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Cleaning the Calumet Each day brings the news that a bootlegger in the Calumet district has been fined or sent to jail or placed on suspended sentence. That murh is being accomplished in the way of cleaning up a district of the state that is a menace to good government in the entire state. It is a menace, not because it has its own idea of the Volstead act, but because, for a number of elections, it has changed results by methods which are more than suspected of being irregular, corrupt and fraudulent. It is possible, of course, that the federal government, and the matter now has the active interest of the attorney-general of the United States, believes that the way to eliminate frauds in election is to put on probation from a federal court those who probably participated and might tell about the past frauds. They will have to be good, of course, if on probation. But the people of the state who do not believe in government by fraud remember that the interest of the government in bootlegging in the Calumet was missing until gross and rather specific charges were made concerning the election frauds and especially the activities in the last election when truck loads of men from Chicago were taken from poll to poll and voted for the right people. Among other matters that have been disclosed is the fact that high government officials had for two years an affidavit that gave in detail some of the information concerning law violations and the scale of prices paid for protection to local officials. Since the probe began, two government witnesses have been assassinated. There may be no connection between their deaths and their testimony. There may be very close connection. There are a few things the people of the state ought to know while the government is trying the batch of bootleggers. One of these is why conditions were permitted to become so lawless that the first raids netted two or three hundred violators, including public officials. That may or may not confirm the statements made that there was a bargain made for protection in return for fraudulent votes. Another thing the people want to know is whether there is any real determination on the part of any government official, high or low, to unearth the frauds in election. Bootlegging trials are interesting but not as important as ballot frauds. And the frauds are as evident to the public as the bootlegging was to the grand jury.

The President's Statement The President has asked certain representatives of industry, agriculture and labor to confer next week with him and his secretaries of the treasury, commerce, agriculture and labor and the chairman of the federal farm board. The piu-pose is to develop definite stops toward continued business progress in this country. The nature of the steps the President has in mind is not revealed, although he intimates the possibility of undertaking building construction programs, government and private, that have been postponed for some time. Naturally the plans that may grow out of the conference can be discussed only when they have become public. In the meantime, the President's statement, printed elsewhere in this newspaper, deserves study. It is a sound and simple declaration of the country's business situation, obviously resulting from the disturbance of confidence that has occurred in some quarters because of events in the speculative stock market. It does not attempt to repair the damage suffered by the speculators. It will not meet the plea of those who wish the White House to save them from their own mistakes. But it does voice a truth to which every 1 person with knowledge of American business and industry can subscribe, viz: “Any lack of confidence in the economic future or basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.” Unionize the South Showing again its early fighting spirit, the American Federation of Labor is launching a vigorous and nationally organized campaign to unionize the south. A special conference meeting in Washington Thursday adopted unanimously a platform and a plan of action. The A. F. of L. calls upon the senate to pass the Wheeler resolution for investigation of the textile industry. Getting the co-operation of its member unions, both in financial assistance and man power to carry on the work of organization, will be simple for the federation compared with overcoming the opposition in the senate to the proposed inquiry. However much the criticism of its delays and objections may be justified, the senate will not take kindly to the opinion that it is responsible in any way for the deaths and the disorders so prevalent in the south during recent months. The proposed campaign of the federation seenjs whole-hearted and determined. It shows that the organization again is awake to the need of action. But deeds must speak louder than words. The declaration of principles has been made and now it must be carried out. Upon its success will depend tht future growth and the future strength of the organization. Victory for organized labor should bring about better wages, better working conditions, better homes,

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better citizens and a better and greater industrial south. Aerial Warfare Aerial warfare constitutes the most serious danger to civilization, according to General Jan C. Smuts of South Africa He warned a meeting of the League of Nations Unions that the London naval limitation conference must be followed by “more important” military and aviation disarmament. Earl Jellicoe, commander of the British fleet dyring the World war, takes a somewhat similar position. The argument over which is the greatest menace naval or aviation armament races, probably will not get very far. It is sufficient that most persons now agree that both forms are a menace and must be eliminated. No one will quarrel with the Smuts idea that the nations will not achieve lasting peace if they rest content simply with naval limitations. But the problem of controlling aerial armament is so complicated that there is little prospect of its solution in the near future. Meanwhile the indirect approach, through general peace treaties such as the Kellogg pact renouncing war and through removal of some economic causes of war, probably will be the easier way Aerial armament limitation is harder to achieve than either naval or military because of the peculiarly close connection between air preparedness and legitimate commercial aviation. The obvious method Os limiting the number of fighting planes on some such ratio plan as that applied to naval ships is impossible, or at least wholly inadequate. Unlike naval defense, air preparedness consists In having the fewest possible planes and the largest possible plane-producing and pilot-producLng capacity. The reason is that in a rapidly changing field, such as aviation, the weapon is made obsolete in a year by developments and discoveries. The number of fighting planes in the air at the beginning of hostilities must be greater in an exposed European country than in a relatively isolated country such as the United States.. But in either case, the major defense factor Is a large commercial aviation industry. Such industry constantly is turning out large numbers of planes and pilots, capable of being adapted for war purposes In an emergency. More important, such industry means large and weil-organized factories ready to turn to quick mass production of the latest model of fighting planes when war begins. No adequate plan yet has been suggested for aerial disarmament which would not seriously cripple legitimate peace-time aviation. .John Roach Straton In the death of John Roach Straton, American fundamentalism loses its most colorful and vocal leader. Naturally, Dr. Straton was anathema to militant free-thinkers and was the target for many of their butts and jests. Yet he persisted unflinchingly In his defense of what he believed to be the true doctrines of rligion and their social implications. He literally gave his life to their support. As Bryan broke down in his clash with Darrow at Dayton, so Dr. Straton’s health gave way last spring after a debate in Boston with the brilliant young free-thinker, V. F. Calverton. Dr. Straton’s views on both religion and science have been challenged sharply by scholars in all fields. Yet his sincerity was unimpeachable. Granting his initial premises, his preaching and his public activities were consistent and courageous. If his opinions and actions are to be criticised, the justification must be sought in the fact that he may never have re-examined his original beliefs in the light of that new body of knowledge which grew up in the lifetime of Straton himself Many thought him out-of-date in his theology and scientific perspective. But nobody rightfully could accuse him of being an intellectual hypocrite or a moral coward.

REASON By FR LANDIS K

THE dining room of this Hoover administration appears to be a perfect magazine of disasters, for before we can seat Mrs. Gann, here comes this failure to invite Senator Hiram Johnson to a White House feed. The next thing we hear some waiter will spill a half dozen raw oysters down the back of the minister from Patagonia and plunge us into international complications. a a a Asa result of the recent election half of the candidates will celebrate Thanksgiving day by eating turkey and the other half by eating crow. a a a Just as soon as the senate gets done talking about Brookhart’s seeing al those silver flasks at a party it might investigate the failure of the war department to adopt an armored fighting tank, after considering different models for ten long years. a a a Meanwhile. Great Britain and other countries have perfected their tank divisions, and these are expected to bear the brunt of future offensives. a a a WHAT this country needs now is for somebody to manufacture a Robot that can change a tire. aa ' a Lest you infer from our senatorial investigations that we are an unusually horrible lot. let us call your attention to the fact that Mayor Boess of Berlin is being harpooned because his wife received a fur coat from a bunch accused of robbing the German republic. a a a Alarmed by the complaints of its many customers, the postoffice department has improved the flavor of the gum on postage stamps, but unless you are addicted to the mucilage sundae, the thing to do is to lick the envelope, instead of the stamp. a a m It is delightful to note that Ishbel MacDonald, the premier’s daughter, agreed with the protests we offered in this column against those Englishmen who come to this country and endeavor to impress us with our hopeless inferiority. a a a “OENATORIAL courtesy,” that venerable fiction of O the upper chamber, was knocked against the ropes by Moses of New Hampshire, when he declared, “the sons of the wild jackass now control the senate.” And yet we try to impress youth with respect for our government. a a a George Klotz. the perfume king of France, arrives in New York, saying that : oap and water are on the toboggan and in the future whole families will massage the dirt away. Imagine the American mother on Saturday night opening a bucket of cold cream and carefully massaging a house full of children from head to foot!

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

What Would Motherhood Be If It Operated on the Idea of Dividends, or Heroism If It Considered the Return? MONEY talks. That is why the cut has had such a reassuring effect. When Uncle Sam proposes a slash of $160,000,000 he bets that Business will be as good next year as it was this year. People have confidence in a forecast backed up that way. They feel that the government wouldn't be taking such chances if it were not certain of its ground. * a a Money talks not only to investors, but to criminals and law enforcement officers. Sometimes it talks too loudly, and in the wrong way. Four hundred thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry and geegaws lure seven bandits to raid a party in Buffalo. Reasoning from cause to effect, one member of that party offers $5,000 for each bandit alive, or $lO,000 dead. His viewpoint is understandable, but is it wise to put such a premium on gun play? m m a Buying of Honor AREN’T we expecting too much money, visualizing it as an end in itself, presuming that its mere possession justifies too many things? Why tempt the thief by flaunting jewelry in his face, or the six-gun sheriff by posting rewards? What has become of the modesty we used to praise, or the performance of duty we used to take for granted? This idea of buying honor and efficiency has its limits. What is worse, it has its risks. There are some things that can not be put on the bargain counter without inviting corruption and demoralization.

a a a Sometimes one winders if we aren’t succumbing to the dollar madness, if we aren’t undertaking to measure everything in coin of the realm. The argument as to women’s dress degenerates into a plea for trade; the question as to what constitutes education shrivels to an appeal for more pay; the hope of disarmament hangs largely on what it promises by way of tax reduction. It goes without saying that materialism is inescapable in a material world, but it does not go without saying that it should be allowed to kill off those ideals which, when all is said and done, represent humanity’s only hope of improving itself. a a a Money Not First IT is right and just that men who do worth-while things should receive adequate compensation. At the same time there are things which must be done without the thought of compensation. What would motherhood be if It operated on the idea of dividends, or heroism if it considered the return? There are values that can not be translated into dollars and cents. Milton got only five pounds sterling for "Paradise Lost ” And Sjjmon Bolivar died in a borrowed night shirt. Washington gambled his fortune for American liberty, and Roger Williams chose exile in a New England winter rather than sacrifice his convictions. The world would not be what It is today if its leaders had put money first. a a a We often speak of civilization as though it were the result of prosperity, but that is putting the cart before the horse. Men learn to read and write before they learn to make machines Suppose they had stopped because they couldn’t see how the reading and writing paid; suppose they had been content to go on with the fighting and plundering which did pay; suppose the poets, the painters and the prophets had given up; where would we be? If we scrap their idealism, where will our children be? a a a Character Is Important IN spite of the full dinner pail, character building is still important. If anything, it is more important today than ever before. The instrumentalities at our command tend to increase rather than diminish personal responsibility. The man who drives an 80-horse power engine through the streets needs to be more careful than the man who drove an ox cart. Neither will any traffic system that ever has been, or can be, devised relieve him of his duty.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Having long been a reader of your paper and ever enjoying its stand toward fairness, to all I wish to express my views on a few things which I feel most important at this time. As I stood watching the wonderful Armistice day parade, I noticed the lack of real army men. The demonstration w r as wonderfuly, but was the bulk of ex-service men there? Were they able to come? Were there memories, or what, that kept them away? Not being a member of any of the exservice men s organizations for lack of funds to belong, I felt there was no section I wuold fit into. I know others felt the same. The memories of the days of real battles brought tears to my eyes for the buddies that are gone, and for the buddies that haven't had a chance since Nov. 11, 1918. And they still are suffering as they did then. As I read The Times, noticing there were fifty ex-service men in jail, I wondered why. Is it because they were up against it and there was only one way they could make a living for their dependents? I also looked acress at the great War Memorial, where so much was spent that never will in any way benefit a veteran, either financially or

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Physican Can Tell If Child Is Normal

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE average patient is not so much interested in the unusual child as in his own, which means to say that the vast majority of children come within the group known as normal. However, there is seldom a normal child who is perfect. Investigations made of applicants for the army during the World war indicated that a high percentage had all sorts of minor disturbances, varying from flat feet and enlarged tonsils to defects of the heart action and of the abdominal organs.

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MANY individuals have been held responsible for the stock market crash. Some have mentioned Jesse Livermore and a few have spoken with bitterness of President Hoover’s fairly recent market letter. My friend Morris Ernst, the lawyer, introduces anew culprit. He is inclined to blame it all on Charles E. Hughes. To be sure, Hughes stands to some extent as a symbol. His activities in New York state did much to make race track gambling difficult and if Governor Hughes did not succeed in ending the improvement of the thoroughbred at least, he drove it under cover, a a a Due to Gambling ECONOMISTS agree that at least the panic phases of the great decline may be attributed to the evil consequences of gambling. And in the situation there will be an attempt to discourage the public from ever again indulging in a passion for games of chance. Yet it is quite possible to argue that instead of having less gambling we should have more. Perhaps our present difficulties arise from the fact that we have been too cavalier in checking what is after all a deeply rooted human instinct. In England, for instance, the white collar class goes in very heavily for race track betting. But in this same group the stock market plunge is far less common. Here it is rather difficult to get a bet down on a horse and so the man with a small sum to risk has been tempted to trust it to something gilt-edged like United Corporation or Standard Brands. In the long run which community

physically (possibly injure many mentally). Why can’t we still help those in need? I’ve seen a few buddies who have died in your city and mine for want of care. Is it right? Have we forgotten? Can we ex-service men get jobs as quick as others? No. I have had to give up job after job because of poor health, forever a worry to me and my family. Just like others, I’ve tried to get compensation since 1921, but have not. The red tape is too long. Soon they’ll wonder if it’s the World war or the Civil war they’re trying to get a pension from. There is a certain amount of shell shock and gas that always will handicap the boys who did the fighting on the line and were not in the'battle of Cognac in gay Paree —I was never in Paris. One of the Old Wild West (Ninety-first) Division. Is the metric system used in Sweden? WTiat is the unit of length corresponding to a mile? The metric system is used in Sweden. The kilometer is the unit of length corresponding to the English mile. WTjo played the part of Noah in “Noah's Ark?” Paul McAllister. _

Besides these factors known as physical factors, there are the mental traits of the child. The term “insanity” practically has disappeared from the considerations of experts In mental diseases but they recognize all degrees of mental capacity from complete idiocy or imbecility to the extraordinary eccentricities associated not infrequently with great geniuses. Before one can be certain that the child is a normal child, it is necessary'’to find the capacity of the child physically and mentally and to find whether it falls within the limits that are generally considered normal. This means that the normal child is one like most other children. To find out whether a child is

is better off? It seems to me best to recognize the gambling instinct and legalize it. To be sure, the small better at the English track quite often sacrifices his all, but I doubt if any meeting has ever spread losses so widely through the community as our recent Wall Street crash. a m a Vices Into Virtues SHAW once said through the mouthpiece of a character in one of his plays (I quote it from memory) ; “If you’ve got a vice you can’t get rid of, make a virtue of it.” I doubt most dreadfully whether the gambling instinct can be eradicated in o'Ur lifetime by any sort of legislation. Accordingly, I think it would be wise for the government to turn this passion to its own advantage and to the advantage of the community. Specifically, I suggest that the income tax be abolished and that all necessary funds for federal expenses be raised by government lottery. This would be the easiest of all taxes to collect. The money would roll in profusely and nobody would be under the necessity of going through elaborate calculations with pad and pencil on the afternoon of every March 15. We could dispense, then,, with collectors and all the officials who invite you down to discuss the return you made or didn’t make in 1924. Mellon would have no trouble at all in thinking up inspiring slogans. The official communique could say, "Why go to Harlem to be skinned in the number of game? Bea patriotic gambler and risk your money with Uncle Sam.” The United States is a big and prosperous country and easily could afford to take a Tower rakeoff than any of the amateur lottery makers. If anybody objects that this would be very immoral and serve to encourage gambling, I can only answer that gamblers need very little encouragement and that Uncle Sam is implicated In a game of chance by taxing stock sales. mam Temperance IN the same way I think that the United States should be willing by how to admit that it is extremely difficult to end the traffic in alcoholic beverages. Applying the Shaw theory once again, it would seem the part of wisdom for government to regulate the traffic and incidentally derive a revenue while promoting the cause of true temperance. I trust that the drys will appreciate the fact that there must be a new examination of prohibition in the light of recent events. The old argument used to be that our prosperity was brought about by Volste&dism. If prosperity Is now passing, as seems not impossible, it would be only logical for prohibition to go along with it. There is good economic reason now to end the dry regime. In a period of deflation it is not well that the community should spend 30 much on liquor. Professor Irving Fisher has compiled figures to prove that there is

normal physically, it is necessary to consult a competent physician and he can make his decision only on the basis of a physical examination. The examination of the mind does not necessarily require a specialist in diseases of the mind. It is possible for teachers who have had some training in the examination of children, for physicians who have some knowledge of psychology, and particularly for psychologists to determine whether the reactions of the child’s mind are normal reactions. Should these reactions be found defective, it may be necessary to consult a psychiatrist to determine the nature of the mental defect or disturbance.

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

only 10 or 15 per cent as much drinking as formerly. This constitutes a terrific indictment of Volsteadism. In the old days beer was 5 cents a glass. Today cocktails cost a dollar. This, according to my mathematics, indicates that we are spending far more for rum than ever before. The only way for the nation to economize is to turn wet again. (Copyright. 1929. by The Thnesi

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“ATLANTA TO THE SEA!” Nov. 16 ON Nov. 16, 1864, Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman's army started on its famous march from Atlanta to the sea. The army stretched out at times for a length of sixty miles. The country along the march was almost devastated. Sherman reached Savannah on Dec. 11 and it was surrendered on Dec. 21. In February, Sherman resumed his march, turning northward through South Carolina with his army of nearly 100,000 men, and on Feb. 17, 1365, entered Columbia. On the same day, the Confederates evacuated Charleston, which was occupied the following day by Federals. He then pushed on into North Carolina, repulsing various attempts by General Joseph E. Johnston to check him. On April 18, Sherman received the surrender of Johnston at Durham s Station.

Daily Thought

To him that overcometh will I grant to Sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame.—Revelations 3:21. a a a A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the rigor of the defendant.—Emerson.

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SCIENCE —By DAVID DIETZ —

It I* Fundamentally Impossible for Scientists to Soy Exactly What an Electron Is. A THEORY, whose philosophical rV Implications are destined, in all probability to be more far-reach-ing than either the Einstein theory or the Schroedinger wave mechanics, is the Bohr-Heisenberg principle of uncertainty. The Einstein theory made the word "absolute” almost meaningless in the physical world. Measurements of space, time and mass all became quantities which changed with the motions of the observer. According to Schroedinger, wave mechanics, the electrons and atoms of matter are only pulsations—of what, no one is quite sure. Perhaps, they are pulsations of electricity. Schroedinger calls the pulsations Psi, one of the letters of the Greek alphabet and lets it. go at that. Psi is close enough for SchroecHnger. because he can use the Greek letter as a mathematical symbol and write equations to tell how the atom behaves. For the average layman, however, Psi is as bewildering and as amazing as is the Einstein theory. But. physicists have dealt the most telling blow to old-fashioned notions of the universe with Bohr-Heisen-berg principle of uncertainty. Bohr and Heisenberg are two of the most eminent European physicists. non Meaning ACCORDING to the Bohr-Hei-senberg principle of uncertainty, the old idea of cause and effect lost their meaning in the field of the electron. More than that, it is fundamentally impossible to say what an electron is. It has been known within the last year or so that in some experiments the electron seems to be a particle. In others, however, it seems to be a wave. Which is right? To answer this question, we would have to be able to measure both the position and velocity of an electron. But we can not do this. If we measure the position of the electron, we must sacrifice the attempt to get at its velocity. If we measure the velocity, we can not determine the position of the electron. And—this is the important fact —according to the principle of uncertainty, we never will be able to do both. It is not merely a question of not yet knowing how. According to this principle, which Is now accepted by leading physicists of the world, the nature of the universe is such that it never will be possible to do so. Now, let us see how the principle of uncertainty changes our old idea of cause and effect. ff tt tt Ci 3.nce “ r T'\HE original conception of the A relation between cause and effect which was accepted universally in science has lost its meaning,” writes Dr. Irving Langmuir, one of America’s most distinguished physicists, in Science, official journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In its place we have today the laws of chance. “Atomic processes,” Dr. Langmuir continues, “seem to be governed fundamentally by the laws of probability. “It has no meaning to ask when will a particular radium atom disintegrate, for no operation is conceivable by which such event could be predicted.'’ It is the feeling of Dr. Langmuir and his associates that because of the inability to measure both the position and the velocity of an electron, it is not possible to predict what an electron or an atom is going to do next. The reader will object to this, on the grounds that cause and effect seem well established in most phenomena. To this, the scientist answers that, in ordinary phenomena, we are dealing with millions upon millions of atoms. The effect is the result of a statistical average. A "cording to the law of probability, it is possible to predict what the great majority of atoms will dp in any given circumstances. But the scientists now insist that it is impossible to make a prediction for any single atom.

Questions and Answers

What were the ten best pictures in 1928? A newspaper critics consensus shows: "The Patriot,” "Sorrell and Son,” "The Last Command," “Four Sons,” "Street Angel,” "The Circus,” "Sunrise,” “The Crowd,” "The King of Kings” and "Sadie Thompson” a. the leading ten. When and where were the first forks for table use made? The first table forks were made in France about the middle of the fourteenth century. The first silve" fork was made in England in 163:: and is engraved with the crests o the Manners and Montague families.