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Ask Them Now Under the leadership of the American Legion a demand will be made on the next legislature to provide free school books for all pupils in the public schools. The time to get action is before the candidates are nominated. Those'who favor this plan should refuse to vote for any candidate who does not make clear his attitude on this important subject. The cost of school books bears heavily on those who can least afford it. The heads of large families are most frequently those of the wage-earning class. The change of books frequently adds to the cost. In man\ families the cost is a real hardship. That free books may be furnished under present laws to those who show that they are unable to pay creates a situation that is brutal, rather than helpful. No child should be put under a humiliation of this sort. Life is harsh enough and children can be most unkind to each other. As nearly as possible all children should have an equal start. It would be fine if there was an equality of clothing and food as well as the equality of opportunity to learn. The spirit of equality disappears all too soon. Free school books for all children would go far to create this atmosphere and this spirit. A republic, to endure, should be careful to foster that spirit, rather than destroy it. The state has an interest in the education of all children, and the theory on which public schools are established demands that books be as free as the teaching and the buildings. In the northern part of the state the movement for free books is making headway. There will be opposition, of course, Free schools were opposed in the beginning. But they came and have justified their cost. Whenever a candidate for the legislature seeks your vote, ask his stand on this question. If you favor free books vote for tho e e who pledge their support. If you are op’ osed you probably will have no difficulty in finding someone to repi-esent your view.

“Extraneous Matters’’ '•Extraneous matters” is the phrase with which the White House dismisses the serious charges raised against the fitness of Judge John J. Parker, the Hoover nominee for associate justice of the United States supreme court. Now the opposition to Parker may be mistaken or erroneous, though this newspaper is convinced it is neither, but whatever else may be said about the Parker charges, they are not extraneous. Parker is charged on the basis of his yellow dog injunction decision with being prejudiced against the .rights of labor, the largest class of citizens in the population. Parker is charged on the basis of gubernatorial campaign speeches with prejudice against the constitutional political rights of the nation's twelve million Negro citizens. Parker is charged on the basis of his record as a lawyer and a judge of being essentially a political nominee, lacking in the intellectual distinction and legal eminence required of a member of the most powerful of all American institutions. Any intelligent, must less fair, person will admit that these charges go to the very heart of the question whether Parker should have been named and whether he shall be confirmed by the senate. There is only one way, if any, to get around those charges and that is to answer them fully and convincingly. The American Federation of Labor today formally requested the president to withdraw Parker's nomination. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on whose board are many distinguished and powerful leaders of public opinion, is officially pressing the fight against Parker. It is somewhat surprising also that the White House should deny the assertions of Republican party managers in the senate that they asked Hoover to withdraw Parker’s name. Those party managers make no bones about the reason for their opposition. They fear that a heavy labor and Negro protest vote In such states as Indiana. Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia may defeat the Republican party, A Hard Battle Faced In attacking the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals. Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts is going up against a powerful organization, and a Republican organization at that, if one may judge by the political color of its advisory board. Tinkham himself is a Republican. Following are the advisory board members of the board: Bishop James Cannon Jr.; Simeon D. Fess, Ohio: Willis C. Hawley. Oregon; Homer Hoch, Kansas; the Rev. Thomas H. Lewis. Washington, D. C.; T. J. B. Robinson, Iowa: Addison T. Smith, Idaho: John W. Summers. Washington (state!. All members except Bishop Cannon and Mr. Lewis are members of congress. Fess is senator from Ohio and Republican whip of the senate. Hawley, Hoch. Robinson. Smith and Summers are Republican members of the house of representatives and Hawley is chairman of the powerful ways and means committee Bishop William Fraser McDowell is president anrf the Rev. Clarence True Wilson Is general secretary of what officially is designated as the Methodist Episcopal church board of temperance, prohibition public morals, and this official church body is housed in a beautiful and costly building across the street from the Capitol in Washington. Since the death of the late Wayne B. Wheeler, the Anti-Saloon league is probably less powerful in politics than the Methodist board, its most efficient political leaders being Bishop Cannon and Clarence True Wilson. Every advisory member of the board who also is officially connected with the federal government is a Republican. The joint organisation af clergymen and members J

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of congress is probably the nearest approach to z. union of church and state this country ever has known. And despite the entire absence of Democratic congressmen, it wields an influence quite as powerful in the Democratic as in the Republican party. The same has been true of the Anti-Saloon League for years. The difference is that influence, so far as Democrats is concerned, is exercised in controlling nominations, while in presidential elections the influence is thrown to the Republican nominees. This may explain the waning influence of the Democratic party since the days of President Wilson, when a Democratic congress, controlled by the Anti-Saloon League, passed the Volstead act over President Wilson's veto. If Representative Tinkham succeeds in procuring an investigation of the receipts and expenditures of the board and league, he will accomplish a miracle in practical politics. A Blow at Militarism Congress appears tired of swashbuckling. Ten years ago sponsors of a universal conscription bill presented their program to congress. Under the guise of a measure designed to eliminate war profiteering, they asked congress to make the universal draft automatically effective in time of -war. After ten years of hearings, debate and wire pulling the house has taken the sting out of the proposal by its refusal to appropriate funds for a national commission of inquiry. Senate progressives have declared their determination to block even the eggshell commission approved by the house. Sponsors of the draft have abandoned their fight, lor Representative J. M. Wainwright of New York, former assistant secretary of war and introducer of the original resolution, has shattered for all time the pretense that the bill was directed against treasonable profiteering. Its real purpose, he explained in debate, was “to find a way to put into effect in time of war the socalled universal draft.” From the Democratic side. Representative Percy E. Quin of Mississippi assailed the militaristic campaign as one of “subterfuge and stealth.” Let the militarist lobby now go home—where it is ten years overdue, Washington’s Example * The United States once was the land of the free. It provided asylum for apostles of freedom from all lands. It saved many from the gallows of the despot. American Presidents even protected those who personally had insulted them. A famous case was that of “Citizen” Genet, first minister to the United States from republican France. When George Washington refused to aid the French in their war with England. Genet denounced Washington as an old and broken-down weakling who had sold out to the British. He even tried to fit out privateers in the United States to prey on British commerce. In the meantime, the revolution in France took anew turn. Genet's party went out of power. The new French government demanded that Genet be arrested and returned to France. Washington knew that it probably would mean death on the guillotine for Genet. Therefore, he refused to sign the extndition papers. Today we have in our country one Armando Borghi. He is an anti-Fascist political refugee who fled to the United States to save his life. He has been staying here some two years on a temporary visitor’s permit. He now has been ordered deported to Italy, since he did not enter as an immigrant. A detective in the employ of immigration authorities recently tried to arrest him at Cooper union in New York. A man was shot in the excitement which followed. If he is taken back to Italy, Borghi either will be shot or will rot in a prison. Will Hoover act as did the Father of His Country? Or will he add further evidence to clinch the growing suspicion that America no longer welcomes those fleeing the wrath of tyrants?

REASON By F LANDIS CK

THAT’S a wonderful country estate the Coolidges have acquired just out of Northampton, Mass., a sixteen-room house, broad trees, hedges, acres, beech roses and a trout stream, but you know the tormenting thought that will come to them; "Why couldn’t we have had this place when our children were little!” * * n That’s the way it goes in this world: people start out poor, raise their families on a few feet of ground, always saving for the fine house they’re going to have* some day and then, just as they get it, all of the kids get up and fly the coop, * m u When the father and mother sit in their spacious loneliness, glance at the shadows and think things they do not say. then they take down the kodak album and look at the pictures of the kids in their overalls and wish to heaven they could go back to the old days and the old joint. a * u THAT’S where we lose out in this life; we are never living: we always are just getting ready to live. Today is never the golden time: it’s always tomorrow.* and then when we get tomorrow we realize that it was yesterday. Help us, oh. Lord, to realize every moment that we are in luck. 9 m * After those bandits, claiming to be census enumerators got into that Chicago house and robbed the folks, we can see where it's going to be a real job for the census people to get in to count all Chicago families on schedule time. 9 9 9 Having despaired of getting a five-power naval pact. Ramsay MacDonald now feels that he will have gained a great victory if he can only get the conference to adjourn and its members to leave the country before parliament votes him out of office. 9 9 9 THE papers say that members of the house of representatives at Washington have gone on a diet, vvhich is said to be good for brain workers, but we don't see the need of this since Speaker Longworth and the members of the rules committee do all the mind work in the house. All the rest just send out garden seeds. 9 9 9 We want to see our old friend. James J. Davis, secretary of labor, go to the senate from Pennsylvania, but when we remember that he held office in Madison county, Indiana, something 4ike twenty-five years ago, we can’t exactly follow his meaning when he now tells the voters that Pennsylvania has been his home far forty years.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ —■

Roald Amundsen, Great Polar Explorer, Gave His Life in Search for Stranded Crew. A N airplane sailed north, out over the fog-swept sea of drift ice that covers the Arctic waters. It was June 17, 1928. Six men were aboard the plane. Their leader was a great, tall, modern Viking, a Viking whose keen blue eyes peered sharply beneath bushy eyebrows like the watchful eyes of an eagle, a Viking whose face had been bronzed by the biting winds of two polar regions. The leader was Captain Roald Amundsen, at the time the only man in the world who had reached both the north and south poles. (Admiral Byrd since has duplicated the feat). Amundsen had started out in search of the members of Nobile's expedition, stranded on the Arctic ice. Weeks elapsed. Then montfip. Amundsen never was heard from again. I saw Aundsen for the last time in March, 1927. He then was planning another expedition into the Arctic, and I spent most of the day with him looking at electric refrigerators. His idea was that one could be equipped with a motor which •would operate from storage batteries. Carrying an ice box to the Arctic sounds very much like carrying coals to Newcastle. But Amundsen pointed out that it would prove a great convenience during the journey to and from the Arctic. He also pointed out that while the region of the north pole always was covered with a sea of drift ice, high temperatures were not uncommon along the coasts beyond the Arctic Circle. a a a With Cook AMUNDSEN began his career as an explorer in 1897, when he joined the expedition to the Antarctic which the Belgian explorer, Captain Adrien de Gerlache, organized. Another member of the expedition was the American, Dr. F. A. Cook. This was the beginning of a lifelong friendship between Amundsen and Cook. Amundsen visited Cook while the latter was in prison. Amundsen was bom July 16, 1872, in Borge, a country district in southeastern Norway. He received his B. A. degree at Christiana in 1890, and prepared to study medicine. Two years later, however, he changed his mind and decided to become an explorer. De Gerlache’s expedition reached the coast of Graham land. The expedition suffered from inadequate food, but made valuable scientific observations. Amundsen headed his own first expedition in 1903. His goal was the famous Northwest Passage. He and six companions spent three years on a little sloop of forty-seven tons, the Gjoa. They made the passage and succeeded in fixing the location of the north magnetic pole. His next expedition was aboard the Fram, the famous ship which Nansen had taken into the Arctic in 1893. Amundsen had planned to try for the north pole, but when word came i that Admiral Peary had reached it 1 he changed his plans and set sail! for the Antarctic instead. ‘lt was on April 6, 1909, that Peary reached the north pole.) Amundsen arrived at the Ross ice shelf Jan. 11, 1911.

The Pole AMUNDSEN proceeded to build his base on the ice shelf. This was a risky thing to do, for the ice sometimes breaks up. His subsequent success was due perhaps to taking this risk, as the ice shelf provided a base much closer to the south pole than any other base he could have established. Scott and Shacklefon had a poor opinion of dogs. Scott’s dogs had died on him during his first expedition. ShacUeton, it will be remembered, had used Shetland ponies. Amundsen, however, started on his dash for the south pole on Oct. 19 with four companions and fiftytwo dogs. The dogs did so well that the men were able to ride on the sleds for most of the 4QO miles across the ice shelf. Amundsen’s greatest difficulties came when he attempted to reach the high plateau which forms the interior of Antarctica. For twelve days he and his companions wandered through the mountains seeking a suitable pass. Blizzards and fogs added to their difficulty. They killed all but eighteen of their dogs On Dec. 1 they arrived at the edge of the plateau. By the time they reached latitude 88 degrees, they were at an altitude of 10,000 feet. They found, however, that the plateau descended slightly toward the pole. On Dec. 14 the pole was reached. On Jan. 25 they were back at their base. In 1913, Amundsen planned another expedition to the north pole but dropped his plans when the World war broke out. In 1918 he left Norway in the Maud, planning to drift across the north pole. He did not succeed in reaching the pole. In 1925 Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, the American, made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the north pole by airplane. In 1926, Amundsen. Ellsworth and Nobile succeeded in crossing the north pole in the dirigible, the Norge.

Daily Thought

Dearly beloved, I beseech yon as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.—l Peter till Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.—Jeremy Taylor. Will the United States assay offices buy gold? Gold can be sold to the United States assay offices In amounts not less than SIOO in value.

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daily HEALTH SERVICE Healthy Skin Can Resist Every Germ

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. A LMOST everyone knows that it ±\. is possible for one person to become infected through receiving germs from another person, from animals, from food, from water and other sources. No germ is known that will penetrate through a healthy, unbroken skin under ordinary conditions. The skin always has germs on it and for that reason it is important to use an antiseptic whenever a wound occurs. It is also for that reason that surgeons are very careful to shave the skin and to apply antiseptic before doing a surgical operation. It is possible for a person to get hydrophobia through germs inoculated by the bite of an animal, to get malaria through organisms inoculated by the bite of a mosquito,

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The heading on this column today is a lie. I’ve written nothin* but the captions. This column was written by Miss Edna Ferber as a contribution to the effort to help the unemployed. BY EDNA FERBER THEY were pretty smart, those old boys who drew up the Declaration of Independence. To all men they granted three things: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We learned that at school. It seemed fair enough then, and inclusive. Since yesterday I've wondered why they didn’t add one more thing. Or, for that matter, why they didn’t scrap the other three and substitute this one, thus solving at a blow most of our troubles, civic, social, economic and moral. All men should have the inalienable (I don’t know what inalienable is, but it sounds tight and legal) right to work, if they want to. The right of a job, if they want a job. I was down on the line at the Little Church Around the Comer at 8 a. m. with Heywood Broun. The thing to do now is to write coolly and impersonally about what I saw, still giving it that thing they call the human touch. But I have a feeling of bafflement and futility. All the men on the line had life, liberty, and could, I suppose, have pursued happiness if ever they had a look at her face. Two thousand men, and over, were standing in solid formation, five abreast, and the queue three city blocks long, waiting for a little blue ticket that would entitle them to a cup of coffee and a bowl of stew at the station a mile or so away. It was a cold morning—cold enough for a fur coat. Nippy. Grand weather for walking—but not if you had nothing to do but walk, and no place to go when you’d finished. # * a Richest City THIS nippy stuff isn't so good when you’re on the line. Two thousand men in the richest city in the whole world. In one line. There are other lines in New York They weren’t waiting—they hadn’t been waiting there for three hours in the early morning chill—to be handed SIOO bills or small but clear diamonds. They were waiting for a little blue ticket that would entitle them to a cup of coffee and a bowl of stew. They were very quiet—almost noiseless. You’d think 2,000 men in a group would make quite a little noise, one way or another. But it takes energy to make noise. They had little to spare. They occupied so much of the broad sidewalk that there was left just a bare foot or two of space for the passing pedestrian. The American working girls, the most smartly dressed in the world in their fur collars and their silk stockings and their smart little shoes, hurrying to their jobs, averted their eyes as they passed the line. The men looked after them. A

to get plague through the bite of a flea, and to get tularemia through skinning an infected rabbit when one has a wound on the finger. For this reason it is extremely important to protect any break in the skin. Infection may be carried to the mouth, the nose, the eyes or other parts of the body by germs received from the hands through contact with infection and then using the Land to rub the places mentioned without first washing it thoroughly. Not infrequently the . eye may be infected by the hands, by wiping it with a soiled towel, in the process of birth through germs in the birth tract or through material that may be coughed or blown into the eye through the air. The 'nose may be infected by material that is inhaled or by germs introduced with the finger or soiled handkerchiefs. Much has been written relative to

boy of 16 was washing windows outside the cafeteria on Madison; curly-headed, impudent and careless. “Heh!” he called to the line—the solid, drab, unmoving line—“Heh! Wanna job?” and grinned. The little stenographers skipped by, a gay stream of them. No glances for these men. No lads here to take them dancing, or to the talkies. aa , a NOW, I don’t mean that every one of those 2,000 men wanted a job, or that all of them would have taken a job if it had been handed them. A goodly proportion of them were just plain bums—panhandlers—drifters. Old, most of them, though perhaps not as old as they looked. It’s queer that those stand in line, like sheep, for three hours on a sharp April morning, when surely an hour’s panhandling on any New York street would yield them more than the worth of the little blue ticket that the Rev. Randolph Ray of the Little Church Around the Corner would presently hand them. A boy, perhaps 19, round-faced and stocky of build, was busy with a cross-word puzzle. He was well in the front of the line, so he must have been there for hours, waiting. A baker by trade, he said. He looked as if he might relish

'I 7 Dailq l lenten Devotion \

THE TREASURES OF DARKNESS Read Isaiah 45:1-7. Memory Verse: "I will give thee treasures of darkness.” (Isaiah 45:3.) MEDITATION “The treasures of darkness!” This is a wonderful phrase to keep in mind. To believe that darkness has its treasures, is to rob darkness of its gloom. The author of the 139th Psalm had no fear of darkness. “Even the darkness hideth not from Theer” The night has its gifts to the producing earth. Some discoveries may be made only in darkness. “Blessed are they that mourn,” for they shall see things hidden from the joyous. A dear friend sent this message to me: “Tell him that now I know the meaning of George Matheson’s lines, 'O love that wilt not let me go’.” Who makes that discovery never will let go. PRAYER Thou hast promised, Lord, a crown of life to him that overcometh. Give us hearts to welcome thy severer blessings and in them find the clasp of thy strong hand. In darkness as well as in light hast thou hidden treasures for our spirits. Amen.

the way in which the mouth acts as a medium of infection. Particles of food lodging between the teeth serve as a place and material in which germs grow easily. The germs are then swallowed or even may be taken up by the bloc-d through weak portions in the gums. In general, the mouth tends to keep itself fairly free of virulent germs, but in those of lowered resistance or infection of the mouth it may serve as a source of germs for the rest of the body. One of the most important steps in the prevention of infection in recent years has been the development of sanitary methods of handling food in its production. Bread, cereals and many other materials formerly handled carelessly with the hands by butchers, bakers and grocers are now developed by a process in which the human hand never reaches them, and are sold in clean packages.

Ideals and opinions expressed ‘.n this column are those of one of America’s most interesting welters and are presented witbont regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

a little of his own trade product as he stood there, his hands quite blue with the cold, Working at the cross-word puzzle. a a b Tickets Exhausted TT7ELL, there wasn’t much you ’ * could do. Pretty silly, your standing there, looking at them as if they were animals in a zoo. The little blue tickets were exhausted when there were still about eighteen men in line. These eighteen had been standing for hours. End of the line. If you have sl, $5. $lO, s2o—anything—send it to the Rev. Randolph Ray, the Little Church Around the Comer, No. 1 East Twenty-ninth street, New York City. .You could chloroform the old bums, I suppose. But they don’t want to die. People are like that. Broken, wasted, sick, cold, hungry —life is sweet. Else how much easier it would be just not to stand on the line for three or four days and then you'd be peaceful—out of it forever. They are taking pictures of that line and sending them over to Russia and Germany and elsewhere in Europe, as Communist propaganda I should think it might be good government policy, if nothing else, to outfit that line with jobs of some kind. (CoDvrlsTht; 1930. by The Times'

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APRIL 14, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Very Few of Us Start Out With the Idea of Remaining at the Bottom, Which Is Why Some of Us Do Not. i MRS. ANGELIKA W. FRINK, chairman of the home registries section of the welfare council of New York, says that a girl must earn at least $25 a week to live comfortably by herself in the great city. Even so, a girl would have only about $1.40 left for recreation, savings, church contributions, sickness and vacation funds. It sounds discouraging, but not discouraging enough to keep many girls away, because, comparatively speaking, things are about as bad everywhere. It may cost more to live in New York than in some other cities, but there is a chance of earning more. Besides, no lights are as bright as those on Broadway and where else can one ride a? far for a nickel? H M Like every other town ui the world. New York rather would have people come to spend than to find work. The same advertisement that lures purchasers also lures those who want jobs. Bargain sales, they argue, call for more help behind the counter, and each one thinks of herself, or himself, as qualified for the prize position. As long as one or two places out of a hundred pay more than $25 a week, the average girl will not be deterred by a warning that she needs that much to live in New York. Neither would the average boy. We Americans simply are not built that way. Very few of us start out with the idea of remaining at the bottom, which is why some of us do not. m * a Co-Operation Lacking CENSUS enumerators complain of lack of co-operation on the part of the public. They are finding a good many people who for one reason or another won’t answer the prescribed questions. Some of this is due to ignorance, some to indifference, and some to pure cussedness, but whatever the cause, it reveals a low state of civic consciousness. mum As tentatively drawn, the fivepower treaty provides for the scrapping of two battleships by the United States and four by England. Since all six are nearly twenty years old, they would have been scrapped in a short time, anyway. The gain comes in the fact that both countries are freed from the obsession that six more must be built to take their place. Even though agreements of this kind fall far short of what most people desire, they represent real progress, since each one helps a little to liberate nations from the unwholesome fear which they fed toward one another, and which is largely responsible for all the military establishments they maintain. n n m Army Not Essential WE constantly harp on the idea of men, guns, and ships, as though they were absolutely essential not only to national security, but to national existence. Asa matter of record, quite a few communities have survived for a long time, and that, too, in comparative freedom from attack, without big armies and navies. Iceland has no army or navy, yet Iceland has survived for a thousand years, first as an independent republic. and afterward as a colony of Norway and Denmark. This year, Iceland will celebrate the I.oooth anniversary of the establishment of its parliament, which was opened more than 300 years before that of England. Until 1798 this parliament held its sessions out of doors, and exercised Judicial, as well as legislative authority. a a a Iceland Progressive MOST of us regard Iceland as not only far away, but small and backward. From a physical standpoint, that view is correct. When it comes to social progress, however, Iceland has a record which some of the larger nations could study with profit. Crime, especially the more violent kind, has been practically stopped. The budget not only balances, but shows a gratifying surplus from year to year.