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Receivership Rackets From facts coming to the surface In various cities, 15 is evident that the receivership racket is one of America’s major scandals In high places. Oreat sums are finding their way Into pockets of tavored lawyers’ cliques, through connivance of Judges equity proceedings; estates are being looted; corporations that might be saved are being carved up In fees before the eyes of the courts; share holders and creditors are left impoverished. Federal Judge Wilkerson, Hoover nominee for the circuit court of appeals, is accused by Attorney Donald Rlchbcrg of the railway brotherhoods of being party to receivership abuses In Chicago. Total fees granted by him in one railroad receivership exceeded $2,000,000, salaries allowed equaled that of the President of the United States. Wiikerson’s former law partner, Richberg said, benefited to to the extent of $244,000 in this case. ■ There is a foreclosure ring composed of lawyers,” says a bulletin of the Chicago Bar Association, investigating the situation there. “There Is a receivership ring composed of lawyers; In receiverships the rstate fir t is carved up by the lawyers and receivers, and thereafter the creditors do very little receiving. ‘ There must be fearless investigation. The alleged outrageous fees, the alleged political receiverships, and the alleged foreclosure rings must be brought from the sunless caverns to the light of day.” A federal Judge of San Francisco, Judge Louderbeefc, is under fire of the press and bar for having granted excessive fees to the son of United Btates Senator Sam Shortridge, who urged Louderback’s appointment upon Coolldge. This Judge’s actions were criticised by the upper court as "improper." Once he removed a receiver because this receiver refused to name as counsel a lawyer whom Loudcrback wanted named. In Los Angeles three state Judges face recall, Instituted by the bar association there. They are charged with accepting gifts from friends they had appointed as receivers. In New York, in New Jersey, In many states these abuses are old stories. What is to be done about it? Obviously, it will not suffice merely to pass more laws. The situation calls, first, for publicity; next, for drastic housecleaning by the American bar. In the final reckoning, honest Judges are the bulwalk of Justice. A few impeachments of federal judges also might act as a wholesome deterrent. When Good Times Return When good times return, investors are going to look about with some bewilderment for a safe place to put their money. Revelations of the last few years about the actual insecurity of “securities” have not been reassuring. It is none too soon to begin thinking a.'x>ut this question, in the opinion of Professor William Z Ripley of Harvard university. He suggests that the utilities, f he savings banks, and the federal government in particular, should devote serious study to it. Certain utilities have endangered the Investor by overdevelopment of the holding company and undue complexity of their financial set-ups, even while they ha e been trying to expand customer-ownership, Ripley charges. Unless the more Intelligent companies Join in efforts to stamp out unsound practices, he feels that public confidence in utilities will wane. He made the charge in a recent address to the National Association of Mutual Savings banks, and suggested that savings banks, as investors of other peoples* money, have a considerable stake in the matter. The key to the situation, Ripley believes, lies In federal regulation of the accounting of public utility companies, and complete publicity as to their true financial condition. It sounds like a simple solution. But this is the thing the federal power commission was directed to do in regard to its licensees twelve years ago, when the federal water power act was passed. In the twelve years it has not succeeded in striking a single objectionable item from the accounts of licensed power companies. When it attempted to do so, the Clarion River Power Company sought an injunction to prevent it even from holding a hearing on the matter. Appalachian Electric Power Company, with its new river project only contemplated, has gone into the courts to try to prevent future regulation of its accounts. Before the investing public can be sure just what it is buying when it invests in utiity securities, we must have not only a federal lawr providing for regulation of utility accounts, but an executive department willing to enforce the law, urged on by a wary and determined public. Perhaps the .depression will supply this last factor, and, if so, the others should be easy to obtain. Wilkerson and Capone Before adjournment of congress, the senate must make a decision on President Hoover s recommendation that Judge James H. Wilkerson be elevated to the circuit court of appeals. The subcommittee that once advised Wiikerson’s confirmation, on the ground that he served the cause of law and order In sending A1 Capone to Jail, is recoasidering its decision. And for that reason it is particularly timely to review exactly what the record shows concerning Wilkerson, District Attorney Johnson and the fanciful charge that only Wiikerson’s courage prevented an agreement between the district attorney and the “public enemy” for a guilty plea and a short sentence. The record shows that District Attorney Johnson conferred with the attorney-general and the assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of revenue, and that both agreed the plea of guilty should be accepted and the regular two and a half year sentence imposed, because the government’s case against Capone was technically weak. It snows that Johnson discussed the matter with Judge Wilkerson and that the Judge found no fault with the plan. When Capone's request to withdraw his plea of guilty was pending before the court July 30, 1931, the record shows, Judge Wilkerson said to Capone's attorney; “Now it is not ... that there is any question about the propriety of the recommendation that he (Johnson) is to make. He has the right as an officer of the United States to say that if a defendant enters a plea of guilty, he will make certain recommendations to the court. That is not unusual; that is done in criminal cases here every day. Now your plea was not induced by any representation which the district attorney Is not carrying out In good faith, made in good faith. ... He is doing everything that he had the right to tell you the court would do, or that the court would have a right to tell you, to consider his recommendations and give them

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ths weight to which they are entitled, s* coming from one who holds his high position, and particularly from one who enjoys the confidence of this court to the extent that Mr. Johnson enjoys it.” Wilkerson himself wrote to the senate subcommittee about this matter as follows: “The pleas of guilty were not rejected by the court, nor was the government’s recommendation disregarded. The court stated that it would give to the recommendation of the department of Justice and the treasury the weight they undoubtedly were entitled. “There was no criticism of the acts of the officers of the government in offering a recommendation in a criminal case.” Judge Wilkerson himself tells the senate he did not reject the guilty plea, and does not disapprove the district attorney’s action in promising to recommend a short sentence. ' That leaves nothing more heroic in the picture than the plain performance of duty on the part of a Judge presiding over a trial and sentencing a prisoner who has been found guilty. The legend of Wilkerson as a knight errant in shining armor must be made of more substantial stuff than this If it is to endure. Helping Railroads New railroad legislation which will lift from the carriers an unwarranted burden and at the same time take the next inevitable step In federal regulation soon may be called before the house for a vote. It may be that this bill, agreed to by a majority of the house interstate and foreign commerce committee, is not perfect in all particulars, and that it should be amended. But it is certain that this bill proposes to enact principles which should be in the law. The designation of railroad holding companies as common carriers, subject in all Important respects to the interstate commerce commission, is inevitable, we believe, in federal regulation of steam transportation. It is necessary not only for orderly consolidation of the nation’s railroads, but also to protect investors. The house committee’s bill makes this designation, and for that reason is opposed in some important quarters. The measure provides that a holding company, like a railroad, must obtain approval of the commission to acquire control of two or more railroads, and that, after receiving such approval, it must be subject to those parts of the transportation act relating to L C. C. supervision of reports and accounts of carriers, and to Issues of securities and assumption of liabilities. Important, too, is the provision which permits the commission, if it finds after investigation that a person has, in defiance of congressional policy, brought about the combination of railroads, to order restrictions on the voting of this person’s stock, so the unlawful mergers can not be accomplished. The same bill, the result of long discussion of railroad law, lengthy hearings, and many executive sessions, repeals the old recapture c ause of the act, under which railroads were forced to contribute to a central fund all profits In excess of a specified amount. A third fundamental provision changes the rule of rate making. “The rule of rate making, as rewritten,” the committee report says, “directs the commission to give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical and efficient management, to provide such service.” This broadens the scope of the commission’s efforts, and does not limit it, as the present law practically does, to fixing rates which will earn a fair return on carrier investment. This new rule of rate making should please carriers. In accepting it and the repeal of the controversial recapture clause, they should recognize the Inevitability of federal regulation of railroad holding companies, and accept that principle, as well. Now that congress has decided to cut out polo ponies for the army filers as an economy move, we might suggest that spurs be emitted from boots. The saving from this item in wear and tear on desks would be tremendous. Gandhi has given up his spinning wheel and will use a sewing machine hereafter. But he’s still one step behind the modem American woman, who has given up the sewing machine for contract bridge. The more congress battles over the economy bill, the more is is apparent that congress can't save anything but the farmer.

Just Every Day Sense BY MBS. WALTER FEBGUBON

HHI/E must have faith In the younger generation,” W says Dr. Daniel Poling, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union and chairman of the Allied Forces for Prohibition. ?Lnd we have. Indeed. If it were not for the hope that lies in the youth of the world we might as well bid farewell to dreams. Dr. Poling is mistaken, however, I think, when he infers that youth is going to concentrate its efforts in a drive to retain our present malodorous Volstead law. Doubtless there are, as he says, a large number of boys and girls who are anxious to Join the Allied Forces, yet we know also that there are multitudes who are restive about conditions that confront them today in their native land Let us examine some of the things that young people are saying and doing: In an eastern college representative students openly voiced their complete loss of faith in the two major political parties. They are clamoring for anew order. m m m A RECENT issue of the Columbus Citizen, whose editorial columns were that day in the hands of students from Ohio State university, offered an eyeopener about their thinking. Two articles dealt scathingly with our lack of vision on the subject of world peace and deplored the extent of our military costs. In Southern college, at Birmingham, not long since, the students listened, to a course of lectures upon marriage and how it can, by Intelligent effort, be made a success. Everywhere, all over the country, all over the earth, the adolescents are questioning our platitudes and voicing a doubt of our wisdom. Whatever they do with prohibition—and I do not think they will stick to our present experiment—they are going to demand a complete overthrow of our traditional hypocrisies. They are going to insist upon less oratory and more honesty in government, and less preaching about and more practice of Christian virtues. Whether their beliefs will be ours or not will nc; matter. For they will be honest convictions, based upon the truth as they see it, and not upon the discarded remnants of ancient rituals and creeds.

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M. E. Tracy Says: Amelia Earharfs Atlantic Flight Was a Stunt, Not an Achievement. BOSTON, May 23 —Amelia Earhart Putnam has given us a magnificent display of useless courage. Her name will go down in history as the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone and the first human being to cross it twice in an airplane. It becomes a temporary champion sheet by beating the record which Alcock and Brown made thirteen years ago. Her feat should strengthen the argument that women are equal, if not superior, to men. It also should afford New York another excuse for tearing up several tons of ticker tape. Her flight was a stunt, not an achievement. Whatever she may get out of it, the world will get very little. We have known for a long time that an airplane could cross the ; ocean if nothing broke, but that there was more than an even chance that something would break. That is all we know now.

Infatuated With Motion r T~'HE interest in such performances as that of Mrs. Putnam is one great weakness of the present age. Humanity has become infatuated with the idea of motion. We have ceased to care where we go, or what we go for, as long as we can go a little faster. Vehicles, rather than the freight they carry, have become the important objective. We are beginning to think of bliss as a four-lane boulevard, with no traffic lights and a radio in the car. What is at the end, or who will pay for the gasoline, gives less and less concern. Speed is regarded as much more desirable than purpose, and we are quite content to replace music with jazz, provided the din keeps up. If a congressman makes an eighteenhour speech, we call it great, though it represents little more than a waste of time and public money. Without realizing it, we are settling down to an animal-like competition in speed, endurance, and quantity production. Records are demanded above everything else, and when we can’t make them in any other way. we are glad to go in for a tree-sitting tournament. • mm Stunts In Forefront T IKE millions of other people, you doubtless have wondered why this depression should have come upon us, or why, with all the money spent for education, we should have failed to produce the intelligence necessary to cope with it. Like millions of other people, you have tried to figure out what particular gadget went wrong in the system, or what crook threw a money wrench. Well, there is another side to the story, a side which reveals all of us as somewhat at fault. What have we been thinking about during the last ten or fifteen years, what has absorbed the bulk of our attention, and what has found us uninterested, or indifferent? Stunts have played the leading role in our entertainment, literature and business. We have gazed at the tallest skyscraper, read the vilest book, watched the fastest speed dmon, and r/.id, “this Is progress.” We have not scrupled to vote for the corrupt politician if he built streets and provided parks. The racket has not distotrbed us, if it kept money in circulation. We asked no questions as to what boomed a stock, as long as it kept on going up. mum We Serve Machinery WE have built huge museums, bought European antiques and called it art; have sat on the bleachers, or in arenas and called it athletics; have listened to a medley of confused sounds over the radio and called it culture; have Joined a political club, repeated a few trite phrases and called it statecraft. People used to think of their lives as worth while only if devoted to the accomplishment of some purpose, and of their country as having a “destiny.” Politics used to turn on fundamental theories of government, and literature used to be guided by certain well-defined standards. Workmanship Used to be judged by quality, and business institutions used to pride themselves on turn rig out, not a different, but a superior, article. In other words, we used to believe that mechanical power should serve the mind, but now we are training minds to serve and feed machinery and are unmoved by the spectacle of 30,000 people dying beneath the wheels of our autos and trucks each year.

Questions and Answers

Is Luxembourg an independent country? It is an independent grand duchy. By the treaty of London, May 11, 4867, it was declared neutral territory, and its integrity and independence were guaranteed. On Dec. 22, 1921, the chamber of the grand duchy passed a bill for an economic union between Belgium and Luxembourg which came into force May 1, 1922. Who wrote the novel “The Green Hat?” Michael Arlen. Can a person still be an American citizen without voting? Yes. Can a Japanese who was born outside the United States of parents who were not American citizens, be naturalized in the United States? No.

Daily Thought

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.— Romans 6:15. Cease to Inquire what the future has In store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.— Horace.

Keep Your Mind on Your Work

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Beauties Avoid Cancer of the Skin

BY DB. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hvceis, the Health Mazarine. DR. JOSEPH C. BLOODGOOD of Baltimore, a leading educator in the field of cancer, remarks that no beautiful woman suffers from cancer of the skin, because she pays immediate attention to any skin blemish. There is evidence to Indicate that cancers of the skin may arise from pigmented moles, warts, and other types of skin blemishes. Cases have been reported of cancer of the skin over the nose due to irritation of the skin there by glasses that pressed too tightly. Evidence indicates that cancer does not begin in a normal, healthy skin. Before the cancer begins to develop and grow rapidly, there appears a scaly roughness, a discharge, or a bleeding area on the skin. This can be seen easily and felt,

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—l wonder if it would be in order to remind the police department, through your newspaper, that the statutes of this state do not permit disorderly houses to operate at full blast (let alone pig houses). There are a number of such houses which have been operating for' a number of years—apparently without any police interference. Some of them are within a stone’s throw of our very law factory; come not very far from where the laws are being judicially interpreted and decided. A CITIZEN. Editor Times—A crisis is reached in Indianapolis. The Welfare Society can not help, as it is out of funds. The trustee won’t pay rent. So it is up to the landlords to carry the load alone or set thousands of idle families out in the street. Where is the justice in compelling a property owner to be taxed to feed the people and a grocery keeper making his profit on the goods he delivers and no tax to pay for the rent? Is not a roof as important as food? If the city of Indianapolis is unable to provide for its unemployed, it is time to call in the Red Cross or ask for federal aid. Why is one class of business helped by a tax and another unaided? Can you explain or advise as to what to do? Must landlords carry the whole load of this depression unaided? HARASSED LANDLORD. Editor Times—Your paper is a big help to the public in its fight for reduced light and water rates. On March 30 there was an article dealing with aviation. It seems there are grumblers in every line of business. At present they are protesting the failure to enforce the 1929 air law, which bars an unlicensed pilot fiom flying an unlicensed ship anywhere in Indiana. Have these gentlemen stopped to consider the harm they are doing to the flying business? These men continue by saying that the state is being flooded with unlicensed pilots because they were run out of other states. Well, what of it? These pilots ffy because they love the game, and it means everything to them. Why should they be hindered in the following of their careers? These very boys and young men in tftne of danger are called upon to defend .their country along with the licensed piilot. If a man has clear vision and is not color blind and has good judgment in distance tests, and as long as he keeps all the department of commerce regulations and keeps his plane in good condition, he should. be allowed to fly. JOE SULLIVAN. Editor Times—A reader was panning Governor Leslie and Mayor Sullivan in your column the other evening. It is really amusing to see how little the average person uses his head for anything but a hat rack. It is so much easier to let someone else think for you. A good Democrat says, “Give us a chance." A good Republican says, “Hoover is a great engineer. Let’s elect him again and he will bring us out.” The Socialists point to Milwaukee as their model. Yet the police club the unemployed because they refuse to starve peacefully.

and should have prompt and proper attention, if the appearance of cancer is to be prevented. Doctor Bloodgood suggests that such areas be washed immediately with warm water, soap and a clean cloth, then -Used with alcohol and covered with a little safe ointment to protect them. The ointment then may be covered with a snail bit of cotton or a piece of gauze fixed in place with adhesive straps. When these of the skin are brought to the attention of a physician trained in handling such defects, he knows many methods for removing them easily. The methods include the rise of the X-ray, the use of carbon dioxide snow which freezes the lesion and causes the wart or mole to drop off. Sometimes surgical removal which is done properly leaves only a tiny scar.

The common people elected Murphy as mayor of Detroit on his platform. Everything was all right until the city went broke. He asked for help. The auto magnates gave it, but had strings to pull, so he had to heed. The answer is: Four killed at Ford plant. The truth is that Hoover, Smith, Roosevelt, or Thomas can’t do any more than Hiner and his “liberty party.” They are all figureheads for the government (Wall street) and do as the boss says, or they don’t figure in the payoff. They promise everything and know they can do nothing under our present system. BILL. Editor Times—We all deplore the hardships inflicted on the entire nation. Everybody anxiously is looking for relief. Remedies are suggested without number, but if the difficulty la not traced to its cause, the solution will remain a puzzle. It is simply a bad effect of a bad cause. If we fail to seek and remove the cause, the effect will continue. But why a depression? We claim to be the wealthiest nation on earth, with the most bountiful natural resources; not having been visited by famine or pestilence, with millions of willing hands ready to apply their labor in the production of more wealth, and are not permitted to do bo. To think of living in the twentieth century of Christianity and more than a century of a free government, the wonderful development of science, of marvelous inventions, of rapid production In electricity, in transportation, etc., and suffering the most distressing poverty this country ever has witnessed. It Is easy to lay the blame on the other fellow. Rich and poor are more or lesa guilty. This calamity is absolutely unwarranted. It is high time to repent, of sins of omission as well as sins of commission, of political sins as well as spiritual sins, to lay aside all prejudice, be open to conviction from every honorable point of view. And thus bring about the harmonious conditions beneficial to the entire world. WILLIAM H. TICE. Editor Times—This is directed to the “supposedly” intelligent men of our city. Why are hundreds of married women holding jobs? Is it because they are in need? Is it to support their families? What have they husbands for? Or is it because they want to make a big show to their friends by having a swell apartment or home, lots of swell clothes, expensive food, while other people really In need of that married woman’s job are starving and freezing. Women with working husbands should not have the right to 1 hold down jobs. What do they get married for, if their husbands can not keep them? Most of the married women work so that they may have luxuries, not because they are in need. How are the many widows out of work going to get jobs to support their families, if the married women hold them? Fire your married women, please, and come to the rescue of needy families. SINGLE MISS. Editor Times—l have been reading your paper ever * since I have

Since women have taken up smoking there is reason to believe that they will suffer increasingly with cancer of the mouth. Up to recent times, cancer of the mouth primarily was a disease of man. Dr. Bloodgood points out that the modem woman is teaching man how to smoke with the least risk of cancer, because she keeps her teeth clean and smooth, and when properly Informed seeks examination by a dentist or by her physician the moment she discovers a sore spot. A sore spot in the mouth may be the beginning of any one of a number of inactions or Irritative disorders and always should have careful attention. A good dentist not only protects his patient against cancer of the mouth, but knows what to do when there is pain, a loose tooth, a gumboil or a swelling of the jaw.

lived in Indianapolis, and I think it superior to all the rest. I am just a working man, and I don’t see why these factories don’t take cart of the working people here in Indianapolis instead of bringing men forty or fifty miles from here. They are working here and spending their money on their farms and such. Is that right? We pay taxes and house rent here in the city. These fellows live out on a farm, where they raise their own products and have the nerve to come here and take our job 6. I know of men who live forty miles out who give their addresses here. I’m in favor of trying to stop this kind of business. If they are going to live on the farm, let them stay there. Don’t let them come here and take our living away from US. READER. Editor Timea—Theodora Luesae was convicted and remains in prison because public officials turned their backs on the law which they are supposed to uphold. If judges and Governors are guided by their personal opinions In dealing with the public, why do we have so many laws and why swear them In to observe the laws and to see that the public does likewise? If they look beyond the law to have things revealed unto them or depend upon their intuitions, why should not persons who are without jobs or those who work part time or the small business man who has been crushed have opinions regarding permanent solution for depressions, regardless of law? There is such a thing as teaching lessons by setting examples and the Luesse case is a bad example on the part of the powers that be. Let law be law, no one below it, no one above it. Let public officials preach it and make their actions In practicing what they .preach louder than words. F. T. WICKER.

What’s in a Name? The answer is a whole lot: History, geography, occupations, relationships, nationality. Your name—your first name, your middle name, your surname—all mean something. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a packet of five of its interesting and informative bulletins on this subject, which will interest every individual human Deing. The titles are: 1. Genealogy and family trees. 3. Surnames and their mean2. Given names and their mean- tags. Meanings of Indian names. 5. Nicknames and phrases. If you would like this packet of five bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: - Dept. B-30, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of five bulletins on Names, and inclose herewith 15 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamoa to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

-MAY 23. 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Archeology Seen as "Heart" of Esthetic Revival in America. Archeology win prove the mainspring of an esthetic revival in the United States, according to John Jay Chapman, author and lawyer, who launches a severe attack upon the present educational system in “New Horizons in American Life," just published by the Columbia University Press. Chapman, as quoted here Saturday. believes that the present era is “science mad.” and that the American educational system is too rigid and too formal, with too much emphasis on tests, grades and the memorizing of things out of textbooks. Anew force, yet to make its full strength felt, came into the world at the end of the nineteenth century, Chapman believes, when Heinrich Schliemann. the German archeologist, who had started life as a grocer’s apprentice, uncovered the ruins of ancient Troy. “Ever since the discoveries ol Schliemann, anew flame has been burning in all the universities and museums of the world," he says. “The later finds have come like rockets at midnight. Crete, Egypt. Sumer, have become lands of psomise, and the Ultima Thule of romance. The daily literature of exploration has become so great that a man must devote his whole time to it to keep track of it." • m m Technical Renaissance “TT may be a strange thing that A man should advance by looking backward." Chapman continues, "yet it seams to be a fact that literature and the fine arts *Uwm have been the outcome of man’s endeavor to reconstruct an imaginary past. “We sit, as it were, with our backs to the driver and can deal only with what we see, or think we see, in the past. "The notion that we belong to the future seems to sterilize a man as may be seen In those recent attempts in painting, poetry and music in which the author consciously endeavors to separate himself from the past. The future is a cold mystery, the past is warm with life. * ‘iQThe era w'e are passing through has filled out land with such a blaze of genius in the fields of technical and applied science as reminds one of art during the Italian Renaissance. “The popular mind has become confused by science’s ascendancy and thinks science is taking up the mission of the old humanities. "But science can not say a kind word, make a joke, or turn a tune. Science has neither heart, lungs, body, taste nor feeling.” m m m Admiral Byrd CHAPMAN turns to Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic expedition to illustrate his point. “In Commander Byrd’s expedition to the Antartic, there was assembled such a complete outfit of the apparatus of science as never before had been brought together into so small a compass. The latest devices for observing and recording natural phenomena In all the symbols which science has devised were the important part of the venture. “Yet Commander Byrd had not forgotten those fields of human endeavor which he had left behind in the north. His taking a Boy Scout to the south pole was a gesture or reverence made by science to a language which it can not speak. “In that case science bowed its head quite naturally, sincerely, lovingly, to that sound-heartedness in the American people which is our best quality. “Our senses have become blunted by the cruelty of mechanical reproductions. the starkness of photography, the clatter of the phonograph, the crudity of diagrams. "The ‘lingos’ of science have made an appalling psychological chasm between ourselves and the past. “We must not be beguiled and led astray by these miracles of mechanical reproduction, or they will kill in us the creative inspiration of art.”

m TODAY -ea V*. IS THE- S% a®s£rl!ary

U. S. TRANSPORT SUNK May 23 ON May 23, 1918, the American : transport Moldavia was torpedoed and fifty-three lives were lost. An official allied bulletin announced that 252 German planes had been brought down and destroyed during the previous week, and that more than 1,000 had been brought down since the beginning of the German drive in March. General Semenoff was reported to have quarreled with Admiral Kolchak, and to have established an autonomous government in the trans-Baikal region in Siberia. His forces were opposed to the Soviet government. British forces In Palestine continued their drive forward, defeating the rapidly dwindling Turkish troops again.