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Secret Dictatorships Just how necessary is the registration of voters, as demanded by the League of Women Voters, is demonstrated by revelations in Lake county. Flaunting the United States government, defying any public demand for ordinary honesty, that county controls the state of Indiana and controls it through more than suspicious circumstances. It was this county in 1926 which sent in delayed returns with just enough majority to elect Senator Watson. In the last election it now develops that many thousands more votes were counted than were listed by political workers as the possible limit. The events of the last election suggest that under present conditions, voting in Indiana is a farce. As long as the Lake county machine, with its SIOO,OOO-a-year county officials, control the voting and the “investigation” of crimes, the result can be safely forecast. It is declared that in the early afternoon but 35,000 votes had been cast and that the Republican leader announced that they were about evenly divided between parties. Between the hours of 2 and 6, 45,000 more “votes” Were cast, a practical and physical impossibility. Many challenges were made and affidavits made by those interested in seeing truck ,r >ads of Negro Voters, suspiciously suggestive of Chicago rather than Indiana, cast a ballot. These affidavits have, so it is reported, been impounded by the prosecuting attorney of Lake county and been withheld from federal investigators, emment. When any public prosecutor can refuse information, which might indicate frauds in federal elections, to federal investigators, we have anew form of govThe women of the state, acting through the League of Women Voters, have sensed the situation. They understand that an election without a registration of voters is not an election, but a sham contest in which real votes are nullified by crooked ballots. They understand that the government of the people becomes, in fact, a secret dictatorship by greedy politicians. The politicians also understand. That is,why the legislature seems so intent on killing every measure which might insure an honest vote. For the politicians, not the people, are apparently in control. Unless some safeguard is provided, the zeal of women to bring out a large vote is a farce. For every vote can be, evidently in Lake county'is, balanced by one from a cemetery, Chicago, or the imagination of those who count the ballots. Another Arms Conference? British feelers for new naval limitation negotiations With the United States will be welcomed by friends of peace everywhere. There can be no stable world peace without reconciliation of the present Anglo-American disputes. Hence the importance of the official statem- nt of Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador at Washington. “Everything points toward, an early resumption of negotiations, and, with a far better understanding of the needs of the respective parties than existed at Geneva in 1927, there should be a very good prospect of their being brought to a satisfactory conclusion,” the ambassador said. Certain critics look with suspicion on this latest move by the British government. One American group sees in it an attempt to influence congress to postpone the fifteen-cruiser building program for one year in line with President Coolidge’s budget estimates, making no provision for immediate expenditures. Some British liberals and laborites explain these feelers as an election weapon of the conservative government in the British campaign, by which the government hopes to wipe out the voters’ resentment of its alleged anti-American policy in the Geneva conference and the Anglo-French “alliance.” Without specific information regarding motives of the London government, we prefer to believe that it Is actuated solely by a desire for better Anglo-Amer-ican relations and for the consequent advantage to British prosperity and peace/ But, just as it is desirable that both governments begin planning at this time for another conference, it is equally desirable that no conference be attempted this spring or summer. The disagreeable truth is that Anglo-American relations can not stand many more failures such as the Coolidge Geneva conference. Better no conference at all than another break. Any conference in which Britain is represented by the rule-or-ruin policy of the British admiralty will not only crash, but will give to American militarists a power over future American policy which they do not now possess. Lord Robert Cecil, a member of the British Geneva delegation, in resigning revealed how completely the admiralty dominates the foreign office and present conse-vative government. The only hope is for anew British government, armed with a popular mandate sufficiently strong to reduce the admiralty to a mere advisory capacity at the next naval conference. There can be no doubt that British public and press as a whole have reacted sharply against the admiralty policy at Geneva and the Anglo-French deal, and reacted sharply in favor of a friendly agreement with the United States. This popular pro-American sentiment in Britain can not register itself effectively until the general elections next May or June. At that time, presumably, it either will elect the labor-liberal opposition now campaigning on pro-American platforms, or will reduce the present die-hard majority enough to force a more peaceful foreign policy on the new and chastened conservative government. In either case the next British government will be more apt to meet the Hoover administration half way in a settlement of the growing dispute over cruisers and freedom of the seas. Sir Esme probably is right in foreseeing improved prospects of an agreement, provided we are not rushed Into another abortive conference. The Question Now Those persons who regard any sort of government participation in business as peculiarly sinful at last have succeeded in getting the government out of the shipping business. The eleven remaining passenger vessels owned by the government, those in the United States lines and ■ ■ - -. \

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the American Merchant lines, have been sold to a private concern. There remains of the government’s $3,000,000,000 wartime fleet of 2,500 vessels some 235 in active service on a score of cargo lines and an equal number fit for service, but tied up. All these will be disposed of as rapidly as possible to private owners. The shipping board characterized its latest transaction as “one of the greatest ship sales in maritime history,” and expressed full confidence in the ability of the new owners to operate the lines profitably and to expand them. We hope this enthusiasm is justified.

The purchasing company has acquired a strong fleet at a fraction of its value. It will borrow from the government 75 per cent of the cost of the two new vessels it must build at a low rate of interest and will get mail contracts which are in effect a subsidy. But more will be required if this and other private shipping ventures are to be successful. Results will depend, as in any other business, on the capacity and enterprise of the operators, and their ability to met • and best the competition of the maritime nations of the world. The attitude of American shipping interests "2 the past decade has been unlike that of most other businesses which have encountered foreign competition fearlessly and more than held their own. The shipping people have seemed to want the government to carry them. They have devoted much of their energies to seeking government subsidies. They have sought to acquire ownership of the government’s ships without price. They have been reluctant to strike out lor themselves. There may have been justification for this. But because of the situation, this newspaper has felt that if the American flag were to be kept on the seas it would be wise for the government to remain in the shipping business and to make a real, determined effort to build up a strong merchant marine. It believed that such fleet profitably could serve American business of all sorts—even agriculture, which the government's ships did serve on several notable occasions. But real effort never was made. Those charged with administering the merchant marine for the most part were convinced beforehand, like President Coolidge, that government operation could not succeed, and were more intent on disposing of the ships at any cost than in demonstrating that the government could operate them successfully. Anew era is developing. More than a thousand government cargo ships virtually have been given away, and 500 more are to be had by private operators. Mail subventions are in force. The government will lend to builders up to 75 per cent of the cost of constructing ships. The government has more than done its part. The question now would seem to be whether private shipping interests can exhibit enough of our vaunted American ingenuity and business skill to hold their own under these favorable conditions.

Testimony offered in the Indiana investigation seems to indicate the government has been employing some Indian {ivers. An English channel swimmer broke her engagement with a soldier, fearing marriage would “interfere with her career.” Maybe she thought she wouldn’t get along so swimmingly. The day will come when men will live forever, according to an Edinburgh scientist. That'll give everybody a chance to get the last installment paid up. It won’t be long now until Easter, when the ladies can high-hat one another.

- David Dietz on Science .

Sun-Spots Are Magnets

- No. 281

QTUDY of the sun with the spectroheliograph has revealed that the sun-spots are great whirlpools in the gaseous surface of the sun. They resemble, to a considerable degree, the waterspouts which are sometimes seen on the ocean, or the sandwhirls which occur on the desert. To state the case more exactly, a sun spot is a great funnel-shaped vortex in the outer layers of the sun in

SRPSIPWi PHOTOGRAPHED V/ITH A SPECTRO HELIOGRAPH.

our knowledge of the nature of sun-spots. Dr. Hale demonstrated these facts by a series of experiments of great brilliance extending over a number of years. Dr. Hale also proved that the sun-spots were great magnets. Physicists had known for a long time that if a powerful electro-magnet w r as placed near a source of light that the spectrum lines, when the lisfht was examined with a spectroscope, would be found divided into two or more lines. That is, the magnet would cause each spectrum line to be split up into two or more lines. This is known as the Zeeman effect after the scientist who first discovered it. Hale showed that when the light from a sun-spot, was examined with the spectroscope, it exhibited the Zeeman effect. In other words, each sun-spot is a magnet. The magnetic condition of sun-spots bears out the theory that the sun-spots are whirlpools. It is known that, due to the high temperature in the sun, a great deal of the gaseous material is in an iodized or electrified condition. Were such material whirled around in a circle, the effect would be the same as sending an electric current through a coil of wire; it would generate a magnetic field. Hale has shown that some sun-sjjpts exhibit a north magnetic polarity while others exhibit a south polarity. This is taken to mean that some of the sun-spots are rig'nthanded vortexes while others are lefthanded. He has also shown that generally a large spot of one polarity will lie fdllowed by another large one or a group of small ones of opposite polarity. He has also shown that if the spots in the northern hemisphere of the sun, for example, exhibit a north polarity during one cycle, they will exhibit a south polarity during the next os#.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: ‘'Facts are the great need of America, especially those ichich bear on public policy.”

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 16. New York traction stocks go up. Some people seem to feel very sure not only that the question of increasing subway fares from 5 to 7 cents will be decided by the supreme court next Monday, but that it will be decided in the affirmative. Are they betting on a tip, or a hunch? San Francisco has peculiar reasons for being interested in the New York subway case. Like New York San Francisco has a nickel fare which it would like to retain. Also, like New York, it owns part of the transit system, though on a little differed basis. In San Francisco, the part of the transit system that publicly is owned is operated by the public. In New York, the part that is publicly owned is operated by private interests.

Mull Markets THE advisory council of the federal reserve system backs up the federal reserve board in its efforts to call a halt on “excessive speculation.” That is as it should be. If the federal reserve system was created for one purpose more than another, it was to prevent financial spasms. Our economic history proves nothing more definitely than that too much inflation leads to unnecessary deflation. Bull markets have inflation as their object, and pursue it without rhyme or reason. They can be depended on to go far enough, and do damage enough, even with the federal reserve system putting on the brakes. tt tt tt Manufacturing Law THE California legislature will assemble next Monday for the second half of its forty-eighth session. It already has 1,934 bills to consider, with an excellent prospect of several hundred more. If the 'legislature were to give each of those bills thirty minutes, working eight hours a day and five days each week, it would have to remain in session <at least six months to get through the list. It won't do anything of the kind, and it ought not to, since some of the bills are vastly more important than others. What it will do is halt for several days for a few measures, pass others after waiting just long enough to hear the titles read and dump the vast majority into the waste basket at the end, without much concern as to their merit, because it lacks time to do anything else. In this respect, the California legislature is like each and every one of the forty-one others now in s ’ssion. The process of manufacturing law in these United States is most wonderful. tt tt tt Getting the Facts Realizing the shortcomings of our legislative machinery cities, towns and even states have developed unofficial groups to study problems and writ; measures. The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco is such i group. It contains 4,500 membejs, is nonpartisan and non-political, v arks through departmental sections and has for its slogan “get the facts.” Just now it is interested in what becomes of people who are killed or crippled by automobiles, who pays the funeral bill, the medical fee, the damage, and what should be done to remedy the situation. It is attacking the problem by accumulating such an array of facts as were never before gathered in any section of the country, not alone in connection with the casualty list, but with regard to what has been done in various states and countries to place the burden where it belongs. a st tt Reliable (information FACTS are the great need of America, especially those which bear on publicity, the effectiveness of law enforcement and the correction of manifest evils. We have had national prohibition for eight years, and we can not tell how ill or well it has worked. Even congressmen have to draw on their personal experiences, or the personal experiences of others to make a reasonably good argument on either side. The first sensible move that has been made for a long time is to establish a fact-finding commission which will give us some reliable information from the national viewpoint. At present, we are just guessing, supposing, imagining, deducing and theorizing. tt si a Chicago Gang War TT' VEN the Chicago gang war, and ■*-' more particularly the latest explosion, in which seven men were mowed down with machine guns, leads to little but theorizing. According to tabulated reports, 133 have been killed, but why is not so dear. Most people have assumed that it all came out through the struggle of rival gapgs for monopoly of the bootlegging trade, but there is a government agent asserting that he has “confidential” information which implicates some police officers who were mad because they failed to get their rakeoff in a hijacking party. We are getting altogether too much argument and insinuation from every quarter. What we need, and what we must have to do anything sensible is more facts, straight simple and understandable.

which the gases are ascending with an upward and outward spiral motion. As the gases rise and spread out in the vortex, they are cooled by expansion. This cooling explains why the sun-spot is darker than the surface of the sun. We are indebted to Professor George Ellery Hale, the inventor of the spectroheliograph, for

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Medical Martyrs Aid Our Lives

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyffeia, tl'.e Health Magazine. JUST a few months have passed since the world was startled by the sudden death of an intrepid investigator of tropical disease, Hideyo Noguchi. He was but one of many scientists who have gone to study at first hand the causes of infection, so that man might be freed from the peril of disease. In the jungle, sleeping sickness, yellow fever, malaria and a dozen other tropical diseases are far more dangerous than lions, tigers, elephants or serpents. In the control of these enemies scientists do not use rifles, but pills of quinine and syringes loaded with salvarsan. The savages who have seen whole tribes wiped out by tropical have learned to trust the science of the white man rather than the alchemy, the magic, the dances and prayers of maniacal priests and atavistic medicine men. One of the extremely interesting

Reason

OF course, Lindy had to go and do it sometime, but the people of the country learn of his engagement to marry Miss Morrow with a certain regret, because millions of families had adopted Lindy and now they feel that they hold only a small amount of stock in him. Heroes should stay single, If they want to stay in the hero business, for there’s only a mild thrill in a married one. st a it Lindy displayed a keen conception of the matrimonial proprieties when he said, “I have nothing to say,” when asked about his engagement. After he’s married he’ll feel this way about it —only more so. tt tt tt We see where the University of Michigan may make Paul McNutt its president, and nothing could be finer for the University of Michigan or McNutt. There’s not a greater university in the land nor a finer eligible for the head of it than the national commander of the American Legion. He has everything—character, intelligence, personality, diplomacy, eloquence —and best of all, the ability to set a noble example for boys and girls. If Michigan knows her business, she will grab McNutt. tt tt tt Hoover wall not register strongly with the fishermen of the country until he fishes in a rag man’s outfit instead of a carefully pressed business suit and a high linen collar.

This Date in U. S. History

February 16 1801—House of representatives broke the electoral college tie to elect Jefferson President over Burr. 1812— Earthquake visited Philadelphia.

Daily Thought

Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers; the same shall receive greater damnation.—St. Luke 20:4,. tt a tt GOD has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. —Shakespeare. Who composed the “Chimes of Normandy?” Planquette. On wflht day did Easter Sunday fall in 1881? Ajwi-lii

The Golden Fleece!

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observations of investigators of tropical disease is the fact that these complaints are transferred from man to man or from animals to man by means of insect carriers. Thus malaria is carried by the anopheles mosquito, filariasis by several species of mosquito, schistosomiasis through larvae found in fresh water streams, relapsing fever by lice and bedbugs, dengue by the stegomyia mosquito, trypansomiasis by the tsetse fly, rat-bite fever and Weil’s disease or infectious jaundice by the rat, plague by the flea and the rat. In Dr. Arthur Torrance's interesting account ‘ Tracking Down the Enemies of Man,” he gives a realistic account of the way in which the tsetse fly brings to man the dangerous and indeed almost invariably fatal trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness. “The bite of an infected tsetse fly is usually announced by a sharp needle-like prick of pain,” he writes, “and is invariably immediately followed by a sense of tormenting irritation, more or less severe in the vicinity of the bite.

By Frederick LANDIS

EDISON’S statement that with all our scientific strides we know nothing about the universe, opens a bewildering panorama of what the world will do in the next hundred years. The greatest show on earth is the progress of man and it is also the greatest miracle of them all. Man’s evolution from a hairy brute to a sky-climbing scientist is the greatest evidence of a Supreme Creator. tt tt a President Coolidge is doing the usual ex-presidential thing to get out of Washington as soon as Hoover is inaugurated, for none of them wishes to linger in the District of Columbia after the shifting scene takes them out of the picture. Roosevelt left Washington on the first train, immediately after Taft’s inauguration.

Fellowship in Prayer

Topic for the Week “LENT AND MYSELF’ Memory Verse for Saturday: “But thou, when thou prayest, enter in thy closet.” (Matthew 6:6). (Read; Matthew 6:5-15.) MEDITATION: Private prayer should be the great oyj and comfort of the Christian. And yet very often it is but a hurried task, a part of the day’s routine, perfunctory and feeble. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.” So my spiritual .life is left unnourished The trouble is that I do not take prayer seriously enough; my

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times Citizens have a right to expect those who pose as advisers in public matters to be consistent. For the benefit of those members of the legislature who listened to Mr Jewett Wednesday evening, attention should be called to these facts. When thfe question of the adoption of the manager plan was before the people of Indianapolis in 1927, Jewett opposed the measure, as he had a perfect right to do. However, while he was a candidate for the nomination for Governor in 1928. he frequently was reported as saying “The people have decided to adopt the new plan Os governand &6W fe&COfflfiS tll£

“In the course of several days the pain subsides, but a few days later the bitten person becomes ill with fever, which may last several days before completely subsiding, but which will recur at irregular periods of days or weeks with an ever increasing severity. “In course of time, the infected person becomes slightly anemic, much debilitated and acutely feeble in mind and body. He suffers terribly from headache. The glands become tender and enlarged. “After a few weeks, or even much earlier, there will appear at the periods of the recurring fever, a peculiar rash on the middle of the chest, right between the nipples. “This rash is a definite sign of infection by the parasite of the trypansosome disease.” Through the martyr-like deaths of many medical investigators, through inspired studies in the laboratories of the chemists, the means of transmission of this disease has been determined, methods of prevention discovered, drugs for treatment, developed, and whole areas of pest-ridden tropical land made available for production and civilization.

GOOD LUCK, LINDY ABOUT PAUL McNUTT m m m WINTER IS GREAT

BY staying in Egypt during his war with Stewart for the control of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, Rockefeller is almost as far from the firing line as the kaiser and his six sons were during the World war. After all, we pity the fellow who is contented to spend his winter in Florida and miss this wonderful, silvery, tonic-tossing weather we’re having. It’s the greatest of the seasons when it’s cold and' dry—and to take a walk at night when its still and white and the stars come close—that’s as fine a dessert as nature ever served. a tt st Mrs. Sarah King of Columbus, Ind., who wants to divorce her husband, George Washington King, because he has not bathed in twentyfour years, is guilty of a serious strategic error. She should take George down to Greenwich Village, where the nuts would worship him as a prophet or something. Or if she doesn’t want to do this, she should wrap a horse blanket around him and have him start a new religious cult and thousands would follow him.

thoughts are not at attention because I am not properly sensible of my need. I should take more time for my devotions. It will help me, too, to go back to ancient and tested custom and light my candle at the altar of the great devotional utterances in the Bible and elsewhere. Somehow I mast realize God’s presence and my own need. PRAYER;: Lord teach me to pray. Give me the contrite heart which Thou dost not despise. Let my meditation of Thee be sweet. Quicken me with Thy Spirit that I fail not of the strength and comfort of prayer. Amen.

of all public-spirited citizens to make it successful.” Now in 1929, while public-spirited citizens are taking the steps to make j it succeed, before the Bar Associa- j tion he advocates a modification of j the present system, and attacks the j constitutionality of the manager i statute. As an interested citizen I much | prefer to leave to the supreme court the question of constitutionality. I The attitude of Jewett, the candidate, ought to. but does not, square j with his previous or present posi- j .ions. If he Ls right now, he was wrong last year; if he was right as j a candidate, he is wrong now. i. W. 2STEHLIN&

FEB. 16, 1929

Idea* ltd opinion* •1 - pressed In this column are those of one of A m erica’s most tnterestint writers snd are presented w i t hout regard to * h e i r agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

IT SEEMS TO ME a a By HEYWOOD BROUN

NO living American writer so consistently has sailed under false colors as Eugene O'Neill. He represents the most conspicuous failure of criticism to function in a clear-eyed manner, the dramatic referee having given him a more generous count than even Gene Tunney received in Chicago. But it is not merely in the matter of over-praise that the critics have erred. In some respects he has received less than his due. The trouble is that O'Neill has been lauded for qualities In which he was conspicuously lacking, while certain of his abilities have passed unnoticed. The writing boys have mentioned him in the same breath with Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen, though as a matter of fact his closest spiritual companion is George M. Cohan. I mean that before all else Eugene O’Neill is conspicuously • slick. No living playwright Ls anything like so way wise in theatrical sleight-of-hand. But he has profited and grown great upon quite a different, legend. O'Neill has been presented to us as a poet, a sage or a philosopher who wrestled somewhat crudely with the mechanical problems of play-making. There was a feeling that he was a little too big for the drama.

I Love You, Dynamo THE truth of the matter*is that O’Neill has no message. His philosophy of life is that of a saturnine sophomore. With the aid K>f an extraordinary mastery of dramatic technique he has managed to make a wholly immature point of view seem profundity itself to a vast camp of followers. Nor are they all boobs and Babbitts who follow in his train. Even a first-rate inteligence may crumble under the spell of the theater. Os course, the time had to be set for O’Neill. For years Amerfta has been drenched with glad books and glad plays. Everything was hotsy-totsy in the best of all possible world. So gay were all dramatic offerings that the average theatergoer had laughted until he was ready to cry. Always the United States cavalry came riding up in the last scene, preceded by bugle calls, and a marriage was accepted as a happy ending. What could be sweeter for the purpose of Eugene O’Neill? The great American public was ready and even eager to see some character leap into a dynamo and have it take. The day has come when to smile and put a pleasant face on things is to mark yourself as a hick and a Babbitt, while you have but to gloom and frown to become a great man. If my tale begins, “It was raining along the Mississippi mud flats, and the greasy water dripped through the roof on little Bessie, the illegitimate child of Old Minnie, who lay dying in the corner of tuberculosis,” I have a very fair chance of being hailed as a stark realist and one of the several great American novelists. ana Lay Off, Mac Duff VERY slowly the idea gets about that tragedy can be just as sentimental as the most aggressive story of mother love and honeysuckle. And Eugene O’Neil is still skipping along fast enough to keep the notion from biting him in the coat tails. Not yet has he grown to the stature of realizing that tragedy seldom becomes more poignant with each turn of the screw. As far back as “Different,” he was blind to the fact that two sudden suicides by hanging are not twice as sad as one.

One does not need to cry out, “He hasn’t got anything on,” to make the populace realize that there is no substance to the employer’s suit. Sometimes a burst of laughter can bring a crowd close to the same realization. O’Neill's lack of humor has at times brought him right up to the edge of absurdity and exposure. In “Beyond the Horizon,” his first notable play, there was the same unfortunate disposition to overemphasize tragic material and blunder into sodden sentimentality. That play, you may remember, was about a lad who longed to get out from the narrow cup of hills which confined him and sail to distant seas. And the opportunity to voyage away lay within his grasp when suddenly he found that the girl down the lane was in love with him. And so he stayed and married and undertook to w’ork the farm. But O'Neill does not know that tragedy has no essential association with people who go mad, or die or kill themselves. Almost invariably he must add the extra touch which is the weakness of the man with insufficient imagination to round out the possibilities of his theme. As if his hero were insufficiently murdened, O'Neill had to step in and afflict his lungs. And so we had fever, ravings and dissolution. a a a The Great God Bunk BUT at times O’Neill has risen to great heights in the sheer modeling of plays. “The Emperor Jones,” is a perfect structure in its outward form. In those days, O’Neill did not pretend that he must ask his audience to bring a picnic lunch. “Strange Interlude.” which threatens to run as long as “Abie's Irish Rose,” is built upon an enormously shrewd psychological concept. Mark Twain mentioned it in ‘ Huckleberry Finn.” The play Ls another “Royal Nonesuch.” All who go come back eventually with glowing tales. You can't expect anybody who has paid money for a dramatic week-end to blurt right out that he was taken, tftttr’g*”. ms, tor The Time*)