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• Meanest Gouge No excuses should be accepted from members of the legislature if that body fails to curb the rapacity of those who prey upon the necessities of the poor through outrageous interest rates. Tomorrow evening a public hearing will be held on bills designed to end this sort of pillage. Those interested in preventing poverty and the evils of poverty should attend. The usurer will be there, in person or by attorney, to protect his legalized brigandage. Fof many years'money lenders who hide behind a suspicious report of the Sage Foundation that 42 per cent is a fair charge on salary and household goods loans have been able to defeat the demand for legislation reducing that rate There is also a suspicion that, in former sessions of the legislature, bills of this sort have been introduced for no other purpose than inviting those engaged in this most profitable sort of business to make defeat profitable to the legislator. The present depression has emphasized the evils that come from extortionate rates of interest. Every charitable organization can trace the necessities of many supplicants to the fact that they paid, over years of employment, outrageous rates of interest on money borrowed for some special crisis. To many workers sickness in the family has meant a life term of peonage. The state fixes the rate of interest which may be charged by banks to men in business at 8 per cent, which is termed a fair wage for money. But when money is loaned for the business of living to v those least able to pay, the law authorizes 42 per cent. By devices known to themselves, many of those who have grown wealthy by this' method raise the rate to much more than this extortionate sum. No business could save itself from bankruptcy which paid such a rate of interest on money borrowed. No worker can long keep away from the bread line and the soup kitchen who is driven to this fonlfcof borrowing. The legislator who opposes a law to curb this rapacity invites suspicion of his intelligence, his honesty, even his claim to being a human being. Hypocrisy in Saddle Once again the state advertises the fact that hypocrisy rules at the statehouse and that ignorance and intolerance are more powerful than intelligence. Killing the bill which would restore the legal right to prescribe whisky to patients merely means that the thing will be done in defiance of law. There is truth in the sinister comment of one legislator that no one will die for lack of whisky. That will be cared for by the bootlegger instead of the physician. There were a few of the legislators who voted against this measure to whom credit must be given for enough sincerity and more than enough ignorance to cause them to get that way. They even believed it to be a dry question. Asa matter of fact, all that was involved was a censorship by ignorant men over those trained in the science of therapy. Ignorant ~ men won. Science is chained. And a few men can go back home with an alibi for their misdeeds in behalf of greed, pillage and, perhaps, private plunder. Hamilton Fish: Historian In the section of his report dealing with the American Civil Liberties Union, Representative Hamilton Fish made the following sally into the history of American ideals. The principles of free speech, free press and free assembly are worthy of an organization that stands for our republican form of government, guaranteed by the Constitution, and for the ideals of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, instead of an organization whose main work is to uphold Communists in spreading revolutionary propaganda and inciting revolutionary activities/to undermine our American institutions and overthrow our federal government." With Mr. Fish's absurd implication that the Civil Liberties Union is Communistic in character or sympathetic with Communistic aims we shaU not deal here. But we fruitfully may investigate his apparent notions of the ideals of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. From what he says we might imagine that if these men were alive today they would be members of the National Civic Federation and the Better American Federation, and would be receiving the' alarmist maU service of Harry Jung and Fred Marvin If we recall our American history, Washington once was involved slightly in a revolutionary movement. We believe he did his best to undermine and overthrow the government under which he lived. Even more, he had been in the employ of this British government in a very direct and personal way. being the only American President except Hoover who has worked for Britain. Worse yet, he spread propaganda against it, backing vigorously the circulation of Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” and “Crisis.” Jefferson was a rebel and revolutionist from youth to the grave. No Amfc-ican Communist ever has been so specific, ardent and vocal an exponent of the right and benefits of revolution. “I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical ... I like a little rebellion now and then . . . God forbid that we should be twenty years without a rebellion . Such are the sentiments of the Sage of Monticello. And he did not mean figurative revolution. Itree of liberty must be refreshed from to time
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by the blood of tyrants. It is its natural manure.” His writings never could have been sent through the mails under the present ruling of the postofßce department, upheld by the federal court. Nor was the martyred Lincoln any more dooile. He was very explicit in his advocacy of revolution as a “sacred right.” He said on this point: “Any people anywhere being inclined and having the pbwer have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government* and form anew one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred righte-a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.” Further, In another place he set forth a view which could be seized upon with great propriety by American Communists today, ,when they are being denied the fundamental American rights of free speech, assemblage and press: “If by a mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, It might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.” We hope Mr. Fish never will discover Lincoln’s famous assertion that the international bond of the working class should be placed ahead of the patriotic bond commanding loyalty to one’s country. It is not contended that any of these great Americans was right in any of the above contentions. It merely is asserted that Mr. Fish does not seem to be very familiar with their deeds and thoughts, which means that he hardly is conversant with good old American tradition. The Bonus Loan Bill To the extent that it helps World war veterans who are unemployed or who for some other reason are in need of aid, the soldier bonus loan bill passed by the house is useful legislation. But the bill, as passed, doesn’t stop there. The opportunity to make larger loans on adjusted compensation certificates is not limited to those veterans who really need it. T t goes to the well-to-do and the hard-up alike; to the lucky and the unlucky; to men who were prosperous before the war and have been prosperous since, as tv ell as to those whose ability to make a living was impaired seriously by their service. Its effect is not equal, by any means. We have said before that those in need of assistance should be given it. But the present legislation displays not only an unwarranted fear of the “soldier vote —as if men who fought for their country now would vote against their country’s best interests—but is dangerous legislation financially. Sums ranging from S2BO to SSOO are made available to some three million men. The veterans’ bureau an* 1 house leaders estimate that 2,000,000 men will take advantage of the opportunity offered by the bill. On this basis, the bill’s cost, exclusive of administrative cost, will be about $700,000,000. If all were to apply, the cost would be more than $1,700,000,000, it is said. Therefore, the administration opposes the bill. It argues that the government already faces a deficit of half a billion dollars, and that an additional billion or more would necessitate bond issues disastrous to federal finances and to the commercial credit structure. If the President vetoes the bill, as expected, the veterans will get nothing. Why not limit the benefits of the increased loans and lower interest to veterans actually in need, thus keeping the total expenditure within the financial safety zone and preventing a veto?Critics say that “Genesis,” new statue of Jacob Epstein, famed British sculptor, has ruined his reputation. Thus creating the paradox that his "Genesis” also may be his end. If the prince of Wales does well as a salesman in South America, maybe the British army will give him a. commission. Rudy Vallee is said to have enjoyed himself immensely In Miami recently. Well, the grapefruit should be better there than in Boston. Drug stores in a number of cities are reported to be selling meat. At last the drug store “cow”boy comes into his own.
REASON
THE papers tell us that Mrs. Henderson, the widow of a former United States senator from Missouri, wants to present a mansion to the government f(sr the use of the Vice-President. tt tt a This is not so attractive as it might seem, for it would mean that the government immediately would be called upon to make an annual appropriation to maintain the establishment. u ts tt There’s no particular reason why the people of the United States should be called on to keep the VicePresident. and if we should be foolish enough to do it the next thing would be a mansion for the Speaker of the house of representatives, and so forth and so on. * tt e AND there’s another thing about it that should make the nation shudder. If Vice-President Curtis should move into such an establishment, we would immediately have an argument as to whether Mrs. Gann should sit in the conservatory or in the bay window. No, sir, we don't want any of that. tt tt tt We do not wish to knock the worthy proposition to erect a memorial down in Spencer county, Indiana, in honor of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Lincoln, but we do believe the proposition proposed in extravagant and inappropriate. We believe it is out of all proportion. tt 9 n It now is proposed to erect a white structure of many flutes and furbelows, a structure which at first blush would seem to suggest Constantinople, rather than the United States, a structure far more elaborate than the plain life it is proposed to honor. m tt a It would seem that a simple marble temple, small and white, with columns, would more fittingly grace the memory of this forest mother, who in her day knew little but poverty, little but suffering. tt M tt WE are going monument crazy. Not to mention any other projects, it now is proposed to erect a million dollars’ worth of memorial marble down at Vincennes, ostensibly to honor George Rogers Clark, who has been dust almost a century, and whose last years were spent in poverty. > tt tt tt Also it is propos' and to build a memorial highway along the route taken by the Lincoln family when they went to Illinois. This would be in a little traveled region, and if you ask us it’s jfist a scheme to get a road for a region tl couldn't get it otherwise. tt tt m There's a lot of bunk, also ascertain amount of graft, in this orgy of moument balding.
FREDERICK LANDIS
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
M. E. Tracy
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The Desert Is the Farmer’s. Great Friend in Arizona; It Keeps OvJt the Bugs and Other Pests. YUMA, Ariz., Feb. 17.—1f you were to go up in an airplane and look down on southern Arizona, you would see a vast, gray, treeless waste, broken here and there by long, stringy patches of green. The patches of green would strike ! you as rather lonesome and unim- ; portant. You would find it diffi- : cult to visualize them as the great ; irrigation projects, about which you | have heard so much, and which, taken as a whole, represent one of i the most spectacular and profit - | able agricultural ventures in this icountry. Occupying low flat river valleys, these irrigation projects are surrounded and separated from each other by miles on miles of desert, and, strange to say, that is not the least of their advantages. No doubt, you have wondered what justified such vast expenditures for dams, canals and drainage ditches, and how on earth a farmer could hope to make money after paying such prices for land, not to mention the water rent. Maybe, you have decided that it was all a big mistake, or that the soil and climate of this region contain peculiar and mysterious virtues. Soil and climate have a great deal to do with it, but don’t leave out the desert. tt tt tt Desert Is Best Friend MOST of those pests from which farmers suffer so much in other parts of the country neither j can breed on the desert, nor cross it. : Start an apple orchard back east j or plant a potato patch and you immediately are exposed to bugs and worms that literally swarm out of the surrounding territory. Start a citrus fruit grove out here, or a truck patch, and you find the desert is your best friend. The desert goes a long way to- | ward explaining the wonderful and j continued acre yield, not only of j such exceptional crops as grape- I fruit, oranges and dates, but of | such commonplace crops as lettuce, tomatoes and beans. The farmer out here doesn’t have to spend half his time and money spraying trees, fighting lice or killing bugs. The result is that he can take care of twice as much, with bigger and better production to boot. tt tt B Cotton Again Fails THERE are 115,000 acres under irrigation around Yuma, 65,000 in the river bottom and 50,000 on the mesa. The mesa is a plain ninety feet above the river bottom. You wouldn’t suppose that ninety feet meant much, especially in a region like this, but it does. The river bottom is subject to occasional frost, but the mesa is not. 1 In the river bottom farming runs largely to cotton, alfalfa and pecans. On the mesa, they are going in for grapefruit and dates. As in so many other places, cotton has proved a veritable curse, carrying down not only hundreds of farmers, but banks and comercial institutions as well. Bad enough for the south to keep on fooling with cotton in such a crazy, obstinate way, but plastering this high-priced irrigated land \ with it is nothing short of sheer folly. tt tt tt Land Is a Mint * i THINK of a farmer growing cotton when he can get eight crops of alfalfa a year, each crop averaging about a ton to the acre, or beat the lettuce market by two or three weeks, or bring a paper shell ; pecan tree into production in eight | years. Paper shall pecans are selling j here for 57 cents a pound. And one ! 8-year-old tree produced 300 pounds j this fall. Thq trees are planted ! seventeen to the acre. Figure the ■ rest of it out for yourself, ana decide ; whether cotton sounds sensible, not at the present price, but at the best J price it ever brought. Mr. Ming, proprietor of the hotel where we are staying, has a tenacre grapefruit orchard on the mesa which he set out four years ago and from which he already has picked 2,000 boxes this year, with at least 1,500 more on the trees. tt tt tt Profits Are Huge I AM not advising any one to rush down here and buy land, or throw up a good job in town for a game about w'hich he knows nothing. Wise as a thing may be for some people, it’s not necessarily so wise for others. When it comes to extracting cash from the soil with such implements as a hoe, plough, or seed drill, however, these irrigation projects can show results, whether in Arizona, California, Colorado, or Texas. Look at the valley of El Paso, with its anual gross yield of $14,000,000, or the lower Rio Grande Valley, with its endless trains of fruit and truck rolling northward every spring, or the Imperial valley, with its 250,000 acres little less productive than a hothouse.
Questions and Answers
Should the hostess at a formal dinner be served first? Mrs. Emily Post in her book etiquette says “For no explainable reason, unless because of the mistaken belief that it is novel or smart, an occasional hostess directs that she be served first. Undoubtedly the custom originated in the dangerous days of the Borgias and others who practiced the fine art of murder, through the medium of the dinner table. The host of innocent intentions ate first of each dish, so that he might assure his guests that the food was not poisoned. Unless, therefore, the hostess has reason to believe that her food is likely to be spoiled or otherwise dangerous to eat, there is no excuse for the unpoliteness of this service.” She adds the following: “In all first-class restaurants each dish is presented to the host for his approval before it is passed or served to his guests, but he does not help himself. Nor should a hostess.” What was the population of the United States in 1850? 23,191,876.
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Depression Puts Capitalism on Trial
BY ROBERT P. SCRIPPS THE Bolshevist contention is that Marxian theories have proved correct, and that throughout the western world the industrial system, based upon individualist capitalism, is a failure. The Fascist contention is not so different from the Moscow view. Hence, Russian Bolshevists and and Italian Fascists try to invent and demonstrate something better. And the rest of the world observes both experiments with unusual nervousness—perhaps because of real fear one or both may result in success, or such appearance of success as will threaten, all other existing institutions, Assuming the chief objective of advancing civilization is to secure not simply freedom, but economic and social security for great masses of population, the case against the capitalist-individualist state is strong, particularly at this time of world-wide business and employment crisis. In industrialized countries, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, the working world has experienced nothing but a series of such crises. And in every instance the great wage-earning majorities have been chief Sufferers. Despite acquired skill at given trades and willingness to work, families have been broken up, children starved and self-respecting wnage earners forced to ask for charity at more or less regular intervals since inception of the so-called ago of steam. tt tt tt EVEN in normal times, the job of no laborer is secure. Steam shovels and ditching machines overnight displace armies of the pick-and-shovel order. One cheap new tractor leaves at least two otherwise employable plowman jobless. A quickly developed electrical gadget has within the lasi few' years replaced the whole corps of Morse system telegraphers with a handful of typists. Newly invented rolling mill machinery permits forty steel workers to produce this year as much rolled
IT SEEMS TO ME
A NUMBER of scientists got together in Cleveland recently and made speeches at one another. Scientists are human beings like the rest of us, and when a professor delivers an address he rather likes to see it reported under big headlines in the newspapers the next day. The wise men of Cleveland did pretty will for themselves. They got a lot of headlines, but most of them went to Professor William F. Ogburn. He seems to be starting in where the late Dr. Osier left off. Dr. Osier, as you may remember, said at a dinner dance once that it might be just as well to chloroform every man as soon as he reached 40. Os course, the good doctor was joking. But even a jest generally carries with it some element of belief and conviction. I imagine that Dr. Osier thought that mankind does its most important creative work before the age of 40. After that it’s a process of repeating and re-emphasizing what the individual knows or thinks he knows. He doesn’t break much new ground—at least, that’s the theory.
tt a b Prolonging Infancy I HOPE it isn’t so. I’m much more taken by Professor Ogbum’s notion that life is growing so much more complex, what with the machine age and the advance of knowledge, that the future may see infancy prolonged all the way up to 30 or 40 years of age. Which means that if I hadn't been bom before my time Id just about be getting out of my kiddy car right now. I’m afraid this professor, too, was having his little joke. But he also based his fantasy upon a real belief. If I can assume the audacious privilege of speaking for somebody else, I think he meant to say that the business of getting educated and learning more will have to be prolonged’ in the world of the future. Part of that’s true already. I’ve always thought that there was a grave danger in the psychology which surrounds a college education. A man gets out, and they give him %• couple of letters to use
The Hand Deceives the Eyes
steed as a hundred did two or three years ago, and sends sixty of those trained men to the employment agencies. The present depression is a veritable “handwriting on the wall.” Considering the three principal countries involved, United States, Great Britain and Germany, it' occurs at a time of no shortage of any foodstuff or raw material. It occurs when by reason of application of scientific discovery to agriculture, industry and transportation each, country really is wealthier than ever before in potential per capita productivity. And it occurs at a time of no money stringency, but is contemporaneous with the most efficient banking and credit organization the world has known. In short, hard times and bread lines today are a contradiction in terms, the hard times and bread lines of overproduction, of necessities, with, of course, an underdeveloped market for luxuries. tt tt tt IN the absence of wars and rumors of wars, with all the undeveloped natural resources of the world to fall back upon, but with no very rapidly growing population to increase consumption demands, such as we knew in this country in the early nineteen hundreds, this is really not a surprising situation, although it has caught many unaware. The scientists who have been inventing the new gadgets have been looking forward to it right along, but hoping that the industrialists and politicos would start readjusting in advance. Such phenomenon as wars and, in sections like the United States, unusual population accretions, hitherto have provided the excess, or abnormal, consumption that blinded the economic eye to the fact that science rapidly was catching up with and surpassing normal human moods of man. All over the civilized world the outstanding fact is that potential per capita production, as an economic factor, is increasing much more rapidly than population.
with his name and a sheepskin, and he feels that he’s finished. He’s taken 16 to 17 courses, and what more is there to learn? Os course, he can stay on in the college cloisters and get to be a master of arts or a doctor of philosophy. But that’s the absolute and final achievement of scholasticism. And I think it's a fraud. tt tt u Make Your Own List TRY to run over in your mind any list of ten or twelve living Americans who seem vitally important to you. I’ll try at the same time. Very likely our lists won’t coincide. But I’ll bet that there will be hardly a chemical trace of any Ph. D. in any of our lists. Most of us are going to name Henry Ford and Edison. - ' Whether we like them or dislike them, it’s hard to get around the j fact that these two men, have and are influencing the way in which you and I carry on from day to day. Another popular name will be that of Lindbergh. He isn’t on my list. Not that I don’t admire and get a thrill out of his achievements in the air. But I can’t see that these exploits affect me particularly. I don’t think they affect you very ' much. Your life would run along : about the same, even if Lindy never j had hopped for Paris and landed there right on the dot. tt tt a I THINK that a lot of us confuse effort and making motions with intellectual activity. I have detected that belief in the offices of some of my business friends. They can’t stand it because some minor executive or bookkeeper or stenographer isn’t doing something at some particular moment. They always try to think up a task for everybody around the place, so that there shall be rustling of paper and the rat-tat-tat of keys on the typewriter and shouting and office memoranda passing ,all over the place. And there’s that old adage that nobody ever gets ahead if he watches the clock. I don’t expect to be'chosen as the head of any big business, ever. But the rule I’d make for the staff
Thia has not been compensated, to date, by either decreased working hours or increased wages. The latter means, of course, an increased luxury market. In the recent past it has been compensated only partially by the late great war—simply another form of luxury, economically speaking. In Russia, or in Italy, under their present systems, when necessities have been provided for and numbers are unemployed or unemployable in the ordinary way, the dictator, by flat, can turn to public works—utilitarian good roads or artistic buildings, or what not. Everybody works, everybody eats regularly, and nobody is demoralized by lohfing, with or without a dole. tt tt tt THIS undoubtedly is better than the historic idea of Plato that, when things got out of order in his “republic,” war would be declared against a few more barbarians. The modern world has run out of easily accessible barbarians, and war between civilized nations is to distressing to be undertaken as a relief measure. Recalling, then, the contention of the dictatorships, the outstanding question now facing the world frames itself this "way: Can any method, short of Bo] she- - * vism or Fascism, take full advantage of the application of science to industry, and at the same time give the wage earner what he wants* and eventually must demand—security in employment, and continuity in his family and social life? In other words, can individualism and democracy survive the industrial and scientific revolution? The obvious answer is that it probably can’t, and won’t, unless industrialists, politicians and journalists, who are interested particularly in the preservation of the present system, get busy and do something about it. In spite of us, science is going to go on inventing new methods and machines faster than, apparently, the present system can absorb them. Next:- ‘Every Man His Own Capitalist’ Only a Dream,
nv HEYWOOD BROUN
would be just the opposite. I wouldn’t want anybody in my factory who didn’t keep pretty keen watch on the clock. I’d like to feel that I was working with an organization made up of human beings who had dates and dinner engagements and maybe an urge to go out and make love to somebody or be made love to. That would be a much better staff than a crowd of automatons that you had to dust off the steps in the morning before work began and then shoo away from the premises at quitting time. The person who is too much engrossed in his job hasn’t enough imagination to think up new and better ways of doing things. He’s just going to stick, in the same wagon tracks all the time. {Copyright, 1931, by The Times)
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LAENNEC’S BIRTH February 17
ON Feb. 17, 1781, Rene Theophile Laennec, French physician famed for his invention of the stethoscope, was born at Quimper, Brittany. His invenjjfon, by means of which a physician can listen to sounds produced by the body, was at first a mere roll of paper. His idea, crude as it was, was diffused rapidly into every country. But Laennec did far more than introduce a useful and convenient device into medicine. He explored with extraordinary skill the physical signs in the chest which correspond to a'large number of diseases. The major part of our chestlore and much of the technique and nomenclature of chest examination came dirrct from him. Despite continual illness and the shortness of his life, Laennec’s brilliance and devotion to duty at a Paris hospital enabled him to transmit his views and methods to many other physicians. He is said to be among the greatest physicians of all time.* lf
Ideals and opinions expressed in this colatr. 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 paper.—The Editor.
-TEB. 17, 19S1
SCIENCE
-BY DAVID DIETZ-
Einstein's Scientific Achievements Are Held Logical Climax to Those of Copernicus. THE work of Einstein is the logical climax of that of Copernicus. The layman who keeps this jin mind will have less difficulty in understanding the theory of relativity and its implications. It frequently is pointed out tha Newton built his theories upon th<work of Galileo and that Einstein has given the world a more comprehensive theory, which embraces and includes that of Newton, while going beyond it in many respects. But the natural succession from Copernicus to Einstein seems generally to be overlooked. f Until the time of Copernicus, the world held to the Ptolemaic theory according to which the earth wa.the immovable center of the universe. Upon the basis of this theory the entire heavens revolved around the earth. In 1543. Copernicus, a Polish monk, published his book in Latin It was titled “De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium,”—“Concemir.r j the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies.’ It revived the theory which certain of the Greeks had from time to time advanced, namely, that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun. Thus Copern cus freed astrononr. from the dominance of the earth a tt tt Galileo and Newton THE wost of Galileo falls into two fields. In 1609 he built his first little telescope. With it he made many important discoveries He was the first to see the mounj tains on the moon. He discovered : four moons of Jupiter. He disI covered that Venus w r ent through phases like the moon. His discoveries with the telescope | furnished the proof needed to establish the Copernican theory. In 1637, Galileo, now a lonely prisoner at Arcetri, having been forced to recant his astronomical beliefs, went blind But though he no longer could use his eyes, he could still use his brain. In earlier days he had pondered upon physical as well as astronomical problems. He had, for example, invented the pendulum, and he had proved by dropping weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa that all bodies fall to the earth at the same rate. And now with the aid of three of his former pupils, he formulated his famous laws of motion. In the year that Galileo died. Newton was born. There seems to be something prophetic in this. For Newton carried on the work of Galileo. He restated and clarified the laws of Galileo. The world knows them today as Newton’s three laws of motion. From them, Newton developed his law of universal gravitation, which states that every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force proportional to the px-oduct of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance separating them tt tt What Einstein Did WE although no one seems to have realized it before Einstein, that Newton, although he speculated -'bout space and time, had failed to free him'--' of the viewpoint of this earth. In other words, the astronomy had been freed from the dominance of the earth, physics not yet had been set free. Einstein does this for us. In explaining his he returns time and again to ana logy of a moving train. The point is that our earth is such % train. Our earth is whirling on its axis and speeding around the sun. Consequently when we make measurements on this earth, says Einstein, they are not the fundamental. kind of measurements that Newton though them to be. They are the kind of measurements one gets on a body the size of the earth which is whirling around on its axis with the speed of the earth and revolving around a sun the size of our sun. Our measurements are valid from the viewpoint of the earth. They are not valid for the whole universe, Einstein says that each observer in the universe will get measurements of space and time which depend upon his position and motion in the universe. But Einstein does not deny that there are fundamental things in the universe. What is fundamental, according to Einstein, is a set of laws on the basis of which each observer’s measurements of space and time result in a certain way from his mo tion. *
People’s Voice
Editor Times—l don’t quite get the idea of somq of our good citizens desiring to prohibit the sale of firearms to honest citizens and business men, collectors and merchants. I’d say encourage them to go armed and issue permits to them If they don’t know how to handle a gun and shoot, provide a place and teach them the art. It’s the only way to suppress this banditry and killing, at least giving citizen:-, a chance in the present reign of terror. The bandits have ail the advantage and are anxious to use i 1 They don’t have to buy guns. The - , can break into a hardware store or rob a n armory and supply themselves with better guns than the police are permitted to carry. I say. arm the citizens, even the women If they can shopt, it will make our state a better and safer plafee to live. The bandits of today are a lot of yellow dogs, too cowardly to give a man a chance for his life- Their idea is shoot first and if you have no gun they shoot anyway. The police are doing their best, but they can’t watch all ot us. Why not help them clean up? Let every man have a gun, but let him secure a permit and register, showing his ability and fitness. ELMER.
Daily Thought
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you alL—Ephesians 4:6. It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme—Addison.