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Time to Act It is unfortunate that the demand for action against the lynchers at Marion was made by a delegation of Negro citizens. There should have been a procession of delegations of white citizens there ahead of them, making the same demands, and asking the Governor to make at least a gesture of protection for any citizen who gives evidence against those who supplanted private vengeance for law. Hesitation on the Jiart of public officials, either those at Marion or* at the statehouse, is not creditable toihe state. It suggests cither fear of mobs or a sympathy with the lynchers. It is not believable that there should be any difficulty in identifying those who participated in the illegal killings. It is impossible that with a crowd of several thousands watching the grewsome exhibition of barbarism, no witnesses can be had as to the actual participants.. Nothing is added to confidence in law by the refusal of a judge to permit affidavits to be filed in his court. The law in regard to responsibility for lynchings in this state is very clear. It was written with the purpose of preventing lawless executions. It places a duty upon the sheriffs of the various counties that can not be dodged. Failure to act, on the part of state officials, is an invitation to more mobs and more lynchings. Delay is a blow at ordeily society. It invites suspicion of organized authority. The people of Indiana must decide/ whether they wish safety under the law or safety under private vengeance. Up to date, officialdom seems to be aiding the lattei % viewpoint. Is the law more afraid of mobs than the mobs are afraid of law? If such is the situation, delay and inaction is understandable. But if we are to have a government by law and under the law, it does not seem to be unreasonable to demand action.

One Thing to Do The Mooney-Billings "retrial,’’ concluded Wednesday night oefore seven California supreme court justices sitting as a commission, established beyond all doubt that these two laborites, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, are serving life sentences on perjured testimony and for a crime of which they are innocent. Disregarding, as we should, all extraneous niatter such as the political opinions of Mooney or the prison record of Billings, these facts now stand forth in bold relief: Mooney and Billings did not plant the bomb that killed ten innocent persons. They were jailed by the sworn testimony of one of the most -vicious groups of perjurers ever gathered in a criminal case. They both had almost perfect proof of innocence. The conclusion is inescapable. They should be pardoned at once. The innocence of the pair appears to have reached the minds and hearts of the "court," the prosecutors and the spectators. Justice Preston, most unfriendly of the judges, spent much of his time at the Folsom examination of Billings trying to persuade the prisoner to accept a parole. Not one question asked there by the judges had to do with the actual commission of the crime. None of the old Fickert prosecution staff had taken the stand to urge keeping the men in prison. Ex-Prosecutor Cunha urged parole. Ex-Prosecutor Brennan and former Police Captain Duncan Matheson urged pardon. Even Fickert said he did not want to be asked about a recommendation, and frequently has said in interviews he would not oppose pardons. The reporters covering the hearing for a month have voted, 18 to 1, for a pardon. The state of California is confronted with 'hree courses. It can continue as it has for fourteen years, to do nothing. It can make a miserable compromise, such as was done in the Dreyfus case, offering the men parole or commutation. It can do the only logical and honorable thing and issue pardons. In event of either of the first two courses, the Mooney-Billings case still will agitate the liberals of the world. If the third course is followed the Mooney-Billings case will be buried. Either Mooney and Billings are guilty of this crime or they are not. If guilty they should be held in prison. If not they should be released at once unconditionally. If they have committed other crimes they can be rearrested and retried. Between such obvious wrong and right there can be no compromise. California can not end this scandal by temporizing. Americans vs. Fascism Last spring six Communists were arrested in Atlanta under an old insurrection law. It was passed in the 30’s of the last century to guard against Negro riots and was revived in the unsettled times of Civil war and reconstruction. The state prosecutor announced seriously in public that he was going to demand the death penalty in dead earnest for Communists in Atlanta. There was no evidence that tire accused had incited anybody to insurrection. Indeed, they had not been given opportunity to speak at all. Those held, some of them girls, are out on bail, awaiting trial. For a time no voice of protest was raided in Georgia concerning this outrage, but now th* re are signs that liberty and fair play are not without friends in Atlanta. A public statement denouncing the prosecution of six Communists under a Civil war insurrection law was given out by fifty-seven prominent Atlanta liberals. among whom are Dr. W. W. Alexander of the inter-racial commission. Professor Mercer G. Evans of Emory university. Dean Edgar F. Johnson, Mrs. Mary Raoul Millis, Professor Jay M. Soandrett, Professor Clark Warburton. Dean Goodrich C. White and Dean Comer M. Woodward. Twenty-six professors and eight ministers appear among the signers. In part, they say: "The state of Georgia, like several other states, has a law proscribing ’insurrection,’ or ‘incitement *juo insurrection’ ~. The undersigned do no^n dorse

The Indianapolis Times v (A BCRIPPB-HOWA RD NEWSPAPER) jwned and pnblUbtd d*lly (except Sondny) by The Indlannpolli Time* Pobllihln* Cos., 214-220 Went Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Price in Marion County. 2 cent* a copy; elaewhere. 3 cent*—delivered by carrier, 12 cent* a week. _ BOYD gUkLEYT" BOY W. ‘ HOWARD, FRANK G. MORRISONL Editor President Business Manager ( HONE-Riley SMI THURSDAY. APO. 21. 1830. Member ot United Preaa. Scrlt pa-Howard Newspaper Alliance. Newapapei Enterprise Assoelation. Newspaper In.ormatlon Service and Audit Bureau of Circulation*. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

the revolutionary philosophy and tactics of the Conmunist party and its affiliated organizations. Yet we believe Communists should be protected in thevr constitutional rights of free speech and free assemblage. “Raids, prosecutions and imprisonments will give only added weight of evidence to the claim that a •capitalistic’ society is oppressing the working classes. Furthermore, a policy of repression will exaggerate the importance of false ideas, and is likely to open the flood gates for future repression of progressive social movements.” This reasonable statement of good old American tradition should take some of the wind out of the sails of the bellicose prosecutor who proposes to hang men for holding economic opinions other than his own. But reason in this case seems only to have promoted more varieties of violence. A body of so-called “American Fascisti” has been organized in Atlanta to combat radicalism. Black shirts arc selling for $5 each. Another organization, the “Caucasian Crusaders,” also has emerged to save Georgia from Moscow and Africa. Threatening letters have been sent to all fifty-seven signers of the above protest. The atmosphere for the fall trials of the accused Communists promises to be worse than that of Gastonia last autumn. Van Lear Black Van Lear Black’s achievements in life were as unusual as the manner of his death, when he apparently fell unseen from his yacht into the Atlantic. In a dozen strange and out of the way lands he was called "the Flying American.” In Europe he was known not so much as an African capitalist as the man who had done most to advance private aviation. Not a pilot, he probably had flown more miles as a passenger than any man in the world. But in his own country he was thought Os as the publisher of the Baltimore Sun newspapers. And there again his record was unusual, not because he wrote or dictated the liberal policies of those eminent newspapers, but because he held aloof. His theory was that he should employ trained journalists and let them find and tell the truth in their own way—even if their views did not agree with his own, even if the policies they advocated hurt his other business interests. ' \ To that extent the Sun newspapers are his monument.

They Don’t Know Everything What’s wrong with so many of us, when we foolishly imagine that because a man knows more than anybody else about one thing he knows all there is to know about everything? Ford and Edison are two shining examples. Ford is a successful manufacturer and salesman of automobiles and has piled up one of the greatest fortunes in history. He never has uttered a thought that indicated that he knew any more than the rest of us about anything else, but nearly every public utterance he has given out on anything outside his little sphere of special knowledge bubbled all over with ignorance. He has loads of money, and money may talk. But it doesn’t follow that it thinks or says anything worthwhile when it talks. Edison is a successful inventor, who makes the dreams of more imaginative thinkers come true and make money. Outside of that he doesn’t know much, and seldom says - anything that hits the bullseye. Tunney was some pumpkins as a prize fighter when he licked Dempsey, but that was no reason why he was the guy to teach Shakespeare at Yale. Lindbergh was a wiz as an aviator when he flew to France, but that doesn’t prove that he knows anything about endrocine glands or the tariff. We are all such idolators of the great god success that we foolishly imagine that a man who knows a whole lot about one thing knows all there is to know about everything. Yet this is the era of specialization in knowledge, despite mass production and standardization. Let the shoemaker stick to his last, and Henry Ford to his excellent flivvers. Among breakfast foods, anew item says, are becoming popular in Switzerland. And that a cereal story we' all like to read. • Marion Talley says that it is because her corn crop failed that she is going back to opera. In search of more appreciative ears, no doubt.

REASON P 3ST

IT was exciting when Byrd discovered that new land at the south pole, but it’s a greater thrill to discover a multimillionaire who, with the clear eye of the economic engineer, sees society’s duty to its unfortunates. n tt a Such a man is Alfred Y. du Pont of Delaware, now doing a beautiful piece of constructive civilization. Out of his own pocket he pensions 1,100 destitute old men and women, which is better sport than shooting grouse in Scotland or elephants in Africa. a a tt He has taken eleven hundred human disasters from the almshouse of Delaware and he is go#ig to take more; he has tied cans to the tails of 1,100 wolves of want and he has just commenced to tie! B B B A BELIEVER in old age pensions, Mr. Du Pont urged the state of Delaware to provide for them, and, disappointed by its failure to do so, he has shown the state how to do it and soon shall shame it into action. t B B B In one Delaware almshouse a lonely old lady rocked in her chair and in another an old man waited in solitary wretchedness for the end. Mr. Du Pont took them from those houses of poverty; he took them back to their old .home, and there they will stay the rest of their days as his guests. That's religion, “pure and undefiled.” BB ■ B The poorhouse soon will pass away; in your day and mine it will become as obsolete as the auction block of slavery and. come to think of it, they are much alike; they both belong to the barbaric school of architecture. BUB THE other day New York planted her banner in the movement for old age pensions; a Republican legislature passed the bill without one vote against it and a Democratic Governor signed the bill. Don’t say it’s “socialistic” when oui\richest, most conservative state adopts it unanimously! U U tt We have only to eliminate graft and inefficiency from government to save ten times enough to pension the aged poor, and how much better to give it to them than to crooked politicians. B B B Old age pensions!— the next milestone in the march of American progress—and in the meantime, here’s to Alfred L Du Pont, thoroughbred!

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ ] Temple Inscriptions Add Greatly to Our Knoiuledge of Early Egyptian History. THIRTY-FIVE years ago, a college professor headed his own expedition into Egypt. The members of the expedition were himself and his wife. The expedition’s equipment consisted of one donkey and a cheap camera. This month the Oriental institute of the University of Chicago has published a book which is the initial volume of a series of twelve books which will give the histprical records inscribed on the Temple Medinet Habu, built about 1200 B. C. by Rameses 111, the last of the great Pharoahs. About $330,000 has been spent in collecting the material for the first book of the series. The connection between the book and the expedition of thirty-five years ago is that the work began with that expedition. The professor was Dr. James Henry Breasted, now director of the Oriental institute. A laboratory costing $1,500,000 is being built for the institute in Chicago by the international education board. Dr. Breasted sums up his philosophy of work in the sentence, “Human experience is too precious to waste. That is why he considers the study of ancient civilizations and the publication of ancient records important.

Inscriptions IN the Medinet Habu publication, which reproduces the temple inscriptions in greatest detail and with more exactness than has ever been accomplished before, there is little actual narrative, but the reliefs furnish an enormous amount of historical and archaelogical information. . “The reliefs propaganda designed chiefly to augment the prestige of Ramses 111 among both men and gods, disclose his wars and his prowess as a hunter,” Dr. Breasted says. "The first naval battle of which there is any record is portrayed on the walls, and the first known use of grappling hooks, used as late ns the war of 1812, is shown in this relief. Ramses was beset by foreign invasions, but during his lifetime he was successful in preserving his kingdom and arresting the decline of the decaying state. “The first hint of the emergence of Europe is found in the record of wars with invaders from the north, who came as armies and as nations in migration, fleeing from the Greek barbarians who were forcing the older peoples out.” # Humor DR. BREASTED says that he believes the inscriptions show tijat the ancient Egyptians had a firm sense of humor, since the artists apparently delighted in showing the invaders in ludicrous and uncomfortable as well as inglorious situations. “The temple reliefs show the invaders with remarkable fidelity and attention to detail, each race in its typical garb, armed with its own set of weapons, and fighting in its particular fashion,” he says. The Egyptian artist portrayed the various enemy races with something of the technique of the modern cartoonist, emphasizing salient characteristics. “These records of the close of one important phase of human history, the decline of Egypt and the rise of Europe, were executed with remarkable artistic ability and power. “As originally executed, the temple walls blazed with color, for all the reliefs were painted, the artist adding with his brush many details that the sculptor ignored, but only a few speciments of this color work are preserved.” Two color plates in the book show a battle with the Libyans and Libyan captives, the artists adding such realistic details as pools of blood and wild flowers that grew on the battle field.

Questions and Answers

What is the longest flight made by birds across the ocean? Birds have been known to migrate across ocean spaces upwards of 2,000 miles. The longest flight by a banded bird that has been reported to the United States biological survey, was made during the spring of 1929, by an Arctic tern, 3 months old. It was banded at Tumevick Bay, Labrador, and was found dead on the beach at Margate, Natal, South Africa, less than four months later. * ’ From what raw materials is paper made? From various plant fibers. In the early days of the industry, paper was made almost invariably from discarded textile fabrics, particularly cotton - and linen, technically called rags, including wornout garments, cuttings and waste from looms. Later it was necessary to find additional sources of supply, and among the raw materials now employed are wood fiber, jute, bamboo flax, hemp and esparto or alfa grasses of Spain and North Africa. In England paper is made largely from esparto fiber, which is not used at all in the United States. Here wood fibers constitute fully 75 per cent of the raw material in the manufacturing of paper. Is there a Catholic Chaplain at the United States naval academy? No. The Catholic students attend St. Mary's church in Annapolis. W’hat is the real name of the author who wrote under the penname Ouida? Louise de la Ramee, a British novelist. When and by whom was the Boer war fought? It was a war in South Africa in 1899-1902, betwien the British and South African Boers, who are of Dutch extraction, under President Kruger. The war tvas won by the British. W’here is the key to the French bastilc that was presented to George Washington by General Lafayette? Da exhibition at Mt. Vernon, Va., the home of George Washington. What does the name Mayleben mean? It is a German family name, meaning "desiring life.”

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Wednesday’s Times: The Cripple Creek Tombstone— This unique tombstone and epitaph can be seen in the mountains just above Cripple Creek, Colo., at the present time. The stone consists

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Liver Important in Ousting Poisons

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal ot the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. TF the liver of an animal is reA moved it will remain normal from three to five hours. Shortly after, it becomes seriously ill, develops convulsions, the blood pressure drops tremendously, the heart beat increases, the breathing becomes disturbed, and the animal dies in two hours, unless it is given some treatment to prolong its life. The same symptoms occur when there is a great fall in the amount of sugar in the blood, such as may occur, for instance, with a great overdose of insulin. Thus the absence or deficiency of the liver may be associated with death or with serious disease. In their studies <il the liver,' scientists have developed methods for determining whether the liver is

Readers of the Times Voice Views

Editor Times—All right, Mr. Gurley, just keep your heavy artillery hot in defense of the common people. It is they who are the basis of moral, social and economic thrift. It is they who feed, clothe and shelter mankind. The bosses of big business no doubt tare great in their spheres, but the man at the machine or the "man with the hoe’’ is the one who "delivers the goods.” Without them the bosses and the middlemen would have to get down to manual work or starve or to death. Now is one of the rimes when the bosses of big business should realize their obligations to labor, and should honsetly and cheerfully co-operate with their employes for mutual benefit. A few of the great industrial bosses have proved that the way is practicable and, as a result, they are millions ahead, and their workers are well housed, well fed, wellclothed, and presumably happy. The bosses, too. are happy because their consciences sing approval. A clear conscience and millions ahead are about all that is necessary in the life of a man or a woman. Corporations as well as individuals should observe the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Long before the Christian era Con-

THE SLAVERY DEBATES August 21 ON Aug. 21, 1355, Abraham Lincoln and his great political rival, Stephen A. Douglas, began their series of memorable debates on the question of slavery in Ottawa, 111. Douglas, a Democrat, was recognized as one of the ablest in his party and was styled the “little giant.” It was his contention that the federal government had no right to legislate on the matter of slavery in the territories. In discussing this question with his opponent, Douglas gained sufficient fame to elect him to the United States senate. At the same time Lincoln’s admirable stand against slavery won for hinrya national reputation. Whatever hope Douglas had of becoming President was ruined because of a shift in his position during the debates. He was forced by Lincoln to make statements which undermined his popularity. But after Lincoln was elected, Douglas continued to exert a powerful influence and his hearty support of the Lincoln administration upon the outbreak of the Civil war was of powerful effect in defense of the Union.

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

only of a rough boulder, with the inscription, “He called Bill Smith a liar,” roughly carved on the front. It is not known whether this Bill Smith was one of the famous outlaws of the early western frontier days, nor is it known for whom the stone was erected.

functioning properly. These involve injection into the body of a dye substance which the liver picks up and excretes. If the liver is functioning capably in the destruction of toxic substance, a large amount of the dye will be gotten rid of than when it fails to function so efficiently. Since the number of toxic substances which may attack the human body is considerable, including germs, poisons, foreign proteins, and similar products, the functioning of the liver in removing poisons is one of the most important for life and health. So far as the gallbladder is concerned, extensive experimentation already has shown that it is quite possible for a person to get along fairly well without his gallbladder. Many animals do not have a gallbladder, just as many animals do not have an appendix. On the other hand, in some animals the appen-

fucius, the great Chinese law giver, gave to his people this: "Do not unto others as you would not have others do unto you.’ Though in negative form it means the same thing, and is applicable for us today as it was to the Chinese more than 2,000 years ago. What a happy world this would be if.all peoples were guided by it. SOL M. GLICK. Editor Times—l notice every time I pick up a paper there always is something concerning the crime wave. Still they wonder why that is, why so many young fellows are holding up this and that. And I, an observer on the outside, will say that it will get worse than it is now unless they give more people work, so they won’t have to go into these places of business and get what they need. It seems as though the people will have to steal or else starve. They go to the Welfare society or any organization which has to do with dispensing food, etc. They, first of all, take your life history and then finally “maybe” give a family $1.50 worth of rations for a week. Now if that isn’t forcing people to hold people up and also any kind of a crooked racket to get a living, why, there’s no use of argument. The so-called higher-ups in this country are only forcing this on the people. Having been trying to do it for years, they finally have succeeded and the laboring class of people is hurt badly now, but eventually will be the undoing of those so-called upper class people. When they go to starving men’s families, there will be more robbery and holdups. I hope this is read by many people and hope it sinks in. A NORTHSIDER.

Editor Times—The action of the state highway commission, county and city officials and other public officers who took a stand against the attempts of certain contractors who were taking advantage of the unemployment situation to force hungry and suffering human beings to work for wages inadequate to maintain a family, can not be too highly commended. Their act was humanitarian in every respect. The carpenters’ district council of Indianapolis wishes to extend to all these officers its most sincere appreciation for their firm stand in 1 respect to future wages of these I unfortunate laborers who toil at the hardest work in all kinds of weather. They swelter in the blazing sun. shiver in the wintry blasts and toil on through rain, snow or sleet. For what? Just an existence for loved ones just as dear to them as are the loved ones of wealthy husbands and fathers. Considering the time laborers lose out of each year would it not be justifiable to fix the minimum wage

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The Telegram of 132,253 Words— At the time of the revision of the New Testament, a Chicago newspaper received a complete copy by wire from New York City. Friday: The Man of Many Accidents.

dix is a very large sac, developed far beyond the insignificant little tube that remains in the human being. The amount of bile that comes to the gallbladder is much beyond that needed by the human body, and indeed much beyond the capacity of the gallbladder itself to take care of it. The gallbladder apparently concentrates the bile by removing water from it. Before che bile is emptied into the intestine, it is diluted and by the contraction of the gallbladder is moved along. Any one, whether he is a student of physiology or not, can see that this entire mechanism is extremely complicated, that it contains many factors of safety as well as factors of danger for the human body, and that a vast amount of knowledge remains to be learned before it is fully understood.

at 40 cents an Kottr, instead of 35 cents, and also make provisions whereby those contractors on public work must employ residents of the state on all street, road and highway work at least. Why should contractors bring in outside labor, in some cases Mexicans, to do such work, which must be paid for by citizens of Indiana, thousands of whom are idle? Can the present economic depression be remedied by forcing continuation of the destitute conditions which exist by exploiting the labor of thousands to the advantage of a few, through a reduction of wages made possible by this unemployment situation? MILTON H. McCHORD, Carpenters’ District Council Secretary. Editor Times—As the employment situation gets worse the big firms keep on cutting wages, and how far can a married man get on sl6 a week? It’s just as bad now or even worse than the old slavery days as the slaves had a place to sleep and enough to eat to keep themselves alive, which is more than some people have today, especially a disabled World war veteran. A DISABLED WORLD WAR VETERAN.

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.AUG. 21, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

What Splendid Tastes Have We Americans Hot Acquired by Virtue of Our 500 Colleges and Universities. Huntington, n. y.. Aug. 21 Aimee Semple McPherson, the titian-haired evangelist who has done almost as much as Hollywood to make Los Angeles famous, says she did not strike Ma, that she would not strike Ma under any circumstances, and that what really happened was that Ma had a tantrum, fell down and broke her nose. Ma says that she was called to Aimee’s office one day, that they had some words, and that Aimec did strike her on the nose with such vigor and accuracy that she became instantly oblivious to subsequent proceedings and does not know what happened until she woke up on the floor. Dr. Williams, Aimee’s attending physician, says that his patient is neither dying nor blind, but that her eyes partly are closed as the result of nervous breakdown. Just a little exchange of pleasantries between mother and daughter which might be considered rough if they were ordinary folks, but which should be passed off as a charming bit of repartee because of the high position they occupy In this highly educated and discriminating of ours. tt tt tt Splendid Taste WHAT splendid taste have wc Americans not acquired by virtue of our 500 colleges and universities, and with what keen judgment do we not elect people to our living hall of fame. In what other land on God’s green earth could a self-starting prophetess found a religion, build a temple, acquire 25,000 followers and make the front page of big dailies 3,000 miles away because of a row with her mother, without losing anything by way of clerical or economic prestige? And if that isn’t enough of a poser, in what other land could a man like Scarface A1 Capone get so much unfavorable comment with so little unfavorable action? And if you’re still suffering from an unappeated cross word puzzle hunger, what about the ten-year jabber over prohibition with nothing to show for it, or Chicago’s noisy probe of the Lingle case, with only a lot of cheap scandal dug from the trunk of a dead gangster whom the probers neither caught nor killed, ►to justify the commotion.

The Baby Case SPEAKING of Chicago, the Bam-berger-Watkins baby case has broken out all over again, though every one supposed it had been settled, especially as the mothers swapped babies in compliance with the decision of seven great scientists. But Papa Watkins says he will sue, even though his wife is now in possession of the child for which he threatened to sue in the first place. It seems that the baby carried home by the Bambergers has been baptized in the Catholic church, while the baby carried home by the Watkins has been baptized in the Presbyterian church, and now that they have been exchanged, each household is wondering how it can make its religion and offspring fit. Why not call a theological congress to solve tire problem? a * Queer Quirks of Crime NOT to be outdone by Chicago when it comes to queer and novel problems, New York presents one for the ballistic experts. The policemen engage in a running fight with a gang of bandits. A bystander and one bandit are wounded, while another bandit is killed. Each policeman has done more or less shooting, each has proven his courage in the face of fire and there is no reason to suppose that each did not do his best to fire the fatal shot, but for some inscrutable reason, the department wants to promote the man who was lucky enough to kill. The six are called in and each is made to fire his respective pistol into as many respective wads of cotton, after which the department’s ballistic experts will try to determine whose gun did the trick. No doubt they will be successful. Meanwhile the bullets which killed Arnold Rothstein, Frankie Yale and many others remain to be placed. When you get right down to brass tacks, the value of expertness depends on what is accomplished. Daily Thought All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom.—ll Chronicles 9:23. By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.—Bayard Taylor.