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Civilization One hundred or two hundred years hence human beings will read with incredulity of the burning to death of the 300 convicts in the Ohio prison. They will wonder wrhy a society that created airplanes and automobiles, built great roads, lived in luxurious mansions, gave millions to art galleries, found it necessary to drive other human beings death in fire with machine guns. They will, perhaps, smile at the literature of today which boasts of a civilization. They may even ask the meaning of such a word. ... The truth, of course, is that the prisons of today are overcrowded, not only the Ohio prison, but every prison. The conditions there, as elsewhere, make for a desperateness in which fires may be expected, as are riots and outbreaks. Conditions produce criminals, and criminals, In turn, produce the conditions which existed in the Ohio penitentiary. Only the most cynical can say that society loses little when -the lives of these three hundred and more men were taken by a fire. The lives of the men may not be important. The attitude of free men toward the prisoners is important, and thus far it is not such as to cause any great elation or gratification. If we are to continue to fill prisons and to find no better way to protect life and property than by bars, it seems little to demand that the prisons be safe and ample. Men who are sent there should be treated in a manner that will restore them to society fitted to take up orderly lives. They should not be turned into beasts and then roasted to death. Work in the open air for those whose morality and mentality make for crime may furnish a part of the solution. Certain it Is that civilization is very thin when human beings are crowded into fire traps as means of reformation. An investigation might profitably be made by every state to discover whether conditions in its own prisons are such as to mqke possible such tragedies as that of Ohio. The People’s Victory There is such a thing as the power of public opinion, after all. Any one doubting that should take a long look at the vote of the senate judiciary committee against confirmation of Judge John J. Parker for the United States supreme court. An unfavorable report was voted, 10 to 6. To get the full force of that, just think back four weeks ago to the time President Hoover made the nomination. When the Scripps-Howard newspapers and labor organizations protested, it seemed to every one a hopeless fight. When progressive senators and Negro organizations joined in the protest, it still seemed Impossible to defeat him. But within these short weeks a marvelous thing has happened—the most significant thing that can happen in a democracy. There has been an awakening of the press and of public opinion. That public opinion has spoken, and Washington has heard. This explains the 10-to-6 vote in a senate committee nominally controlled by the administration and in the teeth of the administration demand for confirmation. The voice from back home, as it has been beating down upon the senators, has been saying: We will not stand for more supreme court reactionaries to nullify our rights and sacrifice our interests. We w'ill not stand for more yellow dog contract and Injunction judges on the supreme court bench. We will not stand for more judges inclined toward unfair racial discrimination being elevated to a bench Which should be above prejudice. We will not stand for more political mediocrities being promoted to positions of highest judicial power for party purposes. We will not stand for John J. Parker of North Carolina. Perhaps some of this criticism of Parker has been overdone. We have no desire to rejoice over his personal defeat. We assume that he is an honorable and Sincere man, according to his lights. But there are tens of thousands of honorable and sincere lawyers in the country who have not the exceptional ability nor the fearless Americanism, nor the social vision to be Intrusted with the almost despotic power now possessed by the supreme court. And on the basis of his public record, the people have been able to see that Parker can not be trusted wdth that power. For his own sake, we hope Parker will have the grace to request withdrawal of his name. And for the President’s sake, we hope the President Bow will accept the committee vote as evidence of the **advlce”—to use the constitutional term—of the senate, and withdraw the nomination. But altogether apart from the personal fortunes of the President and Parker, the country will not lose if the issue is forced on to tne senate floor. The senate Is not apt to reverse the committee’s action—especially since that debate would almost have to be In the open, due to the success of the United Press last year i spiking secret sessions. An open senate debate would destroy further hush-hush that has protected the supreme court. It would focus more light upon that all powerful institution. Parker is an incident. The supreme court is the issue. Parity Via Police or Censorship? Mae West’s “Pleasure Man” may have been a trivial and indecent play. The trial was indecisive. But the case has brought out some sound sense In regard to the effort to secure purity through police Action and criminal prosecution. Eleven members of the jury which tried the case have sent a letter to Governor Roosevelt urging a more sensible method of determining the fitness of a play than police raids and prosecution by the district attorney. The jury holds that censorship is to be preferred to criminal litigation. It also contends that the time to judge a play is while it is being presented. It can not be reproduced faithfully on the witness stand. The jury’s letter states that: "Failure of the Jury to agree tends to demonstrate (1) the unreliability if not the futility of criminal litigation as a method of censoring plays; (2) that the Impracticability of faithfully portraying by court testimony the performance as it actually was given on the stage, with all the gestures, actions, expressions, Intonations of voice, accuracy of dialogue, etc., tends

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strongly to defeat conviction of the guilty by a criminal court procedure.” This is good common sense. To these two points might be added a third. If a play is going 1 6 do any harm, it will work its damage during the first performance as much as during the 101st. If it should not be shown a hundred times, it ought not to be exposed to the public once. Hence, the recommendation of the jury that the censorship be exercised before a public performance by a play jury or a state board is is to be censorship, It should be by experts and in advance of any public showing. There is one fly in the ointment even here: Without a public performance it will be hard to check up on the intelligence of the censorship. New World Power Just a little while ago we thought of utility company regulation as a problem ior local governments to handle. Now, before we have grasped fully the-significance of great holding companies, reaching across the nation and laughing at state ednmissions, before the federal government has learned, how to deal with them, this growth of utilities has become a world problem. Electric Bond and Share, Goliath of the holding companies, is an international holding machine, the federal trade commission has disclosed. It reaches into twelve foreign countries From Shanghai to New’ York, from Montana to the Argentine, its wires and its power extend. It is not remarkable that this company has played a leading part in organizing the world power conference which meets in Eerlin next June. Even the phrase “world power” nas taken on new meaning in the last few years. It refers now to the utility company product. It is not unthinkable that world power in the new sense and world power in its older meaning may come to be identical. That possibility calls for serious consideration. Beside it, and its potentialities for shaping world history, such problems as prohibition are nursery prattle. The need to understand what is happening to us and what may happen to us because of electric power calls for the best thinking men can do. Form and Substance of World Affairs The Kellogg pact reads in part as follows: “The high contracting parties solemnly declare In the name of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another. “The high contracting parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, never shall be sought except by pacific means.” The United States of America is a signatory power to the treaty. So are all of her potential enemies—the great powers of the east and west. A press dispatch just announces that: “The navy department revealed today that It has contracted for the manufacture of Hudson’s new gun, capable of firing ,50-cahber bullets nine miles at the rate of 800 a minute. The gun is said to be one of the most deadly weapons ever invented.” Does the navy expect to use this for practice on porpoises or sea gulls? Or does it contemplate turning it loose on rum runners? After braving the hazards of the north and south poles, pity poor Commander Byrd who returns to his country to find it all het up over the Digest poll. The Indiana man who was arrested for carrying a hog in the back of his car probably was surprised when police took him for a ham. Tire Pittsburgh couple who walked to the altar to the tune of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” apparently preferred a martial instead of a marital march.

REASON By F LANDIS CK

WHILE Mr. Coolidge announces that he will not run for office in the ordinary course of events, he assures the country that he might come forth in the event of a great crisis. It’s a great comfort to know that we have such a dreadnaught in reserve. From the business standpoint, it was a mistake for the ex-President to declare himself, for his manuscripts are worth more so long as people regard him as a live one. When a fellow becomes a bronze bust, he is marked down in price. 000 This is interesting word from the east that Mayor Jimmie Walker is to go to the United States senate to succeed Wagner, provided he can get enough votes on election day. Os course, Wagner would like to stay, but the first rule of Tammany is obedience and if Tammany should tell Wagner to step aside, he would step. 0 0 0 THIS suggestion revives memory of the rivalry between former Governor Smith and the mayor, for this senatorial niche was supposed to be the consolation prize of the national leader of 1928. The hatred which exists between Smith and Walker is as old as politics—jealousy. 000 Illinois was given the privilege of staging the campaign between Lincoln and Douglas which precipitated the climax of the slavery question and now she is to stage the campaign between Ruth McCormick and James Hamilton Lewis which will result in the most impressive verdict on prohibition since the adoption of the eighteenth amendment. 000 yT would not mean anything for New York or Massa--1 chusetts to vote wet, for everybody knows they are dripping, and it wouldn’t mean anything for Kansas or Nebraska to vote dry, for everybody knows they are parched, but for Illinois to go one way or the other by an overwhelming majority would be very effective. a a tt It will be the greatest senatorial fight waged since the Rail Splitter and the Little Giant crossed swords, and the ablest wets and drys from all corners of the nation will be summoned to the fray. Both principals will watch their steps, for if she wins Ruth Hanna McCormick will find herself the militant leader of the drys. and if he wins, James Hamilton Lewis will find himself the crusader of the wets. Just what that will mean politically remains to be seen. _ ..,

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Eclipse Totality Will Be Less Than Two Seconds; Astronomers Spend Weeks to Photograph It. WHEN the eclipse of the sun occurs on April 28, the phase of totality within the eclipse track will be less than two seconds. Yet astronomers will spend weeks of preparation setting up their instruments in this track which runs in a narrow line from north of San Francisco to Twin Bridges, a town thirty-five miles south of Butte, Mont. The reason is that certain details of the sun’s structure can be photographed only at the instant of totality. To understand why this is so, it is necesary to review the structure of the sun. The sun is a hot, self-luminous globe, a great ball of incandescent gases. The diameter of our earth is approximately 8,000 miles. The diameter of the sun is about 110 times as great approximately 864,100 miles. But this only gives a slight appreciation of the difference in size between the earth and the sun. If you started in to build another sun and used building blocks each one the size of earth, you would need 1,300,000 of them to complete the job. Measurements indicate that the temperature on the surface of the sun is 6,000 degrees on the Centigrade thermometer, the one used by scientists, or 10,000 degrees on the Fahrenheit thermometer, the one in ordinary use in the United States. The temperature at the interior of the sun is calculated by Prof. A. S. Eddington of Cambridge, England, to be 40,000,000 degrees Centigrade. tt tt a Gaseous THE sun is believed to be gaseous from its outer surface to its very center. A number of facts support this view. One is that despite the fact that the spectroscope reveals the presence of the vapors of many metals in the sun, the average density of the sun is only one and a half times that of water. There is, of course, no question about the outer regions of the sun being gaseous. The most conspicuous features of the sun’s surface are the sunspots. These are easily studied with a telescope equipped with a special solar eyepiece of dark glass. (Any attempt to study the sun without proper precautions would result in severe injuries to the eyes, even total blindness.) A study of the sun-spots reveals that the sun is rotating upon its axis. This study also reveals that the sun’s equator is tipped at an angle of a little more than seven degrees with reference to the plane of the earth’s orbit. But one of the most startling discoveries is that the sun is not rotating with a uniform speed. The equatorial regions of the sun rotate in about twenty-four and one-half days. The speed of rotation slows up as distance from the equator increases until in the polar regions it is thirty-four days. The gaseous surface of the sun upon which the sun-spots are to be seen, is known to astronomers as the photosphere. “Photos” is the Greek word for light. This name is apropriate, for the bright white light of the sun is given off from the photosphere. The sun-spots are now known to be great whirlpools in the photosphere. They appear darker than the photosphere because they are cooler. a tt n Fire ORDINARILY u T e are only aware of the photosphere of the sun. But during an eclipse of the sun, other details of its outer structure become visible. At the moment of totality, -when the dark disc of the moon cuts off the bright light from the photosphere a magnificent spectacle occurs. Around the disc of the moon a great rim of red fire becomes visible. Here and there tongues of red extend out from it. And surrounding it all is a great silvery halo. The rim of red is the chromosphere of the sun. The tongues of fire extending upward from the chromosphere are known to astronomers as the solar prominences. Both are composed of light gases, chiefly hydrogen and helium, at a temperature of about 6,000 degrees centigrade. The great silvery halo is the corona of the sun. It is composed of thin gaseous material, but its exact nature is not completely understood. The chromosphere for many centuries could be studied only at the time of a' total eclipse. Since the invention of the spectroheliograph in 1890, it has been possible to photograph the chromosphere at any time. It ivas not possible to see it visually at any time until just a few years ago. At that time, Dr. George ElleryHale, inventor of the device, perfected an attachment which made it possible to study the chromosphere visually. The corona, however, still is hidden from view at all times except during an eclipse. It is one reason why astronomers are so eager to photograph the eclipse. The corona always appears to be shaped differently at each eclipse.

I Daily Thought

Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.—Matthew 10:16. May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.—Plato. What is Dolores Del Rio’s nationality and studio address? She was born in Durango, Mexico, Aug. 3, 1903, of Spanish and Mexican parentage. Her studio address is United Studios, 7200 Santa Monica boulevard, Hollywood, CaL

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‘Jake Paralysis’ Due to Liquor Poison

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. fpHE most recent epidemic _L sweeping across the United States has been the tremendous number of cases of partial paralysis of the legs reported first from Oklahoma, later from Tennessee and Georgia, still later from Kentucky, and finally from Rhode Island and some of the New England states. Very promptly the information was broadcast that these cases of paralysis were the result of imbibing some poison in Jamaica ginger which was being drunk in fairly large quantities and which was, of course, being sold outside of the domain cf the prohibition law. Among the earliest of the scientific investigations undertaken was that made by the state department of public health in Tennessee. Within a week, 119 cases have

IT SEEMS TO ME * ST>

PROFESSOR TRUMPLER, an astronomer of the Lick observatory, estimates it would take a ray of light one trillion years to travel from one end of the cosmos to the other. Yes, and when he arrived he probably would find that the young lady ray whom he was going to take to the theater still needed just five minutes more to powder her nose. a tt tt It All Depends PRESIDENT HOOVER has hardly strengthened his appeal for observance of all laws willy-nilly by nominating for the supreme court bench a gentleman who openly has advocated the practical nullifU ation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. In fact the only obvious reason for the naming of Judge Parker seems to be the fact that he happens to be a Republican resident in North Carolina. Come to think of it, wasn’t there a good deal of commotion raised during the campaign by Hoover’s supporters about A1 Smith’s Tammany connection? I seem to remember the charge that his appointments might be governed by political expediency. Nobody, as far as I know, has questioned the honesty of Judge Parker, but isn’t it true that if John J. Parker were in private practice any client wanting the best services obtainable would be certain to turn over in his mind at least 300 names before he would even think of John J. Parker? It seems to me that the great white experimenter in Washington has slipped several cogs in deciding that actual ability is of less importance than solidifying Republican gains in the south. The appointment is politics and brazen politics. a tt a Fearful Forties I CALLED up a man the other day day and, by a coincidence, I spoke to him about unemployment. He had a job to give and I had a man to send. “How old Is he?” the employer wanted to know. “Oh, about 38 or 40,” I said casually enough. To my intense surprise and horror the reply came back over the telephone, “Oh, I'm afraid that’s much too old.” It horrified me because this was getting pretty close to home. For years I’ve been writing columns joking about the fact that I hid just turned 35. Sometimes I said 30. I picked 35 because I am actually 41 and I never thought the matter of six years or so would make any difference between friends. From now on you can bet your life if I make any reference to my

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been found by the authorities of the state department of health, and although some time has elapsed, it is still possible to give only a few definite facts concerning the situation. Chemical and laboratory investigations require considerable time, particularly as they are elaborate and are planned to be conclusive. At present the authorities are convinced that these cases are jthe result of taking into the body of two or more toxic substances, one of which is a preparation of alcohol and the other some heavy substance. These conclusions were reached by both the physicians and the public health authorities for several definite reasons. The infla-.nmation of the nerves which resulted in the paralysis simply had to do with the action of seme toxic inorganic substance or of the action of some bacterial poison. Practically all data w'ere against

age in print I’ll slide all the way back to 28. Anyhow, 28 isn’t young enough. Possibly employers in this present industrial age want to have the help come down to work each day on his or her own kiddy car. A rattle and a pacifier ought to be on every desk. a tt it Some Aged Athletes BABE RUTH, baseball’s most famous slugger, is rapidly approaching the fearful 40 and yet in his first game of the season he would have had a monster home run if an amplifier had not jutted up in the way. A gentleman whose name escapes me (but I think it’s Bill Kennedy), regularly places in the first five or six in all local marathons in spite of the fact that he has passed 50. I fail to see why 40 should disqualify any one from first-class clerical and executive work. During the war a young woman correspondent asked Major-General Liebert, “General, don’t you think this is a young man’s war?” The general smiled as best he could through a countenance which had known sixty-two and one-half

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BATTLE OF YPRES April 22 ON April 22, 19)5, the second battle of Ypres, in which “poison,’ or chlorine, gas was used for the first time, was begun by the Germans at 5 o’clock in the evening. The French Colonial troops, the first to experience the deadly vapor, found it impossible to withstand it and broke in disorder. In their retreat they uncovered the left wing of the Canadian line and thus endangered the whole position of the allied forces. At this juncture the enemy opened up a heavy artillery attack and smashed the French front. Following several fruitless counter attacks made by the Eritish and Canadians the following day the Germans, on April 24, launched another gas attack. Again the British counter attacked, only to find the enemy securely intrenched. After resisting the allied counter attacks for a month the Germans gave up hope of obtaining victory by gas attacks and closed the battle on May 25. The casualties on both sides were extremely heavy. The total Eritish loss in the battle was 2,150 officers and 57,125 otner ranks, while the German losses were returned at 860 officers and 34,173 other ranks.

an infectious origin. For instance, 83 per cent of the people affected w r ere men, 79 per cent of those we re between 20 and 45 years of age, and there was not one case in the entire group that was under 15 years of age. There is, however, also a historical precedent for an incidence of this character. More than twenty-five years ago there were in Great Britain hundreds of cases of paralysis caused by the drinking of beer which had been made in such a way as to become heavily contaminated with arsenic In those cases also paralysis was the chief symptom, however, including prostration and nauesa. No doubt when the chemists have completed their studies, it will be found that the particular bootleg involved had been made by men quite unfamiliar with -toxicology and a great many sadder and wiser drinkers will limit themselves, at least for a while, to ginger ale and root beer.

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

winters, and answered, “Madame, when I w T as a student at West Point my mind lingered a good deal on the fact that Napoleon won the battle of Austerlitz before he was 30 and that Hannibal led his troops across the Alps while still in his early 20s. Now . find that my mind dwells on the fact that Ludendorff is 65 and that Hindenburg is 70.” In fact there are many things to be said in favor of the man of 40 from the employer’s standpoint. Some of us have done with going to night clubs when we reach that age. Some of us haven’t. Speaking for myself I can say that I am now doing a hard day’s work for the first time in my life. At 25 or 28 I couldn’t hdve done it. I wouldn’t have had the stamina. From now on i have small hopes of standing below very many balconies. We of the 40-year-old contingent aren’t asking for as many valentines as we used to get, but we do demand our share of jobs. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Timers —Just a line to defend the much-abused married woman who has the gumption to hold down two jobs. I have three women friends in mind and all are working to help buy their homes, working in offices all day and doing their housework in the evening. Not one of these women has a fur coat. All wear silk hose, but so do the school girls whose fathers still are buying their clothes. These women’s husbands are engaged six days a week, fifty-two weeks In a year in the following: One is a machinist in a railroad shop; one is a meat packing truck driver; and one a meter reader. A parson simply does not know what he is talking about if he thinks the man ’’worthless” who is industrious enough to work at any of the above. Two of the men work all day and study at night school. Os course if a man is foolish enough to try to rear three to eight children with nothing more than a part time job in an Indianapolis automobile factory, that is where he didn’t look far enough into the future to see that it can’t be done. It is truly a deplorable condition—this problem of people out of work, but most of the men doing the most about married women working couldn’t hold the position the married girl 1s holding. How many of the unemployed men know double entry bookkeeping from sir gle entry or how many could take dictation, or how many could take off a trial balance? Just remember, too, that this still is a free country. If a couple chooses

.APfclL 22, 1930

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

Reading History in the Light of War, We Overrate the Importance of Many Events Because of the Bloodshed and Destruction They Involved. ONCE again we revise the tariff, and once again we are in doubt whether we have done ourselves a good or bad turn. Protectionists regard this bill as a masterpiece. Others regard it as a monstrosity. Barring details, the argument is the same as it was in Washington’3 time and the problem appears no nearer a solution. O tt tt India will get independence or self-rule within eight days, says Mahatma Gandhi, if the people only will follow his counsels. But Mahatma does not know whether they will, and no more does tne British government. With all our boasted intelligence, we must wait for time to tell whether this is a real revolution, or just another flash in the pan. o a Doubtful Wisdom FROM a legal standpoint, imprisonment may be just for Communist leaders who start a riot, but from a political standpoint is it -.vise? We are as much in the dark with regard to that problem as we are with regard to the tariff, or the Indian revolution. tt a a When Lindbergh left Los Angeles Sunday morning he predicted the time he would reach New York within thirty minutes. When Percival Lowell had completed his calculations several years ago, he was able to tell astronomers where they would find anew star this spring. Such precision stands out in contrast to the inability of our greatest statesmen to forecast what will happen when the tariff is revised, anew law enacted, or a revolution starts. a a a Rome Has Birthday MONDAY was Rome’s 2,683d birthday. Civilization centered on the Euphrates when Romulus and Remus laid out the town site, while the age of Pericles was 300 years ahead. Rome had twice as many years to her credit at the birth of Christ as New York has today, and her glory had faded before Paris, or London came into prominence. a o a To review the vicissitudes through w-hich Rome has passed is to review the growth and development of western civilization—the rise and fall of empires, the inception and collapse of movements; the substitution of Christianity for paganism; the middle ages; the Crusades; the Renaissance. Yet Rome, with all her diversified and varied experience, has seen a more complete alteration in human affairs during the last century than during the preceding twenty-six. This is brought out vividly by the fact that a commission just has been appointed to revise and rebuild the city. Rome is out of date. The last 100 years have produced discoveries, inventions and innovations revolutionary in character as to call for general reconstruction. a tt tt Overrated Events FADING history in the light of politics and war, w-e overrate the importance of many events, because of the bloodshed and destruction they involved. Looking at present day events, tve are inclined to doubt their significance because these tragic factors are less conspicuous. We think of the Caesars, Alexanders and Genghis Khans as men who changed the basic currents of history, of Marathon, Chalons and Tours as determining not only the fate of empires, but of civilization itself. But what did the common people get out of it, compared to what they have gotten out of the changes occurring in more recent times? a a tr Still in the Dark IN spite of all the economic progress we have made, we face those age-old political problems which have to do with personal liberty, the right of self-expression, and the difficulty of striking a workable balance between society and its members. Politics is the only field in which we appear unable to have formulated anything like scientific conceptions. The engineer can take a blueprint and tell whether the device It portrays will work, the chemist can create new combinations by the simple process of drawing diagrams, and the architect can see how a structure will look in his mind’s eye, before a stone Is laid. But when It comes to making law, no one can tell how it will work, or whether it will w’ork at aIL

to work together to get their home and assure their future against dependence on charity, I take off my hat to them, for since I have been married seven years and work continuously, I know it is not an easy lob Every man and his wife have the same privilege. I certainly wouldn’t sit back and envy another woman her clothes, her ambition to take care of her personal appearance, when I had had the same opportunity and didn’t care to make use of it. A woman owes it first to herself, second to her husband, and last to the world in general to keep up her personal appearance, and that doea not necessarily mean “fin: coats.” There are a lot of people In this old world who simply were not prepared, either mentally or financially, to start on the career of rearing a large family, but why blame thi* on the couple smart enough to realize the fact? A READER.