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Shumaker Returns

T. &c significant that when the doors of the penal
form, onened TODAY to release Dr. E. S. Shumaker,
the div leader parade of friends and admirers Of
fetal delegations from churches, those who have fol-
lowed his leadership we're hand to welcome and
receive him.
His power and his leadership seem to have been
increased rather than lessened, by the prison term
given by the supreme court on charge OF contempt
He emerges. in the minds OF these same followers
not as a destroyer OF courts but as martyr to the
dry cause.
Those who are avoWedly wet and who welcome any
action that embarrasses the dry movement as VIC
tory viii take similar view. They rejoice that he
was sent to the farm not because OF any hope that
such a sentence would increase confidence in courts
or in Justice but because Shumaker had been con-
sistent foe OF the liquor traffic
II there was martyrdom. it was not to the dry
cause 1t was to another principle, quite as impor-
tant That is the right OF freedom to crtcse courts
even niusty after cases have been decided and YER
diets rendered.
That right is priceless to those who believe in our
Government and who have faith that problems
can be settled by tu fair and free discussion Any
restraint OF this right leads to tyrannes or revolu-
ton.
If the supreme court has discovered that the sem
tence OF DR. Shumaker mas permitted to decide cases
more fairly or speedily has increased public conf
dence in all courts, it should be satisfied
But it is quite certain that Dr.. Shumaker Will have
no personal regrets He has. apparently lost nothing
in standing or in friendships He may even find that
his two months OF exile have been the period OF his
greatest growth in influence
The one thing he lost was an opportunity He lost
that when he chose to carry on his hight as dry
leader instead OF oattling for freedom OF speech
Some one at some time must make that fight If this
country is to remain free
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Brotherhood of Atoms

GONE day there might arise a
- new st. Francis to preach a uni
versatility of brotherhood not only
between man and all living Gre
atures, but to establish the close
ness of our bond to all created sub
stance.
1t is not even now considered
wholly sentimental to say, Il love
this table and would not part with
it because it has been in the family
for centuries" Nor do I think it
merely nawkish to feel a qualm
about cutting down flowers or fell
ing trees which grow.
Certainly we are all companions
in carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.
And also a little nitrogen, as 1 re-
member Not to overlook phoSphor-
Gus.
Possibly we war against brother
hood because it is not sufficiently
exclusive. 1t might be a go1d idea
to get up a hat band and = secret
grip to be worn by all the sons of
oxygen.
The better way Of life would be
to keep body and soul together.
Then man might stand at Easter
morn upon some little hill, salute
the sun. wave greetings to each
passing cloud and hail new grass
with "'At a-workin', buddy"
Copyright. 1929, for The Timesl
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OUR FLAG
ADriI 4

ON April 4. 1918. congress en-
" acted the law which fixed for
all time the design of the flag Of
the United States.
The law rectifed an error which
short-sighted congress had en-
acted in 1875, after the admission
Of Vermont and Kentucky to the
union. This 1895 act provided that
a stripe should be added for each
Of these states, and for twenty
three years the national ensign had
fifteen stripes.
1t was a fifteen-stripe flag which
waved over TT. McHenry and in
spired Francis Scott Key to write
"The Star-Spangled Banner" And
only the action which congress took
Ill years ago today saved the gen.
eral characteristics of our flag as
it was in revolutionary days for
this day Of forty-eight states.
AS every one knows, the act Of
1913 reduced the number of stripes
to thirteen-one for each Of the
original states-and provided that
each state of the union should be
represented by g. star Each states
star is added to the flag on the
Fourth of July following the states
admission to the union.
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the northwest.


The two currents. as already mentioned descend at
latitude 80 north and south and create high pressure
belts. AS the air continues to descend at these ati
tudes it forced outward both side OF each belt
The result is that winds originate in each high pres
sure belt These winds have the tendency to blow
north and south from each belt
But due to the rotation of the earth these winds
are always detected. They start true north and
south winds but in the northern hemisphere they are
DETECTED to the right, while in the southern hem-
sphere they are detected to the left
This DETECTION is great that in middle ATTITUDES
a wind which starts out though blowing direct for
the North Pole is transformed into west wind.
An important result Of this detection caused by
rotation of the earth is that between ATTITUDES 80 and
60 degrees cyconic storms will drift to the east while
the region of the winds they will drift to the
west.
The accompanying diagram shows the general dis
tTibution of air pressure and winds the globe
Note that there are Gains at the poles and the
equator. These are due to low pressure areas.
These there are the two high pressure belts. The
winds blow out in either direction from these high
pressure belts.
Note also, already mentioned. that the drift OF
the winds to the north of the northern belt and TO the
south of the southern belt is drift to the east while
the drift between the belts toward the equator is
& drift TO the west
The winds between the high pressure belts and ssls
esI,tor are known as the trade winds.
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Campaign Frauds

Report OF the select committee OF the house to
investigate campaign expenditures just has been COM
pleted and no doubt is proving puzzlng to those
interested IN its findings.
The committee OF which Representative Lehlbach
OF New Jersey is chairman. went into Texas to in
vestigate the primary election OF last summer IN
which Representative Garner was made the Demo-
cratic nominee for congress after being opposed by
sid Hardin
The inquiry prompted by complaints that
Hardin had made to the committee Hardin charged
that Garner now the minority leader OF the house.
was a party to vote frauds in which unnaturalized
Mexicans were provided poll taxes by county ma
chine and cast ballots in the election Hardin later
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Elastic ConSCienCeS

TINE people Of Maryland should
L not imagine for one moment
that they have a mortgage on road
scandals. Neither should outsiders.
Road scandals have become about
as common as anything in this
country. The reason is obvious. We
are spending an unprecedented
amount for road construction. We
are doing so in response to a popu-
lar demand which will tolerate
everything, except delay.
The work has assumed gigantic
proportions within the last few
years. There has been little to Gre
ate and perfect the necessary organ
izations.
Pressure brought by groups of ma
terial men in favor of their par
ticular products has been great and
we'll creased.
Public interest has resolved itself
into one long, continuous yell for
more pavement.
Politicians could not oppose this
without risking the loss of their
jobs.
On the other hand, they could
make then, selves solid by satisfying
it, and if they grated little, who
would notice, or care.
What better situation could an
elastic consciene ask?
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HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS-NO. 70
d
DiSprOve Prenatal Influences Beliefs

belief that the expectant mother
should visit art galleries to look at
beautiful paintings so that her child
may be beautiful and that she
should avoid being frightened in
any way, so the child may not be
marked by birthmarks resembling
snakes, dogs, fires, or anything Of
a similar character.
There is an old story about an
orator who was gesturing unneces-
sarily. Some one asked Senator
Reed for an explanation of this
phenomenon and he replied that
the orators mother had been scared
by a windmill.
Many savage tribes believe that
impulses may be conveyed to the
child not only from the mother, but
even from the father, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the father has no
physical connection whatever with
the infant during the process of its
development.
The ignorant people of the. past
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accounted for the occurrence Of all
kinds of abnormalities by the idea
of prenatal impressions. Straw
berry-like birthmarks we're traced
to the strawberry and harelip to
the lip of the hare.
Dogfaced boys and similar pitt
fully uniformed children were al
legged to be the result of relation
ships between women and animal
spirits, demons, or gods.
These impressions are carried so
far in fact that in some parts Of
Germany women are told to avoid
the sight of all kinds of crawling
or winding objects so that the cord
Of the infant may not be twisted.
1t should be stated again posi-
lively that there is not the slight
est scientific evidence to support
the idea that anything the mother
or father may think will in any
way mark physically or mentally
the eXpectant child,
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Self Convicted

The members Of the highway commission
convicted Director John Williams Of inefi-
cheney. They also convicted themselves Of un-
fitness to handle the vast twenty million dollar
road fund
The studious care exercised by the commits
sion in avoiding any thorough inquiry into the
one serious charge it had made against
Williams suggests that the commission did not
dare to drag into the open the charge by the
hackers Of Williams that cement and other in
terests desired his removal.
That becomes serious in view Of the fact
that one member Of the commission has adj
mitted receiving gifts and is charged with
throwing business to a company in which he is
presumed to have at least sentimental inter-
est and another is charged with endeavoring
to switch contracts and orders to favor a
ment concern outside the state of Indiana, but
in which leading Indiana politicians are ru-
mored to have deep interest.
That the commission should have power to
remove the director at any time it desires
would seem to be d necessary right. Otherwise
the commission resolves itself into merely an
advisory body without responsibility or power.
1t does not seem reasonable to believe that
the legislature set up a commission for the sole
purpose of receiving reports from director
over whose removal or appointment it had
nothing to say. The law does not suggest that
the roads were to be built by director who
could hold his lob for life if he kept out OF jail.
Nor is it reasonable to believe that the law
ever intended that the commission should be
composed of men who misuse their powers for
political or private reasons
The public will undoubtedly agree that the
Governor is entitled to have this important
work in charge Of those in whom he has con-
fdence. 1t will unquestionably suspend judg-
ment on the removal of Williams until it has
chance TO see whether the work done by
John Brown, named to succeed him, Is better
or worse than that of Williams, The people
viii watch closely and expect results.
But there can be no doubt as to the public
Indictment on the commission, in view OF
charges. admissions and its conduct OF this
case
They have convicted themselves Ii Will
Tams no longer deserved the confidence OF the
Governor. the commissioners deserve less. Ii
thew have any ideas of the proprieties, they
will resign Immediately. That body is too I'M
nortant to be filed with either moochers or
office boys
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tried to withdraw his charges, but Garner insisted
that the inquiry go through
The committee report completely eXonerates Gar
ner OF any connection with vote frauds and in COM
mentng on his opponent, says: "In their contacts
with Mr. Hardin, the committee gained a firm i'm
preston of his utter responsibility"
Although Garner is exonerated and Hardin is
scorned Representative Lehlbach's committee finds
that wholesale vote frauds do exist in Hdalgo county
in Gamers district and recommended that the de-
partment of justice investigate.
1t finds that thousands of Mexicans have been
provided poll taxes by the county machine and have
voted, even though having citizenship.
1t finds that judge ruled out the ballots from
one district and that his explanation Of the reason
lis Of grotesque character"
1t finds that several candidates we're deprived of
than 1000 votes by the method OF coutning the
ballots.
that the Democratic organization we'll the Re
publican needs renovating in Texas-and elsewhere
in the south.
1t is up to leaders like Garner to that it is done
and he accomplish much by starting out in
Hidalgo county in his own district. Such procedure
would be additional proof that Garner has no con-
necon with the ballot frauds that Lehlbachs COM
mittee says exist.
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Body Also TriumphS

DARSONS are prone to speak Of
Il material things" in a deroga-
tory sense.
And when they looked, they saw
that the stone was rolled away, for
it was very great" The Bible story
recounts a triumph OF body as well
as soul. The stone itstlf a symbol.
This is matter. substance, form
and such things are, the Bible
says, very great and not to be lightly
disregarded. Faith, we know, will
move mountains and SO can the
back and shoulders of humankind
when the power is properly applied
by numbers.
Many resent any attempt TO ma
tionalize what are called miracles.
It seems to me that there are Won
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Getting Around Law

WITHOUT tracing this state
w roads scandal" through all
the devious phases of its develop.
ment, it seems enough to say that
a cash shortage of $376000 already
has been discovered, that some OF
the small fry have gone to Jail,
that Governor Ritchie, who didn't
appear at all impressed at the start,
has described it as a "lamentable"
and "deplorable" situation, that the
states attorney has called it IAN
outrage on the citizenry of Mary
land, and that the loot made pos
sible by evading the competitive
bidding law still waits to be re-
vealed."
The competitive bidding law
means that contracts shall be let
in the open and for the lowest price
submitted. 1t safeguards the pub
lie against sloddy work by provid-
ing for specifications, bonds and SUI
perviSion.
There are several ways of getting
dIOuIlQ ILLS ldW, DIS COuL ISCOI CS
throughout the country prove, but
the one adopted in Maryland sim
gularly was simple and effective.
A contractor would get mile or
so of road by openly bidding for it,
and then his contract would be eX-
tended to ten, fifteen or twenty
miles at the same price
Now any fool knows that con-
tractor would build ten miles of
road at a cheaper price per mile
than he would build one. and that
if he got a ten-mile extension of
his contract at the same price a
mile for which he agreed to build
one, there would be good split in
the pot for somebody.
Also. any fool knows that the ex-
tension of contract to five, ten
or twenty times its size is an eva
sion of the law designed to gov
ern it.
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Cost of Joy-Riding

NTE have gotten many miles of
w good roads out of the riot of
spending which has prevailed during
the last decade, more miles than
any nation ever built before. and
more, perhaps, than the whole world
ever built. but we have gotten
something else which is not so re-
assuring.
We have gotten an enthusiasm
which is ready to vote money in
great gobs. but which woefully is in
different to where it goes which is
content to joy-ride without count
ing the cost, and which is amazing
~ apathetic toward the question of
honesty in government so long as it
can step on the gas.
Worse still, we have gotten indif-
ference toward the loss of life in
volved, accepting the annual toll of
$4,000 dead and 100000 crippled, as
though it were quite all right.
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BALTIMORE. Nd, April Aft
~ crime is news, especially that
character Of crime which goes on
unperceived, and if it is good
Journalism to expose graft until the
public understands and politicians
are forced to undertake p cleanup,
even against their will, the Balti-
more Post has done a fine job.
Otherwise, how would the people
Of Maryland ever have known they
had a state roads scandal" or, to
be more particular, how would Gov
ernor Ritchie ever have known?
1t all goes back to an assistant
auditor, who knew more about &C.
counting than he was supposed to,
but less about practical politics, and
who unearthed a discrepancy OF
$4,000 in the highway commissions
books, when the rules of the game
called for a perfect balance.
1t is under such circumstances
that newspapers can help.
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XXTHEN spring comes round the
w preachers talk of the glory
of the spirit. 1t is we'll that there
should be celebration of the fact
that man is quite a fellow. He has
within himself a core of great
capacity for love and courage, joy
and kindness.
Nor do I see why there should be
any objection to helping this kernel
of personality called a soul. 1t is
intangible and its powers are limit
less.
But the greatness OF the soul does
not degrade the body. Too many
speak as if matter and spirit were
essentially warning factors. This
conception must have arisen at a
time when no one knew the myS-
teries of atoms and electrons. There
was a day when decay was confused
with death
Religionists owe a debt to science
Because in a slow way the research
men come finally to stand shoulder
to shoulder with the prophets. Many
miracle provides a symbol which
will later be confirmed by arduous
laborS in laboratories.
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TE~ CTTNHC M MI By HAYWOOD
L J. OLL1VlO / ~ WILL BROUN

sonal immortality. When the great
trumpets blow I suppose 1 would like
to turn and blink and wake at last
to find that Haywood Broun was
still there.
We might come at length to some
warmer and more friendly feeling
about matter itself. Much too free
ly do we use the phrases, animate"
and "inanimate things" Whoever
gave man the power to draw that
line?
Surely there comes a place in the
scale Of life where it is difficult to
say whether an organism is plant or
animal.
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Death and Its Sting


II ASTER, of course, is associated
l. with resurrection. To be free
man must conquer the fear of death.
who shall roll us away the stone
from the door Of the sepulchre?"
To many a fact is truth and
symbol merely vague straw in
capable of sustaining hope. But to
me symbols may have even more
verify than any actual happening.
A symbol is large and deeper than
any incident.
And so I refuse to be labeled
either atheist or agnostic if I
choose to be chiefly interested in the
symbolism of Easter. My belief in
immortality may be less clear cut
than that of those who vision a
literal shining city of jewels and
jaspc--.
Still it need not be uncertain, even
though nebulous. I've never seen a
stitch beyond the milk wa. and yet
accept without reservation the
existence of the universes which lie
behind it.
But I would urge upon church.
men the fact that the physical
elements of the Easter symbol are
too lightly discarded.
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Questions and
AnSzG,e9S

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service.
Why does sound carry farther on
water than on land?
Water is a more homogeneous me-
dunn and better conductor Of
sound than air.
Is Ben Turpin really cross-eyed,
or does he just make his eyes go
that way while acting before the
camera?
His eyes are really crossed, and
have been for many years.
What does the symbol H-20 stand
for?
Water, which contains two parts
Of hydrogen to one of oxygen.
What nationality were the par
ents of Nita Naldi?
Nita Naldi was born in New York
OF Italian and Irish parentage.
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ders enough in the physical world
without going beyond the furthest
flung star in search of things nys-
FERROUS.
Why is it necessary to quarrel over
floods, and whales and loaves, and
little fishes when the planets and
their INTERPRETATION are so prolific in
that ingenuity which we call magic?
The hand of God still remains
quicker than the human eye in spite
Of all the avdancements of astron-
OlnV
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The Great Machine
~THIS." they sheer. "is a mocha

WIS, They Sneer, rs mecha-
IL nistic conception of the uni
verse" as if the men who regard
the atom in some amazement were
bowling down to clumsy gods of wood
and stone. Indeed where is the
man to draw chalk lines across the
face of the heaven and say, Here
matter ends and spirit now begins. :"
If matter and spirit are not twin
brothers they are certainly no less
than first cousins. The soul is eter-
nal. All right-matter is indestruc-
tible. Kinship does not end here.
Of course, I am perfectly willing
to admit that most of us desire per-
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MuICting the Public

ON the job, you scribes. There is
~ more to report than speak
easy raids, even ifathey do involve
a shooting scrape. and more graft
than comes out of bootlegging.
This road building game has be-
come a racket in more than one
place. as the folks Of Georgia, or
Alabama, are ready to swear.
There are big funds lurking in the
background, and while they may be
reported as for advertising, or ex-
pert advice, they have way Of 60
ing for other purposes.
Mulcting the public through con-
tract extensions and subcontracts, is
not the only method. The price Of
cement, control of patents, local
paving rings. holding companies and
hired propagandists play quite as
big a part in the road building game
as they do in the power business.
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IlOI III, Viz ON4iNA
at latitude 80 de-
grees south.
1t will also be
remembered that
due to the rota-
ticn Of the earth.
there is an east
W a r d shift OF
these two currents
of air so that in
the mort h e T L
hemisphere t h c
current seems tC
b e from t n {
southwest, while
in the southern
h e mis- p h er e il
seems to be from