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A Real Probe Interesting as a political conflict between officials may be, the people are only interested m knowing whether there is to be a real investigation of the recent primary vote. They want to know whether their votes were counted as cast. They have a right tc know whether tte nominees received a majority of the votes or were elected by stub pencils and faked returns. Elections in this state nave not been above suspicion. In the district adjacent to Illinois there has been repeated evidence of importation of voters Horn across the line and no prosecutions. Ir Marion county there has been repeated suspicion of fraud and no real inquiry. The amazing situation of a member of the grand jury serving as an election official in violation of law is presented as only one phase of the problem. Defeated candidates have asserted that there were frauds. And the response is a turbulent and wordy conflict between officials with little prospect of a leal inquiry. Election frauds ar.-v the highest crime that can be committed ;n times of peace. Such frauds overturn t're very theory of our government. They produce anarchy, not government. They amount to a revolution by fraud instead of a more courageous revolution by force. That these frauds occur and go unscathed of justice mejns that self government has become a farce. Os course, the political machines have set the stage to make frauc possible. The legislature contributed to easy frauds when it abolished the registration act so that repeating at polls is made ffifficult to detect. The decision of the supreme court in the case of Willoughby that mistakes can not be corrected even when admi ted was another step toward taking the government away from the people. Now, after serious charges have been made, the people get 01 ly the spectacle of a fight, perhaps a fake fight, between officials charged with the duty of prosecuting and disclosing frauds. One of the oldest tricks of burglars is to start a fake fight to distract attention from their looting. There are signs that this is occurring now, politically. Nothing less than ? real probe of the primary vote by those who are beyond suspicion of desiring to protect frauds should satisfy the public.

An Unemployment Answer With the failure of business conditions to swing sharply upward in May and the billion-dollar tariff bill causing foreign nations to close our export markets, it is admitted generally that we must begin to plan now to cope with the unemployment problem of next fall and winter. No amount of optimistic forecasts can relieve the country of that responsibility. Even with improved conditions, unemployment will remain a serious problem for some time. In this emergency it is highly important that the house pass and the President sign the senate Wagner bill. They provide for adequate monthly federal employment statistics, for advance planning and staggering of public construction works, and for a complete system of federal employment exchanges cooperating with similar state agencies. It also is necessary that individual communities follow the example of Cincinnati and other progressive cities in stabilizing employment and caring for the remaining labor surplus. But in the long run the problem can be solved under our form of government only through the initiative and courage of industry itself.- Business and labor leaders will profit by studying the experience of the men’s clothing industry. Just before the 1921-22 depression, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union put its research department to work upon as unemployment Insurance plan. When the plan was perfected it was accepted by the Chicago employers and put into operation. Employers and employes set aside for the insurance fund 14 per cent of the total pay roll, making 3 per cent. In 1929 the employers raised their share an additional 14 per cent, making the fund total 44 per cent of the pay roll. Since 1924 nearly $6,000,000 of that fund has been distributed as unemployment insurance in the Chicago market alone. The plan is also in operation in New York City and Rochester. This system is to be extended to all the unionized men’s clothing markets of the United States and Canada under a resolution passed by the Amalgamated at its biennial convention, just closed in Toronto. In speaking of its success, President Hillman of the union said: ‘lf all industries in the United States had had the same provision for unemployment insurance as we have in Chicago—surely the automobile industry, the steel industry and other industries like them which count their profits in hundreds of millions of dollars could have made at least the same provision—there would have been today more than one billion dollars In reserve to meet the problem of unemployment. We hen could have been spared the terrible catastrophe onfronting so many people.’ A Mechanized Band The United States army is experimenting with a mechanical music box mounted on a three-quarter ton truck to see if it can not replace the traditional army band and army bugler; and if the army is wise it presently will report that the whole scheme is impractical ana visionary. Imagine a stirring military review led, not by a quick-stepping, inspiring band but a magnavox on a truck! Imagine the plaintive, haunting notes of ■Tap" sounding over an encampment—not from a bugle at the Ups of an immobile trumpeter, but from a tin born connected with a set of electrical gadgets

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and gimmicks! How long would the glamour of military life survive? The whole suggestion, really, sounds as if it had been cooked up by a group of pacifists. The band and the bugler are two of the best props the army ever had. If it substitutes for them a contraption that emits music through a loud-speaker, the army will rob itself of about 60 per cent of its appeal. Who'Opposes This Tariff? So many business leaders are springing up over the country protesting against the Grundy billion dollar tariff bill that it is getting difficult to list all of them, much less quote from them. When these protests of industrialists are added to those of the 1,028 economists and hundreds of editors it is clear to the most skeptical that this opposition has assumed nation-wide proportions. Surprisingly—or perhaps naturally—virtually all these opponents use the same argument against the bill. Such a law will destroy American prosperity, say the editors. Such law will destroy American prosperity, say the economists. Such law will destroy American prcsperity, say the industrialists. On top of the statements by Ford, General Motors, Stutz and other companies, a statement was made yesterday by Alvan Macauley, manufacturer of Packard cars and president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. He explained why our prosperity depends on export trade, now threatened by foreign retaliation: “Last year the export business of the motor vehicle industry supplied almost two months’ employment to all men engaged in production of automobiles . . . and, indirectly, virtually every wage earner and producer in the United States benefited through the increased buying power put into circulation by this enormous trade, now so large that it exceeds $500,000,000 in value.” This is the great wealth, rolling into the United States, which the tariff bill is turning away by provoking foreign reprisals, described by Macauley as “the hardest problem confronting the American manufacturer.” He proceeded to state the economic law—which not even a Grundy can deny: “We can not sell if we do not buy. We can not produce if we do not sell. We can not buy in as large measure of our own products if we do not have the added buying power that comes from world interchanges.” So a vote for this tariff bill is a vote to increase American unemployment. This issue, of course, reaches far beyond the automobile and allied industries. It hits the entire range of our foreign trade, which President Hoover has described as ihe differential between American prosperity and American depression. Our total exports last year reached the recordbreaking value of $5,250,000,000. Think of the millions of American families dependent upon that trade. These jobs already are being wiped out and those families left destitute. Official figures of the department of commerce show that our total export trade during the first quarter of this year fell off 20 per cent. That was under the mere threat of the Grundy bill. What will be the result if the bill actually becomes law—a decrease of another 20 per cent, another billion dollars? We respectfully suggest to members of congress that, before voting on the Grundy bill, they take one long look at these falling export figures and rising unemployment figures. And, if that doesn’t convince them that passage of the bill would be disastrous, we suggest that they glance at the Pennsylvania primary figures, by which the voters of that highest of high tariff states just cave rewarded the great Grundy himself by dropping him from the senate. The report that the marines are making Nicaragua prosperous indicates that the natives and not the marines have the situation well in hand. Though Sharkey and Schmeling, championship contenders, will fight for the benefit of the milk fund, you can depend upon it that they’ll get the cream. Despite the fact the New York Giants have been visited by the mumps, the teams they are opposing recently appear to be having the sweller time. Fans, we suppose, would be delighted to see umps wtih mumps. The thief who entered a sausage company in Chicago and made away with blueprints of forty sausage models apparently believed in “getting ’em while they're hot.”

REASON By F LANDIS CK

THERE may be some provocation for a lynching after the commission u£ a heinous crime in a region where laws are not enforced, but there was not the shadow of provocation for this mob in Sherman, Tex., for there was not a possibility of the victim’s escaping the electric chair. It was reversion to barbarism, pure and simple. The p'mce of Wales is soon to be made a major general, also a rear admiral. When such a battle-scarred hero gets his reward, all who love sublime courage should remove their millinery. a a s JUDGE WILLIS B. PERKINS of Grand Rapids, Mich., is entitled to the thanks of that part of the human race residing in the United States because he sent to the penitentiary for a term of fifteen to th:rty years a drunken driver who killed a girl. a a a If the people of New York City are not happy, it is their own fault, for there is a lawyer for every 300 inhabitants, 0 0 0 Count Kokovtycff. former prime minister under the czar of Russia, announces that the Soviet government's aim is the eradication of God. This is more absurd than if a louse suffering from total paralysis should undertake the destruction of the United States. B B B ONE cf the war lords of China has been banished, but permitteo to take with him twenty-five wives. They ought to be able to stage enough combats to keep him from gening homesick. 0 0 0 One of the best results of our motorized age and good roads L the ability of rural commuritier to protect themselves from fire by the purchase of township fire fighting equipment. 000 Knute Hockne, Notre Dame’s great coach, is recovering from his leg infection, but without any legs he could go farther than any other football wizard in America. 000 Peggy Joyce complained as she sailed for Europe because her admirers completely had filled her stateroom with orchids. We know exactiy how she felt, because we've had the same expei lence right here at home, only in our case it was dandelions. *

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Astronomer Believes Light of Distant Stars Is Cut Off by Vast Dark Clouds of Cosmic Fog. THAT vast dark clouds of cosmic fog drift through outer space, cutting off the light of distant stars, is one of the recent findings of i modern astronomy, according to Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, director of Perkins observatory of Ohio Wesleyan university. “Until comparatively recent years, astronomers, observing the unequal distribution of stars in the sky, believed that many of the sparsely populated regions were actual vacancies in the universe through which the observer could look into the empty space beyond,” Dr. SletSbn said. “Modern telescopic astronomy, together with the ability of the spectroscope to analyze starlight, has revealed that in all probability many of these dark regions in the sky are the results of vast quantities of nonluminous gas coming in between us and the light of the stars beyond.” Dr. Stetson not only believes that such cosmic fog—gaseous material of a nebulous nature —is to be .found in the distant portions of the Milky Way but that considerable of it may also exist within our own solar system. An investigation is to be started soon at the Perkins observatory to find out just how extensively the sclar system is involved in such fog, Dr. Stetson says. By the solar system, the astronomer means the sun and the planets, including our own earth, which revolves around the sun. tt tt u Corona DR. STETSON believes that there is a relation between this cosmic fog and the corona, which becomes visible around the sun during a total eclipse. At the instant of totality, when the moon is between the sun and earth, cutting off the direct light of the sun, the sun is seen to be surrounded by a great silvery halo. It long has been supposed that this was a sort of gaseous envelope which surrounded the sun. It is invisible at other times because of the bright glare of sunlight in our sky. It would seem, however, that according to Dr. Stetson’s view this corona is ‘ not an exclusive possession of the sun, but a general condition in the solar system. The coronal phenomenon would be due to the fact that only the portion of the fog near the sun would be illuminated. Another phenomenon which Dr. Stetson thinks is connected with the fog within the solar system is the so-called zodiacal light. The zodiacal light is a faint beam of light visible in the western sky on any clear, moonless evening just after the twilight has disappeared. Near the horizon it is wider and brighter than the Milky Way. Higher in the sky it becomes fainter and narrower. It is not possible to see the zodiacal light when the moon is in the sky or when there is haze in the air. It long has been thought that the zodiacal light was sunlight reflected from gaseous material in the solar system. This view, it will be seen, is in general agreement with that of Dr. Stetson. tt a u Comets DR. STUTSON also believes that there may be some connection between the cosmic fog and cometary phenomena. The tails of comets are known to consist of extremely fine gaseous material. Dr. Stetson’s views are of interest in connection with the recent work done on the so-called cosmic cloud. According to this work, there is no such thing as empty space. Not only are there the drifting masses of cosmic fog of which Dr. Stetson speaks, but there is a great universal cloud filling all space. This universal cloud is not sufficiently dense to cut off the light of the stars. The theoretical groundwork for the existence of this cloud was laid by Professor A. S. Eddington of Cambridge. The first observational confirmation was secured by Dr. Otto Struve at the Yerkes observatory. Dr. Struve ia the great-grand-son of Wilhelm Struve, one of the great figures in the history of astronomy. More recently, work at the Dominion Ast.rophysical observatory of Canada by Doctors J. S. Plaskett and J. A. Pearce have confirmed and extended Struve’s findings. While Plaskett and Pearce have succeeded only in identifying calcium and sodium vapor in the universal cloud, they feel certain from theoretical considerations, that all known elements must be present. There are a number of interesting speculations connected with this | universal cloud. Cne possible view jis that it represents the slow dis- ! integration of the existing stars.

f /£wWel/Voydu% *JCnow c )6urßible? 1 FIVE QUESTIGi S A DAY" ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES K

1. What medicine was found in Gilead? 2. Who was Ananias? 3. What was the massacre of the innocents? 4. Complete the verse: ‘ When my father and my mother forsake me.” 5. “Let my people go.” Who said it, and to whom? Answers to Yesterday's Queries 1. Because people began speaking many languages, according to the biblical account, while attempting to build a tower as high as heaven, and thus were prevented by the Lord from combining to rival him Genesis 11:1-9. 2. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Luke 2:14. 3. A goat over which the people’s sins were confessed so that it might bear their guilt away into the wilderness; Leviticus 16:10, 21. 4. Among the musical instruments were the harp, cornet, flute, sackbut, psaltery and dulcimer; Daniel 3:5. 5. “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” Galatians 5:9.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Drastic Reducing Diet Dangerous

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Apparently the last word has not been said on safe reducing diets. The majority of physicians believe that it is not safe to have an intake of much under 1,000 calories a day or to reduce more rapidly than two pounds per week. In an experiment recently undertaken in the Western Pennsylvania hospital at Pittsburgh, Drs. J. M. Strang, H. B. McClugage and F. A. Evans worked out a diet which in‘cludes only 360 calories a day and on which thirteen patients showed an average weight loss ox six-tenths

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE new traffic rules in New York for pedestrians are less onerous than I feared. Nothing is said about the wearing of a red light, nor is there nay provision that we can be hauled off to a city garage if we park for more than five minutes. Asa matter of fact, most of the changes in the daily life of the town which are hailed as extremely radical make little difference in the end. It is customary to talk of the mad pace of the city and of the constant stream of innovations. Structurally, to be sure, the aspect of Manhattan does shift about with great rapidity, but essentially things go on much the same. The man or women who has been absent for ten years or so will find a different skyline. Some restaurant has been closed and moved around the corner. Two or three theaters have been torn down and many more changed into picture houses. Still, the returned traveler need have no great difficulty in orienting himself. There always will be Grant’s tomb, the aquarium, and Texas Guinan. tt tt The Sleeper Awakens IHAVE always wanted to take Washington Irving’s story of Rip Van Winkle and retell the legend from a different angle. You remember Rip slept for twenty years and came back to find himself an alien in a strange and wholly unfamiliar community. This is the slant of every story dealing with the wakening of any who have slumbered long and deep. When H. G. Wells projects a hero out into futurity, the traveler from the past invariably finds that the tides of human thought have swept

JAMES EAD’S BIRTH May 23 ON May 23, 1820, James Buchanan Eads, noted American engineer who developed and carried out a plan of deepening the mouth of the Mississippi by means of jetties, was born at Lawrenceburg, Ind. When he was 13 young Eads moved to St. Louis, where, after ; working in a dry goods house, j he became a clerk on a Mississippi I steamboat. Through his own studI ies of navigation Eads brought himself into the limelight by proi posing ingenious solutions of prob- | lems then existing in river traffic. At the outbreak of the Civil war \ President Lincoln called him to j Washington to discuss the prac--1 ticability of maintaining a fleet of 1 gunboats on the Mississippi. ; Eads obtained a government con- ! tract for such a fleet and within the | short space of 100 days placed seven ironclads, fully equipped, on the I river. Later, they helped capture ! Ft. Henry. In 1874 Eads constructed the steelarch bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis which ranked for many I years as one of the finest bridges in the world. The crowning achieve- ! ment of his career, however, was | the construction of jetties for the i deepening of the river. In 1884 Eads received the Albert medal, conferred by the British society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was the first American to receive the award.

of a pound a day for fifty-nine days. It was the belief of the investigators that the excess weight represented fatty tissue composed mostly of fat and water and that the deposit of fat is controlled by the excess of food taken into the body over the body’s needs. They therefore tried to use a minimum diet which would supply fifty-eight grams of protein, fourteen grams of carbohydrates, and eight grams of fat per day, and an energy value of 360 calories. The diet included 100 grams or a little more than three ounces, of lean steak for each of the two largest meals during the day. Egg white was given and on alternate

over the beaches and washed away the old litter. Transportation, clothing, economic structure and sex morality are invariably finished in brand new styles to amuse the man thrust into time. I doubt if that is fundamentally true. A great deal of squirrel racing is accepted as progress. There is a feeling that because we have radios and talking pictures and airplanes the quality of living has altered essentially from earlier days. We think that if George Washington came back he would be astounded by the growth and the new blooming in the country which he knew. I rather think he might take it calmly enough. Possibly Jefferson would be a better subject for the experiment, as

Questions and Answers

Where does the Western Union obtain its standard time for the clocks it operates? From the United States Naval Observatory. The time is obtained by observations of stars from a selected list of about 150 clock stars. These are stars whose positions are known to a high degree of percision, and whose apparent places from day to day are given in the American Ephemeris, and are therefore, readily obtainable. Only stars which cross the meridian within 20 degrees of the zenith are included in order that the azimuth error may be small. The observations are made with a transit instrument, six stars being observed each night, three north and three south of the zenith. The standard clocks at the observatory, three in number, are mounted on separate brick piers in the clock vault. Each pier weighs approximately 2,000 pounds and rests upon a solid concrete base extending some distance into the ground. Why do clouds seem to move in a direction different from that in w'hich the wind Is blowing? Because, while the current of air at the earth’s surface may be moving in one direction, at higher altitudes it may be blowing in the opposite or a different direction. Sometimes it is even observed that a low lying layers of clouds may be moving in one direction, and an upper or higher layer of clouds will be moving in another direction; more often they are moving in the same direction, but an upper layer may be moving much faster or slower than a lower layer.

How can Fahrenheit temperature be reduced to Centigrade and Centigrade to Fahrenheit? To reduce from the Fahrenheit to the Centigrade scale, first find how many Fahrenheit degrees the given temperature is above or below the freezing temperature and then multiply by five-ninths. To reduce from Centrigrade to Fahrenheit, first mutiply by nine-fifths in order to | find how many Fahrenheit degrees | the given temperature is above or j below the freezing temperature, j Knowing ho wfar it is from the ! freezing point, it will be easy to find I how far it is from Zero degree Fahrenheit, which is 32 degrees below Fahrenheit freezing point. How much would an airplane capable of crossing the Atlantic and the Pacilic cost? The minimum price of an airplane capable of crossing the Atlantic is about thirteen thousand dollors. Tc cross the Pacific ocean it would be necessary to have a plane costing about sixty to seventy thousand dollars or more.

days the patient received about onetenth of a quart of milk or orange juice and some yeast. Plenty of water was taken and mineral salts were supplied through drinking water high in these salts. When the patients first were studied it was found that though all of them claimed that they ate very little, eight of them were averaging 2,570 calories a day. It must be remembered, of course, that these patients were constantly under medical control and all their symptoms were watched and that they were not practicing extensive reduction without any adequate knowledge of the dangerous possibilities.

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

he was a man more philosophically minded and he might very well look under the surface of all the newness and find that beneath the varnish the grain of life was just the same as the pattern which prevailed in his own day. tt tt a Hard to Convince IN my story, Rip will return after twenty to the haunts where he slept away'a couple of decades. And in this version of the tale he will remain convinced through many days that it was no more than a nap People will argue with him. And Rip will reply with fire and with logic. “Don’t be silly,” he might say, “I went to the Metropolitan opera house last night. It was the same opera house. That proves I can’t have slept twenty years, because the very day before I went to bed I read in papers that anew one was going to be built almost any minute. “The opera wa- vie. Butterfly.’ Nothing particularly new about that is there? More than that, the girl who sang the role of Cio Cio San was the same one I saw just a week before I had this nap you tell me lasted for twenty. Surely she did look a little too old for the role and quite a bit too big, but she always did.” Nothing being settled by this argument, Rip will turn the knob of a radio and out will come the voices of Amos ’n’ Andy. And then he’ll pick up a newspaper and turn by coincidence to a daily column largely concerned with the conductor’s opinions and comments on current events. And now a bright and happly light may be seen in the old man’s eyes. Thrusting the paper into the faces of his astonished friends and relatives, Rip Van Winkle shouts, “Don’t you try and josh me any more. I’ve been asleep for twenty years and everything’s brand-new. Don’t be silly. “Everything’s brand-new is it? Just take a look at that ‘it seems to me’ column. Look at that story of the doughboy and the four mules. I read the whole blame thing in the sam® Diace last Thursday.” fCopyright. 1930. by The Times)

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MAY 23,1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Individual Has Become a Slave to Organization, System and Machinery. Dr. FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, consulting statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, regards suicide as a social problem which is receiving far Jess attention than it deserves. No one can read the newspapers and ddubt this. For some inscrutable reason, suicide is on the increase. Guided by reports from 100 cities. Dr. Hoffman estimates that no fewer than 17,500 Americans took their own lives in 1929. That is 500 more than took their own lives the preceding year, and 5.000 more than took their lives in 1920. Admitting that most suicides are the victims of mental derangement, we still face the question of why It is spreading. What factor of modern life causes an increased number of people to prefer eternity, whether their preference is the result of deliberate reasoning or disease? Are we becoming less afraid of death, or more afraid of life? Strange as it may seem, the most beautiful seasons of the year, and the most attractive locations, appear to encourage suicide. Os the 100 cities reporting, Sacramento, Cal., leads the list, with 52 suicides per 100,000 population, as compared to an average of 18. San Diego comes next, with a rate of 51, and San Francisco next, with a rate of 39. By and large, these are three of the most livable communities in the United States, yet from the standpoint of percentage more than twice as many people commit suicide in them as throughout the country, tt tt a THE notes left by suicides, whether as excuses for the act. apologies to those left behind, or philosophic contributions to the hodge-podge of speculation, throw a tragic light on the motives by which people can be moved to end it all. Some plead disappointment in love, some the loss of their jobs, some the feeling that they are no good, some the presence of an incurable malady, and some such trivialities as are not worth mentioning. Taken as a whole, these notes disclose a woeful lack of self-confi-dence, as well as self-control. Between the lines there invariably runs a confession of personal inability to withstand some mysterious pressure. Who can doubt that the submergence of individuality, as made inevitable by the goosestep of modem business and modern society plays an important part in the tragedy? tt tt tt Slaves of Machine NO doubt the stock market crash of last fall helped to boost the suicide rate, as Dr. Hoffman points out, but what about the 1 steady increase since 1930? We have had stock crashes before, some of them more serious than that of last fall, but we never had one which left people feeling so powerless to take care ol themselves. Slowly, but relentlessly, we are being chained to a giant mechanism, growing dependent on work which we have no part in providing, living by pay envelopes that come only if the mechanism remains in smooth running order. The individual has become a slave to organization, system and machinery, not only as a toiler, but as a member of society. On every hand, he beholds signs and traffic signals, telling him when to stop, when he can go ahead, and what direction he must take. If all lights turned red at once, what is there left? a a a One Blessing Lost IN the Revolutionary war, our forefathers not only were able to sustain an army, but feed themselves, though they had to do so on worthless scrip and without a banking system. No matter how bad business was, they still could fall back on the garden patch and the hog pen, still had an anchor to windward, still could shstain themselves with the feeling that they had it within their power to make life worth living. We are blessed with many comforts and conveniences they never knew, but that one advantage they possessed, and it did a lot to help them remain sane and normal under pressure.

Daily Thought

For his mercy endureth forever. —Psalm 136:12. tt a a IF the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another we were undone. —Philip Henry.