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A New Constitution The original purpose of a written Constitution was to prevent governments from doing things to the individual which a majority had determined should no longer be 7 done. Written Constitutions were the results of revolutions against tyrannies and persecutions. That is why the right of free speech, freedom of religious worship, freedom of the press, sacredness of homes from search were emphasized in our national and state documents. Constitutions were never intended to prevent the people from controlling their own government and conducting it as seemed necessary. The present state Constitution, as interpreted by the present supreme court, apparently no longer protects the individual from Lis government, but does prevent the majority from operating their own affairs. The right of free speech is limited, at least so far as criticism of judges and discussion of supreme court decisions are concerned. Dale learned that the truth is no defense against a judex rampant, not an uncommon specimen in the court zoos. Sacredness of homes from illlegal search fades before some of the provisions of the dry ’aws. Many persons have been penalized in the last few years for their religious views and were afforded no protection by courts or officials. To the person so penalized it might have been the act of official government as of the supergovernment which controlled officials. The Constitution has stood as a barrier against the plain will of the people in matters of taxation. The burden has been unequally distributed. The courts, by suggestion if not by direct decision, have made it impossible for the farmer and the worker to obtain necessary legislation. The people will vote this fall on the question of electing delegates to a constitutional convention which would submit anew charter of liberties, one that would function in this day and age. That is a mild step. If the opponents, and they are as powerful as they are few, fear the ability of the people to perform so simple an act of self-government, they should submit the name of guardian or dictator who they beleive is capable of supervising the affairs of the state. There are other hurdles to take before the people really get what they want. They will come in the election of the right men and Vwomen to draft the charter and in the adoption of the new Constitution, if properly written. The need is apparent. The one question is whether you, as a citizen, still believe in selfgovernment. Business Conditions What the country needs—besides a good 5-cent cigar—is golden silence in Washington. These official statements of optimism on business conditions are too expensive. The stock market and commodity prices have fallen so low they can’t stand many more Washington blasts of the all’s-well variety. President Hoover started it with the announcement that he was going to sign the Grundy billiondollar tariff grab, and that everything would be all right with business. Wall Street and the Chicago k grain exchanges responded with a crash. 1 Washington blinked its eyes and decided that the Pfewsiness world apparently had not understood the p&ident. So Secretary of the Treasury Mellon—i usually much respected by the financial leaders— Lwas\chosen to repeat the official all’s-well statement. Iwhepeupon the market slid downward farther. B The administration then issued a third verse of Hie same theme song, this time through Secretary H Commerce Lamont. And the market fell to new Hws for the year. H Clearly these cheerful chirps have got on the Hsrves of the country. Ever since the depression Hkan last fall, the administration, with exasperating angularity, has announced that the worst was over Mind prosperity just around the comer. Now, at the end of seven months, business seems to have decided that less optimism and more action is called for. That really is the healthiest development of the year. If business has made up its mind to stop shadow boxing with "psychological factors” and to face economic realities, demanding concrete readjustment, we will get somewhere. Despite the added tariff burden, this country still has the basic conditions for stabilized prosperity. With the world’s richest raw material assets, the world’s largest domestic market, the world s finest industrial equipment, the world’s greatest credit reservoir and an efficient labor supply, American industry should be able to work its y back to a firmer prosperity. Gunning for the Injunction What would we say if a judge should allow the plaintiff to sit in judgment on the defendant in the courtroom? This is just what our laws allow the judge to do in contempt proceedings. The essence of the judiial process is supposed to be strict impartiality. John Locke held that the reason for anarchy in the state of nature was that there was no impartial third p-rty to administer the law. Everybody too* the law into his own hands and anarchy and violence arose. This ir exactly what happens in contempt cases, i The judge takes the law into his own hands and tyr- | a any anc oppression result. Impartiality evaporates. I The practice is denounced in vigorous fashion by the [ American Civil Liberties Union in a recent pronounceI nwnt: H “The most serious violations of the guaranties of dgrtl liberties during the last ten years have grown out iS increased use of injunctions. A judge can declare

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practically any act illegal, cite for contempt a person violating his order, and then pass sentence, acting as prosecutor, judge and jury. "While the chief abuse of this power of the courts has occurred in labor disputes, it has been used to jail editors criticising court orders and decisions. In the enforcement of prohibition, too, these summary processes are invoked in place of the ordinary criminal prosecutions with trial by jury.” As our political system is becoming ever more a government of laws rather than of men, this practice means real tyranny. It is no mere gesture of rhetoric. Many a judge has made the injunction an instrument of oppression as irresponsible as ever disgraced a Bourbon or a Hapsburg. The arbitrary nature of the injunction in labor cases has been spread before us recently in Professor Felix Frankfurter’s able book. It is, therefore, with real satisfaction that we receive the news that the American Civil Liberties Union is launching a systematic campaign to organize national opinion against the glaring abuses of the injunction in the courts today. A group of distinguished lawyers and economists has been marshaled to take charge of the work. We may wish them well. It is no exaggeration to say that victory in their campaign would be as great a gam for human liberty as came out of the struggle against arbitrary royal power in the revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Charles I of England had nothing on some of our American judges of the year 1930. Making War a Sin The liberal clergy are gunning for Mars. The Rev. Peter Ainslee recently declared that since the Kellogg pact has outlawed war, there Is no more excuse for a clergyman in the army or the navy than there is for one in a speakeasy which is dispensing illicit hooch. Now the Rev. Dr. Joseph Newton Fort, in a sermon at City Temple, London, proposes to make war a sin and to excommunicate this scourge of humanity. He believes that religion is the only force capable of ridding mankind of the foolish and deadly idea of war as a method of settling human difficulties. He says: "Only religion, in its profound and prophetic power, can reach that hidden root of war in the strange heart of man . . . "What can the churches do? Since men of state have declared war to be a crime in the public law of the world, it surely is time for the church to muster its clearest thinking and finest moral insight and declare war to be a sin in religion—the supreme social sin of mankind! . . . "In the war against war, there must be no armistice, no truce, no honorable discharge of a single soldier. It is a fight, a fight to the finish, in which every force of faith and fellowship, every art of publicity and persuasion, must be used. "The whole faith of the whole church will be needed, its prayers, its powers, and its passion. War not only can be outlawed; it can be abolished. It can be done. But God will not do it for us, unless we work with Him, obeying His sovereign law of love.” These are noble sentiments. No doubt the church can do much to organize public opinion against war. The fi£[ht on war must be a battle of sentiment as much as of facts. Such talk as this will do much to offset the ferocity of the embattled parsons during the World war. It will be better, however if the church, like the state, shall regard war as e crime and not as a sin. It should be attacked as a social nd intellectual felony, not as a supernatural offense. The conception of sin is out of date. Sin is a technical and precise term of the old theology. It implies a violation of the explicitly revealed will of God. The religious liberals who are attacking war deny the existence or validity of the God of the Bible. The cosmic God whom they worship has not made His will at all explicit on any point. If we can not know the will of God, we can not very well know what constitutes a sin. We can judge acts only by their reaction on mankind here and now. If one were to revert to the Bible to find the will of God on war, he would have to confess with Mr, Page and Dr. Benedict that Yahweh came out strongly on the side of Mars Let the churchmen join with the statesmen in attacking war, head on, but let them keep the problems down to earth by holding war to be a crime against modern knowledge and experience. This is enough to inspire any sensible man to take up the cudgel.

REASON

DIXIE'S conception of law enforcement is far from being color blind. A Negro in Atlanta just has been given twenty years on the chain gang for stealing a ham, but a few weeks ago in Texas an ex-judge of the supreme court was given three years for the murder of his sweetheart. a M a Admiral Takarabe, Japanese minister of marine and one of the delegates to the London conference, just has formally notified Amaterasu, the sun goddess of Japan, of the results of said coference. Amaterasu was so overcome with joy over Japan’s increased naval power she was unable to reply. B. E. SUNNY of the Bell Telephone Company told . the graduates of Armour institute that it’s better for them to have an exaggerated ego than an inferiority complex, but we should say the normal youth will select a position way between the extremes. ana To succeed at anything one must have a large dynamo of self-confidence, but he should keep it covered up. or the public will shun him as if he had the smallpox. An ego without a sense of humor is a calamity, but with it one is all set for the race of life. a a a We recall a certain distinguished statesman who possessed an insufferable ego, one that caused even his admirers to yearn for a club, and he could no more help it than he could help breathing. But for that obnoxious trait he would have been President. a a a LINCOLN was a fine example of the blending of ego and humor, for in spite of obstacles which would have crushed most men. he labored unceasingly until he reached the place where he knew his power, yet his unfailing humor enabled him not only to avoid the charge of being an egotist; it actually gained for him a reputation for humility. a a a After Lee’s surrender when he was the biggest man alive, Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln rode out to the soldiers’ home one day at Washington and some passing soldiers paid no attention to them, whereupon Lincoln turned to his wife and said: ’’Mary, those fellows evidently smell little royalty about this outfit.” Now that Rumania’s king is back on his throne his mother, Queen Marie, may pay us that promised return visit, in which event those fellows who bought dress suits, but didn’t get to receive her because she canceled her dates, may get a chance to wear them.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Big Business Raids on Research Staffs of Universities Are Menace to Education. A SCHEME by which industrial organizations and educational institutions would share the services of the best research experts, is suggested by Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of “Industrial and Engineering Chemistry,” one of the official publications of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Howe feels that the plan is needed to safeguard technical education and stop the raids which business—owing to its ability to pay big money—is making continuously these days on the research staffs of educational institutions. So great is the demand for experts that big industrial institutions are bidding against one another for the services of the brightest members of this year’s graduating classes from the nation’s technical schools. There is a particular demand for the highly trained specialist with a Ph. D. degree, according to Howe. “There is no diminution in the well-defined demand for thoroughly trained personnel,” Dr. Howe says. "In one institution, for example, there are but twenty men available this year, whereas seventy requests for recent doctors have been received. "A large class graduating with the bachelor’s degree in engineering in another institution has more than 200 offers distributed among 170 individuals. Even the directors of research in educational institutions have difficulty in finding qualified graduate assistants.” u u Bidding THE present demand, according to Dr. Howe, leads to competitive bidding. "This,” he adds, "we do not believe is best for all concerned.” It might be said, however, that the young graduate, finding himself with two or three fairly good jobs from which to choose instead of being faced with the prospect of hunting a job, probably refuses to take a very pessimistic view of the situation. Dr. Howe is most concerned, however, over the raids on college faculties. "It leads to taking from educational institutions the men upon whom we should depend for those yet to be trained,” he says. "If this keeps up, how are satisfactorily trained personnel to be supplied in sufficient numbers? "The stock breeder specializing in thoroughbred animals soon would be forced out of his field if he continually distributed his best breeding stock. Industry ultimately will suffer if it does not take steps to retain, in our universities and colleges, the men capable of .'developing under their guidance the personnel wanted for various industrial occupations. “In this the universities can assist by making it possible for certain men to accept retainers from industry. This will tend to give them maximum academic freedom, close contact with industrial problems and a total income sufficient to make out and out industrial offers unattractive.” tt tt tt Funds DR. HOWE also urges that industrial leaders give heed to the importance of furnishing funds to encourage research in the universities. "The fellowship plan for graduate students has produced good results,” he says. Under this plan an industry sets up a fund under which graduate students of ability are given fellowships which enable them to continue their research. “Far too few industries appreciate how, with a relatively small outlay, they thus can promote good will for themselves, can aid in the advancement of knowledge, and can take steps to insure at least an increasing number of well-trained men,” he says. "Then there is the choice between employing men who have taken their advanced degree and those who have completed only the requirements for the bachelor’s degree. "Some organizations prefer to employ bachelors and, after having as J certained what they can do to best advantage, make it possible for them to return to school, paying them their full salary and tuition under an agreement to return to the works after two years at the college or university. “Some firms, fortunately located in university communities, have developed other plans of part time for further training while employed, and make this advantage available only to those who definitely have proved themselves worthy.” lAVfife THE—PENN’S TREATY June 23

ON June 23, 1863, William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, who came to this country from England to “found a free and virtuous state, in which the people should rule themselves,” signed a treaty with the Indians at Shakamaxon which insured a lasting friendship with them. Penn, an ardent Quaker, had obtained from the king an extensive tract of land in America in lieu of a claim of 16,000 pounds against the government which he had inherited from his father. This territory, which, in the royal patent, was called Pennsylvania, Penn resolved to make a home for his co-religionists. Soon after arriving in America Penn took possession of the territory and laid out a site for anew capital, which he named Philadelphia. A short time later he made his treaty with the Indians, a move which spared the Quaker settlers the horrors of Indian warfare which befell some of the other American settlements. Not only Quakers, but persecuted members of other religious sects, soon sought refuge in Penn’s new colony, where from the first, the principle of toleration was established by law. The settlement made such progress that when Penn returned to England in 1864, he left behind him a prosperous colony of 7,000 inhabitants.

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Undulant Fever Germs Found in Milk

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT has been known for years that the organisms of undulant fever appear in milk. The fact has been demonstrated by investigators in various ways. Formerly the disease did not concern greatly inhabitants of our own country, since its distribution was largely foreign and since but very few cases were seen in this country. More recently, cases have been found in practically all states in which there is a dairy or a packing industry, and it is known that the germs which infect man come from many different sources. For the last twenty-five years particularly attempts have been

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE rules of politics as played in America are disconcerting to the layman. It puzzles me to know just what it means when Mr. Morrow gets himself nominated as a wet in a Republican primary and immediately is assured cf hearty support by President Hoover, devoted disciple of the drys. One gets to feeling that even the fiercest of political fights may be nothing more than sham battles. But there is no disposition here to place any part of the sham at the door of Dwight W. Morrow. His conduct throughout the campaign was admirable. He took a bold and frank stand on prohibition when it would have been easy for him to pussyfoot. Indeed, his example should be called to the attention of Franklin Roosevelt. Governor Roosevelt already has forfeited any good claim which he may have had for the next Democratic presidential nomination. I would not deny any dry the right to run upon a platform of strict enforcement. Too much of our voting must be done in the dark. a tt it Dirty Politics PROHIBITION has done a great deal to muddy the waters. Very often the major parties have striven earnestly to conceal their position so that they might catch support from both sides. And that seems to me dirty politics. The candidate who tries to get by without a fair and free declaration on any important issue is corrupting the entire process of democratic government. It has been said in defense of Governor Roosevelt that he merely is withholding his fire. His sup-

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l note William Allen White’s article in a recent issue of your paper. He suggested strangulation for the new tariff bill. Why not strangle the system that makes such bills possible? I am not advocating free trade, neither do I want a protective tariff. I would advocate all imports be subject to the difference in their production, not only on the basis of wage, but rather on the basis of time consumed in production of the article, as it is a well-known fact the Americans produce more goods to the hour than any other nation on the globe. Our consumers, especially our laboring classes, should vote for their own interest, the same as our financiers and large corporations do, thereby becoming a solidarity, both economically and politically, and apply the acid test to all 'spirants for offices, from the President down to our county and city offices. Under the old Knights of Labor there was practically but one labor. When Samuel Gompers came to the head of labor affairs, craft unionism began until today our labor organisations are divided and subdivided, thereby destroying all semblace of solidarity, both politically and economically. Will the laboring classes ever become conscious of the fact that under the present accomplish nature? iff Cas J

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made to secure for the people of this country a safe milk supply. Milk is one of the most important of foods. It supplies good amounts of mineral salts and several of the vitamins. It is the food upon which infants, children and invalids depend largely. Milk can be made safe for human consumption by pasteurization, and in most large cities there are laws regulating the sale of milk which insure adequate pasteurization before distribution. In pasteurization the milk is heated for a sufficient length of time to destroy germ life. Some people prefer raw milk, claiming that it provides qualities not present in the heated milk. To protect this type of milk, certified milk commissions have been established which carefully investi-

porters assert this is sound political strategy. I am impatient of politics in which elections are regarded as species of chess with no move being made unless consideration has been given to the precise tactics of the adversary. Why can’t a man run for office upon a full and frank declaration of what he himself believes, without waiting any word from the camp of the enemy? tt u tt It Is Too Late MR. ROOSEVELT has lost a fine opportunity. No matter which side he picks, it is too late for him to strike with full effectiveness. If prohibition is to be a major issue in the state campaign, all those who think that repeal is a duty and necessity should, by every process of logic, support the candidacy of James Wadsworth. Mr. Wadsworth defied the AntiSaloon League when that body was firmly fixed in the saddle and carrying the fight to every candidate. ■Wadsworth accepted defeat and the interruption of a promising political career because he was unwilling to promise allegiance to a cause in which he did not believe. The state and the nation owes Wadsworth a reward for his gallantry. He believes in many things which are not to my liking. In most respects he is too conservative, and yet if the Republicans nominate him for anything I shall be gravely tempted to sneak him a vote. Hint* of Heresy ISAY sneak because I belong to the third party. I have felt the dim stirring of political ambition.

selves only as units and not as a whole? The concession we gain today we have to fight for again tomorrow. Think it over, Mr. Laboring Man, and act accordingly. B. F. MORLEDGE, Columbus, Ind. Editor Times—l am just wondering why in this land of plenty our people are hungry? Why our women and children go to bed supperless? Now I served in the World war and was a volunteer. I went because I wanted to. No woman’s apron strings held me. I do not know the reason our country is in the mess that we now are in and would like to ask through your columns why there’s unemployment and folk hungry when there’s plenty c* foodstuffs to be had, only we haven’t the money to buy it with. If your officers find a man asleep in some out-of-the-way place, they charge him with being a “vag.” What can he do? No work, no money. You know if they find a pig, horse, cow or some other beast uncared for they’ll put them in a pen and feed them, but put a human being in the same place and who will look after him? Just wondering, and so are my "buddies,” but I guess there’s no use wondering. E. S. M. DAILY THOUGHT Woe tc the crown of

gate the product as to the number and character of germs thatit may contain. Unfortunately, it has been found that certification of milk is not an adequate protection against the possibility of undulant fever. In a recent study by D. E. Hasley, certified milk produced by five dairies was examined in Detroit and studied by the usual bacteriologic methods. Out of 230 samples coming from five dairies, ten, or 4.3 per cent, contained living germs of undulant fever, and therefore carried with them the possibility of infection with this disease, provided the milk was taken without boiling or other modification. In some sample as many as eight germs for each cubic centimeter of milk were found to be present.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

HEYWOOD BROUN

Next year I’m going to try and get nominated for alderman by the Socialists. Possibly they will refuse to have me after this confession of admiration for a standpat Republican. However, even if I never get to be a candidate, I must speak my mind. It will be a pity if I do run. I may seem less than qualified, but at least I have the figure for office. Nobody can accuse me of waiting till the last minute and pulling a Roosevelt. With my nomination more than a year off, and, also, in grave doubt, I say that when and if I run it will not be simply as a wet. I plan to be a wettest. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times) WelfVoybu B < Know)/ourßible? i FIVE QUESTIONS A DAV K ON FAMILIAR PASSAOES & 1. What does Ichabod mean? 2. Whom did Abraham take with him to Canaan besides his immediate family? 3. Finish the proverb: “Keep thy heart with all diligence ...” 4. Who was the third son of Adam and Eve? 5. By what was Jonah swallowed up? Answers to Saturday’s Queries 1. Because he was then “a son of the law” and expected to attend the feasts n person; Luke 2:41, 42. 2. That he “hateth his own son”; Proverbs 13:24. 3. By lot; I Samuel 10:19-21. 4. In the land of Uz, south of Damascus; Job 1:1. 5. Moses, referring to the manna; Deu eronomy 8:3. '

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

No One tyd President Hoover Can Clear Up the Mess in Which the Tariff Bill Has Put the United States. THOUGH the Smoot-Hawley bill has been passed by congress and signed by President Hoover, the storm it raised continued unabated. Mexican farmers, truck growers and cattlemen are advised not to depend on the United States for a market. The French ministry of commerce is preparing to ask for a downward revision of certain rates and to recommend retaliatory measures in case the American government fails to comply. The bill promises to become a paramount issue in the forthcoming Canadian elections, and no one familiar with the situation can doubt the outcome. a b a No Better at Home THE effect of the Smoot-Hawley bill at home has been little less encouraging than abroad. The stock market continues shaky, there is as great an amount of unemployment as there was, if not more, and though business conditions may be regarded as generally sound, the outlook can not be described as thrilling. Under such circumstances, what do cabinet members think they can accomplish by making optimistic predictions? Secretary Mellon says we have nothing to fear, but what else could he say, if he said anything? Secretary Lamont says our foreign trade is in no danger of being wrecked, and what else could he say? Cabinet members are not expected to be original, must less out of accord with the boss. tt tt tt Up to Hoover NO one but President Hoover can do much to clear up the mess we sere in, and he can do it only by taking full advantage of his power under the “flexible clause.’' That clause gives him authority to reorganize the tariff commission within ninety days and to order such revision of specific rates, within certain prescribed limits, as the commission may recommend. But the first thing is to get the right kind of commission—a commission that is not restricted by partisan prejudice on the one hand, and that is not committed to play the part cut out for it by special privilege on the other. tt tt tt Commission Can Help AFTER the commission has been appointed, confirmed and sworn in it must go through the motion of making an investigation, for form’s sake at least, but that need not take very long. With all the hearings held by congress, not to mention the fifteen months of almost continuous debate, and with all that foreign governments have done, or even can be depended on to do, along the same line, the commission ought to be able to decide a ft w of the major points without too much delay. A few major points would be more than enough to calm the troubles. What worries those concerned is not whether the right thing can be done, but whether it will be done. B tt B People Are Anxious THERE still is considerable doubt, both here and abroad, as to whether President Hoover intends to make a material revision in tariff rates, or whether he is committed to the idea that a bad bill is better than no bill at all, and that continual change is worse than letting unfair rates alone. This makes the character of the commission he selects and the first moves made by that commission of paramount importance. Not only the people of this country, but the people everywhere, are watching anxiously for the first sign, and a lot depends on what they see, or think they see. What does remote control in radio broadcasting mean? The radio division of the department of commerce says that the term “remote control” is used at a broadcasting station where the broadcasting transmitter is in one location and the operator by means of electric switches operates from another location, or in other words where the actual broadcasting apparatus is installed in one building while the studio and microphone are in another. What is implied by the term, jumping a claim? It means to get possession of a parcel of land or mining claim surreptitiously during the owner’s absence, or by force; to usurp any property, as a mine, to which another has a prior claim.