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The Kusko times., 1931-08-22
PILOT GILLIAN A HERO.

Pilot Harold Gillian, of the Gillian Airways, flew the members of the Cordova Chamber of Commerce to Fairbanks, recently. It happened he arrived the same day as Post and Gatty, says the Fairbanks News Miner. Jusct a. few minutes after the arrival of the s'round--the-worh liers at the Nordale Hotel Pilot Gillian was standing. in the. hotel lobby. A lady came up to him, threw her arms around him. and. said. Are you the flier?"
 Naturally. Gillamys thinking of his flight from Cordoya, said "Yes." Then, with great big hug. and kiss, the kind old lady said My, but you are brave boy to, attempt this long flight around the world. [ am really proud of. you!"
 And she wouldn't. let Gillam explain that he was not Post.
 -----
 Rastus: Here, am a telegram from de boss in Africa. >, HeS;says he. is sending us some. lions tails."
 = Circus owners wife: Lions tails, Rastus? What: are: you talking about ?"
 Rastus: We'll read it yourself. It says plainr Just captured two lions. Sending details by mail.,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN
Fall Courses at University of Vir
= ginia offered by Alumni.

Two alumni scholarships to the Uni
versity of virginia for 1872 are
open for applicants, the Washington
Chapter of the Virginia Alumni Associa-
ton, which will make the awards, an
nounces.
The scholarships are open to all stu
dents from Washington who intend to
register in the academic department OF
the university. Richard E. Stands
Shoreham Building. is receiving the ap-
plications, the appointments to be made
in June
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
u. S. Trade HEADS
TO TEND FARLEY
Dr.. Klein Will Head Experts
at Foreign Commerce
Convention.

Leading Government experts and pri-
vate specialists in foreign trade, headed
by Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Julius Klein and William l.. Cooper, di-
rector OF lhe Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce. will attend the
National FC-eign Trade Convention in
New York Nay 27-29, inclusive.
Five representatives from the foreign
trade side OF the State Department will
cooperate with the force of 80 business
specialists WHO, year after year, have
served as trate advisers at the annual
conventions aid furnished advice on
foreign trade problems between con-
ventions.
HodgsontO Be in Charge.
James F. Holgson, New York man.
ager of the Burau Of Foreign and Do
meStic Commerce, will be in charge
and DR.. Guy z. Snider, as trade ed-
wiser secretary, will arrange appoint
mentS for delegates seeking advice on
any particular question The assistant
director OF the Governments Foreign
and Domestic Commerce Bureau, John
Matthews, jr., also will take part
Experts OF the Government bureau
who have been designated to attend the
convention include Etc T. King, chief.
specialties division; Charles C. Concan-
SAAAC4, CLAculICdl 1lVlSlOn. Arthur
.. Hlllyer, chief, commercial intelligence
division; A. w. Childs. thief, and c. F.
Baldwin, assistant chit, automotive
division; M. H. Bletz. chief. foreign con-
struction division; Waite H. Rastall.
chief, machinery division: Luther
Becker, chief, -steel-hadware divi-
sion.
DR.. Klein Will SPEAK.
Edward T. Pickard. chief. textiles divi-
sion: Leighton w. Rogers. clief. aero
nautics trade division: Wilbur j. Page.
hides and leather division Crosvenor
Jones. chief, and Ray Hall, assistant
chief. finance and investment Division.
and Charles F.. Moser, Far Eastern sec
ton, regional information division.
DR.. Klein, who will speak on the topic
Are We Losing Out in Foreign Trade?"
at dinner given by the Export Man
ayers Club Mav %. and his secretary.
C. Grant Isaacs, also will attend the
convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
WASHINGTON PORTRAITS
TO BE ON EXHIBITION

More than 100 original portraits OF
George Washington are to be assembled
by the George Washington Bicentcnnial
Commission for an exhibition next year
In the United States National Museum
OF the Smithsonian Institution.
The paintings are being loaned by the
owners to the commission for the ex-
hibition as enc Of the features of the
Bicentennial celebration
The paintings will have art interest
to vie with the historical Importance
OF the collection, according to the COM
mission, and the thoueands of persons
who visit the National CAPITAL during
the celebration will have an opportu-
nifty to see the original paintings. the
most prominent of which are familiar
to the average American.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-18
Germ-B Snails
Cause British to Quit
Air Base Near Bagdad
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 18.-The Daily
Mail says in a dispatch from
Basra. Irak, that Snails compelled
the British Royal Air Force to
abandon its base at Lake Hab-
baniya, near Bagdad.
The site of the intended camp
was found to swarm with myriads
of snails which carried germs of
the disease bilharziasis, which
British troops during the World
War dubbed bill Harris" 1t is
more commonly known as schis-
toSomasis and causes internal
bleeding. The correspondent said
that BaSra would probably be
chosen as the site for the base.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
We Are Blind?

There is lovely little village in Mexico in which
all the residents blind.
The village is on mountain side and beneath It
stretches vista Of rapturous beauty But the village
is infected with fly, the bite of which causes blind
ness It's children, born with normal eyesight, can
not see after few years. The beauty of their home
does not exist for them.
Perhaps something of the sort has happened in
this country.
Hungry men and women riot in Arkansas Hun
cry men and women riot in Oklahoma. Hungry men
and women gather in front of the city hall in New
York. Hungry and women march in Los
Angeles. Hungry men and women stand in soup
lines in nearly every city n the country.
Yet we behave for the most part as if nothing
we're happening as only blind could behave;
blind to suffering blind to the wealth about us,
which could end the suffering if we would fearlessly
and intelligently require it to do so.
Scientists are working to eradicate the sight-de-
stroying insect In Mexico Can nothing be done for
our blindness?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

the rest of us seem too dull and
ordinary to liven the pulse of any
lady.
By dint of longing and wishing
to be like these men we shall attain
it. Almost any morning now I am
expecting somebody to remark on
my resemblance to John Gilbert.
But it may be that it is not well
for the stage or the screen to turn
the attention of our generation back
to a day when the romance of ex-
istence was more palpable.
Rudyard Kipling considered the
dangers of this retrogression in one
of his best tales, called 1.-THE Finest
Story in the World"
Kipling told of an author who
happened upon a weedy young clerk
who under certain stimulus could
remember previous existences.
With the hypnosis of freight the
man would begin to tell of days
when he rowed in Grecian galley,
and there was another tale of a
trip to the long beaches across the
ocean in a ship manned by Morse
men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
That Next War?

Another world war is in the making 1t can not
he prevented by the military preparedness advocates
bv the emotional pacsts, by the League of Nations
nor by anti-war treaties such the Kellogg pact.
1t can be prevented only by labor, organized in
ternationally to stop production in such an
gency This is the major thesis of THAT Next WARP"
a challenging book by a Swedish military expert
Major K A. Bratt, published by Harcort, Brace.
His second proposal is for an international mill
tary force to be used against aggressor nation.
Like most international writer's today Bratt pre-
sents facts to prove the probability of another world
war in the not distant future He handles his po-
cal material ably the technical military data
Indeed, this is one of the few books which COM
bine an adequate presentation of both political
military elements in the dangerous world situation
The explosive situation created by the enforced
and unjust Versailles peace settlement is understood
pretty generally by this time everywhere But Bratt
demonstrates with force that 1.-THE present
French system of security is not one to preserve a
decent peace, but to secure victory in war"
= on the military side he shows that the n6st war
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

win be by aircraft and high explosives. and that
in the process whole industrial regions with their
civilian populations viii be wiped out It is CHASTITY
picture.
For the present, the whole idea Of a rational
organization for peace stands falls by the inter-
national force, which must in the last resort be an
international military force" he argues.
But no international military force can do much
good, indeed it can do much harm, unless there is
some sure check on the selfish governments which
control world organization.
Hence the Importance of Bratt's main contention
that 1T is the international labor movement prefer
ably in conjunction with peace capital which will
bring about the historic change"if there is to be
change from war to- peace organization.
He adds, significantly, that only such world
labor organization prevent social revolution as
well as aggressive war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Another Prohibition Mystery

Out of all the confusion regarding the Wicker
sham report and the Presidents message, there was
only one point upon which every one agreed 1t was
that Hoover's message opposed modification or re-
vision thus placing the President at last on the SIDE
of the professional dry extremists.
misleading summary in the Presidents message
of the commissions report succeeded further in oo-
securing the wetness Of the report
Hence the widespread conflict Of interpretations
of the report in congress, in the press and on the
street.
Rut there was no disagreement whatever on the
Presidents personal attitude Much said and
written regarding the courage shown by the President
in coming down fatty on the dry side after sraddling
the issue for three years After making many I'M
clear statements about prohibition now finally ne had
made one which was unequivocal He had informed
congress in an official message:
ct do however see serious objections to, and there
fore must not be understood as recommending, the
commissions proposed revisions Of the eighteenth
amendment which is suggested by them for possible
consideration at some future time if the continued
effort at enforcement should not prove successful
INV own duty and that of all executive officials is
c,earto enforce the law with all the means at our
disposal, without equivocaton or reservation"
whv the President should refuse to accept the
recomnendation-wh he rlisstated, by the way
of his own commission was not CleaI DuI ChdC Ae
had refused and that he specifically had objected to
even a mild form of revision, was clear to all
That was the troubleit was too clear Tor the poll
ticians If Hoover going to be drier than the
VI. C. T. u. and Anti-Saoon League, what chance had
the Republican party Of winning the 1882 election IN
seh essential states as York and illinois, not to
mention many smaller wet states? Obviously there
was no chance, said the Republican politicians.
So Just forty-eight hours after the Presidents
drvhard message to congress, the Republican poll
ticans began to put out inspired stories that the
president had been misunderstood by every one
he had not intended to oppose possible revision OH
no quite the contrary; indeed, he was preserving
very omen mind on the subject.
To make sure that this denial got wide circulation
the same denial was allowed to leak out OF the White
House tsen-unoficially, Of course.
With good luck, and sufficient stupidity on the
mart of the public and the press apparently the po-
ltical manpulators hope to get the country running
around in fog again trying to solve the great mys-
terv: "Is Hoover wet or dry?"
What difference does it make?
What Hoover thinks or doesn't think may be i'm
nortant for Republican election prospects; but 1t
hardly can stay the forthcoming wet tide.
Hoover wet or Hoover dry has not checked the
natoral growth of wet sentiment during the last two
wears That wet tide will continue to rise, Hoover
wet. Hoover dry Hoover wet-and-dry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Crowd Usually Right

TIME crowd has made mistakes
4 in picking its heroes and max
ing its choices, but If you trace them
down, you will find that they were
mostly due to carefully managed
campaigns, to the subtle influences
of propaganda, or to the effect of
some deep-seated prejudice.
Wherever and whenever the crowd
has been left free to do its own
choosing, it has been right much
more often than it has been wrong.
And this has been especially true
in sensing the basic qualities Of
character.
With respect to Einstein, it was
the man, not his work, that the
crowd trusted. The crowd couldn't
read his books, or work out his
equations.
What does the crowd know about
problems with ten unknown guam
titles, four of which are assumed?
Nothing, of course. But the crowd
does have a way of telling an honest
man from nollntebank, and
usually you can depend on it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
Special Receivers

THE experimenters have also
Il succeeded in designing spe-
cial types of receivers for aviators.
Head telephone receivers sim
liar to those worn by telephone and
radio operators may be used in
airplanes." Ryan says.
"A more satisfactory headset has
been developed, however, employ
ing phonetic type of receiver orig
inally devised for the hard-of-
hearing.
These receivers, which weigh less
than an ounce. are connected with
small ear molds fitted to the ear of
the individual pilot.
Another feature of the headset
is required for occasions when 1t be-
comes necessary for the pilot to
leave the plane in a hurry. It would
be quite embarrassing to be dan
Cling by the cord of his telephone
headset.
This cord consequently is at
tached by means of a plug, which
will pull out at any sudden jerk,
and yet will provide good electrical
contact.
Power for both filament and
plate supply Of the radio receiver
is produced by a tiny wind driven
generator only three inches in diam
eter, weighing seven pounds COM
plete with propeller.
This generator in streamlined
casing is mounted on a wing or
strut. To generate sufficient power,
the propeller must revolve 100 times
a second"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
= DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
tuberculosis Infects Many Children

examination of $500 children in
that city, in an attempt to find out
how prevalent tuberculosis is among
boys and girls in that community.
The method used was the tuber-
culin test, in which small amounts
Of the sensitive substance is in
jected into the skin. Of the $500
children tested, 824, or 23.5 per cent,
reacted positively.
1t is the general belief that in
lection in childhood Is probably ac-
quired in large part by contact with
cases of tuberculosis in other men,
berS of the family.
Girls still spend a larger part of
their time than boys in the house.
They thus are exposed to more in
innate contact with members of the
family who suffer with tuberculosis.
Doctor Seitz believes that boys
probably have just as much of a
chance, because they circulate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
GRAPES for Faker
TINE crowd can be sold tin razo

THE crowd can be sold tin razors,
Il 10-cent diamond rings, but
more because it likes to play at
being fooled than because it is
fooled. The greatest fakes in his
tory were not put over on the
crowd, but on the highbrows, the
upper crust, the intelligentzia.
Look at the Mississippi bubble, or
Cagliostro.
People are most apt to be bunked
after they have built up some
elaborate system on a false premise,
and those at the top usually prove
the easiest victims.
A king calling in astrologerS, be-
cause vanity persuades him to be-
Ieve he is the child of heaven and
that his destiny must be written
in the stars; a cardinal wanting
gold SO he may impress the queen
with whom he is in love; bunch
of capitalists hungering for more
power, or a bunch of public Off
Gals striving to prevent change, to
keep their jobs-all these and
others like them, make the takers
best clover patch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

Editor TimeS-I learn from the
papers. and the board of safety
that our police are but poorly
equipped for the battle raging be-
tween them and the bandits. And
now the brilliant and timely sug-
gestion originates with our board
of safety that coats or vests of
mail should be provided for the po-
lice department. The suggestion
has a medieval sound. It Smacks
of the dark ages, feudalisn, jousts,
tournaments, star chambers and
dungeons.
Let me suggest this in addition:
That with the coats Of mail we get
a good supply of racks and thumb
screws and other primitive instru-
ments for human torture, and the
local bastile and the bull pen" be-
ing thus equipped with all the ac-
cessories, our police will be all the
better qualified to extort confess
sions under torture from bandits
and other miscreants and suspects.
History does repeat itself. We
are progressing backward fast. We
are reviving some of the fine old
customs of the good old times. We
are making bonfres Of the public
enemy in the grand old state Of
Missouri, and applying the rack
and dungeon torture in the great
HooSier commonwealth Of Indiana.
THOMAS D. MCGEE.
Editor Times-As a regular reader
of your paper, I note a story about
the veterans bonus certificates,
which seems to intimate that vet
eran wouldn't know enough to use
his cash as he should. I suppose
each of them would need corporal
or sergeant over him if he were
lucky enough to get some cash out
Of his bonus certificate, to tell him
what to do and what not to do.
The soldiers should be allowed to
vote on this question, not some one
who never erved or who by some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
One Needed Law

Most surprising is the fact that in the
present legislature there has been no effort
to curb utility greed by more effective regula-
ton.
Almost it would appear that the absence
of utility lobbyists had produced an apathy on
this question, for in other years when the
paid agents swarrned the corridors and enter
tanned the lawmakers, there were many
measures on this subject.
1t is just possible that the lobbyists in
spired the hostile bills in order to make bust
ness good for themselves.
Two years ago fight was made to place
the holding companies under state control
The lobby won and the measure was defeat
ed. But sentiment of the people for such a.
law was overwhelming and unmistakable.
Two years have made that law even more
desirable, for the greed of some of these con-
Germs has become outrageous and apparently
limitless.
The public service commission does not
get the facts and, as result, utility charges
are higher than ever before while all other
basic prices are reduced.
The two utilities whose exactions through
the holding company device is the largest and
most onerous are the telephone and electric
concerns.
A legislative committee empowered 10
take evidence, could easily discover just how
much is being taken from the public with no
return.
The telephone company has long been an
offender along this line. The light company
in this city has become an apt pupil since the
merger.
Holding companies must be regulated or
they will soon wreck industry and business.
A legislative probe would help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23
DIT n GOM nv, FREDERICK
ANAA ANIL lands

XXTHEN the leading powers of the world ratified
w the Kellogg treaty and thereby promised that
they would not go to war any more to settle their
disputes, the more optimistic friends of peace hailed
1t as the dawn OF better day.
But as the months have gone past and the nations
that gave their solemn pledges never to go to war
again have continued to arm themselves with more
destructive weapons than ever before common sense
has told the world that the Kellogg treaty was not
enough to avert warfare.
A ND now the League of Nations is to call a world
N wide disarmament conference, ard if it fails,
many foreign statesmen say it means another
world war
If by this they mean that nations must make
themselves absolutely defenseesS against their
neighbors, of course the conference must fail.
It is not in human nature for Europe's closely
packed nations. pot-ridden and shot through with
hatreds to take anothers promises OF good behavior
at one hundred cents the dollar.
It would take special dispensation of Providence
to bring this about.
Under universal disarmament, Russia would be
the overwhelming force of the continent, and the
man who thinks the Soviet government would use such
power as mild-mannered gentleman IS too innocent
for this wicked world
Runlania knows what Russia would do to her and
so do Poland and Finland.
A ND France has Pickering notion Of what Ger
n mary would do, as regards Alsace- Lorraine, if
the respective power of the two nations reduced
to their relative numbers.
And Poland knows what Germany would do to her,
regards the corridor which reaches to the Baltic
How can the world hope for disarmament when 1t
means not only that small nations shall trust great
nations but that the great nations must surrender
their foreign possessions?
When you resolve it into its ultimate conclusions,
disarmament vanishes an empty dream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

Who Shall Say That Our So
cidL System Played No Part
In Alma Rubens' Sad Fate.

GAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 23.-Pneu-
- monia withdraws Alma Runens
from the greatest drama of them
all, just as grand jury is prepar-
ing to indict her for illegal posses
sion of narcotics.
VIII st. Pete go on with the case,
or make due allowance for the way
she tried, the way she suffered, and
the way she failed?
Three years ago, hers was an at
tractive, hopeful face. Three weeks
ago. when snapped by a San Diego
Sun photographer, it was one Of the
saddest you could care to see.
We ascribe here unhappy fate as
due entirely to drugs, but who shall
say that the social system which
first tempted, and then cast her
aside, played no part?
If few have been able to break
the grip of morphine, equally few
have been able to Withstand the
subtly vicious effect of sudden popu-
larity and wealth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-23

more and are more likely to come
in contact with a number of people
than are girls.
Similar studies made by other
investigators throughout the world
show an incidence Of tuberculosis
in children varying from 81 per
cent in Iowa, to 46 per cent in
Philadelphia, SO per cent in Mime
apolis, 43 per cent in New York, rs
per cent in Buenos Aires and "a per
cent in Vienna.
The authors are convinced that
the most plausible explanation OF
the lessened amount of infection
among children throughout the
world is early recognition of cases
of tuberculosis in adults as
sources of infection and their
early removal from the environ
ment, so that they no longer serve
as permanent sources of infection
to children In the same family.