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The Only Way J Unless the people of this city are ready ?o mortgage themselves for all time they must own the city transportation system. Private ownership has demonstrated its failure. After years of generous treatment, high finance and political intrigue, the street car system is in the hands of a receiver. Those who bought its bonds and stock are looking for more than Christmas present from the people, The proponents of the Insull plan say that the lines are woni out, that the cars are almost useless, that it will require millions to put the system into running order. These proponents declare that if the system is sold by a receiver, it will not bring enough to pay anything on so-called junior securities. Yet they have the temerity to ask the people to pay dividends and interest on a value which they admit no longer exists. It is fortunate that at present the city ■government is not lined up for every corporation scheme that is proposed. The administration has not joined the lobby for Ihe plan to make people pay those who lost .1 heir money by trusting to the private opera--lion of street car lines. The one alternative to private failure is public ownership and efficiency, f There is no difficulty in framing a law which would protect the operation of these lines from partisan political control. Such a law was framed for the management of the gas company. There is no certainty that street cars will be the system of city transportation for a very much longer period. Everything is being changed by new inventions. George Marott, veteran merchant, believes that the present system is even now obsolete and that bus lines on broad streets should replace the tracks and the trolley. The fact that the company does operate bus lines in competition with its own cars Suggests that he is right and that if the city is to grow to a million population, the tracks jnust go. His plan includes public ownership and nonpolitical operation. • Whatever happens to the lines, the time js here when public ownership should be accomplished. The threat of interested bankers that no investor would put his money into cityowned lines sounds hollow when the fate of * investors in the private lines is considered. The one real solution of the problem is public ownership now, not at the end of an indefinite period when the city will be called upon to pay for values which do not exist. Transportation is too important to be trusted to the hands of private interests. The real value is the right to use the streets and the ability of patrons to pay fares. The city owns the streets. The people will pay .for service. They ought not to be forced to pay for dead horses. Protecting Authors With so many voices clamoring to congress for relief this winter, it is hard for writers, whose condition is chronic rather than spectacular, to make their plaint heard. They have a complaint, nevertheless, and a just me, against the copyright law. Congress need take only a little time to correct that law. The Vestal copyright bill, now on the house calendar, would give an automatic copyright to an author upon completion of his work, without waiting for its publication. It would permit divisible copyright; that is. it would permit an author to sell magazine, book, theatrical and motion picture rights separately. At present only one person can hold a copyright, and frequently this is not the author. In practice, an author attempts now to sell his rights separately, but the law puts many difficulties m his path. Finally, the Vestal bill would enable American authors to secure copyright throughout all countries of the world, a privilege they now can enjoy only by having their works printed in London, and even this roundabout method of protection may be withdrawn. The Vestal bill has been considered for years. There is no serious opposition to it. There is no reason why authors should not be granted speedily the protection which is the right as creators, a right even stronger than that of the holders of property. Selling Alfonso Short If we are to believe the news dispatches from Spain, the revolution there is all washed up, and Alfonso is lolling on his throne with nary a totter. We doubt that. These Spanish revolts are repeaters. They arrive with surprising frequency. Each develops more .strength than the last. Unless the law of averages tails, some of these days a Spanish revolution is going to succeed. If the Spanish rulers were wise enough to take a few pounds off the backs of the people, probably there would not be another revolt. But rulers are not made that way. Instead, they go on making conditions worse. The Spanish dictatorship is a medieval model, a four-headed thing of monarchy, church, army and landed aristocracy. Its survival once depended upon the isolation of Spain from the modern world. That isolation is breaking down rapidly. Now its survival depends almost entirely upon the ?rmy crushing by force a republican movement which crows “by contact with the outside world. But even jthe loyalty of the armv is cracking. This week the dictatorship had to bring in the foreign legion to defend it. With a little more patience and a little better planning, this revolution might have succeeded. Which n*ans that it may not be long before the b|? boys c -gin to sell Alfonso |

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Uniform Air Laws The commerce department’s recent conference In Washington on uniform aeronautical laws had one very brigh spect. It did not let aviation enthusiasm pm away with its common sense. The conference was called as a “school” for state delegates; a school to impress upon them the need for introducing into their state legislatures air laws in conformity with federal regulations. Among the delegates from thirty-two states attending, there was virtual unanimity of opinion that uniform laws are necessary to insure the smooth progress of aviation But there was a marked difference of opinion in the manner of arriving at uniformity. Attorney s versed in constitutional law threw doubt on the legality of state laws covering a subject already covered by federal laws. The arguments resulted in a question being planted in the minds of the delegates—a question that will insure a complete study of state and federal constitutions and of the needs of aviation before further state legislation is proposed. By study before acting, costly mistakes will be avoided. It was a healthy conference. They Didn’t Shoot Henry R. Smith and Henry D Jones, two prohibition agents o eastern Oklahoma, were cited the other day for meritorious service and commended by Director of Prohibition Amos W. W. Woodcock. Their deed was the capture of a dry law violator without bloodshed, one made more valorous by the fact that though guns were pointed at them they arrested their man without firing a shot. “Peace hath her victories.” In view of prohibition’s record of gunplay over the last decade, the citation of Messrs. Smith and Jones certainly is one such victory. Mooney in Prison “California justice” is not limited to the courtroom. It extends within prison walls. The Federated Press just has shown that the crooks who played with the big boys of California finance and politics, but since have gone to jail, get soft jobs. It lists representative cases: “Asa Keyes, ex-district attorney of Los Angeles county, who sent scores of members of the I. W. W. to San Quention for possession of a Red union card, now there himself, doing one to fourteen years for taking bribes in connection with the Julian Petroleum prosecution. c “But Keyes has no jute mill job, like his Wobbly victims. He is a clerk in the lieutenant of the yard’s office, and has a front seat at baseball games and gives interviews to the press saying that he has changed his views on penology. He now believes in short terms. “Ed Rosenberg, Los Angeles broker, convicted with Keyes, is a library assistant. “William H. Parker, ex-commissioner of streets in Oakland, serving one to fourteen years for bribetaking, is a clerk in the office of the prison dentist. “Burton F. Becker, ex-sheriff of Alemeda county, doing one to fourteen years for bribery, is an attendant in the prison hospital, where he gets good food. "Crowell L. Ormsby, convicted with Becker for bribery conspiracy, and serving one to fourteen years, is business manager of the Bulletin, prison paper. Ormsby formerly was Ahne Semple McPherson’s lawyer. “Harry Lesser, rich Oakland contractor, serving two years for corrupting city politicians, is library attendant.” But Tom Mooney, who has been a model prisoner, always carefully observing prison rules, and entitled to seniority consideration in the bargain, is subject to the warden’s special persecution, deprived of privileges and given one of the most degrading and repulsive jobs in the prison. The way of the transgressor of the rules of the United Railways and P G. & E. is indeed hard in the Sunkist state. Dorothy thinks that a tramp steamer is one of those ships that always is asking for aid. “I have nothing to say about anything,” Simeon D. Fess Is quoted as saying. And that's saying a. mouthful. Gunmen were in attendance at tire wedding of A1 Capone’s sister in Chicago. It isn’t reported whether or not they serenaded the couple with “Hail, Hall, the Gang’s All Here.”

REASON

SINCLAIR LEWIS, who for some strange reason received the Nobe! prize for literature, went to Stockholm ani did exactly what those who have read his books expected him to do; he made fun of his own country, its people and its tendencies. a a a It may be possible to do a cheaper trick than this, but if so. one can not imagine it. It’s all right for Americans to lambaste each other here at home, but he who goes to a foreign land to do it writes himself down as hopelessly shoddy. a a a Our people go in for this cheap treason more than the people of any other country and to the sickening outbursts of American tcurists is due much of the contempt which Europe has for us. a a a Europeans coming here, are silent respecting the imperfections of their fellow countrymen and we admire them for it. a a a THIS silly tirade of Lewis must have sounded strange to his Swedish hearers, for in America they long have seen the land of promise. BBS Here their people have come in multitudes and reached a success which to the land of their birth seemed little short of fabulous. They have seen their penniless immigrants attain eminence in finance, in the arts and in politics. They have seen those who left Sweden in the steerage climb to illustrious stations and to them this sardonic writer must have seemed one cursed with liver complaint, rather than gifted with genius. a a a \S we think of Lewis and his biting sketches of the lives of common people, we think of another who took the same subjects and presented them to the world as quaint and lovable. We think of James Whitcomb Riley. a a a • Riley found lasting charm in the "Raggedy Man,” the town band, the spellin’ school, the country doctor, the small store, the small talk of the countryside, the quaint customs and prejudices of everyday life, but in all these Lewis found only irritation and offense. a a a We wish Leans were given sufficient logic to remain away from the land which is so unworthy of him; we wish he might arrange to remain Ja Sweden. We would like to exchange him 7* a good Swedish immterant. 1

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Huey P. Long May Be Something of a Blatherskite, but He Is Getting Things Done. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.—When entering Louisiana on the road from Meridian to New Orleans, the first thing you notice is a wellpaved highway stretching out across the swamp and flanked by good stout railings painted white. The next thing you notice is a huge sign proclaiming “paved highways, free bridges” and bearing the signature of “Huey P. Long.” No trimmings to indicate that he is Governor, or recently was elected to the United States senate, but just the plain, unvarnished name, the plain, unvarished announcement. It’s not only a fine bit of advertising, but it tells a big story. This man may be something of a blatherskite, as his enemies declare, but he is getting things done—things that the people want, that they have waited for a long time, and that make it possible for them to overlook all the horse-play and demagogery. • tt tt tt He f s Striking Character OUTSIDERS think of Huey P. Long as a de luxe edition of ‘Bossy” Gillis, the far-famed mayor of Newburyport, or a rather inferior edition of “Big Bill” Thompson, the even farther-famed mayor of Chicago. "Just another Cole Biease, or Tom Heflin,” they are likely to remark when somebody mentions his name. “Just another ranting, ripsnorting politicians putting it over on the gentle folk down south.” Then they will tell you all about his pecularities and coarseness—how he was an itinerant peddler only a few years back, how he once punched a reporter, how he sometimes receives visitors in -his underwear, and how easily he can lapse into vernacular of the gutter when he gets excited. What they will not tell you about Is how he licked the plunderbund singlehanded, spoiled its respectable graft, ripped away the disguise of smug politeness which had enabled it to strut for a generation, and, having licked it, how he is trying to give the state government some of that vim and verve which people generally can be depended on to approve, unless it intreferes with some pet racket. tt tt u Gift to Louisiana NEW ORLEANS isn’t half as sure of what Huey P. Long represents as it was three months ago. Business is beginning to enjoy some benefit from the roads he has built, and to wonder whether more wouldn’t help, especially since they can be paid for by the 5-cent gasoline tax. Also, the idea of starting that $5,000,000 state capitol, for which he was so roundly condemned during the campaign, doesn’t look as bad as it did. There are those who will tell you that, instead of being a calamity, Huey P. Long is little less than God’s great gift to Louisiana, if not the south, and possibly the entire nation; that he will bear watching; that he may be the Moses for which the Democratic party has been waiting; that he may even become President of the United States some day. As for Huey P. Long himself, he takes these childish outbursts of flattery, and the remarkable change in sentiment they represent, with the same good-natured stoicism that he formerly took the kicks and cuffs. tt tt tt He Likes Work LONG’S refusal to resign the governorship and take his seat in the senate, as he easily could, and as most people thought he would, has made a profound impression. Evidently the man is interested in something besides climbing from one position to another. He says that he intends to serve out his term as Governor because he wants to complete the program of expansion and improvement which he has mapped out, and for which he considers himself responsible. He “says that he can do Louisiana more good by staying on the job as chief executive than by running off to Washington. The surprise of the thing is winning a deal of favor. Most politicians would have been quick to seize such an excellent excuse for sidestepping the hard work. Not Huey P. Long. Work is his middle name. He not only likes it, but believes in it. He would be first to tell you that work, and work alone, got him where he is; that a speaking acquaintance with thousands upon thousands of voters explains his political power! And that tramping the highways and byways of the state in a tireless effort to succeed in business explains that speaking acquaintance.

Questions and Answers

Does history show that after a great war there is always a perioa of economic depression. Is the present economic depression world wide or does it affect only the United States? History shows that after each big war there comes a period of economic depression such as we are now undergoing, after about ten years. The present economic depression not only affects the United States but is world wide. For what words does the distress signal SOS stand? It is a radio code that has no meaning except as a signal for distress. The letters are entirely arbitrary and were selected for this signal by the international radio telegraph conference in Berlin in 1908, and adopted by the United States in 1912? How old Is Robert Montgomery and is he married? He is 26 and is the husband of Elizabeth Allen. How much did Sharkey and Schmeling receive for their last fight? Each received $177,917 for their fight at Yankee stadium, New York June 12, 1930. In what motion pictures did John Drew appear? Is he living? He never acted for the screen. His brother, Sidney Drew, appeared in numerous film comedies. Both are dead.

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— DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Cause of ‘Jake’ Poisoning Found

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. INVESTIGATIONS undertaken by the United States Public Health Service finally revealed the cause of the- paralysis resulting from the taking of bootleg ginger extract, as the substance called triorthocresyl phosphate. While it was thought at first that the symptoms were due to phenol or carbolic acid, the tests finally have narrowed the responsibility down to the special form of phenol that has been mentioned. In the studies it was found that

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE echoes of the address by Sinclair Lewis in Stockholm continue, and so I want to return to a subject which has already received a good deal of space in this column. I want to get back to it because in an earlier effort I grew rather confused and may have given the impression that in me there was scant sympathy for the radical and unrecognized writer. This is not the case. I merely am quarreling with the spokesman of the cause and the allies whom he selected as his personal bodyguard. Lewis himself was less than clear. His Swedish listeners had every right to suppose that here was a young firebrand battling against hopeless odds with little support save that accorded to him by another untouchable named H. L. Mencken. Somebody ought to get in communication with Sweden and tell the sympathetic hearers of Sinclair Lewis that they need not weep their eyes out because of slights put upon the author of “Main Street” or the first citizen of the Free State of Maryland. a tt tt After the Bell TO a large extent Lewis was fighting over again a battle which already had been won. The cable dispatches declared that the Stockholm audience- greeted each sally against “the old guard.” But the fact is that by now Sinclair Lewis belongs to that organization, and so does Mencken. There was no particular reason for bringing big guns and tanks to bear upon the ranks of the Amercian Academy of Arts and Letters. It is not an organization commanding serious attention from American writers or the American public. Generally, it is regarded as a culture club, the chief mission of which is to present a medal once a year to the radio announcer

TAKING OF LOUISIANA December 20

ON Dec. 20. 1803, the United I States took possession of the j Louisiana territory after purchasing it from France for the price of $15,000,000. This was the most remarkable event in the administration of President Jefferson. The territory comprised the entire region between the Mississippi river and Rocky mountains, and extended from the north of Texas to the southern boundary of British America. Napoleon willingly sold it at such j a cheap price because he saw that he was likely to have war with Great Britain and knew that the , British fleet could easily keep' French forces away from the Mississippi river. The Louisiana purchase had these important results: It secured the entire control of the Mississippi and more than doubled the area of the United States, it strengthened the bond of union in the southwest, and it gave new force to arguments for “internal improvements*’—the building of roads and canals to connect east and west.

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the quantity of the ginger fluid consumed was not the important factor in the occurrence of the symptoms. One drink seemed to produce the same effects as those following prolonged use. Usually the symptoms did not appear until ten days after the taking of ginger extract. The person developed what is called wrist drop and foot drop with paralysis of the muscles of the arm and leg. indicating that in some matter that portion of the nervous system involving the control of muscular action had been damaged by the poison. Whereas ordinarily cresols, such

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whose diction flows most smoothly along the ether. To say that most of the bestknown authors in America are not :.ncluded in its membership list is but to repeat a thrice-told tale. What young author in America, if given the choice, would not prefer to be Mencken rather than an academician? tt tt tt Mencken the Master I HAVE an enthusiastic admiration for Henry Mencken. He always has seemed to me the liveliest of American critics :and the best of American journalists. He has fought hard for many good causes. But for the most part he has fought successfully. In mere weight of numbers the enemy still may dwarf his enemy, but in the matter of an articulate following, Mencken and Lewis hold most of the tricks. From time to time it is my privilege to see manuscripts of one kind or another which come from high school and college students. Ninety per cent of all aspiring young authors are endeavoring to imitate

People's Voice

Editor Times—Read in your pa- j per what one woman thought of : married women working. In some j cases she is right, and in others she j is not. There are more people who have j a good living where both are working than the poor class. I don’t know what I would have done if my wife couldn’t have helped me. I was sick for more than two years and in debt for borrowed money we had to have. My wife got a job and worked for more than a year, then I got a job at cents an hour, then j was cut to four days a week, sometimes three, and then finally a layoff of two months, besides two other vacations. When I went back I was cut to 30 cents and forty-five hours a weekIf any man with a wife and children can pay rent, lights, water, insurance, coal, groceries and buy a few needed clothes now and then I on that amount of money, without | any help, please have it printed in j the paper. I will be glad to do as I they say. The cutting of wages is the main | reason for unemployment. Why ! don’.t they start at the White House, slashing wages, and bring every- j thing else down in proportion, taxes j also? Maybe then a man could ex- j ist on his low wages without his wife helping. There are lots of places, such as teaching schools, working in banks, operating elevators in large buildings where a man could take a woman’s place. It isn’t the factory only where men are beat out of jobs. Some factory work is too tedious for men. I agree with Mrs. Ritchie that a woman's place is in the home if she can be, but we don’t always get what we want. If we did, we might have a radio, an automobile, fine furniture and clothes, but we don’t have any of these. DISHEARTENED. What are the shortest and the longest wave lengths used in radio? The radio division of the United States bureau of standards says that the shortest wave employed in radio work is about one-half a meter. The ; longest is used at njesent by the I station at Bordeaux, France, and is fifteen kilocycles or 19,890- meters.

as carbolic acid, act promptly when taken into the system, the action of the cresyl phosphate responsible in the case of the ginger extract poisoning is slow. It also seems to have a special affinity for the parts of the nervous system that have been mentioned. Nobody seems to know exactly why the manufacturer of the bootleg ginger put in the triorthocresyl phosphate, whether it was done accidentally or on purpose. Probably it was added to aid in producing intoxication, and probably without any knowledge of the chemist who made up the formula that the drug would have the effects that have occurred.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naner.—The Editor.

Mencken. He has become the norm. The Brahmins so savagely assailed by Sinclair Lewis well may appeal to our national sense of chivalry. The Nobel prize winner did no more than tramp upon the heads of those already prostrate. He even turned corpses with his toe and pretended to be a dragon killer. a tt a Not on Soapbox IF I say that neither Mencken nor Sinclair Lewis is in any sense a radical writer in the year 1930, some definition must be offered of the word “radical” as applied to the profession of authorship. It will not suffice to say that neither one of them has ever espoused any radical economic thought or made alliance vrith any radical political party. Both have sniped often at the follies of leaders in the Democratic and Republican ranks, but this shooting always was done from the side lines, in other words, Mencken and Lewis are liberals in so far as any definite political position is concerned. But one possibly could be deep on the fringe of the left wing and remain a classical in literary expression. And there is nothing in the style of Gertrude Stein which inevitably would prevent her from being a standpat Republican. I am trying to use the word “radical” in its largest sense. I would use it as a label for any one who in mood or expression or point of view palpably was maverick. Thus I think that the effort of Ernest Hemingway to bridge the gap between written and spoken English still may be considered a radical experiment, and that the insistence of Upton Sinclair upon a proletarian interpretation of all human conduct has also stamped him as one not yet within the bounds of conformity. (Coovrlsht. 1930. by The Times)

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.DEC. 20, 1930

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

Polar Exploration Just Bc~ ginning, When Needs of Science Are Considered. MAN has conquered the north pole by foot, by airplane, and by dirigible. He has sailed a plane across the most dangerous portion of the Arctic, the so-called pole of inaccessibility. He has reached the south pole on foot and by plane. Yet in scientific circles polar exploration is regarded as just beginning. The scientist feels, now that the sporting records have been hung up, it is time to settle down to the serious of collecting information wholesale. Seme of the reasons why scientists regard polar exploration as important were outlined recently by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society of New York. “It was but yesterday in the procession of the ‘eternal years* that men sought knowledge of the higher will by consulting the oracle, the shrine where the voice could be heard that told what to do and what would happen.” he said “What men were striving after was foreknowledge of the event. ‘‘lt is rather striking that this early manifestation of human curiosity is reflected in the scientific era. Within the scope of its ‘laws,’ or, better said, its generalization, science today sets up forecast as one of its highest aims.” a u tt Real Expploration OMITTING California, says Dr Bowman, the most common question of civilization is. “What will tile weather be today?” and, ho continues, “if the forecaster can not tell us whether it will rain, at least we wish him to tell us if it is prudent to carry an umbrella.” In similar fashion. Dr. Bowman points out, astronomers are engaged in predicting eclipses and other astronomical events, while the United State coast and geodetic survey predicts tides for any given point on the earth’s surface. “It happens that polar exploration has participated in this advance from the place of wish-and-guess to the eye-piece of an instrument of precision and a knowledge of the workings of natural laws," he says. “The new ideas in polar- exploration are not airplane and radio—these are but instruments of discovery. They are astonishingly reliable and useful instruments, but they are of mechanical interest only, apart from the ideas they serve. “Science feared for a time that they would run away with the game, because the popular mind is still on the romance of flying and the magic of communication by wireless. “The really big game of the polar hunt are the scientific ideas or laws upon which the polar regions, and in some cases they alone, can throw light. “Science is searching for particular things, not just anything. Real exploration has ceased to be a blind and adventurous wandering into the unknown.” tt tt a Effect on Weather ONE of the great aims of modern exploration, according to Dr, Bow-man, is to amass data in the polar regions which will facilitate the forecasting of weather, oceanic conditions, and the like. “In ever-increasing degree the polar explorer is besought by science to obtain exact records in increasing number in high latitudes,” he said. “Less attention was paid to this feature because the dynamics of the atmosphere were until recently so little known. “The science of meteorology is a quite recent development. ‘Weather probabilities' were issued by Abbe at Cincinnati for the first time in 1869, and the first official weather forecasts were those of November and December, 1870. The word ‘probabilities’ was displaced by ‘indications’ in 1876, and the term ‘forecast was adopted in April, 1889, only forty-one years ago. “The part that the polar regions had to play in the terrestial wind system only was hinted at by the earliest observations, and theory took little account of the influence of great shifts of air from out of the polar regions to lower latitudes." Dr. Bowman believes that out ol studies of this nature in the near future will come information of great value to the whole world.

Daily Thought

Stand in awe, and sin not.— Psalms 4:4. Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.—Wendell Phillips. What is the heaviest rainfall for twenty-four hours in the United States and elsewhere? The heaviest rainfall occurred June 14, 1911, at Baguio, Philippine islands, where forty-six inches fell. The heaviest in the United States occurred at Taylor, Tex., Sept. 9 and 10, 1921, and totaled 23.11 inches.