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Enlightened Penology One of the most creditable acts of President Hoorer was the appointment of Sanford Bates as director of federal prisons. Bates had a splendid record as commissioner of corrections in Massachusetts. * Now he amply has vindicated the hopes of those who expected him to introduce enlightened methods into administration of federal penitentiaries. His special report, just made public by the White House, is a fearless and able summary of what it means to apply sense and science to treatment of criminals. His reference to efforts to remedy the frightful overcrowding of federal institutions is no more than might be expected from any efficient prison administrator. * But his observations on the methods of treating prisoners form a genuine contribution to penal science. Bates asserts that scientific treatment, rather than savage punishment, should be the aim. This requires an adequate staff of experts to study each criminal individually and prescribe' treatment according to the facts discovered regarding his personality and life story. The ultimate purpose of treatment is reformation. Tills never can be achieved by indiscriminate mass administration, in which all are handled alike, regardless of personalities, age and crimes. Stress is laid upon the success of prison camps where the honor system is maintained fully Several passages in Bates reports are especially worth producing: "It will take much patience and intelligence to aupplant the traditions which have governed our prisons for so many years with a system of scientific discipline It will not be enough to ameliorate the rigors of the prison of the past unless we can substitute for them the stern discipline of self-education and self-improvement. “A prison need not have dirt, idleness, graft and cruelty to deter persons from committing crime. If the experience of punishment makes possible an acquaintance for the first time with some of the higher things of life it still may be very desirable disciplinary experience.” Bates does well to insist that all this in no way moans coddling of criminals or removal of fear of Imprisonment. It does not mean that the resources of science at last may be turned to the service of this Important social effort.. Bates should have many years in his present post to apply his wholly commendable and practicable program. Barnes’ Opinion—and Ours Harry Elmer Barnes, special contributor to this newspaper, is known as a liberal. In a recent article on a labor subject, he said: “We do not ask Mr. Green to accept William Z. Foster for a buddy, but Foster certainly is no further removed from the interests of sane labor organization than Matthew Woll, or John L. Lewis, two of Mr. Green’s trusted lieutenants.” The essence of liberalism is tolerance —broadmindedness. freedom from bigotry. In that statement we think Barnes slipped from his role, as we all do from time to time. Anyway, we want to express our own editorial opinion of William Z. Foster. And even at the risk of being called a bit bigoted ourselves, we desire to say that we think no more essentially anti-social being than William Z. Foster ever came within our observation. We do not believe he ever breathed a constructive breath in his life. Destruction is the beginning and the end of his philosophy. He would declare war on the millennium and dynamite Utopia. We have had our differences with Matt Woll and John L Lewis and William Green and others who represent the “administration” in the A. F. of L. But to classify them or any one of them in the same category with William Z. Foster, to ifiention them in the same sentence, to put them in the same nest with society's leading rattlesnake—that’s not what we call liberalism. During their lifetime. Green, Lewis and Woll, particularly in the time of Gompers, have played parts In a mighty movement that brought to labor higher wages, shorter Hours, and better working conditions. That fact stands to their credit. Differ with them as much as we may now. that accomplishment can’t be wiped out. And what did William Z. Foster ever contribute to the working man in all that time? The answer echoes—“ Nothing but hell.”

For Safety The United States commerce department's decision to withdraw, temporarily, Fokker tri-motored planes from passenger traffic on the airlines took commendable courage. There Is bound to be criticism of this action, but it seems to us that no precaution to protect the lives of air passengers is too great. The Fokker wing, admittedly one of the strongest In service, is so constructed, we understand, that frequent inspection and thorough maintenance are difficult. The present withdrawal of thirty-five Fokker planes from passenger traffic is to see that all these wings are in proper condition. If they are—or if not, as soon as they are repaired—the planes will be put back in service. If there is even a doubt about the condition of any plane, now is the time to find out about it, and not after more people have been killed. The very existence of air transport depends upon its record of safety. What may seem a drastic action today will be forgotten tomorrow in the continued increase of safety in flying which this action help* make possible Labor Injunctions When congress meets again, and again is asked to curb the use of anti-labor injunctions, those who have stood in the way of this legislation for years will find one of their most useful weapons badly weakened. ‘The anti-injunction bill violates state's rights,” opponents have cried. Yet within the last few months legislatures in many states have debated taking the lead in this matter and themselves attempting to atop the abuse which the federal government has neglected to halt. Asa matter of fact, the cry of state's rights never has been a valid one in opposition to this bill, Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard law school am* Nathan Greene point out In a study of the labor injunction they Just nave made. "State's right invariably is the voice of obstruction when federal legislation is invoked, but never has it been put to more sardonic use than in the present Instance." they say: The federal Judiciary has for decades set the pace not only in the abundance of labor injunctions or

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in the breadth of their application and in the everwidening orbit of their interdiction, but also in fashioning legal restraints upon the organized activities cf workers whch ‘reminds of involuntary servitude.’ "Federal courts frankly have refused to follow state policy and have intervened in such local affairs on the basis of their conception of some transcending national policy. But congress is powerless to bring such decisions in conformity with its determination of national policy. "Federal courts can invade state policy by judgemade law. But congress is impotent to define law for the' general guidance of its own creations.” The federal government is consistently more timid than state governments, less able to hear the calls of oppressed people, and less willing to move in their behalf. But perhaps, now that others have led the way, it will fina it possible to follow. He Is Old And Sick The end of Albert B. Fall’s fight for reversal of his bribery conviction leaves us all well agreed upon one thing. None of us wants to see him go to jail. The jury that found Fall guilty as United States secretary of interior of taking SIOO,OOO from his friend, Edward L. Doheny, recommended mercy for him. The judge who sentenced him, while saying that the case would warrant imposition of a maximum threeyear jail sentence and $300,000 fine under normal conditions, imposed a sentence of one year and SIOO,OOO fine because of Fall’s physical state, and announced that he would suspend the jail sentence if a delay in its execution had not been assured at that time by decision to appeal the conviction. civilized community does not demand that a sick old man go to prison to die. Punishment such as was imposed upon Fall—justly, we believe—is not imposed for the purpose of retribution. If its purpose is to prevent the offender from again committing his offense, that purpose need no longer be considered. If it is intended to protect the community from corruption on the part of future public servants, that purpose has been fulfilled as well as it can be fulfilled in any case. Fall's fellow citizens do not begrudge him whatever of peace he yet may find in life.

An Honest Man Rarely have we read an address so surprising in its frankness as that of Melvin A. Traylor, Chicago banker, before the International Chamber of Commerce convention. No Communist could bring a worse indictment against the financial and political leaders of the country. Traylor charged that in 1927 the responsible bankers and government officials knew' that the speculation orgy, unless checked, would lead to the crash of 1929, and yet remained silent. “Few warnings were issued, and. few attempts were made to attract public attention to the danger that threatened. “We# have not failed because of ignorance of economic theories, but because of our utter disregard and defiance of all economic law's. “Ambition, stupidity and greed have dictated policies and trouble has been the result.” No truer word has been spoken of the cause of this depression. Those bankers and business leaders and Washington officials, who saw the danger signal and ran the country full speed ahead to the WTeck of 1929-30, have a lot to answer for. To Melvin A. Traylor, for the honesty and courage of this confession, which implicates so many of us. the country is indebted greatly. Mussolini is reported to be an expert violinist. And vet there are some w’ho insist he never rests his chin. Berlin scientists find that persons under the influence of liquor sunburn more easily than sober persons. This may explain why so many look “off-color" after a drunk. “Let’s make toupee.” as the bald-headed man said to the wig-maker.

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OVER in Ohio they are making an effort to stabilize matrimony and reduce divorce by injecting a little more deliberation into the approach to the altar, and beginning in July all candidates for mar- ■ lage must wait five days after the application for a license. This will help to the extent that it will cut out the daredevil side of it; it will place an obstacle before those who enter into it on the impulse, particularly those who refuse to “take a dare.’’ But as a substantial remedy for our present wholesale flying of the domestic coop, it will not amount to much. a a a 'T'HE altered condition of human society is at the A bottom of the lightness with which marriage sows are now worn. In the old days, when the home was evervthing, when there were few outside diversions, where distances were great and children were fashionable, matrimony meant a lifelong partnership. a a a We still recall the hushed breath with which it was announced that so and so was a “divorced voman. The town that had one of them was remarkable, while the presence of two of them would have caused a riot. Things are slightly different now. man i The children of this age have no conception of the change which has occurred in the American home these last forty years. It has been greater than the change in anv century or pair of Centuries. a a m WHEN two people entered into the long partnership forty years ago they did it knowing that they were putting on heavy harness, for the home was a workshop. There almost anything the family needed was made. Nothing was bought, except the things which could not be produced at home. a a a Clothes were made at home, all the clothes for all he children; they were cut down as long as they held together. CarptXs were woven in the neighborhood and the carpet rags were cut and sewed at home —carpet rags by the mile. a a a Soap was made at home, soft soap and hard soap, too. We can feel our eyes sting yet as we remember the smeke we encountered as we stirred the kettle in the back yard. Every piece of fat meat was saved for that kettle. Underwear was made at* home, stocking and sox were knitted there; hair was cut at home, boots were ?reesed and blacked at home. Fruit was canned there; meats were cured. People got along with each other because they were too busy to fight. ' C

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|m. E. Tracy SAYS: Turkey Has Made More Progress in the Last Ten Years Than in the Previous 100, and Kemal Is Largely Responsible. NEW YORK, May s.—Mustapha Kemal wins his third election as president of Turkey. It was a foregone conclusion that he would. That, however, is not the important point. i If ever a man earned the right to run a country, it’s Kemal. Os all the post-war leaders, Mus- | solini and Lenin included, none can i show a longer record of sweeping ! innovations. Turkey has made more progress j during the last ten years than j during the previous 400. and Kemal is largely responsible for it. He not only has abolished the fez, | whiskers, and polygamy, but has i brought about separation of church j and state, and substituted the Latin ! ; for the Arabic alphabet. While doing all this, he has found ; | time to attain a certain degree of ! ; skill in poker and cultivate a taste : for jazz. a a a Lipton Wins at Last IT has taken Sir Thomas Lipton three times as long to get into the Royal Yacht squadron as Kemal required to make over Turkey, and Sir Thomas is not so slow. Breaking down British tradition, however, makes such venerable institutions as the fez or polygamy look like 30 cents. Sir Thomas once had run a grocery store, which was contrary to all rules for membership in the Royal Yacht squardon. The late King Edward felt quite sure he could get Sir Thomas by in spite of this handicap, but put it off too long. After his death, no one could be •found with sufficient pull or courage to make the attempt. With a labor government in power. however, and with Sir Thomas approaching 81, the boys seem to have decided it would be all right to make an exception in his case. u a All Have Right to Land BRITISH toryism is going to make many such exceptions in the future, and they are going to involve things of mere consequence than membership in a yacht club. Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden dropped a very broad hint of what is just, around the corner during his address on the land tax Monday night. “Land, was given to us by the Creator,” he said, "not for the private use cf the dukes, but for equal use by all his children.’’ “Restriction of freedom in the use of land is a restriction of human ! liberty.” The Irish Free State just has converted 70,000 tenant farmers into land owners by taking over the large holdings which they occupied and will do the same thing for 80,000 more next November. England is moving toward similar action, whether the labor government survives or not. Booze Is Cheaper WHILE we re talking about ; England, it is interesting to j learn that the first automat has j been opened in London. Though based on the American ! model, this automat has some very distinct advantages. For one thing, customers can get drink as well as food, with no regulations as to alcoholic content, and they can get it at from 6 to 12 cents a shot. Gasoline may be higher in England than it is here, but liquor is certainly cheaper. an ts Tariff Is Barrier WHAT has happened to liquor in this country, to gasoline in England, .to whiskers in Turkey, and to one thing or another everywhere serves to remind us how profoundly times have changed since dad was a boy and how hopelessly dependent people are becoming on one another throughout the world. Frontiers would have little left to stand on, were it not for political tradition and the artificial barriers growing out of it. Humanity abandoned nationalism long ago in art, literature, and religion. Who can doubt that it would have given it a far smaller place in commerce but for the hangover of medieval statecraft? It's a curious thing how stubbornly we cling to tariff walls, though in many instances they prevent us from obtaining the very things we need. One can find some excuse for the tariff as a source of revenue, but as a trade regulator it helps nobody, except as it hurts someone else. Admitting that certain industries may have made a larger profit because of the tariff now in force, the general benefit has been offset by the markets it either has decreased or destroyed.

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JOFFRE AT ST. LOUIS May 6 ON May 6, 1917, the French goodwill delegates to the United states were acclaimed in St. Louis after an enthusiastic reception In Chicago. More than 20,000 persons crowded into the Coliseum in St. Louis to welcome the visitors, and as many more stood outside—unable to obtain admission. From St. Louis the commission proceeded to Kansas City, where they were received with great enthusiasm. They returned to the east stopping off at Springfield, 111., where Marshal Jcffre placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb. At Philadelphia the French guests were royally entertained. Visiting Independence hall, General Joffre was presented a marshal’s baton made from a piece of one of the Independence hall rafters. At this same hall ex-Premier Vivian! said: “We do not feel in America as if we were far from home. The ideals and aims of America and of France are the same. “It was in this holy place that freedom first was breathed from the mouths of men for the inspiration of every nation.’*

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Mother’s Milk Held Best for Baby

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hysreia, the Health Magazine. MOST authorities in diseases of children are convinced that the best possible food for the infant is its mother’s milk, particularly during the early years of life. The problems of modern civilization, the increased responsibilities of women in public life, have caused more resentment against this task of the mother than formerly .was the case. Most specialists in infant feeding have come to believe that it is possible to feed a baby artificially and to produce just about as healthful a child as can be produced by breast feeding. It seems likely from recent investigation of the subject that under the best possible conditions

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Mary pickfgrd has announced that she is buying up all her old films. “I don’t w'ant posterity to laugh at me,” is her explanation. I think Miss Pickford makes a mistake in putting out of circulation celluloid records which may have a vast historical value in a hundred years or less. It is quite true, as she savs, that “the motion pictures are in a very crude state now and would be simply laughable in tw'enty years.” But w’hat of that? In some of the other arts, practitioners of the past may seem a little quaint after they have died' and rested for a while. But this other quality of being old-fashioned and somewhat out of the mode has given certain products a glamorous quality to the seekers for ancient things. After all, no living artist can make bargains with posterity. Possibly it will smile at those things which seemed to him completely serious. And his burlesque endeavors may. move the grandchildren of the race to sympathy and sorrow 7 . BUB Any Terms at All MY own feeling is that anybody does w'ell to be remembered w'hen he is gone, on whatever terms.

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Editor Times —So the Old Gold of De Pauw has turned “red”? A few uninformed and prejudiced souls may feel that way. but for the great majority of De Pauw alumni and friends the Old Gold still flies and with nobler meaning for true American ideals than ever before, under the leadership of President Oxnam. It is well known to most De Pauw alumni that the present trouble seems largely a frameup by a few D. A. R. officials and drafted friends, simply because that organization had Dr. Oxnam on its blacklist—(really a list of great American leaders who believe in peace). To be sure, they have denied having such a list, but that does not disprove its existence. In fact, judging* by recent action, this un-Amer-ican practice evidently still is operating. If the D. A. R. and the American Legion, too—and I am an ex-soldier and ex-Legionnaire myself—would spend more time and effort in studying and facing the real problems of American life, they could be a strong and wholesome influence in our society. Some of these problems are lack of justice in meting out judgment in our courts, scarcity of clean city and state government, threatened monopoly of the radio, overemphasis of personal liberty, etc.—the things that can in due time destroy America as a leading nation. But instead of tackling them, these organizations hide behind a pesudo-patriotism and cry “Wolf! Wolf!” when there is no wolf, and drive themselves and the unthinking public into a frenzy of fear because of an imaginary ghost. , Why be alarmed at a lecture course, with voluntary attendance, that brings Sherwood Eddy, Kirby Page, Maurice Hindus, and Smedley D. Butler, along with other great men, to an educational center?

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this is true, at least for the period after the first three months. Thus two California physicians compared the rates of growth of breast-fed babies with those artificially fed, and found that the artificially fed infant had greater rate of gain after the first three months of life than did the breastfed infants. It should be pointed out that all conditions favorable to artificial feeding were available, including the provision of a reliable, pure milk, an even climate, regular medical supervision, and the routine giving of cod liver oil, orange juice, and green vegetables. The babies also w'ere given regular exposures of freslj air and sun baths, w'hich certainly are helpful in aiding infant growth. Even with the demonstrated evidence. the California doctors felt

Fortunately, the problem which Miss Pickford is attempting to solve for herself need not trouble me. It is unnecessary to make a search for bygone newspapers to burn up such columns as did not seem to me so good. Or, for that matter, to turn into cinders those w'hich I thought w r ere excellent. Newsprint Is as shifting a substance as the sands of the sea. And of things done twenty years ago there now remains nothing but dust and ashes. It is exciting when any past product show's the remotest sign of vitality. And I am proud of the fact that I draw a yearly income from one short story written, as I remember, more than ten years ago. In the days when F. P. A. was running the magazine section of the Tribune I wrote for him a piece called “The Fifty-First Dragon” and on the following Tuesday received a check for $lB, That story has managed to be rented out on occasion ever since. Only a few days ago I got a check for sl3, which is an excellent return on the original investment. It avoided the pantry shelf, where all good newspaper pieces go when they die, because Christopher Morley printed it in his first collection of Modem Essays. It isn’t an essay.

Isn’t that right in line with true education? The American student surely is quite as able to distinguish between deliberate propaganda and disinterested social prophecy as any one. Why fear any presentation of various social ideals to a college student body, though they differ somewhat from one’s own pet theories? Can it be only because these individuals are such an integral part of the present order of things, corrupt or otherwise, that they have no other choice? Furthermore, it seems altogether too unjust for De Pauw university to carry the brunt of malicious probing alone when the speakers criticised have also lectured in schools all over the’ country for a number of years. PAUL VTETZKE. Editor Times—ln your question answer column of April 21, as to what woods are used to make bows and arrows, for bows you gave hickory and yew. No doubt yew is the best wood for bows, but a close second, and preferred by many, is Osage orange. Other woods are lemonwood (Degame), a Cuban wood, also birch, sassafras, mulberry, ash, walnut, and cedar, the last two when balked with hickory. The wodd most used by Boy Scout clubs and indoor archery is the lemonwood. As to arrows, ash or oak are not suitable at all. Ash is too limber, lacking “spine.” When the string is released, it bends and will fly to the right of the target. Oak never is used, as it is too heavy. The wood for making arrows is Port Oxford cedar, pine, and birch. Cedar is a light wood and generally is footed with a piece of heavy wood, spliced to add weight and proper balance. Archery is becoming one of our outdoor sports, as archery clubs are being organized in most, of the cities

that in the vast majority of cases breast milk is the best food for infants during the first three months of life, provided the supply is satisfactory and the infant gains weight as it should. In many cases, mother's milk continues to be the ideal food up to 6 or 9 months. However, after this time, conditions are such that the vast majority of babies will do quite well with complete w'eaning and, in cases in which the breast milk is not suitable, the babies will do well, even if weaned between the third and sixth months. Drs. Faber and Sutton say, “We believe that when the baby can not get at least half of its food supply from the maternal breast, he should be weaned at once and be spared with his mother the annoyances and uncertainty of combined breast and artificial feeding.”

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are oresented without regard to their aereement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

And yet I was not inclined to quarrel with that. Me. Morley’s anthology is being used in a number of cqllege and high school courses in English. And I receive half a dozen letters a year in which some pupil writes to say: “I have to do a composition for my teacher on your story ‘The Fiftyfirst Dragon.’ What you mind telling me what it means?” b n u Part of Home Work 1 SELDOM answer, because I would much prefer to have people guess. And besides, it embarrasses me to find that even in a single literary effort I have become a part of anybody’s required reading. That is a disturbing situation. It makes me feel a little bit like Shakespeare and like Milton. I don’t want to have to take on any of the bitter emnity which is visited against all authors who get themselves into a curriculum. However, I probably exaggerate the danger. This dragon, like most others, will cease to wriggle when the sun sets. And I shall be spared the utter damnation of ever going into footnotes. For. as somebody has said, when an author gets one foot in the notes he already has both feet in the grave. (Copyright. 1931, by The Times)

and many of the smaller towns. Nearly all towns in northern Indiana have archery clubs, and last year a state tournament was held at Huntington. More than fifty archers were registered. There are quite a few archers in the city if they could be gotten together to have a good club here. All it needs is for someone to take the lead. E. P. FITZGERALD 108 South Capitol avenue. Editor Times—From the time of our great President, George Washington, to the present date, our numerous Presidents and legislators have enacted many laws endeavoring to preserve the sacredness of the original principles upon which our government was founded. Through all of these trials it appears, in my judgment, that instead of us profiting from the experiences of the growth of Europe, and avoiding their errors, which are the fundamentals upon which George Washington encouraged and constituted our original laws, these sacred principles are being abused continuously, and it appears that we are falling in line with capitalistic control. For example, our chain finance Institutions, our continuous merging of corporations. These policies only have created economy in the various institutions at the expense of others. It has caused unemployment, wage cuts, and up6et the standard of living of approximately 75 per cent of our population. Ail the profits and comforts of this great country of ours are enjoyed by only a few financiers of our government who are applying group control and high prices of the products to the citizens that produce them. Are we going to continue falling in the footsteps of the system of

MAY 6, 1931

SCIENCE -BY DAMP DIETZ—-

Gold Flute Played Important Part in Twentieth Century Science. A GOLD nute colored the history of twentieth" century science. If It had not been for that flute, the historj of the relativity theory tnight have been somewhat different and Dr. Dayton C. Miller, professor of physics at Case School of Applied Science, might have been spared a 125-mile walk. For the beginning of the story we I must go back almost half a century In 1887, Dr. Albert A. Michelson ;and Dr. Edward W. Morley performed the famous ether-drift experiment out of which the Einstein “teory of relativity grew. The experiment was performed in U was repeated a numbv nr betwe€n then 1906 e f-_„ " Mlller - who succeeded Michelsor, as professor of physics at music a L SO was interested in sounds *ri n sclence of musical Sa?? fl „?% ldea °° curred h im a soun? 5 ° PUTe gold w ould f S ° und su Penor to any othe- and e ? er ' 6rm eXperistudy of flute- in the general. and of in materials a Tndudmg S |°i aU 60x16 at num. (These P vri gOIQ and day are stored fiu * ! *“ Cleveland bank) ' auJt of a Miller ing sound waves and w tCgraphthe world’s chfef autb? K e one <* the subject of sound h ICS t,pon * * N * Einstein Theory M E^T ILE Knstein developed tT, A h Js theory of relativity Miller cLd not like all together the interpretation which Einstein put upon the ether-drift experiment S when, after the Worid war, re?a-1-ivity became the chief topic of Mill6r felt toiled to return to the experiment. To prove his own contentions he iQon te d, a seides of experiments in 19-0 The interferometer is a great steel cross which revolves upon a po °i ft mercury. Light waves are reflected along the cross The observer must walk around as the cross revolves, keeping his eve continuously at a little telescope ' Since 1921, Miller has walked a total of 125 miles around the interferometer, making a total of 175 000 readings through the telescope. Hf> felt it necessary to make that many readings to establish the validity of his claims. Had Miller carried on his etherdrift work in 1906, it might have occasioned modifications in the development of the relativity theory Miller is below average height. His students, who worship him. call him “Shorty Miller.” That is, thev do when he happens not to be within earshot. The passage of the years have whitened his hair and mustache, but they have had no effect upon lus dynamic manner of speaking and acting. He still is hard at work with his experiments and hopes to comolcte the ether-drift tests this year. tt a a He Built Things AS a boy, Miller likecl to build things. He liked to tinker with saw and hammer and chisel. He liked particularly to experiment with electrical apparatus. In these respects he differed little from the other boys of his home town. But in one way he did differ. He never lost interest in anything he started to build. He stuck to it until it was finished ami tvorked. Once he started to build a little telegraph line, as many boys have dene. He stuck to it until the line was finished and messages could be sent over it. Miller was born in Berea, O. His fatfier kept a store there. He offered to put young Dayton into business, but the boy had developed a love for science and his father wisely let him follow it. The time and care he has put upon his ether-drift experiments in recent years demonstrate that he still has the habit of sticking to things. His hobby today still is the flute His collection of flutes is one of the finest in the world. It numbers about 1,000 instruments. Among them is one which belonged to President James Madison. Miller does a great deal of traveling and rarely returns from a European trip without a number of new flutes for his collection He has picked them up in the music shops of all the capitals of Europe. His collection also includes instruments from China Japan and the islands of the Pacific.

capitalistic control of Europe or are we going to avoid this menace and downfall by electing different brands of legislators and leaders? My advice is for all of us, in future elections, to go to the polls and vote for men and not mere politicians. JOHN V. WOLSIFFER 845 North La Salle street. Editor Times—l recently had quite a lot of automobile repair work done in Indianapolis, and all I heard from the mechanic doing the work was his cry of hard times, and his inability to earn more than sls a week, as these shops, he said always were empty as to repair jobs. My version of his case has caused me to write this letter to you, for publication, and for benefit of all service stations and their employes. This mechanic was, to my belief, one of the dirtiest men about him self and car that I have seen I shudder to think of him workir.7 on a high-grade car, with fir.: finish and upholstery. In the same shop were three other men who hadn’t changed overalls, I’d say, in two weeks. This little hint, if accepted by the owners and employes, will do wonders in bringing back prosperity among auto repair shops. I, from now on, never will return to this shop on account of dirty mechanics, but will go elsewhere. I thought Indianapolis was a modern city, but it is lacking there. TRAVELER

Daily Thought

For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and hole is his name/-St. Luke 1:49 He hath no power who hath not power to use.—Bailey,