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The Permanent Cure Revelations of the seeming lack of business acumen, if nothing more, in the transactions between the school board and C. C. Shipp, reputed boss of the board, suggest that there is need of something more peimanent than supervision of the board of tax commissioners. It is not pleasant for a great city like Indianapolis to need the guardianship of the state to prevent loss and waste of the hardearned tax money of the people. It is not a proud confession to admit that any part of the official control of the city needs the curb of such supervision, especially when that board openly declares that the people’s money is being wasted by too close a friendship with one certain vendor of necessities for schools. If there is any fund which should be too sacred to be squandered among political favorites, it is the school fund. It is a travesty to raise huge funds to educate youth, only to have those funds depleted by unbusiness-like control. It is not worth while educating children if they are to grow up in an atmosphere where they can not protect their earnings from such practices. Control of Shipp over the local school board has been notorious. The members at times almost have boasted of their shackles, as though they were proud medals. They have not hesitated to admit that they have been on close terms. In their family quarrels they have accused one another of deserting Shipp for Coffin. The revelations suggest that there is no deep division of sentiment between these manipulators of politics. Fortunately, a movement is growing to overthrow the domination of both Shipp and Coffin and restore the public schools to public ownership and control, where the education of youth and the protection of public money will be the only aims of the members.. Both these gentlemen are experts in politics They know how to put their vassals in places of power. They understand how divided sentiment and local jealousies can be used to carry out their schemes and divide those who have only the best interests ot the schools at heart. It will be well to guard against these men, and especially Shipp, who, says the tax board, finds business with the board to be unduly profitable. The uprising of citizens to accomplish this house cleaning should be unanimous and emphatic.

Germany Ten Tears After Germany has celebrated the tenth anniversary of her republican constitution without the usual minority monarchist demonstrations. A decade is a short time In which to mold and unify a nation in new political form, but Germany apparently has achieved that difficult, task. Indeed, more than the political form has changed in Berlin. There is anew spirit. The German people and statesmen are dedicated to peace. Some of the bitterness of war defeat remains, but there is no disposition to settle remaining disputes with arms. Instead. Germany is so convinced of the essential justice of her post-war demands that she is willing to trust to reason for their fulfillment. Foremost among her demands are reparations reduction and evacuation of the Rhineland That is fair. Those penalties were exacted in the heat and \mdictiveness of victory, when the allies at Versailles had forgotten Wilson wisdom. But after ten years even the allied governments, which originally had promised to make Germany pay me whole cost of the war. have discovered that is economically as undesirable as it is impossible. Germanv can pay only in goods, and the allies can not afford to let Germany pay to the extent oi dumping exports— which would Increase unemployment and close factories in the allied countries. So the allied experts have joined in the \ oung plan, fixing and further reducing the amount of reparations oevments. This does not mean that Germany is getting off easily. The only way she met the larger Dawes plan payments was by borrowing from the United States. Despite the unfortunate wrangling going on among the former allies at The Hague conference over the British share of reparation receipts, it is heartening that thfv do not appear to question basic findings o their experts on the total reduction in what Germany is able to pay. If by ill fortune The Hague conference collapses, the governments simply will have to meet again soon to ratifv new reduced reparations schedules. There ls n0 other way out. Neither Britain nor France dares plunge Germany back into economic chaos, which would result from permanent disagreement over reparations. Germany's second demand, for military- evacuation. Is as just as her argument for reparations reduction. If Germany and the former allies are preparing for another war against each other, continued occupation of the Rhineland is reasonable. But if the elaborate Locarn security pacts and the Kellogg renunciation of war treaty means anything whatever, then continued Rhineland occupation Is inexcusable. It ia worse. It is a positive menace to peace. For the presence of foreign troops on German soil is capitaliaed by the minority militarist group of Germany. Which wants a war of revenge. But fortunately even the provocation of Rhineland occupation has not deflected Germany from her goal. That goal ia clear It is the conquest of peace, of com-

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rnerce, of science, of invention. It is symbolized by such names as Locarno, the’ Bremen, the Graf Zeppelin. How Many Drinks? The question of how much liquor is being drunk under prohibition has been disputed widely. So, too, has the effect of prohibition on public health. Dry spokesmen contend that the per capita consumption of alcohol is only a fraction of what it used to be, and that as a consequence the nation is healthier. They offer figures to support their arguments. The wets insist that more alcoholic beverages are being drunk now than when saloons were licensed, and that diseases arising from the abuse of alcohol are at least as common as ever. They, too, offer figures. The trouble is that adequate information is lacking. Obviously no one knows the output of sugar whisky or the alley stills that abound in every city,/ or of the stills that exist in the remote rural and mountainous regions, or how much home brew and wine is made. Statistics dealing with public health are admittedly unreliable and inadequate. Professor Irving Fisher recently devoted a book to proving that the consumption of alcohol is only a small part of what it was in the old days. He sought to refute the arguments of Hugh H. Fox of the United Brewers’ Association, who had made an exhaustive survey and reached opposite conclusions.

And so it goes. One set of figures confounds another. Now comes the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment with a tract prepared by John C. Gebhart, director of its research department, which shows "a distinct and steady rise in American liquor consumption and intemperance since prohibition went into effect.” It is claimed that a year’s careful study was given all available indexes bearing on the subject. Various charts and graphs are presented. The association found: Seizures of distilling apparatus have increased steadily; seizures of liquor have grown year after year; deaths from alcoholism have reached their pre-war level, after showing a sharp decline; the alcoholic death curve of industrial workers shows they drink as much as any other group; alcoholic insanity and cirrhosis of the liver are increasing; arrests for drunken driving have grown vastly; and so on. These findings wlli be disputed. Drys will say, for instance, that the seizures of stills and liquor show greater police vigilance and less, rather than more, drinking. However, this study will challenge the attention of every calm-thinking person who is concerned over the obvious ills that have come in the train of the Volstead act. Meantime, it is a matter of common knowledge that liquor in almost every community is plentiful and fairly cheap. No statistics are needed to show that. An Arkansas heifer died after it choked on a, roll of bills the farmer had lost in the pasture. Maybe the farmers shouldn’t be relieved, after all—think of the poor heifers! A writer says that all you have to have to get into Washington society is a suit of evening clothes. And, if Mrs. Gann is there, perhaps you’d better bring your ov/n chair. The home of a recluse was searched in Wisconsin and $6,500 was found. He must have been a nonunion recluse to have so little as that around. • A breed of wingless chickens has been developed in Kansas. Some day scientists will turn their attention to something really worth while and may produce a chicken without a neck.

- David Dietz on Science ... Sun Furnishes Energy No. 433

IT IS interesting to contrast two fundamental processes in living plants. They are photosynthesis and respiration. Photosynthesis, as the reader of this series knows, is the process by which the plant manufactures its food. Respiration is the process by which the plant burns up or utilizes the food to obtain the energy re-

energy is released and put to work in the interest of the growing plant. The energy, it should be remembered, comes in the first place from the sun. The ancients who worshiped the sun were wise in certain ways. They were unwise, of course, in worshiping a physical thing. But as Professor Frost has pointed out, the sun, more than any other physical object demands our respect. For physically, our earth and all upon it are children of the sun, and life would be impossible without the energy of the sun’s rays. In photosynthesis, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil are united into complex molecules. This process goes on with the aid of the energy- of sunlight and energy is stored up in the complex molecules. Photosynthesis results in an increase in the weight of the plant as the complex molecules are stored up. Oxygen, however, is given off as a byproduct of photosynthesis. In respiration, the plant absorbs, and consumes oxygen. The oxygen is used to oxidize the complex molecules. Asa result, they are broken down into simpler molecules and their store of energy is released. The by-products given off during respiration are carbon dioxide and water. ■ The plant loses weight as a result of respiration. The rate at which respiration goes on depends upon the plant’s demands for energy. During rapid growth, the opening of floweis and the ripening of seeds, the rate increases. Respiration continues in fruit, after it has been picked. It has been shown that fruits have to be shipped so that respiration is not.interferred with. Peaches frequently develop brown spots during shipment where they touch each other. Experiments have proved that these spots do not result from jarring, but from interference with respiration, which kills the cells.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Farm Board Has Been Organized Only a Few Weeks, but Even in That Short Time Has Given Tangible Proof of Its Policy and Capacity. RIGHT or wrong, the British labor government backs Philip Snowden in his demands for modification of the Young plan. What is more important, the British people back the government. Premier MacDonald evidently has made a hit at home with his uncompromising message. Partisanship has been laid aside in order that England may show a united front. This means that The Hague conference will fail, unless France and the other allies make the necessary concessions. tt tt tt Convicts for Prisons IT will take twenty-eight million dollars to put the penal institutions of New York in good shape, according to a tentative report prepared by Dr. Raymond F. C. Kieb, commissioner of corrections. Such a condition suggests that lawmakers of the Empire state have given vastly more attention to providing convicts for prisons than prisons for convicts. When such a stupendous sum of money spells the difference between what has been done, and what ought to have been done, monumental neglect is the only conclusion. ss a st

Farm Board on Job SENATOR GLASS was premature in his criticism of the farm board as just another useless commission. The farm board has been organized only a few weeks, but even in that short time it has given tangible proof of its policy and capacity. Working with farm co-operatives as a basis, it is organized market and credit associations around the particular products. Some two weeks ago, it organized the Farmers National Grain Corporation, with a capital of $30,000,000, anu now it announces that the fruit and vegetables growers havve formed an association with a capital of $50,000,000. The great associations, backed up by government funds, are designed not only to market crops, but to extend credit. What the farm board evidently intends is to borrow a page from big business for the benefit of agriculture. If it succeeds, we shall all get a new idea of the power of co-op-erative action. st st st Drying Up the Nation THE Association against Prohibition comes out with another analysis to prove’ that the use of alcoholic liquors is increasing. Interesting, perhaps, but most people knew it already. Press reports, as well as table talk, have been spreading the good news for sometime. Theoretically, the nation may be drying up, but in view of what they see with their own eyes, or hear with their own ears, you can’t make people believe it. What worries them, and what makes them hesitate to vote for any change, is a feeling that though seemingly impossible, they might make matters worse. st st st Earthquakes A SLIGHT earthquake in Buffalo reminds us that no section of the world is free from such disturbances. We are prone to think some sections are because human memory is short on the one hand, while disastrous shocks are rather few and far between on the other. Each generation identifies earthquake religious through the most recent upheavals. Just now, Italy, Japan, certain Pacific islands, and California are regarded as peculiarly exposed. It is a matter of record, however, that the St. Lawrence valley suffered from a severe earthquake in 1663 and that eastern Massachusetts suffered from one in 1755. st st st Rabbit Fever EXPERTS of the United States public health service have unearthed another disease. In vulgar parlance, it is known as rabbit fever, and human catch it. Sometimes one could wish experts were less zealous in unearthing and identifying new maladies. Most of us would be happier and about as safe if we remained in ignorance. Take this discovery of rabbit fever, for instance, and what does it amount to, except something more to worry about. ts St tt Flaming Age WITH disrespect to flaming youth, it is worth noting that Mrs. Anna Skikes of Venice, Cal., celebrated her sixty-ninth birthday by taking a fifteen-mile swim in the Pacific. She started at 2 a.- m., and remained in the water twelve and one-half hours, breasting high wa/es and strong tides. Whether that is a record, it hangs up a mark for the present generation to shoot at.

quired for growth, movement and repair. The two processes are best under stood in their relations to each other, if w 7 e think of them from the standpoint of energy. P h otosynthesis is the process by which tJie plant obtains a store of energy. Respiration is the process by which this

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Editor. Times—We appreciate the policy of The Times in giving full information on both sides of every controversial question in which the public is interested. We are reading Mrs. Willebrandt’s articles with great interest and feel that she will give a fair and honest expression of the prohibition situation as she understands it. We will also call the attention of others to these articles. Cordially yours. IDA M. ASHBY. President, board of directors, Y. W. C. A.

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. INCREASINGLY as new substances are introduced into industry they begin to have their effects on human beings and physicians are confronted with the difficult problem of determining whether symptoms. arise in workers, due to the poisons with which they are associated or due to infectious or other causes. There are many diseases which are associated with a lessening of the number of white cells in the blood. Among the many conditions which may produce this symptom is chronic poisoning with benzine or, as it is often called, benzol. In 1922 benzol was beginning to be used widely in many industrial

1T is the custom about once a week to write something in this column about books. I have always envied the book reviewer. The simplicity of the formula has a distinct appeal. Not a great deal of work is entailed. By no more difficult a process than reprinting two or three pages of the text and adding a concise note to the effect that this gives you an idea of what it is all about, the job is completed. I am not certain the sort of literature that has been finding its way to my desk in recent years lends itself nicely to critical exploration in this column. Still, the Police Gazette is not to be scoffed at in any circles of intellectuals. However, it is not often that anybody's sends me a real book. I believe the last one I received was from Mr. George Herman Ruth. It is a book in which he tells the stirring story of his matchless life. * u a Unfinished ONE of Mr. Ruth’s attributes is his charming frankness. Someone asked him if he really wrote the book. ‘‘Wrote it?” he barked, | “Why, I haven’t even read it!” This was some time ago. Perhaps by now he has read it. If so, I am sure he experienced a sickening sense of failure. Some of the most interesting chapters of the great man’s life are totally ignored. Nothing, for instance, is told of his adventure In Minneapolis, when it was arranged for him to meet the sately queen of the Rumanians. The time set for the meeting at a public function was 3 p, m. But Mr. Ruth never got there. He was at his hotel entertaining a party of fellow athletes with his peculiar genius as a pinocle expert. A courier was dispatched to the great man’s suite, imploring him to come at once. “The stage is all set for the King of Swat to meet the Queen of Rumania,” he was told. Mr. Ruth remained unmoved. ‘“Tell the queen the king can't come; he's twelve bucks loser.” u tt a Triumph at Last A RECITAL of Mr. Ruth’s triumphal ride home after the last world series in St. Louis would also have imparted a piquant touch to his tome. By way of celebration. Mr. Ruth had a local caterer load fifty pounds of barbecued spare-ribs in his drawing room. When the train pulled out he peeled to his waist and went about the delightful business of reducing the mountain of meat to ragged, teeth-dented fragments. At one of the station stops, close to midnight, a crowd of worshipers had assembled, and it became necessary for the great man to make a platform speech. Without troubling to make a wardrobe change, Mr. Ruth, still j gnawing enthusiatticallv on a ham hock of prodigious size, appeared before his public. “Well, folks, how about a cheer for us Yanks?” he roared. The cheer was forthcoming. “Now. how about a cheer for old A1 Smith-

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processes. At that time its hazards were realized and it was recommended that other substances be substituted for it whenever possible. Since that time there has been a steady decrease in the amount of benzol used in some industries, but on the whole, the production of this substance has risen from more than 68,000,000 to 115,000,000 gallons a year and the consumption in the United States has risen from 60,000,000 gallons a year to almost 100,000,000 gallons. Benzine has caused poisoning in the millinery trade, where it is used as a constituent of rubber cements; in the japanning trade, where it is mixed with enamels, and to a tremendous extent in the rubber industry. Some people are much more sensitive to benzine than are others. They respond to Inhalation of the

good old Al?” Another cheer. The ready response of his audience softened the fighting spirit of the great man. ‘•Well. I suppose I’ll have to let you cheer the Cards, but they’re a lousy team.” tt o a Can't Wait BEFORE he turned his majestic back on the unkempt profession of pugilism, Mr. James Joseph Tunney threatened to write what he predicted would be the most remarkable book on the prize fight industry that ever leaped off a printer’s press. It may be that Mr. Tunney, secluded in a Switzerland resort, even now is engaged in composing his classic denunciation of the sport which made him a millionaire and wafted him into the social register. Mr. Tunney always lamented the evil star that lugged him to eminence over the prostrate ‘arms of

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NORWAY’S INDEPENDENCE Aug. 13 - AGROWING desire for absolute national autonomy was climaxed on Aug. 13, 1905, when Norway declared for a dissolution of its union with Sweden by the overwhelming total of 368,200 against 184 votes'in a referendum. On Aug. 31 of that year, a conference of Swedish and Norwegian delegates met at Karlstadt to arrange a settlement of questions arising from the separation, and on Sept. 23, the final protocol was signed. • • ■ It included an agreement for the submission of all differences not affecting the integrity, independence or vital interests of the two countries to The Hague tribunal of Arbitration, the agreement to run for ten years, A neutral zone, extending fifteen kilometers on either side of the frontier between the two countries, fas established, within which the carrying on of war operations, the stationing of troops or the maintenance of fortifications were prohibited. The Karlstadt agreement was approved by the Norwegian Diet on Oct. 9 and by the Swedish Riksdag on Oct. 13. On Oct. 16 the Riksdag passed bills repealing the act of union with Norway and recognizing the latter as an independent state. What is the value of a United States 5-cent piece dated 1912? Collectors value them at 5 to 7 cents. How fast does human hair grpw? About two inches per month. It is said to grow faster in the summer than in the winter, and during the daytime than at night time.

substance with serious symptoms, with destruction of the blood cells, with eruption and with hemorrhages under the skin. Dr. Carey McCord suggests the possibility that benzine may be associated witn some other chemical in rubber manufacturing and that the combination may be exceedingly toxic, since there are more records of poisoning by benzol in that industry than in any other. Recently an infectious disease known as agranulocytosis has been confused on several occasions with benzine poisoning. In both conditions there may be inflammations of the gums, bleeding under the skin, a decrease in the white blood cells, jaundice and a lessened number of the red blood cells. Os course, one has to show that the sick person actually has been exposed to benzine before benzine poisoning can oe diagnosed.

BY JOE WILLIAMS

inept brew masters, piano movers and truck drivers. Once he said, ‘‘l’d rather be known as the man wlto wrote the ‘Bridge of San Luis Rey’ than as the man who beat Jack Dempsey.” tt St tt Favorite Book TT is shocking, but true, that the X same Dempsey t of whom Mr. Tunney spoke never contributed anything outstanding to the art of writing. From time to time, articles appear in the daily bugles bearing his name, but the gentleman is not the actual author. This was disclosed during a recent legal proceeding, when Mr. Dempsey admitted from the witness stand that he had never written a line in his life. As further evidence of Mr. Dempsey’s loose and casual respect for the masters, it is appropriate to quote his answer to an interviewer who wished to know the name of his favorite book. “Here, take a look at it. I carry’ it with me all the time.” With these words he drew from his pocket a bank book and displayed it proudly. ICopyright. 1929. for The Times)

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Joe Williams, sports editor of the New York Telegram, is “batting for Heywood Broun” while the latter is enjoying a vacation.

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REASON By Frederick Landis

After All, Victor Berger Had a Good Time; His Life Was One of Turbulence, Struggle, Defeat and Victory. READING of the Graf Zeppelin’S departure on her world flight carries us back to the time that Nellie Bly, New York newspaper woman, circled the globe by train and ship in the breath-taking time of something like seventy days. Whole towns went down to the station when Nellie’s train stopped, to see the ruthless annihilator of distance, as she promenaded up and down the platform in short skirted suit, fried egg derby and with small valise swung from her shoulder. ss St It makes us chesty, of course, to hear Admiral Moffet, naval air chief, say that we are to construct dirigibles which will be much greater than the Graf Zep, but the longer they are the weaker they are. They are likely to buckle in the middle; remember the Shenandoah. tt u tt A company in Kansas City has been formed to rent airplanes to gentlemen who can not afford to own them, thus filling a crying need of the republic. a tt a WE may not have our names in Who’s Who, Bradstreet, or the Social Register, but there's a good time coming. They are going to take the census and we are all equal there. tt tt a How one's heart bleeds for this poor, little innocent Dr. Snook, hovering around the 50’s as he reveals to the jury how he was led astray uv this designing girl in her 20’s. And you will notice, that true to the form of the cheap villain, l;e lugs in his wife and aged mother when his iniquities find him out. a a tt They may form plots to break ou: of penitentiaries, asylums and matrimony, but you may rest assured that our representatives and senators at Washington will not enter into any conspiracy to break out of the capitol building. They are loyal. a a tt After all, Victor Berger had a good time. His life was one of turbulence struggle, suspicion, arrest, defeat and victory. Had he been condemned to whittle in front of a rural store, he would have died long ago. >t a a 'T'HESE Chinese factions now pre--I- paring to go to the mat with each other in the United States should go back home and pour their wrath into the common pool against the raring Russians. tt a A hen in France lays an eg* weighing half a pound, but what does it get her? She can not go into vaudeville, write any syndicated articles, or sign -any paint testimonials. tt a tt It’s none of our funeral, but we rejoice to see Bishop Cannon beaten in the Virginia primary. tt tt tt Whenever any religious organization, no matter what it be, starts to take over American politics, we hope that it will get it where Nellie wore the beads.

Daily Thought

No man also having drunk old wine straightway desiretb new; for he saith, the old Is better.—St, Luke 5:39. ts st tt OLD wood best to bum, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.—Bacon. In descending a stairway should a woman precede her male escort? The woman follows the man. What is the value of a United States gold half-dollar, dated 1856? There never has been such a coin Do horses always sleep standing up? They can sleep either standing up or lying down. Their habits Vary in this respect.