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The Timeless Gillette

Tonight and tomorrow night the youth of yester
year will thrill again to the shrewdness of Sherlock
Iolmes, who stepped from the printed page to real
Fife under the genius of William Gillette
The youth of today will get the same thrills that
their fathers felt. for there is something in mystery
and crime and its solution that appeals to every gen.
Grafton matter how tastes in other directions may
change with times and customs.
1t Is something of event to Gillette his
farewell tour
The world watches Edison in his laboratory, still
enthusiastic In his search for new facts and new
utilities for the public good 1t watches Rockefeller
stin alert in finance when the dollar has lost its
meaning to him. On the stage there is left Gillette
who plays upon the emotions Of men and who ressts
age as his detective prototype resists defeat.
To those whose tastes in stage matters have not
become synthetic with the coming Of the screen and
the takie the visit of Gillette should be important
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mittees of action in all industries. "
And to smash the war program OF
the bosses and their government
and defend the Soviet Union"
1t would seem to me rather silly
and impossible notion to get the
jobless in a breadline all steamed up
about the somewhat fantastic and
remote possibility Of war with Rus
STA. And, as matter OF fact, they
didn't get steamed up.
saw no one who appeared on
the brink of following the leaflets
advice to "disarm the Fascist bands
of the bosses" You could go quite
a long way up and down that line
and find none to define a Fascist,
let alone disarm him.
But, If the liners regarded the
propaganda with apathy, it served
to rouse the police. A plainclothes-
man in indignation threw the pa
pers in the face of two patrolmen
and said, Look what it says about
Grover Whalen." 1t really was not
SO hot. The commissioner was mere
ly represented as the leader OF a
Cossack band and the tool Of the
capitalist.
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TREATY WITH JAPAN
March 81

Marcn 81
I'm March 81, 1854, Commodore
" Matthew Perry concluded a
treaty with the japanese by which
they agreed to receive an Amer
lean consul at one Of their ports.
This act opened up japan to the
commerce of the world.
Before this time Japan refused to
trade with any foreign nation and
even showed hostility to American
whalers who sought refuge in jap
anese ports.
In an effort to promote the safety
Of American citizens, President Polk
sent an expedition under Con1rno-
dore Biddle to determine whether
the ports of Japan were accessible.
After ten days of negotiations
with the Nippon government. Biddle
received a note advising him to de-
part Immediately and to consult his
own safety ''by not appearing again
on our coast"
At the news of Biddle's failure to
come to terms, Perry proposed that
# the United States equipped an
expedition for him he would lead 1t
to Japan.
The offer was accepted and Perry
sailed for the orient with extraordi-
airy naval and diplomatic powers.
When his formidable fleet ar
rived in the Bay of Yedo the Jap
anese became panicky. Perry had
little difficulty then in inducing
Japan to enter into relations with
other nations. 49,.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HR HFog%

them. this is not the first line, nor
yet the last one. They've lost their
yeast.
But it is brutal and silly TO say,
complacently, "Of course, most Of
those men aren't good for anything,
anyway" What made them like
that? You and I would not be
strutting Our gumption much after
a week or year of waiting for
food doles.
No man may be stood up in a
public place, where his very pres
ence proclaims to all who pass by,
81 am unfit" and keep his spirit
quite intact. There are today hun
dreds of you men in the line. For
them it is not too late.
1t is the very bounden duty OF
some one to take them off that line.
What shall it avail a man to gain
a cup of coffee, and even rolls with
butter. if he lose his own soul?
Copyright. 1880. by The Timcs'
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Drives Back Sea

TT was 400 years ago that Holland
Il began to reclaim land.
Since that time she has reclaimed
more than 1,400 square miles.
When the zuyder Zee Is drained
the amount will be more than 1900
square miles.
Her present population Is $50 to
the square mile, which means that
she has homesteaded 100000 people
merely by pushing the seashore
back, and eventually will homestead
half a million more.
n
There are now more than 26,000,-
900 automobiles in the United States,
or about four to every five families.
With incidental trades and estab-
lishments. they represent our big
gest single industry.
Not only that, but they represent
such a revolution in travel as never
before occurred.
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However, the evidence thus far
assembled seems to indicate that if
a person with wavy hair marrieS
another with. wayy hair, the chill
dren are likely to have straight.
wavy or curly hair in approximate
ly equal proportions
IN the same way. if person with
straight hair marries another with
str light hair all three types may
occur, but the majority will have
straight nar.
If a person with curly hair mar
ries one with straight hair most of
the children will have straight hair,
If the fathers hair is straight; but
most OF the children will have curly
hair, if the fathers hair is curly.
The figures cited we're based on
the records of mixtures Of FilipinoS
with Chinese in which the FilipinoS
had curly hair.
r. R. Gates is inclined to believe
that thes7 results for F'iliplnos are
reversed in Americans.
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Giving Murderers the Breaks

Commenting the high homicide rate in the
United States, Statistican Frederick l. Hoffman gives
voice to Of the most shopworn and musty stereo
types in the whole museum of conventional crime
interpretations He lays the high murder rate chiefly
to our freedom in buying and carrying pistols.
THE root cause OF the evil unquestionably is the
ease with which concealed weapons obtainabe
and distributed" He warmly recommends the uni
yersal adoption Of laws like the Sullivan law New
York state. This would require the possession of
permit before one could legally carry small
This conviction that laws restricting the freedom
of buying and carrying pistols will check murder is
perhaps the chief example of the triumph of emotion
over logic and sense in the whole field OF crime dis
CUSTOM and this certainly is saying a great deal.
What happens when a state passes an effective
law against gln-totingP Decent and law-abidng cti-
yens virtually are disarred. If one applies for
permit he likely to be browbeaten and insulted by
the police and gives up his intention in despair or
disgust.
Therefore the law actually does succeed in putting
an end to pistoltotng the part Of those who might
use such arms for protection and never for GRIM
inal ends.
Is the law equally effective In reaching the crooks,
AGAINST whom it actually was directed? Not at all.
The criminals buy and carry revolvers as freely as
ever They offered for open sale in stores, pawn
shops and mail order houses If for any reason these
sources Of supply cut off, there is no trouble in
bootlegging these small There always Is a
p; rrssfsl supply IN the underworld.
been suggested that c way out would be
it>ths private manufacture Of pistols and
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Study the Lists

The primaries to select candidates Tor
kthe different tickets should command the at
tention of every citizen who hopes, through
efficient and honest officials, to Obtain oetter
government.
These party affairs, and the conventions
which will follow, are as important as the
election in the lall. When the tickets are
named. the choice is limited to one OF TWO
candidates.
Those who have sense Of party loyalty
should attempt to see that their own tcKet
is composed of men and women who Will
command respect and confidence.
It would be fine thing to have two
tickets equal in integrity. 1t would be me
to have a contest in which there is competl-
tion in virtue, rather than struggle TO
eliminate the unfit and the venal.
Two tickets on which no name that de-
pnands apology or excuse appears, would pro-
duce a fine situation. Two tickets on which
M candidate is under secret obligation to
any seeker for special privilege, no bondage
to any particular group, would make the sltu-
alton of the citizen who wants nothing from
government but square deal, easy and COM
Portable.
The state and the county have had too
much of bossism ana chicanery. Public Office
has been used not to help the people but TO
snslave and rob them. Public office has been
viewed not as a trust but as a means to ute
rior and selfish ends.
Especially is it necessary to scan the
candidates for judicial office To restore
confidence in courts, which has been wan
ing in recent years and especially under the
burden of prohibition enforcement, is one
of the major problems of present day life.
Justly or uniustly, more and more people
believe that it is increasingly difficult to OBJ
tain Justice More and more are believing
that human rights are subordinated and
forgotten, and constitutional guarantees,
especially of free speech, are being forgotten.
In the selection Of local candidates and OF
delegates to the state convention, the people
have their opportunity to protect them
selves against the unfit and the slavish.
The most profitable pursuit for every
citizen in the next few weeks is a close study
of those who aspire to public office.
A campaign next fall in which there
would be a competition between those who
have only recommendations to offer would
be an innovation. It is possible to have two
tickets on whose lists are only those against
whom no attack can be made. But it requires
intelligent interest and some sacrifice on the
part of the voter.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FGSHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

EVERYBODY knows that skin
IL is likely to be inherited. Human
races are classified into white, black,
yellow, brown and red-an inaccu-
rate classification, since the skin
color of any race is the result of
black, yellow and red pigments
brought tc the skin by the blood.
The skin color also is susceptible
to such influences as exposure to
the sun. Observers feel that the
color of the skin is determined by
the depositing of pigments OF the
blood controlled through the glands
of internal secretion and that these
are in turn controlled by the
heredity mechanism.
Because of frequent mixtures Of
races there are now all grades OF
color visible in various populations.
The experts in the study Of heredity
have attempted to work out the
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MiSnrv Seems Less

DEOPLE objected. They didn't IKE
to come suddenly upon this
worm that walks like a man. Num-
beers are undiminished. In fact, they
increase. but with the TRIPPING up,
the misery seems less, and every
body is satisfied.
The breadline of the Little Church
Around the Corner (Which Is its Of
fetal telephone name> constitutes
a, charity achieving palpable results
When a man has waited in line
from 6 or 7 until 9 or later to get
a ticket emitting him to breakfast,
YOU may be sure he's hungry.
Consequently, the question OF
whether he is deserving or not
seems to me of singularly small I'M
portance. I suggest to readers tnat
they send aid to DR.. Ray at EasV
Twenty-ninth street.
But, having said this much I must
admit that the technique OF this
particular sort of relief is far from
being of the shrewdest. Bad bust
ness. We give food to a man and
take away respect. BreadlineS make
breadliners. In time the line tends
to wrap itself around the liners
And then it knots.
Soon there is no initiative beyond
the dim desire to get place at the
head of the column. OF course,
that's not to be sneezed at.
Yesterday they served the first
1900, but had to turn away the last
500 empty handed. For those who
came at the eleventh hour, there
remained not one single penny.
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Gold
DR. TAYLOR's chapter on

"A
~ value Of South Polar research
is particularly interesting.
"It has been some years now
since it was my fortune to be a
member Of one Of the greatest eX-
petitions which set forth to explore
the regions around the South Pole, ~
he writes.
"Over and over again I have been
asked. What is the use of the
Polar explorations
ut has been customary for pro-
motors of q new expedition to dwell
largely on the quick returns which
may accrue from exploring an I'M
known land.
Some good Antarctic friends OF
my own have, in this connection,
stressed the fact that Alaska was
bought for a song, when its re-
sources were almost unknown, and
that it's gold yield has made 1t a
very profitable investment for the
United States
"SubconSciouSly, fancy, the hest
tating supporter thinks, Well, Alas
ka is q. mighty cold place; so is Ant
arctica. Why shouldn't the ex-
petition find a second Yukon near
the south pole?
personally, I don't believe that
this method of angling for support
does much good. The hard-headed
business man soon learns that hard
~ single mineral product and
certainly no vegetable products OF
present value have been discovered.
in the Antarctic, and that THO
chances are against such being dis
covered in the relatively small areas
of rock which are not covered deep
beneath the Antarctic ice cap"
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Common Sense Used

CTALIN stands up before 100000
~ 600 people and says, Gentle
men, 1 was mistaken; the course
we are pursuing has proved unsat-
isfactory; therefore, let us modi-
fly it"
They take 1t with calm common
sense, because they believe he is
telling them the truth instead of
trying to cover up his real inten-
tons.
Whenever one of our leaders says
anything unusual, we begin to
wonder what there is behind it and
what he really means.
Having completed the dikes
around it, Holland begins to pump
out the first section of the Zuyder
Zee.
This section contains seventy
seven square miles of land, and will
accommodate several thousand
farmers.
It will take six months to pump
out the water, which is from fifteen
to twenty-five feet deep and after
that, two years will be required to
freshen the soil.
Three other sections of the Zuy-
der Zee eventually will be diked and
pumped out.
That is the way Holland meets the
problem of overcrowding.
Instead of looking around to find
territory that she can grab by con-
quest, she puts her engineers to
work.
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DR. TAYLOR then proceeds tol
~ list what he considers two very

TAR. TAYLOR then proceeds to
~ list what he considers two very!
real reasons" for South Polar re
search.
There is first of ALL he writes
"the fundamental appeal Of the un-l
known Our lonely little planet &
so far as we know. the only hab1taa
of sentient beings Of the human
type.
surely 1t is the duty of man TO
learn all he can with regard to this
great new continent of Antarctica,
which is certainly not the least in
area, for it is larger than Australia
and quite probably larger than the
whole Of Europe
The second important reason
given by Dr. Taylor is the contribu-
lions which Antarctic research
makes to the worlds fund Of SCI
etnific knowledge, particularly in
the fields of terrestrial magnetism,
meteorology and geology.
Navigation is dependent upon
knowledge of the fuctuation Of the
compass. These fluctuations are not
understood completely nor are their
causes known.
Observations Of magnetic pheno-
mena, particularly in the regions Of
the South Magnetic pole, are ex-
tremely valuable, as DR.. Taylor
points out.
He also points out that meteorolo-
gists are now convinced that many
of the weather phenomena Of the
southern continent have their be
ginnings over the ice fields Of Ant
arctica.
Meteorological research in the re-
gion is extremely desirable as the
result.
DR.. Taylor's book Is one in a series
planned by Appleton under the gen.
eral title of the Appleton New World
Of Science Series. Watson Davis,
managing editor Of Science Service,
is editor Of the series.
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XII More Than War

TT costs more to operate these
L 100000 automobiles than 1t
does to run all branches Of the gov
eminent.
They furnish work for more men
than we modified during the World
war.
Incidentally, they kill more every
three years than we lost in the
World war.
Last year they killed nearly 5000
in the state of New York alone, and
one out of every ten was a child.
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make 1t a government monopoly. But 1t would be
easy and natural for government re-
vovers to pass from the hands of the good citizens
who originally bought them to crooks.
In any event, the criminals easily could smuggle
pistols from other countries Even If the whole world
laid off the private manufacture of small arms, 1t
would be perfectly simple crooks to make their
own pistols.
In short, there Is absolutely no conceivable man
ner in which the underworld can be prevented from
getting ample supply Of pistols. Therefore. every
law against gun-toting is only law diSarming the
law-abidng and invitation to the crook to take
a pot shot at the decent citizen.
The sensible thing would be to enact very liberal
permit law, enabling any person OF good character
to buy and carry pistol without threats or insults
There should be public encouragement Of the appca
ton for such permits. Pistol practice on the part
of citizens should be stimulated and rewarded Spe-
cal public honors should be showered the private
citizen who drills crook
Under such conditions the criminal will think
twice before he sticks up" passerby. 1t may make
crooks little more on the trigger In des-
perae circumstances, but the general result will be
to keep their fingers away from triggers. They will
not be so likely to pull their gun a man who may
be better armed and quicker the draw.
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NJ. E. Tracy
Holland Crowds Back the Sea
to Find Land for Her MI
lions, Rather Than Grab 1t
By Conquest.
SAYS:

DEOPLE wonder how Stain holds
Il his job. Some lay it to the ig-
norance and pliability Of the Rus
sian masses. Others argue that the
Russian masses are helpless.
Why not give frankness some
credit?
Whatever else may be said Of the
man, he says what he thinks.
You can disagree, but you can not
misunderstood him.
He even can change his mind,
without making an abb for him
self.
At this time last year, he was all
radical. ready to go the limit, and
lambasting the conservatives be-
cause they advised a more deliberate
policy.
Now, he reverseS his position, but
apparently without losing much by
way of popularity.
The outside world takes it as Just
one more incident in a deep, dark
mystery.
In any other country, Stain would
be put down as a partisan rene
gade.
We do not expect statesmen to
change their minds, much less to
be frank about 1t.
We know that they come to stu
ations where a change Of mind is
necessary, because they are human,
but we have developed a system
which does not permit it, unless,
indeed, they are prepared to commit
political suicide.
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.Hungered D0CiIeIy

"TTHE whole capitalistic govern
l. ment is filled with fury at the
refusal of the unemployed to starve
in silence" The only trouble with
that, as far as the breadliners went,
was that it didn't seem true. They
stood and hungered docilely enough.
I think it might even be to the
interest of the community to expose
them to contacts with any sort OF
violent propaganda. For most OF
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SCIENCE
Valuable Information About
the Antarctic Is Contained
in Ne1C Book by DR.. Grit
fifth Taylor.
BY DAVID DIETZ,
ID EADERs who have been follow

D EADERS who have been follow
N ing the adventures Of Admiral
Byrd and the other explorers in the
Antarctic, and who desire an au-
thoritative background Of informa-
ton about the region, will find it in
Antarctic Adventure and Re
search" Gust published by A. Ap-
pleton 6 Co. at So
Dr.. Griffith Taylor. its author. is
| professor Of geography at the Uni
verSity Of Chicago. He writes OF the
Antarctic from personal expert
ence, having been senior geologist OF
SCOTS last expedition in 1908.
The chapter headings give an ex-
cellent idea of the ground covered
by the wook. They are:
The Value of Antarctic EXplora-
ton" Exploring Antarctic Seas"
Exploring the Great Continent"
Recent Expeditions to the Antarc-
tic" THE Continent, Its Geology
and Relation to Other Lands"
Scenery and Topography" ''Ice
Sheets and Glaciers" "Oceanogra-
phy ana sea Ice, 'Cllmatology,
Flora and Fauna" and CONNER
cial and Political Aspects"
Covering that much territory in
23l pages has made it necessary for
the author to discuss his topics with
considerable brevity. The average
reader however should find this an
advantage.
While Dr. Taylor occasionally
employs scientific terms which per
haps are not in the vocabulary of
the average Iayman, the book is ex-
tremely easy to read.
DR.. Taylor writes simply and with
an appreciation Of the fact that he
is addressing a nontechnical audi
ence.
This writer recommends the book
to all who would be well informed
on the Antarctic
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I Daily \
Lenten Devotion
Monday, March 81
THE EVIL OF BROODING

THE EVIL OF BROODING
(Read Philippians 2:12-190 Mem
orv verse: Work our your own sal
vation-" philippians 21:20
MEDITATION
Work it out! Brooding over trou-
BILE is the surest way to hatch a
new brood of troubles, or to increase
the size of the existing brood. We
can rear troubles as we can rear
children and chickens. Attention
enough will make bugaboos out OF
bagatelles. Trouble will die OF neg
lect and inattention. Courage 10
keep at helpful tasks will help one
to gain the mastery Of trouble ana
to prevent it from building a nest
in ones mind. Work is one OF God S
landmarks.
PRAYER
O thou, who dost lift up the heavy
hearts of men, keep us from vain
and wasteful brooding over our
troubles and losses. May We hear
thy bidding Of good cheer and have
the grace to keep our minds at peace
amid all the labors and conflicts OF
our lives Amen
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| caves of PROPAGANDA

A S the nleu stood in ranks wait
N ing, for the most part silent,
two young women distributed Com
munist literature. It was OF con-
ventional pattern.
Men wholly preoccupied with the
difficult business of trying to get a
little cereal and some coffee we're
asked to elect rank ar file COM