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That MacDonald Hearing California added another chapter to her unique interpretation of American Justice yesterday. The addition came in a hearing of the latest version of John MacDonald's story of his role in the MooneyBiliings case. In the supreme court chambers in San Francisco the seven members of the court laid aside their Judicial robes. They deserted their overstuffed chairs at the bench and went into an unprecedented huddle about the tables usually reserved for counsel. Then, appointing one of their own number—Associate Justice Preston, who also will sit in judgment of the facte—to the role of prosecutor, they began one ot the weirdest extra Judicial proceedings ever seen in an American court. By way of opening. Chief Justice Waste announced that ‘this proceeding, which has attracted such attention, is not in any sense a court hearing, and for that reason will be conducted informally. Yet we shall require that it be conducted with all the formalities which members of the bar particularly accord to a court session.” - The court was not a court. Yet upon its findings and recommendation will rest the fate and tne freedom of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Clooney. Then ensued a scene which would have seemed fantastic to an Anglo-Saxon mind had it been reported from some tiny, decadent monarchy. John MacDonald. 58-year-old shell of what never had been much of a man, was put through a grilling, by one of his Judges doubling as a prosecutor, such as probably has not been duplicated since the days of the witchcraft trials in Salem, Mass. MacDonald, voluntarily coming into the jurisdiction of the court to face possible indictment for perjury, sought only to testify that his testimony—the only testimony on which the conviction of Mooney and Billings now rests—was perjured. Without being given opportunity to make a direct verbal statement, this man. an obvious psychopathic liar, with the mentality of a child of 6, was set upon by one of the men called to judge him and was dragged and prodded through a haze of fact-fogging questions, the main purpose of which seemed to be to whitewash the record of ex-District Attorney Fickert and the police officers whom MacDonald swore induced him to commit his original perjuries at the trials of Mooney and Billings. The entire line of questioning indicated much greater concern for the public officers whose conduct has cast a cloud upon California justice than for the two men serving their fourteenth year on testimony, all of which now is provcnly or admittedly perjured. That the hearing demonstrated beyond question that MacDonald is a hopeless liar is, of itself, of little consequence. He admits that he lied on everj previous appearance in court. It would not be d'fficult to believe that he was equally untruthful yesterday. Even so, there was indelibly written into the record irrefutable evidence of the injustice of keeping two men in prison another single day on the now uncorroborated evidence of a man mentally incapable of the truth, even when he obviously tried to tell it.

Squirt Gun or Fire Hose? A cow in Connecticut drank a pail of paint which had been left on the ground by a party employed in the Uruted States geological survey. The owner sued the government. The matter was carried through coi tress and the claim allowed. It cost SI,OOO to validate a claim for $l6O. Was this good politics or good Dussness ? The eminent publicist, Dr. Charles Austin Beard, does not think it was and says so in his article on “Squirt Gun Politics” in Harper’s Magazine. He offers samples of the vast number of petty bills which absorb the attention of congress and prevent it from haung ample time to consiccr really first-rate issues. The tariff and power problem suffer when congress is considering wneth*/ it will permit a Crow' Indian to sell SIOO worth of land. Beard proposes to remedy this abuse of triviality bv transferring the disposition of more and more business to the administrative departments. In the case of such instances as tha cow which drank the paint, he would tane the matter entirely from congress and let the proper administrative head settle the issue. He merely woulo report -ts disposition to congress In more important cases the administrative department would take action and report it to congress. This settlement of the case would be valid unless countermanded by congress in, say. sixty days. In the case of still more crucial problems, the administrative heads might be allowed to recommend the solution to be adopted, but It would not go into operation unless accepted by a joint resolution of congress. Handling of such matters would be facilitated by developing tne habit of summoning members of the cabinet to sit in on congressional sessions when the particuUi issue was under discussion. Dr. Beards proposals undoubtedly are sound. The cynic will ask if we could expect congress to be intelligent with all the time in the world on its hands. At least we may answer tha< more time would not reduce the intellectual powers of congress. It would have more opportunity to apply those which exist to Muscle Shoals and the tariff schedules if it was not absorbed with considering the grant of SIOO for damages to property done during the Civil war. It could toy with the fire hose rather than the aquirt gun. A Fourth of It’s Ours The poet who said “It takes a heap of livin' in a house to make it home." forgot to mention another requirement. It also takes some money. Willard K. Denton, president of the Metropolitan League of Savings and 1/oan Associations, is warnjjjg the voung people of the land that they should not turn the house-in- whtch-they-live into the homely Inch-they-own until ".hey are ready to pay down at last 25 per cent of the cost in cash. Nor should they buy a home whose cost is more than three times the sum of the family's income, he ays. The last statement is very easy to understand. No cue should invest beyond his income. But the first is a little more puzzling. There are a great many families who own their homes who might not have done s6 had they had to pay rent all the time that they were saving up for the one-fourth down investment. They experienced the keen pride of ownership and were able to plant rose bushes and turnips and onions on their own ground so much earlier than if they had waited. Because they had bought, they Xied to save and hasten the moment of tvU. poem. Otherwise, they might have takAi the mope? out of the beak end bought a better car or a

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radio while waiting for the sum to reach the required point. Or somebody else might have bought the l ouse they wanted. Perhaps the logical answer is that if the desire for a home is strong enough the couple won’t let anything Interfere with the saving policy, and if it isn t they wouldn’t keep the house anyway. We willingly agree that it would be much more satisfactory to walk into a house, knowing that it was one-fourth yours, than Just a fraction of a fourth. Keep Canada Our Friend! Apologists for our new higher tariff law, which is contributing to American depression, will have a hard time laughing off the results of the Canadian national election. Already your foreign exports as a whole have fallen off more than 20 per cent this year, Increasing unemployment and reducing profits in the automobile and many industries. Thirty-odd foreign countries have protested our tariff wall and many have carried out the retaliation which all threaten. In view of these disastrous facts, the denials of the administration of foreign reprisals fails to stand up. But more significant than the Italian, French, Spanish and other reprisals are those of Canada. Canada is our largest customer. Even before passage of our Hawley-Smoot law, the mere debate on it provoked the liberal Canadian government to retaliate suddenly with higher tariff barriers against our goods. Those Canadian increases are estimated to have killed American trade of upterd of half a billion dollars. But that is not all. Monday Canada held a general election. The major issue was a higher tariff, in reply to the American increase. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties pledged themselves to strike back at the United States in self defense. But the Conservatives promised to strike harder than the Liberals, and the Conservatives won. To get the full effect of the Conservative victory, it must be remembered that the liberal government, with the exception of a few weeks, has held office for eight years. Now the liberals, instead of remaining in office as expected, have suffered an overwhelming defeat. There is no doubt that the Conservatives, on taking over the government, will carry out their campaign pledge to hit our trade and his it hard. What do the millions of American unemployed, and the thousands of business men and stockholders whose trade is suffering, think of this result of the Grundy billion dollar tariff, which was advertised to restore American prosperity in thirty days? The cost of our tariff policy in dollars and cents is heavy enough, but perhaps even worse is the cost in international friendship. There is growing suspicion and hatred of the United States abroad, partly because of our sheer superior strength and partly because of our chauvinistic post-war policies. We need friends. And of all the nations in the world, the friendship of Canada we need most. No intelligent American can have seen the evidence of growing bitterness against us, which has characterized the Canadian election campaign, without being profoundly troubled. President Hoover, in signing the tariff law, pledged that any injustices would be corrected, under the flexible provision, by himself and the tariff commission. Unfortunately, the prolonged investigations necessary for such rate changes have not even begun. It is to be hoped that the Canadian electiou and the world-wide tariff war, which we so stupidly have started, will show the administration the importance of modifying our provocative tariff rates quickly. Maine went delirious over Rudy Vallee when the famous crooner visited his native state the other day. Many will see little appropriateness now in the expression: “As Maine goes, so gees the nation.” After robbing a summer home on Long Island sound, robbers departed in the owner’s $5,000 speed' boat. As though they hadn't puttered around enough that evening. Perhaps the only significance attached to the visit to England recently of King Feisel of Irak is that it has made crossword puzzle makers conscious of a couple of swell words.

REASON By F S CK

MF. HOOVER S request, delivered the instant the naval treaty was ratified, for a list of the senators who voted against it would seem to be a plain declaration of war, since Mr. Hoover has known for months the names of the gentlemen who constituted the opposition. a a a Everybody who reads the papers knew their names, for they have been impaling the pact upon the barbs of their oratory since com planting time, so Mr. Hoover’s attitude is a big type warning that he proposes to snatch their royal peacock feathers. a a a THIS does not mean that he intends to take away iheir garden seeds or their horse books for he has no authority over those ancient privileges, but it does imply that hereafter when he shakes hands with them it will be with a husking glove. a a a It means that when the treaty's opponents hereafter shall visit the office of the Great Father, he will look at them as if contemplating a foreign particle in the soup; the old hale and hearty comradeship will be missing, all the old riotous emotions will be padlocked and henceforth and forever it shall be the Arctic stare. 9 0 0 IT will mean also # that the offending senators will find their puronage gone, for several of Mr. Hoover’s predecessors publicly have announced that they would not consider recommendations for office winch were made by senators who did not do what the President told them to do, the late Mr. Taft being one of them. 000 But should Mr. Hoover frame his hates and affections along the lines of support and opposition in the matter of this treaty, he will find himself in a strange environment, for he will be casting the evil eye upon Moses. Hale and others who have been his stalwart supporters, and asking Norris LaFollette and others of his erstwhile opposition whether they will have one or two lumps with their cocoa. 000 WE would suggest to the executive that if he wishes to challenge the senate to a ten-round bout that he do so in some matter in which the public is interested, for about this naval pact there is more indifference than about any other issue of the last generation. It was expected to curl our bangs, but it did not bend one hair. 000 Perhaps this is due to the fact that everybody outside of the District of Columbia regards the naval treaty as a case of much ado abend, nothing, inasmuch as aviation has put upon til scrap pile the very ships which this treaty proposes to regulate. _

.THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

! Sun Spots Are One of Most Interesting Features Studied by Astronomers. SUN SPOTS consu.ue one of the sun’s most interesting features I and one of the sun's greatest mysteries. Daily studies of sun spots are part of the regular program of several of the world's greatest observatories. The sun is photographed daily at these observatories, so that a complete record of the number, size and position of all sun spots can be kept. The observatories engaged in this work include the great Mt. Wilson observatory in California, the Meudon observatory in France, and the Kodaikanal observatory in India. Many astronomers feel that a complete knowledge of the cause and behavior of sun spots would result in a complete solution of many of the most baffling problems concerning the sun. Sun spots are the most conspicuous features upon the surface of the sun. They become visible as dark spots upon the sun’s surface when a telescope equipped with the proper dark eyepiece is turned upon the sun. Occasionally, sun spots of such great size occur upon the sun that they become visible without a telescope when the sun is view through a piece of heavily smoked glass or a very dark photographic negative. u v u Contrast ONE important fact to be grasped is that the sun spots are not really dark, but only dark by contrast with the rest of the sun. Actually, the light of a sun spot is as bright as that of an electric arclight. The sun is so bright that one can not view it with the unprotected eye. When a dark glass is used it cuts down the light of the entire sun a considerable amount. The light of the sun spots is cut down so much that the spots appear dark by comparison with the rest of the sun’s disc. As viewed through a telescope, a sun spot consists of two portions, a dark central portion known as the umbra, and a lighter fringe around the umbra known as the penumbra. Frequently several spots will have a common penumbra. It also is common to find brilliant streaks stretching like bridges across the penumbra. There is no regularity as to shape or size among the sun spots. The size and shape of the penumbra with reference to the umbra is also subject to -/ide variation. Frequently, the penumbra will exist only on one side of the umbra, or it may extend to a much greater distance on one side than it does on the other. The quality of light given off by the sun spots differ from that radiated by the sun’s surface or photosphere in general. The light from a spot is about one-tenth as strong as the rest of the sun in yellow light. It is very much weaker, however, in blue and violet light. The result of this is that the light from the sun spot has a more reddish hue. a tt a Size THE size of sun spots serves to indicate how small this little earth of ours is. The diameter of the umbra or dark center of the spot may range from 500 miles to as much as 50,000 miles. It would be possible to pick up our little earth and drop it right into one of these larger spots. And since the temperature there is about 5,000 degrees, our earth would last about as long as a snowflake which was dropped into a red-hot stove. The penumbra surrounding a group of spots is sometimes as much as 150,000 miles in diameter. Sun spots change their appearance frequently, if one keeps in mind -the tremendous size of the spots, he can appreciate the stupendous activity which goes on upon ■the surface of the sun. Spots appear and disappear with considerable rapidity. An analysis of photos of the sun at the Greenwich observatory in England showed that one-fourth of all the spots recorded lasted but a single day. Another fourth lasted only from two to four days. The two classes just mentioned consisted, as might be guessed, of the smaller spots. The larger ones were more permanent, lasting in most cases for a week or more. Out of 6,000 groups of spots, however, only 468 lasted for more than twenty-four days.

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HENRY FORD’S BIRTH July 30 ON July 30, 1863, Henry Ford, American manufacturer, was born at Greenfield, Mich, the son of a farmer. He began early to develop an interest in mechanics, but when he finished his education at the district schools his father put him to work on the farm. After three years of this, Henry went to Detroit to work for $2.50 a week in a machine shop. Constantly working with engines. Ford later was made an engineer and machinist with the Detroit Edison company. After hours he worked on the building of a gasoline motor car. When it was developed he left the electric company and went into business for himself. In 1903 he organized and became president of the Ford Motor Company, which has become the largest automobile manufacturing establishment in the world, and the third largest industry in the United States. In 1926 the company had assets of about $1,000,000,000." and had in employ some 200,000 persons directly and an equal number indirectly. Ford was a pronounced pacifist before the Word war and sought by a peace mission to bring the warring nations into conference. Convinced his errand was hopeless, however, he returned home. DAILY THOUGHT A good name is better than precious ointment—Ecclesiastes 7:1. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you dasire tojyppyf

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Much ‘Dyspepsia’ Due to Fast Eating

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. THE term “dyspepsia” developed for all sorts of disorders of digestion because it was thought some years ago that all of them were the result of some disturbance of the development of pepsin in the stomach. Asa result, the market was flooded with hundreds of pepsin compounds and people with digestive difficulties due to innumerable causes were seen carrying around little tin boxes and taking tablets on the slightest provocation. As modem physiology developed its study of the stomach and intestines, the point of view changed and the majority of medical authorities are now convinced that a good many of the dyspepsias are nervous disorders in which there is nothing visibly wrong with the digestive organs. Dr. Thomas R. Brown has classified dyspepsias into several groups related to the mechanism that brings them about. One of the first

IT SEEMS TO ME,

Hcywood Broun’* radio column, a fifteen-minute talk on subjects of the day that interest The Times famed columnist, may be heard each nijrht except Saturday and Sunday at 9:15 over the Columbia broadcasting: system. WFBM carries the progrram Tuesday and Wednesday nichts. “T HAD an argument with a friend 1 this week,” writes F. L. S., “and maybe you can settle it. I said that every great genius, whether in the world of music, art or literature, never gave the world a really great masterpiece until inspired by some strong emotion such as love, hate or unrequited affection. “In fact, 1 maintained that unrequited love is the most stimulating of all. It is sorrow that causes a man to pour out his bitterness and longing on paper or on canvas. “Tell us your own experience and settle the argument. Tell us all.” n tt tt Won't Tell All 1 SHALL certainly do nothing of the sort. Naturally I am saving most of that material until I get time to write an ex-book—“Ex-Wallflower,” or even “Ex-Ex.” I suppose I’ve had about as much unrequited love as anybody else and yet if you were to ask me, “Where are your masterpieces?” I wouldn’t be able to answer. At least not right off. The benefits of unrequited love easily may be exaggerated. Speaking from my own experience I wouldn’t say much for it. It may be that years after the event the unsuccessful suitor can sit down and say, “Let me see, how about doing a couple of thousand words on that episode with Fifi? About the time she broke the dinner engagement with me and w’ent out with the other fellow.” But even this would not work well for me. I take unrequited love very hard. At the time the mood is on I don’t want to put my feelings into verse, light opera or newspaper columns. The pining itself uses up too much energy. To be sure, when in an unfortunate situation of this kind I am inclined to talk very freely. I wall converse with even the most casual acquaintances about the depth of my affection and how unfair she is and has been. Probably that’s the trouble. I talk my sorrows so eagerly that there really is nothing left to write. Even I, sitting down before a typewriter, would be troubled with the thought, “Isn’t this pretty old stuff by now?” tt tt tt Catching a Heartbreak A ND unrequited affection is such X3L a fleeting ' hing that a man has to work fast in order to cash in on It. It’s something like alcoholic stimulation. Too little is no good. Too much is terrible, and Just the proper crest #8 swift as the wild goose in its flight. SThat I mean is that late so©e

Shaking Him Off at Last!

types in importance is that resulting from bad eating habits. Rapid and careless eating is a prominent habit among Americans. A Frenchman, observing the condition among us, called us all “tachyphages,” which is a highly scientific term meaning rapid eaters. The average American bolts n-s breakfast, rushes to a car or train, gets out thirty minutes for luncheon, or if he takes longer spends 90 per cent of the time in conference or at the bridge table or eats luncheon off an edge of the desk so that he can get away to the golf course at 1:30. Dinner in the average American home is a hurried performance so that the family can get to the first show at the movies, listen to Amos and Andy, or get in three double rubbers of bridge before bedtime. Few modern adults have any conception of the important food substances or of the quantity necessary for healthful growth and easy digestion. Poor chewing of food gives the interior mechanism a lot of difficulty, because it is necessary for the digestive juices such as the saliva and

Friday afternoon I might be consumed with uneequited affection. In fact the emotion could be so keen and penetrating that I would be moved to sit right down and dash off the great American novel. Just to spite her. Yeti, generally I have managed to stave off the impulse for an immediate orgy of work calculated to make me forget about the gnawing pain in my soul. I’ve compromised by asking somebody to go on a late party and telling him or her about it. It’s better to tell it to some her, if one’s available. After the first couple of hours a man is apt to get bored listening to a friend’s tale of unrequited love. Os course, you may be able to find some male friend who is suffering from the same complaint, but then you both talk at the same time and pay no attention to each other. Probably women are just as bored at hearing these long drawn out recitals, but they seem to have cultivated the trick of pretending interest. I suppose some of them get such a lot of practice. Even when you know that she’s not really listening at all, a clever girl will throw in a “not really!” and a “too bad!” at appropriate intervals. tt n a Boring From Within r "P'HE thing that lifts me out of unrequited love in anyw here from 48 to 70 hours is that I begin to bore myself by talking about it. And what’s the use of suffering from unrequited love if you have to keep the secret to yourself? Nobody will pretend, I trust, that there is any fun in that. Once I had an attack which lasted for four and a half days because I had to take my emotion w'ith me

Questions and Answers

Are egoist and egotist synonymous? An egoits is one who subscribes to or practices the doctrine that the supreme end of human conduct is the perfection or happniess of the ego-self, and that all virtue consists of self-interest. An egotist is one who thinks and talks about self, or the spirit that leads to such practice; self-exaltation. •' What firm published “Sad Girl,” by Vina Delmar? Harcourt, Brace & Cos., New York. What are palentology and petrology? Palentology is the branch of biology that treats of ancient life of the earth or of fossil organisms. Petrology is the science of recks.

the secretions of the stomach and intestines to penetrate the boluses of food that are swallowed. Too much chewing reduces the food to a fluid consistency which fails to exercise properly the masculate of the digestive tubes. Under these conditions the machinery breaks down rather soon, exactly as a furnace built for anthracite goes to wrack and ruin under soft coal and slag, and exactly as a motor built lor high test and ethyl gas fails to operate properly under the refuse that is poured into the tank at fly-by-night filling stations. Sooner or later the whole digestive mechanism gives up in disgust. The secretions become underacid or overacid. The movements get too great or too slow. Then the business man knows something is wrong. He feels full after the first few bites of food. His abdomen is distended. He eructs gas, complains of heart burn, his tongue is coated, he loses his appetite and he has joined the great mob of dyspeptics that help to make the patent medicine manufacturers rich.

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

on a train to California and the conductor and the dining car stewards were much too busy to receive confidences. It’s remarkable what a u'eek-end will do for an unrequited affection. A lively Long Island house party will not only entirely obliterate an unrequited affection, but give you two more to take its place. And two can’t be handled in any effective literary way. Somehow, readers refuse to be interested when you present them a hero sitting in the moonlight, moaning and muttering, “I just can’t live without those two young ladies.” My answer to the searching question of F. L. S. about unrequited love and writing people can all be boiled down to this—when you’ve got it you can’t work and by the time you get to work you haven’t got it. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times) Is a meal served at noon, or In the middle of the afternoon properly called dinner? The dictionary definition of dinner is, “the principal meal of the day, taken according to the custom of the house or place, sometime between noon and 9 p. m.” Whether it i> called luncheon or dinner depends upon local custom.

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.JULY 30,1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Wa Simply Can't Gat Away From the Drug Habit or the Peculiar Part It Plays in Human Affairs. THE news is full of dope, not figuratively, but literally. First, the fede:al government reports how five gangs have been smashed and twenty-six of the biggest peddlers arrested in a series of raids along the Atlantic coast. Second, a New Jersey doctor announces that he will patent a marvelous cure lor drug addicts, the formula for which he obtained in Germany. Third, a cured addict tells the New York Telegram how easy it is to get drugs on Welfare island, one of the largest penal Institutions in New’ York City, in spite of all the officials can do. a a a It’s Old Stuff OLD stuff in every essential. When wasn’t the government making raids and smashing rings? When wasn’t some doctor coming out with anew, sure-fire remedy? When w-asn’t there smuggling under, over, or through prison walls? We simply can’t get away from the drug habit, or the peculiar part it plays in human affairs, without going back to the jungle. Cavemen may not have been bothered by the problem, but it was due to their ignorance, not their virtues. Ever since some prying genius discovered the bag of tricks poppy juice contained, civilization has been divided into two camp6 —one trying to get it, and the other try - ing just as hard to suppress it. a u a Dope More Dangerous MORPHIA, when you come to think of it, seems a pretty strong argument against the doctrine of free will and personal liberty. . . In theory, a man has just as much right to take dope as he has to take a drink. In theory he will not abuse the privilege if he is any good. In theory, it is none of society’s business if he makes a beast of himself. fn theory, the Harrison act is little different from the Volstead act. But more people are afraid of dope than hooch, because it is a strong drug. , , .. .. The case is one of relativity, rather than principle. In spite of all we can say about, the sacredness of personal liberty, we are perfectly willing to deny it under certain circumstances. a a a Starts With Youth CIVILIZATION, as we call it, has come to the conclusion that the morphine and allied habits ought to be stopped. Unofficially at least, all the great governments have accepted an “Eighteenth Amendment” to this effect. The result is world-wide bootlegging political graft and breakdown of the law, with plenty of “snow” for those who have the price, plenty of profit for those who have a cure, and the whole situation hinging on recruits. If we had none but old addicts to deal with, the problem would be easy. What makes it difficult, if hot impossible, to solve is the thousands upon thousands of boys and girls who are induced to trifle with the stuff by one means or another. a a a Law Can't Do Job THERE are cases, of course, in which the drug habit resulted from legitimate treatment to overcome pain, but they are few and far between. The bulk of this business goes back to a horde of unscrupulous hijackers who are teaching the young and immature to “just try it.” Like every one of our major problems, the drug habit goes back to unwise, unguarded youth, to failure of older people somewhere along the line. The notion that we ever can stop drug habit by seizing smuggled goods here and there or arresting the smugglers now and then may be all right, in-so-far as it soothes our conscience, but it doesn’t get us anywhere. As long as anew crop of drug addicts is produced every year, the traffic will continue to flourish. So, too, will other kinds of traffic. This idea that we can purify or perfect society with mechanical systems for the restraint or protection of grown-ups, that we can make things safe without exerting ourselves to help children form the right kind of habits, that we can dispense with the old-fashioned home, throw away moral standards, and let the law clear it up afterward, is little more than a good alibi for lazy parents and politicians.