Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1930 — Page 4

,js-

StMIPPJ-MOWAJCXt

The High Price of Yachting Betty Carstairs’ nonchalant announcement that she has spent more than $500,000 in the last few years in her attempt to wrest the speed boat championship from American hands is an illuminating commentary on the expensiveness of this particular brand of sport. Indeed, yachting probably stands today as the most expensive sport available. There simply is no limit to the amount of money that an enthusiast can pour into it. The sailboats that competed for the honor of defending the America’s cup cost more than $1,000,000 apiece. A pleasure yacht like Vincent Astor's or J. P. Morgan’s can cost $200,000 a year simply for upkeep. Nevertheless, the poor man can have his whack at it, too. For a few hundred dollars he can get a boat and outboard motor that will take him over the water at a dizzy clip. For a little more he can buy a neat cabined cruiser or sailboat. Yachting is an aristocratic sport, but it does have a democratic side. Dominican Relief . Americans will be pleased at the promptness with which the governmeiit and the American Red Cross came to the aid of the stricken Dominican republic. The army and navy got busy as soon as the extent of the hurricane devastation became known and the Red Cross at once sent funds. Information now available indicates there is much to be done. More than 1,100 lives have been lost and the capital city of Santo Domingo virtually wiped out. Extent of the damage in outlying districts is yet to be learned, but is believed to be great. Relations between the Dominican republic and this country have long been close, and for the most part friendly. Annexation, proposed after the republic won freedom from Spain, was approved by the Dominicans themselves, but rejected by the United States. In later years the United States intervened in the affairs of the country with two civil commissions, and finally with marines, who were in control for eight years until 1924. But the United States made good its promise , to withdraw the marines. It did much to improve internal conditions in politics, communications, transportation and economics. This won the friendship and respect of the islanders in a way which, unfortunately, has not yet been done in some similar instances in southern republics. The country is not rich and in recent years has been suffering a severe depression because of the low price of sugar, which is the major crop and the chief source of revenue and trade. Money and supplies will be needed at once, and of these there is little doubt this country will give generously. After that will come the problem of reconstruction in a country already hard hit. Here again Americans can help with money, supplies and technical and business advice.

The Bankruptcy Racket Creditors of bankrupt estates during the last five years lost $3,800,000,000. They recovered approximately 814 cents on the dollar. The present bankruptcy law is “perfectly designed to promote inefficiency” and “to encourage dishonesty and reckless disregard of business integrity” on the part of persons who incur indebtedness which they know they can not pay. These and other facts we leam from the speech of Thomas D. Thatcher, solicitor-general of the United States and former federal judge in New York, before the American Bar Association. Administration of the bankruptcy act long has been a matter of concern to the federal judges of the southern district of New York, said Judge Thatcher. „ “It was obvious that estates were administered badly, with much needless delay and wasteful expenditure of money,” he said. “There was little benefit in the statute for the creditor and the ease with which debtors procured discharge from their debts, without investigation of the cause of their failure, seemed to encourage fraud and dishonesty in trade.” “One could not avoid the impression that back of many of the proceedings brought into court there was crookedness and collusion.” The whole theory of the present statute is wrong, in Judge Thatcher's opinion. The theory of the law is that creditors, because of their interest in collecting debts, will take active control of the administration of a bankrupt estate. But creditors do not concern themselves seriously, and a third of scheduled liabilities are abandoned. “They (the creditors) prefer to write off their losses and spend their time in more profitable .pursuits," said Thatcher, rather than wasting it in "fruitless efforts to save money.” ”e brought out the interesting fact that 57 per cent of bankrupts in a four-year period were professional men and others not included among farmers, merchants and manufacturers. "Such persons who are not engaged .in trade have as a rule no occasion to come into bankruptcy unless they have been living beyond their means on money borrowed from their creditors,” he said. “The statute affords them an easy way to escape their debts and the small business man who extends them credit has no remedy.” The cure is an overhauling of the system. Judge Thatcher's own department, in conjunction with the department of commerce, is making a study at the request of the President which will serve as a basis for suggested congressional action. Judge Thatcher has studied the English system, and likes it. Under it, the investigation of the causes of bankruptcy and the conduct of each bankrupt is regarded as a public function and not left to creditors. Courts are given wide discretion in discharging bankrupts—and punishing them. He advocates some such system here. The question will, of course, be debated at length in congress. Evils of the present system are obvious. The studies now being made will furnish a basis for needed correction. v Brains Versus Cash in Elections Does the man with brains and little money stand a chance with the possessor of an expansive checkbook when running for office in this great democracy of ours? This question has been raised once more in connection with the voluptuous expenditures of Ruth Hanna McCormick in the recent Illinois primaries and the purchase of judicial offices in New York City. The matter is dealt with by Dr. Charles A. Beard in an article on “Money in National Politics,” in the New;, Republic. When politics was a matter of neighborhood agitation. the poor man could circulate about freely and stood some chance against his rich competitor. Today ihe candidate for senator or governor has to reach millions. „ The inevitable and wholly legitimate expenses of education” and electioneering are great

The Indianapolis Times <A SCRIP PS-HO WARD NEWSPAPER) Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Time* Publishing Cos., 214-220 West Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Price In Marion County, 2 •cent* a ropy: el*ewhere, 3 cent*—delivered by carrier, 12 cent* week. BOYD GURLEY, \ROY W. HOWARD, FRANK G MORRISON, Editor President Business Manager 1 HONE—Riley D651 SATURDAY, SEPT. . 1930. Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light £.nd the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

even to the candidate of the most noble Intentions and entirely chaste methods. No poor man even can *think of running for office unless he has rich friends or friendly corporate interests. What have we done to prevent elections from being a walkaway for the extremely wealthy? We have: (1) outlawed contributions from employes of the federal government; (2) forbidden contributions from national banks and corporations; (3) limited the amount which may be spent in elections for federal offices; (4) made it illegal to promise a job as a reward for political support; (5) tabooed bribes for voting; and (6) ordered publicity for expenses. Have these methods proved effective or do they embody loopholes which render them ineffective? Dr. Beard inclines to the latter opinion: fl) the law exempts from election expenses everything spent for personal expenses, stationery, postage, printing, telephoning, telegraphing and the like—in short, most legitimate electioneering expenses; (2) friends or friendly interests may spend unlimited funds for the candidate; (3) not all need be spent during the campaign; great deficits may be allowed to pile up and are made up after the expense report has been filed; (4) the reporting of expenditures is perfunctory and never gets any publicity, unless there are alert enemies or newspapers scent a scandal; (5) there is no adequate machinery for enforcing existing legislation; (6> finally, primaries are exempted from these restrictive laws, and in many cases the primaries and not the elections count—witness Pennsylvania and nearly all the southern states,- where one party is dominant. In short, we may agree with Professor Beard that the dice are all loaded for the Croesus who yearns to be a solon under the Capitol dome. The long head is no match for the long purse. Maybe this is all right, but we only are kidding ourselves if we think we are living in a democracy.

Facts and Fancy About Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis is all too frequently held to be the wand of the magician or the work of the devil. Its partisans fondly believe that it can make over a man's soul as the surgeon remodels his face through plastic surgery. Its enemies allege that it only provides plausible and pseudo-learned justification for degeneracy. Nowhere do these fanciful views of psychoanalysis have freer rein than in the application of this branch of psychotherapy to marital problems and family relations. The fans believe that the psychoanalyst can take an ill-mated and nonadjusted pair who never should have married under any circumstances and make them over into a pair of human turtle doves cohabiting in a love nest. The alarmed ones charge that the psychoanalyst waits impatiently to put the stamp of his professional approval on adultery, divorce and license. These fanciful views of psychoanalysis by friend and foe have been severely attacked recently by Dr. C. P. Obendorf and Dr. William A. White. At the meeting of the American Neurological Society at Atlantic City, Dr. Obendorf made it clear that in handling domestic difficulties the psychoanalyst aims only to discover the roots of the difficulties and to render such aid as this discovery of causes will offer. He indirectly may strengthen the personality so as to help one to make more effective use of the new knowledge .of his problem, but psychoanalysis makes no pretense of working miracles. As Dr. Obendorf puts it:

“The only position which the psychoanalyst can assume in these matrimonial tangles is to bring to consciousness those unconscious factors which produce social discord, it is not the function of the psychoanalyst to assume the role of guide, either in keeping the couple together or in advising separation.” The allegation that psychoanalysis offers any blanket encouragement to license is laid at rest by Dr. William A. White in an article in the New York Her-ald-Tribune. Answering this charge directly, .he says: “The statement that psychoanalysis gives free rein to all the tendencies and passions, on the theory that their repression is bad for the individual, is nonsense. Psychoanalysis never taught this and never believed it. “The only people who do believe it are those who want to, and they are among the critics of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis, as a matter of fact, has, in recent years particularly, laid a great deal of stress upon what other people call moral controls, shown how they have grown up. and, like all truly scientific disciplines, it sets forth the facts as it finds them for you or me to do with as we please.” In short, psychoanalysis is a body of scientific investigation and clinical practice, not the plaything of Pollyanna or the subtle instrument of Lucifer. The quicker friends and enemies discover this, the better for both.

REASON bv fp " k

WE are mpre than reconciled to the fact that we do not belong to the League of Nations as we read how the league flayed John Bull for the way he handled the Palestine mandate, holding him responsible for 200 deaths caused by recent riots. tt u tt If we had a stack of chips in this game, our soldiers would now be tendering soothing syrup on the point of a bayonet to rebellious hordes all over the map. If Uncle Sam ever hankers for a mandate for the heathen, he won’t have to go clear to Asia; he can just go to Chicago. tt tt a OR he can accept a mandate for New York City, where it's impossible to hold the funeral of a star without a riot. There was a disgraceful melee when Leopold Auer, the great teacher of the violin, was buried and the same thing occurred before when Rudolph Valentino’s funeral was held. But even more disgraceful on the part of New York City is her failure to complete or even maintain the tomb of General Grant on Riverside drive. The G. A. R. convention at Cincinnati considered taking its small fund and devoting it to the Grant tomb, which should get under the rhinoceros hide of Father Knickerbocker. tt tt tt IN his Indianapolis speech Admiral Byrd told of its being so cold at the south pole one could hear his breath freeze. Weve never had this experience, but we used to sleep in a room where it was so cold we could see our convervation photographed. tt tt it It is unjust to say that in her campaign for the senatorship in Illinois Ruth Hanna McCormick is carrying water on bot hshoulders; seh e is carrying water on one shoulder and booze on the other. Borah’s independent attitude m the senate may deprive him of the homage which goes to a regular, but he has just been renominated by the Republicans .without going back to Idaho, and the Democrats are not going to nominate anybody against him. That is what you call “putting it over.” tt m u This Peoria citizen who threatened to kill a man over a quarrel at miniature golf would knock all of Coloney Bogey's tteth out if he placed the real game jil&t once.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

\ America Awakening to Value of Fine Arts, Belief of Columbia University Professor. A DEVELOPMENT of the fine arts which will rival that of ancient Athens is beginning in the United States. That is the opinion of Professor Emerson H. Swift of the department of fine arts of Columbia university, who just has completed a survey of art activities throughout the United States. History is repeating itself. A great outpouring of art always has followed a great accumulation of wealth. “Increasing wealth, which is bringing leisure, travel and association with older cultures, is the mainspring of the new American renaissance,” says Professor Swift. His opinion is particularly interesting in view of the pessimistic comment of many critics who see a decline in art, as a result of the advance of science. Professor Swift just takes the opposite view. Science has created machines. Machines have brought wealth and leisure. And now they in turn bring anew flowering of the fine arts. non Interest PROFESSOR SWIFT says that there is evidence of anew and enthusiastic interest in the fine arts throughout the entire United States. “Up to the beginning of the present century, the fine arts in America concerned few of our people save a small group of foreign-trained artists and wealthy amateurs, who, more by chance than inclination, had traveled or studied abroad and thereby had acquired a genuine interest in some phase or period of what they felt to be a fascinating subject,” Professor Swift says, “The vast majority still were inclined to regard painting and sculpture as too exotic, too far removed from the affairs of daily life, to warrant their giving them any particular thought or attention, while architecture was beneath their notice. “The reason for this state of affairs is not far to seek. A background of almost three centuries of rough pioneering, of feverish exploitation of the vast resources of a virgin continent, of an austere puritanical spirit which had frowned upon all artistic expression as a snare of the devil —such a tradition, together with the inbred habits of thought which it engendered, had provided but barren soil for the growth of art.” non War WITH the change of the century, however, a change took place, according to Professor Swift. “Increasing wealth and leisure not only encouraged the habit of collecting works of art for private delight as well as public satisfaction, but also gave rise to a continually growing stream of travel, spread itself broadcast upon the continent of Europe,” he said. “A powerful impulse of another sort was generated by the shipping to France of some millions of our citizens from all walks of life to take part in-the war, and for the first time the fabled man in the street became acutely, perhaps too acutely, aware of the existence of Europe. “What the doughboy saw of France, sordid and dispiriting enough at times, proved sufficient to arouse his curiosity and inspire him with a keen desire to know something more about the cathedrals, the pictures and the statues which he often had found so baffling and at the same time so moving. “The result of all these forces, their reaction upon the life and thought of America today, has been aptly termed the ‘American Renaissance.’ “That this is no mere figure of speech a recent survey has demonstrated amply, proving beyond doubt that the country is experiencing a truly amazing revival of interest in the fine arts in all their branches; proving further that this revival is not merely academic, since it manifests itself in varied and vital fashion in all the creative •'orms of art.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—According to the papers, more gasoline is being purchased this year than ever before, despite the present economic condition. This being true, the oil companies evidently are prosperous and not included among those unable to sell their produce. Nevertheless, service station attendants are being paid less money than ever before, which only goes to show how the big industries are taking advantage of the present labor conditions. I am acquainted with an attendant connected with one of the largest companies, who was paid but S7O last month for thirty-one days’ work. This country is supposed to be free from peonage and slavery of any sort, yet these conditions abound. Almost any station attendant will tell you of these conditions if approached properly. Capital is only hurting itself all the more by this nefarious practice. Workers are losing confidence in their employers and reduced morale will not help any business concern. Perhaps some day they will learn that low wages and depressions go hand in hand and that the only way we can become prosperous is to pay men what they are worth and not what they can be hired for. A TIMES READER. Is an old postage stamp of more value canceled than uncanceled? To a collector, the value of a postage stamp does not depend upon whether it is canceled or uncanceled, out rather upon which kind is more rare. With some issues the canceled specimens are more valuable, while with others the uncanceled stamps command the highest price. Are there any states that do not have suite workmen’s compensation laws? States which do not have such laws are Arkansas. Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina. Who played the part of Marjorie White’s boy friend Eddie, in “Sunny Side Up?” * Frank Richardson.

And the Season Really Hasn't Warmed Up YetF

| i v 1 X-S \ W£h) , • ' \ W / ■ ■/ / r\ YO. / ■ i ’ > HtVaE s' iW,

Water or Oxygen? Which Comes First

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyxela, the Health Magazine. A GOOD subject for a debating society with some knowledge of science would be the question as to whether water or oxygen is more, important for the human body, Without oxygen one dies promptly, and without water more slowly. Death from lack of oxygen is sudden and relatively painless; death from lack of water may be long and involve terrific upsets in the machinery of the human body. Water carries materials into the body and out of it. As part of the blood, it is concerned with interchange of materials within the body. Through its function of passing through membranes, it makes possible the continuous transfer of material from one cell to another and from one organ to another. By the evaporation of water from the surface of the body the tem-

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST has been ordered to leave France, and his action hardly reflects credit upon the wisdom of the French government. This opinion comes from one who has certainly not been in sympathy with many phases of Hearst editorial policies or Hearst news technique. But the order of expulsion is certainly a notice served on all newspaper men that foreign correspondents in France may function only so long as they take an attitude favorable toward the policy of the ruling party. France, of course, is not the only country to act in this fashion. Italy has penalized journalists who were not satisfactory to Mussolini. Russia and Mexico have refused to tolerate new-s gatherers whose opinions were disturbing. Much of the muddle-headedness of the world can be traced to inadequacy in the dissemination of information. Even the tragedy of the World war might have been avoided if only the peoples in all the warring countries had had access to every detail of the dispute. Any fair-minded man must know by now that not one nation got anything like a complete picture. Each saw the situation through its own particular lenses carefully colored by the men higher up. u * Tariff on Opinion IT is bad enough to set up tariff barriers which are so high that they prevent the free flow of goods. It is even worse, I think, to stifle the exchange of information and opinion. Much of our own folly in our hide-and-seek relations with Russia may be traced to the early days of the Soviet regime. At that time such news as filtered through was pitifully meager and almost wholly unreliable. The service is much better by now. and when it breaks down the fault often does not lie with the news-gather-ing agencies but with restrictions, defined or implied, upon the part of Soviet authorities. The Russians still are going along on the old-fashioned and conventional notion that only the best foot of their progress may be exposed to foreign visitors. The visitor, lay or journalistic, still finds it difficult to see anything but model villages and model factories. And Mussolini follows much the same system in his treatment of foreign correspondents. But neither Italy nor Rusisa acknowldges a debt of worship to free speech. To the Soviets its sacredness is a sentimental notion fostered by the bourgeoisie. To Musolini it is a device for the propagation of destructive radical propaganda. * *■ tt Voltaire's France BUT France his a tradition. France should respect it. Voltaire was one of the first men to see through the problem of free speech clearly. He understood that your chief concern must be for the opinion which seems to you false, malicious, and ill-formed, Mapy of us have

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

perature of the human'being is regulated carefully. A famous German physiologist proved that a human being could lose, 40 per cent of his body weight and still recover, but that serious trouble would follow 10 per cent loss of water in the body, and that death after the loss ®f 20 per cent was certain. Obviously the control of such an important substance in the human body through the thousands of years in which the human being has developed had to become an automatic procedure. A person in good health is quite able to regulate the amount of water that he drinks. However, a man who is unconscious due to brain hemorrhage or who is paralyzed and unable to help himself, or who is ill in any manner which prevents him from satisfying his thirst, has to be looked after by someone else who must see to it that the supply of water is regularly maintained. Undoubtedly in many instances of skull fracture or of brain hemorrhage or of shock the person has

not yet learned that lesson. We are all for the sort of free speech which gives complete freedom of expression to the man or woman with whom we are in agreement. 6r, at best, to the dissenter whose feeble yawpings are of no consequence. We don’t understand that if free speech Is to mean anything we must give until it hurts. You or I can stand in any public place today or tomorrow and shout to the very fringe of the crowd that we do not believe in war—in any sort of war whatsoever. A policeman will stand guard and feee that we are not molested. And the crowd will be attentive and friendly enough. It is easy to talk against war when there is no war. At the last peace meeting which I attended in front of city hall, a representative of Mayor Walker added his voice to the general condemnation of war as a means of settling international disputes. non Looking Backward OUT if the clock suddenly had been turned back thirteen years not one of those speeches could have been made—not even the one by the respectable gentleman who acted as spokesman for the mayor of New York. AH of us would have been bundled off to jail as traitors and radical agitators. It would not have been necessary to change a word in any of the discreet addresses. Yet, after all, it is a fairly futile

-nqOAyrißnHe-

SHOOTING OF M’KINLEY Sept. 6

ON Sept. 6, 1901, President McKinley, while attending a public reception at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo, was shot by an assassin, Leon Czolgosz. On the day preceding, the President had devlievered an address on commercial reciprocity among the various nations and it was believed he soon was to propose a policy in this -connection which might have made his second administration fully as momentous as his first. The surgeons who were summoned operated almost immediately on the wounded President, and thus made possible the fight for life which then was carried on. There seemed to be some hope he would pull through, but on Friday the 13th he took a turn for the worse and died the following day. The actual end came suddenly and made a profound impression both in this country and abroad. McKinley’s body lay in state in the Capitol at Washington on the 17th and then taken to his home city. Canton, 0., for burial. In his message to congress, Dec. 3, 1901, President Roosevelt declared, “It is not too much to say that at the time of President McKinley’s death be was the -ffKjst widely lovec. man m the United Sfates.”

died because a sufficient amount of water was not available to the body. It has beep estimated by several investigators that the amount of water put in represents about 1,894 grams, or two quarts, a day, usually taken in the form of drinking water; of water in coffee, milk and soup; of water in solid foods, and of water developed by chemical changes within the body. It has been estimated that the amount of water passing out each day represents a relatively similar amount, 1,750 grams, short about one-half pint. The water put out is in the usual excretions of the body, and particularly in water vaporized through the skin and through breathing. The average man ought to drink at least eight glasses of water a day. He seldom realizes, however, that many of the foods that he takes must also supply additional water. Such solid foods as steak, eggs, potatoes, oysters, tomatoes, asparagus, celery and lettuce will vary from 75 to 95 per cent of water in their content.

Ideals and oninloas expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without retrard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

gesture to talk against war when no war threatens. The hour when it is vital and necessary for us to hear the arguments against conflict is during the time when war is actually on, or at least imminent. And then we shut it off. Os spilled blood much has been said. It is better, perhaps, to direct attention to days which are ahead of us. Suppose the clock were to' be pushed ahead a full thirteen years. Just what the state of the republic may be then no man knows. The best we can do is to organize the thought of all men and women into a fealty to free speech, into a determination that, whatever the circumstances, no one shall be denied the right to be heard. non Stifling of Steam ALREADY there are indications that this is precisely what we will not do. I am in perfect accord with some who say that many Communistic utterances are not sincere, not truthful and are malicious in their intent. At least, that is how they seem to me. Because they are hard to swallow is the very reason why we should defend the rights of these speakers. Even if it were a good and proper thing to shut off the furthest fringe of lunatic incendiary utterance it would not be possible. Once suppression begins, no boundaries can be set to your censorship. Already we have the silly spectacle of suppression fanatics, like Ralph Easley, saying that such rock-ribbed conservatives as Ivy, Lee and Paul L. Cravath are red menaces. Once that kind of thinking is allowed to influence public conduct, which one of us is safe? I stand for freedom of speech even by the reddest of red menaces. I advise you to do the same. If you are unwilling to stand for the other fellow’s menace, what possible assurance have you against waking up some morning to find that you’re a menace yourself? (Coovrlsht. 1930. bv The Times)

Here Y’Are, Movie Fans Our Washington bureau has put up in a single packet, four of its informative bulletins of particular interest to those interested in motion pictures and stars of the silver screen. The titles are: 1. Directory of Picture Stars, 3. Popular Women of the Screen. 2. Popular Men of the Screen. 4. History of Motion Pictures. If you want this packet, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CLIP COUPON HERE MOTION PICTURE EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of four bulletins on MOTION PICTURES and enclose herewith 15 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled, United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs, NAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY „ STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

.SEPT. 6, 1930|

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Unemployment and Breads Lines Constitute a Greater f Urge to Serious Thinkinjk Than the Vallce Croon. If AS a part of his official greeting to 300 visiting lawyers frona abroad. Mayor Walker of New Yorlq lambasts certain unnamed poliJ ticians. “Even the bench is not safe from them,” he says; "especially the politicians without a platform, nor a purpose, nor a hope.” It. is justifiable to assume that he refers to such footloose critics as the Socialists ahd good government leaguers who have committed the deadly sin of not conforming to Tammany Hall, or its catspaw, the Republican organization. Though Mayor Walker hardly can be blamed for his annoyance at the rottenness they already have exposed, and the still greater amount of rottenness they are likely to expose, he showt poor judgment in denying them credit for undertaking a clean-up which badly was needed, but which he lacked the courage to institute, though it lay within his power and was an obvious part of his responsibility to do so. non Wisecracks No Cure IF the bench of New York has suffered from some disgusting revelations who had the courage to tell ticians who ha dthe courage to tell what they knew, but of magistrates who failed to discriminate between! what was due a corrupt political machine and what they owed taj their profession. If political machines lack the hon-l esty or common sense to keep theirs own houses in order, the public haaS no recourse but to accept the servJ ices of independent critics. The fact that those critics may be long to a party which casts a small vote, or represent theories of govern 4 ment which are not generally ac| cepted, is of small consequence com J pared to the good they do in un-f covering filth. To call a spade a spade, Mayors Walker faces a bigger job than! slinging wisecracks at Norman* Thomas and other liberals. non Too Many Rackets THE issue raised by an ever-in-creasing number of scandals in connection with New York poltics, has gone beyond the bounds of partisanship. The idea of swapping Democrats for Republicans, or even Socialists, is no longer adequate. What the people of New York want to know is whether by any; hook or crook they can rid themselves of a multitude of rackets and return organized government to a decent semblance of honesty and fair play. The depression has waked them up to the nonsense they mistook for progress. From now on, they will expect something more than sideshows at city hall. nun Fish or Cut Bait NEITHER can the Republicans make capital out of the mess by continuing to swap federal patronage for city favors. The time has come when somebody must either fish or cut bait. Though New York may have suffered from less machine-gun fire than Chicago, it has not suffered from less tribute 'to gangdom and thuggery. Nor are its 30,000 speakeasies the only evidence of failure to enforcethe law. More than half of its murderers are walking the streets, according to the police records. One of its garbage scows has been employed by bootleggers through seizure or connivance. Two judges and two magistrates have gone down in disgrace within the year. Disappearance of a third judge leads not only to all kinds of rumors and suspicion, but to an astonishing lack of interest and activity on the part of the authorities. non Can’t Blame Hoover POLITICAL leaders, who suppose they can gloss over such a stinking stew by building benches in the city hall park, waving flags, or making funny speeches, are only fooling themselves. The fact that they could get away with it during a season of paper prosperity and general whoopla, means nothing. Unemployment and bread lines constitute a greater urge to serious thinking than the Vallee croon, not) only on the part of those who suffer, but by those who are merely scared. The New York of 1930 is not the) New York of 1929. Neither can politicans make people think it is by blaming the hard times on Hoover. If the national government can be held responsible for certain conditions, the local government can be held responsible for others, and if the Republicans have something to explain because of what has occurred throughout the country, tha Walker administration has something to explain because of what has occurred in New York City. Daily Thought Every man’s work shall be made manifest,—l Corinthians 3:13. Long life is denied us; let us therefore do something to show that w* have lived.—Cicero.