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A Senatorial Test , While the public will regret the retirei a nt from the federal ben<-h of Judge A. B. Anderson, none will grudge him the rest whieh long, arduous and conspicuous service surely have won for him. When he presided over the ben-*h in Indiana bp compelled a respect for federal law probably greater than in any other state in the Union. Asa part of the court, of appeals his decisions have been notable for their thoroughness and their soundness. Now that he seeks to retire, the people bom he has served so well will wish him long and happy days, free from cares and worry, M-ith ample leisure to satisfy his own personal desires. His retirement will bring something of a test to the two senators from Indiana who, by precedent, will recommend a candidate for his successor. It will reveal their valuation of the court. U may be indicative that Senator IRobinson i s , a ;d to be scheming 'for some sort of ..hjft which will place his law partner in a life job on the district bench. Fortunately Herbert Hoover is President and has an attorney-general with a policy of eliminating politics from the federal bench. That should prevent the Robinson plan of having a law partner on the federal bench. The large number of bootleg cases which the Robinson law firm once had on appeal in the state supreme court will surely suggest to President Hoover that a member of this firm is not likely to inspire fear of the law on the part of this sort of criminals. The lawyers of the state should insist that the new judge, whether in the court of appeals or in the district, court, be not only learned in the law but possessed of such a high, regard for the court as to be beyond any political influences. In the function of advising the President on such appointments, the Indiana senators have a chance to show some regard for public decency They will probably only expose their nakedness of conscience and respect for the federal courts. Is Russia Recognized? Great Britain will recognize Soviet Russia. That is not surprising. There is no reason why a British labor government should want to carry on n outlaw policy, which even the Tory government iound futile. Great Britain with serious unemployment and Industrial depression must increase her foreign trade. She has no choice. She cannot afford to overlook a oreign market of 150.000,000 covering one-seventh of the earth's territory. British dominions, now being consulted by Premier MacDonald, are expected to encourage resumption of diplomatic relations. Another bit of Russian news is of even more interest to Americans. Charles Dewey. American financial adviser to Poland and friend of President Hoover, has left Warsaw for his second tour of Russia in less than a it ear. After the first he returned to the United States and talked with Mr. Hoover about conditions. Walter Duranty of the New York Times reports after a Volga trip that Russian farm conditions have improved and that less than 5 per cent of the peasants oppose the soviet regime. Last year's unfavorable foreign trade balance has been converted into a favorable balance. Industrial production is at the rate of 60 per cent above prewar output. Bank deposits within a year have increased nearly 20 per cent. American capitalists already have recognized Russia. American-Russian trade is now almost three times as large as in the czar's day. General Electric. Ford. General Motors. International Harvester, Standard Oil and others are doing a big business with Russia and finding her trustworthy. All that remains for the state department is to ratify formally the actual recognition already accorded to Russia by American business and by most American citizens. If the state department needs any special prodding, the fact that Great Britain is going in should be sufficient. Long Pant3 Diplomacy Whatever Ambassador Dawes lacks in convention •e makes up in courage. This business of wearing trousers at the court oi 3t. James is calculated to shock the patricians and climbers —when knee breeches are prescribed. International issues have been determined before his on less than the length of a gentleman's trouser:, jr the lace on a lady's kerchief. But in this particular instance we are inclined to oelieve that the cut of Dawes disarmament plan is •nore important. So we forgive him the modesty which can not exx<se the calves, even in the .service of his country ?r his neighbor's king. Government by Propaganda Worst abuses of the government's prohibition propaganda campaign projected by the treasury' department have been eliminated for the moment, and by none other than President Hoover himself, if reports are accurate. Treasury officials suddenly decided to muzzle Miss Ann B- Sutter, chief of their "education division,” and to suppress her now notorious pamphlet. "How Shall We Teach the Eighteenth Amendment?” Her activities at the National Education Association convention, meeting today, are restricted to pregVftng In silence overe a prohibition booth.” The public from long exposure is suspicious of re-

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forms which stop after making a minor official the goat. This school propaganda campaign was not conceived by any subordinate. President Hoover is faced with the infection of some of his chief prohibition enforcement officials with dry bigotry, which blinds them to the impropriety of the government degrading itself to the level of poisoned propaganda. Professional dry prapagandists outside and inside the government feel themselves so strong that the utmost White House vigilance is necessary. Partisan gove-nmental propaganda regarding the finality and perfection of prohibition would decrease rather than strengthen public respect for the government's law enforcement campaign. Public Opinion Vs. Legal Opinion The federal trade commission may r.ot consider the park advantages of Cumberland falls in deciding whether or not the Insull interests shall be given a fifty-year lease on that spot of natural scenic beauty. Attorneys for the commission in a lengthy opinion have said that, It is a legal opinion. The national park service, the national conference of state parks, numerous other organizations and hundreds of individuals have asked the power commission not to lease Cumberland falls to the power interests. That is public opinion. Which will count with the power commission? Legal opinion or public opinion? Legal opinion says the law is on the side of the power interests. Public opinion says it is not. and that the commission must consider the future. Outside of Niagara Falls, the Cumberland falls in Kentucky are the largest and most beautiful east of the Mississippi. One group of disinterested engineers asserts that the permanent beauty of the falls will be forever impaired if a power dam and a power plant are erected in the neighborhood. They say the falls will dwindle away at certain seasons of the year to a mere trickle of water. The power commission so far has declined to accept the opinion of its legal division. It has made the report public and is giving the opponents of the power project an opportunity to interpose their objections. The commission will win the everlasting thanks of the nation if it will reverse the ruling of its attorneys, : deny the power application and keep the falls unimpaired.

Merely Old Henry Ford some years ago purchased the Wayside Inn in Massachusetts and restored it. Thus he saved to future generations a beautiful example of colonial architecture. Now Ford is re-creating an Edison •village near Dearborn. Mich., moving Edison’s original machine shop and other buildings from Menlo Park, N. J. The value of the first museum scarcely will be questioned. But is there any real value in the second ? To preserve the first electric light or the first phonograph would be worth doing. But what significance or what beauty is there in the buildings in which they were invented? None, w r e think. We have not yet matured our sense of values in regartfeto old things. Not all historic things are worth preserving. Some of them merely are old. Scientists say changeable weather Is best for us. It's true most of us wouldn’t have anything to talk about if we didn't have a rain to cool things off once in a while. There is only one motor car in Spitsbergen, according to government statistics. Wonder if that fellow doesn’t feel like taking a chance sometimes when he comes to a red light. John Haynes Holmes says that any man w T ho gets married has to sacrifice 50 per cent of his individual liberty. It's interesting to know that any man has that much liberty left to give.

David Dietz on Science Unity of the Universe No. 394

FOR a true appreciation of nature, one must realize the essential unity of nature. Physically, the whole universe is constructed of the same stuff. Our bodies are the chemical brothers of the distant stars, the sun and the moon, the earth beneath our feet with its green trees and its flowers. The chemist has discovered that all the various things we see about us in the universe can be reduced to ninety-two chemical elements. These include the

pie ether than chemists have much acquaintance with ytterbium or lutecium or ruthenium or osmium. Occasionally, however, a not very well known element becomes quite famous. A good example is neon, the gas now used in the familiar electric advertising signs. But while the chemist can reduce the physical universe to ninety-two different elementary stuffs, the physicist can simplify matters even still more. For he has shown that the atoms which comprise the ninety-two chemical elements differ from one another only by the number of electrons which they contain. % There are two kinds of electrons, the positive and the negative. But we do not know as much about them today as we thought we did a few years ago. Light sometimes behaves like little particles and sometimes like waves. Today, the physicist is finding out that the electrons, which he felt certain were particles, also behave sometimes as waves. It may be therefore that the electrons are merely forms of energy and that the whole physical universe can be reduced to terms of energy. That is a question for the future to decide. But meanwhile our appreciation of nature is increased when we realize that a unified structure underlies the seeming complexities around hr.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

“A-? Long as That Institution Stands, the Name of Smithson Will Be Perpetuated EXERCISES are held at Washington in memory of James Smithson on the 100th anniversary of his death. Few people know who he was, or what he did. but the great institution he founded has won world-wide fame. As long as that institution stands, the name of Smithson will be perpetuated. That is one reason why he founded it. a a a England's Best Blood JAMES SMITHSON was the natural son of Sir Hugh Smithson, who became the first duke of Northumberland, and Mrs. Elizabeth Made, For the first twenty-six years of his life he carried his mother’s family name. After that, he adopted his : father’s but could not inherit the j title or social position which went ! with it. •‘The best blood of England flows in my veins," he once wrote. ‘‘On ; my father’s side I am a Northum- ; berland, on my mother's I am re- ! lated to kings; but it avails me not. ‘‘My name will live in the memory of man when the Northumberlands and Percys are extinct and forgoti ten.” tt n a Perpetuates Name SMITHSON achieved enough success as a scientist to satisfy any . man. but with all his brilliant mind ! he was a slave to tradition. Though rated as knowing more j about chemistry than any resident : member of Oxford at 21, and though j elected a fellow of the Royal Society at 22. he still felt himself a social outcast because of his birth. When he died at Genoa, Italy, on June 27, 1829. after having spent most of his later life away from England, he left his fortune of more than half a million dollars to a nephew with the condition that if ■ the nephew died without issue it would revert to the United States, j He did this for two reasons—first, j in the interest of science; second, to , perpetuate his name.

U. S, as Trustee JN selecting the United States as A the trustee of his fortune and the protector of his name, James Smithson paid this country a great compliment. He took It for granted that the American republic would survive long after the titled aristocracy of Great Britain had disappeared. What this implies, and what It must have cost him becomes apparent when one remembers that he was an Englishman and that he never set foot in the United Statesu a a Bring Gold Across WHEN Smithson's nephew died in 1835, there was considerable controversy as to whether the federal government should accept his estate. John C. Calhoun and some other eminent leaders held that congress had no constitutional power to do so. Thpy were overruled largely through the efforts cf John Quincy Adams, and Richard Rush sent to England as special agent, quickly obtained the verdict for the American claim. In 1838 the clipper ship Mediator brought 104.000 gold sovereigns to the Philadelphia mint, where they were recoined into 508,000 American dollars. * * a a Institution Established r T~'HE same year congress voted to JL invest the money in state bonds, and $500,000 worth of Arkansas bends were purchased. These bonds proved worthless, whereupon congress, recognizing its responsibility as trustee, made an apnropriation to cover the loss. The way thus being cleared the Smithson institution actually was established in 1846. Out of. or around It. have developed a. multitude of worth-while activities, such as the National Museum. the weather bureau and the bureau of American ethnology. a a a Strange Parallel epHERE Is a strange parallel bell tween the lives of James Smithson and Count Rumford. The former, though an Englishman. did much for scientific development in America. The latter, though an American, as much, if not more, for scientific development in Europe. Both were the victims of an unkind fate. Smithson suffered because of the circumstances of his birth; Rumford by being charged with treason through the jealousy of some fellow officers. Both became eminent as scientists in a day when science was young. Both were voluntary exiles from their native lands during later life. Both were spurred on by a determination to win a place that the social and political bias of their day denied them, and both succeeded".

familiar metals, iron, copper. lead, zinc, silver, gold, platinum and so on. some less familiar metals like sodium and potassium, non-metallic e 1 e - rnents like sulphur and phosphorus and familiar gases like oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and so on. Some of the ninety-two are very rare and little heard of. Few peo-

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run. that ye may obtain.—l Corinthians 9:24. an WE enjoy ourselves only In our work, our doing: and our best doing is our best enjoyment.— Jacobi. Court Grants “Farm Relief." /?>/ 7 ime* Special MUNCIE. Ind.. June 28—Judge L. A. Guthrie of Delaware circuit ; court takes cognizance of a farmer’s work. Because two members of the grand jury are farmers, the court i consented to a two-dav recess to j permit them to attend to crops, j The recess was also approved by j j Prosecutor Joe H. Davis, who needed time to prepare certain cases for tr* fine lup’.

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Camps Not Always Good for Children

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. NOWADAYS many mothers and fathers give themselves two months’ vacation in the summer by sending the children to summer camps. This may be excellent for the parents and bad for the children, or vice versa. The summer camp may benefit the child's health and morals, but it has the tendency to diminish too greatly the intimacy of the parents with the child, an intimacy which is becoming less and less in these modern times. It may be the wrong

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A CASE far reaching in its implications was tried this week before old Judge Burrows of New London. It has been the proud privilege, or possibly the painful duty, of this venerable magistrate to decide upon two noteworthy occasions that the truth is dangerous and must be penalized. It was this same wise jurist who placed Mrs. Dennett within the shadow of a jail sentence because she dared to speak out frankly about sex. And now Professor Macintosh of Yale has been denied citizenship because he was audacious enough to admit that concerning wars he insisted upon being choosey. Upon first glance this may seem no more than an affirmation of the supreme court’s judgment in the case of Rosika. Schwimmer. Dr. Macintosh is a Canadian who served four years in the great war. He is not at the present time a pacifist. I deplore the decision which the high court made in barring Rosika Schwimmer, but the scope of that case was decidedly limited. The applicant declared that under no circumstances would she consent to bear arms in defense of her adopted country. Since Mrs. Schwimmer is a woman of middle age, anybody but a lawyer would say, “What of It? The issue will never come up.” Courts a ;e more whimsical. Probably the litigant seemed to them a symbol and by a divided vote the supreme court held that Mrs. Schwimmer's unwillingness to bomb Berlin made her unworthy of the benefits of citizenship. The supreme court is our last word in legal interpretation, but not necessarily the final authority in justice and hard common sense. tt a a The Embattled Few HOWEVER, the Schwimmer decision concerns only a very small

Quotations of Notables

ANY workable business must be based upon utility, unity and confidence, and this means ability, loyalty and willingness to accept responsibility shall be rewarded. —W. J. McAneeny, president Hudson Motor Car Company. a a a A man who does not know what to do with his leisure may be a serious menace to society.—Dr. Booth C. Davis, president Alfred university. a a a The bald-headed man. is so desirous of being handsome, of lookhig like a poet or a patent medicine faker, that he can not resist an advertisement that promises to give him hair.—W. E. Humphrey, member federal trade commission. a a tt I can think of no industry that demands more, on the technical side, from its leaders than the show’ business.—Henry Tetlow. <The North American Review.) • a tt I am mueh concerned for the quiet development of industry, the

Why Parents Get Gray

HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER-

type of vacation for both parents and children. That, after all, is a matter which every parent will have to decide for himself. The primary object of a vacation is rest, and the primary object of rest is relief from strain. Some persons suffer far greater strain during a time when they are not occupied than in an interesting employment. Most people feel the strain of the vacation the first two or three days. Since the vacation activities bring into play muscles and ligaments not usually used, the vacation should therefore be taken up gradually.

minority. In times of peace a good many may be found to declare that they are pacifists. I rather blatantly have identified myself with the heresy, but I fear that probably this was merely boasting. If and when the pinch came I might not have the nerve to go through with it. Complete pacificism requires a courage beyond the capacity of all but saints and martyrs. The position of Dr. Macintosh is much more usual and orthodox. “I am willing to support my country." he declared, “even to the extent of bearing arms if asked to do so by the government in any war which I can regard as morally justified. But I am not willing to purchase American citizenship by promising before hand that I will bo ready to bear arms for my country in any and every war in w'hich my country may engage, whether morally justified or not.” Our school pupils are taught to honor the anti-slavery senators who bitterly opposed the war with Mexico even after the guns had begun I to sound. History has justified Senator Hoar of Massachusetts in his contention that the war with Spain was needless. In my opinion posterity will have high respect for Debs and Norris and other leaders who opposed our entrance into the World war. And coming down to the present day Senator Borah is still an honored member of the ruling party in spite of his criticism of marine activities In Nicaragua. a a a Another Amendment IN his handling of the Dennett case, old Judge Burrows did not alw r ays seem one of the great intellects of our age and it may be that

at home and abroad, that I will use every ounce of influence I have to prevent an election for two years. But I wish to make it clear that I am going to stand no "monkeying.”—Ramsay MacDonald, premier of Great Britain. o a a The jingoes of America are not 1 the most logical people in the land, \ for with one breath they proudly proclaim that the United States can lick all the world with its left hand and next we find these same genI tlemen urging the necessity of vast expenditure for our protection.— Hejwvood Broun. (The Nation.) Farm Bill to be Topic. Bp Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind.. June 28—The Madison County Farm Bureau has invited Albert H. Vestal, representative in Congress from the Eighth congressional district to explain workings of the new farm relief bill at a Madison county farmers’ dinner j meeting here July 10. The farmers are meeting for the express purpose of taking what action may be 1 necessary to bring benefits of the f • -- *-

It may be highly desirable to take a nap every day after lunch before embarking on the physical activities of the afternoon. Nothing is so sad as a vacation that goes sour. It brings the person back to work disgusted, tired and irritated and dissatisfied. Better no vacation at all than one with such a serious effect on the temperament, If one worries unduly about the business when away, the vacation will do harm. Be sure you are satisfied with the business before you start. And w'hen we say business in the case of mothers, we mean the condition of the children and the home.

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.

this veteran jurist is just a little muddled in the present instance. Can it be that the frost.,-headed gentleman in the black robe is under the impression that the phrase. "My country, right or wrong,” is one of the amendments to the Constitution? If the present decision stands this jingoistic utterance of Decatur might as well be written into the organic law of the land. “I am. ready to give the United States, in return for citizenship, as full allegiance as I have ever given or could have to give to any country.” said Dr. Macintosh. “I am ready to put allegiance to my country above private interest and mere individual preference and second only to my allegiance to what I take to be the will of God.” But if the wisdom of Judge Burrows is sustained it will be necessary to change our coinage so that the familiar slogan shall read: “In God we trust, so long as He doesn’t get in the way of any act of Congress.” t> a a More Scraps of Paper DR. M’l NTOSH shrewdly pointed out that he would feel justified in refusing to engage in a war if the United States violated any provision of the Kellogg pact. Some ten years ago we held that such Germans as refused to view guarantees of Belgian neutrality as scraps of paper were true patriots and loved their country more than did the war lords. But Judge Burrows maintains that what is patriotism in a foreigner is treason in a naturalized American. In the Dennett case the good old judge set forth the theory that it is not for the young to reason why. They are supposed to take whatever discreet approximations or misrepresentations as Canon Chase cares to give them. And now he adds to this, the dogma that war. like sex. must be accepted by the patriot without any greater knowledge than those in authority care to give him. The cannon-fuddled are to be spoon-fed till they are cannon fodder. 'Copyright. 1929. for The Times'

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-By Frederick Landis

We Talk About Having (i\ Crime Problem: We Hava a Criminal Lawyer Problem. PROFESSOR SNOOK made a complete confession, told all about how he killed a Columbus. 0., woman, going into the smallest details of the tragedy, and said he wanted it all over with as soon as possible. Then a criminal lawyer got to him and now Snook pleads not guilty, repudiates the confession, pleads insanity, hob nailed liver, gall stones and other things and asks for a change of venue. a a a But for this lawyer, he would have entered a plea of guilty and received his sentence and society could have washed its hands and memory of the thing, but now he will have months and years of nonsense, provided Snook can raise enough money to make such a program attractive to his lawyer. We talk about having a crime problem, but we have not. we have a criminal lawyer problem! a a a We are glad that Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City was arrested for refusing to tell the New Jersey legislature how he got rich after entering public office. The people have a right, to X-ray every public servant, who acquires money far in excess of his salary, and if they find him crooked, they should take his hide off. tt B tt Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Italian poefi had his appendix taken out, using only a local anesthetic. It didn’t give him as great a shock; as he gave Duse, the great Italian actress, when he worked their love affair up into a novel and sold it to the world. Duse had to stand that without any anesthetic. a a a GERMANY is now debating whether she will pay the vastly reduced war charges, but if she had won that war. the allies would not be debating; they would be digging. The allies had enough men to win the victory, but they did not have enough brains to enforce the terms thereof. a a a Ambassador Dawes is right to put i the London embassy upon the water ! wagon, since it is American soil, j And since their decks are Amer- , ican soil, the government can not afford to let the Leviathan and I other American liners maintain j bars. If they are allowed to do it. then ! throw down the fence and turn i everybody loose from Maine to ! California. o tt tt When General Bramwell Booth's funeral was held in London the members of his family conducted the service, his daughter read a Scripture lesson, his sons led the singing and his wife, who had fought the battles of Salvation Army with I him for almost half a. century, deliv;ered the eulogy. Very beautiful, but very hard j to do. tt a tt If the king of Spain is on to his job h a will take part of the four i million dollai. he just inherited j from his mother and give it to the | folks of these Spanish fliers who just went down to the bottom.

BATTLE OF MONMOUTH June 28. ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE years ago today. June 28, 1778, the British were defeated in the Revolutionary war battle of Monmouth by Americans under George Washington. The English army, under Sir Henry Clinton, had evacuated Philadelphia and reached Freehold. Monmouth county. N. J.. June 28. Washington, following closely, resolved to attack Clinton's left wing, 8.000 strong, marching in the rear, and detailed General Charles Lee with 6.000 troops to assail its flank until the main division could come up. Lee advanced accordingly, but, instead of attacking, intentionally wasted time in feinting and futile maneuvers, and. after a little skirmishing, ordered a general retreat. Rushing forward. Washington rebuked Lee, rallied the demoralized forces and checked the advance of the British. The English then fell back and took up a strong position, but were forced to withdraw to the heights of Middletown. Lee was shortly afterward tried; by court-martial for his conduct,] was found guilty of disobeying or -t dt’s and of making a. shameful re-j treat. He was suspended from* command for a .year.