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A Cautious Elephant The Indiana elephant grows cautious as he picks his way through the jungle of unpopular tariffs, more unpopular administration of state affairs and most unpopular lack of any positive aid for the farmer or the unemployed. It is significant that the Republican convention refused to adopt the “ringing indorsement” of the tariff as sent here by Senator Watson, whose word in the past has been unchallenged. Perhaps the delegates hesitated to make themselves ridiculous before their neighbors on their return home by giving utterance to so great an absurdity. True, the convention indorsed the state administration and the cement highway department. That furnishes enough humor for one platform. Tradition, rather than records for service, caused the nomination of most of the candidates. It is customary to give incumbents a chance for a second term as long as they stay out of jail, often with the prayer that they will continue to keep out of prison. If it is true that the renomination of Judge Willoughby was defeated because of fear of the Anti-Saloon League the result would be deplorable. Whenever the courts come under the domination of any group they are doomed as instrumentalities of justice. They will lose the confidence of the people. The failure of the court to render decisions in important cases, to delay and obstruct justice by its own lethargy, furnished enough cause for changes in the high tribunal. It is unfortunate that the dry league obtains credit, or blame, for this political action. Putting the courts into this sort of politics is worse than vicious. It is damnable. The renomination of Judge Remy to the appellate bench must be regarded as a rebuke to machine politicians. Judge Remy has a very commendable list of political enemies. It may well be true that the caution which caused the platform committee to change the war snort of the elephant into whine for fodder also caused the convention to refrain from putting the machine placard on its back by defeating Remy. Taken as a whole, the people will find it rather difficult to discover any great cause for joy in the outcome. Hoover’s Leadership Prom the maneuvering in congress and at the White House regarding the billion-dollar tariff bill, it is clear that too many are handling this as a partisan political matter instead of a menace to national prosperity and international peace. Most of this week has been spent by the senate in futile moves for partisan advantage. The Republican old guard blunders back and forth. The Democrats are unable to maintain a solid front of opposition, because a minority are almost as high tariff advocates as Grunoy, and because another group is on the fence. \ The latter group of Democrats disapproves the bill Sn principle. But they want a suicidal tariff law as 4 November campaign issue. Therefore they want in sent to the White House by Republican votes and signed by the President. But they can not be certain that the President ■will sign it. if it is to be killed, they want the Democratic party to get the credit. If the President were to veto it, he not only would get the political credit but the Democrats would be robbed of their best campaign issue. So they don't know whether to take a chance and let the bill slip through in the hope that the President will sign it, or to kill the bill before it gets to the President. Such considerations may seem important to the politicians of both parties, but to the public, which has risen in unprecedented protest against the measure, they seem little better than petty intrigues. The President has not helped matters. His latest contribution is an announcement that he is openminded. No leader could have a heavier responsibility for action than Hoover has today. As President it is his duty to conserve prosperity at home and friendship abroad. This bill jeopardizes prosperity and has started trade war and hatred abroad. In such emergency it is the clear duty of Hoover to condemn this menace for what it is. He has an added duty as a party leader. He and his party were elected on the basis of a definite platform pledge and s Hoover’s campaign speeches against any general tariff increase. His party in congress has betrayed that pledge. By remaining silent he has—wittingly or unwittingly—seemed to approve the betrayal. It can not be said that the President should keep hands off while the bill is pending in congress. He has intervened repeatedly. He intervened in calling the special tariff session. He intervened against the farm debenture provision. He intervened against the senate flexible provision. There is nothing to prevent his intervening against the bill as a whole with its extortionate rates. Nothing. unless he is willing to violate his campaign pledge and sign the bill. Indeed, that is precisely his position. according to the old guard. Now, in the midst of all this dangerous uncertainty—when a frank repetition of his warning of a year ago would kill the bill in congress—the President announces he is keeping an open mind. What is there to be open-minded about? He can be for or against, but why should he be undecided at this late day? The bill has been debated for more than a year. Virtually all the thousand-odd iniquitous rate increases have been fixed and publicly known for several weeks. Representatives and senators have had plenty of time to study the rates and make up their minds. Hundreds of newspapers have had time to study the rates and make up their minds. The 1,028 leading L economists who protested have had time to study the m rates and make up their minds. The time for indecision is past. Those who are not against the bill arc for it Silence now means yj&provaL Indecision now means support, stf Hoorn- is a leader, he will lead now.

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Representing America? In a few days ten men will sail for Europe to represent the United States in an international conference “to make possible the intellectual pursuits necessary to a happier human race.” Among the ten, the state department announces, are Henry J. Pierce, Washington power lobbyist; H. Foster Bain, prominent recently as a defense witness in the oil trials; Oscar C. Merrill, who resigned as secretary of the federal power commission to draw a salary twice as large from various power companies, and three power company engineers. This is the American committee to the world power conference, which, to quote its program, “stands in importance with the deliberations of statesmen” . . . for power “will increasingly mold the lives of all men.” It is quite possible these power men have not overemphasized the importance of their mission. Power already is a large factor in men’s lives. No man can foresee the part it will play ten years from now. It Is twining itself into the roots of every other business and of the government. Its potentialities are boundless. So it is too bad the United States will be represented thus in the world power conference. It is unfortunate that four members of the President’s cabinet are letting their names be used as sponsors of this committee. It is unfortunate there will be no one at the conference to discuss the success of our public power developments at Tacoma, Los Angeles and elsewhere, or to bring us word of Germany’s remarkable progress along these lines. It is unfortunate we will appear before the world as committed to the policies of a private power group and acquiescent in all it does. Unfinished Business The house of representatives plans a summer recess It has not earned. The senate, so often scoffed at for moving slowly, has done what it could to solve the unemployment problem by passing the three Wagner bills. The house judiciary committee has not even considered these bills. Hearings have been set for next week, but adjournment is expected the following week. The postponement has made it almost certain the bills will not be acted upon before next winter, if ever. The senate, more than a year ago, passed the Norris constitutional amendment to abolish lame duck sessions of congress. Speaker Longworth of the house held it on his desk for months instead of referring it to committee, until Norris discovered what he was doing and protested. Meanwhile, the house elections committee has rejorted a similar amendment. But the house rules committee refuses to hold hearings and will not let the amendment reach the floor for debate and passage. The senate has done its part toward reorganization of the federal power commission, a reform which President Hoover, as well as senate liberals, believes imperative. Only this week, a month after the hearings, the house interstate commerce committee reported a power commission bill. But it is a bill differing from that passed in the senate, so that even if the house acts on it, it must go to conference and be approved a second time by both houses if it is to become law. The senate has passed the Couzens resolution to suspend all railroad consolidation until the end of the next session of congress. The house has ignored the resolution. , The Jones-Cooper maternity bill, to renew federal aid previously given for saving lives of mothers and infants, has not been passed by either house of congress. While the senate commerce committee has reported the bill favorably, the house interstate commerce committee has not even held hearings. American talkies, it is reported, are meeting with great success in Bombay. There's a case where ignorance of American dialog is bliss. A British chemist predicts that cellulose, the raw material of paper, soon may be produced from the air. Some day that’s going to b--. news. A black opal, worth $25,000, was found in New South Wales recently with the distinct outline of a woman’s form imprinted on it. What you might call a fancy figure. Judging from the number of strawberries they put in it, we know now why they call it a short cake.

REASON

WE have not read this bill which would give the interstate commerce commission control of motor passenger transportation between states, but we are against it on general principles. a a a This proposal differs from federal control of railroads, for they own their rights of way, but the busses use rights of way. owned by the states, and it would be the last word m impudence to let Washington say upon what terms busses may use Indiana’s property. a a a Such control would lead to uniform regulations throughout the country and the interstate commerce committee would tell Indiana she could not collect a higher tax than other states, if in fact the commission did not abolish such tax entirely. a a a ALL such matters, such as rates, the length and width of busses would be turned over to officials at Washington, and while the people of Indiana would be permitted tc build roads and maintain them, all their control would be handed over to their distant masters. a a a This is the most aggravating incident of the tendency to concentrate power at the national capital, and while beautiful pictures wall be drawn of the benefits to the dear people, resulting from their loss of control, the people know that home rule is their best friend. a a a They have learned from experience that whenever local control is taken away, they are helpless and rates soar toward the ceiling. In fact the whele story of placing such control in a few hands far away is the story ci exploitation. a a a IT is time t v call a halt in the centralization of power at Washington and this particular bill affords a golden opportunity to our statesmen to say that the federal government shall not take over property owned by the states a a a If the price of federal aid in road building be the loss of control cf such roads, then let federal aid stop once and fer all, for it would be an instance of a very small minority stockholder determining what the great majority shtdi do. 4

FREDERICK LANDIS

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SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

The Night Sky Is a Boundless Ocean of Space; Its Little Points of Gold Are Flaming Globes, Many Larger Than Our Sun. THE panorama of the night sky impresses one first of all with its beauty. It is a gorgeous tapestry, embroidered in gold. But as one gazes upon it, its true significance comes home. It is not a tapestry, but a boundless ocean of space. Those little points of gold are flaming globes, many of them a thousand times the size of our own sun. And so as cne gazes, the earth begins to shrink in size and importance and questions of many sort press forward for answer. Chief among those questions is the question of life. Are there other earths like ours out there in space? It seems so improbable that our little earth is the only Inhabited globe in that vast ocean of space. Any answer to that question must be based in general upon a minimum of fact and a maximum of speculation. For the facts are few and hard to ascertain. We can divide the question into a number of problems. First there is the nature of life. We know that the sun has a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The stars have similar temperatures, i some a little less, some a little more. I Sometimes the question is asked; ■‘Why can’t there be creatures capable of existing at those temperatures?” a a tt Laws IF one wishes to believe that there are creatures capable of existing at temperatures of 10,000 degrees above zero or 500 degrees below zero, that is his own affair. Scientists, however, do not take that view. The scientist sees that there are fundamental laws underlying the whole of nature. The laws of physics and chemistry are followed by the distant stars just as truly as by this earth. Furthermore, life as we study it in the laboratory, follows these same laws. No physiological experiment ever has revealed an example of behavior contrary to these laws. Consequently, the scientist prefers to believe that the phenomenon of life requires certain conditions and appears only when those conditions are present. The question of life elsewhere in the universe, therefore, resolves itself to the problem of where in the universe conditions would be essentially like those upon our own earth. Life upon the earth is dependent upon certain things—the light, warmth and ultra-violet rays of the sun, the oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor of the earth’s atmosphere. Perhaps there are other necessary factors which we do not yet understand. But let us examine the universe, keeping in mind the factors which we do understand. The earth’s own satellite, the moon, can be dismissed from consideration at once. The moon is close enough to the earth to make its study fairly easy. This study reveals that the moon possesses no atmosphere and no water. n * tt Planets NEXT, let us consider the earth’s brothers and sisters, the other planets in the solar system. Mercury, closest to the sun, can be dismissed from consideration at once. There is evidence that it rotates upon its axis in the same time that it revolves about the sun. Consequently, it always keeps the same face turned toward the sun. Measurements with_ the thermocouple, a delicate electrical thermometer, reveal that this face has a temperature of about 300 degrees. Trying to live on it would be like trying to live on a red-hot stove. The other face of Mercury has a temperature far below zero and is in continuous darkness. After Mercury, comes Venus, then our own earth, then Mars and Neptune. The planets from Jupiter to Neptune can all be dismissed from consideration at once. Thermocouple measurements indicate that they are all at temperatures below zero. They are too far from the sun to receive sufficient heat. This leaves only the earth’s immediate neighbors, Venus and Mars Here the chances are fairly good. Many astronomers interpret the seasonal changes in the appearance of Mars as being due to vegetation. The surface of Venus is completely obscured by clouds. There is reason, however, as a result of thermocouple measurements and other observations, to think that conditions may be favorable to life. Finally, there is the rest of the universe. Do any of the stars have planets? Are any of those planets inhabited? Nobody knows, for the stars are so far away that the most powerful telescope reveals a star only as a point of light. If any of the stars have planets, our telescopes can not show them.

7/Sw WellVoToul 'JCnowl/durßible? I FIVE QUESTIONS A DAY" K ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES K,

1. How is the phrase “heap coals of fire on his head ’ used? 2. For what price did Esau sell his birthright and to whom? 3. What is the biblical reference tomboys and girls playing in the streets of the city? 4. When was the cry raised, “to your tents, O Israel?” 5. Who is it that “lendeth to the Lord?” Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. Aaron made it; Moses destroyed it; Exodus 32: 1-20. 2. “Than great riches;” Proverbs--22: 1. 3. Elah; I Kings 16: 9, 10. 4. "The powers that be are ordained of God;” Romans 13: 1. 5. His sling and a smooth stone from the brook; I Samuel 17: 39, 40. What is the origin and meaning of the name Meta? It is a feminine name of German origin meaning “a pearl.”

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Mineral Oil Does Not Cause Cancers

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medieal Association and of Mygeia, the Health Magazine. FOR years it has been known that contact with pitch, tar or oil, particularly repeated irritation, was associated in some instances with the development of cancer. In England, “mule spinners” working in the cotton factories developed forms of cancer associated with irritation by oil. In 1923 a report was published concerning cancer among workers in the Scottish shale industry. These facts published in the press have led in some quarters to doubt as to the safety of taking internally the mineral oil that is widely used as a lubricant of the intestinal tract, particularly in constipation as it occurs in older people. Moreover, oils in the form of

IT SEEMS TO ME

I SHOULD like to refer the following experience to the society for psychical research, or if it does not fall within its field, to the organization across the hall which might be called the club of curious coincidences. First of all I must recapitulate some material with which most of you are probably familiar. About twelve years ago in reviewing a performance of a play from the German called “The Wakening of Spring,” I wrote harshly of the performance of an actor called Geoffrey Stein. I said, “He gave the worst performance I have ever seen on any stage.” Mr. Stein sued for libel, but the jury decided that a fair and honest opinion of a dramatic performance, however adverse, was privileged, Mr. Stein was a stranger to me and there was no evidence that I harbored a grudge. Accordingly the case was dismissed. But two months later he appeared in another play which I was assigned to cover. My lawyer called up and said, “You better be careful what you say this time if you don’t happen to like his performance, because he could possibly make the point that you had it in for him on account of the suit which he brought when you wrote that he gave the worst performance you had ever seen on any stage.” As it happened, I didn’t like the actor this time either and so I wrote, “Mr. Stein was not up to his usual standard.” Last Wednesday I was broadcasting and as I had prepared no notes I was fumbling around and not unnaturally I seized upon this particular anecdote and. started to tell it. But as I did so I suddenly began to feel desperately ill. There was nothing in the out-

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ROBERT SCOTT’S BIRTH June 6 ON June 6, 1868, Robert Scott, Arctic explorer, who led an expedition to the south pole by the longest continuous sledge journey ever made in the polar regions, was born in Devonport, England. He entered the navy at 14, and first attracted attention as a torpedo lieutenant of the H. M. S. Majestic, where his associations with Arctic explorers led to his future career. In 1901 he was placed in command of an Antarctic expedition, during which he discovered King Edward VII land and reached a latitude which was then anew “farthest south.” Nine years later he set out in command of anew expedition for Antarctic discovery. After a sledge journey of 1,812 miles Scott reached the south pole Jan. 18, 1912, five weeks later than Amundsen. He found the latter’s Norwegian flag and tent and carried away photographs of them. Some two months later, on the return journey, Scott and his entire party perished. Four days before he died Scott wrote this famous message to England: “I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great fortitude as ever in the past. .... We have been willing to give our lives for this enterprise, which is for the honor of our country.’*

Another June Wedding

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

vaseline are much used in ointments for lubrication and protection of the skin. Cases have occurred in which oils or waxes were injected under the skin for purposes of beautification. In the latter method cancer is not infrequent. However, such instances do not have for the vast majority of the public the interest associated with the taking of mineral oil internally. To find out just how much danger might be associated with taking of oils internally, Dr. Frances Carter Wood of the Institute of Cancer Research in Columbia university made experiments on hundreds of mice. Asa result of his studies, it was found that painting the skin of mice with mineral oils of the type usually used for skin application did not cause cancer.

ward circumstances to disturb me. I was sitting in a comfortable chair. Nevertheless my heart began to pound and I perspired violently and felt, altogether on the precise verge of dissolution. I was gravely tempted to stop. a tt n A Tragic End ON Thursday afternoon I picked up a newspaper and read under a small head on an inside page, “Geoffrey Stein, the actor, died suddenly last night.” And this was the first time I had heard of him in ten years. He died the night of the broadcast. Whether this was r, coincidence or not and whether ny present motive is sportsmanship or superstition, I solemnly vow never again to tell that anecdote under any circumstances. And I may acid that inept as Mr. Stein’s performances appeared to me it is possible that I erred in my judgment as to his worth as an artist. It is not unknown for critics to be wrong. At any rate the joke has died with the actor A young man named, believe it or not, Bullwinkle should be honored by New York because he has done much to restore the city’s fading reputation as a health resort. It is true, of course, that we are a sturdy folk hereabouts and for the most part live long and prosper. The smoke which rises from the factory chimneys and the noxious gases of thousands of autos parked close are

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—This is from a constant reader of your paper since the days it was called the Sun, and printed on East Ohio street. The old saying that the press is mighty has been fully proved in the last thirty days, in the case of the socalled “rain baby”—child of the beloved mother, Mrs. Breedlove, who unhesitatingly laid her child down on the cold damp ground to be found or left to die like a rat caught in a trap. But fortunately for the child, the one who said “Suffer little children to come unto me,” directed the footsteps of a good Samaritan to leave his warm bed the second time to go out in a downpour of rain to find the suffering child nearly drowned and frozen. Now you will remember the sentiment of your paper and all other papers who received the article. If that heartless mother had been found that day, sentiment was strong enough to have mobbed her. Now comes the power of the press. Each day the press began to relent a little toward her, until the fickle public began to recognize the mother as a heroine and began to lavish money and luxuries upon her, even to the judge who tried this woman j and told her to go and sin no more. I am not criticising the judge, for the press is with him. But in my opinion that woman should have been tried and punished for intended manslaughter and not encourage other young mothers to try the same. CONSTANT READER. In what year was the sesqui-cen-tennial celebration in Pittsburgh in honor of the anniversary of the founding of that city held? 1908.

Painting the skin with heavy lubricating oil produced a few overgrowths of the skin, and painting of the skin with tar produced many overgrowths and some cancer. When mice were fed with mineral oil cancers were not produced in the gastro-intestinal tract, even though the mice concerned were of a strain in which cancer had been frequent. Dr. Wood is convinced that there is no reason to believe that the oil as used has any possibility of producing cancer in the human being. This is particularly the case since the skin of the white mice and the rats js quite as sensitive as the human skin to oil irritation, and since both rats ,and mice sometimes suffer with cancers of the stomach and intestines, exactly as do human beings.

HEYWOOD BROUN

'energizing as ozone to the true New Yorker. But of late there has been some doubt about this. People have been propagandizing among our citizens and urging them to get back to mother nature. It is in track and field, of course, that the most accurate comparisons can be made between the present and the past. tt a u Triumph for Cities George bullwinkle of the College of City of New York stepped upon the running track in the Harvard stadium and showed his heels to all collegiate competitors by running a mile in 4:18 4-5, and if you know anything about track records, this is sparkling time, only a few seconds back of Nurmi's best i and one of the fastest miles ever run by an undergraduate. Bullwinkle is only a sophomore. After a brief rest Bullwinkle came back to the track and competed in ! the half-mile. This time he did not win. The race was fast and the New York lad got third in 1:55. Where were the men from the great open spaces. Why, they were yards and yards behind. All the winners and near winners of the gruelling races were city chaps with just a sprinkling of rural New Englanders. The reason is very simple. A one-mile race becomes in its last stages a fight for sufficient air. A Californian is used to a lot of air Indeed, his system Is undetermined by the necessity of having it all warmed and dusted before he can absorb it. But any New Yorker used to the subway crush is less finicky. He has hardened himself by experience. Hot or cold, fresh or stale, any air and any quantity will suffice him. He can do twenty miles to the teaspoonful. Still we are not all Bullwinkles and I think Mayor Walker ought to do something about it. (Copyright. 1930. hv The Times)

Ideals and opinions expressed :n this column are those of jne o i America's most, interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this oaper.—The Editor.

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.JUNE 6,1930

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

Signs Are Accumulating That Not Much of Anything Is Morally Wrong if a Sufficient Number of People Do It. LIFE not only continues to be a matter of anomalies and contradictions, but they are what make the news interesting. Buddy Bushmeyer, expert parachute jumper, who made at least 500 descents and trained 100 students, goes up for a flight without his “parasol” and is killed. Ed Dougherty, 19-year-old clerk in a New York brokerage office, makes $149,000 on a sweepstakes derby ticket which he tried to sell for 75 cents. Lieutenant Soucek of the navy pilots his biplane to a height of more thap eight miles and back agaijj In two hours and twenty minutes, while the Kanchenjunga expedition, after several months of preparation, admits itself licked by earth’s second highest hill. Bishop Cannon, who challenged a senate committee to make him talk, gives the press a surprisingly complete statement of the way he spent $40,300 in the Virginia campaign against Smith. a m Is Anything Wrong? THE Yale News thinks that expulsion is too severe a penalty for cheating in examinations, because half the undergraduates do it, while only a few get caught. Millions of people feel the same way toward bootlegging, so why get excited. The idea that it is not morally wrong to break a rule simply because it is a rule, grows popular apace. Indeed, signs are accumulating that not much of anything is morally wrong, if a sufficient number of people do it. This is not the first time such signs have accumulated, nor will it be the last. To a measurable extent, morality is the by-product of numbers. Let a custom become common, whether for good or ill, and it soon takes on the aspect of a moral standard. a a a We Follow Whims MANY people wonder why England has less trouble with law enforcement than we do, but the reason is very simple. England allows her rules and regulations to be developed by usage, while we make ours according to the whims of the moment. There always is close harmony between English law and English morals, while there frequently is hopeless discord between American law and American morals. Time after time, congress, or a state legislature, enacts laws which reflect nothing but temporary waves of excitement. a a tt Strike at Wrong Time WE have learned how to make rules and regulations in this country, but what we have not, learned is when to make them. Too many of them fail to represent our moral conception as revealed by custom and usage, which not only makes their enforcement difficult, but creates a general attitude of resentment. Much of the confusion we are experiencing with regard to such questions as whether alaw 1 should be obeyed as long as it is a law, or should be repealed by nullification when there is no other way, goes back to the cleevage that exists between what we do as a matter of custom and what we write on our statute books as a matter of impulse. “Law is no stronger than the sentiment behind it,” but there are two kinds of sentiment. First, there is the trumped-up kind, bom of novelty, trouble, or the crusading spirit. Second, there is the kind which is matured through generations of habit, which can be trusted to last longer than the echo of the noise it makes, and which is the only kind that can breathe strength into rules or regulations.

Daily Thought

And it shall come to pass, that, whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. —Acts 2:21. But what can mortal man do to secure his own salvation? Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. He can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.—W. Gladden. When was the bow and arrow first used? The origin of the bow and arrow is lost in the uncertainties of the stone age. Every country, except Australia, had them. Anthropologists have found flint arrow heads that are between 25,000 and 50,000 years old.