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The Pool* Big Rich Man When you first read Robert W. Stewart’s plea to stockholders of Standard Oil of Indiana for his reelection as chairman of the board, it is amusing.. But on second reading It Is pathetic. It is the case of a man trying to answer hiscritics, and unconsciously condemning himself. Stewart’s self-revelation is unanswerable. After repeating the tawdry alibis, which can never explain or justify his part in the Continental Trading Company oil d'al with Sinclair, and his conflicting testirfiony to the Senate Teapot Dome investigators, Stewart states the issue between himself and Rockefeller. Rockefeller’s attorney, in trying to rally stockholders to oust Stewart, had written to them: “We think of this contest as an opportunity for the stockholders of the Indiana company to clean house and show the public that the owners of one big business will not countenance in their representatives such a course of conduct as that followed by Cblonel Stewart.” But how different is the issue as seen by Stewart. He replies: ‘II am either entitled to re-election upon the record of my stewardship of the interests of the company, the last ten years, or I am not.” And here Is his proof: “One thing that can not be denied, however is the fact that the present organization took the Indiana company in 1918, at that time worth $170,000,000, and in ten years, without asking one cent from the stockholders, has made it into a company worth about $900,000,000, during which time it paid out more than $200,000,000 in cash dividends.” Profits! That, and that alone, was Stewart’s test in the rotten Continental deal. That, and that alone, Stewart would make the test of his “stewardship of the interests of the company” and his rgiht to reelection. Well, that places Stewart. But what about the stockholders? Which do they think is more important, the Rockefeller issue of housecleaning or the Stewart issue of excessive profits? And if it is money only that they are interested in, which do they thin kis a better business investment—discredited management or public confidence? Stewart has stated the issue very neatly for them. But he neglected in his appeal to their pocketbookg to remind them that they cannot have both discredited management and public confidence. Jefferson on Liquor One hundred eleven years ago, the founder of the Democratic party in the United States, and the exponent of republican principles of people’s government, contributed his thought to the present- day debate on the relative merits of whisky, light wines, and beer, and the use of the taxing power on these commodities. Writing from Monticello, Dec. 13, 1818, Thomas Jefferson said: "I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine by our national legislature. It is ar. error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating their houses. “No nation is drunken where wine is cheap: and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whisky. Fix but the duty at the rate of other merchandise, and we can drink wine here as cheap as we do grog; and who will prefer it? Its extended use will carry health and comfort to a much enlarged circle. “Everyone in easy circumstances (as the bulk of our citizens are) will prefer it to the poison to which they now are driven by their government. And the treasury itself will find that a penny apiece is more than a groat from a single one. “This reformation, however, will require time. Our merchants know nothing of the infinite variety of cheap and good wines to be had in Europe; and particularly in France, in tlaly, and the Grecian Islands; as they know little also of the variety of excellent manufactures and comforts to be had anywhere out of England. “Nor will these things be known, nor, of course, called for here until the native merchants of those countries to whom they are known shall bring them forward, exhibit and vend them at the moderate profits they can afford. This alone will procure them familiarity with us, and the preference they merit in competition with corresponding articles now in use.”

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address ol the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published, letters not exceeding WO words will receive Dreferent* Editor Times: America demands a solution for dealing with bandits, gunmen and bootleggers. This crime wave can be stopped successfully, bad men turned to law-abiding citizens. No man with a position, properly paid, would go out and “stick up” another man. Where are men going to find paying jobs? All the “equal rights'* sit tight in the salary boats. They are stars, while unemployed snen walk the streets. This does not refer to widows, unmarried or young women, but to wives living with their husbands or drawing alimony. Put those broad minds in their places. They want equal rights. Give it to them in their homes. The mother with children, the girl with aged parents or the one compelled to make a living wants and demands “equal rights,” too. A woman with two means of support does not need to draw a large salary. I have young sons and daughters who will be wage earners soon. Can they find employment? Probably not, for those fur-coated parasites enjoy all available jobs. This condition is what makes men desperate. Men bootleg because there is no employment. We demand “We” io4 the gunmen. but employed wives are gunwomen, They take the husband’s

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salary or alimony and sigh, “I got so lonesome at home.” They are the downfall of many young girls, they cause married women who stay home to become dissatisfied. They snub the unemployed woman's clothes or house furnishings. They make them bitter when they explain how to raise six children on a budged system with an income of $25 a week. Still those parasites buy hose at $5 a pair. I am not bitter, for I have made a success of married life, and I would not change plaoes with the highest salaried woman on earth, or Mrs. Hoover, either, for that matter. I have a wonderful husband and fine children. Those demagogs of lonesomeness ought to try their homes a while. Discover the good points in their families, also do the work. There is no time in a hqme to become lonesome, and I for one would take in washing rather than let my children’s characters be formed by paid mothers. If a man has the responsibilities of a family he will be a much better citizen and wifi not break the law. But how can the,, be selfrespecting when their wives are enameled, hair djeed, short skirt wage “hounds,” drawing more than a husband. Let the woman be fair and give the man a chance to keep a family. Divorces could be prevented if the wife would uae her kitchen and

The Legal Profession There are three men we poor ignorant humans have to trust—our doctor, our banker, and our alwyer; for most of us know nothing about mctdicine, little about credit and banking, and not enough about law to portect ourselves. We don’t know what is the matter with us when we are ill, or what the doctor gives us for it or why. But the medical profession has organized itself fairly well and adopted ethics and promoted the enactment of laws for our protection. With but few occasional exceptions, the banking business is a safe portector, because of its organization and self-government. But the lawyers who make up, for the most part, our law-making bodies, and who have the biggest hand in making all our laws, are lagging behind. That is ,the men who have been educated and trained for the practice of law and the bringing about of the administration of justice, haven’t done much to protect us from a very small majority of legal crooks in their profession. Bar associations form time to time tackle the problem. Committees are appointed and reports made. Able speeches are made on what’s the matter. But things don’t change much, if any, from year to year, and the legal profesison puts in more time and effort marking time than in marching forward. Now and then there isa blow-up, like the Steiru hardt bankruptcy case, which focuses the searchlight on publicity on the profession. Demands are made by the ablest of the lawyers that something be done about it; but in the past the publicity soon died out, the public ofrgot, the lawyers got busy with their own affairs, and nothing happened. Isn’t it abotu time something happened? Captain Fried Probably Captain George Fried of the S. S. America, would rather make a dozen more perlous rescues at sea than be the hero of such a reception as New York prepares for returning heroes. But a man who still persists in steaming through smashing weather to the aid of ships in distress, exhibiting consummate seamanship and daring, and to inspire his crew that they will tumble into a flimsy boat and take off the crew of a foundering hulk wallowing among thirty-foot waves—and all without losing a man—must expect to be feted when he returns ashore. For us soft landlubbers such an achievement has the thrill of a saga—the mighty saga of the sea, with its mighty men, and its immemorial traditions of seamanship and self-sacrifice. Captain Fried and his men are of thqne traditions. We honor them. The world honors theyn. < Oscar W. Underwood Many members of congress have paid tribute to Oscar W. Underwood following his death yesterday. In a way we Lke best these words of Senator George W. Norris: “The nest thing that can be said about any man is that his honor is unimpeachable. Senator Underwood was such a man. is word always was good." Norris and Underwood were opposites in their political beliefs, the one a progressive Republican, the other a conservative Democrat. They fought many a parliamentary battle—but they never wavered in their mutual respect and liking. For each knew, the sharp, incisive, sometimes bitterly aroused Nebraskan, and the quiet, bland, seldom unsmiling Alabama, that the other was honest. Underwood was, of course, a man of remarkable ability as well as integrity. The first four years of Woodrow Wilson's administration stands now in American history as one of the periods of great constructive achievement. Without the determined and skilful readership of Underwood in the house, much of Wilson’s legislative program never could have been written into law. His name was three times before Democratic conventions as candidate for the presidential nomination. In 1924 it seemed that the ambition might be realized. But, added to his conservatism there was his outspoken opposition to prohibition and the KuKlux Klan, and in the year of the great Smith-Mc-Adoo duel those two things spelled defeat. Evidence of the respect that even the most bigoted of his enemies paid him, however, was the chant that always will be remembered when the Madison Square Garden struggle is recalled. Alabama, klan-ridden Alabama, responded 103 times, loudly and proudly, “A1 tbama casts twenty-four votes for Oscar W. Underwoo'!!” A professor at the University of Pittsburgh claims to have succeeded in making the smallest light in the world. We had been thinking those were made by city councils.

her head instead of a salary and her fat and forty sex appeal. Recently a three-time divorcee told me that women with children did not care about their personal appearance. Why did she lose three splendid husbands? MRS. W. A. C. Editor Times—A poor little girl mother, only 16. was in a ten-cent store Saturday getting something for her baby and a thief snatched her purse. She called for help and no one even attempted to stop the person who got it or help her one bit She works every day so hard and on that bad morning last week had to walk four miles to the car. No busses were running. She had no money left, even for bus fare or for board for herself or the baby. I think it is terrible when a person can’t even shop, for fear of a thief. It is awfully hard on this poor little girl. The husband doesn’t help her any and then to work so hard for her mohey and have it stolen! SYMPATHETIC CITIZEN. Who holds the record in the major leagues for hitting the most borne runs in a season? Babe Ruth. His record is fiftynine made in 1921. What is the difference between a duel and an affray? A duel is a fight between two persons. one against the other, at an appointed time and place, upon a precedent quarrel. It differs from an affray in that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result of design.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “A . Toll Bridge, Except When Built by the Public and Designed to Pay Off Its Own Cost, Is Not Only a Nuisance, but Economic Injustice'*-

COVINGTON, Ky., Jan. 26.—1f you want to see America’s outstanding example of what toll bridges can do to hold back the development of a community, go to Covington. Covington is directly across the Ohio river from Cincinnati’s business district. The running time between them, whether by street car or auto, is about five minutes. Thousands of Cincinnati people would be living in Covington but for the toll. Increditable as it may seem in this day and generation, there is no free bridge. The four privately owned bridges have not only made fortune after fortune, but have created a lopsided, inconvenient growth. Cincinnati remains all in Ohio, with its residential districts all one side of its business district, which means that many of its people are traveling from four to six miles daily when they could reduce the distance one-half by living in Kentucky. * Nicely as such a condition may fit local pride and state patriotism, it hardly squares with common seiise. # m -No Excuse for Toll Bridges COMMUNITIES, especially when they become large and congested, need nothing so much as freedom to grow naturally, normally and symetrically. A toll bridge except when built by the public and designed to pay off its own cost, is not only a nuisance but economic injustice. What would a toll bridge be worth without the road at either end? Who builds and maintains the road? Why should the public build and maintain hundreds of miles of road and then let some private corporation bridge a 1,000 foot gap for the sweet priviliege of levying tribute on it ever after? You just can’t reconcile such a set up with ordinary intelligence. There is no more excuse for toll bridges than there would be to let individuals or corporations grab half-mile sections out of our main highways and put gates at either end. tt tt Outdoing Romans THIS country is engaged in the greatest road construction program ever undertaken, the complete elimination of toll bridges should form a part of it. Roads and the travel passing over them represent our greatest single industry, remove the auto truck, garage, filling station and their allied activities and this country would take on the appearance of an economic vacuum There was never a land or civilization in which roads played such an important part. There never was a time when so much of the public revenue went for their construction and upkeep. We are building more roads each year than the Roman empire had in its palmiest days, and we are building them just as well, if not better. Ninety-nine per cent of work, and probably more, is done through taxation. * tt Need for More Spans IT is commonly supposed that when a river separates two; states, the boundary line lies somewhere in mid-stream, but that is not always the case. Texas, for instance, only goes to her own bank of the Red river, while Kentucky goes to the opposite bank of the Ohio river. The state that owns the river generally is expected to build the bridges to span it. Kentucky is not particularly rich or progressive. That is one reason why there are so few free bridges across that part of Ohio in which she claims all the water. In many instances, the state on one side of a river is in better shape to build bridges than the state on the other side. In practically all instances, the bridges serve people who live outside both states. If any one phase of road construction belongs to the federal government more than another, it is the building of bridges, especially over those rivers which form state boundaries. The very power by which the federal government regulates interstate traffic should make it responsible for the needs of interstate traffic. tt ll Public’s Interest THE allocation of federal funds for the building of roads that lie entirely within the state, while privately-owned toll bridges exist between states, scarcely harmonzes with the principlees on which our political system rests. The first duty of the federal government should be to look after public interest where the states have failed or where there is a question of state responsibility. Why not nationalize all the bridges over all boundary rivers and let the federal government look after them?

This Date in U. S. History

’ Jan. 26 1679—La Salle laid keel of the Griffin, first vessel built on the Great Lakes. ISls—Jefferson library of * 7,000 vplumes purchased by the United States. 1837 Michigan admitted to the j union. 1 1861—Louisiana adopted secession ordinanoe.

Open- Weave Cloth Best for Sun Bathing

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. DURING warm weather all ever the country and in resorts in California and Florida, sun bathing has become a popular tonic. Most people have learned by now that the ultraviolet rays are not transmitted through ordinary window glass. Few people realize the difficulty of securing sufficient ultraviolet while outloors, unless the rays are permitted to strike an unadorned skin. The bureau of standards,, through Drs. Coblentz, Stair and Schoffstall, has recently completed some investigations of the ability of ultraviolet rays to pass through fabrics of various types. The present investigations show that the rays pass most easily through open-weave fabrics of various kinds; -and-that it makes bqt little differencfr'whether the thread is of cellulose acetate, cotton, wool or silk.

Reason

THE premier of Japan announces that his country does not accept our exclusion of Japanese and will revive the matter when the time is opportune, yet Japan excludes Chinese just as we exclude Japanese. /If we had no national defense Japan would write our immigration laws, assisted by every other nation which brings more people into the world than it can maintain. Pacifists please take notice. tt tt Mussolini issued a little more international preferred stock when he arranged for King Boris of Bulgaria to marry Princess Giovanna of Italy. The League of Nations should organize an expedition for the relief of the girl who is compelled to pass up the man she wants and marry to please the politicians. # tt tt This bill introduced in the Nebraska legislature to compel doctors to write all prescriptinos in “plain English” is not so important, but we are for a bill which will compel all inscriptions on monuments and public buildings to be in the language of the taxpayers. tt tt tt In addition to the overflow of Presidents embalmed in oil, each department of the government is jammed with portraits of forgotten secretaries, hundreds of departed cabinet members having been put on canvas at public expense. It would be far better to put the pictures and cut the names of the immortals on a beech tree in the White House grounds, or if they are secretaries like Fall, cut them on a slippery elm. tt tt tt John McCutcheon, cartoonist extraordinary, owns Treasure Island but this is the name of the office-seekers irresistibly associate with the island now occupied by Mr Hoover. tt tt it Fourteen brass bands met Mr. Hoover when he arrived in Miami, but it probably made no impression on him at all, as every fellow he has met since the election has been blowing his own horn. it tt tt These scientists who put in their time, speculating as to whether man sprang from monkey, boll-weevil or cat fish should be put to some kind of useful employment, such as shoveling snow. Who is the author of the followLng tines? Though I look old. yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did app'.’v Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore mj see is as a lusty winter. Frosty, butklnoly. The quotation is from “As You Like It,” by Shakespeare, Act n, Scene a.

A Bitter Pill

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

I Even the .most easily transparent of these threads transmits only ! from 5 to 10 per cent of the available rays. If several layers of fabric are worn so that there is practically no direct access of the light to the skin, the transmission through the clothing is negligible. The investigators rightly point 9ut that there is no doubt whatever that, under proper medical supervision. regular exposure to ultraviolet radiation is most beneficial. But from the fact that adults haVe lived fully clothed and in health' 1 sos many years prior to the present discussion of the subject, it seenis likely that it requires but a small amount of ultraviolet rays to keep the body in health. Until we know more about the biologic effects of excessive amounts of ultraviolet rays, one should be careful about overexposure. • Furthermore, apparently the chief purpose of the ultraviolet rays is.jfcp produce vitamin D within the body, and (Jiis is also had in many other ways.' -• . ,

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By Frederick LANDIS

TTALY now joins Germany, France and England in showing a lower birth rate, which is not surprising, since men and women must be heartless to bring into the world children, doomed to be stabbed and shot and gassed. If the world isn’t wise enough to stop war, it should be decent enough to stop breeding.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

-BY W. W. WENTWORTB-

27. DOING THE OBVIOUS WHEN STRATEGIC PLAY MIGHT WIN North (Dummy)— AA Q 2 10 6 4 3 0-109*4 J * 8 I 1 West— I I Leads A 6 I East— I I South (Declarer)— A K. J 6 J 7 5 0Q J 2 AAK Q 5 The Bidding—South opens with no-trump and all pass. Deciding the Play—West leads 6 of clubs, 8 of clubs is played from Dummy and East plays jack of clubs. What card should Declarer play? The Error—Declarer takes with the queen of clubs. The Correct Method—Declarer should win this trick with ace ’of chibs to encourage opponents to continue leading the clubsuit. By false carding ace of clubs, East is induced to believe that West holds the king of clubs and the queen of clubs. Declarer now plays the queen of diamonds forcing the king of diamonds. Opponents will probably return to a club and Declarer will win this trick with king of clubs. The jack of diamonds is played and ace of diamonds forced so that the diamoilds are established and game is assured. It East had returned a heart instead of a club

To prevent overexposure from sunlight persons living in tropical countries or places where there 1s much available sunlight may wear Q —ls mercurochrome as effective as iodine as a first-aid measure for wounds? A—Apparently there is little choice between mercurochrome and iodine in their eflectiveness. The iodine smarts somewhat more than the mercurochrome, and in the case of very severe infection may be somewhat more efficacious. garments of closely woven white fabric. This has high reflecting powers and prevents transmission of the rays. To prevent heat radiation from falling on the head it is recommended that _ the.inside, of the. headgear be pointed', with alunjinum paint, suitable provision having been made for ventilation.

LISTEN, PACIFISTS 0 0 0 PUT IT IN ENGLISH 0 0 0 ALL BLOWING HORNS

AS a climax to his economy program, President Coolidge asks congress to appropriate $5,000 for an oil painting of himself to be hung in the White House. Personally we should prefer to see this money spent for geraniums or for some iron dogs for the White House lawn. The president is all right, but the White House is running over with enormous portraits of departed Presidents, some of the masterpieces being in the attic, some in the basement, and some in the pantry. tt 0 The Guatemalans are at it again in one of their periodical revolutions and we sincerely hope that nobody buffaloes the government into sending the marines down to participate.

on the third trick, Declarer would not have framed. The Principle—“Ealse-card” to encourage opponents to continue a suit. (Copyright. 1929, R*ady Referents Publishing Company)

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JAN. 26, 1929 :

IT SEEMS TOME 0 By HSYWOOD BROUN

Ideal ■! opinions expressed In this solemn ere those of one of America's most interestins writers and are presented without retard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

pALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 26. ■*- One does not speak of rope in the house of the hangman or mention “the hurricane” here in Florida. But. if pressed, the inhabitants will talk about “the storm.” It has always seemed to me that newspaper accounts of great disasters lack a personal and intimate quality. In covering the whole range of a calamity, the experiences of the individuals are slighted. I wish I had the ability to set down the dialect of the Florida „ Negro, because the man who bicycled me around in a wheel chair this morning made me see and feel the big wind more vividly than i had ever done before. You see, he was talking about himself and his house, and not of J • the whole wide sweep of devastation. He told me of the fiercest hour and of how his roof “riz up and then riz down again.” Seemingly the hurricane was for- ‘4 ever considering carrying it away entirely and then thinking better of it. And the third time it danced ~‘t in the air only to fall back—kerplunk !—he decided to have no further share in this cosmic gam© , r( of tiddliwinks, and went away from there. „ And he told me of how he went down the streets, crouching against ... the storm, and the manner in which % the fiercest gusts would send him ; spinning and bind him with the loose telegraph wires which lay , v ., about the streets. tt 0 tt A Door Left Open STILL I was sorry the matter ever came up. ;i©d I had been advised not to say any- :0 thing about the hurricane down here. Besides, it was not entirely thoughtful of me to insist on picking a con-, versation with the bicycle taxicab V man, since he needed all his wind to pedal his vehicle containing, as ’ >il it did, a precious and a heavy load of human freight. However, I have always had an enormous curiosity about the emotions of people in time of stress, and ’? which ones pray and which do not. In fact, I asked him whether the fearful tumult of the heavens had moved him to pray, and he said that it had. Moreover, this was just the op- ,r s portunity for which he was looking. ,Ci Pulling a subscription blank out of his pocket he described the damage ! done to the little church where he_ ar> worshiped, and wanted to know 0 " whether I would subscribe to them® building fund. Among other things he .said that " r a contribution would bring me luck. , Accordingly I am a dollar holder in the new edifice. tt tt tt An Opening UPON first arriving here L thought I had hit upon a. . splendid money-making scheme. Naturally I had come to Florida*-”' with some hope of toasting my toes o under a friendly southern sun. It had been my intention to write scoffing postcards back to frozen ■ triends saying, “Sleeping under blankets, wish you were here.” But the first night I got much more than I bargained for. This was not warmth, but stifling and muggy heat. This was the sort of weather which would send hun- ; dreds of thousands of New Yorkers scurrying to Jhe mountains and the northern forests. And so my notion was to open up a shop in which to sell building „ lots in New York. We would have pictures of driving snowstorms and of hail and sleet and people with red noses and frozen ears. I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible to popularize cold as well as heat. However, I’m afraid there is $ flaw in my scheme. Out-of-season strawberries are not much good, but people will pay high prices for them just because they can be had - before the usual time. And here in.l Palm Beach, natives of New York sit and fan and mop their faces and pretend great jubilation as they say. “Isn’t this wonderful? Back home I guess Fred and Estelle are shivering because this is about the time the janitor forgets to turn the heat , on.” Asa matter of fact, when it - comes to heat, New York can turn on just as punishing a brand as Florida has ever known. But when ■ it arrives it is served up indiscrlm-. ately upon the entire 7,000,000,,,, and so nobody values It. U n tt Touch of Nostalgia Nevertheless, i’m terribly - glad I left New York on a--visit. Friends and readers have advised me for years that I was much too provincial and that there really were other places. And while I stjick on Manhattan, island I was in no position to say that no other resort compared to ; our dear metropolis. It's rather silly to advise anybody to get away from New York, it„ can’t be done. As we drove through :n ' the palm trees and entered the ho- ..,j tel the bellboy who took the bag remarked, “Well, how is the old rn poker game going in Room 211?” And I recognized a recent exile I from the Algonquin. ** * I went to the golf course and on the first tee Clare Briggs was driving off. Rube Goldberg was sit- c * ting on the porch and Grantland f * Rice just coming in the gate. How ; can you get away from a city which sends forth so many emissaries? But for me the trip is already a great success. I’ve had my moment. • At the entrance of the bathings , houses there lurked a news photographer. ariv. he saic| f “I’m from the NEA, would you mind posing?”.. The people of the press are so j importunate, and this was the first time in my life I’d ever been asked w to pose for anything. I thought it <■ was great, but Ido wish I had re- B membered to hold my stomach in. I (Copyright. 1923. tor The Times*