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Practical Politician Speaks There is no more practical politician in the country than Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City. What Mr. Hague says, therefore, will be heeded by all practical politicians now gathered in Chicago. Mr. Hague declares that Franklin D. Roosevelt, if nominated, has no chance of election. He amplifies with many other equally strong assertions, including one that Ritchie, Traylor, Baker, Garner, Murray, White, Reed or Lewis would meet the present situation better than Roosevelt. He asks, [Why nominate the weakest man? He reaches the climax when he says that if Roosevelt is the nominee. New Jersey, which is Mr. Hague’s political bread and butter, will ha lost in November. At a time when the curse of the country is political pussyfooting, such a statement by a professional politician is certainly something to give pause to the bandwagon boys, who have been accepting Roosevelt as the one safe and serene method of transportation. Only the Hudson river separates Mr. Hague from Mr. Roosevelt. They are close neighbors. What Mr. Hague says about Mr. Roosevelt will cause no surprise to other close neighbors of the New York Governor. It will cause both surprise and a good, hard second look on the part of those delegates whose enthusiasm for Roosevelt is measured by their remoteness from Manhattan.

Indiana’s Responsibility If the observations of the political sharps in Chicago are correct, Indiana may have the responsibility of selecting the man who may be the next President of the United States. The delegates to the Democratic convention may decide whether Franklin Roosevelt or some other is the nominee of that party. The Times has given, in a series of articles, the facts on which it bases its belief that the nomination of Governor Roosevelt will not meet the demands of the countless millions who are looking for leadership in the struggle to come back to normal living. This has been done, not for any partisan purpose, but because it regards the millions of jobless men and women, the hopeless condition of the farmer and the small merchant, the disorganization of social forces, the menace to every character-building institution, including the schools, the breakdown of business and the misery that has existed and must increase unless hope is given, as more important than the political ambitions of any man or any party. The Indiana delegates have a responsibility that grows with the importance of their attitude. Unquestionably they would like to represent the wishes and will of the voters of this state. The Democratic party must appeal to the independent voter for success. Traditionally, the state is Republican. But the Republican voter finds no hope this year in his own party. The vast majority is disgusted with Hoover, it is shocked by the.final nakedness of Watson, it has only skepticism of its candidate for Governor. The delegates to the Chicago convention will be influenced by the appeals made from the voters at home. If you have a preference for the nomination and know any of the delegates, tell them your opinion. If you know no delegate, send a letter to the Indiana delegation at the Congress annex hotel in Chicago; Those who have a direct influence in political victory will have no hesitation in making known their (Will. i The only way that the voters of this state can influence the outcome, is to make such an appeal. With such great newspapers as the Chicago Tribune predicting it, this may be the last political convention. One of the last 2-cent stamps you will be able to buy is a cheap price to pay for recording your sentiments.

The Challenge In Chicago the other day an Incident occurred that calls for a showdown between America’s institutions of law and that new kingdom born of prohibition, the racketeering underworld. Danny McGeoghegan, west side beer hustler, hoodlum, and listed “public enemy,” was arrested for a $60,000 bank robbery. Two officials of the bank, Lamber Bere and John Camphouser, identified Danny at his first trial. The Jury disagreed. On Monday, Assistant State’s Attorney Walker Butler appeared before Judge Prystalski and asked the judge to dismiss the charges againsi Danny. He told the judge that the two complaining witnesses had been under guard for two months in a loop hotel and that "their families and the bank need them.” “I don't believe the state’s attorney should stand there and confess he is not big enough to keep these two men protected,” said the court. *T think Mr. Bere Is big enough to take care of himself.” “Not when he is faced with a machine gun, your honor,” replied the state’s attorney. The Judge signed the order, declaring that the state could not take the responsibility. The machine gun won, and Danny, grinning, walked from court, a free man. It has happened. The prohibition-spawned underworld has held a machine gun at the head of the' law and the law has surrendered. And it happened In Chicago, where one major party has failed to take up the challenge and another must face it next week. Will the Democrats stand by, too, and see the oourts defied and humiliated by brazen c rooks? Hunger and Job Relief Conferees begin work today on the final draft of legislation which congress hopes will check starvation in America and reduce unemployment. There is no reason why they can not evolve, from the Garner bill passed by the house and the Wagner bill passed by the senate, a relief bill deserving united support in both bodies, and approval by the President. Whatever else it does or leaves undone, the law finally enacted should make available at least $300,000,000 for slaying the gaunt ghost of hunger that prowls across the land. The states and cities which so long have cared for the hungry are near the end of thetr resources,

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and the need is growing greater. Any smaller sum than this may prove inadequate. On the other hand, there Is no excuse for writing Into the bill public works “pork” provisions. The modest public works program provided In the Wagner bill, which simply finances by means of bonds construction projects already planned for 1933, does not fall in this category, but parts of the Gamer bill do. Financial recovery can not be accomplished by means of unsound public construction. It can be advanced materially by self-liquidating construction loans. The relief Ifill has been criticised as pitifully Inadequate. It has been condemned as going too far In its efforts to lessen distress. But when the time came for a vote, realization was so strong in the senate that something must be done for the needy that none cared to go on record against it. The bill was passed without a record vote. This realization has been too long in dawning. If the amount contained in the bill for construction had been spent a year ago, It would have helped us more than it will today. If the federal government had been willing then to assume its inevitable responsibility toward its hungry citizens, much misery might have been averted. But it is the future we face now. Relief legislation should be made an accomplished fact without further delay. Roosevelt and Repeal A Scripps-Howard poll of delegations shows that the Democratic convention is likely to accept a sub-mission-of-repeal plank without pledging the party to repeal. The difference is important. In one case the party merely would commit itself to allowing the country to vote on the issue. In the other case it would go farther and definitely commit the party to work for repeal when the question is submitted. One man probably will determine the Democratic action on prohibition, just as one man dictated the Republican stand last week. Hoover prevented a majority of Republican delegates from voting their desire for a submission-of-repeal plank and forced them to accept a dry straddle. Franklin Roosevelt apparently will be able, if he wishes, to hold the Democrats to a submission-of-repeal plank instead of going forward to pledge the party to repeal. He holds the balance of power. Our poll indicates that the Democratic majority has moved ahead of the Republican majority, partly because of unfavorable public reaction to the Republican pussyfooting. Asa result, only about 30 of the 1,154 Democratic delegates appear to want a Hoover straddle plank and fewer than fifty are bone dry. Aside from these insignificant groups, the delegations are divided into three factions; about 400 repealists, about 300 submissionists and abotft 300 delegates who feel that they must follow their candidate Roosevelt, whether he chooses mere submission or goes on with a flat repeal pledge. It commonly is believed by his supporters that Roosevelt will stop with submission. If that is accurate, the convention will declare for simple submission, despite the fact that a majority is open to the repeal pledge. A mere submission-of-repeal plank would be honest enough—certainly it would not be hypocritical like the Hoover straddle. But it would be a neutral position, lacking in positive leadership and courage. Indeed, it would be typical of Roosevelt.

Some people just can’t be satisfied. There’s the case of that fellow up in Michigan who bought a marriage license a year ago, didn’t use it, and now wants his dollar back. The best way to prove to an unbeliever that miracles do happen is to show him your summer suit which just has come back from the laundry with all the buttons still on. Now they are talking about making an auto that will go 150 miles an hour. Regardless of how fast It will go, however, you always can count on the finance company to catch you eventually. The old saying that when, you try to please everyaody you please nobody has been thoroughly discredited. A Washington dispatch says the G. O. P. resubmission plank pleased Hoover. Dr. Mayo says the human body is worth 67 cents. How does he explain a doctor’s bill for SSOO worth of repairs on a 67-cent machine? What with resubmission planks and everything, Jiey ought to change a certain well-known song to ‘How Practically Dry I Am.”

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT is a little startling to hear that erstwhile cynic, Dorothy Parker, declare that marriage and a big family are the only real things in life for women. Yet many another whose does more constructive and altruistic work has voiced the same opinion. It would be safe to say, perhaps, that for every woman with a career there dawns a dark day when she would give up everything for a peaceful spot in which she could dwell with some dream man and his dream babies. Perhaps, as has been said, it never will be possible for a woman to have what men always have had In this land, a calling and a family; but it is at least a splendid goal toward which to set our faces. Economical independence is a fine achievement. And let no one believe that it has not brought more joy than sorrow to womenkind. Neither is it an unappreciated privilege by any intelligent woman. # # BUT it alone can not bring unalloyed fulfillment to the life of any person. Men who live without family ties are just as pathetic as women who do so, and always are less capable of being sufficient unto themselves, in spite of the generally expressed opinion to the contrary. But it would’ be senseless to say that it is not possible for men and women td get a great deal out of the single life. Happily we have advanced beyond that idea. Those who assume that babies are and always must be the ultimate satisfaction for a woman fall to realize that unless ehe has numerous progeny the period during which the babies are hers is comparatively short We forget that after the babies become adolescents, and adolescents grown ups who have gone forth into lives of their own, the woman who has borne and loved them still is an individual with ambition, longings and personal problems of living. Modern woman can not live by motherhood alone, yet she can not live wholly and perfectly without it. How to adjust our social and economical world to meet this fact is our most difficult jpsk.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Astronomers Are in General Agreement That the Planets Originated in the Sun. OUR earth and all that is upon it. trees and grass and flowers, birds and insects and animals, once were flaming gases in the outer regions of the sun. That is the viewpoint of modem science. Astronomers are in general agreement that our earth and the other planets as well originated in the sun. The view essentially is a twentieth century one, and there still is much disagreement among scientists over the details. But before examining these conflicting theories, let us review the development of theories in this field of science. Modern theories in this field may be said to have started with the publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s monumental treatise, the “Principia,” for until Newton set forth the role of gravitation in holding the solar system together, astronomers were without any understanding of a mechanism which might account for development ol the solar system. It was in 1687 that Newton published his “Principia.” But although Newton thus laid the foundations in 1687, it was nearly a century before the structure was advanced. And, strangely enough, the first suggestions were. put forward by men w'ho were not astronomers. In 1750, Thomas Wright of England published some speculations upon the origin of the solar system. They seemed to have had little effect other than to stimulate Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher, to try his hand at the same game.

A Great Nebula IN 1754, Kant published his theory to account for origin of the solar system. Kant imagined that the solar system had its origin in a nebula, a great mass of gaseous material. There are many such great clouds of gases within the range of mod-erate-sized telescopes. He imagined that at first the nebula was a great cloud mass, but that in time it began to contract through mutual attraction of the particles of the nebula upon one another. He also assumed that in some way the nebula gained a rotary motion. It seemed reasonable to suppose that there were spots in the nebula which denser than the nebula as a whole. These, he believed, acted as centers of condensation, or nuclei, about which the material of the nebula began to gather. In this way, Kant thought the nebula split up into component parts which in time became the various members of the solar system. The continued contraction, he imagined, generated enough heat to cause the component parts to become white-hot. He imagined that the central part of the nebula remained the largest and in time became our flaming sun. Like Wright’s speculations, Kant’s theory attracted little attention. But in 1796, the great French astronomer, Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace, evidently unaware of Kant’s theory, advanced one of his own. Although his theory was in some respects inferior to that of Kant, it captured the imaginations of the whole world and reigned for more than a century under the name of the nebular hypothesis.

A Fluid Haze THE theory of Laplace assumed .that the solar system started as a great heated and rotating nebula. Contraction, he believed, caused it to assume the form of a great blazing globe. He imagined that because of the rotation of the globe, the equatorial region failed to contract as rapidly as the rest. In time, this resulted, he thought, in a globe surrounded by a great ring of gaseous material. Laplace thought that this ring of material would be unstable and that it would break up and then through gravitational action collect into a globe. This globe would in turn go through the same process of forming an equatorial ring, which in its turn would break up. And so the process would go on until all the planets and their satellites were formed. This theory of Laplace was put into poetic form by Tennyson, in lines which will live forever. Tennyson wrote: "This world was once a fluidhaze of light, Till toward the center set the starry tides And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets, then the monster, then the man.” Fortunately, Tennyson’s lines, though based on the theory of Laplace, are sufficiently broad to represent the general trend of theories in this field, for Laplace’s specific theory had to be abandoned. It has been demonstrated that a great rotating globe of gas would not form an equatorial ring in the way he thought it'would. The mathematical study which made it necessary to abandon the theory of Laplace was made in 1900 by Dr. F. R. Moulton of Chicago and the late T. C. Chamberlin. Next we will discuss the newer theories of the origin of the solar system.

jp T ?J& Y ' WOULD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

CONSCRIPTION TREATY

ON June 24, 1918, the senate ratified a treaty with Great Britain which provided for reciprocal conscription of British and American citizens. German troops east of St. Die and southeast of Luneville raided American trenches and succeeded in capturing several prisoners. American troops, however, made up for this loss by finishing the clearing of Belleau Wood. Fighting on the Italian front still consisted of Austro - Hungarian forces retreating from the intense assault of combined Italian and British troops. Vienna announced evacuation of Montello and the right bank of the Piave. About 40,000 prisoners were reported captured.

Certainly Left Makings of a Real Party!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Intelligence Tests Not Last Word

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygcia, the Health Marazine. SINCE greater experience has permitted better evaluation of the significance of the intelligence tests, parents, teachers, and psychologists have begun to place somewhat less value upon them. The child who gets a high intelligence quotient ought to be a most superior human being, but the evidence of continued growth has shown that sometimes a high I. Q. is merely an indication of a fine memory, whereas judgment and reasoning, two factors equally if not more important for a successful career in life, may be average, or even a little deficient. As Dr. Dougles A. Thom points out in a recent discussion of this subject, those who give the tests have come to value just as much the nature of the child’s failure or success in giving the answers as the absolute correctness of the answer at the time it is given. . The 6-year-old who, when asked to draw a diamond, says, “I can’t do that, but I can draw a square,” reveals, according to Dr. Thom, an excellent insight into his limitations as w r ell as his abilities. Such insight may be of the great-

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POP GARFIELD, the celebrated goat rider in Chicago, can’t seem to get himself unraveled from the contortion act which he put on for the amusement of delegates and spectators at the last convention. His friends and associates are having a lot of fun with Mr. Garfield these days, for when anybody comes up behind him softly and cries “Boo!” the old gentleman jumps a foot. The boys in the back room outsmarted themselves a little when they prepared Mr. Hoover’s prohibition plank. While the session was on they endeavored to convince .all opponents that the proposal was slightly damp. To hear them tell it one almost would believe that, vith that plank, some cracked ice and a little orange peel, it might be quite possible to shake yourself up a cool, refreshing, and invigorating draught. But since the Borah onslaught, they have been compelled to scrap those arguments and face about to explain just how dry they Were. Straddle Is Different A FEW rebels have been straying back into the fold, with the explanation that, after all, a straddle is merely another name for a compromise and that in this imperfect world of aches and pains each of us must yield a little ground to his neighbor in the case of controversy. But these gentlemen are content with something less than a nice use of the English idiom. A straddle is quite different from a compromise. It isn’t a question of finding that magic line which lies somewhere between the two and bisects the house of truth. On the contrary, a straddle is an effort to make both sides believe they are geting everything which their hearts could desire. And this is done by the simple process of making the language ambiguous. The difference may be illustrated be a very simple example. Mr. X is very much in love with two young ladies named, respectively, Flo and Minnie. Asa further complication, Flo and Minnie love Mr. X, but both girls take occasion to draw him aside and say: “Things can’t go on like this forever. You must choose between us.” Mr. X can’t make up his mind, and so he decides to compromise. He goes to Flo and says: “Here’s my answer. I will marry you on Monday morning, but I want it distinctly understood that I am going to spend all week-ends and all rainy Thursdays with Minnie.” That is what is called a compromise. In that case he will straddle, which can be done by the simple process of going first to Minnie and saying, "I will marry you on Monday morning at 9 o’clock,” and then going to Flo and saying, “I will marry you on Monday morning at 9 o’clock.” Mr. X |fcen goes home and begins

est significance in the success of that child. In other words, the interpretation of the test requires far more skill and experience than the mere listing of the questions and answers. Anybody, for instance, can make an X-ray picture, but it takes a man with trained knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology and probably with some understanding of the record of the patient’s disease, to make a first-class interpretation of .what the plate shows. Everybody knows that children are not born equal, mentally or physically. Most of them are the sum of their parents, and parents, too, are far from having equal value with each other or with other people. As the animal trainer said when he was asked how he had educated his dog, “You have to know more than the dog to teach him anything.” The first duty of the parent tov/ard the child is to recognize the child's intellectual adequacy or failure.' The child who can not think well, remember well, or learn normally should be detected at the earliest possible moment so that it may have the advantage of what modern science has to offer in bringing it up to the mark.

to pray that somebody will drop dead before the time for the showdown arrives. Mr. Garfield was not sufficiently courageous to be a compromiser. He’s just a hoper. a a a Saloon? It’s Still Here AND while we are on the subject of the meaning of words, I wish that some member of Mr. Hoover’s platform committee would kindly tell me just what he means by a “saloon.” I know what I mean by a “saloon.” I even know where to find one or more, but I am puzzled by all the talk about the precautions which are to be taken “to prevent the return of the saloon.” The next time I see Charlie or Jake or Mike or any other friend in a white coat, I am going to ask him if he realizes that he has been legislated out of existence. Indeed, if it were not for Charlie’s short temper, I would try to poke him with my finger to ascertain whether he is as substantial as he seems, or merely a figment in the partisan imagination of a wet fanatic. I feel quite certain in that any one of them would be puzzled if I inqured whether he expected to come back under the proposed amendment to the amendment. They don’t know they’ve been away. Charlie more or less sides with Senator Borah. He is against “naked repeal,” because, as he ex-

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ls there in our city a more flagrant violation of the pedestrian's right than the continuous passing of busses through the safety zone on the east side of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument. Has the bus company an agreement with the city to drive these vehicles through this so-called safety zone? If so, it is an inexcusable agreement. If not, the policemen on that beat is obtaining money under false pretenses. The writer had the disagreeable experience of jumping for his life from the path of a bus on Monday of this week. Fortunately, no oncoming car was in the regular traffic lane at the time. Yours for the saving of life. J. C. SHARPE. ‘ Editor Times—ln The Titles of a few days ago, a letter from Mrs. Reno, 511 North Gladstone street, | is identical with my sad experience j with the water company. Have had but one rate of SI.OB and the bill steadily has become higher and now is $1.72. No sprinkling, a small family. A small house I own one square distant, also carries a rate of $1.72. Seems to be a favorite with the water company. One gets no civility at the water company. - EAST SIDER.

CWe boy entered school and got almost to the second grade before it was recognized that he did not have the slightest Interest in enlarging his vocabulary, that he could not play intelligently with other children, and that he screamed violently on rather slight provocation. Obviously, such a child never should have been permitted to enter the first grade, because routine education was far more likely to do him harm than good. Once it is discovered that a child is retarded mentally and that it can not keep up with other children, the decision as to the course it should follow must rest with the parents. However, they can make their decision only when they have received advice from competent physicians as to the physical state of the child and from competent psychologists and educational advisers as to the possibilities of further mental training. Moreover, we owe a duty not only to the child who is intellectually weak, but also to the one who is superior. The superior child should be given every opportunity for development so that it may use Its extraordinary talents for the welfare and happiness of mankind.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented withoat regard to their £?4fa*i. ent „J r . disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

plains it, he doesn’t think they ever vill be able to enforce it. What Is This’Place? T F only Mr. Garfield, Mr. Mills or any other of the President’s lieutenants had called me up and announced that they were free for a single evening in Chicago I could have contributed much bearing upon the subject of their deliberation. I do not mean a drink within the sanctity of a hotel room, for that, of course, is plain nullification, which everybody condemns. But we three—Cgden and James and I—could have walked one block west and half a block south. I then would have strained my conscience a little by telling the man at the door that both boys were all right. Thereupon we would, upon the instant, be face' to face with mahogany, with brass beneath our feet, and a kind attendant would be inquiring, “did you say ‘three oldfashioneds’?” And at this point I would have asked a question of myself of Ogden and of James: “Please tell me, gentlemen, if this isn’t a saloon, what is it?” (CoDvritcht. 1932. bv The Times)

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JUNE 24, 1932

M. E. Tracy Saj ♦:

The Strangling of World Trade Is of Muck More Importance to the American People Than All the Brass Buttons Strutting in Europe. YORK, June 24.—Commerce and peace go hand in hand. Take it either way, and you will find that we get one by means of the other. Any policy which separates the two is unsound, yet that is the kind of policy our government has been pursuing. While asking for disarmament, we build tariff walls. While preaching co-operation and good will, we put obstacles in the pathway of free exchange. While pretending to stand for the right of the people to form and maintain the kind of government that suits them, we refuse to deal with Soviet Russia. Our foreign policy is not the same thing when applied to commerce that it is when applied to military problems. The present administration has been vastly more interested in naval conferences than in tariff conferences. The recent Republican convention, obviously acting under its orders, ridiculed the Democrats for proposing a tariff conference. a a a Trade More Important THE strangulation of world trade which now obtains is of much more importance to the American people than the brass-button strutting in Europe. If trade were liberated from the shackles that we have helped to put on it, the world could come to an understanding for limitation of armaments with far less difficulty. Much of suspicion and distrust which move governments to maintain big armies and navies can be traced to the way they are hampering each other commercially. Nothing constitutes a better excuse for frontier forts and armed borders than custom houses where unreasonable duties are collected.

Started by U. S, WHETHER our own government is the worst offender in this respect, it certainly did most to start the fashion. The Smoot-Hawley bill was accepted not only as a challenge, but as a model by short-sighted European statesmen. The whole continent lies prostrate because of the extremes to which the American doctrine of “protection” has been carried. Nothing has done so much to prolong the depression as this stupid attitude toward trade, this sudden and absurd notion that the way to recovery is for each government to shut off imports and thereby destroy the market for exports. ana Blame on Hoover BUT for the tariff craze and the theory on which it rests, It is very doubtful whether we would be throwing away Russia’s trade as we are, stubbornly closing our eyes to what promises to become the greatest single market for machinery, railroad equipment, and electrical appliances in the world. This is one aspect of the existing situation for which the Hoover administration can not deny responsibility, and on which the Democratic party should speak without reserve, if the Democratic party intends to formulate a constructive program for solution of our economic problem. a a a Must Change Policy WE can, of course, make some headway toward recovery by promoting trade and encouraging industrial activities within our own borders, but prosperity will not return until foreign trade has been brought back to something like its normal level. Casual acquaintance with present conditions is enough to convince any one that foreign trade can not be brought back to its normal level unless our basic policy is changed, unless the unnecessary and unreasonable degree of “protection” now In force is abandoned and equalizing tariffs substituted, unless we seek all the foreign trade that can be had without injury, instead of seeing how much we can kill off.

Daily Thoughts

But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written ift the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying. The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own Man shows his character best in trifles. —Schopenhauer.