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The Lake County Problem Some days ago Federal Judge Slick of the northern district gave out correspondence between himself, Senator Watson and National Committeeman Thurman denying that he had ever told Senator Watson that the probe of Lake county would result only in the indictment of a few bootleggers and that no one would l>e caught for election frauds. Aside from whatever impropriety there might have been in such discussion, whether such a statement was made or not made is of no great importance. What any three men may say, either for the satisfaction of idle curiosity, or for more serious personal interest, cannot affect the real problem. The people are more properly and vitally interested in whether the long session of the grand jury, the activities of prohibition agents and department of justice sleuths results in more than the capture of bootleggers. It has been openly charged the elections in Lake county have been fraudulent. The primaries at which federal and state officials are nominated are under suspicion. The vote of the county has changed results in the state and in 1926 was important enough to have changed the affairs of the nation. Had it not been for the large majority given to Senator Watson in that county at that time, the nation would now have a different leader in the senate directing the writing of the tariff law. It is the investigation of these alleged frauds that are of public interest and vital public interest. The bootlegging there has a somewhat different inportance than the violation of prohibition laws in other counties, for there is now the additional charge that the violators were given immunity because of their participation in the election irregularities. That prohibition violations have not greatly interested the federal authorities might almost be a matter of judicial notice, if the ease with which, several hundreds are now raided and caught be an indication. Several hundred bootleggers do not go into business over night. The business must be apparently safe to attract so many. If there has been any reason why the prohibition agents have been so unsuccessful in the past and so greatly successful after attention is called to the open charge of connection between the violations and election frauds, the public has a right to know the reason. The most damning charge is that for many, many months there has been on file in one federal office an affidavit charging that the protection began after an alleged conference of politicians and high officials and that the inactivity of federal agents dated from that conference. That is important. The people have a right to know the truth or falsity of such a charge. The best evidence is knowledge as to when bootlegging became a recognized industry in Lake county. Carolina Justice On Trial North Carolina slowly is coming to its senses. Nine labor rielendants, including three women, charged with murder of the Gastonia police chief, have been freed Charges against the seven remaining union defendants were reduced from first to second degree murder at the resumption of the trial in Charlotte Monday. Charges of assault against seven others were dropped. After a period of hysteria and intimidation, which early necessitated a change in venue from Gastonia, it ippears that the seven accused of murder will get a fair trial. This Is admitted by the defense counsel, who praise the rulings of Judge Barnhill. The shooting of the police officer, who was trying to force entrance into the union tent colony, followed a long period of violence against the textile strikers. Since the trial began, there have been a series of mob outrages against union members, night-riding, floggings. and the murder of a woman striker. To redeem its reputation, the state must apprehend and punish the murderers of the woman striker and the leaders of the many mobs. It must prevent repetition of this lawlessness against the strikers, which threatens again, now that the police murder trial is being resumed. Even that will not. solve North Carolina's problem. Conditions in the textile mills are a disgrace. The workers will not and should not long submit to the industrial slavery of low wages, long hours, company feudalism, and denial of civil liberties. North Carolina may get rid of the Communists. But it will not get rid of the widespread labor revolt until American working conditions are granted. This is recognized in part by Governor Gardner, who now is belatedly pleading for a textile cleanup, to include higher wages, shorter hours, and abolition of the company housing system. But the Governor still seems to be blind to the fundamental demand of the workers —the right to organize. Only through collective bargaining can the workers get justice, and they know it. This union question has been fought out for half a century’ in the rest of the country, and won by labor. Nothing can prevent the eventual unionization of the southern textile mills —not all the company thugs, lawless police, and mobs in North Carolina, not all the

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money of the foreign and northern mill owners who went down there to exploit the south. The remaining question is whether labor is to be permitted to organize peacefully under its constitutional rights. Shearer Is a Side Show William B. Shearer, big navy propagandist, has been a tough customer on the senate committee witness stand. He has been tricky. Nothing can stop him from turning the witness stand into a platform of self-propaganda and vilification of senators, college presidents, peace advocates, reporters, all and sundry. He has denied charges contained in an alleged Scotland Yard dossier that he was a suspected thief, gambler and spy. He has denied he was a bootlegger, but admitted sacrificing a SSOO bond rather than stand trial on a liquor charge in New Rochelle. He confessed he lied at Geneva in denying his paid connection with the cruiser companies. Naturally the committee and the public can not remain unprejudiced against this man, whose testimony makes him seem worse even than he had been painted. But the sinister qualities of this paid war-monger should not bind the committee and the public to the fact that he was only the henchman of higherups. He has enough to suffer for on his own account. Justice can not be served by making him the goat for the sins of others. Let it not be forgotten that he was employed to do his militaristic job at the Geneva arms conference called by the United States. The three shipbuilding and armament companies confess to hiring him. But they say they paid him merely as an “observer.” These armament company officials, including Charles M. Schwab, should be called to the stand to answer, if they can, Shearer’s testimony. Their alibis, given at the beginning of the senate probe, were evasive and unsatisfactory. As the case now stands, any fair reading of the evidence would convict those company officials of joint responsibility with Shearer. Convict them, that is, at the bar of public opinion, for they now are not standing legal trial. And if those armament-makers are guilty, the public must know. Shearer is of small importance compared with them. He now is discredited, and fairly harmless as a future paid propagandist. But are those companies—which even now are profiting in cruiser contracts from the Geneva conference failure—going to escape responsibility for Shearer? Are they going to be left free to employ in the future other Shearers who have not yet been exposed? That is the issue. Shearer is only a side show. Who Sits Where? Social Washington has been making itself more and more ridiculous since Charles Curtis became VicePresident, and he and his sister, Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, are as much to blame as any one. Mrs. Gann is the Vice-President’s official hostess, although just why it is necessary to have one is for the reader to answer. The social war began when Curtis took office and has been going on ever since. The real purpose of Premier MacDonald’s visit to the United States in the interest of naval disarmament is being lost sight of in the flurry over what guests will welcome him at banquets and receptions and where they will stand or sit. Official Washington takes its social life and its social precedences too seriously. This is a republic, a democratic form of government, without nobility and presumably without caste. What the people want in Washington is a government that functions for their benefit, not one that gets into a snarl every time a visitor comes from abroad or a dinner party is held.

REASON

THE parade of human virtue pauses long enough for the drummers to give three ruffles in honor of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah who spurned a flask of fire-water at a party. But as Smoot was raised amid the generous circumstances of polygamy, it is just barely possible that he glared at Satan because he was offered only one bottle, instead of a dozen. a a a But declining the cemetery dew, Smoot proved that he knew his onions as well as his sugar beets, for he who imbibes these days is like as not to wake up listening to the birds on Jupiter, and one who has a life-time lease for a senate seat naturally desires to linger on our planet, small though it be, so long as he can tempt the man on horseback to look the other way. aa a \ It can not be denied that an assured senatorial career does prolong life more than a barrel of monkey glands, as is evidenced by the aggregate antiquity of the upper chamber some thirty years ago when most of those who reached there stayed. There were a dozen ivy-clad solons on either side of the partisan aisle, the most ancient of them all being Senator Morrill of Vermont. a a a ONE day Senator Vest of Missouri, who had been there ever since American history was a child, felt indisposed and mentioned it to Senator Allison of lowa, who had been distributing garden seeds ever since squashes were invented, and Allison sought to cheer his ailing mate by pointing to Senator Morrill as he entered, leaning heavily on a cane: “Look at Morrill, he's twenty years your senior, yet he’s good for a long time.” “Yes,” replied Vest, “They’ll have to shoot Morrill on the day of judgment!” a a a But to return to these tales of wild life at Washington. Senator Howell of Nebraska, we want to know the exact alcoholic content of these rumors with which you devastate the contentment of less irrigated regions. Is it true the trumpet on which our arid chieftains sound their parching blasts is filled with hooch? a a a You say it is and that the altar of inebriety is served by those we thought consecrated to the camel, but you should generalize no more; you should tell us who they are. What senator for instance, floated into innocuous desuetude that dripping night when Elder Smoot held high the sizzling torch of thirst? a a a 'npiS cruel to hand us this cannibalistic hunger for A hypocrites, then quit us cold, so tell us. Senator Howell, just who your colleagues are who strew’ forget-me-nots before the feet of Mr. Barleycorn as he returns from Volsteadian exile. We want to know and you can tell us, so here we sit, one hundred million of us and more, with jaws ajar, waiting for you to call the corkscrew roll.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

North Carolina Authorities Are to Be Praised for Their Action in the Gastonia Case. NINE of the sixteen defendants in the now famous Gastonia case have been discharged, while charges against the other seven have been reduced from first to second degree murder. Whether this is a victory for the defense, it certainly is a triumph for justice. Whatever else may be said of North Carolina, it refuses to emulate the attitude of Massachusetts in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Not only the trial judge, tut the entire state administration, appear determined to be fair. n tt n The death of Police Chief Aderholt, around which the Gastonia trial centers, came about as the result of trouble due to the textile strike. That simple statement, however, falls far short of explaining the situation. There was not only a strike, but an admixture of communistic propaganda. Asa matter of fact, many employes were as bitter in their attitude toward the strikers as were the mill owners. Under such circumstances, it would have been easy enough for a biased judge or a biased administration to put on a political show. The authorities of North Carolina are to be congratulated on their restraint. tt tt tt Higher Wage Needed INSTEAD of capitalizing the situation, Governor Gardner of North Carolina employs it as the basis of a peculiarly strong statement with regard to conditions surrounding the southern textile industry and what should be done to correct them. A higher wage is necessary, he believes, while shorter hours should be established, and the mill village abolished. Trite as that may sound, it goes to the root of the evil. Workers in southern textile mills are notoriously underpaid, and the fact that they are underpaid explains, to some extent at least, why so many mills have sprung up in that section. As to the mill village, it primarily was designed to guarantee the continuance of low wages, to make the workers helpless, to place them in a position where they could not strike without the risk of being thrown out of their homes. a tt tt Political gospellers, however, especially of the radical type, can serve no good purpose in the south. What the workers want and what they need is not a crusade in revolutionary doctrines, but a little hard-headed trading. Their salvation lies not in the development of anew political faction, but in improved working conditions. They would profit far more through the advice of intelligent labor leaders than through the preaching of soap box orators. tt tt tt Women Complicate Tangle THERE are a great many women at work in the textile mills, and their presence has helped to keep wages down. In spite of the argument that women should receive the same pay for the same service as men, they are not getting it in most occupations. * What is worse, mast industrial leaders doubt whether they should. Henry Ford goes so far as to predict that they will be eliminated from industry. tt tt tt While this writer disagrees with Mr. Ford, he does not believe that general parity is possible between tie sexes. There are certain things that women can do as well as men, and there are some things that they can do better. On the other hand, there are some that they can not and never will be able to do as well. The thought that we can unsex the human race is one of those fantastic dreams for which old maids are responsible. tt tt u As a general proposition, women can be depended on to vote with as great intelligence as men, and probably with a greater degree of conscience. So, too, they could be depended on to fill a great many offices with credit to themselves and profit to the community. It will be a long time, however, before women constitute 80 per cent of the ditch diggers or men 90 per cent of the kindergarten teachers. The idea of parity, except in limited cases, is impractical, and no one knows it better than the normal women.

Daily Thought

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; her ways, and be wise.— Proverbs 6:6. a tt e A poor idle man can not be an honest man. —Achilles Poincelot.

Questions and Answers

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Stricter Laws Needed on Food

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. IN New Jersey, according to the health officer, Dr.C. V. Craster, one typhoid carrier was responsible for thirty-five cases of typhoid fever and three deaths in the city of Newark and seventy-two cases and three deaths in the state of New Jersey, before he finally was captured and put where he could not continue to infect the food of other people. Health authorities are agreed that certain factors are definitely required to establish the safety and quality of food. The food must be free from

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE proximate has for me a peculiar spell, and the book before my eyes, if it is good at all, transcends the ancient piece of literature with a month’s mold upon it. Last night’s play tends to be more vivid and valuable than anything produced in late July. I care not at all about the snows of yesteryear. There is more tingle in tonight’s slight frost. After this wordy explanation I want to go on record as thinking that “A Farewell to Arms,” by Ernest Hemingway, is the best novel written by any living American. Indeed. I am tempted to leer at the dead as well and shout toward the churchyards, “Did you ever do anything half so good?” Possibly in a month’s time my enthusiasm may hve cooled into the belief that “A Farewell to Ai’ms” is a superb story. That is the absolute limit of my caution. When “Arrowsmith,” by Sinclair Lewis, was hot off the presses it seemed to me a landmark in American literature. To the bdfet of my ability I did cartwheels in front of the booth where it was published. Now I think there may have been too much heat in my transports. But what of that? If not the book of the century it still remains a swell novel. So let it be with the latest work of Hemingway. tt tt a The Boy Grows TO some extent “The Sun Also Rises” was a pageant for members only. Although I liked the book, it was easy to understand the dissastisfaction of those who found it formless and rambling. The Hemingway of that book was good but also a little precious. He had not quite completed his Lardnerian apprenticeship and at times he strained himself in holding fast to the belief that all emotion must be strangulated and inarticulate. Still, it might be said, what shall it avail a man to catch the echoes of commonplace speech if he loses his own creative soul in the achievement? So far as Hemingway progressed in “A Farewell to Arms” his reportorial facility is merely an incidental virtue. By now the man has warmed up. He’s gettirig his

in their distress over his death. Another theory is that people sat up with the corpse until burial to keep the rats, which were abundant, away from the body. There is an old popular tradition in Ireland that St. Patrick, just before his death, asked his friends not to mourn, but ; to rejoice, and the better to do this | they were each to have liquor to drink to make them happy. i Is there a way to determine the age of a tree by looking at it? The age of a standing tree can only be computed by means of an increment borer, an instrument especially designed for that purpose. It cuts a round cylinder about the I size of a pencil, from the bark to the center of the tree, on which the rings can be counted.

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adulteration, substitution, or evidence of spoilage; it must be produced under clean conditions, protected from dust, dirt and flies, and it must be handled by people free from communicable diseases. Almost everyone now realizes that an infected food handler can pass his disease on to other people. Unfortunately, legislation and the enforcement thereof for the control of food handlers has not been developed efficiently in most communities. Obviously, physical examination of every person who handles food in any way in a restaurant, hotel, or barbecue emporium is an almost impossible task. It is not necessary to know, of course, whether the food handler

back and shoulders into narrative by now. I know of nothing more profoundly moving and poignant than the end of this new book and no check is put upon the emotional flow. When people are hurt, they cry out. And when they love, they say as much and at some length. The grim-lipped period of Hemingway has been set aside. He no longer fears eloquence or even a flowery phrase in season. tt tt tt Their Chins Up IWAS won utterly to his book by an episode late in the story. “A Farewell to Arms” concerns an American who serves with the Italian army as an officer in an ambulance unit. He loves a Brittish nurse. The American deserts from the Italian army shortly after the beginning of the big retreat. He and the nurse manage to escape to Switzerland, where they live together at a hotel and pretend to be married. It is at about this point in the narrative that Catherine says to her lover, “We’re splendid people.” Possibly there is a shade of banter in her remark but in essence she means it and so does the author. That is one of the fundamental reasons why I am so strong for the book. -I’m sick of stories about cringing people. The familiar word “hero” may not seem an appropriate term for the chief character in Hemingway's book. He is not outstandingly brave, nor in any particular way a coward. Sometimes he errs and again he behaves with charity and kindliness. In fact, he is a person cut from

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has flat feet or bowlegs. It is important, however, to know that he is not subject to active tuberculosis, septic sore throat, diphtheria, or chronic tonsilitis; that he has not typhoid fever; that he has not a communicable skin disease, or in the case of males, at least, any venereal disease. Most states are begining to demand at least certification of evei’y food handler that he is free from the conditions mentioned. To have such certification, it is, of course, necessary that the food handler submit to a partial physical examination. There seems to be no doubt that rigid enforcement of such health laws will do much to improve the health of the community.

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about the same cloth as the rest of us, which makes him to my mind a magnificent fellow. Not too much is he burdened with conscience. He can look honestly at the dawn and greet each day as new. tt tt tt War in Its Place TO some extent this novel may be classed as a war book, but the war is not part of the essential conflict even though there is vivid detail of life along the Italian front. And there is quite a lot of existence in hospitals back of the line. But this, too, is woven into the swing and scope of the story. An irrelevance is almost certain to creep into discussion of “A Farewell to Arms.” There will be talk as to whether it should be censored or not and Boston or some other city of that sort may act against it. If so, it will be a pity. Undeniably there is frank talk at times, although Hemingway has been willing to indicate certain shock words with dashes. Little harm is done by this. A 10-year-old child could supply the missing letters. I think the novel is one of the most eloquent love stories I know, but if anybody challenges me on this I’ll shift my ground and say that no one can compare to Hemingway in scenes where men sit down together to engage in talk which is not for publication. In fact, not a single figure moves across the pages of “A Farewell to Arms” who seems to have the slightest notion that he is a character in a book. (Copyright. 1929, by The Times)

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SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ —

City Planning Expert Dc+ clares Parkways are One Solution in Congestion* Problem of Cities. PARKWAYS are one solution to the crowding of modem cities, in the opinion of Charles H. Cheney of Los Angeles, chairman of the city end regional planning committee of the American Institute of Architects. A parkway, to quote Cheney's description, is “a route limited to passenger vehicles, and made exceptionally agreeable as a route of pleasure travel by every possible means, but especially by the feeling of openness that comes only with plenty of width and by an ample enframement of trees, shrubs and other plantings in the parallel wide sidewalk areas.” Civic experts gradually are beginning to realize that the artist as well as the engineer must be con-* suited in city planning for two reasons. Economic values are one reason. Public health Is the other. “High-class residence cities, proud of their appearance and attracting large numbers of visitors, find it profitable to create show drives PJid parkways 150 to 300 feet wide and well lined with trees and flowering shrubs, connecting up the various parks and principal points of Interest around the city,” Cheney says. “There is justification for providing such a parkway or boulevard as one of the main thoroughfares of a city wherever conditions are such that commercial traffic can be taken care of in other nearby routes. “A parkway or boulevard may be used mainly by people going to and from business and yet give them a great deal of incidental recreation, and pleasure.” a it a Playgrounds PROPER city planning gradually is conquering many of the old bugaboos of real estate. An old fear, for example, was that a school or playground would depreciate neighboring property. Frequently, as a matter of fact, it did. This can be obviated by the proper planting of trees and shrubs. “To be a good neighbor, each school and playground should thickly planted with a screen <# shrubs and trees twenty to for 1 feet wide, outside the playgrou# | fence,” Cheney says. Cj “It is a well-established fact tn residential property facing a pul’ park gains in a few years 10 tr per cent more value than prof not near a park.” Z 1 ’ Cheney’s point is that a 1 yard or playground can be nf . combine with its primary fij ® all the beauties and park. T 1 Cheney feels that there is { ular need that more attentty paid to the matter of small within the city. , “At intervals about the cityk should be outdoor beauty spog , the restful recreation of botj| and young,” he says. a “In each distinct part of the .tty there should be a neighborhood park of fifteen to fifty acres, forming a general adult recreational center.” a tt a California CHENEY, who urges nation-wide; expert city planning, calls “more' breathing space in American cities,” the major objective of such planning. There is need, he feels, for more “impressive scenery for nervestrained, city-strained men, women and children.” California just has passed a “planning act.” This act makes it man-, datory for each city, county anti regional planning commission tr make and adopt a master plait which gives sufficient attention txr parks, parkways and playgrounds. Cheney urges other states to follow the example of California. “This is a distinct step forward in the progress of the country,” he says. California’s new planning act went into effect on Aug. 1. It supersedes a less definite act passed in 1927. * The 1927 act followed the recommendation of a model standard planning enabling act by a commit! tee headed by Herbert Hoover, the! secretary of commerce. \ Cheney points out that city has become so complicated that it' is impossible to plan adequately unless the plan takes in a whole region. “We know that it is not practical to locate a school building or the local playground for the children] who are to use the school, without taking into account the centers of present and future child population,” he says.