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Probe Is Overdue InwsliuJit■'<> of renditions by f'rand jury sinh as funrt ioiied-undor William Mooney as foreman, and which r*• si 1 11•< lin the indictments of Duval!, Coffin. .Jackson and city councilmcu seems to be due ayain. Certainly John Duvall, who hires a hail to tell his tab, should be forced to eitlu r prove his chary"S to such a jury or himsdi he indicted fer slander of public officials. It adds ndthintr to the genera 1 welfare that any man, and psic e;allv one who at one time was honored vdh public confide! “C, be permitted 10 run loose, -preading vnr;. definite charges of crime aid Lukin? to them the names of judges and high officials. • That th<re mav lm ov who will believe or iHfcdit his statements is not a factor. Duvall, if he has anything except an imagination, diould lie ■ 1 | 11- !to tell his ston and give his proof to a grand jury which could act. 4 \, ,1 rrrtain’v an investigation should be n.-nic of the charges made concerning the highway commission and its members when < direct r was b< ing replaced. 'Cli ~pen charge was made that one ot t lie ntemb* rs was interested in a huge contract for automobile or truck ti.es, on which the profit vjms very large. Th*' law particularly frowns upon such participation in public contracts by public officials. In fact, the law calks it a crime and provides a penalty. How long a Marion county grand jury can ignore these charges remains to he seen. The highway commission itself, it it hopes j-jo obtain any degree of public confidence, should take step- to set aside this contract. Self respect, should dictate to the two members who were not named in any charge that, they publicly take steps to repudiate this particular contract or demand public hearings Upon it. Delay or silence can only make them partners to a degree in the deal. These two matters are somewhat important, if good and decent government is ever important*

Rosika Schwimmer All of us sympathize with the ideal Rosika Schwimmer voiced when she said, “I am an uncompromising pacifist. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. We disagree about whether this ideal can be achieved, how it shall be dor.- and how we shall behave meanwhile. Yet as long as the ethics of Christianity forms any part of the background of our minds we will think of peace and of universal brotherhood as ends to be desired. Rosika Schwimmer lays more positive emphasis on the ideal than most of us do, and for this she once has been denied citizenship in the United States, and mav be denied it permanently. Her case is now before the United States supreme court. An Illinois federal court held that because Madame Schwimmer made the remarks she did she was not attached properly to the principles of the constitution of me United States. The court probably did not tend to imply that the principles of the constitution and the principles of Christianity are in conflcit. Yet its ruling comes perilously close to leaving that impression. The two, of course arc not in conflict. And so there is no reasonable reason why Madame Schwimmer should not be a citizen. Vision, idealism, are qualities we need in our Omers, with a vision too big for all to grasp, have beer, condemned. Later some of them have been Called great. Trying to understand them has. in any case, been good for us. There are too few, not too many, among us who dure to think and question and strive

toward far-off coals. Sink the I'm Alone Row The Hoover administration is trying to make the feet of a bad matter m the case of the coast guard smkinc of the Canadian rum runner. I m Alone. There was danger that this unfortunate episode mieht inflame passions of the ship-proud British and Canadians and of Americans. There was danger that the governments might make this t te su jec sharp and long-drawn diplomatic conflict, -uc t a &e added to the Anglo-American friction over markets raw materials, freedom of the seas and strength, would have increased the seriousness of an already disquieting international f^ iatlon ’ That danger is not past. But it Ijfs been lessened feThe wise and calm courses taken by the governoutburst of .th in England, .be Brush government turned the direct negotiations over to the Canadian government. And after an provocative statement by Secretary of the Treasury MeUt*i. the case was taken over by the state Department calmly and quietly. The negotiations which ha\ me ;rcded ween Canada and the state departure.. ve been almost ideal in method. There have been a maximum of h-iendlv and informal conversations and only one exchange of formal notes, the latter based upon personal conferences. Though the notes have not been made public, their general contents are known. Four questions arc at •Was the rum runner originally challenged by the coast guard within the one-hour-sailing-distance-from-shore zone specified by the liquor treaty? The United States says. yes. The I’m Alone master says, no. Canada apaprently is reserving judgment. If |lie contention 'of the rum runner is proved, then the •United States has no case and must apologize and pay damages. Was the sinking, under the circumstances and in stormy sea. endangering the lives of the entire crewone seaman was drowned too drastic a penalty ? The United States -ays, no. Canada says, yes. Does the special liquor treaty, in extending the

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three-mile territorial zone to one-hour-sailing-distance 'about twelve milesi apply only to search and seizure within the extended zone; or does it also give the right of “hot pursuit" from within the extended zone? Under international law a culprit ship, If hailed within the three-mile zone, can be pursued all the way across the ocean and sunk, provided the chase is continuous. The treaty does not expressly extend that right within the enlarged zone, so Canada conten/s that the rum runner should not have been pursued and sunk 100 miles irom shore. The United States argues for an “implicit'’ interpretation of the treaty granting the right of hot pursuit beginning inside the one-hour zone. Can the chase of the I'm Alone, which was interrupted and participated in by two cutters, be interpreted as continuous “hot pursuit?" The United States says, yes. Canada says, no, because the cutter which oriinally challenged the rum runner was not the same cutter that sank her. On the face of it and on the letter of the treaty, Canada appears to have a much stronger case than the United States. Rather than let this questionable dispute poison British-American and CanadianAmerican friendship, the United States well might accept the Canadian position. But fortunately the negotiations have been on such a mutually friendly basis that the case now can be submitted to arbitration as provided by t.he treaty. That, method not only will settle the I'm Alone case. It also should clarify the disputed treaty and prevent future misunderstandings. Law vs. Reason Some four centuries ago, in Bordeaux, a young magistrate named Montaigne came into a high court of France to find judges sentencing to death a prisoner who just had been proved guiltless by the confession of the real criminal. Outraged, Montaighe cried out against the procedure that placed the dignity of the law above reason and justice. The judges halted his tirade and sentenced the defendant to the guillotine. They had pronounced him guilty; hence he must be guilty. Out in California today the same caricature on justice has puzzled and outraged Superior Judge Franklin Griffin, the man who sentenced Tom Mooney to death in 1917. When the Oxman perjury exposures revealed the Mooney frame-up, Judge Griffin started out to right the wrong to which he had been an innocent party. He asked the attorney-general to have the supreme :ourt send the case back to his court so that Mooney :ould be tried again. Although both the judge and the state's attorney asked it. the supreme court ruled that the time having elapsed for filing writs of error, nothing could be done.

Griffin appealed then to Governor Stephens for a new trial, but Stephens declined to act. When Governor Richardson succeeded Stephens, Griffin made an even stronger appeal, this time for pardon. Now Governor Young is in power and Griffin leads those seeking Mooney’s pardon. As in the days of Montaigne, law obscures justice, reason and mercy. Indeed the wheels of law seem to be. deeper in the ruts of formality in California than they were in France in the Sixteenth century, for in California a .judge is vainly asking reason from law. The California courts have failed to give Mooney and Billings justice. Although that state should ask a pardon from them Tor twelve years’ injustice, they are asking pardon from the state. This is the least Governor Young can grant. Some of the critics are questioning the authenticity of Joan Lowell’s story of the sea. “The Cradle of the Deep.” They don't think it holds water. A couple of cattlemen drove sixty Mexican rebels into a corral and shut the gate. Instead of sending arms and ammunition to the Mexican government, why not send ’em a couple of Texas cowboys?

-———David Dietz on Science Barometer Aids Study \o. 333

THE amateur weather student will find his enjoyment in the subject greatly increased if he owns a barometer. The mercury barometer such as is used in the United States weather bureau stations, is a complicated and unwieldy device in the hands of the layman and is not to be recommended. Aneroid barometers, however, are inexpensive and

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barometer does not make use of a column of mercury. Instead, there is a little metal box inside the case. Most of tlfe air has been pumped out of this box. The pressure of the atmosphere causes the sides of the little box to be pushed in by amounts in proportion to the pressure. The pointer is connected by a series of leers to the outside of the little box. Asa result a slight movement of the sides of the box is registered as a considerable movement of the pouiter across the dial. There is an extra pointer on the barometer which can be set at any point on the scale by moving a little knob. This extra pointer is very convenient in using the barometer. For in forecasting weather with a barometer. it is necessary to know whether the barometer is falling or rising. Suppose you read the barometer at 8 a. m. and find that it registers a pressure of 29.5 inches. * By means of the small knob it then is possible to set the extra pointer at this same reading. You can tell at a glance, therefore, at any later hour whether th' barometer is rising or falling. Asa rule, the scale of the barometer is divided into four sections with the words “Fair.'’ “Changeable.” “Rainy" and "Stormy." But the use of the barometer is not as simple as that. The fact that the pointer happens” to be in one of these sections does not indicate that weather of a corresponding nature can be expected. A single reading of the barometer tells very little a b--t future weather. It Is necessary to have two readings which establish whether tire barometer is falling or rising, in other words whether a low pressure area or high presure area is moving in.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Game of War Has Been Made an Inherent Part of Civilization h y Millions of School Teachers as Well as by Statesmen. I EON TROTSKI. former war lord of Russia, but now* exiled in Turkey, complains that no European government will accord him asylum. The complaint is just, but Trotski should remember that the government for which he did most set the example. If Soviet Russia had not barred him as an undesirable the chances are that he could go where he liked. U tt t 1 Talk and More Talk RUSSIA still contends that the way to disarm is to disarm. The rest of the world prefers to thing that the way to disarm is to talk about it.

Russia proposes a 50 per cent reduction. for everybody and asks the preparatory disarmament commission to vote for it. The commission does not want to vote. The proposition is “unacceptable,” whatever that may mean. So we shall go on talking about limiting the number of this kind of ship, reducing the caliber of this kind of gun, and restricting the use of some other kind of bullet. B tt tt Part of Civilization THE Russians can afford to be brutally frank. They have wrecked their former social and political system of government, which permits them to build from the ground up. The rest of the world has to stay with its customs and conventions to a large extent- It can consider only piecemeal modification. Armament has been woven, so definitely into its national and international structure as to make limitation impossible, except bit by bit. The game of war and all that goes with it has been made an inherent part of civilization not only by statesmen, diplomats and politicians, but by the work of millions of school teachers. Its basis is much more distinctly an attitude of mind than a collection of instruments. To suplant it with a “reign of law" means nothing less than revolution means either a violent upheaval or orderly readjustment over a long period of years.

Up to Business Man F'REDERIC R. COUDERT. addressing the British Empire Chamber of Commerce in New York on Wednesday, said that the problem of stopping war was in the hands of business men. That is not exactly true, much as business men might want to stop it, because of their realization of the poor investmefit it represents. The problem of stopping war goes back to the problem of teaching history, of creating in the minds of young people an appreciation of those forces responsible for human progress. For thousands of years, the children of every land have been taught that armed strength not only created it, but was essential to maintain it. The impression has been developed in generation after generation that weapons, instead of implements of industry, were to be credited with the liberty they enjoyed. and they have been taught that liberty consisted of political rights, rather than economic opportunities. Until such impression is corrected, war and preparedness for war will hold their places in the sun, a an Amarillo Says 'No' ’ll THAT is literature and what is VY art has been open to argument since the dawn of consciousness. No doubt Mary Garden thought she was bringing art to Amarillo in the performance of “Thais,’’ but Amarillo disagreed. In fact. Amarillo disagrees to such extent that the sixteen guarantors who promised to make good the $12,500 which the performance cost have refused to pay the $2,500 deficit, on the ground that the opera was cut and that, it was staged in a hurried and indifferent manner.

Education Not All SOME things can be measured by yardsticks. Others can not. We are almost as much in the dark about what is required to guarantee success as what makes a good book or a good opera. The presumption Is that education is an all-important factor, but many of our most successful men rose without it. Samuel B. Rosoff. the New York subway contractor who will sail for Europe in a few days with the idea of getting $200,0000.000 for a job in Moscow, was peeling potatoes at the age of 12. Sosthenes Behn. head of the I. T. & TANARUS„ began his career as a grocery clerk. Edison started as a newsboy, (he Wright brothers were in the bicycle business and Henry’ Ford was a poor mechanic thirty years ago. 808 Careless With Figures EVEN with regard to things that actually can be counted, we get careless. It is said, for instance, that there are 20,000 speakeasies in New York. Indeed, some people have said that there are 30.000. That sounds all right until one learns that there are only 10.000 retail stores on Manhattan island. Among those 10,000 retail stores there are only about 1.800 grocery's. What is equally surprising, there are about the same number of smoke shops, as they are called.

easy to use. A fairly good one can be obtained for $5. though better models can be had at prices ranging up to S3O. The accompanying diagram shows an aneroid barometer. It has a circular case with a graduated dial at the front. A pointer moving across the dial registers the air pressure. This type of

Daily Thought

A talebearer revealeth secrets; but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.—Proverbs 11:13. a a a FIRE and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.—Steele.

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HP HE doctor in his office genJL erally seems a man of character, of force and decision. With practically a supreme court air he will sav “and remember, no cocktails before breakfast.” It does depend a little on how the doctor happens to be feeling on that particular morning. After a big medical dinner every patient, no matter what his symptoms, is very apt to hear a good deal about the evils of alcohol. But it is not my intention this afternoon to be in any way anti. If the medical profession fails to resent the recent New York raid upon the birth control clinic and research bureau, the physicians ot this city should all consult chiropractors in an effort to learn what ails their seines. The police descended upon this dispensary as if it were a d've. They insisted 'that the physicians in charge ride in a patrol wagon and also attempted to fingerprint them. Mr. Whalen's men also seized all the confidential cake histories belong ng to the doctors. No one knows who actuated the raid. n a After Six Years THE clinic; has been in r-eration mere than six years. It is conducted by reputable physicians who are entirely familiar with the law concerning the giving of contraceptive information. Charitable and religious organizations have' sent patients. Dr. C. C. Little, the former president of Michigan university, is on the advisory board. Well-known doctors and sicentists from all over the world have investigated the scope and methods of the clinic. The court of appeals has given a very clear ruling in the matter of the dissemination of birth control data. A duiy licensed physician may give advice to a married patient if in his judgment this advice is necessary to keep her from sickness. I think the law pught to be broader than that. It seems to m r that the economic factor deserves consideration. Poverty and want and worry all should be classified among the major maladies. However, the doctors at the clinic have not allowed themselves any such liberal construction. I think eventually the law should make it possible to give information to people who are not married. BBS Medical Problems BUT all this is beyond the scope of the clinic. Surely a doctor has the right to demand the privilege of keeping his patient from serious illness. Medicine is nothing

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Reading Character in Handwriting Fails

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of thr American Medical Association and of Hygcfa, thHealth Magarine. THE study of handwriting always has had a particular appeal for both scientist and layman. Handwriting is individual, and. it long ha-s been the belief of some people that it is possible to read character from the peculiar strokes that human beings make in conveying their views on paper with pen and ink or pencil. The attempt to read character from handwriting is so inexact a method as to have little, if any, scientific value. It is perhaps just as inexact a science as the attempt to read character from the features or from personal appearance* generally. There are so many exceptions to the standards to be taken into.consideration that even expert observers find that the methods fail by the exception alone. The apotheosis of folly in connection with diagnosis from handwriting was the attempt of Albert Abrams, founder of the electronic methods, to diagnose the diseases from which famous persons in the past may have suffered by placing their signatures in his complicated machine. Os quite a different order are the

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studies made by Charles L. Dana of New York of the handwriting in nervous diseases. For fifteen years he made patients suffering from such nervous diseases as paralysis agitans, or shaking palsy; writer’s cramp, chronic alcoholism, general paralysis, locomotor ataxia, epilepsy. senile deterioration and other forms of tremor, write their signatures. Also, for purposes of comparison, he had them write the unfamiliar name. “William Shakespeare,” and sometimes a long world like “Constantinople.” It happened that he also had available facsimiles of six signatures of William Shakespeare, which are known definitely to be the authentic signatures of the great writer himself. These signatures are shaky and uneven. Doctor Dana collected and examined in nil several hundred signatures of patients with nervous diseases. He concluded from his study that there are few nervous diseases or conditions that can be diagnosed by the handwriting alone. However.' in some instances the disturbance is so definite as to afford ready aid in recognition of disease. For instance, patients with paralysis agitans or with certain types of epidemic encephalitis or in-

' if this freedom is denied the doctor. The ethics of the profession are high. The qualifications to practice severe. Physicians themselves are jealous of their honor and should be. In fact, it seems to me that any disputed borderline cases which may arise in the matter of the giving of contraceptive information are essentially medical problems and i not- legal ones at all. T challenge the competence of Anna McNamara, a policewoman, to | act as complainant. If there is any checking up to be done upon this clinic or any other 1 it should be done by duly qualified appiontees of the county medical society. Or possibly by officials cf : the department of health which has | full knowledge of the work done at ; Margaret Sanger's clinic. I do not believe that even the wisest of city magistrates is competent to pass upon complicated problems cf sickness and health. I Naturally. I am not contending that the physician should, be placed above the law. but since we put our | very lives in his hands, we must give | him a high degree of trust and confidence. ts a Won't Protest 'VT'OUNG Mr. Hogan, an assistant A district attorney, is in charge of the case against Doctors Stone and Passoort. May I. in all charity, ask just what on earth young Mr. Hogan knows about the medical issues involved? However. I am very much afraid the doctors cf New York may not make any united protest against the I r.ew Whalen system of turning over ; ease histories to the Anna McNam- | aras and the Hogans and allowing them to act as consultants. Not so long ago congress said in effect that all physicians were crooks and not to be trusted. Congress uni aertook to say just how much al- | coho! a doctor could prescribe for a sick patient. Some patients %re not whiling to : give any doctor complete authority. It should be the right of the individual to die, or to get well for that matter, without benefit of medicine. But surely it is more reasonable i to put the issue of life and death | into the hands of doctors and not under the jurisdiction of the McNamaras and the Hogans of the poj lice department and the district attorney’s office. Her Sacrifice Margaret sanger has served her country community very well. It w/ ’ "vtiMa

flammatiori of the brain, have tremors which show themselves definitely in the handwriting. The signature shows tremulousness, lack of terminal finish, shaded or heavy lettering and progressive diminution in the size of the letters. Persons with general paralysis or “softening of the brain” write a signature showing tremor, irregular level, blots, omissions of letters, erasures and similar unevenness. Obviously such a signature compared with the patient’s previous signature affords definite indication of change. Patients with general paralysis usually have extreme selfconfidence. and. as might be expected. there is no confusion in the terminal letters of their signatures, which are finished up well. His comparison of the signature of William Shakespeare with those of the patients with various nervous diseases caused him to become convinced that Shakespeare suffered with no disease of this kind, even late in his life. However, Shakespeare died at the age of 52 years, and it seems reasonable to believe that a man who died at this age and had some trouble with handwriting probably had a disturbance of the blood supply to the brain, such as is associated with hardening of the vessels or disturbance of the regular circulation.

Ideals and opinions expressed in thi* 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.

she went to jail when convicted of giving birth control information illegally in 1916. Mrs. Sanger is a registered nurse and not a physician and her conviction proved a very useful sacrifice. Indeed. I wish that the word "sacrifice” were always used in the same strict way which applies upon the baseball diamond. The batter sacrifices himself in a premeditated and successful attempt to advance the runner. By going to jail. Margaret Sanger advanced the cause of birth control, for, imbedding against her. the court ruled that physicians could at their discretion give information to prevent sickness. The present clinic has been operated in strict conformity to that decision. Margaret Sanger is a great and gallant woman and her work for welfare will be remembered when Grover Whalen is no more than. “Don't you remember that little fellow that was police commissioner for a little while. Oh, you know, shat fellow that wore a flower in his buttonhole and didn't solve the Rotntsein case.” lCopyright. 1929. tor The Times) '

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APRIL 19, 1929

REASON —By Frederick Landis

Before the Automobile Came In Monday U*a,s Wash Day: Now It Has Become Morgue Day. EVEN though the rising waters of Lake Michigan, now three and a half feet higher than usual, may be due to sun spots, they probably will be sufficient to knock the spots off those who oppose Chicago's diversion of enough lake water to float her sewage into the Illinois canal. B B B One hears so much of Canada's perfect success in handling the liquor question, it comes as a great shock to learn that the speaker of the house of commons of the Canadian parliament has felt it necessary to issue orders, forbidding messengers to carry liquor to members. B B B Former Governor Lowden states that during their talk, Mussolini displayed a keen knowledge of the agriculture situation in all countries, but as they were together only ten minutes, Mussolini must have talked very rapidly. B tt B Before the coming of the automobile and the airplane, Monday used to be “wash.day,” but now it is morgue day. B B B A QUESTIONNAIRE answered by 500 ministers shows that only 47 per cent of them believe in hell, all of which is very discouraging to the fellow who is conscious of his own rectitude and desires to see. appropriate disposition made of his enemies. BUB 9 Chance is the king of politics. A1 Smith, for whom Tammany would have performed any trick, had he been elected, now is humbly waiting to be granted an audience by Mayor Walker, now politically supreme, but who would be fighting for his political life had not the United States supreme court handed down a deciston saving the 5cent fare. bub An lowa tornado carried a fellow's check 150 miles. A good many checks won't go that far without the assistance of a tornado. b tt a THE department of commerce issues a statement that aviation is no longer an experiment in the United States. It is a sure thing; five of our expert fliers were killed last Sunday. a a tt Trotski is entitled to almost anything he gets, but he has a right 'to feel bitter over Germany’s refusal to let him in, for he and Lenin went to Russia, at Germany’s suggestion, upset the government and took Russia out of the war as the allv of France. tt B tt Two hundred thousand automobiles are stolen in the United States every year, but we don't notice it because they are not taken out cf Circulation.

■TODAY” IS THE * jiTjPMTM BATTLE OF LEXINGTON April 19 April 19. 1775, the American revolution began with the battle of Lexington. Thanks jto the ride of Paul Revere the night before. the colonial minutemen were prepared for the coming of the British troops. The battle, fought on the village common, ended with the retreat of the British toward Concord. Fighting began before 5 o'clock in the morning, after a night of terror. Women and children, aroused by rumbling drums and ringing bells, fled to isolated farms, so with the coming of dawn —and the British—Lexington practically was deserted, except, for determined men who knew that war could not be avoided any longer. A check made by the committee of safety on this same day revealed that there were only twelve field pieces in the entire state of Massachusetts. Weak arms, indeed, with which to challenge the British government! But there had been collected 21,549 fireams. 17.441 pounds of powder, 22.191 pounds of ball, 10,000 bayonets and other comparatively large stores of arms and provisions. This is interesting because it proves that the colonies had regarded for some time their fight for freedom as inevitable.