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Cards on the Table After much handshaking and backslappiug among the European statesmen and the formal blessings bestowed by President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, the Franco-Italian-British naval agreement is becalmed. Following three postponements of signature and publication, there Is further unexpected delay. Apparently the European powers want the new agreement limiting French and Italian auxiliary craft to be made a formal part of the London treaty of 1630, while the United States, it seems, objects to any procedure which would raise the question of further ratification by the senate. On its face, this appears to be a matter of minor Importance. But Just such minor matters have a way of becoming crucial issues in International affairs, especially in American foreign policy. Our adherence to the world court, for instance, originally was blocked by a technicality. If the situation had been handled with a maximum of frankness and skill, Instead of drifting Into a partisan political impasse, doubtless we would have been In the world court long ago. It Is to be hoped that the administration will handle this matter more intelligently. If it is not careful, however, the original public approval and enthusiasm which greeted announcement of the new naval agreement will be turned into suspicion and distrust. Once that is allowed to develop, years may be required to undo the mischief. Therefore, it Is essential that the state department, at the earliest possible moment, put all its cards on the table. The sooner the public Is given the full facts regarding these too secret negotiations, the sooner the public will accept any reasonable policy the state department matures on the basis of those facts For the state department to fix its policy, before giving public opinion a chance to form, would be another one of those needless mistakes which mars American diplomacy. Justice Holmes To him whose ninetieth birthday gives us the welcome opportunity, we express again our reverent admiration and affection. Every birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes must be for the people of this nation an occasion of pride and gratitude. He is one of us, and few people can say that of such a man. Holmes—with his great, wise spirit, his alert and learned mind, his unquenchable fire of youth, his tireless energy, his wit, his simplicity, his broad vision, his sense of reality, his instinct for leadership—are there many to compare with him? He once said, “We live by symbols.” To us Justice Holmes, whose own life has covered so great a part of the life of the United States, is a symbol of our ideal nation, For the highest patriotism we commend to the youth of the land a study of the volume of his decisions, recently published by the Vanguard Press, and the commemorative volume of tributes issued tod >y by Coward-McCann. No one has expressed more beautifully than he the thing at which we are aiming in this government. “When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths,” he said, “they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desiied is better reached by free trade in ideas . . . that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the open market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.” Few men have played as real and brilliant a part in American life as this man, who, for forty-eight years, has been on the judicial bench in Massachusetts and Washington. “A leader of opinion,” to quote Chief Justice Hughes, "with an influence transcending the limits usually assigned to judicial utterances.” Hs is part of almost all our past. It is hard to think of any future which he will not share. Hoover Refuses Os Hoover’s many mistakes, none is more difficult to understand than his veto of the Wagner unem-. ployment exchange bill. The bill embodied recommendations made by Hoover himself and Hoover commissions repeatedly during the last ten years. It had the vigorous support of economists, social service and labor organizations. It had the approval of the experts of the present Hoover emergency employment commission. It had the overwhelming support of the press of the country. It had been passed by congress. The general explanation of the President’s veto in Washington is that he and the Republican managers are unwilling to let credit for such constructive law go to the Democrats, Senator Wagner of New York being author of the bill. That partisan motives could prevent the President from granting this small measure of relief to upward of seven million unemployed seems impossible. But certainly Hoover’s veto statement contains no reasonable explanation. The present federal employment system which he says he is so eager to preserve has proved its utter, almost criminal, futility. That can be overcome only a a co-ordinateQ lational system, embracing state and federal ex-* changes, with federal aid and supervision—as often recommended by Hoover in the past and as provided in. the Wagner bill. That the President should raise the cry of dangerous subsidies to states in this connection is ludicrous. It is exactly the same principle as the road grants to states, approved by every one. Ana the amount of money involved, less than $1,500,000 next year, is insignificant compared with other subsidies—for instance, the $50,000,000 annual subsidy to the shipping and air mail companies. No, one looks in vain for any justification of this Hoover veto blunder, this latest refusal to lend a hand to the unemployed. Stool Pigeon Civics It la of course well known that most of our state prisons axe governed through the use of stool These contemptibles gain the confidence of their fellow prisoners and report any insubordination or plotting to the prison authorities. They are rewarded therefor by special privileges and the like. This is stool pigeon government at its best. At its worst, it results in a reign of terror in which these low-lived beings have their fellow convicts at their mercy and can invent fictitious charges which will send those whom they do not like to the dungeon and worse. The whole system should be revolting to any honorable man. Hence it is shocking t* find Henry E. Fwld of the department of correction of Boston telling the Amer- " . , T ■ ~

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lean Orthopsychiatric Association that stool piegons are indispensable to prevent prison outbreaks. Field went further and held that these stool pigeons must be taught that their work is of an honorable character, should be rewarded, and otherwise kept from losing their self respect. He did not specify what must be done to preserve the morale of the vast majority of the convicts who are spied upon. The fact is that nothing could be more opposed to sound prison policy than a system of stool pigeons. Any prison administration which can not preserve order without them should be dismissed forthwith. The chief purpose of any rational prison administration is the social re-education of the convicts—in other words, their reformation. They must be taught the essentials of sound citizenship. They are not good citizens when admitted.' They will not be when released unless taught citizenship while incarcerated. This was the core of Thomas Mott Osborne’s notion of prison democracy. Some day this will be regarded as more essential to good prisons than walls. No convict can be taught self respect and social responsibility through a stool pigeon system. This revolts the soul of even the most hardened crook. Few criminals ever imprisoned have been as foul and low as a stool pigeon. They preserve some semblance of honor among their fellows. The stool pigeon is the supreme negation of all decency, stool pigeons may prevent a few breaks in our present intolerable system of prison administration, but they will reform nobody. On the other hand, they obstruct reform among the thousands of convicts who are in psychic rebellion against this contemptible system. To attempt to create an atmosphere of reformation in a prison which uses stool pigeons is comparable to making fine citizens out of school children by appointing framers and informers, as official lecturers on civics in our high schools. Administrative massacre of stool pigeons and all they stand for must precede any serious effort to create a sound system of prison discipline. In Coolidgeland The Sage of Northampton, while resident in the White House, assured us with frequent gravity and solemnity that we are living in the best of. all possible worlds—a society in which prosperity and comfort are easily accessible to all. v But the cloud of hunger and misery now is moving up the Connecticut valley in full sight -of the resident of "The Maples.” Professors Colston Warne and Willard Throp, economists of Amherst college, have investigated the extent of unemployment at Holyoke. They selected as the unit of investigation the 598 members of Grace church in that city. Holyoke is an industrial city, specializing in textiles and paper. Wame and Thorp found that 33.2 per cent of the congregation were employed full time; 46.6 per cent part time, and 20.2 per cent not at all. One-fifth of the unemployed had been out of work for more than a year. Now the members of Grace church rank far above the level of the average working population in Holyoke. They are of old American stock—Scotch, German and English—of better than average economic status. If the above is the condition c? this class of workers, what can be the condition of unskilled and semiskilled labor? We hope Coolidge will unlimber and tell us what he thinks of “Holyoke prosperity” and of the remedies for it. A member of parliament has suggested that a knighthood be conferred on Charlie Chaplin. In that event will they call him Earl of Derby? When Edgar Lee Masters said that this is “the age of brass and gas,” was he trying, by any chance, to explain the reason for his biography of Lincoln? Speaking of tough breaks, consider that St. Paul boy who recently suffered his twenty-second fracture. Sophomores at the University of California are engaged in a whisker-growing contest, which promises to be quite a hair-raising event. A man in Pennsylvania was caught singing hymns as he robbed a store. Maybe he thought this the proper procedure while making a collection.

REASON

THE rush made by World war veterans to borrow on the increased loan value of their certificates shows how badly they need the money, but it seems rather strange to compel them to pay interest when they borrow what the government owes them. a a a After the great concessions made by the government to different European debtors, in a reduced principal and interest rate, surely we should show our own defender 5 the same consideration and cancel the interest altogether. a a a After permitting Italy, for instance, to settle her debt for 20 cents on the dollar, we should give the soldiers hal sos what we owe them, not loan it to them at 4% per cent interest. a a a THE government can borrow money cheaper than this, and surely it does not want to make money off its soldiers; surely it does not care to embark in the Shylock business with the boys who saved its bacon back in 1917-18. a a a In the war all of the equities are outraged, those who take the chances getting worst of it and and those for whom they take the chances getting the best of it. If war were on the square, the soldiers should make the fortunes. a a a When it comes to fixing the compensation of the compensation of the army, those who are shot at should go down as the rank goes up, for the higher the rank the more remote its possessor is from the danger zone. a a a IP a major-general were paid in proprtion to his proximity to peril, he would get about 50 cents a week, but in addition to this, we would give him his bed and rations. The private who charges just one machine gun earns more than a general who reads a map for six months. a a a When it comes to pensions, the amount received depends on one's rank, those who gave the war absent treatment getting the most. To say the least, there should be equality between officers and men. a a a There will be some prospect of ending war whenever the common people, the goats, learn just what is handed to them. If universal conscription could be made the rule of all nations, this also would throw a large monkey wrench &to the machine of Mars, - \ '•

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The Drys Are Afraid of a, Showdoum, Their Entire Strategy Based on Not Giving the People a Chance to Vote. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 10.— Whatever else may be said of it, Mr. Raskob’s proposition appears to have stirred up the animals. "Not a party question,” declares Senator Glass, dry Democrat of Virginia, just as though a national question could be sidestepped that easily. Senator Robinson, dry Democrat of Arkansas, trying to pour oil on the troubled water, exactly as he did for Hoover and with no happier results in prospect, advised that “economic rehabilitation” is the best bet. Afflicted with the corn belt complex and unable to forget what the south did two years ago, Senator Capper, dry Republican of Kansas, feels certain that the uproar means nothing but Hoover’s renomination and re-election. Thousands on the Volstead side of the argument talk in a similar vein. Roll it all into a ball and what have you but the turmoil of fear among standpat politicians? The wets may be too optimistic, but the drys are afraid of a showdown. Their entire strategy is based on the idea of not giving the people a chance to vote. a tt a Bolt Is Certain “XT OT a party Question,” though ■1 v it has been the chief topic of discussion whenever and wherever politics has been brought up in this country during the last five years, and though more polls have been taken on it by newspapers and magazines, not to mention unofficial state referenda, than on any other question in American history. What do we have parties for, anyway, if not to afford public opinion an opportunity to express itself in just such cases?. Everyone knows that there is disagreement over prohibition in both parties, but must we remain inarticulate as a nation because of that? • Has it become so all-fired important to preserve two ineffectual political outfits? Os course, there will be a bolt in the Democratic party if the Raskob plan is adopted, but there will be just as big a one in the Republican party. If Raskob has a dry south to reckon with, Hoover has a wet east, and as between the two the dry south is the more likely to string along with its party this trip. Two years ago, the wet east held its nose and voted the grand old ticket, while several southern states gave their noses free rein and jumped the fence. In neither case was there much to brag about, but the southern states have done rather more to prove their repentance. Where axe those bright lights who led the southern defection, such as Senators Simmons, “Tomtom” Heflin and Tom Love? They are all back home nursing their wounds and grievances. it a tt Use Poor Judgment DEMOCRATIC leaders are unnecessarily scared of prohibition as an issue and, making due allowance for their personal convictions, that is what ails many of them. Their efforts to play safe by pussyfooting represent even poorer judgment. This issue can not be avoided. If the people are forced to it, they not only will split parties, but make new ones, to express themselves. The people already have gone to extreme and unusual lengths in that direction. On what other question have 4,000,000 of them ever bothered to return postal cards? On what other question have so many states authorized referenda, not for the purpose of making any change, 6ince that was impossible, but merely to get a line on public sentiment? The politician must be deaf, dumb and blind who can not sense what is In the wind. tt tt a Course Is Clear THE question right now is not whether this nation shall remain hypocritically dry, or endeavor to find a more constructive plan of procedure, but whether it shall be denied the right to register its views, whether it shall remain a republic, or become a moral tyranny in which reformers and racketeers divide the spoils. Admittedly, there is no precedent for the existing situation, but why should that bother any one, when ordinary common sense makes the course clear? With perfectly good intentions, we wrote something into law which the public, or a large section of it, refuses to obey, and which the government can not enforce. The people ask opportunity to find out whether a majority prefers to go on with such an anomalous situation, or try to correct it. Because of certain technicalities, the people can be denied that opportunity for a little while, but it seems as though the stupidest politician ought to know the result of such tactics.

Questions and Answers

Are dogs imported into England quarantined? Yes, for about six months. How should a tarantula be fed? In what temperature should it be kept? Is its bite dangerous? Keep it in a dry container which is not allowed to get cold. It should have access to water at all times Cockroaches and grasshoppers may be fed, but It will not eat much during the winter. Its bite is more mechanical than venomous and inflicts a wound from which blood drops freely. What was the name of the mother of King David? She is not named in the Bible, except as the wife of ./esse of Bethlehem. When did the steamer Bio de Janeiro sink in San Francisco harbor and how many lives were lost? She sank Feb. 22, 1901, with a loss qt 128 lives.

Worth of Pasteur Treatment Proved

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. 'T'HE opponents of experimentation on animals constantly are looking for evidence to prove that scientific medicine has begun to doubt the original investigations of Pasteur with regard to the prevention of hydrophobia, which is the sequel of the bite of a mad dog. Regardless of what they may say in the printed statements that they circulate, the evidence in favor ol the Pasteur treatment as a preventive measure is as strong, if not much stronger, today than when Pasteur first made his fundamental investigation. The addition of new knowledge, moreover, has tended toward the establishment of routine procedures under such circumstances. In California, the state department of health recommends that as soon as possible the wound should be cauterized with a strong nitric

IT SEEMS TO ME by ™ n od

TO anybody who plans to write a book upon the Hoover administration I suggest two titles from which he may .choose. The book could well be called '‘Prom President to Party-Splitter,” or, if you like, “Prom Engineer to Fireman.” Many others already have gone on record with high praise for “Cakes and Ale,” by Somerset Maugham. Somewhat belatedly I want to climb upon the band wagon. This novel meets a most exacting test. I found it fascinating reading on a train. And to me this is one of the most difficult settings in which to grow immersed in literature. I am sorry that so much emphasis has been placed by the commentators on speculations concerning the identity of the characters in “Cakes and Ale.” Hugh Walpole’s name has been mentioned as the model for Roy Kear, and there may be some slight internal evidence to support this conjecture. # a Not Like Hardy DRIFFIELD resembles Hardy in little save the fact that he lives to an advanced age in a cottage of the English countryside. In treating this particular character Maugham has departed widely from known facts of Hardy’s life. • For instance, Thomas Hardy’s reputation as one of the great in English letters was well established at least a quarter of a century before his death. This does not parallel at all the career laid down for the old gentleman in “Cakes and Ale.” man in “Cakes and Ale.’ * Besides, all this discussion has dissipated the attention which should go to the book as an exercise in story telling. It is fairly trivial who was meant. To my mind the great achievement in the book is neither the Hardyesque nor the Walpolish persons. Rosie stands head and shoulders above them all. She is to my mind one of the most fascinating heroines in modem fiction. She happens to be at least half-cousin to Julia Peterkin’s “Scarlet Sister Mary.” a a a Kids Carroll IN saying, as 1 did a little while ago, that newpapers beyond the borders of Manhattan fall below metropolitan standards I did not mean to suggest that out-of-town journals are alogether barren. For instance, in the Kansas City Journal-Post I found an unsigned editorial which gives Earl Carroll as neat a ride as anybody would care to witness. I offer it here as Exhibit A. It is called “Oh, the Swoon of It All!” and runs as follows: “We’ve been going along complacently assuming that we had some ability at slinging adjectives, but now comes the ruin of that illusion in the form of a calendar issued by Earl Carroll, the theatrical producer of bathtub fame. ‘Tt is a twelve-page masterpiece, each page bearing a picture of an Earl Carroll beauty, accompanied by a description of her. “The color pictures have the usual calendar prettiness, but the descriptions are word pictures such as we never can hope to paint. For example, read about Beryl Wallace, .

Still Sitting Pretty!

acid, this procedure being undertaken by a physician familiar with the use of the drug. It may be necessary to use an anesthetic, because of the pain concerned in such cauterization. If it is not certain that the animal which did the biting is rabid, the animal should be confined to see whether symptoms of madness will develop. If these symptoms do not develop within ten days, it is probable that the animal did not have rabies at the time it bit the human being. However, the beginning of the Pasteur treatment never should wait until the animal has died or been killed and the negri bodies, which are significant of rabies, are found in its brain. Persons bitten by dogs which have symptoms similar to rabies should take the Pasteur treatment, even though all laboratory reports are negative. Death from rabies, either in man or in animal, involves so much suffering that it should not be im-

whose likeness decorates^ the September page: “ ‘Beryl Wallace. A Vital, Volcanic Venus. Eighteen until the 29th of this month. A magnificent gesture of the mysterious sculptor. In her eyes the spell of sleepy moonlight. In her voice the soft tones of a velvet flute. In her soul the throb of some wild thing—and on her lips a crimson crash of never-to-be-forgotten melodies. Oh, the swoon of it!’ “Beryl ought to be worth meeting. It isn’t often you get to hear a velvet flute or listen > to crimson crashes. “Then there’s Irene Ahlberg. She also has her points:—“Her face . . . a book of poems with God as the author. Her body ... a shrine for heathen men to worship.’ “That’s enough to make any preacher lay his Bible down. "Consider Helen Arlen:—‘Half child. Half woman. Half symphony. Half song.’ “And what about her wits? "Violet Arnold can not be ignored, for she is a ‘white dove, divinely

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—ls law is a rule “of the people, by the people, for the people,” to live up to, and some of their number are put ‘in a position of trust to see that the exchange between one another is fair and just, are they doing their duty in permitting excessive exchange, sale of watered stock and other means that are not fair or just? Is it not robbery? Or would you call it swindling? It is not earned by fair exchange. Do not these means of getting the eranings of others without giving value received cause hardship and suffering of those from whom it is taken? Would the class of people who produce the most of our essentials and luxuries be in the position they are if they had what they have been deprived of by unfair means?

HTCOAN4iSTHer

GRANT’S COMMAND March 9

ON March 9, 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant was appointed commander-in-chief of the entire Union armies. t His appointment came after his success against the south in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Ft. Donelson and Chattanooga. Grant's first move as commander was to foresake his original plan of trying to lead his western army to Atlanta and the sea. Instead, he assumed personal charge of the army of the Potomac. At this time the federal forces united to make its’ memorable march against the south. * The appointment of Grant to supreme command of the- federal armies crowned the military career of a man who entered West Point against his will, and who admitted in his writings that military life was distasteful to him.

posed on the animal, and if the animal shows signs of madness it should be killed immediately. Animals which have been exposed to rabies by having been bitten by other rabid animals should be held confined for at least three months or should be killed immediately. The question has arisen as to whether pet dogs should be inoculated immediately against rabies by the preventive method. Physicians are not convinced that this is desirable any more than it is recommended by physicians today that all people routinely be inoculated against scarlet fever or lockjaw. These measures are to be held available in times of serious epidemic or cf threatened danger because of wound or a bite, but their routine administration is not to be practiced. A pet dog that is not allowed to run free and is not, therefore, likely to be bitten by a rabid dog necessarily need not be given the preventive treatment against hydrophobia.

(deals and opinions expressed -in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting: writers and are presented without recard to their arreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor

unprepared for life,’ thereby causing the word painter to pray, ‘May no sad destiny be yours!’ “We dare not say amen to that prayer. It isn’t very complimentary, for ’tis said that the saddest destiny for a white dove is for her to become a soiled dove. We have too much gallantry to express any such fears regarding a given member of the sex. “Betty Sundmark deserves mention, with her ‘bosom a tomb for tired orchids.’ “Oh, to be a tired orchid! “Oh, the swoon of it all!” (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

Daily Thought

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—Matthew 12:34. That hideous sight—a naked human heart.—Young.

Have the people who form this government become so indifferent to the welfare of others that they selfishly can permit the robbery of others under a pretense of law enforcement, of a law that is contrary to the basic principles of law upon which this government was built? Are not the hired hands who are 3aid by the people of this government responsible for the manner of law enforcement under which the owners’ equity in property has been confiscated, and the heirs robbed of their inheritance? Why do they claim that confiscation and robbery is law? They are graduates of our colleges and law schools, and the basic principles of law is justice. Is not the manner in which law is being enforced a system of what is called, law, that is, a long way from the principles of law upon which this government was founded? If the people are to govern themselves, why should they not get together and see that their

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MARCH 9; 1951

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DiSTZ—

Dr. Charles L. Parsons Is Named to Important Office in American Chemical Society. Dr. CHARLES L. PARSONS, internationally known consulting chemist, who has been secretary of the American Chemical Society since 1907, just has been appointed business manager of that society, it is announced. The post of business manager is one just created by the board of directors of the society. Recently th 6 society adopted a number of changes in its organization, increasing its board of directors from ten to twen-ty-four. Dr. Charles L. Reese of E. I. Dupont de Nemours <52 Cos. of Wilmington, Del., has been elected chairman of the new board, it is announced. The American Chemical Society now is the largest professional organization of its kind in the world, with a membership of 18,000. Its 1931 budget is $600,000. As business manager of the society Dr. Parsons will administer the centralized business affairs of the organization. Growth of the American Chemical Society is proof of the growing importance of chemistry in the life of the world. As one expert has observed, pres-ent-day industries for the most part constitute branches of applied chemistry. tt 3 tt Chemical Journals ONE of the most important activities of the American Chemical Society is the publication of its journals. The society prints three journals, which in the course o! a year contain a total of approximately 11,200,000 words. These journals are important because they enable the American chemist to keep himself informed upon the progress of chemistrv throughout the world. Among the society’s journals, the one called Chemical Abstracts is a particularly interesting venture It undertakes to print brief abstracts or summaries of the world’s literature of chemistry. This enables the chemist to learn of any new chemical advance. If he is sufficiently interested, he then can get the paper from which the abstract was made and read all of it. The editor of Chemical Abstracts has a staff of assistants who keep tab on 1,500 publications. These include 404, which are published in the United States, 226 in the British Empire, 281 in Germany, 129 in France, and eighty in Italy, as well as additional chemical publications in Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, China, Japak Russia and other countries. - A reserve army of specialists scattered through the United States aids the editor and his assistants in preparing the summaries for Chemical Abstracts. tt tt ts About Dr, Parsons DR. PARSONS was born In New Marlboro, Mass., March 23, 1867, and was graduated from Cornell in 1888 as a bachelor of science. He received the degree of doctor of science from the University of Maine in 1911 and the degree of doctor of chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1914. He was professor of chemistry in New Hampshire collage from 1890 to 1911, and thereafter until 1919 was chief chemist of the United States bureau of mines. Dr. Parsons was awarded the William H. Nicholas medal of the New York section of the society in 1904 for research on the atomic weight of beryllium. He is a member of the nitrate commission and of the advisory board on gas warfare. He was vicepresident for America cf the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1919-22. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of Sigma Ki, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Society of Colonial Wars, Mayflower Descendants, and Colonial Governors. Dr. Parsons is an officer of the French Legion or Honor and of the Crown of Italy. He is an author of note, and has 1 been a frequent contributor to scientific journals and government publications.

hired hands, whose actions they are not responsible for, are doing their business for them in a manner that is a credit to the intelligence of a nation of educated people? It is said that there is ohe official for every ten persons. If we were criminals, idiots, or insane, this might be a necessity. If not, what business can every ten persons have that would require the services of one person’s time to attend to it? H. D. ROBINSON Richmond, Ind. Editor Times—Are you an imbecile, or just another drunk or dope? Twenty times last year your paper printed “Police chief warns drunken drivers.” Why warn them? Arrest them! For God’s sake, quit having the police tell the violators to be good or he, the policeman, shay spank them. Run a newspaper and not a silly sheet, or quit business. A DISGUSTED SUBSCRIBER