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Mrs. McCormick’s Expenses *1 • total spent by Mrs. Medill McCormick and her friends to obtain the Republican senatorial nomination for her In Illinois was $325,993.96 —according to the latest tabulation. Os this amount, Mrs. McCormick admits spending $251,572.30 of her own money. She lias spent a quarter million dollars to obtain a nomination for an office that will pay her in salary SIO.OOQ a year—or considerably less than it will cost her to live in the style to which she is accustomed in Washington. And that's just for the nomination. She still has to meet the redoubtable, vote-getting Jim Ham Lewis in the election campaign. If Lewis proves as strong as the political writers predict, it may cost another quarter million to beat him—or even to try to beat him. Mrs. McCormick offers the same plausible excuse for her lavish use of money that many another senatorial candidate has offered. Why, says she, even to send one letter to each voter in the state telling ■why she should be nominated costs umpty-ump thousands of dollars! It is absurd, she says, to hold a candidate down to an expenditure that would not eji? h le her to make the acquaintance of the voters. Passing this by for the moment—for there is some merit in the complaint—let's lock a little closer at Mrs. McCormick's expenses. One To Lucius Wilson for his services in organizing the “Voters' Progressive Club” a club to work for Mrs. McCormick —$25,725. That's a little different from the cost of paper and postage, isn't it? No, the fact is that the senator's widow went out to win the nomination by spending money. If the United States senate is to be literally what it sometimes is called—the millionaires' club—perhaps no exception could be taken to this course. The assumption would be ‘hat in every state the man best fitted for the senate is the nan with most money. A good deal of time and trouble could be saved by allowing the candidates to match dollars. But the fact is that the best men in some of the states, at least, arc not the wealthiest. Here and there can be found one who has devoted his lifetime to something besides making money—the public welfare and things like that. The theory of Mrs. McCormick, Newberry’, Vare et al. would exclude these from the senate. There simply has to be some limitation on money spending. . Some of the states are working toward an intelligent method. They make the total a candidate may spend very small. But they provide that each candidate, to an equal extent, shall reach each registered voter in his state with a statement of his record and his personal platform. The state pays the postage and printing bill. This f ives the candidate who is poor—in money—an even chance with the candidate who has millions. A Five-Billion Dollar Congress Year by year the cost of the federal government Increases. Representative William R. Wood of Indiana, ghaTman of the house appropriations committee, figures the total appropriated by the session of congress just ended as $4,597,555,000. an increase of $208,300.000 over last year. Senator Wesley L. Jones, chairman of the appropriations committee of the upper house, offers similar figures. Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, a Democrat, points out that this does not tell the (rhole story. Appropriations made by the special sesiion likewise should be included, he argues, to show the record of the congress, which brings the total to $5,124.000,000 —the five-billion-dollar congress in peace time. Byrns calculates the increase over the preceding year's appropriations at $459,003,062. Wood insists congress w - as economical, and points out that most increases were for roads, public buildings, rivers and harbors, farm aid and veterans’ relief. But Byrns accuses the Republicans of a "riot of extravagance,” complains of huge tax refunds and points out that the number of federal employes has Increased by nearly 20,000. Whatever the merits of conflicting political claims, the fact can not be escaped that expenses have been climbing, year after year, and there seems to be no way to hold them down. Increases are anticipated in succeeding years. This congress, in fact, committed the government to the expenditure of nearly $1,000,000,000 in the next few years, in addition to the ordinary cost of running things. The situation is a cause for concern. If the trend continues higher taxes are inevitable. Indeed, it is by no means certain that the 1 per cent reduction applying to tills year's income tax payments can be maintained next year, since the stock market crash, low farm prices and the general business depression will reduce incomes. California’s Immediate Duty (From the New York Herld-Tribune) The Mooney case is a bewilderingly rapid drama. No sooner had the Governor denied a pardon to Mooney, suggesting, however, that if one of the witnesses who had recanted ten years ago could be fourrse. he would reopen the case and hear him, than the Scripps-Howard newspapers offered a reward for the missing man, and within two days MacDonald was found, a broken old man serving as a night elevator operator in a Baltimore apartment house And the attorneys hardly had dried the ink on his affidavit reaffirming his story of perjured testimony at the Mooney trial, and hardly tackled the problem of paying MacDonald s fare to California, than Governor Young came forward with a handsome offer to pay the railroad expenses out of his own pocket. The sooner this tangle is unraveled, the better. California will honor itself most by the promptest and most searching investigation of this long-drawn-out tragedy. We do not understand the suggestion that no further steps should be taken until after California’s gubernatorial primary on Aug. 26. lest the case be dragged into politics. Only evasion can make It a political issue. MacDonald's story that he was paid for giving false testimony makes him out a shoddy enough character in the first instance; but he clearly is entitled to his chance to go back to California and make a ckan breast of the whole affair. It should be possible rapidly to check his story of the circumstances which led to his supposed identification of Mooney and Billings. If it should turn out that these are merely the mumblings of a weakminded old man, he should be sent to an institution which could take proper care of him. But if he is telling the truth, then California has a blot to wipe off its escutcheon, and it would seem natural for the Governor of the state to wish to (Start the cleaning wi rk at once.

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In the Land of Equality A young fellow hunting for a Job at Logans port becomes first page news, not because he is out of work and hunting for a job (there are many such), but because he happened to win the love of a girl who will inherit a fortune. Instead of pondering on the emotional or mental reactions of a newsboy who marries an heiress or the heiress who finds companionship with a newsboy, we might reflect to advantage upon the state of an American mind which makes this situation interesting beyond that of romances of two people who are both young, both poor. The young woman in question did nothing to gain or earn the fortune. Her wealth was due to the accident of birth. Otherwise she is just the same beautiful, healthy, normal girl as may be found in every store, factory, office or farm. The youth does not differ from other youths, except that he may have had a larger ambition than others. It so happens that he wanted to become an electrical engineer, and had spent leisure hours in trying to prepare himself for that useful service to society. He was apparently what we would like all young men to be, courageous to overcome present obstacles for the sake of future benefits, ambitious to do something which interested him, determined enough to carry on when temptations to do easier things assailed. We do not find anything unusual in the fact that thousands of young men love beautiful, healthy, serious minded girls or that thousands of girls love young men of courage, ambition and determination. But this couple, because the girl has or will have, a large amount of money, is hounded from town to town and the sentimental are bathosed by the romance, the skeptical crude in their comments, and nearly all under the delusion that here is a peculiar phenomenon of romance, psychology and sociology. This country has traveled quite a distance from Plymouth Rock. It has detoured considerably from Philadelphia where men solemnly wrote their belief that all men are born “free and equal.” Perhaps we might examine ou’•selves and ask how strongly we believe in equality and how much in snobbery. We might ask what may come when a nation discovers vast differences between human beings who have money and those who have none. We might ask, with profit to the nation and ourselves, the basis of true values, human and otherwise. A Bigger Nuisance Views of postmasters on a plan of distributing unaddressed circulars to every person in any city by letter carriers have been sought by the third assistant postmaster general. By this plan mail carriers in Indianapolis and other cities would become distributers of advertising dodgers all over the town. The cluttering up of the mails with unsolicited circulars already is a nuisance resented by many persons, but this plan, if put into effect, would be more than a nuisance; it would be an unbearable affront. This is no proper postoffice function. The service now is burdened with a flood of addressed circulars, 90 per cent of which are unwelcome to those who receive them. The mere manual labor of sorting them out of the legitimate mail and casting them into the waste basket is costly of time and money in every big business house. Bulk of this circular mail also slows up the mail service and causes constant annoyance from delays. Important letters frequently are held up for hours. Instead of seeking new ways to annoy its patrons, the postofflee department would better put restrictions on the type of matter now carried first class. There should be some way whereby bona fide letter mail would be given perference in delivery over printed or mimeographed circulars. At any rate, even if it has a legal right to do so, the postofflee department should not become a wholesale circular distributing agency. Some people can spend a more enjoyable vacation alone because there is nobody around to listen to their symptoms. Golf to Bobby Jones seems to be a matter of course. There is talk of producing a play about Admiral Byrd. The story very likely will be built around old Aunt Arctic and a couple of Poles.

REASON

IN his daily newspaper offerings, Mr. Coolidge assures us that everything in the United States is in the jink of condition and that the people should forthwith stop all their complaining. Who couldn’t be an optimist at the rate of $3 a word? a tt u Statistics of the casualties of our last observance of the Fourth of July show that it was much more sanguinary than the mattle of Bunker Hill. o tt u Since Bobby Jones captured all the golf cups in England and Helen Wills Moody, Big Bill Tilden and Wilmer Allison have waked off with all of the English tennis ribbons, John Bull probably now will try to get us into a London conference to scrap our athletes. tt u u T'WO hundred fourteen members of the Mafia have 1 been placed on trial in one bunch in Sicily, charged with murder. When he gets through at home and mop up Chicago. Mussolini should take * week eff and come over here tt a a We’ve made some progress at any rate; where once we blamed all of the cussedness on the Russians, we now blame it on the primary. tt a tt There would seem to be too much attention paid to the selection of a national chairman for the Republicans, inasmuch they haven’t needed any since 1916, thanks to the hearty co-operation of the Democrats. a a a The Chinese are about the only people who do not practice birth control, evidently thinking that there’s a bigger thrill in reducing the surplus by shooting it full of holes. a m m VICE PRESIDENT CURTIS rode horses going in opposite directions in his New Jersey speech when he eulogized Dwight Morrow, then declared for the enforcement o fthe constittuion and all its amendments. tt tt The prohibition enforcement authoirties at Washington have decreed that hip slapping must stop, thereby establishing the proposition that man’s hip is his castle. a a • Now that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, England’s leading spiritualist, has crossed the great divide, the faithful impatiently will await greetings from the other shore. m m m While so many other South American countries are eager to shed their old reliable life preserver, it is good to hear Brazil give thanks Uk the Monroe doctrine. !' t , -,-r-

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. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Civilization Began When Men Began to Realize the Existence of Laws in Nature. THE sun furnished the sinews of modern civilization. The modem age is a machine age and machines can not run without power. Coal and oil are the fossil remains of plants and microscopic animals of millions of years ago. Those anL ‘Pt plants grew, just as presentday plants grow, with the energy of sunlight. But the sun is also responsible in another way for modern civilization. Modem civilization is based on the findings of science. Science began with astronomy. And astronomy began with the sun. Most authorities feel that the first astronomical observations were made by the caveman. Night was a time of terror for the Glacial Age. At night, the forests were alive with the glowing eyes of prowling beasts. The caveman huddled around the little fires at the mouths of their caves at night. But when the first red streaks cf dawn lit up the eastern sky, the prowling beasts disappeared and the caveman felt free to wander forth in search of food and adventure. So the caveman learned to watch the sun. And in doing so, he became the world’s first astronomer.

Sunrise THE caveman learned to watch for the sunrise and the sunset. The red glow in the eastern sky heralded the beginning of day. The red glow in the western sky heralded the end of the day. He learned to associate the progress of the sun across the sky with the hours of precious sunlight which remained. He learned to know that when the sun was mounting the sky, it was safe to wander far from the cave. But when the sun began to sink toward the west, it was high time to hurry back to the friendly shelter of the cave. Here was the start of observational astronomy. At some later date, but a date still preceding the opening record of history, mankind learned to identify the sun’3 motions with the seasons. Man learned to mark the noonday position of the sun and to note that it differed from day to day. He learned that the sun was low in the sky at noon in winter and high in the sky at noon in summer. Prom the motions of the sun he learned to mark the beginnings of the seasons. Many of the ancient temple buildings and monuments, for example, the stone monuments of the Maya Indians, were astronomical markers. The Maya Indians set up monuments so that when the rising sun was in line with certain ones of them, the beginning of spring had arrived. Until astronomers got under way, nature was all caprice to the early men. Their religious and superstitions show it. Rivers and trees and stones were imbued with spirits whose actions were always the result of caprice. But the observations of astronomy showed the existence of natural law. tt n Laws CIVILIZATION began when men began to realize the existence of laws in nature. As has been pointed out, every machine and every engine now in existence depends upon Newton’s of motion. If modern engineers were robbed of their understanding of these laws, it would be impossible to build an auto or an airplane or a steam engine that would work. Newton’s laws of motion were a restatement of Galileo’s laws of motion. And Galileo, in turn, evolved his law's from a consideration of another set of laws known as Kepler's laws. Kepler's laws w’ere a series of observations concerning the motions of the planets around the sun. So once again the trail has taken to the skies. It is interesting to speculate what the stage of civilization would be today had the sky always been veiled in thick clouds which hid the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars perpetually from the sight of man. Many authorities think that if such had been the case, mankind still would be in the Stone Age, beset by the hardships and the superstitions of that day. Certainly scientific progress would have been set back a century or two. We would not have our present understanding of the laws of nature, and as a result we would not have our present civilization, founded upon the progress of science.

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ASTOR’S BIRTH July 17

ON July 17, 1864, John Jacob Astor, American capitalist, inventor and soldier, was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y. Following his graduation from Harvard in 1888, Astor traveled extensively and afterward devoted his time in the managing of the Astor estates. In 1897 he built the Astoria hotel, New’ York, adjoining the Waldorf hotel, which was built by William Waldorf Astor, his cousin, the two forming one building under the name of Waldorf-Astoria hotel, at the date of completion one of the largest and most costly hotels in the world. The structure was razed recfntly to make way for a modern skyscraper. During the Spanish-American ' war Astor served as staff officer in the Santiago campaign and presented the government a fully equipped mountain battery, which was named for him and which did effective, work in the campaign before Manila. Astor became known as an inventor of several useful devices, such as the bicycle brake and a turbine engine. He was drowned when the Titanic sank in 1912. Who is called the Father of Safety First? Ralph C. Richards, the first man who organized safety work on railroads, in 1910.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Transfusion Has Many Uses in Surgery

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tbe American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ONE of the most dramatic procedures known to .modem medicine, particularly from the point of view of the average man, is the transferring of blood from one person to another. The idea first was suggested and tried in 1667 by a French physician. However, very little was done with it until it was revived in London between 1818 and 1824 and again in Germany between 1860 and 1880. Only recently has it been discovered that the reason for fatalities in these early attempts was the existence of factors in the blood of one person which reacted unfavorably on the blood of another person so as to coagulate the blood or to break up the blood cells. Asa result of modern methods of investigation, these factors have been recognized and stand irdized. Thus it is possible to make tests upon the* person and to-Select per-

IT SEEMS TO ME

MUCH of the agitation for the release of Mooney and Billings has been carried on by the oocialist party. To a large extent, radicals have kept alive the memory that such men were buried in a California prison. But it should not be said and it can not be said that the present drive for belated justice is a party issue. At least, that may not be said unless all factions outside the Socialist ranks are willing to waive claim to honesty and fair dealing. I would rise to no such accusation. I have known honest reactionaries, plenty of them, and once I met a smart one. And there can be crooked radicals. Among the ultra-conservatives I have not had the privilege of tracking down much brilliance and their chief error in judgment lies in the manner in which they, pass by issues which should be their own and freely hand them to groups more radical. In the case of Mooney and Billings, for instance, it is fantastic that complaint should have come, in the early days at least, only from liberals and radicals. It is the conservative who insists that the present structure is competent to bring about all the ideals of mankind. And so if a cog slips here and there he should be the one to worry. After all, it is his machine. tt tt ts Weight of Error PANIC-STRICKEN cries have arisen whenever anybody in any camp has called for anew attitude toward the judiciary. Theodore Roosevelt, himself, became a carmine red to many eyes as soon as he declared in favor of the recall of judicial decisions. It is logical for every ardent supporter of the status quo to strive for the protection of the courts. But he is not quite bright if he fails to see that far-sweeping constitutional amendment is not the only method by which the power and the prestige of courts may be curtailed. The bench can fall of its own weight of error. Throughout the country, people are losing faith in judicial processes, not necessarily because they oppose the system, but because of the manifold examples of stupidity or worse. I’m going to speak at a Socialist rally tonight in favor of long-de-layed justice being done to Billings and Mooney. I really ought to cede my place on the program to someone who could talk with more competence and more authority. It is up to the Wickershams and Roots to leap into the breach. After all, it is the California supreme court which has set up a new and extremely radical heresy in the decision which it reached after reviewing the Mooney and Billings case. In effect, the court has declared that if Mooney and Billings did not explode the bomb at the Preparedness parade at least they might have done it or known something about it. It seems strange to think of the fact that the two convicted, men were not affiliated with any of the

The Elephant and the Mouse

sons for transfusions who are suitable as donors. The uses of blood transfusion are many. In some diseases in which the blood does not coagulate properly, transfusion will save the person’s life until other measures can be taken. In many instances in which there are extensive hemorrhages it is not possible to perform surgical operation because of the aencmia induced by the hemorrhage. It now is common to inject blood to make the person able to undergo the operation. In many diseases affecting the blood and producing weakness, an injection of blood from a suitable donor may mean the difference between life and death. Sometimes the blood fails to contain elements necessary to resist disease. In such case the blood of a person who has a good supply of these elements may be put into the veins and in this way the person whose blood is deficient may be made more resistant. There are various ways of getting

groups which seem radical to the general public today. They were members of the American Federation of Labor, which, for good or ill, now is rated generally as wholly respectable. tt tt tt Pity and Justice IT may be true that the trial judge and the jury honestly arrived at a sincere verdict. The judge and ten of the eleven jurors have had the courage to make public their present opinion that a wrongful verdict was rendered. There was, you see, no lack of evidence against the two defend-

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—John L. Lewis, at one time the United Mine Workers’ president, has violated the injunction “unintentionally.” The newspapers have informed us that the master in chancery, Frank Trutter, so has decided. What a joke! John L. Lewis also has destroyed the greatest organization ever founded—the United Mine workers of America. Did he do that unintentionally? John L. Lewis has caused more sorrow and misery in the coal industry than any living man. Was it done unintentionally? We say no—we even go further and say, he enjoyed his dirty work. Any person interested in the welfare of the coal miners should visit Pennsylvania, District 2, United Mine Workers. He would find conditions as established by John L. Lewis. He would find the truth from the miners. Can you blame the miners for denouncing Lewis as traitor to the world’s greatest organization, the United Mine Workers of America. Does the reader realize what it means to the mother and the father when little children ask for bread, and there is none? Does the reader realize what it means when a miners wife, w’hose husband is away trying to get work, sends two small children a mile to gather potato peelings that they may still their hunger? When John Brophy, president District 2, U. M. W. of A., Pa„ in 1922, came to Indianapolis, and related such sad happenings to John L. Lewis, and pleaded to him for aid for those poverty-stricken miners (John L. Lewis had called the strike), after some twiddling his thumbs in his vest, and leaning back in his chair, Lewis said: “John, you go back home and tell them (the miners) to cut out their luxuries.” That was the great John L. Lewis, at that time leader of half a million organized coal miners whom he has destroyed and led back to slavery days of forty years ago in the coal mines. This is the John L. Lewis, today—the leafier of what? This is the John L. Lewis, who does things “unintentionally.” I am forty years a coal miner and can prove what I have written. S. Af NELSON, 1446 Naomi street.

the blood of one person into the body of another. In an earlier day it was common to sew the vein of one person to the artery of another and to permit the blood to run from one to the other. Then there were developed systems of connecting the vein of one person to the artery of the other by means of glass and rubber tubes. More recently the simplest meth_ od is to draw the blood out of the vein of one person with a specially prepared needle and syringe and then to transfer the syringe to a needle put into the vein of the person who is going to receive the blood and to permit it to flow into his veins in that manner. There are other instances in which it is not necessary or perhaps even desirable to put the blood directly into the vein. In such cases injections of blood may be made into the muscles or sometimes into the abdominal cavity and the ability of the blood for resisting disease in this way transferred to the person who needs it.

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 o t this naper.—The Editor.

lIEYWOOD by BROUN

'ants. Only it didn’t happen to be true. The two chief witnesses have admitted perjury. In the light of this record I fail to see why men of every stripe of political opinion and persons in all ranks of economic life should not join in protest. I am not rabid enough in any faith or sufficiently cynical about people in general to believe that any large number of Americans want to see innocent men suffer life imprisonment. I’m afraid that a few do. Here and there, even in editorial columns, I have come across the amazing doctrine, "Served them right whether they did it or not.” Yet even in these cases I am willing to believe that the expression is the careless thought of some editor too rushed to have time for pity or for justice. Asa matter of fact, let’s leave “pity” out. Perhaps it adds insult to injury to put an innocent man in jail for a dozen years and then free Irm through pity. Justice will cover the case, though by this time even justice is a sorry nag a long time on the road. In fact, the issue of public justice has seldom been more plainly and more sharply drawn. If men can be sent away for life by procured and perjured testimony, which one of us is safe? If an outcry against this sort of justice constitutes radicalism, what honest man dare stand up and call himself conservative? I say get Mooney and Billings out and talk of party labels later. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

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.JULY 17, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Progress Is Not a One-Way Street; If It Creates New Industries, It Destroys Old Ones. ; "T>ACK to bread!” cry the bakers. | " ‘ back 10 the pre-war level, I when each American consumed his five and one-third bushels of wheat each year without batting a lash!” We are getting away with only four and one-fourth now, which means the shrinkage of 130.000,000 bushels in national consumption. Such a condition is not only bad for the farmer, but every one else. As public-spirited citizens, we should meet the issue and do our duty. Neither should the ladies be afraid, because white bread is not fattening, in „pite of all that has been said to the contrary. But if a return to the prewar rate of consumption is desirable, why not a return to the prewar price? b b What of the Coal Man? ACCORDING to Secretary of Labor Davis, the coal man Is in worse shape than the farmer, but one hears no voice proposing increased consumption as a remedy. Instead, we are causing two filling stations to grow where cne grew before, putting in oil burners, and blessing the age of heat without ashes. Progress is not a one-way street. If it creates new industries, it destroys old ones. If we eat less bread, it is not because we are going hungry, but because we have acquired a taste for fruit and vegetables. It is easy to understand what the automobile did to the village smithy, because we can see it as we ride. It is not so easy to understand what tin cans, refrigeration, and the diet craze have done to the dinner table, but they have done quite as much, if not more. B B B Forsake Old Ways TIMES change, not only because we learn new ways, but because we forsake old ones. What is more, times are going to change with ever-increasing rapidity. An English scientist predicts a day when we won t even bother to grow food on the farm or dig fuel from a mine, but will extract them from the air or water. Chemistry, he says, has demon-, strated the possibility of reducing carbonic acid gas to tar, and then extracting benzine, and of taking; our nitrogen straight, instead of through a beefsteak or lamb chop. What a wonderful day it will be when human existence involves no greater effort than to press buttons and swallow pills. 808 Politics to Stay BUT cheer up! No matter how successful w'e may be in solving the economic problems we still shall have politics with us—politics in the form of whoopee, intrigue, and war. Nor should we look upon this as an unmixed evil. We must have something to ah?ue about and guess at, and science promises to leave us nothing outside the field of politics. f It not only visualizes an era of synthetic food and synthetic fuel, but synthetic morality and synthetic religion. What a drab, uninteresting place the world would be after the oldfashioned home, the barnyard, and God had been scrapped, if we couldn’t turn to politics. But we can and we will. B B B War Still in Saddle WE are not losing our appetite for dissension, though some people seem to think so. Seventy ’ per cent of all money collected by the United States government outside the postoffice department still goes to the war god, either through preparation for what may occur, or paying the hill for what has occurred. Let the politicians alone, and before we get through paying for what has occurred, we’ll be in the , middle of what may occur. Perhaps, if we devoted some of our scientific knowledge to human relationship, we would have less to worry about in the economic field. It is not impossible that some of our troubles are due to too much progress in one direction, and not enough in others.

Daily Thought

Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.—Proverb 23:29. Wine has drowned more than the sea.—Publius Syrus.