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Economics and Liberty Liberty does not thrive on thin air. It is related directly to social and economic conditions. It seems to be nourished best by prosperity. When everybody is prosperous, we are all happy and are not likely to break out into open discontent. If nobody complain?, nobody is likely to get clubbed on the head. When misery looms, the picture is different. The sufferers blame the existing order. Agitators endeavor to capitalize the discontent and gain converts. The vested interests get alarmed and get the police after the malcontents and the radical haranguers. Repression ensues and liberty suffers. This situation well is illustrated by the report cf the American Civil Liberties Union, just off the press. Since last autumn we have been going threugn the most severe depression since 1921. The results have hit the working classes chiefly since the beginning of the year. There have been bread lines. Radical agitators have redoubled their efforts. The police have reacted with increased animation and effectiveness in using their clubs and blackjacks. *ln the first three months cf 1930 there were more reported violations of civil liberties in the United States than in any whole year since the Civil Liberties Union was established. In fact, the exhibit is astonishing. In all cf 1929—the year of Gastonia and Marion— there were but 228 cases of violation of civil liberties reported. No less than 920 such cases were reported in the first three months of 1930. The moral for the employers is easy. If they are afraid of rebellion, let them keep the workers employed or comfortable through unemployment insurance. The red flag never has made much appeal to a full stomach. But would general and permanent prosperity be good for society? Hardly, if it be true that progress is due primarily to discontent and the resulting agitation for a better day. Aimee Comes Back Aimee Semple McPherson has come back—in more ways than one. If you don’t believe it. read what she did to those hard-boiled customs inspectors in New York. We are inclined to believe we have been unfair to Aimee all along. Some years ago we went to see and hear her in her traveling temple. The meeting was a bust. The crowd wouldn't warm up. Perhaps it was because she wasn’t on her own home ground. Anyway, all her heroic pressure failed to produce enough cf a collection to hire the hall. Not that we scoffed. In fact, we felt a little sorry for her. Her thcolcgy was impossibly primitive. But we wore impressed by her apparent sincerity—and her beautiful voice. It seemed a pity that she was not living two or three centuries ago. when her theology was the correct thing. Then we heard her recently in a talkie as she sailed away on her Holy Land pilgrimage. She seemed to have broken. Her appeal had an artificial ring. She was conscious of her new permanent wave. Her voice rasped. Too theatrical. When we read that she had returned from Jordan and had been fined at customs for making false declarations on the hats and frocks she bought abroad we mused that this disaster could not have happened in Aimee's great days, when she was winning disappearance suits. But we were guilty of the editorial sin of judging v itheut, all the facts. Today we read the final and pertinent fact that she went back to pay her fine "attired in her nattiest and coolest costume.” And sh" found the officials so ’’charming and understanding” that she didn’t have to pay a fine after all. Aimee has come back all right. Defending Mexico's Good Name It is not hard to understand why the republic of Mexico is preparing to censor all imported American films and books to see to it that nothing “degrading to Mexico” is allowed to pass. National pride has come to life strongly below the Rio Grande during the last few years. The government is trying to foster it; and however little you may like the idea of censorship, you must admit y.iat this supervision of American bocks and movies is not without reason. The Mexican almost invariably plays the role of villain in an American story or film. Indeed, whenever a Mexican character comes on the scene the seasoned reader, or playgoer, knows at once that he is up to no good: and if a group of Mexicans comes on. cne can be prepared for skullduggery on a large scale. Mexico's censorship, accordingly, isn’t hard to understand. A Religious View of Morrow It has been easy for the dry Christians to laugh off the views and proposals of most champions of repeal of the prohibition law. They could apply the epithet of roughneck, politician, rounder, scoffer, atheist, and the like, and let it go at that. But when Dwight Morrow came out against prohibition. this trick of solving the problem by giving the dog a bad name would not work so well. Here was a man who had w’orked his way from adversity to riches and to economic anc political eminence. He is a humanitarian, a fviend of world peace, a diplomat of unusual achievement, an honorable man, well educated, a Presbyterian and a close personal friend of William Adams Brown, dean of devout American theologians. What label could the faithful drys place on Morrow? The squawks of the smaller lry among the religious press may be ignored. Let us pass once more to the Christian Century, that justly respected organ of enlightened Christianity. Did its editors carefully study Mr. Morrow’s speech, consider the views of a man of high intelligence and intellectual integrity, and search their own hearts as to the soundness of their dry views? Did even Mr. Morrow's sagacity unsettle them? Not so far as can be observed from their long editorial on “Mr. Morrow Plays Safe.” Mr. Morrow has studied for years the problems of federal government. It has been a special hobby with him. He long has pondered the relation of prohibition enforcement to this issue. He gave out a logical and courageous view, whether we agree with it or not. Does the Christian Century detect in this product of years of cogitation any sign of real statesmanship? Not at all. By taking a wet stand. Mr. Morrow loses all claim to statesmanship. He thereby becomes only one more time-serving politician, who schemingly puts success in electioneering before sound principles and consistency. Here is where Mr. Morrow gets off in the Christian Century: “Mr Morrow’s doctrine, therefore, can not be taken seriously. Nor was it, in our opinion, intended to be taken seriously, as a to- she ■’* m *• *

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tion of the liquor problem. It was not intended as a contribution, but as an escape. “Mr. Morrow shows himself to be a most astute politician. He knows that the possibility of repealing the eighteenth amendment is so remote as to be practically nonexistent. The thirty-six states required for its repeal can not be feund. Until there is a calculable cnance cf repeal Mr. Morrow will not be called upon to put his secondary proposal for federal protection of dry states against wet states into concrete terms of law. “What Mr. Morrow is doing ought to be clear to any alert mind. Ey a wet proposal that is hardly more than academic, he hopes to avoid the Scylla of defeat at the hands of an electorate notoriously wet, and by paying tribute to the basic principle of prohibition and to the policy of enforcement which President Hoover is now following, he hopes to avoid the Charybdis cf alienating the dry’s. “This is our reading of Mr. Morrow’s mind. The question which New Jersey drys have to ask is whether they wish to represent them in the senate a man whose mind is capable of playing fast and loose in such fashion with vital public questions.” Medieval Judges Judge Barnhill of North Carolina has no monopoly cn the medieval rule of “law” that no witness is reliable unless he believes in an orthodox God and hell. In Newark, N. J., Judge Walter Van Riper has applied the same principle. A Eaptist clergyman of 63, the Rev. Dozier Graham, took the early Christian practices literally an i decided that Christians should hold all things ir. commcn. He even accepted the New Jersey nomination for United States senator on the Communist ticket. He sought to raise economic, as well as beverage, issues in the senatorial campaign. Dr. Graham was convicted before Judge Van Riper for “advocating the destruction of the government,” something very much akin to the charges leveled against Peter and Paul in apostolic times. The accused clergyman had witnesses ready to testify that he was not the sort of man to pull down the Capitol dome, but Judge Van Riper refused to allow them to testify, because they admitted that they were atheists or agnostics. It did not occur to the judge that these men gave eviaence of their honesty when they admitted their religious beliefs and so placed their testimony and the fate of their friend in jeopardy. This archaic rule cf “law” only invites a witness to lie so his word may be accepted in the court. Fall’s Pension Albert B. Fall wants a pension from the government—s 72 a month for Spanish-American war service. The pension bureau says he apparently is eligible. We hope he gets it. We can't see any connection between that and the fact that he has been sentenced properly to a year in prison and fined SIOO,OOO for accepting a Doheny oil bribe while secretary of the interior. Now he is an old man. broken, ill and poor. Whatever he has done, revenge is not a part of justice. Because he betrayed the government does not justify the government in taking unfair advantage of him. “It’s An 111 Wind That The rivers and harbors bill is a pork barrel measure as usual. It pledges the federal government to do improvement work on this creek and that harbor, and this river and that bay; and most senators 1 and representatives who are candidates for re-election this year want the bill passed before adjournment. This is the biggest bid for gratitude by way of the i dredge and derrick that we ever have had. But. by the same token, this bill will provide more work, for men w’ho need work, than any previous rivers and harbors bill. If there ever was a time in this country when public money could be spent well to create jobs, it is now. But congress, in addition to the rivers and harbors bill, should appropi'iate money before it leaves Washington, so that other federal construction work may start this summer. If the house leaves Washington without passing the Wagner unemployment bills, one of which provides for advance planning and staggering of public construction, the politicians’ hosannas on the hustings will have a hollow ring.

REASON

THAT was a beautiful package Ambassador Dawes handed the foolish American women who have gene to London to be presented at the British court when he said of the Gold Star Mothers: “They were not self-invited, nor were their minds occupied with thoughts of society reports or fashionable dressmakers. They simply carried a photograph of a son and a few withered flowers to lay on his grave in France.” ana H. G. Wells. English novelist and historian, states that his new book which describes a future war between the United States and England was written to cause a better understanding between the countries, which is just a little more apple sauce, as every book that's written has just one real purpose, the sale of the book. tt a a WITH regret one reads of abandonment cf interurban lines here and there, for those lines gave a. great thrill in their day and led many towns out of long isolation. They will be missed, for how they come to the rescue in winter when the highways are impassable a tt a Prqfessor Forbes of Capetown. South Africa, announces the discovery of a new’ comet, but this does not interest our frivolous age half so much as the discovery of a new r star at Hollywood. a a a Os course it's unpopular to arrest a bishop, but this senatorial investigating committee will lose all the standing it ever had if it lets Bishop Cannon get away with his refusal to answer its questions after Sinclair was locked up fer the very same thing. a a a CARLOS BASAURI, Mexican anthropologist, claims to have discovered a thigh bone which upsets the theory that the Mexicans migrated from Asia and proves that they originated in Mexico. But we need no thigh bone to prove that we should have an immigration policy which would keep the Mexicans where they originated. a a a England’s refusal to consent to the construction of a tunnel under the English channel is due to her devotion to the idea of detachment from the continent. now a mere fiction, since aviation laughs at waves. From the practical standpoint, a tunnel could not be a hazard for England, for she could flood it and exterminate any attacking force. a a a But habit and tradition are very strong, as shown by the fact that natioas cling tojron ships, though Mgaikm has made them mere taints.

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SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ-

X-Ray Can Show Us Details Which Are Far Finer Than Light Can Show Us. | f]? YES keener than human eyes | have been supplied mankind by ! the X-rays. When Rontgen, just before the start of the twentieth century, announced the discovery of these mysterious rays, the world was electrified. Here were powerful rays which would penetrate matter, photographing coins through the leather of a purse, or the bones within a person’s hand. Medical science was quick to see the advantages of these mysterious rays. With the passage of time medical men also have learned to know the power of these rays, powers which were revealed by martyrs who burned themselves seriously in the early days of X-ray experimentation. X-rays are used today in the treatment of certain types of cancer and in certain other diseases. But the most astounding development of all has been the use of the> X-ray as a means of penetrating the interior structure of matter to study the formation of molecules and atoms. The pioneer in this study was the famous British physicist, Sir William Bragg, now a visitor in this country, in a recent address Bragg told how X-rays have supplemented human vision, penetrating a region of objects so minute that ordinary light waves are too large to reveal the details. “Consisting of ether waves, in the same sense that light so consists, but being seme 10,000 times shorter, X-rays can take note of details which are far finer than light can how us,” Bragg said. tt tt tt Regularity 'T'HIS world of the very minute is -*• a very important one and the facts now coming to light in it are proving of immense importance to chemists, engineers, and metallurgists. “It is very important to realise that, minuteness does not mean insignificance or want of relation to ourselves,” Bragg said. “The world which X-rays can portray is as full of richness and variety, movement and interest as that which we see normally. “It is true that our eyes see none of it, p.nd so it is not associated with the ideas of beauty in form and colors. We can not thoughtlessly take pleasure in it, as we may in the other. We must grasp w’hat the X-iays tell us by means of delicate and complicated scientific methods, and our admiration and Interest are of the mind only. “What sort of things do we now perceive? We see, if I may use the word in a broad sense, that arrangement of atoms and molecules in the solid body, of which we have teen so eager to obtain knowledge. “We stand in front of nature’s architecture and examine her use of the elements in her construction. “And here I must speak of a very important matter. We should still be unsuccessful did we not avail ourselves of one of nature’s most remarkable characteristics, one which we have not indeed fully appreciated until now. It is her extraordinary tendency to regularity and order. “The effect of a single atom upon X-rays is far too small to detect. The effect is there, as it would not be with v's ! b!e but it is insufficient in quarttity.” tt tt tt Diamond THIS almost unbelievable regularity of nature is one of the astounding facts revealed by Bragg’s researches.

“Nature arranges her atoms in regular order in millions of millions, and the combined effect is big enough to affect our instruments,” Bragg said. “It is just as when the wind turns over all the leaves of the poplar tree at the same moment and the whole tree appears silvery grey, and so we learn what we could not have observed for the behavior of a single leaf. “A more exact analogy is found in certain colorations of nature, in the hue of butterflies, for example, where a regular assemblage of fine scales make for color, though each scale is too minute to be visible. “We see, for example, the atoms of carbon in the diamond and their perfect alignment according to a simple plan which gives every atom four other atoms as neighbors equally and regularly spaked about the first. We begin to understand how the design gives the diamond its unique hardness. “We see the carbon atoms rearranging themselves according to a new plan to make the soft and slippery graphite. “We see the atoms of oxygen, which far exceed all others in number, drawn up in regular order like a pile of shot to ft m the structure of most of the earth, and held together by atoms of silicon, magnesium. aluminum, and so forth. “The beautiful forms of the crystals of snow and ice are observed to be derived from the underlying and particular arrangement of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms. “We began to understand the details of construction of those long chains of certain atoms which are of such tremendous importance in the construction of living organisms.”

ffiw Wef/Thybu < Kttow r )/durßihk? FIVE QUESTIONS A DAT ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. Who was saved by a scarlet thread? 2. Complete the Beatitude, “Blessed are the pure in heart . . 3. Who was Sisera? 4. What is the source of the phrase, “the valley of decision”? 5. Who spoke of an ax laid at the root of a tree? Answers to yesterday’s queries: 1. Jericho; Joshua 6:20. 2. Hiram, king of Tyre; I Kings 5:7-11. 3. The angels’ message to the shepherds of Bethlehem; Luke 2:10. 4. Elisha; II Kings 2:19-22. 5. “Os things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”: Hebrews’ll :L i i

What’s This? Digging His Own Grave?

Coast Cities Cut Diphtheria Rate

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE Journal of the American Medical Association just has made available its .seventh annual report of deaths from diphtheria in the large cities of the United States. Today the diphtheria rate may be considered a measure of the way in which the community is applying the knowledge that science has provided relative to the diagnosis and prevention of this disease. It is a significant fact that seven of the twelve cities in New England with population of more than 100.000 had lower diphtheria rates in 1929 than in 1928, New Haven and Cambridge making particularly good showings. Moreover, rates in Hartford and in Bridgeport were greatly improved over those of the previous year. Campaigns for the protection of

IT SEEMS TO ME

FOR many years I have been trying to develop a technique of ruthlessness. Particularly over the telephone. During the recent “Give a Job” campaign it was necessary to give out my house number to a great number of people. And quite a few remembered it. I am neither aloof nor high hat, but it isn’t possible to get any columns done on afternoons when the bell rings in the middle of every paragraph. I have no conscientious scruples against saying “He’s not in” on afternoons when I am anywhere from two or three hours late with my copy. But I just can’t seem to get away with it. I don’t lie convincingly. When I say “He’s not in” the voice on the other end wants to know, “We ll when will he be in?” Now that’s extremely difficult to answer if you really are in at that very moment. I’m tempted to say, “Two years from now come Thursday,” but people brush such answers away as frivolous. I don’t know why people get so mad when somebody they want to talk to isn’t in. I do go out sometimes. Indeed, I’ve gone away for as much as a couple >f days. Whe t’s so fantastic in saying, “I don’t expect him back till along about 6 o’clock tonight.” “Not till 6 o’clock.” the voice says in astonishment. The man on the other end acts as surprised as if I had said, “He’s gone to spend a week-end in Mars.” a Not Convincing AND that’s not the end of the difficulty. Even after the inquirer has been almost convinced that Broun isn’t there, he’ll suddenly confront me with the agonizing question, “Who is this speaking?” I used to pretend to be a nonexistent servant. “This is the old Scotch gardener,” I’d say, but nobody would believe me. None of the dialects which I assumed were of any use. For a whole week I tried being an Italian immigrant and answering everyth’ng with, “No spika da English.” And still they’d persist with, “But when will he be home?” Finally my resistance got worn down. In one small detail I did achieve a true triumph. When somebody got on the telephone and could not be stood off by any dialect I’d drop the receiver and touch my hands to the floor fifty times as fast as possible. Then I could corne on all breathless and pant, “This is me speaking. I raced r.ght up the stairs the minute the phone rang. So sorry to keep you waiting.” Asa Japanese house boy it seemed to me that I put on a very good act. You might think it would be convincing to say, “Him go velly long journey. Not come back velly long time. This Adachi speaking.” But it never worked. Even the week I pretended to be an English butler things went better than that. Some of ihe fault was my own. Occasionally I used to get mixed up in the impersonation and swing right from the old Scotch gardener to the Japanese valet. Variation of that kind fascinated people. They’d never ring off in such instances, but just sit and listen by the hour. I’m beginning to agree with people who g&tntain that in this ma-

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

children would seem to be especially needed in Lynn, Fall River and Springfield, since these cities have not kept pace with other cities in the New England states. Newark, N. J., is the only city in the middle Atlantic group that had a higher rate for the period 1925-1929 than the period 19201924. The finest improvement was made in Syracuse, Erie, Reading and Buffalo among the middle Atlantic cities. Camden, N. J., has been at or near the bottom of the list for a long time and it is recommended by the Journal that this city particularly request a systematic antidiphtheria campaign. Among the South Atlantic cities, Baltimore made anew low record for 1929, as did also Atlanta. The South Atlantic group has the lowest average diphtheria rate in the country, with the exception of the rate for the mountain and Pacific cities.

HEYWOOD by BROUN

[ terialistic world of ours tnere’s too I much skepticism. a a Perhaps a Kinsman ONE of my relatives informed me a little while back that if I would only take the trouble I could prove my descent from John Heywood, the English playwright of the sixteenth century. I haven’t succeeded yet. In fact, I haven’t taken the trouble because, first of all, I wanted to find out whether it would be a good thing for either of us to be related. Whatever a genealogical research may turn up I am convinced that there is at least a certain spiritual kindship between us. At least, John Heywood seems to have been at heart a columnist for I find that he wrote a book called “The Spider and the in 1556, and this book has no less than seventy-seven chapters. At the beginning of every chapter there is a picture of John Heywood. And this E ywood of the sixteenth century seems to have had no mean opinion of himself for once when he came to court, the queen asked him what brought him there and he replied that he was “Blown by two winds and one was to see your majesty.” “What was the other?” asked the queen. “The other,” said Heywood, “was that your majesty might see me.” And my namesake seems to have had views on prohibition which estab’ish the blood bond between us. It is recorded of him that: “Dining

WATERLOO

ON June 18, 1815, the battle of Waterloo, the decisive engagement which finally ended the power of Napoleon, was fought in Belgium about twelve miles south of Brussels. Just a year before, Napoleon had abdicated as king France and was sent into retirement as ruler of the little Isle of Elba in the Mediterranean. He escaped, however, gathered up an army and determined to become emperor of France once more. He made the best preparation possible, gathering a force of about 200,000 men. Opposed to him were the English, Dutch, Belgian and Hanoverian forces, with those of Brunswick and Nassau, all commanded by the Duke of Wellington, and those of Prussia, Saxony, and other smaller German states under the veteran Blucher. The French, first to strike, made five successive attacks. The allies failed to budge. Then Napoleon knowing that the decisive hour had come, sent forward his Old Guard, whose motto was “The Old Guard dies, but never surrenders.” Napoleon was not at the head of his men, but in their midst when Wellington swept them off the field. Retreating to Paris, Napoleon decided to cast himself on the generosity of the British government. Ultimately, he was sent to St. Helena, a lonely island 500 miles off the coast of Africa, where he died.

The highest rate for any group of cities in the country is that of the east north central cities, of which only one, Cincinnati, has shown a continuous decline since 1890. The rate for Nashville, Tenn., was higher for the last five years than for the previous fifteen years. All cities in the west north central states, including Duluth, Kansas City, Des Moines, St. Paul, Omaha, St. Louis and Minneapolis, had lower rates for 1929 than for 1928, and also lower rates for the last five-year period than for the previous one. The rate for San Francisco is lower than that for Los Angeles or San Diego, and Seattle, which has always had a low mortality rate and good health conditions, had the third lowest rate in the country in 1929 and the lowest average for the last five years of any of the eightyone cities of more than 109,000 population.

Ideals and opinions expressed n this column are those ol jne o' America’s most interesting writers and are pretented without regard to (heir agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ol this oaoer.—The Editor.

one day with a gentleman whose beer was better hopped than malted, the gentleman asked Heywood how he liked his beer. ‘By the faith of my body,’ said he, ‘it is very well hopped, but if it had hopped a little further, it had hopped into the water.’ ” I think I have a right to feel proud of the fact that it was an ancestor of mine who invented the first near beer joke. (Copyright, 1930, for The Times)

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—ln the Thursday issue of an Indianapolis newspaper was an editorial which SpanishAmerican war veterans resent very much. We resent especially the part Where we were classed as charity seekers and they dare not deny it. As one who served in the Philippine insurrection for two years and eight months. I drew a pension of $4,000 as a result of service and malaria and double hernia which I contracted. Besides, I was in the hospital three months, all for the sake of my dear old flag. We also captured the Philippine islands, and then for the twenty-eight or thirty years they’ve gotten the revenue from hemp, rope, rice and other articles made and raised there, which our government had a right. We waded water up to our waists, lay out all night, and still some say this was a breakfast spell. If it was, it was a spell that lasted almost three years, and don’t forget, Mister | Public, that we were the only volunteer army that went out. I must compliment The Times, for

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M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

The Naval Treaty, Like the Tariff Bill, Will Be Good or Bad, Not Because of Its Bearing on the Past, hut Because of Its Effect on the Future. PRESIDENT HOOVER having signed the tariff bill, we have little choice but to take refuge in that illogical optimism which is the God-saving grace of democracy. Things might have been worse, and they may be better, as George F. Babbitt probably would put it. Meanwhile, the proof of the pudding lies in the eating. The fact that this bill may or may not have redeemed a campaign pledge is of no consequence, for it was designed to meet the future, not the past. As debaters, theorists and prophets, we have had our say. It now remains for time to prove who was right and who was w-ong. a a Now the Naval Treaty WITH the tariff bill out of the way. the senate can proceed to consider the naval treaty. Foes of the treaty think the senate should be allowed to go over all the secret correspondence, negotiations, and understandings, beforehand. Maybe they are right, but it sounds like a stall for delay. Even the United States government must respect what it has been told in confidence. Besides, the naval treaty speaks for itself. Like the tariff bill, it is good or bad not because of its bearing on the past, but because of the way it will affect the future. a tt tt Chamberlain Not 'Sold’ SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN is not entirely sold on the naval treaty, as he tells the United Press in an exclusive interview. In his opinion, the idea of parity and proportion plays too big a part in it. ' One government can not be bound by what another is permitted to do, he thinks, without setting the stage for spying, bickering, and the development of general distrust. Such a view is plausible only because it ignores the fact that there was more spying, more bickering, and more distrust under the old free-for-all regime. Treaty or no treaty, each nation builds its battle fleet with an eye to what other nations are doing. a a Delay Might Help POSSIBLY, we are going too fast in an effort to limit arms by agreement. Possibly it would be better to wait until the thought that orderly adjustment can be substituted for the arbitrament of force has taken deeper root. Possibly we are asking too much of a generation which has been trained to diplomatic intrigue and the use of bullets. But when all is said and done, no peace pact, no naval treaty, no commitment to try a different method, leaves us worse off than we were before. a a tt Insull Applies Crusher HAVING been invited to address the world power conference in session at Berlin, Mr. Sackett, our ambassador to Germany, wrote out a nice little speech in which he said some unkind things relative to the consumer cost of electricity as compared to the production cost, and he not only wrote it out, but had his secretary distribute advance copies to the press. Then Samuel Insull came to town and had a conference with the ambassador for some two hoursafter which the advance copies were withdrawn and the speech modified. It is possible, of course, that the ambassador merely was mistaken and that the power magnate merely showed him the error of his ways. But having been president of the gas company and of a lighting company, the chances are that he knew what he was talking about. It is fortunate that Mr. Insull found nothing to quarrel about in the address which Albert Einstein delivered before the same conference, because, if he had, he probably would have found a way to change it. I never saw an article in your paper terming us charity seekers. So hope this artice will waken the public and let them know that the comrades of ’9B and ’99 were real fighters. I must also compliment our comrade, Senator Robinson, who so gallantly is at the wheel piloting our legislation. So, closing with these few words, I am a patriotic Spanish-American war veteran.