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A Special Session With hundreds of country school teachers without pay checks and many schools faced by the probability of closing after the first of the year, a demand is made by the impoverished counties for a special session of the legislature to secure funds for so basic a necessity as education. Were it probable that the legislature could be called together for a day to appropriate money for this purpose, and have them go home without other action, the thought of a special session would not terrify, as it does terrify, the leaders of the party which is responsible for the state administration and present conditions. Having obtained some evidence of a very deep and very wide unrest and state of dissatisfaction, these leaders really fear that a special session of the legislature would send a large number of the members on a mission r>f atonement and repentance, with individual members attempting to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of their neighbors and seeking salvation, politically, by doing many things left undone and undoing many of the thing done at the last session. That prospect really frightens. A special session, for example, might determine that a mistake was made a year ago when the door to election frauds was left wide open by failure to pass a registration law. The disclosures in Lake county and the charge that t ruck loads of imported voters were used to overthrow the will of the majority by fraudulent ballots might have some effect in backing up the demand of the women of the state for a law that would prevent fraud and make honesty in elections possible and perhaps probable. There may be members, too, who repent of their assassinations of the primary la\y and who have discovered that the people who sent them to make laws still cling to the idea that they are quite as able to select candidates for office as are the bosses who meet in back rooms and parcel out the honors on the basis of expediency, servility or contributions. The repeal of the primary might upset some of the calculations of those who pride themselves on an ability to manipulate conventions. There is always the danger that, eventually some member may investigate the cost of road building in the state and trace the twenty millions of dollars now provided each year for that purpose. It is possible that someone may point to the vast unemployment in the prisons and suggest the advisability of the state making its own roan materials by the use of state-owned resources and the state controlled labor now idle in penitentiaries and state farms. That would be tragic. The successor to Coffin as the head of the local party last night told an audience of manufacturers that all of the evils of which people, complain and which have given rise to a wide demand for anew Constitution can be cured by the legislature itself. That body, in special session, might take him seriously. It might even attempt to pass a city manager law that would get past the supreme court, more probable since so many cities of the state had political revolutions in November. Governor Leslie has a magnificent opportunity. The politicians have not been so kind to him. Rumor has it that he is not on the closest terms of intimacy with the big boys or the little fixers and that they have pointed to Lafayette as his Elba at the close of the term. He might, but probably will not, make history by Celling ihe lawmakers together and tell them that the sky is the limit. The people, when they finished, would at least know 7 whether they need anew Constitution or can rely, as said the successor to Coffin, upon legislative action for relief.
Correction and Clarification In a recent editorial entitled "More Monopolies.'* commenting on the testimony of Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company. before the senate interstate commerce committee. certain inaccuracies appeared which we desire herewith to correct. The Electric Bond and Share Company, criticised in the editorial for its refusal to produce its operating accounts in the federal trade commission’s power investigation, was referred to as a General Elective corporation. It is not, though it once was. Tire history of the relationship between the two companies is described in a report of the federal trade commission as follows: "On Dec. 30, 1924, the directors of the General Electric Company voted to distribute to its stockholders Its holdings in the Electric Bond and Share Company . . . prior to Dec. 30, 1924, the General Electric Company owned all the common stock and 300 shares of preferred stock of the Electric Bond and Share Company. “When the General Electric Company disposed of its holdings in the Electric Bond and Share Company it did not sell its stock interest, but, in effect, distributed it as a dividend to its stockholders. . . . The FHv* trading in the shares of these two companies •bout a year and three-quarters had reduced the
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Identity of holdings from 100 per cent to about 79 per cent. “From these facts and the negative character of other evidence available, it seems that the management of the Electric Bond and Share Company may be, as claimed, practically independent.” The editorial also interpreted Mr. Young’s testimony as expressing a desire for a monopoly ih behalf of the General Electric Company. Asa matter of fact, his plea for a monopoly was confined solely to communication companies, telegraph, telephone, cable and radio. The General Electric, a manufacturing concern, is in a competitive field, its chief competitor being* Westinghouse. One paragraph of the editorial contained this wording: “He (Mr. Young) went on. however, to dismiss the possibility of government control of communications, 'inasmuch as there is no large public sentiment demanding it.’ ” The word ownership should have been substituted for the word “control,” the Young testimony being an appeal for controlled monopoly of communications. He stressed unification as the prime necessity, saying that he would favor government ownership only if the objective could be achieved in no other way. Adrenalin and the Soul We shake hands with a friend who seems to be in the most robust health. He declares that he never felt better in his life. A few hours later we leam that he has been stricken. A couple of days more and we view his corporeal remains for the last time in a casket. What is it which has made the vigorous companion of yesterday a pallid and lifeless corpse? The problem of death has mystified man from time immemorial. Rich and somber primitive rites attest the varied interpretations of the dread eveht among primitive peoples. To the orthodox Christian life and death are a product of the entry and abandonment of the body by the immortal soul. To the modern scientific physiologist, life and death are a matter of chemical states. Death comes when the marvelously complicated and delicately organized chemical laboratory which Is the human body ceases to function. Discussion of the perennial problem of what separates life from death will be promoted intelligently by the recent discoveries of potent chemical substances produced by human glands. These seem to possess almost miraculous power to revive the dying, if not to restore the dead to life. Among the best known of theoe chemicals is adrenalin, the secretion of two little glands on the poles of our kidneys. In Rochester the other day Dr. Slater, chief of the medical staff of the Eastman Kodak Company, performed a remarkable feat in apparently raising a man quite literally from the dead. Speaking of one of the Eastman employes, George H. Austin, he said: “He was dead all right. Respiration and heart action had stopped and the reflexes of the pupils had ceased and the face had taken on the ashen color of death.” The doctor Injected adrenalin into Austin's heart and he was revived. Austin described his experience of death and resurrection as follows: “I only know that the sensation was the same as if I had fainted and was revived.” Where was the soul between the time of Austin's death and his restoration to life? Dramatic situations like the above are likely to provoke more interesting and realistic discussions of the theological questions relating to the soul, death and immortality than the quotation of acres of texts from the authoritative writers of the past who knew naught of the wonders of our age. Mrs. Gladys Eye of Chicago told a judge Dr. Charles H. Eye was still married to Mrs. Doris Eye when he married her. Well, three eyes are a bit unusual.
T~'v \ orvrvT FREDERICK RLAoOIN Ey LANDIS
IT would be eminently proper for President Hoover’s crime commission to find out why Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania passed over many able and respected leaders and appointed Grundy, a notorious lobbyist, to the United States senate, for that was a crime against decent government. tt tt u It would seem as if this Nationalist government of China were doomed, for this latest rebellion is led by seventy-five major-generals and President Chiang can not afford to buy all of them. tt tt tt This A. B. Crouch of Texas, charged with forgery, who was arrested in New Zealand after having been a fugitive for thirteen years, should have returned to his happy home and secured a pardon during the administration of Ma Ferguson. tt it a ONE is reminded that it is a cold, cold world by the fact that St. Louis has traded Grover Cleveland Alexander, the veteran twirler who saved that world series for St. Louis by making Babe Ruth eat out of his hand in that memorable ninth inning several years ago. a n While those Russian Communists were attacking our consulate at Warsaw the other night, their wives were probably at home, taking in washing. u a st Professor Todd of Western university states that the human brain stops growing at sixty years, but that it continues to work fairly well now and then is demonstrated by Oliver Wendell Holmes, aged 89 years, and the ablest member of the United States supreme court. * * * Circuses buy old wornout horses for $lO a head and feed them to the animals. Any man who would sell a faithful horse to be butchered would sell a member of Iris family, if the price were satisfactory and he could get away with it. a a a IF congress really plans to grant the Philippines their independence, it is all right with us, but we should not agree to stand guard over them for one single minute. If they go, let them go on their own! The Soviet government is almost as particular as Mrs. Gann, for a letter addressed "Russia” will be returned to the writer. To pay due respect to the bear in his present makeup. you must call him the United Socialist States of Russia. But if the letter had a check in it. we are inclined to think they would back up and let it in. tt a a We are certainly busy with the island of HaitiSanto Domingo. We have sent a thousand marines to the island to save the life of the president of Haiti and we’ve brought the president of Santo Domingo to Johns Hopkins hospital to save his baoon by an operation,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
M. E. Tracy SAYS:
America Puts Her Faith in Sportsmanship and Does Not Hold Mere Possession of Money Against a Man. 'T'HERE are twelve millionaires in the United States senate, yet Nicolai Lenin died in the belief that a rich man could not be elected to office in this country. The curious part of it is that two of the millionaires regard themselves as near Bolsheviks. One is Couzens of Michigan, who seldom votes in accordance with the supposed feelings of orthodox wealth, while the other is Capper of Kansas, prominent in the farm bloc. a tt tt It goes without saying that possession of a million dollars or even several million does not imply what it once did. Still, if class consciousness played the part Lenin ascribed to it in this country, there would be fewer than twelve millionaires in the senate, America may be suspicious of great wealth, but not to the point where its possession is taken as prima facie evidence of crookedness. tt tt tt Interest in Public Affairs AS a matter of fact, if more of our wealthy men paid attention to politics, more of them would be elected to office. The trouble is that they are too busy with their own, affairs. But while they may shy at official careers, many of them take a deep and practical interest in publis matters. , v % This is proved by what tfiey have done for our institutions of higher education, charities and social activities. Probably no nation on earth ever benefited to such extent from philanthropy as has the United States of America. Newton D. Baker believes that this interest in public welfare eventually will develop a great interest in politics on the part of our wealthier citizens. The idea is not only in keeping with history, but with the natural tendencies of human nature. A large portion of the leisure class created by prosperity generally has found an outlet for its surplus cash and energy in efforts of constructive or <’ultural character. The Renaissance, for instance, was due not only to great artists, but to rich men willing to give them the necessary support.
Wealth Plays at Politics IN ENGLAND, the descendants of wealthy or aristocratic families have played an important part in development of statecraft. Curious as it may seem, quite a few of them are to be found in the ranks of the Labor party, which suggests that class tradition, as we call it, does not hold when people begin to think. Thus far, this country has been fairly successful in avoiding class tradition. Most of its leaders have sprung from the people, and most of them have not forgotten their origin. There is a good deal of the oldfashioned democracy In our big houses and boards of directors. There is so much of it, indeed, that mast young men and women with spunk consider it no disgrace to accept those who have made the grade as models. What boy in this country would not like to be an Edison, a Ford, or an Owen D. Young? What girl would not like to be a Gloria Swanson, a Carrie Chapman Catt, or an Anne Morgan?
Entitled to Make Money AS a matter of fact, we believe not only in prosperity, but in the things which prosperity makes possible. We believe that people are entitled to make money, provided they do so in accordance with the rules of the game. We believe In the opportunities which private enterprise offers, and in the reward of individual ability. What we do not believe in is bullying, whether on the school campus, or in the oil field. n b tt To sum it up, America puts her faith in sportsmanship. She does not begrudge the champion his crown, provided he wins it fairly, but she detests any one who tries to win with a foul. That is the one reason why public opinion and law often appear to conflict, why some men whom the latter holds innocent are execrated, while others whom it holds guilty' are honored. There is, in this country, a deepseated love of fair play. Long may it live.
Questions and Answers
How many times has West Point beaten Annapolis in football since 1923? Three times. The scores for the games are as follows: 1923, Army, 0; Navy, 0. 1924, Army, 12; Navy, 0. 1925. Army. 10; Navy, 3. 1926, Army, 21; Navy, 21. 1927, Army, 14; Navy, 9. How old is Edgar A. Guest? Where does he live? He is 48 years old. His address is 17,471 Hamilton drive, Detroit. Has Ramsay MacDonald a title of nobility? No; he is a commoner. When did the Little Theatre movement begin? It began in Europe with the Theatre Libere of Andre Antoine at Paris in 1887. The Moscow Art Theatre of Constantine Staniselavsky started in 1890. The first Little Theatres in America w r ere established in 1911-1912. Maurice Browne's Little Theatre in Chicago, and Mrs. Lyman Gale's Toy Theatre in Boston were founded in that season. Both have now ceased functioning. The Washington Square players In New York began in 1915; the Arts and Crafts Theatre of Dw
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Ulcer of Stomach Is Serious Menace
BY DR. MORRIS FIBHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. THE person who has an ulcer of the stomach or duodenum is carrying around with him constantly a weak spot which may break through into the abdominal cavity. When this happens there is prompt danger of peritonitis and death. Recently Dr. Walter C. Alvarez considered the risk of giving life insurance to people with ulcers of the stomach. Out of 15,000 people who were examined 'with the X-ray and who had complained of indigestion, 13.7 per cent were found to have deformities of the duodenum, which is the part of the intestines immediately after the stomach. These deformities are produced by ulcers which have healed. One and one-half per cent of the 15,000 people had ulcers of the stomach: ’0.3 per cent had ulcers of the stomach and doudenum.
IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN
THE various prison outbreaks have at least served one good purpose. From now on we ought to hear very little of the gabble about the coddling of prisoners. Only a little while ago many people seriously contended that life in jail had been made so attractive that criminals no longer feared conviction. Such comment always was nonsensical. Even if a warden wanted to give every inmate the best time possible, he could hardly do so with the equipment at his disposal. Detention itself is torture to all but a very few. I am not asking that every rigor be removed from our penal, institutions, but by now we know that conditions are such as to tempt men to risk practically certain death on the slim chance of escape. Convicts are seldom men of much intelligence, but even the dullestwitted man in jail knows that he has very little hope of gaining freedom in an effort to shoot the way out against the guards. And yet within the year, the attempt has been made again and again. It must be that our prisons are even more cruel than anybody has imagined. tt a Front Line TO be sure it is not impossible to continue as at present, with recourse to gas and troopers on each necessary occasion. Still, it seems a bloody and inefficient way. Nor is it fair to the ridiculously
troit in 1916 and the Princetown players began in a summer colony at Cape Cod, Mass., in 1915. Has Thomas Edison any children? He had three children by his first wife, Marion, Thomas and William, and two by his second wife, Madeline and Charles. Who was the first President of the United States to visit Canada during his term of office? President Harding, He went to British Columbia. Are divorces granted in Russia by mutual consent? Yes, but if one of the parties enters an objection, court proceedings are held. Alimony is payable to either party to the marriage, husband or wife, if incapacitated for work. There are rigid requirements for care of children. Why do some artesian wells produce hot water and some cold wateT? Because the water in some comes from sources deeper in the earth than others. The interior of the earth is hot and only the outer crust Is cool. A _
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From a study of his records, Dr. Alvarez is convinced that insurance examiners are not likely to detect ulcers of the stomach or duodenum in the type of examination that is usually given for life insurance. He feels that in every 100.000 there are at least 16,000 who probably have such ulcers, whereas the insurance examiner is likely to detect only 2,580 cases. Causes of ceath from gastric ulcer, outside of such deaths as occur in operation, are rupture of the ulcer into the abdominal cavity and bleeding. From 15 to 30 per cent of people with ulcers at some time or another develop severe hemorrhages and vomit blood. In about 1 percent of all cases of ulcer, bleeding Is sufficiently serious to cause death. Occasionally ulcers of the stomach and duodenum become the place for cancer and this risk must also be considered.
underpaid prison guards that they should live in constant peril of their lives. Even now there are some persons in the community who counsel an even greater harshness in the criminal code and in the treatment of men convicted. This seems to me inexplicable folly. Palpably, harshness has failed. The very voices of those who counsel severity and still more severity are drowned out by the rat-tat-tat of machine guns as inmates make some despairing rush, content to die rather than endure their prison burdens. To other books recommended from time to time in this column,
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MILAN DECREE December 17
ON Dec. 17, 1807, Napoleon issued his famous Milan decree as a part of his commercial policy to shut England out from all connection with the continent of .Europe. By the Milan decree, any vessel, of whatever nation, that had been searching by an English ship, or had submitted to be sent on a voyage to England, or paid any duty to the English government, was to bo declared denationalized and treated as English. Napoleon's policy, known as the continental system, had begun with the Berlin decree in 1806, declaring the British Isles in t state of blockade and prohibiting all commerce or corrrespondencc with them. Every Englishman found in a country occupied by French troops or by their allies, was declared a prisoner of war; all merchandise belonging to an Englishman was made lawful prize; and all trade in English goods was entirely prohibited. Asa result many branches of manufacture sprang up on the continent. On the other hand, price of foreign goods rose to an extraordinary height, the daily comfort of the middle class was seriously affected, and the then prosperous American trade was practically ruined. What is a tandem airplane? One with two or more sets of wings of substantially the same area, not including the tail unit, placed one in front of the other, and about on the same level. How many words are there in our language? There are more than 400.000 active words In the English language. If the obsolete words and special technical terms are included the total is about 700(000. e 'iMuuatMk-
Ao a result of his survey of the situation Dr. Alvarez is convinced that people with ulcers are not fit subjects for health insurance or life insurance. Great care must be taken to distinguish those with duodemal and gastric ulcers, because operations on the stomach are more dangerous than those on the duodenum, and the stomach ulcers are more likely to develop cancer. People beyond 40 years of age who suffer a great deal with indigestion are the people most likely to have these conditions. Indeed the vast majority of patients who have these ulcers are the nervous, hightension, go-getter types, particularly frequent In recent years in American business life. Ulcers in women usually are associated with the diseases of the gall-bladder and such women not infrequently are operated on for appenditicis and for trouble with their pelvic organs.
Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s roost interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.
please add now William Bolitho’s “Twelve Against the Gods.” It is not the height of originality to say that William Bolitho has a mind, like quicksilver, because that ancient phrase always has been used to describe the mind that was both silver and quick, tt tt a Quicksilver THERE have been plenty of such minds and more than plenty of use of that description, but when I would like to pay my tribute to the kind of intelligence which is silver and quick, and, in addition, has the highly distinguished capacity to break into scores of little globules and run off into the most unexpected small pockets, in unpredictable directions, what in the world can I say but “quicksilver?” Bolitho begins as a cohering mass, breaks apart and scampers off literally like Leacock’s horseman, “riding rapidly in every direction,” and presently reassembles again, looking the very soul of mild innocence. Now naturally this type of creature is going to have his good and his bad. Some of his quicksilver pseudo-pods will return full, some empty.
Some of his globules will hover with their illuminations over rich, dark places and some will bobble on an Idle crack. That is why “Twelve Against the Gods” is as uneven a book as you’d hope to find, even though Bolitho has gone through the emotions of unifying it by making it the history of twelve adventures. The truth of the matter probably is that either some of his twelve were badly chosen or some of them were as mystifying to Bolitho as to the rest of us. a a m Wagon Hitching OF course, there is a lot less disgrace in failing to scale Mt. Everest than in failing to scale Mt. Tom. Bolitho occasionally does muddle around. But if he does seem to see as through a glass darkly, he obviously is trying to decipher that which, if it confronted most of us, would make us say, promptly, “Now, where did I have that last gin?” Will Rogers once said, when the prince of Wales was unhorsed on a water jump, “Well, all right, but It was a Jump that most of us couldn’t even swim.” However, this is true, that though "Twelve Against the Gods” may have its ups and downs, its ups are worth anybody's most respectful consideration in fact, nothing better is to be found anywhere in these parts or times. Ar.d, as for the preface, it is simply superb. Eon’t call yourself really educated until you have read it, unless it so happens that you know a a much as that already, which la always possible. £<> pyrtyhl IWf, fev Dm nro— t
DEC. 17, 1920
SCIENCE —By DAVID DIETZ
Present-Day Geologist Have Built Up the Theory That the Earth Has an Iron Core. PROFESSOR HARLOW SHAPLEY has suggested that a great shaft be sunk into the earth as a means of extending our knowledge of the earth's structure and composition. He thinks it might be possible at this time to go down three miles, more than twice the depth of the deepest mine. Such a shaft would be a great aid to the geologist in studying the crust of the earth. But it probably would not help him to understand the interior of the earth, unless it could be carried to a much greater depth. Geologists believe that the crust of the earth Is about thirty-six miles thick. It would be necessary, therefore, to carry the shaft to a greater depth than this to explore the true interior of the earth. It is a known fact that the temperature increases at the rate of about 1 degree Fahrenheit for every sixty feet of depth. This, of course, would be one of the greatest obstacles in carrying the shaft to any great depth. Geologists, however, do not believe today that this rise in temperature continues right to the center of the earth. They think that the rapid rise in temperature stops at a depth of about fifty miles and that the temperature rises more slowly from this point down. At one time, it was assumed that the rise in temperature went on to the center of the earth and that the interior of the earth, therefore, was molten. The old idea was that the earth's crust was a thin shell surrounding an interior of molten material. Volcanic eruptions were thought to be caused by material rising from the molten interior. tt n tt Earthquakes PRESENT-DAY geologists, however, have shown that, the earth could not have a molten interior and continue to exist. The moon raises huge tides in the oceans. It also causes tides in the land. These are very slight because of the rigidity of the earth’s crust. However, they have been measured with delicate scientific instruments and there is no question about their reality. If the earth's interior were molten, the moon would raise such tremendous tides within it that the earth’s crust would be unable to stand the strain. It would be cracked in a thousand places and the earth destroyed. Another and quite conclusive proof that the earth does not have a molten interior, is the density of the earth as a whole. It is possible to calculate the weight or mass of the earth from measurements of the strength of the earth's gravitational pull. Knowing the mass and volume of the earth, it then is possible to calculate the density. Calculations show that while the surface rocks have a density of about 2% times that of water, the earth as a whole has a density of about stimes that of water. In other words, the earth as a who'e is twice as dense as the rocks comprising its surface. The way in which earthquake waves travel through the interior of the earth also is evidence that the interior of the earth is solid. These waves possess characteristics which could not be transmitted through a liquid medium.
Iron Core STRANGE as it may seem, the present generally-accepted theory of the earth’s Interior was arrived at chiefly by studying the heavens. It is based largely on a study of meteorites. Every one has seen “shooting stars.” Scientifically, they are known as meteors. They are not stars at all, but small chunks of rocks. They enter the earth’s atmosphere from outer space. Friction causes them to turn white-hot and melt. Asa result they appear as a luminous streak in the sky. Occasionally, however, a large meteor enters the earth’s atmosphere and is not entirely consumed by friction. A piece falls to the ground. It then is known as a meteorite. Meteorites are divided into three classes. Some are iron. Others are chiefly a heavy rock known as peridotite. Still others are a mixture of iron and peridotite. On the assumption that the meteorite and the earth are both composed of material originally hurled out of the sun, many scientists have assumed that the interior of the earth must resemble the composition of the meteorites. This theory, known as the ironcore theory, has been developed largely by Drs. L. H. Adams and H. S. Washington of the geophysical laboratory. They assume that the earth has an Iron core 4,000 miles in diameter. This is surrounded by a layer of peridotite. Four chemical elements make up perioditlte—silicon, magnetism, iron and oxygen. Density of the earth and the rate at which earthquake waves travel through It support the iron-core theory.
Daily Thought
Surely every man waiketh is a vain shadow; surely they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.—Psalm# 18:6. a tt The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, yet constantly coming on.—Pope. Who won the women’s 400 meter free style swim in the 1924 Olympics? Miss Martha Norelius. She defeated Helen Wainwright and Gertrude Ederle of the United State* and Miss D. A. Molesworth of Great Britain, ■ tr .