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Highway Wage3 The budget committee, which controls wages of state workers, has turned down a request for more employes for the highway department and larger salaries for minor executives. It is just possible that the committee is as wrong as it usually is. There may be a necessity for more and better men to have charge of the road program. This department spends approximately as much money as does all the rest of the state government. Into its care is entrusted about twenty millions of dollars each year. It is quite conceivable that one very high priced man might save the people a hundred times his salary. It is also conceivable that placing more men on the job would save instead oi waste. If there has been waste in the department and if it exists, it has not come from the men who work out m the sun and winds taking care, of the roads and keeping them in shape. Nor can it be traced to the work of minor executives. who. for the most part have taken a pride in their work and have desired to build good roads. The waste may have come at times from the fact that a member of the budget committee which refused the increase in number of workers is a salesman for a concern which has, since his employment, received almost a monopoly of contracts for trucks. Many thousands of dollars worth have been purchased from this concern, which under a different ownership was refused any business whatever. The waste, if it has occurred, might be traced to the distribution of contracts for materials. It would take a very large army of day laborers to graft even a small portion of the twenty millions a year. The big waste comes from the fact that the roads as now constructed are far from permanent and must be repaired or rebuilt within a very few years. When it becomes necessary to close a highway that has been laid not more than seven years and force traffic over detours, there is something wrong. When someone devises a plan for road building that will relieve the public from reconstruction within a decade, the big waste will be wiped out. There should be at least a hope offered that the twenty million dollar a year tax for roads is not to be a permanent burden upon the state. The Special Session The special session of congress convoked to provide relief for agriculture has recessed after two months of labor. l te chief accomplishment was enactment of a farm relief bill, which provides for a half billion dollar revolving fund to be appropriated from the federal treasury and administered by a federal farm board. This board will stimulate co-operative marketing and will lend funds to co-operatives or to stabilization corporations they set up. The stabilization corporations will buy and sell agricultural commodities to prevent price fluctuations and price depressions due to Surplus J. The farm board itself will not participate m actual operations, the corporations being business enterprises and responsible for profits and losses. The intention of congress was to place the farming industry on an equality with other industries. Much will depend on the caliber of the men the President names to the board, and the intelligence with which they adminster the act. It will not be able to affect this season's crops, and perhaps not even those of next year. It is noteworthy that farm prices materially are lower than when congress met to cope with the farm emergency. The defeated debenture plan to which the President so strongly was opposed was no doubt impracticable. although it is difficult to reply to the argu, ment of its sponsors that if industry enjoys a subsidy through the tariff, the farmer has the same right to a bounty from that source. An effort will be made to attach the export bounty provision to the tariff bill, but it seems foredoomed to defeat. One of the important things in the debenture fight was the evidence of a growing realization on the part el the farmers of what the tariff does. The tariff bill passed by the house and now before the sei.cte finance committee is a monstrosity and pleases no one. The reason for tariff revision was to help agriculture. The President and party leaders had promised "limited" changes. The bill, however, increases duties on some MOO items, and would add perhaps $600,000.000 annually to the cost of living. Tariff beneficiaries made the most of their opportunities for new grabs. House leaders made concessions to this group and that group until the bill emerged a hodgepodge of increases. 111-advised alterations were made in administrative sections. The biff does not give the farmers what they want and farm oragmzations have condemned it with unanimity. Moreover, the industrial increases would take from the farmers far more than the agricultural increases would give them. Fortunately, there is a likelihood that the senate finance committee will rewrite the bill and eliminate at least its worst features. Defeat of the Borah resolution to limit revision to agricultural and related products by the margin of a single vote showed the temper of the senate. The special privilege seekers remain active, however. and those who did not get what they wanted from the house will knock at the senate door. It will require the best efforts of progresshe Republicans and of those Democrats who still adhere ;o the traditional tariff attitude of their party to resist the trading and the pressure from the Grundrc s. Probably the country would be much better off if the entire revision were defeated. The session also witnessed passage of the reapportionment bill, which was combined with the bill for the regular decennial census to facilitate its passage Congress reluctantly decided after nine years delay to obey the constitutional mandate which directs reapportionment after each census. Proposals to eliminate aliens in apportioning representatives wisely were defeated, but not without determined support in their behalf from Southern and other rural spokesmen. Borne 13,000.000 persons who have been without representation will acquire it after the 1930 census. Two notable acts of the senate were modification of its ancient rule for secrecy in the consideration of

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nominations and treaties, and refusal to abandon the national origins immigration system. Senator Norris and other progressives failed to get the complete abolition of secrecy they demanded, but the revised rule, nevertheless is a gain. Proceedings will be open unless it is moved and carried to have them secret. The secret deliberations may be published if a majority wishes. Any senator may reveal his vote. In the fullness of time the senate is likely to decide that public business really is public business. Retention of the national origins system for determining immigration quotas, in the face of plain evidence that it has been impossible properly to work them out. is difficult to explain. The present 1890 census basis, which has proved generally satisfactory, will give way to the new method July 1. The avowed intention of the national origins scheme was to reduce immigration from southern and eastern Europe and to increase it from northern and western Europe. Actually the final allotments will cut immigration from Germany, Scandinavia and Ireland, and increase immigration from England, Italy and Greece. While it is too late to prevent the new system from becoming operative, its inequities will become more and more apparent, and agitation for its abandonment will continue with a possibility of success. The Forgotten Fa,ctor Much is being made of the fact that the two youths who killed a little girl while they, in a state of drunkenness, were driving an automobile, had been given mercy for other crimes. There is a plea for harsher treatment for all offenders and less clemency toward those who pilfer and steal. The forgotten factor is that these boys did not cause the death of the girl because they had been paroled, but because they were drunk. It is true, of course, that had they been in jail they would not have been driving an automobile and the life of the child would have been saved. But it is also true that these boys evidently found it very easy to obtain the alcohol which robbed them of their senses, and that other boys, other men and other girls and women have the same easy opportune. One of the greatest arguments for prohibition is that in this day of innumerable automobiles, human life would not be safe if it were possible to purchase liquor freely and without limitation. Even those who do not believe in prohibition would think of denying the truth of the statement that whisky and gasoline form a very deadly combination. The drunken driver is a menace to life. No person who is guilty of this offense should ever be permitted to drive again. It is, however, quite apparent that prohibition does not entirely remove this menace. This recent tragedy, with the resulting death of a little girl, is evidence that prohibition has not entirely solved this problem. Whether there would be more or fewer such tragedies under a different system of liquor control is a debatable question. That there is an imperative necessity for extraordinary vigilance on the part of every official to prevent any intoxicated person from driving a car for any distance is not debatable. Nor is it out of place to suggest that in any investigation of this particular tragedy, some inquiry should be made as to the source of supply which sent these boys out to cause the death of a child. Some progress would be made if that particular agency is prevented from sending out no more boys on such potentialities. The danger does not come from those who have committed other crimes. It comes from those who drink and drive. The headline “New Se.up of Dry Force Seen,” is apt to be a little misleading, judging by the habits some of the prohibition agents seem to have formed in New York night clubs.

-—David Dietz on Science

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THE distance of a lightning flash from the observer, as previously explained, can be ascertained by counting the seconds w'hich elapse between the sight of the flash and the sound of the thunder. Each second is about 1,000 feet. Five seconds, therefore, are approximately a mile. This method, as explained, depends upon the fact that light travels with a speed of 136.000 miles a second, while sound travels 1.066 feet a second. The method can be used as well to tell how' fast a thunderstorm is

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storm is retreating, the clouds will appear to dwindle I in size. If it is moving at right angles to the observer, the motion of the clouds will be visible. If the clouds appear to be growing larger, it means the storm is approaching. Thunderstorms travel with an average speed of vwenty-five miles an hour. It is possible, however, to time a storm fairly well by the method described. Let us suppose that you note the time between flash and the thunder is thirty seconds. The storm is the storm is eight miles away. Five minutes later, let us say. the time between a flash an dthe thunder is thirty seconds. The storm is then six miles away. That means therefore, that the storm has traveled two miles in five minutes. Since the storm is then six miles from where you are. you have exactly fifteen minutes in which to seek shelter before the storm breaks. If caught in the open in a thunderstorm, three rules should be remembered. Keep off a hill crest, keep away from an isolated tree, and keep away from a wire fence. Lightning may strike a wire fence a mile from where you are and come along the wire fence. Professor Brooks advises sitting or lying in a ditch as the safest place if caught in the open country in a wiry severe thunderstorm. .

ML E. Tracy SAYS:

During the Last Nine Years Our Laws Constantly Have Grown More Drastic While Bootlegging Constantly Has Grown More Profitable. TAOS TON, Mass. Wednesday brought quite a bit of advice from the great and near great. Mayor Walker told us how to keep young, Mr. Coolidge told us how to run big business, and President Hoover told us how we might co-operate in behalf of prohibition. Among other things Mayor Walker said ‘don’t waste time trying to get even.” It might help some if dry agents were to adopt the suggestion. a a a Coolidge’s Advice DON’T do anything yourself that someone else can do,” counseled Mr. Coolidge in giving big business leaders the benefit of his wisdom. I know a better one than that. Don’t expect someone else to do anything you wouldn’t. Leadership is not entirely a matter of efficiency. To be constructive it must set an example as well as the pace. BUB Setting an Example SETTING an example almost is a lost art in this country. People seem to think that what they do does not matter much if what they say sounds right. When you get right down to brass tacks, drinking drys are largely responsible for the trouble we are having with prohibition. Without their hypocritical assistance, it would never have been adopted, and if they would vote as they drink, it could soon be put on a common sense basis. a b a Political Guess Game WE are dealing with policy, rather than conviction, all along the line and the policy measurably is predicated on politics. The show has become a guessing game wih regard to the next election and most of those who aspire to hold office imagine that the crowd still wants Volsteadism in theory though not in fact. During the last nine years our laws constantly have grown more drastic while bootlegging constantly has grown more profitable. Assistant Treasurer Lowman says that rum runners are assembling along the Canadian border in unprecedented force. The howl is for them to be stopped, but the hope is that their goods will come through all right. tt tt tt

Worse Than Fanatics /CONTRARY to prevailing opinion, the mess we are in is not attributable to fanatics. Bad as fanatics may be, you know w'here they stand, and consequently how to deal with them. What confuses the situation is the vast number of people, many of them holding office, w'ho preach one thing, while they practice another, who advocate honest enforcement! but hope it won’t be honest, and who privately help to block the very measures they publicly indorse. B B B Ash Can Champion EDWARD J. O’CONNELL, champion ash can roller of Boston, challenges the world to come and beat him. A novel idea in contests, perhaps, but with as good a basis as some others that have become popular. The trouble is that it was born too late. The rapid adoption of oil burners bodes ill for the ash can marathon, no matter how thrilling it might prove. a b b Cemetery Wedding r T"HERE is no accounting for some i- people’s taste. Two Tennessee couples choose to be wed in a cemetery by a justice of the peace who is an undertaker. Such incidents make it easy to believe that monkeys go insane watching the antics of human beings, as the magazine of the Zoological Society declares, and that they have to take the rest cure every so often, after being put on exhibition in parks and zoos. BBS Half-Hearted Progress TN spite of all the freaks and fanA cies. we continue to make progress. though generally by halfhearted halting steps. The senate modifies its “secrecy rule,” but not to the extent of making roll calls public. Probably it was too much of a wrench for the old guard to go all the way at once. Senators are left free, however, to tell how they voted individually in secret session. If enough of them tell, we shall get the necessary information. B B B Oldest Senator THE senate pauses long -ough in its deliberations to pay deserved tribute to Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming on his eightyfifth birthday. He is not only the oldest member of the senate but has served the longest. What is more amazing, he has been a member of the senate for more years than any other man since the republic was organized, having occupied his seat since 1893.

approaching. Occasion ally thunder may be heard when the storm is ten miles away. In that case, the lapse of time between the flash and the sound would be fifty seconds. When a thunderstorm is observed in the distance, the first thing to do is to ascertain its course. If the;

Daily Thought

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field.—Eccl. 5:9. B B B CREATION £ heir, the world, the world, is mine.—Goldsmith.

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UNWITTINGLY, Arthur Schreiber performed a useful service when he flew across the ocean as stowaway on the Yellow Bird. He proved that courage is an empty thing if it remains unmixed with wisdom or with purpose. Too many of us have a tendency to say, “Well, after all, he was a brave man,” about some person who has just made a horrible mess of things. It seems to me that maturity of judgment should suggest that bravery is a vice rather than otherwise if it exists in people of low intelligence. Society is not well served by brave footpads or by courageous crooks. Even a moron with unflinching nerves fulfills no efficient purpose except in wartime. And even then, I imagine that raw courage untempered with good sense is hardly enough equipment for the fivst-class fighting man. It is difficult to see in what way the lad from Portland, Me., contributed to any public good. He nourished his own ego, but at the expense of others. And upon sober reflection he ought to feel shame instead of pride. There are causes, of course, in which the man, who is willing to lay down his life to prove a point, is of vast value to mankind. But a youngster who risks death for the sake of some idle whim "puts a singularly low valuation upon himself. tt tt tt They Will Rush In AND worse than that a fearless fool seldom has enough imagination to consider the rights or even the lives of others. If Schreiber were truly a stowaway he might seriously have imperiled the aviators who carried him to Spain. They had greater need of gas than of vainglorious freight. Os course, I gravely suspect that the episode was a hoax and that the crew was well aware of Schreiber’s presence. But, even so, I can not much admire any youth who is willing to die for the sake of the syndicate rights and perhaps two weeks in vaudeville. Young Mr. Schreiber might say

Writer’s Cramp Is Occupation Ailment

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hysreia, the Health Magazine. ANY time a human muscle or ligament is used over and over again in the same process over a long period of time, it is likely to revolt. There are numerous occupations in which such movements are required and associated with these'occupations are diseases to which the name of the occupation and the word “cramp” usually is applied. Thus physicians classify these diseases as writer’s cramp, telegrapher’s cramp, hammerman’ scramp, twister’s cramp and miner’s nystagmus. The telegrapher’s cramp is the result usually of prolonged fatigue during complicated movements that are required for sending messages with the Morse code. The result of overuse of the tissues involved in such sending is spasm, tremor and weakness of the muscles involved. If the work is persisted in without rest, not infrequently there will be associated with the muscle cramp

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DON’T ask me about men. I have never had time to study them in my career.—Jane Cowl, actress. BBS The talkies certainly have a tremendous future. They will develop a technique of their own, and I believe they eventually will bring at out a reduction in the number of pliys produced.—Richard Barthelmess, moving picture actor. BBS If sin of the small town is overfamiliarity, the sin of the big city is apt to be underfamiliarity.— Bishop Edwin H. Hughes. BBS The policy of the leaders of the prohibition forces has been to claim

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a nervous instability duet to the strain. Writer’s cramp usually is due to holding the arm and the muscles of the hand In the same position for long periods of time while writing by hand, although there may be similar cramps following long continued use of the typewriter at high speed. Among 8,518 employes of the British postoffice fourteen had to be transferred to other work because of the development of writer’s cramp, which did not improve under rest. When writer’s cramp occurs, the adoption of a different method of sitting or writing or the use of a different pen and desk will often bring about relief. If the condition persists, it may be necessary, of course, to change employment. Twister’s cramp is an altered condition of the hand, particularly of the thumb, produced in people by the continued operation of twisting threads together. Sometimes overuse ' f the muscles ends in paralysis, so mat the person is unable to carry on this work.

to me, “It’s easy for you to talk, but I bet you wouldn’t take the chance I did ’’ Os course not. Why should I? My presence in a monoplane would tax the motors more severely than did the passenger from Maine. And I don’t want to go in the movies nor do I feel that vaudeville is calling for me. By now the business of trans-Atlantic kibitzing is worn out. I’d rather be a guinea pig for science than a dead weight in a plane where I was powerless to be of the least assistance. BBS The Need of Fear 'T'HE man wholly without fear is subnormal. Man never was meant to be impervious to every kind of danger. In the days of ancient man, foolhardy folk who snapped their fingers in the face of any passing mammal never lived to tell the tale, and left the world of progeny. We are the flower of ancestors who watched their step and hid in caves when the larger lizards gave their warning signals on nightly prowls through the dark forests. The first man who fashioned himself a spear probably was an individual who had learned to shiver and shake in the face of peril. A sense of balance is very necessary in the makeup of the superman. We know that a keen realization of risk is not an insuperable barrier to daring. A little while ago George Putnam, the publisher, enticed several friends to pose for pictures w'hich were to illustrate Corey Ford’s burlesque of “Cradle of the Deep” which is called “Saltwater Taffy.” Two of the volunteers were Reinaid Werrenrath, the singer, and Clarence Chamberlin. The photographer posed them on a boom or halyard (my nautical knowledge is inexact) or something protruding When they had taken their stations, Werrenrath noticed that the aviator had turned a sickly green. “What’s the matter, Clarence,” he called, “Do you feel ill?” “You bet I do,” replied the flier, “I’ve always been deathly afraid of looking down from high places.”

everything and, by constantly asserting that those things are true which they wish to be true, to deceive, disconcert and discourage their opponents.—Julian Cadman, president of Constitutional Liberty League. <The Periscope.) BBS A man who hides behind a woman’s skirts today is not a coward; he is a magician.—Lord Dewar. Attend World Session. Bv Tlw* Snrciql _ , MARION, Ind.. June 20— Harley Hardin, prosecutor-elect of Grant couny, is attending the Intemaional Association of Lions Clubs convention in session at Louisville.

Associated w r ith the use of pneumatic tools, tnere may be changes in the muscles and the blood vessels w'hich have serious effects on workers. Thus the continued vibration and the pressure of the tool impedes the circulation of the fingers and may cause the fingers, in the w'ords of the operator, “to go dead.” Included w T ith the use of pneumatic tools, the form of the apparatus, the w'eight of the tool, the regulation of the air pressure and the noise must also be considered. In miner’s nystagmus the eyeballs oscillate. This condition was first discovered among miners working under conditions of bad illumination and was associated with too great a strain throw’n on the tissues. When the condition occurs, the symptoms are dancing of lights and intolerance of bright light and backward inclination of the head. Os course, the first step in the cure of any form of disorder due to fatigue of tissues is to take the worker away from the employment at least temporarily.

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When Col. Lindbergh raised strenuous objections to the name of “Flying Fool” he betrayed an ignorance of American slang, for in the phrase there is no hint of folly. When you say of a man, “He’s a dancing fool” no more is meant than that he dances very well. But if the w'ords had been intended to convey any hint of irresponsibility the colonel w'ould have objected very properly. In his own story of his flights he very frankly said that he was frightened and considered turning back when first he faced the sleet storm. tt tt tt Dread as a Tonic and all other animals are internally ordered for the functioning of fear. The frightened rabbit runs his best because adrenalin fills him with vigor. An individual devoid of fear is a person of sluggish reflexes and one capable of small accomplishment. I am frank to confess that I would prefer to be much braver than I am. There is no utility in fearing lightning because it comes too fast to be dodged by even the most alert. It is undeniably shameful to be afraid of peaceful cows simply because they have crumpled horns. At times I’ve prayed for courage. Probably I shall do so again, but hereafter I intend to add the definite proviso, “But of course I don’t mean that I w r ant to be a brazen ’diot.” (Copyright, 1929, by The Timesi j

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JUNE 20. 1929

REASON —By Frederick Landis

Much of the Tenderness of This World Is Due to Our Dog Lore; Many Held in Kind Remembrance. WE see by the papers that the dog belonging to the late Edward J. Fogarty maintains the highest canine traditions by refusing to be comforted since his master’s demise, going without food and otherwise certifying to his sense of loss, which is unusually fitting, since Fogarty picked him up when the dog was down and out, with no social standing whatever. it tt a Much of the tenderness of this world is due to our dog-lore. In great degree, it’s the dogs you have known, which give the quaint charm of a McCutcheon cartoon to the days that have gone. And how they come forth when Memory summons them from the kennel of Time! BBS There’s pat, the little rat terrier, that brother John brought home in his overcoat pocket that wintry night so many years ago. He was good and the greatest career seemed opening before him when, all at once, he fell into the rainwater barrel. b b e Then there was Jack, a name dedicated to dogs as George is dedicated to Pullman porters. He was a fighter superb and loved combat more than any knight, of the ring, unless it be the late Stanley Ketchel. Every morning he licked those two pedigreed dogs in their own kennel. B B B THEN to save him front death we gave him away to settlers going to Kansas and we can hear to this day that scratching at the sitting room door two months later. Opening :t, we saw Jack “in person’’ with the rope still round his neck, and two feet of it dragging where he had chewed it off. He had come back from somewhere out west! BBS Then there was Major, whose passing was tragic, if not romantic. At butchering time he started to chew an intestinal morsel and unable to disconnect himself continued to absorb until it was Gates Ajar. We always think of Major when involved in a telephone conversation with one who is unable to bite it off. BBS Carney was the most emotional of them all and we still recall the fit of joy he threw' when after a day’s absence we returned from our first trip to Lake Maxinkuckee. The reception which the French gave Lindbergh was exceedingly restrained alongside it. . B B B RAGS was the only dog with sufficient diplomacy to win the confidence and esteem of our yellow horse and how grateful we were to hear his sniff inside the door as we w r ent to the barn at 4 o’clock In the black mornings to get the horse and go forth to carry our papers.

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STEAMER CROSSES OCEAN June 20 ON June 20, 1819, the first steamship succeeded in crossing the Atlantic ocean. This w r as the Savannah, of 380 tons, measuring 100 feet in length, originally built to ply between New York and Savannah as a sailing packet. She w'as purchased by Savannah merchants, and fitted with steam machinery, the paddle wheels being constructed to fold up and be laid upon the deck in stormy weather. Under the command of Captain Steven Rogers, this vessel sailed from Savannah May 20, 1819, but did not venture on the high seas until May 25. She reached Liverpool, England June 20, after a voyage of twentysix days—during sixteen of which she used her paddles. Off Cape Clear she was mistaken for a ship on fire and was pursued by the British cutter Kite. The Savannah afterward visited St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm and other foreign ports. Captain Rogers, having failed to dispose of his vessel to the king of Sweden, started for home and reached Savannah Nov. 30, 1819. The engines and boilers afterward were removed and the ship was used as a sailing packet. She was finally wrecked off the south coast of Long Island.