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Bishop Cannon Explains If the unholy heretics who criticised Bishop -’lines- Cannon Jr. for playing che Wall Street market are not ashamed of themselves after reading the good bishop’s defense of stock gambling, there is no shame in them and their souls are past salvation. There was a time when Methodists were taught solemnly that dancing, drinking, gambling, and theatergoing were sinful inventions of the devil and that those who thus sinned were lost souls. In fact. Bishop Cannon himself must have got that same inspiration concerning human perfection in his pious youth, for he says: "I had been brought up with the general idea of country and small town people that ail trading in Wall Street stocks was gambling, but I was compelled to face the question in practical fashion as visualized in business men of reputation and standing, not only in the community, but in the churches." Just what the devout bishop means by this is made clear when he explains how he first came in touch with the practical side of stock gambling through the head of a firm of Wall Street brokers who was a “prominent layman of Centenary church, Richmond, chairman of the board of stewards, several times a delegate to the general conference . . . “at whose home the bishops of our church usually were entertained when in Richmond. He frequently was invited to lunch with this pious layman at his office, where he met prominent business men. “From conversations which I heard, says the bishop, who was getting his eyes opened, “I understood that these business men bought and sold stocks, bonds, real estate and other articles of value for investment or for resale for profit, without question on their own part or without being questioned by any one else as to the morality or propriety of such business transactions.’’ But the wily old devil didn't put all his eggs in one basket. He sicked on the weakening bishop the head of another Wall Street banking house,’’ which bought and sold stocks for its customers.’’ This pious banker and broker. Bishop Cannon says, “was a man of great piety, the president of the Virginia Bible society, and, if I remember correctly, went nearly every Sunday afternoon to teach the convicts in the Virginia penitentiary.” Without going further into details of Bishop Cannon's explanation of how he came to play the market, it is enough to say that the devil finally accomplished his fiendish designs and the good bishop fell from Methodist grace—if to play the market is falling from Methodist grace. First, he was tempted to buy lots and sell them at a profit. Then he bought stocks “on the installment plan” and sold them when the market rose and pocketed the profit; and finally came the revelation that he was a regular and favored customer of a bucketeering concern now under legal investigation. Considering Bishop Cannon's great influence, it is fair to assume that there will be a liberalizing process at work in church circles that will modify some of the old prohibitions against gambling; for Bishop Cannon himself says that if the church declares stock trading immoral, it then should eliminate from membership heads of stock exchange liou.y*. clerks, bookkeepers, and the working forces of these houses and all men and women who buy and sell stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. And tbe good bishop sadly adds: “Certainly such action would result in a very greet elimination in a great many churches of some of the very best people in the churches.’ As this is not desirable a f a’l. there is nothing left but to accept the amended judgment of Bishop James Cannon and class stock gambling as not only good business, but first class morals. Times change: so do bishops. The Crime of Prisons It should not have required several fatal prison outbreaks to lead to plans for expansion and modernization of the federal penal system. A report submitted to congress at the last session by a committee which visited federal penitentiaries revealed the need for new prisons and new ideas. The recommendations of that body raise the question of whether the administration’s $5,000,000 building program is adequate. More important than peace within the walls is the danger that our prisons discharge their inmates in a mood which makes them more dangerous to their fellows than they were upon conviction To study law enforcement conditions and seek so lessen crime without tackling this problem is to put the cart before the horsfc. New prisons—and better ones—are a first necessity. But anew system and attitude toward prisoner.also is essential. There should be a real probation system. For lack of funds, only seven of the ninetytwo federal judicial dsitricts have facilities for plac.ng prisoners on parole under strict super\ision. I* is estimated that at least 5.000 inmates immediately could be discharged on probation. Other reforms are necessary’. Work should be found. Reasonable wages should be paid, and most of the money should be set aside for maintenance of the prisoners’ families. President Hoover should give serious thought to the committee's recommendations. They are worthy of study, especially as they go much further than his own plans. The committee found that Atlanta and Lea\enworth and McNeil can not accommodate more than the present capacity, now greatly exceeded. It proposed two new penitentiaries instead of one. It urged construction of work houses for short-term prisoners now farmed out to county jails, a hospital for afflicted criminals, narcotic farms and an institution for Juvenile offenders. Such expansion, in the committee's opinion, would permit classification and segregation. The congressional body did not exaggerate when it called our federal prisons a “school for crime.' It found prisoners “doubling up in single, small cells, wherein the criminal instincts of one accentuated those of his cellmate.” It found men and women sleeping in “filthy, il’ventilated basements.” It found no separation of old and young, sick and well, hardened repeaters and impressionable first offenders. Conditions in county and state Jails were even worse. Bad food, bad living conditions, bad surroundings —that is the story of our prisons. The wonder that we have had so few jail breaks and mutinies.

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No More “All Aboard!” Here is a development about which something really ought” to be done. The Central Vermont railroad has announced that hereafter Its passenger train conductors will not cry, “All aboard!” or wave lanterns to signal to the engineer. All signals will be passed mechanically, from the cars; and the colorful shouts and lantern-wavings of railroad tradition will be no more. Railroads being what they are. other lines no doubt will imitate this practice, until in all the United States there is not one that clings to the old custom. Probably it’s being done in the interest of efficiency and all that sort of thing, but it’s hard to take. One of the chief thrills of childhood is boarding a train, snuggling into a seat, listening for the long-drawn, enthralling chant of the conductor—lengthened out with a sharp upward inflection at the very last—watch the red lantern swing high in the air, and settling down for the first gentle jerk of the moving train. Those Communist Children We, too, would like every one in the world to have enough to eat. We don’t think communism is the way to achieve this happy end. But just because we disagree with communists, we are not bitter about them nor afraid of them, nor do we think it necessary to throw them into jail for teaching their children to hope that some of the v/rongs and injustices of life today can be remedied. We trust our children, also, will dream of ways to make the world better. No gains are made without first dreaming. And we are not afraid that any little group of dreamers will be able to impose harmful economic or political change upon the rest of us. Is this becoming a nation of neurotic old cowards, that discovery of a communist summer camp for children in California can call forth hysteria and the harsh measures of law? Immigration authorities at Quebec found diamonds concealed in a cripple's wooden leg. Looks like he put his foot in it. She’s a clever girl who can remember to call her regular fellow by his right name when she returns from vacation. Once upon a time there was a man with a heavy beard who didn’t claim to be a cousin of the former czar. It’s now customary to send stowaways back home without seeing a thing—except that they made a sad mistake. Some people have their vacations to look forward | to. and others are trying to stage a financial comeback. The wife isnt going along on the vacation because she is trying to reduce and has Just heard that travel broadens one. Guess the old grammar will have to be revised and the old-fashioned feminine gender changed to nuder. The 600 canaries that came over on the Graf Zeppelin likely are still singing its praises. lowa farmers are looking forward to a bigger wheat crop this year than last, and gosh! how they dread it! The French finally have ratified the debt agree- ‘ ment. What more could you expect? Many automobile drivers won’t wake up even after they’re pinched.

-David Dietz on Science-

Aims of Agricu Iture

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THE habit of growing plants of manufacturing more food than the plant requires for its own use has proved of great value to mankind. For the plants which are of agricultural value to mankind are those which have developed this habit to the greatest extent. The aims of agriculture have been to discover those plants which accumulate large amounts of food, to improve strains of these plants by proper selection of seeds and so on, and to develop methods

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high as 22 per qent sugar. This is because of intelligent research in the field. The original sugar beets contained less than 5 per cent sugar. Potatoes which weigh several pounds are grown with ease. The original potato tubers weighed about an ounce. Problems of agriculture are studied by government departments of all the civilized governments in the world. The United States department of agriculture is one of the highly important branches of our governmental service. Government experts, conducting extensive experiments in the field of agriculture, have added many new plants to those previously raised in America. Figs, dates, drought-resisting wheat and new varieties of oranges are among the products which they have introduced. The accompanying illustration shows in diagrams tic form the composition by per cents of various foods. The abbreviations used are as follows "W.” water; “C.” carbohydrate; "F,” fat; “P,” protein, and "A.” ash. It will be noticed in each case that the largest bulk is water. In agriculture, of course, we regard the plant as food for ourselves. The plant, however, it is obvious, is not storing up carbohydrates, fats and proteins for our use, but for its own use. The plant utilizes these things itself for purposes of growth. This phase of plant physiology will be discussed next

M. E. Tracy

The Fall in Stocks Need Alarm No One, Because the Fall Did Little More Than Squeeze Out Water. JOHN F. HYLAN, former mayor of New York and stormy petrel of ; Democratic politics in that city for ! the last few years, not only refuses to run as an independent, but throws his support to Tammany Hall. “Faithful to the end,” the New York Times puts it, though not without some labored explanatipn. Hylan left it to be inferred that he was double-crossed by the Republicans, whatever that may mean. The chances are that when things came to a showdown, he reasoned about like the “prodigal son,” who said: “How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here of hunger. I will arise and go to any father and will say unto him, Father I have sinned against heaven and In thy sight.” a a a Brokers’ Loans DURING the last week, brokers loans increased by more than sixty million bringing the grand total up to more than six billion. Thursday afternoon the federal reserve bank of New York announced an advance of discount rates 6 per cent. It is said that other federal reserve banks may ask permission to take similar action. One does not need to be a financial sharp to understand the motivating causes. tt a tt Farmer's Profits THE farmer has a right to take profits as well as the speculator has a right to cash in on the months of hard work he has done, has a right to share in the blessings of a nation-wide credit system. The withdrawal of vast sums of cash for stock trading, or stockholding at this season of the year would not only be a grave injustice to the farmer but an unwise policy. Whether a 1 per cent advance in j the discount rate will stop it re- | mains to be seen, but the aim is right. The fall in stocks which is caused ! need alarm no one, because the fall I did little more than squeeze out j water. B B tt Gambling and Business THERE is a fundamental difference between raising capital j for legitimate business and gambling in securities. It may be impossible to draw a line that would serve under all conditions, but it is by no means impossible for those familiar with the financial drift to recognize a lopsided situation when they meet it and to take such measures as are necessary to restore the balance. B B B Dry Agents’ Health DRINKING in line of duty is ruining the health of dry agents, according to John E. Wright, deputy prohibition administrator at Cleveland, which is something more to be charged against Mr. Volstead. Prohibition seems to have made drinking in line of duty not only necessary but fashionable. Dry agents feel they must in order to test the evidence, while anti’s feel they should in order to prove the sincerity of their convictions. Considering the few people who admit drinking because they want to, we Americans are making a most noble sacrifice to demonstrate one thing or another with regard to prohibition. B B B National Crime Wave IF drinking in line of duty were the only, or even the worst result of prohibition we might still find it possible to be optimistic, but the idea of violating the law in order to enforce it has led to a multitude of unsavory practices. So, too has the idea of violating it, for the sake of consistency. Graft, corruption and contempt for government have combined to produce such a crime wave as probably never was known in this country. Whether prohibition can be held solely, or even largely responsible may be a matter of argument, but there is no doubt that the crime wave synchronized with its arrival. B B B U, S, Stands Alone AS reflected by court records and prison population, other countries appear fairly to have been successful in reducing crime since the war. In Prussia, for instance, there were 70,000 prisoners six years ago while there are only 32,000 today. In these blessed United States, however, where prosperity has enjoyed an uninterrupted reign, if we may believe the politicians, court dockets have fallen benind and prisons have become crowded to a point of congestion. B B B Drastic Actions FOR the first time in our history, we find it necessary to appoint a national crime commission, while great universities, like Columbia, accept the situation as a college for special study. The fact that such drastic efforts have become necessary is less significant, perhaps, than is the reason why.

of cultivation which will yield the largest result. Thus sweet corn, for example, was developed through the selection of seeds with a view to obtaining plants with the largest sugar content, while field corn was developed by selection for the largest starch content. Sugar beets today contain as

Daily Thought

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice—Ephesians 4:31. u • m HE that can not forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.—Lord Herbert. What is the first city mentioned in'the Bible? Enoch (Genesis 4:17).

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By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FIGURES just made available in an article published in “Science” and the records of the state of Illinois for the last ten years show that the life expectancy of men in the United States after reaching 40 years has decreased by one year during the last decade. The figures are of the greatest significance. We have been saying much about the increased years that have been granted to man by the process of medical science. It is definitely proved that whereas the child born in the United States in 1825 could expect to live only to 33 years, the child born in the United States today may expect to live to 58 years. However, the man who reached 50 years of age in 1825 had an expectancy of 21.2 years and the one who reaches 50 years today has a

IT develops that it was not Phineas Taylor Barnum who fashioned the classic utterance and enduring college cheer of the sharpshooters; namely, “A sucker is bom every mniute.” It was probably two other fellows, or possibly Miss Guinan, unassisted. What Barnum really said, according to Robert E. Sherwood, who clowned in the old showman’s sawdust dramas, was; “The American public likes to be humbugged.” In those days the word sucker was not used to denote an excess of gullibility. A practitioner of the current come-on rackets was known as a humbug. Except that it is probably important that the record of historic phrases should be accurate, the belated correction is not particularly noteworthy. And besides, Tad, the late cartoonist, came closer to the truth when he enlarged the line to read; “There’s a sucker born every minute—and two to take him.” There is evidence at hand, however, to indicate that a startling change is coming over the great American public. No longer is it possible to snare all the suckers by merely dropping a gaudy-fizzed fly or a gleaming red cork in the waters. A more tempting bait appears to be necessary. B B Good Old Days IT was heartening io read in the good old days that a visitor from Des Moines had purchased the Brooklyn bridge. On the one hand, this may have implied a shocking stupidity, but on the other, it betokened a vast faith in one’s fellowman and an optimism not entirely unattractive.

Why is Friday said to be unlucky? Because Jesus was crucified on Friday. Are the words “When I was a child, I spake as a child” in the Bible? They are in I Corinthians, Chapter 13, Verse 11. Is a child who is bom of alien parents in the United States a citizen from his birth or not until he is 21. He is a natural born American citizen and his citizenship commences at birth. With the exception of some civil rights denied to minors, he can exercise all the rights and privileges to which any American citizen is entitled. What causes circles around the sun? They are the result of two different phenomena, technicaly distinguished as halo and corona. The former Is the larger, usually not col- ' oved It is due to defraction of light by minute ice crystals floating in

Another World Flight Getting Under Way

Expectancy Decreases After 40

IT SEEMS TO ME

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life expectancy of appfoximately 21.5 years. Indeed, the latest figures, as have been mentioned, indicate that the man of 40 may reasonably now expect only 29 years, whereas ten years ago his expectancy was calculated at 30 years. Obviously the gain that has been made is in the first three decades of life and represents the control of infant mortality and of the acute infectious diseases of childhood. The diseases most prominent in the causes of death are now heart disease, high blood pressure, diseases of the kidney, diabetes, cancer and pneumonia. Most of these are degenerative diseases. They represent wear and tear on the human body. The tissues that have broken down and die are not to be given new life and rejuvenation. They are crippled cells and the only hope of saving them seems to lie in giving them less to do. Hence the control of the degenera-

gY JOE WILLIAMS

Indeed, I have heard it said that without these simple qualities no bathing beauty can ever hope to attain the Ziegfeldian peaks. A hard-shelled skepticism has moved in, and the challenging “Oh yea!” has replaced the trusting “Is that so!” It is not easy to determine precisely what changed the wide-eyed sucker into a militant swordfish, but that thera has been something of a change is inescapable. Certainly there is less response to the ballyhoo of the barker than there used to be. The Graf Zeppelin brought a baby gorilla over on its trip. The animal was placed on sale in Wanamaker’s and though the price was shaded to beguile the thrifty housewife, I am told that there was no mad rush to buy the creature. An adventurous trip through the skies hadn’t increased its intrinsic value or added to its desirability as a household pet, radiator cap or week-end companion. To the housewives of the community, it was still a gorilla. B B B Not Bargain NOR do I agree that the sug- . gestion that the housewives may have had too many things around i the house already corresponding in I disposition, mannerisms and facial contours with the gorilla, explains everything. Asa matter of fact, I think the store would have had just as much trouble disposing of a husband at sale prices whose chief claim to disj tinction was that he crossed the i Atlantic in a cage, i A few davs ago the n°ws wires

the air, and is seen only around the sun and moon. The latter shows all the colors seen in the rainbow and in the same order, is due to diffraction of light by minute ice j crystals or drops of water floating ; in the air and Is frequently seen around artificial lights as well as ! around the sun and moon. What is the meaning or the surname Snedeker? The English family name Snead is from the Anglo-Saxon “snead” meaning “A piece of land.” It is a common name in Yorkshire and Worcestershire. Snedeker means “Sn-ad's acre.” Whose motto was: “One for all and all for one”? The rrc-tto of the “Three Mus- i keteers” lr Alexander Dumas’ book ; of that title. Where may one obtain Information about the plants developed by Luther Burbank? The Luther Burbank Company, Santa Ro6a, CaL X> I ‘

tive diseases includes control of the diet primarily, limiting it in amount and in quality so that too great a burden will not be thrown on the organs of assimilation and elimination. In order not to put too great a burden on the heart and on the blood vessels the individual must get enough rest and limit his exercise to what his tissues can stand. One of the greatest causes of degenerative diseases is constant strain or worry. We live at fever pitch. Everybody is going somewhere and the element of human nature that the German wisely calls “Sitzfleisch” seems to be disappearing entirely. The philosophers despair of any great increase in life expectancy after middle age in view of the trend of the times. All that they and the physicians can do is to stand by the side of the road and shout, "SLOW DOWN.” What can they do if a speed-mad public refuses to heed the call?

Joe Williams, sports editor of the New York Telegram, is “battfnjc for Hey wood Broun” while the latter is enjoyinr a vacation.

brought a story into this office to the effect that Jean Lussier, a French Canadian, planned to go over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball on Labor day. The editor’s comment was: “Is that goof still at large?” Editors are like that. Still, it struck me as cruelly unappreciative of Mr. Lussier’s desire to contribute something really worth while to a lagging civilization. If nothing else, it would be interesting to note how high Mr. Lussier bounces when he reaches bottom, and surely this information could be turned to some practical use by science. B B B Individualist f>Y the same token it occurs to me that too little serious attention was lavished on the efforts of Mr. Bill Williams to nudge a pea- | nut. ut> the slopes of Pikes Peak ! with his nose. If nothing else, th’s I man is an individua’ist. He sought | to accomplish something that never, hed been before. Some of Mr. Edison’s townspeople in Mibn, 0., thought he was a little bit daft the way he used to potter around with wires and things. All the encouragement the Wright brothers got when they lugged their j homemade a ; rpl?ne to the top of a bar~ and essayed a flight, was the sneering comment that if they didn’t watch out, they’d break their fool necks. My sympathies are all with Mr. Williams. It is no small Hj S t : nctlon to own the only nose that ever n’"*ged a psanut up a mountainside. [Copyright. 1929. for The Times!

Health Means Happiness AND Child Health is the concern ot every mother and father. Eternal vigilance is the price of the health of children. Our Washington Bureau has a packet of its helpful and authoritative Dulletins on various phases oi child health that it will send to any reader. The title of these bulletins are as follows: 1. Care of the Baby. j 3. Care of the Child’s Teeth. 2. Child Health. 4. Malnutrition. 5. Sex Education in the Home. If you want thus packet, fill out the coupon below: CLIP COUPON HERE CHILD EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Indanapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue Washington, D. C. 1 want the packet of five bulletins on CHILD HEALTH, and enclose herewith 15 cents in coin or loose uncancelled U S postage stamps, to cover postage and handling costs: NAME-• STREET AND NUMBER -j CITY STATE i I ajn a reader of the Indanapolis Times. '

AUG. 10. 1929

REASON

Ey Frederick Landis

Broadcasting of Ball Games Is Doing More to Keep Families Together Than All the Moral Influences in America. THE German republic well could afford to finance the flights of the Graf Zeppelin, for last Sunday night when Comman-ier Hugo Eckener boardcast his Simple story of the last sky classic to some ten million Americans, sitting admiringly around him at the fireside of the ether, he cut more ice for his country than any embassy would harvest in a generation. It is good will advertising of priceless value. tt tt 8 Ambassador Dawes is making it necessary for the prince of Wales to step on the gas to keep his place in the English limelight. B B B This refueling exhibition given by the St. Louis Robin and its base of supplies was very spectacular, but for genuine difficulty it isn’t to be compared with the performance of the average father with a fixed income wh orefuels a large family three times a day. b b a THE real dentist is the one who can make a set of false teeth that will enable the customer to go right home and climb a roastin' ear in high. B B B Henry Ford's check for 2 cents is worth SIOO, but a good many checks for SIOO are not worth 2 cents. B B B All these injunctions against dog races in different cities have been issued for the express purpose of keeping people from going to the dogs. b b a Broadcasting of baseball games is doing more to keep families together than all the moral influences in America. b a a That stowaway probably managed to get aboard the Graf Zeppelin because the entire crew was engaged in seeing that no cat got on to go after all those canaries. BBS IT will shake the confidence he has in his destiny if Wilbur Huston, this 16-year-old boy who has been chosen to succeed Edison, happens to look at the pictures of some of these girls who have won beauty contests. B B B The world is shocked by the report that Serbia proposes to hang an Austrian officer who killed a Serbian peasant early in the war, yet you will recall that Lloyd George won an election in England right after the war by promising to hang all the officers accused of starting the conflict. b b a For a simplification of criminal procedure, we respectfully suggest that President Hoover’s commission study the methods of Mexico, where nine bandits were executed the day after they were caught. B B B After taking a fling at Chicago on account of her gun killings, it is only fair to note that in the last eleven years she has reduced the death rate from tuberculosis 42 per cent by sanitation, dispensaries, supervision and education.

RUSSO-JAPANESE TREATY Aug. 10

ON Aug. 10, 1905, the Russian sind Japanese peace commissioners met at Portsmouth, N. H. At the instigation of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, representatives of both the belligerents attended the Portsmouth conference and concluded a peace treaty, which was ratified Oct. 14 by the emperors of Russia and Japan. The waft, which started Feb. 10, 1904, grew i out of Russia’s attempt to make herself th most powerful nation in the far east, and her share inthe curtailments of the conquests Japan had made at the expense of China in 1835. The immediate cause of the conflict was Russia’s attempt to extend her methods of Russification and exploitation to Korea, which Japan considered her special sphere of ininfiuence. Under the treaty of Portsmouth, Russia transferred Port Arthur and adjacent territory to Japan; Russia recognized the paramount interest of Japan in Korea; Manchuria was to be restored to China; the port of Sakhalin, south of the fiftieth parallel of latitude, was ceded to Japan.