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A Life Job For the rest of his life Oscar Luhring of Indiana will act as a judge of the lower courts at Washington, D. C. For those who believe that judicial positions should be awarded for political services, the news will be a cause of jubilation. Those who are concerned over the apparently growing distrust of courts will be more concerned. For many years this Indianan has held a job in the criminal division of the attorneygeneral’s office and it may be remarked that never during that time was there any great fear on the part of politicians concerning federal interference with political crimes. On his last visit to this state in an official capacity, the new judge went to South Bend to assist in investigating election frauds. It had been charged, and indeed confessed, that truck loads of voters had been imported from Illinois to sway the result of the 1928 election. Luhring came. Nothing happened, except the prosecution of a few bootleggers who had apparently been immune from interference for a number of years. His elevation to the bench should be of importance to young men entering politics. It may show them how to get along in this world. And then again it may inspire a few ardent souls with the thought that it is time to change the old order and reward those who render service to the public rather than the bosses. The Movement Grows An idea, if it be right, can not be killed by labels, smothered by ridicule nor forever thwarted by the greed of the selfish. Not so many years ago an Indiana man, Frank E. Hering of South Bend, proposed to his brethren in the Fraternal Order of Eagles that they devote their political energies and thoughts to the advancement of principles and means of alleviating unnecessary human suffering. He called attention to the fact that in the industrialization of the nation there would be victims, that men would grow old without the opportunity to save against the day when they could no longer hold a job, that the poorhouses of the day of Queen Elizabeth were heartless in a day that had forgotten every principle and discarded every custom of that era , except the almshouse and its keeper. The smug conservative tried to dismiss the idea with the label of ‘‘Socialism:’ The politicians who have looked upon almshouses as one of the perquisites of patronage, warned that the experiment would be costly to taxpayers. The forces of greedy wealth waved it away from their horizon as another nightmare to haunt the comfortable. Somehow or other, wherever these Eagles carried their message, the labels, the warnings and the indifference failed to check the spread of the idea that poorhouses for those whose only crime is that they have lived beyond their years of mass-production usefulness are bitter places and a poor return for those ' .who have given their lives to labor. In a current number of Collier’s a review is made Os the progress of this idea, now written into the laws of twelve states of the Union. The fears of the taxpayer are found to be baseless, and, for their gratification it is demonstrated that the cost of pensions is much less than the cost of the almshouse. The fears of those who dread the word “Socialism" are banished by experience which shows no increase in thriftlessness and idleness. The predicted i waiting of men to grow old and become idle at state are found to be chimerical. ■ More and more in these days of industrial and ecogiomic upheaval the people will be thinking of in Berms of social readjustment. Vast unemployment a\. the present time suggests that permanent remedies many problems must be approached, no matter distasteful may be the tax. The Old Age Pension, , no a reality, is followed most logically by the new k demand of Mr. Hering that it is the “right of every ■American adult to be continuously employed at a paving wage." It will probably be found that when this principle ft put into practice, it will be as great an advance as R\e old age pension is over the almshouse, ft Yin this state where the idea had its birth, the old lge\pension has been successfully resisted by the of reaction. Legislative bills have been killed. \hvestigations have been sidetracked and results %nored. It is important to note that at last one political party, the Democratic, this year finds it expedient to indorse the idea and the principle. It would be humiliating were the state first advanced the thought were the last to adopt it. Humankind loses its shackles all too slowly. Ratify the Treaty The large majority of the senate foreign relations Mimmitttee voting for the favorable report on the Bmdon naval treaty was expected. It is representative B the senate. Probably the real opponents number Bver than fifteen in the entire senate. [■Those opponents have a right to their say on the BBfcte floor, just as they were given full freedom to develop their point of view in committee. But that does not mean they should be allowed to succeed in a kill-the-treaty-by-delay policy, which some opponents have contemplated. Certainly the treaty is far from perfect This newspaper believes that it is not as good as the one which might have been achieved if the American delegation and the administration had supported at the conference the reduction pledges repeatedly given by Hoover before the conference. Nevertheless, such discussion of the treaty at this late date is purely academic. We have the treaty. Such being the case, the only sensible thing to do is to ratify it promptly and without quibble. For the evil effects of failing to ratify would be a great deal worse than the treaty itself. If the treaty is ratified and if the administration uses it to advance nawA reduction—instead of an excuse to spend at ooc Jvward of a billion dollars in increased tonnage, w f*iaval experts have declared griSr do not forwaAst .-p ia\ Wnati%al peace. ■ * ' • ifR, •; r-KRH 1 -;;/;'
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Power Propaganda The electric power people, whose publicity and secret propaganda methods were exposed recently as a national scandal, are trying to squirm out of the unsought publicity given their excessive rates by Ambassador Sackett in Berlin. In trying to censor Sackett’s address to the world power conference, Sam Insull, the American power and political magnate, advertised the ambassador’s charge that the power industry is selling its product to consumers at fifteen times the cost price. Spokesmen of the industry are trying to start a back-fire of denial. They complain that Sackett’s comparison is grossly unfair, because It does not take into consideration their heavy distribution costs. That is the lament of George N. Tidd, president of the American Gas and Electric Company, addressing the Berlin meeting of James F. Owens, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, speaking at the National Electric Light Association convention, and of General Electric officials, to which Judson King of the National Popular Government League replies: “If- Ambassador Sackett is wrong In his charge that electric rates are excessive in the United States, will you explain why Ontario Hydro (government operated) can sell current successfully to householders In Windsor, Canada, opposite Detroit, 250 miles from Niagara Falls, at 2 cents a kilowatt hour, while the power trust has been charging 5 cents to the householders of Niagara Falls, N. Y„ 250 feet from the generating station on the same river? "Also why American city domestic consumers average five times, merchants average three times and manufacturers twice as much as Ontario consumers pay for the same service?’* It locks like the less the electricity power industry says about its rates the better.
Frankness Rewarded Many reasons have been advanced for the amazing majority rolled up in New Jersey by Dwight W. Moirow in his race for United States senator. Among them: Mr. Morrow’s success as a diplomat; his success as a business man; his education; his personal charm; even that he is father-in-law of Lindbergh. Let’s not overlook this: In his sane, easy-to-under-stand language about the prohibition law, he upset the form adopted by the Republican party since the Eighteenth amendment and the great controversy started. He was frank. He stated what he believed on a basis of the evidence as he saw it. He did not equivocate. He did not bury his head in the sand, as his party did, in the Kansas City convention of 1928. He did not mouth pretty phrases about law enforcement and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He accepted a situation and gave his opinion of it. Nothing has characterized prohibition more than hypocrisy, guff, blah and blurb. More than any other issue in our time, it has caused candidates for public office to abandon their self-respect and their intellectual independence. So when Dwight Morrow simply came out and, irrespective of political consequences, spoke what he had in mind, inviting the public to take him or leave him, the voters were swept with enthusiasm. It was the enthusiasm that goes along as a tribute to plain honesty of expression, a rare thing in politics; a tribute to a man who dared to call his soul his own. That phase as much as any contributed to the overwhelming Morrow victory. A biography of Dwight Morrow has already been published. Probably a serial story—with the next chapter to follow after the election. What prompted National League officials to take action on the lively ball was probably their belief it wasn’t as good as its seams. But the fact they decided to let it alone should make a hit. Chances are that the cop who arrested the New York newsy the other day for crying, “Panic on Wall Street,” during the market depression was a stanch Republican. A complaint has been made that radio speakers are too loud in Washington. Just as soon as the Fresident gets in his “appointing” mood he’ll put them In commission.
REASON
CHICAGO thinks she has made a start in overcoming organized crime by forcing the resignations of two police heads, but she will have to plow much deeper than this; she will have to cut the tie which binds crime and politics. * # * Then she will have to devise a way to place the guilty on trial without delay; she will have to supply witnesses with sufficient courage to find outlaws guilty. In words. Father Dearborn must recover the goat which crime took from him many moons ago. * * * THESE two police heads may have deserved censure, but the public’s first reaction to lawlessness is an unjust denunciation of the ordinary policeman, the officer who tallies his life in his hands every time he enters a nest of outlaws to make an arrest. tt * a If all the bad customers who are arrested were prosecuted there would be little trouble, but then is when the monkey business begins. Then the profession*! bondsmen get busy and get the guilty out; then the criminal lawyers get busy to weave their wets of perjury and bribery to defeat justice. # * * If Chicago could trade her mayor, William Hale Thompson, for a leader such as Charles G. Dawes, it would do more to restore public morale than anything else. A fearless leader would work magic in the present condition of cowardice and corruption. THIS present movement is not alone a protest against the killing of Lingle, the newspaper reporter; it is also a realization that unless Chicago can convince the world that she is a safe city her coming world’s fair will pay the penalty in reduced attendance. n tt A visitor to that exposition would be as safe as if he were back home, sitting on the front porch, but the world thinks otherwise. , The wide publicity given the gang wars makes the outsider think there is ceaseless bombardment on Michigan avenue. M tt * You can go to Chicago a thousand times and if you stay out of the hell holes you never will know there is a revolver in town, unless you read the papers, but it is impossible to back world,into a ! comer and make it believait. t
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Volcanoes 'Are Not Mountains; They Are Merely Fissures or Cracks in the Ground Through Which Lava May Issue. DEEP rumblings and showers of incandescent cinders from the crater of Mt. Vesuvius indicate that the volcano may be active this summer, according to Professor Alessandro Malladra, director of the Vesuvian Observatory. The eyes of the world will be focused on Vesuvius, for volcanoes have held the attention of mankind since the beginnings of civilization. Men have been attracted by the beauty and grandeur of volcanoes, they have worshiped them as gods or the homes of gods, and despite the terrific damage which volcanoes do on occasion, they have built farms and cities upon their slopes. The name volcano seems to have been applied first to Mt. Etna and some of the Lipari islands which are volcanic. The name comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. The fiery nature of volcanic outbursts led, at an early date, to the supposition that the earth’s interior housed a fiery Hades. Later, it gave rise to the belief that the entire interior of the earth was a great mass of molten rock and that the volcanoes were flues which tapped this liquid center. Today, geologists are certain that this is not the case. They feel certain that the earth has a solid interior more rigid than steel and that volcanic phenomena have their origin at a comparatively small depth in the earth’s crust.
Cone ' ‘ ~ A VOLCANO is popularly thought of as a mountain. But this is not correct. A volcano is merely a fissure or crack in the ground through which molten lava may issue from a lower depth. The mountain-like structure of a volcano, or cone, as it technically is i called, is the result of past erupj tions. It is formed of lava which has flowed from the fissure and later solidified. In some cases the cone also is composed to a large extent of material hurled out of the volcano in the solid state. For in addition to lava, dust, ash and even large chunks of rock are frequent products of volcanic eruptions. At some period in the earth’s history, volcanic action must have been much greater than any now known, for many volcanoes have gigantic cones. In many instances, the cones are more than 10,000 feet high. Many islands really are volcanoes, either active or extinct. These islands are simply gigantic volcanic cones, grown up from the floor of the ocean until they finally protruded above the surface of the water. In most cases, the cone ends in a circular depression known as the crater. This hollow is kept open by the explosive force of the vapors rising in the volcano. When the volcano becomes quiescent, however, th£ crater may be filled with solidified lava, chunks of rock crumbling from the walls and the like. This material, of course, is likely to be blown out If the volcano becomes active again. n * Pocket THE molten condition of the lava issuing from the interior of a volcano is proof enough that the interior of the earth is at a higher temperature ' than the surface. There is, of course, other evidence for this belief. The temperaature in mines, for example, rises with the depth. Many geologists think that the center of the earth is so hot that it would liquify were it not for the immense weight of the layers of rock pressing down upon it. It is thought that volcanoes start with the formation of pockets within the crust of the earth. These pockets are thought to be formed by buckling of the earth’s crust. Such buckling would produce an arch, lifting the pressure off material immediately under the arch. This material, because of its high temperature, then would liquify. If further movement or buckling of the earth’s crust develops a fissure or crack, the result is a volcano. Many volcanoes are near the sea and frequently eruptions consist in large part of steam. This has led to the belief that explosive eruptions, as contrasted with the type in which the lava merely flows gently out of the crater, are the result of sea water seeping through cracks in the rocks into the lava pockets. This would result in a mixture of molten lava and steam. An explosion would occur when the steam pressure became high enough.
WowJVeI/J)oybu ( ]Cridw‘Ydurßible? i FIVE QUESTIONS A DAtrl ON FAMILIAR PASSAOES
1. What is the command of "the second mile”? 2. Finish Paul’s sentence: “Where sin abounded . . 3. Where in the Bible did a rod swallow other rods? 4. In the .Sermon on the Mount to what two things did Jesus compare his followers? 5. Finish the sentence: “God is a spirit; and they that worship Him . . Answer to yesterday’s queries: 1. “The glory is departed”; I Samuel 4:21-22. 2. His nephew, Lot; Genesis 12:4. 3. “For out of it are the issues of life”; Proverbs 4:23. 4. Seth; Genesis 4:25. 5. By “a great fish”; Jonah 1:17.
Daily Thought
y A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. —Proverbs 27:12. Prudence is a quality Incompatible with vice, and never effectively can be enlisted in its cause.—Burke.
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Mental Upset May Affect Appetite
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. FAILURE of the appetite is a serious symptom, because it carries the possibility of malnutrition and lowered resistance to disease. It usually is closely associated with nervous disturbances as well as with physical disturbances. Indeed, there is one form of failure of appetite which is likely to arise in young girls who are hysterical. Cases of this type have been grouped by physicians under the name anorexia nervosa, a form occurring almost exclusively in young girls. A British physician, Dr. J. F.
Eagles’ Pension Drive Lauded
BY CHARLES C. STONE, Pnblic Relations Counsel, Eagles’ Indiana Age Pension Commission Full recognition of the leadership of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in championing old age pensions and of a brilliant Indiana man, Frank E. Hering of South Bend, who heads the order’s national pension commission, is accorded in Collier’s, the national weekly, in the issue bearing date of June 28. “Pull Down the Poorhouse,” is the title of an article by William G. Shepherd, tracing the old age pension movement in this country from a date before the World war to the present. An editor’s note with the article reads: “We’re the richest nation in the world, and yet, almost alone among the nations, we still herd our unfortunate old people into poorhouses. That can’t go on; age has rights of its own—to independence and decent comfort and to a home.” Shepherd has woven humor and pathos into his article. Here is a smile-provoking statement for Hoosiers, who recall that in the 1929 Indiana legislature the Eagles old age pension bill was branded socialistic; Adopt Pension Laws “What’s the use of being one of those radicals, always yelling for something new and better? Try to be one and see what a discouraging path you follow. I can take any Communist, Socialist, Bolshevist or radical over to the busy town of South Bend, Ind., and show him a simple collection of eleven ordinary everyday pens—just wooden holders with steel points—that will draw a groan out of him. “For these pens, by merely scratching away for a second or two, each in the hand of 'to Republican or Democratic Governor of some state, have taken the old age pension idea away from the radicals.” This refers to the pens in the collection of Frank E. Hering. Since the article was written, an old age pension law has been adopted in Massachusetts, surely the last place where anything even remotely resembling radicalism would have the ghost of a show. In addition to Massachusetts, New York adopted a pension law this year. It bears the signature of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, and was passed by a Republican legislature. Almshouse Idea Is Old Shepherd mentioned to Governor Roosevelt that the red tag had been placed on old age pensions. "But it isn’t socialistic,” the Governor said. “Poorhouses aren’t socialistic. The almshouse idea is 300 years old. It began in Queen Elizabeth’s time in England. It’s time we put the ancient heartless but expensive almshouse out of business. City hospitals that give free care to the ill and aged are not socialistic.” Shepherd recalls that after signing the bill, Governor Roosevelt was so impressed by the measure’s sponsor, the Eagles order, that he asked to become a member. Shortly afterward he was initiated by the Buffalo (N. Y.) aerie. Magistrate Fred Hughes of New York City became the Eagles pension leader Li that state as a result of a poorhovise incident which he witnessed. While Hughes was Westchester county attorney, he was at the poorhouse one day when an old couple arrived after the trip “Over the Hill.” “As fine old people as you ever saw,” Hughes told Shepherd. “They were asked a lot of questions,” whiles’ clerk wrote# . \ was pitiful
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Venables, has recently collected a series of nine such cases occurring in his practice. At the basis of this condition there usually is some mental factor of great importance. In one instance, a boy developed this form or lack of appetite due to the fact that he had read that sexual stimulation was much less likely if less food were taken. There were other instances in which the condition arose from physical factors, but invariably there was some mental condition which started the patient on his way. Even though the original condition disappeared, the loss of appetite continued. In this form of disturbance there was absolute aversion to food, the
other as they went through the grilling. “You come with me, please,” said a young clerk to the old man. “We’ll go over to the men’s side.” “And you’ll go over to the women’s side,” the little old woman was told. That old couple hadn’t been apart one night in more than fifty years, but that night they slept in rooms in opposite ends of the building. They had lost their right to be with each other. Hughes investigated the case. He learned the couple had reared three sons. Two died. One day the remaining son, the youngest, came back to the old home, ill of tuberculosis. His parents spent their savings to help him. They mortgaged the farm. Finally even the furniture became the security for a loan. The son died. The mortgages were foreclosed. Only the poorhouse was left for the old couple. “One night at bedtime,” Hughes continued, “the brave old fellow, sitting in a chair, just dropped his chin on his chest and died right there. They took the news over to mother. “‘Yes,’” she said quietly. "T sensed he couldn’t endure it. I been waiting for him to go.’ ” “Next morning the attendants saw her go to her rocking chair in the sun, where she used to sit with father. She died right there in that chair that morning.” Describing the Eagles, Shepherd writes that they are “lively, eager individuals wherever you find them. Other fraternity men frequently comment on this fact. Many of the Eagles are engaged most robustly in lively enterprises, like local politics. Wherefore the Eagles found among their own membership, politicians of considerable power locally, who could put up a fight for old age pensions in the right place. “They have laid special assess-
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THE CABOT’S DISCOVERY June 24
ON June 24, 1497, John Cabot, an Italian sea captain living at Bristol, England, and his son Sebastian, discovered North America when they arrived at a point believed to be Cape Breton. The Cabots were financed by Henry VII of England, who, greatly aroused by the discovery of Columbus in 1492, hoped an Englishman would find the land which ultimately would make London a “greater place for spices than Alexandria.” All that was accomplished on this voyage, however, was the hoisting of the British flag on the new continent. For this achievement the Cabots were rewarded ten pounds. The following year the Cabots sailed westward again and went farther north in the hope of discovering a short passage to the Indies. The reports made of the vast quantities of codfish seen in the vicinity of Newfoundland opened the way to the establishment by the English and French of the largest fisheries of the world. But since there seemed to be little profit voyages they were England claimed all of Nor 6 *# America because they said Cabot had been the first ðecm^riHfe|
smallest mouthful producing a sense of complete fullness and distention and sometimes prompt vomiting. In every case it was necessary to make a complete study of the patient to rule out all physical factors relating to the intestinal tract. In every instance after the condition had been fully studied and the mental problem which concerned the patient eliminated, the appetite was restored promptly, digestion improved and the condition was overcome. Doctor Venables points out that these patients are inclined to resent the suggestion at first that the cause of the conditioi. is mental, and advise that one proceed slowly in getting at the underlying factors.
ments on themselves. Part of their campaign has consisted in making speeches and addresses in churches and before clubs. They persuaded newspapers to assist them. They made a motion picture entitled ‘Over the Hill to the Poorhouse,’ shown in more than 12,000 cities and towns.” The Eagles, Shepherd learned, have sec ured more than 1,500 poorhouses in the United States for facts and for stories to prove that old people are not happy huddled together under a poorhouse keeper. Was the hymn “The Tattle Brown Church in the Vale” written about any particular church? The Congregational church about which the hymn was written, is located at Bradford, la., In the beautiful Red Cedar valley in the northeastern part of the state. It was built during the Civil war, and still stands, surrounded by giant pine trees. Dr. W. S. Pitts, a physician of Fredericksburg, who helped to built the church, wrote the hymn. About 30,000 persons visit the church annually, and a great many marriages are held in it.
CHIC SALE’S IDEAS TOUGH ON MONKEY Well, sir, here’s the news. Yale university has bought eighteen monkeys and is going to try out intelligence tests on them. It’s a good idea and I’ll tell you why. Just like a June bride's cookin’ ought to be tried out on a Guinea pig before the fond husband is exposed to it, new ideas in education ought to be tried out on monkeys before bein’ adopted by college boys. You take these shorts the boys frori Dartmouth and other colleges are wearin’. They ain’t anything but exposed underwear. If shorts had been put on a monkey first so the humans could get an idea of how they really looked, then the human race would have been saved from the disgrace of wearin’ them. Os course I’ll admit it would be hard to put shorts on a monkey. And after you did get them on the monkey he would pull them right off ii he had any sense at all. But _ even jrst a fleetin’ glimpse of a & monkey in shorts would have been y v *- > enough to discourage the fashion. < copyright John r. ome co.)
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The Child Who Starts at the Top of the Heap Starts With a Real Handicap. TF Sunday were an average day, nine of ten thousand babies were bom in this country. One of them came to the Lindbergh home and got a lot of publicity on account of his distinguished father. The others were less fortunate, although no less fortunate than was that same distinguished father. Colonel Lindbergh made little stir in the world with his first squall and that helped to enhance the value of what he did later on. Our cheers are not only for those who rise, but more particularly for those who rise by their own efforts. The child who starts at the top of the heap starts with a real handicap. Lucky as this Lindbergh heir may be, he has a lot to live down. Nothing short of a flight to the moon would convince people that he was a chip off the old block. When interviewed on one subject or another, as he frequently was, the late Robert T. Lincoln used to say, "I am not a great man, but only the son of a great man.” U H tt Makas Life Worth While WE profess to regard children bom of rich or famous parents as peculiarly blessed, but that is little more than lip tribute to the universal wish for easy triumphs. We reserve our greatest applause for those who make their own way, who overcome the difficulties of an adverse environment, and succeed in spite, of fate. Such attitude Is more or less essential, because without the philosophy it embodies, life would present a bleak and hopeless prospect for the great majority. n a a Face World's Sneers THOUGH the glorification of self-made people justly can be regarded as one of the great driving forces behind human progress, it has a cruel side. It not only expects too muchjof those bom to privilege, but for tha very reason it is apt to doubt Bn sneer, no matter how hard the try or how well they do. X In this republic of ours, whf all are supposed to enjoy ieq chance and each is supposedjto judged according to his merit*, sons of the great men achieved greatness. We explain the anomaly by ing that genius can not b* from one generation to JX that it is a queer, freakyjor ping; that it often appro(st sanity, and that the law* redity seem to have little I. ing on it. n n tt Call It Miraculous WE have worked ourselves into a curiously superstitious attitude toward personal intelligence and its relation to ancestry. Though admitting that the only way to produce fast horses is to breed fast horses, and though recognizing the scientific value of pedigreed cows, dogs, hogs and sheep, we still flirt with the idea that personal intelligence is akin to the miraculous, that by some hook or crook mediocrity may sire genius, but that by no hook or crook can genius be depended on to perpetuate itself. That is one reason why young people are not more impressed with eugenics, why they continue to take useless and avoidable risks in marriage, and why they consider a good time as more important than good health. Much of ohe careless, nonchalant attitude toward marriage and parenthood goes back to the weird belief that heaven alone decides whether children hall be nitwits or superior beings.