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Important Offices In the mad scramble of candidates for votes, the citizen who wants some improvement in public affairs would do well to scrutinize carefully the aspirants for county commissioner. Political activities have demonstrated rather clearly the control which this board lias over all other offices. If there is waste, the commissioners could heck it. but the real importance lies in the fact that the commissioners exercise a real influence over all other offices. By fixing salaries of clerks, by regulating * he amount to be spent by county officers, 'hey control those offices. At times the coni rol is vicious. The fight between the judges and the conimifHoners over the salaries of official tenographers revealed the situation. It is not probable that the board desired to save money. What the crowd behind the majority group wanted was a club on the judges. l>t it be hoped that a few unselfish, far- ; eeing, public spirited men will offer themplves for these posts. The places are usually overlooked as unimportant. They have not been given great attention. They are far down on the list and the ordinary citizen forgets about them. If there are any groups who really wish to contribute to the public welfare, they could do much worse than to draft high class and outstanding men to run for these socalled minor offices. The county needs anew board of directors. It needs, above all, men who will run th-i county business as a business and not as a political machine.

Hoover's Grave Responsibility No greater responsibility is given a President of the United States in peace time than the appointment of Justices of the supreme court. In the case of President Hoover the responsibility is all the greater because of the probability that his appointees will constitute a majority of the court. Coolidge appointed only one; Hoover may appoint five. In the sudden naming of Charles Evans Hughes to succeed William Howard Taft as chief justice, the President stirred up an altogether unexpected opposition in the country. That opposition was reflected immediately in the senate, which conducted an historic, but in the end unsuccessful, fight against Hughes as a lawyer more concerned with corporate interests than with the public interest. Now Hoover must name a successor to Justice Sanford, who died Saturday. It is clear that the next nomination will be examined with unusual care, both by the country and by the senate. Tire senate debate last month, and the wide publicity given that discussion, assures another similar debate on the powers of the court as well as on the fitness of the nominee. That is as it should be. For two reasons: First, because the court has become the most powerful of our federal institutions. Second, because it has become a policy-making agency, in which members vote their opinions on economic issues. Through its assumed power to declare laws of congress unconstitutional, and through its occasional abuse of that power, the court can and does defeat the purpose of representative government. The court, by a flve-to-four majority can and does set aside the very Constitution itself—or what always has been interpreted as the constitutional guarantees of civil liberties—as when the court majority violated the Bill of Rights in tiie decisions In the Schwimmer citizenship case and the Seattle wire-tapping case. In cases involving economic issues, the court can and diN*s go far beyond either the Constitution or the laws of congress to create anew law of its own from which there is no appeal—as in the recent Baltimore street car fare decision supporting the company and its inflated valuations in violation of public rights. Such decisions are not arrived at by technical considerations of the law and the books, but spring directly from the personal opinions of the men on the bench. In discussing the question how a man will act and vote on the supreme bench, Charles Evans Hughes, in his book on "The Supreme Court of the United States," admits that personal views on social and economic issues are determining factors: “If you could get further down to the bedrock of conviction as to what are conceived to be fundamental principles of government and social relations, you might be able to get closer to accurate prophecy. But you cannot expect to have judges worthy of the office who arc without convictions and the question from that point of view is not as to qualifications of judges, but whether you will have a court of this character and function.” A few weeks ago the court majority reversed a supreme court ruling which had stood for thirty years and which held that states had a constitutional right to impose certain taxes. The reversal was not made on the basis of the constitution, but on the basts of the personal opinion of the judges that the old decision was not good policy. As Justice Mcßeynolds. in the majority opinion, said: “The practical effect of it has been bad." Thereiore. the personal convictions, as well as the legal qualifications, of the members of the supreme court determine whether the laws of congress shall be thrown Into the waste basket and whether courtmade laws are to be fastened upon the country for the benefit of special interests. To what kind ot man i£ President Hoover going to give such inordinate power? What kind oi com - : will Hoover create? Will he add again, as with Hughes' appointment, to the reactionary majority? Or will he strengthen that small but brilliant minority of Holmes. Brandeis. and sometimes Stone, whose liberalism and fidelity to the Constitution are the people s hope of justice? t Hoover was elected as a liberal.

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Limping Ducks Representative Edgar Howard of Nebraska, speaking in humorous vein, has introduced a resolution In the house which everybody should read. Couched m a curious mixture of legal phraseology and journalistic terms, the resolution declares that: “Whereas in recent weeks, verbally and through the public press, the recognized leaders of this house have challenged attention to the wideawakenecs of the house of representatives and the sloth of the senate in the transaction of the public business; and “Whereas, the recognized leaders of the house frequently have discussed the advisability of adopting a plan of three-day adjournments of the house, alleging that there is nothing before the house demanding immediate attention, and will not be until the senate shall have acted upon matters transmitted by the house to the senate; and “Whereas, quietly slumbering in one committee of this house is a joint resolution months ago adopted by the senate and transmitted to the house—a resolution which on several occasions has been passed by practically unanimous vote in the senate, only to meet untimely death by delay or otherwise in the house. That joint resolution is S. J, Res, 3, popularly known as the lame duck resolution; Therefore be it “Resolved, that the committee now having in charge said S. J. Res. 3 be, and is hereby, respectfully requested forthwith to take action thereon; and in event that action by the committee shall be favorable, the further request is here made that the house rules committee forthwith shall bring that resolution before the house, giving abundant time for consideration thereof, thus promoting legislation desired by millions of American citizens, as expressed by their petitions to the congress and through the public press, and also lifting from the leaders of this house that sad state of ennui which now they suffer because of the alleged laches of the senate.”

Pinchot Will Run Pennsylvania’s tangled political situation takes on added interest with the announcement of Gifford Pinchot that he will be a candidate for Governor in the November elections. Another three-cornered fight is in prospect, in which there is national interest, because of the prominence of the candidates and the issues involved. Senator Joseph R. Grundy, master tariff lobbyist, will be a candidate to succeed himself. He wiil have the backing of the powerful Mellon-Fisher-Reed group. William S. Vare, refused a seat in the senate because of his excessive expenditures in the 1926 primaries, will support Labor Secretary James J. Davis, the third candidate. Samuel Lewis, state treasurer, will be backed for Governor by the Mellon crowd. The Vare machine will support Francis Shunk Brown. With such a lineup, Pennsylvania liberals no doubt will welcome Pinchct’s announcement. He was Governor from 1922 to 1926 and advanced many progressive projects. He is a dry, and that may hurt him in the cities. On the other hand, voters will have the power issue to consider, which is the chief plank of the Pinchot platform, and will be able to cast their votes for something other than Grundyism and Vareism. Connie Mack was awarded the Bok prize for having done the most for Philadelphia. But how about A1 Capone? Didn’t he put the police department on the map? Golf takes the conceit out of a man, says John D. Rockefeller. But we never yet have heard a golfer brag about the 8 he took on No. 4. You never can tell. The boy who saves old magazines may grow up to be a dentist some day.

REASON By FP S A

r T' , -0 a man up a tree it seems Governor Roosevelt A of New York has taken himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932 by declaration that each state should be permitted to decide as to whether it shall legalize liquor. The people will not stand for this, particularly the Democratic states of the south. tt St tt Such arrangement merely would mean that wet states would ship booze into dry states, as they did before the adoption of the eighteenth amendment, when brewers in wet states established agencies throughout dry states and the unlawful Importation of booze became a highly organized business. a a a Mr. Roosevelt having committed hari kari with a very promising political prospect, we now turn our attention to a very likely successor in the person of Colonel Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, late national commander of the American Legion and an established national figure. By the process of elimination. McNutt appears to be the unrivaled opportunity of his party. a s e ROBINSON of Arkansas is McNutt’s only possible rival, he being particularly strong since his Paris speech, declaring that we would never go to Europe to fight her battles, has done, much to relieve his party from the liability which Mr. Wilson upon it by his League of Nations program. But Robinson is from Arkansas and that ends him. It looks like McNutt. V U B If King Alphonso of Spain loses his job, as It seems he may, then that SIOO,OOO which his queen inherits by the terms of the will of the late Ambassador Alexander P. Moore will come in rather handy. There have been various other explanations for Mr. Moore's strange bequest, but possibly he felt that since Queen Isabella had financed our discovery, it was only fair to reimburse her successor. a a a AN oic fnend of ours, temporarily sojourning in California, writes that none of the California earthquakes receives any newspaper mention, but that a recent tremor in New Hampshire, hardly violent enough to agitate a pan cf gelatin, was spread clear across the front pages. sea Emile J. Gillette of Kansas, who has just become immortal by eating thirty-six raw eggs in eight minutes. would make a wonderful party man, for he could swallow any kina of a platform without distress. ft tt St His sight failing, a Wisconsin bulldog has been fitted with spectacles. How it will help the poor dog and how it will keep the family in a good humor. i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Ovr Forefathers Promoted the Revolution With Ten; India May Spur Revolt With Salt. lOTS of “boring in,” according to Police Commissioner Whalen of New York. The Communists are boring in to our greatest business and educational institutions, while his undercover men are boring in to Communist organizations. Better look out. You may be talking with a paid agent of Moscow if you try to borrow money of a bank official, or a detective if you pass the time of day with a radical. It sounds like the good old days when we imagined a German spy might by hiding around every lamp post, and when we barred the teaching of German to prevent propaganda. No one knows how many Communists there are in this country. Some say 40,000; some 75,000. The number certainly is not large enough to warrant nation-wide alarm, even if funds are trickling in from Moscow, while several hundred thousand malcontents stand ready to aid any kind of rumpus. We can get hysterical, of course, beat ’em up, deny ’em bail, run ’em out of town, and then weep over our folly and their plight later on. Irritating as the situation may be, it calls for good, hard sense, rather than half-baked sentiment. This is no time for leaders, either in the business on political field, to stir up unnecessary excitement. a tt tt Britain to Be Defied Mahatma ghandi, prophet of Indian revolt, is on the march with fifty, or seventy-five followers, whom he plans to put to work refining salt. The production of salt has been a British government monopoly ever since the time of Warren Hastings. It is Ghandi’s idea to produce it as a mark of defiance and disobedience. He expects to be arrested, but advises his followers to carry on if he is. A rather small way in which to promote revolution, but if our forefathers could do it with tea, who knows but Ghandi can do it with salt. This is an age of revolution, not only in politics and science, but in history as well. Comes a Peruvian savant asserting that Columbus was not only a pirate, but that he discovered America long before 1492 and. really two-timed Queen Isabella when he asked her for cash to make an experimental voyage. Louis Ulloa is the man who claims to have unearthed this bit of novel information, on which he has written a thesis to be delivered before the International Historical congress next month. a u n Times Change Fast tTTOW times have Changed since JL dad was a boy. Then we thought we knew not only where Columbus was born, but where he was burled. Likewise, we believed the cherry tree tale with regard to George Washington, raced horses with the idea that they represented real speed, and sat down to read by kerosene lamps, with the notion they furnished good light. Now we not only have to change household equipment over night, but must revise our conceptions of history, if we w T ould be up to date. Nothing seems to be right, reliable or permanent. According to Mussolini, democracy has become obsolete. According to the Communists, there is no virtue in capital, private enterprise, or individuality. According to scientific sharps, we are on the verge of synthetic milk, synthetic beefsteak and, perhaps, synthetic life. a tt tt Meat Loses Popularity SPEAKING of beefsteak, the department of agriculture reports a steady decline in beef consumption, and an equally steady rise in that of fruit, vegetables and dairy products. Also that the use of cornmeal and flour has shown a downward trend, falling off some 40 per cent between 1889 and 1919. On the other hand, we are using 50 per cent more salad vegetables than we did ten years ago, and a lot more grapefruit. Wise farmers will pay attention to such reports. No use to raise things if people no longer want them. No use to ignore the change brought about by price, availability, fashion and fad.

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TilL FIRST NAVAL SUBSIDY

ON March 11, 1794, congress granted its first appropriation for the building of six warships. This action was taken after President Washington sent a message to Congress describing the outrages committed by Algerian pirates on American merchant vessels. Before this time the country was practically without a navy, largely from lack of money. Work was begun on the six frigates, but ceased when a treaty of peace was signed with the Dev of Algiers. In his annual address to congress in December, 1796, the President strongly recommended laws for the gradual increase of tire navy. Congress, which was slow to perceive the necessity of naval defense, grudgingly authorized the President to build, buy or hire twelve vessels only after some French cruisers had molested traffic along the coast. This act was passed on April 27, 1798, and three days later a regular navy department was created separate from the department of war, of which it had previously been a part. Benjamin Stoddert of Georgetown, D. C., was made first secretary of the navy.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Obesity Usually Due to Bad Habits

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE general impression prevails that there are two kinds of fat people, those who overeat and underexercise, and those whose systems seem to be so constituted that they must perforce be fat. The latter type is presumed to be due to heredity or to some change that has taken place in the glands of internal secretion. Investigators in the University of Michigan School of Medicine recently have completed a series of investigations of the subject which point to a different point of view. Dr. L. H. Newburgh and M. W. Johnston, who worked with him, believe that the cause of the latter type of obesity is merely a perverted appetite. In normal people there is a mechanism that maintains a balance between the amount of energy expended and the amount taken in. The Michigan investigators divide

IT SEEMS TO ME“SST

IT does not seem to me that the Communists have done the unemployed any good. I doubt if they intended to. Even the most sincere and optimistic believer in the economic philosophy of Russia can hardly contend that successful results can be obtained except after tribulation and the long pull. It is the custom of left wing leaders to sneer at clergymen who promise the faithful a reward in heaven. That, they point out, is a long way off. But in Russia itself unemployment still exists after ten years, and the end is not yet. To a hungry and a jobless man, any Utopia ten years or more removed can hardly seem much nearer than the pearly gates. It can not be said that any economic system now in operation has solved the problem of excess labor. England still feels the pinch, even though the Socialists are in the saddle. However, in this case, it is fair to note that Ramsay MacDonald does not command a majority and has never had a free hand to make any far-reaching experiment. Capitalistic America may be the richest country in the world, but our unemployment situation is at the moment pressing. And I think that our thoughts of a solution should be better adjusted to the present need. Leaders in Washington say that things will be better in April. A week in a municipal lodging house or on a park bench may seem a cycle of Cathay. a a a Do It Now ELIEF is needed here and now. JLV and it seems to me that the label makes no difference whatsoever. I am weary of the dogmatism of conflicting economic theorists. Tire Communist who sneers at. an immediate good as a "bourgeois gesture" seems to me equally at fault with the disciple of capitalism who says, “We can’t do that. Why, why, that would be Bolshevism! I say that we should raise up tirose who are down and give them food and work and decent lodging, and then take time out later to decide just what name is appropriate for the necessary’ policy which has just been administered. Least of all am I moved by those who oppose some relief measure on the ground that it is ‘impractical." I can think of little which is more impractical that our present hit-or-miss system ox distribution. And in the use of labels I am not quite so unconcerned as I have intimated. One word, at least. I would consign to the dust bur. "Charity" has a horrid sound. Things which the state or the individual does to alleviate suffering arc net mere generous gestures prompted by the goodness of somebody's heart. The right} of every

The Remedy

all cases of obesity also into two groups. The first group, which is by far the larger, suffers from perverted eating habits. The normal person has a mechanism which notifies him that he has eaten enough. The obese people, through perverted habit, have come to require stronger notification before they feel fully satisfied. Sometimes they deliberately disregard the warnings to enjoy further the pleasure that they get from eating. In many instances children who are too fat get the perverted habit from eating at table with their parents, who constantly overeat. The onlooker Is likely to call this type obesity of hereditary, whereas it is actually the result of imitation of a bad habit. The second type of obesity represents a group who have been accustomed to taking the right amount of food, but whose constitution gradually changes with advancing age. They drift along with the old

individual to a livelihood should be inalienable. It is nonsense to talk of freedom when millions are shackled by want. When a man calls out for bread, it isn’t enough to give him a vote. e tt tt Same Boat ONE of the strongest and most ennobling impulses in man is intelligent self-interest. We should never forget all the members of any community are passengers in the same ship. There can be no security even for the high-vested as long as others live in economic peril. Poverty is a disease, and one of the , most contagious. No man is thrown out of work without the ripples of that catastrophe reaching out into every corner of the globe in which we live. It seems to me essential that the state should take over increasingly the functions once left to the discretion of the private employer. We have increasing evidence that the discretion of the individual isn’t good enough. It isn’t a question of benevolence or virtue. It’s more than that. It’s a question of intelligence. Nor can I believe that in the long run any newspaper which professes to be the valiant champion

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Tuesday, March 11 THE PEACE OF FIDELITY Read Psalm 119:161-163. Memory) Verse: “Angels came and ministered unto him.’’ f Matthew 4:11.) MEDITATION Jesus had come victoriously through his temptation. His last words to Satan were the closing words in the passage for today: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve." One must go the way that God and his Universe are going or else be at sixes and sevens with the world and himself. The easiest way to “make a little hell of one's own" is to tnrow off all sense of standards to which we must be loyal. The happy man is the one who keeps faith with his ideals. This is the peace of fidelity. PRAYER O Thou, who art the strength of all souls, abide in us this day and make us strong. May we have cour-. age to follow the right with such fiidelity that there may abide in our hearts the peace of God that passeth understanding. Amen.

habits of food intake, becoming obese and indulging in overeating, before they realize their danger. In some instances the basal metabolic rate of the person, which is an index of his utilization of food material, remains the same, but his output of energy lessens because of advancing years or change of occupation. In other instances, the basal metabolic rate becomes low because of a gradual change in the gland constitution of the person with advancing years. A physician who studies the case can stimulate the metabolism by the administration of proper remedies, or can advise a suitable diet in relation to the amount of energy used. A proper limitation of food usually will result in loss of weight without danger to health. A suitable diet must contain all the vital elements and in addition a sufficient amount of energy content, measured in calories, to provide for the output of energy.

Ideals and opinions expressed ‘.n this column are those of ane 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.

of human rights will profit materially by callously tossing aside many veteran employes, as did a New York morning paper which shall be for the moment, nameless. It isn’t good economy to conduct business on a strictly seasonal basis. Many industries are prone to shut down plants on the slightest sign of slackening demand. Possibly it is well enough to cease producing autos when nobody in particular wants autos, but that is no reason why the working force should be dismissed in hard times. To some extent both prosperity and panic are states of mind. It would be more logical to raise wages in hard times and cut them down in periods of boom. A boom means that there is a great buying power abroad in the land. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

For thou are my hope, O Lord God: thou are my trust from ray youth.—Psalm 71:5. tt tt tt Hope is the mother of faith Landor.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—We have a condition in Indianapolis which, if properly handled, can at least partially help to boost prosperity. A great many of our wealthy families still reside in twenty to forty-year and older mansions, particularly along Meridian, Delaware and Pennsylvania, but also in other parts of the city. A good many of these people have plenty of money—cash—so why not interest them in building anew modern home? To conduct properly and successfully a campaign of “fine home building in •30," let the Chamber of Commerce select a live and wideawake young man oi the “do or die’’ type. Get the co-operation of architects, contractors, bank and lean associations, civic clubs and others. This will be bound to add several millions to our construction in 1930. There are hundreds of acres of beautiful spots about the city awaiting development. Without a doubt, a survey will produce a great many people who have the money, and, with proper ecouragement, can be interested. These people wouldn’t drive a twenty-year-old car, nor would they be willing to go back twenty or more years in their living conditions, but still they continue living in old and obsolete homes. Every person of wealth whose home is not in keeping with his position and standing in commercial and business affairs, should be personally interviewed and interested

31 ARCH 11, 1930

SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Moon Myth Is Concealed in Old Jingle About Adventures of Jack and Jill. EVERY one knows the old uurs- * ery rhyme which recounts th£ adventures of Jack and Jill “Jack and Jill went up the hill, . To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown. And Jill came tumbling after.” But few people, perhaps, realize that a lunar myth is concealed within the jingle. That is the opinion held by many students of myth-M ology. The Volu-Spa, an ancient Norse poem, calls the moon-god "Mam” and tells that Mani transported two children from earth to the moon, These children were named Bil and. Hiuki and were seized by Mani as they were drawing water from a well. According to the poem, they can be seen in the moon with theim? bucket. ™ The most familiar legend makes the spots on the moon resemble a man, but in Sweden, even today, there is the tradition that the spots form two children carrying a bucket of water. It is entirely reasonable, therefore, to trace a connection between the old Norse mythology and the familiar nursery rhyme tt e tt Weather p ipHIS connection was discussed at A length in "Curious Myths cf the Middle Ages," published in London in 1877. S. Baring-Gould was the author. Baring-Gould WTOte: “Hjuki, in Norse, would be pronounced Juki, which would readily become Jack; and Bil, for the sake of euphony and to give a female name to one of the children would become Jill. “The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon spot after another, as the moon wanes. “But the old Norse myth had a deeper signification than merely an explanation of the moon spots. Hjuki is derived from the verb jakka, to heap or pile together, to assemble and increase; and Bil, from bila, to break up or dissolve. “Hjuki and Bil, therefore, nothing more than the waxing ant* the waning of the moon, and the water they are represented as bearing signifies the fact that the rain- 1 fall depends cn the phases of the moon. “Waxing and waning were individualized, and the meteorological fact of the connection of the rain with the moon was represented by the children as water-bearers.” In this connection, it should be mentioned, perhaps, that the old idea that the phases of the moon controlled the weather, has been completely exploded. It still persists and occasionally one will meet with an amateur weather-prophet who insists that the sky never is cloudy •when the moon is full. Records, however, prove conclusively that the sky is frequently cloudy at the time of full moon. tt O tt Change li/COST of the old British and iVi German legends picture the spots on the moon as forming a man. He is represented variously as carrying a thorn-bush over his shoulder or some stolen object. He is supposed to have been banished to the moon, either for theft or Sabbath-breaking. Baring-Gould believes that these legends grew out of the older Norse ones. He continues: “But though Jack and Jill became by degrees dissevered in the popular mind from the moon, the original myth went through a fresh phase, and exists still under anew form. “The Norse superstition theft to the moon, and the vulgar soon began to believe that the figure they saw in the moon was the thief. “The lunar specks certainly may be made to resemble one figure, but only a lively imagination can discern two. “The girl soon dropped out of popular mythology, the boy oldened into a venerable man and the bucket was transformed into the thing he had stolen—sticks or vegetables. “The theft was in some places exchanged for Sabbath-breaking.” This same origin of the man in the moon also was suggested ny Jacob Grimm in his “Teutonic Mythology.” “Plainly enough,” wrote Grimm, "the water-hole cf the heathen story has been transformed into the axe’s shaft, and the carried pail into the thorn-bush.”

in the need of getting busy and putting their shoulders to the wheel of progress. Get their wives ai:d daughters interested, let their club associates, bankers, and ail with whom they come in contact bang away at them constantly. Their civic priae soon will overrule their old-fashioned ideas and in due time we can have one trying to outdo the other in the development of estates. CARL HOHL. Editor Time.-,—Noticing topics of recent date concerning labor in Indianapolis, do you think it fair for people of other counties who pay no taxes, rent or any other provision in any manner, shape or form, to drive in and take our jobs away at reduced wages while we citizens, taxpayers and voters walk the streets looking for employment to support our families? These people grow their own food, have their own homes and pay small taxes. W. P. s. Mas Manliattan Island, on which the city cl New York is located, as long when it was purchased from the Indians as it is now? I Yes. It extended from the Battery ! -o Spuyten Duyvil creek. Vhy d'X’s wood float in water and iron sink in water? Wood floats because it has les* density than water. Iron sinks because its density is greater than that of water.