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Prohibition Tinkering The house has approved the transfer of prohibition enforcement from the treasury department to the department of justice, as recommended by President Hoover. The senate undoubtedly will accept the house bill with little change, since leaders there are in accord on the desirability of putting both the detection of violations and their prosecution in the hands of a single agency. The action of the house should be gratifying to those persons who have contended that a genuine effort to enforce prohibition has not been made in the decade that we have had it. Attorney-General Mitchell is a pronounced dry. He has exhibited vigor in the administration of the department of justice, and will have only drys administering the laws. He will have not only the army of prohibition agents under his direction, but the vast resources of the department itself. And he will have the wholehearted support of the President. Secretary Mellon is glad to relinquish the task of enforcement, we suspect. Ke has been constantly the subject of attack, one ot the reasons being that he once was interested in a distillery. Despite large increases in enforcement personnel, the coast guard f.nd other units, and appointment of “prohibition chars," Mellon's department is to retain authority over industrial alcohol, but Mitchell will have what amounts to a veto power over the issuance of permits for manufacture. The question of putting into force the President’s recommendations for unification of the border patrols remains to be acted on by congress. It is to be hoped there will be a favorable vote. ' The house judiciary committee has arranged hearings on prohibition, and Senator Wheeler is asking for an investigation of prohibition by the upper chamber. Similar hearings and investigations in the last ten years have contributed little of value. They served only to show what was a matter of common knowledge—that prohibition was not being enforced satisfactorily. But if an even more vigorous effort to enforce the prohibition law is made, and this fails, the country will be in a mood to consider changes that will end the present situation, which even some drys are at last willing to admit Is intolerable. Hit It Again If, as reported, Democratic leaders are planning a new assault upon the indefensibly high duties on wool recently adopted by the senate, they are displaying sound economics and good political strategy. How Is it going to help business to enact higher duties that will force clothing prices to be marked up all along the line? How is it going to help the Republican party to adopt higher tariffs for the benefit of a few big sheep raisers in the west, and sixty-two manufacturers in the east, if the price of wool clothing for 120.000.000 people is to be raised as a result? Under the present tariff, the wool growers have been the most prosperous of all the agricultural groups. The woolen and worsted industries have been suffering from extreme depression, but this is not due to foreign competition. Importations of wool fabrics are less than 4 per cent of American production and are largely of a grade and kind not produced in the United States. Changes in women’s styles, steam-heated houses, and closed automobiles have hit the wool manufacturing industry hard, and higher tariffs can not cure it. American consumers should not be penalized with higher prices merely because the wool growers and manufacturers have got the high tariff habit and are crying for more.

Unemployment What is the administration going to do about unemployment? Senator La Follette and others are making serious charges against the accuracy of the government’s employment figures and the adequacy of its remedial policy. Such charges deserve a reply, which doubtless will be forthcoming from the administration. This is not the sort of thing that can be ignored successfully. There is no disagreement regarding the essential soundness of the business and credit structure. But there is wide disagreement concerning the extent of tne temporary depression and the numbers of unemployed. There are equally wide disagreement as to whether “the comer has been turned.’’ In such circumstances, the country has a right to look to the tederal government for facts and for guidance. The official answer of the administration is that there was a slight depression early in the winter, but that the tide changed some time in December and that the improvement has been so rapid as to make conditions almost normal again. Is that true? Certainly it is not true of many communities whose unemployment lines are longer now than in December or January. It is not true of the American Federation of Labor trades. And it is not true in New Y—k state, where labor figures refute the claims of tl -deral government. a York state employment statistics generally accepted as the most reliable in the country, and that state’s Industrial condition usually has been found to reflect conditions in other states. There also fe signs of lower wages, along with decreased employment. “With weekly earnings smaller than twelve months ago and household expenses no lower, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the accustomed standard of living.” according to statistical findings just issued by the Labor Bureau. Inc. It adds that unless the trend of wage changes downward during each of the last three months is reversed, “we are in for a great deal of trouble." President Hoover foresaw the dangers of just such situation, and three months ago called industry Into conference to prevent it. The keystone of the Hoover program was “no wage reductions." He argued rightly that wage reductions would destroy the consumers’ purchasing power and thus prolong the industrial depression in a vicious circle. Unfortunately not all Industry has kept Its pledge to maintain the wage level. If the incomplete figures are to be believed, wage cuts and layoffs have been occurrin® in many Industries and many parts of ilie country. Meanwhile, the farmer is hit by a fall ir. the price of his major crops. These conditions have not been brought about by so-called "calamity howling.” On the contrary, they

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have developed In spite of a general and determined optimism. The program adopted last autumn for stabilization of prosperity has not produced results as complete as desired. It may be necessary for the adrni ’-n to assume leadership again. War on Sweatshops Some 25,000 dressmakers, men and women, aie on strike in New' York on a crusade against sweatshops. A large part of the dresses worn by the women and girls of the city and those shipped elsewhere still are made in homes or small shops on the piecework basis. A jobber, we will say, gets a contract for 10,000 dresses. He farms this contract out to a number of subcontractors, w'ho in turn may farm out their share to small bosses—“cockroach bosses”—who employ handfuls of workers, often members of their own families. These, receiving starvation wages, have no fixed hours but may work eleven or twelve hours a day until the contract is finished, and then be without work until another contract comes along. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has declared a general strike in the industry to establish working conditions and union wages in these sweatshops. If higher dress prices should result. they would be nothing compared to the terrible price which the ground-down workers pay in the sweatshops. The union wants, among other things, to bring about creation of a commission of representatives of the union, the employers and the public for the control of the dressmaking trade, a commission like that which exists in the cloak industry. The strike is unique in that it is supported by the large dress manufacturers, who would be pleased to uproot the cut-throat sweatshop competition and stabilize the industry on a union basis. The large establishments. employing more than half of those working in the trade, have closed their shops for the duration of the strike. The strike, moreover, is blessed by a favorable attitude of the politicians and the city and state governments. The difficulty will be to overcome the apathy of the workers who would be most benefited by the strike’s success. The aims of the movement are most laudable and the consequences momentous. The sweatshops belong to the middle ages. It shames the civilization of 1930. Mr. Coolidge says that “in any estimate of the power of the country, we find the chief asset in spiritual values." Funny that wasn’t brought up at the naval conference. Some astute research expert discovers that poets hardly ever are athletes. Even though quite a few of them are long-winded. Bald-headed people usually are diplomatic, says a doctor. You’ll have to admit they’re pretty smooth. Every man has a price, says a magazine writer. And if he isn’t bought, frequently he is sold. Then there is the psychologist who says that only fools are sure of anything! What with the prisons so full of prohibition offenders, a first-class murderer has to be put on the waiting list in most states. Science is wonderful, but you still can’t take a bath in an automobile. Sometimes an in-law makes a man go to law.

REASON

IN the state conventions to be held next May by both old parties. Lake and Marion counties combined will have more than one-third enough delegates to nominate, which practically delivers all the Republicans and all the Democrats in Indiana over to the clutches of two vile political machines. And it is just a few years since millions of men crossed the Atlantic ocean to “make the world safe for democracy.” a a a Indiana is one of the very few states, if not the only one, which has repealed its primary law and gone back to the boss-ridden, hog-tied political convention. Even such citadels of reaction as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts have retained their primary laws and an effort to repeal them would bring about an upheaval. Indiana presents this striking paradox, her people are as progressive as any in the country, but her political leadership in both parties is the most reactionary in North America. a a a ACOSTA, noted air pilot who flew to Europe with Byrd, is sent to jail for failure to support his wife and children. That's the worst crash any flier ever suffered. mam Now that skirts have been lengthened, some of them, we wish the photographers would get together and take the grinning mug outof circulation and give us the old closed countenance. This will be known as the tonsil age of American history. mm*r Motorists are delighted that congress has increased the annual federal appropriation for aiding state highways from $75,000,000 to $125,000,000, but before another cent is spent by state or nation for hard roads some way should be found to make dishonest pavements impossible. If Julius Caesar could build roads which would last thousands of years we should be able to build roads which will last a century. amt r THE state department denies that it has issued orders to our foreign representatives to make their establishments dry. The official residence and the offices of our foreign representatives are American soil as much as the middle of Main street in any American county seat and if liquor is unconstitutional for us here at home, it’s unconstitutional for out foreign representatives so long as they’re in their offices or homes. • mm It is absurd for Governor Young to propose an investigation of the causes of the anti-Philippine riots in California, since the' Sunset State has had antiAsiatic riots for more than fifty years. The races won't mix and while the story may not be very lovely. It is too short and too clear to call for an investigation. a m a If it s necessary to make the Philippines independent to exclude tb®m from the United States, that's a better reason to do it than because their products come into competition with our own.

r FREDERICK By LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Safest King of All, Paradoxical as It May Seem . Sits on the Throne of Demcratic England.

PRIMO DE RIVERA, ousted dictator of Spain, plays the cello, while his succesor. Berenguer, operates a player piano. That shows progress, according to American standards. The fiddle and all its family belong to the mid-Victorian era. while canned music is up-to-date, if our habits mean anything. But Berenguer is said to be poli ished in his manner, while Rivera , is coarse, if not uncouth, which is i contrary to what one would expect. The Spaniards are not worrying themselves over such questions. What they w r ant to know Is whether, or how much, the tourist trade has been hurt by all the turmoil. tt tt tt Six little dictators, where they were seven three months ago, and each of them wondering who will be next. Stalin in Russia, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, Horthy in Hungary, Kemal in Turkey, Alexander in Yugoslavia, good little dictators all, though one rules as a king, one as a president, one as premier and one as merely’ the head of a I party, while the other two are ha: and i to identify. And rubbing shoulders with them j are ten or a dozen kings, proving : what a war to save the W'orld for ; democracy really accomplished. tt M tt Safest in England PARADOXICAL as it may seem, the safest king of them all and the solidest throne is in democratic England. Stalin, Mussolini and even Alexander run much more than an even chance of being tossed into oblivion ere the House of Windsor falls. And this is all due to the fact that England has been steady and cautious in her progressiveness. Other nations have jumped from one extreme to another, but gained little in the long run. Three times France has turned from republic to monarchy and back again in the last 140 years, * * * No form of government has lasted long in the western world. One must go to the Orient to find enduring systems. The Japanese monarchy has changed little, save in outward appearance, for twenty-six centuries. Until the revolution of 1911, China could point to a much longer period of fixation. But when one moves over to the sphere of white civilization, so called, it is to find a very different tale. k tt m Rome Not So Stable ROME, to which ever one refers as a shining example of stability, was first a kingdom, then a republic and then an empire. The changes in Greece came so fast that it is hard to keep track of them. Three hundred and fifty years ago, Spain was by all odds the greatest nation on earth, while England was just a little island, Italy a collection of warring states, France a hodge podge of feudalism and religious war, and Germany an inchoate mass of free cities, guilds and princelings. tt m m White civilization is dynamic. For that reason, *if for no other, no one should take anything it does, or any move it makes, as permanent. The greater extreme to which it goes, the more probable the violent reaction. White civilization is experimental by nature, venturesome with regard to the future and irreverent with regard to the past. It contains few reactionary elements in the larger sense. Asa matter of fact, its conservatism is due chiefly to those who can’t keep up with the procession. * * * West Doesn’t Worry /”\RIENTALS, schooled to regard V-' permanency as a sign of intelligence, look to see the white races wear themselves out. “Western civivilization can not last,” they say. But that does not worry westerners one bit. White races have no desire to see their civilization last in the sense of becoming static. Change, continuous and eternal is, and always has been their conception of human fate. Belief in it is their weakness and their strength.

Questions and Answers

Can scorch be removed from cloth? Scorch upon cotton and linen sometimes can be removed if the fibers are not actually burned. Wool and silk are disintegrated at a lower temperature than cotton and linen and can not be restored to their original condition after being scorched. What do the names Frank and Anthony mean? Frank means freedom and Anthony means praiseworthy. When were the Brazilian and the South African diamond mines discovered? The Brazilian diamond mines were discovered in 1727 and the South African mines about 1867. Where ?s the largest active volcano in the world? Maunaloa in Hawaii is the largest What are the comparative figures for white male and female population in the United States, New York state and city? According to the last census there were 104.4 white males to every .100 white females in the United States; in New York state there were 99.8 while males for every 100 white females, and in the city, 99.5 white males to every 100 white females.

E\ r ery Minute Important in Gas Cases

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT is necessary to remind people again and again during the winter months that running the automobile motor in the garage with the door closed, burning a gas heater without proper vents in a small bathroom, and having a leaky hose connection with illuminating gas used for cooking may yield death due to gas poisoning. The ingredient which produces death in such cases is carbon monoxide. In handling a person who has been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas, every moment is important. A few minutes of delay may mean .he difference between life and death. Send a hurry’ call at once for medical aid and for the resuscitating squads of fire and police depart-

IT SEEMS TO ME

“T? ACH division of the police deal/ partment is to have a ‘literary editor,’ it was learned today, to assist in the projected police magazine.” Although I had seen this item in the newspaper, the job of driving downtown through traffic made me forget it completely. In fact, my mind was not on the police at ail, until I heard the sharp command of Patrolman Monahan, “Pull over to the curb!” “I wasn’t doing more than 20, officer,” I said, but he waved my excuse aside and started fumbling in his pocket for a slip of paper. “You used to be a dramatic critic once, didn’t you?” he asked. I was about to answer, “You can t hang a man for that,” but Monahan’s expression was much too serious to encourage banter. “I'm having some trouble with my second act,” he said. “It’s a play about the police. I think I’ve got a swell title for it. I’ve called it ‘The Whalen Wall.’ People don’t like long titles, do they? I was thinking of calling it ‘The Knees of the Gods, or a Lapse of Time.’ ” Naturally, I tried to fall out of my seat with laughter, but Monahan frowned. “It’s mostly tragic, ’ he explained. a a a Curtain Rises BY now he had found the slip and began to decipher his notes. ; “There’s nothing wrong with the i first act, so I’ll begin with the second,” he said. “I think you’ll be able to pick up the thread as we go along. It’s at the summer home of John K. Beresford, of course. That’s where the people came after the yacht blew up when the airplane dropped the bomb and the mysterious message Maybe it would help you to know that Mabel was murdered. “Well, when the curtain goes up Beresford is gambling with Count Koloff and the dice are loaded. The count speaks the first line and says ‘That makes 2,000,000 tisma you owe me.’ “If Clara wins the altitude prize she will get exactly $45,000.75, which will still leave Mr. Beresford $4,999.25 short. And, by the off-stage noises, you can tell that the engine is beginning to miss. That’s because Jack is putting sand into the gasoline. a a a Plot Thickens “TJERESFORD tries to blackmail D Judkins for the $4,999.25 by threatening to tell the police Just how the arch-duck was poisoned. “But the butler, that’s Judkins, goes insane on account of remorse, and can’t understand a word that’s being said to him. Just before the police whistle is blown, the audience hears the sound of an airplane crashing through the greenhouses.” “Clara didn’t make it, then?” I inquired, eagerly. “Oh, yes, she did,” said Monahan, somewhat pettishly. “It’s Fred and - * •

Book Worms

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

ments in large cities, but begin at once proper artificial respiration. In large plants where gas poisoning cases may occur, it is customary to have available tanks of oxygen and carbon dioxide, which are used to help breathing while the artificial respiration is being given. If the person is breathing spontaneously, it is not necessary to use the artificial respiration method, but the inhalations of oxygen and carbon dioxide should be given promptly. If this mixture is not available, oxygen alone should be used. Above all things, it is important to keep the asphyxiated person warm until his circulation is again active. It is not advisable to handle the person roughly or to move him very far. because rough handling may cause serious injury. If the person has been asphyxiated in a small room, fresn air

B HEYWOOD BROUN

i the Esthonian deaf mute who fall from the Zeppelin. Right after the crash, you hear the police patrol coming up the drive, and the battleship Oregon steam into Oyster Bay and begins bombarding the Communists, who are entrenched behind the bunker on the third hole. “Over in Pastor Heebies’ little white church, the choir is singing, ‘The Brewer’s Big Horses Can’t Run Over Me,’ and as Countess Zita begins to play ‘Taps’ on the stolen cornet, the curtain comes down.” “I’m ’fraid,” I ventured, "it lacks incident.” “Come along with me.” said Patrolman Monahan, angrily. “You’re under arrest.” “But what’s the charge?” “Interfering with an officer In the performance of his duty. I’m the literary editor of the West Fortyseventh Street station.” tt tt u And Worse MONAHAN left me in the back room of the station house while he went to file the complaint with the desk sergeant. One man in uniform was sitting with his hands folded In his lap, but all the rest were scribbling away busily. A tall, dark man would write a few words on a sheet of paper, and then tear it up with a groan. When this had happened four or

a-Pr VipSr^ CHARI.ES LAMB’S BIRTH Feb. 10 ON Feb. 10, 1775, Charles Lamb, famous English essayist and critic, was born in London. Beset with difficulties from birth, Lamb made a gallant uphill fight through life. Debarred from a university appointment because of an impediment in his speech, Lamb left school at 14 to work as a clerk. In his 21st year a streak of insanity, inherited from his mother, caused him to be confined in an asylum for a few weeks. An older sister, who also inherited insanity, stabbed to death her mother in a crazy fit. This tragedy prevented Charles from marrying Ann Simmons, the “gentle maid’’ to whom he often alluded in his writings. He spent the rest of his life caring for his demented sister whom he refused to place permanently in confinement. Lamb's “Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Contemporary With Shakespeare” definitely established the author as a critic of rare taste, for his material was a revelation to his generation. Suffering from melancholy. Lamb died, on Dec. 27, 1834, his sister outlivir.g him thirteen years.

should be admitted to the room imi mediately. It is particularly important that the person does not attempt to walk until he has fully recovered and has been pronounced normal by seme one competent to judge. Not infrequently the asphyxiated person is permitted to walk too soon and the effort thrown on the incapacitated heart results in sudden death from heart failure. It has been learned that long exposure to carbon monoxide may cause serious changes in the brain tissue and that these effects may be seen months after asphyxiation has occurred. The menace of gas poisoning is so serious that everything possible should be done to prevent it. Certainly it is desirable to have regular Inspections of all pipes, tubes and other means of conveying dangerous gases in close proximity to human beings.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column 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.

five times, I asked my idle compan- | ion what it was all about. “That's Cassidy,” he said. “The | poor fellow’s certainly in a tough I spot He’s trying to write a poem | to Whalen, and the only rhvme he j can think of is ‘falling.’ ” With great pride he pointed to I another policeman who was just j skimming along with flying pencil. “Burke on his last chapter already. It’s a novel. ‘Grover at Jail.’ ” Just then a patrolman entered, and everybody stood up. What did he do?” I asked. “He got the prize.” “What prize?” “At the Communist riot in city hall He won the award for the Sock of the Month.” I awoke to find Meadows shaking me violently. “Here’s your orange juice, and I’ve laid out your cutaway.” he said. It was all a dream. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.—ll Thessalonians 3:16. tt m a a Peace rarely Is denied to the peaceful.—Schiller.

Meeting the Demand for Good Furniture In all commodities things can be produced that to the eye seem valuable, but hidden away are defects only discernible to one informed. We do not give distinction or praise to furniture unless it be merited, and you may have confidence always that in the Hoosier Furniture Company’s store what LOOKS GOOD really is GOOD. Hoosier Furniture Cos. East Washington at Alabama

.FEB. 10, 1930

SCIENCE

■By DAVID DIETZ*

Band Spectra Study Will Be j Unusually Thorough in Coming Year. IMPORTANT progress in study of band spectra is predicted for 1930 jby the scientific corresponden t of he Manchester Guardian Weekly. This correspondent, an eminent scU eiitist who prefers to write anony mously, regards progress in thi* field one of the outstanding to complishments of the year 1930. The layman who intends to keel pace with the march of scienca would better make the acquaintance of band spectra, as the subject may figure prominently in the news during the next eleven months. So here goes! Every one is familiar with the fact that a wedge-shaped piece of glass, known as a prism, wil split a beam of light into the colors of the rainbow. Nature does thfe same thing to form the rainbow, using raindrops ! in place of a prism. The scientist uses a piece of apparatus as the spectroscope, which is merely a combination of one or more prisms with suitable lenses. He calls the resulting rainbow, a specj trum. The study of thees rainbows |is known as spectroscopy (pro- | nounced with the accent on the secj ond syllable. Spectroscopy Is a fundamental method of research in astronomy, physics, chemistry and—since the ’basis of much biology is physics and , chemistry—in biology as well. a a tt Detective SPECTROSCOPY began wn publication of Fraunhofer's work in 1814 and 1815. But. it was not until a century later when the Bohr theory of the atom was formulated, that the real mysteries of spectroscopy began to be unraveled. Fraunhofer showed that when sunlight was admitted to a spectroscope through a narrow slit, the resulting spectrum was crossed with hundreds of black lines. Two other German scientists. Kirchoff and Bunsen, later showed that these lines were caused by the chemical elements in the sun. They showed that any chemical element, such as hydrogen or sodium or iron, for example, produced a characteristic series of lines when a little of it was introduced into a gas flame and the resulting light | analyzed with a spectroscope. Asa result, the spectroscope bcI came the great. Sherlock Holmes of : the scientific world. By attaching j a spectroscope to a telescope, It was | possible to tell the chemical elements in a star, even though the star were trillions of miles away. Traces of some elements in a substance which were too small to be detectied by ordinary’ chemical means, could be revealed by spectroscopic analysis. But though the spectroscope thus ' proved itself to be of immense value, j the mystery of what caused each chemical element to have its own distinctive lines in the spectrum remained unanswered until the last two decades. Then the answer was found In the new knoweldge of atomic structure.

it m tt Molecules ACCORDING to the Bohr theory, each atom consists of a central nucleus surrounded by revolving electrons. The various spectrum lines are the result of the movement of electrons from one orbit to another, each line corresponding to a certain electron jump. The lines in the spectrum , or spectrum lines as they are called, therefore are due to the movement of electrons within the atoms. But many spectra, instead of showing lines of the sort just mentioned, exhibit shaded bands. It is these which are known as band spectra. Band spectra have been shown to be caused by the vigratlon of molecules and the atoms which compose the molecules. An analysis of band # spectra, therefore, is expected to throw light upon the way in which atoms form molecules just as an enalysis ot line spectra has thrown light upon the way In which electrons behave within atoms. “Band-spectroscopy Is becoming almost a substitute for whole mbranches of chemistry.” say the scientific correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. “As Dr. R. C. Johnson writes: ‘ln one or two decades we may hope to have so complete an understanding of band spectra and molecular structure that the chief physical properties of molecules will be directly calculable from known constants, and the nature, direction and conditions of chemical change may be placed on a purely mathematical basis.”