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Times Readers Voice Vie7gS

Editor Times-I learn from a
friend who resides in our state th-.t
he had visit recently from the
Irish patriot priest, Father Michael
O'Flanigan. Father O'Flan4gan Is a
rare scholar, real gentleman and
a pure, unSelfsh Irish patriot, who
was acting head of the Sim Fein
party in 1918-1919. What he doesn't
know about IRISH affairs no one else
does.
1t seems he kindly consented to
discuss Irish affairs, and the gen.
eral outlook in ireland. Abiding to
the Shannon scheme" he said it was
not what it is pictured in the United
States-16 cents a kilowatt hour for
electric current in the homes of the
poor in small towns. Oh, Indianap-
oils, we might congratulate our
selves. When asked if Sim Fem
has become reconciled to the Free
State, he replied: I'm about the
same way a man becomes reconciled
to appendicitis. He is wheeled into
a hospital and given ether and
what else can he do about it?"
When reminded that De Valera
himself now was a member of the
Irish parliament. he said: de Va
lera is member of the Free State
parliament; but you wouldn't call
that an Irish parliament, would
you? AS Collins and the others
swallowed the Free State with a
smile, De Valera took it with a
grin"
Would to God that Irish Amer
leans would learn more about this
bogus Free State, the most laugh
able imitation of liberty that ever
was inflicted on a country or ma
ton. There never was at any
period in the Irish struggle proved
patriot who would fall for such an
assortment of cunning strategy as
this So called Free State, cham
pioned by the Fitzmaurices and the
other bloodhoundS who were so
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IsYeIInM Dnp''

Senate continuation of Judge John j. Parker as
an associate justice of the United States supreme
court may be refused the ground that his injunc-
ton decision In the Red Jacket mine upheld a
yellow dog contract
The American Federation Of Labor and many
liberals insist that is sufficient reason for denying
Parker a seat on the supreme bench. We agree.
We believe that q majority of senators and Amer
an citizens will agree, If they understand the
& of a yellow dog contract and the significance of
- anti-labor injunction unfolding such contract
rprisingy. however it appeared at the senate hear
SIS on Parker that some of the subcommittee of
vestigation did not know the nature Of this no
brious form of contract.
A yellow dog contract is one in which an employer
prces a worker 70 agree that he viii not while
4oyed. join labor union
Well, what is wrong with that? If a man signs
contract shouldn't he stick to it9 Isn't contract
,acred. and aren't the courts obliged to uphold a
ontract? If union comes along and tries to get
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WEARS before you were born
l. there used to be man in
vaudeville named Charlie Case.
Naturally, I was very young myself
at the time, and Case was by all
odds my favorite monologist. He
used to describe railroad journey
he had taken with his brother
Hank.
BY some mischance, the car In
which they rode happened to con-
tain 100 sheep. When the train
stopped, brakeman pulled Hank
and Charlie out and began 10 beat
Hank with great severity.
well, now, you know Hank was
my favorite brother" Charlie ex-
planned, land I wasn't going to
stand there and see him abused, so
I crawled under the freight car,
over to the other side of the track"
And I think that some of us have
done just that. We feel that if we
are not actually seeing a thing, it
doesn't matter very much.
Few people are callous in the
actual presence of suffering, but
plenty of Us can stand it well
enough if only we have some con-
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

of pork. beef and veal are about
one-half to one-third as powerful
as liver for this purpose.
Practically all green vegetables,
milk and other dairy products, SAL
mon, Goldfish, raspberries and many
other fruits and vegetables have
little if any value in rebuilding
blood after blood loss. =.
Spinach, high in iron, has more
favorable effect than the other
green vegetables. While apricots
and peaches are poor in iron, they
are more effective than any of the
green vegetables or raisins, grapes or
other fruits of high iron content.
Apparently there are other fac
tors, in addition to the iron, which
are of great Importance in the
building of blood after blood loss.
In an endeavor to find out just
what the substances might be
which had value in addition to iron,
workers in the University of Wis
consin, after test feelings with va
riouS substances, and gradually try
ing various factors Of the substance
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Is 1T|t7e.'
ANNIVERSARY.
H4lE1+49
KING ALBERTs BIRTH

April
ON April 8, 1875, Albert I, king
" of the Belgians, who won the
admiration of the entire world dur
ing the great war for his heroic
stand against the Germans. was
born in Brussels.
ct the beginning of hostilitieS in
1914 Albert took command OF the
Belgian army and directed in per-
son the first advance. From Oct.
IL to "a he held of the invaders
without any allied assistance. After
the fall of Antwerp the king and
queen sent their children to Eng
land, while they themselves accom-
panied the retreating army.
Albert remained with his troops
during the whole war and made his
headquarters where he was con-
tinually exposed to enemy fire. He
made continual visits to the front
line trenches and even surveyed the
enemy lines from al airplane.
After the arnistice the king ar
ranged a new government contain
ing representatives of the three
more important Belgian political
parties. Both the king and queen
we're engaged actively in recon-
struction work, Albert contributing
considerable sums for the relief of
war sufferers.
The marriage of their daughter.
Marie jose. to the Italian crown
prince this year, brought the royal
Belgian couple once more into the
spotlight.
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Shall Not Pass

ITO be sure, it was wrong for Y to
Il lend his pass to a friend who
wanted to ride free to Albany. But
Y has been out of work since Sep
TENDER, and is now on the bread
line. And although the business
about the pass was strong, the ex-
IRENE sternnes Of the railroad may
seem to have in it just tinge Of
irony.
Within the memory Of man. there
was a day when every road in the
country used passes for petty graft.
Railroad executives gave passes to
congressman, and state legislators,
and mere political hangers-on.
These passes were lent to relatives
and friends. The practice has been
stopped by law. No railroad presi''
dent is on the breadline.
In case after case, there is no re2-
son why these men should be out
of work except for downright bad
luck.
I think 7 speak for myself and
most of the readers Of this column
in saying that a succession Of un-
fortunate breaks could bring every
one Of us to precisely the same
spot.
GCopyrighk 1890. By The TimssJ
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Mineral Content Of Food Important

found to be Of special value, finally
concluded that copper was the sig
nificant material.
When this decision was made in
Vulnerable investigators quickly con-
firmed it.
In the light of this factor the sub
stances found to have special value
in blood regeneration were again
studied.
1t was Aound that the apricot
liver and kidney contained Signifl-
cant amounts of both copper and
iron, and the copper content of ap-
ricots was higher than that of any
other food studied.
More and more investigators are
coming to a realization of the sig
nificance of various salts and min
erals in proper balance for main
tanning the blood in good health.
Discovery of the Importance OF
iron, copper, manganese and SIM
liar materials has stimulated in
vestigation as to various contents of
these elements in all foods eaten by
human beings and by animals.
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members from among workers who are under con-
tract not join, why shouldn't the employer request
and the judge grant injunction against the union?
Those questions can be answered by other ques-
tons Why shouldn't white slave contract be valid?
Why shouldn't, peonage contract be valid? Why
shouldn't contract made under duress be valid? In
other words there are contracts and contracts some
are valid and are not.
The reason yellow dog contract has no place in
a free country is that it is a form of peonage 1t
is made under duress 1t says to the man who is
out of Job and whose wife and children are hungry:
You shall not work nor eat until you sell your liberty
It abridges the God-given and Constitution given
rights Of the American citizen. And it destroys the
established legal right of labor unions to organize
Even if a contract is valid only in rare cases opn
it be enforced legally by an injunction.
No judge who enslaves workers with yellow dog
injunction should be appointed to the supreme court
by the President or confirmed by the senate.
Parker's friends advance an alibi. They say that
in unfolding an Injunction against the United Mine
Workers in the Red Jacket case, he merely fol-
lowing the supreme court decision in the Hitchman
case which he. as lower court was obliged to do.
There is very good legal opinion denying that the
Htchman and Red Jacket cases were analogous There
is very good legal opinion that Parker went far beyond
the supreme court decision.
aside and Parker is given every benefit of the doubt
the fact remains that he did uphold the yellow dog
contract And the fact remains that he did not ex-
press disagreement with the Hitchman decision which
he might have done, though he could not over
rule the supreme court.
There should be no doubt, therefore, of where
Parker stands But if the senate committee has any
doubt let It call Parker to explain in his own words
what he meant by his yellow dog injunction
Important as this is, it should not be allowed
to obscure the wider issue. AS pointed out when
he named, he is essentially a political nominee
who lacks the legal emnence required for the high
position to which he aspires. There is nothing in his
undistingushed record that fits him for the supreme
court of the United States.
There is evidence that Parker would refuse to
join the supreme court majority which has put its
personal opinions above the Constitution and the laws
of congress and protected property rights at the
pense Of human rights.
The curse of this country is that there are too
many Parkers on the supreme court already.
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ONCE 1920 a group of medical in
- vestigators has been making re-
peated extensive studies of the fac
tors that govern the regeneration of
the blood after bleeding, and the
relationship of iron to such changes.
Iron seems to be associated par
ticuiarly with the red coloring mat
ter of the blood, called hemoglobin,
which also is involved in the trans
portation of iron in the system.
Among observations that have
been made, certain factors are par
ticularly striking. Liver, including
that of pig. beef, sheep, calf and
chicken, leads all other substances
in causing regeneration of the blood,
although the kidney and chicken
gizzard have practically equal value,
The tissue of other organs, such
as the brain, the spleen, the pam
creas, bone marrow and the muscles
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Down to Cases

I'd like to try my feeble best to
l. move one or two of those freight
cars. The first of these is the popu-
lar assumption that everybody now
standing in the breadline is loafer
who would not work even if an OPP
portunity we're offered.
1t is quite true. of course, that
some of the men are not capable of
work. The handicap may be either
physical or mental. Yet, even these
individuals are not to be dismissed
contemptuously. as worthy of no
consideration. Let's get down to
cases:
Mr.. z is SO years old. He was ap-
prenticed to a jeweler when Is years
Of age. He worked at this trade for
forty years. At one time he was a
designer of jewelry and metal trim
mings. His designs were known to
the trade by his name, years ago.
In 1915, when he was 81 years old,
serious illness impaired his eye
sight and made it impossible for
him to continue at his trade. For
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Must Be Confined

TIME public was right in raising a
Il storm of protest when a great
power company was discovered
financing newspapers last summer
but if electricity and journalism
should not mix, what about cleo
tricity and the theater?
1t requires no stretch of the
imagination to realize how easily the
power business could acquire con-
troll of one allied industry after
another if permitted to go on un-
checked.
That being so, the first requisite
of an effective public policy would
seem to be absolute confinement OF
the power business within its own
field.
The power business is monopolistic
in tendency. So, too, are many OF
its allied industries. That should
give us enough to contend with
without permitting them to combine
and coalesce.
If it were necessary to take
Standard Oil apart, or stop the
meat packers from canning
vegetables, it is doubly necessary to
forestau such an electrical entente
as would hold American commerce
in the hollow of its hand.
The idea that we can cope with
this issue by flirting with a few
water falls is utterly absurd.
This country's hydro-electric pow
er, even if fully developed, would
not satisfy more than a fraction OF
its needs.
The people who live in coal, gas
or oil areas are entitled to as much
assistance and protection at the
hands of the government as are
those who dwell in river bottoms.
Not only that, but all the people
are entitled to protection against
industrial despotisn1.
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years he has been doing odd jobs,
mostly buying gloves, needles, ETC.,
and peddling them.
Recently he has been carrying
sandwich signs-f1ve hours for So.
Very tiresome. Also selling printed
cards and calendars on very uncer-
tain basis. Last job was a mes
senger at SIT week.
He is now in good health, except
that he is badly in need of glasses,
All of his possessions are on him.
Glad of any job. Would work here
or in the country.
That is an honorable record. To-
day z is on the breadIine.
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" PraQ VI
+ Daily !
I Lenten Devotion
Tuesday. April 8
THE WISDOM OF DUTY


Read Romans 1919 CNlemory
Verse: Bear ye one another's
burdens" Galatians GU
MEDITATION
Many people do not like the word
duty. A friend remarked recently:
Il hate the word duty. 1 have heard
it all my life. I wish I might never
hear it again" Duty" meant "a
him line Of conduct demanded BY
somebody elsa load laid upon him
from outside, without his consent.
Duty is not something that others
require of us. 1t is something that
we require Of ourselves. 1t is a line
of conduct that we must pursue to-
ward others if We are going TO ar
rive at ourselves. 1t is the road to
that sense of inner satisfaction that
Is, perhaps, to a normal person the
best indication that he Is realizing
his true relation to his fellow-men.
Regarded in this way duty is not
irksome bondage, but the road to
life.
PRAYER
"As neglected duties come now
to mind. help us to go back and
faithfully discharge them, lest We
stand at last condemned before thee,
and lose beyond recall the jof OF hav-
ing done thy will upon earth, to
make heaven about us" Amen
W. E. Orchard.
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NJ. E. Tracy
We Are All GroUing Depend
ef1t on PoVer, Whether in
the Home, the Workshop or
the Public Park.
SAYS

THE Fox case comes to a happy
Il ending. With the fine Italian
hand of power revealed as cropping
about in another important field.
Introduction of the talkies called
for electrical equipment; many thea
ter operators could not put up the
cash for its installation; besides,
there were rentals and royalties
after it had been installed.
And so it goeS-one great indus
try after another succumbing to the
man who controls the switchboard
and patent rights.
And still we think of rates as the
all-important question.
n
Muscle Shoals comes up for dis
cussion in congress.
The government owns 1t, we say,
and why should the government OPP
crate it, to prove how cheaply power
can be produced?
In many minds that sums up the
issue, but for those who live in
riverless regions and are dependent
on electricity derived from coal, gas
or oil, it settles nothing.
Even if a rate-making policy we're
extended to cover the whole coun-
try, still would be facing the men
ace OF centralized monopoly.
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ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those Of
one OF Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ -
North Pole Is Problemdticdt
Point IN Sea Of Drift Ice;
South Pole Is on Land.
TINE difficulties Of Antarctic ex-

THE difficulties of Antarctic ex-
plorations will be better APP
preciated if the difference between
the north and south polar regions Is
kept in mind.
Within the Arctic region, the
area above latitude so degrees north.
there live more than 100000 peo-
pie. There are countless land ami
mails and some of the worlds most
valuable forests.
1t is true that the north pole itself
is a mathematical point in the
midst Of sea of drift ice. But this
sea is surrounded on all sides by
land easily reached from the more
populous regions OF Europe and
America.
The south pole is on land. But ID
is land surrounded by forbidding
sea of drift ice.
Within the Antarctic region, the
area south of latitude 60 degrees
south, there is not a permanent hue
man inhabitant nor an animal larg-
err than an insect. There are no
trees and only a slight and scanty
vegetation.
The only industry in the region Is
whaling, and that can only be car
ried on during a few months of the
year.
The Antarctic continent itself has
an area of more than 100000
square miles. 1t is equivalent in size
to Australia plus Europe with the
exception of Russia.
The south pole is in the interior OF
this continent.
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Raj Dads SQueIched

il0i OdQO OQ uClClIGu
EORTY oars ago, railroads con-
L stituted the biggest DOGGY on
our industrial and commercial
horizon.
They were watering stock, grant
ing rebates to large shippers, cor
rupting legislatures, creating cities
and raising cain in general.
The fathers of this generation
had merry time of it taking the
railroads apart and making them
behave, and heaven knows what
might hive happened If the fivver
and the truck hadn't come along.
Maybe something similar to the
1iVYer and the truck will come
along to help us solve the power
problem, but no one knows.
Power has become not only the
driving force of industry but a
dominant factor in our social and
recreational activities.
We are all growing dependent
on it, whether in the workshop, the
home Or public park.
Through holding companies at
the top, power is piling up enormous
cash reserves. Through subsidiary
companies at the bottom, it is es-
tablishing intimate control over
the housewife, laborer, merchant,
manufacturer and professional
man.
The power business, as repre-
sented by interlocking directorates,
research laboratories, patent rights
and political pull, contains such
possibilities of economic domination
by comparatively small group of
men as never before existed.
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A Philadelphia saxophone band of sixty pieces is
planning to serenade President Hoover. There's
brass for you.
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when you are very clever" says writer, you
shut out from a great number of common joys"
Pity the columnists.
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When former Secretary of State Kellogg said
something will out of the London conference,
he probably had in mind another conference.
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The movie director who paid 100000 fine to
escape punishment for lodging the income tax now
knows that money talkies, too.
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Add industrial depressions: Just at a time when
a manufacturer launches $1O,0OOOoo campaign
on new razor, fashion note announces that boards
are coming back into fashion.
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Sir Harry Segrave, holder of the worlds automo-
bile speed record arrested in London for driving
more than forty-hve miles an hour 1t is safe to
assume Sir Harry didn't say: why, officer I've never
been over thrty-five In my life"
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eager in the pursuit of the i'm
mortal easement.
Father O'Fianigan will return to
Ireland May 81 to complete the
edition of an ordinance survey of
Ireland, made in 1834-41 by John
O'Donovan, at the order of the
British government. He expects in
six months to finish the task, on
which he already has been working
for four years.
T. D. DAHANER.
1862 Oliver avenue.
Editor TimeS-I have read with
interest the letters Of Mrs. Carroll
Collins in The Times. She is right
in every statement. A married wom-
ans place is in the home. If she
does not intend to do her part in
making a home for her husband, she
should not marry, and if a man can
not support a wife he should not
marry.
will venture to say that 80 per
cent of the working married women
would be minus mates if they quit
their jobs. If they think I'm wrong,
let them try it.
No self-respecting man will per-
NIT his wife to work. Furthermore,
man does not respect the woman
who neglects her home and children
for the pay envelope.
The business men of American
would do well to discharge all mar
ried women who are keeping able
bodied men and give these male
parasites something else to think
about besides fine clothes and the
latest model car.
MRS. JOHN w. SCHMIDT.
r. R. 10, Box 280, Indianapolis.
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Barriers

ME sea surrounding Antarctic is
l. filled with great floating sheets
Of ice known as the ice barriers.
These barriers are derived largely
from the ice cap on the continent.
The largest of the barriers, known
as Ross barrier, is in Ross sea. 1t is
about as large as the area of France
and ranges in thickness from 500 to
1900 miles.
The outer edge of this barrier is
toward the open sea. The inner
edge is held fast to the continent,
joining up with the glaciers which
extend down from the ice cap
At the approach of warm weather,
large pieces Of ice break off from the
barriers, forming huge icebergs.
The sea ice itself is temporary. tt
begins to form near the end of
January. By March a ship is likely
to be frozen in.
1t becomes thicker as the year
progresses. By October or Novem-
Der it may be as much as seven feet
thick.
1t begins to break up in December.
The lowest temperature so far re-
corded in Antarctica is n degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit. This, how
ever. was near the sea and it is
thought that lower temperatures are
experienced in the interior.
No month Of the year has an av-
erage temperature appreciably abovs.
80 degrees, Fahrenheit, the freez-
ing point.
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DAILY THOUGHT

He will laugh thee to scorn.-
EccIeSiastes 1857.