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Starvation Pay Whether starvation wages shall be the rule on Indiana highway project* or whether laborers shall be paid a fair living wage will be up to the state highway commission, meeting this week. Times investigations during the last ten days have disclosed a shameful condition with regard to the pay of highway workers. Men are toiling for wages so low that they virtually are reduced to peonage, all because contractors have taken advantage of the ■unemployment situation to slash wages to the lowest possible level. The state highway commission can force these contractors to cease this vicious practice, which is a disgrace to Indiana. Engineers’ estimates on virtually all state highway jobs placed the minimum hourly pay for laborers at 40 to 50 cents. The contractors submitted their bids with this figure as a basis. And the world knows that every contractor estimated that he could make a profit on the job at this figure, or he would no*, have been interested in the contract. Contractors are not philanthropists. Neither are grocers, butchers, bakers or clothiers. They are not expected to be. Contractors are entitled to fair profits. But they can have some regard for decency, some regard for fair treatment of the men on their pay rolls. This wage situation is a matter that concerns every one in Indiana. With hundreds of men working for wages that approximate slavery, it means that their families are undernourished and easy prey to disease. It is a matter of public health, public decency, public morals. The state federation of labor has recognized the menace of present conditions. Union leaders will make a survey of the state, to determine just what wages are being paid, and take every action possible to relieve the deplorable situation. Business men and civic organizations are becoming aroused. Public sentiment can work wonders. It now remains to be seen what the state highway commission will do. If any political goal were to be achieved, it is certain that the commissioners would not delay. Will they show as much solicitude where hundreds of poor laborers are involved? “The Big House” Ohio officials will not permit the showing in that state of the motion picture, “The Big House.” At least they have requested its withdrawal by the distributers, which is interpreted as a warning that an official ban will be applied if necessary. Our purpose is not to turn our editorial column over to advertising, though in honesty we mu.it record that “The Big House” has been acclaimed by movie critics and prison reformers alike as one of the most remarkable of films touching a great national problem. It seems that it is precisely the veracity of the film which frightens the objecting Ohio officials. It comes too close to home, they are reported as saying. By showing the overcrowding and brutality which drives prisoners to madness, the film is uncovering not only conditions which led to the New York and Ohio and other recent penitentiary outbreaks, but it is revealing a dangerously inhuman situation which still exists. This censorship is terribly enlightening. We had supposed that the basic blame for overcrowded prisons throughout the country rested not on the officials, with all their faults, but upon public indifference and inadequate public appropriations. We had supposed that public officials, smarting under criticism for conditions over which they have but little control, would welcome any vivid, honest film or publication which might stir public opinion to constructive effort. Unless the public is awakened to its responsibility the money and the political support necessary for prison reform never will be forthcoming. The officials of Ohio and other states know that What is the answer? Don’t they want prison reform?

A Dictator and a Dog The Italian Fascist frontier guards who fired upon Swiss Monks of the St. Bernard monastery overshot themselves. One of the famous dogs of mercy was killed, the monks returned unhurt after being forced by the bullets to make a more hazardous Alpine detour to the monastery. The “crime” of these monks in the eyes of the Fascists was that they were seeking the body of a woman lo6t on the ice crags. The woman presumably was one of the thousands who risk death in flight over the Alps rather than suffer under the Fascist dictatorship. Though none of the monks was kJled, the sound of shot has been heard around the world. In many lands men and women of different religions, who learned as children at school of the courageous relief work of the men of St. Bernard and their dogs, have been shocked now by this latest news of Fascist terrorism. That Mussolini permits this sort of thing is apparent proof of the old historical maxim that dictators go mad with the powers they feed upon. Mussolini has counted for years on the indifference of the rest of the world to his misrule in Italy. Whether from Indifference or from unwillingness to meddle in the domestic affairs of another nation, the world has given scant attention to Fascism. Only during the last year, when Fascist Chauvinism has become a growing menace to international peace, has there grown up in other countries a definite hostility to Mussolini's mad drive for power. It is just such little incidents as the killing of the 6t. Bernard dog and firing on a relief party in another country that is moulding world opinion against Mussolini, who hitherto has escaped world censure for much worse and wider terrorism in Italy. A dictator can defy almost anything, and get away with it—almost anything except sentiment. That which the St. Bernard symbolizes is precious to humanity. If the world has to choose between that symbol of mercy and Mussolini, the symbol of terror —it will take the dog. Supreme Court vs. Congress Professor Charles G. Haines of the University of California has dared to question the sanctity of the practices of the United States supreme court. In a lecture just published on “A Government of Laws or of Men," he holds that the supreme court is not the guardian of a rigid Constitution; instead, the court is an active interpreter, continuously changing the Constitution in the light of new social and economic issues and acoording to the altering views of the nine men who make up the bench of that august tribunal. Haines contends that judicial review of congressional legislation is really not a matter of putting the actual Constitution up against unconstitutional enactments of congress. It sets up the court's view of the Constitution against congress' view of the C mst.tu- _ ,3 „L,

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Accurate than that of congress in any particular disagreement, he holds. The justices are men, as congressmen are men. Both are guided by personal convictions of what the Constitution d-es or should mean. The chief difference is that we have com* to approve the court’s assumption of the right to put interpretation above that of congress. Here is a relevant passage from this rather unusual collection of practical sense, historical fact, and professional courage emanating from the academic cloisters: “To state the prevailing conception more concertedly, if congress changes the Constitution, it is claimed that the Constitution necessarily is destroyed. If the supreme court by the process of interpretation changes the fundamental law, it is proper and the Constitution is saved. “That the supreme court may change its mind as to the meaning of the Constitution without undermining the sanctity of constitutional government has been demonstrated in the legal tender, the income tax, and the minimum wage cases, where the court reversed itself as to the meaning of the fundamental law. And, curiously enough, public opinion pays little attention to the inconsistencies in such action, and acquiesces in the reversals. "If congressman and justices have conscientious differences of opinion as to the meaning of the provisions of the written law, why conclude that one interpretation necessarily is wrong and another interpretation necessarily is right?” Paris Dictators Lose Out The business organization of leading American makers of women’s clothing has announced that hereafter they will not follow the dictates of Parisian style designers unless they have reason to believe that Paris styles will suit American women. Last fall Paris arbitrarily decreed that skirts would be long. American women refused to adopt the decree, and a lot of American dress manufacturers, who had thought that they would, lost money. So now the dress makers are going to ignore any further decrees about long skirts from Paris. This is somehow gratifying, quite aside from the general question of the esthetic, hygienic and practical advantages of the short skirt. The switch to the long skirts came simply because the style designers wanted to make women buy clothes they didn’t need. It failed, and its failure speaks volumes for the common sense of the American woman.

Fine Spectacles, Anyway Whether these giant new dirigibles eventually will prove commercially practical as trans-Atlantic passenger carriers or not, it must be admitted that they provide an enormous thrill for the spectator. Merely to see such an enormous bulk float lightly off into the air is in itself something of a miracle. Add to that the fact that these newest ships have promenade decks, staterooms, dining rooms, bars and other luxurious appointments and you have something irresistible in its appeai. It may be that their cost will prevent them from becoming money-makers in commercial service. But at any rate they are just about the gaudiest things men have yet constructed. Cal Coolidge writes that the reigning party was ousted in Canada because of a business depression. Os course he doesn’t go so far as to name what effect the same cause might have on the present administration here. "Nothing so educates us as a shock,” says Will Durant. This will be sort of flattering to those who have been splashed by jocose bathers at the beach this summer. Lightning, a news item says, knocked the rubber heels of both shoes worn by a Georgia man. And we thought all the time that they absorbed shocks. Once there was a columnist who read about the Communist investigation and resisted saying something about Reds feeling blue. The candidate for the West Virginia senatorial nomination, who spent 14 cents in his campaign, must be credited with having a fine sense of values.

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HATS off to the old high wheel bicycle, for it was the ancestor of the flying machine. Glenn Curtiss, pioneer of aviation, who died the other day, started experimenting with flying while running a bicycle repair shop at Dayton, O. To those senators who wonder whether we will now proceed to spend a billion dollars and build up to the naval strength permitted under the London pact we unhesitatingly say “no.” We did not do so after the Washington conference and in addition to our traditional indifference in this regard, the majority now believes that aviation has made the iron ship as worthless as a hardshell turtle. 000 OUR open air endurance lunatic asylum has just been enlarged tc accommodate the bicycle riders. If, as now seems probable, this thing shall soon become obligatory upon all of us, we shall choose a succotash eating endurance test, the com and beans to be cooked down and seasoned with smoked bacon. 000 The sporting world gives extravagant praise to Sir Thomas Lipton for his persistence in trying to win the sailing cup after many defeats, but the crafty old boy has won something more desirable than the cup; he has got more advertising for his investment than any other business man in history. 000 Long Island has no doubt of the development of aviation, the noise made by planes down there being so terrific the population is unable to sleep. •0 0 0 THE country does not grasp the real significance of this last political assassination in Detroit, but we are farther down the red road of lawlessness than people think. And to combat crime we have a worthless old blunderbuss of criminal procedure that should have been junked a century ago. 000 The senate should not confirm Nicholas Roosevelt as vice-governor of the Philippines if the people there don’t want him. Before we appoint a foreign ambassador we ask the country to which he is to go whether it has any objection to him. If it has, we don’t appoint him, and we should not force upon the Filipinos somebody they dislike. 000 We are having trouble with our mountain memorials. Down at Stone mountain Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, got into a fight and out in Dakota Borglum revised Coolidge's 500-word history of the country, and now Coolidge disowns it.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Small Glass Prism Is One of Most Useful Tools Possessed by Scientist.

A CHILD’S toy is champion detective of the universe. Probably every reader, at some time during his youth, possessed a little glass prism which when held up to the sunlight SDlit the light of the sun into a tiny rainbow. A similar glass prism is one of the most usefiff tools possessed by toe scientist. Atronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, and even the biological sciences, have all benefited by its use. In fact, the technique of its use. constitutes a branch of science all by itself and the experts who practice it are known by the rather formidable name of spectroscopists. A carefully ground prism, or a series of them, equipped with some auxiliary telescopes, constitutes what the scientist calls a spectroscope. The little rainbow formed by it he calls a spectrum. The science of spectroscopy is the science of spectrum analysis. Like the chap in the song, the spectroscopist is always chasing rainbows. But unlike the chap in the song, he gets results. Much of our knowledge about the sun is the result of studying the sun’s spectrum. We might watch the sun through a telescope forever and not Jrorn much more about it than its general appearance P.nd the size and movements of the sun spots. # a Newton THE innermost secrets of the sun have been unlocked through the study of the sun’s spectrum. It is of interest, therefore, to trace the origin and development of spectrum analysis. It all began with an attempt by Sir Isaac Newton to improve telescopes. Astronomers in Newton’s day were bothered by the fact that their telescopes did not give perfectly sharp images. Instead, the images possessed fuzzy boundaries, ringed with the colors of the rainbow. • It occurred to Newton that the difficulty did not lie in the telescope lens, but in the nature of the light. In other words, something peculiar about light made it behave as it did. Newton therefore perfected a telescope which used a mirror instead of a lens. This type of telescope, known as the reflector, is in wide use today, the world’s largest telescopes being of this type. The difficulty with the other type known as the refractor, later was solved by employing lenses composed of two kinds of glass, but that, as Mr. Kipling would say, is another story. What we are interested in following at the moment is Newton’s investigation of the nature of light. Newton, by means of a glass prism, established definitely that white light was a composition of all the colors of the rainbow and that what the prism did was to split a beam of white light into its component colors. In his experiment, Newton admitted a beam of sunlight into a room through a narrow slit in a shutter.

Color THE action of the prism easily is understood if we keep in mind the nature of color. Sounds differ from one another in pitch because they consist of sound waves of different lengths. Long waves constitute the notes of low pitch. Short waves constitute those of high pitch. In the same way, the color of light depends upon its wave length. Red light is composed of the longest waves. Violet light is composed of the shortest. Os course, light waves are not waves in the air, as are sound waves, but waves in the ether of space. White light is a bundle of waves including all the wave lengths from red to violet. Now, when light passes through a glass prism, it is bent. The technical word for the phenomenon is diffraction. But the amount that a beam of light is bent or diffracted depends upon its wave lengths. Consequently, when a beam of mixed waves goes through a prism, it is sorted out into a band. Red light, which is diffracted the least, comes out at the near end of the band. Violet light, which is diffracted the most, comes out at the far end of the band. The result is the formation of a rainbow or a spectrum. And since the position of any particular color in the spectrum is determined by its wave length, we can calculate that wave length by measuring its exact position in the spectrum. That measurement and calculation constitutes the fundamental task in spectrum analysis.

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SHELLEY’S BIRTH Aug. 4 ON Aug. 4, 1892, Percy Bysshe Shelley, great English revolutionary and lyric poet, was born near Horsham, England. At the age of 13 he went to Eton and five years later to Oxford, where his father had been before him. After he had been at college for six months he was expelled for writing a tract, “The Necessity of Atheism,” which he had published and circulated. The following cummer he married Harriet Westbrook, the 16-year-old daughter of a tavern keeper. After living a wandering life in different parts of England and Ireland for three years, they separated. She later committed suicide by drowning, whereupon Shelley, remarried. Soon after this he left England to spend the remairvier of his life in Italy. On July 8 he sailed from Leghorn to Spezia, where he had settled for the summer. A squall overwhelmed the craft and Shelley drowned. The body, which was thrown upon the shore at Viareggio, was burned, and the ashes, except the heart, which was unconsumed, were buried in Rome. His most famous works are “Queen Mab,” "Alastor,” and “Prometheus Unbound.” .

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— DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Soap and Water Are Best for Skin

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. COSMETICS have been used by women and even by men for thousands of years. Because of the strange superstitions that women have concerning the effects of drugs of various kinds upon the skin, Dr. R. N. B. Mac Kenna, a specialst in diseases of the skin in Liverpool, has given consideration to many of the formulas provided and to the superstitions that people have concerning their use. Some beauty specialists, Dr. MacKenna says, suggest soap and water should not be used, but that the face should be cleansed by the application of cold cream and any surplus removed with absorbent paper or towel, after which a vanishing cream should be applied. The beauty specialists then suggest that the toilet should be completed by the judicious use of powder, varying in hue from green or mauve to pink or tan.

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SOME day, somebody ought to write a novel about the wife of a professional baseball player. I know of such a book. In fact, I wrote it. It was called “The Sun Field,” and it has been, deservedly, out of print for several years. To be frank, the theme and manner of the story irked me less than they did my severe friends and good critics. For me the book had certain moments. But I will not deny that the atmosphere probably was inaccurate. It is many years since I have had the privilege of meeting a ball player face to face, and even in the days when I went south with the Giants I never knew anything of the home lives of the team members. But some friend did take “The Sun Field” to Mrs. Burleigh Grimes, wife of the prominent pitcher, and asked her for an honest verdict. He brought me back the message: “She says it’s terrible, and you don’t know what you’re talking about.” tt tt tt Not Incubated IT may be well that Mrs. Grimes was right. In fact, I wrote the novel much too soon. Two years after it was published I came across the perfect anecdote on which the book might well have been founded in the column of Joe Williams. Unlike most columnists, Joe Williams never repeats, and so he will, perhaps, pardon me if I tell his story as I remember it. Jay Kirke, who played first base, was a sweet hitter but weak on low throws. He loved his bingles even more than other baseball players %nd after a good day on the diamond he would swagger home and say to Mrs. Kirke, “You should have seen your baby in the second inning today.” Whereupon, like a dutiful wife, she would Inquire, “Why, what did you do, sugar pie?” “Well, I just crowned that old apple and drove it over the center field bleachers. They tell me it was the longest hit ever seen in the park.” Life moved serenely onward in that manner. Jay was hitting .398 and he adored his little wife with a great devotion. But one afternoon they threw a southpaw in against him, and this pitcher had a mean, though dinky, curve. He slowballed Jay to death and struck him out four times in succession. it tt a Jay Tarries AND that afternoon Mr. Kirke had less velocity in getting home th: ’ was his custom. In fact, when he arrived Mrs. Kirke was already bending over the stove preparing an omelet for the family repast. Bit she left her cooking for the moment and ran to the door to greet her hero. “And how did you hit today, honey?” she asked him archly. Jay Kirke’s reply was a dark and forbidding scowl. “I’ll attend to the hitting in this family,” he told her. "You watch put iax them aigs,”

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The face should be cleaned at night with cold cream and a lotion or skin food applied, after which the lady goes to bed with a thick coating covering her face. * This is an unhygienic system so far as concerns the actual care of the skin. The superstition that soap and water are bad for the complexion arose in the days when toilet soaps had lots of alkali in them and would irritate the skin. Nowadays few, if any, toilet soaps contain more than one-four of 1 per cent of free alkali, an amount which will not irritate the skin, and some superfatted soaps contain extra amounts of wool fat, which will counteract any irritation caused by free alkali. If soap irritates the skin, a superfatted soap can be used, and in exceptional cases the best qualities of shaving soap can be used for toilet purposes. There are all sorts of strange notions concerning the effect of cold cream, and vanishing cream. There are few harmful effects to be antici-

And upon such an episode the novel of a baseball player and his wife might well be built. Only in the families of stock brokers can there be such variation of good cheer and gloom. The wife of a ball player must learn to share with him his joys in home runs and the deep depressions inevitable during batting slumps. it a a Cabbage, Cabbage THAT plan might have worked well enough for a woman married to a pitcher on a contending club, but McGraw ought to realize that it hardly could be used universally by the wives of ball players. Suppose she happened to be married to somebody who pitched for the Red Sox or the Phillies. Consider what a surfeit of corned beef and cabbage would have been imposed upon the luckless tail-end twirler by the end of the season.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—“ Offers Science His Life to Save His Wife." This veteran of the World war offers to submit to a scientific experiment so his wife and family might not starve. I find in reading the Bible, John 15:13, that “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for a friend.” This man practically laid down his life on the battlefield for what? That Kaiser Bill and a few plutocrats on this side of the Atlantic might revel in the luxuries attained as the aftermath of the war, while the boys who bore the brunt of the war, many of them blinded, crippled, shell-shocked, are in want now; some sent to the poorhouse. Such a condition is a sad commentary on our boasted democracy, to say nothing of our Christ-like “brotherhood of man.” But this country never was a democracy. Properly speaking, we are a “polyarchy.” Our language, political literature and religion are all maintained under the same head. Here was a case of urgent necessity—this man was in dire need of assistance, not from the lack of food alone, but from the lack of a chance to work at some useful occupation where he could sustain himself and family and not depend on charity. Justice is what is needed in such cases. There always are two sides to any proposition. We are confronted by our present condition. Did you ever stop to think that we, as voters, are "particeps criminis” to the conditions under which we are living today? We vote for any old thing our party puts up, regardless of who or what he or it is, with no recourse whatever. They are elected and serve their term, be it two, four or six years. Voters should have an act whereby any officer could be recalled for dereliction in his duty or exceeding in his duty or exceeding his or her. authority as defined by our Constitution. In honor to our boys, who were drafted or volunteered to go i and fight, at the behest of the government, our government ought to

pated from the effects of good cold cream. Dr. Mac Kenna states that the only cosmetic value which these preparations possess is the value they have for hiding defects of the skin. On the other hand, fats block the glands, interfere with perspiration. cause the capillaries of the skin to fill and lead to a continued dilatation of the superficial blood vessels, which may be so bad as to become permanent. The worst possible forms of cosmetics arc those known as wrinkle removers and skin tighteners. These are rubbed into the skin, the action depending entirely on the fact that massage causes contraction of the muscles and smooths out the skin, except in the case of those that are irritants, which are exceedingly dangerous. Another dangerous and useless type of cosmetic is the skin food. Nothing will feed the skin. The continued use of such skin foods is more likely to cause pimples than to remove them.

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.

The problem goes deeper than the mere question of the technique to be employed in households dependent upon the diamondWe are tapping the perplexing question of any husband and any wife sharing all business cares and worries. Should she ask him, when she hears his foot upon the gravel path, “Well, how is General American Tank Car today?” I think no. Better let him bring Tank Car up of his own accord, is my suggestion. And the same rule holds true of newspaper columnists. It would not please me to be greeted with the query, “Well, what kind of piece did you write today?” In fact, that might almost fall under the head of unnecessary questions. If it had been a good one I would have told her of my own volition. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

be honorable and just enough to see they are taken care of in time of need. They would be, were it not for the fact that the emoluments of office are the great incentive rather than the honor they crave to serve the dear people.. Let’s change all this by voting for co-operation and the recall act. BERT F. MORLEDGE. Columbus, Ind. Editor Times—lt is well known that selfishness and corruption abound on every side in our government. Extravagances rule and graft is openly practiced, while the people pay the bills and suffer. The elected officers of government often are the mere agents of the powerful "interests.” And this in a country where the people are supposed to govern. But they will not govern again under the old parties. The government has passed from the people and they are hopelessly giving up, not even going to the polls to vote for any candidate. I announce five fundamental propositions to restore the government to the people which,' I suppose, will need to come through anew party. 1. The duties of government should be as much a business or profession as is manufacturing, merchandising, or banking- It is all wrong to change officers each few years if they are serving well 2. Therefore, instead of voting to put people in office for a term of years, vote once a year to decide whether they shall remain or go out. 3. The longer a good man works in a certain line, the more proficient he becomes. Therefore, promote from lower offices to,higher ones as they become vacant by removal, resignation or death. Example: Elect councilmen, promote the one who holds the longest without removal to higher offices until he may become mayor. In like manner, elect only to the statehouee of representatives and automatically the one who .serves the lopgesfcwith-

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Whether With Regard (q Bootlegging or Foreign Policy, We Forever Are Starting Something. 'T'HOSE ships which were refused entry now can dock and un | load their cargoes of Russian pulpj wood. I Camera, the beefy Italian pug who was told he must go home, is J permitted to stay with us another six months. A Negro church in New Jersey, padlocked as a speakeasy, is allowed to reopen under bond. The prevailj lng weakness seems to be lack of J certainty rather than lack of cour- ! age, whether with regard to boot- | legging or foreign policy. We forever are starting something. When ' it comes to the finish, however, not , so good. You can’t get a peep out of the ; Fish committee right now, though it was making the welkin ring last week. Chicago police hope they have got the man who killed Lingle, gangland knows it has got the man who squealed. A vivid illustration of the difference between grim, silent persistence and windjamming over bright ideas. Chicago police have been talking about clews, theories, and possibilities ever since the case began. Gangland has kept its eyes open and its mouth shut. It U 9 They Hew to the Line TTTHAT gangland wants may be * * bad, and what Communism wants may be unwise, but both are working in a disciplined way, while those opposed make effective cooperation impossible by a constant change of tactics. There are forty theories as to how the crime wave started and how it should be met. There are as many with regard to what our attitude should be toward Communism. Unable to agree on any of them for more than a week at a time, we try first one and then another. Meanwhile the Stalins and Capones drive straight ahead, and that’s why they get somewhere. u a Just Another Law AS might have been expected the Barberger-Watkins baby mixup results in the demand for another law, and the Chicago medical Society rises nobly to the occasion by appointing a committee to draft one. The basic idea, of course, is to invent a system that will make the misplacing of baby tags impossible. There will be blanks to sign, with two witnesses to verify the signatures, and a lot of red tape for the nurses to go through, whether the poor kid lives or dies, or' whether parents can stand the additional cost. Just another scheme to substitute mechanics for responsibility, to create a society of robots and a foolproof world. Well, when we get a foolproof world, we probably shall have a world full of fools. * St It This Would Make It Easy IT is intriguing to suppose that human ingenuity can create such conditions as will make it possible for men to do right without conscience, become proficient without thinking and meet their obligations without a sense of personal responsibility. What a happy lot if we could step on the gas at infancy, set the control at forty miles an hour, and go through life with nothing to worry us except traffic lights. What an easy task law enforcement would become if some genius only would invent a system whereby peace officers, prosecuting attorneys, judges and juries would have to do more than punch time clocks or adding machines. How simple the problem of foreign relations would be if we only could draw a blueprint for future generations to follow. And the thing might be possible if queer people like Lenin and Scarface A1 were not messing up the situation continually. u u Tossing Monkey Wrenches AS it is, someone forever is ihrowing monkey wrenches. No sooner do we devise anew system than someone starts a racket, a new form of government, or a street parade, and, generally speaking, it’s, the street parade that gets our goat. The chances are that we could have settled our differences with the 140,000,000 Communists in Russia if the 140 here only would quit strutting. But every time they strut, the New York police commissioner sees red, somebody proposes an invest!-, gation, somebody else thinks we should slap Russia on the wrist, and there is hell to pay all around. out recall will advance to the state senate, national house of representatives and national senate, or in the order agreed upon. In short, make, it possible for a good officer to continue as long as not recalled at the annual election. 4. Selecting candidates: Any person may announce himself as a candidate for an elective office, buthis pre-election activities should be limited to an announcement of his policies, which may be circulated by mail, passed out by hand, or printed as an advertisement. The idea IS that any person who is good enough to represent the people has established a reputation in his community and he will not need to conduct a campaign to acquaint the voters as to his merits, or deceive them. This rule would shut out those who often influence election witk money. 5. There is rarely an election that there are not charges of dishonesty. Besides elections are tremendously expensive. Therefore vote by mail. Then the voter can make his ballot in his home and commit it to the mail. The United States mail is more reliable than some election boards. The thoughts given here, briefly assembled, are to correct abuses in our political campaigns, elections and government. A real democratic government for all, by all and in which all really participate, to the end that our government may agaifl be restored to the people. Witft these things accomplished, and when each citizen’s vote will count for honest, economical administrations, the evils from which we now suffer will disappear. * * A. ZYSRITX. 7