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publican party has been in contin-
uous power more than eight years,
and that every administration has
been pledged to enforcement.
At the end of eight years, en-
forcement is still far from satisfac-
tory. And the longer this condition
exists, by so much more does law
come into disrepute. The work of
Washington and jefferson should
not be scrapped merely to please
Clarence True Wilson.
1 agree with President Hoover
that prohibition threatens the safety
of our country, but I think it would
be far better to hold to the Consti-
tuition and throw prohibition over
board.
After all, the whole is greater than
the part, the ship more worthy of
preservation than the Sandbag.
Copyright. 1929. by The Times)
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Ends Law

4 ND. In summing up the present
N situation, the President said,
LAW can not rise above its source
In good citizenship-in what right
minded men most earnestly be-
lieye and desire. If the law Is up
held only by government officials,
sher, all law Is at an end"
Now let us examine just what 1t
IL to which Herbert Hoover has
committed himself and all ardent
advocates of the eighteenth amend
men. The President saws that a law
which is enforced badly threatens
the whole structure of law and the
safety Of the country itself.
He admits that prohibition en-
forcement Is far from satisfactory
Therefore, it is fair to say that Vol
steadism Is threat to our national
safety.
It Is difficult to see how q man
can say In one breath that he loves
the Constitution and also the
amendment which has brought II
into disrepute and peril. One might
as well contend that he is for both
the heroine and the villain who
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ANNIVERSARY
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CONSTITUTION RATIFIED
December !

OANE hundred forty-two years ago
" today, on Dec. 7, 1887, Delaware
ratified the United States Consti-
tuition, the first state to take such
action.
Some of the states followed Della
wares example and ratified the Con-
stitution promptly, but in others Wig
orous opposition developed.
1t was only after protracted
struggle that the ninth state, New
Hampshire, approved the Constitu-
ton on June 81, 1893, and by that
event it went into force. The two
important states of Virginia and
New York followed soon after with
their Endorsement, leaving only
Rhode Island and North Carolina in
the anomalous position of not being
members of the new nation which
claimed jurisdiction over the terri
tory.
Today also is the anniversary of
the burning Of Concordia, Miss, by
federal troops on Dec. z, 1862. On
the same day the confederate cruis-
er, Alabama, captured the Ariel.
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The Vote on Ware

Boldly and openly, Senator James Watson
voted to give seat in the senate to ware OF
Pennsylvania A large majority of his fellow
senator's voted otherwise.
After three years the senate has estab-
Gshed a precedent of keeping out Of that body
those in whose behalf vast sums OF money
are spent. 1t has officially asserted that it
is "agin' corruption of the ballot.
While Watson was openly and frankly
standing by the old order and the Old Guard,
it is significant that Senator Arthur Rob-
inson was absent.
From some source, which could probably
be repudiated in the event that the atti-
tude became unpopular, word was sent that
if Robinson had been in his seat he would
have voted against Ware.
AS between the open and brazen vote OF
Watson and the absent whisper of Robinson,
the people of Indiana will have more respect
for Watson.
In the Watson vote, there was consist
ency, at least. There was none of the hypoc-
risy that would have existed had be con-
demned practices that were no more venal
and vicious tina nthose by which senate seats
have been obtained in other states.
Watson has never pretended to be pur-
list. He has been practical.
The people of this state know that Rob-
inson has been the beneficiary of all the
vicious practices of practical politics in this
state.
If there is perfect product of Coffinism,
it is Robinson. He obtained his seat by ap-
pointment when the state government wore
a nightgown. He was the selection of Coffin.
Whether he had the endorsement of Steph-
enson may be a matter of debate. There
can be no question of his bearing the seal
of Coffin.
If Robinson is really opposed to cor
ruption, he mas successfully hidden that fact
during the many months when the affairs
of Lake county were being farcically inves-
tigated.
At the present time, a ringing speech in
the senate against the fact that thus far the
inquiry has simmered down to the punish
ment of few bootleggers, while the cause
of the inquiry is apparently forgotten would
mean much more than message that he
would have voted to keep Ware out of the
senate.
There is still time for that speech. AS
long as Lake county can get away with the
voting of repeaters and thus control local,
state and federal elections, it seems futile to
rail against the buying of votes by Ware.
Not being able to vote against Ware, per-
haps Robinson will make good by demand
ing action in Lake county, real and conclu-
sive action, not the raiding of few joints.
That would be real test.
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. DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

proper act or what should reason
ably be expected.
This schedule usually causes chill
dren to respond successfully
It does not, of course, have the
same effect on child who is men
tally backward, nor is it quite SO
simple to train the child to night
time dryness For this purpose, it
Is probably best to see to 1t that the
child has relatively little fluid be-
fore going to bed
1t should be taken up when the
parents go to bed and probably
again at 2 or o'clock in the morn
ing, until it learns proper habits
AS is emphasized by Florence
Natter, mentally backward children
and those who suffer from various
abnormalities and lack of develop
ment of the tissues and organs will
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Up to Pennsylvania

The United States senate has ousted William S.
Ware. Now what will Pennsylvania do? Specifically,
whom will Governor Fisher appoint in Wares stead?
Refusal to admit Ware to the senate due to his
having spent s7S5oOO to obtain the Republican noni
nation-and to the manner in which he spent that
s7s5,o00. The senate en- the evidence decided that
Wares claim to a seat based a combination of
outright purchase and fraud Wares eloquent const
tutonal appeal as he stood suddenly aged and i'll be-
fore the men whom he wished to call his colleagues,
did not alter the basis of his claim.
This newspaper, whose initial exposure of the
Pennsylvania primary was responsible for the inves-
lton that has resulted in Ware being barred takes
~ EatisfactQn in his present distress. Indeed It Is
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Sport Has Changed From a
Postime to Commerettilized
Activity, Attracting Thou
sands of Young Men.
SAYS:

THE expected happened With re-
u gard to Mr.. Ware, and very few
people will quarrel with 1t, either on
moral or political grounds.
He deserved TO be excluded from
the senate. Not only because he
spent too much money to get his
nomination, but on general princi-
piles.
Some day, perhaps, the boys will
learn that they can everyday the
cash till.
The Ware case presents but one
element Of injustice and that Is the
fact that Pennsylvania has had to
get along with only one senator
during the last two years.
Pennsylvania would have been lit
tie better of with Mr.. Ware In his
seat, but that does not satisfy her
constitutional right.
The point Is, Of course, that the
senate could have satisfied her con-
stitutionA right and excluded Ware
at the same time by acting prompt
ly.
The one element Of injustice is
chargeable to delay and nothing
else.
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Logic

II
l. apply some of his engineering
logic to the present problem. He
would not undertake to support a
bridge with cable which tended to
stretch. You would hardly call the
engineer friend of the bridge If
he insisted on keeping that cable as
an integral part of the structure.
At the moment 1t is obvious that
prohibition and our traditional form
of constitutional government are
not compatible. Certain time-hon-
ored and time-tested strands have
been removed to make room for this
new and f1inSy material.
In order to get the eighteenth
amendment in, we have been obliged
to remove the bill of rights, which
once was considered the very cor
ner stone Of our governmental edi-
fee
Even if it is admitted that pro-
hibition Is the will of the majority,
the dissenting group is still enor-
NOUS. The law has succeeded in
turning millions and millions Of men
and women into rogues and rascals.
A stroke Of the pen has created
criminality where previously none
existed.
Ironclad enforcement would mean
a prison population of some SO per
cent Of all the adults in the United
States. Surely the Constitution
never meant to turn America into
an armed camp and to create spy
system more numerous than the
world has ever known.
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Brains

THIS observatory council has
L. borrowed DR.. John A. Anderson
of the Mt Wilson observatory, and
placed him in direct charge of the
design and construction of the 200
inch telescope. DR.. Anderson IS to
be known as the executive officer OF
the council.
In addition, an advisory commit
tee has been set up to aid DR. An
derson and the observatory council.
1t is headed by DR.. Walter S. Adams,
director of the Mt. Wilson observa-
tory, and includes some OF the
worlds best known scientists
They are Professor A. A. Michel
son, famous for his measurements
of the speed of light; Professor
Henry Norris Russell, famous as
t1onomer of Princeton university;
DR.. c. G. Abbot, secretary OF the
Smithsonian institution; DR.. Frede-
rick K. Seares, assistant director OF
the Mt. Wilson observatory, and
three professors Of the California
Institute of Technology, DR.. r. G.
Tolman, DR.. Paul S. Epstein and
DR.. Ira S. Bowen.
The reader, looking over this list
of names, will conclude that enough
talent has been gathered up here to
build even a $12,000,000 telescope.
But as a matter of fact, this group
Of eminent scientists constantly has
been consulting other eminent men
and obtaining the opinion OF vari-
Gus experts upon phases Of the SUBJ
ject.
Among those consulted have been
Ambrose SwaSey, head of the War
ner g. Swasey Company, and his
chief engineer, E. P. Burren; also
Gano Dunn, famous engineer OF the
]. G. White Engineering Corporation
of New York.
When the 2O0-inch telescope is
finished it will represent the COM
bined judgment of Americas most
famous specialists in the field.
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What Is the longest drive ever
made In golf?
The longest Of which we find rec
ord was 48e yards, made by w. S.
Caldwell, at st. Louis, in 1920.
Who played the part Of the mad
man in the movie STARK Mad?
Andre Beranger.
Il the python and boa constructor
the same species Of snake?
The name boa constructor Is COM
monty used to designate any large
nonpoisonous serpent that brushes
Its prey In It's folds. The real boa
constructor has rudimentary hind
legs In the form Of . spine-like
hook. The python lacks rudimentary
Ngxs, but like the boa constructor it
I honpotson0us and crusheS It's prey.
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A Great Contract

business and, politics present a
- curious contrast when 1t comes
to getting things done.
II we had waited for congress, and
more especially the senate, TO help
us get over the recent Wall Street
fracas, where would We be7
President Hoover has done more
to promote confidence and reeoy-
cry in the last three weeks than
congress could have done In three
years.
More and moro young men, With
pep and ambition. are going into
sports on q business basis.
For the last fifty years business
has been attracting them, but with
$4,000 well paid coaches In our
high schools, and every fresh water
college building . million dollar
stadium, one wonders.
Per Sc, sport Is . fine thing, but
1t has ceased to be q per sc article,
and those educators who feel
alarmed at Its drift and effect, are
not all wrong.
AS Dr.. Fred Rand Rogers, director
OF health education for the state Of
New York. points out, sport has
changed from recreation 10 O com
mercialized activity.
Nor Is the money It costs or the
time 1t wastes the worst feature.
Whist counts even more, is the
mental attitude IL develops, the
desire to be hero, the disposition
to regard physical supremacy In any
line as more important than intel
lectual SUPREMACY.
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threatens her, Red Riding Hood and
the wolf, Nancy Sykes and also Bill.
Until prohibition bobbed up, the
Constitution was doing nicely. Most
of us, including Hoover, had pretty
well forgotten that little matter of
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments. An attempt to enforce them
might have been dangerous to the
nations peace, and so we all chose
to ignore them.
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Money

DUT from the day of Calico to
- this, larger and larger tele-
scopes have been constructed. And
so today astronomers find them
selves confronted with the sort of
problem which now faces the build
erS of the 200-inch telescope.
From a practical point of view,
perhaps, the chief problem is that
of money. An organ pipe and two
small lenses can not be put together
into a 200inch telescope. Conse-
quently, there could be no 200-inch
telescope without an organization
willing to finance it,
Fortunately, the international Ed
ucation Board, foundation en-
dowed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.,
has undertaken the financing. The
board will provide S12,OO0OO0 to de-
fray the cost of the big telescope.
The design of a $12000,000 tele-
scope is too great a responsibility to
throw upon the shoulders of one
man. And so the California Insti-
tute of Technology, in whose hands
the International Education board
has placed the money for the new
telescope, has organized an obserV-
atory council.
At the head of this council is
George Ellery Hale, honorary direc-
tor Of Mt. Wilson observatory, the
man under whose direction that
observatory and its 100-inch tele-
scope, the largest telescope now in
existence, we're built.
The observatory council is made
up of four members of the eXecu-
tive council of the California In
stitute of Technology. 1t includes,
in addition to DR.. Hale, DR.. Robert
A. Millikan, world-famous physicist
and Nobel prize winner; DR.. Arthur
A. Noyes, famous chemist; and
Henry M. Robinson, banker and
lawyer, who is vice-president Of the
trustees of the institute.
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Questions and AnsN,erS

Both grow to practically the same
size and length.
What kind Of work does a cabinet
maker do?
Cabinet making is branch of
carpentry, especially making and re-
pairing furniture.
Has any one ever assembled TO the
top Of Mt. Everest?
No.
What relation Is my fathers
brothers grandchfld to me?
Your first cousin once removed.
Are the Stanley and White steam
automobiles manufactured now?
The manufacture Of both has
been discontinued.
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RY DR.. MoRRIS FIsHBETN

Editer Journal Of the American. Medical
Association and OF HygelS, the
Health Magazine.
TINE normal child usually can be
l. trained easily to proper home
habits. II 1t Is placed regularly in
the chair and kept there long
enough, 1t will develop sense of
habit and time in brief period.
The training should be started
not later than six months of age
and at first a regular two-hour
schedule should be adopted. The
child should be placed on the chair
every two hours and remain there
not more than ten minutes.
If the child succeeds, 1t should be
praised and perhaps rewarded. If
the child vets or soils the clothes,
It should be scolded or otherwise in
formed that 1t has not done the
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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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A SMALL model of the proposed
"A 200-inch telescope is on display
at the National Academy of Science
building in Washington, D. c.,
where visitors may see it. When
completed. this will be the worlds
largest telescope. The model was
built by the Warner & SwaSey Co.
of Cleveland, a firm famous for
construction of large telescopes.
1t is only necessary to compare
the plans for the 200-inch telescope
with Galileo's first telescope, which
he built a little more than three
hundred years ago, to realize the
progress OF astronomy.
To begin with, Calico made the
telescope himself He ground two
small lenses. Then he secured an
organ pipe. He fixed one lens at one
end of the pipe. He fixed the other
lens at the other end of the pipe.
The telescope was finished!
When he turned the telescope
upon the heavens, he made diScov-
cries Of so startling a nature that
he upset the scientific and philo-
sophical thinking of almost his en-
tire world.
He made marvellous discoveries in
quick succeSsions-the mountains of
the moon, the sun-spotS, the phases
of Venus, the moons of Jupiter, the
true nature of the Milky Way.
But-and this is the important
/ point-he could make those marvel
GUS discoveries, because his little
telescope was the first one to be
pointed at the heavens in the his
tory of mankind.
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How Long2

A DvOCATES of the Hoover
N theory may say that in time
enforcement will be more perfect.
Perhaps that Is so, but 1t is at least
a risk.
1t is fair to point out that the Re-
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How many senses does man have?
Man Is commonly said 10 have five
senses: sight, hearing. smell, taste
and touch. A sixth sense Is often
specified as the muscular sense. q
seventh Is sometimes spoken Of as
meaning the inner sense. the COM
mon sense Of Aristotle. an unknown
endowment or a sexual feeling. TIE
seven senses also are aften spoken
Of as meaning consciousness in It's
totality. Modern psychology dis.
tingushes more than twelve senses
adding to the five mentioned, those
Of warmth. cold, pain, strain, dig
illness. etc.
From what story was the photo
play River Of Romance" adapted?
From Booth Tarkington's play
Magnolia"
what b the value e . United
States nickel, Buffale type, aated
1913?
T7fvn eeaha 0r1fv
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The Games the Thing

10 into any home in this coufa-
NJ try, where children are attend
ing high school or college, and what
do you hear but continual chatter
about this or that team, this or that
play, this or that game.
Conversation with regard to stud
les and their Importance practically
has ceased, and for every boy be-
tween IL and 30 who can name the
members of the Presidents cabinet
or the justices Of the supreme court
there are a dozen who can name
the members of the football teams
of Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, on
twenty other colleges.
Our psychologists would do well
to give this matter some consider
alton, because 1t has a bearing on
the future, revealing tendency
which will make itself felt in the
attitude and activities Of the next
generation,
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man we know gets up and writes verses whey
he can't sleep. Insomnia must be an awful thing.
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Jonah was a good man, they say but he set bad
example for stowaways
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-07

Sometimes glasses will improve a mans golf
that is the kind of glasses you wear.
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Another Wet Plot?

Two hundred gallons of brandy and stout are
being sent into the United States from London In
the form OF ingredients in Christmas puddings says
London dispatch. Each pudding contains not less
than pint.
And we are told that the prohibition authorities
of this country have consented!
Here is palpable evasion of the prohbitory laws
which we hope will not escape the watchfu eye of the
Anti-saloon league and its allies These buildings
presumably are destined for family boards, and
heaven alone knows what might happen If liquor
Is to be introduced into the family circle at such
time and in such way.
After all the years of effort and the millions that
have been spent to make America dry this subtle
move OF the liquor forces should be sterny blocked
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Daily Thought

There shall No evil happen 10
the Just; but the wicked shall be
filled with mischief.-Proverbs
12:2I.
y
Not one false man but doth I'M
countable evil.-Carlyle.
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Rage Sweeps Schools

A THLEITCS were introduced
1 \ into our schools for the sake OF
bodily health, and were supposed to
include every one.
BY an evolutionary process, which
1t would be hard TO explain, they
have developed into star produc-
ing mill.
What every school and college
wants now Is not a higher group av-
erage, but prize winners.
Ten Or fifteen per cent of the
students may be better of because
of this, but the rest have deteYior-
ated into bench warmers, while dad
pays the freight.
1t has come to q point where we
rate educational institutions By
their football and track teams, and
where our young people measure
their worth by the same yardstick.
No one can quarrel with the idea
Of physical training, but that Is be-
side the mark. Physical training
for the average student doesn't en-.
ter the picture when 1t comes to
sport.
Sport, as we know 1t today, means
such an aspiration TO be In those
groups, such striving and straisling
as virtually obilterates all sense OF
educational value In the minds of
Young peoUle.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

By DAVID DIEIZ
AStronomy'S Progress Is Re-
Uealed By Comparison of
the Telescope of Today
With That Made By Calico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
MORROW CONFIRMS
RETURN TO MEXICO
Ambassador Confers With Coolidge
and Kellogg-Declines to Discuss
Questions of Duty.

Ambassador Dwight w. Morrow. mem
toned for the post of Secretary of
State. in President-elect Hoover's cab
met. confirmed here yesterday that he
is returning to his post in Mexico.
Mr.. Morrow spent half hour In
conference with President Coolidge at
the White House. and was later closeted
for some time with Secretary of State
Kellogg. He declined to comment upon
the subject of his conferences, but an
nounced that he would leave WASH
ington tonight for New York and would
begin ~ journey by rail to Mexico
City from New York on Monday night
His White House call, Mr.. Morrow
said had to do with paying his respects
to the President and taking leave of him
incident to resuming his post He ex-
planned that his visit to Mr.. Hoover In
Florida was actually a matter of con-
venience on the return from his vaca-
ton in the Bahamas.
The Ambassador requested not to be
questioned by the press on matters of
official duty. saying that it was dan
gerous matter for an Ambassador to talk
when on leave.