Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1930 — Page 4

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The Public Pays Instead of wasting more time in discussing the very evident flaws in the Insull plan of ownership of the street railway lines, city officials should direct their attention to the drafting of necessary laws for public Ownership and operation. The public pays the bills. Under the Insull plan the people will be charged very high for service and have no chance of sharing any profits. Under public ownership the city would be free from one of its burdens and have a halfchance to take its place in the sun. The present proposal is outrageous in its provisions and deserves little consideration. The high valuation on worn-out lines and tars, the high rate of profit on investment, the complete surrender to private monopoly Tor all time make the proposal impossible. Those who purchased the present securities are merely holding out a tin cup to the public in the hope that they can get back at least part of what they have lost', through private operation and management of the lines. The people may be in a mood to help those who made unwise investments, but they ought not be mortgaged forever to the Insull interests in order to do this graceful &ct of benevolence. Payment of the sums demanded for the bankrupt lines can be regarded as nothing else but benevolence. Measures should be drafted at once to permit this city to own and operate the*lines and to purchase them either at the receivership or by condemnation proceedings. With such a weapon in their hands, the people would not be at the mercy of those who have assumed a rather arrogant attitude. That Good Old Constitution Regardless of what the Anal decision may be concerning the ruling by United States DL trict Judge William Clark that the prohibition amendment was not adopted legally, it serves this good purpose: It Sets the American people to the task of rereading the United States Constitution. They w T ant to know the exact wording of Article Five and Amendment Ten, cited by Judge Clark. Now that we have dusted off this often neglected document there are other articles in it that w T e might read to the profit of our Americanism. For we are too prone to forget the high privileges our forefathers sought to give us when they handed down this great fundamental of American liberty. We read in the newspapers, for instance, that a dry sleuth has raided a home- If our leaning happens to be toward prohibition, we say: “A prohibition agent has a right to hunt for liquor whenever rnd wherever he sees fit.” He hasn’t anything of the kind. Article Four of the Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure In their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by or.tli or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched’*and the person or things to be seized ” That means that a snooper who goes thither and yon, without definite warrant, is nothing more than a common trespasser, when he invades a home. In California's penitentiary today are two innocent men. TANARUS! ey have been in prison fourteen years, although the evidence that they did not commit the crime for which they were convicted is overwhelming. But these men were labor leaders. Their views were not popular in California at the time of their arrest. They are kept in prison on general principles. What does the Constitution say on the question of a man's right to hold to whatever views may suit him? Article Ore of the amendments reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the . press ...” Thus the Constitution says plainly that California has no right to keep Mooney and Billings in confinement because of their economic opinions. But there they areThe whole texture of thd Constitution was designed to make of us a people free, privileged to go our several ways so long as we are true to the spirit in which that document was written. No matter how far back a man may be able to trace his ancestry upon these shores, he is not true to .American idealism if he permits his views on this and that subject to challenge the intent of those far-seein'g men who wrote for every Americana bill of rights which no court, however high, is privileged to invade. “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.” Thus the Constitution makers wrote in the preamble to our fundamental law. Let us read and read again and again—until we know it. Knowledge of the Constitution is a primary duty of citizenship. Wickershani and Mooney-Biilings Following newspaper reports that the Wickershani law observance and’ enforcement commission is investigating the Mooney-Biilings case, the commission his made what appears at first glance to be a denial. According to the commission's official announcement, "it is beyond the province of this commission to investigate individual cates with a view to making recommendations as to their disposition, particularly in state courts, for the reason, among others, that the commission has no power to examine witnesses or redetermine facts.” This announcement Is typical of the long list of ambiguities perpetrated by the Wickersham commission on prohibition and other matters since its origin. The facts are these—although the public in reading in good faith the commission announcement would get a completely erroneous impression: For months the Scripps-Howard newspapers pointed out th%£ one of the official tasks of the commission waa to report on conditions of legal lawessnesa in the United States; that the commission J*as trying to ignore the Mooney-Biilings caa?t and

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that any report which ignored this test case would be a farce. In October the Scripps-Howard newspapers addressed a letter to President Hoover asking that he personally intervene in the Mooney-Biilings case as President Wilson had done, and that he‘in addition remind the Wickersham commission of its duty to report on the case. That letter was referred by the President to the attorney-general, who in turn referred it to the commission. Despite the unwillingness of certain members of the commission to take up the matter, Judge Kenyon, chairman of the subcommittee on legal lawlessness, started an investigation, which now is being carried on in California. The commission’s announcement of Monday is misleading, because it denies by indirection that an investigation is being made. It also is misleading, because it sets up a straw man, and proceeds to knock it down. That is, the commission says it has no power to make recommendations to states for disposition of individual cases. Os course it hasn't; no one said it had such power. No one has proposed that the commission intervene directly, or that it order the release of the men, or anything like that. The only thing that has been proposed—and the only thing the commission can do—is to make a nonpartisan accurate report of the disgraceful facts in this case, which has become a national and international symbol of legal lawlessness. Since the Kenyon investigation already is under wa y—thanks to outside pressure—we fail to see the truth or the purpose in the commission’s announcement of Monday. , They Need Backbone Foi better or for worse, we have anew federal power commission, and in the hands of its members lies the future of the federal water power act. It is easy to believe that honest men, coming to Washington and learning of the manner in which the power act has beerj flouted and ignored—allowed to fall into disuse or made an instrument for granting privileges where it was intended to curb them will revolt at such abuse and act to stop it. We hope the commissioners will prove to be fairminded . . . fair to private capital and to the public interest. Many interpretations have been placed on this last phrase, but the power act is fairly definite in specifying what congress considers to be to the public interest. Literal enforcement of this excellent law should* leave little cause for just complaint from any one. Equivocal enforcement, far-fetched interpretations destroying regulation, will cause plenty of complaint. The new commissioners have unusual opportunity for public service and an unusually technical and difficult job. They will be subject to pressure and criticism and they have a great many errors of the past to correct. We wish them luck and plenty of backbone. Get the Facts Senator Walsh of Teapot Dome fame has earned public commendation again by moving for a senate investigation of the alleged oil-shale land scandals. The charges of Ralph S. Kelley, former field official of the interior department, of illegal alienation of government resources, can not be ignored. Reports by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Attorney-General Mitchell were of a whitewash nature; they were contradictory, incomplete and evasive. With the best of intentions in the world, no administration is competent to pass upon charges against itself. , The public does not condemn the administration in advance. But the public has a right to the facts. A senate investigation is about the only way left for the public to get the facts. Maybe an effective warning to the kid overenthusiastic with his Christmas toy will be that the noise abatement committee will “get him es he don’t watch out.” On Cape Cod, where 100 additional men have been hired to eradicate the mosquito, business is said to be humming. Thq wrong kind ot furniture, an expert says, produces tiredness and irritability. Naturally, this sets us to wondering about those seats in congress. Said the disappointed African returning from the hunt, *No gnus is bad news.”

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PRESIDENT HOOVER has shown on several occasions that he has not the gift of diplomacy in his dealings with the congress and he has provoked some of the assaults which have been waged against him by the sages on Capitol Hill. * a a But a recent savage assault was unjustified. Senator Harrison of Mississippi held him up to ridicule because a fool friend of the President sought to publish a sweeping eulogy of him in a magazine, which thing the President states he told the foolish admirer not to do. a a a Harrison should have learned the truth about it before he turned loose his guns. Every man who had gone through the political experience a senator has encountered knows that the one thing a public servant prays for. is to be delivered from his misguided followers. a a a IT was not fair to hold Mr. Hoover responsible, but it seems to go with the position of President. All our chief executives have had their quarrels with the senate, the house of representatives usually being inoffensive, because it has been voiceless. a a a Not to go into ancient history, we may review the tempests since the Civil war. Had Lincoln lived, he would have had one grand succcsssion of riots with congress over his reconstruction program, the same experience Johnson later experienced. a a a GRANT bad an endless fight and was not on speaking terms with some of the leaders of his own party in the senate and so did Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson. McKinley and Coolidge were sufficiently diplomatic to escape the fury of their associates. man Os all the men who have filled the presidential chair. Mr. Hoover is least fitted for the rough and tumble of the game and doubtless he often wishes he were rid of it all. In fact, many have believed he would not be a candidate for re-election due to the endless bickering of the thing. a a a But if his opponents seek to remove him from the field, they are taking the wrong track, for it is human nature for one to stick when the fighting begins and to hold to a post which one gladly would relinquish could one do so without the of running away from battle.,

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M. E. Tracy SAYS;

The Paticnde Displayed by Millions of Our Jobless Is the Only Really Inspiring Aspect of the Whole Affair. T tOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 23.—N0 bank failures in the Houston territory thus far, or sensational business disasters, but just a gradual slowing down, incident to general conditions. Nor would the slowing down be so apparent if some es the big boys were not eternally reminding one another of what they haven’t done, or didn’t make, because of the Wall street crash. Houston has lss to warrant an outbreak of the blues than any town we have visited since leaving New York, but that old psychology stuff is right on the job. Every time a bank goes to the wall in Arkansas, or a real estate firm blows up Florida, some of the local leaders throw another fit and put an extra lock on their safety deposit boxes, in which respect the situation is little different from what it is everywhere. tt tt a Situation Not,So Bad WHEN you say too much oil, tco much cotton, too much natural gas, and too much of most | everything, except a ready market, | you have covered the worst feaj cures of the local economic situaI lion. And when you say too many I drifters from “up north,” seeking I warmth, if not work, you have i touched the worst phase of unem- ! plcyment. Tire movement to reduce cotton ! acreage is receiving a deal of lip i support, but even its most ardent | advocates don’t pretend to know how far it will get. Texas farmers are 60 per cent tenant, which means that they lack the wherewithal, if not the inclination, to make radical changes. The movement to curtail oil production has been in effect quite a while. Whatever it may have done for conservation, it seems to have done far more in putting little operators out of butiness and in creating a better American market for Royal Dutch Shell. >t tt tt Cycle Within Cycle ONE possibility of existing conditions appears to be worrying people everywhere more than all others. I ran against it in Roanoke, Birmingham, Knoxville and New Orleans, while no less than three individuals called attention to it the first day I was in Houston. It seems that some highly respected writer, though I can’t recall who right now, has developed the theory that depression isn’t only ■the result of a cycle, but contains a cycle within itself—first, the slump in business, then the slump in wages, and then the rioting. You can go back to 1907, 1893 and 1873, and prove the point, but only By assuming that attitude of business and employes remains the same, which I do not believe to be the case. Indeed, this particular depression 1 strikes me as involving a radical | change in atttiude, especially on ! the part of business men. In previous instances, their first thought was to save themselves by firing every employe they could do without, and cutting wages to the bone. In this*instance, the great majority of them have done everything possible to avoid such course. For one, I think that no£ only labor leaders, but the rank and file, have reacted in a wholesale, intelligent way, and that there is little to indicate violence except the presence of professional agitators who seem to be having a harder time of it than usual. tt tt Jobless Are Patient IHAVE seen a great many people looking for work on this trip, a great many who had w ? orn out their last pair of shoes in search of it. I have seen their blue, cold faces as they stood in line waiting for a handout; I have seen them gather by the thousand in answer to some advertisement calling for ten. And I have seen them peddling apples, oranges, needles and innumerable other trinkets because they could <iot think of anything eise to do. And those few had mighty poor audiences. The patience displayed by our millions of jobless is the one really inspiring and reassuring aspect of this whole affair. Not that we should trade on it, but that we I at least can appreciate it. To predict general rioting and ; violence, after what we have seen, strikes me as nothing short of an insult. It would not he surprising if some raw spots developed before we get through, but that is not the point. | The point is that, as a whole, unj employment, suffering and pov- ! erty have been borne in ff manner | which warrants no alarm.

Questions and Answers

What id the caloric content of, peanut butter? Does it contain much fat? What vitamins does it contain? Ordinary' peanut butter contains 2.1 per cent water, 29.3 per cent protein. 46.5 per cent fat, 17.1 per cent carbohydrates and 5 per cent ash. Its food value per pound is 2,741 calories. It is a source of vitamin A, a good source of vitamin B and does not appear to be a source of vitamin C. . Was “Moby Dick” ever given under any other title on the screen? Did Lon Chaney star in a version of the story? “Moby Dick.” which recently was produced on the audible screen with John Barrymore in the leading role, was presented as a silent film in 1926 under the title “The Sea Beast,” with John Barrymore as the star. Lon Chaney did not appear in either version. How many trips did former President Wilson make to France during the peace conference after the World war? Two. Will mercury’ act as a magnet for Gld? There is no magnet for gold. Mercury will amalgamate with gold, but it is ron-magnetic. Are the upper and lower jaws of humans both capable of moving? The upper Jaw Is stationary and only the lower jaw moves.

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Protect Child From Strychnine Pills

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health Magazine. OF all of the unnecessary deaths of children, those due to the ! taking of tablets containing large amounts of strychnine, the tablets having been placed in easy access to the child, are perhaps the most unnecessary. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. John Aikman describes two cases of death due to this cause. A girl 2 years old ate some cathartic tablets covered with candy that had been prescribed for her grandfather, and which had been left in an open drawer in a table. The cathartic tablets contained | one-half grain of extract of nux

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IT IS easy to overestimate the effect of the decision by Judge Clark of New Jersey. The point on which he declared Jhe eighteenth amendment invalid is technical. To a lay mind it is hard to understand just what issue is involved upon which the supreme court has not passed already. In all probability the drys are correct in maintaining that the New Jersey interpretation will be set aside. Any other action would make the high court seem more than a little foolish. Year after year it has proceeded to twist and tear established rights in a series of opinions designed to build up Volsteadism. Not even the supreme court has seemed a wise or gallant body in the face of prohibition pressure. And with few exceptions the court is not composed ox men who are mentally flexible. That is the reason why they were made justices. Up to Date IT IS obvious to every observer that not even the house, the senate and the chief executive represent the present will of the people in regard to prohibition. It will take at least another two years to square legislative and executive thought with popular opinion. All of which means that judicial rei lief hardly can be gained for an- ! other half century. The supreme ! court alway% has lagged at least ' that far behind each liberal movement. And yet, even if nothing tangible comes of it, this was a famous vicj tory. There no longer can be any | doubt of the turning of the tide, jlf only the incubus could be I dropped in s ome such quick and j simple manner I think we might see an impromptu national celebraj tion second only to the first American day in fervor and good spirit. n a tt Kindlier Age WOULDN’T it be a great and a fine thing to open the doors :of prisons and liberate the men and women, the girls and boys who i are suffering under the savage pen- | alties assigned by grim judges : backed by tyrannical statute? In fact, the invalidating of the eighteenth amendment might be the first step in the creation of anew spirit of fellowship. It is upon prohibition that the whole structure of suspicion, hate, and wholesale graft has been reared. It may be, as many say. that prosperity immediately would be accelerated. I have no doubt that certain industries would spurt. Just think of the rush orders j which would come to every lockI smith to rip off padlocks and also the cumbersome protective devices which clutter up the doors where j one knocks thrice and says, "Oh, i you know me.” Ships with golden freight would i race for our ports across the broad i Atlantic. The mayor well might ; gTeet at the city, hall the captain 'of the first craft’to enter New York harbor publicly bearing the' first i real champagne in many years. But I would not be there. Yoy would find me at the pier, gazing into the mist and waiting for the beer boats, a a m Wakes Again AND out in Milwaukee the hum of human life would be heard j again in haunted breweries and | maybe they even could find some , of the big white horses to stamp proudly do%i the deserted- streets once again, bearing behind them

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'vomica, and the child died four hours after eating some of them, due to strychnine poisoning. In the second case, a boy 4 years old found a bottle containing some laxative tablets. Each tablet contained one-sixtieth of a grain of strychnine. The bottle of a grain of child had emptied contained about ninety tablets. The child died of strychnine poisoning five hours after taking the medicine, regardless of all of the attempts of the physicians to control the case. In addition to reporting the cases that are mentioned, Doctor Aikman collects from the records of New York state a considerable number of cases due to the taking of rat poisons, lye, fireworks and similar substances.

barreled treasures of amber. And, naturally, there would be a parade. A1 Smith would be selected by acclamation as first marshal. Clarence True Wilson would walk behind his chariot in chains. Beside the vehicle of*Al I should like/to see Henry L. Mencken riding stride a. coal-black charger and blowing kisses as well as foam to the cheering multitude. And somewhere near the head of the procession a place must be reserved for La Guardia, bearing upon his back a goatskin containing honest Chianti. tt a tt Among the Marchers AND shoulder to shoulder with him marches Ritchie, a delegate from the great Free State of Maryland. These posts of honor would be dangerous as well as glorious, for from the windows of high office buildings the liberated serfs would

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Editor Times—There has been, for some time, discussion of the traffic situation in our metropolis. After traveling extensively through some of our nation's larger cities, in the east, I have the following suggestions as to our own traffic prolem. Let me suggest that we are in need of more silent policemen, that is, our electrical “Stop and Go” signs. The sign at East and Washington should be retained, Alabama and Washington also, skip Delaware and place anew sign at Pennsylvania, skip Meridian and place signs at Illinois, Kentucky, and Washington. Then skip Capitol and retain sign at Senate avenue. The skipping of squares also would apply to our north and south bound streets. The signs should start at South street at the intersection of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Meridian, Illinois, also with signs at Kentucky and Capitol. This arrangement would allow traffic to move two squares, anyway, before stopping, although you could regulate them to be on the “go” for four, six or eight squares. This also

RrddAM-jb RUSH’S BIRTH December 23 ON Dec. 23, 1745, Benjamin Rush. an American physician and patriot, was born at Philadelphia. He was graduated from Princeton and received his medical education in Europe. He taught chemistry in the Philadelphia college, which now is the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Elected a member of the Continental congress, Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. After he returned from service as surgeon in the revolution, he founded the Philadelphia dispensary and helped found Dickinson college. Rush was prominent in public as well as in professional life. He took part in 1780, in the formation of the new state Constitution and was a member of the Pennsylvania convention for ratification of the federal Constitution. Os his considerable writings, his essays on the diseases and vices of the Indians are thought most valuable. because they contribute new and important information to our knowledge of the American aborigines. I

Parents must remember that’the child can not differentiate between candy and pills coated with sugar or sweet chocolate. Dr. Aikman feels that the use and sale of substances containing strychnine should be much better controlled than it is today, that there should be adequate warning to the purchaser concerning the poisonous nature of such pills when taken in any quantity, and, because of the fact that strychnine poisoning is most common in children under 5 years of age, that it is desirable that pills and tablets containing this substance be not coated with candy or chocolate. Both nux vomica and strychnine have an extremely bitter taste and it is unlikely that a child would eat them if they were not disguised in the manner mentioned.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column arc those ot one of America’s roost interesting writers and are presented without resrard to tbeir agreement or disaereemeul with the editorial attitude of this oaper.—The Editor.

throw not ticker-tape, but hipflasks, now rendered quite unnecessary. The bands are blaring forth “Brown October Ale,” “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” and “Under the Annheuser Busch.” Clarence Darrow will come on from Chicago to join the celebration at our chief seaport. In fact, I would not be surprised to find him canceling a debate on “Is Life Worth Living?” to make it. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

And His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation.—St. Luke 1:50. Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love.—Thomas Brooks.

could cut the expense to the city, save money, and speed up this congested traffic. I would keep every street car off Washington street, also Meridian street north of Georgia. Use more cross town lines, say Illinois and South Meridian, East and West Washington, Columbia, Shelby, West Michigan and Stock Yards, College and Central, with other south side lines. • East Michigan, Brookside, College, Brightwood, East Tenth, Central, Alabama and Columbia make their loop down Alabama to Washington, west to Delaware and north to Massachusetts avenue and then on their regular run. East Washington cars go south at Delaware to South street, then north at Capitol and on out West Washington. Illinois, Northwestern make their loop at Union station. West Michigan, West Tenth, Indiana avenue. Stock Yards, West Indianapolis make their loop starting at Illinois and Washington, south to Maryland, west to Capitol and north to Washington and then on to the regular run. Garfield, Minnesota, Prospect, Shelby, South East, Lexington, English avenue. Beech Grove make loop as they do now. Now this will raise the hair right up: Allow no parking in the squares bounded by Illinois, Ohio, Washington and Pennsylvania, and not even on these streets. Fifteen min-

Backgammon Everybody's playing It new. Backgammon is a game with a history. Fifty years ago, in grandmother's and grandfather's time, - it was one oi the fashionaole games of the times. Now has come . a revival of interest in this fascinating pastime. All your friends vail be playing it soon. You want to know the fundamentals of the game. Our Washington bureau has ready one of its comprehensive bulletins on the subject, illustrated with diagrams of the plays. Just fill out the coupcif below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE ’ • v, -s 1 Dept. 106, Washington Bureau The Inc ianapolis Times. 1322 New York avenue, Washington. D C. I want a copy of the bulletin BACKGAMMON, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps to . cover return postage and handling costs: NAME . . 4 STREET AND NO ; CITY STATE . I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times (Code No >

:DEC. 23. 1930

SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Einstein Only Living Scientist Honored in Building o/j Great Rockefeller Church „ PROFESSOR ALBFRT EINSTEHf of Germany, the famous originator of the theory of relativity, Is now in this country, and is the only living scientist whose likenesa has been carved over the doorway; of the new “Rockefeller” church :a New York. The church, the Riverside church on One Hundred and Twenty-second street, is betng built at cost of $4,w00,000. Hie largest contributor to the project is John D. Rockefeller Jr. The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famous liberal preacher, is its spiritual leader. A large number of figures of angels. Biblical characters, sainta and famous historical figures are carved in rings over the doorway. The second ring carries the carved likenesses of fourteen great figures in the world of science. The scientists and the dates of their lives follow: Hippocrates, 460-337 B. C.: Euclid, about 300 B.'C.;'Archimedes. 287212 B. C.; Hipparchus, 160-125 B, C.; Pare, 1517-1590; Galileo. 15641642: Kepler. 1571-1630; Newton, 1642-1727; Dalton. 1766-1844; Faraday, 1791-1867, Darwin, 1809-1882; Pasteur, 1822-1895; Lister. 1827-1912, and Albert Einstein, bom 1879. tt tt n Universe Makers IT will be noticed that the choice of scientific figures for the I church includes a number of those whom George Bernard Shaw, at a j recent dinner in non or of Einstein, characterized as “universe makers.” The action of tlie church is given added interest by the recent publication of an article by Einstein on “Religion and Science,” which drew lively comment from both churchmen and laymen. It seems to this writer that Dr, Fosdick's church does weil to recognize that inspiration is nob limited to those who write upon theological subjects. It seems reasonable to think of a Pasteur, making the fundamental discovery for combating of contagious diseases, or of a Lister, making possible antiseptic surgery, as being just as much inspired as the author of a piece of religious writing. Likewise, it is undoubtedly true that such men as Euclid and Newton not only have influenced the development of science, but have influenced philosophical and religious thought as well. Many writers, such as Havelock Ellis for example, believe that the theories of Einstein will have as powerful effect upon the philosophy of the future as they will have upon the science of the future. It always has seemed to me that the scientist is engaged primarily in the search for truth and that no occupation can be more reverent than that. tt n n Chance for Debate THERE is, of course, unlimited opportunity for debate about the fourteen who were chosen to represent science over the church door. Why, for example, was Copernicus omitted? Without the work of Copernicus, there is some question as to whether Kepler or Galileo, both included, Would have made their great contributions to science. One might also question the omission of Clerk Maxwell. There is a direct line of succession, in certain fields of thought from Galileo to Newton tp Maxwell to Einstein. Many of the differences between I Newton’s point of view and Ein- ! stein’s point of view can be ascribed I to the fact that Einstein starts on j the basis of the Maxwell equations. | Maxwell enunciated the electroj magnetic theory of light. His theory * led to the discovery of radio waves | by Dr. Heinrich Hertz and is one ;of the cornerstones of modem I physics. Os course, picking the fourteen I greatest scientists is like picking the | ten greatest names in history, ot i the ten greatest novelists or any I similar list. It is Impossible to pick * a list which will find universal acceptance. There is even one school oj thought that teaches that ideas are more important than men and that they develop when the time foe them is ripe. Followers of this school point out, for example, that in the time of Newton there were others, Hooke and Halley, to nam|j two who were thinking along similar lines. They insist that if Newton had not lived that very shortly one od more likely a number of men would have arrived at ideas essential!^ | like those which he enunciated. What was the smallest coin evtuf Issued by the United States? One dollar gold piece. When was the coinage of lar&f l-cent pieces discontinued? In 1857. When was William C. Sprnul Governor of Pennsylvania” Froqj 1919 to 1923. How many acres are there iq Garfield park? 128. ! utes is long enough to stop in these ; square:. Os course, after 6 p. m. this baj would be lifted until 6 a. m. Make the penalty $5 and use no “stickers? Get a truck or trucks and pull them | in. Raise the speed limit to twenty* ght mile:; downtown. EDWARD KENWORTHY.-