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No Whitewashing Goes A diagnosis, not an autopsy—a thorough investigation, with remedial action, not a whitewash —that is what the taxpayers of Indiana demand, to clear up the present situation in the motor transport division of the state highway department. A start supposedly has been made in this direction, with the commission asking Director John J. Brown to inquire into the charges of waste, inefficiency, and mismanagement in the division, and w T ith Governor Leslie's pledge that he will investigate the matter. But a start is not enough. Too many inquiries have been started and allowed to lapse into nothingness. Too much whitewash has been spread in the past in all state departments. Already there is indication, say careful observers, that something of the sort is afoot. But it will take a whitewashing of mammoth proportions to cover a repair and maintenance bill of $750,000 over/ a year's time in the motor transport division. Taxpayers ofttimes seem only mildly concerned with the waste of their dollars, but they do resent whitewash. The click of adding machines and not the scrape of a stick in the whitewash barrel is the sound they would like to hear from the motor transport division. The commission has shown no disposition to unseat Omer S. Manlove, motor transport division chief, although Manlove’s position certainly made him responsible for the economical operation of his department. But the commission may suffer embarrassment admitting waste and extravagance under Manlove’s management and continuing him in his post. Nothing would be so convincing as a display of this year’s maintenance and repair costs, so far as they have been determined. If the commission's inquiry does not produce this, perhaps the Governor’s will. And if both fail, the public may wait until the next annual report is compiled, when the facts must come out. It should come more promptly this time. There will be no bothersome legislature in session, no skeptical solons to dodge, as last winter, when the 4-cent gas tax could not be brought to a decisive vote until highway expenditures were given a casual inspection. Had the 1927-1928 motor transport report leaked into the legislative committee’s hands it is quite probable the 1-cent gas boost never would have been enacted. Certain it is. the legislature never got the report, so the motorist “took the rap.” Speculation Unabated The recent action of the federal reserve board in increasing the rediscount rate in New York from 5 to 6 per cent has failed to check speculation and failed to reduce the amount of credit utilized in broakers’ loans. The supposedly drastic weapon which the board reluctantly employed has proved ineffective. The market collapsed at the time. It quickly revived. and now speculation apparently is going on as merrily as ever. The board just has announced that brokers’ loans total $6,085,000,000, a record for all time. This is nearly $200,000,000 more than at the time the board increased the rediscount rate. The board in a review of business and banking conditions at the same time verealed that in recent months there has been a significant change in the source of stock market credit. “Loans for account of others”—funds from private corporations and individuals attracted by high interest rates on call money —have been the chief factor in the mounting total of credit. Recently, however, the board has found that the increased demand for stock market credit has fallen upon the banks directly, and that loans were coming from all sections of the country. The importance of this lies in the fact that one of the board’s chief reliances has been pressure on the banks to restrict this type of operation. Also, the board found that bank investments had fallen $700,000,000 below the peak of thirteen months ago. The situation is causing real concern in official and some financial quarters. The speculative orgy h/is gone far beyond the limits of safety, and the huge amount of credit used in speculation is detrimental to legitimate business and industry, it is felt. The question arises as to what the board can do about it further. For more than six months the board has employed one weapon and another with only transient success. There is little agreement among bankers, economists, and officials’ on w’hat course should be followed, or even on the wisdom of the measures already undertaken. It is unfortunate that the bankers themselves have not taken things in hand. If the present trend continues, it is inevitable that congress will intervene with corrective legislation. We shall then hear much complaint of government interference with business, but many will believe that business has only itself to blame. A Serious Charge Who is behind the propaganda periodically spread over the United States to inspire hatred of foreign countries, or defeat a Kellogg peace pact, or break a disarmament conference, or pass an inflated cruiser building program? William B. Shearer has earned the reputation of being one of the most active and extreme “big navy” propagandists. Now Mr. Shearer has brought suit against several large armament and shipbulding firms for “services rendered.” In articles, interviews, and a book, and as a lobbyist. he has spread hatred of Great Britain and Japan and tried to blacken American peace advocates. He was credited with an important navy department leak in 1924. He has claimed to have access to confidential official documents regarding alleged anti-American piots by other naval powers. He tried to prevent scrapping of battleships as required by the Washington arms treaty. He stirred up trouble at the abortive Geneva arms conference. He aided the congressional lobby in 1928 for the seventyfour new naval ships and the later fifteen cruiser bill. From December. 1926. to March. 1929, he was representing the shipbuilding companies which have paid him only $51,230 of a total of $308,885. due. according to his suit against them. Though the harm Mr. Shearer has done to interna-

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tional relations is very great, he has a right to express his opinions. With the personal views and fortunes of thus gentleman the public is little concerned. But the public is very much concerned with the fact—if it is a fact—that great steel and shipbuilding corporations are employing undercover lobbyists and propagandists for war-mongering. The Shearer case should help to establish the truth or falsity of that serious charge. Jobs for the Indians Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur seems to be an official with a good deal of common sense. When he took office, he found one of his .major problems presented by the half million Indian wards of the government. Most of them, living on reservations, suffer greatly from sickness. Infant death rates are far higher among them than among whites; the tuberculosis rate is appalling, and doctors seemed unable to find a solution. Secretary Wilbur, investigating, found that the Indian's great need was simply a job. Most reservation Indians are idle. Being idle, they never have enough money; hence they go hungry from birth to death, and because of‘their chronic under-nourish-ment, are easily susceptible to disease. So now Mr. Wilbur is going to remedy matters by providing jobs for them. They ai*e good workers, and the southwest needs labor so badly it has imported 500,000 Mexican workers in the last decade. Mr. Wilbur believes that by hitching the idle Indians to these jobs he will go far toward solving the “Indian question.” It is marvelous what common sense can do to a supposedly knotty problem. The Value of the Graf’s Flight During the last year it has been the practice to examine carefully every outstanding performance in aviation—such as a trans-oceanic flight—and ask, “Now what on earth is the practical value of that stunt?” And, more often than not, the question has been hard to answer. The flight of the Graf Zeppelin, however, is different. Dispatches from the Goodyear Zeppelin factory at Akron, 0., indicate that the dirigible makers there are all ready to build giant passenger dirigibles for ocean service. Regular routes are planned, to reach from California to Hawaii and from the Atlantic coast to Europe. All that remains unsettled is the financing. But the financiers were cautious. They weren’t quite sure about the big dirigibles. So they waited to watch the Graf Zeppelin fly around the world. The Akron men believe that this flight will remove the last obstacle, and will make regular commercial ocean flying service a reality. The biblical quotation about all being vanity suggests that even in those days there must have been people who refused fried chicken, corn on the cob and home-made ice cream so they wouldn’t get fat.

A Marvel in Glass

BY DAVID DIETZ Scrippg-Howard Science Editor THE largest block of optical glass ever cast in the United States has just been produced in the United States bureau of standards in Washington. The block is in the form of a disk, seventy inches in diameter and eleven inches thick. It weighs two tons. It is to be used to form the great mirror for the seventy-inch reflecting telescope at Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, O. The great disk has been cast by anew method developed at the United States bureau of standards, according to Dr. A. N. Finn, director of the bureau. The method opens up anew field for American manufacturers, Dr. Finn declares. Optical instruments require glass of exceptional grade. The larger the instrument the more perfect the glass must be. A slight defect which would be if no importance in a small instrument, is sufficient to render a large instrument worthless for scientific purposes. When America entered the World war, it was brought face to face with the fact that it was dependent for optical glass upon Europe, chiefly Germany. The bureau and other scientific agencies immediately tackled the problem of establishing American independence in that field. The great disk just cast at the bureau represents the climax of researches which have gone on from the days of the World war until the present. a a a DR. FINN points out that there is not much optical glass manufactured. 'He says that there are only ten plants in the whole world turning it out. It is, however, a very fundamental industry, since there is not a great industry in existence which somewhere in its processes does not require the use of scientific measuring instruments which contain optical glass. Scientific and industrial research in particular are dependent upon exact measuring instruments. The new process developed at the bureau of standards, therefore, is of great importance to' American industry. Dr. Finn discusses the process in “Industrial and Engineering Chemistry," official organ of the American Chemical Society. “The most serious difficulties met in producing large pieces of glass include properly melting the amount of glass required, transferring it to a mold to. produce the desired shape while maintaining the necessary quality, and finally, cooling it at rates such that it does not crack and is free from disturbing internal stresses,” he says. Several processes were tried before success was attained. In each of the earlier attempts, the glass cracked while being cooled. ana A COMBINED mold and annealing furnace was constructed and placed in a hole dug in the ground at the foot of the melting furnace. Temperatures of both the melting furnace and the annealing furnace were controlled electrically. The melting furnace was heated slowly, the temperature being increased each day until on the thirtieth day. a temperature of 1425 degrees was reached. The glass was then introduced into the furnace at the rate of 170 pounds an hour. When more than two tons of molten glass were in the melting furnace, a plug was removed, permitting the glass to flow into the mold. The temperature was allowed to fall in the mold until it dropped to 600 degrees. It was then cooled very slowly for sixty days at the end of which time a temperature of 461 degrees was reached. It was kept at this temperature for annealing purposes for forty-one days. The purpose of annealing is to reduce the brittleness and increase the toughness of the glass. Following the annealing, the temperature was reduced gradually each day. until four and a half months had elapsed. By that time, the glass was completely cooled off. The long, slow cooling process is necessary to prevent cracks and the development of internal strains and defects.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Right Now Prosperity Is the Great Obsession—We Think We Have Discovered an Aladdin’s Lamp. A MOTHER of eight and her paramour are hanged in Canada. Having become infatuated witn each other, they could see no way out, except to kill the former's husband. It is the Snyder-Gray case over again, a sordid, threadbare episode such as has occurred innumerable times. Love, especially of the sex sort, laughs not only at locksmiths, but at anything else wnich stands in the way, common sense included. All this woman or Mrs. Snyder or Mrs. Le Bouf, or scores of others needed to do was run away, and get divorced. Freedom of action means little to people who have become crazy with desire, and so does hanging. a b a Madness of Desire NEITHER is desire based on sex attraction the only kind that drives people crazy. Greed, ambition, and even religion itself can develop the same kind of unreasoning madness. Anthony bartered the world for Cleopatra, while Octavius would have none of her, yet each equally was obsessed with the idea of getting what he wanted. b b a The Mystery of Death * PROFESSOR E. NEWTON HARVEY of Princeton, N. J., causes a dead turtle’s heart to beat with super-sound waves, while the Russian scientist, Kouliabko, has caused a human heart to continue beating thirty hours after death. But let us not hope too much, for both the turtle and human being remained dead. There is a fundamental difference between life and its phenomena. When we are able to make certain organs of dead men function as Professor Hernandez thinks possible, we shall still have a long bridge to cross. m b n Human Destiny STILL, the experimenting must go on, /.nd if human destiny implies anything, it is increased knowledge. Omar Khayyam’s idea that we might as well knock off and play because we can not unravel the “master knot of human fate,” is not only futile, but unworkable. Man is so constituted that he must go on, for even though his efforts to solve the mystery of creation may be hopeless, he Improves his own lot by trying to do it. BUB The Fight on Pain FROM the dawn of consciousness men have struggled for nothing so desperately as to escape pain, suffering and death. Though they have made no headway against death, they have done a lot to overcome pain and suffering. Say what you will, there is no such discomfort today, as there was in the world a thousand years ago. One scourge after another, has been eliminated—smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, consumption. Just now the cry is for a cancer cure, because it has increased as some of the other dread diseases have diminished. B B B Elusive Cancer Cure REWARDS and prizes aggregating some three million dollars await the genius who discovers a cancer cure. It is only sensible to realize that this will stimulate quacks, as well as scientists, and that if we do not look out. a gigantic fake will be perpetrated. Dread of disease, together with the marvels of recent progress has produced a dangerous spirit of credulity. People are in a mood to believe. B ,B B Ruthlessly Cruel IF humanity has achieved much because of its believing moods, it has also gotten into a lot of trouble. In some cases they have inspired it to be ruthlessly backward, and in others ruthlessly cruel. Witchcraft, the Mississippi bubble and the tulip mania are only a few of the more outstanding examples. Right now prosperity is the great obsession; the idea that we have discovered an Alladin’s lamp, that the secret of accumulating wealth is to put three or four enterprises together, issue stock and let speculators do the rest. “Putting capital in business,” we call it, seldom pausing to think who will pay the freight, or the dividends. Six per cent has come to be regarded as not only unsatisfactory, but unnece^ry. What we Think of now is 12 per cent, or 26, or if times are particularly good, 150.

Daily Thought

And In my prosperity I said. I shall never be moved. —Psalms 30:6. B B B WATCH lest prosperity destroy generosity.—Beecher. To what race do the Bushmen of Australia belong? To the Andaman family, members of the black race. What were the scores of the exhibition lacrosse matches at Amsterdam during the 1928 Olympic games? The results were as follows: First game, U. S. 6, Canada 3; second game, U. S. 6. England 7; third game, Canada 9, England 5. Johns Hopkins, the American team, offered to play off the triple tie, but, while the Canadians were willing. England refused. What is the meaning of the name Yvonne? How is it pronounced? It is French, meaning “eternal youth.” It is pronounced “Eevonn.”

Let’s Hope No One Breaks the Connection

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Nitrogen Dioxide Peril Proved

This Is the seventh of s series of articles by Dr. Morris Flshbein describing the effect of poisonous gases on human beings. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN the Cleveland Clinic disaster, the patients could be divided Into two groups; those who died immediately, and those in whom the symptoms were delayed for several hours. The ones who died immediately, succumbed probably to the effects of carbon monoxide, cyanide gases and nitric fumes. They died, as has been described in previous articles in this series, by the immediate shutting off of the breathing and complete asphyxia. The second group who died were extremely interesting because at first they seemed to be unharmed. Some of them went home and suddnly became ill a few hours later and died before they could be greatly helped.

IT SEEMS TO ME

p EORGE BERNARD SHAW, who is right about many things, although a vegetarian, says that there is no such thing as a “typical American.” Mr. Shaw explains that this country houses such numerous divergent strains that the creation of a common type is impossible. He might, with equal truth, have contended that there Is no average Britisher, Frenchman or German. Man is still in the making, and it would be a pity to see any branch of the species grow standardized. Accordingly, I nave not the slightest sympathy with recent movements in this country aiming at the preservation and preferment of the Nordic strain above all others. Some excellent scientists have declared that there Is no such thing as a Nordic, but, even If there were, it would not be enough for him to say: “Here is the perfected model. Let’s stop right here and cease eugenical experimentation.”

Questions and Answers

What Is the difference in altitude between Mt. Everet and Mt. Me- j Kinley? Mt. Everet is the highest peak in the world. According to the best trigonometrical measurements, its altitude is 29,141 feet. Mt. McKinleyhas an altitude of 20,464 feet. What is a traveler’s check? Various agencies, such as banks, travel agents and transportation companies sell to travelers, checks or drafts in denominations of $lO, S2O and upward, which, when properly indorsed by the holder, can be cashed in all parts of the world. , What is the highest temperature ever attained? The United States Bureau of Standards says that the highest j temperature attained is about 5,600 j degrees centigrade, by carbon under pressure. At this temperature all substances vaporize. What is the modern equivalent of the Hebrew measure, ephah? According to Josephus, the Jew- J ish historian, it was equal to about 1 nine gallons. Other sources give its j equivalent as approximately a bushel Is it proner to speak of a setting hen. meaning one that is hatching iggs? The correct term is sitting hen. If a tree falls in a forest and no j one is within earshot is there any sound? Sound may be defined as a sensation produced by air waves set in motion and striking agairr.t the tympanum of the ear. The waves or vibration may be conducted by any other gas, a liquid; as water, or an elastic solid. Taking this definition of sound, -he falling tree would cause no sound because no sensation could be produced if no tympanum was present for the air waves to strike. In physics however, sound

When their lungs were examined after death they were found to be full of fluid, and the blood was found to be thickened. The substance causing the delayed poisoning of this character was nitrogen dioxide, a dark reddish brown gas. This is perhaps the most dangerous and insidious of all gases. When nitric acid falls on anything organic, nitric oxide is developed and this quickly takes up oxygen from the air, forming nitrogen dioxide or nitrogen tetroxide. Nitric acid will attack a wooden floor, any refuse, or any organic material in its path and develop these red fumes. Various substances contain “nitro” and give off nitrogen dioxide when they are burned. Anything made of celluloid, such as X-ray films, guncotton or dynamite, are examples of this kind of material. “After the burning or incomplete explosion of dynamite in a tunnel, or the spilling of nitric acid on a

D HEY WOOD By BROUN

Improvement AVERY vital American tradition is being violated by such groups as now indulge in the popular pastime of baiting the foreigner within our borders. Most of the immigration restrictions are based partly on the conception that the average American is such a splendid type that there should be no further adventuring in national chemistry. And beyond the borders of Manhattan the reproach is general that the city is a plague spot because it contains so manv foreigners. Somehow patriotism has become confused with a distrust and dislike of all aliens. I wonder what has brought this evil thing about. Once we glorified in the fact that America was a land of opportunity for tW6 oppressed peoples of all lands. We helped and welcomed the peasant who had the courage to untrack himself and gamble on his future in the new world. Even now we speak with reverence of our own pioneers, who pushed out

is described as that form of vibrational energy which occasions the sensation already described. Taking this latter definition, sound would be present in the forest in spite of the fact that there was no ear to hear because the vibrational effects would be produced. The question resolves itself purely into one of definition. Does a United States five dollar gold piece dated 1911 command any premium? No. Does the first day of spring always fall on March 21? It may fall on March 20 or 21, and the tendency is for it to fall slightly later as the years roll by, as our calendar error, which amounts to a few seconds a year, gradually accumulates into minutes. The occurrence of leap years tends to correct the tendency for the late arrival of astronomical spring, but this correction is not sufficient to keep it from gradually slipping forward a little bit. Where a coin does not have actual representation of a head embossed on it, which side is heads and which is tails? Pioperly speaking a coin has two sides, an obverse and a reverse. The date on United States coins is on the obverse side, and is referred to as heads and the reverse as tails. What will remove lime deposit from the inside of a teakettle? A solution of thirty grams of borax in one quart of water containing a few drops of aqua ammonia is said to be effective. Who originated the expression, “After me. the deluge”? It is a famous expression that originated with Mme. Pompadour. It has become a French proverb and is applied to spendthrifts. There is an old Greek proverb to the same effect.

wooden floor, or some similar slight mishap,” say Henderson and Haggard, “a workman inhales some of the fumes for a time, but is little inconvenienced. He goes home and eats his supper feeling perfectly well. During the night edema (pouring out of fluid) of the lungs develops and before noon, or even before morning, he is dead, drowned in the fluid poured out in his lungs.” Because it is thought that the thickening of the blood and its inability to carry oxygen are important, injections of blood or of salt solution are made, and sometimes quantities of blood are taken from the veins to relieve the congestion. Oxygen is given to relieve the shortness of oxygen and the blueness. In such cases the person is given a mixture of oxygen and air and without the carbon dioxide. Particularly important is absolute quiet and rest. Neglect of this requirement results in death by suddent heart failure not infrequently

Ideals and opinions expressed in tb ; s rolnmn are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to tbe.r agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of - this paper.—Tht Editor.

from the Atlantic seaboard to open, up the wilderness of the interior. It is stupid to overlook the undoubted spiritual kinship between the Daniel Boones and the Cahans and Levitskys, who venture here out of the depths of southern Europe. It’s a long way from Odessa. We should be flattered at the compliment which is paid to us by all who put their packs upon their backs and turn their faces to that west which lies across the ocean. It is quite true that many wno come to America bring manners and customs unlike those which prevail among us. What of it? The very radical doctrine of our founders seems to have been that man was a pretty swell fellow, needing no more than an even break to bring forth good fruits. So we of the cities are not the cynics if today we reaffirm that faith and fight the doctrine of America for Americans. an tt Criticism “W THY don’t you go back where W you came from?” is the scream raised against those who stop short of complete conformity. There is no intelligence in this. The visitor who ccmes to us and says “here is the land perfect in each detail” must be devoid of any vital utopianism. Patriotism does not consist of a complete adherence to the America which Is. I find a higher fervor in all those of no matter what derivation, who are committed to the nation which can and will be. Loving a country should be a somewhat more complicated process than eating an oyster on the half shell. And, again, I think it is folly to complain that aliens maintain within our borders the language and traditions of the homeland. This is still a far-flung kingdom, and it should have room for many cultures. Surely it would not be a good thing to take as material for new citizenship clay soft enough to be melded into new forms within a day or week. People of substance and sinew are not to be changed so easily. The melting pot never was intended to be a boiling caldron fit for the execution of short orders. There | is no rusji. Why not let the stranger simmer? a a a Give and Take AFTER all. if there is wisdom in our national tradition of the .benefits of assimilation it should not be a one-sided process. That we can teach the immigrant certain things I would not deny, but he does not come to us intellectually empty-handed. He goes to school to learn about us, and we should have classes where the na-tive-born can 1 learn about him. The really vital thing which Is American does not consist of girders or of statutes. It is a vision of perfectability, and some hunky waiting his turn at Ellis island may look across the water and see towers and turrets climbing into the sky high above the last stone set down by the men who were before him. (Copyright, ID2B. by The Time*)

.AUG. 24, 1929

REASON fly Frederick Landis —

What the Country Needs Noiv Is a Self-Extinguishing Cigaret Testimonial Writer. ONE is astounded by the secrets told by our war and navy de- | partments. For instance, tests made by the Los Angeles prove that dirigibles can become airplane carriers, letting planes enter their great hulks and be released, which vastly increases the war power of aviation. The papers say that the details of the methods used will not be revealed until official reports have been made on the tests. B B B These tests should have been made under conditions which would have rendered their publication impossible and as for revealing the details of the methods used, the official who would do such a thing should be court-martialed. For years we have advertised the secrets of our national defense as eagerly as an Easter milliner advertises hats, and it is almost time to stop it. B B The visit of U. S. Grant to Galena. 111., recalls that his distinguished father was called to preside at the town’s war meeting when Fumter was fired upon and manifested great embarrassment when he had to speak. Later he was to become a good after-dinner speaker, as well as a great soldier. a a a GRANT should have been buried at Galena, the town that gave him to history, not in New York, where he went to live after his work was done . With all her millions New York has not been able to complete his tomb, though she has had forty years in which to do it. B B B Mrs. Allen Winser of Chicago, who died the other day at the age of more than 100 years, had a short and sweet pnilosophy, “Live and laugh.” It is a fine recipe and easy to follow for those who receive their mail on Easy street, but it’s rather j hard for the great majority who spend their days carrying a hod I full of cares up to the attic of old age. B B B If Russia insists on ramming her countenance into the mouth of the dragon she may find it harder to whip China than it was to butcher the czar and his family in that basement in Ekaterinberg, and if she runs tru° to form and loses the war, the political scrap pile will receive another government. B B n MAYOR JIMMIE WALKER appears to have a cinch on the chairmanship of the reception committee for four years more, since his old rival. Hylan, indorses him and the Republicans split into two factions. When the majority unites and the minority busts, it doesn’t take a wizard to forecast the result. B B B A self-extinguishing cigaret has been invented, but what we need is a self-extinguishing cigaret testimonial writer. BBS Mr. Damarin of Chicago, suing Mrs Damarin for divorce, deposes and says that for twentythree years she beat him, made him do the house work, took all his money- threw hot food at him, destroyed his B. V. D’s. This is the kind of a wife the fates should have handed to the distinguished Dr. Snook of Columbus, O. B B B You don’t have to live in Mexico one minute in order to get a divorce there; all you have to do is to retain an attorney. It is just as simple as wrapping up a hot tamale.

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WASHINGTON BURNED Aug. 24 ON the evening of Aug. 24. 1814, British troops entered Washington and burned the United States capitol, department buildings and White House. The vandalism was made possible by the ridiculous unpreparedness for defense of the administration in Washington. Landing of 4,000 British troops under General Rose at Benedict, Md., created a panic in the nation’s capital. Requisitions for militia were sent hastily to neighboring states and all the troops in the vicinity were mustered out. The Americans selected Bladensburg as the place to meet the enemy, and toward this spot there flowed an absurd array of clerks, secretaries, cabinet officers, the President himself, militia, the regulars and 400 sailors. It was the presence of these fighting sailors alone that made the conflict worthy of the name of a battle. Undismayed by the flight of their friends, the sailors made a firm resistance until the British got in their rear and they were compelled to give up the struggle. The British marched directly from Bladensburg to Washington, burned the federal buildings and left soon after, completing their campaign in less than a week.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor, Times:lf gangsters and racketeers run rampant, it is not because this country lacks the competent am brave men to subdue them. The pi lice can function efficiently only when they have the moral support of the public. It Is not possible that the tndifference of the people is due to the deterioration of the moral qualityworship of the almighty dollar and material success? Yours for freedom and jus tic*.