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For What Purpose? The voters of this city have every right to ask the reason that lies behind the activities in the legislature to defeat the city manager form of government. The voters, by a preponderance of one to five, voted more than two years ago to adopt this method for transacting their affairs. The law, as it stands, permitted this action. The control of city governments, especially as to form, by the legislature Is itself absurd. The people should be able to adopt the kind of government they want, as long as they pay the bills. Certainly no important group of people in this or any of the other larger cities of the state have demanded this sort of protection from the lawmakers. Yet there Is a very real fight and the people havo every right to know its inspiration and the source of this antagonism. The plan has the indorsement of experience. It works. Under its workings, Cincinnati emerged from its graft-ridden and stagnant condition. Its leaders and the rank and file of the citizenship praise it and applaud it. The same is true in other cities which have adopted it and the number grows each year. The truth is that the only opponents of the plan are the politicians who so their soft jobs going and the seekers of special privilege who have usually cbtalned what they wanted by dividing the people under the plea of party loyalty or some sort of chicanery. The utility lobby, and It is bigger and more insolent at this session than ever in the past, is working for the repeal of this law. Two years ago these forces were able to prevent the people from immediately going to this form of government. Now they want to prevent it permanently. The test of the individual legislator will depend somewhat on his vote -_a the different bills affecting this plan. The man who votes to rob this city and other cities of this plan of government, if they want it, brands himself as being in league with forces tliat the state can be well rid of. Text Books and Facts One wonders what the younger generation thinks of us older folks —we who write school books and advertisements and radio programs and such. For example, youth today, whose chief job is to learn from books and from life, is informed from one source that cigarets are preferable to sweets in terms of human health, and from another source that they are as bad as “dope." They hear the first version over the radio or read it in the advertisements. And they find the second in school books, as follows: “Th# most common narcotics are tobacco, opium, cocaine, and alcohol." And—- “ The smoking of cigarets by the young universally is regarded as exceedingly harmful, not only on account of the nicotine poisoning, but also because the tobacco, of which the cigarets are made, sometimes is steeped in a solution of opium, thus causing the additional danger of acquiring a desire for the use of this dangerous narcotic.” The two quotations are from pages 195 and 197 in the text book “Living Things,” an elementary biology, by Arthur G. Clement, supervisor of biologic science in secondary schools, University of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y. Copyright, 1924 and 1925, by Iroquois Publishing Company, Inc. Three-fourths of a page in this textbook is given to the dangers of opium and cocaine and two and one-quarter pages to the dangers of tobacco. Now what children are entitled to expect from their elders is facts. And facts are facts. Cigarets can't be two different things. They can’t be a great boon to humanity and a poison at one and the same time. They can't be better than candy and as bad as opium. Imagine the mental confusion of the high school boy who, having returned from a classroom in which the opium theory of cigaret making has been expounded under auspices of the state of New York, turning on the radio and being told to "reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet.” What does this lad think, of his father, or his mother, or his big sister, as they whiff their cigarets? If he believes his school book, he puts them down as “dope head 6.” If he believes the radio, his opinion of his elders is considerably higher. But he can't believe both. And so the net result is likely to be a conclusion on his part that the elder generation is a bit “queer;” and consequently it is logical for him to doubt the wisdom of any other preachment that he may receive from his parents or his school teachers. Prejudice against the cigaret used to be intense. It greatly was broken down by the war. and since the war has continued to decline. Why ir it, then, that a text book, compiled four years after the war, should continue to spread the prejudice in the name of education? Heroes of Peace Pensions and medals there are In plenty for the heroes of war. The heroes of peace are nobody's business. They should be the nation’s business, and should be sought out and recognized in an organized way. It should not be left to individual bills in congress to create a pension for the wife of the doctor who discovered the cause and remedy for pellagra. It should not be possible that the soldier who bared his arm to the yellow fever mosquito, in response to a cal! lor volunteers by Dr. Ueed, should be found twenty years later a physical wreck and all but starving to death. It should not be possible for the widow of the man who drove the yellow fever s'ourge from the world to be living in obscurity on at\ inadequate income in the capital of the country'. There is a long and distinguished roster of the heroes of peace, the cripples of the war of science on ignorance and death. We have great buildings devoted to the care of the man who joined the army and in some cases fought for hiS country. We appropriate hundreds of millions for the support and care of these heroes and near-heroes. Is it quite Impossible to set up some agency of government whose business it would be to seek out and reward—with medals and living incomes—those who have done unselfish and Hasting service to the world? f

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Warning the Patronage Salesmen Senate: Brookhart’s announced intention of continuing tie senate patronage investigation until the sale of federal offices is stopped will meet with general approval. Shady patronage practices being exposed by the senate subcommittee, particularly in the south, justify every effort toward complete housecleaning. Brookhart’s warning to the patronage salesmen is barred with his assertion that President-Elect Hoover is giving the investigation all possible assitance. The scope of this inquiry well might be widened. It is directed only at postofflee appointments. It shouW apply to all appointments and to all departments of the government. Furthermore, the committee ought to be continued in existence after adjournment of this congress and be given sufficient funds to finish its work. The guilty should be punished. Unscramble the Army When a government department gets caught in its own red tape, outsiders are not apt to waste much sympathy on it. That perhaps explains in part why congrtoS, after nine years, still is so slow in extricating the war department from the awful mess into which it has thrown the army promotion system. This mess is important to the public, not only because it involves injustice to hundreds of officers, but because it is destroying morale, which is the chief requisite of an efficient army. The story is unbelievably complicated. Congress in the national defense act of 1920 provided for absorption of a suitable number of emergency officers in the regular army, to be chosen by examination on the basis of qualifications. A uniform promotion system was provided. The war department, in putting the law into operation, had no trouble with officers of the rank of major and higher. But for some inexplicable reason it interpreted the law to mean that captains, first and second lieutenants should be dumped and scrambled in one batch. Asa result, lieutenants may become majors before captains, and hundreds of the latter are so far down on the lists that they never may achieve promotion. Major-General Peter G. Harris, adjutant-general at the time the department misinterpreted the law, has condemned the present unjust system, as have many other high officers. The war department itself has been appealing to congress for two years for legislation to correct the situation. Two bills, the Wainwright-McSwain bill in the house, and the Black bill in the senate, have been introduced for this purpose. Apparently the only possible objection to the reform is from some of those juniors who profited by the erroneous ruling. But the real obstacle is the legislative jam of this short session, and the concentration of representatives and senators on larger issues. Congress should not be too busy to right this old wrong. There is no sense in spending millions of dollars on the army with one hand and with the other hand withholding the primary justice essential to military morale. Eight thousand Chicago bell boys have been asked to organize as a union branch to protect their tips. After they’re through with that job, the organizers might try teaching West Point graduates how to march. The Grand Duke Alexander disputes the choice of Russian royalists in-Paris who designated Nikita to succeed Nicholas as heir to the throne of Russia. Something like picking the wrong horse after the race has been run. Speaking of the movies, one of the feminine stars, probably one of those who loves to curl up before the fire with a good book, says Suchansuch soap “keeps one’s skin so very flawless.” Perhaps because it’s “outstandingly unique.” A tooth eleven feet long has been unearthed in Siberia. The very thing for the Volstead law. Pickle packers have found a way to beautify the pickle. Would you call that a pretty pickle?

—David Dietz on Science

Life Demands Oxygen

-No. 268-

LIFE requires not only food but air as well. All through life the process of breathing continues. The ancients had no very clear idea of why this was so. One theory was that air had to be taken in to cool and temper the “flame of life,” whatever that flame was. The first suggestion that the respiratory movements, of the chest were to pump air in and out of the

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~ , „ true knowledge of the function of the lungs has beerkbuilt up. The lungs consist essentially m tiny membranous bags called alveoli and the various tracts, branchioles and so on, which lead to the alveoli. Over the surface of the alveoli there i3 a network of fine capillaries Into which the blood flows. Oxygen makes its way through the thin walls o’ the alveoli and the thin walls of the capillaries into the blood. In the same way, carbon dioxide is released from the blood and returned. In the blood Bre red corpuscles. These contain a coloring matter cahed haemoglobin. As the blood circulates through the body, the various tissues absorb the oxygen in turn from the haemoglobin. There is a double control of respiration. In the first place, it is controlled by the nervous system and it can be made to increese or decrease by various stimuli But there is also a second control which seems to be governed by the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood. The amount of carbon dioxide seems to have an effect on a portion of the brain, a portion on the medulla, known as the respiratory center which in tum controls the action of the lungs.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “No One but an AddleBrained Politician Would Think of 10,000-Ton Cruisers for Defense if the World Were About to Concentrate Against Us”

DENVER, Colo., Jan. 31.—Denver is in the throes of readjustment. Flivvers and free camp sites have changed the character of its tourist trade, sugar beets have taken the spotlight from silver and a million acres of shale wait only for the price of gasoline to go a little higher. That shale is a sure thing bet, as any reputable geologist will tell you. There may be disagreement as to just how long this country’s supuply of underground oil will last, but there can be no disagreement over the fact that Its days are numbered. When the clock strikes, we shall turn, to shale and Colorado will have another boom. That shale is worth watching, not only by the people of Colorado, but by every other American. Much of it is under government control, which means that it could be made to produce scandal, as well as oil. tt tt tt Reed’s War Tommy-Rot SENATOR REED of Missouri sees war on every horizon. To let him tell it, the world is not only arming to the teeth, but arming against us. Nothing, in his excited mind, can save the day but those fifteen 10,000-ton cruisers. “Listen, O ye dreamers,” he cries, “listen, and you can hear the roar of furnaces which are forging plates of great battleships. Listen, you will hear the chorus of mighty hammers shaping the keels of fighting men of the sea. Look, and you will see great engineers planning and plotting how the American fleet can be destroyed, figuring the elevation of every gun.” Yes, Indeed, and if you listen hard enough and look long enough, you will find men like Reed talking just such tommy-rot in every land, which is the only thing that keeps up the show. # # tt Oxcart Minds IF what Senator Reed says were true, the last thing we should be doing is build a small fleet of second rate cruisers. What could they do in the face of such devilish devices as are known to exist, much less those that are just around the corner? What did 10,000-ton cruisers do in the last war? Where were they when the U-boats were sending thousands of ships to the bottom? If we had reason to be scared, we should at least show some sense In our preparations, and not fall back on oxcart safeguards. No one but an addle-brained politician would think of 10,000-ton cruisers if the world were about to concentrate against us, and we faced the necessity of providing for real defense. Look to poison gas, O ye wordslingers, to germs, to air raids by night, to a rain of ghastly dew, to such diabolical engines and instrumentalities as makes men pallid to contemplate, if you think war is coming and we must prepare. tt n tt Get Up to Date, Jim THE great problem these days, whether in peace or war. is to keep up with science, to take advantage of the latest discovery and foresee what will come next. The French and English thought to hamstring Germany on the sea by taking away her merchant fleet and limiting her to 10,000-ton ships. If 10,000-ton ships were so all-fired important, why was she allowed to build them. But let that pass. Germany has done things the “Big Four” did not consider possible—not only has regained her former place as a power in maritime trade, or nearly so, but has mounted eleven-inch guns on a 6,000,000ton ship, and what is even more astounding, has welded the plates of armor on that ship until it is virtually a seamless hull. No, no, multiplying wheelbarrows is the last way we c? n hope to achieve safety, success :r salvation. tt tt Hurrah for Science QCIENCE, thank heaven, is teachO ing us more than how to perfect mechanical devices, especially for wholesale murder Science is sending us into all parts of the world for markets and supplies. Science is binding us together with a web of wire, steel and radio wave. Science is making it possible for us to talk with each other and get acquainted with each other on a grander scale than was ever before known. Science Is increasing our dependence on each other* in a thousand ways, and quite regardless of race or nationality. Science, in short, is creating conditions which call for nothing more definitely and persistently than a widened reign of law and order. # Hard-Boiled Peace peace movement, which so many regard as idealistic, if not a passing dream is tensely practical, rooted in human need and sustained by human ambition. It was not brought by poet and philosopher so much as by merchant and inventor was not popularized so much by preaching as by the changed cus-s toms of the work-a-day world. International peace has evolved from the state of a high moral fancy to that of hard-boiled common sense. The Kellogg pact, just raflfied In Paris, and already indorsed by a majority of the civilized nations, is not an Idle gesture to solace dreamers, but an agreement which meets the approval of wage earners, business f men, professiontal men and financiers throughout the world.

lungs were made by Borelli, who lived from 1635 to 1703, performed some experiments with animals which reemed to verify this. A contemporary of Hooke’s, named Lower, showed that the blood underwent a change in the lungs, turning from dark red to bright scarlet. Gradually, -a

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

IF, as reported, Mr. Hoover intends to handle foreign affairs himself, then he must exercise great care and select as his secretary of state a notary public, whose commission does not expire until after March, 1933. tt tt Reading that two more American women have applied for Paris divorces, we suggest that our next tariff law put a prohibitory tariff on foreign divorces. Our infant industry at Reno should be protected and this great business kept in the United States. tt tt tt The coming issue in this country Li that between the hostile interests of city and country and this hostility came to the surface in congress when the foreign influence, which is a city proposition, defeated the effort to throw undesirable aliens out of the country. a tt The radio is a great thing, but it has played havoc with the musical education of children. . In the old days, it was a rare thrill for families to have a boy or girl, able to play the piano or violin, but now they are listening to the wide world. - tt tt it Susan Lawrence, labor member of the British parliament, was denied recognition when she arose to speak because she did not have on a hat, as demanded of members who arise to talls. Our congressmen do not wear hats when addressing the house, but many talk through them. tt tt If Congressman Elliott of Indiana is arrested for striking Congressman Blanton of Texas with a copy of, the Congressional Record, the charge doubtless will be that Elliott hit him wah a blunt instrument. As we recall, this is the first time a northerner has charged a southerner since before the Civil war, when Anson Burlingame of Massachusetts challenger practically everybody .south of the Mason and Dixon line. That grew out of the assault of Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina upon Senator Sumner of Massachusetts. tt tt The widow of Reginald C. Vanderbilt, who has something like seven million dollars to invest has gone to Europe to look over a German Prince, and she ought not to pay very much, as they have been marked down a lot since the World war. n u The late Senator Underwood lived in Virginia, near the Mount Vernon estate of George Washington,’ but he was buried in his old home, Birmingham. It makes little difference where one lies, but almost all arrange for their long sleep to be among old friends and neighbors. DAILY THOUGHT For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that ; if any would not work, neither should he eat.—ll Thess. 3:10. a a TTNLESS a man work he cannot U find out what he is able to do. i —Hammerton.

* ' ‘ “ , ’ _ * New Einstein Theory May Prove Nothing Exists

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Adopting Child No Hit-or-Miss Matter

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN the current issue of Hygeia, Dr. A. Levinson has pointed out some of the important factors to be considered by people who wish to adopt a child. In • most instances people pick out a child because it is dark or fair, fat or lean, because its hair is curly or straight, blond or brunet. However, the wise couple will realize from the first that the health of the child is much more important than.the tilt or turn-up of its nose. Experienced parents realize that

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an extremely cute baby may be just the opposite when it reaches 8 years of age. The fat babies get thin and thin ones get fat; the curly-headed blond 6 months of age may be a straight-haired raven at the age of 15. The child with a positive Wasserman test has a condition which demands a great deal of attention before it is suitable for adoption. The child who has come from a family with tuberculosis may pass through a long period of invalidism before it is healthful. Mental defficiency can be recognized after three or four months of age, but some mental taints do not appear until late in life. For this

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By Frederick LANDIS

TT is said that Mr. Hoover desires A to make a great change in the prohibition enforcement organization and he should make a clean sweep, as all who are now in the work should be able to retire by March 4.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

-BY W. W. WENTWORTB-

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The name and address oi the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 400 words will receive preference. Editor Times—Noticed Saturday’s paper carried a story on the impeachment of Oklahoma’s governor under a headline “Woman Defends Apron Strings Rule for Governor’s Office.” Recently read where your paper had something to say about the management of the highway department and its closed door policy of the commission and specifically the general manager. Did the thought ever occure to you that right in your midst you have petticoat rule. I overheard a contractor talking the other day who was laughing and cussing about the skirt rule at the highway department. Said all the offices were managed by girls or old women with political drags i Better investigate. TIMES READER. Editor Times—l ■ just finished reading in The Times that a Mr. Gresham of the V. F. W. said exsoldiers don’t need any assistance. While I do not particularly need a bonus from the state of Indiana, I would not refuse it, because it would help me to get* an education I am hoping to get. I spent quite a

reason it is highly important to have some conception of trie amount of mental defect in the ancestry of the child that is being considered for adoption. Some hereditary defects can be controlled to a certain extent through environment, but it is far safer to be sure of the heredity of the child and not to take chances. Most people who want to adopt a baby want an extremely young one so that it will not know that the parents are not its own. It is undesirable, however, to adopt a baby during the first few days of its life. At least several months should be given to observation of its physical and mental state before it is taken by the family for rearing.

HE MUST BE CAREFUL a tt m TARIFF ON DIVORCES tt tt tt WHOLESALE BANDITS

KING GEORGE has recovered to such a degree he now has only one doctor. If he had had only one to start with, he might have been on his feet long ago. a tt Legislatures are demanding severe punishment for retail bandits who hold up gas stations, but they pay no attention to the wholesale bandits who incorporate, merge, water their stock and hold up whole communities by getting piratical service charges. If you desire to be a bandit—be a wholesaler!

of hearts and Declarer must take trick with king of hearts. What card should Declarer now play to insure game? The Error—Declarer leads 4 of diamonds and takes with king of diamonds in the Dummy whereupon it develops that East is blank of the suit and West holds the jack of diamonds with three others. The Correct Method—To insure making game, Declarer must make five tricks in diamonds. Declarer plays queen of diamonds to ascertain the distribution of the four missing cards in that suit. With this information, he is in the position to finesse to capture all of them no matter how they are distributed. The Principle—Endeavor to retain a commanding honor in each hand for successful finessing. (Copyright, 1929, Ready Reference Publishing Cos.)

few months in France, and not sunny France, either. I see and come in contact with ex-service men every day who need a lift from the state. A good state, but she has not taken care of her soldiers she sent to war. Mr. Editor, you can lock around yourself and see ex-soldiers of all kinds on the streets with arms off, legs off, gassed, and suffering from every other affliction that war breeds. I am writing this not for the boys who really need this bonus. Ask Mr. Gresham to look around before he fights too hard against that bonus. A WORLD WAR VET.

This Date in U. S. History

Jan. 31 1774—Franklin removed from office as deputy postmaster general. 1801—John Marshall appointed chief justice of the United States. 1848—Congress authorized Washington monument. 1865—Congressional a m e nament abolishing slavery passed the house of representatives.

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IT SEEMS TOME tt m By HEYWOOD BROUN

PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 31. Other sections of America may make our country’s laws, but all the song rights belong in New York. And that is said to be more important. The hotel orchestra with Lakewarm at its back and enormous tropical moon just overhead is play* ing an accompaniment to this column. But the orchestra is not attempting to interpret the spirit of Florida in terms of any native music. Naturally the band is playing “Your’re the Cream in My Coffee.” And, of course, the encore will be “I Wanta Be Loved by You.” Later, unless something catastrophic happens, there will be “Sonny Boy.” tt tt tt Everybody’s Doing It SOMETIMES I wonder why Americans have so great a feeling of inferiority about our national mu-., sic. Enduring operas may come chiefly from other lands, but the world, all the way around, dines. and dances to Broadw;.y melodies. Whether this music is good or bad I am not competent to say. Most of it I like (.for the first couple of hundred times), and yet I am sorry that the conquered territory is quite so vast. It would be pleasant to find remote spots where the herdsmen had never heard of “Hold Everything.” I fear it is impossible. By now even the Chinese fiddlers probably have made their own arrangement of the coffee and shoelace piece. These hits from the Broadway musical shows are admirable in that they truly and accurately represent the town in which they were conceived and first blared forth. But it is not possible that the spirit of New York is pervasive enough to animate every other community. When the night club is a patio with stars in its black velvet ceiling, the tunes of the evening should croon a little more. “I Wanta to Be Loved by You” does not harmonize completely with the Southern Cross. My own taste runs to the low dives of New York rather than to any speakeasy left naked beneath the sky. In such a place even the hardened sinner violates the constitution gingerly, for he can not avoid the feeling that perhaps someone is looking down at him. an Homelike Places NOR is there as much atmosphere in the patios of Palm Beach as in New York hideaways. Certainly it is not as thick. The taverns of our town, along toward morning, provide their favorite patterns with air not unlike thick bean soup a little burned. But I like bean soup. The sight ol stars is always bad for conversation. Very little good talk ever occurs in God’s great outdoors. People talk best when they are pretty well satisfied with themselves. In a 12-foot room my own ego does not always seem a trifle. But suppose I start to boast and catch, with a roving eye, some sight of ruddy Mars in the sky. The thing I was about to say straightway becomes unimportant. The rest is silence. Only last night I started to tell my breakfast joke. It seems that the man I was with objected when I ordered fish for breakfast and suggested eggs Instead. Quick as a flash I answered pompano’a best (i e., papa knows best). But when I tried to repeat this witticism at dinner the milky way got In my eye and several far-flung planets. * tt From the Big Town ONE of your tribe,” says Carroll Graham, “recently wrote and caused to be published statements at once intriguing and depressing. I refer to Mr. Don Marquis—and 1 earnestly hope he is a friend and not an enemy of yours—who de-: scribed, in a recent Saturday Evening Post article, his original entrance into New York. “Mr. Marquis, it appears, arrived in this city with a matter of $7, one friend in town and burning ambitions to be a reporter, with particular leanings toward writing a column. "He found the friend, spent th* $7 in a saloon frequented by the gay, young reportorial blades of : that time and got a job. "What I’m getting at is, where ‘ is the saloon? I ask becaus® I don’t know where to find Mr*. Marquis and you, seeminfly of about . the same age and general dimensions, might conceivably have been one of its customers. “Examining both cases, it would \ seem that my arrival here was * more auspicious even than that of 1 Mr. Marquis. I had more than $7, knew two persons here and—what ’ is most important—had no dire to 3 write a column. “A joo on a rewrite desk would 3 have made me happy—and still will. ' “I asked a policeman to recom- 1 nend a speakeasy nearest the Times 3 and Herald-Tribune, which he did, but it couldn’t have been the right ■ one. "What I’m afraid is that Mr. 3 Whalen or the changing times has 1 done away with that saloon. City 3 rooms, I see with some alarm, are 3 hexed by the curse of efficiency in ■ ♦his city. I speak with some expert- I <?nce, for I’ve been refused admit- 3 tance to and been thrown from a good many of them lately. City edi- -v tors report themselves ’ln confer- ' ence’ now which shows just how far things can go. “So, Mr. Broun, if you know where Mr. Marquis’ newspaper saloon is, and it’s still open, I wish you'd let me in on it, but I'm an earnest . young man and I don’t want to wind up on the rim in Newark it I can help it. “With 24,000 speakeasies here. I’ll run out of health and money before I find the right one in my prescut haphazard search.** (Oopyriibfc* IS3&* tor Th* Times)