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More Red "Documents” For a. young government, the nationalist regime of China seems to have learned quickly the vices of older reactionary dictatorships. In addition to its militaristic seizure of the Chinese Eastern railroad, In violation of Its 1924 treaty with Russia, thereby endangering the peace of the entire far east, the nationalist government is carrying on two supplementary programs. One is the censorship and denial of mails to certain American newspapers published in China. The other Is a propaganda campaign against Russia. This campaign Is furthered by the Chinese legation in Washington, which 1s distrlbutng a resume of alleged Soviet documents seized by the Chinese when they broke Into the Russian consulate at Harbin on May 27. The world the last decade has been fed on so many horrible "Russian documents," which later were proved fakes, that now It would be difficult to get an Intelligent person to accept one even with all the earmarks of genuineness. He could not help remembering the "nationalization of women" documents, the "Zinoviev letter,” the "red flag over the White House" order, the recent "Borah-Mo6cow” instructions and the many other absurd forgeries. We have no way of knowing the origin of these latest "documents." But whoever wrote them either had no knowledge of the record and policies of the Soviets, or he assumed that the rest of the world is ignorant of Moscow’s record and policy. "After careful reconsideration of the assassination policy, the following conclusions were reached," according to one document. "Assassination policy well worked out is one of the most effective weapons against imperialists. Preparations are being made la full swing to conduct campaign . . .” Certainly Moscow has demonstrated that it can be abeolutely ruthless In executing its policies and punishing its enemies, but assassination does not happen to be one of its policies or methods against imperialists. The Communists have not practiced assassination, though they have been the victims of it, as in the case of the Soviet minister to Switzerland. “In case party activity meets with setback, the commission of the Third International shall organize secret contingents to execute schemes for the complete destruction of the Chinese Eastern railway, this alleged document continues. Assuming that MoscoV is stupid, mad or anything else Its opponents say of It, what possible interest could the Russians have in "the complete destruction" of a valuable railroad necessary to their own transport and of which they are joint owners? There are doubtless plenty of ways In which the Chinese can prejudice the American people against Russia, but the distribution In this country of such silly "documents” only will react against China.

Materialism Has Fine Side It is the fashion In this country, especially among people who are better educated than the average, to speak slightingly of America as a “materialistic nation." By this, of course, it is meant that we think too much about making money and not enough about living finer, freer and more satisfying lives. Our scale of values is material rather than spiritual. The cash ledger is. if not our Bible, at least our prayer book. All of this sounds quite discouraging. Yet there is a side to it that often is overlooked. One of the approaches to a fine spiritual civilization may lie straight through the region of crass materialities. Take this little story as an illustration. Not long ago a California farmer loaded a refrigerator ship with a cargo of green vegetables and ripe fruits from his farm and sailed for the orient, determined to see iX lands like China, the Philippines and the Malay Islands could not provide a good market for such produce. The home market was glutted. Prices were low. An industrious fanner with a fertile piece of ground could not always count on finishing the year with more money than he had when he began it. Bo this enterprising farmer sailed to the orient. He visited a dozen ports—Shanghai, Manila, Sourabaya, Bankok, Saigon, Batavia; and he found a ready and eager market for his wares. He sold all he had, at m nice profit, and returned home to tell his fellowfarmers that the orient, properly cultivated, could make them all prosperous. Now that man was strictly a materialist. He wanted only one thing—a chance to get more dollars. Yet the thing he did may eventually open the way to a broader, finer life for many, many men and women. Despite all our talk about the crassness of the quest for money, the fact remains that it is a lot easier to get spiritual values into your life if you have money than if you had not. Nothing shuts a man out from a free and satisfying existence like poverty. Consider it, now; on a farm where there is a constant struggle to make both ends meet, how are men, women and children going to lead lives that are anything but sordid, uninspiring fights for more money? How can they enjoy the fruits of a rich civilization—music, literature, leisure, quiet study and reflection? They simply can't. The job of making a living takes all their time. But suppose a "materialistic" explorer finds them a new market and enables them to make more money? They are freed from the grip of poverty. They have the time and the money to go after the things that are really worth having. They can think about something besides their bread and butter. The “materialist" has been given too bad a name. There are times when he is by way of being our salvation. Small or Large Farms Six million small manufacturing plants competing against each other probably would solve some of their problems by merging. The six million farms of the country can not do that, says Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Hyde in a speech before the American Institute of Co-Operation. One reason why they can not is because this country wishes to preserve its individual farms. “Tbt one-family farm is a valuable social unit. Its independence must be maintained,” says Hyde. This is tnM. of course. Sat here Is something else interesting. Purely from a financial viewpoint alone, the United States Chamber of Commerce has been making a survey to see If

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large-scale farming is more successful than smallscale. It has been found that it is about six of one and half a dozen of the other. The large scale farm can make its labor specialize more, can buy and sell in larger quantities to financial advantage, and if the weather would just co-operate it could make more efficient use of machinery. But, the large-scale farm can not meet the smallscale farm in what may be called the human elements. Its labor has no personal Interest. There is no heart in the work. It even is more difficult to get labor for the large-scale farm than for the smallscale, and that has been sufficiently difficult. When everything is weighed and analyzed it is found that the small-scale farm makes just as l tuch money as the large-scale, proportionately. Hence, there would seem to be no adequate reason for looking forward to a time when we would do our fanning wholesale. Farming calls for different organization methods than does industry. The only type of merging being advanced by the leaders today narrows down to membership in co-operatives. Bon Voyage The liner Bremen crossed the Atlantic ocean In 114 hours 17 minutes. The dirigible Graf Zeppelin crossed from the coast of Spain to the coast of New Jersey in 67 hours 30 minutes—about two days quicker. The Bremen carried 2,200 passengers and a crew of 950. The Zep carried eighteen passengers and a crew of forty. It would take fifty-three Graf Zeppelins to carry as many people as the Bremen carried. The liner Bremen is 938 feet long, and a man can walk a quarter mile around one deck, with a cigaret in his mouth if he likes. The Graf Zeppelin is 770 feet long, yet Its passengers live in a 98-foot gondola, and dare not smoke. The Bremen Is the last word in safety. The Graf Zeppelin is too, for dirigibles. Both the Bremen and the Zeppelin are subject to delay through storms and fogs; the Zeppelin, it appears, much more so. No, the Zeppelin can not yet compete with the Bremen. , But it can continue to pioneer in one method of the air transportation of the future. The round-the- ! world flight scheduled to begin tonight at Lakehurst challenges the interest and admiration of the world. The Hitch-Hiker; a Pest A motorist just returned from a cross-country tour reports that the hitch-hiker is abroad in the land this summer In greater numbers than ever before. This is bad news for everybody concerned. The | hitch-hiker, to put it bluntly* is an unmitigated pest, j To be sure, nobody begrudges the farmer's boy his right to ask for a lift along a hot road. But hard- J working farmers’ boys are an infinitesimal minority j among the hitch-hikers. Most of them are young men frankly out to travel cheaply by Imposing on the good nature of their fellow men. They are, for the most part, nuisances; and the motorist who makes it a practice never to give anyone a ride hardly can be blamed for it. Chewing gum is said to be gaining in popularity among the Scotch. We are waiting to see figures on the grocery business. These are the days when you used to drink collars and now you only wear one. Save your topcoats and furs, boys and girls. July is coming. Some people who claim to have open minds ought to close up for a while for repairs. How did they ever come to call those Wall street people brokers instead of breakers?

____David Dietz on Science Pigments in Leaves No. 428

THE color of leaves and the changes which take place in the fall constitute two of the chief beauties of a garden. Then green color, as already states, is due to the presence of chlorophyll in the cells of the leaf. . _ . The name, chlorophyll, comes from two Greek words, “chloros,” meaning “green,” and "phyll,” meaning leaf. But there are two other pigments in green leaves besides chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is- really a mixture of two kinds. - The two kinds of chlorophyll are known as blue-

carotin. Carotin gets its name from the fact that it is so abundant in the carrot. In general the coloring matter of a green leaf will be about 66 per cent chlorophyll, 23 per cent xanthophyll and 10 per cent carotin. Other substances make up the remaining 1 per cent. The green pigments require sunlight to develop, but the others do not. Consequently, if a plant is grown in a place where the light is shut off, the green pigment will not appear and the plant will be yellow or white. The yellow pigment develops in the absence of sunlight. Other conditions than lack of sunlight may affect the green pigment. Sometimes cold weather or lack of rain will do it. This accounts for the fact that the leaves of certain plants turn yellow under those conditions. The green pigment disappears from the leaves, leaving the yellow pigment the predominating one. The red coloring of leaves in the fall is due to the development of anew pigment in the sap in the cells. It is a red pigment called anthocyan. This pigment is the same one which occurs In beets and red cabbage. This pigment also causes the red coloring in apples, corrots and peaches. This pigment dvelops fastest with bright sunlight. This accounts for the fact that the. leaves will be redder one fall than another. The controlling factor Is the amount of sunlight.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Grit and Stamina A.re to Be Commenced, But Like Every Other Trait, They Need Intelligent Direction. SKIRTS will be longer this fall. The reason is that there must be a change and that they can’t be any shorter. Stylists and manufacturers say there must be a change because the women want it. If they were honest, they would admit, they they, also, want it. Whatever part taste may play in bringing about constant changes in style, the need for a market has its effect. If women, and men, too, for that matter actually wore out their clothing Instead of discarding it for the sake of style a good many mills and stores would close. m n n Appetite for Novelty WHATEVER the cause style has not only become a powerful factor in life, but leads to some queer activities. The appetite for novelty can be more easily understood than why some novelties evolve into fads. Flag pole sitting may be cited as a vivid illustration of the point, there may be little mystery in the fact that some freak thought of doing It, but there is quite a bit of mystery in the fact that so many have fallen for it. u m n Flagpole Roosting THREE girls and eighteen boys are roosting on flag poles in various parts of the city of Baltimore. Their one object in life is to beat the record of ten days and ten hours recently set by Azzie Foreman. Some of them occupy chairs, while some are content to take their medicine straight. One lad of twelve passes the time away by ,fiddling; while another reads his Bible. To give the performance dignity, Mayor Broening congratulates these young hopefuls on their "grit and stamina.” Grit and stamina are to be commended, but like very other trait of human nature, they need intelligent direction. bub Life's Big Mysteries WHAT doctors don’t know and what will cure a seemingly hopeless affliction combine to form one of the greatest mysteries we face. Amandus Paulsen, attorney, of Santa Cruz : Cal., was hit by an automobile five years ago with partial paralysis as the result. He consulted specialist after specialist, but to no avail. Finally, he decided that the best thing for him to do was to commit suicide. So he slashed his throat with a butcher knife, turned on the gas, and lay down in a bathtub full of water to see whether he would bleed to death, drown or be asphyxiated. He was discovered before death arrived and taken to the hospital, where it was found his paralsis had disappeared when he regained consciousness. u an Crowded Prisons A SURVEY by the New York World shows that many state and federal prisons are overcrowded, some of them containing double the number they were designed to accommodate. A survey by Herbert L. Brown, chief of the United States bureau of efficiency, shows that conditions would be far worse if about 98 per cent of the violators of the prohibiten law did not escape prison terms. Out of 37,000 persons convicted of violating the federal prohibition law in 1928, only 765 were sent to prison.

Bye, Little 'Fellers'! MERGER, consolidation, chain store and combination of business interests steadily go on. Apparently, the desire is for those who see a chance, to control everything. The great Standard Oil Company of New Jersey how proposes to sell hot dogs in its filling stations. It will proceed carefully, however, beginning ■with only six, as an experiment, but committed to the idea of extending the service throughout New York, and New England if the experiment warrants. Motorists should certainly have the privilege of buying hot dogs and other convenient eatables as they journey through the countryside, and business can not be expected to overlook the opportunity thus presented. But it does seem as if a great institution like Standard Oil might leave the opportunity to "little fellers.” n u a Giant Murder Case BIG George Kent, 42, is in a Vermont jail, charged with murder. His father, Llewellyn Kent, 74, and known as the strongest man in Grafton, "licked” him the other j night, whereupon George ran into “the other room,” got a gun and shot the old man. Those who disbelieve in corporal punishment, especially for 42-year-old children, will see a tragic argument in the result. The argument would be more conclusive, but for the Kent family record. The Kent family has staged three murders within seventeen years, and this is the second case of patricide. Llewellyn Kent’s brother was killed by his son Fred, only a few years ago, while George Kent’s b r o t h e r—Llewellyn's son—was hanged for murdering Delia Condon whom he chopped to death with a meat cleaver.

green and yellowgreen chlorophyll. The depth of the green color of a leaf is determined largely by the proportion to the blue-green to the yellow green chlorophyll in the i leaf. The other two j pigments are a yellow one, known ! as xan th o phyll and an orange one, known as

Daily Thought

For every man shall bear his own burdens. —Galatians 6:5. m m m xth: are too prone to find fault; . W let us look for some of the perfections.—Schiller.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. THERE are two kinds of public health work: The type of prevention of disease that is carried on by the community, and the type of prevention of disease that is carried on by the physician. Many of the greatest accomplishments of sanitary science are represented by the control of food, water and sewage in relationship to the diseases that are transmitted in this way. In a recent survey of the subpect, Dr. C. E. A. Winslow cites a few examples of definite accomplishments in the public health field. When a municipal water filter was installed in Lawrence, Mass., the typhoid death rate changed from 121 to 100,000 population to 26 to 100,000 population,

THE heading on this column should read "batting for Heywood Broun.” I wish it might read "batting around for him.” This would make the responsibilities lighter and greater to my liking. Someone must take Uncle Heywood’s place in the drawing room and the. gilded halls of gaiety, while he is away. I think this is vastly more important than seeing that his space in this column is filled. I shall not presume to try to do it, because I am more or less of a washout on a party. At any rate, nobody ever bids me back a second time. It appears that my conception of the elegancies of life is not all that Emily Post demands of her practitioners. Miss Ann Morgan once invited me to luncheon, together with some other newspaper men, at her town house in Sutton place and I ruined everything by leaving two-bits near my plate for the servitor, an altruistic custom I generally practice when the cuisine is particularly appealing and the service is right up to snuff. And I’ll say this for Miss Morgan: When she tosses a soiree, boy, she tosses It, and I don’t mean maybe.

A Swell Tap Dancer STILL I have hopes that I may be accepted in a more friendly manner in some of the other places which Uncle Heywood frequents. I don’t know why, for instance, I shouldn’t be enthusiastically greeted at Miss Texas Guinan’s hangout. Os course, I am not the gifted conversationalist that Uncle Heywood is, but I have my good points. Properly inspired, I can step out there on the floor and tear off as mean a tap dance as any one would care to rave about, and my trick of helping the waiters stack up the chairs after the last cover charge has been collected and the boys have packed up their trombones has always been good for a rousing laugh. I had intended to point out here that the deterioration of the prize ring set in simultaneously with the disappearance of the cap-wearing pugilist, but I happened to remember that Uncle Heywood thought it would be for the best if I refrained from lugging sports subjects into the column. When I told him I didn t know anything about any other subjects he said: “Just read the newspapers and pick out some story that seems to have a moral or civic or educational significance and write about 1,500 words on it. That oughtn’t to be hard.” mam This shows you what a generous old soul Uncle Heywood is. You won’t find many men in this world who for the asking will give you the complete secret of their success. mam She Sure Is Big TRUE, the Graf Zeppelin is back again, but after you have seen the Graf once it is not so easy to

Health Service Value Outweighs Cost

IT SEEMS TO ME

How He Gets That Weigh!

.DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

which meant an annual saving of 40 lives In the community. The cost of purifying municipal water supply is about $lO a million gallons, whereas the polluted water was costing the community $652 a million gallons on the basis of conservative estimate of the lives lost and of the financial burden resulting from illness due to polluted water. Since the introduction of public health methods of purifying water, disposing of sewage, pasteurizing milk and insuring a pure food supply generally, the typhoid death rate for the United States has dropped from 35.9 per 100,000 in 1900 to 7.8 in 1920. This means that about 30,000 lives were saved in the United States, and the amount of money represented by these 30,000 lives is as large a figure as one cares to place on their value. Figuring them conservatively at

pump up an extraordinary amount of hysteria about it. I’m not denying that it wasn’t a thrilling sight swimming lazily over the town in the gathering gloom of early night and suggesting nothing so much as a giant whale after a prodigious Sunday dinner, but as I say after you’ve seen it once it is no longer an eye-popping novelty and as for whatever moral, civic or educational significances it may embody I am incapable of recognizing them anyway. I agree, however, with the gentleman who stood next to me in Madison avenue last night as the Zep came cruising into view that “she sure is a big thing.” Young Wilbur Brotherton Huston also figures prominently in the news of the day. He is the 16-year-old boy from Seattle who won the Edison scholarship. He says that success depends on ambition, the will to work, education and stamina. These are very serious words to roll from the lips of a 16-year-old boy. But maybe they are turning

-^qqAVii'THeBATTLE OF TKERMOPYLE —Aug. 7 Twenty - four hundred NINE years ago today, on Aug. 7, 480 B. C., the battle of Thermopyle was fought in the famous pass leading from Thessaly into Locris. When the Persian monarch, Xerxes, approached Greece with an immense army, King Leonidas I and 300 Spartans went to occupy the narrow pass of Thermopyle, which lay between the sea and Mount Callidromus. For two days, the Greeks successfully resisted the overwhelming force of the Persians and frustrated every attempt to force the pass. At the end of the second day’s conflict, a Thessalian named Ephialtes went to the Persian camp and gave information of a secret pass across the mountains the Greeks had neglected to occupy. At dawn the following day Leonidas learned that the Persians were pouring across the mountains to attack his army from the rear. Then Leonidas gathered his 300 Spartans, together with their attendants, about him, and prepared to defend his post. In the fierce flight that ensued, Leonidas himself soon fell, but the remaining Greeks retreated to a hillock near the road and made their last stand. They fell, fighting to a man. The pass of Thermoyle, in indent times, was only fifty feet wide, but the alluvial deposits have altered the coast line so that there is now a broad swamp plain from a mile and a half to three miles broad.

about $2,000 a life, the saving is far beyond the cost of sanitation. Indeed, it is estimated that the United States spends only $90,000,00)1 dollars a year for the prevention of disease, whereas the total bill of the nation for everything is about $90,000,000,000. More spent on preventive medicine would lower the annual bill of $3,000,000,000 for medical care. When it is considered that the rate for tuberculosis has been cut to less than one-half in the last twenty-five years, the death rate from diarrhea and inflammation of the intestines, affecting chiefly the children, from 133.2 per 100,000 to 44 per 100,000, that diphtheria and many other infectious diseases are being brought under control, any one who can figure at all will realize that public health is a purchasable commodity and one for which money is exceedingly well spent.

tj y JOE WILLIAMS

out these 16-year-old boys in different and improved patterns these days. mam Exceptional Youth OF course, It’s possible young Huston is an exceptional product and perhaps the gentlemen of the pulpits know what they are talking about when they say that the younger generation as a class is going to wind up back of the eight ball. It develops that young Huston gets most of his recreation fencing, and while there is nothing to be said against fencing as a conservative form of relaxation and amusement, it hardly measures up to the more virile arts, such as left hooking or four-base hitting. rm afraid when young Huston gets around to his autobiography in later years he may find it a little embarrassing to admit that he was the Junior fencing champion of Seattle. It would make much livelier reading if he could write that he used to put the gloves on with the town rowdy or that his one boyhood dream was to hit a home run at the Yankee stadium. Well, here’s that first column, Uncle Heywood, and it was Just as easy as rolling off the Woolworth building. < Copyright. 1939, for The Time*)

Jo* William*, (port* editor of the New York Telegram, is "batting for Hry wood Broun” while the latter is enjoying a vacation.

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REASON

By Frederick Landis *

The Lord Uses Great SelfControl in Not Using the Hook on Some of the Fakers Using His Name. HOW stupid for the Communists of the world to do all their devilment on the first day of August. They never can hope to kick very many slats out of organized society so long as they continue to give 364 days’ notice of their intention to do so. B B B The wife of the President of the American Telephone Company has been given a divorce at Reno. This is one case where the charges were sure to be reversed. n m • W A. Kern, superintendent of schools at Walla Walla, Wash., suggests that pupils be fined S3O if they fall to pass their examinations. The trouble Is that the fine would not be paid by the pupil; it would be paid by Papa! B B B Chief Justice Mason of Oklahoma pilots an airplane, but If he traveled at the rate of courtroom procedure he would travel by ox cart. BUB THERE are eleven men and one woman on this Jury trying the Snook case at Columbus. 0., and that’s about the right proportion to make a lady riotously happy. 808 Two great meteors have passed over Indianapolis, but both of them were too high and going too fast to be grabbed by the local political machine. B B . B This delirious reception which St. Louis gave Jackson and O’Brine was not entirely a compliment to those gentlemen; it was also a desperate attempt to forget their baseball teams. B B B This group of golden monkeys that Theodore Roosevelt is bringing to the United States from Asia will get here just In time to take the place of our home-grown ones who have gone to Europe and purchased titled husbands. BUB Most automobile drivers would fail as baseball pitchers, for while they have a world of speed, they have little or no control. B B B THE use of pajamas for street wear appears to be spreading, and If you find one of the boys on your streets, do not use violence, for It Is a matter to be handled in pity rather than in anger. BUB The last word is to the effect that Russia frowns upon China’s peace terms. They belong to another race, but somehow we would like to see the Chinese knock the stuffing out of the Bolsheviks. B B B Three convicts, released from St. Quentin prison in California, have organized an aviation evangelistic tour and now will devastate the land. The Lord displays marvelous selfcontrol to refrain from using the hook on some of the fakers doing business in His name.

Questions and Answers

What is a good way to put away furs for the summer? Seal them in large brown paper bags, having first brushed and aired them thoroughly, or sew them in heavy unbleached muslin bags. Enclose with them either commercial moth balls or soak blotting paper in a mixture of equal parts of camphor and spirits of turpentine and lay the paper among the furs. Expensive furs should be sent to a furrier for storage if possible. It is practically impossible to do anything with a fur or a fur coat that has been attacked by moths. What do the names Elsie and June mean? Elsie means mirthful and June, bom in June. On what days did June 21, IMS, and March 27, 1906, fall? The former on Sunday and the latter on Tuesday.