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The Revolt Starts
There is something of unusual significance
in the primaries in Illinois, where the Repub
lican voters have most emphatically rebuked
the forces of graft and corruption.
These forces in Illinois are a duplicate of the
crowd which has owned and controlled the
same party in this State. They had the same
theory of government, the same Jack of con
science, the same utter disregard for common
honesty. They relied upon the indifference of
the ordinary citizen and ruled through the
grouping of the corrupt in the cities and the
misguided in the country districts.
The Governor of the State of Illinois, it is
true, did not descend to the moral depths of
pleading the statute of limitations to escape the
penitentiary, but it may be remembered that
it was the Governor of Illinois who gave solace
to the Governor of Indiana when, at a Gov
ernors’ gathering on the day that The Times
exposed the offer of a bribe to Warren T. Mc-
Cray, he told him to never mind, that lie had
always been criticised and that the people
didn't care and would return him to even
higher offices.
There is something very significant in the
fact that on that day of exposure, the Gov
ernor of this State and the now cjiscrcdited
Governor of Illinois foregathered and con
suited.
The overwhelming vote in Illinois means
that the people of these United States are
aroused as never before, to the one issue of
corruption in government.
It means that the men and women of the
party of Lincoln have decided that they will
no longer permit his memory and his name to
be used as a cloak by criminals and corrup
tionists.
Many things have contributed to this de
termination and this awakening.
The purchase of senatorial seats, exposed
by Senator James A. Reed, and the exposure of
the sale of Government oil reserves through the
efforts of Senator Walsh have shown to the
people that it is time that there was again a
government by and for the people, instead of
by and for the gangs of grafters.
The crowd in Illinois was no different than
the crowd in Indiana. It was even more adroit
in escaping the positive exposure and proof
which has come to this State.
There had been no indictments of high offi
cials in recent months, no pleas of guilty, no
intervention of the statute of limitations as a
defense for the Governor of the State.
There was the very plain and evident fact
that the Republican party in. that State, as in
this, had been taken away from the decent
voters and used by those who shamed and be
trayed it.
Will the people of Indiana vote to give hon
ors to those who have been a part of this ma
chine in this State and who have conspired
with those who have been exposed?
Will the Republicans dare to go to the Kan
sas City convention and ask for the nomina
tion of Watson for President, with a full
knowledge that two years ago Watson owed
his election to the now discredited forces?
Will they dare to ask that he be their stand
ard bearer knowing that the Republicans of
ihe Nation will look at Indianapolis and find
here that Watson has had the backing and
support of Boss Coffin, indicted with Jackson,
who pleaded the statute of limitations?
Will the Republicans of the State consent
to again nominate Arthur Robinson, who was
on such terms of intimate friendship with D.
C. Stephenson that the life term convict sent
a pearl necklace to his home as a Christmas
present ?
Will the Republican voters name Robinson,
whose campaign manager of two years ago,
was an intimate friend of Stephenson and who
is now under indictment for grafting upon the
State treasury?
Will they dare to send back Updike to
Congress tvith a knoAvledge that Updike signed
a written pledge to give patronage in this city
only to those named by Stephenson?
Will they dare to pick as a candidate for
Governor one of those many former followers
of Stephenson who are now trying to deal with
the discredited Coffin for votes or, delegates
from this city ?
Will Indiana Republicans be less zealous in
their efforts to smite corruption than Avere the
Republicans of Illinois?
Will they dare to go to the polls in Novem
ber on a pledge of a “new deal” with a set of
candidates that are backed by the same old
forces and combination of Watsonism, Stephen
sonism and Coffinism?
The people of Indiana are surely as consci
entious and as alert as those Avho live across
the State line.
A London newspaper says the prince falls off his
horse so often because of crowding, hysterical wom
en on the race courses. We’ll believe it if the news
paper will explain how it happens the prince never
falls off a dance floor.
The American people pay $20,000,000 a year for
music, that is their—well, their music.
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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Oavii Way.”
Chicago Says “I Will”
Chicago has been long suffering and slow to
move. But when Chicago at last says "I will" and
sets her jaws, she means she will.
So State’s Attorney Crowe and Governor Small
and Almost-Senator Frank Smith join the innumer
able caravan of has-beens. While "Big Bill" Thomp
son still is mayor, he too, is crippled badly and is on
his way to the exit.
Most of the people of Chicago are like people any
where else. So long as the politicians in power do not
go far enough to make the people mad, indifference
prevails. But there always comes the time when
enough is enough. And then the deluge. That time
arrived Tuesday in Chicago.
The vicious alliance of politics with the under
world brought Chicago so close to anarchy that the
entire country was shocked. Chicago was stung by
national criticism. So the citizenry went to the polls,
despite tear of gangsters and machine gun squads.
The decent clement is greatly in the majority, in
Chicago or in any other city. But apathy is a com
mon failing even among decent citizens.
The real significance, therefore, about the Chicago
result is not that the Dcnccn crowd won over the
Thompson-Small-Crowe crowd. It is that the apathy
era has ended.
Flood Control
Flood control legislation must pass the House.
The Senate has done its part accepting the Jones
bill without a dissenting vote.
The House cither can substitute shat measure or
adopt the revised Jones bill, reported out by the
House Flood Committee.
The Nation isn’t concerned which is adopted, as
long as flood control legislation is enacted
The Senate bill is preferable because it presents a
compromise of all the elements entering into flood
control legislation and because it better satisfies the
Mississippi Valley, which is the section afflicted by
the floods.
The House should not make a pork barrel measure
out of the flood bill. If it does, President Coolidge
will exercise liis veto and the political after-effects
will be far from healthy for those congressmen who
are responsible.
Nor docs the House need to tie in other projects,
such as the California flood proposal, with the Missis
sippi Valley flood bill.
If the California project has sufficient merit to
justify its adoption, it can Avin without being made a
rider to other legislation.
Mississippi floods are a national menace and have
been for scores of years. The country demands that
this menace be removed.
The House can satisfy this demand only by enact
ing- flood legislation as soon as the question is brought
up the latter part of this week.
People Are Interesting
As soon as Henry Ford landed in England, he
told the reporters what he was there for. "I am going
to see the English people,” he said. "I am particu
larly ftiterested in people. In fact, it's the only thing
I am interested in.”
Henry is right. People are the greatest thing in
the world. There is nothing more interesting. This
would be a dreary old world If there were no people
on it. There would be nobody to read newspapers or
buy flivvers.
The more you consider it, the sounder Henry's
philosophy sounds. Everywhere the traveler goes he
finds people. If one gets of live ones there
always are graveyards to visit, those silent com
munities whose population never grows less. So,
things being what they are, we might as well keep up
our interest in people.
Mussolini has decided hand-shaking is undesirable.
He can—he doesn’t have to run for re-election.
jjavid Dietz on Scicnce-
Nothing but Waves
No. 22
NOTHING exists in the universe but waves of en
ergy according to the latest scientific theory, the
so-called Schroedinger wave mechanics.
The chemist had shown that all matter was made
up of tiny particles, called molecules, which, in turn,
were composed of atoms.
The atoms, in turn, were believed to be composed
of electrons.
But Schroedinger has changed that. According to
his theory, an atom is just a mass of wave energy.
loses its individual identity.
It is a little difficult to picture just what the atom
is like, according to Schroedinger.
The atom is a little sphere of electricity, according
to his theory. The electricity is densest at the center.
This dense center corresponds to the nucleus of the
atom in the Bohr theory.
Instead of having electrons revolving around the
nucleus, Schroedinger has the little sphere of elec
tricity vibrating or pulsating.
For each configuration of electron orbits in the
Bohr theory, he puts forward a complex vibration y
wave motion in the sphere of electricity.
One might think, therefore, of each atom as a little
pulsating balloon of electricity.
But balloon is not quite the right word because the
atom, according to Schroedinger,. does not have any
clear and distinct surface.
The electricial density is greatest at the center of
the atom and fades away to approximately zero at
a distance which corresponds to the orbit of the outer
most electron in the Bohr theory. The atom, there
fore, has a fuzzy outline like the blurred outlines in
a photograph which is out of focus.
Physicists are inclined to accept the Schroedinger
theory because it works better than the Bohr theory.
The fact that it is harder to understand and that it
gives a most weird picture of the nature of reality
does not concern them.
What they say in effect is: “Well, apparently that
is the kind of a universe it happens to be.”
This Date in
U. S. History
APRIL 12
1678—Massachusetts colonists made
' a peace treaty with the In
dians.
1862—Gold premium first quoted ih
New York market.
1865—Following Lee's surrender,
Confederates evacuated Mo
bile, Ala., and recruiting
ceased throughout the Union.
1871—Mexicans killed forty Ameri
cans who crossed the border
after Indians.
Times Readers
Voice Views
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must accompany every contribution, but
on request will not oe published. Let
ters not exceeding 200 words will receive
preference.
Editor Times:
It is somewhat amusing to read
the editorials of The Times (claim
ing to be an independent papci), to
see how it is working to try to make
the people think Hoover is the
choice of the Republican voters for
President, while I have the first
Republican voter here as yet to hear
say that he is for Hoover.
If The Times is independent, why
begin to work for Hoover so soon,
not knowing who the Democrats
are going to nominate?
I have been a reader of The
Times for almost four years and
commend it highly for its persistent
efforts and the good work it has
done to expose and punish the
present officials of both Stale and
city who have betrayed the \oters
who elected them to office and dis
graced the name of our great State
and city.
I certainly am glad to see the
good Avork go on, (of which The
Times has done more than any
other paper), but I do not approve
of the idea of dickering with a set
of crooks to plead guilty to charges,
the penalty of which does not in
clude a prison sentence, as some
think Mr. Rcmy is going to do.
I do not call to mind oi any
such things as having been done in
cases where some poor laboring man
has stolen something to keep his
family from want. Why not let the
law take its course in these cases?
If this, or any part of it, is
objectionable, you can throw it out,
but I stiil will be a Times reader, as
I think you have done more to
clean up politics in Indiana than all
the other papers in the State, but
do not agree with you always, which
is very natural with the American
people.
A DEMOCRAT TIMES READER,
Ladoga, Ind.
Editor Times:
On April 2, C. P. had published in
your paper an article censuring
Postmaster Robert H. Bryson for his
article on "Postman Saves Four
Miles Daily by Walking Lawns,” be
cause Bryson did not mention the
savings to the Government. If all
Government employes had the same
attitude as C. P„ there would be
very little saved for the one pay
ing our bills.
Evidently C. P. has had very little
experience, as he speaks of cross
ing lawns, which is not required,
while on inspection of his route. ’Ent
during the days of heavy mail, cross
ing lawns is a great help to any
carrier.
Postal employes are drawing sal
aries which should cause one to
strive to save and use some judg
ment for the Government the same
as in working for any employer.
Saturday half-holiday is in force
in Indianapolis postoffice for a long
er period each year since that order
was issued. It is left to the post
master’s judgment, as it should be.
Each postmaster knows just how
many Saturdays of the year he can
let men off and still put out effi
cient service.
There was a time in the post
office that a superior could use most
any language lie desired when cen
suring an employe and get by with
it. When Bryson was appointed
postmaster all this stopped, making
working conditions much better.
Ask any employe, with a few years’
service and no personal grievance,
if working conditions in the Indian
apolis postoffice aren’t 100 per cent
better than ever before.
Don't let anyone tell you the post
office isn't sanitary, for it is more
sanitary now than any time in the
last twenty years. Come down and
see for yourself. G. C.
B I 1 iRID
nlelslt
Occasionally, a
little of the en
ergy breaks off
and a little bun
dle of waves is
shot out into
space. That, he
says, is an elec
tron.
But inside the
atom the elec
trons do not ex
ist as distinct
entities. When
an electron en
ters an atom it
is merged with
the general mass
of energy and
The Rules .
1. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or a given number of
strokes. Thus, to change COW to
HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW, HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at a time.
3. You must have a complete word
of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and abbreviations don’t
count.
4. The order of letters can not
be changed.
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ALREADY Leonardo had reached
a modern conception of the
world, seeing everything as the re
sult of an inviolable law, "O mar
vellous necessity!” he writes, "Thou
with supreme reason constrainest
all effects to be the direct results
of their causes, and by supreme and
irrevocable law' every natural action
obeys thee by the shortest possible
process.”
Like Faust he hungered to know
all these laws, and to reduce them
to one cosmic unity. Like Spinoza
he found in the study of nature’s
eternal order the road to wisdom,
modesty and tranquil soul; it is
almost the voice of Spinoza that we
hear when Leonardo writes:
"Grande amore e figlio di grande
saplenza—Great love is the off
spring of great wisdom."
So we see him working in his
great studio, with the young pupils
who loved him like a father, but
working for the most part engrossed
and alone, forgetful of rest and food
"Se tu sarai solo tu sai'ai tutto tou—
If you are alone you will be wholly
yourself.”
Apparently cold in the calm of liis
disposition, he was yet filled with
the warmest love of men and all
things. Apparently feminine in the
beauty of his features, and in the
softness and whiteness of his hands,
yet he excelled in all feats of
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EDITOR.
Is there a country called Panama?
It is an independent country in
Central America; bounded on the
north by the Carribean Sea and its
arms, on the east by the Republic
of Columbia, on the south by the
Pacific Ocean and its arms, and on
the west by the Republic of Costa
Rica,
Was the late King Ferdinand of
Rumania a descendant of the
Ilohcnzollcrn family?
He was a descendant of the older
branch of the Hohenzollerns. His
father, Prince Leopold of Hohenzol
lern, was a brother of King Charles
I of Rumania who was the second
son of Prince Karl-Anton of Hohen
zollem-Sigmaringen.
When was Pearl Bryan killed and
by whom?
The decapitated body of Pearl
Bryan was found in the bushes near
Ft. Thomas, Ky., Feb. 1, 1896. Scott
Jackson, her lover, and Alonzo Wall
ing were convicted of the murder
and hanged March 20, 1897.
What is the value of a Stone
Mountain Memorial half dollar
dated 1925?
Fifty cents only.
What is the meaning of the name
Ada?
Happy.
( Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king; Q—
queen; J—jack; X—any card lower lhan
10.)
1. What is the quick trick value of
K Q 10 X?
2. When you hold a defensive ma
jor suit bid, should you bid it sit
ting at the left of an original no
trump bidder, if you are weak in
the other major suit?
3. How many probable tricks in
K X held by you in support of your
partner’s bid?
The Answers
1. One and one-quarter quick
tricks.
2. Asa general rule, no.
3. One.
Somebody Gave 'Em a Bum Steer!
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Leonardo Predicts ‘Human Birds'
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
(Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Comgany)
BY W. W. WENTWORTH
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Written for The Times by Will Durant
| strength and horsemanship, bend
! ing horse shoes as if they were tin,
he was so mild and gentle that he
could not bear to eat flesh, and he
predicted the time when the eating
of meat would seem as disgusting to
us as the eating of men.
Sometimes he would enter a store,
buy some of the birds that were
t caged there, and taking them into
; the street would liberate them. Yet
| he was no serious long-faced per
| son; his radiant countenance won
the hearts of all.
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HE liked his joke occasionally;
once he gathered his friends
into a room, and placed in their
hands some bladders which he had
; connected with bellows in another
| room; the lie blew the bellows till
the bladders expanded so much as
i to crowd the astounded guests tight
ly against the walis. He was a
; thoroughly human god.
1 The most remarkable item in his
1 notes concerns the flight of birds.
I "A bird is an instrument working
according to mathematical law.
Dissect the bat, study it carefully,
! and on this men'cl construct, the
I machine.”
! "The human bird shall take his
first flight, filling the world with
! amazement, and bringing eternal
Questions and Answers
llow many minutes are there in
an ordinary year?
In a calendar year of 365 days
there are 525,600 minutes, counting
60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours
in a day.
What is the origin of the word
“artesian?”
It is from the French “artois,”
used to signify any deep well but
especially one where water is
brought to the surface by under
ground pressure.
When was the Amcrirtm Bible So
siety organized and how is it main
tained?
Organized in May, 1816, in New
York under leadership of Elias Bou
dinot and Samuel J. Mills. It is sup
ported by voluntary contributions.
What is the natural color of the
silver fox?
Black with a silvered or hoary
appearance due to many of the hairs
being tipped with white. The tail
is black with a white tip.
When was Babe Ruth Born and is
he an American?
Born Feb. 7, 1894, and is an Amer
ican of Irish and German descent.
Uncle Sam s Adventures
The old gentleman in the striped trousers, star-spangled coat
and stovepipe hat has had a long and interesting career. Our
Washington Bureau has a packet of fourteen printed bulletins
covering many phases of United States history that will prove of
value not only to any school boy or girl, but to grown-ups, too.
These arc the bulletins included in the packet:
,1. American Wars.
2. Congress—How It Operates.
3. History of the Constitution of the United States.
4. History of the United States Flag.
5. The Judicial System of the United States.
6. Outline of American History.
7. History of the United States Postal Service.
8. The President, His Office and Duties.
9. The President’s Cabinet and What It Does.
10. Biographies of the President of the United States.
11. Presidential Elections since 1789.
12. Facts About the States of the Union.
13. The World War, Part I.
14. The World War, Part 11.
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Uncle Sam Editor, Washington Bureau, Indianapolis Times,
1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C.:
I want the packet of fourteen bulletins of the United States
and enclose herewith forty-five cents in loose, uncancelled United
States postage stamps or coin to cover postage and handling costs.
Name
St. and No
City \ State
I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times.
glory to the nest from which it
sprung.”
Time and time again, it seems,
Leonardo constructed flying ma
chines; time and again he failed in
his efforts to rise; but he carried
the noble dream of human flight
down through the century, one
groping figure in the great line from
Daedalus to the Wrights. What a
race it is that can hold a dream in
its heart for three thousand years
and never yield: And what a brave
prophecy there was in Leonardo’s
simple words: "There shall be
wings!”
Amidst all this science, this en
gineering and invention, Leonardo
found time to be the supreme paint
er and sculpture of his generation.
He made for the Duke of Milan a
colossal equestrian statue of the
great condottiere Francesco Sforza;
he worked on it for seventeen years,
and when he put up the clay model
ih the gardens of the Duke “all
who saw' it declared they had never
witnessed anything more majestic
or more beautiful.”
Then in 1500 came w ? ar and the
invading French; hostile soldiers
made the statue a butt of their
marksmanship; and within an hour
brutality had laid in ruins the most
impressive statue of the age.
iCopyrißht. 1928, by Will Durant)
To Be Continued)
What is the maximum power that
a stock Ford engine will develop?
It rarely exceeds eighteen brake
horsepower at 1,600 revolutions per
minute. The speed, of course, af
fects the horsepower.
What does usufruct mean?
It is a legal term meaning the
j right of enjoying things belonging
ito another and of drawing from
them all the profit and advantage
j they will produce without destroy
-1 ing or wasting their substance.
Who played the part of “Cigar
ette” in the photoplay “Under Two
Flags?”
Priscilla Dean.
Which is the correct plural of
money?
Either monies or moneys.
What is the average length of life
of a cat?
From twelve to fifteen years.
Who are “leathernecks?”
It is a nickname for United
States Marines.
Who played the leading part in
“Kid Boots?”
Eddie Cantor.
.ATivlL 1”, ID2B
TRACY
SAYS:
"The Idea of Government
Monopoly Through Tar
iffs or Restrictions Looks
All Right on Paper. The
Trouble Is It Fails to In
clude All the Territory
While the result in Illinois could
hardly be described as a triumph for
clean politics, it was certainly a de
feat for dirty politics.
Faced with the choice of two evils,
the Republican voters of that State
put their heels squarely on the big
ger one and squashed it.
There is little left of the Small-
Crowe-Thompson machine by a dis
gruntled memory.
The domineering government
went down beneath a majority of
400,000, the loud-mouthed State’s
attorney suffers an equally ruthless
repudiation and the blowsy mayor
fails not only to retain leadership
of the city machine, but oi that in
his own ward.
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Big Bill Should Resign
•‘Big Bill” Thompson’s idea that
something should be done to "save
America” has borne fruit.
You can’t fool all the people all
the time even in Chicago. Eventual
ly they will get the idea that a wide
open town, hoodlumism, gang rule
and unrestrained vice, arc more de
structive of Americanism than a few
paragraphs in some text, book with
which prejudice can find fault.
If Mayor Thompson had any sense
of propriety, he would resign, as the
Chicago Tribune suggests, and go in
for training white rats.
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Women in Politics
Net the least pleasing feature of
the Illinois primary is Mrs. McCor
mick’s apparent success in her race
for the Republican nomination as
Congressman-at-Large.
The country needs her kind in
politics, women need the sort of
leadership she can give, and, above
all else, the girls of this genera
tion neea the inspiration of such a
character and career as she repre
sents.
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Sinclair Patriotism
It was not only to promote a coun
try club that Harry F. Sinclair
bought a third interest in former
Secretary Fall's ranch at Three
Rhcrs, N. M., but to get hold of a
goo I oil prospect, and he paid in
Liberty bonds, not because he lacked
the cash, but because he had in
vested heavily in them, “like every
other ‘patriotic’ American.”
At any rate, that is the v, r ay his
attorney puts it.
A gusher, spouting 100,000 bar
rels a day, had been brought in
somewhere “close by” the Fall ranch,
and Mr. Sinclair, keen on the scent,
as always, could not withstand the
temptation of making himself a
partner.
What a nose for petroleum, what
a business head, and wdiat a fine
proof of devotion to his country Mr.
Sinclair furnishes by closing the
deal with Liberty bonds!
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Novelty in Secret Wells
Meanwhile, quite a fe v people
would like to know just where that
gusher came in.
It is not every day in the week
that a 100,000 barrel well is discov
ered, and generally not without
blowing the derrick into smith
ereens.
Bewilderment as to where such
a well was brought in is more than
matched by bewilderment as to how
it could be kept secret for six years.
Generally speaking, 100,000-barrel
gushers make their presence known
whether the owner approves or not.
Quite frequently, they not only blow
dow'ii the derrick but kill a man or
two, and occasionally they light
themselves with friction, as did the
great Dos Bocas well at Tampico.
There have not been so many of
them, you see. but what the record
is quite complete.
If there is, or ever was one
“close by” the Three Rivers ranch,
and if nobody has heard of it but
Mr. Sinclair for six years, we have'
come upon a real novelty in the
oil business.
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Rubber Market Flops
Some bright London reporter
thought of asking Henry Ford
whether the removal of restrictions
on rubber production would affect
his plans for development a big
plantation in Brazil.
“Not in the slightest,” replied
Mr. Ford, upon which the London
rubber market suffered another
flop.
This is just another case of the
gander getting sauce which he
cooked for the goose.
If Great Britain had nob under
taken to tax American consumers,
arbitrarily and unjustly, by fixing
the price of rubber, the chances
are that Mr. Ford would not have
undertaken to start a plantation of
his own.
Great Britain has found it neces
sary to quit, but Mr. Ford has not.
9 9 9
Britain Errs in Tariff
The idea of government monopoly
through tariffs or restrictions looks
all right on paper. The trouble
with it is that it fails to include all
the territory.
Because Great Britain had a
good patch of rubber in the East
Indies, she thought she could hold
up the rest of the world and force
it to pay her tribute.
What she overlooked was the
fact that her original rubber plants
had come from South America,
that South America was rubber’s
natural habitat and that all it
needed to come back into the
market was a little capital and
enterprise.
There are very few crops in this
world but what can be grown on
much larger areas than are now
devoted to them. This is something
governments should remember
when they undertake to levy tribute
on the rest of humanity by curtail
ing production, or boosting the price
of some commodity by other arti
ficial means.