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Bread Without the Circus Release of 40,000,000 bushels of farm board wheat for use by starving Americans is a noble humanitarian measure which no man with a modicum of human kindness would criticise. Yet it produces one of the most ironical conditions in all human history. Our individualist politicians and economic leaders have fought bitterly so sound a policy as unemployment Insurance on the ground that it is a dole. It would, they say, demoralize tbe American working class and impose a great financial burden on the government. The success and invaluable contribution of such insurance systems abroad have not been sufficient to expose shallowness of this opposition. Now, by this free distribution of state-owned wheat, we have reverted to what has been the classic example of the dole throughout all history—the Roman dole of wheat. When anybody wished to point to the horrible results of public charity, he invariably brought up the Roman distribution of grain to the impoverished masses. "Bread and circuses" has been the phrase which has rung down through the ages to symbolize the corruption and demoralization of state and populace alike. Not only has government distribution of grain been regarded as the worst type of public charity; it also is far more expensive to the state than unemployment insurance. The state never bears the total burden in unemployment insurance. Usually it bears one-third, the other two-thirds being assessed against labor and employers. Some recently have suggested compulsory unemployment insurance, in which the state would be released almost entirely froifi any financial obligations. American workers, by hundreds of thousands, arc near starvation today. Free wheat is a necessity. But it is well to emphasize the actual crudity of this wheat dole, so we may take steps to prevent any necessity of its repetition in the next slump. Why Not Now? When the drys were fighting lor prohibition they appealed to congress to let the people speak. For Instance: Give the people of the separate states an opportunity to decide for themselves whether they desire this amendment—Bishop James Cannon Jr. (May, 1914.) We simply are asking congress to submit to the people this amendment for ratification or rejection.— Dr. Edwin Dinwiddie of the prohibition board of strategy. (May, 1914.) The people have the right to be heard. All the people never have had a chance to be heard, and this proposed amendment will give them that chance.— Mrs. Ella Boole, president of the W. C. T. U. (April, 1914.) The member of either branch of the American congress who denies the power of amendment to the states, especially an amendment which vast numbers of the people desire the states to consider, violates the basic principles both of the Constitution and of popular government, repudiates the fundamental rights of the states and overturns the two most sacred privileges the people possess—the privilege of referendum and petition.—Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. (July, 1917.) After twelve years of experiment this dry law has been challenged by "vast numbers of the people," by organized veterans, organized lawyers, organized workers, by the President’s own Wickersham commission, by the voters in virtually every recent test. A poll by the literary Digest reveals that now this country favors repeal by nearly 3 to 1. Yet the Anti-Saloon League threatens that any congressman who votes for resubmission will be opposed at the polls. Rights that were fundamental, privilegeo that were sacred, twelve years ago, now have become to the drys frivolous and profane. Uncle Sam, the Cop The federal government’s police ventures have been singularly unsuccessful. Bootlegging has flourished under federal prohibition as it never did under state option. The Mann act has been used widely for blackmail purposes. Representative Dyer says the courts are sending young men to jail for long terms under his automobile theft law because they crossed a state line during a joy ride. Federal police laws which duplicate state and municipal laws are responsible for the clogged dockets of courts, and for creation of dozens of new federal Judgeships at SIO,OOO a year each in salary alone. Now’ it is proposed that congress enact laws to unleash the federal sleuths we have—and to employ more spies, jailers, and judges—to punish kidnaping, racketeering and traffic in illegal firearms and stolen goods. in all cases involving crossing of a state line. Attorney-General William Mitchell has pointed out that the main problem of administering justice Is a local one, and Calvin Coolidge, in discussing proposals for further federal concentration, warned that the remedy would be worse than the disease. Fundamentally, the function of a central government ic to govern the whole people, not to police them. Civil Liberties in the South The action of the state supreme court upholding the conviction of the Negro boys for alleged rape In the Scottsboro (Ala.) case, indicates the special dangers of mixing the red and black issues in the south. It is probable that the boys would have been released or granted a new’ trial if their defense had been left to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But this only would have vindicated fair play for blacks. The International Labor Defense intervened, implying that the boys were reds as well, though to the defendants Karl Marx was as unknown as Max Planck, Goethe, or Ben Jonson. This brought into play the economic fears of the southern capitalists as well as the conventional mob spirit directed against sex relations between black and white. The Communists claim that they can not get justice in American courts. The dice certainly are loaded in favor of this thesis when they take the cases of alleged red Negroes accused of rape in the far south. But it is hard on the boys. There is. however, an excess labor supply in the south and martyrdom may provide a more glorious exit for these Negro youths than would accompany a normal ending of their days. The Alabama supreme court played into the hands of the Communists by affirming their conviction in lower courts. There was every ground and ttfaportonity for granting anew trial and disconcerting the

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Communists, but, as usual, the courts preferred to prove the Communist thesis about American jurisprudence. In Georgia action at last has begun on the effort to impose the death sentence upon those —white or black—who presume to disseminate Communist propaganda. Six persons, Including two young girls, are charged with Inciting to riot because they distributed Communist literature and some of them proposed to speak at a Communist meeting. Action is being taken under the old pre-Civil war law designed to prevent rebellion among Negro slaves. It was revived to check disorder in reconstruction days. It imposes the death penalty for inciting to riot and for rioting. The public prosecutor has announced that he will seek the death penalty for “every Communist who comes to this state ad publicly preaches the doctrine of violent opposition to the state." It is to be hoped, however, that Georgia has no amoition to emulate Massachusetts or California. The Children’s Bureau Just twenty years ago today President Taft signed the Borah bill creating the children's bureau of the department of labor. Today, false economy threatens its usefulness. 4 This bureau stands high among all government bureaus in possession of efficiency, integrity, and sympathy. It was born of storm and stress. Lillian D. Wald, a New York settlement worker, first urged its creation in 1906. Over the stubborn opposition of Speaker Joe Cannon and other reactionaries, it finally came to being in 1912. Since then —chiefly because of the devotion of two women, its founder, Julia Lathrop, and its present head, Grace Abbott—it has kept doggedly at work. No other bureau has asked less and accomplished more. Housed in shabby, wooden structures, burned out at one time, pinched always for funds, ever the target of child labor employers, the children’s bureau has helped more than 12,000,000 mothers to save and raise their little ones; administered wisely an infancymaternity welfare law; opposed child exploitation; saved thousands of mothers’ and babies’ lives. Today, its ministrations are more than ever needed. It is charged with extra work in saving standards throughout the depression. But thft senate committee originally voted a slash of SIOO,OOO, or 25 per cent, from its meager budget of s39s,ooo—compared with the general cut of 10 per cent ordered by the senate. Out of a $4,000,000,000 federal budget, it would seem that sufficient economies could be made without crippling this friend of friendless chiidren. Backdoor Tariffs While two Democratic presidential candidates, Governor Roosevelt of New York and Governor Ritchie of Maryland, on Thursday were speaking against the high tariff, Democrats in congress were trying to raise the tariff. In attacking the high tariff, Roosevelt and Ritchie were repeating the campaign arguments which the public has come to expect from Democratic candidates, but which seem to be forgotten after the candidates get into office. The Democratic house, which just has written an oil and coal tariff into the tax bill, was elected in 1930 on a lower tariff campaign. Just as President Hoover and the Republicans violated their 1928 campaign pledges in enacting the Hawley-Smoot monstrosity, so the Democrats today are breaking faith with the voters. Now, in the senate, Democrats are trying to tack on the tax bill additional tariff levies on lumber, copper, jute, manganese, fluorspar, and other commodities. If the Democrats succeed in making a higher tariff bill out of the revenue measure, it will mean log rolling and long delay in passing the needed tax law and in balancing the budget, and it will mean further destruction of trade. That would not be a very promising start for the Democratic presidential campaign. Trans-Atlantic steamship executives have cut fares. If they were rim by railroad presidents they still would be sitting around complaining about how badly they needed government aid. Archeologists say that the world is only three billion years old. Maybe we ought not to expect too much of it until it grows up. Many states are advocating that their officials take vacations without pay this year as an economy measure. Most of them would save more if they would pay the officials to take longer vacations, New York City has one jobholder for every ten families. Almost as many in the pie line as in the bread line.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

JACK LONDON S daughter has come home with the news that the average Russian takes his marriage quite as seriously as the average American with his stricter divorce laws. I do not believe it makes much difference where men and women live or what their laws may be. They long for permanent marriage. This is civilized man's fondest dream—a love that will endure. Every girl who walks to the altar carries this high hope within her heart. Every man who repeats his vows is sustained by a vision of the beauty and the everlastingness of love. And in spite of the marital disasters we see about us, each longs that some miracle may preserve his faith. All are disappointed and dismayed when this does not happen. The reason our dreams are shattered so often is because we make so little effort to keep them whole. Love disappears because we do not coax it to remain. u * * THE story of our disgraceful behavior at Reno is not the story of the failure of marriage: it is not even the story of the mistakes caused by our diversified divorce laws. But it is the sorry tale of a nation of individuals who haven’t the courage to fight for their happiness. Three-fourths of all divorces are unnecessary. And a larger percentage than that brings more misery to the individuals than permanent marriage ever could. We never shall discover love by searching for it in the mire of the flesh. The fabric of marriage is interwoven closely with physical and spiritual affection and oui chief error is made when we discount the importance of either. In her recent book, “Heat Lightning," Helen Hull says it takes a good many years for us to learn to find our way about in another’s heart. That is true. We are quick to fling away the unsatisfactory for that which often proves more so. We do not stay married long enough to find out what permanent marriage can be. * Like the rolling stone that gathers no moss, the roving heart finds no happiness.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M: E. Tracy Says:

Our Children Are Learning Too Much About Games Played on the Ground and Too Little About the Ground Itself „ YORK, April 9.—Children are still the most important people on earth. White, black or brown, humanity gives more thcvjht to their care and comfort than to any other problem. Editors seldom become so cynical, or hardbitten that they turn down a story concerning children. Out in Kansas City, a one-pound infant is fighting for life on twelve ! drops of ffiilk a day. Blase New Yorkers are glad to see a report of it on the front page of their favorite paper. A Coney Island baby, fatally poisoned by salt, was accorded similar distinction. Though they have been doing it for more than six weeks, the first thing millions of people do when they get their newspapers is to see whether little Charley Lindbergh has been found. 'n H u A Good Sign NOTHING can go permanently wrong with this old world as long as human beings feel that way. No matter how crazily they may act, or how completely they may lose their heads the love of children can be depended on to bring them back to normalcy. Lenin once said. "Let me have the children, and I will form any kind of government.” * Why? Because, no matter where the children go, parents are bound to follow. HUM Love Has Risks lOVE of children has a risky side. / It can be carried too far for their own good. Sheltering them is not always the best idea. Some day, they will be called upon to shoulder the burden of life. They should be trained with that in mind, should be made to assume responsibilities as an essential part of- their education. The weakness of present-day life is the artificiality with which it surrounds children, the false illusionment it creates by giving them so much and by allowing them to do so little. K U K Topsided Education MANY a young man, or young woman comes out of college without ever learning what a square meal costs, not in money alone, but in labor. Very few have an appreciative understanding of what it takes to provide the sheer necessities of life, much less the luxuries. Parents and teachers always should remember that the big idea is npt to produce efficient gadgets for a machine, but well balanced human beings. Man-made laws are of small consequence to natural laws, and the same is true of man-made contraptions. We are overemphasizing the value of those dewdads and gewgaws which adorn the show-off side of civilization, while paying scant attention to the stronger forces back of it. K K Forget Fundamentals OUR children are learning too much about games that can be played on the ground and too little about the ground itself. They are getting an exalted idea of skyscrapers, paved streets and bright lights, while they know little about the sweat and toil required to produce and maintain them. Their idea of milk is a bottle left at the apartment each morning. They think of meat as a red, cold substance which one buys at the market. Their conception of flowers goes little deeper than the odor and the price per dozen. U K u Let the Boss Worry SINCE school is supposed to prepare them for life, they naturally look upon it as like life, and they get to thinking that life is a place where one studies more or less uninteresting books, takes an examination every so often, passes from one grade to the other and gets a diploma, while somebody pays all the bills and does all the dirty work. They wind up with the assurance that nothing counts for much outside of an office, or a white-collar job, that the country would perish if it weren’t for the city, that modem machinery has made physical effort obsolete, except in sport and that the chief problem is to get a job, preferably at a desk, and let the boss do the worrying.

Questions and Answers

How many actors are employed in the moving picture industry? Generally speaking, there are about 300 major actors, of whom about seventy are stars. There are probably 1,000 who receive screen credit, and thousands of extras are registered at the central casting office, and about 750 requests for extras are received daily. Does Russian mink differ In appearance from American mink? Russian mink is a deep shade brown and the fur is flatter. What is the record depth for deep sea dives? The record of 306 feet is held by Prank Crilley, formerly of the United States navy, who made it while working on the sunken submarine P-4, off Honolulu, in 1917. WTiat proportions of the adult male population of the United States is single? In 1930 there were 43,881,021 males, 15 or more years old in the United States, of whom 14,953,712 were single. W’hat is the location of the Empire State building in New York. West side of Fifth avenue, between Thirty-fourth and Thirdthird streets. When was the last World’s fair In the United States? The sesquicentennial exposition in Philadelphia in 1926.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Train Baby for Bowel Movements

This is the first of two articles on ‘'Training the Baby,” by Dr. Fishbein. The seoond will be printed Monday. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyjreia, the Health Magazine. IF there is one point more than any other which gives the new mother concern, it is the training of the child in proper.habits so far as concerns the excretions of the human body. One of the supervisors for the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago recently has developed a series of directions for this purpose which are practical and sound. Most babies can learn such control within the first two years of life.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—As a daily reader of your fine paper, I would like to voice my opinion regarding the coming national election. At present, Franklin D.* Roosevelt is supposed to be the outstanding Democratic candidate against the Republican forces. No doubt he could get a large vote from the Democrats, but how would it be possible for him to be elected without the many Republican votes? It seems that the ones so strong for Roosevelt believe that the American people will walk right up and vote for him without even knowing why they are doing so. What this country needs badly is a leader—a man fearless and able, one who has not lived a life of luxury—one who knows the people who have to work for an existence. To my mind Roosevelt is not one to fill the job. Might just as well have four more years of Mr. Hoover’s prosperity; both are silverspooned babies and do not understand what it is to be Mown and out. Has it ever occurred to you that there is one man that has the aggressiveness of a Theodore Roosevelt and a Woodrow Wilson; a man that has lived in just such poverty and suffering that millions now are forced into through the lack of progressive government at Washington. Very few will deny that Alfred E. Smith is a man well qualified and deserving of a fair chance again to represent the Democratic party in the coming presidential election. One thing is sure, I believe. That is, if he is the party’s choice many folks will wish to atone for their mistake in leaving the party for Hoover in 1928. Os course things would be in a bad fix if Smith were President at this time, but, to my mind, a man who always has been 100 per cent for the American people would not have waited tw’o long years before trying to remedy the conditions that are now so prevalent. Alfred E. Smith is one living man that would work just as hard for the people in Indiana as he has done many years for the people residing in the Empire state. And just ask any man who knows anything about General Motors. They will tell you that John J. Raskob did more for the laboring man than any other person connected with that company. I say this in justice to him, because of the many abusive remarks printed about him almost weekly. This opinion is coming from one who was persuaded and begged not to vote for A1 because he happened not to be a Baptist or Methodist;

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Many will learn within six months. If the baby fails to learn by the end of the third year or, if the baby once trained, relapses to infantile habits, it requires special medical study and perhaps psychologic examination to find out just what is wrong. The directions for the control of the bowels follow: Observe the time at which the baby usually soils his diaper. At that hour the next day place a small vessel in the lap and hold the baby on this, letting him lie against the left arm. Repeat this regularly each day at the same time. The first week it may be necessary to use a glycerin

one who is not a Papist—just one who sincerely believes that Alfred E. Smith is a man who will work for all people regardless of their religious beliefs. In closing, if the American people turn him down on this score, they deserve to lose their havdearned savings in closed banks and should turn to Rudy (Heigh-lloi Vallee to cheer them, which Mr. President Hoover has suggested he do. Wonder why he doesn't enlist Coolidge to tell the American people some funny jokes to cheer them up. And to think that Rudy crooning a song will end the depression and cheer up the thousands of Americans who are hungry, homeless, and discouraged! What an insult to the intelligence of the American public! And now, Mr. Editor, I know you are not in the habit of making any apologies for any stands you take, but in all fairness to the common people I suggest that you square yourself and for once admit you made a mistake when you supported Hoover first and Smith second. A LOCAL READER. Editor Times—l am strong for temperance. Os course, I mean prohibition, but since so many people associate the prohibition law with ifturder and graft, I find it better to use the word temperance while denouncing those who oppose my views: I leave them no ground on which decent people could stand. The people must be either for or against the prohibition law, and those willing even to consent to a referendum mi st be classed as “wet” and opposed to temperance. I know that the "drys” have a large majority, which a referendum would prove, but if the wets were even able to get a majority in a referendum they could not change the law, as it would take a wet majority in thirty-six of the fortyeight states before the eighteerith amendment could be repealed. I know that alcohol is a narcotic poison. Os course, I know that tea, coffee and tobacco and many other articles in general use also contain poisons, but I am opposed to the use of alcohol in any form and for any purpose. However, I approve of the government placing still more deadly poisons in the nation’s supply of alcohol, even though I know that a certain portion of this alcohol will be used for beverage purposes and cause sickness and death to the users. They should not violate the pro-

suppository to start the movement and to direct the baby’s attention to the reason or being placed on the vessel. By the second week, the bowel movement should be started by the feeling of the vessel alone. Hold the baby on the vessel five or ten minutes before using a suppository. Never continue using a suppository regularly for more than two weeks, as the baby may learn to depend upon it. When the baby is old enough to sit alone, place him on a nursery chair. It may be necessary to use the suppository again for a few days until he is used to the changed position. Next: Developing control.

hibition law. I also am strong for morality, and while I must admit that the general moral conditions of the people today are not so good as they were prior to the adoption of prohibition, I know that prohibition had nothing whatever to do with the lowering of our moral standards. I denounce as a calumny and as an untruth the-statement that the young people of both sexes are drinking more now than they did prior to the adoption of prohibition. If there is any connection whatever between our present low moral standards and prohibition it is because of violations of the law and not in the law itself. Some of the “wets” have claimed that the prohibition law has curtailed the demand for grain and that surplus years’ supply of grain is on hand and in the elevators of the country. They say that this surplus has demoralized the market and depressed the price of grain to a point far below the cost of production. Now I will admit that the annual surplus of grain which we have produced since 1925 just about has equaled the amount which was consumed in the production of alcoholic beverages, prior to the adoption of. the eighteenth amendment. A recent report of Secretary Hyde states that the amount so used in the year 1917 was something more than 114,000,000 bushels, but I contend that any loss sustained by the growers of grain has been more than compensated for in the increased use of milk, ice cream and garden vegetables. It is said further that the farmers are in serious financial difficulties because of low prices and high taxes. I know very little about this as my salary is $3,200 a year and I live in a rent-free parsonage. However, I do pay taxes on personal property of about SI,OOO. Now I come to the most contemptible argument of all. The “wets” say that without increasing the consumption of alcoholic beverages above what it now is, the government could collect one billion dollars in revenue annually if we had regulation instead of prohibition. Shame on the man who would coin the blood and tears of women and little children into revenue. I am glad that I live in a land that scorns to accept blood money and refuses to license depravity. I know that absolute prohibition is the best method ever devised by man for the control of liquor. I am, “THE SPIRIT OF INTOLERANCE.” j Editor Times—There’s no necessity of rehearsing the tongue-worn prohibition question, as every one , with the smallest iota of common I judgment is convinced of the final outcome. So in conjunction with your advocacy of repeal of the prohibition amendment to solve the taxation problem, the following is suggested as an aftermath to the inevitable: Looking one step ahead—and that is repeal—an effort should be made now to educate our legislators of the states and country that when prohibition ’is annihilated, provisions should be incorporated in the new laws governing the breweries and distilleries, prohibiting any mergers, trust, or combines in any degree. When repeal is effected, practically a LEGAL infant industry will be born, and laws should be inaugdustry readily would be extermfancy. Statesmen should make legislation so stringent that brewer!** or distilleries only can be operated as j

.APRIL 9, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Radio Apparatus Used in Experiments in Effort to Cure Certain Diseases. RADIO, familiar to the world as a means of entertainment and communication, may become a form of medical treatment as well in the near future. Experiments being conducted here and abroad, including experiments in the laboratories of the General Electric Company, and in certain New York hospitals, indicate that radio may prove an effective treatment for certain diseases The apparatus used, known as a radio-thermic oscillator resembles the apparatus used in short-wave radio transmitters. The energy developed, however, is not used to radiate a wave from an antenna, as in the case of a radio transmitter. Instead, the energy is used to create an electric field between two metal plates. The patient, placed between these two places, absorbs the energy and as a result is heated internally to the point that he develops all symptoms of a fever-high temperature, increased pulse rate, and so on. "Radio fever," developed in this way. has been tried as a means of treating arthritis. a u u Word of Warning A WORD of warning should be given the layman concerning the use of fever-producing apparatus. The device at present is an experimental one. It is not yet in general use in medicine. Only time will prove its ultimate usefulness. Two things are important to remember. One ts that the device will not prove a cure-all. Its usefulness will be limited to certain conditions. The second is that in the hands of an inexperienced operator the dev.ee would prove extremely dangerous. An induced fever, improperly controlled, easily might prove fatal. Use of radio apparatus to induce fever came about as a byproduct of experiments conducted with short wave radio apparatus. Experimenters working in various laboratories with extremely short waves began to notice that they perspired excessively when the apparatus was going. The experimenters also complained about a feeling of warmth, particularly around the ankles. Medical men were called in to make tests and it soon was discovered that the waves caused a rise in blood temperature. I visited the General Electric laboratory at Schenectady while tests with transmitters generating an extremely short wave were going on. The feeling of warmth in the neighborhood of the transmitter was very noticeable. u u u Other Rays Used USE of radio in treatment of disease adds one more form of radiation to medical practice. At the present time, infra-red rays, ul-tra-violet rays, X-rays and radium rays are employed. Nature herself has been making use of a variety of rays for ages. Sunlight, in addition to visible light, contains infra-red rays or heat rays and ultra-violet rays. But nature, knowing that too much of anything is harmful, has equipped man’s skin with a mechanism for tanning it. A coat of tan shuts out the ultraviolet rays of the sun. That is nature’s method of protecting man. There is also another interesting mechanism in nature. The ultraviolet rays of the sun not only include healthful rays, but rays which, if they reached the earth’s surface, would kill every living creature upon it. These extremely short ultra-violet rays, which would be deadly, are screened out by a small amount of ozone, a form of electrical oxygen, high in the earth’s atmosphere. There is so little ozone in the atmosphere, that if all of it were condensed into a layer upon the earth’ssurface it would be about threefourths of an inch in thickness. Yet there is enough ozone to protect the inhabitants of the earth.

JJ* T< £& Y ts ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

NEW ORLEANS DRIVE April 9

ON April 9, 1918, German troops launched their second offensive against British and Portuguese positions in the Armentieres sector, after heavy artillery preparation. Several villages were taken and the British troops were pushed back by overwhelming numbers of enemy soldiers. At several points, German regiments reached the Lys river. Objective of the drive was to cripple the British forces still further and to weaken other sections of the front by taking or threatening the channel ports. French reserves were held in readiness for use on this front if they should be needed. Premier Lloyd George of England asked the British parliament to approve a man-power bill making every citizen between 18 and 50 eligible for the draft. He urged immediate passage of such measure, admitting that the situation in Prance was acute.

Daily Thought

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.— Deuteronomy 19:21. There is no future pang can deal chat justice on the self-condemned he deals on his own soul.—Byron. strictly individual and independent enterprises and penalties should be provided in such an ironclad method that any person or persons * endeavoring to monopolize the industry would readily be exterminated. Tactics of the liquor interests in “ye olden days” are sad memories. and if they are permitted to attain a foothold under present-day “big business” methods in the form of chains, trusts, etc., the government will be strangled to death in the clutches of graft, and the pres-ent-day bootleggers and racketeers will go down in history as mere “pikers.” A TIMES READER.