Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1931 — Page 4

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A Great Year This should be a greater year lor Indiana. The last year has been great, even though financial clouds hung low and elements were unkind. But with the very widespread deprivation that came from unfavorable conditions for the fanner and even more unfavorable conditions for the worker, there still is room for rejoicing. For during this period this state has thrown off a large part of the evil influences w’hich have disgraced it in the past and permitted selfish Interests to burden the purposeful and the industrious during kindlier days. The year saw the finish of those influences which came to the state politically on a wave of hate and put Into public office those who pledged themselves to prejudice, hale and intolerance. For the first time in many years, the state has one branch of the legislature which goes into office without a mortgage on its activities and under no bondage to privileged interests. For the first time, there is the new note that party platforms are a pledge and a contract to be redeemed Instead of forgotten and social legislation is promised that may do much to alleviate, even if it can not abolish, these periods of industrial disaster which mean lack of work for the wage earner and lack of money for the farmer. The poorhouse, after centuries of stupid effort to care for the aged, may pass with the coming of old age pensions, for which the Eagles’ lodge has fought so valiant / for years. c Honest elections may return with the passage of a registration law that will prevent government by truck loads of Imported voters from other states. Taxation may be distributed more equitably In accordance with ability to pay through an income tax for state This may relieve the farmer and the home owner and the renter. Not only the new house of representatives, but other public officials, come into office under the enthusiasm of anew ideal of service to the public, rather than licensed plunder for political manipulators. There is the hope that the government again will return to the hands of the people, to serve instead of oppress. There is the hope vhat justice again will be found in the highest courts, instead of delay, intrigue and unbalanced scales. Something has been saved from the days of disaster and, in taking inventory, not everything is written in red ink. To citizens generally, there must come realization that government depends upon Intelligent interest in public affairs. It is not a gift from above. It must be achieved by watchfulness and alertness and conscience. Some things have been made right. Perhaps the big job of the year is to keep them right. Is Constitution Outgrown? Are we through with the Democracy of Jefferson and the Republicanism of Lincoln? That question is Involved in the row between Senator Norris and Executive Director Lucas of the Republican national committee. The *fight is fundamental Maybe we have outgrown Jeffersonian Democracy and Lincoln Republicanism. I don’t know. But if we have, then leaders in both parties who believe we have should come out in the open and give convincing reasons for their new policies. Possibly we have outgrown the Constitution, along with its plan of checks and balances and three branches of government. Possibly the legislative branch has outgrown its usefulness. The machine age of big business may demand an absolute distatorship—a dictatorship by committee. Anyhow, that’s what is involved in the determined fight of Director Lucas of the Republican national committee to drive Senator Norris—and of course all other Republican insurgents—from the party. And that means from chairmanships of senate committees. The word is that President Hoover isn’t interested. He will stand aloof and let Lucas have his head. Leader Watson of the senate isn't interested. He won't take a hand in the fight. Democrats are not interested. They will stand off as spectators and let the reactionaries lick the progressive insurgents. Some of them will “co-operate,” however. And if they don’t know that that kind of co-operation spells death for insurgency, they are dumbbells. The reactionary Democrats know just what their "co-operation’’ means to independence and insurgency in the senate. They have been traveling away from Jeffersonian Democracy in a high-powered car ever since they abandoned Woodrow Wilson’s progressive policies, passed the Volstead act over his veto, supported sumptuary legislation, kicked religious liberty in the slats, and threw the Bill of Rights to the wolves of reaction and puritanism. And the fundamental Republicanism of* Lincoln has fared no better with the leaders of the modern Republican party who are so vigorously and viciously represented by Executive Director Robert H. Lucas of the Republican national committee, and personal choice of President Herbert Hoover for that particular job. Let's get this into our heads—throwing the Constitution into the ashcan is a tough job and will take a long time if we do it by constitutional methods, but the same end can be accomplished by permitting the national committee of any party to control the executive branch of government and at the same time make a ruboer stamp of the legislative branch. The Yaeational Bogey in Education Abra'nam Flexner’s book on “Universities” is a great, wise and courageous work. It is the most searching examination of American higher education ever written. Nearly every aspect of pedagogical sham is probed and exposed. If there is not some self-examination and voluntary housecleaning m the wake of this book, then American higher education is in a bad way. On one point, however, one perhaps may raise the question as to whether Dr. Flexner is not more distressed than the facts warrant. That is in agitation in regard to “practical'’ and “vocational” courses in the curriculum of the college and university. He lists those striking deviations from the old classical curriculum which long have been the butt of the jests in the “Americana” section of the American Mercury’—the well-known courses in practical poultry raising, parenthood problems, milk analysis, *ce cream design, hog calling, wrestling, janitor service, hotel management, stenography, etiquette and hospitality and the like. It would be quite possible for a sensible observer to declare such courses as these the most gratifying aad. reassuring development in higher education in the last two generations. Some of these courses are, 4> be sure, preposterous. But in general the? rapre- •• ‘ J{ *

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sent the effort to bring education down to earth and give it some practical relation to life and its problems. It is doubtful if the most ludicrous and sidesplitting of these new vocational courses are actually as absurd as the backbone of the old respectable classical education, much of which still is continued in the English colleges which Dr. Flexner praises rather fulsomely. If one had to choose between a modern American agricultural or domestic science college in the midwest and Oxford or Cambridge (and their American imitators of forty years ago) as a place in which to educate his son or daughter, he should not hesitate to put them aboard the train for Manhattan or Pittsburgh, Kan. What could be more utterly ridiculous as a preparation for any type of life than classical syntax, higher mathematics, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, sterile metaphysics, Incomprehensible literature from an alien age, history of wars, political campaigns and court scandals, fallacious economic doctrines and most of the other items of respectable education in the Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge today and in the Amherst, Williams, Princeton and Bowdoin of yesterday? Manifestly, these vocational courses do not represent the ideal college curriculum. This would be something like the present Columbia university course on “contemporary civilization,” expanded into a complete two or four-year college education. But as between the parrot-like chant of “amo, amas, amat” and a good substantial course in hog calling, everything is in favor of seductive bellowing at the swine. Os course, it would not be necessary to give the A, B. degree for proficiency in ice cream design, but if one knew a little more about the history of the A. B. degree he might not be so impatient to string it along behind his name. Appropriate and worthy degrees easily could be found lor the new curriculum. Some day we may let vocationalism run away with us, but certainly for the next half century the chief obstacle to rational education will remain the inertia of resistance of the traditional, but utterly useless, courses which still constitute 75 per cent of the curriculum of every reputable American college. The blight of Donatus, Quintilian, Cassiodorus, Abelard, Perarch and their successors still is far more ruinous than the effects of teachers’ college or the social science research council. “Hoover Dam” When a man is dead and buried, his fame ought to be reasonably secure. Some halls of fame play safe by playing no favorites until they have been dead long enough for anybody so minded to dig into their past and expose any dirt they may find. Political government would be wise to be as conservative. Loading down physical things which outlast mortal man wtih the names of living men, however exalted for the moment, is taking chances. With the experience of two Wilburs in presidential cabinets and plenty of evidence that wisdom and tact dont run in the family, something ought to be done to limit the discretion of cabinet members in the matter of naming public works that still will be working generations after the name Wilbur will be forgotten. Particular objection should be made to the gall of Secretary of the Interior Wilbur in arbitrarily wiping out the name of Boulder Dam and playing the part of a flunky in calling it Hoover Dam. During all the years in which the building of this dam has been advocated, it has been known as Boulder Dam. That name was characteristic enough for a national project. To tack on to it the name of any man, dead or alive, wouldn’t improve the name. Calling Boulder Dam Hoover Dam won’t add to or detract from Herbert Hoover’s fame. That is something he must make himself, and by his own qualities of leadership. We don’t know how big or little any ma nis while he is alive and subject to the prejudiced criticism of both idolaters and detractors. Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln have been dead long enough to have their real greatness established as historical record. It will be years before the real part Roosevelt and Wilson played in our history can be judged fairly, and at least a generation after CoolMge and Hoover are dead before they can stand out in their real character, stripped of any narrow partisan judgment. The name Boulder Dam should stick to that national project. One fellow who can say business is on the rocks and smile is the diamond salesman. ■you first, Alfonso,” as the rebels in Spain are saying politely to their monarch.

REASON

WE don’t know what anybody else put in Mr. Hoover’s stocking on Christmas eve, but it is veiy apparent that Mr. Lucas of the internal revenue service gave him a very explosive political bomb, the same being his attack on Senator Norris of Nebraska. tt u a We do not recall anything half so stupid since the administration of the late Mr. Taft, for this is a time when the administration should pass out salve and soothing syrup, when it should lock up all the porcu-g-and endeavor to make all things work together 'T'HERE’S a senatorial spirit that makes the brethX ren stand together when assailed from without and when Lucas entered the arena against the Nebraska insurgent he knocked over fifteen or twenty beehives and now he probably wishes he had taken a ew lessons in politics ere he did so. tt a u For Borah, Cutting and others have rushed to the side of Norris and now the Lucas group hastens to assure the insurgent mates of Norris that the administration has nothing but velvet speech and honeyed esteem for them. No matter what you may think of other people, you must not take the lid off your opinions if you are in public office; you may rumble and molder and be ill at ease, but you must not become candid, for nobody in politics is candid—that is, nobody holding public office. tt a IT S the grand pastime where public servants pretty much hate and plot against each other; they call each other pet names and slap each other on the back, but all the time they are yearning to slip a lizard in each other’s soup. a a tt It seems to be the particular political limitation of Mr. Hoover that he can not play the game; he can not stand opposition; he can not have an old acquaintance shoot him full of holes, then fall on the shooter’s neck and weep for.joy. a a it If Mr. Hoover does not can Mr. Lucas, then he stands as indorsing the Lucas blunder and that means to imperil the Republican leadership In the next senate, for it s a close margin even with all shades and stripes of the brethren within the fold when the showdown comes. Politics is a great game—if have the hide of a rhinoceros,. v .. , V ;

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.THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Something' Terrific Is Happening to Those Customs Which We Once Saw as Necessary to Art, Culture and Sport. THIS has become an age of sound and shadow. Ten thousand theaters function with no actor present, while there is music everywhere, with no performer in sight. Snatches of conversation and snatches of song assail you as you ride along the road, even in sparsely settled neighborhoods. Each afternoon or evening, the people of innumerable towns and cities assemble to laugh, weep, or just chew gum over the latest pantomime from Hollywood. It is all a by-product of stark materialism, yet vastly more lacking in substance than any of the so-called spiritual ages preceding it. a a a Radio Is Everywhere WHILE taking lunch at Chattanooga, I heard various details of the Army-Navy football game in New’ York described as they occurred. While driving into the little town of Eutaw, Ala., over sodden roads and amid sheets of rain, I heard a booming voice from nowhere proclaim the v>tue of orange pekoe tea. Sitting it the lobby of the Lamar hotel at Meridian, Miss., I heard Amoc -and everybody knows who I mean—shrilly crying, “Awa, awa!” as the imaginary lunchroom operated by him and Andy was held up by an imaginary bandit. a a a Just Drab Monotony TWO thousand miles through this country, and not a show advertised that we couldn’t see back home. Drab monotony, standardized entertainment, bought and paid for culture, with a pitifully small number doing all the talking and singing, while the great mass settles down to the novel luxury of just looking or listening. No hand organs, no hurdy-gurdies, no street musicians; no such gathering around the piano at home as there used to be; no such incentive to provide entertainment for ourselves or develop local talent. Something terrific is happening to those customs and practices which we once regarded as essential to a healthy appreciation of art, culture and sport—something that hardly can fail to have a profound bearing on the future. a a a Material Things First IN spite of their mid-Victorian traditions, which commonly are supposed to be rather transcendental and abstruse, most people see the greatness of this age in such things as the skyscraper, automobile, electric light and vacuum cleaner. No matter how much we may have read Emerson, w’e can’t seem to get away from the influence of purely physical symbols, which is why churches have steeples, and why we feel the need of a pipe organ to tell God what it’s all about. But the mind of man remains the driving force of human progress. and what happens to the mind eventually will find a reflection in everything. Back of all the churches was conversion of a heathen world to Christianity, and back of literature were not only such giants as Homer and Shakespeare, but the development of a widespread taste for good writing—a taste which was not content. to sit idly by and absorb, but which forever was attempting to do the thing. ana Danger in System THE reason that the world produced so many good writers during the nineteenth century is that many people tried to write, and that the set-up gave them a chance to get something out of it locally if they couldn't, make the grade nationally. The same is true regarding singers, scientists, painters, and engineers. There is little hope of producing genius without an active interested mass. * Listening to music isn’t music; looking at pictures, or even paying a high price for them, isn't art; occupying a ringside seat isn’t boxing, and getting cut and dried programs over the air isn’t intellect. People can’t appreciate a thing, much less become proficient in it, without doing it for themselves. If they could, monarchy would be the best form of government and a small educated class the best guarantee of social progress. No job in this world ever will be done right unless large numbers of people take enough Interest in it to know whether it is being done right. Any system that discourages such attitude, especially toward the more important phases of mental and emotional development, is bound to be dangerous.

Questions and Answers

Who was Sir William Herschei? A famous English astronomer and musician, who was born in 1738, and died in 1822. Has oxygen taste or color? Oxygen is colorless, tasteless and inordorous. In what work of fiction does the character Christopher Sly appear? In Shakespeare's “Taming of the Shrew.” He is a keeper of bears and a tinker, and as the play opens he is found dead drunk by a nobleman, w’ho orders his servants to take him to his mansion and attend him as if he were a lord. The trick is played and the comedy of “The Taming of the Shrew” is performed for the delectation of this ephemeral lord.

Daily Thought I

Havse mercy upon m and hear my prayer.—Psalm 4:L Pray not too often for great, favors, for we stand most in need of smali ones. J. L. Basford,

A Good Scare While It Lasted!

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Millions Injured in Industry

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Maxarine. TT is estimated that there are from 15,000 to 25,000 fatal accidents in industry in the United States every year. There are moreover, more than 100,000 accidents that cause permanent disability and at least 2,500,000 cause disability of one day or more. These facts have caused a great amount of study to be devoted to methods of prevention and to attempts to find out the causes of accidents. Only when the cause is known is it possible scientifically to plan for prevention. One of the first steps has been an attempt to find out whether men or women are more likely to suffer accidents and whether the number of women in industry has in any u*ay increased the likelihood of danger. As might have been expected, in view of the number of women em-

IT SEEMS TO ME

HRISTMAS seems to have been a big day for the Communists. The Young Pioneers got together and kicked Santa Claus in the shins, \vhich means that the capitalist system is going to fall almost any minute. But S. Claus was not' the oply one to come down in th<* crash of mistletoe and holly. Although I was not present, I observed by the accounts that signal honor was paid to still another mythical character called Heywood Broun. In fact, the story in the New York Times says that the interpreter of this role was “plainly labeled in front and back.” If the interpreter was in any wise adequate, the back should have been sufficiently broad for purposes of easy identification. • This Broun person appeared as part of the heavenly host. This, I fear, is a misapprehension. In a fight between two characters labeled “Kid Science” and “Knockout Religion” Mr. Broun acted as referee. The news account says “with the aid of a bottle.” I am puzzled as to the nature of this reference. a ft n Assailed Twice APPARENTLY the referee fared worst of all, since both Science and Religion swung on him during the course of the encounter. This is probably the inevitable fate of any one who tries to stand against both mystical and intellectual dogma. At the end Heywood Broun and Knockout Religion went down together. I hope that Bishop Manning will be duly informed of the martyrdom which I have suffered in defense of the faithful. I am naturally flattered, but distinctly puzzled. How did I manage to crash in among the hates with Santa Claus and Science, not to mention Religion? And was this a purely local function, or did Moscow lay down the nature of the show and cable over left wing wisecracks? If the young Communists don’t leave me alone, I warn them that presently I shall have delusions of grandeur. I might even develop a persecution complex and report to Ham Fish that Stalin is not doing right by our Heywood. Can it be that along the corridors of the Kremlin a great shout echoes, “Get Broun and Rockefeller, Santa Claus and Morgan!”? I have neither dimes nor reindeer. Is'it not possible for me to ask for a truce under the contention that, even if I am completely overthrown, it really will not matter much to any one? With the exception of me, of course. nut* Senator Norris IF Senator Norris were a logical politician he might have heeded the plea of Professor John Dewey that he lead anew political party. I doubt that Mr. Norris, for all his virtues, possesses logic. He has had ample opportunity in the past to leap clear, and so it was no surprise that he will not leap now’. A useful function might be performed by a Norris bolt, but, at best, it would fall considerably short of political or economic salvation. Much in the creed of George W. Norris is liberal. He is, as Professor Dewey say’s, “socially minded,” but he is not essentially radical. Middlewestern so called, never

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

ployed in industry and the nature of the occupations in which they are employed; accidents to women were actually and relatively fewer than those to men. A much larger proportion of women injured than of men were under 21 years of age. More than one-half of injuries to women occurred in manufacturing. There also were considerable numbers among workers in hotels and restaurants, and among women who served as scrubwomen or janitresses in buildings. In factories in which women were most frequently injured, the substances manufactured were food, clothing, textiles, metals and vehicles. Among women, machinery was the principal cause of accidents and falls was second. The handling of objects came as third cause. Among men, the handling of objects, and to a less extent, falls caused more accidents than did machinery. In the state of New York, sewing machines, power presses, and food products machinery

HEYWOOD BROUN

has been anything but a phase of farm politics. Its leaders have committed themselves only to one economic reform. They feel this would be a happier world if the farmer got a higher price for his wheat. The price of bread never has engaged their attention. There is nothing in any Norris program to combine the agriculturist and the industrial w'orker. To George Norris, as to Shipstead and La Follette, economics is a local issue. None of these men ever is internationally minded, although courageous in the cause of peace. But these, are not the militant pacifists of whom Professor Einstein has spoken. They will make an emotional commitment against war, but they are wholly unwilling to organize' or plan for peace. The particular political result of a Norris schism would have been to assure the defeat of the Republican party in 1932. This is a consummation to be wished, although I can not say devoutly. There is ample evidence that government in America varies little whether Republicans or Democrats hold office. tt 0 0 One Issue STILL, if Norris had been drafted for a third party some few national issues might have been clarified, Around him the middlewestern drys might have clustered, leaving the eastern Butlerites in control. Under such circumstances, there might have been a fair showdown on at least one political problem. Professor Dewey mentioned 1940 as a year in which a third party might triumph. This does not seem to me fantastically optimistic. It could be done, perhaps, in 1936. It might even be done in 1932 if a

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PAUL REVERE S BIRTH —Jan. 1— ON Jan. 1, 1735, Paul Revere, famed American patriot, was born in Boston, Mass. He learned from his father the trade of goldsmith and soon became skillful as an engraver on silverware. He engraved the plates and printed the paper money ordered in 1775 by the provincial congress and in the same year established a powder mill in Boston. Revere took an active interest in the disputes with the English. He participated in the tea party and carried the news of it to New York and Philadelphia. On April 18-19, 1775, at the request of Joseph Warren, Revere made his memorable midnight ride to Lexington to warn Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approach of English troops. Then, passing on toward Concord to warn the people there, he was captured by a party of British soldiers, and was brought back to Lexington, where he was released the next day. This ride was the theme of Longfellow’s celebrated poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”

were most frequently responsible for accidents to women workers. ,In a survey of the situation, the United States department of labor points out that machinery is more frequently responisble for accidents to women, particularly to those under 21 years of age, and that, boys are injured almost as frequently by machines as are girls. Dangerous machines for employes under 21 years of age include power punches, drill presses, stamping machines and woodworking machines. In many states certain occupations are prohibited to young people. Apparently under present regulations, insufficient protection is given to young workers. Boys and girls are certainly not as careful as adults and are much more likely to take chances. One of the first steps in lowering the number of accidents in industry would seem to be the establishment of better regulations controlling the ages of the workers permitted to operate dangerous machines.

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

leader of sufficient prominence and spirit were found, I do not know of such leader. But even if Senator Norris is to live on and on, he hardly could serve at some remotely future date as the inspired commander of a radical party. He is an insurgent and not a revolutionary. There is all the difference in the world. Though bolder than Borah, he is a member of the same clan. Each is distinctly a parochial prophet. Neither has had any vision of depression and unemployment as problems extending across the sea and to the furtherest shores. They are still talking in terms of “trust,” “chain stores” and “mergers.” They have no desire to go forward, but merely long for a more ancient day of smaller units and fiercer competition. They are not convinced that unscrambling of eggs is futile. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—A recent issue of The Times exhibits a flagrant example of the abuse of your news columns, which has become habitual where prohibition is concerned. On the “All-Indiana News” page, you give top-column, three-line heads to three stories inimical to prohibition. First, featuring the inconsequential opinion of an itinerant preacher who condemns prohibition after serving a term in Jail. Second, the opinion of a Kokomo lawyer convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, supporting Judge Clark’s opinion that the Eighteenth amendment is invalid. Third, playing up the alleged anger of the Ft. Wayne W. C. T. U. because one of i f s members testified for the defense n a local trial. A careful reading f the three stories fails to reveal any news value whatever, except as they may be used to discredit prohibition in the popular mind. Contrast if you will, the treatment accorded the opinion of the convicted Kokomo lawyer with the treatment accorded the opinion of the National W. C. T. U. on Judge Clark's decision. The convicted law violator gets top-column on a

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JAN. 1, 1931

SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ

Meteor Crater in Arizona Arouses Deep Interest of, Scientific Investigators. ; /~VNE of the most interesting spots on the face of the earth is a crater in Arizona near Canyon Diablo. The crater is known as Meteor crater, because scientists agree that it was caused by a great meteorite which crashed down to earth in some remote day. Watch any part of the sky upon a clear, moonless night. Within less than ten minutes, you will see a little track of fire go across the sky. It Is the trail of a meteor, a chunk of rock which has entereril the earth’s atmosphere from outer! space and which has been heated* white-hot and melted by the friction of the earth’s atmosphere. Thousands upon thousands of such meteors enter the earth’s surface every twenty-four hours. Occasionally. however, a larger one enters our atmosphere. It is not completely destroyed by friction and a piece of it falls to earth. It then is known as a meteorite. The largest known meteorite was found by Admiral Peary at Melville Bay, Greenland. It weighed 36‘i tons. The Meteor crater Is 4,000 feet In diameter. Its walls rise 150 feet above the desert. Its interior sinks several hundred feet below the general level of the desert. Astronomers are certain that this huge crater was caused by a metorite or group of meteorites which struck the spot hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago. 000 Mystery of Fate THE fate of the meteorite which created the crater has occupied the attention of many investigators. The most important work has been done by the Barringers, father and sons, who have collected and published at, considerable expense a vast amount of data about the crater. What is known about the crater has been summarized recently by Dr. Herman L. Fairchild, professor emeritus of the University of Rochester. “The impact origin of Meteor crater is an accepted fact,” he says. “The fate or disposition of the colliding body is yet undetermined and a very interesting problem in cosmic science. “The problem of the fate of the meteor involves not only the physical and chemical properties of the discovered meteor fragments, but the nature of other meteorites. “There also are involved most of the features of the crater and the characters of the rock strata which were disrupted. “The meteoric irons known as Canyon Diablo irons, from the nearby creek and canyon, have been gathered from the desert plain about the crater to the number of thousands and distributed to institutions all over the world. “Because of their number and wide distribution, their inclusion Os minute diamonds, their genetic relation to the unique crater, and their remarkable chemical and physical characters, they are the most interesting and instructive of known meteorites. “The facts concerning these irons should give some clew to the character and fate of the giant bolide of which they were a part.” tt tt U irons Scattered THE typical Canyou Diablo irons were scattered over the desert in a radius of four miles and also have been found in the debris on the rim of the crater, Prof. Fairchild says. He continues: “The largest one weighed about 1,400 pounds. The total weight of all the discovered irons can be only several tons, and they certainly are only a smali percentage of the giant bolide. “On the supposition that the meteor was wholly nickeliferous iron, ballistic caluclations have suggested a diameter of about 400 feet and a weight of some 10,000,000 tons. The velocity factor, against which the mass must be computed, is unknown. The facts, however, do not favor a meteor composed wholly of iron. “Early exploration of the crater assumed that the meteor lay burled under the ninety feet of lacustrine sediment in the floor of the crater and in the subsequent rock debris. “After a shaft was found impracticable, because of the copious ground water, drilling was done during the years 1905-1908. Only particles of nickeliron and some green stain of nickel were found by the drills. “But an important discovery was that the deeper rock strata were in continuous and undisturbed position. This ruled out any idea of a volcanic vent or chimney.”

prominent page and the W. C. T. U. six inches on a “Want Ad” page. It is understood thoroughly that the editorial policy of the siSripteHoward newspapers is wet. In adopting that policy they are within their rights. But your editorial policy has no right to project itself into the news columns in such a way as to “play up” the wet side and to “play down” the dry’. We are not asking for favors at your hand; we ask only fair play for a cause which represents the sentiment of the vast majority of the people of this country. .JAMES A. CRAIN