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Look Beyond the Labels During the coming mouths the citizens ol Indianapolis will do well if they carefully scrutinize various efforts and movements that are being launched, all bearing the label of “good government. ! * The machine which has ruled this city in other days and understands just how profitable power i'an be does not intend to relinquish the perquisites without a battle. There is still a faint hope that a decision by the supreme court will prevent the people from putting into operation the city manager form of government. That hope is very faint. Too jnany good lawyers have declared that the people have this right for the bosses to hope for any relief from that source. The old trick was to divide the people along parlv lines, appeal to party loyalty, fight the battles of the war between the states over again, cal! upon sacred memories to hide the infamies of the present time. That trick has always worked, ft was one of the evils that the people of this city voted to banish when they adopted the city manager forni of government under which the candidates for office will not be listed by political parties. .The people know that the politics of city government should have no connection with national issues. There is never but one municipal issue. That is the fight between those who want honesty, efficiency, decency, and those who want graft, patronage, power and pillage. So it becomes necessary for the bosses to divide the people nn other lines, if they intend to win. They are now’ busy forming clubs with high sounding names and perfectly good platforms. They hope to creat, dissensions and foment small movements that will permit the machine to elect its candidates. They know that their only chance is to have as many different factions as possible in the field. They will have but one slate and one ticket. The problem was increased w’hen the preferential ballot was eliminated. That would have made it impossible for the machine to win. If you are invited to .join good government clubs, it may be well to investigate the founders of the club. Some of them may be real. There are others which bear the Coffin earmarks. His henchmen and agents are masquerading as civic leaders, but the mark of Coffin remains. They will still be his men if they succeed in getting into office. In these days, it does not pay to accept labels. There are too many politicians who try to put a pre-war brand on their politics when in reality they are peddling the worst of moonshine. If you want to be really safe, demand to know what stand the new evangelists took when the issue of City Manager was before the people. It is very necessary that the new’ form of government be in the hands of its friends, not its enemies.

Away From Democracy Dangers to democratic government have developed From three directions in the Washington fight over tariff and farm relief. Altogether apart from the tnerits or demerits of subsidy by high protection and debenture as such, these contested issues are revealing official tendencies to depart from orderly processes bf representative government. Republican leaders in the house contemplate refusing to receive the farm relief debenture bill passed by the senate, 54 to 33. They are certain they can defeat the senate bill in an open fight, thanks to the president s vigorous opposition to it. But they do not want to be embarrassed by voting ton it and do not want to run the risk of its weakening the tariff measure. Therefore they propose to keep the senate bill out of the house altogether, by the simple expedient of calling it “revenue legislation,” which constitutionally must originate in the house. This plan is plain legislative trickery, an evasion tof constitutional duty. It probably will fail, perhaps even before the leaders commit themselves to it officially. Similarly, the house leaders planned to prevent debate on the high tariff bill by imposing a gag rule. Fortunately the plan caused such a furore, it is being abandoned partly as apt to hurt more than help the bill. But here was a case of legislative dictators willing virtually to disfranchise the millions of American citizens and their congressional spokesmen opposed to the bill. The third danger is different in kind. It pertains to Mr. Hoover's action Tuesday in raising the duties on window glass, flaxseed, milk and cream. We are not at the moment concerned with the Justice or injustice of these four specific increases. Nor do we question the legal rights or the motive of the President in so acting. But we seriously question the value of the flexible provision of the tariff law which gives the President this power to change rates up to 50 per cent. It has failed In seven years of experiment, it has operated. in fact, to boost many rates and lower but few. It has made the tariff commission subservient to the President. It has transferred an important legislative function of congress to the President, an administrative official. And it has failed to produce in practice any virtues to compensate for such serious departure from the American form of government. The full absurdity of the flexible provision is revealed by the present situation. Here is the President, acting legally under that provision and on recommendation of a majority of the tariff commission.

fixing the rate on four of the worst disputed schedules in the whole tariff range. And all the while congress—the body constitutionally empowered with this responsibility—is not only in session, but actually in the midst of framing a general tariff law including those four schedules. It might be that most citizens much rather would trust Herbert Hoover as an individual than this congress to frame a scientific tariff law. But that is quite beside the point. This continuous concentration of greater and greater power in the presidency, of which this tariffmaking prerogative is only one example, is a negation of our plan of government. It tends to destroy one of the basic safeguards of government by the people. No good can come of it. Prosperous America The report of the Hoover committee on recent economic changes regards the policy of high wages and low production costs as an ‘'enlightened industrial practice,” responsible in large measure for American prosperity that is "splendid beyond all human experience.” The committee records a definite change in the philosophy of industrial leaders. In the early post-war period, the report recalls, many employers were demanding that wages be brought back to pre-war levels, saying "business could not settle down” until this had been accomplished. Labor naturally opposed wage cuts. Then, it was observed that continuance of high wages released purchasing desires which had been held back during the war, and current earnings and accumulated savings "were poured into the channels of commerce.” Industrial leaders were quick to see the significance. “They began consciously to propound the principle of high wages and low "costs as a policy of enlightened industrial practice,” says the report. “This principle since has attracted the attention of economists all over the world—its application on a broad scale Is so novel as to napress the committee as a fundamental development.” The committee, appointed sixteen months ago, was an outgrowth of the President’s unemployment conference of 1921-1922. Herbert Hoover has been its chairman apd signs the present report. The period under review is described as one of unprecedented prosperity. “We seem only to have touched the fringe of our potentialities.” We must, however, “maintain our economic equilibrium” if we are to keep what we have, and progress. Goods produced, and production per man, have increased vastly through wider use of power, development of machines, and other factors. Wages, actual and real, have advanced. The working day is shorter. The committee believes one of the marked characteristics of the period has been the extent to which the people as a whole have prospered. The employes’ share in the "national dividend” has increased. Another economist finds that the era has brought “good times to our people, though by no means to all.” Particular attention is called to the displacement of men by machines, contributing largely to unemployment. This is a serious aspect of the problem of unemployment, says the report, to which continuing attention must be paid if hardship and uncertainty in the lives of the workers are to be forestalled. When President and Mrs. Hoover entertain for the cabinet members this fall, why not invite Mrs. Gann, Mrs. Longworth and all the other warring factions to a nice buffet lunch? There are lots of girls who would go through anything for a man, including his bank account. Don't conclude that Wall Street is crooked just because some of the brokers seem to be following their natural bent.

David Dietz on Science Mackerel Sky, Rain

No- 356 EVERY ONE is familiar with the expression, “a mackerel sky.” The clouds which form it are known technically as cirro-cumulus- This is the third type of cloud in the official list. The first, it will be rememberted, was the cirrus, the/ thin wisps at high altitude, known popularly as “mares’ tails.” The second was the cirro-stratus, a

CIRRO-CUMULUS' CLOUDS

slight shadow; arranged in groups and often in lines. French, ‘Moutons.’ German, •Schafchen-wolken.’ ” The English name, “Mackerel sky.” is an abbreviation of "Mackerel back sky.” The name arose from the resemblance of the clouds to the pattern, not the scales, w'hich is to be found on the backs of certain kinds of mackerel. The 'fact that the cirro-cumulus cloud casts no shadow or only a faint shadow is proof that the cloud is thin and contains very little material. The form of the cirro-cumulus clouds seem to be the result of local air currents or convections. Those occurring in rows are believed to go on the crests of air waves or billows which exist at the meeting places of wind layers of different speeds or directions. „ We already have pointed out that when cirrus clouds gradually merge into cirro-stratus, it is usually a sign that rain is on its way. A “mackerel skv” is also a sign that rain can be expected. If the sky is covered with cirro-cumulus clouds, rain may be expected within twenty-four hours. An old weather proverb says: “Mackerel scales and mares’ tails Make lofty ships carry low sails.” This weather proverb—like many, but not all—is reasonably correct, being the result of pretty good observations of the weather. Meanwhile, make sure that you know the three types of clouds which have been described so farYou will have no trouble in remembering the various types of clouds if you learn them one by one as they are described. You will find that the knowledge both increases your interest in the beauty of nature and your ability as an amateur weather forecaster-

M.E. Tracy SAYS:

There Is No Greater Difference Between Our Ideas and Those of the Existing System of Government in Russia Than the War Between Our Ideas and Czarism. THE sixty-year old quarrel between the pope and the Italian government has been brought to an end by a concordat; the ten-year attempt of Soviet Russia to detroy religion through repressive measure virtually has been abandoned, and the three-year deadlock between church and state in Mexico seems likely to be adjusted. Three hundred, or even one hundred years ago, each of the three controversies would have led to war. Though many people may remain fanatical in their religious beliefs, a liberal spirit has made sufficient headway throughout the civilized world to prevent such strife and bloodshed as once characterized their zeal. We have made progress in learning to adjust difference, even if we can not overcome them. That, after all, is a real triumph, and about the only one that justifies modern civilization. The difference between the world of today and the world of two thousand years ago is not to be found in fewer disagreements, but in the ability to tolerate them. Time was, when people thought it was impossible to get along in peace with those who held divergent view's, especially in religion and politics. After many centuries of futile quarreling, we have discovered that it is. tt tt u Prohibition in Mexico PRESIDENT GIL of Mexico is one person who refuses to be dismayed by the failure of prohibition in this country. While he does not propose to go as far as we have in attempting to eliminate the liquor evil, the various measures he suggests sound very much like those being advocated in this country twenty-five or thirty years ago. With an “anti-alcoholic commit* tee” to formulate and carry out the program, President Gil expects to adopt the following measures: Prohibition of the sale of liquor, except in duly authorized places. Limitation of the number of such places. Forbidding the establishment of such places close to schools, factories, barracks and industrial plants. Permitting the consumption of only light wine and beer in such places. Providing for the sale of strong liquor in bottles. Forbidding the sale of all alcoholic liquors to women and children. Revocation of licenses with a high alcoholic content, and drastic restrictions on their importation. a a a Russia and Business BUSINESS is business. Regardless of how they may feel toward Russia from a political standpoint, American merchants and manufacturers are anxious to trade with her. About all they ask is a reasonable assurance that they will get their money. This summer a group of them will visit Russia under the auspices of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, which should do both countries good. It is time that we thought of Russia in some other light than that of politics. There is no greater difference between our ideas and those of the existing system of government in Russia than there was between our ideas and those of czarism. The trouble is that we are letting the difference interfere with ordinary relations now, when we had sense enough not to let it interfere with them in former times, a tt tt Irrigation for Egypt EGYPT has set aside $32KK)0,000 for the construction of a great dam and irrigation works in the Sudan, which means the application f modern engineering skill to an old problem. For thousands of years, Egypt has prospered because of the Nile. Each year the Nile overflowed the land, not only wetting it to a point of saturation, but fertilizing it with a thin layer of salt. The difficulty was that the whole population had to move to high ground when the flood made its appearance, and then move back to plant and harvest the crops. Irrigation, as made possible by the dams and canals which we moderns have learned to build, will afford all the advantage without any of the old-time inconvenience.

thin sheet of whitish cloud, sometimes appearing like a tangled web and sometimes covering the whole sky, giving it a milky appearance. “Cloud Forms,” official publication of the British Meteorological office, describes the cirrocumulus as follows: “Mackerel sky— Small rounded masses of white flakes without shadow, or showing

“/CONSULTATION with a view' to V/ the prevention of war will protect American interests more effectively than belated efforts to protect these interetss after w'ar breaks out.”—Reymond Leslie Buel (New Republic). a a a “Larger theaters and lower prices appeal to me as the only solution to the present problem of attracting the public.”—Sir Alfred Butt, British producer. a a a “What is needed in the textile centers of the south is the exercise of a little common sense- The strike at Elizabethton could be settled in five minutes if some fair and reas-onable-minded men sat down around the table.”—William Green, president American Federation of Labor. a a a “The movement of industry’ among the areas of the country has tended definitely toward more equal distribution of manufacturing. The rapid industrial growth of the south and the decline of New England and the middle Atlantic states illustrate this tendency.”—Professor Willard L. Throp, Amherst. a a a “Without harboring any undue fear, the children of tubercular par-

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Quotations of Notables

Smallpox Is Preventable Disease

BY DR. .MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygein, the Health Magazine. rN the middle ages the most dread disease for mankind in general was smallpox. So common was the condition, that the unusual person in the community was the one without the pits and marks of smallpox upon his face. Today the person who carries about such scars is a monument to the ignorance and stupidity of his parents who refused to permit him to be vaccinated. Smallpox is a preventable disease. Since the work of Edward Jenner, it has been definitely established that vaccination confers protection in the vast majority of cases. Essentially, vaccination is a means of giving the person a mild attack of the disorder. An observation made by a dairymaid to Edward Jenner, namely, that she could not get smallpox because she had

IT SEEMS TO ME “.ST

TfT'ROM sermons and editorials and I interviews, I gather that there is a growing body of opinion which holds that marriage in America is suffering from an excess of freedom. And it is said that young people are taking this grave step much too lightly. I dissent in my diagnosis. Marriage still is marred chiefly by those who take it too seriously. There is small hope of happiness for any young man and woman who gaze at each other mournfully and say before they embark upon the adventure: “This is a terrible responsibility.” Mind you, I am making happiness my tost for the success or failure of any given marriage. Communities grow enthusiastically sentimental every now and then about some dear old couple who are about to celebrate a golden wedding. I do not think that there should be public dancing in the streets over the anniversary unless the dear old lady and the dear old man have achieved something more than a feat of infinite patience. I would as soon huzzah for flagpole sitters. tt tt tt Repentance T THINK a reckless gusto becomes -*• marriage. Romeo and Juliet, I should say, made a success of theirs, although they never did reach so much as a wooden wedding. Their only anniversary was moonlight, which is, to all spiritual intents, more weighty. It is my complaint that all too

ents alw'ays should observe certain precautions.”—Ruth Wadsworth, M. D. (Collier’s.) a a a “I have been advired that for a comparatively modest uim we can strip it (the State, War and Navy building) of its function to represent the different types of architecture known to man and bring it back to the sound classic lines of the treasury, as congress intended.” —President Herbert Hoover. a a a We have respect for Robert E. Lee, but when we read that a monument 350 feet high just has been erected to the memory of Jeff Davis down in Kentucky, we think of the garages which could have been made of the material.

Daily Thought

A fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man kcepth it in till afterwards.—Prov. 29:11, a a a WELL, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them usq their talents.—Shakespeare.

Some Chicken!

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. U

cowpox, was the reason for his undertaking to develop inoculation against the disease. Because man of the early middle ages did not have any idea as to how this disease might be spread from one person to another and because he feared the disease so greatly, he developed strange notions as to the power of the disease to strike in an unusual manner; hence the notion developed that small pox might come through the air. In the middle of the nineteenth century, after Pasteur had made his fundamental discovery, scientists began to doubt that disease could be transmitted by the air route. There was a time when it was thought that most of the infectious diseases could pass from man to man by this method. Nowadays it is generally recognized that few diseases are spread in this way, and there is even beginning to be some doubt that moist droplets expelled

many marriages are wooden from the altar onward. Not even the wisest in the world can tell how any marriage will end, but the beginning is within the fashioning of those who voyage. And so let them make the first stage of the journey without misgiving, good resolutions and heavy VOW'S. Vows, in particular, are heavy luggage and grow no lighter in the journey. A young man and a young woman are pretty sure to promise each other a number of things which never will be kept. No great harm is done by that. People of any shrewdness know that there are moments when men and women are ready to promise anything. , I do think it is monstrous that the community should sit in on the exchange of vows and be ready in later years to shake accusing fingers at the two who broke them. What they pledged each other should be secret. In so far as it is possible, the marriage should be concealed for at least the first year. Or even if it isn’t precisely secret, there is no reason why everybody for miles around should know' of it. tt tt tt Responsibilities AGAIN and again in “advice” columns, I find young husbands and wives informed that they must not do something or other because, “It will cause gossip among the neighbors.” Now there is no reason w r hy a man and woman should assume all these new and complex responsibilities to the whole community the instant they marry. I even think that the responsibility they assume* toward each other should be rigorously limited, j Marriage is not a miracle. Neither ; party is transformed by the ceremony and so there should be no expectation in any quarter that the lives of the two concerned will be radically different from their previous course. The man who enjoyed poker before he fell in love will discover, unless I am much mistaken, that the urge remains. - And if he swears off (poker I mean), he does a foolish thing. By so doing he makes his wife a stymie instead of an adored object. Marriage to be any good must not be allow'ed to become a symbol of duty. And it should stop short of complete communism. Let us consider this formula, A—the man, falls in love with B—the woman, and they get married. The result of the equation should remain A plus B and not AB. a a a Common Fallacy THIS is important. Before marriage A was very fond of three friends whom w'e shall call C, D and E. Marriage is not going to alter this fondness, but it by no means

from the nose and throat will carry with them the germs of disease, sufficient in number to affect other persons. In the interest of safety against tuberculosis, pneumonia and other diseases affecting the lungs particularly, it is best that people continue to cover up each cough and sneeze, however. When the telephone was invented, it constituted for the majority of mankind as great a mystery as did smallpox. Hence it was not at all strange that the ignorant should believe that disease could be transmitted by talking over the telephone wire. As long as there are people willing to believe in telepathy, in the evil eye, in witchcraft, and in charms of one type or another, there will be people willing to believe that disease is caused by the evil spirit that can fly by magic over vast distances to strike those who are not protected by the proper charms.

Ideals and opinions expressed in tbis 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.

follow's that B is going to like C, D and E simply because A does. This is one of the most common fallacies concerning marriage. The world in general holds that people who are in love with each other must necessarily be fond of the same things. It just isn’t so. The effort to act if it were so probably caused 19.825 per cent of the divorces granted in the states east of the Mississippi in the last fiscal yearIf, by any long chance, two people should discover soon after marriage that their interests were pre cisely the same they would do very well to try to invent some divergence in taste and inclinationMarriage cannot endure without a reasonable amount of dissonance. Personally, I believe that a wide scope should be allowed for the pursuit of individual interests. A husband really ought to have a few friends whom his wife hates. And she deserves the same privilege. This is practically the only way in which they can manage to be invited out separately. tt tt tt Cart Not Know All THERE can be perfect union only where there is perfect separateness. No two people can ever understand each other until they know that there are things w'hich they will never understand. A man will love a woman who know's him a little better than the rest of the w'orld does and sympathize with him twuce as much. The world, perhaps, misjudges and misunderstands him tw’O out of three times. And she, the adored one, comprehends him half the time. That is enough. It should not be much more. There should remain in the mind of every individual some little corner guarded by a great sign reading, “Keep Out—This Means You.” (Copyright. 1923, by The Times)

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MAT 16, 1929

REASON By Frederick Landis The Movie Folk Out in Hollywood Now Celebrate Their Golden Wedding After They Have Been married. Fifty Days. REMEMBERING that Harry Sinclair was able to operate on Uncle Sam and remove his Teapot Dome by administering a local anesthetic in the form of ex-Secretary Fall, one is not surprised to learn that the oil man has become such an indispensable aid to the surgeon of the District of Columbia Jail. u a Mrs. Lottie Brenner, rich widow of Chicago, gave her age as 46 when she was taken off the matrimonial what-not by this young German aviator a few days ago, but she first was married in 1887, which would make her just 4 years old when she first inhaled the orange blossoms. a a a We are glad this burglar didn't get away with the jewels of this Indiana girl who married Prince Vladimir Eristavi of Albania, for if he is anything like the rest of them, she will need her gems to meet the overhead of being a Balkan in-law. tt B tt After all, you can't blame Joe Robinson, minority leader in the senate, for not helping Mr. Hoover in the farm relief fight, when you remember the miles Robinson traveled, the speeches he made, and then the votes he got as a candidate for Vice-President. a a When you read Mr. Coolidge's overflowing tribute to insurance, on being made a director of the New York Life, you think what a wonderful go-getter he would have been had he started out as an agent, thirty years agoB a The recent eclipse of the sun was perfectly natural, for it’s enough to make the old boy hide his face to I look down on the 1929 bathing suits. a a a Even if Gene Markey, the author, did intend to marry Ina Claire, the motion picture actress, and even if he did lease an apartment for August, he need not mind a little thing like Ina's recent marriage to John Gilbert, the screen idol, for if it runs true to form, it will all be over and forgotten long before dog days. They celebrate golden weddings |in Hollywood after they’ve been ' married fifty days. a a a If we had our way about It, when these American women who have been presented to the queen of England return to the United States, we would compel them to be presented to Airs. Gann. a u tt The ordinary optimist weaves his philosophy into dreams to cushion the realities of life, but Thomas Babcock, 98-year-old resident of Iron Alountain, Mich., working four hours a day over his loom, weaves his philosophy into rugs and finds life beautiful. tt a tt Gold has been discovered in Utah, but don’t buy any of the stock the blue-sky artists will soon be bringing to "your door. One mine will yield a dozen corporations. a tt a General Calles will receive a great ovation when he returns to Mexico City from his victorious campaign against the rebels, but he will stand with his back to the wall while shaking hands. tt it a The robins have taken off their heavy underwear. Hr and Say Atm UaRSAkY I *f9 -gi. Wi A iff ttt’ itt PANAMA CANAL BONDS May 16 EIGHTEEN years ago today the United States treasury invited bids for $50,000,000 worth of bonds to complete construction of the Panama canal. Total cost of this gigantic work was approximately $355,000,000, but $113,000,000 of this was written off to national defense, since it represented the cost of military features which would not have been necessary to make the canal merely commercially valuable to the nation. The canal was opened for navigation Aug. 15, 1914. It is a little more than fifty miles long; the minimum depth of the channel is forty-one feet and in parts of Gatun lake is about eighty feet. A five-mile wide strip of land flanking the canal was purchased by the United States from Panama for $10,000,000 plus an annual rental of $250,000. Since opening of the canal, tolls have totaled almost $30,000,000. About three times as much cargo moves from the Pacific to the Atlantic as in the opposite direction. Sugar from Hawaii and oil from California account for this.