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Crime and Politics When the crime commission, named/by Governor Leslie to examine the conditions in this state, begins its functions it should not overlook the situation in Lake county as it is being revealed by the activities of the federal grand jury in the northern part of the state. It is more than probable that a microscopic view of Lake county would give the answer, not only in the state, but in the nation, to the problem of crime and, more important, the problem of good government and the preservation of self government. The probe in Lake county began with charges that there had been great frauds at the polls. The returns from that county have always been suspicious. It will be remembered that in 1926 when the state revolted generally against Senator James Watson, the Lake county vote was pot reported until it was known that the other sections shbwedi a Watson necessity for several thousand votes. Lake county, a trifle late, finally settled the question of the Watson election by giving him the necessary majorities. In the 1928 election the number of voters in Lake county was so large as to admit of no other explanation than that there had been repeating or fraudulent ballots cast, pr false returns made. The vote was out of line with every other measurement of population. It was out of line with even Chamber of Commerce claims of growth. It was out of line with the school census. It was out of line with the number of utility patrons. It was out of line with employment records. The Lake county politicians smiled complacently. They had charge of the machinery of government. There seemed to be no official curiosity concerning the unusual vote. The federal probe of ballot conditions revealed other things and now the nakedness of the Lake county political conditions is being slowly revealed. T hus far the public knows that there had been more than blindness concerning the various forms of profitable vice and crime. The prohibition law, the chief political asset of those for whom the votes were always counted, seemed to have been unknown in that district.

And with the disregard for that law so universal as to suggest that the violators were protected, came disregard for all other laws. There had been protection of commercialized vice. The gunman walked the streets unafraid. The activities of officials charged with detection of crime and punishment of criminals, apparently, had been directed to the protection of crime and the safeguarding of violators. Crime, such as exists in the Calumet, can only thrive when there is a partnership with politics. Widespread violations of any law can only continue where the government • comes under the control of those who are hi league, either financially or politically, srfth the violators. The men who debauch elections demand feome return for their work. They do not attempt to steal elections unless they feel assured that they will not only be protected fegainst jails, but get what they want. And generally they want protection against interference with some form of crime. The Lake county machine is the keystone of the state political arch. The men Wrho profit from it control the state. The agents of the machine control the making bf laws. Unquestionably the state commission, if alert, will discover that the conditions in Uake county are duplicated, to some degree, in many other sections of the state. The difference is in degree, not in kind. Wherever law is disregarded, there is certain to be ballot frauds. After the commission gets through with Lake county it might take a look at Indianapolis. There are points of similarity.

Face-Saving and War Again China seems to have prevented a settlement rs *he Manchurian war danger. When the provisional Chinese-Russian agreement to negotiate in Berlin was announced last week, it was assumed that the peace parleys would be under way by this time end both armies withdrawn from the frontier. , Instead, the Nanking foreign minister now says he has agreed to nothing. On top of that, he has put northwestern Manchuria under martial law. All because China is insisting on even more than the usual amount of face-saving, so important to the Oriental. To save China's face, Moscow compromised and agreed to the permanent expulsion from Manchuria of the Russian officials of the Chinese Eastern railway. It was the arrest of those officials and seizure of the road by China, in violation of the treaty under which the road is operated jointly, that caused the war threat. But ha\mg won her point for permanent discharge of the Russian officials charged with propaganda, China now balks at removing the Chinese oftlcial who broke the treaty. China is lucky to be dealing with a nation like

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Russia, which for economic and political reasons has to be long suffering. If China, for instance, had violated a Japanese consulate, arrested Japanese officials, seized Japanese property and torn up a Japanese treaty, a victorious Japanese army would be occupying China today. But China is unlucky in risking war even with Russia. When the Russians get started, they may not stop. An Occidental military observer on the spot says that the red army is far superior to the Chinese, indeed that it is next to the French, the best in world today. Unfortunately, peace pleas so far have failed with China. Now it is time for her to think, and think fast, of what would happen to her in a war. It’s Our Move Now that the Geneva conference of world court members unanimously has accepted the Roof protocol for American adherence, other nations have a right to expdet prompt action by Washington as evidence of our good faith. The time is here—indeed it is long overdue —when the administration should take responsibility officially for the Root solution which it initiated unofficially. In formally voting to accept that protocol before it had official American status, the other nations have met us far more than half way. They have laid themselves open to another American rebuff, If Washington is so unsportsmanlike as to take advantage of the situation. But we cannot believe such is the intention of the administration. It is true that the administration cannot speak for the senate, but it can speak for itself. Secretary of State Stimson has announced his personal approval of the Root formula. That is not enough: Since it inspired that protocol, the administration should accept it formally through signature by the President. Obviously it is putting the other nations —many of which already have signed—in an unfair position, to delay the American signature. The second step is prompt submission by the President of the protocol to the senate. There is no excuse for waiting until all the other nations ratify before allowing it to go to the senate. There was no such delay when the administration wanted to obtain ratification of the Kellogg anti-war treaty.

Whether the senate accepts the protocol, which virtually is the only door through which we can enter The court, will depend in large measure on the attitude of the administration. Inaction on the part of the state department and White House is not going to get action in the senate. The administration is under an unusually heavy obligation in this matter just because Presidents Harding and Coolidge were content whenever possible to evade the issue, despite Republican party pledges to the country. More than three years ago the senate voted 76 to 17 for American adherence to the court under five reservations. The other nations accepted four of those reservations at once. Now by accepting the Root formula they have granted the United States the essential rights which the senate had in mind in the fifth reservation. Those three years of delay were due solely to the refusal of the Coolidge administration to negotiate with the other nations on the meaning of the reservations. In view of this unfortunate record by his predecessors, doubtless President Hoover will be all the more desirous of handling the Root protocol with fairness and promptness.

REASON B y FP LANDIS CK

WE do not believe that D. C. Stephenson will get the sixty-day parole he requests in order that he may take care ot his moss-grown business interests, for it might be necessary to chain him to a truck to keep him from flying the coop, once his dilated nostrils had negotiated the unfettered ozone. n b a Hoosiers will experience no difficulty in controlling their emotions should all of Steve's far flung interests go to pot. They do not believe that he is guilty of the crime for which he is serving a life sentence; they think he was framed because he knew too much about statesmen who ate out of his fat fist when he was all powerful. And then there was the danger of his aspiring to a senatorial toga, which he could have had for the demanding back in the black days when the politicians of both barties stood in line, impatient to massage his vanity with servile speech. Party leaders were mere red caps; they drank at his parties, laughed at Iris jokes and wrote him affectionate letters, to say nothing of photographs lovingly inscribed to him. tt u n BUT while the people of Indiana do not think him guilty of the crime for which he now looks through the bars, they feel that he should spend at least a century in the infernal regions for what he did to their state. However, he is whiter inside and out than the politicians in both parties who betrayed their commonwealth in order to hold public office. B B B Steve never will get out by the clemency route, because the powers have a hunch that he would start on a lecture and writing career that would causa many statesmen to spend the rest of their lives behind false whiskers, coming forth for air only in the dark of the moon, for this King Purnell of politics has abundant merchandise on them. m BBS How his revelations would sell! The newspaper syndicates the lecture bureaus, the motion picture people would all be waiting for Steve at the big iron gates, should he emerge and he would receive a price per word, alongside which Mr. Coolildge would seem to be taking his pen in hand out of pure philanthropy. Steve would be paid not only for his words, but for his comas and dashes and exclamation points, particularly the exclamation points. . . BBS AS to those business interests which are said to be languishing because deprived of the tender care of their loving papa, they were all purchased with the money which Steve acquired from the sale of his avalanche of bunk. When he started the organization in Indiana, which later took the state captive, he was broke. B B U He left Evansville, where he failed in coal and politics, and headed for Indianapolis, financed by an old friend of ours. When Steve begged that loan of twenty-five bones, little did his benefactor dream that he was Qnancing a fury against his own religion, but so it proved to be.

M. E: Tracy SAYS:

The Time Has Arrived for Some Serious Thinking About the Nation s Power Problem. THE federal government still owns Muscle Shoals and is getting ready to build Boulder Dam; the people of Maine have voted against exportation of surplu: power; California is considering the possibility of constructing some large dams, and Governor Roosevelt is preparing to ask the New York legislature for authority to develop the St. Lawrence. While such things indicate that the public is waking up to the nature and importance of the power problem, they are rather inconsequential compared to activities on the other side—the merging, combining and consolidating by which powerful financial interests are establishing centrallized control of production and distribution of electricity, not only in particular sections of the country, but througnont the country as a whole. The time obviously has arrived for some serious thinking. The American people face about the same kind of situation with regard to power that they faced with regard to railroading thirty years ago. The development of a public policy clearly is demanded, not only for the federal government, but for the states. Some see public ownership as the o'hly effective means of-relief; ethers would be satisfied if the federal government and the states retained such power sites as they now control; others ask little more than federal regulation of interstate traffic; and still others think that the power industry should be let alone. At present, the situation is not only too big, but too complicated, for any one to be quite sure of tire best solution, or to suppose that any single theory will work.

Revolutionized Life IT was about fifty years ago that the electric light and dynamo made their appearance. It was about twenty-five years ago that the first big power plants were established. We not only are dealing with a gigantic industry, but with comparatively new one. Within two generations electricity has become a basic factor of human progress. Not only commerce, but the home, depends on it. It has brought about one of the swiftest and most radical revolutions in all history, changing not only the methods of production, manufacture and transportation, but those of daily life. No innovation ever altered the march of human events more completely or more intimately, and none ever made itself more indispensable in the same length of time. People who grew up with kerosene lamps, Corliss engines and horse cars would feel lost without the push button, the vacuum cleaner, the self-starter and the blaze of city streets. Naturally enough, capital has seized on electricity as the biggest prize in sight. Capital always has placed its bets on what the public wants and, if possible, on what the public can not get along without. One hundred years ago capital was intrigued by the sailing ship, and fifty years ago by the railroad. Now it is intrigued by the power plant, and for precisely the same reason.

The Morgans, Mellons. Insulls and Duponts followed the Huntingtons, Hills, Goulds and Harrimans, just as the latter followed the Girards. Grays and Perrys. BBS Meet the Issue Early ECONOMIC imperialism is made of the same stuff, whether it visualizes the whale trade or Niagara Falls as the most available clover patch, and the nublic can not protect itself without a certain amount of resistance. The longer that resistance is postponed the more extreme it is likely to become. The wisest course is to meet the issue before conditions become too irritating. If anything, we have postponed consideration of the power problem too long, have tried to think up easy, short cut remedies, and have evaded the obvious necessity of shaping a policy that will cover its ramifications. Right now. the public is so infatuated with hydro-electric power that it can not seem to think of any other kind, yet hydro-electric power, if developed to its ultimate extent, would supply only a small portion of the country’s needs, especially in years to come.

-iqoAvhp the—t\im us&iAliv ■* SsS acs ‘ms> CONSTITUTION SIGNED Sept. 17

THE convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen states in the Union signed the Constitution of the United States on Sept. 17, 1787. Rhode Island alone was unrepresented at the convention sessions in Independence hall. Philadelphia, under President Washington. Four months’ work was required to complete the Constitution, with the exception of the amendments, in the form in which we have it today. The delegates’ work promptly was approved by congress and at the close of the following year had been adopted by ele\en of the states and placed in operation among them. The other two states. North Carolina and Rhode Island, ratified the Constitution and entered into the American Union in 1789 and 1790, respectively. The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation by which the ill-fated union of the thirteen original stiles was held together from 1779 to 1789. The articles vested no real authority in the common representative* of the several commonwealths. __ j .

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Don’t Worry If Weight Is Off ’Average

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT generally has been assumed that the weight of the body is related definitely to its health. Height-weifeht tables have been studied for years by physical examiners in colleges and by investigators for life insurance companies. Within recent years examinations have been carried on in schools and children have been encouraged to eat more or less, so they might reach certain approximations of wieghts to heights that were considered suitable for good health. Professor C. E. Turner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently has published a consideration of the subject which points to the fact that the state-

IT SEEMS TO ME

COMMISSIONER WHALEN’S experiment of putting police dogs on patrol at night in Staten Island fills me with a certain apprehension. The practice almost constitutes a curfew law. The pun, if any, is wholly accidental. Just how effective (he dogs may be in frightening of marauders remains to be seen, but they serve to discourage even respectable citizens from late hours. Probably there will be small complaint against this in the island. In that Siberia of the greater city there is no reason why anybody should stay up late. Even if the hounds were not abroad in the land, the average resident of the suburb would retire early. This enables him to get to Manhattan all the sooner in the morning. B tt B Problem Solved IN a sense, living on Staten island solves one of life's most important problems. Other toilers living in the more accessible parts of the metropolis go grudgingly to work. No so the hardy pioneers from coral reef. To them the daily task is no grind, but rather an escape. You see them entering some Broadway office building with smiling, shining faces. Written large upon the countenance of each commuter from the wilderness is the happy

On estions and Answers

What is the value of a United States 5-cent piece dated 1886? Five to 7 cents. What is the value of a United Slates nickel 3-cent piece (proof) coin, dated 1874? Five to 15 cents. When was the p'clure “Three Weeks’ featurin'* Conrad Nagel and Aileen PringD. first shown in Indianapolis? Was it shown at the Ohio or Mr. Smith’s theater? We are unable to ascertain the exact date of the showing of "Three Weeks.” It was at the Ohio. What is a brother-in-law? Funk <fc Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary gives the following definitions of brother-in-law: A husband's brother, a wife’s brother, a sister's husband and. loosely in England and legally in the United States, a wife's sister's husband. W r hat daily newspaper in the United State*, has the largest circulation? The New York Daily News with a daily circulation of 1,145,481. Is there any difference in the meaning of the words pupil and student? By definition a student is a person engaged in a course of study, especially one who attends and studies at a high school, college or seminary; at, advanced scholar. A pupil is a person under the care of a teacher, in the united States

Unfinished Business

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

ments made in height-weight tables must be taken as averages. Children of the same height and age may vary in weight because of their heredity and because of tendencies toward emaciation or obesity, which are a part of their nature. In some schools children are weighed and measured with shoes and in other schools without shoes. The child with shoes seems taller and thinner than the one without. It therefore is not necessarily a provision of good hygiene to insist on bringing all children who seem to be slightly underweight to the figures that are called normal. Standard weight tables give average weights and there is a normal variation from thesi. It is unfair to set the average weight as normal for all children. Indeed. Professor Turner feels that at least 10 per cent should be

realiation that he is done with Staten island until nightfall. It is well enough, then, that giant beasts, bearing badges, should lope across these lonely moors. The Staten islander within his igloo can afford to smile when he hears the deep and distant baying of Whalen’s monster minions. A suburbanite versed in the art of keeping the wolf from the door is not likely to be frightened by the hoofbeats of a police dog. Or any plain-clothes dog. either. B tt B Might Be Troublesome BUT within the built-up portions of our town such surveillance might be troublesome indeed. I have no wish to be confronted at 4 a. m. some morning by a creature with gleaming fangs and a stop signal on his forehead. The necessity of knowing how to talk to policemen imposes ample hardships upon the citizen as it is. Must we now all become animal trainers, as well? It may be that these new recruits to the force have passed the necessary mental tests with flying colors, yet I am not at all certain that an intelligent animal would be capable of knowing at a glance that I was a column conductor and not a pants burglar. The whole thing suggests the establishment of anew kind of graft. Those of us who must keep late hours because of our occupa-

pupil is used quite generally to denote a scholar in an elementary or secondary school as distinguished from student, a scholar in an institution of higher learning. Who is Mae A. Costello? Is she now in motion pictures? She is the mother of Dolores and Helene Ccstello. motion picture actreses. She. was divorced from Maurice Costello, a veteran film actor, Sept 9, 1927. She is not now appearing in motion pictures. What is the rainy season in Germany? Rain falls there at all seasons, and the heaviest rainfall, 35 to 55 inches, is in the Harz mountains, the Black Forest and Vosges mountains, over the Bavarian highlands, and in the mountain chains that separate Germany from Bohemia; the lightest rainfall is in the north and middle zones of the north German plain, 16 to 24 inches, in Silesia and the upper Rhine valley. What was the name of the last picture in which Fred Thompson appeared. “Kit Carson.” Did Owen Moore appear with Lon Chaney in “The Road to Mandalay?” Yes. What does placebo mean? It is a term used in the Roman Catholic church for the openmg antiphone of the vespers for the dead. _ .

allowed as a limit of variation, which should not cause any undue alarm or special attention. Those children who are underweight because of slender build must be separated from those who are underweight because of emaciation, bad health, or malnutrition. The physician in charge of the studies will be able to make such a separation satisfactorily. The regular weighing of children is important, as it calls attention to the whole health problems. However, too much emphasis should not be placed on overweight, to make up alleged deficiencies. Emphasis should be placed rather on good nutrition and on regular gains in weight each month. The failure of a school child to gain in weight over a period of several months must be considered abnormal and have' attention of the physician.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those cf 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.

HEYWOOD BROUN

ticn or inclination will be forced to carry puppy biscuits, which will in turn be split with the dog higher up. a b b Good Will Agents NEVERTHELESS, I am not resolutely opposed to the extension of the innovation. With one minor change in equipment, Whalen’s dogs might easily become the most popular members of the force. First there should be a survey. Surely one of the deputy commissioners can be spared long enough to study the way they handle such things in the Alps. There could easily be refinements of the Swiss system. The kegs borne by the canine benefactors in the lofty mountains contain, according to all accounts, neat rum. And that is a good drink, too. But to the jaded palate of the city dweller it may be just a shade too sharp and stinging. Better far, I think, to have the casks of the police dogs of Grover Whalen filled with synthetic gin. The ideal police dog should carry, in addition to his cask, lemon juice, sugar and a split of white rock. Allow Whalen enough properly equipped police dogs and the illegal resorts could not continue to flourish a week. Who wants to whisper hoarsely through barred doors when he can get something just as good by standing in the middle of the sidewalk and shouting, “Come here, Rover,” and “Nice doggie”? 'Copyright. 1929. hv The Timesi

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ —

.4 Diet Which Is Not Sufficiently Varied May Lack Some Highly ' Important Chemical Substance. FAMOUS European biologists were invited to this country to attend the annual meeting of the American Chemical society last week at the University of Minnesota. The desire to have biologists as well as chemists present at the meeting arose from the present-day realization that one of the most important branches of chemistry is human chemistry 7. From many viewpoints the human body is a very complicated chemical factory. Health means the fartory is functioning properly. 11l health means that some department is not. This point of view was recognized at four sessions of the society's division of biological chemistry. These were devoted to a discussion of "Vital Processes in Health and Disease.” Nutrition, vitamins. Irradiation and endocrinology are among the subjects of discussion. A group of delegates from the International Congress of Physiology, which recently ended its session at Boston, took part in these discussions. a u Nutrition NUTRITION fundamentally 16 a chemical problem. The cells which compose the human body are composed of a great variety of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The carbohydrates include sugars and starches. All these chemical substances must be supported by the food we eat. That is why variety is esential in diet. A diet which is not sufficiently varied may lack some highly important chemical substance. The proteins present a particularly interesting chemical problem. There are many kinds of proteins. The proteins in the cells of the human body differ from those of various animals and plants. But all proteins are chemical combinations of simpler compounds called amino-acids. A single protein may consist of as many as twenty amino-acids. The human digestive system breaks up the proteins eaten into their constituent amino - acid ; From these, the right ones arc selected and put together to form the proteins of the human body cells. Here nature shows herself more skillful than chemists, for the chemists have not yet succeeded in synthetizing, or putting together by chemical means, proteins.

Vitamins CHEMICAL problems of an pxtremely difficult nature are presented by the vitamins. There still is very little known about the vitamins. Most of the knowledge about them is of a negative sort. That is, it is known that certain diseases—such as rickets—develop in their absence. The exact way in which they function, however, is not yet known. Their exact chemical relation is not yet known. They seem to be extremely delicate or unstable compounds and man.' experiments to analyze them succeeded only in disintegrating or destroying them. One theory, supported by their unstable nature, is that they are delicately balanced chemical compounds which carry a great, excess of energy. It is thought that during digestion they give up this excess energy, thereby supplying the energy for certain of the involved chemical processes possible. On this assumption the diseases which follow a vitamin deficiency would be the result of the fact that certain digestive processes could not take place without the energy of the vitamins.

Daily Thought

Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace.—ll Kings 7:9. B B B NOTHING can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.—Emerson. How many Liberty nlckles are now in circulation? It is impossible to estimate. These coins were issued from 1883 to 1912, inclusive.