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Legislative Knavery The attack upon the city manager form of government for cities can be explained on no other ground that pure legislative knavery. The situation is so plain and clear that no one can misunderstand the purposes of those members who are seeking to so change the law as to make the working of the plan difficult if not impossible. The people of this city, by a vote of more than five to one, adopted this form of government. The same people who voted for that change have retained, through more than two years, an interest in the change. . There is no important group of men or women in the city which has made any suggestion that the vote was a mistake. Every civic organization is still in favor of this change which will eliminate party politics from city government. The only opponents of the plan are those who frankly admit that they hope to use the city offices and pay rolls to build up political machines to be used in state, county or national polities. With the people as nearly unanimous as could be hoped for on any question and with Ihe politicians, the crooked ones at that, fight-ing-the plan, the members of the legislature who afe voting to mutilate the law and shackle this city are writing their own political obituaries. For certainly no self-respecting community would think of sending back to office a member who showed so ruthless a disregard for public opinion or common decency. If necessary, flying squads of leading citizens should go to the counties of members who follow the Coffin spokesman in theft- votes and tell their neighbors exactly what the boys are doing in Indianapolis. The city manager plan, which has been the hope of this city for two years, must not be sacrificed to the plans of Coffin and his henchmen. Federal Reorganization When Hoover begins reorganizing the administrative departments of the federal government, he will not overlook the siate department. If he can repeat in that department his achievement in whipping the commerce department into a model organization, he will correct one of the chief dangers in the conduct of American foreign relations. Those who know the President-elect say he is very unpleasar tly aware of the cumbersome and inefficient methods surviving at the state department. Doubtless he has in mind a thorough investigation of his own before making needed reforms. Fortunately, the foreign policy association has made a preliminary study, which will be most helpful to him. This able report, written by William T. Stone, Washington representative of the association, stresses the inadequacy of appropriations and of the promotion system. It reveals the archaic and hit-or-miss nature of the organization from top to bottom. Such organizational defects in the state department are more alarming than elsewhere in the federal administration because issues of war and peace are involved. Perhaps the major blame for our blundering Nicaraguan and Mexican policies of two years ago was due to ignorance and lack of co-ordination resulting from inefficient organization, more than to deliberate imperialistic motive. The change that Ambassador Morrow has brought about in our relations with Mexico is a vital reform in method rather than in policy. If this type of organizational reform is to be extended throughout the state department, the first requisite would appear to be a trained and permanent “home office” staff, comparable in professional remuneration and position with the present “foreign service,” or field staff of diplomats. Though perhaps the worst example, the state department is only one of many points at which the federal machinery needs modernizing. Since the Taft administration, there have been repeated surveys and rcommended reforms, all of which have been sidetracked by pressure in congress. Elimination of the notorious overlapping and duplication in the cabinet departments and sundry independent establishments and commissions means interference with prejudices of bureaucrats and plums pf politicians. That explains the long survival of inefficiencies in federal administration, which would not be tolerated in private business for a day. No one will doubt the organizing ability of Hoover. But we are convinced that he has the courage, which is no less necessary- than the wisdom, to do this particular job. Changing Times We find ourselves unable to share the fears of a University of North Carolina sociologist, who said at an educational meeting that the American home is coing to pot because modem youth has gone mad searching for "It.” He blames the movies, with such stars as Clara Bow and Greta Garbo. We are not quite sure just what the learned gentleman meant by “It.” Doubtless he referred to the sum total of all charms that attract men and women to each other—a fleshing smile and melting eyes, perhaps, the outward things that appeal, and beyond all these, that ineffable something that blossoms into love. “It" has worn ipany guises. But whether It come in crinoline or knee length skirts, in silks or calico, we suspect there hasn't been much change through the years. Youth ever has seen the world through rosetinted glasses. Find a youngster in love and if you could borrow his eyes you would see a girl whose beauty and grace would stir envy in the bosom of the lovely Clara or the flashing Greta. changing times, changing manners, with old traditions overboard. But that doesn't mean that hearts have ehanged, or that the age-old yearning has fled.

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An Unusual Procedure The senate Indian investigating committee has spent $30,000 in a year and wants to spend $30,000 in the coming twelve months. The senate committee on audits and contingent expenses now has asked the bureau of efficiency to investigate the work of the Indian committee and to determine whether the funds have been expended properly. Also, the bureau has been asked to determine whether it can handle much of the Indian investigation work and thereby relieve the senate committee of outside investigators. While the country cannot complain of the more than ordinary interest the senate audits committee is taking in the $30,000 expenditure, the public wants assurance that the Indian inquiry is going to be allowed to proceed in the same thorough manner it has progressed to date. In view of the Burke case, the public wants to know if any other grand jury proceedings have been suppressed at the request of the Indian bureau, whether conditions at all the reservations are as bad as testimony has shown at some, whether the Indian children are educated properly or are being treated brutally, and whether the Indians are getting all the money that is coming j them. If the stories of what has been happening to some of the Indian funds are true, $60,C00 for an investigation is a trivial amount over which no senate committee need be much concerned. Delay in the senate audits committee has gone far enough. The Indian investigation should proceed, regardless of whom it hits. The Strike Injunction Bill Legislation to outlaw the arbitrary and unconstitutional use of injunctions in labor disputes will fail in this session of congress, but that does not mean that the need for it has passed, or that its advocates will abandon their efforts. discussion over what form the legislation should take, and the opposition it has aroused among employer groups, made consideration at the short session impossible. With testimony from all sides on record, and with the study that has been made of the constitutional questions involved, passage at the next session should not be difficult. Events of the last year more than ,ever showed the need for curbing the courts, preventing their use as an instrument for the suppression of strikes and the suspension of civil liberties. This was particularly true in the coal fields and textile towns. The Civil Liberties Union reports that arrests of the sort the desired legislation would prevent were more numerous in 1928 than for several years. The legislation is one of labor’s chief objectives, and properly so. It will be fought by unenlightened employers of the old school. Labor will win, however, because it has right on its side. Sir Joseph Duveen, art critic, was sued for $500,000 for declaring a supposed Da Vinci painting was not the real thing. Good place for a juror to enjoy a nice nap. A Chicago judge told a woman alimony plaintiff that the man who loses his home should get compensation rather than pay for the loss. Ladies, what a compliment! Henry Ford says the day will come when capital punishment will be a thing of the past. We also have noticed that the old model Ts are disappearing. A doctor used alcohol as an anesthetic in an operation the other day. Isn’t it a little two high priced to be used that way? A western coach says “athletics are work, not play.” Yes, especially football are. The father may be the head of the home, but mother usually Is the receiver.

. David Dietz on Science „ Sun Spots Variable No. 278

THE spectroscope reveals the positive presence of forty-nine of the ninety-two chemical elements in the sun. There is no reason to suppose that the other forty-three are not also in the sun. Astronomers assume that they are either present in such quantities or at such low depths in the sun that they do not register their presence in the solar spectrum. The chemical elements believed to be most abundant in the outer portions of the sun in the order of their abundance, are

the light which the sun gives originates in the surface. The sun-spots are features of the photosphere. They appear as dark spots on it. But it must be unstood that they appear as dark spots only by contrast with the photosphere. Actually, a sun-spot is far brighter than the brightest artificial light which we have. Photographs show sun-spots to consist of two parts, a dark central portion known as the umbra and a lighter outer portion called the penumbra. In size, sun-spots range from tiny ones which are hardly visible, to large ones more than 50,000 miles in diameter. Sun-spots are not permanent features of the sun’s surface but passing ones, appearing and disappearing. Most sun-spots are very short-lived. One-fourth of all the spots which appear, disappear within a day. Another fourth lasts only from two to four days. The larger ones remain longer, but very few endure more than a few weeks. The number of spots appearing on the sun varies greatly from year to year, going through a regular cycle so that a maximum number of spots appear on the sun every eleven years. The cycle is not perfectly regular, however, and the interval between two maxima has been known to be as short as 7.3 years and as long as 17.1 years.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: ‘ The Navy Has Plenty of Ships Roving About Rather Aimlessly

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Feb. 13. Lindbergh to marry Anne Morrow—who could think of a better match? “Lucky in love as in the air,” some will say, but that is too flippant an explanation. The young man has shown too much good sense all along the line for any one to suppose that he let chance pick his bride. As to the young lady, she will know both the pleasure and the pain of having a real he one for her husband. Her flying colonel will be true, he is made of that Idnd of stuff. He will no.; give up his career. u u st Betting on Dreams A CLEVELAND millionaire leaves Boston in his private yacht to seek an island off the west coast of Central America which he has seen only in dreams. He does not know whether he can find it or what he will do with it if he can. How many would bet a king’s ransom on a proposition like that? Not Secretary Wilbur. Secretary Wilbur just has received a letter from a heart-broken mother. She also had a dream. She dreamed of the name “Picardo” in connection with her son, a lieutenant in the navy, who disappeared from the battleship Arkansas on Jan. 12. Picardo turns out to be a small island near where the Arkansas was cruising at the time. This mother wants Secretary Wilbur to have the island visited and searched, and why not? What harm would it do to satisfy her wish? The navy has plenty of ships roving about rather aimlessly. One of them might as well go there as somewhere else. st tt tt

U, S,-Owned Ships THE shipping board proposes to sell two more batches of boats. A New York concern has offered $16,000,000 provided.it can get both of them, which is but a small fraction of the original cost. They are being operated at a loss, however, which makes any price,seem good. Slowly and sadly we approach the end of our great shipping venture. You remember how it began, the cry was for ships back in 1917, how we issued the bonds, started the yards and went in for the greatest construction program ever undertaken, how we built them of wood and concrete, as well as steel; how wages rose, forests disappeared and the lumbermen made money; how we emerged from the war imagining we had a mortgage on maritime trade, and how we woke up with a pain in the head and a flat pocketbook. Os the 2.000 ships Uncle Sam found on his hands at the close of the war, 1,400 have been sold, mostly at junk prices, 498 are tied up or were last October, and the shipping board is operating 498 at an annual loss of about $16,000,000.

Robert Dollar TJ OBERT DOLLAR would have -IV bought one of the two batches of boats which the shipping board proposes to sell, paying a higher price, therefore, than any one else has offered, but did not care for the other. The New York concern offered to take both or nothing. Dollar loses out and the Pacific coast is disappointed. The Pacific coast believes in Dollar as a ship operator. It has seen him do things that other men did not dare try. and said could not be done, has seen him as a real hustler in spite of his age, as a modern Stephen Girard. n n Canny Scotchman ROBERT DOLLAR, Scotchman, landed in Canada with his parents when 11; got a job as chore boy in a logging camp at la; perfected his arithmetic by writing on birch bark; became a woods boss at 21; moved to Michigan and made a fortune in lumber before he was 50; moved to the Pacific coast to get- away from cold winters at 55: bought a redwood tract and a saw mill in California, and then a steamer to carry the freight; found the steamer paid and entered the shipping business; now controls the largest privately owned fleet under the American flag; works from twelve to sixteen hours a day though he is 85, and believes the world is growing better every day. "Quarter of nine tomorrow morning," replied Captain Dollar, when I asked for an interview. -Dislike to call people out so early,” he said by way of opening the conversation. when I arrived, “but I like to work in the morning; can think clearer, and get things squared around before the callers come.” U U tt Keeps on the Job “It’s not by sitting with my heels on the desk,” answered Captain Dollar when I asked him how it was he could make American ships pay, and put a round-the-world service on its feet when every one else said it could not be done. “It’s by taking off my coat," he added, “by going to work, getting freight and giving service.” Five years ago, Captain Dollar made a contract with the government to institute a round-the-world service, buying seven of its ships at a low' price, and agreeing to complete fifty trips with five years. “We could not have done it, without those low-priced ships,” he explained, "and all the foreign ship owners said we cculd not do it with them. “But we did. “The contract expired the first of this year. “Instead of completing fifty trips, as it called for, we had completed 108.”

calcium, iron, hydrogen, sodium, nickel, magnesium, cobalt, silicon, aluminum and titanium. The surface of the sun is known technically as the photosphere. The word means “light” sphere, “Photos” is the Greek word for “Ii g h t.” This name was given to the surface of the sun because

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The sixth article or Dr. Fishbein’s Interesting series of seven articles on •'The Human Body and Its Care’’ is presented here. The series, in. pamphlet form, can be obtained from the American Library Association, 86 East Randolph street. Chicago. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia, the Health Magazine. ‘“PERSONAL HYGYIENE AP--1 PLIED,” by Jesse Feiring Williams, has been planned for those who wish not only to learn personal hygiene, but also to relate the securing of health to ideals, ambitions, hopes and aspirations. The first five chapters are devoted to such subjects as the meaning of health, the health problem; intelligence and ideals, the approach to knowledge of health and of science and the proper attitude toward life. Health is defined as that quality of life that renders the individual fit to live most and to serve best. Dr. Williams is not content to give an account of the foundations and methods of medicine alone. He carries the war into the enemy’s camp and presents brief but adequate criticisms of all the cultists and of the strange methods of one-track healing that they propose. Other chapters of his book are devoted to the hygiene of the var-

IF somebody must be missing ,it might as well be Trotski as anybody else. Should he ever come to the United States, several New York reporters will ask him to reimburse them for alleged loans made to him when he was a New York newspaper man. tt it tt You. can imagine how weary the qoektail shakers of Cuba are when you hear that 43,735 Americans visited Havana during January. tt tt tt Gentlemen who are keeping large families on small salaries will be perfectly heart-broken to read that Mr. and Mrs. David Sacks of Newark, N. J., were robbed of $50,000 worth of jewels while spending the winter in Florida. tt tt Northcott, whoesale killer, of California, has been convieted, but it probably will be a year or so, depending on the amount of cash he has on hand, before he will be executed. When a criminal is caught in the morning and there's no doubt of ffis guilt, there's no good reason why the necktie party should not be held in the afternoon. > tt tt tt Senator Curtis is going to hold his senatorial job until March 4, when he becomes Vice-President, so all he will have to do will be check his voice and change chairs. n tt u Governor Roosevelt of New York does not increase his presidential potentiality throughout the west by recommending a 20 per cent cut in the New York income tax, if a 2 cent gasoline tax is adopted, inasmuch as a thousand have Lizzies to one who has an income big enough to tax

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.—Prov. 21:24. * • THERE are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.—Lavater. Do bases on balls affect the batting average of a baseball player? The batter is not charged with a time at bat if he gets a base on balls, and consequently his batting average is not affected.

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By Frederick LANDIS

XTrE wonder if A1 Smith thought VV of the votes the “Sidewalks of New York” cost him, as he and Mrs. Smith danced to its strains the other night in Florida. Had we been managing Smith our first act would have been the canning of the “Sidewalks.” tt tt tt

We have known for some time that life was getting very wild, but we did not think it had reached the stage where all these wolves would come back.

Common Bridge Errors AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM BY W. W WENTWORTH ——

42. FAILING TO ANTICIPATE EFFECT OF PLAY North (Dummy >— *Q 5 3 A7 I 3 095 4 2 A Q 7 , EastLeads A 5 South (Declarer)— AA K 5 (? 8 6 5 2 OA K Q A A 10 3 The Bidding— South bids notrump and all pass. Deciding the Play—West leads 5 of clubs. What card should be played from Dummy? The Error —Queen of clubs is played, East covers with king of clubs and South with ace of clubs so that only one trick is made iu clubs and thus game is lost. The Correct Method—Seven of clubs should be played, as in all probability, East will cover with king of clubs or jack of clubs and Declarer will overtake with ace of clubs. Asa result, two tricks are made in clubs instead of one as queen of clubs or 10 of clubs must thereafter make a trick. Unless two tricks are

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WE never have agreed with Tom Heflin in our life and we are for religious liberty to the utmost, but we do agree with him in the proposition that no emblem of any kind, religious, educational or what not, shall be placed above the American flag for one millionth of one second. tt tt tt Dr. Argueta has been named minister from Honduras. All the statesmen in Central and South America appear to be “doctors.” tt tt tt We see where Senator Watson of Indiana has been chiding the Governor of Kansas about saying that his appointee to the senate to succeed Curtis will be a “progressive.” If the Governor of Kansas has any intestinal fortitude, he will indicate to the senator from Indiana the proper place to head in.

made in clubs, game is not certain. The Principle—Before touching a card in Dummy, ascertain the probable effect thereof. (Copyright, 1929. Ready Reference Publishing Company)

This Date in U. S. History

February 13 1682—Robert de La Salle and Tonti sailed down the Illinois river to the Ohio and Mississippi, claiming territory on both sides of the latter for France. 1793—Electoral votes counted in second presidential election; 132 for Washington and 77 for Adams, who thus became Vice-President. 1819—Slavery controversy began in congress over bill to admit Missouri as a slave state. 1892—Police matrons first introduced in New York City, 1899—Snow fell In Tampa, Fla. Why does Labor day always come on the first Monday in September? Because that day was designated oy act of congress of June 28, 1894. What is the average cost of a w ht of cement road? About $38.300.

FEB 13, 1929

IT SEEMS TOME * By HEYWOOD BROUN

Ideas and opinions •*- pressed in this column are those of one of Am erica’s most interesting writers and are prostnted w i t hout regard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

WE have by now no lack of weeks in which everybody is urged to be kind to apples or dumb animals and yet I would be in favor of another designated period, to be known simply as Be Kind day. There still is space to crowd in upon the citizenry a higher degree of heartiness. Sometimes I wonder why the preachers pay so small an amount of attention to Christian ethics and spend their discourses instead on Christian theology. It seems to me that the ethics are important. A favorite slogan of the fundamentalists runs “preach Christ crucified.” And I have no doubt they do. even though this distorts the essential factor in the life of the Messiah, whom they follow as best they can. The fact that Christ lived is more important than that he died. With Professor Harry Elmer Barnes, I go quite a way in his insistence that there is need of anew conception of God and a modernization of religion. But when he says, as the newspapers report, that he -would rather take his ethics from Fosdick than from Jesus, I can’t agree at all. In saying that Christ was an ignorant peasant, Professor Barnes falls in a sleazy half-truth. Let us assume for the moment that we both accept the fact that such a person once walked the earth. Obviously the rationalists have a right that no man who lived in old Jerusalem could comprehend entirely the programs winch arise in a modem civilization. Nevertheless, there must be foundations upon which a scheme of ethics can be reared which is eternal, or thereabouts. A gospel of mercy does not depend upon any exact knowledge of radio, a gasoline engine or the wireless telegraph. tt tt St Beyond the Miracles AND it seems to me preposterous that various sects should quarrel about the authenticity of miracles and neglect matters so much more important. According to my notion one does not become a good Christian simply because of his firm belief in the episode of the loayes and fishes. It was not through such incidents that the course of the world’s thought was changed. In fact, upon one occasion Christ healed an ailing suppliant and commanded him that he should say nothing about it. A man with a message does not like to have the principles which he enunciates confused with supernatural happenings. Education is more than magic. But Prof. Barnes will say (and had said) that the doctrine of his laid down by Christ was not new. Probably he is right, but what of it?

Twice-Told Tales OF course there were prophets before Christ who counselled man to bear in mind his duty to his neighbor. Surely it should not be cited against either Messiah or professor that he brought before the world a twice-told tale, as long as it happened to be true. The early Christian fathers fought bitterly against the fact that certain episodes in the gospels had earlier echoes in the myths of the Pagans. I don’t understand why a religion should be weakened, if it can be demonstrated that its essentials have always been a part of the hope and vision of mankind. And so I am not to be disturbed by the announcement of Professor Barnes that Christ taught principles already set forth by other holy men. Against the whole fundamentalist conception of revealed religion I am in revolt.

Who Reveals? REVEALED by whom? They will tell me that the faith they hold has been set forth down to the last detail by Jesus in the Bible. Yet with all the good will in the world, no man can take any profound belief entirely from the outside. The most piercing light comes from within. I have my doubts that Paul was blinded by some external manifestation as he rode upon an expedition of persecution. Rather, there was some commotion in his own unconscious mind which suddenlj came to flame and bubble as he galloped hell-bent in the wrong direction. In a measure I believe in the tradition of conversion which animated some of the more old-fash-ioned religious sects. For them it was not enough that a man professed to be a Chritsian after the most careful perusal of all the necessary documents. They waited unfil such time as he should have an experience purely personal. I think that many men might readily accept the vital elements of Christianity without ever having heard of Christ. And I would expect to find among such folks a livelier belief than in the hearts of those who learned the rules by rote. I do not see how anybody can accept utterly even a religion until he has tried it. And missionaries should not enthuse over such heathens as take to their knees in the course of first introductory discourse. Praise of the THE phrase “spiritual tilings” is flung about so freely that many of us are imbued with the notion that all things tangible are somehow gross and wrong. A thing does not become false merely because it is palpable. Mountains, sunsets and moonlight are all material things, but not despicable upon that account. It is admirable that man should upon occasion risk his life and soul upon an intuition. There is a sort of wisdom which can be reached only through inspired hunches. <Copjri*iti, ma, TO* SUM*