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Why the Banquet? l , hivii ,t ;he general public was in* ,• , • , the banquet given to Rev. E. S. Shumaker. head of the Anti-t Saloon League, on his relea— from the penal farm, it may be proper for the reason for this demonstration. n.. ; que toin arises because of the speeches delivered by the distinguishd guests. It might have been expected that someone v <. ll l l l • tilht the dry leader had been a i • i 'lll i n-mies, that he was a martyr Ii > uni •i[ h - that a political court had railroaded him to prison. No <uv made any such suggestion. There was no reference to the cause of his sojourn. There wa no protest that he had served unjustly. Neither th* gu- u of the evening nor the spi ak- - - ritcd any real reason, except the very human one of happinss that, any one who lias in unfortunate is again out in the sunsii in a . 1 : h :o the conclusion that those wbr arranged the banquet do not have the : dea that there was any real issue at stake unless it hr the tacit acceptance of the fact that one who rises to power and influence in politics shall he above the law. I here was an issue, but of course it was not made, j’here was a quetsion of how far courts may go to stop criticism of their decisions. 1 here is the deep question of freedom of speech. But those who held this demonstration did not ia!k about such things as liberty fl t pceeh. 'they were, apparently, only glad that their leader had served his sentence and was free. Perhaps the only excuse for the banquet can he found in the presence of .Senator Arthur Robinson. That was most fitting. It was Robinson who induced Watson to see what could be done “to keep Shumaker out of jail” when politicians feared the wrath of the dry leader and tried to sneak into the back door of the supreme court. she one real reason for the occasion, perhaps. is in the fact that it permitted Robinson to rejoice in the fact that he had escaped a penalty. The Aurora Tragedy—And a Warning Deep in the foundation of our Rational life are imbedded certain inalienable rights.' Such rights as freedom of speech, of religion, trial by jury and peaceable as.-embly arc the products of centuries of struggle by peoples against oppression. Their history began long before the founding of America. They were transplanted when our constitution was written. They are two fundamentals of our liberty. Among those inalienable rights is one which declares that a man’s home is his castle. Expressed in constitutional language, that principle says: the right oi the people to be secure in their person houses and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” Prohibition officers in Aurora. 111., forced their way into a private home, clubbed the owner into unconsciousness. then shot and killed his wife. A 12-year-old son seized a gun and wounded one of the Invaders. Not only did the extreme measures employed in the raid immediately challenge the reasonableness of it but evidence at once pointed to the faulty nature ol the warrant under which the raid was conducted. Unwarranted searches and seizures have been an me reasingly frequent phase of prohibition enforcement. A they have multiplied, public indignation, except among those zealots who would sacrifice all other law in order to enforce one, has grown in proportion. The brutal details of the Aurora raid acted a- a climax and fanned that indignation into something approaching a white heat. One evidence of the extent of the feeling appeared when newspaper readers began tc make voluntary contributions of money to be transmitted on to the son who had risen in defense of his parents and his home. Accompanying one of those contributions came a letter from a citizen of New Rochelle to the editor of the New York Telegram. In conclusion it said: 'We can't all be fortunate enough to shoot a revenue officer, but we appreciate the opportunity of showing how much we would like to!” While appreciating the emotional impulse that gave rise to the fervency of that communication, we desire to take the incident as the occasion for sounding this warning: The spirit expressed in that letter is just exactly as wrong, just exactly as dangerous to the welfare of society, as the act which inspired the letter. The two are of the same piece. Both breathe anarchy. By all findings to date, the shooting of the Aurora revenue officer was justified, under the law, in defense ol a home. The raider who was wounded now faces prosecution for killing the mother of that boy. The officer himself violated the law. He should and must lace the penalty. But by the same token and under the same principle, other officers who perform their duty within .he law. should and must be supported by the society :hey serve. This, no matter what cause for righteous indignation may arise from the conduct of other officers who as in the Aurora case, desecrate the law they are supposed to enforce. Such events as the Aurora tragedy call for ClearHeadedness on the part of every good citizen. They rail for the exercisg of that most wholesome of all qualities, common sense. They call for the application by all of us that great and simple truth, that two wrongs do not make a right. Ours is a government of law. The structure of law' !s complex If our civilization is to survive, we must aot get lost in the maze. We must thick as well as feel.

Southern Labor Revolts The labor explosion in the southern textile centers was bound to come. The Tennessee and North Carolina strikes are part of a growing revolt of the overworked and underpaid. That revolt can not be stopped by all the state militias and strike breakers in the south—until justice is done. Working conditions in some of the southern mills are close to industrial slavery. In some places women and children work all night, work seventy hours a week, work without accident or health safeguards, work often for wages as low as $5 or $8 a w’eek. There can be only one result. The experience of the rest of the United States and of all other industrial countries proves that this sort of thing can not be maintained long. The workers will break this system. The only question is whether the reform iSj to come peacefully or through suicidal strife, in which capital, labor and the communities suffer. Some of the southern textile employers and state authorities are relying on force and guns. The unnecessary and provocative use of troops in Tennessee and North Carolina is in line with the easy but dangerous methods used increasingly in other southern states during the last three years. The lawlessness of gangs of business men in kidnaping and assaulting law-abiding labor organizers, unless stopped, is precisely the sort of terrorism which will drive peaceful workers to violence. Those workers are of the oldest American stock, conservative and suspicious of so-called radical and foreign doctrines. They hale opposed unions. But now, after long exploitation, they are turning as a last hope to organization. Once aroused, the stubbornness and hatred which they will put into the industrial struggle will make the northern textile strikes of foreign immigrants look like a picnic. There is another issue besides justice to the workers. It is significant that these southern industrialists defy modem conservative business principles. As President Hoover has emphasized, American prosperity today is grounded on the principle of high wages. Those southern mill owners who insist on paying starvation w'ages are not only victimizing their workers. They are also guilty of unfair competition with decent industries and are sabotaging general American prosperity. The south is not chiefly to blame. Most of the textile owners there are northerners or foreigners. Other offenders are German companies which have come in to escape the tariff wall. A great future awaits the south. But neither southern labor nor southern capital can profit in the long run by permitting outsiders to fasten upon the south an archaic and inefficient system of industrial peonage which has failed elsewhere. The road of decency and the road to prosperity is the same road. A New York doctor says vacations cut down the death rate. At last a substitute has been found for spinach and sauerkraut juice. Among the people you may not have met are those who eat strawberry shortcake because the book Says strawberries Ai ’ rich in vitamins. Postmaster General Brown is starting a big shakeup in his department. Probably he's seeking men of a better stamp. A gem-studded crown worth $165,000 was shown at the antique show m New York the other day. Just the kind of an after-Easter bargain the missus has been looking for.

David Dietz on Science——————— Storms Puzzle Franklin No. 323

TO understand the changes which take place in the weather, it is necessary to distinguish the difference between the motion of a storm center, that is a low pressure area, and the motion of the winds which are whirling around and into the low pressure area. The rotary motion of the winds in storms which

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that he had come to the “very singular opinion that the course of the wind is from the northeast to southwest, yet the course of the storm is from southwest to northeast.” In another letter, dated at Philadelphia. Feb. 13, 1750, Franklin wrote: "You desire to know my thoughts about the northwest storms beginning to leeward. Some years since there was an eclipse on the moon at 9 o'clock in the evening, which I intended to observe, but before night a storm blew up at northeast and continued violent all night and all the next day; the sky thick clouded, dark and rainy so that neither moon nor stars could be seen. “The storm did a great deal of damage all along the coast, for we had accounts of it in the newspapers from Boston, Newport, New York, Maryland and Virginia; but what surprised me was to find in the Boston papers, an account of an observation of that eclipse made there; for I thought that as the storm was from the northeast it must have begun sooner in Boston than with us and consequently prevented such observation. “I wrote to my brother about it and he informed me that the eclipse was over there an hour before the storm began.” Meteorologists today have a pretty clear understanding of the general nature and movement of both low and high pressure areas. But all the details are by no means completely understood. ‘‘Highs'’ and “lows” as they are usually called for the sake of brevity, drift across the American continent from the west toward the east at the average rate of about 600 miles per day. The speed is greater in winter than in summer, the average speed in winter being about thirty-seven miles an hour, while the average speed in summer is about twenty-two miles an hour. Highs and lows alternately drift across tfie continent in periods of about three days each. These movements are of great interest to us., for not only do they cause winds and storms, but they also play, as we shall see. an important part in causing temperature changes.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

“We Do Not Know Whether Law Is Accomplishing What It Is Meant to Accomplish, Whether It Is Reducing Crime.” TJ ALTIMORE, Md., April 6.—lt is not just another law school that Johns Hopkins university has established. The object is not to produce more practicing attorneys, or even to decorate the existing system with more erudite judges and professors. , What Johns Hopkins hopes is to do for law what it has done for medicine, but it approaches the task with no illusionment as to the time and labor required. Those who have planned this latest excursion into the realm of science, this venturesome exploration of a field which covers nothing less than human progress, sensibly are awed by the work ahead. Their inspiration is not derived from expectations of easy triumphs, but from the knowledge that they are dealing with a real need. It is high time that we studied the ■ whys and wherefores of law, high time that we cast aside implicit faith in the system that exists, high time that we asked ourselves whether the administration of justice works as well as it might. tt tt tt Need Crime Statistics AS a matter of fact, we do not know whether law is accomplishing what it meant to accomplish, whether it is reducing crime, whether we have less murder, thievery and other offenses. The information is not available. It seems to have been assumed that j such information was not necessary. The net results have not been recorded and compiled. No one is able to say whether we are getting along better than in former years. It practically is impossible to find out the number of offenses compared to the number of arrests on a j nation-wide basis, or the number of either compared to half a century ago. Through statistics compiled, largely by volunteer agencies, we are able to say with a fair degree of certainty that murder has increased during the last fifteen or twenty years, but we are absolutely unable to say why. a a a Protection of People LAW, of course, was intended to protect people; first-, through the maintenance of order; second, through the adjustment of disputes, and third, through the development of institutional activities. Common sense suggests that its success, or failure, would be determined by practical results, especially as they might be compared from generation to generation, and that a first class system of bookkeeping should be installed for that purpose. Common sense also suggests experimentation in cases where the results obviously were unfavorable, but this aspect of the case seems to have received scant attention except in a hazy, theoretical way. By and large, we have consulted what ought to be done, whenever something was too palpably ineffective or unjust to be ignored. By an large, we have consulted our impulses, emotions and undigested reactions. Through the whole serious business, with its technicalities and red tape, its punishment and expense, there has appeared little disposition to make a complete and accurate record, much less to study it. ana Public Sentiment WHAT should be the foundation of the law public sentiment expert opinion, or the development of customs and conventions? How strongly should a particular, law be favored to work well? How far is it safe to elevate the law above prevailing habits and ideals? How much dependence should be placed on mere majorities, either in a representative legislature, or by direct vote, when it comes to makings laws of a novel and distictive character? As between a statute and a well developed custom, which will do more to reduce a given character! of crime? Should crime be regarded in the light of a social disease, or a social revolt? a a tt % Attitude Toward Law These are but a few of the quesTHESE are but a few of the questions that must be asked - i answered, but first it is necessary to change the prevailing attitude toward the law. Our system of preparing young men to enter it revolves about the idea of making them acquainted with the tricks of the trade. To suggest that the trade might be improved verges on heresy. We have done a vast amountTf tinkering with the trade, but in a detailed, inconsequential way. To all intents and purposes, it is what it was one hundred years ago and much as it was three hundred years ago. * The age-old practice of trial by combat still dominates it, and the thought of substituting conscientious impersonal study for bought and paid for argument is treason. Johns Hdpkins university is to be congratulated and it has not only recognized the greatest problem of modern life but has dared to hope for a solution.

does not necessarily coincide at some particular place with the direction in which the storm is moving, was noticed by early observers and they were greatly puzzled by it. Benjamin Franklin, who devoted much of his time to studying the weather, wrote a letter to Jared Eliot in 1747, in which he said

Daily Thought

And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees; every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.—St. Luke 3:9. a a a ALL growth that is not toward God is growing to decay.— George MacDonald. • ....wenA*.: .T

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, and Health Magazine. SOME people believe it is dangerous to drink out of a garden hose, since if one does he is liable to swallow a snake. Here is the simplest form of symbolic magic. A garden hose looks like a snake. The snake is one of the oldest and most important of symbols, beginning with the one which caused Eve to depart from the path of virtue. Every tribe of savages has snakes in its folk tales and fairy tales. The rod and serpent is the symbol of the medical profession and the rod with two serpents is the sign of Mercury, the messenger of the Greek gods. The Indians of South Carolina would not molest a snake because they thought that its kindred would wage war on their tribe. Snake oil is reputed to have all

ONCE upon a time the rabbits formed a republic and after it had existed for a great many years certain zealous animals put a prohibition law into the constitution. There followed a period in which agents raided and rioted indiscriminately. Drinkers were sent to jail and savage penalties were visited upon minors. But in this republic of which I speak prohibition did not last very long. The voters rebelled and restored all the ancient rights for these were rabbits and not American citizens. Though the theme is interesting and important, no columnist should think and write exclusively of prohibition. Another national issue is pushing to the front. All the present aspects of the problem are tragic and fill me with great sadness. Spring is here, according to the papers. I’ve seen new grass and buds are getting busy. But they can’t fool me. This is only a false flurry and not the real authentic spring. an st Excuses for Ruth THE lilacs and robins are but accessories before the fact. It isn't spring until Babe Ruth begins to wallop home runs. Perhaps upon some distant field he is doing just that at this moment, but as I write not one circuit blow has been set down to his credit. The sports editors are making excuses for the Sultan of Swat, the Calips of Clout, the Earl of Extermination and the Gaekwar of Gosh Almighty. They explain that the Babe is saving his runs. . But in the old days there was never need to furnish alibis for the outfielder. There was a time when his honorable legs were as far above criticism as any in the Follies. Willie Keeler’s old niggardly philosophy of “Hit ’em where they ain’t” gave way to the more magnificent Ruthian precept of “Swat ’em where nobody can get to ’em.” And now the demigod begins to go in for conservation. He saves his feet when in the field and keeps some part of his back and shoulders out of the swing as he takes a cut at the ball. a a a Hark, the Dogs Bark ACHILLES had his heel and Babe, I fear, has feet of excruciating mortality. The demigods of the diamond go not at the top like trees, but begin to dwindle first at their very roots. I perceive no sign of waning powers in Babe’s writing. He can put as much on a comma as ever, but other curves elude him. Not for a moment do I believe that he must be labeled a lost leader. When June comes round once again, he will be the terror of the pitchers. But none of this will I enjoy as I did once, back in the golden ages. By now plan and premeditation begin to show above the surface of pure inspiration. There was a day when Babe did not have to plan,

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sorts of virtues for the cure of rheumatism. It is supposed to give slipperiness and strength to the muscles of wrestlers. According to the Freudian psychology, the snake is always the symbol of the propagation of life. Many attempts have been made to explain this significance of the snake. One explanation is that the reptile excites repulsion; another, that it is able to inflict death in a mysterious fashion. In Sussex, England, it was the custom to attempt to cure goiter by drawing a snake nine times across the front of the neck of the patient and allow the snake to crawl away after every third application. Then it was killed and its skin sewn on a piece of silk which was hung around the patient’s neck. Because of the fact that snakes bite, the animal has always been supposed to have curative properties. The facts that have been men-

or train or even match with wits the pitcher. We shall not look upon his like again. Here was no Tunngy climbing into a championship through practice and force of character. No moralist could pick on Ruth and say to the young and impressionable. “Here is a model for you to follow'.” tt tt tt It Gets Us All TJUT discretion gets us all in the end. It is the first sign of decay in the individual. When a man begins to tell me of his account in the savings bank or his cold baths in the morning I put my hand out dolefully and say,

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Os Interest to Writers Our Washington bureau has a packet of five of its informative bulletins of special interest to those who have an ambition to write. The titles are: 1. Common Errors in English. 3. Writing for Magazines. 2. The Letter Writers’ Guide. 4. Scenario Writing. 5. Copyrighting Manuscripts. If you want the packet containing these five bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: LITERARY EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C I want the WRITERS' PACKET of five bulletins, and inclose herewith 15 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled, United States postage stamps to cover postage and handling costs. NAME STREET AT7D NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. • (Code No.)

tioned are an indication of the symbolism that has been associated with the snake since the beginning of time. Recent investigations indicate superstitions and beliefs that are more modern if not less sensible. Because someone once. saw an X-ray picture of a stomach tube in the stomach, the idea grew' that it would be possible for a person to swallow a snake egg and to have a snake develop in the stomach. Because a garden hose looks like a snake, the idea arose that one drinking water from a garden hose would develop a snake in the stomach. There is not the slightest possible chance for snakes to develon in the stomach, although worms of various kinds do develop in the human intestine. These are not snakes—they are tapeworms, round worms and similar species. They may be removed easily when their presence is diagnosed, by the use of proper remedies.

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.

“Goodby, old fellow, it was nice to have known you.” Nor is this said by one beyond the urge of these baser and more cautious resolutions. Only the other afternoon I caught myself exercising. Without stopping to think I had pulled on a sweater and was walking violently up and down the balcony outside the apartment. I must have covered almost forty yards before I realized what I was doing. I put the issue squarely to myself. “Are you engaged upon this mad business because you get any fun out of it?” I asked myself. “Frankly, no.” The answer came back in a clear and honest voice and so we decided to drop the whole business. (Copyright. 1929. for The Times!

lands, etc. The term "goods” is now generally employed as coextensive in meaning with the old expresison, “goods, wares and merchandise used in the Seventeenth section of the statute of frauds. What is the meaning of the word glyptics? It is the art of engraving, particularly as applied to the carving of precious stones. It is now generally performed by means of diamond dust and diamond pointed instruments. In addition to gems the engraving of various substances such as coral and ivory and unusually hard woods, such as box and ebony is included under this head. What was the “Good Parliament?” The parliament of England in 1376 that was famous for its attempt to bring about political reform and for its impeachment of Latimer. Neville and others.

APRIL 6, 1929

REASON Bv Frederick Landis -

Von Tirpitz, Not Herrick, Did ' Most to Bring the United i States Into the World War. THE press of Germany is mistaken in saying that the late Ambassador Herrick did more than any other one person to bring the | United States into the World war. That distinction belongs to von Tirpitz.. who was responsible for the ; unrestricted submarine activities. tt a a w. H. Draper. Oklahoma farmer. | died without folks, so he left his ! estate to the old mule that helped him turn the homestead tract into a farm. When thil*mule comes to pass to the great beyond it should make a j will, leaving everything to the democratic mule which now finds itself j something like a million five hundred thousand to the bad. bob This newly created vacancy in the French embassy causes the belief that Dawes may be sent there, instead of to London. The French should rise more quickly to the former Vice-Presi-dent's volatile spirit than the British, though Dawes would bring home the bacon anywhere. a a a IT WAS natural for these congressmen, returning from their trip to Panama, to ask for ‘'the freedom of the port,” for, according to rumor, they had been enjoying not only the freedom "of the port” but the freedom of the sherry, the burgundy, and numerous other things. a tt a The prince of Wales threw fresh j apprehension into his country by j flying home from France after at- ! tending the Foch funeral. But if he can continue to do j it and get away with it, he will be j the biggest single human asset of Great Britain. * tt a a A farmer drove into Newton, Mass., and found there not a single hitching post to which he could tie his horse. But many a town is standing still, even if it hasn't a hitching post. tt it tt A message from Oregon states that the ladies out there are wearing their hair longer. And in this part of the country most of it comes down to their skirts. B B tt IT would be great to go with Gifford Pinchot on his fishing trip to the South Sea islands, but it would be even greater for the people i of the country if Pinchot were sec- | retary of the interior, so he could I fight the power trust. tt B tt They call them "battles” down in Mexico, but all the engagements combined since this last revolution started would not make one skirmish of the World war. a a b It was very appropriate for Secj retary of State Stimson to send ; back to Manila for his parrot, for | inasmuch as Mr. Hoover is expected jto handle international relations j himself, Mr. Stimson could not have a better emblem about him a b a There is something very irksome about the elaborate and futile powwows which follow the death of a famous person, such as Ambassador Herrick. But the worst of all was in Lincoln’s case, whqp they bore the poor man’s casket all over the eastern part of the United Stales.

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DECLARATION OF WAR April 6 TWELVE years ago today at 3 o'clock in .the morning—the House of Representatives passed a resolution, which the Senate had passed two days before, declaring war against Germany. The vote in the senate had been 82 to 6. The vote in the house was 373 to 50. The joint resolution was signed by Thomas R. Marshall. Vice-President; Champ Clark, Speaker of the house, and approved by President Wilson, on this date in 1917. Our entrance into the greatest armed conflict in history followed the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Germany, Feb. 3, after that country had begun its campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare and 200 Americans had lost their lives on the high seas. In addition, our commerce had been interfered with, and intrigues had been plotted against our neutrp'ity and security. Two days after the resolution declaring war was adopted, the Austrian charge d’affaires in Washington asked for his passports because his country was an ally of Germany. It was not, however, until Dec. 7. 1917, that war was formally declared against Austria-Hungary. How do ornithologists account for the homing instinct in pigeons? Ornithologists of the United States biological survey associate the homing instinct of these birds with the migratory instinct. It should be considered as a specialized form of migration, developed and exploited by man through training and selective breeding. The immediate ancestry of the modern homer is traced to three distinct types—the English dragoon of the carrier type, noted for its physique; the Smerle, a Belgian bird having an inherent homing instinct and the Calumet, a small bird that is noteworthy because of its ability to fly hours at a time. These prominent characteristics have been combined to a remarkable degree in the homing pigeons of today. What is the meaning of the name Bruce? Happy conquer o*.