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Not Another Machine Delegates to the Democratic convention, meeting today, should not mistake the widespread revolt against the present administration of state affairs for a yen for Democratic control. The people have been cursed by machine government which depends for its power upon patronage and privilege. They understand the causes of high and unequal taxation. They know that it comes from waste and extravagance, from favors granted to those who contribute to Republican success, from the placing on pay rolls of politicians who render little service or return for their salaries except to work incessantly for the machine. More and more the people of this state are losing their faith in labels. They are learning that party brands carry no guarantee of the contents of the package. More and more are listing themselves as independent of party affiliations. If the ticket nominated is such as to give some assurance that there will be no effort to duplicate past performances under a different set of political workers, that ticket should have more than a fair chance of success. No scheme has been too small to annoy the citizen if it furnished fodder for those whose feet were in the trough. One of the petty grabs was the unnecessary notary fee *on a driver’s license, a law which has proved its uselessness and its worthlessness, but which took from every driver a quarter for some political favorite. The guarantee of the ticket should be in the character of the men named. The people will look at these candidates closely. They will want to be very sure that those offered for office have a different attitude and a different viewpoint. The people do not want another machine. They demand that the state government be taken from the clutches of any machine. A Silly Tariff Argument Now that Secretary of Treasury Mellon, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, and Joe Grundy, king of the lobbyists, have begun to doubt the value of the suicidal rates of the tariff bill, no one need waste much time arguing what at last has become clear to virtually everybody. With these higher-than-high protectionists hesitating, and most of the economists, bankers, manufacturers, farmers and consumers of the country openly fighting the bill, senators and representatives will have a mighty hard time finding an excuse to vote for it. And the President, definitely pledged against such general tariff Increase, will find it even more difficult to sign a measure destroying national prosperity. One excuse, however, is being offered to members of congress and to the President. It is said that the flexible provision saves the bill. That provision empowers the President, on recommendation of the tariff commission, to change rates up to 50 per cent. According to this argument, the rates are wrong, but the President can make them right. Such argument is an insult to the intelligence of the country in general, and tc members of congress and the President in particular. We don’t go out and break the dishes in the china closet, just for a chance to use a patent glue to put the pieces together again. Nor will the voters swallow the idea that it is necessary to pass a bill with higher tariff rates so the President can have a chance to lower those rates. Unfortunately for those guilty of such nonsense, their argument comes just erght years too late. That precisely was the argument used in 1922 to enact the present tariff law, carrying the highest rates in our history and the highest in the world. The flexible provision now in force is virtually the same as that in the pending bill. It has not corrected the unfair rates of 1922. It has not saved the consumer, but has increased prices. It has not improved the farmer's plight, but made conditions worse. It has not lowered high rates, it has raised high rates higher. But whether the flexible provision be good or bad, we don’t have to pass the bil’ to get it. The President does not have to sign the bill to obtain such power. He has it. He has used it. He can continue to use it—either to boost rates, or to lower them. Os all the arguments used to support this bill, the silliest is that the President must be given a flexible tariff power which he possesses already. Simmons Falls The women, the drys, the klan, the old party machine would carry him back to the United States senate, where he had sat for nearly thirty years. So Simmons of North Carolina thought. He was mistaken. His defeat in the Democratic primaries is overwhelming. It was not only that he deserted A1 Smith, the presidential candidate of his party, two years ago. He did more than fight Smith. He fought unfairly. He used weapons of religious bigotry and racial intolerance. And even those who followed him then have lived to be ashamed. josiah Bailey, who defeated him, may be as reactionary on economic questions as Simmons, though that seems hardly possible. At any rate, Bailey had the courage to fight the klan and to assert the growing evils of prohibition enforcement. Which would seem to indicate that North Carolina voters are not so docile as the leaders of both parties considered them. Shall We Have Federal Lusk Laws? Back in the excited days at the close of the World war. the fear of Kaiser Bill was transformed into a mortal terror of reds. Red hunts were organised throughout the nation. The most spectacular inquisition waj that conducted by Senator Lusk of New York state- This was the famous Lusk committee, whose formidable deliberations ultimately grew into the Lusk laws. ’’Lusking” became a term universally applied to a patrioteerlng nervousness about people of liberal and radical ideas. A large number of eminent AwoHfAM, including college professors, clergymen*

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editors, lawyers and even a few judges, were entered on the fearful and awful list of persons dangerous to the stability and prosperity of the country. Ultimately, the whole thing became a huge joke and the laws dead letters. But this was due solely to the liberalism and courage of Governor Smith in refusing to be stampeded. Had New York possessed a "hundred per cent” governor, almost anything might have happened. Most sensible people had hoped that this hysteria was a thing of the past which we might forget profitably. But a federal Lusk committee looms on the horizon. Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York has become panic stricken over the prospect of a Muscovite invasion of our fair shores. He has secured the creation of a congressional investigating committee with liberal funds at its disposal, to undertake an immediate examination into the sinister plots of Stalin and his subalterns on this side of the Atlantic. He has been supported warmly by Albert Johnson of the house immigration committee, who doubtless will try to use the material assembled by Fish as the basis for agitation for more stringent immigration legislation. It is charged that Ralph Easley and Matthew Woll actively are supporting Mr. Fish and that Woll wrote the original Fish resolution. As far as any "discoveries” are concerned, we may be assured that the Fish committee only can follow the example of Grover Whalen and rattle a few dead bones. But even this might be dangerous with a reactionary administration. A federal Lusk committee doubtless will provide much humor, but its work must be scotched before we have a set of federal Lusk laws about our necks. Only relentless publicity on the doings of the Fish committee can assure us that its deliberations will be entertaining rather than menacing. The King Carol of the three wives has put his comic opera dynasty on the first pages again. Mother Marie is shunted aside. Wife Helene hasn’t made up her mind about forgiveness. Son Michael gets a title of duke instead of boy king, and peihaps anew pony to make up the difference. Brother Nicholas gives up a regency to betroth a commoner, while Carol’s sweetheart in exile sighs for the man who renounced a throne for her—and changed his mind. Premier Maniu resigns rather than recognize the new king—and the next day becomes head of Carol’s government. "The people cheered.” They always do—those who are herded on the stage. But the millions of Illiterate and oppressed peasants probably did not cheer. They probably do not even know that down in the capital a few politicians and generals have swapped kings. In a week or a month, perhaps, they will find out, as the news crawls over the great plains and high into the mountains of Rumania. When they learn the news they will turn back to their work. Harvest is near, the crop is poor, the leak in the hut must be fixed before the next baby comes; times are hard. Girls Scouts have adopted a pleasant gray-green for their standard costume instead of the dismal brown. Next thing you know they’ll be putting a little style in their hats. The Boy Scout motto, to do a good turn, is not such a bad slogan for the motorist to keep in mind rounding the corners. Probably the lyest gag on Broadway concerns the manager of the New York hosiery firm who was found after a robbery with his mouth crammed full of silk stockings. A proposal has been made in London that publishers make their books waterproof for bathtub reading. As though the stuff we get nowadays isn’t dry enough as it is. Judging from the effect some recent novels have had on us, it would seem tub readers would do well to take extra precautions against drowning from sleepiness.

REASON

APATHETIC spectacle is presented by these United States senators who, fearing the rise of wet sentiment, hasten to assure their states that they will vote any old way to hold their jobs. 000 For years they have been spitting cotton, passing laws to lock up those who handled liquor, huriing brickbats at Mr. J Barleycorn, and posing as the particular friends of the Lord, but now they are willing to pin r buttonhole bouquet on Mr. Barleycorn and sell the devil’s merchandise, if thereby they ‘can keep their positions. 000 NEVER before have so many political cowards skinned the cat at one and the same time arJ they remind one of that Indiana postmaster, who after holding a postofflce for twenty-five years as a Republican, turned Democrat when Grover Cleveland was elected, saying: “No administration can turn any quicker than I ran!’' 000 How inspiring to our high school graduates, just entering upon life’s endeavor, to behold our statesmen, declaring themselves willing to advocate anything under the sun, if thereby they may continue tj distribute our garden seeds! 000 ♦ This is what our statesmen say to us: “We have been for prohibition, net because we believed in it, for we do not believe in anything, except another term of office; we were for it simply because prohibition was a ticket to Washington.” 000 “We wish it distinctly understood we will give you anything you want and we will play any tune, even though it be a Satanic symphony, if that will help us stay in Washington. With us, there is only one real issue—our jobs” 000 IF you wane booze, we are for that; if you want Paris green, we are for that; if you want canned heat, rough on rats, varnish, embalming fluid, then we are for all of them. “We w*nt it distinctly understood we have no opinions of our own! 000 What a pity these senators did not have the manhood to say: “We voted for these dry laws because we believed in them, and we believe in them still, therefore we will get out of public life rather than vote wet.” 0 0 0 But since these senator* have not the manhood to say this, they should be retired to private life; whether the country go wet or dry. such India-rubber babies are .. liability at Washington. Throw oj. every senator who skinned the cat

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SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ Dispute Arises Over Scientist’s Belief That AU Creaf tion Is Moving Toward Inevitable End. ALL the latest researches In the field of astronomy, physics, and cosmogony point to a definite creation of the universe at a given instant in the very remote past. This, perhaps, is the most startling development in scientific and philosophical thought in the present century. Sir James H. Jeans, secretary of the Royal Society and one of the world’s leading cosmologists, as students of the cosmos are called, states the new view as follows: "Everything points with overwhelming force to a definite event, or series of events, of creation at some time or times, not definitely remote. "The universe can not have originated by chance out of its present ingredients, and neither can it always have been the same as now. For in either of these events no atoms would be left save such as are incapable of dissolving into radiation; there would be neither sunlight nor starlight, but only a cool glow of radiation uniformly diffused through space. "This is, indeed, so far as presentday science can see, the final end toward which all creation moves, and at which it must at the long last arrive.” Professor Jeans’ view will be only half-pleasing to the religionist. He will regard the famous astronomer’s admission of a definite creation as a victory. But he will be dissatisfied with the conclusion as to the ultimate end of the universe. outt Purpose DR. ARTHUR S. EVE, professor of physics at McGill university, and president of the Royal Society of Canada, comments on Jeans’ view as follows: "Let us admit that 'as far as present-day science can see’ at the long last there are to remain some dead stars, some inert atoms and ‘the cool glow of radiation uniformly diffused through space,’ which must, of course, be perpetual, everlasting, devoid of change. "But does anybody seriously believe that? “Jeans himself admits that everything points with overwhelming force to a definite event, or series of events, of creation at some time or times, not infinitely remote. “Where there Is creation, then there is purpose. Where there has once been purpose, there may be continuation of purpose, or a recurrence of purpose.” "So also if there was once creation there may be a continuation of creation or a fresh creation. “Eliminate purpose and there is no creation and no beginning to the physical universe. At what stage then can purpose be eliminated? The question is not now popular, and the word ‘teleology,’ meaning purpose, or direction toward an end in view, is largely taboo in science today. But why?” The point made by Dr. Eve, it will be seen, is that it is unreasonable to oppose a creation for the universe, and then couple that creation to a process which is no more than a meaningless and inevitable running down of that universe. o o * Atoms IT might be well, perhaps, before entering further into the field of philosophic argument, to consider the evidence upon which Professor Jeans basis his view. It grows, chiefly, out of an attempt to explain the energy of the sun and the stars. No ordinary means are sufficient to explain this energy. Ordinary combustion, such as takes place in a fire, is not sufficient. If the sun were made of solid coal, it could not give forth its present amount of energy for more than a few centuries, at the very most. Yet all evidence leads to the conclusion that the sun is at least five trillion years old. The same thing is true of the stars. Whe/i it was established that combustion could not supply the energy of the stars, the so-called contraction theory was advanced. This held that the heat of a star was due to the contraction of the star’s material. This theory, however, necessitates a solid, or at least a liquid center, for a great number of stars. This is contradicted by a large body of evidence that all stars are gaseous right to their very centers. This last ‘act, coupled with a study of the mass, of weights of different types of stars, has led to the conclusion that the stars obtain their energy from the the complete annihilation of matter within them. Jeans has advanced the theory (hat the interior of stars contain what he calls luminous atoms. These break down by the loss and destruction of electrons into radioactive atoms, which, in turn, break down into ordinary atoms. It is from this theory that Jeans draws his conclusion as to creation.

Wow Wel/DoJou ‘Knowl&urSible? FIVE QUESTIONS A DAY" ON FAMIUAfe PASSAGES

1. What prophecy of the union of his followers did Jesus make? 2. What king became a symbol of fast driving? 3. Why has Thomas become known as a doubter? 4. Where did the first Christian missionaries begin their work? 5. What does the Psalmist compare to “the pen of a ready writer?” Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. A dream in which Jacob saw angels ascending and descending on a ladder that reached to heaven; Genesis 28:10-16. 2. “There is no God;” Psalm 53:1. 3. Job, referring to God; Job 13:15. 4. Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel 4:33. 5. That they are numbered; Matthew 10:30. DAILY THOUGHT Shun profane and vain babblings; for they will increase unto more ungodliness.—ll Timothy 2:16. u u u Blasphemous words betray the % vain foolishness of the speaker. —Sir P. Sidney.

“This Little Pig Went to Market!’

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Doctor Can Control Breast Cancer

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyzeia, the Health Magazine. THE breast is a gland which secretes milk. Shortly after birth in both boy and girl the breast contains a whitish fluid, but this disappears and the breasts do not secrete or develop until later on in life. As adult life approaches, changes take place in breasts of both boys and girls. Moreover, at this time they are sharply differentiated for the particular function which the woman serves. Years ago it was the belief that cancer of the breast was always a large lump with the nipple drawn in and with the glands under the arm enlarged. Such signs represent late stages of cancer. The early signs are a small hard lump in the breast, thickness of the skin, and a bloody discharge from the nipple.

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Editor Times—We are much pleased with your attitude shown in your editorial concerning the movement to repeal the Wright bone dry law. The just would cloud more important issues and would be of little profit to any one. A state referendum on the prohibition question would be enlightening to both wets and drys and no one could complain about its fairness, for recent court decisions seem to point out that a citizen still has a right to an opinion and can express his opinion, and a referendum would allow this opinion to be expressed. If the drys have a majority, as they claim, it would only strengthen their case by showing to the world that they have. If the wets are in the majority it would have a tendency of fairness and bring about the repeal of the law. The writer has in mind two other planks for the state platform which he terms much more necessary than quibbling about prohibition. One plank would be to enact a lajv whereby every citizen, to vote, must present a receipt for his or her poll tax. That would eliminate floaters and people who paid nothing for support of government. The second plank would be to relieve the unemployment of many of our older men in the shortest possible time. Under the law of Indiana a young man can not secure employment in a factory until he is 18 years of age. There is only one way of his securing employment before he reaches that age, and that is to become an automobile bandit. He then is arrested, placed on the penal farm then an interest is taken in him by 'ood-meaning people, and he is paroled, and these good-mean-ing people secure him employment; but unless he gets into jail, he must violate the law to get work. The older man, beyond the age of

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DRAGON-BOAT FEAST ON June 10, the Dragon-Boat festival, a boatman’s holiday, is celebrated throughout China with much hilarity. The holiday is said to have originated in the fourth century before Christ. The story is that KuYuan, minister of state of Tsu, was deposed because of his persistence in pointing out the evil doings of his master. He then drowned himself in the Milo river despite the efforts of an eyewitness, a fisherman, who launched his boat to save him. Ever since, theanniversary of the suicide and the fisherman’s attempt at rescue has been commemorated by a procession of dragon boats over the inland waters of China. Each of these boats, owned by a clan, can seat between fifty and sixty men. The rowers are timed by a drummer in the center, who beats his instrument faster and faster as the fun grows more furious. In the bow stands a man who pantomimes the act of throwing rice on the water as a method of appeasing the evil spirits. As the races develop into hot contests between the clans, decisions of the judges in close races often create more tumult than even, those of the baseball umpire. m

Modem medicine has done everything possible to educate the public into a realization of the fact that a cancer of the breast seen early and attended to early is controllable, but that it is difficult to accomplish anything valuable after the condition has spread widely. In the lacer the mass in the breast will be adherent to the skin, inflammation may occur, the nipple may be drawn in, nodules may be found around the breast* and the arm on the side affected will be swollen. Every lump in the breast is not cancer; in fact, the majority are not. However, the cancer is so much more dangerous than any of the other lumps that it is wise to be certain as soon as possible of the exact nature of any lump that develops. British investigators have shown

45, also is barred from steady employment in the factory. He must pick up odd jobs, and at a time like this he has a poor show of doing even that, with so many young men out of employment. It is a well-known fact that the construction of highways of Indiana does not supply employment to a great many men in proportion to the money being spent. Usually the cement trust, the stone trust, the road machinery trust and the politicians get the lion’s share of the money. The man, to secure a job on the road, usually is requested to buy a dump truck on the payment plan. The bulk of his income goes into payment on that truck and for its upkeep, and when the job is done and the truck is paid for it is worn out, and he has had only the privilege of paying tribuce to some automobile company, and to the gas and oil companies. If one-half of the money which we spend on these roads were diverted into an extensive program of reforesting the state of Indiana, we immediately could offer employment to soifie thirty or forty thousand older men in clearing away and preparing such lands purchased for reforesting. The money available would allow a program of some 300,000 acres of land to be purchased per annum, and as the program continued for ten years we would have practically all the poor land in Indiana set out in growing timber and owned by the state. This great forest reserve would give employment to an army of men to care for it. It would bring an income from hundreds of permits for hunting and the like. It would take the crawfish farms of Indiana out of the market, letting only farms for farming purposes that will pay a dividend, and raising the price of the better farms considerable. In fifty years, when this timber land came into the market, there would be sufficient revenue from the vast amount of timber to take care of the entire state and Indianians would not have any taxes from that time on. In Spain, there is a certain portion of the roadside, say six or eight feet along the fences, that is set aside to be planted in nut-bear-ing trees, fruit trees, grapes and berries. Asa ‘further suggestion, which would touch upon an old-age pension, we would suggest this same plan. These roads are divided into sections, tended and cared for by the older citizens, at a certain wage. They see to it that the plants are taken care of and nothing is destroyed, but the fruits and nuts belong to the public. Just imagine a program like this along the roadsides of Indiana, setting off our concrete highways, cared for by men who are unable to secure employment, and the benefit that people of moderate means could receive from the plan when once it was in working order. Yours truly, BERT WILHELM. Editor Times—After reading other letters published in your paper concerning Sally Breedlove, mother of the “rain baby,” I would like to say a few words myself. I have no sympathy for her. Any woman 21 years of age is a child no longer and surely ought to know and realize what she is doing. I can t recall any animal that will

by studies of hundreds of cases that early diagnosis, early surgical removal, and treatment with X-Ray and radium means a definite prolongation of life expectancy by many years. American statistics assembled by numerous investigators prove the same point. Nobody knows the exact cause of cancer of the breast or of any other region of the body, yet there seems to be considerable proof to indicate that such factors as repeated irritation by various types of irritant* have an effect in this direction. Cancer of the breast should not be treated by pastes put on externally, by medicines taken internally, or by injections, none of which has proved to have real value in the control of this condition. The best possible advice is to get a competent diagnosis as soon as possible and to follow the advice of a reliable physician.

desert its young. When that darling baby develops into manhood and learns how his mother threw him away when he was a baby, what do you think his attitude will be toward her? Do you think that he will have the love and affection for her that a son should have for his mother? I don’t think she would deserve it. \ When she gets old and feeble, would she want Robert Eugene to lay her along the highway in the rain and cold for someone to find her and give her a home and care. Her plea was she had no home, no food, no money. Lots of mothers in Indianapolis are in the same condition today, but they are staying with their babies, working and praying every day instead of discarding them and riding around with young men, smoking cigarets, and so forth. If Sally Breedlove deserves $2,200 for placing her baby along a highway to die from cold and exposure, what does a real, pure mother deserve? I do not think her sentence and fine should have been suspended. About two years ago a fellow was making a hurried delivery on East Washington street. He drove through a stop and go sign, was ordered to appear in court, and was fined. The fine had to be paid, too. Which did the greater wrong, he or Bally Breedlove? Furthermore, I can not understand why the “unknown” woman gave her $2,000. If she has thousands to give away, why not spend it to help the unemployed. Lots of honest men with families are out of work today, and can not find anything to do. People don’t seem to care if they turn the cold shoulder to them. They never send them gifts of fine clothes and money. It’s very little sympathy they ever get. AN INDIANAPOLIS RESIDENT AND MOTHER.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Simmons’ Defeat Shows Republicans Their Hope of Power in the South Was Only a Dream. THE good old American biddy has piled up a surplus of 75,000.000 dozen eggs. That is about seven eggs for every man, woman and child in this country. Without straining ourselves, we could eat up the surplus in three days. By getting right down to business, we could do it in one. It is sufficient, however, to knock the bottom out of the egg market. If we were short by an average of seven eggs, there would be no limit to what the poultry man could collect. A good illustration of the risk which goes with the hand-to-mouth way of living. OKU What Happened to Reed? AT 9:22 p. m. last Saturday former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri was going strong in his denunciation of the “radio trust.” Then the Radiomarine Corporation’s station at Tuckerton, N. J., heard a faint SOS and all the east went dead, though residents of Sedalia, Mo., where Senator Reed was speaking, and listeners throughout the mid-west heard much more about "human cupidity and insolence,” “freedom of speech” and "control of the vacuum tube.” But the great mystery is, where did that SOS come from? It was heard by no other station and no ship has been reported in distress. Maybe it was a Missouri Republican. o o u Chinese Work Fast SAY what you will, but the Chinese are fast workers, whether in their home land or in foreign parts. From the other side comes news of armies of 300,000 flitting hither and yon, of provinces changing hands overnight, of battles in which 10,000 are slain and 20,000 taken prisoners, but which apparently mean nothing. From New York comes news of a four-day tong war in which six were killed, of a peace treaty signed with great pomp and ceremony last Saturday, of a renewal of the war because a tong brother was found dead within six hours, of another peace treaty signed with equal pomp and ceremony the next day, and of another renewal of war because another tong brother was found dead in Minneapolis within twelve hours. The Chinese obviously are becoming proficient in the white man’s ways. o u o Simmons Made Own Bed THERE is nothing peculiar or mysterious in the defeat of Senator Simmons for renomination. He merely sleeps in the bed he made. Certain Republicans have kidded themselves because of what happened in North Carolina and other southern states two years ago, and certain Democrats have been worried unnecessarily. The whole performance was merely one of those political flareups which come ever so often—a climax of Ku-Kluxism, prohibition and general discontent. Governor Smith was the unfortunate victim of it all, but any wet New Yorker would have suffered the same fate. At that, Governor Smith receiv ( more votes in North Carolina tha did the Democratic candidate for years previously. Hoover’s majority can be accounted for by a shift of 60,000 or 70,000 Democratic votes, or about one-fifth of the total number. They represented Senator Simmons’ strength as a bolter, and they were sufficient to put North Carolina in the Republican column. When it came to a question of renominating Senator Simmons, however, they did not represent sufficient strength to save him. u a Upheaval Is Over WITH Senator Simmons beaten, with a Democratic Governor in Virginia, with Tom-Tom Heflin barred from the Democratic ticket in Alabama, it looks as though the upheavals of 1923 were about over. With the Republican party hopelessly split, with the country in the throes of a depression, and with President Hoover apparently unable to bring order out of chaos, there is such obvious opportunity that even Democrats can’t fail to see it. So we find them getting together, healing old wounds and repairing broken down fences, just as sensible folks should. Are tourists allowed to bring articles into the United States from Canada free of duty? Tourists may bring not more than SIOO worth of goods free of duty, and on any amount above that duty is charged.