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The Little Brothers Independent citizens who desire an opportunity to end Cofflnism in this coun'y and Lake county domination of the state, will be interested In any efforts of the little brothers of Cofflnism to disrupt and defeat the Democratic party. The independent voter has only an offside chance of a voice in government. The state law elevates fraud. It puts a penalty on independence. It tries to shackle the vcters to party machines. The independent voter • l’mited to the choice between two parties, and too often these parties represent the tame influences The vicious forces of greed always try to get into both parties when there is evidence of revolt. The usual plan is to find something for the voters of ihe minority to quarrel about rather than agree upon At this time there is wide discontent over economic conditions. There is much unemployment. The tariff measure threatens to further burden the consumer and create still more joblessness. The unemployed worker and the bankrupt farmer find their only chance, now that the primary is over, in a Democratic party pledged in congress against tariff robberies and in the state against waste, extravagance and privileged escape from taxation. These are the issues upon which people are thinking. The workless want Jobs. The farmer wants a market at a fair price. He demands escape from unfair taxes. Any effort to turn attention from these evils to the other matters must be viewed with suspicion. How far repeal of the Wright law would eradicate the evils of prohibition is most questionable. There is so little honest enforcement of either the Volstead act or the Wright law in this state as to make the matter of importance until tnere Is a nationwide solution of the whole prohibition problem. It would be a pity if the little brothers of Cofflnism succeed in drawing a red herring across the fox trail of privilege and greed.

Hasty Legislation Lawyers in the United States house of representatives will blush in later years when they recall their hasty action this week on bills designed to improve the handling of liquor cases by the courts. The kindest thing their friends in the senate can do is to lay this half-finished legislation aside and permit the house to take another look at it in the cool of the session following the elections. The chief purpose of these bills is to eliminate jury trial and provide trial by United States commissioners in certain cases and to modify penalties for certain minor offenders under the Jones five-and-ten-year law. Action of the house is truly surprising, when it is considered that the proposed change in the federal judicial system is one of the very few undertaken in the course of a century and a half. It can be explained only by the theory that the house has accepted as serious study and research what proves on lexamination to be little more than loose language. Serious court congestion was urged by the administration in presenting these bills to congress. Forgetting the dangerous and revolutionary cine at-tempted-abolition of jury right—let’s look at the ‘alleged malady. Does it exist? The special Hoover crime commission, in a report filled with errors and contradictions, says it does. But a special report to the house by Representative Bachman, after a thorough investigation, says |t does not. The annual report of Attorney-General !Mitchell says it does not. The last report of the senior circuit judges, signed by the late Chief Justice F*aft, says it does not. One reason the crime commission reached its erroneous conclusion may be found in another error. 'The commission's hasty—and premature—report declared that the usual practice in prohibition cases is prosecution by indictment. The fact is that prosecution usually is by ‘•information”—as later admitted by Chairman Wickersham. As for the remedy, not only does it propose the denial of jury trial in some cases, but many of the commissioners who would hear such cases are not even trained in legal matters. And, finally, since the courts still would have to pass on cases first heard by commissioners, this duplication of work is likely to increase rather than relieve any congestion there may be. Need for more judges becomes likely; need for more assistant district attorneys becomes certain. If our judicial system must be modified to meet the needs of prohibition, a more sensible experiment might be that proposed by Representative Dyer in the house and by the senate judiciary committee—the removal of certain types of cases from federal courts to state courts. All circumstances attending this legislation have been such as to warn the senate against following the house’s ill-ccnsidered action. As late as last March, the attorney-general objected to a bill virtually the same as that now enacted by the house. Very recently the spokesman for the crime commission testified that the commission’s report did not contemplate modification of the Jones law. But now this modification is voted, on the ground that it is necessary to carry out the commission’s recommendations. Even the friends of prohibition will find themselves better served if the senate puts a little calmer thinking into this problem than has happened in the house. Wall Street and West Agree Wall Street and the mid-western farmer are traditional enemies. Each distrusts the judgment of the other. To curse Street is the shortest cut to popularity for a political candidate in a farm state. When the farmer and Wall street agree on anything it is startling and significant. That has happened. Os all things, they agree on a political question. Both are opposed to the Grundy billion-dollar tariff bill. This is indicated by two newspaper polls announced yesterday. The farmers of seven mid-western states were onlled fc* a group of standard farm papers, including the publications of Senator Capper of Kansas. Most of the papers participating are Republican. The Wall Street straw ballot was taken by the New York Telegram, a Scripps-Howard independent newspaper. Among the seven farm states, all voted heavily against the tariff bill, except Michigan. Michigan farmers, presumably because of the beet sugar increase in the pending bill, voted 85 per cent for presidential signature of the bill. All the other states gave heavier vote for presidential veto, as follows: lowa, 95 per cent against the bill; Indiana. 98 per cent against; Minnesota, 96 per cent against; Illinois. 96 per cent against; Nebraska. 93 per cent against; Missouri, 87 per cent against. This overwhelming agricultural opposition to the

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ceeded in forcing the debenture farm relief provision out of the bill, virtually all the national farm organizations have declared against the bill. What an end to an entire year's labor by congress, devoted allegedly to tariff adjustments to equalize agriculture with industry! In Wall Street the bangers and brokers, center of the national and international financial system, *oted 323 in favor of a presidential veto as against 27 supporting the bill. Nor Is this poll any more unexpected in result than the farmers’ ballots. For weeks the news has been filled with statements of bankers and manufacturers in various parts of the country, and practically all appealed to congress and the President to kill the bill. The first national protest came from persons speaking for the consumers, who would be taxed a billion dollars in higher prices on all the necessities of food, clothing and shelter. That was followed by the protest of the experts, 1,028 leading economists of the nation joining in a memorial to congress and the President. Then came the exporters, the manufacturers, the bankers, the brokers, the corporation heads like Ford and Sloan of General Motors. Now the farmers have risen. Meawhile, thirty-three foreign nations have retaliated or threatened reprisals, and our prosperity prop of export trade has crashed 21 per cent since January. Never has congress had a clearer mandate to vote down a vicious measure. Never has a President been called upon by so many to veto a tariff grab. The Balance-Sheet of Gastonia June 7is the anniversary of "Gastonia”—of the raid on the strikers’ tent colony and headquarters, the resulting fatal shooting of Police Chief Aderholt and the wounding of two policemen and one striker. What has been the showing of the subsequent year with respect to the quality of North Carolina justice? In spite of the fact that the strikers fired in selfdefense when the state militia offered them no protection, sixteen workers—three women and thirteen men—were indicted for the murder of Aderholt on July 29. Their trial began under Judge Barnhill on Aug. 26. On Sept. 9 a juror went insane and a mistrial was ordered. Lynch law then intervened. Three workers were kidnapped and one flogged. Union headquarters was mobbed. A second trial began Sept. 30. On Oct. 21 the seven defendants who were held* for the second trial were all convicted. Their religious and economic opinions were admitted as relevant by the* judge and were exploited by the prosecution. The trial was as much a heresy hunt as a murder trial. Four northern organizers were sentenced to from seventeen to twenty years; two southern workers to from twelve to fifteen years; and one southern worker to from five to seven years. Yankee meddlers thus were put under heavy penalty. In the meantime, on Sept. 14, the union called a strike meeting in South Gastonia. An armed mob, chiefly textile company guards, determined to prevent the meeting. One bus load of strikers was pursued and driven from the road. The mob fired on the stranded truck and killed Ella May Wiggins, the 29-year-old mother of five children. On Oct. 21, the same day that the Aderholt trial defendants were convicted, the grand jury refused to indict the nine men held for the murder of Ella May Wiggins. The Governor and attorney-general then intervened and on Jan. 15 a grand jury indicted five men for the murder of Mrs Wiggins. They went on trial on Feb. 24 and were acquitted quickly. On Oct. 21 the grand jury also refused to indict the kidnappers who seized the three workers on Sept. 9 and flogged one severely before they were scared off by hunters. These men never have been indicted. The appeal of the men convicted of the murder of Chief Aderholt was argued before the supreme court of North Carolina by Senator Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia on April 22. No decision has been handed down. What is the balance-sheet of Gastonia? Hundreds of workers have been arrested and many more repeatedly mobbed. Ten have been convicted for murder and lesser felonies. Not a person has been convicted for murder or any other type of violence perpetrated against the workers. If this is not class justice, then words have no meaning. No sane person argues for freeing guilty workers, however Just or unjust their economic grievances. But what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If the violence of strikers is to be dealt with sternly, then we may demand equal solicitude and efficiency in curbing the violence instigated by mill owners and executed by their armed employes. "North Carolina, there she stands!” Such is the verdict to date.

REASON

THERE’S a lot of direful prophecy about what’s going to happen to the world with machinery more and more doing the work of men, but how else can the work be done after while with every family in the country educating its children for the professions? a v The greatest professional expansion has been in dentistry, for while teeth used to be given the air without any preliminaries at the first offense, they are now massaged, filled, bridged, crowned, moved around and X-rayed before being yanked. u These newspaper picti of Mahatma Gandhi, who is ieading the rebel!’’ i over in India, lead one swiftly to the conclusion at he ought to have his face lifted. a IF instead of looking like Liberty when he took command at Cambridge, George Washington’s countenance had bagged at the knees like the Mahatma’s, the army would have evaporated and every Continental would have been back home in time for supper. It must have been a great thrill for Vice-President Curtis the other day to find the senate equally divided and to be permitted to take part in the affairs of the living by casting that deciding vote. a a It’s all right for Mussolini to excite the boys who wear black shirts by promising them that he is going to blow the lid off but he can’t continue forever to satisfy their hunger by handing them a bill of fare. Some day he will have to bring in the actual “vittels.” tt a A LOT of American women are being presented at the British court these days, but if John Bull is going to retaliate against our tariff, we ought to keep our women at home and have them presented to Mrs. Gann. a jt Mr. Firestone, the rubber manufacturer, declares that Switzerland will get revenge i! we put a higher ■ *

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ It Is Not Possible That the Stars Could Be Like the Planets . A READER of these articles asks an interesting question. He writes: "If the sensible disc of a planet is sensible because of the nearness of it, is it not possible that the points of light which we call stars also may be planets, though not sensibly so, because of their distance?” This reader has noted two interesting facts of astronomy, namely that a planet appears as a disc in even a fairly small telescope, while the most powerful telescope in the world does not show a star to be anything but a point of light. He is also correct in realizing that the planets are quite close to us, while the stars are very far away. But the answer to the question which he asks is "No." It is not possible that the stars coiild be like the planets. There is a great body of evidence pointing decidedly in another direction. Let us look at this evidence. The planets are eight in number, one of the eight being our own earth. These revolve around the sun. There are also some smaller planet-like bodies, called the asteroids; also the new Planet X which has recently been named Pluto. Pluto, however, may turn out to be too small to rank with the eight larger planets. It also may be that Pluto is one of a number of smaller planets somewhat like the asteroids. tt tt tt Reflected NOW the planets are not far away from the sun as distance go in astronomy. Mercury, the nearest one, is 35,950,000 miles from the sun. The earth is 93,000,000 miles from the sun. Neptune, outermost of the eight planets, is 2,792,000,000 miles from the sun. All these planets shine by reflected sunlight. This is evident from spectroscopic investigation. The spectroscope is an instrument for analyzing light. It shows the light which we receive from the planets to be the same as that of the sun. The brilliance with which the planets shine in the sky is also what we should expect if they shone by reflected sunlight. The thermocouple, a very delicate electrical thermometer, shows that all the planets with the exception of Mercury, have emits low temperatures. In the case of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, one face, which is always turned to the sun, has a temperature of about 300 degrees. Our sun, which furnishes the light and heat for the solar system, has a surface temperature of 6,000 degrees on the Centigrade scale or 10,000 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale, the one in ordinary use in this country. The sun is much larger than our earth. It would take 1,300,000 bodies the size of our earth to make one the size of the sun. Now let us see what astronomers have to say about the stars. First of all, we note that the stars are very far away. The nearest star is 25,000,000,000 miles away. Other stars are ten times, 100 times, even 1,000 and 10,000 times as far away, tt tt tt Light NOW if stars were cold bodies, like planets, they would not be visible at all if they had to depend upon our sun for their light. It is obvious at once that our sun could illuminate them. Furthermore, if some other sun lighted them up, we ought to have no difficulty in seeing it. The simplest conclusion—and the conclusion which all evidence supports—is that the stars are objects like our own sun, which shine by their own light. In other words, every star is a sun. Or if you want to state it the other way, our sun is a star. Astronomers sometimes refer to our sun as “the nearest star.” The reason stars appear only as points of light is due, as the letter correctly infers, because they are so far away. But the light with which they shine is their own. The spectroscope reveals that the stars range in temperature from about 2,000 to 10,000 degrees, Centigrade. Other measurements reveal that the stars range in size from some about one-third the size of our own sun, to some many times larger. The largest star known is Antares, with a diameter of 415,000,000 miles. Another question sometimes asked is whether the distant stars may not have planets revolving around them juc-t as our own sun has. Many astronomers think this may be so. But there is no way to prove it. No telescope, it is believed, ever will be powerful enough to settle the question.

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RECIPROCITY TREATY June 7 ON June 7, 1854, the Marcy-Elgin treaty between the United States and Great Britain, which regulated reciprocal commercial relations with Canada and Newfoundland, was signed. Under terms of the treaty the natural products of each country were to be exchanged without duty. The artioles exchanged were to be the produce of the farm, forest, mine, and fisheries. The treaty also provided for liberal fishing privileges for American fishermen and mutual transportation rights. Although the treaty was to remain in force for ten years, it was actually in operation for eleven. At the outset it was beneficial to both contracting parties, but as time progressed the preponderance of commercial advantage was heavily in favor of Canada. One of the reasons why the United States abrogated the treaty was that Canada extended sympathy and assistance to Confederate refugees in their hostile movements along the border during the Civil w&r*

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Blood Study Shows Medicine Gains

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. THE average person considers blood as merely a fluid which pours out of the skin when a cut is made. To the physician, the blood is one of the important tissues in the body. It is concerned largely with feeding the body cells, with enabling them to overcome attacks of disease, and with transporting vital substances about the body. The glands of internal secretion pour into the blood the substances which they elaborate, and these substances control the body’s actions and reactions. The blood contains formed elements which can be seen under the microscope. These formed elements include red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The red blood cells contain hemoglobin, which is the red coloring matter, and which is responsible for permitting the blood to carry oxygen which it transmits from the lungs to various parts of the body. The white blood cells are of several varieties. They change their character in times of disease and they are associated definitely in attacking invasion of the body by various diseases. The blood forms anywhere from

IT SEEMS TO ME

BOLITHO’S dead at Avignon. There has passed, I think, the most brilliant journalist of our time. This is not the overstatement of one who mourns a friend. While he flourished I expressed the opinion that Bolitho’s best was far and away beyond the topmost reach of any newspaper competitor. It was pleasant to praise him because he lent some of his glory and achievement to all the rest. I think that there is no reporter, or critic, or columnist who does not smart under the popular and snobbish assumption that anybody who sets his stuff down day by day is of necessity a hack. All men live under the hope that one day they may touch greatness. It is not inevitable that today’s strip of newsprint should be more than tattered scraps in. tomorrow’s dust bin. The man who writes well enough and thinks through the thing before him can win his immortality even though his piece appears obscurely in Wall Street edition. Most of us on papers, for all our swagger, are at least five and a half times too humble. We are apt to say, “Oh, I’m just a newspaper man.” We know better than that. There is no reason why a first-rate man on any newspaper should yield precedence to every novelist and minor poet and little essayist. There is no special magic in getting between boards. Last year’s novel is just as dead as last year’s paper. Indeed I know few sights more horrible than second-hand bookstalls on which dead volumes are exposed. Bolitho, to be sure, had his fling in bound sheets, but much of his finest appeared in the New York World. And these essays will still remain, though he is dead at Avignon. tt u tt Not So Much Folly FROM the standpoint of the oldfashioned school Bolitho could hardly be called a newspaperman, let alone a leader. There still endure graybeards who detest frills and shake their heads to r.ay that news is all and that anything else which creeps into a paper is so much folly. But these graybeards employ a tight and tenuous definition of news. They mean no more than the report of the thing which has happened. They feel that it is the part of newspapermen to behave like members of the light brigade and refuse to reason why. Such a definition would have excluded William Bolitho almost completely. He was far more interested in the explanation than in the event. Many had better eyes to see and ears to hear, but less analytical power. Sometimes, like an overeager shortstop who throws before the ball is in his hands, Bolitho began to interpret episodes which were still in motion. It * hard for any in-

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one-thirteenth to one-twentieth of the total body weight. There are from 5,400,000 to 5,000,000 red blood cells in each cubic millimeter of blood, so that the total number of red blood cells is tremendous. There are anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 white blood cells in the same amount of normal blood. The blood platelets are formed elements, but are much smaller than either the white or red blood cells. Apparently the platelets are concerned with the prevention of hemorrhages. There are many factors also concerned in this activity. The other factors concern the amount of calcium in the blood, the amount of fiber substance and other physical chemical relations. In normal blood there are from 100,000 to 200,000 blood platelets in each cubic millimeter. \ When the number of blood platelets falls for some reason below 30,000 for each cubic millimeter, sometimes hemorrhages occur under the skin and under the mucous membrane of the mouth and other portions of the body. When the number of platelets is increased, hemorrhages cease to appear. It is believed that the platelets as well as the other formed elements in the blood are developed in the bone marrow, and that the spleen

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terpreter to remain patient until the play has been completed. Yet news must be a deeper and more significant thing that a mere recital of names, addresses and the doctor’s diagnosis. Causes, however far beneath the surface they may lie. distinctly are within the province of journalism. That is, if journalism is to be a kingdom and not a little parish. For instance, I mean just ths. Some lttle tme ago a g oup of Jewish internes were hazed cruelly in a public hospital. Naturally, all the papers reported the facts. There they stopped, and I say they stopped because they did not have a sufficiently keen vision to see the whole way to the utttermost boundaries of journalistic territory. It is not enough to discuss the symptom. The disease itself must be investigated. u n He Reasoned Why IT was as the leader of journalistic exploration, deep into the human heart and mind that Bolitho made his mark. If the standard which he set even can be approximated it well may be that seekers after education will not turn to some five-foot shelf or scrapbook, but find, their road to knowledge in the living daily record of things which lie about them. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler in his commencement address at Columbia talked on “the insulated life” and said, “a liberal education is not to

Evieuioybu | wWurmie? | QUESTIONS A DAY* K AM I LIAR PASSAGES K wwi wwpwpppypJS

1. What man climbed into a tree to see Jesus? 2. What water did David refuse to drink, dedicating it instead to God? 3. What and where is the famous parable of the repentant eon and the forgiving father? 4. What was the message of the Macedonian vision which Paul saw? 5. What proverb ends, “and when he is old, he will not depart from it?” Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. “If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.” Romans 12:20. 2. For a “mess of pottage,” a soup of red lentils; to his brother Jacob; Genesis 25:29-34. 3. A prophecy of the restoration of Jerusalem, with peace and long life for the inhabitants; Zechariah 8:5. 4. When the northern tribes of Israel separated from the southern. 5. "He that hath pity upon jthe poor,” Proverbs 19:17. (II Chronicles IQ:I6J

has something to do with the destruction and removal of defective blood elements. Before thf discovery of the microscope no one knew anything certain about the actual composition of the blood. In fact, it is only within recent years that the platelets were discovered and that any relationship was found between the platelets and various disease conditions. In many forms of septic infection, in tropical diseases such as kalaazar and similar eruptive skin disorders, the number of platelets is found to be greatly reduced and spots appear upon the skin. Ordinarily blood will coagulate or clot in two or three minutes. In some cases when the coagulating factors are interfered with, the blood fails to coagulate and there is great danger of extensive hemorrhage. When the platelets are low, the blood may coagulate promptly, but the tendency to bleed be great. Hie facts that have been cited show how complex in character are the modem scientific investigations of disease conditions. They represent merely an angle of the evidence is available to prove that scientific medicine has advanced more in the last twenty-five years than in the previous fifty centuries.

(deals and opinions expressed in this colnmn are those of >ne of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attltode of this paper.—The Editor.

be confused with more attendance at school or college or with the possession of a certificate to that effect.” And later he added, “a liberal education is that which is worthy of a free man and which fits a man for intellectual and spiritual freedom.” It seems to me that no man can know life sufficiently to understand freedom until he actually has nozzled his way beneath the surface. William Bolitho had been newsboy, day laborer, student, soldier and writer before he died. The last time I saw him he told me of his days as a mason’s helper on a construction job in Capetown. Naturally it has been said that this brilliant journalist of 39 had much of his finest potentialities still ahead of him. That’s true, but still he had been all the way around the track before he died at Avignon. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times i

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—ls Mrs. Montgomery thinks it’s a poor hen that can not scratch for one chick, she never has had the experience of trying that out. Consider that hen on a concrete floor, or a board floor, handicapped with a fence around it, and no one to supply even a little mother earth, where perhaps with much effort she may or may not find even a worm. I see Mrs. Breedlove’s case in the same light. She had nothing to start with, but handicaps, and no one to help her, when the husband wiped his hands of the affair, that he, too, was responsible for. It takes money to get a job even to commence living. She needed respectable - looking clothing, for work, besides a place to board herself and infant. That means money in advance. In case she obtained employment where she might keep her baby with her/ meant the expenditure of several dollars for neat house dresses, and changes for the baby. Ttere Is competition even in domestic employment, and the employer has a right to choose. Like the fence around the hen, she could not even get to the place where she might make the effort to provide for herself and child. Mrs. J. B. Montgomery’s Intelligence, probably is not working on all its cylinders. She says she Is almost tempted to do six of her babies as the "rain baby's” mother did one, merely for newspaper attention. She forgets this publicity is all in the newspaper game. It is not as Mrs. Breedlove would have it. She’d rather have kept out of the lim& light, since what she did was no honor, and she knows it now and knew it at the time. Desperate and young, she probably didn’t think farther than with-

JUNE 7, IS3O

M. E. Tracy — SAYS:

The Smoot-Haivley Tariff Bill Not Only Should Be Killed; It Should Be Killed Without Delay. Business is not improving ss it should. Congress and the President are largely to blame—congress for dilly-dallying: the President for taking no definite stand. How can industry go ahead until it knows what it has to meet? How can corporations interested in foreign trade perfect their plans? The whole country, if not the whole world, is being held back. The Smoot-Hawley bill not only should be killed, but it should be killed without delay. Doubt as to Its fate is having as bad an effect as would its adoption, if not worse. If it were to become a law, we at least would have the advantage of knowing what we were up against. Under existing conditions, all we can do is twiddle our thumbs and prepare for the worst, Those fathering the bill committed crime enough when they wrote it. They only are adding insult to injury by continuing to wiggle. n n m THE Smoot-Hawley bill is only one more example of that unconscionable conceit which gripped certain elements of this country after they had made millions by hatching war babies. During the last ten years this element has been busy with nothing sc* distinctly as trying to kill off the last vestige of that idealism with which we sent the boys to Franc . Cost plus 10 per cent contracts appear to have inspired them with the idea of cost plus 40 per cent tariffs. It looks as though they could not be satisfied with anything less than all, and the tragic part of it is that they excuse the performance in the name of “improved living conditions” or “farm relief.” No wonder foreign countries accept such an attitude as justifying resentment and no wonder they carry it to illogical extremes. The “splendid isolationists,” antileaguers and enemies of the world court, are forging a ring of hatred around the United States, and the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill is but an Incident in their general scheme of things. If the policy continues, American automobile manufacturers, not to mention those of a dozen other lines, are going to find it harder and harder to obtain the foreign market they need. This country is being maneuvered into a trade war, as vividly is illustrated by the general assault on American movies. n SIR JAMES PARR, head of the British Film Institute, spoke in London the other day on the “Americanization of the Dominions by Films,” and what he said was aplenty. He attacked American films because of their bad effect on young people and their anti-British sentiment, but really let the cat out of the bag when he declared: “We’ve got to realize that the American film is the best advertiser of American business and American trade in the world.” “The British empire,” he said, "has suffered many calamities in recent yean-, but nothing has eclipsed in seriousness the menace of having our young people brought up with ’ American ideas, with an attitude that isn’t wholesome as regards the future of the empire.” You probably have wondered at the frequent mention of opposition to American movies in other lands, and you probably have attributed it largely to rivalry among producers in the business. But there is more to the story than that, because the movie is more than a medium of entertain ment. As Sir James Parr admits, it has been a great advertiser for American ways and wares, and what it can do for them it can do for those of any other country.

Daily Thought

Then Bath-shc-ba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever.”—First Kings 1:31. If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.—Trollope.

in a few hours of before and after, of that terrible thing she did. Yet her heart was right, but her method crude. Mrs. Montgomery, with six babies, can’t be as young as Mrs. Breedlove, and yet she childishly wrote of her thoughts of mimicking the same act to gain newspaper attention. Few people want that kind. Surplus thinking converted into how best to care and rear six babies, pays valuable dividends in future citizenship. I hope Mrs. M. reads this in your paper. B. FALLON. Editor Times—A fine example for more mothers who call themselves mothers! Already there has been another case, only this mother did find a safe place to put her baby, where she knew no harm would come to it. They found the rain baby's mother guilty—why didn't they punish her and give her plenty of time to think over what she did. If it had been a man, they would have locked him up and thrown the keys away. The lady who had so much money to throw away might help a couple of poor families that are starving and give them a bank account. The rain baby’s mother would have had a place to stay and plenty to eat if she had gotten what was due her. A MOTHER. Who called the Democratic party a party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion?” In the Presidential campaign of 1884, James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate, received a delegation of ministers favoring his candidacy. Dr. Burchard who was spokesman for the ministers, referred to the Democrats as a party of “rum, romanism and rebellion.”