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Save That Fee i ' =■ the desire nf the stale officials who ha-- barge of issuance of drivers’ licenses to .ff- -a * pvorv driver ets a license, they will be happy o-v-r ?};<• fact that The Times is giving f-- notary service to any applicant who eornes to this office. It t s their purpose to get as many notary fees a- poss:He into hands of those who will have - re time for work for a political machine. they will he very unhappy. The -i 'Criminate granting of licenses, v thou* any examination, may or may not be c value making driving more safe and in redueii g a- idents. That remains to be seen. Cert a nl the drafting of a law to make it as difficult as possible to obtain a license unless s 25-cent fee is paid to the established agencies could ha-'e no other purpose than the collecting of these fees. The designations of agencies, except those operated hv two automobile clubs which have divided the state between themselves, indicates the selections were along political lines. In one county the vice-chairwoman of the [Republican party of the state will draw. So it is estimated, about sb.f>oo for a month’s work. m ft is because The Times believes that there !<- something wrong in forcing good citizens to pay good money for had polities that it employed a notary public and offers to certify all applications free of charge. Th- response indicates that the people have about the same idea as The Times. There is a deep res-ntmem against imposition and gouge. If you have a neighbor who is so unfortunate as not to be a reader of The Times, do a neighborly act and tell him to save the quarto by coming to The Times on his way to the Statehouse. Remember that every member of the family who drives a car must have one of the licenses before Jujy 1. Every person must make a separate application That means that, every person must apply in person. ( uno to The Times Tell your neighbors. Ts the law is good. The Times is making it better. If it is had. The Times is helping to take out part of the sting. The Labor Government The Labor cabinet, which begins active work Ln London roday. is acclaimed in Great Britain and elsewhere as one of the strongest ministries in Europe in personnel Most of the Labor ministers are that rare combination— experienced ex-perts in government and idealists. They ruled well as a minority gorernment five years asm They have the confidence of the people. They have the daring and the vision. They are Socialists. Communists are anathema to them, and they are worse to communists. But they are not straddlers To them the interests of the people come first, and the interests of property second. Ramsav MacDonald, self-educated and a former cierk. he. proved himself a great statesman in both domestic and foreign affairs. As premier he will be leader m fact as well as in name, which is not always the csc Philip Snowden, who got his start in the civil serw c. returns as chancellor of the exchequer to the k-y financial post which he filled so ably before Arthur Henderson, ex-iron molder. member of the coalition war ministry and home secretary in the first labor government, is in charge of the foreign office. J H Thomas, ex-railway fireman and former colonial minister, will head the general staff, which will attack unemployment. Sid tv- Webb, newly elected peer, famous economis': and founder with Bernard Shaw of the Fabian society, is secretary for dominions. R. Clynes, former gas worker, food minister in the coalition war ministry End deputy leader of the house in the other labor government, is home secretary. The father of British radicals. George Lansburv of the London Daily Herald, is commissioner ot public works. In Sir John Sankev. lord chancellor, and William A Jewitt. attorney-general, the labor government has two of the most brilliant lawyers in the empire. Lord Thomson, air minister: Captain Wedgwood Benn. secretary for India: Tom Shaw, war miruster. and Albert V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, are more interested in peace than in war. Margaret Bondfield. labor minister, becomes the first woman of cabinet rank in Great Britain. These ministers propose to solve the two major problems which menace Britain—unemployment at home and naval-economic rivalry with the United States Perhaps these problems do not admit of solution, but in so far as keen intelligence and a proper spirit can approximate a solution the people of Great Britain and the United States are justified in their faith in the labor government. A Morgan Comes to Life After all these years. J. P. Morgan unbends. Just ai. we were beginning to wonder whether he was nothing more than a myth, the limit of his function in the House of Morgan being to supply the family name, he blossoms forth as an actual human being and consents to being photographed and interviewed upon his return from the reparations conference. Bu‘ we are warned that the thaw is only tempo: ary. ‘ Don't ever bother me again," he says. "This is the first and last time." Why should it be the first? And why the last? This country has been good to the House of Morgan. The greatness of the growth of that banking firm, despite the international aspects of its operation, has been dependent on the greatness of the United States of America. 12 lor no other reason than reciprocity, the nation

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that contributes to the greatness of an institution is entitled to know something of the personality behind it. If in that personality there is an inspiration which might contribute to the success of a younger generation. such a light should not be hidden beneath a bushel. J. P. Morgan, during all his career, has seen fit to secrete himself. Those qualities that make up his personality are unknown to the public. In an era when it is so easy, by printed word and by camera, through the movie and now the talkie, for a personality to be projected. Morgan has continued to outshrink the violet, and to the rank and file of his countrymen is only a symbol. During the lifetime in which the nation has learned to know its Roosevelt and its Wilson, its Edison. Ford and Hoover —the way they carry themselves, the method of their speech and the manner of their smile —J. P. Morgan, the individual, has been a mystery. Now for a brief moment he seems out of his shell. An evanescent flicker of his real self is revealed. The circumstances actually indicate a sense of humor and a consideration for the other fellow—for the photographer who meets the boat and makes his living that way. and who gets a bonus for attaining this rare journalism catch. Perhaps it is not too much to hope, despite his last time ultimatum, that Morgan himself actually enjoyed the episode, that he may repeat and that in the fullness of time he may reveal himself as one who walks and talks and breathes as other men—as something more than a sound investment. Lese Majesty Apparently the new county superintendent of schools is guilty of a grave crime against, the Coffin machine. He had the temerity to believe that he could select his own bondsmen, or rather corporation which writes bonds. The Coffin commissioners believe that this is their prerogative, and evidently :ie now | official did not understand that such small com- j missions as may result are to he withheld or ; given at the pleasure of Coffin henchmen. Just how a bond of one company will make J a better superintendent of schools out of the ' new official than one given by a different company is difficult to understand. It is not hard to understand that in boss government the crime of lese majesty is quite j as serious as it was in the days of monarchs. Roosters crowed at high noon in Salt Lake City and led federal officers to two 150-gallon moonshine stills. Maybe the roosters were only cock-eyed. A tortoise in Indiana moved a mile in sixty-seven years. It is believed he started somewhere in a Sunday automobile parade. You can buy wheat at country loading points for 75 cents a bushel. We knew that as soon as congress got together, everything would be o. k. for farmer. You're never broke if you have spent it all for something worth while. Maria Jeritza sings pretty well and now and then you read of her socking a tenor. Very popular! A Chicago-bound bus was held up in Michigan and thirty-one passengers were robbed. That’s foresight on the part of the Michigan people. A New York doctor urges that colleges establish compulsory courses in parenthood. Few people know more than one thing to do with four safety pins.

—David Dietz on Science -

Sunset Tells Weather

No. 37,3-

TALK about the weather is almost as old as mankind. Perhaps it is as old as speech. Clay tablets unearthed in Babylonia, which savants believe to date back

“Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh. For see! a rainbow spans the sky; Hark how the chairs and tables crack! Old Betty's joints are on the rack: Her corns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, # The distant hills are looking nigh; How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings; The cricket too. how sharp he sings' In fiery red the sun doth rise. Then wades through clouds to mount the skies. Twill surely rain. I see with sorrow. Our jaunt must be put off tomorrow." A weather proverb which is pretty accurate—and remember that a lot of weather proverbs are anything but accurate—goes as follows: “Evening red and morning gray. Help the traveler on his way; Evening gray and morning red. Bring down rain upon his head." The reason for this is that when the sip reddens the western sky at setting, it means that there are no clouds for a long distance to the west. Since stormy weather usually sets in from the west, this indicates clear weather. The early mist of the next morning is due to the condensation of water vapor as the result of the cooling which follows a clear night. Consequently. it also is a good sign. However, the opposite signs, indicate clouds to the west and clear weather to the east. This means, since the stormy weather usually sets in from the west, that rainy weather is on its wm u \

M. E. Tracy SAYS: I The Civilized World Has ! Smashed About Every Record Made by Ancient Ath- | letes but That Does Xot Mean It Is Stronger as a | Whole. Ramsay MacDONALD was elected premier of England on May 30 and took office June 7. Herbert Hoover was elected President of the United States last No-' j vember, but did not take office unj til March 4. In spite of such contrast, tie ; Americans go complacently on tellj ing ourselves that we are fast and up-to-date, especially in comparison to England. tt tt tt So, too. we Americans go com--1 placently on telling ourselves that |we are liberal, but it is to the I MacDonald ministry that Leon I Trotski turns for a haven. Under ordinary circumstances, he ! could depend on being admitted, but the vagaries of international j politics make it impossible for Jib- ; eralism to include all liberals. ! Trotski may be as good a liberal :as he ever was, but Russia does : not think so. The very fact that the MacDonold ministry favors recognition of ! Russia may keep Trotski out of England. tt tt a Clipping the Dash Record GEORGE SIMPSON has broken the world’s record for the hundred yard dash. Twenty-three years ago Fan Kelly reduced it to 9 3-5 seconds. Thousands of young sprinters nave tried to better it since that time, but none succeeded until this Ohio youth hit the cinder path. Now that he has clipped it by 1-5 of a second, we have another mark to shoot at. In one sense of the word. Simpson has proved we are not deteriorating. It is doubtful if any Greek or Aztec runner could duplicate his performance. When it comes to the production of stars and prodigies, we are able to beat the ancients. When it comes to physical condition of average folks, our superior- j ity is not so clear. The civilized world has smashed about every record made by old time athletes, but that does not j mean that it is stronger as a whole, \ tt n tt Pace of Progress THOUGH stars and prodigies set the pace, their performances do not indicate the capacity of average folks. Progress must have a pace, but in the final analysis, it depends on what average people can do. The fact that Captain Seagrave has driven an automobile more than two hundred miles an hour is of very little consequence compared to the fact that twenty-five million ordinary folks are driving them every day. If the crowd can’t move with a fair degree of swiftness and endurance, it means very little that one in a million can rim like a deer. tt a tt Wanted; Fool-Proof Plane INVENTIONS, discoveries and achievements only count when they can be made to mean something for the masses. Aviation has been held back by the amount of money and expertness required more than anything else. We are still waiting for the foolproof flivver plane. Realizing what a foolproof flivver plane would mean in a financial and industrial way, thousands of experts have tried to develop one. Not only aviators like Clarence Chamberlain, but great automobile establishments like those of Ford and Packard have been working on the proposition. tt tt a The Cave Man Group Assisted by some of the greatest anthropologists, Frederick Blaschke of Cold Spring. N. Y.. designs a group to depict the cave man in his natural state. The group now is on exhibition • at the Field museum in Chicago. It not only depicts a cave man and his family, but the cave as well and some of the activities going on in it. as they might have appeared in France 50,000 years ago. There is a man of 55, just home from a hunt: an old woman, a mother with babe in arms and a boy of 12 or 13 gnawing ar bone. No one living in the present day could look at this group without a great degree of satsifaction, but what would the cave man think if he were to come back and see it? Would he recognize himself, his home and his companions, or would he find something to laugh at in our conception of what he looked ; like and what he did?

to 4000 TJ. C., have weather proverbs inscribed on them. Many ancient beliefs were collected into rhymed couplets in England. It is thought that Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of v a cclnation, wrote the verses. They read as follows :

I HAVE taken the position that the present rule of secrecy which ; requires nominations of public officials to be debated and voted upon behind closed doors is a violation of the spirit of the Constitution.—Senator La Follette. Wisconsin. a a a Probably few of you realize that the use of power has grown three aod-quarters times faster than our ; population has grown: or that we use as much electricity as all the rest of the world combined. This spread in the use of power has made it unnecessary for factories to cluster in certain districts; there's a decided trend of industry to move ! to the smaller-sized centers and to the country.—Dr. Julius Klein, as- ! sistant secretary of commerce a a a The next war is to be one of universal destruction. Men can man trenches, but their wives and chil- ; dren will be murdered going about i their daily tasks at home.—Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald of Great BrlUtt. (

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of th* American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Halth Magazine. MOST American women now realize that starvation diets are dangerous and that body weight must be controlled in relation to the maintenance of good health. Therefore, the strange unbalanced diets that dominated the scene some five years ago have given way to sensible dietary schemes. One of the leaders in the field of nutrition in this country. Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins university, has listed some of the fundamental considerations that should be kept in mind in developing reducing diets. Dr. McCollum points out that the cultivation of the “sweet tooth,” the wrong selection of food, and the lack of sufficient exercise are the primary reasons for reducing diets. The American consumption of sugar approximates 105 pounds per capita per year.

IT SEEMS TO ME

WITH so many excellent issues whimpering to be taken up. it is a pity any heat and passion should go into the discussion of the high-hat casino in Central park. I am willing to grant at the outset there is no reason why an expensive night club should be set up in the middle of city property. But for that matter there was never any particular excuse for the existence of its predecessor. Probably the wealthy backers of the new scheme are chiefly moved by a desire to display themselves. Next we shall hear of the subway station at Times Square being roped off for an eight-course dinner. Nevertheless, I can not find within myself any vast indignation about the whole business. The tabloid notion that a menu printed in French is a menace to the republic leaves me cold. The rich show-offs who attended the opening did not tread upon the toes of the poor in order to reach Urban’s gallery of wonders. The rights of the common people in Central park are precisely what they were before. In fact, it seems to me as if there should be more fun for us members of the oppressed class than ever before. From now on, we have the opportunity of peering through the windows of the little palace and making faces at the diners as they eat their caviar. Speaking of night clubs, municipal or otherwise, Texas Guinan seems happy in her exile far out on the Merrick road. Apparently Emerson, if indeed he were the one. should have mentioned cabarets as well as mouse traps.

The senator said the agricultural department does not regard potatoes as perishable. I do net knotv whether the department may have issued any bulletin to that extent or not, but potatoes certainly are a perishable commodity, and extremely perishable under certain conditions.— Senator Borah, Idaho. a a a After all. the processes of criminal law enforcement are simply methods of instilling respect and lear into the minds of those who have not the intelligence and moral instinct to obey the law.—President Hoover. (Pathfinder.) sea The public demands simplification. It likes to say that Pershing won the war with some little help from the Unknown Soldier.—Vilhalmur Stefansson. Teeth Pulled. Man Dies B Timm Special FT. WAYNE. Ind.. June 10. Arthur Feinogle, 42. is dead after suffering two days from hemorrhages which followed extraction of teetifc

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

This is a large sugar consumption, but it must be remembered that the sugar is not eaten all at once, but is distributed through a wide variety of foods, day after day, largely with the idea of making them more palatable. The average stewed tomatoes, or other vegetables served in a restaurant and in many American homes, would hardly be eatable without considerable seasoning. Hence people eat more sugar ard. since this provides more energy than they use in exercise, they put on weight. "To reduce ten pounds entails almost no discomfort,” says Dr. McCollum, "but to reduce 100 pounds is an heroic undertaking.’ Most authorities are convinced that it is not safe to take off weight too rapidly. The way to reduce is to eat less than the day’s requirement for energy, and by increasing the expenditure of energy through exercise, to use up the material from the body.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

Cat and Constitution ALL of which brings us to the padlocked cat in Kansas City. According to the United Press, a large maltese had been sealed within a store closed for Volstead violations. The starving animal pressed against the window pane, but the federal district attorney said he had no authority to open the building and nobody else could tamper with the government’s seals. After much publicity, the cat was released. This, I maintain, is a pretty symbol of justice and mercy as it functions under prohibition. Dry advocates are fond of boasting they are animated by a desire to save the poor erring brothers.. Os this compassion, there is little evidence. Even a rudimentary notion of human psychology must reveal the fact Volsteadism caters to the cruelty which mankind strives so hard to check. The cheers which echo through congress at, the report of each new killing are symptomatic, of the fact every reformer suffers from repressions and that what he calls mortality actually serves him as a hunting iicense. Few of us are able to take selfrighteousness or let it alone. It is a heady stimulant and your professional reformer is invariably a man incapable of holding his virtue like a gentleman. a u tt The Lone Eagle IT turns out, writes E. B. W., that Lindbergh is in a 38-foot, powerboat of the cruiser type. T wonder if you know what that means to the salt water men of Long island who still carry sail? Take a sounding in the depths of our scorn. Unless it's an outboard speed boat, I don't know anything lower in the realm of power than one of those 38-foot cabin cruisers with their' tidy ostentation. Lindbergh has got himself in Dutch with all the women in the country by getting married, and now | he’s losing the respect of all salt ! water men by going gasoline on us. If you could hear the owners of power cruisers sitting on a yacht ' club veranda talking shop, the places they've been to and the moorings they’ve picked up and the ; landings they've made, j Listen, it’s all hooey. Their ships handle the same as an auto does: to pick up a mooring you aim right I at it and then reverse her till she j loses all her way. A child of 7 can manage it—or an extra bright child of 6. But has Lindberg ever tried to j reverse a yawl? Has he ever brought : a cat around into the wind at just exactly the right moment so she'll fetch the wharf, stuck with the tiller till she was eight feet away and going strong, run forward to stick a i foot out and get a line ashore, and j then had his sheet foul on the traveler so his shiD falls away on a

The average grown person takes 2.400 to 2,700 calories a day for his body needs. If he takes less than this amount of food, the fat ceposited in the body will be required to make up the difference. With proper selection of food and with adequate exercise it is easy to reduce one-quarter of a pound each day. People who are reducing are warned particularly against rich salad dressing, sugar, custards, candies, cakes, pies, rich gravies, fat fish, fat meats, nuts, cream, fried foods, or cream soups. The, foods particularly recommended in a reducing diet include grapefruit, cottage cheese, eggs, buttermilk. orange juice, lemonade, tea or black coffee, lean beef, chicken, turkey and lamb, and the following vegetables: asparagus, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, cucumber, spinach lettuce, string beans, tomatoes and onions.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement pith the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

tack, taking him and. if it. must be mentioned, a small portion of the end of the wharf for a ride? tt u n Lindy TakestSlump I HAVE a nice feeling about Lindbergh now. Up till now he always had it on me. Some people say he still has it on me. While I was rounding Davenport Neck in a canoe under mainsail and jigger, he was flying over South American forests. Yes. sir. I used to sav he had it on me. But now. whenever I think of him standing at the wheel of his thirty-eight foot, cruiser, acting a little bit like the skipper of the Leviathan, taking out the clutch, and letting her run, reversing her slowly so she comes to a dead stop—him, the guy that used to cement relations 10.000 feet up. Why. yesterday, when I was trying to get home into a puffy offshore breeze. I thought of him with his charts and his throttle and his bride and if it hadn’t been that both my hands were occupied every minute of the time I would have thumbed my nose at any noxious thirty-eight foot power cruiser which might have crossed my bow, I don't care what ex-aviator was at her wheel. (Copyright. 1929. by The Times)

Daily Thought

And they that shall be of thee shall build up the old 'waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt bp called. The repairer of the breach. The reporter of paths to dwell in.—lsaiah 58:12. tt tt tt THOU shalt learn the wisdom early to discern true beauty in utility.—Longfellow.

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JUNE 10. 1020

REASON —Ey Frederick Landis

l our Son's Mother and You Ransacked the World to Give Him a Xa me of Dignity and Power—And XoiV They Call Him "Slats." tttELL. we got here at last— :n W New York, we mean The town doesn’t look very prosperous and we are told it has just been hanging on by the eyebrow. l since we left it two years and a half ago. Let the grass grow down the middle of Broadway: we don’t care. We would rather renew a note in Indiana than declare a dividend in New York! We won't come back and save it. a a js But, what we started to say is that, the boy who's to be graduated at milking time this afternoon met us at Grand Central station. He has grown two feet since Christmas and we see now where we are stung for a suit, of clothes. National growth is all right, but this growth of children is a thing which calls for a reparations commission. a tt a When we walked with gravity and a Red Cap to the gate we were dazzled by more, teeth than we have seen since Roosevelt's inauguration in 1904 when the western cowboys rode past the White House reviewing stand. The senior was smiling! Looking at him closely, we found at last that red necktie we have been hunting ever since Santa Claus last was in Indiana. a a a AFTER being roughly handled bv the reception committee, he turns us round and presents us to his classmates, each being introduced with a nickname that would make Sitting Bull and Rain in the Face turn green with envy. After three minutes, one of them turns and asks us, "Old Top," where's your grip?" Ah! The freedom of the city! a a a Ur to the fraternity house and into the big lounge room, where you meet the rest of them, and then out to the dining room. As you sit, the solemn-visaged spirit at the head of the table says something in Latin and the whole crowd responds in Latin, all of which goes over your head, for when we reached the high school we gave Latin the once over and decided that a dead language should rest in peace—and quit. a a tt AFTER lunch you go up to the university and various teachers tell you how hard this son of yours has worked: they actually tell it to you! Then a classman comes past and calls your boy a nickname which is something like "Slats!" And you think how his mother and you ransacked the world for a name which would combine dignity and power—and how they call him “Slats!" tt a a Yes. you must hurry to commencement, for here they come, thousands of them, in caps and gowns, and your contribution joins his fellows and they march into the great bowl, banked with thousands of parents, just as foolish as you are. There’s a long speech and then it's over. A page in your life has been slammed down on the other side of the book. And just a little while ago you fed that senior catnip tea with a, spoon!

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AN ANTARCTIC VOYAGE June 10 ON .Tune 10, 1842, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes and his exploration party were welcomed back to New York after a four-year voyage in the Antarctic. Wilkes’ expedition was the first ever subsidized by the government for scientific purposes and was authorized by an 1836 act of congress, A great mass of valuable scientific data was compiled during the voyage and afterward published in nineteen large volumes. Wilkes' claim to the discovery of an Antarctic continent has not always been upheld, but Sir Earnest Shackleton and Sir Douglas Mawson later confirmed Wilkes’ discoveries. In addition to the fame which came to Wilkes by virtue of this ambitious voyage of exploration, he gained a reputation for his naval activities during the Civil war. On Nov. 8, 1361. he stopped the English mail steamer Trent and removed from it Mason and Slidell, the Confederate commissioners to England and France respectively. This action brought a diplomatic crisis with England, known in history as the “Trent Affair."