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The Elephant Award A little bronze elephant will be awarded to the Republican editor who has written the editorial during: the year of greatest value to the party in the state. Aside from the fact that all the losing editors will probably wonder in what dark back room the judges were fixed, if the award follows the best Lake county and Marion county precedents of the party, the results should be interesting. How far would a plain suggestion that the party be honest and repudiate the importation of Negro voters from Chicago as a party method of success receive consideration? Or would any mild appeal that there be a divorce of prohibition and other law agents from party work receive consideration? Will there be any consideration to those who supported the recommendation of Governor Leslie that the statute of limitations be repealed insofar as it applies to public officials, or to those who called attention to the fact that having once mentioned the matter, both the Governor and the legislature promptly forgot it and the old bulwark of liberty for some very prominent Republicans still stands? Perhaps the prize should go to tho.se who applauded the senatorial retreat of Watson from the appointment of a collector when he deserted the woman who leads the other party women and permitted the forces of Robinson and Coffin to reward the editor who tried to forestall public indignation against Jackson when the latter went on trial for the attempted bribery of Warren McCray. What sort of an editorial would best benefit the party? Would it be one that would urge the party to purge itself of its vicious elements or one that would make the voters forget? One that would urge the party to lay aside its nightgown and put on overalls? Or one that would assure the jobless men of the cities and farm districts with closed school houses that the situation is still fundamentally sound ? At least the editors can not complain that there was a dearth of opportunity to render real service to their party. It needs help in Indiana. Why Not Reason in Prohibition? The supreme court under Chief Justice Hughes will be compelled to decide upon vital and crucial issues relative to prohibition enforcement. A magnificent opportunity thereby will be opened for interpretation of the eighteenth amendment and its supporting legislation which will satisfy all reasonable men from the wet and dry camps. The precedent is to be found in Judge Hughes' juristic philosophy as expressed during his earlier connection with the supreme court. We refer to the "Rule of Reason” doctrine as applied to trusts and monopolies. The Sherman act had outlawed all restraint of trade, but In the Standard Oil case of 1911 the court reinterpreted the act to mean only unreasonable restraint of trade. Though Chief Justice White wrote the majority decision, it is well known that Judge Hughes was the spiritual daddy of the decision. He developed the idea at length in a famous speech delivered during the presidential campaign of 1908. He had been chosen to elucidate the Republican stand on the trust problem, in answer to Mr. Bryan. If Judge Hughes should now go a* far as he and his colleagues did in 1911. they easily could interpret the eighteenth amendment to mean that not all manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is forbidden, but only unreasonable manufacture and sale. There was nothing in the Sherman act which stated or implied anything about reasonable or unreasonable restraint of trade. The law was directed against all restraint of trade. But Judge Hughes would not need to go as far in behalf of common sense relative to the eighteenth amendment as he did in favor of big business i* the "Rule of Reason" decision of 1911. It would suffice if the supreme court allowed a "reasonable" interpretation of "intoxicating liquors"—as federal courts frequently have done when the eighteenth amendment vas not involved. Federal courts already have decided that liquor with as much as 14 per cent alcohol was not intoxicating. They frequently have decided that beverages with from 5 to 10 per cent alcoholic content were not intoxicating. Let the supreme court be guided by such "reasonable" interpretations and half the opposition to prohibition on the part of honest men will be removed. The supreme court also could easily give “reasonable" interpretation to the scope and nature of federal enforcement. If they merely went far enough to state that a decent respect for the first ten amendments was "reasonable,” it would help a lot. Mr. Hughes’ whole economic philosophy impelled him to take the line of reasoning involved in the “Rule of Reason" decision. His prejudices, however, may restrain him from a similar attitude toward prohibition. No Fool’s Paradise One of the most illuminating coincidences of the season was the simultaneous departure of the retiring Britlsl. ambassador. Sir Esme Howard, and the publication of Ludwell Denny's striking book, "America Conquers Britain." In the festivities and “speechifying" accompanying Sir Esme's relinquishment of his post, we find the typical suavities and exchange of compliments, which characterize formal diplomacy. It is all handshaking and polite gestures. All is well between Britain and the United States. Amity is everlasting. ' e

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War is unthinkable. That economic rivalries could provoke war is a bogy of the Bolshevik. In Denny’s book we have a calm, measured, and scholarly assessment of the economic factors underlying a possible conflict between these two great powers. He shows that there is a bitter struggle for the control of indispensable raw materials—oil, rubber, copper, zinc, tin and the like. There also is a competition for markets nearly as serious. Both states have great loans in the same undeveloped countries. Both are contesting for the control of the communication systems of the world. And so on. A war between the United States and Great Britain may not be inevitable, but it would seem to be so useless the diplomatic methods of the past, can be improved upon and precedents shattered. Unless Britain will accept second place, it is hard to see how war can be averted. And 1914 showed how unwilling a great power is peacefully and graciously to admit eclipse. Denny is no alarmist. He is simply a sensible realist. wishing to know what actually is going on around us. He believes that economic statistics are a surer guide to world politics than the press reports of ambassadorial banquets. He recognizes that the best safeguard against war Is to recognize its imminent possibility unless coolheaded and informed men work hard and honestly to avert it. He recognizes that it helps not a bit to live In a fool’s paradise. The example of 1914 shows the futility of denying actualities in the international scene. In the spring of 1914 Lloyd George was saying that the German army was not large enough for Germany's needs on the continent. Asquith declared that the relations between Germany and England never had been better. Grey denied that England had any secret understanding with France. The kaiser took Lichnowsky’s bland assurances of British friendship at their face value and thought England never would attack Germany. Then an Austrian archduke was murdered through a conspiracy by a country that even King Edward VII had snubbed after the assassinations of 1903 in Belgrade. Reputable English papers in July, 1914. recommended that Serbia be towed to the middle of the Atlantic and sunk. “John Bull” led off an article with "To Hell With Serbia." But within less than six weeks from the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Britain was at war with Germany. And it was her underlying rivalry with Germany, not the German invasion of Belgium, which brought her into the conflict. The fool’s paradise became the graveyard of milof British soldiers. Let us profit by this lesson. Hoover Ricks a Winner One of the best appointments made by President Hoover is that of Judge Thomas D. Thacher of New York to succeed Charles Evans Hughes Jr. as solicitorgeneral of the United States. It is to be assumed that the senate will welcome the opportunity to confirm such nomination. Thacher is known in New York as one of the finest and ablest men on the federal bench, a position he earned by a brilliant career as an attorney. Though he, like his father before him, was a member of one of the famous old and conservative firms, Thomas D. Thacher has been an independent and a liberal. He has stood out against the dangerous current trend of bn? and bench to rip the Bill of Rights out of the Constitution. That the President should have chosen such a man for the key post of solicitor-general is a hopeful sign. Wampum was the earliest currency in vogue in America. If these foreign prize fighters keep taking our money, we may get back to it yet some day. This is the time of year when father begins knocking the mud off the golf shoes that he put away last fall. The United States Is a country where a shooting in Mexico is quite a stunt, even though there are quite a few right here at home.

REASON

'T'HE latest expression from Manila, regarding X Philippine* independence is that the leaders would like to run their own country and have Uncle Sam stand good for them and protect them. This idea wdll not make a hit in the United States since the average inhabitant thereof is* not impressed with the feeling that he was born for the express purpose of caddying for some Filipino. If those islands go, let them go without anv strings to them. ana The horrible condition of unpaved roads gives this age a passing picture of conditions as they used to be. when after every hard rain roads would be hub deep in mud. And when the spring thaw was in its glory nobody could navigate. Then came the gravel roads—and what a thrill it was. Even to this day we would rather ride on a good one than on any pavement. tt tt tt WE cannot imagine who would feel like bombing the United States senate unless it be the farmers who have been expecting tariff relief for so many months, but the farmers are not built that way; they are law abiding. It’s not a good idea for the senate to publish that somebody contemplates blowing it up, for the suggestion conveyed is not a valuable one. a a u It strikes one as wonderful that such a great institution as the French nation can continue to exist with its governments rising and falling like prices on the stock exchange. tt tt B IF the power trust is to grab a lot of the power developed at Boulder Dam, the congress might well consider the advisability of repealing the law which authorized the building of the dam. for the country understood this project was for the sole purpose of benefiting the people. tt B tt When you contemplate the hot water President Hoover is in and think of the constant troubles of most Presidents, you wonder how any man can work himself up to the point of wanting a second term. a a a This fight between the President ar.d Senator Borah is not amazing, for it is impossible for two stars to occupy the same stage. One day in 1907 when Roosevelt was moving everything to nominate Taft, a friend remarked that he and Taft soon would be in each other's wool, and Teddy laughed at the idea. But that's what happened, as you may recall

By FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Our Schools Are Suffering From the Defects of the Age; Mechanical Efficiency Has Become a Veritable Obsession. | WHETHER you agree with Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, who I says that American education is failing because of cynical teachers and indifferent students, you will find it hard not to admit that something is wrong. Neither morally, nor intellectually, are we getting the results we expected. In spite of all the fine buildings, new equipment, systems of efficieni cy, compulsory attendance laws, and increased cost, we are not making the headway that we heped. Some think the trouble is due to an excess of faith in mechanics, | standardization, and mass activities, and that the cynicism and indifference of which Meiklejohn complains are effects, rather than causes. o a * Personality, when you come to think of it, has little chance in our educational system. It is the group, not the individual, j f° r which we cut the pattern and outline the course. The bright child, as well as the dull child, gets lost in the shuffle. Learning things becomes a routine affair, a equence of automatic acI tivities. controlled by inflexible ! schedule* Fat or lean, short or tall, blueeyed or black, sensitive or phlegmatic, we subject children to a curriculum which seems to center around no purpose so distinctly as a desire to make them all alike. If nature had intended such a scheme she would have given us a more practical basis on which to begin. n n tt Efficiency is Obsession IN this respect our schools are suffering from the defect of the age. Mechanical efficiency, with card indexes and time clocks, has become a veritable obsession. For automobiles, canned goods and breakfast foods it may be all right. For those things which go back to personality, it is all wrong. Human progress. which is at once the excuse and object of education, still depends on the fact that people are not alike, that some can see where others are blind, and dare to walk where others are afraid. No matter how well we may get along by ignoring personality in other fields, its development rather than its suppression must be recognized as the end of education. tt a tt Mary Dennett Cleared SO Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett did not commit a crime after all, though convicted by a jury and sentenced to pay a fine of S3OO, or go vo jail. You remember the case, of course, or do you?—the little pamphlet, written first for the instruction of her own two boys, then published at the suggestion of friends and acquaintances. Naturall}', it w'as sent through the mails and without causing any commotion. until some narrow-minded soul thought he saw a chance to make trouble. tt a a Being a mother, and writing for the benefit of her own children, Mrs. Dennett had none but the purest motives. That, however. w r as not sufficient to protect her against those who measure morality in w'ords and phrases. She was haled Into court as an author of smut, and a jury, unable to distinguish between lewdness and candor, or lasciviousness and sincerity, treated her like an ordinary monger of filth. * It w'as within the presiding judge’s power to decide whether her book actually violated the law, but, he too, failed to sense the all-impor-tant distinction. it n at Court Indorses Work IN setting Mrs. Dennett’s conviction aside, a United States circuit court not only holds her guiltless, but makes use of the occasion to indorse her work. "The defendant’s discussion of the phenomena of sex,” says the 1 court, “is written with sincerity and i feeling and wdth an idealization of i the marriage relation and sex emotion. We think that it tends to rationalize and dignify such emotions rather than arouse lust. "While it may be thought by some that portions of the tract, go into unnecessary detail that better would have been omitted, it-may be fairly answered that the curiosity of many adolescents would not be satisfied without full explanation, and that no more than that really is given.” j Such an opinion does more than render justice as between an in- i dividual and society, because it re- ! vea’s a spirit of understanding, | without which law becomes a mass j of regulations, restraints, and j inhibitions.

Daily Thought

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Ecclesiastes 2:19. tt t> a The first point of wisdom ls to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. —Lactantius. What is the best way to cleanse a hair brush? Put a dash of household ammonia in some w'arm water and dip the brush in it several times, with the back up. Do not rinse it. This stiffens the bristles to that they never grow’ soft. Lay the brush on its back to dry. If the brush has a silver back ■do not put it in water, but rub the bristles in flour until they are clean, then use soft paper to remove all the flour. Polish the back with silver polish. What is the value of a drachma? It is a Greek coin. The par value, goW, is 19.3 cents.

The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Certain Foods Cause Pain to Eater

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, tbe Health Magazine. FOR some time it has been realzed that human beings may develop strange symptoms following the eating of certain foods. Everybody knows about strawberry rash or hives, which is a form of such sensitivity. Few people know that such conditions as asthma or severe inflammations of the nose with secretion of a great deal of fluid may occasionally be due to such a sensitivity. The direct response of the sensitive reaction has to do with spasms of the muscles in the body that are called involuntary muscles, with the

IT SEEMS TO ME By HEYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK has been slandered and by one of the city’s own reporters. Asa patriotic son of Manhattan. I feel that some few words of defense are in order. Miss Ishbel Ross, writing for the Herald-Tribune, states that the night life of Broadway is dull and perfunctory and that the local speakeasies are drab and dingy. These dire results she attributes to the effect of prohibition. Here I must part company with opponents of the eighteenth amendment. There is no point in exaggerating, even in a good cause. It seems to me that the night life of New York, and I have lived it earnestly for twenty years, never was more gay and spirited. The eating and drinking places have improved vastly within this time. In the fifth article of her series, Miss Ross writes: "Prohibition is credited with having done more to change the character of the Great White Way than any other factor since the street established its precedence as an amusement center. “It has helped to slow up the theater. It has dimmed the restaurant life and brought a different crowd abroad at night in quest of food and drink. m tt a Blunts “TT has blunted pride of cuisine X that once distinguished such establishments in the theatrical area as Murray’s. Shanley’s, Healy’s, Jack’s, Churchiil’s, The Knickerbocker, Reisen Weber’s, The Metropole and Cosidine’s.” Miss Ross is much too young to have been personally familiar with

THE CYCLOPS MYSTERY

March 4 ON March 4, 1913, the United States collier Cyclops, whose disappearance with 300 human lives aboard has remained a mystery to the naval department, left the West Indies on its ill-fated voyage to this country. One of the most baffling features connected with the mystery is that the ship, equipped though it was with a superior wireless, should have failed to send out one signal of distress. Another bewildering fact ls that no bottled messages or driftwood ever were found. A theory was advanced that a German submarine either had sunk the vessel or towed it across the Atlantic to a German port, where officers, crew and passengers were held prisoners. This later was disproved. The most acceptable view to date was advanced by a navy man who declared that the ship buckled. broke in two, and sank almost immediately, an accident w’hich later befell the Cyclops’ sister ship, Orion, almost sinking her.

exudation of fluids from mucous membranes. The bronchial tubes, the digestive tract, the organs of excretion and the eyes are concerned primarily in smooth muscle reactions. The blood vessels also are involved. In a recent survey of the subject Dr. Warren T. Vaughan emphasized the fact that the abdominal symptoms of sensitivity to food include acute abdominal pain with nausea and possible vomiting and severe activity of the muscles of the bowels. It is not infrequent that people mistake these symptoms for serious infections, and the physician must differentiate them from other abdominal disturbances. The child who is sensitive to certain foods reacts by becoming irritable when he eats even a small

any of these places. She has taken the w'ord of some old-timer on the glories of the city that w'as. It is customary for veterans always to look back with longing on the period which is past. Every actor of more than 50 will tell you tearfully of the golden age of the American theater. And I challenge any theatrical critic of “the good old days” school to name a season within his memory which contained four such fine plays of native authorship as “The Green Pastures,” "Rebound,” "Berkeley Square” and "The Last Mile.” Not forgetting to mention such excellent entertainment as "June Moon” and "Strictly Dishonorable.” tt tt a Trivial BUT in the case of the plays themselves, it is possible to compare manuscripts. The work of Clyde Fitch can still be read by persevering people. I think it must seem thin and trivial to anybody j who has had a taste of the fare j offered within the last years. Financially, the theater may be j ailing, but artistically, it has borne ] up nobly under prohibition. On the whole, audiences are less! boisterous than in the old days, j That may be accounted for by the fact that certain theaters of today are so situated that it is necessary to walk almost a block to reach the nearest speakeasy. But in the beginning this started out to be a discussion of restaurants, old and new. I can only say that of the places named by Miss Ross | in her list of establishments glorious j and gone, not one ever seemed to j

Questions and Answers

In what states are persons who are ineligible to American citizenship, prohibited from owning land? Chinese, Japanese and other aliens not eligible to American citizenship can not acquire lands in Arizona, California, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon and the state of Washington. In some states they can own and acquire lands in precisely the same manner as native citizens, and in others they may acquire lands subject to certain restrictions. What is the meaning of the name Spellman? The Middle English "spel” meant a speech. Spellman is a British family name meaning speechmaker, entertainer. Is the North Star visible from all points of the earth? Generally speaking it is visible only from the northern hemisphere. Theoretically, because the North Star is not exactly at the North Pole of the heavens, but is approximately one degree away, it might be seen at times from a point as low as 112l 1 2 degrees below the equator, although haziness would make this difficult except with a telescope.

quantity and generally is weakened by the reaction. Among special symptoms that have been noted in a considerable number of cases are itching of the roof of the mouth, such as occurs sometimei with an acute cold, swelling of the lips and also other localized swellings. Within recent years a method has been worked out for testing food sensitivity. A small scratch is made on the skin and an extract of the protein substance involved is put on the scratch. If the person is sensitive, he responds with an inflammation at this point. It then becomes necessary for him to avoid the special food in his diet or, if such avoidance is extremely difficult, to test the possibility of desensitization.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of fine 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.

me a first-class hostelry. I could name a half dozen now flourishing w'hich excel any one on her list. Soft Lights AND when Miss Ross speaks of the drabness and dinginess of such places, she shows that her guide was singularly inept. Many a fine, old mansion of this city has been transformed into the trade of violating Volstead. But surely, more goes into making a restaurant than merely material things. The spirit of night life in New' York changed vastly and for the better. This I attribute to the refining influence of woman. Co-education has raised dining and drinking to a level not known in the days of the old saloon. Then, man went to his cocktails, solitary and sullen. Now he takes the girl friend with him. Today there is scarcely a bar in all Manhattan which would deny a lady the privilege of putting both feet on the brass rail. tt tt tt Duty Dulls BUT I feel that the complaints of Miss Ross about New York night life are conditioned by the circumstances in which she did her slumming. After all, it was an assignment. It v.'as her duty to go around to the speakeasies. This inevitably puts a pall on pleasure. I suggest that she make the grand tour again on her very own. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times'

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SCIENCE BY DAVIE DIETZ

Rivers Create Small Lakes and Then at Once Set About to Destroy Their Work. ONE of the most interesting chap- ' tors in the stop.- of ceaseless | change which makes up the geoloci- , cal history of our earth is fur- : nished by lakes. j Small lakes usually are created : by rivers and no sooner has a river i brought one into existence than it , sets to work to destroy It. [ Small lakes usually form because ; a river reaches some obstruction like a clay or gravel dam or a j mountain barrier which prevents jit from flowing any farther. Consequently the water spreads outover the surrounding territory’ forming a lake. Usually at some point the water again finds its way out ot the lake in a continuation of the river. But as the original river flows Into the lake, its water loses velocity. Now the amount of sediment which the water Ls able to carry depends upon the velocity |of the stream. Consequently, the | river begins to drop its sediment in the lake. In time, the sediment will fill the lake, leaving only a narrow’ channel for the river. The amount of sediment deposited is also made larger by the death of the many living creatures in the lake, particularly, the countless , minute organisms. Their shells and skeletons collect ; on the bottom of the lake, in time 1 forming considerable sediment. Plants also aid in this destruction of lakes. This is particularly true in the last stages when the lake is getting very shallow'. When this happens, a dense swamp vegetation begins to spring up. o o o Sphagnum A MOSS known as the sphagnum grows very densely upon swamps and shallow' lakes in some parts of the world and is one of the most active and rapid agents in thus filling and choking a lake. The decay of this moss and t.ho rise of anew growth of it, followed by a second decay and third growth, rnd so on, frequently will create a bog several feet deep. Ireland and Scotland are noted j for their peat bogs, the material of w'hich is cut and dried and used for fuel. In the western part of the United States and in other parts of the world which have arid climates, lakes frequently are found which have no outlet and which evaporate quickly. This evaporation causes an accumulation of mineral salts, for when the water evaporates, the 1 mineral matter in the water is, of i course, left behind, j This is the reason that some lakes ! have water that is very salty. The Great Salt lake in Utah became salty because of the salt which was washed into it and left behind when the water evaporated. It tt tt Behavior THE behavior of rivers ls a fascinating subject to study. For example, a river will come tumbling down a mountain slope and then enter a fiat plain. This causes a great change In the velocity of the river. As the river slows up upon the plain, it no longer can carry all the sendiment which it has been bringing down tbe mountain side. Hence, it will deposit much of the sediment at the foot of the mountain where tt enters the plain. This deposit usually takes the form of a fan-shaped deposit like a section of a cone with its apex in the foot of the mountain. It is knowm to the geologist as an alluvial fan or alluvial cone. A river will also deposit, much of _ its sediment when it meets with" some obstruction which temporarily slows it up. These deposits are known as bars. They are not permanent. A bar wIU form for a time. Then some change in conditions will cause it to be swept away again, while anew bar forms somewhere else. Another type of deposit occurs where a river flows through a wide flat valley. During a flood season, the river will overflow Its banks and spread out the valley. But the outer reaches of the flood will not have a velocity like the central portion of the stream. Consequently the sediment will be deposited there and after the flood recedes the valley will be covered with a thick layer of sediment. This is knowm as a flood-plain. These flood plains are usually composed of very fine sediment. As a result, they usually form extremely fertile tracts of land, highly valuable for agricultural purposes.