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Joe Robinson Slips , Joe Robinson for many years has tried to be all things to all men. That was how he got to be a United States senator from Arkansas, and later Democratic leader In the senate That was why he was chosen chairman of the last national Democratic convention and running mate for A1 Smith By keeping to he middle of the road and heading toward compromise, he made few enthusiastic supporters, but virtually no enemies. And to be without enemies is the greatest asset of a practical politician. Thus Joe managed to be fairly acceptable, both to conservatives and liberals, to north and south, to the industrial east and the agricultural west, and to drvs and wets. It, war, natural that such a man should be chosen from among all Democrats by a Republican President to represent the minority party on the American delegation to the. London naval conference last year And it was natural that Jo* 5 , at the beginning of the last region of congress, rhould try to lead the Democrats into a working program with the Republican administration. But, no political method is infallible The best and most sincere of compromises—we do not doubt Joe's sincerity—sometimes end by making enemies all around And that, it, seems, is what is beginning to happen t<> the senator from Arkansas. When he came back from London, his spats and mannerisms ofTendrd some of his homespun constituents. When he made a legislative working alliance with Hoover, he offended some of his partisan brethren When he broke that Hoover alliance and led the Democratic-Progressive coalition in demands for effective drought and unemployment relief, he offended Wall Street leadership of his party. When he deserted that coalition and that fight, and became a Hoover apologist, he offended not only the Progressives, but most of the Democratic senators. Smarting under this unaccustomed criticism, he lost, his head at the Washington meeting of the Democratic national committee two weeks ago. After wets and drys had agreed to the temporary RaskobHull truce, permitting a peaceful meeting. Joe jumped into an angry’ speech against the wets, the eastern industrialists and the Raskob management. That not only made the Raskob crowd hate him, but made the drys wonder whether Joe lost his famous ability for keeping cool under fire. They were talking yesterday of Joe Robinson as the probable compromise presidential candidate in 1932. Today they are talking of unseating him even as senate leader. Os course Joe has many a, good fight in him yet. His enemies will make a, mistake if they count him out prematurely. But it is significant that he has enemies and many of them—foi* the first time. For our part, we have nothing against Joe personally. But if the Democratic party in congress ever is to take the offensive with a militant, constructive program, it will have to follow its fighting leaders, not its compromisers. Why Not Wagner? Wc can not understand the President's, reported interference with the senate's unemployment insurance committee meeting in New York City Wednesday. Senator Wagner of New York, author of the resolution under which the committee is making its study, was to be chairman. That was according to custom and courtesy. That also w’as dictated by Wagner's experience and leadership in unemployment legislation. After appointing the committee, Vice-Presi-dent Curtis said he understood Wagner was to be chairman. But Wednesday at the organization meetinrr of the committee, the two Republican members, H' oert of Rhode Island and Glenn of Illinois, announced to Wagner that the President insisted on Hebert being chairman. * Now in Washington many of both parties are charging the President with trying to cripple the investigation and to rob Wagner and the Democrats of earned credit and leadership in tills legislation. They cite the President's recent veto of the Wagner bill for imemployment exchanges as additional proof of Hoover partisanship. ¥ Wc prefer to think that this is not "playing politics with human misery” on Hoover’s part, but a mistake in judgment. , It is, however, a serious mistake. The matter of credit —whether it is to go t,o Democrats or Republicans—can be dismissed as imimportant. But presidential interference with an independent senate committee Is usurpation. And the choice of Hebert, as chairman, who has no expert knowledge and little sympathy with this study, jeopardizes its success. Trusts and Trusts ThP ways of the federal government with trusts are devious and strange. For a while it will jump on the packers as violators of the law, then it will let up on the packers. It will smash the Standard Oil Combine. only to let individual units grow larger and more powerful than the original alleged menace. It will .smile with special favor on the Radio Corporation for years, and then suddenly pounce upon that corporation. Now the government itself has induced large oil companies to agree to limit imports in apparent restraint of trade and violation of the anti-trust law’. At the same time It just has forced the dissolution of the Bolt. Nut and Rivet Manufacturers Association, a steel makers’ combine, for alleged violation oi the same ant i-t rust law. All of which is too much for the comprehension of laymen—not- to mention lawyers and corporations, which find it increasingly difficult to keep up with government policy. I The Play Boy of Plutocracy If any man ever has been a pleasant surprise to his enemies and a painful disappointment to his friends, that gpntleman is Dr. Herbert Clark Hoover. In 1920 Hoover was overwhelmingly the people's candidate for President. If the conventions of 1920 had obeyed a popular mandate, he could have been .nominated by acclamation by either the Republican convention in Chicago or the Democratic convention in San Francisco. But the plutocrats, longing for normalcy and the termination of high tension Wilsonian idealism, clamped the lid oil the great humanitarian, who was dyed deeply In popular imagination with Wilsonian passion for social justice. In 1924 he was not considered seriously. The popular legend had become a little quiescent in four years and the political and economic bosses were not convinced yet of the safely of the sage of Palo Alto.

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In 1928 they were scared into accepting him as a candidate because of the shadow of A1 Smith which loomed across the Kansas City auditorium. They still were dubious about his unrelenting devotion to the god of greed and profit But he was the only white hope deemed capable of stemming what was feared would be the'popular stampede toward the Jolly warrior from the sidewalks of New York Hoover was borne into the White House by a great wave of popular trust in his legendary humanitananism and his almost mythical capacity for scientifically planned relief of human misery on a vast scale. Never were the alarms of enemies or the hopes of friends more conspicuously misplaced. With the possible exception of Calvin the Frigid, no occupant of our presidential office has been a more supine and willing servant of predatory wealth Hoover lacks even the war personal glow and human sympathy of the servde McKinley. His attitude toward appointments to the power commission, his toleration of the dismissal o! honest officials in that department, his effort to sabotage the Boulder dam act-, his veto of the Muscle. Shoals bill, his support of the robber tariff, his appointment of "YellowDog'’ Parker to the supreme court, his opposition to anti-injunction legislation, his appointment of the reactionary Doak instead of a liberal like Grace Abbott to the post of secretary of labor, the absence of a, single statesmanlike act to deal adequately with the depression, and his effort to prostitute child welfare organization and practice to the furtherance of his political prospects are ample proof of the complete domination of Hoover by the plutocratic forces and interests. Not one single outstanding gesture of gratitude toward the hopeful friends who swept him into office as a great humanitarian can be picked up with a fine-toothed comb from his administrative record. As the last straw comes the veto of the Wagner unemployment bill. Last year Hoover blocked two of Wagner’s bills and sabotaged the third. This year he vetoed the very moderate and preliminary Wagner bill, designed to launch the movement for a really effective system of unemployment agencies. His reasons for the veto were so transparently bankrupt and fatuous that they have been exposed and condemned by such mild liberals as Mary Va,n Kleek, Frances Perkins, John P. Andrew’s and Paul J. Kellogg. We do not expect Dr. Hoover to please William Z. Foster or even Norman Thomas, but it is pretty bad when Mary Van Kleek, for example, can poke holes in his argument and brand him a visionless reactionary. If the plutocrats still distrust the great relief engineer. then they deserve something worse than the fate of the Republicans in Philadelphia in 1900 when they picked Theodore Roosevelt for Vice-President. If the common people swarm to the polls in the autumn of 1932 to keep Hoover safely ensconced In the charming residence on Pennsylvania avenue for another four years, then foreclosure, poverty, hunger, cold and death will be far too good for them. Even dying after the manner of flies will be beyond their deserts. An Arkansas university has two students, one weighing 250 pounds and the other ninety-eight. With neither able to wear the other's socks or shirts they should, indeed, make ideal roommates. A French court has decided that a man has the nghc to open his wife’s letters. It will be safer for most men, however, to ask for permission first. Now that twan liners have been named after Coolidge and Hoover, it will be interesting to observe which will make the longest run. Dorothy wants to know the howl of what animal Peruvian bark is. They are saying about that 80-year-old North Dakota blacksmith who recently was awarded a degree that he “forged” his way through college. You don’t catch anybody dodging when eggs hit anew low. Tlie burning problem with most families just now is whether that coal pile is big enough to last out the winter.

REASON by F “ CK

DR. VOLIVA'S statement that the world is to come to an end in 1935 is very disappointing, for we had wished that this solid 'ball might last until we had made some disposition of Muscle Shoals. tt a tt This also means that ex-Secretary Fall, will, in all probability, escape serving his prison sentence. But this is no surprise, for if you get the right criminal lawyer in this country, you can tire out any average planet. tt tt e As the grand windup comes in 1935, we shall have time for only one more national campaign, and this means that every member of the United States senate will be a candidate for President. a a a EVERY United States senator intends to run for President some time, and as 1932 will be the last opportunity all of them will throw their hats into the ring, all of them except Couzens and Wagner, who are ineligible, having been born abroad. 8 a o You will observe that Governor Franklin Roosevelt waited to defy Tammany until after he had been elected last November. It's very important to know when to defy. a a Now that Kirkland has escaped the electric chair and been sent up for life, it should mean life. fills is one case that the Maudlin Matties should let severely alone. a tt tt It doubtless was a great disappointment to Harold Schroeder at Indianapolis to learn from experts that he is not insane. 8 a a MR. THOMAS BINN of Trenton, N. J., has received a divorce because his wife, a back seat driver, kicked him in the neck while he was at the wheel. Such a thing is disconcerting, especially when one is driving through traffic. tt 8 a While leaving New York City for a vacation in California, Mayor Walker said he was glad to get away from the investigations of the city administration. Not a very inspiring statement. ' m it a Former Governor A1 Smith may not take kindly to the suggestion that he run for mayor of New York City to clean things up, but he’s the very man for the job.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Governor Roosevelt Has an Outstanding Chance to Render the American People a Real Service in Cleanin Up the Gotham, Scandal. /CINCINNATI, March 19—Mayor Walker could save himself and every one else concerned a deal of trouble by resigning, but the chances are ten to one that he won't. Men of his temperament seldom do. He has wisecracked himself out of too many tight places to believe it can’t, be done once more. Besides, he is betting on the timehonored power of Tammany to protect its marionettes. The whole performance is ridiculous. as Mayor Walker sees it. and why not? Hasn't he put it all over New York for six years, and wasn't he vindicated by'one of the greatest majorities ever given a mayor after four of them? • Aren’t mayors of a. similar stripe putting it over on other cities, and hasn't the same kind of racket which supplies his feed trough become nation-wide? It’s a, waste of time to blame this brilliant buffoon for feeling as he does. He wouldn't be himself if he felt otherwise New' York has changed, chiefly, one regrets to say. because its circumstances have s hanged Mayer Walker's circumstances have not changed, not in the same way, at least, and there you are. tt ** a Pay Checks Roll In WE owe something to this depression It has made us realize the cost of crooked politics, if nothing else. The trouble is that public officials have not felt the pinch of hard times like other people, though it is only fair to say that most of them had sense enough to appreciate this fact. Public officials have drawn the same old pay check right along, with low'er prices gradually increasing its value Quite a few? of them, like Mayor Walker, have been given substantial raises. Except as they are blessed with a serious conception of duty, why should they suppose any change has taken place, or that this general cleanup drive amounts to more than a passing fit of reform brought on by political tricksters? They shouldn't, and they don't. It is extremely doubtful if Mayor Walker thinks he is up against anything more than the same old opposition, tt 8 tt Up to Roosevelt WHAT mayor Walker thinks is of small consequence, except as it indicates what he will do. and what he will do is of small consequence, except as it determines what somebody else must do. Just now that somebody else happens to be Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Governor Roosevelt can not sidestep the situation, but he has three choices in meeting it, he can play mule to the party machine, strike out for himself and become a great leader, or pussyfoot. A great deal hinges on his choice. It lies within his pow r er to rehabilitate the Democratic party along national linos by spanking the organization which has come to misrepresent it in New York City. Nor is that all, since it lies within his power to do something in behalf of clean government w’hich even racketeers can understand. Few men have faced a bigger opportunity to render the American people real service. nun Where Is the Man? THE situation in New York is not local, nor will the way it is settled be confined to local effects. Many small cities and about all the large ones face exactly the same problem. People are not deceived as to what has happened, but they are bewildered as to what should, or can, be done about it. They lack leadership. They have no one capable of coping with the gangsters and political bosses who have formed an alliance around the treasure chest provided by bootlegging. All they ask is just one sign that such a man is available. The people have watched and waited hopefully to see' If Chicago could not produce such a man. Now they are watching and waiting for New York. a a tt Public Grows Bitter PUBLIC feeling with regard to this question of corrupt politics is growing tense and bitter. No one can travel across the United States without being aware of that. Look at the number of savage laws which either have been proposed, or adopted, this winter; listen to the kind of talk that is applauded, and you can have no illussions as to the depth, or breadth of popular reaction. Where one person refers to the depression as just cause for alarm, a dozen refer to the crime wave, racket and then* effect on politics. How long can it last, they w'ant to know’, and have we sunk so low that we can’t find a leader who dares tackle it without gloves?

Questions and Answers

Is it more economical to switch off electric lights for a few morn nts if they are not neeeded, or; is it more economical to leave them on? It is more economical to switch them off, even if only for a few minutes, but for switch-controlled j electrical machinery, such as motors, that consume a relatively large amount of current in attaining maximum speed and efficiency, it is cheaper to let them run for short periods while not in use. What is a tabloid newspaper? In the size of its pages, it is approximately half the size of an ordinary newspaper. Another feature of the tabloid is the brevity of its news stories and advertisements as compared with the regular sized paper. Who were chosen by H. G. Wells as the six greatest men who have ever lived? Jesus Christ. Buddha. Aristotle, Asoka Roger Bacon and Abraham Lincoln.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s "Believe It or Not” which appeared in Wednesday’s Times: The Largest Depot in Nevada has ao Railroad Tracks—-Years ago when Rhyolite, Nev., was a prosperous town of 20,000 inhabitants, this excellent station was constructed to take care of the railroad then under construction. Because of mining failures, the city was abandoned, the railroad never finished, and today Nevada’s finest depot has no tracks. Rhyolite now has a population of five people, one of whom lives in the depot.

Scientific Treatment Curbs Colds

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia. the Health Magazine. SINGE 1924, Dra D. F. Smiley and G. F. Maughan of the department of hygiene and of physiology in Cornell university have been investigating the incidence of colds among the students. The vast majority of colds occur during December, January, February, and March. Asa result of their investigation, they found that colds and their complications are the commonest cause of disability among students, and that all the students can be divided up into two groups—those easily susceptible to colds and those who are what might be called normally resistant. Students easily susceptible constitute 17 9 to 27.5 per cent of all

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—What is the matter with charges made for electric current? Within the last six months our meter was inspected twice, since which current bills have been increased from 35 to 100 per cent over the same period last year, with same usage of current for light, etc. When the matter is presented to the company, they talk about average consumption, without any further .explanation or relief. This same experience seems common among other patrens. Want to hear from others on this. AN OLD TIMES READER. Editor Times—l have been reading about the many people suffer-' ing for food and clothes. There isn’t any excuse for this in such a rich country as the United States. Some of these big “eggs’’ that are holding up work should be put on a ball-and-chain gang without food for a while and maybe they would wake up. The President has forgotten all the big line of chin music he spread in 1928, telling the poor people what he was going to do to help them. He fed them white sand and sawdust during the war, .then they put him in office. He should be working for sls a week, fifty hours, like my husband, and let him see how much he can have. We have four in our fam~. ily and hardly can make ends meet by the time we pay our necessary expenses, and that isn’t counting holidays and money for doctor bills and clothes, I guess we are better off than some. They tell you if you don’t like your wages, get out, and if a man isn't working he is called a red. The Governor asked for a $3,000 raise. Poor fellow, I don't see how he lives on what he gets. I should think he would be ashamed to ask for a raise now, but I guess some aren’t ashamed of anything. He is getting about $6,000 too [much now and should have to furnish his own home. Os course, [if he is wanting some more ash trays, I have a couple I could loan him until he could do better. They are cutting wages for the laboring class, but still they keep taxes and everything else up to | wartime prices. They wonder why [there is so much crime. There is [bound to be more unless they open up work and pay decent wages. €ome of the so-called men in i office should be made to suffer like ! the poor. They aren’t any better.

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

Debs Ran for President of the. United States While in Jail—Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in a, federal prison for a political crime in 1918, He began serving his sentence in April, 1919, and was pardoned in November, 1921 While serving his term in jail, he was the candidate of the Socialist party for President of the United States in the elections of 1920 a,nd polled 919,799 votes. The Problem of L. A. Fisher’s Birthdate and his Age—My cartoon of Feb. 28 , gave the

the students. It, was found that special attenion to those susceptible to colds is an effective way of modifying or averting epidemics. In other words, the prevention and treatment of colds is given special attention in the 25 per cent of students who have colds most frequently. Each freshman on entering the school is given full explanation as to the importance of controlling ventilation, the importance of treating the nose and throat secretions as infective materials and not disseminating them about, and the importance of including in the daily diet two to four glasses of milk, two helpings of leafy or fiber vegetables, two helpings of fruit and one or two salads. Students found to be easily susceptible to colds join a cold proven-

They have cut the poor man’s wages. Now let them start with Hoover and come down through all the offices, cutting their wages, and then maybe they can understand how hard it is for the poor man to keep his family on a little next to nothing. V. G, Lebanon, Ind. Editor Times—l am writing you to voice my sentiments regarding the Arlene Draves case. The way they handle the law in this case seems as though they have no respect for the family the illfated girl left behind, as they are going the limit to put the dark clouds on the parents and brothers and sisters. I am afraid that if I were in the father’s place I would have been the one on trial now, as it seems thi courts want to keep degenerates roaming this country as they please, if they have money to pay off with. It is a condition we should change, and that soon, or the low type of folks finally will turn on

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LA SALLE’S ASSASSINATION March 19 ON March 19, 1687, Rene La Salle, the greatest of the French explorers, was shot by two of ths followers while exploring the Mississippi. La Salle came to America at the age of 23 and became a trader in fur* and the possessor of a tract of land in Canada. After a voyage of exploration from Lake Erie to Lake Superior and down the Mississippi, he took possession of the land around the Gulf of Mexico, called It Louisiana in honor of the French king, and went to France to get men and means to colonize it. On his return, La Balle failed again to find the Mississippi, and wandered from place to place until nearly all his followers were oead. At last, giving up hope of reaching the land he was seeking, he set out for Canada with a small company in 1687. On the way, two of his men shot him. La Salle was the discoverer of the Ohio and the first explorer of the greater part of ,the Mississippi river.

I~v itetfUtered and. &. LI y latent Office RIPLEY

problem. “L A Fisher was born on the only Friday the 13th of a certain year, and since that time it has occurred nine times, How old is he and when was he t 0 rn.” Mr. Fisher, whose home is 4451 North Paulina street, Chicago, was born June 13, 1873, the only Friday the 13th in that year, and since that time, including his birthdays, Friday the 13th has occurred in 1873, 1879, 1884, 1890, 1902, 1913, 1919, 1924 and 1930. Friday: “The Animal that has no Mouth.”

tion class in which they receive a fifteen-minutes ultra-violet light treatment once each week, and a teaspoonful of baking soda and magnesium carbonate mixed in a glass of water twice a day for three days whenever they feel a cold developing. A careful study of the nose, throat and sinus is made by a competent physician to make sure that there is no chronic infection. They are instructed concerning the danger of exposure and importance of use of proper clothing. The results of those who have followed this routine as compared with those who have not indicated to the authors that epidemics of colds could be controlled, if all those who are susceptible to colds would co-operate in making effective the methods that have been described.

the law and bite the hand that fondles them I was taught when young to respect and make better all womanhood, but it seems to be old-fash-ioned even in our courts now in these modem times. Let’s all get together to change this method. L. E. MARTIN. Editor Times—Considerable comment has been encouraged by your paper regarding the handling of suspected criminals. It is the opinion of the writer that any person or persons caught by the police with firearms in their possession should be subjected to the harshest investigation within the law. They are carrying weapons with intent to rob or kill, as the occasion demands, and their arrest before the crime is committed is about the only “break” our police ever get. Too many oi these men, after arrest, are found to have criminal records, which in my opinion would warrant, rigid as it may seem, the abolition of any parole board. The Times, if it really wants to help the police, should ignore such “sob stuff” and get behind the police by publishing investigations that would strike terror into the worthless bodies of these gun-toting hoodlums. WINNIE E. REED. 325 Congress avenue. *

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MARCH 19, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Great. Dates of Science. StartWith Copernicus' Discovery in 1545. A FAVORITE pastime of hlstorians is to make a list of the great dates in history, the dates of the events which led to the world as we know it today Since scientists within the last few .years have become conscious of the importance of the history of science, perhaps a list of great dates m science is in order These would be the dates which led up to the present picture, of the universe as it is seen by modern scientists Os course, no two historians will agree completely on every date to be included in a short list and the same disagreement must be. expected among scientists Nevertheless, I am going to present, my own list, beginning with 1543, the date which usually is regarded as the dawn of modern science. So here goes: 1543—Copernicus, the Polish monk, establishes the. Coperaican theory, stating that the earth is one iof a number of planets revolving around the sun, Vesalius, the Belgian surgeon, lays the foundations of modern biology with his treatise nn human anatomy ana Galileo's Telescope For our next date we will leave the sixteenth century behind and proceed to the seventeenth. 1609 Ga ileo built his first little telescope and turned It upon the heavens, discovering the mountains of the moon, the phases of Venus, and the four moons of Jupiter. Up to that day. no man ever had seen* more of the heavens than could be seen with the naked eye. By his discoveries, Galileo confirmed the Coperaican theory. 1628 William Harvey of London demonstrated the circulation of the blood He founded modern physiology, the science of bodily function, just as Vesalius had founded modern anatomy, the science of bodily structure, 1661 Robert. Boyle, one of the founders of the Royal Society of London, held the methods of the alchemists up to scorn and established modern chemistry with the publication of a book ■ which he titled, in the spelling of his day, “The Skeptical Chymist.” 1677: The Royal Society verified the discovery of bacteria which had been transmitted to it bv Antony Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch storekeeper, whose hobby was grinding lenses and building microscopes. 1687: Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest minds of all time, pub lished his monumental work, "The .Principle,’* in which he set forth his law of gravitation. tt a tt Oxygen Discovered LET us leave the seventeenth century with Newton and proceed to the eighteenth. 1774: Joseph Priestley, nonconformist minister, w'hose hobby was chemistry, discovered oxygen and paved the way for development of the true explanation of combustion by Anton Lavoister, the Frenchman, whose head later was cut off by order of the revolutionary tribunal. 1781: Sir William Herschel, organist and amateur astronomer, discovered the planet Uranus, the first time in history that, the number of planets know to the ancients was augmented. 1795: James Hutton, the Scotchman, laid the foundation of modern geology with his dictum that the past history of the earth must be. explained in terms of the forces which now can be observed at work in the earth. 1808: James Dalton, Quaker schoolmaster of Manchester England, established the modern atomic theory, which holds that the chemical elements are composed of minute particles known as atoms, 1814: Joseph Fraunhofer, the in-strument-maker of Munich, discovered the dark lines in the spectrum of the sun. Much of our presentday knowledge of the universe dates back to that discovery, for out of it grew the science of spefctroscopy and astrophysics, which tell us what gees on within the interior of the distant star and the tiny atom. 1831: Michael Faraday discovered the phenomena of electro-magnetic induction, upon which the modern science of electricity and the modern science of electrical engineering ar ebased. We have come to the end of our day’s space and so the remainder of our dates must wait until tomorrow.

Daily Thought

But he forsook the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.—ll Chronicles 10:8. They say that the best counsel ithat of a woman.—Calderon. Who directs the string ensemble of the "Slumber Hour” over the radio? What is the title of the theme melody? The ensemble is directed by Ludwig Laurier and the theme melody is “Slumber .On.” Who were the Vikings? Early Scandinavian seamen and warriors.