The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 34

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youtk-EccLEsiASTEs, i2.i. The text today is selected by the Rev. Ezra Allen Van of Calvary Presbyterian Church. The text tomorrow will be selected by the Rev. John I.

Huff, Wesley Methodist Church South. SHALL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? NORMAN HAPGOOD The -Daugherty Trial sax? -s VyilAT the Daugherty case is all about is Complicated though the facts may be. the outlines are simple. For example, when the To Keep the San Francisco Bay District The Commercial Center of the West The Examiner Advocates Harbor improvements and tideland reclamation. A.

48-hour train schedule between San Francisco and Chicago. Immediate completion by the Federal Government of three great transcontinental highways. More highways around the bay and radiating through the State. Bridges and tubes spanning the bay and across the Golden Gate. Immediate and economical completion of Hetch Hetchy water system and municipal power distribution.

i The closer co-operative association of all the cities around the bay' for common good. fense n- its point that the fore i claim to the seven i I lion doll a in question was oper, a cord-imi to a recent decision of the gest case in our generation; the biggest Case at least since the Star Route frauds that placed forever a black cloud on the Presidential record of the personally honest General Grant. That will be decided by whether or not a part' of the money found itself into the pocket of the Attorney General of the United States. Robert Merton, the German who has held the center of the stage so far, says he knew nothing about any plan to pass along to the politicians the money he admits he gave to King, and the chances, are the jury will believe him. lie is the kind of person juries are likely to believe.

He gives the impression of, a foreigner imperfectly acquainted with the finer shadings of English words and with the English common law; endeavorirlg' to avoid making any really false statement in giving an account of a singularly delicate transaction. Keep Charter A mendments I Down to Real Essentials charter amendments are be A taken seriously by the voters of this city, care must be exercised to keep the ballot free from foolish or personal propositions which would tend to arouse prejudice against the whole list. The city charter has been amended until it is a fine crazy-quilt today. Serious flaws and defects come to light from Supreme Court, it won a 9 dramatic and even an important victory, seen from the angle of one day's news. One round, so to speak, was clearly scored for the defense.

But if we look at the case as a whole, the same fight brought out sharply the fact that when the millions were turned over, the law being on by Daugherty and his friends was interpreted just the other way, and was also being interpreted that other way by 'the lower courts. Of course, in judging the-criminality of Miller, King, Jess Smith and Daugherty, the most relevant thing is what their duties as established at the time of the alleged conspiracy, time to time, and these of cc 'se require amendment. Undoubtedly several of the proposed amendments fall within this almost compulsory class. changes which they are asked to endorse. There are 28 State constitutional amendments and referendum propositions on the ballot already.

The Judiciary Committee of the Board of Supervisors is the designated weed-ing-out agency. As usual, propositions have been fired at it from right and left to install temporary job-holders in permanent jobs, to exempt this and that job-holder from this or that requirement and to include somebody else in some other requirement propositions which are not real public issues, which are personal or political at bottom, and which certainly ought not to encumber the November ballot. Other propositions have been offered which are fair enough perhaps, but nonessential. The fewer the San Francisco charter amendments, and the better they are selected from the standpoint of their ab solute and essential necessity, the more likelihood that the people will pass them all instead of voting a disgusted "No" on good proposals and bad alike. But, besides, whenever any job-holder hasn't liked the limits or rating of his job whenever any Board or Commis- sion has wanted power allocated to some other Board or Commission whenever the regular routine of running the Civil Service gauntlet has become irksome to somebody who wanted to get jobs for his friends the regular device has been to formulate the thing into a charter amendment and put it on the ballot.

THE jury looks to be one of the most intelligent I have ever seen. No doubt it is reflecting on the fact that, granted Mcrton's complete honesty, it is to his advantage to make his transaction seem entirely regular and legitimate. That is a wish that no human being in his position could be without. The separation of these outstanding points from the mass of detail, and from the sparring for points by the lawyers, will be made clear by Judge Mack, who is in no way afraid of being over-ruled. He takes a hand in the proceedings whenever he does not think the lawyers are bringing out the real meaning of the testimony.

Also it may be noted that Judge Mack's record shows he likes to pet all possible facts before the jury. Notably in these conspiracy cases, which depend mainly on putting together a mass of admissions made by persons involved in the alleged wrong This quality in the presiding judge, logether with the high quality of the jury, makes it likely that when the smoke of battle clears away the; twelve men will have a pretty clear notion of the few points on which this momentous case must turn. i This year, the voters of San Francisco would like ta be assured that no non sense is included among the chaiter THE first big step, about which everything will revolve for some. days, is whether the paid to lohn T. King, former 'National Committeeman from Connecticut, to arrange to get the seven million dollars out of the Alien Property Custodian with the concurrence of the Attorney General, was a free gift or a bribe.

That doesn't depend on what the German witness Merton thought about it. It depends on what became of the money after King got it. THE next step, after that point has been exhausted, will be to decide whether Miller, the Custodian, got any of Up to now, things do not look very bright for him. If he is convicted, and Daugherty is not, the case will be only moderately big; about as bier as the case of Forbet, who was convicted of robbing the veterans. THEN cones the final point, which is to decide whether, it is the big- 'The Machine Mind' 15,000 Love Letters RECENT speaker berated science for its rart in creatine' the gUST a little five-line notice ot the a sale at auction of 15,000 love let- ters written to Victor Hugo by Private monopoly ot coal has functioned in either black coal was.

and turned into a tool of profiteering? one Juliette Drouette! To be the extortionate prices or industrial wars that cause mil- Or shall all the people own it and share its bene- affair of the heart lasted fifty years, but, ions to suffer. fits fairly? Science is showing how running water, nature's In the desert country, in pioneer days, misuse of even so, 15,000 seems too many. One a day, except Thursdays, probably the maid's day off. gift to all, can be made to do for man more cheaply a water hole meant death to the culprit, if detected, and better the work now done by coal. The penalty was harsh.

But it was that kind of Shall this white coal" be grabbed by greed as vigilance for the public good that made this nation. "AVe have always marveled at the sus-" tained vitality of the great Victor. Every MOULTON'S MICROSCOPE FOOD FROM THE MR i NEW YORK DAY 5Y DAY More Truth Than Poetry By S. E. Kiser 1 "machine mind" of the present age by facilitating the spread of "standardized ideas," He contended that: Incessant bombardment of standardized newspapers, magazines, books, movies, plays, is causing people not only to use the same slang, sing the same melodies and wear the same clothes, but even to feel the same emotions and think the same thoughts.

The difference between today, and yesterday through print, ideas are ceaselessly broadcast, and so are facts. If you swallow the ideas whole, you justify the remarks quoted above. IE you attend rather to facts, and make your own inferences, you'll' never have the "machine mind." paragraph almost of his vast production nf novrls. every line of his poetry, is in-. 11LLL.

1 i Ton 'l A tfffl, tense. How could he keep it up? This little item of news trebles our wonder. To stand the strain of reading 15,000 mash notes from one lady over a period of half a century argues a constitution like an elephant's. Only one explanation occurs to us. AN'E good thing the World War did was to turn men's thoughts seriously to the problem of nitrates.

Prior'' to the war the world was getting the bulk of its fertilizer from' accumulated supplies, su-h as the nitrate fields of Chile, which were in w-rapid process of exhaustion. Germany, cut off from Chilean nitrates, went into the air. And today the extraction of nitrates from the air is proceeding at the rate of approximately four million tons a year. Perhaps he didn't read them. By R.

K. M. THE most important tid- ing of the week is that President Coolidge has announced he will stand firmly for the recognition of Reservation No. 8 in entering the World Court. We do not know what1 Reservation No.

6 is, but it makes no difference. All v. a i cms are good, only some are better than others. So lonp as No. 5 is a reservation, it has the unqualified support of this column.

The reservations are the only things about the World Court that are worth while. Dogs and Men Keeping Young about, irresponsibilities of youth evidently stir some romantic longings. This'' morning one of his young guests called out So long, see you this evening," and raced off for a train to town. The host stood puckering his lips indecisivly and watched him out of I somehow imagined he would; like to be racing off to an office, too. A Day When Things Went Wrong rpHROUCH all the Jay my heart was filled vilh dread, No sign of promise glimmered anyw'here; ilioughl of man)) dangers out ahead.

The trouble that I had seemed hard io hear. rHE Utile children lool(ingoul at me From flowery places that shuffled past Were filled with sudden fear, or seemed to he; All day the sky ivas darkly avercasl. I 'HE gardens that had seemed so gay before i Were full of weeds 1 had not seen till The lively scenes attracted me no more wished to gel away from other men. CEASED to hope that any lucJ(y turn Might ever bring me riches or renown; Absurd mischances filled me with concern, I learned to fear the turmoil of the town. HHHE worlf I had to do seemed profitless, I The moments dragged through all the dismal day; The tilings I had been eager to possess Became elusive and were far away.

BOUT the best cure for growing old is to retain an interest in life. iflmtUE fidelity of a dog is proverbial. II The reciprocal affection of the master might as well be taken as a subject for Three recent news items bespeak, this side of the relationship. In Passaic, New Jersey, two girs chose to go to jail to save their (Jogs from being shot by officers of the law. A petition was recently presented to IT stirred my curiosity in window of one of those novelty shops.

A tiny slightly curved comb about, a half a thumb long. It seemed a little, too small even for those whimsical slight mustaches and not large enough for the silken fluff of a sleeve dog. So I' inquired of Monsieur the proprietor. It was a comb for the eyebrows. A liJ UVUVl U1U1I tUJ VAtl tlSC UI any kind of medicine.

This is illustrated in the case of Mr. Kovach, of Aurora, who, while lying on what he thought was his deathbed, began a game of chess by mail with his brother. That was in 1924. The other day Kovach, now hale and hearty, checkmated hjs brother. Doctors say that it was the desire to keep up his game that kept Kovach alive and made him recover.

So even a game of chess may contain interest enough to make one go on living. the Board of Supervisors at Huntington, AM sitting on the veran- da of a country home not far from (Gotham. It ts owned by a man who with 23 years of drudgery has bought the right to rest. The faint refrain Victor Herbert's "Indian Sunimsr" floats through a half opened window, Over the knob of aTiill a group of golfers are swinging along. There are shouts from a tennis court.

A graceful Borzoi dog is cocking his head quizzically at something in the hedge. It is all the. atmosphere of lei-'sure the world of white flannels, buckskin shoes and low-slung roadsters. THE host knows much of life. He has a d-panncd in the Yukon.

He spent two futile years in far off Benares trying to establish a mill. He has been a logger in the north. He topped nine distinct failures with one whopping success. Now1 he is trying to live. I did not know him in other days, but am told he was the life of hell-roaring camps.

He was reckless at the gaming tables and succumbed to other primitive urges of his surroundings. Today he seems subdued. He appears always straining to catch some faint of life he cannot hear. He does not strike one as particularly happy or particularly sad, but I get the idea he 'is not overwhelmed by the elation of success. Long Island, signed by dog lovers.

It VT on the morrow, beautiful and bright DP LAND and Rumania have just advanced universal peace by signing an offensive and' defensive alliance to meet all comers. Woe betide any, country who tries to monkey with this pair. It is rumored that Sweden and Siam are getting ready to make an alliance to repel all invaders and a similar agreement between Ecuador and Bulgaria is expected. If there doesn't happen to be a war any time, we will endeavor to start The report that the United States seoking to form a war alliance with Iceland is said to be asked that a public burying ground be acle wnere the bodies ot taithnil dogs The sun came up as if on golden wings it tt. might be, buried.

My troubles had departed in the niVn, And in an election in New Jersey mott interest was shown in a measure affecting dogs than in the question of who should be elected to Congress CO successful has been this new quest that the Chilean nitrate companies are beginning to sufler. Last year they produced and sold only about half the quantity secured from the air. Their stock values have shrunk 60 per cent. I there oeril to the race in taking so much nitrogen out c' our atmosphere? Should the practice grow, as all signs indicate it will, will there come a time vhen the inhabitants of our orb would be seriously 'threatened by the denatured air? ''Not in our day, at any rate. ERE, a fourteen ds of nitrogen above every square inch of our planet's surface Our atmosphere is supposed to hold in suspension a total nitrogen content of four million billion tons at the present rate of extraction supply Sufficient to last a good deal longer than our globe as already lasted.

By the time this reserve shows signs of exhaustion, no doubt our chemists will have found other means of nourishing plant life. san a world enriched with splendid things. MY tasf(s had won their great importance bac(. My dread was gone, my earnestness renewed; I found new problems gravely to attack, And fair, new purposes to be pursued. rpiliE way was smooth again that had been rough, 1 The busy crowds engaged my inlereslt But I had spoiled a day by eating stuff I should have known I never could digest.

STARS AND STRIPES Some college students take up the study of Spanish, German, French, Latin, Italian and Scotch. Others take up the Scotch first and stop there. THE. thing Job feared came upon Jiim. A physician who has attended many songbirds of the Metropolitan and similar ventures' says in all such practice the only ailments are those of the throat.

He has known cases of fear to so restrict muscles of the throat that a singer could not be heard in a whisper. Fifteen i te before, the throat was normal CIMILARLY about the affliction oi the Ij.11 'player is the "charley horse and a waiter sunken arches. The subject off some for I seem to remember that writers who need their eyes more than most people lead in ophthalmic ailments. In many houses, some of the furniture goes back to Louis XIV, and some of it goes back to the installment house at the end of the month. Telephone company tells us there are two hundred and one parts to a telephone.

But a good many of them have the" wrong number. One "food specialist" writes: "There is an art in eating spaghetti." If he's right, it must be a futurist an. 'THE war in Nicaragua is still playing to rapidly diminishing houses. It is 'lifficult to keep the public interested in a war and very few are attending this one either as spectators or soldiers. At the battle of Cosi-guine, a few days ago, one man on the government side was shot.

The coroner's jury --dict of accidental ihoo't-ing, as the rebel who shot him was in all likelihood aiming at somebody else. Society woman has a beautiful diamond brooch that once belonged to a millionaire. The millionaire was Woolworth. Another sign of approaching winter is display of women's straw hats in an uptown millinery store! l-V J. OBSERVING such men interests me because they have'achieved the goal toward which most of us are striving.

I notice he likes very young people There is said to be a regulation that no man livincr in Nfw lprcnv ran hm hiriA in s-fr. A Scotchman in this city sent his friend in Los Angeles a homing-pigeon for a birthday present. New York. That is, riot while he' is living..