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''MacIntosh's Reply

Nearly 800 years ago one of the wisest men OF all
time-the philosopher Spnoza-said: "The more
government strives to curtail freedom Of speech the
more obstinately it is resisted not indeed by the
avaricous but by those whom good education, sound
morality, and virtue have rendered more free"
What he said OF freedom Of speech is equally true
of freedom of religion and it is true today it
was in the seventeenth century Accordingly, neither
the Rev. Or. Douglas c. Macintosh those who
believe he should have been admitted to citizenship
have given up hope that the decision Of the United
States supreme court. barring him because he will not
promise without reservation to bear arms in Of
war, will be set aside some day.
Macintosh has asked the court to reconsider its
to decision denying him citizenship. The argu-
ments Of the minority expressed by Chief Justice
Hughes are SO persuasive that perhaps one of the
i've the other side may. before the summer over
feel their force.
Macintosh in his appeal asserts that the decision
bars every with religious scrupes from Office as
well from citizenship since the oath that he refused
70 take Is the one taken By federal and sta once
holders. He argues further that the oath all present
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AA|O~4 LANDS

ME other day we went down to the court horse
n Wnen I'VE young gentlemen were admitted to the
par our presence being due to the fact that we are
more or less acquainted with one of the five in fact
we iced at the same table
AS they were sworn in, it carried us back lot of
years 70 the morning when stood rather import
anty before jurist long since gone to his reward
and lifted our right hand and were converted into an
attorney at law
But we didn't refer to ourself in such ordinary
terms We had stationery printed and at the head of il
appeared, Attorney and Counselor"
That was much impressive it radiated at
mosphere also Importance
XXTE had wonderful Office. The door was at least
w ninety feet from the head OF the stairs and we
could sit at our desk and by slanting the door at
certain angle we could see the face Of every one
who assembled the stairs, the minute he appeared
If it turned out to be collector as occurred at
divers and sundry times there ample opportunity
to be out Of the window and down to the street
by the time the nateriaStic person reached the TIRES
hold.
1t was an ideal Office for a young lawyer.
We had a remarkable library, it being composed
OF set of the Indiana statutes and large collec-
ton of agricultural reports.
Without excessive vanity, may say that we had
the finest set OF agricultural reports in Indianal
THIS bazar of equitable relief was heated by
L small stove that appeared to be suffering from
abdominal trouble. the abdomen being greatly
diStended
The first winter we ran it on cigar boxes, con-
trbuted by an old friend who then in the drrS
business little distance away
suffered shock from which never have
covered completely
One mor1ing a stranger entered and announced
that he had case in the local court and wished a
local attorney TO help his regular attorneys impane
the jury and look out for the local end Of the ti-
cation.
l told him would do 1t for SIS and felt like
highwayman when I named that figure, whereupon
the stranger arose and departed without word
little later that morning the venerable lawyer,
with whom had studied, tendereF his services for
$500 and the stranger
One seldom RECEIVERS from such q shock
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Protect the Schools

Among teachers, too, the depression is taking its
toll, survey conducted by Columbia university
shows
How easy it must seem for school boards to reduce
teachers salaries But how unwisel
1t is the epitome Of false economy.
The survey reveals that wage cutting already has
hurt the efficiency and morale of teaching stats and
Of students Next year the effect promises to be more
pronounced.
Even now teachers are not overpaid Most of
them, in fact, are underpaid To cut their salaries
is dangerous for them and the children they are
training
Leaders of all sorts are condemning wage cuts
in industry Now is the time for them to speak
against this practice invading and injuring the school
systems
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Huge Supply

PROFESSOR OWENS goes on to
I explain how the sodium car
Donate became concentrated in
Owens lake. He says:
1.-THE sodium and potassium COM
ponents, attracting carbon dioxide
from the air, undoubtedly assisted
in elimination Of calcium and mag
nesium ions from the streams which
eventually were concentrated to
form Owens lake brine.
Rough estimates Of recent date
indicate possibly 100000 tons Of
sodium carbonate available in
Owens lake. There are perhaps
100000 tons Of potential borax and
100000 tons Of available potassium
chloride"
In extracting the soda at Keeler
on the northeast shore Of Owens
lake, the brine is mixed with trona,
a solid substance formed naturally
from the lake brine by solar evapo-
ration and existing in great quanti-
ties over the lake bed.
The blend is varied with the sea-
son and the temperature. The mix
ture then is treated with carbon
dioxide in large wooden tanks, pro-
ducing sodium biocarbonate in a
fine granular mass.
1.-THE visitor to Keller" Professor
Robertson says, notices a thousand
tons Of sodium bicarbonate stored
out under the open sky.
"A board fence surrounds it, prob
ably so that it will not blow away:
but the scant rainfall does not war
rant the expense Of a roof"
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almost certain to tell him to leave
off kneeling and to provide adequate
and logical persuasion. Saints do
not seem to have much fun.
OF course, I belittle masculine in
telligence in suggesting that only
fools go in for talk about the purity
of American womanhood. Rascais
have had recourse to just such ora
tory.
Bosses with well-oiled machines
were against the extension Of the
franchise. Probably they did not
believe that all the new voters
would be reformed, but they were
disposed to let well enough alone.
To the credit of women, it may
be said that they have been muddle-
headed, corrupt and incompetent at
the polls in precisely the same man
ner as men.
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Men Can PLAY

ME visiting Englishman includes
- in his lecture the observation
that marriage is a failure in Amer
lea because the American male
works SO hard that has no time
to pay women charming attentions.
Many American marriages fail. So
do French and English marriages.
Surely the divorce rate is no fair
test Of marital success or failure.
The causes for secession are many,
and few, believe, are purely local.
The hag-ridden, Woodworking
American man is largely legend
airy figure. He, too, is the creation
of the casual European tripper. We
have no leisure class, I am told, but
here in New York, the traditional
hive Of industry, you can find 10000
people at a double header in the
Yankee stadium on almost any
sunny afternoon.
Possibly the American business
man keeps slightly longer hours
than are known in Latin countries,
but he takes longer and more fire.
quent vacations.
Anyhow, not very much goes on
in an Office. 1t is perfectly simple
to get hold Of couple Of bond
statesmen for bridge on any after
noon, except Saturday or Sunday,
when they play golf. The supposed
high pressure Of newspaper Office
is largely f1ctional.
There may be one or two execu-
tives about the premises who like
to yell, but that is of no conss-
quence.
copyright. 1881. By The Tines
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or it may be slowed by the use of
various drugs.
The rate Of the heart is faster
whenever there is fever or when
ever the metabolic activities Of the
body are increased by various
causes.
Recently the United States pub
lie health service investigated the
rate of the heart beat in a group Of
people engaged in Office work.
Eleven men and eleven women
apparently well had their heart
rates taken every morning for 100
consecutive mornings. The records
showed great variations in the heart
rate, indeed, from six to seven beats
a minute; and the rates deviated as
much as ten to fifteen beats a min
ute, without having any particular
significance.
The fact is important, because
many people Of nervous tempera-
inent worry greatly when they de-
tect a slowing or increase in the
heart rate without having any clear
understanding as to the cause.
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Various Factors Control Heart Beat

ticularly liable to be affected by
fainting attacks. Before the person
faintS, he feels unsteady, dizzy, and
his vision blurs.
The action Of the heart gradually
becomes slower and the rate of the
pulse may fall to 40 or so instead of
the normal rate of from rs to IS.
Associated with this slowing of the
heart, the person becomes pale and
his blood pressure may sink to a
very low point.
The heart rate is not ordinarily
affected by quiet breathing, but if
one breathes deeply, the heart rate
quickens on inspiration and slows
or respiration.
These variations associated with
breathing are presumably also due
to changes in the condition of the
vagus nerve.
It is known that control of the
vagus nerve over the heart rate
may be abolished by certain drugs.
Quickening of the heart rate also
occurs in response to various drugs
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Junking the Old

T DO not know the precise nature
L of Miss Wolfe's technique, but
it is no great trick to prove that
women are not so much. mean
not whit more or less than men.
To work on a paper with wonl-
an, to attend a co-educational
school or even to fall in love should
carry conviction of the basic equal
ity of the sexes. Where on earth
does this notion come from that
American men think Of women as
in some peculiar way divine? And
I wouldn't have asked that ques-
ton if I didn't know the answer.
There is or used to be toast, ITO
the Ladies" Mothers day persists,
and the southern gentleman some
times finds his way into print. But
who ever took any Of that nom
sense seriously?
This time I don't know the an
swer. A foreigner may be excused
if he is fooled by our national by
perbole, but there should be less pa
tience with a native who compounds
the fallacy.
An English lecturer has been
much concerned about the status
of the American woman. He thinks
we pamper her.
Before embarking on q lecture
tour the young man said that the
American woman lorded it over her
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A Grave Error

WHATEVER progress the law
wv may be making against
gangsters, it is still insufficient to
discourage them from staging spec
tacular funerals.
Daniel Iamascia, the New York
racketeer who lost his life in the
fracas which resulted in the arrest
of Dutch" Schultz, is laid away in
a German silver coffin, banked be-
meath a mountain of flowers and
with mourners filling seventy-fve
lilnouSiaes.
You wonder how the boys can
afford it, especially in view of the
growing casualty list.
You wonder, too whether they
haven't overdone the job, and
whether all these expensive fu-
nerals didn't help Uncle Sam to
suspect that some one was evading
the income tax.
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nR. JUNG, in zurich, has an as
IL sistant named Miss Wolfe.
When American men come with
shattered nerves they are sent to
her for preliminary consultation
and confession.
The doctor believes that America
is a land sodden with the worship
of women. The wife, the mother,
and even the niece stand upon a
pedestal in the United States, &C.
cording to the notion of foreign
observers.
It is the function of Miss Wolfe
to remove this cursed nlisconcep-
ton of feminine perfection and
ease the crick out Of the neck Of
the idolators.
NeuroticS go away entirely cured
and munbling something about The
fundamental similarity between the
Colonel and Judy O'Grady.
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Partly Our Fault

D EACTING to the economy fad,
IN Turkey will let one ambassador
attend to its business in the United
States and Mexico. &c.,.
Unhappily, such move can be in
terpreted in several ways.
To begin with, it implies that
there is not very much business
between Turkey and the two coun-
tries mentioned above.
What is even more discouraging,
1t implies that Turkey doesn't look
for any great improvement.
One hundred per cent American
ism suggests that we hold Turkey
responsible for the situation, but
common sense argues that we our
selves are somewhat to blame.
Maybe, if we had done what we
could to promote trade between
North America and Constantinople.
Mustapha Renal would not have
felt obliged to cut expenses in this
particular way.
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Questions and
Answers

Can the president grant indepen-
dence to the Philippines?
Only congress has that power.
When did the Indian empire come
under British rule?
The British historians date their
imperial rule Of India from the civ
tory of the Battle of Plassy, June
%, 1857.
What proportion Of the deaths in
the United States are from suicide?
In 1928 there were 1,378,675 deaths
Of which 1886 were suicide. In
1929 there were 1,368,363 deaths of
which 1920 we're suiciies.
Does the female birth rate exceed
the male birth rate in the United
States?
m 1873 tins prop ion vas TTrT-
s1z males and 1.oss. Jos females.
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Chemicals Accumulated

OIlGIlllCdlS RCCulllutdt6u
OWENS LAKE, the great source
~ of soda today. lies almost at
the foot of Mt Whitney. though
1000 feet below it.
South and east of 1t are SearleS
Lake. an important potash source,
and Death Valley, which once was
an important source of boraX.
Twenty years ago Owens Lake
covered 100 square miles" Professor
Robertson explains. "and received a
large part of it's water. supply from
the east watershed Of the high
Sierra Nevada.
More recently the city of Los
Angeles, in need Of water. diverted
the Owens river into its famous
Mulholland aqueduct. Owens Lake.
robbed of a normal supply, shrank
greatly, and deposited vast amounts
of commercially valuable salts.
"In the burning inland desert,
shut of completely from sea breezes
by the towering barrier of the ST.
ezra, the normal evaporation from
lake is about four feet annually.
while the rainfall is but two inches.
Quite obviously the lake lost the
race.
During the several thousand
years in which Owens Lake received
water without drainage to the out
side, minerals predonlinating in
sodium and potassium must have
delivered an abnornally alkaline
charge to the streams.
Owens and Searles lakes. accord
ingly, are practically devoid Of the
alkaline earth metals common to
salt seas.
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SAYS

If Agitation Needs One Thing
Less Than Another, It's the
Slant That KiUs Ta0o OF
Erery Three Who Try to
to Perform 1t.
ATEW YORK, June 2s.-European
IN nations get the bulk Of what
they pay us from Germany or
from each other.
France, for instance, gets $780,
100000 from Germany each year.
paying us s50,ooo,0oo and England
S64,000000.
England gets s8e,ooo,ooo from
Germany, $4,000, 900 from France,
s22,o0O0oo from Italy, and pays US
S159, 100000.
Italy gets $45,ooo,ooo from Ger
many, paying US nearly sl5,00o,0oo,
and England $22,00o,000.
This means that Germany would
erjoy practically all the benefits
Of a years moratorium, while the
United States would carry three
flfths Of the burden.
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RUssrAN REYoLT PLANNED

RUSSIAN REVOLT PLANNED
an June "a, 1917, e plot to bring
" about an armed revolt, when
the al-Russian Congress Of Soviets
would be in session, was revealed.
The Bolsheviki, who planned the
revolt, had hoped to arrest the
members Of the provisional govern
ment and assume full power. They
also planned to recall all the SOL
diers serving at the front.
This action came after the Boil
sheviki had held mass meetings
among the troops, preaching de-
featisIn and surrender and urging
the soldiers not to obey the orders
Of bourgeois officers"
The provisional government,
aware of the peril of this propa-
ganda, did not attempt to end it by
force.
The following month the Bolshe-
visits staged a two-day, revolt, which
was put down by Cossack troops. At
this time Alexander Kerensky en-
deavofed t6 bring order out Of
chaos
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fellows because she had been led
to believe that she was pure and
holy. This is a second diStillation
out Of the roots of folly.
I will admit that I have known
women in politics and elsewhere to
seize upon traditional sex eulogies
and try to pass them off as honest
coin, but even these deceivers grin
and give. up the instant the base
metal is clinked against the counter.
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Sounds Inconsistent

CPEAKING of the economy fad,
- is it not rather inconsistent for
governments to tell private busi-
ness that it must do everything
possible to keep people on the pay
roll, and then try to cut down ex-
penses by putting people of the
pay roll?
One day you hear statesmen de-
claring that our one hope consists
in keeping everybody at work, even
If it means loss Of profit.
The next you hear them proclaim
ing how much money they have
saved by discharging so many from
this or that department.
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Another Cure

MOT the least interesting phase
IN of this depression is the null
titude Of ideas cropping up for its
cure.
They run all the way from an in
ternational moratorium, as proposed
by President Hoover, to art on the
installment plan, as proposed by
Fritzie Frank of Chicago.
Fritzie Frank believes not only
that the public is half starved for
art, but that the artists themselves
could stand more regular and ade-
Quate meals.
1t is her ambition to get at least
one oil painting, one water color,
or one wood cut into every home.
Whatever else you may think of
the notion, there certainly is no
harm in it.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Tines-I am wondering if
the new ordinance as to parking
will not work a hardship on the
merchants within what is known as
the two-mile square. Country peo-
pie get up quite early at this time
of year and often drive into town
for repairs for farm machinery as
well as other necessities.
If buyer comes to town earlier
than 9:15 a. m, he has no legal
right to a space for parking. Seems
to me that it is against the
merchants as well as country peo-
pie who do their buying in this city.
However, it may help the suburban
city merchant and may force the
department stores to open branch
houses.
To my way Of thinking, it will
disgust the country folk and they
will drive to other cities and towns
where they can at least get space
to park for thirty minutes or SO at
any time Of the day. Judging from
a recent mornings observance Of
the new ordinance, it will be OBJ
served even less than the eighteenth
amendment. What we need are rea-
sonabIe ordinances and the people
will obey them and be glad to do so.
This ordinance, strictly observed,
will not in any way benefit the
merchants within the two-mile
square. In fact, it will work against
them. However, it might force a
few cars into garages and parking
spaces. We used to have an eight
mile speed limit within the two
mile square and fifteen within the
suburban districts. Was that com
piled with, even in a measure?
Such ordinances simply educate
people to become non-law abiding
and become law unto themselves,
all Of which can and will be dis
continued when reasonable ordi-
nanceS are put into effect.
What right have the police to
modify or lift the lid on any ordi-
nances? Any ordinance that Is not
reasonable should be abolished. I
believe the new order will meet with
approval emitting the non-parking
between 2 and 9:15 a. m.
o. D. KENDRICK.
518 Board Of Trade.
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Progress Moves Fast
T IFE continues to be a queer ad-

1F'E continues to be q queer ad-
- mixture of old and new.
A new type of German rail car
streaks it from Hamburg to Berlin
at the rate of 106 miles an hour.
The very next day, Charles Mil
Ter, 78, and one-time pony express
rider, leaves Patchogue, L. l., for
Sacramento, Cal, on his faithful
broncho, hoping to complete the
journey in six months.
The veteran rider is trying to
live over again the days of a ro-
mantle past.
If progress runs TRUE to form,
same veteran engineer in the years
to come will be taking an old rail
Zeppelin" out of its hangar and,
driving it down the track, just to
see what times were like when he
was a boy.
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AAAO4ASSA
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
THE rate OF the heart beat is con-
- trolled by various factors.
Thus, impulses coming to the heart
along the nerve called the .vagus
nerve, slow the heart beat and con-
troll the strength OF the contraction.
Any force which influences the
vagus nerve thereby influences the
heart rate.
The heart rate is influenced by
emotion.
In states of excitement it usually
quickens. In sudden shock, the
beat slows or even may stop.
The common form of fainting, as
the result Of emotion or as the re-
suit Of standing long on the feet,
IS partly due to a stimulus. coming
along the vagus nerve.
Nervous women and people con-
valescing from diseases are par
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Don't Need Stunts

nNE can not help admiring Ruth
" Nichols for wanting to try
again.
At the same time, she should con-
slider herself a lucky young woman
Flying the Atlantic is a risky piece
Of business, as the records prove,
and there just isn't any permanent
glory in it.
If aviation needs one thing less
than another, it is the kind Of
stunt that two out of every three
die attempting to perform.
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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 paDer.-The Editor.
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Which countries have adopted the
Republican form of government
since the close of the World war.
Germany, Austria, Spain, EStonia,
Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Greece. Rus
STA has adopted communal govern
ment which differs somewhat from
a republic.
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Who caught a baseball dropped
from the Washington monument in
Washington, D. c.? How did he
do it?
Gabby Street. manager Of the st.
Louis Cardinals, caught a baseball
dropped 504 feet from the Washing
ton monument in 1908. He stood
90 feet from the base Of the monu-
nent and caught fhe fourteenth
bali dropped. The weight Of the
bali vas 6xA euncGGs