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Another ID. A. r. Rebel

Daughters of the American Revolution every
where no doubt will give thoughtful attention to the
reasons advanced by DR.. Valera H. Parker OF New
York for resigning from the society
Dr. Parker is a nationally known authority on
social hygiene has been leader in numerous welfare
movements and has held various public and quasi
public offices connected with social activities
She has not been in accord with policies of the
organization for several years. she said but had hoped
vainly that other members holding similar views
might Join in opposing of the organization by per-
sons not sympathy with the liberty of thought and
action for which the American revolutioniss fought
and bled."
She has several specific objections to D. A r. activ-
ities Among those activities circulation OF the
now famous blacklist" of persons to be banned as
speakers before chapters alleged support OF big arna-
ent programs suppression OF freedom of expression
by members, and attacks on various organizations IN
which she herself 10 active.
The resignation of Dr. Parker recalls the famous
controversy of two years ago in which Mrs. Helen
Tufts Baile of Massachusetts, exposed the circulation
of the D. A. r. blacklist, and waged a courageous
fight against it. Mrs. Baie, descendant OF Sam
Adams subsequently was expelled from the organiSa-
ton.
Like Mrs Bailie DR. Parker believes the descend
ants of our revolutionary grandfathers have become
reactionary militaristic, and jingoistc, have lent
themselves to use by professional red-baiters like
Fred Marvin and in general have been UNFOLDING the
things that men like old Sam Adams so bitterly fought
Probably there are thousands of others in the ranks
of the daughters who feel or less like Dr. Parker
but who are less prominent and less articulate her
action like Mrs Baie 8 rebellion is hopeful sign
The D. A r. could be d potent force for constructive
patriotism.
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Farm Leaders Get Lost

Certain farm organizations denouncing the
senate for its effort to reform the high tariff bill
which came from the house and from the senate
finance committee To what extent those organiza-
ton officials who sent the recent bitter letter to the
senate are representative Of the attitude Of the rank
and file of farms on this particular matter is diff
cult for any to say At any rate, the protest is
likely to be taken representative.
Certainly the Progressive Democratic coalition,
which after heroic struggle has removed some Of the
worst features OF the BILL is able to take care of
itself.
But in the interest Of fair play it is perhaps not
altogether out of place to point out to the farm
organization officials that the Republican old guard
which wrote the high tariff bill has a long record
against actual farm relief and that the Progressive
Democratic coalition members have long legislative
record of friendship to the farmers.
If these farm organization leaders think they can
solve the farm problem by joining in a high tariff
alliance with eastern industrial corporations they are
mistaken At best, high protective tariff farm
products can help only minority of farmers at the
expense of the majority. At worst, it not help
a minority.
OF more Importance, such farm alliance with
industrial high protection complete the ruin of
the farmer as consumer. The farmer is paying too
much for the necessities which he must buy
But he will pay much unless the senate
Progressive Democratic coalition is able to defeat the
profiteering Smoot- Hawley bill.
For decades the high tariff has been snare for
the farmer. Perhaps one should blame the farmer
now for trying to use that for his purpose
as producer But it simply can't be done.
Until the farmer looks consumer for relief in
lower industrial tariffs his plight is apt to get
instead of better.
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Not Perfect

NATURALLY, do not mean
~ that it is unreasonable for a
critic to take issue with judgments
and opinions advanced by this biog-
rapher or any other.
I remember my own feelings III
regard to an earlier volume in this
particular life. Hughes intimated
that there was good reason to sus-
pect that Washington's marriage
might have been naotivated partly
by mercenary motives.
AS one who would not undertake
to dognatize on the marrying mo-
tivation of even my close friends
am in no position to say with cer-
tainty that the author was on the
wrong track. But it did seem to me
that the evidence advanced was too
slight upon which to build a sur
mise.
Chiefly, Hughes was attacked. not
on matters of opinion, but upon the
statement of weu-documented facts
He was scored roundly for noting
that George Washington was sim
cere and able drinker. Other crit
les were incensed at having it said
that the general swore heartily
upon occasion.
The real backbone behind the
campaign against Rupert Hughes
and all modern biographerS" was
the thought that some things should
be left unsaid, even if true.
Hughes has proceeded upon the
opposite theory "As we do not ex-
pect reverence from posterity, we
need not offer it to our ancestry.
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REASON By Ff EzRDf5

CHARLES E. HUGHES will make a good chief
~ Justice, but regret that President Hoover
did not appoint Oliver Wendell Holmes since that
would have crowned distinguished career on the
bench of his state and nation and given express
sion to the admiration the people have for the grand
old man Of America.
The personalities of most associate justices become
submerged in the detached soennity OF the supreme
court and few can call the names of those who nov
constitute this tribunal but Justice Holmes IS known
and loved for his vivid persistence IN the expression
Of human rights amid the courts judicial apostrophe;
of materialism
nut there is another reason why We wanted to see
D Justice Holmes appointed. 1t is the last oppor-
tunty President of the United States will have tc
appoint an Union soldier to be chief justice OF the
United States
Those who wore the blue have filled with distinc-
ton every other public office in the country, but not
one of them has been chief justice, although the
confederate army has thus been honored by the ap-
pointent of former Chief Justice White Of Louisville
Aside from White they've all been civilians since
Apponattox Roger R. fancy OF Maryland serving as
chief Justice until 1864, when Abraham Lincoln arose
to spiritual heights therefore unknown in political
history by appointing Salmon P. Chase OF Ohio, who
as member of Lincons cabinet had plotted to defeat
him for denomination.
Then when Chase died in 1873, disappointed man
because his great ability and the brilliant planning of
his beautiful daughter Kate Chase Sprague failed to
elevate MN 10 the WnlCe HOUSE, FreSlQent (ITdlll
passed over all his army comrades and named for the
chief justice Morrison R. Waite of Toledo.
VXTAITE'S term the beginning of colorless chief
w justices he passing from the stage in 1888 being
succeeded by Melville w Fuller Of Chicago, who was
appointed hy President Cleveland.
Fuller's death in 1910 revealed that fame is most
perishabe for when his body returned to Chicago
the event completely obscured by the wild ova-
ton rendered pig-roa- headed prizehghter who ar
rived on the same train.
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M. E.,Tracy
Crime Continues to MonOpo-
Ike the NeaCs, Just as 1t
Did 25, so or EUen 100
Years Ago.
SAYS:

THE pig Woman" dies, and
l. there are not only headlines
in all the papers from Maine to
California, but crowds gather be-
fore the undertaking parlor where
her corpse lies, in vain effort to
have one last look at 1t. All this
is done for no reason in the world
except that she gained nationwide
notoriety as a witness In the un-
solved Hall-Mills murder case.
A New York woman shoplfter,
81 years old and sentenced to life
Imprisonment on her fourth con-
viction of felony, rouses such a
storm Of sympathy that the Gov
ernor Of the state finds it necessary
| to intervene.
Six convicts, on trial for murder
in connection with the recent riot
at Auburn, N. Y, plead that they
were forced to join the uprising, by
members of the Mutual Welfare
League, an organization established
on the theory that certain degree
of self-government would help i'm
prove discipline and promote reform
among prisoners.
A grand raid by Chicago police
nets more than nine hundred vagS,
yeggs, hoodlums and innocent by
ISLANDERS over night, 271 of whom are
found to have criminal records, and
thirty toting guns.
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The United States Supreme Court

Msnv men who voted against Charles Evans
HUGHES when he was candidate for Presdent-and
who would do it again-now acclaim his appointment
as chief justice of the supreme court Which reveals
their generosity Of spirit And their failure to under
stand lust what the United States supreme court has
become
They voted against Hughes because they dis
agreed with his theory of government because they
felt that as President his instinct would be to serve
the noweru special interests rather than the
humble citizen
Examination of his career. his business and political
associations, aroused this fear. Considering him as
member of the supreme court however, these factors
apparently are given weight. The opinion appears
to be that any eminent lawyer, If he be honest, Is
as well qualified another to be supreme court
justice.
The supreme court is supposed commonly to deal
merely with the Constitution and the law. The per-
soal beliefs of the justices are presumed to have
weight This notion continues in the face OF sx-to-
three and yeto-four decisions from the high bench
Must have been nice point of law, says the average
man. when he four justices disagreeng with the
other five, and lets it go at that.
We'll. we've tried now and then to explain that it
isn't so simple. We've tried to show that man ap-
pointed to the supreme court bench takes his private
political views, his social and economic views with
him and that in grave questions affecting the whole
policy OF the OnlISo SGdtSS i4S - WI"
troed by these views We do not quarrel with this;
We simply say it is the fact.
There are plenty of historic incidents to prove It,
Now and then the supreme court itself says just
what we've been saying. The most recent instance
occurred last MCMILLAN. 6.
Justice McReynolds was expressing the majority
If the courts opinion. This opinion reversed one OF
he courts own earlier decisions. For thirty the
court had held that the states had the constitutional
right to impose certain taxes. Now the court was
declaring the states do not have this constitutional
light.
Speaking Of the earlier decision, Justice McReyn-
Odds said:
THE inevitable tendency Of that view to disturb
good relations among the states and produce the kind
Of discomfort expected to subside after the establish
nent of the Union The practical effect of it has been
bad" Further
transacted On national scale. very large part Of
the countrs wealth is invested in negotiable securi
ties whose protection against discrimination unjust
and oppressive taxation is matter of the greatest
moment"
We are not concerned with the merits of the case.
but simply with the ground on which it was decided
The ground Is not the United States Constitution.
Nor Is Justice McReynods-and through him the ma
iority of the cour-ofering lawyers Interpretation
of any law He is announcing change in government
policy.
He is saying that the government has tried one
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H5qoAHF { 1861
ANNIVERSARY
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EDISON'S BIRTH
Feb. IL

FeO. IL
ON Feb. IL, I947, Thomas A.
~ Edison, Americas great inven-
tor, was born at Milan, O. Most of
his boyhood, however. was passed
in Port Huron, Mich, where his
family moved when he was 7 years
old.
Even as boy, Edison had marked
abilities in organization and inven-
ton. He started in business by SELL
ing newspapers on the Grand Trunk
railway. In his leisure he occupied
himself in self constructed labora-
tory in a freight car.
1t was here, too, that he printed.
On his own initiative, a weekly of
interest to employees Of the railroad.
After having attracted some at
tention by the invention of appli-
ances in printing and teiegraphy,
which Re studied at the expense of
a station master whose daughter he
saved from the wheels of an ap-
preaching train, Edison sold his
ideas for $4,000.
With this money. he established
a laboratory Of his own. Some of
the major developments coming
from that workshop were the tele-
phone. incandescent lamp, phono-
graph and moving picture.
The golden jubilee of the inven-
ton Of the incandescent electric
lamp was celebrated universally last
year.
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SCIENCE
-RY DAVID OTETZ-
BY DAVID DIETZ--
Comparison Of British R-f0t
With R-100 Shows Hot0
Much Progress Has Been
Made in Airshjp Design.
THE R-IOo, second Of Great Brit

THE RICO, second Of Great Brit
l. aims two giant zeppelins re-
Gently took the air. To the layman
the R-l00 looks very much like her
companion ship the R-1o1.
The R-l0l, begun in 1926. -gas
completed In 1929, making its initial
fight in october of that year. The
building Of the R-l0l was a useful
but costly experiment for Great
Britain, for, according to some
British air experts, was obsolete be-
for 1t was launched.
How much progress has been
made in the design of airships can
be gathered by comparing the R-101
with the RICO.
Externally, the two ships appear
very much alike. The R-100, the
newer of the two, is twenty-three
feet shorter. The R-10l is 1872 feet
long, the RICO is 709 feet long.
However the R-100 Is one foot more
in diameter.
The living quarters are nearer the
front Of the big cigar shaped en-
velope in the RICO. There is also
an external difference in power
equipment.
The old R-101 has five gondolas,
each with propeller at the front.
The new R-l00 has only three gon-
dolas, all situated toward the rear
end OF the ship. In addition each
gondola has two propellers, one at
either end.
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Crime in Spotlight

URINE continues to monopolize
~ the news. Just as it did twenty
five, fifty, or even one hundred
years ago.
The reason is not difficult to
find.
We still look on crime as enter
tainment, rather than a problem.
Ten thousand years of poetry,
story telling and the tteater have
served to develop this most peculiar
attitude. e..
Newspapers picked up the vogue
where makers of fiction and TO
nance left off.
Jesse James becomes a substitute
for Robin Hood, Richard Reese
Whittemore for Bill Sykes and Ruth
Snyder for Lady de Winter.
To average people, crime is merely
sin for which those who commit it
should be punished.
To average people the idea of
vengeance is far more intriguing
than the idea of social improve
ment or individual reform.
To average people, the cause or
circumstances make little difference,
unless they are presented in a way
that appeals to Sentimentality.
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earlier ones. Washington come off
magniflcently in his role as gen
eral, although Hughes Is pretty Sc
we're with many Of our revolution
airy forebearS.
Here and there attention Is paid
to the tactical errors of Washing
ton, as advanced by some Of the
military strategists, but the sum-
nation must keep George Wash
ington high in the list of inspired
warriors.
The very fact that he was har-
assed from the rear by profteers
and dolts and deserters heightens
the sheer genius which enabled him
to beat off well-supplied and
well-trained British army.
In that century. at least. 1t was
possible to gain victory with no
preparedness save Of the sort adj
vocated by William Jennings Bryan
However, the colonials who sprang
to arms overnight, seem to have had
a habit Of springing back again the
next morning.
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Questions and AnS7Ue1cS

the form Of beasts and could not bt
Injured by fire or iron.
How many goriIIas are there In
the United States?
-Four. Bambu, a male at Phila-
delpf1ia 700; two are in the hands
Of dealers, and "N'Gi' the fourth
was brought to the National Zoolog-
ical park, Washington, Dec. 6, 1923
when 3 years old.
Which is the port" side of a
ship?
To the left when facing the bow
Who was the first wife of Jack
Dempsey?
Maxine Wayne Cor Gates, a for
mer vaudeville actress. They were
married at Pennington, Utah, Oct.
8, 1916, and divorced in Utah about
three years later.
What is the meaning of the name
Gertrude!
Spear maiden" (Teutonic).
Is ioge or lodge the proper name
for a box in a theater?
Loge Is a French word that Is
translated into English, lodge. nut,
box, etc. In French 'ioge dun
theatre" means a box IN the the
ater. In England and the United
States the word loge Is generally
used to designate a stall or box
above the orchestra level Of the
theater.
During whose administration was
the federal pure food law enacted?
Theodore Roosevelt.
Which United States battleship
cost the most?
The U. S. s. Maryland, which cost
s23, 100000.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

occurred in Paris in 1892, and was
traced definitely to parrakeets i'm
ported from Buenos Aires.
The proof of the fact that human
infection has come from the parrot
depends on isolation of the germ
from both the parrot and the af-
fected human being.
This was done in five human cases
in one family in Florence, Italy, in
1895 and since that time in other
cases throughout the world.
In parrots, psittacosis is highly
fatal, killing from SO to 95 per cent
of the infected birds. The disease
can be transmitted from one parrot
to another by infected feathers,
food, water, dishes or the soiled
hands of attendants.
Mice or insects may carry the in
lection from one cage to another.
When a parrot becomes infected, it
gets weak, loses its appetite, has
diarrhea and is likely to die in a
few days. Then the germs will be
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Parrot Fever Is Strange Disease

found in practically all of its or
CANS.
AS might be expected. a disease
that can pass from parrot to man
may also infect chickens, rabbits
guinea-pigs. 1t is interesting that
this disease which chiefly infects
the intestinal tracts of birds strikes
the lungs in man.
In many instances the infection is
due to the fact that the parrot is
fed by the mouth to mouth method.
Not infrequently, however, it oc-
ours merely from handling the sick
birds and not infrequently the per-
son In a family who becomes sick
passes the disease on with infected
hands to other members Of the fam
lily.
Fortunately, this disease is rare
in civilized communities, probably
because parrots are not nearly SO
frequent as pets as are other an
imals and birds. and probably also
because the disease kills the parrots
so rapidly that the likelihood OF in
lection is leSSened.
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rT CrTNTC M MI HAYWOOD
| | OIL1VlO l. ~ AFAG DS BROUN

front of each history book the line
so often celebrated and illustrated
by RUDE Goldberg, They all look
good when they're far away"
1t should be the historians job to
bring the great dead nearer. l
would have even the moles.
If the Golden Age always is to be
regarded as the exclusive property
of yesterday, progress must be stif1ed
If that temper is to be set up in any
nation. there could be no salvation
save through reaction.
George Washington had his Job
to do, and did it we'll. but many
things have happened in the years
which lie between. We, too, have
not been idle Washington did not
pause at Trenton to ask himself,
What would julius Caesar have
done under similar circumstances"
Ancestor worship Is a sort Of sloth.
1t involves lodging decisions With
lazy, "Oh, let George do it
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
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Superstition Rife
TIME was when average peopl
fnIA 4Inrrrr,

TIME was when average people
l. felt much the same way toward
disease, when the sick man was
supposed to have been guilty OF
offending high heaven and when
his malady was regarded as just
retribution for something or other.
Priest and witch doctor sought to
cast out the devil with which he
was possessed or appease the Deity
he had offended.
In spite of all its modern trap
pings and mechanical improvement,
our penal system reeks with the
same impotent superstition.
u o
Punishment is made to At the
offense, as though some particular
act of depravity, violence or emo
ton told the whole story.
Death for the murderer, life for
four felonies, a fine or few
months for misdemeanors, with pa
roles, pardons, honor systems and
mutual welfare leagues to salve q
conscience. which lacks the hardi-
hood to stick by the laws it has
Endorsed.
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ConCaVe

A MOTHER point of external diff
L n ference is the way in which the
coverings have been put on the big
cigar-shaped frames. In the R-IOl
the covering is stretched tightly and
smoothly over a framework con-
slsting OF thirty longitudinal Orders.
In the new R-l00 there are only
sixteen longitudinal Orders. This
means that the expanse of fabric
between Orders is much larger in
the R-100.
But in addition, by the use Of
wires, the fabric is pulled in between
glrderS so as to be concave. The
result is that the big bag, instead of
presenting rounded surface, con-
sistS Of a series of concave panels.
The designers, in explaining this
radical departure, say that the
fabric for the most part is subjected
to suction by the air and not pres
sure. The concave design is to meet
this suction.
Critics have pointed out that no
Zeppelin now in existence has panels
as large as those of the R-100, and
they doubt if the big bag will come
through sustained flights without
ripping.
The builders, however, insist that
the concave design will make the
new bag more resistant to injury
than the older types.
These external differences. while
perhaps hardly noticeable to an OBJ
server on the ground, are neverthe-
less large. But they are relatively
slight compared to the internal diff
ferences between the two ships.
The internal design and construc-
ton Of the two ships are radically
different.
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Satisfy CAPRICE

MOST laws are designed to meet
1V1 the requirements of anger
while most of our parole measures
are designed to satisfy the cap
prices of a maudlin and undigested
sympathy.
One extreme feeds the other.
First, and while still hot with
horror, we treat 'en rough. Then
we get sorry, though more for our
selves than those whom we have
manhandled, and devise all sorts
Of schemes by which to reduce the
penalty.
At one end Of the system, there
is an electric chair, steel cage and
life imprisonment.
AT the other, there is a multitude
of exconvicts, excused after paying
only a fraction of the penalty i'm
posed.
Over it all, RACES a clash of con-
flicting and inchoate hopes, sup
positions and sentiments.
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THE third volume of the life OF
l. George Washington, by Rupert
Hughes, just has been isued 1t is
called, George Washington: The
Savior of the States, 1777-17S1."
This slightly early birthday pres
ent for the Father Of His Country
strengthens the impression that
Hughes has done an extraordinarily
painstaking and able job. 1t is
monstrous that he should have been
assailed so harshly as one who
sought to bring discredit upon a
great American.
To some extent, this charge was
made by orators and editorial writ
ers who had not taken the Trouble
to read line of the book.
Those who actually did examine
the biography, and still contended
that this was mere undertaking,
must have been animated by a
theory as to a historians function
which seems to me indefensible.