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A Free Press j; \ , < • ii;• of certain power inter, • t pureh-.w newspapers should serve !<> fin; in- /•■ the importance and the necessity for a free and independent press. Whether the power interests are foolish or wise in a' ■ inpiing to invest their money in established papers may he debateable. They might very easily defeat tlnir own purpose But the readiness to buy suggests that the great battle of modern industry is the control o' th*- power supply and especially that portion which can he developed through water. In this industrial age. control of the natural power resources means a control of all industry, with tb ability to levy tribute upon every factory and workshop fi means the control of counrle.-" millions of silent slaves that are inherent in the nirr-nl. .The methods used have a singular monotony. They show little imagination. In every -< the prize was some newspaper which enjoys great public confidence because of its long years of service to its readers. No paper with a reputation for being either supine or fearful or bribeable would serve the needs. The value of such newspapers lies in the confidence ol its readers. That is not gained tn a day or a month or a year. It is a matter of steady growth. It must be earned by a willingness to sacrifice profits to principle. Ii can he won only by fidelity to the cause of the great mass of people, not by service 10 some special interest seeking privilege. The protection of the public depends upon the exist nee of such newspapers, which aie free from any influence or private interest.> which can conflict with public interest. It depends upon the vision of its makers. It depends upon their .-haraeter and their loyalty to principle. The great mistakes of those who believe that public confidence can be bought and sold as could so much machinery is that although public respect is slowly gained, it can be quickly lost. When readers detect a deflection from the spirit which once animated the pages of a newspaper, they no longer trust it for information or for guidance. The history of journalism is tilled with examples of onee-great newspapers which have passed to oblivion because of desertion to principle. The decay happens when owners become so rich as lose their touch with men and women as human beings, when investments in other enterprises divide attention, when the cash register becomes more important than the editorial column. A really live press is one which has not secret allegiances or alliances. Those wii believe that the people can he fooled by def !y coated propaganda for privileged interests greatly underestimate the intelligence of this country. A nigbi rlub girl in a Quaker gown never fooled any <u ■ A speakeasy in an abandoned church " mild jtisi that and nothing more. But the people can understand just how grea' the power ot public opinion and how essential it seems to the great power interests by the simij, n! money that are apparently available to control it. , Watch tir sales of Indiana papers, and see what happens to them. All Out of Step But U. S Like 'nc lonely recruit in the army, all the rest of the world is out of step but the United States in its prohibition march. Within a week, three more foreign nations have indicated tha' they think our experiment proves prohibition is not the way to solve the liquor problem. That of course is not surprising, since no other nation anywhere has been encouraged to follow our example for lone. Switzerland, which generally is held up as a model for its democratic institutions, just has voted against prohibition We and our crime record under Volsteadism furnished one of the arguments to defeat the measure. In Great Britain all the political parties feel so strongly about the American experiment that the leaders of the conservative, liberal and labor parties have agreed in the general election campaign to ban all reference to prohibition. Mexico, with a serious liquor problem on its hands, has turned away from the failing American method to the temperance method. As President Gil explains: ‘'Our campaign against drunkenness will not involve punishments nor force. To do away with liquor, we shall not fill the jails. Our campaign is one of persuasion. We will carry to the humbler classes the conviction that hard drinks are harmful for them, for their families, and for the nation as well In enthusiastically supporting the temperance drive, the Mexican press points to the collapse of the opposite prohibition method elsewhere. “Prohibition, as understood and practiced in the United States, would only bring the same effects of disrespect for law and the same ineffectiveness," says tiie Mexican City Excelsior. "Prohibition serves only to add an inducement to the pleasure derived from drinking; such has been the case in all countries wbere prohibition has been given a trial.” adds El Informador. But it is not quite accurate to say that all the world is out of step except the United States. The

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.situation is worse than that. The fact is that the United States is not even in step with itself. The Wisconsin senate on Wednesday, in conformity with a popular referendum, passed by more than two to f ne the bill to take the state out of the prohibition enforcement business. New York. Nevada and Montana have repealed their enlorcement laws, and Maryland from the beginning has refused to enact an enforcement law. Prohibition is not so national after all. And it is apt to be less so, as data accumulates on the effects of prohibition. Today, for instance. Dr. William C. Garvin, superintendent of the New York State hospital at Binghamton reported to the American Psychiatric Association that the number of first patients admitted to New York hospitals for insanity from excessive use of alcohol has increased steadily since prohibition. Porto Rico's Governor Porto Rico is in a bad way. Its economic plight is wretched. Most of its people exist, and have existed for years, at a near-starvation point. The basic cause is over-population. There are many other subsidiary causes and economic maladjustments. There is no quick cure. In the midst of Porto Ricos slow economic progress came the hurricane wiping out many of the gains, blowing the country backward to worse poverty and misery. Naturally there is social and political unrest. Particularly the people, of practically all classes, are dissatisfied with their status under the United States. Last year the two branches of the legislature sent through Colonel Lindbergh their famous Patrick Henry memorial to President Coolidge—“ Give us liberty or give us death.” By liberty they mean a free state status and the right to elect their own governor. With this difficult situation on its hands—difficult economically and politically—the United States government can not afford to make a misstep. The immediate problem is to appoint a capable governor. pending settlement of the dispute over the political status of the island. Fortunately. Governor Horace M. Towner, who followed the usual course of substituting his resignation to the new administration when President Hoover took office, is said to be willing to continue in Porto Rico. Towner has the great asset of long experience at the post. He has a splendid record. And of chief importance. just now. he is liked and trusted by the Porto Ricans. It is difficult to believe reports that young Theodore Roosevelt is being presented seriously by friends as a candidate for the place. These friends can not- have forgotten the part played by Theodore Jr. in the Teapot Dome scandal. And surely they do not recall any evidences given by him in his brief public career of fitness for so trying a responsibility as that in Porto Rico. Congressional Reapportionment Human nature being what it is, it is too much to expect the senate to turn with enthusiasm to its next task, reapportionment. Thirty-three senators come from states that will lose membership in the house of representatives if this bill passes; lose also strength in the electoral college, chances for committee assignments and other important advantages. Most of these thirty-three can be expected to fight to the end against abstract jusice and national interest as opposed to political self-interest. Therefore it becomes the painful duty of senators irom those states which will be unaffected by the change to discipline their unfortunate colleagues. Congress must obey the law if it expects plain citizens to do so. Harry Sinclair may be a registered pharmacist, but the lady next door thinks that surely he isn’t a very efficient one. He hasn't one of those drug store mustaches. |

David Dietz on Science . Why Clouds Disappear No. 357 - -

THE classification of clouds is based on appearance . It so happens that this works out as a rule as a classification on the basis of altitudes also. Thus, for example, while cirrus clouds occasionally may occur at low' levels, they hardly ever do. In temperate latitudes, the height of a cirrus cloud is usually seven miles. The next two classifications, the cirro-stratus and the cirro-cumulus occur at lover levels. The fourth type of cloud in the official classifica-

gfj ALTO -CUMULUS CLOUDS

“The separate masses generally are larger and more compact in the middle region of the group, but the denseness of the layer varies and sometimes is so attenuated that the individual masses assume the appearance of sheets of thin flakes of considerable extent with hardly any shading. At the margin of the group they form smaller cloudlets resembling those of cirro-cumulus. The cloudlets often group themselves in parallel lines, arranged in one or more directions" Alto-cumulus clouds appear to be due to local air currents or convictions just as the cirro-cumulus clouds which they resemble to some extent. The alto-cumulus clouds differ from the cirrocumulus in that they are larger and at lower altitudesThey frequently form in the early forenoon after a clear sunrise as the result of scattered air currents in a layer of moist air. After sundown the alto-cumulus clouds frequently disappear. This is because they become cooler after sundown. Asa result, the layer of air in which they are contained becomes cooler and contracts- thereby becoming heavier. It then will sink to a lower level, which is warmer and consequently able to hold more moisture. Asa result, the clouds evaporate and disappear from view at the lower level. This is an example of the meteorological paradox that cooling a mass of air slightly results eventually in it becoming warmer than it was originally. This is due of course to the charge in level which follows the cooling.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Science Has Turned on Its Masters—No One Intended That Explosion in Cleveland , ; Yet It Is Just as Bod as Though Some Lunatic Set It \ Off. THE disaster att Cleveland, the flight of the Graf Zeppelin and i the interment of vast quantity of ; blue cross gas in concrete vaults in j Germany combine to form a dramatic picture of the age in which we live. The razor's edge no longer is sharp, the railroad train no longer swift, the lever of Archimedes no i longer powerful. Man has become a puny thing in comparison to some of his creations. a a a Too Many Details IIKE the individual boy, the in- / dividual mind can do no more than click in spots. There was a fireproof door in the I Cleveland Clinic designed to shut i under heat. It would have shut had a pipe | been in the way. The chances are that the pipe was put in the way by someone who never thought of what the door was designed to do. The chances are also that no one noticed the pipe. Too many details in the mechanism, too many wheels, shafts pulleys and pushbuttons for the human brain to keep track of. tt tt a Menace of Neglect THIS thing we call science means responsibility as well as privilege. Science magnifies our power for both good and evil; nor does evil depend solely on intent. Negligence can be as dangerous as maliciousness. We have come tea point where we not only need to be right-minded as well as careful. a a a Evil Not Intended NO one intended that explosion in Cleveland, yet it is as bad as having some lunatic or criminal set it off. We are shocked because of its suddeness and extent, yet, if Wednesday or Thursday were average days, as many people were killed by automobiles in this country as met death in the Cleveland Clinic. tt a tt Peril for Indifference WE have a way of getting used to what occurs all the while, 1 no matter how horrible it may be. The fact that 150 persons were crushed and mangled beneath the . wheels of our automobiles on Wednesday and Thursday was very little because the same thing occurs every two days. If they could be assembled in one place in the space of a few moments, we would realize the enormity if just as we realize the enormity of this hospital disaster. What is more, we would realize that it is due to the same factor, indifference and carelessness. a a a

Waiting for Calamity NOW that the Cleveland Clinic has been converted into a charnel house, that science has turned on its masters, that the carelessness and oversight of some individual has spoiled the wwk of thousands, something probably will be done with regard to the use of cheap X-ray films. While something is done about that, however, a multitude of lurking dangers will go unnoticed, a multitude of risks will be taken, a multitude of lives be placed in jeopardy until calamity wakes us up. tt tt tt Love for Mechanism Ip we only used our intellect as energetically or consistently safeguarded human life and limb from these tremendous instruments we are bringing into existence that we do in their production we would be just as happy, and far safer. Instead of that we are infatuated with the mechanism, even though it may turn out a frankenstein more often than not; are thinking how we can produce more powerful and destructive engines for what w r e call “national defense,” promoting worldwide competition in production of death-dealing devices, glorifying the ability of one people to exterminate another and imagining that by some hook or crook we are guaranteeing security for mankind. tt tt tt Power of Intellect A COMPARATIVELY small bomb hurled from the skies could do more damage than that gas explosion in the Cleveland Clinic and a Zeppelin could bring it overseas in the night. The dum-dum bullet, or even six-teen-inch gun. has become almost as obsolete as the wheelbarrow. If intellect has made it possible for the common man to dwell in ease, it also has made it possible for a genius to destroy whole cities. What is worse, it has made it possible for the careleess individual who holds no more than a subordinate position to cause such destruction of life and property as was beyond the capacity of ancient minds. a tt a Going Too Far SOME who have given the matter serious thought, believe we have gone too far, that the time. has come to call a halt, that our ability has developed out of proportion to | our judgment, that we are not fit to ! make wise use of the power we possess and that the great need of I this age is a cessation of the fevered | race to produce more mechanical wonders until human character can acquire a keener appreciation of ■ their significance. Will eggs boil on Pike’s Peak? Water boils at a lower temperature on a mountain top and it j takes longer to cook food because I less heat is applied to makes the water boiL

tion of the International Meteorological committee is the alto-cumulus. These usually occur at an altitude of about two inda half miles. Alto-cumulus clouds are officially described as follows: “Larger rounded masses, white or grayish, partially shaded, arranged in groups or lines, and often crowded together in the middle region that the cloudlets join.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical j Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SOME people believe that poultices of cranberries will cure ! erysipelas. If ever there was a burning red | disease it is erysipelas, known inI deed by the population of an earlier ; day as St. Anthony’s fire. The very basis of the treatment of I eruptions of various types by peI culiar poultices is the doctrines on | which such doctrines as homeopathy are found; namely, similia similibus curantur, or like cures like. Hence for all red and burning ! eruptions, red hangings are hung in ! a room and red poultices are considered to have special virtues. Erysipelas is one of the most widespread of diseases, since it represents the infection of superficial wounds by a germ that is exceedingly common. When this germ attacks the skin, there is irritation, sometimes burning, sometimes the formation of blisters, sometimes a generalized infec-

WITH anew penthouse apartment to play with, I think I ought to do some mural painting. Just a day or so ago I was confessing an awkwardness at portraiture, but murals are much easier. To paint murals it usn’t necessary to have a model or a velvet jacket. And, anyhow, I have a velvet jacket. Os course, some mural painters do go in for figures. There’s always a demand for symbolism on walls and you can put a large woman wearing nothing but a wreath around her head into the middle of a landscape and call the whole thing “The Spirit of the Brooklyn Rotary Club.” I wish I had one of those large, floppy black hats the art students wear in Paris. A man with a pickax, straining every muscle to dig something up out of the hard earth at his feet, could also be an appropriate decoration for a wall and he could be called “The Dignity of Labor,” or “Column Conducting,” or practically anything you choose. But I intend to go in for flower murals. Real plants don t seem to do very well out on my penthouse roof. I can’t, seem to figure out just how' much water they ought to hove. tt tt tt Flowers Go Booir; LACKING a watering can, I have been using a cocktail shaker because it has a strainer at the top. Possibly somebody left gin it in by mistake, because when I got through the geranium’s were fairly barking at- each other. For an hour or so I never saw' more up and coming flowers. All the buds were coming out with a loud

THE present is a period of great change. Manufacturers in quality at lower cost. This means new machinery, better processing and. therefore, designs and materials that will withstand more severe tests than ever before.—Howard Cocnley, president Walworth Company. 808 Get' sold on the idea of making your daily bread as ably and zestfully as' you know how. Learn to find fun in your job, whatever it is. —James D. Moone. president of the General Motors Export Company. (Forbes magazine.) tt B tt Democracy, based on candor and confidence in the people, can and will succeed. —Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war. tt B tt What is the law? I give it to you as my mature judgment, without intending to offend others entertaining different views, that no policeman has any right to kill a person ioi yiolamk the prohibition

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tion of the w'hole body, with death the result. However, healthy adults rarely die of erysipelas. New-born children usually die when this disease attacks the navel. Old people, people suffering with Bright’s disease or diabetes, and drunkards are more likely to die of such infections than are j other healthful individuals. The tendency of most cases of erysipelas is to progress toward recovery and the physician usually treats the disease by the use of suitable antiseptic solutions and other methods to prevent its spreading. When the Doctors Dick discovered that the streptococcus—the roundshaped germ that lives in chains—which caused scarlet fever, produced most of its effects on the human body by means of a poison which it developed in the body, they prepared an antitoxin against this poison. Later, Dr. Conrad Birkhaug studied the streptococcus that caused erysipelas and developed an antitoxin which would attack the products of that germ. Today many cases of erysipelas’ |

report like popcorn. But then they slumped again. And speaking of alcohol, I want to say a good word for prohibition. It has ended all nonsense about moderate drinking. To me there was always something shocking about the sight of men and women sitting down to innumerable glasses of beer. The practice was unesthetic as well as ineffective. I’m not arguing for alcohol in overdoses. That’s bad. There is no bore in the world like a drunken one. But when the eye is bright and the w'Orld seems gay and witty and things come constantly to the tip of your tongue, a delicate and delicious chemical process has taken place. In college they used to say. “I had just a nice edge.” From the top of that ridge a man may survey the entire work and glory in it. But there’s no getting up there with beer alone. \ tt tt tt Showing Up Nature ABOUT mural parinting again. I believe that I will start out by doing a picture of a brick wall. And I’ll paint it directly on the brick wall of my roof. In this way I hope to show' up nature by revealing how much more exciting art can be. I had a picture like that in the old house. My brick wall looked nothing like the background against which it rested. It was much better. The bricks of ordinary commerce had faded to a dull, salmon pink. Mine were almost pure scarlet. Moreover, the wall I painted had a weaving quality. It was almost like an ocean wave. The only trouble with painting in the city is that the people roundabout take so much interest in your

law. except in self-defense.—Repre- j sentative Brand of Georgia. b a tt • ' I have never seen a man who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom he is working.— Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. b a a Fate bestows its reward on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them —Calvin Coolidge.

Daily Thought

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!— II Samuel 1:27. s a a WHAT is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.— Wendell Phillips.

are controlled by the use of this antitoxin wtoich seems to stop the disease promptly when it is given early in the infection. When the antitoxin happens to be the specific one against the streptococcus that is causing the erysipelas. the results are marvelous. The streptococcus is one of the most widespread of all germs and there are hundreds of varieties. The eminent bacteriologist, Victor C. Vaughan, points out that the streptococcus probably has a much longer history than man. and began its assaults on the animal kingdom long before there was any homo sapiens. A thorough evolutionist, he believes that man came into existence as a host to the streptococcus and that among the good and tWe bad, the wfise and fools, the streptococcus always has been one of the most important factors in determining mortality rates. Today the problem of controlling streptococci infections is one of the I greatest unsolved problems that coni fronts scientific medicine.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those ot 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.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

| work. I doubt if the dentist next ! door will ever get another tooth ! filled, once I am launched upon my creation of masterpieces. And there are always children to jeer at any young artist. Why aren’t these brats in school, learning abdut Rembrandt and Rubens and getting a' proper respect for men who put paint on canvas? I, myself, would rather be Rembrandt than Rubens. I wouldn’t, have to provide lunch for any of the nudes that Rubens painted. tt tt tt Unfriendly Public THAT part of the public which leans out of adjacent windows is unfriendly to painters. At least, that has been my experience. None of the comments hurled down are e\er kindly. I don’t understand why. Painting is the least interfering of the arts. If a modern composer lived next door, I might have reason to complain, for he would probably be working on something called U. S. Steel Largo. There would be factory whistles and the crash of hammers against molten metal. A modern novelist can make himself a pest; for, if he puts a big book in your hands and says, “Will you please read it?” there is the necessity of actually looking over ten or twenty pages before an opinion can be rendered. Some of these children who lean out of windows, but never sufficiently far, to scoff at my paintings are probably the sons and daughters or second cousins of singers. There’s an art which really justifies complaint. When any amateur butterfly is dying, the whole neighborhood is in on the high notes. But my painting is a silent process. The only noise is a slight crooning. At the top of inspiration I am inclined to hum “Old Man River,” but only the first two bars of the chorus, and those very softly.

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REASON By Frederick Landis To Assume That a Saw tor Would Place His Convictions on the Auction Finch j for a Fete Post offices DI grades Our Form of Govern - j inert. TF President Hoover is wise he will -■-veto the plan to take away the patronage of those United Staffs senators who voted against him on farm relief, for that would be unworthy of his great office, and besides it would give the Republican elephant more carbuncles than it has had since the floundering days of the Taft administration. bob Mr. Taft tried that plan of pun- | ishment and it was resented, not only by those against whom it was directed, but by their colleagues and the country at large. The net result cf the war which that proscription started was that Taft breezed under the November wire with only the electoral votes of Utah and Vermont, the grand total not being sufficient to permit Taft to give an electoral vote to each member of his cabinet as a souvenir of esteem. B B tt To assume that any senator would place his convictions upon trie auction block for a few postoffices degrades our ferm of government, and to attempt to coerce a senator would be as corrupt as to attempt to bribe a senator. It would not look good just now, when Mr. Hoover is calling the American people back to the colors of law enforcement. BUB OUR federal Constitution is the most talked-about, and the ! least understood of all the heirlooms which have come down to us from the beginning of the republic. Under our charter of government, a President has no right whatever to seek to influence either house of congress, his authority ending when he sends to congress his message, recommending legislation. b b a This exertion of influence upon congress—-and many Presidents have exerted it—was one of the greatest fears the fathers of the republic had and they sought by every means within their power to make each of the three departments of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, independent of one another. B B tt Then the party system came along and cast this ancient division of powers into the discard, and the cry “Stand by the President,” superseded the original admonition. “Stand by the Constitution,” all of which has made the presidential office the most powerful in the world, a thing undreamed of by the founders. tt tt tt IT is essential to party government that party platforms shall be binding on public officials elected on such platforms, when they have been adopted by means, free from fraud, but this does not mean that in every detail of legislation, offered to carry out the platform pledge, all members shall take the President’s position, discard their sense of right and wrong, and follow blindly the ultimatum of the White House. a a tt If the senate, the only deliberative body we have at Washington, thus should abdicate its functions we might with perfect logic go a step beyond and dispense with the selection of senators and fill the chairs of the upper chamber with robots, which could be manipulated when the finger of the executive pressed a button. a a tt It must be confusing to the for-eign-born citizen, attending night school, to familiarize himself with our fundamental law, to read in the daily papers these denunciations of they proceed to function as the Constitution of their country commands them to function, because they do not consent to degenerate into mere red caps, waiting to carry out executive decrees.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times—l see in evening papers of last week that the council is going to make room for a combustion engineer’s assistant. What is the reason forty inspectors can not clear the stacks of those plapts with the kind of stokers used at the present time? There is a coal burner or stoker that will eliminate black smoke. Let, the council or board of public works investigate and clear stacks of the city and Riley hospitals. Then they will have cleared stacks and increased boiler efficiency. P. B. FITZPATRICK. 423 North Holmes avenue.