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Political Economy

Before citizens applaud the county councilfor its economy, they would do well to ex-amine the action of that body.

It is significant that the council refusedagain to give any money for the prosecutionof open and flagrant frauds in the last pri-mary. The people involved are politicalfriends and associates of the members ofthe council. The conclusion is inevitable thatthe members of this council do not believethat the peopl* want honest elections or atleast, are not so excited about them as toresent this open effort to put a lid upon allinquiry.

The taxpayers may demand relief butthey have not readied the stage where theywould be unwilling to pay a few dollars to putinto jails those who have stolen the govern-ment from them and through sufh thefts,been responsible for misgovernment and ex-travagance.

Cutting salaries of judges and court bail-iffs may be a wise move. The politicalmachine probably expects to have few of itsfriends in these places on next January.

But it is significant that the most ex-pensive office in the county, the place wheremore precinct and ward committeemen aregiven soft berths, goes untouched. The coun-cil did not see fit to economize in the sheriff’soffice, and political gossip gives the sheriff aneven chance to succeed himself.

An economy program that results in pro-tection of ejection dishonesty, punishes po-

litical enemies and fails to touch ipoliticalfriends needs explanation.

Coste or CostesA certain Frenchman may not know how to spell

his own name—sometimes, he says, he thinks it shouldbe "Coste" and at other times lean toward the

longer, “Costes"—but it seems that he knows a thing

or two about the art of flying.

That, to be sure, is not precisely news, since he

already was holder of six world records before his lat-

est venture. Asa military ace on thd western front

Bnd in the orient, he won eleven citations. After the

war he was the crack pilot on the London-Paris line.Then came his record flights: From Paris to

Siberia in 1926, across the South Atlantic in 1927,

from Tokio to Paris in 1928, from France to Man-

churia in 1929 and his tVo endurance records of last

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Now he is the first to make the Paris-New York

westbound non-stop flight. The prevailing winds,

which aidedLindbergh and others in crossing the

North Atlantic from this country to Europe; hold back-

the planes which attempt to cross from east to west.

Even by stopping en route, only four westboundplane flights have succeeded. The United States army

round-the-world flight of 1924 was broken at Iceland,

Greenland. Labrador, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.The German plane, Bremen, came down in Labrador.Kingsford-Smith in his Ireland-New York flight this

summer stopped at Newfoundland. And Gronau, in

his recent seaplane flight from Germany, made six

landings on the way.At least six attempted ( non-stop flights across the

North Atlantic have ended in disaster. Os those

tragedies none is better remembered than the dis-

appearance in 1927 of Coste s fellow aces, Nungesser

and Coli.That honor roll of the world's leading fliers who

have tried to make the westward non-stop Europe-

New York flight and failed is the best evidence of thegreat good fortune and the equally great skill which

contributed to Coste's latest victory in the air.

France and HearstWhen the Paris government expelled William Ran-

dolph Hearst, American publisher, from France it dida bad day's work for itself and for international jour-

nalism.The justification given by the foreign office for its

action is the alleged hostile attitude of the Hearst

newspapers toward France. Whether that charge is

accurate or inaccurate does not interest us; it is noneof our business.

But even assuming the truth of the charge, the in-

evitable reaction of any American would be, “Well,

what of it?" The tradition and pride of American

journalism is that the press shall be free to criticiseany government, foreign or domestic.

No one will question the right of the French gov-

ernment to expel a newspaper man whom it considersunfriendly. Asa sovereign state, France has an abso-

lute right to receive or expel visitors at will, with orwithout explanation. But the French governmentsurely knows that one may possess a legal right which

one does not exercise, because of good taste or ex-pediency.

It happens that the French government has none

too good a reputation in its handling of the foreignpress. Self-interest would seem to dictate that theforeign office improve that reputation, rather than

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Insurance RegulationAnnouncement by an out-state candidate for the

legislature that, if elected, he will seek to have insur-

ance laws revised with more regard for the insured,

suggests that a serious study of the problem shouldbe made in behalf of policyholders.

Insurance plays so important a part in the life oftoday that it amounts almost to a government enter-prise. It will probably play an even greater part in

the years to come. '

One of the new developments is that of accident,health and income insurance. These are presumed to.give the insured protection against misfortune. The

law should demand that companies which write suchpolicies give all that they promise.

Practically all of such companies do keep theirpromises promptly. It is good advertising. But oc-casionally there are delays and refusals to pay.

Inasmuch as there are very strict penalties forthose who try to defraud insurance companies, it

would seem to be only justice if some penalty wereprovided for unreasonable or unwarranted delay.

A law providing extra penalties, together with at-torney fees in any case where a policyholder is com-pelled to go into court for justice, might help to solve♦the problem lor the few, a

REASON

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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.’*

Children and the DroughtReports are beginning to reach Washington of the

serious effect of the drought on the welfare ofchildren.

The Maryland health department finds that theinfant mortality rate for July was higher than lor

since the influenza epidemic of January,1929. The drought, with the accompanying heat, theincreased tendency of milk to sour and the greaterdanger of "Rater pollution, is given as the indirectcause.

Similar conditions are reported from Oklahomain correspondence to government departments call-ing attention to the danger to children from waterpollution and deterioration of milk, and the conse-quent need for giving as much thought to conserva-tion of human food supplies as to supplies of feedfor cattle.

Press reports from West Virginia quote the execu-tive secretary of the board of children's guardiansas saying that the drought has had a. serious effecton child welfare in that state. Unemployment, duepartly to the drought, and the consequent inabilityto support their families, has led some fathers todesert their children, in the hope that county or stateagencies will care for them.

Farm families, many of whom have been caringfor wards of the state, are appealing to the board ofchildren's guardians to take back the children, forwhom they fear there will not be sufficient food orclothing in their homes next winter.

State and county health and welfare agencies arebeing placed under a severe strain by conditions indrought-affected states.

Failure of congress to enact one of the bills pro-viding for continued federal and state cB-operationin maternity and infancy work has caused a curtail-ment of activities in behalf of the welfare and hygieneof mothers and babies and young children at thevery time when they are most needed and when thestates arc less able, perhaps, than ever before to carryon this essential work without some form of federalassistance.

Under the maternity and infancy act, the statesorganized health conferences, classes for mothers,demonstrations, campaigns, visiting nurse servicesand many other types of educational work.

At a time when water pollution and failing milksupplies are endangering the lives of babies, such workis more necessary than ever before.

The Chance to WorkStabilization of employment is the biggest job

before the people of the United States—and afterthat, the world. The fear of starvation, or the lossof a job, makes a man timid and cowardly—especiallyif he has a dependent family.

Organization is the answer. We recognize our re-sponsibility for taking care of defectives by support-ing institutions for the deaf, the dumb, the blind, theorphaned and for mental defectives who have to belocked up in prisons. We pay taxes so that theymay be housed, clothed and fed, and given medicalattention as well. 1

For the most part they are useless members ofsbeiety.

But we are not organized to provide steady em-ployment for useful members of society who are notonly willing, but eager, to work and earn enough toprovide a living for themselves and dependents.

There was a time when the ice business employedmen and horses during the summer season and turnedboth out to grass when they were not needed. At thesame time the retail coal business was doing thesame thing. In time these summer and winter busi-nesses were consolidated and the working force keptgoing the year around.

Some men of vision who happen to be at the headof some business organizations have, in recent years,sought to solve this problem. A few of them havesucceeded. More will succeed. But it is a nation-wide job. *

All of us should be so organized that those whowant to work can have steady jobs and the fear ofstarvation in a land of plenty can be taken from mil-lions of men, women and children.

Solving this problem will solve other nowvexing various crime and other commissions that arestudying effects rather than causes.

Concerning those eight boys in Connecticut whoreturned to their homes with green hair, green eye-brows and green eyelashes after swimming In a dye-polluted river, the most exacting Sunday feature ed-itor will have to admit the story has some color.

The census bureau reports that more people inthis country are riding bicycles this year. One reasonmay be they are anxfbus to see how it actually feelsto keep a balance in these times.

The fellow who breaks off with his girl afterpromising to marry her learns sooner or later tSatshe was worth her weight in gold.

FREDERICKLANDIS

JESSEW. WEIK of Greencastle, who died the otherday at the age of 73, was co-author with William

Herndon, Lincoln’s last law partner, of the best liejver written of the rail splitter.

Herndon had the data for the book and Weik camealong and did the writing, or the most of it, the resultbeing a book which caused a commotion because it

. contained the statement that had anunconventional ancestry.

It was said that Robert T. Lincoln, the emancipa-tors son, bought all the unsold copies of the editionand when the next edition appeared the reference tothe parentage of Nancy Hanks was omitted, as itshould have been in the first place.

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ry'RADITION places the blame for the unnecessary..

thrust at the Lincoln family tree upon Herndon,the story being that Herndon nursed a grievance be-cause Lincoln did- not appoint him to high office whenhe had many opportunities to do so.

It must have been the honor rather than the sal-ary that Herndon was interested in, for he had awealth of Lincoln lore which he could have sold fora fortune, for his store of Lincoln tetters and docu-ments were unmatched anywhere in the world.

We rememberone of the Lincoln documents par-ticularly.

The late Jesse Weik showed it to us one day in asmoking car down in southern Indiana when he wasa candidate for a state nomination and we were ayouthful stumper, engaged in saving the country.

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THIS document was the campaign notebook whichLincoln had carried in his many political battles.

It was about eight inches long, four inches wideuid an inch thick, and its pages were filled with themeditations and inspirations of the great American.

In this book he jotted down his random thoughtson slavery and secession, his opinions of the Kansas-Nebraska struggle and the Dred Scott decision.

In it also were many newspaper clippings withmarginal comments.

Reading of Weik's death, we wonder "what be-came” of that wonderful little book which revealedso much of the soul of Lincoln when he was struggling

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE•BY DAVID DIETZ-

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Archeologists Make Progressin Reconstructing Life ofIllinois 2,000 years Ago.

AN attempt to reconstruct thelife of Illinois 2,000 years ago

is being made by the University ofChicago in co-operation with anumber of national institutions.

It is hoped that the work will becompleted in time to make it pos-sible to exhibit the results at Chi-cago's "Century of Progress” fair in1933.

Two thousand years ago themound builders flourished in Illi-nois. A party of fifteen archeolo-gists now is working to excavate themounds around Lewistown.

Co-operating with the universityin the project are the Smithsonianinstitution of Washington, theLaboratory of Anthropology ofSanta Fe, Rufus Dawes, for thefair, and Joy Merton, who hasthrown the moupds, on his 5,700-acre estate open for the first scien-tific exploration, fend has set asidea lodge as headquarters for theparty.

Professor Fay-Cooper Cole, chair-I man of anthropology at the uni-versity, heads the expedition in itseffort to make the past live againat the fair. He is assisted by Dr.Wilton M. Krogman of the uni-versity and by Thorne Deuel, pro-fessor at Syracuse university.

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ProjectSOME of the nation’s most dis-

tinguished anthropologists willco-operate in the work*from time totime, Dr. Cole has announced.

These will include Dr. A. V. Kid-der of the Carnegie institution:Matthew Sterling, chief of the bu-

reau of American ethnology, Smith-sonian institution: Neil Judd, chiefof the division of .archeology, Na-tional museum, and Harry Shetrone,director of the Ohio State museum,and authority on mounds.

“For the University of Chicagothe expedition will constitute thefifth year’s work of a ten-year proj-ect to describe minutely the pre-history of Illinois from its earliestoccupancy,” Dr. Cole said.

“The previous four years haVebeen spent largely in the north-west part of the state, and aroundJoliet and in the vicinity of Quincy.

"More than 900 mounds havebeen mapped out, 655 more than inJo Daviess county alone, and over100 have been analyzed inch-by-inch by trowel and nail-file meth-ods.

The greatest of the mounds sofar found, outside the Cahokiamound, which rivals the Egyptianpyramids in size, was.an 1,100-footaffair near Galena.”

First large-scale efforts to tie to-gether all the evidence based on thesurvey, and on hundreds of Indianskeletons and more than 10,000artafacts now in possession of the

' university, was made recently byDr. Wilton M. Krogman, who hasdirected the work of the last threeyears. /

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analysis three great Indiancultures prevailed in Illinois over aperiod of more than 1,500 years, thebasic civilization being similar tothat which obtained in the wholeupper Mississippi valley. .

Influences from other regions hetraces into: Illinois, particularly theAlgonkian culture of. New York,which is very old, anteceding theIroquoisan invasion, and variants ofthe effigy-building complex of theAztalan culture of Wisconsin, whichextended along the Mississippi, andthe “Hopewell” and “Fort Ancient”cultures of Ohio.

“There is only atfiazy line betweenthe historic and the prehistoric, yetthe moment we pass from theknown Indians we enter a fieldfilled with legend and fancy,” saysProfessor Cole.

"In most counties of Illinois areIndian mounds, earthworks andcamp sites. We are told that theMound Builders are a lost racewhich inhabited this country beforethe Indians; that they were immi-grands from the old world; one ofthe Lost Tribes of Israel; peoplefrom the lost Atlantis.

But the archeologist Is con-cerned only with facts, and we knowconclusively that the Mound Build-ers are Indians, some of whomlived very recently, others as longago as 2,000 years.”

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEINEditor, Journal of (he American Medical

Association, and of Hrseia, the HealthMagazine.

AI,THOUGH much is known asto what" happens to many of

the foods taken into the body, theexact facts concerning what hap-pens to all nutritive substances asthey pass through the wall of theintestine and go to the blood andto the ’ arious organs still is a mat-ter of speculation and investigation.

The newer .science of physiologyand chemistry is beginning to makethe necessary studies to answer thequestion.

Proteins break down into.amino-acids and are circulated in the bloodin this form. Some of these pro-teins again are put together tomake body proteins, but again arebroken down under the influenceof various conditions in health anddisease.

Some of the protein is changedinto a substance called urea andcan be found in the excretions in

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SHENANDOAH CRASHSept. S

ON Sept. 3, 1926, the navy dirigi-ble Shenandoah, pride of the

country’s air fleet, was ripped apartby a thunder storm on its way, toZanesville, 0., and crashed to theground near Caldwell, 0., killingfourteen officers and men, includ-ing her captain, Lieutenant Com-mander Zachary Lansdowne.

The Shenandoah was the thirddirigible belonging to the govern-ment which met with disaster. Thefirst was the Roma, which crashednear Hampton Roads in 1922 with aloss of thirty-four lives; the other,the ZR-2, formerly the British R-38,caught fire over Hull, England, in1921 and killed sixteen Americannavy men and forty English mem-bers of the crew.

Tlie Shenandoah was the firstrigid airship built in the UnitedStates. Her construction, thoughall American, was modeled after theGerman Zeppelin L-49.

The Shenandoahwas neither builtnor equipped for commercial work,but was intended rather as an ex-periment.

Experts declare that the navigat-ing officer of the Shenandoah evi-dently lacked full weather data onits last trip.

Today, a commercial companywould be compelled by insuranceconcerns to provide thoroughweather reports to its pilots andthus enable airships to get awayfrom severe storms.

Do silk worms spin threads of dif-ferent colors?

Experiments made by introducingcolored matter igto the food of thesilk worm have proved successfulin causing them to spin threads ofvzyrious hues.

Which was the first gas companyin the United States?

The Gas Light Company of Bal-timore, organised in 1816, was the

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

How Body Absorbs Food Is Puzzlethis form. In certain diseases, someof the products of digestion andbody chemistry, which ordinarilyare changed for purposeswithin the body, are excreted un-changed, and those have beenstudied by the physiologic chemist.

Few people realize, for example,that there are some forms of sugarwhich may be excreted and give allthe tests for sugar, and yet notbe the particular sugar which isassociated with diabetes.• A certain amount of various sub-stances is found regularly in the ex-cretions, but under certain condi-tions of disease these substancesmay be increased greatly in amountor rare substances may be excreted,such as never are found in the ex-cretions under normal conditinos.

Thus careful and complete chem-ical analysis of the excretions ofthe body leads to a better under-standing of what is going on In theinterior. Quite logically when anyunusual substance is found in toogreat an amount in the excretions,the tendency is for the physician to

advise the patient to eat less of thesubstance which may give rise tothe unusual material.

By this means sometimes theseconditions can be brought undercontrol.

In an earlier day, thousands ofyears ago, the only examinationmade of the excreted fluid was tolook at it in the light and to judgewhatever might be judged with theunaided five senses of man.

Gradually it has been realizedthat these excretions are an indexof the body chemistry. The speci-men now may be submitted todozens if not hundreds of tests, theanswers to each of which yieldimportant knowledge. In thesetests expensive and intricate ap-paratus is. used, involving also aknowledge of -electricity, physics, ofchemistry, and of many correlatedsciences.

But here again only a beginninghas’ been made in the research—avast amount of knowledge is go-ing to be necessary before the wholetruth is known.

Chaney to Have No Successor;Place in Films Can’t Be Filled

This is the final story in the seriesof six on the life of Eon Chaney.

BY DAN THOMASNEA Service Writer

TJ-OLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 3.“ Who will step into Lon Cha-ney’s unique place on the screen?

With the famous actor’s funeralrites over, film fans already are ask-ink this question. And it’s a ques-tion very easily answered—Lon willhave no successor.

There are a large number of ex-cellent character actors engaged inthe motion picture business and thestage could furnish many more, butnone of them can ever take theplace of “The Man of a ThousandFaces.”

In fact, film producers never willmake an attempt to groom a suc-cessor tb • Chaney, because theyknow -that such a thing can’t bedone. Hollywood learned its lessonin that respect when Rudolph Val-entino died.

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NEVER yet has a person beenfound who could step into the

shoes of a famous stage or screenpersonage. Sarah Bernhardt neverwas replaced after her death. Neith-er was Wally Reid, Valentido, Bar-bara LaMarr, Theodore Roberts andMabel Norjnand.

Each of them seemed to have aspecial niche in public favor thatcould not be filled by a substitute,no matter how good. And Chaneynow takes his place with these im-mortals of the footlights andkleigs. '

Valefitino’s popularity was so tre-mendous that film producers soughtto capitalize upon it after his death.Executives of the Paramount studioannounced publicly they had dis-covered his successor in Ricardo

Cortez, at that time a promisingyoung actor.

But the public’s reaction was suchthat Cortez never has enjoyed anyreal success since. Even Valentino’sbrother failed as a successor to thepopular idol,

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THERE are a few actors withinthe film industry who might

have the ability to take Chaney’splace, but none of them would at-tempt such a feat. They only willwork the harder to build up theirown positions.

Jean Hersholt came under th*same classification as Lon. He isan artist at makeup and panto-mime. But Jean, though he mightrise to even greater heights as him-self, never could be a Lon Chaney.

Emil Jannings, the great Germanactor, might be said to be Chaney’sequal in every respect. Some day

he might be even higher on theladder of fame than Chaney was,but'it is very doubtful if he couldoccupy the niche made vacant byLon’s death. ,

The reason for this condition issimple. The places once held bythese favorites never have been va-cated—they still are filled withmemories..

A living actor may pass from thepublic view and be almost totallyforgotten in a short time, but thememory of one who has passed onlingers for a long time.

Members of the film colony areexpressing considerable gratificationover the fact that Chaney had anopportunity to make one talkingpicture before he died.

At least they now have the im-age and voice of the man who wasbeloved by all and it will be pre-served Indefinitely.

How Many CanYou Recall?How many of Lon Chaney's

pictures can you recall?Here is a list- of some of

his best known pictures:“The Miracle Man.”“The Penalty.”“Ace. of Clubs.”,‘‘Oliver Twist.”“The Shock.”

-- “False Faces.”“The Hunchback. of , Notre

Dame.” •

“He Who Gets Slapped.”“The Blackbird.”“The Unknown.”“The Road to Mandalay.”“Tell It to the Marines.”“The Monster.”“Mr. Wu.”“London After Midnight.”“While the City Sleeps.”“West of Zanzibar."“The Unholy Three.”Asa result of his work and

drilling in “Tell It to the Ma-rines,” he qualified for a cap-taincy in the marine reservecorps, while the filth, “Whilethe City Sleeps,” resulted inthe police departments of sev-eral cities awarding him hon-orary memberships. -

Questions and AnswersWhere and what is Mason and

Dixon’s line?Originally it was the parallel of

latitude 29 degrees 43 njinutes 26.3seconds, which separates Pennsyl-vania and Maryland. It received itsname from Charles Mason and Jere-miah Dixon, two English mathema-ticians and astronomers, who tracedthe greater part of it, between theyears 1763 and 1767, though the lastthirty-six miles were finished byothers. It was practically the divid-ing line between the free and theslave states in the east. During thediscussion in congress on the Mis-souri compromise, John Randolphof Virginia made free use of thephrase and thereafter it becamepopular as, signifying the dividingline between free and slave territorythroughout the country. The boun-dary, as thus extended by popularusage, followed the Ohio river tothe Mississippi, and west of thatwas the parallel of 36 degrees 30minutes, the southern boundary ofMissouri, though Missouri itself wasa slave state.

Is there such a thing as scarlet <snow!

Scarlet gnow, due to the presenceof small and very thin worms, has !fallen at Halmstead, Sweden.

What is the meaning of the wordYankee?

It means "English.” When thefirst English settlers went to Amer-ica the nearest the Indians couldget to the name was ’Tengees.’’That was twisted to "Yankees’’ andapplied later to Americans.

When was postage on letter mailraised to 3 cents, and when was the2-cent rate restored?

The 3-cent rate became effectiveNov. 2, 1917, and the two cent ratewas restored July 1, 1919.

Where are American Austinautomobies made?

The general office is at 7300Woodward avenue, Detroit. Thefactory is at Butler, Pa.

Where is the largest book and jobprinting plant in the world?

The United States governmentfiliating office is Washington,

How high is the statue of libertyin New York harbor?

One hundred and sixty feet.

Who was the first woman in theUnited States to pay the deathpenalty for crime?

Mrs. Surratt, who was ‘hanged inWashington, D. C., July 7, 1865, forcomplicity in the assassination ofAbraham Lincoln.

How many children did GeneralRobert E. Lee have?

Seven: George, William, Robert,Mary, Ann, Eleanor and Mildred.

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M.E: TracyrSAYS:

The World Owes a Lot toFailures, but Nothing toThose Who Never Try.

WILLIAMRANDOLPH HEARSThas been invited to-get out

of France and stay out, because oneorhis reporters dug up the copy ofa proposed secret treaty betweenthat country and England some timeago.

His own characterization of theincident as *“a bit foolish, but ex-tremely French," is beyond improve-ment.

Any other government would haveconsidered it sufficiently humilia-ting to get caught at such tricks.

Sometimes, one could wish thatthe French had a healthier senseof humor.

It is difficult to understand thephilosophy of statesmanship whichcan visualize a secret treaty as agood joke, and at the same timesee nothing funny in the. work of ajournalist who catches them at it.

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Helps the PeopleHOWEVER one rr r y disagree

with Hearst’s opposition tonaval treaties, peace pacts and otherphases of international co-operation,he has set a good example for jour-nalists in exposing some of the rotback-stage.

Whether French statesmen like itor not, the French people ought, tobe peculiarly grateful, for, if hemadi certain cabinet memberssmart, he showed up a fraud whichmight have made the people smartworse.

Those who have taken advantageof their position to slap him on thewrist should remember all that wassaid about the “sanctity of treatiesand open covenants openly arrivedat” as among the paramount waraims.

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‘Legs' Is BarredHEARST should not feel too im-

portant, because he has been*invited to leave by one great gov-ernment.

Jack (Legs) Diamond hasachieved similar distinction at thehands of three.

Having been escorted to the bor-der by English and Belgian police.“Legs” now politely is informed bythe German police that they willconduct him to any frontier he maychoose.

It all came about through a warn-ing of our state department that“Legs” was abroad somewhere inthe wide, wide world.

Just why the warning was issuedno one seems to know, but Europeanpolice appear to have taken it seri-ously.

What is more surprising, Euro-pean police appear to have experi-enced no such difficulty in locating“Legs,” as has characterized thenoisier efforts in this country.

He was nabbed in three successivecountries without a mis?, but to nopurpose, since the authorities herehad no excuse to offer for holdinghim.

Paraphrasing Hearst, it all sounds“a bit foolist. but extremely Ameri-can.”

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Triumph in Death.WHAT a contrast between tins

sort of trifling sensationalismand the heroism of an Andrge, eventhough it ended in tragedy.

Leaning against the barren rock,where he died thirty-three yearsago, waiting for some equally hardyexplorer to come and take him backhome—who could ask for a more ex-quisite triumph?

Whether Andree knows it or not,he is receiving all the glory % suc-cessful trip to the pole would havemeant, and the glory will do futuregenerations as much good.

The fact that he failed is of smallconsequence as against the fact thathe tried.

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Failures Help WorldTHE world owes a lot to failures,

but nothing to those whonever try.

If it were true that “nothing suc-ceeds like success,” we still would beback in the dark ages of barbarism.

You hardly can think of a majordiscovery, invention, or achieve-ment which was not born of sacri-fice and disappointment.

Os the first 12,000 people whostarted for America, more than one-half perished in the attempt, whilethe path of aviation literally isstrewn with corpses.

It seems an appropriate climax tohis dream, that Andree’s body shouldbe taken home after other men,with better equipment, had accom-plished the feat he tried to perform.

Also, it seems to epitomize thetype of ambition and struggle whichproduces human progress.

Daily ThoughtFor the Lord shall judge His

people.—Deuteronomy 32:36.

Who upon earth could live wereall judged justly?—Byron.

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