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The Court Recess A vacation by the supreme court, in spite of the fact that hundreds of cases await decision, may be easily explained. The abrupt declaration of such a iecess in the absence of two members, is not so easily understood. The supreme court is the final word on law and justice. It holds the fate of every citizen who may become involved in litigation of enough importance to reach that body. It is presumed to be a deliberative, calm, unemotional body. Unless it is calm, deliberative, intelligent, all law tails and justice becomes a word in a dictionary. The facts are quite simple. On July 1 there was an announcement that the court would return for deliberation on important matte is on July 21. The judges did return. There were no important decisions. Three of the judges, not waiting for their colleagues, leave the judicial chamber with the announcement that vhey will return only at the call of the chief justice. The three judges who took this action were Willoughby, Myers and Travis. The judges who were not consulted were Martin and Gemmill. The members of this court are answerable only to God and their own consciences. They are beyond reach by the people who selected them until their terms expire. They are beyond impeachment or recall. It so happens that this court, as at present constituted, has rendered decisions which have added little to public confidence in law and justice. The raising of salaries of legislators by the legislature was upheld. Many lawyers believed their constitution prevented such action. The decision in the city manager case in Indianapolis was not in accord with the opinion of leading lawyers and former judges of that court. The fact that the decision was accurately forecast by* politicians was at least unfortunate. Now that three members have openly shown their indifference, if not hostility and lack of consideration, for two members of that body, can the court be said to be a calm and deliberative body? It is within the rights of the people to know and to discuss the condition of that court. The people know that the Stephenson case is undecided. Delay for an unusual period can only excite comment and speculation. The cases of Duvall and Klenck, political in their nature, rest on the dockets. These men, convicted, are still at liberty. Popular petitions to the chief justice to curtail the recess are within the bounds of propriety, even under the broad powers of the court to punish for contempt. Citizens who see a danger in delay might be interested in this method of speeding up the wheels of justice.

Dry Gunmen Immediately after taking office, the new federal prohibition administration is confronted with a test of its pledges against official lawlessness. Two occupants of an automobile in Maryland have notified the Washington prohibition bureau that they were fired upon without warning by federal dry agents. What is Prohibition Director Woodcock going to do about it? There have been so many promises by high government officials that this sort of thing would not be tolerated that the public is getting rather impatient for action. Woodcock’s pledges at his recent installation ip office were not the first. Every time an innocent American has been killed by the official dry gunmen, the Washington bureau heads have promised reform. But that has not prevented them from going out of their way to defend the culprits. From the repetition of irresponsible use of firearms by dry agents all over the country, it is clear that the agents do not take seriously the Washington statements for public consumption. Why should they? Nothing less than wholesale dismissal of all lawless agents, followed by government prosecution, will wipe out the criminal practWes that have come to characterize prohibition enforcement. President Hoover, who ultimately is responsible to the country for lawful enforcement of the law, should be the first to realize the serious nature of this problem. The consequences reach far beyond partisan politics, and the rapid growth in wet sentiment stimulated in large part by public disgust over illegal enforcement methods. The more dangerous aspect is that public respect for law and government is being undermined widely by this governmental defiance of the law. t More than a year ago the President, in discussing needed reforms in prohibition enforcement, commixed his administration against “violating the law itself through misuse of the law in Its enforcement.” Therefore It is to be assumed that Director Woodcock will have the active support of the White House in dealing with the Maryland case and other official lawlessness. Good-Will Husiness Disquieting figures on the decline of our trade with Latin Ar. erica have been released by the department of commerce. The loss is described as 30 per cent this year compared with the last. Considering the low state of industrial production during the present slump and the high state of unemployment, what a welcome addition that lost LatinAmerican trade would be today if we could get it back. Why shouldn’t we regain that foreign business which would help the revival of our prosperity? In addition to the general world depression, the department of commerce note* that we have special handicaps in Latin America, or "various adverse factors which will apply with particular force against products.’* How strange that we should be confronted with

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special adverse factors now after our extraordinary successes in Latin-American markets during the last decade and after the Hoover good-will tour! Surely something should be done about it. For instance, removal under the President’s flexible provision of some of the Just tariff complaints which are causing La tin-America ns to boycott our products. And release by President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson of the Kellogg-Clark declaration on the Monroe doctrine, disavowing the intervention and imperialistic policies which cause so many South Americans to fear and hate us. Good will in international relations still is good business. Dropping Back a Century Can the United States combat Communism and unemployment by dropping back a century in social outlook and methods? This is what seems to be implied in a recent announcement of the Birmingham industrial board of Birmingham, Ala. This body, at a moment when adult males are roaming the streets looking for work, urges greater employment of women ind young girls. The board has issued a folder ent led: “A New Reservoir of Woman Labor.” The so; fer points out that: “There are 73,124 white females in the district, 10 years of age or over, without any employment. . . . Although Birmingham’s white population is primarily Industrial, very few of the white women are employed at all. Os these few employed white women, a negligible number are engaged in industry.” The board goes bn to point out that Birmingham stands at the soo v . of the list of seventeen industrial cities with respect- to the percentage of females employed. New Bedford employs 42.8 per cent of its female population; Birmingham but 18.2 per cent. ' Instead of taking due pride in this low percentage of employed females as a proof of social progress, the Birmingham industrial board apparently regards It as a scandal. It points out that this vast army of unemployed women can be put to work at wag.es far less than those necessary for men in this area: “The wage scale necessary to attract these unemployed women is far lower than that existent in centers specializing in women labor. . . . Should professional and clerical classes be eliminated, the average weekly pay for women would not exceed $10.” Texas and California The fact that Texas is ahead of California in the new census returns leads one to the notion that these two states probably will be putting on an interesting battle for honors in population, production and prosperity during the next two or three decades. California made an amazing growth in population during the last ten years—but so did Texas. Nature has been extraordinarily kind to California in the matters of climate and natural resources—but she has been equally kind to Texas. If more than five and one-half million Americans have chosen to make California their home state, an even greater number has picked Texas. Each state will continue to grow. Each has an enormous amount of land. Each is fertile, blessed with mineral resources, capable of supporting many more people than it now contains. Each, in fact, is an empire in itself. It will be interesting to watch their future development. No War for Japan The discussion over the London treaty has caused some Americans to drag the old Japanese bogie out of the attic and look it over again with fear-filled hearts. Before we get real panicky about it, however, we might pay attention to some recent remarks by W. R. Castle Jr., who just has returned to this country after serving as our special ambassador to Japan. “It is amazing to me, once more at home in Washington, to find the anti-treaty people still harping on the Japanese bogie,” says Mr. Castle. “Japan hardly could live except for her exports to America, amounting to nearly $400,000,000. She imports from us nearly $300,000,000 worth of goods and depends on America for the cotton which she manufactures and re-exports to China. War with America, which would be serious for us, would be ruin for Japan.” That is sober sense. In the face of it, why get so worried about one or two extra cruisers in the Japanese fleet? Ex-President Coolidge, who has contracted to write a syndicated daily column, once was called “Silent Cal.”

REASON

THERE would sesm to be unlimited possibility for the man who once worked in the tin mill at Elwood, Ind., for H. L. Flagge. who used to do it, just has fallen heir to an English title, while James J. Davis, another ex-employe, has been nominated for the senate from Pennsylvania. 8 8 8 How well we remember the day that tin mill was opened. It was more years ago than we are willing to confess, but we will say that William McKinley then was Governor of Ohio and made the speech, doing so in a driving rain while the then Governor of Indiana. Ira J. Chase, held an umbrella over him. 8 8 8 He belonged to a campaign marching club with caps and oilcloth capes and after participating in the afternoon's festivities, we rounded it out that night by marching ten miles, getting soaked to the hide, inhaling red fire and Roman candles and having a torch leak all over our wardrobe. It took a lot of walking to save the country in those days! n st a ONE man-els at the perfection of this golf-playing machine, known to the world as Bobby Jones, but the thing about this young gentleman which we most admire is his refusafto cash in on his fame. He has not written one single testimonial and he will not. 8 8 8 The tree sitters of the country are having endurance tests, but the real records will be made when the fellows who sit in front of gas stations compete for the championship. • 8 8 8 Mme. Zizi Lambrino, former wife of Carol of Rumania. announces that she hopes to persuade his majesty to provide for the education of her son, all of which makes Carol look more like a tv<o spot than a king. 8 8 8 IN view of the fact that the judge and jury which tried Mooney declare that he was framed and since the witness who gave the testimony which caused conviction now confesses that he lied, it is up to Governor Young to pardon him. , 8 8 8 The Washington tax assessor has put new tags on the President's four dogs and told him he did not have to pay a dollar license fee, charged everybody else. It’s not a great national issue, but it would have been a much better story if Mr. Hoover had insisted on paying like other people. mmm— - • - - We would give a lot to know jatt what Dawes said about that bunch of European pcfricians. A

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Hercules Is a Perßonification of the Sun; His Story Is a Solar Myth. THE story of Hercules and his labors, a story familiar to all readers, is really a solar myth, modem study has revealed. Hercules in the legend is a personification of the sun. The legends of Hercules have played an important part in the history of the world. They are the subject of innumerable paintings. References to them are frequent in literature. They are, therefore, just one more reminder of the important part played by the -un in the life of this earth. According to the ancient legend, Hercules is set to perform a great number of difficult tasks. He is successful in performing each one, but he can not escape from them. This is the basic idea of the Hercules myths. The sun also, for all its splendor, all its beauty, and all its power, is bound by the laws of nature. It must rise, make its way through the sky and set. It must be remembered that ancient man had only a hazy idea of the realities of nature. He personified the things he did not understand. The change from night to day was not some simple process of nature, some facts easily explained by the turning of the earth on its axis. The arrival of day marked the end of a battle between the sun and the forces of night in which the sun was victorious. n a Struggle TO ancient man, the progress of the sun through a clouded sky represented a real struggle between the sun and the clouds. He did not know, as we do, that the clouds were in our own atmosphere, while the sun was 93,000,000 miles away. The first labor of Hercules tells how he slew the Nemean lion. He is supposed to have torn off the lion’s skin and draped it upon his shield. This lion’s skin has been compared to the way in which the sun seemed to trail clouds behind him as he rises or sets upon the horizon. His next labor was to conquer the many-headed hydra. Each time Hercules cut off one head from the beast, two grew in its place. This incident again refers to the battle which the ancients thought went on between the sun and the clouds. Like the heads of the hydra, the supply of clouds seems inexhaustible. No sooner does the sun conquer one batch of clouds than he is beset by another. Another myth concerning Hercules tells of his madness, during which he slew his own children. In similar fashion, the hot summer sun kills the growing plants which have been nurtured previously by the sun’s rays. It has been pointed out that Hercules had to perform twelve labors. There are twelve months in a year. In similar fashion, each detail of the Hercules legend can be coupled with an attempt at symbolizing or explaining a solar fact. The mai-riage of Hercules, for example, to Hebe, the goddess of youth, after the performance of his twelve labors, signifies that anew year begins at the termination of each twelve months. o a tt Achiiies THE sun can be identified with many other Greek myths. Many authorities think that the figure of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad really is a solar personification. This does not mean that originally there was not a Greek hero by the name of Achilles. Many authorities think that there was. But it does mean that in time the hero was deified and stories were built up around him of a legendary nature. Many think that the attributes given to Achilles by legend were those which originally were attributed to Apollo, the sun god. C. F. Keary writes in “Outlines of Primitive Belief”: “The likeness between Apollo and Achilles scarcely needs to be pointed out. “Each is the ideal youth, representative of young Greece.” Apollo, the sun god, was the most conspicuous figure in Grecian mythology. Songs poems and paintings celebrate the many incidents of his career. As in the case of the Hercules legend, these can all be traced to early attempts to explain the observations of solar phenomena by recourse to personification. Thus Daphne, the beautiful maiden whom Apollo pursued, is the personification of the flush of the morning sky • Tiich seems to flee before the rising sun.

CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN July 23 CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, celebrated American actress, was born in Boston, July 23, 1816. She was one of five children left poor by their mother by the early death of their father, a West India merchant. However, she had a fine contralto voice and, in 1835, she made her appearance as an opera singer in the “Marriage of Figaro.” Shortly afterward her voice failed, but she undertook a dramatic part, Lady Macbeth, and was so successful that it became one of her greatest roles. After successes in New York and London, she went to Rome, where she had a home for some years. She was honored in Europe's most cultivated society. She bee?.me known, in her later years, ass reader, with singular interpretative powers. She died in Boston. Feb. 18, 1876. In 1880 her grave in Mt. Auburn was marked by an obelisk which in form is a copy of Cleopatra’s Needle as it stood in Heliopolis. DAILY THOUGHT Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.—Jeremiah 30:23. The majority is wicked—Bias.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Death Rate Higher for Stout People

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. FOR some years it has been realized that overweight after middle life is associated with increasing death rates from the degenerative diseases. The degenerative diseases include such causes as heart disease, high blood pressure with resultant brain hemorrhage, diseases of the kidneys, and hardening of the arteries. Persons who are underweight have a higher death rate usually from diseases affecting the lungs, but this unfavorable fact is balanced by their lower rate from degenerative diseases. In connection with this point of view, statisticians for two of the largest life insurance companies recently have made an analysis of the relationship of underweight and overweight to certain causes of death. If the death rate of people of normal weight is taken as 100, it is found that people who are overweight have a death rate from heart disease 151 per cent of the average. In the same way, the death rate from diseases of tne kidneys of people who are overweight is 172 per cent of the average; from diseases of the arteries, 165 per cent; from apoplexy or hemmorhage of the brain, 157 per cent, and from cancer, 111 per cent.

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE dry* seem to have abandoned their original notion to sponsor the trip of Zaro Agha to this land. Their decision to give no official sanction to the ancient Turk j must be hailed as wise. He quite ■ probably would prove a disturbing exhibit to those who have set up abstinence as an ideal. Though liquor has yet to touch the lips of Zaro. it can hardly be said that he has led a life of strict denial. He did not reach the ripe age of 15C by any process of saying, “No.’ Indeed, he has boasted to the ship news men about his weakness. For him there may have been no rickeys to furnish but temporary cheer. Zaro Agha has chosen the better part. For rickeys he has substituted rice. Other men when feeling out of sorts have been known to say, “Let’s go round the corner and get a few Martmis.” Zaro has followed quite a diiterent system. When blue or jittery, it has been his custom to j amble around the corner and i pounding on the desk exclaim, “One j marriage license and make it snappy.” Not the Manhattans or the Baccardis, nor the old-fashioned — against these Zaro Agha has been adamant indeed, but the old gentleman is clearly an addict when it comes to orange blossoms. a a a Champ Home-Maker CERTAINLY no man in the world I has done more for the preservation of the home. At the moment he is maintaining his twelfth. But there is a catch in the conditions which makes the De Wolf T ’opper of Istanbul seem something less than a living example of alcohol. Out of twelve wives only one is left. Zaro Agha has worn mourning no less than eleven times. So it would seem that the regime which has carried him all the way from the Napoleonic era to the dry age was not successful all along the line. He thrived on total abstinence while one wife after another pined away and died. It may be that a little liquor in the house would have impaired the span of Zaro Agha, but at least he might in that event have had a few wives to show for his money. In that house of too much trouble there ran through the women’s quarters the sad refrain. “Always a widower, never a widow.” And though the old gentleman seems sprightly and well disposed there must have been certain things in his establishment which hardly made for good cheer. Each bride who came in turn to hearten his declining years must have been at least annoyed to find her husband calling every undertak- j er in town by hi* first name.

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The most striicing difference in the death rates is from diabetes. People who are overweight and have this disease have death rates 257 per cent of the average. It long has been recognized that overweight after middle life has a definite hazard in relationship to diabetes, and experts in the treatment of diabetes warn again and again against this hazard. Among people who are overweight there are also excesses in tne figures for angina pectoris, appendicitis, hardening of the liver and typhoid fever. As the figures are studied for people who are underweight after middle age, it is found that the death rate for heart disease is 81 per cent of the average; from kidney disease, 77 per cent; from diseases of the arteries, 74 per cent; from brain hemorrhage, 70 oer cent, and from diabetes, 64 per cent. The figures for cancer among those who are underweight are about the same as those who are overweight. It long has been recognized that malnutrition is likely to be associated with tuberculosis. This fact was sustained definitely when the tuberculosis rates for girls between the ages of 15 and 25 were found to be higher than for normal girls during the period of craze for slenderness a few years ago. Among the diseases which show high death rates among the under-

And when motoring think of the embarrassment it must have caused when every driver of a passing hearse waved gaily to Agha and called out, “Don't be a stranger, Zaro.” a a a Second 100 Years \TO, few of us I think would care IN to linger on so much beyond the normal span. I suspect that the second 100 years are much the hardest. Think of having to be called “Grandpop” for two-thirds of your life, and to be under compulsion every month to stop for tea at the old folks’ home in order to show true parental respect for a couple of dozen assorted great grandchildren. The important point is not how Zaro Agha got to where he is, but what his decision would be if he had a chance once more to start from scratch. Next time I feel quite certain he would nor. call for water and dried dates, but say “Make mine a Bronx again and call up every Mrs. Agha and inform her that I won’t be home tonight for dinner.” a a a Calling for Help “TT'DDIE LEVINSON and I are in M-J a bit of a predicament,” writes McAlister Coleman, “and we are

Questions and Answers

What is the unit of currency in the German republic? The reichsmark. Are there more automobiles in the United States than in England and Germany together? England has 1,128,200 automobiles; Germany 531.000 and the United States 24,493,124. Do Governors of states receive as much pay as members of the cabinet? Members ofS the cabinet receive $15,000 per year. The salaries of Governors vary with the different states. The salary of the Governor of New York, the highest paid Governor, is $25,000 a year. The wives of which former Presidents of the United States are living today? The widow of Grover Cleveland, now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr., Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William H. Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, second wife, and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. _

weight, tuberculosis is first by a wide margin. The greater the degree of underweight, the higher is the tuberculosis death rate. The rate for tuberculosis is 202 per cent of the normal among those who are underweight. Among those who are 15 per cent or more underweight, it is 291 per cent of the normal; on the other hand, among those who are overweight, tuberculosis has a mortality rate of less than half the normal. Physiologists who have studied the subject believe that the high rates among overweight people from degenerative disease are due largely to the extra burden of work put on the heart, the kidneys and blood vessels by extra bulk of the body. Much overweight is due to the hereditary character of the human being. A large percentage, however, Is due to bad dietary habits and bad hygiene, and the physiologists are convinced that such overweight can be modified by proper diet and exercise, with great benefit to health and longevity. Since underweight apparently is less dangerous than overweight, unless it is excessive, there is a little advantage in being slightly underweight. The chief problem would seem to be ascertaining the best weight for health of the person concerned, and to maintain that weight by sensible hygiene.

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calling on you for help. Matt Woll, acting president of the National Civic Federation, president of the Union Life Insurance Company, president of the High Tariff Association, and sort of incidentally vice-president of the American Federation of Labor (you know the man who thought John Dewey was a Red) went before the Ham Fish summer show and said: “ 'Our government has winked with one eye and been asleep with the other.’ “When Eddie came home last night we decided to try this out. First we tried it out separately. 1 kept winking one eye, but couldn’t sleep with the other, whereas Eddie could sleep with one eye, but had no luck in his winking. “So, as good Socialists, we decided to try cooperation. I was to wink and Eddie was to sleep. There was I winking like anything until, the dawn came up. Asa consequence I'm all fagged out, while Eddie is fresh as a lark from all that governmental slumber.” (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 tbelr agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

JULY 23, 1980

M. E. Tracy SAYS: It’s a Good Thing That Most of Us Have to Acquire a, Certain Degree of Initiative in the School of Hard Knocks. THE deeper we get into this business of education, the less wo seem to know about it. [ According to the conference recently held in Brussels, the real need is shorter hours, smaller classes, anc less cramming. Thirty pupils are enough for any class, we are told, and twenty-four hours of instruction are enough for any week. Having put the world right on these points, the conference declares that more attention should be paid to culture, and less to knowledge, and in order to leave no doubt as to what it means, adopts Edouard Herriot’s famous definition of culture—“that which is left after we have forgotten all that has been learned.” In other words, education will attain its object when children no longer remember what they were taught. a tt tt It’s Pure Bunk NOT pausing to argue whether culture is separable from knowledge, we not only teach children a lot of useless truck, but. are constantly discovering that what we took for real information was the purest bunk. Like every other protected and specialized craft, organized education has done its full share in misleading people. Like every other protected and specialized craft, it ultimately becomes a propaganda mill in which its own preservation is the one important object. It’s a good thing that a majority of people can’t afford to finish the prescribed course, that the most of us have to quit at an early age, hustle for ourselves, and acquire a certain degree of initiative and originality in the school of hard knocks. It’s a good thing, too, that a majority of people are compelled to trust their instincts. a a a Trifles Magnified ALL systems run to ritualism, to a prescribed way of doing things, to an acceptance of preconceived theories and notions, and, worst of all, to faith in unimportant details. Here is a congressional committee, representing the great American republic, running around like a chicken with its head off, all because of a few noisy Communists. Here is Washington refusing to grant a beefy Italian pug permission to stay with us six months more, as though his coming, staying, or going, cut any figure whatever. Here is a great gathering of scientific sharps in Chicago because of a mix-up in baby tags. a u a Everything Overdone AND what are the scientific sharps going to do about it? No matter what they decide, will they be able to convince a mother that she doesn’t know her own child? She may be wrong and they may be right, but what good will that do if they can’t make her believe it? Unless science and instinct accord v/e merely have wrecked two or three more lives in the name of mechanized nature. Meanwhile, medical skill could have done its work without causing such a mess if it had not been obsessed with the idea of substituting the hospital for the home on every possible pretext. That is the great weakness of human nature. It can’t seem to acquire anew idea without running it into the ground. a u tt It Must Be Big WE not only want schools, hospitals, prisons and factories, but we want them to be bigger, and still bigger. Not only that, but we want them all alike. Since the dawn of consciousness, men have been infatuated with the love of size and standardization. That love was the secret of ancient despotism, as manifest in kingcraft, and it is no less the secret of modern despotism, as manifest in industrial combines and professional bureaucracies. It goes without saying that organization is essential to progress, but instead of trying to get along with the least, we seem bent on developing the nrximum. Our conception of quality is associated definitely with bigness. We take it for granted that the tallest building must be the best, that the bank vith the greatest assets is the safest, and that the college with the most students will do best by our boy or girl.