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A1 Gets the Rap W;th a,I the talk about law enforcement the countrv ha been wondering for a long time how “Scarface Ai Capone kept out of prison. Bu for ome good reason his immunity didn t work In Philadelphia. The Philadelphia authorities did more than arrest him. Within fourteen hours after picking him up, they had him in prison under a one-year sentence. The offense is somewhat amusing in Capone's case. He was sentenced for—of all things—carrying a concealed weapon. Natural;; Al felt that this was rank injustice. Hadn i he been toting a gun for years, all over this law-broken country ; hadn't he been carrying around a small army of personal bodyguards with a sizable arsenal of concealed and not-so-concealed weapons, for years and in dozens of cities? If the authorities had any idea of really taking seriously that law against having a '‘gat on you. why hadn’t he heard about it in Chicago, New York, Florida, and all the other places? “This is some city; they work fast here—but I'll beat thr rap yet said A! as he was led away to prison. Philadelphia did a lot yesterday to redeem its own crime record. To make this job complete, of course, the city will see to it that AI doesn t beat the rap. In other word, in the English we ail used until crime became so commonplace, Philadelphia must see that Capone serves this well-earned term. “A Show of Force'’ Herbert Lehman, Lieutenant Governor of New York, who resigned as a director of the BeinbergGlantztofT Rayon Corporations, said he did not favor the handling of the strike at EUzabethton. Tenn., by force or show of force." With seven companies of national guard on duty In the little town, it is apparent that it is 'force or a show of force’’ on which the management of the Rayon Corporations ana the Governor of Tennessee ere relying to bring about a settlement. Hundreds of men and women picketers have been arrested or dispersed and thus robbed of their right peacefully to appeal to their fellow workers to join them in the effort to bargain collectively with their employers. Yes, there has been violence. There has been dynamiting which damaged both sides. It is probable that this has been done by adherents or sympathizers of both sides. It is probable that the responsible leaders of both sides neither order or condone such violence But such violence usually goes with industrial warfare, and industrial warfare does not start until one resorts to “force or a show of force This industrial warfare could have been avoided. The Bemberg-Glantztoff management could have treated with representatives of the employes—and these representatives were reasonable and moderate men. responsible officers of the American Federation of Labor. Governor Henry H. Horton of Tennessee could have brought about conciliation or arbitration. He made a good start, but he didn’t finish it. He appointed Major George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmens Union as mediator. Bern - is •known for his fairness to capital as well as to labor. The strikers accepted Berry s good offices, but the Bemberg-Glantztoff management rejected them. With his mediation spurned. Governor Horton had the best of reasons lor refusing to send troops to Ehzabethton. But weakly he yielded to the mill owners. There still is time lor peace. Industrial warfare seldom ends with the complete surrender of one side or the other. A peace conference, which would avert further incu;>'rial warfare, with all its certain waste end possible bloodshed, is the way to end it. Prisoner No. 42,060 Elected When the Standard Oil Company of Indiana stockholders refused to re-elect as chairman Robert \V. Stewart because of his connection with the national oil scandal*, the press and the public generally hailed anew social conscience in the discredited oil industry Now that the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation has rc-rlccted bv a big majority Harry F. Sinclair of Teapot Dome as its chairman, the public is made painfully aware that part of the industry at least ignores the demand for a house-cleaning. Meanwhile. Sinclair’s direction of his companies is somc hat cramped by his three months' visit in the Dstrict of Columbia jail for contempt of the senate. That visit may be extended when the supreme court gets to his jury-shadowing ca^c But Sinclair still manages to carry on under difficulties In the midst of his prison duties of rolling pills for sick inmates, 'no finds time to direct his oil industry bv conferences with associates and by mail. He complains that writing so many business letters has givpn him writer's cramp. He needs a secretary. He might have employed one of the other prisoners as his private secretarv but the jailer already has taken Ins pocketbook for safe keeping. Not that the multimillionaire, who is able to run his oil business from behind bars, is considered incompetent to handle hs own money. But it was alleged that he was using his money too freely for the. somewhat old-fashioned standards which still obtain in prisons. The Five-Day Week The forward march of American workers toward the five-day week continues. It will go into effect in August for 150,000 build'ng workers in New York City and is making rapid strides in the building trades throughout the country. Organized clothing workers, now working fortyfour hours a week, are negotiating with employers for forty hours, with the understanding on both sides that the five-day week is inevitaole. with only the time and method of putting it into effect to be settled. A million workers probably will be on the five-day week plan within the next year It is estimated that there are about 500.000 now, including the 150.000 in the plants of Henry Ford, who was the pioneer In 1926. Old-tune employers, who still believe it is good business to work men as long hours as they can for as little pay. hold up their hands in horror at this trend. Doyvn in Gaston county. North Carolina, where cotton W ll -! hands work sixty hours for sl2 to $lB a week, de-

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mands of strikers even for the forty-eight-hour week were received with anger and derision. But let the merchants of Gaston county, who can sell as staples onlv fat-back pork, beans, and the cheapest kind of clothing, ask merchants of Detroit, where workmen buy automobiles, radios, electric appliances, good furniture, and good clothes, whether short hours and good pay are good business. Economists—like President Hoover and Ethelbert Stewart, head of the bureau of labor statistics of the department of labor—have seen for years that gradual introduction of shorter hours on a living wage scale is inevitable and is good business. It used to be that all but the privileged few had to work hard and long to wring from reluctant nature even enough for people to eat and wear. The machine has reversed that. We now can produce so much more than we need that a larger and a larger proportion of our people must be unemployed, if we stick to the old long hours. How much wiser it is to divide up the available work among a larger and a larger number, being careful that wages do not decrease, so that we all may continue to buy as liberally as possible, and keep the factories humming! Dance marathons this year are being jazzed up by the addition of such features as flagpole sitters, chair rockers and handcuffed auto drivers. Now if the program makers could just ring in some coffee drinkers, gum chewers. a couple of Pyle’s robots and some peanut pushers, the zoo would be almost complete. The Museum of the American Indian has been exhibiting some shrunken heads, the heads of enemies captured by South American Indians. The tribe probably raided some South American congress during its deliberations on larm relief. A St Louis newspapA- man got the Pulitzer prize for the best reportorial work of the year. Before awarding next, year's prize, the committee should hear the important news stories confided from fence to fence along our street almost any morning. Surplus liauor must be thrown off the Leviathan before it docks in New York on a westbound crossing. The man assigned to this task won’t ever have to write a “hard work won my success" story for the magazines. Dr. Charles Olivier says New York City might be wiped out in an instant if chance happened to direct a meteor to that spot. There’s an idea for Mabel Walker Wiliebrandt. The German mariner who crossed the ocean in a twenty-two-foot boat missed a great opportunity for publicity by not pushing an orange all the way over. A newspaper headline says "Einstein Theory Checked." Now we wish someone would kindly figure out how the thing ever got started. Clarence Darrow says he aoubts whether civilization brings happiness- Probably the result of an, automobile ride on a Sunday afternoon. Why go to all the bother of building smoothrunning. silent motors, when there's so much noise in the back seat? Now it is announced that Chicago is to have the tallest building in the world. A city has to get a little publicity some way. A writer gives ten reason why corn should be the national flower, but fails to mention its uses as an occasional gargle. Switzerland defeated a prohibition measure the oi her day. it wouldn’t be a success anyway without a coast guard.

-David Dietz on Science

Watch for Corona

No. 358

THE fifth type of cloud in the official list of the International Meteorological committee is the alto-stratus. It is described as follows: A dense sheet of gray or bluish color, sometimes forming a compact mass of dull gray color and fibrous structure. “At other times, the sheet is thin like the denser

CORONA.

moon is seen through an alto-stratus cloud, it is surrounded by one or more sets of rings of colored light. Usually, these rings are within two or three diameters of the sun or moon- The red light of the colored bands always is farthest from the sun or moon, These small circles are called coronas- They are produced by the diffraction or spreading of the sunlight or moonlight through the water droplets forming the clouds. These coronas should not be confused with the lalos which form when the sun or moon is seen through the higher and thinner cirro-stratus clouds. Halos always are very much larger than coronas and whereas the red is farthest from the sun or moon m coronas, it is closest to the sun in halos. The cirro-stratus clouds, it will be remembered, are composed of ice crystals. The halos, therefore, are caused by the diffraction of light through crystals of ice. They differ from the coronas because the coronas are caused by diffraction through droplets of water. Alto-stratus clouds may be formed by the flow of warm moist air over the top of a lower layer of cold air. This causes the moisture in the warm air to condense. forming the sheet-like alto-stratus cloud. Avery slight amount of precipitation from cirrocumulus or alto-cumulus clouds sometimes forms into an alto-stratus cloud. The amateur observer at first may have difficulty in telling cirro-stratus and alto-stratus clouds apart. The cirro-stratus clouds are thinner and at a higher level than the alto-stratus. Os course, if either coronas or halos appear around the sun or moon, the matter is settled at once. Halos indicate a cirro-stratus cloud, while coronas indicate an alto-stratus cloud

M. E. Tracy

Philadelphia Displays Less Brotherly Love and More Speed Than Chicago When It Comes to Dealing With “Scarface” Al Capone. THERE are thirty-nine members of the Louisiana senate. A majority of two-thirds is required to impeach. Fifteen of the members having declared that they would vote to acquit, regardless of the testimony, the trial of Governor Long comes to an end. Now the question arises, whether those senators have violated their oath of office, and if so. what should be done about it. The trial of officers, against whom charges have been brought, is a duty prescribed by the constitution of the state. Have senators any more right to refuse to perform that duty than they have to perform any other? n u tt Al Capone Imprisoned PHILADELPHIA displays less brotherly love and more speed • than Chicago when it comes to dealing with "Scarface" Al Capone. Mr. Capone breezed into Philadelphia Friday with a bodyguard at his side and a gun on his hip. , Thirteen hours later he found himself facing a year in jail. When first arrested, he seems to have thought himself back in the old home town. “I've got only ten ; grand with me.” he said, “but I’ll beat the rap.” Then he learned the difference between Quaker justice and that of a reform administration in Chicago. tt an Chicago Is Improving STILL Chicago is improving. Hotels of that city, inspired by the 3,000-room Stevens, have banned the sale of mineral waters, ginger ale and cracked ice, lest they be used in the concoction of illegal beverages. Like Caesar's wife, Chicago hotels propose to be beyond suspicion. Not only that, but they propose to see that their guests are also beyond suspicion. New r York hotel managers are unimpressed by this manifestation of Chicago virtue. “I should say. after considering the situation from all angles,” one manager declared, “that a W. C. T. U. or Anti-Saloon League convention is about to descend on Chicago and that hotel publicity agents are making w r hat might be termed an open bid for it.” a a tt Dead Sea Gold DR. GEORGES CLAUDE. a French scientist, says that the Dead Sea contains fifty billions in gold, w'hich is about five times the world’s present supply, and that one-third of it could be extracted within fifteen years. He explains that the Dead Sea was once a part of the ocean, that ocean water contains a small amount of gold and that evaporation of the Dead Sea has increased this amount proportionately. It all sounds interesting, but why didn't someone think of it before? One is puzzled to know whether Dr. Claude has stumbled on a seemingly obvious fact w'hich all the other scientists have overlooked, or whether he is suffering from a pipe dream. It has been known for a long time that sea water contained several elements, though to a minute extent. Bromine is one of them. The necessity of bromine for the manufacture of ethyl gasoline has lead to considerable research and experimentation with the object of discovering some method by w'hich it could be extracted from sea water in large quantities at small expense. Dr. Charles M. A. Strine, chemical director of E. I. Du Pont de Nemour & Cos., says that the recent secret cruise of the steamship Ethyl appears to demonstrate the fasibility of obtaining an inexhaustible supply of bromine by the simple process of pumping large volumes of sea water through a distilling system at high speed. a tt P Gorillas and Science T~>OUR scientists are leaving New I 1 York at the end of this month they propose to kill and embalm gorillas. Afterward, the gorillas will be brought back to this country to be dissected and studied for the purpose of comparing their anatomy with that of human beings. Why such haste about the killing and embalming? "Why not bring them home alive and do the dissecting after they die? Speaking of gorillas, the Graf Zeppelin, which had one aboard u'as obliged to turn back on account of crippled motors. If the same percentage of motive power had gone dead on an airplane there probably w'ould have been a disaster. The Graf Zeppelin, however, is able to crawl back home, although at the rate of only ten or twelve miles an hour. Her ability to survive such a mishap proves quite as much as w’ould a successful flight.

forms of cirrostratus. and mfwp stratus, and through it the sun and moon may be seen dimly gleaming as through ground glass. “This form exhibits all stages of transition between alto-stratus and cirro-stratus, but according to the measurements it s normal altitude is about one-half that of cirro-stratus.” When the sun or

TT can not be stressed too strongly that the future of aviation rests cn the ground, as it is there that planes must take off and land. Foresight in construction will save millions of dollars in the near fu- j ture.—F. H. Frankland. American Institute of Steel Construction. a a a Even human sympathy for the afflicted and suffering has been forgotten <in the house tariff bill', for surgical instruments have been ; given a substantial boost.—Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts. ana Today practically 50 per cent of all the wheat growers in western Canada have joined the pool, and the f Aimers of Canada are discuss - inf their agricultural problems with

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvsreia, the Health Magazine. AMONG the peasants of central Europe particularly, but also in many other places in the world, the superstition persists that the drinking of cow'’s milk fresh from the udder not only is extremely healthful, but has the specific property of curing consumption. The cow' and the bull have been worshiped by primitive races for thousands of years. The symbol of Osiris, god of the Egyptians, was a bull and Isis w'as usually represented by the cow. In ancient Egyptian processions during the feast of Isis, the cow was followed by young girls consecrated to the sendee of heaven and

SPEAKING of Zeppelins and gorillas. they used to tell us in school the difference between men and animals is that animals don’t, reason. But as I grow older I have my doubts as to whether many men do. Nor did any teacher <*r make me understand just what is this thing called reasoning. I’ve known animals who got the hang of cause and effect and if this isn’t reasoning what is? Captain Flagg, who thinks he’s an airedale, can open a door by taking the knob in his teeth, turning it and then pulling toward himself. In order to do this, he must take care not to get his paws in the way so he is pulling against himself. In the beginning, the trick required five or more minutes of his time. Now he does it in ten seconds flat. This seems to me just as remarkable as learning to play golf or billiards. Os course Flagg, like most dogs, knows certain words, and has a fixed reaction to them. Here I see no fundamental difference between animals and human beings. If I say “out” to Flagg, he’ll rise on his hind legs and raise a holler and people wall do the same thing under the stimulus of the word “Bolshevik” or “Communistic.” tt tt tt Secrets in the Home INDEED it would be more convenient if Flagg were less intelligent, for as things stand, w'e have to spell w'ords to keep secrets from him. It is necessary, for instance, to say “Fm going o-u-t now.” If the word itself was pronounced he w'ould practically tear me to pieces in his anxiety to go along and it w'ould be silly to take a dog to see Walter Hampden in “Cyrano.” Another thing that Flagg doesn’t care about is being lifted up. When at attempt is made to raise him bodily from the floor he growls fearfully. Whether he would bite me if I persisted in the attempt, I don’t know. My passion for science has not been sufficient to induce me to go through with the experiment. At any rate since Flagg can’t be lifted he can’t be bathed at home. I forgot to add he also hates water. Dr. Little in his dog sanitarium

Quotations of Notables

hope and satisfaction. They have proved again that truism that no commodity in the world is so well off when it is dumped as when it is merchandised.—Senator Allen, Kansas. sen One of the most important lessons oi life is that success continually must be won and is finally never achieved.—Charles Evans Hughes. Ban There is only one thing in business that is certain and that’s change —Henry Ford. nan I believe in cleanliness, of course, but really, there is nothing I enjoy seeing more than the signs of recent work on the hands of a man or boy. Thnmat EtUSOU.

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Some Think Milk Cures Tuberculosis

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The “Weak”-End!

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 44

carrying baskets of holy cakes, round with a hole in the center, to represent the function of motherhood. Among the Hindus the cow still is a sacred animal associated with the idea of rebirth. Milk always has been considered a potent food and remedy. Indeed, today it is generally recognized that among foods, milk is perhaps the most complete food available. Ir. the middle ages consumption was considered to be due to witchcraft and was treated with butter made from the milk of cows fed in churchyards. Among British peasants today goat’s milk still is considered to be of special virtue for tuberculosis and so strong is the empirical opinion. that it is alleged that children

binds Flagg hand and foot and then throws him into a tub, where the w'ater is so deep the dog can just keep his nose above the surface. Flea soap is added. Flagg doesn’t like flea soap either. He lacks sufficient intelligence to know it is bad for fleas concerning which he has no great enthusiasm. If anybody ever gave Flagg a card to a meat saloon he soon would forget home ties and become a complete ne'er-do-well. a a a Foe to Cats OF course, at the moment he is without occupation. Before the townhouse was sold he made • a career of keeping cats out of the backyard. Flagg doesn’t like cats. I’m sorry to confess he has several notches in his record. The fence line was not continuous, owing to large brick extension of the house just behind us. So at our fence the cats had to transship, come across the yard, and get back on the main line. In the center of our yard there stood a chestnut tree and it was possible for an agile cat to drop in and make a high branch before Flagg could do anything about it. When he roared the fugitive was still safe enough, but the average cat has a superiority complex. He generally believed that he could drop down to the yard and with a quick spring make the far fence again. He never could. An aroused Flagg was quicker than any feline sprinter in the neighborhood. All that I can say in extenuation of his conduct is the executions were merciful. Death was in every case instantaneous. I have spoken to Flagg about cats,

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slioould be fed with goat's milk because the goat does not have tuberculosis as often as the cow. The actual fact of the matter is, of course, that milk .fresh from the cow or in any other way is not a cure for tuberculosis. It is a valuable food in tuberculosis, of course, or in any other disease. Because the cow not infrequently has tuberculosis, unpasteurized milk or milk from cows that have not been tested for tuberculosis is a menace and may actually spread the disease. The path of safety therefore lies in drinking only milk that has been certified or pasteurized. Under such circumstances, it may prevent tuberculosis by increasing weight, improving nutrition and building resistance against the disease.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’a most interesting writers, and ax* presented without regard to their agreement ot disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—'The Editor.

whipped him for his ferocity and scolded him, but all to no avail. He just couldn't get the idea. According to his light killing cats was distinctly a moral act. He had the horrid habit of bringing the quarry into the house and presenting me with the small dead tiger. tt tt tt Also Woodchucks IN the country he plays Attila to the woodchucks. This also seems to me wholly without justification. I know the farmers say woodchucks eat the crops, but I haven’t got any crops. This has been explained to Flagg, but he doesn’t seem to get it. Apparently it is his contention a woodchuck once did something to him or to some member of his family. I've never known any monkeys well, but I suppose they are much smarter than dogs. Some scientist has been experimenting with chimpanzees lately. He puts the monkey in a room which has a banana suspended from the ceiling. There is no way for the monkey to climb, but a iot of packing cases are scattered about. (Copyright, 1929. by The Times) COP MAY PATROL AIR Complaints from officials at Riverside park may result in Sergeant Earl Haistad. flying policeman, being ordered to patrol the air around the park Sunday. Officials complain that aviators were in the habit of diving their planes at ascending balloons. Claude Worley, police chief, ordered Haistad to “run to earth” any offenders who were reported diving.

MAY 18, 19*29

REASON

By Frederick Landis

The Only Advantage of a Boy Going to a Big College, Instead of a Small One Is That They Don’t. Seem to to Have Cigaret Tests in the Little Ones . THE fellow' who declares that we should have a Mussolini in the United States visualizes an iron ruler, who would let him do as he pleases, but make everybody else walk straight. And very frequently he comes to this conclusion after looking in the glass. tax Dr. J. Moore Graigo, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Dental school, soon will put on the market a mechanical apparatus which he claims will take the place of a dentist, but it never will because a mechanical apparatus can t talk. a a a Two professors of the University of California claim to have discovered proof that four-footed animals walked the earth 75,000,000 years ago and we know it’s so, because just last evening w r e had a steak cut off one of them. a a a Not many of the petitions for a reduction in the tax rate on earned incomes are being circulated tn the agricultural regions. mat The trouble with the Republicans at Washington seems to be that the Democrats, heretofore their faithful allies, have gone back on them. a a a JUDGE DUBUC of Alberta. Canada. is compelled to travel 4,000 miles to the Arctic to try two Eskimos for murder, the whole trip taking four months. What he’ll do to those birds likely will be aplenty. * * tt About the only advantage in a. boy’s going to a big college instead of a small one is that they don’t, seem to have any cigaret tests in the little ones. ana Dean Wigmore of the law department of Northwestern university thinks the United States senate is useless because it investigates too much, and Sinclair, Fall and Doheny will agree with him. a a a The strongest evidence that we are a money worshiping people is found in the fact that there were 9,400 applicants this year for appointment in the prohibition service. a a a While the Chinese were quelling their naval mutiny with airplanes, the Japanese probably pondered the fact that aviation has ended the naval power by w'hich Japan has so long held her huge neighbor in subjection. a a a NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS, exGovernor of Wyoming, should not go to Paris and jump on the American women w'ho drink liquor and vote dry. She exaggerated the number and in the second place, while it’s all right for us to criticise each other here at home, there’s something about doing it in a foreign country that just doesn’t appeal. a a a The most interesting political fight in the country will be that between Ruth Hanna McCormick and Senator Deneen for the Illinois senatorship. Deneen defeated Medill AlcCormeik and now his wddow goes out after revenge. As she is the ablest woman in politics, she is likely to annex the Deneen scalp. a a a Italy builds thre great trans-At-lantic liners; Germany comes back from nothing and regains her merchant marine, but the United States, greatest nation in the world and with tremendous foreign commerce, remains a sranger to the seas. a a a One naturally wonders how Mr. Gan likes it by this time.

- -TdOAM'JB THC^

LINCOLN NOMINATED May 18

OF all the dark horse candidates who have emerged from natonal conventions as their party’s candidate for the presidency, few were more obscure than the man nominated by the Republican national convention at Chicago sixtynine years ago today—Abraham Lincoln. The controversy between the north and south on the slavery issue was reaching a. critical point, Public interest in the oncoming administration was higher than at any other point in our history. Northern extremists were clamoring for the abolishment of slavery by force of arms. Some southerners were hinting secession. Others, on both sides of the Matson-Dixon line, believed that a peaceful settlement could be reached. William H. Seward of New York was the leading candidate for the nomination. Lincoln eventually won. He lost because, in a speech delivered shortly before the convention, he tried to soften his earlier statements favoring a firm settlement of the slavery issue. His political enemies convinced the delegates that a stronger man was needed for the next four years and Abraham Lincoln, about whom the nation knew little, was nominated on the third ballot.

Daily Thought

His mischief shall return upon h*s own head, and his violent dealings shall come down upon his own pate.—Psalms 7:16. nan Every guilty person is hi* owi hangman.—genMa