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Chinese Famine In China there are 12,000,0C0 famine victims. Relief depends in large measure on American generosity. Part of + l -" responsibility and privilege of American prosperity is that we should help those less fortunate than ourselves. And we shall not find a better place for our relief funds than those nine stricken Chinese provinces. It never has been said that Americans are slow to help others. We are criticised abroad for many things. But our enemies join with our friends in admitting the heroic and generous American relief activities in Belgium and ring the war, in central and eastern Europe during the post-war chaos, in the Near East and Par East, and wherever foreign communi. ties have suffered from earthquake, storm, famine and other disasters. China has been included in our relief in the past. But just because Chinese famines lack the spectacular quality of unexpected disasters, Americans are slower to meet this latest emergency. There is also perhaps the feeling that the Chinese are to blame in so far as the recurring revolutions and disorders multiply the famine evils. That is doubtless true in limited areas, but it is not the case in the fam--: district as a whole. Relatively there is less civil wf in China now than there has been in several yea,*, and more promise of stable government. Political conditions can not account for lack of rain, chief cause of the present starvation. Reliable reports pile horror upon horror. It is not alone the slow death from starvation, but the attendant evils of forced cannibalism and plague. Once Americans understand the terrible need, they will be quick to aid the Chinese famine relief commission. Raising One’s Child Modern parents need have no concern about faring offspring in this enlightened day. Once they safely have brought the youngster into the world, the parents can obtain all the advice they need about its upbringing. For its babyhood days there are oooklets galore telling about what it should be fed and when, how it should be allowed to sleep and what to give it when it wails in the night. The only practical difficulty facing the parent is to crowd into a baby’s brief years the many helpful hints that have been prepared for its welfare. As the years roil along and the youngster treads the path toward manhood, the number of helpful hints for the parents increase. Parent magazines re published to impart .nformation on how the mysteries of life are to be explained to the budding flower of the human race. Questions which w the good old days were banned as subjects which oarents should avoid, now are answered in the booklets—so that any parent, however modest, can enlighten the child, and oftentimes himself. We find no fault. Let the child be informed. But we warn the parents to educate themselves as •well, _• they will h~ old-fashioned before they are 35. i_ Citizens Without Rights There are many commendable things which congress might do before it adjourns March 4, but none of them more commendable, we believe, than to pass the resolution authorizing the President to grant general amnesty and restoration of civil rights to 1,500 citizens convicted during the World War of alleged anti-govemmental activities not involving violence. Every war brings action against those non-con-formists who oppose the government’s course. But /as war hysteria recedes, it is the custom of civilized / nations to grant amnesty. The United States is one of the last in the world to take this step, following the World war. Little opposition has greeted the resolution. Even the professional patriots have not seen fit to oppose it. Committees of the house and senate should speed this generous and just act. Tariff Reprisals How beaut s ** l arV t’ . dreams of the high tariff addicts, until they arc shattered by realities. What a Utopia -* x profits iz built up with the rising wall of protection, until that Utopia is destroyed by retaliation abroad. For just as we prepare to increase our tariffs in a special session of congress to please farmers and manufacturers, the wicked foreigners threaten to give us some of our own medicine. Even our long-suff.:ring friends, the Canadians, are beginning to turn on us. That is bad ; n terms of international frien nip. But it is worse in terms of trade and profits. Canada is our best customer, her annual purchases from us running close to one billion dollars. Our foreign trade, in which Canlda is such an im. portant factor, represents in large measure the difference between American depression and American prosperity, as Hoover frequently has pointed out. That this important foreign trade is jeopardized by Canadian resentment over proposed American tariff increases is shown by growing agitation for reprisals in the Canadian press and by statements of Canadian officials. James A. Robb, Canadian minister of finance, in his recent budget report, warned that his government in making its future tariff adjustments necessarily -vould consider the “possible effects on trade of changes oeing proposed in the tariff schedules of other countries.” In a session of the Canadian house of commons last Monday, conservatives and progressives joined in attacking the American tariff proposals and threatened to penalize the United States by lowering the tariff on British imports competing with American goods. Resentment is not limited to Canada. President Quezon of the Philippine senate cabled Washington this week that the proposed tariff “has convinced us more than ever that independence will not only be politically beneficial to us, but, in the long run. will have less injurious economic effect than the indefinite continuation of the present status.” Argentina, our best Latin. American customer. - officially has warned us ot retaliation in connection with the proposed tariff increase on corn and other farm products. The Ouban ambassador in Washington says frankly that an increase in sugar tariff would mean an abrogation of the Platt amendment, under which we exercise protectorate powers over ouk>&.. Already we are ia the thick of bitter tariff disputes

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with France, Spain and other European countries, which would be Intensified by proposed increases. No wonder the President is holding out against the powerful Republican group demanding general upward tariff revision. But even the more moderate Hoover program for slight adjustments on industrial schedules and larger increases on farm products may endanger our lucrative foreign trade with LatinAmerica and Canada. Commissioners of Clay county, Kansas, have ruled that no person owning a motor car or dog shall receive help from the county. A dog, of course, is not a necessity. Mr. Coolidge says he’s going to write at Northhampton. Living in a double house in house-clean-ing, screens, back-yard gardening time, the man certainly must be admired for pluck. Reports from Chicago say the slayers of seven gangsters soon will be in the toils of the law. Wonder if the culprits will change their minds about crime after thirty days in jail? Each of us has $2.69 less than we had a year ago, we are told by the treasury department. One fact that probably will not be ascribed to Republican prosperity. After that terriffic cold wave Europe has been having, the reparations committee needn’t be surprised to find most of the assets over there have been frozen up. Charles Curtis says he is going to let the senate go along as it pleases. Mr. Curtis has been a senator himself and knows how that is. A man suing for divorce charges that his wife kissed him only when she wanted money. What an affectionate woman! Well, now that his years in the senate are ended, maybe General Dawes can go back to Chicago and find some peace. L A Kansas boy won a gold medal in an oboe-playing contest. But he may grow up to be a useful citizen in spite of that. The American Home Economics Association is working out an efficient arrangement of kitchen facilities. Has father been complaining? Whether you follow the teachings of Newton or Einstein, when the stock market breaks a lot of people come down to earth. That school girl complexion is all right in its place, but it can cause an awful amount of trouble on father’s coat. A small town is one where the newspaper prints a short story about the death of one of the city’s leading drayman’s work horses. Colonel Lindbergh chose a quiet, home-loving girl as his life’s companion. An aviator, but evidently he doesn’t care for the flighty kind. Fingernail tints to harmonize with the costume are to be the vogue this spring. Guess father willhave to buy another black suit. A duffer is a fellow who can’t tell his bridge and golf scores apart. - David Dietz on Science ... Bullets or Light Waves? No. 302 LIGHT, according to the brilliant work of a long line of physicists—Huyghens, Young, Frensel and Maxwell—consists of waves in space, or if you prefer to fill space with a hypothetical medium, waves in the ether of space. Maxwell worked out a beautiful set of equations which mathematically explain the behavior of these

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euergy seemed to be released in steps instead of in a continuous flow. Einstein in 1905 wrote a brilliant paper in which lie showed that this could be explained if we arbitrarily assumed that energy consisted of small particles or bullets instead of waves This theory, known as the quantum theory, has since been confirmed by a number of brilliant experiments. The most recent ones are those of the American— Compton—and the Englishman, Wilson. The two were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for their work. Compton showed that reflected X-rays were lowered in frequency by the reflection. This could be explained only on the basis that the X-rays consisted of individual particles of energy which lost energy by collision in the process of reflection. Wilson, by the use of ingenious apparatus, showed certain effects which are assumed to be the result of he actual collision of a single quantum or particle of 5-ray with an atom of ah But while the quantum theory was thus estabislied by these experiments the wave theory was not verthrown. No one has yet come forward with any adequate explanation of the Phenomena of interference other han that of the wave theory Compton himself has expressed the situation by jomparing the contest oetween the two theories as a ■'ootball game in which the score is nothing to nothing and the ball is in the middle of the field. One critic expressed i,he situation by saying that physicists use the quantum theory on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and the wave theory on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Einstein’s new theory does not solve this difficulty. Perhaps it paves the way to some extent. But one thing is certain. Many new theories, perhaps one or two from Einstfein, can be expected, for any theory which does not explain the nature of light can not be a final theory.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “A Foreign Policy Is Like a Law—No Good Unless Enforced.”

HOUSTON, Tex., March 13.—The plot thickens as Calles pushes ’on. A Yaqui general deserts the rebel cause, taking 1,500 men with him. Mountaineers rush forward to fill their places. The mountaineers are more than welcome, no matter what they seek. Whether for loot, or patriotism, Torreon must be defended, since it contains the only munitions plant in Mexico. What began as a well-ordered defection from the Mexican army is degenerating into a rabble. Calles will have to move fast not only to crush tl'ts rebellion before it gets we* und ;r way, but to prevent a recurrence of banditry. General Manzo, western leader of the revolution, says it is not a military uprising in the accepted sense. Admitting that, what is it but a military uprising? Let us not be too particular about words, the point being that this mess was hatched in the Mexican army. The excuse that it was justified by the “unconstitutional” conduct of former President Calles is quite too thin for comment. Nothing can be more unconstitutional than the mutinuy of regularly enlisted officers and men. tt tt Border Gun Running GUN running has begun along the border. Who supposed it wouldn’t? Who supposed that the rebels struck for border towns with any other thing in mind? Most Mexicans believe not only that the United States is unable to stop smuggling, but it wouldn’t if it could because of the cash involved. Heaven knows they have good reason for such a belief. Their country has run red more than once because of guns and bullets sneaked across the border. Are we going to disillusion them this time or laugh and let the game go on? Such patrols as we have on the border are helpless, of course. There are 1,800 miles of border —half of it marked by a shallow river which can be easily waded in places; half of it marked by nothing. Many men would be required to stop smuggling on such a frontier. It is time we were putting more on it. >t tt Our Foreign Policy A FOREIGN policy is like a law —no good unless enforced. Our policy toward Mexico as established by Coolidge, is to back the recognized government by closing the border to revolutionists. That policy calls for something more than declared intent. It counts only insofar as it is made to stick. Who believes we have guards enough to make it stick, that arms and ammunition have not already found their way into Mexico and that more will? Who believes that the revolutionists are not depending on this as their most reliable guarantee of success? Who believes that traders are lacking to help them, that the stage has not already been set in certain American centers and arrangements made for transportation? u tt tt Words and Action THERE is harm enough in letting our domestic laws go unenforced, but there is more in adopting a similar attitude toward the foreign policy. If we would have the respect of outsiders, especially in LatinAmerica, we must show that we mean what we say or that we say no more than we mean. Too many times, our words have failed to square with our actions. We did not make Huerta salute the flag, for instance, though we declared he must, and we did not get Pancho Villa, though we sent an army across the border for that purpose. Such incidents are measurably responsible for the fear, suspicion and distrust with which our declarations are regarded. Under different circumstances the obvious efforts of this revolution to gain control of border towns in order to obtain arms and ammunition through snuggling would be regarded as a brazen affront, if not insulting. Theoretically the border is closed to them, yet the revolutionary leaders make it their first goal. tt tt Hoover’s Problem WHAT has occurred Ip the past, even the very recent past, constitutes no reflection on the Hoover administration. It can not justly be held responsi- ! ble for the gun-running that has occurred. or for the resultant belief on the part of Mexicans. The Hoover administration inherits a bad situation—a situation which is somewhat analogous to that of prohibition, except that it deals with bullets instead of booze. The Hoover administration is committed to a creed that has been stultified by lack of performance,; and faces a revolution in Mexico that pins vastly more faith on the lack of performance than to anything else. Drastic and effective measures will be required to correct such a misunderstanding. If Mexicp is to be convinced that we mean what we say, which is the first essential of happy relations in anything like a permanent basis, the border must be closed in fact, as well as by declaration, closed much tighter than it ever was before, closed in such a way that no one will forget. Daily Thought Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.—Jeremiah 2:32. tt tt 9 MEN are men; the best sometimes forget.—Shakespeare.

light waves. The existence of such waves appeared to be clinched by such experiments as the one by Young demonstrating the interference of light. But as early as 1900, it became apparent that the way in which energy was radiated from hot bodies did not follow the wave theory. The

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A Good Foundation to Build On

Reason

IT is no particular benefit to President Hoover to have the word go forth that ex-President Taft induced him to appoint Stimson secretary of state and Mitchell attorney-general, also that Taft induced him to place the revision of legal procedure before the country as the paramount issue. Taft ran his party into an open switch, hence does not rank among the aces of political wisdom. tt tt 9 The government will not get very far in its campaign to educate the people along the line of the wisdom of prohibition enforcemnet, for that job is so big it can be done only by the vast organizations which waged the campaign which put prohibition over. Without such a great educational campaign against alcohol, the prohibition law will not be enforced in 10,000 years. tt tt tt What a tragic contrast in the case of Marshal Foch. A little while ago he spoke for the world and the central powers accepted his ultimatum, and now, a mere shell of a man, he is carried by his nurse!

Care Should Be Taken With Pink Eye

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN El'itor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hysreia, the Health Magazine. ABOUT thirty hours after a certain germ gets into the eyes, usually in the fall j oi* the spring, the eyes become irritated. Three Q.~ Arc breathing exercises dangerous? Do they ever cause heart trouble? A.—B reathing exercises properly conducted are not langerous or unsuitable for most people. Overexercising of any kind is serious for a person with heart trouble. days later they will be very red the lids will be glued together in the morning and become swollen and puffy. Little red spots will show in the THE FRENCH PACT March 13 • ONE hundred sissy-one years ago today, the Marquis de Noailles, French ambassador in London, announced to the British government that his country recog-; nized ".he independence of the struggling American colonies, and that it had form ;d a treaty of friendship and commerce with them. The treaty had actually been signed several months before. Immediately after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga had proved that the American cause was not altogether hopeless. War-weary America received the news of French aid with great enthusiasm. It was received with other emotions in Europe. Lord Stormont, British ambassador to France, left Paris immediately without informing the French ->mp n t of his intention. And Spain, whose old American colonial possessions gave her a finger in the American pie, likewise resented the treaty. Within a month France and England were at war and Spain was kept friendly to France only by a secret treaty, which promised that France would recognize United States dominion only as far west as the Mississippi riyer.

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m m By Frederick LANDIS

WE hope Elsie Janis recovers, for she did a service for the American army during the World war which entitles her to the prayers of the country. tt tt tC The most promising member of the Hohenzollern family is Prince Louis Ferdinand, second son of the former crown prince, who has turned * his back on Germany and started for Argentina to seek his fortune. If he succeeds, the crown prince will promptly touch him, for the crown prince is now engaged in putting a large number of notes in circulation. ts tt tt Since Coolidge took his electric horse from the White House, President Hoover has nothing to mount, but the Republican elephant, and there’s no thrill in this between campaigns.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

white part of the eye. Then light will irritate the eyes and a lot of fluid will pour from them. They will feel as though sand had gotten into them and the tendency will be to keep theTids of the eyes closed. If nothing is done to stop the condition, matter will form and this will aggravate the condition. The diagnostic name commonly applied to this condition of the eyes is “pink eye” and one of the scientific names for it, because the disease spreads rather easily from one person to another, is “epidemic catarrh of the conjunctive,” because it is the covering membrane of the eye and the eyelids that is chiefly affected. Os course there are certain rules to follow if one wishes to avoid infection' with pink eye. A common towel should not be used, particularly by people working in various industries. If any one is observed to have this condition he should stay away from his employment until he has had adequate attention and learned how to protect others against his infection.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerbv Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue Washington. D. C. inclosing 7 cents In stamps fir reply Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can ex- j tended research be made. All other j questions will receive a personal reply , Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential. You are ;ordiallv invited to make use of this .service. Hold old is ifthel Barrymore? She was horn Aug. 15, 1879. Where is the University of Michigan located? Ann Arbor, Mich. When did Lent begin in 1928? Feb. 22, which was Ash Wednesday. Is it too late to convert war risk insurance into regular government insurance? All war risk insurance automatically became void July 2, 1927, unless converted before that time. What is the rule for a dribble in basketball? A dribble ia made by a player giving impetus to the ball by throwing, batting, bouncing, fumbling or muffing it and touching it again before it touches another player. In a dribble the ball must come in contact with the floor, except that

TAFT IS NOT AN ACE m m ONE GREAT ADVANCE GOOD LUCK TO ELSIE

IT’S all right for Hoover to let Curtis sit in at cabinet meetinbs, for Curtis is a nice, quiet old gentleman, but Coolidge knew better than to let Charley Dawes put his feet under the cabinet mahogany, for Dawes “would have told them.” tt tt Inasmuch as both sides in this Mexican war always kill all their prisoners, one fails to get the viewpoint of those who surrender, since it would be much more satisfactory to drop while fighting. 000 We have made one great advance. In the old days tariff revision caused national stagnation, manufacturers closing their doors and merchants not buying, but now, thanks to our sense in changing only a few schedules and in taking the tariff out of politics, the business of the country goes right on. 0 0 0 If it be true that Viscount D’Alte, minister of Portugal to this country, intends to stop the use of liquor, out of deference to our dry laws, it will cause the greatest sensation in his native land since the Lisbon earthquake.

In treating inflammations of the eyes and the eyelids the doctor usually advises hot fomentations laid on Che eyes for five minutes at a time. Sometimes he suggests that witch hazel or boric acid be add£d to the hot water. Infections and inflammations of the eyes should not be taken lightly. It is better to be certain of the exact nature of the condition. There are some infections such as trachoma which are extremely serious and which may go on to the point of destruction of the eyesight. The ordinary inflammation tends to get well with simple hygienic procedures but the serious infections will not succumb to such treatment. All sorts of eye-drops are offered for use as panaceas for the ailments that concern the eyes. It is not well to put into the eyes any drops of unknown composition. The eye is one of the most delicate tissues in the human body and if it is damaged it does not tend to recover as easily as portions of the skin.

the ball may be tossed or batted into the air once at' the beginning of a dribble or during a dribble. Hie instant the ball comes to rest in either one or both hands, or touches j both hands simultaneously, the ! dribble ceases and the player must either pass the ball or throw for goal. A player may pivot after a legal dribble. What is the largest known bird? The ostrich. The male is somewhat larger than the female and measures seven feet more or less in -height from the top of head to the feet and weighs upward of 200 pounds. Who won the Indian marathon held in June, 1921, on the Pacific coast? The marathon from San Francisco, Cal., to Grant Pass, Ore., was won by Mad Bull, who covered the distance in 7 days 12 hours 34 minutes. He averaged about sixty miles a day. Where can O’Donohoe, who wrote the scenario for “What Price Glc.*y,” be addressed? J. T. O’Donohoe may be addressed care of the Fox Film Corporation. Tenth avenue and Fifty-fifth street, New York City.

MARCH 13. 1029

IT SEEMS TO ME 0 s By HEYWOOD BROUN

tdeai, an opinions eX • oresaed to this column a r those of on t of A m erica's most interest* in* writerand arc presented witkoat retard to their nmment with the editor!:,! attitude of this paper. The Editor.

IT WILL be an excellent thing for us at the outset to accept the fact that the war in Mexico is a private fight. On the basis of present reports, the revolution seems to have been fomented by military leaders desiring dictatorship. It will be to our advantage to have the existing government maintain its authority. Woodrow Wilson asked the impossible during the great war when he urged Americans to be neutral in thought as well as in deed. The sympathies of a nation can not be swayed or muzzled. But it is perfectly feasible for us to maintain the strictest sort of neutrality in practice. After ail, the causes of C c present uprising are obscure. Few of us arc competent to pass upon the rights and wrongs of the conflict. Indeed, we have no divine assignment to render official approval or censure. Mexico never has intrusted to us a veto power upon the composition of its government. a tt tt Unfortunate IF a military dictatorship is set up to the south of us, it will be unfortunate. America has not and should not refuse to recognize Mussolini's Italy merely because some of his processes may seem to us high handed. It would be silly for us to pass by any man in the saddle in any foreign land. Even though he comes to us with bloody hands, we still should say “good morning.” If the internal affairs of Poland are none of our business neither are those of Mexico, no matter if she is our neighbor. We are in no position to settle her problems. No government existing solely by our favor can hope to stand with any grace or permanence. Naturally it is essential for the American army to see to It that, fighters keep on their own side of the river. It is also well for us to protect life and property of Americans in Mexico as far as possible. But this can be only a limited activity. There has never been a war in which neutrals did not fare badly. We ourselves did not always avoid the giving of offense to citizens of noncombatant nations when the war fever gripped us. tt tt tt Lindbergh in Danger IAM fearful that something will happen in Mexico which will give our militarists grounds to whip up excitement and call for intervention. Specifically I wish that somebody in Washington would unofficially ask Colonel Lindbergh to cease flying over or near any fighting area. If some irresponsible soldier should fire at the aviator and injure him in any way it would be extremely difficult to check the demand for vengeance. For the safe: of peace I think the colonel should come home. It never has seemed to me sound that a coun-try--should try to guarantee its nationals protection in all parts of the world. There must be circumstances in which the traveler moves at his own risk. Certainly it is fantastic to protect an American when he desires no such thing. I am thinking of an American missionery in China whom I know. The college where he taught was seized by someone of the many revolutionary groups and he returned to America. After a bit, when conditions modified a little, he was anxious to go back and take up his work again, but the state department refused to issue him a passport. They said that the area to which he purposed to go was still dangerous and they did not want him to get into any trouble which would necessitate the sending of marines. Doesn't Want it “T>UT,” the missionary insisted, “I £j don’t want any protection. I’m not asking for it. In fact, I refuse it. Let me sign a paper saying that against your advice I went back to the college. Then if I get killed everybody will know that I took the risk of my own free will.” But the American officials would not allow the missionary his own latchkey, and so. all I know 1* is still waiting for permission to do the thing he wants to do. Sometimes I wonder what use passports are in any case. Os course, I know that in theory they aid the various countries in identifying dangerous radicals and criminals and other undesiraHio--But as yfie war proved a desperate man can always manage to get hold of a forged document, a a a Profitless Education DR. CLARK of Teachers’ college has reported that college education at the present day does not yield dividends. This estimate is based upon a long and careful survey. Such inquiry may well s***ve a useful purpose. It is time to call public attention to the fact that the professions are overerowdecL Why on earth should ny happy land need so many lawjl rs? But after admitting the benefits which may accrue from investigation. it is well to point out that the success or failure of modern education must not be judged wholly by a mere process of arithmetic. It Is ridiculous to class every person of moderate means, or less, as one who has been marred by his years at college. I have always supposed that the chief purpose of higher education was to fit the individual to lead a fuller and happier life. I don’t see how that can be measured in terms of dollars. There are thousands of citizens more worthy of national regard than Jack Dempsey, and several of them make quite a little less money. (Copyright. 1929. lor The Time*)