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One Resolution Whatever resolutions are taken tonight to be kept, delayed or broken, may not be of much consequence. Those who forswear bad habits will probably go back to their evil ways and die early. Those who pledge themselves to better ways will either fail because of lack of courage or succeed. Those who do succeed would never have needed a pledge. There is one thing to which every one, the victim of bad habits or the seeker for greater service, can pledge themselves as a citizen. That is to vote for anew Constitution for the state to replace the one which is outgrown by time, desecrated by judicial interpretations and forgotten by all officials in so far as it protects the rights of the individual against the encroachments of organized graft, greed and politics. Whatever else may come from the new Constitution, there are two things that are important. The first is a judiciary that is removed from politics. It is monstrous to elect judges on party tickets. It is an invitation to injustice to make the aspirants for the bench water boys for the bosses. The second is a short ballot that will make self government possible. Under present conditions the voter has no chance to choose between candidates for office. He is in luck if lie selects his candidate for Governor. He is too busy making a living to carefully weigh the qualifications oi candidates for lesser offices. A short ballot and a tionpolitical judiciary will go far to restore government to the people. There is a chance next year. It comes through the vote for a constitutional convention.

India in Revolt Lahore, India. Sunday. Thirty thousand natives jammed about a speakers’ platform. The hour which they had waited for decades had arrived. Mahatma Gandhi, philosopher and leader of millions, came forward on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee, of which he was the head, lead decided, by a large majority, for severance of relations with England. Simultaneously another leader came forward, the young Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, president of the Indian national congress, and raised the national flag. “May it never be lowered,’’ he said solemnly, “as long as a native of India remains alive to defend it.” A mighty roar of approval went up. “Long live the revolution!” And so the revolt of India got under way. Thus enters what premises to be a tragic period for British rule in India and before it is over blood surely will almost flow. From the declaration of Independence to its achievement is likely to be a long and troubled road. India holds 300,000,000 souls—a fifth of the total population of the globe—and they are far from united even on the subject of independence. Some of the ruling classes see their own end in the end of British dominion. The rest are split into sects, castes, cults and religions. Socially, racially, economically. and politically they are divided. How else could only a few thousand representatives of a little island on the other side of the world hold in check 300,000.000 people, decade after decade, a vast majority of whom desire independence? Today many Indian leaders are talking of resorting to the sword. You can't overcome bayonets with philosophy, they say. Others, Mahatma Gandhi for instance, still preach nonresistance, civil disobedience and nonpayment of taxes. Obviously England will have her troubles, no matter which direction events take. Dramatic days, and perhaps tragic, lie ahead for both England and India. Round and Round We Go Like dogs chasing their tails, we pursue the question of prohibition enforcement. This latest fury of the politicians and propagandists over enforcement failure is nothing new. It has afflicted the country periodically ever since Volsteadism became a law. Now, as in the past, the arguments are over the mechanics of forcing obedience to the law rather than over the validity of the law itself. Senator Borah and the Anti-Saloon League bitterly denounce the breakdown of government enforcement machinery. They blame officials. They are hunting goats. How easy and how familiar is this pastime. Think of the long line of prohibition "czars'’ who have come and gone in Washington. Each hand-picked by the drys. each pledged to work the miracle of enforcement. each in turn meeting the samp fate—politically beheaded to satisfy the drys. who must put the responsibility for prohibition failure on someone. any one. anything except on the law itself. With this recurring demand for new enforcement officers comes the pressure for more hard-boiled methods Hence the periodic orgies of prohibition killings. We are in another now. Over this weekend five were slain and four others shot. Still more officers, still more appropriations, still more killings, and enforcement continues as much a I fa'lure as ever. And still more laws of the five-and- , ten and life-for-a-p:nt variety. Round and round we go, getting nowhere. Even the President, who started out with his eyes ahead, is being drawn into this endless circling. At his inaugural he saw that the failure of prohibition was due to the great body of otherwise law-abiding citizens who did not obey that law—not criminals, but sincere citizens. Those millions of citizens possibly might be persuaded. but they can not be driven by force and ter|rorism\ to respect a law which violates their sense lot justice. And yet after ten months in office the |Hoover\ administration is using th| same old dis-

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credited weapons of enforcement through more agents, more appropriations, more violence, more laws. That method will continue to fail. The prohibition law can not be forced on the American people. If it can win their respect it will be obeyed. If It can not commend itself to the people, then all the enforcement agents, funds, reports and laws only will multiply the widespread civil disobedence which now defies this statute. Nicholas Murray Butler, in his annual report as president of Columbia university, has restated this principle, which is as old as the pursuit of freedom, but which is dangerous heresy to those whose fanaticism has failed to make this land a dictatorship of one unpopular law. "Not everything which comes clothed in the garb of law really is law,” Butler points out. ‘‘To get at law we must go behind constitutions and statutes and judicial decisions and find out what public opinion has to say about any or all of these . . . "This is one reason why the widely heard cry for law enforcement is so meaningless. It usually reflects merely the demand of the fanatic for the punishment of violators of some particular law in which he is interested. If law enforcement meant the enforcement of all law, then the social order, at least in the United States, quickly would be afflicted with paralysis, partly because of the absurdity of many of these laws and partly because of their open conflicts with each other. Lawlessness is selective, and unbroken human experience goes to prove that a man may hold one law in utter contempt and yet have high respect for the great body of law of the land in which he lives. "The place to begin is not with lawlessness, but with law itself.”

More Funds are Needed Rodney Dutcher points out that the new administration in the United States Indian bureau is doing its level best to relieve the distressing conditions on government reservations, but that it is sadly hampered by a Jack of funds. For a time our treatment of our Indian wards habeen little short of a disgrace. We now have competent intelligent men in charge of this work, and they arc doing their best to remedy matters; but they can not go far without more money The budget bureau nas refused to increase funds. Only congress can relieve the situation. It is to be hoped that congress wiil act quickly and make available whatever sum is needed. The Indians deserve better care than they have been getting, and no federal economy program should be allowed to stand in the way. A great many women are taking up the law, says a bulletin from an eastern college. And probably an even greater number are laying it down. A public-spirited citizen is any one who writes to the paper, criticising the jury system. When people owe you money, if you give them too much rope they are likely to skip.

REASON By F S K

IT is strange how a nation's interest in a particular matter ebbs and flows. Take for instance this present proposition to grant the Philippines their independence because their products, notably sugar and cocoanut oil, come into resented competition with producers in the United States. a a a Back in 1900 the country was at fever heat over the Philippines, McKinley making his campaign for re-election on a platform which promised the indefinite retention of the archipelago, while Bryan advocated immediate independence and denounced the Republican position as imperialism. The fur flew over this proposition twenty-nine years ago, but now there’s not enough interest in it to turn a single hair. a a a When Dewey sailed into Manila bay and slammed the Spanish fleet, he added to our assets or liabilities this group of islands which hitherto had remained outside the orbit of American concern, in fact those of us who were some distance from our geographies were not keenly alive to the fact that the Philippines were decorating our local planet. a a a WE distinctly recall that when first the proposition was made to add them to our national inventory, there was a great commotion in the land and only two members of the national house of representatives openly advocated holding the far off real estate one of those representatives being Berry of Kentucky, a Democrat and an ex-Confederate soldier, and the other being Hilborn of California, a Republican and an ex-Union soldier. a a a Neither of those warrior-statesmen was concerned with the proposition of benefiting the Filipino and neither had any use for the subterfuge of destiny; they were just outspoken members of the Grab and Hold Association, an association which has had branch offices in all countries in all ages. Their colleagues looked upon Berry and Hilborn as ultraradical, as did President McKinley. a a a Then McKinley, who never got so far ahead of the people on any issue that he had to ask a policeman where they were, made a tour of the country to feel some ninety million pulses on the issue. When he started out his utterances were convertible, enabling him to wear either side out to fit the public temper but is soon developed that the people were for holding anything and averything we could get our hands on, so by the time McKinley reached the Pacific coast he was a confirmed annexationist. a a a WHEN the matter was debated in the senate it split both parties, incidentally enabling the late Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, then a youthful senator, to make his Philippine trip during the recess of congress and return to make an impassioned speech in favor of annexation and incidentally give nervous prostration to senatorial Buddhas who held that a youthful senator should remain in mothballs for many years before opening his countenance. a a a That fight broke the heart of Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, for while others exaggerated their concern for liberty, the venerable gentleman from Massachusetts held the same as a sacred trust and when we formally took the islands from Spain, Hoar was most unhappy. To one who went to him, immediately after the ratification of the treaty handing the Philippines to us, to seek a contribution to preserve Plymouth Rock from the encroaching waves, Senator Hoar replied with great emotion: “Plymouth Rock was washed away this afternoon!”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy What Shall We Be Doing Next Year by This Time That We Are Not Doing Now? YEARS lose their significance with the march of progress. Enough occurs now to make each : one of them memorable. That, more than anything else, shows how the human race has grown. Though 1929 hardly could be regarded as an outstanding year, it gave birth to a half dozen events, each one of which would have done credit to a century in the Middle Ages. For one thing, it saw peace established between the Italian crown and the pope. For another it saw a dirigible | circle the globe. For another it saw Commander Byrd fly over the south pole. | For still another it saw the Kellogg j pact ratified. tt a tt What would the Egyptians have thought of such a year or the Greeks in their palmiest days, or the people of Charlemagne’s time? One can not guess, of course, but probably enough to form anew religion or develop anew variety of art. They certainly would have given it a place among the most outstanding years of history. To us, however, it is just another twelve-month, even though it did oehold Russia and China making faces at each other, and then making up by te’egrapli, while New York radio fans listened to European music. a tt u Voices Heard Round World THE year comes to a close with voices heard round the world, and Tith man-made projects designed to include the entire race. Five great governments presently will meet to see what can be done about reducing naval armaments, where no government was able to build and man a dozen good ships 500 years ago. An Indian congress contemplates issuing a declaration of independence modelled on that of our forefathers, where there was no conception of collective action, much less for the formation of an independent state, 200 years ago. tt tt tt One can not review the last twelve months, or speculate on what is just around the corner, without being staggered at the rapidity with which horizons are expanding. It seems as though each Jan. 1 found us living in a wholly different atmosphere. Changes, discoveries, and projects, any one of which would have been enough to bewilder our grandfathers, now come trooping down the highway in droves. Where the greatest thrill in life once consisted of going somewhere, it now consists of looking ahead. That variety for which each human being longs has ceased to be a matter of place. But. as local differences disappear, those marked by the clock become greater. There is a wider gulf betweeen the way the world lives today and the way it lived three centuries ago than there is between the way people of Alaska and those of Australia live. a tt tt What Next? We Ask WHERE peculiar customs and traditions once constituted the biggest factor in life, we now are dealing with universals. Materialistic as science may be, it knows no distinction of race, nationality or creed. Science not only discovers, but distributes, its benefits without prejudice. To that extent, at least, it embodies in idealism broader than any previously conceived by the human mind, and to that extent it is visualizing the human race as one family more effectively. tt tt tt People are traveling more than they ever did, but with less expec- j tation of being shocked or surprised. When in quest of shock or surprise they look to the calendar rather than to the compass. Millions may be planning to go to this place or that place next year, but it is this year to which they look for their real thrills. What will 1930 bring by way of business, they want to know, by way of war and revolution, by way of prison riots or prison reform, by way of spectacular scientific experiment? In 1929 we began to talk across the ocean from ship to shore; to flirt with television; to extend air mail and passenger service to South America; to contemplate the possibilities of "an United States of Europe.” What shall we be doing this time next, year that we are not doing now?

Daily Thought

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor.—Ezekiel 7:26. a a a Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree. —Aaron Hill. What is the best way to wash a chamois skin jacket or windbreaker? It may be washed in warm suds to which household ammonia has been added, in proportion about one teaspoon to a quart of water. Do not rinse too much. Stretch it to shape while damp. If the jacket is an expensive one it would probably be better to take it to a reliable cleaner. What is the highest mountain in the world and in the United States? The highest in the world is Mt. Everest in the Himalayas, with an altitude of 29,141 feet. The highest in the United States is Mt. Whitney in California with an altitude of 14,501 feet. Os what nationality is Leo Lornski, the light heayweight boxer? He is an American of Polish-Jew-ish ancestry.

Isn’t the Senator Rather Hard to Please?

WE’VE HAD OTYICEKS -\mo SHOTDOWH „ v . WHO ADVOCATED JSSSiPs ,* & M Jfo, putting POISON .motorists VVf IK LIQUOR--WHO HAVE —and WHO HAVE SEHT WOMEN TAPPED WIRES 10 JAIL POP LIFT FOR HAVIKS _u TO LISTEN IK A HALT PINT OF SIN IK 'ALL WE HEED IS TO HUD THE KIND OE OXFICIALS WHO Wipq W 1 ENFORCE

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Medical Science Has New Weapons

This is the last of six articles in which Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. and the nation’s foremost authority on health subjects, reviews the accomplishments of medical science during the year 1929. BY DR, MORRIS FISItBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medica' Association and of Hygcia, the Health Magazine. ONE of the features of modern medical advancement in the discovery of new apparatus for use in diagnosis and treatment of disease. It would seem that man has gone as far as he can possibly go with the senses that he has and that it is necessary to prolong or project these senses by the use of such instruments as the microscope, stethoscope, laryngoscope, electrocardiograph, audiometer and similar devices. When these electrical instruments, capable of amplifying sights or sounds tremendously and even of increasing the sense of touch, are used, new facts are learned. In the treatment of disease, heat, light, water and similar physical forces are amplified greatly or used in new forms to considerable advantage. In the field of chemistry the old

IT SEEMS TO ME ™ D

IT is generally agreed that contacts between individuals should be marked, on the surface at least, by kindliness. To this end we have invented forms and rituals which we call good manners. Unfortunately, there is a disposition to confuse the outward manifestation and the inner spiritual grace. People are called rude when they fail in some trifling bit of hocuspocus, even though they may be animated by the most palpable friendliness. Now in an age where change is all about us there is no good reason why good manners should not be exposed to examination and remodeled to suit existing conditions. Something which may have been courteous a century ago can very well be a complete nuisance at the present moment. a a a Gentlemen IHAVE in mind a particular piece of conduct which is not conductive to good fellowship under the condition of modem housing. At some period in history it became the custom for a gentleman to rise to his feet when a lady entered the room. I don’t know why. Presumbably it was a mark of respect, but even in ancient days I can’t understand why it was not possible to respect a lady from a sitting posture. One may sit during a sermon in church and feel the greatest respect for both the preacher and his theme. Still, you may argue that whether logical or not it was a pretty sight to watch the cavaliers spring to their feet as the lady came down the stairs and went through the long corridor to the great hall of the castle. But we have no winding stairways now nor any great halls except the few devoted to the use of fratemals orders and concert singers. Yesterday I went to a tea *partv and had the misfortune to sit beside a man intent upon politeness. an sx Crowded THIS, you understand, was a New York apartment. Even after the ice box had been removed from the living room to the back hall and the bed folded into the wall it hardly was still quite the stadium for cat swinging. There were six other people on the sofa assigned to me. One of them was the polite young man Yvette, who gave the party, is the soul of hospitality and had invited almost all her beaux. You well may

drugs are developed in new combiations which intensify greatly their effects. Bismuth, long known to chemistry, now is adapted in various combinations for the specific treatment of the major venereal disease. Barbituric acid, a powerful sedative drug, now is available in dozens of preparations of varied efficiency. Diphtheria toxin used for the Schick test and for the prevention of diphtheria is modified in various ways so that it may be injected with practically no reaction. All sorts of bacterial preparations are now available which are used to great advantage in both prevention and treatment of infectious disease. Each year hundreds of new preparations are introduced, thoroughly tested by the medical profession, and each year the permanent gain is considerable. One of the most interesting advances in medical care has been the development of the hospitals and similar institutions for the care of the sick. In such great centers it is possible tc apply all of the advanced technics and laboratory methods f*£ diagnosis that have been mentioned and to give adequate nursing care and physical treatment. These

imagine that the place was packed to the ceiling. Late comers sat upon the floor The arm of every chair supported two girls, or three if they happened to be little ones, and yet the polite young man insisted on leaping to his feet whenever the door bell rang and one or more ladies entered the room by means of a mass play off tackle Twice the sudden movement of the paragon upset me. Three time? he spilled my drink. He trod upon the hand of Charlie, who sat on the floor just in front of us. In fact, he made everybody uncomfortable and congested traffic. He was an unmitigated pest and all in the name of politeness. a a a Persona! IT may seem as if my bitterness rested on something more than a wish for civic betterment. Perhaps you suspect that there would be less rancor if I did not have some particular private ax to grind. You are quite right. Getting to my feet to signalize the approach of a lady requires rather more effort from me than the average individual. It is really a considerable journey from my sitting stance to an erect posture. Althought the figures have not yet been checked, I have computed hastily an interesting fact which should justify me in remaining seated even though Marie of Rumania herself should come Into the flat. My figures seem to say that each time I leap, or even lumber to my feet, enough foot pounds of energy are consumed to raise the Eiffel Tower three-eighths of an inch. Os course, nobody in particular wants the Eiffel Tower raised in this manner. I am but speaking in symbols. Had I followed the example of the

Questions and Answers

When was the Iroquois theater in Chicago destroyed by fire? The fire occurred Dec. 30, 1203, during a performance of "Mr. Bluebeard ” What is the value of a Stone mountain half dollar dated 1925? It is worth only its face value. Who was the author of the Marquis of Queensberry rules in boxing? These rules were framed by the Marquis of Queensberry and Arthur Chambers, who fought for the lightweight championship in 1872. The Marquis of Queensberry was a great lover of boxing and in 1865 decided thai fighting under London

things ua- j increased greatly the cost of me cal care. The nun.oer of hospitals in this country has increased from less than 1,000 in 1890 to more than 8,000 in the current year. The number of nurses graduating annually has been increased from less than 500 in 1890 to 200,000 this year. The physical therapy and IX-ray departments in hospitals have increased by 65 per cent in the last ten years. Hence more people are being given the opportunity to receive scientific medical care under the most advanced conditions. The great problem of the present is to develop some method whereby people will realize that at least two million people are seriously ill every day in the United States and that human beings will be wise if they anticipate the sicknesses that are inevitable and save sufficient funds to insure the best medical and hospital care when sickness comes. When the appendix becomes infected, when tuberculosis strikes, when the gallbladder becomes blocked by stones, or when one suffers a serious and mutilating accident, the sum of S2OO or S3OO to insure the best possible medical cars is far more important than the possession of an asthmatic motor car or a shrieking radio 365 days a year.

Ideals anl opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without recard to their agreement or disacreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

polite young man at Yvette’s party, a couple of promising painters would have been flattened and crushed against the apartment wall. Charlie received no more than a painful injury when the agressively conventional young man stepped upon his hand in an effort to be polite. Fortunately, no wild impulse to courtesy moved me up from the sofa or Charlie would be from now on a left-handed illustrator. a a a Hats On! THE first and most immediate reform should be the complete abolition of the practice of baring the head in office building elevators. In justice to the good sense of the community, it must be admitted that the majority of men already have outgrown this folly. Here and there a few persist. They are mud-dle-headed. According to ancient ritual, one does not wear his hat in the house unless the tfuilding happens to be a man’s club in which case he should. But the elevator in an office building is no part of a house. It is merely an extension of the sidewalk down which you walked on your way to work. It would be just as sensible to come down Park avenue hat in hand as to snatch off your derby in the elevator of the Grand Central building. Upon this I am adamant. The young lady in the comer of the car benefits in no way if I take my hat off. With the advance of the years, I find the top of my head a little sensitive to sudden changes in temperature. By permitting the archaic rite. I may catch a severe cold. I am sure the young lady in the corner of the car would not wish that. Why should -she? She doesn’t know me from Adam? fCooyrlKht. 1929. by The Times)

I prize ring rules was rather brutal, j With the assistance of Chambers I the marquis drafted the rules, which 'with revisions from time to time) have been almost universally recognized for more than half a century. Tne object of the Queensberry rules was to eliminate all unnecessary brutality, which often occurred in fights under London prize ring rules and to give men of science a chance. What is the nationality and meaning of the name Irma? Should It be spelled with an “I” or “E”? The name Irma or Erma is of Moorish irigin and means ‘‘innocent or pure." It may be spelled either way.

.DEC. 31, 191

SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ—

Many Views Concerning Atgj and What His Ancestomi Were Like Are Voiced ill Scientists. THE appearance of man ] earth is still one of the \n:*f solved problems of modern science! There are many views concerning* what early man and his ancestor?!, were like. One school of scientists believe* that man’s immediate ancestor was essentially ape-like. Another, headec. by President Henry Fairfield Osborn. • of the American Museum of Natural History of New York City, disagree?' with this view. Dr. Osborn believes that the immediate ancestor of present-day | man was a creature very much like him. He has christened thisi ancestor "the dawn man.” Dr. Osborn, retiring president ofi the American Association for thq| Advancement of Science, spoke ail the opening session of that or-1 ganization’s annual meeting in De?j Moines. His subject was “The Com- j ing of Tertiary Man.” Dr. Roberts A. Millikan, this year’s president of the association, presided. The discussion of early man wa based almost entirely upon tw| “finds,” the so-called “Java manl, and the so-called “Piltdown man] The remains of the Java maj found at Trinil, Java, consist of pal of a skull, two molar teeth and thigh-bone. The remains of tl Piltdown man, found at Ptttdovafc Sussex. England, consist of n--of a skull, a jawbone w| two teeth and a pair of na.V 1 bones. m tt tt Age T-HE age of these fossils is esti| l mated from the geological strati of rock layers in which they wer<| found. Most authorities agree tha| the Java man is the older. Theii j age is thought to be in the neigh-l borhood of 100,000 years. Some authorities place them at the start of the last geologic age.i the so-called Pleistocene, sometimes| called the Quaternary or glacial age.i Other authorities would assign | them to the age just preceding the! glacial age, the so-called Pliocene! or Tertiary age. The Java man is known to scien-| Lists as the Pithecanthropus, while! the Piltdown man is called the| Eoanthropus. These names are from! the Greek. Pithecanthropus means! “ape-man,” Eoanthropus means! "dawn man.” Dr. Osborne approves of the lat- . ter name, but disproves of the| former. "Eoanthropus,” says Dr. Osborne. £ "had a brain so distinctively human! that the best anatomical authority! places it close to the lower types of| the existing human brain.” Pithecanthropus, Dr. Osborne insists, was not an ape-man but a true "dawn man.” He bases his opinionj on a study of the brain capacity oil the skull made by Dr. Frederick* Tilney. M tt tt Myth “T AM glad to be the first to be-l 1 friend the dawn man and tag remove from his reputation the barf sinister of ape descent,” Dr. Os| born has written. “The myth of ape ancestry lln-S gers on the stage, in the movies| in certain anti-naturalistic litera-| ture, in caricature of our pedigree! even in certain scientific parlance! but the ape ancestry hypothests is! entirely out of date and its place i!| taken by the recent demonstratiorl that we are descended from ‘dawr men’ and not from ‘ape men.* “The crucial point in this demonstration is the application of modern intelligence tests to thl Trinil man of Java through the ex-f pert observations of my Columbia colleagues. Professor J. Howard Me* Gregor, anatomist, and Professow Frederick Tilney, psychiatrist. “The Trinil man is a dawn mart and not an ape-man. He walkeif erect, he thought as man, he prob I ably spoke as a man. although hil vocabulary was limited. “But in the dawn man was thf potency of modern civilization. W : welcome gift from anthropology t- L humanity is this banishment of th K myth and bogie of our ape ances !| try." Needless to say there is no com plete agreement with Dr. Osbon j | among anthropologists. Some thin i* that he has been too enthusiastic ill; his estimates of the intelligence op these early creatures. However, Dr. Osborn’s long recon 1 of important accomplishments len | considerable weight to his opinion® How many wires would a bundl-f of wires twenty-four inches lr§ diameter contain if eacli wall 1-1,000 of an inch in diameteifpl If each wire was six feet long ho* many feet of wire would there be It - the bundle? The bundle would contain 48,0® wires having a total length of 28fi’l 000 feet.

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JEFFERSON RESIGNS Dec. 31 ON Dec. 31, 1793, Thomas Jes son resigned as secretary state because he opposed neutrt as between France and Engl> then at war. The followers of Jefferson that the United States was boil by gratitude and treaty to aid J French republic; and his oppone argued that motives of self-pres vation were stronger than the ot gation owed for help during Revolution. Today also is the anniversary the signing by President Lincolr the act admitting West Virginia the Union, on Dec. 3L 1862. On Dec. 31, 1866, income tax 5 per cent on earned incomes ov SBOO yielded $61,071,932. And on Dec 31, 1806, England co: tinued to search American ships a impress the crewa