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The Right to Work “We have the right to work.” This is the declaration of a farmer in the drought area, writing to newspapers in protest against any doubts as to the policy of assisting the cropless agriculturist by furnishing public work. There will be no quarrel with this statement. It is significant that for the first time the farmer who finds himself in trouble takes exactly the attitude of the unemployed industrial worker. Traditionally in this country there has been a difference of psychology between the farmer and the wage earner in the city. The farmer has stood strongly against any theory of government aid for the workers in times of depression. He has frowned upon the idea of public works planned to take up surplus labor. He has seen only the fact that such work means higher taxes. He has been an individualist in '.his thinking. He has kept alive the traditions of the pioneer spirit. The right to work will be asserted moic emphatically as time proceeds and labor-sav-ing machinery and mass production contribute to periods of unemployment, especially if this country loses foreign trade through tariff restrictions that invite reprisals and boycotts. The farmer wnose acres are unproductive through either climatic or economic conditions is brought more and more into sympathy with the viewpoint of the man who finds his job gone. For if the farmer is entitled to a chance to make a living through useful work when his own farm fails, then the industrial worker is also entitled to the same opportunity. Unfortunately the movement to aid the farmer moves slowly. So far state authoiities have dodged the simple, legal way ot calling together the legislature to take steps to meet an emergency. It will be more unfortunate if state authorities, while planning to aid the farmer, do not at the same time provide for industrial workers who also demand the light to work for a living. Cropless farmers and jobless workers are entitled to equal consideration. And both have the right to work in a country that has vast resources and needs many public conveniences.

Cole Blcase Cole Blease is not out of the rough yet. Down in South Carolina, where he is running for a senatorial renomination on the Democratic ticket—which means virtual election in that state—his old crowd of cotton mill boys are not turning out in sufficient numbers to suit the senator. His lead in the primary was so close that he now must contest a run-off primary with former Representative Byrnes. And with his eye on what the Texas i un-off primary did to Ma Ferguson, Cole is reported breathing heavily. If Cole, after all these years, should fail to return to Washington he would be missed by lots of people who take their government as a comic strip. Next to the one and only Tom Heflin himself, who at the moment is having his own comeback difficulties in Alabama, the gentleman from South Carolina is the best showman in the senate. The galleries like his antics. Those who have regard for the prestige and intelligence of the senate often find it rather hard to endure him. But that doesn't trouble the clownish Carolinian. Like other lesser clowns in politics, he is not altogether harmless. As the leading national defender of lynching, he is a menace. And as one of the many drinking drys on Capitol Hill he is nothing to boast about. Nevertheless, so long as we have democratic government, the people of South Carolina have a right to pick Cole to represent them if they want to. The rub is that it is so hard to believe that he is in any way typical or representative of the people of South Carolina. Maybe he isn’t. At least the runoff primary gives the voters another chance to think it over. Another Anti-Radical Crusade ■ Communism.” “pacifism,” “radicalism,” and other allegedly subversive influences are to be combated by anew organization, the National Defense Life Insurance Company, and its adjunct, the National Defense Foundation. Ten per cent of first premiums in the life insurance company go into the foundation. High ranking retired officers of the army and navyare listed as backers of the enterprise. Trouble was encountered at the outset with the insurance commissioner of the District of Columbia, who withheld a license. But an amalgamation was effected with another insurance company, enabling the new concern to comply with the law, and presumably the project will go forward. "This fund that we will raise through our thousands of solicitors all the way from Maine to California will roll up to be a power in the land and be used to . . . raise the standard of American citizenship wherever opportunity offers,” said a letter from Major-General Mark L. Hersey, secretary-general of the new company. Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz, former chief of naval operations, is president. Thus it appears that the patriotic citizen will be able to combine a war on radicals wfith forehandedness, protecting his dependents at the same time he defends his country against those who, we are told, are plotting Us ruin. The zeal of the gentlemen behind this project and their patriotism are not to be questioned. But we suspect that they are seeing things. There an a mere handful of Communists in this country and they have been unable even to threaten the established order. There are radicals, to be sure, yet 1b decades they have been unable to make a dent in U established order. Pacifists there are as well, yet ov expenditures for national defense keep mounting year after year. Tht trouble with endeavors of this sort is that they nsult la the suppression of freedom of speech and

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thought and action and the "persecution of any one who happens to disagree. A sincere seeker after peace becomes a “pacifist” and an enemy cf his country. The man who attempts peacefully to persuade his neighbors that political changes are desirable becomes a red, subsidized by Moscow gold, and legitimate prey for the red-baiters. This has been demonstrated abundantly. The activities of the department of justice under A. Mitchell Palmer, injustices under the various state anti-syndi-calism laws, and more recently the antics of Police Commissioner Whalen in NewYork and the hearings of the Fish committee of the house are instances. We need no foundation to curb radicalism. Radicalism is born and feeds on injustices and inequalities. A fund devoted to their elimination and to a study of things that make people discontented would be more useful than any so-called “insurance” against the effects of discontent. .Jails Then and Now A famous writer on jails and prisons at the end of the eighteenth century, Roberts Vaux of Philadelphia, thus described the county jails of 1790: “What a spectacle must this abode of guilt and wretchedness have presented when in one common herd were kept by day and night prisoners of all ages, colors, and sexes! No separation was made of the most flagrant offender and convict from the prisoner who might, perhaps, be -suspected falsely of some trifling misdemeanor; none of the old and hardened culprits from the youthful trembling novice in crime; none even of the fraudulent swindler from the unfortunate and possibly the most estimable debtor, “When intermingled with all these, in one corrupt and corrupting assemblage, were to be found the disgusting object of popular contempt, besmeared with fllth from the pillory—the unhappy victim of the lash, streaming with blood from the whipping post—the half-naked vagrant—the loathsome drunkard—the sick, suffering from various bodily pains, and too often the unhung malefactor whose precious hours of probation had been numbered by his earthly judge.” One hundred thirty years later, Joseph F. Fishman, a contemporary writer on jails and prisons, comparable in authority to Vaux in his day, thus describes the jails in one of the most advanced commonwealths of the Atlantic seaboard: "Who adequately can describe their bestiality—their utterly filthy, frigid desolation? With two or three exceptions, the cells are of stone, and in the winter stone cold;sthere is no light; there is no fresh air, and the atmosphere of decades poisoned by the exhalations of countless prisoners, sick and well, is rendered still more foul by the loathsome night bucket; bathing usually is unknown; bedding is considered plentiful when a mere mattress and a blanket are supplied, and often one of these is omitted; there is no segregation of sex, or age, or anything else; there is no exercise, no work, no occupation or diversion of any kind—it is impossible even to see in most places because of the darkness. “The only positive qualities that obtain, and these they have in abundance, are dirt, vermin, and the execrable fee system of feeding. Life here indeed is not only debased and stripped of every sign of civilization; it is a living death in cold dark tombs.” Such is the “progress” in nearly a century and a half! Is it not about time that something was done about it? If those janitors attending summer classes at North Carolina State college organize a team, they’ll probably call themselves the Red Sox. They’re invariably la the cellar. Now that women thugs are reported holding up and robbing men in Berlin, watch bachelors there make much ado over their credo “keep away from women.” A young man and his fiancee, sentenced to jail for kissing in public in Florence, Italy, were released when they began to weep. Putting over a fast bawl, we should say. So long as our Chinese are having it out in tong wars, it seems most of us will have to keep our shirts on. Motoring tip: In pointing out scenic sights to the driver, try not to call his attention to flats.

REASON by ™s CK

THE farmer can stand a lot more punishment than the city fellow. Every day some capitalist jumps out of a fortiethstory window because the water ran out of his stocks, but throughout agriculture’s long adversity, not one single farmer has jumped oflt of a haymow. * n tt The rest of us would go hungry if the fanner were temperatmental, for there’s enough to drive him crazy. He must gamble with flood and drought, with wind and hail, with frost and burning days, with late spring and early fall, with bugs and worms, with price fixers and market manipulators. tt tt n IF he loses, he loses all he has, but if he wins, he does not win many times the value of his stake, as other gamblers do; he merely gets the value of his tsuff—and hardly that. • He earns a congressional medal for bravery every year he farms. b tt t 1 There isn’t a capitalist in America who would he able to sit up and take nourishment at the end of the season if he had to chaperon a crop of com from spring until autumn. He would bea gibbery idiot by October, if he could last that long. # u tt The other day we rode past as beautiful a field of corn as every grew, sixty acres of it, all in tassel, standing row on row, like an army under inspection. The next day we rode past that same field of corn just after a storm, and that corn lay flat, never to. rise again. * # IN a few minutes the wind that wrecked that farmer’s hopes and yabors, yet he will grin and bear it and go on, like his neighbors around him. It’s a body blow and he's not in shape to suffer the loss, but with little complaint he will face about and meet the situation. tt n * And while this farmer was exemplifying the greatest self control, thousands of residents of Easy street were raving because they had topped their golf balls or because there was the slightest noise about the motor which bore them along in velvet ease or because the waiter was a second late with the dinner. tt a Since writing the above we read in a New York paper that the son of a Chicago packer leaped to his death from the top of a hotel because he was suffering from too much cash and idleness. But all over the United States young men who are poor are carrying on. glad to be alive and to be indispensable to somebody’s welfare. It's better to be a pbilospher and be broke.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

Value of High Pressure in Field of Chemistry Proved by Experiments. LIBERAL high-pressure methods are finding as valuable an application in the field of chemistry as the figurative high-pressure technique of the business world. Chemists believe that the new processes by which chemical reactions arc carried out under tremendous pressure of many tons to the square inch soon will revolutionize many industries and yield new products of great value to the business and agricultural world. A symposium on the subject will form part of the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, which opens in Cincinnati Sept. 9. Scientific investigation now going on in the laboratories of the Standard Oil Company, federal bureaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin and there institutions will be reported. Discovery of the value of high pressures is believed to mark the foremost advance achieved in applied chemistry in the last twenty years, according to Professor Norman W. Krase of the University of Illinois, who is chairman of the symposium. n u * Petroleum THE world’s supply of petroleum will last nearly a third longer than originally was supposed because of the use of high-pressure methods, according to Dr. Krase. This is because there is no waste, as formerly. Hydrogenation of petroleum carried out under high pressure utilizes 100 per cent of the petroleum, he says. “High pressure is becoming a ready tool, powerful yet flexible, in the hands of the present day scientist,” Professor Krase says. “Knowledge of its possibilities rapidly is indicating new lines of development in all sorts of industries. All that synthetic and organic chemistry have done for civilization is about to be done more easily . Manufacturers of dyes and other chemicals will be freed of present laborious processes and given a direct approach to results. “Synthetic ammonia, which.‘fixes’ the nitrogen of the air, is making the agriculture of the United States independent of the nitrate deposits of South America. The synthesis of higher alcohols from water gas has disclosed additional sources of enrichment.”tt tt tt Pressure A PRESSURE of a little less than seven tons is employed in the new synthetic ammonia process. Two and a quarter tons is required in the hydrogenation of petroleum and the production of methanol, or synthetic wood alcohol. These pressures are combined with temperatures ranging from 450 to 600 degrees centigrade. “The desirability of using high pressure to bring about certain chemical reactions has long been recognized,” Dr. Krase says. “But the means of applying them has baffled scientists and engineers. “Costly research and experiment by industries and universities now is developing the technique of high pressure work to a plane comparable to most other branches of chemistry. “In the high pressure researches into alcohols from mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, experiments are under way to determine whether alcohols higher than methanol, or wood alcohol, may not be produced. With wood alcohol as an intermediate product, the higher alcohols are being formed chiefly by successive condensations of lower ones.”

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BATTLE OF BULL RUN Aug. 29 ON Aug. 29, 1862, the Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee badly defeated the Union forces under General Pope in the second Battle of Bull Run, called by historians one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil war. Pope, because of his previous good service, was put in command of a newly organized force, the “Army of Virginia,” intended to operate against Richmond. He moved against Jackson, Confederate general, in the hope he would meet him before reinforcements arrived. But Jackson had beaten him to it. In this predicament Pope himself asked for reinforcements and additional supplies of ammunition, but failed to receive them in time. Pope was beaten severely and his forces driven back. Just thirteen months before this, the Army of the Potomac was defeated on the same battlefield. Pope now led his men back to the defense of Washington. The campaign had cost him at least 15,000 men. The Confederate loss was estimated as probably above 10,000. In spite of the Federal rout. General Longstreet, Confederate leader who took part in the battle, declared Pope “made a splendid fight.” Daily Thought Thou shalt make thee no molten Gods.—Exodus 34:17. Man certainly is stark mad; he can not make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.— Montaigne. What is the meaning attached to a ring of haze around the moon? It is known as halo, and is due to refraction of light by minute icecrystals floating in the air, and is seen around either the sun or moon. What is the national wealth of Italy? It was estimated in 1928 at $21,250,000,000. What was the name of the mother of Zachary Taylor before her marriage? Sarah Strather. How far will the bullet from a Springfield rifle travel, and at what distance will it Ull? It will travel 5,800 yards and will kil at about 5,500 yards. • A- " .Hi- .. ■ VP \ ' >•"

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Acidosis Not Disease, Says Physician

BY' DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SINCE the campaign of the California growers of oranges for education of the public some years ago, the word “acidosis” has meant something to the majority of people. Somehow the word “acid” has developed a most unfavorable connotation in the human mind and the word “alkali”"is little if at all understood by the average reader. Acidosis is not a disease., but a disturbance of the relationship between acids and alkalis in the human body. Both types of substance occur in human tissues. Acids and alkalis react to form salts. If a sufficient amount of acid is retained in the body to increase the hydrogen for concentration of the body fluids beyond normal limits, the person has acidosis. The human body is equipped with a remarkably efficient mechanism for regulating the relationship between acids and alkalis.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

WITHIN a week or so the city folk will be coming back to town. And that's foolish. I always have been one to contend that summer is a swell season right in the heart of Manhattan. But that doesn’t go for autumn, then is the time when the country puts on its best performance, as soon as the trippers have left the leaves and grasses lose their sense of stage fright. And with the departure of selfconsciousness comes experimentation. In summer everything is green because that is the custom and the convention. But now that comparative privacy has been restored, each tree puts out which ever colors happen to please it. The one that wants to be loud and gaudy goes ahead and is just that and gives not a damn what any metropolitan passerby may think of the art effect. And soon there will be no metropolitan passerby, which makes it all the easier. I don’t count. Somehow, the trees don’t regard me as a fashion mentor. Even when I look askance at some strumpet birch which has gone in for scarlet the tree gives me back stare for stare and makes no attempt whatsoever to bustle around to find some apparel both green and decent. tt tt Gibbons Utters Libel JUST the same I want, to nail a libel. Floyd Gibbons, in his first vaudeville appearance, announced to a large audience: —“Heywood Broun has bought anew suit for the campaign. Now that he’s running for congress, he’s to proud to wear that shiny blue serge he’s been using for the last three years.” It’s a lie. The light brown suit with the purple stripe was my own idea and has nothing to do with politics. The blue serge would still be plenty good enough in which to run for congress. Good enough for congress, in fact. Mr. Gibbons is incorrect. The brown suit with the purple stripe is just as nonpartisan as this column. Incidentally, in spite of the libel, Floyd Gibbons got away with his first vaudeville appearance in fine fashion. He found a friendly audience and left one even warmer. I wonder why the amusement magnates do not call upon newspaper men more frequently. Only the other day I was mentioning this very point to Max Gordon, my personal theatrical agent. “I think,” he said, after I had brought the matter up, “that I will have no trouble in getting you some time in 1935.” “But why wait five years?” I protested. “It will give people a chance to forget,” he explained. • u tt Maybe a Ballad THIS was most unfair. I have a new joke and anew monolog practically ready. The line about President Hoover goes, “I think his anin al yarns for children are fine, but x don’t care so much about his fish stories for grownups.” Mr. Gordon said he wasn’t sure that the management would care to have attention called to unemployment and that, anyway, he wouldn’t be enthusiastic about booking me

Going—Going-!

The mechanism includes, first of all, the lungs, which rid the body of large amounts of acid In the form of carbon dioxide that is breathed out. The second part of the mechanism is the kidneys, which dispose of acid by excreting it in the fluids which pass out of the body. The third part is the salt content of the blood and of the tissues, which can take up limited amounts of acid or alkali with a view to maintaining the reaction of the blood at a constant point. This salt content is called a buffer mixture, because it acts as a buffer between the upper and lower limitations of danger in relationship to the reaction of the blood. Any one with even a simple knowledge of machinery or mechanics will realize, therefore, that the human system is constructed with factors of safety against most ordinary disturbances. However, conditions may arise in which the buffers are used up and

again without some simple dance routine. But by now we have strayed a long distance away from autumn in the country, which was to be the central theme of this column. Hale lake grows bitter now, and yet I do not regret the chill which has taken over ownership. Ownership is not much fun unless it gives you a certain sense of righteousness and superiority. There’s nothing which builds up moral fiber so much as icy water. Even the animal kingdom is swayed by the psychology of the cold plunge. Specifically I have noted the behavior of Captain Flagg, the Airedale. Upon pressing command and invitation he slumped into Hale lake Sunday, He didn't seem to enjoy the damp and cold experience at all, but when he hustled out that dog was simply insufferable. u a tt Begins to Strut HE leaped and danced and called attention to himself in all sorts of swaggering ways. And through the whole performance he smirked with . self-satisfaction. All on account of a swim in cold water. Why, I’ve been in that lake when I had to break a way through the ice by standing on it. The first thing I know that dog will be

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Mr. Miller’s article in The Times of Tuesday, Aug. 26, descriptive of conditions existing in southern Indiana is timely and interesting. I refer to the case of the workers engaged in road building activities in that section. The facts in the case of Mr. Toon are deplorable, and, let us hope, exceptional, and this man and his fellow unfortunates are deserving of our deepest sympathy. Yet perhaps there exists an angle to the situation upon which Mr. Miller has failed to touch. Pardon me. if I am in error, but it is my understanding that the state highway department releases its road building contracts to the lowest bidder, whose figures would indicate his ability to meet all the terms as specified in the contract. And, as all of us are aware that a lengthy period of general business depression has forced the contractors to adopt the keenest of competitive methods, in the quest for business, we feel that the worker is entitled to consideration and protection, and modestly suggest this plan. The highway department would estimate the cost of the proposed operation, making allowances for a limited overhead expense, and for a fair wage to be paid all workmen concerned. The competing contractors would be considered only when their figures would indicate their ability to pay specified wages and to adhere to the standards of road building. This plan, in my opinion, would settle the wage question and produce better results generally. RALPH COX. 217 North Noble street.

reactions then occur which are unfavorable. In the presence of an insufficient amount of fluid or water, acidosis can develop, although such acidosis is very mild and is corrected because the human being corrects the lack of food or water which produces the acidosis. When acidosis becomes severe, nervousness, headache, irritability, nausea, weakness and sleeplessness develop. The person seems short of breath and breathes with difficulty. At first he may be flushed and excited, but later, pale and exhausted. Sometimes there is a fruity odor to the breath, although this usually represents an advanced condition. In some diseases, such as diabetes or Bright’s disease, in very high fever with profuse diarrhea, and with difficulty in the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs, such as occurs in pneumonia and heart disease, acidosis may be so severe as to represent one of the main factors in the cause of death.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column a>-c those of one of America's roost interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naper.—The Editor.

around telling me that he takes a cold shower every morning. I don’t like people who take cold showers every morning. I know that they grow up to be Y. M. C. A. secretaries, but, even so, I don’t like them. It’s their lack of reticence which annoys me. I hate people who bathe and tell. A man or a woman’s circulation ought to be a private matter—just something between him and the Life Extension Institute. There’s something insufferably vulgar in people who glow and pulsate in public. Good health should begin at home and end there. (CoDvrieht. 1930. by The Times) Does the moon have two faces? The jmoon is a sphere, just like the earth, except that it is much smaller. It can not be said, therefore, that the moon has two faces. It has a surface. We on the earth never see but one half, or a little more, of the surface of the moon, because it turns on its axis in exactly the time it requires to revolve once around the earth in its orbit; therefore it always turns the same side to the earth. How many Roman Catholic churches are there in the United States? The 1926 United States census of religions enumerates 18,940 Roman Catholic churches, with a membership of 18,605,003. Is the United States richer than the United Kingdom? The wealth of the United States is estimated at $349,000,000,000, and that of the United Kingdom at $121,663,000,000.

Closing Out at Cost or Less! 206 KAHN SUITS Ready-for-Wear ALL ONE PRICE Anew tot of undelivered garments from our wholesale department, made to sell at 935. 940 and 945. Now, regardless of price, 206 suits have been grouped for immediate clearance at the single price of 919.50. KAHN TAIIX7RINS-0? Retail Dept, Ready-for-Wear Section 2nd Floor Kahn Bldg., Washington and Meridian

AUG. 29, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Prosperity Did More Tharl Water Stocks and Elect Hoover. It Made Us All Feel Too Comfortable for, Our Own Good. A FTER four years and seven months in office. Mayor Walker of New York admits that petty graft is widespread. Putting aside other aspects of this amazing admission, for the moment, only one of two conclusions is possible. Either Mayor Walker inherited this petty graft from preceding administrations or it developed during his own. If it was a case of inheritance, he has shown singular dullness in recognizing and assuming the responsibilities of his job. If, on the other hand, it has developed since he took office, how can he escape some share of the blame? * tt tt Lacks Logic MAYOR Walker’s candor would be more impressive, were it not for an obvious lack of logic. He must regard the people of New York as naively trustful indeed if he thinks he can make them believe that petty graft has become widespread, without more or less biz graft. In a little hick town it might ba possible for peanut politicians to get away with the gravy, but not in thn American metropolis, with Tammany hall on the job. What are sachems, district leaders, and precinct captains for anyway, if not to sec that the small fry shows proper appreciation of its opportunities? tt M tt Long Graft Trail PETTY graft! How innocent iti sounds, and what a lovely smoke screen it would make for the more serious business backstage, if enough, and more than enough hadn't come out already to spoil the picture! What about the milk racket, the poultry racket, the magistrates who have been ousted or sent to jail? What about the Ewald case and the collateral streams of rumor, charge, and insinuation to which ifc has given rise? One judge and four magistrates on the griddle right now for the allleged offense of buying their jobs, and with the thing ramifying until it may lead heaven knows where. K tt tt Easy Money PROSPERITY did more than water stocks and elect Hoover. By and large, it made us all feel a little too comfortable for our own good. Who cared what the profiteers or politicians did, as long as work and cash were abundant? The Daugherty ring at Washington, the beer war in Chicago, tha murder of Don Mellett, the oil scandal, the ever-lengthening parade of discredited magistrates in New York and a whole lot more—could any of it have happened, but for thesoothing effect of easy money? Now that we are a little short and a little scared, the thievery and the incompetence don’t look quite to harmless. tt a tt It Helps Mooney SAY what you will, but prosperity Is a wonderful preserver of the status quo. The chances are that if it had kept on, Governor Young would have been renominated in California. It’s a mean thought, but Mooney and Billings yet may have reason to be grateful for the depression. At all events. Young is out, with Sunny Jim Rolph scheduled to take his place, and a little better chance for the boys to go free. ft It tt Crisis Is Near WE are approaching something oc a crisis in politics and it is not wholly due to prohibition, though some people would like to think so. A lax attitude toward law enforcement has extended not only into other fields, but has been accompanied by a lax attitude toward most every kind of moral and social obligation. An outsider might think we had become prudish, if not puritanical because of the lip music, but he wouldn’t have to dig very deep to find something worse. For every positive, deliberate, conscious offense, we have suffered from a thousand crimes of carelessness, indifference, or neglect, and nowhere has the malady been so virulent as in our political life. Are the territories of the United States divided into countries like th states? Os the two organized territories of the United States, Hawaii is divided into counties and Alaska is not.