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Respect for Courts “Thev’ll try to dodge the constitutionality a* sure I'm hitting on the bench.” This refers to the judges of the supreme court of Indiana. It is the statement ot a judg< of a Marion county court. It refers to a matter of great public importance, the city manager form of government. The implications of this statement are such that it is difficult to understand how the judges of the high court can overlook this comment from a so-called inferior court, if such there he. Unless the ordinary interpretation of words is disregarded, the statement charges that the judges of the supreme court will attempt to leave the one big question for the people of Indianapolis in a state of legal uncertainty: that • hey will trv. and that is the word, to shirk the responsildlity of deriding this important question. . , In these da.'- when there is an almost universal plea for more respect for courts and the judiciary, the statement brings an inevitable shock. For it is one judge speaking of other iudges. Tim tradition of omniscience is rudely swept aside. No longer do we have a picture of stern, unimpassioned justice, hut of h shrinking, hesitating, cowardly maiden—if not, worse—who looks for some excuse from giving a positive answer to a demanding litigant. . , Os course, the history of litigation in the citv manager cases is such as to gi'e some tea son for a judge to voice from the bench what the man on the street has often declared in whispers, lest his own voice might bring the wrath of the ermined jovians. h will be. remembered that for a few brief hours the people of this city and ot the state believed that the law had been declared constitutional. Three of the five judges had concurred in the declaration that because of the grave public importance of a mooted question it would decide the matter, or lat least, write such a precedent into a decision that no one would be encouraged to again question the right of the people to rule themselves. But it was only tor a few hours. In the morning one of the judges, oy deftly eliminating the letter “s” from the notation on the decision, withdrew his concurrence in s-uen a declaration. And now a judge ot a local court chaigcs, most deliberately and in words, that the judges ill try to avoid giving a direct answer to this question. Asa matter of common knowledge, the attack on the city manager law comes from the political machine which has been most powerful i n the past, but which is now apparently cracking from within and is faced with destruction from without, it does not like the change which the people have adopted. But that phase of the matter is not important, unless some more adventurous soul than has now appeared links this lact with the declaration of the loeal judge, who declares that the judges will try to avoid the task ot deciding upon the constitutionality of the law. Respect for courts is a great thing. It must be had. Unless the people believe that, these courts are courageous enough and industrious enough and wise enough to decide any question, there can be no such confidence as is necessary for orderly government. Faced by this charge, made bv * a judge, it might add to public confidence if the accused court, for the words amount to an accusation,: would assure the people that they really will never try to dodge any question which is properly submitted. That much, at least, seems reasonable —even if the question is never decided. The Danger in Speculation Fresh warning oi the danger of excessive speculation in the stock market is contained in a survey on money and credit, prepared by W. Randolph Burcess. federal reserve agent of New York, and O. M. Sprague of Harvard. Particular importance attaches to their study. It was prepared for the committee on recent "conomic changes, of which President Hoover is chairman. The committee is a continuation of the unemployment conference of 1921-22 and the President is said to have kept in touch with the preparation of the report. The demand for loans "that seems almost ’ without limit" and which is not checked by advances in interest rates "cannot fail to affect unfavorably the development and functioning of the New York money market as a great and reasonably stable national an., world financial center, says the report. And this significant observation is made: "The possibilities of effectually restraining intense speculative activity through sharp and even drastic action have not been tested." There is nothing to indicate that the reserve board contemplates any further steps at this time in its' attempt to check speculation. The committee s view seems to be, however, that the board has the authority and the means to act if it becomes necessary. The report is an important contribution to the controversy that has developed over the speculative situation and the policies of the reserve board. It is, in effect, an answer to the group which has argued that the board should have kept hands off. The views of this group were illustrated in the speech last week of E. H. H. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange, who assailed the board, and in effect advocated unrestrained speculation. Simmons speech was applauded warmly in some

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quarters, but will have little support in Washington or among the bankers and business men to whom the absorption of credit by the stock market has been a matter of growing concern. His suggestion that brokers' loans be rediscounted by the federal reserve system was inopportune. An express stipulation against this is contained in the reserve act. With congress already apprehensive over the speculative orgy, legislation to deprive the market of credit is more likely than legislation designed to make it more abundant. And, as a matter of fact, such provision would not affect the situation greatly, except to remove brokers' iorns from the outlaw class and recognize them as legitimate credit. Banks already have j six times as much paper eligible for rediscount as they use. Simmons’ assertion that speculation lists not approached gambling is little short of ludicrous. The answer to the contention that the stock market has complete ability to correct its own mistakes is that the stock market has not corrected them. Anything that affects the credit structure of the country is a matter of concern to the reserve board, whether it is stock market l oans or loans of any other kind. The board found it necessary to put on the brakes. Opposition and defiance and a determination to nullify the board's action only will result in more determined efforts to keep the situation in hand. An Embargo on Idea3 In addition to its other iniquities, the pending tariff bill contains provisions which might enable the customs officials to bar all publications from abroad expressing doctrines not approved by them. Publications urging "treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon the President,” are classified with ‘ obscene and immoral” books and drawings, and are to be seized and destroyed. The mischief is in the possible construction to be placed upon the wording by the censors. This is shown by the house committee report, which described the amendment" only as one against “seditious or anarchistic” literature. Under the well-known governmental custom of searching committee hearings and reports for a clue as to what congress wanted, customs officials might think themselves justified in barring any foreign literature containing anything even approaching the writings of the one who said, "Do unto others as ye would have others do unto you..” This approaches anarchy, since philosophical anarchists hold that all laws are bad and mankind should throw them away and depend upon the Golden Ruie. Even the mildly socialistic writings of such men as H. G. Wells, which picture as the ideal commonwealth one removed about as far as possible from the present United States of America, might be barred. What the customs officials might feel themselves empowered to do is shown by their proceedings under the obscenity statute already in the law. On the proscribed list is a long series of world classics. There isn’t a doubt that if they thought it would be tolerated, the customs men could bar the Bible and Shakespeare’s works from importation under the same clause. The power to ban ideas is too much power to give any federal employe. The new provision should be stricken from the bill.

Part of the fleet arrived in New York the other day. We haveri’t seen any mention of the vessels yet being fired on by the coast guard. Representative Rainey of Illinois 6aid the new house tariff bill would cost, the farmers of the country $400,000,000. And that, you'll have to admit, is relieving the farmers with a vengeance. — -David Dietz on Science - —— Clouds Are Classified —— No. 353 *— ii,, - STARS and constellations were given names in the early days of civilization. Star names have come down to us through ths early Babylonians and Egyptians, through the Greeks, Romans and Arabs.

The strange shapes which individual clouds assume has-been the subject of much comment. Shakespeare wrote: Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion. A towered citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, a blue promonotory. With trees upon't that nod unto the world And mock our with air. That which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns and makes it indistinct As water is in water. No attempt to classify the clouds was made until 1801. when a scheme was suggested by the FYench naturalist Lamarck. It did not receive much attention. however, because the names suggested were of local significance and conseo.uently almost unintelligible in other countries. The next suggestion was made two years later, in 1803. by the English naturalist. Luke Howard. Howard suggested Latin names and as a result his classification met with favor and was widely used for more than a century. In 1910 the international meteorological committee, in order to insure uniformity of meaning in meteorological reports and articles, adopted an official terminology for clouds. This was further perfected in a publication called Cloud Forms.' published by the British meteorological office in 1921. This latest classification, like that of 1910. follows the general lines of Howard's. It classifies clouds on the basis of their appearance. This is felt to be the most natural convenient type of classification. Clouds cannot be classified easily as to origin, because the same type of cloud may form in a variety of ways and it is not always possible to be sure of the origin of a particular cloud.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: People Would Not Be So \ Anxious to Take the Law in Their Own Hands if They Felt They Could Depend on the Law. ! LLOYDS in London has just paid $43 for the loss of a toy ; steamship. ] The toy steamship belonged to Richard Levy, 14-year-oid son of a Cricklewood doctor and turned | turtle in the round pond and i Kensington Gardens. Being a thrifty lad, Richard had | taken out a policy with Lloyd’s. | When the disaster was reported, Lloyd’s sent a salvage expert to view the scene of disaster, and on | receiving his report that the ship was a total loss, paid in full. : Stories like that go far to renew ! one’s faith. Ic is pleasant to think that one of (the greatest corporations on earth can mid time to deal seriously and squarely with children. It’ helps to level things out, to overcome the artificial barriers which society and business tend to create, and to re-establish those human bonds which no man is too small to appreciate, or too big to need. a e a Burning Liquor Issue THE story goes that a house containing pigs once was burned in China. Whereupon the neighbors found themselves feeding bountifully and unexpectedly on roast pork. “If once why not often,” reasoned a bright young man, and set forth i to fire and burn all the house con- | taining pigs he could find. I It goes without saying that the | neighbors eventually decided that roast pork was not worth such a price. j It looks as though we Americans j very shortly will be called upon to I decide whether prohibition is. A Wisconsin judge sets-aside the ! conviction of a constable for arson ! on the ground that it is not a crime ! to burn a shack where "moonshine” j Is being made. “While the officer perhaps had no 1 right to set fire to the shack,” he ! says, “and should not have done so, | yet this building being part of a site i for the manufacture of moonshine, | there was no property right in it, ; hence the offense charged against j him was not committed.” j A novel interpretation of the law, : to say the least, and one that would ! have some far-reaching conseI quences, if generally applied, ja a a Courage on the Bench IT is not contempt of court to admire some judges more than S others. In happy contrast to this | Wisconsin minos, there is Judge ! Bailey of West Virginia, who re- | signed from the bench rather than | sentence a man to death whom he | believed had been convicted on perjured testimony. The man is Clyde Beale, charged with the murder of Mrs. Crissie Purdue, three years ago. Judge Bailey presided at the trial which was held two years ago. After the verdict of guilty had been returned and before sentence i had been passed, Judge Bailey be- : came convinced that some of the evidence was false, and when the time came to pass sentence, he gave Beale life imprisonment instead of death, as the verdict called for. The prosecuting attorney took the case to the supreme court and the | supreme court ordered Judge Bailey to pronounce the death sentence. Rather than do this. Judge Bailey resigned, and another judge pronounced the sentence. Since that time, the argument as to the justice of Beale’s sentence has raged furiously throughout West Virginia, with his mother leadi ing the fight, in his behalf. On Saturday, Governor Conley commuted his sentence to life imI prisonment just before the execution | was scheduled to take place. ft it a

Violence Everywhere WE become quite as fractious over our virtues as our vices. If there is violence on the part of the lawless, there also is violence on the part of some of those who claim to be law abiding. Neither is violence confined to the realm of prohibition. One can glance at the news hardly any day without being appalled at the complacency with which people injure or even slay each other. One man’s house and another man’s barn are burned in connection with the labor troubles in Elizabethton, Tenn.. while two men are warned that “if they entey the Bemberg plant to work, they had better bid their children good-by.” tt tt tt Red Tape—Worry PEOPLE would not be so anxious to take the law in their own hands, if they felt they could depend on the law. We have more courts, more attorneys. more judges, more penal officers and more of everything supposed to go with the administration of justice than we ever had before. but we are getting less of the real product. Foor people are being worn out with the expense and delay. Those who have the means to keep the mill grinding, can generally win whether right or not. The great mechanism of red tape and technicality we have contrived appears to accomplish nothing more distinctly than discourage people who need its help most.

It is rathe r strange that these early excellent observers never named the clouds. Os course, the stars are constant, w h i 1 e clouds always are forming and dissolving. it. seems surprising, however. that, they did not record the fact, that clouds could be classified into certain general types.

Daily Thought

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.—Eccl. 1:9. tt tt tt Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their places, but believe not that man changes his nature.—Mohammed.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. L 1 ONG before the establishment of the modern science of pharmacology with a knowledge of the specific actions of various drugs, old women picked herbs in the fields for the relief of human ailments and doctors developed combinations of remedies for the attack on disease, j In the middle ages the healers developed a prescription called “theriac.” This was a shotgun remedy supposed to aid every possible disorder. Some of the theriacs had hundreds of ingredients, including the by-products of many animals, reptiles and human beings. Obviously, these preparations wer£ nauseating as to odor, impossible as to taste, and indeed not infrequently terrible in color. The whole idea behind the use of medicine that was so foul was

WHAT are you going to do if you love your mother? For that matter what are you going to do if you hate her? The boys with the news psychology will get you if you don’t watch out. They’ll probably get you anyhow. Os course, at this late date in the Age of Freud I do not need to point out what happens to men who love their mothers—spots before the eyes, sudden giddiness, and even discomfort after meals. Naturally their hair falls out. Not even a painter of the acid courage of Whistler would dare to- ! day to paint a portrait of his mother or, if he did. his obligation would be to blacken at least one eye and make the nose a flaming scarlet. It seems to me mat all the adIvanced young men have gone too I far. No man need accept the modern rule and hate his mother. To me there is nothing necessarily neurotic and hamby pamby in the individual who says: ‘T think my mater when in good health and sober has her moments.” aaa Protest Too Much TPO write as many have done in ■*- novels and in plays as if maternal affection was only slightly less painful and fatal than a hanging is to betray spurious emotion. The Freudians wall get such fellows on the rebound. No man is free from fixations when he has a tendency to tantrums. And any one tells you, "frankly I dislike my mother,” put him down as one not yet free from the rope burns of the silver cord. I am all for much more calmness concerning mothers. The day set aside by the florists and confectioners at a holiday of adulation does not appeal to me. -but even if one neglects to proffer candy he need not send bombs. I would not deny that I have known men who suffered in body and in soul from a surplus of maternal affection and interference, but I think that modern thought does not quite make reasonable allow-

people are just as capaI able of being guided and inspired in their thought about sex emotion as in their taste and ideals in literature and ethics, and just as they imperatively need to have their general taste and ideals cultivated in preparing for mature life, so they need to have some understanding of the marvelous place which sex emotion has in life.”— Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, author of "The Sex Side of Life.” aaa “Five years ago such expressions as stock split-ups, rights, convertible issues, odd lots, rediscount rates and brokers’ loans would have been just so much Greek in homes where

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the belief that the spirit of the disease could not exist in the same human being with the medicine. One is reminded of the fact that the invasion of a residence by the little black and white striped animal so obnoxious to human beings almost invariably is followed promptly by the departure of all human beings. The next step in the concoction of strong medicines was to put in a considerable dosage of alcohol. This invariably had a kick —a kick that could be felt within a few minutes and which made the individual believe that something definite was being done for him. The taking of such medicines gave a feeling of warmth and of stimulation which, no doubt, aroused confidence in the patient and helped considerably in controlling his disorder. Nevertheless, these remedies were not specific in any sense of the word, since the taking of alcohol has not

ances for the extreme difficulties of the situation. Being a mother is just about the last job in the world which I would choose to take. Id as soon be a city editor. Shower attention on the infant and he becomes dependent on his parent and grows up with an inferiority complex. Neglect him and he loses satisfaction and grows up with an inferiority complex. That makes decision difficult. tt tt tt Scare Leaves Scar MOREOVER, a parent can t go around forever saying to himself: “Just what effect will my words have on this young one twenty years from now? Still, some of the standards devices for curbing the exuberance of infants are probably harmful. If you’re not a good little boy I’ll take you out and give you to the great big policeman.” Doubtless this has been said in millions of homes and the scar of the scare is with us yet. The curious thing is that people threatened with the policeman bogey do not all behave similarly in later life. Some grow up with a terrific respect for authority. It is possible to find poor psychic cripples who. go about the world saying ’yes, sir” to assistant managing editors and to the vice-presi-dents of small national banks. But it isn’t always that way. In the spring of year there will be somewhere along the Atlantic seaboard a collegiate riot in which certain students will steal the clubs and the helmets, too. of the policemen sent against them. Analyze the wild fury in the most savage student and without much doubt you will find a young man whose nurse or old black mammy threatened to ship him to a policeman when he whimpered. But this particular individual did not grow up with any marked respect for authority. Instead of being afraid that cops would get him, he made it his business to get the cops. The process is known as overcompensation and on the whole it is delightful.

I they now are topics of dinner-table ! conyersation.”—William O. Scroggs, financial writer. (Outlook.) aaa “Crime in one sense is a revolt of i a certain class of young fellows i against conditions.”—Henry Ford. tt tt tt “If a law is wrong, its rigid en- ■ forcement is the surest guarantee of its repeal.”—President Hoover. a a a "It is not graceful to refer to episodes in political history that are ! not nice and complimentary.”— j Mayor James Walker of Ned York ‘ City.

been found of specific virtue in the control of any disease. Modern scientific medicine therefore administers its drugs not infrequently in small tablets or in capsules or in pleasing tasting mixtures wuthout odor, for the simple reason that the remedy is given to produce a definite physical effect and not primarily for the mental effect. A drug such as digitalis invariably slows the heart and strengthens its beat; antiphyretics, such as phenacetin and aspirin, lower the fever; the analgesics, like pyramidon and acetanilid, stop pain; the sedatives, like the bromides and barbituric acid substances, make people less stimulated and encourage sleep; the anesthetics, like ether, chloroform and ethylene make people unconscious. These scientifically established remedies, which do not depend on odor or taste or quality, have actual effects.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

Lunch for Rover ONCE when I was small and finicky in feeding, they took the lunch w'ith which I coyly toyed and gave it to a black water spaniel. Rover was his name. The whole thing comes back to me as if it were yesterday. Unfortunately, the incident has marred my life to a considerable degree. Now when I dine at any house where dogs beg about the table, there is always danger of a situation. If my host or hostess happens to hand down so much as a partridge wing to the poor pets a sudden and uncontrollable wave of anger surges over me. It is the memory of that ancient incident. My unconscious mind whispers to me: “They are going to take your dinner and give it to the dog.” It was actually lunch w r hich Rover got. but things do become a little twisted in the unconscious. So in a fit of buried rage and fear, I lash out with both feet. With my right foot I kick the host and with my left the hostess, At times this is resented and there are houses to which I am asked never to return. However, they occasionally take the gesture to mean, “Why not a highball?” and so my complex has its compensations. I want to contend that the pres-ent-day realists have put too much emphasis on the tribulations of children w'ho are coddled, frustrated, stifled and misunderstood by their parents. Is nobody ever any more going to pay tribute to the amount of stifling a woman must endure in raising a child? Any mother who takes care of an infant for ten or fifteen years without throwing him in the pond deseYves a monument or a medal. (Copyright. 1923. bv The Timesl

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.MAY 13, 1920

REASON By Frederick Landis The Way to Appreciate Lindy’s Good Sense Is to Think of What Curtis and Mrs. Gann Have Done to Us Since March l. THE publication of the dispute between the European commanders on the one side and Gen. Pershing on the other as to how the American troops were to fight proves that Woodrow Wilson made no mistake in selecting his com-mander-in-chief. In addition to the other advantages of an independent American command. Pershing knew that the moral effect, of victory won by the Yanks alone would overwhelm Germany, a thing the hard-pressed allies could not be expected to realize. a a a There was much criticism of Wilson because he did not, send General Wood to command the American forces in France, but Wood was not qualified. He was not a West Pointer, nor had he fitted himself by study. But Wilson did make a mistake in not Jetting Roosevelt have a minor command, for while he was not qualified to lead a division,’the moral effect of his presence in Europe would have been worth an enormous amount to the' allied cause. tt a a IF a man who steals a loaf of bread is sent up for a year, a motion picture actor who cheats on his income tax return should serve several centuries. aaa If hypocritical members of congress can vote the rest of us dry, then insist on “freedom of the port” to bring liquor into the United States, the juries of the country will begin to grant common defendants ’’freedom of the cellar.” aaa The way to appreciate the wonderful sense Lindbergh has shown the last year or so is to think of what Vice-President Curtis and his sister. Mrs. Gann, have done to us since March 4. tt tt tt The birthday of General Grant, May 6. was celebrated very little throughout the country, due in large degree to the fact that Grant permitted himself to be drawn ino politics, for which he had no taste and no ability. But he was a great general, a chivalric victor and as unassuming as a private soldier. aaa CZECHOSLOVAKIA and Luxebmourg are having a bitter wrangle over the possession of the bones of King John of Bohemia, who fell 600 years ago while fighting in the battle of Crccy. You wouldn’t think anybody would get so excited about such an old model. aaa You will observe that Japan is giving up her control of the Shantung peninsula and handing it over to the Chinese. In international relations, nothing succeeds like showing the world that you can swing a club. aaa Pitcher Hubbell of the New York Giants joins the select circle of those who ■ have pitched no-hit games, all of which is the merest luck. At. least a dozen drives were made off Hubbell, which would have gone for extra bases but for the superb fielding of the players behind him.

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JAMESTOWN FOUNDED MAY 13

r 'j''ODAY is the anniversary of the A founding of the first permanent English colony in America—Jamestown, Virginia, in TBO7. The party of colonists who founded it was ill-suited to the ta.sk, and only the miracle of John Smith saved Jamestown from the fury of the Indians during its first few years. Os the 105 persons who disembarked there 322 years ago today, only twelve were laborers and a few mechanics. The rest were gentlemen who expected to find great stores of gold laying about. The expedition was in charge of Christopher Newport. John Smith, at she beginning, was an inconspicuous members ot the party. It was only after the stern fight, which they would have to make against the wilderness became apparent that the colonists accepted the domineering leadership of John Smith. Much of the history of the color-' which Smith has left us is now believed to be exaggerated, particularly those parts in which he tells of his own exploits, including his narrow escape from death at the hands of the Indians through the intercession of Pocahontas.