Editorial Opinion of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Dr. Philip Kremer, assistant to the general manager cf the Berlin. Ger many, street railways, accompanied by the commissioner of transporta tion of Berlin, and party of expert investigators cf traffic conditions tn America, included Cincinnati in their itinerary through the country, from coast to coast. The Kremer party is now on its return voyage to Germany. Before sailing. Dr. Kremer stated that he will recommend that street ears be continued as the backbone of Ber lin’s transportation system. It now is using 3.500 street cars and t’00 buses. His conviction Irom obser vations made in the cities of this countrv is that this preposition is about correct. Specifically, he said: We are going to use the street car as the major means of trompor taticn for the dual reasons ihat we can carry passengers cheaper by car than by bus, and that the car causes less street congestion. I came to the United States with an open mind on this ouesticn. and I am returning ftrmlv convinced that the American method of using the bus in supple mental service cnly is the proper one. Cincinnati possess one of the finest and best equipped street car systems to be found any where in the world. Traffic congestion is gradually cn the increase and the number of mo tor cars is expected to double with in the next few years. The street car is not a major factor in the increase cf congestion. Its limita tions are fixed, its potentialities ex actly calculable. Jt is the positive clement in the scheme cf city trans portation. It is the reliable friend to innumerable multitudes who live distant from the places of their daily employin' nt. Its casualty rec ord is negligible. In Cincinnati 300.C00 passengers daily make use of the city's street railway service. Without this service a mighty volume of these people would be reduced to a condition of distress and helplessness, for the motor vehicle, or anything else in the scheme of city transportation of passengers, cannot take the place of the street car. or approxi mate its endurance, reliability and safety. -»» - | Beys and Money "No successful boy saved arv money. Tiiev spent it as fact as they got it for things to imp eve themselves,’’ declared Henry Ford the other day. There is boih error and truth in this. Certainly many a boy snd young man. by saving what he could, has accumulated enough to be able to meet oppor tunity when it presented itself, red thereby came finally to comfortable or large success. On the other hand a wise youth, sensing his ncr-d of improvement, will not heard the money he has which might be ex pended in widening the knowledge which would be to his practical ad vantege. Just what Mr. Ford regards as success for a boy is not clsar. tut he cites only two. Edison and him self, as having tilled that defini tion—the greatest, inventor and tho largest manufacturer. In attempt ing to lead boys to ultimate suc cess, the lives cf neither of these men in their two talents. For boys an example. They are exceptional men in their two talents. For govs in general to attempt to parallel the care ere of two leaders in 100, 000,000.000 men would be a sad experiment indeed. Mr. Ford says that wsen he was a young fellow he got kicked out cf stout as many shops as he was welcomed to. Tne reason is plain. He was in them only to learn what he could, not to serve his employers. Every work man is entitled to learn all he can while on his job, but he has no right to go so far in that cl recticn ns to become useless to his em ployer. In one thing Mr. Ford is exactly right. He says: Instill in the mind' cf the yrr.ng men that they will never get anywhere without work. I never knew a young man that was worth five cents that wouldn’t work. Nor did anybody else. Work is the only sale foundation fo: a life. It is to be remembered also that teachers of youth must apply those principles which experience has demonstrated lead to the greatest comfort and happiness of men as a body. Certainly thrift end accum ulation and self-denial are such principles. Wc need waste no time on the superior individuals. Tiiev get along anyhow, and are not to be confined to the limitations of the great mass cf mankind. A TWO-CAT BOMB From Chicago News. Seated at her window early in the morning, a woman saw a nerv ous little man with a package that lu' handed gingerly step from a taxicab. He ran to the doorstep, put the package down carefully and then quiickly entered the taxi and was gone. Knowing her Chief.30, the woman immediately telephoned the police that a bomb had been planted, then stuck her fingers in her ears to deaden the c^ish. The police came, circled around the package cautiously, opened it, and found two little kittens. -— ♦ ♦- -- Q, What is the highest altitude at which meteorological observa tions have been made? T. L. A, The highest trustworthy me teorological observance that has been mode was at Pav:a. Italy. De cember 7, 1911, in a coundirg bal loon, which rose 25,900 meters or 21.77 miles. The record height of r.n observation from a captive balloon is 9,200 meters or 9.7 miles. A cap tive balloon may be sent only as high as the length of the wires or rcpcs holding it. Answer I his One. From Passing Show. Mother: You must never do any thing that other people may not gpp Child: Then why do you alwavs lock the bathroom door when you have a bath? - - - - ♦♦ - -- Q. What kind cf a light on an automobile gives the moot he.p m a fog? G. C. A. It is thought that a very bright foreground illumination, a wide spread, snd a sharp top cut off depressed somewhat below the horse curd, rill give the mas; satis driving light in fo£. Out Our Way By Williams Tv\E. STOCVf HOLDER Curtis to Take New Job Seriously and Already Has “Gone Aloof” to Newspaper Representatives Frank B. Kent, in Baltimore Sun. But just wait until these Washington cor respondents, now unhappily marooned at Miami with nothing to do after their morning dip in the ocean except to complain about the "aloofness” of Herbert Hoover—just wait until they come back to Washington and get into contact—or try to—with the Hon. Charles Curtis of Kansas, vice president-elect of the United States. They may—these Miami correspondents— think Mr. Hoover “aloof,” but until they get back here and appreciate the degree of aloofness achieved by the Honorable Curtis, they simply “ain't seen nothin’,” as is so wittily said on the Maryland eastern shore. Because, the fact is, no more aloof person than Senator Curtis now is seen in Washington. He is, for example, twice as aloof as Chief Justice Taft, four times as aloof as General Dawes, whom he soon will succeed; almost as aloof as a congressman’s bride in a new limousine. In a word, he is aloof. And the interesting part of the Curtis aloof ness is that it is all so new—developed, as it were, overnight—and in striking contrast to the Curtis of the pre-election period. There was nothing aloof about Senator Curtis in the old days. Kan sas and Missouri newspaper men used to drop daily into his room and put their feet on the desk. They made a practice of sending for him in the Senate and calling him "Charlie.” He was a great source for new's, a reliable reporter, as plain as the well known old shoe. But those days have gone. Newspaper men from Kansas or anywhere else do not rush in and out of his office any more. They call him “Mr. Vloe President,” not "Charlie,” and they don’t call him off the Senate floor any longer at all, because he does not come when called. And if he did it would do them no good, because as a news source he is now a net loss, completely dried up He has gone aloof. The signs are in his dress, which is much spruced up; in the abandonment of the old slouch hat and the throat shawl he was wont to wear in windy weather, in tlie mov ing of his residence from McComas street to the Mayflower hotel, and various other little ways. The truth is, Senator Curtis is going to take tne vice presiaency very seriously, ana ne nas al ready begun. He is going to dress the part, live the part, aot the part. He expects to sit with the Hoover cabinet. He has had Installed, it Is said, in his handsome 12-room Mayflower suite a private telephone wire to the White House in order that President Hoover can get him quickly any time of the day or night he needs advice. This is going to be a great comfort to Mr. Hoover. Others may forget that the vice presidency Is just one short step from the presidency and that a number of vice presidents have become presidents, but Vice President Curtis will not forget it. This is the secret of his newspaper aloofness. Tire position of vice president of the United States is to him a great and dignified office. The man who fills it should be dignified and decorous in dress and manner. He should regard It seri ously. He should have a higher conception of it than the ribald idea that the chief duty of the vice president is to call at the White House every morning, inquire after the president's health, and upon being told he is very well, leave with a heavy heart. Senator Curtis purposes to live up to the best traditions of his office. No one in Kansas is go ing to be ashamed of him. Ke has come a long, long way, and now he has arrived; now he is vice president and may some day be president (look at Coolidge)—no one is gonig to say he does not know hew to behave. With a great many other men, such a change as has occurred in Senator Curtis would be indica tive of a swelled head- There would be a flavor of unpleasant pride about it. It would seem "high hat.” These things are not true of Senator Curtis. He is at heart the same honest, sound, likable, un pretentious fellow he always has been. But he sincerely thinks—and properly so—that a vice president ought to measure up to his office. He thinks the office necessitates more dog and dig nity than any other except the presidency. He does not intend to fall short In these respects. Therefore, though it is a terrible strain on him, he has gone aloof—and how very aloof he has gene! __ "Boss" Grundy’s Power. From Milwaukee Journal. Joseph R. Grundy, of Pennsylvan ia, wasn’t elected president, not even a senator, last fall. But he is the boy who tells presidents and cabinet members and senators what they are going to do about tariff matters. Even Andrew W. Mellon, the greatest secretary of the treas ury since Carter Glass, says, "Yes, sir,” when Mr. Grundy speaks. For Mr. Grundy is the chap who passes the hat among Pennsylvania manu facturers when the presidential campaign is on—$700,000 for the Coolidge campaign of 1924, it is re vealed, and $547,000 for Hoover. Nobody ever accused Mr. Grundy of falling on his head from a baby carriage. He gets the cash, and he wants value returned. While the general population grows bitter over religion and prohibition and other "issues” of the presidential cam paign, Mr. Grundy passes the hat. And when he wants a special session of congress to give his gang tariffs, although all the big-wigs of the party are against the special ses sion, he tells them where they get off. When the tariffs are written, he’ll sit right in with the senators and tell them what to write, too. What if party leaders do beg him not to insist on the extra tariff ses sion, pleading that it may imperil the republican party in the con gressional elections next year? "To hell with the party elections,” Mr. Grundy is quoted in effect as replying. “That's your business. Mine is to get this tariff.” He collected the money, didn’t he? Then “to hell” with all this guff about the party of principles, and morality, and of grea minds. Mr. Grundy knows his stulf. He doesn t fall for the boloney. He and his pang of Pennsylvania manufactur ers know their way about. They know how government can be used for special privileges to enrich those who invest when the hat is passed. What if the day does come when this game has been played out, gov ernment ruined, and mobs with ropes in their hands shout "To hell with the Grundy”—It won’t be this Joseph R. Grundy, nor any or those who chopped their investments in government in his hat for the presidential campaign of 1923. They should worry about the Oruncy who come after them. Their business is to get theirs now—even though they can’t take one rusty copper with them when the undertaker hangs a wreath on their doors. Injurious Censorship. Prom Boston Globe. Time was when Massachusetts had standing in the world of letters, if that time still is, It is no thanks to a local censorship which has condemned sixty books—many of them being in the rank of first rate literature—within the past two years. It has come to this, that "Banned in Boston” is now an ad vertising slogan commercially prof itable to English and American publishers. There is such a thing as family pride. This city, if any in America, should have It. The cultural soil here is three centuries deep. Is that soil getting a little "run out,?-’ The way to renew its fertility is not by enacting laws against rain and sun shine. This is the city of the Mathers, of the revolutionary orators Adams end Otis, of the abolitionists Gar rison and Phillips, the city where Emerson preached and where he debated just such a question as th’.r with Walt Whitman on a bench r .; the common. This is the Com v. 1 wealth of Thoreau’s "Essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedienc " of Hawthorne's innovatory and viilificd "Scarlet Letter" (now a classic), of James Russell Lowell’s white-hot "Present Crisis,” of Julia Ward Howe's valiant fight for the emanci pation of women. For three centur ies it has been the scene of such struggles as this for the freedom of thought and expression. If any dis tinction dungs to Boston and to Massachusetts, its proudest in this; historv cf political and intellectual liberalism. Is it to be extinguished now? At the state house comes a hear ing on the "Librarians’ bill” to amend the present book censorship. This Judicious and admirable propo sal would go far toward abating the humiliating position in which tire intellectual life of our common wealth finds itself. The present censorship is totally unworthy oj us. Let us end It. We owe this r< spect to our family tradition. -- « ♦ - Fames leap outwards from tire surface of the sun at the rate of 20,000 miles a minute and some times reach a height of 500,000 miles, according to a California scientist. Afraid of “Wolves.” One of the most generous re sponses that has yet been made to Governor Smith’s radio appeal for funds to wipe out the democratic deficit came from a republican— Alden Freeman ol Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Freeman, though he supported Hoover as against Smith in last year’s campaign, sent his check for $1,000. He wired Governor Smith that he was; sending the money because “President Hoover will need a strong democratic party to uphold his hands against the machinations of the Teapot Dome group and their allies, who are act ive in both parties.” It Is probable that a great many ether thoughtful republicans have something of the same feeling, though it may not move them to contribute to the war chest of the opposition party. They, admire their party. They have pride in its record, taking it by and large, and faith in its essential purposes and polices. But they realize that it is subject to tremendous pressure from the pow erful groups that have contributed so notably to make it dominant. And these groups naturally expect— indeed they demand—recognition and recompense. It is only occa sionally that, as the oil scandal, they go outside the letter of the law co obtain it. They are too wise, as a rule, to do that. It is risky, and b* sides, it is unnecessary. There are other and safer ways. Let them write the laws of the ceuntry and they care not who writes Its songs. And they use their influence, use it mercilessly, when it comes to law making; in the writing, for example, of tariff schedules, or of enactments ler corporation control and regula tion, or in blocking measures aim ing in the direction of “socialistic* public enterprise Camouflage Artist. From Life. “What cio you do down at tkt movie palace. Gcorgie?" “My Job la to hide the people who are waiting in line so that they can’t be eeen from tire street Inside “Dope" on Human Brainy Raiea By Science as “Nature's Masterpiece' From the Boston Transcript. Many neurologists, folhwing the load of the late Wil liam James, have stressed our inadequate utilization of the brain and the extent to which its still unused powers might he brought in for both individual and social advancement Latest of all studies on the subject come those directed to the discovery of what the brain actually is, and the deliver ance of Professor C. Econorao of Vienna now heads the list with what may be called a sensation even for the experts. He estimates that an average European, with a brain weigh ing 48 ounces, has within its gray matter or eortex about 14.000,000.000 of the cells known as neurons. And Sir Ar thur Keith, accepting this estimate, tells us that a half penny postage stamp, placet! on the surface of the brain, would cover “an area of the cortex containing a population three times that of greater London,” adding that “the aver age man, were he to share out his cortical neurons, could af ford to givp 70 to every human being now alive and yet have some over.” But that disclosure means something more than figure*, The brain is being compnred to a workshop, an industrial center, even to a great community. A neuron, it is said, may have as many as 100 filaments or wires attached to it, in cluding one long filament with which to make distant con tacts. “Thus the whole of this vast population of neurons,” says Sir Arthur, “each linked to many neighbors, is set up successfully in most human heads and. in point of efficiency, gives an example which modern telephone enterprise might well attempt to follow',” for “if an engineer thinks of an organ wired as is the brain, with messages volleying along each wire at the rate of some 40 to 50 a second, and travel ing at the rate of liOO miles an hour, lie will have some faint conception of the tide of traffic handled by an efficient brain in the course of a morning.” Think of the advance thus made over the time when, a century a?go, the medical men were content to divide the head into a number of areas in the belief that under each of them was located some spe cific faculty of the human mind! Nor do the revelations end there. Sir Arthur applies our new' knowledge in a way to justify his assertion that there is a degree of resemblance between the organization of a human brain and that of a newspaper office. In the latter ease messages from various quarters flow' in and, according to their nature, are “passed to departments devoted to for eign news, polities, commerce, fashion, etc.” Between the time such messages are received and the time they are given over to the printer much staff work has to be done: the news must be examined, formulated and arranged. Of a similar kind also are the activities of the brain, though there is one difference to he noted. In the lowest mammals the brain eortex was “made up almost entirely of the staffs which handled the messages and of those which ran the printing machines.” But, as the brain evolved, those pri mary groups receded until at last, w-hen the mammal reached the status of man, “the editorial staff completely over shadowed the original members of the organization.” And formal! these reasons Sir Arthur feels justified not only i* calling flic brain “nature’s masterpiece,” hut in reading oat the lesson that the brainy man and the brainy newspaper have much in common. Economic Unity for Europe. Prom New York World. The discussion of an economic union of Europe is again appearing in the newspapers, and we shall doubtless hear still more of it in the near future. The statement that “our neighbors are our customers and their prosperity is a condition of our own wee being," which oc curred in the famous manifesto of the bankers and industrials of 1G nations in October. 192G, is certain to gain increasing recognition abroad as the memories of the war grow dimmer. Already European Industrialists are attempting to follow the path marked by this document and by the treaties of Locarno. An agree ment among the steel producers of the Continent dovetailed the Ger man coke Industry in the Ruhr with the French iron industry in Lor raine, thus razing a barrier between industries which nature had linked together. Within the last two years international carte’s have been mul tiplying, and the forging of such in dustrial ties may prove to be the first stace in the crumbling of the high tariff walls which since the war have divided the countries of Europe. There is no doubt that this pro cess will continue. The revision of the Dawes plan, the military evacu ation of the Rhine) » charge of their education until they were 9 or 10 years o'd. Also she was an inspired, housekeeper, con ducting the manag meat of her large home and doing much entte taining. In addition to this, she was supremely active in church work and in missions; and was in fict the ideal helpmeet for her ever busy clergyman husband She had the further handicap of years of ill health. But she per formed her million duties brilliant ly, shirking none of them. That is a fairly large dally Job I think. Yet, "in her spare time” she was able to win fame ss a novelist and household writer, us her the pen name cl “Marlon nor land. ” She was, incidentally, my mother. The list could be stretched out to infinity. It con'd be made to in. elude nearly every succeasfsf writer, for Instance. For almoK all these writers mastered their chosen profession while they were slaving ill day and every day a& other forms of livelihood The? qualified for success and for fame —in their spare time. The man who says, “I’d do 3ueh and-cuch a big thing if only I had time!” would do nothing great if he had aH time on the calendar. There always is time—sp-re time at the ri f.posal of every human who has the energy to use it. Hot Dogs! From Answers. For over half an hour a smai. boy had been persistently whis tling outside the butcher’s shop. Finally, the butcher could stand it no longer. He rushed out Into the street. “Stop making that confounded noise, you little w'jvich! " he shouted. “I’ve lost me dog.” said the boy "Well, do you think I’ve gw. your dog. then?” ”1 dunno,” muttered the boy “But every time T whistle thaw* sausages of yours move.” modeled upon the charters of mer cantile companies of the lbth and ICth centuries. Massachusetts is the only state which retains the consti tution framed at that period, but fc has been revised and amended. A3 the states, however, in their modem constitutions retain many of the principles and much cf the frame work of the older documents. --—+ + ■■ -- Q. What are the birth and death rates in the United States? U. L. S. A. The death rate In the registra tion area of the United State* for 1927 was 11.4 per 1,000 population The barth rate was 20.4.