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June IL

June IL
I'M June II, 1917, Lord North
~ cliffe, proprietor OF the London
Times, the London Daily Mail and
other publications, arrived in New
York to take up the duties of head
Of the British commission to the
United States. which post had been
rendered him by Premier Lloyd
George.
Northcliffe's assignment was to
coordinate the work of the various
British organizations already en-
gagged in the task of supplying Brit
ish war and other needs. His ap-
pointment was not a diplomatic po-
sition.
The head Of the French commits
sion was Andre Tardieu. Baron
Moncheur. former Belgian minister
to the United States, arrived in New
York with the Belgian commission
June 10.
Each of the allied governments
had numerous commissions engaged
in various duties Of assembling and
procuring supplies in this country.
A commission Of Russians, con-
sisting OF forty members, arrived in
Seattle three days previously.
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known as the bacillus OF CHAMBERS.
From three to five days after the
germ gets into the body, the syrnp-
toms first appear.
There are the usual symptoms of
infection, such as nausea, headache,
vomiting, chills and some fever.
Quite soon, however, nodules ap-
pear on the skin associated with in
Illumination of the Emphatic ducts
and glands near the places where
the assesses are located.
Sometimes a hard nodule de-
velops which ulcerates and breaks
down, discharging a profuse, sticky
substance. If the disease attacks
the lungs, it gives symptoms like
those of pneumonia.
Nowadays a diagnosis of CHAMBERS
hardly is likely to be made, unless
the condition described happens to
occur in some one constantly work
ing around horses.
The acute infection is very serious
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1T must be so that Moscow pays
l. insufficient attention to the
speeches of Mayor Walker. Only a
few weeks ago his honor explained
the entire drive against him on the
ground that the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes was leading Communist
cabal.
And now across the cables comes
the news that the Soviet govern
ment will not grant Mr.. Holmes a
visa admitting him for visit.
1t is said the ruling is in con-
fornlity with Russia's policy of ex-
Guiding all clergymen. This seems
like far-fetched application of
the policy, for Mr.. Holmes is not in
any sense evangelical, but a wholly
independent minister, little to the
left even of the Unitarian sect.
1t may well be that Russia's lack
Of hospitality is on other grounds.
John Haynes Holmes is among the
most prominent of American paci-
fists. And Russia has gone in for
preparedness on large scale.
Indeed, there are few countries in
the world where the war specter is
made to dance SO constantly for
political effect.
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Star Study
CCIENTIsTs eagerly ar

CHEMISTS eagerly are await
~ ing the results of Professor
Piccard's measurements of the cos
mic rays. They are also eager to
know if he found radiations Of any
unknown sort coming from the sun
or from the direction of Milky Way.
For many years astronomers have
felt that the atmosphere was one
Of the greatest obstacles to their
work. When the astronomer views
star through his telescope, he Is
looking at it through thick blanket
Of shifting, moving air.
The result is that a star never
appears as a sharp point or light,
but as little fluctuating disk,
known technically as a "tremor
disk" Some nights, the atmosphere
is so turbulent that seeing" is too
poor to make it worth while for the
astronomer to try to work.
The atmosphere also interferes
with his work in other ways. Ger
tain wave lengths of light are alb
sorbed by the atmosphere, leaving
blanks in the spectra Of stars and
Of the sun.
CThe astronomer. however, ought
not to do too much kicking, be-
cause the atmosphere screens out
certain wave lengths of ultraviolet
light from the sun which, If they
got through to the earth's surface,
would destroy Ife)
It may be, therefore, that in the
future astronomers will take to
"stratosphere balloons" thus getting
above the air currents Of the low
est layer of atmosphere.
It may be that many discoveries
will be made by astronomers work
ing in the stratosphere.
1t will be seen, therefore, that
there are many reasons for re-
garding Piccards flight as mile
stone in the progress Of science as
well as bright spot in the record
Of mans courage.
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law, or for meeting modern needs. Twenty leaders
Of the party in power dominate its deliberations like
g dictatorship.
They decide what measures shall be reported out
OF committee, what measures shall be taken up on
the floor, how much debate shall be permitted
When committee brings out an unwanted bill
the bosses pigeonhole it. They manipulate men and
measures like so many wooden soldiers All protests
have been futile The rules give them power and they
use it,
By these means they blocked votes on such i'm
portant measures as reapportionment, the lame
duck" amendment, and the senate Muscle Shoals bill
for many years. They emascuated and weakened
many excellent measures passed by the senate
They refused to permit full debate on needed
amendments to the Hawley-smoot tariff bill For
fear that the administration program might be up
SET these few men imposed gag rule and steam roller
tactics upon their 4OO-odd colleagues.
1t is time to get rid Of such an unrepresentative
system.
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Daniel. Alias Clarence

The supreme court, by deviation and d.
vision, has, by majority report, concluded
that laws can not be passed by fraud and
forgery.
For this conclusion, thank Supreme
Judge Clarence Martin.
All, the organized forces of government
as represented by the Office of the secretary
of state and the encouragement fought for
the technical position that whenever a bill
was sent to a Governor and Historically
signed it became a law.
AS it happened, this particular measure
affected the public utilities of the state. 1t
was so obnoxious that the gorge rose even in
the souls of purchased legislators. They could
not stomach it's infamies. 1t would have put
the city Of Indianapolis in bondage to all the
transportation barons. 1t would have
shackled the mayor Of Muncie, almost an i'm
possibility.
1t would be too shameful to record all the
facts, because these would involve men in
high places, even the highest place.
It is sufficient to state that the charge in
the courts is that bill, by forgery, became
law.
Just why a Governor feverishly affixed
his signature to this measure while honest
men in the lower house were trying to re-
call it may never be known.
Just Why senators who had endeavored
vanly to prevent the rape of the people
were powerless may be the subject of long
debate
What is known is this: The city of Indi-
annapolis and the city of Muncie rebelled and
there comes from the supreme court this
note Of hope:
when the fact of attestation is alleged
to be due to fraud or mistake of fact, or to
have been recalled, we believe that the courts
have the right and the duty to determine
such questions"
Here is the challenge to legislation by
forgery There is no question as to the facts.
The bill, hurriedly signed by Governor
Harry G. Leslie, was not the bill passed by
the senate or the house. Write your own
answer to the query as to why this was the
only measure never sent to the attorney
general for approval.
But this is the one thing that is para
mount. The supreme court has said that we
shall not have legislation by forgery and
fraud when complaisant Governor certifes
to fraud and forgery.
This is step forward
The practical effect of this bill would
have been the denial to local authority of all
control of transportation.
1t would have stopped George Dale in
Muncie in his fight for the people.
What the courts finally may decide about
this particular bill is of little or great import
The big thing is this A Daniel came
to judgment. He says and this is the law,
that we shall not be controlled by fraud nor
forgery and his name is Clarence Martin.
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We Feel Inferior

TT IS curious paradox that
4 American democracy should have
resulted in such a craze for ap-
plause, pomp and power, and such
discomfort with the ways and means
by which 80 per cent of the people
must expect to earn a living.
Though unconsciously, perhaps,
we have developed bad case OF
inferiority complex.
Our social and economic struc-
ture is infected with a contempt
for those who go through life doing
one job well.
This is particularly true If the
Job happens to call for overalls.
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Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-The public is more
helpless and injured by the exces-
sive charges and, upon delinquency,
the shutting off of utility services,
than the taxes possibly can be. The
life and health of the consumers
and their families are endangered,
without recourse, in event of non
payment by reason of unemploy-
ment or misfortune.
An official investigation would
show that the profits and rates Of
utilities are out of proportion in
comparison to the low costs of pro-
duction and further comparison of
rates in other cities, and with
municipality owned plants.
Protests and Investigations now
are conducted in other parts of the
state and so should be inaugurated
in this city, if the consumers lift
UP their voice in protest or petition.
G. 0. L.
Editor Times-This has to do
with the newly enacted ordinance
on traffic regulation. Why prohibit
parking in the entire mile square
before 9:15 a. m? Is the council
playing in the hands Of the garage
owners and the parking lot oper-
ators?
What is wrong with parking be-
fore els a. m? If anybody at all
is put out, or suffers an incon-
venience, it is the public. Well
Who OWES the streets but the tax
paying public?
We can not all be councilmen or
city officials and come down TO
work at $50. Ninety per cent of
the laboring men go TO work by 8
o'clock and where are these men
going to park their cars?
Some one sponsoring this ordi-
nance must have in mind, of course,
that these people would have to
natronize the garages and parking
lots.
Then, as if to add insult to in
jury, they put in the tow-in clause
to provide more business for tbs
garages. Put the parking problem
up to the people who own the
streets and see how many Of them
favor this new plan. Take q straw
vote anywhets among representa-
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tive citizens and let the council see
the result.
Furthermore, under this new Or
,dlnance, tow in the cars of city and
county officials, the private cars of
policemen and all other citizens
without distinction, when improp-
erly parked.
Fix it so no one, whether he is
rich man, poor man, city official
or what-not, can Elk" a sticker. and
then after a fair trial, see how
many people believe that the "coun-
Gil" in foisting this abominable
bit OF legislation on the people of
Indianapolis, did it with the real
interest of the people who own the
streets in mind.
One who believes in a govern
ment "of the people. by the people
and for the people"
Editor Times-I hear lectures and
read in the paper that various
speakers say that war veterans
should be given employment. I
happen to be veteran and have
been out of work for the last twelve
months, excepting few days.
live in Marion county and own
real estate. I have asked for work
Of any class that would enable me
to support wife and five chill
dren, but only get hint that it
is impossible, unless 1 have some
one on the inside.
Really, has this land of ours be-
come so infested with yes-men that
it is impossible to get a job, say
driving school bus, or janitor in
the public schools, or in the re-
pairing of same, that pull is re-
| quired.
| I didn't have to have anyone on
the inside to buy property, or pay
taxes, so why to get employment?
I couldn't be lazy, or someone would
have told me.
Yours for more married men on
the job, if they are efficient.
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Mellon and Meat
Some have meat and cannot eat,
And some have none and want it;
We must eat meat despite the heat.
Or the packers will not like IL.

paCAerS
In the future the secretary Of the treasury Will
not permit the United States public health service tc
give the public any health advice which threatens
the profits Of the packing industry.
The packers protested when the health service
issued bulletin recently suggesting that less meat
should be eaten during the summer months. The
secretary now has issued an order that hereafter ali
bulletins must be submitted for his scrutiny before
going to the public. Censorship will do the rest.
Many sacrifices have been asked of us during the
oppression but up to this time one had suggested
tnat we sacrifice health-or our notions of health
on the altar OF sales. 1t seems rather large sacr
flee to make
Apparently we've got to chew our way out of this
mess we're ill., let the digestive apparatus groan as
it may
Meanwhile we have a suggestion to make to Mr.
Mellon 1t is that he contribute to the welfare of the
packing industry by recommending revised taxes
which will fall less heavily on the man of moderate
means
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Ordinary Folks Needed

TIMES are hard chiefly because
J. or 10 per cent of us ordinary
folks can't find work.
That is vivid illustration Of how
important we really are.
Ordinary folks are needed not
only as producers, but as con-
sunerS.
We must not get it into our heads
that the only man who counts is the
one standing in the limelight and
drawing big pay.
He has his part, but it takes q
multitude Of ordinary folks to sup
port him.
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In the Long Bun

NHERE are such things as in
\ flammatory speeches. But In
the long run, mankind is more like
~ TO talk itself out of difficulties
than into them.
Talk, like a running brook, tends
to purify itself. If every articuIate
person can get his say in, out of
that mass of testimony, conflicting
though it may be, the truth can
come.
If Russia refuses to admit John
Haynes Holmes. I suggest to him
that he pick himself up a sending
station somewhere across the border
and project his ideas right over the
head Of the entire Red army.
tCopyrizht. 1881. BY The Timesl
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Fear With a Basis

IF the depression has proved one
l. thing more than another, it. is
that neither a moneyed nor pro-
fessional aristocracy can save bust
ness.
We are frightened because several
million common people can't get
work, and we have right to be.
We are alarmed because a million
farmers have produced more wheat
than we can consume, and again we
have right to be.
tits not true, as some philosophers
declare, that the workers are entire
ly responsible for human progress,
but it is true that they can not be
disnenSed with.
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Leadership Essential


XXTE need leadership as never
w before, but, above all else, we
need that kind which recognizes the
part played by common men.
We need such leadership not only
in business and Statecraft, but in
education.
To a measurable extent, the
schoolroon1 has built up false con-
ceptions of life.
The average boy and girl emerges
from it with the idea that there is
something wrong with honest toll,
that for one reason or another labor
belongs to a lower order of society
and that to really get up in the
world one must have not only a
white collar, but white hands.
Whatever else may be said of it,
the Russian experiment has contri-
buted something of value in pro-
testing against such nonsense.
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Masses Must Work

TNHE State Of affairs Throughout
L the civilized world today hinges
not on what few leaders think
but on the condition of ordinary
people.
If statesmen and economists car
not find a way to improve that
condition, the case is almost hope
less.
Nor should any one regard it as a
problem in altruism or philan-
thropy.
The actual solvency Of our great
est governments depends on whether
or not the masses can be put back
to work.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Science May Gain Greatly by
Daring Flight of Auguste
Picard IN HIS Balloon.
THE balloon fight Of Professor
i Auguste Picard into the
stratosphere is one Of those events
whose Importance is likely to In
crease with the passing OF years.
Today, we are impressed Chiefly
with the courage and assurance OF
the man who calmly stepped into
an aluminium sphere tied TO a
gigantic balloon and sailed up to the
region where the temperature Is
more than 100 degrees below zero.
The future may show that Pro
fesSor Picard has inaugurated
new day in forms of travel and In
methods of scientific research.
Through the medium Of a talking
movie, Professor Picard has sent
message TO Lindbergh suggesting
that he build an airplane to enter
the shakespeare and that IN it
speeds could be attained which
would make the crossing of the At
lantic a matter Of less than eight
hours.
The prediction that airplanes one
day would travel at tremendous
speeds in the stratosphere was made
more than decade ago. Among
those who believed and predicted
that it would one day be done was
Glenn L. Martin, pioneer fiier and
airplane builder. Il printed an in
terview with Martin in which he
made the prediction some eight or
nine years ago..
Such predictions do not sound
quite so rash and imaginary today,
in the face Of Piccard's exploit.
temperature Control
TN so far as travel is concerned,
l. the most significant thing about
Piccard'S flight is the fact that while
he entered region Of the atnos-
phere where the temperature is
more than 100 degrees below zero.
/ the interior Of his aluminium gon-
dola was uncomfortably hot, having
temperature Of about 100 above
zero.
Picard had anticipated that the
interior of the gondola would be
warm. He had said that the metal
shell Of the gondola would absorb
enough radiation from the sun to
stay warm, despite the extreme cold
Of the outer atmosphere.
He had painted half the gondola
black so that either a shiny surface
or dark surface could be turned
toward the sun. The dark surface
would, of course, absorb greater
amount of solar radiation.
Many aeronautical experts were of
the opinion that Picard and his
assistant would freeze to death.
It is now certain that there is no
danger of this happening in a prop
erly constructed balloon or airplane.
Therefore, what many thought to be
the most difficult obstacle in the
way of flights at extreme attitudes,
is shown to be q non-existence OBJ
Stacle.
Scientists who are thinking Of
rocket flights also will find much
good news in Piccards exploit. 1t
means that "rocketeerS" need not
worry about the temperature of the
upper atmosphere.
Piccard's balloon rose with ire
mendous speed. 1t did not, Of
course, rise with the speed OF a
rocket. Nevertheless, 1t shows that
it is possible for passengers to with
stand a considerable speed without
discomfort.
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By DR.. NORRIS FISHBEIH
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the

Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
MOST farmers think of CHAMBERS
4V1 as a disease affecting horses
and mules, but occasionally it at
tacks human beings. It has been
reported also in cats, rabbits, sheep,
mice and various wild animals of
the cat tribe.
Because the disease commonly is
transmitted by horses and affects
horses more frequently than any
other animal, it now rarely is seen
in large cities, from which horses
practically have disappeared.
In the first twenty years of the
last century, there were seven cases
OF CHAMBERS in the wards of the
Bellevue hospital, New York, but
in the last ten years, according to
DR.. Douglas Summers, not a single
case has been seen.
Chambers is caused by a germ
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ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter.
esting writers and are pre-.
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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How many postoffice towns in the
United States are named Lockhart?
One each in Alabama, Florida,
Minnesota, Mississippi, South Caro-
lima and Texas.
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MOSCOW Heresv

A GAIN. Mr.. Holmes has, upon
L n occasion, voted for Socialist
candidates, although he is not a
party member. This would make
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preston that this distinguished body
contained an insufficient amount of
goatistness.
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When gangster staggers victim with bullet
that is also rod and reel sport.
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Daily Thought

Scatter thou the people that de-
light in war.-PsaIm $3.50.
The law is silent during war
Cicero.
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maturing Chicago boy doesn't complain so much
about growing pains as he does shooting pains
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Dorothy thinks that an architect should be a
much travelled because he takes in AL the sites
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A Flaw in the Recipe

A Flaw IN the Recipe
TAR be it from this writer to
l. throw cold water on unstinted
effort as the basis Of success.
Still, it would be shame If our
young people got the idea that they
could become great artists by the
simple process of washing windows
well.
So, too, 1t would be shame If
they got the idea that a good clerk
is to be sneezed at.
We need thousands of clerks to
wait on trade, especially if business
comes back.
Also, we need thousands Of ditch
diggers, taxi drivers and walters, not
to mention such aristocrats of the
laboring class as bricklayers and
plumbers.
Success, as measured by hand
clapping, goo-goo eyes and bank
rolls, is wonderful thing, but how
could we run the country if every
one attained it?
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We Are Frightened Because
Several Million Common
People Can't Get Work, and
We Hare a Right to Be.
SANS

NEW YORK, June 11-Rudy
IN Vallee is far less original as a
philosopher than as a crooner.
Like most successful men, he gets
a big kick out Of telling how hard
and faithfully he toiled when boy.
II washed windows in my fathers
drug store in Maine" reminisces the
Broadway idol. When the clerks
washed the windows, they washed
only the middle. When I washed
them I cleaned up all the soap
powder in the corners. Those clerks
still are in Maine"
Even with my God-given sense
Of rhythm and fair for phrasing,"
he says, Il wouldn't have amounted
to anything if I hadn't worked
hard"
Montana oil journal. (Great Falls, Mont.) 192?-1931, 1931-01-31

President Hoover Is not
opposed TO the imposition Of
a tariff ON petroleum pro-
ducts.
This Is the report Of Ralph
Arnold, noted geologist. califor-
nit delegation chairman at the
governors oil relief conference,
following an interview with the
President.
Secretary wilbur has also
changed his mind as regards a
tariff, Arnold declared. adding
that the Secretary had told him
that statement issued some
time ago. quoting wilbur as ex-
the hope that independ-
ent producers Of this company
would be buried in a flood Of
imported OH. was unauthorized.