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The Real Guilt That Daisy Sullivan, the 18-year-old Bloomfield girl, manufactured a bogus check is well established. Within eighteen hours from the time she obtained a pitiful sum and illegally secured two oranges she was sentenced to a term in a penitentiary to remain there from two to fourteen years. The state of Indiana ought now to be interested in the guilt of those who are responsible for the transformation of a motherless girl into a convict within a few days after she reached the age of criminal responsibility. The editor of this paper has received a letter from the probatiomofficer of Greene county which is so illuminating and remarkable that it should demand an inquiry from some source into conditions of Greene county. It is just possible that similar conditions exist in other counties. If they do exist, the state should take some action before it is put to the expense and humiliation of branding 18-year-old girls as felons. A part of the letter is unprintable. It purports to give evidence of offenses of a nature in which the girl could not have alone been guilty. Just what steps have been taken to either punish the guilty or correct the habits of the young men of that community is not disclosed. “Personal history reveals that the girl came from a broken hoi. e, the mother having died seven years before this time,” says the probation officer of the court which gave the two-to-fourteen-year sentence.” To special supervision of her own sex since that time. “Educational advantages have been meager, a lack of suitable clothing making the school days anything but a joy. The girl reared in unsocial surroundings, the standard if living, physical, educational, moral and religious, being low. Therefore this girl has not reached the correctional institution on the first offense.’’ And in further evidence, the letter contains this comment: “The girl actually sang as she went to prison.” Just what Bloomfield expected of a girl who never had one of her own sex, as this official states, to take a kindly interest in her motherless girlhood is not revealed. If there has ever been an indictment of a community or social system, it is contained in this apology for Bloomfield justice. The picture is complete. It paints the girl as friendless, her school days made bitter by lack of clothes, alone to battle the world with no woman taking an interest in her, with her religious training “low.” Who forged the check? Who got the oranges which were munched in the court house while the law was coming to seize and brand? Was it the girl? Or was it not society itself which had moulded a bit of human clay into the one logical and inevitable pattern? Think of what must have happened before an 18-year-old girl could sing her way to a cell. Can Indiana sing while that girl remains in her cell?

Mexican Travail The Mexican rebellion is lengthening out. Early hopes of cleaning the rebels out of the country quickly were too optimistic. Weeks, maybe months, will be required to restore order. This situation might be explained oy the superficial assumption that the rebels represent widespread discontent among the Mexican people. Such is not the case. Testimony of diplomats, American newspaper and business men, and of special investigators practically is unanimous that this simply is a revolt of army chiefs for selfish and anti-social purposes. These discredited generals lack the support of an important labor, agrarian or political group in the civilian population. The ability of the militarists to prolong the civil war, is due to the unusual geography of northern Mexico and to the rule-or-ruin rebel strategy. By capturing banks and appropriating funds, by retreating from the pursuing federal troops without a major engagement, and by destruction of railways and bridges in their retreat,, they delay deteat. Even after the oncoming federal army drives them backward to the border wail they can separate into smaller guerilla bands and infest the mountains as long as they have lunds to pay their mercenaries. The tragedy of the situation is not that the GilCalles government, representative ol the farmer and labor interests, is endangered; for the psychological hold ol the government on the country is considerably stronger now than when the revolt began. Rather the tragedy is the useless destruction ol national wealth and organization in a country already terribly impoverished by eighteen years of recurring revolutions ana counter-revolutions. In the long run the prosperity and independence ot the Mexican people and then- ability to evolve stable economic and political institutions depend upon basic social reconstruction That means scnoois, roads, irrigation projects, industrial development—all requiring money. But the money so necessary lor reconstruction is now being drained off and lost m civil war Fortunately the United States government, in sharp contrast to its conduct dunng certain other counterrevolutions below the Rio Grande, nas thrown its moral support to tr.e Mexican government me tederals are permitted to purenase arms and supplies here, while an embargo is maintained against the rebels. This policy is wise both from the standpoint

of Mexican democracy and the business interests of the United States. In these circumstances it is rather surprising that the rebels have sent to Washington an alleged diplomatic mission whose first act is to start propaganda against Ambassador Morrow. Os course there is no chance of that rebel mission being received by the state department or otnervvise obtaining any recognition from the Hoover administration. As for the rebel propaganda, it is apt to do the Mexican government much more good than harm. Myron T. Herrick When Americans think of France they think of Myron T. Herrick. When the French think of America they think of Myron T. Herrick. Since he went to Paris as ambassador in 1912, he has been the interpreter of friendship between the two peoples. He continued that service during the war in unofficial capacity. He returned to the embassy in 1921, and has carried on ever since. Now he is dead at his post. He was a lawyer, a banker, a governor, a diplomat. But he will be remembered simply as a man of great heart. He achieved not so much by unusual intellect as by his sympathies and his charm. He liked people and they liked him. A younger generation of Americans learned of this veteran and admired him for the felicity with which lie fathered Lindbergh, when that modest youth flew into world acclaim. But the older generation had grown to expect just that sort of thing from the ambassador. He had a way of doing the right thing, in the right manner, at the right time. He was much more than a high envoy from one important government to another. He tried to be the representative of the American people to the French people. And he found happiness in such success. Herrick earned the tribute he gave to Lindbergh so graciously—- “ Ambassador of good will." More than half the population is afflicted with defective vision, according to statistics. Either the man who compiled those figures never has seen a traffic jam or he is an incurable optimist. Who remembers the old fashioned days when the villain in the drama was supposed to be wicked? Now that the former President has gone into the writing game, he ought to tell everybody how it feels to be making a little money. Mussolini asks what is the use of a wife with a vote who casts it as her husband does. But perhaps the husband couldn't persuade her they ought to vote differently! A dispatch from Cannes says Countess Alexandre Festetics has been seen often this Fiviera season smok ~g a pipe while taking a stroll. <Not an advertisement.) Hurrah! That I’quor has been returned to the Siamese embassy at Washington! Hurrah, were not severing relations with Siam, after all! Hurrah for Peace j Italy is ready for war, says Mussolini, though none is in sight just now. Waiting for the outside chance, you might say. Major Seagrave's 231 miles an hour at Daytona Beach is a fine thing in itself, but an awful example to be setting for the Sunday drivers.

David Dietz on Science True Story of Kite No. 318

EXPLORATION of the atmosphere has occupied the attention of many American scientists. The first, perhaps, was Benjamin Franklin, who distinguished himself in many fields of science as well as in statesmanship. Franklin’s famous kite experiment is known to all. But the details usually are a bit mixed.

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in France and the experimenters killed by lightning bolts. It is even dangerous to fly a kite when a thunderstorm is brewing and heavy clouds are beginning to collect. Franklin pertormed his experiment to test a theory which he had that all clouds were in an electrified condition. Incidentally, Franklin’s experiment was described by himself in a letter to Peter Collinson of London on Oct. 17, 1752. The date on which he flew the kite is not known, but it is thought that he flew it from a vacant lot on Chestnut street. The first American io make air soundings was Dr. John Jeffries, who on Nov 30. 1784, went to a height ox f,218 teet in a balloon, carrying along a barometer, a thermometer and six bottles in which he collected sample* ot air. . A third American who did much in the study of the atmosphere was Prolessor Lawrence Roetch and a fourth was Langley, tor many years the secretary oi the Smithsonian Institution Kites and balloons have been used with great success in making weather observations. In 1898 a totai of 1.200 observations were made with kites by observers of the Umteo States weather bureau. For over five years, kites sent aloft daily from Mt. Weather. Va.. by oureau observers reached heights tanging from two to torn anc a halt miles Small hydrogen oalloons are also used to carry instrument* aloft When these balloons reach great heights, the expansion ol the hydrogen due to the fall of atmospheric pressure causes the balloons to explode. A parachute which opens when the balloon explodes brings the mstrumentc safely to earth. Some of these balloons have reached heights of nineteen miles.

M.E. Tracy SAYS: “If a Lot of Drys Hadn't Thought They Could Go On Drinking in Spite of the Prohibition Law, We Never Would Have Been Inflicted With It.” WASHINGTON, April I.—A place of strange contrasts, this national, capital of ours, with its social barriers to prove how well the world has been saved for democracy, its campaign against hooch to show how well prohibition works, its formal, evasive statements from above, its trickle of all too definite scandal from below, its magnificent public buildings and its disappointing residential sections. Real estate promoters have more than made up for what the politicians left undone to spoil the original plan. Around the impressive parks and structures, which government engineers have developed with so much care, there is springing up a lunatic fringe of moronic subdivisions. The landscape is being leveled and grand old oaks are being cut down to make room for installment plan houses and mail order gardens. All the cities in this country put together could hardly furnish such a magnificent group of public buildings as Washington boasts, but any of equal size could show better homes, especially for middle class folks, and better laid-out subdivisions. a tt Smut for Washington? NOT satisfied with the damage that has been done by all the unwise platting and exploiting some people in Washington want industries. The notion that this city was set aside as the nation’s capital seems quite beyond their comprehension. Standardization, as exemplified by the Chamber of Commerce complex, has schooled them to think of no town as grand without smokestacks. They see no incongruity in a glue factory near enough to smell up the Lincoln memorial, or a steel plant near enough to smut Washington’s monument. Why, they want to know, shouldn’t this shrine of the republic have a port like Boston, or an overhead haze like Pittsburgh? A pay roll has become their prize obsession, just as though Uncle Sam were not furnishing one.

Drinking Congressmen itj-ITH two dry congressmen on W the carpet, prohibition grows even more popular as a topic of conversation. It seems to be taken for granted that these congressmen are guilty, though they have only been accused, and though the law says no one is guilty until convicted. Indeed, it seems to be taken for granted that most dry congressmen drink now and then, and not without reason. When a senator stands up publicly, as Bruce did, and declares that all the sincerely dry senators could be put in a taxicab, what can one expect? It is only fair to these particular congressmen, however, to give them their day in court. It equally is fair to expel them if that day results in conviction. a a o Perils of Hypocrisy HYPOCRISY is the great secret of all our troubles with regard to prohibition. If a lot of drys hadn’t thought they could go on drinking in spite of "the law, we would never have been inflicted with it. If a lot of drinking drys did not imagine they could make themselves solid with the public by shouting one thing and doing another, we would be getting along with it a good deal better. No law in American history has led to so much lying, deceit and pretense. The entire situation stinks to high heaven with insincerity. Hippocket peddlers are paraded before the bar of justice to fool the public, while those who made the law’ and those who enforce it snicker. The time has come to have a clean-cut showdown one way or the other. As things now stand, the average father finds it difficult, if not impossible!, to teach his children respect for the law. or faith in government. a ts tt An Example for Youth WHO can blame the younger generation for going to the dogs? Wh must its thoughts be as it reads the Constitution of the United States and beholds the prevalence of hooch not in dives, but at supposedly respectable social functions? “To drink, or not to drink.’’ no longer is the all-important question. The all-important question is one of common honesty, of living up to a revolutionary ideal, or of modifying that ideal so that average folks can live up to it. Youth naturally is honest, naturallyy straightforward in its convictions. naturally anxious to have its words and acts square with each other. What is youth to think when it sees us older folks preaching one thing and practicing another? Why shouldn't it cast its ideals to the four winds, declare moral standards tommyrot and sail in for every conceivable inn ovation ? Hasn’t it been set an obvious example? Hasn't it been shown such a sham as never before disgraced a civilized country? How can it believe in anything, have faith in anything, or feel like standing by anything? Tiiose who blame the young people for what is happening miss the mark. Young people never were, and never will be responsible for the collapse ol great principles. Young people always have, and always will take their cues from the preceding generation, but in doing so, they pay far more attention to example than precept, and are influenced more definitely by what the preceding generation actually does than by its lip music.

To begin with, Franklin did not sail his kite in a thunderstorm. The story of Franklin flying his kite in a thunderstorm is about as accurate as the one of Washington chopping and o w n a cherry tree. It w'ou’d be an exceedingly foolhardy thing to fly a kite in a thunderstorm. It was tried on several occasions

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of H.vgeia, the Health Magazine. SOME people believe that for every child born the mother loses a tooth. The impression that childbirth places an extra demand on the teeth of the mother is warranted by many years of experience and observation. It is not, however, necessary to sacrifice teeth as badly as they are usually sacrificed during this process. In order to conserve the mother’s teeth, modern care demands suitable amounts of calcium salts and of vitamin D in the diet of the mother; regular examination by the

IF ANY succession of “incidents” ever should make it necessary for us to go to war over prohibition, I hope some arrangement can be made whereby only members of the Anti-Saloon League will be used as shock troops. However, I am not wholly against moral legislation. While it is extremely difficult to make people good by law, there is the possibility of regulation. The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. According to our custom, the laws relating to it are slightly tinged with hypocrisy. Save in a few states one may not bet on horses, but you may wager your head off on locomotives or automobiles through buying Baldwin or General Motors. It would be quibbling, indeed, to argue that speculation is not gambling. In fact, the line so often drawn between speculation and investment seems to me a little shadowy. An investment, I take it, is a commitment in a stock which goes up. Several poker players ot my acquaintance are not gamblers at all, but singularly successful investors. Os course, money obtained in that way never does you any good, and the dividends they take out of the game they promptly lose in Wall Street. It ts tt The Bonds Which Tie According to a logic which eludes me. a special morality is supposed to reside in bonds. Yet bonds have been known to rise, and even to fall away to nothing. To be sure, the fluctuation in certain prior obligations may be slignt, but the man who deals in such issues is mere'' l ' playing for smaller stakes. He still is gambling. No one has even been known to turn back profits and excess ot interest, on the ground that he made his purchase simply for the sake of the yield. And if a man buys a sufficient number of gilt-edged bonds, his gains and losses in a day may be even higher than those of the little fellow who is wildcatting among the more obscure oils. Nor has the government a right to adopt a high and holy attitude toward the gambler. Within my own day Washington itself urged the citizenry to take a chance. Liberty loan orators begged everyone to buy a bond, not only on the ground that it was a patriotic duty, but also for.the reason that these issues were likely to appreciate in value. And some of them did. In looking over the range since the date of issue, I find that Fourth Liberties have had a swing of more than eighteen points, mostly down. When these bonds touched 82, some of the holders must have had a slight feeling that they were gambling. e tt tt Gambling NOTHING in tnls article is intended to give aid and comfort to those who would abolish Wall

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HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 9 Mother’s Teeth Can Be Saved

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dentist during at least the first six months, and perfect cleanliness. Use of the toothbrush alone will not make good teeth either for a mother or for a child. The teeth are a portion of the body and therefore are controlled by the food that is taken in, the quality of the blood, infection and many other factors. Although the teeth are made largely of calcium, calcium alone will not serve the purpose, since this calcium must be used by the body in proper ways in order to be of service to the teeth. The diet of the expectant mother should consist of vegetables, fruits, milk and plenty of bread, butter and cream. The teeth of the mother should

Street, and do away with speculation. I would like to see more and better gambling rather than less. The reformers who attack the stock market do not come into the forum with clean hands. There is no group of people in thj whole wide land living without participation in some form of gambling or other. Os late the cry has gone up that the high money rate is crippling legitimate business. If merchants and manufacturers are in need of credit, it must be that they, too. are engaged in some form of speculative activity. And. of course, they are. All business has its gambling phases. The merchant endeavors to s uy low and sell high, which is precisely the endeavor of the Wall Street operator. Nor can I appreciate the distinction which so many make between slips of paper and traffic in the actual commodities. If I went to the corner store with cash and carried away a few pounds of coppe- in the hope of disposing of it at a higher figure, I can't see f why n enterprise should have a morality about it denied to the man who buys shares In Anaconda. tt tt tt Certian Legal Risks EVEN the professions are not without their gambling features. The lawyer who takes a case on a contingent fee is certainly gambling. The editor who signs a newspaper writer to a contract does so with the expectation that the hired hand will increase in value during the term of service. And there have been cases in which the hired hand has discovered that he, too. was a party to the added gamble of whether the paper would live up to the contract. An actor in joining a theatrical

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The name and address ol the author must accompany every constributlon bu> on reauest will cot be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference Editor Times—l have just read with interest almost a page of the plight of Daisy Sullivan of Bloomfield. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for using such valuable space, space that advertisers would not be able to buy for any money, for the cause of right and justice. When more publications have the grit to make such a stand, that much sooner will the poor have an equal chance with the rich. F. G. BUTLER. Linden Hotel.

Daily Thought

The thought of foolishness is sin; and the scomer is an abomination to men.—Prov. 24:9. a a a THOU mayst from law, but not from scorn, escape.—Charles Sprague.

be brushed regularly and the mouth kept clean by regular visits to the dentist for removal of tartar deposits and for the polishing of the teeth. These facts are important not only for the protection given to the mother's teeth, but also that the child may develop properly and that the mother may be free from mouth infection and the possibility of other infections in the body during the period before the birth of the child. The diet for sound teeth must contain food sufficiently hard to exercise the jaw and muscles and have sufficient amounts of the important vitamins to aid general metabolism.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

enterprise must face the fact the play may run a year or just two weeks. He must gamble on the public taste, as does the author and the producer. There is not much gambling in medicine, but it would not be harmful if there were. It might be an excellent idea to have the doctor say, “One hundred dollars for a cure, and nothing if I fail to help you.” But granting that gambling can not be suppressed, and therefore should not, it may still be pointed out that Wall Street is a good deal less than an ideal casino. The worst feature of gambling is losing, and the percentage against the player in the stock market is enormous. I know that millions have made profits within the last year, but if they stick around, the house will get its own back again. tt tt a Why Not a Lottery? T HAVE never been able to understand the opposition to government lotteries. Uncle Sam has run a speakeasy, and so why not a gambling den? A United States lottery would raise as much money as the income tax and with far less friction. Nobody would grudge the dollars which were spent in the hope of winning a capital prize. Each week or month a few individuals could be made fabulously wealthy. Life would be more exciting than It is now. A government lottery could regularly make good the boast that in America even the poorest lad can become a millionaire. In fact, special provision could be made to rig the machinery slightly in favor of the underdog. I think nobody would seriously object to a stipulation that if John D Rockefeller or J P Morgan caught the lucky number, the slips should go back into the hat and the drawing be made all over again. iCopyright, 1929, for The Timest

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REASON By Frederick Landis 1 Broad way’s Fear of Losing Its Stage Stars to Talkies, Offering Huge Salaries, Appears to Be Well Founded. Broadway is upset by the fear that her great actors and actresses may forsake her and go to Hollywood to make talking pictures, this fear becoming acute when the Fox Film Company signed 200 stars and near-stars for the talkies. How can the speaking stage hope to hold stars when the talkies can afford to pay them ten times as much as New York producers? o a a Mr. Coolidge refuses to comment on the Boston editorial which urges him to run for the United States senate in 1930. He has an eminent precedent for such action, that other Massachusetts President, John Quincy Adams, having followed an unfortunate White House term with a long and brilliant service in the house of representatives. a tt a Samuel Rea, former president of the Pennsylvania railroad, who recently died, started as a chain man and rod man and reached the top. And what Rea did thousands of others will start to do every passing year, for this is the age of opportunity. also the land thereof. a a a TF any of the inhabitants of the JL Holy Land, long turned to dust, could have risen to see the great dirigible Graf Zeppelin as she cruised over the birthplace of Christianity, they would have regarded the floating monster as a fit companion for the miracles of old. a tt a Judges by their net results, Napoleon should get out of his tomb, givq it to Foch and take a smaller niche on the side, for Napoleon merely gave France a bloody thrill and intoxicated her with gravestrewn dreams, while Foch saved her life. n tt a It is a good thing for President Hoover to do away with the White House stables, if he doesn't need them, but it stands for a change which one does not like to see, for the decline of the horse is infinitely more tragic than the decline of the Roman empire. tt tt tt Hoover's secretary has obtained eight miles of fishing accommodations and the first party soon will be organized. We predict great success for it, provided they retain some frecklefaced kid to show them where they are and how to catch them. a a u THE American Philosophical Society asked its members to tell what the world needed most and they disagreed completely, this proving that confusion is not the exclusive attribute of the ignorant. One member said the w orld needed genius, but in our humble opinion it needs ballast. a t> a Two New' York boys on a hike were trapped in quicksand and a man who tried to rescue them also sank up to his eyes, but all finally wore rescued. Which reminds us that the worst | quicksand we have is the credit ! system, which means the debt habit. I Let young people once get their feet I in this and they will be floundering in it until they die. j Pay as you go—or don’t go!

THE FIRST RAILROAD April l TODAY is the anniversary of the humble beginning of railroads in the United States. Just 103 years ago, the Granite railroad started to operate. It was built by the state of Massachusetts and those citizens in particular who were interested in erecting the Bunker Hill monument. Its purpose was to haul stone for the monument down from the quarries at Quincy, Mass., to a wharf on the Neponset river, from where it was shipped to its destination. This pioneer tramway was only three miles long, and cost only $34,000, but it marked the beginning of our modern network of systems, with their 250,000 miles of track. This road was followed, later In the same year and early In the next, with two others in Pennsylvania, built by coal mining companies to haul coal over the mountains. These roads, since they depended on stationary engines and gravity instead of locomotives, were not the type of railroads "'that we know, but they were the forerunners of them, and their success hastened the coming of locomtivedrawn trains.