Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1929 — Page 4

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Utility Laws That many of the laws pending before the legislature in respect to utility regulation possess merit is beyond question. That few of them will pass is more than doubtful. The utilities, knowing what they want, have a group of lobbyists who hobnob with the lonesome lawmaker in the evening and persuade him that the* poor utilities are really just outside the poorhouse anc. that any law that would relieve the people might send them over the hill. One of the meritorious measures which the utilities are fighting would take the publicly-owned utilities away from the public service regulation. If the utility commission really represented the people, as it is supposed to. this law would not be necessary. Some cities own their electric light plants. Some have water systems. They can control and regulate their own business by electing capable city officials. When the state interferes in the administration of the utilities it does so in order to prevent the people from getting rhe most capable administration. They always step in when these plants become most efficient. The truth is that the Insull monopoly, which is rapidly taking over government as well as electricity, does not like the constant comparison between efficient municipal plants, giving low cost, and his own system. His agents shudder when they see the things that are happening in municipal plants such as one in Richmond. One of the other measures which should pass would put holding companies under the utility commission. The water baron cf Indianapolis disguises some of his own operations through his Delaware corporation, which owns the stock of the company. The public does not get a’view of the real management as long as corporations which hold the stock of utilities are not under public control. But even if these laws are passed the people will get little relief as long as a majority of the commissioners are “utility minded." Just what that means is interpreted in huge burdens upon the public. No law for the protection of the people will be of any benefit if the commission is named by the utility interests. Whenever any member of the commission renders a decision which the utilities do not like, his term of office has in the past been of brief duration. The utilities find ways of getting to Governors. It would be unfortunate for the people for the next four years if the recently named policy man for Insull should come into control of the public utility commission through his boyhood friendship for the Governor. The fact that ne was rapid'/ promoted by Insull after the election of Governor Leslie should warn the Governor that there is necessity of a special caution in naming utility commissioners. Those who have been kind to the Insulls in the past ought to retire. The men who have shown independence should be retained, unless the state of Indiana is to become a province in the Insull empire. To pass good laws is highly important. To get men with some regard for the rights of the people to enforce these laws is even more important. The Prince’s Tour Haroun A1 Raschid learned many things in his' midnight prowllngs about Bagdad, things which a nfier never can learn on his throne. Incognito opens many doors. # The Prince of Wales does well to have a personal look at starvation in the British mining fields. No accounts of starvation are as convincing as a per* sonal look. There are times when one wishes owners of mimng properties, even in the United States of America, would take a personal look. We remember once when there was a strike among the textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., and the police were trying to prevent starving parents from sending away the children. A United States senator went up and took a personal look at conditions. The effect was such as no mere description would have produced. It was a healthful effect. The prince cannot, by waving a wand, relieve starvation among the mine workers. If he gave all his own and his father’s personal fortune it would not restore prosperity to the mine industry. But the prince can do a real service to humanity by forcing the spotlight which follows him to disclose these pictures of misery. By taking thought, a nation may begin to alter the worst of economic conditions. If the Baldwins will not take thought, the MacDonalds and the Snowdens may. If the tories can find no way out, perhaps the liberals and the laborites can. f Sh—h—Sh—h—h! They have killed the resolution to Americanize the senate by eliminating secret sessions. But, like the black cat, the issue will come back to haunt the senate until these hush-hush proceedings are abolished. - Os course the Jones reform resolution was not killed outright yesterday. That would not have been possible. Most of the senators are too sensitive to public opinion to vote openly against the reform. It simply was sidetracked by legislative maneuvering in such a way that it has little if any chance of coming up again at this session, much less of being acted on favorably. Senator Curtis, who soon is to be inaugurated'as Vice-President, is the man who blocked action yesterday. His original plan was to commit the reform to the rules committee, of which he is chairman. But when that move was shown up by the reform group, Curtis was satisfied to push the resolution out of its privileged calendar position, which was just as effective in this crowded shoit session as to inter it in committee. Curiously. Vice-President Dawes, who is a conservative on practically every issue but change of senate rules, had brought the Jones reform resolution close to victory by ruling that only a majority vote was necessary for passage. Hence Curtis intervened just in time. All that the Jones resolution does is to require a two-thirds vote to put the senate into secret session. What is so revolutionary about that? An adequate answer can not be found in the debate on the resolution. About the only defense of the present secrecy system was that of Senator Bingham, who lamented that executive officials would punish senators If thqy knew

The Indianapolis -Times (A scairi’B MOWAKU NEWSPAPER) Owned and nobllsbed dally leacept Sunday) by Tbe Indianapolis Times Pabllibing Cos., Owned S tr£t. Indianapolis. Ind Price in Marion County 2 cents—lo cent* a week: elsewhere, 3 rent*—l2 cent a a week. BOYD r.T'KLEY ~ ROX W. HOWARD, FRANK 0. MORRISON. Editor Prealdent. Business Manager, PHONB— RiI.EY WSL FRIDAY. FEB. 1. 1839Member of rotted Prc-s. Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise AsaoM ember ciatjon Newspaper Information Service and Andlt Bureau of Circulations, “ “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way/’

which senator* voted against their confirmation. Aside from the fact that the President already gets a record of the secret roll calls on nominations, and thus is in position to punish such opposition senators, Senator Norris made the real answer to Bingham: “Any man who is not willing to assume that responsibility ought net to be in the senate. We ought not to hide our actions for fear someone may take revenge on us.” If there is any excuse for these secret executive sessions except to screen politial deals, th'tf, excuse has not been stated. The people are properly suspicious of any senate confirmations of public officials which can not stand open doors and light. We hope the United Press, which published the secret senate vote on the confirmation of the Insull attorney, Roy O. West, as secretary of the interior, will repeat its public service. We hope senators will continue to try to call up the reform resolution In this and every session until the anclironism is abolished. For this involves the whole issue of popular control of government. Secret debate and voting is as dangerous to public interest as it Is humiliating to senators. Enforcement Funds There is no real disagreement between house and senate on the question of increased funds for prohibition enforcement. A majority in both branches insists on honest and effective enforcement, and feels that existing conditions can be improved. But the house believes that an additional expenditure of $24,000,060 of the taxpayers’ money should not be sanctioned for any pupose in a hasty and haphazard manner. It is to be hoped that the senate will recede from its position and adopt the procedure dictated by prudence and custom. The senate’s plan is obviously unsatisfactory and violative of all busiaess principles. It proposes to turn over $24,000,000 of public funds to be spent at the direction cf one individual when arid if he finds that appropriations already made are insufficient The house prefers to await a survey of the government’s needs, as well as the broader survey of lavt enforcement proposed by the President-elect. The alignment of wets anc* dry in both houses reveals that politics rather than devotion to law enforcement inspires the present insistence on immediate extra appropriations. We ando 1 not believe that the American people, wets and drys, subscribe to such a policy In the expenditure of their money. No individual or firm would tie up so much money without proper information concerning its use. Cassandra In ancieno days a lady named Cassandra made herself unpopular by running about the city of Troy telling everybody that the city soon was to be visited by very hard luck. There just had been an election in Troy. A conservative president had been elected, the stock market was booming. Th r : federal reserve board was lending speculators money at low rates of interest and nobody believed Cassandra. It seems that Cassandra, who was a daughter of Priam, of Priam & Cos., Inc., was very good looking, and had attracted the attention of Apollo Asa mark of his favor, Apollo endowed Cassandra with powers of prophecy. She could tell even when the stock market was going to break. But one day Cassie was pettish and Apollo got peeved, so he did another miracle over her, and decreed that, although Cassandra still should retain her gift of second sight, nobody was to believe any of her predictions. So what good does it do for H. Parker Willis and other able authorities on banking to tell the bankers that a stock market which is selling on the basis of 2 per cent returns can not be a healthy market, and something dire may happen. The curse on Cassandra persists. The former kaiser, in his new book, “My Ancestors,” counsels the people of Germany to be fearless and loyal. Just to prove he wasn’t kidding, he might have added the word "discreet.” Einstein comes out now and calls electro-magnet-ism and gravity identical. It sounds like a powertrust idea. The night lasts six months in the Arctic circle. It is said a group of Scotchmen are planning an expedition to one of the night clubs there. Football officials of the Big Ten went on strike for higher pay recently. Maybe they figure they haven't been getting a run for their money.

-David Dietz on Science.

Heart Functions as Pump

•No. 269

ALL through life the heart continues to beat. Life is over when it stops. The rate of the heartbeat varies with the age of the person and his activity at the moment, but for adults it is usually between seventy and eighty times a minute. The rate increases during violent exercise. The heart is a pump which keeps the blood in circulation. The circulation of the blood was discovered by William Harvey, the great British anatomist, who was born in 1578. The heart is. divided into chambers known as the auricles and the ventricles. Until the time of Harvey, the circulatory system was almost entirely misunderstood. It was known that there were two sets of conduits for the blood, the arteries and the veins. It was also known that the veins contained blood which was bright scarlet in color, while the blood in the arteries had a darker color. It was thought, however, that the left side of the heart sent the bright blood into the arteries, while the right side sent -he darker blood into the veins. Harvey showed that the blood flowed into the arteries from the left side of the heart. The blood makes it way through the tiny capillaries from the arteries into the veins. The veins carry it back to the right side of the heart. The blood absorbs oxygen in the lungs. The blood which is pumped out of the heart into the arteries is bright scarlet because it contains oxygen. As the blood circulates through the tissues of the body, it gives up the oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide, a waste product, from the tissues. This accounts for the dull color of the blood which is returned to the heart by the veins. But this blood is next pumped to the lungs, where it absorbs anew supply of oxygen. It then returns to the heart, ready for another journey through the arterial

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Age Seeks Preservation, While Youth Seeks Adventure. ”

I -pwENVER, Colo., reb. I.—Don’t ; ■*-' let any one fool you, the west still is a cattle country. Many a cowboy may have gone to Hollywood and many a ranch may have been broken up into small farms, but old Mooley and Prickly Porky are still with us. The livestock show brought 945 carloads of prize specimens to Denver, and Denver is not the only, or even the largest, cattle center of the country. During the week of the show the Denver Union Stockyards handled 30,000 beeves, 20,000 hogs, 40,000 sheep and 2,000 mules and horses. We still are a nation of meat eaters, as William Childs is willing to concede. William Childs, it will be remembered, got the idea not only that a vegetarian diet was good, but that he could popularize it through the chain of 125 restaurants which he founded. He made the attempt and a faction of stockholders, dissatisfied with the reduced dividends which followed, threw him out of control. Now' he is back in the saddle again, ousting his enemies, making one of his brothers president of the $37,000,000 corporation, another brother treasurer and his wife secretary. tt a Business Republics "fc^T OTHING illustrates the democ- ’ rlzation of industry like the way big boys turn to politics when they want to get. or retain control of some corporation. Childs is out after proxies to clinch his victory at the stockholders meeting which W'ill take place March 7. In the same way Rockefeller is out after proxies with which to oust Colonel Stewart when the stockholders of the Standard Oil Cos., of Indiana meet on the same day, and Colonel Stew’art is out after proxies with which to save his job. Most of our major corporations are getting too big for any one man, or even a small group of men to control through stock ownership, which means that they have evolved from dollar despotisms of economic republics. ' ana Why They Live Long Returning to Childs and his attempt to ; popularize a vegetarian diet, he is just one more of that vast multitude of human beings who believe that king life, or good health depends on some particular diet, habit or attitude of mind. An Indian, who claimed to have attained the age of 137 not so long ago, said that he attributed his long life to the fact that he had never sat in a chair, or slept in a bed. New comes Congressman Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina claiming that he is able to celebrate his eighty-eighth birthday in good condition because he has bathed two or three times a day and washed his face ten times for most of his life, though not denying that “the providence of God”,may have helped. 8 u n Romantic Youth AGE seeks preservation, while youth seeks adventure. If you would know' whether life is worth living, don’t look for an answer in argument, but find out how many old people of your acquaintance want to give it up. By the same token, when you doubt whether youth is as seriousminded or courageous as it used to be, don’t read articles' about the flapper and jelly bean, but look at the news to see what our boys and girls really are doing. Some of them are arcing quite silly, to be sure, while some are being tempted by the lur, of vice, but when was that not the case. The vast majority are trying to make something worth while of themselves and a few are stepping far out in front. Youth still is yoqth, thrilling to the call of romance, casting its! eyes about for thrills, striving to scale heights never scaled before and showing that spirit of independence which is its rightful heritage, but which some of us older folks mistake for unreasoning revolt. 8 8 8 Life Is Bigger A GIRL of 17 sets anew endurance record for women fliers, a girl of 15 aspires to the role of evangelist, a girl of 18 edits an atheist publication, a boy of 15—quite a number in sact —is sent to prison for life, a youth in his early twenties startles the world by flying the Atlantic alone. We profess to be shocked, but it was ever thus. Thomas Chatterton had written much good poetry at 18, Louis XIV squelced the parliament of Paris and cowed the great French nobles at 22, Alexander was on the march at the same age and most of those famous crooks who gave England the creeps during ths seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mounted the gallows before reaching 30. Life is no different than it ever was. It is just a little bigger. Age still cries for a few more years and seeks the cure, cult or peculiar notion that seems to promise them. Youth looks beyond the horizon for romance and adventure, just as it always did. but has to look farther because the horizon lias receded. What us older folks need most is to stand aside now and then in order to get a true perspective, and not commit the blunder of trying to measure twentieth century activities by a nineteenth century patten*

Whett Good Fellows Get Together

MF. HOOVER- , ~ WELL, WELL, HR. \ FD LIKE TO HAVE SMITH-1 BELIEVE imv^ATT YOU MEET MR.SMIIK ,/ I'VE HEARD YOU OH. at# *“#£so T®. THE WMjOj*. ™ J OT o KISTAKEK 7 I’VE SEEK YOUR /'EgAV PICTURE IN THEPAreR ' i .i— 'i ' TV. iWi I 1 ■iiii.i mmmmm ■wiiii I AL - OH THE AW SHUCKS-SQUARE-1 WISH TO MY WO* THINKING YOU COULD O'SEEN THAT WASN'T ANYTHING DOC WORK’S FACE ffF •W J TO WHAT THAT LITTLE THE MIGHT YOU , W /y ‘xj ) (<U GIRL HANDED ME - LIT INTO HIM ) /X 1,, T WHAT'S HER NAMEMABEL SOMETHIN' 1 oeoiHEF? ’ KID-IHHUSTSAY <=EEK A , f a* !iffi ™*IRCHAtPS fIARDEH ' I' / SOIOHG rr an you "DROPPED HERBWi -X IN- DON’T TAKE - W P 1 % % IN ANY WOODEN 1922 f NICKELS/

Foreign Bodies Found in Head, Lungs

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal Os the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. CHILDREN not infrequently swallow all sorts of unusual substances. Workers in factories occasionally are penetrated by flying portions of machinery; soldiers are hit by missiles of one type or another, and these may remain over long periods of time In the human body without causing any disturbance. Eventually reactions may begin which result in death. Sometimes bullets or nails get into the body and may be carried along by the blood stream to the lungs or to the heart, and there be lodged temporarily without immediate effect, later setting up disturbances which may cause death. Two French investgators examined by the use of the X-ray the heads of fifty soldiers who were

Reason

DID you see where the Hohenzollerns had a fight at Doom, when they assembled to celebrate the kaiser's birthday? The kaiser’s second wife and his daughter-in-law both “in-laws” which is a lot of dynamite, you know, mixed over a quarrel as to which is the head of the house. a a a It wouldn’t be half so foolish if the Hohenzollerns had a house, but they haven’t. There isn’t anything left, but the foundation and part of the summer kitchen. It was blown un by the artillery of the Allies. But the old royal, social stuff persists. Both of the ladies wanted to sit next to the kaiser, but you and I would much rather have sat by the kraut and pig’s knuckles. a a o The upshot of it was that the kaiser’s second wife went to bed and covered up her head and refused to come down—even for pie! It was quite an international complication, or would have been in the old days when the Hohenzollerns were on the throne,' instead of on the scrap pile. From all we’ve seen of this crowd they would be wonderful neighbors! This new dictator of Egypt announces a program of reform and says he wants to close the Egyptian parliament to stop the graft, but possibly he merely wants to remove all competition. tt a tt An American woman was held up by bandits in Shanghai and robbed of a quart and a half of diamonds, but as her husband has been practicing law in Shanghai for tWentyflve years, it may just have been a recovery by the original owners of the stones. a a a This Chicago drainage canal will be a priceless blessing if it ever drains that community, half as thoroughly as its grafters have drained the pockets of the taxpay6TS. ® The bandit is a hero and a gentleman alongside the political parasite.

Daily Thought

And having food and raiment let ns be therewith content. —I Timothy 6:7. a a a NONE is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak |md unbelieving: none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweih over.—Tuppe..

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

suffering with mental disturbances, and found foreign bodies in the heads of thirty, in only one oi whom there was any suspicion that a portion of a bullet might be within the skull. In nineteen cases the missiles were in the soft part of the bone near the eye and in eight within the skull itself. One soldier was troubled by a

Q. What causes itching of the skin? A. There are numerous causes of itching of the skin, varying from infestation or infection to causes within the body. Extreme itching is a problem for careful medical diagnosis.

bullet found in his buttock, the bullet having entered through one shoulder while he was lying on the ground.

•a m By Frederick LANDIS

WE were looking for Marshal Foch to have this relapse, for they fed him as if he were a harvest hand. This inability of the sick room to tell the kitchen to keep off the grass has cost many an illustrious as well as obscure patient his life. We remember how our family doctor foretold M’Kinley’s finish when they stuffed him with food, ad the result was exactly as that doctor predicted. When you’re sick, hang a smallpox sign on your face—anything to keep the food pushers at a distance.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM

-BY W. W- WENTWORTH-

32. REFUSING T 6 DUCK TO FREVENT BLOCKING North (Dummy)— A5 4 2 V 8 3 OA7 6 4 * * 8 6 * West— EastLeads 4 Q South (Declarer)— *A K 3 A 9 ( l OQ J * 4A K 6 The Bidding—South bids notrump and all pass. Deciding the Play—West leads queen of spades and Declarer overtakes with ace of spades. Declarer now plays queen of diamonds and West covers with king of diamonds. How should Declarer play to make game? The Error—Declarer takes with ace of spades. Then Declarer plays queen of diamonds and when West covers with the king of diamonds, the ace of diamonds is played from Dummy. The Correct Method—To make game Declarer must make four tricks in diamonds. Declarer should refuse to take the second trick and in all probability he will estohMali

Another soldier had a certificate stating that a piece of shrapnel was in his right lung, and the fragment was found in his hip. In three cases pieces of shell were found by the X-Ray to be within the heart, where they moved about constantly with the motion of the blood. Examination of one of the soldiers with a piece of shell in the heart one year later indicated that the piece of metal had become anchored. None of the three men with pieces of shell in the heart had any idea of the presence the foreign substance, nor did it seem to discommode them in any way. Such investigations are an indication of the great resistance of the human body to disturbances of various sorts. Were it not for this fact, the amount of illness and death would be far greater than It is.

FIGHT AT THE PARTY STUFFING THE SICK m • a WOMEN SHOVEL SNOW

THE women of Vienna shoveled snow during the recent blockade, but the government of Vienna has not cut any ice since the end of the World war, which it precipitated by getting gay with that impossible ultimatum to Serbia. a a a The prohibition department must cut out the shooting of motorists who refuse to heed their night commands to stop. So hard-boiled are travelers they do not stop even when a fellow traveler has every evidence of distress, for they have been fooled by elaborate scenery, only to find themselves gazing down a gun barrel. a a a Since the habitual criminal law st ems to work fairly well, it should be applied to divorce, permitting three of them, but making the fourth marriage a life sentence.

the remaining diamonds. In this manner game is assured. The sacrifice of one trick guarantees two additional tricks! The Principle—Ducking Is often necessary to guarantee game. iCoovriftUt. 1929. Ready Reference Publishing Company)

This Date in U. S. History

Feb. 1 1775—Provincial congress of Massachusetts met in Cambridge. 1813—United States privateer Hazzard captured the .British merchant ship Albior 1861—Texas sceceded from the Union. 1904—William H. Taft became secretary of war. What is the meaning of the name Max? It is derived from the Latin and means “strength," Who is the author of the book, “The President’s Daughter?" It was written by Nan Britton and is published by the Elizabeth Ann Guild of New York. What does the name Conroy mean? It is a Celtic name meaning “wise king.” Is Herbert Hoover a Quaker? /

FEB. 1, 1929

IT SEEMS TO ME a a By HEYWOOD BROUN

lini tad opiniaat aaeretsed in thl* column r that* of one of America’* most Interesting writers and are urwsented without retard to , their atrea* ment with the editorial nttttude of this caper. Tbe Editor.

PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. I.—At last I’ve found a Floridan whose spirit was sufficiently stanch to ride the gale as if it were a bucking bronco. "I suppose,” I said to the Negro pushing the wheel-chair, “that your house was destroyed in the big storm.” By now I’ve learned not to call it the hurricane. “No, sir,” he said, “not mine. Built it with my own hands and my own tools. I’ve rid out four of ’em. Never even lost the roof. Os course this last time my windows went, but that was just on account of the other houses blowing into mine.” And there was another man whose ego seemed to have profited by the catastrophe of last summer. This was the white skipper of a fishing boat and he said that the hurricane was the finest thing which had ever happened to him. Yes, of course he was frightened. Never in his life had be seen anything so terrific in diabolical fury. “But,” he said, “after it was all over I was still there, and I thought to myself, nothing could possible he worse than this, and even it couldn’t kill me. How can I possibly ever get scared of anything again?” Most historians agree that even If there had never been a Civil war, the south would have abolished slavery in another generation. Wise men in the southern states were beginning to realize that from sheer self-interest the institution could not be preserved. They were less moved by the thought that it was bad for the Negro than by the realization that it was increasingly harmful to the white. The southerner of today ought to go a step further than this and realize that the present status of the Negro is handicapping the entire south, both white and black. It is, extremely difficult to develop civilization under democratic forms in any community which harbors a helot class. I’m aware that the Greeks did it, but there seems at the moment to be no proof that Athens, Ga., is likely to duplicate the glories of the more ancient city. The average southerner is kindly and pleasant enough to the Negro as long as he knows his place. It is the uppity Negro w’ho arouses the ire of the ruling classes. As I understand it, the southern white man sets up barriers against the Negro because he is afraid that anything approaching social equality would mean the admixture of the races. The Nordics of the south are committed to the purity of the white strain. According to the familiar saying, the mulatto inherits the worst features of both white and black. I will not stop to ask for any proof of this oft-repeated assertion. Indeed, I must confess my own belief that when two races, however, divergent, live side by side, mixture between them is almost • inevitable. This may be bad. This may be good. I’m merely saying that it seems to happen. One effective barrier, and one only, may be raised up against admixture. That is pride of race. tt u o Purity of the Proud AND so I say if the south wants racial purity it must increase the ego of the Negro woman. Now I ask you is that a way in which to encourage chastity sufficient to repel the advances of lewd white men? For there are such even in the south. Horrible penalties are visited upon the Negro who dares to cross the color line, but there is lenience for the white man who makes the same journey. If there Is to be a true passion for racial purity it must come from both sides. It is not possible to tell a person in all sorts of ways that he is inferior and at the same time assure him that he ought to be satisfied with the condition into which it has pleased God to call him. I know that in certain southern libraries books written by Negroes are not acceptable. Could anything be more silly and short-sight-ed on the part, of the lily-white faction? Instead, the southern Nordic should be eager to hail every display of Negro genius. Raise up the Negro from an enforced humility and he may In time be not only content but eager to accept segregation. mum Not Less but More ONCE I heard James Weldom, Johnson, secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Negro People, make a speech in which he said that in most every southern state far more was appropriated for the education of white children than was spent on a like number of Negro children. “I don’t understand that,” he ssid, “because most southern white men saj* that the Negro child is much more stupid. In that case twice as much ought to be spent on his education as is spent cm the white children.” It will be said that I have no right to voice an opinion on the Negro problem after spending one week in Florida. But as a matter of fact It is the white problem which I am discussing. No ruling class ever has benefited in the long run by the existence of a peasant class. For one week I have been moving about among Negro men who continually touch their hats and “sir” any visitor. And in a week’s time I feel that these ridiculous rites have in some way injured me. But if this process went on, not for a week, but for months and years, I think it might have a permanently harmful effeet. A certain number of white men in the south are so busy being superior that they really have no time to be in any way worth a tinker's dam. (Copyright, xm. X*r Zim§*