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Stopping the Racket Rather significantly, police, detectives and sheriffs always seem to have known the occupation of bootleggers and hijackers when it is announced that they have been shot or killed in battles between themselves. The public may have a pardonable curiosity as to why men known to officers of the law to be in an illegal business are not in jail instead of messing up the highways with their private battles. Men known to be thieves are not free for any considerable period of time. The burglar is watched and soon caught. It is only the new racketeer with his most profitable of all law violations who is left to shoot it out with his competitors or who gets into the hands of the law by accident. There may be some humor, but there was also something serious, in the fact that a Negro, lone handed, bound up the ownei of a still and then reported the matter to the local police. Just why the Negro without authority was more successful than the officers hired to do this work needs explanation. Possibly the placing of this particular Negro on the force and the removal of some higher officer who was blind to conditions in his territory might get results. Other cities are now paying the penalty for harboring the known racketeer. Chicago and Detroit are notorious examples. The police of those cities had no illusions as to the profession of the men now engaged in killing citizens who wart decency. The police of those cities had tnem on their lists, but nothing unpleasant ever happened to them. The time to stop the racketeer is before he starts. For officers of the law to admit, after gun battles, that they had known participants as liquor runners and racketeers is to cox.fess either indifference or sympathy for this class or incompetency in coping with it. A Square Peg The President’s choice of Nicholas Roosevelt of New York as Vice-Governor of the Philippines is an unfortunate case of finding a good man but trying to fit him to the wrong place. The senate did well In postponing action on the nomination until the next session, thus giving the President opportunity to withdraw his name. Roosevelt is an able publicist and a man of nign character. It Is not surprising that the President should repose confidence In his ability and desire to add his services to the administration. But Roosevelt also happens to be particularly distasteful to the Filipinos because of his very uncomplimentary book opposing independence. No one questions Roosevelt’s right to hold any views he desires. just as no one questions the skill with which he has expressed his extremi views. Indeed It is conceivable that Roosevelt, despite his views regarding policy, might prove an able administrative officer, other things being equal in the post of Vice-Governor, which has little to do wit policy matters. However, this line of reasoning— which is presumably that followed by the President * selec-tion-misses the chief factor in American Philippine relations. That is the psychological factor. Regardless of what Is to be the future political status of the islands, whether it is to be eventual independence or some type of progressive donfinion status, complete co-operation and mutual confidenc is essential. . For the United States to insist on appointing as Vice-Governor any man overwhelmingly opposed as an alleged enemy by the Filipinos themselves can result only in jeopardizing the entirepohcyofcooperation upon which any solution of the problem 'rhat such opposition docs exist in violent form in this case is clear from the official protests of the Filipino representatives in Washington and the protesting resolution passed by both houses of the legislature In Manila. Considering the situation in the islands, it would seem that the nomination should be withdrawn in fairness to Roosevelt himself and in the interest of co-operative relations between the Philippines an the United States. Bedrock In India There Is no doubt that India’s relations to the British empire present the most serious problem on the International horizon today. The issue goes yond the mere challenge of nationalism, on the one hand, and of world co-operation, on the other to the imperialistic ventures and the struggle for world power in the last half century. Special importance, therefore, attaches to the au>cussion of the essentials of the Anglo-Indian pro lem by the world-famous British publicist, Norman Angeli, in foreign affairs. He points out that the Simon report ignores the two fundamental Problems involved: "Why. in the lass analysis, does India independence? And why does Britain hesitate to answers that the li’-dian demand for independence is based on resentment against being treated as an Inferior people: -To put it bmtally, the British in India have in the past been apt to regard an Indian, because he was an Indian, and for no other reason whatever as an inferior being. Any people subjected to that will rebel and assert their equality, even though the rebellion, and even though equality, may deprive them of great material advantage. ’ - Americans are prone to discount this reaction, let'tnem r smember the .927 campaign of Big Bill Thompson in Chicago: -Two centuries after the American revolution, Big Bill Thompson still can win elections by turning the attention of Chicago citizens from such trifles as make the city notorious throughout the world to old hates of the ’bloody Britisher' and that infamous tyrant. King George V." So much for the reason India wants independence or dominion status. It is not because of sheer material advantage in holding on to India, according to Angeli. No material advantages of possession • could match the liabilities and expense ofja war of subjugation. The key to Britain's attitude is the

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fact of prestige and the sense of power, still believed to be essential to national safety. The only solution lies in the pooling of power and the development of international co-operation: Q “The only alternative to the contest for power is the growth of every form of partnership which ultimately will enable us to pool power for common purposes. It will require generosity and understanding on the part of Indians to admit that much of the British case, but the real interests of India demand the exercise of that generosity now.” Unfortunately, Britain’s present repressive policy has stirred Indian sentiments of prestige and nationalism so deeply that a solution of international co-operation now does not appear probable. Slap on the Wrist Action by Prohibition Director Woodcock in the Maryland automobile case is unsatisfactory. The motorist charged two dry agents with firing upon the car at midnight on the open road, without cause and without warning. The dry agents admit stopping the car, but deny firing. Woodcock, after investigation, has announced suspension of the agent for three days without pay. Such punishment, it would seem, is either too much or too little. The issue, as properly stated by Woodcock, is to prevent the lawlessness of law officers, which has made prohibition enforcement a menace. That issue as applied to the Maryland case comes down to the question of whether the dry agents fired upon the innocent motorists or otherwise invaded their rights as citizens. If the agents are guilty they should be dismissed from the service and prosecuted under the law. If the agents merely stopped the automobile for inquiry, they do not deserve the rather absurd slap on the wrist administered by the prohibition director. Woodcock's responsibility in this case will not end until he establishes the facta and acts accordingly. Fewer Babies Forty years ago the American birth rate was 32 for each 1000 of population. Now it has declined to 19.1 the census has revealed. When it declines to 18, as it will if the present trend continues, the population will be expected to remain stationary, the only increases coming through such immigration as is permitted. We are unable to join with those who see cause for alarm in these figures. It is true that man has interfered with Providence. Birth control is practiced generally; people live in apartments in cities instead of on the soil and large families are impossible; people marry later in life than formerly; women are working and can’t tend babies; and so on. But, while we have fewer babies, we have better babies, whose chances for happiness in life are greater. The declining birth rate, moreover, has been accomplished by the addition of years to the average length of life. Where 100 children died of diphtheria* thirty years ago, five die now Where thirty-four persons out of every 100 died of typhoid, five die now. Examples could be multiplied. It h.s been only a few years since scientists were perturbed because they feared the earth would not produce enough food for the growing population. Now the same story of lower birth rates is coming from England, Germany, Italy, Scotland, and other tries. Calculating future population is like trying to figure out the multiplication of guinea pigs or chickens. A few pairs, if they produced according to mathematical expectancy, would in a short time have the surface of the globe covered several feet thick with guinea pigs or chickens. But they never conform to expectancy. This same principle is found in studying diseases which at different periods become prevalent. It can be figured that if the spread of the disease continues at a given rate, the race will be wiped out. But ft never is. A scientist predicts we sliall some day live on air. When the time comes we shall probably be a nation of plane livers. As far as Primo Camera is concerned, that edict to rejoin the Italian army is just an ill draft that blows no good. If you're feeling in the pink don't brag about it. One of those Communist spies might overhear you.

REASON

JUST a little while ago Moses of New Hampshire added to the gaiety of nations by calling the insurgent Republicans of the senate “the sons of the wild jackass” because they opposed the President, and then he marched with them in opposition to Mr. Hoover's desire to put over the London naval pact. Politics seldom has made stranger bedfellows. a a a The other day an automobile broke down In the capital of Bulgaria and King Boris happened along, stopped his machine, crawled under the crippled car and fixed it. It’s always a shock to learn that a king is good for something. a a a CONGRESSMAN HAMILTON FISH, chairman of the committee which is investigating Communist activities in the United States, reports that there's no danger, which should reassure those people who are so fortunate as to have nothing more serious to worry about. Don’t let the reds give you the blues. a a a We strongly suspect that Earl Carroll had his • Vanities of 1930” pulled by the police in a desperate effort to get business. It’s very hard to get people to buy tickets to see what they can observe at any bathing beach for nothing. a a a It’s hard to work up any interest over these Americans who have been sitting in trees for days when titled Europeans have been sitting in family trees for centuries. a a a \fter two divorces, Aguinaldo just has been married for the third time, which should impress the government at Washington that the Filipinos are making ripd strides in civilization. a a a RUTH HANNA M’CORMICK told the senate investigating committee: “You can not buy an Illinois landslide.” but $300,000 can lubricate one until there's little danger of a hot box. a a a If Harry Sinclair is going to try to beat Senator Walsh for re-election in Montana because Walsh investigf- ed the Teapot Dome lease he should put on a vei.. thick set of whiskers when he starts on the war path. , a a a With the Republicans of Indiana preparing to enroll 75,000 campaign workers and-the Democrats prejjaring to enroll 80,000, unemployment in the Hoosier state would seem to be an the mne.

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SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ-

Scientific Astronomy Is Believed to Have Begun With, the Chaldeans, Instead of With the Greeks.

SCIENTIFIC study of the sun has been traced back through the middle ages, through the civilization of Rome and through that of Greece, to ancient Babylon. Distinguished research by a group of learned Jesuits, Fathers Epping, Strassmeier and Kugler, has re- ! vealed that scientific astronomy did ! not begin with the Greeks, but with j the ancient Chaldeans. They studied the motions of the sun, moon and planets and made many discoveries, as the deciphering of a number of clay tablets has proved, which the world previously thought had been made by the Greeks. It is definitely established that there was a steady flow of knowledge from the east to the west, from Babylon to Greece, which began in the seventh century, B. C. A Babylonian sage named Berossus founded a school on the island of Cos in about 640 B. C. It is believed that Thales of Miletus, frequently called the father of Greek astronomy, was one of the pupils of Berossus. Thales became known to the Greeks as the chief of the ‘‘seven wise men.” He made many discoveries in the field of geometry as well as astronomy and he is believed to have been led into the field of geometry as the result of a visit to Egypt, where he conversed with Egyptian geometers. # tt u Eclipse THALES first came into fame among the Greeks, according to a story related by Herodotus, oy the prediction of an eclipse. Many present-day astronomers feel that it is impossible to verify the reality of this eclipse. An older generation of scholars, including Airy, Hind and Zach, place its date as May 28, 585 B. C. According to the account given by Herodotus, the eclipse which had been predicted to the lonians by Thales, took place during a battle between the Medes and Lydians and the two contending armies, terrorized by the eclipse, patched up a truce under the impression that their battle was displeasing to the gods. Thales made other discoveries, instructing the Greek navigators to steer by the constellation of the Little Bear instead of by the Great Bear, as they formerly had done. The north star is in the constellation of the Little Bear. These two constellations are more familiarly known today as the Big and Little Tippers. Plutarch credits Thales with having taught that the earth was a sphere. But modem scholars feel that Plutarch was mistaken in this conclusion. The doctrine of the earth’s sphericity first was announced by another Greek scholar, Pythagoras. He based his theory, however, largely on the work of Anaximander. Pythagoras, in addition to launching the idea that the earth was a sphere poised freely in space, made advances in the knowledge of the motion of the sun. He made his studies between 540 and 510 B. C. tt tt Center THE first attempt to work out a mathematical explanation of the movements of the sun was undertaken by Eudoxus of Cnidus, who lived from 408 to 355 B. C. Eudoxus, as indeed thinkers for centuries after him, assumed that the sun, moon and planets revolved around the earth. The earth, of course, was assumed to be the center of the universe. Eudoxus further assumed that the heavenly bodies must move in circles. The idea that the circle was a perfect figure and that perfection must of necessity be an attribute of the heavenly bodies also persisted for centuries. Eudoxus, however was confronted with the complex motions of the sun, moon and planets, which did not lend themselves easily to any circular theory. Accordingly he devised a theory in which the heavenly body moved in a small circle, which in turn moved around a large one. This was developed by his successors and became known as the Ptolemaic system, because it received its final statement by Ptolemy. Eudoxus accounted for the movements of the sun, moon and the five planets known in his day by imagining twenty-seven such circles, or more exactly, spheres, revolving one within the other. The Ptolemaic theory also was known later as the theory of epicycles. Greek astronomy reached its climax in the work of the so-called Alexandrian school. Its members included Aristyllus, Timocharis and Aristarchus, who wrote a treatise on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon.

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ALEXANDRE DUMAS July 24

ON July 24, 1802, Alexandre Dumas, the greatest French romantic novelist and the greatest story-teller of the world, was born at Villers-Cotterets. Dumas was the grandson of the Marquis Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie and a Negress, both of Haiti. Asa writer Dumas is remarkable for creative rather than for artistic genius. Dumas inclined at first to law and was apprenticed to a notary of Soissons, where he saw a play that determined him to seek his fortune on the stage. He was, at one time, a secretary in the household of Louis Philippe. Although his best work was almost all done between 1843 and 1850, in one way or another Dumas is responsible for 298 closely printed novels. At the last came four years of somewhat senile poverty, relieved by the son whose boyhood he had neglected and whose youth he had misguided. He died on Dec. 5, 1870. : j

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES said to live long one must select parents who have lived long. Statistics accumulated by several investigators indicate that people with long-lived parents have an average life of two or three years longer than those with parents who have not lived long. On an average, the death rate of people whose parents lived long is nearly 20 per cent less than those of people whose parents lived for shorter intervals, and in some cases 30 per cent.

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THE newspaper work, of Calvin Coolidge has been reviewed very often in this column. A few readers feel that it is not good taste to jest about an ex-President, and I have been duly castigated by them. A larger number say bitterly, “Why do you pull your punches? Why don’t you really get after Mr. Coolidge?’’ But I don’t see any good reason why I should attempt to blast Calvin Coolidge, even if that were possible. On several counts I like him. This mash note comes from a member of his invisible audiences. It never has been my privilege to see Calvin plain or hear him except through a loud speaker. To me he always has possessed—both as President and columnist—a certain wistful quality. I think he almost might have sat as the model for the Mr. Polly, concerning whom H. G. Wells once wrote a history. a a a Valedictorian IN the eyes of enemies Mr. Coolidge is smug. That I can not see. At any rate, it is not a set and matured assurance. His speeches are singularly like those of a rather bright high school lad set up to speak a piece before an audience of admiring parents. Even now I find small measure of dogmatism in the speeches of Calvin Coolidge. Indeed, the views set forth seldom seem to be distinctively his own. These are bouquets plucked by the sage of Northampton from some neighbor’s formal garden. He proffers them timidly and with an ingratiating hopefulness. Anybody capable of brushing the set pieces roughly asidee would be guilty of snickering during a piano solo by the little niece of a dear friend. At the moment I am remembering a certian piece which Mr. Coolidge wrote about European travel. He announced that traveling is broadeeing. And it seemed to him broadening because a tour in foreign lands would enable every American to tell all within the sound of his voice how much betetr things are administered back home. But surely nobody should assail Calvin Coolidge as the originator of this provincialism. He has done nothing more than fashion a few paragraphs out of that sterling old dramatic favorite of Tarkington’s and Harry Leon Wilson’s called “The Man From Home.” That you may remember was the piece in which William Hodge used to turn his back upon a foreign landscape, close his eyes and soul- , fully call for ham and eggs. Indeed, Will Rogers has popularized and profited enormously by syndicating precisely the same point of view. Mr. Coolidge is by nature a man committed to travelnig wellbeaten paths. a a a An Average Man WHEN the American Magazine undertook a few years ago to select the average man, it certain! went far afield in sending its explorers all the way to lowa. Mr. Coolidge suits the role admirably. He has as much wisdom as the general run of us Americans and no more. In all fairness, it must be admitted that the country did not go to wrack and ruin under his leadership. Ihdeed, our Constitution and traditions make it difficult for

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an exceptional man to be elevated to the White House. Democracy is, among other things, the individual’s last stand against the gospel of efficiency. You can not have two branches of the legislature, the potentiality of a presidential veto and after that a judicial one and still expect fast, concise and coherent action. Travelers tell us that Mussolini makes the trains run on time and that Stalin is whipping through an extraordinary program of industrial expansion. But to perform wonders Stalin and Mussolini have of necessity swept away many liberties and rights and privileges which we reverence. Unless the Coolidge type of mind is good enough for us, democracy may be in its last stages. It is a system designed to be by the average and for the average. Neither a Lincoln nor a Jefferson would have much chance today. These were both exceptional men. Lincoln’s prose style would handl-

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l have mailed the following letter to James Ogden, attorney general of Indiana: “Dear Mr. Ogden: I was very sorry I could not attend the state bar meeting at Bloomington, but I guess it is just as well, for I surely would have blown up about the pussy-footing on the constitutional convention proposition in Indiana. “I can not understand why the association did not attack these uplifters and fanatical, predatory reformers who are attacking the basic law of the state which can amount to the spending of a million and a half dollars and of course we know can not lead to a constitutional convention. “I have read with interest your attack on the crime situation in Indiana, but there is one thing right in the state house itself that is of more interest than anything I know of and that is in the highway department. During the last session of the legislature in my room at the Claypool hotel, I had twenty-two Republican members of the house and Albert Wedeking, chairman of the state highway board. In that meeting, Mr. Wedeking guaranteed me that if I would vote for the 1 cent increase in gas tax that the state highway department would not ask for any extra increase in salaries, etc., and under that promise, I supported the measure. I was lied to about it and within six weeks after the session adjourned, the state highway department asked for SBOO,OOO increase. ‘‘l made investigation and find that Sam Farrell, member of the budget committee, was instrumental in granting the state highway commission an increase of over a million dollars this year. Mr. Farrell, you know, also was chairman of the ways and means committee in the house and also a salesman for a truck company that has entirely motorized the state highway department, “If you will put some time in on that situation you might save a lot of embarrassment for members of the house of representatives next winter. You will find how the pressure has been put on and how business has been transacted that looks mighty shady, to say the least. “I think the time is here to clean up this sort of corruption in Indiana and you are the one to do it. You need have no fear but what I will help you and jn the next session of the legislature we are going

By the improvement of death rates from infant mortality and infectious diseases, life expectancy was advanced by more than twenty years during the last fifty years. It is still quite true that a person who lives in filthy surroundings and who is not careful as to the food and water supply and his personal hygiene has a much lower life expectancy than one who has some knowledge of hygiene and who lives in a community where sanitary conditions are excellent. Given the same chance to avoid infectious disease and accident as the person with good heredity, from the point of view of longevity, is quite likely to outlive the one with an unfavorable heredity.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented wlthont regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

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cap him with the masses. I think they would much prefer Coolidgean platitudes. tt tt Drawing the Line Not, you understand, that I would include Herbert Hoover in the great clan of average men. I am no such foe to democratic processes. Jefferson, in the modern world, would be even werse off than Lincoln. His religious views would be fatal to his candidacy. I have not mentioned Washington because I have always felt that in a very real sense he was anaverage man—an average man glorified by a sublimacy difficult to identify and define. Please don’t get the notion that I am placing Coolidge on the same leven with lie father of his country. Mr. Coolidge’s strength, both in colmning and presidenting, lies in the fact that he never loses sight of his own deficiencies. ■ (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

to call things by their proper names. I hate a coward or a “pussy-footer” and I be! tve everybody else does. “Jim, this state highway department is rotten to the core and you should help clean it up. If you don’t, the people will. H. H. EVANS. Newcastle, Ind. Is the “Lonesome Pine” as described in the novel “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” still standing? “Lonesome Pine” stands on the top of Big Black mountain, near Big Stone Gap, Cumberland mountains, in the western tip of Virginia. The “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” leads into Kentucky It is said that the famous old tree described in the story is beginning to die. What is the population of Asia? It is estimated at 950,000,000.

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SAYS:

What Have the Communist 4 Done in This Country That Is as Bad as the Chicago t New York or Detroit Scandais? L AMTORG is the name of a corporation which acts as commercial agent for Soviet Russia in this country. It was organized under American law, but the capital stock is owned by the Soviet government Os necessity, Amtorg officials must be in good standing with the Soviet government. Barring one, all have been members of the Communist party, but resigned on coming to America. It is commonly understood that they will be allowed to rejoin the Communist party when they go back. Naturally enough, Amtorg has been charged with being a clearing house for Communist activities, with circulating literature, dispensing funds, and supervising an alleged spy system. The charge rests on inference rather than information, but has been supported by men of influence, such as former Police Commissioner Whalen, and Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor. Under the circumstances, it was quite proper for the Fish committee to investigate Amtorg. The time has come to determine whether the great business this corporation does is a smoke screen for political agitation. or whether it has been made the victim of unjust charges. The most important thing brought out in the testimony thus far is the fact that Amtorg has obtained credits totaling $80,000,000. Whatever it may have done to promote Communism, it has done a lot more to make itself solid with bankers. an a Others Have Done Worse ' MEANWHILE, and without questioning the desirability of cleaning up this Communist mess, there are problems closer home we well could afford to investigate. As Dr. Barnes -ays, we are forgetting a hard winter to enjoy a red scare. If that were all, it wouldn’t be so bad, but we are forgetting a whole lot more. Putting the worsß possible construction on their work, what) have the Communists done to compare with the beer barons of Chicago? What have they put over that is as raw as the scandals un earthed in New York during the last two years? What disturbance have they created in any great American city that equal', the Detroit Fracas?. a u Bowles Is Recalled MAYOR BOWLES of Detroit enjoys the distinction of being the first chief executive of a really big town to be recalled. And to think that he was elected only six months ago as a “reform” candidate. Put in by the good women of Detroit, as it was said at the time, to restore that old-fashioned, hardboiied morality which we like to talk about better than we like to obey, ' ,■ Then someone discovered that he not only was inefficient, but kindly disposed toward the- very element of lawlessness and vice he was chosen to suppress. Petitions were circulated, and, after more or less wrangling, the required number of signatures was obtained. The actual campaign to oust Mayor Bowles lasted only - three weeks, and among other things, was characterized by no less than ten gang murders. As if that were not enough to reveal the true state of affairs, his chief critic fell a victim to gunmen only a few hours after the polls were closed. tt a The Old Dry Rot AS to details, the Detroit affair may be somewhat exceptional, but in essentials, it represents the same old dry rot. Gang rule grows as active as civic consciousness decays. Prohibition has a definite bearing on the change this represents, not because of the speakeasies and bootleggers, but because of a curious twist in the public attitude. Prohibitionists are inclined to wink at lawlessness, lest it prove the law has failed. Anti-prohibitionists are inclined to wink at It because of a belief that it is helping to re-, peal the law. Between the two we have very little honest or vigorous effort to stop the growth of organized vie©' and political corruption. No wonder the boys and girls take to tree-sit-ting, that the death of a millionaire hobo attracts nation-wide attention, or that Tom Thumb golf courses flourish amid unemploy-. ment. >

Daily Thought

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.—Job 40:4. Humility, like darkness, reveal*, the heavenly lights.—Thoreau.