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Too Much Crime The wanton shooting of citizens by bandits, the repeated holdups on city streets and county roads, the increasing number of acts of pillage and outlawry of all kinds suggests that something more should be done than grant permits to set decoy traps for bandits. That winter always brings more crimes is an experience of the past. Cold weather and decrease in employment in certain lines have always driven some few weaklings into crime as a substitute for work and thrift. But not even the season explains the unusual increase in crimes in and around this city during the past few months. Perhaps the answer can be found in the fact that crime is fast becoming a profession that is no more hazardous than driving a truck or working in a factory. The organization of squads of sDecial police to ride the county roads has apparently not been a perfect success. This would be indicated, at least, by the fact that private citizens ask permission to join in the hunt for the men or gangs who ai;e operating regularly. The fact that a citizen can be wantonly shot down In a downtown street and escape, suggests very strongly that there is something lacking in either the men or methods. Every unsolved murder, and there are many, makes all lives a little more unsafe in these days of cr me. Beyond any deficiencies in the department whose business it is to discover the criminals, there are other reasons for the increase of crime. Some ,of these causes can be found in the fact that very many guilty men escape when brought into courts. Our machinery of justice is not geared up to meet the highly organized gangsters of the present day. It was devised to curb the individual who ran counter to the laws. It never contemplated the conditions which exist in all large cities today. , The one sure deterrent to crime is the certainty of punishment, not the amount of punishment. England has solved her problem and. so has Canada by devising machinery which permits very few to escape. The police of those countries have no long lists of mysteries. They have records of convictions. There is the sure prospect of a swift trial, a verdict upon the evidence and then no delay on appeals to higher courts. ' The men who commit crimes in London know that they must pay the-price. There are few murders. There are no spectacular gang wars. Today when a”member of the gangs that sprang up with the profitable procession of bootlegging gets into trouble in any city, there is ever ready a bondsman and a very respectable lawyer. There are delays, quibbles and appeals. Only the dumb are convicted. Perhaps some advance would be found in a revision of laws that would provide methods for disbar, ring lawyers who knowingly defend the guilty and interpose trickery to defeat justice. Even of more value would be some machinery of justice under which appeals from lower courts would be decided in a very brief time, six weeks at toe latest. Matching with organized crime will very soon be a very necessary action, if citizens wish to be even moderately safe in their lives and property.

Representative Britten’s Naval Proposal There is a popular belief that if persons who are in disagreement can meet each other face to face across a table, they can compose their differences. Some such idea must have been back of the ambitious proposal of Representative Fred A. Britten of Chicago to have a naval affairs committee of the house meet with a select committee of the British parliament in Canada for “friendly discussion and the hearing of testimony in connection with applying the principle of equality in sea power between Great Britain and the United States.” Britten, who is scheduled to succeed the late Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania as chairman of the naval affairs committee, wired his suggestion to Premier Stanley Baldwin. Britten’s desire for a naval agreement with Britain is wholly commendable, but there are'a good many obstacles to its accomplishment. First and foremost is the fundamental dispute on cruisers. There has been no evidence that Great Britain hss abandoned her position on this question, or that the United States is willing to yield. Furthermore, Britten apparently acted without consultation with President-Elect Hoover, charged with the conduct of our foreign relations. He likewise ignored the senate, which shares with the executive the control of foreign affairs, and which is exceedingly jealous of its prerogatives. And he went completely over the head of the state department, whose function it is to arrange international parleys. It is hardly probable that committees of the two legislative bodies could reach accord on moot questions over whlph the League of Nations disarmament commission has been bickering for years, and Which caused failure of the three-power naval parley in Geneva last year. Nor does a recollection of the confused and sometimes riotous hearings on the naval bill in the last congress lead to quiet confidence in the statesmanship of the committee. A Favorable Prospect “It would seem that the time is here when tile congress of the United States can be prevailed upon to provide a really adequate remedy for the injunction evil,” says a resolution adopted by the American Federation of Labor at its convention in New Orleans. Labor’s hope apparently is well found'd. A bill has been prepared by a subcommittee for consideration of the judiciary committee of the senate when congress meets next week. The bill replaces the original Shipstead measure, and is much more elaborate. It guarantees to labor the right to organize and bargain collectively, stipulates the conditions under which injunctions may be issued in labor disputes, provides that contempt of court, except direct content, can be punished only through jury trial, and so ou. The need for a law of this sort was established at extensive hearings in the last session of congress. It was shown conclusively that injunctions were being used to crush labor, and to deprive workers of the rights supposedly guaranteed them by the constitution. • , Chief question will arise over what form the legislation shall take. Itis opposed by various groups of

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organized employers, and will be the object of innumerable court attacks. It must be proof against the argument of unconstitutionality, and must be dr*wn so that it is not susceptible to lise in other fields < han the one for which it is intended. It must not deprive employers of their fundamental rights. This is the problem to which the judiciary committee will address'itself. Congress regards the legislation favorably. Furthermore, the Republican platform took cognizance of the abuse of injunctions and President-Elect Hoover in his speech of acceptance said, “we stand pledged to the Curtailment of the excessive use of injunctions in labor disputes." All in p'A, the outlook seems favorable for labor to accomplish As chief legislative objective. A Woman’s Task / Mrs. Nellie A. Mellon, 71-year-old Michigan farm woman, astonished her neighbors at a corn husking | bee recently by pitching in and husking 410 crates |of corn. If you have ever had a fling at that extremely hard job you will realize what endurance and physical stamina that called for. That little news *item reminds us forcibly of the | difference between the present day and the day of our fathers. It was not so many years ago that a ; farm woman, even in her age, had to be able to take hard jobs like that as a matter of course. The early settlers took back-breaking work as a regular feature of existence. They never experienced anything else. Now, when a 71-year-old woman husks 410 crates of corn, it becomes an interesting news story. A few decades ago it was a commonplace. Synthetic Gasoline If you’re worried what your auto is going to run on in that not-distant day when gasoline supplies begin to expire, take encouragement from the words of delegates to the international conference on bituminous ocal, at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. A German tells how synthetic gasoline is made by combining hydrogen and coal. Another tells of an internal combustion engine that uses powdered coal for its fuel—and does right well with it, too. Still another says that powdered rice husks ntake excellent fuel for such engines. Peat dust is also spoken of as a good subtsitute. We'may be burning some curious thihgs in our autos some day, but evidently we’ll go rolling along as cheaply and powerfully as we do now, gasoline or no gasoline. The incursion of women into politics and industry “has failed, is failing and must of necessity fail,’’ says Benito Mussolini. We think Mussolini means to say he is ever so slightly pessimistic about the ladi/* chances. From Germany comes the news that the Graf Zeppelin will not make another trip to America this year. The Stowaways’ Association ought to do something about this; they didn’t have a man on the Vestris, either. The time is here when the head of the family can go out and lie in a flatboat all night in a drizzling rain to shoot ducks, and then come home and sit in a draft five minutes and catch cold. A bride in Russia is supposed to kiss every guest at her wedding. That’s unfair, unless the guests bring a map. Chicago is planning a subway. Business men have grown tired of wearing steel helmets riding the street cars to and from work. Zaro Agha, 155-year-old Turk, is seeking an American wife. Who said age dims the fighting spirit?

Mt. Etna has been erupting. Probably the shock caused by part of the solid south voting Republican. Dietz on Science —— Heatens Yield to Galileo No. 221 A CHILD at play invented the telescope, according to one story. The boy was the son of Hans Lippershey, sometimes called Jan Lippershey also. The year was 1608 or 1609. Lippershey was a spectacle maker in Middleburg, Holland. The boy was playing in his father’s shop. He held two lenses up, one in front of the other. They made a distant church steeple seem close. The father saw the advantage of the boy’s discovery and made a telescope by mounting two lenses in a tube.

James Metius of Aldmaar. But no one in Holland seemed to have turned the telescope on the sky. It may also have been that these flrstr telescopes were so crude that they were useless for such a purpose. Galileo, in Italy, heard of the Dutch telescope. His information was not much but sufficient to enable him to work out the design of a telescope for himself. He ground the lenses himself and mounted them in an organ tube. His first telescope magnified about three times. His second one was better, giving a magnification of about eight times. His third telescope gave a magnification of about thirty-three diameters. It was this that he made the great astronomical discoveries which immortalized his name. Incidentally, however, it should be remembered that Galileo’s work in physics and on the laws . on motion was quite as important as anything he ever did with the telescope. Galileo’s telescope revealed at once that the markings on the moon were mountains and valleys. He thought he saw seas also but we know now that they were only great flat plains. His telescope also revealed four moons revolving around Jupiter and the fact that Venus went through phases like our own moon. It showed him also that Saturn was unusual in appearance, but his telescope was not powerful enough to reveal the system of rings around Saturn. The age of astronomical discovery began when Galileo turned his little telescope on the heavens.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “There Were All Kinds of Arguments We Might Have Raised as to Why We Should Not Engage in Near East Relief Work . . 7 Am Proud of America Because She Turned a Deaf Ear to Those Arguments.

HAVING proved our prosperity, if not our gratitude by consuming large quantities of turkey, paying as much as S3O a piece for football tickets and going through other extravagant motions, it might be just as well to give the other side of the ledger a passing glance. All people are not as well off as we are. More than that, and in spite of the great progress we have made in the abolition of poverty, our blessings still are distorted by a somewhat unequal distribution. We certainly have not arrived at such a happy state in this work as to lack opportunity for intelligent and worthwhile giving. There is poverty right here in America, and there is vastly more of it out yonder—poverty that cannot be remedied for those concerned, except through immediate assistance. tt tt tt ‘Organized’ Charity Some folks quarrel with charity, because as they say, it promotes indigence. Frequently it does. Frequently, people would be better off if they were made to work. It is entirely proper to keep that aspect of the situation in mind, to be careful, if not cold-blooded in our donations. It Is entirely proper to insist on reliable and accurate information oefore we get too enthusiastic. That is why we have the exports, so-called, the overhead, the system, the organization, and why all of the dollar donated does not reach the source of trouble. If all the dollar donated did reach the source of trouble, more of it might be wasted, or go in the wrong direction. Instances constantly arise where the experting and systematizing has been overdone. They are more than offset, however, by other instances where lack of supervision has led to a kind of charity, which, though generous, does more harm than good. a tt a Help Near East Near East relief work was organized some twelve years ago. During that time the American people have contributed $105,000,000. According to those in charge, this money has saved 1,600,000 people from starvation and taken care of 133,000. orphans. More than 32,000 orphans remain to be fed, clothed and trained until they can look out for themselves. The executive committee estimates that this will require $6,000,000, or about $l9O per child. Next Sunday contributions will be asked for in the churches of this country. If you think you can spare a dollar, a dime, or even a nickel for such work, put it in the box.

It Was Worth It There has been more or less criticism of the Near East Relief work. Some have wondered why we should have taken it upon ourselves in the first place. Others have complained at the overhead, still others have suggested that it involves too much religious propaganda. I refuse to argue such points. Maybe they contain an element of truth and maybe they do not. No one has offered a better plan, and no one will deny that some kind of plan was needed. More than that, no one will deny that America was in a better position to put up the money than any other nation. We could have sat down and let them starve, of course. We could have said that it was none of our business, that there was enough need at home for all the money we could spare. We could have hidden behind the excuse that interference might embarrass our relations with some foreign country. Indeed, there were all kinds of arguments we might have raised as to why we should not engage in Near East relief work. For one, I am proud of America, because she turned a deaf ear to those arguments. Even if half the $105,000,000 had been frittered away, which it has not, we still could look back on the work with satisfaction. It is not such an empty privilege* to recall that a couple of million people are alive today, because of this country’s decent concern as to their welfare. We are no worse off materially, whether we are better off spiritually. If that $105,000,000 had not gone to Asia minor, the probabilities s,re that it would have gone for allday suckers, chewing gum, lip sticks or movies. a an Always Extravagant Os course, we make mistakes when we go forth on a grand scale to help other people. Os co.urse, we engage in a lot of bombast. Os course, we develop organizations that are larger and more expensive than the need calls for. But is there any phase of our activity in which the same thing is not true? When we complain of Buch things, we are complaining of faults peculiar to charity enterprises, and if not, why bother to make so much of them? We are an extravagant people, chiefly because we can afford to be, but we are no more extravagant in relief work than in football. Making due allowance for that aspect of the situation does it seem a bad investment to save human beings from starvation at the rate of S6O a head, or to clothe, feed and train orphans at the rate of $l9O a year? It might have been done cheaper, perhaps, but measured by the standards and costs to which we. are accustomed, does it not seem cheap enough. ,

The story is a good one. But alas, like many good legends, it is n one too well authenticated. There does not seem any doubt, however, that Lippershey was one of three Dutchmen who all invented the telescope independently in about the same year. The other two were Zacharias Jansen of Middleburg and

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BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. human beings seldom resemble each other exactly. Some some of us are tall, other short: some others are broad, others narrow; some have powerful muscles, others long, thin muscles. It is possible by training and care

to develop tissues which would otherwise tend to weakness. In a consideration of the changes in posture during childhood. Drs. Sweet, Watson and Stafford emphasize the fact that the tall, slender, long-muscled, loose-jointed

THANKSGIVING day is over. Some gave thanks, while others gave the home team's yell. Some had a feeling of gratitude, while others had a feeling of indigestion. n n n Lindbergh should give the rest of us a copy of his itinerary, so we will not visualize him, clinging to the side of a mountain, amid a mass of wreckage, as we did when he was reported missing. And he should carry a parachute; one saved his life not long ago and one might do so again. n n n It is eminently proper for the state to attach a heavy tax to estates such as those of Ryan and Whitney, for the country that enables them to amass great wealth and then protects it for them, is entitled to consideration. n n n A Long Island judge sentenced a young man to ten years in Sing Sing for stealing a prayer book and two fountain pens from a parochial school, yet the political grafters, ponvicted of stealing millions in sewer construction in the same community, were given only a year. If you would steal, steal enough to appeal to the imagination! n n n After reading of the terrible storm the Hoover party went through on the way to South America, those who have criticised them for going on our strongest superdreadnaught should pull in their horns. U tt tt The great uncertainty as to whether John Barrymore had been detached from his second one when he annexed his third one suggests the crying need of greater safeguards in Hollywood’s rapidly expanding matrimonial industry. The traffic at the intersection of Orange Blossom avenue and Divorce boulevard is becoming so terrific the signals should be changed, making the caution signal much longer. n n n By having it at , 2:24 a. m., the management of the recent eclipse of the moon arranged the performance for the exclusive benefit of the people of New York City.

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Training and Care Help Develop Tissues

Question —When do the first permanent teeth appear? Answer—The first permanent teeth are the first molars, whtch usually come in at the age of 6 years. The next permanent teeth are the incisors which appear from the seventh to the eighth years.

Reason

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

person is more likely to slump into bad posture than the shorter, better muscled person. Men in these modern times who are of medium build get along better than those who are hampered by too powerful muscles or too short tendons. The development of good posture is influenced by many factors, including habits of standing, walking and sitting, the wearing of bad shoes or short * socks, sleeping in beds that sag, sitting in badly built chairs. The California investigators have pointed out that every norrmal infant is bow-legged, and that its legs straighten when it begins to walk, providing it has had proper diet and sunlight. Few mothers realize this and begin to worry at once following the birth of the child as to whether or not it is going to be bow-legged. When the child begins to stand, it is likely to stand with the feet well separated and with the knees locked, so. as to maintain its balance.

By Frederick LANDIS

LET the outside world take heed, for the women of China are cutting off their flowing locks. Foreign powers long have played horse with the men of China, but there’s" not enough power on earth to hold in subjection two hundred million women after they’ve had their hair bobbed.

Spades are trumps and South has the lead. North and South must win three of the five tricks against a perfect defense. S—A-10 H-K-5-4 D—None C—None ! NORTH S—None S—Hone H h-A-Q----5 lO O —Q 5 2 o—lo-6 C—K4 C—None SOUTH S—l H— 9-7-6-2 D—None C-SNone LAY out the cards on a table, as shown in the diagram and study the situation. See if you can find a method of play that will give North and South threfe of the five tricks. The solution is printed herewith.

The Solution

TWO or three days ago we spoke of the old maxim—“ Cover an honor with an honor.” We said that it was frequently heard but should not always be practiced. Today we have a puzzle Which brings up another old rule—“ Third hand, high.” And again, an exception occurs. South leads a heart and North plays low, East winning the trick. East is now in a rather bad position. If a heart is led, North is bound to make the king good and then take two tricks in trumps. If East leads a diamond, South trumps and North discards a heart, winning the last two tricks with his trumps.

When it begins to walk, it attempts to maintain this posture of stability. For the first three years of its life, therefore, the infant tends to be knock-kneed. After 3 years of age the knockknees disappear, provided that they are not a permanent inherited family characteristic, that the shoes that it wears do not tend to prolong the condition, and that its diet contain sufficient bone and muscle building material so that bone and muscle weakness will not prevent normal growth. It has been emphasized also' that fatigue and faulty rest conditions tend to maintain bad posture. An infant spends most of his time lying in bed. Often succeeding children use the same cribs that were used by older members of the family and fittle attention is paid to the necessity for modifying and renovating the crib for the newcomer. A sagging, soft mattress or spring serves to distort the body and prevent the development of good posture.

THANKS AND THINGS tt a m TEN Y r EARS FOR PENS STEAL MUCH IF ANY

THE late King Ben Purnell’s bodyguard has just been killed in an automobile accident near Grapd Beach, Mich. The tide of fortune has been running against those associated with royalty, aver since the World war. u tt tt Senator Capper of Kansas told a New York City audience that the people of the Mississippi valley were rising to register their approval of the Kellogg anti-war treaty. The few Who remember it are for it, but there hasn’t been such a wholesale getting up that anybody nas felt it necessary to yell “Down in front!”

If North had played his king on the first trick, defeat would have then been apparent. Generally speaking, however, “third hand high” is a good rule to follow. But many players make the mistake of believing that this should always be done, when frequently it should not.

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NOV. 30,1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY (Copyright, Newspapers, \XT ASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Vis- * count Cecil’s declaration that Great Britain should agree to complete naval equality with the United States is expected to lessen the strain in Anglo-American relations. This evidence that some English conservatives, as well as the iiberal and labor parties, are in sympathy with the American proposal for “cruiser parity” revives hope that the disarmament deadlock Is not complete, as feared here since the Anglo-French agreement disclosures. Cecil’s plea, made before the League of Nations union in London, follows a similar statement in support of the American position by Lord Lee, a delegate to the Washington naval conference of 1921. Cecil was chiefly responsible with Woodrow Wilson for organizing the league. He resigned from the British tory cabinet a year ago, following collapse of the Coolidge Geneva naval conference. At that time he explained that he was out “of sympathy with the instructions I received” as a delegate to the Geneva conference. The liberal and labor parties have spent much of the three weeks since parliament opened in attacking the Baldwin government for its “secret” revival of the “entente” with France in violation of the spirit of the Locarno pacts for European security, and in disregard of United States naval limitation policy. Both parties have indicated they will make the necessity of a naval agreement with the United States and General improvement of AngloAmerican relations a major issue in the spring campaign preceding the .'iune elections. a tt a TJRESSURE from Cecil and Lee, in addition to almost unanimous press demands and effective attacks of the two opposition parties, is expected to be reflected in British government policy, regardless of whether the present tory party is unseated by the elections, as some predict. It is considered significant that Cecil went farther than advocacy of theoretic equality of the Britsh and American navies, which is open to many different interpretations. He specified mathematical equality in tormafce and guns. That is, of course, precisely what the United States has been urging all along. Great Britain accepted such mathematical parity in capital ships at the Washington conference of 1921, but then refused to limit cruisers and other auxiliary craft on the same basis. She has refused ever since. Her refusal has contributed to the annual failure of the League of Nations’ disarmament commission. Her refusal oroke up the Coolidge threepower conference at Geneva a year and a half ago. The argument of the British government is that mathematical equality means in fact American superiority, because Britain has longer trade routes to protect and because she needs rriny small-type cruisers In contrast to America’s need for a few large cruisers. tt u n 'T'HE recent Anglo-French naval agreement, which the Washington government rejected with such vigor, proposed to limit the large type cruisers needed by the United States and to leave entirely unlimited the British type cruisers, and submarines, in which France is especially interested. That Anglo-French move resulted in deflating much of the European and American hope rising from the Kellogg “anti-war” pact. More specifically it resulted in President Coolidge’s unusually sharp warning to Europe in his Armistice day address, and in the administration decision to enact the fifteen-cruiser bill before ratifying the Kellog pact. The action of Representative Britten of Chicago last Monday, in cabling a proposal to Premier Baldwin for a naval conference in Canada of committees from congress and parliament, has increased rather than diminished the already great confusion in Anglo-American relations. But the Cecil declaration has had the opposite effect. An added reason for the satisfaction here over Cecil is his statement that the British government should be able to meet the United States’ traditional demand for freedom of the seas, or the rights of neutral shipping in war time.

240 pounds; be not less than 18, nor more than 40 years of age for enlistment as a private; able to speak, read and write the English language with ease, native born or naturalized citizen of the United States. If under 21 years of age, the consent of parents or guardians must be obtained. He must pass a rigid physical examination. What is the best and easiest way to remove the skin from walnuts? Put them in boiling water and let them remain for about five minutes. Then let cold water run over them for a minute or two and the skins will come off easily if they are rubbed between fingers or between towels. Are any two human beings exactly alike? Bloligists say that no two human beings are exactly alike.

Daily Thought

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lioness, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.—Nahum 2:12. nan HENCE it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished—Machlavelll.