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Page Coxey Al , '-r nearly sixty years the people ot this county will p f) .v the final installment of honris issuer] it ]>7o to build the courthouse. Taxe* \< : he a little higher this year or jicrvief poorei in some direction, for it will require near I v *2''r't.noo to pay olf the last of this debt M'hi'-h. when t was incurred, amounted to only hi. f’assing f n the burden to future generations in tins particular instance meant that three generation* have been compelled to pay the cost. While ’ • people Stave been scraping together £7s<'U'’--’ to pa v on ; he principal they have been forced to r>a with promptness. *2.626.6.>0 in intere-t ■•harsrc . The* total ■ >s! of th° building to the public, in fhis -!\r\ \ rar |ien‘‘><l. iias been more than three and ah ' vr,dlions of dollars, not counting repairs, o- rental of approximately sixty thousand ‘Pulars a year tor the building alone, inasmuch a* the county owns the ground. Cleaning up the last of the indebtedness, a little ahead f the program outlined a year ago. w 1 pa\e the way for plans to erect some sort of anew building when the legislature meets again to give permission for either the ale of tb' ground or for some change in its that will be more in keeping with the modern idea of efficient offices. That will mean, in *•. tii ** r case, more bonds. Tins interest burden has been regular. Every vear its collection has been the first item. Tlo- p-r.p'. have been compelled to pay this before they could take care of the poor, pay salaries <•; ..ft, ial> ->r erect hospitals. It had first claim on every pocket hook in the county. It was a charge ahead of any other item o' expense, private or public, in the count.' for it was a debt on all the property of the county. The formidable interest burden might attract. no >t appropriately, some interest in the new crusade which will be started by General .Jacob Goxov on July S when he starts on a second march, this time a parade to the people, to induce them to get rid of interest charges on public improvements. Under the < oxey plan there would have been n>> interest paid on the courthouse since IS9O and on that date all the principal would have been paid. The people would have paid exactly *050,000 for their courthouse and escaped the s2.H2.6.'*<> which has been paid in interest. Instead of selling these bonds to investors, the county would deposit them with the United States government and receive back money, real money, for them. Every year the treasurer would collect, as lie now collects, fixe per cent. Instead of paying it to buyers of bond' a> interest, the treasurer would return this currency to tlw treasury department in Washington, where it would be destroyed and withdrawn from circulation. At the end o. twenty years, the bonds would be sent back to the county, all paid. Coxey. who now has the indorsement of Henry Ford. xay that this is the cure for farmers* ills and for unemployment. He may be ■wrong. " The plan may have some holes in it. although half the banking committee of the house of representatives does not belioxe it to be either illegal or illusory. At any rate, it is interesting to speculate on w-ha- could have been built with that $2,626,650 paid in nteres' # We might have had better hospitals and bettor schools. e might haxe had better roads. We might have had, perhaps, a decent new courthouse that would meet present require me nts. Whether his remedy be right or wrong, Coxey is certainly right when he says that interest is burden on industry and the industrious. This ,-ourthouse incident shows how great it can be.

We Pay for the War Paris dispatches hail the agreement of the experts' commission as a final, definite settlemen* of the reparations problem. It is hardly that. The governments concerned have yet to ratify the work of the experts. And. assuming this will be done, there remams the unpredictable future. The agreement provides a scale of German payments running fifty-nine years. In the light of the last ten years’ experience, it is highly improbable that any elaborate reparation system erected now can withstand changing economic conditions for a decade, much less for hall a century. The great value of the Young plan, like the earlier Dawes plan, is that it reduces political claims nearer to economic realities, and provides a stabilizing period until the public and politicians are strong enough to lace the disagreeable facts. The facts are that Germany cannot possible pay more than a traction of the allied war costs and that the allies cannot possibly pay more than a fraction of their debts to the United States. Such unpleasant truths are not learned quickly. But the Young plan is most encouraging evidence of progress. Ten years ago at the Paris peace conference the allies were going to “make'’ Germany pay $125,000,000,000- Nine years ago at the Boulogne conference they decided they would have to be satisfied With $67,000,000,000. At the Spa conference in the same year the figure had fallen to $65,000,000,000. Eight years ago the allies had got down to insisting * ft 1 Jr

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on $33,000,000,000. Later came the Dawes plan, fixing annuities, but no total. Now the allied experts, under the leadership of the American delegation, have cut the reparations total to $9,000,000,000. That figure, of more importance than the hypothetical total for fifty-nine years, is the annuity scale for the next thirty-seven years, averaging about $500,000,000. There is serious question whether Germany can pay that much. Therefore the experts quite wisely have reduced even further the payments for this year and next. Payments for the interim seven months ending next April would amount to only $175,000,000, or about half the requirement under the similar Dawes plan period. These amount seems so small in relation to the earlier fantastic allied demands that few persons in Great Britain. France or the United States are willing to admit that they are too high, even under the Young plan. v It is significant, however, that Germany has paid practically no reparations so far, in actual fact. She has not been able to pay out of her own pocket. What she has done, under allied pressure, is to borrow money from the United States and turn that over to the allies as reparations payments. And Germany has borrowed more from us than she has paid out. That is hardly a healthy economic state of affairs, nor does it indicate any rosy future for reparations. Then there is the whole problem of transfer. International payments cannot be made in gold, but in the long run must be paid in goods and services. Even if the time comes when Germany can afford to pay, the allies cannot afford to let her pay a large amount, because such dumping of German goods would ruin trade and industry in the allied countries. The same is true of allied payment of debts to us —indeed, at this very moment we are raising higher tariff barriers to prevent them from paying us. So. whoever won the war, Americans are apt to pay the remaining costs of it. Not because the Germans are wicked nor because the allies are welchers, but because of the economic interdependence of nations in which the creditor carries the debtor‘rather than force bankruptcy for all. The Senate’s Opportunity The tariff bill is before the senate committee. As passed by the house, it was even worse than the measure reported out by the ways and means committee. The result of consideration on the floor was to increase duties on 150 articles, while no reductions of consequence were made. Scant heed was paid to well-founded objections to vital administrative changes. The debate was in fact little more than shadowboxing, since the outcome was certain. Republican leaders kept the house firmly in control, making such concessions as were necessary to placate a few groups who believe they were not getting their share of the millions that will be taken from the pockets of consumers. The membership of the house at large was not permitted to offer amendments. Duties on sugar, clothing, food, shoes, building materials and other necessaries are increased. Many manufactured articles, already highly protected, are given additional protection they do not need. There is small justification for many increases. Consumers will be taxed bftond reason for the benefit of small groups. The sugar tariff, for instance, will cost the farmers of the country far more than the relatively small number of beet sugar growers will gain, to say nothing of other consumers. Many of the agricultural tariffs will benefit the farmers but little, while the increases on manufactured articles are certain to impose added burdens. The senate finance committee, we are told, expects practically to rewrite the bill. The committee should. It has an opportunity to consider the interests of the consumer, which got small attention in the house. Ed Howe, the famous Atchison (Kas.) editor, says newspaper men have become so powerful and clever that they are the real force and hope of future worthy development. That ought to be worth a raise.

—David Dietz on Science -

Cloud Droplets Small

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CLOUDS, as the reader is aware by now, consist of either particles of water or ice. The question which arises at once, therefore, is why clouds float. Water is about 800 times heavier than air. It would seem, therefore, that a cloud would fall with considerable rapidity. Two things, however, tend to keep clouds aloft. The first, is the extreme smallness of the particles comprising the average cloud. Most of them are about

sistance to be overcome is very much greater when the drop has been split into tiny particles. Hence a cloud falls much more slowly than a rain drop. In still air, the average cloud will fall or descend at a rate of about eight feet a minute. The second and chief fact which keeps clouds aloft is that clouds usually form in rising currents of air. The rate of ascent is usually more than eight feet a minute. The cloud forms as a result of the expansion and consequent cooling of the rising air. Consequently, new material is being added continually to the cloud by the rising air. Frequently, when a cloud falls to a lower level, it comes in contact with warmer air and disappears as a result of evaporation. On occasion, however, a descending air current may bring a cloud to the ground where it becomes a fog. The important thing to remember about a cloud is that it is not a static object. Usually, a cloud is continuously losing material by evaporation while at the same time additional material is being added to it by condensation. A true understanding of nature impresses one chiefly with this fact. Something is always going on in nature. There are cycles which are always in operation. One's appreciation of nature becomes greater if one knows and appreciates these cycles.

M.E. Tracy SAYS:

Our Bootlegger Friends Are Carvyhg the Thing Pretty Far When They Fool With the Safety Devices of a Liner to Get by With a Few Bottles es Hootch. 'T'HE latest scheme of smuggling liquor is to conceal it in the air tanks of life boats. An unexpectedly rigid search of the S. S. President Harding disclosed an average of twelve bottles in each of the two air tanks of her thirty life boats. Officers of the ship say they knew nothing about it. Not questioning their veracity, it is hard to conceive how all the boats could be tinkered with in such a way, without someone in authority getting a hint. Putting that aside, our bootlegger friends are carrying the thing pretty far when they fool with the safety devices of a liner in order to get by with a few bottles of hooch. tt ft tt Deadlock in England THERE is a political deadlock in England. Though the Laborites have a plurality in parliament, they lack a majority, while the Liberals, with the smallest membership of all three parties, apparently hold the balance of power. With a dozen or so results missing, the Laborites have 288 members, the Conservatives, 259. and the Liberals 56. with nine scattering. The total membership of the house of commons is 615, requiring 308 for a majority. The Conservatives and the Liberals could obtain a bare majority by uniting, while the Laborites and Liberals could obtain a good working majority.

What, Mr. Lloyd George? ILOYD GEORGE, titular head of _j the Liberal party, says he would not join with the Laborites, which implies that he might act with the Conservatives. Lloyd George lias said he would not do so many things, however, that he did do later on, that no one places too much confidence in the latest declaration. A curious feature of the British election is the difference between the popular and parliamentary strength shown by each party. The Liberals, for instance, though pollling one-fourth of the popular vote, only elected one-twelfth of the Commons, while the Conservatives, though polling a larger popular vote than the Laborites, have thirty-eight less members. tt n a Genius by Eugenics According to the New York World, Dr. Clarence G. Campbell says that human geniuses who will shape the future world must be bred the same as race horses. A fine idea, if one only knew where to begin. Admitting that physical traits can be perpetuated, is it so clear that brain power can? If our modern experts in eugenics and heredity had set out to produce a Lincoln, would they have picked his parents, his home, his evironment? On the other hand if they had lived with Marcus Aurelius and Faustina, would they have looked for the son of that great philosopher and beautiful brute to turn out a beast? The human race has been breeding kings for years, mating the children of its palaces with scrupulous care, in order to preserve a ruling class that was fit to rule. What is the result? Sparta was founded on eugenics. Everything possible was done to produce a race of supermen. Again, what is the result? tt tt tt , Poor People and Brains OUT in California, a court case is in progress to decide what ails Stanley McCormick. Stanley McCormick not only came from sturdy stock, but from a sire who reasonably might be rated as a genius. He has been afflicted mentally for twenty-three years. According to some experts his affliction is dementia praccox, while according to others it is malignant neurosis. Just now he is being treated by a Freudian disciple at the tune of $150,000 a year. One cannot help wondering what the affliction would have been called and what kind of treatment Stanley McCormick would be receiving were he an ordinary working man? Poor people are barred from out most modern treatment, if not out most modern diseases. Maybe that is one reason why they occasionally produce a genius. Maybe, if they are let alone, they will continue to supply the need. A good many, if not most of our geniuses have come from the poor, and a good many, if not most of their families, have run out in the second or third generation.

one- thousandth inch in diameter. The average rain drop, which is one-sixth of an inch in diameter, is the equivalent of 8,000,000 average cloud particles. It is a fact, of course, that the pull of gravity is the same whether a rain drop exists as a single drop or as millions of particles. But the air re-

THERE is no such thing as the honor of a collective body. —Emil Ludwig, German biographer. B B B T think an appreciation of the frailty of human nature would keep us from having an inferiority complex when otherwise we might fall a victim to it.—Former Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts. ana If we could all take our own advice. we might be happier.— Professor Charles A. Beard, historian. a a a Art is the purest thing in the world.—Morris Gest, producer of “The Miracle.'' Outlook.) BBS When people tell you there is more drinking now than

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P.Y DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN, Editor Journal of (hr American Medical Association and of Hygeia* the Health Magazine. Another of the writers who has considered the nature of man points out that the body of a woman of average size contains nine gallons of water as compared with ten for a man; oxygen sufficient to fill 800 nine-gallon barrels; enough carbon to make 9.000 graphite pencils; enough phosphorus to make 8,000 small boxes of matches; enough hydrogen to blow up a balloon capable of raising the whole body to the top of the Woolworth building; enough iron to make five tarks; enough salt to fill six ordinary salt cellars, and four or five pounds of nitrogen, equal to four quarts of ammonia. The iron, as has been previously mentioned, is among the least of the ingredients. A few years ago when the “eatj more raisins" campaign spread across the country, the chief claim lin the advertising was the argu- ! meat that the raisins would proI vide iron.

Quotations of Notables

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Your Body Needs Iron —a Little

IT SEEMS TO ME

H OLID AYS don't mean much to reporters. It’s true that some newspapers were not published on Memorial day, but I had to work doing the column which I should have done on Wednesday. And generally it turns out like that. Still I am not pretending that it is tragic to be compelled to toil when all the others are at play. Public holidays deserve no great enthusiasm, because the principle on which they are based is vitally unsound. I am fond of any leave of absence, but I don't want to be pitched into a holiday by proclamation and general assent. tt tt tt Depends on Mood THE fitting time for a feast day depends upon the mood of the individual. And in the case of more sou ber festivals, the same theory should prevail. Many have complained that Memorial day is devoted rather more to double-headers than to respect for the soldier dead. The community should not be blamed for this, since it is ridiculous to suppose that millions ever can be pitched into the same scheduled time. My scheme is that each citizen of the United States should mourn and rejoice only upon such occasions as the urge is definite and unmistakable. Everybody should be allowed so many holidays a year to be employed by him like cuts in a college course. Thus, upon some undistinguished Wednesday, Mr. A. might rise in chipper mood. The day is fair. The

Daily Thought

False witnesses did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not.—Psalms 35:11. B B tt IT is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional Ijing the world.—Johnson.

there was before prohibition, they simply do not know what they are talking about.—Professor Irving Fisher of Yale. ana After 1940 the country will still have available some 500,000,000 acres of potentially cultivable land, an area greater than the total cultivated land at present. —Dr. O. E. Baker, economist in the Department of Agriculture. a a a Labor is more interested in prosperity than is any other class. To it prosperity is life, to the others it is profits and superfluities. Labor will strive however, to make na- ■ tional prosperity an individual blessing. The nation must flourish, but it can not flourish on the broad foundation of mass poverty.—Rt. j Hon. Romany McDonald, P. C, 1

June Bugs

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Tr. the body the iron is an impor-1 tant ingredient of the red blood cells, associated with the carrying of oxy- j gen by the blood from the lungs j throughout the body. If a person loses red blood cells, j he gets pale and anemic. There is, however, nothing to be gained in anemia by taking vast quantities of iron, since the body can accommodate only a certain small amount. The entire quantity of iron in the normal body of a full-grown person is about one-tenth i ounce, which makes one part to 25.000 by weight. If the body is conducting its chemical affairs in an orderly manner, only a trace of the iron is lost daily during the processes of digestion, exercise, breathing and similar functions. It has been estimated that tire total wastage and loss amounts to about one-fifth of a grain or about one seventy-fifth of a gram, which is about the amount of iron that could easily be shaken off a rusty . nail. Obviously there is ordinarily 1

By HEY WOOD BROUN

sun is bright. Work seems more inappropriate than usual. “Why, bless my soul,’’ says the young man, “this morning feels very much like Washington's birthday." tt tt tt A Floating Feast Day Thereupon for an practical purposes, that undistinguished Wednesday is Washington’s birthday as far as the young man is concerned, and he celebrates it fittingly with a day in the country and an evening in town. Late that night, while he is still refreshed, the boss calls up and angrily exclaims: “Why weren’t you at w : ork today?" “Washington’s birthday,” answers the young man firmly. “No,” thunders his employer. “You celebrated Washington's birthday last Tuesday." “Why, now that you speak of it, so I did. My mistake, sir. Columbus day." And small harm has been done by the error, because the day in the country and the evening in town and all the cocktails were just as fitting for Columbus as for Washington. Christmas and Easter should also be movable feasts, but upon a small- , er tether. Labor day can be celebrated hot or cold, but people who have the misfortune to live across the equator, where the seasons end wrong, can never know a proper Christmas. There must be a frostiness in the air to make the stars dance with convincing jubilation. An outdoor Christmas seems to me unthinkable.

Not Easter If It Rains AND Easter, the most moving of all festivals, deserves an appropriate setting. Back as far as the memory of man can be jogged all peoples have paid homage to the coming of the spring and rebirth in the fields and forest.

This old metal is burnished in the Christian countries with recollections of church music and the heavy perfume of the lilies. But if the sun does not shine upon new buds the day simply is not Easter. The thrill of resurrection comes imperfectly to the heart when rain pelts down. All those who are sensitive must necessarily postpone their own individual Easter until the earth is ready to co-operate and to testify that the stone has been rolled away. Nor would I recognize and accept a foggy Christmas. Christ was bom under stars and a high sky. I cannot see the shepherds for the mist, and when the herald angels sing there must be no intervening scud. Thanksgiving is to my mind the least memorable of all festivals. It is a holiday unblessed by any spiritual considerations. It represents the Puritan's attempt to be a good fellow, and this roundhead revel is characteristically a time of excess. The dish on the day is not fit

little reason to take extra quantities of iron into the body. The substance is found in considerable amounts in lean meat, in the yolk of egg. in spinach, in cabbage, in peas, beans, potatoes, milk and many fruits. For many years the average American diet was white bread made without milk, meat, potatoes and coffee into which some skimmed milk might be poured. Such a diet was quite likely to be deficient in many important ingredients. The scientific students of nutrition have decided that most American diets must be watched as to their content of iron. However, one need not necessarily eat raisins or excessive amounts of any other food. There are so many factors concerned in a diet that all of them must be watched equally. For some people raisins mean too much indigestible residue or roughage. A shortage of iron reflects itself promptly in the condition of the body and any good physician will recognize the symptoms.

Ideal* and opinion* expressed in this 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.

I for any but those of heavy ap- ! petite and feeble palate. Except j when served as hash, the turkey is distinctly a second-rate bird, not fit to fly with ducks or chickens. And the goose is best of all. a tt n The Puritan on Parade DUT the Puritan always can be trusted to make a botch ot pleasure. He had only two speeds. One was piety and the other inj ebriety. | Release through gayety and frij volity was not within his capacity. Naturally he has turned prohibitionist in our own day. Liquor al- : ways had him beaten. Only by I being dry can he avoid getting dead drunk. j Tire Puritan of old New England strove to numb his fear of hell, and •it took strong dring in vast quanj titles to make him forget the brim- ■ stone. | And the whole tradition of Thanksgiving is largely one or desperate efforts to escape T he grossness of mortality by wallowing in heavy victuals. It is an application of the old principle that a freezing man should be rubbed with snow. ; Any one of the old Saxon Thanes : well may have smiled from his seat in heaven as he watched his gloomy roundhead grandchildren guzzle in : the name of God. The Puritan made an annual burnt offering, large and generous ; to the Lord, but then he proceeded : to sit down and eat the offering, for he was greedy as well as pious. However, it may be that I am a bit too emotional about the matter of heavy feeding. Possibly that can bp explained by the fact that through terrific exertion I managed to reduce four pounds upon Memorial day. (Copyright. 1929. br The Time.','

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.TUNE 3, 1*29

REASON —By Frederick Landis

Bryan Would Torn Over in His Grave If He Knew His Daughter Voted for a Protective Tariff. TT7ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN VV probably turned c..r in his grave when his daughter. Ruth Bryan Owen, member of congress from Florida, voted for the protective tariff bill, for he held that the tariff was the sum of ail abominations, making his national reputation in the house of representatives in 1893 by his speech against protection. tt tt tt Industrial values are booming and agricultural values are drooping When the assessor comes around the industrial world hides its personal property, while everything the farmer owns is in plain view. Do you wonder that the farmer favors a state income tax? a tt tt Those roars of disapproval with which Europe greets the new tariff bill at Washington reminds one that Europe has written China tariff laws for many years and she now would write ours if we were as j weak as China has been. And for good measure. Europe i would also write our immigration I laws. ! A national defense works in time ' of peace as well as in time of war. a a tt '"|~’HERE'S no limit to the term J of the Illinois legislature and it i still is in session and going strong. ! So no matter what misfortune may I overcome other states they can glance at Illinois and reflect that it might be worse. ts tt a It would lie fortunate if the University of Towa were the only institution that subsidized athletes, but as a matter of fact almost all instii tutions have done the same thing and a lot of the high schools are : doing it in basketball. tt tt tt The supreme court did the proper thing to refuse citizenship to Ro--1 sika Sehvimmer. the Hungarian pacifist, who declared she would not fight for the country in time of war. Still, there's no practical dif- | ference between her attitude and | that of the one who gets exemption because he is conscientiously opposed to defending his homeland. And if the government can excuse the latter, it might as well admit. the former. tt n tt *x / rOU ran t see where Mabel WilleJL brandt's experience in the prohibition service would qualify her to serve all these aviation companies which are said to be bidding for her services, unless it be the fact that, the Hoover administration gave her the air. tt tt tt Anna Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould, insisted on marrying the man she wanted, Count de Castallane. who proved to be an endless liability, but she refused to let her son marry the woman he wanted, so he ended his existence. The memories of some dear parents are short. a tt tt Tire presents that Lindy and Anne passed up by having a secret wedding were equaled only by the ini demnity Uncle Sam passed up, when ; the peace treaty was made at Paris. a tt u The Russian government is taking all the bells out of church belfries and melting them for use in industry. A perfectly wonderful country—to stay away from'

AN OBSCI KF. MERRIMAC June 3 IN American naval history the name Merrimac is a ■ -ociated chiefly with the ironclad confederal" warship which fought the Union Monitor in the world's first battle of ironclad ships. A humbler Merrimac played a thrilling part in American history thirty-one years ago today. It was a commonplace collier to which clung none of the glamour associated with the south’s unique Meirimac. It owes its fame to the fact that it was sunk. And not after a gallant fight against a stronger foe. but purposely, and by its own men. Early in the summer of 1898. during our war with Spain, seven Spanish ships had been bottled up in Santiago harbor by an American fleet. One June 3. it was decided to sink the collier at the entrance to the harbor and imprison the Spanish fleet. Lieutenant Richard Hobson and seven seamen were entrusted with the dangerous, maneuver. They took the ship to the entrance of the harbor, under heavy fire, and sunk her by means of torpedoe., aboard. The ship failed to sink at the proper point, however, and the crew* was captured.