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A Step in the Right Direction The state highway commission has kept its promise in the road wage scandal. Members, meeting Tuesday in New Albany, pledged themselves to place a ban on wagecutting contractors in future awards of Indiana road-building contracts. To Chairman A. J. Wedeking and Commissioner Jesse Murden goes the majority of the credit for the commission’s action, spurred on by findings in The Times investigation. This is a long step in the right direction. The commission is officially on record against the un-American practice of allowing gouging, grasping contractors to grind the last cent of profit out of helpless workmen on state road jobs. But the mere passing of this resolution does not end the matter. There must be constant vigilance on the part of the commission and equal vigilance on the part of the public to prevent recurrence of the outrage which has aroused state-wide indignation. Contractors there are who are but biding their time to “slip one over,” and these contractors must be watched. They will be watched. The State Federation of Labor will stand guard. The Times will make it its duty to scrutinize closely the award of every road building contract. A flurry of public indignation that dies out as rapidly as it was generated will not cure the intolerable wage situation. The cam•paign against greedy contractors must be continued. Business Enterprise vs. Humanity The proposed ‘'cut’’ in rates by the New York Edison Company in New York City is in accord with the usual principles of American business—namely, give the big customer a special rakeoff. But like too much of American economic life today, it does not mix the oil of business with the milk of human kindness. It subordinates the human audit to the financial audit. What the situation comes down to is that the small consumer, already hard pressed by low wages and unemployment, will have to pay more for his electricity, while the wealthy consumer of large quantities of ‘‘juice’' will enjoy substantial reductions in his monthly bill. It is estimated conservatively that two of three families in Greater New York will have to pay more for their service than under present rates. What does this mean practically in human terms? Take the case of a typical small consumer in the tenements—" Mrs. C. of Cherry street.” Her bill will rise from 65 cents to $1.05, an increase of 40 cents. Translated into necessities of life, this means two pounds of stewing beef, four loaves of bread, three cans ox salmon or four quarts of milk. Under the best of circumstances to give these up means a serious loss. The unskilled worker whose family lives in the tenement earns far less than is necessary to support his dependents in comfort, to say nothing of decency. His children already are undernourished. Suppose they must lose their soup, meat or milk for two or three days or have their daily allowance, already ccant, cut down for a week or more? Imagine the situation if one or more of the children is recovering from a serious illness and requires special nourishment. Or what if the father is out of work altogether and the family continually is on the verge of starvation? On the other side of the picture we And "Mrs. B.” of the 700 block on Park avenue. She will save $10.15 a month on her electricity by the sugges ed cut. This will not even allow her to dispense with one maid. It just exactly will enable her to get an extra bottle of authentic rye or Scotch or a carton of perfumed cigarets. It would not purchase even the smallest bottle of the quality of perfumery she uses. It would not buy tickets for her husband and herself at the "Follies” or '‘Vanities.” In short, she probably never would be informed by her secretary of the change in rates and never w-ould know about it unless she happened to read of the discussion about the cut in the papers. A modification of rates having this differential incidence upon human material is dubious at any time. It is especially deplorable in the face of the winter which lies ahead of us. It is very doubtful if there be any substantial improvement in business until next spring. The condition of the poor is bound to be worse than it was last winter. ■ Why w~y to add the last straw to the camel’s back of their suffering and patience? And maybe, after all, such a scheme as the proposed Edison cut is not good business in the long run. The Ontario hydro-electric commission has not found it so. Rather, it has built up a remarkable aystem through combining good service with low rates to the small users. Its program has been to let the man who can pay do so, while gaining new customers through low rates to the poor. Americanizing: the Indian One of the bright spots in the record of the Hoovqr administration is the Indian bureau. This Impression, which has been growing in Washington and on the reservations for some months, ia confirmed by the bureau's special report just suomitted to the President at his request. The promised reforms are not by any means complete. That was not to be expected in so short a time, considering the low state of the bureau when Commissioner Rhodes and Assistant Commissioner Scattergood took charge a year ago. And it must be admitted that the new administration has made some major mistakes, such as rushing through the Flathead power agreement, permitting limited corporal punishment in schools and the delay in discharging some discredited reservation personnel. But, by and large, the intelligence and integrity of Rhodes and Scattergood have produced splendid results. For the first time the bureau has a definite and practicable program for the progressive solution of the Indian problem. That program aims “to make of the Indian a self-sustaining, self-respecting American citizen, just as rapidly as this can be brought about; the Indian no longer shall be viewed as a ward of the nation, but a potential citizen.” The three aspects of the problem are health, eduction and employment. The high disease and death me has been increased in the past b}[ ***%**>-

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merit's indifference and refusal to spend money. But at last more and better doctors, nurses, clinics and hospitals are being provided. School children no longer are starved and overworked—at least most of them are not. Educational courses are pointed more directly to vocational training. Employment agents are being appointed to help the school graduates to get and keep Jobs, and to Improve the lot of those remaining on fartns. Wherever possible the Indians are to be sent off the reservations to attend regular white public schools, and otherwise sifted into the American population. This will involve an increasing responsibility upon state governments. But probably for many years the major burden will be, and should be, upon the federal government. Whether the so-called Americanization of these first Americans can be accomplished in twenty-five years, as some officials hope, or in fifty years, is not so important as the fact that the Indian is at last on the road from wardship to citizenship. Tammany Judges and Others It was while A1 Smith was Governor of New York that there was talk of the "New Tammany.” He had Tammany eating out of his hand and made that effective organization give the paying public a run for its money. It was after Smith was defeated for President that Tammany bosses, aided and abetted by Mayor Jimmy Walker, decided to let A1 Smith slide and go on their own. Very quickly the New Tammany became the old Tammany and began to slide back. Now Tammany is in all kind of trouble, with more trouble in sight. As lid after lid is lifted, an awful stench poisons the air. Finally, after many years of successful covering-up, evidence is coming out of the possible sale of judgeships, to say noth ng of graft in various departments. And Boss Curry of Tammany hall doesn’t seem to know just what to do about it. There appears to be some chance now that the public may find out how Tammany judges get their jobs. Some time ago the writer was talking with an eminently respectable member of the New York bar. He had been successful, rated high as a lawyer, but never had been a judge. Yet the ambition of most lawyers is to wind up their careers on the bench. He told me he could have been a judge, hut would have had to buy the job. That he wouldn’t do, and he will die without sitting on the bench. Os course, if judges have to buy their seats on the bench, they have to get their money back in some way other than salary, unless they have made enough money in the practice before going on the bench to enable them to get along without grafting as judges. Some Judges are just judges, simply because they are rich enough in private income to be the kind of judges honest lawyers want to be. Poor judges have to get their money back some other way. It is not so sure, however, that Tammany judges who may buy their jobs and turn crooked to get their money back are any worse than high-toned federal judges who get their jobs through the powerful political influence of big campaign contributors and then pay their debt by judicial opinions, giving their patrons the best of it. One wouldn’t safely bet his soul that even highly respected justices of the supreme court of the United States haven’t paid their political debts by their votes in opinions interpreting the Constitution of the United States for the selfish advantage of the interests whose political pull put them on the bench. One couldn’t trust a federal judge who got his job through the Anti-Saloon League as far as he could throw the Woolworth building with his left hand. The California Supreme Court Bias The bias of the California supreme court was illustrated well by its ruling in the Billings’ appeal for pardon. It is emphasized further by its action in the appeal of the Yuciapa Red Flag case. Here a girl, a former University of California student, Yetta Stromberg, was sentenced to from six months to ten years in San Quentin prison for raising a Red flag over a camp of workers’ children in the San Bernardino mountains last summer. The California supreme court has refused even to hear the appeal of her case. This decision is in some ways worse than the action of the court in the Billings case. At least in the Preparedness day bombing someone had done a dastardly act. though there might be no evidence convincing: to any reasonable man that either Mooney or Billings did the deed. In the Red flag case the offense was something for which a prison sentence is unthinkable among sane Americans. The American Civil Liberties Union will appeal the case to the supreme court of the United States and try to get a ruling on the constitutionality of these silly Red flag laws.

REASON

SPEAKING of Thomas A. Edison’s question, if President Hoover should find himself in the Sahara desert with the United States senate and discover that he had to let three of them starve to death, we wouldn't give a lead nickel for the chances of Norris, Borah or Hiram Johnson. man You naturally wonder what Peggy Joyce would do if she should find herself marooned on the burning sands with seven of her eight ex-husbands and found she had to sacrifice half of them. a GLORIA SWANSON has released her marquis husband and now he will go back to the league of matrimony. She remained married to him for several years, a perfectly scandalous thing for one to do in Hollywood. B B B These road builders, whose contracts for state highway construction were based on the proposition that they would pay American wages, but who now are paying pauper wages, should be informed by the state highway commission that unless they back up they will never get another contract. a a a Os course Franklin Roosevelt has to declare for a wet platform to hope to be re-elected Governor of New York, but his being elected President on that platform in 1912 is not quite so sure. a a a READING in the papers that many _pf General Grant's relatives still live down in southern Ohio reminds one of the remarkable fact that the three outstanding commanders of the Union army, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, were, born in three Ohio towns, located within a radius of sixty miles. • * • The great anxiety caused by the water famine in many pllbes temporarily has eclipsed the exasperation due to the difficulty of obtaining hooch. It would be something for the rest of the world to ponder if China should go Communist, but the exploitation she has suffered at the hands of so-called civilised nations has been enough to make her see red. a a a A scientist claims that woman is outstripping man on the highway of progress. 4 also (fejfift it on Mam sujpi*

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Glass and Steel Walls Are Innovation in Modem German Architecture. GLASS and steel are taking the place of brick and stone in the design of many new buildings in Germany. Steel frames and glass windows are nothing new in buildings. But glass walls and steel walls are something new. They are to be seen in some of the new buildings in Germany, where architecture has gone complete modernistic. Ruskin’s admonition that form should follow function is being applied in Germany today wtihout regard to ancient traditions of building. Roger Gilman of Providence, R. 1., who made a survey of German architecture for ;he American Institute of Archii/icts, reports; "The theorishi lately have been calling for anew adjustment between what they call the rigid forms of tradition and the new possibilities of modem design. Here it has come to pass. "Its importance for architecture lies in its being a complete victory, possibly the first, flor the human values over those of formal design. “Here the first consideration is the expression of the construction and the use, but in a broad way. Never again will a German architect design a Wertheim stone facade as a palace or an abstract composition. an tt Startling MANY of the new department stores in Germany carry their modernism farther than an American visitor would anticipate. The first effect is startling. But a second look shows that the architect has had a definite reason for his design. Gilman says: “Now, by a resolute adherence to the interior spaces, the true business elevation has come into being. It appears as a design, not of rhythm, as in the old store facades, but of a. unity of small repeating parts. "But in present-day construction the wall may be quite independent of the columns, so there are several possible schemes. “In department stores the wall may be set forward, gaining space over the lot line for all stories, while on the street floor continuous passages may extend behind the outer show windows for a double display space. “In restaurants and cases the wall may be set back to give exterior balconies, gay with bright steel railings, or with glass columns for night lighting. “When the ground floor consists of a continuous plate glass window, the upper stories may repeat the horizontal effect, in windows of horizontal dimension, with horizontal divisions, tied together in one long band and underscored by heavy sills.” tt tt tt Churches GILMAN also studied the new church architecture while in Germany. Concerning this he says: “To see what this modernism attains under freer conditions, we may choose one more type, the churches, both Catholic and Protestant, which it has produced within the last five years. Their first impression is of extreme plainness, almost harshness, but yet of a stern solemnity. “Their masses are made to count Strongly, by abrupt juxtapositions, straight bounding lines, even flat skylines. Roofs are flat or as low as possible. The flat surfaces, undisturbed by cornices or moldings, increase the impression of weight and of calm. “Such interest as they have lies within the surface itself, in design of stone courses, brick laying, shapes of windows, and vents that seem more like decorative spots on the wall. “The interiors, though of stucco, have sometimes great effects in vaults or beams, in shapes of space in aisle and apse, in the deep color, of modern glass. “We can say that all these buildings express their construction and their modem conditions. “Though barren of all usual motifs, moldings or ornaments, they are designed for the stronger satisfactions of mass and line and for the varied interest of many materials with their color and texture. “By sharp contrasts of proportion, by large scale and by unlimited repetition they produce powerful compositions, at times almost brutal.”

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LUCY STONE’S BIRTH Aug. 13

ON Aug. 13, 1818, Lucy Stone, a pioneer American suffragist, and often referred to as “the morning star of the woman’s rights movement,” was born in West Brookfield, Mass., the daughter of a farmer. Asa girl she was considered "queer” because she believed that woman was entitled to every social and political right enjoyed by man. Bent on practicing what she preached, Lucy traveled to Ohio to enter Oberlin, one of the first of America’s co-educational schools, to learn Hebrew arid Greek, in order to know at first hand whether the biblical texts quoted against the equal rights of women were true translations. On graduation she gained the distinction of being the first Massachusetts woman to obtain a college degree. Following a tour of New England and Canada, in which she lectured in behalf of the anti-slavery movement, she married Henry B. Blackwell. She maintained her maiden name with her husband's consent, a custom which has gained in popularity since her death in 1893. During political campaigns she lectured for woman’s suffrage amendments and took the most prominent part in founding the American Woman’s Suffrage Association, of which sbt later became presidentDAILY THOUGHT When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight—Bacon. In the multitude -of counsellors t&B* tt safttfc-Bojer&s U;l(*

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Liver Helps Fight on Anemia

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. TN the condition known as pernicious anemia, there seems to be a deficiency of the total number of red blood cells. A lessened number of cells may be due to the fact that they are being destroyed too rapidly or to the fact that they are not being created with sufficient rapidity and in sufficient quantities. In the condition known as pernicious anemia their number decreases so rapidly and stays decreased so certainly that serious conditions occur, affecting life itself. The number of red blood ceils may fall to 1,000,000 or 1,200,000, instead of the 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 that represents the normal. One of the greatest discoveries of recent times was the development of the knowledge that the liver con-

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Heywood Broun, who conducts this 1 column, is on bis vacation. During his absence Joe Williams, sports editor of the New York Telegram, will pinch-hit for Broun.—The Editor. BY JOE WILLIAMS THE other day in his daily newspaper stint, Calvin Coolidge wrote about airplane engines. The copy read that a navy office said the best engine is made abroad. This happens not to be the fact. A navy protest followed. Whereupon Coolidge dug up his original copy and showed that the boys in the backroom had him wrong. In other words, he had been made the victim of a typographical error. Instead of “office” the original copy read "officer.” This was Coolidge’s first experience with the boys in the backroom. It was likewise, so far as anybody knows, his first kickback or squawk from his public. If Coolidge stays in the writing business he will have plenty more from both sources in days to come. For the most part the boys .in the backroom are all right, and it’s time Coolidge knew it. They are always in there trying. And if they like you. they’ll take as much pains with your copy as if it were their own. Some of them are pretty clever fellows, too. In a pinch they can sit down and bat out a very nifty piece. a a Short on Ideas IT’S mighty comforting to have such fellows to fall back on. Coolidge never can tell when he is going to run short of ideas on prosperity or get tied up at the club, or have to go shopping with the Missus ’ust when he ought to be banging out his stuff. In a case like this it will surely be a relief to know that he can call up the composing room and get Jim Sullivan on the phone and say: “Lissen, Jim, I need a little help tonight. Have one of the boys grind out a piece and put my name over it and rush it through for the first edition. Willya? Yeah, just as if nothing had happened.” This is called to Coolidge’s attention in the hope that he will harbor -no ill feelings against the boys who bungled his copy. Also if he is smart he will not be disturbed by this first complaint against his copy. On the contrary, this should please him- It shows the customers are reading him. And even if some one writes in and demands to know "Who ever told you you were a newspaper man,” the best thing is to smile patiently, tear the letter up and remark that the world is certainly made up of a lot of queer people. ButCoolflJte cught to be told that tt tt dangerous |o aj&Bßgt

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tains a substance which has the specific power of raising the number of red blood cells, apparently by stimulating the production of red cells in the places of the body where they are produced, notably in the bone marrow. Concentrated extracts have been developed which cause rapid formation of cells and which give the possibility of life instead of the formerly fatal result. Continued investigation now shows that there are substances also in the wall of the stomach and in the muscles which have this specific power. It is obvious that only the very forefront of this unknown land has been invaded. Much more needs to be known as to the nature of the red blood cell, its method of formation, the materials from which it is formed, the factors governing its formation, growth, and destruction. The substances used are gross

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plain copy flaws on typographical errors more than once or twice a week. The boys in the backroom are good-natured, but they’ll stand for only so much. a a a Here and There The population of the country is put at 122,689,190. But there must be a mistake somewhere, because there are more than-that many Tom Thumbers at large. Some idea of the durability of the

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Am grateful for this opportunity of indorsing the Indiana indeterminate sentence and parole laws after working under those laws as the superintendent of the Indiana woman's prison for the last sixteen years. Those laws, together with the suspended sentence law, whereby first offenders can be and are given a chance to make good without actually entering a prison, in my opinion, constitute the best plan as yet worked out by any state. This is the almost unanimous opinion of penal workers throughout the United States, who have and are working under all systems. From careful study of the normal women who have come to the Indiana Woman’s prison since 1914, I am of the opinion that a lack of religious training and proper home environment have contributed the most toward their inability to live within the law. MARGARET M, ELLIOTT. Editor Times—l like to read what Times readers have to say about our city and state. I note in Friday’s Times what a writer has to say in regard to the Municipal airport. I agree with her. A family of four can not live high on 30 cents an hour. Yet, I presume, 50 per cent of the people In the world do live on less than that: that is, they exist. I am inclined to think that if the city and state were to do all their public works and pay the engineers' estimates, it would not only be better from a financial standpoint, but also from a constructive viewpoint. It would be better for the laboring classes and would not interfere with any individutl enterprises. If the state would erect a cement plant at the penal farm to be operated by the prisoners at a fair wage, plus their upkeep, the money to be turned over to their families or dependents It would eliminate .a lot of sufler ir-g, as there -{gust fee families in

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compounds which must be analyzed down to their fundamental ingredients. Whereas one began by eating tremendous quantities of raw liver, one may now take a concentrated powder. It seems possible that the time will come when the active principle of this powder will be isolated in the shape of some chemical element. The red blood cells perhaps have something to do with the ability of the body to resist the germs of disease. Certainly they can be sensitized in such way that they will clump together or dissolve when certain substances of bacterial or chemical nature are injected into the body. These reactions are just beginning to be established and understood. Obviously, if the red blood cells clump together or dissolve, the result to the patient’s health and life is extremely serious.

Ideal* and opinion* expressed in this column mre those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their an eement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naper.—The Editor.

national stomach may be gained from the fact that the hot dog is 125 years old this month. Possibly one of these days a politician who is shadow boxing with the law actually will prove that It is impossible to incriminate or degrade him, and that will be news. Unlike some of the other interpreters of the modern arts who work in obscure materials, Earl Carroll can at least plead that he has nothing to conceal. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

want because of the incarceration of the bread winners. With such a plant, highways could be built at least 40 per cent cheaper than at present. Let the state build all its public roads, but hire men from the counties through which the road is being built and pay the engineers’ wage per hour. Then we will have better roads, a happy set of workmen plus a saving of at least 40 per cent to taxpayers. BERT MORLFDGE. Columbus, Ind.

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.AUG. 13, 1930

M. E; Tracy — SAYS: What Progress Can We Make Toward Peace, When Children Are Taught to Revere the Soldier? TWO CHINESE DEAD—One in Chicago and one in the Bronx —with the Tong war threatening to revive on a grander scale than ever. Not only are the On Leongs and Hip Sings at it again, but four other Tongs have joined the fray, as enemies of the former, if not as allies of the latter. By accepting the logic of J. S. Lockwood’s recent panegyric on vacant lot golf as a cure for unemployment, one is able to put an optimistic construction on the situation. , A call for more hatchet men necessarily means more work, while every dead Tong member means more room for the living. n tt a We’re All Joiners SIMPLE folk will argue that no matter what excellent reasons Chinese have for fighting in their own country', they have none here in America. That is because simple folk do not understand the tong complex, either from an oriental or occidental viewpoint. We are all "joiners” by nature, all crazy to belong to something exclutive and superior. The only difference between Chinese and Americans is that the former have a worse case of the strutting fever and somewhat grimmer ideas of pomp and power* tt a a That Showoff Streak STILL an orange colored airplane just has dropped bombs on a Kentucky mining district, with no apparent object other than to impress one group of people with the superior qualities of another, while hardly a day passes without similar reminder on the part of some gang. Even sovereign states, which justly can be described as the most exalted form of human organization, suffer much from the thought that there is no such effective way of promoting loyalty among their own subjects, or impressing others, as the employment of physical force now and then. We have talked a great deal about the fundamental causes of war, but without giving the show-off streak, which is common to all mankind, the credit it deserves. War Is Glorified SAY what you will, but brafes buttons, gold braid, statues, and memorial services have had a lot 19 do with making people regard wholesale murder as a proof of civilized progress. In spite of the peace movement, with its pacts, leagues, courts -and agreements, the same old force'still is at work. Throughout the world, people are praising and applauding those who take part in war as they are praising and applauding those in nd other field of human endeavor. Throughout the world, children are being taught to reverence the soldier as they reverence no other human being. As long as this lasts, what prog* ress can we hope to make in presenting peace as the most worthwhile object of organized society? ; We can’t and we know it. The Next War Regardless of ail the find phrases, we still are speculating about "the next” war, not as a remote possibility, Lut as almost sure to happen within a comparatively short time. When Professor C. Delisle Bums tells the Institute of Politics, now in session at Williamstown, Mass., that Europe will have war within five or ten years, unless a vital change takes place in the popular attitude, he voices a thought that is almost universal. Look at the men under arms: look at the vast appropriations being made for land, naval and air armaments; look at the percentage of public revenue going for past or future conflicts, and, above all else, look at the intrijaiing and conniving by which those very governments that have signed the Kellogg pact and joined the League of Nations, are rebuilding the safne old ententes and alliances, with no oth*er idea than to gain a strategic advantage for themselves when the drums begin to beat. it u tt It Means Revolution TO give the peace movement a solid foundation, to substitute a reign of law for a reign of force, to create public confidence in an international system of justice, much less the system Itself, means revolution, not only in our political ideas, but ideals. As Woodrow Wilson said, revolution does not begin at the top, especially when it involves the overthrow of age-old codes and traditions; something besides paper is needed to give It substance.