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The One Protection Within the next two years the street cars of this city in all probability will be operated 1 by the Insull interests. Whether the people permit the proposed trade of Insull securities for present bonds, or the present company is sold under the hammer in the receivership courts, the results in the end will be the same. Mr. Insull will have the lines because no other public utility owner seewis to want them, and the public as yet does not trust itself far enough to provide its own transportation. The plan now being placed before city officials is one of substitution of new bonds for old ones. The present bondholders see a faint hope of getting something out of the plan, perhaps more than if the lines were sold by receivership. It is probable that the most they will get is hope, but bankers and brokers are for the plan and the utility machine is at work to put it over. To the public is offered the first phase of “servicc-at-cost,” which is what would happen under public ownership. And this would be very fine, if it really were true. It could be made true if the Insull organization didn’t Jose interest in the plan. The first step, of course, would be a proper appraisal of the true value of the lines, not as a system, but as junk, for that will be the basis on which it would be sold under the receivership and is the description given by the high financiers who are handling the matter. It is not a question of how much water is being squeezed from the capitalization, but whether all the moisture is evaporated. The public ought not to pay on values which do not exist. But even before this is established, there is a duty of the legislature to provide the one safeguard which really can assure the public that it gets service at cost, which is what presumably is offered. That protection can come only through passage of the strongest kind of a law to regelate the holding companies of the state. When regulation made it impossible for public utilities to make enormous profits, high finance brought to light the holding company. Through these companies the public and the stockholders are taxed for gigantic sums. The holding company furnishes the engineering for new projects and extensions. Its charges are not modest for this service. The holding company first collects a fee for management, although each company has highly paid officials to manage the properties. The holding company acts as broker for purchase of all materials, including coal for light plants. The commission charged is high. It would be no trick for the holding company which proposes to underwrite the new bonds to take out several millions a year and yet make good its claim to give “service at cost.” Before any public approval is given to the new plan, which will determine the rates of car fares for generations, it would be well to investigate why the old company is on the rocks financially. If the public service commission was either able or interested, it might find some interesting figures in the sums paid for power not manufactured by the railway plants. Os course, objection will be raised that the public service commission will be as much controlled by holding companies as it has been by utilities. But there is always the hope that some day the state will have a Governor who is not influenced by the utility monopolies and that a commission will be named whose members know something of the problem and who are not picked by the interests. Passage of a law regulating holding companies in advance gs any permit to establish the plan will indicate the sincerity of the claim that the plan really is one to give “service-at-cost.”

The Staiin Interview Josef Stalin's extraordinary interview with Eugene Lyon. Moscow correspondent of the United Press, conceivably may prove the most significant journalistic achievement of the year. It may indicate a turning point in the Soviet attitude toward the rest of the world. Men, and even nations, ha\ k e learned, usually after bitter experience, that the policy of “the public (and the rest of the world) be damned" does not pay. Russia’s pursuit of that policy has 'ompounded her difficulties abroad. Her press censorship, even though by no means as ruthless as that of Italy, has been the greatest barrier between her and a world-wide appreciation of the many extraordinary accomplishments of which little is known outside her boundaries. In matters of politics, bad news travels faster and never is stopped effectively by censorship. Favorable news is more perishable. Correspondent Lyon's story presented a hitherto unknown Stalin, and did it with a simple recital of cold facts. The point made by the Russian dictator in a single first-hand interview will do more to cause hard-headed American business men to reconsider the American "ostrich-like" attitude toward Russia than would have lesulted from a ton of propaganda. The question is not whether we approve of or will indorse Soviet methods and theories. We do not and

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never will. The question is whether we are going to recognize the existence of a condition which to us is disagreeable and are going to meet the situation with sanity based on knov,ledge and facts, or whether we are going to ignore the facts and base a national policy on ignorance and contempt. Recognition of the Russian dictatorship by the United States would carry with it no more of the stamp of our approval than does our maintenance of diplomatic relations with the equally repugnant Mussolini dictatorship. It simply would mean recognition cf the obvious fact that the United States never can have a sound foreign policy so long as we ignore the existence of one-sixth cf the world's inhabited surface and one hundred fifty million aggressive people, whose world potentiality is not lessened by our disapproval of their methods and objectives. The War on Gangsters The idea that the United States department of justice should co-operate with local police in the war on gangsters is a popular battle cry—and a dangerous one for the federal government to be shouting. The federal government would awaken hopes it can not possibly satisfy, with its present force and the proper performances of its congressionally assigned duties. . But the danger goes deeper. It is that the federal government may get into the business of doing local, police work every time popularity is involved, or whenever local authorities are inefficient or corrupt. The department should stay in its own yard. It is for congress alone to enlarge its jurisdiction, if that is necessary. Such extension of federal activity is not wise. It would mean armies of federal agents operating in the localities, under a bureaucratic chief in Washington, far removed from the force of local opinion—with opportunities for graft, oppression and political favoritism. It would tend to demoralize self-government by communities. It would enable the community that doesn't want to exercise its own brains and spend its own money to throw both burdens on the whole nation, with resulting injustice to localities wishing to help themselves. Attorney-General Mitchell well might emulate Justice Stone of the supreme court, who as attorneygeneral kept the department strictly to federal activities, and demobilized the federal secret service under him to a small body—and the smaller the better. There i s much to commend the policy which prevailed up to twenty-five years ago, when the department of justice had no detectives and no spy system whatever.

After the’Battle, Mother The funniest comment we have heard on the Democratic landslide is Calvin Coolidge's, “the country will survive. We can be sure of that.” But the funniest part of it is that we can not be sure whether Calvin intended to be funny. Two razor companies have merged and Margin Max rises to suggest that it would be a keen idea to buy stock in the new firm for Hie long pull. The camera men who are to make the movies of Bobby Jones doubtless will learn that he also can make some good “shots.” One fellow who would find it hard to get any sympathy in the event his wife misunderstood him is Professor Einstein. Many a farmer has learned since the wheat surplus to look before he reaps. A prominent New York lawyer has Witten a book of rhymes. Perhaps his publishers will urge the reading public to give him a trial. The Guiness family of England, which made its fortune in ale and stout, may try to lift the America’s cup, which Lipton failed to do. They can be depended upon, at least, to put up a good schooner. Ordinarily, folks would turn up their noses at such a gathering, but in France, we read, the annual garlic fair this year was attended more widely than ever. Some employers are taking too seriously the spirit of fall by sending wages down that way.

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Representative rankin of Mississippi would like to increase the membership of the national house of representatives so that states which are entitled to more representatives can have them without reducing the representation of any state. a a a Os course, it is hard to think of any of our statesmen being thrown out of their official berths, but we hope Representative Rankin’s desires fail of fulfillment, for the house already is much too large to function as a deliberative body. a a ft If it were possible, the size of the house should be cut squarely in the middle, if not more so, for then the body would be able to proceed upon a basis of real co-operative representation, instead of the absolute tyranny which now rules the more than four hundred member... a a a THE first thing every new congress does is to put itself in the parliamentary strait-jacket which controlled the preceding congress, and this done, the speaker proceeds to wear the house as a watch charm for the period of hia office. a a a It's a relief to hear Justice Henry McCardlc of London say that perjury is rampant in criminal cases in Great Britain, for a review of criminal trials in America is likely to convince on that we have all the liars now doing business. a a a With those three grandchildren in the White House, one of them 4 years old, one of them 2 and the third a babe in arms, President Hoover will be able to forget the trials and tribulations of the Great Father. a a, a NOT content with changing the form of existing government, the Russians are experimenting to see if they can't change the colors of cats, by applying different degrees of heat to their bodies. We never can hope to be permanently prosperous until this great reform is achieved. a a a The British are constructing a pewee golf course for the benefit of members of parliament. We have a number of statesmen at Washington, eligible to play such a course, but we haven’t the course. man Old Man Winter can stay out west until the cows come home, so far as we’re conceded.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

If We Are Going Back to State Rights, the Place to Begin Is Volsteadism, Not Racketeering. / T"'HE depression has its sap side, with foreign soothsayers and American research committees trying with one another® for first prize. A French prophetess says that next year will see Mussolini wiped off the map, Germany blown up, a young man whose star has not yet made its appearance taking command in France, and romanticism reappearing in literature. We could afford to laugh if President Hoover’s committee on social trends had not burst forth in gleeful joy over the discovery that such things as machinery, mass production, chain stores, and instalment buying were producing certain changes in American life. But cheer up! Both the prophetess and the research committee strike common ground in the idea that, no matter what happens, the good old :U. S. A. can be depended on to i emerge victorious.

Blind on One Side NO doubt a similar thought helped President Hoover to form the conclusion that the federal government would better not take too big a hand in the racketeering drive. One could accept his idea on this problem with more enthusiasm, were it not for what the federal government has done and still is doing in a futile attempt to enforce prohibition. Obtrusive use of the narcotics squad, or internal revenue agents, for the purpose of running down racketeers, might, as the President seems t, O think, constitute “a reflection on the sovereignty and stamina of state governments.” But what about that army of dry sleuths which has been poking its nose into everybody’s cellar for the last ten years? If the Hoover administration has come to the conclusion that local self-government would be benefited by less federal interference, why not go to the obvious source of the trouble? Why wince at the task of helping to rid the country of a billiondollar crime organization when so much zeal lias been displayed over the pint-pocket peddler? tt tt tt Start With Volsteadism IF we are going back to state rights, the place to begin is Volsteadism, not racketeering. A word for the restoration of local sovereignty from the Wickersham commission would have been welcome at this time. Such word from the President while the public waits to hear from the Wickersham commission, especially with regard to the subject of racketeering, causes wonderment. Mr. Hoover has chosen a most unhappy theme for his philosophizing. If the American people ever faced a situation which called for the unusual exercise of federal power, it is to be found in the unholy alliance of organized thuggery and corrupt politics, with which so many of our great cities and sovereign states find it hard to cope. If there ever was a time when federal interference would be excused, it is now. tt n u It's Strange Setup THE contrast between what the federal government has done to prevent honest folks from getting honest liquor and what President Hoover says it ought not to do to prevent dishonest folks from collecting dishonest tribute forms one of the most curious incidents ever recorded in our history. T):e fact that such inconsistency can be explained on the ground of a constitutional amendment is not sufficient to overcome the doubts of people who believe in the relationship of cause and effect. Where have we arrived in our processes of thinking that state sovereignty should amount to so little in the matter of hootch and so much in the matter of wholesale murder? Mustn’t get excited over gang rule, lest we destroy confidence in our state and city administrations; mustn’t utilize available forces to protect a public which has looked for protection elsewhere in vain. But when it comes to bootlegging, particularly the small fry, we must continue to pursue a course which gives gangland its biggest revenue and vice its strongest lever.

Questions and Answers

What the terms right, left and center are used in connection with European parliamentary parties what signifiance do they have? The parties or party of the right are the conservatives, corresponding roughly to what we call reactionaries in this country. The left party or parties are radicals, generally based on socialist philosophy, and the centerists are those in the middle, between the two extremes and correspond roughly to what we generally call liberals. Did the United States supreme court ever render a decision that the eighteenth amandment and the Volstead act were constitutional? The United States supreme court has held that the eighteenth amendment is constitutional. The court also declared that the Volstead enforcement act is constitutional, especially that part which defines as intoxicating any beverage that contains more than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol. What does the name Banning mean? It is an Irish family name meaning “white." Is the value of jade determined by its weight? The color is usually the thing that determines the value. Dark green jade is more expensive than light green, and the stone with a sheen is better than one with a dull finish. What does the term legitimate theater mean? The theater in which standard drama is presented, as distinguished from motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Baby Needs Calcium to Develop Bones

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvseia, the Heelth Maeazine. TT is generally well known that practically all common food substances contain varying amounts of the important mineral salts. Milk, chief food of the infant, contains much mineral matter and an especially large amount of calcium. It is, however, quite deficient in iron and iodine. Green vegetables contain sodium and potassium, small amounts of calcium and iron, and. according to the section of the country in which they are raised, varying amounts of iodine. Tire fruits and fruit juices contain varying amounts of potassium salts, and the whole cereal grains a variety of salts, but cereals are not considered an especially good source of calcium. Eggs contain varying amounts of various salts, particularly calcium and iron. Tlie growing infant has to have enougli calcium to provide for the growth of the bones and of the

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I MUST begin to practice acquiring a distinctive voice. The one I have is imitated far too easily. Last spring someone called up a number of people and said that he was Heywood Broun, and would they please send a check for tickets to a benefit? And now the same one. or another, is at work doing a telephonic imitation and asking, contributions to a breadline. The charity may be worthy, but I have called up no one nor made any written solicitation for funds. In fact, at the moment I am raising money for nothing-but a struggling columnist. The faker’s choice of numbers has been curious. Among other places, he called, up the home of Representative Ruth Pratt. But Mrs. Pratt, having had the opportunity of listerning to the same speech at no less than five debates during the late lamented campaign, was familiar with the rusty tones of her former adversary and knew the voice on the other end of the telephone as an imitation. I am a member of a committee to aid the striking Fifth avenue dressmakers, but if an appeal in my name comes to you by letter or telephone in regard to anything else please notify me, for it is spurious. nan Vamp Till Ready AN opportunity of which I had not dreamed just had opened up for me through the courtesy of Ned Wayburn. Mr. Wayburn, I take it, is opening anew dancing school, for he writes: “How would you like to earn some extra money? Say, about $2,000 a week. You easily can make that sum and still continue to write your daily-column. Just let me give you,

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FIRST STREET RAILWAY November 26

ON Nov. 26, 1832, the first street railway in America opened in New 7 York City. The road was knowm as the New York & Harlem railroad on which a horse car, much like an old English stage coach, ran from Prince street on the Bowery to Yorkville and Harlem. The first railway follow’ed for some distance the route now occupied by the Fourth Avenue railway, which still operates under the original charter granted in 1831. It was operated as a herse car line until 1337, when it was temporarily changed to a steam car line. Eight years later the operation of horse cars was resumd and it remained the only horse car line in New York until 1852. In 1856 a street railway was first built in Boston, and Philadelphia had its first line a year later. Today virtually all street railways are op-

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! teeth. The more rapidly it grows, the more calcium it needs. Furthermore, as has been emphasized, unless the amount of calcium in the blood is maintained at a certain level, spasmodic disorders will appear. To get the calcium into the tissues, however, it is not only necessary for the calcium to be taken into the body, but also for it to be absorbed and properly distributed. If there is an excess amount of phosphates or of fat in the food, insoluble calcium salts will be formed in the intestines and very little calcium will be absorbed. Recent investigations* in the field of nutrition have revealed the fact that the amount of calcium retained in the blood or deposited in the bones definitely is influenced by the amount of vitamin D, and probably also by the amount of vitamin A in the diet. Vitamin D in the diet may be substituted by exposure to ultras violet rays, which cause the development of vitamin D by chang-

with my compliments, some of my dancing courses. “Then, after you have .mastered intricate : teps, you can go out as a single or with your fellow columnists and stop a show. The dancing business needs brains. “Learn a ten-minute dance and make extra money. Look at Fred Astaire. If he can do it, why can’t you?” nun In One THE offer is generous, and, naturally, anybody would like to double his salary. But I don't want to go out as a single. It sounds like a lonely life. Moreover, the field already is crowded with dancing columnists. Walter Winchell tells me that he was once an excellent hoofer, and I’ve seen the routine of Russel Crouse. He can’t tell me anything. My only interest in the new job would lie in the possibility of combining it with the present one. Even after instruction I doubt that my ten-minute dance would be significant. But there might be something in writing a column and doing a dance at the same time. I doubt that that’s ever been done. Still, there are difficulties. If I dropped some of the mucilage it might impede the steps, and it would be terrible to slip and fall full upon the point of the shears. Moreover, if the thing is to be at all effective the two tasks should be synchronized. A ten-minute turn would leave me with about minutes in which there would be nothing to do but just dance. s n u Autumn Offensive IT seems to me that Dr. John Haynes Holmes is too dogmatic in the declaration that all but ten of the season’s plays are “offensive.” This requires some definition. If Dr. Holmes actually has seen all thirty-four new plays, he has a right to number those which seem offensive to him, but he ought to allow for the margin of individual taste. For instance, he names five productions as worthy of every playgoer’s attention. Among these he lists “Roar China.” Dr. Holmes is a liberal, and the radical doctrine enunciated in the propaganda piece he finds interesting and exciting. But surely this somewhat highly colored report of the English attitude toward the inhabitants of China easily is calculated to shock certain conservatives and send them rushing from the theater in high dudgeon. To them it would be offensive. In fact, any good play ought to be ! offensive to somebody. A play deI signed to please persons of every opinion and mental level surely would fail to arouse any one’s enthusiasm. “The Doctor’s Dilemma,’’ by Bernard Shaw, is none the less a good play because it is offensive to the medical profession, pad “Ghosts” is

ing the ergosterol in the tissues to vitamin D. Apparently also it is necessary for a secretion to be poured into the blood from the parathyroid glands, because when this secretion is absent, the amount of calcium in the blood may fall off greatly. Cow’s milk contains three or four times as much calcium as human milk, but the calcium in the cow’s milk is not absorbed in as great proportion as that of human milk. Perhaps it is due to the greater relative amount of the phosphates that Li present.. As was pointed out previously, when too much phosphate is present, the calcium is held in insoluble form. An infant that is getting as much as 2ts ounces of human milk or Its ounces of cow’s milk for every pound of its body weight, is getting enough calcium salt for its normal requirements. If, however, the infant suffers from any spasmodic disorder, the physician is likely to prescribe calcium salts in excess to take care of this condition,.

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

a great tragedy even though many people are horrified at its frankness in regard to inherited disease. I rather think that Dr. Holmes means to say that all but ten of the new plays are ribald. But, then, he ought to add that in his opinion ribaldry has no place in the theater. At that point discussion could begin. I would contend that “Lysistrata” in its rowdy fun is invigorating and excellent for the mental health of the community. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—l note one writing signed G. S. H., in which he says, “Why not unload the unemployment situation on the farmer?” Now, I am not a farmer, but a working man in town, and I take exception to a few statements in this article. First, why not let each farmer feed one unemployed? I don't think that would go over so big with the average farmer, for he wants to get men to work in his harvest fields for their bread, and he rather would see his wild blackberries go to waste in his woods than to see a working man from town get them, when it is the working man who consumes a large part of his farm products, and in turn gives him the money to buy the said rails and care for the railroads and to pay for all the auto trucks and busses in the country, also the paved roads. Second, he w'aited and watched his holdings shrink, but failed to see the real cause. When he w-as asked many times to join the labor movements to hold up the buying power of his products, he stood by while wages were cut, and. in fact, rejoiced over it, because he then could get his harvest hands for practically nothing. He seemed to lose sight of the fact that the more he paid for his harvest hands, the more they would be able to spend to consume th* farm-

Countries of Europe The World war and the peace treaties changed the map o! Europe—and changed the map of Europe’s colonies, dominions, possessions and mandated territory. Teachers, school boys and girls and grownups, too, will be interested in our Washington bureau’s new bulletin, COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AND THEIR COLONIES, now ready It gives brief facts about all European countries and their possessions In all parts of the world, forms of government, rulers, population, area, etc. Fill out the coupon below and send for It. CLIP COUPON HERE Geography Editor, Washington Bureau. The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington D C. I want a copy of the bulletin COUNTRIES OF EUROPE and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose uncancelled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and No.. City.... State I sun a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Harvard Leads All Schools in Furnishi)g Nation With Famous Citizens. TTARVARD COLUEGE leads the educational institutions of the ration in furnishing it with famous citizens, according to a survey just completed by Professors Donald B. Prentice and B. W. Kunkel of La'favette College, Easton. Pa. The survey, published in the weekly journal. School and Society, ought to stir up almost as much excitement among college presidents as does a Thanksgiving day football match among college students. Tire survey is based upon an analysis of the 28.805 biographies in the 1923-29 edition of“ Who's Who in America.” Os this number of distinguished citizens, the two investigators found 16,443 listing themselves as recipients of the bachelor of arts degree from American colleges. They then classified theni according to colleges and added up the result. It showed Harvard at the head of the list, with 1,374 graduates listed in “Who's Who.” Yale came second in the list with 937. Princeton was third with 480. Michigan was fourth with 470, Columbia fifth with 402 and Cornell sixth with 401. tt a st Others on List THE number falls off fairly rapidly. Amhert. seventh on the list, has 296 graduates in “Who's Who,’’ while Wisconsin is eighth with 287. Brown is ninth with 268 *and the University of Pennsylvania is tenth with 261. The total number of colleges which each have 200 or more of their graduates listed is thirteen—the ten already named and in addition Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the United States Military academy and Dartmouth. Then follows twenty colleges who each have more than 100, but less than 200 graduates among the famous. The total list of colleges represented by twenty or more names in “Who’s Who” is 139, while the grand total of all colleges, including some with only one student in the book, exceeds 500. Commenting upon the survey, the authors say; “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Columbia and Cornell have contributed one-fourth of the intellectual leadership represented by college graduates included in “Who's Who,” and the first two institutions. Harvard and Yale, have contributed one-seventh of the whole number.” tt tt a Head of the List THE authors draw other interesting conclusions from their slirvey. They say: “Considering further the actual numbers of representatives of the several colleges, the expectation would be that the larger universities would stand at the head of the list. But this is not the case. “While several universities actually do stand at the head, six institutions of less than 1,000 enrollment are among the highest twenty, and one-third of the highest sixty have the smaller enrollment. “There are only four state institutions in the first twenty, and in the entire list of 139 institutions the twenty-five state universities furnish only 21.6 per cent of the list, but little more than Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. “That New England is the schoolhouse of the country well is illustrated by further analysis of these figures.”

Daily Thought

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.—-Hebrews 11:1. Faith is the force of life.—Tolstoi.

ers’ products, which would hold up the price and he would be benefited more by paying better wages. I am for the farmer, and want to see him get a good price for his products as well as his land, but the farmer should wake up and join hanjds with the working man of the city, for he is the consumer of the farm products, and w 7 hen his wages are lowered and he Is thrown out of work, it reflects on the farmer, with a reduction of price on all his products and lowers the value of his land. Give the working man of the city plenty of work and good wages, and watch the price of farm products rise and the value of farm land go to a higher level. I, for one, believe that If the farmer will go hand in hand with the working man of the city, he will find the much talked of farm relief So think it over, Mr. Farmer. H. D. H„ Bloomington, Ind. Who first said “Rome was not built in a day?” ... This is an old proverb dating back to the fifteenth century. It apparently originated in France In the saying “Rome ne fut pas fait en ung jour.” The name of the author is not definitely known, although some authorities attribute It to Palingenius and others to Cervantes.