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Who Won the War?

Novr comes the supreme court of the- Initcd •states with a decision that for the purpose of hiins? rate* for railway transportation, the interstate commerce cornmi-sion must consider the “ reproduction” value. The same precedent, of course, will be followed by every state commission regulating other utilities. Unquestionally the decision will furnish an excuse. if not a reason, for giving to the Instill interests exactly what they ask for in the merging of various suburban trolley lines, electric properties and small utilities into one large company. The (.ermans who are fighting for a reduction of reparations which the\ r must pay for their war guilt will be interested in this decision. It may make them feel happier about, their payments. For if they lo> the war. they can also know that other nations also did not win. For the practical result of this decision is the forcing of the payments by utility patrons of the excess value added to the plants by the war. Ii was the war which shoved prices of steel and copper and labor up to new high levels from which they have not receded. It is true that most of the utilities were running before the war and that the large proportion of their plants were constructed with cheap materials. Under this decision, they will proceed to collect on new price levels. In other words they capitalize tlm tragedies of the nation by compelling rates of payment that will furnish dividends on new prices, not on new expenditures. Perhaps no other decision so clearly illustrates how little chance the people have against privilege and regulated business. For years before the war. Senator La Follette, who was the father of the idea of regulation of all utilities, fought to force railroads and other utilities to earn on their present valuation, not upon their capitalization. In those days that would have meant cheaper prices for the people. The utilities preferred, and obtained, a rule under which the capitalization and allowances for good will, rather than reproductive costs, was the basis. But the war changed things and now it is to the benefit of utilities to collect on reproduction costs rather than on any invested capital. And the supreme court comes easily and readily to the La Follette theory, which was once regarded as anarchy. This may be worth remembering if another war threatens. It never pays.

Diplomacy Wins

Settlement of the Tacna-Arica controversy between Chile and Peru, after nearly fifty years of fruitless bickering, is a triumph for professional diplomacy Such success is especially encouraging at this time, when professional diplomacy is not generally effective nor popular in the world. Tins old dispute over two provinces, involving profound feelings of national pride and attended by exceedingly complex technicalities, previously had failed of solution, both by political and judicial methods. Arbitral proceedings conducted by the President of the United States, before the extension of American diplomatic good offices, had reached a hopeless impasse. The attempt to hold a fair plebiscite, under General Pershing and then under General Lassiter, had failed. When Ambassador Carlos Davila, diplomat-editor of Chile, came to Washington in 1927. his government sent to the steamer for his use two large trunks of official documents relating to the Tacna-Arica dispute. The trunks never were opened. Davila had another method He decided to cut red tape. He expounded and won support for the idea that the best interest* of both Chile and Peru demanded a peaceful settlement, and that the true sentiment in both untries would respond to overtures based on plain friendship. Davila received full co-operation from Secretary Kellogg and the Peruvian ambassador. Herman Velarde, an elderly and sagacious diplomat whose tactfulness had tided over many crises in the TacnaArica situation. In Lima. American Ambassador Moore, like Davila, a diplomat editor, had an important part in encouraging resumption of diplomatic relations between Peru and Chile. The visit last winter of President-Elect Hoover to Lima and Santiago confirmed the new bent toward Chilean-Peruvian good will, and enabled the negotiation to develop along careful diplomatic lines. Chile ha* been in possession of all the disputed territory. Under the new settlement. Chile retains the province oi Anca and Peru gets the province of Tacna: Peru also receives the water-front, wharves, railway station at the port of Arica, and gets $6,000,000 from Chile. The new boundary’ wiL' be drawn in a manner to give the city of Tacna a mountain watershed, a difficult point in previous negotiations. Bolivia is not a party to the present settlement. She now has freedom of the port and her own customs house at the port of Arica. The United States government took care to avoid a settlement which would raise any new diplomatic obstacles to Bolivia's aspiration for a territorial outlet to the sea. Presumably Bolvia ill formulate a policy looking toward direct negotiations, either with Chile or Peru, for a corridor through the territory obtained by one or the other. As In the case of Chile versus Peru, the outcome of such policy will depend largely ob the temper of the countries concerned, as w ell as the more evident economic exigencies involved. Meanwhile the governments of Chile and Peru are

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to be congratulated for eliminating one of the potential causes of war in this hemisphere. And it is ratifying that friendly and patient guidance by United State official, has contributed to this end of peace. The Crime Commission President Hoover finally has named his special commission to investigate crime and law enforcement. The results merit the delay. It is on the whole an exceptionally able body. Many member are lawyers of national and even international reputation. The first thing that will •trike every one about these well-known members are that they are not of the fanatical type, that they do not see this most complicated of problems in terms of black and white, that they are neither rabid wets nor rabid drys. If any of the lesser known members arc of that undesirable type, probably the President has not discovered it. Anyway, if there is such a minority, it presumably w ill not be able to dictate the procedure and finding-of the commission majority. The two most illustrious names are Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard law school and Newton D. Faker, two ot the greatest lawyers the country has produced. Asa municipal administrator, cabinet officer, and chairman of the national crime commission, Mr. Baker has a brilliant record. Judge William S. Kenyon was an able and progressive senator from lowa before he retired from political life to the bench. No one can doubt the ability of George W. Wickersham, former United States attorney-general. It is significant that a speech by Mr. Wickersham recently criticising the Jones "five-and-ten” law as too extreme, which was vigorously resented by certain professional drys, did not prevent the President from choosing him to head the commission. President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe college not only gives women formal representation on the commission, but probably will see the problem through the eyes of the college students of the land. Others, such as Frank J. Loesch, vice-president of the Chicago crime commission, will contribuate from their technical experience in similar investigations. The President's idea of the work of this commission has changed somewhat since he first expressed it during the campaign. The purpose has evolved from the original prohibition inquiry into a general investigation of our legal institutions and their operation. But we do not understand that the investigation is to be limited merely to the mechanics of law' enforcement, which would be quite inadequate to meet the serious national situation outlined in the President’s message to congress. The causes of the trouble must be uncovered. If that is done, no one need fear that prohibition conditions will be ignored by the commission. Personnel of the Hoover commission is as adequate for such a difficult task, doubtless, as any group which could be found with the ability and the willingness to serve. In December President and Mrs. Hoover will entertain the members of the cabinet and their wives. I In the light of present social amenities in the capital, j we can only recommend that President Hoover bring ; on A1 Capone to get this thing straightened out. j A New Jersey woman shot a neighbor who was j organizing a fife and drum corps. Someone ought to j call that to the attention of the Carnegie medal! people. Now that scientists have taught the mechanical j man how to talk, don't be surprised if he demands i a five-day week.

• Davit! Dietz on Science

Great Rolls of Clouds

No. 360

WE come now to the five types of clouds comprising the lower clouds. It will be remembered that there are ten types of clouds in the classification of the International Meteorological committee. We have reviewed in detail now the first five. These included two which occurred at very high altitudes and therefore were classified as upper clouds and three which occurred at lesser altitudes and were

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these five—No. 6 therefore in the complete list—is the strato-cumulus. It is described officially as “Large lumpy masses or rolls of dull gray clouds, frequently covering the whole sky. especially in winter. Generally strato-cumulus presents the appearance of a gray layer broken up into irregular masses and having on the margin smaller masses grouped in flocks like alto-cumulus. 'Sometimes this cloud-form has the characteristic appearance of great rolls of clouds arranged in parallel lines close together. The rolls themselves are dense and dark, but in the intervening spaces the cloud is much lighter and blue sky may sometimes be seen through them.'' The strato-cumulus does not generally tend to bring rain. * "This cloud.” wiltes Dr. W- J. Humphreys of the United States weather bureau, “of which there are several forms ranging from the stratus of uneven density through the great parallel rolls to the sheet of well-nigh discrete cumuli, is always due to vertical convection. “The more nearly discrete or separate masses are produced by the rising of warm air while the irregularities in the stratus form seem to be caused in large part at least by mechanical turbulence. "The shallow depth and broad expanse of the strato-cumulus often is due to an overlying layer of air of such temperature that the rising, cloud-laden column can not pass through It. and hence is forced to spread out. much as rising smoke in a room spreads out under the ceiling ” The strato-cumulus cloud will possess anew meaning for the amateur weather observer if he keeps this picture of its formation in mind—the rising currents of warm air cooling to the point where the water vapor in them condenses, then being churned up by irregular currents of air. and spreading out horizontally under a layer of air through which it can not penetrate.

M. E. Tracy

The Glory of the Battlefield Still Appeals More to. Us Than the Glory of Living in | Peace. TT was two years ago that Charles i A. Lindbergh made the front i page after flying from New York to Paris. Scant notice was taken of his departure. When he returned, | the country went into hysterics. New York alone tore up 1,800 tons of I telephone books, newspapers and Bibles to show how it felt. Now he is Colonel Lindbergh and about to marry Miss Morrow. That shows what pluck can do in j two years if it doesn't get killed. nan

Airmen Jeer at Death 'T'HOSE who think the game has -*• grown monotonous, that civilization is barren of adventure, that life has lost its kick, are merely afflicted with water-tight minds. Not only is there romance left, but peril enough to give it flavor. Os those who have tried to imitate Lindbergh a majority are at the bottom of the sea. Aviation has taken a greater toll of human life in proportion to those who have tried it than most human ventures, yet the boys of this generation are putting it over. nun Great Leap in 26 Years TT was only twenty-six years ago that the first man succeeded in getting off the ground in a heavier than air machine. Six years later another man flew over the English channel. Then came the war, with its stimulating urge, producing such pilots and speed as had not been considered possible. A year after the war ended, two Englishmen crossed the Atlantic and in 1927 Lindbergh made his immortal solo flight. Now they are refueling air planes while aloft, staying up a week, and visioning the possibility of a nonstop circuit of the globe. n tt Dirigible Gives Variety TJROGRESS of the dirigible lends variety to aviaton. Though incapable of the speed of airplanes and calling, perhaps, for less personal heroics, the dirigible promises more in safety and reliability when it comes to long journeys. Tile R-34, Los Angeles and Graf Zeppelin have crossed the Atlantic without mishap. In spite of the latter’s failure on her latest attempt, there is small ground for skepticism as to the future of these power balloons. Their ccst, more than anything else, has held progress back. While willing to spend ten, twenty, or even fifty thousand dollars on aviation, men hesitate at three or I four million,

Let Government Do It ENOUGH has been done, however, to prove that, the dirigible is worth perfecting from a commercial standpoint, but our so-called leaders of industry seem to prefer that governments do the necessary experimenting in the name of war. England is about to complete two 700-foot dirigibles, while the United States has ordered two of an even larger size. a a a

Have Huge Capacity THE two English dirigibles, one of which probably will be seen in this country before the end of the present summer, will have a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas and a lifting power of 152 tons. This will make it possible to carry 100 passengers, an adequate crew and considerable freight. The Graf Zeppelin, which crossed the ocean last year, and which now’ is undergoing repairs in France, is considerably smaller. The Los Angeles, which also crossed the ocean, has been in commission several years, has visited most every part of the United States as well as the West Indies, and has proved the lasting qualities of the dirigible.

classified as intermediate cloudsThe upper clouds were the cirrus -and the cirro-stratus. The intermediate clouds were the cirro-cumulus, alto - cumulus, alto-stratus. We must now take it for granted that our readers are familiar with these five and pass on to the five lower clouds. The first of

War Spirit Lives IF private capital had done as much as taxpayers have to promote aviation, it would be in good deal better shape. This is especially true with regard to dirigibles. War. however, still calls forth the best there is in us. We are willing to spend money and take chances in preparation for a possible crash, when we hesitate to do so in peaceful pursuits. As Senator Borah says, we still are laboring under the spell of world conflict. The glory of the battlefield still appeals to us more strongly than the glory of living in peace. Seldom does an airplane rise or a dirigible make a successful flight but what we picture it in terms of strife This is a good thing, in so far as it makes us realize the destructive possibilities that we have called in being. It is a bad tiling in so far as we are intrigued by their devilish power.

Daily Thought

But ye shall die like men. and fall like one of the princes,— Psalms 82:7. ft a b WE look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, arid believe him the monster which the cracked and flawed glass represents him. —Lowell. Were John and Sidney Drew, the actors, related? , They were brothers. Where can a letter to Pola Negri be addressed? Paramount Famous-Lasky Studios. 5451 Marathon street, Hollywood, Cal.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hcfeia, the Health Maeazinc. IN primitive magic not only were things unseen and spiritual associated with influences over the human body, but particular value w ? as attached to signs taken from the heavenly bodies. The waxing and w'aning of the moon gave rise to innumerable beliefs, as was mentioned in previous articles in this series. The sowing of crops, the building of houses, the marrying of wives and the birth of children were definitely related to changes in the phases of the moon. In India it long has been believed that cholera breaks out when there is a change in the moon from the crescent to the full moon. In Cornwall it is believed that it is unhealthy lor the child to be born ip. the dark interval between the old and the new moon. In Ireland and in various por-

VERY many times the announcement of the Pulitzer award lias loosed a controversy about the novel chosen. It should not be so now’, for Julia Peterkin’s “Scarlet Sister Mary” is notably of the first rank. It does not seem to me that any other American novel of the year can be mentioned after it unless there is a pause for counting ten or more. The writers of America begin, I think, to lift a reproach which has hung heavily upon national letters until recent years. They have at last succeeded in getting roots into our own soil. Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather. Dubose Heyward and Mrs. Peterkin have taken themes w’hich distinctly belong to us. The last two novelists in particular have tapped the rich theme of Negro life. Never was there such waste of any theme. Until the turn of the century, both on the stage and in stories the Negro never appeared ex-

“TN view of the fact that the overJ. supply of teachers seems to be nation-wide, I can see no good reason why any state should allow local units to set standards, examine and certificate teachers. It is not fair to children to permit local authorities to certificate a poorly trained person when trained teachers are available.”—Dr. W. J. Cooper, commissioner of the bureau of education. department of the interior. it a a “I consider the most diplomatic feat I ever accomplished was when I evaded drinking champagne with the Governor of San Andres.”— Gifford Pinchot, former Governor of Pennsylvania. a e a “The strongest and most important organization in America dealing with aviation is the Society of Auto-

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By Jove! Do you know that you scarcely read a paragraph in English or conduct an ordinary conversation that has not in It one or more references direct or indirect to the classic mythology of Greece and Rome? A page of advertising in a modern newspaper is likely to bear names of modern products named for some of the Gods and Goddesses in the pantheon of these ancient nations. Our Washington bureau has prepared one of its interesting and informative bulletins which is a little dictionary of mythology and tells briefly about the principal deities, their attributes and history. You will find it of interest and value. Fill out the coupon below and send for it CLIP COUPON HERE MYTHOLOGY EDITOR. Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin POPULAR MYTHOLOGY, and enclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose uncancelled United States postage stamps, to cover postage and handling costs: NAME .. STREET AND NO CITY STATE - I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times (Code No.)

Open Season Again!

HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. 46

j tions of Germany it is believed that ■ if a child is born at a time when { the moon is on the insrease the ! next child in the family will be a ! boy. but if on the decrease it will ! be a girl. This superstition is, of course, di- | rectly related to the idea of right ; hand and strength being associated with the boy, left hand and weak- ! ness with the girl. Even the old scientific physician | Galen thought that animals born j during the full of the moon were j strong. It is related that the phiI losopher Francis Bacon had an atj tack of apoplexy when the moon : became eclipsed. Furthermore, superstitious magic i figured the duration of the disease | according to the phase of the moon. | According to the astrologers, the | moon is a moist planet associated with lainfall. the circulation of sap jin plants and the movements of | various fluids in the body. Indeed, there is a poem to the es- j | feet that the moon, governess of,

cept as a farcical or a wholly sentimentalized figure. The old Southern boast, “Down here we know’ the Negro,” certainly was not made good in literature. The South Wakes Up BUT even Mr. Mencken must admit that the south begins to I bestir itself. No longer may it justly | be described as the great American dessert in cultural matters. The new south has opened its eyes and become aware of sights and sounds. Indeed, it has even gone to the amazing length of discovering that the Negro has a soul. No critic has any right to say to an author, or a group of authors "you must deal with this particular theme and no other.” Nor is there any reason why realists and romanticists should behave toward each other like Democrats and Republicans. In any healthy national literature there must be many masters. Still, the growth of letters never

motive Engineers, and it is not unlikely that aeronautical engineering in the future may become the major activity of the society.”—Professor J. H. Parkin, director of aeronautic and research work at the University of Toronto. at “There haven’t been more than ten great pictures made since the days oi magic-lantern slides. I’d name ’em. only I hate to talk about myself.”—Charlie Chaplin. < Ani swers. London.! sea ! “A1 Smith, disastrously defeated, is experiencing an unpleasant truth he has hitherto known only academically: that the leader who has lost rarely continues to be a leader.” —Henry F. Pringle. (Outlook.)

f floods, pale in her anger, washes | all the air and that rheumatic disI eases do abound when the moon is I full. | As is probably clear to every one, | there is nqt the slightest reason scii entifically established to believe any | of these notions. ! It is not true that a stye will be {cured by magic any better on the I first night of the new moon than |at any other period. The moon is the supreme mystery to the mind of the superstitious, j It is associated with the sexual | interests of human beings, since the moon always has been called the : queen mother and the wife of the | sun. In Greenland it is thought that ; when there is an eclipse a war is going on between the sun and the | moon, so the men hide when the sun is eclipsed and the women hide when the moon is eclipsed. The greatest folly of mankind is the fear of natural phenomena. It is better to understand than to be afraid.

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I can proceed in all health and | strength when no attention is paid | to things which lie just outside the j window’. We have gra.vely neglected | our own backyard. After reading “Scarlet Sister Mary,” one can only wonder in a bew’ildered way just why the richj ness and color of Negro life has been jso largely neglected as a field for ! fiction. We have been hospitable to all foreign writers, including the Scandinavian, who made tales out of the drama of familiar things. Now something may be done to restore the balance of trade for “Scarlet Sister Max-y” is a book to be sent out to the world. It truthfully can be said that this particular novel could not have been | written by anyone who was not I deeply familiar with the group | whose doings she chronicles. 8 8 8 Black Puritans AS yet I have seen nothing in . the Negro press about “Scarlet Sister Mary.” Comment in this quarter may not be universally favorable, because the heroine of the book is not set down by the white author as a conventionally moral person. Even the Negro in America has not escaped the blight of native Puritanism. He, too, has fallen for the heresies propounded by Canon Chase and other censors, who hold that sex is something which happens when two high-minded people meet in some high-minded place for a high-minded purpose. Obviously, no literature could come of age without recognition of the fact that the novel is a form bearing no relationship whatever to the j tract. Now that the Pulitzer prize has gone to “Scarlet Sister Mary.” the book will be under closer scrutiny that before. It will be surprising if no attack is made upon it as a most immoral story. Sister Mary is frankly a sinner. (Copyright, 1929. by The Times) <

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MAT 21,1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis

New York Is Thinking of Erecting a. $600,000 War Manorial Arch, but Her Needy Soldiers Could Make Better Use of the Money. THERE is the seed of real 'rouble in Canada's declaration that she will continue to grant clearances to vessels which carry liquor and are bound for United States ports, and if prohibition hid the I united support of our people Canada ' now would be told to back up or take the consequences. Wars have been declared for far less provocation than this. n n n During the darkest days of the* | World war, Canada turned for pro- | tection to the United States when I she saw the spectre of German dom- | ination, but now r that the German i menace has lifted, the old anxiety i and the old affection have departed. For a little money almost any naj tion will turn an old friend's picture to the waF. a b a : These Zeppelin passengers who are disappointed because their big bag | had to return to Germany should be | declaring dividends for if the en trine I trouble nad developed lar om, on the | Atlantic they might all now' be .pew | arrivals in the happy hunting grounds. B tt tt The daughter of this rich Amer- : ican theatrical man who married | the Italian nobleman soon will get I it where Nellie wore the beads. ana IT was noticed that Curtis bangee) his gavel with increased vigor when the senators caused confusion by swarming around his predecessor, Charley Dawes, to tender their con- , gratulations. an tt j The ovations tendered Amos n’ S Andy out on the Pacific coast sug- | gest them as a formidable presii dential ticket for 1932. an tt Dismissal of the impeachment j charges brought against the Govj ernor of Louisiana, proves that the j Governor's state-wide speaking ■ campaign was very effective. Asa rule, members of a state J legislature arc very independent un(til they hear from home and then I they act accordingly.

The people of New' Jersey protest i because the "dry navy” shoots at ; whales during target practice, but ■ it's then or never, since in the enforcement of the dry law practically : all shooting is at the little fish. tt tt B THE greatest hero of recent times is Ernest Staab. 30-year-old policeman who forfeited his life as a result of breathing poison gas while rescuing twenty-one people from this Cleveland hospital. The least the people of Cleveland can do is to see that his folks are not made beggars by his heroism, that being the usual result.

a tt a High school attendance has more | than quadrupled in the United j States since 1916, w’hich is somewhat : assuring in this age of crime, for j those who are serious-minded j enough to try to get an education have sense enough to know that i crime does not pay. tt b a j When Sinclair tipped that fellow ! in the District of Columbia jail, he | treated him just as if he were a j secretary of the interior.

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GRANT IS NOMINATED May 21

FEW presidential candidates in the history of any political party | have been more certain of election I than the man nominated for his | first term by the Republicans sixty-one years ago today—General ' U. S. Grant. The country was in the mood to elect a military hero and in addition to this, Grant was helped by the fact that he had been a Democrat until a short time before the nominating convention, when he quarreled with Democratic President Johnson. The closing sentence in Grant's letter of acceptance: “Let us have peace,” w’as a powerful vote-getter during his campaign. The country believed that he could bring harmony betweeen the north and the south. Grant carried twenty - four states, six of them in the south. Seymour, his Democrtic opponent, carried eight states, tw’o of them in the south. Three southern states did not vote because they had not been readmittted to the Union with full rights. General Lee, Grant's chief military foe, was president of Washington college, in Virginia (Washington and Lee university), when Grant was nominated.