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Hoover’s Haitian Policy Too much rejoicing now would be premature. The Job It ro ♦ done; many pitfalL? and much hard work are ahead. But President Hoover and his eommLv £ion are off to a brilliant start in Haiti. Unless the./ weaken under pressure, they can clean up the foulest comer in the last fifteen years of American imperialistic diplomacy. Already there are efforts to thwart the comnusion. As was expected, that pressure comes from the puppet dictator. ' President" Borno. He Is our Frankenstein. We mad" him. We forced him on the Haitian people. Wc used him as a serceu for our marine despotism. Now he turns on us when we want to repair :-omr of the damage douc, and get out. Within a few days after its arrival, tire Hoover commission, in its investigation substantiated most ol the charges made by the Haitian patriots and American liberals. Haiti has been robbed ol her liberties and sovereignty. There Is neither free speech, free press, nor free assemblage. There is nfl remnant of representative political institutions. Virtually all parties and classes are united against continuance ol the present regime. Even the once loyal Catholic hierarchy has deserted Borno,. His rule could not, last a day if Yankee bayonets were with-, drawn. The most ober and reliable representatives ot Haitian opinion have testified to the commission that there will be immediate and bloody revolution if Borno is allowed to carry out his plan of handpicking his successor next month and unless popular •lections are permitted this year, , •These representative Haitian leaders also denounced as the real dictator behind Boino, the American high commissioner. General Russell. The Haitians demand: Creation ol a provisional government to take over next month, which will conduct fair popular election of a congress, which will in turn choose a president. Recall ol the American high commissioner and appointment oi a regular American minister. Abolition oi all the special offices held by Americans, except that of receiver genera l . Immediate withdrawal of all American marines, except a skeleton officei staff to command the native gendarmerie. Those conditions are just and practicable. Some oi them already have been accepted by the commission and President Hoover. Hoover agreed *o the appointment of a provisional neutral government pending llic holding of popular elections within a few months. The commission induced Borno to accept this fair arrangement. But. as soon as the commission left Port Au Prince to visit the interior. Borno broke his agreement and posted official notices throughout the country that his sane council of state would pick his successor and that there would be no elections until January, 1932. Obviously. Hoover must not let Borno bluff him—not only justice, but political expediency, forbids. Having announced a plan for popular elections, and thereby won the confidence of the Haitian people and the respect of all Latin America, Hoover can not now bow to tsorno.

Talc of Two Cities In recent unemployment demonstrations, two California cities displayed opposite tactics in meeting the issue. In Los Angeles, Mayor John C. Porter sat in his walnut-paneled office hanked by three bodyguards, while outside 500 police herded a crowd of 6,000 citizens with clubs, mounted ‘'Cossacks,” sirens and other manhandling devices. Beatings and arrests followed. A first-class riot was created. Police violence also resulted in riots in New York, Milwaukee, Detroit, Seattle and Cleveland. But in San Francisco, Mayor James Rolph roped off Market street for the parade, erected a speakers’ stand in tire civic center, invited the paraders to air their grievances unmolested, protected in fact, by tire police. The demonstrators marched 2.200 strong, their leaders mounted the rostrum, Rolph promised them to present their cause to the supervisors and to urge speeding up of city work for their benefit. There was no riot. Similar police intelligence prevented trouble in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Chicago. We leave it to any American jury to decide which way was the best, the safest, the Anglo-Saxon way —Los Angeles’ or San Francisco's. The Wet Tide Rises Even the wets are surprised by the first week's returns from the Literary Digest national poll on prohibition. Everyone expected that prohibition would fail to poll the overwhelming majority claimed by its adherents—certain of the dry leaders even attempted an advance alibi by saying that drys would not participate, which was absurd. But no one, apparently, supposed there would be more votes lor repeal than for either modification or enforcement. The.total was: For Enforcement 80,739 For Modification 91,915 For Repeal 118.934 The anti-prohibition vote thus was more than 2 l i to 1 larger than the dry vote. And of the ten states tabulated, eight were middle western states hitherto considered dry. Os those supposedly dry states, all but one—Kansas—voted wet. Clearly, these meager early returns are net sufficient basis for any final conclusions. But it is difficult to resist the suspicion that they indicate the turn of the tide which within one short week has seen the conversion t-c the wet cause of two of the largest dry dailies in the middlewest and sweeping wet victories in the poll of the Union League Club of New York and the National Republican Club Something to Think About It would be well for public utilities, which, on the face of investigations, hearings and court disputes, here, there and yonder, certainly, to put It mildly, are under fire, to dust off their histories and indulge In a little retrospection. It won’t be ancient history-, either. In far* he history of one generation will cover the subjt There was ? ime within the memory of the comparatively young man of today when the trust-buster reigned the monarch of all be surveyed. Teddy, with his "big stick,” "malefactors of great wealth,” Mark Hanna Tith his dollar-checked clothing, “treason of 'he senate.** the Standard Oil dissolution, the JPopuhst party and Sockless Jerry Simpson—they

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were the products of a iodfe-sufferlng public, aroused at last. It would be well for some of the young bloods in the utility business to review that past and to bear in mind that history has a quaint habit of repeating. The public is long suffering. But when it does finally get on its ear, Its capacity for wrath is iff direct ratio to its slowness to act. Accordingly, in Anal analysis, whether the utilities survive or perish is up to the utilities themselves, and to how they treat the public. If they abuse the strength they are accumulating through their mergers and their holding companies and this and that other scheme of organization, they will get away with it for a while. The public will "be damned" and apparently like it. And then—something will happen. And it will happen all at once. The "big stick" ■will come out of the closet and the "come-uppanee,” as Booth Tarkington puts it, will be at hand. Real regulation, production of fair and "unwatered" relationship between the public and the public utilities will be more soothing and more profitable to the utilities in the long run than will regulation that only "goes through the motions." Raiders Take Notice Federal Judge Wood rough of Omaha actually ms .tains that the constitutional rights of Americans —even the right of man to life—are of more importance than speedy enforcement of the Volstead and Jones acts. Another Daniel appears to have cropped up in New Haven in the person of Judge Baldwin. One Dante Calinl shot and killed policeman Raymond Zoller while the latter was trying to raid Calini’s house late one night. The coroner’s jury found that Zoller not only failed to produce* a search warrant, but even neglected to make known that he was an officer of the law. Calini appears to liave been afflicted with some of those "nonsensical ideas about personal liberty” recently denounced by Commissioner Doran, including a desire to protect the sanctity of his home and the safety of his wife and children. The extremists howled fro Calini's life, but Judge Baldwin in the superior criminal court also had "ideas about personal liberty.” He ordered Calini freed in the following words: "The circumstances under which this unfortunate incident took place were, in my opinion, such that the state ought not to proceed. The evidence laid before me by the counsel leads me to the conclusion that according to the law in this state the accused reasonably might have thought that serious injury was contemplated against him, his family and his house, after which time he shot, and I feel that the duty resting upon me is to dispose of this case in this way." We regret that patrolman Zoller was killed. Yet if dry agents and police are to be approved by Mellon, Lohman & Cos. for light-hearted killing when enforcing the dry law against-possible violators, then we scarcely can deny the right of citizens to protect life, home and property against foolhardy dry raiders, acting without regard for due legal processes. A little publicity for this Calini case may help in checking the impetuosity of enforcement officers in the future. Os course, the sensible thing is to check all killings in prohibition enforcement. As Jane Addams suggests, the greatest immediate need in the prohibition field is disarmament. As long as enforcement officers are on the warpath, citizens will invoke the age-old practice of self-defense, and increasingly they will find judges willing to recognize the existence of this right. Breakfast should be eaten in silence, say a diet!* tian. A man who stayed late at the office the nigm before hasn't got a chance. Some automobile drivers who look as if they owned the streets haven’t even finished buying their cars.

REASON By F LANDIS CK

A MEMBER of the house of representatives proposses that the word applause be omitted from all speeches in The Congressional Record, but the suggestion will not get very far, for it would strip our statesmen of their appeal and make their speeches as unromantic as false bangs. a a a There is little or no real applause in the average speech delivered in the house, but when it comes to revise his remarks for the Record, the member may repair the neglect of his audience and strew enthusiastic interruptions throughout the printed report of his discourse without any limitations whatever. a a a Not only can he insert "applause” and “laughter” where they should have occurred, but did not, but he can go so far. if he be gifted with imagination, as to invent little asides which put the opposition to utter rout and reveal him as a parliament gladiator who would have made Burke and Webster resemble a plate of pickled pigs' feet. e a \ ND so when he sits down w r ith pen in hand to lY "revise.” the member not only indulges in “applause.” but "loud applause.” "applause loud and long continued.'' “thunderous applause” and while he may start out timidly, he will, before he gets half through with his revision have the speaker rising and calling on the galleries to restrain their wild outbursts. a tt a This hand-made whirlwind of enthusiasm usually accompanies the speech of Hon. Obediah Umpedump of Oskaloosa on some scuh soul-stirring challenge as a proposition to give permanent waves to the fur-bear-ing animals in our national parks and when that speech, ifter Obediah has lifted its face, gets back home and the folks read how Obediah knocked them cold, it’s good for a renomination. w a b THE actual deliver?’ of the average speech in the house is amazing Several hundred gentlemen, assembled in a score of groups visit audibly, some with feet upon desks, the group exploding now and then ■with ioud guffaws; other gentlemen sit at desks, writing letters about garden seeds; others walk about aimlessly and here and there a weary brother has succumbed to sleep while over all drifts the endless buzz of conversation. a a B By mere chance you locate the gentleman who is addressing the house; you know it is the speaker because he is the only one to whom nobody nays any attention—nobody but the stenographer and he must. But wait until that speaker revises his speech with ‘laughter” and “applause,” for it will be one of the oratorical triumphs of the century I

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

It Has Taken the Human Race 10,000 Years to Understand What Four Billions of Miles Mean. Twenty-five years ago. the late Percival Lowell pointed to a spot in the sky and said, “there is where a star should be," and not only a star, but a planet belonging to our own solar system. People will tell you that this was a splendid example of imagination, but it was not. It was an example of pure mathematics. Lowell could not account for planetary movements in any other way. His calculations proved that there was a force at work which could not be explained, except by the presence of a ninth planet. Neither he nor anyone else had seen such a planet. It was what lawyers would call a case of circumstantial evidence. But now we know that Lowell was right. Just another illustration of how the mind not only can out-travel the eye, but the telescope as well, and arrive at accurate conclusions through the process of deduction. a an , Billions' of Miles Away r T'IIIS new planet is more than -a. foul- billion miles away, or fifty times as far from us as we are from the sun. Can you think of four billion miles? "Probably not, or even one billion. It has taken the human race ten thousand years to apprehend what such distances mean, and then only by the use of symbols. The astronomer would be lost were he obliged to depend on simple arithmetic. The astronomer has to abandon such a unit of measurement as the mile, for the light hour, or light year. It takes a ray of light eight minutes to travel from the sun to the earth. If the new planet is fifty times as far away, it would take a ray of light more than six and onehalf hours to make the distance. That seems a long way off, until you recall that the astronomer must deal with stars which are not only a million light hours away, but a million light years. ana Year of Great Length '"S 'HOUGH accurate calculations X have not been made, it is estimated that the newly discovered planet makes its circuit arc and the sun in about 330 years, which means that its year is about 330 times as long as ours. If there is human life on it, and if people live as long in proportion to the seasonable change as we do, a child born when the Great Pyramid was built would be about ready to graduate from grammar school. Not counting moons, meteors and asteroids, there are only eight bodies occupying the four billion miles which separate this new planet from the sun. This would seem to suggest that there is a good deal more space in the universe than anything else, and that, as a whole, it is a very thin proposition. But scientists tell us, that, relatively speaking, there is a greater amount of space in a piece of China and that the substances we regard as solid really are composed of little suns and solar systems, with plenty of room to whirl and travel. a st ss Beyond Our Grasp IF the cosmos is so big that we can not find its boundaries, it is composed of such infinitesimal entitles that we have not been able to discover the indivisible unit. Whether one approaches the subject. with a telescope which sees trillions of miles into space, or a microscope which discloses the wart on the nose of the germ that lives on the flea, infinity still is beyond. No matter what direction we take, or what method we adopt, we come to a point where we can go no farther, though we know the end is a long way off, and where notlKg appeals to us so strongly as our own littleness. Using the Pyramids as an argument, or the, flivver, one can convince himself that man is a very wonderful creature. Using the electron, or the Milky May, the case is not proved so easily. Compared to our cave man ancestors, we huve made great progress. Compared to what remains for us to learn, what we know seems of little consequence.

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MAINE'S STATEHOOD ON March 15, 1820, Maine became a state. Up to that time it was a possession of Massachusetts and under its jurisdiction. The desire of Maine to separate from the mother state was indicated as early as 1783, when the Democratic inhabitants of that territory found it difficult to tolerate the rule of federalist Massachusetts. During the War of 1812 a ruction seemed inevitable, for Maine, angered by the seizure of its land by the British, blamed the Bay State for failing to provide for adequate defenses. But it remained for the federal government to make the separation. Shortly after the admission of Missouri, congress was confronted with the problem of preserving the balance of power in the Union. It was found necessary, for that reason, to admit Maine. The only important subject of legislation in the state thus far has been that of prohibition. As earlv as 1858 a strict prohibitory law was passed and later incorporated into the Constitution. It has remained *n force ever since. Maine also is considered a "barometer” during national clectibns. The saying “As Maine goes, st> goes the nation,” indicates its importance politically.

- - OPPOSE rH SPEC lAL PRIVILEGE I "forms- s I wft?a f and the. most vicious Jk: form of special privilege BFAVO ISTHE HIOH TARIFF THAT n q ROBS THE AMERICAN \ CONSUMER UNDER THE } * PRETENSE OF PROTECTING- jgTgn y AMERICAN LABOR? I iP 1- '/A —jL. iaJ . .—. Tvipfc j n BUT HOW ABOUT C > THE TARIFF ON ft’ THINGS PRODUCED i ? " jDsisL — ~ ~ V g.E-RR-R-V AH-WEll-OF : (1 A COURSE-YOU SEE „ , | \ I'VE COT TO jj i look after Sjf > <•> . . 13m v/lr my own 4w ISIiPERSONAL .> , & fie y POLITICAL 4r'Jsk INTERESTS

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Mental Disturbances Impair Sleep

Editor's Note—This is the last of Ihrce articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein, America’s outstanding medical authority, on the subject of sleep. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Ilygeia, the Health Magazine. TN a recent consideration of insomnia, Dr. Joseph Collins classifies three classes of poor sleepers. Come have trouble getting to sleep. If they are allowed to sleep late into the morning they do not seem to suffer from their troubles, but since most people have to get up at a certain hour in the morning to work, such people not infrequently seem to show the effects of lack of sleep. Sooner or later this type of person begins to dread his inability to fall asleep and that tends to make the matter worse. Such failure to fall asleep easily depends on mental conditions, including excitement, fear, anxiety, overwork, and the use of chemical stimulants, such as caffein in tea or coffee. Many people begin to think about

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I THINK I have influenza, and, if not that, it’s something. Accordingly, I feel that no one should expect today much which is new and sprightly. Come to think of it, possibly nobody expects that very frequently, even on days when the columnist is in perfect health and vigor. Should the worst occur, let it be said that I am a martyr to the craze for the boyish form. One feels the justice of such ailments as are distinctly traceable to an indulgence in high-jinks, but it is hard to be struck down in youth by an excess of clean living. Well, maybe not youth, but the years after 40 are often among the most productive. If my efforts to reduce turn out tragically, let it be said that I was in there trying. However, a formal obituary may be delayed until a little later. It seems now as if I may pull through because the fever is abating. B ft a Praise of Fever MAYBE I wasn’t quite fair to the grip while it raged in its greatest fury. Now that it is gone, many of its aspects seem benign. Fever, for instance, belongs distinctly among the pleasureable sensations. Os course, it is a pleasure to be taken in moderation. There are

I’ fclloroship of | | 's **7 —: —-=■ 41 7 Daillj ' / Lenten Devotion \ Saturday, March 15. HIGHWAY TO HAPPINESS Read Matthew 16:21-27. Memory verse: He that loseth his life . . shall find it.” (.Matthew 10:39.) MEDITATION. To lose one's life is not to throw it away, but to give it away. Life is too valuable to be sold at any price. We do not sell our most precious possessions. If we part with'these, we give them away. Life's best rewards come as we invest ourselves without thought of gain in some great cause or in the welfare of human beings. The way to the enjoyment of life is: Something for somebody for nothing. PRAYER Deliver us, O God, from the selfcentered life. Lead us forth from solicitous and anxious thoughts of self to the wider fields of service. In Christ, thou has shown us the way; help us to walk in it, for His sake, Amen.

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their troubles as soon as they get lo bed and naturally find trouble in falling asleep. A quarrel before going to sleep, anxiety as to the illness of some member of the family or as to one’s own physical condition or excitement attending some public effort may be the reason for inability to fall asleep easily. Another type of poor sleeper has no difficulty falling asleep when first going to bed, but wakes up after a few hours and is then unable to fall asleep again or else completes the night with periods of sleep of about one-half to one hour each. This type of person, according to Dr. Collins, invariably has some form of indigestion or constipation which gives him internal disturbances. He may be addicted to alcohol; he may have hardening of the arteries. When he awakens in the middle of the night he begins to go over in his mind ail the troubles in his past; the old troubles arouse the old emotions and sleep disappears. The third variety of bad sleeper

points along the thermometer where the scorching becomes too great for comfort, but a reasonably discreet fever, say between 101 and 102, is distinctly exhilarating. I felt lighter than I ever did in the past. In fever times there even comes to me a confidence that I could dance if I were minded to. And it would be a dance which swayed midway between the floor and the ceiling. Soon the inclination passes, for, as the fever grows gusty, it sets up little whirlpools in the body. It is possible to lie quite still and at the same time move. The motion is of one floating easily on top of big breakers In a heavy sea. On and on I soar, on the upswing, out of bed and boredom. As long as the tide holds, nothing particular matters. Things undone are of the slightest possible consequence. The things which I ought not to have done are of equal unimportance. Fever sharpens the mind and dulls the conscience. At the very crest of the hot and curling sea, one is washed as free from sense of sin as any newly minted angel. There is nothing to do until tomorrow, and there is no tomorrow! 808 Going Down BUT then the clutch of the ebb seizes hold. The descent to life begins. Worries and particularities reach out. But they miss you. Yes, a really hearty fever will never I quite let you down into the clutchj ing hands. I Just in time, the upbeat begins. : Soon those hands which would have dragged you back to earth are only fluttering flecks. Instead of grasping at you, they merely wave farewell. The balloon is going up. ‘ln Kansas a generation has grown up without recourse to liquor,” says a Middle Western prohibitionist, “and one hears more young people singing of an evening in a Kansas town than one hears in the lands of the vine.” This would be more impressive if he mentioned what they sang and just how well they did it. Unfortunately, I have not been able to lay my hands on any volume which j contains the per capita-singing statistics for Kansas during the last generation. Therefore, I am In no position to argue the matter. But I must contend that community singing is something less than impressive if all the performers and all the listeners happen to be cold sober. Al- | oohol has its defects, but it is a | superb lubricant for taking the | squeaks out of high notes. j Wanted: A Substitute MANY of tiie saloon's aspects were evil. That can not be denied. Yet I hesitate to swell the

apparently puts in the required number of hours but awakens tired and exhausted as though he had not slept at all. Refreshing sleep must come with freedom from rare. When the person awakens to find that his mind is troubled with exactly the same difficulties that he had when he went to bed, the sleep is not likely to help him greatly. As is obvious frem these discussions, the most important step in freedom from insomnia is control of the mental point of view’. It is important to see that the body is in good physical condition and that the brain is not overstimulated by chemical stimulants. The cultivation of the proper point of view toward anxiety, worry or grief is of the utmost importance. These mental difficulties are reflected in the appetite, the failure to eat and the difficulties of digestion. Those whose minds are in proper condition do not have difficulties with sleep even after drinking a cup of coffee just before going to bed. Sleep is a habit which can be improved by training.

(deals and opinions expressed in this column arc those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ol this paper.—The Editor.

chorus and say, “Os course, I don’t want the old saloon back.” Come to think of it, I should like something very much like it. The need for a substitute is acute. Now that the saloon is gone, there is practically nothing to take the edge off the home. The dry marauders have always based their gospel on the theory that if it were possible to legislate everybody into his home and keep him there, happiness would be achieved. I don’t believe it. A home ought to be a place to which one may, on occasion, return. In the old days there was a certain warmth and graciousness about going home. It represented a choice. A man came home because he wanted to. Even though he said nothing, his mere presence at any hour before midnight was eloquent testimony of love and devotion. Now it can be no secret, either to the head of the house or to his loved ones, that the old gentleman is home for no more cordial reason than the fact that there is no other place to go. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times) On what day of the week did March 25, 1902, fall? Tuesday.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

The Moon Is Our Nearest Neighbor and Study of l Phases Is a Fascinatin'-> One. 'T'HE moon is the earth’s ncare.v -*■ neighbor in the great ocean of space. The average distance from the earth to the moon is 240,000 miles. There Is no other astronomical body whose distance from th< earth can be measured in thousand, of miles. Alt the others are million? and billions and even trillions of mile: away. The moon accompanies tire earth on its journey around the sun, revolving around the earth as the earth In turn revolves around the sun. The tides in the oceans of the earth arc the result of the moon', gravitational pull. The moor, goes around the earth in a sort of flattened circle called an eclipse. The moon is a dark body, shining' only by reflected sunlight. This fact, coupled with the revolution of the moon around the earth, accounts for the phases of the moon saa Crescent \\T HEN the moon is on the same ’ ’ side of the sun as the earth, the side of the moon illuminated b\ the sun is turned away from us and the dark side is turned toward us. It is then entirely invisible and we have what astronomers call the new moon About two nights later the moon will have moved sufficiently for us to see a little of the lighted side and the moon appears in the sky as a thin crescent which Is known popularly, though not exactly, as the new moon. Approximately a week after new moon, half of the lighted side is visible and wc have what is known as first quarter. A week after first quarter the moon is on the opposite side of the earth from the sun and all ot the illuminated side Is toward us. We then see what we call the full moon. A week later we again see only half of the illuminated side and it is last quarter. A week after last quarter none of the illuminated side is visible and we have new moon once more. The apparent motion of the moon in the sky is a little difficult to understand at first. The rotation of the earth on its axis makes the moon appear to rise in the east and set in the west in just the same fashion that it makes the sun and stars appear to do. But due to the fact that the moon is revolving around the earth, the moon appears to be moving eastward, among the stars. a a a Motions IF the moon is noted near a certain group of stars tonight, it will be found to the east of them tomorrow night, a distance of about 13 degrees. Asa result of this, the moon rises about fifty minutes later each night. If this fact is once grasped, the amateur astronomer will have no difficulties in understanding the motions of the moon. Let us see how it works out by following the moon in its appearances from new moon to full and back again to new. At new moon, the moon is on the same side of the earth as the sun. It rises at sunrise and #ts at sunset and so remains entirely invisible. But the next night it rises approximately an hour after the sun and sets an hour later. Consequently, it is visible as a thin crescent low in the west for an hour after sunset. The rule, therefore, is to look for the new moon in the western sky and soon after sunset. As the days go by the cresent of the moon grows fatter each night, reaching first quarter and then full moon. It also continues to rise later each day so that there arc more hours of moonlight each night. This also results in the moon appearing further to the east each night at the time of sunset. At the time of full moon, the moon rises in the east just as the sun is setting in the west and there is moonlight throughout the entire night. After full moon, the moon begins to grow thinner, reaching last quarter in a week. It also continues to rise later each night, so that by the time last quarter is reached the moon is rising about midnight. Each night thereafter it grows thinner and rises later until new moon is reached, when again it rises at sunrise and again is entirely invisible.