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Giving the Light A* the head of this column is a motto. It is the motto of all Seripps-Hovard newspapers. Bu* it is mere than a motto. It is a pledge, a promise, a principle. ‘•fij-e litrht and tne people will find their own way.” This is not a catch phrase. It must he the basic foundation of every newspaper which has an earne' f ar 1 patriotic desire to serve its readers ai. 1 t contribute to th*‘ great experiment of self-government. f or seif-government is still an experiment., although it itas -tood the tests for nearly one hundred and fifty years. There was one lamentable lapse. That caused wars between states. It sent men to battle fields to kill each other because reason, discussion. tolerance and understanding had been banished by emotion, hatreds and closed ears to argument. For four years bullets and not ballots settled the fate of the nation. There will always be problems in this country on which opinion will be divided. There will be times when those opinions will become so fixed in th* minds of large numbers that they become a passion and a prejudice, rather than a conclusion. That is the danger point. It is where the newspaper with a conscience and a sense of responsibility, must serve, if service can he rendered. The Times believe?, that every problem can be solved bv discussion and settled at the ballot boxes. It has faith in the ability of the people of thu country to rule themselves. Unquestionably the one question on which there is the widest divergence of opinion and in which convictions are most deep seated, is that of the liquor problem. Very recently serious and shrewd observers have declared that the problem was leaving the realm of discussion for that of prejudice, ['hey see. or think they see, signs that citizen- will no longer listen to argument or face fact They behevi that those who favor prohibition will gi\e no ear to the arguments of those who want a change to a jdifferent method of solvin ' this admittedly great problem. Ti.e.v believe that those who do not favor prohibition are even more fixed in their con vietioiis that it is a failure and that they refuse to list . to any argument in its favor. But there must be in this nation a great, vast majority who will calmly and judicially listen to both arguments, and finally determine the quest! >n by h dr 'influence This is the safeguard of ti;i' country. It is the salvation of self-government. It is in pursuance of its fixed policy to give all the ligh possible on every question on which the people may divide that The Times announces the publication of a -cries of articles by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willehrandt. She will t"1! the inside of prohibition as she found it in hF eight years of service as the assistant attorney general in charge of all federal prosecutions under the law. Her experiences should prove illuminating. They may help to solve a vexatious problem. mry enlighten that vast majority who think only in terms of the nation's good. The Times stands for fairness. That the advocates of prohibition laud Mrs. Willehrandt and its opp no: ts dßvedit her means nothing. She has be n on ’he inside. She now tells the inside. In printing these articles The Times has only the purpose of giving light. It asks that citizens read v. ha’ >i: 1 has to say. Discussion is sure to follow. And discussion, calm discussion and dispassionate judgment must settle our public questions. Government In Business The strike of street car workers in New Orleans—whatever the merits of the issues involved may be—furnishes another example of the growing and deplorable tendency of federal judges to intervene in labor disputes through injunctions. Judge Wayne Borah issued the restraining order at the behest of bondholders of the company, after there had been disorders in which two strikers were killed, allegedv by strikebreakers, and the city council hac ordered suspension of service. United States Marshal Victor Loisel recruited a large force of deputy United States marshals to see that the order was enforced. William Green, president of the A. F. of L.. in complaining to the department of justice, put the number of deputies at "hundreds." Green said these marshals had been put on street cars operated by strikebreakers and had been patroling the streets and doing other ordinary local police duties. “If vour department may assign hundreds of deputies in this case, would it not be possible to employ additional hundreds and thousands if. in the discretion of your department, it became necessary?" Green asked Attorney-General Mitchell. “If this course can be followed, it is reasonable to conclude that the same course can be pursued by the federal government in all industrial controversies. Is this the settled policy of the federal government in dealing with strikes and industrial disputes?" Judge Borah is quoted as saying he would tolerate no opposition to the order "by physical act or word of mouth" and sentenced to thirty days in jail a car-

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penter who was accused of remarking, “damn the injunction.” Judge Rufus E. Fester of the United States circuit court of appeals in a public address was reported to have said: “If the deputies can not enforce this injunction. the army and navy can." It is difficult at this distance to understand all the factors underlying the New Orleans situation, but Judges Borah and Foster seem to have put the government into the street car business in a big way. The Legion and World Peace Colonel Paul V. McNutt, national commander of the American Legion, injects a discordant note into the discussion of naval armaments by Great Britain and the United States. "The American Legion respectfully protests against any action by the chief executive which will prevent in any way the regaining by America of our lost naval parity with Great Britain,” he says, blithely ignoring the fact that President Hoover, in his efforts to reduce armaments, is insistent on parity. There is no rejoicing by McNutt over the dissipation of ill-feeling between Britain and the United States and no praise for the efforts of the administration to establish world peace. His statement breathes suspicion. None of us wants America to accept inferiority on the sea. Premier MacDonald says that he does not., and nas given every evidence of sincerity. He is coming to America this fall in his efforts to settle differences that have arisen in recent years. If the movement toward permanent peace is to succeed there must be mutual trust and willingness to talk in frank and friendly fashion. Truculence and distrust will lead to failure. The attitude of the Tory government toward this country was ill-advised, and aroused much resentment. But the British people have turned the Tory government out of office. Anew order rules. The American Legion is a useful organization. It has made mistakes, of course. But by and large it has been of value to the country and to the men who fought the war. Its greatest service now would be to voice the yearning of the nation for peace and world friendship. Who better could do this than the men who endured the war? We believe Colonel McNutt, in this instance, is out of step with the organization for which he assumes to speak, and with public opinion generally. Keeley Institute We remarked the other day on the published report that the increasing number of women patients had made it necessary to enlarge the Keeley institute for the cure of inebriates at Dwight. 111. This has led a reader to challenge the essential truth of our statement. “Before prohibition,” says a letter from this reader, “Keeley institutes were scattered all over the country, now there is only one, tfiat in Dwight, 111. It stands to reason that does a comparatively larger business than it did when there w’ere so many other establishments.” So we asked the Keeley institute about it and today received the following wire: “Fifteen branch institutes Jan. 1, 1920. Eleven branch institutes Jan. 1, 1928. Eleven branch institutes treated in 1928 4 per cent more patients than the fifteen branch institutes did in 1920. In 1928 we treated here at Dwight more than four times as many patients as we did in 1920; 1928 our biggest year since 1911. “MARTIN NELSON. “Secretary the Keeley institute.” Three American college girls swam across the Hellespont the other day. Not the first, time, however. the ladies have made a sucker out of a hero.

- David Dietz on Science _

Leaves Are Complex

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THE leaf of a plant, it will be remembered, has an outer layer called the epidermis and an layer called the mesophyll. The epidermis, as we have seen, has thousands of pores, called stomata, which admit air to the interior of the leaf. The stomata are controlled by cells known as guard c°lls. These cells, by expanding and contracting, open

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chanical tissue. In most leaves, there is one or more layers immediately under the epidermis, known as the palisade layers. These are composed of elongated cells packed close together in upright position. The remainder of the mesophyll is made up of irregularly shaped cells, most of them more or less oval in shape. They are joined together quite closely, so that it is possible for the air which enters through the stomata in the epidermis to come into contact with them. This makes it possible for the carbon dioxide in the air which enters the stomata to come in contact with every cell in the mesophyll. The veins, as already stated, consist of three kinds of tissues. The water-conducting tissue consists of long cylindrical cells placed end to end. In many cases, the ends of the cells are absorbed, leaving long tubes composed of a number of cells. When the cells reach full growth, the protoplasm in them dries up. leaving the walls as a sort of system of porous pipes within the vein. The water and mineral salts absorbed through the roots of the plant pass through these hollow pipes to the cells in the mesophyll. The water-conducting tissues are in the upper part of the vein. The food-conducting tissues are below them. They provide a system of channels through which the food manufactured in the leaves is carried to the rest of the plant. The mechanical tissue of the vein is known as the bundle sheath. It consists, in the case of the larger veins, of one or more layers of cells, with hardened walls. The accompanying illustration, showing the inner structure of a leaf, is patterned after the diagram by Professor E. N. Transeau,

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Uncontrolled Temper Can Make Almost Anything at: Excuse for Violence. | T'PEAKING of records, Andrew H | Wilson of Claremont, N. J„ ha: worn the same collar button fiftyone years. Nor was it for fame oi revenue that he performed the feat but just to keep his collar on. The account fails to state how many times he lost the button, o; whether in so doing he lost his temper as well, but the fact that he has | not succumbed to apoplexy, cr beer, i arrested for using profane language. | is convincingly eloquent. bob Speed Limits SPEAKING of speed, the British royal commission on traffic con- | trol has recommended the removal bf all limits as far as private^ 1 owned cars are concerned, and the substitution o 1 drastic penalties for “dangerous driving,” That is sensible. No road in Great Britain, or anywhere else, is safe for the same rate of speed at all times. Conversely, no particular rate of speed is dangerous on the same road at all times. 808 Safety Planes SPEAKING of progress in aviation, tire regular passenger airlines of Oklahoma have carried 10,000 people during the last twelve months, with not one killed or injured. That is a performance that means something to the man in the street; something he can understand; something which dispels his doubt and skepticism. What the public wants to know is not how far a particular airplane can travel with or without refueling, but how definitely the element of danger has been reduced in ordinary, every day travel. ts a a Uncontrolled Temper SPEAKING of the motives which lead to crime, an 18-year-old cripple of York, Pa., shoots his father rather 'than have his hair cut. Exceptional, perhaps, but not without precedent. There was a boy/in Maine who shot his grandmother because she l refused to give him a dollar, and there was a girl in San Francisco | who shot her mother when forbidden to go to a dance. Uncontrolled temper can make most anything an excuse for violence. a a ts Tempering Tyrants of the judicial mind, O Governor Trumbull of Connecticut may find it necessary to call a special session of the legislature to validate 1,493 laws which the supreme court of that state has declared void. These laws were signed by various Governors after the legislature adjourned. but not within three days afterward, as the state Constitution provides. The supreme court held them invalid because such delay imposed the will of the executive on the will of the legislature. In other words, e Governor became a tyrant if he waited a few days before signing a bill passed by the legislature, while the supreme court protects popular government by knocking it out after several years. 808 John R, Voorhis / SPEAKING of long life, John R. Voorhis is celebrating his 100th birthday. More than that, he is celebrating it at his office. Mr. Voorhis not only is still president of the board of elections of the city of New York, but still on the job. Every morning finds him at his desk attending to business as usual —a Tammanyite who quotes Scripture; a politician who believes in old-fashioned virtues; a product of the mid-Victorian era who deplores some of the present, but refuses to be discouraged by them; a centenarian who has no pet prescription for longevity. 808 Tobacco and Alcohol MR. VOORHIS did not give up smoking until he was 97, which eliminates him as a shining example for the Anti-Tobacco League. Yet he doubts whether cigarets and midnight frolics can be depended on to produce a generation of good mothers. As to the forbidden beverages, he says: “I don’t take a glass of anything. alcoholic, brewed or distillled, as often as once a week.” BBS 'l’ve Lived Free’ MR VOORHIS does riot claim to have taken better care of himself than “lots of others.” “Generally,” he says, “I’ve lived free in my conclusions. I was born free, and I hope to die free, with the privilege of determining my own course by the best judgment the Creator has given me. “Every night when I lie down on my bed,” he says. “I catechise myself on what I’ve done that day. It isn’t necessary to have an expert say what's wrong with you. If you are a man of intelligence, you can examine and re-examine yourself, and upon your own conclusions base improvement for the future.” A sound philosophy. More of us would be better off if we followed it.

and shut the pores. The mesophyll is composed of soft, thin-walled cells lying among the veins, which make their way through the interior of the leaf. The veins or vascular bundles, as they sometimes are called, are made up of three different kinds of tissues, water-con-ducting tissue, food - conducting tissue, and me-

Daily Thought

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.—l Timothy 2:9. a a a to padlocks, bolts, or bars can 1 secure a maiden so well as her own virtue.—Cervantes. How would you describe the color of hazel eyes? A puztuig o i brows and gray.

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BV DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of (he American Medical Association and of H.ygeia. the Health Magazine. THE uninformed person has for years attributed to the prescription of the Indian medicine man some magical virtues which presumably were unknown to the scientifically trained white physician. The shelves of many drug stores contain patent medicines with the pictures of Indian chiefs who are said to have evolved the formulas. The actual facts are that the medicine of the Indian essentially was a medicine of magic and folklore, with considerable depending on natural methods for healing. The medicine man depended on his appeal to the great spirit and

AT THE moment of writing the news from Manchuria is so confusing that it is hard to tell whether China and Russia are going to fight each other or merely continue to make faces. Even more muddled in the mind of this average reader is the underlying cause of the split. But a greater comprehension of the cases set forth by the opposing sides might not bring complete clarification. Nobody ever knows precisely what a war was all about until fifty years after the last soldier has been blown to pieces. The ironic and tragic thing about the present war scare is the fact that a communistic community seems to act much like a capitalistic state in time of crisis. The same old battle cries and slo-

you can set an answer to an.v answer able Question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerbv Question Editor The Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau 1322 New York avenue Washington. D C . inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical and legal advice can not be given "'or can extended research be made. All other Questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned reauests can not be answered All letters are confidential You are cordially Invited to make use of tulf service Who wrote the song, “When You and I Were Young, Maggie?” J. A. Butterfield. When a person buys an automobile on the installment plan does he have to wait until the lest payment is made to obtain full title to the car? Yes. What are the largest railroads in the United States? The Pennsylvania and the New York* Central. W’hat does the Latin phrase “Annuit Coeptis” on the reverse side of the seal of the United States mean? “He (God) favored our undertakings.” How much did Gene Tunney receive for his share of the proceeds of the fight with Jack Dempsey? How does it compare with other amounts received for similar events? He received about $900,000. said to be the largest amount ever paid a prize fighter for a single fight. What are the duties of a page of trffe United States congress? To run errands for the members, such as getting books or documents, take bills to the desk and make himself generally useful. What is the distinguishing character of a trombone? A trombone is a musical instrument of the trumpet class, distinguished by having one portion of the tube a moveable or sliding U-shaped crook that can be pushed in or out telescopically to give different notes. What became of the money Lotta Crabtree left to charity in her will? Did her relatives finally succeed in getting it? Lotta Crabtree’s fortune of $4,000,000 will go to charity under the terms of her will. Judge Prest, in Suffolk probate court, at Boston, in April, 1927, struck out the appear*

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on the mental effect that the ritual • would have upon the patient. Such arugs as were used were always mixed or combined according to priestly ceremony and there always was some formula to be repeated and some prayer to be said when the medicine was taken. Dr. Harlow Brooks, an honorary member of an Indian tribe, has made a special study of the Indian technic. Much of the healing system included the use of elimination of material from the bowels, sweat baths and the encouragement of vomiting. To fix the attention of the patient a medicine drum or bull roarer was used constantly during the course of the treatment. Regardless, however, of the fact that the Indians depended to a great

gans do service again. Street orators in Russia inform the excited populace that this is not to be like other wars, but a glorious blow tor independence. tt ts a Same Old Methods \TO news story as yet quotes anybody as saying that this is to be a war to end war, but depend upon it that also will be said. Indeed, Russia at this moment seems hardly a month removed from a brand new crop of atrocity stories. Much that has gone on under the Soivet regime arouses my enthusiasm not at all. The revolution certainly did not succeed in establishing freedom of speech and of opinion. Secret police officers are al-

ance of Mrs. Charlotta Cockburn, San Gabriel. Cal., who had asserted her right to the inheritance. Mrs. Cockburn’s claim set out that she is the daughter of John A. Crabtree, brother of Lotta. Hers was the last of eighty-seven similar actions. What is the postage rate on letters, first class, to Scotland? Two cents an ounce or fraction thereof. When did the nineteenth amendment granting woman suffrage become a law-? It was passed by the house of representatives May 21, 1919, and by the senate on June 4, 1919, and on Aug. 26, 1920. the secretary of state proclaimed its adoption by twothirds of the states and it became part of ’he Constitution. What/is the meaning of the name Lenny? It is a nickname for Leonard, a family name meaning like a lion.

Integer Vitae

MEMORY OF LUCIUS B. SWIFT A Spartan patriot (yet of kindliest heart) With dauntless courage and a vigorous mind, A simple nature, free from tricks of art; A soul that bore good will to humankind. Save to the miscreants who defiled the state And seized the plunder of the commonweal; For these he had full store of righteous hate And sought their overthrow with ceaseless zeal; Unselfish always, quick to give or share The honor that his tireless toil had won. Himself a shining light that shunned the glart Os men's applause for "simple duty” done— What words are fit his rugged worth to tell? Comrade in many a struggle, fare thee well! —WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE

extent on faith healing in their technics, they never denied the existence of illness, as do many socalled white persons, and they were not so obtuse as to argue that a spear thrust wound was only a matter of the patient’s mind. In the medicine of the Indians, tobacco played a great part; not, however, as a cure for disease, but as a sacred weed in ceremonials. Practically all drugs used were purgatives and laxatives obtained fro msalt springs or from such plant sas aloes and cascara. Plants were also used to encourage excretion by the kidneys and to produce perspiration. The Indians learned early the value of massage and many of them attained special ability in its use for muscular and bone conditions.

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.

most as common and underhand as prohibition officers in America. Regimentation has set in and if the yoke of militarism has been lifted from the shoulders of the masses, it is only by a couple of inches. Still, it seems likely that human rights are in a better way than in the czar’s time. Russia is in th experimental state and the las white counter-revolution was such a little while ago that it is almost inevitable that the ruling group should see ghosts and specters behind every bush. Some of my radical friends are fond of contending that the cause of war is very simple. According to the notion which they set forth, some great international banker calls one of his associates upon the telephone and says: “How about a brand new war at 10 o'clock next Wednesday morning?" tt tt tt Bugles Tormenting

BUT Russia has curbed the capitalist within her border and even so the drums are rolling and the w-hole land thunders with the ’vibration of marching feet. Millions are ready to die for the father-land and after enough have gone down under gas and rifle and high explosives someone will write a book called “All Quiet on the Eastern Front’ and by that time all concerned will be willing to admit that the sacrifice was futile. To this is to be a righteous and a holy war. But when did a country ever take up arms on any other pretext? It is entirely possible that Russia has excellent complaint against the conduct of the Chinese. And the sen’ence is probably just as true it shifted the other way around. Even if a final analysis should prove that the weight of moral advantage lies with Russia, it is not impertinent to ask: “What of it?” Surely this world of ours never will know peace as long as only bad wars are banned and loopholes left for good ones. 'Copyrigh- 1929. for Th* Clm*s ’

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.JULY 27. 1929

REASON By Frederick Ivandis

China and Russia Can Hardly Hope to Get the Spotlight, With the Cubs and Pirates Staging Such a Hot Pennant Fight. IT IS a very eloquent circumstance that the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and France are doing all they can to avert war between China and Russia. These powers realize that war does not pay, also that the world must turn toward peace or perish, particularly the white part thereof. The same sense and the same zeal in 1914 would have saved mankind its greatest catastrophe. BBS The former kaiser is free to return to Germany, but may not care to do so, for the same reason that if Babe Ruth were banished from baseball, he would not care to return, sit in the bleachers, and hear the crowd cheer some other swatter. a b b It’s fortunate for the country that those who run for office do not wear the agonized expression of the sprinters in a 100-yard dash. U B B A prize is being offered for the longest set of whiskers in the country and this is all right, so long as no prize is offered for sideburmB 9 B EVEN with its world importance, China and Russia cannot expect the American people to pay much attention to their controversy, so long as the fight for the leadership of the National League is so close between the Cubs and the Pirates. BBS This ten-foot boa constrictor down in Ecuador which crawled into a hospital, causing nine supposed paralytics to leap to safety, proves that many alleged invalids need a swift kick of adversity to jar them out of their self-imposed helplessness. BBS Os course, the President was annoyed to have that fellow advertise “apricots from the Hoover ranch,” but the people do not care so long as Mr. Hoover does not begin to distribute any lemons. B B B This New Jersey poultry raiser who is going to produce chickens with four drumsticks ought to be | able to do a long office business with ! families having four children. a b a WE are not surprised to learn that former Governor Smith does not love Mayor Jimmie Walker for there is little Romeoing among politicians. If the lights were turned out at any caucus of political brothers, the carnage would be something awful. a b a These absurd Reds who snarl at government remind one of the little clog inside the fence that barks at the mastiff calmly trotting down the street. BUB The most moving utterance of -’em times is that of the departt of commerce, to the effect that e are enough automobiles in the .untry to carry all of us at once.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEPT, July 27

ON July 27, 1789. the new United States government established a department of foreign affairs, completely separated from conduct of domestic affairs. This was the first executive department organized under the new Constitution after George Washington had been elected President and John Adams, Vice-President. The bill creating the department defined its duties to be correspondence with and instructions of diplomatic and consular representatives abroad and negotiations with agents of foreign nations in the United States. John Jay was placed in temporary charge. This department was short-lived, however, for a few weeks later congress passed a bill creating the department of state to assume the duties of the department of foreign affairs. The scope of the department was enlarged materially and it became the most important of government offices under the President. Jay was nominated to be chief justice of the United States and Thomas Jefferson to be secretary of state. Both were commissioned Sept. 26, 1789.