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The International Bank The bank of international settlements set up under the Young plan Is something entirely new in economics. The broad scope of its prospective operations is hinted by Thomas W. Lamont, who. with J. P. Morgan, was a member of the experts committee at Paris last year. “The board will in time,” he says, “be the regular meeting place of the representatives of the twelve or fifteen leading central banks of the world. They will be able periodically to report ... on economic and financial conditions prevailing in the districts from which they come, and, by reason of being thoroughly posted in advance, to minimize or even prevent, through co-operative methods, the development of perilous economic or exchange conditions.” Lamont’s definition makes clear that it will operate in the final analysis as a permanent supreme economic council. The idea challenges economists and statesmen everywhere. It is questionable whether the governments are ready to intrust to private bankers the degree of economic control implied. The constitution of the bank prohibits representation of any government on the board by one of its own public officials. With these portents of the potential power of the international bank, congress would do well to consider carefully two resolutions presented by Chairman McFadden of the house banking committee, calling upon the administration for clarification of the United States government’s relations to the Institution. Gates W. McGarrah relinquished the governorship of the New York Federal Reserve bank to accept a place on the directorate of the international bank. To what extent Is this government to participate in this new venture? International financial organization is a laudable, an inevitable goal. But no prudent step in that direction can be taken until the governments concerned have made certain that the ultimate political power thus centralized shall be In hands responsive to public sentiment. Ministries could bo made or broken by shifting rates for international credits. Parliaments might be stripped of their power to control national finances.

The Odd Case of Capone Whatever else may be said about it, American civilization of the year 1930 at least furnishes plenty of interesting spectacles. Not least among these, during the last month, has been the return of A1 Capone to his native heath. Capone spent a year in the Philadelphia jail. Finally, on a bright spring day. he was released. Instantly the attention of the nation was focused on him. He vanished from sight; one would have thought the heir to the British throne was missing. He was reported in Chicago, in Indiana, in Florida and on the high seas. The public could hardly stand it. Then, after days of almost unendurable suspense, the great man appeared. Straight into the office of the commissioner of detectives in Chicago he stalked, to draw up a chair and hold a lengthy discussion behind closed doors, while the nation waited with bated breath. It was a peculiar spectacle. In the anteroom, gazing raptly at the glazed door, was the armed might of Chicago, as personified in the sturdy forms of two dozen or more detectives. Mingled among them were reporters and photographers, in equal number. Breath continued abated. . There was a low hum of conversation, but it never lasted long. Someone would look up at the door; others would notice, and all glances would fix on the same objective. And, finally, he appeared. Except for the booming of flashlights, the audience was silent, almost respectful. Out he went. Hanked by two lawyers, to enter an automobile and whirl away. There was something about it all reminiscent of the departure of a presidential candidate from his campaign headquarters, except there was no cheering. All this, of course, derives its special interest from the fact that the center of all of this fuss is—unless everybody is mistaken—one of the most notorious criminals ever harbored on the American continent. The doctor who found a cure for diabetes could come and go without causing a single head to be turned. No living American poet could hope, by the mere fact of his arrival in town, to get front-page newspaper space. Photographers do not go out in droves to photograph great scientists or humanitarians. But A1 Capone Is one of that select band whose everv move is news; a member of a small group which includes movie stars, professional athletes, criminals and— now and then—real public servants. You can draw your own moral from all this, if vou like. Anyhow, you must admit that it has all been very- absorbing. Not So Dry Senator Brookhart, in debate with Clarence Darrow, declared New York eventually would be made dry "like lowa.” t Reference to the annual report of the commissioner of prohibition showed that federal officers arrested 314 persons for violation of the liquor laws in lowa in the fiscal year 1929. and assisted state officers m the arrest of 627 others. No record was shown for purely state operations under its own dry law. Federal officers also seized 29 distilleries, 88 stills. 97 still worms and 1.214 fermenters. They confiscated 6.445 gallons of spirits and a considerable amount Os malt liquor and mash lowa federal courts terminated more than 210 liquor prosecutions. lowa, no doubt, is much drier than New York. But It's still a little bit damp, we should judge. Catching Up With Crime Federal statutes protect victims of confidence men and swindlers who attempt to carry on their operations through the mails. But the law lags behind modern Invention, and the crook has been quick to turn this fact to his advantage. This we learn from an address by Edward S Silver, former United States assistant attorney for the southern district of New York, who has handled many mail fraud cases. “The criminal has been quick to utilize the telephone, telegraph and the rapid means of transportation to further his unlawful game,” says Silver. Tb law has not kept pace with these developments —to the satisfaction and enrichment of the law-

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breaker, and with unfortunate consequent results to the victims.” Silver cited typical cases where swindlers carefully avoided use of the mails in selling stocks of little or no value, and could not be reached by the federal government. State statutes were inadequate because the business was interstate and covered a large area. Asa remedy, Silver proposes new federal laws. The federal government, he says, is the only agency that can provide effective and unified measures against this new type of crook. “There is a crying need of federal laws making it a crime to use the telephone, telegraph and radio in furtherance of unlawful purposes, he says. “It should be made a crime for a person to travel, or cause one to travel in interstate commerce, pursuant to a scheme to defraud. Congress has the power to do It.” Doubtless there is abundant evidence to support Silver’s charges. Numerous instances of the kind he described were uncovered in New York and other large cities during the stock market boom. The senate committee considering the creation of a federal communications commission well might give thought to the subject. A Better Way Letting well enough alone seems a better policy concerning Mexican immigration than the Johnson bill, recently reported out by the house immigration committee. It would put immigration from Mexico and all countries of the western hemisphere on a strict quota basis. The department of state recently said its studies indicated that "fewer than 15,000 Mexicans will enter the United States in the current fiscal year.” Under the Johnson bill. Mexican immigration would be scaled from 11,021 for the fiscal year of 1931 to a final quota of 2,900. We agree with the minority report of the committee that “the only reason why Mexican immigration was as large as the figures indicated was because our authorities have not been enforcing the literacy test as they have been against immigrants from other countries.” The present law\ when enforced as apparently it is being enforced, is enough check on Mexican and other immigration. If quota restrictions must be agreed to by congress this is not the time to do it. Grundy’s Boomerang Wlrnt foreign countries may do to retaliate against the Grundy prohibitive tariff is well illustrated by the action of the German reichstag in overhauling the tariff schedules of that country. The reichstag voted to increase the levy on wheat to a possible maximum of $28.50 a ton, with authorizations of further increases if there are attempts from abroad to dump wheat on the German market. “Large quantities of wheat stored in the United States were especially envisaged,’” says a cable dispatch from Berlin. The tariffs on barley, flour and sugar were increased similarly. A government monopoly has been established for com, through which all domestic or imported grain must be marketed. America’s exports amount to around 10 per cent of her production. But this margin has been called the country’s “balance of prosperity.” In its final deliberations on the Grundy tariff bill, congress will do well to consider this angle of the tariff problem with care. America can not expect to impose a virtual embargo on foreign importations and dump her own surpluses without hindrance. The chest measurement of the recruits in the United States navy is the largest of any navy in the world, according to latest statistics. It will be incresting to observe the result of another measurement following the London conference. A piece of news that will be cheering to Irishmen the world over Is that bricks now may be made ts big as the side of a house.

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'T'HERE is a possibility of genuine farm relief in A Thomas A. Edison's experiment, looking to the extraction of commercial rubber from golden rod, for it would take many an acre to produce enough to take care of automobiles. Thus the gasoline-drinking quadruped may make amends for the corn, hay and oats which it junked when it put the horse out of business. a u ts It is a great picture this fine old genius gives us at the age of 83, seeking to add this great achievement to his many gifts to the human race. His hair is white and the passing years have diminished his bodily strength, but he works with the enthusiasm of older days. BBS WHAT a billowy laugh his energy in the evening of life gives to the efficiency experts who seek to turn out upon the bare pasture of unemployment all those who are over 45 to 50. Edison is worth more to the world than all the efficiency experts who ever sat around a table to reduce the salaries of all but themselves. b a b The Lord has been good to the United States by giving it Thomas A. Edison and good to Edison b;* giving him the genius which enabled him to drag up. the cliff of human progress. His has been the greatest blessing: he has been permitted to do the thing in life he wanted to do. BBS Mr. Edison does not expect to live 100 years and would not want to survive his usefulness. He told us once upon a time how his father came to see him and said on leaving: “I’m tired of living: I’ve seen you and now I’m going to see vcur sister; then I'm going home and die." And he did. B B B WHAT a pity Methuselah couldn't have been gathered to his fathers early and Edison given hh centuries. Methuselah didn’t amount to much; he just sat around and fought flies and that fried mush wasn't as good as it was 500 years ago, that children were not as reliable as they were 700 years before, and that statesmen were not in it with those 900 years previous. B * B If he could continue to hit on all cylinders, think what Thomas A. Edison could do with those 969 years which mumbling Methuselah dropped into the dusty hopper of uselessness!

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Ever Since the Dawn of Consciousness It Has Been Our Unhappy Fate to Build Castles in the Air. FROM his yacht off Genoa, Marconi sends a radio impulse across 10,000 miles of sea, and closes a circuit in Sydney, Australia, which sets myriads of lamps ablaze. In Buffalo, an old Indian squaw tells how she murdered a woman whom she scarcely knew, because of fear that the latter would bewitch her. It is hard to realize that such extremes can exist in the same age, but they do, always have, and probably always will. a tt e We are Imaginative beings. We could not help dreaming if we would. Since the dawn of consciousness it has been our unhappy fate to build castles in the air. Some of the castles take shape in brick and stone, while others crystalize in superstitious beliefs. In either case, we become slaves to the system they represent; in either case w r e justify the loss of our independence by the thought that we are helping humanity, and in either case we are victims of a faith which runs to dogma. t tt tt Russia Is Idolator HERE is Russian Communism. cla Ing to be the most coldly rational creed ever promulgated, but ready to immolate itself on the altars of a theory. The churches are closed, and tire ikons smashed, but the red tomb of Lenin takes their place, the writings of Karl Marx become a gospel, and Stalin enjoys the power of a spiritual as well as a political overlord. one Neither Is Russia the only example of modem idolatry. Here in America, though we still have mass and the Bible belt, new gods are arising, the god of prosperity, of salvation by law, of ma-chine-male character, only to mention a few, and good intentions, noble experiments; how enthusiastically we excuse things in their name, and how complacently we ignore results that fail to square with our superstitious confidence. tt a a Prohibition Myth Breaks PROHIBITION gained influence, especially with women, because of the idea that saloons ruined children. Give us a generation without their maligned lure, we said, and the boys and girls of America would turn against old John Barleycorn. Well, here are the students of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Michi- ; gan and other universities, brought j up with the speakeasy, instead of : the saloon, and much wetter in i their attitude because of it. a a a The London naval conference is breaking down for precisely the same reason that other peace movements are breaking down. The world believes it can get peace without paying for it, is willing to make agreements, provided they bind no one to do anything, and will co-operate if it can do so without sacrificing one iota of sovereignty. The attitude is negative. What we have in mind is peace, by promising not to do things. Every community on earth could liberate itself from crime, if the criminals only would adopt a similar method. a a a All Bars Are Down THE new superstition runs to easy short-cut methods, education without study, wealth without work, leanness without exercise, sobriety without self-control. The idea is that we can produce a race of super beings by the simple process of inventing something, of perfecting a system and operating it by push buttons. “Keeping up with Lizzie,” has become a tenet of modern progress. Old people are excused because of the way they were brought up, but youth must conform. The girl who doesn’t bob her hair, smoke and read risque books, suffers from a social taboo. So does the boy who doesn’t pet, or carry a flask on his hip. Opposition to the old morality has developed into a crusade. Belief in the legitimacy of divorce degenerates into a clamor for free love. Man is a machine, we shout, a creature of circumstance, a marionette of fate, but society, though composed of men, possesses both will and wisdom.

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RONTGEN’S BIRTH ON March 27, 1845, Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist and discoverer of the X-ray, was born in Lennep. Germany. He ’-eceived his early education in Holland and then studied at Zurich. After teaching mathematics and physics at various universities he was appointed ordinary professor of physics at Wurzburg. It was here that he made the discovery for which his name is chiefly known, the X-ray. The discover].' came about by accident. Rontgen had been studying the mysterious green light of anew kind of vacuum tube when he suddenly was called away from his laboratory. Just before he left he laid the tube on a book containing a large antique key which was used for a bookmark. Beneath the book happened to be a photographic plate holder. The plate meant nothing to Rontgen ontil he exposed it while on a walk one afternoon and noticed on it the image of the key. He reconstructed the laboratory scene mst as it had happened originally anc achieved the same result. Not mowing what kind of light it was which produced the image of the key. Rontgen called it the X-ray.

Heredity at Bottom of Asthma

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. FOR some time the belief has been growing among those giving special attention to hay fever, asthma and food sensitization, that the condition tends to run in families. For this reason Dr. George W. Bray of the asthma clinic of the hospital for sick children in London investigated 200 consecutive cases coming to that clinic with this point in mind. Particular attention was paid to the appearance in any of the families of asthma, hay fever, eczema hives and migraine. Types of asthma associated with kidney or heart disease and inflammation of the skin associated with occupation were excluded as not being related to the specific sensitivity. Inquiry was made as to the records of 4,152 relatives, which would be about twenty relatives for each patient. All cases were children under 12 yars of age. It was found that

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IT seems 1 ' to me that out of the present period of depression, stenographers, clerks and bookkeepers ought to learn a lesson. White collar folk, more than any others, need organization. It doesn’t even require a big panic to deprive a typist of her job. At the first sign of slackness the boss gets panicky and the inevitable remedy for even the slightest slump is to fire a few stenographers. This is supposed to encourage the rest. It takes a good deal of training and aptitude to be a first-class stenographer. Probably it is true that the real experts are seldom unemployed. but this hardly holds good of the highly competent. It Is held against the unions that by limitation of apprentices they shut people out of any chance in many trades. That is hardly an unmixed evil. Tire fact that white collar workers get poor pay must be based on the fact that there are too many of them. # n a Bringing Up Susie IT is time that the community realized this. In scores of middling well-to-do families the daughter of the house is being trained in a business school. "Os course, we expect that Susie will be getting married soon, but you never can tell. We think she ought to have some training just to be on the safe side.” Well, Susie’s safe side, after she has mastered typing and stenography. is the possibility that with a very good break in luck she may be able to get an arduous job paying sls. Conditions might be better all around if there were fewer Susies and higher wages. I am asked every now and then by my theatrical friends to contemplate the terrible state of affairs brought about by the stage hands' union. The stock case is of the play which requires just one set—" Time, the present. Scene, the library of Colonel Mannering in his Long Island home.” This scene is set at the beginning of the run and even if "The Crimson Paper Cutter” plays one year on Broadway, you must have stage hands—four or five of them. They sit in the back of the theater and play pinochle. I am asked by my managerial friends, "Isnt’ that terrible?” The only answer is that it all depends on the point of view. Pinochle isn’t such a bad game and if I were a stage hand I would be all for such arrangement. Certainly I'd rather be an organized stage hand than a disorganized Susie. Terrible or not, no manager is going to come back stage and say, "Things are not so hot this week, I think I’ll get along with two stage hands instead of five.” The stage

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special sensitization appeared in most instances during the first year of life, but of course could appear at any time. Boys were affected three times as often as girls. Among the relatives, however, the figures indicated that sensitizations were about equally distributed among men and women. Thus from birth to 12 years of age, the sex incidence is three for men to one for women, whereas from 12 years on the incidence is about equal. Special attention was given to the possibility that inheritance was through the mother rather than through the father or vice versa. It finally was concluded that transmission appears to be twice as frequent through the female as through the male. A positive history of sensitivity in the family was present in about 'A per cent of cases of asthma in children. The more common asthma is in the family history, the earlier the

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hands would laugh at him. They can afford to laugh. They have a union scale. a a Slump IN my ow r n favorite job of painting I must admit that business is not so good. I haven’t sold a picture for six months. Not even “Tempest on a Wooded Coast.” I used to sell that two or three times a month. Never for very much —the top price was $2.35. There seemed to be a point at almost every party at my house at which somebody would get the notion that he wanted to buy “Tempest on a Wooded Coast.” I always asked cash. But it seemed to be the sort of picture men forget. When the purchaser went away he always left the painting behind him. It may be that my metier is not yet established. Already a few branches have been eliminated. People who look at my landscapes say, “No, you don’t seem to be a landscape painter.” And just as

| fellowship of | Dailij C / lenten Devotion \

Thursday, March 27 CHARITY FOR OTHERS’ . FEELINGS Memory Verse —"Looking to thyself, lest thou be tempted" (Galatians 6:1). Read—Galatians 6:1-10. MEDITATION Self-knowledge should give one charity. With all one’s good resolutions one blunders and fails and thrusts his Angers ofttimes "Into the heart strings of a friend.” But a man does not wish to be judged by chance misplays. He wants to be interpreted in the light of his best. We all crave the magnanimous judgments of others. Men, frail and faulty, may by the grace of God become wise and gentle. In the closing sentence of a book of stories of abnormal men and women the author, a detective, says: "As in a dream I hear a soft, far-away murmur —‘Let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.’ ” PRAYER “O Thou to whom we look for mercy in the hour of our shortcomings teach us to show the mercy that we seek, and to practice the gentle Judgments that we crave. Out of our need for charity, we would bring the mind of charity to our fellow-men. Amen.”

symptoms are manifested in the child. Moreover, the earlier the symptoms are manifested, the more likely it is that the child will have sensitizations to seevrai different substances. The forms of sensitivity displayed included all conditions mentioned. A child born in a family in which numerous ancestors have had hay fever is more likely to be affected with hay fever than with asthma. Os course, the thing that Is inherited is not a specific anatomical disturbance, as occurs for instance when one inherits the characteristic of six fingers on one hand; here the thing that is inherited is a susceptibility to sensitivity, whether it is horse hair, rabbit hair, chicken feathers, pollens of plants, or some other substance. Nature of the sensitivity then depends on the likelihood of exposure to the special substances, and secondary factors, such as diseases of the sinuses, tonsils or adenoids, and the occurrence of secondary infectious dis’eases, such as measles or whooping cough.

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

much has been said for my still lifes. My own belief is that I’m a marine painter. All my latest work deals with the ocean. There are advantages. The ocean does things in a large way. There are no tiny knicknacks, such as leaves and branches to bother you once you begin to paint the sea. And in the matter of color, the ocean is exceedingly obliging. That OF Debel Sea SO far my marines are all from memory. I haven’t seen the ocean for years and possibly it has changed some since my day. Sooner or later I shall have to take a look and check up on the pictures I have painted. If they don’t seem to tally, something must be done about it. Changes will have to be made. I suppose it would be simplest to change the pictures. Still, I have a deep affection for my marine pictures and possibly it will be just as well never to expose them to the test of salt water. However, nobody has even seen all the oceans or even the entirely of one. Maybe in some distant, forgotten corner of the ocean there is a patch of water precisely like that which I have painted.

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SCIENCE ■ BY DAVID DIETZ

We Must Go Back to the. Ancient Greeks for the Beginnings of Arctic Er* ploration. A N ancient Greek, courageously; sailing his little vessel northward into unknown regions, was startled and amazed to find himself confronted with phenomena such s.-s he never had dreamed of. Suddenly the sea became congealed. making it impossible for his boat to move, while ahead of the boat he saw a great dark wall rising out of the sea. He was convinced that he had reached the northern end of the world and that the congealed ssa, and the dark wall were to keep mtM from falling over the edge. His courage, it seems, was tempered with discretion and wisdont, and so he made no attempt to go farther north. Scientists today have a. fairly good idea of what had happened to this ancient Greek. In northern latitudes, the surface of the sea sometimes is known to become covercil with a layer of ice an inch thick in a single night Such a layer would explain rhe “congealed sea.” It would be thick' enough to prevent any further movement by a small boat such as the ancient Greeks used. The “wall” undoubtedly was the dense mass of fog known as "frost smoke,” which settles upon the ocean in high latitudes both when summer gives way to the cold or autumn and again when winter gives way to the warmth of spring. a a Thule r I ■'HE ancient Greek was Pytheas "*■ of Massilia, the first Arctic explorer. Many who think of Artie exploration as something very modern will be surprised to know that we must go back to the ancient Greeks for its beginnings. Pytheas probably was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, (Alexander lived from 356 to 323 B. C.) Unfortunately, Pytheas* ow’n writ-' ings have all been lost and we know of him only through the references to his writings made by Strabo, a famous Greek geographer who was born some 300 years later in 63 B. C. Pytheas, in all probability, did not cross the Arctic circle. Nevertheless, geographical authorities feel that he deserves the title of the first Arctic explorer. It seems that he first visited Britain and then proceeded to a place which he called the Land of Thule, which he said was six days’ journey by boat from Britain. There are various guesses as to the identity of Thule. Some authorities, including Professor R. N. R. Biown of the University of Sheffield, believe it was Norway. Others think it was Iceland or possibly one of the Orkney or Shetland islands off the coast of Scotland. a a a Greenland NOTHING more is heard of Arctic exploration for some hundreds of years. The Vikings are known to have crossed the North sea in the sixth century, A. D., perhaps earlier. It is probable that the early Norse walrus hunters reached Novaya Zemlya, tw’o islands in an elongated crescent shape stretching northward from the northern coast to European Russia, It is also thought likely that these early hunters reached Spltzbergen, famous in recent years as the jumping off place for the airplane and airship expeditions to the north pole. The second Arctic explorer of whom there is any record is a Norwegian, who lived about 870 or 890 A. D. He rounded the North Cape of Europe and discovered the Barents and White seas. After Ottar’s time, many voyages were undertaken from Norway to the White sea. In the ninth century the Vikings reached Iceland, in the tenth century Greenland, and in the twelfth what they called "Svalbard,” now generally assumed to have been Spltzbergen. The first report of Greenland came at the end of the ninth century, when a Norseman named Gunnbjorn Ulfsson was driven out of his course by a storm while on his way to Iceland. He reported sighting land. The real discoverer of Greenland was Eric, the Red. He and his men were exiled from Iceland for murder and set out to find the land which Gunnbjorn had reported. They reached Greenland about 982.

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