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Hunting Reds A nation-wide crusade against ‘‘reds,” presumably communists who would overthrow the government by use of force, is launched with the approval of Senator Vatsdn, Representative Will Wood and others in high places in the old guard organization. If they can find reds who have planned to overthrow with bomb and violence the government of the United States, they will perform a very fine service. But it may be only fair to ask whether any one has ever seen a red in this state, or knows of one ? The long row of automobiles before every factory, the sales of radio to every small home, the wide use of every modern comfort, is evidence that this is poor soil into which to plant the seeds of communism.. The danger of this government being overthrown by communists is about as great as that the continent, will be buried by the next eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. This nation is as far from Russia as it is from Italy, geographically and politically. The real menace to the government comes from an entirely different source. The real danger is that democracy and self government will be destroyed by fraud and corruption. The indifference of the people to the treason that is behind a fraudulent election is appalling. Senator Watson, if he desires to uphold the integrity of free institutions, might engage in a crusade to educate the people to the sanctity of the ballot.

He might, right now, use his powerful influence ;it Washington to enlist the forces of government to press the investigation of charges of fraud in the Lake county election and decide whether the agencies of la.v are as zealous and as intelligent as may be had in following the charges of fraud, repeating, the importation of trucks loaded with Negro voters from Chicago. Here is a challenge to Americanism that is definite and specific. Here is a danger more imminent than that of a deluge of communistic mobs. For fraud can overthrow a government of the people just as surely as ever did an angry band of revolutionists. It is worse. Making the nation safe from reds is a pleasant gesture. It may be educational in that it will call attention to the high standard of living, the theoretical liberty achieved in this country. Making the nation safe from crookedness and corruption is the harder task, but more important. Why not start with Lake county? Mexican Church Peace Peaceful settlement of the long and bitter churchstate conflict in Mexico should do much to hasten the unification and reconstruction of that southern republic. It is an evidence of the fairness of the Gil government and of the patiotism of the Catholic church in Mexico. So far as outsiders may judge the accord, both sides are justified in their interpretatons that no essentials hate been sacrficed.

That is, the state is not put in the position of unwarranted interference with the strictly religious functions of the church; nor is the church as an Institution to set itself above the authority of the state in non-religious and political matters. Whatever may have been the political power and claims of the Catholic church in the past in Mexico, acceptance by the Vatican and by the Mexican bishops of the Gil-Ruiz compact is a formal recognition that in Mexico—as in the United States—there must be complete separation of church and state, in letter and in spirit. Archbishop Ruiz savs: "Asa consequence of the statement made by the President, the Mexican clergy will resume religious services pursuant to the laws in force." The clergy had refused to comply with the law for compulsory state registration of priests. Under the accord the Catholic hierarchy is permitted to designate priests who are to register, which seems just. While standing by the constitutional prohibition against religious instruction in schools, the government recognizes the right of the clergy to give such instruction to adults and children within the church ••onflnes. Finally, the right of Catholics, as of all citizens, to union for legislative changes is reaffirmed by President Gil. Mr. Morrow, the American ambassador, is credited ■ :th a major part in bringing the disputants together, "he role of a peace-maker, when successful, is a proud nd happy one. But we regret that Mr. Morrow's services were necessary. We hope that no one either now or in the future will interpret his unofficial services as interference. however friendly, by the United States governmeht in the domestic affairs of another nation. The wisest part of our government's policy toward Mexico has been the consistent and determined position, in the face of frequent demands for intervention, that the relation between the Mexican government and its citizens and institutions, is none of our business

Are Pacifists Citizens? What is the attitude of the church toward a person who refuses to kill fellow humans in time of war? Does it consider him a bad citizen? Or a good Christian? Or neither? This question has been laid before 150 religious denominations and church peace societies by the American Civil Liberties Union in its effort to enlist support for legislation to remedy the situation caused

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by refusal of the supreme court to admit Madame Rosika Schwimmer to citizenship. The answers should be interesting. The church as a whole never has had a well defined position on the question of war. It has, of course, advocated peace, but faced with a military crisis the attitude of its members has varied from church to church and from city to city. The supreme court has held that alien pacifists are not acceptable as United States citizens. , “In what position does the Schwimmer case place the members of your denominations who have come to feel that a sense of Christian duty forbids them to take part in war?” says the letter sent by the Civil Liberties Union. The question deserves more than a superficial answer. If sufficient number of persons study it until they have thought their way through all the possibilities and problems it involves to a deeply grounded conviction, a real contribution may be made to the cause of peace. Flaming Youth - After all the ranting about *the alleged immorality of the younger generation, it is a relief to find that there are still pedagogues with a sense of fact and perspective. Dr. Charles Reynolds Brown, dean emeritus of the Yale divinity school, in his address at the baccalaureate service at Yale university, defended the sanity of the modern attitude toward sex. After saying that he had “no sympathy whatever with this wholesale decrying of the tendencies of youth,” he pointed out what should be very obvious to all —but apparently is not —that “the young people are not everything that is great and grand and good, neither are they the last word of total depravity; they are mixed like the rest of us.”

So much for the perspective. And here is Dr. Brown’s statement of fact regarding attitudes toward sex: “There is a frank recognition of the physical basis of life, an open-eyed acquaintance with that mysterious attraction one sex has for the other which is not immodest or immoral. It well may be far more wholesome in its results than the sham and makebelieve which have done so much to make that side "of life seem unworthy.” The “sham and the make-believe" -and the unclean attitude toward the physical basis of life have been typical of our own and past generations in this country. It is not a thing of which we should be proud. If the young generation is to be more honestminded and more clean-minded, we should rejoice. For that is fundamental progress. With Dr. Brown at Yale appealing for a more "honest attitude toward sex and Dr. Hutchins at the University of Chicago insisting that the purpose of a college is not to teach students facts or theories but to think for themselves, we are persuaded that education in the land is looking up. What this country needs is more mechanical schools to teach the girls how’ to keep house with all the electrical devices they’ll sell you now at $1 down and $1 a week. Among the people you could hate easily Is the man who sits in the only occupied car in a line of parked autos eight blocks long and replies to you that • he isn’t going out right away. Plants make a noise when growing, a scientist reveals. For that matter so do children.

————-David Dietz on Science Lightning and Safety - No. 390

VOLTAIRE said, “There are some great lords whom it does not do to approach too closely, and lightning is one of these.” Fortunately ninety of every 100 lightning flashes are from cloud to cloud, while only the other ten are from the cloud to the earth. These are the dangerous ones. While it is unwise to be unduly nervous about t h u e rstorms. overhead or coming slowly from the west or south. Get under cover if possible. Second: Do not stand under a tree with thick foliage to keep dry. More people are killed by lightning in this way than probably any other. Third: Do not stand in the doorway of a barn or at a window in proximity of a chimney. Fourth: Do not laugh at your neighbor's nervousness during a severe thunderstorm. Fifth: Do not tie stock to wire fences and do not come in contact with such. Sixth: There is no particular advantage in going to bed, standing on glass or rubber or any good insulator. The probability of being struck in an ordinary residence is very slight. Seventh: If you are near a person who has been struck, make every effort to resuscitate him. Generally people are stunned and all that is needed is a little artificial respiration to restore them to consciousness. Do not give up. Try for an hour and of course get a doctor as quickly as possible. Eighth: If you are in a trolley car, and a flash comes in and burns the fuses with a roar and a blinding flash, sit still. The danger is over. Ninth: The antennae of radio outfits should be grounded. Tenth: Dwelling .louses in city blocks are practically safe. Traveling in autos is not dangerous; Lut do not stop under trees or. remain standing on hilltops. As mentioned before. Franklin did not fly a kite in a thunderstorm, though popular legend says so. No one ever should try to fly a kite when there are heavy clouds in the sky. Meteorologists, who use kites to carry recording instruments aloft, always pull them down at the approach -of thunderstorms or the sound of distant thunder. The person at the end of a kite wire during a severe thunderstorm will be killed nine times out of ten," writes Professor McAdie.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Xot Only Criminals and Law Enforcement Officers , but Ordinary Folks Are Coming to Regard Human Life With Supreme Indifference. TN spite of what has happened to -*• kings, it still costs something to marry a Bourbon, as Mrs. Mabelle Corey is finding out. Not that Mrs. Corey was unwilling to pay a good price, but that though her bid was high enough to mobilize and maintain a veritable army of common men, it failed to impress a Spanish prince. Her attorneys offered him a contract by which she agreed to put enough cash in the bank to guarantee him an annual income of 250.000 francs, and to furnish an additional 50,000 francs as pocket money. Don Luis of Bourbon returned the contract unsigned, with a note attached declaring: “I will not marry Mabelle Corey.” ana

The Price of Princes IN educating our daughters to angle for titles, -we should not neglect to acquaint them with the price. Knowing what they are up against would not only save a lot of trouble, but much embarrassment. The chances are that Mrs. Corey could have met the prince’s price without difficulty had she only known. Now that she has made her offer, she probably hesitates to raise it, and largely because of the trading instinct which goes with Yankee blood. a a a Borah and the Envoy THOUGH no one gives a whoop, Senator Borah says that the visit paid him by British Ambassador Howard was of the latter’s own seeking. “He came to my office in the senate office building and came upon his own request,” says the senator. “Furthermore, I broached no subject nor suggested any subject, during that conversation on my own initiative. I discussed singly, soley and exclusively with the ambassador the subject matters about which he came to talk with me.” One is glad to take the senator at his word, to admit that there was no reason in the world why he shouldn’t give the British ambassador a courteous ear and to dismiss all suspicion that the two were conniving to take over control of the foreign relations between England and this country. Still, the senator has not said what they talked about, and that, after all/, is the important point.

De Priest’s Test OSCAR DE PRIEST, Negro congressman from Chicago, will give another musical. The first, which he put on last Friday night, and to which he invited all Republican members of congress, appears to leave some doubt concerning his social status. Only one congressman was present, and out of an audience of 4,000 only about a dozen whites. According to the friends of the congressman he will demand social as well as official recognition, and see “whether member*,s of the house practice what they preach.” The congressman hardly needs to go to the trouble and expense of giving another musical to learn the answer. a tt a Auto Injured—Hospitals WHAT worries the state of New Jersey is not the increased number of auto accidents but the fact that many victims fail to pay their hospital bills. Last year New Jersey hospitals lost something like $300,000 through caring for people who were injured in .autos, but who forgot to leave either money or address. Legislation will be asked to make accident insurance policies cover hospital bills, which seems to sum up the country’s attitude toward the blood sacrifice it is making very nicely. Apparently, the best we can think of with regard to the 25,000 dead and the 100,000 injured, which autos account for in the United States each year, is to get a little more cash. e a a

Shooting It Out NOT only criminals and law enforcement officers, but ordinary folks are coming to regard human life with supreme indifference. Chicago police have been ordered to kill Baby Face Doody on sight. It not only looks tough to set 6,000 well-armed cops on a runt of five feet four that way, but it looks rather uncivilized. Baby Face has killed three men and -wounded several others during the last two months, and as a matter of personal justice he deserves little mercy. But the law should be clever enough to get him alive, even if it could not identify and lock him up in time to prevent the mischief. If order is to be just a case of “shooting it out,” there are millions of ordinary dozens who can do as good a job as sheriffs, plicemen or constables, and at far less expense. Daily Thought And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.—Revel. 22:12. it s s IT is no flattery to give a friend a due character: for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.—Plutarch. Young People Unite Bn Times Specie! GREENCASTLE, Ind., June 24. Merger of the Young Peoples’ Unions of the Presbyterian church, Christian Endeavor of the Christian church, and the B. Y. P. U. of the Baptist church, has been effected for the summer.

Bicarbonate of Soda Helps Acid Burns

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyseia. the Health Magazine. WHEN a concentrated acid is put on the skin, it withdraws water from the skin and burns the tissues. It unites with the protein material of the skin to form compounds. In Germany it was found that burns of the skin from acids constituted 12 per cent of all accidents in the chemical industry, and of the acids involved, nitric acid was responsible for 125 cases; sulphuric acid for 77, and hydrochloric acid for 36. In a British government factory, one out of every four accidents was due to acid burns. , Hydrochloric acid is used in a great many industries, in which it also is called muriatic acid or spirit of salt. Workers may be injured even from inhaling the acid in high concentration when it is used during

IT SEEMS TO ME

MAN must be at his worst when *he rides in taxicabs, for all the drivers with whom I've talked are cynical. Taxi chauffeurs like to talk. With any encouragement the man at the wheel will treat you to extended conversation. And sometimes you don’t have to encourage him. We were coming up Fifth avenue, in heavy traffic, when suddenly the driver turned to me and exclaimed belligerently, “I always say that if you've got jack you can get any dame in the world.” I’ll never know just what it was which prompted this affront to American womanhood. It was my intention to remark with dignity that though he might possess the wealth of all the Indies, I felt sure my Aunt Clara would spurn his advances were they less than honorable. Just then we almost rammed a bus and I decided’ to let the matter 4 r °P with an evasive, “Well. I don’t know.” a a a Soft Answer BUT even this mild rejoinder seemed to infuriate him. He turned around, took, both hands off the wheel and began to steer with his right knee-cap. “Buddy,” he said earnestly, “don’t let anybody tell you different. Jack's all you need.”

And then he added, in more kindly fashion. “If you had a big roll you could get ’em just the same as me.” I acknowledged the compliment by raising one eyebrow’ a little. There's nothing I like less than an academic discussion when cars are milling around in all directions. But the chauffeur seemed to sense that I was not in complete accord with his materialistic point of view and he undertook to hammer home his philosophy, no matter w’hat happened to his fenders. Very* lightly w r e brushed against a low, red racing car. My friend indicated it with a sweep of the thumb. tt tt tt Must Have Red Car GIVE me that car and bet a grand and I’ll show you,” he exclaimed. I cautiously answered, “Show me what?” “You stand on the corner of Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue,” he explained, “and I’ll take that red car and start at Twentythird and before I get up to you I’ll have copped myself a girl. And I mean a pip. I'm not counting acquaintances.” It seemed a sporting proposition. And since the honor of American womanhood had been in some measure questioned by the fellow, I was about to ask the owner of the streamline beauty whether or not he was sufficiently interested in sociological research to lend us his car for experimental purposes. I could have promised that it would be over in just a few minutes. But then the light turned green and the young man in the racer was

Knee Deep in June

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the pickling or cleaning of baths in copper and tinplate factories. Sometimes workers are injured by the bursting of a carboy during transportation. The burns from hydrochrolic acid are slight if they are washed immediately. as compared with burns from sulphuric and nitric acids. Nitric acid is among the most powerful of the acid substances used in industry. Enormous quantities of this acid are used in the 'manufacture of explosives and in many instances it is used in 100 per cent strength. When splashed on the skin, pure nitric acid strikes like a white-hot piece of metal. So fierce is the oxidizing activity of this acid that straw and sawdust beneath it burn when it is spilled on them. When nitric acid is added to alcohol or turpentine, these substances not infrequently explode. Ordinary concentrated commer-

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off like a shot, evidently bent upon some laboratory work of his own. My regrets are not so great. I might have lost the wager. I am incorrigibly sentimental and I hate to have any of my ideals grow tarnished. What if he had met Aunt Clara ; and what if she had accepted the presumptious proffer of a ride in a red racing car? a u Too Much Territory OF course, the bet never was quite fair. Even a person j whose faith in right living and highthinking is very great has a ! right to hesitate before backing the ; discretion of each and every woman to be encountered in eleven city blocks. However, it always used to be my custom at such times as I espied any painted hussy to murmur to myself, “After all, she is somebody’s Aunt Clara.” “Although the wager was all off, the Casanova of the Cab was by no means done with the subject. For an instant he was checked because a traffic policeman rudely interi rupted and signaled for him to come ; on. ! But this was no fellow' to be hammered much by driving obligations. ! A. finger or so was plenty for his w'heel and he reserved the right hand for sweeping gestures. He began to talk after the manner of a Harvard hymn writer apd when he reached the point of each anecdote it was necessary for him

Quotations of Notables

SOCIETY is necessary’ in our com- 1 petitive scheme of existence which makes it impossible to escape the human appetite for distinction. But brilliant social success avails nothing when our personal accounts finally are balanced. The measure of real contentment is a sane and decent life. Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. < Collier’s). an a I say that prohibition is not worth plunging the people into a civil war. —Representative La Guardia, New’ York. ' s t> a Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the mteligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. The great disaster of our civilization is the morbid hatred of sex.—D. H. Lawrence. (Vanity Fair.) s a a No unknown is trifling in honest research. To the scientists every strange field is as the rainbow, with always the hope and possibility of the pot of gold being at the end.”— Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture. a a a I am convinced that people who claim the movies are demoralizing this generation cannot back up their ■ vague generalizations with facts.

cial nitric acid contains 30 per cent water and while dangerous, it is not so dangerous as the pure nitric acid. Workers in these industries not infrequently have ulcers around the finger nails and at the finger tips from contact with the weaker acid. Sulphuric acid is the most important of the acids in the chemical industry. When this acid burns the skin, the ulcer that follows has sharply defined edges and tends to heal rather slowly. Usually a burn from sulphuric acid heals within six w r eeks. The first treatment following the burn by an acid is to wash off the acid as quickly as possible with a solution of bicarbonate of soda and to leave the lvouna in the soda solution for some time. This solution serves to neutralize the acid. People who are working with acids regularly should wear gloves whenever possible.

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.

to throw both hands up into the air because every time he was convulsed with laughter. Some of the quips, which all but paralyzed him, seemed meager to me. He was the comfortable sort of chauffeur, who turns half way round to the passenger so that no word in the conversation may be lost. tt tt a Old Refrain THE subject which he chose to develop and embroider was himself and I was hardly in a position to criticise this sort of selection. But it seemed to me that there was rather more repetition than is found even in columnar autobiography. Each adventure of his own, which he narrated, ended up in precisely the same way. Like a refrain there ran constantly the line, “Poor kid, I guess she’s nuts about me.” It would have interested me far more if there had only been some one incident in which a woman scorned him. But, no, they all said “Yes.” A fine, free and uninhibited spirit, I thought to myself, as I alighted at my destination. But even in this I was disappointed for an apologetic note crept into his voice as we were parting. “You see,” he said, “the wife’s in Atlantic City.” I wish I knew whether she was staying at the Ritz or the Ambassador so that I could telegraph, “Come home at once, Papa’s got vine leaves in his hair.” (Copj-right. 1929, by The Times)

My studies in this field have proved the actual unimportance of the films as a producer of young delinquents. —Dr. Joseph L. Holmes, department of psychology, Columbia university.

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REASON —Ey Frederick Landis

Coolidge Got More Miles to the Intellectual Gallon Than Any Other President in Our History. THESE gentlemen are mistaken who think Hoover is slipping and that the Republicans may nominate Coolidge in 1932. Coolidge firmly is anchored on the what-not of political history. He got more miles to the intellectual gallon than any other President in our history. a a a We seem to own some stock in the Mexican government, for Morrow is now helping President Gil settle his church question. In Morrow and Dawes we have more ability in our diplomatic corps than ever before and we might retrench by letting all the rest of them go, having Morrow take I charge of the western hemisphere and Dawes take charge of the eastern. a a a If the name of Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler is not in the present issue of New York City's social register, it is sure to be in the next one. for she has just been caught smuggling : and fined $3,672. a a a A United States commissioner in Chicago decides that dry agents can not go through a man's pockets without first getting a search warrant, but nothing was said about. : wives. a a a ; ttiHATEVER fears English ccn- | VV servatives may have had regarding MacDonald's possible radicalism. they all vanished when he refused to let Trotski enter Great Britain. a tt a The Japanese are going to tie a can to the Prince Albert coat, which is a sure sign of their advancing civilization. a a a The other day when the United States senate congratulated Warren, the sheepraising senator from Wyoming on his 85th birthday, we thought of the. time during the debate on the wool schedule of the Paine-Aldrich tariff bill when Dolliver of lowa referred to him as “the greatest shepherd since Abra-' ham. F a a a f Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Republican'representative in congress froi# New York City, inherited $9,000,000 just as congress adjourned and many of her associates were wondering how they could pay up and get back home. ana THE people of Washington have made many complaints because minor officials of foreign embassies drive automobiles while drunk, then claim diplomatic immunity, and get away when arrested. The state department should ask their respective countries to call all such smart alecks home or arrange for them to run into some good heavyweight prize fighters.

Students of Loyola university at | Chicago vote unanimously that | nakedness, painted lips, cigaret j smoking and liquor drinking have ended man’s respect for woman. They should have said “some women.” It's as unjust to brand all women for the follies of some, as to brand 1 aril men as burglars because a few j stick up gas stations. MORGAN’S RAID June 24 ON June 24, 1863, Brigadier-Gen-eral John Hunt Morgan began his spectacular Confederate.-raid into Indiana and Ohio.—— Morgan was ordered- ten attempt, to draw Union troops from Tennessee by an expedition into Kentucky. He exceeded his orders and, breaking through the Union*line- in Kentucky, he marched north- and northwest to the Ohio river and crossed to the Indiana side. He had with him about 3,000 cavalry or mounted infantry and- four field pieces of artillery. He swept around Cincinnati, closely pursued by Generals Hobson and -Shackel - ford, and opposed everywhere"by th® militia. . A sudden rise in the Ohio river allowed gunboats to reach Buffington island and prevented him" from recrossing the river. Here abouT7oo of his men were taken companies succeeeded in j crossing the river and he. with the.remainder. set out toward the Pennsylvania border to join Lee. - After an exciting chase he*was captured at a place three of New’ Lisbon. 0.. and .was afterward confined in the Ohio' state prison at Columbus. Nov/ 27 s os that year he escaped, with' a, 'few companions, and reached the Confederate lines in safety.