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One Impelling Reason If there were no other reasons for rewriting the Constitution of Indiana, as proposed in the referendum to be voted upon next year, it would be found in the provisions regulating the courts of the state. Unquestionably the people believed that they had provided a means whereby judges who proved faithless to their oaths could be removed from office by a legislature. They believed that judges are not sacred and that when they outrage public conscience, they can be removed. By a decision of judges, the provision of the Constitution relating to the impeachment of judges has been so interpreted that no judge can be removed until after he has been sentenced to the penitentiary for a felony. The situation is, of course, absurd. For it is quite possible that a judge, committing a felony, could prevent his own conviction by the exercise of his power. As long as he remained within his own jurisdiction, he might even have immunity from any prosecution. The absurdity of this situation became apparent when the legislature attempted to impeach Judge Dearth of Muncie, who was not guilty of any crime, but who did outrage public opinion by the arbitrary exercise of his power to suppress a newspaper. One of the chief arguments for Dearth was that the legislature was without power to impeach. What the people thought of the matter was shown when, at the first opportunity, they defeated Dearth for office and then proceeded to elect George Dale, the object of the Dearth tyranny, as mayor of Muncie. The situation does not make for either justice or the confidence in courts necessary to an orderly society. Judges ought not to be above the reach of the people who elect them. They should not be immume to punishment for invasions against the public welfare nor for outrage of individual rights. 9 The people can be counted upon to be tolerant, even to exasperating degrees. They should have defense against courts which are political in their decisions or so lethargic in their actions as to actually deny justice by failure to decide casej. Whenever courts hold cases for interminable periods, refraining from action or refusing to decide, they cease to be couits. When anew Constitution is written, some provisions for really obtaining speedy justice, not only in courts of trial, but in courts of review, should be made. With legislative inquiry possible, it is not likely that courts will hold important cases four or five years.

Whither Mexico? The result of the Mexican national election was fortunate. The method was most unfortunate. Ortiz Rubio, successful presidential candidate, was the candidate of the national revolutionary party. There is little doubt that this party represents a large majority of the Mexican people. Such being the case. It is difficult for outsiders to understand why the dominant party felt it necessary to use strong-arm election methods, which nonpartisan and foreign correspondents on the ground seem to agree were used. Killing of nineteen persons and the injury of many others in disputes at the polls, however, seem to have resulted from the general conditions of political immaturity In that country as much as from direct incentive of either party. That political immaturity of the electorate makes continuation of the Calles-Gil-Rubio regime desirable. In the chaos of repeated attempts at counter-revo-lution and military revolt, the Calles group has demonstrated its ability to overcome forces of disorder and to develop the country constructively. More than anything else, Mexico needs peacepeace at home and peace with the United States. Elaborate paper reforms of Mexico never can be translated into fact if the wealth and energy of the nation continually are drained in putting down military revolt, as in recent years. This is true of fiscal reorganization. It is equally true of the much-needed extension of public schools, road building, irrigation works and return of the land to the peons. One way to aim at such results, in a country where democracy can not operate because of illiteracy and political inexperience is through a so-called beneficent dictatorship. Former President Calles would have taken that shorter road, and Imposed order and efficiency on his fellow citizens. But he chose the longer and better road. He renounced re-election. He let his country learn democracy by practicing it The present election shows that the Mexican people are not yet capable of functioning as a democratic nation. But most Americans will agree with Calles that Mexico can learn only by trying, and that the result is worth the price of delayed efficiency. Often in the past Mexican reconstruction has been prevented by disputes with the Washington government and American capital. Obregon and Calles succeeded in making peace with Washington and Wall Street without complete renunciation of the purposes of the Mexican revolution of freedom. President Gil has maintaind .hat co-cperative understanding with the United States. President-Elect Rubio is pledged to do so. It is to be assumed that Rubio, as a part of that policy, will retain in Washington Ambassador Tellez. Tellez has represented Mexico here since 1920. He helped to obtain American recognition in 1923, and has been ambassador since. During the provocative

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Kellogg incidents, Tellez kept his head and prevented a break which threatened war. He knows the United States and has its respect. Retention of Tellez as ambassador would be evidence that Rubio will not change the Calles-Gil American policy of friendship. “Little Egypt” Down in the southern pocket of Illinois, where the Ohio river joins its pellucid waters to those of the mighty Mississippi there is a group of counties that comprise what the rest of the state calls Little Egypt. The name is taken from the rich alluvial soil that makes this section one of our finest farming regions. These same counties comprise also the twenty-fifth Illinois congressional district, represented for many a year by Congressman Edward Everett Denison. Congressman Denison yesterday was indicted by a federal grand jury on the charge of possessing liquor—specifically, one trunk full and one suitcase full of liquor, shipped from New York to his office in Washington. Now we propose to remain open-minded on the question of Congressman Denison’s guilt until the matter is decided in court. But we doubt if our commendable restraint will be shared in all its ethical beauty by the people in the Illinois delta district. It’s like this down there in the delta. In the summer time the sun beats down a little harder than most anywhere. In the winter the cold winds sweep across a little more cruelly. Os a summer evening when the last chore is done and the honest husbandman trudges homeward there’s nothing that appeals to his imagination so much as a cool glass of beer. And when the chill winter evenings come on he likes the idea of a short shot of whisky to ward off the effects of fatigue and exposure. The people of Little Egypt are said to be like that. In 1926 they voted wet in the state-wide liquor referendum. But they can’t have their whisky and they can’t have their beer. Congressman Denison has said they can’t. They couldn’t get it by mail after 1917; Congressman Denison voted for the law that forbpxie shipping liquor across state lines. They couldn’t get it during the war; Congressman Denison voted for wartime prohibition. They lost all hope after 1919; Congressman Denison voted for the eighteenth amendment; he voted for the Volstead act; he voted to over-ride President Wilson’s veto. Congressman Denison believed liquor was bad for his people and he voted dry—dry—dry I Not only that, but when bootleggers began to spring up in every city alley and behind every county fence, Congressman Denison bent himself fiercely to the task of saving his constituents all over again. He voted for everything the Anti-Saloon League could devise to keep rum from running freely over the parched fields of his district. Finally, he voted last winter for the exalted Jones five-and-ten law, imposing fearful penalties for sale and transportation of the alcoholic evil —although not for possession of same. Well, Congressman Denison has been Indicted for possession—possession of a trunk full and a suitcase full of whisky and gin. We hope the thirsty constituents of the congressman as they gather about the cracker barrels tonight will endeavor to remain calm; that they will remember that an indictment is not a conviction. And if eventually the case should be proved against their congressman they will not condemn him too bitterly. They should remember that while he himself may have fallen, he has kept them pure and undefiled.

T> a FREDERICK REAoUJN By LANDIS

IT was a sad day for this senatorial investigation when Senator Caraway of Arkansas charged Grundy of Pennsylvania with being yellow, then rushed to his side, clasped his hand and with palpitating heart assured that ancient lobbyist of his undying regard. a tt u Whether this outburst of fraternalism was just a mighty surge of Arkansas hospitality or whether Caraway saw a cyclone gathering in the Grundy eye as its proprietor pushed back his chair we do not know, but we do know that he who would investigate the supposed enemies of his country must preserve the illusion of being unrelenting. a a * The moment such an inquisitor goes too far and is compelled to back up, that moment he is gone, so when Caraway lashed forth too hard against Grundy and ended by gathering daisies for him, he became a total loss and if this investigation amounts to anything Caraway should resign from it and make way for someone who is carnivorous, but cautious. ana WE believe Caraway should resign for the further reason that his method of attack makes friends for the one whom he would hold up for our disapproval. The natural sympathy one has for a person being roughly cross-examined by a lawyer has made Grundy a sort of hero with many who started out wishing they might nail his hide to the barn door. nan You know’ how it is in a law suit. If a lawyer tears into a witness, making him feel uncomfortable and bombarding him with epithets and viciousness, you can see the jury set its jaws, not only because it sympathizes with the oppressed, but because many of its members have been cross-examined themselves. a a a Then again this committee has lost many friends who started with it because it has wasted hours in silly chatter with Grundy and other witnesses about matters which by the wildest stretch of imagination could not be regarded as of public importance. a a a TAKE the hours that its members discussed with Grundy his statement that some states were backward and should not be given an equal voice with their forward neighbors. To discuss that was as foolish as if the senators should have discussed with Grundy the wisdom of one's cutting out meat and vegetables and living entirely on nuts. a a a There are many things which the committee might, with profit to the country, investigate, such as the vicious method of passing laws which distribute advantages to various sections of the country, though be it known such methods a*e not the peculiar infamy of this congress, but have been in existence ever since the government was organized a a a In all our national life we have not had cne river and harbor bill; one public building bill or one general appropriation bill, to say nothing of tariff bills, which has not been a matter of nation-vdde bribery, enough members being purchased by items benefiting their home regions to guarantee majorities In both houses.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Trotski Looks for War Between Britain and the United States. He Would. There Is Nothing Like a Wish When It Comes to Prophecy. SHALL we go back to work, asks President Hoover? The ayes have it; we shall. Now that the speculative spree has collapsed, everybody is enthusiastic for real estate development, the construction of skyscrapers, railroad improvements, or anything else that will make work. Whatever else may be said of it, the smash in Wall Street reminded us that prosperity is made of business, not gambling. a a a Leon Trotski looks for war between England and the United States. He would. There is nothing like a wish when it comes to prophesying. England and the United States constitute the front and shoulders of the capitalistic world. Trotski wants to see that world overthrown, but realizes that the task is impossible unless it splits. Conflict between the two greatest civilizations would insure victory for his dream. Believing in the dream, he can see nothing but such a conflict ahead. nan Mexico Elects President BY seven to six, the supreme court of Mexico refuses to grant the petition of Jose Vasconcelos, defeated presidential candidate, for an investigation. A rather narrow squeak for Rubio and the administration crowd, but still sufficient, especially since it accords with what the majority wants. Frauds and intimidation there may have been, but it is hard to believe that they accounted for the landslide by which Rubio was swept into office. A margin of one million votes is too much to explain away on such grounds.

Spain has ordered engineers to study possibilities of a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar. The project has a political, as well as a commercial, angle. Spain, or more accurately, perhaps, her dictator, Primo de Rivera, hopes that the construction of such tunnel might induce England to give up her control over the famed fortress. Asa matter of fact, Rivera entertained this hope long before he became dictator, and was disciplined for exnressing it while captaingeneral of Cadiz. Asa further matter of fact, he mi"ht never have become dictator but for this entspde, wh’ch insrered Mm to enter naHHes oret back at those who him. a a a Little Things Important OO one mi rr ht go on talkin'’ about big things—the revolution in China, the iwnending nolitica! storm in England the tariff r w at Washington—but what most of us regard as little things in news often plav a more important part in life B'rth, death, sickness, or even a bridge nartv can plot out the march of stupendous events. It is hot an unmixed evil that they can. Who could carry the burden of the world on his shoulders, or would want to if he could?

A Minnesota banker wraps his deaf, dumb, and crippled daughter in a blanket, puts her in the family car, and rides out to where all is quiet in the woods. After pausing a little while to think the problem out, he pulls a gun, shoots her through the heart, and then shoots himself. His neighbors regard it as a rather heroic deed and the coroner considers it unnecessary to hold an inquest. \ Whatever may be your idea, or mine, we are forced to admit that his daughter was that banker's greatest concern—greater than wealth, greater than the slump in stocks, greater than the tariff row, greater than what the naval parley may decide. a e a Legally It's Murder DOCTORS having said that his wife was slowly sinking into senile insanity, and having advised her immediate removal to a genteel sanitarium, old Thomas Widdencombe, who had lived with her fiftyfour years, decided that they might as well go together. After the nurse had left for the night, he carefully stuffed the keyhole and other crevices with newspapers, locked the door and turned on the gas. Legally it was murder, but what about it morally? Such questions are hard enough even when put in a detached and academic way, but only* those who face them in reality appreciate their true depth.

Daily Thought

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.—Job 15:31. a a a People who are very vain usually are equally susceptible: and they who feel one thing acutely, so will feel another.—Bulwer-Lytton. What nation owns the largest airplane in the world? Germany. It is capable of carrying 100 passengers and is powered with twelve motors. The plane is 137 feet long and has a wing spread of 157 feet. How do the number of radio broadcasting stations in the United States compare with the number of other parts of the world? The United States has more than 600 broadcasting stations: all the rest of the world has about 500 stations. What Is the regular house number of the White House in Washington? 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W.

The Market Seems to Be Going Against Him!

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Don’t Give Child Too Much Candy

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia, tbe Health Magazine. AT the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Minneapolis last month, the committee on nutritional problems gave special consideration to the problem of sweets for children. This committee included such distinguished hygienists and nutrition experts as Drs. H. C. Sherman, C. E. A. Winslow, E. L. Fisk, T. P. B. Jones and D. B. Jon^s. The committee points out that the human being depends for his diet on proteins, fat, carbohydrates, which include sugar and starches, the mineral elements, and the vitamins. One does not, however, shop for proteins or fats or vitamins; one buys bread, meat, milk, fruit and vegetables. These are all foods containing all the substances that have been mentioned and characterized by the committee as many-sided foods as contrasted with one-sided foods such as oils, fast, pure sugars and starches. In the selection of a proper diet it

IT SEEMS TQ ME > 5V

I HAVE become an investor. The warnings of Reger Babson and others agarist trad rig on marg ns finally impressed me. For the first time there is a little certificate in my home. Although many times In brokerage offices, this is the'Cnly certificate I ever have seen. It is quite pretty, and bears upon its face an excellent likeness of an eagle. A camel would be more appropriate, for my savings have gone to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Comp'ny (new r Class B common stock). We make, I understand, one of the wellknown brands of cigarets. As yet, there is no evidence that the potential profits of invest ng are necessarily high. The commitment, to be sure, is a modest one, affording me ownership in Just ten shares. In fact, the diploma which I have received is rather irritatingly explicit in this matter. “Ce.tificate lor Less . Than. 100 Shares,” is stamped on the face and again in all the prominent corners. Mr. Reynolds seems very intent upon guarding me against delusions of grandeur. Yet, in spite of this protective kindness, I have one or two complaints to make about our company. It was not the brilliance, but

~h C OAVT IB THE “| A(lir<4cf(>A!l.V VASCO DA GAMA November 20 ON Nov. 20, 1497, Vasco da Gamma sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese navigator was the first European to reach India by the maritime route around Africa. He was descended from a noble family and was born at Simmes, a small seaport of Portugal. After some years at court, he was chosen to command the expedition dispatched by King Emmanuel to India by the all-sea route. Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon in July, 1497, and on Nov. 20 doubled the Cape of Good Hope. In December, he reached the Rio do Infante, where He had to suppress a mutiny of his sailors who shrank from facing unknown dangers that awaited them. On Christmas day they sighted the coast. They anchored off Malini April 15 and took on board an Indian pilot. After a voyage of twentythree days across the Indian ocean they reached the coast of Malibar May 17. 1498. Trie ruler of Calicut was hostile and Da Gama was forced to fight his way out of the harbor on the return trip. He returned to Lisbon Sept. 8, 1498.

is important to have some or ali of the necessary ingredients. The danger of a one-sided food is the fact that it will encroach on the diet generally and the special danger attaching to candy is the fact that it is so attractive, particularly as developed under modem conditions of manufacture, that people are likely to eat more candy than they ought to once they begin to yield to their tastes. Experts in nutrition are convinced that the homan dietary should be built around bread and milk, with fruits and vegetables occupying the place of next importance. Eggs are said to stand about midway between milk and meat in their nutritional properties. Sugars and sweets have special virtue as a means of attaining flavors and textures in food mixtures or in made or sophisticated dishes. The chief value of sugar in the diet is its contribution of calories or energy. Children are active and spend more calories in proportion to their weight than do the ordinary adults. However, the children require liberal supplies of proteins, vitamins

the steadiness, of R. J- Reynolds Tobacco Cos B which first attracted me. An important lesson had been assimilated by the young trader. Stocks which come up 15 points in a day can go down 30 in the same length of time. a a a And It Held IN the dark days Reynolds was a rock. Steels, coppers and utilities ware falling, falling, but there, upon the board, stood the symbol R. J. R„ immovable as Horatius who pegged the bridge. On one of the many dark days, a full 100,000 shares of the company were flung into the pit, but some one in our crowd took them all, saying, through clenched teeth, “Here on the 50-yard line I take my stand.” Mass plays, slants off tackle and even forward passes were of no avail. Reynolds Tobacco B refused to yield so much as a fraction under 50. Such gallantry touched my heart, and I felt that I would like to support this hard-pressed stock, which fought back so gamely against the invaders. My voice rang out in that beleaguered brokerage office almost like the bugle note of the United States cavalry as it comes to the threatened garrison in the third act of a melodrama. Men and women, who had been cowering in terror, arms flung in front of eyes to hide the horrid sight of the illuminated tape, drew anew breath and straightened up as a young man said in a crisp, alert and optimistic voice, “Buy me ten shares of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco (new Class A common stock) at the market.” And then he added, immediately, “for cash.” a a a Rockefeller

THE turn for the bettor came just about that time. John D. Rockefeller did not put in his bid for Standard Oil of New Jersey until several minutes later. The psychological effect was enormous. Bears realized that there were two brave men who would support sound stocks to the death. They realized that Reynolds had been pegged at 50, and feared to sacrifice anything more in frontal attacks upon this basic Industry. And all this happened on a Wednesday. Thursday morning dawned bright and clear and the market was buoyant. Out of cyclone cellars came investors, waving dollar bills at brokers And the headlines proudly proclaimed, “Stocks Up One to Fifty Points." But where was Reynolds B? The victory in sight, this gallant warrior drooped behrid tb® robnrro Like the messenger from Marathon,

and mineral elements along with their calories and pure sugars are lacking in these substances. Hence the committee urges particularly that sugar should be of all foods the most cautiously used in feeding children. Too much sugar may spoil the appetite for other foods of less pronounced flavor. A moderate amount of jam may be good for children and a liberal amount of ice cream may be good and indeed all of these things which produce both sweetness and other food qualities may well be recommended. The conclusions of the committee are that “in general the proper place of sugar in the food supplies and eating habits of children is not in such concentrated forms as candy, nor in the indiscriminate and excessive sweetening of ajl kinds of foods, but rather as a preservative and flavor to facilitate thp introduction into the child’s dietary of larger amounts of the fruit ancil the milk the importance of which to child health has been emphasized increasingly with each year’s progress in our knowledge of nutrition.”

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column arc those of one of America’s most interesting writers and ar(p presented without re-ard t theL agreement or disasjruement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

Reynolds, which had been the harbinger of good news, now vvau exhausted unto death. Blasted it; was for the sins of the speculators This balloon did not go up. a a a What? —Down! INDEED it opened 10 points down and then eased off frcct onaDy. .'Somebody, so it seemed, had mislaid the pegs. Apperent y, pecple were neglecting to wa’k the usual mile so procure our ch’ef commodity. And now I was without further funds to offer further support. I did the next best thing, and purchased two packages of Came o, purely for sentiment’s sake. Os course. 10 points on ten shares is not the largest loss taken by any one in the recent debacle. But SIOO can no longer be found growing on convenient bushes. Had I been a speculator I might have accepted the catastrophe calmly. But this was an investment, and all the oracles had declared that if one bough*-, things outright he couldn’t lose Even the picture of the eagle seemed less spirited than when-I first obtained my certificate. Closer examination of the portrait dsclosed that it was only a stuffed blrg. (CooyriKht. 1929. by The Time*)

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.NOV. 20, 1929

SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ —

Cheering News for Radio Fans: Scientists Say Reception Will Grow Better for Next Five Years. CONDITIONS for radio reception will grow increas-ngly better for the next five years. This cheering news for radio fans comes from Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, director of the Perkins Astronomical Observatory of Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, O. Dr. Stetson points out that by a queer turn of fate, conditions for radio reception began to grow worse almost at the same time that broadcasting became popular. Conditions continued to grow worse steadily, reaching their lowest point this year. But now, according to Dr. Stetson, a steady improvement can be expected with conditions reaching their best in 1934. The controlling factor in radio reception, according to Dr. Stetson, is the sun, or more specifically, sunspots. As Dr. Stetson himself says, almost everything from the slumps in the stock market to the rapidity with which rabbits multiplied in northern Canada, has been blamed on sun-spots. His opinion, however, is no idle guess, but the result of a long series of elaborate scientific observation carried on by himself and Dr. Greenleaf W. Pickard of the Wireless Specialty Company of Boston, famous pioneer radio inventor. Dr. Stetson began his observations while connected with the Harvard observatory. He now is continuing them at Ohio Wesleyan. a a a Cycles “IT'VERY one familiar with the ±Y> rudiments of astronomy knows that spots on the sun break out periodically and that the main period of sun-spots actively is of about eleven years duration,” Dr. Stetson says. “We now are not far from the maximum of sun-spot activity for the present cycle, F/pce 1923, these solar disturbances been on the increase. But from now until 1934, there will be a general subsidence of solar storms.” It has been known for many years that magnetic storms which upset the compass needle and threw telegraph and cable lines out of order had some connection with sun-spots. The reason for this connection was pointed out by Dr. George Ellery Hale, famous astronomer of the Mr. Wilson observatory. Dr. Hale demonstrated that the sun-spots were great whirlpools hi the °?.~eous surface of the sun. Some of these gigantic whirlpools are more than fifty thousand miles in diameter. Because the material in the outer layer of the sun Is in an electrified or ionized state, these greet whirlpools behave like greet electromagnets of the earth and cause the s'or ms. There also is reason to believe that these whirlpools act like giI gantic cannon, bombarding the 1 earth with e’ectrons, the fundameni tal particles of electricity. | This magnetic and electrical bomI bardment from the sun is the cause iof magnetic storms. It is also bei lieved to play some part in the fre- ; quenev and intensity of the aurora I borealis or northern lights.

Bombardment ; a BOUT fifty miles above the 1 earth’s surface is a layer of I electrified or ionized air known as j the Kennelly-HeavMde layer after the two scientists who first'pointed | cut its existence. | By some mechanism not comI pletely understood, radio waves i travel up to this layer and then are reflected or refracted from it. i “Whatever the mechanism is, the I wave appears to be turned by \ this ionized layer of the earth’s atmosphere,” Dr. Stetson says. “Any change in the intensity or degree of ic's ionization or electrification of the earth’s upper atmosphere would have the effect of bending the ray raore abrupty or less abruptly toward the earth and would be noticed in the intensity of radio reception.” Dr. Stetson then points out that according tq on? theory, it is the bombardment of the earth by electrons from the sun which creates the Kennelly-Keaviside layer in the earth’s atmosphere. “If the is more active on occasions, as when large sp-ehi appear on its surface, the degree of ionization Increases, producing substantially the effect of lowering the Kennelly-Heaviside layer and upsetting radio reception,” he says.