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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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) <nd and the
eventual re'urn of Russia to the
family of nations will all be condu
cive to the establishment of an in
fra-European low-tariff system.
These may be termed the beckoning
forces from within. There is also
a strong driving force from without.
That force is the present compe'i
tion of the United States. A tariff
d’vided Europe cannot meet the riv
alry of an economically united
America.
The cenipetal forces which are
thus at work overseas may finally
have a profound effect on our own
economic policies. Our recent tar
iff d’snute with France, following
her reciprocity arrangements with
Germany, is a sample of what may
happen on a large scale when Eur
ope develops something like a uni
fied tariff policy. We cannot then
expect the most favored nation
treatment without giving conces
sions in return.
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Use of Sparc Time
Albert Payson Terhune in the
American Magazine
Most of the world’s great men
have achieved their true life work,
not in the course of their needful
daily occupations, but—in their
spare time. Think it over, and you
' will see how true it is.
A tired out rail splitter crouched
over his tattered books, by candle
light, or by fireglow, at the day’s
end; preparing for his future, in
stead of snoring or skylarking like
his co-laborers. Those laborers are
forgotten. Lincoln is not. lie cut
Worse and Worse.
From Passing Show.
Mother: Jessie, how could you tell
auntie that she was stupid? Go and
say you are sorry.
J-fssie: Please. Auntie. I am sor
ry that you are stupid.
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Q. Were the state tonstitutions
modeled after the federal constitu
tion? F. R.
A. The states in existence at the
time of the drafting of the con
stitution of the United States had
constitutions of their own and it
was upon these that the federal
one was patterned. The states de
veloped their documents from co
lonial charters which in turn were
out his path to later immortality
In his spare time.
An overworked and underpaid
telegraph clerk stole hours frotn
sleep or from play, at. night; try in
to crystallize into realities certain
fantastic dreams in which he had
faith. Today the whole world Is
benefittmg by what Edison did—hi
his spare time.
A down-at-neel instructor In an
obscure college varied the drudgerv
he hated by spending bis evenings
and his ho’idays In tinkering on a
queer device of his. it which h'«
feliew teachers lsughed. 1 don’t re
call the names of any of those
teachers. Neither do you. But we
have not forgotten who Invented
the telephone—in his spere time.
Then there was a case which
came under my own close observa
tion and which is not mere history
nor hearsay: the case of a worn*
—a clergyman’s wife—who ta.rklru
the following none too easy Job:
She had six children: and not
only brought them up. but took «**?>»
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.
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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.
