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Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20
Editor Head of Wisconsin u.

Election of Glenn Frank, editor OF
the Century Magazine, for president of
the University of Wisconsin by the
board of regents came after nation
wide search for man young in years
but mature in experience and with
a definite policy. Franks belief that
church and schools and state should
work together to bring about greater
benefits for the commonwealth and
the fact that his age, thirty-eight,
gives him many years in which to de-
velop Wisconsin, convinced the re-
gents that he was the man for the
post. Wisconsin for many years has
lacked coordination between its agri-
cultural schools, it's commerce courses
and the letters and science college.
MIR. Frank has accepted the posi-
ton He was born in Queen City, Mo-,
October /, 1887, and received his bach
elor of arts degree from Northwestern
university in 1912 and Doctors degree
from Lincoln Memorial university In
Of Northwestern university in 1928
1O1e 20 1910 IIo c,,Icooodc DT EdxUa rd
Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20
Infant Death
Rate Analysed

First-born children had a slightly
higher mortality than second-born.
Leaving the tirst-born out OF account,
the mortality rate tended to increase
with the order of birth, although this
increase was associated primarily with
increasing economic pressure.
The age Of the mother did not have
any influence on the mortality rate ex-
cept in the case of frst-born babies
among whom higher rates prevailed
when the mother was under twenty or
over forty years.
The mortality rate was highest for
infants born within a short interval
(within approximately one year, after
preceding births, and lowest when four
year or longer intervals occurred be-
tween births.
Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20
IN thP I7uIh|.IL|I.IE I | EYE
Uncle Sam Is to Print Lots of Money

The treasury has made plans for
printing more paper money in the next
fiscal year than ever has been turned
out by the American government in
any other twelve months in history.
Orders have been prepared for the
purchase of 2O0,0OO,OO0 sheets of dis
tinctive silk fiber paper, from each
sheet Of which eight pieces of cur
rency are made. Beginning July /, the
bureau Of engraving and printing will
be run at maximum capacity to meet
the nations paper money require
ments.
COincident with announcement of
the printing program, Assistant Sec
retary c. S. Dewey, whose job ii is to
see that there Is plenty of money
available in the country, announced
that the treasury would take it's first
step on July l toward building up a
reserve of currency. By this method,
it is hoped, the life of the paper money
may be prolonged. An opportunity will
be had for curing the money befor
Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20
7 ablets Promise
Light on History

series, as we'll as a series Of oriental
researches. Twelve volumes Of texts
have already appeared, and several
others are in course Of preparation.
In addition, several. volumes Of re
searches bearing upon these texts also
have appeared. The publication of
these volumes was made possible
through funds given by Ogden II. Ham
mOnd, '93 S.. and George A. Kohut.
Forty kings of Babylonia and AS
syria are represented in the collection
by their personal inscriptions, while
many others are represented by OBJ
jects dated in their reigns. No less
than dozen rulers are represented by
inscribed terra Gotta cones in the shape
of huge, roughly made nails. These
contain records of the kings pious acts
in reconstructing temples or erecting
shrines.
Tablet Contains Laws.
One of the treasures of the Yale
collection is a tablet containing laws
which have proved to be a prototype
Of the Hammurabi code. This tablet
belongs to the earliest of laws at pres
ent known. YahWeh is recorded as the
author of IsraeIs laws, while Sham
ash is depicted in relief giving laws to
Hammurabi. The tablet says the laws
are those of Nisaba, a goddess, and
khanl, a god
The most notable literary produc-
ton as yet discovered in Babylonia is
the epic which recounts the exploits
and adventures Of Gigamesh, one Of
the earliest kings of the land. This is
known from an Assyrian version on
twelve tablets from the library of
Ashurbanlpal (668-626 b. C.), now pre-
served in the British museum. Un-
fortunately, the tablets are so frag-
mentary that only about half the epic
has been preserved.
The Yale collection possesses a tab
let giving a Babylonian version Of this
great epic, written fifteen centuries
earlier than the Assyrian. 1t is the
third of the series, the second having
been secured by the University of
Pennsylvania. These tablets of the
early version supply missing portions
Of the epic. Each tablet has a lump
of clay on each side, in order to pro-
tect 1t from being injured while rest
ing on the shelf in the libraries of
antiquity.
Finally, several thousand legal and
business documents, deeds, leases, con-
tracts Of almost every description, in
Gliding marriage and dowry contracts,
particularly agreements, promissory
notes, mortgages and documents grant
ing the power Of attorney, concerning
bankruptcy, Inheritance and divorce
| are found in the collection.
Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20
Judge Starts War on Obscene Prints

Acting on a request from Federal
Judge James FL. WikersOn, James A.
O'Callaghan, assistant United States
district attorney, has started drive
to rid the mails and news stands of all
indecent and obscene publications. In
a communication to Postmaster Gen
eral Harry S. New at Washington, Mr.,
O'Callaghan named about twenty pub
lications, some with circulation Of
nearly a million, which he contends
are indecent.
The action followed a hearing in
which the publisher of a Chicago mag
azlne, now excluded from the United
States mails, sought to mandamus
Postmaster Arthur G. Lueder to COM
pei him to give the magazine mail
privileges.
After listening to several passages
from the magazine as read to him by
Prosecutor O'CaIlaghan, Judge Wilker-
son said: why, this is just kindergar-
ten work as compared to some Of the
Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20


seemed be praccng discrimination
the
I'm the meantime Mr. OCaaghan'
have a
Arizona state miner., 1925-06-20

goes
Evening star., 1925-04-05

this struggle over law enforcement
had happened in New York and Chi
cago-and as bad or worse is hap
pening constantly-there would have
been no fixing of attention, no con-
tinuation of horror, but this was a
small town-two years before there
had been awful riots. Herrin must
said. and soon il was fixed in mems
minds that Herrin was murder
hole"
Lecture in Herrin, Who would
listen? and who would live to tell the
tale"
But go to Herrin and see how nor
mall 1t all is. Friendly people meet
you, a warm room and warm food
meets you. There are taxis and paved
streets and pleasant homes and fine
buildings, and schools which any
truth, / never anywhere saw as gen.
erous and well equipped play
grounds as around her schools
And one could go on. Here is all
the equipment of an energetic, we'll
to-do American industrial town, proud
OF itself, hopeful about the future,
eager to have what everybody else
has A normal town which has been
disgraced by abnormal violence few
fnlIeS away. out IN the district of
which it is center, and by aggra-
waited forms of the bootlegging activi-
ties which disgrace a multitude of
American cities. And the whole
country contrives to intensity and
advertise the disgrace, to make it a
by-word and reproach.
x * .
Why should we do this? ! am in
clined to feel that Herrin is a less
serious exhibit than the attitude of
the outsiders who spurn her. For
plainly with the wholesale condemna-
ton there goes ignorance of what
happened in the town, ignorance of
the fact that her ability to entertain
reporters and visitors had a large
part in fixing on her the full reSpon-
sibility of the riots in 1922: ignorance
that the later troubles are at the bot
tom bootlegging troubles.
Now, willingness to blacken a town
or a man without taking the trouble
to get all the facts in the case is
proof of scant honesty of mind as
we'll as indifference to the harm you
may be doing. Nobody seems to have
thought that in making Herrin a
synonym for unlimited violence he
was humiliating and discouraging
some hundreds of sturdy, upright peo-
pie engaged whole -heartedly in
building up a town where they could
live happily, send their children to
good schools and add yearly to their
wealth and cultural advantages.
But that is what the eagerness of
Evening star., 1925-04-05
The Story the Week Has Told

the tomb of old Sneferu himself: for
that gentleman has never received
the publicity he deserves, and he has
waited long time. He was the first
Egyptian imperialist. He conquered
the Sinai Peninsula for the sake OF
its copper mines, and he built chain
of fortresses in the region of the
bitter lakes to consolidate his con-
quest. There is rock cutting on
Mount Sinai showing him in act to
smite one of the natives. He buht
great fleets of vessels ITO feet In
length. one for the Nile navigation
another to bring cedar and pine
wood from Phoenicia. He made a
memorable raid into Nubia for slaves
and cattle. He was one of the true
'Elohims OF the earth" and deserves
our attention a thousand times more
than does that poor thing Tut-Ankh-
Amen, who followed him by two
thousand years
Unfortunately the art of mummi-
fication was in its infancy in Sne-
feru's day. so that we probably
shan't learn much about its occupant
from opening the sarcophagus. Many
vessels of bronze and alabaster were
found in the tomb chamber, but a
largo part of the Itinerary para
phernalia is of wood. and therefore
Of course, is in sad state Of decay.
x x
Miscelln lnneous-Yale teams made
remarkable record at the recent
national indoor championship polo
tournament in New York, winning
the class A, class and intercol-
legiate titles.
William T. Hornaday makes the
following melancholy forecast: II
believe that, without a human and
humane upheaval that I have no rea-
son to expect, the year 1850 or there
abouts will see our country as barren
of killable game as the Gobie desert
of Mongolia" Sickening, isn't it?
The percentage of unemployed
among the registered workers of
Great Britain was lis at the end of
January. 1925. and 10.7 at the end
OF February. 1924.
When the Austrian crown was
stabilized the number of unemployed
in Austria was $4,000. The number
is now 49, 900.
There was another extremely vio-
lent scene In the Italian Chamber on
April 2. Fascist and Communist dep
uties indulging in fsticuffs and
Italian Billingsgate.
According to the Italian budget re-
porter, Italy is now second in aerial
power, France being first But Great
Britain, with larger appropriations
for aviation than those of Italy, bids
fair to step into second place.
Wherefore, gentlemen of the Parlia-
ment, little more money. please, for
airplanes"
The new Hebrew university on
Mount Scopus overlooking Jerusalem
was inaugurated on April l. Lord
70 u two
sity in the world has a site to COM
pare with this, whether for natural
splendor or for associations, unless
in the latter regard one except the
University OF Athens.
The visit of Lord Balfour to Pales-
tine is a success or not, depending
on whether you are a Zionist Jew, on
the one hand, or, on the other, a
Palestinian Arab or Christian.
Evening star., 1925-04-05

1
| ist party (Fascists)... 2SJ 900
A second election will be held on
| April 26. The three parties of the
Center (Socialists, Centrists and Dem
| ocrats) have united on DR.. Marx. II
Is expected that the Right bloc Will
again nominate DR.. Jarres. Though
apparently, the Bavarian Peoples
party will not formally declare adhe-
sion to him, because he Is a Protes-
| tant, 1t seems as unlikely that be
will get most Of the Baravian Peo-
pies party and Fascist votes. The
present indication is that there will
Marx and the Communist Thael-
mann.
The candidate of the United Cen
ter. representing parties protesting
genuine loyalty to the republic
should. unless there should be an
extraordinary swing to the Right, win
The election of March %, brought out
20 per cent of those eiegible to vote.
OF the several candidates the Dem
ocrat, Hellpach, premier of Baden,
appeared to best advantage in the
campaigning, making excellent
speeches OF solid intellectual quality.
Comparing with the figures of the
elections for the Reischstag last De-
cember, IL is seen that the National
istsS and the Socialists made slight
and almost equal proportional gains.
while the Communist vote fell off.
The constitutional term of the Ger
man President is seven years; no
limit as to reelection.
1t is reported that the German gov
ernment has made further COM
munication to the French and British
governments relating to the security
pact proposition step, apparently,
in the process of converting the orig
inal German proposals from liquid to
solid form. After ALL" say the Ger
mans. perhaps the pact had best be
silent concerning Germany's eastern
frontiers"
On this head Poincare made the
other DAY the following reflection:
Germany says she Is ready to renew
the engagement she took in signing
the Versailles treaty not to attack
us. But what good is that? 1t is only
a signature, which will add nothing
to her former one, and which. IL 1t
applies only to a part Of the treaty,
will be equivalent to a disavowal of
the rest" The Journal Des Debats
observes: M Herriot risks being
caught in a trap. II we are not mis-
taken, France Will soon be informed
that If Germany recognizes the in
volatility of the Rhine, that inviola-
bility works in both directions, even
IL Germany attacks an ally of France"
1t is understood that the French
and British governments will in the
near future separately send formal
replies to the German proposals. One
hears that the French, besides refus-
ing to consider the signing of Sc
curity pact prior to complete fulfill
ment on Germany's part of her obliga-
tion to date under the disarmament
clauses of the treaty, will insist that
the pact include a clause declaring
German consent to permanent
Evening star., 1925-04-05
SO THIS is HERRIN
BY IDA NJ. TARBELL.

Is man instinctively malicious?
Does he enjoy seeing others in
disgrace? Does it give him sat
i isfaction TO advertise that dis
grace?
1t often seems so. Boys and girls
stick out their tongues at the ragged,
unkempt child that finds his way into
the schoolroom and later chase him
from the school yard. Grown up, they
go on sticking out their tongues at
those who are down. What, is It?
Malice, vanity, self-protection, self
Righteousness? Whatever it is, it is
ugly business to touch.
1 give the month of February gem
orally to lyceum work. When l
showed my last schedule to my
friends and they saw Herrin, ILL.,, on
the list they exclaimed:
60 to Herrin. But it isn't safe.
You run an awful risk
When / had been in Herrin and so
reported in nearby towns which I
visited, the neighborly comment was:
THAT awful place. How did you
dare?'
Nobody is going to deny that
Herrin in the last three years has
been the center of awful happenings.
In 1922 a veritab BILE massacre of some
20 non union miners by union miners
and their friends took place a few
miles from Herrin. She was the
largest nearby town and the only one
with q. comfortable hotel. Conse
quently all reporters made Herrin
their headquarters and sent their
messages from there. Hers was the
only name known to the public in
connection with the dreadful affair.
To be sure, Herrin miners were in
the riot, and Herrin citizens sympa-
thized with them as did her mine
owners accustomed to dealing with
them, but Herrin furnished only a
part of the rioters. The whole large
coal section was in it, but the out
slider caught but one name-Herrin.
Therefore the town was held respon-
sible for deeds whose responsibility
should have been widely distributed.
Two years later Herrin began to
have bootlegging troubles. reckless
lawbreaking on-one side, violent law
enforcement on the other. Parallels
can be found all over the country. The
two factions flew to blows and dread
full mutilations and murders followed.
In the long warfare the innocent
suffered. One of the pathetic sights
of Herrin today is a fair and girlish
woman-two black sockets where
once were dancing eyes-the victim
of bullet intended for her husband.
y I: x
If what has happened in Herrin in
Evening star., 1925-04-05

League of Nations control commits
sion with the function of supervising
execution of Articles AZ and 40 of the
treaty. The Germans (backed, it is
said, by the British) contend that in
spection should be allowed only to in
vestigate a charge of a specific vio-
latlon of either of those articles.
JapHn.-On March 20 both houses
of the Japanese Diet passed the uni
versal manhood suffrage bill, which
increases the number of those entitled
to vote from about 100000 to about
100000 persons-that Is, gives the
franchise to all Japanese male sub
jects of 80 or over except those de-
pendent on public or private charity
and persons convicted of certain
crimes
The first Parliament of Japan was
elected in 1890, when the franchise
was limited to about 5000 persons.
This is the fourth extension of the
franchise. Considerable public turbu-
lence attended debate on the bill.
The House of Peers is now under
fire. A bin has been submitted which
proposes to decrease it's powers. An
other bill proposes universal compul-
sorry education. 1t looks, too, as
though the position of the all-powerful
groups in the army and navy would
soon be challenged.
EEypt.-The gentlemen of the Egyp-
tian expedition of Harvard University
and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
which expedition is headed by the
great Egyptologist, DIR. Reisner of
Harvard, have made a very important
discovery. 1t is a tomb-chamber (the
approach to it, like those OF all tomb
chambers of important personages,
most cunningly concealed) and therein
an alabaster sarcophagus covered by
gold mat which has jncised thereon
the cartouche of King Sneferu and
much hieroglyphic writing, near the
great Pyramid of Cheops at Gizeh
1t was the chief concern of the Egyp-
tian kings to make provision for the
security of their mummified remains
and their magnificent Itinerary para
phernalia against spoilation by tomb
robbers. and. as every one knows, the
pyramids were ostensibly sepulchural
monuments But the tomb robbers
were persistent and cunning; where
fore the kings were forced (expense
be damned) to match cunning with
cunning. They were apt to build
false pyramids; SO while the rob-
bers were plying their felonious trade
in some distant rock cavern, and no
doubt, along with his eflgial compan-
ions. enjoying their discontinue.
Now King Snsferu (end of the
third or beginning of the fourth
dynasty, more or less antecedent to
1000 B. CO built himself two pyra-
mids, one at Medium and the other at
Dahshur (both places between
Memphis and the Fayum). and he
gave out that he was to be buried at
Medium. 1t Is, however. quite pos
sible, for the reasons hinted, that
the sarcophagus just discovered is
that of Sneferu, though 1t is more
likely to be that of his favorite wife
(MerTi-Tefs, pretty name). a sort
of Egyptian Nfnon de Lanclos, who
was also the favorite wife in turn of
Cheops and OF Cheops' successor.
One must hope, however. that it is
Evening star., 1925-04-05
~ HE following Is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended April T.

In liberty and republican institutions
TO be, If not cynical, at times little
oored; freedom has become a habit
not a precious possession of which
one is always conscious. But in War
saw this day IL years ago the Cos
sacks still patrolled the streets and
seven years ago the Germans were
still masters. 1t is. only yesterday
that it was a crime to speak Polish,
and Polish palaces and galleries have
been the plundering place of Euro
pean generals, not excepting Napo-
leon. for nearly a century and a half.
And now, after all the long night
mare of four generations, there is
freedom again.; Polish officers have
their swords (and I confess 1 believe
they sleep with them); there are SOL
dlers on the street who wear their
caps with a jauntiness which the
West does not know; even the army
is not tired, because it did not exist
as an army when the war was
fought; everything is new and gay,
accompanied. with innumerable phys
ical discomforts and even hardships.
Do not come to Warsaw IL you want
to enjoy all the luxuries of Paris,
London or New York, but do not stay
away too long If you SILL desire to
see a very old people awakening like
Rip Van Wrinkle from a long political
sleep.
1t is a great adventure, then, this
new Polish thing, full of gayety and
10y and enthusiasm. And with the
ridiculous and the impossible COM
bined with it, not without the sadden-
ing also, for the wake of the war
has been incredibly terrible; but at
bottom the thing one feels is the
gradually hardening determination Of
the whole people to die rather than
to submit to a new partition. There
fore 1 am convinced that settlements
based upon the voluntary transfer or
Polish territory to Germany are as
out of the question as restoration
of good feeling with Mexico purchased
at the price of the return of Califor-
MIA. and perhaps Texas. Poland will
fight-it may be beaten-but peace by
such means would not, after all, be
peace, but war.
: Copyright, 1927
Evening star., 1925-04-05
Polygamy Practiced
By Indians of Chile

Araucanian Indians in southern
Chile still practice polygamy, al
though, it is claimed, the younger
generation, educated by American and
English missionaries, are ABANDONING
the ancient tribal custom. Under the
tribal laws any male among these
AGRICULTURAL people may have as many
wives, up to seven, as he can main
tain. AS a rule, the wives live in one
house, called the ruka, each wife hav-
ing her own fire, before which she
sits with her children and prepares
their. simple fare in her own iron
kettle.
The husband lives with each wife a
week at time, and during that time
tho wife has to cook for him, mend
his clothes and wait on him. AS
rule, the other wives are obliged to
serve the wife with whom the hus-
band happens to be living. When
visitor calls at an Araucanian home
he stands outside, announcing his ar
rival by shouts. The head OF the
house comes out to meet him. but un-
less an invitation is given the caller
never enters the ruka, which is gen.
orally a thatch- covered shed about
15x20 feet, with a hole at each end
of the peaked roof to permit the
smoke from the open fires to escape
On entering such home one counts
the number of fires and knows how
many wives there are.
Evening star., 1925-04-05
BY JAMES III. KIRKLAND.

Chancellor OF Vanderbilt University.
The action Of the Tennessee State
Legislature in passing the bill for
bidding the teaching of certain phases
of the theory of evolution in all
schools supported in whole or in part
by public taxation must seem to the
outside world a most remarkable per-
formance. 1t will be attributed to ignor-
ance and to religious prejudice. From
this verdict there seems to be no
escape. At the same time it is true
that many influences have conspired
to bring this about. An active propa
ganda seems to be working in many
Southern States and in other sections
of our country. Those favoring this
action have been energetic and out
spoken.
/ am satisfied that the vote does
not represent at all fairly the views
of the Legislators. Under other con-
ditions many who voted for the
measure would have been glad to
oppose 1t. This action in all it's
phases, from the first introduction
of the bill to it's final signature by
the governor, is a proof of the weak
ness of human nature under the
strain of crisis that seems to have
only an intellectual appeal The bill
was openly opposed by most Of the