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Infant or Imbecile? Snmp one should offer a prize to decide the question of whether the people of the city of Indianepolis, as a whole, should he classified as imbecile or infant. Certain]' - it belongs in one of these classes, since, under the laws of the state, there is constant denial of the right of the people to rule themselves. Once again the state tax board has stepped to the forefront with a refusal to permit the city to spend money for an extension of Kessler boulevard. As some stem father might say to a boy who believed Im wanted anew pair of shoes, and was able to get the money to pay for them, the tax board tells th p city, ‘‘No, son, you will soon be needing anew pair of pants, a necktie or some galluses. You can't afford to spend your raonev now for shoes, i o i i need the other things more ba/lly. This tax hoard, under the law, asserts the right to overthrow tlm judgment of city officials and to tell thepi when and how they can spend the city money. There was no suggestion that the plan was illegal, that it violated any proper safeguard against debt limitations, that there v, as an,' graft attached. It was a pure assertion that the judgment of tlm menilwrs of the tax board was better than that of park officials and that this city needs a guardian to protect it against its own government. The tax board points to other needs of the rifv. There are other needs. I3ut certainly the people who pay the taxes are the ones to protest rather than state officials who are answerable. not to Indianapolis, but to the people of the entire state, if they he answerable at all. This supervision of city finances on any ground except the violation of debt limitations should he stopped by courts, is an intolerable situation and one which should prompt a movement to divorce the cities from the control of state officials.

Cities should be free to rule themselves and to make their own decisions. It the decisions be bad, the people should pay for their indifference a t elections. The remedy should lie in the removal of bad officials. The constant interference of the state in city affairs protects no one and does interfere with the plans of officials for the development of the city. Jt requires considerable courage for a state board to place its judgment constantly above that of city officials who are more directly answerable to the people for results and who can be expected to show more caution in their actions in regard to public opinion. Only two elasvos of individuals are estopped from spending their money as they please. These are infants and imbeciles. The tax board should indicate in just what 'dr.ss it places the city of Indianapolis. Aviation’s Silly Side Aviation, too. it seems, must have its silly side. As though the country weren't already ■sufficiently- absurd with i f s marathon dances, its flagpole sitters, and its hog-calling contests, we now have a wave of endurance flying upon us. If the army air corps had known what, the flight of the Question Mark would do. it surely never would have done'it. Since then there has been a regular hysteria of refueling endurance flights. Three have succeeded in beating the 151-hour mark of the army. The optimists shout about the great lessons that have been learned from flights. Lessons have been learned, it is true. The Question Mark taught that rocker arms can not co ungreased for more than 150 hours. Hardly important, that. The flight of Kelly and Robbins at Ft. Worth taught that if a wooden propeller is bruised or nicked, it eventually will swell and warp, leading to vibration. Didn't everybody know that? The recent flight of Newcomb and Mitchell—two splendid aviators—at Cleveland taught that when men Ay bad weather for a week they are more dead than alive when they get down. Just that; nothing more. We save our admiration for such men as Bill McConnell of Akron, who :ast winter flew the night mail 700 miles between Cleveland and Cincinnati for thirtyfour straight nights after his fellow-pilot on the line was killed: for Jimmy Doolittle, who risks his neck every day to help find a way for men to fly safely through fog: and for the unsung boys who carry their thousands of passengers over the airlines every month without a scratch More than a dozen endurance flight attempts have failed. Lives have been lost. Expensive planes crashed. Even those that succeeded took terrific toll of human energy. A 172-hour refueling endurance flight advances aviation about as much as a two-week dance marathon adds to the beauty and dignity of the art of terpsichore. Papal Recognition The new Vatican state is seeking diplomatic recognition. This is the reasonable interpretation of the formal call of Mgr Fumasoni-Buondi. apostolic delegate on President Hocwer He presented -the President with an official copy of the recent Lateran treaty between the Vatican and Italy re-establishing the pope’s temporal power over a miniature territory. Certain Protestant groups are trying to make recognition a religious issue. This, in our judgment, is most unfortunate. Whether the Vatican state is to be accorded par--2&1 or complete recognition is purely a technical po-

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litical matter. It doubtless will be treated as such by our government. There is a clear precedent for recognition. We had a minister at the Vatican until in 1863 Italy deprived the pope of temporal power. Technical reasons, however—for instance, the infinitesimal extent of any political or commercial questions apt to arise with that tiny state— well may make it unnecessary to re-establish an American diplomatic mission there. Whatever decision is reached by Washington, Americans in discussing this matter should not permit sectarianism to blind them to fundamentals. One fundamental is that it is our business, and ours alone, how we run this country. But, equally fundamental, it, is none of our business how other countries, large or small, run their internal affairs. Whether we approve, or disapprove, of a churchstate in the United States is soley our business. That issue has been decided once and for all. Any group, Protestant or Catholic, which violates here the basic separation of church and state upon ";hich this nation was founded and by which it has been maintained is an enemy of the nation. But we never have and never will try to impose our system upon others. We long have dealt with Catholic nations where there is no separation of church and state. That there now again is a papal state is only a difference in degree, not in kind. There is no moral significance in diplomatic, recognition. It implies neither approval nor disapproval. It is merely machinery for carrying on necessary business between two countries. If recognition Implies approval. we could not recognize the numerous dictatorships which hold power by violence in Spain, Yugo-Slavia, Venezuela and elsewhere. If it were a question of approval. there are more Americans numerically who favor the pope than Mussolini. Unless the Vatican state interferes in our domestic affairs—and there is little danger of that—it has as much right to recognition as any state. That right is not questioned by our government. The only legitimate question is a technical one as to whether we need the sort of diplomatic machinery with such a “city state." which we automatically would establish with a larger state. The President is capable, and has the constitutional responsibility, of deciding that, Sectarian pressure, either from Protestants or Catholics, would be unseemly and worse. An Absurd Incident The United States customs service, we solemnly are informed, has read Voltaire's Candide carefully, and has decided, on due reflection, that it's not obscene, after all. So a previous ruling of the service, under which the importation of work was banned, will be rescinded. The whole episode is absurd. It is absurd to consider the great liberal's masterpiece obscene. It is absurd to have the customs service set itself up as judge of what we may or may not read, and as a guardian of our morals. It is absurd to stop importation of a book that is on sale in every city in the land, that is in almost every library, that is freely printed by American publishers. and is used in the study of literature in most colleges. Voltaire himself would have enjoyed the incident, and perhaps would have marveled that so little progress has been made since his own day. Several of C. C. Pyle's Derby runners have returned home with ninety-day notes, promising to pay. The American people have a mania for souvenirs. Henry Ford says the home of the future will be kitchenless. Where in the world will we keep the canopener? The difference between a male and female worm is easily distinguished; the female always is careful enough to sound her horn when passing a red light. I Science has discovered no way to make rain fall, probably leaving that phase of accomplishment to picnickers.

Dietz on Science -—— • Activity Part of Life — No. 404 LIVING organisms, both plants and animals, are composed of minute cells which are distinguished by possessing definite chemical composition and physical structure. These have been discussed in detail in previous articles of this series. But the physical and chemical structure of protoplasm dees not exhaust the important features of li' - ing cells. One of the distinguishing characteristcs of living organisms is activity. We can consider this activity under various heads. First of all, there

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than it can without breathing. But both are essential to life. Breathing consists of absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere. Eating means absorbing the chemical constituents—carbohydrates, fats and proteins of other plant and animal tissues. Plants obtain their chemicals more easily than do animals, absorbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and water and mineral salts out of the soil. The living cell possesses the power of breaking up the carbohydrates, tats and proteins absorbed into simpler compounds which it rebuilds into the specific kinds of carbohydrates, fats and proteins which its particular nature calls for. It also possesses the ability of using up its own chemical stores with the aid of oxygen and turning the energy thus released into motion or heat. The process of building up its own substances is known technically as anabolism. The process of using up its substance in the generation of heat or motion is known as katabolism. The two together constitute metabolism. Metabolism is a general term including all transformations of matter and energy within the cell. It is important to remember, however, that the cell aoe not lose its identity in any of these changes.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Doctors Arc Not the Only Offenders When It Comes to Clique Rule, Professional Snobbery and Organized Pressure. "PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—According to the American Road Builders Association, ari average of 2.300 people are killed or injured on the highways of this country each day. In 1927. nearly 27,000 were killed and 800,000 were injured. During the first six months of 1928, 14,000 were killed and 412.000 injured. It is believed that the present year will see 30,000 killed and 850,000 injured. What a monument of red lights, traffic cops and speed regulations. tt tt tt Too Much 'System' r T''HOUGH recognizing the necessity of discipline and system, the road builders’ association is inclined to bet on education, especially as it may be employed to bring back some of the old-fashioned courtesy, caution and common sense. The same idea well might be applied to other problems. We all are leaning too heavily on the mechanical side of progress, expecting inventions and devices to produce character, as well as creature comforts. tt tt tt Dangers of Regulation pVEN doctors are waking up to the danger of regulation, which is doubly significant considering how much they owe to it, and how much they have done to promote it. When President Thayer of the American Medical Association denounces regulation and receives an ovation in consequence, other people have a right to hope. Prohibition may have been uppermost in the minds of his hearers, they may have been just as willing to prosecute a chiropractor after he spoke, as before, and no tears may have been shed for Doctor Schmidt, who recently was kicked out of the Chicago Medical Society, as they cheered for tolerance; but making allowance for such inconsistencies, there is still ground for rejoicing. tt tt tt Doctors' Tyranny Code Regulation is not aii bound up in the eighteenth amendment. Neither is it all bound up in the official acts of congress, the State legislature, or city council. Some of the worst regulations from which we suffer can be traced to unofficial organization. In this latter respect the doctors have played a conspicuous part. The code of ethics in which doctors profess to take such pride is not without phases of tyranny. The fact that they can not talk or write on professional subjects without permission of some ruling body is not in accord with the principles of tolerance and liberty.

Cliance to Set Example ALL things considered, doctors have the opportunity to set the people of this country a shining example. They could, for instance, throw off the censorship under which they labor. free themselves from the despotism which now regulates their conduct, write their prescriptions in a language which common folks can understand, and dispense with other traditions which create a barrier between themselves and the public. a a a Professional Snobbery DOCTORS are not the only offenders when it comes to clique rule, professional snobbery and organized pressure. Turn where you will, and there is some board of directors, society or group telling you what can or can not be done. There may be no law as to when men shall come in straw hats, but what is the difference if custom decrees the day. Again, there may be no law that forces women to adopt any one of a dozen ridiculous styles, but if they dare not resist, what can they claim by way of freedom? The worst aspect of unofficial regulation consists in the fact that no one seems to know' its source. A good deal of it rests on nothing but mob psychology, the sheep complex, the willingness to ape those in the spotlight. More often than not. orders come in the form of hints, or predictions, but th?v are none the less orders. ana Hail the Wasp-Waist JUST now the style czars of Paris are prophesying a return of the wasp-waist. Little is needed to make the prophesy come true but loud and continuous reiteration, and perhaps some judicial advice on the part of doctors. Fashion, like the weather, has a way of repeating itself. Thirty or forty years ago. the wasp-waist was in vogue. Thirty or forty years ago women subjected themselves to all kinds of physical discomfort in order to acquire the wasp-waist while corset manufacturers made huge profits. Now they do it by starving themselves. and who shall say that doctors have had no hand in showing them how?

is metabolism. "Metabolism" is a very formidable word in sound. But it is merely the scientific way of stating a wellknown fact. Animals including human beings must breathe and eat to stay alive. It is difficult to say which is more important. Os course, an animal can go longer withou t eating

Daily Thought All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.—Ezekiel 19:22. sea “T CAN forgive, but I can not fori get.“ is only another way of saying “I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up. so that it never can be shown against the man.—Beecher.

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This is the fourth of a series of articles in which tennis is discussed as a hot weather recreation from the viewpoint of the physician. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. A NOT infrequent injury in tennis playing is Charley horse. This is the result of a sudden motion whereby fibers of muscles or ligaments may be torn. These tears occur particularly in the muscles of the legs and thighs. There is a hemorrhage between the fibers and great pain occurs on exertion. In many instances the player fails to loosen up before he begins to play. He should knock the ball

THE recent success of books dealing with the horror of war has raised what may be false hopes in the minds of pacifists. At first glance one might think that “All Quiet on the Western Front” would vitally impress all people with the determination that no such physical suffering should ever again be loosed upon the millions. But unfortunately there is a flaw in this reasoning. Say what you will against humanity, it would be silly to doubt its courage. Physical bravery is abundant. When roused, man is fully as good as the lion or the tiger in his capacity for ferocious fighting. He will give his life and his blood for a catchword. And as often as not he will waive the necessity of a slogan and immolate himself quite aimlessly. It is useless to attempt to deter man from any action by impressing him with agonizing consequences. Because of this indifference to pain, or even eagerness to endure it, the race has swum upstream and leaped many a tyranny. But this same tendency of the individual to sacrifice himself for a cause has brought out the worst in man as well as the best.

YOUNG men should be taught the homely truth that they should make up their minds to do the job in hand the best they know bow and—quite important—to derive a lot of fun and satisfaction from their work and their associations. If they do this, they will get just as much fun out of life as the president of the corporation does.—James D. Mooney, 'president General Mctors Export Company. nan People enjoy being shocked. The more easily shocked they are, the greater the pleasure. Shocked persons always feel superior to the shocker and quite rightly are hostile to an? busybody who points convincingly that there is no valid reason for the shock. —George H. Michener, (Plain Talk.) a a a The plain truth is we are blindly approaching a national petroleum crisis, and there has been to date little concerted effort to stem the tide.—Mark A. Requa. former United States oil administrator. non Young men, to be sure, still go into politics . . . They are hardboiled fellows and under no illusions. They have learned the capita! lesson that the government they live under.. .whether in the States or in the nation, is owned and operated by base and scurvy men. and that if they would have a hand in it they must learn to be base and scurvy, too. —H. L. Mencken. (The American Mercury.) * • * Good manners and good talk. Both of these priceless charms do exist in our United States, despite

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back and forth over the net slowly and gradually work up speed in order not to place too sudden a strain on the stiffened tissues. Another common injury in tennis is the tennis-elbow. In the course of or following tennis or some other occupation such as painting a ceiling in an awkward position of striking the elbow with a hammer, an acute pain is felt in the region of the elbow. This pain may not be so serious as to cause the person to seek medical advice at once. However, the condition persists for week and months and may interfere with playing the game. In this condition one may suddenly wish to reach for a fork or a plate or to lift some object, such as a glass

It is impossible to frighten the world away from war by giving a full recital of its horrors. The next generation merely will say, “Nevertheless,’’ and fall into a goose-step. a tt a Help From Another ALL this is pointed out by an editorial writer in the stanchly conservative columns of the New York Times. And yet he sees a gleam of hope arising in quite a different quarter. “More potent than the grisly scenes of No Man’s Land,” he writes, “is a form of words and destruction suggested by the author of 'All Quiet’ in his preface. He speaks for a generation of men who were destroyed by the war "though they may have escaped its shells.” "But we can go even beyond these men who came back from the front unwounded but wrecked. We must think of men who never were under fire, but were destroyed by it, workers and thinkers and teachers and artists and writers. "There were destroyed in Europe the accumulated results of centuries of culture and there died of starvation or were reduced to impotence

the cynics, but they exist in narrowly limited, circles. —Sarah Comi stock. 'Harper's Magazine.) a a a If there is one thing above another that no senator can predict, 1 it is how long a senator will speak. We were told here today, for ex- . ample, that a senator would oc- 1 cupy only thirty minutes. He occupied within five minutes of two hours.—Senator Glass of Virginia. B B B If today, as some claim, the churches are empty and the golf links crowded, it is, I believe, largely because the churches of 1929 are rattling the dry bones of 1529 theology instead of demonstrating their practical utility for service. And the churches never will regain the members they have lost by intolerance. Neither can they scare them back with threats of hell.—The Rev. H. C. Ledyard. pastor First Universalist church of Hutchinson, Kan. Conductor Killed In Fall SWAYZEE. Ind., July 10— Grady Willbanks. 25, conductor employed by the Northern Indiana Power Company, died of a fractured skull ; as the result of falling from the j car on which he was working. The ' trasedy occurred near here, after Willbanks returned to the car from a railroad crossing which he had viewed for the motorman. Sick Woman Injured Cm T\mrk fipectnl ANDERSON, Ind., July 10.—Mrs. Martin Wheeler, who has been ill rive weeks at her home here, spilled a bottle of camphor on her face, injuring the right eye.

of water, whereupon the extensor muscles set. The result is, of course, that the object held is dropped. The exact changes that take place in the tissues in this condition are not fully determined, but the condition seems to be associated with inflammation due to irritation of the tissues at the elbow joint. In case of sudden extension of the forearm, such as takes place in the backhand stroke in tennis, such a condition may easily occur. In the treatment of this condition it is usually customary to fix the elbow so as to prevent motion in the joint and by means of the application of heat through baking or by some method to give the tissues opportunity to recover.

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

(entire classes of men who had ren--1 dered service to civilization.” I think somebody well might write | a book about these casualties which ! occurred beyond the range of the guns. If there is such a novel, I don’t happen to know of it. It is an excellent thing for us to . remember this vast and insidious destruction, which went to the roots of every warring country. There is not one of us, I imagine, who does not blush now at the thought of the lies he glibly accepted and the hates he readily put on. u a a All in the Same Boat A ND remembering all this we can say to the next generation, if the need arises: “Give us no talk about your willingness to sacrifice : your life for your country. That is the least part of it. ‘‘Your right to give your own life is unquestioned. It may even be a noble attitude, but mark the fact that you and any others -who support the war are giving many things which you do not possess. You are sacrificing the right of free speech. Does that belong to you? “And into the pot will go all clear thinking, all kindly feeling, all decency and mercy. Who laid these in your hands to be fagots for the fire? Civilization is too precious to be spent in the#mere making of heroes.” By a curiously ironic twist, ‘‘All Quiet on, the Western Front” is published almost simultaneously with "War Bugs,” by Charles MacArthur. It saddens me that reviewers should have so much time and patience for this clownish book about American troops in action. Here, it seems to me. American humor reaches its lowest ebb A sophomore rollicks through the cemetery and dances an obscene jig upon the graves. When humanity writhes on the cross, no one should take the name of man in vain. , Copyright, 1923, for The Time--' i

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REASON Ev Frederick Landis Scientists Experiment on, Guinea Pigs. But Law Makers Use People for Their Tests. WE see where severs! United States senators are going to | save the United States from the “reds." These grand statesmen ought, to get at it just as soon as they can, ; for only yesterday we saw a redheaded woodpecker hammering the | life out of a telegraph pole, and i there's no doubt in the world that he was sent here from Russia. | After these statesmen have wiped our radicalism, maybe they could be induced to go after rheumatism, for so many people have it. tt a tt Mr. Moe Aarons of New York has brought a giant ape from Sumatra. | Moe ought to arrange to have a family group picture taken of this ape and the American women who I went, clear to London to be presented to King George and his lady. tt tt a The question in New York City politics now is what will A1 Smith do in the coming mayoralty fight between Jimmie Walker and his fusion opponents. Four years ago Smith nominated Walker over Hylan because he then hated Hylan, but now he hates Walker, and in politics the last hate repels the former one. a tt o THREE .million suits of old American clothes are sent to Turkey to be fixed up for Turks who wish to put. on dog. In the old days the American mother would make over father’s rlothes for the oldest boy and so on down the line. The old home is not what it used to be. a a tt The American Chemical Company says that a home-cooling device at a very low price will be on the market before long. How wonderful this would have boon in the days when people used to stay in homes. tt tt tt Unable to enforce her jay-walk-ing law, Chicago is going to repeal it. Scientists experiment on guinea pigs and law-makers experiment on people. n tt tt The papers say that Mayor William Hale. Thompson and former Governor Len Small of Illinois are going to try to stage a comeback and put Small in the United States senate. What a shame it is that we can’t I bring back Frank and Jesse James and run them for something! tt a tt WHAT a fine thing it was when Mrs. Rosa Peters. 44. graduated from the high school at Spring Valley, New York, in the same class : with her 17-year-old daughter. And the way they dress now, what's a little thing like a disparity of twenty-seven years! tt a a The world automobile output for 1928 was 5,203.439, more than a million above 1927. When Gabriel comes down, he'll | have to watch his step or he’ll light; on a gas station. AS" <6 ‘THE GERMAN SUB IN U. S. July 10 ON July 10, 1916, diplomatic representatives of France and England filed protests at Washington against the presence of the Deutchland. a German submarine, in a United States port. The German undersea vessel, built wholly for purposes of commerce, had arrived safely in Baltiw more, July 9, 1916, after a daring trip across the Atlantic sometimes beneath the very keels of the warships of its enemies. The French and English diplomats held the sub potentially was a warship and that it should not be allowed to sail from an American port,. United States naval experts, however, inspected the craft and found it purely a commercial vessel, unarmed and incapable of being fitted with torpedoes or large guns. The coming of the Deutchland furnished a dramatic surprise as it was the first commercial submarine in history. The craft carried a cargo of dyestuffs from Germany to the United States. The sub was 300 feet long, 30 feet wide and carried 1,000 tons of cargo and a crew of twenty-three men It cost $500,000 and its cargo of dyestuffs on the first voyage was said to have paid for the whole enterprise.