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Nav BE Anv One.

From the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat.
When Chicagoan hears loud noise
nowadays he doesn't know whether it's
a tire bursting, a new gang war or New
Year resolution blowing UP. -
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Financial experts will deal with
reparations plans. An II. o. u" Is a
simple matter until it gains an inter-
national status.
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Preparedness.

From the Buffalo Evening News.
Nations renounce poison gas and then
keep on experimenting in order to be
ready in case temptation should over
come them.
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Cause of Freckles.

From the Dallas Journal.
The scientists are now ascribing
physical troubles Of man to sun spots
Freckles are undoubtedly due to that
cause.
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Deficit to Be Omitted.

From the Louisville Courier-Journai.
In an effort to have o novel EXPOSE
ton Chicago has decided that it will
omit the customary deficit.
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It's a Real Trip Sometimes.

From Columbus. Ohio State Journal
About q year more and the man OF
sedentary pursuits will be taking taxi
from the parking place to the ofiice.
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From the Muskegon Chronicle.
It doesn't seem that Mr.. Hoover is
doing right by his native California by
going to Florida for vacation.
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When DR.. Einstein, completed his cal
culations he announced that very few
persons could understand them. This
was, at the outset, a warning that they
could have but little influence in prac-
teal life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04

Regardless of climate, the ground
hog is accepted as prophet OF some
rough going in Congress.
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There are laws against weapon-carry-
ing. They do not appear to apply very
rigidly to professional gunner.
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Well. Babes Reducing Again.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
There Is a mix-up somewhere along
the line. The itinerary for the Spring
training trip Is announced before the
first holdout appears.
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Showing OFF.

From the Savannah Press.
The Los Angeles few over the
pecan belt OF Georgia just to show them
how large they grew them In Washing
| ton.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.

Too Much to Expect.
oh. let us all be Good and Kindl
Let US be fond and true!
Be thankful, in the endless grind,
That there Is work to do!
oh, let us all as models be
That Sweet Perfection paints,
From mortal faults entirely free
Oh, let us all be Saints!
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Marital Cruelties.
The whipping post in several States
The beaten of wife awaits.
What punishment shall men contrive
When wives as husband shooters thrive?
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Thermometer Should Have
Dropped.
From the Saginaw Sunday News.
Speaking of puzzling thefts,. there's
the chap who stole 26-pound block OF
ice at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while the
thermometer stood at below zero.
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"De man wifi de loud voice." said
Uncle Fben, "ain' no nearer sure OF
winnin' in politics dan he is In a crap
game"
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Qualified Admiration.
"Do you admire the ukulele7"
"sometines." answered Miss Cayenne
"But rather seldom the young gentle
man who plays it,"
1--WE bow In reverence to our ances-
tors" said Hi Ho, the sage Of China
town, "even though they knew nothing
of airships and radio. Our self-pride
accords them respect because they were
Our ancestors"
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Popular Appeal.
"Do you believe in the Einstein
theory?"
Absolutely" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. Hell sell a lot Of copies OF his
formula. In science, the same as in
politics. the fact that people do not
understand something makes 1t the
more interesting"
Jud Tunkins says q man VINO wants
ito be boss" is often disappointed to
ind that he has picked out one OF the
hardest jobs on earth.
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Ponce de Leon in Politics.
A Fountain of Youth flows from Florida
sand,
While years we are journeying through
Political questions, so ancient ana
grand,
Survive as eternally new.
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THEODORE W. MOVES. Editor

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Cuba Is the latest foreign country to
draft an American expert to help 1t out
of its troubles. DR.. Van II. Manning
former director Of the Bureau of Mines
and later director of the American Pc
troletim Institute, has been appointed
consulting petroleum engineer to the
government at Havana. He has been in
Cuba since early in January. His as
signment covers a survey Of all fuels.
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in France and the experimenters killed by light
ming bolts
1t is even dangerous to fly kite when thunder
collect.
Franklin performed his experiment to test theory
which he had that all clouds were in an electrified
condition.
incidentally, FranklinS experiment was described
by himself in a letter to Peter Collinson of London
Oct. II, 1852.
The date on which he flew the kite is not known
but it is thought that he few it from vacant lot
Chestnut street.
The first American 10 make air soundingS was Dr.
Joh,i JetfrieS, who Nov 80 1884 went to height
e,218 feet in balloon, carrying along barometer
a Thermometer and six bottles in which he collected
samples OF air.
a third American who did much in the study of
the atmosphere Professor Lawrence Roctch and
a fourth was Langley Tor many years the secretary
OF the Smithsonian Institution
Kites and balloons have been used with great sue
cess IN making weather observations.
In 1898 total of 1000 observations made with
Kites byobservers of the Uneo States weather bureau
For over five years, kites sent aloft daily from Mt
Weather. Va. by oureau observers reached heights
ranging from two to tom a halt miles
Small hydrogen balloons also used to carry
Instruments alott When these balloons reach great
heights the expansion OF the hydrogen due To the
fall OF atmospheric pressure causes the balloons 10
explode. parachute which opens when the balloon
explodes. brings the Instruments safely to earth
Some of these balloons have reached heights OF
nineteen miles.
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Mexican Travail

The Mexican rebellion is engthening out. Early
hopes of cleaning the rebels out of the country
quickly were too optimistic. Weeks, maybe months.
will be required to restore order.
This situation might be explained by the super
fetal assumption that the rebels represent wide
spread discomfort among the Mexican people. Such
is not the case.
Testimony of diplomats, American newspaper and
business men, and of special Investigators practically
is unanimous that this simply is revolt of army
chiefs for selfish and ant-social purposes These dis
credited generals lack the support of important
labor. agraran political group in the civilian popu
lation.
The ability of the miIitarists to prolong the civil
war. is due to the unusual geography of northern
Mexico and to the rule-or-ruin rebel strategy. BY
capturing banks and appropriating funds, by
treating from the pursuing federal troops without
major engagement, ana by destruction OF rail-
ways and bridges their retreat they delay defeat
Even after the onconning federal army drives them
backward to the border wall they separate into
smaller guerilla bands ana intest the mountains as
long they have funds to pay their mercenarieS.
The tragedy OF the situation is not that the Gil
Gales government representative OF the farmer and
labor interests is endangered for the psychological
hold OF the government the country is considerably
stronger now than when the revolt began.
Rather the tragedy is the useless destruction OF
national wealth and organization in country al
ready terribly impoverished by eighteen years of
curing revolutions ana counter-revolutionS.
In the long run the prosperity and independence
OF the Mexican people ana their ability TO evolve
stable economic and political institutions depend upon
basic social reconstruction That means schools roads,
irrigation projects. industrial development-an
quirng money But the money so necessary Tor
construction is being drained off and lost in
civil
Fortunately the United States government, in sharp
contrast its conduct during certain other counter
revolutions below the Rio Grande thrown It's
moral support to the Mexican government The ted-
ersS permitted to purchase and supplies
here. while embargo is maintained against the
rebels. This policy is wise both from the standpoint
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enterprise must face the fact the
play may run a year or just two
weeks. He must gamble on the pub
lie taste, as does the author and the
producer.
There is not much gambling in
medicine, but it would not be harm
full if there we're. 1t might be an
excellent idea to have the doctor
say, "One hundred dollars for a
cure, and nothing if I fail to help
you"
But granting that gambling can
not be suppressed, and therefore
should not, it may still be pointed
out that Wall Street is a good deal
less than an ideal casino.
The worst feature of gambling is
losing, and the percentage against
the player in the stock market is
enormous. I know that millions
have made profits within the last
year, but if they stick around, the
house will get it's own back again.
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Why Not a Lottery?

r HAVE never been able to under
stand the opposition to govern
ment lotteries Uncle Sam has run
a speakeasy, and so why not gam
bling den? A United States lottery
would raise as much money as the
income tax and with far less fric-
ton.
Nobody would grudge the dollars
which were spent in the hope of
winning capital prize. Each week
or month few individuals could
be made fabulously wealthy.
Life would be more excitir5 than
1t is now. A government lottery
could regularly make good the boast
that in America even the poorest
lad can become millionaire.
In fact, special provision could be
made to rig the machinery slightly
in favor of the underdog I think
nobody would seriously object to a
stipulation that if John D Rookie
feller or J P Morgan caught the
lucky number, the slips should go
back into the hat and the drawing
be made all over again.
Copyright, 1929. for The Times
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| ANNIVERSARY
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THE FIRST RAILROAD
April l

TODAY is the anniversary OF the
L. humble beginning Of railroads
in the United States. Just 1O3
years ago, the Granite railroad
started to operate.
It was built by the state of Massa~
chusetts and those citizens in par
ticular who were interested in erect
ing the Bunker Hill monument.
Its purpose was to haul stone for
the monument down from the quar-
ries at Quincy, Mass, to wharf on
the Neponset river, from where 1t
was shipped to it's destination.
This pioneer tramway was only
three miles long, and cost only
$4,000, but it marked the beginning
Of our modern network of systems.
with their 250,000 miles of track.
This road was followed, later in
the same year and early in the
next, with two others in Penrlsyl-
vania, built by coal mining COM
panies to haul coal over the noun
tainS.
These roads, since they depend
ed on stationary engines and grav-
ity instead of locomotives. we're
not the type of railroads that we
know, but they were the forerun-
ners of them. and their success
hastened the coming of locomtiye-
drawn trains.
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1T SEEMS TO ME By AbR%o0O bfoUN

TF ANY succession of incidents
4 ever should make it necessary for
us to go to war over prohibition.
hope some arrangement can be
made whereby only members OF the
ANTI Saloon League will be used
as shock troops.
However, am not wholly against
moral legislation. While it is ex-
tremely difficult to make people good
by law, there is the possibility OF
regulation.
The urge to gamble is so uni
versal and its practice so pleasur-
able that assume it must be evil
According to our custom, the laws
relating to it are slightly tinged
with hypocrisy. Save in few states
one may not bet on horses, but you
may wager your head off on loco
motives or automobiles through buy
ing Baldwin or General Motors.
It would be quibbling, indeed, to
argue that speculation is not gam
bling. In fact. the line SO often
drawn between speculation and in
yestment seems to me little
shadowy. An investment, take it,
is a commitment in a stock which
goes up.
Several poker players OF my ac-
quaintance are not gamblers at all,
but singularly successful investors.
Of course, money obtained in that
way never does you any good, and
the dividends they take out Of the
game they promptly lose in Wall
Street.
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---HEALTH sUPERSTITIONS-No 9~
Mothers Teeth Can Be SaUed

be brushed regularly and the
mouth kept clean by regular Wis
it's to the dentist for removal OF
tartar deposits and for the polish
ing Of the teeth.
These facts are important not
only for the protection given to the
mothers teeth, but also that the
child may develop properly and
that the mother may be free from
mouth infection and the possibility
of other infections in the body dur
ing the period before the birth of
the child.
The diet for sound teeth must
contain food sufficiently hard to ex-
ercise the jaw and muscles and have
sufficient amounts of the important
vitamins to aid general metabolis1n.
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dentist during at least the first six
months, and perfect cleanliness.
Use of the toothbrush alone will
not make good teeth either for a
mother or for a child. The teeth
are portion of the body and there
fore are controlled by the food that
is taken in, the quality of the blood,
infection and many other factors.
Although the teeth are made
largely of calcium, calcium alone
will not serve the purpose, since
this calcium must be used by the
body in proper ways in order to be
Of service to the teeth.
The diet of the expectant mother
should consist of vegetables, fruits,
milk and plenty of bread, butter and
cream.
The teeth of the mother should
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Times Readers
Voice Vices

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every constitution but
on request Will not be published. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words will receive
preference
Editor Times-I have just read
with interest almost a page of the
plight of Daisy Sullivan of Bloom
field. I want to take this oppor-
tunity to thank you for using such
valuable space, space that advertis-
ers would not be able to buy for any
money, for the cause Of right and
justice. When more publications
have the grit to make such a stand,
that much sooner will the poor have
an equal chance with the rich.
T. @. BUTLER.
Linden Hotel.
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The Bonds Which Tie

A CCORDING to logic which
N eludes me, special morality IS
supposed to reside in bonds. Yet
bonds have been known to rise, and
even to fall away to nothing.
To be sure, the fluctuation in GER
tain prior obligations may be slight,
but the man who deals in such is
sues is merelv playing for smaller
stakes. He still is gambling, No
one has even been known to turn
back profits and excess of interest,
on the ground that he made his
purchase simply for the sake of the
yield.
And if a man buys a sufficient
number of gilt-edged bonds, his
gains and losses in day may be
even higher than those Of the lit
tie fellow who is wildcatting among
the more obscure oils.
Nor has the government a right
to adopt a high and holy attitude
toward the gambler. Within my
own day Washington itself urged
the citizenry n take a chance. Lib
erty loan orators begged everyone to
buy a bond, not only on the ground
that it was a patriotic duty, but
also for, the reason that these issues
were likely to appreciate in value.
And some of them did.
In looking over the range since
the date OF issue, find that Fourth
Liberties have had swing Of more
than eighteen points, mostly down.
When these bonds touched 81, some
of the holders must have had a
slight feeling that they were gamh-
ling.
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The Real Guilt

That Daisy Sullivan, the 18-year-old Bloom
field girl, manufactured bogus check is well
established. Within eighteen hours from the
time she obtained pitiful sum and illegally
secured two oranges she was sentenced to a
term in penitentiary to remain there from two
to fourteen years.
The state Of Indiana ought now to be inter-
ested in the guilt of those who are responsible
for the transformation Of a motherless girl into
convict within few days after she reached
the age Of criminal responsibility.
The editor of this paper has received a letter
from the probation officer of Greene county
which is so Illuminating and remarkable that
it should demand an inquiry from some source
into conditions of Greene county. 1t is just
possible that similar conditions exist in other
counties. If they do exist, the state should take
some action before it is put to the expense and
humiliation Of branding 18-year-old girls as
felons.
A part of the letter is unprintable. 1t pur-
ports to give evidence Of offenses of nature
in which the girl could not have alone been
guilty.
Just what steps have been taken 70 either
punish the guilty or correct the habits Of the
young men Of that community is not disclosed.
EPersonal history reveals that the girl
came from broken hone, the mother having
died seven years before this time, u says the
probation officer Of the court which gave the
two-to-fourteen-year sentence" No special
supervision Of her own sex since that time.
Educational advantages have been
meager, lack of suitable clothing making the
school days anything but joy. The girl reared
in unsocial surroundings, the standard of llv-
ing, physical educational, moral and religious.
being low Therefore this girl has not reached
the correctional institution on the first otfens9.
And in further evidence, the letter contains
this comment: ''The girl actually sang as she
went to prison"
just what Bloomfield expected of girl
who never had one Of her own sex, as this
official states, to take kindly interest in her
motherless girlhood is not revealed.
If there has ever been an Indictment OF q
community or social system, it IS contained IN
this apology for Bloomfield justice.
The picture IS complete 1t paints the girl
as friendless, her school days made bitter by
lack of clothes, alone to battle the world with
no woman taking an interest in her, with her
religious training Glow"
Who forged the check? Who got the
oranges which were munched in the court
house while the law was coming to seize and
brand2 Was it the girl? Or was it not society
itself which had moulded bit of human clay
into the one logical and inevitable pattern?
Think of what must have happened before
an 18-year-old girl could sing her way to
cell.
Can Indiana sing while that girl remains
In her cell?
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Street, and do away with specula-
ton. | would like to see more and
better gambling rather than less.
The reformers who attack the stock
market do not come into the forum
with clean hands.
There is no group of people in
tho whole wide land living without
participation in some form Of
gambling or other. Of late the cry
has gone up that the high money
rate is crippling legitimate business.
If merchants and manufacturers
are in need of credit, it must be
that they, too, are engaged in some
form of speculative activity.
And, of course, they are. All busi-
ness has its gambling phases. The
merchant endeavors to Huy low and
sell high, which is precisely the en-
deavor of the Wall Street operator.
Nor can I appreciate the distinc-
ton which SO many make between
slips of paper and traffic in the ac-
tual commodities. If I went to the
corner store with cash and carried
away few pounds Of coppe~ in the
hope of disposing of it at higher
figure, l can't see why n enter
prise should have morality about it
denied to the man who buys shares
in Anaconda.
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Myron T. Herrick

When Americans think OF France they think of
Myron T. HerrIck.
When the French think of America they think of
Myron T. Herrick.
Since he went to Paris as ambassador in 1912, he
has been the interpreter of friendship between the two
peoples. He continued that service during the war in
unofficial capacity. He returned to the embassy in
1921 and has carried on ever since.
Now he is dead at his post.
He was a lawyer, banker, a governor, diplomat
But he will be remembered simply of great
heart.
He achieved not much by unusual intellect as by
his sympathies and his charm. He liked people and
they liked him.
a younger generation of Americans learned of this
veteran and admired him for the felicity with which
he fathered Lindbergh. when that modest youth flew
into world acclaim.
But the older generation had grown to expect just
that sort of thing from the ambassador He had
way of doing the right thing in the right manner at
the right time.
He much more than high envoy from one i'm
porat government to another He tried to be the rep
resentative of the American people to the French peo
pie And he found happiness In such success.
Herrick earned the tribute he gave to Lindbergh so
gracously-
Ambassador of good will"
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An Example for Youth

a !
w generation for going to the
dogs?
Wha5 must its thoughts be as it
reads the Constitution of the United
States and beholds the prevalence
of hooch not in dives. but at sup
posedly respectable social functions?
ITO drink. or not to drink" no
LONGER is the all-important question
The all-important question is one
OF common honesty. Of living up to
a revolutionary ideal, or Of modify
ing that ideal so that average folks
can live up to it.
Youth naturally is honest, natur-
allyy straightforward in its conylc-
tions. naturally anxious to have Its
words and acts square with each
other.
What is youth to think when it
sees us older folks preaching one
thing and practicing another? Why
shouldn't it cast its ideals to the
four winds. declare moral standards
tonmvrot and sail in for every con-
ceivable innovation?
Hasn't it been set an obvious ex-
ample?
Hasn't it been shown such sham
as never before disgraced civilized
country?
How can it believe in anything,
have faith in anything, or feel like
standing by anything?
Those who blame the young peo-
pie for what is happening miss the
mark. Young people never were,
and never will be responsible for the
collapse OF great principles.
Young people always have, and
always will take their cues from
the preceding generation, but in do
ing so, they pay far more attention
to example than precept. and are
Influenced more definitely by what
the preceding generation actually
does than by its lip music.