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has been held that beer will be
4 boon to Tammany politicians.
mat may be so. but it will have a
much greater effect in winning re-
crultS to radicaliSm.
For instance, one of the reasons
why Socialism has made such small
progress in America in recent wears
has been the absence of beer. It is
a SLOW fuel, but a steady burner.
When there are places where men
can sit and warm off embarrass-
ment, exchange of ideas is sure to
come. Over the gobletS plain peo-
pie begin to tell comparative strang-
ers what they think of the world
and what they think it ought to be.
Beer serves to bring out argu-
mentS about rent and wages and
surplus profits. Unlike those header
beverages which lead to alterca-
lions, beer makes for solidarity.
congress has decreed that a for
mula of 80 is not intoxicating in
TACT. l hope that congress is right
and that the supreme court will see
eye to eye with this legislative de-
clSlon. But beer of that alcoholic
content or even much less is intoxi-
eating in theory in the best sense
of the word.
l mean it has within it that po-
tency of imaginative refreshment
which makes man say, We'll. now.
II were in congress-
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CONQUEST OF FOG

A N airplane took of from College Park,
Md in weather that kept all other air.
craft on the ground There were rain and
murky clouds down to the treetops. Visi-
bility was almost zero.
The pilot James L. Kinney government re-
search bureau flier with assistants flew 200
miles to Newark without being able to see
anything and came to within a short distance
of the landing surface of Newark airport be-
fore he saw the ground.
Had the murk cloaked his vision to the
ground, he could have landed as safely
Kinney has made many similar flights in good
weather, his vision completely hooded. But
this was the first in thick weather.
The extraordinary flight into the equiva
lent of black darkness from earth to sky was
made possible, first by the radio beacon which
guides planes from port to port and, second,
by the bent BEAM which the government
scientists have developed and on which the
plane reaching the vicinity OF the airport,
gldes down to the runway and lands.
Conquest of fog long has been talked of.
It seems about completed. Probably it will
not be long until transport planes on the reg
ular mail, passenger, and express lines will be
taking off, flying and landing in any fog, with
perfect safety.
The end of progress is not yet!
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A REAL LABOR DEPARTMENT

LOW we'll the President chose in naming
l. Miss Frances Perkins to head the labor
department is shown by her vigorous action
in ousting fifteen alien-baiters from the i'm
migration service.
Here is a labor secretary with brains,
courage, and sympathy. She can, as she
intimates she WILL build useful and honest
bureau of labor statistics. Realistic research
under modern and trained director can CO.
ordinate the work of fact-fnding bodies in
and outside of Washington.
She can enlarge the now innocuous bureau
of mediation into an effective bureau of in
dustrial relations. Such bureau not only
could mediate in strikes, but study industrial
danger zones to prevent such chaos as regns
in the soft coal regions; encourage expert
ments in employee management cooperation;
even aid in forming unions for orderly bar
gaining as the commerce department now
builds trade associations.
She can substitute for the Hoover Doak
nest of nepotism an efficient and non-political
state-federal employment service such as is
proposed in the pending Wagner bill.
She can and doubtless will give new sup
port to the womens and children's bureaus,
already among the most effective agencies of
our government.
She can, by means of state-federal confer
ences aid in standardizing labor laws in ex-
tending such reforms as unemployment in
surance, old age pension, minimum wage and
anti-injunction laws.
She can harmonic federal activities with
national industrial planning in view. She can
combine the practical and the scientific by
keeping in closer touch with the research
bodies of the universities and foundations.
With America crying out for leadership,
reconstructed and Well-manned department
of labor now can take its rightful place in
helping to build a modern industrial order
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SATURDAY. MARCH Is. 1888.
HITLER TERROR

HITLER atrocities against Jews and polit-
ical opponents in Germany have provoked
great waves of protest in virtually all civilized
countries.
Ihere Is nothing much our government or
any foreign government can do. except to
insist on the protection of its own citizens I'M
lucky enough to be caught in Germany at such
a time That is the convention of interna-
tional law-one government does not interfere
as rule, with another sovereign government
In the treatment of the latters subjects
This rule, however heartless it may appear
at first glance has in general worked for peace
among nations, otherwise nations constantly
would be in danger of drifting into war over
domestic disputes.
But this does not mean that effective action
is Impossible. The kind of mass protest now
arising against the terror is apt to be more
effective in the long run than foreign govern
mental action.
When Americans cancel their sailings on
German ships when the English boycott Ger
man goods as they now are doing the pres
sure becomes very acute on the mad Hitler.
Even those German business interests which
have helped to raise him to power may realize
their folly.
Our profound sympathy to all the racial
and political victims of Hitler barbarism
We sympathize also with the mass of Ger
man citizens who have been fortunate enough
TO escape the terror so far but who will paw
in the end for the sins of the counter-revo-
lutionary government which has seized power.
Unfortunately, the world does not differen-
tiate between governments and peoples. Ger
many and the Germans will be blamed long
after Hitler is gone
So Germany is twice victim; the victim of
Hitler and the victim of world opinion
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
AMENDMENT

Il ME work of undermining popular govern
ment did not end when the lame duck
amendment became law Senator George W.
Norris has laid before congress another
amendment which is the logical successor of
the one now so widely acclaimed, and few
years from now we will doubtless wonder as
we do in regard to the lame duck measure,
why it was not adopted long ago.
The new amendment aboliShes the electoral
college and allows voters to participate more
fully in selection of a President. 1t makes it
possible for independent candidates to run for
the presidency with a real chance of election.
as we'll as the nominees of the two great
parties.
And, when the votes are gathered, it pro-
lvides that all of them must be counted for the
man for whom they are cast. Instead of CIV
ing the candidate who gets a majority of New
York's popular vote all the forty-fve presi-
dental votes cast by that state it gives him
just the proportion of those votes to which his
popular vote entities him.
In the past. men have become President
though majority of the popular vote was cast
against them. This never could occur if the
presidential vote of each state were divided in
accordance with the popular vote
Nor could the political parties force I'M
popular candidates upon reluctant electorate
If machinery for an independent race were
available.
It took Senator Norris ten years to make
the country see the great need of his lame
duck amendment. Already he has urged this
new reform for five years.
1t should not require a national emergency,
as it did in regard to the other measure to
make us appreciate that democracy, if it is to
succeed, really must be democratic
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tried without success to get congress to buy
his paintings.
A boy carried food to the artist, who some
times gave him the only reward he had at
handsome painting or other. The boy, hav-
ing no use for the pictures, stuck them behind
a stairway.
The boy Of fifty years ago is the now
mayor. The pictures from behind the stair
were the pictures on the Smithsonian walls.
Catlin had his moment of Identification
advertising a species of success" story His
pictures hang where he wanted them to hang
The government got something for nothing
The hunger pangs Of fifty years ago no
doubt were pretty distressing to George Catlin
Congressional attitude toward economy takes
various forms.
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A DIRECT ATTACK ON IDLENESS

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS scheme for en-
rolling 100000 men in peace-time army
for direct attack on unemployment is about
as complete a departure from accepted tradi-
tons in America as could be imagined
And yet-such is the temper of the coun-
try today-that very fact is helping to win
public support for the measure
So far, in our fight with unemployment,
we have followed the old traditions and they
haven't worked. Merely to see the problem
tackled from an entirely new angle is en-
couraging.
A leadership which is not afraid to do
seems to stand pretty good chance of get
ting somewhere.
Meanwhile. the plan is deeply interesting
For one thing, it ought to help sft the
wheat from the chaff in the various metropoli-
tan breadlines
The industrious and energetic citizen who
is unemployed through no fault of his own
and who subssts on charity because he has to
and not because he wants to-thiS chap can
be expected to jump at the chance to join
the army without guns.
But the loafer, the gimme dime-p please
mister drifter who rather would panhandle
than work-he viii be reluctant to give UP his
warm fophouSe corner for steady year of
honest toll; and his very reluctance will help
to expose him.
Our cities will know good deal more about
the men they are supporting when the re-
cruiting campaign for this army is over.
In the second place, the whole scheme has
a freshness and directness that make it en-
citing
1t puts the government into direct frontal
assault on unemployment. There is, as Presi-
dent Roosevelt points out, a vast amount OF
work that the government ought to do; there
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May Not Suffice

II AM not so much a beer propa-
Il gandiSt that 1 would suggest that
inspiration for genius or high talent
can ever be purchased for 5 or even
10 cents glass. Perhaps it is no
more than coincidence that the
beer-drinking nations have been the
very ones to furnish us with the
greatest of coSmic philosophers.
1t is quite possible that even the
new liberation from Volsteadism
will not give us at once a Wagner,
a Karl Marx, or an Einstein. But
it will help to bring good amateur
conversationalists back into their
own again.
Certainly there is no support for
the familiar prohibition contention
that beer is brutalizing and reduces
its devotees to a dull sogginess. We
need not look abroad for proof to
the contrary.
The mind Of Henry L. Mencken
is perhaps not the best in America,
but surely it is the liveliest, and
the Baltimore strong boy has been
insistent in his praise Of beer and
still another f1agon.
I will admit that there is a Ger
tain amount Of pretense about the
amber fluid. To paraphrase a ia
miliar spiritual, Everybody talking
bout beer amt drinking it."
Nevertheless, it has entered into
the poetry and the prose and the
philosophy of many nations. And
so, even if beer fails to balance the
budget, it may serve its purpose in
doing precisely that for the intel
lect.
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
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M.

| CUCCESs of repeal depends largely on the
- way beer is handled during the next year
Or two. If beer is permitted to become NUS
ance, either from the political or the social
standpoint the possibility of getting thirty-sx
states to vote against the eighteent h amend
ment will be reduced greatly.
The fact that sentiment has changed toward
nationwide prohibition must not be taken to
means that people want return of the old or
der or that the country has become so wet that
it will stand for anything.
To begin with, the drys have not been elimi-
mated. They are prepared for a stiff fight, and
as a general proposition, they are the kind of
people who will stay with it,
Of more importance than the drys is that
element of the people which, though thoroughly
disguised with VoIsteadism, will be quick to re-
sent anything like return of the liquor ring or
the Darkroom hideout.
The people have not voted to go back where
they were before nationwide prohibition came
into existence. While millions favor repeal, they
look for improvement, not retrogression.
THERE is a widespread belief that nisman-
l. agement of the liquor traffic itself brought
on prohibition, and that better system can
be devised There is the same old opposition
to artidcially promoted drinking and to any
sort of alliance between liquor and politics.
The chances for repeal are none too certain,
ana Uney can De SpOlleQ easily. AL 1edSC Ten
states can be depended on to vote no" Three
more would save the eighteenth amendment.
In several, sentiment is divided about evenly
and little adverse influence would swing it
against repeal.
Under such circumstances, great deal de-
ponds on how beer is handled.
Brewers and politicians must watch their
step. This is no time for political souse or a
patronage grab.
The majority of people are looking for some
thing better than we have had under the eight
zenith amendment or than we had before. If
they fail to get it, there is likely to be an I'M
favorable reaction.
Not only the saloon, but the type of politics
for which it stood is out
A VERAGE people will not tolerate the kind
n of establishments which promote drunk
ennesS and furnish the basis for political control
If beer is good, let it be sold openly, like
cigars and cigarets. In no other way can graft
or bootlegging be eliminated. Laws designed
to limit the traffic in such way as would give
public officials arbitrary powers will lead only
to a restoration of the old setup and a return
of the old adverse sentiment.
1t is useless to suppose that we can beat
back over the ground We have travelled with
out getting the same result.
II beer is handled in a respectable manner
it will be respectable. If, on the other hand It
is handled in way to cast doubt on the traffic,
TO create the impression that there is something
shady about the business, the old opposition
Will return
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GEORGE CATLIN

WHO knows anything about George Cat
lin? Possibly some artists and scholars.
A story came out of Washington regarding
him which is worth quoting, both on account
OF Catln and as a commentary upon genius
which drudges in some attic and creates pic
tor1al wealth destined to be worth the means
OF comfort long after he is dead.
The mayor of Cedar Rapids, Ia, visited
the Smithsonian institution, in Washington.
He pointed to some paintings of Indians and
asked if they were valuable. He was told that
paintings by George Catlin outside the gov
eminent collection, were worth at the lowest
price $500. The mayor then related his story.
Fifty years ago Catlin, poor, sick, and dis
couraged, worked in an old tower of the
Smithsonian, while the institutions secretary
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When Mara Was Y0unq
TWAS interested the other dav i

TWAS interested the other day in
IL reading an essay on Karl Marx
by Harold j. LaSki, and in that
brochure I found the statement that
Marx remained a year in Bonn.
studying Jurisprudence; but he
seems to have devoted himself more
to the convivial side of the uni
versity."
Marx was a prodigiouS worker
during the greater part of his life
and a prophet who preserved the
austere tradition. Accordingly. it is
little heartening to know that he
had at least one semester of beer
and jollif1cation.
And certainly the movement
which he founded has drawn in
Spiration from the seidel both in
Germany and in the gay COS in
America. After all, beer is tina
philosophers drink
Poetry is associated with wine.
and perhaps fallaciously. Surely it
was no wine of a 80 type which set
any Pegasus to soaring. But the
hard, clear, and intensive thought
of the world has very seldom been
done on water.
George Bernard Shaw stands
alone as a teetotaler who has won
literary distinction. And his
occasional f1ightiness and instability
of viewpoint may be blamed upon
the fact that he has Travelled more
than seventy years without ballast.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Associated with jaundice, itching
of the skin is not infrequent. The
material is excreted in the urine,
and as result the urine has an in
tense yellow color.
Because the bile is not, as usual,
expelled with the excretions from
the bowel, these develop clay color.
Not infrequently the entrance of
the bile substance into the blood
leads to hemorrhages, not only
through injury to the walls of the
smaller blood vessels, but also be-
cause of its effects on the substances
in the blood which are involved in
clothing.
One form of jaundice, which oc-
ours frequently in children, lasts
from two to twelve weeks. It has
been thought that this is infectious,
but the proof is not certain.
1t seems to come on about the
same season Of the year when colds
in general are frequent. The con-
dition does not actually occur in
epidemics.
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Jaundice Is Caused by Bile in the Blood

1t is frequently without fever, and
definite bacterial organisms have
not yet been found in the bile as
taken directly from the intestines
at the point in which the bile is
poured into the intenstines.
Various types of poisons which
tend to injure the liver as, for ex-
ample, poison by arsenic, phos-
phorus, chloroform, and cincho-
phen are frequently associated with
jaundice.
There are also cases in which GER
tain types of infection actually do
spread through community. Much
liver damage is frequent. Such cases
might we'll be called infections or
epidemic jaundice.
One Of the most common types
of bile in the blood is that which
occurs in tiny babies just after
birth.
This usually tends to clear up in
a few days. There are, however,
other types Of infection at birth
associated with jaundice which are
more likely to be serious, if not
fatal.
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DUT do they? I should say not.
- Pride drips from every line;
love garlands every letter. One can
imagine them racing home each
evening bursting with desire to feast
their eyes upon their own par
ticular lovable lump of human
sweetness.
They can not, with all their ruses,
keep an immense self satisfaction
from creeping into everything they
write about the family, son or
daughter, as the case may be.
Fatherhood sits upon them like a
golden crown. Plainly, they are
feeling sorry for their friends, who
may have fathered children, but
none so perfect as their own. The
sweet unreasonable ness Of parent
hood is an evident in the man as in
the woman, and it is good that this
is so.
Any father who is not prejudiced
tremendously in favor of his own
baby is, I think, mighty poor
specimen, and doesn't deserve to
have one.
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It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BROUN -

DEER is almost here.
~ 1t may turn out to be a more
important change in our social and
economic life than some of US cynics
had anticipated. I myself have done
very little bleeding and dying for
the brew in recent years. 1t seemed
to fall among the minor problems.
But now that the beverage prac-
tically is within reach. I begin to
comprehend that I was q little less
than fair to beer when I didn't
have it.
I still think the material aspects
OF the move are somewhat exag-
gerated. l believe we may be dis
appointed in beer as a grain con-
sumner. a revenue producer and a
reliever of unemployment.
But beer has its spiritual side.
and 1t would be ShortSighted to neg
lect this important factor in the re-
turn OF an industry. This will be
particularly true if we get some ap-
proxlmation of the old-time saloon.
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A Woman's Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A LII my life I have heard moth
IN ers disparaged because they will
talk about their children in public.
But it was not until I became ac-
quainted with certain male news
paper writer's that I understood
fully how little we deserve such
treatment.
Fathers, it seems, may be ex-
cused for writing about their babies,
but mothers are not to be excused
for talking about them.
AS matter Of fact, I have all
the sympathy in the world for these
men. What's more, no subject mat
ter ever could be so entertaining as
a baby, from the viewpoint of its
parent. The thing 1 object to is
that women get so much of the
blame for fault that is common
to both sexes.
These papaS, to be sure, maintain
a slightly stand-offlsh attitude in
the clever little pieces they do about
their children. They preserve their
masculine aplomb with commend
able consistency.
They appear 70 disdain slightly
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also is vast number Of men who need work
very badly.
This plan puts the work and the men to-
gether in a definite and straightforward way
1t gives action to nation that wants action.
1t is as welcome thing as has been sug-
gested in Washington this spring
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, BY Mary Neal
The boy who wore the red sus-
penders is becoming almost as no.
torious as the dazed college fellow
who ran the wrong way with the
ball, but not for the same reason.
1t would seem that there are, at
present, degrees of culture and that
none of these includes the famed
suspenders. That a boy of IL should
commit the unforgivable social
blunder causes us to smile, if bit
carefully.
We can understand the boy. What
we fail to comprehend is how a
grown woman, principal of school,
supposed to be old enough to know
better, to have reached years of
discretion, could make such an up
roar about pair Of red suspenderS.
1t would seem that something was
radically wrong somewhere, that a
teacher had so little to occupy her
time.
Or shall we say that the cares Of
her profession sit lightly on her
when she could take time out for
such ridiculous performances? To
send him home, cause him to miss
part of his daily work, shame him
before his classmates, make him
learn to hate the school, all for an
innocent pair of red suspenders.
No wonder taxpayers cry out for
teachers who can teach, to instruct
our modern youth. Surely the mind
of the 11-year-old would have been
just as receptive to learning that
day, regardless of his attire. Wasn't
there some way that he could have
been told, with just a suggestion or
two about future appearance, and
then left to decide the matter for
himself.
Is it the Bible that says, MAN
looketh upon the outward appear
ance, but God 1ooketh upon the
hearth" Would that we had little
more of the God-like in some of our
modern educators.
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ALOckedDiary
by EVE STANTON


AS the dull gray of young suns
setting,
So is the sorrow of swift forgetting;
AS a light song too early shattered,
A fire burned out and the ashes
scattered;
So is the dusk that sways and
fingers,
Lights that die and fugitive fingers.
The ghosts of flowers, dust that
slips
Through soft Embossed fingertips.
Better that eyes be bright with
weeping
Than blind to dreams and dulled
with sleeping,
Better the heart be torn with pain
Than yelled with slumber and deaf
TO rain,
A silver wound in a tortured
breast
Than silent lips and night of rest
The death of rapture, the loss OF
light,
A cloudless day, and starless night.