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State Highways For each of the next two years the state will spend nearly twenty millions of dollars on highways. Most of this money will come directly from the pockets of the automobile users through license fees and tax on gasoline. From here in, the purchase of every ten gallons of gas will carry with it an additional payment of 40 cents to the state. On what seems to be the best authority, there is likely to be a change in the directorship of the highway program. The Governor, responsible for the department, very properly would like some supervision of the expenditures of so vast a sum of money. The department has been broadly and specifically criticised for years. If there is to be a change, it should be one for the betterment of the system. The people are entitled to the wisest and most economical expenditure of their money. They are entitled to a dollar’s worth of road for every dollar they spend. They should be protected against any political or other waste. Certainly the man to spend this money ought not to be the professional politician, with the usual viewpoint of “perquisites” or what the boys call “honest graft.” He ought not to be the sort who would either engage in or permit any petty pilfering, such as can be done in the many garages where state gas for trucks is stored. He should be public minded. Moreover, it might seem logical that such vast projects should.be under the supervision of experts. This is a day of engineering. Building roads is an engineering project of the highest sort. They should be built honestly and intelligently. The Governor will be wise if he selects any new directing head on the basis of ability. The people are spending too much money for roads to get politics instead of roads for their money. The Narrow Traveler You often hear that the constant increase in foreign travel will help make people “better acquainted” with other nations and will advance the cause of permanent world peace. But Professor Bernard Fay, writing in the spring number of the Yale Review, disagrees with this viewpoint. Casual tourists, he says, can never help bring about international understanding. “They take around the world an uncompromising nationalist spirit, and they bring back, carefully packed and ready for wear, distrust or contempt,” he writes. “In so far as it creates easy contacts between peoples not yet prepared to know or enjoy one another, the new transportation system is a very dangerous device; for misunderstanding of a foreign country in a person who has ‘been there’ is liable to be more acrimonious and inveterate than in the stay-at-home.” If a tourist, visiting anew land, would resolve to make himself temporarily a part of that land, adopting its customs and ways, all might be well. But none of us does it that way. Consequently, we fail to understand the things that are strange. > Our Foreign Invasion Americans are buying up the world at a lively rate. Last week it was public utilities. This week it is foreign electric and automobile industries. Next week it will be something else. Os course the foreigners object, just as we would if It were the other way around. But there is nothing particularly new in the process—except that we as the richest nation in the world are doing it today, while Great Britain as the richest did in the last century, and Holland Rome and others before her. We own the rest of the world now to the extent of about $27,000,000,000. Besides the foreign debts to our government, private American investors own $16,000,000,000 worth of foreign bonds and industrial stocks. So the world is pretty much working for us and our profits. That, by the way, is one more good reason why the real interests of the United States depend on world peace. The conflicts arising from America’s world ownership are illustrated by foreign expansion developments this week. General Motors Corporation acquired for $30,000,000 a major interest in the Opel company, which manufactures 45 per cent of 1 11 German automobiles, and which dominates the market in several neighboring countries. This hookup is in addition to General Motors’ twenty-four overseas plants and 6,000 distributors in more than one hundred countries. It is a reply to general European expansion by Ford and other American companies, and to promotion by European companies. In retaliation, the eight remaining large German companies are reported planning a combine against “foreign invasion.” There are also rumors that General Motors is negotiating for the French Citroen Company, which rumors cause consternation in France. Despite all that foreign companies, and sometimes foreign governments, can do to fight American competition, our automobile exports in 1928 were the largest ever, and in January this year increased to $47,000,000, or 48 per cent over January of the last banner year. Ford tried to mitigate the anti-American feeling resulting from this expansion by selling stock in his new British company only to Britons, but Americans soon bought much of the stock from the British. British resentment reached its high point this week when the British General Electric tried to exclude its American stockholders from participation in anew bonus stock issue. Americans already had acquired 60 per cent of the stock in this powerful British concern, though their voting rights were curtailed by the TOO per ount Britons” last September. The attempted discrimination against majority American stockholders this week has caused such a financial and diplomatic furore that the action is being postponed and a compromise attempted. British financiers fear that such discriminatory action by the British Electric Company might be used in other countries as a precedent against control fc. ; British capital. The French government is reported protesting to the United States government against alleged monopolistic control of oil by an international combine 'leaded by Standard Oil. fm At the same time the movie war has been carried into the new talkie field, with the British, Germans | and French forming a $100,000,000 international trust

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:o battle American companies for local and world markets. These are but this week’s developments in the long trade conflict which has resulted in the last two years tn attempts of European industry to combine against American competition by forming international trusts or cartels in steel, chemicals, aluminum, copper, zinc, nitrates, cement, rayon and dozens of other commodities. Whether foreigners or Americans approve or disapprove American economic world supremacy probably will continue, for our surplus wealth is flowing outward as surely as water flows downhill. To mitigate the evils of economic imperialism and to permit foreign peoples to share equitably in the wealth they produce with American capital is the problem of statesmanship before American officials and capitalists. The Stock Market When our fathers warned us against the dangers of stock speculation, the bad bankers and the bad brokers always were the villains of the tale. The “big fellows” ate up the “little fellows” after luring them to the feast. But now it seems that ancient nursery tale must be revised, like so many old yarns with a moral, to fit modern conditions. For the Wall Street spectacle today is that of the big fellows holding back and the little fellows furnishing their own get-rich-quick mirage. Doubtless the end will be the same as of old, with the little fellows wiped out. But this time they will have none but themselves tc blame. We don’t profess to have any inside dope on the future of the stock market. Our only knowledge is of the humble order of knowing our own ignorance —which, by the way, the world’s wise men have rated „s the beginning of all wisdom. But it doesn’t take any special knowledge of the stock market to arrive at the conclusion that the experts, the economists and the bankers are better informed about what is going to happen than are the army of small isolated speculators throughout the country who keep pouring money into the market, despite all warnings. By what blind luck and defiance cvf economic laws these thousands of small speculators, who are inflating an already inflated market, expect to profit, it is hard to understand. Never before has there been such situation—with corporation presidents warning the public that their own stocks are too high, with bankers and economists generally warning that the credit condition is unhealthy and dangerous. These bankers and economists can and do disagree among themselves as to the remedy, but they agree on the illness. Within the last few days earlier warnings have been supported by statements by the federal reserve board, Paul M. Warburg, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, and now by Governor Young of the federal reserve board. These men are of recognized standing in the financial world, conservative by instinct and close mouthed by habit. They usually fear to speak, lest their words shake business confidence and the country’s prosperity. So when they are driven to speak, one would think the little fellows might heed before it is too late. The president of the American Beet Sugar Association denounced as “sinister” the overture of the Cuban government seeking free admission of a certain amount of Cuban sugar. The beet sugar people, it seems, are raising cain. Mary Garden is quoted as saying talking pictures spell the doom of grand opera and the legitimate theater. Well, well, Mary, so you're going into the movies! The “Black Crook” burlesque is being revived. Won’t the ladies of the ensemble catch cold when they leave the theater after wearing so many heavy clothes?

David Dietz on Science Wind Made History No. 307

THE importance of weather to mankind was stressed in a series of lectures given by Dr. Alexander McAdie, professor of meteorology at Harvard university. The lectures formed a course at the Lowell institute. Dr. McAdie had been senior aerographic officer of the United States naval reserve force overseas dur-

the children of Israel across the shallows of the Red sea was not exactly warfare, but it was essentially a test of national strength and a revolt against oppressions yoke, which throughout the centuries has been accomplished chiefly to resort to arms. We may then be permitted to regard it as a quasi-military action in which weather played a controlling part. “What happened? We do not know; but presumably the Israelites were quick to take advantage of a temporary shoaling; and finding it possible to go ahead, proceeded to cross while yet the strong east wind was blowing. For such a wind, accompanied by high atmospheric pressure, drives back the waters and expose the bottom lands. “The Egyptians in heavy marching order pursued them, but as the wind shifted and the pressure fell, the waters came rolling back. Chariots, horses, and riders were speedily engulfed. “If the Egyptians had had the services of competent forecasters and modem methods, they probably would have been warned of the impending win® shift. “This incident illustrates the truth of tne observation that next to being able to control the weather, the best thing is to know enough to take advantage of weather ocnditions.” Another conclusion may also be drawn from this incident. For if Professor McAdie is right in his interpretation of the Biblical story, we owe our modern civilization to the shift of that wind. For neither Judaism, nor Christianity which sprung from it, would have developed if the Egyptians had overtaken the fleeing Israelites.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: ''Flaming Youth Has a Way of Flaming in the Right Direction When the Emergency Arises.”

TYIRMINGHAM, Ala.. March 19. “America’s worst air crash,” is the way several headline writers describe the New Jersey accident in which fourteen were killed. A terse, truthful description, but not wholly unfavorable to aviation. It is some satisfaction to realize that we have gone so far in flying without a worse disaster. Such a tragedy is not to be minimized, nor is the responsibility for it to be condoned, if that responsibility can be fixed. At the same time one can think of a dozen sea tragedies in which ten times the number of lives were lost, not to mention the fact that every day sees five times the number taken by autos. We are paying a price for this conquest of the air, but it is neither enormous, nor discouraging. Thus | far the bulk of it has been paid by ! pilots. If they have not winced, I which they haven't, the public j should not be dismayed. u n a Take a Chance! THERE is something to be said, of course, for every possible safe-guard to protect the public, especially in connection with the ! joy-riding services, which have bej come so popular and which promj ise such good returns. | There is a constant temptation to j take chances, to bet that the old boat will make one more trip before sundown, to let no patron get away without giving him a ride, to make every minute count and not lay off for inspection, or repairs, unless it is absolutely necessary. Such things, however, have to do with human nature, rather than aviation. We haven’t learned to overcome our weaknesses, than if we have learned to fly. tt tt n Rescue by Planes LIKE everyone else, Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama read about the New Jersey accident. Then he hopped into an airplane for a cruise over the flooded area. So did the aviators bringing in the supplies. A novel experience—this relief of flood victims by air—and good for two reasons. In the first place, it gets there quick and in the second, it gives pilots practice in the art of bombing. The man who can hit a concentration camp with a package of groceries, bundle of .clothing, or what is even more difficult, a basket, can hit the enemy with bombs. Asa writer on the Birmingham Post remarks, “If you’ve never thrown a big basket from an airplane traveling at the rate of 100 miles an hour, you don’t know what excitement is.” Captain Bullock and his observer tried it, only to get two blankets caught on the tail of their machine. tt tt tt Nation of Jelly Beans? YOU can’t say too much about these aviators who are flying down over the water-logged counties, where there isn’t any place to light, their machines loaded with supplies, their fate depending on engine and nerve, their reward nothing but the knowledge that they have done something decent. They take their lives in their hands, of course, and no one knows it better than they do. Where the regular commercial pilot faces one chance of disaster, they face two or three. Yet there is glory in the work, as every last one of them will swear—glory in the grateful cheers of sick, starving thousands; in the gratitude of distracted mothers, the hope of little children, the renewed courage of men who thought they were undone. Those who think this has become a nation of jelly beans ought to come down here and see the boys take off. Yes, and not to leave our own profession out of it, they ought to come down and see how the reporters and camera men have worked—one of the latter, Fred Powell, helping forty-six refugees, beside getting out with the first pictures. tt tt tt Reliable Youth IT takes such adventures as aviation and such calamities as this flood to prove that we are not going to seed—maybe, to prevent it. Anyway, you just can’t observe the reaction of them, without realizing that the blood of America still runs red with nerve. Flaming youth, as so many call it, has a way of flaming in the right direction when the emergency arises You don’t find it looking at itself in the mirror, painting its face, or wasting its energy in other useless ways, when there is something worth while to do. Flaming youth has its lunatic fringe, its moron strain, its vicious bent, just as it always did, and needs not only guiding, but the chance to carry off its surplus strength. It can't be thrilling in ways that grandpa and grandma got their kick. It asks, and has a right to, something different, since something different is the basis of progress and civilization. Given that, however, and youth is the same old reliable bet. Have the number of horses on farms in the United States decreased materially during the last ten or fifteen years? According to the department of | agriculture yearbook there were es- j timated to be 19,833,000 horses on r arms in the United States on April 15, 1910, and 15,778,000 in 1926. ! What is the value of a Confederate SIOO bill with bust of Mrs. Davis, issue of 1864? Two cents. What state of the United States reaches farthest north? Minnesota.

ing the war. Perhaps that accounts for the fact that his first lecture was on “The Strategy of Weather in War.” You may be interested in the way he started his first lecture. (The lectures have been published as “Man and Weather” by the Harvard University Press.) He said: “The march of

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IT would appear that Secretary Mellon has not the influence with this administration that he had with the last one, since President Hoover has directed that all decisions in tax refund cases be published, a thing Mellon always has opposed. While he recommended the publication to the president after a long conference, the chances are that the president told him to do it. tt n tt Mary Garden eats only one meal a day, which proves that there is much more nutrition in publicity than anybody ever had imagined. tt tt These farmers who produce dairy products and fix the prices thereof point the way out of depression to their agricultural brethren. It’s next to impossible for the farmers of the country to fix prices, but they are the only people today who do not do it, and that’s what ails them. tt >t The mayor of Herrin, 111., just has been sent to the penitentiary, but owing to the large number of Governors recently under indictment, it attracted very little attention.

Outdoors Is Only Real Spring Tonic

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. AS the first warm days begin to appear insidiously among the chilling breezes of March, the oldfashioned mother begins to get ready the sulphur and molasses for the cure of spring fever. t The idea is that spring is a time for house cleaning and body clean-

Q. —What is sinus disease? A.—Sinus disease is an infection of the cavities in the bones of the face. These crypts are connected with the nose cavity and serve to warm the air taken into the body and give resonance to the voice. An infected sinus is a serious matter.

ing. The drug stores begin to display bottles of spring tonics. There was a time when the bock beer sign heralded tne definite arrival of the happy season. The worker at his desk develops a sort of lassitude and dreams of figures that are not in books. There is only one spring tonic

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GRANT’S FIRST MOVES March 19 SIXTY-FIVE years agd* today the federal offensive, under General U. S. Grant, who just had assumed command of the Union forces, took the form which ultimately resulted in victory for the Union cause. Roughly, this date, in 1864, saw the taking of the first step in the historic “march through Georgia," for on that day General William Tecumseh Sherman assumed command of the federal army of the Mississippi, succeeding General Grant, who took personal charge a few days later of the army of the Potomac. Sherman had been in charge of forces in Tennessee when Grant was placed in chief command. It was at his own request that Grant gave him the larger comrqission. McPherson succeeded to Sherman's old post and Logan was given McPherson’s command. These changes were quickly made and a united drive against the south began. The strategy was simple. Grant’s various armies were scattered fan-like on what was roughly the border of the south, and he planned to bring them all toward a common center.

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By Frederick LANDIS

PRESIDENT GIL’S statement that the revolution will be crushed in ninety days and that a firing squad awaits every rebel, general is merely a conventional announcement that Mexico is prepared to do her spring cleaning. tt a We fail to get the viewpoint of Senator Borah and his congressional associates who are agonizing because the federal government uses spies in the Atlanta penitentiary to try to stamp out the narcotic trade among prisoners. tt tt tt If President Hoover does send former Vice President Dawes as ambassador to London, it will not be thirty days until he has taken the limelight away from the prince of Wales.

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that is real and that is the outdoors. The cure can be found in the trees and in the fields; along the banks of some stream and out in the sun. Walking over the hills and through the valleys is far better than traveling in a sedan through miles of billboards along paved roads. If fresh air were a commercial commodity and all that was used had to be purchased, it would be more highly prized and more lavishly employed. If walking were part of a daily dozen that had to

Questions and Answers

You can tret an answer to any answerable question of fact or information bv writing to Frederick M. Kerbv. Question Editor The Indiana Dolls 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 will receive a personal replv Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this service. When was the first law excluding Chinese from the United States enacted? The first attempt to exclude the Chinese from the United States was the treaty between China and the United States in 1881, which gave the United States the right to limit or suspend the immigration of Chinese. The next year an act was passed by congress suspending their immigration for a period of ten } ears. The law in its essential provisions has been several times reenacted. When were shotguns first used as hunting weapons? Shotguns, light enough to be used as hunting weapons, were made as early as the middle of the seventeenth century. The first practical double - barreled breech - loading shotgun -was made in 1836 by a French gunsmith, Casimir Lefauoheux. Was General Grant a Democrat or a Republican when he accepted the nomination for the presidency of She United States? Following the Civil War, General Grant was approached by both political parties, each of which saw in him a powerful candidate for the presidency. Although not belonging to either party. Grant’s views more nearly resembled those of the Republican party and he accepted their nomination. That was his first declaration of political affiliation. What is the difference between a “trust," a “corporation” and a “company”? A trust is a right of property, real or personal, held by one party for the benefit of another. The word is also used to a combina-

MELLON LOSING OUT LIVES ON PUBLICITY HER t SPRING CLEANING

CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT hastens to announce that the oath he administered to President Hoover is legal, notwithstanding he got several words wrong, but how the supreme court would kick over the traces in a lawsuit if the same mistake should appear in legal papers! tt tt tt These hundreds of New York lawyers who have organized to fight the enforcement of the Jones’ prohibition law, are the same crowd that used to call western people anarrehists because they favored a national income tax. The last Indiana legislature obeyed the utility group, disfranchised the people by mutilating the primary law, took the speed limit from automobiles, and increased the tax rate. Thank the Lord they meet only once every two years! The president of Cuba has just made a speech, telling how Cuba loves the United States, but the Cubans are decidedly sore because we do not give them better tariff accommodations and remove the guardianship we exercise over the island.

be learned through a course bought from a city headquarters, it would be more popular. Put on some clothing adapted to the weather, shoes that do not cramp the feet and that are not too light, begin with a good free swinging gait. Enjoy the walk instead of looking at it as a job that has to be done. Take liberal doses of this treatment and repeat daily as long as needed. That is the best spring tonic prescription that any health adviser can offer. •

tion in business in restraint of trade. A corporation is an artificial being, created by law and composed of individuals who subsist as a body politic under a special denomination, with the capacity of perpetual succession and of acting within the scope of its charter as a natural person. A company is an association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business. How should white fur be cleaned? Take equal part of flour and powdered salt (which has been well heated in the oven) and rub thoroughly into the fur. It should afterwards be shaken well to free it from the flour and salt. If white fur is. covered with a white cloth or kept in a white bag it will prevent it from getting yellow. Expensive furs are best cleaned by a reliable furrier. What is the address of Sue Carol, motion picture actress? Care of Douglas Mac Lean Productions, Hollywood, Cal. What actresses besides Norma Talmadge have played Camille ha motion pictures? Clara Kimball Young, Theda Bara, Mae Busch, Sarah Bernhardt and Alla Nazimova. Was there a total eclipse of the sun in the United States in the spring of 1900? A total solar eclipse was visible on May 28, 1900. The path of totality crossed Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. What is the longest railroad in the world and in the United States? The largest railroad system in the world is in Germany, the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellshaft, operating 33,000 nu.es. The two largest railroads in the United States are the New York Central with 6,928.09 operated miles and the Pennsylvania with 10,527.01 operated miles.

MARCH 19, 1929

Idea* a* and opinion* e• - praaied in IM column arc those af an* of Ameriea'a most intereatint arluri and are reeented w 111out retard to their agreement with tbe editorial attitude of thta paper. The Editor.

IT SEEMS TO ME a a By HEY WOOD BROUN

SINCLAIR LEWIS fumbles still and does not touch again the top rungs of his talent. ’ Dodsworth” belongs well below “Arrowsmith” or “Babbitt," Or even "Main Street.” But this new novel gives promise that America's white hope is less dead than sleeping. Filled with familiar faults, “Dodsworth” does possess at times a power for poignancy. It is one of the few books in which Lewis has ever been able to make the reader sorry for somebody. For one character, at least, he stirs up profound and scalding pity. And this, I think, is the supreme function of the novelist. But the book is weighted down by the author's preoccupation with many trivial things. Anew fault lias crept in. Both “Main Street” and “Babbitt" were too long and overwritten. In the mater of background. in particular, Sinclair Lewis allowed himself too much canvas and a surfeit of paint. a Anywhere STILL in these earlier books the scene had a direct bearing upon the theme. This is not true of “Dodsworth.” Seemingly, Lewis began work with the feeling that his life abroad had given him a vast amount of insight into the psychology of the American in Europe. He also had somd notion of what the Europeans thought about us. And perhaps, as a small boy, he saw “The Man From Home.” Having all this material. Lewis was amply justified in putting it into a book. But he should have written two books. The effect of France, Germany, Italy and England upon the two chief characters is almost wholly irrelevant, For essentially Lewis is writing about Sam and Fran and the factors which tore them apart after years of passably contented marriage. To be sure, it is some part of the author’s intention to show the way in which new contracts broke up the old relationship. But I never felt that the European influence was the chief factor which wrecked the marriage of the pair from Zenith. tt M tt Story THE fundamental tragic scheme is sound. Sam Dodsworth, a successful manufacturer of autos, quit work at 50 and decided to see the world. It is his desire to know more of himself and of his wife. Even a long marriage has not left them well acquainted, because both have been too busy with manifold duties and activities. By taking on leisure, Sam throws himself constantly into the company of Fran. And when, for the first time, he comes to know her well, he makes the horrifying discovery that he does not like her. Nor does she love him. To be sure, this development could have taken place in Europe, but that setting is by no means essential. It would have been entirely possible for Lewis to have arranged for the same tragic sequence without ever moving his character out of Zenith. There is such a deal of travel stuff that Lewis, for perhaps the first time in his life, may be justly accused of stinting detail in some important portions of his story. The tale is fundamentally tragic. In the end Sam reaches out and finds a woman whom he can love more happily than Fran. But this portion of the story is done with such unholy haste that it seems little more than afterthought. This new woman remains almost wholly unrevealed to the reader. tt tt tt Necessary LEWIS seems intent upon proving that Sam just had to leave Fran, that life with her was essentially hideous and impossible. In order to prove this point he is compelled to devote a great deal of time to the intimate study of her faults. But even faults if appropriately combined make a living, breathing and not altogether unattract human being. A sinner can always win sympathy if all the other people in the cast are merely plaster saints. Sam is not precisely a saint, but Sinclair Lewis has erred in making him long suffering. It is one of the least attractive virtues Accordingly, at places in the book where Sam gritted his teeth and resolved to endure a little longer the slights which Fran put upon him, I always felt like crying out, “Go to it girl, jab him again.” The plain fact of the matter is that Sinclair’s Sam is rather a poor worm and a whimperer. People who beat their heads upon the floor should not be surprised if they get stepped upon. Mrs. Dodsworth had many failings, but at least she sometimes knew what she wanted. Sam never did until a few chapters from the end when he arranged for a second marriage. I am not disposed to bet much upon its success. Dodsworth, as a matter of fact, has small vitality. He is merely Babbitt somewhat burnished. Fran is anew figure in the Lewis gallery and a well drawn one. “Dodsworth” is a book by a great novelist, who has not yet bought himself a thick blue pencil. (Copyright, 1929, for The Times)

Daily Thought

Who whet their tongue like s sword, and bend tbeir bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words.—Psalms 64:3. 00# WORDS are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words; the spirit in which we act is the great matter. —Goethe,