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Sign It Today Hundreds of thousands of citizens are joining in the movement Jo impress the senate with the very earnest desire of this country for permanent peace. That is what the great vote being conducted by the Scripps-Howard newspapers means. It is the opportunity for the private citizen to register his will and wish on this matter. It will do a very great deal to impress the peoples of other lands with the real spirit of friendship on the part of our people generally. The senate is putting the miscroscope upon the Kellogg treaty. It is looking for flaws and trying to And reasons for rejection. Our jieople, who abhor war and know that conflict becomes less probable when all talk in terms of friendship, want action. What a glorious expression of Christmas spirit it would be if this country were to announce to the world that it has Christ and human brotherhood in its heart and is ready to follow His teachings. One way to bring this about is to sign your name to the coupon and put yourself on the side of peace and friendship. Our Justice Mill As might have been suspected, the legal profession as a whole showed no great zeal for a movement within its own body for reforms in the municipal courts. Asa matter of fact, very many abuses in the handling of crime would disappear if aid and assistance were refused by lawyers. The police courts, as the committee rightly says, are the most important courts in this city. Into them were brought last year 35,000 persons charged with some sort of offense. In these courts the attitude of very many citizens toward all government is formed. Perhaps the most drastic criticism that could be made of either courts or the police department was the declaration of the committee that there is a lack of harmony because of lack of respect by these two branches of city government for each other. These two forces, in daily contact with each other, are declared by the lawyers’ committee to have no confidence in each other. If that be true, it can not be expected that the public generally will have any large amount of confidence in either of these forces. The committee found one source of outrage that could and should be most easily corrected, if the bar association has the moral courage to discipline its own members and disbar those members who use their profession to shield what in other circumstances would be blackmail. The professional bondsman with his lawyer partner is declared to be a source of injustice. A person arrested after dark and not wishing to spend a night in jail that is pronounced insanitary and inadequate. easily gets the name of a bondsman who is hanging around the corridor. The bondsman brings in his lawyer and the fee charged is for both bondsman and lawyer. While the professional bondsman is a cause and a source of this petty outrage, there is another side to the matter that is important. The lawyers say there are too many arrests for petty offenses, made at night, that put the citizen arrested to unnecessary trouble. That suggests that perhaps the influence of the bondsman does not begin and end with offers to furnish a lawyer who can whisper into the ears of courts. Os course, having received a report made by a committee which has studied the matter, the lawyers as a body promptly forget the recommendations made by its members. The profesisonal bondsmen will continue. There will be no changes that will give the public confidence in the courts or other branches that now have no confidence in each ether. The same old game of extortion through perfectly legal means will continue. The committee which found the disorderly conditions in the police courts might continue its good work by presenting charges against any lawyer who becomes a partner in the practices that are so distinctly against the public welfare and which are destroying confidence of the public not only in these courts, but in law itself. A Noble Experiment The neighboring state of Michigan embarks upon another noble experiment when it sentences the mother of ten children to life imprisonment. She did not murder her children. Her offense consisted in being caught for the fourth time by prohibition officers. Just what happened to the men to whorp she sold the liquor is not as yet revealed. Rather, it is disclosed that nothing at all happened to them. Os course, the woman should not have sold any liquor, especially in Michigan, which is so near to Canada. She should have left that to those who with impunity and perhaps immunity send their flotillas across the river, loaded with booze. But it may be well to look beneath the surface of this dramatic sentence and to discover, if possible, the reasons behind the acts which made this woman an habitual criminal and which lodges her, if the sentence is carried out, behind bars for the rest of her life. When a woman has a family of ten children, she comes to understand something of the problems of providing food, shelter and clothing for so large a brood. It is very certain that she found in her own community, as in every community for that matter, there dare those who will purchase liquor banned by law. She could, without any inquiry at all, discover that the most profitable business today is to supply the demands of a citizenship which regularly votes for prohibition. If there were not a very general demand, by those who have money and can afford it, for alcohol and poisons masquerading as liquor, she could not have continued in business long enough to be caught four times. Sensing this demand and looking at her hungry children, she was primitive enough to let her mother

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love overbalance both her respect and fear of the law and got the money In what is now the easiest way. To violate that law requires the assistance of some other person. She could not have sold unless some one bought and certainly no one will quarrel with the proposition that the purchaser of liquor is as much a violator of the law, if not a worse offender, than the man or woman who sells it. For while it is true that no one could buy if there were no one to sell, it is equally true that the bootlegger exists only because there are many who wish to buy. The life sentence for the bootlegger, even though she be the mother of ten, is a logical extent to which the law must go, if the prohibition laws are to be enforced. There is another law which will also be necessary if the noble experiment is to be worked out by metnods of punishment; rather than the slower processes of death by poisoning for all violators for a policy of education which will produce a generation of those who do nol want alcohol. That must be life imprisonment as habitual criminals for those who patronize the bootleggers. If public conscience, which seems intent on regarding the Volstead act and the Wright law in this state as inspired edicts, equal if not superior to the Ten Commandments as a moral guide, is logical, th| patrons as well as the mothers of ten will join her in her prison. But perhaps there will come a time when the nation will face all the facts and discover that life sentences for women are not the only methods of regulating appetites and human conduce. Bootlegging exists because it offers large profits. It exists because of a chance to make money easily. More practical than life sentences would be some scheme which would eliminate profits from this business. which runs into hundreds of millions of dollars each year and which is slowly, but surely demoralizing the nation. Why More Judges? According to Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt’s figures, 55,729 criminal prosecutions for violations of liquor laws were begun by the government during the last year, while for all other violations of federal law put together but 49,338 cases were initiated. From this it appears that the main activity of the department of justice is in enforcing the Volstead act, or that enforcing prohibition with the strong arm of the law is the principal business of the United States government. Federal district courts are all cluttered up with prohibition business, district courts have been dragged down to the level of the old-time police courts, and there is a demand ior more federal judges appointed to office for life. Not only has there been a jamming of federal courts, but there has been a marked fall in the character of judicial appointments, due largely to the fact that, beginning with the Harding administration, the Anti-Saloon League lobby, headed by the late Wayne B. Wheeler, wielded a dominant influence in picking federal judges. The principal qualification, of course, was fanatical zeal for the prohibition cause and not judicial mindedness. This is true also of state judges, where the AntiSaloon League was able to pick its own Governors and legislatures. The character of federal judges probably will have to get worse before it gets better. The prohibition forces still control the United States senate and the best lawyer in the United States couldn’t get by that body if the various prohibition lobbies shouldn’t be entirely satisfied with his fanaticism on thtir pet law. So long as that js true, it isn’t safe to increase the number of federal judges, for they will stay on the bench for life. If prohibition is enforced, as promised by the party in power for the next four years, there won’t be much, if anything, for the extra judges to do when prosecutions cease and the federal dockets are cleared of Volstead offenders.

David Dietz on Science

Stars Keep Time for Us

No. 232

AMONG the famous observatories in America are the United States Naval observatory at Washington, the Yerkes observatory, near Chicago, the Yale observatory at New Haven and the Leander McCormick observatory of the University of Virginia. The Naval observatory was founded about the same time that the Harvard observatory was founded, and began its activities in 1845. It has been concerned

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upon it, among them the keeping of accurate time. For the world’s clocks are set by means of observations of the stars made at such places as the Naval observatory in this country, the Greenwich observatory in England, the Paris observatory in France, and so on. Other important work has been done at the Naval observatory outside the field of positional astromony. Dr. Asaph Hall discovered the two moons of Mars with the observatory’s twenty-six-inch refractor. The Yerkers observatory owns the forty-inch refractor, the largest telescope of this type in the world. Like the thirty-six-inch refractor of the Lick observatory, it was built by the Warner & Swasey Cos.; of Cleveland. C. T. Yerkes, one of the early railroad magnates of Chicago, endowed the Yerkes observatory. The Yerkes observatory grew into fame under the direction of Dr. George Ellery Hale. Dr. Hale later left this observatory to build the Mt. Wilson observatory of which- he is now honorary chairman. He is also the chairman of the committee which will build the new 200-inch telescope for the California Institute of Technology. Dr. E. E. Barnard, who became famous for his photographs of the planets, the dark nebulae and the Milky Way, did much of his work at the Yerkes observatory. The rapid advance of astronomy today is the result of the many fine observatories in existence. Future progress depends, chiefly of course, upon great astronomers. But great astronomers cannot work today without adequate telescopes and other equipment.

M. E. • TRACY SAYS: “Bolivia and Paraguay Would Be at War Today if Left to Themselves”

T~vELEGATES from forty countries gather at Washington to discuss the problems and progress of aviation. The first man to fly is still young enough not only to be present and enjoy it, but to play the part of a leader. Thus swiftly are new and revolutionary ideas woven into the' structure of civilization. On Dec. 16, 1903, there was not one in a million who believed men would ever fly. Now there is not one in a million who looks on flying as queer, curious or out of place. Inventions and discoveries have not only brought us improvements, but have wrought a change in our attitude. Instead of fearing them, as our forefathers did, we have come to regard them as constituting the most worth while objects of human existence. Such an attitude bespeaks anew and wider faith in human nature. We no longer distrust intelligence, education or originality. , ana Airplanes and Peace President Coolidge opens the international air conference by hailing aviation as "an aid to world amity.” Who doubts it? In spite of ali the deadly work done by airplanes on the battle front, who doubts that they promise more for peace than for war? Whatever enables men to see more of each other and know each other better makes for friendship. Isolation, with its localized interest and prejudices, is and always has been the worst breeder of strife. Isolation not only permits people to hate without cause, develop enmities without reason and think of conflict without realizing its cost, but closes the door to outside and unbiased opinion. Bolivia and Paraguay would be at war today if left to themselves. As it is, they not only find the whole civilized world watching them, but giving them good advice. The chances are they will think better of it before allowing temper to carry them too far. # a o Book of Corn Stalks A book has been published with paper made from com stalks, which promises quite as much by way of farm relief as any law congress could pass. Waste has been the farmers’ bane, especially in Connection with such crops as com, wheat, oats and cotton. Speaking roughly, the farmer ha; to throw away three tons-of straw for every ton of grain he markets. As one farmer said, “grain would not be so bad if it wasn’t for the straw.” Millions of tons of straw have contributed much to put the corn belt where it is. Realizing this those interested in the agricultura problem have spent much time and thought trying to discover ways to make use of straw. The effort has not been barren of results. Strawboard has come into being, and now there are prospects that straw paper will follow. a a a Tragedy Invention's Mother Tragedy, as well as necessity, can mother invention. You remember the submarine S-4 and her sistership, the S-51; how they sank in collision; how everyone waited in breathless suspense th’e first few days, while crews and equipment were being assembled for rescue work; how hope gradually gave way, and how, in the end, it was months before the sodden tombs could be made to give up their dead. Grim details both, and many another like them coming from overseas, but not so grim as to daunt or discourage human ingenuity. The S-4 patched up and prepared for the purpose, was towed into New London, Wednesday, where she will be used in a series of experiments to test several new safety devices. Later she will be taken to Key West for still more experiments. All of which, should make a good story. a a a Ten Flasks —What of It? Sing Sing prisoners staged a performance of "No, No, Nanette” Tuesday night. One thousand people came to see, "listen and applaud.” They were searched by guards, as is the custom, and ten flasks were discovered. Warden Lewis E. Lawes says that is no more than might be expected from any theater-going audience of similar size. He is probably right. The chances are that if alienists were to examine an audience of I, whether at Sing Sing, the theater, a football game, or even in church, they would find ten morons. It is pretty hard to gather 1,000 people anywhere, or from any particular class, without finding ten who do not rate very high in one respect or another. an a Doubting the Evidence On the same evening that the Sing Sing audience yielded its ten flasks, 350 men assembled at the Hotel Suburban in East Orange, N. J. to honor Mayor Martens, who has just been elected for his sixth term. J. William Hatt, proprietor of the hotel, says it was the first gathering of its kind he can recall “without one drop of liquor.” Other people may have better, or different memories, but what Hatt says ought to go into the record along with the rest. If anything, too much of the testimony being offered with regard to prohibition is coming from one side. We hear vastly more about drinking and drunkenness than we do about people who keep sober. There are such people, you know. Personally, I still doubt the wisdom and effectiveness of the present law, but I doubt some of the evidence being submitted against it even more.

mainly with what is known as positional astronomy, that is, the exact determination of the location of heavenly bodies. Astronomers divide the sky up imiginary lines of latitude and longitude. The exact determination of star positions is extremely important. Many things depend

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Editor’s Note: This is the last of a series of three articles on Industrial Poisons. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal ot (he American Medical Association and of Hygela. the Health Magazine. ABOUT 1870 much attention was given to the sufferings of makers of matches, particularly the sowhite phosphorus was employed. Since that time laws have been passed in pratically all civilized

THROUGH the smoke of the armament factories you still can see the lips of the international prima donnas moving, but you can't hear their hymn of peace for the tumult of military preparations. The nations signed the Kellogg treaty to abstain from war, thinking they were fooling one another; for one brief hour they passed thd loving oup>, since which time they i have all been shooting at it. • # * B We are not suprised that the treasury department’s suit against Senator Couzens for back taxes winds up by the department’s giving him a million-dollar rebate, for the government usually comes out the little end of the horn when it tackles a rich man. The next time Uncle Sam approaches one of the golden species he should disguise himself as a piano tuner and walk briskly. BUB It’s natural for Governor Smith to want to keep his zoological garden, but his oflice hours will have to be brief if he keeps those six dogs and walks all of them around the block. b a a Instead of trying to censor the conversation of newspaper correspondents in Washington to keep them from calling him nicknames, Mr. Hoover should aspire to win the people until they do this very thing. nan A device made at Ohio State university measures applause, but what the orators want is a device that will provoke it. a a a Mr. Rockefeller tells the world that friends are better than riches, but they are much more demonstrative when one has the coin. a a a Count Felix Von Luckner, who commanded the sea raider, Seeadler, during the World war and now lecturing to capacity audience in the United States is about the only German who has been able to cash in his part in the late unpleasantness. a a a A memorial committee has been appointed to erect busts to departed brewers in New York and Chicago. On these busts should be carved the line “They put themselves out of business by trying to run the country.” a a a No matter how Bolivia and Paraguay may hate each other, it was very bad form for them to start the shooting while Mr. Hoover’s goodwill expedition was right in the neighborhood.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?—Amos 3:3. ana NOTHING can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. —Emerson.

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How Radium Poisoned Watch Painters

Question —How much calwater injurious to health? Answer—Milk is one of the most abundant sources of cal'clum. Sour milk cheese, such as cottage cheese, contains less calcium than rennet cheese, such as Swiss cheese. Swiss cheese has fourteen times as much qalcium as cottage cheese.

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countries prohibiting the use of this substance, and in 1906 French chemists developed a form of phosphorus which was without danger. As late as 1923, however, in China, manufacture was still going on with the old process and there were at times at least twenty-eight match factories in China in which workers suffered from the terrible degeneration of the jaw bone associated with phosphorus poisoning, and called by the workers "phossy-jaw.” In 1925 China finally prohibited the use of this dangerous material. Cases in America In the meantime, however, cases of a similar type have appeared, in the United States due to the use of radium salts in the painting of luminous watch dials. In one factory cases of degeneration of the jawbone occurred because the workers used a luminous paint made visible by activa-

By Frederick LANDIS

’ 'p'HE International Livestock A Show gave C. Edison Smith of Montana a cup for being the champion wheat grower of the United States, but they should have given him anew fountain pen to renew notes with.

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BY FABYAN MATHEY Spades are trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win all four tricks, against a perfect defense. , $-9 U—6 I)—None C—6-2 NORTH 9-8-7 . S—s H—None w to ’ H—A D—None 5 5 D—Q C—s-3 C—4 SOUTH j S—Q-4 •H-K . D—None C—9 LAY out the cards on a table, a shown in the diagram, an study the situation. See if you cai find a method of play that will giv< North and South all of the tricks. The solution is printed herewith

The Solution

THIS is not a difficult puzzle. But it illustrates the value of practical foresight in bridge. South must get rid of his losing heart. He opens with his club and then leads his low trump. North wins the trick, and on North’s lead of the six of clubs, South discards his heart. The queen of trumps now wins the remaining trick. If the opening lead is a trump,

This Date in U. S. History

December 13 1775—Continental Congress voted to build thirteen war frigates. , 1893—House of Representatives passed a bill to admit Utah as a state. 1912 —Government assumed control of all wireless stations in this territory.

fjon with 20 per cent radium and 80 per cent mesothorium. In painting the numerals on the watch dials, the girls were in the habit of pointing the camel hair brushes with their lips. In every case in which degeneration of the jawbone had occurred, the girls ha i followed the occupation for three years or more. The regular absorption of radium into the body over long periods of time also results in changes in the blood and in general symptoms. In his consideration on industrial poisons before the International Conference on Industrial Accident; and Occupations. Sir Thomas Olivei emphasized particularly the importance of constant study of the hazard involved in any new industry. Modern technic of investigation of the blood will reveal these changes frequently long before they become even slightly noticeable to the person concerned.

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WE never realized the speed at which we are going until reading of these western twins who were born in different states. a a a The appointment of these six counsellors to do King George’s work was a delicate compliment to the monarch, inasmuch as any good notary public could handle it. a a a Secretary Wilbur states that the navy needs men. It also needs cruisers and guns and target practice, but aside from these things it is in good condition.

the heart trick must ultimately be lost—and North will “go to bed” with his high but utterly useless six of clubs. And the high trump opening, as well as that of the heart, obviously means defeat.

The name and address ol the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words wiU receive oreference. Editor Times: People who produce. and depend on their labor for a living, are not concerned about what the stock markets are doing. A news item about the purchase of $500,000 seat on the stock exchange ,‘sn’t interest the working people, aat interests the large number of jnest toilers is employment, that hey may earn a living and not tramp to and fro, depending on charitable missions and organizations. Deplorable conditions of want can be observed nightly at the Salvation Army hotel, 26 South Capitol avenue. Truly, many of the world’s workers and their families are feeling the pinch of this wonderful prosperity we read about. ALBERT HEATH. When did the steamship General Slocum sink in the East River in New York^L It caught fire while passing through Hell Gate on June 15, 1904, and sank with the loss of 1,021 lives. How are human and animal blood distinguished? By means of odor, specific gravity and shape of corpuscles. What is the value of a round California gold half dollar, with Liberty stars, dated 1852? From $1 to $1.50. Where is the Entomological News published and what is the subscription price? It is published monthly at 1900 Race street, Philadelphia, Pa. The yearly subscription is $3.

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Mission of , Woman in World

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON UPON the question of woman’s proper place in the twentieth century world, we seldom keep our mental balance. Our enthusiasms have such a way of running away with our good sense. Champions of individual freedom clamor so loudly that inexperienced girls are in danger of thinking that all marriage and home life is slavery for women. And those who fear the destruction of the American home are equally noisy in their assertions that the only place for us is in the kitchen. The poor maiden who is trying to shape her life thus is torn between two prejudiced points of view. But there is a safe middle ground. God grant that our girls can keep to it! In spite of the natural desire of the individual for liberty, the truth remains that the average woman always will find her greatest) happiness in. the age-old occupations of her sex—home-making and child-bearing. Fighting these, she fights nature, and that always is a losing battle. However, it is distinctly foolish to declare that girls should not seek careers, that they should not be educated for the professions or taught to earn their living. For it is possible.for women, as well as men, to find contentment anti pleasure in work. Love and marriage, home and children mean the same things, es sentially, to men as they mean tfi women. And I for one do not believe that any man ever attains MS fullest happiness without them. And 1 am sure that women do not. But unfortunately life does nol pour out her best gifts into the lap of each mortal. Some of the most splendid men and women in the nation are unmarried. And they are not bowed down with misery, so there’s really no sense In going about feling sorry for them. They manage, in spite of the pessimists, to garner a modicum of pleasure out of existence. Neither should we cultivate gray hairs by worrying over the mistakes of the women. The urge for careers may be great, but the urge for babies goes deeper. America Is not in danger. She has more comfortable, middle-class homes, presided over by comfortable, middle-class women, than any other nation under the sun.

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You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Wahlngton. D. 0.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All ether questions will rectlve a persona) reply, nsigned requests catonot be answered. All letters are confidential You are cordially invited to make use of this service. How can wrinkled parchment be made smooth? Place it face down upon clean blotting paper. Beat up to a clear froth with a few drops of clove oil, the whiteness of several fresh eggs and with the fingers spread this over the back of the sheet, rub it in until the parchment becomes smooth and yielding. Spread the parchment out as smooth as possible, cover with oil silk and press for a day. Remove the silk and cover with a linen cloth and press with a warm iron. Has Mars any moons? Mars has two satellites, or moons, discovered by Hall in 1877. They are very small and visible only through powerful telescopes. The inner satellite, Phobos, revolves around the planet at a distance of only 3,760 miles from its surface in 7 hours 39 minutes, which is less than one-third of the Martian day. The outer satellite is called Deimos; its period of revolution is 30 hours 18 minutes and its distance from the surface of Mars is 12,500 miles. What is the definition of life? Standard dictionary says it is the vital principle; the principle of power scientifically assumed as the rational explanation of the facts or organic existence and development, embracing the origin and growth of living beings and the phenomena of metabolism in this process, their plan of growth, their constant changes with continued Identity, repair, etc. Who invented the electric incant descent lamp? It is said that Sir Humphrey Davy in 1810 discovered that thin strips of metal could be made to give light by passing an electric current through them. He did not actually produce a lamp. J. W. Starr made a lamp in 1845 in which a filament of carbon was made to glow in a vacuum. The first practical type of lamp was developed in 1879 by Thomas A. Edison. How much wood does it take to produce heat units equal to one short ton of coal? One cord of oak, hickory or heavy dry wood, one and a half cords of pitchy soft wood such as yellow pine, or two cords of soft wood have heat units equaling one short ton of coal. How long does it take the earth to revolve around the sun? It takes approximately 365% days for the earth to complete Its motion around the sun in its orbit. How can concrete be prevented from sticking to the forms? Crude oil, soft soap or whitewash should be pointed on the forms before placing concrete, and repeated each time the forms are used. Why do water pipes burst when they freeze? Because in the act of freezing water expands, and exerts sufficient pressure in the pipes to burst them Who holds the world’s balloon altitude record? Captain H. C. Gray, who ascended 42,470 feet and lost his life In the attempt. The record was obtained from his barograph.