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More Jails The demand of the authorities at the state reformatory for a huge sum to build more cells for youthful criminals should cause some serious thought on the part of those who believed, sincerely, a decade ago that the jails now would be empty. Instead, the reformatory Is overcrowded and even the building of 300 new cells will not take care of the present population. When the reformatory was proposed, its size was criticised, because no citizen would believe that the time would come when there would bf 1.500 young men Inside prison walls. There now are more than 2,000 in that one institution, a place for first offenders. None of these prisoners was old enough to form an appetite for liquor in the old days of the saloon. Yet a vast majority of them would trace their present plight to drinking the various brands of poison that now are sold in every community. The conclusion forces itself that there is more drinking among the young today than there was formerly and that the drinks sold are of a quality that takes away not only moral sense, but gives a boldness and daring that turns youth from good homes into bandits and robbers. This state has the mast arid of dry laws, yet Its youthful prison population increases at . a rate far in excess of the increase in population. Since the appellate court has ruled that there is a very definite limitation upon the kind of labor which may be performed in prisons, these youngsters, none of them of mature age, yet many of a most mature criminality, must be kept in idleness and become in the end habitual criminals. The citizen who Is neither fanatically wet nor fanatically dry must reach the conclusion that the present system is unworkable and that our whole attitude toward law has become one which breeds criminals, not useful citizens. Perhaps the law is not strong enough, as Senator Sheppard of Texas Wednesday told the women of the W. C. T. U. It may be that the statement that the purchaser is more guilty than the bootlegger, loudly cheered by the very sincere white ribboners, is the answer. Os course, the Anti-Saloon League, the political force of the dry cause, checked an effort to make the purchaser equally guilty with the seller when it was proposed in congress. That organization saw disaster in law which might result in embarrassment for infw'iitial citizens, including many of its contributors, in such a measure. But it can not be denied that obedience to law means much less than it did before Volsteadism. The prohibition law is flaunted openly by what seems to be a majority of citizens. The methods of enforcement arc such that only two days ago Federal Judge Thomas Slick declared from the bench that the means employed by the prohibition agents, and especially the habits of witnesses it employed, was such as to make him more than disgusted. He refused to impose jail sentences on men he said he believed guilty, because of the character of these witnesses. Perhaps the answer is to just roll along, pass more laws, build more jails, corrupt more and more youths and sing hymns while the doors clank upon the heartbreak of mothers and the hopes of youths. We know we need more jails. We have not yet tried to figure out a way to make the need any less. Haiti Says, Get Out If there ever was any doubt of Haiti's opinion of the American military occupation, that doubt has been removed by the election of President Stenio Vincent. Vincent long has been leader of the extreme antiYankee group of the republic. As editor of the most popular newspaper and president of the bar association, former president of the senate, cabinet officer and diplomat, he has the respect of all classes. The significant fact to the American people should be that Vincent was elected definitely on his crusade against the American occupation, and that even the defeated presidential candidate also opposed the occupation. This apparently unanimous Haitian dislike and distrust of the United States is the direct result of our imperialistic and often cruel rule, imposed upon that free people since 1916. We swept away their sovereign political institutions and forced them to live under a puppet president of our choosing at the point of American bayonets. Following liberal protests in this country of the massacre of Haitians last year, President Hoover and his Forbes commission granted certain partial reforms. Under these reforms, Haiti was allowed to have a national election for the first time in thirteen years. The new national assembly now has spoken in the election of an extremely anti-American government. The sooner American marines are withdrawn from Haiti, the better for us and our reputation throughout Latin America. To Our Dry Readers To our dry readers who have been hoping for success of the prohibition experiment, we commend the results of the American Bar Association referendum for fair consideration. Tire American Bar Association is not constituted of wet fanatics, of professional propagandists, of partisan politicians, of bootleggers. It represents a cross section of informed public opinion on national issues. It represents a respected profession. Specifically, on the prohibition question, it represents the group of men who have the most intimate knowledge and experience in the law and enforcement. In an unhurried and calm referendum, the American Bar Association has voted 13,779 to 6,340 —or more than two to one—in favor of prohibition repeal. Most of the members of the American Bar Association arc as devoted to the ideal of a temperate nation and to hatred of the saloon as are our extreme dry readers. But, on the basis of their close experience, they have decided that prohibition has not produced temperance, but excesses of drunkenness and organized, wholesale crime. We believe that every open-minded dry should be moved by this referendum of lawyers and jurists to reconsider his or her dry position in the ligM cf facts and experience. “Unto the Least of These” When President Hoover Wednesday night spoke of the evils of child labor, he went to the bottom of one of the most acute American problems, especially in this time of wholesale adult unemployment. “Industry must not. rob our children of their rightful heritage." the President declared in opening the White House conference on child health and protection. “Any labor which stunts growth, either thysical or mental, that limits education, derives children of the right of comradeship, of joy and

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play, is sapping the next generation. ... If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.’’ Os the nation's 48,000,000 children, nearly onetenth have quit school before 18 to work. More than 6.000,000 children are suffering from malnutrition. More than 1,500,000 are suffering from communicable diseases. There are 332,CC0 children suffering from preventable tuberculosis, 1,000.000 from heart trouble; 300,000 crippled children, one-third of whom need special education they’re not getting; 450,000 children so mentally retarded as to need special education and only 60,000 getting it; more than 5,000,000 children starting life with serious physical or mental handicaps. If the White House conference is to rise above sentimental futility to practical achievement, it must do something to support the present splendid federal children’s bureau, to restore federal aid for maternity and child care by the states, and to curb child labor. Letting in the Light Ts there is any place where prudery and bigotry have wrought havoc with human happiness and brought in their wake untold misery and unnecessary anguish, it is with respect to the prevailing attitude toward venereal diseases. Absurd prudery has kept the public from knowing anything authoritative about these plagues and from learning how to protect itself from the ravages. Even the newspapers have refused to mention the names of the two most common venereal diseases. When President Eliot of Harvard, some years back, gave an address in which he called attention to the serious dangers inherent in venereal disease, the most reputable paper in Boston deleted all reference to the subject when it printed his address. The first step in any campaign for public hygiene must be a full and free dissemination of the facts. The publicity given to tuberculosis campaigns and the like has been indispensable to the success of the medical assaults upon the white plague. Venereal disease ranks with tuberculosis and cancer as one of the three major scourges of the race today. But venereal disease is far easier to prevent and to cure than either tuberculosis or cancer. Indeed, one may say that the very existence of either syphilis or gonorrhea today, in the existing state of medical development, may be blamed primarily if not exclusively on our prudery. The price we pay for drawing the veil of superstition over this field of human ills may be seen from the facts that there are at least 2,000,000 cases of gonorrhea and 600,000 cases of syphilis constantly under care in the United States today. This is costing us directly several hundred million dollars a year, to say nothing of the diverse and tremendous indirect costs. Even the insanity caused by syphilis alone costs us $26,000,000 each year in medical and institutional care. It is about time that we lifted the lid of mystery and absurd obscurantism in this field and informed the public as clearly and decently about these diseases as we already have done with respect to smallpox, diphtheria, and other diseases which we have conquered. If we do so, we confidently may expect that these deadly plagues will disappear entirely from civilized communities in a generation. In Java, rubber trees are being cut down to make way for rice crops. This is the inevitable result when one tires of rubber. A college professor advises men to marry their stenographers. Perhaps he believes the men will ’ike their type. A miniature golf course, says a news item, has been set up in church. Many doubtless have felt that nothing short of a prayer would help their score. Afghanistan, it is revealed, has had prohibition for 400 years. But maybe it only seems that long.

REASON

THE present prince of Wales is a decided improvement over his famous grandfather, the one who made the title famous. The former one owed his fame to his gambling and his social forays, but the present prince owes his popularity to his courage and simplicity. He’s a real fellow. tt tt a Dr. Frank Viztelly, dean of lexicographers, thinks the dead languages have ceased to function in our conversation because they had no slang to vivifv them. We believe the doctor is mistaken about it, for they ceased to do business long ago before presentday slang swung into action. tt tt tt Slang didn’t take dead languages from the lips of the professions, but lawyers and doctors have ceased to hand us Latin as they once did, and this reform is due to the nation’s sense of humor. Wheir the people got on to the fact that the professional brother simply was advertising, he cut the extinct lingo. tt a a WE distinctly recall when In a court room argument lawyers bombarded judge and jury with reams of Latin, neither of them knowing whether the lawyer was discussing prunes or parsnips, but it used to go over big. If you couldn't understand a fellow, it was a sign of his greatness. tt O tt And we remember when the doctors used to use slathers of Latin. They would use five or six stanzas in describing a pain in the neck, all of which had a tendency to convince the patient that he was utterly unworthy as well as under the weather. . tt tt tt Then some humorist saw the buncomb of it all and laughed the hocus-pocus out of professional life, and now lawyers and doctors talk United States. The world has a way of discrediting humorists, but they have laughed the world on to greater liberty and greater progress. a a a WE are glad that President Hoover thinks there will be no need of a special session next spring, for what this country needs is rest from politics and a chance to recuperato. Uncle Sam is sick and when a fellow is sick he doesn't want to be talked to and at for months and months. a o a The average reader of the newspapers gets mixed up on. all the Roosevelts that are running around in the headlines. One day you read that Governor Roosevelt of New York is for this and the next day you read that Governor Roosevelt of Porto Rico is for that and the next day you read that Nicholas Roosevelt, minister to Hungary, is for the other thing. Just to avoid further confusiorf'we hope no more Roosevelts will be turned loose into public life.

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

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M. E. Tracy

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We Poor Mortals Forever Are Consoling Ourselves With the Thought of How Much W ors e Off Somebody Else Is. \ FTER telling the American Chamber of Commerce at London that the United States was i headed for more hell this winter ! than she ever had been through, J. H. Thomas, dominion secretary in the labor cabinet, says that we can't hope to make progress “if every- ! body is going around with their tails ! down.” “We must drop the pessimistic note,” he declares. I His call for courage and optimism would be more effective without the l gloomy forecast with which it was prefaced, but Mr. Thomas is to be ! forgiven for that inconsistency. He merely is whistling to keep his | upper lip stiff. Though one hates to believe it, ! we poor mortals forever are consolI ing ourselves with the thought of ! how much worse off somebody else ! is, or is going to be. tt tt tt A Dangerous Trend MR. THOMAS tesses in one idea that is v/orth more attention J than -it has been getting. “Is it not an anomaly,” he asks, | “to say that there is suffering, not because of shortage, but because of over-production?” We have talked about over-pro-duction so much on the one hand and about the possibility of providing more work by eurtailing it on the other, that we have developed a very false perspective. How can there be over-produc-tion when so many people lack the bare necessites of civilized life, not to mention its comforts and luxuries? The truth is, of course, that we are thinking of over-production in certain lines, but if we are not careful, the thought may be applied in a general sense and lead to a very dangerous theory of economics. u tt We Dodge the Issue AS a matter of fact, we all have been talking rather loosely about the slump in business. The notion that it might be due to certain age-old weaknesses of human nature has attracted little notice, chiefly because such notion leaves little room for quack cures. What most cf us like to believe is that the slump was caused by certain specific mistakes that easily can be corrected in the present and avoided in the future. Also, we would like to believe that those mistakes were made by comparatively few people, and that mass thinking, or lack of it, is not at all to blame. We speak of speculation as though a small group in Wall Steet were entirely responsible and as though every sucker who could get his hand on a dollar refused to play the game. We speak of the Grundy tariff bill as though millions of Republicans were not for it. We speak of booming business as though everybody, except half a dozen of the big boys, were against it. tt tt tt Case of Blindness THE point is that practically no one was looking for such reaction as took place last fall; that the whole civilized world, its leaders included, was trotting merrily along, blind with conceit and stupefied by the good time it was/ having. By and large, the* economic depression resulted from the same failure to realize where we were going that occurred in 1914. We did not believe war could occur then until Europe blew up, and we didn’t believe there was anything else but continued prosperity ahead last fall until the market crash. But the similarity ends right there. Wfe accepted the war as an emergency, and met it with emergency measures, while we tried to sidestep the depression as something that presently would correct itself. tt tt tt A Good Precedent NO sooner had nations declared j war than they called their legislatures together and provided j sufficient money to go ahead, our own government raising thirty billion dollars within eighteen months. Suppose we had tackled the problem presented by drought, depression and unemployment the same way? Suppose Mr. Hoover had called a session of congress last July, and that session had appropriated, not thirty billion dollars, but three billion dollars, half to be expended by the federal government on public improvements, and the other half to be loaned to cities and states at 4y 2 per cent? Does any one imagine we still I would be in the pickle? With regard to its deeper and more remote causes, this sudden slump in business presents a perplexing, if not an unsoivable, problem, but the immediate remedies it j called for were comparatively j simple. Those out of work needed jobs, j while the public needed a restora- j tion of confidence.

Questions and Answers

What does the name Alda mean? It is from the Teutonic and means “rich.” What is the easiest stringed instrument to learn? The ukulele is considered the easiest. What is a commonwealth and which states are officially designated as such? Commonwealth is the official title of four states, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. The word means a state in which the sovereignty is vested in the people; the whole people of a state as un'ted under a government for the common good; a politically organized community. The word might apply equally to all the states of the Union, but the four above mentioned are the only ones that have adopted it as their official title. In the Roman Catholic ehtirch what is the date of St. Agnes Eve? Jan. 2L

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Insufficient Proteins Harm Infants

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Ifyeeia, the Health Magazine. THE proteins contained in cow’s milk, as well as in human milk, are divided into two main groups. The more valuable of these two proteins is the whey protein, because it represents more nearly the composition of the kind of protein in the body. The other protein is casein, or curd protein and, if this is given, larger amounts must be fed than in the case of whey protein to provide for building up the same amount of body protein. Asa contrast between the value of human milk and cow’s milk, the total protein in human milk is almost 60 per cent whey protein, whereas cow’s milk is only 15 per cent whey protein. This discussion may appear to the average person/ to be somewhat complicated, but the results of the application of this knowledge to the

IT SEEMS TO ME

IT shocks me to find that Calvin #Coolidge suddenly has gone red. This surprising development may be attributed to the strain of doing a daily column. Even those more mature in the trade have come upon days in which they could not resist the temptation to kick over the traces and give every reader a good, swift shock. Mr. Coolidge is, among other things, human, and he has yielded to the urge to set down words calculated to fetch bundles of letters written around that familiar formula, “Please cancel my subscription.” Mr. Coolidge’s radical outburst runs as follows; “If monopolies were permitted a few men in key positions, they soon would control our economic and probably our political destinies. Open opportunity would be gone. About the only remedy woulcPbe a revolution. tt tt a Revolutionist CALVIN COOLIDGE may wriggle out from the wrath of his conservative readers by defining “revolution” a little more closely. It is possible for him to say that he does not mean the word in the same sense in which it is used by the Communists. He can justify himself by pointing out that many dissenters have employed the noun in the loosest sore of way. After all, if the Democrats had succeeded in capturing the house it would have been in a real sense a revolution. But Mr. Coolidge must defend himself against the charge of advocating change by force, because the very condition which he outlines as justifying revolution is held by many to exist already. And those who feel that a small group of key men control our economic destinies and vastly influence

LAGERLOF’S BIRTH Nov. 20

ON Nov. 20, 1858, Selma Lagerlof, eminent Swedish writer, was born at Vermland, Sweden, the daughter of a Swedish army officer. While teaching at a high school for girls, she wrote her first book, “Gosta Berling.” Cot mg at a time when Sweden was wea y of the pessimistic realism which had been the vogue, this book was “a refreshing breath of romance” and brought the author quick success. She wrote several books on her travels through Europe and in 1902 was commissioned by the National Teachers’ Association of Sweden to write a school textbook of the geographical peculiarities, and of the flora and fauna of the various provinces of the country. In 1909 the author was awarded the Nobel prize for literature and five years later was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, being the first wom'tn to have received this honor, j Her books have been translated into many languages.

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feeding of the infant will be apparent to anyone. If the child is receiving an insufficient amount of the right kind of protein in its diet, it grows slowly, its muscles become flabby, it is likely to develop frequent infections and to be anemic. Moreover, in case it does not receive the right proteins for a long period of time, it begins to develop swellings of the extremities and even pot belly, such as .was characteristic of the children in Europe who were starved during the World war. Just as soon as the proper proteins are fed to such children, they begih to develop rapidly, the swellings disappear, and they improve tremendously. There is relatively little danger of feeding slight excesses of protein, because the human body is able to take care of slight excesses. However, great excesses lead to too much concentration of the blood and a lack of water in the system,

politics are by no means necessarily radical. Northampton’s favorite columnist must keep up with the papers for the sake of his daily stint, and he harly can have overlooked the list of the fifty-nine rulers of America given out by that good Democrat, James Gerard. Many commentators disagreed with several of the selections, but there was general agreement that Mr. Gerard had the right idea. Indeed, some said that the list readily could be reduced to ten or twelve. a tt tt Imperator of Autos HENRY FORD does not at the moment exercise monopolistic control of the automobile industry, but his influence is so vast as to justify Ids being called an economic key man. And the same may be said for John D. Rockefeller Jr., and in a lesser degree of the House of Morgan. I think that no one successfully can deny that there are several socalled private individuals in America whose economic and political power overshadows that of any twenty senators. - President Hoover gave aid and comfort to this doctrine when he sought, to mitigate the distress of unemployment much less through congressipnal action than in a series of conferences with captains of industry. tt tt Votes Do It YET I would dissuade Calvin Coolidge from his suggestion that things have come to such pass that liberal revolution is the only answer. It is quite true that you and I did

People's Voice

Editor Times—There is an old provefb that says, “A stitch in time saves nine.” I believe this holds good in keeping up our streets as well as other things. Now out in our neighborhood we had Forty-sixth street paved with rock asphalt before the sewer was put in. It was a wellmade road, but the men who dug the sewer didn’t pack the dirt down good, just put it back carelessly and hauled the rest of it away. With rains and heavy raffic, our end of Forty-sixth street is ruined. It is so bad that after a rain the children have to wade to get to school. My idea would be to have a man who would see that such work was inspected and the contractor compelled to do his work right. The water company put in mains on the same street, but packed the dirt in well, and didn’t damage the street that I could see. Another thing, we are anew addition to the city, and most of us are paying for our homes and are not prepared to take on the new improvements, such as sewers, sidewalks and paving, and will lose our homes if it is enforced. Not that we don’t want all these improvements, but we can not pay for them now. Please advise what to do to prevent this. F. =S. THOMAS. 4450 Baltimore avenue.

so that the child develops a fever and symptoms of intoxication. Os course, the average mother his no way of distinguishing between what are proper proteins and what are improper proteins. Os one thing she can be certain, the protein in mother’s milk is a safe protein for the infant and the child that is fed on the breast for at least the first six months of life has a much better opportunity of growing healthfully than one that is artificially fed, because of the danger that the artificial feeding may not be exactly what it ought to be. A physician who has studied infant feeding carefully can prescribe a formula which will resemble mother’s ihilk closely or can indeed develop a formula which will be exactly suited to the needs of the infant concerned. In preparing this formula, he will make certain that the protein is the proper protein for the particular case.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those oi one of America’s most interestine writers and are presented without retard to their atreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—Tbe Editor.

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not vote the fifty-nine rulers of America into office. But it is equally true that we can vote them cut as soon as we make up our minds to organize politically against such vast concentration of power. In fact, I wish to tell a former President of the United States very firmly that only through orderly processes of government can these things be changed. It may be that I have a sentimental aversion against violence, but I also have a wholly realistic concept that it never offers an effective solution. If Mr. Coolidge cites me the case of Russia, I will hazard the opinion that recently there have been indications that the experiment there may fail. And if it fails, it will collapse because of too much reliance, on force and too little upon the sanction of an enlightened majority. tt tt St Tali Tales TO me the recent fantastic stories of foreign plots seem very much like excuses for error and miscalculation. It is only when a tide has begun to ebb that anybody looks about for villains to bear the burden of blame for his personal disappointment. If heresy has entered into the Coolidge heart and home, I can offer him the advice that possibly he has mingled too much with the lunatic fringe of Massachusetts. Possibly William Butler has been dropping in to talk about his troubles, and a defeated candidate always is bitter and ready to proclaim that democracy is a failure and that the voters are bankrupt in brain power. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

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.NOV. 20, 1930

SCIENCE

■BY DAVID DIETZ-

E a her Standard of Engineering Education Sough■ by Society. A PROJECT to increase the /Y standard of engineering education to enable it to meet better t!* tremendous demands which the modern machine age are making upon it, has been announced by H. Hobart Porter, chairman of the Engineering Foundation. The new project unites the engineering profession, educational institutions, and industrial organizations. Porter has appointed a research committee on education, headed b". Dr. Harvey N. Davis, president of Stevens Institute of Technology. The objective of this committee, according to Porter, will be to frame a program to meet the demand of industry and public service for professional education of high quality. Asa first step, the Engineering Foundation has sought the views of engineers, industrialists, and educators upon the subject. One of the first things which this symposium brought out was that technical schools were being handicapped by the fact that industries are luring away the best men from their faculties. This was pointed out by General R. I. Rees, assistant vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and former president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. tt o a Right Selection General rees points out other difficulties facing the engineering field, among them the selection of the right material for the future engineers of America. The mortality rate during first years in college seems to indicate that we are faced with a major problem in the right selection of candidates for the engineering student body,” General Rees says. “In general, the quality of students entering the freshman year is good on the basis of scholastic achievement in secondary schools. “On the other hand, those interested in employment of engineering graduates find large numbers surviving the four strenuous years of the engineering curriculum poorly fitted to become efficient engineers. “There is continual complaint by deans of the lack of good engineering teachers, and responsibility is placed largely at the door of industry. Can not engineering societies impress upon business and industry’ that it is shortsighted to attract good men away from engineering faculties and that it might be better to co-operate in encouraging good men in industry to accept positions on engineering faculties?” •t St ** New Types Needed DR. F. L. BISHOP, secretary oi the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, says that engineers are trained in an old system which they naturally pass on. It is highly Important, he urges, to break this chain and introduce new types of training for teachers and new methods of teaching. Dr. A. B. Crawford, director of the department of personnel study' at Yale university, says that at Yale two facts have been learned: First, it is possible to determine by aptitude testa what students’ possibilities are; second, many freshmen are debarred from courses they would like to pursue after the first year, because not soon enough started in that direction, due to lack of early information. “Engineering educators” Dr. Crawford says, “now are giving thought to the question whom they should educate and to the Impartial effectiveness of objective tests. “The fact also is being recognized that youths of 16 to 19 years, when confronted with selection of the courses to follow the freshman year have ordinarily not discovered their aptitudes in time to prepare as now required for an engineering education.”

Daily Thought

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.—James 4:7. Satan, as a master, is bad; his work much worse; and his wages worst of all. —Fuller. Why are Gutenberg Bibles so valuable? Gutenberg Is regarded as the inventor of the printing press, and the Bible was the first book printed. Hence the value of the Gutenberg Bible today. Forty-two of these Bibles are known to be in existence. Recently one was purchased abroad and brought to this country. The price was $106,000. Was John McCormack, the tenor, given a title by the pope. Where was he born? He was born in Athlone, Ireland. June 14,1884. He was made a count by the pope in 1928.