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APRIL 24, 1937.PART n. SATURDAY MORNING. SIGNS OF FLING! The Spanish Blockade GREAT PASSAGES FROM THE BIBLE Passage of three British food ships into besieged Bilbao, with convoy to the three-mile limit by the battle cruiser St. John, Chapter Hi Hood, makes the statement of Sir Sam Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be uel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, earlier In the week something of an Dorn or water and of the spirit, M) enigma. Sir Samuel said in the House of Commons that the Insurgent blockade he cannot enter into the king dom of God.

at Bilbao Is "completely effective." That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. since that time half a dozen British ships have entered the port, apparently unmolested. International law requires The LEE SIDE o' LA. Bi LEE SIIiri'EY Pray pardon me if I seem to be bragging, but I have Just been made an honorary member of Alpha Eta Rho, the international flying fraternity which originated in Los Angeles and will spread over the world. There are chapters at both U.S.C.

and U.C.L.A. and every week students who fly or are preparing to fly meet at luncheon. Every week-end, too, these undergrad flyers hop in their planes and go somewhere. Palm Springs, San Francisco and Ensenada have been visited on recent flights. I attended this week's luncheon of Beta chapter, U.C.L.A.

Thirty boys and girls were present Pretto Bell, a girl of 19 who does practically all her traveling by plane, flying solo, is president Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. that a blockade must prevent at least the The wind bloweth where it majority of vessels from entering a be leaguered port, In order to give the block Jisteth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that aders the right of interference with any; and the blockaders cannot pick and choose their ships. is born of the Spirit Evidently the definition of "effective blockade" Is being revised by the Ad PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIA5I BRADY, M.D. miralty, perhaps just to suit this occasion. Disposition of belligerents to revise the laws of the sea as they go along has al ways been troublesome, but if neutrals (Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease, diag nosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr.

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So far, except for the ubiquitous labor organizers and agitators, it has been mainly a Stockton affair, but if hired troublemakers are to be imported into the cannery area the State must step In to preserve order. Gov. Merrlam's reluctance to order out troops, despite an appeal from the Sheriff, is perhaps Justified. But it may be called to his attention that the farmers of San Joaquin county are getting together to insist that the canneries reopen, and if these farmers clash with a strike mob there will be more casualties than 'the fifty-odd hurt in yesterday's early riot. If the State troops handle the situation they will put down violence without hurting anybody.

This strike is in complete defiance of the intent of the Wagner Act, it needs to be emphasized; the strikers are contending for something the law says they have not shown themselves entitled to. They are demanding that the union represent all the workers of the canneries In collective bargaining, but there has been no election to determine if the union represents a majority; and a strong possibility that it does not. A relatively small minority of actual workers are on strike, according to the most credible accounts. Further, the plant owners have agreed to mediation of every issue except the closed shop, which makes tha strike meaningless as well as illegal. The Solo That Thrills As ambitious pages in medieval days dreamed of knighthood, young student flyers dream of solo flights.

They are so thrilled by their first solo flights that it is customary for the flyer to give a celebration dinner to all those present at the time. For that reason, some of them are secretive about their solo flights, lest more of their friends be present than they can pay for. May a new member timidly suggest that their theme song should be Solo IIow Many Years? Sitting with those clear-eyed, confident boys and girls, I was smitten with prophecy. It won't be long before a university student may live as far away as Santa Barbara or San Diego and fly in Great Flame Syphilis written by Dr. Brady (or this newspaper.

THE EARLY STAGE OF, SYPHILIS Article No. 6 The incubation period, in any infectious disease, such as scarlet fever or whooping cough, is the interval between the moment of infection or inoculation and the appearance of the first sign or symptom of the illness. In the case of scarlet fever the incubation period is short, usually from thirty-six hours to three or four days; in the case of whooping cough it is longer, from seven to ten days. During incubation the individual remains in his ordinary health and there is nothing to show and no test by which we can ascertain in the course of the incubation period that the indi Rise of Personal Government for classes. It won't be long before fliv BY WALTER LIPPMANX ver planes for students will be pouring on the nparket Seven years ago, when planing was far behind its present status, W.

G. McAdoo told me that he found it convenient to live in Santa Earbara and plane to his office here several days a Being in part a lecture delivered by Mr. Lippmann at Johns Hopkins University, Wednesday, April 21 My subject this evening is the are going to start revising them also their indefiniteness will be enhanced. Island Empire Sale of fabulous Santa Cruz Island off the Santa Barbara coast to Edwin Stanton of Los Angeles marks the culminating chapter In the history of California's most famous feudal barony. And it means, the end of a fascinating and dangerous sport, that of wild boar hunting.

The Island will be closed to hunting, and sheep and cattle will be raised. Few have realized the possibilities of the isle. The State has had the opportunity to acquire It for eventual transformation into a national park, but the financing could not be arranged. This Is regrettable. The huge island, with gushing springs, beautiful harbors, heavy verdure, much game, an Old World vineyard and winery, would have made a public park unique in America.

The Caire estate which held the Island for decades tried to arrange the State sale but could not It cannot be blamed now for selling to a private owner. Lucky indeed will be the Stanton friends who are privileged to go to the tiny empire. They will see what the public missed. Four Drrnkless Hours Gov. Merriam has signed the curfew bill providing that liquor may not be sold in this State between the hours of 2 and 6 a.m.

This means that the thirsty during these hours will have to do their drinking at home, if the law is observed or enforced. It would eeem that twenty hours out of the twenty-four would suffice for alcoholic ingestion, and that the law imposes little real hardship. Thanks to the Legislature, women retain the privilege of sitting on stools at lunch counters while quaffing Clover Clubs. The news dispatches speak of bars, but that is evidently a mistake, since bars are forbidden in this State. The statute specifically makes it the duty of police and sheriffs to enforce liquor regulations, which may stop some buck-passing.

At least It is an improvement to have a definite statute, rather than merely a Board of Equalization regulation of dubious standing. Byrnes for Economy rise of personal government in the United States. I shall attempt to define the magnitude week. Little planes which are very safe of this phenomenon, to diagnose and require little space for take-off or landing are being improved every day. One must be blind not to see what is coming.

U.C.L.A. its causes, and to indicate the remedies. But by way of introduction I wish to make it clear that I am not concerned with the character or with the When that time comes, U.C.L.A. will be purposes of the individual who happens to be the personal em fortunate above most universities, for it has space for flyers and space to grow. bodiment of thi3 radically new form of government in America.

It has about 7000 students now, I was My thesis is that while Mr. told, and magnificent equipment Ev erything it has is new, up to date and the best Its location is inspiring, and when the dignity of years settles on the campus it will be one of the most beautiful in the world. It seems Inevitable Roosevelt had to assume extraordinary personal powers to deal with an emergency, there is the grave possibility that he is now engaged in perpetuating these extraordinary personal powers and in habituating the American people to the practice of personal government. I do not believe, and I do not in that U.C.L.A. shall become one of the great universities of the world.

Yet, strange to say, It has no aviation any way mean to insinuate that school. U.S.C. has one, someone there having realized that the air is as much Mr. Roosevelt seeks to perpetuate his own personal power be the challenge to brave and adventurous youth out to win its spurs today as war yond the four-year term to which he is elected. But I do believe that, if in these four years the habits of constitution was In the days of chivalry.

U.C.LA. has not even a ground school. Which makes it the more remarkable that its students have Beta chapter of an international aviation fraternity. alism are destroyed, it may be very difficult to revive them. In order to make clear the magnitude of the change we are witnessing I shall recall to your minds the powers which the The Masquers' Revel The Masquers Revel tonight and tomor President has asked for in the last four years.

So far as I row night is going to put the stage, the know he regards them all as the necessary and desirable powers of the President of the United States. He has asked Congress to del happens to be President, becaust it isolates him on an impossible eminence, and because it is so disorderly that only arbitrary decisions can untangle it, this method of governing prepares the rise of personal government. The remedy is the creation of a civil service presided over by a responsible cabinet which is the collective adviser of the Presi-dent. The Executive is one of the co-ordinate branches of the governments But owing to the fact that the civil service is undeveloped and that the Cabinet has withered away, the executive power has become concentrated in the White House, and it is now regarded as the personal enterprise of the man who happens to be President. Finally, we must' recognize that in the past fifty years the vitality of the States, as organs of a Federal system, has been deeply impaired.

Their authority to regulate business and to provide social services has been so severely restricted by a line of decisions of the Supreme Court that at last only the Federal government has seemed capable of exercising the police power. Now it is easy enough to understand why progressive men who have been frustrated in their attempts at regulation and reform in the States should have lost patience with the Federal system itself, and should be demanding what Is in effect the abolition of Federalism. But I hold that-it is the duty of the President and of Congress not to let provocation determine their policy, and that the true remedy Is the restoration of Federalism, not its abolition. For I am satisfied that the growing complexity of American economic life makes more necessary, not less necessary, a vitally efficient Federal form of government. Just because the economy requires more regulation than it did a hundred years ago, it is impracticable and dangerous to concentrate the regulative power in one centralized government.

For there remain, in spite of all the big national business cor-porations, decisive local differences in the standards of life, in the productivity of labor, in the efficiency of capital. It is impossible to fix one price or one wage' rate or one rule about hours of labor for the whole United States. It is impossible to provide identical social services or to impose standardized educational requirements, or to insist upon the same commercial practices throughout this continental domain. Not long ago, in fact Just before the President's plan for reorganizing the Supreme Court was disclosed, Senator Borah, made an eloquent speech saying that what the American peoplo needed was to bo rcbaptized in the principles of constitutional liberty. To that I have tried to contribute this evening, first by recalling the degree in which constitutionalism has given way to personal government and then by seeking to indicate the vital points at which the constl-tutlonal vitality of the Executive, of Congress, and of, the separate States has been impaired.

egate to him the power to frame laws, enforceable by penal and civil penalties, governing wages, hours, prices, the control of production, the use of new inventions, the legal right to do business and the commercial practice of all industries, trades and services in the Unit vidual is about to develop the disease. The germs of the disease, whatever it may be, are as yet too few in number to stimulate a reaction in the individual's blood or tissues; only when the invading disease germs or virus or toxins become strongly established, well organized, does the body react, and the natural reactions of the body against the invading disease organisms explain the lesions or signs of the disease. In the case of syphilis the primary incubation period, from the moment of inoculation to the appearance of the hard sore or chancre at the point of inoculation, varies from two to five weeks. Then follows a secondary incubation period, from the time the chancre appears to the appearance of the general symptoms, which commonly resemble the onset of "grip," along with a skin rash (if any) which usually does not show about the face, and mucous patches In the mouth; the secondary incubation period is from three to six weeks. Both incubation periods indicate that to a degree syphilis is by way of becoming a self -limited disease, that invasion of the tissues by the germs of syphilis induces natural reactions that tend to cure the disease.

Certainly the syphilis we know today is less virulent than was the syphilis of times past, judging by the effects we see today and read about in historical medical works. Or perhaps the disease is as virulent as ever but modern treatment plus better general hygiene today combine to render it less destructive. If the patient is wise enough to go to a good doctor when the primary sore or chancre first appears, there is a good prospect of an immediate diagnosis, by the finding of the germs in a drop of serum from the sore, by examination with the darkficld microscope. At this stage the disease is still localized in the primary sore, not yet spread through the blood, and accordingly there is an excellent chance for a cure by prompt treatment, before any serious harm is done. Adequate treatment at this stage, moreover, prevents possible transmission of the disease to other persons.

Positive diagnosis of syphilis by the darkficld microscopic test can be made and treatment started ton days to two weeks bo-fore a Wasscrmann or other blood test will show "positive." And by the time the Wasscrmann or other blood test becomes "positive" or gives certainty to the diagnosis, the chance of cure has been diminished. Therefore it is vitally important that any one who even suspects he may have contracted syphilis report to a competent physician for the darkficld microscopic test before applying any remedy to the sore. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Scarlet Fever The doctor says scarlet fever It conveyed only by the breath of the living person who hen it. If this is to all our burning of bedding and fumigating of the Sickroom is wrong. (P.

E. Answer Not by the breath, that la, not via or in the sir, but the germ of scarlet fever Is spread In the secretions from noe and throat and In the spray given off when the patient combe, sneeei or talks. Isolation of the patient la the Important factor in preventing the spread of scarlet fever Of course burning things and creating smokes and ctinks Is lust an old folk custom. Surely no health authority today dares to perpetrate any such hocus-pocus as burning good bedding or fumigating rooms In residences. Have Soma Honey Writer secures much information of value from your column.

AIno he enlovs It hugely. Why not dwell more on honey ai a sweetener for food? Note you always specify susar. (H. C. L.I Answer It is always fine to use instead ot sugar for sweetening if you like.

Ounce of sugar yield 113 calorie, nothing eWe. Ounce of honey yteld ninety-three calories plus some calcium, phosphorus and Uon. MnMsyi Tha Mod era Treatment at yphilli. Copyright, 11137. John F.

DUia Ca, whose views do not run with his own. Thus he has asked Congress to delegate to him the legislative power over economic affairs, the legislative power of appropriation in respect to half the budget, the legislative power to define the statutory functions of the executive branch of the government, the administrative control of the independent quasi-judicial commissions. By creating the most powerful political machine that has ever existed in the history of this country the immense powers granted to the President for the emergency have been employed to perpetuate those powers. That machine is equipped with funds, with patronage, with the power to give and to withhold privileges in every community, down to the smallest hamlet in the land. Thus the extraordinary powers delegated by Congress to the President have been used and are being used to pack Congress with men who would not dare, and in fact would not wish, to restore the normal balance of power between Congress and the President The avowed objective of the pending Supreme Court reform measure is the domination of the only remaining independent branch of the government.

The judiciary bill is not a proposal to amend the Constitution. It is a proposal to vest in this President the power to make six personal appointments. What is to be the constitutional philosophy of the six new judges? It is to be, as we learned In Mr. Roosevelt's fireside chat, that the general welfare clause of the Constitution should give the Federal government authority to do whatever it deems desirable for the general welfare. Thus we are confronted with a proposal to make a new Supreme Court which will 'be dominated by judges who believe that the Federal government has power to do anything which Congress considers conducive to the general welfare.

I ask you to consider this program as a whole and to ask yourselves soberly and searchingly whether must not be described as the decline of democracy and the rise of personal government. It is only since the election that we have learned that the whole collection of emergency powers are to be revived and perpetuated by overthrowing the resistance of the Supreme Court. And we are told that this epoch-making change in the basic character of the government Is to be carried out by a margin of eight or ten votes obtained from Senators who do not dare to vote as they believe. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not American democracy as we have known it It is a bloodless, deviously legalized coup d'etat. To vest virtually unlimited powers, hitherto reserved to the States, In the Federal gov-ernment, to delegate those powers to the President and to nullify judicial review Is, in fact, a radical change In the inner substance of the American government The advisers of the President are not the Cabinet, they are not even the responsible heads of the departments.

They are individuals, who have no responsibility except to the President personally. Both because this system aggrandizes the individual who ed States. He has asked and obtained from Congress the delegation of its constitutional power to regulate the value of money, and that power is today exercised not by an independent monetary authority, but by his personal Edwin Markham at 85 Generally esteemed by competent critics to be our most eminent lyrical artist, Edwin Markham is 85 years of age today an ago not attained by any other American poet of great prominence save Holmes. The author of "The Man With the Hoe" reaches his eighty-fifth mile-post weary and worn after his long journey through the vale of years. Several weeks ago he was declared by a court Jury to be incompetent to manage his affairs.

He is scarcely able to write coherently or correctly read a printed page though he did manage to recite some of his verses to an audience of neighbors last Thursday night. The poet's pitiable plight seems the more deplorable when it is recalled that within the last thirty years he was singing at his best, and in that time won more than a score of prizes In national and international contests in which thousands of verse writers participated. This has been particularly pleasing to residents of the Golden State, for his triumphs have been those of an old-time Californian. Not long ago Alfred Noyes, the British poet and critic, wrote of the final lines of Markham's famous tribute to Lincoln that they were "the greatest climax in English literature." The passing of the author of those lines will Itself be like the leveling of the great cedar by which he typifies the fall of Lincoln. For the poet's fall also will leave "a lonesome place against the sky." Welcome Finland If turn about 13 fair play now is the time for Los Angeles residents to prove it.

Over to this country with a display of arts and crafts has como a distinguished representative of a distinguished country, Finland. Besides Jean Sibelius, the composer, Finland has many things of which to bo proud. It proves this as it presents to Los Angeles under the guiding hand of Commissioner of Exhibits Louis Bonyhard the notable collection of handicraft Into the United States Treasury with startling regularity Finland, alone among European nations, has paid Installments' on its war debt. For this spirit of honesty and fair dealing Los Angeles can do no less than show a lively Interest in the displays from "the country that has no unemployment and no illiteracy and boasts a balanced budget." Terhaps there Is a lesson for this country in how the model of European nations conducts its affairs. Blushing Premier Leon Premier of France, may bo blushing over the sophomoric book he wrote twenty-five years ago (on the subject of love but he 1st not blushing alone.

Nearly every author is willing to payjor the squelching of hl3 first book. They haunt famous men worse than a castle ghost. appointees. He has asked and obtained the blanket power to distribute funds through what Is in effect a special Presidential budget equal to the total budget of the government when he was inau gurated, and under legal pow ers which are virtually undefined, and when defined have in Senator Byrnes's proposal to have Congress require all government departments and agencies to make a 10 per cent cut in their spending during the fiscal year 1037-38 has the merit of simplicity. Fixed charges, mostly that growing item, interest on the public debt, would of course be excluded.

The South Carolina Senator says this would balance the budget, figuring a saving of The President's estimate of the deficit at the end of the next fiscal year is slightly larger than this. The Senator's proposal would leave department and agency heads discretion in apportioning the cut, which also has its merits. The fact is that no appropriation ought to bo mandatory. Executives should always be permitted to save what money they can. That is the ordinary rule of private business and it should be applied to government.

The Fire-Eaters The mere fact that dancing Indians down at Palm' Springs during the current first annual spring fiesta are putting red-hot coals in their mouths is hardly a fact to stir editorial comment. But the fire dance in picturesque Palm Canyon is but one part of a program that may become as famous in tourist annals as the celebrated Indian powwows at Gallup, N. M. For the first time an all-Indian program with scores of participants is being presented to the public. It is the genuine article sponsored by Federal Indian Service officials who are striving to merge the Interests of the tribes and inaugurate a yearly custom that will be a magnet for thousands of spectators.

California's Indians have some of the most impressive ceremonials of any in the land. It is a good Idea to perpetuate them. Hardly Necessary Hermosa Beach has Just been agitated by an asserted attempt to blow up the City Hall. Officers found an opened jet and the lower floor full of gas while the City Council was meeting above. In most cities it wouldn't have been necessary to open the gas Jet while the Council wa3 meeting.

screen and radio on the gridiron, the Engllshaccent in Hollywood is going to be given the attention it deserves and the foibles of many personalities will be caricatured, all for the sweet sake of laughter. Gene and Kathleen Lockhart are presenting this show. McLean's Magazine, the "Saturday Evening Post of Canada," recently credited the Lock-harts with having done more for domestic felicity than have any other actors, their "Mr. and Mrs." comedies having made many a discontented wife or husband realize that her or his partner was pretty good after all. STARVATION WAGES BY FRANK A.

GARBUTT Starvation wages undoubtedly were the original cause of strikes. After more than fifty years' observation of strikes I note that wo still have starvation wages. The dole or relief is a governmental form of starvation wages and is the best that a mentally deficient government can devise at the expense of government-ridden industry. Originally the struggle was a battle between rulers and those they oppressed. The powerfnl and the weak.

Yet under intelligent rulers the weak fared better than on their own. In time, special privilege brought about starvation wages, bnt hero the issue was more obscure and the cause harder to trace. Capital and labor were the forces envisaged by Marx and his ilk as being engaged in inevitable conflict We still have the weak, but while onr sympathies "are with the weak it is not very apparent that their prosperity would increase without the strong. Now we see that if starvation wages are to be eliminated we must have intelligent co-operation between capital and labor and the weak and the strong In utilizing economic conditions. Strikes will not prevent starvation wages because strikes are now directed against the community and we cannot benefit the weak by destructive methods.

We must aid the weak to produce for themselves. important respects been circum vented or ignored. By his own personal discretion the President allocates to States, munici palities, government bureaus and to Individuals several billions of dollars. The historic rule that the representative assembly shall control the expenditure of public money has been suspend-ed in respect to about half the Federal budget. He has asked, though he has not yet been granted, the au thority to reorganize and to re distribute the powers of the executive branch of the government This substitutes for the statutory organization of the executive branch of the government the personal organization of the President.

He has asked, though he has not yet been granted, the au thority tot bring the quasi-judicial independent commissions within the administrative orbit of his own personally appointed Cabinet officers. He has asked, but has been More Humane? Rubber is used to cover the of wild-animal traps now, and the legs of the beasts are consequently uninjured. W. B. J.

denied by the Supreme Court, the power to dismiss members of these indcuendent commissions.