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Government by Fraud Once more the old political machine is running, this time for the purpose of grinding to powder the fine measure drafted by the League of Women Voters for the permanent registration of. voters. Prom the statehouse comes the whisper that the measure demanded by the women of the state is to be defeated and as a substitute another bill is to be presented that will permit the same old government by frauds that have occurred in the past. * There can be no such thing as self government as long as frauds are made possible, then perpetrated, then protected. It is a matter of more than suspicion that vast frauds were committed in the last election. There is no way to check fraud at present, unless the repeater is dumb enough to confess. The League of Women Voters is an organization that has no partisan purposes. Its members come from all parties. It is devoted to principles. One of its aims is the protection of the ballot from fraud. This league went to considerable trouble to study the question and devise the best means of checking frauds through registration of voters. The measure if drafted is the best thought on the subject. No honest man objects to a law that would pertnit every voter to vote ONCE and no more. No honest woman objects to a law that would protect her vote against nullification by a ghost ballot from a vacant lot or a cemetery. Those who perpetrate frauds expect to steal. They may not want to steal money directly. They may wish to steal it in high rates on necessities of life or in protection when they sell booze. But ballot thievery is always the forerunner of other thievery. Those who object to and find fault with the plan of the organized women of the state will have specious and plausible excuses. They will object because of expense. They will argue that such laws are unnecessary—in the face of evidence that this state has had government by fraud in the past and that fraud is easier today than ever before. The issue is simple and direct. The members of the legislature who oppose the permanent registration measure are lining up with the thief, the bootlegger, the protected dive keeper, the seeker of special privilege and the anarchist. The members of the legislature who object to government by fraud will defend and pass this measure. Lindbergh Lindbergh flies again as ambassador of good will. Today he was to take off from Miami for Panama with a load of mail. Her has flown the mail routes before. That was how he learned the secrets of the air, in preparation for the epochal flight across the Atlantic. But this time he is to inaugurate anew and regular mail service between nations. It is fitting that the ideas of international post and intematonal friendship should be joined. - For closer relations depend largely on better communications between countries. Nationalist fear and suspicion flourish In isolation, but tend to disappear when neighbors are known as friends rather than as foreigners. That was Hoover’s idea in going to meet our Latin American neighbors. His journey was a splendid success. The air mail route which Lindbergh is opening is in line with Hoover’s plan for extensive inter-American communications —ships, roads, cables, radio, airways binding the commerce and culture of the republics of this hemisphere together. Two air mail and passenger lines already are in operation from Miami, one to Nassau and the other to Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Porto Rico. The Lindbergh line will be from Miami to Cuba. British Honduras, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Much of the route he covered in his first good will tour of Central America. Latin American relations are looking up—in more ways than one. Now if we can have a little less marine intervention and a little more friendly diplomacy to cap the Hoover tour and the Lindbergh airway, we may persuade Latin America that the "Colossus of the North’’ is not such a bad fellow after all.

Is It a Plum? Politicians are busy trying to select anew feaeral district attorney, in order, presumably, to relieve Mr. Hoover from this task when he takes over the office and Albert Ward, present incumbent, retires. They insist on looking at this office as a piece of political patronage, to be given out by politicians, and administered in behalf of politicians. But is this office a political plum? Its importance has increased tremendously since the coming of Volsteadism and the rise of gang crime. Just how important it has beome may be estimated from the news over the week-end. In South Bend, an industrial city with a population that in years was not particularly open to sodden temptations and new vices, more than twenty drug peddlers were indicted. South Bend, if it had any appetite in the past, ran to alcoholic beverages and the milder ones, at that. Its foreign population came from countries accustomed to wines and beers, not booze. That more than twenty drug peddlers find customers In that city lor their wares suggest that an appetite for poison has been developed by unrestrained use of the modem concoc ions sold under whisky labels. It is also easier to import narcotics than it is to run booze. The increasing use of narcotics makes it necessary that a district attorney be a man who can be trusted not to take orders from bosses whose henchmen need protection in this new and profitable business. Up in the northern part of the state a sheriff is today indicted for murder. He is charged with killing a gangster, alleged to have been either his partner or competitor In the protection of booze runners. He ruled over a county in which it is alleged that protection was sold openly to nun runners. A vigilant district attorney, with a vigilant prohibit tion force, might have been able to check the protection of crime by local officials before it reached the murder stage. The district attorney also has charge of prosecution of election cremes. The election crooks are seldom afraid of local officials. They hate the idea of

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a federal charge. There is still some fear of Uncle Sam. In such a situation it Is rather ghastly to have the office discussed only as a reward to some man who has been more friendly to Senator Watson than he has been to Robinson and to wonder what Boss Coffin wants. The place needs a fearless man who will-throw fear into the hearts of all crooks. It needs a prosecutor, not a politician. Let it be hoped that before Mr. Hoover names a man, ho- will study local conditions and history and discover just how far he can trust the advice of those who claim the office as a perquisite. They have not been particularly public-minded in their advice to Presidents in the past in regard to many federal appointments. If the politicians have their way, there is one man who will never be considered. They would never consent, if their consent is needed, to the naming of Will Remy, who indicted politicians rather freely while Marion county prosecutor and who showed littld regard for the dictatorship of Stephenson. Perhaps the men and women who voted for Herbert Hoover, not as a Republican, but because they trusted him, might have more weight with him than the politicians who slandered him during the primary, if these same men and women protest against the delivery of this job as a political tidbit for senators. Why not a few public petitions, either for Remy or for some other man who Is not under the influence of the bosses and see what happens?

Replacing Ghosts "Our cruiser building policy has not been a policy of increasing numbers, but of replacement.” Now who, do you think, said that? Secretary of the Navy Wilbur? No, you are wrqng—and right. That is the chief argument of Wilbur and Chairman Hale of the senate naval affairs committee and other boosters for the fifteen-cruiser bill before the senate. But this particular quotation is from W. C. Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty, speaking to the British Constitutional Club. There in a nutshell—or a bombshell—you have the explanation of the method by which both the British parliament and the American congress are led unwittingly into an armament race, which once started is almost impossible to stop. How plausible the argument is made to sound, that anew building program is not really new at all, but merely a matter of replacements. That argument is absurd when applied to the bill before the senate. Two of the cruisers that are being "replaced” are the Rochester and the Olympia of Spanish-American war fame. Those ships, laid down nearly forty years ago, have been “replaced” by every building program since thenar. So with twenty other cruisers, laid down between 1895 and 1905. As late as last spring even the navy department supposed these twenty-two had been replaced to death, but now they are salvaged again for the same purpose. But precisely the same sort of thing is being put over on the British by their admiralty. Only the British case is even worse. Whatever tricks the admiralty may resort to, why can’t our own navy department be frank about the issue? It is not a question of American replacements, but of building up to equal British strength. Britain always has been superior in cruisers. Since the Washington naval conference, she has increased her superiority. Asa result, the American people, as well as the navy department, are determined for the first time to achieve parity. We believe it is dangerous and unfriendly to resort to the threat of an armament race until the possibility of peaceful negotiation by the Hoover administration and the forthcoming new British government has been exhausted. The cruiser bill should be postponed in the interest of Anglo-American friendship and world peace.

Dietz on Science - Future Lies With Sun No. 211

ANCIENT man worshiped the sun. Dr. Forest of the Yerkes observatory says today that if he were inclined to worship any material thing rather than spiritual things, he would become a sun wTorshiper. For we are children of the sun physically. Our earth is the child of the sun. According to modern theories, our earth came into existence when some molten matter driven out of the sun condensed into a ball and hardened.

temperature of our earth would be the temperature of empty space, 459 degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit thermometer. The sun also performs an important function for the earth in keeping up the mechanism of rainfall. It is the sun’s heat which evaporates the water and causes the accumulation of moisture in the atmosphere which subsequently results in rainfall. Plants can not grow without sunlight. The process by which green plants absorb the carbon dioxide of the air is called photosynthesis. It can go on only with the energy of sunlight. In addition the health of animals and mankind depends upon the ultra-violet radiation from the sun. Animals or children who do not get sufficient sunlight develop rickets. But the sun also sends out certain ultra-violet radiations which would be absolutely deadly were It not for the fact that the ozone in the upper atmosphere prevents them from getting through to the earth’s surface. There are many reasons, therefore, why we should be interested in the sun. The future of the earth is in many way’s the future of the sun. Within recent years, a tremendous amount of information has been amassed about the sun. This will be discussed in subsequent articles.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Either Our Lawmakers Are Unduly Alarmed, or They Ought to Authorise Something Far More Worth While (Than Cruisers) by Way of National Defense.”

SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 4. “Legislature to Tackle State Crime Problem,” reads a headline in the Sunday papers. It might just as well be Lansing, Columbus, or Denver. Asa matter of fact, this writer has read exactly the same kind of headlines ir. each of the above named state capitals during the last three weeks. ' Whether we have a crime wave, most everyone seems to think so, and whether it is recognized as a national problem, the talk sounds wonderfully alike, no matter where one goes. Nothing has become louder, or more common throughout this country than the cry for improved law enforcement, simplified procedure and a renovation or the jury system. Is it just conversation or are we getting ready to do something worth while? As if ballyhooing efforts of the state legislature to deal with crime were not enough to let the reader know this is still America though 3.000 miles west of New York, he is informed that the daughter of one Vanderbilt seeks divorce, while the widow of another seeks marriage with an ex-nobleman. How familiar it all sounds? How the country has shrivelled? How New York society and Washington politics have come to dominate the news? tt tt Looking Again to Orient IT was eighty years ago that the gold rush in California began, with clipper ships, old side wheelers and covered wagons carrying the crowd. Traveling by Pullman across the continent, talking by telephone, or sending letters, by air mail, one finds it hard to realize just how much has occurred during that short time. So, too, one finds it hard to guess what the next eighty years will bring. Once more white civilization stands looking westward over a mighty ocean, the last mighty ocean, toward that land which Columbus originally sought, but with a different, and let us hone, a saner viewpoint. Yonder still lies Cathy, with its spices, silks, gems, end mysteries, luring a more energetic Occident to come and see, if net to take calling across the gulf of t ie ages, as well as the gulf of th jse. Four centuries ago, white civilization was content to regard its trinkets as worthy discovery and war. The needed discovery having been made, white civilization faces the question of whether it can establish and increase trade without conflict. a tt u Is Peace Hopeless? SOME say “no,” some say that re are moving toward the greatest struggle of all time, that the socalled yellow peril,is not imaginary, but real, and that though western nations might learn to live in peace, there is too much of a racial difference between east and west to permit anything like permanent accord. Some, indeed, go so far as to say that even, western nations can not live in peace, that war remains just as inevitable as it ever did and that our only hope lies in being constantly prepared. We have been hearing much along this line since the cruiser bill came up for debate in congress.

Over-Rating Cruisers SENATOR JOHNSON of California is one of the latest to see red, with war looming on the Pacific, England breaking faith and a Japanese lurking behind every possible object of concealment. He, too, weeps for cruisers, as though they spelled the differ nee between eternal bliss and destruction. Well, I am not against cruisers. What irks me is this nonsensical overrating of them, this yell about the imminence of war as an excuse for their construction, this insinuating that they would make us everlastingly safe in the face of an aroused intriguing world. Bosh, these fifteen 10,000-ton cruisers represent about as much money as we spend for chewing gum each year and would contribute about as much effective fighting strength in case of general conflict. Either our lawmakers are unduly alarmed, or they ought to authorize something far more worthwhile by way of national defense. a a a Mass Intellect W'HEN the next war occurs, we shall not only be flying across the great oceans with comparative ease, but steering air craft by radio. Within two years, and probably less, manless airplanes will be riding the winds, steered by invisible hands from a safe distance. Within a short time, we shall have learned how x> send death by wireless. When the next war occurs, men will die without even knowing what hit them, also, women and children. Scared senators should turn to science if they would prepare, should visit laboratories of the General Electric Company and chemical foundations. We' are dealing with mass intellect even more definitely than with mass production, with millions of hot ambitious brains, cooperating to pry out the secrets of nature. It is no longer safe to suppose a nation can provide for the future by imitating what was done yesterday.

That means, therefore, that the earth, the green trees and the flowers, our own bodies, were all, once upon a time, white-hot flaming gases in the outer reaches of the sun. Life would be impossible today were it not for the sun. The sun supplies us with light and heat. If it were not for the sun, the

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npHE senate should adopt the -J- resolution of Senator Jones of Washington that confirmation of presidential appointees shall be considered in open session, instead of behind closed doors. If presidents can stand the fierce light of national campaigns, their appointees can stand an open discussion of theif qualifications. a a a Since the Russian government has made Trotzki the goat, it is eminently proper for the Turkish government to give him shelter in Angora. a a a Those Central American presidential candidates who go gunning for their successful rivals must have been astounded when Smith went to call on Hoover. a a a Senator Reed made a great speech for the cruiser bill, but he did not change any votes, for it is almost as rare for senators to convert each other, as for lawyers to convert opposing lawyers in a trial. a a a Mr. Hoover will be the first President whose words and movements will be recorded in sound pictures when he is inaugurated. It would be a thrill if we could see and hear Washington and Lincoln when they took the helm of the ship of state. a u It is only a question of time until radio broadcasting will be installed in congress and in our state legislatures, so if you have any earmuff stock, hold on to it. a a a A lot of people in lew., have formed an associaition to overcome the high cost of dying by purchasing large quantities of fimeral supplies, but the idea will hardly capture the nation, as few desire to purchase their permanent outfits in advance.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE This Shows Why Southern Blood Is Hot

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. \ MONG modern methods of diagnosis in disease, the examination of the blood is of great importance. The effects of poisons, of parasites and of bacteria of various types are indicated promptly in the blood stream. Not only does the blood respond by changes in the number of colls, but also in their character. Investigations indicate that anemia of various types is more frequent in the than in the north. Before any definite fact car. be derived as to the value of the study

Reason

This Date in U. S. History

Feb. 4 1776—American troops o-xupied New York City. 1783—Hostilities ceased in American Revolution. 1789—U. S. electors cast first vote. 1794—First theater in Boston opened. 1869—Woman suffrage convention held at Topeka, Kan.

Daily Thought

Do all things without murmurrags and disputings.—Philippian*. 2:14. a a a THE pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. — JouberL

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of the blood in disease, it is necessary to have a conception of what the normal conditions include. Physicians in the department of medicine of Tulane university. New Orleans, have recently made an extensive technical study of the blood of 100 men between the ages of 19 and 30 years, presumably in good health, and compared their observations with figures for a similar group in Oregon. The average number of red blood cells was 5,850,000 per cubic centimeter of blood as contrasted with 5,390,000 for the group hi Oregon. The amount of red coloring matter was 15.87 grams in 100 cubic centimeter for the southern group, as compared with 15.76 for the Oregon group.

By Frederick LANDIS

IF the Republican party has one drop of it will pay this Democratic campaign deficit, for Smith and Raskob did more for Hoover than everybody else. tt ft n Representative Stedman of North Carolina, 80 years old, ascribes his health to the fact that he has taken three baths a day, but we know a number of antiques who attribute their power to the fact that they never have bathed. All of which proves that you can take them or leave them alone.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM I . by W. W WENTWORTH

34. PLAYING WRONG CARD . FROM DUMMY North (Dummy) ▲ J 10 6 . * K 91 064 3 2 *7 4 3 West— EastLeads I South (Declarer)— 4 AKQ A 14 1 OKJ 9 t *K Q *

The Bidding—South bids notrump. West passes. North passes. East bids two diamonds. South bids two no-trump and all pass. Deciding the Play—West leads 7 of hearts. Applying the rule of eleven Declarer knows East holds no card higher than 7 of hearts. What card should be played from Dummy? The Error—Dummy plays king of hearts or 4 of hearts. The Correct Method —By his bid of two diamonds and West’s failure to lead diamonds, East is marked with diamonds A Q 10 8 7 and in all probability with ace of clubs. To make game Declarer must finesse the diamonds twice through East. For this purpose two re-entries in Dummy are required. They are 9 of hearts and king of hearts. Declarer must therefore take the first trick with 9 of hearts, and then finesse a diamond and if successful plays to king of hearts, finessing another diamond. King of clubs is now played and won by opponents. No matter what

Thus normal people living in the south seem to have more red blood cells than those living in the north,

Q. —Is it harmful to lie down and sleep immediately after eating? A.—No. Some people feel that light exercise, like walking. after eating makes them feel better. If they wish to, there is no, reason why they should not do so.

whereas the red coloring matter is about the same. This fact is of great importance anemia and the parasitic infections which are extremely frequent.

DO IT IN THE OPEN A GOAT IN ANGORA a m a MAKING LIGHTNING

INASMUCH as Senator Jim Reed is touchy about iiis age, you can imagine his wrath when Senator Brookhart of lowa, who is far from being a debutante, declared that he loved Reed as a son loved his father. tt tt tt Idaho rapidly is becoming one of the great chrysanthemum producers and in addition she produces potatoes and Senator Borah. a tt Inasmuch as the United States cannot very well have two world's fairs in 1933, New York and Chicago should roll the bones and decide which one is “it.” tt tt It was a great accomplishment for the General Electric Company to produce 5,000,000 volts of lightning, but our presidential aspirants have been genera ting their ov n for more than a century.

suit is now led, Declarer must make game. The Principle—Whenever possible ascertain position of missing cards from a failure of opponent to lead his partner’s declared suit. (Copyright. 1929. Ready Reference Publishing Company)

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Editor The Times—The Indiana state assembly, now in session, is having a great deal of trouble relative to the Governor’s forecast increase in the cost of government, and the necessity of increased Lixes. It should be very apparel "> the legislature and to the Governor that the means an-’ the ones who are causing this increase in gi /ernment expense are at present conducting a sort of legislative body of their own in the statehouse at the present time. By this I refer directly to the lobbyists. The lobbyists have been taken into legal consideration by the fact that they are forced to register as lobbyists. Why not make them pay for the pF*’■'ge? Just ad a tax of aLout $250,000 for each one that registers. This tax to be paid in cash at the time of registration and to include those who would lobby for ecclesiastical associations and eleemosynary corporations as well as business organizations. If registering for an organization not having its headquarters here, an extra charge of SIOO,OOO should be included. If such- an act were passed it would do away with one of two things; either it would, drive out the Jobr Het it would lessen the cost of government, D. J, MENZE. 1715 Central Ava.

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t m ,d * ,g B r B opinion# ex* B B eressed k tkt* B B oolini ere jfiL those of one of Aaerkt'i SEEMS a S tented with. TO ME zr\l.s ment with the tt • editorial aUt* By HEY WOOD ‘ h ’ BROUN The Editor

NEVER in this century have detective stories been produced in such huge quantities. There was a day when blood and thunder tales were supposed to be fare for housemaids and not fit for the intellectuals. But crime, as far as literature goes, has become respectabilized. Presidents and the other public leaders have removed the reproach from the mystery stories. Indeed a passion for the detective novels has come to be almost a pose with all busy men. No one has reached the height of success until he tolls the reporters that for recreation he reads detective stories to rest his mind. And so once noble form of literature has fallen into a decline. The books sell in quantities never reached Before, but the quality has declined. The plots were better in the housemaid days. There have not been as many as half a dozen good detective stories written since Conan Doyle jilted Sherlock Holmes for spiritualism. I find that the modern crop almost wholly unsatisfactory. Often I have fallen asleep while in the middle of one of the new style tales. Counting suspects seems to me at most as soporific as counting sheep. Mass production has resulted In standardization. Almost never is there any departure from a set formula. Somebody is murdered in the library of a country home. Any one of 10 or 20 people could have committed the crime and it becomes the author’s business to whisk suspicion round in turn from one character to another. tt One Story—All BUT this has been done so often that even the casual reader can see the wheels revolve. He cannot possibly grow excited over the fact that the police intend to arrest Felicia, the beautiful heroine. It is true that people in the next room heard the girl cry put, "You brute,” and “Let me go.” Moreover, the butler established the feet that when he rushed into the library he saw her bending over the dead man with a smoking revolver in her hand. And, of course, there were blood stains on her sleeve. Yet any reader of detective stories must realize that this is the flimsiest case in the world. Against such evidence he can point out the fact that Felicia is the heroine of the novel and inevitable innocent Heroines are never guilty in detective stories, no matter what they may do in realistic novels. Again there is the circumstance that Felicia happens to be the first person suspected, which precludes her guilt beyond quibble. The man or womafi revealed in the last chapter as the murderer must be a person never considered up to that time. It is necessary that the reader be fooled and shocked by this last turn of events. But the reader can’t be a sap all his life and no longer be fooled. One author went so far as to rnok** the culprit the narrator of the story. This I must admit was a device which took me in, but several more experienced students of detective literature saw? through this trick from the beginning.

All Wrong THE fundamental princple upon which these tales are written is wholly fallacious. The authors seem to feel that it is five times as exciting to have twenty people suspected as to narrow the case down to four. Practically all modern detective fiction derives from Conan Doyle and dozens of dim Sherlocks more through the printed pages of the current books. Not one of them ever has taken on the authenticity of Holmes. The real genius of Doyle becomes apparent when one considers how feeble are his imitators. , The stage has taken over most of the worst tricks of the detective novel . There, too, we have the jigsaw type of mystery and anew suspect for each scene. It is ever harder to deceive the piaygoer than the reader. A friend of mine once identified the culprit in a melodrama before the play has been in progress more than a few minutes. And when I asked him how he did it he smiled in kindly fashion and explained. “Well, you see I happen to know that Charlie Chillings, who played the butler, is a SSOO-a---week actor and so when he come on in the small role of the servant in the first act I realized that he must have a lot to do later on in the play and turn up as the guilty man.” In that last three or four seasons I r mber only one ingenious mystery play. This was a piece (I forget the name) in which all sorts of suspicion pointed to one man in the very first act. There was every logical reason for believing him guilty and when the solution finally came he was guilty. That fooled everybody. I recomend some such device to the novelists. I can’t forever blanch and shudder over thrice-told tales. In fact I think there ought to be a law. It would salutary to forbid the writing of detective stores for one year. That vacation period might prove long enough to enable somebody to think up anew plot. (Copyright. 1929. lor The Times) When did the use es tallow candles begin? Tallow candles have been used since the first or second centuries A. D. The first mention In literature occurs in the second century, but there is a candle from Meraeulaneum in the British Museum which, it is claimed, dale,- frvm U* first century. Who pla>ed the part a# the nn in the picture "b tl S#f* Sue Parker. Dee* your ratUu tifert >*#s fw locating diaturbantw* la lmeaCity? The Times radio UHerhwaw* umov makes no chart* lw hfc ** Times subnet ibeta