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A Real Appeal An appeal for courageous idealism on life and a broad liberalism in education sounded by Evans Woollen at the commencement exercises M Butler university pointer) to some very real dangers. It was an unusual address. It 'vas unusual because a banker pleaded that the emphasis be taken from things and ownership and be placed upon the problem of living. It was unusual in that it pleaded for a deeper patriotism and devotion to the duties of citizenship. The real danger, he suggested, to our national life js that nnr engeries and talents have been so successful in creating material things that we have not, as a people, learned to use them except to create more things and larger ownerships. In urging young men and women to learn b<\w to live rather than how to amass accumulations of material there was an appeal to the institutions of higher learning to change the emphasis from vocational schools to cul* turn I collegt Every evil of modern national life, he suggested, could he traced to a subsidence of uncil istanding afld regard for the fundamentals <of free government. Not only college graduates but all citizens might well ask themselves whether they really understand what citizenship in a republic implies and whether they are contributing to its Stability and protection, rather than to its destruction by unwittingly aiding in undermining its foundations. A call for more of culture and more of conscience is not only refreshing but timely. A “Perfect Defense’’ The shooting to death of Henry Virkula near Big Falls. Minn., last week by a customs agent recalls a. similar incident which occurred a year ago. Jacob D. Hanson, a respected business man of Niagara Falls, N. Y„ was returning home late at night when two armed men ordered him to halt. He refused. One of them fired. Hanson died a few days later, after suffering great agony. The two armed men who ordered Hanson to halt were coast guardsmen. They suspected him of being a rum runner. No liquor was found in his car. It will be interesting to see whether the customs? agent escapes punishment, as did the coast guardsmen in the Hanson case. The man who shot Hanson and the officer under whose orders he was acting were indicted in the state courts on a charsre of second degree manslaughter. The federal government caused the case to be removed to a federal court, and the federal government defended them They were freed when the jury disagreed. Seymour Lowman. United States assistant secretary of the treasury, said the customs agent who shot Virkula has a “perfect defense" and that the government will have the case/ tried in federal court. The agent is charged with second degree murder by the state. Thus it would seem that again we shall witness the spectacle of the United States government trying one of its own agents in its own court, and defending that agent. Perhaps that is what Lowman means by a ‘•perfect defense." Let s Build a Chinese Wall At last there develops in Washington an idea and a practical plan for making those Canadians keep their liquor at home where thirsty citizens of this land of the free ran t get to it unless they cross the border. Singularly enough, the idea comes from the department of labor instead of from the prohibition enforcement bureau of the treasury department. It is suggested that a high fence be built on the Detroit side of the river, which forms the international border there, with convenient gates through which reputable craft might enter this country. This is not anew idea, to be sure, for the Chinese built their great wall centuries ago as a protective measure: but the modern application of the principle ought to be interesting just the same, for it may keep out all kinds of unwelcome goods, both solid and liquid, to say nothing of people. But the barrier should not be limited to the river at Detroit. What we really need is a Chinese wall around the entire country, tor when congress launches the Smoot-Haw ley tariff bill we will be in great danger from various kinds of smuggling besides that of beer. wine, and red licker. The gate should swing only outward, so as to permit the free and easy outgo of manufactures we want to sell to people elsewhere in the world, without letting in anything they want to sell to us. Os course, there will have to be some contrivance that will let their gold flow in as fast as possible. Possibly something like a coal chute that runs only one wav would answer the purpose. We can put sharp spikes in it so immigrants can't slide through. A wall would be much better than a fence, because we could put our beloved though murderous prohibition enforcers on the wall with sawed-off shotguns. sc they could kill bootleggers on the other side of the wall rather than innocent American citizens on this side. There may be some engineering difficulties about building a wall that, will let in foreign gold, but keep out foreign goods, and especially foreign ideas. But we have a great engineer on the job at Washington and in this age of science all things are possible. We might build the wall high enough, in fact, to keep out foreign aircraft. I can see great possibilities in thus fence, or Chinese w all. idea. By making it horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong, all of us ought to be able to live happily fighting among ourselves, without wasting or time and muscle fighting strangers. And we can follow out the time-honored policy of Inch protectionists of bottling ourselves up on our own little continent and letting the rest of the world go to ruin— yes. we even can keep our Owen Youngs at home along with their generous impulses ancl humanitarian statesmanship and let Europe. Asia, and Africa stew in their own juice while we sit behind our wall and get our own narrow nationalism.

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E A. Filene and Labor There wa a report the other day that Hoover would like to appoint Edward A. Filene as secretary of labor, when the incumbent, James J, Davis, retires. Then there was an announcement that there was nothing in the report. Well, it would be an unorthodox appointment if made, for Filene is an avowed Democrat and supported Smith for President. But that doesn't make it an impossible art. on Hoover's part, one of the chief contributing causes for his nomination a year ago being public belie! in the fact that he was not hidebound in partisan orthodoxy. Filene. as clearly and perhaps more clearly than any other living man, expresses the tiling that Hoover so emphasized in his campaign—belief in increasing prosperity to the point of abolition of poverty through higher wages, accompanied by waste elimination. standardization, increased production, and decreased prices to the consumer. A considerable employer himself. Filene has displayed the vision that proves him way ahead of the times, a. leader in the new economic thought, a believer that, the right.relationship of labor and capital is in peace and co-operation rather than in war and waste. Recently, Filene wrote a book entitled. “The Way Out.’’ It was a most interesting and effective exposition of the new philosophy of business. ■ i believe." he says, “that the modern business system, despised and derided by innumerable reformers. will be the inspiration of the social of the future. “I am convinced that the social progress of the future will be achieved not by the destruction of the business system, but by its further and finer development, The modern business system is at present more or less lawless, but the pressure of necessity during the next ten or twenty years will enforce its reform. ‘ Unless I wholly misinterpret the signs of the time, we are in the morning hours of a period in which business men, to survive and succeed will be compelled to adopt the sort of policies that will give us an increasingly better social order.” Generally speaking, it is obvious that while business has been evolving there has been little advancement by comparison in political government. Big business recognizes the Russian government, without caring anything about its form. Our antiquated political government, saturated with political tradition and superstition and dogma, doesn't know what to do about it. Business is organizing a League of Nations in the economic sense faster than any political government ever can begin to understand what it is all about. While many wrongs still are committed in the name of business, it is safe to say that the tendency of business as such has been an improvement—an improvement along the lines of enlightened selfishness—but an improvement, nevertheless. Phases of that improvement are dealt with in the book referred to —“The Way Out.” It is worth any one's reading. Mabel Walker Willebrandt .resigned as assistant attorney general to survey the national and state laws of the air. It has been announced that Mabel quit of her own accord, which, of course, dispels the suspicion that she really was given the air. Among other unbecoming costumes was the cloak of secrecy the United States senate tried to wear in the Lenroot case. Reporters are fighting to have the garment checked at the door. President Hoover didn't mention prohibition when he delivered his charge to the new law enforcement commission. Funny that no one asked him about it, either. An Indiana boy w as chosen as the most entertaining student at Princeton university. We used to think Tom Heflin was the most entertaining member of congress, but during the recent battle about rules, it began to look as if there were forty-odd senators who have Tom backed off the boards.

-David Dietz on Science .

Kinds of Lightning

- No. 385

LIGHTNING, on the basis of its appearance, is di- ■ vided into four general types. The first Is the familiar "forked lightning." This is the zigzag flash from cloud to cloud or cloud tc earth. The second is known as “sheet lightning." It is the sudden lighting up of a sheet of rain or cloud. This is nothing more or less than the illumination of the rain or

even when there are no cumulus clouds visible to the observer. Like "sheet lightning” it is the result of an illumination caused by a lightning flash which is invisible to the observer. In this caze, the flash has taken place below the horizon. It gets its name from the fact that it usually occurs during a hot spell. And as already pointed out. thunderstorms are most likely to occur when a hot spell has been in progress for some days. The fourth type differs from the ordinary forked flash. It is known as "ball lightning." For a great many years, scientists were inclined to doubt the existence of ball lightning. Its occurrence is very rare. It now is generally agreed that instances of ball lightning dq occur, but it is felt that most descriptions of it have been exaggerated badly; In this phenomenon, the lightning takes the form of a slow-moving ball of fire* There are a number of reports of such lightning balls suddenly disintegrating or blowing up with a loud explosion. The length of the ordnfary lightning bolt usually is a fraction of a mile, although there are records of lightning flashes twenty miles long. ♦ Many amateur photographers obtain excellent photographs of lightning flashes. They can be obtained by setting up the camera with the shutter open, immediately r.fter the flash, the shutter should bexlQ&ed.

M. E. Tracy j SAYS:

The Boys, Who Really Are Teaching People How to Fly and Making it Possible for Them to Have Safer and Better Machines, Get Little Credit. / I BIDDEFORD. Me.—Asked by the merchants association to list "The Seven Wonders of New York City," Joseph V. McKee, president of the board of aldermen, replies: “I think that it would be far more profitable for your association and ! the men it is asking to co-operate with it, were they to turn their j minds to the seven least creditable | things in the city of New York, so i that with their help and the help \of the municipal authorities these might be eradicated." Mr. McKee is right. Wonders will take care of themselves. What we need to worry about are those things that should be and can be corrected. ana Too Much Bragging IN this connection, we are doing all together too much bragging and too little thinking. Honest, straight-forward progress requires something more than sight seeing tours. If we have any wonders to display, it is because men worked to create' them. Ancient wonders mostly are ruined because succeeding generations were content to do little more than sit back and brag. Ours will go the same way unless we pursue a different course. Stowaway Crabs Act YOUNG SCHREIBER runs away with the show at Paris, being tossed about on the shoulders of a hilarious crowd while the crew of the Yellow Bird is greeted with cold formality. Just another example of how the appetite for entertainment and show-off spirit are combining to destroy a sense of value. It is no more illogical for a stowaway to run away with glory of stunt fliers than it is for stunt fliers to run away with the glory of aviation. The boys who really are teaching people how to fly and making it possible for them to have safer and better machines, get little credit. That being so, why quarrel when a stowaway crabs the act? tt tt tt Work, Live Long WILLIAM F. T. BUCKNER who died at Paris, Mo., last Sunday at the age of 101, and who was one of the last two survivors of the Mexican war, belonged to a generation that was more interested in what it could do than in what it could see. Like thousands of other young men. he went to California for gold. When he failed to find it, he did not sit down to worship the scenery, but went back to Missouri, bought four thousand head of cattle, drove them to the Pacific coast, sold out at a big profit and laid the foundations of his fortune. After that he settled down to an active life as m’rchant and banker, which disproves the theory that one must loaf to live long. n ft Paying for the War THE Mexican war ended eightyone years ago. but we still have one survivor and several widows on the pension list. If history repeats itself, we shall have a pension list in connection with the World war up to the year 2000. and probably beyond it, while Germany will be paring off reparations and the allies their war debts until 1991. But the financial end of it, does not tell half the story. Children bom fifty years hence will be deprived of the rights and privileges which go with civilized j life, because of what occurred in | 1914. n tt tt

Armed to the Teeth NO sane human being can look at the world today without realizing that the elimination of organized war is humanity's most important problem. Admitting that the economic and political structure is imperfect, that we will always be threatened by tyranny and that the right of revolution can not be denied, there still is no reason why the governments of the world should regard it as their first duty to remain armed to the teeth and ready to cut each other's throats. a tt Dismantle War Machine THE English speaking world must support Ramsay McDonald and Hcrbert'Hoovej; in their obvious efforts to bring about a further reduction in naval armament, When that is accomplished it must go still further. Disarmament can not be genuine until it includes all branches of the war machine. At present we are touching only what is obsolete and what would be thrown away in a few years. Sooner or later we must deal not only with the latest improvements, but with probable inventions, not only with the actual military establishment, but with the reserve power back of it. if disarmament is to be real.

cloud by flash of forked lightning which happens to be invisible to the observer. The third type is known popularly as “heat lightning.” This is the sudden lighting up of the atmosphere in the distance, usually low on the horizon. It may be seen

Daily Thought

But the liberal deviseth liberal things and by liberal things shall he stand.—lsaiah 32:8. nun Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.—Hosea Ballou. Woman's Arm Broken Bu Timrg Xpt-ciaf GREENCASTLE. Ind.. June 18.— while picking cherries at her home east of Greencastle. Mrs. Clyde Cash fell from a chair, breaking her right arm. f

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magaxine WITHIN the last few years, the American Dental Association has been employing a chemist to analyze many cf the mouth washes, pyorrhea cures, combinations of salts and remedies for pain that are distributed by dentists who receive samples from the manufacturers. In many instances the claims made for these preparations are utterly without warrant. For example: a preparation guaranteed to remove mucin from the teeth is feund merely to be an alkaline solution about as good as baking soda. Another preparation guaranteed to eliminate tartar was simply a weak solutibn of hydrochloric acid not a great scientific discovery, but an absolute menace, encouraging disintegration of the tooth enamel. Another preparation for the removal of tartar was found to be merely grit and one might as well rub his teeth with pumice stone or sandpaper.

THE responsibilities of a book reviewer, always heavy, sometimes assume a gravity which makes it quite impossible for them to be borne on any single pair of shoulders. I have received a letter today on which so much depends I hesitate to answer without requesting advice from readers. It is from a young man in Pittsburgh who identifies himself merely by the initials X-Q. Now. nobody is ever X anything except as a middle name. Indeed, few are those who bear Q at the front of the family name. The initials then are almost fictitious, but I fear the young man himself is real enough. He writes: “I am humbly requesting your assistance in the matter of a little experiment which I desire to perform. I find myself highly enamored of a superlatively attractive young woman who has, however, one drawback as far as I am concerned. “That lies in the fact she never has cultivated a taste for really worthwhile reading. Such reading to me is one of the greatest of life's pleasures. tt tt ff Idea Is This; "'T'HAT this reading taste may be X developed by the reading of a number of the best books in various lines, I have decided upon an experiment wherein a list of fifty books must be furnished by you and a serious attempt made by the young lady to read them. “When she has completed this

THE extent to which birth control has already been adopted can be approximately gauged by the fact that the birth rate in Europe (excluding Russia!, the United States and Australasia has on the average been approximately halved since the decline set in.—C. V. Drysaale. president London Malthusan League. (Current History.) nan Most of the principles we cherish as fundamental have seemed immoral or monstrous at some time or place.—Harold J. Laski. 'Harpers Magazine.) non While we may be able by legislation to discourage speculative gambling, yet it is impossible for congress to tell the individual how and where he shall spend his own money.—Senator Edge of New Jersey. n n n Agricultural prosperity of a permanent and stable kind will come to the southwest if the program of soil-erosion prevention, which has been successfully started, is carried to completion.—A. B. Conner, director of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

The ‘Three-Generation’ Picture!

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Only Dentist Can Cure Pyorrhea

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Quotations of Notables

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

lodine, a preparation of tremendous interest, has been urged on the profession as the basis of a pyorrhea cure and of tooth pastes, when the amount of free iodine available was not sufficient to have any effect in the mouth and when even this was so quickly converted to the iodide salt as to be without value. The charlatans have not been satisfied with the exploitation of such simple solutions. They have attempted to confuse the untrained dentist by combinations of mineral salts with weak antiseptics, making for these things claims in the field of physical chemistry that to any biologist or physiologist represent the height of the ludicrous. A so-called synthetic saliva exploited as a cure for pyorrhea by a charlatan who had previously exploited three other pyorrhea remedies was found to be merely a mixture of table salt, baking soda, chalk, magnesia and starch, flavored with essential oil, and vaunted as the exact duplicate of the human saliva.

By HEYWOOD BROUN

reading I shall ask her to make a thoroughly frank statement as to whether a reading habit- has been established which will enable her to enjoy good literature. “I would appreciate very much your furnishing me a list of fifty of the best books which you consider suitable for the experiment I ha' e in mind. "The woman in question has read but l>ttle. but has completed the regu’ar high school course, and in addition has taken two years at a well known finishing school. She has golden hair and blue eyes.” It would be simple to say if the hair is just the proper shade and the eyes of sufficient depth the young woman's taste in reading should not matter. But I must not dodge responsibility. tt a tt Responsibility OBVIOUSLY the making of such a list involves a responsibility which I do not care to assume. I have no willingness to run the risk of dividing fond hearts by setting my own personal prejudices up between them. After all. fond hearts are more than Conjads. However. I do venture the suggestions that if the young man's intentions are honorable, fifty books are far too many for the experiment. he has in mind. And if I know anything at all about the psychology of golden girls some other man with less exacting literary standards will be chosen as the favorite long before the toUr of the ten-foot shelf can be completed.

Management today has become a science the same as law and medicine. Responsibility must be distributed all along the line, and services properly compensated.—W. T. Holliday, president Standard Oil Company of Ohio. MUNCIE LEGION POST AMONG U. S. LEADERS Only Three Others in Nation Have Membership Exceeding 1.038. Si/ Times Spec’ll MUNCIE, Ind.. June 18.— This city now lias the nation’s fourth largest American Legion post—Delaware post, with a membership of 1.036. It won the honor after a close contest with the Ft. Wayne post. Although figures for the state as a whole are not available, it is believed Indiana, if it does not lead the nation in membership gains, will hold a high place. Paul V. McNutt. Bloomington, national commander, has offered his shirt as a gift to the Indiana post putting the state over the top. and proposes to remove the garment and present it to the winner at the national convention this *tummer.

The ferments of saliva were absent, but even were this not the case, it has not yet been shown that saliva will cure pyorrhea. Ten cents worth of these common salts put up in fancy packages with sufficient claims on the label bring to the exploiter the sum of $1 and guarantee to him a tremendous margin of profit. In the vast majority of cases, the only care needed by the mouth and teeth, outside of regular examination by the dentist, is an occasional washing with a little salt water or with a flavored dentifrice, as one prefers. Almost any of the common tooth pastes, with soap as a basis, are pleasant to use with a toothbrush. On the other hand, one should not be fooled into believing that either the toothpaste or dentifrices alone or both together can cure pyorrhea. Infections of the mouth and gums are just as serious as infections anywhere else in the body and demand competent scientific attention.

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 with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

Os course, it would be a good deal easier fpr me to advise the young man if I know what sort of a wife he wants. If she likes “Dombey and Son” and “Little Dorrit.” it seems fair t-o assume she will be able to do a little plain mending and part of the cooking. On the other hand, if her favorite is -Carl Van Vechten, I think it would be well to have a hired girl from the beginning. tt tt tt Rather Frivolous BUT I am afraid this is rather frivolous, and beside the point. Let us begin with the trite truism that marriage is at best a gamble. And so I earnestly urge him not to compromise his ardor with any dreary round of fifty books. Does he by any chance realize the weight and heft of fifty books? It is almost enough to last the average reader for a lifetime. Indeed, it is the full ration of four dozen chorus girls. Let him chance all on a single volume. But what shall it be. Perhaps I have always been strongly attracted by people who like one of the less successful novels of H. G. Wells. I refer to “Joan and Peter.” There are certain dislikes which might well serve as cautionary signals. A young man should go slow if she does not care for “Porgy" or “Scarlet Sister Mary.” Nor would I think of marrying anybody unfavorable to “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.”

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June is. men

REASON Ey Frederick Landis

The Optimism With Which the Fortunate View the. Plight of the Unfortunate Is One of the Grandest Things in Xature. Ambassador dawes has ar- . rived i.i London and before John Bull takes his bath next. Saturday night, he will have noted in our rugged, self-reliant foreign representative, a refreshing contrast to the rubber-kneed, punk-burning American in London. tt ft a Inasmuch as there's such a great, over-supply of both, we have no particular pangs of regret, over this new war between the Russians and the Chinese. Mabel Gilman Corey has reopened negotiations, looking to the leasing of this prince, and if she gets him we hope he makes her eat spaghetti three times a day all the year around! tt tt tt Rich young Mr. Pine of Chicago denies that he is to marry Riffh Elder, all of which goes to show that, the old-fashioned woman who likes to sit by the fire and sew carpet rags is losing her appeal. tt tt tt r TwHE army and navy can not be X be reconciled sufficiently to permit a resumption of football games, but we trust \vr might be able to get them to co-operate in event of a war. a a a A. B. Enoch of Chicago, representing western railroads, told the interstate commerce commission that the farmers arc not suffering from depression. The optimism with which the fortunate are able to contemplete the plight of the unfortunate is one of the grandest things in nature. a tt tt There's a lot of talk about this new supreme court building giving the court a home in harmony with its greatness, when as a matter of fact this court now sits in the most, impressively beautiful chamber in America. It is simple, classic historic: it was the old senate chamber where Webster replied to Hay no. where Clay made his great speech on the compromise of 1850, where Calhoun threw the issue of secession into the face of the Union. tt tt tt WHEN the house of Morgan effected this merger of public utility companies! doing business in upper New York, the stock advanced. which shows that the world knows that the same old conventional burglary is soon to follow—in the reorganization, stockholders will be given a lot of stock for nothing and then an obliging public service commission will increase the rates charged the dear people, so to pay dividends on the watered paper. tt tt tt Since the Prince of Wales is not going to marry the Swedish princess. he might improve England's financial condition and also help the English breed by soliciting offers from American heiresses.

(6lthEh RSAR.Y

WOMAN VOTER FINED June 18 ON June 18, 1873, Susan Brownell Anthony, American reformer and feminist, was fined for illegal voting at the election of 1872. For several years some of the leading suffragists were convinced women were under the fourteenth amendment—under the provision that “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall | abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. In 1872. Miss Anthony determined to make a test and with a number of other women registered in Rochester. N. Y. In November, she cast her vote. She was arrested. On June 18 of the following year she was fined SIOO, a fine which she at once refused to pay and which never ! was exacted. Miss Anthony was born in South Adams, Mass., the daughter of a Quaker. She taught school for fifteen years; was active in total abstinence and anti-slavery movements: advanced the belief of coeducation of the sexes; and from the Civil war devoted herself entirely to the women's suffrage movement. Another attempt was made to obtain the vote for women under the fourteenth amendment by a Missouri woman. The case this time was carried to the supreme court, which decided against the suffragist, ending attempts to obtain the vote by the fourteenth amendment.