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Sf *t**J - M O* KMt>
Political Economy
Before citizens applaud the county council
for its economy, they would do well to ex
amine the action of that body.
It is significant that the council refused
again to give any money for the prosecution
of open and flagrant frauds in the last pri
mary. The people involved are political
friends and associates of the members of
the council. The conclusion is inevitable that
the members of this council do not believe
that the peopl* want honest elections or at
least, are not so excited about them as to
resent this open effort to put a lid upon all
inquiry.
The taxpayers may demand relief but
they have not readied the stage where they
would be unwilling to pay a few dollars to put
into 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 political
machine probably expects to have few of its
friends in these places on next January.
But it is significant that the most ex
pensive office in the county, the place where
more precinct and ward committeemen are
given soft berths, goes untouched. The coun
cil did not see fit to economize in the sheriff’s
office, and political gossip gives the sheriff an
even chance to succeed himself.
An economy program that results in pro
tection of ejection dishonesty, punishes po
litical enemies and fails to touch i political
friends needs explanation.
Coste or Costes
A certain Frenchman may not know how to spell
his own name—sometimes, he says, he thinks it should
be "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
winter. ' ,
Now he is the first to make the Paris-New York
westbound non-stop flight. The prevailing winds,
which aided Lindbergh 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 westbound
plane 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 the
great good fortune and the equally great skill which
contributed to Coste's latest victory in the air.
France and Hearst
When the Paris government expelled William Ran
dolph Hearst, American publisher, from France it did
a 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 none
of 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 criticise
any government, foreign or domestic.
No one will question the right of the French gov
ernment to expel a newspaper man whom it considers
unfriendly. Asa sovereign state, France has an abso
lute right to receive or expel visitors at will, with or
without explanation. But the French government
surely 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 foreign
press. Self-interest would seem to dictate that the
foreign office improve that reputation, rather than
make it worse.
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Insurance Regulation
Announcement 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 should
be made in behalf of policyholders.
Insurance plays so important a part in the life of
today 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 such
policies give all that they promise.
Practically all of such companies do keep their
promises promptly. It is good advertising. But oc
casionally there are delays and refusals to pay.
Inasmuch as there are very strict penalties for
those who try to defraud insurance companies, it
would seem to be only justice if some penalty were
provided 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
Children and the Drought
Reports are beginning to reach Washington of the
serious effect of the drought on the welfare of
children.
The Maryland health department finds that the
infant mortality rate for July was higher than lor
since the influenza epidemic of January,
1929. The drought, with the accompanying heat, the
increased tendency of milk to sour and the greater
danger of "Rater pollution, is given as the indirect
cause.
Similar conditions are reported from Oklahoma
in correspondence to government departments call
ing attention to the danger to children from water
pollution 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 feed
for cattle.
Press reports from West Virginia quote the execu
tive secretary of the board of children's guardians
as saying that the drought has had a. serious effect
on child welfare in that state. Unemployment, due
partly to the drought, and the consequent inability
to support their families, has led some fathers to
desert their children, in the hope that county or state
agencies will care for them.
Farm families, many of whom have been caring
for wards of the state, are appealing to the board of
children's guardians to take back the children, for
whom they fear there will not be sufficient food or
clothing in their homes next winter.
State and county health and welfare agencies are
being placed under a severe strain by conditions in
drought-affected states.
Failure of congress to enact one of the bills pro
viding for continued federal and state cB-operation
in maternity and infancy work has caused a curtail
ment of activities in behalf of the welfare and hygiene
of mothers and babies and young children at the
very time when they are most needed and when the
states arc less able, perhaps, than ever before to carry
on this essential work without some form of federal
assistance.
Under the maternity and infancy act, the states
organized health conferences, classes for mothers,
demonstrations, campaigns, visiting nurse services
and many other types of educational work.
At a time when water pollution and failing milk
supplies are endangering the lives of babies, such work
is more necessary than ever before.
The Chance to Work
Stabilization of employment is the biggest job
before the people of the United States—and after
that, the world. The fear of starvation, or the loss
of a job, makes a man timid and cowardly—especially
if 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, the
orphaned and for mental defectives who have to be
locked up in prisons. We pay taxes so that they
may be housed, clothed and fed, and given medical
attention as well. 1
For the most part they are useless members of
sbeiety.
But we are not organized to provide steady em
ployment for useful members of society who are not
only willing, but eager, to work and earn enough to
provide a living for themselves and dependents.
There was a time when the ice business employed
men and horses during the summer season and turned
both out to grass when they were not needed. At the
same time the retail coal business was doing the
same thing. In time these summer and winter busi
nesses were consolidated and the working force kept
going the year around.
Some men of vision who happen to be at the head
of some business organizations have, in recent years,
sought to solve this problem. A few of them have
succeeded. More will succeed. But it is a nation
wide job. *
All of us should be so organized that those who
want to work can have steady jobs and the fear of
starvation in a land of plenty can be taken from mil
lions of men, women and children.
Solving this problem will solve other now
vexing various crime and other commissions that are
studying effects rather than causes.
Concerning those eight boys in Connecticut who
returned 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 in
this country are riding bicycles this year. One reason
may be they are anxfbus to see how it actually feels
to keep a balance in these times.
The fellow who breaks off with his girl after
promising to marry her learns sooner or later tSat
she was worth her weight in gold.
REASON
JESSE W. WEIK of Greencastle, who died the other
day at the age of 73, was co-author with William
Herndon, Lincoln’s last law partner, of the best lie
jver written of the rail splitter.
Herndon had the data for the book and Weik came
along and did the writing, or the most of it, the result
being a book which caused a commotion because it
. contained the statement that had an
unconventional ancestry.
It was said that Robert T. Lincoln, the emancipa
tors son, bought all the unsold copies of the edition
and when the next edition appeared the reference to
the parentage of Nancy Hanks was omitted, as it
should have been in the first place.
a a a
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 when
he 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 a
wealth of Lincoln lore which he could have sold for
a 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 a
smoking car down in southern Indiana when he was
a candidate for a state nomination and we were a
youthful stumper, engaged in saving the country.
a a a
THIS document was the campaign notebook which
Lincoln had carried in his many political battles.
It was about eight inches long, four inches wide
uid an inch thick, and its pages were filled with the
meditations and inspirations of the great American.
In this book he jotted down his random thoughts
on slavery and secession, his opinions of the Kansas-
Nebraska struggle and the Dred Scott decision.
In it also were many newspaper clippings with
marginal comments.
Reading of Weik's death, we wonder "what be
came” of that wonderful little book which revealed
so much of the soul of Lincoln when he was struggling
Qou&laa & those histone da&k
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FREDERICK
LANDIS
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SCIENCE
•BY DAVID DIETZ-
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Archeologists Make Progress
in Reconstructing Life of
Illinois 2,000 years Ago.
AN attempt to reconstruct the
life of Illinois 2,000 years ago
is being made by the University of
Chicago in co-operation with a
number of national institutions.
It is hoped that the work will be
completed in time to make it pos
sible to exhibit the results at Chi
cago's "Century of Progress” fair in
1933.
Two thousand years ago the
mound builders flourished in Illi
nois. A party of fifteen archeolo
gists now is working to excavate the
mounds around Lewis town.
Co-operating with the university
in the project are the Smithsonian
institution of Washington, the
Laboratory of Anthropology of
Santa Fe, Rufus Dawes, for the
fair, and Joy Merton, who has
thrown the moupds, on his 5,700-
acre estate open for the first scien
tific exploration, fend has set aside
a lodge as headquarters for the
party.
Professor Fay-Cooper Cole, chair -
I man of anthropology at the uni
versity, heads the expedition in its
effort to make the past live again
at 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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Project
SOME of the nation’s most dis
tinguished anthropologists will
co-operate in the work* from time to
time, 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, chief
of the division of .archeology, Na
tional museum, and Harry Shetrone,
director of the Ohio State museum,
and authority on mounds.
“For the University of Chicago
the expedition will constitute the
fifth year’s work of a ten-year proj
ect to describe minutely the pre
history of Illinois from its earliest
occupancy,” Dr. Cole said.
“The previous four years haVe
been spent largely in the north
west part of the state, and around
Joliet and in the vicinity of Quincy.
"More than 900 mounds have
been mapped out, 655 more than in
Jo Daviess county alone, and over
100 have been analyzed inch-by
inch by trowel and nail-file meth
ods.
The greatest of the mounds so
far found, outside the Cahokia
mound, which rivals the Egyptian
pyramids in size, was. an 1,100-foot
affair near Galena.”
First large-scale efforts to tie to
gether all the evidence based on the
survey, and on hundreds of Indian
skeletons and more than 10,000
artafacts now in possession of the
' university, was made recently by
Dr. Wilton M. Krogman, who has
directed the work of the last three
years. /
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Analysis
ACCORD RIG to Dr. Krogman's
analysis three great Indian
cultures prevailed in Illinois over a
period of more than 1,500 years, the
basic civilization being similar to
that which obtained in the whole
upper Mississippi valley. .
Influences from other regions he
traces into: Illinois, particularly the
Algonkian culture of. New York,
which is very old, anteceding the
Iroquoisan invasion, and variants of
the effigy-building complex of the
Aztalan culture of Wisconsin, which
extended along the Mississippi, and
the “Hopewell” and “Fort Ancient”
cultures of Ohio.
“There is only atfiazy line between
the historic and the prehistoric, yet
the moment we pass from the
known Indians we enter a field
filled with legend and fancy,” says
Professor Cole.
"In most counties of Illinois are
Indian mounds, earthworks and
camp sites. We are told that the
Mound Builders are a lost race
which inhabited this country before
the Indians; that they were immi
grands from the old world; one of
the Lost Tribes of Israel; people
from the lost Atlantis.
But the archeologist Is con
cerned only with facts, and we know
conclusively that the Mound Build
ers are Indians, some of whom
lived very recently, others as long
ago as 2,000 years.”
HTqOAyrip'THe-
SHENANDOAH CRASH
Sept. S
ON Sept. 3, 1926, the navy dirigi
ble Shenandoah, pride of the
country’s air fleet, was ripped apart
by a thunder storm on its way, to
Zanesville, 0., and crashed to the
ground near Caldwell, 0., killing
fourteen officers and men, includ
ing her captain, Lieutenant Com
mander Zachary Lansdowne.
The Shenandoah was the third
dirigible belonging to the govern
ment which met with disaster. The
first was the Roma, which crashed
near Hampton Roads in 1922 with a
loss of thirty-four lives; the other,
the ZR-2, formerly the British R-38,
caught fire over Hull, England, in
1921 and killed sixteen American
navy men and forty English mem
bers of the crew.
Tlie Shenandoah was the first
rigid airship built in the United
States. Her construction, though
all American, was modeled after the
German Zeppelin L-49.
The Shenandoah was neither built
nor 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 on
its last trip.
Today, a commercial company
would be compelled by insurance
concerns to provide thorough
weather reports to its pilots and
thus enable airships to get away
from severe storms.
Do silk worms spin threads of dif
ferent colors?
Experiments made by introducing
colored matter igto the food of the
silk worm have proved successful
in causing them to spin threads of
vzyrious hues.
Which was the first gas company
in the United States?
The Gas Light Company of Bal
timore, organised in 1816, was the
And They Lived Happily Ever After
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How Body Absorbs Food Is Puzzle
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal of (he American Medical
Association, and of Hrseia, the Health
Magazine.
A I,THOUGH much is known as
to what" happens to many of
the foods taken into the body, the
exact facts concerning what hap
pens to all nutritive substances as
they pass through the wall of the
intestine and go to the blood and
to the ’ arious organs still is a mat
ter of speculation and investigation.
The newer .science of physiology
and chemistry is beginning to make
the necessary studies to answer the
question.
Proteins break down into.amino
acids and are circulated in the blood
in this form. Some of these pro
teins again are put together to
make body proteins, but again are
broken down under the influence
of various conditions in health and
disease.
Some of the protein is changed
into a substance called urea and
can be found in the excretions in
Chaney to Have No Successor;
Place in Films Can’t Be Filled
This is the final story in the series
of six on the life of Eon Chaney.
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA 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 funeral
rites over, film fans already are ask
ink this question. And it’s a ques
tion very easily answered—Lon will
have no successor.
There are a large number of ex
cellent character actors engaged in
the motion picture business and the
stage could furnish many more, but
none of them can ever take the
place of “The Man of a Thousand
Faces.”
In fact, film producers never will
make an attempt to groom a suc
cessor tb • Chaney, because they
know -that such a thing can’t be
done. Hollywood learned its lesson
in that respect when Rudolph Val
entino died.
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NEVER yet has a person been
found who could step into the
shoes of a famous stage or screen
personage. Sarah Bernhardt never
was replaced after her death. Neith
er was Wally Reid, Valentido, Bar
bara LaMarr, Theodore Roberts and
Mabel Norjnand.
Each of them seemed to have a
special niche in public favor that
could not be filled by a substitute,
no matter how good. And Chaney
now takes his place with these im
mortals of the footlights and
kleigs. '
Valefitino’s popularity was so tre
mendous that film producers sought
to capitalize upon it after his death.
Executives of the Paramount studio
announced publicly they had dis
covered his successor in Ricardo
How Many Can
You 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 reserve
corps, while the filth, “While
the City Sleeps,” resulted in
the police departments of sev
eral cities awarding him hon
orary memberships. -
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
this form. In certain diseases, some
of the products of digestion and
body chemistry, which ordinarily
are changed for purposes
within the body, are excreted un
changed, and those have been
studied by the physiologic chemist.
Few people realize, for example,
that there are some forms of sugar
which may be excreted and give all
the tests for sugar, and yet not
be the particular sugar which is
associated with diabetes.
• A certain amount of various sub
stances is found regularly in the ex
cretions, but under certain condi
tions of disease these substances
may be increased greatly in amount
or 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 of
the body leads to a better under
standing of what is going on In the
interior. Quite logically when any
unusual substance is found in too
great an amount in the excretions,
the tendency is for the physician to
Cortez, at that time a promising
young actor.
But the public’s reaction was such
that Cortez never has enjoyed any
real success since. Even Valentino’s
brother failed as a successor to the
popular idol,
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THERE are a few actors within
the film industry who might
have the ability to take Chaney’s
place, but none of them would at
tempt such a feat. They only will
work the harder to build up their
own positions.
Jean Hersholt came under th*
same classification as Lon. He is
an artist at makeup and panto
mime. But Jean, though he might
rise to even greater heights as him
self, never could be a Lon Chaney.
Emil Jannings, the great German
actor, might be said to be Chaney’s
equal in every respect. Some day
Questions and Answers
Where and what is Mason and
Dixon’s line?
Originally it was the parallel of
latitude 29 degrees 43 njinutes 26.3
seconds, which separates Pennsyl
vania and Maryland. It received its
name from Charles Mason and Jere
miah Dixon, two English mathema
ticians and astronomers, who traced
the greater part of it, between the
years 1763 and 1767, though the last
thirty-six miles were finished by
others. It was practically the divid
ing line between the free and the
slave states in the east. During the
discussion in congress on the Mis
souri compromise, John Randolph
of Virginia made free use of the
phrase and thereafter it became
popular as, signifying the dividing
line between free and slave territory
throughout the country. The boun
dary, as thus extended by popular
usage, followed the Ohio river to
the Mississippi, and west of that
was the parallel of 36 degrees 30
minutes, the southern boundary of
Missouri, though Missouri itself was
a slave state.
Is there such a thing as scarlet <
snow!
Scarlet gnow, due to the presence
of small and very thin worms, has !
fallen at Halmstead, Sweden.
What is the meaning of the word
Yankee?
It means "English.” When the
first English settlers went to Amer
ica the nearest the Indians could
get to the name was ’Tengees.’’
That was twisted to "Yankees’’ and
applied later to Americans.
When was postage on letter mail
raised to 3 cents, and when was the
2-cent rate restored?
The 3-cent rate became effective
Nov. 2, 1917, and the two cent rate
was restored July 1, 1919.
Where are American Austin
automobies made?
The general office is at 7300
Woodward avenue, Detroit. The
factory is at Butler, Pa.
Where is the largest book and job
printing plant in the world?
The United States government
filiating office is Washington,
advise the patient to eat less of the
substance which may give rise to
the unusual material.
By this means sometimes these
conditions can be brought under
control.
In an earlier day, thousands of
years ago, the only examination
made of the excreted fluid was to
look at it in the light and to judge
whatever might be judged with the
unaided five senses of man.
Gradually it has been realized
that these excretions are an index
of the body chemistry. The speci
men now may be submitted to
dozens if not hundreds of tests, the
answers to each of which yield
important knowledge. In these
tests expensive and intricate ap
paratus is. used, involving also a
knowledge of -electricity, physics, of
chemistry, and of many correlated
sciences.
But here again only a beginning
has’ been made in the research—a
vast amount of knowledge is go
ing to be necessary before the whole
truth is known.
he might be even higher on the
ladder of fame than Chaney was,
but'it is very doubtful if he could
occupy the niche made vacant by
Lon’s death. ,
The reason for this condition is
simple. The places once held by
these favorites never have been va
cated—they still are filled with
memories..
A living actor may pass from the
public view and be almost totally
forgotten in a short time, but the
memory of one who has passed on
lingers for a long time.
Members of the film colony are
expressing considerable gratification
over the fact that Chaney had an
opportunity to make one talking
picture before he died.
At least they now have the im
age and voice of the man who was
beloved by all and it will be pre
served Indefinitely.
How high is the statue of liberty
in New York harbor?
One hundred and sixty feet.
Who was the first woman in the
United States to pay the death
penalty for crime?
Mrs. Surratt, who was ‘hanged in
Washington, D. C., July 7, 1865, for
complicity in the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
How many children did General
Robert E. Lee have?
Seven: George, William, Robert,
Mary, Ann, Eleanor and Mildred.
An Especially Organ
ized Department for
Managing Property
and Settling Estates.
0/5 Washington
Bank and Trust Company
QPcuAuujfoK Stint at Senate,
.SEPT. 3, 1930
M.E: Tracy
r SAYS:
The World Owes a Lot to
Failures, but Nothing to
Those Who Never Try.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
has been invited to-get out
of France and stay out, because one
or his reporters dug up the copy of
a proposed secret treaty between
that country and England some time
ago.
His own characterization of the
incident as *“a bit foolish, but ex
tremely French," is beyond improve
ment.
Any other government would have
considered it sufficiently humilia
ting to get caught at such tricks.
Sometimes, one could wish that
the French had a healthier sense
of humor.
It is difficult to understand the
philosophy of statesmanship which
can visualize a secret treaty as a
good joke, and at the same time
see nothing funny in the. work of a
journalist who catches them at it.
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Helps the People
HOWEVER one rr r y disagree
with Hearst’s opposition to
naval treaties, peace pacts and other
phases of international co-operation,
he has set a good example for jour
nalists in exposing some of the rot
back-stage.
Whether French statesmen like it
or not, the French people ought, to
be peculiarly grateful, for, if he
mad i certain cabinet members
smart, he showed up a fraud which
might have made the people smart
worse.
Those who have taken advantage
of their position to slap him on the
wrist should remember all that was
said about the “sanctity of treaties
and open covenants openly arrived
at” as among the paramount war
aims.
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‘Legs' Is Barred
HEARST should not feel too im
portant, because he has been*
invited to leave by one great gov
ernment.
Jack (Legs) Diamond has
achieved similar distinction at the
hands of three.
Having been escorted to the bor
der by English and Belgian police.
“Legs” now politely is informed by
the German police that they will
conduct him to any frontier he may
choose.
It all came about through a warn
ing of our state department that
“Legs” was abroad somewhere in
the wide, wide world.
Just why the warning was issued
no one seems to know, but European
police 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 the
noisier efforts in this country.
He was nabbed in three successive
countries without a mis?, but to no
purpose, since the authorities here
had no excuse to offer for holding
him.
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 sensationalism
and the heroism of an Andrge, even
though it ended in tragedy.
Leaning against the barren rock,
where he died thirty-three years
ago, waiting for some equally hardy
explorer to come and take him back
home—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 have
meant, and the glory will do future
generations as much good.
The fact that he failed is of small
consequence as against the fact that
he tried.
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Failures Help World
THE world owes a lot to failures,
but nothing to those who
never try.
If it were true that “nothing suc
ceeds like success,” we still would be
back in the dark ages of barbarism.
You hardly can think of a major
discovery, invention, or achieve
ment which was not born of sacri
fice and disappointment.
Os the first 12,000 people who
started for America, more than one
half perished in the attempt, while
the path of aviation literally is
strewn with corpses.
It seems an appropriate climax to
his dream, that Andree’s body should
be taken home after other men,
with better equipment, had accom
plished the feat he tried to perform.
Also, it seems to epitomize the
type of ambition and struggle which
produces human progress.
Daily Thought
For the Lord shall judge His
people.—Deuteronomy 32:36.
Who upon earth could live were
all judged justly?—Byron.