Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1928 — Page 4

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Luck May Not Save Us Next Time If South America is saved from war and the United States from serious international embarrassment, it will be due to luck rather than foresight. Bolivia and Paraguay, after bloody border clashes and mobilization for war, are reported to have accepted the mediation offer of the Pan-American conference on conciliation and arbitration. By sheer chance, representatives of all American governments are meeting at this time and can take the quick and united action which ordinarily would have been impossible. The Bolivian-Paraguayan conflict has revealed the constant but generally ignored menace of war in the western hemisphere. It has revealed the danger of such a so-called small war, sweeping in larger neighbors, just as the Balkans in the past have set all Europe afire. It has revealed the threat to heavy trade and investment interests of the United States. But that is the least of it. I For this situation also cleaves through all the high-sounding talk about Pan-American organization, leaving the stark fact that there is no permanent fcor effective machinery for preventing war on this hemisphere. We 6tfil are in the dark ages. The result is not only the war danger, but the Mded conflict between our Pan-American chaos and Organized international society represented by the League of Nations. The United States, with its Monroe doctrine interpretations, is in the dog-in-the-manger position of lieglecting to organize this hemisphere for peace, and Os refusing to let the league do so. I. Such an organization for peace must provide not Only for outside mediation, but, as a last resort, economic pressure and penalties. Both the permanent Pan-American union and the temporary Pan-Amer-ican arbitration conference are largely impotent, because they have neither quick mediation machinery nor provision for joint economic action against an Offender. /• ' The alternative to such effective joint organization Is that one large country, for. selfish or other reasons, shall assume the role of ‘lnternational policeman.” Just as certain large South American countries were preparing to do in this emergency, and just as the United States has done in Haiti and Nicaragua. We believe that no one power should be entrusted with the policing responsibility. The act of the Pan-American conference in interfering with Bolivia and Paraguay, and their reported acquiescence to that outside interference, is heartening evidence that war at last is recognized not as the private business of disputants, but as an international matter. If such war is an international matter, then it is not only the right but the duty of the American nations to organize to insure peace by obligatory arbitration and by outlawry of aggressors and breakers of arbitration. To say that the western hemisphere Is not yet ready for such millennium is no answer. The admitted fact is that hardly -any American government successfully can defy the economic and political power of the United States, and that no American government long can ignore the combined will of the United States and the A B C powers. The United States, in the end, will have to help organize this hemisphere for peace or get out of the way and let the league do it. This Bolivian-Para-guayan fighting proves the need for immediate action. Senator Borah’s Pocket When the Kellogg treaty battle is over, we assume the treaty friends who failed for more than two weeks to send it from committee to the senate floor will explain their tactics. These tactics have all but killed the chances of ratification before Christmas, and thus given hostage to the nullificationists. But there is still time, That is, unless Senator Borah intends to carry the treaty around in his pockfet for the rest of the week, as he did yesterday after his committee reported it out. Proper legislative leadership is All that is required flow. The issue is clear. The necessary two-thirds of the senate stand with President Coolidge and the overwhelming majority of the American people for Immediate and unqualified ratification. Borah and his Associates have en easy task in obtaining a vote. This can be done without unfairness to the small opposition. The Reed-Moses minority are practically All members of the foreign relations committee, Where they have talked and filibustered for more than two weeks. Give them the rest of this week to talk on the senate floor against the treaty. Then insist on a vote. The treaty needs no defending speeches. It is its own argument. Pro-treaty speeches will help the filibuster. All the treaty needs from its senatorial triends is a vote. Fortunately the treaty came out of committee before the cruiser bill reached the senate floor. That means the treaty will be disposed of first as such an international commitment should be—unless Borah and his associates again countenance dangerous delay. The situation is plain. The treaty can be ratified without reservations this week. But if it misses this opportunity, no one knows what may happen to it. Politics and Judges Having had unusual experience in both politics and law courts, Charles Evans Hughes ought to know something about both, and also how to make their unavoidable combination work to advantage. But his most recent utterance leaves much to be desired by way of solving a vexing problem. “Our hope for the progress of the administration of justice,” says Hughes, “lies not with juries, but with conscientious, able, industrious Judges in control of the business of our courts. Let the judge keep all the power he has, and give him more, too. Get rid of the jury trials as much as possible.” Conceding the value of conscientious, able, and industrious judges, how are we going to get them on the bench until we have conscientious, able and industrious political leaders who will put that kind of men on the bench? Such men do get on the bench, to be sure, but a lot of the other kind get there, too. Even those who are both able and conscientious are not always in-

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dustrious; and some who are industrious are neither able nor conscientious. Too many get their jobs because of political activity rather than temperamental fitness for the job. It is really remarkable that the percentage of good judges is as large as it is, when you consider the politics they have to wade through to get on the bench. First, elected judges have to get a nomination from a political machine and then they have to seek the votes of the public, few members of which know anything about the candidates when they vote. Then about the time the judge gets warm in his seat he has to toddle off the bench and get busy among the politicians to secure re nomination and reelection. The more able and conscientious he is, the less he likes what he has to go through to get the job. Until we find a better way of picking able and conscientious judges, it, wouldn’t be wise for the public to give them more power or to tak fro mthe public the protection of the jury system. Even with all its weaknesses, the public is safer with the jury system than it would be with machine-made judges exercising greater power. There is nothing new in what Hughes says. It has been said many times and for many years. Appointment and election of judges is so tightly tied up with out political system that it isn't safe to grant more power to many of the political judges now on the bench. And Hughes offers no solution of the problem. If both parties to a civil suit agree to waive a Jury, or if the defendant in a criminal action is given the right to wavie a jury and submit his case to a judge, that is something entirely different. The Prohibitionists Unite Twenty-nine reform societies have united in a National Conference of Organizations Supporting the Eighteenth Amendment. It is “committed to programs covering every possible phase of prohibition and the alcohol problem.” Such well-known groups as the Anti-Saloon league, the W. C. T. U. and the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the M. E. church are Included. Funds will be raised, and conferences held in the capital annually, or when emergencies are considered to exist. The new organization, outgrowth of a similar federation opposed to the candidacy of Governor Smith, is perhaps the largest and most powerful that ever undertook to Influence national life through politics, religion, propaganda, and other means. Whether the maneuver will bring a revival of the waning political influence of the Anti-Saloon league time will tell. It is to be hoped not. The Anti-Saloon league, through its activities in recent years, perceptibly lowered the standards of American public life. The league played politics of the worst sort and through its bulldozing and interference put many inferior men in office or on the bench. It was willing to accept any person who professed to be dry and who would do its bidding. It traded and compromised, and cracked the whip, filling the courts with tyrannical and ignorant judges and the legislatures with fanatics, incompetents, and hypocrites. Anti-Saloon League puppets, put in positions of authority in connection with prohibition enforcement, brought the whole temperance movement into disrepute. With the non-political part of the conference’s program there can be no quarrel. Attempting to teach the virtues of temperance by every means is praiseworthy, and after nine years of Volsteadism there is dire need for a resumption of this endeavor. Were you aware of the fact that the reason Scotchmen never tune in their radio sets in the morning is because that’s when they broadcast the settingup exercises? Playwright Eugene O’Neill, seeking solitude, has fled from Cape Cod to Shanghai to Hawaii. He might do his work in the night clubs any time before midnight.

.David Dietz on Science

Engineer Problems Great

rrAjiE new telescope planned by the California Insti--1 tute of Technology will have a mirror twice the size of the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. The 100inch is now the world’s largest telescope. But while the proposed 200-inch telescope will be twice the size of the Mt. Wilson telescope, it will be from five to ten times as powerful. The accompanying illustration gives some idea of the comparison of the two instruments. The sketch shows the Mt. Wilson 100-inch telescope. The dotted lines superimposed on the sketch show the size of the tube of the proposed 200-inch telescope. Search is being made for a mountain top not too far distant from Mt. Wilson for the location of this

tant location is thought advisable. The 100-inch telescope costs about $600,000. The 200-inch presents so many more difficult engineering problems that its cost will run between $3,000,000 and $5,000,000, it is believed. Funds are being provided by the international education board, whose headquarters are in New York. One item will show the difficulties of building the new telescope. In a reflector, the large mirror is at the bottom of the tube. A small auxiliary mirror is placed at the top of the tube. The third largest telescope in the world has a mirror sixty inches in diameter. The so-called “small” mirror in the 200-inch telescope will be this size—sixty inches in diameter. The most difficult problem, however, will be the casting of the 200-mch mirror itself. It is planned to try fused quartz for i;. Fused quartz will be particularly desirable because temperature changes do not affect it. To prevent cracking, the huge quartz disc, when it is cast, will be cooled slowly over a period of several months. Then the equally slow task of grinding the surface will have to be undertakes.

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new astronomical giant. It was thought at first that the new telescope might also be placed on Mt. Wilson. But the Mt. Wilson astronomers, it is understood, are being handicapped to some extent by interference of the ground lights from Pasadena and Los Angeles and a more dis-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “We Must Suppress the Bootlegging Industry or Prepare to Deal With Such a Wave of Organized Viciousness as This Country Never Has Known /'

IT looks as if we might have a cheerful Christmas after all, in spite of the flu, the Leadville raid, and the continued presence of James A. Reed of Missouri in the United States senate. King George continues to gain, though slowly; stocks show a disposition to hold their own; Bolivia and Paraguay agree to arbitrate; the foreign relations committee indorses the Kellogg pact by 14 to 2; the Philippines are said to be less anxious for independence now that Herbert Hoover has been elected; Leon Trotsky Is reported not only as safe, but furiously at work on three books; Mussolini announces a $1,600,000,000 program to make Italy safe and comfortable for farmers and the Afghanistan revolt against shaving seems less likely to succeed. Even prohibition has resulted in a compromise that promises satisfaction to all. With the usual inadequate appropriation, those who want it can rest assured of their hootch, while those who favor enforcement can escape paying the price. a a a 1 ‘Welchers' All Senator Bruce of Maryland dared the drys to appropriate an amount for dry law enforcement which their own experts said was needed. Some of them were willing, but enough were not. We get $13,500,000 for a job which Dr. Doran says requires $300,000,000. That leaves the door open for wets to go on claiming that the dry law is a failure and for drys to argue that it would be a failure but for lack of proper support. Neither wets nor drys dare to back up an honest attempt at enforcement. The former are afraid that it might make prohibition successful. The latter are afraid that it might reveal prohibition as impossible. It is a welch all the way around. We seem to have reached a point where we are actually scared of a showdown. Bootleggers can view the future with confidence, gangs can go on organizing with the assurance that there is nothing much to be feared, the Anti-Saldon League can continue campaigning for funds on the ground that there is much to be done. a a a Paid in Blood . From El Paso comes the news that Juarez is preparing for its Christmas boom. Many a peon will find Christmas cheer for his family by the simple process of wading across the Rio Grande with a sack of hootch on his back. He may get shot, of course, but two a day makes the risk worth while. This is typical of the American border. There are a hundred smugglers for every guard. Such odds are too great for ceremony. Guards are apt to shoot first, and talk afterward. At that, a lot of them pay with their lives. Twelve guards have been killed and thirty-seven woundec. in the El Paso district since prohibition went intp effect. Wt itever else may be said of prohibition, it is leaving a red trail along our borders and coasts. More than that, it is leading to an attitude which borders on savagery in many of our large cities. Gang warfare finds a logical expression in unreasonable laws and verdicts. a a a Unfair Law According to the attorney-gener-al of Michigan, there are some 2,000 men and women in Detroit who can be sentenced to life imprisonment under the state habitual criminal law. In Michigan, violation of the prohibition law is a felony, while the habitual criminal act makes a life sentence mandatory after four felony convictions. Last week, Mrs. Etta Miller.-40. and the mother of ten children was found guilty of her fourth liquor offense, which leaves the court no choice but to sentence her to life imprisonment. Naturally enough, the case has created a great commotion. Even frantical drys find it hard to reconcile the thought of subjecting a “mother of ten” to a life imprisonment with their training, tradition and sentiments. a a a Challenge of Crime One cannot review what has occurred in connection with the prohibition movement during the last ten years, without wondering whether the American people know where they are going, or if they care. Is there anything back of it more substantial than emotionalism, lip music and appetite? Has any one on either side attempted to rationize the question, to formulate a program, to visualize the ultimate outcome? If the object is to make this country dry, if we actually intend to practice what we preach, why continue the half-hearted measures that are doomed to failure? If, on the other hand, we are sick of the job and feel we have bitten off more than we can chew, why not admit it candidly? It should be obvious to any intelligent person that we either must suppress the bootlegging industry, or prepare to deal with such a wave of organized viciousness as this country never has known. That industry not only defies prohibition, but furnishes cover for all manner of criminal activities. It is in alliance with the thief and the fence. It is responsible for ninetenths of the political corruption. It is the basis of gang rule, and is becoming a smoke-screen for kidnapers, thugs and murderers. We face the alternative for smashing it, or of conceding that it is a child of our own folly.

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Flu March Swift, Complications Severe

This in the second of a series of four articles on the nature and treatment of influenza. In this article Or. Fishbein discusses the course of the disease and comulicatlons. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of tue American Medi-al Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. INFECTIOUS diseases have what is called an Incubation period, representing the time between the arrival of the germ in the body and the beginning of the symptoms. For influenza this appears to be very short; namely, between twentyfour and forty-eight hours. The onset of the disease is sudden. Extreme sore throat is unusual. The patient usually goes to bed promptly with symptoms of chills and fever. Sometimes there is nosebleed, and not infrequently rapidity of the pulse. By the second to the fourth day the disease has become quite severe and thereafter, if the patient is tending toward recovery, it lessens in its severity. There are usually pains in the muscles, great weakness, headache,

Reason

SO much scandal has been spilled about the late President Harding that he is entitled to have repeated the Robert H. Davis story in the New York Sun. When Harding was a youth in Marion, 0., a young Italian, Peter Venuti, came to town and opened a skating rink, employing the Marion band in which Harding played, for the munificent sum of 50 cents a night. Feeling that his art was worth 75 cents a night, Harding demanded it and was fired. a a z The years rolled along and Harding became President and Venuti the head of a Marion CO.) family, and when the World war came his youngest son enlisted, was killed and buried among the unknown dead. When the Unknown Soldier’s tomb was dedicated at Washington Harding invited his old Marion neighbor to attend the dedication as his guest, and after the ceremonies the two sat in the White House, talking over old days. Finally Venuti asked the President why he had invited him to attend the Unknown Soldier’s services and Harding said: “Well, Pete —I knew that you had lost a boy out there—and it might be—who knows—that the hero in Arlington —good night, Pete.” We knew that Benjamin Franklin invented a lot of things, including the fire department, the public library, the stove and that he tamed lightning until it ate out of his hand, but we never knew until yesterday that he invented the bfoom. This only whets one’s appetite to learn the name of the genius who taught posterity to use a broom straw to clean a pipe stem. a a a James Collins, test pilot for the Curtiss Aero Company, who leaped from a plane at a height of 8,000 feet, fell 4,000 feet like lead, then opened his parachute and made a perfect landing, displayed more speed and also more control than any baseball pitcher in the majors. a a a Now and then at infrequent Intervals we encounter men who turn away from the allurement of great wealth to love modestly, in order to do the work they like. Such a man was the late Floyd R. Mecham, professor of law at Chicago university; he could have amassed a fortune as a counselor, but he preferred to teach. a a a Reading that Miss Elizabeth Beidler, Chicago heiress, was fined $6,849 for failing to declare clothes brought in from Paris, causes one who is Bolshevistic enough to believe in equality to incline to the belief that if a poor woman is sent up for. life for making booze, a rich woman should be sent up for several lives for smuggling.

THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC—NO. 2

slight cough, sometimes severe backache. In some cases also the bowels may be Involved. The amount of running from the nose varies as does also the amount of prostration and there is sometimes plum colored appearance of the face, lips and chest which may develop in severe cases. In practically all of the cases that died, pneumonia is a secondary complication so that in 1918 reference was frequently made to the disease as influenza-pneu-monia. Other complications may involve the sinuses, the ears, the eyes, and the nervous system. In extremely severe cases the pneumonia may be complicated by the formation of fluid or pus in the chest, the lining of the chest wall may be inflamed, producing pleurisy and, according to whether or not fluid or pus may be formed, pleurisy with effusion or pleurisy wir.h empyema. The story of the case of the king of England resembles closely such a sequence of events, if one mky judge from the bulletins regularly issued.

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By Frederick LANDIS

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WEST told the senate investigating committee that he used to be Insull’s lawyer and owned public utility stock, but that he had sold all of it before entering the cabinet. However, those who have taken just a short stroll with human nature know that one is likely to retain a very lively gratitude toward those who have given one prosperity.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address ot the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—Abstaining from a criticism of your phrase, “Get it out of the senate,” I yet indulge a not unseemly satisfaction in reminding you there is one body in the United States that, happily for the people, cannot be “rushed.” GARDNER WILSON. 783 East Drive, Woodruff place. Editor Times—The discussipns or birth control and companionate marriage remind me of children ir the market place calling to each other and saying, “I have piped and you have not danced. I have mourned and you have not lamented." We speak of generations “yet unborn.” We never say “yet created.” In the providence of the AllWise Ruler, many individuals not yet awakened to consciousness are waiting at the threshold to be born into our world, to be given their first kindergarten lessons before being born into the next. Are we to continue to require them to run the gantlet of experimentation and birth control, to weaken and distort their physical bodies, or will we cultivate the sense of feeling that prompted Joseph to take the best care of the Christ Child’s mother, that he might be bom normal, physically as well as spiritually? How' can we hope to be given a loving welcome by the angels when we are borne from these material bodies through death, after we have been putting every possible obstacle in the way of innocent babes being born into this present world? About fifty years ago a beautiful child, a little girl, came to my school. She could sing with a charm that no lover of music could forget. Her mother did not want children and could not bear the sight of this ghild. so the grand*

It is significant of respiratory diseases of this type that the human body does not develop a strong immunity to themtfand the duration of immunity is brief. Hence it is argued that the amount of exposure to the disease, the number of germs received and other factors are most important in determining how many people are going to be attacked by the disease than of individual resistance to the disease. People who have suffered the disease a year previously apparently are not able to resist anew attack in many instances. There is some evidence that a little immunity is acquired immediately after an attack and that this persists for several months, but apparently not much longer. Compared with the amount of immunity produced in human beings against such diseases as smallpox, typhoid fever, or scarlet fever after a single attack, the immunity conferred by influenza is negligible.

NEXT: Vaccines and isolation.

A STORY OF HARDING u m m THE BROOM’S FATHER * n m A ROW OF CASTLES

PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER DORAN told the house appropriations committee that we should have 90,000 prohibition agents to end the booze traffic. If they should all be appointed and then all should build their castles in the same town, that .town would surpass the glories of Babylon. a a a Grand Duke Alexander, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Czar Nicholas II of Russia, is touring the country talking about love. If the Grand Duke and his folks had only talked about love and practiced a little of it toward the destitute and densely ignorant people, the royal family still would be doing business in the snowy empire.

parents gave her a home. Whethei the mother hated the child or whether her sense of ••emorse when, in its presence overcame her because of efforts to prevent its birth, I can not say. When a child succeeds to normal development before birth, despite the adverse efforts of its parents, most any father and mother would give it loving attention, especially after it is old enough to be “pretty and cute.” Yet they havA not been willing to bear the discomforts and inconveniences to bring about these results that awaken in them a world of pleasure and happiness. Should this child become President, or distinguish himself in literature, art, or science, would eternity be long enough to eradicate the remorse those parents would feel for having tried to prevent his birth? When a couple legally united in marriage is fortunate enough to bring normal children into the world, It is fiendish to say to them that they should not have more children than their income will support. When we are not willing to bear the burdens of bearing and rearing children, we should at least be glad to help and encourage those who are willing and alive to that responsibility. Life is the medium through which all creation exists and acts, and when we try to prevent its normal functions we are antagonizing the Almighty. We are surrounding ourselves in a maze of darkness which a million years in Purgatory will not eliminate. As previously stated, ffo not the comments we hear and read on “birth control” and “companionate marriage” remind one of the prattle of children in tfce "market place” more than the language of Intelligent men and women? PETER £. GRIMES. 4931

DEC. 19,1928

Women as ( .. > V Soldiers Is New Craze

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON NOW and then one is forced to the conclusion that dish washing is not such a bad occupation. Here comes Mrs. C. Fuller Winters, president of the American Federation of Industrial Women, with plans to demand legislation for a feminine auxiliary to our national guard. Everything’s been thought of; what sort of uniforms we shall wear, what sort of exercises we shall take; and what sort of guns we shall shoot. Mrs. Winters gives some splendid sophomoric reasons as to why American women should have this military training. The first is that our men pamper us too much! (Will the leady who has been sentenced to birth control for three years, please step forward?) Second, this training will provide an outlet for the energy of the woman who has passed the Girl Scout age; third, the country should be prepared to meet any emergency, and, fourth, our women need the discipline. Now I hate to throw cold water on any scheme for the betterment of my sex, but I fear that Mrs. Winters will find the women rather apathetic about this. So many of them are taking up contract this winter, you know. After one has read some of the plans that originate in the fertile minds of our public-spirited women, one regrets the good old days when the land was sunk in intemperance, when equal suffrage was only a dream, and martial rights a mirage. There is so little to be done today in the reform business, and yet the energy of the women is nowise abated. Wickedness, after all, had its compensations. There was something for us to work at. We did not have to think up something to do. Our tasks were right before us and plainly to be recognized. Today with all our pet reforms put into practice and working well, we suffer from lack of occupation. How about starting a little movement for women called “Back to the Home?”

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable question of tact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times’ Washington Bureau, 132 z New York avenue, Washington, D C.. inclosing 3 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other questions will receive a personal reply, Unsigned requests can not be answered. All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this service. What was the population of the United States at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war? McLaughlin, in his "History of the American Nation.” says that the New England colonies at the end of the French and Indian war had a population of nearly 600,000, with Massachusetts having almost 300,000. He says further that before the outbreak of the Revolution the population of the middle colonies had reached 400,000, and that in 1760 there were more than threequarters of a million living south of Pennsylvania, with Virginia, the oldest colony, having a population of about five hundred thousand at the end of the colonial period. The International Encyclopedia itates: "Estimates of the population prior to the first regular census place the figure at 200,000 in 1688 and 1,860,000 in 1770. What is the theory of innocence or guilt in American jurisprudence? A person on trial in the United States is presumed to be innoceni until found guilty; and in criminal proceedings, his guilt must be established beyond reasonable doubt. The presumption of innocence abides with him throughout the trial, Are there any woman Governors now in the United States? None. Mrs. Miriam Ferguson of Texas and Mrs. Nellie Ross of Wyoming were both superseded by men. , Was President Cleveland married at the White House? He married Miss Frances Folsom there June 2, 1886. How many states ratified the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution? Thirty-one of the thirt.v-slx states that then existed ratified the amendment. It was rejected by Delaware and Kentucky; not acted on by Texas; and-conditionally ratified by Alabama and Mississippi. How old and when did the game of horseshoe pitching originate? No doubt it originated from the game of quoits, which antedates the beginning of the Christian era. Is Sir Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedian, living? How old is he? He is living and was bom Aug. 4, 1870.

This Date in U. S. History

Dec. 19 1800—John Jay declined chief Justiceship. 1864 —President Lincoln called for 300,000 additional volunteer^.. 1893—Warships sent to Rio de Janeiro to warn against interference with American shipping. 1912—Woman suffrage lost in Michigan by 760 votes.

Daily Thought

For I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.— Hose a 6:6. * # n Mercy olten inflicts death.— Seneca.