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Get the Crooks Grave and very general charges of fraud have been made in connection with the primary vote. In Lake county arrests have been made for importing voters from Chicago to change the results of the vote by residents of Indiana. One candidate has committed suicide in that county. Heretofore the federal investigations of similar episodes have been barren of results. All that has happened was the ayrest and conviction of a few bootleggers. It is time, and past time, for the federal government to get results in the Calumet, where fraud has changed results in the entire state. In this county it is difficult to see how Prosecutor Stark can fail to accept the challenge of the numerous charges of fraud. Defeated candidates openly assort that the final ticket was the result of compromise and determination, not of the votes cast. The sinister suggestion is made that those who were intent on fraud believed that the hand of the prosecutor would be stayed and criticism quieted if he were given a renomination. In one election precinct, where charges were made that officials were caught redhanded in marking ballots some arrests have been made. It is quite probable that if fraud was committed in this precinct, in one of the highest class residential sections, other frauds were perpetrated where temptation is greater and civic spirit presumed to be less keen. The issue is plain, clear and direct. Will the machinery of government unearth and prosecute the frauds and send the violators to jail before November? This will be a test for such candidates for re-election who now occupy places of power. The greatest crime is a violation of the election law. That is anarchy. Another Tariff Warning To the warning ol 1.028 leading economists of the country that enactment of the Grundy billion dollar tariff bill would be disastrous to our industrial life and to international relations, now is added the warning of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university and of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Butler spoke from London over an international hookup. He declared that the proposed general high tariff increase, if made effective, was “certain to do more harm to America's prosperity, America’s trade, and America's international relations than any tariff which has preceded it ’’ The economists and Butler only are repeating in different words what Herbert Hoover said In his campaign speeches and messages to congress, opposing a general tariff revision. Hoover was speaking not only from his theoretical knowledge and from his long observation abroad, but as a result of his experience of eight yeais as head of the United States department of commerce, in close contact with the nation’s business and financial leaders. Many business men. who formerly supported the idea of unrestricted tariff, are coming around to see that the net effect of raising the already high tariff would be a boomerang to their foreign trade. All idea of international good will aside, all theories the proposed law would hurt business. That is the hard, practical consideration which is causing the reaction of business men against Grundyism. The reason for this has been stated very clearly by Hoover in pointing out that we have become a manufacturing export nation, dependent upon a foreign outlet for the surplus created by our mass production. The export of that surplus makes the difference between American depression and American prosperity. Despite this fact, and despite the agricultural and industrial slump we now are in along come the shortsighted Grundy politicians and start a tariff war in which other nations close their markets to us. This is i.ot what is going to happen. It is what is happening now. The mere writing of this Grundy bill, much less its passage, has provoked serious foreign retaliation and threats of more retaliation. Canada, our largest customer, has just put up countervailing duties which strike at $3u0.900.000 of our trade. France >s hitting American automobiles and other commodities. Argentina and Australia are acting against us. Thirty nations in all have submitted protests to the Washington government. Those foreign countries are not to blame. They do not want a tariff war with us. They want to buy our goods, which we must sell to achieve prosperity at home. But they have no choice. There is no way in which they can buy our goods, unless we permit them to sell us something—which they could not do over the proposed prohibitive wall. “There are few more ironical spectacles than that of the Ameiican government as it seeks, on the one hand, to promote exports through the activity of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, while, on the other hand, by increasing tariffs it makes exportation ever more difficult,” as the 1,028 economists pointed out. “Rugged Individualism” What would we think of a druggist who kept his old bottles and labels and then filled thes receptacles with altogether different drugs and chemicals? How could his clerks function efficiently and how could his customers rely on his prescriptions? Yet this is exactly what our statesmen and politicians are doing all the time. And we go on trusting them implicitly even though their phrases do not coincide with any existing reality. It has been a bedrock assumption of respectable political, rhetoric and conventional economic teachings that free and unlimited competition is the basis of the American system of industry and the foundation of our economic development and prosperity. President Hoover, as late as the campaign of 1928. laid great stiess upon the “rugged individualism” which characterizes American economic life. Is an article in the League for Industrial Democi

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racy Monthly, Dr. Harry w. Laidler shows how far the “rugged individualism” label is removed from describing the actual nature of our existing economic system. Turning to natural resources, he says: “In the case of most of our natural resources free competition has given way to the combination and the trust. Two corporations already control one-half of our iron resources; four corporations control half of our copper; eight corporations dominate more than 80 per ;ent of our anthracite. Our lead, our lumber, our water power is controlled by a handful of corporations.” It is hardly necessary to point to the existence of gigantic combinations in manufacturing, trade and finance. To the earlier developments in this line must oe added the chain stores, which have challenged seriously what freedom of trade existed. Certainly, large-scale combination has become the dominant rule ind practice in American industry. It need not be contended that this trend is necessarily wrong or uneconomical. It may be the inevitable result of the selective process in economic evolution. It may be the industrial, commercial and financial exemplification of the survival of the fittest. What we may assert with confidence is that it will accomplish no good purpose to refuse to recognize what has taken place and to adjust our thinking and our phrases to these existing realities. There is nothing to be gained and perhaps much to be lost by slapping the labels of Andrew Jackson’s age upon the products of the Coolidge and Hoover era. This, After Ten Years From the house military affairs committee has come anew Muscle Shoals bill. Ten years and more and still anew Muscle Shoals bill. And, judging from the way this new one is drawn, the end is not yet. The military affairs committee, finally, has scrapped the Norris bill, calling for government operation of the great power and nitrate plants on the Tennessee river in Alabama. It has substituted a bill allowing lease of the shoals to one or several private corporations. Those who sponsor this lease claim it is the first ever to fix a definite amount of fertilizer to be manufactured at Muscle Shoals. They apparently have forgotten that the shoals no longer is a fertilizer project. Its chief value to the country and to Tennessee and Alabama is a power plant. These same sponsors point with pride to the fact that their bill bars pow’er companies from leasing the shoals. They seem to have forgotten that the power companies have not openly sought the shoals for years. They also seem to have forgotten that the senate lobby investigating committee showed that the company that tried hardest to get the shoals had a tacit or secret agreement w'hereby the power companies would receive the surplus power. It is not hard to see that those who had the new bill drafted did not intend that there should be final legislation on Muscle Shoals at this session. They realized that the senate, twice committed to government operation, would not agree to a leasing bill. The shoals will be idle for another long period. Once more it will become a political plaything. Certainly the house of representatives must realize that in the end it is the Norris bill or nothing. A Road to the Future You might just keep your eye on the California motor caravan that is touring south through Mexico, attempting to blaze an auto highway from British Columbia to Buenos Aires. That highway, so far, exists chiefly on paper. There are enormous gaps in it, and it will cost millions to fill them. But they will be filled eventually, and the completed highway will be a tremendously important thing for everybody concerned. Some day, beyond doubt, you yourself will be making that trip in your own car—you and thousands of your fellow citizens. You will get a magnificent outing, and the Latin nations through which you tour will get anew prosperity and anew understanding of this country. Everybody concerned will be benefited greatly. A woman was elected mayor of a Missouri town and refused to take the oath. Perhaps it is because she had taken so many from her husband. They are referring to the better business drive in Chicago as a “boom.” but many will think it would sound better as a “bang.” Clarence De Mar, a printer, who at the age of 41 won his seventh marathon recently, proved he's no pica.

REASON

CIIIES ruled by the alliance between politicians and gangsters will be cheered to hear that Uncle Sam will help dissolve the alliance by going after the gangsters for failure to pay their income tax. Except in prohibition cases, criminals have a wholesome fear of federal courts; they can play horse with state judges, but not with federal judges. a a a Twenty years ago Chicago was at the mercy of black-handers, local authorities being too crooked or too cowardly to handle them, but when the defendants w-ere taken into the federal court for using the mails unlawfully one nervy judge broke up the black hand business by sending fifty to the penitentiary. a a a AUTHORITIES at the Columbus prison gained control as soon as they showed they meant business. In America we are long of maudlin sentiment and short on direct action. Instead of trying to get rubber out of go’den rod Edison should get it out of our law enforcement officers; they have enough to supply the world—and then some. O B B Mussolini, the leading advocate of the mass production of posterity, gave two father $2,500 each for turning out the largest number of children. If anybody is entitled to such a reward, we should say it's the mothers. B B B DR. ROSS and Ur. Tassel of Drake university informs the American Association for the Advancement of Science that grasshoppers have hair-like tubes all over them, supplying them with air. We wish the learned doctors now would tell us where the grasshoppers get the tobacco they chew. an u Manassa Johnson, former slave of Kansas City, passed away at the age of 130 years. His folki overlooked a great bet when they failed to have Manassa inform the world what particular brand of cigarettes gave him his clutch on life.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

Blocking the Wrong Man for Supreme Court Vacancy Means bit tie, Unless It Makes Room for the Right Man. npUESDAY Senator Watson said Judge Parker would win by one vote or a tie, while Senator Borah said he Would lose by at least five. Both were wrong. . Judge Parker lost by two. Those who accept the result as a great victory for liberalism, or an equally great defeat for the old guard, are wrong to about the same extent. There are several reasons why Judge Parker failed of confirmation, not the least important among them being common, ordinary politics. a a a Why was Judge Parker named in the first place—a comparatively unknown Republican from North Carolina? Or, to put it another way, why were so many abler jurists overlooked? Os course, the “yellow dog” contract and the race question played an important part after the fight began, but the fight began with what every one recognized as an obvious move to strengthen Republican fences in the south. a tt tt Fifteen Rejected JUDGE PARKER is the nineteenth man to miss the supreme court after being nominated. With him included, the senate has rejected fifteen, while names of four were withdrawn. Until the fight was over, Parker inspired some of us to brush up on our history. Not one American in 10,000 could have told how many would-be justices had fallen by the wayside, much less whether the country had gained or lost. tt a tt As the New York Telegram points out, the most important phase of this rumpus over a* vacancy in the supreme court is yet to come. Blocking the wrong man means little unless it makes room for the right man. Some people regard the right man as one willing to ride tneir pet hobby. Enthusiastic prohibitionists, for instance, want no one but a dry, while professional farm reliefers want no one who doubts the debenture scheme. Thoughtful men and women attach more consequence to experience, ability, and, above all else, intellectual honesty. tt a a Intelligence Needed A JUSTICE of the supreme court is likely to sit on the bench a good while, especially if appointed in his prime. Some of the issues and problems which excite us will fade out of the picture before he gets through, while others which have not appeared on the horizon will take their place. What the nation needs is not a man who has formed rigid opinions with regard to certain existing questions, but one who can be depended on to form intelligent opinions with regard to all questions as they arise. tt a a We speak of liberals and reactionaries as though they represented not only a reliable, but a permanent, division on all subjects, as though the words themselves were sufficient, and as though we safely could follow the leadership which centers around them. One need look no farther than the troubles of the British labor government with India to realize the futility of such attitude. Theoretically, the labor government has been more or less favorable toward the Indian nationalist movement, but when confronted with the basic issue, it adopts about the same course as a Tory government would have under similar conditions. f Ramsay MacDonald and his associates may sympathize with those native leaders who hope for a greater degree of autonomy, but when Mahatma Gandhi undertakes to start a real rebellion, they have no more compunction about slapping him in jail than the Baldwin crowd. <f a # Takes Test to Tell ALL of us are inclined to be more or less liberal on general principles, but the real test comes when liberalism takes specific shape. Then, and not until then, do we know where we are going tb stand. An Indian political faction arguing for autonomy, or even independence, is one thing, but a crusade of civil disobedience is quite another. Very few people are liberal enough to sanction or condone disorder, because they realize that, no matter how bad the tyranny of organized government may be, it is better than mob tyranny.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor The Times—The recent disaster at the Ohio state penitenitary was one of the most horrible tragedies I have ever heard of—all the fault of the ones in charge who would not liberate the prisoners when they knew they were facing a terrible death—death by fire. Surely the ones in charge are murderers as much as any prisoner in the institution. Crime! Most of it originates within prison walls. A man is sentenced for a minor offense, and during his term suffers maltreatment and acquires more knowledge of the racket. When he is released he is then a full-fledged criminal and is constantly reminded of it by a flock so hounding detectives. When he needs anew start, work and friends, he has none. What is he to do? . Crime and the overcrowded condition of the prisons are due to graft and non-employment. Back of it all is prohibition. Something must be done and it must be done quick if we wish to continue as a prosperous nation. It remains for the American people to do iti Our Constitution provides the principle of “a government of the

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ISY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. TN the spring the tired man's fancy turns to thoughts of spring tonic. Down through the ages has come the conception that spring represents the rebirth # of every living thing. With this was associated the idea that it is necessary in the spring to clean out the system and to stimulate the cells to new activity. In the old days when it was believed that health always was to be found in a bottle or pill, it was customary to dose the system liberally with tonics and drugs; cathartics and laxatives were used freely and

IT SEEMS TO ME

IT is curious that such scant sympathy should be shown for Mahatma Gandhi in the American press. Indeed, I am shoked to find the Indian leader largely regarded hereabouts as a comic figure. For instance, I find one of my newspaper idols, H. I. Phillips, writing a column in which the man's arerst is treated as a joke. And the point of the burlesque lies in the not to be denied fact that Gandhi courted arrest and welcomed it. He is quoted by Phillips as greeting the police and crying, “This is very splendid of you. You want me to go with you at once, I hope.” Now, this would all be very funny if it were not for the disturbing analogy which comes at once to mind. How can that analogy be kept out of mind by any citizen of this unofficially Christian land? It is customary for a very considerable proportion of Americans to profess admiration for the teachings of a Jesus Christ. However, there is a disposition to admit that the rule of life is extremely difficult and most of us are frank enough to confess the extent of the gap between our professions and our practice. tt a a After 19 Centuries BUT here in the year 1930 there lives in a far-off land a leader who actually is putting one of the vital phases of Christianity to the test. It seems to me that in the past he has been able to show that non-resistance is a practical weapon and a very powerful one. I think he will be able to show this increasingly. Gandhi in jail, or even Gandhi dead, may prove to be a greater threat to the British empire than the little man who walked out into the ocean to make salt in defiance of the imperial decree. 1 It is strange that so few of us

people, by the people and for the people.” Is it? Wake up, America! Vote for modification of the Volstead act and help avert the great catstrophe that is in store for this nation if conditions continue as they are. AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE.

Wow Well'DdVbu <JCnow c tiur3i6M FIVE QUESTIONS A DAV ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. Who was Jezebel? 2. What is the biblical reference to a shoe lace? 3. Where is the phrase found, “The wings of the morning?” 4. Where was Jesus bom? 5. The king who “knew not Joseph ruled over what country? Answers to Yesterday's Queries 1. Old Hundred, Psalm 100. 2. Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron: Numbers 3:4. 3. John, who lived to be nearly 100. 4. The Apostle Paul; I Corinthians 9.22. 5. Joshua; see Joshua 1:1-5.

Two Schools of Thought

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many a child suffered the'*tortures that result from liberal doses of sulphur and molasses. Today the great spring tonic is sunshine and fresh air. With the first signs of warm breezes and early sunlight, one begins to waken earlier in the morning. There is no tendency to lie late in bed. The best spring tonic is an early rising, a brisk walk in the open air a breakfast with fresh fruit, and plenty of outdoor exercise before darkness in the evening. The human body has a marvelous system of self-regulation. It requires no cleaning after the winter season. The formation of regular habits in relationship to the evacuation of waste products is just as important in the winter as in the spring.

have been kindled by the heroism of an individual setting his determination and his will against the power of bayonets and battalions. It is my belief that armies can not prevail against such a man. An idea can break down every brigade which is mustered against it. Sc it has been from the beginning. So it will be again. We forget, of course, the previous instances of this fact because they have been set before us in colored glass which is not the warmest medium of communication. But here upon the front page of the daily papers walks a man as current as Herbert Hoover or Babe Ruth and he has invoked in this day of the cable and telegraph and the radio the power of an ancient and respected rule. A rule largely honored in the breach, I will admit. But to me it seems as if Gandhi’s campaign might serve almost as a test of the validity of Christian philosophy. The attack of scientists upon religion largely has taken the form of questioning rather than downright denial. “Where are your proofs?” they have asked and answer has been difficult for any save those who believe in the literal and entire divine inspiration of the Bible. B tt tt Beyond Laboratory IAM not that sort of Christian, even though I do not feel that laboratory truth is the only form of verity. As yet in many fields of human experience intanglibles exist too subtle for the nicest scales or the most powerful microscope. Still, I welcome additional scope for truly scientific observation. I

NORTH POLE FLIGHT May 9

ON May 9, 1926, Richard E. Byrd, American naval officer and aeronautic explorer, flew over the north pole in a trimotofed Fokker monoplane piloted by Floyd Bennett. He was the first to achieve the feat. About an hour after leaving Spitzbergen on the final dash to the pole the oil tank sprang a leak. But the plane was so far away from land that it was impossible to turn back with any degree of safety. This is the situation which Byrd later called the most thrilling experience' of his life. On reaching the pole Byrd circled several times and verified tb* 5 observations of Admiral Peary who discovered it in 1909. The appearance of the pole is described by him as follows; “It did not look different from other miles of ice we had just passed. There was the same stretch of brilliant white marked by ridges, hummocks and a few leads recently frozen, showing green against white. This was the desolate top of the earth and we were over it" After recording his observations, Byrd flew a little farther, changing from north to south in an instant. Then he circled the po’e again and flew back to his staicing point. Byrd recently returned from an ex pedition to the south pole, which he crossed also by airplane. “

A diet containing plenty of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables will do much to aid, and for those whose digestive tracts require more stimulation, cereal products containing roughage are sometimes recommended by physicians. The blood-building foods are not alcoholic nor necessarily medicinal. Calcium, iron and the necessary vitamins can be had in properly selected diets and, if the diet is perforce deficient in these substances, cod liver oil, butter and egg yolk provide vitamins A and D; yeast and wheat provide B; spinach, lettuce, tomatoes and the citrous fruits take care of B and C. These are the modern scientific spring tonics.

lIEYWOOD by BROUN

rather would look for my proofs to something which is happening at the moment than go to records of past events, however sanctified. And it seems to me that Mahatma Gandhi has brought the doctrine of nonresistance into the laboratory. It may fal through the folly of his own followers. There is in my mind no doubt that England can put down armed rebellion. Machine guns can prevail against a multitude armed with sticks and knives and stones. Those same guns can not quell those who march with full hearts and with empty hands. tt tt tt Room Enough for All I>UT all my special enthusiasm for Gandhi which rises out of a sort of mysticism need not be limited to approval on religious grounds. Since when did America turn away from any who fought in freedom’s cause? And just what answer will Ramsay MacDonald make to the Socialists and the Liberals of the world when they ask him why the blood of Indians has been shed when they came asking for liberty? The problem of Indian freedom is complex and difficult, but at least some start could be made here and now. The Communists have tried to make capital out of the Indian situation, but somewhat unfairly, for in his own land Gandhi has had nothing but bitter opposition from the left-wingers who considered his nonresistant campaign weak and him a mollycoddle. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times) Where does the supreme court of the United States meet? The supreme court of the United States sits in the supreme court chambers in the Capitol building at Washington.

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Ideals and oninions expressed :n this column are those of line of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ol this paper.—The Editor.

MAY 9, 1930

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ-

Man's Conquest of Nature Is Told in Interesting Fashion in New Book by Floyd L. Borrow. MODERN scientific marvels—be they super-Zeppelins or Einstein theories—are not the product of a moment. Each one represents the climax of a long series of discoveries. The fascinating history of man’s conquest of nature, the remarkable tale of how he has ferreted out one after another of nature's secrets, is told clearly and interestingly by Floyd L. Darrow in “The New World of Physical Discovery,” just published by Bobbs-Merrill at $3.50. Darrow is well known as a writer of popular science. His “Story of Chemistry,” published *by BobbsMerrill in 1927, is still one of the best and clearest books on the subject for the general reader. In “Thq New World of Physical Discovery.” he does an equally effective job with the science of physics. As Dr. R. A. Millikan and others have pointed out, the last thirty years have been the most remarkable year in the entire history of physics. The discovery of X-rays and radium just before the end of the nineteenth century paved the way for the marvelous advances of the twentieth with its new views of the nature of matter and electricity, time and space. Perhaps the most remarkable of all is the way in which the twentieth century has seen the fusion of what previously were isolated phenomena in 'mechanics, chemistry and electricity, into one comprehensive theory of the nature of the universe. a a e Indorsed DARROW has undertaken to tell the events which led to this fusion and to explain for the layman both the old theories and the new. His efforts have met with the approval of the distinguished committee of the Scientific Book Club who recommend his book. This committee consists of Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, the geologist: Dr. Arthur H. Compton, physicist and Nobel prize winner; Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, astronomer; Dr. Edward L. Thorndike, psychologist, and Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, biologist. After an introductory chapter about the wonders of the present century, Darrow settles down to the historical side of his theme, tracing the beginnings of modern physics in the laws of motion worked out by Gallileo and the study of the solar system by Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and Galileo. Then he discusses the “Age of Newton,” the great period of discovery dominated by Newton, which contained such famous men as Boyle, Hooke and Halley in England, and Liebnitz, Hugens 'and Torricelli among others on the continent. This period reached its culmination in Newton’s “Principia,” in which he set forth his law of universal gravitation, the law which states that every body in the universe attracts every other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distances between them. tt tt tt New Ideas DARROW then proceeds to introduce the new ideas one at a time, Chapter 4 of his book is titled “Heat or the Dance of the Molecules,” Chapter 5 is “The Rise of Electricity.” the story from the work of William Gilbert, who was born in 1540 and frequently is called “the father of electricity,” through the work of Volta and Ampere and Faraday and Franklin, to the discovery of radio waves. Chapter 6. titled “The Nature of Things,” tells the story of the development of the atomic theory, beginning with the work of Sir William Crookes and the discovery of X-rays and Roentgen. With Chapter 7. Darrow plunges into the turmoil of present-day theories, introducing the quantum theory, that puzzling theory which holds that energy exists in little particles or bullets called quanta. Chapter 8 is “Relativity for Everybody,” a discussion of the views of Professor Einstein. Darrow does an excellent, job with relativity, tracing the development of the theory from the Michelson-Morley experiment as well as the theory itself. He closes the book with two chapters on some of the ramifications of physical progress. One is titled “Physical Discovery and the Heavens” and outlines the effect which modern physical theories are having on astronomical research. The other, the final chapter of the book, is titled “Physical Discovery and Civilization.” A brief, but excellent list of reference books is appended at the close of the book.