other on something like a worldwide basis, and can enjoy not only the performance, but the benefits of world-wide effort. 0 0 0 World Speeded Up Let anew idea make its appearance in Vienna or San Francisco and millions of people are ready to help perfect it. That is way we are getting along so fast. The thing runs to standardization, of course, but what if it does? We have always had standardization of one kind or another. Whole centuries have passed, with no change in living conditions, no improvements, no difference in operation of the home or. workshop. That was standardization with a vengeance. In those days the only way men could hope to get a variety was in traveling from place to Now all they have to do is live from sunrise to sunrise. 0 0 World-Wide Benefits Uniform methods and a common understanding are necessary to cooperation- That is the meaning of what we call standardization. You cannot have provincialism and world-wide progress at the same time, and you cannot have worldwide markets without world-wide progress. Nor is their commercial side the sole advantage of world-wide markets. The basis of present-day civilization is the fact that it can draw on every concern of the earth for material and inspection. Mr. Rockefeller owes the good health he enjoys at 89, largely to the balanced diet that has been made possible by the great variety of foodstuffs whic.. a world-wide market affords. 00 Barter for Pleasure There is a good deal of thU commercial and industrial hookup besides money. If it furnishes more work, it also furnishes more comfort, and if it makes for higher wages, it also makes for happici and healthier life. We would not be enjoying many of the conveniences we are, but for a system of barter and sale which enables us to get the essential products. If we had to depend on what this country produces, where would the automobile business be? It is rubber from the East Indies that makes riding so pleasant, and it is banana oil that makes the paint stick. You can hardly point to any great improvement without discovering that it owes something to a far away course of supply. If this has become the tin can age, it is through British tin, and if ft remains the oil age it will be through the discovery of oil fields in other lands. But one does not have to think of impressive innovations to realize what we owe to foreign trade, or to help of foreign minds. The breakfast table would not be what it is without foreign coffee, not to say sugar, and the radio would no* be what it is but for the work of a bright Italian boy. The more we exchange things and ideas, the more we get out of life. If we lose some of that variety which, went with old-time stagnation, we more than make up for it through the variety that goes with progress.

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Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.—Matt. 6:24. n u' Money is life to us wretched mortals.—Herodius.

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Here Are Useful Tips on Vegetables

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hrxela, the Health Magazine. Editor Journal of the American Medical IN their interesting volume on the “Hows and Whys of Cooking,” published by the University of Chicago Press, the Misses Evelyn G. Halliday and Isabel T. Noble of the department of home economics deal particularly with the questions —chemical, physical and botanical —that are involved in methods of cooking to retain the flavor and preserve the constituents of vegetables. More and more human beings are being educated to the special qualities of vegetables, such as the vitamins and the mineral salts. As with color, so also the flavors of members of the cabbage family, including brussels sprouts, cauliflower and turnips, are most likely to be damaged in cooking. These vegetables, along with onions, are commonly called “strong juiced” vegetables. They contain sulphur compounds which are lar—:ly responsible for the taste. Cooked under unfavorable conditions, the sulphur compounds are decomposed with the resultant disagreeable taste and smell. If the vegetables are cooked for too long a time, particularly, in the presence of little acid, as happens when vegetables are cooked in small amounts of water, there is a tendency of the sulphur compounds to break down. This happens when the vegetables are allowed to cook in tepid water and allowed to heat slowly, or when allowed to cook in pressure cookers. The way to prevent such decomposition is to cook the vegetables in a large amount of water in an un-

Bridge Play Made Easy BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K —bins: Q—aneen; J—jack; X—any card , lower than 10.) ALTHOUGH it is worth one more trick to play the hand In a no trump, it is inadvisable to take out in a major suit unless your total hand is worth more than one quick trick. A major take-out should denote strength. Merely because you hold five curds in a major suit if, no reason for announcing it. A safe guide is to take our partner’s no trump in major when holding: 1. Any five cards as good as an initial bid, regardless of the rest of the hand. 2. Any five cards as good as J 10 XXX if a total hand is about as good as a defensive bid. 3. Any five cards about as good as KJ 10 XX if hand contains a singleton or blank suit. 4. Any six or more cards, regardless of rest of hand. Never take out your partner’s no trump in a minor suit except for a sound, logical reason If you hold high cards in a minor suit you are under no compulsion to announce it. They will help the no trump. It is seldom advisable to take out in a minor suit containing less than six cards and if in doubt do not take out when holding less than six cards. A minor should only be declared when holding unusual length or to show that the hand is worthless for a no trump as when holding: Spades—XX; hearts—7; diamonds —JIO XXXX; clubs—XXXX. In this instance take out by bidding two diamonds. It signifies general weakness for the no-trump. It proclaims that there is a possibility of making two diamonds and little prospect of making two no-trump. A safe guide is to take out partner’s no-trump in minor when holding: 1. Any eight or more cards in one minor suit 2. Any six or seven cards without solid tops if hand is otherwise trickless. (Copyrirht. 1928. by the Ready Reference Publishing Company)

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covered kettle for the shortest possible time. The onion flavor is due to certain volatile or gaseous constituents which pass off rapidly when the onion is peeled. Onions should be cooked until tender and no longer, preferably in

Times Readers Voice Views

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 outstanding genius of the present Governor of New York as a vote-getter, a political leader and an executive has put certain elements of the Democratic party in an embarassing dilemma. They must support Smith or put the party out of business. The religious issue has no place in politics. That is, publicly and professedly. No major party with any hope of success can afford to befoul itself by public acknowledgment of the paternity of such a brat. On the other hand, it would be folly to deny that religious prejudice against candidates for office does exist and is fairly widespread. Openly repudiated by all parties, its doctrines are whispered in comers and in the klaverns of the Klan. Ordinarily, it can mask itself by pretending to vote against a candidate for some pretended reason other than the real one of religious belief. Day bj day the Nation is growing increasingly aware that on her eastern borders there looms a towering genius in statecraft and leadership. There have been but few of his caliber in the history of the Republic. Only a handful of leaders, such as Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Wilson deserve to be bracketed with his name. As this truth become more widely known, it looks as if the religious bigot would have no excuse left and would be forced into the open. If the Democratic party in the South and in other Democratic centers, by rejecting Smith, thus puts itself on record as imposing a religious qualification for office, it is through. No self-respecting Democrat will brook the insult. He will argue that if a Catholic, as such, is judged unworthy of leadership, all Catholics are brand-

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(South Bend Tribune) Herbert Hoover’s determination to avoid personal campaign publicity will please those Republicans who hope that dignity will be paramount in politics this year. This will be in line with the candidate's past activities, for at no time has he sought the limelight, preferring to stand on his record, which is accessible to those who desire to enlighten themselves. The nominee’s attitude on the questions which figure in current agitation will be made plain when his formal speech of acceptance is delivered early in August. Until that time the electorate has the Republican platform and Hoover’s well-known executive qualifications for purposes of comparison. More, the nominee, already has expressed satisfaction with the bread message given to the American people by the platform builders so marked deviation, even in minor matters, is hardly to be anticipated while his speech of acceptance is awaited. Those in charge of the Hoover campaign already have expressed determination to keep the proceedings of the next four months on a high place. This is a source of gratification to thinking people. (Muncie New*) Already there are undercurrent indications of a bitterness in the 1928 national campaign that is wholly foreign to the decent conduct of a contest to elect a president of the United States. If the religious and the liquor

a large amount of rapidly boiling water. All vegetables, except those of the cabbage family and onions, are best cooked in the opposite manner, that is with a small amount of water in a steam cooker or in a pressure cooker.

ed as unworthy of citizenship. And the party so branding him never can hope in the future for political power. This will spell the defection of millions of votes from a major party and its political disintegration. A. J. BENTON. Editor Times —Doing away with moonshining we would have to call the spirit of Lincoln and Wilson to appear against the moonshiners, bootleggers and 2x4 politicians. The three classes are the only ones that have anything in common. In doing away with moonshining it means doing away with these three classes. The 2x4 class praying for guidance reminds me of the American hobo's prayers lor work and down deep in his heart wishes that he would not find a job. No one with a heart prayer fails to receive comfort from that prayer. Jesus says: “If it were not so, I would have told you.’’ It is just as feasible to try to do away with the Scriptures by force as it is to try to do away with moonshining by force. It positively can not be done. If there is anything a real man resents, It is forcing him to do something that he doesn't want to do. I will give you a happy solution to the problem of doing away with moonshining. In order that you may get in line with doing things in God’s way. that means to begin doing better all the time as you go along until you reach perfection. Let the Government put in a big distillery and ship by parcel post in quarts or mutiple of quarts, putting $1 for each gallon In our Federal banks as a fund to loan to farmers on real estate at 5 j)er cent, tax free. That would be putting good pure whisky on the market cheaper than the moonshine can be manufactured. When there is a market for a product, that product will be supplied by someone. , FRANK WALTON. Campbellsburg, Ind.

issues are injected into the controversy it is to be feared they will lead to greater strife devoid of reason than the country has known in any campaign except, perhaps, the one or two immediately following the Civil War. Religious differences have led to the bloodiest wars that have disgraced the pages of the world’s history, and in this country wet-and-dry fights have caused more ill-feeling than all other causes combined in the last fifteen or twenty years. The combination of these two elements in one campaign, it is to be regretted, may cause: at least in spots, the dethronement of reason and a rule of hatred. We hope this fear may be unfounded and that the restrained and sensible argument that usuallyhas marked the political campaigns over a long period will continue to be the weapon with which the battle for ballots is to be waged. We hope, also, that logic, ever the sword of the sensible, may not give place to the vicious tongue of foolish prejudice and slander. In an age of reason no battle can be won permanently that is not based upon reason, right and justice. When did President Tyler’s first wife die? How long did his second wife preside as the mistress of the White House? The first Mrs. Tyler died in Washington, Sept. 9, 1842. He married again in New York, June 26, 1844, and the second Mrs. Tyler presided as mistress of the White House for the next eight months.

JULY 9, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY WASHINGTON, July B—Will the women’s vote determine this national election? The politicians don’t think so. But they are not taking any chances. Following the same psychology as that of George Bernard Shaw, who has addressed his latest testament to women, the Democratic and Republican politicians are appealing to women by stressing their importance. If this results in winning feminine votes so much the better, they reason. But in general the politicians question whether there is such a thing as a definite women’s vote—or, for that matter, a definite labor or farm vote. Nevertheless, both parties are going through the motions of appealing to women as women, rather than to women as voters not different from men. This is considered especially in order this year, because one of Hoover’s most effective convention lieutenants was Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attorney general in charge of prohibition law enforcement cases, and because one of Smith's closest friends and advisers is Mrs. Belle L. Moskowitz of New York. Already Chairman Work of the Republican national committee is talking about the women electing Hoover and planning to stimulate this thought by putting a Hoover picture in every kitchen in the land. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, national vice chairman, will conduct this campaign through the women leaders, who form one-half of the Republican national committee. She will go from Michigan to Washington to open women’s headquarters in about ten days. Simah, Michelet, president of the national get-out-the vote club, estimates that the increase in the number of women voters in 1924 was almost 3,800,000 over 1920. He thinks the spreading movement among leaders of all parties and nonpartisans to influence a larger number of voters of both sexes to go to the polls than the 53 per cent of eligibles who voted in the last national election, will make the increased women’s vote even larger this year. 000 WHATEVER may be said in general about the existence or non-existence of a definite and separate women’s vote, there is wide acceptance of the fact that the two minorities represented by the National Women’s Party and by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will vote almost as a unit and almost solely on single campaign issues. The former organization is probably much too small to have an appreciable effect, though the W. C. T. U. might possibly be a factor in certain border States if the vote is close. A conference call was sent out today by the National Women’s Party to decide its position in the campaign. Some significance was attached to the fact that the statement mentioned that Senator Curtis, Hoover’s running-mate, has been the sponsor for the Women's Party “equal rights amendment” to the Federal Constitution. The W. C. T. U. came out today for Hoover and against Smith, and urged its officers in southern States to attend the anti-Smith dry conference this week in Asheville, N. C. 0 0 THE W. C. T. U. policy statement to members follows: "The interest of the W. C. T. U. in this political campaign is tha election of candidate for President who embodies the principle of prohibition. Wc urge the support of Herbert Hoover, who, in his reply to Senator Borah, said: ‘I do not favor the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. I stand, of course, for the efficient, vigorous and sincere enforcement of the laws enacted thereunder’ “We urge the defeat of Alfred E. Smith, who, in his telegram of acceptance of the nomination for the presidency, said: ’lt is well known that I belieev there should be fundamental changes In the present provision for national prohibition.”* This edict by the women’s dry organization takes no cognizance apparently of Hoover’s statement that he looks upon prohibtiion as “an experiment, noble in purpose.” The w'ets point out that the idea of prohibition as an experiment is of something still unproved and which may be changed, rather than as the fixed and almost sacred thing conceived by the W. C. T. U. Furthermore, the wets say there is nothing in the Republican platform nor in Hoover's statement to prevent him, if he desires, from working for modification of the Volstead act, as Smith intends to do, and is permitted to do under the Democratic platform In expressing the national women’s party view, Miss Mabel Vernon, national executive secretary, said today: “In 1924, after women had been voting for four years, there was no mention of equal rights in the national platforms This year both platform have planks which show the parties recognize that women must be given positions of equality in politics and government.”

This Date in U. S. History

July 9 1819—Birthday cf Elias Hcwe, sewing machine inventor. 1850—Zachary Taylor, twelfth President, died in office. 1872—Democratic national convention nominated Horace Greeley and G. Brown. 1904—Democrats nominated Alton B. Parker ■of New York for President. What is a turnbuckle coupling? One that is threaded or swiveled so that when it connects lengthwise two metal rods, pipes, or wires, it may be turned so as to regulat# the length or tension of the connected parts. Turhbuckles are used on all kinds of rigging and also on locomotives.