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Congress Convenes Congress goes back to work today. All its sessions are important. This one is especially so. The nation will follow its deliberations with critical attention. Through months of campaign the people have thought, talked, lived politics. The largest popular vote ever cast jifst has disproved the myth that Americans no longer are interested in politics. The farmers look to Congress for relief. The miners and textile workers walking the streets without work want to know what congress is going to do about it. Prosperous industries are anxious that congress do nothing to jeopardize their prosperity. The. people are watching Washington as a matter of bread and butter. The people have faith in congress. They cannot afford the luxury of cynicism. They are untouched by the sophist, who sneers at its muddling methods. They know that congress 4 , with all its faults, has a better record than the executive and judicial branches of our government. In these latter years, when corruption has swaggered in the cabinet, and when the supreme court increasingly has exalted property rights above human rights, congress has been closer to the people and their liberties.^ The session' opening today is handicapped by the archaic constitutional provision which, delays until March the seating of representatives and senators elected in November. Twenty-five months have elapsed since this congress received its popular mandate. Congress is always at its worst in these lame-duck sessions, which encourage irresponsibility, filibuster, log-rolling. About the finest thing this session could accomplish would be to surprise the public by passing the Norris constitutional amendment abolishing lameduck sessions. Most of this short session will be devoted necessarily to passing the annual appropriation bills. The leader still are divided over whether to attempt complete farm relief legislation now, or wait for a special Hoover session after March 4. In connection with tariff tinkering for farmers, much jockeying is expected from the large protected industries in preparation for general tariff revision upward by the proposed special session. Hut the chief interest in this session centers on the Kellogg anti-war treaty, the cruiser bill and the Boulder dam bill. These three measures will determine major issues of foreign and domestic policy. The Boulder dam bill has become a symbol of the fight between the people and certain predatory private interests. It passed the house last session and would have passed the senate except for a filibuster. Senate ratification of the Kellogg multilateral treaty “renouncing war as an instrument of national policy’’ appears assured. The danger is that its moral value may be nullified by reservations, or that action on the treaty may be delayed for trading purposes to assure prior passage of the bill for fifteen new cruisers and one aircraft carrier. To keep faith with the American people and with other nations, the first duty of the senate is to ratify without reservations the Kellogg pact.

Friendship Across the Border The inauguration of Emilio Portes Gil as provisional president of Jdexico is a promise of peaceful development. Mexico is to be congratulated. So is the United States. Our prosperity and peace always have been affected by conditions in the neighboring republic. Gil proposes to carry on the policies of former President Calles. In his inaugural address Gil stressed three purposes. First, to lift Mexico from the mire of military dictatorships to the free constitutionalism of representative party government. Second, to raise the status of workers and farmers. Third, to co-operate with the United States on a basis of equal sovereignty. The orderly choice of Gil, a civilian, to take the place of the murdered President-Elect Obregon demonstrates the progress already made. Much of this is due to CaJles. His renunciation last September of another presidential term at any time, and his appeal for party government to supersede personal rule, were a magnificent challenge. The challenge has been effective. The people have responded. Fourteen months of Gil administration should increase Mexican prosperity and lead to another peaceful transfer of executive power by popular mandate. Gil recognizes that much depends on the attitude of the United States toward his country. On his side, he pledges continuance of the Calles-Morrow policy of friendly co-operation. Then he puts it up to us. “If there exists in the American government an equal desire to respect our sovereignty, which we must maintain whatever be the sacrifices, then the people of the United will have no reason to complain against their southern neighbors,” says Gil. We agree that this is the test of American-Mexi-can relations. # We believe the Washington government has the desire to respect Mexican sovereignty for which he appeals. We know the American people have this desire. Ex-Presidents What to do with our ex-Presidents is a question which regularly arises. Our President Coolidge, whom rumor nominates to be head of the powerful oil interests, as lobbyist, does not choose to state what he will do until he is through with his White House job. Which is his privilege. Without arrogating any undue wisdom on the subject, we just wonder why an ex-President should not run for the senate or some such office. Experience in the White House is excellent training for a legislator. He would be able to see things from new angles. In the case of Mr. Coolidge, politics is the only thing he really knows. Asa lawyer, he would be only a name. Asa lobbyist for oil, he would be a national disgrace. Asa “sage,” he would be wasted. Jefferson could fill the role of sage. He had the background. He was the outstanding exponent of a new political philosophy. He could double in archieeture or agriculture. George Washington was a real planter before he was a general or politician. In fact, ht was a better farmer and rancher than anything else. It was fitting he should retire to Mt. Vernon. He was returning to his first love. Boosevelt was restless as an ex-President. He had

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been a professional literary man before he plunged into public life. He went back to it. But he loved politics better, and with all the hunting and adventuring, he was most at home when stirring up the political waters. War and the election of Wilson did for him. William Howard Taft eked out an existence after his return to private life writing for the newspapers. Then came the crowning experience of his life, his appointment to the United States Supreme court. He always had said he would rather be a justice of that court than President. And he makes a better justice than President. In the British system a man who has been premier, which is the equivalent to our presidential office, does not hesitate to go back to a bench in parliament. Why should ours? Needed Changes Two state offices have been taken over by the candidates elected in November The change in the heads of these offices, important as are all public offices, is accomplished without attracting any attention or interest. , There will probably be a few changes in clerks and minor places to pay political debts and the work of the secretary of state and of auditor will proceed as it has been carried on in the past. Very feW citizens will come in personal or official contact with either of these offices. Yet a month ago, during the campaign, the candidacies of men for these offices helped very much to confuse and bewilder the citizen who wanted to vote for what he believed to be good government. The point to the matter is that we are getting away from real self-government by a long list of elective offices which demand nothing but honesty and efficiency from the candidate. There can be no difference in policy or principle as to the manner in which the two offices mentioned should be administered. There is no Republican way, no Democratic way, no Socialist way, these offices can be filled and the law obeyed. Yet at election time it is considered highly important that the people themselves choose ( the men who will fill these almostly exclusively clerical and perfunctory jobs. All that is required is honesty and some idea of what it is all about.. The next Legislature could do lots worse than inaugurate a movement that will really permit the people to run their government by eliminating all the confusing and unimportant factors. The shorter the ballot and the smaller the number of elective offices, the better the people will be able to vote intelligently and with discrimination. There is one other change which is imperative but will be most difficult of accomplishment. There should be a separate election for state and national officials. They should be chosen at different times and on different ballots. It is a matter of common knowledge that the incoming administration owes its election to the popularity of Hoover and the determination of a very great number of citizens not to lose their votes against Smith. That is not self-government. A short ballot and separate elections would do much to restore real government by the people. At present we have government largely by accident and conflict of fears. The municipal budget in Philadelphia contains an item of SIOO,OOO for a bureau of music. They have tc have one in Philadelphia, so that occasionally police and city officials can face it. In accordance with our pre-Christmas custom cf printing one alarming fact, the information is hereby disclosed that in Philadelphia there is a traffic patrolman named Sassie. A human being uses forty-four muscles in the act of speaking, says a medical journal. And sometimes not much else.

David Dietz on Science Saturn Tells Secrets

No. 223 THE story of the telescope is an international one. We have emphasized this point in connection with each branch of science which has been discussed in this department. It deserves no less emphasis in the case of the telescope. „ ' Discovered in Holland, first turned upon the heavens in Italy, the telescope received improvements at the hands of every nation. oN nation ever has had a monopoly on brains. The story of science is a co-operative achievement of the human race.

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man astronomer, the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner. That was in 1630. 1 The scene shifts back to Holland again for the important development of the Kepler type of telescope came at the hands of Christian Huygens. Huygens was born at The Hague in 1629. His father wanted him to study law, but his scientific leanings soon caused him to drift into the field of mathematics. He ground and polished lenses for his own telescopes and succeeded in making a fine lens with a focal length of twelve feet. That is, he built a telescope twelve feet long. With this, in 1655, he discovered Titan, the largest of the moon’s revolving around the planet Saturn. Galileo, it will be remembered, startled the world in 1610 with his discovery of the four moons of Jupiter. In 1659 Huygens succeeded in making out the rings around Saturn, announcing his discovery in a book titled “Systema Satumium.” Galileo had noticed something unique about the planet Saturn, but his little telescope had not been powerful enough to reveal the nature of the rings. Huygens also made many other interesting discoveries. , He was the first to see the famous Great Nebula in Orion. Many astronomers regard this nebula as the most inspiring sight in the whole heavens. Incidentally, Huygens did not devote all his time to astronomy. Galileo, it will be recalled, discovered the pendulum. Huygens made the first pendulum clock in 1656. He died in 16SA

T> EPRESENTATIVE FRED BRITTEN of Illinois took his pen in hand the other day and addressed a note to Premier Baldwin of Great Britain suggesting a conference between members of congress and members of parliament for the purpose of solving the naval problem. He felt that such a conference might do some good and that under no circumstances could it do worse than the diplomatic palavers of the last few years. Premier Baldwin’s reaction was not unfavorable, but “my word,” who ever heard of approaching an international problem that way? He would keep the ball rolling for the sake of sportsmanship, if for no better reason. No one should say that England fell down when it came to playing toss with such a perfectly gorgeous idea. Being unable to address the American state department because it had not addressed him. or to address Representative Britten because “the thing simply was not done,” he hit on the plan of enclosing a note to Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador at Washington, leaving it to the latter to figure out to whom the note should be delivered. n a a Game of ‘Toss' Sir Esme Howard went to the state department, as a good ambassador should, noping, no doubt, that Mr. Kellogg could give him some light, but whether Mr. Kellogg could, he did not, Mr. Kellogg knew nothing about the suggestion of a congress-parliament pow wow, that is officially. The two distinguished gentlemen were not put out with each other, of course. They were merely going through the motions that conventionality demanded unded the circumstances. In the end. Sir Esme Howard put Premier Baldwin's note in his pocket, and bowed himself out. just as he knew he would when he came in. If some member of parliament is not kind enough to intervene and answer Representative Britten's letter it seems doomed to the official waste basket. van Biggest Submarine Meanwhile, and as if to let the world know where she stands on the naval situation, without even being asked, France is getting ready to launch the biggest submarine ever built. This submarine will be named “Surcouf” in honor of a distinguished French privateer, will be 400 feet long, and have a surface displacement of 3,250 tons. That is larger than the biggest American submarine by 360 tons and the biggest British submarine by 725. The “Surcouf” will have a speed of 22 knots, will be equipped with every new safety device, will be completely covered with armor above the water line and will contain accommodations for officers and crew surpassing those hitherto provided in any similar craft. Its cost has been estimated at $8,000,000, and the French government has authorized a sister ship to be built as soon as funds are available. a a it Cause for Alarm It is only fair to say that France probably has more cause for alarm and worry than any other nation in Europe, if not in the world. Her old and supposedly defeated foe— Germany—not only is coming back fast, but Mussolini continues to show signs of a hostile attitude. Mussolini’s latest grievance is the two-year sentence imposed by a French court on the Communist who shot an Italian vice-consul in Paris, which he regards as little less than an insult to Italian pride. Even some of the French are not convinced of its entire justice, especially in view of the fact that four women recently have been sentenced to death for sex murders. * # tt What Is Italy? Whatever one may think of Mussolini, he seems to have a knack for picking real problems, as well as the courage to tackle them. Just now it is “urbanism” that challenges his attention. Italy, he believes, must be protected against the cityward rush. Unable to think of anything better, the cabinet council gave each of the ninety-two prefects in Italy power to act as he saw fit. Put in plain language, this means that the Facist government has authorized the administrative head of each district to adopt such measures as he considers necessary to prevent people who live in the country from moving to town. More regulation, more interference with personal rights, more state control of private affairs! If Russia is a great laboratory of social experiments, as we are so constantly told, what is Italy? it it a Paying the Fiddler War and rumors or war, how can people take them so complacently when they barely have begun to pay the fiddler for his last performance? In Germany, the pension roll already has reached the enormous sum of $425,000,000 a year with more than 2,000,000 persons on it and more than 200,000 trying to get there. Germany’s bill will be going up for at least fifteen years, as will that of every other nation w'hich participated in the war. Afterward, though it may begin to shrink in numbers, it will be kept up by an increase of allowances, and it will not come to an end for three or four generations. We are still paying pensions in connection with the Mexican war which ended eighty years ago.

The telescope was discovered in Holland by Lippershey. It probably was invented independently by two other Dutch experimenters. Galileo in Italy was the first man to turn the telescope upon the heavens. Kepler, a German astronomer, suggested the first important improvement in the telescope. It was first put into use by another Ger-

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Many Teeth Never Come Through

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. MANY people carry in their mouths teeth that never come through the surface of the gum. Sometimes these conditions persist for years without the slightest suspicion that they are there. However, as one grows older, these teeth may become infected or inflamed; as a result, painful conditions supervene and prompt attention is necessary. In Hygenia, Dr. M. S. Strock points out that the teeth of the child in these modern times are likely to come to the attention of the dentist and it is becoming rarer for dentists to discover unerupted teeth in adult life. Twenty years ago it was unusual for an adult to have an X-ray picture of his mouth. Now, almost every one beyond the age of 30 has such an X-ray ex-

Reason

WILL the United States senate ratify or reject the Kellogg treaty by which the leading nations agreed to abstain from war in the settlement of disputes? It makes little cr no practical difference what the senate does since the reservations of France and England have plucked the feathers from the dove. **• tt n tt Then, too. the continued military preparations of the powers which signed the treaty have given it the anemic aspect of a valentine, the only progress made being that the nations now wear lilies of the valley in their button holes while strapping greater guns to their hips. But even though France and England have skimmed the milk of international kindness, it would not advance the cause of peace to throw the weakened contents of the bucket in the face of hope. tt tt tt If John Barrymore and his bride want to be sure of their honeymoon they would better have it without delay, for these Hollywood pairs have a habit of blacking both of Cupid’s eyes before a week. a u u The fact that 7,000 young gentlemen in the United States took the domestic science course last year confirms the growing feeling thac man’s place is in the home. a u a We’re off of King Zogu of Albania, for aU time, since he discarded the girl he’s been engaged to marry for six years to marry a woman of royal blood, for the purpose of strengthening his throne. Any gent who would turn down the girl ht loved for any number of thrones is a very low order of louse. * , _ Mrs. Oldfield Is to succeed her husband, the late Arkansas congressman, which makes four of them who have entered the national lawmaking body by the calla lily route, the others being Mrs. Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs. Kahn of California, and Mrs. Langley of Kentucky. But, come to think of it, Mr. Langley is not dead; he was just sent up for violating the prohibition laws. It’s all right to send women to congress on the basis of their qualifications, but it is both sloppy and silly tb turn the house of representatives into a home for widows! tt tt tt It does not come as a great sensation to hear Warden Fogarty ol Chicago say that money will keep anybody oat of prison, for we have understood for some time that the Goddess of Justice has her eyes bandaged only because she has committed to memory all the names in Bradstreet.

Daily Thought

Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, doest thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?—Romans 2:22. # u u Trust not him .that seems a sainL-FuJia*

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

amination made at fairly frequent intervals, to make sure that infection is not present at the teeth roots. In making the X-ray picture, the presence of teeth that have not yet come through the gums will be determined. In the haphazard dentistry of the past not infrequently a tooth was broken in an attempt at extraction, and the root permitted to remain. Now the X-ray picture reveals such roots and the modern dentists promptly remove them. It used to be thought that a root left in the mouth would work itself to the surface and thus be eliminated. but experience has shown that it is difficult for the mouth to cast off such tissues and that frequently infectious matter forms at the bottom of the root with serious effects to the whole body. Asa result of evolution and the changing human diet, the need for

By Frederick LANDIS

EVER since reading about the old soldier who last year died and left an Indianapolis woman SIOO,OOO just because she stopped and picked him up in her automobile one day, we have hauled at least five thousand elderly prospects and given each one of them our card, but up to date we have drawn nothing but blanks 1

BY FABYAN MATHEY Clubs are trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win five of the six tricks against a perfect deefense.

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I AY out the cards on a table, as j shown in the diagram, and study the situation. See if you can find a method of play that will net North and South five of the six tricks. The solution is printed herewith.

MANY players, if confronted with this distribution of cards in an actual bridge game, would probably immediately concede their opponents two tricks. It is true that the situation looks none to good, with the king-jack-10

This Date in U. S. History

December 3 1775—Birthday of Gilbert Stuart, portrait painter, best known for his portraits of George Washington. 1818—Illinois admitted to the Union. 1881—Electric street lights adopted in Philadelphia. 1889—First legislature in North Dakou saeL

chewing has grown less and the jaw of man is much smaller than it was thousands of years ago. The wisdom teeth frequently fail to appear entirely, aid in many cases lie in such positions as to injure the teeth in front of them. In many instances an unerupted wisdom tooth seems to be associated with pain in the head or in the back of the neck and even with earache. Not infrequently also these teeth become associated with infection. If the denfist believes that the tooth is exerting harm in the mouth, he will be likely to recommend its removal. The x-ray picture is the modern method of surveying the condition of the teeth at any given period. Such a picture should be taken early in life and at fairly frequent intervals so complete information may be had relative to the care of the mouth.

PLUCKING TIIE DOVE tt tt o CUPID’S BLACK EYES MAN’S PLACE AT HOME

MR SHAKESPEARE'S query, “What’s in a name?” has been answered very fully by the life of the New York financier, who just died worth $300,000,000, and whose name was Thomas Fortune Ryan. a tt tt The Committee of Seventy of Philadelphia, sitxy-nine of whom probably never paid any attention to local government, favor the city manager plan, but they overlook the fact that while this may be an improvement over the partisan plan, it will not work unless the people elect the right kind of officials. No matter what you call a ship of state, it will be a pirate ship, if you let the pirates run it.

of trumps at the left of the lone ace-queen. Yet overcoming this disadvantage is not half so difficult as it may at first appear. South leads the ace of hearts, and then the jack of hearts, North discarding his losing diamond. South now leads a diamond, and North trumps. North must next lead a spade, but South, no matter whether or not East covers, discards his last diamond. And West, unfortunately, is now compelled to trump, and then to lead a trump from his minor tenace to South’s major tenace. The opening lead of a trump in this problem, or of a diamond, brings obvious defeat. If the jack of hearts is led to North’s king, North is placed in a helpless position. There is only one way to play the hand and to overcome West's advantage in trumps. What follows at a meeting when the previous question is moved? A motion to close debate and put immediately the pending question to a vote, usually made when the original motion has become submerged in a mass of amendments, is called "moving the previous question.” The motion is not susceptible to debate, and it is mandatory upon the chair to submit to a vote the question of whether the assembly wishes to vote on the pending motion or not. What would be appropriate for entertainment and gifts for a fifth wedding anniversary? Appropriate gifts would be furniture of any description and household utensils made of wood, such as bread and cake boards, rolling pin, clothes pins, steak planks, wooden spoons, chopping bowls, etc. The invitations may be written on birch bark or on fresh hardwood chips. The table should be bare and strewn with wood shavings. A little wooden box is used for the centerpiece with pansies and forget-me-nots or any available plants. The place cards are made attractive by having the name of the guest burned on chips of wood. Who is the oldest movie star? Pxobabty Lafayette, 8L _

DEC. 3, 1928

American Housewife Is Praised

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON IWANT to go out and fight somebody every time I pick up a per’odical and see another one of those essays about the incompetent, selfish, shiftless American wife. I’m all fed up on these articles about how married women are not worth their keep and what a burden they are to their excellent hard-working husbands. The folk who write these tilings probably are suffering from metropolitan myopia. They live among a small circle of career-hunting women who live in tall apartments," eat out and keep lap dogs. But please get one thing straight. This type does not constitute the entire womanhood of America. In fact, it is only a very small group. The cities have bred such women, I know, just as they have bred slickers, racketeers, bandits and ne’er-do-wells among the men. But we don’t say that all the masculine riff-raff typify American manhood, do we? i There are plenty of wives who are, not worth their keep, just as there are plenty of husbands not worth the shot to kill them with. There are multitudes of incompetent married women, just as there are multitudes of incompetent married men, men who gambit! and drink, and shift about from pillar to post and who perform none of the duties of a father. Nobody yet. has insinuated that this type makes up the typical American husband. And nobody ever will, because men never are insulted in the public prints as we are. In only one stratum of society is the American wife not worth her keep, and tljat is among the very wealthy. And she, poor soul, is the victim of circumstance. The middle class woman, the poor woman, wife of laborer, miner, farmer, bookkeeper, of the small merchant, the struggling lawyer, doctor, writer and inventor, is as fine and splendid as she can be. She keeps a budget, tends her babies, does her housework, saves, encourages her husband, and stands as an inspiring refutation of such mean charges. And I, who have been privileged to live in that part of the nation where she exists, who have seen her in countless small homes in country and city, challenge this insult to her usefulness and pay to her a tribute that her courage and industry deserves. I

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You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kcrby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave„ Wahtngton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and leßal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All ether questions will rectlve a personal reply, nsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential You are, cordially Invited to make use of thi9 service. What causes the noise when a gun is fired? How does a “silencer” work? The noise of a gun is caused by the sudden expansion of gases created by the propellent, when released in air. These gases are confined in the barrel at enormously high pressures than atmospheric. Therefore, when released, they expand and cause a steep compression wave, or what amounts to thq same thing, a noise. The principle of the silencer on a gun is the passage of exhaust gases through a dent will reduce them gradually from the high pressure they hav j upon emission, to atmospheric pressure, thus preventing, in large measure, the creation of a compression wave, or a noise. How can odors be removed from gasoline? The removal of rancid and foul odors from gasoline is generally effected with the activated carbon in various dry cleaning plants. An aqueous solution of an alkali or alkaline salt is generally used in conjunction with the carbon. Bureau of standards Technologic Paper “Reclamation of Gasoline Used m Dry Cleaning,” describes a process. This publication may be procured at 5 cents from the superintendent of documents, government printing office, Washington. What does it mean to dream of a cemetery? One interpreter of dreams says that to dream of being in a beautifully and well-kept cemetery means that the dreamer will have unexpected news of the recovery of one who had been mourned as dead: or one will have the title to lands occupied by usurpers made good. For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows that they will meet with tender ana loving responses from friends, but they will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert. What are the five leading and corn producing countries in the world? The countries which lead in the production of wheat, in order of their production are: United States, European Russia, Canada, France and India. The countries that lead in the production of corn are United States, Rus&a, Rumania, Italy and Hungary. How are sugared violets made? Make a syrup of one cup sugar and one cup water. Heat the water and sugar together until the sugar is perfectly dissolved, about six minutes. Put violets on a pin or skower and dip them in syrup while it is hot, then dust with granulated sugar. A gobd way is to have the sugar spread thin over a plate and draw the violet over it while it is still on the pin or skower. How many high school pupils are In this country? On June 30, 1924. there were 3,389,878 students in public high schools and 254,119 in private high schools. How old is Patsy Ruth Miller, thd movie actress? / • Twenty-ttuae years old.