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There Are Others The prompt declaration by Governor that some sort of relief, probably in the form of temporary work on roads, would |>e furnished to farmers in the drought area shows an advance sentiment as to the attitude of society toward the unfortunate. That the policy and lack of business foresight on the part of the highway commission has so dissipated the huge funds intrusted to that department makes the relief somewhat dubious, does not detract from the recognition by the state of the necessity of taking care of large groups in need of special aid. , . .... Emphasis should be laid on the tact that the relief is intended to answer the demands of human beings rather than restoration of property damaged by unfortunate natural conditions. When that policy is thoroughly recognized. state officials may some day learn that there are others beside the unfortunate farmers who are in a very similar condition. There are drought periods for the industrial worker just as there are famine periods for the farmer. The start came with th* collapse of the stock market in which the worker had no chance to win, but did lose his job. The number of unemployed is quite as large as the number of farm sufferers. The census report indicates a very large number of wage earners who are as helpless to protect themselves from lack of work as the farmers were unable to defend their crops fiom lack of rain. * The jobless worker is quite as much in need of help as the cropless farmer. The right to work is an inalienable right. A social organization that produces the duplicate of famine in agriculture must accept its responsibilities, just as the state is now admitting a duty to its farm population. Demands upon township trustees for charity are increasing. But charity will not answer the problem of the industrial worker, any more than charity would be acceptable to the farmers in the southern areas. When the Governor’s commission gets through studying the needs on farms it might turn its attention to the cities. Here, too, is not only an opportunity but a duty.

Another Labor War? Are North Carolina officials and mill owners going to turn another labor dispute into a reign of terror, or arc they going to handle the situation intelligently? Five hundred workers, including all those in two textile plants at Bessemer City, have gone on strike. They refuse to accept a wage cut ranging from to 30 per cent. The sympathy of the country is bound to be with the strikers, because the country has been told by no less an authority than President Hoover that wage cuts are the worst thing that can happen to business in hard times. Obviously, the principle of maintaining wage standards as laid down by the Hoover conference applies with special force to low-wage industries auch as the textile industry in the south. Existing wages do not provide an American standard of li\ ing. Though dispatches do not state the average wage of the Bessemer City strikers, it can not be far out of line with the sl2 and sl4 weekly wage for women in southern textile plants as reported by the United Etates department of labor. Officials of the municipality, the state and the federal government of course are not responsible for these evil-working conditions. Nor is it the direct obligation of such officials to intervene in an industrial dispute on the side of the workers—other than to enforce the inadequate laws on working conditions. But there is a direct obligation on the part of officials to protect the civil liberties of both sides, which means in effect to protect the civil rights of the weaker side, that is, the strikers. Whether the strikers' dispute with the employers Is just or unjust, the strikers’ constitutional rights as citizens are inalienable ones which officials are sworn to enforce. That covers the right of free speech, free assemblage and security of person. All this is so obvious and so primary in the American system of orderly government that its restatement should be unnecessary. Unfortunately, however, certain officials of that particular textile district and of North Carolina have demonstrated in past strikes their defiance of the American system of law and justice. The violence which raged during the strikes in that district last year was precipitated by the lawlessness of employers and police. It ended in the shooting of a police chief, general mob action against* strikers and the murder of an innocent woman striker. The trials resulting from that violence, including those which convicted seven strikers for murder, but left unpunished the mob leaders and the murderers of a striker, were for the most part conducted unjustly. Now North Carolina is thrown into industrial conflict again. The simple fact is that 500 citizens, who do not even belong to a union, much less to a radical political organization, refuse to work without half-a-living wage. Are officials and police going to protect those citizens or persecute them? That is the public issue involved. And on that Issue North Carolina can not afford to lose much more of her reputation. Cut Federal Expenses Expenditures by the federal government are increasing rapidly. Revenues are declining. These facts are revealed in figures from the treasury for the first six weeks of the new fiscal year. t The amount paid out, exclusive of public debt payments, was twenty-nine millions more than dur-, ing the same period last year. Receipts were flftymUliocs IST TANARUS slump in foreign traSb. wlth

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consequent lower customs revenues, accounted for most of the Recline. Six weeks is too short a period on which to base a forecast for the yßar. Nevertheless, the situation is one to cause concern, since it carries the threat of a tax increase and a deficit. Added weight Is given to President Hoover s request to executive heads of the government to practice the most rigid economy. At best, the government will spend more this year than last, since congress appropriated about five billions, which was 200 or 400 millions more than last year, depending on whethei appropriations of the special session are included. Heavy expenditures by the farm Doard are in prospect, the public works program has been expanded greatly and there are larger authorizations for many other things. Meantime, there is every evidence that the shrinkage in customs revenues will continue through the year. Taxes on 1930 incomes, payable next calendar year, will be smaller because of the business depression—how much smaller can not be calculated accurately. So it behooves the government to save wherever possible. President Hoover's repeated warnings show that he long since realized the situation. His attempts to curtail army and navy expenditures yet may have results. Morrow’s Successor J. Reuben Clark is reported to have been offered, informally, the difficult and important job of ambassador to Mexico. As the report apparently is reliable, there is a great deal of satisfaction in interested diplomatic and commercial circles, where it has been feared the President might pick a lame duck or second-rate business man. f Clark's popularity is due in part to his splendid record as undersecretary of state, as American representative on several international commissions and as author of the much-needed but still suppressed restatement of the Monroe doctrine. But his appointment has been urged upon the President especially because of his experience and achievement as Ambassador Morrow's chief aid in Mexico City, and because he is understood to be Morrow's choice of successor. There may be better persons for the job than Clark—as to that the public is not in position to judge. But there hardly can be any question that the post should be intrusted to a diplomat of the Clark or Morrow type. Our Mexico City embassy is no place for hacks, snobs or well-meaning mediocres seeking reward for political favors. Our Invisible Ruler Lest we become too proud of ourselves, let us reflect just a moment and consider how puny we really are. Man has made many advances. He has flown the oceans, built instruments that will carry the human voice around the world, probed the mysteries of the stars, made machines that will do the work of a million slaves and accomplished many other things. But we still are powerless in the face of a far greater power. Italy's great earthquake, dealing widespread death and destruction, demonstrates that in the hands of the forces of nature we are as helpless as children, despite all the glorious advances that science and education have made. Something utterly beyond our control may rule our fates and our destinies, and possibly our lives. In the pattern of the universe, our world is a mere speck When the forces that lie behind it all expi'ess themselves we realize then how weak and helpless we really are. There's no reason to believe that the Washington boy who made a violin from 2,500 matches was trying to make light of music. During his campaign, a candidate in Arkansas gave out sandwiches which poisoned sixty persons. The guess is they were filled with baloney. Two men posing as plumbers robbed a Chicago woman of several thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry. To them the job was a pipe. . Those two Brooklyn men who propose to sail to Europe in a big rubber ball will find that even in their simple way it takes a roll to get across. Then there's the bright shipping room clerk, who when asked for an invoice hummed the boss a tune.

REASON

THE great extent to which these kids are sitting in trees all over the United States rather strengthens the suspicion that that's where we all came from in the first place. n a 0 If pardons are granted to those four Sing Sing prisoners who were released to save four people who were drowning in the Hudson and who did the work and then returned to the prison, they should have no difficulty in finding jobs. 0 a a And they should have little difficulty in making good, for where they once had a bad record to live down, they now have a heroic record to live up to 0 u u PRESIDENT HOOVER hit the bulleseye of popularity when he decided to give up that pleasure trip to Glacier national park and decided to stay on the job at Washington and help the victims whose crops have been destroyed. It's the sympathetic touch that counts. 000 In this Chicago baby case Mr. Watkins made a mistake when he went into court and claimed that Mr. Bamberger conspved to grab the Watkins baby and shift his own to Mr. Watkins. Human nature does not do business that way. 0 0 0 • ... The Turks have organized a Republican party and this ought to be an opportunity for Mr. Huston, who has been thrown out of the national chairmanship at Washington. 000 NOTHING in the jungle is more savage than the extremes for fortune in our so-called civilization. In one column of the papers you read that Mrs. Marshall Field, who has just divorced her mate, will receive a million dollars per annum and in the next column you read that thousands are begging for bread. 0 ■ 0 0 It’s an unjust proposition for employers to adver- 1 tise for a thousand men when they want to employ only half that number. They do it to get a larger number to select from, but they disappoint many who are up against it, and it's a bad business. 0 0 0 V. Barbara Tompkins, 8-year-old daughter of an American in Turkey, swam the Bosphorus. & distance of a mile and a quarter, which is enough to make Gertrude Ederle sit up and take notice,

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’ SCIENCE" I BY DAVID DIETZ Modem Surgical Appliances Were U by Egyptians Fifty C „\iries Ago. ANCIENT Egyptian surgeons, perhaps as early as the thirtir eth century, B. C., used adhesive tape, lint, bandages and splints, set broken bones and put in surgical stitches. This is the opinion of Professor James Henry Breasted, director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He bases it on the famous Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. An edition of the papyrus, translated and edited by Dr. Breasted, just has been published by the institute. The papyrus dates only to 1,700 B. C. But Dr. Breasted believes that there is sufficient evidence to show that it is a copy of an original document which goes back to 3.000 B. C. and he believes that Imhotep, the earliest known physician, may have been its author. Speaking of the author of the papyrus, Dr. Breasted says: “This ancient surgeon not only was the first of vhom there is any record to recogn ze conditions and Drocesses as due to intelligible physical causes, but he had literally to create his own scientific terminology. “After his treatise had existed for a thousand year.- or so, some of his language had become so obscure that a later practitioner, probably about 2,500 B. C., added a glossary explaining dubious terms." n n tt Muscles DR. BREASTED says that the papyrus indicates that its author had an intimate acquaintance with a system of muscles, tendons and ligaments, but there is no evidence that he clearly distinguished the three systems of muscles, nerves and blood vessels. “Some of the more important forms of bandages were made for the surgeon by the greatest of ancient experts, the EgyptiaA embalmers,” Dr. Breasted says, “The lint was made from vegetable tissue, and was used to apply external medicaments or as an absorbent of blood. Bandages and swabs were made of linen. “Three specialized forms of splints were employed by this early surgeon, one a brace of wood covered with linen, and employed in cases of tetanus to hold the patient’s month open so that he could take liquid food: another of linen impregnated with glue and plaster, and a third, consisting of stiff rolls of linen. “When a compound-comminuted fracture of the skull made it necessary, the patient was held upright by supporters to sun-dried brick, presumably molded to fit his figure on each side under his arms.” nun Instruments SURGICAL instruments of many sorts undoubtedly were in use at the time the papyrus was written, according to Dr. Breasted. The papyrus, however, only mentions one instrument, a “fire drill” used to cauterize. “A jaw of askull of the Fourth Dynasty, 2900 to 2750 B. C., disclosing a drill hole to drain an abscessed tooth, indicates that specialized surgical instruments of metal, presumably bronze, already existed in the age that produced the treatise,” Dr. Breasted says. “The medicaments used by the surgeon were simple. In many cases he recommends hot applications, followed by honey-ointment on lint. Aplication of fresh meat to injuries was another favorite treatment. In cases of infected wounds, this pioneer medical man prescribes the earliest known external application of salicin, in the form of a decoction of willow leaves, as an antiseptic“He also used astringent applications, solutions containing copper and sodium salts. An ammonical application was used to allay inflammation. “Because he was a surgeon, the author was interested only incidentally in medicines. That he and his school were successful is indicated by the fact that out of more than a hundred mummies of this period that have been found with broken bones, only one case shows an ununited fracture.”

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ON Aug. 20, 1838, Benjamin Harrison, soldier, orator, lawyer, author and twenty-third President of the United States, was born at North Bend, O. He was a greatgrandson of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and grandson of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States. After graduation from Miami university in 1852 Harrison studied law at Cincinnati. He practiced in Indianapolis. Entering the Union army in 1862, he served with conspicuous gallantry in the Atlanta campaign, finally returning to civil life at the close of the war with the rank of brigadier-general. In 1881 he entered the United States senate and seven years later was nominated for the presidency by the Republican convention, and subsequently elected. His administration is characterized as “quiet, successful and measurably popular.”' Nominated for a second term. Harrison was defeated by Cleveland, a ’Democrat. Harrison was the chief representative of the United States at The Hague conference in 1899. He lectured for a time at Leland Stanford junior university in California. He died after a brief illness in Indianapolis Da 1901. ■

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Heywood Broun, who conducts this column, has anounced his candidacy for Congress. Roy W. Howard, publisher of the New York Telegram and chairman of the Board of the Scripns-Howard Newspapers, has taken over the column for one day to discuss Braun's candidacy. Broun, who has been absent on a vacation. will resume writing his column tomorrow with a reply to Howard's comments. BY ROY W. HOWARD HEYWOOD BROUN, originator and conductor of this column returns to the job tomorrow after a vacation punctuated by an unexpected plunge into the sea of local politics from which he probably will be rescued by the voters of the Seventeenth congressional district in the November elections. The only person more surprised by Mr. Broun’s nomination for congress on the Socialist ticket than Mr. Broun, was the editor of The Telegram. Mr. Broun received the news by telephone. The editor of The Telegram learned of it from the morning papers. The editor and the columnist recovered their power of speech at about the same time, but the edge was with the columnist. Broun happened to be in Fiftyeighth street, New York, while the editor was reading a California newspaper in an airplane flying over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Mr. Broun got down to earth first and gave out a statement before the editor could get down to earth and give Broun an argument. After that it was a case of Pat being good for the drink, because he already had it. a a a Your Columnist SINCE that time The Telegram, recognized as an independent newspaper with no political tie-ups or entanglements, has been deluged with inquiries as to what we think of our columnist’s latest deviation from the orthodox course of column

keen interest being manifested by the public and those in official May the day be not far distant that all who toil will receive not only a living wage, but a saving wage. Let the good work go op. GUY HOWE, President. Editor Times—Now that the Governor and the President have come to a definite understanding as to drought relief for- the southern counties of Indiana, why not have a few suggestions from the citizens as to the application of this relief fund? We are told that approximately $28,000,000 will be expended on the highways this year. Southern counties, check up and see if you received your proportionate allowance. If not, get in the scramble. Take road No. 52, for example. About three years ago a stretch of this road from Brookville to Harrison, 0., was paved, thus closing the road for two years. A little later another small stretch from Brookville to Metamora was paved, thus closing the road again for one and one-half years. Another stretch of this road from Metamora to east of Andersonville has been closed for the last eight weeks for oiling. We still have a rough gravel road, after about four years of patching. Road No. 52 is the most direct route between Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the south. All this time tourists have been compelled to go through Ohio to keep on a paved or decent road. Why could not this road of approximately sixteen miles from Brookville to Andersonville, have been divided into sections and contracts let to three or four contractors and a road finished that would be a credit to the state instead of a disgrace. It is not too late to finish this road this season if divided among several contractors, and they are instructed to move a little. Franklin county, let’s go. How much of this $28,000,000 have you received this year? , CHARLES C. DARE. 3949 College avenue.

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conducting, and what we are going to do about it. The simple answer is that we don’t think much of it and we are going to do less. Before The Telegram and Mr. Broun came to a working agreement, the editor looked squarely in "he face of the fact that in our relations with the columnist our situation differs little from that of one of his readers. You take Broun or you leave him, but if you take him at all you take him as is. He is no more susceptible to remodeling than a soap bubble. Having consistently borne this fact in mind, The Telegram’s relationshiip with its columnist has been to date a riiodel of harmony. Every question on which there has seen a difference of opinion has been successfully arbitrated in complete acord with Mr. Broun’s ideas. The system has been simple and the result a complete success. The Telegram has grown in circulation. Mr. Broun has grown in the esteem of a rapidly enlarging following in cities from coast to Then came the monkey wrench into the cogs of this perfect arrangement, thrown there by the nominating committee of the Socialist party seeking a candidate to rim for congress from a New York mid-town district. Jail or Congress IT had been our boast that in more than half a century of its existence, few Scripps-Howard editors had gone to jail, and no Scripps-Howard editor or important contributor had gone to congress. Those who had gone to jail had been convicted only of contempt of court, so we were rather proud of the record. While we did not, and do not think at the moment the record as it pertains to congress is in danger, Broun’s announcement constituted a threat. But a hasty survey is reassuring. In the last election, the Socialist candidate for congress in this Seventeenth district polled some 1.600 out of something over 60,000 votes cast. For several months after he came to the Telegram in May, 1928, and until we thought that the situation generally was understood by our readers, w T e carried at the top of Broun’s column the following statement: “Ideas and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.” That was and is the Telegram’s attitude toward Heywood Broun and his column. It never has been our desire nor his intention to have his column reflect the editorial opinions of this paper. His political, social, economic and religious views have never been a matter of our concern. His value to theft paper, and his appeal to its readers, have been those of an independent writer who has made a place for himself and won for himself an audience among those interested in, even though not in agreement with, the view of a forceful and unconventional thinker with a highly developed aptitude for pleasantly provocating writing. We would have preferred Broun free from any entangling political alliances. Possibly this is mere prejudice. Possibly it-is merely the normal skepticism of any one seeking political office. Frankly, we rate the profession of journalism high above that of the politician, though we recognize that there are good and bad types in both callings. However we have yet to hear of a newspaper man accused of buying his job. But in politics or out, we prefer Broun to be himself, in which case we know he never will be otherwise than interesting and entertaining. That Broun is running on a socalled Socialist ticket seems to us to be a matter of no importance Our regret is not because of his party brand. The Telegram is opposed to Marxian Socialism -£ecaus£ .it. regards its tenets as unsound and

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impractical, totally unsuited to American economic actualities. But having no partisan affiliation or inhibitions, the Telegram has no fear of the “mercerized” Socialism of independent thinkers of the type of Norman Thomas and Heywood Broun. With due respect for their probable dissenting opinions, theirs is largely Socialism in name only. Karl Marx certainly would never recognize or accept it as his brain child. Without subscribing to their theories or accepting as logical the remedies they propose, the Socialism advocated by Thomas and Bround can be accepted as having a very real value in that it, furnishes an outlet for the rapidly mounting public distrust of the two moribund major parties. ft f ft Rating Broun DEFINITE as are our ideas and great as is our admiration for Columnist Broun, we are not so certain as to how we rate Congressman Broun. We find it difficult to imagine this notorious sun-dodger functioning effectively in congress as long as the house maintains its present hours. But we would back him to establish anew endurance record in night sessions. Most certainly we are not disposed to take either the candidate or his candidacy as a joke, and we long have learned that Broun's ability to avoid taking himself seriously never prevents him from taking his job seriously. We recognize that Broun is no mere jokesmith or phrase-carpenter, but an artistic debunker of political and official flapdoodle. Even so, we believe that as a factor in things political he can be more effective on the outside looking in, more forceful in type than in talk, more constructive in a column than in congress. Meanwhile Broun will continue to write for the Telegram and The Times. Sometimes we will be in agreement with him, sometimes we will not. That’s Broun. But of one thing we are certain, he will express his honest convictions interestingly. He will continue to focus the penetrating rays of his logic and humor, as the situations demand, on events and people and things. •He will continue to stimulate the none too general habit of straight thinking on matters of public concern. And should he be elected-'-well, “It seems to me” we can take that up later. (Copyright. 1330. by The Times)

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AUG: 20; 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Availability of a Market Is Just as Important as the Availability of a Supply. FIVE thousand people fall all over one another in an effort to reg-* ister at New York's free employment bureau. After one has been injured seriously and half a dozen others have been trampled on during a gloriously hectic day, most of them are nicely tagged, classified and card- . indexed. But only seventy-five get work, which speaks for itself. a a , More Prosperity Talk TWO years ago, Mr. Hoover and his associates had a great deal to say about prosperity, and not a few people took them seriously. Right now. the Democrats are haring equally as much, if not more, to say about the lack of it, and hope that they, also, will be taken seriously. Ever since the republic was established, we Americans have tried to make ourselves believe that business is. a matter of politics, though insisting that, politics is not a matter of business. a u % tt Can't Be Repealed NO doubt, governmental policies, especially with regard to tariffs and foreign trade, have a direct bearing on certain industries, and an indirect bearing on general conditions. But so, too, has the law of supply and demand, especially as affected by the continuous change of methods and ideas. As some ancient wag has said, the law of supply and demand is beyond repeal. It is not beyond the range of study and information, however, and that is where we might accomplish something worth while. a a a No Warning Given THE reducing craze has diminished the consumption of potatoes by a surprisingly large percentage, only to mention one illustration. Were potato growers warned on this? Were they told that it would be inadvisable to continue planting the same old acreage because the demand had shrunk? The government does excellent, work in making crop surveys and crop reports, but. that represents only one side of the picture* The availability of a market is just as important as the availability of a supply. a tt tt Overlook Vital Point ‘ SOMEHOW, we seem to have taken consumption for granted, , though its fluctuation because of fad, freak and fashion, is to be seen on every hand. The idea of keeping careful track ' of the amount of wheat, corn, cotton and other staples to be harvested appears to have impressed us. as the one essential, though a 10-' year-old child should understand, that decreased consumption has the same effect on prices as overproduction. The very fact that the law of supply and demand is beyond repeal should warn us to keep close tab on its operation both ways. Having settled the production argument, however, we are content to talk politics. When the bottom drops out because large numbers of people have turned from starchy food to fruit, or from mediumpriced cars to flivvers, we have little to suggest, except that the party in power be ousted. o a ^ G, 0. P. to Blame UNDER existing conditions it might not be a bad thing to oust the party in power, not with the idea of making business hum and furnishing everybody work overnight, but to punish an administra-' tion which failed to warn the American people where they wero going when it should have known. By no stretch of the imagination can the present administration be blamed because a lot of suckers paid too much for stock, or a lot of equally gullible manufacturers overproduced. It can be blamed, however, for de--claring conditions were sound when, they weren’t, for letting the country believe that the unreasonable boom in Wall street was made of anything but water, and that we could go on boosting prices and supplies, without a crash.

Daily Thought

The wicked are overthrown, and are not; but the house of the righteous shall stand.—Proverbs 12:7. It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.—H. W. Shaw.