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A Frank Platform “If elected I shall not use the powers of the office to build up a political machine, either for myself or for any one else.’’ No, it was not Secretary of State Fifield who made this statement. It came from his opponent, Frank Mayr Jr. of South Bend in his first statement to the voters of Indiana. That pledge is the hope of Indiana to rid itself of the evils planned by Stephenson when he was dictator of the state. It was he who planned to throw into the office of the secretary of state such vast patronage that party and personal control would be made possible under Ed Jackson, who then held the office and who was the choice of Stephenson for Governor. It was Stephenson who made that office more important in many respects than that of the governorship. It is absurd, of course, that the secretary of state should have control of the state police force while the Governor is charged with the enforcement of law. It is absurd that a purely secretarial office should control the corporations of the state. The patronage of that office under Fifield has been distributed with but one purpose. That was the building of political pow2r for himself. Ahead of him he sees a governor.ship, not as a reward of service and ability, but. through the peculiar Lake county methods of controlling elections. The handling of the office by Fifield leaves much to be desired in every direction. The people have paid heavily for the peisonal machine which he has erected and which was able to control the last Republican convention. The attitude of Mayr toward the duties of the office is exactly the opposite of that of Fifield. His pledge that he will conduct the office in the interest of the people and render service instead of passing out plums •to politicians offers anew era in that office. There can be no hesitancy on the part of the independent citizen, or the Republican who does not desire to see his own party used as the vehicle for greeds, privilege and selfish interests. They should vote for Mayr.

The General Electric Plan Other industries may profit by studying the new plan for voluntary unemployment insurance announced by the General Electric Company. Employer and employe will divide the cost of the plan equally. The employe will deposit about 1 per cent of his earnings over a period of three years ">nder normal conditions. The company will contribute an equal amount. In periods of unemployment. those at work will bear the brunt of the employes’ contribution. The benefits will be paid from these funds. But it is believed that better than unemployment insurance is a plan which will prevent or reduce unemployment. Therefore, the following rules have been drawn up to guide the industrial operations of the concern: When business is increasing: Increase the working force by adding employes as slowly as possible. Increase the number in especially busy departments by transfers from other departments. Resort to overtime in particular departments and generally be fore increasing the working force. Postpone plant renewal and maintenance work as much as possible, employing the men on regular production. When work beings to fall off: Cease hirirg at once. Cut out all possible overtime and bring the departments down to the normal week. Transfer people from slack to busier departments. Stimulate the sales department to obtain co-opera-tion from customers and get business for future delivery. Build standard apparatus for stock up to appropriate number of months’ shipments, based on average of last three years’ sales, adjusted to expectation of next two years. See that all factory and district warehouses are brought up to this maximum. Use men on maintenance and repair work, bringing the plant and equipment up to high standard. Cut the normal week as generally and gradually as possible by departments (down to 50 per cent of the normal week>. Proceed with construction of increased plant facilities previously planned. Drop new employes with less than a year service, single persons with no dependents and who are most easily spared first, always with not less than one week's notice. In accordance with custom, established for some time, employes should be told whether it is a temporary layoff due to lack of work, or a permanent layoff, and in every Instance of permanent layoff the usual compensation, if any, should be paid, dependent on character of work, age and length of service. We may approve heartily in general of the step taken by the General Electric Company and agree with the New York state industrial commissioner, Francis Perkins, that “the plan is of world-wide significance and embodies a piece of industrial statesmanship of the first order. ’ Yet, admirable as the proposal is, it will not be a substitute for public compulsory unemployment insurance. Few corporations have shown any inclination to take such steps as these just announced by the General Electric. Only the uniformity which compulsory insurance am secure will save the progressive employer from aeing penalized for his humanit&rianism or guarantee workers the protection which they must have. Stephen G. Porter Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, who died yesterday in Pittsburgh, had won an international reputation sc a statesman. He will be missed in the United States house of representatives, where he served so long. He probably did more than any other American sfllciaJ in his day to throw the power and influence loi our government into leadership for international regulation and control of the drug traffic. "That he

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was not always successful in this great humanitarian crusade is a discouraging commentary on the unwillingness of certain foreign governments to sacrifice questionable financial profits of some of their nationals In wiping out a world scourge. As the chief of American delegations at international conferences, Pr.rter combined mastery of his subject and patience, with the ability to strike hard and in the open when his patience was abused by intrigue. His skill as chairman of the house foreign affairs committee often seeded to be overshadowed by the better known Borah, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, partly because of the wider powers of the senate in the actual control of foreign policy. But there were many times when even those on the outside realized that Porter's intervention on the side of justice saved our government from mistaken acts and policies. He Was especially effective in defending the legitimate rights of the Chinese Nationalists. However sincere and able any President and secretary of state may be in the conduct of foreign policy, they need the intelligent but critical co-opera-tion of the congressional foreign committees. Chairman Porter’s loss will be felt deeply. Mooney and Billings The welcome word has come at last that Mooney and Billings are to be freed. If this is true, we honor California's Governor, C. C. Young, and the California supreme court for the decision. Their action will do what can be done to right a desperate wrong. Mooney and Billings have been in prison fourteen years for a crime they did not commit. Proof was at hand long ago that they had been convicted on framed and perjured testimony. The judge who sentenced Mooney to hang has been saying for years that the two were convicted “unfairly, even criminally. But years ago Mooney and Billings offended large interests. They were militant labor organizers in those distant, pre-war days before Communism and the red flag had been heard of. They were considered “dangerous men.'’ Therefore, thousands of people, in California and elsewhere, have expressed the strange, un-American belief that they should be kept in jail whether they bombed the Preparedness day parade in San Francisco or not. If they had been on the streets, organizing agitating, every one of the fourteen years, they could not have done so much damage to the American government as we have done by keeping them in jail unjustly. They never had advocated a doctrine so pernicious as the one advocated against them . . . “keep them in jail, guilty or not, because we don’t like them.’’ It really is the soiled and tom ideal of even-hand-ed justice that Governor Young and the California supreme court will free from prison when they write the pardon for these two men. Michael, ex-boy king of Rumania, soon will join the army as a corporal. To be sure, he has lost some authority, but prospects are good he’ll be made a top sergeant some day. It is only fair to warn orators who plan to regale Admiral Byrd with warm toasts of welcome in the future that he just has been presented a sword by the state of Virginia. Most unpopular of all Swiss movements is the substitution of hot coffee for brandy in the reviving of lost Alpine climbers. Perhaps this is another tariff reprisal. With the report that Shakespeare's sonnets may be filmed, chances seem bright we shall yet hear some good English in the talkies. Bringing a familiar exhortation up to date: Glide, Kelley, glide! The millionaire New York broker who used to give away SIOO tips and is now broke, probably is cursing the hard times and wishing for a return of prosperity. Today’s simile: As effective as an anti-trust law.

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IT’S rank nonsense to say Dwight Morrow’s victory means a national drift away from prohibition, for New Jersey is the wettest state in the country. The umbrella is her state emblem, you know. * a a You might as well say that the primary in Maine, where the dry candidate snowed under the wet candidate. means a drift toward prohibition. Those two results merely mean that Maine and New Jersey stand where they long have stood, the one by the padlock and the other by the corkscrew. mam A big element in Morrow’s victory was the fact that he is head and shoulders above the average candidate and the people of New Jersey rejoiced that for the first time since Woodrow Wilson they had a chance to vote for a whale, instead of a sardine. mam MORROW didn't win his victory in New Jersey; he won it down in Mexico, where his straightforward, man to man procedure untied aggravating complications and gained for Uncle Sam a friendly place in hearts which had been hostile. mam When he was named for Mexico there were rumblings because he had been a member of the House of Morgan, but before the opposition could adopt a line of march. Morrow had completed his conquest of Mexican turmoil and was eating ham and eggs with the Mexican president. mam Os course, he will be a conservative at Washington, but an intelligent and possibly fair conservative; he is strong for the rights of capital, but he also knows the wrongs of capitalism; he has made a fortune and it may be that, having learned that there are one or two things besides money, he now wishes to do something more worth while. mam IN the ever-growing conflict between the financially foxy and the plundered public we would trust a like Morrow 10,000 times more than an ordinary hack senator with no cash, and a one-story intellect and a basement character who. to hold his office, blindly burns incense at the altar of Money. a a a Mr. Morrow did not buy his nomination; he came through clean; he has shown that people rush to the front gate to greet a candidate whose intellectual qualities approach the specifications for public service held by the Fathers of the Republic, and if the demonstration of thic fact should call to public life gentlemen of similar size in other states then he will have done his country a lastipg favor.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Belief in St. Brandan's Island and the Lost Atlantis May Have an Original Basis in Fact. REGULAR Atlantic crossings by dirigibles are predicted for the near future as the result of the Graf Zeppelin's latest journey over the ocean waves. Speeding across the Atlantic has become a habit with the Graf. The Atlantic, once a vast region of mystery, truly has become just a big pond. Man goes over it, on it or—as the Deutschland did in war days—beneath it. It is hard to think that only a few centuries ago men stood in awe upon the European shores of the Atlantic with no idea of what lay on the other side. The ocean was thought to be full of sea-serpents, waiting to swallow up tiny sailing ships. Maps of the period dotted the Atlantic with islands which since have been shown to be figments of the imagination. The most famous of these legendary islands were St. Brandan’s island, Antiilia or the Isle of the Seven Cities, and Atlantis. In fact, the fame of Atlantis has not yet died out and periodically some trusting soul sets out to find it. Diving expeditions occasionally are organized on the assumption that the island has sunk beneath the waves. The theory is that marvelous treasures of gold and jewels lie in its water-covered ruined cities.

St, Brandan MODERN science, while dismissing the idea that these islands ever existed, is inclined to view the legends as having an original basis in fact. Dr. H. A. Marmer discusses the subject in his excellent book, “The Sea,” recently published by D. Appleton <fc Cos. “The stories of St. Brandan’s island relate to the marvelous adventures of the Irish abbot, St. Brandan, who lived in the sixth century. He is represented in these stories as undertaking a voyage by sea during which he discovers various islands and sees wondrous things. “On one island there were a great number of white sheep bigger than oxen. Another island begins to move when a fire is built on It and turns out to be an enormous fish. “One of the islands which St. Brandan visits, he finds, possessed of a mild and delightful climate and a fruitful soil—a veritable land of promise blessed with an abundance of all good things. To this island the name of St. Brandan has been attached. “On the maps of the thirteenth and following centuries St. Brandan’s island is shown in various locations. Prior to the discovery of America it is generally placed in the vicinity of the Canaries or the Madeiras. Later it is located farther west and so is represented on a map dating as late as the latter half of the sixteenth century.”

Voyage MARMER seeks to find the basis of fact which gave rise to the story of the good abbot’s adventures. “Stripped of its fanciful and mythical elements, it purports to be the record of a voyage to some remote island in the Atlantic having a delightful climate,” he writes. “Quite possible the story may have as basis an actual voyage to some pleasant island of the Canary or Madeira group. Undoubtedly, too, this story of an island out in the western sea, blessed with all good things, harks back to the mythical Islands of the Blessed of the ancients—lands of the heart’s desire, where life is free from the common cares and ills. “Attempts, have been made to connect the story of St. Brandon’s island with pre-Columbian voyages to America Certain legends and sagas appear to point to Irish voyages to Iceland and to a large country to the westward, some time before the eleventh century. On the basis of these legends the story of St Brandan’s island is taken as embodying the record of some such voyage. But these attempts to connect St. Brandan’s island with America are far from convincing. “The stories of Antiilia, or the Isle of the Seven Cities, have much in common with those of St. Brandan’s island. They go back to the eighth century, when the Moors descended on Spain and overran the Iberian peninsula, and tell of the fight of Christian refugees, v/ho, under the leadership of seven bishops, set out on a voyage westward and reached the Island of Antilla. Here a model community of seven cities, each under the rule of a bishop, is established. “It appears on maps as late as the latter decade of the sixteenth century, but after this time it disappears.”

mwyeeirDoybu g ‘Know a idur'Bib!e? 1 FIVE QUESTIONS A DAY" B

1. Finish the sentence: “Where your treasure is . . .” 2. What other name has the passover? 3. How large was the boy’s lunch with which Jesus fed 5,000 persons? 4. What is the origin of the phrase, “Clothed, and in his right mind?” 5. What question follows “Can the Ethiopian change his skin?” Answers to Yesterday's Queries 1. John, the Baptist, to the soldiers: Mark 3:14. 2. Nebuchadnezzar: Daniel 4:30. 3. Psalms 119. 4. For Gideon, as a sign that he had been talking with an angel; Judges 6:17-24. 5. God and Mammon; Matthew 6:24.

Daily Thought

Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Deuteronomy 5:12. On Sunday heaven's gates stand open.—George Herbert,

i There’s One in Ei)ery Country!

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Trained Men Needed to Study Misfits

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. XT' VERYBODY knows that certain workers in almost every large plant axe labeled by their fellow employes as eccentric, “queer guys,” disturbers, misfits, grouches, gossips, and as being mean, unsociable, or otherwise peculiar. The labels represent a recognition of the fact that the difference between what is considered normal and abnormal among human beings, is relatively slight, and covers a wide range of personality and mental equipment. In one plant in which an investigation was made by a psychiatrist, who is a specialist dealing with abnormal minds, it was found that a certain department had the greatest turnover of labor of any department in the building. This high percentage of termination was

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PEOPLE who resent some of the blunders of censorship are sometimes walling to concede thqt it isn’t censorship itself which outrages them, but stupidity. I’m against censorship' itself. It never is or has been anything but stupidity. For instance, I’ve heard much praise of the English system. In London the manuscript must be submitted before a play can receive a license and again and again I have been told that the official in charge was cultivated, discriminating, and altogether a delightful fellow. It makes little difference how good a man may have beeen before he got the job. Make him a censor and he will act like a censor. That is, he will become arbitrary and asinine. News has just been cabled here that “The Green Pastures” will not be allowed in England. The censor holds that it is blasphemous. In other words, the most deeply reverential religious play written in many years is held to be offensive to the Lord. The Lord may not walk the stage in the guise of natural man. That privilege is reserved for jazz bands and adagio dancers. I think we would all do well to make up our minds that the only thing to do with censorship is to scrap it entirely. It just isn’t prossible to get any such thing as a wise censor. No intelligent man or woman would take such a silly post. The whole theory is built on the monstrous fallacy that any one person or group of persons is competent to decide what is good and what is bad for everybody else. Censorship represents the attempt to reduce the vast, swirling and complex field and drama and literature to a table d’hote. You can’t have grapes, you can’t have wild cherries. For you and me it’s prunes or nothing. Who says so? The censor. You see, as it happens, he likes prunes. a a a Dignity of Labor FROM many rostrums orators soon will be informing the multitudes tht labor is not a commodity. Here in the land of freedom we set human lives above the dollar sign. But exceptions to the rule creep in. I have beside me a mimeographed announcement from a New York employment agency. It is headed: “The most beautiful sale of the year begins today. Never before has such wonderful bargains been offered.” And beneath this runs the following explanatory paragraph “Due to business depression we have in our files for delivery hundreds of thoroughly competent workers who must be placed at once. Their former ‘values’ have been disregarded as it is essential they ‘sell’ themselves.” Below come details such as: “Bookkeepers (male). Full charge and assistants. Many with knowledge of stenography and typing. Formerly S2O-SSO. Now sls-535. “Secretaries and stenographers—experienced or beginners. Competent, neat. The ‘best sellers' during prosperity. Were $lB-$45. Now sl3-s3o.’' The agencies also boasts "typists —finest selection in town. Accurtae and rapid. Well worth sls-S2B Now sl2-23.” Furthermore the customer

found to be due to a foreman who was distinctly psychopathic. On the chart in which reasons were given for discharging employes the statement constantly read “discharged as undesirable,” “discharged for disobedience,” or “disagreement with the foreman.” When an investigation was made, it was found that the foreman obtained his position as a reward for many years service, that he was arrogant, always had a chip on his shoulder, knew nothing about handling people, and was constantly swearing at and abusing his employes over trivial incidents, which would easily be settled by a more intelligent and diplomatic director. The incident confirms definitely the need for a study of mental disorders related to industry. In an investigation carried out in a large insurance company, it was found that factors inherent in the work, such as monotony, rarely lead to

is advised, “Phone me daily if you are intrested in these unusual buys.” a tt Going, Going, Gone OF course, I know that basically the country is sound. Maybe the competents well worth sls will not forever be compelled to sell themselves for sl2. They had no hand in the matter of the conditions which brought about such a bargain “sale.” The manager of the employment office undoubtedly put the quotation marks around “sale,” because of tact and delicacy of feeling. But even as it stands, there is too much suggestion of the old slave market around the proceedings. “How much am I bid for this experienced secretary (female? Twelve dollars in her last place; do I hear $15?” But though the white-collar worker is not to be blamed for the existence of such conditions, just now he will be at fault if they persist. Two remedies lie ready to his hand. He (naturally I mean she as well) can organize. I’ve been told that many a white-collar worker has been reluctant to do this. They feel that it is beneath the dignity of workers to join a labor union. Not dignified, hey? “The ‘best’ sellers during the prosperity were $lB-$45. Now sl3$30.” It is just nonsense to say that government which proved able to organize effectively for war can’t organize for peace. Unemployment is a crisis and a test of our capacity.

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A ROYAL ASSASSINATION June 28. ON June 28, 1914, ArchduktFrancis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife, the countess of Hohenberg, were assassinated at Serajevo, Bosnia. This event was the precipitating ' cause of the World war. Ferdinand had left Vienna June 23 to attend the military maneuvers at Bosnia, as commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian armies. On Sunday, June 28, accompanied by his wife, he paid a visit to Serajevo, the seat of the provincial administration, and, as the couple entered the town, they narrowly escaped being killed by a bomb thrown at their carriage by a youth. Later in the day, while they were riding back from a reception at the town hall, they were murdered by an assassin. “The crime,” as one writer expressed it, “was evidently the execution of a political conspiracy. It was assumed to be an act of revenge for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovinia by Austria-Hun-gary, a step which Francis Ferdinand had heartily advocated. The findings of the criminal investigation in Serajevo pointed to the powerful Pan-Serbian society as the instigator of the crime, and implicated persons in Jzigh places in Serbia.”

disorders of the nervous system, but that these disorders arise much more frequently due to a difference in ambition of the person concerned and his capacity to accomplish. In a recent analysis of the progress made in this field, Frederic Wertham concludes that what is needed is not a specialist in nervous and mental diseases attached to every industry, but a recognition of the fact that S’’~ v problems constantly occur and of the necessity for recognizing difficult cases and referring them to special attention when they are isolated. The field of the psychologist, who is concerned essentially with the workings of the normal mind, and of the psychiatrist, who is concerned with the abnormal, are distinct. The psychologist in industry may well be assigned the task of determining when it is necessary to have psychiatric attention.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are (hose 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.

It can not be handled except through governmental agencies. Kind words by official spokesmen are not enough. I think the average American can survive months on end without receiving a single official announcement. He would trade one ton of them for a decent job. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor, Times: May I have a word in regard to the mother of the “rain baby.” I have great sympathy for her, knowing as I do, that she is a product of conditions and evil environments forced upon her by society. Although she is 21 years of age, she never has had a chance until now. Some have been so harsh as to place her below the brute which they say does not forsake its young. Such persons have a few things to learn about the lower animals. Having been raised on a farm, I beg leave to differ with them. I have seen mother hogs that would eat their entire litter of pigs, regardless of squealing protests. Sally did not try to eat her baby, but was trying to save it from the jaws of an evil system of society that feeds upon its young. The $2,000 donated by the unknown woman was not given as a reward for Sally’s motherless act as is intimated, an act which we all deplore—but for the purpose of lifting her from the mire and starting her on the road to real womanhood, something that prison bars never can do. And to my mind, the donor performed a great Christian act. I want to relate an incident which happened several years ago. In the city of Terre Haute, a poor giri of Sally’s type was arrested., brought into court, tried and sentenced *o prison. Many insisted she be pun ished, and the stones flew thick ant fast. Her sad plight was brought to the attention of the late Eugene V. Debbs. The heart of that great humanitarian was moved with sympathy for her. He went to the court and offered to give her a home and support. His request was granted, and in the presence of the court, he made an eloquent appeal to the people of the community to respect the girl and help her to live right. She did so and became an honorable citizen, loved and respected. The last I knew of her she was still living with the widow, Mrs. Debs. I would like to ask, are there any of Sally Breed-

BUNK PRIZE FIGHTS ROUSE IRE OF CHIC It is getting so in this world that if you go to a prize fight you might as well leave after the preliminaries. There you sit hopin’ to get your money’s worth, but you won’t. Out comes a big old lummox and pokes another bird in the stomach and the fight is over. Maybe you bought a ringside seat and maybe you didn’t. It don't matter. Any way you take it, you lose. I wouldn’t want to take any snap judgment on it, but just offhand I would say that you could save yourself a lot of money and time and trouble by just 4 stayin’ at home and pokin’ wO ypurself in the stomach. There TT a^* you are. 1 (hank you. (CowtM* John w. duu Cos.)

.JUNE 28, 19301

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Wickersham Commission Has Accomplished Nothing of Value. A LBERT SCHRAMM and two associates were caught smuggling 150.000 tons of booze into Germany. Maybe they were inspired to undertake such a venture by reading about Chicago, bui let that pass. They certainly would have thought twice had they read the German law which provides a penalty of 100 times the normal tax, plus a good-sized sum for example’s sake. Having drawn a fine of $1,200,000, they are sadder, if not wiser, bootleggers. Whether such fines would have a chastening effect in this country, they would help to pay the expense of prohibition enforcement. * tt A Waste of Time PEAKING of prohibition enforce- ~ ment, Senator Glass thinks the wickersham commission has shot wide of the mark. He says that, whatever President Hoover may have had in mind, congress intended that it should confine its work to the dry law. . Heaven knows what congress intended, but that is what mos| people wanted and expected. With prohibition and its enforce, ment overshadowing everything else in connection with the ad. ministration of justice, it wai. natural to supose that any efford to clear up the mess would center around the Volstead act. More than that, it was supposed that no ordinarily intelligent groujs of men would tackle more than ai single phase of law-enforcement. Contrary to all this, the Wicker-, shaw commission has spread itself all over the map. frittered away a lot of time and money, and accomplished nothing of more value than the evaporation of evening dew. * tt tt The Job Problem SECRETARY LAMONT gives out unemployment figures for 756 counties and seventy-five cities which he says are typical and represent one-fourth of the country. According to these figures, only 575,000 people were out of work. If they are accepted as indicating condtions throughout the country, we have only 2,300,000 people out of work. In view of what has been said on the subject, that seems incredible. Last winter it was commonly admitted that at least 4,000,000 were out of work, while some authorities placed the number as high as 6,000,000. Either there has been a greater improvement in the situation than is generally believed, or the census missed fire. u n n Far Out of Date IN this connection, why do we depend on such an antiquated and manifestly inefficient institution as the census when it comes to questions and problems which change every day in the week? What would happen to a department store if it took account of stock only once in ten years, or to a bank if it did not balance its books any oftener? After long and bitter experience, business has decided that the only way to be sure of reliable information is to keep it constantly up to date. The Clearing House Association closes its books every night, but the great American republic counts noses only once in a decade, which would be all right if we didn’t take the result as proving much of anything. an n System Is Wrong WHAT we need in America Is a system of registration by which we can tell what is going on all the time, whether with regard to employment, crime, pounds of beef on the hoof, or the number of radio receiving sets. Such system not only would keep us accurately informed, but would give us the means to wage more effective campaigns against disease and lawlessness. For a week, the New York police force has been trying to run down a “maniac killer,” but with little to shew for the trouble except a lot of bogus notes and telephone calls. For three weeks, the Chicago police force nas been trying to find out who killed Reporter Lingle, but with little to show for the trouble except a growing suspicion that he was closer to the underworld than his job required, and that the killing was as likely to have been the result of a gang row as a gesture to intimidate too-inquisltive newspaper men. A good registration system would obviate some of that nonsense. love’s accusers and condemners who would not really admit that it was far better for this Terre Haute girl to be taken into this respectable home than to be sent to prison? I am in my sixty-third year. I have twenty-eight grandchildren. As I look into their future, I can seen nine chances for them to become criminals where they have one to go straight. If the thing ever should occur, I hope some person unknown or otherwise, without blowing a philanthropic trumpet, will come to their rescue. W. B. SCHREIBER, 622 Lexington ave., Indianapolis. Who started the custom of handshaking? The custom has descended from primitive man. When savages first began to learn that friendship was possible they extended the bare right hand, the weapon hand, as a symbol or sign of peace.