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A Chance—for Daisy and lor Indiana If the conscience of Indiana can permit an IS ' i ar-(ifi. motherless for seven years, to serve from two to fourteen years m a penitentiary for forging a 8(; check, the girl can probably stand it. Sic: may take <• en the hard and tragic attitude of the probation officer from Greene county, which sent her to the woman s prison That officer .veined to think that it was a victory that an lh-year-old girl would sing on her way to prison, because inside that prison sin- would no 1< • :* r |jg subjected to jeers because of clothes, no longer feel the pangs of nunger which -he had experienced outside, bhe would lie rid of a feeling of inequality. That 1 lie girl was hungry was indicated by the fact that out of lie proceeds of her crime she luid l-oi n; and *atrn two oranges. That may >fcm criminal in Greene county. I poi 'h' •! a: 'Oicnt oi tiiai probation olficcr who .;<• "mlm - ti.- iiappinc.ss of the girl on her way to her long ••. isou term, the girl had never had the sympathetic interest of one of her own A . Perhaps Greene eounty may rest, content under such an indictment of heartlessness and indifference. The people of that community may be, content to go to their churches on Sundays, their club meetings, their pleasant parties and denounce a yibb'ss, friendless girl for being wav ward. 1 hey may even take some consolation in the fact that not a woman or a minister had any part in her downfall, because they had never even spoken to the girl. There arc men and. women in this state who believe that the girl should have a chance. Thev believe that Indiana should also have a chance to demonstrate that it will not permit girls to be brand-, and felons and criminals until kindness, sympathy, interest, education and guidance have had a chance to prevent wreckage of a life. It is a line commentary on humankind that the workers at the Columbia Conserve Company in this city voted to give the girl employment among thur number, if the Governor consents to her release. That company is conducted by its workers. Thev vote on matters of policy. 1 hey pass upon the admission of new workers to their group. Among those who know what work is, who have some social outlook, who can undcistand that a jobless and motherless girl might be icmptcd. the Gr -ene county attitude was missing. The siau ha mailing to lose by giving thigirl a chain It has every!Ting to gain in sell respect if it demands from the Governor that il lid itself of the blot of sending a friendless girl to prison for the same term received bv a banker, who. a friend of senators and congressmen, forged cheeks for *130.000. while this girl vas getting two oranges. The Greeuc eounty standard ought not to be an Indiana standard of either justice or mercy. A Thorough Hearing U would be unfortunate if the highway commission should tomorrow attempt to limit any effort that Director Williams may make to defend himself or show any reason he may believe responsible for the fflort to remove him Such a hearing, by its nature, is farcical. Ihe members of the comnusison arc his accusers. They arc also his judges. Any unbiased verdict by such a tribunal is. of course, impossible. But there is a chance for lire public to get some real information concerning this department which will spend this year twenty millions of dollars of the people's money. The commission has made some charges of neglect It has not charged dishonesty. The defence s oi Williams, and they aic many have whispered that the real cause of the Williams ouster is the desire oi material makers and contractors to graft. They picture Williams as the one man who stands between the people and theft. That hearing will be incomplete unless the defenders oi Williams bring this matter into the open and point to the interests he has kept from stealing, the politicians he may have stopped in their pilferings While the linen is in the wash, all the dirty clothes should be dumped into the tub.

Censoring Opinions Federal Judge Gibson ol Pittsburgh has handed ' a decision which is reminiscent of the worst days of English judicial tyranny. He has assumed the right to punish a man for what he thinks. He has canceled the citizenship of John Tapolczvaiu ol Harmony. Pa., who was bom in Hungary and naturalized in 1920. After becoming a c izen Tapolczyani wrote to a brother in Hungary, saying he was a communist in principle and in favor of the soviet form of government. The letter was intercepted by Hungarian censors gjjrj turned over to United States authorities. They brought suit in equity charging Tapolczyani had obtained his citizenship by fraud, since he could not honestly take an oath to uphold the constitution. Tapolczyani argued that he always had upheld the laws and constitution 01 his adopted country and that he is opposed to change by revolution when constitutional means are at hand. It the constitution means what it says, there is no justification for Judge Gibson s opinion. Every man is supposed to have the right to think and speak as he pleases, and peaceably to advocate political changes. He can preach communism, anarchism or monarchism, and so long as he does not use or urge force against constituted authority, he is within his

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rights. Tapolezyani committed no overt act: he merely entertained certain views. Fortunately, liberal groups will appeal the decision to the United States supreme court, where no doubt a proper interpretation of the constitution will be made. Hundred Percenters and Immigration Business interests arc joining liberals ot the country in supporting President Hoover’s demand lor repeal of the national origins clause ot the immigration act, which would reshuffle the present quota system. The United States Chamber ot Commerce announces a report by its immigration committee opposing the change that becomes effective next July unless the special session of congress acts in the interim. In addition to repeating the findings ot the Hoover commission that it is impossible to compute quotas accurately under the national origins plan, the chamber committee stresses t.wo other arguments: Our industrial liie, our citizens and foreign applicants and our immigration machinery already are adjusted to the present 1890 census quota basis. “Second, the putting into effect ot any restrictive immigration policy is bound to stir up racial antagonisms and misunderstandings. There is plenty of evidence that changing over to the national origins plan would revivify these antagonisms without any large commensurate gain to our final purpose, which is the building of a homogeneous and united nation.” The only groups in this country insisting on the impracticable change are those racial minorities who themselves would profit from it, and certain “hundred per cent American” organizations which make a fetish ot Nordic blood. Their idea in proposing the change originally was to increase the British immigration and reduce the south European influx. As the plan works, it actually would increase the Italian quota 50 per cent and the Greek 207 per cent. Even with those increases, however, the south European quotas would remain low, except the Italian, raised from 3.845 to 5.802. The most important changes would be to increase Great Britain and northern Ireland 93 per cent, and to cut Germany 49 per cent, Scandinavia 64 per cent and the Irish free state 37 per cent. Naturally, the large German. Irish and Scandinavian groups of American citizens are indignant over this effort at alleged pro-British discrimination. Congress should not find it difficult to choose between the advice ot President Hoover, the liberals and ’lie United States Chamber of Commerce on one side and the “hundred per cent” organizations on the other side. The national origins clause should be repealed. When Hypocrisy Is Unmasked The world hates a hypocrite. Drys who are sincere and wets who arc sincere stand on common ground, therefore, in contemplating the predicament of a dry congressman caught with the wet goods. Should the charge in cither or botli of the cases pending prove true, little sympathy will be forthcoming from either side in the great dispute. The question isn't so much one of trying to get by with a little liquor. It is more particularly a matte' of hypocrisy being found out. Ot course smuggling, though only lor the stomach s sake, is not defensible. It is less defensible for a lawmaker than for a private citizen. And still less when a lawmaker has cloaked himself with the special privilege which is called “freedom of the port.” It is conceivable that a tolerant constituency might forgive and forget where such an offender w'as not also an ardent worker in the cause which he is caught violating. But prooi of guilt under such circumstances, regardless of what the legal penalty might be. is likely to mean quick political extinction. The career of the convicted hyporite is "ol a few days, and full of trouble.”

_ David Dietz on Science

Origin of Trade Winds

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DIFFERENCES in temperature are the basic causes of the general circulation of the earths atmosphere. It is this circulation which is primarily responsible lor the daily weather changes. The weight of a given volume of air changes with its temperature. When air is heated it expands. Consequently. a given volume of warm air weighs less than the same

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earth's poles, the atmosphere would soon adjust itself to the earth in a position of rest and would henceforth turn with the earth just as though it were a solid part oi the earth. Due to the fact that there is a difference in temperature between the equator and the poles, we have a gneral circulation of the atmosphere. In addition to this general circulation, there is a local circulation between land and water areas which is likewise due to temperature changes. These result from the fact that land and water absorb and reflect different amounts of the heat received from the sun. Smaller changes are introduced into the circulation of the atmosphere by the contour of land—the location of mountains, valleys, and the like—and by the presence of lakes. The earth's rotation must also be ytaken into account in attempting to understand the circulation of the air. The accompanying illustration shows the general circulation of the air which in the blowing of the trade winds. The air rises at the equator, where a region of calms and low pressure exists, to a height of about six miles. Here it is cooled and forced downward, causing high pressure areas in the northern and southern hemisphere at latitudes 30. Here the northeast and southeast trade winds originate which blow toward the equator. It will be seen, therefore, that the trade winds ai r merely the lower part of the gener°l circulation m atmosphere.

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"The Average Dining Car Would Bea Much Pleasanter Place if About. Half the Frills and Furbelows Were Omitted WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2. x coast guard cutter leaves Boston for the North Atlantic to locate icebergs and warn shippers ox their whereabouts. She will be' joined by a second within two weeks. This is part of an international protective service established as a result of the Titanic disaster which occurred seventeen years ago and in which 1,500 lives were lost. Every spring, great overhanging chunks of ice and earth break off from the Greenland cap to drift southward. Some of them stand 200 feet above the water and are as large as good sized farms, which conveys only a vague idea of their real bigness, since they float seveneights submerged. The submerged section of an iceberg has been known to extend a quarter of a mile beyond its visible portion and only a few feet beneath the surface. This, coupled with the dense fog often prevailing off the shores of Newfoundland, makes the peri! peculiarly difficult to avoid. a ft a Dinner for a Nickel A/TANAGEMENT of the work- -*-*-'*- men’s hotel in Detroit claims that it served a dinner consisting of turkey giblets in rice, potatoes, pie and coffee to 4,000 at a nickel each, without losing money. If that is so, some of us are paying vastly more for service than food. Service is not to be despised, but it can be overdone. More than that, it is being overdone, as any one who travels through this country can see for himself. For one thing, piling up extra dishes, until there is no room left for eating in comfort, has become a veritable nuisance. Regardless of the saving in time and money that might be accomplished, the average dining car would be a much pleasanter place if about half the frills and furbelows were omitted. ts tt a Perils of a Leaky Trunk -CONGRESSMAN M. ALFRED MICHAELSON, Illinois, charged with violating the prohibition law by attempting to snv liquor into the United States, voluntarily surrenders to the United States district attorney in Chicago and furnishes a cash bond for his appearance in Jacksonville, Fla., next May, where the case has been set down for hearing. The congressman explains that he would have done so before had he not been on a trip to the east and unaware that he was wanted. He further explains that there is nothing in the charge brought against him, and asks the people to withold opinion until it has been tried, which is only fair. There arc other phases of the case, however, with regard to which the people should not be asked to wait much longer for an explanation. 1. Why was the warrant allowed to hibernate for six months? 2. Was Congressman Michaelson not notified of the indictment brought against him, and if so, why not? 3. Is a leaky trunk ail that stands between prohibition and congressmen disposed to violate it when coming home from foreign lands? a a a Scared by the Truth O PEAKING of prohibition, the O drys seem to be vastly more worried than the wets over the coming investigation for which congress has provided. They especially are worried about the personnel of the board President Hoover will appoint. Apparently, they want investigators biased in favor of prohibition to begin with. Just as apparently, they are afraid of the other kind. Nothing has occurred thus far which shows up the attitude of the prohibition leaders so vividly. They are not only scared of a probe by antis, but what is far worse, by impartial people. To put it bluntly, they have come to a point where they are scared of the truth. tt tt a Men With a Bug SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON of California is out with a statement against the Root formula by which it was hoped the way would be opened for this country to enter the world court. What Senator Johnson says about the Root formula is of no particular consequence. He would say much the same thing about any formula designed to serve a similar purpose. Senator Johnson simply is against this country entering the world court, or anything else which smacks of international co-operation for the sake of peace. Probably he can't help it. Probably he was born that way. Some people have the misfortune ; to be against everything which does not conform to their pet hobby. ! Senator Johnson's pel: hobby is to ' save California from the Japanese. With this in mind, he can not visualize a League of Nations, a world court, a naval conference, or much of anything else which would bring two or more nations together, except in the light of a terrible menace. Most men with a bug become ir- ■ reconcilables in the end. Is there a snake large enough to swallow animals the size of a cow? Pythons native in the Philippine Islands are the largest snakes. They have been known to swallow small water deer which are about the size of a dog. They could not swallow objects the t- ze of a cow. Hhat is the address of Bernarr adden? (Sf Broadway, New York. si

volume of cold air. Cold and therefore heavier ai r will descend toward the earth’s surface, pushing out of its way warm and therefore lighter air. The warm light air is consequently forced up and made to rise. If there were no difference in temperature between the equator and

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association ana of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SOME people believe it is more healthful to drink tea than coffee. The active ingredient of both tea and. coffee is caffein. Tea was introduced into Europe in 1610. Today there are many varieties of tea which differ only by a fraction of a per cent in their important ingredients. The t.wo most important ingredients are caffein and tannic acid. These with the volatile oils are chiefly what concern the pe ion who drinks tea as a beverage. The

DR. ROBERT RUSSA MOTON, the principal of Tuskegee institute, has written an extraordinary and elegant book called "What the Negro Thinks.” It has alwayfe seemed to me that the race problem is the most pressing and the most interesting question in the whole realm of our national affairs. I have written about it on a great number of occasions. It is by all odds my favorite topic of conversation. And yet I am afraid that within my own limited sphere I have clone very little good. My sympathies have always been with the more radical Negro leaders and I have succeeded in irritating very many and convincing precious few. Indeed, until I read Dr. Moton's book I was inclined to share the opinion of some of the Negro intellectuals that the man was inclined to compromise too readily with the standpat standards of the white south. The error was mine. Right or wrong, Dr. Robert Russa Moton is pursuing a logical course. He has framed for himself and his race a well-rounded philosophy. The terms of this philosophy are not unfamiliar, but, if Moton and his men carry it out, as they seem to be doing, it will constitute one of the very rare practical applications of a doctrine to which most of us give lip service. In essence his scheme for the emancipation of the Negro is nothing more than a literal adherence to Christian passivity.

.Glory of Persecution ALMOST he appears to glory in . some of the wrongs heaped upon his race because lie seems to feel that through discrimination itself the Negro will gain the moral advantage which leads straight on

The name and address of the aufiibr must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—We long have been readers of The Times, but I wish to call your attention to an article by Mr. Heywood Broun in the March 28 issue of your paper, in which he places the literary genius of the 1 skipper of the I'm Alone above that of Calvin Coolidge. And so I ask why compare Mr. Coolidge with a foreign bootlegger?. Why place Mr. Coolidge who at least is an upright, honorable, lawabiding American citizen, below a foreign narcotic and rum runner who has no regard for the laws of the United States? I ask. why compare a former President of the United States with | men who try to tear down the morals of the American people? I say that a man who writes such an article does not show very much patriotism, moral decency, or good I judgment. And such comparisons , will not be tolerated by the American people. EDGAR JOHNSON. Waldron, Ind, Editor Times: Your attention is directed to a statement published in your paper under date of Mar til

Is Tea More Healthful Than Coffee

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Can This Be Justice?

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 10

caffein in tea is so soluble that it is practically all dissolved out of the ieaf immediately after infusion. The tannic acid is dissolved out more slowly, so that the longer the tea is steeped, the more tannic acid there is likely to be in the finished product. The amount of caffein per cup in tea varies from of a grain to 1.2 grains and the amount of tannic acid from ( 89 grains to 4.2 grains. It is therefore probably better not to prolong the infusion because then too much tannic acid will enter into the finished product, too much of the volatile oil will disappear and the product will be bitter. It is not advisable to add milk or cream to

; to the citadel of salvation. I wonder whether this is true. I like to think that the walls of Jericho will come tumbling down more readily before trumpet calls than from the aggression of any sort of shell fire. At any rate, it I is an interesting experiment. It is not an ignoble dream, for the , dispassionate understatement of the i Negro educator carries with it the burning and flaming quality of the ! terrible meek. It is not good for ! any people to be trampled down, but in the end it is even worse for | the oppressors. The punishment of all overlords will come, I think, not in any future hell of retribution, but in a very present and tangible decade. Man will not survive unless he keeps his own feet on the ground. The wrongs of which Mr. Moton complains are specific and the remedies very simple. a a a Law Vs, Practice IN THE matter of segregation for instance, Dr. Moton makes no ! appeal for a removal of barriers, j He merely points out that the law ! provides separate and equal accomj modations for Negroes. There can i be no room for argument that the I south has not been faithful to this pledge. Even the most casual study |of railroad travel reveals the fact | that the Jim Crow car and the Jim

Daily Thought

He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted: neither lurneth he j back from the sword.—Job 39:22. THERE'S a brave fellow! There’s a man of pluck! A man who’s not afraid to say his say, though a whole town’s against him.—Longfellow.

28, 1929, in which you state that! my name has been mentioned as a probable successor to Albert Wals- j man, as business director of the i school board, and also that I proba- j bly will succeed, as secretary, Frank ' L. Reissner, who has been with the : school board for thirty-seven years, j I may state frankly, that I never i have solicited the position held by ; either of the gentlemen. Asa citi- j zen, taxpayer and parents, I do hold i an interest in our school city that i such organization function in a I business-like manner and that the ■ taxpayers get 100 per cent of value j for every dollar paid for school pur- i poses. I further wish to correct an erroneous statement to the effect that “Both Emmelman and Losche are close Coffin supporters” Asa Demo- j crat, I adhere only to and support : Democrats and Democratic doctrines i in any kind of political issue, and : most naturally whatever Coffin is for politically I would be against, I am now asking you to retract j this statement in your publication, : as it has caused considerable em- i barrassment to me. ALBERT H. LOSCHE.

tea from the standpoint of taste. On the other hand, this does help to throw down the tannic acid in an insoluble form. Coffee depends for its quality and flavor on the caffein and the oils. Coffee contains about 1.7 grains of caffein per teacup full and 3.24 grains of tannic acid, which is just about the same as is contained in an equal quantity of tea. Therefore from the point of view of health, there is not much difference between tea and coffee. Either one used in great excess may be harmful. There is no evidence that either one used in moderation has had any influence on the length of life for the average person.

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Crow waiting room is shoddy, dirty and inadequate. Certainly the head of Tuskegee meets the Nordics more than half way in the political field and I have always been told that the Negro must be kept dow ; n lest he capture legislatures and destroy white government. “As for control of the government by Negroes,” he writes, “municipal, state or national, it is doubtful if there is one thinking Negro of American birth who either desires it or would wapt to see it come to pass in any future which he can visualize. His observations of Negro control in those countries where it does exist have not been sufficiently reassuring to make him wish to try the experiment here.” n a No Quarrel With South IN THIS review the word “south” has crept in several times but it is not used by Dr. Moton in my manner. He seems to have no particular quarrel with the southern white. He himself loves that section of the country. Yet he would take away from the southern white plan one of his most ready boasts. Surely we of the north are not much given to the familiar line, “I know the Negro.” Dr. Moton ridicules this claim and sweeps it to one side. He says that the white man may have known the Negro under slave conditions but that it is wholly impossible for him to understand him now. Segregation stands in the way. The Negro knows the white man’s home, his hotels and his clubs where he goes in his capacity as servant. The white man knows nothing of the Negro’s home I can’t remember that the word “equality” appears once in “What the Negro Thinks.” “Justice” appears many times. Whatever dream he may have of some future time, Dr. Moton is willing enough that the black child should play in his own back yard as things are now. But he thinks that the Negro should be allowed to keep his honor. *Copvr;ght 1923. lor The lnnt-i

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Henry J. Allen will be the brightest man Kansas has had in the senate since the passing of John J. Ingalls THE appointment of Henry J. Allen, publisher of the Wichita Beacon. to succeed Curtis will be a tonic for the jaded quality of the United States senate. Allen will be the brightest man Kansas has had in the senate since the passing of John J. Ingalls, who fell before the populist uprising. tt a a Reading in the paper that our Asiatic fleet of twenty-two ships has gone to Chinese waters to maneuver reminds us that the late President. McKinley said before we declared war against Spain that we could whip Spain, but nobody knew where any war would end. But for the Philippines which came to us from that war, we would not have to maintain an Asiatic squadron at all. a a tt After making a mistake in speaking the oath when he swore in President Hoover and being called down therefor by a school girl, Chief Justice Taft took no chances when he swore in Secretary of State Stimson. This time he read the oath. a a a IF President Hoover does not appoint former Vice-President Dawes ambassador to Great Britain, he should be made president of the United States Golf Association, a position for which his vocabulary qualifies him ahead of any other American. a a a We are for this 25 cent a bushel increase in the tariff on wheat, but we are against this requested increase in the tariff on straw hats. We do not raise straw hats. a a a It will arouse the Indian in Charley Curtis when he looks down from his vice-presidential detachment on Henry J. Allen, his arch political enemy, sitting in his old senate seat. a a a It is very depressing to read that Mr. Thomas Loughlan, who defeated Mr. Mickey Walker in Chicago for the light heavyweight championship, will receive only $15,000 for this great service. A nation that does not appreciate its prize fighters is headed for decline. a a u IF Mexico can devise a way to collect at the sky gate from all these Americans who are flying across the border to observe the hostilities, she might be induced to stage regular spring and fall wars. a a a France makes a wonderful showing with only 1,955 people out of work, while the United States, Germany and Great Britain each have something like one million unemployed. a a a This country furnishes all but 1 per cent of the milk it consumes, but judging from the quality of the milk and the cream this country could hardly furnish all of the water. tt tt tt A Kansas postmaster charged a woman 4 cents to send her daughter’s party dress by mail, which would appear to be very excessive.

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THE FIRST U. S. MINT April 2 'T'ODAY is the anniversary of the creation by congress of the first United States mint. This act, passed April 2, 1792, followed closely the suggestions which had been made by Alexander Hamilton. His plan was to utilize both gold and silver as monetary standards. He recommended that the ratio between the two be 1 to 15—a proportion based on the bullion values of the time. He favored coinage of $lO and $1 gold pieces; $1 and 10cent silver pieces, and 1 cent and lit cent coppers. When the mint act was passed, however, no provision was made lor a gold dollar. Because of this omission, silver coinage advocates later insisted that the original unit of value was the silver dollar. It is usually held now that the word “unit,” as used in the mint act, applies to numbers and not to value. Incidentally, the phrase “In God We Trust” did not appear on United States coins until 186S. Then, at the suggestion of a former Governor of Pennsylvania, James Pollock, this familiar motto was adopted by congress. Can diamonds be chipped by striking them against a hard substance? Any diamond will chip if given sufficiently rough treatment.