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A Simple Solution , At last the trouble with legislation has been disclosed and a simple solution, so simple that it is remarkable that it has never before been discovered, found for all the bills of Indiana. The bills, when they become laws are bound with red tape, not a figurative expression, but a real description. Red being the color of the soviets, the laws are contaminated with the spirit of communism and Indiana has become a seething hotbed of anarchy. Only the most carping would suggest that the red tape had been used long before there was a soviet or communism became a subject of any importance. The fact remains that the laws of Indiana are tied up with the color of Lenin and Trotsld and must therefore take on some of the character of those menaces to mankind. If the red tape is abolished, it will no longer be necessary to scan the contents of bills as they go to the Governor for his signature, lie can look at the binding, and finding no red bands, be quite sure that they are patriotic and salutary. Let it be hoped that the change is not made before the Governor gets that most revolutionary measure, the repeal of the primary bill. For that surely leads to the same sort of despotism that has been established in Russia. The red might warn of the dangers. Perhaps if these members of the legislature knew that they could not tie their anarchies in soviet colors, they will never send such a measure to the Governor at all. Perhaps, too, there will be greater readiness in the house to pass the senate measure for a full, complete and exhaustive inquiry into the methods by which the state obtained the use of armories if the members understand that it will be tied up with the national colors—as it should be. For that measure is a patriotic one if there was ever a bill that was born in the spirit of patriotism. The state needs armories. It never needs a private army and should never pay tribute to its patriotic urge. The answer in the future is so very simple. Abolish the little red ribbons and the state is safe —perhaps.

An Important Advance Radio lias become one of the great influences in modern life. And the national chains have become the most important factor of radio. Therefore the announcement that WFBM has joined one of the national chains is of more than ordinary importance. It means that Indianapolis is really on the air. It should mean that this city will receive a great dividend of good will and of fine advertismg. The minds of those who listen will unconsciously link this city with the great and growing centers. They will be impressed by the fact that the crossroads of America is a real metropolis with all the modern trimmings. The city is to be congratulated on this new civic asset. The Immigration Issue Submission of new national origins immigration quotas to congress by the secretaries of state, commerce and labor removes none of the fundamental objections to the system. Hie secretaries previously reported that it ha been impossible to work out the quotas as congress directed in a satisfactory manner, because of inadequate data. The same data was used in preparation of the new table, which does not differ greatly from the original one. It was noteworthy that neither President Coolidge nor the secretaries made any comment in connection with the report. It now is apparent that this congress has no intention of further postponing the application of the system. The President is required by law to proclaim April 1 that it will go into effect July \ President-Elect Hoover, however, is opposed vigorously to the whole national origins plan, and is expected to ask congress for its repeal in the special session. Since he feels so strongly on the question, it may become an issue of importance between him and congress. Cuban Dictatorship To Americans the most interesting part of the .revelations of an alleged insurrection plot in Havana is the plan to force military intervention by the United States. It is an uncomfortable reminder of the protectorate powers we hold over Cuba, and of the mess which is brewing there. Whatever the truth or lack thereof in these latest revelations by President Machado, Americans have grown so accustomed to his shouting “Wolf, Wolf," that they are apt to discount his charges, which often have been convenient means for getting rid of his political opponents. But it is quite possible that Machado actually has uncovered a plot to assassinate him. If he insists on being a dictator, he must be prepared for that sort of thing. The old rule that violence begets violence may be expected to operate m the long run in Cuba as elsewhere. Cuba will be lucky if it escapes an explosion resulting from Machado’s tactics of ruthlessness and suppression. He has made normal and legitimate political opposition almost impossible. He has destroyed the freedom of universities and of the press. His terrorists have stamped out the effective labor organizations. Cuban liberal leaders who have not been frightened into silence have fled abroad or met mysterious deaths. One of the most disquieting aspects of this sinister situation is the support given Machado by American capital tnd by the United States government. It is none of our business what kind of dictatorship rules In Italy, Spain, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Egypt o r Venezuela. But nnfni-t.nnft.reiy the Cuban dictatorship is our

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business, because we insist upon maintaining our protectorate powers and because the relationship obligates us to military intervention for protection of Cuban liberties. A little diplomatic intervention now may prevent much military intervention later. It is high time for the United States government to tell Machado that it no longer can support him unless there is complete and immediate restoration of civil liberties and democratic government. Investigation Proceeds The senate Indian investigation committee at last has been granted authority to proceed. The appropriation of $15,000 was voted only after two filibusters had been started and Senators Frazier and Wheeler had done heroic work in persuading individual members to withdraw their objections. It pow is clear that the senate proposes to expose for the first time the real facts about the Indian bureau and the handling of Indian funds. More than 250 witnesses are waiting to testify and visits are planned by the committee to eight states in which reservations are located and where serious charges are being made of mistreatment of Indians. The committee, in existence for more than a year, only has, scratched the surface. Many more months of hearings and hard work confront it. But the very fact of the investigation already has helped the Indians. Larger appropriations have been submitted by the budget bureau and voted by congress. Instructions have been issued by Secretary of Interior West and the Indian commissioner designed to improve the service and correct conditions. Indian schools have been reorganized and improvement made. The educational system is being examined and hospitals are undergoing departmental scrutiny. By unanimously permitting the inquiry to proceed, the senate shows a desire to change the situation from top to bottom and put the Indian on a secure and permanent footing that will protect his property and give him a belated opportunity to become a useful American citizen.

The Too-Busy Corner Retail merchants used to scramble to pay high rental or purchase prices for lo laticm; on or near “the busiest corner In town.” Now, however, the tide has turned, according to an article in the current issue of the American Druggist. This article says that druggists are finding that such locations are less desirable than locations in less busy districts. At the “busiest corner” the motorist can not find a place to park while he shops, and the stream of traffic discourages pedestrians from patronizing the store. So the druggists are looking to strategic corners in outlying districts, where patrons can have room to come and go without being crumed in congested traffic. The article, of course, applies Oily to drug stores; yet in the steady spread of “neighborhood stores” there is evidence that other merchants, also, are learning the same lesson. "Hie cigaret people certainly see n to be overlooking a bet in not having Commander Byrd name some of that newly discovered land around the South Pole after their brands. The head of the National Teachers’ Association says radio is killing jazz. Sometimes it does sound like a murder. Having nothing much to do today, we have decided to offer a job to Coolidge. A student in North Dakota can hold in his teeth a chair on which a full-grown man sits playing a mandolin. And how does he ever ke ,p from biting the full-grown man?

. i David Dietz on Science Mystery Beneath Feet No 292 ONE of the greatest mysteries in the whole universe lies right under your own feet. It is the intenor composition of the earth. The deepest mines tell us nothing about it. The® are only a little over a mile deep and it is 4,000 miles to the center of the earth. They tell us no more about the earthy interior than a pin scratch

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be in keeping with known facts. The old idea, that the earth has a molten interior, an interior of liquid fire as it has sometimes been called, has been completely abandoned. This old idea that the earth’s crust was a thin shell surrounding an interior of molten lava arose from several considerations. One was the fact that the temperature rose in mines at the rate of about 1 degree for every sixty feet of depth. A second was the eruption of molten lava from volcanoes. It was thought that these volcanoes tapped the moten interior of the earth. Geologists today, however, feel certain that the rapid increase in temperatures experienced in mines only continues for a depth of about fifty miles. They also feel certain that the lava which pours out of volcanoes originates at a depth of only ten miles or i so. In addition, there are many lines of evidence which show conclusively that the earth could not have a molten* interior. The moon raises great tides in the oceans, as everyone knows. The land experiences the same pull, j but being rigid, resists it. Delicate measurements have shown, however, that the land is warped slightly by the gravitational pull of the moon. If the interior of the earth were liquid, the moon would raise such gTeat tides in it that the shell would be broken and torn to pieces and the whole earth destroyed. The earlh’s rotation proves that the earth has a solid interior. Dr. H. S. Washington of the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie institute points out that you cannot spin a raw egg on its end. It immediately falls over on its side. But a hard-boiled egg will spin easily.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “You Can’t Bea Saphead and Fly—Flying Is a Man’s Job.”

SAN DIEGO, Cal., March I.—ls a wheel had not fell off, some folks might have suspected Colonel Lindbergp was balding hands. He knew it was off, however, and exactly what to do. That furni v es an iron clad alibi. Colonel Lindhergh was paying strict attention to business, as usual, which explains why he came out of the spill so nicely. Neither did he give the spill time enough to scare him, or the bride-to-be. In spite of a sprained shoulder, he is up and off again, with Anne aboard.* As this man grows older, one begins to understand the secret of his genius. , bub Sapheads Can't Fly AVIATION is doing much to restore a sense of manhood. To let the boys of this generation see what it takes to make success. You i an’t play the saphead and fly, can’t put your nickel in the box and leave the rest to the motorman, can’t park by the roadside and neck. Flying is a he man’s job. It is giving the boys back what their grandfathers got from the clipper ship and wooly west. If flying never made a dollar, it would still be worth the price for its regenerating effect on human character. But it will make a dollar. No one can cross this country without realizing that. Though still in its infancy, aviation has gone far enough to prove its commercial possibilities. Those commercial possibilities are all the brighter because of the daredevil spirit that will be required to take full advantage of them for years to come. u u tt New Pioneers of Travel ALL metal, tri-motored, twelvepassenger planes are landing and taking off regularly at the San Diego airport, making Los Angeles 135 miles away, in ninety minutes, and San Francisco in about six hours. Through, the great desert, which I crossed last week, beacons flash their message every fifteen miles—a new type of lighthouse for anew type of mariner. Who would not like to be young again and ride with the coming generation over mountain peak and thunder storm. Who would not like to help blaze new trails for this latest vehicle, make new records and perfect new devices for its improvement. It is not only a challenge to red blood, but a producer of red blood. a Flappers Looking Up SOME people profess to be afraid of inventiveness because of its alleged softening effect. They would have more excuse, if it did not bring forth airplanes, as well as lipsticks. Intelligence is not leading us into a wilderness of fatty degeneration. If it makes things easy one minute, it makes them hard the next. The aviator has robbed the jelly bean of his glamour. The flapper is now looking up. It might have been different but for such men as old Professor Langley and the Wrights. The point is, however, that you can always depend on such men to offset the smush. Those who think that joy-riding, slapstick comdey, or cosmetics have run away with the age should take another peep, preferably into some of the corners where the work of civilization is being done—steel mills, laboratories, mines and farms.

Misdirected Energy Misdirected energy, not lack of it, is our great trouble. Boys starting with the wrong foot, politicians with their hands in the wrong pocket, preachers with their eyes on the wrong text, reformers looking for short cuts to purity, writers trying to be clever rather than sound. Salesmen who don’t care what they sell so long as they get the money, a conception of citizenship that is content to “let George do it’’ explain most of our trouble. The essential virtues have not been ditched, however, chiefly because this reign of materialism, as we call it, forever is demanding their presence by the production of instruments and engines beyond control of the lazy or unalert. st n st New Meaning of Work WORK has a meaning it never had before. The same is true with regard to ‘‘many phases of pleasure. i The engineer at the throttle of an express train gets some kick out of his job and its faithful performance. The man who takes his family for a ride in the evening, or on Sunday, senses a degree of independence, power and speed that is entirely new. Fewer rich men are loafing by comparison than ever before, and so are fewer sons of rich men. There may be more play, but there is far less idleness. A millionaire in overalls, or a laboring man on the golf course, has ceased to be the exception. Those who could afford to play all the time are expected to do some work, while those who had to work all the time by the code of fifty years ago are conceded the right to some play. Machinery has done much not only to make this posible, but to make it understood. Who composed Babe Ruth’s AllAmerican baseball team for 1327? Gehrig, first base; Frisch, second base; Traynor, third base; Jackson, shortstop; MCusel, left field; Simmons, center field; P. Waner, right i field; Ruel. catcher; Lyons and Root, pitchers.

on the peel of an orange would tell us about the inside of the orange. The modern scientist, h o w - ever, calling* to his aid the evidence of many fields—astronomy, geology, physics and chemistry, has managed to give us a picture which is extremely logical and at the same time appears to

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Reason

ALL these elaborate ceremonies in honor of George Rogers Clark were fine and were earned a thousand times by the intrepid conqueror of the west, but we think how gladly Clark would have traded all such fuss and feathers for a little help in his bare and bitter old age. tt a u The way smooth gentlemen in criminal cases make a fool out of this country gives the average layman a feeling that his particular brand of organized society is a fraud. Any country that can decide a World war ought to be able to take the dunce cap off its Goddess of Justice. tt With her record of more than 200 divorces a month, Philadelphia would appear to be almost exclusively a “City of Brotherly Love.” tt tt it Another French statesman announces that his country will pay what is “just.” Uncle Sam has had such a sad experience with the European nations he saved it would not be . surprising if the old gentleman would go out of the lifesaving business for all time.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Skin Fulfills Many Interesting Jobs

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and ot Ilyjjeia, the Health Magazine. THE skin incloses the body, and at the same time fulfills many interesting functions. In it are the nerve endings which make us aware of things touching us and which let us know sensations of cold or warmth. The skin makes the weapons with which the human being attacks and defends himself; namely, the nails

Fellowship in Prayer

Topic for the Week “LENT AND MY HOME” , 1 Memory Verse for Friday “Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6-2). (Read: Galatians 6:1 to 10.) MEDITATION: After all, the final testimony is the life. Whatever my words, my conduct reveals my mind and heart. “The blesred gospel none can doubt. Revealed in holy lives.” What does my life say to the other members of my family? Am I constant in my effort to make life

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 300 words wll] receive oreference. Editor Times—Replying to my good friend at Newcastle who takes me to task for my position on the soldier bonus, I would like to say in reply that I am not sleeping on my rights, as the brother seems to think, but am wide awake and working sixteen to eighteen hours a day trying to‘ make an honest living for my family instead of sitting around poolrooms and picture shows waiting for the government to pay my rent and grocery bill. I also am aware that nearly all Spanish-American war veterans are getting pensions of from S2O to S4O a month from the government and I also am aware that at least 50 per cent of them lied to get it. I also am aware that the majority of the World war veterans who are making the loudest “holler” for a bonus are the ones that the government had to pull out and are not the ones that volunteered when their country asked for men. You refer to the $8 or $lO a day paid for labor while you were getting only S3O a month, but you neglected to say that your Uncle

Where Light Is Needed

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By m m Frederick LANDIS

WE see where another student is selling his blood to get enough coin to go through college. These blood merchants are becoming so numerous they will soon have bargain days. tt tt tt The recent illness and the present absence from London of King George has prevented the presenta-. tion of a batch of half-baked Americans at the British court. Those who can not carry their homage all the way to London might go down to Yorktown and give three lusty cheers for Cornwallis! tt tt tt The American Medical Association urges that poison labels be put upon cosmetics. Such labels would add greatly to the charm of many makeups now in circulation.

at the end of the fingers and toes. It regulatse the temperature of the body by evaporating water or by preventing evaporation. The temperature of the body in health is at a fixed point, namely 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The skin of a grown-up person weighs about six pounds, and if spread out fiat would cover an area of about sixteen square feet. The blood vessels in the lowest layer of the skin run in waves or little hills, which are responsible

easier and sweeter for them? If I am impatient, ill-tempered, exacting in the service required of the others, censorious, resentful, uncharitable in my judgments then I am unfaithful both to the law of the home and to the law of Christ. For the sake of those I love and in obedience to the Master whom I serve, I must keep sweet and be unfailing in kindness. PRAYER: Sanctify the ties that bind us to friends and kinirpd; and so fill us with love, gentleness and forbearance that we may live together in peace and joy. May we love Thee supremely and abide in Thy love, that we may be comforters and helpers one of another unto the end. Amen.

Samuel paid your board and room, furnished you with medical attention and transportation, and other necessities of life while we paid our own. And don’t lose sight of the fact, Brother, that upon your return your government took you under its protecting arm and gave you a manual training course that would have cost you several hundred dollars if you had paid it yourself. If you did not get this training, it was your fault. You also mention the fact that you had to go to France in a cattle boat. Well, that’s too bad, but you must remember what Sherman said about war and not hold any resentment against your government for a little mistake like that. I, too, had a few little hardships to overcome, as I spent a good many nights sleeping in freight cabooses after working sixteen c~ twenty hours a day trying to do my bit in getting ammunition and supplies to you boys at the front. Put ' did not “bellyache” about it. I considered it only my duty and a part of the day’s work. You also speak of my having a good position and lots of money. Well, I do have a good position and hold it by hard work and the same

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK UNCLE SAM WILL QUIT a tt m STOP TOPPING TREES

A FRENCH phrenologist claims that Lloyd George’s head expanded a quarter of an inch these last eight years. Many an American’s head has expanded more than this over being elected justice of the peace. tt B tt France shuts Up her short-order American divorce counter. Ladies and gentlemen, desiring to be detached, must have documents showing the things complained of are documents for divorce in the United States, and such documents must be registered where the applicant lives. Until these requirements were added, French divorces were light, fluffy creations, swift, silent—altogether delightful. u tt tt We should stop topping shade trees. Every spring tree butchers sally forth with ax and saw and their devastation is like that of an invading army. These quack tree surgeons persuade foolish owners of fine elms, maples, and sycamores to pay them for malicious trespass, for murdering trees which it took the Lord many years to make.

for the ridges on the palms of the hands and the tips of the fingers. Detectives record these to aid identification of criminals, since no two human beings have these little ridges in exactly the same form. The amount of pigment or color in any skin depends on inheritance, and also to some extent on the amount of blood in the vessels beneath the skin. If, for any reason, the blood vessels become constricted, or the blood ceases to flow, the skin will have its true color, which accounts for the strange appearance of some people when frightened.

Q. —What kind of light is good for reading? A.—Light from a steady source, without glare and producing no shadows.

The color of the skin is also dependent to some extent on the effects of sunlight. Some people tan easily in response to sunlight; others deposit increasing amounts of pigment and develop freckles; still others will bu:n promptly.

This Date in U. S. History

March 1 1796—Jay treaty ratified. 1861—Confederate government took charge at Charleston, S. C. 1867—Nebraska admitted to the Union. 1872—Yellowstone Park set aside as a public reserve. loyalty to my employers as I have for my government, but I do not have lots of money and expect to have less, if I am compelled to pay the living expenses of those who try to get by without work. You say that the reason that I oppose the bonus is because I have real estate and am afraid that my taxes would be increased. Now, dear Comrade, don’t let your imagination lead you astray, for I do not own any leal estate. But I will try to put you right as to my position in this matter and I hope it meets with your approval. I am just one of the old-fashioned hillbillies who believes that every man owes his services to his country in her hour of need, for the protection that his country gives him in time of peace. I hate hypocricy, crooked politicians and premeditated liars and have no sympathy for any man who is trying to get by at the expense of someone else. This is my position on the soldier bonus proposition and I live what I preach. W. H. MONTGOMERY. 1113 Odd Fellow building.

MARCH 1.1929

IT SEEMS TOME s * By HEYWOOD BROUN

Id • i • 1 opinions ex • pressed In this column r r those of one of A m erica’* most interesting wrlten and are presented W i 1 bout regard to their agreement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.

THE man on the other side of the pretzel bowl leaned over at a precarious angle and said, “You don't mind if I intrude.’’ His remark is properly punctuated. The words constituted a flat statement, not a question. They never do. Years of experience have taught me that when people edge in from beyond the pretzel bowl it Is seldom possible to say, “You certainly are intruding." That only leads to hard words, hurt feelings and a row which really takes up more time than a friendly reception. Accordingly we all said, “Not at all. old fellow," or words to that effect. But I was the one on whom he fixed an eager and a misty eye. “The greatest column in the world," he muttered. “I’ve got it." “I wish you’d write it for me,” I told him with a fair degree of enthusiasm. He looked at me coldly and replied, “I don’t write,” as one might say with proper pride, “I have never used nicotine in any form.” “Well, tell it to me then,” I suggested. tt tt u An Idea Presented EVEN so he hesitated, and seemed to doubt whether he had found a spirit worthy to be entrusted with the great idea. At last he decided to take a chance and drew much closer. Into my ear he whispered, “Why do the little flowers grow in the spring?" “It is,” I said, with an attempt to put on wisdom, “a complicated and a delicate chemical process—” But my benefactor brushed aside this introduction. “You don’t get the idea,” he interrupted briskly. “Why do the little flowers grow in the spring?" “That not an easy question, but I suppose—” Again he stopped me. “Don’t say it. You were going to say something about nature.” I blushed with a consciousness of guilt. I had intended to say something about nature. “Why do the little flowers grow in the .spring?” and now there was sorrow in his voice. “That’s the way with you young people, it’s always nature, nature, nature. Never God.’J The thought disturbed him so much that he ordered another beer. Refreshed he returned to the attack. “Why do the little flowers grow in the spring? That’s a column for you. You could write about that every day for five years.”

Flowers, Spring ALL right, then, the little flowers and why do they bloom in the spring. In the first place many of them don’t. Some varieties hardly get started.until the late fall. But this is a quibble. I suppose such flowers as crash through in spring are moved largely by the force of habit. Each petal in a daisy is animated by some cellular memory and when the yellow heads turn toward the sun a murmur of recognition runs up and down the daisy chain. The little flowers in the spring look up at the bright disk and say, “You seem familiar. Haven’t I seen your face somewhere before?’’ Some of my friends are amateur gardners of no mean ability, but I am constantly surprised at the time and pains they devote to their occupation. It is a mistake to coddle plants too much. Consider the lillies of the field. While it is true, as Scripture says, that they neither toil nor spin, it is only fair to remember that their position is that of retired business men. They can afford to lean back on the breeze and nod the day out because their job is done. And in the beginning it was no sinecure. The process of growing up from seed to lily necessitaties a great amount of toil. The seed itself must contain among other things a notion of what a lily is like. Even with that much established you have no more than an idea, or a wish, strapped tight into a straightjacket. By some process of shrugging and twisting and throwing shoulders out of joint this element which constitutes the will to be a lily comes through and gets its goat. St tt Up From the Dark I HAVE a garden in Connecticut, and in the spring I let the little flowers grow or not just as they please. They can’t hold me responsive. I didn’t put them there and the long journey up from the dark they must make alone. It is surprising how many of them do turn out each year. Even among the plants, habit is a tough contender. There is nothing much for these flowers in my garden to see once they emerge. That is, not unless they happen to care for rocks and weeds. But because a dahlia grew close to the edge of the quartz ledge last summer I expect to find another this year at the same spot or thereabouts. It's like Wigglesworth at Harvard. This particular line of dahlias will continue In the garden until the place has rim down past all endurance. Os course it isn’t the same dahlia each year. There may even be a considerable variation in color, but somewhere about the eyes or the mouth a family resemblance can be seen. So if I go into that same place again (for I, too, am moved by habits) I will havte a readier answer for the man beyond the pretzel bowl. If once again he wants to know, “Why do little flowers grow in the spring?” I will tell him simply and sharply, “Because they always have.” (Copyright. 1939, for The Times)