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Politics in Schools In theory tbe schools are not in politics. The method of election of the commissioners was supposed to lift them from the low levels of partisan sentiments. The people tried, as best they could, to keep the education of the young away from the "reeds of the machine. Asa matter of fact, the schools seem to be injdie worst sort of politics, with two factions contesting for the honor of doing the worst things, rather than the best, things. The two groups are rather successful in this effort. With each shifting of fork's among the unstable members of the board, the conditions grow worse instead of better. The shameful and disgraceful actions of the board, cloaked with secrecy and taken with a supreme contempt for the people, arc not surprising. Such things always happen when the people forget to look out for their own interests and are led astray by passions, prejudices and hates. The school board is the product of the Klan, elected bv the hooded order in its hour of power, chosen for its servility to (rates and passions and marked leaders rather than for integrity or intelligence. When such a hoard is put in charge of the public schools, the surprise is that education is tolerated and that black magic has not been introduced as the chief topic of study. The people apparently must suffer. So must the children. it is rather a pity that the sins of indifference on the part of the fathers and mothers in the matter of civic duty at elections must be visited upon the children in ihc shape of "schools dominated and conducted for political and partisan ends. Hoover—and Textile Labor Prosperity through labor-saving invention, mats production, standardisation and elimination of waste; through simultaneously decreasing prices and increasing proiits; through higher wages and shorter hours. That formula is recognized by the forward-looking industrial leaders of our time. It is essentially an American discovery. It is this nation's contribution toward what Herbert Hoover so strongly emphasized in his campaign—the abolition of poverty. Hoover himself, more than any other man in public life today, has grasped that paradox of prosperity through high wages and short hours. He says: “There has been a revolution through shifting of basic ideas on the part of both business and labor. The larg- majority ot both sides today willingly accept the fundamental principle that the highest possible wages are the road to increased consumption of goods and thereby to prosperity. “Both accept the fundamental fact that greater efficiency, larger application of mechanical devices, and full personal efforts arc the road to cheaper costs, lower prices, and thus again to wider consumption and larger production. Both discard the ancient contention that labor is an economic commodity. Both realize that labor is entitled to participation in the benefits of increased efficiency. “If we ai-e able by labor-saving machinery and reduction of waste to decrease the cost of production of an article, we know by experience that a train of consequences of the highest importance follows. Wages in that industry will rise, prices decrease, consumption increase at home and in our foreign markets. the demand for labor is enlarged and our standards of living improved. * * “ * As we transfer the burden from the back of men to the machine, we increase the wages of workrrs. We increase their buying power. W’e create a demand for new commodities and new service." And from all that. Hoover voices this vision; “My conception of America is a land where man and wyman may walk in ordered freedom, in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may enjoy* the advantages of wealth, not concentrated in tbs ha.ids oi the few. but :*>rcad through the lives of a.l, where they build and safeguard their homes, end give to their children the fullest advantages and opportunities of American life; where every man shall be respected in the faith that his conscience and his heart direct him to follow: where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have the leisure and impulse to seek a .uller life " Against that conception, to the working out of which most of America's industries are contributing, we view tiv situation tha f has been permitted to grow up in the southern textile centers: a situation which in terms both of wages and working conditions amounts to little less than industrial slavery—long hours of labor by women and children, without, adequate accident or health safeguards: w orking sometimes for wages as low' as $5 or $8 a week. And to enforce that condition, the kidnaping from one ol those southern centers of men who seek to correct the archaic state of affairs. It was. incidentally, in Elizabetliton, Tenn.. one of the few cities honored by Hoover s presence during the campaign, that the kidnaping occurred. Representatives of the American Federation of Labor, the organization which more than any other has contributed toward the wage and hour portions of the prosperity formula, were the victims of the death threats and the masked band. In the cabinet of President Hoover is a department of labor. Through that department, the President has power to act. And he must realize the menace that exists, not only to the workers involved, but to the whole economic system under which prosperity, generally, is Labor-crushing tactics typify an era dead in other industries and In other Sections of the country. A Federal Court Rebuked The ruling of the United States supreme court that a 5-cent fare on New York’s subways had not been proved confiscatory, was a victory for the people of the ciy in their fight against increased carfare. The bat-

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tie, ol course, is not yet won, for the principal thing decided by the highest court was that the traction company had no business taking the issue into federal court. The matter is thrown back into the hands of the state transit commission, where, according to the supreme court, it still properly belongs. The high court’s action is important to the people of all the country. It is a clear rebuke to the district federal court, which allowed itself to be used by the traction company in an effort to escape from the authority of the state transit commission. The lower federal courts in recent years have shown too great a willingness to intervene in public utility oases of a local character. Ingenious attorneys ahvays can find methods of presenting local utility issues to the federal courts, when defeated or fearing defeat, in the state courts. Too many federal judges have been prone to encourage this practice. Perhaps the rebuke administered in this case will not go unnoticed by such judges. Dawes to London? Former Vice-President Dawes has been chosen by President Hoover for the post of ambassador to Great Britain, according to apparently reliable reports. If this is true, we only can repeat the regret w’e expressed a month ago when his name first was mentioned in connection with that appointment. Dawes’ record was such that Hoover did not want him for a campaign running mate, when the Dawes-for-President movement collapsed on the eve of the Kansas City convention and large financial interests attempted the alternative of obtaining second place on the ticket for him. There are even better reasons, in our judgment, why Dawes is an unwise choice for the court of St. James. Anglo-American relations are strained. There is growing conflict over trade, markets, credits, raw materials, freedom of the seas, and navies. World peace depends in large measure upon achieving AngloAmerican understanding and co-operation, and upon mitigating these conflicts. Our ambassador in London should be great in patience, tolerance and self-control. "Hell ’n Maria” Dawes is not eminent for those j qualities.

Reports from C. C. Pyle's cross-country marathon are encouraging. It was expected 100 runners would start from New York; only sixty-one did. Two dropped out on the first lap and seventy-'seven arrived at Elizabeth, N. J. Human beings of future generations may be able to transmit thought waves to one another by using the electrical force in their bodies, says a British scientist. But of course there will still be quite a lot of static from weak stations. Heinrich Hagcnbcck, circus man. says the United States has the rarest collection of animals in the world. He must have been talking to some of the big league managers down south. The Pennsylvania man who claims to have the longest whiskers in the world probably doesn'4 know the one about the people who go to Hollywood and become stars overnight. A talking moving picture of 300 animals was filmed at the Bronx zoo the other day. Now the movies can add to their classic advertising line, a "100 per cent all-talkie all-dumb” picture. A gasoline station attendant in a western city was arrested as a bootlegger. How did they ever happen to detect him? Loye is only a disease like whooping cough or measles, says Professor Pierre Vachct of Paris. The professor might have gone further and told us alimony was the doctor bill, •

- David Dietz on Science

How Barometer Works

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, '|''HE most important observation made at weather JL bureau stations is that of the air pressure. These observations, when made simultaneously in all parts of the nation, make it possible to establish the location of the high pressure areas and the low pressure areas. Air pressure is measured by the barometer. In its

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dish of mercury as shown in the accompanying diagratn. The mercury in the tube drops down to a height of about thirty inches. The reason that the mercury does not run out of the tube entirely is because the downward pressure of air on the open surface of the dish balances the weight of the column of mercury in the tube. Our barometer is now ready for use. All that is necessary is to put some sort of scale alongside of the column of mercury. For when the air pressure becomes greater it will push harder on the dish of mtrcury and cause the column in the tube to rise. When the air pressure becomes less, the mercury column will fall. The simplest sort of scale would be an ordinary yardstick. We could then measure the pressure of the air in terms of inches of mercury. A scale of inches is used in meteorology. In all other scientific work, the metric system is used and pressure is read in millimeters. Since the volume of a gas changes with the pressure under which it exists, it is necessary in many scientific experiments, to make a barometer reading and then correct gas volumes accordingly. For this reason, scientists have agreed upon what they call a standard pressure. This standard is equal to the average reading of the barometer. Expressed in inches, it is 29.922 inches. In the metric system it is 760 millimeters. While the mercury barometer is the most exact, its use is not to be recommended to the amateur meteorologist. The so-called aneroid barometer is much simpler. _

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

“You Can Think of Many a Scoundrel Who Has Made Himself Popular by Being a Good Sport.” 'T'HE basic idea of the plan J- formulated by Owen D. Young and his associates for settlement of the reparations question is an international ban with directors to be named by the various banks of issue concerned. The banks of issue concerned include the Bank of France, the Bank of England, Reichsbank and other European institutions. It generally is believed that the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States would be included, though this government always has contended that the reparations question was purely an old world affair. If the Federal Reserve Bank should comply and name a director of the proposed international bank, thr American policy o f “splendid isolation” w'ould be reversed. If the Federal Reserve Bank should not comply, the international bank would be in control of European directors, with London, instead of New •York, occupying a dominant position. The issue thus raised promises to become more serious than many have realized. nan What About Mrs, Gann? IF the I'm Alone case proves that we should not enter the world court as Senator Johnson of California suggests, the Gann case proves that we should. This case appears too big for our state department, as well as the foreign diplomatic corps. It is rumored that Vice-President Curtis will refuse social engagements unless his sister is allowed the same social rank that he enjoys. Senator Heflin declares that unless this is permitted, he will introduce a resolution and have congress pass the necessary laws. Obviously, something has to be done. Just as obviously, no one in Washington seems able to do it. What better proof could one ask as to the need of a world court?

Rebuke to Lawyers THE supreme court of the United States is to be congratulated for rebuking lawyers who abuse their privileges. In reversing the verdict of a railroad damage case, it not only reprimanded counsel for the plaintiff for appealing to prejudice, but counsel on both sides for failing to familiarize themselves with questions of legal points at issue. It is gratifying to know that the highest court in the land still visualizes the law as made for clients, not for lawyers. tt tt a Windjamming Attorneys IT will be remembered that the supreme court of the United States rebuked counsel in the New York subway fare case. The briefs submitted were too verbose and contained extraneous material. Such briefs do not represent careful thinking, or honest work, though clients are sometimes fooled into thinking they do. Clarity and condensation call for more labor than windjamming. Joseph Pulitzer was accustomed to apologize for too long letters of instruction by saying, “I’m sorry, but I haven't -fehne to be brief.’’ a u a Bombs in Parliament TWO communists, dissatisfied with the trend of legislation in the Indian parliament, break up the session with bombs. One minister and four members are injured. Smoke, bits of broken furniture and fragments of metal create an utterable confusion. Members of parliament and spectators grope their way to safety, too choked and too scared to realize what has really happened. Asa matter of fact, not very much has happened. Terrifying as bombs may be, they are terrifying enough to overthrow' the British government. Communists who think they are will merely get into useless trouble. a tt a Pirate in Hero Role IT'ORTY Volga pirates just have been tried by a Russian court. The trial resulted in ten death sentences, five of which have been commuted to life imprisonment. The ringleader, who confessed to twelve murders and thirty-seven robberies, seems likely to escape execution. He not only impressed the court, but made himself a popular hero, by his frank, if brutal statements, by, quoting Scripture and by his obvious attachment to a. beautiful woman who shared in his career of crime, a a a Bea Good Sport YOU can think of many a scoundrel who has made himself popI ular by being a good sport. Such was * Jesse James, Robin Hood and Rob | Roy. and such was that erstwhile ! prince of bandits, Miatovich, killed i in Yugoslavia the other day. An Austrian soldier, he deserted ; in 1917, and gradually was joined by discontented comrades, until he had | a band of fifteen or twenty thou- | sand. j This fly-by-night organization | lived in the woods, robbed rich peoj pie, protected the poor and terrorized the surrounding region 1 generally. Locally its leader became | known as the modern Robin Hood. At one time Miatovich and his fol- | lowers dominated a large section of j Yugoslavia. | They could not survive the resto- ! ration of peace and order, however, | and gradually disappeared. | Miatovich became a taxicab driver, and was finally murdered by a j young mechanic for political reasons, I it is charged. , How old is Patsy Ruth Miller? | How tall is she? She was 25 years old in January, 1923. She is 5 feet 2 inches tail

simplest form, the barometer is merely a long glass tube dipping into a small v eil or dish of mercury. The tube is about 36 inches long and usually about one-f our t h or one-half of an inch in diameter. One end of the tube is closed. The tube is then filled with mercury and inverted in a small

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical .Association and of Hygeia, and Health Magazine. THE old saying is that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. The saying is like a great many other health hints, based on just enough truth to make the contention easy to believe, but without any actual scientific foundation. The apple is an excellent fruit, one of the most healthful contributions to the diet that could be mentioned. There are numerous varieties; probably the earliest that was known is the crabapple of Europe and western Asia. Today there are thousands of varieties grown in this country and the annual crop in North America exceeds 100,000,000 barrels. A good, ripe apple, well chewed, is digested in about 90 minutes. Big chunks of green apple, swallowed without chewing, increase rather than decrease the doctor’s practice. Everybody knows about apple sauce and its qualities for aiding motion of the intestines. A good, medium-sized apple provides about 96 calories, of which 88.3 per cent are due to the carbohydrates or sugar, 5.5 per cent to the fat, and 2.2 per cent to the protetin. Apples contain a considerable amount of vitamin C and also some vitamins A and B.

ONE or two clients tell me that I seemed a little cross in a recent column while answering the charge, “you’re always against everything American.” Another says that the defense would have been more logical if it had included a list of things at home about which I could be enthusiastic. I am more ready to confess a lack of logic than a loss of temper. That wasn’t being mad. I can get lots more mad than that. But as for appropriation I think it would furnish good exercise. Right at the start I might make a list of Americans whom I do admire. ‘Some of the names which come to me are A1 Smith, Mencken. Margaret Ganger, Babe Ruth. Willa Cather, Jack Dempsey, John Haynes Holmes, Ring Lardner, Dr. Fosdick, Will Rogers, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Clarence Darrow, Paul Robeson, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade. Irving Berlin. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Harry Elmer Barnes. Os course, I can think of more. But that should be enough with which to start. It covers sufficient territory’. Fossibly objection might be made that there is not much presidential timber in the list submitted. It seems to me that at least three of my* choices would be admirably equipped for the office. I refer of course to A1 Smith as one and Rogers and Mencken are also distinctly eligible. Rogers probably would not get my vote, since he is to militaristic. Mencken, although extremely ignorant about women, is in my opinion the most intelligent man I know and would make the best President. a a a And a Few Others OF COURSE, there are plenty of other people I like. Most of the columnists are deserving of admiration but if I said that I liked H. L. Phillips, or F. P. A. Hope, Helling or Winchell then they might think of it as a bid to mention me in kindly terms. But Don Marquis isn’t running a column any more, so I can list him. The basis of any man’s affection for his own land must depend largely on familiar faces, places' and a few rivers or mountains. The Hudson, so I hear, is less lordly than the Amazon and not so romantic as the Rhine. But it’s been around here a long time. I like it. The Rhine, as a matter of fact, let me down. In school we learned

What Will Happen When the Lid Is Clamped?

Daily Apple Won’t Keep Doctor Away

IT SEEMS TO ME

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 17

Apples contain much less vitamin A than spinach, egg yolk, or butter, but about the same amount as orange juice and about one-third as much as milk. The apple contains as much vitamin B as carrots, bananas and tomatoes, but much less than peas and cabbage. It takes about five times as many apples to supply an equivalent amount of vitamin C as is contained in orange, lemon or tomato. On the other hand, the amounts of vitamin in the apple are, as has been said, considerable in amount and it has the additional qualities of providing sugar, considerable calcium, phosphorus and iron. It is not safe to say that an apple a day will keep the doctor away, but it is a good constituent of an average diet. There is also a common saying that if -one breaks out with boils or pimples, the meanness is coming out. This is sometimes modified to the belief that the appearance of the boils on the surface are an indication that the blood is purifying itself from within. Both conceptions are about as preposterous as any of the other superstitions that afflict mankind. Boils are due to germs. The germs get into the skin either by way of the blood or through an abrasion or cut on the surface of

the poem about the dying soldier who was born at Bingen. You know the vine-clad hills of Bingen. Fair Bingen on the Rhine. But vine-clad hills look no more entrancing that potato patches to the tourist in the passing excursion boat. 'My City 'Tis of Thee’ CANDIDLY my American loyalty is rather more a love of Manhattan than a love of the United States. America is pretty big. No individual can put his arm around it. Moreover its variation in people and places is enormous. The community which rolled up hundreds of thousands of votes for Ai Smith may well be more appealing to me than the city which used to elect Big Bill Thompson for mayor. New York and Chicago are so different in all they stand for that it is hard to love both at the same time. I'd call that bigamy. In speeches orators are fond of saying that there is no north or south, but. of course, that’s oratory. There is. Underneath local differences there may be a common strain which binds us all together. This emotion is not exactly overwhelming in my ca.se. I fear me that I am a victim of the heresy first propounded in Bugs Baer, who laid down the axiom that when you get out of New York you're in Bridgeport. And yet if all the citizens of Manhattan should gather on a gloomy morning and hand me some oyster shell of banishment I would not even then become a resident of Paris, Venice, or even London. No adoption can be wholly successful in default of an accurate knowledge of the language. In Paris I pined and was homesick because I could not get afternoon papers with the box scores of the baseball games. Nor is there any fun in bawling at taxi drivers when they fail to understand you. a tt tt They’re a Funny Race SOMETIMES I have my doubts as to whether the Paris drivers even comprehend their own tongue or else why should they have gapea at me in amasement when I gave some such simple address as “the Hotel Continental Si Vous Plait.” And it is not an idle jest to maintain that there are forms of English speech quite difficult for the Yankee ear. Much of commonalty re- “““ U ÜBSi* at 1m-

the skin which may be entirely accidental. Whenever there is a spot of lessened resistance to disease brought about by injury of the tissue, germs that already are on the skin may take hold and set up a disturbance. The boil forms due to the fact that the germs destroy these tissues and produce matter. The tissue then attempts to wall off the infection by setting up a barrier. The matter is held in the walledoff area under pressure and when the boil comes to a head it can be opened and the germs and matter may be released. However, far from serving to purify the blood, the boil serves as a focus from which the blood itself may pick up germs and carry them to other places. It is also possible through handling the boil badly to burst it in such way that the matter will spread over the adjacent skin and other boils will form in the neighborhood. For this reason it is absolutely important to open a boil under what surgeons call aseptic precautions—- : antiseptic substances must be used | to kill the germs and to protect the neighboring skin. It is also well not to open the boil until it has been walled off, as this will prevent the material from spreading under the skin to the | neighboring tissues.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

guage docs not always make for Concord. It seems to me, for instance, that the late St. John Ervine could have done much more to promote a love of the mother country if lie had written all his newspaper essays in German. It may be that some native prejudices remain m spite of many gestures of internationalism. It pains me not at all to speak angrily at all our leaders from Herbert Hoover up and down. And yet whep the visiting Englishman begins to say. “the trouble with you Americans is”—a curious glandular process occurs within my organism. My neck gets red. At times I have had to use terrific willpower to avoid that most reprehensible of slogans: “If you don't like it here, why don’t you go back where you came from?” Not for a minute do I subscribe to “My country right or wrong.” But it does make some difference just who is to render judgment. (Cop-right. 1929. for The Times! DAILY THOUGHTS Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?—St. Matt. 7:16. DEEDS survive the doers.— Horace Mann.

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REASON By Frederick Landis

General Pershing's Appointment as Ambassador to France, Succeeding Herrick, Would be a Master Stroke. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S sore arm should cause him to shake the ; hand-shakers. Os course the President of the United States desires to be civil to people, but to class him as one of the sights to be seen and shaken by every tourist, visiting the national capital, is absurd.

The Bronx zoo in New York C:t. will have an all-talkie motion picture made by its 300 different representatives of jungle life, but this will be more homegeneous than if an all-talkie were made by New York's different nationalities. a a a One of Chief Justice Taft's attendants tells the world that while the bulky former President was cruising down the Mississippi during his administration he became wedged in a bath tub and it took three men to pull him loose. Had they foreseen how he would split the Republican party, they probably would have let him stay in the tub. a a a WHEN this country and England can not find anything real to fight about, they invent .something, even if they have to go to the end of the world to do it. They are now beginning to wrangle over the ownership of the south pole. a a a The late Marshal Foch contracted his cold at the funeral of Marshall Haig, then Ambassador Herrick contracted his fatal indisposition at the funeral of Marshall Foch, and now General Pershing is laid up as a result of catching cold at the funeral of Herrick.

There's really only one problem which threatens the peace and tranquility of the United States and it is —where is Mrs. Gann, the VicePresident’s sister, going to sit when she goes to a party in Washington? tt tt B THE suggestion that General Pershing be appoir ,ed to succeed the late Ambassador Herrick at Paris is excellent. The general is a personality, big enough to get along without giving the never-ending high handshake which costs millions. President Hoover has a wonderful opportunity to carry out his program of selecting the best men by sending Pershing over there. He instantly would outrank every other foreign ambassador at the French capita!. a a a Canada probably doesn't care much about the sinking of the I'm Alone by our coast guard, but having a minister at Washington and few, if any chances to use him, she wants to take advantage of the present opportunity to file a protest. a an A Winnipeg minister is alarmed at the increase in Canadian divorces, the rate now being only one divorce for every 111 marriages. In other words, our Vanderbilts get more of them than everybody in Canada.

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THE TITANIC SAILS April 10

SEVENTEEN years ago today a giant ocean liner, bound for New York, pulled slowly away from her Southampton pier. The Titanic, largest vessel constructed up to that, time, was starting on her maiden voyage.

| Myriad bright handkerchiefs j waved from the decks to the crowds that had come to bid the ship God- ! speed on its first sailing. A blaie of martial music rolled back from the upper deck of the ship. Flags rippled gaily in the breeze. Four days later the vessel sank off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. “An iceberg’s knife-like edge. | says the official report, “cut through * i her bottom like a can-opener.” Passengers and crew aboard the [ ill-fated ship numbered 2.340. Os these, 1,635 were lost, including scores of notables. The tragedy was the greatest in the history of mod- ; ern ocean traffic. The Lusitania | disaster claimed but 1 200. The iceberg was rammed at 11:40 i p. m„ Sunday, April 14, 1912. The j \ essel went down Monday morning i at 2;27, before aid could reach her. | The 705 survivors were rescued by the Carpathia after they had taken I to lifeboats. What were the names of the three male stars in “The Big Parade?’* John Gilbert, Karl Dane and Tom O Brien.