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Ending the War After ten years, at last the war is over. That Is general comment on The Hague reparations settlement. It is a natural comment, is somewhat exaggerated. This settlement clears away so much o 1 the war wreckage in permitting financial stabilization, economic reconstruction and military evacuation of the Rhineland, that it would be perhaps ungracious to remember, in this moment of thankfulness, the remaining evils of the victors’ peace, such as the Saar, the misdrawn frontiers, the oppressed minorities, the misgoverned mandates, the increasing armies and armaments of the victor nations. Doubtless those remaining disastrous consequences of the war will be corrected in part as time goes on. At least that is the great hope springing from The Hague settlement. For its significance is that reason is supplanting hatred and suspicion in seeking solution of international problems. Curiously, The Hague settlement, representing the combined judgment and effort of the politicians and bankers and now apparently acceptable to public opinion in the allied countries, approximates the sett’ement demanded by a small minority of liberals ten years ago. Ten years ago that, small band of liberals in various countries reasoned that it was not only morally unjust, but economically Impossible, to make Germany pay practically all the war costs, and that military occupation of defeated Germany would postpone rather than hasten the state of European security and peace necessary to the self-interest of the allies. In those days this liberal minority view was ridiculed as theory, as sentimentality, as a nice ideal with no relation to the hard facts. So the Versailles settlement was wTitten instead by the nationalists and militarists, who called themselves realists and practical men. After a decade, the so-called practical and realistic Versailles settlement has failed to work. There had to be another settlement at The Hague because the hard-headed politicians and bankers of a later day demanded it. So the visionaries of 1919 turn out to be the realids of 1929. Slowly we are learning that national rivalries, revenge and dependence on military force don’t pay anybody. Second Thoughts on Censors We have joined in the cry against federal customs authorities for their silly censorship policies. Now we want to praise those officials. It takes courage for officials to hold off crusaders demanding censorship. That courage some of the officials lacked. But it takes more courage, after making a mistake, to admit error and right the wrong. That is the kind of courage displayed by federal authorities in two recent cases. They barred from this country a book by a Hindu title “Uncle Sham.” The book is an attack on American institutions and is as unfair perhaps as Miss Mayo's “Mother India," to which it was a reply. The official ban, on the ground of obscenity, was about to stimulate American curiosity in the forbidden book, when the officials wisely changed their mind and removed the ban. Since then “Uncle Sham" apparently has been ignored completely by the public. The case of “Well of Loneliness” was somewhat different. It was a serious novel by an Englishwoman on a disagreeable subject. A London court suppressed it; Canada excluded it. Here was a chance for American authorities to show for once that they were somewhat more clean minded and intelligent than foreign censors. But, apparently under pressure, they missed that chance. Later the customs court overruled the American ban. And now, instead of being stiff-necked about the case, Commissioner of Customs Eble announces that he will not appeal from the court's decision. Customs officials have a nasty job at best, being under oath to enforce the senseless censorship provisions of the tariff law, in which many of them do not believe. That some of them are of the sort to make the law worse by reading pornography into serious literature is perhaps to be expected But fortunately Commissioner Eble and certain other of the higher-ups seem inclined to do as little censoring as possible under the law. It remains for the senate to defeat the censorship provisions of the new tariff bill, which are even more objectionable than the present law.

Avoiding Responsibility Admitting that regulation of public utilities has been a failure in the states, Governor Clyde M. Reed of Kansas tries to place the blame upon interference by the federal government. Reed says federal courts and the United States supreme court have interfered with state regulatory powers and that for the last twenty years regulation of public utilities and common carriers has not been successful in the true sense. While decisions of the federal courts and the supreme court in utilities cases have been confusing and disappointing, some of the states have assumed meanings in them that can not be supported by the rulings themselves. For instance, the states, to a large degree, have assumed that valuations must be based upon the reproduction new theory, which is far more costly to the people than that of prudent investment. Yet the supreme court never has determined that the reproduction new valuation is the only one that can be used. A Great Day for Women BV MBS. WALTER FERGUSON Again man has flown around the world and for the first time man has taken woman traveling with him. The latter fact, quite as much as the former, marks the extent of our progress. It is significant that when Dr. Hugo Eckener began his exploit, one that held great dangers, a woman was permitted to share both the perils and the thrills. So far as chroniclers tell us. ancient explorers took particular pains to leave the women at home. When Columbus started upon his momentous voyage that was to create anew and more wonderful world, he had with him only men. When Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe by water, taking two years for the Journey, no mention is made by a woman having culled any plaudits with him. • Lady Drummond Hay, though going only in the capacity of passenger, live in world history as

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the first woman to fly around the world. This is no mean honor and redounds not only to the bravery of the English woman, but far more to the generosity of the gentlemen who gave her opportunity to display that bravery. The Graf Zeppelin and its commander, Dr. Eckener, have, like Columbus, created the possibilities of anew world. More than all the warriors who ever washed the sands of their country in blood does this man merit eternal monuments and praise unstinted. He has done more for Germany in forty-two short days than all the Hohenzollems, all the Krupps, and all the iron chancellors in the ages that have passed. His epoch-making trip means that one of two things will occur: The world will use this magnificent invention for destruction, so that entire nations may be wiped out in a few days, or the people of all lands, because of it, will strive for safety and for peace. The Graf Zeppelin, mother of fleets of dirigibles that will come after her, may sink man into the mire or carry him to the stars. With man himself the great decision lies. But whatever is to come, two magnificent deeds have been done. Germany, America and her women salute you. Mr. Fall’s Mortgage The government finally is getting around to the case of Mr. Fall, former secretary of the interior. Early in October he will go on trial on a charge of taking a bribe from Edward L. Doheny. The story of SIOO,OOO in a little black bag will be rehearsed once more. The jury will be told that a mortgage on Fall’s ranch secured the SIOO,OOO which was a loan, not a bribe. Will it run true to jury form, and speedily acquit Mr. Fall? And will its woman members follow an earlier oil trial precedent and fling their arms affectionately around the defendant when it is all over? Or. in that hour, will the jury be unable to forget that through all the troublous days of the Teapot Dome probe, when Fall was hard put to it to explain the SIOO,OOO transaction, and ventured several explanations before he mentioned the present one, nothing whatever was said about a mortgage? Something ought to be done about this barelegged fad. Every day you see men crossing the street nearly killed by automobiles. Once upon a time there was a novelist who came, to America from Europe and. didn’t denounce something. A1 Capone has been reading the life of Napoleon in Philadelphia's jail. A1 probably knows now what racketeering really is.

Pest Is Costly Peril

BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor A WAR has been declared, which, while receiving far less notice than the Chinese-Russian situation, is likely to be of greater importance to the people of the United States. An unfortunate outcome’ of the war may cost the people of the United States more than $500,000,000 a year. The United States department of agriculture is waging the war against an insect, the Mediterranean fruit fly. Meanwhile, other nations are rallying to the aid of the United States. Mario J. Hoyo, chief of the plant protection service of Mexico, has offered to aid in every possible way. “The Mediterranean fruit fly is an international problem and our hopes are that every nation of North America will join in the fight against it,” he says. The fruit fly is now causing damage chiefly in Florida, though it has also spread to some of the other south Atlantic states. The department of agriculture believes that it was introduced into Florida from Bermuda last winter. It might have been blown in by a hurricane, brought in by rum-runners in the wrappings around bottles, or brought in by tourists in their luggage. The chief fear of the department is that the fly may spread to California and the southwest. Peru, fearing the pest may reach South America, has just placed an embargo upon the importation of all fruits from Mexico, Central America. Bermuda and the United States with the exception of the states of Washington. Oregon, and California. a a a Strategy A board of strategy, known as the committee of seven, has been appointed by the department of agriculture to study the situation. The board includes Dr. Vernon Kellogg, secretary of the National Research Council, who w r as one of Herbert Hoover's assistants in Belgium during the war. “The economic situation of Florida, the immediate future of the state, is definitely and intimately related to the policy which may be adopted in relation to the Mediterranean fruit fly,” says the initial report of the committee. The report states that 34 per cent of the land area j of Florida is involved. Eighty per cent of the citrus ! fruit shipments originate in this area. Annual income from the citrus crop and from other host crops which may be affected by the fly is upward of $60,000,000.” the report states. A spread of the pest to the south and west would endanger areas from which the annual income from fruit production is now $240,000,000, the report continues. It adds, “The consumers of the United States likewise are affected. An infestation of the Mediterranean fruit fly. may effect the reduction of susceptible products by 25 or even 50 per cent. It is estimated that a reduction in the production of susceptible fruit by 20 per cent will Increase the cost of fruit to the consumer by approximately 24 per cent.” a a a Inspection The committee outlines a program to eradicate the fly. It is divided into six items. First—lmmediate enlargement of inspection forces is urged at once to determine promptly the spread of the fly in Florida and other states. Second—Adequate provision is urged so that fruits which may be infected will enter interstate commerce only after certification that they are not infested. Third—The destruction of all plants which might harbor the fly, other than the economically valuable fruits, is urged at once. This is for the purpose of starving the flies which otherwise thrive on minor plants during ripening of the principal citrus fruits. Fourth—lt is recommended that citrus growers be compelled by law to spray their groves at stated intervals and also to treat the soil to kill the larva as well as the adult fly. Fisth —The committee recommends that harvesting be done more rapidly and the fruits held in cold storage until absorbed by the market. Sixth—The committee recommends a rapid clean14} of orchards after the harvesting.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

The Triumph of The Hague Parley Looks Like One of Common Sense, Rather Than of Partisanship. AFTER weeks of haggling, The Hague conference comes to an end. with everybody smiling. England gets a $9,600,000 Increase in her annual share of reparations, Germany loses $72,000,000 which she had hoped to gain through substitution of the Young for the Dawes plan, the allies agree to complete evacuation of the Rhineland by the first of next July, and to split the cost of maintaining their troops from now until then with Germany, while Germany agrees to pay for moving the troops out. Much has been said as to who deserves the honor for bringing The Hague conference to such a happy conclusion, but from this distance it looks as though most every one present had a share, and th t the triumph was one of common sense, rather than of partisanship. Certainly, the fact that the reparations question appears to have been settled on a fairly permanent basis is of vastly more consequence than anything else that occurred.

News Is Reassuring THOUGH permitting of no such conclusive deductions, the news from Palestine also is reassuring. Apparently the British have mobilized sufficient forces to stop general disorder and to- warrant the hope that normal conditions will be restored within a comparatively short time. One can believe that the worst of the storm has passed, without being overly optimistic, or without assuming that the Arabs have laid aside their antipathy. The most discouraging aspect of the problem consists in the difficulty of reconciling these people to yield prestige in a land which they have dominated racially and religiously for seven centuries. v tt tt Jews Do Great Work IN area, Palestine is about the size of Vermont, but its population is much larger, being between 800,000 and 900,000, of which approximately 75,000 are ChristiaVis, and 150,000 are Jews. Os the 150,000 Jews, some 2,000 are Americans, the rest being about equally divided between natives and recent immigrants from Europe. Though constituting less than onefourth of the population, the Jews are to be credited with the bulk of what has been done since the war to improve social and economical conditions. It is only fair, however, to recall that England has spent vast sums of money to maintain peace and order. B B B Scores Are Killed ACCORDING to the latest tabulation, 152 persons have been killed and 263 have been injured seriously as the result of the present disturbance. Os the 152 killed, ninety-six were Jews, fifty-two Arabs, and four were Christians, property loss, of course, has been enormous, but the British government has announced that it will make good the damage. Even so, the tragedy assumes startling proportions, especially in view of the doubt and dismay it is bound to spread among prospective immigrants and investors.

Resources Are Great FROM an economic standpoint, about all Palestine needs is immigration and investment to make it a rich and productive country. Its resources are great, if somewhat peculiar, and their lack of development is measureably due to the clash of racial and religious antagonisms, of which it has been a center for the last 2,000 years. The Jordan, which has attained worldwide’fame through the glamor and romance of tradition, some day will be producing a vast amount of electric power, while the Dead sea, which has stood as a symbol of the wrath of God, will yield untold wealth, because of the very minerals which have made it a terror to men and animals. Dr. Thomas H. Norton of New York estimates that 1.300,000,000 tons of potash, 853,000.000 tons of bromine, nearly 12,000.000,00 tons of salt, and 22,000,000,00 tons of magnesium chloride can be obtained from this stagnant, stinking lake. Football Starts War Amissionary says that it was not racial or religious prejudice, but football, that started the disturbance in Palestine. According to his version, some Jewish boys were bouncing the pigskin against an Arab's house, when the Arab became angered, captured it and cut it to pieces, a quarrel followed and one of the boys were killed. The next day. he says, the authorities tried unsuccessfully to divert the funeral from the Arab section, but the Jews insisted on going that way, which developed a general commotion.

Daily Thought

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in muck.—St. Luke 16:10. a a a THE foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. Yriarte. When did France sell her claim to the Virgin islands and at what price? In June, 1733, France sold her claim to the Virgin islands to the king of Denmark for $375,070. Does the United States maintain a naval station in the Virgin islands? There is a naval station at St. Thomas; also a naval radio station on the Island of St. Croix in the Virgin islands.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Guessing Child’s Sex Is Only Guessing

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tha American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. ONE of the problems that has disturbed the minds of scientists for many years is the question of determining the sex of the child before its birth. There have been all sorts of theories and suggestions for this purpose, but none of them thus far has sustained the test of scientific investigation. It was thought for long that the heart rate of boys was slower than that of girls, but this is such a rough and ready system that it can not be depended on in any considerable number of cases. More than 200 years ago an investigator assembled 262 different theories as to the determination of sex; today there are more than 1,000 of these theories, but not one of them has been sustained. It is the belief of E. O. Manoilov

IT SEEMS TO ME

“TT is a curious phase of human A nature.” Henry Ford has written for Forbes’ magazine, “that when men make a great deal of money in some line of work they want to get into something they don’t know anything about. “It may be another line of business, it may be banking, it may be sport, or, as more often happens, it may be society.” But Mr. Ford has not quite covered the ground. He might very pertinently have added; “or it may be an itch to give out idiotic statements in newspapers and magazines.” Henry Ford is not by any means the sole offender, but he seems to me one of the most conspicuous. The fact that he has made millions of dollars by manufacturing an excellent low-priced auto gives no importance whatever to his opinions on jazz music, the effects of alcohol on the human system or the necessary hours of sleep for brain workers. Yet Mr. Ford has not hesitated to take the world into his confidence on all these subjects. It would be an excellent idea for him to re-read—or perhaps to read —the current article which appears under his name in Forbes, for there the motor maker is quoted as saying, “My particular job, this time on earth, is to give the world the very best car I can make at the lowest possible price. If I knew any better thing I could do, I would do it.” a a a * Model T Intelligence NOBODY will deny that Mr. Ford has done well at the job to which he has applied himself, but I do not see that any part of his achievement qualifies him to give out weighty public utterances on the value of history as a study. Mr. Ford is mistaken in saying

Questions and Answers

How far is the north star from the earth? Measurements of the parallax of the north star indicate its distance to be about 250 trillion miles from the earth. Is Ramon Novarro married? How old is he? He is unmarried. He was bom Feb. 6, 1899. Has the Netherlands two capitals? Yes. The Hague is the seat of the courts and Amsterdam is the seat of the legislature. What Is a tarot? One of a set of figured playing cards used in Italy as early as the fourteenth century; also a game

Just a Good Beginning!

of Leningrad that the sex of the child depends on the seci’etions of the glands of sex in the mother and father and that these secretions circulating in the blood of the mother and father, as well as in the blood of the child, determine the sexual nature of the person. It is known that these products of the glands, called sexual hormones, exert an influence on the psychic state of the individual and determine also the development of the various sex characters, such as; the hair, beard and whiskers in man, the depth of the voice and the special characters that appear in women. Manoilov has been working for some years in an endeavor to find in the blood the specific substances that are responsible. Asa result, he has developed a chemical test which he has used on all sorts of species, including the human being, and other investigators have repeated his test with a considerable amount of success.

that if "he knew a better thing to do he would do it. Respectfully I suggest that there is nothing in the process of auto manufacture which requires him to keep his mouth open. To be sure it is not entirely fair to blame the various captains of industry for some of their digressions into the eld of philosophy, art and theology. Let anybody make a better mousetrap and some reporter will beat a pathway to his door to ask what he thinks of the Einstein theory. Mr. Edison, for instance, always is being interrogated by some inquiring reporter on the subject of the immortality of the soul. And in this case it must be admitted \at the opinion of the electrical wizard is just as good as that of anybody else —but no better. It seems to me that Henry Ford is somewhat more culpable than many of the other talking millionaires. He has not always waited to be asked. Moreover, the man who proved himself so gullible in swallowing the ridiculous forgeries concerning the elders of Zion ought to be at a little penance of complete silence before again assuming the role oi public counsellor. ana Final Reckoning I AM not at all sure that the final tally will reveal Henry Ford as a benefactor of the American people. The creation of cheap and quick transportation is undoubtedly a blessing, but over against that is an important debit item. Henry Ford, in his time, has done as much as any man in this country to foment race prejudice. And the most that can be said in his defense is that he just didn’t know any better. He never has been sufficiently astute to realize his own educational

played with such cards in which twenty-two tarots, all being trumps, of usual Italian suits. Old handsomely painted packs of tarots are highly valued by collectors, more than $3,000 having been paid for a single pack. Is astrology the same as astronomy? Astrology is the doctrine of the influence of the heavenly bodies upon events, natural or moral. Astronomy is the science that treats of celestial bodies; their motion, magnitude, distance and physical constitution. WTjere was Libby prison? It was a Confederate military prison during the Civil war, located at Richmond, Va.

Practically all this work has been developed in Russia and published in Russian periodicals. The most recent contribution by Manoilov appears in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Asa result of a summary of all of the evidence, it is asserted that the Manoilov test permits the distinction of blood from a man from that of a woman in from 90 to 96 per cent of cases. It is asserted also that it is possible to determine by the mother's blood the sex of the child before its birth in from 88 to 96 per cent of cases. Obviously, here is a test of the greatest scientific importance, one which, will have legal value just as soon as it has been tried on a sufficient number of cases to establish definitely its limitations. The test is one which can be performed only by a trained technician in physiologic and biologic chemistry.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

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limitations—or possibly it would be better to say his mental limitations. The fact that Mr. Ford, during a famous hearing, identified Benedict Arnold as a British novelist, should not necessarily be used against him. It isn’t a lack of reading which handicaps this sage of Detroit. Rather, he suffers from an insufficient contact with life itself. Though primarily responsible for the creation of one of the greatest industrial units in the world, Henry Ford has lived a narrow and confined life. He made the machine and it has mastered him. After all, man does not live by gear shifts alone. Ford has piled million up million and yet he remains a tragic figure. He is untouched by any conception of beauty. He never has had time to visit the secret places of the heart. tt tt tt Bent With Success BENT with success, indeed, the vast organization rests so heavily upon the back of his neck thkt he can not, if he would, straighten up to see the rim where the earth and heaven meet. I suppose he stands as the arch example of the new slavery. Efficiency is a thing which cuts into human flesh. While tt is probably true that mass production imposes a dull routine upon the worker, it is only fair to admit that Henry Ford has not spared himself in the process. He, too, stands chained to the moving belt. He has gained the markets of the whole world. And possibly he may look upon this gigantic deal as a bargain. He has merely paid his own soul. (Copyright, 1929. by The Times'

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REASON By Frederick Landis—

In the Presence of Religious Hate Men Are Barbarians and Civilization Is Only a, Lipstick. THERE ghastly massacres in Palestine should warn all decent people to stop playing with fire for political purposes, for there have been days when what is now occurring in the Holy Land could have occurred very easily in the United States. In the presence of religious hatred men are barbarians and civilization is only a lipstick. B B B President Hoover is proud of the fact that he makes good coffee, which causes him to stand out like Gibraltar from the millions who are proud of the highballs they manufacture. 808 We are glad the Hermitage, where Andrew Jackson lived and died, was saved from the flames, for Old Hickory is entitled to the homage of Americans forever because he flung into the teeth of nullificationists in Washington: “The Union —by the eternal, it shall be preserved ! ” tt tt tt JT ING ALFONSO of Spain who rook hir, first airplane ride the other day would not have minded a little thing like a crash, after the way he has fallen from power. B tt tt It will be a strange experience for Mad Anthony Wayne, having this new postage stamp made in his honor, for nobody liked him when he was in the flesh. When Wayne was feeling fit he could make a whole Indian tribe step on the gas merely by lifting an eyebrow. tt B tt This alliance between the Christians and Mohammedans in Palestine is the strangest partnership since Jim Reed merged with the drys at Houston in an effort to get the presidential nomination. tt B tt The discovery of the fosfil remains of this elephant out in Kansas proves nothing new, as everybody knows that Kansas was born a Republican state. a a a CAPTAIN BOWDOIN of White. stine. L. I„ has perfected a diving device with which he hopes to recover $15,000,000 in gold from the sunken liner Egypt which has lain in 400 feet of water just off the coast of France since 1922. If he succeeds, how Uncle Sam s ears will burn as the French yellmaster leads his country in a resounding stanza of Shylocks! tt B B Even though the prince of Wale* won while playing baccarat in France, he should watch his step, as this dizzy sport led his distinguished grandfather into the scandal which rocked the British empire. B tt n An airplane was used in Indiana the other day to locate a missing cow. which is a more valuable enterprise than flying the Atlantic in the same old way. tt tt B What a ghastly tiling it v.-ould have been had the Graf Zeppelin been destroyed by those high tension wires near the Los Angeles airport after it had conquered the dangers of Siberia and the Pacific.’ Yet it would have been in harmony with Fate’s habit of letting fliers survive great perils, only to kill them with trifles.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—May the spirit of justice and kindness be awakened in all the interest which Congressman Louis Ludlow has mentioned for the next appropriation bill to include an Indiana Veterans hospital for our afflicted worthy soldier boys. While monuments bespeak of nohle service rendered and are beautilul to look upon, a hospital truly represents to those in whose memory it is erected a remembrance of much .sacrifice and suffering. What would this country be or do without hospitals to alleviate suffering, contracted whilst doing so nobly their bit? The thing which inspires the feeling of appreciation and true gratitude is the true service toward us for what we are most in need of. Will the presence of the Riley hospital ever reflect anything but the greatest honor to our state, alleviating suffering and giving to many afflicted what seems to make life worth while? Now is the time to let our afflicted honored boys know that we are alive in our interest for their true life advantages and comfort which bring to them assured happiness. May the spirit of which they gave so grandly be the means of awakening in us unfaltering interest for a soldier’s hospital. Not alone for their comfort, but to reflect a place for them to look upon, where their health was regained could mean to them a living splendid monument. MRS. CATHERINE WILLIAMS