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Protecting Crime •'Can the members of the legal profession, h't ha ve a regard for the ethics of their pro--ssion, refrain from demanding a most thorJlfrh inquiry into the conditions which Chief itttice Martin, in a public address, said he lieved to exist in this city and state? He suggested that there is a practice of ceryin lawyers m accepting regular employment rom men who violate the law, especially the ore profitable forms of crime, and who charge ilaries, not fees, for keeping these violators I lit of prison. The inference is that the law'yers are hired a frjre the crime, nr crimes, are committed, specially would this apply to the violation *t\the prohibition laws. • Whether the relationship is as crude and rimmal as this suggests may be doubted. It is ard to believe that su<-b a charge could be instantiated. Lawyers who are criminal nough.and tricky enough to secure such clients conild probably be smart enough to hide any uch transactions. But that such relationships in effect do exist -etween certain lawyers and the criminal element can not be doubted. It is not a matter of ccident that every Capone gunman who is aught in this part, of the state is always decoded by the same lawyer. It is not a matter *£, accident that the lawyer is on the spot almost as soon as the arrest is made. What is significant is the fact that the legal inns which represent most violators are known or their political influence rather than their jegal acumen. Crooked machine polities depends upon an jlliance with crime and a protectorate over the jinderworld. The underworld furnishes the rleetion crooks. It also furnishes the revenues, In one form or another. - The machine must stand back of its children nd a most important cog in any political machine is the criminal lawyer who has ex•eprional luck in obtaining acquittals. The chief justice has opened a problem that demands an answer. When the legal profession discovers the relationship between political lawyers and criminals, the people will have some very definite information of just what brooked politics costs in money, safety, decency and justice. Is there a group of lawyers with enough -hrage and enough independence to drag out -il the facts, no matter who is caught?

The Armory Program The audacity of Adjutant-General Kershner in trying to foist, ten more armories on the state under .the private exploitation plan, condemned by the legislature, suggests that the Governor is showing remarkable patience in continuing him in office after the expiration of his appointment. That the Governor has refused to permit this violation of the law and of the policy of the legislature 'is encouraging. But there are still some steps to be taken. When ! the legislature began its investigation it discovered i enough facts to make necessary a thorough inquiry j by'the state board of accounts. It ordered such an inquiry and that expert engineers Ire employed to j check the cost of construction of the many armories erected A yet this examination has not been made It should be made at once. •.The bulk :ig of armories bv a bank and a construction company which it owned was pronounced hy 4 the then attorney-general as illegal and rental pa; nents not binding upon the state for more than a period of rvo years It is significant that this opinion was ignored and no further legal advice sought from him. If the armories belong to the state, which is a mitter of doubt, the people should know how they were buih and what profits went to private interests. If th? v are privately held, different action is indicated.

Remember the Vestris We ail per excited when the women and children weer down with the Vestris—and then most of us forpot- about it ,The British board of trade has not forgotten. The prestige of British shipping is at stake. Though slow in. getting under way. the London injuiry is more searching than the two earlier New York investigations It is substantiating the original charges of the ship owners' negligence and adding more horrors. inadequate inspection, defective lifeboats and equipment, insufficient training and discipline of many cf the crew, and other hostages to disaster and death are revealed by the evidence. Perhaps the most damning evidence is that given bjft Chief Officer Johnson, senior surviving officer, of h<jw the fact of overloading was concealed and then denied at the New York hearings: and the admission by Alfred Woods, general manager of the Lamport and Holt line, that following a Vestris accident in 1926. due to. alleged overloading, his company had taken no action to prevent recurrence of such accidents ,"In other words. Lamport and Holt left their vesabroad, free to break the law governing British ships?” the London examiner asked Woods. . “Yes." replied Woods. ’ And Chief Officer Johnson said: “We didn't want the American people to get hold of this overloading basiness. and we were trying to conceal it.’* It may be all very well for Americans to get Indignant over the criminal disregard by a British ship company of British safety regulations, resulting in the death of dozens of American citizens. But the British government can ba depended upon to take care of'that end of the tragedy. • It would be more to the point if Americans remembered that the overloading of the Vestris violated no American law, and that so far as our legislation goes

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ships can sail from New York and other American ports every day, without adequate protection for safety and lives of crews and passengers. Congress should act promptly on the Wagner proposals for a survey of the problem and complete remedial legislation. N Remember the Vestris! Enforcement Efficiency President Hoover proposes to put prohibition enforcement on a more efficient basis. He has *asked congress to name a select committee to confer with representatives of the executive departments on “reorganization and concentration of responsibility in administration of the federal bureaus connected with prohibition enforcement." The special committee would have the co-operation of the President’s law observance commission. The President's move is timely. Instead of waiting for conclusions of the law observance commission, which may not be available for two years, he will as quickly as possible bring about needed changes. Presumably the end sought is to gather under a single head the various agencies engaged in detecting prohibition violations and prosecuting offenders, as nearly as this is possible. This should make for efficiency. It, is is agreed that the government should enforce prohibition to the limit of its ability. It should have the men and the means for a sincere and determined effort to make the law effective. Then if the intolerable conditions which exist are not corrected, it will be apparent that prohibition enforcement is impossible, and suggestions for modifications will be doubly opportune.

Freeing the Seas A labor government in England, freedom of the seas disarmament —these are a sequence. Ramsey MacDonald as premier; Senator Eorah, instigator of the Kellogg peace pact as chairman of the foreign relations committee of the United States senate. and a. Quaker in the White House. This is a constellation of the very opposite of Mars. If ever there is to be a chance to do something to make the world safe against war. that chance is here. The sea is the high road between nations. Blockading that high road is the first act of a bandit nation. And disarmament becomes, as Mas Donald says, a secondary matter until the sea problem is settled. The very first and greatest desire of the new British premier is to work out this problem of the freedom of the seas. Next to Britain the nation to which the matter is of greatest import is the United States. Given a settlement between the two greatest maritime nations, unanimity probably will not be hard to achieve. A Los Angeles aviator won the solo endurance record the other, day. which doesn't mean so much after all, because there are a good many people whose neighbors are “musicians " It's a perfect summer. One day you get tanned and the next day your overcoat hurts your shoulders. A Kansas woman who owmed 450 acres of land was arrested in a bank robbery the other day. Who has a better right than she? According to the Atchison (Kan.l Globe, one of the leading citizens is a great help to his wife, oiling the lawn mower for her before he leaves the house in the morning. A small town is one where the courthouse yard has to be mowed to find the benches. Bill Hart is going to appear in a talkie. Won’t it be interesting to hear him say, “Darn it"? Another sure sign of spring is when the dowagers of the village start rehearsing for a local revue patterned after the Ziegfeld shows.

-David Dietz on Science

Clouds and Full Moon

No. 375-

THERE are weather proverbs and weather proverbs. In fact, there are three kinds of weather proverbs. There are those which represent real observations and give real causes. There are those which represent real observations, but which contain faulty and erratic reasoning. And there are those which are

which would give a real explanation for their observations. The third class of proverb is also quite large. This class includes a great many proverbs which attempt to connect the phases of the moon with the kind of weather. A sample in the proverb, occurring in many forms, which states that the full moon drives the clouds out of the sky. This is a proverb, the truth of which was stubbornly insisted upon by many farmers of a generation ago. It was investigated by meteorologists, who found that there was just as many cloudr nights at the time of full moon, as there were clear nights. Obviously, then the proverb was wrong. But this left the strange insistence of the proverb's believers to be explained. The explanation is particularly interesting. When the sky is clear and the moon is full, every one is certain to remark upon the beauty of the moon. When the sky is cloudy and the moon is full, most people do not know that it is the time of full moon. It is true that old-fashioned almanacs and many calandars give the phases of the moon. Most people, however, make no effort to remember this information even if they may read it. Consequently, when the moon is full and the sky cloudy, they do not know,’ that the moon is full. When the moon is full and the sky clear, they see the moon. Consequently, they feel certain that the old proverb is correct and that the full moon drives away the clouds. The persistence of many other faulty proverbs can be explained on similar lines.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Soon Woman Will Sit With Her Feet on the Mantel and Smoke . . . Then There Will Be No More Worlds to Conquer. CIVILIZATION seems to rest on the fact that men have more knowledge rather than better brains ! as the race grows older. Take the ! recent eruption of Vesuvius and j compare its description with that ! written by Pliny 1.850 years ago. j We can get the news quicker, to jbe sure, and. photographs which Pliny couldn’t. But when it comes ! to skill in painting a word picture 1 cf the occurrence, most of our modern scribes will have to admit that he had them beaten. it tt tt Wanting the Moon OR take the case of the German professor who has just won a first prize for offering a plan on how to establish communication with the moon. By drawing on recent scientific discoveries, he is able to offer a unique proposition. Yet his idea of a projectile in which a man cou'd make the trip belongs to Jules Verne. b a tt Jules Verne, the Seer JULES VERNE was one of the greatest seers that ever lived. The success cf his predictions lies in the fact that they were founded on scientific knowledge. Preposterous as they seemed two generations ago. many of his predictions have come true. Some of them, indeed, have been exceeded. Men laughed when he said that the world could be circled in eighty days, but it has been circled in less than thirty. Round World —10 Days \TOW comes Captain Jean Fran- j In cis De Villard with a French ' name and a French war record. But who was born in Arkansas, proposing to fly around the world in ten days. Who is bold enough to say that j he can not do it. or that if he fails, j someone else will?

a a a How Old Is Man? THE old riddle of whether men develop superior talents as the race grows older, or whether their progress is due to borrowing on a bigger past, remains unsolved. A human skull belonging to the paleolithic age is reported to have been found in France and to indicate a brain development comparable to that of the present day. If true, there is something wrong with the theory that we descended from monkeys, and that persons are more like monkeys the farther we follow them back. If, on the other hand, the being to whom this skull belonged was on earth 35,000 years ago, there is something wrong with the theory that the first of our race appeared in the Garden of Eden 29,000 years later. a a a Women Score Again WHILE searching the S. S. Republic for hooch, customs guards discovered eight stowaways in a small closet. Four of them were women. Just one more victory for the fair sex. Soon women will sit with their feet on the mantel and smoke. Then there will be no world left for the better half of this race to conquer. a a a A Dry Embassy IF women can chalk up another victory, so can the Anti-Saloon League. The British embassy has gone dry. Sir Esme Howard has notified the members of his staff that he will no longer sign for requests for Imported liquor, and that when the present supply runs out they can go dry, or join their American cousins in patronizing the bootlegger. Washington professes to be disturbed over the prospect that Sir Esme may lose his social caste because of such action, and is wondering whether it doesn't presage his retirement. More probably It presages his realization that Ramsay McDonald has become premier.

just all wrong from one end to the other.' The second class is perhaps the largest. For farmer sand sailors have been watching the weather for centuries. The waether always has been important to them. They could not fail to make sound observations in that time. But they lacked the scientific data

One Dead Measure THERE is little sense in discussing the reapportionament bill now before congress, It has been killed by tw r o amendments. One of these amendments would leave out aliens when counting noses as a basis of representation in congress. The other would leave out Negroes who have been denied the right to vote. Whether either of these amendments squares with the Constitution, which is doubtful, they both fail to square with common sense. No one knows this better than the gentlemen who proposed them. a a a Speaking of Snobs SPEAKING of snobbery, haven't wc enough of it from natural causes without any encouragement on -the part of college professors? If the secret of success lies in marrying the boss' daughter instead of his stenographer, in buying a suit with an extra pair of pants, in keeping one's shoes shined, or in putting up a big front generally, as Professor Rogers pointed out to the graduating class of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, what is the use of a college course? Surely Professor Rogers must know that a man can be a snob without higher education. Or was he merely fooling?

Daily Thought

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.—Proverbs 12:1. a a a CAPACITY without education is deplorable. and education without capacity is thrown away. —SasdUL

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal cf the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Halth Magazine. Notoriously difficult to judge are statistics concerning cancer. The crude death rates indicate that cancer is increasing in frequency because more people are dying of cancer than did formerly. The figures show also that more people are living beyond 35 years of age than did formerly and cancer is a disease of advanced ages primarily. The figures also show that better educated physicians are diagnosing cancer earlier and more frequently than formerly. All these things are reflected in the records for cancer. According I to Vedder it seems reasonable to j

OBERT E. ROGERS, professor of English literature and window dressing, was wrong -in more than any retail way and so it should be permissible to write a second column about the heresy spread before the seniors of Massachusetts Tech. It is in the glorification of “front” that I would take the academician to task. “Your future,” he told the boys, “will be decided in the next ten years. It is not so much a question of brains as of will. A secondclass brain and a first-class will will get a lot farther than a firstclass brain and a second-class will.” And then he told them Harvard university had always put up a front and they should do the same. a a a Button Your Overcoat IN fact, the professor’s formula for success may be simplified to the slogan, “Shine your shoes and grit your teeth.” Don't believe it. Anybody who wants to exchange some brains for will power on an even basis can get my trade any day. Among industrial leaders “front" is not very prevalent. Once during the late lamented presidential campaign I met John Raskob- He came to a studio where newspaper men, actors and actresses were broad-

WE are on the threshold of a rapid expansion in air traffic. The law throughout the fortyeight states and the federal government is in the making. Tire Aviation Corporation proposes to become active in securing uniformity and stability of law and procedure to safeguard life and the streams of capital flowing into aviation and allied enterprises.—Mabel Walker Willebrandt. a a a The door is wide open, not only to co-operative associations, but associations or corporations actually engaged in marketing of agricultural commodities, owned or controlled by co-operative associations, or by individuals engaged as original producers of agricultural commodities.—Representative Haugen, lowa. a a a I have tried a long time and found no way of avoiding a whipping when I do not behave myself reaspnably well.—Ed Howe. Atchison, Ken, editor and author. a a a Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it and virtue is doing it.—David Starr Jordan. a a a The supreme court is very much like Hamlet following the ghost of his father. The court follows that ghostly thing we call the will of congress. It follows it as did the Frince of Denmark follow the ghost, with timidity and trembling, because it never knows how far the congress is going cr into what abyss of unccnstitutionalism the ghost may lead it.—Representative Beck, Pennsylvania.

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conclude that when proper allowance is made for the increasing number of people of age of 35 years or over, and other changes in population. the actual rate for cancer is not increasing as rapidly as the crude rates would signify. One of the commonest mistaken impressions concerning cancer is the notion that it does not occur among savages and primitive people. In the first place it does occur among them. It is argued also that it occurs much less frequently among savages and primitive people and that cancer is essentially a disease of civilized man. Again it is forgotten that the average age at death among savages and primitive peoples is what it used to be among Americans, namely, about 35 years, the age at which cancer begins to be more

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casting a play designed to win votes for A1 Smith. He posed with us performers for the camera men. Raskob seemed frightened and ill at ease. He had no personality with which to enthrall the ingenue who sat on either side of him. Even a newspaper columnist seemed to inspire the great financier with a mumbling diffidence. I wanted to reach across the Intervening actresses and pat the captain of'industry upon the back and say to him, “There, there, not one,of us will bite you." So timid was the little man that- my own personality grew benign and expansive. “The poor fellow hasn’t even got ‘it,’ ”1 thought to myself. I tried to draw him out with well-chosen remarks on the auto industry and the future of the motor truck. '* He listened attentively, moistened his lips twice, but made no j reply. Then the mouse-like mag- j nate had scampered away. nan Triumphs If OE WILLIAMS has commented J upon the triumphs achieved by | Jack Kearns and C. C. Pyle through j good tailoring and an engaging j smile. I There is not doubt the advice of l Professor Rogers might be sound

Beauty contests, with their consequent naming of "queens” and “princesses,” lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters.—Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy, ana I appreciate the assistance given the livestock industry by increasing the tariff on reindeer meat, venison and other game.—Senator Capper. Kansas. a a a Courage and imagination are n°cessary to restore our economic prestige—courage to scrap ruthlessly oldfashioned methods and machinery, and imagination in exploring every commercial avenue overseas.—The prince of Wales. a a a ' Os course, if someone came along j with a bona fide offer for $1,000,000, I'd have to consider it seriously.— I Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight ! champion. a a a \ No one can be a good Christian , and not believe in demons of all I kinds. —H. L. Mencken. If we transferred all the Mexicans j to Scotland, most of them would die speedily. If we transferred all i the Scots to Mexico, many of them ; would be millionaires within a month. William Lyon Phelps i (Good Housekeeping Magazine'. a a a ! To judge .from the “Grand Street Follies" recently opened at the Booth theater (New York', clothes | made the woman in the gay eighties —and lack of them makes her today. —Ftranci* n. Taeilomv (Outlook).

frequent. It is always important to consider age groups in studying the statistics of any disease. All sorts of cancers occur among lower animals, even wild animals, and if cancer were primarily a disease of civilization it would not be found among such species. Finally, diagnosis among savages is not what constitutes infectious disease. Wives do not contract cancer, although sleeping with husbands who have it; physicians do npt catch cancer from the patients they attend: those who are doing research on cancer do not get the disease from working with cancer material. Many facts are known about cancer, but its cause is unknown. Among the most important of the known facts is the relationship of repeated irritation to the onset of cancer.

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.

enough if he had been talking to a group planning to become prizefight promoters or marathon maestros. jack Kearns flaunts far more wit-h----dow dressing than Gerard Swope of the General Electric Company. Henry Ford could hardly get a word in edgewise with John McGraw. Yet. it seems to me. large affairs are likely to be intrusted to the soft-spoken and dun-colored men of this generation. The White House has known no President better turned out than Warren G. Harding. If the sculptors are to be. believed. Lincoln's trousers bagged at the knees, while Warren's were a joy in sharp-edged symmetry. Yet, no man can achieve a Gettysburg address by the simple process of choosing a lovely necktie and grinding his teeth. n # a Football Heroics 'T'HS-.i, a i make lessons of football serve in other walks of life. This has never been successful. Advocates of college athletics insist it develops character to crash into a line where no hole has yet been opened. The man who plays through the last long quarter with three broken ribs is celebrating the glory of fortitude rather than intellect. But just how many all-American stars have made a deep impression upon the community at. large in later life? Not one I can remember. It would be less than charitable to name some of the former greats who have since fallen upon evil days. Despite the professor's hints to the well-dressed undergraduate. I'll swap my shoe-trees and the extra pair of trousers, which goes with the fawn suit, for a little additional ! knowledge. To be sure, Professor Rogers was ; noi talking to me, but to younger men. I've had my ten years’ chance.; end I never married the boss’ daughter. That wasn’t my fault.! exactly. The boss didn't have any j daughter. 'Copyright. 1929, by Thy Time?' 1

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Germany Is Smiling Over the War Debt Settlement; Many Things. Can Happen in Thirty-seven Years. V/fEMBERS of Mr. Hoover's commission on lawlessness must be oppressed by a sense of the utter futility of their investigations, since the bar associations of the country, our greatest legal experts, have toid us time and again how to curb crime, yet their recommendations have been water on a duck's back. ass Unless this commission is expected to recommend a change in the manner of handling prohibition, which recommendation is expected to serve as a shock absorber for a change in procedure, its members should adjourn and go fishing. o a a If the English people wish to hang on to their reputation for fair play, which reputation has been largely conferred by themselves. They will stop plotting to deprive the labor party of the fruits of its victory and insist that MacDonald, the Labor leader, be made premier. Lindbergh seems to be on a fair way of winning the obscurity endurance record, all of which is beyond the understanding of that large portion of the republic which employs publicity agents. tt tt tt THE arrest of Mrs. Cass’er fca. second murder just 2 few days following her release after having been sentenced to death in Ilinois is the fifty thousandth time we’ve been warned that it’s a good idea to keep them behind the bars after we finally succeed in putting them there. e tt tt It doesn’t make much difference if somebody did steal the diplomas of these University of Des Moines students, for unless you are going to teach, you might just as well leave the skin on the sheep. a tt tt The papers say that Ganna Walska appeared in her French theater, wearing her famous emeralds, which is an unusually large amount for an actress to wear in Paris. n tt t: The of the interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, speaking at Beaver college, said that man had improved very little since savagery and that many still have strange beliefs. Correct. The farmers thought this tariff bill was to be for their benefit. a tt a THE newspapers announce in big headlines that Lindbergh’s bride does not drink or smoke. The fact that the time has come when such a thing is news in the United States does not make a fellow throw out his chest, particularly if he has one or two girls coming on. tt a tt Germany is smiling over the fact that she has thirty-seven years in which to pay her debts, because any number of things can occur in that time to wipe out the whole thing. ass We are glad that Mr. Hoover regards the settlement of the reparations question as a contribution to stability and progress, for it certainly is not much of a contribution to the United States treasury. tt a a When William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor visited West Point, where he was paid official honors and addressed the cadets who turned out. it was enough to disturb the repose of Samuel Gompers, whose lifelong fight was against all things military.

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CHATEAU THIERRY June 7

TN the spring of 1913 allied hopes 1 were at. ebb tide Ludendorff was outsmarting Foch. Two hundred thousand Germans had burst through French and British lines on the Chemin des Dames, one of the strongest positions on the western front. Then Cantigny fell to the Americans, fighting their first independent attack of the war. But the Germans were, meanwhile, drawing dangerously close to Paric Just eleven years ago today, that was the World war setting. Fate—and military tactics—chose American troops to bear the brunt of the allied effort to throw the Germans back in their march on the French capital and eleven years ago they did. The scene was Chateau Thierry and the fighting was as fierce as any during the entire war. And while It was being fought American troops got their first real taste of warfare The drive that- successfully on June 7. 1918, was followed up two weeks later by a general allied offense which drove the Germans back many miles farther.

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