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julius ROsenwald

julius Rosenwald was a great merchant. But he
will be remembered longest great philanthropist
He would have wished it so.
To him commercial profits were a matter of
trusteeship something be distributed for humani
tartan purposes. 1t not that he wished to have
the personal satisfaction and glory of giving Most of
his benefactions we're distributed through others.
Apart from his gift of $35,OOO,OOO a separate
foundation for general to promote the ;well-beng
of mankind his chief interests in education and
race relations His support of educational nstitu-
tons extended from the University of Chicago to small
rural schools in the south.
Though he gave millions for Jewish colonization
abroad he also cared for such organizations the
Y M c. A. and Y. w. G. A.
Perhaps the work in which he was most interested
was the improvement of opportunity for the Negro.
One of the earliest supporters of Booker T. Washing
ton and Tuskegee institute much of his later life was
devoted to better race relations
Julius Rosenwald drew his circle wider than the
limits of any one race or color, or creed.
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Judge Parker and Court Sanctitx

The country has heard little of Judge John j.
Parker since that eventful day. some two years ago,
when symbocaly speaking he took his little yellow
dog under his and strobe down the Capitol steps
from the senate chamber
He showed up recently at the annual dinner of
the New York County Lawyers Association In char
acterisc ven he warned against the dangers to the
country in liberal criticism of institutions courts and
law. Some of his Important declarations follow
"Chief among them (disintegrating forces) would
the rising tide Of socialiStic thought men who,
processing not to be Socialists have embraced the
tenets of Socialism and who would strike down the
Constitution because it guarantees the rights of
divduas; organized minorities who by propaganda
and intimidation seek to control the government in
the interest of particular advo-
Gates of political nostrums. whose multiplication of
elective offices has paralyzed the executive arm of
local governments, whose initiative and referendum
have weakened local legislatures and whose political
election and recall Of judges have crippled local ju-
diciaries.
1T is not mere chance that all these fsrces
united generally in IL attacks upon the American
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Strike Threat III-Timed

THERE would have been I'M
\ employment and distress in
Harlan county without any strikes,
lockouts, attempts to organize the
miners, efforts to break the union
by coal operators, or the appear
ance of radical agitators.
Even with these added factors of
confusion, the operators have been
able to mine all the coal they can
sell and it is not enough to keep
more than half the available help
at work more than half the time.
Regardless of how one may feel
about it from an economic stand
point, the trouble in Harlan county
was precipitated at a most in
suspicious moment. With de-
preston on, millions of people out
of work, and the coal industry at
low ebb, last spring was no time for
the miners to threaten strike.
That is what they did, however,
IN spite of the advice of national
officials of the United Mine Work
erS at mass meeting March 1.
Miners who attended that meet
ing were discharged or blacklisted
and few sympathetic strikes
occurred as the result. Meanwhile,
unemployment increased and
hundreds of the idle sought mem
bership in the union. The Red Cross
was appealed to for relief, but made
the usual reply that it could not
assist those engaged in industrial
disputes.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
-DAILY HEALTH sERVICE--
Trench Mouth Is Highly Infectious

and the lymph glands in the neck
which are swollen.
The physician makes certain of
his diagnosis by taking a specimen
of the membrane, and putting it
under the microscope.
He then sees the germs which are
typical of this disease, germs dis
covered by the French bacteriologist
Vincent.
AS long as these germs are pres
ent in the mouth, the possibility
exists that the person may transmit
the disease to others.
"He therefore must be exceed
ingly careful about the way in
which dishes, towels, and similar
objects used in his daily hygiene
come into contact with other peo-
pie.
The disease occurs most often in
people who are of low resistance,
perhaps because of undernutrition,
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The RaskOb Plan

Chairman Raskobs statement to the national
Democratic committee, urging the next party con-
vention to take sides in the prohibition dispute,
but to favor popular referendum the state home
rule basis is effective. 1t would have been
effective if he had left out the hokum about prohi
bition not being political issue.
Political parties should take sides political is
sues; that is their excuse for existence. But the
experience of the last decade shows there is little
chance of getting either the Republican Democratic
party to do other than evade this particular issue.
Therefore as matter of practical expedency, the
only way out so far the parties are concerned, is
to try get them to favor the referendum by states
which is coming whether the parties favor it not
but which might be fastened by party platform sup
port.
Raskob deserves credit for hitting upon this plan.
We are much less interested than Raskob, or the
Republican politicians on their side, in saving the
parties from split.
But we are interested tremendously in giving the
people of the states an opportunity to settle the pro-
hbition dispute possible. This is important
as a method of fostering Self-government to wet
states, of eliminating the bootleg industry as major
cause of crime and of getting much-needed tax reve-
nue. from the present tax-free liquor business
1t is equally important to remove the prohibition
issue as barrier to the solution of vital economic
problems upon which national prosperity depends.
The Raskob plan-to permit each state by popular
convention to determine for itself whether it shall
have prohibition state-controled liquor business
should be acceptable fair to both vets and drys
1t is not only the fairest method but the quickest
and most democratic
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Law VS., Sentiment

NOTWITHSTANDING all the
IN arrests that have been made,
all the indictments that have been
found and all the measures that
have been taken to make Harlan
county obey orders and ask no ques-
tons, its people still are armed in
strict accordance with their tradi-
ton, still in mood to settle any
issue with the rifle, and still irri-
tated by hardships and distress.
Most of the important cases
which have originated in Harlan
county will be tried elsewhere be-
cause, as the prosecuting attorneys
contend, it would be difficult to
find home jury which would con-
vict.
1t is one thing to arrest people on
trumped-up, or even serious charges,
clap them in jail and hold them
there indefinitely. 1t is quite an
other to let twelve men who know
them and who are familiar with
their difficulties, traditions and
problems, decide what should be
done.
The fact that many of the more
serious cases will be tried in other
courts by petition of the prosecu-
ton, speaks for itself. There is
obviously a gulf between popular
sentiment and the law in Harlan
county.
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and also in those whose teeth are
not well taken care of. Apparently
there are more cases in children
than in grownups.
There is no reason why child
with Vincent's angina should not
go to school, provided it is informed
properly as to the danger of trans
hitting the disease to other chill
dren, and can be made to realize
it's responsibility in this connection.
It has been found that a drug
called sodium perborate has a def
mite effect in destroying the germs
in Vincent's angina. The drug is
also valuable as cleansing agent
affecting other germs.
Hence the person who is infected
may use a preparation of perborate
as a gargle or as a spray, and, in
addition, have it applied frequently
in fairly strong amounts directly to
the infected gums and tissues.
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Aid nr Work.


John Lewis president of the miners union told
the senate committee that $4,000 men, women and
children in the mining districts Of Indiana are in
want
Governor Leslie insists that these jobess citizens
and their dependents have received aid of some kind
and will receive more when he collects portion of
the profits of football game.
The Red Cross has been asked to send in relief
to these districts and an inquiry may finally deter
mine just how much distress exists.
Unquestionably, there is much distress and suffer-
ing There has been distress and suffering for the
past three or four years. Conditions in the mines
in this state were intolerabe even during the days
when the rest Of the state was prosperous.
The final answer will not be furnished by either
the Red Cross with ito food baskets and supervised
charity or the distribution of aims by the Cover
nor's committees, badly as they are needed at the
moment to protect the lives and health Of little
children.
The answer must come through work for these
voorhees, men, the chance to be independent the
chance for children to grow into manhood and wom-
anhood with some other concept of life than that
handout is the normal method of existence.
The state has money in the funds of the high
way commission that, with some slight changes in
the law could be diverted to other construction than
roads,
The development of state-owned mines for the
production of coal for state institutions might reduce
the cost of government. 1t might provide fuel for
the needy if there is to be a recurrence of times
of depression"
No imagination is required to plan other public
projects for the permanent benefit of all citizens
and the development of resources yet untouched
in which these men might be pro1tably employed.
special session of the legislature, feared by those
who have successfully evaded proper share of the
taxation burden becomes mperatively necessary
with each disclosure of the tragedy of unemployment
Aid must be given at once. That is essential But
than aid, work is needed Private industry has
failed to provide it. The state must.
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Radicals jump In

SUCH a situation was singuIarly
~ favorable to agents of the
National Miners union, which
works in opposition to the United
Mine Workers, and which generally
is regarded as being under the in
huence of radical leadership.
The infiltration of radicalism not
only has given the coal operators
and public officials who sympathize
with their policy tremendous
lever, but has turned many middle
class people against the union
miners. It also has served to deter
miners from joining the union and
to persuade those who had already
joined to withdraw.
The organization is but shadowy
remnant of what it was. Its treasury
is without funds, its members with
out work and it's standing without
prestige.
With some sixty of its members
indicted for conspiracy to murder,
and an even larger number facing
trial for criminal Syndicalism,
banding and confederating; with
little hope of relief from the out
side; with the region overrun by
special deputies and mine guards,
it faces a bleak prospect.
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Just Every Day Sense
SUPPOSE there newer has lived the mother Of
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

T SUPPOSE there never has lived the mother of an
l. adclescent daughter whose husband did not give
her periodic seedlings her shiftleSS methods of
bringing up the girl.
Put her to work. he will yell. Teach her to
cook and wash dishes. Are you completely brainesS
that you go on doing everything and let that great
big girl sit around with her hands folded? What
kind of wife do you think she will be?"
If mother is smart, she will say nothing for it is
useless to argue with man in that mood. If she
did speak, however, she probably would retore, She'll
make a better wife than I am"
And the chances are she would be right I find
myself vastly encouraged in this contention by DR..
David Snedden of Columbia university, who says it
that women should have such instructions later on
Just before marriage, when they would profit by them
ITO go back to father He does not believe that
Il Junior will end in life of vagrancy merely be-
cause he does not for moving the lawn tend
ing the furnace at is. But he is sure his daughter
is no account if she does not race her mother to
the kitchen three times day in her eagerness to
do the dishes.
Which only proves that he does not understand
human nature. 1 am convinced that the present
generation of women are poor housewives mainly be-
when their whole beings cried out for something less
monotonous.
The girl who is led by the ear to the dishpan is
going to end up with cold hatred for kitchen work
that may cause her to commit crimes in avoiding it.
Then, too, her mothers house is not daughters
responsibility. She must develop that of pos
Sessiveness that makes each wcinan take pride in
her own home. And she will develop It only when
she has one Of her own.
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* TO-DAY 50
<T IS THE ~
Z WORLD WAR !.
ANNIVERSARY
10y ofASE
DRAFT LAW DECISION
January Z

ON Jan. =, 1918, the United States
~ supreme court declared the
draft law constitutional
The high tribunal ruled that con-
gress has the power to exact en-
forced military duty by its citizens.
Seven cases. were acted on. Chief
Justice White, in his decision, de-
clared:
Although completed
military service is repugnant to free
government and in conflict with all
the great guarantees Of the Consti-
tuition as to individual liberty, 1t
must be assumed that the authority
to raise armies was intended TO be
limited TO the right to call an army
into existence, counting alone upon
the willingness Of the citizen to do
his duty in time of public need
that is, in time of war.
=. But we are constrained to
the conclusion that the contention
to that effect is refuted by its mere
statement"
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EES4%

TINE man downstairs says I ought
L to keep my apartment locked.
He thinks that, on account of the
depression, burglars might come in.
In a measure he is right, for I
have no desire to play a mean and
dirty trick even upon lawbreaker.
I would not wish a criminal to climb
ten flights of stairs and then find
nothing more than the brown suit
and first edition OF Ben Hecht's
last collection of short stories.
Besides, I can't quite promise the
brown suit. I might be wearing
that. The blue one has begun to
give.
PERHAPS a few simple rules will
prevent grave disappointment and
keep everybody happy. In the first
place, entry should not be made
earlier than q. m, which is my
bedtime.
am assuming that the people
whom I address are subtle enough
to prefer to steal by stealth and
that they are no members of any
vulgar Stickup set,
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And Little Else

THAT about completes the list
a except for a few things of
merely sentimental value. Nobody
else, I suppose, would care about
the program of the first perform
ance of Round the Town" in New
ark, N. j., or an illustrated poster
of the lecture which I gave in Har-
risburg three years ago on Jour-
naliSm and the Arts" Possibly it
was 1.-The Modern Parent" Those
are somewhat rarer.
But granting that the fiat offers
the readiest immediate return, I
would seek out something else if I
came to this house as burglar.
Remember, I'm giving no guarantee
in regard to the silver. None of it
was bought by me, and so far
have not gone to the trouble to have
it sent out and aSSayed and priced.
But at best what is a handful of
silver? The whole lot of it would
hardly repay housebreaker of the
better sort.
So far I have held something
from him. There is a potential
treasure in the house. The desk
in which it lies is close to my bed,
and I sleep lightly.
OF course, there is a risk, but a
great thief, an imaginative and I'M
erring Raffies, might rife the con-
tents there and come away with the
first rough draft of Candle Fol-
lows His Nose in his possession.
(Copvrieht 1892. bv The Times)
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Good Work

Prompt and favorable submission to the senate of
the Presidents proposal for a $4,000 100000 recon-
struction finance corporation to thaw frozen credits
evidence that thee Democratic and progressive lead
only too ready to cooperate with the President
in any constructive proposals The senate commit
tee acted with speed
Congress should eliminate any possible jokers from
section S. and provide essential safeguards that the
huge fund will be used for protection of bank de-
poStors and insurance policy holders instead of mis-
used for the benefit of stock spectators.
Whether this measure will work the credit miracles
anticipated by the President is beside the point Such
fund and such government organization will help
some. Banks and insurance companies will receive
aid from it if they sound And that is bound to i'm
prove general economic conditions
If this measure can be put through both houses of
congress by next week. the corporation should be in
actual operation by next month. Quick action is
necessary
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Not Too Early, Please

DE that as it may, I'm warning
- them that I have very nasty
temper when aroused and that they
had better respect my hours and
tread lightly. AS to the manner in
which they propose to gain entrance,
I wouldn't presume to offer any
suggestions. Concerning such things
they know best.
But if it is at all convenient they
might like to know that, even if I
lock the front Goor, it's easy to get
in by the side window. I used that
myself after I lost the key.
But chiefly I want to inform the
prospectors that there is no jewelry.
misunderstanding of this sort
sometimes create bitterness. I have
heard of burglars who spoke harsh
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Questions and
Answers
What is a nom de plume?

What is a nom de plume?
A name assumed by an author
to conceal his identity in connec-
ton with his literary output.
In what year and By what au-
thority was the motto In God we
trust pnt on United States coins?
In 1864, by authority Of congress.
What was the value Of the estate
left by George Washington?
His estate was conServatively es-
timated at $530,000.
When and where did Lolita Crab
tree, the actress, die?
She died at Boston, Mass, Sept.
26, 1924.
How is the word Table d'hote
pronounced?
It is pronounced tab-l-dote. The
"a is pronounced IS in palm"
and the 90" as in oats.
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Controversy Ahead

NR. TOLMAN has also suggested
- that this alternate expansion
and contraction may neutralize the
second law of thermodynamics.
The second law of thermody-
namics states that the universe is
running down. 1t states that the
sun and stars are continuously
dissipating their energies into space
and that energy once scattered, is
scattered forever.
When DR.. William De Sitter. the
famous Dutch astronomer, one of
the authorities on the expanding
universe, was lecturing in this
country a few months ago, I asked
him whether he thought the con-
traction of the universe might
neutralize the second law of ther-
modynamics.
He said that he was of the
opinion that it would not. His
opinion was that the law would con-
tinue to operate no matter what
else happened.
This is the opinion of many
scientists. Eddington and Jeans.
for example, regard the second law
of thermodynanics as the most
fundamental law of the universe.
However, this is not the opinion OF
Millikan, who believes that the cos
mic rays are an exception to the
law.
Millikan believes that cosmic rays
are proof that somewhere in the
universe energy is being reassembled
ana formed into atoms of matter.
The year 1882 is bound to see a
continuation of the various dis
cussions. Expanding UNIVERSE
cosmic rays, and second law of
tnermodynamics will figure in much
OF the scientific news.
Meanwhile astronomers look for
ward to the completion of the new
2OO-inch telescope. 1t will bring
many new spiral nebulae within
range OF mans sight and provide
new evidence Of what is happening
to the universe.
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS.

Despite Arrests and Indict-
neents, Harlan COunty'S
People Still Are IN q Mood
to Settle Amy Issue With
the Rife.
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 6.-The
trial of William Hightower now 60
ing on at Mt. Sterling for conspir-
acy to murder is the second of its
kind to be held in connection with
the ambuScade which occurred at
EvartS the 5th Of last May, w. B.
Jones having been tried, convicted
and sentenced to life early in De-
cember.
Twenty-one cases have been set
for trial in connection with this
same offense, while some forty 9TH
ers remain to be set. 1t is the states
contention that the ambuscade was
arranged at miners meeting and
that many are guilty Of conspiracy
to murder, though they did not &C
tually participate in it, or were not
even in the neighborhood at the
time.
Hightower is a typical noun
taineer, II years of age, and is
president of the local union, though
unable to read or write. w. B.
Jones was secretary of the union
until his arrest and conviction.
AS might be expected, there is
conflict of testimony as to what
actually occurred at the Evarts am
buscade, in which two deputy sher-
ifs, a commissary clerk and a miner
lost their lives, though every one
admits that quite battle took place
between nine peace officers, who
were riding along the road, and a
much greater number of men scat
tered about an adjacent field and
hillside.
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Once SnalI2

or course, the idea of an expand
Oing universe did not originate in
1881. 1t is several years old; but
1881 saw the general acceptance of
the idea among astronomers.
Eddington and others calculated
the rate of expansion, and it is
generally accepted that the rate is
such that the universe doubles its
size every fourteen million years.
The question which arises at once
and which is bound to occupy the
attention of scientists during 1892
lis the question of the future of the
universe. Will this expansion go
on endlessly?
Another difficulty arises when we
begin to consider the beginning of
the universe. If we assume that
the rate has been the same in the
past, it means that the universe was
one-half its present size fourteen
million years ago, one-quarter its
present size twenty-eight million
years ago, and so on.
At this rate, the universe would
be condensed to a point at a not very
distant date-that is, not very dis
tant as millions are banded about
in astronomical theories. For, stud
les Of the stars would indicate that
the stars are about fifteen trillion
years old.
Here is seeming inconsistency
which calls for further study. Per-
haps the way out is to be found in
the theory suggested by Professor
Richard G. Tolman, one of the
mathematical physicists and rela-
tivity experts of the California IN
Stitute of Technology.
He suggests that the universe is
like a gigantic accordion, now ex-
banding for cycle of some millions
of years, now contracting for a
cycle.