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Join the Army The unusual situation created by the unusual incident in the supreme court, where one judge erased an “s” from the official opinion and suggested that the city manager government may still be open to legal attack ought to have one immediate effect. Citizens who are desirous of economy in administration and the removal of city go\ernment from partisan polities should enrol! at once in the army of those who are giving time and thought to these purposes. For if the plan adopted more than two years ago is in danger, the city itself is in greater danger. It will require an organized effort to protect its interests from the menace of Coffin ism. That tin bosses, and especially that peculiar bossism intend to tight for the privilege of looting the city is very certain. The attack may come in the courts, if the bosses are in position to profit by such a fight. They will not fight there if they see a chance io place their henchmen in charge of the city manager .system. The bosses are not interested in systems. They will be satisfied with any system if they can operate it. They know what they want. They want loot. They want the jobs to reward the faithful or the criminal who contributes dishonest votes. They want the power to protect crime and to harass honest men who may defy the machine. They want the power 1o distribute favors to those who can reward them. They understand how profitable the rule of a city can be, for they have had long experience in collecting. Jt is time that neighbors in every block begin the work of organizing to defeat the machine whenever and wherever it starts work. It is time for men and Avornen avlio Avant rhis city io prosper under freedom from vicious interests to get acquainted with each other so that they can stand together at the ballot box and defend heir homes from these sinister enemies of the public welfare. There are rumors of stealthy attempts to defeat the city manager government by trick tickets in the fall election, selected by the bosses. The one certain thing in the situation is that the evil machine will attempt to control the government. The one Avav to bpat the schemes is to owrwhclm them with public sentiment. The city needs defenders. It is time to join the army. Picking or* a Woman The country is indebted to Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett for writing her pamphlet on “The Sex Side of Life.” Schools, Y. M. C. A.s, parents, and physicians have used it to give thousands of young people a sane and clean knowledge and ideal. It is a prophylactic and disinfectant against corner gang smut. But Mrs. Dennett may have rendered an even wider national service by becoming an innocent victim of the law against sending obscene matter through the mails. After a Brooklyn federal judge had excluded all the defense testimony, which would have proved that the pamphlet was not obscene in purpose or in use. the jury found her guilty. Yesterday she judge fined her S3OO. This miscarriage of justice has aroused citizens in all parts of the country to the , menace of an archaic and unscientific attitude toward sex education. If the attitude of the Brooklyn judge and Jury is representative of the federal government’s attitude then this law can be invoked successfully against practically the entire literature on the subject. We do riot believe that the enlightened American public will stand for such suppression. We do not believe that educators, social workers, physicians and parents will let the government and courts, much less the so-called societies for prevention of “\'ice.” keep them from their duty of providing intelligent sex education for the young. If the anti-obscenity mailing law can be misused for such suppression, the public should not rest until the law is modified. Meanwhile, a group of 100 prominent citizens, whose sense of humor seems to equal their high sense of decency, propose to mail personally copies of the Dennett pamphlet to President Hoover to force a test of the Brooklyn interpretation of the law. Why the Brooklyn federal authorities, who made a victim of Mrs. Dpnnett. have not indicted all the social workers, ministers, doctors, and,medical editors for circulating the pamphlet through the mail is not clear. Ha\’en’t they the courage? Senate Strike Investigation A senate investigation of strikes in southern textile mills has been requested by Senator Wheeler. Organized labor, which is befriending the strikers, urges the investigation. Wheeler asserts that the senate should determine whether the textile industry in the south is sharing with its employes increased revenues afforded through tariff protection. A senatorial probe of conditions should be of value in focusing the nation's attention on the industrial south, and in increasing public demand for muchneeded reforms. It would give for the first time official data on how so-called “cheap labor" has been exploited, what inducements have been offered by communities to get industries from the north and from abroad, and the manner in which foreign capital has been used to establish manufacturing plants in this country to escape the tariff. While the revelations might be painful to the south for a time, they could not be other than beneficial to the south in the end. as well as to the country as a whole. All sides would have opportunity to be heard. The south is lortunate. Its industrial era just is

beginning. Its mistakes are being brought out before they can do permanent harm. A senate inquiry can suggest cures that are needed. Doubtless these will Include better wages and working conditions, shorter hour:, union recognition, safeguards against anti-labor injunction abuses, and adequate laws, properly enforced, for protection of women and children. Toward Disarmament The world awaits eagerly the counter-concessions on disarmament which Great Britain and France have promised to make on the strength of American concessions announced by Ambassador Gibson at Geneva. This action by the United States was not only a victory for the spirit of armament limitation, but also for open diplomacy. To come out as the United States has done, and make voluntary, open concessions without waiting to trade and bargain with the other fellow does not always produce beneficent results, as the United States discovered Avith regret at the Paris peace conference. Nevertheless, this American method is the more honorable and, we believe, the safest in the long run. The American concession to France is a vital one. Gibson has withdrawn the American insistence that trained military reserves be counted in limiting land forces. It is through this system of conscription and reserves that France and her military allies such as Poland and Czechoslovakia hope to continue virtual military hegemony of Europe. France refused to limit reserves. Hence the long deadlock on land disarmament. Although the United States has made this vital concession to break the deadlock, the United States has not accepted the French position. Apart from logic one way or the other, the traditions and prejudices of America are all against the French conscriptreserve system. Therefore, unless practicable reduction of land armaments is obtained soon by the French plan, our government can and should expect F’rance to permit practical arms limitations through inclusion of reserves in army reductions. Great Britain previously had traded support of the French land armament position for French support of British naval policy. That leaves only Germany, Russia, Holland and the Scandinavian countries in active opposition, which is not enough to block the French plan. The American concessions on both armies and navies deserve the Avorld praise they have received. If the other powers make commensurate concessions, the long-delayed arms reduction agreement ought to be reached before the year is out. Sinclair Hangs On Harry Sinclair in jail probably will be much the same sort of chairman of his oil companies as he has been out of jail. The presence of bars and bolts about him will make no difference in the nature of nis official decisions. In that respect the point of view of his directors, who urge him to remain at the head of his company, is easy to understand. It is more difficult to understand why Mr. Sinclair has continued at the head of this company during the last five or six years. There is some reason to believe the answer lies in the fact that directors, not stockholders, have made the decision. Directors serving under Robert W. Stewart, of the board of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, were urgent, also, that Stewart retain his position. When stockholders were given a chance to express their views, the verdict was different. Business is an institution 'undamentally dependent upon mutual faith. It will be interesting to note how the business of Mr. Sinclair thrives from year to year as the people affected get epportunity to voice the opinions they have formulated about him since he became known to front page fame. Comment in the Atcnison Globe to the effect that the man who talks a lot is usually unthrifty must be WTong in one respect at least. We’re thinking of the man who can work up an interesting monologue about most anything while the waiter is trying to give someone the check.

DaA'id Dietz ou Science———— Clouds Tell Weather No, 3u2

CLOUDS are a never-ceasmg source of beauty and the person who has failed to learn to observe the clouds has cheated himseli of one of nature's richest offerings. No two days are alike for the person who has formed the habit of studying the clouds. The student of the weather should know the dis-

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Clouds form when the water vapor condenses out of the atmosphere. Clouds are composed either of very minute droplets of water or of tiny crystals of ice. Clouds form in the sky for a reason which is similar to the formation of the dew on the ground. They form because a decrease in temperature has brought the air to Ihe dewpoint, the point where it can no longer hold all the moisture or water vapor which has been dissolved in it. The sky seldom is cloudless. The shapes which clouds assume are never ending. But it is possible, nevertheless, to group clouds into classes according to certain general characteristics. Clouds can be grouped in a general way by the heights at which they appear in the sky. The highest clouds of all are the cirrus clouds, sometimes called "mares' tails." The cirrus clouds consist of thin feathery wisps and bands. Even in the warmest weather these clouds consist of tiny needles of ;ce. for they are at altitudes ranging from three to six miles where the temperature ranges from 15 to 100 aegrees. Fahrenheit, below zero. The cirrus clouds usually are announcers of storms, for they originate in a storm mass, but because of their great speed usually arrive ahead of the storm. Clouds allied to the cirrus clouds, but at lower levels, are the cirro-cumulus and altocumulus clouds.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

No Business Can Prosper in These Days on the Bent Backs of Impoverished Workers. “YW ICKLESS” alcohol, mail picked up by airplanes as they fly, radios for automobiles and 70,-000-ton ships are among the things predicted in the news as just over the horizon. England bids for permanent control of the sea, we are Informed by the Daily Mail, Avith the construction of such gigantic and luxurious ocean liners as were never before known—liners, with rock gardens, marble baths, telephones for every room and rea palm gardens. The automobile of tomorrow, if one may judge from current announcements, will be equipped with a radio set, as well as a bouquet holder, so that the occupants may listen as they ride, while postmen of the sky will pick up mail bags, or toss them out, as they wing their way over hill and dale. tt tt tt Modern and Barbaric TO contemplate the achievements promised by science is both thrilling and reassuring. There seems nothing but straight - fortvard progress in what men are doing to overcome their physical limitations. Only when we come to what they are doing to each other because of prejudice, or intolerance, does the picture assume a gloomy aspect. It is hard to reconcile the broadminded experimenting which guides the world of commerce with the narrow-minded peevishness which still influences men in their relation to each other. Aviation, radio or the modern hospital do not seem to belong in the same age with such barbaric episodes as still characterize our daily life. a a tt And Texas Went Free TEXAS GUINAN goes free and Helen Morgan goes free, but Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett is convicted. You sometimes wonder where we are going with all this regulation. When personal conduct and morality are prescribed by an act entitled an act, no one can tell where the lightning will strike. To ordinary folks, obscenity Implies motive, as well as words, but The law seems to make no such distinction. To the law, words are all-impor-tant. So this grandmother, who wrote nothing but what she thought was desirable and needed advice for her two boys, is tagged like a dive keeper or the author of a smutty book. a st st Labor and the South SOUTHERN mill owners claim they have won the textile strike and impartial observers are inclined to agree. Be that as it may, the strike has not been in vain. Not only have undesirable conditions been brought to light, but a foundation has been laid for their improvement. The mill owners will help in this if they are wise. No business can prosper in these days on the bent back of impoverished workers. While miracles are not to be expected, the wage level of the textile industry in the south gradually can be raised. st tt tt Nation’s Raw Spots Agriculture, coal mining and the textile industry constitute the three rawest spots in this nation. The millions of people who depend on them receive lower returns than the rest. There seems to be no sound economic reason for such a situation. Why should the farmer, the weaver or the coal miner get less for an equal amount of work than garage mechanics or steel mill workers, not to mention railroad men? tt a a Raising Wage Level IT is to be admitted that the coal problem has been made doubly acute because of oil, that the industry is over-manned and overcapitalized and that a large nummber of miners must be let out before production and Avages can be stabilized. It is to be admitted, also, that agriculture is handicap ■;> and by a surplus. When it comes to the textile industry, hOAvever, no such a condition prevails. Those in control of that industry seem to be in a position where they could raise the level of wages if they would. While this might involve increased prices, it would also produce increased markets. tt a a Basis of Prosperity THE basis of our prosperity is the buying power of the public. Anything that increases that buying power makes for prosperity. We overlook what is to our own advantage when we let any great industry operate on a lower Avage level than is necessary. The idea that we gain by getting vegetables cheap from poorly paid farmers, or by getting cloth cheap from poony paid textile workers is false. Any considerable section of the people which tvorks for such low wages that it can not afford ordinary comforts and conveniences means loss to the country.

fer en t types of clouds, not only for their beauty, but for f h e information which they convey about the weather. First of all, it is important that a mistaken notion of the nature of clouds be dispelled. Clouds do not consist of water vapor. Water vapor is water which has evaporated or been dissolved in the air. Consequently it is invisible.

Daily Thought

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. —Eccl. 2:11. a a it ACOCK, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him.— Pierre Leroux.

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Sending Them Back to the Alley

Receding Chin Doesn’t Mean Weakness

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the Amerie&n Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. A man may have a receding chin —popularly supposed to be a sign of weakness—due to a great many different causes. In the first place the centers of ossification from which the bones of the body are developed may be interfered with in some manner due to intoxication by poisons or by other methods so that the bone of the lower jaw does not develop. In other instances, malformations of the body of the mother may interfere Avith proper development of various portions of the body of the infant. In still other cases, the infant may assume such a position prevous to birth that pressure on its tissues will prevent their growth. Obvously, the infant is in no way responsible for such disorders and

IT SEEMS TO ME By TioiT

'TpHE author %vho says, “I give X the public what it wants,” has been traditionally a target for reproach. In this, I think, there lies a certain injustice. There is much to be said for this sort of writer as opposed to the one who sits down and trains his guns on posterity. The effort to give posterity what it wants seems to me a fatal preoccupation. All of which brings us by easy stages to Ring W. Lardner and the collection of his short stories called “Round Up.” Mr. Lardner is not cited here as a horrible example of those who seek posthumous acclaim. Under great stress he has behaved magnificently. And yet he walks in danger. In any future book, I mean a betting book, it would be hard to get anything better against Lardner than 3 to 1, 6 to 5 and out. He is among the favorites in the Survival Stakes. His own attitude toward the question of undying fame is expressed by an ironic statement from the chief character in “Man Not Overboard” who contemplates suicide, but feels that “It really Is tough to pass out at the age of 30 when you see a genius and there is so much good Avriting God wants you to do.”

Danger of ‘Slice’ WHEN a man begins to write for posterity he can’t help pressing just a little. His wrists get ahead of the swing. He is likely to slice or pull, for there is no ease in him. Happy is the man Avho Avrites upon the sand, for he need not worry about his adjectives. Lardner has been put under terrific pressure. In the beginning he was the joy and consolation of people who read his stuff for the fun of it. Whether it was literature or not never bothered them. I doubt if it bothered Lardner very much. I don’t mean to say that he was not always a careful workman with personal standards which he respected. But in the early days of his career, the critics left him alone. Within the last four or five years he has become fit subject for essays in the New Republic.Lardner has kept his head up in spite of the numerous pats bestowed upon it. But I would not say that he has gone scotfree. To my eye. there is a slight tightening in the method. The stories which are most applauded are generally those which I like best. I have sat in with many little groups in which the work of Ring W. Lardner has been dished up for discussion, and very often I hear "Haircut” and "Champion" put forward as his best work. His most “significant.’’ if you please. tt tt tt Going Literary JT IS my opinion that in both these tales the man has gone

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these things can not ordinarily have any effect upon its mentality previous to birth. However, the idea that a receding chin is a sign of weakness is well grounded in centuries of superstitions and beliefs. There is an old aphorism that if a person believes a thing hard enough that thing will become true. It is likely that the ages of belief in this notion produce in the attitude of parents, of friends and of neighbors toward the infant with a receding chin a form of relationship which causes the child himself sooner or later to adopt their point of view. However, there are innumerable instances recorded in which persons with receding chins have been strong enough mentally to overcome such an attitude, and to devleop eventually the belief of others in their powers. So fixed is this notion that many a man has been forced to cultivate

jus' a shade literary. They are more self-conscious than “Some Like Them Cold,” “Harmony” and “The Golden Honeymoon,” which happen to be my favorites. Lardner’s earliest work, which is represented in “Round Up” along with later stories, is on the surface entirely farcical. There never was any need of a Sherlock Holmes to point out that underneath this seemingly humorous layer was another of tragic irony. “Some Like Them Cold," for instance, is one of the few stories in the world which makes me laugh out loud as I read it. But when the thing is done, I knoAV it for an actually heart-breaking tale. The bitterness which lies in practically every story Lardner writes used ’to be held in solution. Even in the fizzy stories there was a pleasing bite. I'm not for straight lemon juice. *Tn a story like “Champion” it seems to me that Lardner has said to himself, “Now I will show them 100-proof bitterness,” And in this tale I feel that he has overeached himself. Irony ought to be thin-bladed. It should pierce the consciousness and not crush the skull descending in the form of heavy girders.

Quotations of Notables

CONGRESS can do anything it chooses.”—Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama. tt a tt “The man is rare who tells his wife everything that happened before he met her.”—Gilda Gray, dancer. (Outlook.) tt tt tt “What if we do hSve these gangsters shooting each other off because of bootlegging? That is just what we want.”—Pussyfoot Johnson. prohibition lecturer. a a a “The agricultural implement people today are getting very close to a machine that will pick cotton. That will displace a large amount of labor.”—Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce. tt tt a “The rapidity with which | labor-saving machinery is throughout industry, and ever occupations never before inva* £ any kind of machinery, is some,. '£>. to give us genuine concern.” —James J. Davis, secretary of labor. tt tt ts “I would not exchange the period in which I have lived for any other in the world's history.”—Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury. 808 “It is not wise to give too much advice to the young.”—Lady Astor. tt tt tt “I do not think there can be any

and wear constantly a beard in order to hide from the world the absence of a prominent chin. A forward projecting chin, on the contrary, is regularly believed to indicate pugnaciousness and a truculent spirit. The anthropoid apes and savages of Ethiopian types have prognathic or forward projecting lower jaws. The animal about to give battle usually pushes forward the prominent jaw. No doubt, the idea that a receding chin means weakness arose by contrast with the battling character assumed to be associated with the chin that protruded forward. Just as a considerable number of men with weak chins have had strength and the mental power to make other people believe it, so also many a man with a projecting chin has been able to impress upon the world a strength that he did not actually possess. The world is far too prone to judge by appearances.

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

But Not Entirely IN one important respect Lardner has been wholly impervious to the claims imposed upon such writers as seem to be slated to survive. Writing for posterity is a little like writing for a syndicate. One feels that he must not be too local. A cosmic necessity assails him. Today’s slang will be dead before the century is out. And even now it is quite mysterious to the Scandinavians. None of this has hampered Ring W. Lardner. When he chooses to make a joke not comprehensible to readers outside the ranks that dote on the sport pages he goes ahead without benefit of any explanatory glossary. Possibly the limitations of the local reference are likely to be exaggerated. For instance, I see by the jacket of “Round Up” that Sir James M. Barrie mentions “Harmony” as one of his favorites. It is in “Harmony” that Mike, the veteran pitcher, remarks, “I’ll be up there in Minneapolis this summer, pitchin’ onct a week and swappin’ stories about the Civil war with Joe Cantillon.” I wonder how Sir James managed to make head or tail of that. (Copyright, 1929, for The Times)

question that we have today in large measure an American merchant marine. It is a matter of official statistical record that between 35 and 40 per cent of our international commerce today is carried in vessels under the American flag.”—Ernest Lee Jahncke, navy department.

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APRIL 30, 1920

REASON —By Frederick Landis

tioover Should Send Pershing as Ambassador to France, Not a Politician Like Hilles of Ncu' York. SINCE this Canadian rum-runner, the I’m Alone, has been \nolating our law for years, it seems strange so much fuss should be made over its destruction, but you can’t blame the Canadian minister at Washington, for this is the only diplomatic business he has, and, like the young lawyer with only one client, he must make the most of n* tt tt a The strangest bed fellow observed in the boudoir of politics for many years are Uncle Sam and Aguinaldo. Until Funston captured him, Aguinaldo led a war to drive us out of the Philippines, but now he is the strongest advocate of our staying there. tt a tt Professor George Baker of Yale university is right when he says that our national speech is becoming staccato. You’ll appreciate the fact if you have tire trouble after dark and try to get another car to stop and give you a lift. a tt tt As the American farmer reads that the bricklayers of New York City just have won a five-day week with an increase in wages, he realizes once more than in this age those who can not organize are lost, a tt it IT is a great mistake for this group of American explorers to go clear to the headwaters of the Orinoco river in Brazil to hunt for a tribe of white Indians. The explorers should have stayed at home and gone into politics. tt a a The United States is divided into two great classes, those who are outraged because this Massachusetts iellow threw a bottle at Tom Heflin, and those who are enraged because, tire fellow did not have a more accurate aim. a a a Former Governor Lowdens statement that the best part of the trip abroad is to return home is a great consolation to those of us who are attached permanently to the U. S. A. a a a Tammany may discard A1 Smith, if it feels that way about it. but it will be several summers before that organization produces another member fit to be nominated for Fresident. tt a tt Former, vice - president DAWES has told Santo Domingo how to get out of debt, but it won’t amount to much unless she | follows the plan more faithfully than Germany did. a a tt We hope Mr. Hoover does not send Hilles of New York, a mere politician, as ambassador to Paris. He should send General Pershing, our greatest world figure, and one of the few regular army generals who is an all-round man. a a o The government's building program should make Washington the most beautiful city in the world. There's only one thing wrong with lt_the national cipital should be nearer the center of the United States.

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A $15,000,000 PURCHASE April 30

ONE hundred and twenty-six years ago today the United States purchased the Louisiana territory from France for $15,000,000. By virtue of this purchase mom land than was contained in the original thirteen states was brought, under American sovereignty. And largely because Napoleon needed money for the war which was brewing with England, and could not, afford to experiment further with his plans for an American colony. By the terms of the purchase treaty, signed April 30, 1803, the boundaries of the land acquired by the United States were not specific. A subsequent treaty with Spain settled its extreme southern borders and one with England was necessary to define its extent to the northwest. If all the territory directly or indirectly acquired by this treaty be included, however, it may be said that this $15,000,000 spent by the. Jefferson administration brought Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, lowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregan and Washington into the Union, at least with their ultimate boundaries. Today is also the anniversary of the admission of the state of Louisiana to the Union on April 30, 1812.

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