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Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:1. Catch ’Em Young ii a GRAIN of rice satisfies trouble in its infancy. A junk-load r\ will not fill its maw after it is grown.” ‘This is the gist of a bit of Chinese philosophy, hoary a thousand years before the flood. It is just another way of saying: Catch your troubles while they are young and they will never grow up to get the better of you. We Western peoples like to think ourselves very superior, but we are still vainly trying to learn that ancient lesson. • * • • The life of the Nation is now half strangled with tieups and strikes, every one of which was avoidable. Months ago we plainly saw the beginning of the present grave industrial upheaval. Yet we dilly-dallied and shilly-shallied, procrastinated and

6aid: “Oh, there’s plenty of time! "Wait until there’s a strike. Then we’ll do something.” A bit of real authority as large as a grain of rice then would have set in motion machinery which very probably would have settled the whole thing. Now entire junk loads are going for naught. The time is coming, and coming fast, when the strike—and we include the strike of capital against labor quite as much as that of labor against capital—will be no more. It will be-as passe as the dodo, the ornithorhynchidae and the flying hippo. "Workers do not want to strike. They want to work. They want their families to have at least a speaking acquaintance with Jfee dining room. "When they strike that’s what they are striking for. A growing percentage of industrial moguls likewise do not want strikes. A light is beginning to dawn on them. Strikes do not pay in the end. The cost may be —and usually is—shifted by them to the backs of the patient public, but there are other considerations. Dissatisfied workers are poor workers. The best workers are those well pleased with their jobs. Then, too, a big strike, even when confined to one industry, reacts on all industry. It gives business generally a set-back. So, intelligent business men everywhere are, more and more, coming to regard the strike as avoidable economic waste. How strikes are to be avoided we do not pretend to know. Right now nobody seems to know, but they are avoidable. And folk are thinking. Labor is thinking. Capital is thinking. Statesmen are thinking. And, best sign of all, the public is thinking. Out of all this something constructive will come. Opinion demands that we settle our fights before they begin instead of striving to patch up a mere truce after a lot of folk get hurt. Women Outlive Men Anyhow TIMES are changing; the old days are gone forever. The Psalmist wrote: “The days of our years are three score years and ten, and if by reason of strength, they be four score years David, however, did not foresee automobiles, dances, cabarets, bootleg, and other accessories of modern jazz life, and Mr. Average Man and his wife no longer live from seventy to eighty years. Instead the Census Bureau finds that life tables for the States indicate an average of 53.98 years for white males and 56.33 years for white females. Negroes do not live so long, the average for men being 40.14 years and for woipen 42 16 years. But conditions are improving. The 1910 life tables averaged only 50.23 years for white men, 53.62 years for white women, 34.05 years for negro men and 37.67 years for negro women. If this ratio continues, and men and women continue to watch their step, the census for 1940 may show that our years again approach three score and ten.

THE REFEREE By ALBERT APPLE. EMBALMED Movies, showing the white-haired ex-Kaiser sawing wood, are exhibited In the ballroom of a New York hotel. It la a private showing, but peopie with more money than brains can get In for $lO a head. The film, however, will \ ' E'er k* historically Important \ ■ as centuries slip by. Movles of Napoleon, at the * height of his power or APPLE in captivity, would be invaluable now. The ancient Egyptians made mummies. We moderns embalm our celebrities in the celluloid movie film. It la more lasting, projects a reflection of lives—virtually forever. CENSORS A campaign is started to censor the manuscripts of writers who skate on thin sex-ice. John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, makes the announcement. Some publishers . ere said to have agreed, and it looks like business. The censorship is badly needed. But I the root of the evil will not be reached until a way is devised to censor the j ''motional appetites of fiction readers, j

They support the traffic. Like prohibition—the real problem is the drinker, not the drink. DYING Sir Rider Haggard, author of "She,” suggests that our civilization may be j crumbling to its downfall. He is not | the only one. Haggard draws attention to the Orient’s enormous human reproductive powers, also its simple form of living that makes for national virility. Is the Yellow Man’s day booked to return? Japanese think so. They use j a rising sun for their flag. BOOKS FOR MOVIE FANS Indianapolis Public Library Circulation Department, St. Clair Square. (Free Book Service) "Breaking Into the Movies,” by John Emerson and Anita Loos. "Cinema Craftmanship,” by F. T. Patterson. "Animated Cartoons,” by E. G. Lutz. “Writing the Photoplay," by J. B. Esenwein and Arthur Leeds. "Film Folk." by F.ob Wagner. Boxes Intriguing boxes for holding cos- j metics come in white china with a very natural sort of a rose in pink [China making the lid.

MAJOR DISPUTES ADD DISCONTENT TD UNION LABOR Total Figures Tor Voluntary Unemployment Nearing 2,000,000 Mark. FUTURE PROBLEM SERIOUS Readjustment Means Strikers May Sacrifice Priority at Later Date. Bu ROBERT J. BERDER United Sews Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Only a prompt seitlement of the rail and mine strikes would appear likely to prevent the nation from establ.shing new records for the number of men on strike. The rumbling of discontent among union men throughout the country, together with the fact that several strike votes in various big labor organizations are now out, support this anxiety of officials here. Excluding the mine and railroad shopcrafts strikes, which have taken more than a million men from their jobs, from 70,000 to 80,000 textile workers are on strike in New Englind; from 10,000 to 20,000 garment workers are on strike in New York; and thousands of other workers are out on minor Btrikes throughout the country. Two Million Out. This brings the number of men voluntarily unemployed close to the 2,000,000 mark —about one-half the total involuntarily unemployed in 1921. The Pacific coast is beset with a ship repairmen's strike. Building trades strikes are frequent, especially In Chicago and other large cities. In fact the number of minor strikes has grown so great in recent weeks that the Labor Department’s division of conciliation under D.rector Hugh L. Kerwin has been unable to cope with them all in an effort to bring about an amicable adjustment between the contending parties. Excluding the mine and rad strikes with which the Adm.nistration :s dealing at first hand, the textile str.ke looms greatest in importance from the nat.onal point of view. So far it has not spread 6o the South, consequently the cotton m ils there are running at top capacity and earning big profits. Protest Strike Possible Officials view with concern the re ported resolutions of Central Labor councils and local unions favoring a | nation-wide protest strike. Added to what now seems to be inevitable liardsh.p as a result of the impend.ng fuel shortage, a tremend- ! cus increase in unemployment may be expected, officials believe. Many of the men now on strike, once major controversies settled, will be Jobless because strikebreakers will have filled their places, it was said. MineI worker leaders predict otherwise, but ; admit the Industry could easily drop 20,000 men from the pay rolls after the strike is settled. How many strikebreakers have been employed by the rail executives has not been deflntely established here, but the number is believed reasonably large. A corresponding number of strikers would probably bo jobless when the contest was over Official Washington is anticipating a long reconstruct.on period throughout the Nation as a __result of the crisis. BACTERIA By DR. k. U HISIIOP. ■■■——■ ~ ... SK the average peri son what a germ fl Is. If he attempts _ . jril to answer at all he jfl\ probably will say Ks M 1 it's a little animal W a 1 that will make you U 1 sick if ho gets into b M J| your system. Germs are not I little animals. jP • They ate tiny AL Jfc plants, the smallest living things known. They are sometimes called bacteria or microbes. You m ght have some idea of the size of a germ if you could take a grain of sand and split it into a million pieces. Os course, some germs are larger than others, but'the largest cannot be seen without the aid of a powerful microscope. Millions of germs can exist in a drop of water without even crowding. Germs do not live in out of the way places. Except in the polar regions, in the middle of the ocean, and on the tops of high mountains, they are present everywhere. They are on our bodies, our clothing, in our food—everything we see or touch. The reason we are not sick all the t me or most of the time is that comparatively few of these germs cause disease; also because most of us are strong enough to resist the few that get into our bodies. Bacteria multiply by simply breaking apart. Soom the two parts are full-sized germs and each Itself separates, so that it Is easy to see how quickly millions of germs can bo produced. Cold stops their growth, but they begin to grow again when they become warm. Boiling kills them. Doctors and nurses boll their instruments and dressings to kill the germs, and do not handle them until ready for use. One of the chief reasons why food is boiled before canning is to kill the bactena. Then It is put into airtight cans, so that no more germs can reach it. THE DAILY GRIND Bit BERTOR BRALEY. | \HI often times a daily bard l# Will find his stint is pretty hard. And. lacking for a clever thought To pen some verses light about. He'll write the fact that he has naught To write about. 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Future of Central Europe Hangs on U. S., Says Redlich, Former Austrian Minister

By E. M. THIERRY, WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 9. —America's tariff policy is the biggest thing troubling Germany and Austria, says Dr. Josef Redlich, leading Vienna jurist, and former Austrian minister of finance. Redlich, one of the lecturers at the Institute of Politics in sess.on here this month, made this the most vital factor of world affairs when he gave these forecasts: World economic peace cannot come without American financial relief to the defeated powers in the shape of loans and credits. Financial relief from America la prohibitive under the tariff policy now under discussion in Congress. Nevertheless, Germany and Austria will remain republics. Hungary will eventually become a monarchy. Attempts to create a Rhineland republic and a union of Bavaria and Austria will fail. “It is difficult.” says Redlich, “to prophesy the future of central Europe, where everything is so unsettled. But it requires no prophet to say that the entire international structure depends on America. “We all know we must have financial support from America—chiefly credits for raw materials —if we in Germany and Austria are to survive. RESPONSIBILITY Blame Should Not Be Thrust On the Dead. To the Editor of The Times Now that wreckage and debris have been cleared away In the Sulphur Springs, Mo., wreck, and blame has been placed on the dead engineer, another public question has been •‘solved.” Fortunately, every serious accident includes in its list of dead at least one on whom the responsibility may be fixed. At expense of the dead, responsible or otherwise, are placed blames which, sometimes rightfully, belong to the living. In my mind there is a question of whether anything can exceed the injustice of blasting the memory of one who is dead. The living suffer and die; the dead suffer not, but those whom the dead leave behind measure their feeling by the stamp the public places on the dead. Os all times that caution should be exercised, this instance is an example. It may be correct, even though a hasty conclusion. HARRISON KNOWLES. To the Editor of The Times Advertising is going to prove the boomerang of all times if some of the underlying principles are not changed, or abided by more closely. In earlier | days of the profession’ downright appeals to human instinct were common, and there was a pleasing tone in every j line. The public may be tremendously stupid, but the advertisers are Just as ; stupid and have contributed to the ; effect in no mean way. Tell me. any- | body, what there :s appealing In the | question of whether you hare had i your iron today? It is fallacious to ; suppose that the average man Is going to be swung bodily by any interrogation as this, is it not? What is it in a sign to herald the assertion that certain cigarettes satis- ; fy, when In reality they stupefy? Who in kingdom come cares a rap about wrestling with big problems with a chew of tobacco wallowed about In his Jaw? The big drop in advertising came when supposition grew that the public could be won over by such sophistry as this. The persuasiveness of advertising would be enhanced a thousandfold if superaltives were eliminated. CASUAL READER.

Viennese Scientist Evolves Process of Duct Constriction to Restore Youth

By RALPH TURSERR United Sews Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Aug. 9. —A comparative ly simple gland operation, whereby men in the last stages of senility may have their youth restored to full ’ bloom, has been In* ' vented by the fftjfU mous Viennese surgeon. Dr. Stelnach, ttie Sunday Ex ' press announces. Wmms Unlike the other mSm t arm,us gkfnd graftUp|:h| , lng operation dofSffijPsjjLi v vised by the Austr,an surgical wlz--3 ard this one does not involve the inr.A. rfr* eertion of glands from other persons W or animals. If. ■h Jura*. . consists simply In L— —J tying the duot of TURNER a certain gland, resulting the retention of the life-giv-ing properties. Old men of eighty can thus be brought back to the vigor of forty years, not only once but twice, it is said, thus giving a virile life span of 160 years.

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DR. JOSEF REDLICH.

"And the future is very gloomy—first, because no reasonable man over there expects America to give financial help until political conditions are settled; and second and most impor-

Hermit Millionaire Plans for Disposal of Vast Heritage in Social Betterment

By REA Service NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—How is Charles Garland's $815,000 going to be spent “for the benefit of mankind-” The hermit millionaire who startled the world by declining to accept sl.000,000 left him by his grandfather and then took it and handed over the bulk of It to the American Fund for Public Service, doesn't know how it is going to be spent and doesn't want to know. But the questfon has been on'ered by Rober N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, who has been named secretary of the newly organized American Fund for Public Service. “The fund is modeled after the Community Trust plan.” says Baldwin, “as a method for systematic distribution of funds now given by numerous persons to experimental enterprises. “A board of twelve men will investigate and determine the best uses for the Garland money and other contributions in prospect. About $50,000 a year will probably be available in Interest alone, but after six months survey the principal of the Garland and other donations may be used. Thus the foundation funds will be conserved for from ton to fifteen ysars. Not Giant Trust Fund “Instead of building up big endowments we want the morfey to do the greatest possible good in the lifetime of the donors and administrators. We don’t want to form a 'trust' or a powerful piece of machinery that oould dictate the direction of giving to new causes. . “We are going to gamble in human nature, lending money as well as making outright gifts. There will be no loans or gifts to individuals as individuals, but to experiments in new movements and ideas. "For example, funds probably will be available for cooperative movements which seek to cut out middlemen's profits; for labor colleges and workers' schools; perhaps for the aid of tenant farmer movements, and for periodicals which are trying to spread new ideas of education and economic value to mankind generally."

Announcement of Dr. Steinach’a new operation have aroused amazement and eager curiosity here. The Express declares it investigated the reports with great care, “taking tjie testimony of scientific men of unquestioned competence." This simp!®, duct-tying operation can be performed on men in a few

WHARTON PUTS NEW LIGHT ON ISSUE OF SENIORITY

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. O.—A new angle was thrown into the seniority fight, which has proved the stumbling block to rail peace, by a statement from A. O. Wharton, labor member of the railroad labor board today. Wharton declared that the refusal of the railroads to return to the striking shopmen their full seniority righto may result in forever barring from employment in railroads approximately one-fourth of the men because they have passed the age limit up to which carriers will employ new men.

tant, because there cannot possibly be financial help under America’s taiiff policy. "Our wish is for cooperation, not charity. Under existing conditions, no one can say what will happen economically In Europe.” ‘ Dr. Redlich said he thought there was little prospect of the Rhineland republic scheme, just presented to Premier Poincare by the French Parliament, being worked out. "It is the same old dream,” he said. "France wants a separate Rhineland republic and also a union perhaps between Bavaria and Austria. But I do not believe either will be effected. Austrian peasants long wanted a union with Germany, chiefly because the German mark was so much better than the Austrian crown. But now that the mark has fallen so low they are cold to the idea. "I believe both Germany and Austria will continue as separate republics, although In Germany the monarchist feeling is very strong. “The German republic will endure, based on the organized working classes as opposed to the nobility, the upper middle classes and the professional classes. The way is not smooth and there will be fights, but there will be no overturning.

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ROGER N. BALDWIN AND (BELOW) CHARLES GARLAND.

Baldwin emphasized that the survey committee now at work is not influenced by applications for funds, but is investigating all movements impartially. Garland Explains "All of the money except the bare cost of bookkeeping will go to public service. No official will draw a salary and the cost of the adminlstra-

minutes with the aid of a local anesthetic. Within two hours the patient is able to resume his normal pursuits. Dr. Stelnach has evolved a modified form of this operation for women, but it is more complicated, necessitating the grafting of a fresh gland from a younger woman. His conclusions are based on experiments with rats in which senile

Without their seniority rights the men would have to apply for positions as new men. “The age limit on most roads Is forty-five,” Wharton said. “On one road at least —the Pennsylvania—the limit is thirty-five. “I have no accurate figures on hand but, I estimate the ‘over age’ men on strike as between twenty-five and thirty per cent.” Vacuum sweepers, driven by motors, are suggested for cleaning the streets of New York.

“Hungary eventually will become a monarchy. Opinion is practically unanimous for it. The problem to be settled is who shall be king. “The legitimists want Charles’ eldest son, some want AdnJiral Horthy and others want someone of the Hapsburg princes.” Dr. Redlich's iecture course at the Institute of Politics is a historic survey of "Nationalism, imperialism and internationalism in Europe.” LEARN A WORD TODAY Today’s word is—NAIVE. It’s pronounced—nah-eev, and in the original French, from which language it was borrowed, should be without accent, though in English the second syllable is emphasized. It means—unaffectedly simple, unsophisticated, artless. It comes from —French, “naive” or “naif,” whence, in turn, it is from Latin, “nativus,” meaning “innate, natural, native.” It's used like this—" Experienced noliticians express considerable amusement at the seeming naive belief of the interests which hope to profit from a high protective tariff that their motives are wholly altruistic, while all who oppose them are selfishly actuated.”

tlon probably will be only a fraction of 1 per cent.” Garland, in giving away his money, said: “It is to be U3ed to the benefit of mankind —to the benefit of poor as much as rich, of black as much as white, of foreigners as citizens, of so-called criminals as much as the uncondemned. ” Which Baldwin explains, particularly the latter, by saying; “In giving money we will not be bound by convention in the prejudging of men or movements. “Results may not be tangible as measured by dollars and cents, but the public will get its money’s worth in the development of ideas that are certain by the law of percentages to be valuable to mankind in a fair proportion of cases.” UNUSUAL FOLK By REA Service OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 9. —First thing every morning, Mrs. W. E. Bolin makes a Juicy, tempting pie. Later she visits Democratic party headquarters, where, around campaign time, she Is kept very busy, be• lng vice chairman gnlVl committee and the % county's mdfn- 1 committee, as well. I Often there is a v , ***' meeting also of the 3E\ hS women's county Jjjjgv organization. of which site’s chair- ;k • She is on the ( v ' il county Red Cross , ——jl chapter's executive MRS. BOLIN committee and this takes soma of her time. She manages the social hygiene board at the city hall and must spend part of the day there. “Women are needed in politics,” she says, “but home comes first.” But is It possible for a woman to succeed in politics and to be a good homekeeper, too? “I’ll say it is.” remarks W. E. Bolin, as he eats his pie.

animals gained anew lease of life, attained anew growth of hair, and propagated normally. Experiments were performed as often as three times on the same rat. From the time of the operation. Dr. Stelnach says, the patient visibly grows backward, his white hair resuming its natural color and the wrinkles disappearing from the face, which regains youthful color once more.

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AUG. 9. 1922

COAL OPERATORS ‘GOUGE’ PUBLIC, . ORGAN DEVEALS

Non-Union Set Scraps Hoover Maximum and Raises Price to $6.73 a Ton. CHANGE MEANS MILLIONS Extortion Shown to Average Beyond $30,000,000 Each Fortnight. By C. C. L.YOR Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.—Non-union coal operators, taking advantage of the Nation-wide coal famine, gouged the coal-buying public to the tune of $18,057,000 during- the seventeenth week of the strike. During the sixteenth week their gouge amounted to $12,839,000. Total gouge for the two weeks, $30,896,00. Not content wiih this latter extortion they increased the price of spot coal at their mines $1.16 a ton during the seventeenth week, thereby boosting their own profits $5,218,000. They themselves furnish the proof. Their own official figures published in Coal Age, coal trade organ, state the “average spot price” for coal at the mines for the week ending July 31 was $6.73. The "average spot price” for the week ending July 24 was $5.57. The operators produced 8,700,000 tons during the week ending July 24 and 3,900,000 tons during the week ending July 31. The “gouge” represents ell over and above the average spot price they were receiving in March before the coal strike began. Boost Mine Prices They were selling their coal for $2.10 a ton at their mines in March and making a profit on it —glad to get that price in competition with the union coal that was being produced. They Jumped their price to $3.50 when the Hoover conference on May 30 set $3.50 as the “maximum price” they could charge at their mines. They scrapped the Hoover agreement the minute the coal buyers began bidding beyond that for coal. Their extortion of $4.63 for every ton they produced during the seventeenth week of the strike —$4.63 representing the difference between $2.10 and $6.73 —came at the very time President Harding's new coal distribution commission was organizing its machinery to stop profiteering by refusing coal cars to those operators who charged “unfair prices." Authorities Disagree Coal operators like the idea of the Government making an equitable distribution of coal cars, but they don’t like the idea of the Government trying to fix a price of IZ.iO for coal at the mines. Says Coal Age in its issue of Aug. 3 on this point: “Practically every mao who expresses an opinion about it says that no doubt the Hoover plan of regulating distribution is all right and should work well, but when that same method is used to restrict the price to $3.50 a ton they think a transgression of the law will have been made.” Coal Age’s report on coal production under State and Federal military protection doesn't agree with the statements of some operators that idle miners are flocking back to their mines. “Efforts of operators in union fields to get their mines in operation have been practically fruitless,” says Coal Age. “In the Pittsburgh district, where most was expected and where military protection has been provided almost no coal has yet been loaded out. In Ohio no attempt has been made to operate any except the strip mines which were in operation in the early part of the summer. Illinois and Indiana operators have made no attempt to resume production.”

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You remember that a woman always retains her hat when dining in public in the daytime at a restaurant, tearoom or hotel. In the evening you may wear costumes with hats or appear in evening costumes, when hats are unnecessary. Gloves and wraps are always removed in both cases.