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Thomas Adams, Crusader Thomas Adams, courageous crusader as an editor, sleeps. The scars he leaves behind are upon the enemies he fought and the evils he denounced. The memory he leaves is one that those who feared and hated him in life might envy for their own. He belonged to that school of journalism which believed that there is a duty of editors to warn their •readers of threats to the common good, a duty to expose corruption in office, a duty to keep the faith, ho matter what may be the sacrifice of long-standing friendships or of personal fortune. To that creed he was faithful from the time that he put down his printer's galley to take up his work as editor. The letter smuggled from the prison cell of D. C. Stephenson, confessing participation in political primes and denouncing those who had gained high office and power through them, was a call to duty. He gave unstintingly of his time, his strength, his money to ferret out evidence of these crimes and was unwavering in his purpose to throw light on this dark spot in Indiana history. The effort, was not without its toll. He was outlawed from the Republican Editorial Association in .which he had held high office. Fear-stricken culprits attempted to have him indicted in federal court on a perjured affidavit. Old friends drew away because of fear of the great power of those whom he attacked. It will be remembered of Tom Adams that none of these things ever caused him to falter. His influence upon the state will be much more .permanent than that of those who triumphed, briefly, over the cause for which he fought and who licit high official power. In politics he met the fate of most crusaders who fight the people's battles. This nation never has rewarded with high offices those who have led popular causes against entrenched power. The one exception w'as the elder La Follettc and he w : aged his battle until anew generation of voters had obtained power before he finally was triumphant as a candidate. Is it that the people recognize the higher value of unofficial tribunes and prefer to keep them out of office, that they ever may watch and warn against tiie threats that constantly arise or is it true that “republics arc ever ungrateful?" This is the glory of Adams. He held no office, but he was held in higher esteem than any public official. His real triumph was his unswerving fidelity to the causes for which he battled and the example he bequeaths to courageous youth of the future. The Six-Hour Day Action by the five railway brotherhoods indorsing the six-hour day without wage reduction shows the way the wind is blowing. What these brotherhoods—representing 375,000 members—do today, the rest of the 2,0C0.000 railway workers are apt to do tomorrow. The American Federation of Labor already has declared for a five-day working week. Doubters point out that it is one thing for labor to make demands, and quite another for industry to grant those demands. But this rather misses the nub of present developments. Several Industries already are operating on •either a shorter day or week—and finding that it pays. More than 500,000 union members in seventeen crafts are working under the shorter week; it is supported by such political leaders as Senator Watson, Republican leader in the senate, and Chairman Raskob of the Democratic national committee. According to the United States labor department, -there is a general drift toward shorter working hours throughout the country. The variety of industrial organizations and needs are such that no one simple solution Is apt to be found for all. Some Industries could adjust more easily to a five-day week of eight-hour days. Some industries, of which railroad transportation is only .pne, arr not adapted to the shorter week and therefore would find reduction more practicable through the shorter day. But whatever the methods used, American industry seems headed toward a system of shorter working time at sustained wages, to give labor its Share of the increased productivity of the machine and to spread jobs and money among more consumers. Sound Policy President Hoover's announcement that the administration will oppose the proposal to suspend the public debt sinking fund for a year, and use such funds to meet the current operating deficit, is reassuring. Looking back over the record of our federal government since the war, one of the few high spots of statesmanship has been the policy of rapid retirement of the public debt. That policy, which has reduced the debt from twenty-six to sixteen billion dollars, compensates for many of the mistakes made by the Coolidge-Mellon regime. To depart from that wise policy this late in the day. as desired by some politicians, would be injurious in more ways than one. It would shake confidence in the stability of the federal fiscal policy. It would create needless alarm over the extent and significance of the current federal deficit. It would resert to dangerous political quackery, Inviting similar future raids on the sinking fund. It would substitute false for sound economy by prolonging and compounding interest payments. It would burden future generations with costs of our war. The case for continued rapid retirement of the public debt is so strong, the President should expect and doubtless will receive the help of both Republican and Democratic leaders in congress in maintaining this policy. The Muscle Shoals Deadlock I*, seems to be pretty generally forgotten, but it is the administration's turn to compromise on Muscle Shoals and thus put through the power development that will mean so much to a great section of the south. The administration’s forces in the house will face another test of their sincerity when the Muscle Shoals conference committee meets In two weeks; these Republicans will*have a chance to say whether they really want Muscle Shoals legislation passed, after ten years’ delay. When the conference committee first met last spring it had before it the senate bill, providing for government operation of Muscle Shoals, and the house bill, providing for lease of these properties to private Interests. The conference deadlocked, and then the senate conferees, led by Norris of Nebraska, offered their compromise. That was this: The senate would agree to the proposal of the house to the extent of leasing all fertilizer and nitrate properties at Muscle Shoals. The senate proposed that this lessee be required t to manufacture exclusively fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, and that the government, retaining the

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power facilities, should furnish to the lessee all power necessary for operation of the leased properties at a price as cheap as power sold to any other person, corporation or municipality. The senate, in effect, went half-w3y to meeting the house requirements. The house refused to do as much. If this happens again in the coming session the responsibility will be President Hoover’s, for the house still is amenable to his wishes. That Job Is Done Representatives from states which lost membership in the recently announced reapportionment of the house of representatives are threatening to upset the new arrangement when congress meets. It will stand unless there Is positive action against it, for congress wisely made the reapportionment automatic on the results of the census. There is no justification for complaint from the ; twenty-one states which will lose membership. They can not expect to deny representation to those states i which have grown more rapidly than they have. Congress flouted the constitutional mandate tor reapportionment for ten years, and adopted the present scheme only after protracted debate. The question of excluding aliens from the count, the disfranchisement of Negroes in the south, and other controversial matters had full discussion, and a decision was reached. No new arguments can be advanced. Politics—the balance of power in the house—should not be a factor. The short session of congress has more than enough business to attend to without reviving the endless talk about reapportionment. The White House Conference The White House conference on child health and; protection was, on the whole, a demonstration of good! will and intelligent research. The mass of arresting facts as to the individual and social handicaps borne by 10,000,00 - out of the nation’s 45,000,000 children doubtless will bear fruit in many a long-deferred reform. It is a pity, however, that the conference was not free to display more courage in outright support of t V j infancy-maternity aid bill now before congress, and the child labor amendment before the legislatures of forty-three states. The conference took indirect notice of both these measures. Unfortunately, In the former issue, the policy-makers of the conference attempted to use their power, in defiance of the wishes of the hundreds of delegates, to influence congress to deprive the children's bureau of its normal function of administering The question of child labor was handled with too many gloves. Something should be said in favor of the son of the former crown prince of Germany who is in this country looking for a job. He might have come here on a lecture tour. Maybe by opening a soup kitchen for the unemployed in Chicago A] Capone figures to get himself out of a stew. A writer says that a woman should buy a dog that j suits her disposition. The next step probably will be j to revise that famous phrase to read “whine, womenj and song." { One of the paradoxes of the modern age is why a! man on the loose thinks he can improve things by getting tight. Now that Moscow and New York have been linked by radio, it will require a sharp ear to distinguish between static and, say, a revolution. The old-timers who said the world was flat may not have been so much in error at that. Who knows but what there was a depression in those times, too? Some fellows who planned to bag big game this season may find they are occupied keeping the wolf away from the door. A half back, says the office sage, always is sure to get a rise out of the stands in the long run. There are many self-made men who seem to have forgotten one last essential: Polish. “What we need,’’ writes a paragrapher, “is to switch unemployment to the gangsters.’’ Just to switch gangsters would be sufficient.

REASON

BEING sued for divorce was the cause of the dismissal of Joe Savoldi, star full back of the Notre Dame football team, but a little thing like that is not fatal in the movies, in fact it increases one's prestige. 0 an The most serious phase of the political unrest in Cuba is that it may deprive Havana of her annual winter harvest, gleaned from the thirsty Americans who wander thither to irrigate. 000 It’s horrible to ref.d of the death of those nineteen children down in Colombia, caused by the mixup in the administration of serums during antidiphtheria inoculations, yet it never occurs to us to worry about the accuracy of the gentlemen who compound our prescriptions. 000 WE take what they give us and. thanks to their carefulness, we are not exterminated. It's all right for some of us to be absent minded, but not for our prescription clerks. 000. Dr. Mcßride, general superintendent of the AntiSaloon League, is mistaken when he says the Wickersham commission has no right to recommend a modification of the Volstead law. It has a right to meke any recommendation under the sun which it thinks will help the crime situation. 000 But when it comes to following the commission's recommendation, that's a horse of another color. Senators and representatives will not be influenced by the recommendation: they will be influenced only by what they think the folks back home want them to do. 000 BOBBY JONES, king of golf, will clean up some-, thing like $250,000 by making some one-reel pictures for the movies, which is just about what the dubs of the country lose every year as a result of driving into the alfalfa. 000 General Erich Ludendorff predicts a World war in 1932 and thinks Germany will be annihilated by France and her allies, but if he doesn’t guess any better than he did about Germany’s swift victory at the outbreak of the World war, there's nothing to worry about. V . . „ .. . - -s

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:-

Racketeering Owes Its Success to the Fact That Prohibition Has Made \ Straightforword Law Enforcement Impossible. EINSTEIN not only dreads the fuss we Americans are plan- ! ning to make over him when he arrives, but confesses utter inability to understand it. He doesn’t know why he has become the object of i such hero worship or why that hero j worship has manifested itself in j large cash offers for testimonials in praise of cigarets, breakfast foods or cosmetics. Mass psychology is a difficult ; thing to fathom, he says. T fear historians never have taken the facj tor of mass psychology sufficiently into account as they have now. Neither have politicians. tt tt a Wake Up at Last THE Hoover administration is reported as ready to formulate drastic laws such as will make it ; possible for the federal government | to mobilize against gang rule. One would like to trace this decision to \ pure passion .for law enforcement. ! But the row over grape concentrates | synchronizes too nicely with the | sudden burst of ardor to be ignored. Grape concentrates which clear ; the law, but which will ferment if ; given time enough, and the production of which has been subsidized by a government loan, to the great consternation of Chicago racketeers, appear to have done more in arousing Washington to the significance of a ten-year-old menace than anytiling else* The situation would be funny If it didn’t contain so much dynamite. But who supposes that the bootleg barons are going to give up without a fight. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt not only has outsmarted the Volstead act, but gangland, where- | fore we behold another curious ; combine to beat the racket. ts tt The Dry Threat AS though that were not enough for one day’s contribution to the liquor muddle. Dr. Clarence True Wilson rises to remark that if the Wickersham commission exhibits anything but unadulterated loyalty to the dry cause, and if PresiI dent Hoover shows the slightest symptom of becoming moist, he and all his followers will bolt. By way of emphasizing this threat, he declares that such bolt would wreck not only the Republican party, but the Democratic party as well, and sweep the country. “ Not pausing to argue or analyze that phase of his challenge, American politics, whether viewed from a national or a partisan standpoint, probably would be improved if he carried it out. Indeed, one can think of nothing that would do this country so much good as for the drys to form an organization of their own and give other people a chance to think of something else. ts n o Always Prohibition RELIEVING Democratic and Republican leaders from the necessity of kow-towing to fanatical drys would go a long way toward clearing the hopeless snarl. As ! things now stand, neither party | dares make a move without first | considering what effect it may have I on this noisy, narrow-minded element which thinks of nothing, cares I for nothing, and recognizes nothing ! outside of Volsteadism. Racketeering owes not only its success, but its very existence, to the fact that prohibition has wound itself into our political system in such a way and to such extent that a sensible, straightforward attitude toward law enforcement is impossible.

Just a Sample FOR ten years the whole show has swung round* the dry agent and his problems, with graft, corruption, and stultification as the result. For ten years the greatest nation on earth has been so busy trying to enforce what used to be regarded as a city ordinance that it has no time to preserve the basic guarantees of human liberty or meet the problems of modern life. No wonder Einstein regards mass psychology as hard to fathom, especially in the United States of America. It the bought-and-paid-for testimonial appeals to him as an evidence of commercial corruption, what would he say about organized bootlegging, hijacking, and blackmailing? The good old man may think he has come in contact with the main springs of mass psychology In America through those offers of money for his name and photograph to promote some particular product, but, oh, boy! He hasn’t even scratched the surface, hasn’t even so much as established speaking acquaintance with the genuine article, the unholy alliance with political quackery and commercial thuggery.

Questions and Answers

Can fleas be trained? They are trained to dance, drawchariots, throw objects many times their own weight, and perform other stunts. The first trained fleas were exhibited in New York in 1821. Are there any fish in Great Salt Lake? Several species of insects, and a brine-shrimp have been found in the Great Salt Lake, but no fish. Is a child bom of American parents, temporarily residing abroad, eligible to the presidency of the United States? Such a child is counted a naturalborn American and is therefore eligible for the office of President of the United States. What is die derivation of the word “thermometer?” It is derived from the Greek word “therme,” meaning heat and “meter" meaning to measure. Literally, it means an instrument for measuring heat. How do eagles teach their young to fly? The young eagles naturally exercise their wings in the nests by flapping them, and when they have sufltoient strength they start flying a little at a time.

Fats Big Aid in Generating Energy

BY. DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Jourpaf of the American Medical Association and of Hy?cia, the Health Magazine. THE chief advantages of fats in the diet of an infant are that they provide twice as much energy as either carbohydrates or protein. If fats are omitted from the diet, it is pecessary to give large amounts of carbohydrates and protein to make up Hie energy value. Fats have chemically the same composition as carbohydrates or sugars, except in the relations of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in the molecule. When fat enters the blood some of it is carried to the tissues under the skin and deposited there. The rest of its goes to the liver, the great chemical factory of the body, where

IT SEEMS TO ME

-pROFESSOR EINSTEIN'S recent article on religion broke no new ground. It was a somewhat conventional statement of an agnostic point of view which is familiar enough. Our own Clarence Darrow has expressed an almost identical attitude on many occasions without stirring up any susceptible rancor. But the clergy are aroused, and some bitter replies have been made to the great German scientist. The most familiar rejoinder is that though Einstein may know a great deal about mathematical physics, it does not follow that he is an expert on religion. In all justice to the professed, it ought to be pointed out that he made no such claim. Nor have I ever been able to understand how anybody ever could set up as an “expert" in matters of religion. This should remain a matter in which one opinion is about as weighty as another. EterI nal mysteries are hardly to be l solved by taking thought. a st it Modest Scientist IT is seldom the scientist who becomes dogmatic in such matters, I although this charge infrequently is | not hurled by clergymen. Surely “I don’t know” can not be classified as swaggering assurance. But the gravest error in argument was achieved, I think, by the Rev. Dr. Fulton J. Sheen of the Catholic university, Washington, D. C. In speaking of Einstein’s cosmical philosophy Dr. Sheen asserted, “Men are willing to die for what we call ‘the milk of human kindness,’ but who in this woild is willing to lay down his life for the Milky Way?” It seems to me that Dr. Sheen has read history carelessly if his words imply what they seem to mean. If I understand the clergyman aright he is saying that while a religious, cr even an ethical, concept may recruit martyrs, nobody is willing to die in the pursuit of pure science. The only answer to that is that thousands have done so and that there is no indication of any letdown in scientific fervor. The martyrs of medicine are, many of them, familiar to us all. It may be objected that in an investigation such as the heroic research into the causes of yellow fever the animating principle was a desire to help suffering humanity. This may be a factor in certain ! experiments, but many a laboratory i man has an urge much less closely | defined. He is after something called the truth, and whether it is a truth about a principle of physics or biology or astronomy makes little dis- j ference. a tt tt An Abstraction YOUR true scientist will pursue! even an abstraction at the risk of his life. And if the worst happens he might even be a shade disturbed at the term “martyr.” His engrossment has been such that like as not he overlooked the danger. If the next eclipse were to be ! seen best from the middle of a jungle inhabited by wild and ferocious natives I haven’t a doubt tn the world that a party of star gazers i readily could be recruited to drag * their telescopes into that wilderness and take their chances. A hard-bitten scientist will go anywhere a missionary does, and go as quickly and stay as long. * a tt Challenge Met NO challenge to face danger for the sake of discovering a new truth ever has gone unanswered.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

it is changed to such form that makes it useful as fuel. During starvation the fat that has been stored away is picked up by the blood, carried to the liver and put in proper form for use where needed. There is fat in the milk of both the human being and the cow, as well as in the milk of other animals. The nature of the fat and the quantity differs with the species. The fat of the cow’s milk Is approximately the same as that in the human milk, so far as the quantity is concerned, but the fat of cow’s milk is more irritating to the intestines than that of human milk and also is less digestible. When infants are overfed with fat, they are likely to be constipated, if very little sugar and a good

The Milky Way mentioned by Dr. Sheen is big as prizes go. Many a man has devoted his whole life to chasing after some single planet. One of our greatest Americans has spent more than forty years in studying light anjj nothing but light. * And it is the same in all branches of science. The fact that the X-ray may cause painful burns and even necessitate amputation never has frightened away anybody intent upon exploring the field of its utility. And the same rule hold good in all branches of science. When I was in college our proctor was a solemn young man who was majoring in anthropology. He seemed to me a bloodless adult concerned wholly with a dry and musty subject.

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—l am writing in regard to an editorial appearing in the Times on Nov. 10, saying the “Anti-Saloon League is declining in power.” The Anti-Saloon League is not declining in power. If anything, it is increasing. Only the ignorant, and those men who will do anything for money, think the league is declining in power. Church members are not losing faith in prohibition, they are backing it as hard as ever, and are ready to fight to the last ditch to get rid of the habit-forming, happiness ruining drug. You have only to visit the Protestant churches in Indianapolis and ask them their views on the question, to see that this is true. If this does not convince you, go to the Protestant churches everywhere in the United States. The “wets” can not print anything but propaganda, which only the

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SPINOZA’S BIRTH November 24

ON Nov. 24, 1632, Benedict Spinoza, a famous Dutch-Jewish philosopher, was born at Amsterdam, the son of a Portuguese merwho had fled there to escape religious persecution. Though a delicate child, Spinoza studied diligently under rabbis. He later was alienated from the orthodox beliefs of,his religion and, because of his heresies, was excommunicated from the synagog. After spending some time in exile in abstruse and difficult studies he brought out an abridgement of the philosophical works of Descartes. He soon was offered the chair of philosophy at Heidelberg and a pension if he would dedicate his work to Louis XIV. These he refused, on the ground they would endanger his independence and integrity of thought. He preferred, instead, to live in poverty. The nub of Spinoza philosophy is this: Existence consists of the material world and thought. Each of these realms is independent of the matter and matter does not influence thought. Nevertheless, the movements of one are parallel or analogous to the movements of the other, and the movements of each depend on an all-pervading essence, which is equivalent to God.

deal of protein is given at the same time. “If, however, a great deal of sugar is given at the same time and relatively little of the curd protein or casein, an excess feeding of fat will produce diarrhea. One of the most astonishing achievements of modern medical science is the remarkable response to the use of a correct formula for infant feeding prescribed by a specialist who studies the conditions, finds out the food which the child has been receiving, examines the excretions of the child, and then prescribes a correct formula. Almost immediately the disturbance of digestion will cease, the child will sleep well, become alert, begin to gain weight, and in other ways to approach normalcy.

Ideals and opinions expressed ip this column are those of one of America’s most intcrestine writers and are presented without reeard to their agreement or disaereement with the editorial attitude of this naper.—The Editor.

pv HEYWOOD BROUN

In the years which have passed since last ’’e tapped upon the door and told us to stop playing poker, I have read the name of that scientist constantly in the papers. His career has been more romantic than that of aivy student of my time. He always is going to the headwaters of the Amazon or returning from them, emerging from Central American jungles or bringing back carved idols from the heart of Africa. Once he was bitten by a leopard and twice he has been wounded bypoisoned arrows. And the gentleman in question is not taking these risks because of his devotion to a religious principle. He merely happens to be passionate about anthropology. (CoovriKht. 1930. by The Times)

easily influenced and ignorant believe. You are all bluff. Although I am only a high school student, I believe I have a right to stand up for prohibition. I believe that if you ask the students who have the facts, not propaganda, and who stand up for what is right, you would find they agree with me. REGINALD CHAMBERS. Newcastle, Ind. Editor Times—What is all this ballyhoo about the World War memorial, and where, and who, are the sponsors of this said memorial? I get around the state quite a bit and I have my first time to meet an honest to goodness veteran who approved in any way the building of this memorial. I also have learned, from good authority, that the amount expended in building the memorial w 7 as equivalent to S3OO for each veteran in the state of Indiana. That in cash would have been more appropriate and certainly appreciated by every veteran that I have come in contact with. Now that the Democrats have

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;NOV. 24, 1930

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ

Better Planning of All ComMunities for Beauty Will Be Aim of Architects’ Institute. THE architects of America have accepted the challenge of the machine age. They refuse to believe that the continued growth of large cities must lead to crowded, noisy streets, ugly buildings, and general congestion, with its attendant ills. The committee on city and regional planning of the American Institute of Architects has launched a nation-wide study to promote “better planning of all communities for permanent human use as essential to modern civilization." The committee finds, according to its chairman, Charles H. Cheney of Los Angeles, “that milions are wasted annually on ugly buildings and that bad environment blights behavior, health, and enjoyment of life.” Asa first step in its survey', the committee is seeking an answer to the question, “Can character and individuality of cities and regions be attained consciously?" Replies received so far indicate a conflict of opinion. Cheney says. Far-sighted, intelligent planning and careful building up of the morale of the district is cited as the best method by J. C. Nichols. Kansas City, Mo., member of the national capital park and planning commission. tt K tt The Fundamentals THE problem is a deeper and more fundamental one than the mere beautification of the exterior of buildings and the planting of a few trees, according to Nichols. Nichols developed the Country Club district of Kansas City, which Cheney characterizes as one of the three or four outstanding residential communities of the United States. “The original ‘city beautiful' movement failed, or at least, did not succeed largely because it was concerned witli surface good looks," says Nichols. “To assume decoration would give charm and character to a city that was structurally bad was as illogical as to assume a finely tailored suit would transfigure an unfortunate man, afflicted with a physical deformity. “Slowly, painfully, America learned the lesson that there are great fundamental considerations in city building. When the first city planner came among us to declare that his art simply consisted in exercising ‘such foresight as would promote the orderly and sightly development of a city, with due regard for health, amenity and convenience and for its commercial and industrial advancement,’ a revolution in our thought had occurred. “And when the town planner looked beyond the corporate limits and included the city’s environs, another advance took place.”

Need of Morale NICHOLAS points out the needs of both large and small parks, a sufficient number of playgrounds, segregated commercial, Industrial, and residential areas, imposing public structures and well-designed commercial buildings. “But,” he adds, “speaking from nearly a quarter century of experience in striving to apply the principles of the city planner to the practical demands of modern city living, especially as applied to the protection of home life through the perpetuation of fine influences not difficult to set up, the greatest thing to be desired is intangible. “I refer to morale. Unless there is developed among the people a deep-seated loyalty to these things., no city is truly great. “It isn't so much that the country club district, or any other home section, is lovely and wholesome today that matters. “What Is needed most is bc alert and determined interest Lt checking the smallest violation of the rules laid down in the restrictions or the ordinances or statutes. “The greatest asset a city or a neighborhood may claim is loyalty that is intelligent and unwavering.”

Daily Thought

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.—St. Luke 14:11. In humility, imitate Jesus and Socrates. —Benjamin Franklin. How much is a 50-ccnt piece dated 1810 worth? An 1810 half dollar is worth from 50 to 75 cents. i come into power through the efforts of the people, with the help of the ex-service man, we will look f’Yward to having this wrong made riuht. Let’s hear from some more of the veterans through this paper. A life-lorg subscriber to your wonderful paper. H. G. Beech Grove, Ind.