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II a President Had a Third Term
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Duluth Herald)
Senator La Toilette Of Wisconsin is asking
the senate to go on record against third term
for any president
At this writing it is not known whether the
senate Will Go it or not, but it is not very i'm
portant.
A third term for president is not likely to
happen soon, and the palladium of our liber-
ties would not be destroyed if we did have
good man in the White House and kept him
there twelve years.
Though no doubt this resolution is prompted
by opposition to the reelection of Mr. Coolidge
it wouldn't apply to it. Mr.. Coolidge has been
elected but once, and he could be elected again
without raising the third term issue except as
quihb;c.
We she'll face the third-term issue only when
man who has been elected twice is being con-
sidercd for a third election.
And even then, if the man can stand the
physical strain Of twelve years at this hard
task, no harm would be done if he were elected
for the third time
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The Examiner.in.Ch
(NeW York Timesl


Senator Curtis of Kansas is the first to an
swer Mr.. Borah's examination paper on pro.
hlbltlon. 1t is hard to see how even Senator
Willis OF Ohio can show himself more stern
and unbending dry; but can anybody get q
good mark" from an examiner whose require
ments are so stiff? Further examinations in
other branches are probably preparing. What
ever candidates funk or squeeze through or
dodge the examination, the replies of Mr.. Bor-
ans present or ostensible favorite, Senator
Norris, are awaited most eagerly by the stu
dents of comparative Progressive virtue. The
orthodox Progressive Blaine-La Toilette church
OF Wisconsin in its platform for delegates to
the Republican national convention includes
many high principles and large praise for Mr..
Norris, its beloved.
Yet what poisoned chalice it holds to his
lips! Avoiding the abhorred word ''beer," it
asks that the Volstead act be modified to agree
with the Wisconsin referendum of 1926. Thus
the largest body of genuine Progressives, ador-
ing Mr.. Borah,s provisional nominee for presi-
dent, bends a fawning knee to 2.75 beer. The
Milwaukee Journal must be misinformed when
it attributes to Mr.. Norris the saying that he
secs no harm in 8 per cent beer" But Mr..
Borah's candidate must be above suspicion.
To whom can he turn? Whom can he trust :?
Just one man. That man will be available IN
1929, 1880, 1881. In November, 1928, he will
iron out all his irregularities, vote the straight
ticket and thereafter describe his usual curves
and tangents.
Pity that this is SO. The Idaho Statesman.
which has long playfully accepted the most IL
lustrious Of Senators and charged him, like the
Idaho Prune, to advertising account, winks as
It cries, solemnly: God give Us men.
America needs men who will dare to be wrong"
Has anybody else dared to be wrong so often,
acquired so thoroughly the habit and the pref
erence Of being wrong, as the senior Idaho SEN
ator? When he happens to be right, as in his
protest against pussyfooting on prohibition,
what is his rightness but : placard to be
stared at for time by the fly-eobblers and
then torn down? Some noble and many en-
gaging qualities he has; but as the cynics Of
the Old Guard are won't to say, HE is never
deaf when the dinner bell rings
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MISLEADING INFORMATION


An article on "The Health Value
Of Physical Culture" recently APP
peared in The Journal Of the Amer
lean Medical Association. The read
er would quite naturally expect the
writer of this article to advise that
more Systematic exercises be taken.
But instead, the Journal article said:
"There is no evidence that physical
education has any influence on long
evity. Regarding the influence Of
exercise on health, there is little
scientific information. Except for
the health value Of corrective exer-
else for the feet, for posture, for
weak musculature or for constipa-
ton, there is no scientific evidence
that a exercise in a well conducted
gymnasium under a trained GYM
nastic director influences health at
ALL"
"The health value in conditioning
programs at springs, resorts, and
health farms is testified to by many.
It is the experience Of numerous
persons that exercise makes one feel
better, but this is opinion and not
scientific fact. BY analogy Of all
the detailed facts Of growth and
development it must be argued that
exercise has hygienic possibilities;
adequate proof that it has, is not
available at present"
An article written by a physician
recently appeared in a magazine
read by millions Of people. In this
article the writer argued against
physical exercise, trying to prove
his points by the we'll known facts
that athletes often injure themselves
by over-straining in competitive
athletics. Such points should not be
used to try to emphasize that phys
zeal culture is injurious, while the
title Of the doctors article, "Why
Lazy People Live the Longest" is
very misleading and can only do
harm to those sick ones, weary with
disease, who hope for better health
through such simple hygienic means
as better diet and more exercise.
Are the physicians and the health
culturists becoming farther apart in
their viewpoints? l think not. !
cannot believe that the rank and file
Of the medical profession will agree
to such "piffle."
Physicians everywhere are advis-
ing their patients to exercise more
and eat less in spite Of the fact that
some of them, who write for publ.
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1t is well that congress is thoroughly dis
cussing the merchant marine question before
enacting new legislation relating to it. The
problem is complex one, and one on which
there can be two conflicting opinions, both sim
cere and supported by convincing arguments
The situation is further confused by the con-
flict Of opinion between the president and some
of the leaders in congress, and more especially
by the change of front on the part of some OF
the legislators.
President Coolidge favors turning the mer-
chant marine, which has been given a good
start under government ownership and man.
agement, over to private ownership and con.
troll. There is one camp urging a privately
owned merchant marine generously subsidized,
but the Jones bill, now before congress, con-
templates continuous government ownership
and proposes to spend $250,OO0,O0O for new
ships. This is the measure favored by some
congressman who few weeks ago were talk
ing private ownership.
The public is not concerned whether the
merchant marine is operated by the govern
ment or by private interests, but it does seem
to be of the opinion that there should be a
merchant marine and larger one than the
present All the taxpayers ask of congress is
perpetuation of an American commercial fleet
at the least cost to them.
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The flyers Costes and LeBrix
who flew to us all tho way from
France, have been sadly neglected.
We haven't even seen their names
in cigaret ad.
A $125O.a-week movie star was
hailed into debtors court the other
dav. One place whore his pub.
licitv man wasn't needed.
A yawn which dislocxted his Jaws
caused the death Of q Kentuckian,
aged 81. Probably reading about
Mayor Walker Of New York going
on the water wagon.
In accordance with our custom of
printing annually some little item
Of legal news, it is hereby formally
announced that the defendant in q
recent trial for automobile theft in
Raleigh, N. c., was named Will
Take.
We've signed . treaty with
France. Next thing for some far
seeing statesman to work up is q
protocol with Switzerland, Lapland,
Rumania, Liberia, or some other
country that has US worried.
AL Smith says McAdoo doesn't
know the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States. But maybe the gentle.
men who wrote it wouldn't even
recognize it now.
Strange that they haven't found
SANDING. You don't suppose some
Marine down there has him hidden
away as souvenir?
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From persons who motor over the improved
highways of the nation come vigorous protests
against dissertation of the scenery by multipl
cation of signs, of every conceivable size,
advertising everything imaginable. Many
stretches of beautiful landscape are completely
obscured from view by unsightly billboards.
There have been attempts in many states
to legislate obnoxious signs off the scenic
highways. Most Of these attempts have been
baked by Indifferent legislatures About all
any Of them has accomplished has been to
move the signs from the highway right-of-
way to private land beyond, which compelled
their owners to build them larger to be visible
from the road.
Virginia highway experts have hit upon two
plans full of promise if they can be put into
effect. The greatest obstacle is obtaining the
prerequisite legislative sanction. The motor
lists lobby will have to be far stronger than
the outdoor advertising lobby if either plan is
to be adopted.
The most feasible of the two Virginia
schemes is highway department policy UNI
der which the state will improve or maintain
roads only where the owners of adjoining prop
erty agree to bar advertising signs from their
land. In states giving their highway depart
ments broad discretionary powers legislative
approval Of such policy might not be neces-
sary. And such an agreement would not be
hard to obtain from the modern farmer.
The alternative Virginia plan is imposition
of . high tax on every square foot of billboard
The one argument against this plan is that it
would tend to discriminate against the small
advertiser who could not pay the higher rates
for billboard advertising space it would neces-
state.
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER &

The beet sugar companies want
some curb put on Filipino sugar
Up to 1913 Filipino sugar was duty
free up to 100000 tons, which never
was reached. In that year, restric-
ton was removed altogether. Now
the annual importation from the
islands is 100000 tons, an increase
OF 300 per cent since 1918. The
beet sugar industry wants the duty
free importations limited to 500, 900
tons, recalling that the Cuban pro-
duction once doubled in three years.
Congress is being informed that
the government is now sacrificing
a domestic industry for a possess
sion 1000 miles away; that Fill.
Pine sugar is raised by a cheap ten
ant farmer system which has some.
times almost approached peonage
whereas American beet farmers are
paid at fixed rate, an aggregate
of $55, 100000 a year.
The beet sugar industry hopes to
develop to the point where it may
supply half the domestic sugar con-
sumption. It has no hope Of obtain
ing any bars against the Hawaiian
and Porto Rican cane SUGAR crops.
Contending that the home industry
should be developed, it recalls the
time when dependence on Cuban
sugar cost Americans "a cents q
pound for the stuff.
The beet plup. after sugar has
been extra :ted. is used. for cattle
feed, along with the tops Of the
vegetable. An acre of beets, in
this manner, is supposed to produce
as much human food in the form
of meat as an acre Of corn and the
industry claims to create 24O, OOO,-
600 pounds of meat a year by dis
posal Of the leavings. It has made
Denver the worlds greatest sheep
feeder market.
This being the plea Of the do
mestic sugar industry, Congress
will have to determine whether It
deserves to be helped.
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Editorial Comment
Down Below
Des Moinns Trihllnol

Argentina is having it's first hot wave of
the summer season, with temperatures of 1O4
degrees Fahrenheit recorded yesterday and to-
day. Forecasts give little hope of relief
Associated Press dispatch.
Of course everybody knows that when it is
winter in the northern hemisphere it is sum-
mer in the southern, and vice versa.
But how much Of the time does he know it?
1t is powerful human tendency to figure,
subconsciously at least, that the conditions af-
fecting us are the conditions of the EARTH that
IT we are chilly, everybody is chilly, that if we
are hot, everybody is or ought to be hot, and
SO on.
So simple reminder as that down below, i"
in the southern hemisphere, they are having
summer now is a gentle little jolt to our self
important assumptions.
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Retirement of Frank Milhollan from men,
bership on the State Board of Railroad Com
missi0ners will be regretted generally and
more especially by his wide circle of loyal
friends. Commissioner Miholan has been a
valuable public servant. Swept into office dur
ing bitter fractional fight, he has not allowed
the platform of the organization or the lead
ers of the movement to dictate his decision CT
dim his vision on the merits of controversies
tried before him. He has earned the respect
Of the officials of those enterprises regulated
by the board which he served as chairman.
The resignation of Commissioner Milhollan
merely emphasizes a situation that is common
in public service. State salaries are not suf-
ficient to meet competition of private enter
prises. When man becomes trained in pub
lie service, of great value to shippers and re-
ceivers as well as patrons of the various utili
more remunerative work. Commissioner Mil
hollan received $4,000 year, ridicuously low,
when one considers the magnitude of the cases
coming before the commission. The same is
true in like degree of judicial salaries, the
wonder of which is that men of such high
standing can be induced often at great per-
S0nal sacrifice to run for such Offices
There are in some branches of the state gov
eminent situations which should not be encunl-
bered by such low salary limitations. The tax
payers would be money ahead if in some in
stances at least better salaries could be paid to
hold men of honesty and ability in important
and strategic positions of public trust
All Of this is especially true in the case of
Commissioner Milhollan, and the state suffers
loss in his retirement from position for
which he has been trained by years Of active
and conscientious service.
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by RODNEY BUTCHER

Washington, Feb. 16.-Probably
everyone who ever wrote a story
about the tariff wondered whether
anyone else ever would read it. The
doubt has discouraged many tariff
stories which haven't been missed.
Recent developments, such as the
Senate's passage Of the McMaster
resolution, however, indicate that
some day the tariff may be put on
a business basis. Meanwhile there
may be more tariff stories to read.
The question is tied up with such
important prices, wages and inter-
national relations, so why not?
The key to the tariff situation
is that those interests which don't
benefit from the tariff don't want
any and that those which benefit
from tariff want all they can get.
Thee two classes. no doubt. will
clash endlessly, with occasionally
compromises.
Perhaps one way to make = tariff
story more or less interesting is to
tic it up with some particular COM
modify. Present efforts for legis-
lation by the beet sugar industry
come to mind and will be cited be-
cause the industry is not asking
for the earth, and its arguments
concern the national consumption
Of sugar, which nearly all Of US
have eaten at one time or another.
The world eats 25,000,0O0 tons of
sugar year. About nine millions
tons Of it is beet sugar. The Uni
ted States consumers 100000 tons
year. Half Of that is Cuban cane
sugar, a sixth is domestic beet
sugar and most of the rest comes
from Hawaii, the Philippines, and
Porto Rico, with $4,000 or 10000
tons Of cane from Louisiana. Beets
furnish nearly, all our domestic
sugar production.
Hawaiian, Filipino and Porto
Rican sugar is imported free Of
duty. Other foreign nations are
subjected to tariff Of 1920 a ton:
except in the case Of Cuban sugar:
on which the duty is $1.76.
Lately the sugar industry has
been cursed with overproduction
Beet sugar factory earnings have
been low in recent years as a result
and some factories have been
closed down. There are, incidental
", now "a such factories operating
in 10 states.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. 16.-Wherever
one turns in Manhattan, some new
mechanical continuance jumps out
to impress the eye. No penny, nick
el or dime is safe from the temp
tation Of a nearby slot machine Of
some sort. A leading patent at
torney told me the other day that
some 5000 ideas for trick machines
60 through his hands en- route to
Washington each year.
Certainly, a tour Of Manhattan
leaves one q bit staggered by the
extent Of the mechanical invasion.
Beginning at the drug store with
the stamp and gum machines, or in
the subways with the money-chang-
ing machines, the peanut machines,
the sandwich machines or the old
fastened chocolate machines, it is
possible to pick up the trail on
Broadway and there locate soda
water machines where, for a nick
ell, ones pet soda is dispensed; or
Observation-Disclosures ma
chimes; or machines that polish your
finger nails and give you partial
manicure; or the pie and coffee
machines Of the automats; or CT
garet-vending machines, or cigar
machines. There's q six-cent EN-
porium where you can tune in on
your favorite radio station and, ear
phones to ears, spend pleasant af-
ternoon.
There's a machine for checking
your hat and coat; machine for
protecting your umbrellas and
canes; = machine that gives you a
shoe shine: q machine that dries
your hands in the Mushroom and
another that gives you special liquid
soap, or face powder, or perfume;
there's q machine for lip stick and
. machine for powder puffs. And
90 it goes. Someone tells me that
. haircutting machine will soon
make its appearance in the uptown
belt.
Il this keeps up, few years will
SEQ us doing aobut so per cent of
our purchasing through slot ma
chimes.
Perhaps the boys in the o. K.
Tin Shop, Muskogee, Oklahoma,
don't know about it. In which case
it ID my duty to inform them that
they harbor a candidate for the list
Of Broadway wise-crackers in the
person Of Albert Pullen. At least
AL sends us his contribs on the back
o. o. K. Tin Shop stationery. It
Is barely possible that. even as the
casual passerby use the stationery
Of the big Manhattan hotels when
they write home, that some Of the
boys in Muskogee use the tin shop
letterheads. Or it may be that Al
hasn't liked the wise cracks we
sometimes slip into the end Of the
column. Anyway he sends Us some
suggestions "for membership in
your Nonsense Christening ia
forget that this il . column de-
voted to serious purposes and the
uplift Of mankind.
Psople that Al seems to think
can't happen in this day and age
are the college boy who says to
his father: r. cleaned the car up
good 20 you could use it tonight. =
And the murderer who says to the
Judge: Eyes, I'm guilty. And I'm
not insane, either?" And the little
boy who says to his mother: '.Oh,
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better send me those cook books that
I left behind with some of the other
wedding presents. Why do people
give such perfectly trashy things as
those lamps we got, wonder?
] haven't been feeling quite up
to myself these last few days. Nor
mans going home and I'm glad of
it. After all it takes lot Of time
to run around with people from
home. That's one Of the disadvan-
tages Of living in nearby city.
But to get back to how / felt when
I saw Alan with that girl. Why, I
didn't mind at all. Why should /?
Please don't forget to send me
the cook books.
Lovingly,
MARYE.
NEXT: When q baby comes.
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cation. If they come back it will only be in
those states with greater traffic than finan-
cial resources. Even the weathiest common
wealths are tagging behind in highway con-
struction. The extent to which toll road
would relieve public highways would be clear
gain for those not paying the tolls
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will give the masses the sensible,
understandable rules Of life which
the people in their own homes can
use for health-building.
If the physician does not learn to
give health advice, he will soon only
be called in for accidents and emer.
gencies.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question: c. w. S. writes:
Kindly tell me through your ques.
ton and answer column what you
think causes my right arm to shake
when I am taking q drink Of water
or shaving. In fact, it does 80 in
anything / do. Being professional
violin player it is : great handicap
Answer: You are suffering from
occupational neurosis. In your case
this may be from the effect Of play.
ing the violin. A. general dietetic
treatment should be helpful, to-
gether with rest from your work for
some time. You should also take
massage treatments on the arm and
upper back. Chiropractic or osteo-
pathic treatment should also help in
restoring better nerve tone to your
arm.
Question: NJ. A. d. writes: "My
trouble is an abscess near the liver,
and I wish t. take . weeks fast.
Will you please tell me what pro-
portion Of orange juice to use to two
quarts Of water q day? In the hos
pital they use six oranges, six
lemons, and some grapejuice to two
quarts Of water for q 3-day fast
whatever the case may be. Should
/ follow this regime?"
Answer: The amount Of orange,
lemon or grapefruit juice required
depends entirely upon the case, but
it is usually all right to use as much
as two quarts day Of the juice in
addition to an equal amount Of water.
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This is the fourth of Z series
of intimate letters exchanged
by q modern daughter-Marye-
and her "old-fashioned" mother
Mon to be printed daily
in The Tribune. Another will
appear tomorrow.
Dearest Mother:
Remember you asked me to try
and imagine how I would feel II
Alan took another girl to lunch /?
Well, I know! The oldest coinci-
dence!
Norman and ! happened upon q
quaint little tea room the other day
and never gave . thought to its
being in Alan's neighborhood until
he came in and sat down 1t . table
near ours.
He had . girl didn't know with
him. ] can't say she was attractive
but ! suppose q man would con-
slider her pretty. Alan didn't intro
duce her. He just nodded casually
to US and didn't come over until they
were leaving. and then he stayed only
long enough to say how.do-you-do
to Norman. Apparently, he was in q
hurry. One Of his busy days,
suppose, though that's . funny time
to take girl to lunch unless he likes
her company q lot.
That night I asked him who she
was but he only said, "What does
it matter?" OF course couldn't
question him-that was understood
in our engagement days-so can't
tell you any more about her. But,
as Alan said, what does it matter
She is his friend and I guess If be
had wanted me to know her he'd have
brought her over.
Since then I've been thinking that
he ought to come home to lunch II
he's going to. eat in such places,
One thing you will have to admit,
mother: even we members Of the
can-opener cult know more about
food than people used to know,
Alan likes those rarebits and chicken
a Ia king and they only take q mo-
ment to prepare. But perhaps you'd
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A Thought

Yea, he did fly upon the winga
Of the wind.-Psalm 23:1O.
Though l am always in haste, I
am never in q hurry.-John Yves.
ley.
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cation, say that exercise is harmful
and that there is no scientific proof
that the use Of certain foods or food
combinations is conducive to health!
We need more health writers who