Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1930 — Page 4
PAGE 4
ttMtPP 1 • H OW AMD
A Contrast Voters at the fall election will have, at least, a contrast in platforms and in the candidates for the nead of the tickets. Where the Republican platform was evasive when not silent, the Democratic platform is outspoken and vigorous. The minority party offers a program of more than platitudes. It definitely aligns itself on the side of those who are in revolt against present conditions. At the same time it invites the opposition of the favored classes in this state. Its denunciation of the “yellow dog” contract, refused by the Republicans, will please the worker, but is likely to bring provender to the Republican war chest. The approval of an old age pension system is a social advance, in these days of mass production and early scrapping of man power, that plank is likely to attract the man who looks forward with little hope to a jobless old age. The party is to be congratulated on the selection of Frank Mayr Jr. as the head of the ticket. His record as a business man is a pledge that there will be a different attitude toward public oihee than that shown by the present secretary of state. At least Mayr can be trusted not to devote his entire attention to building up a political machine to advance himself in public office.
Whose Tariff? If all the senators who oppose the billion-dollar tariff bill vote against it, the bill will be killed this week. That is admitted generally. But it also is admitted that several senators—perhaps enough to determine the close vote one way or another—are listed as willing to vote for the bill to which they really are opposed. These senators are represented as knowing that the bill if it becomes law will destroy American prosperity, which already has been seriously crippled by a 21 per cent fall in export trade, due chiefly to foreign reprisals. But, it is said, they feel that as loyal party members they should subordinate their own convictions in this instance to the demands and Interests cf the Republican party and administration. To defeat the bill would advertise the impotence of the administration, and would be a direct blow at Hoover, according to his argument. Such reasoning is subterfuge of the w'orst kind. In the first place, a senator’s oath of allegiance is hot to the Republican party or to the administration, but to the nation. His responsibility is to the people whom he is supposed to represent. Any senator who sacrifices what he believes to be the people’s interest to preserve party regularity is guilty of treason. This issue, however, is not at stake in the tariff fight. The Hawley-Smoot-Grundy bill is not a Republican party measure, nor is it an administration measure. It is the measure of the reactionary group which hitherto has attempted by methods of dictatorship to control the Republicans in congress. Whether these dictators will succeed in loading the responsibility for this tariff bill on the Republican party remains to be seen when the vote is taken. But to date the last official Republican position is against, not for, the bill. We mean, of course, the Republican national platform of 1928 It pledged the party to limited tariff adjustment to help the farmer. It did not favor a general upward revision. This billion-dollar bill is a reversal of the Republican platform. Party loyalty and party faith, if thes£ are the chief considerations of any senators, demand a vote against the bill. Any Republican who confuses party loyalty with loyalty to the Smoot-Hawley group and its interests is a very poor party man, from any angle. Likewise, the attempt to pass off this bill as an administration or Hoover bill is false. The President is not on record as favoring the high rates of this bill. Some time ago the Smoot-Hawley crowd intimated that it had White House support, but later had to announce that it could not speak for the President. Last week, when further efforts were made to associate the President with this grab, the White House announced that Hoover had net made up his mind, k we have no desire to relieve the President of Bny of the responsibility which he personally has We share the general belief that Hoover leadership could have killed this vicious bill long ago. We thmk he should have expressed himself on the suicidal rates, as he expressed himself on the debenture and administrative provisions. But failure to intervene against the bill is r ; thing, and direct responsibility for the bill is qi another thing. The first apolies to Hoover. The second does not. Tariff legislation is a congressional responsibility. This bill was not written by Hoover. It has not been supported publicly by him. Therefore it is not an administration bill and not a Hoover bill. And no senator can get away with a vote for the bill on that excuse. Indeed, unless Hoover has gone back on his specific and repeated campaign pledges, he is opposed to destroying prosperity by a general tariff increase. Loyalty to Republican campaign pledges demands that the bill be killed. Loyalty to the Democratic platform pledge demands that the bill be killed. Loyalty to American interests demands that the bill be killed before it kills what is left of our prosperity. I Prison Products and Illicit I.iquor 7 State enforcement of liquor legislatijn is a vain hope, because of the impossibility of checking the torrent of liquor which would flow over the boundary lines. The state cannot impede interstate traffic. State authorities cannot seize the “original package" of liquor until it is delivered. A leading dry journal, the Christian Century, well summarizes this popular supposition: “The chief result of that long tnd varied experiment of securing prohibition through the separate states was the discovery that prohibition could not be made effective in a land whose central government guaranteed the untrammeled right of Interstate commerce. “If these separate states Indeed were states, in the exercise of full sovereign power, the Morrow theory would be worth considering. But their statehood has been qualified to such extent by the surreager of so much of their sovereign power to. the
The Indianapolis Times (A SCRIPPS-UO r*.D NEWSPAPER) Owned end published daily (except Saad* or The Indianapolis Ti.nea Publishing Cos.. •*l4-22*1 Wnt Maryland Street. Jnd.tmipolM, Ind. Price In Marion County, 2 cents a copy; elsewhere, 3 cents—delivered by carrier. 12 cents a week. BOYD Gl’RtiEY, ROY W. HOWARD. FRANK G. MORRISON, Editor PresideJt Business Manager ' I'HONE— Riley .1551 WEDNESDAY. JUNE 11. l3o_-_. Member of United Press, Scrlppe-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Nwgpaper Ko f "Pri*e Association. Newgpaper Information Service and Andit Bureau of Circulations, ” “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”
federal government that they are unable to function as against one another in respect to the transportation of commodities from one state to another.” The Christian Century editors have here forgotten a little history and as much poltical theory. The supreme court decision on the sanctity of the transit of the ‘‘original package” was only one decision. The supreme c >urt has reversed itself on greater issues than this. But a precedent already has been set in this matter. A federal bill has been passed regulating the shipment of prison-made products. This is the Hawes-Cooper bill, which goes into effect in 1934. This allows the states to determine the conditions under which prison-made goods can be shipped into the state. It enables the states to exclude certain goods all together if they wish. Why could not the same principle be applied to the exclusion of liquor, the consumption of which would be illegal in the state doing the excluding? Why not state enforcement and a Hawes-Cooper booze bill? An Emergency “There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers, willing and anxious to work, are deprived of these necessities. It simply can not be, if our moral and economic system is to survive.” Hoover said this in 1921. It is as bitterly true today as it was then. At that time Hoover was not in position to do very much to help the situation. He was secretai'y of commerce and chairman of Harding's conference on unemployment, but his work was only advisory. Today, unemployment probably is more widespread, more distressing, than it was in 1921. The economic import of which Hoover spoke is more terrible today, because there has been no war on which to place the responsibility. The threat to our moral and economic system increases with every year this problem is allowed to go unsolved. Today Hoover is President, no longer limited in his field of usefulness, but possessing wide powers and even wider influence. So it is unthinkable that he will let congress adjourn until it has acted on the Wagner bills, the only remedy for the suffering of the last eight months which the legislative branch has been able to devise. They provide for federal unemployment statistics, employment exchanges and advance planning and staggering of public construction. The senate has passed the bills. The Republicancontrolled house of representatives just is beginning committee hearings on them. But the house is so organized that it can move rapidly if it wants to; and the remainder of its session has been set aside for the passage of bills specifically requested by the administration. The treaty is important, the tariff is important, but what can begin to equal in importance the hunger of men and women and babies? Unemployment still increased in April, the latest month for which there are official figures.
The Speaker Obstructs It seems rather too bad that Speaker Longworth can not let the spirit of the law rather than the letter rule him so far as his judgment on the Ship-stead-Nolan superior national forest bill is concerned.. This bill passed the senate by unanimous consent, and it would pass the house the same way, excepting for the objections of one mail, Representative Pittenger of Duluth. * Granting that Pittenger is sincere in his demands for certain amendments to this bill before he will let it pass over his live body, his attitude is serving only to delay the bill’s passage until next December. Once given consideration, it will pass. The Nolan bill is the same as the Shipstead bill and if the speaker so would rule it would have a privileged status and would be taken up and passed by the house immediately. It is not fair to withhold house action on a technicality, particularly when the sole opposition comes from one man. In London a “dining theater’’ soon will open at which meals will be served during the show. Chances are that among the choices not to be found on the menu will be soup and celery. Now that more than a score of middies at the naval academy have obtained marriage licenses, the navy department need not worry about first mates.
REASON By F land?s CK
PREMIER MUSSOLINI, in the midst of cheering Italians, barks at France and Premier Tardieu, in the midst of cheering Frenchmen, barks at Italy. The thing to do is to make these two politicians fight it out, instead of letting them drag a lot of innocent people into it. a a a Thomas A. Edison finds that in order to get rubber. he will have to cross goldenrod with something else. He should cress it with these United States senators who are turning themselves inside out on prohibition to hold their jobs. m am Ambassador Morrow evidently thinks he has a hard r:e for the senatorial nomination in New Jersey. for he has brought Lindbergh, his son-in-law, into it, Lindy piloting the candidate from place to place. tt U B Bobby JONES beat the British out of the amateur golf championship by his playing, but if it had been a conference, he would have come home without his clothes or golf clubs. B B B We strongly suspect that Thomas Taggart subsidized the scientists and got them to call this new planet “Pluto” to boost the famous beverage he has on the market. a a b Sidney Franklin, the American bull fighter, had a hectic time in Spain the other day, the people throwing flowers o him when he killed one bull with one thrust of his dagger, then throwing cushions at him when he took three jabs to kill the second bull. Wonderful people, the Spanish at a bull fight—almost as wonderful as Americans at a prize fight. B B M NO matter how hard Ambassador Morrow may insist that he is wet, it’s a difficult job to put it across with the thirsty, for he looks so much more like a gentleman who would pass the collection plate than one who would pass the limburger. a a m Entirely too much attention is paid to the stealing of the diamonds of actresses and society women. If somebody should steal some kid's dog., then it would be time enough to get worked up. a a a It’s hard to see how the President gets anything done when he has to go out in the yard and be photographed with every bunch that goes’to Washington.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ
i Effect of Light on Medicines Studied, to Eliminate Irritating Deterioration. - RESEARCH to discover the reason for the deterloriating effect which light has on some medicines and the best method of preventing the deterioriation, has been undertaken at Columbia university. Dr. H. V. Amy of the college of pharmacy has begun the research with the assistance of Dr. Abraham ! Taub, professor of physics, and Abraham Steinberg, a graduate student. “Have ycu ever received from the druggist a colorless liquid prescription, which, within a week or so. becomes pink or green or yellow?” Dr. Amy asks. I “Have you ever purchased a gol-den-yellow ointment to find that within a month or so it darkened to a nondescript gray? Have you ever noted that a botye of perfume, delightful upon opening, became less agreeable and changed color as well as the months rolled around? “All these phenomena are occurring every day, causing annoyance to manufacturers and worry ? to pharmaceutical dispensers, who have to explain to irate customers why a colorless a morphine solution turns green within twenty-four hours and why a mixture containing phenol is apt to turn pink. “The manufacturers and the dispenser desire to furnish the consuming public with the best medicaments available. They purchase the choicest materials, they compound them with, the utmost skill, and then after all these precautions have been taken, they sometimes find to their disgust and to their financial loss that the perfect product they evolve becomes imperfect through no fault of their own.” 000 Sensitive THESE changes are due in some cases to contact with the air. Dr. Amy says. Changes of this sort are somewhat similar to the rusting of iron. In other cases, chemical action goes on between the glass of the bottle and the substance contained within the bottle. In this latter case, the remedy lies in changing to a different sort of glass for the bottle. But the most bothersome changes are those caused by the action of daylight, and especially, direct sunshine. These changes might be compared to the fading of wallpaper and rugs brought about by sunshine. Chemicals and medicines which behave in this fashion new are known as light-sensitive chemicals. A list of 423 such chemicals is found in the official pharmacopoeia. “The mischievous effect of light on medicaments is more annoying than serious,” Dr. Amy says. “It is true that when white crystals of santonin turn yellow, the decomposed product has been known to produce dangerously irritating effects. “In most cases, however, the deterioration either lessens the medicinal value of the product or is annoying either from the psychological or esthetic standpoint. “Hence both manufacturers and retail pharmacists endeavor to lessen such light changes in the medicines they produce or dispense. This explains the use of blue or amber glass bottles. “This is why the labels on bottles of certain staple chemicals bear the caution ‘Store in a dark, cool place’.”
Attack DR. ARNY has chosen thirty-six widely different chemicals, whose only point of resemblance is that they are all light-sensitive. A sample of each one has been placed in a pyrex tube. Pyrex is less affected by chemicals than any ordinary glass, according to Dr. Arny. These tubes have in turn been placed in seven different types of bottles, three types of green, one of blue, two of amber, and one colorless. This limits the test, it will be seen, to the action of sunlight and eliminates differences due to reactions with various types of glass. In addition, more than 2,000 specimens of light-sensitive chemicals are being subject to the direct action of sunlight. Another set of 300 is being exposed on shelves near a glass window, thus duplicating the condition in the average store. Chemical tests will be made of this material at frequent intervals, the whole research extending over a year. Summarizing the plan of attack. Dr. Arny says: “By this method we hope to tell manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, of chemicals and of bottles exactly what type of bottle is best suited for the storage of each chemical studied. “We hope to give definite opinions as to whether deteroriation, wherever observed, is due to the action of light or whether some other factor such as alkalinity of the glass container or the influence of air, produces the undesired change. “And lastly, we hope, in those cases where light is proved clearly to be the destructive factor, to discover in each case the appropriate ‘stabilizer,’ that appropriate chemical a trace of which may aid the medicament in resisting the untoward action of light rays.”
ImZ WellThYbu i ( JCnow c )fiurffib!e? | FIVE QUESTIONS A DAV 8
1. Who was “ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance?” 2. Who were the first two Christian missionaries? 3. What is the proverb about the power of the tongue? 4. For what is the queen of Sheba famous? 5. Who said, “I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet?” Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. “There shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” John 10: 16. 2. Jehu, son of Nimshi; “he driveth furiously;” II Kings 9:20. 3. Because he refused to believe the testimony of the other disciples that Jesus had appeared to them after his death and resurrection, until he saw Jesus himself. John 20:24-30. 4. In the island of Cyprus and the '" / of S-flamis; Acts 13. S'. 'ZT‘~ Psalm 45:1.
We Wonder if David Wasn’t Tom by Doubts!
_
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Distrust Paste or Injection for Cancer
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN the Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. Alfred Scott Warthin of the University of Michigan recently has made available an editorial surveying the history of cancer cures in the last forty years. Year after year new methods are described, are tried and fail. Many of these methods are based on a scientific study of the cause of cancer; other e are purely experimental. Many of them are old wives’ cures and the treatments of herb doctors. A few are cancer pastes which burn away the tissue. Finally, there are weird mechanical and electrical conceptions which seem to come only from a disordered imagination. Dr. Warthin is convinced that the evidence that cancer might be infectious is absolutely nil, so far as concerns its scientific merit, and he is supported in this view.by the majority of cancer investigators. Indeed, he says, there exists absolutely no proof that infection plays any specific exciting cause in the production of cancer, and that all cancer cures based on such assumption of the cause can be dis-
IT SEEMS TO ME b, h ™
A GENTLEMAN was talking over the radio a few nights ago and suggested that all we members of the invisible audience should cooperate with him in a little experiment in mass telepathy. I have a warm feeling for people who work on the radio and so naturally I decided to help the broadcaster. I got out a paper and pencil and. every time he said, “Now concentrate,” I’d concentrate just as hard as I could. First of all, he said he was going to think of a color. Naturally I wrote down “red.” Red is everybody’s favorite color. And purple comes next. Then the aerial psychologist wanted us all to concentrate while he thought of three people in the public eye. Jack Sharkey and Max Schmeling and Babe Ruth seemed adequate for that. We were invited to think of geometrical figures and numbers and several other things and I did all my home work faithfully. Imagine my rage and disappointment when he said: “Good night, everybody,” and failed to announce whether we had guessed right or wrong. Maybe he did tell the next week, but I wasn’t listening then. I want my telepathy hot or not at all. a a a Coincidence IAM not competent to say whether there is good evidence to prove the existence of telepathy. I’ve never seen it, which is not proof at all. Generally, 1 think the feats cited in evidence are no more than intuitive. Nor is intuition to be dismissed scornfully. That in itself is miracle enough. Because I admire those who have the faculty for following hunches home, it distresses me that we of the male sex should be ruled out of court. One of the most popular of all current fallacies is expressed in the phrase, “woman’s intuition.” Invariably it is used to indicate a belief that woman’s unconscious wisdom is more lively than that of man. For this contention, I know of no convincing evidence. Indeed, It would be a good thing if the notion could be broken down. Many women go through life in serene confidence that the mere fact of being female entitles them to the luxury of snap judgments. Much more than in the case of men, women are prone to set anew acquaintance down as worthy or unworthy upon no better testimony than “I knew it by the tingling in my toes.” ana Luck Is No Lady ONE summer I went many times to the track with a young woman who had entire faith in the validity of her intuition. She had a scientific form of following the unconscious. It was not'sgdugh for her to look
missed at once as outside the realms of possibility. Caustic applications directly to the affected part and the use of zinc and arsenic pastes produce agony from the ulceration of sloughing of tissues, and not infrequently make the growth more rapid rather than hinder it. The majority of all quack, Indian and herb cures for cancer are of this variety. The cancer quacks in the middle west, where there are several of them, depend on application of pastes of this nature. Such methods are dangerous and are not to be compared in efficiency with clean removal of the cancer with the knife. A study of the history of cancer untreated reveals the fact that the older portions tend to pass away and that anything at all injected into a cancer will produce such changes. It long has been known that the injection of protein substances into the body or that the injection of extracts of various tissues at a distance from the cancer also will produce changes of this character. Time and again investigators have been misled by these changes into believing that they had discovered a method of merit. Os this
over the list of entries or watch the horses as they paraded. We must go to the paddock to see them at closer quarters. “It’s just that I get a feeling,” was her explanation. ‘Please bet a dollar for me on the black one.” Here was feminine intuition in its purest form. This was “immediate” apprehension by the mind without reasoning.” If a horse set up some current conviction in the young woman it was nothing to her that he had never in his entire life won any race. Logic was of no moment, weight or post position. She just knew that the black one was better than the others, but she had no notion of how she knew it. Well, maybe he was the best horse, but that was not the way he finished. a a a Good Sometimes POSSIBLY I am being unfair to the young woman’s intuition Perhaps she read in the deep and limpid eyes of the black horse many estimable qualities. It may have been that out of all the lot he was the kindest to his mother. And, as I remember him, he seemed, above all the others, to possess a sense of humor. Undoubtedly the horse was honest. Nobody ever heard him making any claims or boasts about his racing skill. But after all the business in hand was speed and not general sociability. To that extent, the lady’s intuition betrayed her, and also me! Indeed, she made so many bad selec-
C OAVr IBjTHCH
WARREN’S BIRTH June 11 ON June 11, 1741, Joseph Warren, noted American patriot, was born at Roxbury, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1759. and five years later became a physician in Boston. When disputes first arose between the colonists and the British government, Warren associated himself with Samuel Adams and other ardent Whigs. He was the orator at the second anniversary of the Boston massacre, March 5,1772, and again at the third anniversary, refusing to be intimidated by threats of the British officers. Warren had much to do with the success at Lexington. April 19, and in June was commissioned majorgeneral. He opposed the occupation of Charlestown Heights on the grounds that the American supply of ammunition was too small. Overruled by a majority of the council, which resolved to fortify Bunker Hill, he went there as a volunteer, refusing to take chief comI mand. Hie was killed during the battle of Bunker
character was the lead treatment of cancer and of this character also, according to Warthin, is the recently exploited Coffey-Humber method. Cancer is not simply a local disease, and the majority of investigators are convinced that it is a condition affecting the human body as a whole. There is something in the nature of the tissue of the individual that makes him likely to have cancer. The general constitution determines whether he will have cancer, and the condition of the organ affected makes it likely that the cancer will appear in a certain place. The work of Maud Slye indicates that the susceptibility is inherited and that the inheritance may manifest itself in different forms in different families. Moreover, the tendency may vary in its strength, so that some individual in the family may have the disease and others do not. It is likely that an extremely scientific race would attempt to breed cancer out of the race. It is tmlikely that the present race of human beings, because today breeding of human beings is uncontrolled by any scientific factors from the point of view of health.
•deals and opinions expressed in this column are those of ne of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude oi this paper.—The Editor.
tions and with such regularity that it broke up our friendship. I like to bet on white horses. You lose much less money that way. And if you ask me why I can point out that there are not so many white horses. And I rise to remark that if it were actually so that the male Is less proficient in the process of intuition this fact should be most clearly indicated in poker. And, gentlemen, what are the facts? It is my firm conviction that there are and never have been any great women poker players. Ask me to prove it, and I only can say that in twenty years of searching I never have found one. They don’t even make very good kibitzers. i Copyright. 1930. by The Times)
Daily Thought
Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear him.— St, Luke 12:5. a a a f"OD planted fear in the soul as T truly as He planted hope or courage. . . . Fear is soul’s signal for rallying— Beecher. What is the area of the Washington monument grounds in Washington? The total area is 106.01 acres.
An Especially Organized Department for Managing Property and Settling Estates. Washington Bank&Trust Go. 155 IV. -Washington St
_JUNE 11, 1930
M. E. Tracy SAYS:
We Did Not Realize the Cost of Prohibition in 1920 and We Do Not Realize It Fully Now. WITH George W. Wickersham advocating more education and less punishment in our “noble experiment,” and with Walter Liggett charging the existence of twenty speakeasies in the town where the Anti-Saloon League reigns supreme, prohibition reclaims the front page. Not that it has left the front page for any length of time during the last ten years, but that two such incidents put a little spice into what has become a drab, monotonous record of failure. One is glad to learn that the chairman of President Hoover's law enforcement commission recognizes the folly of trying to scare the American people into righteousness with such an empty piece of bombast as the Jones law. One is equally glad to learn that the throne room of Volsteadism has not escaped the odors of nullification. 000 It’s to Laugh WHAT a farce this would be but for the tragedy back-stage? High society importuned to refrain from serving cocktails; one-half of the senators scared to say whether they are wet or dry; bootlegging within the shadow of the Capitol; peace officers covering up graft and corruption by pursuit of pint-pocket peddlers; rum rings with money enough to start a bank, while old women are sent to jail for making a keg of rotten beer—and we speak of the sanctity of law and the necessity of upholding the Constitution, without cracking a smile. 000 GANGLAND takes reporter Linglc for a ride in Chicago, and we profess to be surprised, though any child must have known something of the sort soon would occur. Prohibition, with its dry raids, hijacking parties and rackets, has been regarded in the light of a fivereel thriller by most people, as though they were not concerned in it, and as though the groups and the gangs could go on fighting without injuring any one else or without becoming hopelessly arrogant. Illogical as such attitude may seem, it is entirely consistent with the half-baked emotionalism which gave birth to the eighteenth amendment and Volstead act. We did not realize the cost in 1920 and we are not realizing it now.
Swept Away by Emotion WHAT Chairman Wickersham says about the efficacy of education, as opposed to punishment, has been said many times before, and we were making headway until an aggregation of reformers swept us off our feet by capitalizing emotions incident to the war. Up to 1920 the American people had made real and rapid progress in the elimination of drunkenness. Even old topers began to doubt the wisdom of it. Then we became infatuated with the idea of stopping it all at once by constitutional amendment, a series of drastic statutes, and an army of dry agents. What we really did was put a profitable business in the hands of organized crime, give vice the necessary revenue, create a smoke screen for thuggery of every kind. The assassination of this reporter in Chicago is but a logical episode in the unfolding of the plot, as was the assassination of Don Mellett in Canton, O. Who imagines that it will be the last, that gangland willl be content with bumping off a mere newspaper man here and there, that machine guns will be reserved for only the small fry? a a a Puts Premium on Murder IF murder proves effective in wiping out a rival rum faction, who supposes that it will not be employed to wipe out any one or every one who stands in the way? The “noble experiment” has resulted in nothing so distinctly as forging a ring of graft around every city council and every police headquarters in the country, of making terrorism a vital factor in local politics, of giving shyster lawyers the benefit of a lucrative practice, of surrounding the underworld with a glamor which makes it interesting, if not respectable, in the eyes of decent people. Ten years ago there was a sharp cleavage between the lawless and the iaw-abiding, but prohibition, with its impossible aims and its outrageous methods, has created a situation where the distinction frequently is hard to find. Do man-eating sharks inhabit the waters around Cuba? Yes.