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How About This $750,000? Os course, you can’t run a state garage like you can a private business, says Omer S. Manlove, head of the state highway department’s motor transport division, with an airy wave of the hand. There s politics and those things to be considered. And so, with another airy wave of the hand or two, $750,000 or so of the state taxpayers’ money goes down the drain, in "maintenance and repair of the highway department's automotive equipment for one year. All in the sacred name of politics, so more deserving patriots can fatten at the public trough. Disclosures indicating scandalous waste, inefficiency and mismanagement in the motor transport division, made in The Times in the last two days, demand thorough investigation by Governor Leslie and his aids. A matter of $750,000 "sluffed off" in a year is not a matter than can be dismissed with a little snappy persiflage. It calls for painstaking investigation and it calls for a cure. When upkeep of a Ford car for a year costs more than SI,OOO. it is evident to the most dense observer that something smells in the department. And when l* is shown that the average maintenance and repair cost for the approximately 300 Ford cars in the department for one year was about $325, the smell _ grows even louder. Someone is profiting, and it is not humble John Taxpayer. Whether Omer S. Manlove or someone else directs the motor transport division is of no concern to this newspaper as long as the department so Is conducted that the taxpayers' money will not be tossed away. Whoever directs that department, however, must be made to understand that it can be run like a private business, with the same careful attention to leaks and means of saving that would be employed in his private business He must be made to understand that public funds are not to be poured out with lavish disregard of economy, merely to insure easy, lucrative employment for the political allies and henchmen of the division chief or his superiors. It is up to Leslie and his aids to see that this is done. Whether the figures are carried to the Governor by the highway director, division chief or a "disgruntled employe” is of no consequence. That they will reach him is a certainty. "It was Governor Leslie w T ho, within a few minutes of taking his oath of office last January, declared, in a reference to newspapers which criticised his candidaev: X REALIZE AND APPRECIATE THE GREAT INFLUENCE AND THE INDISPENSABLE NECESSITY TO SOCIETY OF THESE AGENCIES AND I HERE AND NOW AS YOUR GOVERNOR SOLICIT THEIR SUPPORT. EVEN THROUGH CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, IN OUR EFFORTS TO RE-ESTABLISH THE FAIR NAME OF INDIANA: IN OUR ATTEMPT TO RAISE TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE LEVEL THE STANDARD OF GOVERNMENTAL EFFICIENCY IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF STATE The motor transport division of the highway department is such a department. The Governor must not forget his promise. Opportunity Still With Us This is the age of big corporations, merged business and gigantic industrial enterprises. Some quite intelligent folks have told us that the individual no longer amounts to much; that, he simply is a cog in the huge machine of modern industry. They hark back to the good old days when they say there was more individualism and when eaoh man was his own boss. They tell us that greater opportunities existed then for young men to achieve success through individual efforts. But are they correct? Don't, they fail to realize that men and women—individuals—are back of our modern giants of industryo These huge enterprises did not just happen to come into existence or grow to their present size. Many of them are the fulfillment of the dreams of individuals—the culmination of their individualism. For after all big organizations are individuals—not machines. Big business enterprises can not coast along in machine-like fashion. Business competition today is too keen for that. Individual directing efforts are necessary for progress and s he very size of modern business organizations calls for the most skillful individual effort in this respect. The modern automobile is an efficient machine, but It doesn't keep on running forever. Individual attention is necessary to keep it operating efficiently, and the same is true of big business. Many a successful executive of a large enterprise will tell you that the biggest problem of his corporation is man power. What does he mean? Simply this —that the number of men capable of displaying that individualism necessary to fill prominent executive positions is always less than the demand Business constantly is on the lookout for promising young men. It is willing to give them every opportunity to display that ability and if the young man shows over a period of years that he has that individualism necessary to executive success, he will be rewarded far more liberally than in the old days. Individualism is not cnly necessary in the more responsible positions of a business, but it pays dividends to the so-called "cogs" In the machine. Cons'der the large number of prominent business men today who have worked up from the humblest jobs to positions ol great responsibility lid financial success. It- was their individualism—their unwillingr.e*s to be just a cog—that made that success possible. American business of today has expanded so that it offers millions of opportunities to young men to demonstrate their individualism. Just remember that gigantic industrial enterprises are the result of individualism and that they are still made up of individuals. Political Prisoners An organization which has interested itself in the fat of political prisoners has found that there are 40,000 of them throughout the world, condemned to prison or some barren island because they are in open opposition to their governments. Any government, no matter how enlightened, will tend tp defend itself by force if threatened by real or fancied edition from within. Witness our own disgraceful “rad hunt” in the days immediately following the World war. But governments moet responsive to pubic opinion. which come nearest to satisfying the desires and needs of their people as a whole will have the least

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trouble, and therefore will find least need of imprisonment of political insurgents. \ It is not surprising, therefore, to find Italy and Russia high on the blacklist of those countries which keep their prisons overflowing with would-be rebels. Italy, where to whisper doubt of the perfection of Mussolini and the state of things under him is to get a free one-way ticket to a cell or a distant island, and Russia, where vigorous opposition parties are not permitted. Nor is it surprising to find Great Britain, whose government under a monarchical form really is more democratic than our own, beading the list of states which find little need of repression. The United States is second, followed by France, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia and others. Nor is it surprising to find China, Japan and Turkey on the blacklist, though those who have paid little attention to affairs in Cuba might be surprised to find her there. A Notable Record Every American who ever contributed funds to Near East Relief can take pride in the figures prerented by that organization as it surrenders its charter and withdraws from active existence. In the last ten years Near East Relief saved 1.500,000 lives, gave relief and education to 132,000 orphaned children, furnished medical assistance to 6.000,000 persons and fed 12,500,000 in times of famine. That is a record probably unique in world history. The men and women in charge of the work, as well as the countless thousands of people who contributed the funds that made it possible, can take extreme pride in it. Admiral Magruder has his old job in the navy back after being laid off for two years because he criticised a few things in the department. Wish we could get a nice vacation that easily. While Mr. Mellon was fixing up our money why didn't he think of issuing anew $1.98 bill? It would have been so handy during the summer bargain sales. Dr. Eckener apparently doesn't like the streets of New York. He radiogrammed Mayor Walker he was looking forward to again seeing the city from the air. We will not believe the country is getting back to normalcy until the stories of trans-Atlantic flights begin to be carried on Page 2. Some day some great hero is going to set up an endurance record for minding one’s own business and that will be news. A city in Kansas does not levy or collect taxes. Seme towns ought to pay the people a little something to live in them. There is some agitation on to take the “love” out of tennis. Well, if we lose our lore for tennis vie can play golf. Chicago laundryman pinched for hitting % man with a. sizzling iron. At least he struck while the iron was hot. Do you suppose all this trouble in the Orient is due to the fact that the Chinese are seeing Red? 'Twon't be long non till a number of opera stars will be starting on another farewell tour. We are all born free and equal, according to the Constitution, and some of us remain equal, Sometimes both the engine and the driver of an automobile seem to be missing. Henry Ford gave a roungsler anew watch—and it wasn’t a tin one. either.

-David Dietz on Science

Cells Divide in Growth

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'■JT'HE amazing complexity of nature is well illusI- trated by the processes which go on when growth takes place in a plant. As already mentioned, growth takes place both by the enlargement of cells and by the division or splitting up of cells. A plat starts as a fertilized egg-cell. This cell grows to a certain size and then splits into two. These

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begins to realize the marvelous activity which goes on within the cell. The process of mitosis goes on in both animals and plants. In the case of unicellular or single-celled plants and animals, as the amoeba for example, mitosis is the process of reproduction. An amoeba splits into two and there are two amoebas in the world where previously there was only one. As already stated, mitosis is the case of multicellular plants and animals is part of the process of growth. In the case of the amoeba, the two cells separate after division. In the case of multi-cellular organisms, the two cells cling together, the organism continuously growing in size by this method. While much is understood about mitosis, there is much which still awaits discovery. The same thing is true of growth in general. Why is it that cells grow to a certain size and then stop growing? Why is it that mitosis goes on for a certain period and then stops? No one knows the answers to these questions. It is fortunate of course that things are this way. Otherwise. a head of cabbage might grow to be six feet tall, or a dog might attain the size of an elephant. What is more important, if it were not for these limitations on growth, organisms would lack symmetry. There is a belief that certain chemical substances act as triggers to start mitosis and that during the process, certain other chemical substances are developed which eventually act as brakes and stop the process. The world would like to know more about these things for many reasons. For one thing, many scientists believe that the answer to the eaneer problem is bound up with them.

M. E. Tracy

The Julian Calendar, Under Which We Live . Represents a Useless Waste of Time Because of Its Absurdities. AKRON, 0., Aug. 16.—Dr. Eckener evidently has the idea that it sometimes is easier to go over than around. At all events he is steering the Graf Zeppelin up the roof of the world. If he holds his present course he will pass within 1,500 miles of the pole. What will the natives of northern Siberia think when he comes roaring over their heads? Probably they won’t be so scared as we imagine. Probably rumor has acquainted them with the strange doings of civilization. It is not so easy to remain a savage as it used to be. a a a Modern Communication COMMUNICATION has kept pace with transportation. The Graf Zeppelin’s flight is no more remarkable than is the fact that it can be followed so closely. Reports of its progress are being published, or broadcast throughout the civilized world within the space of moments. Not only that, but they are being read, or listened to with a surprising degree of intelligence. a a a Mighty Commonplace NO matter how big a show science stages, people must still eat three times a day and attend tS a hundred and one other details of routine life. Commonplace problems still are the big ones for most of us —how to keep a roof over our heads, how to get enough food and pay for it, how to give children a reasonably good start and how to avoid disease or premature death. a a a Human Existence READERS, especially of the highbrow order, frequently “wonder” why crime, misfortune, accident and other individual woes play such an important part in the news. They play such an important part because they are right down where most people live, reveal circumstances that most people know, bespeak emotions that most people feel. Though It is wrong to steal, most people experience the temptation to do so at one time or another. When a thief is caught and convicted. they realize that they have been wise in exercising self-control. Human existence is still very human. Mechanical power has magnified, but has not altered its aspects. a a a Duping the Scholars THE most learned and dignified scholars can not only disagree, but get mad. and not only get mad, but be duped. Five years ago. a French peasant dug up some pottery, clay tables and other implements on his farm. A group of archaeologists hailed the discovery as throwing great light on primitive man, especially •with regard to the origin of our alphabet. Other archaeologists said it was a pure fake. There were arguments, accusations, and law suits for defamation of character. To clear up one case, a French judge decided to have the relics examined by the laboratory of legal identification. The examination disclosed that one clay tablet not only contained germs, but melted when exposed to a trickle of water which proved that it never could have been baked, and. therefore could not have survived ten thousand years. Thus the great Glozel find, which has shaken the scientific world for five years, comes to a sad and humiliating end. at a a Calendar Reform FOR years a comparatively small group of business men and scientists have tried to get the calendar reformed, but with little success, After carefully studying the matter, they have recommended that the year be divided into thirteen months, each month containing four weeks, and that one day be left blank in ordinary years, and two in leap years. They now are urging Secretary of State Stlmson to lay this proposition before other governments with the idea of securing its universal adoption. The calendar, you understand. Is a law-made institution, and can not be changed until the law makers say so. •a a a Nightmare on Dates THE Julian calendar, under which we live, and which prevails in most Christian countries, represents a useless waste of time because of its nonsensical Irregularities and unscientific absurdities. Do you recall how long it took you to learn the names of the months, or how many days each month contained. and do you realize that every child in the civilized world must go through the same performance? ’ And partial payments—what a nightmare. Without an almanac who can keep track of the moon, or the tides, or the day of the week on which any event took place six months ago, or will occur six months hence?

two grow for a certain length of time, then each of the two split into four. This process goes on and on until a full-grown plant consists of billions of cells. The process which goes on each time a cell divides into two cells is known technically as mitosis. When one sees the steps in this process, he

What is the weight of a cubic foot of gold? Cast hammered gold weighs 1.205 pounds per cubic foot. If a British subject marries an American citizen, does she become an American citizen by reason of such marriage? Mot since the passage of the Cable act of Sept. 22, 1922, which provides

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Nerves Influence Stomach Activity

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tbi American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. NOBODY' knows why a baby gets hungry. Probably the reason lies in the necessity for food to continue the life of the individual. Hunger is one of the most important experiences that can happen to anybody and its satisfaction is one of the greatest pleasures. Indeed, the philosophers constantly argue as to what constitutes the greatest pleasure in life, and a considerable number defend hunger satisfaction as the dominant sensation. In a consideration of the topic in Kygeia. Professor A. J. Carlson of the University of Chicago emphasizes some of the particularly interesting facts about hunger in relation to life. One of the most striking of these has to do with the intermittent character of hunger. People get hungry at certain periods during which they have been accustomed to satisfy themselves wdth food. If the hunger sensation is not satisfied, the person feels pain and he may have headache and nausea and even faint.

IT SEEMS TO ME

ABOUT the only subject with which I am not as familiar as I might be is fashion. This deficiency has caused me much grief and embarrassment. I forever am wearing the wrong thing to the right place, or vice versa as the shoe may fit. I remember several years ago Mr Dudley Field Malone, the noted barrister, in a moment of mental aberration invited me to a golf dinner in Miami. I came in plaid knickers, a green sweater and an English blazer. I also brought my own caddy and anew set of sticks loaned to me for the occasion by none other than Mr. Gene Sarazen, the distinguished cigaret indorser. It developed the golf dinner was in celebration of the completion of a magnificent golf course in the city and all the best people were there. Mr. Malone graciousiy came to mv assistance by explaining to his guests that I was an eccentric breeder of barnyard fowls and the inventor of the goose neck putter.

HULL SURRENDERS Aug. 16

ON Aug. 16, 1812. American General William Hull, defending Detroit, surrendered to British General Isaac Brock without a gun having been fired. Brock’s forces, acccording to his own testimony, numbered 1.330 men, including 600 Indians, and he also had two ships of war. Hull had for duty 1,000 men. When Brock's army approached, Hull offered to surrender. The articles of capitulation were drawn up and the American general surrendered not only the fort and its garrison. but the whole territory of Mchigan. of which he was Governor. Hull’s officers were incensed at his action and he was subsequently court-martialed, convicted of cowardice and condemned to death; but the President pardoned him in consideration of his age and previous service. Subsequent Investigations have modified greatly the blame attached to Hull.

that on and after that date married women shall no longer take the citzenship of the husband. How many silver dollars were •oined in 1902? 18.160.777. Who won the Kentucky Derby in 1*18? Exterminator.

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Nervousness and irritability also commonly are associated with unsatisfied hunger and many a business man constitutes a bad prospect just before luncheon and an exceedingly easy sale just after; hence the growth of the luncheon conference in American industry. In their study of hunger, the scientists have put a rubber balloon into the stomach and after inflating it have measured the contraction of the stomach during the hunger phase. Furthermore, the stomach has been looked at through an epering in the side and X-ray pictures of the stomach have been taken while it is working. When a person becomes hungry, the muscles of his stomach contract and these contractions or hunger pains last about thirty seconds each. If the hunger is satisfied, the contractions disappear; if not. they occur at more and more frequent intervals. until they are practically continuous one with another. At this time, the person is likely to say, “I am so hungry it hurts.” It is an interesting fact also that emotions, such as anger, fear and

JOB ' WILLIAMS

So after reciting with much fervor and feeling Mr. Chic Sales’ masterpiece on specialized carpentry as interpreted by Lem Putt and as a reluctant encore giving a finished imitation of four Peruvians, I was allowed to sit with the second chef. a a a Another Thing ON still another occasion my presence was ardently solicited —and who can resist the urge?—at a boxing dinner given by Mr. Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. of the Philadelphia Biddles at the swanky St. Regis. This, as the saying goes, was right down my alley. But again it developed I had been too literal and too much of a materialist, for my appearance in the ballroom in fighting trunks, blue with red stripes, and disclosing to all and sundry a muscular development of superb symmetry, threw the assemblage into a panic. It was not at all like the terrible panic of the 90s, but as off-hand, extemperaneous, as informal panics go, I am told by friend and foe alike that it was nothing to be sniffed at. I will say this for Mr Biddle, however, he was very lovely about the whole thing. Indeed, it was at his suggestion that I was shown the door.

Let's Be Serious TO be sure, a million or so of my admirers have assured me that I have ruined Uncle Heywood for them for life and that my ability to analyze the vital problems of the day has been nothing short of idiotic. But here and there you will always find some mug who, either through mental density or rank prejudice, refuses to rdpognize a j budding genius in the rough. a a a v Short and Long WELL. I don't know of anything more serious than the current j threat of the style dictators to lengthen the gals’ skirts this year. Os course, I have made it plain—ll hope—that I am not what you might call an authority on fashion, and having never been engaged to Peggy Joyce, I suppose I may claim with equal emphasis and regrets that I am no authority on women. Just the same, I see no reason j why the ladies should lower their hemlines, and at that. I’m not so sure that it shouldn’t be spelled himlines. I think it was Mr. Fingy O’Connor I of Buffalo, gifted manipulator of the | vote, who commented on the ex- \ cesssive display of diamonds that' “those what have ’em, wears ’em." It seems to me that this same practical spirit should enter into the decision of the ladies as to whether j they will wear ’em long or short. What puzzles me most in connec- j tion with the impending return of j the drop curtain skirt is that the ladies are rushing to adopt the mode.

joy, stop the hunger contractions. But intellectual states, such as reading and reasoning, do not seem to interfere with the hunger pains particularly. Hence it is impossible for children in school to give attention to their lessons when they are exceedingly hungry. On the other hand, excitement or anger during the hunger period interferes with the proper action of the digestive organs and is to be avoided. The experts in physiology have also found a definite relationship between the amount of sugar in the blood and the intensity of the hunger contractions. When the blood sugar is markedly decreased, hunger is increased; when there is much sugar in the blood, the hunger is decreased. For this reason, it is easy to satisfy hunger with candy or sugar, as this type of food enters the blood quickly. One of the most certain and quickest ways to kill an appetite is to eat candy just before a meal. On the other hand, a piece of candy after a meal satisfies the hunger sensation.

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

Knee Conscious ADMITTEDLY, some of them should I think every one will agree that a beautiful knee is a beautiful knee, but a grape fruit is just a breakfast dish. The ladies have made the world knee-conscious and ankle-minded. Serious consequences may eventuate if this pleasant routine is too abruptly discarded. Possibly the males should sponsor an organization protest. Let their slogan be “More and Better Knees.” If not that, then, “The Longer the Skirt the Shorter the Stare.” This may produce the desired result. As far as I know no one has yet been able to compose a convincing paper on whether females dress to appease the innate vanity or to crane the neck and pop the eye of the be-trousered boulevardier. Does she place a higher valuation on the envious gasp of her sister than the covetous sigh of the susceptible boy friend? Knowing nothing whatever about machinery I wouldn’t care to hazard an answer. It may be true after all that they dress merely to please themselves. Surelv there must be some reason for all these mirrors in the subway stations. (Copyright, 1929, for The Times)

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AUG. 16, 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis*

The Long Beard Has Fallen; the Razor Has Cut a Worlds of Ice for Human Progress. OLD Settlers’ picnics are not what they used to be. Once they brought out crowds which fairly reeked of antiquity, but not any more. We dress better than our ancestors, of course, but the greatest change is in the fall of the beard. The razor has cut a world of ica for human progress, aa a / In the old days men kissed their* faces good-by at 30, raising whis-® kers everywhere, except directly ini front of the eyes, and through those a two portholes they looked for their prey. They were hanging baskets all the rest of their lives. It was a great day for man when he cleared his countenance and came out into the open. a a a We are glad that Sergeant York defeated the people who tried to take from him the control of the mountain' school he established down in Tennessee. York, you know, captured several hundred Germans and was called our greatest World war hero, after which he declined a fat \audevi!le offer when he was broke, which was more heroic than capturing the whole German army. a a a WHEN veu consider that she has turned out the Brem°n, swiftest Atlantic liner in history, the Graf Zeppelin, now throwing a belt around the world, and this three-decked airplane, capable of carrying 100 peop’e oerseas. Germany would appear to be doing about as well as could be expected for a nation so recently cleaned in battle. aaa Asa result of the new law conferring equal rights upon women, Chinamen will be permitted to recover alimony from wives who shake j them. It's not oniy the money, but think of the pride a fe’low would take in the thing a a a We refuse to recognize the Russians because we say they try to convert our folks to their form of government, yet we wi’l not even protest to Mussolini after he bad 140 American children of Italian ancestry sent to Italy where they were initiated into the Fascisti and told to come back here and spread that, political gospel. Mussolini should be called and called hard! nan SETH B. NICHOLSON of ML Wilson observatory' discovers a, sun spot 33,000 miles long and 20 000 miles wide and declares that, it affects us more or lpss. If Snook’s lawyers had only heard of this before the trial started, what a peachy defense it would have been! a a a Millions of voters who refuse to go to the polls will be unable to grasp the viewpoint of this Virginia Negro who has sued three gentlemen for SIO,OOO, claiming they denied him the right to cast his ballot. a a a Th fourth wife of John Capper, rich Chicago merchant, has sued for divorce. These four ladies should organize a quartet and go into vaudeville a a a After F. R. Edwards of Oklahoma had suffered hiccoughs for two weeks, a resourceful doctor cured him by pulling his tongue, after which he pulled his lee a a a Colonel Henry R. Posers has given his second wife $3,000,000. but as he is worth $40,000,000 he is still good for thirteen more encores

Daily Thought

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us.—lsaiah 59:12, s an BE more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. —Hosea Ballou.