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DECATUR HERALD THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1928 DECATUR HERALD HFB AT.TVS PAflE OF INTERPRETATION AND OPINION Editorials the Teapot Dome committee understands It. Mr. that the courts have the first call upon his testimony. there Is slight chance of hli appearing In court. Secretary Wilbur Impresses us as the kind of man who would cherish as a souvenir the socket wrtnch with which the dying crew of the S-4 rapped out the last messages.

BETTER SINK IT, MR. WILBUR Secretary Wilbur may take a pride in liis announcement that the S-4 will reconditioned and put into service, but to others of us ihe idea lhal battered coffin 40 men is to be re-floated and used, is nothing short of tbhorrent. The wonder is that a crew could be driven into this horrible death ship other than at the point of a pistol. If there is anything to tradition that sailors arc superstitious, it would appear that engineers and torpedo men in a reconditioned S-4 would be hearing in the watches of the night, ghostly groans and And it is Secretary Wilbur who is going up and do-An the county saying that the navy must be made a pleasant and healthful place for the boys, a sort of floating university. We hope that Congress, if not the President, will interfere.

Is it possible that Washington is unaware that the country regards the whole S-4 incident as a blunder, and evidence of official incapacity? The ancient Hebrews had the ceremony of the scapegoat in which the priest laid his hands upon the beast, thereby transferring to it the MM of the people. The animal was then driven into the wilderness out of human light. We should think that the Navy Department would want to tow the S-4 20 miles out lo see and sink it a thouund fathoms deep. Another one of those lex personalities that we don't profess to understand, and which we ilon'l Intend to waste any time Investigating Is the beautiful Mrs. Doris McDonald.

TRADER HORN'S SUCCESS It was only two years ago lhat Mrs. Elhrclda Lewis, Ihe novelist, sal on her back porch writing when an old man shuffled up the path to ask if she wanted to buy a wire gridiron. Mrs. Lewis didn't want a gridiron, but she bought one out of pity and the oltl man remained, talking abqtit his experiences with lions, elephants and cannibals. From that story grew the book.

"Trader Horn," of vhich more than 100,000 copies have sold, and it wai the same old man who arrived in NEW York the other day to lee his publisher, be entertained by the Literary guild and deliver a lecture. Thr'book, as everybody knew, was a joint enterprise. Trader Horn wrote his reminiscenses on scraps of paper and brought them to Lewis, who pieced them together and added comments of her own. The royalties atf. still running more than $4.000 a week, and "1 rader Horn i.i no longer under the necessity of selling bent wire kitchen utensils.

The reporters asked him how it seemed to be rich. "Oh. I've been prosperous before," he said, "but my money had leg? on it." Again he said: "I've been a bit of a vogue elephant, you know." His name, he revealed, is really Alfred Aloysius Smith. Horn, he thought, a belter name for literary RfadfM of the book have the impression that not all told. In his conversations since arriving in this country.

Trader Horn has let slip certain hints as to other parts of fin eventful life, It is not a surprise to learn lhat he and Mrs. Lewis are now engaged on two more books. There is natural curiosity on the part of Trader Horn's admirers lo know how a man who once was a successful diamond merchant, was reduced to peddling at 73. They expect more revelations of a life of a soldier of for- lune who lived in romance. The Oxford English dictionary, It is announced, hns been completed nfler 75 years of effort, a fact of which we soon expect to be duly reminded when the agent comes around with prospectus In his cont pocket.

FREER AND MORE WHOLESOME CRITICISM Rev. L. A. Crown's letter in another column "hit us where we live" as the saying is. No newspaper with eyes, ears and a conscience can be unaware of the social injustices in the community.

Nor do we believe tliat industrial leaders arc blind that they do not see. at least, some of them. But there exists a sort gentlemen's agreement that one individual shall not interfere with or publirly complain about the way his neighbor runs his business. Even if one'i conscience is pretty sensitive, he is dissuaded from speaking out until he knows that he has a remedy. The longer one lives and observes ihr more he is impressed with the fact that industrial mal-adjuslmcnls are less the results of callousness and ill i than of circumstance.

In other words, a man who pays his employes what appears 10 an inadequate wage, may have his standards fixed for him by competition. Of course, comment on llinl is lhat the profits system at a Mr. Crown hints lhat that system is not working well. Eight or nine years ngo il was heresy to suggest -ucii a thing or to hint that it might be replaced by something else. That is not quite true today.

An increasing number of men of affairs, particularly if they are academically trained, realize that the capitalist system is on trial. "Capitalism?" aaid a ipeaker before an Association al Commerce group in Decalur rather recently, "why, I have so much faith in capitalism that have the courage lo lhal it will abolish poveily." He went on to say tome things about industry that a few years before would oot have been tolerated in a group of businessmen. Capitalism has, in fact, made a new standard of living It has lapped a new buying power. It has made it possible for the masses lo have caw and fur coats. I may sometime abolish poverty.

But it would be idle to deny thai capilaliim today is a perfect system or that it does not have some ugly things to answer for. Of its failures there is freer speaking nnd more wholesome criticism loday than ever before. As I View the Thing BY S. A. TUCKER KIN He's the watchman, Where the Wabash leaps Elm street; A funny little old man with a weathered face.

But Bill often stops for a friendly chat-I lee them from my office window, laughing away. Bill gives him a cigar, or a small package; As at Christmas time, when they talked like old friends Warming their hands ovor the cracked stove In the watchman's shanty. And maybe It's only a cheery honk As Bill drives by. I asked Bill why he was so Interested in The lonely old fellow with the sunburnt nose. And then I understood: "Nothing, only he reminds me of my father." ADZH.

The success that some men achieve, in finding relatives everywhere, is one of the mitigating circumstances in favor of life. But we can not wait to press upon your notice the fact that our name has been missing from the top of this pillar, for days and days. The faithfulness with which the well-loved Chief has filled space, the quaint and gentle humor of his discourse about the world and women, have been our despair. "Eye-wah; Ae-wallah!" we have groaned upon our bed of pain; "Nobody will be missing us at all!" Eh? Well, we didn't expect you would be catching us up like that, and we dictating from the pillow, but if you insist, "bed of pain" is a little exaggerated. It seemed to be the usual reference in such circumstances, as established court-room manner of our best lawyers.

If you are going to Insist upon strict realism, lying abed with this prevalent form of cold, influenza or what-ever, Is luxurious beyond all the dreams of prosy souls who keep at their labors. It Is opulent. It Is caressing. It Is magnificent! You have noticed that it Is popular--here Is a clue that the addicts generally try to keep among themselves. The true nature and delights of influenza have been concealed from us until this year.

We must laugh now, as reflect upon all our stupidity of years gone by. There was that winter In the army when a reductive rumor Began to run up and down the ranks, rapidly denuding them of men. We began as high private in the rear of our squad. In two days we found ourself acting corporal, with the privilege of calling off the names of the seven absentees each morning at reveille. Several squads above were cleaned out, and we advanced to the position of sergeant.

Another week, the company was only a skeleton, the captain and the top- kick were In hospital, and Lieutenant entrusted us with the sacred book of the Morning Report. From high private to acting Top In two weeks! Oh, dizzy elevation! Trom under-dog, wont 'o tip-toe uneasily past the open door of the orderly room, to the undisturbed and lonely occupant of the premises! Then Lieutenant wont down, and we were left alone with five Czecho-Slovaklans from Chicago and a feebleminded boy from the Ozarks. Among us, we shoveled the coal, swept the yawning barracks, stood guard. It was strenuous, but we thought then it was eminence, and good fortune. We failed to picture for ourselves the slothful case of all the more intelligent ones, In their companlonaW hospital wards.

It was going on. Whipping Is a. good thing for all parents. It keeps them sane and humble. Children understand anger.

It Is. one of the first emotions they display--probably the very first. At an early age they perceive Us working In other persons, and particularly In their parents. They delight to experiment with It. Nothing fascinates them more than to provoke anger, a little at a time, with scientific In finding out how far it is possible to go.

To deny them the ultimate explosion is to cheat-them a valuable part of their education. They are looking for i iat very thing, and another day they will deliberately go through the whole process again, because It them to discover an uniformity In the operations of their world, the same effect following the same cause. Whip them when you're mad right through--and it will not be necessary to do a lot of explaining why. Tho child will have been wondering for some time how long it would take you to get up that much steam. And ao It has gone along, from one year to another.

Others have taken to their beds annually--some, In excessive self-indulgence, have tried It twice In a year--and we, stupidly plodded at our work. Thus It happens to be seen this season for the first time that we make the acquaintance of a delicious vice. If there be any others not yet initiated, wo shall be glad to explain the method. A common cold Is a disease that is not expected to keep you from work, or not at any rate for more than a day or two. An influenza Is a cold with Ideas of salesmanship.

There Is a fever, and this is one of the best things about it for no sensation can be more agreeable In our dour climate than the sensation of being genially warm, through and through, to the last finger tip. There Is a beautiful lassitude--and the benign thoughtfulness of nature could be sworn in no better way, for this gives the taste for drowsy days in bed precisely at the moment when the doctor says you shall take them. How few things In life come at the right times! Thus one day follows another, usual distinctions between day and night almost all disappear, you grow forgetful of dates and find yourself gently launched upon a timeless Immensity of warm case. You are the center of your universe, waited upon, pampered. All ordinary responsibilities are erased, and the Boss will have to read the proofs! It is sumptuous.

We mean never to pass up the chance again. MOTHKR GOOSE--MODEL A Our good Mr. Hays was an Elder and all, But poor Mr. Hays! For he took a bad fall. Now all Sinclair's money and all of Burns' men Can't make Hays look like an elder again.

C. H. P. The most delicious revelation of many days, in the Teapot Dome affair, was the story of how Maryland horse racing circles objected to having Sinclair for an associate. There you have the first, the very first symptom of ti reviving social compulsion to honesty.

Mr. Sinclair wa bsJIcvc, c. member in gcod standing of the Union League club and many other notable organizations sacred to orthodoxy. The race horse gentry have kicked him out, and the movement is bound to spread. Almost any day It may appear that he can no longer be received at the White House.

We were pained to sec on this page the other day repetition of that advice, believed by all the spinster experts in child training, that children should not be whipped In anger. In order to correct the record with possible loss of time, 1 i us Bet down here the axiom: parents should whip their children only In anger. Whip a child in cold blood? Horrible! Neither one of you would be likely to lose the scar of the experience. A more direct objection is, that no possible good can be done by that sort of punishment. Children are whipped because they restore an electrical equilibrium.

It stops the particular, annoying act and It provides a healthy discharge for the nervous tension we have accumulated while i a a IN OLD DECATUR "What kind of roads will you build?" is the question will be put to most of the candidates who run for highway commissioner In the outside townships. The question of good roads will be made an issue in this campaign and in some townships it will be an even stronger issue than party politics. The farmers care more about having in office men who will make the kind of roads they want than they do about Democrats and Republicans, The highway commissioners and a committee of the board of supervisors met at the new Stevens Creek bridge Saturday and remcasured the masonry and found that It had been incorrectly measured before and found that there was $103.33 due the Indiana Bridge Iron Co. When Mr. Bresee of the Bridge Co.

approves this action the amount will be paid, half the county and half by the township. The trees in Central park are being treated with the tar paper and printer's ink process for the prevention of destruction of canker worms. The new Wabash hospital will no doubt be finished about the same time as the new University. Frank Myer Son arc now re-decorating the Methodist church in Monticcllo. This is the third time that building has been redecorated and three generations of the Meyer family have worked on it.

The new organ of the Congregational church will be dedicated next Sunday but it will be opened Friday night with a recital. Dr. Lewis Falk, president of the Chicago Musical college. The new organ is one of the Hook Hastings make and cost $3,150. THE RAINBOW My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So Is It now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child Is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

--William Wordsworth. CREAM OF THE JEST EVEN WHEN NOT TAKEN President Coolidge has given expression to the belief that Congress can be ready to adjourn by May. There Is something graceful in a gentle Blade. STRONG ARGUMENT FOR HOOVER The big question about Hoover Is who other wise--Boston Herald. WHAT CAN IT BE? According to the Dominion bureau of statistics $105,771,000 was spent by American motorists In Canada during the year 1926.

Canada has no finer cities, watering places or scenery than the United States. There must be some other Times-Union. IT'S A REGULAR HEALTH MEASURE According to a well-known physician, laughter ventilates the lungs, sets the blood coursing through the veins and makes all the organs work better. If he is right, Senator Willis' candidacy will make the nation Times. IT'S A LONG WAY AHEAD Utopia is a place'where they would accidentally get one of those Teapot Dome boys in jail on a News.

HOME ATMOSPHERE IN POLITICS Women bosses in politics are advocated by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The idea being, of course, to make a man feel at home, as one might say, in politics. -Springfield (Mass.) Union.

FIXING DATE FOR EASTER --Ohio State Journal. This year Easter comes on April 8. It is neither early nor late. It came on March 23 in 1913 and on April 23 In 1916. It will come on March 27 in 1932.

History proves it comes in April more frequently than in March. It is one of the movable festivals on the religious calendar and shifting dates have been more or less puzzling to Individu-. als through the'years. Among the decrees that came from the Council of Nice as one prescribing the methods to be followed in fixing the date of Easter each year. There has been no revision of that decree during the many years that have intervened.

Each year questions are asked about the method, each year the question is answered and promptly forgotten by many people. To get the information near the people the International Dictionary has given In full the rule laid down, when the wise men were in council at Nice. Easter Day is always the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or next after the 21st of March; If the full moon happens on Sunday, Easter is celebrated one week later. The date of the full moon is ascertained according to calendar rules and may differ from that of the actual astronomical full moon. There is the rule and one may be fully informed If it is placed where it jjiay be reached when the question is heard next year and the cext.

Spring Fever Has Broken Out Again in School By Ding Death Why Not Live Social Gospel in Decatur? To the Editor of The HeraldSir: I note in this morning's paper that you are still laboring under influence of Sherwood Eddy's social gospel. You and Mr. J. F. Williams have succroded in taking refuge in the failures of the church.

No one is more aware of the impotency of church than the minister who dares be the last to defend the church for its weakness in this respect. But should men like you and Mr. Williams rest content when you have ome to the conclusion that the churches of today will not support a social gospel? In the first place it is not true of all churches. I have always preached a social gospel and have never yet seen the color of the deacons or elders hair that could dis- Buade me from It by fear or favor. think there are thousands of min- sters who have done the same thing.

First Crack In the Egg True we are not always able to remain on one field as long as we would like but the gospel Is preached only dared to do so. May Have Been Voice of God You said a few. days 1 ago In your editorial that Mr. Eddy disturbed you. Will you get over that disturbance by uttering a few editorial tlon.

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CUT PPICg DRUG STOPS Wholesalers Retailers just the same. In fact I think it is i what that disturbance was the that bit of gospel that has kept us lot God calling you to use your from revolution since the world war. as a creator of public opinion for How long we can go without Jesus Way of Life? The trca- tion unless we have more of it Is hard ble is that men like you and many say. Some men and not a few others now and then catch a glimpse lare now thinking that the present'of Jesus and then turn away ifituation is the first crack in our willing to follow the gleam. commercial and industrial' You know that If Mr.

Eddy were golden egg. here for long he would cry out vith i If the men in power can remain all his force against a s-ysterr. of i blind enough, and sit tight enough' employment that considers one on this already rotten system of greed thing as of any importance and that day the thin shell will break one thing is profit for the employer. these men will be bowled over! You know he would cry out Iby the stench of their own corrupt' against the men who have fought lives. This would be a good thing, and continue to fight the God given if it were not for the fact that the'right of the laborer for same stench may become so obnox- bargaining, lous to the masses that they will Serfdom In Decatur clean up the whole mess by fair You know that the community is means.

(party to a system of serfdom that Since I do not believe in revolution refuses to give to many of Its chil- by force I choose to let a little leaven, I dren the right to enjoy childhood. leaven the whole lump. You as an You know these facts, you are too editor could greatly aid in this if you well read not to know them. Then in God's name why don't you speak out fearlessly and frankly until public sentiment will remedy the situs- L. A.

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