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The Real Issue Two issues have been presented to the public by the Wickersham report. One is modification of the eighteenth amendment as recommended by the commission in a 7-to-4 vote. The other is the issue of trickery Involved in the summary of the report, whlct} contradicts both the report and the individual signed statements of the eleven commissioners. At the moment the country is so shocked by this second issue of official trickery that people hardly can think about the first issue. There are demands that the source of this trickery be exposed. There are reports that the President is involved directly. Whether the President Is responsible, directly or indirectly, for the dishonest summary issued by the commission, we do not know. But we do know that throughout the life of the commission there have been repeated evidences of political pressure upon it in the direction of Hoover’s dry policy. And we do know that Hoover's message to congress, transmitting the report, failed utterly to emphasize the true nature of the report. His message left the inference that the report favored continuance of the status quo, whereas in fact the report showed 7-0-4 in favor of immediate revision. Not one of the commissioners took the Hoover position. We share the feeling, which seems to be growing in public opinion, that the deception involved in the commission's summary as contrasted with the report Itself is a national disgrace and humiliation. While the whole truth regarding the source of this trickery should be uncovered, it is important to keep the emphasis on the modification report itself. That report it; the result of twenty months of hearings and research by a distinguished commission, aided by technical experts, and its conclusion that prohibition is unenforceable and should be changed must not be obscured by the other controversy. Congress appropriated half a million dollars for this study to be made, and effort has been made to delay discussion and legislation until the final report was completed. Now the report is in. It recommends change. The President refuses to accept the recommendation of his own commission. What is congress going to do about it? That is the main issue. Will congress and the country put into effect the modifying amendment urged by the commission, under which congress could legalize and regulate the liquor traffic? We believe that nothing the President and other extreme drys may do long can delay a public decision on the prohibition question. Three Constructive Ideas Three Governors have proposed three different methods, within the last few days, of meeting the power problem, which forces itself upon our attention with growing insistence. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania is going to try to check ‘‘an attack which aims to substitute government by the public utilities for government by the people.” by abolishing the Pennsylvania public service commission and establishing a fair rate board, instead, to regulate utility rates. He is going to try the novel plan of letting the people elect this fair rate board and he is going to give it new powers to make it the defender of the people against high rates and poor service. , Governor Roosevelt of New York is trying to secure governmental authority to enter into contracts with private owners of power transmission lines which will control the selling price of power to consumers. He wants an alternative authority to construct government transmission lines if companies are not willing to make - reasonable contracts. In Wisconsin, Governor Philip La Follette Just has proposed to his legislature creation of a statewide publicly owned power system to compete with privately owned utilities, as well as revision of the state’s regulatory laws to meet changed conditions in the power industry. It is one of the advantages of our federal form of government that states can try different ways of dealing with a problem before we commit the whole nation to any one of them. These three constructive experiments, which certainly should be given a trial, will teach us things we need to know about power and the public and private interest affected by it. Understanding Hoover The spirit of suppression seems alive in the homeland of the “Cradle of Liberty.” Good literature of a modernistic vintage is for the most part under the ban in Boston. Thus far the motive has been primarily an exaggerated sense of moral purity. Now a howl for suppression springs from an outraged sense of civic devotion and dynastic loyalty. The Massachusetts Federation of Patriotic Societies and Good Government Clubs demand the immediate suppression of John Knox’s realistic study of the pre-political career of Herbert Hoover. The book is entitled “The Great Mistake” and is published by the National Foundation Press in Washington. It may not have been subsidized by the Democrats, but it is safe to assert that the Democratic party feels no pangs of sorrow over the appearance of the book. These custodians of public safety in the Codfish state hold that continued circulation of the book “will serve to undermine public confidence in the President.” Without taking any dogmatic position relative to the accuracy or quality of the book, it is doubtful if suppression is desirable. If demonstrable facts can undermine confidence in Hoover, then he should lose our confidence. If Mr. Knox has slandered or libeled Mr. Hoover, then we have strict law to bring him to terms and head him for Atlanta or Leavenworth. There is no more sense in suppressing this book than there was in blacklisting Theodore Dreiser’s “American Tragedy” for immorality. "The Great Mistake” is not another “President’s Daughter” or “Shackles of the Flesh.” It alleges no personal scandals. It is an unfriendly but essentially accurate record of Mr. Hoover’s business career. It endeavors to prove him a mining shark who played all his life with dubious rainbow ventures, showing little solicitude for the dollars of the investors—at least the small fry investors. We need not follow the author in his deductions from the facts. Actually, the book only shows Mr. Hoover to have been an immensely Industrious and very shrewd business man engaged in the dramatic and financially hazardous profession of mining promotion. Admittedly, this is not an especially dignified, stable or eleemosynary form of business enterprise, but Hoover only took things as he found them, and followed prevailing methods. Psrsonally, it seems that Hie book has great value and ultimately may redound to Hoover’s fenefit. It proves, once and for all, that Mr. HoovA'/has not

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spent his life as a sentimental idealist or a noble and unselfish servant of mankind. He spent his days down to 1914 on one of the most colorful and piratical forms of modern business enterprise. Hence, his administration has been what might be expected. There is no trouble in understanding his attitude toward the power problem, the tariff, the Wilburs, Judge Parker, the rights and status of labor, and the like. . Hoover has been harmed greatly by a myth to which no reasonable person could expect him to live up to. This myth was that of the great Idealist and the great engineer in politics. This book proves that there is not the slightest evidence to show him either a humanitarian or engineer. His career had no more relation to either than that of a publicity agent to Ivory soap or any other great commercial product. The Hoover administration is just what the facts, not known to most of his supporters, to be sure, would have implied and predicted. Since 1928 Hoover quite naturally has played the role of a shrewd, materialistic business man who ran into the hard luck of a depression and into the new experience of effective opposition to his policies and methods. Congress hardly could take orders as his business subordinates had in earlier years. Hence, the book makes one more tolerant of Hoover. He apparently is doing his level best. More can be asked of no man. He is no renegade idealist or apostate humanitarian, for he never was by training, experience or inclination an idealist or humanitarian.

The Supreme Imposture Any one who has devoted some years to the technical study of diplomatic history is not staggered by any example of presumption, arrogance, imposture, and hypocrisy. But if there is any example of colossal presumption in all history equal to the one reported in the current press, it has escaped our notice. We refer to the report that the representatives of France, England! Belgium, Italy and Japan are preparing to publish to the world the sins of Germany relative to failure to disarm. They allege that in some minor respects she literally has not executed the commands and agreements forced upon her. The' German army is limited by the treaty of Versailles to 100,000 men. Further, this is a standing army, so there can be no steady crop of reserves trained and turned back to await war. Germany’s neighbors—even some unimportant ones—have armies several times the size of the German. Further, these are draft armies which train large numbers of reserves annually. It has been estimated moderately that the armies and reserves of France and her allies outnumber the armed forces of Germany and her allies by more than forty to one. No such disparity in military strength has been known in European history since the days of the Roman empire. Napoleon, at the supreme pinnacle of his success, never enjoyed such preponderant power. Moreover, after twelve years of hypocritical pretense and promise, the enemies of Germany have taken no significant steps toward disarmament. The present gesture is not unlike the idea of a man guilty of multiple murder and felonious arson chasing down a cop, waving his bloody hands, to complain about another man who is selling peanuts without a license. No sensible person wants a larger German army, but it is in order to inform the critics of Germany that they may well begin by cleaning up their own premises. A California woman is suing her husband for divorce because he wouldn’t get his hair cut. When the terms of alimony are announced, he’ll probably realiz? he’s had a trimming. A Pennsylvania college served tea free to its students during examination week recently. A more timely beverage would have been nerve tonic. There would be fewer day dreamers, says the office sage, if there were a way of taxing a man’s yearnings. A great change has come over women’s voices in the last twenty years, says a scientist. Yes, they’ve become more authoritative. A New York bootlegger is reported to sample his booze on guinea pigs. This seems like a case for the S. P. C. A. A collector paid $20,000 recently for fifty old books carved in wood. But maybe he plans to open a “branch” library.

REASON by

THE automobile season is starting oft very briskly up in Michigan. A leading motorist of Grand Rapids stole his brother-in-law’s wooden leg and traded it for a dollar’s worth of gas, a a a That wasn’t much mileage to get for a wooden leg, but you must remember that the tilling station fellow will have to hold it until he finds a customer. You just can’t go out and sell a wooden leg to everybody that comes along. a a a Secretary Stimson laid himself open to a hot comeback the other day when he sat down and pumped up his indignation because Liberia still practices slavery, and sent several of his best heat units to the African country via the mails. That is, he laid himself open, if any of the Liberians read of what occurred down at Marysville, Mo., this week. a tt U It all goes to show that no country should get gay and proce'd to call some other country down, for right in the midst of the self-righteousness the old skeletons are like as not to stage a cakewalk. And this goes for folks as well as nations. tt a a It's fine to read that the Chinese bandits have released these fourteen missionaries who have been in captivity for months. Now we ought to bring these missionaries back to the United States, where there’s a greater field for them than anywhere else. a a a There's been a"lot of talk to the effect that’ the majority of the ex-service men do not want to have the government cash their service certificates, but the point is that if any of them want the cash they should get it now. ta a a AFTER a man lives in a front line trench, in the midst of the hell of war, all for the grand total of thirty dollars a month, we should say he should not have to wait ten or fifteen years for what his country agrees is due him. * a tt a Some left their chins and says the boys would run wild and blow the coin, but, as before stated, it’s theirs. But the majority would it a long time before throwing it to the birdies, ror it didn’t come easy —not by a long shot

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Will Civilization Halt at the Pacific, or Continue Its World-Encircling Course Back to Asia? SAN DIEGO. Cal., Jan. 21.—Thus far, the pathway of human progress has led steadily toward the setting sun. Will it continue to do so? What American can stand on the western coast of his country, look out over the Pacific, and not ask himself that question? His first impulse is to answer it with the assertion that imperialism has become a dead letter in this era of Kellogg pacts, world courts, and peace movements. Then he remembers the depressions, the cry for work, the demand for markets, the urge of industry, and he is not so sure. So, too, he j remembers that item in Wednesday’s paper teling how the Franco-Italian naval truce; had come to an end, and how Mussolini was preparing to lay keel for keel and cast gun for gun with his French neighbors. tt n tt • Will We Span Pacific? WHAT the average American has been trained to think of j as civilization and to regard as his ; own peculiar heritage now faces the back door of its original home. Will it keep - the world-encircling course and move on Asia, where it was cradled, or will it call a halt? If it keeps to the course, will it cling also to the practice of blasting its way forward with death and destruction? “Not a jugful,” says your average American, “we are through with all that,” and then someone reminds him that the very ground on which he stands was taken by conquest, and again he is not so sure. While trying to puzzle the thing j out, he suddenly becomes aware of the naval base on North Island, of fighting ships in San Diego harbor, of flocks of airplanes overhead, and he takes refuge in the thought that “this country can take care of itself, by gosh, no matter what happens.” tt u Exclusion Necessary Geographically, the Pacific ocean is much wider than the Atlantic, but an lowa farmer now can go from San Francisco to Hongkong easier and quicker than General Howe went from London to New York. We have been in contact with the Orient only about 100 years, yet that has been long enough to persuade us that the exclusion of Orientals is necessary. Exclusion probably was unavoidable, if not the wisest thing, but we shouldn’t get deceived by it. We have yet to meet the issue for which it stands—the issue of competition with coolie labor, of established order to clear the way for trade expansion, and of the elemental urge to grab and develop natural resources as our need grows. Our relations with the Orient constitute just one more phase of the international problem, and not the least important phase. Western civilization has settled down to a fairly reliable modus vivendi on the Atlantic, even though France and Italy do decide to mess up the Mediterranean a bit. a tt tt Different on the Pacific THE case is altogether different on the Pacific, where western civilization is not in control, where Japan is suffering from land hunger, where Soviet Russia has a coast, and where the teeming millions of China must find an outlet for their commerce. It is on the Pacific that this country one day will meet its real test. With England being forced slowly out of India, and with ail Asia showing an unexpected interest in modern government and modern industry, this country can not escape the task of formulating a policy not only for her own guidance, but for that of other nations. In a few years it will be the United States, and the United States alone, that faces the Orient on earth’s greatest ocean, since in a few years there will be little left of the precarious and steadily weakening footholds which European governments now maintain. tt tt it Must Face the Issue IT’S of no use to cry, “splendid isolation,” or quote George Washington on the wisdom of avoiding "entangling alliances,” with regard to the Orient. Our own appetite for trade makes the former impossible, while the elimination of Europe will leave no “entangling alliances” for us to avoid. In the final analysis, we shall face the alternative of trying to establish a “reign of law,” through co-operative action, or of reverting to tpye and fighting it out as our forefathers did. When we come to grips with the oriental problem, as we are bound to in the end, we either shall take a seat at the world’s council table, or resort to such a devilish brand of warfare as never was known.

Questions and Answers

If a snake is killed early in the day does its tail live until sundown? That is a popular belief that is erroneous. Owing to the reaction of the snake’s nervous system the tail does continue to move some time after the snake is otherwise apparently dead, but certainly not so long as from morning to sundown. How many deaths from influenza occurred in the United States in the epidemic of 1918? There were 1,471,367 deaths reported from that disease. How much money is spent annually in the United States for food and clothing? Paul N. Nystrom, professor of marketing of Columbia university, estimates the amount spent for food at twenty billion dollars in 1928 and for clothing at rune and one-half billion dollars. How much of the earth's surface is water and how much is land? The superficial area of the earth Is 196,950,000 square miles, of which 139,440,000 is water and 57,510,000 is land. 7 ' " * *

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Psoriasis Is Puzzling Skin Disease

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBIEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hysrela, the Health Magazine. PSORIASIS is a common disease of the skin in ■which there are round, reddened, dry, scaly patches of various sizes. These usually appear first on the scalp, the ears and the outer surfaces of the limbs. The cause of psoriasis is unknown, although hundreds of studies have been made in an effort to determine its origin. In various cases the disease progresses in various ways. Sometimes it begins in a small spot and remains fairly well localized in that spot. In sorne case." it spreads gradually, finally tending to cover a considerable part of the surface of the body.

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THE prince of Wales has started on the first leg of his journey to South America, where he is to act as a sort of super-salesman for the British Empre. According to the newspaper accounts, the prince has spent much time studying Spanish and in acquainting himself with the business conditions of the various countries he expects to visit. No mention is made of more important things. I trust that the young man’s advisers have not neglected the most important part of hii equipment. Surely this regal salesman will not attempt the trip without first providing himself with anew one about a traveling man and a farmhouse, or, at the very least, a snatch of dialogue between those old standbys, Pat and Mike. tt tt a New Singing Style AS yet none of the music critics has touched upon the revolution which is imminent in the art of singing. Within twenty years I predict the vocal requirements for concert singers will have changed utterly. Already a beginning has been made. I am assuming that in a not too distant day music will belong wholly to the radio. 0 The fair rewards of the air are

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l notice The Times is continuing to call attention to conditions at the Marion county poorhouse. That is what I call real public service—pointing out that an institution founded in England 300 years ago is a lamentable failure in meeting present-day conditions. Deep in their hearts, I am sure the officials upon whose shoulders rests the responsibility for proper care of the worthy aged realize that the old age pension bill, sponsored by the Fraterngi Order of Eagles, is the real solutiofi of this great social problem. No argument of a politician, no tax argument, can erase the fact that the Marion county poorhouse has 100 more inmates than it was intended to accommodate. Superintendent Byron Carter says so. Such a condition is inhuman. Indiana, conservative as she is, should awaken to the fact that old age pensions are just, humane, economical and inevitable. Why hesitate? Massachusetts, seat of all that stands for things as they are, passed an old age pension law several months ago. So did New York. Before them, ten other states took action. The old age pension bill now is before the legislature. Upon its members and the intelligent citizenship of Indiana depend whether our state shall remain in the ranks 1 of those with poorhouses or join those which give decent, just and humane care to their aged. •T. PIERCE CUMMINGS. 3601 Kenwood avenue. ■Why does food exposed to the air in tins become poisonous? Because the tin oxidizes, and forms a compound with the free oxygen in the air, which contaminates the food and acts, as a poison in the human system

Occasionally cases clear up spontaneously, but again they recur, becoming more and more severe. Specialists in skin diseases classify various types of eruption, depending on the nature of the eruption itself and on the extent and manner of spread. The experience of a few specialists with various methods of treatment is an indication of the fact that no single treatment is efficient in all classes. It generally is agreed, however, by practically all investigators of this disease, that removal of the scales by frequent hot baths and application of suitable remedies tends to keep the skin in fairly good condition. It is well known that certain

already much higher than any visible audience can afford to furnish, and the artists themselves are becoming converted rapidly to the new medium. They can not but applaud an age in which no violinist ever will have to look up the train connections between Bay City and Sandusky. But when the day comes— and I seem to hear its footfalls—in which all music originates in one or two central studios, the test of a fine, voice will not be quite the same. Even the radio people are not yet completely aware of what has happened. I am referring to the fact that for the purpose of broadcasting it makes no difference at all whether a voice is big or small. In times past many a frank and honest teacher has been compelled to say to an aspirant: “Your voice has a lovely quality and you’re a fine musician, but it is quite useless for you to study for grand opera. You simply couldn’t make yourself heard.” tt tt tt Smaller and Better AND for the most part the great and glamorous ones of song have been performers who could blow* the man down even though he sat in the second balcony. But now it no longer will be necessary to rule any one out because his voice Is light. I leave it to technicians to decide whether any such radical change in the requirements will be good or bad for artistic endeavor. I’m for it. Too often have I sat in concert halls and listened to a singer torture himself and his audience by forcing tones to fill a halL Much has been said about the mechanization of music and of the manner in which this development degrades an art. But there is something to be said on the other side. I will not agree that traditional methods of presentation all tended

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BYRON’S BIRTH January 22

ON Jan. 22, 1788, Lord Byron, one cf the greatest of English poets, was bom in London. Two years after he entered Trinity college, Cambridge, he issued his first volume of verse, “Hours of Idleness.” It was fiercely criticised, but instead of discouraging him this incited him to continue with his poetry. Following his return from a trip on the continent, Byron published the first part of his Childe Harold, which met with immediate success. A few years later he produced Don Juan, his masterpiece. In the summer of 1823 Byron sailed for Greece, to aid with his influence and money in that country’s struggle for independence. There he found nothing but confusion and contending chiefs, but in three months he succeeded in evoking some kind of order out of chaos. His health, however, began to fail, and he died front exposure and f*™r on April 19, 7824. i< u

foods tend more than others to be associated with eruption on the skin, and many persons with psoriasis have been improved by avoiding shell foods, strawberries, red meats, coffee, tea and alcohol. The fact that some cases clear up spontaneously h.;s made it possible for quacks of all types to announce that they hav* specific cures. Many persons with psoriasis seem to improve when exposed to ultraviolet rays, whereas others seem to get worse and far more fail to respond in any way whatever. It is probably best for the person afflicted with this condition to consult a specialist in diseases of the skin at fairly frequent intervals, so that progress of the condition may be watched, and proper methods of treatment applied as needed.

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

to foster precisely the right inspirational atmosphere for either singer or listener. And I will include orchestras, #io From You to Me OBVIOUSLY the ideal situation is a direct musical message from one individual to another. There are several people whom I’ve heard in concert and also more closely in some room where not more than three or four were gathered together. In each case the impromptu performance seemed to me infinitely finer all around. Paul Robeson gave a huge concert here recently and deserved the glowing notices he received, but he has said, “I like it best when I can sing just leaning back in a big chair in some friend’s house.” I must not overlook the fact that to some people a microphone brings just as much terror as the presence of a large visible audience, but this, I think, is no more than a passing emotion. In the long run there will be more ease and Intimacy in music new style. And I am not thinking wholly of the strain upon the performer. Even more important is the liberation of the listener. , He can shut himself Into some secluded spot where it will be wholly unnecessary to tap a neighbor in the seat ahead and say, “Keep your trap shut.” Moreover, and maybe most Important of all, the radio has served to recreate an old and necessary alliance. Since each man’s home is his castle, It is possible once again to have beer and Bach, wine and Wagner. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

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SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Campaign to Conserve Sitjht of the American People h Launched by Council. PLANS for a campaign in 1931 to encourage citizens to take better care of their eyes and to elimly nate industrial and civic conditions which endanger sight have been announced by the Eyesight Conservation Council of America. In a statement, Procter L. Dougherty, director of the council and former president of the board of commissioners of the District of Columbia. points out that one out of evefy five men 20 years of age has. defective vision and does not' know it. Elections to the board of councillors of the council were announced as follows: Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, Senator Joseph E. Rans dell of Louisiana, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; Merritte W. Iland, surgeon-general, war department; John Hays Hammond, internation-* ally known engineer: Dr. William J. Cooper. United States commissioner f education: Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming, United States health service; Dr. Arthur D. Little, Cambridge, Mass., 1931 winner of thp Perkin medal in chemistry'; Dr, diaries R. Mann, director of the American Council of Education, Washington: Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's* Hospital for the Insane. Washington; Professor Thomas D. Wood of Teachers’ college, Columbia university, New York. tt tt tt Officers Chosen LW. WALLACE of Washington, . executive secretary of the American engineering council, has been chosen chairman of the eye-, sight conservation council. The vice-chairman is Bailey B. Burritt of New York City, general director of the New York Association for Improving the Condition oS the Poor, and the secretary-treas-urer is Dr. Morton G. Loyd, chief of the safety division, United States bureau of standards. •• “The education of the men, women and children of the United States with relation to conservation of their sight and the improvement of those factors of daily life that affect human vision are the activities undertaken by the eyesight conseiv vation council,” Director Dougherty says. “Local councils, composed of representatives of schools and indus-* tries of th* immunity, will be organized in each state to carry out the education program. “Field secretaries will tour the country, giving addresses, with lantern slides and movie films, before public school groups, welfare and parent-teacher associations, and industrial and business groups.” tt tt tt Motion Pictures OTHER studies planned by tfip council include one of artificial illumination and another of the printed page. “Particular attention will be given to the motion picture industry in s.n effort to determine the character of, screen pictures that may be harm-" ful to the eyes,” Dougherty says. “In the automotive field the council plans to institute an inquiry into the laws and regulations governing the licensing of motor vehicles drivers. “When the work of the council has become well established in J his country, there should be no reason why it should not be recognized abroad, since its aims and purpose* are fundamentally humanitarian and universal. “We hope build the council into a universal organization whose*, memorial will be its continuous and' unremitting services to humanity.” The council has based its plans on a research report covering the entire problem of sight conservation in the United States. j This report estimates that there are 60,000 totally blind persons in this country. The number with defective vision accurately can not be computed though it is held to run into many millions.

Daily Thought

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide iff' my love; even as I have kept my father’s commandments, and abide in his love. —St. John 15:10. Obedience is the key to every door.—George MacDonald. How many times was Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, married? Three times. At the age of sixteen she married the dauphin of France, who later became Francis 11. Seven years later, on July 29,. 1565, she marired her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Damley. On May 15, 1567, only three months after her husband’s murder, she became the; wife of James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell.