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Police in Politics When the very proper suggestion that the state police should be taken from the control of the secretary of state and placed under the Governor, who is presumed to execute the laws, the incumbent of that office called in his political reserves and prevented the change. It now becomes very apparent why Mr. Fifield sent his lobby to the legislature to block a move that was logical. On the surface, it merely means more work and responsibility. Underneath it means something else. Summoning the state police to the Capitol, leaving the roads unguarded at a time when holdups are epidemic and other violations on the increase, the secretary very openly pleaded that the policemen on the state pay roll become politicians in his behalf. If there were no other reasons, and there are many, this alone should insure the defeat of Fifield for renomination. In a year when the prospects for success are none too roseate tor Republican candidates, the leaders of that party could well estimate whether Fifield will be an asset or a liability to the ticket on which he seeks a new lease on his office, always with the fond hope that by his peculiar methods he may advance to higher office. What Fifield really brought to the office was the Lake county viewpoint toward his job. lie probably sees nothing very wrong in using the state’s money, set aside for protection, for his own advancement. Very probably he would need a moral interpreter to explain that there could be anything culpable in such an act. If the people wisl to be controlled by men in uniform and through the machine created by the drivers’ license law, they have only to return Fifield to his job. Perhaps some stalwart within his party will have the courage to challenge his methods and his ambitions in the convention. Those who believe that the convention system of nominating candidates is preferable to the primary now have a royal chance to demonstrate.

One Plane to 2,977 Autos The size of the field that is open in the United States to commercial airplane manufacturers becomes evident when you look at the statistics. Recent figures issued by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce reveal that the nation has 9.740 licensed airplanes—exclusive, of emirs®, of army and navy planes. This represents a huge advance over previous years, of course, but the number is far from as large as it soon will be. A good way to realize this fact Is to contrast the number of planes with the number of automobiles. For every airplane in the country there are 2,977 automobiles. That indicates the opening that confronts the plane manufacturers. Airplanes are not yet what you could call common. “Not Guilty” A weary, white-haired old man was found Saturday by a District of Columbia jury “not guilty” of the charge that he had bribed a member of President Harding's cabinet. He had stood accused of giving this cabinet member SIOO,OOO to obtain possession, of oil lands worth probably $100,000,000, set aside for use in the nation's defense in case of war. Another Jury some time ago found the cabinet man guilty of accepting the SIOO,OOO as a bribe from this same old man. The oil lands in question have been taken away from the old man and restored to the government, the civil courts, including the very conservative United States supreme court, having decided that the transfer was "tainted with fraud and corruption." What is the meaning of these strange contradictions? Why does Edward L. Doheny go free? Have Juries no regard for public honor and well-being? Are they subservient to wealth? Are they hopelessly sentimental? Are they hostile to the law? Is the Jury system a failure? Or is the method of selecting Juries one calculated to defeat the ends of justice? Some find the answer in the last suggestion. They point out that the twelve men and women who so promptly acquitted Doheny had been chosen because of their indifference to public affairs. No man or woman who had read newspaper accounts of the oil oases—that is, no man or woman with sufficient interest in his government to cause him to read this vitally important story—was permitted to remain on the jury. In the national capital, where the newspapers for six years carried column after column on the subject. this indicated an exceptional degree of indifference on the part of the twelve finally selected. But we doubt that the explanation lies in this fact, as illuminating as It may be concerning our jury system. No, the explanation may be much simpler. Perhaps twelve men and women are just twelve average American citizens, subject to the same emotions as the rest of us. There are very few among us who would like to sentence a man of 74 to prison. This may be unfortunate, from the standpoint of abstract justice; it may arouse cynicism in hearts of those so inclined; it may cause some to say that a man with enough money can not be reached by the law. But from the standpoint of human justice, tinctured as it is with the quality of mercy, it may be just as well. Who really desires to see Edward L. Doheny put behind prison bars? Lamentable though his conduct has been, it may be that he has suffered enough. His reputation is gone, his personal pride and his self respect. The friend who accepted his money and betrayed his country faces the prospect of years in prison. Doheny's own life, despite Saturday s verdict, has tumbled down about him. His capacity for harm has been removed. Those who fought to expose the oil steals, to

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regain the country's property and to punish the guilty men may feel chagrined for the moment. Yet many of them, put in the Jury box, might have hesitated to condemn Doheny to prison. Guilty, with a recommendation for clemency, very likely would have been their verdict. As it is, knowing how Juries function, they will have to accept the verdict as rendered and take what satisfaction they can from the belief that it will be a long time before another oil millionaire bribes a cabinet official. Mussolini, Babies and Mothers The Duce has put In an order for 500,000 more Italian babies to be delivered in a year’s time. To help Italian mothers to undertake the duties of child-bearing, his biologists have declared that to have a baby a year is the best and most certain way for a woman to assure the perpetuation of her youth and vitality. A group of eminent American physicians has assumed to differ from the official Fascist biologists. They have formulated tne following concise statement of their views on the situation: “We are satisfied unanimously that It is better to preserve a mother's health by reasonable spacing of a few children than t> ruin It by too frequent pregnancies; that the mother of a growing family Is presumably more valuable than one more child and should not be sacrificed for such. “Finally, we believe that If we had to undergo sickness, disfigurement, limitation of activities, discomfort. pain, danger and sometimes death for the birth of a child, we would Insist that it was our absolute right to choose our own time for the process.” This statement was signed by the following doctors: Charles S. Bacon, J. Wendell Clark, John Favill, Ralph C. Hamill, N. Sproat Heaney, David S. Levy, Selim W. McArthur, William Allen Pusey, Eugene S. Talbot, George H. Coleman. N. S. Davis, Anton J. Carlson, Eugene Cary, George W. Hall, George de Tarnowsky, Rudolph W. Holmes, Harold E. Jones, Joseph L. Bear. Even if we were ruthlessly to sacrifice the health, vivacity and happiness of the mother to swell the census returns and create to the raw material for bigger armies any plan for the over-rapid forcing of population increase is bound to te self-defeating. The closer together children are born in a family, the greater the rate of infant mortality. If a baby is bom each year as against every two or three years, this increases the prospect that this baby or another child will die during the year

The United States department of labor has published statistics clearly proving this point. The following figures give the infant mortality rates per 100,000 of the population, according to the interval since the preceding birth of the next older child; Babies born 1 year apart 146.7 Babies born 2 years apart 98.6 Babies born 3 years apart 86.5 ■ Babies born 4 years apart 84.9 In considering the population problem, Mussolini or any other statesman best will consider the health and happiness of citizens of all ages and both sexes. Population should be adjusted to the needs and resources of the country at a given time. To promote overcrowding is bound to create a multitude of serious social and economic problems which no army, however large, can hope to solve. Irresponsible popula f ion mongers are unquestionably the worst menace to human civilization today. The research laboratories have announced the discovery of a short length wave that may be developed into a death ray. They’ll probably call it the ultraviolet ray. The prize fighter who was fined for punching his wife probably is the sort of pugilist who gets the razz for his affectionate clinches in the ring. “I never have known a husband,’’ says Peggy Joyce, “to wear longer than six months.” Wear what? “It takes more than the assembling of poetic words to make a poet,” says La Baron Cooke. Sometimes we think it takes a lot of nerve.

REASON

WARDEN WALTER H. DALY declares that the Indiana state prison at Michigan City is so overcrowded that, he will ask the next legislature to appropriate $5,000,000 for anew cell house. Inasmuch as there is unlimited room outside, it would be a lot better for the taxpayers, as well as the prisoners, to follow the example of California and many other states and take the majority of these prisoners out and have them build roads. ati ft If, as charged by the D. A. R„ Representative Griffin of somewhere has introduced a bill in congress to relieve aliens desiring to become citizens of the necessity of swearing to defend this country in time of war, then Representative Griffin should be retired by his constituents. Any alien whose orchid-like sensibilities are offended by such a pledge can easily escape the same by staying out of the U. S. A, INASMUCH as the national platforms of the two great parties are twin beds, it is not so important that the President consider the politics of those whom he appoints to the supreme bench, but it is most important that he appoint men who have no prejudies either for or against people or property, but will give both a square deal. n a a The only lawyers who meet this requirement are those who have been in the general practice, men who have tried all kinds of cases for all kinds of clients. The lawyer who has but two or three great corporations tor clients is as unfit for the supreme court as the lawyer who has practiced exclusively for two or three labor unions. The lawyer has a conscience, but if he has been a specialist, then his conscience will dance the Charleston with his specialty. a a a ADMIRAL BYRD proves himself once more to be a good sport by refusing to claim for his country any of the lands he discovered in the Antarctic, but this isn't the way countries do business, and the government at Washington should proceed to nail down everything the Byrd expedition found, particularly since Byrd is in the service of the United States. If we must divide something with the rest of the world, let's divide title to this new planet just discovered by our astronomers. a a a Mahatma Gandhi may be a great spiritual force and a great leader of the Hindoos, but he would not get very far In a beauty contest.

By F LANMS CK

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

It Is Hard to See Hoxo Fall Can Be Guilty of Taking a Bribe if Doheny Is Innocent of Giving One . TJ'ORMER Secretary Fall Is right -*■ in saying that his conviction, contrasted with Doheny’s acquittal on practically the same evidence, leaves a puzzle for the American people to solve. In a case of bribery, it Is hard to see how the man who took it could be guilty if the man who gave it were innocent. In a case of conspiracy, where three people were concerned, it is hard to see how one of them could be guilty, if the other two were innocent. In a case where the supreme court finds corruption and three juries find none, it is hard to see what we can depend on for justice. nan Leaving out the political hoopla in which the great oil scandal was brought to light six years ago, the supreme court began by cancelling the Fall and Doheny leases. Fall, Doheny, and Sinclair were then charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, while Fall and Doheny were charged with bribery. First, Fall and Doheny were cleared on conspiracy charge. Second, Fall and Sinclair drew a mistrial on the same charge. Third, Sinclair was cleared on the same charge after his case had been separated from that of Fall. Fourth. Fall was convicted on the bribery charge. Fifth, Doheny was acquitted on the bribery charge. u u * Another 'Vindication 1 J. HOGAN, Doheny's law- *■ yer, says that his acquittal vindicates the right of trial by jury. Senator Norris, on the other hand, says that it demonstrates the impossibility of convicting a man with $100,000,000. You can disagree with both these views, and still realize that something is wrong. Instead of trying to find out whether a theft actually was committed, we waste our time arguing whether it was grand larceny, petit larceny or burglary. Neither is it necessary to rdfer to such outstanding miscarriages of justice as have occurred in connection with this oil scandal to prove the point. If, as Senator Norris believes, it is impossible to convict millionaires, it also is impossible to convict lords of the racket and rum trade.

Indeed, political pull, as well as money, and organized vice, seem to have raised cain not only with our ability to enforce laws, but with our conceptions of justice. * ft St Different in England TN England, they not only are tearing down jails, but the public hangman complains of poor business, while in this country we are blaming prison mutinies on overcrowded conditions and are calling upon the nation and the states to spend millions for expansion. Even so, the number of criminals we catch and convict is far smaller than those who evade punishment in one way or another. It seems an ungrateful task to continue harping on the lawlessness from which this country suffers, but what represents a more vital problem? In other respects, we can claim not only to have won an enviable degree of success, but to have laid a solid foundation for the future. When it comes to social disorder, as manifested by law violations, by a confusion of ideas, and by a constant barrage of conflicting clamors, we have made a conspicuous failure. We have arrived at a point where we only are not unable to enforce those laws which we claim to regard as just, but lack the candor to repeal those that we claim to regard as unjust. a a b Wink at Violations A FOUR-DAY political conference at Princeton university was concluded last week with a discussion of the connection between professional politics and professional crime. That such condition exists generally is admitted, but most people seem hopelessly indifferent to what it implies. The idea that organized vice has entrenched itself to such extent that It can control elections and dominate the administration of justice seems to be regarded in about the same light as the latest five-reel thriller from Hollywoodnovel and amusing, but of no particular consequence.

yaay//nyss. ■tTCOAVfIB'THe'H WILLIAM MORRIS’ BIRTH ON March 24, 1834, William Morris, noted English poet, artist and Socialist, and inventor of the Morris chair, was born in England. Interested in theology, Morris intended after graduating from Oxford to found a religious brotherhood. But a trip to France threw him so completely under the spell of French Gothic that he decided to become an architect , instead. After trying his hand at architecture and painting. Morns found'd a firm for the design and manui.cture of artistic furniture. It was here he designed his famous chair. Abandoning this business he founded at Hammersmith the famous Kelmscott press, where he printed many beautiful books, including his own books of prose and verse. In his classic writings Morris proved himself one of the best story tellers since Chaucer. In 1885 he became an active Socialist.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Child Learns Language Sounds Early

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyireia, the Health Magazine. THE story is told of the stuttering broker who called in a bird store to buy a parrot. After selecting a bird that suited him so far as its appearance was concerned, he said: C-c-an he t-t-talk?” The storekeeper with a look of disgust answered: “If he couldn't talk any better than you can, I'd wring his neck.” Tile anecdote merely emphasizes the fact that skill in speech is a special characteristic of many people and entirely absent in others. The human infant begins to make itself heard promptly after birth and from that time onward responds voluntarily to all sorts of conditions. An investigation of children by Margaret G. Blanton revealed the fact that children vary during the first thirty days of life in the way they cry, the sounds they make, and the way the sounds continue. Getting an Early Start After infancy, according to the behaviorist John B. Watson, the child develops habits of a certain form of expression without, how-

IT SEEMS TO ME ™

IF in the beginning there was any feeling in my mind that a Give-a-Job-Till-June campaign might be a good newspaper stunt, I am far past that by now. The gravity of the situation becomes more apparent with each mail. Four hundred fifty letters came today, which makes a total of six hundred in forty-eight hours. At the moment, this column has many more applications than openings. So far we have arranged for half a dozen jobs. But it may be that before the week is over we can come closer to striking a balance. A few breaks are coming our way. One branch of the New York Life Insurance Company has offered to place one or two men, and such applications as seem most suitable will be mailed to them. One of the biggest corporations in America has two jobs to dispose of if it can find the right people through this column. Samuel Bernstein of the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company can use twelve men as canvassers. I like to be able to name companies, just to keep the thing rolling Miss Olive Bafider has contributed $5, writing:

I jfktoroship of I / Dai 1 4 ~V / lenten Devotion

Monday, March 24 RE? ERENCE FOR PERSONALITY Memory verse: “They who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them . . . but it shall not be so among you.” (Mark 10-43.) Read: Mark 10:35-45, MEDITATION There are two kinds of power—power over people and power with people. The man who aspires to have power with people will not seek to lord it over them. He will have too much reverence for their personalties, too much regard for their rights. He will not use them as means to his end. The domineering person may compel obedience, but he will not gain a following. No man has any superior claim to sucess and happiness. This is our Father’s world—“everybody’s world.” And God is “everybody's God.” PRAYER O Thou who has set us among our fellow men. persuade us of the might of the gentle and humble spirit; teach us the grace of patience; help us this day to put our trust not in might, nor in power, but in Thy gracious spirit. Amen.

Making Hash Out of It!

ever, having any particualr meanings attached to these forms. In a survey of the subject, Dr. John E. Anderson points out that investigators who have studied the early sounds of the child agree that during the first year it can make all sounds necessary for language, sometimes even as early as six months. It is likely the sounds become a symbol for activities and experience before the child begins to talk. After the first word is used, new words are added slowly. Somewhere between 18 to 24 months, the child realizes that things have names and goes through a naming stage during which new words develop rapidly. The major portions of language are developed early in childhood, so that by the age of 6 or 7, most of the characteristics of speech are developed. Before the child says a single word which lias a meaning, he seems to understand the meaning of sounds that occur around him. Many investigators have studied the vocabularies of children because the matter leads to the making of records. According to one investigator, a 1-year-old child has an av-

“I can not give a job, as I am just about holding one myself, being a poor stenographer.” * tt n Can Use Money ORIGINALLY it was not my intention to ask for or receive any money directly, but it can be used as partial payment for the clerical force which will be necessary to handle the letters. Miss Isabel D. Collins, who works from 8:30 to 5, has volunteered her services in the evenings, and I can make use of others who would be willing to give a little of their time in off-hours. Fritz Kaufmann, chief of the New York state bureau of employment, writes: “In reference to your column, I want to call your attention to the fact that the state of New York, under the department of labor, conducts a bureau of employment. “As chief of this bureau, I will be very happy to co-operate with you. Should you get any inquiries for workers that you can’t fill, be sure to let me know." Os course, as yet, the difficulty has been quite the reverse, but with luck we may be able to avail ourselves of the services of the bureau in time. I realize that columns about employment may not be very sprightly to the general reader, but I am not going to write about unemployment every day. Still, I mean to come back to the subject very frequently within the next few weeks. No matter how drab the presentation, people ought to be interested. They’ve got to be interested!

After Six Years “TT'OR six years,” wwites X., “I -T worked with one firm, being engaged in bookkeeping and general clerical work. Owing to reduction of staff, my services were dispensed with, and I have been unemployed in New York for the last four months. “For four months I have searched, visited agencies, wrote hundreds of letters and had interviews. In some cases I am too old, in others too young. When I am just right, the employer discovers my religion is not the right brand. “And after four months one gets discouraged. One degenerates. One can not sleep. After a time comes the great tragedy of it all; one ceases to feel as a useful member of society, and one even forgets to look tidy, or search for work. And New York is hard, oh, so hard!” In several other letters, the api plicant’s “brand of religion” has come up. In the first column on the theme of unemployment was the statement, “Please do not specify religion, race, nationality, or political views. Unemployment is unemployment.” This seems to me an excellent

erage vocabularly of seven words; an 18-month-old child, seventyone words, and a 2-year-old child, 320 words. Another investigator found three words as an average for a 1-year-old child; 272 words for the 2-year-old child; 896 for the 3-year-old child; 1.540 words for the 4-year-old child; 2,072 words for the 5-year-old child, and 2,562 words for the 6-year-old child. Thus from the first to the sixth year it acquires from 500 to 600 words each year. Much depends on the way in which the study is made. If the child is given various objects and asked questions, many more words are found in its general use than if a record is kept of its ordinary use of words day after day. Another investigator found that at the completion of high school, children are able to use between 15,000 and 19,000 words. Another investigator found that a 2-year-old child says from 4,275 words to 10,507 words a day, using about one-half his total vocabularly. As the child grows older it uses more words, reaching as high as 15,000, using one-third of its vocabulary.

(deals 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 paucr.—The Editor.

rule for all employers during the present crisis. Nobody in a lifeboat thinks of asking a man in the water, “What church do you belong to?” Surely, that question should not be asked by any one just now. tt tt tt Mean Prejudice TANARUS) ACIAL and religious prejudice is mean and petty business, even in the most piping times of prosperity, but what man has a right to call himself a religionist of any brand when he is prepared to carry his bigotry all the way across the hunger line? I might mention the fact that the paper for this particular piece is free. Penn-Yohalem, Inc., stationers, said: “We haven’t any job to give, but if you’ll write about employment, this is our contribution.” I want to thank Floyd Gibbons for mentioning the “Give a Job Till June” movement in his Literary Digest, broadcast over WJZ. His willingness to give a stenographic job has. been duly noted. Even though the present tally shows many more seekers than givers, we’re not licked yet. Who’ll give a job till June? fCopyrieht, 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. —lsaiah 40:15. tt tt B My country is the world, and my religion is to do good—Thomas Paine.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—A recent article in the Indiana Daily Student, written by the editors of same, recalls to this writer’s mind that in his student days he always entertained a strange antipathy for the game of football, for the reason, probably, that he never was sufficiently strong physically to take any part in this popular sport. While reading this article, which stated that military training is making robots of the students of Indiana university, one is induced to picture these young editors as bespectacled, delicate individuals, who perhaps for about the same reason entertain the same envy for their more physically fit fellow students. These young gentlemen should keep in mind that an institution of learning functions well when it prepares its students for leadership in war as well as peace. The writer is a reserve officer in the United States army, a veteran of two wars, and observed the piti-

.MARCH 24, 1930

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Carl Akeley, an Unlettered Rural Boy, Brought Taxidermy to a High Art by His Persistent Endeavor. INTERESTING biographical sketches of twenty-one famous students of nature comprise “American Naturists,” by Henry Chester Tracy. (The book Just has been published by E. P. Dutton <fc Cos. at s3l. Tracy explains why he chooses to call his subjects “naturists" rather than naturalists. “The naturalist,” we are told, “is a man who studies nature to write about it in scientific terms. "The naturist is one who studies birds, animals, flowers and other beautiful things of nature, to write about them as a poet would.” Among his “naturists,” Tracy includes Henry David Thoreau, Walter Pritchard Eaton. Theodore Roosevelt, Mary Austin and Ernest Thompson Set-on. But he also includes a number who have written plenty of scientific volumes and whose right to the titles of naturalist and scientist are indisputable. These include Roy Chapman .Andrews, who found the dinosaur eggs in the Mongolian desert; the late Carl Akeley, the world’s greatest, authority upon the gorilla; and Frank M. Chapman, bird expert of the American museum of natural history. The volume should prove of interest to all lovers of nature, particularly those who have some acquaintance with the literature of the subject. m a a Akeley ONE of the most interesting sketches in Tracy's book is that of Carl Akeley. “Carl Akeley was a taxidermist,” It begins. “He also was an inventor in the strictest technical sense. “Taxidermist and inventor; it Is an unlikely combination from which to evolve an artistic genius. Can one invent an art? Apparently one can, if born an Akeley, or if not invent it, at least transform an existing skill into a pure form of art adventure.” He then tells how Akeley, who grew up on a farm, went to work at Ward’s establishment in Rochester. “At Ward’s, deer were being literally ‘stuffed.’ ” he writes. “The process was not merely crude, it was unscientific. It had not the remotest relation to any known art. “Now if any man living can explain w’hy a boy with a rustic background and a very imperfect education should have refused to content himself with doing all that his employers require him to do—should have studied skeletal anatomy and musculature, worked with scant encouragement until he devised an adequate technique for reproducing anatomical truth—if any can explain this, let him step forward!” The technique which Akeley worked out is now, of course, the standard for the museums of the world. Akeley brought the skill of a sculptor to the animal groups which he prepared for the American Museum of Natural History. “An animal preserved in the Akeley way was an imperishable specimen at the same time that it was a sculptural creation, an achievement in art quite as truly as if it were cast in bronze,” Tracy writes.

Andrews DISCUSSING Roy Chapman Andrews, Tracy writes: “Dr. Andrews carries the American spirit of enterprise into ancient, deserted worlds. “It is nature there and he portrays it; but nature in the Gobi is not at all the one we know. It requires uncommon courage to invade it and uncommon good humor to meet the strains it puts upon one. Roy Chapman Andrews has more than met the test. “Almost any chapter of his late book, ‘On the Trail of Ancient Man,’ bears proof of it. No American ever before had written into a record of strict scientific exploration so much exuberant interest, so much droll circumstances, so much informing narrative blended with robust adventuring and a spirit of all-per-suasive good-will. ’ “The book is not belles-lettres: it often verges on bel esprit of a jovial species—as when our grave and responsible scientist heads an important chapter. ‘3igger and Better Eggs., “That was the slogan, he tells, of the first modern hunters and finders of the famous dinosaur eggs. It is typical. Neither brigands nor sand storms daunted the members of the Central Asiatic expeditions or long dampened their bonhomie and zest. “Dr. Andrews must serve as the type and exemplar of the realifyloving group who composed his staff. “Many of the. nineteen Americans, experts and men of science, bore such titles as paleontologists or petrographer or paleobotanist and the like; but from his own account no more genial and fun-lov-ing as well as ardent and scrupulous collectors could have been gathered from the ranks of technologists.”

ful spectacle of our untrained officers and men in action against better trained troops of the enemy. It also will be well for these young men, when calculating the value of military training among our population of mixed origins, not to take too seriously the statements of politicians, but to consider carefully our position in relation to the rest of the world, and to keep in mind the thought that but 13 per cent of the earth’s population is white. A RESERVE OFFICER. How is the light of the glowworm generated? Although scientists know comparatively little about glow-worms it seems to be established that the light is generated in the act of breathing. Which of Shakespeare’s characters has the most to say? The most talkative character In all of Shakespeare’s works i* Hamlet. He has 1,659 line*.