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they are likely to be as mild milk. But you can
make any red by stepping on his toes long
enough and hard enough.
Steamships and hotels seem to me the very labo-
ratOries in which class consciousness is created.
have never been a bus boy stoker yet. 1 was,
by accident alone, the fellow who screaming
about the minute steak sitting on the deck with
a gin rickey On boats particularly get sense of
the impermanence of the thing which we call the
economic structure and treat if it had been
handed down from Mount Sinai on a rock-hewn
tablet.
"Garcon," say in the imperious voice of man
who got a cut-rate cabin by writing article for
travel magazine the same all around And this
time be quick about it"
And several decks below a very pallid man is
feeding the engines with coal oil whatever food
they are designed to require. Smashl Crash! Bang!
there comes the iceberg the hurricane the COLI
sion in the fog, and suddenly the garcon, the fat
passenger and the stOker equal as they should
have been the day they we're born. You can't tell
q hurricane that you have money in the bank or
buy yourself a lifeboat with offer of gilt-edge
bonds.
Up by the heels YOU go to judgment seat, and,
though your piety may be of your wit and proud
possessions have become academic before the rush of
clean salt water.
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Children Turn to Petit LdrcenU

a DVOCATES of the child labor amendment have
been outspoken in their satisfaction the
showing thus far made in the enforcement Of the
law. While it is undoubtedly true that many chill
dren do continue to work secretly washing win
dows under cover of darkness, it is also apparent
that many children have given up their nefarious
occupations and turned to such pursuits as craps,
Shoplifting and the theft of removable parts from
parked automobiles There is a feeling among the
amendment forces that after another year or two of
ruthless enforcement there will come along gen.
Grafton of children who have never known the taste
or desire for work, who will grow up without any
inclination to work in after life.
Everything takes time you know, said Senator
Five-and-Ten Smith with a genial twinkle in his
eye and the difficulties of enforcing the amend
ment the first year should not be exaggerated
predict that in five six years our children will
grow up with a great loathing for work and will
Shun it all their lives. The evils of the old system
are too apparent to need pointing out again Our
children heard nothing but work work. work Jobs
jobs jobs, and grew up to manhood and woman
hood with a craze for work. What was the result?
There came time when all the work was done
There were no jobs left and depression panic pow
erty ensued We must never let this happen again !"
Copyright 1884. by Unite Feature Syndicate. mel
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Done With Dispatch

T MUST admit that had little of the same sort
of feeling when 1 read Of the strike of chefs and
walters at the Waldorf 1t is good to have people
reminded of their dependence upon the toll which
brings sustenance and safety within elbow reach.
The impression gets about too widely that a roll of
bills is some sort of AaddinS lamp. You rub ten
or twenty and the slave of the lamp takes form out
of the ether to say: Master, how can serve you?
What do you desire?"
You see. a minute steak isn't really sixty-sec
ond proposition at all. Consider the steer Gf have
the right animal in mind from which it came and
you may get some notion of the complicated and
arduous process by which it was set down under
meath your double chin
have confessed to being neither bus boy
stoker but if 1 I think I'd hate myself. think
I'd say, You never did anything useful enough or
important enough to justify yourself in bawlipg out
When do I get that steak ordered half an hour
agO?' If the answer was Never what good argu-
ment could you put up against it?"
And a matter of fact, never one to
holler and complain. In my call even
belated spinach so much velvet.
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Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

IF any portion of the United States east of the
Il Rocky Mountains develops a spell of unusually
warm weather before the end of the winter the
chances are 100 to 1 that somebody will blame it on
the Gulf Stream If the weathger becomes unusual
at any time next summer, the Gulf Stream will
again get the blame.
Periodically, some one advances the notion that
Florida will turn into desert New England into
an ice field because the Gulf Stream is shifting its
direction. Schemes have been advanced for
diverting the Gulf Stream in order to bring about
improvements in the weather of the United States.
In view of these perennial claims, it is of interest
to note what meteoroogStS and oceanographerS have
TO say about the Importance of the Gulf Stream.
They believe that there are minor fluctuations in the
Gulf Stream. but that these fluctuations have al
most negligible effect upon the weather conditions in
the United States.
This viewpoint does not minimize the Importance
of the Gulf Stream in the general scheme of world
wide wind and water circulation the factors which
in all probability determine climate and general
weather conditions Of any given region But it does
abSolve the Gulf Stream from any blame for unusual
weather in the United States.
NEETEOROLOGISTS and oceanographers have
1N1 discovered that there is inter-actng system
OF winds and ocean currents Both, undoubtedly
owe their origin to the unequal warming of the air
IN different ATTITUDES by the sun, and the rotation
of the earth
The Gulf Stream, biggest of all the ocean cur
rents. has been described by one scientist as the
grandeSt and most mighty terrestrial phenomenon"
The Gulf Stream can be thought of as a river in
the sea" but in this connection it must be remem-
bered that in the nature Of things it can not have
such sharp and distinct boundaries distinguish
river on land.
The stream comes out Of the Gulf of Mexico and
flows through the Straits of Florida At this point
according TO DR.. H A. Mariner of the United States
coast and geodetc survey it is forty miles wide and
1000 feet deep.
This means that each hour the Gulf Stream
SENDS through the Sraghts of Florida into the sea
ABOUT lOOOOOOOOoOO tons of water. This is about
1000 times more water than is poured into the Gulf
OF Mexico each hour by the Mississippi river.
The water of the Gulf Stream has a beautiful
trar-- aren't blue color
Leaving the Straits Of Florida the stream flows
due north for about 1000 miles.
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of 10, Walker Stone decided to
take a hand in public reform
during a six-month period the
Stone family was living in New
Mexico.
A statewide referendum was
being held on prohibition. At the
behest of his Methodist preach
r-scoutmaster, Walker, CARRIED in
his Boy Scout uniform, vent
about the streets on the morning
of the election pinning white rib
bons on the coat lapels of men
who promised to vote dry.
The head of the Stone family
learned about Walkers doings at
noontime. Walker comics Se d.
Walkers father, who liked his
white ribboners at a safe dis
lance, saw to it that young Mr..
Stone spent the afternoon hoeing
weeds out of the garden.
DUT the dryS won ana walker
ID was crushed when the reali-
zation of what he had done came
to him.
ut was perhaps due to nat
ural desire to undo that fore
Moons disservice to society,"" he
confeSses, that I have been I'M
able in my recent writing years
to restrain occasional whoops and
jabs as I chronicled the defeats
and misdeeds of the egrim legionS
of Bishop Cannon
Walker, by the way, is no mean
politician.
He claims that he became the
editor of his college paper by play
ing intensely at the game of
campus politics.
Be that as it may, the fact re-
mains that Walker converted it
from weekly into the best COL
lege daily in the southwest. Red
headed Mr. Stone thought, in
those days, that the responsibility
for maintaining the freedom of
the press rested who'll yon his
shoulders.
AS a result, every one of the
four college presidents who ran
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Passing the Profits Around

DUT this started out to be a column about the
ID strike of hotel employees. I am aware that only
a little while ago many a large hoSelry in town was
practically leper colony. But the tide has turned
The dining rooms which we're once great open
spaces are now thronged with customers. Hotel
proprietorS are saying to themselves, This is too
good to be true" thrill runs along the keel of
bond issues long considered defunct. People are
looking francally through waste paper baskets for
mortgages they threw away.
AS an asSiduouS patron of places do not grudge
them the return of prosperity But if hotel is an
institution a great big family have heard it
said. why. in heavens name, shouldn't prosper
ity mean wages and deal all along the
line from roof way down 10 cellar?
Copyright, 1884 BY The Tmesl
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the school during Walkers four
years there, had the pleasant duty
of meeting and converSing with
Mr.. Stone. Walkers must have
been a potent quill, for he admits
he wore spots in the green carpet.
A FTER few years of news
a paper work in Oklahoma,
Walker headed for Washington
with the avowed purpose of be-
coming a lawyer. But, as is usual
ly the case, the newspaper mag
net was too strong and Walker
soon found himself working for
the Washington News, Scripps-
Howard paper in the capital.
In his five years on the News
he covered every beat in Washing
ton, from, as he himself puts it's,
police headquarters and the
house of representatives up to the
White House"
He became city editor and later
was recording the antics of the
"dignified" senate when he was
taken off the News staff and
placed on the Scripps-H Howard
Newspaper Alliance and soon
after named Washington cor
respondent for The Times.
This is his fourth year as COR
respondent for The Times and
now he knows the inside" of In
diana's politics as he does we'll
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Your HeaIfh
=BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

XXTHEN you get a pain in the abdomen, you need
w not associate it Immediately with indigestion or
an attack of appendicitis. OF course, the pain may
be due to either of these causes and then again it
may be due to any Of a large number of other
troubles.
You should remember that your abdominal cavity
contains not only your stomach and intestines but
also the liver, the spleen, the kidneys, the pancreas,
the adrena glands the galbladder, the urinary blad
der and in the case Of the female the organs of SEX
Indammations or infections of any of these
organs may produce severe abdominal pain
Whatever you do about such PAIN don't guess,
because some OF these causes may be exceedingly
serious
The pains may vary from dull, vague discomforts
to serious and ncapacitating pains Of the type that
double patient up. The pain may be in place
or it may radiate. 1t may get better with food or
worse.
1t may be associated with dozens of other symp-
toms such nausea, distension belchng or weak
ness and loss Of weight it may be independent Of
any other symptom
A CTUALLY, pain in the abdomen may be re-
n suit Of disturbance in the lungs or in the heart.
Any sort of disturbance of the large intestines
may bring about pain, and there are innumerable
such disturbances, varying from chronic constipa-
ton and colitis with irritabity of the bowels to
such serious conditions as cancer or amebic dys-
EMERY
It is known that, in conditions like locomotor
ataxia, severe pains may occur in the abdomen and
that sometimes inlammations of the bones Of the
spine may bring about pains related to the abdom-
inal cavity.
Even chemical poisons may be associated with
pains in the abdomen. This occurs particularly in
the case of poisoning by lead Lead collie frequently
is among workers in industries in which lead Is
much used and in which there is no proper atten-
ton to safety
Finally, any of the common diseases that affect
the body generally may be reflected in secondary
changes taking place in the abdominal cavity
You may see, therefore, that here is case IN
which knowledge is better than gueSswork and that
your only safety lies in getting accurate diagnosis
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read book. But you should hear
Walker describe it himself.
"a ZINE are faults a-plenty,"
1V1 he admits. "I confess, for
example, warm regard for ex-
Senator Jim Watson. I like him
better as an ex-senator than I
did as a senator.
I'D do almost anything for him
except vote for him. Jim never
could see the need to play politics
any different than after the fash
ion of Mark Hanna and Boies
Penrose.
"'.And So" says Walker, when
it becomes my job to report Jim's
efforts to get reelected, I sell
dom wrote a story without some
misigivingS as to the cruelty of
the truth.
when Arthur Robinson starts
down the reelection home
stretch" he adds, 1T will be my
duty again to write a lot more
truthful and cruel Stories-but 1
won't feel as I did when 1 re-
ported Jim's efforts to carry
water on one shoulder and
whisky on the other, and make
10000 votes out of his home loan
bank bill"
Il confess, Also says Walker,
some SadiStic traits. How else
could I have probed so often the
mental tortures that afflicted
Congressman Louis Ludlow in
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matically, to the satisfaction of
both countries.
Federico Agacio, the Chilean
diplomat, informed Hugh Cum
ming that pisco is the national
drink of Chile. Federico, Chileans
admit, is mistaken. Chicha is the
national drink)
In Peru, Mr.. Cummings men
toned to a Peruvian staff officer
that pisco was the national drink
of Chile.
Not at ALL" said the officer.
cit is the national drink of Peru.
1t is named after a town called
PiSco."
Nothing more was said but that
evening, before the banquet given
by the President of Peru, a note
was presented to Secretary of
State Hull by a Peruvian Official:
'At the direction of his excel
lency, the president of Peru, 1 have
the honor to present to his excel
lency, the Secretary of State of
the United States of America,
and to the members of his party a
real sample of the Peruvian ma
tional drink, pisco."
II
1T was not until after dinner
Il however, that the sample was
forthcoming.
Between files of soldiers in gilt
tering helmets and red plumes
who raised their sabers in salute,
Secretary Hull and members of
his suite started to walk down the
marble steps of the palace.
Just then an excited aid-de-
camp dashed oyer and thrust
parcel wrapped in newspapers into
the hands of one of the American
visitors.
Il forgot to give you this" he
whispered.
AS the triumphal cortege started
downstairs, the newspapers I'M
rolled and fell to the ground, dis
closing a one-gallon key of pisco
national drink of Peru.
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Public Opinion Favorable

THERE has been some reaction against the Sc
- verify with which the amendment has been en-
forced in some quarters of the country but on the
whole public opinion seems to agree that if this
law is not enforced then the respect for all law
will be undermined.
"The only way to enforce law is to enforce it."
said Senator Smith, the author of the Smith five
and-ten law. "These children not only houted the
law, but when the enforcement agents. hiding be-
hind the wood pile and the dog house, called on
them to surrender, they tried to escape I am told
also that of the little girls was notorious little
work-mol who had been known to work early and
late not only for her mother but for neighbors Our
agents report that when they called on this gang
to surrender, this little girl made motion toward
her hip as if reaching for gun. I am not going
to ask our brave boys to expose their lives to I'M
necessary risks. 1t is true that this little girl when
searched after the fight, did not have any gun but
she should not have made a false move toward
her hip"
The agents. all of whom had long experience in
prohibition enforcement, were taken under the pro-
lection of the United States district court at
just by of foreStalng any possible legal action
which might be taken against them in the state
courts. In the federal court, if any accusation
should be made against them, they will be defended
by the United States district attorney and special
assistant to the attorney general who will be sent
out from Washington.
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DEFENDS STATE
BEER TAX PLAN
Large Collection at Small
Cost Is Praised by Ex-
else Official.

Defense of the Indiana plan of
beer and liquor tax collections was
voiced today in a statement from
Sam H. Lesh, deputy excise direc-
tor and department auditor, show
ing large collections at little cost.
Mr.. Lesh pointed out that total
collections by the excise department
from April l to Dec. 81, 1898,
amounted to 1865 1865, with COL
lection costs amounting TO but 2.95
per cent.
Under the system by which col
lectionS are made directly from i'm
porters, brewers and wholesalers, a
personnel of only twenty-five was
used in the DIVISION" Mr.. Leoh said.
Thirteen of the twenty-five were
Investigators and nine the Office
force.
Operating expenses for the nine
months were S54,705.62, of which
$3,136.55 was a homecoming ex-
penSe for office equipment and
$1,O4058 for building repairs
Salaries accounted for $31 ,245.80
of the total and other operating ex-
penSe, such as travelling expenses
for investigators, was $18,696.39."
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Fair Enough
By
Wesfbrook PeqIer

THE operation of the child labor amendment to
Il the United States Constitution, which rati-
fed in 1s4O has resulted in casualties in the
first year. Reports of the child labor enforcement
bureau in Washington list 1880 children who were
caught in the act of shoveing snow, moving lawns,
beating rugs for their mothers washing dishes,
and shot dead when they tried to escape.
The most recent incident of the kind, i'll which
an entire family Of six children ranging III ages
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The Theatrical World
Capacity Audience Will
Greet GershWin Here
by WALTER D. HICKMAN.

"~IVE people what they want
" and they will go through
snow, fire and high water to see
it."
Years ago, the late Eddie Foy
told me that in his dressing
room at B. F. Keith's when he
had the seven little Foys with
him.
That thought came to me again
when Mrs. Nancy Martens told me
that the extreme cold weather has
not affected the seat sale for the
George Gershwin, James Melton,
and the Reisman Symphonic Or
chestra at English's Thursday
night.
People did not rely upon any
means of communication but
themselves to get their tickets
during the current winter spell.
Many out of town people braved
the weather to personally get
their tickets.
Interest, of course. centerS upon
the playing of Rhapsody in Blue"
by Mr.. Gershwin. Yet the voice
of James Melton, tenor, is so we'll
known over the air that many
people came to ask for tickets
to the Melton concert.
A capacity audience will greet
Mr.. Gershwin and the others, but
there are good seats left at this
writing. That fact is an answer
to many questions.
Mr.. GerShwin will open the
program by playing his "Concer-
to in F." This concerto is of
thirty minutes duration and was
published in 1925. 1t has been
played by Walter Damrosch, the
Boston Symphony, the Philhar-
monte orchestra under Mengel-
berg and Van Hoogstraton, the
Minneapolis Symphony under
Verbrugghen and by the Cincin-
natl orchestra.
The second division of the pro-
gram will be devoted to the Or
chestra under the direction of
Charles Previn playing Gershwin
numbers - "Swanee," DO 1t
Again" Lady Be Good" Mine
and Strike Up the Band"
After that Mr.. Melton will APP
pear, singing Hills of Rome"
Home on the Range" and Garry
Me Back to the Lone Prairie"
Then follows the big event of
the program. Mr.. GerShwin play
ing his own masterpiece, ''Rhap-
Sody in Blue" Years ago at the
Murat, Mr.. GerShwin played this
composition with Paul Whiteman.
After intermiSsion, the orcheS-
ira will play Gershwin's AN
American in Paris"
Deems Taylor wrote the fol-
lowing analysis of this compost
ton:
by its composers own confess
sion, An American in Paris is an
attempted reconciliation between
two opposing schools Of musical
thought. 1t is prograrn-music in
that it engages to tell an emo
tional narrative; to convey, in
terms of sound. the successive
emotional reactions experienced
by a Yankee tourist adrift in the
City of Light.
1T is absolute music as well,
in that its structure is determined
by considerations musical rather
than literary or dramatic. The
piece, while not in strict sonata
form, resembles an extended SYM
phonic movement in that it an
nounces, develops. combines and
recapitulates definite themes.
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those, to him at least, distressing
days when Indianapolis was
changing from a dry to a wet
town.
Louis" he declares, "now is
busy trying to find out whether
the folk back home have forgiven
him for his prohibition record.
He wants to take Arthur Robin
sons seat in the senate"
Ct OBBIES of the Capitol and
~ the hotels of Washington"
Walker says, always seem to be
overlooking with Indiana politi-
clans. They want jobs or con-
tracts-anything to get their fists
into the federal treasury.
They talk politics-never any,
thing except politics-and it is the
politics of personalities, not the
politics of principles and issues.
For long time I have been
trying to find out the real differ
ence between the Democratic
party in Indiana and the Repub-
lican party in Indiana. At last I
believe 1 have found the answer:
They are never in Office ct the
same time"
That's Walker Stone.
Level headed young man,
what?
Next-The cartOOnist.
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MY newspaper work in Okla
homa," he said at the time,
stretched over the impeachment
of two Governors-both natives
of Indiana. Jack Walton was re-
moved on charges of graft and
Henry Johnston on charges of
general incompetency. So you see
I already know something Of the
types of politicians that come
from Indiana"
Walker got the job.
DUT Washington has improved
ID somewhat since the last cleo
ton, Walker comedies.
But" he adds, "Indiana's dele
CATION to the halls of congress is
still below par-and par in con-
greSs is none too high"
Walker Stone, however, shouldn't
be taken too seriously. A tall,
broad-shouldered redhead, he is
an able and conscientious work
man. He knows the ms and outs
of Washington with the best of
them, and he is continually I'M
earthing stories of interest to
Indiana.
He talks with slow drawl and
looks like one of the worlds ten
LATEST men. But, to the contrary,
he is one of the hardest working
of Washington's correspondents
and The Times oftentimes has its
troubles in making room for
everything that Walker writes.
VXTALKER was born thirty
w years ago in a small Okla
homa town - then Indian terri
tory. He says he went through
grade school and high school only
because his parents and the tru-
ant officer would not permit him
to do otherwise.
Il went to state college to get
away from the home town and to
keep from going to work" he
drawlS.
He. spent the summers of his
teens in the hayf1elds and herd
ing his fathers cattle.
At the mellow and ripe old age