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Who Lied? On another page of this newspaper is printed today a most remarkable letter. It comes from the wife of Rev. E. S. Shumaker, the dry leader who is now a number, milking cows at the penal farm, cloaked with the mantel of silence and secluded by prison rules. She protests against the statement that her husband ever tried to influence the supreme court through political personages —and her witness is Senator Arthur R. Robinson. The matter has been before the supreme court. It will be recalled that when Arthur L. Gilliom was attorney-general he brought to the attention of the supreme court letters exchanged between Shumaker and Senator James E. Watson and asked that Shumaker, the defendant, be given an additional sentence because of the inferences in correspondence with Watson that he had attempted to influence that court. In defense of her husband Mrs. Shumaker recites the sworn evidence of Senator Robinson, denying that ever by letter or spoken word, had he attempted to interfere with the sentence. Against this is the written statement of Senator Watson. In his letters lie said that he had first heard of a jail sentence in the Shumaker case when Robinson came to his office in Washington and asked him to do what he could to “keep Shumaker out of jail.” Either Robinson or Watson lied. No other conclusion is possible. For if Robinson told the truth when he says that either directly or indirectly he never attempted to interfere, Watson lied when he said that Robinson came to him and solicited his aid. If Watson told the truth, then Robinson not only lied but perjured himself when he swore to the quoted statement that he had not Iried to interfere. The supreme court listened to the plea of Gilliom and heard oral evidence of Clyde Walb, now a convict, and others, and read, presumably, the jocular deposition of Watson taken in Washington. It found that Shumaker did try to influence the court, but in view of the status of the case, decided not to change the judgment. Either the statement of Robinson is correct or it is false. Likewise Watson told the truth or he falsified when he said that Robinson came and asked him to use his influence upon a case then pending in that court. Os course, the question may now be purely academic. It is not, apparently, academic t> the friends of Shumaker, who may be very properly interested in knowing just what happened. The state as a whole might show some interest in the entire matter. It may wish to know, for future reference, just which one of its very distinguished senators, both of whom always profess great interest in prohibition, told the truth about the whole affair. 'l’b ' state, too, will show nothing but sympathy for t!m efforts of the wife of the dry leader to protect his reputation from any imputation that he had tried to influence the court, even though that body has decided that such was the case.

Page the Red-Baiters What has become of the fellow who was so sure that the Soviet government was plunging Russia into hell and dragging the rest of the world along? What has become of the fellow who saw in every American statement reporting Russian progress evidence of Bolshevik propaganda and gold? If there are any such red-hunters left, what are they going to do with all these Wall Streeters loaning money to Russia, all these American corporations doing business with Russia, all these conservative newspapers and magazines carrying news favorable to Russia? And what are the red-hunters going to do about Thomas D. Campbell? Campbell is from Montana, where he is the largest wheat grower in the world. He has been in Russia, helping organize agricultural production. He suddenly has been called home. He is a friend of Hoover. The political writers say he is going to be secretary of agriculture. “Russia seems to have gone further than any of us in thinking out the application of industrial methods to the business of farming, says Campbell. He adds that Russia expects to buy in the United States m the next five years. $400,000,000 worth of farm and road machinery. He “hopes they will have opportunity” to get reasonable credits here. Apparently. American big business is quite ready to trust Moscow. The General Electric recently extended to Russia a five-year industrial credit of $26,000,000. Russia has large contracts, or is negotiating, with otner American corporations such as Standard Oil, International Harvester, Ford and General Motors. Trade between the tv o countries last year amounted to $112,000,000, which was more than double the old irude turnover between the United States and Czarist We have a vague recollection that the red-hunters used to advertise Soviet Russia as the chief menace to world peace. When she presented a complete disarmament proposal at Geneva, they called it a trick. Now how are they going to explain Russia's leadership. as the first nation in the world to make tha Kellogg anti-war treaty effective? Foreseeing monthsNand possibly years of delay before the Kellogg pact be-

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comes generally effective by ratification of the signatory powtys, Russia on her own .nitiative has put through a special protocol with Poland, Rumania, Latvia, and Estonia, making the pact as among themselves operative immediately. Russia, who was to menace peace, turns out to be a leader in peace. Russia, who was to cause economic ruin, turns out to be an expert in agricultural reform and foreign trade. How very disconcerting to the redbaiters—that is, if there are any left. The Summer White House For a nation which makes a cult of personal health and efficiency, 150 years may seem a trifle long in which to provide a summer residence for the President. But now that we finally have gotten around to the idea, there should be no delay in making it effective. Occupants of the White House have been too modest to ask for a vacation home for themselves, and congress apparently has been too busy to take the initiative. But Cooiidge has requested congress to provide for Hoover and his successors what he did not have. Mt. Weather, Va., proposed by Cooiidge and informally approved by Hoover, seems to be an ideal place for the purpose. It is up in the clouds of the storied Blue Ridge, sixty miles from Washington. By remodeling the weather bureau buildings on that federal property, the cost of the summer White House will be less than $50,000. Even those who love Washington most never boast of its summers. White House physicians Always have tried to keep Presidents out of Washington during the hottest months. This has resulted in hit or miss rest trips by Presidents and undignified bidding by politicians and summer resort interests every year lor the temporary summer White House. Mt. Weather will change all of that. Drys Still Powerful Hope that the power of the organized drys over congress was weakening seems to have been premature. They are not only cracking the whip as of old, but anew note of authority is creeping into their demands since the election, as if they felt their power had been strengthened. Witness the progress of the Harris amendment appropriating an additional $24,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. The senate might have approved it without orders from the dry leaders, but all question vanished when they made their position known in no uncertain terms, and had their condemnation of Secretary Mellon read from the senate floor. The house exhibited its fear by refusing to take a record vote on the amendment and, instead, sending it to conference. Thus members avoided the embarrassment of recording their choice between the dry leaders and the administration, and no single individual can be singled out for punishment. So authoritative is the mandate of the drys that the important deficiency bill, to which the amendment was attached, remains deadlocked and Is threatened with defeat. Perhaps even more significant was the veiled threat of one of the dry leaders to President-Elect Hoover that the drys would organize a movement to oppose retention of Secretary Mellon if he did not toe the line as they drew it. This bit of arrogance is reminiscent of the days when the late Wayne B. Wheeler dictated the course of legislation and the conduct of executive officers of the government. Captain Hawks, wearing a raccoon coat, shattered all speed marks for Los Angeles to New York flights. Well, something just had to be done for raccoon coats. ' An lowa farmer was arrested for selling liquor concealed in pumpkins. Do you suppose the police overheard one of his patrons exclaiming “Some punkins!”?

David Dietz on Science ________ Hale Helps Solar Study No. 280

THE most absorbing and startling facts about the sun were revealed through an instruments invented by Dr. George Ellery Hale, who was the first director of the Mt. Wilson observatory and is now its honorary director. The instrument is known as the spectroheliograph. Recently. Dr. Hale has made an improved form of the

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or photosphere is so great that all the fainter higher details of the solar atmosphere are swallowed up in the great blaze of light from below. The spectroheliograph is a telescope to which a -pectroscope is attached. Light from the telescope ■nters the spectroscope through a moving slit so arranged that light in succession from each portion of the sun’s surface is admitted. m There is a second slit behind the spectroscope. A photographic plate is arranged to move behind the econd slit, in unison with the motion of the first one The result is that as the light from each portion oi r lie sun passes through the spectroscope it is recorded m its proper place on the photographic plate. This means that a photograph is obtained in a single spectrum iine. Since this single spectrum l:ne is the result o’' so.ne element, such as hydrogen, or calcium. for example, the resulting photograph shows ihe distribution of this element through the upper atmosphere of the sun and therefore is a good photo of the upper reaches cf the sun’s structure. The spectrohelioscope is an improvement on the spectroheliograph. It has a vibrating slit which makes direct observation possible. The spectroheliograph could be used to take a photo. A series of photos taken in quick succession would show changes taking place in the sun. With the spectrohelioscope, however, it is possible for the observer to watch the changes as they take place. j With the aid of his inventions, Dr. Hale pointed the way to an understanding of sun-spot structure and the arrangement of gases in the sun’s atmosphere.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 15. People out here are accused of bragging too much. Maybe they do, but they have some excellent excuses—climate, scenery and, best of all, a go-get-it complex which can show results. Nature has been very kind to California. Oranges ripen in the Sacramento valley, while at Truckee, 150 miles away, dogs race through deep snow. You can stand on Mount Whitney, which is the highest peak in the United States and look down into Death Valley, which is the lowest point. You can rest in the cool, damp shade of giant redwoods right after lunch and get to a desert as bleak and barren as the Sahara before sunset. Nature hasn't done It all, however, it took men of skill and vision not only to build such cities as San FTancisco and Los Angeles, but to provide more irrigation than any other state can boast, to bring in the oil wells, develop hydro-electric power and construct a road system such as Rome in her palmiest days never possessed. Whether in lemons, the latest and jazziest talkies, or registered airplanes, California leads. n n n Go-Gettingest Tribe According to a bulletin just issued by the commerce department, there are 5,653 registered airplanes in this country. One out of every seven hails from California. New York comes second by a wide margin; Illinois, third; Ohio, fourth, Michigan, fifth and Pennsylvania, sixth, though each and every one of them have more people and presumably more wealth than California. Why this should be so is something for local patriots to argue. Clear air and mild temperature may be given some of the credit, but not too much. Californians, regardless of where they originated and the vast majority of them originated somewhere, are the go-gettingest tribe in America. They are worse than Texans, and that is needless. Toll Bridge Evil WITH all their push, Californians have not been able to free themselves from the toll bridge pest. They have built thousands upon thousands of miles of perfectly good roads only to have some private concern take possession of intervening rivers and creeks. There are said to be more than $25,000,000 worth of privately owned toll bridges in the state and there would be three times as many in prospect if Governor Young had not put his foot down. Governor Young has undertaken to stop the nuisance not only by putting up the bars against future applicants, but by providing a system of financing whereby the public can recapture the toll bridges now in existence without issuing bonds against the general revenue of the state. We need more Governors of that kind, and more of the same spirit at Washington. Os all the methods by which private interests are permitted to horn in and take advantage of public necessity and public work, the toll bridge is the least excusable. A tool bridge would not be worth a cent without a road at each end. In ninety-nine cases out of 100, the public builds the road. Anyone can go on from there.

Hard Winter in Europe IT is hard to visualize conditions in Europe from the Pacific coast. One could take a five hour trip into the Sierras and get a pretty good idea of what they are. Far too vivid for most of us, so we do the best we can to get the picture by wire and print. From ten to twenty thousand dead: wolves entering a schoolhouse and eating little children, not to mention four or five grownups who came to the rescue; bread nes and hot tea for the freezing poor in Vienna; deep snow' in Rome: coal supplies cut off by the blocking of railroad tracks; most great harbors icebound, save on the coast of Spain; the canals of Venice frozen over for the first time in 140 years; the coldest w'eather in some places for more than 200 years—it is a freak, or a portent? Our weather bureau seems to think that nothing more consequential has occurred than a peculiar combination of atmospheric pressures. It is unscientific however, to suppose that such a combination occurred without cause, even if it does not occur very often. One need not believe we are moving yito another ice age to assume that there is a deft reason for the European cold snap—a reason that has manifested itself before and that it will do so again. Gang Firing Squads SOME of our misfortunes are due to nature, while others are due to human nature. Europe is afflicted with low temperature, while Chicago suffers from low-mindedness. Seven men stood up against a wall and shot like dogs with machine guns; from six to ten bullets in each man’s body: the result of an obviously well planned raid, and the police explain it in about the same impersonal, academic way as would a professor of sociology lecturing to sophomores. In spite of reform and reorganization. Chicago police do not appear to find out what is going on until after it has occurred From this distance it looks as though the promised cleanup still had a good way to go. Many people, both in and out of Chicago, lay such a condition to Volsteadism. and opine that nothing much can be done to correct it until the national law is modified or repealed. That is one thing, and not the least important thing, that keeps it alive.

instrument which he calls the spectrohelioscope. This instrument show's us w'hat the sun really looks like. An ordinary photograph shows us the spots on the sun, but it does not reveal the detailed structure of the sun’s upper atmosphere. This is because the bright glare of white light from the sun’s surface

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TRACY SAYS: Europe Is Afflicted With Low Temperature, While Chicago Suffers From Low-Mindedness.”

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Find Danger in Radio-Active Material

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE French government commission on occupational diseases has recently considered particularly the dangers of working with radium, X-ray and similar radio-active substances. It already is well established that such substances may be associated with severe changes in the human body. The first signs of overexposure are changes in the blood, including reduction of the large white blood cells and increase in the small white blood cells. Later there may be a permanent Increase in the large white blood eells associated with enlargement of

Reason

THE universal celebration of Lincoln’s birthday reminds one that we have overlooked John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, without whom the crushing of the confederacy would have been more difficult. Had not the iron-clad Merrimac not been stopped, northern towns could have been bombarded, the United States navy, then a wooden creature, would have been helpless, the blockade 6f the south would have been broken, and no one knows what the end would have been. tt tt ft Ericsson was born in Sweden, but became a naturalized American in 1848. The Monitor, however, was not, as generally believed, evolved all of a sudden to combat the Merrimac. Ericsson constructed the model of the Monitor in 1854 and sent his plans to the emperor of the French, but Louis Napoleon refused to adopt the craft. Then when the United States government learned that the Confederates were making the ironclad Merrimac they accepted Ericsson’s device, and it did the work. a tt tt The death of Bishop Henderson of the Methodist Episcopal church from a cold, contracted while attending the burial of a friend, reminds one that funerals beget funerals. tt n tt It appears that the United States navy now is regarded as a beauty parlor, rather than a branch of the national defense, more than 150 men having been refused admittance to the navy at Norfolk because they “were too homely to wear the uniform. - ’ The country Is entitled to know the name of the distinguished genius who ordained this supreme test of pulchritude for seaaogs.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York avenue. Washington. D. C. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other questions >lll receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this service. Did the ancients have anything that corresponded to the modern cross-word puzzles? Something similar to the crossword puzzles is said to have been performed by Hindus and Chinese as long ago as 1000 B. C. The American Indians also played some ■find of criss-cross game with grains of corn when the first white men arrived on this continent. Magic squares played an important part 'n the occultism and mysticism of he middle ages. Under what provision of law were the Quakers and Dunkards excused from active military service during the World war? “And nothing in this act contained shall be construed to require or compel any person to serve in any of the forces herein provided

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the spleen, the lymphatic glands and the bone marrow. The rod blood cells diminish in number and degenerate. It is also well established that overexposure to the rays may Injure the power of the human being to reproduce. Finally, the effects on the skin may include inflammation, burns and with repeated irritations, the development of malignant growths. Thus it becomes important to protect the worker against repeated exposure and overexposure to radioactive substances. The complete list of substances includes radium, radium emanation, polonium, actinium, thorium, mesothorium, radiothoroum, thorium X and emanations of thorium. The effects are produced in the

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m By Frederick LANDIS

BOBBY TROUT won the L”-*- women’s endurance flight record by staying in the air 17 hours 5 minutes and 37 seconds, but this is not to be compared with some of the endurance records made by women on the ground. Many of them endure hopeless men for a lifetime. Lincoln’s stepmother, for instance, a woman of the finest instinct, endured hopeless Tom Lincoln for something like thirty years.

Fellowship in Prayer

Topic for the Week “LENT AND MYSELF" Memory Verse for Friday, Interdenominational Day of Prayer for Missions: —“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world (I John 5:4). (Read: I John 2:12-17.) MEDITATION: It is a time for me to be aiking myself whether or not the world has been too much with me, laying waste my pwers and alienating me from the life of the spirit. Do I find myself more at home in the world than in the fellowship of Christ? Are secular affairs more interesting to me than the things of the spirit? I must be on my guard. For I know full well that the world may afford only temporary satisfactions. Its very successes may corrupt the heart. Its rewards may be only Dead sea fruit

who is found to be a member of any well recognized religious sect or organization at present organized and existing and whose existing creed or principles forbid its members to participate In war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of said religious organizations, but no person so exempted shall be exempted from service in any capacity that the President shall declare to be noncombatant.” Before parliamentary government was established in England did the king have absolute power? The English house of lords dates from the assembly which met in November, 1295, known as the model parliament. Prior to 1265, when the first house of commons was summoned by Earl. Simon de Montfort, the kings of England did not rule absolutely. They had advisory councils and generally acted after consultation. Although in early times kings were regarded as “the fountain of all justice,” they did not irrogate*to themselves full authority.

human body either by absorption of the rays, through the inhalation of the emanation, and through actually taking into the human body the substances themselves. The protection, tfie French superior commission on occupational diseases recommends the use of rubber gloves and of forceps for handling the material; protection of the worker from the rays of lead plates of adequate thickness, and regular examinations of all workers, including examinations of the blood. It generally is known that overexposure of the eyes to ultraviolet rays sets up inflammations. New inventions in science, while of benefit to mankind, bring associated hazards which demand scientific research for their control.

HONOR FOR ERICSSON a a a WOMEN ENDURE MUCH 1 u n n LAUGHING AT BOWLEGS

WE are glad every time we read that somebody has added to the endowment of some little college for it is the best college for the young student, away from home for the first time, and in many respects it is the best college for any boy, inasmuch as it means more intimate contact with teachers. What the ultimate benefit is to be depends on the student; if he means business he will get as much out of a little college as a big one. Students get out of college precisely what they put into it. a u The death of Kit Carson Jr., son of the famous scout, recalls wonderful memories of old days when the boys of America absorbed the virile stories of Kit Carson Sr. It was all right to read such a book in the house, but there was an added punch to it when you read it in the haymow.

turning to ashes on the lips. I must master It or it will destroy my life. PRAYER: O Lord my God who are from everlasting to everlasting and hast made me in the image of thine own eternity, deliver me from the bondage of things, let them not have domination over me. Give me an understanding heart that I may choose for myself those things which make life sweet and which shall not pass away. Amen.

This Date in U. S. History

February 15 1870—Construction of the Northern Pacific railroad started. 1879—Congress gave women attorneys right to practice before the supreme court. 1887—Limited woman’s suffrage granted in Kansas. 1893—President Harrison advised annexation of Hawaii. 1898—U. S. Battleship Maine blown up by a mine in Havana harbor.

Daily Thought

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.—St. Matthew 22:15, a tt a A False mind is false in everything, just as a crossed eye always looks askant.—Joubert. Who was Calamity Jane? She was an American army scout and mail carrier named Jane Burke but better-known as “Calamity Jane.” She was bom at Princeton Mo., in 1852 and died at Deadwood S. D., Aug. 1, 1903. She was raised on the plains and early became an Indian scout, and was an aide to General Custer and General Miles, in numerous campaigns. For several years she was the government mail carrier between Deadwood, S. D„ and Custer, Mont.

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Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address ol the author must accompany every contribution out oe reguest will not be published. Letters not exceeding JOO words wiU reoelve preference Editor Times—Mr. Nathan's airy tossing aside of the subject of antivivisection is humorous If taken at face value. There probably are women who ■ strain at guinea pigs and swallow babies," but the whole of vivisection is not concerned with saving babies at the expense of guinea pigs. It is more often concerned with saving adults from the penalty of ignorant or willful disregard of natural laws, at the expense of dogs, cats, horses, apes. etc. The vivisectors would have us believe that the dog whose fate is to die under the physiologist's knife, is favored signally above those dogs permitted to live out the natural span of life allotted by their creator. There is no accounting for perverse points of view. Carl von Vechten says he knew an employer of child labor and a fox hunter, both of whom complained they disliked cats because they were so cruel to mice! There are instances in which insensibility in the animal would frustrate success of the experiment. Also, why imagine that diseases painful to human beings are any less painful when inoculated in clogs? Recently, the press ran columns about the experiments of two French doctors whose sick and paincrazed apes occasionally escaped their cages and terrorized the quarter. Vivisect ionists point with pride to the efficiency of typhoid serum, and how it protected our men in the war. Humanity would better be served by research into the cause and avoidance of war, which makes possible the menace of typhoid from the rotting corpses of needlessly butchered men. A SUBSCRIBER. Editor Times—While we praise Abraham Lincoln, let us not forget that the history of this great man can not be written without including that of Karl Marx, the discoverer of what is called Marxian socialism. During Lincoln’s troublesome days, Marx went to England and aroused the common people of England against that country recognizing the south. Had this not been done, there might have been a different story to tell and we might be celebrating some other man’s birthday. These two men were close friends and thought pretty much alike, No doubt if Lincoln were living today, he would be fighting with the Socialist. Let us keep our history straight and give all the heroes of the past the credit'due them. H. EDWARDS, . Indianapolis.

Editor Times—l have read with much interest your editorial in The Times of Jan. 31, 1929, in which you bring forth in an excellent manner, and deplore the present day practice of trying to make the youthful mind run in two channels. Your article deals with the very prominent advertising given over to glaring and exaggerated benefits derived from the cigaret. I would be delighted to have the officials of these cigaret factories try to sell me on the idea that cigarets arc beneficial to any man, woman, boy, or girl. I would like to have them convince me that a “Lucky is better than a sweet,” or “There’s not a cough in a carload.” And I’ve heard several deluded young men declare that they were going to switch to “Old Gold's” from “Chesterfield’s,” and try to rid themselves of that nice little cigaret cough. I know nothing of high finance or the depth of theology, or Einstein’s theory, but, believe me, folks, I know cigarets, for until last September I had smoked them continually since I was a boy of 15 years, and I’m no spring chicken now. I smoked them against the advice of my father and doctors with whom I came in contact. I am writing as one who has been in the ranks of real cigaret smokers. I don’t believe that grandma's old clay pipe or dad's cigar two or three times a day, or a little chew of “plug” or “fine cut” ever hurts any one very much, blit the dose of tewnty cigarets per day, and that is the average of the real cigaret smokerr-inhaled and the poison and narcotic influence drawn into the system—eventually will break down and injure physically and intellectually the average man, woman, boy or girl, and I believe that any fair-minded cigaret smoker. any doctor or medical authority will stand back of me In this statement. I loved my cigaret, just the came as any smoker loves his smokes, and it was a real struggle to give them up. I would advise any boy or girl today against the use of them, for I know that once they fall under the bondage that cigarets demand of the real cigare’ smoker that they will realize how hard it ai ays is to pay back to your body and your mind the toll thao cigaret smoking has taken, and how I thank my Creator that He gave me the strength and the will to whip cigarets out of my life while I still have some of life left. The manufacture and sale of cigarets represent a vast amount oi capital and labor in our country today. I am not posing as a reformer, nor am I asking any man or woman, boy or girl to put out of their lives anything that is as much a part of their living as the cigaret was to mine. They simply will have to figure that out for themselves. But I do believe that the tobacco interests in our country will be far more fair and sportsmanlike to humanity if they will put to an end this deluding and misleading form of advertising of their product. Such advertising, without doubt, increases their business, but it also will bring remorse and regret to the unthinking user of cigarets. and it will be fust as hard for them to get out from under this binding habit as it was for me. And any man or woman, boy or "irl who wants to quit smoking cirarets can quit, by doing just as I did. which was without the aid of medicine or counter drugs. HAROLD F. HUTCHINSON. Frankfort, Ind.