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Martin Dissents Refreshing, even though it be found in 6 dissenting opinion in the supreme court, is the declaration of Judge Clarence Martin that the writ of habeas corpus can not be suspended except in a state of war and then only in emergencies. That gives hopes that the Bill of Rights Still has a chance to survive the encroachment of technical interpretation of law. It may be possible, if this writ, the result of centuries of battle of the suppressed pigainst the powerful, be protected that the rights of a free press, of free speech, of the inviolability of homes from governmental Snoopers and chekas, of freedom of worship tan also be guarded. The opinion in this question is linked with a protest against the court itself. Judge Martin calls attention to a fact often repeated in this column of The Times that a delay by the high court in deciding a case before it can amount to a denial of justice. What may be the ultimate decision, if there be an ultimate decision in the case of D. C. Stephenson, is not so important. But what happens to the constitutional guarantee of speedy justice is very important. Judge Martin calls attention to the fact (that since January, 1928, the appeal of (Stephenson has been before the court, briefed and submitted, awaiting only a decision by the court itself on the legality of his conviction for murder. Stephenson is in the penitentiary. If legally entitled to anew trial, his imprisonment for these three years becomes an illegal act by the state itself. What can happen to Stephenson can happen to any other citizen Os the state. Asa matter of history, it was because moharchs and the politically powerful had the habit of arresting men and throwing them into prison, refusing trials, that revolts brought into Saxon jurisprudence the writ of habeas corpus and into the Constitution of the United States the guarantee of quick justice. Three-and a half years had seemed to The fTimes to be beyond any reasonable interpretation of this part of our fundamental law. 'ln this Judge Martin not only concurs, but .writes his declaration into the records of the Courts. Stephenson, once the dictator of Republican politics in this state, holds the key to (the closet in which many political skeletons dangle. He could, if he chose, probably put a lot of crosses on the political map to mark the spot where the “bodies are buried.” This fact makes his case unusual. But it does not lift it out of the principle involved. Every citizen, no matter how powerful or how humble, has an equal right before the law. One of these rights is a decision by the high court on the legality of imprisonment. .If that be denied by undue delay, all law crumbles and we have the door open to every form of tyranny and oppression. •

Back to Cadle Back of the effort of Howard Cadle to regain possession of the tabernacle which he dedicated to the memory of his mother is a drama that will appeal to every citizen. The vast majority will undoubtedly cherish a hope that he succeed. He relates the story of his emergency from the gutter to a position of some wealth, his giving of his money to the furtherance of a religious center, the loss of the building and its use for purposes far separated from the religious ideal. One need have no sympathy with the fundamentalist viewpoint of the revivalist to believe that a real revival of spiritual outlook is needed in these days of change and of turmoil. The people feel a growing need of spiritual fortifications. It is about all that is left by the forces of greed to a growing number of people. Any influence that can contribute to anew fidelity ■ to the Sermon on the Mount needs encouragement and support. Any force that can help to lift people from despair to hope should be welcomed. One cardinal teaching at the Tabernacle in the old days was that of individual responsibility. In these days the trend is to put all respectabilitymoral, economic and spiritual—upon organized forces. The temptation is to put a policeman and not a conscience on guard over human actions. The Cadle philosophy was different. It can be said with all certainty that no person ever left the old Tabernacle services a worse citizen than when he entered. For that reason, if for no other, let it be hoped that this semi-public institution is returned to its pristine purpose. A Discouraging Job Being a member of congress often must seem discouraging business. You and your colleagues draft k bill with the help of your legislative experts. You hold long hearings and debates. You pass the bill, Which becomes law. You are not only a group of lawmakers, but most of you are lawyers also. You know what you meant by the law you enacted, and you took all care possible to say what you meant. The law seemed very clear. And then some day along will come some commission or other governmental body, which you and your congressional colleagues have created, and that commission will nullify the law by deciding that you did not mean what you meant when you drafted and enacted that law. At that point about the only thing left for you is to start the process all over again by rewriting and repassing the law in such a way as to close the discovered' loophole. Os course, even then, there is no that the commission, and if not the com-

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mission perhaps some court, will not find another nullifying Interpretation. This is the mood of many members of congress today as they study the 3-to-2 decision of the federal radio commission favoring the Radio Corporation of America in one of the most important trust cases in years. Congress, in passing the radio act, thought it clearly was disqualifying monopoly. Later a federal district court held that R. C. A. was guilty of violating the Clayton anti-trust law in its vacuum tube business. That court decision presumably would lead the radio commission automatically to refuse renewal of R. C. A. subsidiary broadcasting licenses under the anti-monopoly clause of the radio law. Or, at worst, the court tube decision would force any doubting radio commissioners to send the broadcasting case to the federal courts for interpretation. But three members of the radio commission, constituting a majority of one, decided Wednesday that R. C. A. had been adjudged an attempted monopoly only in “radio apparatus" and that had nothing to do with broadcasting, which congress had in mind in the radio law. We are inclined to agree with Senator Dill, an author of the law, and with the chairman and vicechairman of the radio commission, both of whom dissented from the commission’s ruling. As Chairman Saltzman stated in dissent; “The language of the Delaware district court, when considered in light of the fact that vacuum tubes are an essential part of radio broadcasting receivers and so necessarily of radio broadcasting communication, precludes an escape from the conviction that the Radio Corporation of America unlawfully was attempting to monopolize radio broadcasting communication within the purview of Section 13 of the radio act.” Senator Dill Hardly exaggerates in saying that the 3-to-2 decision has made the anti-monopoly provision of the radio law “a dead letter." Such being the case, it is hard to understand why the three radio commissioners were so eager to take upon themselves this heavy responsibility; why, if they were unwilling to accept the apparent intent of the law, they did not let it become a test case before the United States supreme court? Under the circumstances the only recourse seems to be for congress to try again to redraft a law that even this commission majority of one will have to accept as mandatory.

As far as the farmers are concerned, foresight consists of saving up for a dry day. In the old days a man used to boast of the clubs he belonged to, now he’s more concerned with those he takes to the links. He called them his golf socks because they had eighteen holes. The former emperor of China is reported taking vocal lessons. A Peiping event, as it were. Radio waves, says a scientist, soon may be tuned in for heating purposes. When the time arrives, some listeners doubtless will complain of cold receptions. “All work and no play,” as the actor sadly said when his show failed. —— i A race horse in the east has been fitted with tortoise shell tlasses. So that he who runs may read, probably. All a man has to do to get the low-down on some good stocks is to look at today’s quotations. A New York dramatic critic wrote a piece on international politics. All the world’s a stage to him. New slant to modernistic art: Drawing a long prison sentence. Being locked out at night is a minor misfortune compared to the piano player who forgets his keys. In Borneo, it is said, a wife can be obtained for six large cocoanuts. In this country men after the same mission are also inclined to go nutty.

REASON

IT is the custom of this world to hand its honors almost exclusively to generals and politicians, asif they had a corner on the qualities which the human race should bear in grateful memory. Particularly is this true in America, whose capital is surrendered almost entirely to the ’statues of warriors and statesmen. tt tt tt But a happy exception to the iule occurred over at Rochester, Ind., last Sunday afternoon when a memorial tablet was unveiled at the grave of Isaac \V ashington Brown, known all over the country as ‘‘The Bird and Bee Man.” it a Brown never wore a sash and spurs and saber and led his cheering hosts to carnage, neither did he ever place his hand upon his chest, throw back his mane and bid his fellow citizens elect him to office. No, he was the opposite of all such vanity. tt tt tt HE was the most delightfully eccentric character we ever knew, this Isaac Washington Brown, who went up and down the earth for years and years, preaching the fine gospel of the naturalist, trying to civilize his fellow citizens until they would stop the slaughter of birds. tt tt * It was a treat to hear his lecture, as he traced the northern pilgrimages of different birds in spring time and pointed out how invariably they reached certain latitudes just in time to devour the pests which it was their business to exterminate. tt a a Then he told of the old days when birds and bees were the friends of Indiana’s fruit, old days when our Belleflower, Rambos, Russets, Maiden Blush, Pippins, Northern Spies and Winesaps were the finest apples in the world. tt tt a ISAAC W. BROWN was the most explosively nigged soul we ever knew, another Walt Whitman. Once when fortune turned her face away from him, he was forced to seek some sartorial assistance from his old friend, former Congressman Henry Barnhart, and some time later he was asked by a stranger whether he knew Barnhart. “Know him?” exploded Brown. “Why, these are his pants I have on now!” n a a Brown did not like the late Theodore Roosevelt and once former Congressman Henry Barnhart asked him if he didn’t want to go down and meet the President. Brown shook h!s head and said: “I’ve given instructions that Roosevelt is not to speak to me!” He was a great character. *

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Western Civilization Has Done a Thorough Job in Selling Its Ideals to Humjanity. NEW YORK, June 26.—Whether Post and Gatty complete their trip around the world, they already have done enough to make themselves immortal. Without reflecting on their skill and courage, iC is only fair to remember that their performance was made possible not only by thousands of years of scientific progress, but by the development of a better understanding among all people. The fact that two young Americans feel free to drop down on Moscow unannounced is quite as significant as is the fact that they could get there in three days. We talk a lot about the strangeness of Bolshevism, but whatever may be its faults, it leaves the Russians no such strangers to us or to other people as they were under czarism. Though we still have plenty of differences to overcome, they are not as deep as they used to be. 0 0 0 A New Era Dawns NO one can read the enthusiastic reception of President Hoover’s proposal for a moratorium without realizing that anew era is at hand. Here is the world ready to assist a beaten foe only thirteen years after the greatest conflict of all time. You can find selfish motives for the move if you are that kind, but even so, you must admit that selfishness has grown intelligent. If the nations concerned are moved by a desire to help themselves, they have learned that the best way to do so is by helping each other. That represents a big improvement over the reasoning which prevailed 1,000, or even 100 years ago. 000 We Make Progress IN spite of all the blunders, sneers and wisecracks, we are making progress. Asa matter of common sense, those very revolutions about which we talk so gloomily are rooted in a desire for improvement. Western civilization has done a thorough job in selling its ideals to humanity. People everywhere want the kind of living conditions which prevail in the more advanced countries of Europe and America.

The World Awakens THOUGH Russian Communists pretend to despise our form of government and economic system, they are doing everything they can to duplicate our industrial structure. In the end, they will find out that one goes with the other. Though the Chinese pretend that certain oriental concepts are superior, they are striving to form a republic patterned on that of the United States. The big idea back of it all is this: Humanity has come to an agreement on certain basic principles, has recognized the advantage of scientific knowledge, the benefits of mechanical power, and the wisdom of making life healthier and happier for average people. Such philosophy can lead to but one end. a tt tt Tolerance Winning EFFORTS to substitute a reign of law for the rule of force have met with many a failure. One can find plenty of ground for jeering at the League of Nations, the world court, and the Kellogg pact. It is regrettably true that there are more men under arms in Europe than there' were in 1914. that raw spots exist, and old hatreds survive. Notwithstanding all that, however, anew and better attitude toward national controversies, racial peculiarities and religious differences is developing throughout the world. Mussolini and the pope ultimately will get together, India will obtain reasonable concessions from England, without conflict, and Russian trade not only will be tolerated, but encouraged. tt tt tt Aii One Family Transoceanic flights, debt holidays to relieve world-wide depression, inventions that hold just as much promise for a Zulu as for a Norwegian, and a conception of progress that can not be realized without the improvement of living conditions everywhere, all point in the same direction. People can not deveV.p a type of life which makes it not only possible. but. necessary for them to talk with each other across continents, which makes their dinner table and workshop depend on products from the other side of the world, without realizing that they belong to one family.

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ARRIVAL OF V. S. TROOPS June 26

ON June 26, 1917, the first contingents of the first United; States army to fight in Europe arrived in France, under the com- : mand of Major General William L. ! Sibert. News that the Americans were arriving spread rapidly and by the time the troop ships arrived along- ; side the wharfs where the men: were to debark, thousands of persons were on hand to greet them. A wild welcome was shrieked by whistles of craft in the harbor and the welcoming throngs burst into i song. The American soldiers spontaneously were dubbed “Sammies” by the excited French crowds, to dis- | tinguish them from the British! “Tommies.” General Sibert took up his quarters at a camp not distant from the coast as commander of the first United • States force sent abroad, under General Pershing as com-mander-in-chief. What is the derivation of the word Negro and to what race does it refer? It is derived from the Latin, niger, meaning black, and refers to! the woolly-haired races of people.

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Deafness Requires More Research

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyceia. the Health Magazine. DR. GEORGE E. SHAMBAUGH has emphasized the existence of a vast amount of congenital deafness. Marriages where there is a family history of congenital deafness should be discouraged. Progressive deafness in adults is largely due to otosclerosis, a locking of the bones and ligaments involved in hearing. Where there is a family history of this disease in both parents, there is reason to believe that a considerable number of the children will be affected. In bringing such children to life, the parents assume a responsibility which they should realize. Deafness is not due to any single cause and any program for its control must be based on a thorough understanding of all of its causes. The answer to the problem of otosclerosis is more reseaheh. It is true that palliative devices and various

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IN observing other dogs I grow convinced that hitherto I have been unfair to Captain Flagg. He is not what I should call a bright dog, but I doubt that there are many of any very high degree of intelligence. Os course, I have known those who could speak for their dinner or shake hands or play dead, but, with the exception of this last accomplishment, none of these fascinate me much, tt tt tt No Glands NOT the intelligence of Flagg, but his elan impresses me. He lives a more vigorous and crowded life than any other mammal, including man, whose activities have come under my observation. To be sure, his excessive vigor sometimes crowds those around him. But, nevertheless, it is stimulating to watch the extraordinary animation of his waking day. And he sleeps but briefly. His persistence passes all belief and sometimes impings upon patience. Flagg’s duel with the echo, for instance, just about wore me out. Rambling one day at the head of the lake, he began to growl out of sheer good spirits, and from the wooded hill his voice came back. This seemed to Flagg to constitute an issue. This emanation from out of his own personality he chose to regard as a challenge. And as the sound returned to him he growled with still more volume and verocity. Each time the echo met his raise and tumult mounted. It was not within the intent of Flagg to track the phantom hound to his lair. Holding his ground seemed to satisfy him. but he did insist upon having the last word. Persistence FOR a time it seemed as if the bicker must necessarily prove interminable. I tried to drag Flagg away, without success, and then contemplated cutting down the hill. Finally, with assistance, I managed to shove and carry him to a spot where the acoustics were less active, and he yelped out a final “Is that so!” which brought no answer. Upon that, he was satisfied to keep silence for a full half hour until the vegetable man drove up. Now, none of this is set forth as an evidence cf intelligence. But 1 do think it indicates character. Though often bored by Flagg’s barking, I appreciate the way in which it rounds out his personality, for recently I have been in close association with a silent dog ana that is still more dreadful. tt tt tt Beautiful but Dumb PANDORA tiptoes about the house like a well-fed cat. After a bit, the strain of her vociferous silence rags your nerves. You feel like crying out to her say something, be it every so simple. „ It Is a painful thing to see any living being wholly under the subjection of the individuality of another. And that is the relation which exists between Pandora and Flagg. Once upon a I was the tem-

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methods so treatment may be helpful, but this is not a solution of this serious problem. The solution of the problem can come only from scientific research, which includes pathologic studies of the ears of the hard of hearing. Those who suffer from otosclerosis must discountenance silly sentiment and make certain that the defective organs after death will be available to those capable of studying them scientifically. The causes of most deafness are now well known. The conditions associated therewith are well understood, but the mechanisms involved and the exact methods of prevention axe certainly not fully elaborated. In laboratoreis and In institutions of research throughout the country, scientists are spending many hours in an effort to find the facts that will lead to prevention and control. In their work they are required frequently to use living animals in which conditions similar to those in mankind may be reproduced.

porary owner of two love birds which seemed to operate upon a similar slave and master compact. When I called “Good morning,” or anything else into the cage, Hector

Questions and Answers

How much revenue did the United States government derive from the sale and manufacture of tobacco in 1919? The total revenue from tobacco in 1929 was $434,445,000 divided as follows: Manufactured tobacco, $61,159,000; cigars, $22,872,000; cigarets, $342,034,000; snuff, $7,542,000; specialties and miscellaneous, $50,000. On what date were the former czar of Russia and his family executed? They were executed July 18, 1918. What is a photometer and a potentiometer? A photometer Is an instrument for measuring the intensity of light. A potentiometer is an instrument for measuring or comparing electrical potentials or electromotive forces. Why is the present French Republic called the third republic? Because it is the third republican government that France has had in her history, and it dates from the establishment of the Government of National Defense in 1870, Who composed the words and music to the song “In the Good Old Summer Time,” and when was it published? It was published in 1902 by Howley, Haviland &; Cos. The words are by Ren Shields and the music by George Evans. It was in the score of the operetta, “The Defender.” Where are the Blue Ridge mountains? It is a long mountain range In Virginia and North Carolina and is the southeasternmost ridge of the Alleghanies and Appalachian mountains. What percentage of automobiles sold in the United States were Fords and Chevrolets? In 1930, 40.11 per cent of the total new car sales, according to new car registrations; were Fords, and 23.56 were Chevrolets. Was Knute Rockne an American citzen? How could he accept knighthood from the king of Norway? He was a naturalized American citizen. There is no law to prohibit American citizens from accepting titles from foreign potentates if they do not hold an office of profit or trust under the United States. Is there a lake in the United States named Charoggagogmanchogagog? Where is it located? The lake is in Webster, Mass. It Is an American Indian name, meaning fishing place at the boundary.” How far from the earth is the moon? The distance varies, but the mean is estimated at 238,840 miles.

Such animal experimentation is necessary to the progress of medical science. In its attempts toward progress, scientific medicine is continually assailed by faddists and fanatics who group together through sentiment and misguided faith to prevent advances. In meeting their onslaughts, physicians must be supported by those who have benefitted by scientific work. People who have progressive deafness can hear for a considerable length of time by the use of suitable hearing devices which step up the sounds to bring them within hearing range. Thereafter they can still understand conversation by studying lip reading. Today there are 106 organizations to promote the study of lip reading in this country. They are organized into the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing with headquarters at 1537 Thirty-fifth street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

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

would make no motion whatsoever until the head of Ajax whirled about, and then, belatedly, he would duplicate imperfectly this other’s gesture of attention. Every faculty in Pandora seems dormant except an inconsiderable gift for imitation. She is complete in nothing but a different and blundering plagiarism. When Flagg rises to his feet, Pandora does likewise. To me there is something morbid and not quite healthy about this Pandora. There is a well-authenti-cated rumor that she once was observed rolling in a bed of catnip. u tt A Little Child PSYCHOLOGISTS have been making tests recently to determine the truthfulness and honesty of school children. In one of the experiments a box containing eighteen coins was given to each child. If I remember the results, in 17 per cent of the cases the boxes were returned with part of the money missing. This is interesting, but not altogether scientific in method. As far as I could ascertain from reading the report of the board, two possible contingencies were wholly neglected. The teacher might have taken some of the money. And what about the visiting psychologist? When science is the game, there should be no limit upon the skepticism. And, again, the experimenters decided that a very large proportion of school children were given to overstatement. The decision was arrived at because a great manv little ones replied “Yes” to such questions as “Do you always stop to pick up broken glass when you find it lying in the street?” and “Are you invariably polite to your parents?” A sweet and pleasant child might well get the notion tjpat denial of any Interest in broken glass might pain the visiting gentleman. Why not say “Yes” and send him home happy? (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

“Up From the Ape” Is a Book That Will Not Please Members of Anti-Evolution Groups. NO reader who has an interest in the origin and ancestry of the human race can afford to miss reading “Up From the Ape,” by Earnest Albert Hooton. (The book just has been published by the MacMillan Cos. at $5.) Dr. Hooton is professor of anthropology at Harvard university and curator of somatology at the Peabody Museum of Harvard university. That is sufficient guarantee of his scholarship and his authority. But readers of the book will find that he also possesses the ability of making his meaning clear to laymen. He can write of technical matters without becoming technical. There are, of course, many passages which require the close application of the reader. But in each case, the reader will find the application decidedly worth while. As the title indicates, the book will not be pleasing to the members of anti-evolution organizations. For the book is a marshalling of the evidence for the evolution of man from some prehuman stock related to that of the anthropoid apes, The first part of the book is titled “Man’s Relations” and deals with the lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys and anthropoid apes.

Well Illustrated THE book is illustrated excellently with twenty-nine plates. The plates are particularly good, showing photographs of the animals who Dr. Hooton designates as “man’s relations,” and photographs of individuals of the various races of man. It is possible to trace the development of man, as it is seen by the advocates of evolution, in these plates. First there is the lemur. He is the most primitive of all the primates, as the group of animals which include man are named by the biologists. The lemur has characteristics, partly like those of the monkeys, and others more like those of the other mammals. Next comes the tarsier. He has his eyes directed forward like those of man. He is a strange creature. Dr. Hooton calls him the “spectral tarsier.” Next come the various types of monkeys, the “old world monkeys” of Asia and Africa, and the “new world monkeys” of South America. After them, come the anthropoid apes, man’s first cousins, according to the biologists. They include the gibbon, the orang-outang, the chimpanzee and the gorilla. Then comes man. Before discussing the modern races of man, Dr. Hooton deals at great length with the fossils of ancient man, the Java ape-man, the Heidelberg and Tiltdown fossils, the remains of the Neandertal and Cro-Magnon races, and the other races of the stone age. 0 0 0 The Primate Order IN the early part of the book, Dr. Hooton explains at considerable length the characteristics of the socalled primates and why man is classified among them. He writes, in part: “The most outstanding characteristic of the Primate Order is the possession of prehensible hands and feet, adapted for aboreal life. Most arboreal animals maintain themselves in the trees by embedding their claws in the bark. “Primates grasp the branches by opposing the thumb to the fingers and the great toe to the lesser toes. “When you grasp an iron pipe of so large a diameter that your fingers can not span it, you place the four fingers on one side of the pipe and the thumb on the other side and grip the pipe between fingers and thumb. “The ability to oppose the thumb to the fingers in this way, and not only to grip rounder surfaces in the circlet of the thumb and fingers, but also to bring the ball of the thumb into contact with the tops of the fingers, is a prime requisite for all of the delicate movements of the hands which have resulted in the mechanical supremacy of man. “The primates can, as a rule, oppose the great toe to the lesser toes in a similar fashion. But man can not do this. “Savages and people who go barefoot often retain a considerable mobility of the toes and to some extent the power of prehension. But they never are able to oppose the great toe to the lesser toes. “Nevertheless, as we shall see, the i foot of man gives evidence in its structure and development of having been derived from the grasping foot such as the primates possess.’

Daily Thought

I know that there is no good In them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.—Ecclesiastes 3:12. Goodness is beauty in its best estate.—Marlowe. Vi hat is the pragmatic sanction m later European history? It was an ordinance of Charles VI of Germany, issued April, 1713, by which he bound all the leading powers of Europe to a sort of agreement that in case he should leave no son, all his hereditary dominions should descend to his elder daughter, Maria Theresa.