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Parole Publicity The plea of the managers of the penitentiary that no publicity be given to the release of prisoners on parole under the indeterminate sentence act has much to commend it. Except in unusual cases where there is great public interest and exceptional circumstances of release, The Times has never believed that the public interest was served by such publications. The whole theory of parole is that those who are released have been built up morally to the point where they can become useful members of society. Unfortunately the disgrace of prison follows the released man to his new job. Unthinking scorn makes his return to society difficult. He pays a financial penalty and is under a constant surveillance and suspicion that too often breaks down any resolution he may have made and any resistance he may have built against temptation. Weak men become repeaters. Society is given the new burden of prosecution for more crimes. It is robbed of the services of another citizen. Unfortunately there have been scandals in most states in the exercise of the parole and pardon power. Political influence is often exerted. Sometimes liberty is purchased for those who have gang affiliations. Secrecy always aids such misuse of the parole power. But until there is evidence of such misuse of power by the prison board, the request that no publicity be given to paroles is reasonable, humane and social. Some day, when crime commissions go beyond inquiries into treatment of prisoners and recommend something more than bigger and better jails as a cure the whole problem will ov handled much more scientifically. It is probable that the criminal will one day be treated as are patients in hospitals. Crime has in it certain of the elements of disease. Its origin can very often be traced to conditions which cause epidemics. Crime, for example, is easily germinated in an atmosphere of poverty. Its waves come in times of financial distress and stringency. V r iol‘ tors of .. are most often those who need physical as well as moral rehabilitation. Paroled prisoners are, to a great degree, convalescents. Any steps that will remove any of the obstacles to complete restoration to society are to be welcomed. The lack of advertising is at least worth a thorough trial. The Middlemen’s Armistice Organized business, as represented by the fjnited States Chamber of Commerce, has decided not to oppose the administration of the agricultural marketing act by the federal farm board until there is “more definite evidence of its actual effects on private enterprise than at present Is available/’ Thus apparently we are to have an armistice in the in pient var b tv. 3on private dealers and middlemen and ihe governnunt-iosiered co-operatives. Julius H. Barnes, grain dealer, chairman of Hoover's prosperity conference, and a leader In the chamber, and his associates, will wait and see how the policies of the board affect them. Organized business will extend “sympathetic aid” to the farm board. “Organized business believes that in this spirit it can withhold at present criticism which might be misrepresented as opposition and maintain this attitude of helpfulness without surrendering any of its sturdy conviction as to the rights, of private enterprise,’’ says an announcement of the chamber. It is to be hoped this attitude will develop into permanent peace. It is inevitable, however, that putting agriculture more nearly on an economic parity with business and industry will affect private enterprise. Basic idea of the farm relief project is to put control of marketing, distribution and. to a certain extent, prices, in the hands of the producers. If the tarm relief program succeeds, there will be a decided economic readjustment. Speculators, middlemen and others will be crowded out. The fact might as well be admitted. Organized business meantime will do well to consider the advantages it will gain if the prosperity level of forty or fifty million persons directly or indirectly dependent on the soil is raised. The theory is the same as that which applies to ppving good wages to stimulate purchasing power. Terrorists Convicted There is a limit to police terror against workers, van in the company-ruled towns of Pennsylvania. That is the significance of the little noted but important Barcoski case. The jury Saturday found two coal and iron policemen. Walter Lyster and Frank Watts, guilty of involuntary manslaughter. They beat to death John Barcoski. a miner, last year. Later they were -.cquitted on a murder charge. Hitherto the company police have been above the aw. Their idea of the Constitution was to shoot ioles through it. They could beat women, ride down children, shoot men. and get away with it. Lyster and Watts do not deserve the full odium of the Barcoski killing. The whole system of coal iqh iron police stands convicted. There is no possible excuse or defense for the employment of state-com-missioned officers by private corporations. Police so commissioned are not loyal to the state nd to the law, but to the corporations which pay hem and which often defy the law. Buch police are taught not to preserve the peace out to hate the class against which their employers m arrayed. The last wartoß of the Pennsylvania general asAt

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sembly passed two bills to curb the coal and iron police. One was good. It was vetoed by Governor Fisher. The other was bad. It was signed by Governor Fisher. If the next legislature has any sense of responsibility, if it considers that human rights are at least equal to property rights, it will wipe out the coal and iron police system. A Test for Congress You might keep your eyes open for a little while now and see just how your congressman votes on the senate bill to abolish the “courtesy of the port" privilege for congressmen and senators. This privilege, you know, enables a congressman or senator, returning to this country from abroad, to bring his baggage without customs inspection. Under it various congressmen in recent months have brought liquor into the country, thereby causing a rather disgusting scandal. The bill to abolish this privilege passed the senate, and is now’ up to the house. It is hard to see any ■'•alid reason for voting against it. Even aside from ♦lie question or smuggled liquor, why on earth should a congressman be exempt from the customs regulations? The privilege was originally intended only as a mark of courtesy to foreign diplomats, and It should be limited to that class very strictly. Your congressman’s vote on this bill will give you a pretty good line on his stature. Machine-Gun Diplomacy Withdrawal of the American military occupation from Haiti is desired by the senate. This seems dear from the senate debate in which leaders of both parties denounced our adventure in militarism and imperialism. Quite properly the senate refused to take responsibility for President Hoover's requested investigating commission, which many fear may turn out to be only an instrument, of delay and of whitewash, as other Haitian commissions have been. In voting an appropriation and leaving the entire matter of investigation in the hands of the President. The senate has put the responsibility squarely where it belongs. The White House under Wilson, Harding and Coolidge dragged us into that violation of Haitian freedom and sovereignty. It now is up to the White House to get us out. As the whole show’ has been run by the American marines and state department, whose reports are open to the President and who are subject to his direction, the necessity for another commission is not clear. Nevertheless, any method which will end the occupation is welcome, and If Hoover is not willing to act without the support of a commission, the sooner one is appointed and gets to work the better. But when the commission’s job is finished, all it can do is to plunk the problem back into Hoover’s lap. He is th? cn’y one with authority to order the marines home and to reform stute department policy. Meanwhile, the Haitian victims of American subjugation apparently must continue to live under machine guns, without free speech, free press, free assembly or free elections. Parrot fever isn’t so serious in this country but what It could be worse. Think of the awful results if a plague of squirrel fever should break out. Seme people can make a dollar go a long way, and others can keep it from going at all. Some successful men take advantage not only of their own opportunities, but of everybody else’s. Zero stands for nothing in mathematics, but on a thermometer it means a lot.

REASON

THESE Russian officials sink to the level of political mongrels when they make the chareg that the United States controls Mexico and induced relations with her to sever Moscow to get even with Russia for her hot reply to Secretary Stimson’s suggestion that she cease making war on China. • * n With plasure we note that Mayor Mellett of Anderson, Ind., agrees with this column and informs the Indiana crime commission that much lawlessness is due to the example set by public officials who go wrong. With cabinet officers serving as drum majors, governors beating the drums and smaller political fry playing the other instruments, it is little wonder that ordinary men join the criminal parade. * a u The mayor might have added that hundreds of outlaws are hatched by the stealing of elections and the white washing there of other hundreds by the annual school book robbery, and still other hundreds by those powerful interests which plunder the people through their control of the agencies of government. U B B REPRESENTATIVE DYER of Missouri, spokesman for the wets in congress, urges President Hoover to get behind 3 per cent beer, but the desire of Dyer's followers is to gfet in front of it. u m a Mr. Barros, head of Barcelona University library, offers documents which tend to prove that Columbus was not an Italian, but a Spaniard. Now wait for Mussolini to blow the lid off. B B B The census bureau announces that every thirteen seconds a child is born in the United States. If the stork only received the mileage allowed a member of congress, he scon would make Rockefeller look like 30 cents. a a a President Hoover picked a real go-getter when he appointed Alexander P. Moore of Pennsylvania to be ambassador to Poland and within six weeks he will have everybody in Warsaw on his staff. Inside of forty-eight hours after he was appointed minister to Spain. Moore was on garlic terms with King Alphonso. BUB PRESIDENT-ELECT ORTIZ RUBIO of Mexico turned down a $7,500 automobile, tendered him by his friends and told them to take the money and build a poorhouse mid in due time all the Mexicans who have automobiles will go there. b a a The National Beauty and Barbers’ Supply Association tells the world that the men of America spent $75,000 last year to beautify themselves, but after looking them over we would say it was a total loss BBS The So.i.'l Sc once Re oarc’i Council oi New York .whatever that is, plans to urn ,>uct an investigation to find out how the American people spend their money. Well tell them one thing: If a fellow is the head of a family of eight, he spends it with both hands.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

It Profits Nobody to Dig Merely for the Dirt; We Have So Much of That Now in Politics and in the Neighborhood. WHAT Senator Grundy said about President Hoover in 1928 is not particularly important. Neither is the way Texas or Florida Democrats voted. If there is anything we can afford to forget quicker than another, it is the boil-over of partisan politics. Outside of mules and moochers, few people can claim a consistent record, either in their talk, or at the polls. Besides, what does freedom of speech or conscience amount to if a man can’t change his mind? tt tt tt The past is worth studying because of what we can learn from it, and not because of the way we can use it to embarrrass or humiliate folks. Most every one has a skeleton in his, or her, closet. In the same way most every one has something worth while. It profits nobody to dig merely for the dirt. We have too much of that kind of thing, not only in congress and in politics, but at home and in the neighborhood. The ideal attitude toward past incidents is one of impartiality, but if that Ls impossible, it should at least favor those which have resulted in good. n v a Doomed to Failure RUSSIA Will use soldiers on the farm, we are informed, w’hich smacks of strength and efficiency, until one remembers what happened to the Roman Emperor Probus, who tried it 1,600 years ago. Probus was an idealist, too. He not only thought it wrong for soldiers to remain idle, but visioned a day when universal peace would make it necessary for them to do useful work. He not, only preached his theories, but practiced them, employing his army to drain swamps, plant vineyards, and erect buildings. One hot day, the army decided it was time to quit, so it threw down its picks and spades, picked up its swords, and assassinated Probus. The fact that it repented and built him a monument a little while afterward does not mean much. As Gibson says. “If the duties of the soldier are incessantly aggravated by the labors of the peasant, he will at least sink under the intolerable burden or shake it with indignation,” which is something Russian authorities would do well to think about. tt tt tt Would Mean Mutiny \ RDENT drys have suggested that we might use the army to mforce prohibition, and so we might, but with corruption, or even mutiny more likely to crown the venture than success. The men in our army were citizens before they were soldiers, and remain human in spite of all the mechanical discipline to which they have been subjected. In the end, they would regard prohibition in the same light as our civil authorities, and we would have accomplished little but to spoil one more splendid organization for the sake of a “noble experiment.” tt tt a Congressman Fort of New Jersey, though claiming to be a friend of prohibition, says that it is legal to drink home brew. Congressman Uhlbach, also of New Jersey, though claiming to be a foe of prohibition, says it is not 1 to drmk home brew. dc : v/hiyu cc-riv~.es the ls;=t:o. Generally speaking, the wets want rigid enforcement because they believe it would kill prohibition, while drys are content with half-hearted measures for precisely the same reason. • * m Wink at Violations r' is safe to say that outside of a few rural districts, there is not a 100 per cent dry community in these United States. Worse still, there are very few large communities in which violation of the prohibition law is not tolerated officially. The policy of winking at more or less open saloons to kill off the blind pigs and speakeasies is becoming widespread, especially in large industrial centers. In other words, we gradually are drifting back to the license system, withnt the revenue. What is far worse, we are drifting back to the license system without that honesty of purpose which is as essential to national as to individual character. Both wets and drys are professing beliefs and advocating measures, not from sincere belief, but in the hope of attaining ends by subterfuge which they know can not be attained in a straightforward w’ay.

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Editor Times —The assertion so often used to deceive the public is that old-age pensions are more costly than the poor house system. This is done to frighten the taxpayer. Under the poorhouse system, the United States bureau of statistics

Daily Thought

I make a decree, that In every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion hat which shall he even unto the rr'l.—Daniel 6:26. tt tt tt Fear of passion which hath th< greatest power over us, and bt which God and His laws take thi surest hold of us.—TiUotson.

Should Customs Men Be Censors?

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Warm Bath Changes Body Functions

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tbe American Medical Association and of Hygela. the Health Magazine. SINCE the time when man discovered fire and began to use it to modify his existence, it has been recognized that the hot bath has certain definite effects on the human body. Throughout the world, hot springs are used for medical treatment and with a clear understanding of the fact that tv-- do modify the physiologic function?. With a view to finding how- hot baths affect; the normal human being, Dr. Geoffrey Holmes of England made some observations on

IT SEEMS TO ME

SCIENTISTS are all steamed up about the Peiping man. If they w-ant to cater to the headline writers, they ought to call him Tom. If you have read the news dispatches from China, you know that Tom is not a man at all, but only a skull. And this is undoubtedly the most valuable skull in the world. To be sure, Tom’s present eminence is a proof of the profits to be made by investors for the long pull. He lived about the beginning of the Ice Age. and you can set your own notch for whatever million years that implies. Already man w r as on the make. Peiping Tom is by no means a missing link. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews says: “At that remote period the Peiping man had advanced far along the road of human development.” ■Dr. Ard-ews identifies him as the • li an '.rr-.ctr'.l sloe which ; v-I hod vine 19.003,00 j years ago. The value of this relic lies in the fact that the skull is intact and not a mere fragment, like some of the other bits of bone around which controversy has raged. “The swelling in the forehead promises interesting results,” suggests Dr, Andrews. “Already the Peiping man had begun to think.” it it m Thoughts AND here is the catch which leaves even the best of scientific investigation a little dim and dusty. The great men in the museums may arrive at some accepted decision as to the age of Tom and of the geological condition of the world in which he lived. But there are as yet no instruments Ay which it may be determined just what it was which this remote relative of ours thought when he did begin to think. It seems to me that this would be far more interesting than any speculation as to the nature of his jaw. Nor can there be solution in measurements of the brain capacity. Cubic content is a pretty poor yardstick w-hen it comes to computing the stuff of w’hich intelligence is made. Still, it is safe to assume that Peiping Tom did not bother his

determined, after a nation-wide survey, that each inmate costs the state an average of $334.64 a year. Compare these figuj'es with the cost of pensions in Montana, where every poorhouse has been closed, taken from official reports of the state auditor: In 1924, $151.74 was the average cost per capita; in 1925, $172.16; in 1926, $179.56; in 1927, $166.52. and in 1928. $165.73. With poorhouse care averaging $334 for each person, do these oldage pension figures bespeak extravagance? Montana passes an old-age pension bill, prepared and supported by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, as have nine other states that corroborate the economy of old-age pensions. Mr. Taxpayer, don't be afraid of the old-age pension bilL It protects you. W. C. STAHLHUTH, 153 West Pratt street.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

three normal people who were given baths of temperatures of approximately 108 degrees F. Just as soon as the person gets in the bath, there is a significant rise of the pulse rate long before there is a rise in the body temperature. Associated with this there are rapid breathing and an excessive amount of elimination of carbon dioxide gas from the lungs, so that the body tends to become mere alkaline. There is a prompt fall of approximately ten millimeters of mercury in the blood pressure, after which there is perhaps a slight rise. Due to the heat, there is a ten-

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head much with problems involving relativity. If he accurately is spotted as a dweller upon earth at the beginning of the Ice Age, it is likely that most of his worries had to do with climate. Perhaps he muttered to himself, “Poor Tom’s cold,” or even, “What kind of management is this?” as the Polar ice cap began to swing down across the globe. tt tt The First BUT. though Tom’s mental processes were rudimentary’, we of the laity should be allowed to honor him when the scientists are done with fingering and measuring the ancient skull. In some public square of a big city, a statute should be erected of Peiping Tom, with the inscription, 11 jt£■ £ r? o j* oi tB.o .T t Km\: n Bring Who Vv. s Known lo Think ” Heat and cold he knew, and maybe mammoths. To him the earth and sky and clouds and thunder were terrifying mysteries. In a world of fierce creatures he lived, I imagine, fearfully. But it would be dogmatic to call him wretched. Although without the benefits of vaccination and the radio, he knew some thrills denied to us. Some of his simple pleasures we

GREELEY’S BIRTH February 3 ON Feb. 3, 1811, Horace Greeley, eminent American journalist, was born at Amherst, N. H. His parents poor, Greeley went to work at 14 on a small Vermont newspaper, where he remained five years, until it failed. Unable to find employmnet, he went to New York and founded there, in January, 1833, the Morning Post, the first popularpriced paper in New York. It failed in three weeks. Declining the invitation of James Gordon Bennett to form a partnership in starting the Herald, Greeley established the New Yorker, a weekly. While this venture operated at a loss, it gave its editor much prominence and enabled him to publish successfully the Tribune, Greeley gained considerable fame through his zealous propaganda against slavery, and he was considered the chief agent in strengthening anti-slavery sentiment in the north. Although he declared before the Civil war that secession should be allowed if the people of the south so voted, he gave his entire support to the Union as soon as the Civil war began. Aside from a brief term In congress, Greeley’s political activities were never successful. Soon after his defeat in his presidential race against Grant, Greeley, suffering from overstrain and insomnia, died Nov. 29, 1872. Who is the oldest regular pi cher in the major baseball leagues? Jack Quinn, pitcher of the Philadelphia Athletics. He was born July 5, 1885.

clency to constriction of the arteries and .small blood vessels within the body, with dilatation of the capillary blood vessels near the surface. Apparently lying in the hot bath tends to diminish the output of the heart per beat. When the person cools down after having had a hot bath, there is usually a prompt return to all of the normal conditions. More and more scientific physicians are beginning to pay attention to the physical factors associated with the treatment of disca f e. Light, heat, water, the outdoor air, and all the surroundings of man can be used to advantage to control his functions.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of A—!rica’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement I with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

have outgrown. For instance, back in Tom’s day, a man probably got a great kick out of watching the sun sneak up above the hills. Each time that happened, he set the incident down as a luck break for him. Lacking almanacs, he had no notion of the fact that this particular business had been giong on for some time. a tt tt He Tried HE only knew what he saw in the skies. The sun went down and darkness came, and if that ball bobbed up again it was not unreasonable to think that it had bounced against some convenient cliff, and fortunately appeared again for his survival. /nd so he bird hundreds of dea.u; fc: f.,r Ilva - .. i/ven-ty-four h.urg furnished him with Christmas and Easter. I hope the Peiping man left little Toms to carry on his line. It would be a great pity to finish witn the age of ice and never know the spirited and raucous possibilities of our modem age of brass. I rather think that the blood of the Peiping man still flows upon the earth. He might be amused to know that for his pains as a pioneer thihker, great multitudes have been reared up who W’ill not take a third light from the same match. I hope that none of the hornrimmed lads who pick up that old Chinese brain pan will treat it with anything but respect. He didn’t know much, did Tom, but there is that swelling in the forehead. He was in there trying. I wonder what he did think then. In fact, I wonder what he thinks now. (Copyright, 1930, by The Times)

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SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ —

Improved Oil Operation for 1930 Is Expected to Result in Great % Elimination of Waste. IMPROVEMENTS In the oil industry are forecast for 1930 in a survey made by Dr. Thomas Thornton Read, professor of mining in Columbia university. Dr. Read says that a big advance in avoiding over-production was made by the oil industry in 1929. Improved pool operation to eliminate waste and the adoption of improved technical methods promise constructive results in 1930, he believes. Overproduction, according to the Columbia professor, has been a disconcerting influence in many fields of mineral industry as well as the oil industry. “Overproduction, with its attendant price-cutting, unprofitable and uninterrupted operation, expense for the maintenance of idle plants, and the disorganization of operating forces, with its unfavorable effect on general business through the curtailment of buying power, long has been a drawback to many branches of the mineral industry," he states. “It. is in process, however, of being brought under better control. “The oil industry, which has the jreatest disadvantage to contend with in this respect, has made the most remarkable progress in the last year.” tt v n Pools THE fundamental difficulty with oil is that it occurs in pools,’ says Dr. Reed. “If one owner starts drawing from the pool, all the others have to begin doing the same, lest he take their share of the oil along with his own. The resulting scramble to yet the most floods the market with crude oil. “Manj’ methods of bringing this under control have been suggested, many of them in conflict with the Sherman law’.” Dr. Read expressed the opinion that the Sherman law is “antiquated” and “badly adapted to modern business conditions.” He points out, however, that a plan has been evolved for operating a pool as a unit which does not conflict with the Sherman law. “The gas in the oil Is what forces it out of the sand and through tho well,” he says. “If the gas pressure on a field is lost, the oil will also be lost. The waste of gas In revklessly drill'd oil fields thus has caused much less of oil. “California has passed a measure, knowm as the Lyons act, which, if intelligently enforced, will conserve the gas energy and encourage cooperative agreements that will result in greater ultimate oil recovery. “The President’s action in announcing that it hereafter would u r . the i> Icy of the gO’ .rnnient to hold l ack its mineral lands from development so long as there existed overproduction from privately owmed areas has done much to fieln the situation.” a a tt Wells THERE also have been great advances in technology in the oil industry, Dv. Read states. “Engineers now are talking confident!'/ of drilling wells 10 000 feet deep.” he says. “They have already passed 8,000 feet. “Not only does it require study to make wells so deep at anything less than prohibitive cost, but also to drill them straight, since a crooked hole near the edge of a lease may end under neighbors property. “Much progress also ls being made in improving the refining of oil, the new pipe stills being a great inip rvement ever the cruder old type. “Cracking, which yields much higher proportions of gasoline, the * needed product, Ls making much progress and the De Florez, a nr w vapor phase process, attracts n.jch attention. “Anew chemical process that yields pure cheap aluminum chlorice will have much effect on the oil industry, as it makes improved refining processes possible. “Coal is our principal mineral industry and. like oil, it suffers from overproduction.' The last year has been characterized by low prices, the closing of smaller mines, and the consolidation of small units into larger ones. “In Kentucky, for example, last year’s production was one-third larger than four years previously, w’hile the number of mines in operation w T as one-fifth less.” Can women enlist in the United States navy? No.