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Daniel, Alias Clarence The supreme court, by deviation and division, has, by a majority report, concluded that laws can not be passed by fraud and forgery. For this conclusion, thank Supreme Judge Clarence Martin. All the organized forces of government as represented by the office of the secretary of state and the attorney-general fought for the technical position that whenever a bill was sent to a Governor and hysterically 6igned, it became a law. As it happened, this particular measure affected the public utilities of the state. It was so obnoxious that the gorge rose even in the souls of purchased legislators. They could not stomach its infamies. It would have put the city of Indianapolis in bondage to all the transportation barons. It would have shackled the mayor of Muncie, almost an impossibility. It would be too shameful to record all the facts, because these would involve men in high places, even the highest place. It is sufficient to state that the charge in the courts is that a bill, by forgery, became a law. Just why a Governor feverishly affixed his signature to this measure while honest men in the lower house were trying to recall it may never be known. Just *vhy senators who had endeavored vainly to prevent the rape of the people were powerless may be the .subject of long debate. What is known is this: The city of Indianapolis and the city of Muncie rebelled and there comes from the supreme court this note of hope: “When the fact of attestation is alleged to be due to fraud or mistake of fact, or to have been recalled, we believe that the courts have the right and the duty to determine such questions.” Here is the challenge to legislation by forgery. There is no question as to the facts. The bill, hurriedly signed by Governor Harry G. Leslie, was not the bill passed by the senate or the house. Write your own answer to the query as to why this was the only measure never sent to the attorneygeneral for approval. But this is the one thing that is paramount. The supreme court has said that we shall not have legislation by forgery and fraud when a complaisant Governor certifies to fraud and forgery. This is a step forward. The practical effect of this bill would have been the denial to local authority of all control of transportation. It would have stopped George Dale in Muncie in his fight for the people. What the courts finally may decide about this particular bill is of little or great import. The big thing is this: A Daniel came to judgment. He says, and this is the law, that we shall not be controlled by fraud nor forgery, and his name is Clarence Martin.

Mayor Porter’s Cup Mayor John C. Porter of Los Angeles, who earned loud cheers from the drys by dashing from his lips the champagne toast offered while a guest of France, will have a less exhilarating cup to drain when he returns to his own sunny city. His fellow-citizens have repudiated his power policies. In his absence they have put into office a two-to-one majority of councilmen pledged to purge the city’s water and power commission of power company influence and over-ride the mayor in any further attempts to block the expansion program of their SBO,000.C00 public power project. Porter, an obscure citizen, was elected two years ago with the backing of the public ownership folk. He promised to rid the city of its $4,000,000 annual burden of buying one-fourth of its power from the private combine, and to give the city a monopoly of the power business through purchase of the company’s local plant. Latterly, however, he has come under the influence of reactionary interests. He ’’fired” one of the commission’s ablest public ownership men. Another, in disgust at his vacillating policies, resigned. War then began upon Porter’s majority, who were charged with undermining the expansion program. While Porter was in France, the voters took revenge. Another Pacific coast mayor, Seattle’s Frank Edwards, may have to drink his bitter cup next month. Angry citizens are out to recall him on July 13 for discharging J. D. Ross, “Father of City Lights,” and veteran superintendent of Seattle's successful municipal water and power project. The House of Rules Prospects grow brighter for liberalization of the rules of the house of representatives. Representative Bertrand H. Snell, chairman of the rules committee, promises to support changes necessary to make this branch of congress responsive to public sentiment. Desire to capture progressive votes in the speakership contest may influence Snell. Whatever his motive, he has aided the movement to make the house representative in fact as well as in name. Other candidates would do well to follow. The progressive should insist upon rules reform as a condition of support of the various candidates for the speakership. It will take a shift of only two votes to decide who shall be presiding officer and whether Democrats or Republicans will control the lower chamber. If the sponsors of rules reform make the most of their strategic position, they can win—as Snell’s statement suggests. Revision of the rules is more important than the question of who shall bang the gavel or name committee chairmen. The house is not now, and never has been, a flexible mechanism for translating public opiniqc into

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law, or for meeting modem needs. Twenty leaders of the party in power dominate Its deliberations like a dictatorship. They decide what measures shall be reported out of committee, what measures shall be taken up on the floor, how much debate shall be permitted. When a committee brings out an unwanted bill the bosses pigeonhole It. They manipulate men and measures like so many wooden soldiers. All protests have been futile. The rules give them power and they use it. By these means they blocked votes on such important measures as reapportionment, the "lame duck” amendment, and the senate Muscle Shcals bill for many years. They emasculated and weakened many excellent measures passed by the senate. They refused to permit full debate on needed amendments to the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. For fear that the administration program might be upset, these few men imposed gag rule and steam roller tactics upon their 400-odd colleagues. It is time to get rid of such an unrepresentative system. Mellon and Meat Some have meat and cannot eat. And some have none and want it; We must eat meat despite the heat. Or the packers will not like it. In the future the secretary cf the treasury will not permit the United States public health service to give the public any health advice which threatens the profits of the packing industry. The packers protested when the health service Issued a bulletin recently suggesting that less meat should be eaten during the summer months. The secretary now has issued an order that hereafter all bulletins must be submitted for his scrutiny before going to the public. Censorship will do the rest. Many sacrifices have been asked of us during the depression, but up to this time no one had suggested that we sacrifice health—or cur notions of health on the altar of sales. It seems a rather large sacrifice to make. Apparently we’ve got to chew our way out of this mess we’re in, let the digestive apparatus groan as it may. Meanwhile we have a suggestion to make to Mr. Mellon. It is that he contribute to the welfare of the packing industry by recommending revised taxes, which will fall less heavily on the man of moderate means. Restless Colonies Revival of Independence demands in the Philippines and Porto Rico, proposals for a civil government to displace naval rule In Guam, charges of American partisanship in Cuba, and renewed nationalist efforts to hasten withdrawal of American marine occupation from Nicaragua and Haiti are some of the latest proofs of the breakdown of our so-called colonial policy. These failures are especially discouraging because they are in the field In which the Hoover administration has been most consistently and courageously liberal. Hoover inherited a mess in all those colonies and unofficial protectorates. He set out to reform conditions, as a matter of decency and of good business. And Hoover has improved the situation. In virtually all these lands there is less hatred of the United States than two years ago. But for some reason, not at all clear, the original Hoover reform program has been slowed down during recent months. This may be in part the fault of the White House or of cabinet officers. But, in some cases at least, it appears that American officials in the field are responsible for undermining Washington policy. Clearly no colonial reform program will get very far if the distant officials in charge are lukewarm, or deliberately, though discreetly, insubordinate. If Hoover is wise, he will find time soon to check the discrepancies between program and achievement, between blueprint and building A maturing Chicago boy doesn’t complain so much about growing pains as he does shooting pains. When a gangster staggers a victim with a bullet, that is also rod and reel sport. Dorothy thinks that an architect should be a much-traveled man because he takes in the sites.

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THE widow of Professor Wegener, leader of the German Greenland expedition, has decided to bury her husband on top of the mountains of Greenland. But it makes little difference where our outworn machines are parked when we are through with them. a a a We see by the papers that many American Communists who have made their way into Russia are sadly disappointed with conditions in that sweet land and wish to return to the United States. They should be permitted to return on the condition that they take the stump and tell the pro-Russian bugs in our midst just how things are over there. tt tt B ALL the college professors these days are telling the graduates to go forth and strive for the welfare of all humanity, but we strongly suspect the graduates will follow the precedent of their predecessors and look out for number one to the exclusion of all other considerations. a a tt The papers say that an unusually large number of West Point graduates plan to return to private life as soon as possible. This is playing the bunco game on Uncle Sam. If the boys go to West Point and get their education free from their country, they should give their future sen-ices to their countryALL of this talk about anew third party impresses one as being apple sauce and a very poor quality at that, for the creation of anew political party would call for almost as much labor as to turn a river out of its course. • a a Anew party can not hope to do anything unless it has an organization reaching from precinct up to nation, with active candidates for all offices all along the line. And there must be compelling leadership. If Roosevelt could not put It over, nobody else in this country can hope to do it. tt a a WE are glad to see this Chicago judge issue an injunction restraining a man from getting a Reno divorce, for it is absurd to say no way can be found to keep the Reno establishment from operating its divorce mill. a a The papers of the state are giving the Kirkland case a merited excoriation, for it represents the most horrible collapse of the machinery that is supposed to protect decent people from viciousness. It is the most sickening horror ever enacted in the name of law and order. 4

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We Are Frightened Because Several Million Common People Can't Get Work, end We Hove a Right to Be. NEW YORK, June 11—Rudy Vallee is far less original as a philosopher than as a crooner. Like most successful men, he gets a big kick out of telling how hard and faithfully he tolled when a boy. “I washed windows in my father's drug store in Mains,” reminisces the Broadway idol. ’When the clerks washed the windows, they washed only the middle. When I washed them I cleaned up all the soap powder in the corners. Those clerks still are in Maine.” ‘‘Even with my God-given sense of rhythm and flair for phrasing,” he says, “I wouldn’t have amounted to anything if I hadn’t worked hard.” a a a A Flaw in the Recipe FAR be it from this writer to throw cold water on unstinted effort as the basis of success. Still, it would be a shame if our young people got the idea that they could become great artists by the simple process of washing windows well. So, too, It would be a shame If they got the idea that a good clerk is to be sneezed at. We need thousands of clerks to wait on trade, especially if business comes back. Also, we need thousands of ditch diggers, taxi drivers and waiters, not to mention such aristocrats of the laboring class as bricklayers and plumbers. Success, as measured by handclapping, goo-goo eyes and bank rolls, is a wonderful thing, but how ! could we run the country if every one attained it?

Ordinary Folks Needed TIMES are hard chiefly because 8 or 10 per cent of us ordinary folks can’t find work. That is a vivid illustration of how important we really are. Ordinary folks are needed not only as producers, but as consumers. We must not get it into our heads that the only man who counts is the one standing in the limelight and drawing big pay. He has his part, but it takes a multitude of ordinary folks to support him. n s u We Feel Inferior IT IS a curious paradox that American democracy should have resulted in such a craze for applause, pomp and power, and such discontent with the ways and means by which 90 per cent of the people must expect to earn a living. Though unconsciously, perhaps, we have developed a bad case of inferiority complex. Our social and. economic structure is infected with a contempt for those who go through life doing one job well. This is particularly true if the job happens to call for overalls. Fear With a Basis IF the depression has proved one thing more than another, it. is that neither a moneyed nor a professional aristocracy can save business. We are frightened because several million common people can’t get work, and we have a right to be. We are alarmed because a million farmers have produced more wheat than we can consume, and again we have a right to be. It is not true, as some philosophers declare, that the workers are entirely responsible for human progress, but it is true that they can not be dispensed with. u u a Masses Must Work THE state of affairs throughout the civilized world today hinges, not on what a few leaders think, but on the condition of ordinary people. If statesmen and economists can not find a way to improve that condition, the case is almost hopeless. Nor should any one regard It as a problem in altruism or philanthropy. The actual solvency of our greatest governments depends on whether or not the masses can be put back to work. tt tt a Leadership Essential WE need leadership as never before, but, above all else, we need that kind which recognizes the part played by common men. We need such leadership not only in business and statecraft, but in education. To a measurable extent, the schoolroom has built up false conceptions of life. The average boy and girl emerges from it with the idea that there is something wrong with honest toil, that lor one reason or another labor belongs to a lower order of society and that to really get up in the world one must have not only a white collar, but white hands. Whatever else may be said of it, the Russian experiment has contributed something of value in protesting against such nonsense.

June 11 ON June 11, 1917, Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the London Tmies, the' London Daily Mail and other publications, arrived in New York to take up the duties of head of the British commission to the United States, which post had been tendered him by Premier Lloyd George. Northcliffe’s assignment was to co-ordinate the work of the various British organizations already engaged in the task of supplying British war and other needs. His appointment was not a diplomatic position. The head of the French commission was Andre Tardieu. Baron Moncheur, former Belgian minister to the United States, arrived in New York with the Belgian commission June 16. Each of the allied governments had numerous commissions engaged in various duties of assembling and procuring supplies in this country. A commission of Russians, consisting of forty members, arrived in Seattle three days previously.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Glanders Usually Fatal to Man

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ] Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyseia. the Health Magazine. MOST farmers think of glanders ■ as a disease affecting horses and mules, but occasionally it attacks human beings. It has been reported also in cats, rabbits, sheep, mice and various wild animals of the cat tribe. Because the disease commonly is transmitted by horses and affects horses more frequently than any other animal, it now rarely is seen in large cities, from which horses practically have disappeared. In the first twenty years of the last century, there were seven cases of glanders in the wards of the Bellevue hospital, New York, but in the last ten years, according to Dr. Douglas Symmers, not a single case has been seen. Glanders is caused by a germ ;

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IT must be so that Moscow pays insufficient attention to the speeches of Mayor Walker. Only a few weeks ago his honor explained the entire drive against him on the ground that the Rev. John Haynes Holmes was leading a Communist cabal. And now across the cables comes the news that the Soviet government will not grant Mr. Holmes a visa admitting him for a visit. It is said the ruling is in conformity with Russia’s policy of excluding all clergymen. This seems like a far-fetched application of the policy, for Mr. Holmes is not in any sense evangelical, but a wholly independent minister, a little to the left even of the Unitarian sect. It may well be that Russia’s lack of hospitality is on other grounds. John Haynes Holmes is among the most prominent of American pacifists. And Russia has gone in for preparedness on a large scale. Indeed, there are few countries In the world where the war specter is made to dance so constantly for political effect. a tt tt Moscow Heresy AGAIN, Mr. Holmes has, upon occasion, voted for Socialist candidates, although he is not a party member. This would make

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Editor Times—The public is more j helpless and injured by the exces- ! sive charges and, upon delinquency, the shutting off of utility services, than the taxes possibly can be. The life and health of the consumers and their families are endangered, without recourse, in event of nonpayment by reason of unemployment or misfortune. An official investigation would show that the profits and rates of utilities are out of proportion in comparison to the low costs of production and further comparison of rates in other cities, and with municipally owned plants. Protests and investigations now are conducted in other parts of the state and so should be inaugurated in this city, if the consumers lift un their voice in protest or petition. G. O. L. Editor Times—This has to do with the newly enacted ordinance on traffic regulation. Why prohibit parking in the entire mile square before 9:15 a. m? Is the council playing in the hands of the garage owners and the parking lot operators? What is wrong with parking before 9:15 a. m? If anybody at all is put out, or suffers an inconvenience, it is the public. Well! Who owns the streets but the taxpaying public? We can not all be councilmen or city officials and come down to work at 9:30. Ninety per cent of the laboring men go to work by 8 o’clock and where are these men going to park their cars? Someone sponsoring this ordinance must have in mind, of course, that these people would have to natronize the garages and parking lots. Then, as if to add insult to injury, they put in the tow-in clause to provide more business for the garages. Put the parking problem up to the pedple who own the streets and see how many of them favor this new plan. Take a straw vote anywhere among representa-

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known as the bacillus of glanders. From three to five days after the germ gets into the body, the symptoms first appear. There are the usual symptoms of infection, such as nausea, headache, vomiting, chills and some fever. Quite soon, however, nodules appear on the skin associated with inflammation of the lymphatic ducts and glands near the places where the abscesses are located. Sometimes a hard nodule develops which ulcerates and breaks down, discharging a profuse, sticky substance. If the disease attacks the lungs, it gives symptoms like those of pneumonia. Nowadays a diagnosis of glanders hardly is likely to be made, unless the condition described happens to occur in someone constantly working around horses. The acute infection is very serious

him less than welcome in Russia, where a Socialist is regarded as even worse than a captain of industry. The world in general has retrograded since the war in the matter of free movement for individuals. Russia is, of course, by no means a lone offender. Most civilized nations have become extremely choosey as to which visitors will be allowed to land. And I think there is very slight defense to be made for this new exclusiveness. After all, it is seldom the physical person whom a nation fears, but the ideas which he represents. And there is no effective manner in which nations can protect them‘selves against notions. Even the strictest sort of censorship is neither thick enough nor sufficiently tall to keep ideas at bay. Here, possibly, is one of the greatest functions of radio inthe days to come. As yet engineers have no method by which air waves from the outside can be shut out. A gentleman in Kansas conducted for a good many months a series of broadcasts dealing with the virtues of a goat gland cure which he administered. Indeed, he aroused the Kansans to such an extent that many thousands voted to send him to the United States senate under the im-

tive citizens and let the council see 1 the result. Furthermore, under this new ordinance, tow in the cars of city and county officials, the private cars of policemen and all other citizens without distinction, when improperly parked. Fix it so no one, whether he is a rich man, poor man, city official ! or what-not, can “fix” a sticker, and then after a fair trial, see how many people believe that the “council,” in foisting this abominable bit of legislation on the people of Indianapolis, did it with the real interest of the people who own the streets in mind. One who believes in a government “of the people, by the people ! and for the people.” Editor Times—l hear lectures and read in the paper that various speakers say that war veterans should be given employment. I happen to be a veteran and have ; been out of work for the last twelve months, excepting a few days. I live in Marion county and own real estate. I have asked for work of any' class that would enable ms to support a wife and five children, but only get a hint that it is impossible, unless I have someone on the inside. Really, has this land of ours become so infested with yes-men that it is impossible to get a job, say driving a school bus, or janitor in the public schools, or in the rej pairing of same, that a pull is re- ! quired. I didn't have to have anyone on the inside to buy property, or pay taxes, so why to get employment? I couldn’t be lazy, or someone would have told me. Yours for more married men on | the job, if they are efficient. How many postoffice towns in the United States are named Lockhart? One each in Alabama, Florida, j Minnesota, Mississippi, South Caroi Una and Texas.

in the human being and most of the patients die. In the control of a disease like glanders, everything depends on stamping out the source of the infection in the animal which transmits it. Hence, it is recommended that practically every animal with glanders should be destroyed promptly and the stables thoroughly disinfected, including all harness and watering buckets. All animals that have been exposed should be examined for the infection and kept under observation until well past the time when there is likelihood that infection may develop in them. A doctor who takes charge of such cases treats them usually by the surgical method of opening the abscesses and draining away the infectious material.

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.

pression that this distinguished body contained an insufficient amount of goatishness. n tt tt Doctor's Dilemma SOON after the doctor’s surprising showing, his talks were barred. But now arrangements are under way for him to obtain a station, just across the Mexican border. From this vantage point he can reach an American audience just as large as that which Kansas afforded him. I have no doubt in the world that the healer’s theories of medical treatment are worse than stuff and nonsense. And yet I applaud his pioneer spirit. It is encouraging to think that the possibility of breaking down regulation of speech exists in the field of radio. Some engineers have thought in terms of radio and the next war. Fear has been expressed about the fact that an enemy nation could flood our land with arguments for its cause. But, naturally we could do the same thing. Personally, I am for more propaganda rather than less. If it had been possible for the people of the United States to become fully acquainted with the German point of view, and for them to know precisely how we felt, it is not inconceivable that war might have been avoided. tt a a In the Long Run 'HpHERE are such things as inA flammatory speeches. But in the long run, mankind is more likely to talk itself out of difficulties than into them. Talk, like a running brook, tends to purify itself. If every articulate person can get his say in, out of that mass of testimony, conflicting though it may be, the truth can come. If Russia infuses to admit John Haynes Holmes, I suggest to him that he pick himself up a sending station somewhere across the border and project his ideas right over the head of the entire Red army. < Copyright. 1931. bv The Times*

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.JUNE 11, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAMP DIETZ

Science May Gain Greatly by Daring Flight of Auguste Piccard in His Balloon. THE balloon flight of Professor Auguste Piccard into • • the stratosphere is one of those events whose importance is likely to increase with the passing of years. Today, we are impressed chiefly with the courage and assurance of the man who calmly stepped into an aluminum sphere tied to a gigantic balloon and sailed up to the region where the temperature is more than 100 degrees below zero. The future may show that Professor Piccard has inaugurated a new day in forms of travel and in methods of scientific research. Through the medium of a talking movie. Professor Piccard has sent a message to Lindbergh suggesting that he build an airplane to enter the stratosphere and that in it speeds could be attained which would make the crossing of the Atlantic a matter of less than eight hours. The prediction that airplanes one day would travel at tremendous speeds in the stratosphere was made more than a decade ago. Among those who believed and predicted that it would one day be done was Glenn L. Martin, pioneer flier and airplane builder. (I printed an interview with Martin in which he made the prediction some eight or nine years ago). Such predictions do not sound quite so rash and imaginary today, in the face of Piccard’s exploit. BBS Temperature Control IN so far as travel is concerned. the most significant thing about Piccard's flight is the fact that while he entered a region of the atmosphere where the temperature is more than 100 degrees below zero, the interior of his aluminum gondola was uncomfortably hot, having a temperature of about 100 above zero. Piccard had anticipated that the interior of the gondola would be warm. He had said that the metal shell of the gondola would absorb enough radiation from the sun to stay warm, despite the extreme cold of the outer atmosphere. He had painted half the gondola black so that cither a shiny surface or a dark surface could be turned toward the sun. The dark surface would, of course, absorb a greater amount of solar radiation. Many aeronautical experts were of the opinion that Piccard and his assistant would freeze to death. It is now certain that there is no danger of this happening in a properly constructed balloon or airplane. Therefore, what many thought to be the most difficult obstacle in the way of flights at extreme altitudes, is shown to be a non-existence obstacle. Scientists who are thinking of rocket flights also will find much good news in Piccard’s exploit. It means that “rocketeers” need not worry about the temperature of the upper atmosphere. Piccard’s balloon rose with tremendous speed. It did not, of course, rise with the speed of a rocket. Nevertheless, it shows .that it is possible for passengers to withstand a considerable speed without discomfort. Star Study SCIENTISTS eagerly are awaiting the results of Professor Piccard’s measurements of the cosmic rays. They are also eager to know if he found radiations of any unknown sort coming from the sun or from the direction of Milky Way. For many years astronomers have felt that the atmosphere was one of the greatest obstacles to their work. When the astronomer views a star through his telescope, he is looking at it through a thick blanket of shifting, moving air. The result is that a star never appears as a sharp point or light, but as a little fluctuating disk, known technically as a “tremor disk.” Some nights, the atmosphere is so turbulent that "seeing” is too poor to make it worth while for the astronomer to try to work. The atmosphere also interferes with his work in other ways. Certain wave lengths of light are absorbed by the atmosphere, leaving blanks in the spectra of stars and of the sun. (The astronomer, however, ought not to do too much kicking, because the atmosphere screens out certain wave lengths of ultra-violet light from the sun which, if they got through to the earth’s surface, would destroy life.) It may be, therefore, that In the future astronomers will take to “stratosphere balloons,” thus getting above the air currents of the lowest layer of atmosphere. It may be that many discoveries will be made by astronomers working in the stratosphere. It will be seen, therefore, that there are many reasons for regarding Piccard’s flight as a milestone in the progress of science as well as a bright spot in the record of man’s courage.

Daily Thought

Scatter thou the people that delight in war.—Psalm 68:30. The law is silent during war.— Cicero.