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An Important Job Out of all the officials to be elected at the coming election and nominated a few days hence, there is none more important than the prosecutor. He has wide powers, if he chooses to use them. Upon his ability to cope with all the crooked criminal lawyers, and they are legion, depends the enforcement of law. Upon his freedom from entangling alliances of any sort and his courage depend the respect for law by the respectable and the terror of law by the criminal element. A really good prosecutor can do much to keep order in the community. It is most interesting to note that the supporters of. the present prosecutor interpret his minority in the vote cast by attorneys of his own party to the fact that he has refused to fix cases for those who practice in his court. If this be true, then a majority of the Republican lawyers of the city should be disbarred. If that is the compelling motive for their votes, then the profession of law has become a menace to justice. No longer do lawyers depend upon truth for defense nor precedent for authority. A prosecutor who hesitates can not complain if lawyer' and laymen demand some proof of sincerity of purpose. In a time when lawlessness increases and respect for law diminishes with every failure to convict, every city and especially this city which has the reputation of being law-abiding, should have a vigorous prosecutor who refuses to listen to any private plea, no matter what its source, and who has courage to defy any influence which swerves away from the plain course of duty. It s just possible that the courage shown by the opponent of the present prosecutor in political matters has attracted some admiration and support. Republican voters will remember that it took courage to support Hoover as a candidate for president when the Watson farce was being perpetrated. It was at that time that the opponent of the present prosecutor showed that he had the courage of his convictions when he tried to organize the voters of this city in behalf of Hoover as against Watson. That was an invitation to political suicide. Today he has a majority of Republican lawyers giving him the preference. Laurens Henderson has shown that he has courage. The lawyers testify to his ability. Republican voters would do well to conlider him, especially in the light of the fact that during the fight against Stephensonism, he was associated with his father as attorney for Tom Adams in a fight that was desperate and promised little. On the Democratic side, it is unfortunate that a little known candidate had but one vote. Perhaps the voters will give Brennan a better chance. A man who served his country so well in time of war and who has such a background of sympathy with the conditions of privation as come to a boy who supported his mother at the age of 12, became an expert mechanic and so expert that . the government hampered his later legal career by drafting him to detect enemy influence in factories during the war, is at least entitled to more than a casual glance. It is important to have a good prosecutor —intelligent, courageous, and most of all brave enough to cast aside personal advan- ' tage for the common good. There may oe other nominees on the Democratic ticket who have these qualities. The vote of the lawyers in the Republican primary suggest that Henderson is worth looking at. Certainly his hardihood in leading the forlorn Hoover hope against the Watson camouflage shows that he has courage.

Speedy Justice • One of the constitutional guarantees of every citizen is speedy justice. This applies to courts of appeal as well as to the courts of trial. Very soon the dominant party of the state will be called upon to nominate two justices of the highest court. Both of the judges are candidates for new terms. Before any nominations are made, the people of the state should be informed as to how far this guarantee of speedy justice has been fulfilled. The case of the most notorious guest of the state is still pending. No matter what he did politically, this nameless one has a right to have his criminality established or his rights to a new’ trial determined without any regard to the dates of primaries or elections. If the case is so intricate that it requires long delay, the judges should make it clear that such is the case. Nor should Duvall, once mayor, be subjected to long delays in a determination of whether he is a jail bird or innocent. Clogged calendars are not certificates of

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character for any court, especially in cases which have a political aspect. Disarmament Failure Despite optimistic statements by American and British officials, we can not get enthusiastic over the naval treaty announced at the London conference. From the official summaries of the treaty now being drafted, it looks like a face-saving device. President Hoover, in his Memorial day and Armistice day addresses, specifically pledged our government to join naval reduction—-not mere limitation, but actual reduction. Judged by that standard, the conference has failed, because the treaty calls for upward of a billion dollar American increase. Explaining this failure to achieve reduction, our London correspondent, William Philip Simms, says that all the powers “still are thinking in terms of war Instead of terms of peace, albeit each one, along with fifty others, has pledged itself solemnly never to go to war except In self-defense.” He adds, concerning the future: “If world peace means more to us than pious aspiration, America must stand ready to ccnsuL with the other powers to prevent the outbreak of war . . . real disarmament can be dismissed as out of the question, save insofar as political understandings between the world's leading powers may prepare the way.’* Nations demand security. They simply will not sacrifice what they consider the security of large armaments until they are given the security of effective peace pacts. So long as the United States refuses to join in such an effective peace pact, there never will be any real arms reduction. It is not necessary for us to Join in a foreign military alliance, to which the American people rightly are opposed But it is necessary for us to make the nonbinding Kellogg pact effective to the extent of promising to consult with others in crises to prevent war. Hoover’s failure to offer such consultation pact before or at the beginning of the London conference is the most costly disappointment of these negotiations. That blunder was increased when the American delegation after its original refusal and long after it was too late, made a grudging offer to “consider” a consultation pact only on the impossible condition that Great Britain first entered into a military alliance with Prance. The United States failed again to live up to Hoover reduction pledges when it refused to consider the British plan for progressive abolition of battleships and reduction of aircraft carriers. Others of course must share the blame with the United States for the conference failure, especially Prance and Italy. Perhaps it would be fairer to say that the fault was not so much one of motive on the part of any government, but rather a fault in judgment by Hoover and MacDonald in calling the conference prematurely. Last fall this newspaper and others questioned whether two or three years later would not be a more auspicious time for a reduction conference than the present. That has proved to be the case, or at least this has proved a bad time. Putting the best face possible on the situation, we may hope that the dangerous French-Italian dispute stimulated by the conference will subside, and we may be thankful for the slight decrease and building holiday in capital ships until 1936. Because the conference was a failure, or only a partial success, as some prefer to express it, the United States now faces two decisions: Will we spend a billion dollars to achieve tonnage parity with Britain, as allowed by the treaty? Or shall we say that our admitted superiority in potential war resources and the lack of any immediate threat of war with Britain enables us to postpone a huge naval building program for a while longer, in the hope that the Hoover joint reduction pledge can be achieved in the 1936 conference if not before? The second decision facing us is whether we gJlall make the non-binding Kellogg peace pact effective by a consultation treaty or otherwise, without which there is little chance of actual arms reduction at any time. “AU right, HI tell all,” she said to the census man.

REASON By F LANDIS CK

RUTH HANNA M’CORMICK’S smashing defeat of Charles S. Deneen for the United States senatorshlp from Illinois is the most interesting political event since November a year ago, when Mr. Hoover ran his vacuum sweeper over the political firm of Smith and Raskob. * * * Also, it is the most outstanding consequence of universal suffrage since the ladies successfully rebelled against taxation without representation. Another woman has served in the senate, Mrs. Felton of Georgia, but she served only a few days and was appointed by the Governor to fill an unexpired term. * * THERE are half a dozen or more women in the house of representatives, but they are not so interesting, since most of them arrived by the route of widowhood, but Ruth Hanna McCormick went out bare handed, for the first time in America, grappled with a politician of the first ord*r, backed by a great political machine, and beat him! m One of the most interesting things about the result is the obvious fact that the women did not vote, against one of their own crowd, as they were expected to do, in harmony with an alleged disposition to swat each other. We happen to know that Deneen's forces relied to a great degree upon the support of the women, but they did not get it. m • m Mrs. McCormick profited by the support of Mayor Thompson of Chicago, but in the great sense she won because 6he has the stuff in her; she is no four flusher, seeking publicity, but a serious-minded woman who could give good counsel to many gentlemen now in the senate. m m • \TTERE she a loafer she could drift through a life W of indolence, but she is not built that way. She runs a big stock farm —and really runs it, and in addition to this she manages a good newspaper over at Rockford, 111.—and she lives out in the country—a splendid sign of sense. m 9 m Asa campaigner, she is a peach, possessing many of the stump assets which made her father, the late Mark Hanna, the most effective speaker the Republican party had from 1896 until he quit the stage. How the merry, brown eyes of that old political gladiator must twinkle as he gazes down from the star he now inhabit* and sees his girl the victor of a contest In which no quarter was asked or given.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Byrd Has Enviable Record as Polar Explorer, Accomplishing Great Feats by Airplane. THE double distinction of being the only living man to have visited both the north and south poles and the only man in history to have flown an airplane over both poles, belongs to Admiral Richard E. Byrd. The famous American airman also possesses the added distinction of having spanned the Atlantic by plane. On May 9, 1926, Byrd, accompanied by the late Floyd Bennett, flew from Spitsbergen to the north pole, circled the polar district several times and returned to Spitzbergen. He flew 1,600 miles in 15Vi hours. On July 29, 1927, Byrd, with three companions—Acosta, Balchen and Noville—hopped off from New York for France. They made the 4,200 miles in 42 hours. On Nov. 19, 1929, Byrd flew over the south pole. His companions were Balchen. June and McKinley. They made the 1,600 miles from camp to the pole and back, in 18 hours 59 minutes. The south pole flight formed part of Byrd’s Antarctic expedition, the most elaborate expedition in the history of polar exploration. The expedition got under way on Aug. 25, 1928, when the bark, the City of New York, set sail from New York City. <r u a Flights BYRD and his party set sail from Los Angeles on Oct. 19, on the whaler C. A. Larsen, joining the City of New York at Dunedin, New Zealand. On Dec. 2, the City of New York started for the Antarctic. As on its journey to New Zealand, it was towed by the Eleanor Bolling. On Dec, 14, the Bolling turned back and the City of New York entered the Antarctic ice pack. On Christmas day it arrived at the Ross Ice Barrier. The City of New York is a wooden ship capable of withstanding being squeezed in the ice. At once Byrd and his men began the work of building their little village on the ice barrier. “Little America” as they called it. This base was established on Jan. 6, 1929, and on Jan. 16, Byrd made his first airplane flight, exploring a, territory of 1,200 square miles. On Feb. 18, Byrd made another flight, exploring 40,000 square miles of territory this time. On March 8, Gould, Balcher and June flew to the Rockefeller range of mountains to make geological studies. When they failed to return on time, Byrd flew to their rescue, found that their plane had been wrecked and brought them safely back to camp on March 22. On April 19. the sun sank below the horizon and the Antarctic night set in. The camp set down to winter routine. But whereas other Antarctic explorers had been cut off from civilization, they kept in touch with the world by radio.

To the Pole ON Aug. 21, by climbing the towers which supported the radio aerial, members of Byrd’s party just could see the edge of the sun over the horizon. The Antarctic night was over. “Spring” had arrived. On Oct. 15, the supporting parties started out with sleds and dogs on the 450-mlle journey across the Ross Ice Shelf to the mountain ranges and glaciers which guard the approach to the high plateau upon which the south pole is situated. These mountains were the ones through which Amundsen made his way to the south pole. But Amundsen brought back little detailed information about them. He had to push on with his sleds to the pole and then hurry back on the long journey to his ship at the edge of the ice shelf. Byrd’s plans, however, called for a detailed study by the geologists of his party, while he went on by plane to the pole. Eight depot? were placed across the ice shelf. From the eighth. Byrd flew to the Queen Maude Mountains, establishing another base. At 10:29 p. m. on Nov, 28, Byrd took off for the south pole. He was over it at 8:55 a. m. on Nov. 29. During December, Byrd explored an additional 35,000 square miles of territory, discovering anew range of mountains. On Feb. 19, the expedition started for home, the first stop being New Zealand. Byrd’s present plans are for arrival at Panama about May 1. From Panama, he w’ill return to New York.

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WILBUR WRIGHT’S BIRTH April 16 ON April 16, 1867, Wilbur Wright, American pioneer in aviation, was bom near Millville, Ind. After a high school education, he went with his brother Orville to Dayton, 0., where they opened up a bicycle repair shop. With the experience they received from motorcycles, they began experimenting with gliding machines. Th it they might carry out their work unmolested, the brothers removed to Kitty Hawk, N. C. On Dec. 17, 1903, one of their machines rose of its own power, remained in the air fifty-nine seconds and carried the operator 352 feet. This was the first instance of actual mechanical flight. Two years later the Wrights, built an airplane in which they flew 24 Va miles. But in 1908, Wilbur Wright set a record in France for the longest flight ever made up to that time when he covered fifty-six miles. For this achievement he was awarded the Michelin prize. The French patent rights of the Wright machine were disposed of for SIOO,OOO, and the machine was adopted by the United States army.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Blindness Fight Has Long Way to Go

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, tbe Health Magazine. THE Welfare Council of the City of New York has just completed a study of the means available in New’ York City for controlling disorders of the eye. The facilities in New York go far beyond those in other parts of the country, but with the tremendous population of that city are certainly not more perhaps than it requires. Unfortunately, far too much attention w'ould seem to have been paid in the past to the economic and sociologic aspects of the care of the blind, and not enough to the handling of these matters from the medical or health side. Certainly the prevention and cure of diseases of the eye will do far more to solve the problem of blindness permanently than the care of the individual after he has lost his eyesight. In New 7 York City there are

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AS anew recruit to the radio racket, I must confess that I think broadcasting one of the most exciting of indoor sports, I’m not precisely brand-new. I’ve listened in a little and I’ve heard Amos h’ Andy. That brings up a shameful incident. Not so very many weeks ago I was over at WEAF listening to Floyd Gibbons do one of his “headline hunters.’’ When he got down he turned and said: “I want you to meet Amos ’n’ Andy.” I didn’t ask any silly questions which would have betrayed my abysmal ignorance, and the handshaking all around was adequately cordial, but in all iruth I had not the slightest idea that I was being introduced to the most famous pair of entertainers in America. In fact. I thought it was peculiar that the pleasant young gentlemen just had first names and nothing else. Only by the merest stroke of good fortune did I refrain from asking them whether this was their first visit to a broadcasting station. Os course, I know better by now, n n • Sent a Suitcase HOWEVER, this insularity of mine seems also to have enveloped one of the greatest of American newspaper publishers. It seems that a relative of Adolph Ochs wanted to furnish some entertainment for the birthday party being given for the owner of the New York Times. He called on the telephone and asked, “How would you like to have me bring Amos ’n’ Andy up?” “Amos ’n’ Andy who?” asked Ochs a little crossly. Three or four years ago I did broadcast a couple of times. I forget what it was about. I dropped some casual words against a little platter and they seemed to flatten out and lie right on the spot where first they landed. I felt a good deal of chagrin because other end much better-known broadcasters had told me stories of the terrific extent of mall which came to people who talked over the air. One friend said that he had to send his valet down to the station every morning with a suitcase and the other fellow’s letters came in carload lots. I didn’t have a valet, but I did have a suitcase, and on the morning after the event I gave it to a messenger and told him to go down to the broadcasting headquarters and to keep going back and forth as many times as necessary. But he only had to make one trip. He came back carrying a postcard between, the second and third fingers of, the left hand. It read. "I heard you on the air last night, but

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seven eye hospitals, many general hospitals which have departments devoted to diseases of the eye, including some sixty-eight eye clinics. There are seventy-nine eye clinics in all, eleven being conducted by the department of health for school children. There are classes for the conservation of eyesight, special organizations for the education of the blind, nine homes for the blind, and many other activities. Such conditions as trachoma appear rarely in modern times in clinics in New York City. Infection of the eyes by venereal disorders during childbirth used to be one of the most common causes of blindness, but is now beginning to be brought under control by the use of antiseptics in. the eye immedately after birth. Another venereal disorder, indeed the major one, is also responsible for serious eye conditions, as also for other forms of defects at birth, and the proper control of this condition is only beginning to be realized in eye clinics throughout the country.

I will continue to read your column. —A Friend.” They Who Talk LATER that afternoon I was talking/to a taxicab driver about it. I can’t remember how the subject came up. It seems to me that he introduced it, but at any rate I told him of my disappointment in receiving no more response than a single postcard. “What were you .doing, buddy,” he asked, “entertaining or just talking?” And that question, you see, clearly defines my limitations. I never have been graduated into the class of entertainer. It is true that at parties, after most of the guests go home, I have often been prevailed on to do my Imitation of Anna Held, but this depends rather more on gesture and facial expression than vocal effects. It is hardly suitable for broadcasting purposes. But to get back to radio, the unseen audience is more responsive, the microphone is the nearest thing to Aladdin’s lamp which the world affords. At least that’s the way it has been here lately. An appeal for cigarets

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Wednesday, April 16 ACCEPTING THE YEARS Read Psalms 90:10-17. Memory verse: “That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.” (Psalms 90:14.) MEDITATION It is easy to rejoice and be glad In youth. It is not so easy as one’s age comes stealthily upon one. There is a common reluctance to face age. This attitude is designed to destroy the Joy that age should bring. The wiser way is to accept age when it comes and find its Joys. Each period of life has its own satisfactions to bring and it* own contributions to make. There are greater activities than physical ones. To grow old gracefully is a sign of the youthful spirit, for that spirit Is one of hopefulness. PRAYER O God of the seasons, thou giver of days and years, we witness thy providence in the coming of ever marvelous times in the hurrying calendar of our lives. For the fruits and colors of our own autumn days accept our thanks and may there be no sadness in cur hearts at the departure of our spring and summer. Amen.—Adapted.

Among eye hazards in industry are Injuries to the eyes by flying objects, irritating dusts and fumes, eye strain, excessive exposure to light and heat, and systemic poisoning which affects the eye. Fifteen per cent of the total blindness of people in the United States is said to be due to injuries in industrial accidents. Obviously all this blindness is preventive by use of the proper protective devices, by close supervision and education of the employes, and facilities for competent and prompt first aid. Regular examination of the eyes of school children and of industrial workers will do much to detcet defective vision in early stages and to prevent its progress by the use of proper lenses. Obviously the problem of the control of eye disorders is far from being solved in New York City and conditions elsewhere in the country are certainly not as good as in that place where so much attention has been paid to the subject.

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 tbe editorial attitude oI this paner.—Tbe Editor.

brought enough to supply every man in the bread line. Yesterday I asked for clothes and hope to get them. Os course, nobody can afford to over-reach himself. I learned that years ago when I was reporting baseball. Without any panhandling purpose, wrote one day, “Fred Merkle straightened out a curve and hammered the ball against a safety razor sign in right field.” Still Waiting NEXT day the company sent a gold-plated, or maybe golriwaSh, safety razor to the office. A week went by before I got my big chance to set down in a prominent paragraph, “Chief Meyers whaled the ball a mile and it hit an auto advertisement in deep center field.” The mail came in, the mail went out, and patiently I waited. That was years ago and no car has arrived. But I think it would be a fine thing if the citizens of every community afflicted with unemployment should at least provide the Jobless with good clothes. It’s the next best thing to a job. Clothes do make the man when he is in the search for work. (Copyright. 1930, bv The Times)

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APRIL 16, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Nothing Reveals What Men Have Learned and Achieved. Like Their Cities. MEASURED by what his friends as well as his foes have said, Judge John J. Parker does not appear to have done very much to prove his fitness as a member of the supreme court outside of the Red Jacket case. One gathers that but for that much-discussed opinion there would be nothing to talk about. Even those who believe that ha should not be refused confirmation, because of a single opinion, must admit that a single opinion la a rather poor excuse for granting !t. u m m Judging from news reports, the most satisfactory results of the naval conference consist In what each nation got for itself, not to mention the glory each is claiming for having saved the situation, France is pleased because she was able to thwart Italy’s demands without breaking up the show. Italy is pleased because she waa able to see it through without giving up her demand for parity with France. Japan is pleased because she waa able to get a little more tonnage in comparison with England and the United States. England is pleased because she was able to obtain an agreement whereby she is relieved from engaging in a free-for-all-race with the United States In which she could not hope to win. Our own government is pleased because it has saved three or four hundred million dollars. No doubt, all five are pleased over what may have been accomplished in the Interest of peace, but that does not seem to cut much figure. t$ n n Law and Suicide HAVING been duly convicted, the duchess of Leinster awaits sentence by an English court on the charge of attempted suicide. Abhorrent as suicide may be, one wonders just what crime it constitutes against society, or Just how it can be stopped by law. You can understand how a person with suicidal bent might go at it in a half-hearted sort of way if there were no threat of punishment in case of failure, but it is unlikely that any one would be deterred. Instead, the would-be-suicide probably would take every precaution to insure success. * m m Mussolini puts the recently organized city planning commission of Rome at work with some very good advice. It must modernize the town, he says, without spoiling too much of its ancient character, must provide parks, boulevards, and other conveniences without pulling down too many old monuments. Many people will be surprised to learn that after 2.000 years of preeminence, Rome feels the need of a city planning commission. If she does, however, why should younger and less renowned communities hesitate? a a m Foresees Great City MUSSOLINI tells the city planning commission that he expects Rome to have a population of 2,000,000 within the next twenty years. If his prophecy comes true, Rome will be about half as big in 1950 as it was in the time of Nero. Even the greatest cities react to the ebb and flow' of civilization, which Is not strange, since they are its most important by-products. Nothing reveals what men have learned and achieved like their cities. It is here that they build their temples, whether to God or Mammon, that they pioneer and experiment with their surplus cash, that they blaze new trails of art and culture. It is here, too, that they reveal their virtues and vices in magnified form and provide a laboratory for self-study and self-improvement. it n u History Easy to Read ROME, as the center of a republic—one can read that chapter of her history in the Forum. Rome, as the center of an empire drunk with power—one can read that chapter of her history in the amphitheater. Rome, as the center of a decadent, civilization—one can read that chapter of her history in the broken aqueducts and disused roads. And out of it all, one can read the lesson that everything pertaining to man is mortal, and that man’s only hope of progress lies in ceaseless activity, based on everwidening vision.