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The Democratic Platform What the Democratic party writes into its platform at its coming state convention will probably be more important than its utterances in other years. There are sign* of discontent on the part of the people with existing and past admin isolations and a stronger possibility that party allegiance will count for les„ than it has in the past. It >s tc be expected that under s ich circumstances there will be a temptation lo avoid g-ving offense, for that is the usual attitude of politicians and those who manage political parties. If there was ever a tune when pussyfooting should abandoned as a matter cl political strategy it is this year in the minority party The source of the present plight of the Republican party is not difficult to discover. The party permitted its control to pass into the hands of the AntiSaloon League and the Klan, and into the ownership of the privileged interests of the state. It depended on its machine organization rather than service to the people. It placed its party and its candidates in bondage by acceptance of campaign aid from undesirables. Unless the pcmocratic party offers a distinct opposition to ail these evils and backs its utterances with a ticket of men and women whose records of opposition to these same evils is plain and clear, those who dream of drifting into office by capitalizing discontent may be rudely disillusioned. The people are quite likely to be discriminating this fall. They do not want another machine under a different name. They do not want the same old forces and the same old practices continued. A platform that says something definite on the questions about which people are thinking is demanded by the circumstances. Those who would speak in whispers and weasel words are giving poor advice. The One Tax Problem Not only theater men and utility owners, but every other business might join in a protest against new ways of collecting taxes. The amusement people say that an additional tax would wreck them. The utilities assert that higher taxes would mean higher rates. Asa matter of fact all taxes are Anally paid by the consumer and the producer. The worker knows that he pays for the government, even though the tax be paid by his landlord, his butcher, his movie house or utility company. The one problem of taxation is a reduction of the total paid for government. Useless employes on pay rolls of the state or county or city mean more taxes. The giving of contracts at high prices to political favorites digs into the pocketbooks of the housewife and the worker. Instead of attempting to And new ways of raising taxes in a manner that will not incite new Boston tea parties, a greater service could be performed by Investigating methods of spending less money and getting better service from the governmental units. The one sure way of reducing taxes is to cut costs. That is the big and perhaps the only problem. For no matter what method is adopted for raising money, the man who works in the factory or on farm or in the distribution of what is made in factories or raised on the farms pays the bill. Good-by Grundy! Even the highest protectionist tariff state in the Union can not stomach Joe Grundy, the tariff lobbyist and senator chiefly responsible for the billiondollar bill Pennsylvania, in the primary Tuesday, rejected Grundy, who wanted to be the Republican senatorial candidate for the seat he now occupies by appointment. Not content with his billion-dollar monstrosity, Grundy campaigned for a higher tariff. Protectionist Pennsylvania answered by burying him beneath more than a quarter million adverse plurality. Unfortunately, Secretary of Labor Davis, who defeated him, is in many ways not much better than Grundy. Nine years in the cabinet of three administrations have demonstrated that Davis is a professional politic.an and panv regular usually on the reaction* i y side. This is all the worse, because he professes to be a friend 01 labor. Tn its treatment of aliens and of aiany labor un.ons dur.ng the last year the department of labor under Davis has earned the reputatk-n of being the most vicious of the federal agencies. Davis owes his Pennsylvan'a primary victory in part to the notorious Vare machine. His position on prohibition was evasive. Tlie best feature of the primary was the apparent victory—on the basis of incomplete returns—of exGovemor Gifford Pinchot, the gubernatorial nomination. Despite his extreme dry complex. Pinchot is one of the highest types of public servants in the country .oday. He dared to Aght tne predatory interests in the state where they are strongest. Hard Times Ahead? National protest against the billion-dollar tariff bill continues to rise. From all parts of the country come demands that congress reject the measure, and that the President veto it if it goes up to him. On top of the protest of 1.028 leading economists and the Scripps-Howard poll showing overwhelming national opposition of the press. Henry Ford and other prominent industrialists and bankers have joined in the Aght to save prosperity. While the high protectionist state of Pennsylvania in a primary Tuesday was voting down Senator Grundy, the evil genius of this bill, more manufacturers in other states were warning congress and the President against this bread-line legislation. James D. Mooney, president of the General Motors export company, speaking in New York, demonstrated with Agures from his own industry that national prosperity is dependent upon foreign trade, which is being wiped out by tariff reprisals. He said: ■•The higher tariff will be harmful to the great majority of the people; it will increase the cost of living, retard our commercial recovery, and tend permanently to reduce the volume of American business; it will impose additional burdens on everybody, burdens which must be borne by the industrialist, the worker and the farmer alike, with no conceivable beneAt to any one but a few selected, and favored beneficiaries. “By provoking other countries to erect similar tariff barriers against us it threatens the one development to whidi Amenran industry must look for its principal firure expansion; m short, the proposed measure commits itself to the absurdity of striving to increase employment by restricting trade." 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The Indianapolis Times (A SCRIPPS-HOWABD NEWSPAPER) Owned sn<l published daily (exempt Sup Hay) by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214*220 West Maryland Street. Indianapolis, led. Price in Marion County, 2 cents a copy; elsewhere. 3 cents—delivered by carrier. 12 cents a week. BOYD GURLEY ROV XV. HOWARD, PRANK G. MORRISON, Edltoy President Business Manager CHUNK-Riley SMI THURSDAY. MAY tl, 1930. Member of fnlted Press, Seripps Howard Newspaper Alliance. Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Lijfht and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

pie and an annual pay roll of more than two thousand million dollars are directly and immediately hit by this suicidal bill,'Mooney showed. Loss of automobile export trade, already rapidly falling under the Grundy threat, “would cost 184,000 workers their jobs, and about 600,000 people their means of support." With Ford officials protesting from Detroit and General Motors from New York, E. H. Gorrell, president of the Stilts Motor Company in Indianapolis, indicated that these demands are not limited to the largest companies or to any one section of the country. “We ship regularly to more than sixty countries, and our business has been damaged in more than half this number,” Gorrell reported. “If the HawleySmoot tariff bill goes through, it is probable that the export of American automobiles in the coming year will be reduced by two-thirds. “It means depression for the automobile industry, hich will contribute to the general business stagnaion. There is no question that many men will be .irown out of work and business recovery greatly handicapped.” The President and congress know these facts as well as the economists, editors, bankers, merchants and manufacturers who are citing them. President Hoover by his specific campaign pledges and his mesages to congress is committed definitely against the general tariff increase. Congress itself definitely is committed to both the Republican and Democratic platforms against the general increase. Employers and employes of this country expect the President and congress to protect their profits and their wages from this menace. Voters of the country expect the President and congress to keep faith. Neither congress nor the President can escape responsibility.

Why Not Begrudge the Farmer a Seat in the Game? , From the days of the first exploration of America, large groups of men have been lured by the hope of getting something for nothing. They hoped at first to tackle mountains of pure gold. While there has been plenty of hard work expended in the development of the United States, the lure of easy money has remained ever seductive. Thorstein Veblen once observed sardonically that “getting something for nothing” was the underlying American philosophy. Whether this be true or not, Professor Joseph Stagg Lawrence, formerly of Princeton university, alleges that the American farmer is trying to get something for nothing in the farm marketing act and the present system of farm relief. In an article on “The Futility of Farm Relief” in Harper’s Magazine, he observes: “Something for nothing! The illusive grail of costless relief dangled before their eyes. It is the key to the vehemence and persistence of farm relief agitation.” - There is more than this tc the demand for farm relief. But suppose it is just as Dr. Lawrence says it is. It would mean nothing more than the fact that the farmer is climbing on the band-wagon a century late. Capital has been trying to get something for nothing since the first frantic speculation in public securities at the very start of our national existence. Its general philosophy is to sell as large a volume as possible of the poorest quality of goods that can be Marketed safely at the highest possible price. Profits ather than the good or service of mankind are the ominant drive. Labor scon learned the lesson from capital. It came from the early abuses in the piecework system. The laborer was jockeyed into a condition where he had to do more and more work for essentially the '.me wages. In due time he learned his lesson. He introduced the idea of the limitation of output into the wellorganized trades following the 1880’s. The organized killed trades new have their practical philosophy of getting something for nothing. It is the shortest ossible day of the utmost permissible loafing for the ighest available wages. Now the farmer comes along and demands a slice 'f the national melon in the f- ;m of a big subsidy for urchase and disposition of surplus farm products. e doubt if it is necessarily the soundest economics r any ultimate solution of our agrarian problem. r ut It is as sound as the theory of business enter- ' ise, the tariff, monopoly, gambling in securities, imitation of output, and the like. If we are to arrive at any decisive settlement of •ur national industrial problems, the solution obvious--7 must rest upon sound economic principles. It never f an be founded on the effort to outsteal the other ellow. But until we insist on such principles being applied 'll around, we hardly can demand that the farmer ; hall be the only one who must observe passable eco- : omic rules. We scarcely can deny his request for a .■and in the great something for nothing game. The farm marketing act is petty larceny compared o the organized robbery of the Hawley-Smoot tariff.

REASON

E* X-SENATOR Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has written a lergthy book which seeks to prove hat in the Teapot Dome transaction, Harry Sinclair was a gentleman and a patriot. Asa piece of flf't.tn, this classic should rank high .mong the season’s offerings. a a a If he w oted to do so. Admiral Byrd could write some tnarv ious underwear testimonials when he rerurns fror the South Pole, but he's not that kind of a hairpin. 800 TWO Tammany crooks have been given one year for stealing $2,000,000 from New York City in.a sewer contract, but they wall keep the money. In all such cases the guilty should be separated .rom their loot. a a a Washington is wondering who is breaking into the offices of cur senators, and while we have no first cand information, we should say, considering the eason of the year that it’s somebody who’s after his carden seeds a a a M. V. Siler, prohibition inspector for Kentucky, eports that most colleges in the Blue Grass country are bone dry ‘but there are those who hold that it’s ■i crazy bone. a a a • WHILE crossing a creek at the Rapidan camp of President Hoover, a log roiled and threw Dr. .übert Wc '< into the water, but that was not in it nth the uamage caused by the log rolling in the present tariff battle. a a a Chicago business men claim th* $1,000,000 is in ight, to wftge a campaign against fee gangsters, but .-.less they want to lose it theyJfeould remove it :rom view.

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SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

Plans Are Being Drawn for a Monster Telescope, vrith Huge Mirror, 200 Inches in Diameter. PROFESSOR G. W. RITCHEY, formerly of the Mt. Wilson observatory, at present a resident of Paris, is making plans for a telescope larger than any now under contemplation. N The world’s largest telescope at present is the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. It is called the 100inch because the huge mirror in it is 100 inches in diameter. Plans for a 200-inch telescope to be mounted on a California mountain near Mt. Wilson are being drawn up by a committee of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. George Ellery Hale, honorary director of the Mt. Wilson observatory, is chairman of this committee. The 200-inch telescope is to be financed by funds from the international education board, a John D. Rockefeller Jr, foundation. Reports got into circulation that the 200nch telescope would cost $12,000,000, but it is understood that the cost of tlje telescope, dome to house it and mountain roads to make accessible will amount only to about half of that sum. No word has reached this country as to how Professor Ritchey plans to finance his telescope. It is obvious that such a venture can be ‘undertaken only with the backing of some great philanthropic foundation or man of great wealth or the backing of a national government. Man Varieties TELESCOPES are of two varieties. The sort which most people are familiar with is the type with an eyepiece at one end of a tube and a large lens at the other. This sort is known to the astronomer as the refractor. The largest refractor in the world is at the Yerkes observatory. It has a lens forty inches in diameter. It was built by the Warner <& Swasey Company of Cleveland. A few years ago, a Russian observatory sought to build a refractor with a lens forty-one inches in diameter, but according to reports reaching this country, the venture was not successful. All the larger telescopes now in existence are of the type known as reflectors. The reflector instead of employing a large lens, uses a large concave mirror. This mirror is placed at the bottom of the telescope tube. The light of the star or other 1 object under observation enters the open upper end of the tube and falls upon the mirror at the bottom of the tube. The concave mirror brings the light to a focus and a small mirror suspended in the tube deflects it to an eyepiece, which is inserted in the ?ide of the tube, usually near the top. There are two reasons why the reflector is easier to build than the refractor. In a refractor, the light passes through the big lens. In the reflector, it is reflected from the silvered top of the mirror. It is much easier, therefore, to obtain a block of glass which will be suitable for the mirror. The engineering problem of mounting Lie mirror at the bottom of the telescope tube is much simpler than that of putting a heavy lens at the top. attn Problems rHERE are, however, many difficult problems to be solved in making the mirror for a big refactor. And there are plenty of ether engineering problems. The mirror the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson weighs four and one-half tons. The telescope tube weighs 100 tons. That gives some idea of the problems which were involved. The problems occasioned by the ’lO-Inch telescope are still greater, it is. hoped that many of them will be solved by making the 200-inch mirror of fused quartz. The General Electric Company is □-operating with the committee and excellent progress has bees, reported to date. The 200-inch mirror will be a great block of fused quartz weighng about thirty tons. Professor Ritchey has developed plans for building what he calls a cellular mirror. His idea is not to use a solid block of glass, but to mild up a mirror out of sheets of Hass, cemented together to form hollow cells. At present there is considerable difference of opinion in the astronomical world concerning the praceability of Professor Ritchey’s scheme. Professor Ritchey points out that bis scheme would result in a much lighter mirror and one which cculd be built at much less cost. Other astronomers, however, are wondering how well the mirror would retain a perfect form and whether changes in temperature I vould lead to permanent distortion. According to a report published j by the Monthly Evening Sky Map, "rofessor Ritchey is planning a trip | to America to lecture on the remits which he has obtained in Paris n experiments with cellular mirrors.

WellVoYou < }Cnow‘)&urjßible? FIVE QUESTIONS A DAV ON FAMILIAR PASSAOES

1. Why is the tower of Babel amoua? 2. Quote the Christmas song of the argels at Bethlehem. 3. What was a scapegoat? 4. Name five kinds of musical instruments mentioned in the Old Testament. 5. What did Paul say about a little leaven? Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. New cloth in old garments and new wine in old bottles; Mark 2:21-22. 2. “A land flowing with milk and heney.” Exodus 3:17. 3. “Joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30:5. 4. Solomon; I Kings 4:33. 5. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son.” Spoken to Nicodemus. John 3:16.

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Test ‘Artificial Fever’ to Rout Disease

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor. Journal ot the American Medical Association, and of Hggeia, the Health Magazine. FEVER Is generally considered to be a manifestation of the reactions of the body to disease. Sometimes heat developed in the body controls germ activity. In the attack on general paresis by the malaria injection method, one of the results of the injection is to produce fever, and it has been suggested that in the treatment of conditions similar to general paresis the production of fever is the important factor. It is possible to produce fever in the human being by injecting any foreign protein substance. When such injections are made, the reactions are sometimes severe. Attempts havs been made by the workers in the research laboratories of the General Electric Company to develop some system of raising the temperature of the body without

IT SEEMS TO ME

I HAD refrained from saying anything about the lynching in Sherman, Tex. It seemed to me that there was nothing to be said. This was a deed, I did assume, cruel and contemptible in the eyes of all men. No responsible person would : tand up and condone the bestiality of the mob. But now I will speak because, to my utter amazement, I find in as responsible a paper as the Atlanta Constitution, a disposition to intimate that there is something to be said for the pack. Indeed, it dignifies their deeds by captioning the editorial “The Sherman Avengers." And the paper of Clark Howell Jr. goes on to say: “The adherents to law and order may deplore and denounce these volcanic outbreaks of murderous rage, overriding all the instrumentalities of regular justice and the powers of the government, but there is one great and irreversible fact ingrained in the psychology of the southern people that aW ways must be taken into account by those who judge such events as this one at Sherman. “That fact is that the white people will not tamely allow their women to be the unavenged victim of the lust and brutality of any Negro man—criticism of that passion, and action from any source appeals only to the deafness of the adder, and no one can avert the terrible vengeance but the Negro who keeps his lustful hands off an innocent white woman.” * man Two Lies THAT is the most barefaced and shameless defense of lynching I have ever seen in a supposedly reputable American paper, and it is founded not on one lie, but two. First, there is the suggestion that the citizens of Sherman acted as. they did through their determination not tamely to allow their, women to go unavenged. Was that the issue? No honest man can maintain it. The culprit already was in the hands of the law. His doom was approaching fast. He had confessed. Nothing but mob violence possibly could stay his execution. Indeed, the mob never succeeded in venting its wrath on the thing that had been a man. It was a dead body when they burned and riddled with their futile and insane bullets. And the Atlanta Constitution would put the responsibility for tins not on the Negro criminal, but on all Negroes. If the innocent Negro people of the town had not fled they would have been killed, too. As It was, their homes and stores were burned. How can any intelligent person suggest that the atrocious deed of

Daily Thought

And he built fenced cities in Judah; for the land hdd .rest, and he had no war in those years; because the Lord has given him rest, —II Chronicles 14:(fc Rest is sjyeet after strife.—Lord Lytton. t ' ■*

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

injecting anything into the body. Doctors C. M. Carpenter and A. B. Page have been developing a method of rahing the temperature by the use of short wave lengths in several oscillations. In this method the energy is concentrated -between two condenser plates made of aluminum covered with hard rubber to prevent arcing should the patient or any attendant ccme in contact with the plates. The person whose temperature is to be raised is suspended on cotton tapes stretched across a wooden frame and surrounded with celotex so that there is a fairly tight air chamber around the body. The plates are so placed at each side of the celotex box and the waves produced by the oscillator oscillate through the body from one side to tne other. It has been possible to raise the temperature of a man five degrees in one hour with this apparatus. Indeed, it would be possible to

one Negro makes all the members of his race subject to the fierce penalties of a savage mob? ana Criminals All THE Constitution speaks of “lust.” What name does it care to apply to those who sought to find satisfaction in harrying and parading even lifeless flesh? I say that the dead man committed a horrible deed and that every member of the mob sinned against civilization in similar proportion. Was the lust of one ever yet sanctified and washed away by the lust of many? It is not a sectional issue. It is not an issue between white and black. The North has known the same violence and the same blood guilt. The issue is simply one between righteousness and evil, between high heaven and the jungle. The man, or men, who behave like jackals under any compulsion whatsoever, are more than traitors to their race. They have betrayed the whole of human kind. Henry Mencken once said that cruelty was commonest in those sections of America which pay loud lip-service to the principles of Christianity. He named what he called “the Bible belt” as the scene of the fiercest and most unbridled pessions. To me this seemed a tall generalization. But by a curious coincidence the same issue of the Atlanta

WAGNER’S BIRTH May 22

ON May 22, 1813, Wilhelm Richard Wagner, the originator of the music drama and one of the greatest of musical geniuses, was bom in Leipzig. Influenced as a boy by his readings in Shakespeare, Wagner, at the age of 14, wrote a four-act tragedy. Later, falling under the spell of the music of Weber and Beethoven, he decided he would leam music so that he could compose a piece for his tragedy. In 1833, at the age of 20, he became a professional musician, accepting the post of chorus master at Wurzburg. He diligently occupied himself writing librettos, but few of them sold. Impoverished as he was, he married Minna Planer, as actress. When they went to England soon after their marriage, Wagner got Inspiration for his “Flying Dutchman’’ in the tempestuous channel crossing. But this, and his subsequent “Tannhauser,” were not received cordially. Wagner ultimately became friends with Liszt, who helped him in times of need, and encouraged him to compose. Later Wagner took for his second wife his friend's daughter, Cosima Liszt, who died only recently. Wagner himself lived to see his works finely acclaimed.

raise the temperature much higher than 104 to 105 degrees, but this has not been done because of the possible dangers. When the temperature of the body is raised rapidly by such a device, the person begins to have a fast pulse and to breathe more rapidly. Usually the blood pressure falls. In some instances high temperatures were maintained for an hour without apparent distress or fatigue to the patient. It is believed that the development of the heat in the body is due to the resistance made by the body to the condition of the current. The evidence thus far available from studies In some twenty-five human beings and of many laboratory animals indicates that the heat within the body makes it less favorable for the multiplication of germs and that the increased rate of the various chemical processes in the body aids the resistance to disease and infectious agents.

HEYWOOD BROUN

Constitution which* carried the de - sense of lynching, printed in the very next column, a defense of Dr. Mcßride, prohibition’s mad mullah, and an attack on Senator John J. Blaine for daring to question the divine and direct inspiration of the Anti-Saloon League. “For Senator Blaine,” say the Constitution, “or anyone else, to question ‘that spirit of God’ whom Jesus declared would come to men when He Himself should depart from among them, and who, ‘when He, the spirit of truth, is come, He shall guide you into all truth,’ inspired men now to .endeavors in line with that righteousness which is the constitution of Christ’s kingdom on earth, is going far afield from the understanding of the Christian world.” (Copyright. 1930. bv The Times)

Questions and Answers

How old Is Justice Brandeis of Ihe United States supreme court? He is 73 years old. How tall is Calvin Coolidge? Five feet, 10 inches. What is the meaning of Tenafly? It is taken from a Dutch word meaning “At the meadow.” Who was commander of the U-20 which sank the Lusitania? A German officer whose name was Schweiger.

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

..MAY 22, im

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

If Some People Fail to Vote as They Drink, More Fail to Vote as They Talk. AMONG other things, the Pennsylvania primary reveals how little pulling power the SmootHawley bill enjoys, even among rock-ribbed Republicans. Joseph R. Grundy was not only the godfather of this bill by virtue of what he did for It as a lobbyist, but justly might be described as its savior, by virtue of what he did after becoming senator. If the protective tariff, as embodied in this bill, meant all he claimed to Pennsylvania, the Republican party of that state was heavily in his aeut. He is refused the senatorial nomination, however, by a majority of about three to two. Either Pennsylvania Republicans are brutally ungrateful, or the Smoot-Hawley bill is not the votegetter some of its sponsors imagine. HUB The Party Whip Cracks IT is to be admitted that a Republican primary in Pennsylvania should not be taken too seriously excep as it illustrates the effectiveness of machine politics and slush funds. Here is one place where the uncrowned kings of American democracy seem to have acquired the comfortable habit of doing what they are told, especially if an honest penny can be turned in the process. They have reached a point of subserviency where they are ready not only to ditch such a pet measure as the Smoot-Hawley bill if the whip cracks, but forget that prohibition is an issue. By the count, this primary resulted in a notable victory for the drys, since the admittedly wet candidates polled only about 15 per cent of the vote. Who supposes that 85 per cent of Pennsylvania Republicans are dry? BUB Drink Wet, Vote Dry IN Pennsylvania, as in other states, prohibition can be beaten everywhere, except at the polls. If some people fail to vote as they drink, more fail to vote as they talk. That is one reason why nobody, except bootleggers and rum runners, has much to show for all the conversation. New York’s “committee of fourteen.” created twenty-five years ago to fight organized vice, just has issued a report in which the speakeasy restaurant is given a clean bill of health, while the dance hall is indicted as a source of immorality. Commenting on the suspension of Arthur B. O'Keefe at Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., for violation of rules against drinking, the Crimson, Harvard's undergraduate daily, says that, drinking is not considered a crime by the authorities of that university. "Theoretically,” the Crimson explains, “any American institution, except the jail and reform school, should not knowingly harbor persistent violators of the law. Nevertheless, thousands of students daily are violating the Jones law. In a large number of cases in the knowledge and with the acquiescence of their faculty.” B B B

Funds Hard to Get F SCOTT M'BRIDE, head of the Anti-Saloon League, admits that his organization is finding it harder and harder to collect funds. The Rockefellers have not contributed a cent since 1926, he tells a senate committee, and Henry Ford is credited with one gift of only a Ihousand dollars. Every test of public sentiment made during the last few years reveals wet sentiment only not as increasing, but in control of most states. According to the Literary Digest, those who believe in enforcement of the existing law represent less than one-third. According to the Scripps-Howard poll they represent next to nothing. U tt tt But Not at Election ALL of this sounds very reassuring, until we run up against a primary, or an election. Then it generally transpires that, for one reason or another, the wets can not get anywhere. In Pennsylvania, the Republicans had a perfectly good chance to vote their sentiments with regard to prohibition. But instead of that, they paid glorious tribute to the state machine, even though it involved the political decapitation of Colonel Grundy, who is supposed to have served them so well. Thus we continue to furnish Mussolini and his kind with arguments to prove their case against democracy. What does the name Edna mean? It is from the Saxon and means pleasure.