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To Make Flying Popular The airplane manufacturers of the country are trying to make it easier for the public to learn to fly. So they have asked the commerce department to allow students to take flying instructions without a physical examination and student’s permit. This suggestion, if carried out, seems to us economically illogical and potentially dangerous. The one and only reason people aren’t flying in greater numbers is because it costs too much. At present, anyone wishing to learn to fly goes to a commerce department doctor, pays $lO for an examination, and, if he passes, receives a student permit and is ready to start his instruction. Under the manufacturers’ proposal, this physical examination and issuing of permits merely would be postponed until the student was ready to solo. They don’t ask that he be allowed to fly alone. The suggestion also has serious dangers. Records of the commerce department show that the percentage of accidents among pilots who are given waivers to fly despite some physical defect Is overwhelmingly larger than among pilots who pass good physical examinations. We trust that the commerce department will not accede to this request. Since the manufacturers, naturally, want more people to fly, their cue iS to find a way to make airplanes cheaper to buy operate.

Capital-Net-Gains President Hoover’s suggestion in his Cleveland speech for an inquiry on the operation and results of the capital-net-gains tax in the present law should be acted upon. There is a drive by large financial and business interests for repeal of that tax. Before the congressional debate begins it ts desirable that the administration and the public have much more definite data on the subject that is available. Whether such inquiry will reveal that this special tax “direetty encourages inflation by strangling the tfrec movement of land and securities the possibility suggested by Hoover —remains to be seen. That, at any rate, is the argument long used by some opponents of the tax. Tine provision of the law in question imposes a 12' 2 per cent tax on profits from sales of real estate and securities which have been held for more than two years. If the inquiry should show that this tax defeats its purpose by stimulating speculation and injuring business, the problem then will arise devising a more effective form of taxation to take its place. In that connection congress is apt to insist on an increase in the surtax, which was cut when the capital-net-galns tax was put into the law as an alternative. Even if the capital-net-gains tax is not repealed, there probably will have to be an Increase in the general income tax rate because of the prospective federal deficit caused by larger government expenditures and falling revenue. Smaller revenues are due to the depression, lowering receipts from income taxes, and to the 41 per cent loss m customs receipts during this quarter under the prohibitive tariff wall. Ts to that prospective deficit under the present law is added the $230,000,000 loss frt.n repeal of the capital-net-gains tax—which pro luces now 20 per Tftnt of income tax revenue—the problem of flr ig new tax revenue sources will be even more difficult. The money must be found by the government somehow, and the working classes of the country can not, be taxed more without further curtailing their cox; imers’ purchasing power and thus prolonging national depression.

The A. F. of L. Report Progress is being made in unionizing southern textile mills, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor reported to the organization's convention, which opened in Boston today. A year ago the federation, at its Toronto convention, stirred by reports of long hours, low pay and intollerable working conditions, made southern organization a major objective. Earlier organization work had met with no great success because of employers’ opposition and interference by public authorities. Now. we are told. 112 local unions have been organized in the different crafts affiliated with the federation, and five central labor bodies. Fifty-one organizers have been in the field, fourteen of them sent by affiliated international unions. An extensive campaign to educate workers has been carried on, and they are said to be responsive. This is good news, because the workers themselves are the only ones who can bring about a change in the disgraceful conditions below the Mason and Dixon line. The A. F. of L. leaders likewise are to be commended for their determination to continue their campaign with “increasing effort.’’ Unemployment and the business depression make the task difficult. Tire, council reports a membership of 2,961,096. an increase of 28,000 over last year. Apparently the ranks of labor have been holding tight during the depression and its attendant unemployment. Organized labor ordinarily suffers in bad times, and loses strength. Ability of the federation to hold its own should help offset attempts at wage reductions and provide a means for tire co-operation between employers and workers necessary to bring us out ot present economic plight. The leaders announce their determination to push their fight for anti-injunction legislation by congress, which they have been carrying on through several sessions. They have prepared a measure which they believe meets legal objections, and no doubt wall get favorable consideration by the senate judiciary committee. Agitation has awakened congress and the public to the abuse of judicial power In keeping workers in subjection. The convention naturally will devote much time to the subject of unemployment, and leaders have proposed various remedies. They will give attention to the problem of displacement of older workers and lay plans for bringing about shorter hours and the five-day week. Old-age pensions will be advocated. It is unfortunate that the executive council did not consider the subject of the tariff, and give its influence in favor of downward revision, necessary to restore foreign trade and normal times. Equally unfortunate is the neglect of the subject of unemployment insurance, needed to protect workers In times like these. “Newspaper Talk” Some attorneys, in examining jurors and witnesses, have acquired a neat way of referring to newspaper accounts of a case as "'just newspaper talk.” The implication which is left in the courtroom is that newspaper stories are irresponsible and inaccurate. That Is not true. A newspaper makes mistakes, but it can not afford 4o be chemically inaccurate, not only because of the dangers of libel it exposes itself to daily, but also be-

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cause carelessness quickly can undermine its public prestige. The facts and statements that a reporter gleans on the scene of action, moreover, frequently come niuch closer to the truth than those which lawyers bring out before a jury months later, after the defendant and eye witnesses have had plenty of time in which to consider what best is said and best is left unsaid. A lawyer is bound to present the best interests of his client, but it ts unjust for him to imply that newspapers are irresponsible in their treatment of facts in order to make some nicely planned court procedure more credible. Our Cuban Responsibility After several years of winking at the destruction of Cuban liberties by the Machado dictatorship, the state department finally has come around to admitting that the Cuban situation is serious. That admission is not enough. More is demanded of the United States government under the Platt amendment and the treaty. Under that treaty we undertake responsibility for “maintenance of a government adequate for protection of life, property and individual liberty." The facts are clear. In Cuba civil liberties are dead. The life and property of Machado’s political opponents are destroyed by violence and terror. This is not anew situation. But now Machado flaunts these facts by asking his puppet congress formally to suspend the constitutional rights and guarantees. Instead of intervening against Machado in the past, required by the treaty, the United States lias given him the co-operation and support without which he would have fallen. By holding over the Cuban people the threat of American military intervention in favor of Machado, the United States has denied to the Cuban people the inalienable right of every people to resort to revolution in defense of their liberties—a right upon which our own founded. After sharp -protests by American senators and newspapers against this state department attitude. Secretary Stimson has issued a statement of policy which is evasive and capable of dual interpretation. Continued evasion by Washington will be unpardonable. The Cuban people have a right to know definitely and immediately whether United States troops will be used against them if they try to overthrow Machado and regain their liberties. Despite the Platt amendment and the treaty, this newspaper and probably the vast majority of Americans hope that there will be no American military intervention and believe that such military invasion should be resorted to only after all other methods have failed.

Other methods have not failed; they have not even been tried. Diplomatic intervention under the treaty not only would be welcomed by the Cuban people, but probably would end the dictatorship and terror. Machado can not continue his rule of ruin long without state department support. The state department knows that. Why does not the state department inform the world and Cuba in a formal declaration that the United States will withdraw all recognition and support from the Machado government unless the liberties guaranteed by the Cuban constitution and the Cuban-American treaty are restored at once? Now that wine making is declared to be within the law, many probably will endeavor to improve their port by a system of arbor development. Folks who saw little hope for entertainment on the boards this season, failed apparently to take backgammon into account. October has been designated as National Doughnut month. To make the country further conscious of the hole it is in? A baby less than a year old, says a news item, is being trained for the ring in Hull, England. Already licked and rocked tq sleep, he’s doubtless off to a fine start. California boasts that the average production of one of its oil wells is ten times as great as that of a well in other states. But natives of California, we’ve learned, gush with th e same facility. Italy s greatest offensive weapon, so far as we can discern at this distance, is the rapid fire line of its premier.

REASON by f “ ck

TF the Republicans should carry New York state X on the wet platform which they have just adopted, it would mean that James Wadsworth would return to the United States senate in two years. On account of his wetness, the New York drys lifted his royal peacock feather in his last race. * * * When that New York convention cheered Dwight Morrow's name more than it did President Hoover’s it didn t mean that the delegates were in favor of changing White House tenants, it merely meant that tney synchronized with Morrow’s moisture. , a a tt If Mr. Hoover wants to be renominated, then there s not+iing to it, but we w r ould not be surprised if he should announce that he is fed up and wishes a change of diet. * An independent executive all his life, the red ants of political perplexity bite his composure. a a a TXT'HEN it comes to determining the future, there’s f w more fate wrapped up in this coming election than there has been in any other contest since 1896 when Free Silver was disposed of. Next November’s vote will show what the people of many states think of prohibition. a a a Then will come anxious days for our statesmen who wish to continue to save the republic and distribute its garden seeds for SIO,OOO per annum. Almost all of them will be on the fence and as they will have to sit there for two years, we suggest that it would be only humane for us to have the ♦fence upholstered. a a a WHAT a bale of bunk there is in this proposal to have Uncle Sam create a distinct police force to save us from the Communists! It’s the most arrant rot on earth! If jobs must be provided for some more of the boys, we suggest that they be instructed to check up on the partnership between crooked politicians and bootleggers. a a a France is in favor of giving Frank B. Kellogg the Nobel prize for 1930 on account of the anti-war treaty which he took over to Europe and which Europe signed with her fingers crossed If anybody’s entitled to the Nobel prize on account of the anti-war idea, then hand it to Mr. Levison formerly of Noblesville, Ind., and now a Chicago lawyer. He oakinated the idea and handed it to Kellogg.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ -

| It Will Be Interesting to See What the Future of the Glider Will Be. ONE of the best symbols of the rapidity with which technical ! progress is made today is the glider. Orville Wright set a world’s record for gliding when he managed to stay aloft for nine minutes in 1911. But from them on until the close of the World war, there was little ! interest in gliders, the development of the Wright machine centering attention upon motored airplanes. The second phase of gliding history began in Germany after the World war. The Versailles treaty i placed restrictions upon motored j aircraft in Germany. I Necessity, it seems, has been truly | called the mother of invention. The j Germans turned their attention to motorless aircraft. Soon other na- ! tions, astounded by the progress being made in Germany, turned their attention to the same field. On April 29, Jack Barstow, American pilot, made a glider flight at Point Loma, Ca!., in which he j kept aloft fifteen hours and twelve minutes. a a a Kites and Planes THE figures tell the story. The glider, once put in approximately the same category with boxkites, as a. sort of forerunner to the airplane, now commands attention for its own sake. Many authorities even hint that the world has made a mistake in neglecting the glider as it developed the airplane. Perhaps the future study of the glider wHI render the airplane more safe, more simple, and more economical. Perhaps the airplane motor has been fighting its way through the air instead of letting air currents carry the craft. It will be interesting to see what j the future of the glider will be. j Meanwhile, the layman can become remarkably well informed on the subject of gliders by reading Edwin W. Teale’s “The Book of ! Gliders.’’ It just has been published by E. P Dutton & Cos. at $2.50. The hook’s 379 pages constitute | an encyclopedia upon the subject of ; gliding. There is a chapter upon the history of gliding, an explanation of the theory underlying the flight of the glider, descriptions of the variout types of gliders in use, brief biographical sketches of famous pilots, brief descriptions of famous flights, and detailed information upon how to build a glider, how to launch it, how to fly it, how to organize a glider club, and how to organize a glider meet.

Building a Glider MUCH of the information in “The Book of Gliders” is exact and detailed. The chapter on how to build a glider, for example, contains working drawings, with all measurements given. There are careful and detailed instructions for the order in which parts should be constructed and put together. As soon as he has finished with this chapter, the reader who owns a small workshop or likes to putter around with hammer and saw, will begin to figure whether he can spare enough money this winter to buy the necessary supplies. Other information contained in the book includes a list of Americans who have won licenses as glider pilots, a list of record-making flights, and a glossary of terms. The book is well illustrated. Unfortunatey, it does not contain an index. There is a brief introduction by W. H. Bowlus, America’s glider champion. In it. Bowlus says: "The interest in soaring and gliding is increasing all the time. It is world-wide. I have received letters from enthusiasts in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and South America. “Oftentimes, more than 100 letters have come in in a single diay from young people in all parts of the country asking for information.”

-^qOAV'iB ~*4>s=: *"4 MS '■* BIRTH OF WESTINGHOUSE Oct. 6 ON Oct. 6, 1846, George Westing - house, American inventor and engineer, famous .for his invention of the air brake was born at Central Bridge, N. Y. His father was a, large manufacturer of agricultural machinery and, brought up in this environment, George showed inventive and mechanical genius at an early age. In the Civil war, young Westinghouse joined the Union army. Later he became assitant engineer in the United States navy. On his return to Schenectady, where he w T ent to receive his elementary education, young Westinghouse entered Union college and attended to the end of his sophomore year. At the age of 22 he introduced the Westinghouse air brake, now in universal use. He subsequently centered his attention on railroad improvements and made inventions in railway signals, steam and gas engines, steam turbines and electrical machinery. He was the pioneer in introducing into America alternating current machinery, which rendered possible the great development of water power for long distance electrical transmission.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l congratulate you on exposing conditions at the Marion county poorhouse. Only the voters of the county are to blame. I have no reason to doubt the statement of those in charge of the institution that they did the best they could with what they had to do with. Let us hope that the revelations will sink deep in the mind of every voter and bring nearer the day when Indiana will have a sane, economical old age pension system, as advocated by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and which now is in force in twelve states. Condemned as a fire hazard, the men’s building of the Marion county institution was described by Alfred Hogston, state fire marshal, as unfit for human habitation, to my mind a description that neatly fits til poorhouses.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Keeping Body Fit Averts Eye Pain

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. “T WISH we could banish the term 1 EYESTRAIN from our vocabularies.’’ This statement was made by Dr. George S. Derby before the section on diseases of the eye of the American Medical Association, and is an indication of the way in which the specialists in diseases of the eye look at many cases of apparent disturbances of the eye which come to their offices. The public should learn that eyes seldom are strained, that the eye is provided with a large factor of safety, and that healthy eyes seldom become diseased, even by excessive use. Frequently what appears to be a disturbance of the eye merely is a general nervous breakdown, representing a rebellion by the system against bad hygiene. The person who complains of eyestrain has been burning the candle at both ends, neglecting regular meals, sufficient sleep, fresh air and exercise.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H broun D

AT last I have an efficient reducing program. Political campaigning will not take off a, pound. I found that out. The promise of a better day lies in the fact that Captain Flagg, the Airdale, is back in town. Flagg has a system of his own, which he won’t reveal. That dog eats constantly, both day and night, and still retains his figure. Now he is helping me with mine. His chief virtue is that he is not a well-trained Airdale. Nobody ever has succeeded in convincing him that it is wrong to beg at the table. Or if he knows he persists. Os all the members of the animal kingdom, dogs and men are the only ones who have gone in for wistfulness to any great extent. Zebras and ant eaters never are wistful. Nqr cats, for that matter, although I don’t want to start that argument all over again. But a dog can break the heart of any sensitive person with a single glance of infinite pathos. Patience FLAGG, for instance receives a living wage, not to mention board and shelter. But once dinner is served, or luncheon or breakfast at late supper, he will sit beside the table—a picture of abject misery. You might think he just had come off a desert island, where he had been cast away with nothing but twenty good books selected by Prof. William Lyon Phelps. Even with a couple of pounds of chopped meat, newly inside him, Flagg can play a perfect pantomime of a starving waif on a snowy night. You almost can see his nose pressed against the frosted glass while the snow fell down in heavy flakes. The worst of it is that he doesn't say anything. Only when the meat is dangled over his head does he begin to bark. Up to that time he just sits and stares in plaintive and accusing fashion. It makes me feel uncomfortable. I almost get the impression that I have received his Little Neck clams by mistake. Generally dogs don’t begin to pes-

Judge Thomas O’Donnell, an outstanding Eagle, who has spoken in Indianapolis, says- "There are no good poorhouses. It’s a case of some being worse than others.” SAMUEL G. JOSEPH. Denison hotel. • ~

Daily Thought

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.—Amos 5:13. It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.—Ovid. How many men and women are employed in the federal civil service in the District of Colombia? There ar *,40,348 men and 28,612 women.

"Quit Following Me Around!”

To do work with the eyes, which means also with the brain, one must keep the body fit. Dr, Derby describes several instances in which young men, working for university degrees or studying into the late hours of the night on college reports and statements, consulted the physician because they believed that their eyes were breaking down. In each instance, the difficulty was not with the eye itself, but with the person concerned was centering in the eyes a series of physical complaints arising from bad hygiene. In most instances, the person concerned feels that the eyes are at fault because someone in the family is blind or has very poor eyes. When reassured that the eyes are not concerned, the patient frequently reveals the fact that the illness of some other person in his family is the basis for his worry. There are, of course, people who use the eyes as the reason for escape from uncomfortablfe situations, just as there are persons who can not

ter you until the middle of a meal. They're not much for melon or caviar or anchovies. But Flagg is prepared to tackle every table d’hote. Cocktails, if any, he does not touch. Indeed, a proffer of a friendly glass sends him shrinking half way across the room. But he’s always back again within a. minute. The soup seems to draw him. tt tt tt Prefers Green Turtle FOR jellied consomme he does not go very strong, but it will suffice at a pinch. And even though he doesn’t like a dish, he’s always ready to try. And, of course, after Flagg has tried a morsel it really isn’t of much use to anybody else. Naturally, nobody expects a dog of any breed to sit altogether placid when beef is on the table, or crisply cooked lamb chops. In fact, I hate to see dogs trained into torturing inhabitions. Terriers are likely to become neurotic when they are schooled into that fearful ordeal of balancing meat upon the end of the nose and gulping it down only at the word of command. Men who train pets into such performances must be individuals who never have had a chance to exercise the executive function among their fellows, and so try it on the dog. I’d rather have Flagg the uncouth Airedale which he is, than see him a grenadier all given over to submission and salutes. But it isn't just meat which sets him to begging. He’ll turn wistful about nothing more than a piece of bread and butter.

Here Are Some Puzzlers and Their Answers

How many tons of sugar beets are produced annually, in. the United States? According to the 1929 preliminary report there are 717,000 acres of sugar beets in the United States which produced 7,672,000 short tons. What town is closest to the new Boulder Dam site, and what railroad is it on? Las Vegas, Nev., on the Union Pacific railroad. What is the nationality and meaning of the name Douras? It is from the Greek and means spear or spearman. How wide is the Pacific ocean? The greatest breadth of the Pacific ocean, between Panama and Mindanao, is 9,300 nautical miles. Was Dennis King a star only in the stage versions of "Rose Marie” and “The Three Musketeers?” He appeared in both the stage and screen version of ‘‘The Vagabond King,” but only in the stage i version of “Rose Marie ’ and “The J Three Musketeers.” Which countries have recognized | the government of Soviet Russia? Afghanistan, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia,, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Persia, Foknd, Sweden,

hear the things that displease them or that place demands upon them for efforts that they do not care to put forth. Sometimes the student who is dissatisfied with his school or who finds keeping up too great a burden will complain of pain in the eyes and difficult vision, whereas examination will shqw the eyes fully competent for the amount of work placed upon them. It also is important to inform the patient that pains in the eye, while real, are not related to a physical breakdown of the eye itself. When a patient realizes this factor, the pain is likely to be less disturbing. Modern scientific examination of the eyes permit exact determination of their competency for vision. The rfleasurement is just as exact as any type of measurement known to mankind. * The scientific physician will not presoribe glasses when he knows that they are not necessary, but will endeavor by a revision of the patient’s hygiene and proper psychologic technic to make the glasses unnecessary.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column a-e those of one ol America’s most Interestina writers and are presented without reaard to their aareement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this oaper.—The Editor.

A little cabbage on a platter will make his eyes as eager as any Salome. He can grow plaintive about parsnips. Indeed, he is with you on a dinner all the way from soup to demi-tasse. Coffee is one of his greatest weaknesses. This Airedale, which will run across the room from a simple and harmless cocktail, acts as if coffee were so much cod liver oil. He seems to be under the impression that it contains one of the vitamins necessary for life. tt tt tt Is a Little Jumpy FN all justice he might'contend that it doesn't keep him awake, but it may be the cause of his complexion having turned just a shade too sallow. Accordingly, with Flagg at my side there is little danger that I will eat too much, for I am soft in heart as well as will. When Flagg looks longingly at mashed potatoes,. I haven’t sufficient character to go ahead and consume these unnecessary starches. I realize that he wants them more than I. Nor can I win any perceptible interlude of peace for myself by grinding out a huge bone from any current roast and tossing it on the carpet. The bone is accepted with adequate enthusiasm, but swallowed in no less than two gulps. Just because there happens to be an “R” in the month, Flagg behaves as if solid calcium were no more than some small oyster. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times*

Turkey, France, Japan, Mexico and China. Where and what arc the lies de Salut? They are a group of three islands In the Atlantic ocean, off the coast of French Guiana, to, which they belong. Nearest the mainland is the Royale, on which is located the

Hard to Believe Some of the facts contained in our Washington bureau's bulletin on Largest and Smallest Things in the World may surprise you, but the facts in it are authentic. In the world of animals and insects, in the world ol construction and engineering, there’s always a largest thing of its kind and always a smallest. This bulletin tells you about scores of them. It’s packed with interest. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Question Editor, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin, Largest and Smallest Things in the World, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name St. and No City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

.OCT. 6, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

It's Easy Enough to Make Peace Movements on Paper, but Not So Easy to Deliver the Goods. THE eleventh assembly of the League of Nations adjourns amid an atmosphere of gloom, and not without reason. ' It was found impossible to make the Kellogg pact part of the covenant, as some had hoped. Also, it was found necessary to postpone the disarmament conference another year, which some regard as meaning indefinitely. In making what he said might be his last speech to the league. Lord Cecil bluntly asked the delegates if they really wanted peace, if they were ready to take the risk and pay the price. tt tt a Test for League BECAUSE hope springs eternal in the human breast, a few of the delegates discovered some comfort in the thought that the league at last had reached a point where it must cease theorizing and deal with realites. That, of course, Is not only true of every venture, but brings It to the test. Easy enough to make fortunes, or peace movements on paper, but when it comes to delivering the goods, to producing something that ordinary human nature can understand and accept, not. so easy. We have talked a great deal about organized peace since Europe blew up in ”914, but has it amounted to much more than undigested wishes? Have we given much thought to the bigness of the enterprise. its revolutionary character, or the sacrifices it would involve?

Not So Easy FROM most of the articles that have been written by peace advocates, as well as from run-of-the-mill conversation, one would gather that the problem presents no greater difficulty than sitting down at a table and drawing up some kind of an agreement. The popular notion seems to be that nothing much stands in the way of disarmament, except some, stupid statesmen and selfish millionaires, and that once the world were disarmed, war would be impossible. Fine as that notion may be from the standpoint of idealism, it is simply dumb from the standpoint of practice and experience. Men made war before gunpowder was invented, made it with spears, bows and arrows, made it with their bare hands when they had nothing better and they could do so again The question is not what we shall fight with, but whether we are in a moed to keep on fighting, and it will not be answered in favor of organized peace until a, vast majority of people have scrapped about 90 per cent of their pet traditions. a tt a Dodge the Issue WHY do we Americans talk about war as exclusively an international game, when the worst one We ever had was right among ourselves? Why do we pretend to regard it as a by-product of military training, when the first one we ever fought was started without any preparation, save that of resentment against what we considered unjust conditions? Why do we strive to make it seem a matter of instruments and methods when the world is sodden with bloodshed by primitive weapons? Leagues, peace pacts and world courts—they tell only’ part of the story, and a pitifully small part, a! that.

There are half a dozen revolutions on foot right now, and as many more in the making, which do not come under the head" of international conflict, but which mean war just the same. tt tt tt Strife Everywhere THE governments of Argentina and Bolivia just have been overthrown, a revolt is on in Brazil, Turkish troops have killed 4,000 kurds and China’s 20-year-old mixup is proceeding merrily, while Hitler says that .if he can get . his Fascists organized, “heads will roll in the sand.” Hungary is considering restoration of the Hapsburgs and Russia Is developing an economic power, which threatens to foment unrest over the map. All these unfortunate occurrences imply war, yet the peace movement designed to end war, seems to have no bearing on them. The peace movement, as represented by the League of Nations. Kellogg pact, world court, and various other agreements and activities, fits only a prize fight sort of war, a sort of war that is begun and carried out according to a set of rules. Most of the war with which the world is threatened right now fails to come under that head, and so does a great deal of war in the past.

administrative headquarters of the French penal station. To seaward is the lie du Diable, or Devil’s island, noteworthy as the prison of Alfred Dreyfus, who was confined there in 1894-99. It is now inhabited mainly by trarsported lepers. Between these two is the lie St. Joseph, the third member of the group.