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The Final Blow “Can't we make the women see that as far as the Republican party is concerned this nonpartisan tendency is disloyalty to the MOTHER that BEGOT their political advancement?” Such, according to the accurate Indianapolis Star, which acts as perennial mahout to the Republican elephant, was the ardent appeal of the spinster state official at a gathering of the elect and the elected. Conservative souls, who foresaw disaster, predicted dire things when Woodrow Wilson gave women the vote. But even they never dreamed that males would finally become so mere and the female of the political species so miraculous. Historically the statement may be. challenged. Scientifically, it's interesting. Politically it demands a senate inquiry. That elephant should be investigated. Who Failed? Back again in jail a few hours after he had looted hotel rooms, a bold, bad burglar, 25 years of age, reveals a life story that is more than interesting. He gives ample evidence of the alertness of police and constables. For he has always been caught, just m he has always been a thief. It will interest those who believe that prisons can curb crime and cure criminals to know that out of his brief twenty-five years of life, he has spent eleven of them behind bars. Over in a small city in Ohio, when he was but 9 years of age, he broke into a green house and stole some flowers. That was his first major crime. He may have stolen a baby rattle from a neighbor baby previously, but it is not in the record. He may even have burglarized the family jar of jam. But at the age of 9. he has been hi charge of the prisons of the land. What prompted him to commit his first theft of flowers may be imagined rather than described. It may have been a love of the bright flowers and their beauty. It may have been that he inherited too great a share of original sin. But from that day he was a thief. They kept him only a year or so before they sent him to his home. But he was back again, a grocery store proving too attractive. More months of prison regime. And at 14 he is again free and again the lure of bright things sends him into an office building and again he is in a cell. And after that, the story grows monotonous Bright. shiny things and highly colored clothes were always stronger than his fear of more punishment. And eleven of the sixteen years that have passed since, as a baby, he crawled into the greenhouse and looted the flower beds have been under the scrutiny and domination of wardens and guards. Somewhere along the line, the conviction grows, somebody failed. It would be interesting to know what happened in this Ohio city when a boy of 9 was sent to a prison. It would be interesting to know of the conditions in the home of this boy, if there was a home. It would be interesting to know the atmosphere of that first reform school and the conditions under which he lived after his first release. The boy failed, of course. The youth failed later and now the man fails. But does that finish the list of failures? Only the police show a clear record. They always caught him.

First Blood First blood in the senate tariff battle goes to the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans. The senate, by a vote of 51 to 27, Tuesday adopted the resolution of Senator Simmons of North Carolina calling on the treasury to supply the senate with information on the income tax returns of corporations and individuals having an interest in tariff increases. ' The treasury is to be asked to supply data on gross sales, inventories, amount •of merchandise bought for sale and salaries paid to employes. This information should be valuable in showing whether those corporations which have been pleading poverty in seeking tariff increases really are in auch bad straits as they claim. Perhaps equally important, the vote shows that the Democrats and the Progressive Republicans are able to dominate the tariff situation in the senate. If they will stick together, it is likely we finally shall get a much saner tariff bill than the one the finance committee has offered and the house has passed. A Dangerous Injunction The primary right of American citizens to organize in labor unions has been challenged by Federal Judge Kirkpatrick in Philadelphia. He granted on Monday a temporary- restraining order against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, which the union describes as the most drastic anti-labor injunction ever issued. If there has been a worse one, we have not seen it. Part of the restraining order is directed against po< legal activities. But the union opposes violei Philadelphia police officers are reported to .aised the organizers and strikers for their 0r.... . conduct. Thus violence and lawlessness are not the issues. If they were, the police are quite capable of maintaining order and of apprehending violators. The real nature of the injunction is revealed in its prohibition of peaceful picketing and the virtual denial of the union's right to use its own funds in extending its organization in Philadelphia. The union’s right to communicate in their homes or elsewhere with employes or prospective employes of the complainants is restricted. "Exercising moral coercion" over such employes and prospective employes is proscribed by the order, “whether actual force or violence be used or not.” The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Is an organization of more than 100,000 members, with one of the - finest records in the country. It covers practically all chief markets of the men’s clothing industry, in which it has co-operated with employers •

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to improve labor conditions, increase production and prosperity, and eliminate industrial strife. For eighteen years it has had contractual relations with Hart Shaffner & Marx, probably the largest clothing manufacturers in the world, without a strike. Those 100,000 American citizens have a constitutional right to join in a lawful union. They have a constitutional right peacefully to invite others to join with them. The Kirkpatrick injunction infringes that right. By so doing it encourages the dangerous belief that American workers can not protect their rights through peaceful and constitutional methods. We do not question the motives of the employers who applied for such injunction, nor of the judge who granted it. We do question the w’isdom, the justice and the legality of the injunction. We hope the Amalgamated will fight the injunction, if necessary, through the highest courts of the land. This is a test case of the people’s liberties. North Carolina Terror Violence and lawlessness are spreading in North Carolina, partly because of the negligence of local authorities. There can be no justification for the terrorism cf a Gastonia mob Monday night kidnaping, beating and threatening to lynch three textile labor organizers, and the attempt of the same or another mob in Charlotte to capture one of the defense lawyers in the strike murder trial. Have local authorities and police ceased to function? This mob spirit has been growing for days under the eyes of the police. What are the police doing to preserve order and to protect the labor representatives in their lawful pursuits? What are they doing to apprehend and punish the mob? What are they doing to prevent the mob from carrying out its lynching threats next time? It was just such a situation as this which led to the murder of the Gastonia police chief, for which sixteen strikers now are on trial. That shooting followed weeks of terrorism against the strikers, in which the police themselves were alleged to have participated. Now the unrestrained activities of these mobs make it appear that the sworn officers of the law are contributing, either directly or through willful and criminal negligence, to lawlessness. Whoever is responsible, these conditions are a disgrace to that state and to the entire nation. In justice it must be said that Governor Gardner and Judge Barnhill, presiding at the delayed murder trial, have been trying so far to guarantee a fair trial. Doubtless the Governor will realize now that local authorities can not or will not restrain the anti-labor mobs, and do everything in his power to stamp out the terror. An electrical appliance that inspects beans automatically and tosses aside those that are imperfect has been perfected. Just the thing to help out the congressional credentials committees. Ruth Elder says that since she is Mrs. Walter Camp Jr., she wants us all to ferget there ever was a Ruth Elder. Well, we’ve forgotten Marie Antoinette, Queen Elizabeth, Anna Held and a few others and maybe it’s just possible we can forget Ruth Elder. Mr. Ford continues to expand his plants in Europe, but probably in the expectation that those countries over there will go dry some day.

REASON By LANDIS

THE "Old Guard" is passing. A day or so ago we attended a reunion of Civil war veterans at Wabash, Ind., and the program was ended by the president's rising and saying with faltering voice that so many of the soldiers had died and the survivors were so feeble they could not longer carry on as an association. Then with tear-filled eyes the old warriors voted to adjourn forever. a tt tt But for those old gentlemen and their comrades, the anarchy of secession would have captured every section and what is now the mightiest nation in the world would be a batch of petty sovereignties or a single nation, ruled by a man on horseback. So let us salute the “Old Guard” as it passes. tt tt a It is reported that Governor Green of Michigan may succeed James J. Davis as secretary of labor, but while Green has made a good Governor, it is no certainty that he could make good in this department of the cabinet, for nobody ever heard him .sing over the radio. a tt tt TURNED by mistake into a cage of snakes at Lincoln, Neb., a white rabbit frightened the rattlers into a corner, then bit the python and walked out, which shows what a front is worth. That’s exactly the way Ethan Allan took Ft. Ticonderoga. tt a a Representative Edith Norton of New Jersey, having declared that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is naive in his tariff views, it is up to her to tell Smoot what it means. tt tt tt The ladies of Paris are rising in militant style against the new fashions, which would not let them put more than half as much in the show case. You can lead a lady to clothes, but you can’t make her dress. a a a It is estimated that 1.000.000 Americans crossed from Detroit to spend Labor day in Canada, over one hundred thousand cars being in the relief expendition. In the old days the camel stopped at the oasis, but now it is the automobile. a a tt The heroic efforts made by Clemenceau in his last illness to market his book and pay his debts before he died, reminds one of General Grant’s great struggle to finish his memoirs in order that he might leave something for his widow. a a tt BURGLARS drilled open the empty safe of the First Presbyterian church of Indianapolis and the authorities are unable to decide whether they were amateurs or optimists. a a Conan Doyle wants society to employ spiritualistic mediums to aid in hunting criminals, but the trouble is that the guilty could fix the mediums to point the finger of guilt at the innocent. it a President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico announces that he will not use the power of his office to be reelected and if he means it he is different from most of his predecessors. Diaz, who held the position for many years, did so by strangling all opposition; they called him President, but Mussolini is a liberal in comparison with him.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: A Lurid Light Is Cast on the American Jury System by the Gastonia Trial- Outcome. THE trial at Gastonia was brought to a halt by one of the jurors going insane. The juror in question was Joseph G. Campbell, a middle-aged newsboy. He was not only known to be eccentric, but proved it while under examination. That, however, did not appear to the learned counsel on either side as a cause of disqualification. The state accepted him because of his previous record as a juryman, while the defense appears to have been intrigued by his declaration that he was a “deep-water Baptist.” It is intimated that Campbell may have been upset by the introduction of an effigy of the late Police Chief Aderholt, for whose murder sixteen men and women were being tried, but the razzing he is reported to have received at the hands of his fellow jurors might have helped. They appear to have been much quicker in recognizing his peculiarities than the dozen or so great lawyers, and just as willing to take advantage of them. After court had adjourned, the evening meal was over, and the jury had retired to its quarters, it was the custom to mix humor with the graver duty of sitting on a murder case by sewing up Campbell’s trouser legs, turning his shirt wrong side out, and tying knots in his underclothes. Putting aside the fact that more than one poor devil has gone berserker with less provocation, does not the whole performance cast a lurid light on the jury system? tt St tt Chemistry Expands ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED chemists foregather in Minneapolis after having accomplished so much during the last six months that they can’t tell it, except by separating themselves into seventeen divisions. Even so, they will have to imitate congress and tell some of it by “leave to print.” The progress of chemistry not only has out-stripped the public’s ability to keep up with what is going on, but that of the profession itself, and is still in the making. Fifty years ago, a chemist was a chemist. Today, the most he can do is putter around in a small section of the science. Two chemists—A. M. Busswell, chief of the Illinois state water supply, and C. S. Boruff, his colleague at the University of Illinois—have been studying cornstalk fermentation. It does not sound particularly important, or interesting, until one keads what they have to say and learns how many cornstalks it takes to produce this nation's annual crop. At present, cornstalks are a liability, rather than an asset, one of the farmers’ worst bugaboos. Busswell and Boruff, however, have found a way not only of putting them to good use on the farm, but of making them pay afterward.

Aids the Farmer According to these scientists who seem to have proved the thing by actual experiment, cornstalks. if put in a sealed tank into which the household waste is allowed to drain, will produce gas capable of running an engine, or furnishing heat. After that, the fiber of the corn which has not been injured, can be removed and sold to paper mills. It sounds as though chemistry were doing its bit for farm relief. This would be a merry world, if we had nothing to do except interest ourselves in constructive achievement, but there is too much of the animal in man for him to be content with the even, monotonous grind of that. So we have Palestine and Manchuria to worry about, with preachers of heavenly bliss stirring up Islam, and preachers of earthly bliss stirring up Russia, not to mention what the bandits and politicians are dohie, to stir up China. tt tt a Disaster in Making AT one time it looked as though Moscow and Peiping might be able to reconcile their differences. Whether they lack the necessary degree of enthusiasm, or whether trouble makers at the front took matters out of their control, something appears to have gone wrong. Possibly a few weeks of skirmishing may serve to satisfy the urge to fight. On the other hand, a storm may be brewing that will reach far before it subsides. To all intents and purposes the shooting in Manchuria represents about the same kind of stunt as the passenger on the Graf Zeppelin engaged in when he smoked a cigaret. The Manchurian situation is exactly like a balloon filled with hydrogen, and if one of the sparks now being scattered around happens to land in a vital spot, the world will have not only a big, but unexpected, disaster.

Questions and. Answers

Where is the largest government aerodome located? It is Kelly Field, near San Antonio, Tex. When playing poker with one or more cards wild, what is the highest possible hand? Five aces. What is the membership of the National Grange? 800,000. What is the premium on a $5 gold piece dated 1911? It commands no premium. How old is Lindbergh? He was bom Feb. 4, 1902. Is end a synonym for result? Yes.

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Don’t ‘Help’ Weak Eyes With ‘Exercise’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magaxtne. ■'■pHE advice to throw away one’s X glasses and to secure perfect eyesight by exercising th,e eyes is another manifestation of the strange ideas of anatomy and physiology which sometimes seize on our public to their physical detriment. The idea was suggested by a doctor who thought that nearsightedness was due to a stretching of the eyeball by certain of the eyemuscles. Before he had proved his point—and actually he never has proved it —a half dozen commercial exploiters began to sell the idea in the form of bcoks and muscle training systems and a good many eyes have been ruined in the process. However, exercising the eyes is not the only panacea offered for failing eyesight. A South African physician has recently been at great pains to collect a lot of different

IT SEEMS TO ME * H “

EVERY Monday morning I enjoy my weekly irritation by looking over the reports of Sunday sermons. Invariably I find two or three in which the complaint is advanced that civilization is “making us soft.” Why shouldn’t we be soft? What kindly benefit have people ever brought into the world? Precisely what the parsons mean when they complain of a soft world I don't profess -to know. If they mean that civilization brings with it a diminution of physical prowess I can't agree. There is no proof. It’s my belief that civilized man could take the pioneer out and trim him at everything from golf to catch-as-catch-can wrestling. The man who lives close to nature invariably will see the heels of the fellow who has had the advantage of expert training and coaching. The city chap can beat the head off the untutored farm boy or mountaineer nine times out of ten. Within a week some rifle officer at a training camp reported that the city recruits show much better than the country boys and these marksmen were not Chicagoans either. "Our father,” says a current preacher, "achieved a character through sufferings of hardship and agonies." a a tt Happy Warriors AGAIN I don't know what he means by "character,” but I am in complete disagreement with the theory that anybody is better off for suffering. Pain and hardship limit the human horizon. Anyone in agony inevitably must turn inward. No creative effort of importance ever has come from a man with a toothache. Few' people are not much good to the comijiunity at large until they have attained a workable happiness on their own account, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” implies that the individual must develop a high degree of ego satisfaction before he is fitted to be an agreeable companion to those about him. If any self-scouring ascetic offers to me the same bounty he provides for himself, I am not likely to be thrilled by the deal. Although I have not always found work a delight, I am ready to agree, mournfully, that some sort of activity is generally essential to life. But it need not be hard work. Rather it ought to be engrossing.

Daily Thought

If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far awsy, and let not wickedness dwell m thy tabernacles.—Job 11:14. a a a NATURE has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.—Horace BushnelL

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systems, and he groups them under the cold water cure, the training to strong light, massage of the eyelids and eye, and exercises of one type or another. Cold water has been vaunted as a cure-all since the beginning of history. It has value in relieving inflammation although hot water does as well or better. Cold water does deaden the sensation of pain in the nerves. It will not cure infections of the eyes or of any other portion of the body; it will not strengthen the muscles of the eyes or aid eyesight and it is foolish to rely on cold water cures. Somebody suggested that the eye could be strengthened by looking directly at the sun, perhaps with the idea that one might thus develop through imitation the natural strength of the eagle’s eye. The glare of the sun is dangerous to the eye and cases of snow-blind-ness and eclipse-blindness are examples of what happens when the

That’s different. When it becomes engrossing, the participant does not stop to think whether it’s hard or easy. u tt a Manual Labor POSSIBLY each one of us should do something with his hands. I suppose there is a special sense of fitness which goes with manual dexterity. But a crisp shot with a mashie can give this elation just as readily as chopping down a tree. In breaking even with H. B. Swope Jr. at ping pong last night, I got as much satisfaction as would have been mine if I had plowed a corn field. And perhaps it was just about as hard work. Speaking again of “Our fathers,” the current preacher who is on my mind continues, “to get tools, to build homes, to clear and till fields, to establish government they had to wrestle with great powers. Every resource within them was called upon. All in all life was hazardous. To be certain of even meager food and comfort they had to be up early and late and work hard. Through it they often became stalwart characters.”

Times Readers Voice Views

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normal eye is exposed to too much glare or sunlight. Massage is useful to strengthen weakened tissues and to encourage blood supply, but massage of the eye-muscles and of the eyeball Is a most delicate procedure and may do great harm in the presence of infection. Massage should not be undertaken by any one but an expert and in the presence of acute inflammatory disease always must be ruled out. As the attempts to strengthen the eye by exercises after throwing away the glasses, experts in refraction, who measure the difficulty of the eye in meeting the demands that may be placed upon it, say that the method is useless as a rule and dangerous in most instances. It is true that muscles may be trained to advantage, but weakened tissues must be spared and one of the advantages of eye-glasses, like a crutch to a weakened limb, is to give support and spare the weakened tissue.

Ideals and opinion* 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.

Inner Development STALWART, maybe, in the sense of tight and unyielding, but they had little time to harbor ideas. They could and did make clearings in the forest, but they could not thin out jungle growth within their own hea Those notions which we call “American ideals” did not come for the most part from men engaged in heavy labor. Bookish men of much leisure established the goals for which to strive. I can’t at the moment think of any farmer’s poet of consequence or remember with respects the thoughts of any farmer - philosopher. The prophets of the world have been idlers in the strict sense of the word. With the single exception of Spinoza, not one of them has carried on a hard and arduous manual job in connection with his teaching. Certainly Christian teaching is built upon the theory that one must first free himself from preoccupation with the grind of existence before his mind can grasp truths. Jesus took men away from fishing boats and out of tax collecting to find more depth of life in greater ease and comfort. It was John the Baptist who believed that character must be developed by hardship, but within the fellowship of Christ, there was feasting.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ Scrlppa-Howard Science Editor

Human Engineering is the Most Difficult of All the Sciences Studied by Man. THE new Institute of Human Relations, which is to be a part of Yale university, can begin its work before its new building is completed. A small one-story shop used by a cobbler stands in the area which is to be the site of the new building. According to dispatches from New Haven, every building within the area has been razed with the exception of the shop and the roof and one side of the shop have been removed. But the cobbler refuses to move. He has declined to accept a shop on the other side of the street and says that he will stay ur* n his lease expires. The lease rims until 1932. In all probability, there are legal methods by which the situation can be cleared up quickly and no doubt the erection of Yale’s Institute of Human Relations will not be hindered unduly. But it is to be hoped that the learned professors of the institute will not drop the matter there. This might be well tackled by them as a ’’-st problem. tt tt tt Welfare FOR the difficulties between this humble cobbler and Yale university epitomizes in many ways the problems of human relations. Human engineering is the most difficult branch of science. It would be better perhaps to say of the halfsciences, for it is as yet far from being an exact science. The intellectual world has not succeeded even yet in making exact sciences out of the foundation upon which it must be based—psychology, sociology and political economy. In most fields of engineering and science, the objectives are plain and obvious. The research worker in a medical laboratory seeks a remedy for some specific disease. The chemist seeks a method for improving some known product or substituting a better one for it. The aviation engineer is working to build bigger and better airplanes. But what is the objective in the fields of human relations? It is easy to answer, “human welfare.” But it is rot so easy to analyze what that means. The Declaration of Independence declare'’ that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were the "inalienable rights” of man. tt It SI Thinking HUMAN relations present so dis ficult a problem because of the complexity of the human organism. Psychologists have stated trulj that no man ever thinks the same thought twice. It may seem like the same thought, but the fact that it has been thought once before introduces anew feature into the situation. In certain ways, the human organism at any moment is the sum total of all that has happened to it during its existence. One of the greatest strides in the understanding of human nature was made by Dr. John B. Watson, founder of the theory of behaviorism. Dr. Watson, formerly professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins university, pointed out the necessity of studying human behavior, that is, human reactions. He proved that much of a man’s character can be explained upon the basis of habits formed in early childhood. A man’s outlook upon the universe may be colored by the fact that he was scared by a cat at the age ot 2. But many psychologists have felt that Watson carries his theories too far For Watson would carry mechanism to the last degree and make out that man is a machine. For example, Watson denies that there is any such thing as thinking. According to Watson, when you think you are thinking, you are only talk'ng to yourself. Who is the mother of the chicken, the hen that lays the egg or the hen that hatches it? The hen that lays the egg is the mother of the chicken. The hen that hatches it is the foster-mother. What is the meaning of Hades? Hades is named in the New Testament for the abode of all the departed, being the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew term “shoel,” the unseen spirit-world. Who published “Trader Horn?” It is published by Simon and Shuster. 37 West Fifty-seventh street, New York.