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Physiology of Civilized Drinking It generally is conceded by reasonable men that solution of the alcohol problem 'a In education In the science and art of civilized drinking rather than in fanatical prohibition or •cstatlc eulogy of guzzling. Hence, we may welcome as a genuine contribution to popular education on the liquor problem the article by Charles D. Snyder in the American Mercury, based on the researches of a Finnish physiologist, Dr. P. I. Tuovinen. The core of the effect of alcohol on the mind and body is the matter of the alcoholic content of the blood stream. There is always a small quantity of alcohol in the blood, even though none actually has been consumed. This amounts to one part of alcohol to from 50,000 to 200,000 parts of other fluids in the blood. In the case of a man who dies of alcoholic poisoning, this ratio may be raised to one part of alcohol to 200 parts of other fluids, a thousandfold increase over normal. Dr. Tuovinen discovered the interesting fact that the alcoholic level in the blood Is raised most rapidly by a highly diluted drink. Alcohol in any form of watery dilution will raise the blood level of alcohol much' more rapidly than the same quantity taken in highly concentrated form. To be specific, a highball is potentially' more intoxicating than a cocktail containing the same amount of alcohol. The greater bulk of fluid gives a greater area for intestinal absorption of alcohol into the blood stream. Taking food along with liquor reduces the rapidity of the rise of the alcoholic content of the blood. This Is due to the fact that the food, as solids, must be held In the digestive tract until reduced to fluid form. Most of the alcohol also is held here and passed along only gradually into the Intestines for absorption. Food in which meats, carbohydrates and fats are notably, present particularly delay blood absorption of alcohol. The subjective effects of alcohol were found to vary directly In intensity with the alcoholic content of the blood. Mr. Snyder gives the following summary of the essentials of civilized drinking: ‘The man who really lives well is the one who confines his drinking to meals, preferably the evening meal, or whenever the day’s work is done. The toper, on the other hand, prefers to take his alcohol on an empty stomach, and Anally eats very little food at all. “Upon noting the first tendency in this direction, one will do well to regard it as a sign of impending addiction and resolutely put drink aside until food and exercise may be taken again with gusto. This paragraph probably Is more cogent and useful as a guide to temperance and urbanity than all the prohibitory statutes ever put cn the law books relative to the use of alcoholic beverages.

Rivalry in the New Pedagogy The rivalry In education on the Pacific coast is not limited to the annual combats of Oregon and California elevens on the gridiron. There now is in process a nip and tuck race between Los Angeles and Portland in devising methods of discouraging enthusiasm for the ideas of Karl Man among school students. Last year Los Angeles started the ball rolling by denying a diploma to a brilliant Communist studem in Roosevelt high school. There was some protest, so a more invincible technique was devised. A required course in civics, based on the political ethics of the Better America Federation, was introduced. No student who failed in his course could be graduated Communists quickly were toppled Avhen interrogated. But Portland followed suit with a method which put her away out in front of the great Hollywood suburb. Michael Kulikofl was captivated by the sentiment and rhythm of the radical songs of Communism. So he began to teach them to his fellow pupils. He was arrested. Conviction of criminal syndicalism was considered and deemed impossible. Deportation was out of the question, since we have no diplomatic relations with Russia. But the authorities were undaunted. Kulikoff was taken to court. He admitted being a Communist. A physician testified that this was proof of insanity. So Kulikoff was whisked off to the state hospital for the insane at Salem to enjoy the company of those whose hallucinations are of other than Muscovite flavor. All this is strangely reminiscent of the doings in another Salem a little more than 200 years back.

“I Would Steal*’ To deal with soap*box Reds is easy enough for cur hard-boiled law officers, but what are they going to do when they are challenged by such a respectable person as Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad? “I ca n think of nothing more deplorable than the condition of a naan, able and willing to work, but unable to secure work," says Willard in describing the failure of the richest country in the world to provide work for 6,000 citizens. “I would be less than candid if I did not say that, in such circumstances, I would steal before I would starve." Although Willard thinks that the capitalist system “with all its defects” has a better chance than any other to build a just social order, he points out that there must be a better guarantee of steady employment ana a wider distribution of wealth. Willard is not alone in this. It is the lesson learned by many business leaders in this depression. For many years economists have known that the overproduction or underconsumption cycle which creates depressions can not be broken without a wider distribution of wealth, through taxing excess riches and giving labor shorter working hours at high wages. The extent to which the five-day week solution is being accepted by intelligent business men today is stressed by Commissioner Etljplbert Stewart of the United States bureau of labor statistics. “The impetus given the five-day week policy by ooor business conditions has been very great,” says Stewart. “There will, of course, be a certain portion of establishments operated by persons with backward ideas of business management which will revert to the flve-and-one-half or six-day week when business gets back to normal. “But the majority of plants which have been forced to go on the reduced schedule will keep it reduced, as the feasibility and economic soundness of the five-day week now may be said to have been demonstrated successfully." Unfortunately, there still axe too many industries runn'ng on the medieval system of the sixty-hour week and child labor. They victimize not only their Exploited workers, but also enlightened employers and the entire country, which suffer from the depression mmm bg frnfrhaar tad leg-sace mm&i

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A Great Novelist Passes “To think we again shall never read anew book by Arnold Bennett.” The number of homes in the English-speaking world that have heard the above, or something like It, spoken with simple, sincere sorrow In the last three days, is the best tribute of all to a man who, whatever his claims to immortal fame, unquestionably was one of the greatest novelists of this generation. Nor is his popularity hard to explain. He fused realism and romanticism into something utterly delightful. Whether It wu sordid, smudgy, realties of a North Staffordshire pottery district or prosaic sheets, pillowcases, spoons, forks and other vast organized intricacies of a huge metropolitan hotel, his memory missed no detail, but his Imagination lifted every trifle Into the glamorous, absorbing realm of the bom story-teller. Sex? He neither overvalued nor undervalued It. He used plenty of it, without pathology or pruriency. He was not of those realists who thinks that to be real, they must be revolting. Even readers unfashlonably clean of mind could read him with unfailing pleasure. This In itself has become something of a high litterary distinction in the present era. Romanticist as he was in much of his work, he liked to talk most unromantically about the practical side of it. He gloated over the number of words he wrote in a year. He was proud as Trollope of sheer mechanical productivity. He loved the money he earned and the luxuries It brought him. When somebody asked him what he wrote “The Pretty Lady” for, he replied: “For £10,000.” (Ten thousand pounds sterling.) Yet any one who knows the British temperament will put down many of this famous Bennett brutalities to inborn British horror of posing as an “artist” and rhapsodizing about one’s “art.” There we re also his bleak upbringing In Staffordshire and his hard rubs as a struggling beginner in London to keep his feet on the ground and his talks free from “hifalutin’.” The “Old Wives’ Tale” is one of the finest novels our time has produced—broad, Arm, sincere, yet fascinatingly varied and vivacious. The whole “Five Towns” series is work any author might be proud to leave behind him. He knows every dull inch of his background, every drab detail of the life he described. And he burnished and brightened it all with a magic that is pure genius. ‘ Buried Alive” deserved all its success as a novel and play—an amazingly clever ideal deliciously handled. When Bennett went in for humor as in 'Denry,” “The Grand Babylon Hotel,” and “Mr. Prohack,” it usually became that well-bred playfulness which Is peculiarly the British notion of literary funmaking—rather tame and tepid for America taste, but excellent if you relish it. Did Bennett come anywhere near the Dostoievski he so ardently admired? He would have been the first to disclaim it. But with much of Dostoievski’s genius for endowing minute detail with an unbelievable Interest, with much of Dostoievski’s mastery in filling big canvases, Arnold Bennett outdid the great Russian in grace! charm, and an intimacy of style that brought him almost alongside the reader’s chair. Millions of Bennett admirers have felt since last Friday as if they had lost a close friend. And that is something even supreme genius does not always attain. A foundation has appropriated SIOO,OOO for a study of the history of Pittsburgh. Will it be concerned mostly with the city’s dark ages? Congressmen last year paid the government $67,000 for having their speeches printed. And yet it is said silence Is golden. It’s mostly “bill” for the young fellow who bills and coos these days. A back answer, says the office sage, is usually said over a cold shoulder. The last word in women’s fashions invariably puts married men under its spell. Two college students living together at a liquor dispensing fraternity may well call themselves mmmates.

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* | 'HE recent death of the widow of General George A Pickett carries the writer of this column back to a , d A a 2' £ Washington when this venerable lady told of Abraham Lincoln's visit to her home in Richmond Va. ’ a a a You see, when George Pickett was a young man he went to Illinois to study law, and there he came under the eye of Lincoln, who grew very fond of him. It was a habit of Lincoln’s, you know, to take an interest in beginners. a a a Well, after a while, Pickett did what thousands of others have done, he grew tired of the study of law He decided he wanted to be a soldier, and Abraham Lincoln secured him an appointment to West Point. a a a TN due time Pickett was graduated from the military a “i!? e ! Uy and went into the ai W. and then when the great war came he went to Virginia, and at Gettysburg led that gallant charge which ended in the annihilation of his division. a a a After Appomattox. Lincoln entered Richmond not as a conquering hero, glorying in the downfall of the south, but more as an unofficial visitor to wander about the long-defended citadel of the confederacy. a a a Mrs. Pickett was upstairs in her home hurriedly gathering some keepsakes to take with her in her Sight, for the fallen capital was filled with wild rumors of peril, and while thus engaged she heard her little girl in the hall below speaking to someone outside the door. a a a RUNNING down the stairs, Mrs. Pickett looked through the opening and stepped back, for the face and form of the man, standing there, filled her with bewilderment. “Is this General Pickett’s horned’* he asked “It is,” she replied, “but he is not here.” Im sorry,” said the stranger, “for 1 used to know him. My name is Lincoln.” * * a “You are not President Lincoln?” she asked “Well, not right now,” replied the stranger, “at this particular moment I’m just Abraham Lincoln, George Pickett’s old friend from Springfield, HI.” a a a She opened the door and Lincoln entered, picked up the child and carried it down the hall and back, then put it down and said: "Madam, the war is over, thank God! Tell George to corned to Washington; I want to see him; I want to make him a general In the army.” GEhen he py ht* tall hat and went awa*

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As Between Gandhi and Britain, Who Really Stands for “Love and Affection'”? Huntington, n. y.. March 30. —ls Gandhi goes to London as head of the India delegation, as now seems probable, he will appear in Loin cloth, with shaven head. Also he will carry his own pots and pans, eat food specially prepared for him by his woman companion, Nirabhai, who is the daughter of a British admiral, sleep on a straw mattress in the open, and otherwise conduct himself in such way as wilk make it embarrassing and'difficult for his hosts. Gandhi claims to have nothing but deep love and affection for his fellowmen. Englishmen, who set up no such pretensions, will do the best they can to make him comfortable. tt t> Which Is Tolerant NAFALI FRIED, be whiskered fish and vegetable dealer from a small town in Russia, has been appointed by the pope to take charge of the Vatican’s Hebrew library. Before he would accept the appointment, Fried demanded that the Vatican provide him with a kosher kitchen, permit him to observe Saturday as the Sabbath, and grant other concessions to his faith. As between him and the pope, who stands for tolerance? As between Gandhi, with his stubborn obstrusion of peculiar habits, and British officials, who stands for that “love and affection” which are deep enough to make things easy for other people? a st tt Love and Manganese AFTER experimenting with rats for some time, Dr. Elmer V. McCollum, professor of chemical hygiene at Johns Hopkins university, concludes that an infinitesimal amount of manganese may be the root of mother love. Rats fed on a diet free from manganese, he says, not only gave up interest in their young, but finally ceased to have young. When manganese was reintroduced into the diet, even to the extent of five one-thousandths of 1 per cent, they returned to normalacy. If Dr. McCollum’s conclusions are correct, this world would do well to conserve its supply of manganese.

It Works This Way WHATEVER effect small quantities of manganese may have on mother love, large quantities are needed for manufacture of steel. American steel companies have been Whying a great deal of it from Russia. Not because it is unobtainable in this country, but because the Soviet could produce cheaper. American producers want a tariff that will stop this traffic, which makes it possible to prove that manganese has a very definite effect on brotherly love. Superficially, at least, many of our so-called instincts are affected by commodities and mechanics. Instead of loving or hating people for what they are, we are growing more and more inclined to be guided by what they have that we want. Or what we have that they want. Clash Over Oil ENGLAND and France have been very near a break several times during the last decade on the account of the Mosul oil field. Thanks to a holding company through which it was possible to split the part, they now have settled the difficulty, after paying the Iraq government $1,000,000 a year and four shillings a ton on all oil extracted, English companies 23% per cent, and an Armenian promoter 5 per cent. Pipe lines will be run to the coast of Asia Minor and refineries constructed at an estimated cost of $500,000,000. The Mosul field sounds pretty big, not only because of such figures, but because of the way it has been advertised as a sore spot of international politics. Asa matter of fact, it is not one-third as large as the Rusk field, unexpectedly discovered in Texas three months ago.

Questions and Answers

What was the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve? A massacre of the Huguenots, perpetrated Aug. 24 and 25, 1572, growing out of the feud in France between the House of Guise and the Catholics on the one hand, and the House of Conde and the Huguenots on the other hand. Who appoints United States deputy marshals. They are appointed by United States marshals, subject to the approval of the attorney-general. What is the Photocolor Corporation? A company incorporated under the law r s of Delaware, which owns and operates a film laboratory at Irvington-on-the Hudson, N. Y. Its equipment includes all necessary special machinery and chemical apparatus for applying the corporation’s process to natural color motion picture films. How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in 1938? Fifty-four. What is tlie elevation of Mt. Earner in the state of Washington? It is 14,408 feet. What was tha first spoken language? There is no record of the first spoken language. Language was undoubtedly an evolution from the times that mankind first uttered sounds to express primitive emotion or ideas. How much has the population of the United States increased in the last thirty years? The 1900 census enumerated 75,994.575, and the 1930 census enumerated 122,728,873, an increase of 46,734,298.

Daily Thought

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions fa ini not.—Lamentations 3:22. The greatest attribute of heaven fa mercy.—Beaumont and Fletcher.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Stabbing Pain Marks Angina Pectoris

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. PAIN in the chest of great intensity, carrying with it the fear of impending death, is one of the most disturbing diseases that attack the human being. Angina pectoris brings about death through a nervous mechanism which stops the beat of the heart. The disease has been known to the medical profession for many years; in fact, it was first studied by Edward Jenner, who was credited with the development of vaccine for smallpox, and, in 1768, by Heberdeen, who is noted for his studies of rheumatic conditions. Angina pectoris occurs in men most frequently at the time when their tissues have begun to break down, but before the occurrence of senility. It comes on at the same time as hardening of the arteries begins and the health of middle age begins to disappear. If old age is established completely with calcification of blood vessels and angina pectoris has not yet appeared, it is likely to appear in any individual.

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THE character of the will of Ella Virginia Von Echtzel Wendel seems to me to furnish additional evidence of one flagrant flaw in our economic system. The vast Wendel fortune, as everybody knows, has been built upon increase in land values. The rule of the family was never to sell. According to Forrest Davis, the Wendels did a daring thing in 1856. It was at that time that John D. Wendel decided to remove his family all the way from 705 Broadway to 442 Fifth avenue. But even in 1856 this was not precisely pioneering . The Wendels did not have to fight off any wolves or Indians or cut a path through virgin forest. The decision merely represented a good guess that a day might come when 442 Fifth avenue would not be way uptown. Very possibly it was no more than reasonable that some reward should come to the lines of Wendels be-

PURCHASE OF ALASKA March 30 OH N March 30, 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for some $7,000,000. Secretary of State Seward persuaded congress to make this purchase in order to extend out power on the Pacific coast. Many congressmen thought it was a waste of money, and one called Alaska “the refrigerator of the United States.” But, as every one now knows, the purchase of Alaska has proved extremely profitable to the government. Alaska’s furs, forests, and fish have yielded us considerable wealth, to speak nothing of the rich deposits of gold found on the Yukon and on the The trade in sealskins alone amounts into millions of dollars a year. Alaska embracr.: bout 550,000 square miles’"end includes the islands of the Aleutian archipelago, which extend a very long way westward.

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ing quantities of the narcotic. His maximum was one pound, which is capable of killing 1,100 people. He is the author of 150 books, and their dreamlike prose is unmistakably the result of his pernicious habit. See: “Confessions of an Opium Eater,” by Thomas Quincey. Alex Fidler Refereed 1,157 Fights in Five Years—Alex Fidler, a Ce-

In many instances the disease in the chest. It radiates upward seems to be associated with infections of a rheumatic type early in life, with various forms of inflammation of the blood vessels, and with unusual disturbances of the nervous system. Thus the person who has angina pectoris begins to realize that his heart attack usually is associated with some extraordinary effort, such as walking rapidly after a meal or walking against the wind, such as excitement in tl* N form of anger or joy, or after any type of physical or mental activity that may be associated with an increase in the blood pressure. It is known that the excessive use of tobacco may be an inciting factor and that intoxication with lead or the form of disturbance associated with diabetes may lead to angina pectoris in some people. There are several conditions affetcing the heart which may produce pain in that region, but the pain of angina pectoris is distinctive. I" begins suddenly as a sharp, stabbing pain, or a dull grinding pain with the feeling of pressure

cause of this shrewd guess of an ancestor. But that estate is now estimated to amount to $75,000,000. Obviously, this sum was not amassed by any terrific toil or public service. a a a Bequests Frivolous nr'HE city grew up around 442 A Fifth avenue. In a very literal sense you and I contributed to this wealth. The fact that we shopped in the neighborhood or rode in taxicabs or busses or attended plays or picture shows within a small radius contributed to the growing valuation of the property. The theory of those who hold that all is right with the world seems to be based upon the assumption that sooner or later the most swollen fortune flows back to the sea. But it is well to remember that an estate may be distributed in a wholly erratic way. That has happened to the Wendel fortune. The bequests are largely frivolous. Twenty-five million dollars goes to further the theological teachings of the Methodist Episcopal church in seminaries at Madison, N. J., and Nanking. China. This is rather a far leap away from the people who lived and died and traded in the neighborhood of 442 Fifth avenue to make a Wendel holiday. a a a Looks Like Waste IT will profit us very little that bright Chinese young men will sit and listen to professional explanations that the wine at the marriage feast was not really wine, but unfermented grape juice. I have no right to assume the dogmatic attitude that there is no merit in the propogation of Methodist theology. But this I can state without much fear of contradiction: No plebiscite among the people who made the Wendel fortune would sanction any such bizarre use of the moneys. And to add the final twist of irony, the rise of land values in the midtown section has been based, to a great extent, upon the development of amusement centers such as theaters, hotels, restaurants and cabarets. And now a considerable! part of the fortune is to go to institutions devoted to teaching young men to

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toward the shoulder and may even seem to pass down the arm to the fingers. I 1 is distinctive and associated quite definitely with the nervous mechanism. Any one who seen a person in such an attack knows the reaction which almost inevitably occurs The person concerned may cry out, the face becomes pale and looks pinched and drawn and perspiration may pour from the forehead. Fortunately for these patients, scientific medicine has developed a method of relief for the acute attack. In the majority of cases the inhalation of amyl nitrite brings about prompt relief. Some patients, however, do better with nitroglycerine, which is used as a remedy and with several other medical preparations. Any physician can prescribe these as needed. Relief of the acute attack is not the chief matter of importance. The physician who is responsible for a patient with this disease finds it necessary to regulate the entire life of the patient to minimize the number of attacks and, if possible, to overcome the basic disorders in the body associated with onset of the heart disease.

ideals and opinions expressed in this column 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.

drinb, dancing, and the theaters are works of the devil. (Copyright. 1931. by Th Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times A great many laboring men rave about employers installing labor-saving devices and call down the curses of the devil upon the heads of the merchants and the manufacturers who install such sys ;ems, yet it is the small-salaried man in most cases who is responsible for the success of such systems. For instance, a local oil company has several serve yourself filling stations where only one person, a cashier, is employed, thus throwing several men out of work. Yet the biggest portion of their business comes from those same laborers who think such employers should be mobbed. Small-salaried men and laborers condemn the chain stores, yet it is their patronage which permits the chain stores to exist. They condemn the manufacturer who pays his employes small wases, yet they jump to get a job with

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31 ARCH SO, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Alcohol Is as Necessary to War as Steel Is. THE importance of grain alcohol to the bootleg Industry Is well known. But it is doubtful if the importance of this liquid to legitimate industry in general is as well appreciated. It has been said that sulfuric add Ls so Important to the industrial world that the machine age well might be called the age of sulfuric acid. But in the importance and variety of Its uses, alcohol ls exceeded only by sulfuric acid and caustic soda. Alcohol is used In the manufacture of varnishes, lacquers, shellacs, enamels, celluloid, foodstuffs, drugs, medicines, dyestuffs and artificial silk. It ls employed in the printing and photographic industries and many others. The great uses for alcohol grow out of its utility as a solvent. A solvent is a liquid which will form a uniform fluid mixture with some other substance. , Water is the best known and most common solvent. Every one is familiar with ordinary' sugar or salt solutions. Most chemical processes go on best in solution and so the begin ning of most chemical manufacturing processes is the making of a solution. Next to water, alcohol is tlie most useful liquid for creatioi of solutions. a it tt Paint industry THE paint and varnish industry employs alcohol coming and going. Alcohol ls the base of most varnishes, lacquers, and enamels. It also is the principal ingredient of most paint and varnish removers. As the sale of paint increases, so does the sale of paint removers. And as a result, the demand for commercial alcohol receives a double Impetus. Among the newest wood lacquers are quick-drying ones which can be shot on to furniture with air-pres-sure guns. These lacquers dry almost immediately and many of them furnish a brilliant finish without the necessity of rubbing or polishing. Another important use of alcohol is in the manufacture of pyroxylin This is a plastic substance made of nitrocellulose or gun-cotton and goes by many trade names, among the most familiar of which is celluloid, ) Buttons, billiard balls, combs, vanity boxes, salt cellars, napkin rings, children’s toys and a great variety of products are made today from pyroxylin. Alcohol is required as a solvent in the manufacture of artificial silk. It also is used in manufacturing many dyes. Thus, alcohol may play a double role in the manufacture of many articles of clothing, taking part in the manufacture of the silk and in the subsequent coloring of the silk.

In War Time ALCOHOL has its war-time uses as well as its peace-time uses. It takes about a barrel of alcohol to construct a 12-inch shell. As chemists have observed, every alcohol plant is a potential munitions plant. The modern explosives, smokeless powder, cordite and TNT. all require alcohol for their manufacture. Today, a nation decides upon a standard explosive for its artillery. Its big guns are then designed for this particular one. This fact, led to difficulties for Great Britain during the World war. Great Britain had adopted a cordite for its standard explosive. Cordites require acetone in their manufacture. During the war, there was a shortage of acetone and so the British chemists had to develop a method of manufacturing acetone from alcohol. The process was a costly one, but Great Britain had to use it, because there was no choice in the matter. Alcohol also is required for manufacture of the fulminates in the percussion caps of shells. It also is the basis for the manufacture of most poison gases, particularly mustard gas and tear gas. It has been estimated that at, the close of the World war, 60 per cent of the shells fired contained some form of poison gas. It is usual to think of the waging of war as depending upon a supply of steel. But alcohol is as necessary for war as steel. him. The average laboring man is the most inconsistent person in the world. He shouts demands for labor regulations and ther votes for a Governor who vetoes any kind of a bill which will help labor. No one is to blame for conditions as they are but the laboring man himself, and he never will change He is too inconsistent. A LABORING MAN Editor Times—l wish to compliment you on your editorials. They are the most honest and fearless editorials that I ever have read, and I have read most of the papers of any consequence in the country. Your editorials about feeding the people and about Ford were excel lent. A READER. Shelbjville, Ind. Who would preside if a justice oi the United States supreme cour were tried for impeachment by tlv senate? The Vice-President of the Unitec States would preside over the senatesitting as a court of impeachment.