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A New Constitution Fully as important as the election of any state official, even supreme court judges who become very largely the rulers of the people, is the question of anew Constitution for Indiana. The people will have the chance to vote on that question this fall. It would be deplorable if consideration of this matter was permitted to be overshadowed by discussion of candidates. Industrial workers and farm organizations, are joined in the belief that the present Constitution, as it has been interpreted, does not meet the requirements of anew social era. It was written before electricity or automobiles. It was designed for a social order that was simple as compared to present-day complexities. One of the conditions against which wide protest is made is inequality in taxation. Changes are apparently barred by the Constitution. The taxation question is the least important. The truth is that the supreme court in the seventy-five years the Constitution has been in effect, has so interpreted it as to give courts power that were never intended for them and should never be given to them. The decision that truth is no defense against a chai'ge of contempt drags into the open the fact that the courts have assumed powers to punish for indirect contempt that were never given them, are unnecessary and only used to tyrannize, never to protect, the dignity of the court nor to advance the cause of justice. When that decision is joined by the recent one that no judge can be impeached by the legislature, no matter h<sw grave his abuse of power, as long as that judge remains unconvicted of a felony the extent of judicial invasion appalls. Every voter who still has faith in the power of the people to rule themselves should vote for anew Constitution. One is needed. The suggestion that it would be drawn by politicians, followed logically to the end, means that the people are no longer capable of self-government. That First Day of School Starting a youngster off to school for the first time is one of those minor but poignant tragedies that life insists on bringing to all mothers. There isn't any way of dodging it and there isn’t any way of making it easy to take. It has to be done, and that’s all there is to it. Still, it isn’t much fun. The youngsters, of course, usually enjoy it. To him it is a symbol of advancing years, a foretaste of coming independence. He generally considers that going to school takes him out of the “baby ’ class and enrolls him. if not quite in the rank of adults, at least a long step away from outright infancy. He gets a brand new peek at the outside world, and it provides him with quite a thrill. The worst of it is—from the mother's viewpoint that he is quite right in looking at it that way. The first trip to school does, unquestionably, mark an epoch in cnildliood. It. brings to a sudden close the period of complete dependency on the home, it slashes straight through that brief, ecstatic time in which a child always is on terms of perfect intimacy with his mother. That is why mothers, on the first day of school, experience a strange and pitiful difficulty in keeping the tears back. They always have and they always will; and. to repeat, there isn’t anything that can be done about it. But there is small comfort in that reflection. Probably the hardest thing is not, after all, the knowledge that the youngster has taken the first of the steps that eventually will carry him away from his home forever. The pathetic thing, the thing that tugs at the heart strings, is the brave, unsuspecting innocence with which a lad of six trudges off to face the world. ... By the time we are old enough to be parents, most of us come to realize that the world is far from being the pleasant, delightful place that we imagined as children. It is a place in which illusions fade and in which dreams have an unaccountable way of failing to ccme true. There is a great deal more meanness and cruelty and heartbreak in it than used to think. Acquiring this knowledge is a painful process. Starting to school puts a child in line for its first dose of that knowledge. In the months that follow he will shed the wide-eyed trust, the spontaneous confidence, that are the heritage of all very small children. Gradually he will become soiled, as all of us grownups are soiled. The moment that he heads his footsteps toward school, the shadow’s of the prison house begin to close about 11m. All of this, to be sure, is universal and unescapable. It has to be. We learn by getting bumped, and in the long run it generally is good for us. But watching your own child take the first step isn’t pleasant. The first day of school is a bad day for mothers. Crookedness on the Bench Recent scandals concerning New York courts involve one where it is charged that a city magistrate paid for his job on the bench. Just before he was appointed, his wife turned over to a Tammany district leader, through another Tammany go-between, SIO,OOO. The wife says it was a loan, that the go-between gave her a non-interest bearing note for the loan, and that she lost the note. Both the wife and- the gobetween refuse to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the -transaction, on the ground that it might incriminate and tend to degrade them. T*o investigations are on, and charges are made that practically all judicial jobs in courts, both high and low, are bought and paid for. There is some indignation, of course, for some people are shocked. It might be expected that the bar associations would get up on its hmd legs and togwl with righteous indignation. But it doesn't. It flygr m that a ocmdlUon and. not a theory confronts

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the lawyers and they don’t know what to do about it —and while the condition is disgraceful, it prevails, no doubt, in other communities ruled by party machines, as well as in New York under Tammany. Under the party system, judges who get on the bench by election of the people have to get party nominations first. There is little or no chance of being nominated, even at a primary, unless supported by the party organization. And when magistrates of the lower court arc appointed by a mayor, as in New York City, appointments seldom are made, if at all, without approval of the Tammany district leader. The big and little bosses who dictate nominations are not in politics for their health, and it takes money to conduct primaries and elections. So candidates are expected to foot the bills in one way or another. It may be by paying a campaign assessment to the party organization, either the candidate or his friends putting up the money. There are many high-class, honest judges on the bench in New York—men of high character, credits to both bench and bar. But the chances are that somebody paid money to politicians to get them there. The practice is immoral, of course. It’s disgraceful. But it is just as well to look at conditions as they are, but try to cool down and look for a cure, after you get through boiling over with righteous tion.While bad men may get on' the bench by buying jobs and trying afterward by devious ways to get their money back, how are good, capable, honest, and unpurchasable judges to get on the bench unless somebody puts up the money demanded by political bosses who control nominations and elections? Shall they stay out and. leave the field wide open to the crooked lawyers, who naturally become crooked judges when they get on the bench? Meeting the Folks Captain Coste was not the only distinguished person who visited the United States Tuesday. President Hoover was another. He went to Baltimore. Not that Baltimore is any more American than Washington or other cities. But the President doesn’t really live In Washington; he lives in the White House. And the White House is a territory apart—sometimes very far apart—from America. In the White House domain are many yes-men, and no sufferers from unemployment or droifght. Often visitors go there from America to pay homage; others go to complain—and are hustled away, lest they profane the atmosphere created by the happiness boys to protect the President from America. Hoover is not the first President to find that the White House isolates and enslaves its master. Most Presidents have felt the need to return to America occasionally. Thus they have touched at first hand—not through secretaries or newspapers—the American pulse. And usually they are surprised by what they find. That is what happened to Hoover in Baltimore. He saw and heard things—American things—for which he was not prepared. The occasion was harmless enough, a parade of representatives of 150,000 Veterans of Foreign Wars. In a parade reviewing stand a President usually is pretty well protected from surprises. But on Tuesday it was different. There, before the President’s startled eyes, the veterans’ parade spontaneously turned into a vigorous anti-prohibition demonstration. The marchers in pantomime and shouts ridiculed the hypocrisy of the unpopular and unenforced law. These demonstrators were not agents of the Democratic national committee or of the professional wet organizations, trying to embarrass the President. They were not progressives trying to swing the President their way. They were not Reds. They were not aliens. They were simply Americans—Americans who have proved their devotion to country. The President should visit America often. Mark Hanna’s Daughter “I did it. I still am doing it. What is Senator Nye going to do about it?” This is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick's reply and challenge when asked if she had hired private detectives to dig up information concerning the chairman of the senate’s committee on campaign expenditures. What Senator Nye does about it, it seems to us, is not particularly important. The lady from Illinois probably has done herself all the damage the angry senator could wish. She just about has cooked her own goose.

REASON by F “ S CK

I> UTH HANNA M’CORMICK, candidate for the AV senate from Illinois, is not an inspiring figure as she tells the voters: “I am personally dry, but I will be for anything you want if you’ll only elect me. “I’ll be for the eighteenth amendment if you’re for that, but I’ll be against it if you’re against it.” a a a Abraham Lincoln could not have gone very far if he had assumed such an India rubber attitude. He would have been laughed out of public life, had he declared in his debates with Douglas: “I’m against slavery, but if you folks want it, then I’m for it.” ana THE army officers at Panama are tickled to death because their anti-aircraft guns recently perforated some sleeve targets which were drawn over the canal at an elevation of 500 feet. But if a real attack came, it would come at an elevation of many thousand feet and it would travel at a speed not calculated to please the gunners on the ground. The only cure for hostile airplanes is more airplanes. a a a The other day wr: stopped at a hotel where they had the old style coil of rope in the bedroom with which you were to effect your escape if the place burned. It reminded us of the first time we went to Chicago and found such an tfit We spent most of the night trying it on. nan ITS a joy to have Ma Ferguson removed from the political arena in Texas, particularly since she had promised to pardon 2.000 convicts if nominated and elected Governor again. But. be it understood, as an Indianian, we are not criticising any state’s Governor. a a a The whipping post should be restored for the benefit of confidence men, two of whom have Just swindled a Benton Harbor (Mich.) farmer and his wife out of their life’s savings, $7,000. Alongside such slippery snakes, the gun-fighting bandit is a gentleman and a scholar, a a a Senator F£ss broadcast the declaration that President Hoover stands unfalteringly behind the eighteenth amendment, but all declarations with reference to prohibition are subject to change. And then Fess may not know where the President stands. You may remember he put Coehdge back in the not after he had announced he didpaot “choose*”

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SCIENCE Leaders n Petroleum Industry Will Discuss Myriad Problems at Cincinnati Convention. PETROLEUM experts from all parts of the United States will gather in Cincinnati from Sept. 8 to 12 for the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. New developments in the petroleum industry, leaders of the society say, promise to reshape the future | of the automotive industry. Many authorities have felt that i the most significant fact of the future would be the dwindling of the supply of gasoline, necessitating in time extreme conservation methods. New processes, however, including particularly one of producing gasoline under high pressure, is resulting in a much greater supply of gasoline. A symposium on the phases of high-pressure production is being arranged under the chairmanship of Professor Norman W. Krase of the University of Illinois. Experiments in the cracking of petroleum, “knocking” tendencies of commercial gasoline, for nation of gum in motor fuels, and chemical reactions involved in gas absorptions are among the subjects ..eheduled for discussion. tt a . n Revolutionary THE new method of gasoline production is known as hydrogenation. Petroleum is a mixture of substances known to the chemist as hydrocarbons. . . . ' In the hydrogenation process, gaseous hydrogen is forced under pressure into the petroleum. Chemical reactions take place by which the heavier hydrocarbons are broken up and recombined with the hydrogen to form the lighter hypdrocarbons which constitute gasoline. “Hydrogenation of petroleum by means of which chemists now are able to convert every drop of oil into salable gasoline, is regarded justly as a revolutionary step in the development of the automobile industry,” Professor Krase said.. “Yet the new method indicates future possibilities almost as striking. “The new hydrogenation method marks the progress of chemistry to a further point. It begins with petroleum and ends in gasoline. Former cracking processes reduced 70 per cent of petroleum to gasoline, with a 30 per cent residue of tar, heavy oils and coke. Moreover, quality variations in petroleum necessitated differences in cracking methods to arrive at the maximum of gasoline production. “With the new method, these variations are unimportant. The hydrogenation process is so flexible that any grade of petroluem can be converted into saleable gasoline. “It accomplishes this result by breaking up the heavier hydrocarbons into simpler ones corresponding to those suitable for ufee in automobiles.” tt n tt Profit MANY other branches of chemistry are profiting by the use of high pressures and high temperatures. ‘By means of high pressures and high temperatures, materials which formerly would not react to chemical treatment, become tractable,” Professor Krase says. “High pressures assist chemical reactions primarily by driving together the substances involved. Under extreme compression, gases become as dense as liquids, and even the molecules which compose gases, and the atoms which in turn form the molecules, are forced together. ‘We now are arriving at problems of equipment, for special metals and alloys are required to withstand the stress of the new processes. Chromium nickel steels and some similar products are found best suited to present needs.” Representatives of federal bureaus, Yale university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin and ether institutions will •take part in the joint symposium on high pressures, scheduled for Sept. 9. The meeting is expected .to attract 2,000 scientists, industrialists and educators to Cincinnati. Hundreds of papers covering all fiieids of chemistry will be presented before the sevearl divisions of the society, of which Professor William McPherson of Ohio State university is president. How much colder is it at the south pole than at the north pole?. The lowest temperature at the north pole is about 60 degrees below zero. At the south pole the temperature is frequently 60 to 70 degrees below. The south pole is colder than the north because it has considerable elevation above sea level. When is the “dark of the moon?” A “dark moon” or “dark of the moon,” is a popular expression to indicate that portion of the month when the moon is invisible. The expression applies also to the * moon itself when thus obscured. From two days before new moon until two days after r.ev; moon is the approximate duration of invisibility*

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Rheumatism Is Unsolved Problem

BY DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of he American Medical Association, and of Hrxeia, the Health Mac alive. ONE of the unsolved problems of medicine today is the cause, the prevention, - id specific method of treatment the rheumatic diseases. The term i?eua at ism” covers a wide variety u and j.orders, varying from the rhe .u<i lercr of childhood, which a cks the heart and w'hich usually proceeds to permanent crippling or death, to inflammatory rheumatic conditions affecting the joints, general infections which affect the joints, gout, and similar diseases. Rheumatic conditions are responsible today for a vast amount of disability, because a person with inflamed joints is usually not able to work very well. There is no question that germs from the throat, the nose, or the teeth may be carried by the blood to the joints and there set up secondary infections. Obviously it would be desirable to develop some- method of -injec-. tion into the body or some drug

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I WROTE the other day of cats—in fact, against cats—and I did so designedly, for I felt any such article would elicit protests. The cult of cat fanciers is not large, but almost all the members of the group are articulate. Indeed, there is a high degree of literary proficiency among them. Sometimes young men and women send letters to me, under some curious misapprehension, and ask, “How does one become a writer?” With full truth and perfect sincerity I have been able to answer, “How should I know?” But that reply won’t do forever. I am beginning to find certain ways in which the trick can be accomplished. From now on my reply will read, “Ship as a sailor, become a naturalist, or keep a cat.” All three occupations seem to develop not only the grace of style, but the gift of emotion. an n High Seas AS far as sailors go, one has but to mention Conrad and McFee. The reader can think up scores of others on his own account. And when I speak of naturalists the first name in ray mind is that of Hudson, who achieved practically the most sensitive prose ear known in our times. Among the leaders of the cat school I might mention the brilliant and brittle Carl Van Vechten. It is easy to see how a sailor might become addicted to literature. He has that great boon of idle time. Moreover, the infinite is right at his elbow. One does not and should not expect light fripperies from any man who has been tossed in tempests. You do not go straight to your cabin to write Dolly Dialogues after watching a wide sweep of stars aligned in patterns around the Southern Cross. And so we find that our manner authors are for the most part sober fellows. Conrad had a dash of wit, but it was grim, and McFee is not greately concerned with lighter interludes. There is, of course, W. W. Jacobs, who wrote many larky tales of ships and sailormen. His knowledge of the background was so exact that he must have had first-hand experience in the craft. But I doubt if he was ever a deep sea sailor. His

1 that could be taken by mouth that would overcome such infection. In most instances, however, it is necessary for science to do everything possible to put the body in such shape that it will resist or overcome the disease. There is as yet no established specfic method of preventing or controlling rheumatic infections. In addition to the rheumatic infections and inflammations that are associated definitely with the poison of germs, inflammations of the joints sometimes arise through what appear to be chemical reactions in the body, such as the reaction to the injection of some protein substance to which the human being may be sensitive. There are certain conditions in which a joint, particularly the knee joint, suddenly fill with water. After an interval the water disappears, then perhaps after two or three weeks the joint suddenly will fill with water again and after three or four days recover. The cause of this condition, called intermittent hydrarthrosis, which merely means that a joint fills with water at various intervals, is not known and-*toe method of treatment is to endcaftt to produce some re-

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son, in an attempt to stay four rounds with the mighty John L., Sullivan, went down sixty-eight times to avoid punishment. The Monument to the Potato in Braunlage. Germany—The monument to the potato was erected on the spot where the first at-

stories were concerned, for the most part, with the coastwide trade. And even Jacobs was, at heart, of tragic mein, since his best known story * “‘The Monkey’s Paw,” combines every available element of grisly horror. B tt tt Birds and Flowers THE naturalist should be able to write, since his first concern is the habit of observation. He trains his eye and ear in the search for. birds and insects, and, naturally, it is not much of a trick for him to adapt this same facility to the hunt for adjectives and adverbs. Companionship with cats induces in a man or woman a somewhat cynical point of view, but also a fastidious taste. It is curious that the world clings to the familiar adage which enunciates the fact that a cat may look at a king. . Surely the psychology of this particular epigram is all awry. There is a lack of proper contrast. The cat is no commoner. It would be fp r more to the point to say, “A dog may bark at a king.” I don’t like cats, because they are —each and every one of them—born snobs. A dog maximates the human ego by his devotion and his servility. A cat minimizes all your aspirations. Even a wan creature from the alley will receive your favors and your ministrations with a decided air of contemptuous amusement. tt b a 111 Defense of Cats “T TEAVEN grant that I’m the li first to put you right about cats,” writes Gilbert Riddell. “Because I perceive that you are right, anyway—only you’re tone deaf. I don’t know whether you know anythitlg about music. I hope you don’t, because that’s an awful accusation if you are. “You don’t dislike cats; you really love them. In fact, from my long observation pf you I affirm that you are at heart a cat. Most men are. Cats, I mean, at heart! “Your ear is not subtle enough to get the message a cat sends you. I can deny every one of your arguments from personal experience. “I have had three female cats around the house for years. Only one ever contributed to the prolongation of the feline race—and she only because I lent her to a friend who put her out at night. And, like a Perfect Lady, she had

action in the body which will change the general condition. Not only are investigators convinced that inflammations of the joints are due to the actual presence of the germs in the joint, but also many of them are inclined to believe that the poisons developed by the germs localize in the joints and set up inflammation. Usually in such conditions the whole body is found to be in a debilitated or weakened condition. The blood is not in a normal state and the reactions of the body to infection are not up to par. Perhaps the greatest discovery of. medical science in relationship to the control of such conditions has been the usefulness of physical methods of treatment. The application of heat, cither by hot water, hot air, electric heat, or other methods, is usually beneficial. A competent expert can secure for the patient through the proper use of drugs and physical methods a considerable amount of comfort. Sometimes by the injection of foreign protein substances, he is able to arouse the system to such extent, that the body-will shake off. the disease. j£ /

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tempts to cultivate this useful tuber on German soil were made in 1748. This place is famously known throughout Germany as the “kartoffelhecke.” ' Friday: The Dead Who Never Lived.

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only one offspring—as delicate and refined as herself—which never propagated. “Cats do not notice you when you swear, it is true; they are too amiable, too refined. They assume tha„ a mad moment has seized you and that presently you will regret your coarseness, and out of a great innate delicacy they disregard your expletives. Nothing could be sweeter than that. a b a “As for the large cat which usurped the middle of your bed while you were in Connecticut, you should not have been in Connecticut, anyway, but certainly her persistence in clinging to your downy couch was nothing short of a compliment to you. “I venture to assert that had this feline assumed the aspect of a young lady in pajamas you would have dfhe no vulgar booing and shooing. “As for throwing things at her, she doubtless was well bred and could not conceive of a gentleman ousting her from his bed. Your projectiles she took for expressions of your more playful moods and endured them, purring. “She crawled under the bed at last, because she no longer could endure your roughness, but, of course, she never dreamed that a gentleman with such a counterpane really meant to be rough. “Cats are not stupid. All my cats obey my orders just as quickly as any dog I ever had. They understand me better and are quite as devoted. “As for your iron will, cats are great philosophers; they are far more human than dogs; they don’t believe in your iron will any more than we believe in the implacability of destiny. “Doubtless we are both fools—the cat and I—but in that we are united, conspicuous and supreme to all other forms of existence. Learn to know cats and you will understand human nature and your natural constituency better.” (CoDVrisrht, 1939. bv Th- Times) When was Harvard university founded? In 1636. Does the President of the United States pay income tax on bis salary? No.

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.SEPT. 4, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: —— .4 B t of Wind and Cotic's Great Flying Feat Might Have Ended Less Happily. FRENCH newspapers ar* billing mad at Hearrt. It was bad enough for him to expose a secret treaty, in their opinion, but to be flippant in the face of an official reprimand is simply unforgivable. The only explanation they can think of for such impudence is the ‘"man’s inability to understand the disgrace of his conduct. And just to show hew disgraceful they regard it. they devote as much space to it as to Coste’s trans-At-lantic flight. French newspapers not only lack a sense of humor, but a sense of propriety. Ttoste deserved more at their hands than to divide headlines with a childish incident. B B B ' Coste Has Good Luck COSTE S motor won for him,” according to experts, just as though there could be any argument about it. Even so, he played in mighty good luck. Os the 1,370 gallons of gasoline with which he left France, only 100 were left it the finish. A bit of wind, and the venture might have ended less happily. We have not arrived at a point where a man can leave on a flight across the Atlantic, even with thebest of airplanes, without taking his life in his hands. But human ingenuity slowly i. taking the risk out of flying. a st tt 'Chute for Plane AN airplane parachute has been perfected by James M. Russell, chief engineer of the Russell Parachute Company, working In conjunction with engineers of the Detroit Aircraft Corporation. It w f as given its first public demonstration last Tuesday, when Vance Breese, a Detroit Aircraft Corporation pilot, took his biplane to ai> altitude of 6,500 feet, shut off the motor, went into a tail spin, released the parachute and came safely to earth. The pilot parachute, which opens when the release is pulled, auto-’ matically rights .the plane, no matter what position it is in, before the main parachute spreads to ease its fall. The plane flown by Breese weighed 2,300 pounds, while the entire parachute equipment weighed, less than 100. B B B Danger in Aircraft WHEN you get right down to brass tacks, it seems easier to make mechanical devices safe than it is so to make the men who own or control them. The greatest danger of airci'att does not consist in the damage they' may do because of weaknesses or defects, but in the destruction they may cause in the hands of unscrupulous leaders. In spite of all the progress, too many people still are thinking in terms of conflict, still even looking for excuses to raise cain. Ten days ago a Paraguyan fort w’as raided, and Paraguyan authorities jumped to the conclusion that it must have been by Bolivian troops. Now they discover that it was the. work of an Indian party on the war- ' path, and had no bearing on the international situation. B B B Plenty of Trouble THERE is trouble enough in this world without any one going out of his way to find it. or manufacturing pretexts to increase it. Communism, for instance, has created sufficient disturbance, without being made the basis of a policy toward Russia which did no one any good, with the possible exception of professional flag-w'avers. And the professional fiag-wavers are about ready to quit. Even S- Stanwood Menken, chairman of the board of directors of the National Security League, has changed his mind in favor of recognizing the Soviet. In the course of time every one else will, because recognition is inevitable, and because there is nothing to show for failure to grant it, except so many wasted years. We can not stop the drift of events in Russia, or anywhere else, by sticking our heads in the sand. Besides, wheat is wheat; oil is oil, and export trade is export trade, regardless of whether people believe in monarchy, Mohammed, or Kar! Marx. Daily Thought Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to do, do it with thy might.—Ecclesiastes 9:10. Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.—Andrew Jackson. ,