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Hoover’s Disastrous Decision President Hoover announced today that he would approve the tariff bill. By signing this general tariff revision, with its 30 per cent rate increase, he will violate his own and his party’s election pledges. He will disregard an unprecedented public protest by the nation’s leading economists, newspapers, merchants, farm organizations, manufacturers, exporters, bankers and consumers’ representatives. He will disregard the retaliation acts and threats of thirty-three foreign nations, which already have brought our foreign trade to the lowest seasonal level In ten years. Hoover’s excuse for his dangerous course is that the flexible provision will permit correction of the evil rates. That excuse was expected and has been exposed in hundreds of speeches, articles and editorials. It has been shown that the so-called new provision is virtually the same as the discredited and Ineffective flexible provision of the present law. The new provision, by limiting the President’s power to acceptance or veto of recommended changes in rates by the tariff commission, indeed takes away from the President his present power of fixing rates, regardless of the commission. In that sense the new provision is less adaptable to Hoover’s argument than is the existing law. The answer to Hoover’s claims for the flexible provision has been given by no less a Republican and protectionist authority than Senator Reed of Penn- . sylvania, who helped write the bill: ‘“lt is said it will take the tariff out of politics by these provisions. In my judgment, we are putting the tariff deeper into politics by these new flexible provisions than it ever has been before, and we will see it when appointments begin tc come along for membership on the tariff commission.” A good example of what Reed fears is the misleading tariff commission statement on the alleged benefit of agricultural rate increases, which the President repeats in his arnouncement today. Those figures evade the fact that our farm products are chiefly export instead of import commodities and thus are not protected by this tariff. They also evade the point that the Grundy bill widens the gap between the protection the farmer receives for what he sells and virtually everything he must buy. So with the figures in the Hoover statement attempting to fix the Grundy rate average at 16 per cent, which apparently is arrived at by the unusual method of lumping dutiable and free commodities. Is it possible that the President does not know that the tariff commission has fixed the average dutiable rate of this bill at more than 40 per cent, and that this figure was accepted and used by all advocates of the bill in the congressional debates? Is it possible that the President does not know that this is an increase of 20 per cent over the existing law, according to the tariff commission’s own figures? The arguments used by the President today are disproved by the arguments which Hoover, as secretary of commerce, and Hoover, as presidential candidate, used to show the absolute dependence of American prosperity upon foreign outlets for our mass production surplus—foreign markets now jeopardized by foreign tariff reprisals. No one can explain away the disastrous effects bf this suicidal legislation on American prosperity. a a a Here are the facts as recorded on just one day. On the day the bill passed, Wall Street responded with a market drop which dragged several standard stocks even lower than in the November crash. On the day the bill passed, there was a general fall in commodity prices, bringing some to new low levels for the year. On the day the bill passed, all grain prices fell to new low levels for the season—wheat went to the lowest price in more than a year, oats the lowest in eight years, rye the lowest in thirty years. On the day the bill passed, the price of cotton declined to the lowest level in more than three years. On the day the bill passed, the steel industry reported a further decline in operations to 69 per cent of capacity. On the day the bill passed, European dispatches reported that the copper interests of Great Britain, Belgium and Germany had agreed to retaliate by withdrawing large orders in the United States so copper and non-ferrous metals, whereupon the American Copper Exporters’ Association frantically cut prices. On the day the bill passed, the Mexican government officially announced it would erect retaliatory duties, which follows similar retaliation against us by Canada and others. On the day the bill passed, the United States department of commerce announced that American exports dropped in May to the lowest point in the last six years. The President in signing the bill is exercising his constitutional right. We believe he is making a mistake. The President believes otherwise. He believes there is a magic in the new flexible provision, a magic we have been unable to find. We hope, however, that it is there. And we hope that he may be able to use it in such fashion as to hasten the return of that prosperity which in recent years we had come to look upon as the normal state of affairs in America.

The Sex Fiasco in Missouri The storm over the sex questionnaire at the University of Missouri just his ended in a complete fiasco. Academic tyranny has received no decisive rebuff and there is no guarantv of greater academic freedom at Missouri or elsewhere. Briefly to review the history of this notorious episode in the annals of inquisitorial prudery and professorial heresy-hunting the facts are these. A sex questionnaje, endeavor mg to ascertain some elementary facts about the sex attitudes of coUege students today, was circulated at the Universiy of Missouri In March, 1929. There was nothing obscene or inciting in the questions. But those with a n<*e for smut, including a local newspaper editor, stirred the president and board of curators to action. Professor De Graff of the department of sociology was discharged and Professor Max Meyer, head of the department of psychology and the most distinguished scnolar in the university, suspended for a year. The Association of American Professors investigated the case and roundly condemned the action of the curators. It found nothing improper in the questionnt're and stated that the action of the authorities placed in jeopardy the freedom of scholarship and teaching in the institution. President Brooks of the university was removed after he had tried several times to patch things up with Professor Meyer. SevuM of the most capable

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members of the faculty rerigned, to accept positions elsewhere. Meanwhile Professor Meyer was elected president of the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. On April 18, 1930, he delivered the presidential address before this society at Nashville, Term. Here he discussed the questionnaire episode and revealed the crucial fact that the curators had persecuted him for a sex lecture which he gave occasionally before advanced students. The questionnaire was only a pose and a blind for the attack. The curators then jumped on him again for damaging the university through further discussion of the case and ordered him to appear before them for a hearing on May 16. For two days the hearing proceeded, Meyer being aided by a Kansas City lawyer named Hazard. They had the curators on the run, though most of the faculty who supported Meyer were yet to testify. Victory for Meyer and the faculty seemed right at hand. But Mr. Hazard was a busy man and wanted to get back to his legal work. Meyer was persuaded to agree to a “compromise.” He prepared an “apology,” which was read and accepted, and the curators promised orally to appoint him for another year. The faculty accepted the compromise rather than fight the thing through to a finish. Nothing is settled. Meyer’s tenure is not legally assured. Freedom of teaching is not buttressed. Comstockery in the board of curators has not been scotched. Civilized teaching in regard to sex at Missouri has been established in no way. Thus far the net result is that the mountain of investigation has labored to bring forth the mouse of a temporary compromise. The freedom and self-respect of American university faculties never will be established until professors to put up a better fight than they have in the last year at Missouri. But we must not be too harsh with them. Before a professor can fight he first must be assured of eating. Doubtless, many a noble heart beats beneath a shabby vest at Columbia, Mo., but the sentiments of a mute Milton had to be restrained In the interest of the job, wife and family.

Secret Naval Papers President Hoover may or may not be within his technical rights in refusing the request of the minority of the senate foreign relations committee for copies of so-called secret documents relating to the London naval treaty. And i* is understandable that the President is displeased with efforts of a minority to defeat the treaty |jf what seems to the White House unfair tactics and delay. Nevertheless, we think Hoover has made a tactical blunder. His case rests on the fact>— and most of the country believes it to be a fact—that there was no deep plot at the London conference, no secret commitments, nothing to hide. If Senator Johnson or any treaty opponents fears otherwise, the quickest way to remove the fear is to put all documents on the table. The Hoover-Stimson argument is that the secret documents contain confidential information relating to other governments, which we have no right to divulge. There is point to this reasoning as applied to publication of the documents. But we fail to see why the records should not be spread before the foreign relations committee, in executive session, as Johnson asks. Under the Constitution, the senate is jointly responsible with the President for treaties. To exercise its “advice and consent” intelligently, the senate should have as full information as the President. In exceptional cases, where it is not compatible with the public interest that full information be given on the senate floor, it is even more necessary that the senate be given the benefit of that full information through the confidence of its responsible foreign relations committee. In the case of the London naval treaty, the administration is apt to find that its best weapon for prompt ratification is to let the facts speak for themselves, without evasion or secrecy Otherwise, doubts may be raised in the public mind which now accepts the treaty in good faith. The only difference between the recipient of an ordinary college degree and an honorary degree is a good paying job.

REASON B y F LANDIS CK

THESE Morrow presidential boosters have overlooked another thing, and it is that by the time Mr. Hoover leaves the White House the country may want another red-blooded executive. Coolidge and Hoover represent the vegetarian type and Morrow would be a little more so. By 1936 the country may demand a meat eater. 000 With all these American women falling all over each other to be presented at the British court, it i:> comforting to read that Ambassador Dawes will not have his hair cut until he returns to his old barber in the U. S. A. 000 JOHN BULL is playing the same old game which lost him his American colonies; he forbids the manufacture of salt by the Hindoos as he forbade the manufacture of things by our forefathers. And Mr. Bull may get out of India as he got out of here. sun Being wet and also pro-English, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, must lament the fact that he is not enough of an English ambassador to be permitted open and above board to bring in all the liquor he wants. This air mail Dilot down south who was stricken with appendicitis several miles above the earth, but managed to get down, reminds us that we have never flown because we feared our pilot would have a fit or something. nun MICHIGAN will have a thrilling senatorial race with ex-Govemor Chase Osborn running against Senator Couzens, the richest radical now breathing air. Osborn is an independent himself and a fighter from away up the creek. SUM There’s a lot of talk about this naval treaty among gentlemen at Washington, but people generally care nothing whatever about it. They are ro more interested in it than the brand of B. V. D.s worn by Mahatma Gandhi. sea Soon the universities of the land will be in active eruption, hurling forth tons of honorary degrees. 000 One of the first casualties of the season was Ambassador Dawes, who was overwhelmed in London and made doctor of laws. 000 The pictures of President Hoover indicate that the presidency has made unusual inroads upon his peace and tranquillity, his p holographs of 1930 looking fifteen years older than those of 1927.

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SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETS-

Famous Briton Tells Scientists How Nature Has Built Universe Out of Atoms. T TOW nature has built the universe out of atoms wa; described by Sir William Bragg, famous British physicist, in a lecture before the Franklin institute of Philadelphia. Bragg, a pioneer in the study of X-rays and director of the Royal institution of Great Britain, is a visitor in the United States. He came over at invitation of Franklin institute to receive a 'gold medal from that organization. “The elements of construction of the universe are the atoms of ninety-two different kinds," Bragg told his audience. “The first constructive step is the assembling of atoms into molecules. A molecule is a company of atoms in an association which has some permanence great or small. “The number of kinds of molecules is enormous. The water molecules consist of two atoms of hydrogen and one* of oxygen. The molecule of ordinary salt contains one atom of chlorine and one of sodium; the molecule of an organic substance is generally more complicated, as, for example, that of napthalene, which contains ten atoms of carbon and eight of hydrogen. “If the atoms are likened to the letters of the alphabet, the molecules must be compared to words.” a a a Solids BRAGG then went on to describe the ways in which nature employs the molecules. “The next step in nature’s architecture is the linking of molecules to form solid substances, such as the substances which we see around us and ourselves,” Bragg continued. “The properties of all substances depend upon the way the molecules are put together, just as a house, or its interior, has a character and a usefulness, which depend upon its design, or just as the meaning of a sentence depends upon the words it contains and on the way they are arranged. .“This second step is not always made; the hindrance to its accomplishment is heat. Heat Is a mode o f motion. “When, for example, the molecules of water are set In very rapid motion by imparting sufficient heat to them, the forces that would make them combine are overcome; the molecules exist as independent individuals and we have water vapor or steam. “With less heat and less motion, the molecules are always in partnership, but always changing partners, and we have water, “Still less heat, and the molecules become attached permanently to each other in unchanging positions, and thus Ice is formed. “Some molecules feel heat more than others, so that at ordinary temperatures some substances are solid, some liquid, and some are gases.”

Properties IT is the great aim of scientific research to connect the properties of a substance with design of its construction, Bragg continued. “Gases have the simplest design, and the laws of gases are fairly well understood,” Bragg said. “Liquids come next, and we know something of their laws also. In particular we have learned much of what happens when liquds of different kinds are mixed together; we have watched when molecules pull each other to pieces and make molecules of new patterns out of the old. “This is the province of science which we call chemistry. The enormous advances in pure and applied science, for which chemistry is responsible, show how great are the results of research even in this limited field. “But when we come to solids we have to admit that we know very little indeed of the way in which ther properties depend on their composition. “The fact is that their properties depend on the arrangement of the molecules; these now have definite positions, and the pattern of the arrangement is all important. “There was very little of this in liquids and none at all in gases. To make headway we therefore must leam the laws of arrangement. “Until recently this has not been possible, and we have been unable to enter a field of research which may well turn out to be the richest of all fields. But the X-rays have opened the door for us.” Bragg might have stated—had not his modesty prevented—that while X-rays were the key which opened the door, hi* was the hand which held the key, for it was his researches which made possible the use of X-rays in the study of the structure of solids.

TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY of

“LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT’ ON June 16 1833, Cardinal John Henry Newman wrote while crossing the Mediterranean sea the famous hymn, “Lead, Kindley Light.” A brilliat man in’ the church of England, beloved and admired for his character and great gifts, Newman nevertheless became a doubter of protestantism. So he was moved to write: “Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on; The night is dark ,and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on. Keep Thou my fete; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. . . Nine years after he wrote this, Cardinal Newman retired to the little village of Littlemore, where he passed three years in seclusion wrestling with his attitude toward the church. Emerging from his retirement Nemman became a convict to the Roman Catholic church. In 1879 Leo XIII created Newman a, cardinal, allowing him to reside in England.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ‘Single Unit’ Mechanical Icebox Safest

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein, America’s leading health authority, on the mechanic.vl refrigerator. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. A S a result of the furore assodated with the discovery that a considerable number of people had died from the effects of poisonous gases used in mechanical refrigeration, the American Medical Association appointed a special committee to investigate this hazard to human life. The report of the committee, just made available, was drafted by Dr. Careey P. McCord. The term “mechanical refrigeration” includes all types of artificial refrigeration, except the use of ice, chilled water, or air. The common substances now used include such

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AS one who has jabbed and swung as hard as I was able in the general direction of Mayor Walker, it seems ro more than fair for me to join in the general chorus of praise which has greeted his most recent appointment. The selection of Joseph E. Corrigan as chief city magistrate is more than suitable—it’s perfect. It is well that New York and every other city should realize the great importance of courts of first resort. The term "higher court” as applied to bodies of appell. te jurisdiction is in a sense misleading. The best way to get a case settled satisfactorily is to have it judged fairly and intelligently the first shot out of the bag. This particular column fought hard against the confirmation of Judge Parker for the supreme bench. And it has no regrets. But, in all truth, the composition of that august body is not likely to affect me nearly as vitally or directly as the con I position of the magistrate courts of the City of New York. It is highly unlikely that I ever shall be a Dred Scot to engage the attention of Mr. Hughes and his associates. But it is by no means impossible that I shall be haled before some magistrate one time or another for speeding, parking or disorderly conduct. And I am prepared to cay that it is more difficult to find a man well qualified to sit as magistrate than to pick an eminent jurist who would adorn the supreme bench. # * Human Court IN the lower courts the magistrate is called upon to consider not only the statute itself, but the personality of the folk involved. Human nature is spread before him in both raw and half-baked states. The ideal magistrate would be compounded about equally out of Blackstone and Balzac. He must understand the human comedy as well as the tragic implications of the written code. When anybody speaks of the growing disrespect for the law, he does not mean entirely the revolt which rises against learned decisions handed down by members of the judiciary sitting in state capitals or Washington itself. At such times as the law comes into disrepute it often earns that status from things transpiring before local judicial officials. The taxi driver, the peddler, the

DAD PAYS, BUT HE GRINS *N BEARS IT Well, sir, it’s the middle of June. There’s weddin’ gifts to be bought fer folks who ain’t seen you in so long they spell your name wrong on the invitation, and graduation gifts must be sent boys and girls who you thought was still in kindergarten. Mother’s goin’ to the beauty parlor to get her hair permanently wiggled and have her face simonized. Daughter’s got to have new dresses because her old ones lack two notches cf displaying’ all her backbone, and son is home from coUege bowlin’ fer pure cream in his coffee Well, sir, who pays all these bills? Here’s who: Father. So we just got together and settled on June 15 fer Father's day and bought him a necktie and he was so pleased he forgave everything. That’s the way the old man is. He’ll kick the dog and cuss the cat and shake his fist at the radio and grit his teeth when he hears the postman’s whistle. But he’s human. You just show him a little kindness and he _ gives up right away, because „ P. x wQ-Q. he ain’t very much used (CosyrlEht John r. DlEe Cos.)

While the Country Waits!

gases as sulphur dioxide, ammonia, methyl chloride, ethyl chloride, carbon dioxide, butane and propane. There are, however, almost fifty different substances that may be employed, and some attention has been given to all of them by the committee. Quite recently anew substance called difiuro-dichlor-methane has been discovered, which is said to be practically nonpoisonous and without hazard, but apparently some time will be required before modern refrigeration devices can be adapted to the use of the new material. As used today, refrigeration devices are divided into single and multiple units, single units being used in private homes and multiple units in apartment houses. The multiple systems are more numerous in large cities and the dangers are greater because of the

small shopkeeper is likely to remain calm enough about issues touching the United States vs. Botts, Botts & Botts. He sees red and turns that way more readily when he is fined or jailed for speeding or loitering or obstructing traffic when he knows perfectly well that he was not at fault. a a a Anecdote THE man who has to appeal and appeal before he gets right and justice done him is not going to come out of the ordeal wholly satisfied with the estate of American justice. I often have been puzzled about the familiar proverb which states that the mills of the gods grind slowly. This is tossed off almost as if it were a virtue to have justice move on leaden feet. I say “the faster the better.” And surely much time and tribulation and recrimination can be saved all around by settling every dispute right at the moment of its inception. Joseph E. Corrigan is fortunate in being a lawyer’s lawyer without losing the point of view which animates most laymen. A good many

How Well Do You Know Your Bible? FIVE QUESTIONS A DAY ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. Finish Job’s sentence, “Man is bom unto trouble . . 2. What was the significance of “the angel that troubled the water”? 3. Finish the proverb, “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is .. 4. Give the source of the motto on the Liberty bell, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof.” 5. Whose face, when he was on trial for his life, was said to be as that of an angel? Answers to Saturday’s queries: 1. “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Mark 12:17. 2. That he might wash his hands, as a symbol that he was not responsible for the death of Jesus; Matthew 27:24. 4. The widow’ of Zarephath, because she sheltered Elijah; I Kings 17:8-17. 5. Lazarus; John 11:1-2.

long soft metal tubing running through the walls and ceiling without protection, the numerous joints, the dangerous valves, the large amounts of refrigerant in one place, the failure of warning of leakage by moving the boxes which are not fixed in position. It is the belief of the committee that multiple units are a far greater source of harm than the single unit household refrigerator. In addition to the danger of poisoning by household refrigerants there is, of course, the danger associated with the industrial use of refrigeration. Already there are records of poisoning and even deaths of men from explosions of ammonia tanks, of burning of the eyes, and irritation of the lungs from sulphur dioxide and of methyl chloride intoxication among workers in factories.

(deals and opinions expressed in this column are those ot one o£ America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement snth the editorial attitude oi this paper.—The Editor.

years ago, when sitting in night court, it became his duty to pass sentence upon a woman accused of soliciting. The evidence against her/ was overwhelming and yet he hated the whole mode of police harassment of the unfortunates. It seemed to him a system which solved nothing. And when the workhouse term was handed down the woman turned suddenly upon the policeman who appeared against her and with a neatly timed right swing knocked him down. This was, among other things, contempt of court and merited and received additional punishment. A year or so later Magistrate Corrigan was stopped upon the street by a woman and he undertook to question her as to the conditions which existed in regard to police prrotections, agents provocateur and so on. Realizing that he seemed bent wholy upon sociological research, the professional pedestrian grew suspicious and said, “‘Would you mind taking off your hat?” The bald expanse which gleamed under the street lights was sufficient identification. “Judge Corrigan!” she exclaimed in horror. “You’re the man who sent me to the workhouse.” “And who are you?” asked the magistrate. “I’m the lady who socked the cop,” she replied. “Madame,” said Corrigan, “it was never possible for me before, but let me shake your hand now. I’ve always wanted to congratulate you.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—This is also from a constant reader and subscriber of your paper since the days it was called The Sun and printed on Ohio street. The reason' l that I have been a constant reader of The Times is because I enjoy reading a paper that is nonpartisan and unfraid to expose the corrupt practice of parasites, but at the same time willing to extend the hand of charity to those who admit their guilt and sorrowfully repent. It is true that sentiment was strong, against the mother in the rain baby case, probably sufficient to have resulted in mob rule, which has not sense of justice, rushing on in beastly style characteristic of primitive ignorance, unmindful of circumstances leading up to the deed committed, but thank goodness we live in the age of law and order that insures and issues out justice. The person who wrote the article in the Friday (June 6) Times and signed the anonymous name of Constant Reader must have been ashamed to sign his name to such a damnable article which would question the integrity of justice as issued by the court. He would quote the words of our good Saviour, “Suffer the little children to come unto me,” but he would not quote the following verse which reads, “Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.” If b" will read between the lines, he will see that ye must first be tr repentant as the little child, before ye can e? — 1 forgiveness. If he will also read Luke 8-7 concerning the adultress, the good Saviour

TUNE 16,1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Al Capone Is to Crime What Ford Is to Autos, or Gary to Steel; He Has Put It on a Business Basis. STATES ATTORNEY HAWTHORNE of Miami. Fla., says that he will run “Scarface” Al Capone out of town “if it takes all summer.” Considering how many times he has arrested Capone, only to see the latter post bond and walk quietly away without suffering more inconvenience than a few hours in jail, the state’s attorney fixes a conservative time limit. Still, some people, and especially in Chicago, will be glad to learn that he is undiscouraged. Not that the scarfaced one has done anything worse than stage a few wild parties during his sojourn in Miami, but that his presence is irksome to its hotel proprietors and real estate men. His reputation fails to impress them as an advertising asset, in which respect they are neither queer nor peculiar, since few ambitious communities in America would feel otherwise. a a a Reputation Is Black BY common report, Capone is not only a law breaker, but a leader of law breakers. By common report, he Is responsible for much of the turmoil in Chicago. By common report, he has developed an organization of rum running, murder and thuggery, nationwide in its extent. By common report he can “liquidate”—to use a Russian expression —at will such individuals as do not enjoy his affection and esteem. By common report, he has been Able not only to outwit the shrewdest prosecutors and cleverest detectives, but acquire a considerabla fortune. a a a Fiend or 'Martyr’? EITHER the man has been libeled ' outrageously, or the law has made a miserable failure. It is simply impossible to reconcile the kind of publicity he has received with the immunity he enjoys, and that has something to do with the crime problem in America. By conversation he has been accused. tried and convicted of responsibility for a dozen major crimes. As far as public opinion can make him so, he Is an outcast. But, according to law, he is guilty of nothing worse than a misdemeanor which landed him in a Philadelphia jail for one year, and many people regard that case as framed so he might enjoy a period of rest and security. ts a a The King of Crime CAPONE is to crime what Ford is to the automobile and what Gary was to steel. He has put it on a business basis, showing what organization and system could do. He also has shown the weak spots in our law enforcement machinery. Chicago authorities have tried to “get him” by pretense at least, for several years. While their failure is partly due to incompetence, the stupendous organization he has built up can not be ignored, nor the enormous sources of revenue he commands, nor the fact that he carries enough votes around in his vest pocket to wield a certain amount of political influence, nor the further fact that he knows things which might prove embarrassing to certain officials. a a a District Authority Dean roscoe pound of the Harvard lav school says that one reason we are not getting along better with lawmaking and law enforcement is distrust of centralized authority. “Crime no longer is a local affair,” he says, “in respect to participants, instruments, constituent acts or effects.” In other words, we are attempting to meet a nation-wide problem through constables whose authority is limited to the village; through city police departments that operate on an independent basis, and through state governments barricaded against one another by extradition laws. No one can survey the situation without suspecting that we are being driven toward another peculiarly dangerous form of federal bureaucracy unless we can find ways and means for more effective co-operation. Criminals have fallen in line with the times, have merged and consolidated, have developed an interlocking mechanism, have substituted system for the chaos of independent action, while the law enforcement setup is about where it was 100 years ago. Who Imagines that we can beat auto and airplane racketeers with ox cart methods?

again quotes to the mob (the mob that the reader suggests ignorantly should take the law into its own hands without reason or responsibility), “He tMt is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” And again in the eleventh verse, he says to the woman, “Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.” The reader surely has cast a stone and in so doing has condemned the woman, but whether he is without sin is a question for the Supreme One to decide, as he also says in Matt. 7-1, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” If the reader will read Matt. 5-7 he will see where the good Saviour has taugh us to be merciful, as he says “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” If he will look up the word “charity” in the dictionary, he will see that it means “readiness to overlook faults; leniency; spirithal benevolence; Christian love. He then might read the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians and see what the Apostle Paul says concerning “charity.” Remember, dear reader, that, “To err is human, but to forgive is divine,” therefore, surely, a higher sense of justice was instrumental in arousing public sentiment through the medium of the press in favor of the woman who was tried and convicted by a merciful judge who placed her on probation, told her to go, and sin no more. Society has been avenged if the woman has been truly repentant, as will be evidenced by her forthcoming good behavior. Her punishment is extant. Surely the good Lord will bless all who have extended a helping hand. BEN ASBURY. 2945 Brookside avenue.