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ChicaKo’s Dictatorship Chicago politicians have capitulated, and agreed to accept the help of the citizens’ rescue committee led by Silas H. Strawn. The city and county treasuries are empty, millions are owed in salaries to municipal employes, tax anticipation warrants can not be sold, and the situation steadily grows worse. Thua we have the spectacle of America s second city virtually ruled by a dictatorship, or oligarchy, of wealthy taxpayers. These rich men are said to have $50,000,000 which they are prepared to advance for public expenditures, but they will not turn the money over to the spendthrift politicians, who are responsible for the plight in which the city finds itself. They will retain control over the money and will i'tpply it only lor purposes they deem necessary. An executive committee of fifteen will make decisions. The government of Mayor Big Bill Thompson is in effect superseded by this group. Big Bill himself opposed it, but the city council yielded. Breakdown of Chicago’s government and inability of the authorities to suppress lawlessness constitute an important chapter in the history of popular rule. It will be interesting to see if voters can extricate themselves from the difficulties in which they have become involved. Georgia Slips Back Lynchings, once common throughout the south, have been decreasing steadily in number during recent years. Not more than ten or twelve persons met violent death at the hands of mobs in the last year, v nereas just before the turn of the century victims were counted by the score. The latest lynching in Georgia therefore will come as a shock to those who had hoped that this most horrible or all forms of murder was passing. That is particularly true because there has not been a lynching in that state within three years, in spite of the intense racial feeling that sometimes develops. The victim of a mob of 500 at Ocilla, Ga., was a Negro, accused of attacking and killing a 14-year-old white girl. The sheriff, refusing to surrender his prisoner, was handled roughly by the mob. The Negro was taken outside the town, beaten and mutilated, and his body burned on a pyre of logs. If telegraphic accounts are correct, the mob exhibited unusual barbarity. According to the sheriff, the Negro had confessed to the crime. There is small doubt that If law had been permitted to take its course, he would have been punished to the limit without delay. After Georgia's last lynching, seventeen men were indicted and sixteen were sent to prison. It is to be hoped the authorities will display equal zeal in the present instance, thereby serving notice that rule of lynch law is not to be resumed. Bigger and Better Prisons Have you picked out your federal prison cell and made your reservation, so there will be no difficulty about housing you when your time comes? Listen to the testimony of Attorney-General Mitchell before congress: Mr. Mitchell: “Our prison population has increased tremendously. Our prisons are being overcrowded more and more We have had to borrow from the war department the disciplinary barracks at Leavenworth and crowd that full of prisoners. “For example, at Alderson our 1930 appropriation for the women's reformatory was based on an estimate of 300 prisoners, and I think the actual number is largely in excess of that. At Chillicothe, a reformatory just in the course of construction, with a nominal capacity of 1,200, we have more than 1.600 prisoners, and the foundations of the institution are hardly laid. We are busy now trying to borrow Camp Custer to take care of the overflow. . . Representative Tinkham: "May I ask you to tell us . . . what is the cause of all that tremendous increase?” Mr. Mitchell: “During the last twenty years there have been four statutes passed that bring about the incarceration of more prisoners than any other laws we have —the original prohibition act, the Harrison narcotic act. the Mann act and the Dyer act, relating to transportation of automobiles in interstate commerce. ..he striking thing about it is that the federal pi. i problem today is the result of four statutes enacted within the last twenty years, by which congress has put the government into new fields ol criminal prosecution.” That Presidential Hair-Shirt If the President goes a-fishing to Florida he will have to wear at least one of those hair-shirts to which he recently referred. His prohibition troubles can not be left at home. We wish they could. Hoover or any other man could be a better President if he could icst from this growing problem, or if. indeed, he could unload it altogether. Meanwhile, the load gets heavier and the shirt hairier. Along has come a group of otherwise regular Republicans, calling for formation of anew political party to fight prohibition. The Republican party already is so split into factions—east versus west, industrialists versus agrarians high tariffists versus lotv, old guard versus young guard versus progressives, wild jackasses and sons thereof—that the widening breach between vets and drys is mpst disturbing to the party managers. As head and leader of the party, the Presirien hardly can be insensible to these troubles. One of the painful aspects of the latest suggestion of anew anti-piohibition party is that the Republican advocates suddenly have become so blind to the long sacred party lines that they actually are cooperating with prominent Democrats to achieve their end. For the moment, however, the threat of anew party probably is a much less serious worry to the Republican managers than is the coming election job of squaring the circle in the dry west and tire wet east. All the extreme prohibition measures initiated by the adm'n'stration, which are so popular with the Anti-Sa'con League and which may be expected to get votes for some Republican senators and congressmen in certain western sections next fall, may kill the Republican election chances in the moist eastern states. Take the case of Hoover’s friend and senate appointee. Dwight Morrow, in New Jersey. Morrow is ia ft tight place. He Is in a bad way, or rather the administration Is in a bad way, if he bolts the Hoogr program and cornea out for modification. be iff In ft worae way if be doesn't. Tht Dem-

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ocrats have carried New Jersey with a wet before, and probably can do it again, unless the Republicans rob them of the prohibition issue. So it gees. The issue which the politicians of both parties thought could be sidetracked is becoming the biggest issue of all. The Railroad Man’s Problems The new problems that changed conditions in American life have raised up for the vexation of the raliroad executive are graphically set forth by somp figures in the current issue of Golden Book magazine. The gleaming Pullman car, for instance, is no longer the great money-maker for the railroads. For every dollar it earns the lowly freight car earns six. Furthermore, the day coach has fallen on evil days. In 1921 day coach passengers contributed $795,000,000 to the railroads; in 1928 they paid only $454,000,000. Automobiles and higher living standards are directly responsible. The railroad men have met the issue by increasing their efficiency. In 1922 the average freight tram had thirty-eight cars; today it has forty-eight. In 1922 the average car moved twenty-three miles a day; now' it moves thirty-one miles. If you think that all of this hasn’t given the railroad men furrowed brows and gray hairs, you might ask the next railroad man you meet. When the Road Is Icy Icy roads put an extra responsibility on the shoulders of every motorist; and nowhere is this responsibility heavier than in the neighborhood of railroad crossings. In Indiana recently a motorist approached a grade crossing very carefully. An automatic signal was heralding the approach of a train. The driver put on his brakes. But there was a slight incline leading down to the tracks and the road was very icy. His car slid down the hill and went on the track just in time to get hit by an express train—and the motorist, for all that he had been driving carefully, lost his life. Ordinary care isn’t enough when the roads are paved with ice—especially when you come to a. grade crossing. The driver's vigilance needs to be tripled under such circumstances. The man next door has a dog he calls Grover. Asked for the reason for this variant of Rover, he told it wasn't a variant at all, but the dog was named after Grover Whelan, New York's greeter-police commissioner, “because he greets every one so enthusiastically.” A lighthouse is offered for sale in an ad in a British newspaper. Somebody ought to pick it up, teach it to box and match the thing with Primo Camera. The art of conversation is dying out, says a magazine writer. He ought to go and look up somebody who has just had an operation. The Eskimo uses fish hooks for money, we are told. Say, aren’t those fellows some relation to the Scotch? A teacher says it is not easy to learn to play the saxophone, w'hich confirms our fears. The mayor of Philadelphia complains the dearth of night clubs in that city ‘‘where the people could find innocent amusement.” The trouble is that people won’t pay that kind of price for innocent amusement. A woman lecturer in New' York talked lor two hours w'ithout referring to her notes, says a news dispatch. The newsy part of that is that she did it in public.

O A T FREDERICK REASON LANDIS

HEREAFTER the Indiana parole board will not give to the newspapers the names of prisoners who have been paroled, saying it is necessary to keep their prison service a secret in order that they might find employment. We sympathize with the board’s desire to help those'who want to stage a comeback, but we question the wisdom of their program. tt tt u The very act of concealing something is fraudulent and does not go hand in hand with a determination to reform: one can not be truthful and live a lie at one and the same time. The man who tries to button up such a secret must go about with a wolf gnawing at his vitals and it will devour him in short time. a a a By concealment he may be able to get the job, but every day he will be afraid that somebody will come into the establishment, recognize him and end his career. The pressure of constant dread is such that it compels many fugitives to surrender, they finding it easier to pay the penalty than to dodge every time a door opens. tt tt tt yT Is better to go with clean hands and tell the whole story, and incidentally this is the moral duty of those who released the prisoners, since secrecy hands a lemon to the employer from whom the prisoner asks a favor. It seeks to build reformation on fraud and this does not work. tt tt tt If the parole board is willing to turn a man loose, hat board should be willing also to go to the employer and stand good for that man, and so should the trial judge, the prosecuting attorney and other officials who recommend the parole. The mere fact that he knows that such people are standing behind him will help a man make good, if there's a grain of manhood in him. tt tt a We have in mind a certain judge who always said to the men he sent to the penitentiary: “I am imposing this sentence because you have compelled me to do it, but I am your friend and when you get out come to me and I will get you a job.” a a ONE after another those prisoners come to see that judge when their time was up and he would look into their cases, then take them to some employer and tell all about it and. standing good for the prisoner's fidelity, ask the employer to give the man a chance. The resrfft was wonderful. Every one of them, we believe, justified the faith reposed in him. tt a Os course, there are some behind the bars, just as there are some in front of the bars, who could not be trusted in a thousand years, but it is easy to distinguish between the deserving and the others. Let them tell the truth, come clean, and most of them will make good, but not with ft horrible secret In their hearts.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Our Problem in Haiti Is Not

as Siynple as Some of the Idealists Would Have Us Believe. TWENTY-ONE years ago Dr. Frederick A. Cook sold humanity the north pole under false pretenses, and got nothing in consequence, except some highly colored publicity. Five years ago he sold a small amount of doubtful oil stock in Texas and got fourteen years for using the mails to defraud. The different way in which these two ventures turned out illustrates nothing so distinctly as the impotence of human justice. That being so, and Dr. Cook getting along in years, it probably would do no harm to let him out March 5, as the federal parole board recommends. a u a With a congressional appropriation of $50,000 w'ith which to study the problem, and with President Hoover ready to appoint the commission provided for within a week, the way seems to have been cleared for a revised policy toward Haiti. As President Hoover points out, the establishment of such a policy involves two major questions. First, when and how the existing agencies of this government shall be withdrawn, and second, what should be done, If anything, to continue the assistance, though not the interference, they have rendered. a tt a Problem Complicated THE Haitian problem is not so simple as some idealists would have us believe. In the first place, the United States did not intervene of its own motion, or because of a desire to run things. Intervention practically was forced by France after President Sam had been murdered in the French legation. Intervention necessarily has resulted in certain political restrictions, but, at the same time, it has led to economic benefits of vital importance to the Haitian people. tt tt tt President Hoover states the case fairly when he says that we could not withdraw immediately without causing disastrous dislocation of Haiti's political and economic machinery, but that, since we must withdraw eventually, we should begin a thorough study of the situation with that end in view. One might add that we should begin to study the situation as it affects Latin-Arnerican affairs in general, and that the time has come for tliis government to formulate a policy, not for particular cases or countries, but to satisfy the needs of the western hemisphere. It is quite true that the United States is peculiarly interested in the Caribbean, but it is also true that Caribbean nations are identified racially and religiously with South America, and that our attitude toward them will be taken to indicate our attitude toward that continent in general. tt tt it Good Prohibition Bill r T~'YVO bills have been placed beX fore the New York legislature which promise to reveal the prohibition question in a clearer and more constructive light than it has enjoyed thus far. Briefly, they would permit the state to manufacture and sell wine with an alcoholic content of not more than 15 per cent and beer with one of not more than 6 per cent. A board of control would be set up under the department of health, with power to build or lease and operate the necessary plants. This board would be authorized to issue two systems of permits—one for residents and one for nonresidents. The state would retain ownership of all beverages until they had reached the purchaser's address, and three hours would be allowed for delivery. Holders of such permits W'ould be restricted to one quart of wine a day and two quarts of beer. J t St tt Not Nullification AT first glance, this bill looks like nothing less than straight out and out nullification, but, as its sponsors argue, the eighteenth amendment not only fails to define what is meant by “intoxicating liquor,” but gives the states concurrent jurisdiction with the federal government. Under such circumstances, they contend that the state can fix a reasonable alcoholic content without violating the eighteenth amendment, while the Volstead act is ineffectual because of the provision for concurrent jurisdiction. Whatever one may think of such opinion, it certainly clarifies the basic issues—what is intoxicating, what state sovereignty means, and what we could do to liberate ourselves from an unhealthy situation, without nullifying the federal Constitution.

Questions and Answers

What were the ten leading commodities exported and imported by the United States in 1928? The ten leading exports were: Cotton, unmanufactured; petroleum and products; automobiles, parts, etc.; machinery; wheat, including flour; packing house products; iron and steel mill products; copper; tobacco, unmanufactured; cotton manufactures. The ten leading imports were raw silk, coffee; crude rubber; sugar, cane; paper and manufactures; hides and skins; petroleum and products: furs and manufactures: paper base stocks; copper, including ores and manufactures. What is the theme song the motion picture “The River”? “I Found Happiness When I Found You.” What does manasquam mean? It is an Indian word meaning point or top. , , .

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Won't Junior Eat? Make Food Tempting

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvieeia. the Health Magazine. ALL experts in child training and child care emphasize repeatedly the importance of getting the food to the child and getting the child to eat it. The child is in many ways merely a small adult. Any foodstuff, as is pointed out by Henry E. Stafford, may be rendered unpalatable and distasteful by improper cooking and serving. He describes particularly vegetables cook in large quantities of water, then pureed into an unrecognizable mass and served with an overhelping of watery mashed potatoes and a soft-boiled egg stirred in. No adult would eat such a mix-

IT SEEMS TO ME Ly BROUN

HARVARD has made an official defense of its action in summarily discharging a group of veteran scrubwomen, and it seems to me a feeble and evasive document. I call attention to the fact that Arthur L. Endicott, the university’s controller, says in his report: “When we took over the operation of the library building, it was necessary to make a good many changes in the personnel of the force, so that we did not think it advisable to replace the women with men immediately. We did, however, take steps to lighten their work and shorten their hours.” Now, this sounds very generous and noble-hearted until one suddenly remembers that Harvard’s cleaning women were paid by the hour, 35 cents for eyery sixty minof toil. “Accordingly, it can hardly be rated as a favor if Harvard said to Mrs. Donahue, or any one of ihe others, “Hereafter, you are to work only five hours a day instead of seven.” a a a Pay Reduced IT may look well on paper, but the practical result of such a policy was that Mrs. Donahue received precisely 70 cents less each day, a reduction which she could not well afford to harbor. “Thank you for nothing,” she might well have said, and, “Don't do me no favors until the price of bread and meat comes down a good deal lower.” Nor do I understand the pride which Mr. Endicott seems to take in the fact that Harvard’s scrubwomen quite possibly eked out existence by being employed in other gainful occupations. He says, “These women were engaged by the hour, and their employment has been a few hours a day, trom three to four hours early in the morning, and I believe all of them had other employment for the rest of the day, so that they have not been wholly dependent upon their work at the university for their livelihood.” . It seems to me that this is as much as to say, “Os course, we do not pay A. Lawrence Lowell a living wage, but fortunately Havard does not demand his complete time, and so he is getting along nicely enough by doing a few hot ion gs every night in a Boston cabaret.” O tt U Just Exercise IAM also interested in the university’s official conception of four hours’ scrubbing as a sort of a daily dozen, suitable to loosen the joints of an old lady, and pep her up to sally forth into a competitive world in search of a career. I thoroughly agree with my Socialistic friends who argue that such matters should not be left to the generosity or the common sense of the individual employer. If Harvard university shows itself heartless in dealing with the human equation, it is likely that the average manufacturer of bed springs ox breakfast food max be equally

Off Again, On Again!

ture and enjoy it, and the child is likely to be just as sensitive. Dr. Stafford is inclined to believe that the child under 6 years of age should not be permitted to eat wfith the rest of the family, for the simple reason that the conversation of the parents will divert the child's attention from the food. Furthermore, the child finds himself the center of attraction and enjoys it so much that the food becomes a secondary matter. If the father or any of the older brothers or sisters refuse to eat any portion of their food, the baby is quite willing to copy the performance. Doctor Stafford mentions particularly the fact that it is exceptional to see a child eat well who has been spoon-fed by a nurse or mother after the second-year.

callous in his attitude toward veterans within the office. Indeed, I was interested to learn that a morning paper which had been mildly critical of Lowell’s course, did not come into court with hands which I should deem entirely clean. During the same week in which this local paper ventured to express an editorial “Tut! Tut!” a member of the reportorial staff was discharged upon three days’ notice after forty-nine years of continuous service. And when he called upon the publisner to protest such a sudden dismissal, after so long a period in harness, he was informed: “We are very sorry, Mr. R., but if you looked at your notice you observed that we took this action because of necessity. “We have found it imperative to pare our staff down to the bone, and dispense with all those whose labors seem to us not vitally efficient.” Again, I do not call upon the gods of mercy and of justice, but I do insist that within a period of forty-nine years a paper or a pump factory ought to be able to make up its mind -whether its Mr. R. contributes to the welfare of the concern. tt tt n Honorable Way IF, at the end of thirty years, the executive decides that that Mr. R. is not a specifically useful person,

WAR WITH TRIPOLI Feb. 6. ON Feb. 6, 1804, the war between the United States and Tripoli opened with the arrival of an American squadron in the Mediterranean. The squadron was sent at the order of President Jefferson after the pasha of Tripoli declared war ageinst the United States because we had not promptly met his demands for money—a tribute he was in the habit of receiving each year to keep him from seizing American vessels. Under the direction of Commodore Preble, the small American fleet gained a brilliant triumph over the Barbary pirates. Up to this time the Mohammedan states of Tripoli and Tunis, Algers and Morocco, long load made a business of piracy. Their cruisers swarmed upon the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and robbed merchant ships. Oftentimes distinguished captives were held for ransom and other were sold as slaves. With the cessation of hostilities in the Tripoli, the pasha speedily dropped his demands and begged for peace. How old is Douglas Fairbanks Jr.? In what picture did he make his first screen appearance? He was 23 in December, and his first screen appearance was In “Stephen Steps Out.” . „

Spoon-feeding is a form of stuffing. The child does not eat well because he is spoon-fed and he is spoon-fed because he does not eat well. This process can go on almost forever. The tired child is not hungry and the child can be exhausted just as much by nagging and driving as by too much play. Children are individuals and should be handled individually. When this is done, the child is likely to eat all the things thai it should and without a great deal of difficulty. One of the most vicious habits is feeding between meals a child that refuses to take its food at meal time. It soon learns to look for the between-meal delicacies and to avoid the staples that come at regular hours.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this tolumn are 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.

I think that the business head in question ought to be in honor bound to rule, “Well, it is too late for us to change our minds at this date; hot or cold, Mr. R. remains.” Nevertheless, I agree with the Socialistic suggestion that veterans of industry should not be dependent upon the whim of the generous or the far-sighted employer. It is easy to stir community feeling about old fire horses which have been displaced by automotive apparatus. We cry and protest when •we hear that Jerry, with four white feet, has been sold down the river to a fish peddler. Why should we not display the same interest about an old bookkeeper or cotton weaver? Heaven knows that I hope for and will even demand some easement of labor before I have completed forty-nine years of colurnning. The economic system is all awry if nobody says, “It will be a good thing all around for you to quit turning out Tt Seems to Me,’ and accept instead, this gold watch and an annual pension of S9O a month.” (OopvriKht. 1930, by The Timesi

Daily Thought

Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, the Lord is righteous.—ll Chronicles 12:6. a a a Humility is eldest born of Virtue, and claims the birthright at the throne of heaven—Arthur Murphy.

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FEB. 6, 1930

SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ

I Floods and. Erosion Wipe Out , Valuable Clews to Early j History of American lnI dians in Southwest. r study of the ancient history A of the American Indian has become a race against- time. Thousands of sites of ancient habitations in the southwest gradually are being wiped out by nature and man. Floods and processes of erosion—tlie action of winds and rain—are gradually blotting out these records of America's first inhabitants. In ! many places the march of civilization has had the same effect. The first problem being attacked in the new program of the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe, N. M., is to record as many of these sites as possible while it is yet possible to do so. The new program of the laboratory includes the erection of a great institution at Santa Fc. The first of ten buildings has been made possible by a gift of $200,000 from John ! D. Rockefeller Jr. The trustees of the laboratory have just announced additional gifts totaling $155,000 to further the work. These include $70,000, which is the I income from a $300,000 fund set up ; by Rockefeller to finance the laboratory during its first five years; a gift of $60,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to establish resident scholarships for research workers.. and $12,500 from Bronson M. Cutting, United States senator from New Mexico. Cutting’s giil was immediately matched by one of similar size from Rockefeller, who had agreed to match all contributions up to a total of $65,000. tt Z Boundanes THE trustees oi the laboratory also announced that Secretary oi the Interior Wilbur has approved the appointment of Jesse L. Nusbaum as acting director of the laboratory. Nusbaum is director of Mesa Verde National park in Colorado. He has a distinguished career as an archeologist, having been archeologist of the Museum of the America! l Indian, New York. “Nearly three hundred of the ancient Indian sites have been sampled and recorded in an area roughly estimated at seventy-five miles square about the city of Santa Fe,” says H. P. Mera, staff archaeologist of the laboratory. “Much work remains to be done, however. The boundaries of the cultural areas may extend vver liun-, dreds of miles to where they overlap the boundaries of other areas. “The collection of material and the recording of the thousands of remaining uncharted sites must gq on as rapidly as possible, for there is grave danger that many may not be reached in time. “Every group of houses market by the characteristic trash heart and low mounds holds a clew to i k place in the development of t Iff? ( history of the southwest. “Erosion, due to natural force, vandalism by the pot hunter aid other incidents occasioned by he settlement of anew country hre destroyed and are continuing to jestroy many evidences of pre-history , that can ill be spared. “It will be ore of the aims of the laboratory, in a race against time, to record as many as possible of these habitations before they are finally leveled by the plow to the advancing homesteader or torn from the banks of flooded gullies.” tt tt tt Problems THE situation of the proposed buildings of the laboratory on the outskirts of Santa Fe will it in an unusual position to be-* come a clearing house for the study of the early history of mankind in America. Santa Fe is in the center oi the cliff-dwelling area and near the largest Pueblo Indian villages. There are many fascinating problems in connection with the history of the American Indian. Most authorities no\y agree that the Indian entered America by way of Alaska from Asia. Authorities do not think that there was any great sudden migration, but that the population merely overflowed* from Asia into Alaska, families making the journey across Bering Straits. It is believed that the immigrants slowly made their way into the interior of the continent, following the coast and the rivers. In this way it is thought that the Indian finally made his way down to the southwest and into Mexico and Central America.