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An Inside View Citizens interested in the speedometer of justice now have an accurate survey of the rate at which decisions of the supreme court may be expected. Judge Clarence Martin gave the statistics to the lawyers of the state. The judge showed that under the rules of the court each member receives the same number of cases for review'. After the opinions are written, the other judges discuss his conclusions and either agree or dissent. If a majority disagree with his reasoning, anew opinion is written. In his report Judge Martin says that his own docket will be clear, if no new cases arc received, in about six months and Judge Gemmill will require only four months. One of the other judges is two years in arrears, another working at present speed will take three years and a third will require about five years. Five years is not a very long time, if a long view of history is taken. It is infinitesimal if contrasted with the years that have passed since the Chaldeans first established their civilization. However, five years is quite a long time if a person happens to be in prison. It is quite a long time for a widow fighting for justice and money damages for the loss of a husband. It is a very long time for a litigant who may be nearing the three-score mark and needs money awarded in lower courts to keep out of a poorhouse. One of the reasons for anew Constitution is that there is no way of speeding up justice under the present law. Judges of the high court are beyond any control of the people if they fall into indolent or negligent habits. There is no way to force any judge to work at all at the job if, after his election, he chooses to snooze his way through the six years for which he was chosen. Swift and certain justice is necessary. Growing disrespect for law and courts is becoming a grave question. Certainly the inside view of the present condition in the supreme court as given by Judge Martin does not give any great cause for applause. Senator Heflin’s Troubles Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama, noted for his bitter attacks on the Catholic church and his efforts to stir up religious hatred, is having his troubles in Alabama. Tom deserted his party ticket in 1928 because he saw in the candidacy of Governor Smith an attempt by the pope to gain control of the government. Asa consequence, his name can not appear as a Democrat in the primaries. He has been forced to organize an independent ticket, and a candidate for Governor who also had bolted the ticket will run with him. The meeting at which his candidacy was indorsed was said not to have been very enthusiastic. He has formidable opposition in the two candidates running in the regular primary, one of them John H. Bankhead. son of the late United States Senator Bankhead and brother of Representative Bankhead. Thus the religious issue will figure in the Alabama elections in November as it did in 1928, and we may expect from Heflin more of the intemperate outbursts with which he has wearied the senate and the country in recent years. Religion—Protestant, Catholic. Jewish, or what not —is not and should not be a political issue. Religious freedom is fundamental in the American scheme. Heflin, by introducing the issue, arouses bigotry and intolerance. For this reason there will be little complaint abou the punishment given him for his views, although in normal circumstances there probably would be. The count rjfcWill be pleased if the voters see fit to remove Heflftf from the senate, not alone because it would silence him. His defeat also would provide a salutary lesson for other politicians of his type who might be tempted to capitalize on the religious question. Value of Competition The two largest mall order houses in the country have announced price reductions ranging from 10 to 25 per cent. Goods will sell more cheaply than at any other time in a decade. No doubt this reflects ir. some degree the continually declining prices of commodities here and in other countries. Also the need for stimulating trade in a timi of depression probably is a factor. It is noteworthy, however, that one of the concerns cut prices and the other followed, to meet competition. Here is an enlightening example of the value of competition in this day of business mergers and consolidations. Where it is necessary to vie for the trade of the consumers, consumers get the benefit of lower prices. Governor Young’s Fears To a man out of prison, six weeks may rot seem a long time. To a man in prison it is a long time indeed. The fact that the man in prison has been there fourteen years doesn't make the six weeks seem any shorter Governor Young of California, in putting off until after Aug. 26 the time when he will hear John MacDonald. is being a little less than humane to Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings—assuming, of course, the Governor is prepared to accept MacDonald's repudiation of the testimony which sent Mooney and Billings to prison. It is gratifying, to be sure, to know that the Governor is prepared to give MacDonald this hearing. But if he is doing it on the theory that California may have done the two imprisoned men a grave injustice, it seems reasonable to expect that he would lose no time when the long-missing witness was found. If the men are innocent, every additional day they are held increases the degree of the state’s offense. The Governor does not wish to act in the matter until after the primary, at which he is a candidate for renomination, lest he be with

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political motives. Surely, he is more sensitive on this score than he need be. MacDonald’s discovery having beers made, it merely becomes a question of the Governor acting as swiftly as possible to right a wrong, if wrong has been done, or end the widespread belief that a wrong has been done. What political capital could be made against the Governor we can not see. Suppose an earthquake were to shake down the walls of some California city. Would the Governor delay sending aid, for fear his motives would be misunderstood? Frankly, he has done the one thing capable of being misunderstood. He has delayed action again. To the long list of delays that have marked the handling of this vitally important matter, the Governor—now that justice seems nearer than ever before—has added one more delay. We do not impugn his motives, but if he is afraid of being misunderstood if seems to us that he has taken the one course most likely to have that result. From the practical standpoint there is every reason th?.t the hearing of Mf.cDonald should be expedited. Prematurely old, crippled with rheumatism, his nerves shaky and his heart apparently raw with remorse, MacDonald may not always be available. The Governor should hear him while he can. Six weeks from now may be too late. It’s a Complex World No nation lives for itself alone in this modem world. Isolation is a thing of the past. Things that happen on one side of the world have their effect clear around on the other side. The Indian boycott on British cloth, and the resultant depression in England’s cotton mills, have hit Germany’s cotton textile industry a severe blow. The boycott, cutting down the British textile manufacturers’ market, has given Europe a surplus of textiles and has caused prices to go down. So the Germans, who have nothing whatever to do with the Anglo-Indian question, are suffering the effects of it just as the English are. That is the way the nations are tied together in this century. Events that are seemingly entirely unrelated exert a profound effect on one another.

Forgetful Investors Apparently a great many of the people who bought Liberty bonds were inspired more by patriotism than by a desire to put their money in a sound investment. At any rate, the treasury department announces that buyers of such bonds are losing about $1,000,000 a year in interest through failure to redeem bonds on which interest has ceased. More than $37,000,000 worth of federal securities which have ceased to bear interest are still in the hands of investors. Most of them, probably, lie in various safety deposit boxes, half forgotten by their owners. If you happen to hold such bonds, it would be a good idea for you to redeem them and put your money where it can earn an income for you. It is startling to think that $37,000,000 is lying idle simply because of carelessness. It is reported in London newspapers that Queen Mary smokes cigarets. Maybe that’s why, when she steps out of the royal carriage, there are a great many people there to help her to alight. Wonder if husbands really expect wives to believe them when they send a vacation postcard home reading, "Wish you were here.” A Pittsburgh couple had a fancy plane wedding 3,000 feet in the air—and like ell other couples, right after the ceremony they “came down to earth.” Firemen in an Illinois town have been instructed to answer all alarms clads in their pajamas. With hose to match, probably. “Money,” says Max Schmeling, “is not everything.” And to those who paid to see him fight, money, apparently, is nothing. In France there are ten times as many bicycles as autos. The same proportion might exist here if we also had an opportunity to handle bars.

REASON

PRESIDENT HOOVER gets even with senators for all past offenses by calling this extra session during the blistering weather. What a merry soul he must be over the week-end as he tosses his bait into the cool Rapidan and thinks of Borah, writhing in the steaming capital! a a a This countenance of George Washington which Gutzon Borglum has carved on the granite side of Mt. Rushmore in North Dakota is sixty feet long and 6,200 feet above sea level—the greatest piece of facelifting in history. a a a A man has to be long on courage or short on sense to go over Niagara in a barrel, as did this Greek last week, but the real Niagara adventure was that of Blondin, who back in the 60 s stretched a wire above the falls and walked it. That called for concentration, also nonchalance. a a a THE most talked of event last week was the radio speech of the Prince of Wales, but the most Important piece of work was done by a wire-haired terrier which saved a little girl from a rattlesnake. a a a Whenever a hero returns to America he spends the first week reviewing the keys to cities and the second week, visiting the graves of famous Americans there to salute and be photographed. a a a Roy Elmer Morgan, editor of the Journal of the National Educational Association, declares that before long the average working day in the United States wil be only four hours long, which will be terrifying news to many wives. a a a Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is trying to get West Point military academy to reinstate a boy who was dismissed because he had bad teeth. Glass should inform the academy that George Washington, who did some real commanding, had false teeth. a a a THE conference of governors agreed that one of the great problems of state government is to give employment to convicts without bringing them into competition with free labor. The way to do this is to use the prisoners for road building; there's enough of this work to last forever. a a a Congressman Box of Texas, apprehended in Tennessee for reckless driving, was let go when he pleaded his ‘constitutional rights!" When the gentlemen who make out laws break our laws, how can you expect common folks to obey them! a a a Representative Chalmers of Ohio wants the department of justice to investigate the pie trust, but what needs investigation is the piagcrust.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

We Are All Children of the Sun and Our Existence Depends Upon Its Rays. SUMMER is a season of cheerfulness because it is a season of bright sunshine. Something within mankind responds to the call of the sun. It has been so since the early days of humanity. Perhaps, there is some deep-seated biological reason. Animals instinctively seek the sun for its health-giving rays. That same instinct, perhaps, lurks in mankind. Wo are all children of the sun. Our earth and all that is upon it, the green trees, the flowers, the birds and animals, ourselves, too, for that matter, were all, once upon a time, white hot gases in the outer regions of the sun. According to the generally accepted theory, our earth and its moon, and the other planets and their moons or satellites, all originated from gaseous material which was pulled out of the sun by the gravitational Influence of a great star which nassed by our sun. No one, of course, knows how life came into existence upon this earth. But most authorities think that it was the energy of sunlight which called life into existence. Living matter, or protoplasm, to give it the scientific name, is distinguished from nonliving matter by the possession of an excess store of energy. u n n Tides MANY authorities think that living matter originated in the tidal pools, the region along the edge of the sea where little pools of water are left behind by the recession of the tide. Here in the sands, they think, various mixtures of salts were left by the receding waters. One day, the proper combination of chemical materials formed a thin film upon the sands, a glue-like mixture of the kinds which chemists call colloidal. The sunlight beat down upon this colloidal film and it began to absorb the energy of sunlight. Its excess energy turned the tiny colloidal globules into little bundles of activity and they floated away upon the returning tide as the first globules of living matter. Thus, many authorities believe, life started upon earth with the aid of the energy of sunlight. Life today is dependent upon sunlight. The earth receives its heat and light from the sun. If the sun suddenly were to go out, nothing would remain but the feeble glow of the stars. The moon and planets, which shine by reflected sunlight, would become invisible. The temperature of the earth would drop to zero in less than a day. By the end of a few days, the oceans, the lakes and the rivers would be frozen solid. Soon after the earth’s atmosphere would begin to freeze. It would fall to the earth’s surface as a layer of liquid air. Then this layer of liquid air would itself freeze. The story of life on the earth would be over. a u tt Life SUNLIGHT is needed to maintain life. Plants grow by the aid of sunlight. Our food is either plants or animals who in their turn live upon plants. It is obvious, therefore, that ii plants stopped growing, we all would starve to death. The energy which plants need to grow is the energy of sunlight. The process involved is known as photosynthesis. Plants with the aid of sunlight build up their tissues from the carbon dioxide of the air and the water of the soil. The carbon dioxide and water are put together with the energy of sunlight into carbohydrates. The commonest carbohydrates are sugars and starches. Further processes within the plant tissue change some of the carbohydrates into fats and proteins. Sunlight also plays an important part in the growth of animals. Rickets, a disease in which the bones fail to grow and develop properly, occurs when infants—or young animals of any sort—do not get enough sunlight. Many ancient peoples worshiped the sun. Os all the ancient worship of material things, that of the sun was the most reasonable, for the role which the sun plays in life can hardly be overestimated. Professor Edwin B. Frost of the Yerkes observatory has said that if he were inclined to worship any materiM thing, he could find none more worthy than the sun. Toe ly, however, we have, carried worship from the material to the spiritual plane.

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ST. SWITHIN’? DAY July 15

ON July 15, 865 A. D., the legend arose that if it rained on the day it would continue to do so for the forty days succeeding. The story is connected with St. Swithin, Bishop of Winchester, and tutor to King Alfred. At his request, he was burled in the churchyard of the abbey where “passersby might tread n his grave, and where the rain from the eaves might fall on it.” After his canonization in 865 it was resolved to remove hi! remains to the chancel—the customary burying place of the bishops—and July 15 was appointed for the ceremony But on that day and for forty days thereafter, St. Swithin, to testify his displeasure, caused rain to fall so heavily that the monks abandoned their nian as blasphemous. That is how popular superstition has come to regard this day as being of meteorological significance. Careful observation kept at the Greenwich observatory for a period of twenty v ars, however, show this superstition to be without foundation.

Daily Thought

Be not rash with thy me > — Ecclesiastes 5:2. • Rashness is the fruitful but unhappy parent of misfortune.— Thomas Fuller.

Another Endurance Flight Nears an End!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Eye Trouble Often Due to Tonsils

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyreia, the Health Magazine. FOR at least twenty years the interest of medicine has been centered particularly upon the possibility that infections in the teeth, tonsils, joints and in other places—-so-called focal infections—may be carried to the eye, the heart, the brain, the spinal cord, or other parts and there new infections be set up. Os particular interest is the manner in which the eye may become infected in this manner. Recently Dr. A. F. MacCallan of London has described various types of disorders of the eye which were relieved by the recognition of such an infection and by its removal. Os particular interest were certain cases in which the eyes were constantly filled with fluid or tears—a symptom called lacrimation. A woman 32 years old whose eyes always were watering was found to

IT SEEMS TO ME

A NUMBER of high-minded and morally inclined editorial commentators in New York are pleased because the police have arrested Earl Carroll and performers from his show, “The Vanities.” The moralists hold that Carroll defied the prevalent standards of the community and that legal action was necessary. But these moralists are singularly ill-informed in the strategy of ballyhoo. The plain truth of the matter is that Carroll, despite his protestations, welcomed the raid as much as the moralists did. The action of the police may be just the needed fillip to establish one of the most tiresome revues ever put on in a Broadway theater. Os course, Carroll must gamble with the possibility of a conviction, which would be costly both to him and the owners of the playhouse where his attraction appears. But, since every production constitutes a risk, there is no reason to believe that he quails before this present chance. Obscenity convictions are hard to obtain against theatrical performances. The burden rests too heavily upon the prosecution. Asa rule, the things complained of are not actual lines written down in black and white, but some piece of business indulged in by a performer. tt u u Police and Art IN the case of “The Vanities,” it is necessary for Acting Police Captain James J. Coy to get upon the witness stand and enact that part of Jimmy Savo’s performances, which seemed to him objectionable. I am not familiar with the dramatic equipment of this particular police captain, but the chances are that he will not do it very well. The actor, naturally enough will protest that this is nothing like his own conception to the role. And the cjaances are that any magistrate or jury will agree that the original performer could not have been quite as bad as that. Since the imitation admittedly will be an approximation, that benefit of the doubt which protects all defendants is likely to rise up as shield and buckle for Carroll. Tn

HOME JUST A RAIL STATION, SAYS CHIC “Unless the women of America make a decided effort to return to the business of home-making, the most vital institution of the country is threatened,” says Mrs. Thomas Edison, wife of the man who is so tickled over inventin’ electric lights that he hates to sleep nights. Well, sir. Mrs. Edison is right, and 111 tell you why. The way things are runnin’ now, the wife just drops by home now anJ then to unload her bridge prizes, the grown daughter comes dashin’ in every few days to repaint, the grown son shows up at midnight to fill his flask, and the smaller children visit there in the spring long enough to put away their school books and get out their summer camp clothes. The only time the head of the house can be sure of findin' anybody at home is when he gets a payday. The home no longer is an American institution. It is more like a railroad station, where everybody is just passin’ through. Things are gettin’ so in this country n • a that I’ll bet even the poet Eddie vzJu* VP cult, Guast don’t stay at home. icopyriant John f. no* co.)

have a considerable number of badly infected teeth. No other cause for such a disturbance of the eye could be ascertained. When the tooth condition was cleared up, the eye condition cleared up promptly. The result may have been coincidence, but it is reasonable to believe that there might also be a cause and effect relationship. Inflammation of the eyelids frequently is associated with the presence of enlarged and infected tonsils. Sometimes these conditions are treated by lotions and ointments and by the provision of glasses and they will seem to improve temporarily, but the improvement will not be permanent until the infected teeth and tonsils are removed. The most serious of the types of infection are ulcers of the eye, frequently are associated with infections in the mouth. In the presence of ulceration with a severe infection of the mouth, it is advisable

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advance of a final decision, I predict that no penalties will be assessed against the producer. tt tt Double Knockout CARROLL’S discretion and taste seem to me abominable, and yet I still have no enthusiasm for allowing the police to act as guardians of the name of art. Indeed, in a contest between a dumb producer and a dumb policeman, I am more or less neutral. The only wholly satisfactory conclusion would be a double knockout. A few editorial writers have gone to the length of assuming that court action properly might mean a review of the blunders in taste committed by Carroll. One newspaper man has even suggested that the court properly might take steps to compel the producer to eliminate a scene in which a snatch of the Gettysburg address follows a jazz dance by the chorus. I will agree that is possibly among the gravest of Carroll’s crimes. I think that his former exploit, for which he was punished, of giving a girl a more or less public bath in champagne, pales beside this new offense. But this is not a matter included in the complaint. -We have no satisfactory machinery by which bad taste can be made reviewable at law. The most effective and practical policy of rebuking Earl Carroll does not lie in trials and summonses. A concerted drive upon the part of the inhabitants of New York to stay away in droves would be helpful and I also suggest loud fvnd long-drawn yawns from those who happen to attend the rowdy charade. a a a Pits Deep and Dull INDEED, upon the occasion of the first night I had in mind a personal revenge after I had been bored to tears by one long and plaguing number. Unfortunately, the necessary equipment was not handy. Carroll has been struck by the idea of attacking prohibition by means of song and dance and tableaux. A dull and tedious song is inter-

that the dental treatment be immediate, since every movement of delay may make the condition more serious. There are, of course, certain forms of disorders of the eye which are apparently in no way related to focal infection; for example, cataracts. In an attempt to handle this condition, numerous cases have been studied in which every possible foci of infection have been relieved, and yet the cataracts did not improve nor was their development delayed. It is possible that the disturbance of the eye is caused not by the germ carried to the eye, but by the development of the poisonous products of the germs and the effects of these poisons upon the tissue of the eye. It long has been known that the eye is sensitive to various types of poison, and that blindness or inflammation of the eye is infrequently is not an early symptom of various forms of intoxication.

Ideal? and oclnlona expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most interestlnf writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naner.—The Editor.

rupted periodically to show the signing of the Declaration of Independence, our brave boys in France, and the immortal Lincoln speaking at Gettysburg. The precise bearing of these exhibits upon the problem at hand was never apparent to me. But as the business dragged on and on throughout the punishing minutes of a soggy evening, I resolved that if I could only find an application blank for membership in the Anti-Saloon League. I would sign on the dotted line before leaving the theater. If I were a moralist, and perhaps I eventually may become one, I would resent the aid which police are prone to give to producers like Earl Carroll, who have dug for themselves pits as deep and dull as “The Vanities of 1930.” (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

Questions and Answers

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.JULY 15, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Public Can Be Depended ' On to Take Care of Itself, if Given Proper Information. i WHEAT goes down, but bread stays up. Samuel R. McKelvie of the federal farm board wants to know why. It is a rather interesting question. If the farmer has to take less, why shouldn't the housewife pay less? If the housewife paid less, wouldn’t she be tempted to buy more? Middlemen are the bugs under the chip, of course, and their marauding should be curtailed, If not eliminated. But, considering the peculiar economic structure we have developed, what would they do if they weren't middlmen? How are we going to strike a fair balance, not only as between producer and consumer, but as between both and those who handle the goods? n Leaves It to Public M’KELVIE says that all the farm board can do is get information and distribute it, with the hope that public opinion will do the rest. Atfer all, that seems like a very sensible way. If public opinion is intelligent enough and strong enough to run the government, it ought to be intelligent enough and strong enough to buy bread at the right price, or meat and milk. Sometimes the public finds itself in a helpless position, but, more often than not, it can take care of itself. More often than not, the only reason it fails to take care of itself is because it doesn’t realize what is going on. We continually are underestimating the public’s intelligence and overestimating its information. n tt tt The Politicians 'Protect' ' IN spite of all that has been said about the wisdom and defectiveness of democracy, many politicians think the public would lose its eyeteeth if they were not constantly on the job “protecting” it. That is one reason why we have all the laws, boards and bureaus, and why all the boards and bureaus forever are assuming more power. The federal trade commission was created to prevent monopoly and enforce the anti-trust laws, by promoting “fair competition.” Since advertising appeared to play a part in competition, whether fair or unfair, the commission undertook to censor it in certain cases. Now comes a United States circuit court declaring that this is wrong, that the federal trade commission exceeds its authority in undertaking to tell people how they may or may not advertise their wares. At first glance this would look like a victory for fake or unreliable advertising, but, as with regard to bread, the public can be depended on to take care of itself, if given proper information.

'Quacks' by Thousands IN this connection, the National Better Business Bureau is doing good work. It has just compiled a list of 25,000 quacks for the health department of New York City, and published a report snowing how bankers, merchants and other prominent people are being "racketeered” by publicity salesmen. “Get your photograph and biography In all the big papers for SI,OOO, or even $100.” It’s hard to imagine any one with ordinary common sense falling for the bunk, out they do. Some twenty firms sailing under the name of “press associations,” “press bureaus,” or “press syndicates” are working the racket, according to the National Better Business Bureau, and cleaning up $1,000,000 a year. tt tt Somebody Pays YOU can see the result in ’’booster histories” of cities, counties or even states, in fly-by-night magazines that adopt a name just close enough to that of some good one to fool people, and in the tons of press-agent stuff that fills the waste basket of every great newspaper office. Somebody pays for it, of course, and as a general proposition that somebody is regarded as very shrewd and hard-boiled by his associates. He wouldn’t do it if he knew, which means that information is the remedy. “Give light and the people will find their own way” is a maxim that applies to more things than politics. Most of us can be misled because we have neither time nor opportunity to make fine distinctions, because we have learned to put faith in names, and because sharp salesmen can fool us by presenting a card or an ‘flea which appears to represent something we have been trained to trust. How old is James Eads How, the mL'llonaire hobo? About 61. How many popular votes did Harding and Cox receive in the presidential election of 1920? President Harding received 16,162,200, and Cox received 9,147,353. Should one say a person was hanged or hung? Hanged is the correct way to express the execution of a person by hanging. Is penny the proper name for the 1-cent piece? Technically it is 1 cent. Penny is merely a colloquial term for the coin. What time was made by Gallant Fox which won the Kentucky Derby? Two minutes 7 3-5 seconds. Does embalming cause the flesh to petrify? Under some conditions, flesh will petrify like wood. It is not clearly understood by sicentists just what the natural process Ls which brings this about, but it can not be accomplished by embalming or other artificial means. W’hat is Gene Arthur’s real name? Gladys Greene Arthur.