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The Sachet Cure Apparently the highway commission believes that the way to cure cancer, smallpox nr hives is to use sachet powder to cover up the symptoms. Such, at least, is a fair comparison with the rather unusual methods taken to prevent any criticism of the manner in whigh twenty millions of dollars of the people’s money is > being spent try men who have no technical knowledge and at least no more than an average amount of business experience. The director of the system, when the 'ate board of accounts calls attention to methods and transactions that are doubtful >r capable of betterment, rushes to the Governor and secures an order putting the silencer on the auditing department of the government. Hereafter, it is announced, the tatr board will not make public any findings concerning this department, that now seems to be sacred and above criticism. When the Governor returns from the glamor of White House society and reaches \ he less rarifled atmosphere of his daily job, he might well ponder into what morass his fondness for the highway commission is leading him. The department spends more money than all the other branches of state government. It levies the highest tax upon the citizenry. It should be the most closely scrutinized, for the handling of much money offers large temptations. The giving of contracts by the board suggests that there should be more inquiry and publicity, not less, concerning this department. At times the computations of the state board of accounts in reckoning the lowest bids have been strangely overridden. Perhaps the legislature, if there is an improvement next year in its caliber, will answer a popular demand for a more efficient system of road building. It might even plan for an escape from the cement trust through state plants operated by our idle prison population. And certainly it will look into the advantages of a board composed of engineers, giving all their time to the job, as against the present system of naming four rubber stamps who will approve all the acts of the political selection of the Governor. The Governor should take off the lid, not screw it tighter, on all inquiries by the board of accounts. John R. Ward To win and hold the respect and friendship of men who strike keen balances between virtues and faults, whose judgment and verdicts are tested by intimate contacts and knowledge, is no easy task. Tonight many citizens of this community will gather to say farewell to John R. Ward, once adju-tant-general of the state. They knew him as a good citizen, a good soldier in times of war. a good official in times of peace, but most of all as a good friend whose loyalty was never questioned and whose power to win the regard of those with whom he mingled was 'limitless. In the Great Ledger of life, wealth, fame, glory become ciphers when compared to the moistened eye and hushed tongue of friends who pay their final tributes of respect and honor. ,

\nother Spanish Dictatorship Liberal rejoicing over the fall of the Spanish dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera would be premature. An army clique and a reactionary king still are in absolute control of the country. The handpicked premier-designate is another militarist, General Berenguer. Berenguer once was an accomplice of Dictator De Rivera, and later a personal enemy. There is nothing in his record to indicate that he is any better than his predecessor, who was forced to resign by the army and king. Os course the new man promises reform and a return to constitutional government. But those promises are no different from the pledges of the old dictator. That is not to say there will be no reforms, but merely that there is nothing either in the character of Berenguer, the king, the army junta, or the manner in which power is oeing transferred by the Absolutists from one hand to the other, to inspire optimism. The only hope in Spain is in popular government. Whether that is expressed through the forms of contitutional monarchy, a republic, or a socialist regime ; relatively unimportant, so long as the government 5 chosen by and is responsible to the people. And that is precisely the kind of government which eems a long way off in Spain. Spain was far from that ideal when Primo seized power in September. 1923. She is farther from that ideal today. Such is the price of dictatorship. The elements which make responsible government possible were killed by the dictatorship—the brains, the courage, and the loyalty were destroyed. The leaders of the people were killed, or exiled, or driven into hiding. Ruthlessness begets ruthlessness. Moderating influences disappear. The swing is toward an extreme right and an extreme left. Hence the probability that Spain is entering a ’ong and troubled period of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary conflict. To stay this conflict, the best the new regime has to offer is armed force and a promise to return to government under the constitution of 1876. What irony! Under that constitution two-thirds of the upper house of parliament held office by title or by life appointment by the king, and the remaining third by

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limited election. The lower house was not elected by universal suffrage. That such a reform long will be acceptable to toe Spanish people, even in their present depressed and leaderless condition, is not probable. it is more likely that the oppressed Spaniards will not rest until they achieve as a minimum: Direct universal suffrage and the complete responsibility of the head of state, whether king or premier, to the electorate; an independent judiciary; a controlled instead of controlling military; religious freedom and civil liberties; distribution of large land estates among rhe peasants; freedom of labor to organze and to act :n the protection of its industrial and political rights. But until the Spanish people assert those rights, the other European reactionary dictators—Mussolini, Alexander, Horthy, Pilsudski, and the smaller breedare not apt to see any randwriting on their walls.

The Injunction Fight Senate progressives will renew their efforts to obtain legislation curbing the use of injunctions in labor disputes soon after the tariff is out of the way. This is good news. The issue is important to every wage earner and should be settled. It has been apparent, for several years that federal judges under existing legislation have abused outrageously their* equity power in issuing writs in strikes. Laws have been interpreted in such a way that workers have been denied the right of free assembly, the right of free speech, the right to organize, the right peaceably to persuade their fellow-workers to refrain from work, and other supposedly guaranteed personal liberties. Abundant proof of abuses has been offered, and need for remedial legislation is apparent. What form this legislation shall take is a difficult question, and has been the subject of discussion among members of congress, labor leaders, lawyers and others for more than three years. The original anti-injunction bill offered by Sena;or Shipstead of Minnesota was regarded as inadequate by the judiciary committee, and a substitute measure was prepared. The American Federation of labor, in its last convention at Toronto, indorsed this measure in its esrntial principles and agreed to support a bill which differs from it only in minor detail. Briefly, the intention is to define the powers of the federal courts to intervene where irreparable injury !o physical propety is not in prospect; to regulate procedure so summary court action without hearings will be impossible; and to protect persons accused of contempt where writs are issued. The Sherman anti-trust law, which opened the ay for restraining orders, would be altered. Meantime, more and more attention is being given to the intervention of federal courts in questions involving state control of utilities—such as in the recent New York subway case, the current New York telephone rate case, the Baltimore street car fare case, the famous Indianapolis Water Company case and others of like nature. Legislation has been introduced on this subject as well, seeking to keep the regulation of local utility matters in the hands of local regulatory bodies. The two questions are related in that both represent what many believe is an undue exercise of authority by the federal judiciary. In one instance fedual judges deprive citizens of private rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution. In the other, they step in to enable corporations to avoid control by the machinery communities or states have set up to protect themselves. Personal rights ar e destroyed; property rights protected. Both questions are important, and deserve the serious study of congress. Arbiters of men's fashions say the males soon will appear in brighter colors. The men have to show their superiority some way. Radio sets have been installed in cells of several orisons. Next thing you know they’ll be pitting men on the rack again. —— Wealth is a disease, says a lecturer. Probably that’s some income tax propaganda. • Bieakfast in New York, dinner in Paris, i* the piomise of aviation experts for the near future. And after dinner you can go to a good movie.

REASON By 1 R I E a D S K

YOU will take notice that this snow-clad world is not streaked with tobacco juice as it was in older days when the white highway was covered with the amber autographs of Nicotine. Apparently we are not absorbing the weed as we did when Charles Dickens visited the United States and removed our hides in his American notes. a a a ■Tudging from Ins persistence in piling up publicity Washington, Representative La Guardia must figure on doing quite a little Chautauqua work next summer. * a a How it would have jarred that distinguished international audience, assembled in the royal gallery of the house of lords when King George made his speech if President Hoover'e picture could have been flashed upon the screen, as he listened in. attired in canvas shoes, gym trousers and an old sweater. B ts a COMMANDER BYRD and h.:s party escaped a lot of bad weather by going to the South Pole. a a a Justin H. Edgerton. president of the National Retail Credit Association, deplores the fact that the honest face no longer means anything. There was a time when the criminal had a head like a squash, eyes like a fox and a wardrobe like a carecrow. but now his phiz radiates innocence, his eyes are as mild as those of a fawn and as for attire, he is the pastry of the period. a a a MRS MINERVA HARTZELL of Culver. Ind.. aged 100 years, ascribes her long defiance of Father rime to the fact that she always has consumed two cups of coffee in the morning and two in the evening. Up to date those who have lingered long have attributed it to booze, temperance, exercise, absence of exercise, cabbage, spinach, horse radish—everything but cranberries. Why discriminate against cranberries? BUB The report of the department of commerce shows that the American people are eating more peanuts every year and yet it Is absolutely impossible to get any of the old-time hot roasted ones. Oh, what a fragrance they had!

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Gangland Is Puritanical In Its Methods, if Not in Its Ideas, More Narrow Than Even the Bible Belt. DON'T read about Chicago with the idea that it reveals your own town in a glorious light. Tomorrow, or the next day, your own town may be in as bad shape, if not worse. Chicago is suffering from rather common ailments, the only difference being that she was first to break out. Rotten politics, unnecessary debt, inefficiency, graft and gang rule—what large American city can claim to be free from any, or all of them? # tt n Ballistic experts are arguing as to whether the same machine gun was employed to kill the Bugs Moran gang in Chicago, and Krankie Yale in New York. That is less important, perhaps, than is the obvious fact that both killings were due to the same spirit and the same code. Noon-day luncheon speakers are fond of tracing this spirit and code to “foreign mindedness,” as they call it and of advertising “Americanization.” whatever that may be. as a sure cure. Makes Good Alibi SUCH explanation is comfortable mainly because it furnishes an alibi for every one else and leaves no greater task ahead than to form national committees, employ social workers, and expand night schools. At the same time, it is only faiir to recall that we have less immigration and less illiteracy than ever before, while our expenditures for education have quadrupled during the last twenty years. Figure it as you will, and there is clearly something wrong besides our alleged failure to “Americanize 'em.” The wets say it is prohibition. tt tt * Johnny Genero, Chicago gangster, “put on the spot” Wednesday night and riddled with bullets, makes a dying statement in which he tells who did it. This incident is news, because he is the first of his kind to welch in a long time. Gangland has a code—a code that calls for implicit obedience on the one hand, and punishes those who violate it on the other. That is one reason why gangland is growing why politicians and peace officers rather would compromise with it than fight, why youth is attracted by it. Say what you will, but youth feels the necessity of codes, of standards, of something that calls for devolion, that rewards loyalty and penalizes treason. tt tt Upper World is Opposite WHILE gangland has been develping such a code, with knife and machine gun to back it up. the upper world in these United States has been going the other way. The upper world has been sobbing in the name of mercy, pitying itself, discarding the idea of discipline. No prizes of any value for scholarship, on the theory that those who fail to get them may feel hurt; no severe punishment, on the theory that the little human flower should bloom according to nature; no rigid standards or conventions, but a lot of prudish statutes and regulations which generally go unenforced. tt U tt We are accustomed to think of gangland as a real of mob law, but the probabilities are that the mob spirit plays a bigger part in our high schools and colleges today than in organized vice. In other words, the socalled bad boys and girls of this country arc being disciplined, and any one who has a mind can read the result. The underworld not only is exercising a power it never knew before, but is gaining an unwholesome number of recruits, while the upper world grows weaker and weaker by comparison. tt M e Gangland Is Narrow TAKE the average witness, who finds himself compelled to choose between running afoul of the law and gangland, and what does he do? Or, take the average politician, and what does he do? Gangland has a code, as the average politician and witness are well aware. If they break with it, they have no illusions as to what they are going to get. The upper world, the respectable world, the world of free expression and free love is losing its code, except where such vital problems as the smutty book, the risque play, the latest rules for bridge, or a little excess fat are concerned. Few people ever think of gangland as puritanical, but that is exactly what it is in its methods, if not its ideals. Even the Bible belt is more liberal to those who fail to conform.

Daily Thought

Woe to the bloody city. It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not.—Nahum 3:1. B B B It you would know r and not be known, live in a city.—Colton. Is there any premium on a California gold dollar dated 1849? Private issues of gold coins were circulated in pioneer days in the west, and during the thirties in the Carolines and Georgia. While not a legal coinage these pieces were accepted and passed current at a time when there was a pressing need for money with which to transact business. Such coinage is now prohibited by law. The California gold coins were made as a substitute for gold dust that passed as currency. They were all made and issued by private firms. There is no premium on a California gold dollar dated 1849. What is the origin of the word apostle? It comes from the Greek ‘‘apostolus," meaning one sent forth; a messenger.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Beauty Parlors Often Run by Quacks

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN. Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ACCORDING to the data collected for 1928 by the department of commerce, American men and women spend about $2,000,000,000 a year on cosmetics, perfumes and toilet articles. It is reported that there are 41,000 beauty shops and 80.000 barber shops in the United States, with about 170,000 women beauty operators and 250,000 barbers. Most of the states have already passed laws regulating the operating of barber shops and beauty shops, since it is recognized that the hygienic conditions in such places may be important in relationship to the spreading of disease. Furthermore, like the poorly educated doctor, the beauty shop operator and the barber not infrequently attempt medical and surgical

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Harvard university has discharged twenty scrubwomen rather than raise their wages from 35 to 37 cents an hour. The scrubwomen themselves asked for no increase in salary, but it so happens that the state of Massachusetts has a minimum wage law tvhich provides boards to set certain standards of pay for women and minors in certain industries. When the board called the university’s attention to the fact that it was underpaying its scrubwomen, Harvard's answer was to discharge them. The university has announced that it will replace them by men who may be able to do a greater amount of work, and there is no minimum wage for men. Possibly ten men will be able to do the work of twenty middle-aged and elderly women. This will result in a considerable saving to the university. Had it paid the women a legal living wage, the sum would have amounted to almost S6OO a year. Equipment for the scrub football team hardly costs that much in a season. BUB Christmas Gift BUT the most interesting element in the problem Is not the bare economic details, but the human phase. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, has passed upon the issue and his attitude is interesting. William M. Duvall, a young Methodist clergyman in East Cambridge, was disturbed by the plight of one of his parishioners. Mrs. Emma Trafton had been employed by Harvard for thirteen years. She was discharged without notice on Nov. 1. The college wag kinder to Mrs. Katherine Donahue, who had worked for Harvard for thirty-three years. She was not discharged until the Saturday before Christmas. Duvall wrote to Lowell and received the following reply: “I have inquired into the discharge of Mrs. Emma Trafton from the Widener library, and I find that the minimum wage board has been complaining of our employing women for these purposes at less than 37 cents an hour, and hence the university has felt constrained to replace them with men. Some of them, I hope many of them, will be able to be employed at some other work in the university.” In other words, the reward of tlurty-three years of work for Harvard university is the pious hope of the president that possibly something will turn up. * m a Do and Die WE used to have a song about how tlie football team was sweeping down the field, and that

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procedures, for which they are in no way qualified. The squeezing of blackheads and the opening of pimples are on the border line of medical practice. The cutting cut of ingrown hairs and the removal of superfluous hair may get into medical practice. Treatment of diseases of the skin and of the scalp certainly is not within the province of the beauty shop operator or the barber, since the skin and the hair are merely parts of the human body and such conditions are not infrequently treated internally as well as externally. In a consideration of cosmetics in Hygeia, Dr. Herman Goodman emphasises some of the common fallacies and beliefs of people regarding the skin. In the first place face creams do not grow hair on the face. Soap and water are the simplest methods of keeping the skin clean and healthful.

we would do or die with the Crimson until the last chalk line was passed. The precise plirasing escapes me, but the words were to that effect. Well. Mrs. Katherine Donahue has had thirty-three years of sweeping. One might suppose at the end of that time she would have passed the last chalk line, and landed in some haven of honor or security. But it seems not. She carries with her into a bleak and cheerless world merely the tepid hope of A. Lowell. Just try and warm your toes with that! Thirty-three years is a long time to work for a college whether the job be scrubbing or teaching. In my opinion, Mrs. Donahue has done rather more to tidy up the place than even A. Lawrence Lowell himself. She left no dark and clotted stains behind her. I would not say that the education of A. Lawrence Lowell had been altogether successful. He has failed

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times —Indianapolis has a new administration and we wonder what the result will be? We have had enough trouble over our mayor in the past, and we are waiting to see how Mayor Sullivan will get along. We hope he will not make the same mistake that his predecessor did by trying to throw out all Republicans and replace them with Democrats, since he was not elected by Democrats. I think the spoils belong to the victor, but in this case it is hard to tell just who the spoils are. Tills city is Republican, but Mayor Sullivan was big enough to carry it, and we hope he will be reasonable enough to remember that it was Republicans who made him a victory to be proud of. But if he had been running against a man who was strong enough to push a wheelbarrow, he would have known he v-as m u . Mofa’e of this city has been ki'y by politics, but of course the swivel' chair jobs belong ■to the Democratic party. However, the ones who do the work and make us proud of our city, need to be capable mechanics instead of politicians. It is no wonder that employes don't take the proper interest in their work, for they feel that as soon as the mayor is changed that they will be thrown out. JOHN AKERS. 615 Miami street. Are citizens of the United States required to present p-oof of payment of income tax before obtaining a passport? No.

Creams are to be used when the skin is too dry, but not when the skin is oily. Shaving does not make the hair grow. The safest way to remove superfluous hair is by means of the electric needle. Many of the commercial hair removers contain caustics which may damage the skin seriously. Splitting of the hair at the ends is due merely to the fact that the hair has grown out as far as the cells from which it grows can provide life. Baldness is not infrequently hereditary and can not be controlled in such cases by any of the current methods of treatment. These are simply answers to a few of the common conceptions. There are hundreds of other fallacies in the cosmetic field, and upon the common ignorance of the normal anatomy and physiology of the skin and hair the quacks thrive.

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

to learn that there are things which men and cdlleges may not do with honor. M ts ft Choose! MYSELF, i did not frequent much the premises kept neat by Mrs. Donahue. My four years brought me no degree. No, not even a note from President Lowell. Accordingly, I can not say that, as an alumnus, I demand humanity from Lowell and from Harvard. But 1 will demand it, just the same. This is no private fight. “I hope,” sa#s A. Lawrence Lowell. And I say, “Hope be damned.” Unless Harvard takes immediate steps to fix a pension system for its veteran employes, it will forfeit any right to stand as a leader in enlightenment. A university is a living organization and when the heart has ceased to beat, death and corruption of the flesh set in. “The veterans of industry are entitled to a pension as well as the veterans of war.” I quote from a leaflet issued on this case by the Harvard University Socialist Club. It’s up to Harvard to choose between life and Lowell. ( Copyright. 1930. bv The Time*)

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SCHUBERT’S BIRTH January 31 Jan. 31, 1797, Franz Schubert, the famous composer of music, was born in a small suburb of Vienna. He received his musical instruction early, and, with the fundamentals of the violin mastered at the age of 8, he studied thereafter by himself. From that time on*he devoted almost all his time to composing. "I write all day,” he told a friend, "and when I have finished one piece I begin another.” The extent of his talents may be better appreciated when it is realized that he produced some of his most important compositions before he was 20 years old. Reduced to poverty because publishers refused to accept his works on the scorer they were too difficult and the composer unknown, Schubert was sustained by loyal friends." Had it not been for a famous baritone and noted pianist of his time who performed his works, Shcubert might have died without the slightest knowledge of their success. Schubert died when only 32 from typhoid fever, and was buried near Beethoven's grave.

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SCIENCE 5 Bv DAVID DIETZ Great Institution Planned a* Center of Welfare Work and R<search Among In dians. a GREAT institution combining* -*■*- the functions of museum, library. research laboratory and welfare organization is to be erected at Santa Fe for study of the American Indian. The institution will mark the climax of the remarkable work done by scientists, scholars and artists at this historic town in the very heart of the cliff-dwelling area of New Mexico. Plans for the new institution just have been announced by the Lab oratory of Anthropology of Santa Fe John D. Rockefeller Jr. just has made a gift of $200,000 for erection of the first unit of the proposed research center. When completed, it will consist oL ten units, providing space for museum collections, library, lecture halls and facilities both for public education and for graduate instruction and research in the subject of archeology. Standing in the center of the cliffdwelling area, and near the largest Pueblo Indian villages, the laboratories win enable research workers to study New Mexico's valuable historic relics without their removal from the state. The project, however, will be more than a great monument to the American Indian, and a center of research for archeologists and' anthropologists. It is planned aiso to make the institution a center of welfare work among the present Indians. a tt tt Projects THE buildings will be erected on a fifty-acre plot on the outskirts of Santa Fe. John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe has been engaged as the architect for the project. The first unit will cover 8.000 square feet and house administrative offices, exhibition halls, laboratories. studies, an assembly hall and a library. “The unit which will be built early this spring,” trustees of the laboratory of anthropology say in an announcement. “is to be the first of a, series of buildings which, it is hoped, ultimately will bring together records and exhibits of all important aspects of research work in the southwest. “We intend to co-ordinate the studies of American Indian life from the earliest times to the present, to facilitate research work and to help spread a knowledge and understanding of America’s archeological past. “Among projects to be immediately undertaken are the formulation in field conferences of the basic problems of southwestern anthropology, the organteation of a cooperative surface survey of archeological sites in the southwest, a surface survey of New Mexico, a study of the archeology of the Rio Grande' drainage, and a piece of extensive excavation, preferably near Santa Fe. “The trustees of the laboratory of anthropology desire to co-operate to the fullest desire with all scientific agencies in the southwest, particularly with the Museum of New Mexico, the School of American Research and the University of New Mexico.” By inviting graduate students from other institutions to use the facilities of the laboratory, it is hoped that the wholesale removal of archeological objects from New Mexico can be checked. tt tt a Welfare THE laboratory of anthropology plans to aid the welfare of the present Indians by researches in so-, cial and medical problems, by con-' servation and stimulation of native arts and crafts, and by exter.tion work in native communities. “One of the most valuable pieces of work which the research center plans to do is to preserve the designs of the older arts and crafts of the Indians,’’ Miss Amelia Elizabeth White, one of the laboratory's trustees. states. “The Indians have shown tendencies in recent years of dropping them for supposedly more civilized arts,” she continues. “It is hoped that we can perpetuate the best of the old Indian traditions in the making of pottery, blankets and silverware and so prevent these arts from being lost by the younger generation.” The trustees of the laboratory of anthropology include representatives of the leading museums and universities of the nation. Among them are Professor G. O McCurdy of Yale Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia university; Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, famous archeologist of the Carnegie institution of Washington; Dr. N. M Judd of the Smithsonian institution, and others. Dr. A. V. Kidder, famous archeologist, w r ho has directed many important explorations in New Mexico. Arizona and Utah, is chairmanof the executive committee.

Questions and Answers

What is the shortest independently owned strain railroad in the United States? The Cassville & Exeter railway. It Is 4.9 miles long between Cassvilie and Exeter, Mo. What does poker face mean? The terms • refers to the ability of the person to remain expressionless in the face of emotional excitement. A good poker player does not indicate by the expression of his face when he has a good or a disappointing hand. Has Madge Bellamy retired from the screen? She recently signed a contract with Universal, and her first appearance under • its auspices was ‘Tonight at 12.’* What doe= the name Glenn mean? If is E'ofch. deriv ri from a locality, and means a glen.