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“Ho, Hum” Reaping a Harvest We read in a newspaper that some wretch has died under the third degree; that a neighbor's home has been searched in defiance of the bill of rights. “Ho, hum!’’ we say as we turn to the sports page to see what the Army or Navy football team is doing and what Connie Mack has in mind for next season. Our home was not invaded. Our features were not battered in the modern inquisition that police officers sometimes employ to wring confessions lrom suspects. We continue to have life and are more or less free to pursue elusive happiness. So, ho, hum! That's one of the important things that is the matter with us. We need to take to heart the infringements of constitutionally guaranteed liberties. Did you ever stop to consider the amazing conditions that called for the formation of an institution •uch as the Civil Liberties Union? The aim of that organization is to see to it that we get—what? Why, that we get what already has been guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the United States. “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” That does not mean vigilance by a scattered few. It means Vigilance by every American who believes in his country and its basic principles. Defenders of our ancient liberties are wont to declaim about the defiance of royal arbitrariness by our Revolutionary fathers. The protests of Lord Camden, James Otis and others against the writ of cearch and seizure warrants are cited. The tiling that occurred a hundred years ago engages our thought. But when we hear that some snooping dry agent, without warrant in law, went gum-footing about our neighbor’s home only day before yesterday, we say: “Glad it didn’t happen to us,” and let it go at that. When we surrender the proud pretention that “every man’s house is his castle,” we are not letting slip merely an achievement of our generation. We are letting go a heritage which took centuries of atrength and rivers of blood to acquire. We are not betraying the traditions of an age; we are betraying the whole human race. The Greeks established freedom of individual conscience, but Rome first recognized the individual in law. Yet through the centuries that separated Justinian and Thomas Jefferson, man was liable to the audden and arbitrary seizure of his person or goods, to taxation without consent or representation, to the billeting of soldiers in his home, to unjust trial without proper protection of law or counsel and the like. The unprecedented guarantees of personal liberty embodied in the first ten amendments to our federal constitution were brought about by ceaseless effort, vigilance and protest through more than a millennium of effort The petition cf right in the reign of Charles I put an end to arbitrary imprisonment and taxation in England, yet this charter and the more elaborate bill of rights which grew out of it were but the summation of fragmentary gains for liberty in the struggle against the tyranny of the Normans, Plantagenets, and Tudors who had preceded the Stuarts. By the eighteenth century, in Anglo-Saxon lands, man had gained a reasonable assurance of protection against arbitrary imprisonment. But his house was not yet his castle. Search and seizure of homes continued. Then America stepped into the scene. American homes had been searched by customs officials, hunting for smuggled goods. Otis, Adams, and others eloquently protested. Revolution followed, and we become masters of our own political and juristic destiny. Yet men. as they are wont to do, quickly forget the lessons of the past. A federal constitution was framed which contained no .provision protecting the Individual; nothing assuring to him the permanent realization of the rights for which he had struggled through years of blood and privation. It was Jefferson who insisted upon the inclusion of the bill of rights in our fundamental document before he would promise the support of his party in the Struggle for ratification. The libertarians of that age realized that liberty was a mockery unless a man's house was legally his castle. Hence the fourth amendment, which declares: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrant shall Issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.” That's clear, isn’t it? No hum and ho about it. Yet a legislature In lowa essentially has legalized once more the conditions which Lord Camden, James Otis and others condemned more than a century ago. Evidence illegally obtained will be accepted as valid in lowa courts. Our supreme court allows this lapse to stand unchallenged. on the technical ground of nonjurisdiction. One more a man may behold his door being battered down by agents of the law, his cellar and his closets searched, his personal effects and household furnishings thrown about in confusion, his privacy become less than a legal fiction. Self-government is a responsibility, not an Innate \ privilege. If we shirk our responsibility we will deserve ! to have to fight bitterly in the future to gain the birthright which generations of our forebears purchased with their toil and blood. The Flathead Power Case The question of what shall be done with water power belonging to the Flathead Indians may bring to the front the question of what ehall be done about the federal power commission. At first the Flathead issue was a quarrel between a great power company and an individual as to who should develop the site. It now appears that the company has been allowed to charge to its capital account sums of money it spent, apparently, in urging public opinion to its side of the issue. • This involves the accounting division, heart of the commission's structure, for the chief accountant held the expenditures were improper and a former executive secretary approved then, anyway. The present executive secretary has clashed with the accounting division on more than one occasion, and it was his tentative award of the Flathead site to the power company that precipitated this controversy. It is apparent now that cabinet members compos-

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ing the federal power commission are going to take the Flathead matter into their own hands and examine thoroughly what their employes have done or else the senate is going to do it for them. In either case it will be instructive to learn more about the work of the commission. Natural Resources for War or Peace? Disinterested observers are likely to commend Henry L. Doherty’s campaign against the waste of our oil resources. Yet there is implied in his underlying reason for solicitude over our oil supply a characteristic error which runs through most of our discussion of this problem. He says: “Oil is the most important munition of war; it is being wasted in a most shocking manner and may result in a ruthless sacrifice of the blood and treasure of the nation and in ghastly magnitude.” It frequently is assumed that the only serious issue involved in the waste of our natural resources is that such wastefulness may weaken our resistance in some luture war. The indignation against the doings of Sihciair and Doheny was chiefly a product of the fact that they were sequestering naval oil reserves. It is high time that we laid more emphasis on the fact that waste and corruption in untilizing our natural resources is an issue which gravely concerns our peace-time interests and prosperity. No economic historian well could deny that £he unnecessary waste in development of our natural resources since the Civil war far transcends our losses in all wars since foundation of the republic. Certain dearth, at no distant date, of some of our basis natural resources constitutes more ground for pause and reconsideration of policies than the vague prospect of a dozen future wars. We shall need to live as well as to fight. Mr. Fall’s Punishment Conviction of a former cabinet officer for accepting a bribe to sell out the nation’s precious resources can be received by the public only with mingled emotions. There must be satisfaction that neither the influence of wealth nor political position can save a man guilty of such a crime. There must be shame that our nation could produce the orgy of corruption in high places of which Mr. Fall was a part. And yet it is to the credit of the jury that it recommended mercy. That, too, will be the feeling of the average citizen. Mr. Fall is a broken old man. He deserved the same conviction which would have been given a poor man. The health of our national institutions was more important than the physical well being of this offender who poisoned public life. But he also deserves the same mercy which we would plead for a penniless and friendless offender. The national resources which he bartered away have been restored by the courts. He has been shorn of public respect, which is the greatest punishment. His conviction is a warning to officials who come after him. Whatever he does, he will be powerless to injure the government again. That is enough. Revenge is not a part of justice. The judge, whose able handling of this tremendously important case has won the commendation of most citizens, is certain to have this in mind in fixing Mr. Fall's penalty.

REASON

THE other night we saw a pretty girl, dressed in the fashion of thirty years ago. She was not broadcasting; she was covered up. She looked more like a queen than anybody we've laid eyes on in a long, long time. tt tt a She had on a black dress that came to her ankles and the material clung to ner, for which you did not blame it a bit. There was a little white stuff round her throat and wrists and her hat was a black sailor. There was no shellac on her lips, nor war paint on her face; she was just as God made her, a vision of modesty and loveliness. Oh, boy! a a o She led you back to the days when man respected woman, and that respect, by the way, was the greatesi asset civilization ever had. For exalted womanhood, man felled forests, raised; crops, worked until he was exhausted and fought the battles of his country. We wish we might call back to the United States that great respect of other years. a a tt BUT only the women of America can call it back. They can call it back only by putting on some clothes, throwing their cigarets away and letting the gentlemen drink the highballs. With man’s respect for woman gone, civilization is only a varnished paganism, only a gilded lie! o n a A lot of crime is due to the fact that woman not only has thrown up the job of elevating man, but has helped him take the bridle off all conventionality and whip the wildest impulses down the broad highway toward perdition. Woman is man’s keeper and if she does not keep him, Good Night! tt St tt The dress that girl wore carried us back to the days when legs were the private property of those to whom they were attached. We used to take a few drinks at some bazaar of alcoholic relief, but we never called on a girl with the smell of liquor on our chops. Had we done so, she would have given us the air and the old man would have given us both barrels. IF any young bird had gone to a dance in those days, reeking of rotten hooch, we would have thrown his carcass out of the first window. If any young bird had offered a girl a flask we would have broken his neck. And if any girl had tossed her countenance to the ceiling and drunk like a longshoreman, we would have had heart failure! a a a In those days the names of girls were not flipped from lip to lip by the smirking freshman in the school of life for he who lightly mentioned an honest reputation found a fist parked in his face. Woman was exalted by that old-fashioned chivalry which went out when skirts went up. a a a We see where the women may go back to longer dresses and we hope they do. for the virtues, like the follies, are all sisters and with a return of common modesty, we may hope for the day when the ladies will no longer smoke, chew and drink; for the day when man’s long vanished respect for woman may return.

FREDERICK By LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Saving Grace of a Lobby Lies in Its Division; Where There Is a Pro-Lobby, There Usually Is An AntiLobby. AS was pointed out in a New York Telegram editorial the [other day, the Carnegie Foundation merely told us some things about college athletics we already knew. The same thing might be said about the lobby investigation now going on at Washington. Still, it is a good thing to be reminded once in a while. Though most people know that the lobbying is a permanent institution, they are apt to forget how fast it has grown. 1 It will startle even some congressmen to learn that 500 interests are represented in the “third house,” and that 300 of them are listed in the telephone book. tt tt tt The saving grace or the lobby lies in its division. Where there is a pro-lobby, you can depend on an anti-lobby. Indeed, the lobby is a shining example of the law that action leads to reaction. To balance the Anti-Saloon League, there Is the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; to offset the sugar crowd, there are the candy makers and bottlers; to neutralize the big navy advocates, there are the pacifists, and so one might go on, ad infinitum. a tt a Always With Us THE lobby, as we know it, is a by-product of organization and expertness—the right of petition, as exercised by great groups. In spirit, there has been a lobby ever since the republic came into being. It is only <the practice that has changed. Where citizens used to write their congressmen, or go to Washington in person, they now hire some lawyer or lame duck. a tt u The rumpus in Wall Street is history. As an episode in our greatest game of chance, it can be dismissed. Asa revelation of the sources of financial power, it leaves something to think about. The big banks of New York showed what they could do. By common judgment, it was one of the worst sags that ever struck the stock market, yet within an hour or so after Morgan called his conference, it was checked. a tt u Who said that pools were a myth, or that the stock market could not be controlled? By the same token, who said that Army would beat Yale, or that Mussolini was a flash in the pan? Even the wisest of us know more about a thing after it has occurred than before. tt tt tt Mussolini Stays On HERE is II Duce celebrating his seventh anniversary as dictator of Italy. It staggers one to think what he has done, or how few people thought he could do it. Twenty-five ar fifty years hence, historians will be proving that Fascist Italy was a logical by-product of the great war, but no one saw it coming. For that matter, no one saw Bolshevism coming until it had arrived. tt a a We constantly are being told that “great events cast their shadow before ” Maybe they do, but something blinds most of us to it. More often than not, this is because great events hinge on leadership, an unbridled ambition, a spark of genius, or a curious idea. Though Fascismo may be a logical by-product of the war, who believes that it would have swept Italy as it has, except for Mussolini? And with regard to Bolshevism, who believes that it would have swept Russia, but for Nicolai Lenin? 8 tt tt Some One Must Lead WHILE co-operative action is necessary for the background, it Is some individual that blazes the trail. Yale had a crack team, but it was Booth who made the touchdowns. The big banks of New York had the resources and the will, but it was Morgan who gave the word. If the truth were known, it probably would turn out that some individual started the raid in Wall Street. Even mob psychology fails to function without its cue. a tt Not only do games, events and movements hinge on individual leadership, but they generally are measured by their effect on individuals. Football would not be what it is in America, or Fascimo what it is in Italy, or Bolshevism what it is in Russia, but for the reaction in individual minds. Every mass attitude in the world goes back to personal feeling, to a hope, belief or conviction that many people have learned to entertain.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times— The reason the people of the United States, and for that matter, the people of the world, are doing a lot of talking about prohibition is evident, and a good one; alcohol offers a real impediment to the further advancement of civilization. There is not so much clear thinking being done as the nature of the situation merits. The flood of shallow talk which continues to go the rounds seems to be the result of shallow and muddy thinking. One fact of fundamental import in considering a reform like prohibition is that in dealing with the evils incident to the trade in alcohol for beverage purposes we always must distinguish between the private appetite and the public traffic. The private appetite, though the center of much of the evil, is not to be regulated by but to be controlled by education, moral sua-

lodized Salt Not Certain Goiter Ban

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN recent years studies have been made in most of the states of the United States as to the number of cases of goiter occurring in the population. It has been found, as most people know, that goiter is more prevalent in those districts in which the waters are glacial waters containing small amounts of iodine and that the giving of small amounts of iodine to adolescent girls and to pregnant women prevents many cases of simple goiter. Kentucky is outside the goiter belt and it has long been believed that such cases as are found in Louisville and in surrounding territory occur in persons who have

IT SEEMS TO ME

IN this column recently the suggestion was advanced that the workers convicted in Gastonia were tried only incidentally for the shooting of Chief Aderholt. It seemed to me that they were sentenced essentially for the crime of attempting to introduce the principle of collective bargaining into the mills of North Carolina. And if anybody thinks that this was a radical and ridiculous point of view I call his attention to the opinion expressed in the Gastoiva Gazette, the organ of the mill owners. The Gazette agrees with me completely. In an editorial that newspaper said: “Let us hope that this will be the last time this county ever will have to undergo such a siege again. It will not be safe for any so-called labor agitator to be caught nosing around here any time soon. The folks here are simply not going to put up with it any longer.” a tt a Ban Free Speech THIS is plain speech. The mill bosses in Gastonia own the governing agencies of the community and so this proclamation has all the weight of an official ukase. And Gastonia says very frankly that it regards any attempt to unionize for better conditions is by anybody’s definition an agitator. Obviously the ban is not limited to Communists. There is, of course, ro statute against free speech, even in Gastonia, but it is always possible to trump up some charge or other. If you or I attempted to tell the mill slaves that their lot was pitiful. we immediately would become guilty of “nosing around” and be subject to the savage penalties meted out to agitators. It is no idle threat which the mill mer. make. Judge and jury have made it plain that official violence will be condoned wholly when it is visited upon any labor sympathizer When the National Textile Unionists were on trial for second-degree

sion, religious motives, and those of prudence, personal safety, and the exercise of the human will. The public traffic is in another category and Is not susceptible to any of these influences, but is a creature of law and can be regulated or suppressed only by law. Through a century of increasingly close scrutiny, observing people have come to realize the liquor traffic is a natural outlaw, and that to license its continued existence is to harbor a racial cancer which spreads its murder over the years and scatters its waste from generation to generation. It is the further task of every forward-looking nation which outlaws the public traffic to inform completely its people and thus deal with the other factor in the equation, the private appetiteGORDAN BARNES, Washington, D. C.

In His Wake

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

moved into Kentucky from neighboring states on the north. Recently a survey has been made by Dr. W. O. Johnson, who examined 5,083 girls 'in Louisville schools and found that adolescent goiters occurred in 13 per cent. He found that these adolescent goiters did not occur in families which had moved into Kentucky from goitrous districts, but that the cases occurred largely among people of local origin. He also found a large amount of tooth decay among all the children and serious infections of the tonsils were not infrequent. His investigations led him to believe that goiters occur more commonly among undernourished children with decayed teeth and bad tonsils. An interesting sidelight on his investigations was the fact that more

R HEYWOOD y BROUN

'murder the prosecuting attorney rolled on the floor in order to emotionalize the jury and obtain a conviction. But scarcely a hand has been turned by any official to convict anybody for the murder of Ella May Wiggins, dead mother of five children. She was a striker and it is hardly likely that any chance bullet brought her down, for she was onfe of the most effective organizers in the union. tt a a Murder Excused INDEED, North Carolina officially recognizes the fact that it is a much more grave offense to shoot an agent of the mill owners than to kill a striker, even though the victim be a woman engaged in no violent act of any kind. Ella May Wiggins was on her way to speak at a strike meeting when a mob waylaid the truck in which she rode and murdered her. But it will not be murder in North Carolina in any event. The prosecutor is asking no more than an indictment for manslaughter. Strictly speaking, he hasn’t even done that. He hasn’t got around yet to present his evidence, because all his time has been engaged In holy rolling against, the red menace. Even Judge Barnhill, who hardly has established himself as a friend of fair-mindedness, could not quite restrain his surprise when Prosecutor Carpenter asked that bail of no more than SI,OOO be fixed upon the men accused of the crime. Chief Aderholt was shot in a wild mixup on a dark night, and yet North Carolina had very little trou-

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BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS October 28 TODAY is the 153d anniversary of the Battle of White Plains, fought on Oct. 28, 1776, in the Revolutionary war. The battle took place on Chatterton Hill, twenty-two miles northeast of the center of New York City. On Oct. 12, 1776, General Howe occupied Throgg’s Neck, in Westchester county, but was held there for several days .while Washington rapidly evacuated Manhattan island, except Ft. Washington, and concentrated his forces on White Plains. Howe sent 4,000 men against the outpost on Chatterton Hill, west of the Bronx river, and compelled 1,400 Americans stationed there, under General McDougall, to withdraw to Washington’s camp. The British lost 229 iften and the American 140. Howe’s attack on the main American army was delayed and on the 31st of October Washington took up an unassailable position at North Castle. White Plains was incorporated as a town ia UVU

of the children with goiter had been using iodized salt than those without goiter. The result of this Investigation offers opportunity for many theories. It is, of course, important to study the diets of all these children to find out how many were eating diets deficient in vegetables and food containing iodine. The investigation throws some doubt on the use of iodized salt as an exact preventive of goiter. Unless the iodized salt is used freely on the table and in cooking one can not be certain that much of the salt gets to the child. This confirms the views of many physicians, who have insisted that the only safe way to be sure that the child receives an adequate dose of iodine is to give it iodine in the form of tablet, liquid or other medication.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are tbos'e ts one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude -f this paper.—The Editor.

ble in finding seven men and convicting them all of killing him. tt tt tt Has Witnesses ELLA MAY WIGGINS was murdered in broad daylight on one of North Carolina’s famous good roads. There were scores of potential witnesses and yet the public prosecutor in open court admits airily that he hasn’t a strong case. In summing up the case against the workers, the prosecutor stood before the jury of substantial men and asked with lofty, though possibly irrelevant, rhetoric, “Do you believe in the flag of your country, floating in the breeze, kissing the sunlight, singing the song of freedom? Do you believe in North Carolina? Do you believe in good roads, the good roads of North Carolina on which the heaven-bannered hosts could walk as far as San Francisco?” You see to him and to the jury love of country was something as tangible and material as a pound of sugar. (Copyright. 1929. bv The Times)

Daily Thought

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away.—Job 6:15. tt tt a Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many.—Phaedrus.

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OCT. 28, 1929

SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ —

Xot Only the Story of Com- . merce, but the Story of 9 Civilization, Has Been Influenced by the Building of, Bndges. THE highest of American engineering honors, the John Fritz gold medal, has been awarded to Ralph Modjeski, son of the famous tragedienne, who was known upon the stage as Helen Modjeska. Modjeski is a builder of bridges, and the award was made ’’for notable achievement as an engineer of, great bridges combining the principles of strength and beauty.” The award was made by a board consisting of sixteen past presidents of the four national societies of civil, mining sfnd metallurgical, mechanical and electrical engineers. Winners of the John Fritz medal in the past have included President Herbert Hoover, Guglielmo Marconi, who sent the first trans-Atlantic radio message; General J. J. Carty, famous telephone expert; Alexander Graham Bell, Invertor of the telephone; Thomas A. Edison; General George A. Goethals, builder of the Panama canal, and George Westinghouse, inventor of the airbrake. Modjeski was born in Cracow in 1861, but was brought to this country by his parents in 1876. He rej turned to Europe for his engineering l education, studying in Paris. tt tt St Bridges NOT only the story of commerce, but the story of civilization it- ; self has been influenced by the building of bridges. “The function of bridges,” says the new Encyclopedia Britannica, “may be described as the starting of a stream of human traffic hitherto impossible; the surmounting of a barrier, the linking up of two worlds divided by a gulf.” “Streams and chasms are barriers to travel and transportation,” says the statement of the board which announced the award of the medal to Modjeski. “Consequently, the building of bridges, one of the older engineering arts, has had profound political ar.d social as well as economic importance. “With the development of civilization and the increase of ways for transportation, highways and railroads have become obstacles, one to the other, at places of crossing, demanding still more bridges.” Modjeski has been identified as designer, construction engineer or consultant with many of America's most notable bridges. Among them have been the McKinley bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, the Columbia river bridge at Celilo, Ore.; the Ohio river bridge at Cincinnati, the Quebec bridge, the Philadelphia-Camden bridge and the Manhattan bridge, New York. Modjeski is a member of the National Academy of Science, America’s foremost scientific society, and heffis the degree of doctor of engineering from the University of Illinois. He has been a bridge engineer ! since 1892. a a a Expansion AN era of increased bridge building began in the United States in 1920 as a result of the growth of transportation. In 1925 contracts for more than $100,000,000 worth of bridges either had been let or were projected, a survey made at the time showed. The great cities have had to pay particular attention to the subject of bridges. A good example Is New York, where the new Hudson river bridge is being built at a cost of $50,000,000. San Francisco is planning a series of bridges to connect it with its environs. The Carquenez Straits span, built in 1927, was the first step in this program. The Philadelphia-Camden bridge, built under the direction of Modjeski, was put up during the five years from 1921 to 1926. It is the largest suspension bridge now in existence. The span Is 1.750 feet long and 125 feet wide. It carries a central roadway, four railway tracks and two sidewalks. The bridge clears the water by 135 feet. The bridge and approaches, without the land, cost $25,000,000. Total cost came to $35,000,000. The Camden bridge, however, will lose its place at the head of the list when the Hudson river bridge is completed. This new bridge, now under construction, will have a span of 3,500 feet. It is expected that the bridge will be in use by 1932.