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The Democratic Convention The Democrats will run off the track and lose the election. That is the hopeful prediction of the Republicans. The Democrats, at their convention, which opens today, will prove whether this prophecy is right or wrong. The Republicans admit that they have little chance of winning the election for themselves. They have an unpopular candidate, a blundering record in office, and a straddle platform. But they expect the Democrats to win the election for them. They expect the Democrats to nominate a weak candidate and to split in a convention fight. As the convention opens, the Democrats are in danger of making the very mistakes the Republicans want them to make. The Republicans w r ant them to nominate Roosevelt as the easiest man for Hoover to beat. As the convention opens, Roosevelt is in the lead. The Republicans want them to split. The convention opens with the rule-or-ruin Roosevelt faction disrupting the party on issues of honor and fair play. First, the Roosevelt faction double-crossed Jouett Shousc, who had been agreed upon as permanent chairman of the convention. That is one bitter, unfair and unnecessary feud imposed on the convention by Roosevelt. Then the Roosevelt managers tried to make prohibition repeal delegates accept a mere submission plank, just as Hoover dictated a straddle plank to the Republican majority, which did not want to straddle. Now Roosevelt is attempting to change the rules In the midst of the game. Whether he is right or wrong in opposing the century-old rule requiring twothirds vote for nomination is not the question. Right or wrong, the rule can not be changed fairly after the game has started, that is, after the delegates have been chosen. Roosevelt is trying to rig the rules. That is why recognized leaders of the party in Roosevelt’s own camp, like Senator Harrison, have broken with him on this issue of party honor. Leaders, such as Senator Glass, who never have been Smith supporters, are as shocked as Smith by Roosevelt’s sharp practice. Glass and others say flatly that Roosevelt’s nomination on such terms probably would cost the Democrats the election. As an independent newspaper, we are not concerned with the election of a Democrat as a Democrat, or with the fortunes and feuds of the Democratic party as a party. But, like millions of voters, we are profoundly concerned with the election in November of a President and an administration capable of leading the nation out of the worst crisis since the Civil w r ar. Herbert Hoover has failed. Franklin Roosevelt, in our opinion, would prove another Hoover—lacking the necessary vision and courage of great leadership. The country knows this. There, is no enthusiasm for Roosevelt, as shown in the primaries. Most of Roosevelt’s delegates at the convention are less for him than against Smith, -or merely getting aboard what they consider the bandwagon. What the Democrats do to themselves as a party is their own affair. But, unfortunately, in this emergency they can not wreck their party with Roosevelt without condemning the country to four more years of Hoover and a bankrupt Republican administration. The unemployed, the farmers, business men, voters of both parties and no party, are looking to the Democrats for leadership. If the Democratic party fails the country in this crisis, it will not deserve and it will not get soon another opportunity. The Bootleg Paradise If the estimate of the Indianapolis Manufacturers’ Association is correct, this state has been the bootleg paradise. In its interesting program to reduce taxes, the association suggests that the Wright bone dry law be repealed at once and that a tax of 50 cents a pint be levied on all whisky sold for medicinal purposes. In that way, say the big business men, some three to five million dollars can be raised for the public treasury. Coupling this with the declaration that the association stands firm against any violation of law and that the new order must be interpreted strictly as opening the way only for those invalids and critically ill who may need whisky, you have the ghastly thought that every man, woman and child in the state uses between one and two quarts of whisky each year to preserve life and health. Inasmuch as no death rate has been reported, these revenues now must go to the bootlegger whose profits are presumed to be much more than 50 cents a pint. That the sale of whisky under unrestricted issue of prescriptions by doctors would bring in such revenue probably is true, as long as the state and nation retain the hyprocrisy of the eighteenth amendment. The suggestion of such a sum in taxation only can mean that whisky will become a panacea for everything from corns to leprosy and that no other medicines will be used. But it does carry with it a great indictment of present conditions. It is a prison offense to make, have or drink low percentage beer and yet practically every drug store exhibits and sells 22 per cent wine made by the clients of Mabel Willebrandt, a part of whom obtained twenty millions of dollars from the government to finance themselves in the enterprise of putting out grape tonics that in reality are highpowered drinks. No one will quarrel with the proposal of the manufacturers to take away part of the bootleg profits and put the money to public use. The Wright law has cost the state many millions. It has helped to fill prisons for the benefit of prosecutors who get a bonus for convictions in liquor cases and whose attention centers upon this law to the laxity of all others, because of this fact. When all. not part, of the profits from the distribution of alcoholic beverages goes to the state, tax problems will be fewer and drunkenness reduced. Highways and Cities In any redistribution of the $25,000,000 highway funds, fairness and decency demand that a large portion be returned to the cities. Indianapolis pays the larger part of this tax. It obtains little er nothing in return. One of the theories of the gasoline tax benefit is that it gives employment to those in need of jobs. The citizens of Indianapolis pay the tax. There is no money from that fund available for the employment of Indianapolis jobless. This city could employ many men on street repair work. There are streets which are in sad need of such improvement. But there are no funds with which to pay for the work, and the little that tt being ac-

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complished offers no help to those trying to solve the problem of finding work for the workless. The highway commission is trying desperately to spend as much as possible before the special session meets. The commission la buying trucks and automobiles in fleets. They will be useless if the legislature does Us duty and diverts these funds to better uses than roads whose necessity is dubious and whose value is doubtful. But there may be some left in the fund for which no commitments are made. If it is discovered that the funds have been spent recklessly, in an endeavor to get rid of the money in advance of the session, the answer should be the abolition of the present commission and anew set-up that is more responsive to public opinion. No question remains of the commission’s estimate of itself. It considers itself a political body and its jobs as patronage and plunder. That was proved when the commission demanded that every employe pay a percentage of wages to political treasuries. That action alone would justify abolition of the commission, and any fight it makes o retain control of the funds can be discounted properly. But the cities do need relief. They P ay the major por ion of the tax. They need the money for their own jobless men. Any solution that fails to recognize this condition will be unjust. Exit, Another King Siam, famous for twins, cats and white elephants, the scene of the latest revolution. The tall, golden pagoda of a crown has toppled on the head of its once worshipful king, “possessor of the twenty-four golden umbrellas.’’ The smiling little monarch, who made such a stir on his recent visit to America, is a virtual prisoner, and bows to the authority of revolutionary soldiers. The ast, but one, of the absolute monarchs on earth soon may become plain Mr. Prajadhipok. The sudden end of Siamese absolutism came as the result of two causes—one an ancient myth that the Chakrin dynasty was destined to fall in this, its 150th year, the other the thing that turns gray the hair of western rulers, the depression. Siam’s peasants, better off than most orientals have been feeling hunger. While their king, with a salary of $8,000,000 a year, 100 cars in his garage, and no, doubt, two chickens in his pot, was living the life of Riley, the plain folks being forced to “balance the budget ’ by new taxes with decreased incomes. Fortunately, the revolution was an affair of the army only, and the only life lost was that of the chief of staff, who made the mistake of thinking he was the boss. Should Siam adopt a limited monarchy, as seems likely, there will be only one real absolute monarch left, Emperor Haille Selassie of Ethiopia, “Conquering ion of the Tribe of Judah, Select of God and Ras of Rasses.” Divine right, in a political sense, is about to become a legend of the past. Alphonse and Gaston Unless he wins an appeal, B. Means, convicted of taking SIOO,OOO fraudulently from trusting Mrs. Edward McLean of Washington on promise to restore the Lindbergh baby, soon may follow into Atlanta penitentiary that other interesting American Alphonse Capone. These two cheerful malefactors worked in different vineyards. Capone of Chicago was one of the robber barons of the new nefher kingdom fostered by the eighteenth amendment. Means of Washington was of the upper world, a one-time government spy and private detective of colorful, if spotted, career. Yet both have a common quality of brazen directness and spontaneity that seems to stamp them as survivors of an earlier era. Rascals of old, according to Professor E. A. Ross’ study of “Sin and Society,” came face to face with their crimes and their victims. Because of modern society’s high complexity, a latter-day sinner may rob and plunder his victims by the thousand and yet remain a highly respected citizen. If Alphonse and Gaston were modern miscreants who had elected to apply their talents in Wall or Lasalle streets they might now, at the worst, be undergoing a quiz at the hands of the senate banking committee like their spiritual brothers, the stockngging swindlers being exposed on Capitol Hill. A woman writer says the way to reform a wayward husband is to beep him amused. However Ta^y remedy 311 *'° men h&Ve found the shotgun a surer

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

'T'HERE is something pathetic about women like amendmpni H f nry Peabody ’ to whom th e eighteenth SSSf as sacre f as one of the commandments. There are thousands of this type throughout thp couMry They believe It is wrong to X" t£y pray that nobody will do so, and close their eyes completely to the fact that nearly everybody does. These women have on e quality, however, that sets them apart from the average male prohibitionist. They are sincere. They honestly think that people can be legislated into cirtue, and rare indeed is the man who has that convictsm in his heart. A majority of such women live in the country and the small towns. They work hard and go faithfully to church on Sunday. They are as ignorant as babes in the wood of what evils are going on because of their precious prohibition. The bad booze that flows in their own neighborhood they never smell. a a a THEY possess remarkable complacence and understand very little about human nature. Most of them are staid, respectable married women who settle down placidly when young with some school-mate sweetheart. Their lives have been devoid of large temptations. They enjoy vicarious excitement by talking about the wildness of the modern girl. They read only the literature recommended by their church, which tells them the things they want to know. They would no more set themselves to run down the facts about anything than they would murder their children. Few of them have any imaginations and they are as set in their ways as the Sphinx. And it is this attitude that has undone them and what eventually will wreck their cause. The standpatter always is doomed to ultimate defeat, and on this subject these women are standpatters of the first order. When this defeat comes, as it will, sooner or later, they will not admit their mistakes. Thev merely will fold their hands piously and say that Satan has triumphed. One reason why they will have lost is that they have been so smug and self-righteous.

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M: E: Tracy Says:

The Average Political Campaign Has Degenerated to a Drivel of Names, Epithets and Personalities. N'EW YORK, June 27.—The papathetic part of this Democratic tumult at Chicago is that it arises, not from differences of opinion as to what should be done to help the country, but from the conflict of personal ambitions. Take away the quarreling over candidates, and there would be little left to threaten violent discord. The possibility that a great party may be wrecked is less appalling than is the petty cause out of which it grows. Proclaiming that this is a government of law, not men, we frequently I forget the former to stage a firstclass brawl over the latter. Starting out to solve some grave problem, or correct some dangerous situation, we are more than apt to end up in a grand row as to who shall occupy the big chair. tt tt tt Move Toward Czarism THE drift is toward dictatorship. When we get to a point where a majority, or even a large minority, of one of our two great parties is willing to set aside old usages and customs to make things easier for a candidate, we merely are taking one more step in the .philosophy of czarism. It was the original conception that this republic so would be safeguarded by checks and balances as to minimize the personal element. It was the original idea that general policies would be formulated by representatives of the people and that the President’s duty would be to carry them out. We have strayed far from that idea and that conception, not consciously, perhaps, but through the subtle influence of cheap politics. Now we are ready to forget everything if, and when, the chance arises to put on a stiff battle between candidates. tt u Contest of Mud Slinging THE average campaign has degenerated to a drivel of names, epithets and personalities. The discussion of issues has given place to the discussion of candidates. We even have talked about the kind of socks they wear, the quality of their smiles and whether their wives would make good hostesses. Such attitude, palpably is childish, but that is its least drawback. It tends to exaggerate the importance of men over principle and to make the guidance of the nation dependent on a person, rather than on a policy. We gradually are developing the theory that if we nominate and elect the rignt man, nothing serious can happen. That, of course, leads to the assumption that the man whom we nominate and elect must not be handicapped, since he, and he alone, constitutes our salvation. tt tt Crazy Over Champions HERO worship is the first symptom of Democratic decay, and we Americans are afflicted badly with it. Mass thinking, as we call it, runs largely to figures in the spotlight. We have gone crazy over champions and records. When we can’t get them any other way, we are quite content to watch some hick sit on a flagpole, or drink gallons of coffee. The malady is bad enough when confined to commercialized sport, but when allowed to enter politics it constitutes nothing less than a menace. The more we depend on leaders and the less we study problems, the nearer we come to that worst phase of government—dictatorship lodged in a republic.

9 T ?s9£ Y 'WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

HEROISM IS REVEALED June 27 ON June 27, 1918, the story of the heroism of Private Frank P. Lenert, German-American soldier from Chicago, was made public. Lenert had been surounded by eighty-three Germans while a small American force was staging an attack. His captors showed interest in knowing how many Americans were in the attacking party. They knew’ that an American barrage behind them had cut off their retreat. Lenert informed them that eight regiments were in the attack and that they were following him. The Gemans, seeing a huge force in front of them, and the American barrage behind, decided to surrender without fighting. They agreed that Lenert should have the honor of accepting the surrender. The American lined them all up, made them throw away their rifles, and marched them back to the American lines.

Daily Thoughts

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages eameth wages to put it into a bag with holes. — Haggai 1:6. Nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty.—Goldsmith. What was the gist of the Goldsborough bill, which recently passed congress? The bill was an instruction to the federal reserve board and the federal reserve banks to manipulate credit so as to bring prices in the United States back to the level of the average between 1921 and 1929. How many children under 19 years of age are there in the United States? The 1930 census enumerated 47,608,991. Which state has the smallest population? Nevada. The 1930 population was 91,058,

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Bear Meat Brings Fatal Disease

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FOR years scientific medicine has known the danger of eating infected pork. Pork may become infested with an organism called the trichinella spiralis, which produces a disease called trichinosis, or trichiniasis. These organisms get through the wall of the bowel into the blood and from the blood into the muscles, where they are encapsulated and where they produce irritation and pain. It has previously been known that other animals beside pork occasionally may be involved. Indeed, it has been established that the rat may be concerned. But now Dr. Albert T. Walker reports an unusual instance in which the eating of bear meat brought about a death from this disease. A boy, 18 years old, in California, joined a party of hunters and killed a brown bear weighing about 400 pounds.

IT SEEMS TO ME

CHICAGO, June 27.—1 t looks like a hot convention. Well, maybe it isn’t the heat so much as the hostility. The Democrats have a genius for showmanship. Two Democrats agreeing with each other can make more commotion than a thousand Republicans embroiled in a bitter deadlock. A Republican keynote speaker would seem to deadpan stooge if thrust into the present gathering. And yet one is apt to be fooled by the Jeffersonian facility for casting mean looks at all fellow party workers and putting on a prodigious dress rehearsal. The fight may have been left in the gymnasium. It is entirely possible that the untrammeled democracy of 1932 may be small spirited enough to adopt a platform and submit to a candidate without a single major engagement. I hate to say it, but it is difficult to see any present way in which Governor Roosevelt can be stopped. The buzzsaw is almost at the neck of the heroine and as yet it is not possible to detect even the faintest trumpet call from the United States cavalry. This looks very much like a melodrama without a happy ending. All the machinery is in the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The drama is distinctly up to Alfred E. Smith. Only A1 can bring the show to its full theatrical potentialities. And, even so, his inevitable role seems more likely to be Prince Hamlet than Nick Carter. But he can be the man against the stars, the fellow who told the waves to stop, and the devoted guardian who warned the steamroller not to make a left turn. a a Up to Al Smith WHATEVER the politicians think, every newspaperman expects Al Smith to do his duty. We expect him to take the platform at some point during the convention and publicly declare just what he thinks of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Probably it won’t do any good, except to the photographers, the feature writers, and the inmost heart of Al. He must speak now, or forever hold the peace.

Maybe You’re Not Venus But it is possible to correct those defects of figure where nature —or perhaps habits of eating—have put more flesh than is needed. Our Washington bureau has ready for you a bulletin on methods of Reducing Particular Parts of the Body—suggestions for exercises to reduce the ankle and lower leg, the hips and thighs, the waist and abdomen, the upper arm and shoulder, the neck, etc. If there’s too much of that “too, too solid flesh” somewhere, this bulletin will help correct the fault. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 171, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin, Reducing Particular Parts of the Body, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name St. and No City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

The Old Soak!

The bear was skinned and the meat smoked and hung in the sun for a few days to dry. This meat was divided among all the members of the hunting party and the boy brought his share home, passed it around in school and among the neighbors. Seven days after eating his first dose of meat he became ill with nausea, vomiting, and pain in the abdomen which lasted two or three days and then disappeared. He continued, however, to chew the dried meat at odd times for a period of several days. Three or four days later he becamg ill in bed, with fever, dizziness, vomiting and prostration, and with pain and stiffness in the muscles. Two weeks after the onset of his illness he was delirious. His breathing was labored and there was general swelling of his tissues. He died fifteen days after the onset of his symptoms. When the post-mortem examination was made, the trichina organisms were found in his muscles.

RV HEYWOOD BROUN

And how do I know it won’t do any good? How can any man say that? It would not be the first occasion on which Al has come up from the resin to swing his right. There’s glass in that Governor’s jaw if only Smith can get him to lower his guard for so much as a second. If no encounter of the kind occurs, even those of us who hope to get in on passes are going to ask to get our money back. It is the obligatory scene. Here’s hoping Al Smith really has a crown of thorns tucked away in his back pocket. One spectacle has been called off. For the first time in many years the Democrats are not going to fight about prohibition. The plank will not be dripping, but it will be definitely wetter than that adopted by the Republicans.. In other words, it will not be “naked repeal.? It will be “repeal with running pants.” tt tt tt Wet Only Once AS in every other convention, of course, the delegates are sure to be a great deal wetter than the platform. New Jersey, just across the corridor, singing “The Sidewalks of New York.” New Jersey has sung it ten times in succession. I wish New Jersey would stop. Still, I suppose we’re wet only once. The Massachusetts delegation arrived with all its regulars and alternates present, and in addition two friends who merely went down to see the boys off. The friends didn’t realize that the train had started until shortly after passing Toledo. It is that sort of a convention. This is not said in a captious spirit. I like the convention. I like it very much. The mood of the gathering is more or less a cross between a bachelor dinner and a riot call in Union Square. New Jersey again is singing “The Sidewalks of New York,” and somebody from dry and bleeding Kansas is dropping gin bottles down the airshaft. There is a great deal of southern hospitality around here. I was invited to cool off ten times within the first half-hour after arriving. Twice was bogey for the entire Republican convention. It is even

There were also changes in his brain and spine. Other members of the family were lightly affected with the disease, except for one girl, 18 years old, who became seriously sick with similar symptoms, but who did not die. The father and mother and another sister were sick from seven to ten days. It was found that some twentyfive people in the vicinity had eaten of this meat and there was serious illness in many of them. This is the first time that the meat of a bear shot “on the hoof” has been found to be infected in this manner. There is far greater danger from raw or partly cooked pork. Medicine knows no specific treatment for this infestation. All that can be done is to support the patient in every way possible until the tissues of the body take care of the invasion. The cases .teach, however, the important lesson of avoiding meat of any kind that has not been looked at by an expert and that has not been properly cooked or prepared.

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

possible to saunter in and look at the candidates, each of whom sits in his cubicle on floor B of the Congress hotel. tt tt tt • A Shake From Bill BILL MURRAY shook hands with me as cordially as if I were a delegate. I was disappointed in Governor Murray. I don’t think his makeup is more than mildly funny. I wonder if he ever has considered blacking up? The Democrats are so enthusiastic and unspoiled that they include among their number scores of people who even want to run for the vicepresidency. It must be great to be young and a Democrat. So few of them have suffered the bitter disillusion of getting elected to office. So far, this show has been run by amateurs. By people like Jim Farley and Huey Long, who are supposed to know more about pugilism and pajamas than about politics. I don’t know what will happen when the professional touch comes to be applied. I only know that a David who has slain not one but a score of Goliaths is sitting polishing pebbles and that he has taken down from the wall the old sling with which he once did battle. The army massed against him is a multitude. His chance is dim. But he will meet them in the pass. This is the bitter warrior. (Couv right. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—As a constant reader of your paper, when I have the money to pay for it, and feeling you are fair in all things, I would like to say a few words. We, the people of the United States of America, are passing through distressing tim.es, as everybody knows, and nobody knows it better than the laboring class of poeple, who depend on their labor from one day to the next for their daily bread and shelter for their families. If capital must be helped by our government, why not also do something that will bring back the buying power of the people at the same time? Why finance capital, with its large salaries and overhead expenses, when it does not help the buying power of the American people? Why throw a rope to one drowning man and leave another to his fate? If we can not buy and consume that which is raised by the farmers, and that which is manufactured, what good will come of spending money on some useless scheme? The United States has to wake up to the fact that it is the buying power of the people which creates the demand, that in turn creates work to raise and manufacture same. Stop the buying or cut it down by low wages and you cripple or destroy all industries. We can not prosper by a dole system which does not raise the standards and morals of the people and give them ambition of some gain in life. It is not charity we want and need. As an industrious people, it is an honest livelihood for ourselves and families, with a future, that we want. It is foolish to tljnk the

-JUNE 27, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

The Earth Probably Can Wrestle Along for a Few Trillion, Years More With m out Danger From a Passing Star. THE successful test of any theory is that it fits the facts. Let us therefore, see how the theories seeking to account for the origin of the earth check up with astronomical observations. The planetesimal hypothesis of Chamberlin and Moulton holds that the earth and the other planets were formed from material pulled from the sun by the gravitational attraction of a passing star. This material is supposed to have condensed quickly into small bits or “planetismals.” These, through the action of gravitation, were consolidated, the larger bits acting as nuclei to attract the smaller. Thus, the planets and their satellites are believed to have grown by the accretion of planetesimals. Since the planetesimal hypothesis, as well as all other recent theories, are based upon the assumption that another star passed very close to our sun, we first must consider possibility of such a close approach. A statistical study of the motions of the stars indicates that such an event is possible, though very rare. Dr. F. R. Moulton calculates that the possibility of any given star passing within close range of another star is about once in 1,000,000,000,000,000 years. Our sun, and in fact our entire galaxy of stars, is believed to be only 15,000,000,000,000 years old. tt tt tt A Rare Event BUT it is also apparent, on the basis of the law of probability, that such a close approach would happen sooner to some stars than to others. Some authorities think that such close approaches may have occurred during the last 15,000,000,000,000 years to about one out of every 1,000;000 stars. Since our galaxy contains about 40,000,000,000 stars, this would mean that there would be 40,000 planetary systems in our galaxy. This, of course, is a mathematical speculation, which no telescope is powerful enough to check. However, there is considerable consolation for us in the fact that such close approaches are rare. For it is obvious that another such close approach of a star to our sun would wreck the solar system and in all probability destroy the earth. It appears, therefore, that mankind may -wrestle with problems of depression, war and the like for the next few trillion years or so without any interference from a passing star. If we grant, then, that our solar system may have been bom as the result of the gravitational pull of a passing star, the next question is whether such an event would produce the kind of a solar system we have. The most noticeable thing about our solar system is the fact that most of its mass is concentrated in the sun. The sun accounts for almost 99.9 per cent of the mass. The planets and their satellites, the comets, and the meterors, account for only a little more than one-tenth of 1 per cent. This fact fits the theory very well, for it is reasonable to suppose that a passing star would pull only a slight amount of material out of the sun. tt tt tt Rotation Important THE older theories which attempted to explain the formation of the sun and planets from the condensation of a nebula which cast off the planets broke down when the rotation of the various members of the solar system was studied. The sun rotates on its axis approximately once in twenty-six days. (Asa matter of fact, the observed rate of rotation is different at different latitudes.) The earth turns on its axis once in twenty-four hours. Jupiter makes one rotation in approximately ten hours. It will be seen, therefore, that the amount or quantity of rotation in the sun—known technically as the “moment of momentum”—is small for the sun and large for the planets. If the nebular hypothesis were correct, just the opposite would have to be true. The sun, which is the largest mass, would have to possess the greatest moment of momentum. Otherwise, it is impossible to see how it could have cast off the planets. The observed conditions, however, fit very well into the planetesimal hypothesis and are a natural consequence of it. There are other considerations which are met well by the planetesimal hypothesis. In the realm of geology, however, the tidal theory, which assumes that the material pulled from the sun broke up at once into great masses, which became globes of gases, which liquified and then solidified, is more favored. This is because most geologists feel that the structure of the earth can not be explained adequately without assuming that the earth was in a molten state during its early days. American people always can be held down to a basket of food a week, working for one and two days a week on a chain gang, which accomplishes nothing. TIMES READER. Editor Times —On the morning of May 30. when all people had flags out and were attending services of one kind or another, I noticed the Liberty party automobile down town with a large sign on it, about the Liberty party and a bell symbolizing the Liberty bell. But at the same time it had the American flag spread across the hood and radiator of the car. It seems to me the driver of that car should know as w-ell as any one that the flag never should be draped across the hood or radiator of automobiles or other vehicles. LENA HART. Is there anything in the Constitution or statutes of the United States that would prevent a woman from occupying the office of President? t No.