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Wire Arthur Today Senator Arthur Robinson, not often 1 ight, deserves the commendation and support of every riprht thinking and every decent citizen who desires a real solution for prohibition, when he demands that the list of • ongressmen and senators who drink wet nd vote dry be made public. The people are entitled to these facts. Too many of our lawmakers, state and national, have gone into office by giving lip ser\ice to the drj' cau.-e and then acting as bird dogs for every privileged interest that would employ them. Os all officials who deserve contempt, the official dry and personel wet is tiie lowest. lie betrays those who trust him. He brings disrespect upon the “noble experiment. The Times has found occasion so often to criticise the senator that it takes pleasure in commending him in this stand. ou might wire him today to keep up that fight and make it a real one. If the name of every congressman and senator who votes consistently dry and washes it down with whisky could be known, the day of a real solution for prohibition would be much nearer. But be sure that he gets all the names, not a few of his enemies. Attacking the Farm Board The United States Chamber of Commerce, at its annual meeting next week, will be asked by various member groups to approve a resolution calling for repeal of the agricultural marketing act, which would mean abolition of the federal farm board. And if the act is not repealed, its opponents want it amended so that the federal government will be prevented “from engaging in business in competition with its citizens, or using government funds for price fixing in any manner, or otherwise unjustly engaging in competition with private business.” The chamber has set aside a session for a discussion of farm board policies, at which Alexander Legge, board chairman, will appear. There has been complaint from commission men and other grain dealers since the farm board began to function. The chamber previously has indicated concern over the board’s activities, but adopted a policy of standing by for developments. Now, it seems, the Issue will be fought out in the open. The farm relief program, adopted after nearly a decade of argument, and after the debenture and other schemes of aid had been rejected, contemplates the use of government funds by government-fostered co-operatives and stabilization corporations to buoy the prices of soil products. It contemplates the handling of principal crops by organizations, at least to the extent that they will dcmfh&te the market. Inevitably this means the displacement of private operators, speculators and others. The farm board in recent months has gone into a sagging wheat market and through its agencies purchased large quantities of grain for the purpose of raising prices. This, it is contended, has brought it into active competition with private dealers. The same procedure, it seems reasonable to expect, will be followed with respect to other major crops, if deemed necessary. Organized business, as represented by the chamber, perhaps will do well to go slow in adopting a policy of destroying the farm relief machinery set up after so much travail. The fact sometimes is lost sight of that agricultural distress was the principal issue in the 1923 campaign. Farmers and those immediately dependent on farm prosperity have not benefited, although nearly seventeen months have elapsed since election day. Farm prices remain low. Tne tariff promises to impose further burdens on farmers, rather than help them. If the present farm relief act is repealed, who doubts that another must be adopted? Or that the hostility of the farmers toward business and industry will be intensified as never before? Would not a policy of co-operation with existing agencies be the wiser course? Any sort of real farm relief will mean major economic readjustments, and that fact might as well be faced.

Truth Alwut the Illinois Fight Students of politics might as well consider the facts in the fight in Illinois between Ruth Hanna McCormick and James Hamilton Lewis. The fact that Mrs. McCormick beat the stuffing out of Senator Deneen for the Republican nomination and carried Chicago and Cook county by an overwhelming majority doesn't mean a thing in the election next November. The Thompson-Crowe-Barrett Republican machine that helped Ruth carry Cook county is as wet as the Atlantic ocean, and Ruth professes to be a dry. That political combine didn't carry Cook county because they loved Ruth, but because they hated Deneen. He and his machine, which is just as rotten as the Crowe-Thompson machine, licked Thompson two years ago: and the Thompson-Crowe outfit merelyused Ruth as a weapon with which to beat Deneen md get revenge. They didn't care a darn whether Ruth was wet or dry, or whether she was for or against the World Court and the League of Nations. They wanted to *at Deneen. And if Ruth stays dry. Jim Ham Lewis probably will carry Chicago and Cook county over Ruth by as big a majority as the same bunch gave Ruth over Deneen. There really is little or no significance in Ruth's hostility toward the World Court or the League of Nations. Few people in Illinois care much about either issue. She was a mere instrument in a war between two rotten factions of Republican politics in Illinois. Deneen beat Medill McCormick, who was a lightweight. He wouldn't have gotten anywhere without his wife. Her political pal is the smartest politician in Washington—Alice Roosevelt Longworth—who also has a political lightweight for a husband, even if he is Speaker of the nouse. Another facttoan in the fight is the Chicago Tribune. Ruth is one of its owners. Her husband was one of the heirs of Joseph Medill, being a son of one of Medill's daughters. Organized labor in Chicago supported Deneen because ft felt it was fighting

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the Chicago Tribune, which is as wet as Ruth Is dry. Labor will support Lewis as against Ruth. Mrs. McCormick’s handicap won’t be any lack of political and other sense, for she Is a smarter man in politics than her husband was—in fact, an exceptional woman. But if she runs as a dry she will be overwhelmed In Chicago and Cook county; and if the Literary Digest poll means anything, Lewis will beat her in the state outside of Cook county. This year will stage a political fight that w r ill cross party lines, and Ruth’s fight against the World Court won't cut any ice. In the fight with Deneen it was only an excuse, not a reason. Asa dry, Ruth - Hanna McCormick won't get into the United States senate, no matter where she stands on any other Issue; and Lewis is smart enough to force a showdown on prohibition.

Give the Jury a Trial It 1s the mode today to ridicule the trial jury as a bunch of morons. In most cases the indictment may be true. But choosing the right epithet does not bring the cure. How are we going to get twelve good men and true into the jury box? These questions are discussed by Morris L. Ernst, distinguished New York lawyer, in an article, “Give the Jury a Chance,” in Plain Talk. He finds that the two great defects in the jury system today lie in the scandalous latitude of the exemptions from Jury service and in the absurd delays In examining Jurors. In New York, for example, not only the professional classes, but even many mechanics, are exempted by law. Among these are men engaged in “glass, cotton, woolen or iron manufacturing.” As Ernst remarks: “No doubt the spaghetti dealers, anchor makers and southpaw' pitchers soon w’ill develop enough Industrial pride to be placed in the class of favored adults!” Asa result, in New York county, with Its million adults, only about 60,000 names, or 6 per cent, are placed on the jury panel during any year. Only about 2 per cent actually serve. Thus we get on the juries the repeaters, professional jurors and the unemployed. A powerful impulse to seeking exemptions and excuses is the necessity of wasting many dreary hours waiting to be called to the box. As Ernst observes: “If every person called for duty were put on to a case Immediately, without the dreary coming in at 10, leaving at 11:30, reporting back at 2 and being excused at 2:30 with no accomplishment to his credit, many of the shirkers would relieve the district leaders of their present burden of procuring excuses.” Ernst suggests the obvious and cogent remedies. First, abolish the privileged classes In reference to exemptions and get a high grade of material into the jury box. This would be no real burden on anybody. With such revised system of jury service, the average time required of each citizen would be one week on the jury in five years. Second, in all large cities establish central Jury rooms. This would “avoid the terrible waste of time that at present Is so objectionable to every decent citizen called for duty.”

A Little Bit I .ate That Buffalo artist, whose love affair with an Indian model was most unfortunately followed by the murder of his wife, was enraged by the treatment defense lawyers gave him on the witness stand at the girl’s trial for murder. .Stepping down from the stand, he announced with considerable heat that he was "through with women.” This is an excellent decision, and the gentleman can hardly be blamed for making it. One can only add that it Is a pity, in view of one thing and another, that he didn’t reach it some time sooner. The fellow who refuses to take the risk of flying in an airplane is usually the kind who drives his car sixty-five miles an hour and thinks nothing of it.

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SINCLAIR LEWIS, who made his fame by writing books which made fun of the folks among whom he was bom and reared and who has taken many a wicked fling at the clergy, has sued a Kansas City minister for libel. Asa rule, those who go through life throwing brickbats are very thin skinned. a a a New York has an old-age pension law. passed by a Republican legislature and signed by a Democratic Zrovemor, and while it does not go far enough it Is a <tep in the right direction. Those who work hard all their days are entitled to look forward to a finish, free from the horrors of ooverty. man TMJTURE sessions of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be too tame for endurance, since they voted to cut out all discussion of religion, politics and prohibition. They’ll not be allowed to talk about anything but their hats. man It would seem that it would be better for the President to X-Ray his nominees for the supreme bench of th> United States before tossing them before the ravenous lions in the senatorial arena. mam Dr. Will Mayo says he will give away all his property because he doesn’t want to deprive his children of the joy of earning the things they want, but we doubt whether the children will appreciate his thoughtfulness. a a a WE are glad Mr. Coolidge has his fine home and broad acres, but his silence made him the ideal tenant of half of a double house. After living under the same roof for twenty-five years, Mr. Coolidge and the gentleman on the other side of tne house are still friends, and this is a much greater achievement than the century of peace between the United States and Canada. nan Every week the papers tell of gentlemen who Just have purchased Stradivarius violins. The great master seems to be manufacturing many more now than he did while he was living. n n n Mr. Richie is going to run for the office of Governor of Maryland for the fourth time, not so much to get the governorship again as to keep his laurels green until the next national convention.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

S. F. B. Morse Was One of the Principal Makers of the Age in Which We Live. INDIVIDUALITY is not only the most interesting, but probably the most Important phase of human nature. The fact that we are different- Is responsible for social dependence on the one hand, and special service on the other. The pioneer discovers a gold mine, and then the crowd organizes to promote it; the criminal commits an outrage, and then society builds a prison; the inventor produces a new' device, and then a corporation is formed to make and sell it. HUM The only living daughter of S. F. Morse arives in New York from her Paris home to participate in the celebration of the 139th anniversary of his birth. Though 80 years old, she heard a radio for the first time last Thursday and has yet to attend her first talkie. Some people have more Individuality than others. She is one. Her father was another. huh Morse Was a Wizard S. F. B. MORSE was one of the principal makers of the age in which we live. For that reason we think of him a sa triumphant genius, a scentific wizard, a man whose natural ability enabled him to accomplish things impossible to others. We forget that he might have gone down in history as a good painter if he had \m perfected the thelegraph; that i*e might have been a fair poet if he had not spent so much time tinkering with pumps. We also forget the ten years of poverty and isolation through which he struggled, when he might have made a good living, as he had done before, in the field of art. Shortly after the initial line had been built between Baltimore and Washington, Morse offered his telegraph to the United States government for SIOO,OOO.

History contains no ifs, but one can not resist the temptation to speculateon what might have happened had congress accepted that proposition. Government ownership of all telegraph lines for SIOO,OOO in 1845 think of what it would have meant to the country' as a sourceof revenue, and what it would have meant to the development of public policy as a precedent. n n n It's a Puzzle MAYBE we are better off because congress turned Morse’s offer down. Then again, maybe we are not. Maybe the merging and the consolidating which now is going on will influence us one day to do, at the cost of billions, what our greatgrandfathers could have done at the cost of thousands. If the Socialists are right, our great-grandfathers made a terrible blunder, but the vast majority of Americans are yet to be convinced that the Socialists are right. In spite of all manipulations, market crashes, and combinations, we cling to the doctrine of individualism, even though it has evolved into group activities of stupendous proportion. The rights of private enterprise still are held sacred, though they permit some billion-dollar concern to tyrannize over a particular field of production, and personal liberty still is regarded as the most precious guarantee of this republic, even though it becomes an excuse for stock watering, excessive profit, and exploitation of every description, nan The World Changes PRIVATE enterprise is not what it was 100, or even fifty, years ago. Pooled wealth and mass production have changed the industrial set-up and the problems it involves. Economic justice no longer can be administrede on a man-to-man basis. Because some individuals have surrendered their sovereignty for the sake of forming corporations, others are forced to surrender their sovereignty for the sake of collective bargaining. On evrey hand, people are mobilizing in constantly increasing groups to get those very things which once were obtainable by individual effort. and we are trying to solve subway problems through oxcart conceptions of law.

DIXIE’S MEMORIAL DAY April 26

ON April 26, 1866, a group of women meeting at the home of Mrs. John Tyler in Columbus, Ga., originated the idea of Confederate Memorial day. Although most of the states in the Union now observe the day on May 30, Alagama, Florida. Georgia and Mississippi still adhere to the original April 26. The women who met with Mrs. Tyler organized what was named the Ladies’ Memorial Association.it being the continuation of what had been, for five years or more the Soldiers’ Aid Society. After the meeting the group went to Lin wood Memorial cemetery, in Columbus, where formal exercises were held. There they pledged to carry on the task of decorating the graves of the soldier dead on the same day of each year. Soon Memorial day associations sprung up all over the south and in two years the spirit invaded the north. On May 30, 1868, General John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued an order that every post should hold fitting ceremonies and scatter tokens of respect on the graves of dead comrades. Ultimately the day became a legal holiday. Alabama was the first state officially to observe Memorial day and New York the first state to declare it a legal holiday.

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‘Artificial’ Tomatoes Shy on Vitamins

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Maxaiine. TOMATOES may be colored and ripened artificially by exposure to ethylene gas, so also may such products as the citrus fruits, Including oranges and lemons and bananas. Products ripened with ethylene have more uniform color and firmer texture than those allowed to ripen naturally before being gathered. The investigator's, Drs. D. B. Jones and E. M. Nelson of the United States department of agriculture, have recently made a comparative study of the vitamin value of tomatoes treated with ethylene gas as compared with those collected at different stages of their development. The matter Is particularly Important because tomatoes are used in infant feeding to provide vitamin

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EVERYBODY agrees that the fearful loss of life in the Ohio state penitentiary was caused by overcrowding. The prison nausea far more inmates than it was ever expected to hold. Already the movement to build more modern jails is gaining headway. I agree that penitentiaries should be modernized, but I think that it is not necessarily expedient to make them larger. There is a better way. One of the most effective remedies for the reduction of crime would be the recodification of the criminal code. We have too many crimes on the list, Volsteadism is the greatest breeder of useless penalties. And there are other offenses for which courts commit men. even though the community in general does not think the culprits sinners. We must get away from the effort to bend mankind to the law. Any law which entangles a huge number of violators is a bad law. Palpably it must contain provisions which the public is not yet ready to accept. In effect, such widespread revolt against a legal provision should constitute a veto as effective as that of the supreme court itself. nan Back to Earth I'M glad that President Hoover nominated Charles E. Hughes and then John J. Parker for the supreme bench. It has tended to bring the highest court of our land

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Editor Times —Recent conditions of unemployment have been created by the fact that wages have not been able to buy back their share of production. A high fixed wage is not the solution, because such wages bring still higher prices. The problem is to find .the proper relative wage that will represent the value labor puts into the finished product and enable the wage earner to buy back his share so that the wheels of industry may be kept running. Fifteen years of close study of the effect of the laws of economics upon modern business has led me to a plan, which is known as industrial co-operation and which I think will provide for such a wage. Avery brief outline of the plan is as follows: 1. Determine for given period gross income, material costs, overhead expense and pay roll. 2. Deduct from gross income sum of material ’ costs and overhead expense. 3. Find what per cent pay roll is of this balance. 4. This per cent fixes wage ratio, which proscribes portion of gross profit to be paid out in wages. 5. If this wage is not sufficient for best interests of both employer and employe, satisfactory wage should be established and the per

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C as a preventive of scurvy; to provide vitamin A for resistance to disease, and for its general value in promoting growth and' to provide vitamin B, which is related to appetite and 'digestion. Tomatoes that were mature but green, tomatoes naturally ripened on the vines, small immature green tomatoes, mature green tomatoes ripened with ethylene, and immature green tomatoes ripened with ethylene were tested on animals as to their content of these three vitamins. The evidence indicates that naturally ripened tomatoes are a better source of vitamins A, B and C than any others , studied. No material difference was observed in the vitamin A content of any of the lots, nor of the vitamin B content. However, the vitamin C value of tomatoes seems to increase as the fruit develops and approaches the mature ripened condition. Naturally, ripened tomatoes con-

into disrepute, which is, after all, a healthful state. Naturally, I do not mean that it would serve our country well if any large number of citizens regarded the supreme tribunal -with utter contempt, but neither should they bow down and act as if this august body were above all criticism. These men in robes are neither gods nor devils, but. ordinary mortals like the rest of us. Upon occasion they err, as is inevitable, and when they do it is both right and proper that the members of the court should feel the lash of public criticism. The justices of the supreme court, like the President and the members of congress, are servants of the people. As clients, we have every right to complain when these lawyers fail to meet our requirements. Measures must be taken to make the court more sensitive to public opinion. Undoubtedly it is an excellent thing to have somebody to act as a check upon snap and hasty judgments of the minority, but it is wholly undemocratic that such a small and isolated body ever should be allowed to thwart the popular will over a long period of time. ana A Bow to WMCA WITHIN the next two weeks it seems certain that the "Give a Job” organization will have completed its quota and put 1,000 people back to work. I wish to thank the readers of this column for their co-operation, and also the listeners over station

cent it is of gross profit fixes wage ratio. 6. During first year, wages shall not be reduced if gross profit declines. 7. Each industry shall establish a local commission for the operation of this plan. This plan will make employer and employe real partners and it will increase the efficiency of labor, reduce production costs and thereby increase gross profits, from which both will share. Then as production increases, wages will increase and always will be in the same relation to profits, which will enable wage earners to buy back their share of production. This is only a condensed synopsis of this plan, but the writer would be glad to hear from employers and others who are interested and would like to study it more in detail. RAY VERN MAPLE. 1249 Lawton street. Where is the famous “wishing well” in Florida? It is located in the so-called “oldest house in America” at St Augustine. Grave doubt exists as to the antiquity of this house and of the legend that it was blessed by the early Franciscan monks. Persons drinking from the well make wishes that are supposed to come true within a year.

tained the most vitamin C, fullgrown green tomatoes were next and the small, immature fruit contained the least of all. The ethylene treatment of the tomatoes dots not produce any significant change in their vitamin C potency. It is Important to point out that in their studies the investigators have used only the juice of the tomato, whereas previous investigators have used both the pulp and the juice. So far as the use of tomato juice as a source of vitamins is concerned, the government investigators feel that vine-ripened tomatoes are preferable to those picked green and treated with ethylene gas to develop the color characteristic of ripe fruit. There is no evidence tliat ethylene ripening has any bad effect on the vita nr us that may have developed in th products up to the time they are treated with ethylene.

Ideals and opinions express* it n this column are those of sue ot Amerir.a’s most interesting writers and are presented without reward to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attttnde of this paper.—The Editor.

WMCA. which has allowed me a quarter hour every day, beginning at 12:15 in the afternoon. This broadcast will continue throughout this week and next. But, of course, it would be silly to suggest that the entire problem of unemployment could be solved by our getting together and trying to find jobs or make jobs for other people. I’m not minimizing such things. I think that they can help. After all, it would be just as silly to say, "Because I can’t help everybody who is out of work, I won’t help anybody at all.” If we only got one job for somebody out of work, that would be something. It might mean a great deal to the particular individual who had no job at all. The answer is better organization. We grow more efficient. That is, efficent up to a certain point. For one thing, we are constantly introducing new machinery, and this machinery is practically always labor saving. There is a certain irony in calling it "labor saving.” because at the moment it often plays heck with labor. When you get a machine, which one man can operate and it will do the work of ten, then you have put nine men out of work. Nobody wants to stop invention. He couldn’t, even if he wanted to. And there is no reason why anybody should want to. It’s nonsense to dream of the old days of the Middle Ages, when everything was done by hand. We’re not going back there. Anyhow. I asked the professor about machines and men and he comforted me by saying that "in the long run” the men displaced by new inventions went into some other field, where their labor was needed. That wouldn’t comfort me much at the moment, because I’ve learned that men eat in short runs and not long ones. (Copyright, 1930. by The Tlnrutg)

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

Plane Will Race Shadow of Moon When Sun Goes Into Eclipse Next Week. A N airplane race with the moon's a a. shadow will be a feature of the eclipse of the sun, April 28. But there is no secret about the outcome of the race. The velocity of the moon's shadow is almost a halfmile a second. The race is chiefly to increase the period during which the total phase of the eclipse can be observed. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the moon passing directly between the earth and the sun. The moon casts a long coneshaped shadow into space. The eclipse is total within the track or. the earth's surface over which this cone-shaped shadow passes. Width of the track varies because the distance of the moon from the earth fluctuates. When the moon is nearest the earth, the track has its maximum width—l 67 miles. In the eclipse of April 28 the tip of the cone-shaped shadow Just manages to strike the earth's surface. Consequently, the track is less than a mile wide. Length of the period of totality also varies in eclipses. In the coming eclipse it is extremely short—about 1 l-20th seconds long. Tire airplane is to carry an observer equipped with an astronomical camera and also a movie camera. By flying in the same direction that the shadow is moving, the plane will succeed in increasing slightly the period of totality for the observer. a a a Movie THE advisability of having an observer in the plane to make a movie of the moon's shadow as it moves along the surface of the earth also is being considered. In the case of every eclipse, astronomical observatories are glad to hear from amateur observers who were rear the outer edge of the eclipse track. The information wanted is the exact location of the observer and whether the eclipse was total at his station. From this information, it is possible to determine with greater precision the boundaries of the track. This in turn furnishes information from which astronomers can calculate the exact position and movement of the moon during the eclipse. This Is important because there still are certain irregularities in the motions of the moon which are not accounted for. Information obtained during an eclipse is a valuable check upon present theories of the moon's motion and furnishes data for corrections in mathematical tables of the moon’s motions. It is thought that a movie of the eclipse track, that is a movie of the ground showing the motion of the mon’s shadow across it, might furnish particularly accurate data. It would be possible, of course, to identify objects in the movie and then determine their exact latitude and longitude later, either from maps or subsequent observations. There is some question, however, as to just how sharply the edge of the track would be defined in such a move.

Brown THE world’s chief authority upon the motions of the moon is Professor E. W. Brown of Yale university. president of' the American Astronomical Society. He sometimes is referred to facetiously as the man who controls the motions of the moon. Dr. Brown worked out the equations from which it Is possible to predict the position of the moon at any future date. Without his tables, for example, it would be impossible to predict the details of the coming eclipse of the sun with anything like the accuracy with which such predictions can be made. Dr. Brown devoted forty years to working out the equations for the moon’s motions. Many factors had to be taken into account in working out these tables First of all, the moon’s orbit is a flattened circle or eclipse. This means the moon’s distance from the earth varies. The closer the moon is to the earth, the more rapidly it moves. Irregularities next are introduced by the pull of the sun. The earth is closer to the sun at some times than others. Thir affects the moon’s motion. Next, Irregularities introduced In the orbits of both the earth and the moon bV the pull of the planets have to be taken into account. Still other Irregularities result from the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere but bulges at the equator. And there were numerous other factors to be considered, enough of them to keep Dr. Brown at work for forty years. DAILY THOUGHT Unto the pure all thing* ait pure.—Titus 1:15. Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Colton.