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Editorial Comment
The Indian Bureau
New York Times)


DESPITE the intemperance of some of the at
tacks on the Indian Bureau during the last few
years, there seems merit in the complaints to
the effect that the Indian Bureau is antiquated
and cannot efficiently meet the present-day
needs of the Indians. Good should therefore re-
suit if Senator Kings resolution is favorably
acted upon for an investigation of the entire In
dian question. A number of institutions and IN
dividuals have been busy during the last year
obtaining facts in the field. Furthermore, the
Indian Commissioner has profited from some
of the suggestions made to him by his civil
ian advisers and has done what he could to
make improvements by departmental regula-
tions.
Doubtless he will be the first to welcome the
proposed investigation. His troubles have been
largely due to the past unwillingness OF con-
gress to deal with the modern needs OF the III
dams. 1t is true that the point OF view OF
many of the members of the Indian Bureau Is
hampered by old traditions. This is inevitable
when it is realized how greatly the Indian
problems have changed in the last thirty years.
We forget that men are still in active service
who fought in the last important Indian cam
paign. Many of the Indian reservations were
set aside during the days of the frontier, and
were designed to restrict the range Of the IN
dams rather than to help them. Locally, there
is still tendency in some states to look upon
the Indians as undesirables. =.
In carrying out the education and the healtf
programs, as we'll as in performing some Of
the routine administrative work in the India:
agencies, the bureau has been handicapped be-
cause the available funds have not made it pos
sible to employ sufficiently high grade per
sonnet It is to be hoped that out of the tes
timony presented it will be possible to point
the way toward necessary reforms and to con
vince congress that the expenses which thes'
reforms will cost are justifiable. Much Of tn
. blame that has been heaped on the Indian Blu
reau should really be passed along to congress
\ The least it can do is to make suitable provi
. sion for the few hundred thousand Indians re
naming in the United States today. The pas
cannot be undone, but more equitable treatur
l in the future can be assured.
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WASHINGTON a.
LITTER SKI

paw for a drink" said Senator Reed
while he was helping the Mellon
machine and its candidate, Senator
Pepper, try vainly to beat Ware in
the 1926 primaries.
And after the voters had turned
down Mr.. Pepper for Mr.. Ware,
Senator Reed said publicly that they
had "voted like a lot Of dunder-
heads"
For some time now, Senator Reed
has been trying hard to get other
senators to vote for Mr.. Ware.
But isn't it mean to keep bring
ing up those old things
Reed and his friends at least
ought to be able to keep Pennsyl-
vania from going to AL Smith next
November. Some of the younger
and more enthusiastic Tammany
congressman are trying hard/to be-
lieve that Smith will get large ma
jorities in Pittsburgh and Philadel-
phia and SO carry the state, but
even the Pennsylvania Democrats
don't seem to blieve that. The big
city political machinery is too firm
" imbedded. There isn't, accord
ing to latest reports, any particular
cohesion among Pennsylvania Dem
ocrats.
When Boies Penrose was boss Of
the state, he once said: II DOM
have any trouble with the Repub.
licans. NY job is to keep the Dem.
ocrats fighting among themselves
Incidentally. that's job in which
Republicans generally are supposed
to be interested in this year o.
grace, 1928.
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The Boy Scouts of America celebrates its
eighteenth birthday this week. February is
the eighteenth anniversary of the incorpora-
ton Of the Boy Scouts Of America. Year by
year scouting has progressed until the move
ment now has 100000 boys and leaders, The
organization seeks to build character in boys
and to train them for the duties of citizenship
The Boy Scout movement has left it's impress
upon 100000 American boys since 1910.
On the night of February 8, hundreds OF
thousands of boys, following the annual scout
ing custom, will rededicate themselves anew to
the ideals and detectives of the scout move
ment as expressed in the scout oath and law to
which they will again pledge themselves.
There will be scout programs on every day Of
the week, expressive of the Boy Scouts life
and activities, closing with church services on
!. Sunday, February II.
The Boy Scouts of America is part of a
great movement growing around the world.
. More than fifty nations have Boy Scout or.
oanizations affiliated through an international
brotherhood with the Boy Scouts of America.
Scouting is great force for world peace
Scouting has directed the gang spirit into
: worthwhile activities. The "Gang Neglected
: under the influence Of the Boy Scouts OF
! America has become the Gang Directed. :
: Very few Boy Scouts ever get into the GRIM
: inal courts. Many Boy Scouts rank high when
: matriculating for college. More than fifty
! per cent Of Rhodes scholars are scouts.
: Boy Scouts made a great contribution OF
: community service during four great disasters
the Mississippi flood, the New England flood
the st. Louis tornado and the Pittsburgh ex.
plosion in the past year. Their work won the
praise of governors, mayors, many other pub
lie officials and ranking officers of the Rel
Cross. During Boy Scout anniversary week
scouts will be modified in many communities
to demonstrate the effectiveness of mobiliza
ton in time of municipal or national need.
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A Rebuke For Harvard
PHILADELPHIA RecOrd)

President Lowell of Harvard has just poured
some old wine in new bottle, which he holds
up to the light for the particular instruction
and edification Of undergraduates and alumni.
There has been project afoot for some time
to raise at Cambridge suitable memorial to
the Harvard men who lost their lives in the
world war. More than 100000 has been sub
scribed for this purpose, and it has been gen.
orally understood that the memorial was to
take the form Of an imposing church edifice
within the historic Harvard yard.
Of late, however, voices have been raised in
opposition to this plan, and the controversy
has so grown that President Lowell seems
finally to have decided it was time for him to
take hand. He has done so in the form Of
q letter to the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, and
he makes it the occasion to say some things
which the men of Harvard have not been in
the habit of hearing from him. DR.. Lowell
has seldom, if ever, been given to sermonizing,
but he does just that in this letter. He is not
pleased with the morals Of college students, in
Guiding even those Immediately under his eye,
not 'that the morals of our students have been
positively low-far from it-but they have
been negative, and the conception that they
had duty in college to prepare themselves,
by developing their minds to the utmost, for
the future service Of the community. has been
lacking"
From this point DR.. Lowell proceeds to de-
VelOp MS lQe8 Oh Tue WuOS OSAC1t ~ wi wv
leges," which is that education has not in it.
self been q moral purpose in the great body Of
undergraduates. So he sums up:
If the need Of the American colleges
and the object of war memorials is to de-
velop stronger and more positive moral
consciousness Of the duty Of public serv-
ice, then it cannot be divorced from re-
1 ligion; and religion, as all the ages have
i shown, is, like everything else, assisted by
4 e proper physical expression. That we
\ lack ct Harvard today. A beautiful church
to our war dead would be an expression
i both Of our admiration for them and our
| aspiration toward moral character.
II Unusual words, these, coming from this con.
servatiye source, and as strong IS they are
sensible.
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tious, yet which turned out to be |
the imonikers with which proud par

tious, yet which turned out to be !
the imonikers with which proud par
ents actually adorned their children.
PERHAPS the most unbelievable
name that the big street ever be-
came familiar with was A. Toxin
Worm. And, with such an adorn-
ment, what could the poor child do
but become press agent? And
what on earth could q fellow by
the name Of Dexter Fellowes be
but the worlds greatest circus ad-
vance man. Dixie Hines certainly
~ounds assumed and, scratching
our memory a bit, we can recall
Cepha Day, Thornton Delahantey,
Claxton Wilstach and few others.
Had he searched through all the
possible nom de plumes, Haywood
Broun, for instance, could not have
picked out better writing name.
And what Of such perfect "writ-
ing" names as "Zane," whose last
name is Grey; or Temple Bailey, or
Allan Updegraff. Getting into an
other realm, we call upon you to
improve on ]. Borden Hartman, or
Ivy Lee.
Manhattan snapshots: The little
fodder up on Madison Avenue who
rides about in his $500 electrically
driven toy automobile, imported
from Paris. And the mil
lions Of kids on the East Side, who
rig up strange looking vehicles out
of roller skates. Just how
they manage to esca. ?e being crush.
ed by the passing traffic / have
never been able to figure.
The Armenian rug merchants, with
(! rugs from Battle Greek. The
furtive voiced sailors who tell vol
the old story about the fur they
muggled ashore and will sell fol
! an astonishingly low price.
And the fellow who pretends to sci
you naughty French postcards, thel
hurries awav. When you opel
the envelope you have one Of th0s,
Scent books published in Kansas.
Innumerable are the stories tol,
about the transactions" that TAX
place during the noon hour over tn
lunch tables Of the Hotel Aston
Here gather the hotel men who dea
in miliions-on the tablecloth.
who build great theaters and put o.
productions. All by scribbling o
tho tablecloth. At the end Of
session, vast deals have been close
End great stars have been hired an
fired. This, like so much Of Broad
way, is all dream stuff. It neve
happens, but the pencil-marke
, tablecloths carry the records.
GILBERT SWAN.
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knitting through the waves-these the old.
timer could understand and appreciate.
The method has changed, but not the spirit.
The new liner, speeding over the Atlantic at
express-train speed driven to the utmost Of its
capabilities, hurting airplanes at the distant
shore in order to clip few hours from its
schedule-this is, truly, the lineal descendant
of the famous clipper, whose shippers carried
upper topsails when rival vessels were hove-to.
and drove their vessels with feverish eager
ness that made Yankee speed famous the world
over.
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IN NEW YORK

New York. Feb. 6.-The "stage
names" adopted by Broadway CHOIR
ines of today seem quite as ridicu-
lous, and quite as familiar, as those
of the grand old burlesque wheel
days. :.
CHANGING down the list Of "ladies
of the ensemble" in q successful
muscial show, I find such names
as Lolita Pepp, Ina Joye. Beta
Nickle, Topsy Turvy-and so on.
And vet. on this same Broadway,
have flashed, from time to time,
names that seemd singularly ficti-
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her duties for the baby, whisked her
off for brisk walk in the stingingly
cold air, came bac.- almost dancing
with exuberance and looking as
beautiful and carefree as if she had
never suffered heartache in her
life.
"Going to nave fun, Faith, old
dcar!" She sang ecstatically. "Go-
ing to have heaps of fun! Lord,
but I'm simply ripe for adventure.
Got to wash my~hair and manicure
my nails. Hoop-la! Amt it a
GRAND and glorious feeling to be
young and beautiful and all dated
up for swell party?"
Half an hour later Cherry was
sitting on q hassock at Faiths feet,
busy with nail file and buffer, while
Faith, using q big soft Turkish
towel, was rubbing the wet, short
curls to dry them.
Wouldn't it be funny if Bill
Warren proposed tonight?" Cherry
remarked casually. "Poor duck!
He's been half-scared to be seen
with me, since my disgrace"
"Please don't, Cherry" Faith
| OS66SOs 4VN WSAS 0S4WAttC<4s
"Of murder-yes," Cherry
shrugged her slim, bare little
shoulder. She was dressed only
in a brassiere and "step-ins," Of
printed white silk, sprinkled with
apple blossoms and tiny knots of
pale green ribbon. "But not Of
the charge Of being q heartless
flirt, engaged to at least three men
4 at the same time. Poor Bill has
been as loyal as his family and
!, friends would let him be, and now
! think I detect the well-known
glitter in his eye. Yes, Faith, I
have bunch I'm going to be pro-
: posed to night"
care you going to accept shim -
Faith asked in voice that was sud-
denly slow and dreary.
!, HALF loaf, darling! Butt
: don't know! All dry? I'll dress
J them"
Il NEXT: Nils declares himself.
4 Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.
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DO NOT sTuFr ro GAIN

One OF the most common Ques-
lions asked me by correspondents is
"Hov can I gain weight" There
are perhaps just as many who arc
trying to lose excess avoirdupois.
While the process Of taking off
fatty weight is very simple and
certain rules will bring about def
mite results, this does not hold true
with those who are excessively thin
and wish to add to their weight.
Their problem is a much more diff
ficult one.
In the first place, we must realize
that some> are born with a "ten-
dency" to slender body, while
others are inclined to be stout. That
is, we are born with q leaning to
one Of several types. This inclina-
ton cannot be changed to any great
,tent in one lifetime. One will
usually observe a resemblance to
one of the parents or grandparents
with similar physical and mental
characteristics. If it is advanta-
geous or desirable to change this "in-
clination" il. is possible to do so
to some sli9 Mt extent, but no great
modification can be expected, such
as to displace the tendency to be
lean with disposition to be fat.
As q race horse is born and not
made, and differs in many respects
from the pillow horse, even do we
humans come into the world accord
ing to various types. The race
horse is always lean, and becomes
useless and short lived if an at
tempt is made to put weight on
him and turn him into pillow horse.
The pillow horse is naturally
heavy, and, whereas his best ef-
ficiency may be obtained if not al
lowed to grow too fat, his gen.
eral contour and disposition are
slch that we can never make q
lean, fast, race horse of him.
j If you are naturally thin, YOU
may, by diligent training, develop
beautiful, graceful body Of race
horse type, with a keen mind, and
built for a long life with plenty Of
: mental and physical alertness; but
d not make the mistake of evel
: expecting to grow "large ant
} bulky" If it were possible to d.
this the results would be very dis
appointing, and those who attemp
e it are only counting disease and il
health.
When am asked the question
"Can / gain weight?" always an
! swer, II do not know. I do know
:, that you can become healthy if yo'
}. are willing to live healthful life
e with healthful habits. but / will
give you no advice designed pri
e marily to make you gain weight"
}. Of course, if you are actuall
! skinny" and have an emaciated an
gaunt body, you can always develo
your bod up to certain perfec
! ton Of grace and comelinesa whicl
Q will give you beautiful form, 9
= slender tyne. The ideal to keep j
mind should be one of perfect health
so do not be content until 20
e achieve your desire for health.
o Your doctor can tell you by va,
: lou tests if you are 100 per Ger
d efficient, and your mirror will ne
/ ieceiv you if you are satisfied wit
70 look Of strength and health, will
1t out the desire for "mere bulk" tn
wi -"ales alone cannot measure healtl
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BARBS
The sos: coal industry is hard up.

The sos: coal industry is hard up.
Ford II going to Ireland next
summer. Probably he'll get q ride
in the real thing.
The wandering boy" these days
Is usually somewher around hunt.
ing for his grandmother.
You can't blame Messrs. Ware and
Smith because they're fighting for
seats in the Senate. All who have
seen the Senate say it's almost as
good o. the Follies.
Well, we. know It's winter now.
The other day we saw Z picture Of
ONE girls r. bathing suits, run.
ming IN the snow on the shore o.
Lake Michigan.
A scientific expedition T. thl
Galapagos Islands Is bringing back
some cormorants who haven't flown
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If the ghosts of the old-time Yankee sea cap
tains still hover around the wharves of our
saltwater ports, as some maintain, it is to be
hoped that they read the daily papers.
They would be interested, we believe, in the
stories about the new ships which American
builders are planning for the transatlantic
trade; interested, even though they might not
be willing to admit that these projected ships
would have anything at all in common with the
graceful, white-winged clippers of the old days.
If present plans go through, 10 or more huge
ships will be built. Each ship will be capable
of crossing the Atlantic in four days. Upper
decks and superstructures will be copied after
those grotesque warships, the Saratoga and
Lexington, and each ship will carry its own
fleet of airplanes.
The old-timers, we repeat, wouldn't admit
It.; but these ships, nevertheless, will be the
lineal descendants Of the famous clippers Of
old In them the idea that was back of the
clippers will be carried to it's logical conclu-
sion-and the ghosts of the tarry-handed old
sea dogs will come into their own again.
Up until century ago, speed was the last
quality one looked for in merchant ship.
The picturesque galleons Of Spain, with tower
ing poops and tub-shaped underbodies, needed
stiff gale, as Conrad said, to move at all; and
though the Dutch and English improved on
these models. their ships We're still bluff
bowed and wall-sided, built to pl0d along at the
dizzy speed Of four knots if the wind was ia
vorable. Trading by sea was leisurely oc-
cupation in those days.
Then, about 100 years ago, came change.
Mercantile competition became keener, and the
shipper who could get his cargo there first
was the shipper who made the money. Amer
lean and British designers began narrowing
the body lines and improving sail areas. In
credibly beautiful and speedy ships resulted
such vessels as Donald McKay's Sovereign OF
the Seas could maintain speed Of 20 knots an
hour if the wind held good.
But the wind did not always hold good, and
shippers discovered that steamships, less grace
full and less speedy, could make better time be-
cause Of their independence Of the weather. So
the clippers became obsolete. and in few
years square sail had practically vanished
With the passing Of the clippers passed the
romance Of shipping. It is hard to thrill over
- rusty steamer, with her dungareed crew and
I l1er trailing cloud Of black smoke. The risks
o& seafaring ebbed, but so did the picturesque
.Ness. Utility conquered romance.
But now It appears that the urge thai
brought the clippers into existence is opera-
sS4 again. Once more ships will take wings
Iss Xnd who win say that the modern wings
b koody airplanes that alixht on and take Of
nm ! steamers open deek-are less appeal
tha 9, ths rsat canvas wings Of the on
peeiy ships are a. the American tradition
" enptatn o. N old square-rigeer woull
Is E eaxo greatly for the plodding voyages o
n = xE fnosy steam frelghter; but be could nc
~ fxoV enthusiasts over one of these nev
] Dof uoseolk kolE slim hulls built -
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as diet and exercise. Train your
mind and body to be more poised!
Do not allow such thoughts as
'fear," hatred" 'criticism," or
intolerance" to control you, as
these destructive emotions are a
potent factor in keening you thin.
Eat only wha. you can digest and
turn into good tissue. and, under no
circumstances should you ever at
tempt to increase your weight by
any "stuffing" process. This will
only b.. productive Of such symp-
toms as biliousness, coated tongue,
gall bladder and liver trouble, and
innumerable diseases Of the diges-
tive organs.
You may write to me in care Of
this paper for further information
on this important subject. Ask for
the special article entitled "Feed-
ing Thin Folks" Enclose stamped,
addressed, large envelope for reply.
Do not be misled by attractive adj
vertisements of remedies to make
lou gain weight! There is no law
to stop these promises, but you will
be wise if you remember that ma
ture cannot be bribed into making
miraculous changes to suit your
whim, and that the only chance you
may have for gaining a beautiful
body will be to live according to ma
tural laws.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Question: B. L. G. writes: "In
one of your articles you say that
certain exercises will straighten
ones back, no matter how crooked.
I have had a lateral curvature for
!! thirty years. Am thirty-three now.
| Ny spine is crooked, left hip being
larger, and right ribs protruding.
Is there anything / can do to cor
rect this; and if SO how long would
Answer: You must have misun-
derstood the article where you
thought I said thst certain exer-
cises would straighten any kind Of
a crooked back. If there is not COM
plete ankylosis, a curved spine can
certainly be Strengthened to some
extent through developing the mus
cles which should hold it in position,
but a complete cure is not always
possible due to the bony changes
which hold the spine out Of its nor
NAL position. The exercises you
should take are those where all of
tie back muscles are used, with
special attention being given to
those exercises which will develop
the parts of your spine where the
muscles have degenerated by not
being used. A competent physical
culture instructor will be able to
, show you these corrective exercises
, which you can do in your own home
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER


Washington, Feb. 6.-The Meth,
odists and the Episcopalians could
form a bloc to control the Senate,
whereas at least four denominations
would have to combine to form a
majority in the House.
No one has suggested any such
thing-it is just one Of your cor
respondents fool ideas, after apply
ing some higher mathematics to a
tabulation of the religious affilia-
tions of Congress issued by the
Methodist Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals.
Methodists lead the list in both
House and S-nate. Presbyterians
run second in the House and Epis-
copalians in the Senate. Here's the
list:
HOUSE: "a Methodists, Ga Pres
byterians, 81 Episcopalians, 81 Bap-
lists, 35 Roman Catholics, 26 Con-
greg1tionclists. 20 Christian Dis
ciples, 16 Lutherans, 10 Jewish, 4
Unitarians, Dutch Reformed. 3
Quakers and one each for the Uni
ted Brethren. Mennonites, Christian
Scientists and Mormons.
SENATE: 80 Methodists, "a
7Tpiscooalians, Presbyterians, z
Congreg .tionalists, 6 Baptists, 5
Roman Catholics, 3 Unitarians. 2
Lutherans, 2 Mormons, Christian
Scientist and . Quaker.
Eleven congressman are listed as
p otestants with denomination UNI
known, "a conrressmen and four
senator's unaffiliated with any
church and Is congressman and one
senator whose utilization has not
b EN- ascertained.
There ought to be a law to allow
politicians to repudiate anything
thew " have said more than two
weeks back. Conditions change So
you know. Or, at least, a law to
prohibit anyone from ever bring
ing up a politicians statement
again once it's uttered and duly
recorded.
For instance, certain mean per.
sons insist on quoting Senator
David A. Reed of Pennsylvania jus'
at the same time when he's devot
ing himself ardently and passion
ately to the task Of saving tn
somewhat moth-eaten senatorial
kin Of William S. Ware.
81 couldn't vote for Mr.. Ware be
, cause that would be too much t.