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Punish All the Guilty Ones Mayor Sullivan, Police Chief Kinney and the board dr safety have acted with commendable promptness in starting their cleanup of the police department. Shifting of patrolmen in seventeen districts today should be an effective first step in rooting out corruption. But it is only a first short step and a long road beset with obstacles faces the city administration before its work is complete. Eighteen members of the pplice force are accused of betraying their trust, by taking protection money from traffickers in liquor. Determination of the guilt or innocence of these men will not close the chapter. If conditions in the city had reached such a wideopen stage that eighteen men could flout the law with little fear of exposure and punishment, it is a safe conclusion that many more are involved in crookedness. The investigation must go from top to bottom. These eighteen men are only the “first draft. From the general expression of sentiment the public has confidence in Sullivan, Kinney and members of the safety board. Some censure has been directed at them—and it probably is justified—because cf the proportions the corruption wave had assumed before > they realized its extent. But prompt action to remedy conditions and effective measures to insure punishment of ail the guilty ones will redeem them in the eyes of the public. One danger always is present in a cleanup of this kind and it must be stamped out at the start. That is political interference ■and wire pulling. Tliis cleanup should be conducted with every political factor eliminated. And that brings up the stand of Prosecutor Stark, who asserts that he has been conducting an investigation for a month * and contemplates action against a number of members of the police department. It would appear that the city and federal authorities would be able to handle the situation, with the evidence that they have accumulated and still are obtaining. If Stark wishes to perform a public service, it seems that he could center his activities on the county to far better advantage. Along with all protests against a v. ide-open city have come a number of reports that the lid was off in the county. If that is true, Stark’s duty is clear. Let him bo as active and as prompt in remedying the situation as the mayor and his co-workers are in cleaning up the city. Tide of Defiance Rises Cautiously feeling their way, the politicians gradually are trying to escape from the clerical reign of terror that has made cowards of them for the long years during which the Anti-Saloon League and allied organizations of professional prohibitionists have ruled the American roost. Since Dwight Morrow, Republican, blazed the trail in New Jersey, courageously took his stand against the eighteenth amendment, forced his party to taka the same stand and won overwhelmingly in the primaries, others in both parties have mustered up enough courage to favor repeal of the amendment. But many of them are timid about it—reaching forward into the future with one hand and holding on to the past with the other. In Ohio, for illustration, the wets nominated the Democratic candidate for senator, but the Democratic party nominated a professed dry for Governor and dodged the issue in their platform. ' With the Republican candidates for senator and Governor bone dry, Ohio Democrats had a rare chance to_ sweep the state by going wet. But they trimmed. Nothing to gain by trimming, for the drys will go along with the Republican ticket—as they always have done. The truth is the Anti-Saloon League has been essentially Republican from its organization, and has made monkeys of the Democrats. This year there are literally millions of voters throughout the country who are going to vote for wets without caring a darn what party ticket they are running on. In Ohio both Republican and Democratic wets will get back of Bulkley, the Democrat, for senator and care little about what happens to the candidates for Governor. The drys will be enthusiastic in their support ol Governor Cooper for re-election, but there will be no enthusiastic support of wets for George White, Democrat, for Governor because he is betwixt and Between, neither one thing nor another. Cooper is a militant dry. The Democratic opportunity in Ohio was in getting back to Jefferson and the bill of rights, but their candidate for United States senator is the only one who has taken a Jeffersonian stand, and he likely will be the next United States senator from Ohio. Because of their timid pussyfooting, it doesn’t make much difference to liberal voters what happens to the rest of the Democratic ticket. Constitutional wets are mad clear through this year. They are sick and tired of prohibition. They want that police ordinance known as the eighteenth amendment out of the Constitution, and the regulation of the liquor traffic left to the states, where it belongs. The interesting thing about the evolution of American politics from now on to the next presidential election is the race to see which party will become the liberal party. So far Dwight Morrow has given the Republican party the jump. He really is more popular right now than Hoover is. It is the difference between political courage and pussyfooting timidity—or cowardice. The Jewish Holidays Because bigotry is more blatant than .tolerance and religious hatred too ugly to forget, sometimes America seems the most intolerant of nations. We listen to the narrow-minded sectarians who shout so loudly, and forget that in most communities of the country Protestant. Catholic and Jew' are living, playing and working side by side in mutual respect. Most Americans are happy in observing the spirit as well as the letter of the constitutional provision giving religious freedom equally to all. In that spirit Christians greet Jews who now are observing their holy days. Beginning yesterday with Rosh Hashanah. their new year day, the observance will reach its height on Yom Kippur, their day of atonement, Oct. 1. Expression of that American spirit of religious freedom and unity has been given by the Federal Churches of Christ in America in its message of Rosh Hashanah greetings to the synagogue council of America: “Jews and Christians alike share a concern for sounder morality and ever higher levels of attainment In personal character. In the pursuit of those ends for which you are working through the synagogue. and we are working through the churches, we earnestly wish for you another year crowned with increasing success.” Americans of every faith must appreciate the great contribution which the Jewish people and leaders are making each year to national social Ifcetter-

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ment. That contribution can not be measured in money. But it is not unfitting to recall that this year Jewish philanthropies have mounted to more than $72,000,000. Much of this money has been given to ndn-Jewish philanthropies: such as the $10,000,000 Falk foundation, the $5,000,000 Bamberger educational fund, the $2,000,000 Mastbaum gift for a Rodin museum and many others. Finally, on this occasion of the Jewish holidays, Americans may express the hope that the antiSemitic movements which have spread suffering and terror among this ancient race in certain foreign countries soon may subside. Union Job Insurance Back in 1922 the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, acting with other labor bodies, endeavored to persuade the legislature of Illinois to provide a system of unemployment insurance. They failed. So the Amalgamated determined to do something for itself in that direction. It set up a fund of its own in Chicago, later extending it to Rochester and New York. During the six years the plan has been operative, more than $6,000,009 has been distributed. “Today, on every side, discussions are going on regarding the importance of unemployment insurance in an industrial system which fails to give men and women work when they not only need work, but must starve if they do not get it,” says the Advance, organ of the Amalgamated. “While this discussion is going on, we are preparing in three of our markets to distribute unemployment funds between now and Dec. 1 of more than $700,000.” Clothing workers have had less work than for many years. But they have insisted that their wage scale remain as before, and part of these wages has gone into the insurance fund. The experience of the Amalgamated shows what a well-organized body of workers can do, and points the way for other groups, pending the time when unemployment insurance systems become general, as they inevitably must. Expensive Economy Surely it is a short-sighted policy for the postoffice department to cut down its pay roll a such a time as this, in an attempt to turn a deficit into a surplus. Such are the charges made against Postmaster-Gen-eral Brown. No men are being fired, because they are protected by civil service, but there are deaths and resignations, and it is claimed that these vacancies are not being filled. The country also will view with disfavor an attempt to raise its first-class postage rates. It long has been known that the pcstoffice department does not lose money on its first-class postage. A number of other methods of reducing postal expenses have been suggested. A thorough examination into rentals of postoffice buildings is about to take place. Where these are exorbitant the government can save money and should do so. Franked mail is carried at a definite loss. If we wish to give the franking privilege to our congressmen, and also want the postoffice department to carry all government business mail free of charge, appropriations for this purpose should be made. Finally, it perhaps may be suggested to Postmas-ter-General Browm that while a deficit is to be abhorred, the postal service is, after all, primarily a service to the people. It originally was not intended at a money-making proposition. The proprietor of a famous English seaside resort, eager to increase vacation patronage, has cut rates on Jays the sun doesn't shine. He wants every cloud to have a silver lining. Five men in Paris who wrote a contract on a table doth went to court over a dispute. They should have known an agreement like that w r ould have to be changed—eventually. In Sweden they are making blood tests of inebriated motorists to determine the degree of drunkenness. What will surprise most persons arrested | under this ruling is that they must submit to- a j physician, though they are ' feeling good. A1 Capone's life, at last, is in the hands of the | police. His biography just has been issued at $3 the copy.

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MAYBE you noticed that General Pershing had a birthday last week, and maybe you didn't, for the papers said little about it. There didn’t begin to be the noise there would have had it been the anniversary of some motion picture doughnut, such as Mr. Reginald Prettyteeth or Miss Priscilla Hips. a a a In fact, it was a shock to meet the general in type, for he's a stranger to the printed page—and of his own choice. What a wonder he is, to keep still while all the world is broadcasting to shun the limelight when everybody else beseeches it, to scorn the whoop-la, which to the rest is life itself! a a a If he wished it, General-Pershing could saddle the headlines and sit there always, for. yes, he is our most distinguished citizen; he was the foremost figure in our greatest war and he was tall enough to look the world's best fighters in the eye. a a a HE added the final touch which made the American army poison to the kaiser; he gave it iron, audacity, resourcefulness from his own personality: he read politicians as easily as war maps; he whipped the enemy and saved his army from the allies, who wished it for replacement. a a a Had that war gone another year, many think Pershing would have been supreme commander, and had that exalted responsibility come his way, he would have assumed it without fuss and without fear; he would have done the job superbly—and he would have had no press agent. a a a We are for the general because he is different. When he came back from France, interest, which wished to exploit him. camped ’round him, thick as blackbirds; he was tendered everything from political pastry to financial shortcake; but he turned it all down! a a a AS soldier and citizen, he reminds us of Sherman, and we are glad that, like Sherman, he iold the politicians to keep off the grass. m Sherman, you know, declined the presidency several times while his brother John was chasing it vainly. , Grant would have been far better off had he never seen the White House, and so is Pershing. a a a In* the age of mechanical warfare, the common soldier has little feeling for commanders, but the World war soldier has a great and growing respect for Pershing. Here’s to you. general. You’re a man of 3teel and sense and silence; you're the best we’ve got, and we hope you live to be a hundred—if you care

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Tests Fail to Uphold Challenger of Einstein Theory. \ TESTS going on at Mt. Wilson observatory in California in hope of settling the dispute over the i Einstein theory serve to illustrate the complexities of modem scientific theories and the vast amount of care and work involved in presentday experimentation. According to the Einstein theory, it is impossible to detect the motion of the earth through the ether of space. Einstein firft stated this in his special theory of relativity in , 1905. This theory l was based on an experiment performed/in 1887 by Pro- | fessor Albert A. Michelsorx and the late Professor E. W. Morley. Mich’son and Morley, using an interurometer, an instrument invented | by Michelson, sought to- find proof of the earth’s motion around the sun. Dr. Dayton C. Miller, who succeeded Michelson as professor of | physics at Case School of Applied ; Science in Cleveland, did not agree j with Einstein’s interpretation of the ■ Michels''U-Morley experiment. Shortly after the World war, Dr. Miller embarked upon a prolonged I series of experiments to demonstrate j his belief that the interferometer did give evidence of the earth’s motion through the ether of space. A 125-Mile Walk THE interferometer used by Dr. Miller consists of a great steel | cross with arms sixteen feet long floated on a mercury bearing, so that it rotates freely in a horizontal plane. A system of mirrors splits a beam of light into two halves, reflects them along the arms of the cross and unites them again in a small telescopic eye.hece. When the two halves of the beam unite they create a series of light and dark bands in the eyepiece, known as interference fringes. According to the theory of the instrument, an absolute motion of the earth through the ether would result in a changing speed of the light beams as the interferometer revolved. This would result in a back I and forth movement of the fringes in the eyepiece. Dr. Miller’s task, therefore, has been to walk around the interferometer as it revolved, keeping his eye glued to the little telescope on it. During each revolution of the instrument, he would make sixteen observations of the position of the fringes. Between 1921 and 1926, Dr. Miller walked a distance of 125 miles around the interferometer. He made 175,000 readings of the position of the fringes. These were .noted down by an assistant as Dr. Miller called them out to him. All of these observations then were averaged into the calculations "by which Dr. Miller arrived at his conclusions.

U tt tt At Mt, Wilson THE MT. Wilson people have undertaken to make a test of Dr. Miller’s results. They made their first tests in 1926, using an interferometer of slightly different design. This instrument was mounted on a heavy steel frame so that the observer, instead of walking around the instrument, rode on it. The experimenters felt that periodic errors were being caused by the design of the apparatus and so it was changed. , These experiments gave ho evidence of motion through the ether such as Miller found, but the astronomers felt that the work was not conclusive. Another series of experiments was begun in 1927 in which the optical parts of the interferometer were mounted on a great cast-iron plate weighing 7,000 pounds. Changes were also made in the optical system so that the light beam was reflected into a stationary eyepiece above the interferometer. This enabled the observer to be seated comfortably at all times. Subsequently, a number of changes were made to improve and refine the instrument. A series of readings was made, extending from October, 1927, to August, 1928. These observations were subjected to long mathematical analysis and it now is announced that they do not agree with Miller’s results or support his views. The Mt. Wilson people are now getting ready to try anew series of observations in which the interferometer will be kept in a constant temperature room. A year or* more will probably elapse before a. definite conclusion is reached.

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JOHN MARSHALL’S BIRTH September 24 ON September 24, 1755, John Marshall, most famous of American jurists, and for thirtyfour years chief justice of the United States supreme court, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia. He attended an academy in Westmoreland county and studied law until the outbreak of the Revolution, when he entered the army as a volunteer. He served in most of the major battles and by the time he reached 22 he already was a captain. The war over, he returned to his home town to practice law’. He soon rose to the head of the Virginia bar. He was a member of the Virginia state legislature and of the state convention that adopted the Constitution. In 1798, a year after he had been sent to France as an envoy to help remove the restrictions laid on American commerce, he was elected to congress. Two years later he was invited by President Adams to become his secretary of war, but declined. He accepted, however, the position of secretary of state, which he held for a short time. In 1801 he was conmissicned chief justice of the supreme court. His accession to the bench marks not only a turning point in his life but also in the legal and constitutional history of the United States. Marshall’s decisions on constitutional questions established precedents in the interpretation of the Constitution that have been accepted ever since.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Gas Is Latest Method of Execution

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. EVER SINCE capital punishment was adopted by organized society as punishment for the criminal, humanitarians have been concerned greatly with the type of materials used in bringing about death and in the mechanism by which death is brought about. The monarchs of an earlier day condemned men to be quartered, bringing about death by fastening a horse to each of the subject’s legs and tearing him apart. Other allegedly civilized groups caused daeth by having the man beheaded with sword or battleax. Militaristic countries, and indeed even modern armies, destroyed the condemned mah by the bullets of a firing squad. The hangman's noose was reserved in medieval periods for criminals in disrepute, but in modern times is the legal method of destruction of men in many states and nations. In some states, death is brought

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r T"'HE Christian Herald has been funning, recently, a series of articles by famous drys on the benefits of prohibition. Not long ago I observed an interview with Daniel Carter Beard, the 80-year-old founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Beard has done valuable work in so far as he has interested young people in the fascination which outdoor life can afford. But a fear that this veneraole leader is himself too forest-bound to be familiar with conditions as they exist in our great cities. -For instance, I was startled to find the old gentleman quoted as saying: “I remember walking down from Fifty-ninth street to the Grand Central one day before the war and counting nine saloons on one side of the street. Heaven only knows how many there were on the other side! How many will you find there now?” a a a Called "Tony’s” THE blunt answer to Mr. Beard’s question must be, ‘‘Anywhere j from sixty to seventy.” | He has made a most unfortunate | choice of territory with which to | ilustrate the virtues of Volsteadism. Here, at least, we are not talking of opinion. j If Mr. Beard will come out of the woods I will promise to show him not less than 2,000 saloons lying between Fifty-ninth street and the Grand Central Station. In all sincerity I can not pretend to be one who mourns this mushroom growth. I hope -nobody ever ; has interpreted my opposition to Volsteadism as resting upon the ! contention that the eighteenth amendment does not work. It is true, of course, that the eighteenth amendment does not work, but that is merely incidental. I would like it even less if it did work. Parisians of the wet cause are being asked now, “All right, but what would you substitute for prohibition?” I have one simple regulation which I would like to see incorporated into the laws of the state of New York once the amendment, or the Volstead act, has been abolished. The statute which I have in mind would read: “No license shall be granted for the sale of alcoholic liquors in any premises where men and women are not received upon an equal basis.” a a a Companionate Drinking AT least one good has come out of prohibition New York has learned how agreeable and pleasant companionate drinking can be. The best argument against the oldfashioned saloon was the fact that it set up sex discrimination. Women could go in only through the back door. The familiar and wholly truthful picture of the worker’s wife waiting for Mike to come home, with his pay or without it, was based upon the fact that he could isolate himself in an establishment where con- j tact with his loved ones was diffi- j cult, if not impossible. But in the modern speakeasy, where men and women (not infre- j quently husbands and wives) go to-1 gether, a net* sort of comradeship

about by the passage of electric current of considerable voltage through the body. The most recent method of destruction of human life under legal conditions is the use of poison gases, popularized for wholesale destruction during the World war. Legal death under these methods has been studied carefully by scientists. In death by hanging, strangulation is most frequently responsible, but in some instances the neck is broken by the fall and death comes from that cause. In an experiment carried out recently in the state of Nevada a prisoner condemned to death was executed by hydrocyanic acid gas. At the time of the execution a study was made of the action of the heart and the lungs. The state health officer just has made available a record 6f these observations. At 4.36 a. m. the heart action of the prisoner was strong and regular with 108 beats a minute. The gas began tc generate at 4:37V 2 , and at 4:38 tire pulse rate was 120, regular and strong.

has been established. Drunkenness is not common. The old slogan. “Shall we join the ladies?” tends to disappear. And I say, “Good ridance.” I never have heard anew story or any interesting conversation during those interludes prescribed by Victorian precedent for the separation of the sheep and goats. If prohibition has played some part in advancing the feminist movement (and I feel that it has) this contribution should, in all seriousness, be set down to its credit. If I am taxed with wanting to debauch American womanhood I can only answer that this is not the idea. But I might add that if men can K- raised two steps by women cornin ' down a quarter of a step I’m all for the establishment of such a common footing. a a a A Queer Fish HAMILTON FISH JR., chief of the red retrievers, was questioned at a recent meeting in New York City as to how he stood in regard to American imperialism. For want of a better answer the young man used that old one of, "Go back where you came from.” There was no one present to remind him that such a policy would have deprived us of the valuable services of Paine and Alexander Hamilton, not to mention Lafayette and Von Steuben. But he was

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Editor Times—There is no doubt that the underlying principles ol both Democratic and Republican parties in this country primarily are what seem to leaders of these organizations as the best policies to pursue in the administration of the government for the best interests of all the people. While there is a marked similarity in the fundamental principles of both parties, there is at the same time some widely dissimilar ideas and courses of action in the actual course of administration. One of the most apparent differences, according to historical records, is that the Democratic party has championed the cause of the workingman and has sought to restrict and regulate capital to a sane and just policy in its dealings with the laboring class of our people, while the Republican policy seems to be to keep the government’s hands off business and let it do as it pleases and go where it will. Well, the hands off policy of the Coolidge administration led to a wild orgy of business activitv which ended in a grand crash, as most speculative orgies do, which proves that if you turn big business loose it will soon tie up th/ traffic. There, I believe, is the fundamental difference in the two great parties. The Democratic idea is to regulate industry and finance to sound principles and fair dealing with the public and the Republican policy seems to be that big business is able to run both itself and tfie government also. So we all are run down, in fact, we are exhausted financially. E. F> MADDOX.

At 4:37% the prisoner gave indication that he smelled the gas, taking a very small inspiration. At 4:38 he took a deep inspiration, turning his head toward the gas uid giving a spasmodic cough. His head fell forward and he became unconscious. Following this first deep inspiration there was a complete stopping of the heart action for fifteen seconds. Then the heart began to beat again irregularly, continuing thus for fifteen seconds, when it became regular and strong. For two minutes nothing further occurred, until the heart became slower, beating 100 times a minute, then 80 times a minute, and finally after ten minutes the heart beats were regular, but becoming weaker. After eleven minutes the prisoner's heart stopped. The breathing during the same period of time was convulsive and irregular and there was not the slightest doubt that the prisoner was completely unconscious after the first deep breath.

Ideals and opinions expressed in tbis column are those of one of America’s most interesline writers and are presented without reeard to their aereement or disagreement with ■ the editorial attitude of this oaDer.—The Editor

! roundly “ hissed by liberals, Socialj ists and Communists. | Had I been present I should have I bean glad to add a couple of sin- ! cere “Boos!” for my old college classmate. But it seems to me that the Communists show small gratitude and appreciation for services rendered when they hiss Mr. Fish. Not one—not a dozen of their leaders—has done as much for their cause. Hamilton Fish has taken up a movement markedly on the wane and presented it with first page publicity. Ban Ninety Thousand Votes AT a recent luncheon Mr. Fish predicted that in the next national election m the Commimists would poll 100,000 votes. This* is a figure far in excess of the wildest Communist dream, and Communist are more than usually wild. It is a very generous estimate for a party which contains no more than 10,000 members in the whole United States. It is well to remember that one may stand for recognition of Russia and even profess admiration for certain things which the Soviets have done and still retain nothing but an amused contempt for local Communist activities. In fact, this is the attitude of certain Russian leaders. They will admit that their representatives here are a poor lot. Activities in the United States are conducted merely to encourage the folk back home. It is not even a movement, it is a gesture. Russian Communism, whether you like it or not, has taken on all the sincerity and all the fanaticism of a religion. Communism in America is merely a racket. m fCopvrieht. 1030. bv The Times*

Consider What the Farmers Trust Company Offers—- • First of all, safet}’. The first responsibility of any bank is to its depositors. Next, service; well managed savings, checking and commercial departments; Christmas Clubs, of course; mortgage loan department, where loans are made at lowest prevailing interest rates. In addition there’s the real estate and safety vault departments. And the bond department with its level-headed investment counsel and its well chosen security offerings. , Why Not Make It a Point to Get Acquainted? j* FARMER! TRUfT CO 1 150 EAST MARKET ST.

.SEPT. 24, 1930

M. E. Tracy SA YS •

Sometmes One Wonders Whether We Arc Not Already in Possession of More Knowledge Than Wo Can Apply. EPUBLICAN leaders in this country discover that the short selling of 7,500.000 byshels of wheat represents nothing less than a deep dark plot on Russia’s part for the destruction of capitalism. Communist leaders discover that the expenditure of a million rubles by British interests represents nothing less than a deep, dark plot to stir up revolution in Russia. It looks like a case of tit for tat. There will be an investigation all around, of course, and, no matter j bow it turns out, Russia will have more to show for her effort.. The best we possibly c.., do is ! make some political war nudi- ; cine which may or may not prove advantageous to the Republicans. Russia also will make political j war medicine, but it will be of a I bitterer kind, delivered by firing ! squads and fatal in its effect. Baa Superstition Rife jl/ffEAN WHILE, vast numbers of A Chinese are convinced that things soon will take a turn and most of them hope that it will be a turn for the better. Two grim portents have emerged from the maw of inscrutable fate. The first consists of nine mice “pitched together by one tail. The second is a many-headed dragon at the bottom of a well. According to Chinese law, such monstrosities never appear save to foreshadow momentous events. According to western law, they either are mere freaks, or the products of some fertile imagination. Still, we westerners are not sufficiently emancipated from a belief in the supernatural to discard astrology. Many Germans read the horoscope recently cast for Dr. Hitler, head of the Fascist party, which predicted his overthrow after a spectacular rise to power during the next three years, not only with deep interest, but a disposition to credit it. bob A Terrific Test DR. CALVIN BRIDGES of the California Institute of Technology announces certain discoveries with respect to sex control. He makes no claim that they ever can or will be applied to human beings. Indeed, he seems to think that;, they indicate such a hopelessly complicated mechanism as eliminates the possiblity of sex control through any artificial process. The question this raises, however, still is intriguing. Suppose we could control the sex of our children, what would we have gained? On the other hand, what a terrific responsibility we would face, not only from an individual, but from a social standpoint. , In the final analysis, to whom would we delegate the privilege of determining whether male or female offspring were needed most? Would it be left to the parents, a board of experts, or popular election? U tt tt Do We Know Too Much? SOMETIMES one wonders whether we already are not in possession of more knowledge than we can apply wisely, whether it would not be a good idea to stop the inventing for a while and give that thing we call judgment a chance to catch up. Sometimes it seems as though we were much like children with sharp tools in their hands, and that our power to do things was greatly in excess of our ability to determine whether they ought to be done. Sometimes it is hard to get over the notion that mechanics are driving us toward savagery, making us like the steel which forms the skeleton cf it all, enslaving. us to soulless systems and robbing us of that freedom to think and fashion for ourselves, which, after all, is the only distinction between man and the rest of animate creation. B a a Danger Ahead WE can be proud of human progress as represented by battleships, skyscrapers, and dynamite, and still see danger in its unrestrained continuance. We can recognize all Its benefits and advantages, without admitting that it represents perfection. Other people are happy even though they haven’t as many automobiles as we have, and other people are thinking constructively even though obliged to get along with much less broadcasting. To a measurable extent, the mechanization on which we insist represents a form of tyranny, which, though interesting because of its newness.'is none the less genuine.