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Still an Emergency When the legislature took one look at the method and manner in which a large number of armories had been built by a local bank with a contracting firm as a subsidiary, it decided that a real investigation was in order. The legislature believed that the state examiner should hire experts to inspect the buildings and to cheek over the results. It not only believed this, but declared that an “emergency” existed, when it passed a law directing that this inquiry he made at once. At the same time there was a promise from the Governor that sufficient funds for such an mqrtfry would he forthcoming. It seems that the legislature was mistaken when it solemnly declared that there was an emergency. For thus far there has been no investigation, and, apparently, no effort to discover what happens when a private concern gels control of public funds. The legislature, by its action, declared that the inquiry should begin at once. Il was not willing to wait until the law should come into full effect by edict of tlie Governor. But that time has passed. It would he in effect today, had there been no emergency clause, which requires an overwhelming vote of members of the legislature. Ts any private citizen fails to obey a law passed hv the legislature, lie is forced to pay the penalty. If he chooses to set aside the orders of the legislature, hi* does so at his risk. There seems to he no penalty for public officials when they ignore laws. The building of armories was conducted in a manner which was. at its best, an evasion of the constitutional bar against the incurring of debts by the state. . The scheme never received the sanction oi the attorney-general. Asa matter of tact, Hr. (jilliom, who was ask' .i for his opinion, strongly suggested that ii was illegal. It is significant that he was only consulted as to the first of the projects. His opinion was ignored. Under the plan, the military hoard entered nto leases with trustees, named by themselves, ’or the rental of armories. These trustees then uade a noncompetitive contract with a conranting firm owned by the hank which handled its bonds at a large discount. One of the hoard was a member of the architect drew the plans. Having entered into a long-term contract, declared by the attorney-general to be illegal, there is now the claim that the state is morally obligated for a long term of years. If there was an emergency when the legislature was hi session, there is still an emergency. Certainly there should he some power to force a full and complete inquiry of this whole armory situation, especially in view of the announcement of the military head, ulio holds office by sufferance, that he intends to erect more armories on the same basis. The probe should be immediate and thorough.

The Public Will Pay The decision of the majority of the United States supreme court in the case of the St. Louis & O Fallon railway opens the way for the collection of untold millions from the public by the railroads and utilities. It is difficult accurately to gauge the final import of the court's ruling at this time, but certain facts seem clear. Chief among them is that the railroads and the utilities will be able substantially to inciease their valuations. And this means higher rates, since rates arc based on valuations. The crux of the issue between the railway and the government vas whether the valuation of the small terminal line should be based on what it would cost to reproduce the railroad at current prices, or on what has been invested prudently in the property on what has been invested prudently in the property, putts over valuation of street car lines, electric light plants, telephone and gas -companies and other utilties. The interstate commerce commission, acting undri the recapture clause of the transportation act ot 1920, had ordered the railway to return to the government half its earnings in excess of 6 per cent. The money from this and similar recoveries under the law was to constitute a fund for the aid of less prosperous railroads. The railway protested that the valuation on which the I. C. C. computed its earnings was in error, because it did not give proper consideration to the cost of reproduction ot its plant at current prices. The lower court upheld the I. C. C. Now the supreme court holds that the I. C. -• did not obey the mandate of congress requiring that due consideration be given to all elements of \alue, among them the cost of reproduction. The court significantly adds, '‘the veight to e accorded to current or reproduction costs is not the matter before us.” and remarks that no doubt there are some and probably many railroads which should be valued far below reproduction cost. Thus the extent to which reproduction costs must figure is left in doubt. They are not. apparently, to be an absolute measuring rod. The decision is i.i line with other court rulings tending to give increasing importance to the reproduction cost theory and these rulings are in fact cited in the present case. In the famous Indianapolis Water Company case, the high court upheld a lower court which ruled that reproduction cost should be given "dominant consideration.” In another decision cited the court had held that "the weight to be given to such cost figures

and other items or classes of evidence is to be determined in light ot the facts of the case in hand.” However, the OTalion case was considered a test case of first importance by the railroads and they joined the O'Fallon company in opposing the I. C. C. Its effect presumably will be to upset the fifteen years’ work of the I. C. C. in valuing the railroads. The extent to which their valuation will be increased cannot be estimated accurately. If the reproduction theory were to apply completely, the country’s railroad valuation would be increased from the $23,000,000,000 fixed by the I. C. C. to $40,000,000,000. This would nullify rate regulation, since it would be possible for the roads legally to increase rates beyond what the traffic would bear. ■The same rule applied to utilities would •*d additional billions to valuations and virtually nullify the effort of forty years to buid up effective public control. Justice Brandeis, supported by Justices Holmes and Stone, dissented from the majority. Brandeis presented a scholarly and exhaustive report which appeals to common sense. He examined the intent of congress, and argued that the I. C. C. had complied fully with it. Congress and courts, said Brandeis, intended to leave the I. C. C. ‘‘untrammeled” in its duty to give all relevant evidence such force as in its judgment the evidence inherently possessed, and this, he said, the I. C. C. had done. Think of the Future Southern communities that are bidding for industries on the plea that they can furnish “cheap” labor well might consider the future. Labor that is "cheap” today will not be “cheap” tomorrow, because labor is quick to learn its power. North Carolina’s so-called cheap labor has been exploited, as has that of Tennessee. South Carolina, and other southern states. For a time the southern manufacturers enjoyed an advantage over New England. Now they are paying the penalty with strikes and demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. The cry of the workers will have to be heeded in the states where the strikes are going on. Employers may win temporary victories, individual strikes may fail, but the seed of discontent has been sown. The workers demand a fair wage, a wage sn.J’ar to that paid in the same industry in other states. Chambers of commerce that brag of cheap labor because of a selfish desire to wrest industries from other communities do so at the price of future trouble fob their own municipalities. The manufacturer may come. The labor may be cheap for a time. But industrial discord will follow* in due course. Prosperous communities are those where the workers are contented, where wages are high, and where working and living conditions are good. The south can build itself industrially on a rock foundation by being as partial to its labor as it is to the industries it is trying to woo from the north. A British judge recently decided that a cow in the road has the right of way. That confirms the cow’s own opinions on the matter. A Cleveland meteorologist says the day may be near when man shall control the weather. What in the world will there be left to talk about then? A slip of the pen can cause a careless man a lot of expense, says a writer on economics. The same thing might be said ui a slip of a girl. Doctors in Paris are vaccinating on the arms again rather than the legs. The scars had become too noticeable. Anew coiffure sometimes goes to a woman's head. David Dietz on Science What Is Rain Cloud? No. 361 N -UMBER. SEVEN in the official list of clouds is the rain cloud or snow cloud, depending of course on the season of the year. Its official name is the nimbus cloud. “Nimbus" is a Latin word which means “rain cloud.’’ The nimbus cloud is described officially as follows: "A dense layer of dark, shapeless cloud with ragged

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nimbus (the “scud" of sailors), either may be specified as fracto-nimbus.’’ To the layman, this definition seems simple and clear enough. But it has given the professional meteorologist considerable trouble and much discussion has taken place concerning the nimbus cloud. Let us turn to Dr. Humphreys of the United States weather bureau to find out why- Ke writes: “Nimbus, originally meaning cloud, and inferentially, stormnow means snow or rain cloud. “Hence, many argue, if rain or snow is falling from a cloud it certainly is a rain cloud. Likewise, if rain is not falling from it. then clearly it must he some other sort of cloud. But- on the other hand, if a given cloud while raining happens to be a typical rain cloud (nimbus), what was it immediately before we saw the rain? "Again, if it happens to be raining very hard what shall we call the cloud which we can not see for the rain? "Suppose that we can not see the edge of the cloud that is raining and generally we can not. dare we then call it a nimbus in the face of the official definition 'with ragged edges'? "These are typical of the questions and quibbles the arbitrary official definition of nimbus has evoked.” Dr. Humphreys suggests that' the solution to the problem can be found by a broad interpretation of the definition. He points out that a trace of precipitation may be falling from other forms of clouds and that it would be confusion to rename such clouds under the circumstance. “On the other hand." he write', "if it looks like a rain cloud and is not a cumulo-numbus. call it nimbus whether it is raining or not and regardless of all edges. ’ • The cumulo-nimbus cloud will be described later.) The nimbus cloud is formed by a rise of air due to converging winds, the flow over mountain barriers or the over-running of currents of different temperatures.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Boys Who Weitt Down in the S-ll and Waited to Be Found Were Not the Kind That Marcels Its Hair. T AST Monday night the freshman class of Rutgers college staged its annual pajama parade, with “egging” by sophomores, the rush for cover, and the drowning of a student, who jumped into the Delaware and Raritan canal. While death makes it worth notice, the real significance of this event lies in the fact that it has become institutional. Rutgers wc Aid not be Rutgers without a pajama parade. a tt Men Ape Women YTTHILE our young men seem to ’* be replacing women in the matter of pajama parades, youngwomen are replacing men on dining cars of the Yellowstone division of the Northern Pacific railroad. And gentlemen of Paris are having their hair marceled with “question marks” at the temples. Thus the emancipation of women, as some call it, or feminism, as others prefer, manifests itself in various walks of life.

Still He-Men SUCH changes are superficial rather than real. There still are plenty of he-men and sheW’omen in this world. Not a day passes without its incidents of courage and self sacrifice. The United States navy just has raised a submarine under conditions ! similar to those produced by an acI cidental sinking. The boys w*ho went down in the S-ll and waited to be found were not the kind that marcel their hair or run around in pajamas. tt tt Widow Is Rewarded CiONGRESS has granted Mrs. Goldberger a pension, and justly so. She is the wife of the late Dr. Goldberger who discovered that Pellagra is not transmissible. When it came time for the allimportant test of inoculating a healthy person with the blood of a pellagra victim to prove the point, Mrs. Goldberger asked for the dangerous privilege. While she escaped uninjured, she took the risk and deserves as much credit as though it had resulted fatally. tt tt ' Telephoning From Ship TELEPHONING from ship to shore or ship to ship, w*ill be possible within the near future, according to a report issued by the International Telephone and Telegraph Company. The necessary apparatus already has been installed on an unnamed liner. Since several stations have been established for the transmission of wireless telephone communications overseas, there is no reason why they should not be placed on ships. The most intriguing aspect of the problem is the part wireless telephone may come to play on land. n a tt Would Cause Upheaval INVENTIVENESS is a doubleedged swore:. If it holds out the promise of success and triumph for some, it carries the prospect of failure for others. Many a horse trader went to the wall because of the automobile. Wireless telephony, if ever brought j to a point where it could be used effectively on land, would cause something of an upheaval in our industrial structure. a r n This Is an Oil Age SIR HENRY DETERDING, head of Royal Dutch Shell, says that the world is in for an oil famine if present wasteful methods of production continue. The chances a*-e that it is, any way since consumption seems bound to increase, regardless of methods of production. This is primarily an oil age. What is more appailing, it still is in its infancy. We arc not running half the au- i tomobiles we shall, if prosperity ! continues, while the railroads have not put on half the oil-burning engines. As for aviation, we probably shall have ten times as many airplanes in 1940 as there are today, not to | mention dirigibles. tt tt tt Up a Blind Alloy THE notion prevails that some genius will find a substitute for oil before it plays out, and that if no such fortuitous event happens, the oil will last longer than we do. so why worry? When the wood supply grew scarce our forefathers learned to use coal, and about the time coal seemed likely to fall short of their needs, they discovered oil. This happy sequence of good luck makes us all feel comfortable. We are reassured not only by the fact that human ingenuity has not failed to find a better fuel, but by the knowledge that when the oil wells run dry there is a vast quantity to be extracted from shale and coal. Still, one has to admit that the supply is irreplaceable and that we are traveling up blind alley if a substitute is not found.

edges from which steady rain or snow usually falls. If there are openings in the cloud an upper layer of cirro-stratus or alto-stratus may almost invariably be seen through them. “If a layer of' nimbus separates in strong win and into ragged cloud, or if small detached clouds are seen drifting underneath a large

Daily Thought

For which of you. intending: to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and countefh the cost, wheth he have sufficient to finish it?—St. Luke 14:18. tr a a NEVER build after you are five and forty; have five years’ income in hand before you lay a brick, and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.—KetL

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN order to work magic upon another human being, the witch doctor has to have something intimately connected with the person concerned. Therefore, his clothing, his finger nails, his teeth and his hair, intimately connected with him. but which may be removed, are most frequently involved in magical procedures. The Negroes of South Africa think that it is possible to produce a fever in a comrade by burning some of the cut-off hair. In other portions of Africa it is thought that you can make an enemy suffer a severe headache by

YOUNG communists jeered the police during a parade on Saturday and were arrested, and when they brought these children into the station house the lieutenant at the desk is reported to have said, "I'm going to teach you kids you're living in the U S. A.” All those under 16 were held as juvenile delinquents. This seems to me ill-timed severity and not at all in accord with the .traditions of our country. It never Ijas been the custom for the young to hold cops in high respect. There is nothing communistic in regarding men in uniform as something less than little friends of al 1 the world. The block in which * spent my early days was the backbone of a good, respectable, middleclass neighborhood. It was a brownstone street .and. even so. no natural instinct moved us to show deference to the policeman on the beat, who stopped our playing baseball. In unison we shouted, "Brassbuttoned baby catcher” at times when we felt he could not catch us. a it n Not Foreign Gold AND this taunt was not inspired by propaganda from Moscow. For soViet gold jingled in the pockets of none of us back in the year of 1898. I am trying to point out that little conservatives are much like little radicals in their inevitable opposition to duly constituted authority. It's plainly silly to say that any 14-year-older is a juvenile delinquent merely because he hoots and hisses at a police officer. If this stand is to be taken, then all the members of the youngest generation stand in grave peril of matriculating in reformatories. But for the years which intervene I might well stand irf the dock with the little radicals of Union Square. But I never yelled epithets at policemen, except from lofty windows where they could no’, reach me. But even so, the hand of the law was felt within our set. My brother, fully as well behaved as any of the rest, was taken before a magistrate on the charge of disorderly conduct. He since has lived down this offense and grown to be the vice-president of a respectable corporation. Had his affiliations been communistic. things might have gone hard with him, for the charge read that he struck a policeman in the neck with a snowball. His defense, as I remember, ran that he was not aiming at the cop at all. but merely attempting to hit the principal of our school in a moment of exuberance. "I can tell,” said the judicial officer, "that you’re either a bad one or an idiot.” Teachers and schoolmates came to testify in my brother's defense, but I can't remember upon which of the alternatives suggested we managed to get him off. a a a Not Holy Yet IT seems to me that under the leadership of Grover Whalen an inaccurate conception of the police function has been set up. Mr.

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burning some of his hair along with his food. On the island of Luang, burning of the hair or of the finger nails with the proper charms may cause the hands to swell. In other islands of the South Seas some of the man’s saliva along with his hair is wrapped up in a red cloth and sunk‘in a certain grotto while charms are recited. This causes the evil spirit to come out of the grotto and attack the person from whom the saliva and the hair were taken. It already has been mentioned in this series that some people believe that a person will lose his strength when his hair is cut; that legend goes back to Samson and Delilah.

Whalen and his subordinates seem intent upon establishing the police as an integral part of the law itself. Mr. Whalen was once incautious enough to remark, “There's a lot of law at the end of a night stick.” In all truthfulness there’s none at all. A policeman is not legislator, nor yet a judicial officer. Upon the walls of the Communist headquarters, in Fourteenth street, there was displayed the sign “Down With Walker Police Brutality.” This was naturally irritating to men all hot and bothered by dress parade. Possibly the police were correct in contending that this banner was in violation of local ordinances, and may be they were right to take it down. Even so. I hold that the police must be thick-skinned enough to suffer jeering without aggressive reply. If a Communist says that cops are Cossacks, it is hardly a convincing answer to lay the fellow's head open with a night stick. I'm not for Communists. Until U. S. Steel goes down another 20 points the capitalistic system "'ill suffice me. And see my chief complaint against Whalen’s men ': that they did so much to give substance and reason to radical propaganda. Asa membeor of the exploiting class, my quarrel is not with the Communists, but with idiotic reactionaries. As yet I lie quite comfortably at nights and never toss

Quotations of Notables

THE United States is sometimes spoken of as the richest country in the world, due to the immense progress of both agriculture and industry in that country. The fact is, however, that Canada is a country of larger area, and of far greater wealth in natural resources per capita.—James E. Boyle, professor of agricultural economics, Cornell university. u n n Industry in these days of intensive sales rivalry demands advertising copy which does not inspire the reader to exclaim. “How clever the ad writers are there days!” but rather to observe, “What a valuable device this new noiseless alarm clock seems to be!” and then to resolve to go out and buy one.—Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce. nan The most critical period in any great emergency involving armed conflict is that immediately following a declaration of war. . . . The enactment of the proposed legislation (selective service bill) wouM enable the war department and navy department to proceed with their preparations and plans for national defense with the assurance that the most essential item in mo-bilization—man-power would be certainly and quickly available.— James W. Good, secretary of war. a a a There are few Voltaires who can say. “I hate what you say. but I will defend with my very life your right to say it.”.—Edmund B. Chas-

The vestal virgins of ancient Greece had all hair cut from their heads and wore a special veil thereafter, and similar ideas are followed in some modern churches. The hair also is associated with some of the constriction cures in which a hair taken from the body is tied around a pimple, wart, mole or stye that it is desired to have disappear from the body. Actually, there is not the slightest scientific evidence to support any of these notions. They represent the simplest form of symbolical magic, the attempt to conjure on the basis of intimate control of portions of a person's body. The hair can not influence either health or disease. It is merely an appendage to the human body.

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for fear that some proletrian revolution will cart me to a guillotine. a a a Making Martyrs A ND certainly prediction is not safe unless the forces of law and order grow more intelligent. When a little girl of 14 is communistic and hisses her head off at a passing policeman. I wish that cop would keep on walking. The little girl’s opinion of him is not the least important, even though she happens to be a child of unusual brilliance. But when the policeman turns and rushes her to court by way of “juvenile delinquency” and the Children’s Society, then he has done too good a morning’s work for revolution and economic anarchy. This is not by any means the way in which to endear the present: state to precocious youngsters. Neither gun nor gas nor battle cruiser can command the same range as a legitimate grievance, and so I charge the police of New York City with acting in the interests of Moscow and upheaval. By hot-headed and ill-considered action Grover Whalen men have put into the hands of powerless agitators a mighty weapon. If police upon dress parade are not fair .target for jibes, then what on earth lias become of our civic sense of humor? < Copyright. J 929. by The Timer- 1

fee. director of labor temple, fOutlook.) tt s a A better memory together with increased ability to hold ideas in mind simultaneously, and a greater capacity to compare their values for a given purpose, seem, then, to constitute man's superiority over the anthropoid apes.—Edgar James Swift, head of the department of psychology at Washington university, St. Louis f Scribners).

A Dollar More !l/ No store is more interested than I I ours in achieving low prices, but k when quality is at stake we are not \ r~ afraid to ask a dollar more nor \| JL afraid to admit it. yJAJj Thus regardless of how low our r AT Itu prices are a man is assured that .rV | w the quality is right, let the price \ y be what it may. / "J§a Society Brand Clothes / Jig $35 to $75 O Wilson Bros. Haberdashery DOTY’S 16 N. Meridian St.

Ideals and opinions expressed in thi<* 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.

MAY 22.1929

REASON By Frederick Landis

Our World War Conscription TVas a Scandal: lUc Conscripted Men and Let Money Run Amuck. THE American Legion Is eternally right to condemn the conscription bill now in the United States senate, for the bill does not provide for the conscription of industry and wealth; it provides only for the conscription of soldiers, leaving those who stay at home the opportunity to make unlimited blood money. a a a It is a colossal infamy of a nation to let some get rich while others get killed, yet this has been the custom of all nations, and wars j always have brought forth the j heroes and the hogs. * Even back in our American revolution, while Washington's army was destitute, the grafters were picking the very bones of Liberty, and Washington regretted that he could not hang them one and all. a a a Our World war conscription was a foul scandal, surpassing in its infamy a million times Fall and Sinclair ever did, for we conscripted men and let money run amuck. And you know and I know that the sons of the rich and the influential were rarely conscripted, while the sons of the poor were taken. a a a WE remember also that huskies who were permitted to esescape the draft were allowed to make sl2 to sls a day in the shipyards. while their physical inferiors were fighting rats, cooties and Huns for S3O a month. Dempsey, then heavyweight champion of the world, escaped the draft, while hollow-chested gentlemen were made to go. tt tt a They were rolling in mud while we were rolling in wealth. As they put on their masks to keep from being gassed, we put on our farseeing glasses to note the latest chance to graft. From the lowest who worked with his hands to the highest who | grafted with his wits, it was pluni der. Patriots at the front and pirates ;at home—that's your beautiful war! 808 WE promised to stop it you. know, this building of fortunes upon the bones of men; we said this last infamy never could be repeated and every President from Harding dow*n has declared for universal conscription, but this effort to pass a bill, conscripting soldiers alone gives the lie to the government’s sincerity. Let this congress pass this bill, laying its hand upon the shoulders of five million boys, yet never touching wealth or industry, and the fight is lost. Those behind this conscription bill will say: "Pass this measure and we will pass the bill conscripting wealth and industry later on,” but that is only apple sauce. Pass universal conscription now or no conscription! It in time of war, all of us can not give all we have, then we are not a Republic: we are only a hogpen: and the sooner we are taken over by a foreign power, the better i it will be.

Hr d Pay: i& the •* BURR’S TREASON TRIAL May 22 ON May 22, 1807, Aaron Burr, the most puzzling character in American history, went on trial for treason in Richmond, Va. The case aroused unprecedented social and political interest, and although the full force of the federal government was thrown behind the prosecution, Burr was acquitted. Historians’ have credited this verdict to the fact that Burrs charming daughter. Theodosia, at by his side during the trial and won the sympathy ot many. Since the case was tried before Cnief Justice Marshall, one of the ablest jurists in American n.story, there fan be no doubt that the verdict was in accord with law. He was tried a .second time on a charge of misdemeanor and again freed. History never has been able to explain satisfactorily just what Bure, plotted to cause his arrest on the treason charge. After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New York, he fled to the west, where he enlisted some financial and military aid and is supposed to have planned anew government, with himself at the head, somewhere in the southwest, possibly in Mexico.