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The “Organ” Caught The publisher of a weekly paper has been convicted of attempted blackmail. The charge was that he hai tried to force patronage for his publication by threatening to expose secrets, most shameful, of certain citizens who may or may not have been indiscreet. The important factor in the affair is not the conviction of one puolisher, but that this particular paper was the official organ of the Republican organization in this county, selected at a meeting of the committee after the paper had been used to attack those who exposed Jackson and Duvall and the rest of the old machine. From taking money from those who wished to attack the reputation of those who stood against misgovernment to taking money for suppressing stories of a private nature is a natural step. It is well to remember that the paper could not have existed for twelve years without the support of very influential men who found it useful on occasion. Those who voted the Republican ticket may now wish to inquire just why this particular paper, now convicted of blackmail, was chosen as their “organ.” The Fight Goes On Justice still is on the defensive in America. Governor Young of California had an opportunity to right a miscarriage of justice that has been blazoned around the world for more than a decade by every enemy of America’s democracy. He had opportunity to prove that the American system of government still operates on the principle that all men are equal before the law. Governor Young failed. Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, sent to prison fourteen years ago on the perjured testimony of hired witnesses, have been denied pardons again. They must stay in jail until C. C. Young changes his mind or anew Governor, with vision enough to see the right and courage enough to do it, is elected in California. Throughout the world today is racing the news that innocent men, deprived of liberty during the hysteria of war times, can be kept there ten years after the war fever has subsided and, seemingly, as long as they live. Throughout the United States are thousands of thinking men and women, shaking their heads at this news and saying: “This is what breeds Communism, this puts a more dangerous weapon in the hands of revolutionaries than any which they have been able to fashion for themselves.” To these thinking people—to the thousands of Jurists, statesmen, social workers, teachers, editors, labor leaders, business and professional men and women who believe Mooney and Billings are innocent, to the judge and jurors who tried Mooney and who now believe him innocent-to these people Governor Young says, “But you have no first-hand knowledge of the cases, while I have spent many, many months studying them.” They do not need to study that voluminous mass of documents to see plainly that Mooney and Billings never should have been sent *o prison. They have only to read what the Governor himself has written, after his exhaustive research, and what the supreme court and the board of pardons have to say after their exhaustive studies, to be convinced that more than a reasonable doubt exists as to the guilt of these two men. The gist of these three statements—about 14,000 words of explanation, arguments and comments—is that Mooney and Billings must remain in prison because of the testimony of one man, a man who confessed himself to be a perjurer and whom Governor Yeung, the supreme court and the board of pardons rJI designated as a perjurer. This man is John McDonald, a tramp and a dope fiend. He and F. C. Oxman were the only two witnesses ever produced in the trials of Mooney and Billings who said they saw them at the scene of the bombing of the Preparedness day parade in San Francisco on July 21, 1916. Since then Oxman has been proved to be a perjurer. It has been proved that he was in Woodland, Cal., at the time of the explosion and not on Market street in San Francisco. Governor Young dismissed him by saying, “I have made a thorough study of Oxman’s testimony and desire to say that I thoroughly discredit it—l believe that Oxman was nothing more or less than a pub-licity-seeking romancer.” Therefore, upon the testimony of MacDonald alone rests the entire structure of the Mooney and Billings cases. And MacDonald, in an affidavit several years after his testimony had sent Mooney and Billings to prison, confessed that he had lied at the trials, that he had not seen Mooney and Billings at the scene of the explosion. The Governor, the board of pardons and the supreme court make a great point—their one point—of their doubt that MacDonald told the truth in his affidavit. They profess to believe that he did tell the ;ruth in the trials How can they know when he lied and when he told the truth? They know he is a liar. Yet on his testimony alone they keep in prison two men who alieady have spent fourteen years behind steel bars. Governor Young makes a gesture toward holding open the door for further consideration of these cases. He suggests that MacDonald be found and brought to California to tell whether he lied during the trials or when he made the affidavit. MacDonald did come back to do that. He came eight years ago to tell the grand jury that he lied during the trials. He was threatened with imprisonment for perjury if he told. He said he would tell anyway. But he was advised by friends of Mooney that his affidavit was sufficient and he need not jeopardize his liberty by facing that hostile grand jury. So MacDonald drifted away. He wrote to friends in California for several years. But he has not been heard from since 1927. He may be dead. He may be drifting around, somewhere. However, the record stands. He -s or was a perjurer. Every other witness in both trials has been proved a perjurer. Justice still is on the defensive. Mooney and Billings, as individuals, mean nothing Ho this newspaper, nothing to the other
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newspapers and men and women who pray for their release. They are only pawns in a game in which not mere nations, but whole systems of governments, are at stake. Millions of Americans whose views are unalterably opposed to those of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney nevertheless resent the obvious fact that economic prejudices rather than evidence were responsible for their conviction. Inequality before the law, unbridled class hatred and decisions in which the quality of mercy is strained are the food upon which Communism and anarchy feed. The fight for the unconditional pardon of Mooney and Billings must go on. Patriotism and Supernationality Can a man be a patriot and yet a friend of world peace and human progress? Can he hold the eagle in one hand and the olive branch of Geneva in the other? Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle, president of the National Education Association, believes that patriotism and an international outlook are not incompatible. Indeed, a man first must be a patriot to be internationally minded. “Can one be a good patriot, a good American citizen and yet think internationally? Is there not a conflict between the national and the international? I do not think so. On the contrary, only on the sound foundation of national ideals, being a faithful and loyal patriot, can one really begin to think on international lines, or as I prefer to say, ‘supernationally.’ ” Whether Miss Pyrtle is right or not depends entirely upon one’s conception of what it is to be a patriot If one means by patriotism civic idealismdevotion to the highest good of a particular political community—then one may, indeed, be a patriot and a friend of decency and justice on a world scale. A man who is not decent at home will not be likely to think decently about matters beyond his national boundaries. The man who is devoted intelligently to his homeland must of necessity take a statesmanlike view of international affairs. He recognizes, as did Immanual Kant, that the good of any state is bound up with amicable relations with its neighbors and with freedom from the expense and suffering of organized warfare. That we can harmonize international sanity with “hundred percentism”—which is the usual meaning of patriotism in the schools—is a position that hardly can be defended. The "my country right or wrong” psychology does not travel in the same company with the common sense in international affairs. The hundred percenter, while for his country right or wrong, is sure that it always has been right. He holds that the pacifist is a traitor at heart. He believes that any man less conservative than the late Judge Gary Is s. Communist, anarchist and atheist. Everything which savors of devotion to social justice he holds to be subsidized by Moscow. Peace can be secured only by preparedness to fight. We must “step softly, but carry a big stick.” We must protect ourselves from the pauperizing foreigners by an impregnable tariff wall. To our less developed neighbors we must execute the “white man’s burden” through the agency of the marines. God is on our side in all disputes. The flag and the cross are Intertwined. Almost anybody will admit that it would be hard to reconcile such notions as the above with any degree of internationalism. But many would say that nobody hold j such views—that we have been erecting a mythical man of straw. Let the doubter read the bulletins of Harry Jung’s American Military Intelligence Society and Vigilant Protective Association, and of those societies which use Jung’s material, such as the National * Civic Federation, the Better America Federation, the D. A. R., and the like. Even some of the pamphlets of the National Association of Manufacturers get dangerously close to such views. But Miss Pyrtle is right in holding that internationalism must start at home. A sensible patriotism leads inevitably to internationalism. The discerning patriot realizes that no state can be safe in a condition of international anarchy. Os good cheer to drifters who search street waste paper containers is the prediction of a London editor that newspapers will be published hourly by 1970.
REASON
WHEN Mr. Hoover packed away those White House wine glassses, instead of sending them to the Smithsonian Institution, as relics, he left the inference that he thought some presidential successor might find occasion to use them. . a a The other night when Kingsford-Smith, commander of the Southern Cross, talked to his fiancee in Australia, he established himself as the long-range Romeo of all time. Had he addressed a pie plate five years ago and informed those about him that he was talking to his sweetheart 15,000 miles away, he would have been locked up as goofy. B tt tt Dr. Will Mayo told the convention of the American Medical Association that the suppression of emotion injures the heart, but if you let your emotions run wild you land in the penitentiary. What's a fellow going to do? THESE recent fights between second-rate heavyweights have not stirred the great American heart, but if Representative Tinkham and Bishop Cannon only would settle their dispute by putting on the gloves that would get all of us up on our toes. a a a The appellate court of Brooklyn decided that a man was entitled to be admitted to the bar, even though he didn’t know who discovered America. This was probably based on the feeling that neither Leif Ericson nor Christopher Columbus is likely to go to court to prove his claim. a a a The late Henry Clay Folger of the Standard Oil Company set aside $10,000,000 to encourage the study of Shakespeare, but it’s no use, inasmuch as the playgoing people of this country are interested in Clara Bow and Bull Montana. a a a ADMIRAL BYRD states that the flight of the Southern Cross will promote international good will, but as international good will has been promoted several hundred times since the World war, the average man is beginning to wonder when it will graduate. * * Chairman Johnson of the house immigration committee introduces a bill to cut immigration in half, but ne should introduce a Dill to cut it out entirely until every fellow in America has a job. a Zaro Agha, the 156-year-old Turk, is coming to this country and says he may decide to marry a rich American woman, and he ought to be a splendid investment tor some lady who wants a reliable man to sit in the bay window and smoke the bugs off the geraniums.
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Wizard of Artificial Lightning Retires; Decision Is Blow to Science. Announcement comes from the General Electric Company of the retirement of Guiseppe Faccioli, famous electrical engineer who carried on the work of Steinmetz in the field of artificial lighting and produced mote powerful electrical discharges than the world previously had known. Faccioli’s retirement is regarded as a hard blow to the progress of electrical engineering. “If ill health had not intervened, there is no limit to what Faccioli might have done,” says Cummings C. Chesney, vice-president of the General Electric Company, and one of Faccioli’s former associates. There is much in common between the stories of Steinmetz and Faccioli. Both came to this country as young men in search of careers, Steinmetz from Germany in 1889, Faccioli from Italy in 1902. Both had made brilliant records in their student days. Steinmetz, because of his exceptional mathematical attainments, rose to fame more rapidly, but Faccioli’s progress, though slower, was no less sure. By 1914, Faccioli had been made electrical engineer of the Pittsfield plant of the General Electric Company. In 1921 he attracted worldwide attention, when he and uis associates developed means of transmitting electric current at a pressure of 100,000 volts, an unheard of pressure in those days. it tt tt Voltage AT about the same time, Steinmetz made public the first results of his excursions into the field of artificial lightning. There were similarities and differences in the two achievements. “Mere high voltage,” said Steinmetz, ‘is not lightning. The characteristic of lightning is high volt voltage backed by very large power, lasting for a short time only, and so giving explosive effects. “In the experiments with a million volts at Pittsfield, the current was a fraction of an ampere. In our lightning generator, however, wc get a discharge of 10,000 volts, that is, over 1,000,000-horse power, lasting for a hundred-thousandth of a second. “This gives us the explosive, tearing, and shattering effects of real lightning.” Steinmetz generated his lightning by means of an electrical condenser, a device somewhat similar to the condensers to be found in radio sets. His condenser, however, instead of consisting of metal plates separated by air, used plates separated by thick sheets of glass. A condenser is a device for storing up electricity. Steinmetz fed electricity into his huge condenser until the breakdown point was reached. At that point, all the electricity in the condenser would be discharged across an air-gap between two electrodes, giving Steinmetz his artificial bolt of lightning. Steinmetz had been carrying on his work at the Schenectady laboratories of the General Electric Company. When he died in 1923, Faccioli took up his experiments at Pittsfierd. tt tt tt Power FACCIOLI designed what he called an “impulse generator” which produced a bolt of lightning twenty-six times as powerful as the one which Steinmetz had first obtained. The impulse generator furnished a lightning stroke of 10,000 amperes at 2,000,000 volts, a total of 26,000,-000-horse power. Its duration was one twenty-fourth of a millionth of a second. The voltage obtained in Steinmetz’s first lightning was at the rate of 12,000,000,000 volts a second. Faccioli’s generator operated at the rate of 48,000,000,000,000 volts a second. Faccioli dreamed of putting these immense voltages to work. The old alchemists had sought to change one metal into another, iron or lead into gold. Faccioli thought that the day might come when these lightninglike discharges could be used to tear atoms apart and change one sort into another. “Were they so very wrong, these afehemists?” he once inquired, a few years ago. “They thought that the sun in the heavens held the energy that was needed to transmute the dull drab of lead into the sparkling brilliance of gold. “Energy intense, concentrated energy—truly is needed. Energy, but concentrated energy, is needed to change the structure of the matter.” Perhaps some day Faccioli’s artificial lightning will point the way.
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BLACKSTONE’S BIRTH
July 10.
ON Julv 10, 1723, Sir William Blackstone, great English jurist and law writer, was bom in London, the son of a silk dealer. Though he had been called to the bar and appointed to a minor judicial office at an early age, it was not until he was 30 that he attracted wide attention. It was his course ot lectures on English law at Oxford which brought him into prominence. When, a few years later, a Mr. Vin°r endowed a chair of English lav. at tne university, Blackstone was appointed first Vinerian professor. His lectures here won him _uch fame that he was made King’s counsel and later a member of parliamert Despite his success at the bar, Blac’-stone’s fame rests largely upon his writings, particularly his “Commentaries.” This work, until •eoent times, was considered a legal authority and an indispensable part cf the education of every lawyer The Commentaries still form a part ot the regular work of instruction in many American law schools. DAILY THOUGHT Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live.—Amos 5:14. Sin writes histories, goodness is silent—Goethe.
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Rare Cases Described to Physicians
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. AT the recent meeting of fifteen sections of the American Medical Association, many additional facts of importance in the prevention and treatment of disease were brought forth. Rare cases which have come to the attention of physicians were described so their fellow practitioners might be aware of the possibilities cf these conditions. It was pointed out that there are se reral unusual conditions, such as pernicious anemia, pellagra and spr le, which are associated with seri >us conditions in the spinal cord causing paralysis, and that in these same conditions there are disorders of the stomach which interfere with its secretion of hydochloric acid. Jaundice, when it occurs, may be due to a variety of causes including actual blocking of the bile ducts, by changes in the secretion of the bile and in the gallbladder itself. Jaundice is associated with several infectious diseases and the differential diagnosis of these conditions represents one of the most difficult problems confronting the physician. The medical profession is especially interested in the care of the woman who is to have a child. It has been shown that heart disease is a serious complication under such conditions and that married women with heart disease die before their time because of the natural evolution of this disease rather than primarily because of child-bearing. Infections of the kidneys some-
IT SEEMS TO ME
LIKE many another famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had private judgments about his work which did not coincide with the popular verdict. He never shared the public enthusiasm for Sherlock Holmes. “The Hounds of the Baskervilles” he rated somewhat above the rest of his detective fiction, but “The White Company” was his own deliberate and one best bet for posterity. Os course, it is problematical whether anything of Doyle will live. I am referring to the kingdoms this side of paradise. Personally, I would like to stake a small wager on his literary survival. But I would choose to have my money go on Holmes. The master detective still is the best-known fictional character devised within our time. This may seem a broad statement and I can not prove it, but look over the field and see if you can think of any other figure from a book who has so widely captured public imagination. Sherlock Holmes stories still sell prodigiously. Indeed, if it is feasible for any publisher to gather together all the Holmes stories, good and bad, short and long, into a single volume he will have upon his list a certain best seller for this season and many years to come. It may be that the appetite for detective stcries will dwindle with the passing of the years. Os late we have had too great a flood of mystery yarns for any reasonable man’s digestion. And most of the narrators have paid Sir Arthur the tribute of imitation. I can think of no living author who remotely approaches Doyle at his best in the detective yarn. Nor have I much patience with those who set up Poe as a superior in stories of this type. I would not deny to Poe the greater literary eminence, but in the straight detective story he was not in a class with Sir Arthur. a Not Unprovable AFTER Holmes had died a proper death he -as rerived again, not quite to his advantage, but probably it will be just as well to take the output without editing or questioning. for in mystery stories there is no accounting for tastes. Some held it curious that the creator of the agnostic Holmes should himself turn ardent spiritualist. In this, I see no lack of logis. Indeed, it was an inevitable development. Any one who had given over his
Chickens Come Home to Roost!
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
times occur, due to the extra stress put on them by child-bearing. Women with tuberculosis represent a special problem. In more than one-fourth of the cases in which a woman with tuberculosis attempts to have a child, the child is lost. Specialists in diseases of the nose, throat and ears were concerned particularly with infections in the ear and with the necessity for getting the pus out of the ear as soon as possible. The danger of abscess of the brain in such cases is great. They also considered particularly the of diseases affecting the larynx, the earliest symptom of which is usually hoarseness. Hoarseness must not be regarded as a mild complaint, but as a condition demanding the most careful study by all technical methods known to modern medicine. The medical profession also is concerned particularly with aiding government authorities in the control of drug addiction. Special studies have been carried on in various parts of the country which indicate that the addict takes the drug because erives him a feeling of well being and unquestionably the mental basis for addiction is of the greatest importance. Today drug addiction is not confined to the derivatives of opium, but includes hypnotics, alcohol and opium, seem to permit the person concerned to forget his troubles. It was the opinion of the investigators that addiction is not a physical disease, but more largely a mental disturbance. Special attention was given in another section to the handling of
thoughts to the solution of mysteries necessarily must have tackled sooner or later the major problem. I always have felt that Holmes would have remained to scoff at many a seance which served to amaze Sir Arthur. Yet, I was deeply impressed by the author’s dignity and absolute sincerity in the matter of the possibility of communication with the dead. * This is something which every man should approach with an open mind. In a sense the spiritualists have the stronger side of the argument because it is conceivable that sooner or later, if not even now, they may prove their case. a tt a Seeking Truth RESEARCH men may show up one medium after another without destroying spiritualism. For always there may be one true phenomenon lurking just around the corner. I’ve been to seances and I have never seen anything at any such demonstration which did not seem to me fraud, and very clumsy fraud at that. But I would go again at any time. Even out of a great morass of trickery and deceit, truth might rise. To be frank about it, I should like very much to believe in spiritualism, but, of course, that can not come without evidence satisfactory to myself. Nobody could listen to Sir Arthur speak upon the fact of survival after death without feeling that this man at least had received evidence wholly, convincing as far as he was concerned.
Questions and Answers
What was the value of paper money issued by the United States bureau of engraving and printing in 1929? $4,572,234,330. Are seedless oranges natural and how are they propagated? They are natural as seed oranges and are propagated by budding. Is Elizabeth spelled with “s” or a “z”? Usually it is spelled with “z,” but occasionally with “s” in English speaking countries. The French, German and Dutch forms axe spelled with “s.” Who wrote the book “Scottish Chiefs?” James Porter in 1810.
pain in the back, which is revealed to be the result of two types of causes: (1) mechanical; (2) toxic. It is necessary to make a careful study of each case by the use of the X-ray and by ether methods so that the treatment may apply to the mechanical factor or the infectious factor. If the person has spots in his body from which infection is carried to the spine, these must be removed. For mechanical weaknesses, braces and supports may be provided which relieve the strain and which accomplish much for the human being. One of the most interesting discoveries announced was anew method for making visible the kidneys, thus aiding the diagnosis of kidney diseases. This work was begun by Dr. M. Swick in the clinic of Professor Lichwitz in Hamburg, Germany and was continued at Professor Vo.i Lichtenburg’s clinic in Berlin. , It is extremely interesting to note that Dr. Swick, Professor Lichwitz and Professor Von Lichtenburg were present to discuss this new advance in scientific medicine. A drug, which is a derivative of iodine and pyridine, may be injected into the veins and after a brief period X-ray pictures may be made of the kidneys which will reveal them as well outlined as when instruments are used to get the material into the kidney by injection through the bladder and the ureters. The method is extremely valuable and while it will not’ displace the former method completely, it gives opportunity to the general physician to carry on much of this work which able for him.
HEYWOOD BROUN
This impressed me. He made no good case at all in describing the incidents which had brought him to his faith. There could even have been some experience so personal that he could not bring himself to talk of it. Or, and this, I think more likely, subtle forces of one sort or another won him over almost without his knowledge. Others as fervent in the faith as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have died and sent no messages back to the living. At least, none worthy of belief. Codes and secret pass have been established at times to make the authenticity of the communication certain. No such arrangement will be necessary in the case of Conan Doyle. He need even not return himself in spirit to carry conviction to me. The death of Conan Doyle conveys a double sorrow. He has gone, and until I hear to the contrary, Sherlock Holmes went with him. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)
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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.
.JULY 10, 1930
M. E. Tracy
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French Doctors Refuse to Be Convinced That Hundreds of People Are Not Buried Alive. A CONNECTICUT judge decides that swapping liquor for tips on the stock market is illegal: Police Commissioner Mulrooney of New York says the airplane is a great aid to criminals; Secretary Mellon's son Paul would rather be a publisher than a banker; Theodore Dreiser suggests that since Wall Street is running the country, it ought to be moved to Washington; and the French chamber of deputies discusses ways and means to prevent burial alive. Each of these items furnishes excellent subject matter for an editorial, but the last is easily the most interesting, as Edgar Allan Poe proved. Who has not shuddered at the idea of waking up in a coffin, and who has not heard whispered tales of how some exhumed corpse showed signs of a violent struggle, or how some poor devil was rescued just in time? nun France Is Morbid A MORBID streak runs through all races, but it rises to preeminence in France. In no other country is Poe so generally admired or respected. In no other country does the weird and fantastic play such a part, not only in folk lore and literature, but in politics. Every so often the question of how to prevent burial alive crops up in the French parliament, with coroners, doctors, undertakers and morgue keepers trotting out the same old stuff. “One in 500 buried alive.” it is asserted, just as though it had not been asserted dozens of times before, and the cleverest physicians still can be fooled by trance. a tt tt Ether Proves Death YOU can hold a mirror close to the mouth without a particle of steam appearing on it, we are told, or a feather which refuses to tremble, and still not be sure that life is extinct. So, too, you can hold the hand before a bright light and see no red glow between the fingers, without being certain. But Dr. Dervieux of the medicallegal institution and chief coroner of France says that science has discovered more dependable means of determining death. A dead body will expel ether, he declares, while a live one will absorb it, and the injection of a small quantity will prove the difference. In the same way, flouresciene injected in small doses will cause the body to take on a greenish tint if still alive. Another reliable test, according to Dr. Dervieux, is to write invisible letters with lead acetate and hold it to the nose. If the letters appear, the body is dead since they are brought out by the sulfhydric gas which emanates from the corpse. tt tt tt Doctors Are Obstinate THE French deputies, thirty-five doctors among them, refuse to be convinced. Many of the doctors persist in the idea that it is impossible to be sure whether a person is dead for at least two days. A law providing for the verification of death by scientific means does not satisfy them and the chamber may be asked to make the socalled “coup de grace” obligatory, by which the attending doctor would inject a deadly poison into the body before authorizing burial. In other words, be sure they’re dead, even if you have to kill ’em, tt tt tt Tough on Victim INSOFAR as it reassures the survivors, such a method may be statesmanlike and scientific, but it is pretty tough on the victim. Admitting that the prevention of burial alive is highly desirable, the really important thing would seem to be rescue of the alleged corpse. Fortunately, we Americans do not have to argue this point, since embalming and cremation have become popular. Incidentally, that may help <x> explain why we prefer Hollywood to Poe. It’s not a bad idea to take time out now and then and learn what other people are talking about, what problems worry them and what remedies they propose. More often than not, it leaves one with the impression that America is fairly sane. How many daily newspapers are published in the United States? Two thousand two hundred and forty-eight. What state leads in the number of registered motor vehicles? New York whose total registration for 1928 was 2,083,492, almost 300,000 more than California, the second state.