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No Utility Merger When the public service commission refused, quite properly, to permit the Insull interests to bring into a merged company a large number of electric and street railway and bus companies, receivers were asked by creditors of the two largest transportation units involved. Creditors insist that the local street car company and the lnterurban line to Terre Haute are bankrupt. Whether receivers will be more successful in the operation of utilities than officials of the companies is a matter of the future. The one certain factor is that the public which patronizes these utilities will be called upon to pay the bills. Public utilities are just what the term implies. They are a part of the community life. They deal lr, necessities. They must be maintained. From time to time the character of service and public dojnand changes. How long street car transportation will be necessary is a question. The automobile has cut deeply into what was once a most profitable business. Perhaps the present difficulties come from the fact that the business was once too profitable for the owners and permitted of extravagant financial structures which became unstable when patronage left on the seats of flivvers. Public interest -demands the most economical administration of all utilities and protection against unfair arid extortionate profits. The theory of regulation implies this. Apparently it is more necessary now than ever before. The time may come when the public will demand'that all utilities be merged as a matter.of economy and self-defense. The Minor Offices Let it be hoped that all citizens will not permit themselves to become much interested in the more spectacular offices hat they neglect positions that are listed as minor offices. One of the most important offices In this city is that of Center township trustee. It is an office that has outlived its usefulness but it exists. It is a throw back to primitive days. There should be no necessity tor s-ieh an office within a city that has a highly organized government. Yet this office collects and spends about one hundred thousand dollars each year of the people’s money. It distributes charities. It buys vast quantities of coal and groceries. The office has power politically greater than that of most county offices. Candidates for the nomination for this office should be most carefully scrutinized. Business and Ballyhoo After all the Washington ballyhoo about business conditions improving since “the turn of the corner" last December, the latest official figures of labor department are apt to appear more hopeless than they really are. Those incomplete figures show that manufacturing employment conditions were worse in March than at any other time since the depression began. They show virtually a steady decline since last September. Using the 1926 average as 100, the index fell as follows: September, 99.3; October, 98.3; November. 94.8; December, 91.9; January, 90.2; February, 90.3; March 89.3. Last month's low figure of 89.3 compares with 98.6 In March, 1929, and 110.8 in March, 1923. The test of intelligence is not immunity from mistakes, but the ability to learn from experience. These recent m nths and the new low employment figures should teacn us that honesty is the best policy in handling a business depression. The nation has paid a heavy price for the luxury of whistling to keep up its courage instead of facing the facts. Those fact* have not been so bad as our silly attitude toward them. The facts are that the nation only is not industrially sound, but is far superior to any others in all the basic factors of prosperity, such as agricultural and mineral resources, labor productivity, industrial equipment, home market and credit supply. But the accompanying fact—which is on more immediate importance—is that our industrial system is so terribly mismanaged that we periodically allow tbs natural prosperity to turn into a suicidal cycle of fat and lean years. Leaving aside all ethical indictments and the injustice to those millions who periodically are thrown out of work, and putting it on a cold business basis, what can be said for the efficiency of such system? The sheer waste and destruction of potential wealth caused by these cycles of unemployment should make every business man and politician in the country sit up nights. Here, then, is a tremendous problem—the biggest of all poblems—in ’.ndustial and social engineering. Like any other engineering problem it can not be solved by quackery and it can not be solved over night- * But individual cities, like Cincinnati, and individual industries, like the men's clothing industry, are making an intelligent beginning in stabilizing employment. Doubtless most of the solution must come from inside industry itself, through.some fundamental reorganization spreading production with consumption and making adequately paid labor the first fixed charge upon capital. To the extent that industry fails to solve its own problem, the government in the end will have to tax industry to provide—through unemployment insurance and otherwise—the living which is the right of citizens dented the right to work. Meanwhile, there is an immediate job which only the government C3n do. and in* which it is failing utterly. Ours Is the only major government in the world which fails to provide a system of complete employment statistics, without which the many-sided problem of seasonal-scctlonal-technological unemployment can not even be understood, much less solved. The Hoover administration can at once pass the long-pending bills for federal statistics, for federal employment exchanges, for federal construction projects through a stagger system. It can make available quickly the special employment statistics now being gathered in the census. It can defeat the high tariff bill, which would burden our consumers and kill much of the export trade upon which industrial revival largely depends. Business prosperity Is ours for the making. But ballyhoo will not make It. We must have intelligent planning and hard work by both business and PQ^S^allcaders.

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Gag Rule Attempts to bring the naturalization laws and regulations into line with the spirit of the Constitution are being blocked by the house immigration committee. The committee refuses a hearing on the Griffith bill. That measure provides that persons otherwise eligible shall not be barred from citizenship because they oppose war for philosophical or religious reasons. Though the present law does not include a pledge to bear arms in the citizenship oath, the department of labor by usurpation has written such provision into the naturalization regulations and has found courts to uphold it in the Macintosh and other exclusion cases. Unless the law Is clarified by congress, we shall continue to live under the privately made law of the labor department and court-made law, both of which are repugnant to the American system of government. Under such circumstances, the apparent determination of Chairman Johnson of the immigration committee to prevent hearings on the Griffith bill is open to rather serious interpretation. Under pressure, a date for a hearing was fixed last month and postponed—indefinitely—because of the Taft funeral. Since then Representative Griffith and church and liberal organizations have appealed in vain for a chance to be heard. Why this refusal? Some of the friends of the bill say the only explanation is the prejudice of certain committee members. Whether the explanation is accurate or not, there can be no legitimate excuse for further delay of these important hearings. Revelation or Confirmation? Great Britain planned in 1913 to violate the neutrality of Belgium. So runs a lead announcing the appearance of the biography of Sir Arthur Nicolson, first under-secretary of state in 1914. This is characterized by the press as “an amazing feature’’ of pre-war diplomacy and “one of the most startling chapters” in any post-war memoirs. Nicolson wrote to Lord Bertie, the British ambassador in Paris: “We and France even might move troops across the Belgian frontier to meet the approach of German troops from the other side.” This may be an “amazing” and “startling” revelation to those who have persisted in believing in the war-time fairy-tales. It will prove nothing new to the initiated. From 1906 to 1914 Great Britain was carrying on underground dickerlngs with Belgium. She desired to win consent of the latter to the landing of British troops in Belgium in event of a war with Germany. General Wilson and other British officers rode over Belgium repeatedly to lay out the plan of war in Belgian territory. Nor were the French without their plans for meeting Germany on Belgian soil. French spies and army officers continually were operating in Belgium. The Belgian king complained of this shortly before the war. Early in 1914 he expressed himself as more fearful of a French invasion than of a German. The French plans for advance through Belgium were drawn up definitely. They were abandoned only because of the bad effect which it was feared such action might have on the British populace. All this has since long been known to historians. The “rape of Belgium” by Germany was a lucky b. sak for the British. It was a most timely aid to Sir Edward Grey in swinging British public opinion to his side in a conflict which already had been decided on the basis of British interests. We are glad to have such authoritative confirmation from so distinguished a source as the late Sir Arthur Nicolson. These facts can no longer be charged to pro-German malice and misrepresentation. A New York paper runs a column under the caption of “Rod and Gun.” Chicago papers may soon copy.

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THE slaughter of wild horses in the west, due to the inroads of the automobile, brings a pang to the heart, and seems base ingratitude after this noble animal has pulled mankind from barbarism into civilization. No matter how many cars a family may have, we pity the kid who is raised without the companionship of the old family horse. jr mm The story of the slaughter of these animals brings to mind the days when herds of wild ones used to be brought ro town for sale. To stimulate interest they used to offer a quarter to the boy who would stay on one of them for a minute and one day our finances were running unusually low’, we tried it and came very close to getting the quarter; we lacked only fifty-nine seconds. ma SPEAKING of being raised with a horse, we recall one cf the tricks of the old fellow we used to associate with. Whenever you went to saddle him he would blow himself up like Mussolini and you had to pull with all your might to buckle the belly band, then when you got on him he would shrink to his natural size and the saddle would slip. A foxy boy, that old family horse! a a Out on the granite front of the Black Hills, Gutzon Borgluni. the sculptor, is carving a rixty-foot head of George Washington, which is proper since the Father of his Country was long-headed in his lifetime. He was the first to see and think as a nationalist; in the Mississippi river he saw the Creator s sign that this should be one country: in the weakness of our government he saw the necessity of the Constitution, and in the scheming of France and England he saw the need of keeping forever free from European entanglements. a a BESIDE the head of Washington, Borglum will chisel the heads of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, a most appropriate company. It was Jefferson who by his Louisiana purchase turned the face of Uncle Sam toward the ultimate conauest of every acre between the then small country and the Pacific ocean. a a a It was Lincoln’s masterful sagacity, patience, and determination which kept the land of Washington and Jefferson from being blasted by the passion of sectional jealousy and provincial hatred into a score of petty states, for had secession triumphed in ’6l the inevitable end would have been wholesale disintegration. a a a And Roosevelt deserves perpetuation out there because it was that western region which made him the great-hearted American the world later knew. He loved that country and its people and he rather would have his memorial there than anywhere else on earth.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Period From 1900 to 1930 Held the Most Remarkable in Civilization of World. npHE thirty years from 1900 to 1930 constitute the most remarkable period in the history of civilization, according to Dr, Robert A. Millikan, world-famous American physicist and president of the American Association for the advancement of Science. “With full recognition of the tendency of each generation to consider itself important and its contributions to progress unique.” he says, “I feel altogether confident that the historian of the future will estimate the last thirty years as the most extraordinary in the history of the world up to the present in the number and the fundamental character of the discoveries in physics to which it has given birth, and in the changes brought about by these discoveries in man’s conception as to the nature of the physical world in which he lives. “There has been no period at all comparable with it unless it be the period about 300 years ago, which saw the development of Galilean and Newtonian mechanics. “This was indeed of incalculable importance for the destinies of the race. The conceptions then introduced are not only the basis of modem material civilization, but they were the cause of a very complete change in man’s whole intellectual and spiritual outlook—in his philosophy, his religion, and his morals. n tt tt Machines “TTiUT the discoveries in physics of the last thirty years.” Dr. Millikan continues, “justify the expectation at least, of as great if not greater consequences, though of a somewhat different sort, consequences, too, which already are beginning to be realized.” Dr. Millikan has called attention to a number of important facts which we sometimes forget. When Galileo stated his laws of motion, laws which later were amplified by Newton and restated as the so-called Newtonian laws of motion, the beginning of modern engineering was made. There is not a machine in the world—a steam engine, an electric motor, an automobile, to name only a few—that could have been built without an understanding of Galileo’s discoveries. But Galileo and Newton, as Dr. Millikan suggests, did more than merely lay the foundations for the machine age. They also made profound changes in our philosophy. tt tt tt Discoveries DR. MILLIKAN lists the important discoveries in physics which have been made since 1900. These include the discovery of X-rays, the discovery of radium, the discovery of the electron, the development of the quantum theory and the development of the Einstein theories with their collateral implications. Until the discovery of the electron, it was supposed that the atom was the smallest particle of matter in existence. With the discovery of the electron it became known that the atom Itself is composed of these smaller particles. The quantum theory is almost as much a puzzle as the Einstein theory for the layman. It states that light and other forms of radiant energy do not exist as waves, but as little particles or bullets. Dr. Millikan points out that not only have these important discoveries eenb made, but in addition many important opinions held about the nature of the universe have been overthrown or modified. A cardinal principle of nineteenth century physics was the so-called law of the conservation of matter. This held that matter could only change its form. Matter, it held, could not be destroyed. It was impossible to add to or subtract from the total amount of matter in the universe. But today physicists believe that matter is convertible into energy and that such a tiling is actually taking place in the stars. It is such changes in our point of view about the universe which Dr. Millikan believes will modify our philosophy In the years to come.

FIRST CIVIL WAR CASUALTY April 19 ON April 19, 1861, the first casualty of the Civil war occurred at Baltimore, when Private L. C. Ladd of Boston was killed by a shot fired from a mob. Ladd was a member of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment, first to respond to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers. The news that the regiment would pass through Baltimore on its way to Washington aroused great indignation in the former city, where there was a strong feeling for secession. When the regiment arrived at Baltimore, seven companies were driven rapidly through the city from the Philadelphia to the Washington railroad terminals, but in the meantime an angry mob tore up the railroad and determined to prevent the rest of the regiment from passing. Before the four remaining companies started for the station, a mob threatened that, if an attempt were made to march through the streets, every marcher would be killed. The soldiers stepped forward. A volley of clubs and stones greeted them and then pistol shots. Li. and fell dead. At this point the captain gave the order to fire and a number of the mob fell. The soldiers joined their companions and left for Washington.

First the Rocket —Then the Stick!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE St. Vitus 9 Dance Has History

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journo! of the American Medical Association and of Hrcela, the Health Magazine. THE ancient history of St. Vitus’ dance is evident from its name. Thus it was associated early with what was supposed to be an affliction brought about by some higher power. This was considered by the ancients the case of most unusual disturbances. In St. Vitus’ dance the person, usually a child, has irregular involuntary contractions of the muscles and sometimes disturbances of the mind as well. It is the conviction of most physicians that St. Vitus’ dance, or chorea, as it is called scientifically, is associated with an infection of the body by a form of streptococcus. Most cases occur in children between 5 and 15 years of age and not infrequently these children suffer also with infection of the heart and with rheumatic infections, which are also related to the streptococcal infection.

IT SEEMS TO ME By H BROUN

WILLIAM R. HEARST’S newspapers are against “entangling alliances” and they quote with satisfaction from words uttered by Thomas Jefferson (“fully twenty years after we became a republic.” That still is a long time ago. Jefferson said: “I can scarcely withhold myself from joining in the wish of Silas Deane that there were an ocean of fire between us and the old world.” But Jefferson more than 100 years ago was not quite persuaded that such condition actually would promote the welfare of his country. Given the vastly changed conditions of a century's progress and he easily could have refrained from joining in a wish so callous and so silly. We do the great founders of this, nation a grave injustice in assuming that they would have been unable to keep pace with the march of the times. Jefferson spoke with a wisdom which in many cases transcended the best available knowledge of his day and age. He was capable of vision as well as acute observation. But that does not mean at all that rules which were laid down even by an inspired statesman at the beginning of the nineteenth century inevitably must hold good in 1930. tt a a World Does Move “T TE still is the ‘sage of MontiJljL cello,’ ” says Hearst’s American sententiously. And the answer to that is, “what if he is?” Suppose your radio suddenly went out of gear. Would you call on Thomas Jefferson to fix it? You would not. He wouldn’t know anything about it. His opinion concerning the League of Nations and the world court would be equally out of line with the present conditions. Give Jefferson five years back on earth and I’d be for him for secretary of state against all comers. Indeed, with five years and two days of rehabilitation back into life I would not be surprised to find him a more capable President than Herbert Clark Hoover. But no man —not Washington, or Jefferson or even Lincoln—should be allowed to throttle living aspirations with a dead hand. Washington’s famous farewell address has been a harmful document in present day American politics. a More Speed Now WE were advised by these pioneer Americans against playing ball with countries too big, too reactionary and too tricky. And it is only fair to add that Washington distinctly would have been startled to hear of ocean crossings made by huge steamers in four or five days’ time. If anybody had told Jefferson of dirigibles and airplanes, of Lindbergh and Zeppelins, he quite naturally would have been incredulous. Inevitably aviation will wipe out

High-strung, excitable, nervous children seem more likely to become affected than those of calmer characteristics. The attack sometimes comes on insidiously. At first the child may be considered as unusually nervous, but later will have difficulty in feeding itself or in buttoning on its clothes and then the twitching movements commence. In very severe forms, the child may be unable to walk, to speak intelligibly, or even to sit up in bed. Mental disturbances not infrequently accompany the attack. Sometimes the first symptoms are so light that the child is merely said to have the “fidgets.” Muscular weakness may occur and be the most permanent symptom. Much has been said of late concerning the relationship of the onset of St. Vitus’ dance with overpressure in education. The abnormally active-minded child should be watched particularly with a view to preventing overtaxing of the mental powers.

all the old theories of the practicability and the durability of isolation. But we do not need to wait for the time when Paris and London are on a regular eighteen-hour schedule. Already the change in our relation to the old world is revolutionary enough to outmode the point of view of Jefferson. In case of a blockade the United States undoubtedly could sustain itself, but this would be an emergency measure. Under ordinary condtions we hardly could exist in prosperity a year without the chance of barter back and forth with Europe. And it seems to me a singularly snobbish attitude to contend that with the fingers of the left hand we may thumb our nose at the old world while still employing the digits of the right for large scale commercial dealing. b m m Bad Business THINGS which are true of individuals are also true of nations. A nation is merely an agglomeration of individuals. Let us picture the

Saturday, April 19 LOOKING BACKWARD Read Proverbs 4:1-7; Job 28:28. Memory Verse: “With all thy getting, get understanding.” (Proverbs 4:7.) MEDITATION Lord Haldane in his autobiography devotes his last chapter to review. He wrote at 73 of his satisfying philosophy: “A good deal of my work has been little known. The best I can say for myself is that I have not been slack in either thought or action and that some substantial results have emerged from time to time.” “We ought never to disturb ourselves about the quantity reputed to have been ours, or about our own prominence before the public. Our duty is to work without turning our eyes to the right or to the left from the ideals which alone can light up our faith. What Is ours 'can be no more than the best quality of which we are capable put into the effort toward the attainment of what we have set before ourselves." PRAYER “Teach us, good Lord, to serve thee as thou deservest; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will. Amen.” —Loyola.

When the disease is diagnosed properly, the treatment consists of suitable hygienic measures, with special attention to outdoor life, avoidance of nerve strain, and good diet. Nourishment must be sufficient to permit growth and include plenty of milk, fruit juices, ice cream and similar foods. Some cases go on many months without getting better, others clear up in six to eight weeks. The condition seems to have a tendency to recur again with the coming of spring. Because of the relationship of infections in the nose and throat to general streptococcal infection, it is customary to pay special attention to the tonsils and adenoids and to get these removed if they seem to be producing trouble. Obviously cases of chorea require the best of scientific attention, including study of the mental side as well as the physical side of the disturbance.

tdeftls mud opinions expressed in this eoiuipn are those of one of America’s most interestinx writers and are presented without recard to their agreement or dtsaereement with the editorial attitude of this paper. —The Editor.

United States, then, as U. S. Sam Wholesale Merchandise Company, Incorporated. One of the best customers of the Ann is one John Bull Esq. He drops in to order a bale of goods and the head of U. S. Sam incorporated, asks Jovially, “Well, John, how are trifcks? How is Mrs. B. and all the children?” Suppose at this moment Bull gave way to tears and said, “She Isn’t with me any more. She ran away with a railroad man and the children have gone to live with their grandmother.” Now do you think it would be the height of tactful salesmanship if U. S. Sam spoke up and said sharply, “Look here, John, I’m always glad to take your orders but please don’t bother me with any of your troubles.” That would be singularly poor business on the part of an individual. It’s very bad business on the part of a nation. America hardly endears itself to the rest of the world by saying, “Stew in your own juice, but don’t forget to buy our autos and farm machinery.” And in addition to being bad business, it is perfectly wretched fellowship and humanity. (Copyricht. 1930. by The Times) Who was the leading woman in “The Midnight Kiss?” Janet Gaynor.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

You Can Depend on the tin-' derworld to Keep Step With the Upper, or Vice and Crime Soon Would Lose Their Terror. A NORTH CAROLINA Judge is charged with having liquor in his liigghgr A friend comes to tne front, aedaring that the judge is guiltless, since he himself put it there as a practical joke. Is is surprising what a crop of practical jokers prohibition has produced. It is even more surprising how consistently they pick on public officials. Whatever else may be said of the eighteenth amendment and Volstead act. they are helping to preserve our sense of humor. tt a a Scarface A1 Capone and Georg® Bugs Moran decide to merge their beer baronies in Chicago. Thev evidently are impressed with the idea that though competition may be the life of trade, it often means death to the competitor, which is not strange, considering what they have been through. Like many others, they may come out with a statement saying that they were moved to take such action by a desire to save the public through more efficient methods and a reduced overhead. At that, they could come nearer proving the point than some of the big boys who have been handing us the bunk. ts tt tt They Keep Step YOU can depend on the underworld to keep in step with th® upper. If it did not. vice and crime would soon lose their terror. Think what an easy time we would have, if bandits would only ride bicycles while sheriffs chased them in automobiles, or if they only would rob stage coaches, while we sent our registered mail by truck. Bandits simply won’t stay out of date, and in that lies the real trouble. It took them quite a while to acquire the nerve and intelligence to stop a train and rob the express car, but they finally got the knack of it, and made things miserable for a generation or so. The first air mail robbery occurred Thursday, which suggests that they are about to make tilings miserable for another generation. ts ft tt Trotski Likes Himself HOWEVER Leon Trotski may be judged in other respects, he still likes himself, as is revealed vividly in his autobiography, just published by Scribner & Sons. You get the impression that in M. Trotski’s opinion, there is no genuine revolutionist left in Russia. Indeed, he states bluntly and unequivocally that since Lenine died and he himself was banished, leadership of the Communist movement have been taken over by dullards, weaklings, careerists, intriguers, self, seekers and betrayers of the revolution, sailing under the camouflage of the Leninist banner. Mere spigots, he calls them, with Stalin worst of all. All of which hardly improves hia chances of getting an invitation to come back. a tt u A Citizenship Puz. e JOHN TOPOLCANYI, a r mber of the Communist party, conducts a barber shop at Herminie, Pa. He is a Hungarian and his lived in this country seventeen years. Some time ago he applied for admission to citizenship, but was refused, on the ground that membership in the Communist party made him ineligible. He appealed to the United States circuit court, but without success. In rendering its decision Thursday, the appellate court held that the principles of the Communist party were so incompatible with the Constitution of the United States that one of its adherents could not be faithful to both. If that ruling is correct, what about a native born, or naturalized citizen who turns Communist? a tt a It’s Human Nature MOST of us take it for granted that the right of free Speech and free conscience includes about everything. Academically, such interpretation may be sound, but our own history contains exceptions to it. In the case of secession, for Instance, we tolerated oratory and assemblage In its behalf up to a certain point. After that, however, we resorted to force.