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Discredited in Advance When the members of the commission to study the cause, cure and prevention of crime refused to make any inquiry into the relationship between crime snd prohibition, they discredited themselves in advance of any recommendations. Named by Governor Leslie to study the crime problem, the members turn away from the one law violation for which vast numbers are in prison and which. in the belief of many, is responsible for the increase of most other crimes. Any body of men which refuses to face facts can not complain if the people show little interest or confidence in their cogitations. The demand by Leo M. Rappaport of this city foi a study of the effects of prohibition was unanswerable in its logic and its courage. He declared that any study of the crime problem which eliminates the effect of prohibition is worthless. He might have added that it is not only worthless, but cowardly. There could be but one reason for any member turning away from this factor. I ear of political reprisals on the part of the fanatical, both wet and dry, could alone have stopped this inquiry. The necessity of such a study becomes more urgent as the probability of a repeal of nrohibition increases. The overfilled prisons, the huge cost of enforcement, the increase oT crimes of violence by gangsters, have caused public opinion to become skeptical of \ olsteadism. Every unofficial survey of public opinion suggests that there is a strong emand for repeal. What will come after prohibition becomes an important problem. The decade of \olsteadism has produced new conditions in the world of crime. Prohibition is responsible for the formation of gangs in nearly every city and these gangs are ready to murder to pro- # tect themselves in their three-bjllion-dollar-a-year bootleg industry. The members of these gangs are used to easy money, 't is not to be expected that they would become law-abiding citizens w'ere their industry destroyed by repeal of prohibition and substitution of state regu ation or sale of the beverages from which they reap such rich rewards. They would still be gangsters and instead of killing each other would probably turn upon citizens of wealth with murder, kidnapings and blackmail rampant. Not only the question of repeal of prohibition becomes important, but the probable effects of repeal and ways to meet the new criminal class should be discussed. Is it possible that repeal of prohibition would produce more crime than has been produced by prohibition? Refusal of the Leslie board to make even a gesture in that direction should result in the waste basket for any recommendations it may make. On Probation The government nas comuleted plans for a real probationary system for federal prisoners for the first time. This is good news. The last congress made $200,000 available for the purpose, which will permit establishment of probation offices in fifty of the ninety-two judicial districts. Heretofore, $25,000 h'Ad been appropriated for seven such offices, and these did not function satisfactorily. Penologists have been unanimous in their recommendations for an efficient probation system as*#ne way of correcting deplorab.c prison conditions. If probation functions as it shouJo. a prisoner who makes a genuine effort, to reaeeni his character and regain a place in the world will have the co-operation of society. He actually wiU have a chance to reform. Also, the federal government is building new prisons to relieve the shameful congestion tnat exists, is establishing farms for drug addicts, is creating work gangs outside prison walls, and in other ways is trying to modernise its prisons. With the federal government taking the lead, states may follow. Most, states now have probation systems of one sort or another, but many are inefficient. And many state prisons are as overcrowded as federal. It is only by such' humane measures that the society can discharge its duty, and end the threats of prison riots like those of Leaienorth, Auburn, Dannemora, Folsom. Jefferson City and Columbus. The Mooney Witness When John MacDonald takes the stand today in Francisco, he snoula be pble to convince the seven supreme court judges that he was a liar back in 1916 and is telling the truth now. He will tell these judges that he lied Mooney and Billings into prison under hope of reward: that in 1921. fearing he was on his c.eath bed, he repented his lies, am confessed them, to open the doors of prison for the victims ot rds perjury, that in 1930 he again confessed, to relieve his conscience. It is argued by some who are determined to keep the victims in prison that MacDonald's retraction is untrustworthy. 'But he is no more untrustworthy today than when he was* used to convict the two innocent men. If his present testimony be believed, then by no li*ic can his original testimony be believed—and that original MacDonalc testimony is the sole remaining prop of th? frame- up. Moor.ey and Billings should go free, because there is not now and never has been any acceptable evidence of their guilt. Smokers consumed a billion more cigarets this June than in the same month of last year. Shows you jrfcat a shaky stock market can do to your ne^jres.

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After Huston Comes Fess After all the fireworks in driving the ill-fated but tenacious Claudius Huston out of his joti as chairman of the Republican national committee, the announcement that Senator Fess of Ohio is slated as his successor comes as an anti-climax. Os course it is the Republicans' own business whom they shall pick as their chief. But there is a. natural public curiosity. And it had been supposed by the uninitiated that the G. O. P management, after its bad luck with Huston. Work and their predecessors, would be a bit more careful in its selection this time. According to the political dopesters, the main reason for choosing Fess is to prepare for the renomination of Hoover and to prevent the growing wet group under Morrow from making prohibition repeal a national party Issue, That may be true, or it may not. At any rate, the White House apparently has no objection to that interpretation, for it has permitted Fess to make a statement somewhat along the same lines. Immediately following the news o::' his slated appointment, Fess said in an interview that Hoover would be renominated in 1932, ami that prohibition would not figure in the 1930 and 1932 elections except in a local way. But whatever the future significance of the Fess appointment may be—and we dc> not profess to know —its present significance is clear. Thai, is, the Republican national organization is being handed over to one of the most reactionary politicians in the country. That Fess is an extreme standpatter is not a matter of opin.on, but of record. That he is a mediocre man is almost a matter of record. On two famous occasions he was called upon as an Ohio Republican leader to serve the higher interests of his country and of his party, and both times he remained silent. He did not join in the fight to save the country from the Ohio gang of the Harding administration. He did not protest the action of the Republican managers in the 1928 campaign in appealing to religious bigotry, despite the fact that the notorious Willebrandt speech was made in his own congressional district. He was the man who insisted on a third term for Coolidge long after others had ceased, and who had to be rebuked by Coolidge for his activity. He got on the Hoover bandwagon only after victory in Ohio made it safe and popular. As the keynoter at the Kansas City convention he spoke for the old guard. In the senate his name is not identified with any outstanding national legislation. He is merely a partisan wheelhorse, one of the few remaining old guard who always is “regular.” He is an enemy of effective farm relief. He is for higher tariffs. He is an Anti-Saloon League man. When others refused, he led the unsuccessful fight to confirm Judge Parker for the supreme court. Instead of making a fair fight, he made himself ridiculous by charging that the Parker opposition had a “Socialist source” which threatened the country. Such is the man chosen by the Republican managers. But, as we have said, that is their business. They had a right to pick Huston, and they have a right to choose Fess or any other politician they consider representative of their party. Alaska’s Mild Winters Boosters of Alaska always have insisted that one of the great obstacles to the proper development of that potentially rich territory is the current misconception of its winter weather. A western magazine points out that the low est temperature recorded in Sitka, Alaska, in the last 100 years is 4 degrees below zero. In 1927 the lowest temperature recorded was 12 above—while on ten days during that winter the mercury actually rose above the freezing point. There is a record that a great many, towns, in the states can envy. If Alaskan winters can be that mild, the booster's complaiftt that we overestimate the unpleasantness of Alaska s climate seem to be justified. Men, according to the headlines, used to end their lives over their fiancees, but now it’s because of their finances. An lowa boy arrested for stealing said that the hair tonic he drank made him do it. Beverages like that, alas, have caused many a falling out.

REASON

THE most encouraging thing about this naval treaty is that every nation that helped make it has a gioup of statesmen who insist that they were gold bricked. While Senator Hiram Johnson was claiming that Japan had put something over on us, Japanese statesmen were resigning and committing hari kari because we had put something over on them. a a a Two Chicago women went to a hospital to have children born and then the doctors and nurses got them mixed, the result being that the ladies will have their doubts throughout life Whenever the Kids blow the lid off, the mothers will think they got the wrong one. a a a THE death of the widow of John C. Spooner of Wisconsin recalls that that great senator was very unhappy alter he left public life and went to New York City to practice law. And the same was true of Joseph W. Bailey of Texas Money can not make up for the old limelight. a a a One is not surprised that President Hoover will make no speeches on his western trip, for in the first place it’s too hot and in the second < place a President always should felicitate and there’s not much to felicitate about these days. It’s the same n Europe— unemployment everywhere, except in France. a a a Mr. Harry Bonds of Chicago was knocked unconscibus during a snowball fight on Pike’s peak. Lucky dog! • a a a GUrZON BORGLUM. our most reliable mountain manicurist, having the Black Hills memorial under way. has agreed to return to Georgia to carve the Confederate memorial on Stone mountain. a a a The politicians now running Russia have decided to raise an army of seveninj million members, not that any nation threatens Russia, but that such an organization is the best possible machine to prolong political control. 4 a a a Canada, wise to her own interests, has taken steps to prevent unemployed Americans from crossing the border, but the Unitea States lacking in common sense, continues to admit aliens from all Europe. a a a It is entirely possible that Zaro Agha, the visiting Turk who. claims to be 156 years old, has Inflated his antiquity for some 5,000 Americana claim to be ICO years and more, but many of thenmmagine it, *

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SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ-

The Gaseous Surface of the Sun Is Not Smooth, as the Ancients Pictured It, but Is Mottled. DAZZLED by the sun s brilliance, txu human eye can catch a glimpse *of the sun’s appearance. The ancients imagined that it was brightly polished like the faultless surface of a shield. After Galileo built his first telescope, it became possible to study the sun. One? method was to use the telescope to cast an image of the sua upon a screen. The other was to equip the telescope with a dark glass which made it possible to look ti-rough the telescope at the sun. Amateur astronomers never should turn opera glasses or binoculars upon the sun. (The experiment might result in permanent blindness.) These early students of the sun discovered that the surface of the sun was not perfect, but marked with spotfr. This fact was resented greatly by many of the philosophers of the middle ages, who held that since the sun was a celestial object, it must of necessity be faultless. Modern study has revealed that the gaseous surface of the sun, known technically as the photosphere, is not smooth, as the ancients pictured it, but mottled,, looking very much like rough drawing paper. A high-powered telescope reveals that f.ie surface is made up of a rather darkish background, over which are Scattered bright grains, or nodules. a * a .a Snowflakes LANGLEY, one of the famous earlier American students of the sun, described the appearance of the photosphere as resembling “snowflakes on gray cloth.” Astronomers frequently refer to the nodules as “rice grains,” because of the similarity in appearance. These “rice grains” range from •400 to 600 miles in diameter. But when conditions for observation are particularly good, a high-powered telescope will show that they are composed in their turn of smaller grains. The grains are not permanent, but continually change in appearance, old ones disappearing and new ones taking their place. They bare testimony to the fact that the surface of the sun is not a quiet region, but a great seething cauldron of gases. This is what we would expect, since other studies have revealed that the surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees on the Fahrenheit or ordinary thermometer. In addition to the “rice grains,” the photosphere exhibits bright streaks and patches known as “faculae.” It is difficult to see the faculae near the center of the sun’s disc, but they are prominent near the edges. Like the “rice grains,” faculae are subject to change, old ones disappearing and new ones appearing. The faculae are likely to be especially prominent in the neighborhood of sun spots. a a a Seeing IT is interesting to note that while in general photography is a sucperior method of research to direct vision, this is not entirely true in the case of the study of the sun’s surface or ohotosphere. Photographs of the sun do not show so great a wealth of detail as can be seen with the eye during instants of execeptionally good “seeing,” that is during instants when conditions for observation are exceptional. This same thing is true also of Mars. During moments of exceptional "seeing,” more details can be Si=en with the eye than can be photographed. It must be remembered that our studies of the heavens have to be made through the earth’s atmosphere. Two things in particular interfere with observations. One is the moisture in the v.tmosphere. The other is the motion rt the atmosphere. Photography, however, has been particularly useful in the study of the sun because it records instantaneously the appearance of the disc. Thus by taking a series of photos some minutes apart, it is possible to make a record of changes which are going on in the sun’s surface. Such studies of the sun are carried on by a number of great observatories where many photos are made of the sun on every clear day. These observations include the Mt. Wilspn observatory in California, the Meudon observatory in France, and the Kodaikanal observatory in India.

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MUSOLINI’S BIRTH July 29

ON July 29, 1883, Benito Mussolini, Italian prime minister and leader of the Fascisti, was born at Dovia, in the province of Forli, the son of a blacksmith. At the age of 18, after he had received a normal school education, he obtained aft appointment at. Gualtieri. He soon tired of teaching, however, and decided to go to Switzerland to improve his eduation. He interested himself in labor movements there, but later was expelled for his extreme socialistic views. So firm in his convictions was he that he narrowly escaped hanging for his utterances against the Austrian government when he went to Ti%ntino. During the war he abandoned Socialism and pursued a strictly nationalist and patriotic policy, founding a newspaper which fought against neutrality. He saw active service in the war and was wounded seriously. After his return to civil life he began a campaign against bolshevism by organizing the famous'Fascisti, originally a group of intellectuals opposed to bolshevism. The group became a party in 1922 and succeeded in making Mussolini prime minister and virtually dictator of Italy. In this capacity, he ’is devoting himself to the strengthening of Italy’s economic and political aitamtinn. I *

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Make Public Swimming Pools Sanitary

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal ot the American Medical Asaoeiation, and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. THE assistant sanitary engineer of the Detroit department of health has made available an analysis of swimming pool standards throughout the country, with a view to protecting the public health in this connection. He points out in the first place that it is desirable to keep the temperature of the water in a pool within a range where the growth of germs will not be rapid, and still have the water warm enough so that bathers who are not actively moving will not be unduly chilled. The proper temperature for this purpose is between 72 and 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Pools that are used mostly by good swimmers can be kept nearer the lower temperature and those used for teaching purposes are kept nearer the higher temperature. In the Detroit pools, as in most other well-regulated pools through-

IT SEEMS TO ME

Heywood Broun’* radio column, a fifteen-minute talk on subjects of the day that interest The Times famed columnist, may be heard each nißht except Saturday and Sunday at 9:15 over the Columbia broadcasting system. WFBM carries the program Tuesday and .Wednesday nights. . FEW will pretend that the naval treaty marks any great advance toward actual limitation of armament. And yet its defeat well might have been tragic, since the chief opposition has come in all countries from the jingoes and builtrtp-the-hilt men. Here and there a sincere pacifist joins forces with admirals, international politics has made few stranger partnerships than this cooperation between those who felt that the treaty went too far and the reformers who thoufght it was not even a beginning in limitation. But the fight for curtailment of naval preparation need not end now. The field still is open for a concerted drive toward sweeping reduction on our part, no matter what other nations may do. This is the very time for pacifists to begin to fight. It is a mistake to assume that all who favor peace at any price are humble folk who shudder even at the violence of verbal controversy. But it must be admitted that in the past too much humility has been mixed up in this drive against war. tt tt tt Placing the Blame Organizations have been inclined to beg for peace when it would be much more fitting to demand it.’ Some little ground has been gained. Even the most ardent militarist hesitates to proclaim an enthusiasm for war as a beneficial human activity. Instead there is much beating the c’evil around the stump with pious lamentations of the fact that mankind is still belligerent and that unfortunately the time probably will cone when it will be necessary for the millions to spring to arms again. Never is it asserted that any of the unfortunate belligerency resides in us. Some foreign nation, seldom named, is selected as the land which many be overtaken with convulsions. The jingoes of America are not the most logical people in the world, for with one breath they proudly proclaim that the United States can lick all the w„rld with its left hand and in the next we find these same {entlemen insisting on the necessity of vast expenditures for our protection. One of the distinct barriers to world peace is this same swaggering tendency which has been so rampant here since the war- Oralists are not content to tell us merely that we are rich, brave and virtuous. They must need go on to explain that no other nation is onetenth so fortunate in its store of these same blessings. # a a Practical Proposition IWISH that more emphasis could be put on the practical nature of peace proposals. Pacifists ought to work against the notion that universal peace is a fad of poets, saints, and a f£w other visionaries. There arp comforting words to be drawn from the Bible, but it is not strategic to face the peace movement wholljlbn New Tesjament text, - % • ♦ • "

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

out the country, bathers are required to take a shower bath with warm water and soap before they can use the pool. Swimming instructors, bar from the use of the pool anybody who does not appear to be in good health and any one with any mark on the skin that happens to be easily visible particularly if it is covered with bandages. There is a general rule against spitting in the pool, but this rule is practically impossible of enforcement. One of the most common types of infection around swimming pools concerns the infectious warts on the soles of the feet and ringworm, which has become widely advertised as athlete’s foot. In an attempt to overcome this condition feet of all swimmers in one school district were examined and those found to be infected were excluded. The rooms were scrubbed f , and washed with a solution of bichloride of mercury and then dried and aired, and no one was permitted to

HEYWOOD BROUN

Unfortunately out of a wealth of texts it is always possible to find something which may serve to comfort the other side. Fighting phrases can be found even In the words of Jesus, although the body of his teaching points in quite the opposite direction. However, we have reason to know that whatever primitive Christianity may have established as the rule of conduct the modem church never will find it difficult to discover some interpretation justifying a “defensive war” or a “righteous conflict.” The support and co-operation of the churches should be welcomed at all times, but the peace party should

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—lt seems to me that Frederick Landis would confine his articles in The Times to subjects on which he happens to be well informed. In a recent paper he told the public that the farmers’ wives no longer cook for the hired hands during harvest tiir.e. He must have in mind one of these farms which are run as a hobby father than the type which is the sole means of livelihood for a family. I have relatives in several middlewestern states and in every case the

Questions and Answers

Where in the Bible is the story of Rahab, the harlot, who hid the Hebrew spies and was later rewarded? Joshua 2 and 6: 17-25. For in the multitude of dreams and many words there arc also divers vanities. —Ecclesiastes 5:7. Our waking dreams are fatal.— Young. How old is Tom Mix? Fifty-one. How wide is the Hudson river? It varies from 1,600 feet to three and one half miles. Who wrote the song “Carolina Moon”? Joe Burt, in 1928. Do currency bills of the denomination of SIO,OOO have to be indorsed when they change hands? No. • What is the average yield <*f sugar beets an acre in the United States? How much of the beet is sugar? The average yield is approximately 10.9 short tons per acre. In some beets the sugar content is as high as 18 or even 20 per cent, but the average is about 14.5 per cent. How many Republicans and how many Democrats voted for and against the federal reserve act when it was passed by congress? When was it signed by the President? The vote in the house of representatives on Dec. 22, 1913, was as follows: For, 35 Republicans, 249 Democrats, 13 Progressives and 1 Independent. Against, 57 Republicans, 2 l Progressive.

use the pool until he had been cured. , At the end of the season it was found that only two cases of infection still existed among the- group using the particular pool for which the study was made. Jn checking the germs in swimming pools, it is customary to examine t’he water for bacteria at regular intervals and the number must be down to a minimum standard which the engineering department of the city can control. The standard is usually 200 colon bacilli for each cubic centimeter of water. From the engineering point of view, there are many definite factors which do not concern the average person, but which are of the utmost importance in proper sanitation. They have to do with the walls around the pool, the scum gutter, the outlets, the connection between the water supply and the pool circulating system, the method of chlorination, the painting of pipes and similar plumbing factors.

Ideals and oCinlons expressed In this column are those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naoer.—The Editor.

not allow itself to be tagged as a religious movement. It is broader than that. The noblest works of man generally are illuminated by enlightened self-interest. Partisans for peace make a mistake if they present themselves as prophets whose eyes are. fixed wholly upon the heavens. After all, anybody who can see as far as thp end of his nose ought to be able to realize that modem warfare is a game calculated to make losers of all participants. No other field of human activity ever has established a more voracious kitty. (Ccmyrieht. 1930. by The Times)

women cook the meals for the men instead of “sending them off to town to eat in a restaurant while they read the latest fashions from Paris and listen to the radio.” The men of a certain section form a harvesting “ring” and go to each others’ farms and do the harvesting ‘and the wife of the farmer whose fields they happen to be working gets the meals. If they went to town • and ate in a restaurant, they would spend more in one harvest season for food than they made in a whole year. A READER WHO DOESN’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING HE READS

Total, for, 298; against, 60. In the senate the vote on Dec. 24, 1913, was as follows: For, Republicans 3, Democrats 39, Progressives 1. Against, 25 Republicans—a total of 43 votes for and 25 against. The mesaure was signed by the President, Dec. 24, 1913. Who played opposite Clara Bow in ‘Get Your Man”? Charles (Buddy) Rogers. What is the address of the American Tree Association? 1214 Sixteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

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JJULY 29,1930

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:

The South Is Just About as Solid as It Ever Was. THE Texas primary proves very little, except the ability of Pa and Ma to come back. The comparatively small vote polled by Tom Love, who led the bolt against A] Smith, and the comparatively small* vote polled by Young, who managed the Smith campaign two years ago, only serves to show how completely that flareup has died down. Those familiar with the situation are not surprised. The southern defection from Smith never was anything more than a passing wave of anger, a left-over of the 1924 row. It was not a case of bolting the party, but of refusing to support a candidate, and that candidate was the victim of circumstances, rather than any inherent ill-will, and he probably would get the normal Democratic vote if he ran again. a a a South Still Solid THE South is about as solid as It ever was, and President Hoover has just as little chance of carrying it two years hence as has any Republican candidate since the Civil war. The dissension which gave him half a dozen states marked the end of a purely Democratic row, in which Ku Kluxism played some part, but which was essentially a struggle between northern and southern leaders for control. Now that the boys have had it out and have convinced themselves that nothing was accomplished but to make the walloping a little worse, they are willing to come back into the fold a a a 'Farmer Jitji' Has Power LOCALLY, and from a human Interest standpoint, the Texas primary is worth more than a passing thought. For one thing, it reveals the effect of opinions and influences which go deeper than party affiliations, and which, though hard to gauge, are likely to play a major role in shaping our political future. Not only outsiders, but Texans themselves, find it difficult to explain the hold of Fergusonism. Farmer Jim they called him when he broke into politics sixteen years ago, in spite of the -fact that he had become a banker and was re-, puted to be worth $300,000. He never had taken any prominent part in politics before, and was regarded as an easy victim for the old war horse, Colonel Thomas Ball. So, too, prohibition was regarded as the paramount issue on which these two would fight it out. But Farmer Jim chose to make his campaign on anew rent law for tenant farmers. The rent law never has been put into effect, but farmer Jim won on it. tt tt tt Pa Is Boss HE was impeached, as everybody knows, and made ineligible to run for office, though he did run for several offices. In 1924, when he was barred- from the ticket, he put his wife, and she was elected. “Farmer Jim” ran the administration, as every one expected, and it turned out so unsatisfactory that his wife wa? defeated when she ran lor *a second term. Now shes’ out in front again, running for her husband just as she did before, and rolling up a bigger vote than any other candidate. It’s all the result of Farmer Jim’s fine Italian hand, of his capacity to sit*on a fence, whittle a stick and make the boys at the forks of the creek believe that he’s c. k. a a a Jim Has the Art JIM FERGUSON is to Texas what “Big Bill” Thompson !• to Chicago, what Cole Blease is to South Carolina, and what many shrewd politicians have been to many places in the country .since it was established. Politics calls for a certain peculiar type of mind. The man or woman who has it can go far, in spite of deficiencies. The man or woman without it can get nowhere, in spite of virtues. Ferguson sfmply has the art of gating down where people live, of making them trust him, no matter how often or how convincingly he has been “exposed ” He has played the role of the “poor man’s friend” to a fare-you-well, and he has played it by doing things, as well as saying things. Your political leader who creates a loyal following, and especially one that is loyal enough to vote for hir. wife when he can’t run himself, must use his legs as well as his tongue. That’s where most of our reform candidates fail. They take politics as largely a matter of conversation. They are willing to preach, but not * to work.

Daily Thought

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house.—Psalm 101:7. The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.—Adam Ferguson.