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The Senators Disagree Once more Indiana pets into the spotlipht through the disagreement between its two llustrious senators over the, indorsement, ot fief in. spokesman for the Ku-Klux Klan. Wannn, denying that he had been the “hc>e of the klan as suggested by Heflin, refused, as did all other Republicans to vote for j resolution demanded by Heflin, denouncing he rough tactics given him in an eastern city' it'rer be had delivered a tirade against the atholic church. Robin-on remained true to his old associ--1 - and backers and Anted for the klan propagandist. Heflin ;s quite sure that the violence of the ud • n-’e m the east, which disproved his re<-k----b -and ruthless efforts to arouse religious ! J, is a denial of the right of free speech. Robinson can conn back to Indiana and tell the r r al he horses <.)' the klan that he alone of I,>> j . iitiiojl faitb remained true to the Evans dictatorship. Ii- deplorable, of course, that any community pa} any attention to Heflin, who comes lo hi- .i;’a v. henever the boys raise the necessary >d , )U fee. ir is more deplorable that any seuator tries to arouse hate and prejudice. It is significant that Robinson becomes aroused to the danger to free speech only when the hooded order ur ofs mobbed opposition. Ho f.hriv, <1 no su<*h alarm when the klan rode in terrorism over this state, when it suppressed by force any criticism, when its tyrants on the bench jailed its crioes, when its Stephensons ■were supplanting orderly government with the secret rule of the klan. The vote is not important as revealing the attitude of the senators toward the hooded order of hate. Robinson remains true to its traditions. There was, of course, no question of free speech involved. There vas one of orderly government; a state affair and not one of national importance. No unit of government was involved. A man who appealed to mob passion was answered by a mob. Robinson, the senator from Indiana, indorses the Heflin appeal to hate by his vote. Watson has become wiser since the klan has lost its prestige in the state. A Vanishing Serenade Even now and then this fast, furious, ruthless old world rolls over one of our pet traditions. Just now it seems that the elimination of the street parade by tlie big circuses is ushering into everlasting oblivion that monarch of circus melody—the steam calliope. We can forego the gorgeous street parade that present-day traffic has forced the big shows t-o discontinue. We can do without the gaudy, gold-leafed hand wagon, with its cargo of fine fast circus tempo, but doing without a calliope is a different matter. A circus without a steam calliope is like Christmas without the old fat fellow in the red suit, the country store minus the eracker barret. When the last, steam ralliope has puffed and panted its discordant way down Main street, we shall experience a feeling of depression equal to the time when first, we saw a demure. blond beauty receiving the professional attentions of our favorite barber. The puffing, wheezing monster of our affection never was in tune, but that is of minor importance. The calliope player's musical repertoire consisted solely of “Silver Threads Among the Gold.’’ “Stars and Stripes Forever," and the “Merry Widow Waltz.” but even that is of small consequence. When we were very young and could valuate correctly, it generally was agreed among the gang that to be president of the United States was a higher honor than to be thi calliope player, but some ol U 6 doubted it in secret. The old steam calliope has anew cousin in an electrically equipped instrument now in use by the big circus bands. But the real circus flavor is missing—there is no discord. The old calliope, still in use by some of the small parading shows, is a glorious thing comparable in splendor cnlv to the old steam fire engine and any one who pronounces ' calliope'’ without the accent on the first syllable is an unmitigated highbrow! Entangling Alliances in Journalism The daily newspaper is an Institution of general, as distinct from class, circulation. By its very nature, therefore, it must be single in purpose to be effective. Its mission is to serve all the public, and not .iust part. Its range of influence is in direct ratio to its freedom from entangling alliances. The history of newspaper failures is thickly dotted w ith those which have violated that principle Why? Simply because it is not within the range of human nature for a newspaper publisher successfully to erve two masters. Take a concrete case: Suppose you owned both a newspaper and a gas company. Could you be impartial in your editorial attitude toward the gas rate that your community pays? For the same reason that a brother of a man on trial is excluded from ju r> service, so outside interests, whether they be social, financial or political, must be excluded when one goer into newspaper publishing. The effort. the*~. ~ of the International Paper and Power Company to inject itself into American journalism contains the germ of its own destruction. The International Paper and Power Company's major Interest, by its own testimony, is power. To it. accordingly, the great truth will apply—"where its Ueasure is, there will it* heart be also.” The public instinctively will recognize that. And the public wiil write its own answer.

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“Communism” in Textile Strike The cry of communism raised against the southern textile strike is hysterical, false and dangerods. It is repeated in the United States senate by Senator Overman, who evidently does not want an investigation of conditions in his state. The body of the strikers is descended from the kind of folk who fought the battle of King's mountain in the Revolutionary war. only a few miles from Gastonia, the present strike center. They have toiled for years, men, women and children. day and night, fifty-five to sixty hours a week, for wages which will not average more than sls a week in many mills and won't reach S2O anywhere. In addition to that, northern efficiency experts began to speed them up. trying to get more cloth produced. without increase in pay. This was the last straw. An organizer of the National Textile Workers’ Union found them ready in their desperation to abandon their suspicion of Yankees and “furriners” and proceeded to organize unions. When it appeared that this was a fruitful ground, he called in ether organizers, one at least of w hom was a communist. Instantly the mill owners raised the cry of communism and sovietism. To determine its specious falsity, one needs only to recall that the same cry was raised formerly just as loudly against the American Federation of Labor, and even against investigating bodies of the Federal Council of Churches and of the Southern Methodist church headed by such a “communist” as Bishop James Cannon. An observer for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, who has been in the strike regions, says that he heard no word of communism uttered by the organizers, save warnings to the strikers not to believe the horrible things uttered against the organizers. The only part actually played by communism in the strikes appears to be that of a bogey raised by the mill owners. Tariff Revision Delay in introducing the tariff bill in the House is evidence of tire strong conflict of opinion over the measure. House leaders are endeavoring to satisfy as many as they can of the influential groups demanding higher duties. It, will be possible to dispense only a few of the favors sought, however, if revision is to be of the limited sort President Hoover demands. Influence of the leaders and tne administration will be taxed in the effort to avoid a general upward revision. Pennsylvania and New York delegations, and those from other industrial areas, insist on higher duties on articles manufactured in their states, and the demand irom back home is so strong that it may outweigh party considerations In a showdown. All but a few of the 1.100 witnesses heard by the House ways and means committee in its preparation of the bill presented arguments in favor of increased tariffs on articles in which they xvere interested. Arguments against a general tariff revision at this time are sound. Rates now are the highest in the country's history, and take from the pockets of consumers, after the tax is pyramided, amounts estimated as high as $4,000,000,000 annually. The country generally is prosperous with present schedules. Retaliation from many foreign countries seems sure if the dike is made higher, and this seriously might injure foreign trade. The administration's avowed purpose in any revision is to benefit agriculture, and the very few manufactures which are in genuine need of additional protection. Congress will do well to remember this and to resist efforts of selfish interests to make the new measure a grab-bag. Lots of people have been waiting eagerly for the first article by A1 Smith, to see whether or not he puts that extra "and” in radio. Florida, fighting a fruit pest, decided to spray automobiles with insect powder. An awful blow to the' few remaining Model Is. America is a country where a young man takes a course in pharmacy to be able to sell gooseliver sandwiches.

-David Dietz on Science-

Temperature Is Factor No. 344

\ I THILE evaporation is a process always going on VV somewhere in the world, there can be local conditions under which it stops. This condition is known as saturation. Evaporation stops when the atmosphere in a given locality holds as much water vapor as it can hold. Technically, however, this is not an exact statement

like a sponge in taking up water. But this idea is wrong. "The only appreciable effect of the presence of the other gases of the atmosphere on the moisture is that of slowing the rate of its spread or diffusion. "Temperature and temperature alone, to within a negligible amount, determines the quantity of vapor per given volume necessary to produce saturation, or. of course, any definite percentage or fraction of saturation." The reason why temperature is the controlling factor in the amour' of water vapor which the atmosphere can hold can be understood if it is remembered that liquids consist of molecules in vibration. An increase in temperature means an increase in molecular vibration. At a higher temperature, the molecules are moving faster and possess more energy. It is not quite exact to say that evaporation has stopped when the saturation point is reached. There still is an interchange of molecules between the surface of the liquid and the atmosphere. But what is happening is that as many molecules of water are falling back onto the surface of the water as are jumping from it into the atmosphere. Asa result, the net change is zero and for ail practical purposes we may say that evaporation has stopped for the time. When the air is saturated, we say that it has reached the saturation point. Since the air can contain more moisture at a high temperature, the higher the temperature, the mere moisture is needed to bring it to the saturation point.

M. E. Tracy 5 SAYS:

Education and Commerce, as Driven by Human Ingenuity, Are Making the World Alike. AT least 150 business men are now commuting from Philadelphia to New York, which shows the speed of progress, as well as travel. The first regular stage between these two cities made its appearance in 1758. It was not until nine years later that a second entered the field advertised as luxurious, “being a covered Jersey wagon,” and guaranteed to make the trip one way in three days. Shortly afterward, patrons were informed that for an extra fare of 50 per cent they could ride in the “flying machine," which had "seats on springs.” and which would cover the ground in “the amazing short time of two days.” a tt e Speeding Up Speed LETTERS are going from coast to coast in thirty-one hours. On Wednesday, a reporter for the New York Telegram phoned his story in from the cockpit of an airplane. Great liners are being built in England to cross the ocean in five days flat, while those that can do it in four are thought to be just around the corner. Colonel Lindbergh says that a regular air transport service to South America will soon be an accomplished fact, while one between England and India is in the making. b B a Lifted From Jungle IT is of sucli innovations that Colonel Leopold S. Amery is thinking when he tells parliament how rapidly the British colonies have progressed and how definitely their progress can be traced to improved facilities of trade, travel and communication. The effect of such facilities is bound to be more pronounced on backward people than on the socalled civilized world. It takes less time to introduce improvements than it does to discover and perfect them. Savages are going to be lifted from the jungle to a comparative state of civilized life in less time than it took our forefathers to advance from the ox cart to the automobile. Men are driving Fords in Africa whose fathers carried goods on their heads. nun World Dresses Alike 'TUIOSE great multitudes that L have resisted our religion and statecraft are fast succumbing to our machinery and science. Whether for good or in, this age of materialism enjoys a much greater degree of success in making converts than did the older and more abstract ideals. One has to go no farther than the pictures in current magazines or Sunday supplements to appreciate what is taking place and what it signifies. Two generations ago. there still was a profound distinction in dress, especially between the eastern and western nations. Now a Chinese or Turkish legislative assembly looks much like one in Italy or America, as far as clothes are concerned. a b a Heedless of Boundaries EDUCATION and commerce, as driven by human ingenuity, are making the world alike, freeing it from its mannerisms, peculiarities and traditions, and compelling it to recognize the community of human interests. Say what you will. but. this is something new, something of profounder effect than anything the past can show. We have at last hit upon a force which gives little heed to boundary line or race and which appears capable of gaining confidence everywhere. a a a Call for Honesty the spiritual influW ence of such a force may be, its economic and political influence is driving toward a single purpose and that is such a readjustment among tiro peoples as will afford adequate protection to the lines of trade, travel and communication in which it is rooted. It, leaves no great cal! for statesmen to be original. All they need do is honestly interpret the impulses, hopes and desires to which it ha-s given birth. We no longer are dealing with natural entities, with self-sufficient states, with inherited prejudices that no one dare question, with differences considered insurmountable. The last century has opened unsuspected possibilities not only for western civilization, but for all the res' of humanity. Tt is only a question of time, and a very short time at that, when Asia will be threaded with hard-sur-faced highways, over which rubber tires and combustion engines will earn - a message of economic emancipation with such vividness as even heathen minds can grasp, while voices raised in New York. Paris or Melbourne will be heard in the far places of Africa. tt B tt Old Order Passes BEING a follow up of unffiocial achievements and ideals, as it always has been, statecraft must give heed to this new- and all-em-bracing drift. This world we live in is not the world of Pitt, Napoleon, or even Disraeli. It is the world of Morse. Edison, j Marconi and the Wrights: of talk thrown across seas: of a movie record that leaves no doubt as to what actually occurred: of better food, clothing and shelter for every one if the road can only be kept open: of industry as opposed to dogma: of achievement as opposed to guesswork. Who imagines that the old order could be made to fit such a situation?

of the situation. Prof. W. J. Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau writes: “It is true that even in technical language we often say that the air contains such or such an amount of moisture, as though the presence of the air was essential to the existence of the vapor, or as though the air acted somehow

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. TN many parts of Great Britain it is commonly believed that a stye can be cured by rubbing it with a tomcat's tail. In many other places the belief -that a stye can be cured by a gold ring is common. The magic associated with the cat of one sex or another has been mentioned in previous articles in this series. The magic associated with golds rings, and particularly with wedding rings, is about as complicated as any form of superstition. This form of magic may be classified as constriction cure. Possibly in tlie very first place constriction cures were symbolical. The idea was that if you tied something tight enough it would

VERY often readers write in to ask. “Why can’t you be more constructive in your criticism? You're always destructive.’’ Os course, that isn’t so. If I say in my opinion Judge Burrows and the jury made a mess of the Mary Ware Dennett case and established a dangerous precedent for the enthronement of hypocrisy, I am not being destructive. If enough severe criticism were directed against the judge in this case he might be sufficiently embarrased to resign. In that event it might come to pass that a more enlightened judgee would sit in his place. Why isn’t that constructive? But chiefly I wish to reply to my critics by pointing out that they are seldom constructive in the accusations they hurl at me. “Does the paper really pay you money for writing that junk?" Seems to me essentially destructive criticism. Nor has it any utility. Everybody know-s that few columnists die and none resign. a a it Beast of Burden 1 WONDER if many readers appreciate just how arduous is the existence of a column conductor. “Not so bad today." some friendlyreader may say as his glance falls cn “It Seems to Me." or “that is just terrible." But remember it. is easier to tear down than to build up. Next time you read this portion of the paper as you 101 l over a hearty luncheon, think twice before you sneer. Picture. I pray you. the thought and effort, which have gone into the little sermon which you so coolly dismiss as “perfectly terrible." My friend, it took you barely five minutes to read that column and almost twice as much time was required in the writing. With that scrutiny of not more than ten minutes you are disposed to dismiss and condemn something which may have consumed at least nine minutes in the life of a creative artist. Os course, on the rare days when long contributions come in it might not take quite as much as nine minutes. Still it's a lot of bother to get the paste off the fingers and all that must be considered m figuring out the difficulties of this essential occupation. “Essential?" you say in some surprise. How on earth do you suppose a columnist would make a living if he didn't have a column? S S St Vast Preliminaries EVEN before the columnist sets his two fingers to the typewriter 'many of them have more, you understand, but practically all newspaper workers are self-taught operators) arduous labor was performed to make possible this brief j span of banter or penetrating philosophy. Yet people take it attheir_ luncheon as if it were no more than. a buttered muffin. Once this very paper over which I your eye skims and skips was part

A Horse of a Different Color

Wedding Rings Don’t Cure Styes

IT SEEMS TO ME

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. SO

destroy growth, strangle it and cause it to fall away from the body. Actually, this method will cure a wart occasionally by shutting off the blood supply to the wart. Therefore, in many places warts are cured by tying a hair from a violin bow or a thread around the base of the wart. Many old ladies try to cure the cramps in their legs by putting tight garters around the legs, which is exactly the wrong treatment, since the cramps not infrequently are the result of poor circulation of the blood. The wedding ring carries with it also the idea of binding something together. There are many strange forms of sex magic associated with the use of the wedding ring. It may be used for a charm in the same way as amulets images

of a. mighty tree in some primeval forest. The whole process is wonderful and complicated and I should like very much to go into it at length for your benefit, but there are one or two things which happen in the metamorphosis of the spruce tree into a final Wall Street edition, which I do not precisely understand. The point I have in mind is that the lumberjack, the paper manufacturer, the jobber <1 suppose there's a jobber because there always is a jobber!, the engineer of the freight train, the man who drives the motor truck, copy readers, printers, pressmen (a few processes will be omitted to make it simpler for you)—all these, and the column conductor as well, have been employed in the arduous process of making "it seems to me” possible.

“T NEVER drink any of the wine A when I test it. That's what most people think is dons, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little in my mouth to get the taste, and then spit it out. Incidentally America has some of the best water I ever tasted.”— George Reeves-Smith, British wine connoisseur. (Time.) b b b “For every day purposes we believe what we want to believe, and if w-e do not want to believe the truth, we do generally contrive to dispose of it as a sort of extravaganza.’’—H G. Wells. B tt B “Any tariff revision likely to occur at this time will probably prove more harmful than beneficial to farmers."—Senator Robinson. Arkansas. tt e a ‘ Love and health remain the keynote of human happiness and they are free."—Kathleen Norris. 808 “It is a singular fact that people commonly go into debt in good times and pay their debts under pressure in bad times."—George E. Roberts, vice-president of the National City Bank of New York. tt B a “The Indian stock is of excellent quality. It readily can merge with that of the nation."—Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior. tt tt tt “The knowledge throughout the world that the public opinion of a people has back of it an armed force which can He called on to execute its decrees is a powerful restraining influence among nations." —Calvin Coolidge. B B B “I do not believe in the old idea of young men for action and old men for counsel. The younger men must be given full opportunity and charged with full responsibility."— Alfred P. Slaan, president General Motors. - /

and similar objects are used for charms. So far as styes are concerned they are merely infections of follicles in the eyelids. These infections result from the presence of germs which get into the follicle and set up irritation in the same way that pimples are produced on the skin generally. The cure for the stye is the release of the matter that is in it and the application of antiseptic substances that will destroy the bacteria. Not infrequently, the application of heat is helpful, because heat causes an increased flow of blood to the part of the body concerned and thereby aids the destruction of the infection from within. So far as the use of the gold ring is concerned, one might just as well use the formulas that children use to conjure away the rain.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

Good Enough? '“INHERE are times when the A thought of this terrific train of human endeavor gives me pause. I feel the responsibility keenly and upon looking at my copy I exclaim: “This piece which I have written is not good enough. I can not endure the thought that a spruce tree was sacrificed for this. “Brilliantly written? Well, maybe. but today I have caught up in my thought nothing of permanent value.” And at such times it is my impulsive practice to strike a match and burn the- copy to a crisp. Or at any rate make it crisper. Then, with my feet in the ashes. I begin again and try to get into my work some touch of true mastery. Sometimes I burn as many as ten or twelve drafts and the final cony is not complete until the cinders have crept up to my waist, i Copyright. 1939 by The Times i

"If a man is going abroad for business or pleasure I think it does not cut much ice whether the ship is wet or dry. I don't see why a man should shape his trip just to get a morning toddy."—Bishop James Cannon, Methodist Episcopal church, South. b n a “The instincts of youth are sound, and would lead a lad to the halter soofl enough; it is the cautious father and the jealous mother who ask the boy. indignantly, how much he is earning to let himself in for this madness of love.”—Will Durant, Forum. a a a “When we compare such women as wp have in China with the great women of the west. I do not wonder j that our women fail to get equal j treatment with men.” —Marshal Feng Yuhsiang.

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Ideals and expressed in thi column arc 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.

MAY 2, 1929

REASON By Frederick Landis Peggy Joyce Has Returned From Pans and Expects to Do Quite a Little Marrying This Summer. THIS nightly broadcasting of burglar alarms by station WGN is proving effective in the capture of robbers, but, it's terrible advertising for Chicago. tt a a Graduates at La Fontaine. Tnd., remained calm while a mouse played round the feet of the orator of the evening, but had that mouse crawled up the orator's trousers. La Fontaine would have had the liveliest commencement she ever saw. a tt a With unemployment increasing all over the United States, these senators should reflect before., they throw Secretary Mellon out of his job. b a a It develops that it cost $5,500 for Columbus to make his voyage discovering America, and Ford. Rockefeller and the others who have profited from it should pass the hat and reimburse Spain. tt tt tt King George has knighted H. O. D. Segrave, the Englishman who recently broke the speed record for automobiies down in Florida, but, the English war fliers who spent thousands of hours in the air, fighting duels with England's enemies are going around without such recognition. b a tt A boy in South Dakota found $350 after it had been carried several miles by a cyclone. It's very extraordinary to find money after its been blown. a a a This French candidate for mayor of Rheims who is abusing Uncle Sam during his campaign must have heard how Mayor Thompson won out by abusing King George. a tt a Wisconsin Republicans arc seeking a tamo elephant to use in their celebration of the party's birth, but ■ve respectfully submit, that a wild elephant would be more typical of Wisconsin’s Republicanism. tt Q tj Peggy Joyce is returning from Paris and expects to do quite a little marrying this summer. rt tt tt A California bridge collapsed thirty years after President, Hoover, then a student in Stanford university. condemned it. One shudders to think what might have happened, but for Mr. Hoover's timely warning. t> xt i. John Bull laughs as over in India the Hindus and the Moslems reopen their religious riots, just as Wall Street holds it sides whenever our people forget everything else and go to the mat over religion. a a a Tire biggest fish the President caught on his last trip weighed only a pound and a half and you'd think this would be a great disappointment, as an achievement after hav'ng carried Texas.

a DAY: (b iTiHeP

U. S. TATICEL POST —May 2 TODAY is the anniversary of Hie start of parcel post in the United States. It is difficult to realize that this v ?st and complicated system was begun just 17 years ago today, and the only in an experimental way. On May 2, 1912, an appropriation bill was passed providing $750,000 for a survey of the problem. Parcel post packages were not accepted in the mails until the first of the following year. Parcel post : not, however, a modern thing. The ancient Egyptians. Assyrians and Persians bad a similar system worked out to a highly efficient degree. A document w ritten in 270 B. C, and found in the Nile valley, affords an interesting glimpse of the post offices of the ancients. Careful notes were kept of the day and hour of each messenger's arrival and of the number of packages he carried. Service was restricted, however, to kings and state officials. Marco Polo wrote, too. of a highly developed postal system in China from the earliest ages, which included the handling of packages. DAILY’ THOUGHT Asa roaring lion, and a raging bear: so is a wicked ruler over (he poor people.—Prov. 2s: 15. a a a HE who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire— Alcott.