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Investigate This, Too The grand jury of this county declares that the poorhouse is operated in a most outrageous manner, that its unfortunate inmates are terrorized and mistreated, that poverty is punished worse than are crimes. Two weeks ago a sick and helpless former inmate made exactly the same charges to the grand jury and he is now in the penal farm under a sentence of 180 days. Here, too, is something that needs not only investigation but quick relief. The circumstances strongly suggest that he was sent .to that prison not for offenses, but because he dared to protest against the conditions which the grand jury says are vicious. It is most significant that no warrant was asked for his arrest until after he had made his charges. The offense charged was that he tried to assault one of the attendants with a knife and that he had liquor in his room at the poorhouse. The witnesses against him vtrerfc the paid employes of the superintendent whose removal is officially demanded. If he had committed these .offenses, they happened before he had been kicked out of the place. But these witnesses did not complain of his acts then. They did not ask a warrant until he told his story to the prosecuting officials and had gone to the grand jury to appeal, not for himself, but in behalf of all others whose necessities send them to the infirmary. There is every reason to draw the inevitable conclusion that this man, sick with tuberculosis, was sent to jail for his protest and not for his alleged crime. The length of the sentence and the extraordinary conditions under which it was imposed would suggest that an inquiry by the proper officials and at least a kindlier attitude toward those who dare protest are in order. Tomorrow we celebrate the courage of the brave men who dared to revolt against the tyrannies of a king. Just how'far can we be sincere if we send to a prison a sick, helpless, almost dying man because he lifted his voice against outrages. Why not a hospital and a medal instead of a jail and dishonor for this man? Henry Ford: Messiah or Menace? Is Henry Ford the finest flowfer of the new capitalism or the most complete perfection of plutocratic exploitation? Does he prefigure anew and chastened age of competitive industry or is he the most conspicuous industrial colossus whose collapse Karl Marx believed would usher in Socialism. Such questions have been widely debated, but most interpretations of Ford have been too partisan to possess much value. In tire July American Mercury there Is a comprehensive assessment of Ford which inspires confidence; It Is written by Murray Godwin, who appears remarkably well qualified for the task. He is a virile liberal, unlikely to be constitutionally charmed by lord’s paternalism. He has worked at length for Ford, has quit without a quarrel and gone elsewhere without animus. Godwin presents the socio-economic balance sheet of Henry Ford in American society with thoroughness and fairness. In Ford’s favor there stand out bold and sharp such things as: (1) The $5 and $7 day and the five-day week, recognizing that workers are consumers as well as producers; (2) the straight wages system and resistance to the demoralizing piecework methods; (3) the bucking of Wall Street and banker dominion in 1921; (4) the victorious battle against the licensed manufacturers’ system which would ha/e paralyzed technological progress in the automotive industry; (5) successful opposition to the attempt of the coal and steel barons to hold up the automobile industry by extortionate prices; (6) perfection. of mechanical and mass efficiency in production; (7) achievement of economy in sales prices, and (8) free industrial training for able and ambitious workers. The conventional indictment of Ford—well expressed, by the way, in Edmund Wilson’s article"* in the current Scribner’s—consists of the following allegations: (1) His workers are reduced to desperate and harried automata, are hounded by overseers and prevented from unionization by elaborate espionage —in short, Ford’s regime is one of relentless paternalism; (2) Ford fires anybody from his vice-president to his floor sweepers without warning or announced cause; (3) he Ignores the Detroit community and allows it to support his idle men without substantial aid from Ford; (4) he squeezes his dealers ruthlessly when it is necessary to raise funds to buck the bankers; (5) his peace ship indicated a naive notion of the real causes of the World war; (6) his libel suit against the Chicago Tribune proved that he was no erudite master of history or literary criticism, and Cl) he frequently divulges palpable drool on such subjects as religion, morals and prohibition. Mr. Godwin concedes some truth in all these charges, and admits that little can be said in defense of his irresponsible firing of men. Much can be said In mitigation of the other charges, according to Godwin. Ford’s paternalism is to be preferred to the oppressive anarchy of a Judge Gary’s steel industry or the paralyzing worries and exploitation of the piece-work system employed by some other automobile manufacturers. Detroit has always prodded Ford as hard as possible; so why should he care to be a sugar-candy daddy to the Motor City? Land monopoly, in the form of excessive rents have enabled Detroiters to milk Ford’s men ruthlessly. Ford’s peace ship proved that he held a view of war causes ftflly as accurately as the vast fabric of lies believed and passed on by the greatest of American historians. Ford may not be as learned as his opponents In the Tribune suit, but he has brought forth a more lovely and useful product than have some of our newspapers, argues Godwin. But above all, Godwin says, stands the one supreme achievement of Ford, namely, to proclaim and demonstrate that the great industry of today can end should be carried on for the good of the industry, tpe employee and the consumers—that It ahouty never

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be a subordinate incident in the profit-amassing obsession of semi-piratical finance. Capitalism may prove equal to supporting prosperous captains of industry and well-paid workers who Join in producing a product well worth the price paid. But capitalism can not go on much longer primarily devoted to earning huge profits on great pyramids of water which represent no legitimate human effort. If capitalism is to have anew day, then Ford is Indeed one of its prophets. Ford has turned loose less verbal honey than some, but he has gone beyond all others in translating his words into positive action on a vast scale. Hoover Diplomacy President Hoover’s conduct of negotiations with France on the debt holiday plan impresses us as almost a model of skill ahd patience. Restless because of the delay in arriving at an agreement, critics in this country and abroad are assailing the President from two directions. One group 6ays that he alienated France by being too high-handed, that he should have consulted France secretly and in advance of his public pronouncement. The other group says that he has not been hardboiled enough, that he should have refused to negotiate with France at all, that he should have said, “Take it or leave it,’’ and that France would have been forced by public opinion to take it. • Obviously, Hoover can not be guilty of both charges. In fact, they cancel each other. Those who would have had Hoover conduct advance secret negotiations seem to forget that many of the present international evils are due to secret diplomacy. After the failure of President Wilson at Paris, when he cut himself off from the open diplomacy which was his chief weapon, Americans should have learned the danger of trusting to back stairs negotiation. Hoover’s only chance to force a debt holiday was to obtain quick support of world opinion. That was achieved by his open diplomacy and could not have been secured otherwise. But, having presented his plan, certainly it would have been suicidal to refuse to discuss it with France and attempt to-meet her objections. At best he was putting America in the position of trying to dictate to Europe in an emergency. If he had added to that aspect of the situation the take-it-or-leave-it spirit of a bully, he would have made French acceptance impossible. Hoover is open to criticism, in our Judgment, because he waited so long to offer a debt holiday and because of his apparent unwillingness to link the more fundamental issues of tariff reduction and arms reduction with his moratorium plan to prevent European collapse. Taken alone we do not believe his plan is adequate to restore prosperity or preserve peace. 1 But within the scope of his plan, which we trust will yet be extended, the President’s diplomacy seems to have been of a very high order. If the Paris negotiations fail, the world w:JI not blame Hoover, but France. And with that world support, the Hoover plan can not now be killed even by France’s veto. Inmates of the Ohio State penitentiary Sell gags to humor magazines. Most of them, we expect, are serving “Life.” And maybe “Judge” recommended it. Butterflies, says a naturalist, eat practically nothing. Imitate them, and you also may acquire wings. That hotel where Alfonso is paying S3O an hour for rooms probably considers the jack more important than the king and queen. Then there’s the censor who complained of the scant attire at the baby show. Merchants are making an uphill struggle these days, but it’s the customers who get the credit. The surgeon who operated on the king of Siam’s eyes hopes, of course, his majesty will see his way to reward him handsomely. The silkworm, after all, is the poor hubby who is obliged to keep his wife in hose. A butcher, notes the office sage, isn’t always in a hurry when he makes a short cut.

REASON

THE papers tell of the explosion of many pavements. This is no surprise whatever, for many of the highways in this country have been constructed under circumstances which were bound to lead to explosions sooner or later. mam The confessions of Witt and Hamilton in the Jackson murder case at Indianapolis make the duty of the court perfectly clear. Both of these fellows should get the chair. • mm When two men blandly go forth with all the Implements to accomplish robbery, when they go at it as a business, prepared to kill their victim if he resists, they should be dispatched with as little hesitation as if they were rattlesnakes. mum IP we long ago had started in to pet and pamper rats and rattlesnakes as we have petted and pampered criminals it would not be safe for one to step outside his house. And as we got rid of snakes by the use of the club, so could we get rid of murderers by the use of the same club. a a m The government has a list of hundreds of underworld characters in and around Chicago against whom it is going to proceed. If Mussolini had the same list he would do business with it in short order. • M • Naturally Mexico is displeased by the acquittal of this Oklahoma deputy sheriff who shot the two young Mexicans, and it may interfere with the alacrity with which Mexico has been executing her own people when they have mistreated Americans. m m m 'T'HE state department should proceed to make it A plain that the acquittal of the deputy sheriff is in no sense a discrimination against Mexico The state department should point out to Mexico that in this oountry we seldom do much to anybody who kills. m m 9 Irvin Cobb, the humorist, has presented his granddaughter with the four-poster walnut crib in which he was rocked as a beginner. m m m Now that the country knows that Cobb started out in such magnificence, it ends all chance of his ever becoming President. m mm Regardless of the wisdom of the proposition, it is rather an unusual spectacle for us to send Mellon to Paris to use all the influence he can muster to induce the French to consent to a plan whereby this country may lose the payments on 4be war debts for one jrear-il not longer. f - : ■ —...

BY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS

A Nonstop Flight Around the World in Four and OneHalf Days Is Only a Question of Time. YORK. July 3—Post and aN Gatty made a great record, but it won’t last very long. Their actual flying time was four days and twelve hours. An airplane has stayed up nearly twenty-seven days. The speed of flight is constantly being increased. When put together, such facts leave room for but one result. A nonstop flight around the world in four and one-half days, or even less, is only a question of time. There are discoveries and invention which leave little doubt as to what will happen. Once the steamboat had been perfected men of sense could foresee the doom of sailing ships. Once the auto came into being it required no prophetic genius to realize that Old Dobbin’s fate was sealed. mem Science Warns IT is the price of progress to make room for new industries by killing off old ones. In olden times, this was largely a matter of accident, or caprice. Men were often caught completely off guard, and ruined in consequence. Except for a few revolutionary innovations, science generality warns us of what to expect. That is an advantage which the people of other ages did not enjoy. All we need do is keep our eyes and ears open to realize many of the changes which are bound to occur within the immediate future. mam Politics at Standstill WERE it not for the chaotic state of social and political ideas, we could tell with some precision where we were going. Science has made little headway, however, in the field of politics and sociology. When it comes to government, justice and morality, we still are obliged to fall back on empyricism. Without any well established principles, any rules which we can depend on to work the same in all cases, any complete records as to results, we are forced to guess, theorize and experiment. a m m Engineering Universal IT is only necessary to-compare the general condition of politics with that prevailing in other lines of human endeavor to understand Just what we are up against and why. Engineering is about the same thing in Japan, or Russia, as in the United States, and so is chemistry, or plumbing, but look at the ideas of government, or morality. In constructing and operating a steel plant, Mussolini would adopt about the same methods as prevail at Pittsburgh, but not in setting up a municipal government. When it comes to drugs, or dye stuffs, we are glad to take advice from anybody, but we scorn It with reference to moral problems. emu No Science m Law ■ THERE Is nothing which even resembles science in our attitude toward law, statecraft, or social problems. Look at the different ways in which our own sovereign states regulate marriage and divorce. Some states forbid Negroes and whites to inter-marry T though allowing defectives to do so. In South Carolina, you can’t get a divorce on any ground, while in Nevada, you don’t need any ground to get one. m m m Social ignorance FIFTY-FIVE governments, and no two of them alike, or to come closer home, forty-eight states in the American union, and no two of them wholly alike, in regulating human conduct. We have found it possible to discover and apply scientific principles in the hospital, the factory, or even on the farm, but net in the courthouse, or legislative hall. We are not going to discover and apply them there, either, until we have more information for guidance. Did you ever stop to think how much greater pains we take to inform ourselves about business, the stock market and many other things than about human beings? We know how many freight cars were loaded each day, but not how many babies were born. Also, we know how many shares of stock were sold, and at what price, but not how many people died of cancer. What we don’t know about ourselves is, perhaps, the most astounding phase of modern life. Incidentally, it’s the chief reason why we don’t get along any better in a political, or social way.

jy 1 JULY FOURTH ORDER July 3

ON July 3, 1917, General Petain, commander-in-chief of the French armies operating on the French front, issued the following offer in regard to the Fourth of July celebration of United States troops: “Tomorrow, the Independence day celebration of the United States, the first American troops which have debarked in France will defile in Paris. Later they will join us at the front. “Let us salute these new companions in arms who, without thought of gain or of conquest, but with the simple desire of defending the cause of liberty and right, have come to take their places in the ranks beside us. “Others are preparing to follow them. They soon will be on our soil. The United States means to put at our disposition, without reckoning, their soldiers, their factories, their vessels and their entire country. They want to pay a hundredfold the debt of gratitude which they owe to Lafayette and his companions. “From all the points of the front a single shout on this July 4 will be heard; Honor to the great sis-

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE . Lockjaw Is Fourth of July Peril

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyjceia, the Health Magazine. IN recent years there has been a gradual tendency to return to the old Fourth of July holocaust that aroused consternation twenty years ago. In the old cannon cracker-shot-gun days, it was not surprising to read in the paper on July 5, the records of hundreds of deaths due to explosions and, during the months that followed, reports of deaths from lockjaw due to infections sustained in Fourth of July celebrations. Fortunately, some sense has been brought into the situation. Many periodicals conducted campaigns of education, ordinance' have been passed, and the total number of accidents and deaths :s much less than it used to be. However, anew generation has

IT SEEMS TO ME

THIS column has given its solemn promise not to write any more about “Shoot the Works!” And I intend to keep that promise—at least within reason. But I do want to say something about those people of the theater who have gone in history and the minds of the layman as the pampered pets of captains of industry. I mean the chorus girls. For over a week now I have been watching them rehearse. The first day I hung around the stage door waiting for them to arrive in their Rolls Royces and diamonds. I waited and waited. I noticed several girls walking in, dressed very simply and apparently fresh from the subway. But nary a Rolls drew up to the door. Frankly, I was disappointed. I, too, had taken too literally the Hollywood version of what a chorus girl should be. m m m Work and Pray iWENT in and watched them work, and when I say “work” I mean just that. For hour upon hour they went through a grilling routine. Johnny Boyle Is an exacting director. . He knows what he wants and gets it, if it takes all day. And it’s fascinating to watch him take a homogeneous collection of raw material and make of it one rhythm. I don’t mean that there are inexperienced chorus girls. But, after all, our show is going to be different. And it means that they must forget the steps and routine they have been accustomed to and learn something altogether new. The girls, for the most part, are serious and intelligent. They are earnest about their work in the same way that an efficient secretary is about hers. Also they have no illusions about eloping with a young millionaire on his vacation from college or being sponsored by a retired button manufacturer. <r m m Just Another Job SINGING and dancing is their job. They know it is essential for them to met certain requirements in order to make good on that job. The other day a group of about fifteen girls came up to my apartment for a movietone picture. I was considerably surprised to see with what naivete they exclaimed when they discovered it was a penthouse. I had been prepared to welcome a group of slightly bored, disillusioned professionals. Instead, I was confronted with a bevy of fluttering, simple girls, childishly eager and pleasant at this rather unique assignment. So when you read about the wild doings of chorines In your favorite tabloid just take it with a grain of salt. The ladies of the ensemble aren’t any different from the girls who get crushed in the Bronx sub-

Daily Thought

In that thou lovest thine enemies and ha test thine D Samuel 19:6. He who has ceased to enjoy his friend’s superiority has ceased to feve him.-ito4ame Swetshiae.

grown up and apparently there is a tendency to relapse into the condition that formerly obtained. Lockjaw is particularly likely to occur in injuries caused by fireworks. The germs of lockjaw develop in soil and in manure and on dirty clothing. Any time an injury occurs in which dirt is forced into the wound and sealed in, there is danger of lockjaw. That is the kind of accident that occurs in explosions of cannon crackers, blank cartridges and toy cannons. Gun wadding Is forced into the wound and the germs of tetanus or lockjaw go in with it. The size of the wound is not important. The tiniest puncture by a dirty nail, a splinter or explosion may cause the passage of the germs into the body. There is just one thing to do about lockjaw. Whenever such an injury occurs, get a doctor as soon

way morning after morning getting down to their offices. They are all working girls with the same problems to meet, the same interests and ambitions to lighten the monotony of their daily toil. m m m Song and Dance I HAVE often wondered about the indiscrimination of advertisers. For instance, in this morning’s mail I have a letter from Grace Kay, manager of a dancing school. This school specializes in ballet and musical comedy routine, and it seems most anxious to have me enroll for Its course. Miss Kay writes: “Miss Rogge’s teaching ability has long been evident in the grace, variety and precision of the famous Roxy ballets. Its superior qualities are being demonstrated convincingly each day of the successful Three

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times: It is a matter of history that an eminent expert engineer, as far back as 1921, testified in court, under oath, that it is only a matter of a short time that any company would be able to furnish j natural gas. This came to light when a gas company in Cleveland attempted to abandon its franchise in 1929, because* of its inability to furnish gas from both the Ohio and West Virginia fields and attempted to leave the people of Cleveland without fuel gas and had to answer in court. The gas question then became quite a political issue and that instance may be a warning to be alert and careful with the present attempted entry of gas companies to our city. Cleveland at the time had 200,000 users of natural gas with its uni* formity of rates, the gas transmitted with an appropriate network of pipes, pumps, and equipment of the value of $40,000,000, with an equal investment for connections, apparatus and fixtures by the users. The company involved was of the same type as tlfese applying in this city, serving a great number of cities and towns. This may show that, to grant privileges to new concerns, where our present gas company is fully sufficient, may be a bad bargain for the city and a mere subterfuge to obtain & valuable franchise without returns. The Court in that case said, "The public is best served by a gas concern having the field solely to Itself and not by competition. “Now, of course, with this trend of thought on public service, the public must not be left to the rapacity of utilities corporations so that they may demand any price and get it, because then the people would be at their mercy, and consequently rate fixing commissions, utility commissions, that supervise, regulate and curb the rapacity of a utility that otherwise might squeeze the very lifeblood out of the people, have come into existence.” Therefore, let us depend on our public service commission'and our city nfWHriii. they will

as possible. He will open the wound, clean it thoroughly, treat it with proper antiseptics, and in questionable cases inject the antitoxin against lockjaw to prevent the disease. It is not safe to wait In any ease until lockjaw has developed. After the disease has developed, immense amounts of antitoxin are needed, The condition is very serious. It is accompanied by convulsions. The patient must be treated in a hospital. Certainly here is one condition, above all others, in which prevention is far cheaper, much more certain, and much more sensible than a later attempt at cure. So serious is the possibility of lockjaw that in many places boards of health are willing to provide the antitoxin without charge, particularly in the case of children, to make certain that cases of lockjaw do not develop.

HEYWOOD BROUN

Star Summer Course, which you were unable to attend. Her classes there are heart and soul enthusiastic over her wonderful instruction and her lovable personality.” I admit I’m tempted. But the ballet is out so far as I’m concerned. I once saw Anna Pavlowa do her famous swan dance. And as my motto is “Perfection or Nothing,” I. decided then and there to abandon for good and all any aspirations I might have had to trip across the board on my toes. I couldn’t somehow picture myself as a dying swan or Narcissus or the Spirit of Spring. However, there are possibilities in the musical comedy routine. Already I am perfecting one step for our co-operative revue. Well, it isn’t really a step. It’s more of a shuffle. But if I come through that ordeal without any serious mishap I shall seriously consider taking up tap dancing. (Copyright. 1931, by The Times)

refuse the entry of competing companies against our city owned gas company. George O. Lehman. Editor Times—Well, Indiana’s old age pension bill was vetoed, while similar legislation passed and was signed in five other sta ( js this year. Indiana, therefore, for the next two years, at least, will keep its poorhouses, many of them like the Marion county institution, which is getting attention of the grand jtiry. I am glad that I am identified with the Fraternal Order of Eagles, which for a decade has been a consistent and successful foe of the poorhouse system. I vould hate to be in the shoes of some Hoosiers who had the opportunity to bring our state’s treatment out of the dark ages up to now, but failed to do so. WILBUR H. MILLER. 408 North Forrest street.

Canning and Preserving From now on, throughout the summer, when fresh fruits and vegetables are plentiful, Mrs. Frugal Housewife will do her canning and preserving. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a packet of four of its comprehensive bulletins. They are: 1. Home Canning 3. Jams and Conserves 2. Potting Up Catiiops and Relishes 4. Jelly Making at Homs If you want this packet of bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. * - CLIP COUPON HERE Department B-l, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Tiroes, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of four bulletins on canning, preserving and Jelly making and inclose herewith 15 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and N0..... * ... City State .. I am a reader of The Indianapolis Tiroes. (Code No.)

(deal* and opt ..' >na entreated in this column . are those o£ one of Amerlen’o meat inter* ratine writer* Mid are ore* sented without retard to their agreement or diaarreement with the editorial attitude of this naner.—The Editor.

•JULY 3, 193-

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ !

Public Had Horror of X-Ray for a Short Time After its Discovers npODAY. the X-ray ig one of the A most powerful tools of the modern world. It is used by the physician, the surgeon and the dentist as a mean of locating pathological conditions not otherwise discernible. The research physicist and chemist make use of X-rays as a means of penetrating the secrets of tho molecule and atom. The X-ray likewise has its use in industry. Portable outfits ore on the market for + he use of electricians, plumbers and other Technicians, so that pipes, wires, etc., can be located in the walls of buildings without first ripping large holes in the plaster. It is Interesting therefore to lock back to the early days of the X-ray, for their discovery by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen occurred cn Nov. 8,1895, a date within the memory of many readers Dr. Otto Glasser of the Cleveland clinic, who is an authority upon the history of the X-ray as well as a well-known authority in the field of the X-ray, has collected some interesting information about the early reception of the X-ray by the public. “A veritable flood of articles in the new “wonder rays’ appeared in rapid succession in the press of the whole world,” Dr. Glasser says. “I have been able to collect more than a thousand articles on X-rays which appeared in scientific journals during the year 1896.” n m m X-Ray Opera Glasses AMONG the public, according to Dr. Glasser, there was a general fear that X-rays made it possible to look through things, for example, to look through a solid wail ag one might look through a window, or to look through clothing. Dr. Glasser tells that a bill was introduced into the house of representatives of the state of New Jersey to prohibit the use of X-rays in opera glasses at theaters, while a London firm “made prey of the ignorant women by advertising the sale of X-ray proof underclothing." Dr. Glasser quotes a most amazing editorial which appeared In the Pall Mall Gazette of London. It read, in part: “We are sick of the Roentgen rays. It is now said, we hope untruly, that Mr. Edison has discoverede a substance—tungstate of calcium 1s its repulsive name—which is potential, whatever that means, to the said rays. “The consequence of which appears to be that you can see other people’s bones with the naked eye, and also see through eight inches of solid wood. On the revolting indecency of this there is no need to dwell. “But what we seriously put before the attention of the government is that the moment tungstate of calcium comes into anything like general use, it will call for legislative restriction of the severest kind. “Perhaps the best thing would be for all civilized nations to combine to bum all works on the Roentgen rays, to execute all the discoverer®, and to comer All the tungstate in the world and whelm it in the middle of the ocean. Let the fish contemplate each other’s bones if they like, but not us.” m am Museum Piece THE old editorial Just quoted is of interest for a number of reasons. It is more than a museum piece of folly and nonsense. It helps to explain why there was, for so many years, a great gap between the world of science and the world of laymen. It explains why scientists for many years were wary of talking about their discoveries and Why the first pioneers of popular science had such hard work. Imagine how much poorer the world would be today if the suggestion of the old editorial writer had actually been acted upon and all the treatises on X-rays destroyed. Dr. Glasser has a large collection of cartoons, poems, and articles about X-rays, all of which harp on the idea of a photograph which shows the human skeleton. It really is quite difficult to understand this shy reticence about the human skeleton. One poem begins: “O Roentgen, then the news Is true And not a trick of idle rumor. That bids us each beware of you And of your grim and graveyard humor.” Are there any United States troops stationed at West Point Military academy other than the student cadets? Is there a Negro detachment there? The army has troops stationed at the academy at West Point, including a Negro detachment. Can pictures be copied from magazines and used to Illustrate other magazine stories? Not without permisson of the owners of the copyrights, usually the publishers of the magazines. Illustrations, as well as narratives, advertisements, etc, are protected by copyright law.