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Loeb and Leopold’s Sixth Anniversary Loeb and Leopold have been In prison at Joliet, 111., for six years. They probably will remain in prison the rest of their natural lives. What was there about the case which induced Mr. Darrow to give to it many weeks of the most arduous and nerve-racking work? Many immediately will answer that it was the money he got out of the case, but this is not true. He commonly is believed to have charged and been paid a fabulous fee. But in reality he submitted a ridiculously small bill and the families of the boys, with singular ingratitude, refused to pay all of that. Darrow’s real interest in the case was educational. What of a permanent value for a better understanding of crime and criminals came out of the case? First and foremost was Darrow’s primary aim of illustrating to the people of the United States the basic truth that crime is due to natural and quite understandable causes. This case enabled him to dramatize on a national scale this principle, without an acceptance of which wc never can handle crime or criminals in a rational and effective manner. It was a daring thing for Darrow’ to attempt to buck the mob spirit in this trial, and probably only Darrow could have done it successfully. The judicial lynching oi Hickman in California well illustrates what would normally have been the end of the Locb-Leopold episode. In short, the great contribution of Darrow in this trial was to encourage the American people to try to understand, rather than to act like a hunting-pack. Second in order must be placed the contributions of the case to the exposure of the ridiculous position in which psychiatrists arc placed through the rules of legal evidence and the methods of lawyers in the courtroom. The public derived the notion from press accounts of the trial that it was a battle of alienists who had sold their souLs to the defense or prosecution. As an actual matter of fact, with the exception of one well-known shyster, the alienists on both sides were agreed and desired before the trial opened to hand in a joint and unanimous report as to the mental state of the boys. Such is what happens to scientific evidence when subjected to the rules and practices of legal evidence. Third, the trial exposed the futility of uniform punishment for a specific crime rather than carefully differentiated treatment according to the personality of the criminal. It would be difficult to imagine two persons more widely divergent in personality traits than Loeb and Leopold. Yet both were given the same sentence because they were implicated in the same crime. One had a remarkably good prospect of recovery and could have rendered great service to society as a brilliant scientist. The other gave little promise of ever regaining normality and would not have made much of a contribution to humanity if he had. The Locb-Leopold trial was a landmark in the history of the social and scientific view’ of crime. Through it Darrow was able to give some popular insight into the progress of the scientific study of crime which had been due to the labors of such great experts as he called to aid him—Healy, Glucck and White. Its good results will live and bear fruit long after the personalities of Loeb and Leopold have been forgotten.

A 100 Per Cent Boomerang District Attorney Norman C. Orr of Oakland county, Michigan, desired to serve his fellow-citizens as a zealous officer of the law for another term. But he was not certain of election. He needed to pull something spectacular, where would he turn? Some alleged radical laborers had a summer camp at Farmington. They had been unlucky or careless enough to locate it on land adjoining Ku-Klux Klan property. Orr was told about it. Why not raid this camp and prove himself a Wolverine Horatius, stemming the Muscovite tide? The idea appealed to him and the raid w r as staged with astute deliberation. A powerful posse was gathered and the advancing hosts were flanked by photographers and reporters. Orr and his legions swooped upon the unsuspecting workers like Sam Houston on Santa Anna during his afternoon siesta. Buildings were occupied, windows broken, furniture smashed, the safe blown open, property seized, the men dispersed and the women and children cowed. Everybody was ordered away from the site and eleven workers were arrested. They wre held for SIO,OOO bail. Oakland county papers carried news of the raid with headlines large and black enough to announce a second battle of Manila bay or the sinking of another Lusitania. But this was the purple peak of Orr's career. From that time on bad luck beset him. The arrested men were taken before Judge Covert, who dismissed all of them. Orr was not discouraged by this. The men were rearrested and three others added to the list. But the judge once more dismissed all the defendants. On t,op of this, Orr now has been beaten at the polls and sued for false arrest. Muddled Diplomacy With promptness the state department has extended diplomatic recognition to the three new revolutionary governments of Latin-Amcrica—Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. This is as it should be. Our own government having been established by revolution, we can not presume to deny that right to other people. Anyway, alike under the rules of international law and of common expediency, it is none of our business what kind of government any other nation chooses, so long as that government fulfills its international obligations. While the state department has taken sensiolc action in these three cases, its statement in connection with the action reveals anew the extreme muddlchcadedness of our recognition policies. yesterday's statement was to the effect that the United States follows tire general international rule regarding diplomatic recognition, except in special cases in which we arc bound otherwise by treaty or diplomatic obligations. Specific exceptions named by Secretary Stimson were Haiti, Cuba and the five Central American republics. In attempting to justify this dual recognition policy, Stimson leaned upon the fallacious logic ol Hughes and othei recent predecessors. The 1923 treaty of the five Central American republics. agreemg to withhold recognition from revolutionary or coup d'etat governments ol Central America, was prepared and palmed off on those republics by the state department, which itselt did not sign the treaty To get the others to sign this highhanded document of interference, the state department merely announced that it was in accord with the treaty principle. We violated the spirit of that treaty by granting virtual advance recognition to the Nicaraguan revolutionary commander, Moncado, who later was elected

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at polls guarded by our marines, largely on the strength of his tacit state department support. In the case of Haiti, as in the case of Panama, which Stimson did not name, much of our imperialistic interference in their domestic affairs has been without justification by any treaty or under fake treaties imposed by us through puppet governments lacking popular support or authority. It Is true that Cuba is an exception. The Platt amendment makes us responsible indirectly for maintenance of Cuban freedom and liberties. But this is precisely the case in which the state department continuously has refused either to use military intervention or to withhold diplomatic recognition as a weapon against terrorist dictatorships. In Cuba we support the dictatorship which has destroyed liberties guaranteed by us in the Platt amendment and treaty. And, by implied threat of military intervention agairot a liberal revolution, we rob our Cuban wards of their only weapon of liberty. Stimson’s implication that the only instances in which we do not follow the general international rules of recognition are special treaty cases in the Caribbean countries is ludicrous, in view of our illogical policy toward Russia. Apart from all its other inconsistencies, the state department is trying to keep up the fiction that nonrecognition is not hurting Russian-Amcrican trade. And yet Stimson had the frankness to proclaim yesterday in recognizing Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. "I have deemed it wise to act promptly in this matter so the present economic situation may not embarrass the people of these friendly countries in reestablishing their normal intercourse with the rest of the world.” Precisely—there can be no normal intercourse between nations, commercial or otherwise, without diplomatic relations. That is why the state department's capricious recognition policies, both in Latin-America and Russia, have been and continue to be so costly to us in lo _ of international respect and international trade. That cost is especially heavy in times of depression, when revival of prosperity depends upon buttressing our collapsing export trade.

The “Prosperity Plank” Dies Political writers have not been slow to point out that the platform issued for the current campaign by the Republican party makes no mention whatever of the 1928 platform's bland assertion that national prosperity could be obtained best by electing a Republican administration. Every other plank in the 1928 platform is mentioned; that one is quietly left out. It may be that this will prove a long step toward healthier political campaigns. In point of fact, this country’s prosperity depends very Little on the administration at Washington. If the present G. O. P. platform sets a style by recognizing that fact, we all shall be better off. In the future, it may be, we shall be able to fight out political campaigns on the fundamental issues instead of letting the “prosperity issue” divert our minds from the real points at stake. Now is the time for success writers to draw a moral from the yacht races. You know—luck never gets you anywhere, Enterprise does. Our headline writers aren't so badly off at that. In France, Coste's plane, Question Mark, is known as Point deinterrogation. The chronic kicker is usually the fellow who has to foot the bills. An Illinois judge declared that drivers who have committed traffic offenses two or more times will be turned over for mental examinations. To determine, no doubt, the influence of mind over motor. Statistics reveal the curious fact that the mortality rate is lower in times of depression. Proving, of course, that a man may be down, but never out. Newspapers which play up prize fighting, says the office sage, arc nothing more than scrap papers.

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IN the recent primaries three outstanding dry j leaders of the national house of representatives j were defeated for renomination, but they went down j with their colors flying; they went down professing the dry faith just as boldly as they did when that faith was more popular than at the present time. tt tt tt These dry leaders of the house are a refreshing contrast to the prohibition dodgers of the United j States senate, who now skin the cat and tell their j constituents they will be for anything on earth to ; hold their jobs. a a Such frauds should not be permitted to get away j with this. They went up and down their states, spitting cotton in the days when prohibition was all-powerful and if they have not the manhood to stand by their guns now, they should be defeated. a a a MANY ol them were elected because they pro- j fessed the prohibition faith and through the | years they voted for the most severe penalties for violators of the dry law, and they should not be per-1 mitted to run on an india-rubber platform. Rather an honest, dripping wet a thousand times than a hopeless hypocrite. B B tt People in the north have been accustomed to think of the south as a region where there is no political rivalry, owing to the supremacy of the Democratic party, but the factions of that party stage more bitter contests for nominations than the two parties stage for elections in the north. The recent contests for nominations in Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana have not been matched by any sort of political contest in the north. a a a ITS surprising that Governor Long ot Louisiana won the senatorial nomination, for he is an avowed wearer of pajamas, and we thought the common people would smash him for this. Once upon a time a candidate for Governor of Indiana was beaten at the polls because he wore a nightshirt. a a a William Matthews of New' Albany, who weighs more than 300 pounds, was robbed of $47 while he slept, which suggests how Uncle Sam, the international heavyweight, might be rolled in tire event of war because he has gone to sleep on Ihe job of providing the necessary air force to protect himself from hostile eagles. a a b Governor Roosevelt's declaration for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment is the most outstanding evidence that the wet and dry issue will be the thing in 1932, and in that event it’s a rash man who will turn to prophesy, for there will be more cross currents in the sea of politics than we've known since the free silver fight in 1896. w 9

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Great Progress Made in Aviation During Last 26 Years Shov;n by U. S. Director. ONE more victory has been added to the achievement of the airplane. To the conquest of the r<?>rth and south poles and Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic to Paris must be added the back-tracking of the Lindbergh trail by Coste and Bellonte. While the world still is celebrating their triumph, it is interesting to reflect upon the fact that airplane flying is not as old as the present century. The twentieth century already was three years old when Orville Wright managed to keep his flying machine up in the air for a few minutes. Since that flight, the world has had twenty-six and one-half years in which to develop the science and business of aviation. How well the world has done can be gleaned from a picture presented by Harry H. Blee, director of aeronautic development of the United States Department of Commerce. He says: “Last year, more than 25,000,000 miles were flown in scheduled operations by United States air lines, and nearly 160,000 passengers and 8,000,000 pounds of mail were transported over these lines." tt U tt future Is Bright BLEE also points out that, the figures for 1929 represent a tremendous gain over 1928. He says: “The passengers carried in 1929 represented more than three times as many as were flown the previous year, and the increase in the amount of mail carried was 100 per cent.

“Established route mileage of 36,000 in 1929 was more than double the miles in 1928, and the fact that miscellaneous commercial flying in this country increased from an estimated 60,000,000 miles in 1928 to 110.000.000 miles In 1929 is of special economic significance.” Blee is optimistic about the future. “This splendid record serves only to indicate what may be accomplished in the next few years with properly co-ordinated development work on problems that continue to present themselves as aeronautics continues to make progress,” he says. These problems are now occupying the attention of the United States department of commerce. “Congress, through the air commerce act of 1926, delegated to the secretary of commerce the responsibility of encouraging and fostering the development of civil aeronautics in the United States and of regulating the use of aircraft in commerce,” Blee says. “Soon after the passage of the act, the aeronautics branch was organized to carry out the details of the work.”

Research Problems THE aeronautics branch of the United States department- of commerce is divided into three units. One deals with air regulation. A second deals with the establishment and maintenance of air ways. Blee heads the third unit, which is known as the aeronautics development service. “The aeronautics development service,” Blee explains', “embraces all activities of the commerce department in connection with assisting communities in the selection and development of airports, the rating of airports, the promotion and correlation of aeronautic research, the publication and dissemination of aeronautic information, the publication of air navigation maps and airway bulletins and the general promotion work of the department looking toward development of civil aeronautics. “A n outstanding activity of the aeronautic development service pertains to development and improvement of aids to air navigation and promotion of safety and comfort in flight. “This work includes such activities as research on aeronautic radio, investigations on aeronautic lighting, wind tunnel studies, soundproofing of airplane cabins and reduction of noise from engines and propellers, research on special airplane engine problems and investigations of the strength of airplane joints and fittings.”

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BEMIS HEIGHTS September 19

ON Sept. 19, 1777, the Americans, under General Gates, checked the advance of the British commanded by General Burgoyne at the first Battle of Bemis Heights, or Saratoga. It was one of the most desperately fought battles of the Revolutionary - war. Gates had been sent by congress to supercede Schuyler and fight Burgoyne’s center. He therefore entrenched himself at Bemis Heights on ground fortified by the famous Polish volunteer, Kosciusko. Burgoyne was eager to reach Albany, but not daring to leave the American forces in his rear, he advanced and attacked them. Both armies fought stubbornly and neither could claim victory. Historians now are inclined to give the Americans the edge, because the British lost twice as many men and were obliged to delay their advance. The second Battle of Bemis Heights, fought less than a month later, was won by the Americans with the courageous assistance of Morgan and Arnold. Finally. Burgoyne fell back to Saratoga, six miles distant, and there, on Oct. 17. surrendered. This was the first great victory of the Americans. Nearly six thousand prisoners and a large quantity of arms were seized When the news reached London. Pitt (Lord Chatham) declared in parliameent. “My lords, you can not conquer America.”

Daily Thought

Thy mercy. O lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reaches upto the clouds.—Psalm 36:5. If mercy were not mingled with ! s power, this wretched world i. uld not subsist one hour—Sir W. Davenant.

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Special Glasses Not Remedy for Glare

BY DR. MORRIS FTSHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. IF the average man looks at bright sunlight, or at the snow, or at intense light from any source, he is likely to have his vision blurred, at least temporarily. Asa preventive of the uncomfortable feeling associated with glare, glasses of various types have been provided by manufacturers to be worn in the presence of intense light. Recently the bureau of standards has made an investigation of variout types of glasses used for this purpose. Dr. W. W. Coblentz has studied many types of glasses over a period of sixteen years. “They come and go,” he says, “like the styles of hats and dresses.”

IT SEEMS TO ME BV H BROUN D

1 WOULD like to be a masterful man for several reasons, and one of the most important is that it must save you such a lot of time and trouble. You don’t have to think up polite conversation and small talk. I’ve never been lucky in taking people home from parties. At ieast I always seem to be the one who gets the guest who lives up in the Bronx. It takes a lot of polite conversation to last through a threemile taxi ride. The time would go faster if I were a little more silent and much more aggressive. Just a simple, “Why. Mr. Broun!” might last one, or even two, or at least ten blocks. But I can’t remember that I ever heard that said in my presence. n tt tt Wrong at Start I SUPPOSE the chief trouble with me is that I don’t start right. We get in. and I say, a little anxiously, “Do you suppose the driver knows where it is?” That’s a mistake right off. 1 ought to act as if I’d be delighted to have the driver lose his way and cruise around in the wild sections of the Bronx all night. But I really wouldn’t like that at all, and I’m not good at pretending. As the unsuccessful mourner said at the funeral. “If I don’t feel it—l don’t feel it.” After I’ve found out from the young lady that she can direct the driver to her address, even if he doesn't happen to know the streets in the Bronx, I generally ask, “Would you like to have a window open?” There’s no harm in that, is there? I don’t think so. Still, it doesn’t get you anywhere in particular. Then I settle down—l’m ’way over on my side of the cab. and she’s ’way over on her side. Maybe she's a litle more ’way over—because I’m not built to be a ’way-over sitter. At the end of the first half mile I make a point of saying “Have you read Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell to Arms?’ ” Sometimes she has, and sometimes she hasn't. If she hasn’t, I say. "You qught to read it.” If she has read it, I say, “I think it’s a swell boook.’ She says,“l enjoyed it very much.” I never found that bringing up “A Farewell to Arms” ever led to anything. I mean nobody ever answers, “Yes, I enjoyed ’A Farewell to Arms’ very much, and did anybody ever t£ll you that you’ve got very soulful eyes?” Tile way things go we both agree that it's a good book, and there's no chance of getting up an argument about that. I guess maybe some time I'll have to read another book and see what reactions I can get out of using anew title. a tt a ‘Green Pastures’ NOT always, but generally I follow up my opening advances bv asking her if she likes “The Green Pastures.” That sometimes leads to a brief discussion of religion and immortality, but neither of us has enough ideas on the subject to | last all the way to the Bronx. By I now I'm borrowing cigarets from i the driver. “Have you seen the moon?” ought to be a romantic lead if it isn’t raining and there is a moon, but what are you supposed to do if she just says, ‘ Yes. I have seen the moon,” and lets it go at that? I suppose a masterful man might come right back quick and snappy •and say:—"Yes. but it doesn't count unless you see it me. You

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE •

The scientist is concerned with two factors in the light: One, the general question of the light itself; two, the special question of ultraviolet rays from the light. Apparently the amount of ultraviolet in ordinary sunlight is not injurious to the normal eye. There are instances, however, in which the eye is especially sensitive to ultraviolet and the irradiation associated with exposure may result in inflammation. Dr. Coblentz points out that amethyst colored glasses do not seem to have any real advantage over ordinary spectacle glasses. Other glasses are advertised as especially valuable because they cut down the ultraviolet rays, although all of them pass the infrared rays in about the same manner as do ordinary spectacle glasses.

might try looking at it over my left shoulder.” Some young men say that no conversation possibly can be as enthralling as love songs done in a low and muted voice. That’s no help as far as I’m concerned. I’m not used to singing by myself, and the songs I know are “Boola-Boola,” “As the Caissons Go Rolling Along” and “Fair Harvard.” I don’t think any of these, or all of them, would be much use in promoting just ti e right mood. It would be silly to start “Boola-boola, boola-boola,” and then reach over in a frenzy of emotion and hold a girl’s hand. Os course, I could take banjo lessons. At the end of the first mile the young lady generally has made the discovery that I’m not a masterful man. I could have told her that all along. And so we both lapse into a sullen silence, and I watch the taxi meter. tt tt tt Doesn’t Ask Me WHEN we get up to her ridiculously distant home o:i a side street in the Bronx she says that it was awfully good of me to take her home and I must come up some time and meet her mother and that if she had anything to drink she’d ask me in to have a drink, but that she hasn’t got anything to drink that they expect her at the office at 9 o'clock in the morning. I remain gallant to the end and tell her that it wasn't any trouble

Questions and Answers

Are Defaming and discriminating synonymous? No. Discriminate means to discern a difference in things, or to differentiate between them. Defame means to endeavor to injure the good name of a person, or his repution by speaking, or publishing false or evil reports concerning him. If seventen cats kill seventeen rats in seventeen minutes, how many rat will 100 cats * kill in 100 minutes? The rate would be one rat per cat per minute and 100 cats can therefore kill 100 rats in 100 minutes. How far below sea level are the Sahara desert and Death valley, California? The deepest depression of the true Sahara desert is in a region of Schotts, Mrier, Jerich, lying west of the Gulf of Gabes, where the surface is sixty to seventy feet below sea level. Death valley, in its lowest part, is 427 feet below sea level. Did the ancients use ivory for ornaments and in art? The early records of man show that the tusks of elephants constituted an* important article of trade, and were used as a material for making ornaments and in the fine arts. Ivory is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. Solomon had a throne of ivory and gold. The Egyptians and Assyrians made much use of this material. When was Senator Robert La Follette the candidate for President of the United States on the Progressive ticket, and how many popular votes did he receive? He was the candidate In 1924, and he received 4,822.856 popular votes. Under what government department does the United States public health service operate? The treasury department.

Dr. Coblentz is. convinced that none of the glasses thus far available cuts down to any extent the glare or bright light from the usual sources. Indeed, he says, “the ca-es are few in which it is important to reduce the intensity of average daylight. When near ultraviolet ray lamps and sparks from induction coils, dark glasses should be worn to protect the eyes from ultraviolet radiation.” The sun is not, of course, in direct line of vision and the eye has some protection against it. whereas sources of ultraviolet radiation are in direct line of vision. Because of the danger of ultraviolet to the eye. these rays should be avoided by wearing of special glasses.

Ideals and opinions expressed in th)s column a'e those of one of America’S' most interestine writers and are presented without reeard to their aereement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

at all and that I didn't mind the ride a bit and don’t mention it. And when we run into each other at some other party she looks at me and asks: “Haven't I met you some place before, Mr. Brown? Your face seems so familiar.” That's not true, it wasn’t familiar at all. Generally the ride back is more fun than going out, because once the young lady’s gone ths taxi driver generally will talk freely and tell you about his adventures. All taxi drivers, by their own accounts, seem to be masterful men. the last man that drove me down from the Bronx must have had a terrible time crowding so much incident into twenty-four hours. I suppose he had to take a little time off every now and then to drive the cab. Every story ended up, “I don't know why it is, but she’s just crazy about me.” He had me worried, because I was afraid that maybe after he finished he'd expect me to tell some adventure of my own. I was trying to think. My memory isn't what it used to be. It didn’t make any difference, though—he was willing to give confidences without receiving any in exchange, and he was still babbling away when we got back to my house. I don't believe he was half done. I wonder if there’d be any point in my buying a taxicab and learning to drive it. (■Copyright, 1930. bv The Times)

What is the origin of the term laureate? Laureate means "crowned with laurel.” In ancient times a crown of laurel was given as a mark of special distinction. A poet laureate then is "the” poet of a city or a state or country who has won special distinction for his work. The title is officially conferred in England.

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M. E. Tracy SA YS •

Many of Our Recently Enacted Laws Have Served to Put. a Premium on Dishonesty. FIFTEEN parties are represented in the German reichstag, no one of which commands a majority, or anything like it. and no two of which are in accord. To keep his place, the German chancellor must arrange a coalition sufficiently powerful to beat the combined opposition. Tt is admittedly tough job, but even sc. one is surprised to find some o' his colleagues advising him to consult a clairvoyant. Not, that the custom of consulting clairvoyants is completely out, of date, or that, great, statesmen have not, employed it. before, but that it seldom is headlined in connection with public affairs. Even those who pursue it. generally go at night, and with a deprecating smile. But they go. which, after all. is the important, point, and a good many think they are helped. tt a a She Takes Chances clairvoyant whom Chan--1 cellor Bruening has been advised to consult, is Tererin Laila. a Brahmin product, recently arrived In Germany from the Balkans. She claims a long string of accurate prognostications to her credit, and proves that she is not, afraid by predicting some startling occurrences. which, in all probability, she will live to see proved or disproved. Among other things, she declares that, the prince of Wales will marry next year, which is taking quite a chance, and that. Max Schmeling successfully will defend his right to the title of world's heavyweight champion three times, which is taking even more of a chance. No doubt. Chancellor Bruening will wave her aside, just, as most men would in his position, but, at that, he may go to see her when no one is looking. Superstition crops out in some surprising places. tt a a An Easy Alibi hard-boiled critics are > wondering whether political conditions in this country have not been affected by world-wide unrest. A comforting explanation for defeated candidates, perhaps, but hardly in tune with the idea that, popular intelligence is intelligent. Maybe we have been caught, up in some kind of star drift which has altered the terrestrial viewpoint, but one prefers to attribute the upsets in recent primaries to such mundane causes as prohibition, the Grundy bill, or local misgoveniment. No doubt, the drys, or regular Republicans. would be glad to attribute their recent reverses to supernatural intervention, but the wets, progressives and Democrats prefer not to leave it that way. One easily can imagine Governor Kohler of Wisconsin visualizing himself as the victim of an unkind fate, but young Phil La Follette, who beat him, probably would have another and -more convincing explanation. tt tt ts Genius Carried On YOU often hear it said that genius never is carried from father to son. but that, does not seem to be the case with the La Follette family. The father not, only was Governor of Wisconsin, but, represented that state in the senate for many years. His eldest son is in the senator:-', seat he once occupied, while h.s other son just has been nominated for the governorship. No matter how people may disagree with the La Follette philosophy in details, its basic honesty stands unquestioned, and that, after all, is the most important attribute of a public official. St tt tt Honesty Lacking MANY of our troubles arc traceable to dishonesty on the part, of public officials, rather than to lack of ability. Worse still, many of our recently enacted laws, though backed by the best intentions, have served no purpose so distinctly as to put a premium on dishonesty. Nothing has done so much to destroy faith in prohibition as a constantly increasing fear of its corrupting influence. People are alarmed at the exposures which a,re coming thicker and faster every day, most of which have a definite connection ■with bootleg graft. They are alarmed at the gang rule which has developed around speakeasies and rum runners, but which could not be what it is without. connivance of officials. And because the people are alarmed at. these things, they are turning more and more to those candidates who are known to be honest, even though they may not be so brilliant.