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Nicholas Longworth Nicholas Longworth died at the height of his power. No Speaker of the house of representatives since Uncle Joe Cannon had been in such a position of dictatorship. Backed by the majority leader and the chairman of the house rules committee, Longworth headed a triumvirate which held virtually the power of life or death over legislation. He did not inherit this power; he largely created it. But, like the Cannonism of an earlier day, which cracked finally of its own weight, Longworth’s throne was shaking. There was revolt among the members. Liberalization of the house rules was in sight. Last fall the anti-administration election wiped out the heavy Republican majority in the next confess. At best Longworth’s czarism would have been ended. At jrorst he would have been unseated in favor of a Democratic Speaker next December. Even his re-election to the house in 1932 was doubtful. For twenty-nine years, with one exception, h© had been chosen to represent the Cincinnati district. But last year he developed unexpected political weakness. Asa politician, Longworth’s strength and weakness sprang from the same source—party regularity. In all things political he was a regular of the regulars, first as one who obeyed orders from the party managers and later as a party manager himself who gave orders. "My party, right or wrong,'’ was his creed. He even refused to follow his effeminating father-in-law out of the party in 1912. •By conviction, by party loyalty, and by birth he was an extreme conservative. He probably killed more liberal bills than any other man in his generation. He led the house forces against Muscle Shoals. Year after year he won the fight to preserve the system of lame duck congresses. Those who did net know him personally may wonder how a man so rigid and conservative, so much a political czar, could be so popular as a man. His political enemies explain that it was his sincerity and charm. His conservatism was not a matter of convenience or expedience, but of principle. And his gaiety and wit saved his reign from the grimness of Cannonism. Also, he was admired by his colleagues for his achievements. Asa leader, he was handicapped by being a “silk stocking’’ and the husband of a brilliant and famous wife. The rich man’s son and husband of Alice Roosevelt at first was resented by the congressmen party leaders, udio made political capital of being “sons of the people.” That he was a musician added to their suspicion. His road to power was across those and similar prejudices—u’hich he overcame People liked Nick Longworth. They Never Die Now come those who say President Hoover is ready to fight to save his federal farm board's life. Notwithstanding the appeals of some that the board bs abolished, neither the President nor the board need get upset about its threatened death. Politics, as a matter of fact, appears to have infused into it and all similar bureaus a spark of immortality. The course of this half-billion-dollar government agency is easy to plot up to now. 3orn out of years of bickering, with high aims and a fat pocketbook, the board started out to save the farmer from ruin. Thus have most government bureaus been born. It ran spectacularly, then lost its breath, and now just Is trudging along, resting. Its pocketbook is leaner, its experience far greater. , It may get its second wind—and another injection of pep-producing treasury gold—or it may not. Out of the wheat market and reported to be planning to get out of the cotton market and end all its “stabilization” efforts, the board now is concerned with those vague twins ' co-operation” and "orderly marketing.” In the former lies a potent force. If it can coerce farmers into co-eperatives and utilise these to market agriculture's products in an orderly manner, it will have accomplished much. , The New Crop of Cannon Fodder In an editorial designed to help cn the campaign ■ against another world conflict, the Manchester Guardian printed the following paragraph intended 50 set forth clearly and forcefully the frightful costs of the world war: “It might help the world alliance against war which Mr. Henderson has proclaimed at Geneva if the nations realized statistically seme of the consequences of the European conflict. "An attempt has been made by a German mathematician, working in the interests of peace propaganda. In the four years of war, 11,000,000 people, he states, found death—one for every thirteen times the clock ticked. More than 19,000,000 were mutilated—just enough to repopulats Spain if it were suddenly wiped out. "With the war costs—ssoo,ooo,ooo,ooo— according to the German statistician, it would have been possible to present every family in the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and Russian with a $2,500 house standing in a fiveacre plot and containing $1,250 worth of furniture, besides providing for each group of 20,000 families a hospital, university and schools, including the salaries of teachers, nurses, doctors and professors. “Lastly, if those little crosses over the graves of the nations’ dead were placed side by side they would stretch from Paris through Europe and Asia right to Vladivostok, and the last would be washed by the waves of the Sea of Japan. "The burden of sacrifices for war’s necessities has, perhaps, never been stated more graphically, but the calculations are so elaborate that no one has ventured to check or challenge them.” The most heartening aspect of the late World war was the thought that it might be the "war to end war.” This was the core of Wells’ idealism which stimulated British and allied soldiers in the horrors of the trenches. Realistically minded persons tended to discount the idealistic interpretations of the causes and immediate aims of the war, but they did hope that it might discourage future butchery. Memory of the frightfulness of war has been perpetuated in the war plays, movies and books, from "What Price Glory?” to “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Could a race descended even from 6imian parentage be Idiotic enough to resume this carnage? Gilbert Seldes has been traveling widely over Europe and feels that the continent is riding madly for another such calamity. He gives his conclusions In articles in Harper’s and Scribner's magazines. Anew generation is growing uo that knew not. Tanr.eburg. Verdun. Ypres and Chateau Thierry. It Is driven on by super-patriotism, as in France and

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Italy; by fear, as in Russia and Poland, and by a zeal for revenge and justice, as in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria. Before the war, the vast armaments rested chiefly on conscription, with no great popular enthusiasm behind them. Today there is a passionate gusto on the part of a host of youngsters who are’ trained from childhood in the “from-the-cradle-to-the-flring-line” philosophy. It is well to expose this alarming situation, as Mr. Seldes has done so splendidly. But no adequate relief can be expected until the causes of the new war movement are deflated. The new cannon fodder is not being ripened from any malicious desire of war for war’s sake. Let the other countries withhold loans from Mussolini until he prunes away grandiose imperialistic schemes. Let Europe declare decisively for a policy of “hands off Russia.” Let the major violations of right and decency in the treaties of Versailles, St. Germain and Trianon be rectified. This ii the only way to knock the staging out from under the present organized effort to breed and rear bellicose babies. Eliminate an Inhuman Situation In that stirring drama of our savage treatment criminals, "The Criminal Code,” one depressing scene centered about laboring conditions in the jute mill at San Quentin prison in California. That the picture was not pure fiction is evident from the action of the Society of Friends in Los Angeles. At the meeting of the Brotherhood of First Friends church (Quaker) of Los Angeles, held on Nov. 5, the following resolutions were adopted unanimously: “The Brotherhood of First Friends church in Los Angeles wishes to call the attention of the people of the state of California to the insanitary condition of the jute mill at San Quentin prison and to the unhealthful conditions under which the men have to labor. ‘ We understand that approximately 1,250 convicts work in this mill, which is as large as a city block of land; that they labor there approximately eight hours a day, and that the air is filled continually with lint, dust and other particles from the jute, making the air unfit for human use; that it hastens lung, throat and other diseases and shortens the lives of the convicts. Resohed, That we grieve at such cruelty and inhuman treatment in this twentieth century and that we consider the San Quentin jute mill a blot on the good name of our state. Resolved, That we urge the Governor and the members of the California legislature to take steps t 0 have the manufacture of jute articles stopped and fhac the 1,250 convicts be put at healthful occupations m some useful trade by which they can earn ri’rir livelihood when their terms in the prison shall expire. Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolu--110:15 be sent to the Governor at Sacramento, to tne members of the legislature, to the press and to the Christian ministers of the state.” Not So Dry Astonishing and significant!” is the comment of Dr. Clarence True Wilson, national dry leader, on the news that ten millionaires- contributed SIIO,OOO to the campaign of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. It is a clear issue of money against manhood,” he adds. “The maintenance of democracy demands tlie determined defense of the United States Constitution. They shall not pass!” Ve seem to recall that the argument back in 1918 was thafc the eighteenth amendment should pass because the big employers wanted it to keep their labor sober on Saturday nights. Now that employers are egmmng to change their minds, anew appeal is to be made. The high-minded employers of 1918 today are to be described as monsters out to destroy Constitution and civilization. Dorothy thinks that a southern exposure is the revelation of some Dixie scandal. Talkies soon are to be shown in trains. As if train journeys were not boring enough as it is. The best eye-opener, according to Prohibition Pete, jis the alarm clock. A radio official recommends that steps be taken for television censorship, it would be well, first to look before we leap.

REASON

VffTELL, brothers and sisters, ex-Secretary Fall’s * V has been u P held the appellate c_u.t of the District of Columbia, but this does necessarily mean the end of it. for the supreme court, a t.ie United States may review it. and this would mean another year’s delay. eats „_A? Y e rec fA is now about nine years since Fall’s ln , the 011 cases first agitated the country, fTf tbe matter has been in the courts for something , ----- eight years, which proves the marvelous selfcontrol of American criminal procedure an tt How can you expect the ordinary taxpayer to have great respect for courts when it takes twice as long 0 g-e one influential defendant what is coming to y Jt to <? k Lincoln, Grant and the Union arSy to put down the rebellion? a a a AN 0 if supreme court finally should uoholrt the conviction, this will not be the end of it; this wUI net necessarily mean that he will go to jail the ll St C °^ rt turn its thumbs down, you fl .ILL; ? see medlca J experts form into line and ment formatlcn niove to save Fall from imprisona a a They will march on Washington with X-ravs and blue prims and affidavits, pretending to show that Fall is a toiai loss, as to health, and that imorisonment soon would subtract him from the nation he has adorned a a a First of all, they probably will move upon the President and implore him to pardon the cheerful giver of the nation’s oil reserves, and if this fails they then will go to court and tell the judge the same thing and try to have the jail sentence postponed until he shall have regained his youth. O 8 S TF the judge decides that he is a physical wreck, then he probably will cheat the bars, which have for Fall since Heck was a pup, and then he’ll fi’l the land with a rocking horse laugh, proving once more th3t he who laugh last laughs best. a a a If, after all. Fall be not sent to Jail, he probably may be sent to the Smithsonian Institute and put in \ (lass case to keep him away from the air, but we should say it would be better to put him upon a pedestal alongside the Venus de Milo in the Corcoran artgallery at the national capital

B y FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Poor Human Beings Have Not Yet Acquired Enough Knowledge to Proceed From the Known to the Unknown. NEW YORK, April 10.—Thousands upon thousands of people are asking themselves, “who can take Nicholas Longworth's place?” That is a real tribute. A man's worth is determined by the gap he leaves. Most men, no matter how great, can depart this | life without causing much of a jar. Nicholas Longworth was one of the exceptions. The true position he occupied is best illustrated by the fact that John N. Garner, Democratic leader of the house, will be one of the saddest and sincerest mourners. No public figure of recent times has woven himself more completely into the life of the capital, the politics of the nation, or the confidence T)f every person with whom he came in contact. The Hcover administration has lost its ablest strategist, the Republican party one of its shrewdest leaders, congress one'of its most attractive members, and Washington society one of its most charming hosts. a a a Pneumonia Is Riddle MOCKING birds which sang outside Mr. Longworth’s window contributed about as much to help him in that last, losing fight as did science. Pneumonia, like some other oldfashioned maladies, remains a mystery. Doctors can classify it according to type, or form, issue technical bulletins, administer drugs to induce sleep or oxygen to replenish the blood, but their principal task is just one of watchful waiting. If the patient is peculiarly strong, jor the attack peculiarly mild, recovery is indicated. Otherwise, nobody knows. Humanity has no choice but to accept the challenge, go on floundering, experimenting, deducing, guessing, speculating, until the secret of this disease has been run to earth. We call the process pure science, insofar as we are compelled to proceed in the dark. a a e Stifle Imagination UIDED fcy stark realism, Soviet Russia proposes to annihilate science by proclamation, and launch a program whereby all her students, specialists, and experts will confine themselves to cold, unimaginative deduction. Pure science, according to the Soviet theory, just is another soporific, by which the capitalistic world lulls us poor human beings to sleep while it picks our pockets; a modern form of anesthesia for the masses, which many look uoon as a great improvement over orthodox religion, but which is made of the same old stuff and serves the same old purpose. What the Soviet proposed to breed is not a race of Einsteins, but a tribe of investigators who will determine whether it is easier to drive a round peg into a square hole, or a square peg into a round one, who will proceed solely on what they know, and draw their inspiration from absolutely rigid formulas. a a a Wander in Dark SOVIET RUSSIA’S attitude in this respect is doubly interesting, in view the fact that, not more than ten days ago, 200 eminent scientists in this country admitted the important part played by hunch, or subconscious inspiration. The point is, of course, that we poor human beings have not acquired enough facts to proceed from the known to the unknown. Boundless ignorance still compels us to wander around, to suppose, surmise, and try everything in sight. That faculty which we call imagination still is necessary to progress. We have no other way of leaping the chasms which still separate truth from illusionment. Like pioneers in an uncharted wilderness, we must go forward with imagination as our guide.

Questions and Answers

Who is Governor-General of the Philippine islands? Dwight Davis. When was the Eads bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Lcuis completed? July 4, 1874. Who wrote “She Silent House”? John G. Brandon. According to the latest census figures, what proportion cf the total population cf the District of Columbie are Negroes? The total population is 436,869. of whom 132,068 are Negroes. What is the largest fresh water lake in the United States? Lake Superior. What is the average weight of an /elephant? African elephants weight about 9.500 pounds, and Indian elephants weight about 7,000 pounds. Has the. story ‘Tittle Women” been made into a photoplay? Yes, by Famous Players in 1919. Where was Marie Dressier born md in what play did she make her stage debut? She was born in Cobourg, Ont., Canada, and made her state debut in 1883 as “Cigaret” in “Under Two Flags.” What does the name Kitaniller mean? It is a German family name, de- ! rived from an occupation. The I meaning is boxmiller, a maker of : chests for flour mills. How old is Winnie Lightner? Twenty-nine years. Please name the president and the president pro tempore of the United States senate? The President of the senate is the Vice-President of the United States, Charles Curds. The president pro tempore is Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire. What is the nationality and meaning of the name Gerring? It is a German family name | meaning “sons of a speer” or "javelin.”

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—DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Mineral Springs Are Aid* to Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hreeia. the Health Masarine. Long before tnere was any scientific medicine, the ancient Greeks and Romans used to resort to springs, indulge in baths at a variety of temperatures, drink mineral water, and thus attempt to regain their health. The person who reads the advertisement of a modern spring resort is likely to consider that the claims are exaggerated and quackish, because the springs are said to be good for every kind of disease. The answer to this is the fact that the springs are not likely to benefit specifically any disease, but they are likely to accomplish a great deal in restoring the hygiene of the body to normal state and to benefit even the psychologic atti-

IT SEEMS TO ME

HpKERE are two groups of people A with whom a city resident likes to maintain friendly relatione. I refer, of course, to the police and taxicab drivers. Your life and safety are in their hands. The other night I was standing on the steps of Carnegie hall doing my bit in addressing an overflow meeting. And since the purpose of the gathering was to protest against civic corruption, it was not only necessary’, but logical to make some comment on the actions of certain members of the vice squad. But there is a possibility that something of a proper denunciatory’ ring was not in my voice, for all about the fringes of the crowd stood men in uniform. Indeed, I could not resist a slight compromise note. For after doing what was imperative in regard to criticism of offenders I added hastily, “Os course, I don’t mean all policemen. Some of them are above reproach. “I think that I ought to say that, both in fairness and self-interest. No man who moves about after 3 in the morning wants to be known as the uncompromising foe of cops.” a a a They Terrify Me NOR am I as courageous as I would like to be in dealing with taxicab drivers. I wish I had the nerve to say, “Don’t go down Sixth avenue.” This particular highway seems to be the favorite of all hackmen. Even though their hours are long and the nature of the work dull and grinding, they seem to get a stirring pleasure out of dodging in and out between the elevated railread pillars. It is a game I don’t enjoy, because one miss takes you permanently out of competition. Yet I find I haven't sufficient courage to confess my timidity. All I do is to sit back grimly and cling to the straps. I learned my lesson several years ago upon a stormy evening. The driver in wlrose car I rode seemed to go on the principle “Slow on the straightaways and fast around the curves.” After the third successive skid I said to him, “Would you mind going a little mere slowly?” He drew up alongside the curb ar.d answered, “If you don't like the way I drive, get cut!” And so I did in a driving rainstorm. But here, at least, is indication that I have one friend within the ranks. B 8 St Thanks for the Ride “TJARDON my frankness, Mr. A Broun,” writes Isidore Sugeltuch, “but do you know that when you entered my cab I did not at first recognize you? “And judging from your appearance and from the destination you gave me to take you, I took you to be a newspaper truck driver, perhaps late for work, and that you therefore hired a cab. “I could not imagine a Heywood Broun at that hour of the morning minus a full dress regalia. After you left my cab at the Dey street Telegram office and told me to wait, I even was somewhat worried whether you would come out again and whether I was to be done out of my fare, which often does happen to us cab drivers. “A police officer was standing on the comer, and I was just about to

But It’s Still in the Air!

tude of the patient. In the first place, the mineral spring provides a change of scene, getting a person away from the annoying condition in his business or in his home, and thus improving his mental attitude. In the second place, he rests far more while at the springs than he did while home. In the third place, practically all mineral springs have laxative or even cathartic u’aters which thoroughly cleanse the body under the best of conditions and get rid of waste products of the intestines. The activity of the kidneys is increased through drinking large amounts of water. The skin elimination is benefited by the use of hot baths, which increasa perspiration and, as the elimination increases, the assimilation also is improved.

go over to him and tcil him that a big tall guy, evidently a truck driver late for werk, had left me waiting outside with very much cn the meter and was further going to ask him to go in there and locate this man for me, when, fortunately, just then you came out.” “You had your coat wide open, and under the light of the street lamp I recognized you and asked if ycu were not Mr. Heywood Broun, and that made things altogether different.” a a a In Another Vein BUT not all contributions voice this same spirit of cordiality. Here, for instance, is a letter signed “All-American:” “It has been said you are the highest paid egotist in America.. I believe it. I understand you collaborated on a book regarding antisemitism. “Let me enlighten you about something. Look over the registration books of New York for several years back. Under the column ‘Place of Birth,’ you will find in the east side district the word ‘Russia’ on line after line. “In the enrollment column you will find the designation ‘Socialist.’ Do you winder that Americans hate those unkempt alien groups that preach hatred of American ideals? , “Now, as for the pope and birth control, wouldn’t it be a good idea

ARGENTINA DECLARES WAR April 10

ON April 10, 1917, the Argentine government issued a declaration announcing that it supported the position of the United States in reference to Germany. The declaration was made known to the public through bulletins; posted throughout Buenos Aires, and caused a great sensation. Enthusiastic crowds marched through the streets, and the university students organized pro-ally dsmonstr=tic--~. An influential part of the population was strongly pacifist and proGerman, but the greet majority were pro-American prosily. A serious riot occurred at Buenos Aires on April l”, in which several persons were killed before the mob was quelled. The situation te-ame more aeute when it was learned on April 12 the. an Argentine sailing vessel had been* sunk of the European ccast by a German submarine. The day Argentina declared war, Chile issued an official statement i that she would remain neutral. ;

Daily Thought

And I gave my heart to seek and search cut by wisdom concerning all things that are dene under heaven; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.— Ecclesiastes 1:13. He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. —Saadi.

Under these conditions, the individual is almost certain to be benefited, provided he does not overdo any particular aspect of the treatment. People with heart disease may take too much exercise or may throw too much strain upon the circulation by alternate hot and cold baths. People who are weak may still further weaken themselves unduly by driving the organs of elimination too severely. All these points must be taken into account. If the patient remains at home, he falls into a vicious circle in relationship to hygiene, and treatment at home may be unable to break through this circle. If the person goes to a mineral springs, he changes the entire habits of life, and the improvement in assimilation and elimination put him on the road to recovery.

uv HEYWOOD B ' BROUN

for ycu to mind your own business? “If you favor birth control, you can write about it to your heart’s Content. But give your opinions without attacking others. Don't be cowardly as well as lazy.” And so it is easy to understand that when a. columnist picks up his morning mail he does so with mixed feelings cf anticipation and trepidation. (CODvrlsht. 1931. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—On April 12, 1917, Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the American commission for relief in Belgium, and at that time also head of the American food board, said: “I feel it my duty to emphasize that the food situation is one of the utmost gravity, which, unless it is solved, may result in the collapse of everything we hold dear in civilization.” The same Herbert C. Hoover, now President of the United States, should in all seriousness emphasize that the unemployment and food situation of today is one of the utmost gravity which, unless solved soon, will result in the collapse of everything we hold dear in civilization. On the same day, and in the paper as I read Mr. Hoover’s statement, I also read: “London, April 21.—1n the opinion of some wellknown physicians here, Londoners are becoming more vivacious and light of step and in general more, healthy as the result of the food restrictions.” This statement from London should be very encouraging to the hungry and unemployed, and to charity who feeds the starving on a bowl of soup, or the Red Cross who feeds the Arkansas farmers on 1 cent meals. S. A. NELSON, 1446 Naomi street. Editor Times—Coroner Fred W. Vehling should be congratulated on restoring that fine old Bourbon social philosophy that “the king cm do no wrong.” In this instance he went even farther and extended the courtesy to tke king's son. For I read in Saturdav’s Times

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Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are cresented without resard to the*r aereement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this o’oer —The Editor

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.'APRIL 10, 1931

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

Copper Is the Nervous System, Steel Is the Skeleton of the Machine Age. STEEL furnishes the bones of the Machine Age. It has a skeleton of framework of steeL But copper supplies the nervous system. The nerve currents of the Machine Age are currents of electricity and they require copper wires. Millions of miles of copper wire carry the current that operates electric lights and motors. More millions of miles carry messages over telephone and telegraph systems. Every automobile has a nervous system of copper wires. It is estimated that the electrical industry uses one billion pounds of copper a year, about ten pounds for every person in the United States. Radio is a big user of copper. It Is estimated that there are about fifteen million pounds of copper in radio sets in the United States. Cooper is only one of many metals which the Machine Age requires. Altogether, there are about fifty important ones besides iron. These are* known as the nonferrous metals. These are used singly and in mixtures or combinations known as alloys. a a a Aluminum and Others COPPER is the most important of the non-ferrous metals. Others which range close to it are aluminum nickel, zinc, yead, silver, platinum, tungston, mercury’, arsenic, silicon, magnesium, chromium and manganese. Aluminum finds new uses every day because of its lightness. Alloys of aluminum which combine the original lightness of the metal with greater tensile strength are expanding this metal’s sphere of usefulness. Duralumin is one of these alloys. It is used in the framework of big Zeppelins. It is also being used today in the manufacture of big telescopes. A duralumin frame Is much lighter than a steel one and so decreases the load which the bearinga of the telescope must carry, simplifying the engineering problems and increasing' the telescope's usefulness. Large amounts of aluminum are used in the manufacture of automobiles and cooking utensils. Nickel and chromium are used largely for plating articles of other substances. Chromium-plating ia used extensively by automobile manufactures. Zinc frequently is used to coat articles of steel to prevent rusting Fence wire is coated with zinc. The metal also is required for the cases of electric dry batteries such as are used in flashlights and other pieces of apparatus. Tin forms the coating on tin cans, while lead is required for manufacture of electric storage batteries. Bttß * Use of Tungsten TUNGSTEN leaped into new importance in the world with development of the electric light. Platinum is important as the metal for electrical contacts in certain types of apparatus. It also is useful to the chemist, who finds that certain analyses can be carried cut only in platinum dishes. And of course, platinum also is used today for jewelry/. Antimony is needed for a number of important alloys. Along with lead and tin, it forms the type metal used in the printing industry. It also is added to the lead used in storage batteries to make it harder. Arsenic is used to harden lead in some cases, as, for example, the manufacture of lead shot. The branch of science which deals with the various metals mentioned Is known as nonferrous metallurgy. There are many interesting problems before it, chief among them, the invention of new alloys. The utility of aluminum was real ized fully long before the metal was employed. Industry had to wait until science had evolved a cheap method of producing the metal from its ore. that all parents of boys involved In the accidental shooting of a huck - ster under the Delaware street bridge were ordered charged with child neglect and the boys also held by the coroner. That is, all but Governor Harry G. Leslie and his son, the latter of whom had been with the boys at the time of the fatal shooing. Now the Governor did the decent thing to appear at the coroner’s inquest, but surely his son also should have been there with the other boys. Then when the Democratic Vehling exonerate*! only young Leslie and ordered all the other parents arrested, it seems to me that, for the sake of further decency, democracy, and fair play, the Governor should have suggested that he also be charged, since his boy was one of the group. Os course, the coroner explained that the Leslie boy was playing with a basketball at the time of the shooting. Does it follow from'this that boys with basketballs are exempt from further inquiry when their companions get into trouble? Or It is a fact that, to avoid such difficulties it is best to be a Gcvncr's son. TRIES SUBSCRIBER