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Labor on the Air The radio commission has a thankless Job In apportioning wave lengths. There are not enough to go around. Every applicant for a broadcasting station is certain his claim is better than the other fellow’s. Outsiders can not hope to pass judgment on these conflicting claims in general, except to point to the necessity of an adequate check on the commission's decision to prevent discrimination. But there is one particular claim and its handling in which the public has an unusual interest. That is the application of the American Federation of Labor and the Chicago Federation of Labor. These organizations, according to the testimony of an A. F. of L. attorney at the senate radio hearings, have been blocked repeatedly in their efforts to obtain a cleared channel and high power for a national labor broadcasting station. The Chicago federation’s station, WCFL, is restricted to low power and is excluded from the air at night, the time of the largest radio audience and the only time when labor can listen in. The commission should reconsider its position in this case. Organized labor represents a sufficiently large body of citizens to merit several wave lengths. The A. F. of L. should be enabled to operate its own station and at night—even If the country has to sacrifice one of the hundred broadcasts of jazz. Congress and Mergers Attorney-General Mitchell a few months ago in a public address announced determination of the department of justice to continue to enforce the antitrust laws, and to abandon the plan of giving formal opinions on legality of proposed mergers. The statement was considered as important, since the outstanding tendency In American business in recent times has been formation of bigger and bigger combinations in every direction. A feeling had grown up that the anti-trust laws were being permitted to become a dead letter. In light of this, the attitude of the house appropriations committee is interesting. It refused to grant the anti-trust division of the department of justice increased funds, although advised by the assistant attorney general in charge that work for the coming year would be the greatest in the division’s history. The division will get its customary $200,000, an amount which lias not varied greatly in twenty-five years, although the whole economic picture has changed. If the anti-trust laws are to be kept on the statute books, provision should be made for their efficient administration. Sins of the Mother The biblical prophecy that the sins of the parent will be visited upon the children is more than coming true in America. All over the land mothers-to-be are finding it necessary to let their offspring see life first inside grim prison walls. A report on conditions in Auburn prison, New York, tells that the women’s wing “houses 115 inmates—and three babies.” In San Quentin, Cal., an expectant mother recently was removed from her felon’s cell to give birth to a baby. Tire birth of another fledgling jailbird to Mrs. Sue Brown, serving in a California jail for alleged bootlegging, was prevented by what many consider the merciful hand that caused the infant to be born dead. t In view of the now prevalent fashion of jailing expectant mothers it is .suggested respectfully that u'e equip our jails and prisons with maternity wards and nurseries.

Texas Has Own Jean Valjean, Who Made Great Comeback

Editor’s Note—Truth, indeed, can be stranger than Action. The Times and NEA Service herewith present an exclusive interview with A. B. Crouch. Texas’ 1930 Jean Valjean, who tells how he dodged the law for thirteen long years and rose o success while a fugitive under an assumed name in far-off New Zealand. He recently returned to Texas and made restitution and is no en route back to New Zealand. v BY ALLEN BAKER ' Special NE.\ Service Correspondent (Copyright, 1330, NEA Service, Inc.t Tex.. Jan. 25.—Through the pages of Victor Hugo’s immortal romance. ‘’Les Miserables,” s talked a tragic and lonely figure— Jean Valjean, an escaped convict who had reformed and, under this assumed name, re-established himself in society to the extent that he became a mayor and prospered immensely. But always he lived under the terrible shadow of the law. And one day the law found him out and sent him back to prison. And then, to provide the customary happy ending Victor Huso had the hero of his novel restored to good standing and started him anew on a long and useful life. Truth may not be stranger than fiction, but sometimes it is just as strange—even as strange as the fanciful Action of Victor Hugo—and what has Just happened in this little Texas town proves it. A 1930 Jean Valjean has been brought to light. He Makes Restitution Somewhere out on the bread Pacific today, a bronzed, weatherbeaten man of 43, whose face is much older than his years and whose hair is prematurely tinged with gray, is aboard a ship, en route to Helensville. New Zealand. There. 10.000 miles from here, he is known as John Grey, a prosperous real estate dealer, a leading churchman, the father of a fine family and a popular candidate for mayor. In Temple, he is known and remembered as A. B. Crouch, who ded from forgery indictments here thirteen years ago when his grain business went to the wall with a crash that involved $160,000. Police conducted a world-wide search for years and just recently he was arrested in New Zealand and brought back to face trial. Sheriff John B. Bingham traveled

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half way around the world to get his man. But no trial was held. In cash or in faith. Crouch made restitution of the $160,000 to the satisfaction of the banks that had suffered by his actions in selling more grain than he had been able to deliver after dabbling in the market. So the charges against him were dropped. Crouch told the story of his thirteen years as a fugitive and selfimposed exile in an exclusive interview just before leaving Temple for his return to far-away New Zealand. When he left Helensville friends made him promise to come back and continue his race for mayor. "There is nothing so terrible as being an exile,” Crouch began, “and it was so unnecessary and foolish for me to have left. Here I had lost and here I should have remained to re-establish myself. But I was young and foolish then—and scared. "The disaster in 1917 overwhelmed me. I lost every penny I had in the world. In my own heart, I knew I had not wilfully wronged any man, yet others had lost their money. But I had lost even more—l had lost faith in myself. I felt dishonored and ashamed—l felt every man was against me.” Exile for 13 Years Crouch straightened his towering frame in his chair, fixed his melancholly eyes on his interviewer and said: “For thirteen long years I was an exile from my native land —and, God, how long those years were!” Crouch went on. “For what seemed ages I traveled, traveled, traveled—not seeking friendly faces, but avoiding them. Always there was that haunting fear that I would be found out. "Long after I had fled from Texas I landed at Christ Church, New Zealand. Here, after traveling nearly half the distance around the world, I told myself I must feel safe. My wife and four children had joined me by that time and were with me. “Can you realize how an exile feels about his native land? Every spot, every recollection seems hallowed to him The houses he has passed with only an indifferent glance he now finds he loves. All the familiar places, the familiar scenes seem to

Something in a Name

At first we were puzzled. We couldn’t understand why the Anti-Saloon League was getting set to throw its political support to Joseph R. Grundy in preference to Gifford Pinchot in the next senatorial campaign in Pennsylvania. The reason comes to us now. It’s the name. Grundy! How could the Anti-Saloon League pass up one of that name even though its owner be a "Mr.” and, therefore, not a Mrs.”? The number of stories of wives shooting their husbands is increasing. The ladies apparently have forgotten that there is such a think as a rolling pin.

T*-r> A CrNTvT FREDERICK REASON By LANDIS

THE finest thing this government ever did is to plan and finance this European trip next summer of five or six thousand Gold Star mothers who •will visit the graves of their sons who are buried over there. Nothing like It ever took place before and this pilgrimage will be the most eloquent protest in all history against the ghastly folly of war. However, this government should have done It, right by sending the Gold Star fathers also. M B B Mr. Griswold, deputy commissioner of public health in Michigan, correctly states that those who have high blood pressure can enjoy many comfortable years by observing proper habits and diet. And they can add a few years by forgetting the ailment. a a a • We have enjoyed several months of peace with France since arranging for the settlement of her debt, but now she is up in arms again because American women defy the Paris dressmakers and refuse to put on long skirts. u b a THE bright spot In Chicago’s lawlessness is the heroism of her policemen, who almost every daytake their lives in their hands and charge the strongholds of the gangsters. It has become fashionable to abuse the police, but if the rest of our law enforcement machinery measured up to them in courage and character our crime problem would be cut in half. B B B This collie dog which traveled 500 miles from West Branch, la., to his old home in Missouri evidently did not appreciate the honor of residing in President Hoover's birthplace. a B B Remembering that General Phil Sheridan was graduated from West Point by the skin of his teeth, one is led to fear that we may have lost one or two real commanders when the military academy dismissed those sixty-seven cadets for deficiency in scholastic standing. Personality is one of the essentials in a military leader, but this doesn’t count at West Point, B B B , FOR instance, personality enabled General Fred Funston, who was not a West Pointer, to plan and capture Aguinaldo over in the Philippines when all the rest of them had failed to do it. b b a These members of the national crime commission who recommend that violators of the prohibition law be tried by United States commissioners without juries evidently overlook the fact that the Constitution provides for juries. B B While various statesmen in Washington are arising to remind congress that trivial matters are of great concern, the rivers of the country are rising to remind congress that flood control is one thing which should not be delayed. As you lie in your warm beds these stormy nights, think of the dauntless fliers who dash through the skies, carrying Uncie Sam’s air mail.

call to him to come back. But you you can’t go back; all you can do is just dream. t Prospered in Business "In New Zealand we began to get acquainted with people. My wife taught music and we saved from her little income and my meager wages and soon leased a dairy farm and bought some cows on credit. We prospered in a small way. “As my acquaintance broadened I could not resist the glowing opportunity to re-enter business. I chose real estate and moved to Helensville and did well, making friends and money. *1 can not say I was wholly surprised when Sheriff Bingham came out to New Zealand for me. Nor was I glad. I had always felt that some day—sooner or later—this would happen. But I was glad of one thing—that I had had the chance to re-establish myself before the blow fell. “Well, the sheriff brought me back and here I am.” LEG fbY4~AU XILIA RY HEADS WILL MEET National Executive Committee to Outline 1930 Program. O. L. Bodenhamer, El Dorado, Ark., American Legion national commander, will address the national executive committee of the Legion auxiliary at national headquarters here Sunday, where the committee will meet to outline the 1930 program of theauxiliary. The meeting will be opened at 9:30 by Mrs. Donald Macrae, Council Bluffs, la., national auxiliary president. James F. Barton, Des Moines, la., national adjutant of the Legion, will bring greetings. The report of the national finance committee win be given at the Sunday morning session by Mrs. William HBiester Jr. of Philadelphia. National rehabilitation, Americanization and aid toward education of war orphans will be other subjects to be considered at the meeting. Widow Gets Estate ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 25.—The will of Edgar W. Fanner, veteran railway mail clerk, who died Jan. 18. bequeaths the entire estate, valued at SII,OOO, to the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

From a Historical Standpoint Bail From Jail May Look Beautiful; From a Modem Standpoint It Is One of the Rottenest Leftovers From the Past. TJONDING companies charging more than the law allows for bail; shyster lawyers collecting excessive fees for getting it, and then turning the business over to professional runners; magistrates accepting sureties that could not make good; rich defendants putting up cash for bail, and then taking French leave —one would think from all the chatter that New York had discovered something new in this age-old form of private graft. Asa matter of common sense, nothing is occurring with regard to the bail situation in New York that hasn’t been occurring for the last fifty years, or that isn’t more or less common to every criminal court in America. B B B Negro craps shooters in the south; boys at the forks of the creek charged with shooting game out of season; pint pocket peddlers arrested to save the face of Volsteadism; petty thieves, broken-down prostitutes and common drunks—whether in Maine, Texas or California —they can tell the seamy side of the bail business, and the story is the same in all sections. On the other side of the picture is the financial highbinder, the crook with cash in his pocket, the millionaire confidence man, the big conspirator, who, though guilty of far worse offenses, thumb their noses at the law, and laugh at jail doors. Bail is sanctioned by the state to let the citizen enjoy liberty while the mills of justice muddle through, but in such way as to develop graft, corruption and injustice. a b It’s Rotten Leftover FROM an historical standpoint, bail may look beautiful. From a modem standpoint, it is one ot the rottenest leftovers of the past. If private companies can make money out of bail, why can’t the state, and if private companies or friends can guarantee a defendant’s appearance in court, why can’t the state? If one man is entitled to liberty when charged with a certain offense, why is not another, and why should a few dollars make any difference? B B B Bail Is chiefly significant because it enables people with a little cash in their pocket, or with a little pull, to get something out of the law that other people can not. In the end, it guarantees nothing, and adds nothing to efficiency of the judicial system. There is no reason in the world why a defendant entitled to liberty while his case is pending should not be allowed to report to a magistrate or probationary officer at stated intervals, and let it go at that. \ The Idea of compelling his friends to put up a bond-, or of permitting a commercial institution to render that service for a stated price, is not only antiquated, but contrary to fair play. BUB Scrap the System THE best way to stop the racket in bail bonds, to prevent the corruption in which they have resulted, to wipe out the distinction they make between rich and poor, is to scrap the whole system. Bail represents nothing less than a confession of weakness on the part of our judicial system at the very start. Considering what we have done to eliminate crime, the elaborate machinery we have devised, the drastic penalties we have provided. It is disgraceful to begin by calling on “friends of the accused,” or a private corporation, to see that defendants hang around until their cases are called, or forfeit a certain amount of money if they do not. If the state can not perform that service effectively, how in heaven’s name does it ever expect to convince people that it can do the rest? ana It goes without saying that people should not be kept in jail while : they wait for tne grand jury, or the court to get around to hearing their cases. By the same token, it goes without saying that, if anything, people without friends, without influence, and without money should be protected more zealously in this right than any other, because of their obvious need. The well-to-do defendant much better could afford to stay in jail a month or six weeks, than the one whose daily toil is the only thing that stands between him and actual ■want, but under the bail system now in vogue, it is the well-to-do defend- , ant who can avoid staying In Jail. BUB Rich Have Advantage BEING a human institution, justice is subject to certain inherent defects which give the advani tage to rich people. I They can obtain the smartest I lawyers, bear the cost of working up cases, and enjoy the benefit of such influence as goes with wealth and position. Because of this very condition, the power of money should be eliminated wherever possible, and every precaution should be taken to equalize things in favor of those unfortunates who can look to nothing for protection but public policy. Who wrote the song "Will You Love Me in December as You Did in May?” The music is by Ernest R. Ball and the words by James J, Walker. How can the measurements of a square equal in area to a circle, whose diameter is known, be determined? To find the area of a circle multiply the square of the radius by 3,1416. Take the square root of the product and it will give you the length of the sides of the square.

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‘Parrot Disease’ Not Cause for Alarm

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN 1904, three cases of psittacosis or "parrot disease” were reported in Boston. Last fall an outbreak of this disease was reported in Buenos Aires and more outbreaks have recently been reported in the United States. In Hamburg, Germany, twentyeight cases with five deaths occurred last fall. In the epidemic of psittacosis which occurred in Paris in 1892, there were forty-nine cases and sixteen deaths and it was reported that the infection had been caused by parrots brought from South America. When psittacosis occurs, it begins with a chill and fever with a good deal of weakness and depression and usually some inflammation of the lungs. The extent of the inflamma-

IT SEEMS TO ME * HE B = D

ALTHOUGH I didn’t get up in time to hear King George speak on the radio when the naval parley opened, this feat of broadcasting seems to me impressive. And a little terrifying. It is the potentiality of rebroadcasting which arouses fear. According to one account, "two short-wave stations at Schenectady rebroadcast the rebroadcast in o its entirety. Past records of these transmitters show that they regularly reach out to lonely trappers beyond the Arctic circle, to China and Japan, to the Antipodean countries, and even to the present most southerly residents on the sphere, the Byrd expedition in Little America. It is a comparatively safe assumption that the opening ceremonies of this conference could have been heard by any listener with a radio receiver in any place on the globe.” It was an excellent thing, of course, that the whole world should hear a ruler speak In favor of reducing armaments. For this achievement I have the greatest enthusiasm, and still it makes me feel creepy to learn that any human voice can be sent completely round the globe in practically no time at all. B B B No Encore I WANT to know what is to prevent radio wizards from sending this voice, or any other, all the way around a second time. With powerful enough apparatus It would seem to me that the wave might be made perpetual. It would be thrilling, to be sure, if radio had only come on the scene a little earlier. Then we might actually tune in and make good the poetic conception of the shot fired at Concord bridge, which was heard round the world. By swinging a dial we might listen to Patrick Henry’s own voice, worn by the years to a whisper, but still vibrant with the wish for liberty or death. Or even, reaching back into the mists of time, we might hear Homer smite his blooming lyre on some sustaining program. Indeed, if inventive genius can do so much for a present voice, there is even the fantastic possibility of achieving the resurrection of a voice long gone. Somewhere, infinitely minute, swim the words of Patrick Henry. His vocal cords loosed air currents which must still live in some sort of ethef agitation. Granted apparatus sensitive enough, why couldn’t this infinitesimal aerial commotion be magnified and again revived? It’s still a good sentiment The research men might bring us back the swish of the oars as small boats brought Columbus and his men through surf to friendly beaches. The pebbled eloquence of Demosthenes could follow hard upon the

In Darkest America!

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tion of the lungs determines whether the patient lives. When the records of a considerable number of cases are assembled, it is found that from 30 to 40 per cent of the patients die. When the disease first was described in Paris, a germ was isolated from the parrots and it was found to be of the type of the same family as the typhoid germ. This germ now is called bacillus psittacosis. "Parrot disease” essentially is a medical curiosity and need occasion little alarm among the people of the United States. The symptoms resemble those of other infectious diseases and one should be certain that the disease is actually psittacosis and not pneumonia or other infections of the lungs. Obviously, the first step is to get the suspected parrot and to

heels of a jazz orchestra, and who would not tune In to learn what song the sirens sang when Ulysses and his crew sailed safely past, by grace of wax and inhibitions? a a a A Good Song BUT it is not the low tones of the dead I fear. In a lamplit room, I’d welcome the words of any gracious ghost. I’m thinking of the present, or of days not yet quite cold. Can it be that in 1980, one rendition of "Old Man River” will be sufficient to keep that tune rolling along, arouhd and around this tiny earth for all eternity? Will the worst of radio wisecracks be caught up in a sort of aerial treadmill, and never die? In the self-same evening, a pa-

Questions and Answers

ls the coast of Iceland ever entirely free from ice? The United States weather bureau says that the nautical meteorological annual reports of the Danish Meteorological Institute state that the coast of Iceland was free of ice all through the years 1927 and 1928,

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VACCINATION Jan. 25.

ON JAN. 25, 1786, Edward Jenner, an English physician, discovered vaccination, a method of producing immunity against smallpox. Although inoculations against the disease were made before this time, it was because of Jenner’s investigations and experiments that vaccination was given a significant niche in medicine. The word vaccination is derived from “vacca,” Latin for cow, for it was from a dairymaid who contracted cowpox that Jenner first extracted his vaccine. With a small dose of this poison. Jenner innoculated an 8-year-old boy in whom a typical case of cow- ! pox, which is similar to smallpox, ! developed. But when the boy was subsequently inoculated wth real smallpox germs, no ill effects resulted. The theory on which Jenner made his discovery was that the mild cowpox poison set up resistance against smallpox because the body of the person inoculated manufactures a counter poison, known as an anti-body. The first known use of vaccination in this country was in Boston, when Dr. Zabdiel Boyleston inoculated his son and two Negroes in 1721, a year before the smallpox epidemic in that city.

find out whether he contains the germs responsible. The occurrence of such cases in the United States is new evidence of the fact that methods of transportation, exchange of products among various nations, and the complete abolishing of boundary lines between peoples makes it impossible any longer for a nation to be isolated. The disease of one people sooner or later will appear among others. Already cases of many of the tropical diseases have been found among the sick in the United States. It is probably that more and more cases are likely to appear in the future, notwithstanding the fact that the United States public health service and all of the health organizations of various nations are concerning themselves with the prevention of such transmission.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are oreccnted without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

tient listener migh catch the same gag by the same man with the same intonations a thousand times. By virtue of rebroadcasting, the thing could be kept in constant globe-girdling currency like the Flying Dutchman, only infinitely faster. And, after the quip was mce launched, I suppose it would be quite impossible to furnish it with a verbal tail of, "If you’ve heard this before, please stop me.” Still, science is great. It can be expected to find a way out. Sooner or later there will be some gadget by which a stone can be fixed to even the most winged words, so that they will drop into limbo and be not heai;d again this side of Paradise. Or there could be some sort of radio gun. by which the listening hunter might shoot and slay each fast-flying story in due season. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

except for a little ice that was observed from Cape North during the latter half of May, 1928. Investigations of Iceland ice for a period of a hundred years made by Von De Wihl Meindarus of Berlin and published in the Annalen der Hydrographie and Maritimen Metrorologie, indicated that during this period twenty years were free from ice and that for eighteen years the duration of the ice season was for but one month or less each year, and for nineteen years from but one to two months, while during fortythree of these years ice was observed from tw r o to eight months of the year. Ts the term titian correctly applied to auburn hair? Titian Is the shade described as reddish gold and is more golden than the shade known as auburn.

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SCIENCE —By DAVID DIETZ—

Stetson Believes Moon Causes Measurable Tides in Land as Well as on the Ocean. THAT the moon causes measurable tides in the land as well as in the ocean is the theory advanced by Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory of Ohio Wesleyan university. Scientists always have realized that the moon exercises a gravitational pull upon the land as well as the ocean. It has been felt, however, that the rigidity of the land was so great that its response to this pull was too small to be measured. Dr. Stetson, however, says that an analysis of astronomical observations leads to the conclusion that the shift of a given point on the earth’s crust due to the moon’s pull, may, in some instances, become as great as five or six feet. This new theory of Dr. Stetson’s is of vast importance, both to astronomy and to geology. If the earth’s crust shifts with the position of the moon, it seems that astronomical observations at any observatory have a systematic error in them, due to shifting of the earth’s crust at the place where the observatory is located. It may be necessary, therefore, in the future when very exact observations are made, to introduce corrections into them, based on the position of the moon at the time the observations were made. b a a Drift THE work of Dr. Stetson is of Interest to geologists because it throws light upon the structure of the earth, supporting the theory of isostacy and perhaps that of continental drift. The theory of isostacy grew out of the observation that the continents in general consist of light granites, while the ocean beds consist of heavier, darker rocks ; known as basalts. It is assumed that the continents rest on a substratum or lower layer of heavy basalt, amorphous or glass-like in structure. Such material, while solid, would possess some of the characteristics of a heavy liquid, behaving under great pressure somewhat like cold molasses. It is assumed, therefore, that the continents project above the oceans, because the rocks composing them are floating literally on the substratum of glass-like basalt. The Wegener hypothesis or theory of continental drift is a development of tlie theory' of Isostacy. This hypothesis holds that the continents were originally one continent which split into pieces. The pieces are thought to have drifted or slid along the basaltic substratum to their present places. Movements of the earth’s crust such as Dr. Stetson says he has found would be of the order which would be expected on the basis of the theory of isostacy. Consequently, geologists will dq greatly interested In following the further development of the theory.

Universe THIS is the second Important piece of work which Dr. Stetson has done to show the close relationship of our earth to the rest of the universe. Recently he showed that there was a direct connection between radio reception and sun-spots and that radio reception improved as spots on the sun decreased. The old astrologers imagined that the configuration of the planets controlled the destinies of individual men. The modem astronomer regards astrology as nonsense. it is Interesting, however, to nots that each day brings to light more connections between the earth and the rest of the universe, not erratic and superstitious connections such as the old astrologers imagined, but physical connections which can be explained on the basis of science. The sun Is important to life. Without its heat and light life would not be possible. The process of which plants convert the carbon dioxide of the air and the water of the soil into starches and sugars is possibly only with the energy of sunlight. In addition, recent studies at the Mayo Foundation tend to indicate that the various wave lengths of sunlight have varying effects upon plants, some even acting as brakes or checks upon certain processes. Finally, there are the mysterious cosmic days, coming in from outer stellar space. These rays are so penetrating that they pass through and through all living organisms. Perhaps some day they will be found to play some fundamental role in life processes.

Daily Thought

The wise man’s eyes are In bis head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself pterceived also that one event happened to them all.—Ecclesiastes 2:14. a a a A fool can not look, nor walk like a man of sense.—La Bruyere.