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A Breach Will Come In the congressional elections this year, there probably will be more independent voting than there has been in surh elations in many years, tor the wets are adopting the familiar tactics of the Anti-Saloon League and many will vote as wets rather than as Democrats or Republicans. In some places where both the old party nominees are dry, there may be a third nominee, no will be supported by the wets. In some states where both old parties are considered reactionary, a third liberal party may be started. In New York the liberal forces in the Republican party are led by former United States Senator Wadsworth, who was beaten for re-election by the dry forces putting up an independent dry candidate. This resulted in the election of a Democrat, Senator Wagner, who was fully as wet as Wadsworth. But it was rule or ruin so far as the Anti-Saloon League was concerned. It preferred a wet Democrat to a Republican who wouldn't take orders from the Anti-Saloon League. Now Wadsworth is fighting back. The Republican party is controlled by the Republican Anti-Saloon League. Bu‘, so is the Democratic party. The league, backed by associated dry’ organizations, is a political holding company of the two old parties. Its general policy is to control Democratic nominations and then throw its strength to the Republican nominees, whose nominations it also dictates. It might as well be conceded that the Anti-Saloon League lobby Is about the smartest bunch of politician. l ; that ever Infested American politics—too smart for the leaders of both old parties. But it is essentially Republican and has controlled American politics in the interest of the Republican party ever since it made a deal with Harry Daugherty and helped nominate and elect Warren Harding as President. It even controlled a Democratic congress when Wilson was President; and the late Wayne Wheeler had more influence with that Democratic congress than President Wilson had. In a series of articles written by Wheeler for the New’ York Times in 1926, he bragged about how he dictated to a Democratic congress over Wilson's head. He also bragged about how he made Harding quit drinking. But worst of all. the Anti-Saloon League became the most effective political lobby that big business ever bought and paid for. But it delivered the goods—and practically put Jeffersonian democracy, the bill of rights, and the Democratic party in the discard. It wasn't the earnest contributions of the sincere church members that put prohibition over; it was the big money contributed by big business. But now organization is fighting organization. There are organizations just as capable and just as heavily financed w’hich are going to fight the devil with Are this year. That is, they are going up against the Anti-Saloon League; and before they get through one old party or the other Is going under. One party will become liberal or there will be a new party made up of the liberals in both old parties. There must be some place where the liberals in both parties can go. They are not happy where they are; and they are getting mighty tired of cowards in both old parties.

Justice It is the duty of a prosecutor to convict the guilty. Therefore, no criticism can lie against District Attorney Guy B. Moore of Buffalo, who sought to send Lila Jimerson to the electric chair for the murder of her artist-lover's wife. He could not know how rapidly death was moving in on the accused. As the trial neared its end. the Red Lilac, as Lila is called, collapsed in court. She was taken to a hospital. There she was permitted to plead guilty to second degree murder. Under the circumstances, the state is satisfied with that. In other words, the tate is willing to pennit a dying woman to keep on dying. If she becomes s; .eng enough to warrant her removal to prison, the s ate will supply a death bed for her. There she may lie and gaze at the gray walls until that hour v. nen shadows begin to appear where no shadows should be. The murmur which is the voice of the prison will become the dirge to accompany her passing. Perhaps a kindly matron will sit beside her at the last moment Maybe a chaplain will read from a book: “Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Thy rod and thy staff will comfort me.'' And as he reads, maybe, the specter wil enter her tiny cell. He will place his cold fingers upon her and say: "Come!” Thus will the law be vindicated. Thus will the murder of Mrs. Henri Marrhand be avenged. And Henry Marchand—he who seduced the Red Lilac “for art's sake'—will go his way. With his c ever hands he will mold dead clay into images that s :m to live— images of women: perhaps images of women who have loved him as the Red Lilac loved him. And in the backwoods of the Indian reservation whence Lila Jimerson came and to which her broken body soon will be taken, perhaps the braves of a cnee proud people will gather and marvel at the atrangeness of the white man's law. Maybe there will be one among them who will ask: “Which is the greater evil—to kill a woman's body Or to kill a woman’s soul?” This Is Tyranny Two more persons have been convicted and given heavy sentences for distributing Communist literature, rhis time it is two young girls in Ohio. One was given rom five to ten years in prison and fined $2,000: the other was sentenced to from one to five years. This makes five Communists convicted under the Ohio .Timinal syndicalism law in connection with the Martins Ferry meeting last fall. The fact that these convictions were of such little public interest that they were not even reported in most newspapers, and that they have resulted in no public protest, is damning evidence of the death of hat popular and militant Americanism which forced &e Bill of Rights into the Constitution. When it comes to protecting property rights, the police and state militias rush into action, judges issue les for the corporation; But when it is a question if human rights, the collapse ot our civil liberties is not even noticed. Take the case of these two girls. There is no reason why they should not belong to the Communist party, if they choose; it is as legal as the Republican

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and Democratic parties. There is no reason why they should not distribute literature demanding a change in form of government, if thev choose; that right of agitation is not only written into our Constitution, but has been affirmed specifically by most of the great American leaders. Lincoln, Jefferson, and many others asserted even the right of revolution. But these girls were not inciting persons to violence. They said on the witness stand that they believed simply that the workers—who constitute the vast majority of citizens—should organize to obtain control of the government. They said they did not advocate the use of force. But they ventured the prophecy that unless peaceful means sufficed, the time would come when the workers would use force Os course they nad an absolute right to do what they did, to say what they did, to make the prophecy they did. That they were sentenced to prison is proof not of their lawlessness, but of the lawlessness of the legislators and courts which violated the Constitution. The real "crime” of these girls was that they were poor and unknown and associated with an unpopular, though legal, party. Had they been United States supreme court Justices like Holmes or Brandeis, or Senators like Borah and Norris, or college professors, or preachers, or editors, or merely Republicans or Democrats, they could have exercised their American right of criticising American institutions and demanding a change in government to their hearts’ content. But because they lack social prestige or political orthodoxy, they were sentenced to prison. Such is the cowardice and tyranny to which the America Bill of Rights has fallen. Huston Still Chairman The country still is waiting for the Republican national committee to get rid of its chairman, Claudius H. Huston —waiting somewhat impatiently. All that Jim Watson, the G. O. P. leader in the senate, and others can do will not succeed in obscuring the issue. Watson says that despite the senate lobbying committee revelations, Huston Is essentially "honest.” That is a matter of opinion and of definition. But that is not the issue. The public is not particularly interested in whether the Republicans choose to have an honest or dishonest national chairman. Nor is the public specifically concerned with the fact, as revealed by the investigation, that Huston double-crossed his lobby employers by temporarily diverting $36,000 of their lobby fund to his personal brokerage account to play the stock market on margins. But it is very much the public’s business that Huston, as head of the ldbby to grab Muscle Shoals for the power trust, continued such activities after the Hoover administration took office. And it is very much the public’s business that Huston’s lobby outfit has counted on his elevation to the Republican chairmanship to help it get Muscle Shoals. The investigating committee has uncovered a memorandum by Huston’s lobby associate, Willis C. Waldo, secretary of the Tennessee River Improvement Association, which states: ‘‘Yesterday the Republican national committee elected as its chairman Claudius H. Huston of Tennessee, long known to Tennesseeans as the president of the Tennessee River Improvement Association. This organization has opposd government operation at Muscle Shoals for many years. "With the President pledged to oppose the policy of government operation, and the chairman of the Republican national committee coming from the presidency of the organization that has opposed this policy, will any reasonable man expect anything but a veto of a government operation bill, should congress pass such legislation?” The answer is. of course, that "any reasonable, man.” in view of this expose, expects the expulsion of Chairman-Lobbyist Huston, the passage of the Norris bill again by congress and its signature by President Hoover.

REASON By F LANDIS CK

THIS is an Interesting .controversy between Governor Green of Michigan and the federal radio commission, the Governor proceeding to build a radio station for state police purposes without the commission’s consent, for if the Governor can get away with it, then federal control falls to the ground and every state in the Union can authorize as many radio stations as it pleases, which would result in a badly scrambled sky. a a a And another possibility suggests itself. If an applicant. for any reason, be denied a license in his own state, he could go into another state and get consent to build his station, and if he had sufficient power, it would not matter where he sent his tidings from. It is possible to imagine one state becoming a haven for undesirable broadcasters, or those unable to meet reasonable requirements, as Nevada has been able to establish at Reno a mtcca for all who desire to shed their matrimonial martingales for no particular reason whatever. • a a a WE see where a board into which former President Chester A. Arthur carved his initials, as a student. has just been presented to Union college in New York. The White House never knew a greater gentleman than Arthur. During his administration a youthful Indiana tenderfoot was doing Washington in a day. to meet the requirements of his round trip ticket, and Arthur rode past in an open carriage. The youth tipped his fried egg derby and made the best bow he had in stock, whereupon the President tipped his silk tile, bowing graciously to the tenderfoot, thereby making his trip a howling success. a a a After having lived all these years In the Balkans, where it is dangerous to sit alone or with any number of people, it was the purest affectation for Queen Marie of Rumania to refuse to sit at that luncheon in Egypt until the perilous number, thirteen, had been removed by the addition of a native officer. a a a SPEAKING at the Pittsburgh banquet, given on his 75th birthday, Secretary Mellon said among other things, “Life is both full and interesting.” That's usually the case at a Pittsburgh banquet, a a a How chesty the Lone Star state, pre-eminent for its Volsteadian aridity, must be as its most distinguished namesake, Texas Guinan, rises grandly above the padlocking, of one of her centers of culture and straightway opens another. a a a We seldom agree with Tom Heflin, but we do when he denounces the Doheny verdict as a “rank travesty on Justice.” •

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M, E. Tracy SAYS:

The Navy Parley Appears to Have Degenerated Into a Procession of Formulae and No One Seems to Be Disappointed. THE movement in India led by Mahatma Gandhi, whether it develops into a revolution or turns out to be only another flash in the pan, is a strange and anomalous throwback. While other people clamor for the so-called improvements of western civilization, the Gandhi faction is fighting to ged rid of them. It wants no electric lights, no power-driven looms, no leisure at the price of mass production. Its origin is social, rather than political, and while its objective is independence, it wants that independence so that it may return to the ways of the fifteenth, or even the fifth, century. V B * To the esthetic sages of Hindooism, machinery is inconsistent with spiritual growth. They see nothing in it but the hardness of inanimate steel, nothing but the destruction of those occult forces which they regard as the salvation or mankind. To them, British rule, with its efficiency experts, crowded factories, and roaring engines, represents the triumph of matter over mind. They do not admit that abstract thought has played the same part in developing the dynamo that it has in developing philosophy. 808 “yttHILE there’s life, there’s W hope,” which is about all one can say of the naval conference. Briand returns to Paris with a formula which Tardieu is expected to reject. How many incidents like that have been reported since the conference began? Apparently, somebody always is going somewhere with a formula w’hich somebody else is expected to reject. Indeed, the show appears to have j degenerated into a procession of formulae. The worst of it is, no one seems ! to be disappointed. Paragraphers crack jokes and art- | ists draw cartoons, just as though j the one important side of this con- j ference were its funny side. Have ten years of peace caused us to forget the horrors of war. or have ten years of conferring and ; palavering made us pact-shy? 808 Pay the Piper THE treasury department reports j that the war cost this country more than $51,000,000,000, and that we will be paying the bill for ; another twenty years. At that, we probably made money out of it, which is one reason why we are beginning to wonder if war is such a misfortune after all. What is even more surprising, | those nations that did not make j money are beginning to wonder, also. j One feels the old-time attitude of i complacency reasserting itself. Widows, orphans, gold star moth- j ers and a few so-called pacifists j still cling to the Wilson notion that I nothing would justify allied vie- ! tory except a sincere effort to end i war. but other people are beginning to doubt. Once more, the clamor for selfdefense makes itself heard, w’hile statesmen make national security an excuse for blocking every move. M B B Jingoism on Rise THOUGH peace still is popular on the surface, jingoism gains ground underneath. Not only in official circles, but on street corners, one heajs the ; prophecy of half a dozen possible \ conflicts, and that, too, without any [ considerable note of sadness, or re- j gret. By and large, It. looks as though ; we hadn’t learned as much as we i thought we had when we were urging the boys to enlist for “a war to j end war and save the world for democracy.” BUB In spite of all the good order that j was supposed to supervene when kaiserism had been vanquished, about as much discontent and revolution is seething now as then. In spite of all that was said about war guilt on the one hand and war aims on the other, we j Americans are glad to watch the show once more as highly enter- j tained spectators.

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P. T. BARNUM’S DEATH April 7 ON April 7, 1891, P, T. Barnum, famous American showman, died at Bridgeport, Conn. His first real venture in showmanship occurred when he bought for SI,OOO Joyce Heth, aged Negro woman, reputed to be the nurse of George Washington. Although he was only 25 years old, Barnum created his own ballyhoo and exhibited this freak for considerable profit. After meeting several reverses, each of which reduced him to poverty, Barnum bought the American Museum in New York, One of the greatest curiosities he displayed there was his “Fejee Mermaid.” It had the head of a monkey and the body of a fish and was advertised as having been captured by Japanese fishermen. In 1847 he introduced Jenny Lind, famous Swedish singer, to America paying her SI,OOO a night for 150 nights. The demand for seats was so great that tickets were auctioned off, bringing exorbitant prices. When two of his museums were destroyed by fire. Barnum established his “Greatest Show on Earth,” a traveling circus and menagerie. Barnum was an unsuccessful candidate for congress, but was four times elected to the Connecticut legislature.

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- r DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Cereals Give Energy; Lack Vitamin D

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN her survey of modem diets, Dr. Lydia J. Roberts has given special consideration to recent studies on the place that cereals should occupy in human diets. Cereals are primarily what many persons call energy foods, that is, they provide, in most instances, a high caloric intake. In the first place, cereals do not contain large amounts of vitamin D, which is exceedingly important for preventing rickets and for bone growth. In this country, the deficiency of cereals in this vitamin is being overcome by the irradiation of cereals. However, even this is unnecessary, provided one gets a sufficient amount of sunshine, takes cod liver oil, or some other source of vitamin D.

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WHY, I wonder, does the world put such a premium on wistfulness? And, again, what is it that the wistful want? It is easy to tell by their eyes that there is a longing, but neither fame nor fortune will bring surcease. The wistful are never long without these commodities, and the more fortunate and famous they become, by just so much is their obvious yearning intensified. Most of the great ones of the world belong among the wistful. In that list should be set down the most popular living American actress, the best loved English playwright, and the ex-heavyweight champion of the world. I need hardly to say that I am thinking of Maude Adams, James M. Barrie and Jack Dempsey. Miss Adams and Barrie were born wistful, but Dempsey never got that way until he won the championship. Yet he remained wistful even when the title was taken away from him. at a a Mark of Plan I REALIZED his qualifications for the first time on the afternoon that he knocked out Georges Carpentier. And it was after the knockout that the curious plaintive peering, which is the mark of the clan, came into his eyes. Eighty thousand fans were shouting “Dempsey, Dempsey, Dempsey,” and he stood by the ropes and acknowledged the applause with a look which went over the heads of the crowd and beyond the rim of the big bowl. It even seemed as if the thing he was seeking lay entirely outside Boyle’s thirty acres. I don’t know what he wanted. Probably he didn’t. Maybe he was wishing he were Carpentier. “If Lake Erie should back up and flood Detroit.” writes in Paul U. Kellogg of the Survey Graphic, “put 110,000 out of work, put a burden of $500,000 a month on its municipal welfare department, we should have streamers across the front pages of every newspaper in the country. There were no such headlines in December, January and February; yet that in what unemployment did this winter.” And of course it wasn’t just Detroit. This was the broadest flood the nation has known in recent years. In fact, it was a flood and hurricane combined. The war itself laid a much lighter hand on the country. Many people will say that these statements are net true. Possibly not I have in my possession no special set of graphs and charts. m a a Hungry Need Bread BY now the waters began to recede. A columnist has as much right to guess as anybody else and I think it almost inevitable that America will be, at the very least,

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The American diet is a varied diet, and thus is likely to provide most of the essential substances. There are few’ complete or perfect foods. If a person eats cereals, and meats, liver, cod liver oil and lettuce in addition, he will get most of what he needs for health and growth. In China, the majority of the lower classes eat diets whose content of cereals is as high as 65 per cent. The problem of high cereal diet seems to be merely the provision of the supplementary substances that have been mentioned. While milk is especially important as a supplement to cereal diets, providing many of the lacking factors such as calcium and proper proteins, even milk need not be added if the other necessary substances are provided in other ways.

convalescent when June rolls around this year. Yet there are intervening weeks. The hungry can not feed on presidential proclamations. They can’t even pretend to be Belgians. If the turn in the tide already has come or is waiting just around the corner, there is all the more reason why we should rush out to meet it. I was helping L. pass out some cigarets along the breadline the other day and one of the liners said in all seriousness, "They’re advertising cigarets.” L. was -indignant. "You couldn’t get a dime out of the whole line if you stood ’em on end and shook ’em,” he said. And the moral of that is the belief that the best way to restore prosperity is to end the infection of bitter want. If 2,000 vicims of smallpox stood in line outside the Little Church Around the Comer every morning the community would be frightened into taking immediate action. Poverty is far more contagious than smallpox and leaves much deeper scars. Out of enlightened self-in-

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Monday, April 7 THE GLORY OF RENUNCIATION Read I Corinthians 8:8-13. Memory verse: “No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself.” fJohn 10 18.) MEDITATION The glory of renunciation lies in the fact that it is one’s own act. No man can demand it of us. Paul said: “If meat make my brother to offend I will eat no meat while the world endureth.” That was his own free choice. His brother cov.ld not rightfully demand that sacrifice. The surrender of privilege was one that Paul freely made. How proudly Jesus uttered the words of our memory verse—“No man taketh my life from me. I give it!” in freely making sacrifices for others we discover that this seems to be the way that leads to our own joy and welfare. Gallahad announced a profound law of life when, as he sat down m Merlin’s chair, he said: “If I lose myself I find myself.” PRAYER “Suffer me not by any lawless act of mine to befoul any innocent life or add to the difficulty of any erring one that struggles honestly against sin. Grant me a steadfast scorn for pleasure bought by human degradation. Grant that I may look all men in the face wish the eyes of a brother.”—Rauschenbusph.

; The high value of liver, eggs and lettuce as the supplementary substances to be taken in connection with high cereal diets can not be overemphasized. Investigations made in Japan and in Hawaii show that Japanese infants do well, although the diets of Japanese and Filipino mothers do not contain milk. ; These mothers do eat, however, j large amounts of meat, fish, eggs j and vegetables. They nurse their | babies for a long time, and the children are rarely given cow r ’s milk. After six months, the children begin to receive large amounts of cereal and their growth is not so good as that of children in our own country. Rickets is rare among these chili dren and mild when it does occur, j probably because the ultraviolet rays | are extremely adequate in subi tropical countries.

(deals and opinions expressed in 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 ot this paper.—The Editor.

terest you ought to do something about it. Give a job till June. BUB A Crying Jag A ND I will return to this subject again and after that again. A young man in the Morning Telegram writes, “Wouldn’t Broun get farther if he’d lay off the crusade about one day in three? He could come back to it with more hitting power, make it sound less like a good guy with a crying jag.” As to the crying jag I plead guilty. What is there to laugh about? And for that matter what else is there to write about? I’d like to turn out a moderately amusing column about almost anything if I could think one up. 1 look through the papers for leads and nothing seems to jump up at me except such stories as touch on people out of w’ork. There’s nothing strange about that. We were all like that during the war. "Food will win the war,” was hammered at us from every fence. Food will win this one, too. Even that old standby—the Volstead act—seems singularly unimportant and trivial just now. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times) What causes a stye on the eye? It is caused by irritation, especially from a foreign substance getting into the eyelid.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Captain James Cook Did a Great Work in Mapping the Vast Ice Packs of the Antarctic. TT'ROM one point of view, the chief result of the Antarctic voyages of Captain James Cook was a negative one. He erased a lot of land from the maps then in existence, showing what many had supposed was land was only a sea of drifting ice. Stating the case positively, Captain Cook, by his voyages from 1771 until his death in 1779, mapped the great me packs of the Antarctic. On his first voyage he mapped the ice pack south of the Indian ocean. On his second, he did the mme south of the Pacific. On ms third and last voyage, he completed his task with the region south of the Atlantic. He came close to the Antarctic continent on two occasions, but failed to discover it, though he did discover the island of South Georgia. Captain Cook’s brilliant voyages were followed r period of forty years diming which little was done in the way of exploration. Smith, a Britisher, discovered the South Shetland islands in 1819. Palmer, the American, reached the islands off the west coast, of Graham Land in 1821, while Powell, a Britisher, discovered the South Orkneys in 1822. oatt Russian THE most important voyage during these years was that of Fabian von Bellingshausen, a Russian sailor, commissioned by Czar Alexander I in 1819 to circumnavigate the south polar regions. Von Bellingshausen’s voyage is second in importance only to that of Cook. In fact, the Russian sailor, started out with the purpose of supplementing Cook’s work, sailing as far south as possible in those regions where Cook had detoured to the north. He had two ships, the Vostok and the Mimi, each of about 500 tons. With these, he bravely sailed into the ice-filled seas of the south. In December, 1819, he sighted South Georgia island, which Cook had discovered. Later, he discovered the Traverse islands. In the course of his journey, he crossed the Antarctic circle five times. On Jan. 21, 1821, he reached his “farthest south,” latitude 69 degrees 52 minutes. On the next day he discovered a small island, the first ever sighted south of.the Antarctic circle. He named it Peter island. A week later he sighted Alexander Land. Bellingshausen completed Cook’s wqrk of clearing imagined land off the map of the southern hemisphere. One of the most remarkable voyages of this period w r as made by Captain James Weddel, a Britisher, who had gone into the Antarctic in a brig of only 160 tons to hunt seals. He chanced, however, to find the region south of South Georgia exceptionally free from ice and decided to push on. On Feb. 20, 1823, he reached latitude 74 degrees 15 minutes, some 200 miles closer to the pole than Captain Cook had made. Here he turned back. Had his ship been properly equipped for exploration, he might have made an even better record. B B B Continent THE first to sight the Antarctic continent was Captain Biscoe, who headed one of the whalers of the Enderby Brothers of London. This firm encouraged its captains to attempt the exploration of new waters whenever conditions seemed favorable. Tn 1831 Captain Biscoe, finding the weather excellent, was able to stay south of the Anarctic circle for five weeks. He entered the circle directly south of Africa and sailed to the east. On Feb. 25, 1831, he thought he sighted land. For nearly three weeks he battled against the drift ice in the hopes of reaching it. On March 16 he again saw land looming dimly beyond the rugged hummocks of ice. He named the peak of land Capt Ann and the coast which seemed to extend from east to west, Enderby Land. Enderby Land actually is part of the Antarctic continent, so that this marked its discovery. A number of important discoveries were made in the period from 1837 to 1843. During this period a number of expeditions were sent into the Antractic by the governments of France, Great Britain and the United States. Important expeditions included those of D’Urville, Wilkes and Rose.