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A Self-Convicted System Each day adds more evidence of the now very potent fact that the state highway department is self-convicted of incompetency, if not worse. When a crisis appears where it seems expedient to employ farmers faced by famine and bankruptcy, funds are lacking. The state pays more money for roads than for all other departments. Over twenty millions of dollars a year are raised by special forms of taxation for such use. In addition, the federal government offers millions of aid on very simple terms. The present administration has failed to avail itself of two millions of dollars of such aid, due perhaps to the fact that it did not wish to spend its money for new construction which would entitle the state to such assistance, but threw the money without stint into the maintenance instead of construction. Now the state is desperately trying to raise the very amount which the government offered to the state had it qualified under the law to receive it. That one fact alone, and there are many more of equally negligent character, should impress the Governor with the necessity of a thorough reorganization of the highway department, beginning with the members of the commission. It is not probable that the Governor will act. It is more likely that he will permit the present body to muddle through. There is a remedy. Voters should ask every candidate for the legislature this year to pledge himself to very thorough reforms. Candidates should be pledged to a different sort of administration. One suggestion is for a board of competent men, giving their full time. The membership should be subject to the approval of the state senate, since the present system seems to have brought incompetents. Spending more than twenty millions of dollars a year is important. The Governor needs the advice of all the brains that the state senate affords or may afford. If no such reform is possible, the next legislature might safeguard the future by diverting funds now given the highway department into the general fund and save the taxpayers some money. The Governor, of course, might save the situation by prompt and drastic action. He ought not to be begging bankers for loans. There would have been no necessity had there been the slightest exercise of ordinary business management or acumen.

Lest We Forget Today is the third anniversary of the sacrifice of Sacco and Vanzetti on the altar of justice, Massachusetts style. The writer was discussing the case with ex-Premier Caillaux of France a day or so after the execution in 1927. M. Caillaux expressed himself warmly on the subject and predicted that the American people would one day arise and erase this blot as the French had done in the case of Dreyfus. Caillaux knew his France better than the United States. Yet we should not let this judicial murder be obliterated from our national memory. Judge Thayer's “anarchistic bastards" can not be recalled from the grave, but the memory of their martyrdom may help to prevent the recurrence of another similar atrocity. The anniversary of the Sacco-Vanzetti execution is particularly interesting this year in the light of the dissolution of the state’s case against Mooney and Billings. This situation offers the only close rival to that of Sacco and Vanzetti as a flagrant and tragic miscarriage of justice. The prosecution's evidence against the California labor leaders is now crumbling to the ground. It is doubtful if even California will dare to keep them locked up any longer. It was lucky for Thayer, Katzmann, Fuller, Lowell and company that Sacco and Vanzetti were safely put out of the way, or humiliation might have come to them similar to that which has been the lot of Fickert and Cunha. The witnesses against Sacco and Vanzetti were of no better fiber than Oxman. MacDonald. Estelle Smith, the Edaus and Crowley. The trial testimony was less convincing than that which convicted Mooney and Billings. There are many similarities in the two cases. Katzmann and Fickert both waved the flag. Both Billings and Vanzetti were represented as men of criminal record, but the former was framed and the latter convicted in a burlesque of a trial. The alleged, criminal record was made large use of to convict Billings and Vanzetti as well as Mooney and Sacco. The evidence in both cases was confused, unreliable and contradictory. No trustworthy evidence has ever connected any one of the four men with the crime of which they were accused. Iron-clad alibis existed for Sacco and Vanzetti and Mooney. Conviction was due in part to absence of competent counsel in the original trials. , There is one great difference. Judge Franklin Griffin who tried Mooney has repudiated the whole nasty affair and has worked hard for a decade to wash the blemish from the good name of California and to see that justice is done to these twA men, whatever their economic opinions. Judge Thayer has attempted to capitalize his collusion in the judicial murder ot Sacco and Vanzetti and has proudly accepted the plaudits of public gatherings as they cheered a devoted patriot and a lover of justice. We believe that one day California will be more proud of Franklin Griffin than Massachusetts will be of Webster Thayer. Hence, we may welcome the commemoration of the third anniversary of the execution which will be held In Boston and New York. But these occasions should never be allowed to degenerate into Communist harangues. Men of the stature of Otis. Jefferson. Franklin and the like should decorate the rostrums and voice their condemnation. The Wickersham commission might well be reminded by the anniversary exercises that the ~accoVanaetti episode offers a challenge that no comm is{too on law enforcement in America can well ignore.

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Will they pick up the gauntlet? It would test the mettle of a Radchffe' president, a Harvard dean and a Harvard professor who grace the commission with their membership. * An Unwritten Editorial We set out to write an editorial about Sister Aimee Semple McPherson when her Four Square Gospel Temple announced that she was suddenly “near death’s door.” But before we could rush into print her doctor said she wasn’t so sick and hadn't been. Then it was announced that she was blind. We started another editorial. But someone who saw her said it was only a face-lifting operation, and, anyway, there was going to be a miracle at the Temple next Sunday which completely would restore her. Not being experts either in face-lifting or miracles we decided to play safe by killing out timely comments on her blindness. But at that moment the wires brought us the bulletin from her personal secretary that sister’s trouble was a five-foot boa constrictor, which called on her unannounced in her bedroom. Here at last was something tangible, something an editor could get hold of with a typewriter. So we began to write a piece entitled “She Sees Snakes.” Before we got far, however, the boy raced in with a dispatch that Aimee’s mother called the snake story “the invention of an upset mind.” Her mother spoke from a hospital bed, holding a bandaged nose with one hand and explaining with the other that she and Aimee had a midnight—well, argument. Not so good, that, as a subject for editorial comment. Much more delicate to handle than snakes. As we sat desperately before the once-more empty typewriter, groping for inspiration while the presses stopped and the public waited, our eyes caught the last line of Aimee’s mother's statement. She had written our editorial for us: “If my daughter wants to biff me on the nose it’s nobody’s business.”

Class justice The murder and rioting convictions against strikers in the North Carolina textile cases of last year have been upheld by the state supreme court. But this should not end the fight. Appeal should be taken to the United States supreme court. The trials were prejudiced and unfair. The atmosphere of hearsay, and inquisition fouled the proceedings. If it is true as reported in press dispatches that some of the convicted men have jumped bail and fled to Moscow, they have proved themselves guilty of cowardice when courts have failed fairly to prove them guilty of crime. But that has no bearing on the issue in these legal cases. If they have run away, they merely have injured the strength of their own cause. They have not, and can not, change the fact that they did not'receive justice in American courts. Nor can any radical, either in this country or in Russia, cause the havoc to American institutions which can result from courts of injustice. Director Woodcock is thinking of putting prohibition agents in snappy uniforms. Naturally, some caustic critic will ask if they’ll be “dressed to kill.” A chiropodist declares that more men than women suffer from flat feet. Well, women have always been known to take better care of their dogs. “A man,” says Senator Overman of North Carolina, ‘ought not be held responsible for what he says in a political speech.” Because, perhaps, the campaign most always goes to his head. Governor Kohler of Wisconsin has launched a campaign with a demand for more beer. The guess is he’s for a busier, better, and lager Milwaukee. One way Chicago can wipe out the deficit of its opera, which it has announced is more than is to create a rival opera and let the racket take care of Itself. Marion Talley must have learned by this time that it is far more profitable to cultivate one’s voice than a crop of wheat.

REASON BY F LANDIS

Alfalfa bill Murray, nominated by the Democrats of Oklahoma, made a lot of votes by hitch-hiking from town to town, that affording an intoxicating contrast to the Rolls-Royce campaign waged by his millionaire opponent. ana Not only did this establish Alfalfa Bill as an undying commoner and friend of man, it also secured for him the active support of each and every fellow who hauled his freight from place to place; it made each one of them feel as if they held stock in Bill's company, and that's the secret of political success. an a THE fellows who render political service really worth while do not do it for money or the hope of reward; they do it because their candidate has appealed to them for some reason, so they give him all they have; they feel as if it is their fight. a a a Just make a man feel as if the fate of a movement is in his hands and he will neglect his own business to take care of the other fellcav’s interests when it doesn't mean a thing to him, except the thrill of winning. Alfalfa Bill, being a veteran campaigner, knew this and so he hitch-hiked, leaving his own Elizabeth in the garage at home. ana The most fortunate thing that can occur to a candidate is to be able to induce the opposition to refer to his low estate and Alfalfa Bill doubtless saw to It that this millionaire antagonist did something of the kind. a a a YOU will recall that back in the days of “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,” the opposition sneeringly referred to Harrison's frontier life and said he was satisfied with a log cabin and a barrel of hard cider. Instantly the Whigs capitalized this with their log cabin and hard cidtr campaign and Harrison won in a walk. a a a Not so many ye irs ago a gentleman named Johnson was a candidate for Governor of Minnesota and some political snob and half-wit sneeringly mentioned the fact that Johnson’s mother had taken in washing to support her fatherless crowd. The result was that Johnson was elected and reelected. a a a But Alfalfa Bill is only one of many who have served prune juice to the people, the late Uncle Joe Cannon being a master of hokum in his day. One of his tricks was to carry a cheap silver watch and ask the voter the time of day, whereupon he would set the big. cheap timepiece. It was simply overwhelming, ts

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Water Problem Will Be Studied on World-Wide Scale by Noted Engineers. AWORLD-WIDF, study of water problems has been launched by the American Engineering Council with the appointment of .six representatives to serve on the advisory committee for the proposed national research laboratory. The building of such laboratory recently was authorized by congress. The advisory committee includes a number of government experts and is headed by Dr. George K. Burgess, director of the United States bureau ca standards. ✓ Existing knowledge of water problem*, or hydraulic problems as they are termed more exactly, is insufficient. This is particularly true in the hydro-electric field, which is concerned with the manufacture of electricity by water power. It is expected that the new laboratory eventually will save the nation millions of dollars. Two representatives of the American Engineering Council, John R. Freeman of Providence, R. 1., internationally known authority on hydraulics, and William B. Gregory, professor of experimental engineeringein Tulane university, will spend several months studying the principal hydraulic laboratories of Europe, particularly those of Berlin, Munich and Zurich.

Cost FREEMAN, past president of both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has prepared tentative plans for the new laboratory, which will be established in the bureau of standards. Washington, at an initial cost of $350,000. Tire building will be completed in about a year, and the laboratory will begin to function in about two years. "It will be arranged especially for investigating the physical laws which define the motion of water, and for studying, by means of models and other special equipment, engineering problems arising in connection with measurement, control and disposition of large quantities of water, and the utilization of water for irrigation and power purposes,’ Dr. Burgess says. “The laboratory will determine fundamental data useful in hydraulic research and engineering, including laboratory research relating to the behavior and control of river and harbor waters, the study of hydraulic structures and water flow, and the development and testing of hydraulic instruments and accessories.

Need THE great need for a hydraulic laboratory to develop new knowledge for engineering use is pointed out by Dr. Burgess. “Such a laboratory,” he says, “has become an absolute necessity to hydraulic engineers engaged in design of reclamation work, water supply systems, plumbing systems, canals, control works for rivers and harbors and hydraulic turbines, pumps and accessories of all kinds. "Carefully conducted tests in such laboratory furnish data which enable the designer to kefep the cost of his structure to a minimum, and, what is even more important, give assurance that the structure will perform its assigned task in the future in the most effective way possible and with a minimum cost for upkeep. “This country is spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually in engineering works of a hydraulic nature. Our engineers have developed probably the best and most economical methods in the world ft • the handling of enormous quantities of materials and for the structures. “They have applied the available knowledge of hydraulic phenomena in their designs as well as could any other group of engineers in the world. “But they have lacked exact data and a detailed understanding of the process of flow which would have enabled them to improve greatly upon the fundamental features of their design.”

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FIRST YACHT VICTORY August 22

ON Aug. 22, 1851, the United States won the first international yacht cup races when the America defeated fifteen entrants in a race from Cowes, England, around the Isle of Wight and return. This gave the United States the famous “America’s cup,” which it has held ever since. The history of the cup dates back to the days of John C. Stevens, who was chiefly responsible for the whole series of races. Convinced that American-built sailing vessels were the fastest In the world, he formed a syndicate of yachting enthusiasts to build a boat to justify this contention. George Steers, a veteran builder, was engaged by them to. build the America. When the America sailed for England she carried a crew of only eight men and increased it to fifteen when she raced. Although the craft was a 170-ton yacht, it competed against yachts having a tonnage as high as 392 tons. When the race got under way there was little doubt as to who would be the ultimate victor. The most persistent challenger for the cup in recent years has been Sir Thomas Lipton of England. Each time he has brtmght his Shamrock to this country he has met with defeat. In September he will make another attempt to wrest the America cup at the races off Newport, R. I. If he “lifts” the trophy before he he dies, Lipton declares he will have achieved a lifetime ambition. Daily Thought Woe to the crown of pride.— Isiah 28:1. If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.— Legouve.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Thursday’s Times: The Bird With a Beard—The Lammergeier (Giant Bearded Vulture) of western Asia is the largest of all birds of prey. With a length of about four feet, and a wingspread of ten feet, it easily can carry % chamois or a goat in flight. It also feeds on large tortoises, which it drops from

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H broun D

ANY working newspaper man is naturally pleased when the editor finds it necessary to sit down and write a piece. 'My gratification was double because in this case it gave me one more day of vacation. But naturally I am grieved to find Roy W. Howard enmeshed in error. He objects to my running for congress on the Socialist ticket in the Seventeenth district, New York, for four reasons: 1. No Scripps-Howard feature writer has ever gone to congress. 2. The odds seem to be overwhelmingly against my election. 3. The profession of journalism is more important than that of politics. 4. Independence of thought precludes party membership. One and two seem to square off pretty well from Mr. Howard’s point of view, although I want to say a little more about the second later. In saying that journalism is more important than politics and that Broun could be “more constructive in a column than in congress,” Mr. Howard raises an issue which does not exist. The two things are not mutually exclusive. During the campaign this column will appear as usual. I don’t expect to see it any better or any worse. When, and if. elected I should most certainly have daily opinions and the desire to see them in newsprint. There is no reason why a man or woman could not be both columnist and congressman. If Mr. Howard disagrees I suggest that he secure an option on the newspaper services of Mrs. Ruth Pratt to be exercised immediately after election day.

Sideline independence THE real sticking point is party affiliation. I .am quite sure that the fact of its being Socialist does not enter into the problem. Surely it would be far more embarrassing for a liberal newspaper to have its columnist affiliated with the Tammany machine or the Republican organization of Sam Koenig than to be serving under the leadership of Norman Thomas. Indeed the Telegram supported Thomas for mayor and I trust that it will also indorse him this year in his fight for congress. But I don’t know. Right here comes the weakness of an individual or an organization construing independence as meaning a permanent place on the sidelines. In order to have any coherence of policy it is necessary to make something more than annual alliances. At times the Scripps-Howard independence becomes little more than erratic whimsy. A liberal, for instance, may be pardoned if he rubs his eyes and asks querulously, “What is this liberal independence?” when he observes the Telegram supporting in one national election a La Follette and the next time a Hoover. As the rowing experts say, the boat doesn’t seem to ran well between strokes. a a a A Block or a Mile I THINK it not in the least inconsistent for Mr. Howard to stop well short of complete acceptance of the Socialist program and nevertheless support Thomas for mayor as was the case last year. It would be silly for a passenger to say, "I can’t get on . that Van Cortland park express because I only want to go as far as Seventy-second street.” Surely Thomas and the rest of us are going in the direction toward which the Scripps-Howard papers are heading. Why shouldn’t they get on board? Well let them off when

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

great altitudes to break the shell. No Person Can Own a Cemetery Lot—Cemeteries have an exceptional legal status in line with the exigencies of public policy. Burial lots can not be seized for debt, nor can a mortgage be established on them. Mortuary laws preclude the ownership of a single lot. What is termed the ownership of a cemetery lot is merely an easement for the specific purpose of

they think they’ve reached their destination. Independent liberals always get beaten in American elections because they reserve their commitments until a month or so before election. Sam Koenig and John E. Curry work 365 days a year. Organization can’t be beaten without organization. The Socialist party offers the only existing machinery by which the Republican-Demo-cratic alliance can be overthrown. It is hopeless to try to cleanse these parties, from within. That’s been tried. Mrs. Pratt herself made a gallant effort to free tire local Republican organization of Koenigism. She failed. My newspaper friends tell me that after election day she will be out of office. Sam won’t. tt tt it Doing All He Can MY newspaper friends did not tell me that I would be elected. Herbert Bayard Swope, who used to be a newspaper man, said that I had a good chance. The rest were less encouraging. They felt that an enthusiastic Curry would do more for his candidate than a perfunctory Koenig. The Republican and Democratic organizations are not parties so much as marching clubs. For them, this is no more than a. drill, or, more exactly, a game. When the final

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—The junior senator from Indiana ha;; been criticised severely by party leaders for deserting his party and voting against the naval treaty and for strongly opposing the confirmation of Judge Parker as associate justice of the supreme court. Such criticism comes of course only from Republicans who would favor the appointment of the devil himself if the President so wished it. The idea that “the king can do no wrong” went out with hoopskirts. President Hoover may have been a good engineer, but he certainly shows a wonderful lack of intelligence in maneuvering the ship of state. He has done very little worth while since entering office. The naval treaty, the attempt to slip a labor enemy into the supreme court, the present panic which is only, according to party leaders, “a period of economic readjustment,” and other “boners” can be traced, directly and indirectly, to his influence. The fact that Senator Robinson has opposed him in most of his measures should bring to the junior senator the thanks of the masses. It is time the people gave some credit to a senator who has not been blinded by false ideals of a few selfish-minded bigots. If this be “Hoover prosperity,” then let’s have no more of it. W. L. BURKDALL. 324 Harlan street. What difference is there in the meaning of capital and capitol? Capitol is the building in which legislative* bodies hold their sessions. Capital is the city which is the seat of government of a nation or state. What is the address of Charles C. Pyle, the promoter of the transcontinental foot race? His address is 615 North Van Ness avenue, LO6 Angeles, Cal. What is the value of a silver 3cent piece dated 1852, proof coin? It is valued at 5 cents.

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burying the human dead, and for no other purpose whatsoever. The One-Way Tunnel—This tunnel conta’is the tracks of one stem of a wye, and is used only for turning trains around. Every train turning at this point must enter the tunnel, but can not pass through it. Reference: George W. Boschke, chief engineer, Southern Pacific, San Francisco. Saturday; The Man With Two Hearts.

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.

whistle has blown, the Tammany crowd huddles and gives three long cheers for Koenig, and the Republicans do as much for Curry. The whole fight is carried on in a spirit of good, clean' fun. Anbody caught slugging will immediately be sent to the locker room. Mr. Howard knows this as well and better than I do. He has fought the fight against Ewald and Vitale and Vauz. And yet he says that I should stay on the sidelines with him and the rest of the ScrippsHoward executives, joining in the long - drawn independent - liberal cheer of “Hold ’em, forces of reform and decency.” With all due respect for the cheering section, the man who gets down on to the field and tries to spill a few of the trick plays is doing a great deal more. I’m going to do all I can. a a a He Was 100 to 1 SINCE when did it become a reproach to tackle a job with the odds vastly against you? It is not impossible to win. Twenty-one thousand votes out of the sixty which Mr. Howard has mentioned would be enough. There should be that many people who are sick of Hoover’s fake prosperity and Tammany’s very real prosperity for Tammany officials. This could be Jim Dandy all over again, even though I admit a certain slackness in any metaphor which links me to a race horse. But I am tired of hearing all this talk about how the honest average citizen should get into politics and not leave it to the machine professionals. I’m tired of hearing this because I am average and honest and yet when I do get in, my own boss tells me that this is no business for me. It’s everybody’s business and nobody’s business. But I am even more tired of standing with well-meaning liberals and weaving a daisy chain of good intentions. I want to break that chain and enlist for duration. Here goes. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times>

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

What a Nation Thinks Eventually Determines What It Will' Do, and What Jt Thinks Is Dependent on Those Who Stand in the Spotlight. Tames w gerard undoubtedly is correct in assuming that this country is run by a comparatively, small group of men and that, as a general proposition, these men have been selected by processes which have little connection with its form of government. Nor is the situation particularly novel. The same tiling is true of every country, and always has been. You can’t have a throne without some sort of invisible power behind it, or a republic without some sort of unofficial control. At best, statecraft is only a follower taking its cue from those social, religious and economic forces which shape human progress, and ultimately reacting to their influence. tt tt tt Present-Day Rulers EVERY age has had its mob psychology, its mass complexes, its peculiar ideas of what constitutes the end and aim of human existence. More of,en than not. these currents, though developed outside the prevailing form of government, have eventually determined its drift and occasionally, its destruction. For centuries, the Roman empire was ruled, not by emperors, but by commanders of the praetorian guard. Present-day Italy is supposed to be a constitutional monarchy, but dances to the whip of fascism, and that whip is in the hands of one man. Communist Russia, where every one is supposed to have a voice, is dominated by a party of less than a million members, and that party is dominated by a group that could almost be counted on the fingers of your hand. a tt tt Remember the Sideshows WHAT mysticism was to Egypt, what militarism was to Rome, and what ecclesiasticism was to the middle ages, industrialism is to twentieth century government. Gerard, naming fifty-nine bankers, magnates, publishers and industrial executives as the real rulers of America, merely translates the gospel of George Bernard Shaw’s “Applecart” into practical, everyday English. Industrialism, as we call it, obviously has become the driving force of civilization, but that fails to tell the whole story. The sideshows, as well as the main top, are coming to have an effect on the crowd—the freak stuff for which leisure makes a market, the crooked stuff for which misguided legislation makes room. Why leave A1 Capone’s name off the roster, or that of Rudy Vallec, not to mention the vastly more constructive influence of a Lindbergh whom half, our boys accept as a model? And if we have found it necessary to appoint czars for baseball and the movie business, why omit them? >t tt a What a Nation Thinks WHAT a nation thinks eventually determines what it will do, and what it thinks is dependent on those who stand in the. spotlight, whether because of the amount of money they possess, the power they exercise, or the thrills they provide. While policies generally may be dismissed as a mere ballyhoo, some of the activities arising out of it are often significant. Though the vast majority of us are still willing to line up as Democrats or Republicans, though we profess to attach great importance to elections, the real work is being done by lobbies and blocs, by wheels within wheels, by organizations and activities that are seldom regarded as of any great consequence. a a a A Texas Plague A FERGUSON comes forth in Texas to plague and confuse the political situation for more than a decade. We talk about the man and the wife who runs as a proxy for him, as though they stood for the mystery, when the peculiar slant of popular feeling that gives such a man his grip is what we should be studying. Unless we are all wrong in our theories of government, there must be some reason besidis personal ability that makes it possible for a man like Ferguson to do what he has in Texas, or a man like TomTom Heflin to do what he has in Alabama. What do the colors red, white and blue in the American flag signify? Red stands for love, sacrifice and brotherhood: white for purity and blue for fidelity and truth.