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VIRGINIA SECEDES
April II

nN April IT, 1861, Virginia, with
W the exception Of the counties
which later became the state Of
West Virginia, passed an ordinance
Of secession.
The action followed President
Lincoln's proclamation Of two days
before, calling for the assembling
of 5000 troops from states loyal to
the Union
The proclamation had made It
impossible for Virginia to delay any
longer the taking of definite stand,
although just two weeks before the
convention had refused to secede
by a vote of SO to As.
The ordinance acted upon sixty
eight years ago, however. passed by
q vote of 98 to S. and was ratified
by the people by large majority.
The refusal Of the western coup-
ties to join the others as allies OF
the Contederacy was not the first
discussion between the two sections.
From pre-revolutionary days. fric-
ton existed between them.
On the same day that Virginia
seeded, Jefferson Davis issued one
of his first proclamations as presi-
dent of the Confederacy. 1t called
tor owners Of ships to volunteer
Them to the service Of the southern
states.
President Lincoln responded with
a proclamation announcing a block
ade of Confederate ports.
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Some ConStraint

CURELY no one can thrill to the
~ sight of any well-knoWn wales
if he has never seen them from
some little hill after he has been a
long time out of bounds, ! rather
fear there was always some con-
straint between the prodigal and his
older brother after the home COM
ing.
Going into the fields during that
first week the younger would pause
now and then to look in wonder at
some brook, clunp Of trees. or
even the less-fatted calves grazing
IN a meadow.
And the older one would say
anerily, Come on. What are you
staring at?"
You see he had never been lost
and could not know the tingle Of
recovery.
And if anybody says that this
sermon is somewhat ineptly pasted
onto Walter O'Keefe's little farce /
only can answer that a joke is
always a way of saying, Here is
something about which I have a
feeling"
Copyright. 1929. for The Times
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

mental stupidity is not in itself a
great menace, particularly if the
number of stupid people in the
community is balanced by the num-
Der of intelligent ones.
In many instances irregularities
of human behavior result from dis
eases or from such simple disturb
ances as poor nutrition or bad di-
gestion, or from such complicated
conditions as disorders Of the glands,
which pour their secretions into the
blood.
Some of these secretions create
intense appetites or produce unusual
stimulation which may affect the
stability of the whole body.
1t is also well recognized that the
environment in which a person lives
may greatly influence his mode of
conduct,
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Starts Extravaganza

A S it happened, dad was cele-
IN brating his second anniversary
he hasn't worked in two years-So
this seemed a solution Of the head
waiter problem. And now, ukulele
in hand, l was ready to start my
extravaganza.
Make your family your audience
and playmates,' was what Miss Gui-
nan said. I construed the term
family to mean my immediate rela-
tives. A clarion call had them all in
the Chateau O'Keefe for q grand
session of synthetic abandon. But
somehow the experiment missed
fire.
Il wonder if you have ever tried
being funny in front of an audi
ence of relatives. They look at you
with all the merrinent Of iced fish
in chop house window.
Il pulled all my best gags, quips,
bon motS. jests and wisecracks, only
to be greeted with a thunderous
silence.
Having no toy hammers handy,
l used our heaviest Hammacher and
Schlemmer to top my Uncle Tim on
the Uranium But I found him
wholly lacking in that joi de vivre
associated with our happier supper
clubs.
Il tried to figure out what was
lacking and suddenly realized that
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Red Lights in Path

If any more red lights were needed TO warn
The people that the politicians are hoping to
blockade the progress Of this city and take con-
troll of the city government, it lies in the fact
that the machines of both parties are preparing
TO hold what they hope viii pass for primary
election to name candidates for the city
Offices.
The party machines have discovered that
perhaps it may not be as easy as they hoped
tc control the government under the city man
agar plan and that their power of giving jobs,
puuder and privileges VIII 90 when it is no
longer possible to fool the well-intentioned with
party labels,
The control of a city offers too fat pickings
to be easily surrendered. The professional
politicians, and that means those who trade
ON their politician activities, do not want eff
cheney in government nor any decency. They
want TO be able TO swing contracts to high
bidders. TO tell inspectors TO be blind to defects
and scales to order policemen to forget speak
casies. gambling joints and visiting GUNNER
who have reciprocal relations with lawyers high
in the machine.
That is the reason that very many people de-
clare they have no time to fool around with
politics They have discovered that the poor
eypedieut Of voting out one set Of crooks gets
nowhere. They have usually found another
set in power when the "house cleaning" was
over.
This city manager movement offers some
thing different. 1t plans to strip the party
labels off the tickets and force candidates to
run as men, on their characters, rather than on
party appeals. That does not please the BOSSES
who are short in character, and it is significant
that they have the same ideas about procedure.
1t is asserted in some places boldly and in
others in whispers, that the supreme court will
declare the law under which the manager plan
was adopted unconstitutional.
The Judges Of course, never hear either
the whispers or the shouts. in that aloof and
isolated grandeur where only principles Of law
are matters Of discussion, it is most proper that
they do not know.
For that and the further reason that it is
rather important to this city and to respect for
law that speedy decision be rendered, it
should he possible TO send some good lawyers
to the court who would suggest, as It's friends,
that if it is at all possible the court unrayel
whatever tangled skeins of legal lore may
entangle the situation and hand down deci-
sion very soon.
No one. of course, would suggest that the
Judges hurry That might not be decorous.
But among all the lawyers in this city there
should be some Of high standing, having no
other purpose than stable government, who
would ask the court to tell the people very soon
where they stand in this matter.
Uncertainty Is never happy condition. 1t
is most unhappy when it relates to the peo-
pie S government.
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Russia Solves !

II USSIA threatens to wipe Reno,
IN Mexico, Paris and other divorce
meccas off the map. You not only
can get one for Is cents in that
country, but on a twenty-minute
visit
Hitherto. the law was supposed to
be- for Russians alone. but a
Chilean lawyer from Peru or a
Peruvian lawyer from Chile as the
case may be. after spending $4,000
at home without success, took a trip
to Moscow and proved that for
eigners could avail themselves Of
the Soviet principle
What is even better, Judge God
dard says that civil contracts sane
toned by the Soviet government,
which include marriage, are bind
ing in other countries.
Russia will overlook great OPP
portunity if she does not put up the
price, since the dispatch with which
divorces can be obtained should
prove sufficient attraction to
create plenty Of business.
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lmDOrtant Truth

ATOR do I mean to be either hu-
~ morous or perverse in saying
that here is the kernel OF an impor-
tant truth No man is ever found
until he has been lost awhile. There
should be something of the prodigal
in all of us.
The boy in the story, Took his
journey into far country. Against
him. the father had no anger. even
though the lad had wasted his sub
stance with riotouS living. In his
own day the older man had been to
strange and distant places. No one
knows righteousness until he has
seen sin.
To me the man who says so
proudly, I've never had a drink in
my life," betrays great lack of
confidence in himself. And surely
an enormous deficiency in reason
able human curiosity. Even the
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l. O111NIO l. ~ 1Y11 BROUN

temperance people recognize this
fact. In any old style meeting the
words Of teetotalers were regarded
as rather tame.
The place of honor always was
reserved fo1 the horrible example.
And if I am accused OF advancing
most immoral suggestion ! will
take refuge in the works OF the am
ply religious Mr.. Chesterton, who
was constantly leaving his home
and going Round the world, or
thereabout, so that he might know
the Joy Of coming home again"
Possibly ] am actually too senti-
mental in the contention that we
should all strive never to let a place
Of permanence become hunndrum.
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Not Measure of Crook

THE Chicago Medical society
Il points out that Quacks and
charlatan5 advertise, leaving the
inference that decent doctors could
not do so without being placed IN
their class. But the same reason,
musicians could argue that the cor
net and saxophone are unfit TO
play because they are used for Jazz.
Advertising does not determine
whether a person is a crook. There
are crooks who never INDUCED in it
and honest people who have used
it to great extent. What is more,
neither advertising nor the lack Of
it ever proved that a pill was good.
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Germans Make Good

THE new 10,000-ton German ship
l. Ersatz PreuSSen, Is as well
armed and armored as dread
naught and as speedy as a light
cruiser. which proves what people
can do when they have to.
The allies imagined they had
stopped Germany from building an
effective navy when they limited her
to 10,o00-ton ships. That was be-
cause they had become muscle
bound with their own traditions.
The idea that a ship could not
carry heavy guns unless she had a
displacement of twenty-five or tllir-
ty Thousand tons or that she could
not go very fast if heavily armored
had become a veritable obsession
The chances are that Germany
would have gone on believing the
same thing had not the treaty Of
Versailles compelled her to do some
thing original.
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Houghton, former ambassador to
Great Britain.
"TF We we're searching throughout
u the world for a neighhor, there
is no country We would choose for a
neighbor in preference to Canada
Senator William E. Borah, Idaho
THE greatest mission in a wom-
IL ans life is to make a home
happy. Destroy home life and you
destroy a nation. The Maharani
OF Baroda.
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Blame the LAWYERS

IF Mr.. Sinclair wishes an eXtenu-
L ating circumstance on which to
base his plea for mercy, without
referring to the issue of his guilt or
innocence, why doesn't he say that
he acted on advice of counsel?
The chances are that he did and
that lawyers really are to blame for
the trouble he is in.
If lawyers were compelled to sui
fer some of the consequences OF
their bad advice, they might be more
careful about giving it.
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Quotations of NotabLes

TT is hard for any one who has
- not been blind to realize what
thrill it is not to have to see every
thing. 1t is marvellous not to look
at a lot Of things and lot of people
that you wouldn't want to see. -
Booth Harrington.
Eff any one is anxious about
l. Anglo-American relations be-
cause there are unsolved problems
between the two peoples ! have
no words to comfort him. There
never will be a time when such
problems don't exist. "-Alansen B.
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SnanCh Is a EIiNNer

TINE much-touted budget speech
L with which winston Churchill
was supposed to stampede England
turns out a flivYer.
Except on tea and race track
gambling. the hoped for tax reduc-
tons did not materialize.
AS to free tea, Mr.. Churchill mere
" confirms the justice and wisdom
of the American Revolution.
It was a clever address, according
TO all reports, and afforded parlia-
ment good entertainment for two
hours, but as a vote getter it did not
amount to much.
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They can be sum-
married as fol-
lows:
ONE: A high
pressure area over
the southeast and
a cold wave in
t h c northwest,
usually indicate a
S t orm develop
lnent in the south
vest ard general
precipitation.
TWO: Storms,
which develop in
the southwest and
m o Y c normally
are folio " e d
quickly by clear
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little farm benefit, will be to stimulate foreign tariff
reprisals against us, already threatened by Canada
France, Argentina, Egypt, Spain and a dozen other
countries.
On the general subject Of tariff, Hoover opposes
wholesale increases and favors only limited readjus-
ments. His warning is timely
In determining changes in tariff, We must not
fail to take into account the broad interests of the
country as a whole and such interests include our
trade relations with other countries"
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TVARRY F. SINCLAIR asks for I

HARRY F. SINCLAIR asks for a
L i suspended sentence, not out of
consideration for himself, as we are
told, but to spare stockholders in
his companies, especially small
stockholders, who might lose if
those companies were deprived of
his superior intelligence for ninety
days.
Mr.. Sinclair should have thought
Of that contingency before defying
the senate; or, if he failed to do
so, his learned counsel should have
called it to his attention.
Whatever stockholders in his
companies may risk losing through
being deprived of his services for
three months. they probably have
lost more because of the Teapot
Dome incident.
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there were no Sophisticates, pale,
emaciated. bored, heaYy-lidded, sit
ting at the rear and corner tables.
An SOS to the more popular filling
stations failed to find a single col
umnist. So I lifted the covers and
went to bed a sadder but wiser
man -
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsRBETN
Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the

Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TWO kinds of persons suffer from
Il inferiority-those who do not
conduct themselves to the limits of
their best ability. and those who,
from their very birth because of the
inadequacy Of their makeup, can not
conduct themselves adequately.
The latter class never gets beyond
certain highest point; the former
group may, of course, be stimulated
and educated up to the point of
normal activity.
The purpose of intelligence tests
Is to find out what the mental rat
ing of the person may be, to deter
mine whether he is meeting the
situation capably.
DR.. Herman M. Adler says that
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.--The Editor.
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

If Lawyers We're Compelled
to Suffer for Some Of Their
Bad AdUice, They Might Be
More Careful About Giving
It,"
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bill introduced in the Missouri legislature would
require farmers wives to serve hot biscuits twice
day There ought to be clause in there providing
exemption for those who have not yet been farmers
wives at least one year.
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IMMEDIATELY after her acquittal
L Texas Guinan gave out a stale
ment to the world in general In
which she said. MAKE your own
home q. night club I imagine this
helpful hint was meant to cover
only amateur proceedings.
Miss Gulnan is, among other
things, q business woman and would
hardly care to see rival establish
ments f1ourishing on every corner.
However, Walter O'Keefe. himself a
song writer and entertainer, accept
ed the suggestion in the spirit in
which it was meant and attempted
to put the plan into operation.
Make your home a night club, :"
he writes. Here 1 was in my ele-
ment. Immediately l Waxed en-
thusiastic and waxed the floors
instanter. gave the courtroom con-
cession to one of my brothers who
doesn't know there is any American
coin less than a 25-cent piece.
Another brother I put in the
washroom. Two more brothers in
stalled as bus boys. Eight other
brothers selected as walters, for
the simple reason that they sleep
all day anyway, SO I figured that
I could capitalize their peculiar tai
ents. Six Of my sisters I summoned
to constitute the ensemble.
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David DietE on Science
Rules for F0reCaSting
No. 331

EORECASTING the weather from weather map is
Il an interesting and pleasant diversion for the
amateur scientist Sometime ago E. II. Bowie, ma
onal orecaser of the United States weather bureau,
formulated series of rules in a bureau publication
titled Weather ForecaStng in the United States. "
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We don't know what job Major Peake has lined
up for Harry Sinclair at the Washington Jail but If
the major retains his OF humor he will give Mr.
Sinclair job at the information desk.
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THIS remarkable case of Mr..
Il Curtis and Mrs. Gam should
make us charitable toward the lady
who gets fed up on her Romeo and
seeks to park him in divorce court.
Here's Mr.. Hoover, supposed to be
the smartest fellow we've got; he's
been all over the world and seen all
kinds of men. Still, after aIl this
training. he returned to the United
| States and selected Curtis at Kansas
City
Yet we actually expect poor.
working girl who never has been out
of the county and who has a very
limited knowledge OF her onions, to
walk up to the lottery of life, blind
folded, and pick out gentleman
who will be a JOY forever and if she
makes a mistake and wants to I'M
load him, we give her the naughty
stare!
Of course, it's all over so far as
the seating of Mrs. Gam is con-
cerned
She has won out; she sits in the
front seat; it's an AppamatoX for
Mrs. Gam, but it's Bull Run for
Mr.. Gam.
For tour long years he must sit in
the rumble seat and four years is an
awfully long time for fellow to sit
in a rumble seat!
WHENEVER he goes along to a
w party. he'll be expected to be
as silent as p" in pneumonia"
The other guests will brush him
aside and walk on his feet and sit
on his hat and steal his umbrella,
and they'll never give him a second
helping of the lobster la Newburg.
Imagine Mr.. Cams getting awake
on a moonlight night after such q
social triumph getting out his COM
pass and endeayoring to determine
his exact latitude and longitude on
the sea of gaiety!
This thing may lead us straight
into the League of Nations.
There was not enough wisdom in
the United States to solve this prob
lem; we had to leave it to the am
baSsadors of all the world.
If another great problem shall
tower above our intelligence how
perfectly logical to take it to Geneva
and lay it at the feet of all nations!
A ND we shrink from contemplate
L n ing the future vexations OF
Curtis. Throughout the sessions Of
the senate, the galleries shall fill
with ladies, who shall smilingly
train their lorgnettes upon him as
he sits there, embalmed in Vice
Presidential moth-balls. while before
him. Henry Allen, his lifelong
political foe and senatorial successor,
shall wreak his boarded vengeance
in diabolical grins!
So you see, that even though Mrs.
Gam has been seated, the problem
still confronts our beloved land, and
while Mr.. Hoover is a man of great
self-restraint, we'll bet that if he
had it to do over and he had to
choose between the two, he would
| discard Curtis and keep the May
flower.
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DAILY THOUGHTS

Discretion shall preserve thee:
understanding shall keep thee
Proverbs 2;l1:
Fl EAIEMBER the divine saying
u He that keepeth his mouth.
keepeth his life.-Sir Walter Ra-
leigh.
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REASON
Rv Frederick lands

- By FrederIck LdHuIs
II HooUer Had 1t to Do Orer
Again, He'd Likely Discard
Curtis and Keep the May
foWer.
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the hunt for the plundering In
dams.
The Caretas ranch is located on
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MARKET PRICES EVEN
New Potatoes at 10 Cents
at City Stalls.

New potatoes were on city mar
ket today for 10 cents a pound.
Strawberries were down to IS cents
a box, but California grapes had
gone up to 20 cents a pound, Ba-
nanas we're from 20 cents to 80
cents a dozen. Oranges were sell
ing at 20 cents a dozen for the
small size up to so cents a dozen.
Broccoli was so cents a bunch
and dollhouse asparagus was 40 cents
a bunch. Home grown mushrooms
were rs cents a pound. French en-
dive was so cents a pound and ali
gator pears were 40 cents each.
Green lima beans we're 20 cents a
pound.
Delicious apples were two pounds
FOR quarter and Winesaps were
10 cents q pound.
New carrots were 10 cents a
bunch and new rhubarb was 80 cents
bunch. Turnips were 10 cents
a pound and green's were two pounds
for Is cents. New cabbage was 10
cents a pound and the old was 8
cents.
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ARMADA MOVES
TO ATTACK ON
PANAMA CANAL
war Is Declared Between
Pacific and Atlantic
Naval Forces.

BIZ United Press
SAN PEDRO, Cal, Jan. 15.--
With war" declared between the
Pacific and Atlantic naval forces.
the Pacific group prepared to move
on the Panama canal today from
bases at Los Angeles and San
Diego.
The U. S. S. California. Admiral
william v. Pratt's flagship, will lead
the battle line of eight other super.
dreadnaughtS of the Pacific force.
With this armada will sail the new
naval aircraft carriers, Lexington
and Saratoga, landing bases for 200
observation, scouting and bombing
planes which will precede and form
the flank guards of the fleet.
Of San Diego the destroyer d.
vision of thirty-six units, with the
light cruiser Omaha as flagship,
three submarine divisions and the
aircraft carrier Langley will join the
line.
The Atlantic force is expected to
be encountered by the eighty Pacific
ships somewhere OFF Central Amer
lea after passing through the canal.
Air engagements will precede the
combat of watercTaft by some hours.