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Let In the Light Some official body should at once let in the light on the situation 2'esulting from charges by the attorney-general that a holding company had used money collected from telephone subscribers to fix a public service commissioner. Mr. Mclntosh, the member involved, declares that he wants an investigation by the senate, because the lower house is of his own political faith and that any vindication would be termed whitewashing. There is more reason to call a senate inquiry with the same findings a farce, for that body belongs to the political faith of the Governor who named the commissioner. The people are not much interested in who makes the investigation, but they are concerned that such an inquiry shall be made in the open so that all the facts may be known. The time is propitious. There are measures before the legislature which might be influenced by such an inquiry. Two bills would abolish the commission. Others would place holding companies under control. The guilt or innocence of Mclntosh is a matter for the criminal courts. The habits of holding companies and the commission in treatment of the public are matters for legislative inquiry. If the utilities are controling the commission rather than the commission regulating the utilities, the public may even approve of the drastic method of abolishing that body. Let in the light. There are too many dark caverns in utility manipulation and high finance that need illumination. Railroad Rates Congress has been urged by the interstate commerce commission to enlarge the rate-making powers of the commission, to provide that the general state of business may be regarded as a major factor in fixing both freight and passenger tariffs. The proposal Should receive consideration. Railroad rates never have come down from their war-time inflation. The consequent disparity between transportation charges and commodity values is a burden to all business, an obstacle to economic recovery, a load upon the broken back of agriculture. Although federal regulation of railroads has been a national policy since 1887, there has not been written into the law even a beginning for a precise theory of rates, the chaotic system of charges which began with the slogan, “all the traffic will bear,’* has grown only more bewildering as traffic has increased. Today there is no fixed relationship between distance and charges, between commodities and charges, between speed and, charges. The entire rate structure is a patchwork of half a, century’s national development, those industries which have fought extravagantly for relatively lower rates have them. Those communities which have made generous appropriations for the cause have the preferential rates to which their costly statistics no doubt entitle them. i Granting the claim of the carriers that we enjoy the best transportation system in the world, two inescapable facts remain: The rate structure is a phantasmagoria, and the national transportation bill is far out of line with returns to other major elements in the economic organization. We should not try longer to nm the finest railroad system in the world on a middle nineteenth century basis of rates. A great deal of new knowledge is available to serve both carriers and patrons as soon as congress will undertake to open the rate windows and allow a breath of today’s scientific air to penetrate the musty old catacombs of the existing rate structure.

Privately Owned Police The decision of Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania to abolish the notorious coal and iron police of his state will receive general approbation. The privately-owned and privately-controlled terroristic organization which has been maintained in the coal fields for years, will be eliminated. In its stead there will be a group of “officers selected and commanded by the commonwealth and paid by it at company expense.” In the past, company police have been chosen and paid by the big corporations, and have taken orders from them. They have been commissioned by the State and have exercised the police authority of the state. Their activities have not been confined to the properties they were supposed to protect, but they have been permitted to roam the countryside. Governor Pinchot Intends to accomplish his reform by the simple expedient of withholding commissions now held by the personal army of the coal companies, which expire June 30. He also will offer a bill to the legislature reorganizing the service. The killing of John Barcoski, a Polish farmer, by three coal and Iron policemen in 1929 is fresh in memory. The brutality of that murder brought a deluge of demands for a change in the system, and there was some modification by the legislature. There had been other killings, the system long had been under attack, and had been condemned by a United States senate investigating committee. Governor Pinchot made real reform of the police system one of the major planks in the platform which won him the election. “I recognize the necessity for police protection in these regions,” said the Governor, “but I believe it should be provided under conditions which will make such outrages as the Barcoski killing forever impossible. Religion and Crime The importance of religion in keeping men in order and making them obey the law has been debated warmly through the ages. The conventional and popular view has been well stated by Cardinal O’Connell: “The only thing that keeps the human race in some sort of plausible order is the overpowering content of God upon the minds of men. When religion goes, only one thing can follow logically—the bayonet.” Os course, until scientists investigated the actual facts regarding the effect of religion upon conduct, the debate was bound to be endless and indeterminate. But the psychologists now are at work. Drs. May and Hartshome, in their careful “(Studies in Deceit,” showed that there seemfi to be po relationship between aiigffm Staining ad &-

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pendability, law-abiding tendencies and high moral character. Their conclusions were rather more than confirmed by Professor Hightower at the international Psychological congress in New Haven a year ago. Further assent to this view was furnished by Dr. George R. Nursell, chief psychologist of the Ohio state department of public welfare, at the Cleveland meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He thoroughly investigated the religious training of 600 boys in the Ohio reform school and 400 boys outside. All were drawn from highly comparable economic, social and religious strata. Dr. Nursell found that the boys In the reform school had been instructed fully ,as thoroughly in religion as those on the outside. He concluded that one could assign no part to religious training either a cause or prevention of delinquency: “It seems safe to conclude that there is no significant relation between religious training and delinquent or nondelinquent behavior; that whatever causes one to be delinquent or nondelinquent, it is not religious training, knowledge, attitudes or background, as measured by these tests." Wine and Wickersham Search the Wickersham. report and you'll find nothing more incongruous than its comment on home-made “fruit juices." As in other matters, the “conclusions and recommendations" appear at utter odds with the £ody of the report. If the report has been tinkered with, here, indeed, is the trail of the tinker. Recommendation No. 12 suggests removal of the “anomalous provisions of Section 29” of the Volstead act and the fixing of alcoholic content of cic’er and fruit juices. The body of the report does nothing of the kind. On the contrary, this has a fatalistic approach to the subject of home manufacture. The investigators merely sigh over the fact of home-made fruit juice and ths stuff that time turns it into. The moral effect on children is bad, it leads to illicit sales, It is “a serious threat to law and order.” “Yet, it appears to be the policy of the government not to interfere with it. Indeed the government has gone farther. Prepared materials for the purpose of easy home wine-making now are manufactured on a large scale with federal aid . . . the difficulties presented . . . involve the arousing of resentment through invasion of the home and interference with home life. . . “Necessity seems to compel the virtual abandonment of efforts for effective enforcement at this point . . . law here bows to actualities, and the purpose of the law needs must be accomplished by less direct means. An enlightened and vigorous, but now long-neglected, campaign of education must constitute these means.” In the recommendations, the commission urges more law. In the report itself, the commission urges the only possible remedy—education. Poor Salesmanship “Somehow it is hard to ‘sell’ an intangible thing like protection of children, yet we ‘buy’ a $17,000,000 cruiser without raising an eyebrow,” President Hoover told an interviewer the other day. The clubwomen of America, union labor, social workers, and many medical men have been trying to “sell" protection of children by re-enactment of the maternity-infancy aid bill. A simple re-enactment measure molded on the successful Sheppard-Towner act passed the senate B 6 to 10. In the house another measure, claiming support of the President and Secretary Wilbur, has emerged. Tiffs, the Cooper bill, would tie to maternityinfancy aid another function, unrelated to the original intent of maternity-infancy aid. The new move jeopardizes passage of any measure. It means that if the house substitutes the Cooper bill for the Jones bill, another vote must be taken In the senate. In the closing rush, it easily may happen that nothing w'll be done. A sure and easy way would be for the house to pass the Jones bill, leaving rural health for a separate measure, George Bernard Shaw says the Russians make the best movie films. The manner in which they carried out their conspiracy trial would indicate they are at least capable of putting across a good show.

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TT TELL, the Wickersham committee has made VV its report, without adding anything to the situation as it is known by everybody. After signing a common report, the members of the comr 'ttee then filed individual opinions, which leaves the whole thing in the air. a a 0 If, as so many political prophets claim, the,wet and dry issue will be the main thing fought about in the next presidential election, then we are in for a hectic time and for a grand shift all around that will upset parties as they have not been upset since 1896. a a a The other day a member of the national house of representatives proposed that the speaker’s car be offered for sale to the highest bidder, the proceeds to go to the relief of the people in the droughtstricken regions. Os course, it was offered as a joke, but there’s a situation uncovered by it that should be remedied. a a a THE government pays for the automobiles of a lot of men at Washington and there’s no just reason why it should. It may be all right to give the President a car, but there it should end. The President is an exception, because the government gives him an establishment, but there’s no more reason why cabinet officers, Speakers or Vice-Presidents should have automobiles maintained at public expense than why representatives and senators should have them. a a a And the evil doesn't end with cabinet members and. the Speaker and Vice-President. Many subordinates ride in machines furnished by Uncle Sam, who also pays for the gas thereof. There's no more reason why the people should give cars to these birds than give them their B. V. Ds. 000 GOVERNMENT is the most shamefully wasteful and extravagant thing on earth, and if any private business were run the same way it would hit the rocks in short order. . The automobile incident is but an index to the criminal wastefulness which obtains in national and state governments. 000 And this is one reason why your taxes are so high. The msdn fault with our system is that we have on the public pay roll fully twice as many public officers as we need, and if the present legislature really wants to help the taxpayer, it will recommend a revamping of our system and an elimination of thousands of offices. 00 0 A lot of public pets, such as deputy oil inspectors and deputy fire marshals, should be dispensed with. The old game has been played to flie limit and the taxpayer is sending out the S. O. 4 S. signal to the lawxoatattat u j"

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Many Americans Cart Look at Los Angeles and Still Wonder Why Such Weird Things Occur in India. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28. —Since progress admits no ifs, it were ridiculous to wonder why Los Angeles should not be somewhere else, called by another nams, or held back by those difficulties which meet communities find it hard to overcome. Yet no one can land in the town without feeling an irrepressible urge so to wonder. An exception to prove the rule, an anomaly to upset all the old theories, a paradox to raise doubt as to whether the wisest of men can see beyond the ends of their noses—that’s Los Angeles. Started twenty-five miles inland, and not on a navigable waterway, it has become one of the world’s great ports. Betting on the movies and every form of allied whoopee, it has developed into a tremendous manufacturing center, with the bulk of its trade flowing against the sun. Its traffic congestion is about the worst in this country, yet it has no skyscrapers, and its billboards are among the. most atrocious, though they hide some of the best scenery. You can stand on the front steps of some Qf its most pretentious homes and count the ribs in a hundred oil derricks, or go to the back door and find one in the alley. The virtually equal claims of Aimee McPherson, Edward L. Doheny, Clara Bow and William Z. Foster to local popularity speak for themselves. * tt tt Down on Reds THOUGH content to be credited with 6ome of the worst trash ever put out in the name of entertainment, much less art, Los Angeles is rather conservative in politics, especially when it comes to red activities, or even a mild shade of pink. Just now the town is heaving a great sigh of relief over the alleged Communist demonstration which was planned for Feb. 10 and which the police, with the co-operation of hall owners, are supposed to have thwarted. At least four auditoriums had been leased, so the story goes, but when police tipped the owners off, each and every lease was canceled. At the same time, police are guarding Clara Bow for fear that some of ths few anonymous letter writers who have blamed her for Daisy De Voe’s recent conviction may get foolish. Still, a great many Americans pretend they can’t understand why such queer and awful things should be going on in India. tt tt tt Britain May Be Wrong INDIA is rather far away, according to the geographies which even the present generation uses, not to mention those on which previous generations were brought up, but the news of Mahatma Gandhi’s release was being read in California only a few hours after it took place. So, too, was the news of his pronouncement renewing the disobedience campaign and the great outburst of popular approval with which it was received. They say the British government never would have consented to Gandhi’s release, but for practical certainty that the conference now going on would evolve a plan acceptable to the vast majority of Indian leaders. They say that the British government was perfectly well aware how Gandhi would act, and that his course constitutes no surprise. They say, also, that the British government is prepared to discount his continued opposition by whipping other leaders into line through a compromise. Maybe so, and again maybe not. The British government is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. The problem it faces in India is one of the most difficult it, or any other government, ever faced. The assumption that it has found a solution on which it can rely implicitly, that it is in position to foresee the result of every move, and that it does not need to send up a trial balloon now and then, is absurd, n tt u Just a Test TT is barely possible that Gandhi’s release was ordered because of a well-considered conviction on the part of British authorities that they had nothing to fear from his further activities. On the other hand, It may have been ordered because of an equally well-considered conviction that he was more dangerous in prison than out, or that he would react favorably to such move. My own idea is that the British government merrily played the trump to see how It would work, or what results it would bring, and that Downing street is worried, as well as hopeful, over the outcome. Just how good a hand this man Gandhi holds, or how he will play it, no one seems to know. The chances are that he doesn’t know himself. But it’s his hand, or rather India’s, which means tha* the British government can’t play it or find out what' it contains, until about so many cards have been put on the table. The latest maneuver amounts to just one more card.

Questions and Answers

Where is Baker field? It is the football and athletic stadium of Columbia university, in New York. Is the Springfield rifle used in the army today the same as the KragJorgenson rifle? The Springfield rifle took the place of the Krag-Jorgenson and is an entirely different model. How many full g Jen.' 5 are now in active service * . the American army? Only one, who is General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff. When was Grover Cleveland sheriff in Buffalo? From 1871 to 1873. Did O. Henry, the writer, serve a term in prison? He was indicted in 1896 on a charge of embezzling funds from a bank in Austin, Tex., and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary in 1888, but his term was reduced to three years htvH month* for good behavior.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Corn Sugar Proves Its Food Value

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela. the Health Magazine. FEW people realize today that there is more than one kind of sugar. Actually there are many substances which can be used to sweeten foods. Among the common substances are cane sugar, honey, sirups of various kinds, and the chemical saccharin. Heretofore the administration of the food and drugs act has ruled that sweetening of packaged goods when brought about by any other substance than cane sugar should be indicated on the label. The vast majority of people unfortunately are exceedingly careless about what they eat. They take for granted that anything sold through a recognized agency is a sound product. „

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I HAD no notion that an Airedale could take heartbreak quite so violently. Pandora was sent to the country and Captain Flagg was left alone. Not alone, exactly, but without canine companionship. Immediately he went on a hunger strike, which lasted three days. Nor would he drink water nor sleep. Constantly he prowled around the room and out upon the roof. And when he wasn’t looking for the lost lady he sat upon his haunches howling. In time gone by I’ve known him to whimper in mild protest against some minor frustration, but this was a grief more savage and articulate. Mowgli’s friends could not have rent the night air with sounds more sad and sinister. Airedale civilization is only a veneer. I found myself living with a strange dog, which suddenly had gone vocally into pure wolfhood. a u st No Time for Advice IT’S a fearful thing to see an afflicted animal. You can’t ever! try to ease his spirit with any of the polite lies a friend would tell to a man under similar circumstances. I didn’t even try to tell him that time is a great healer. That he had to discover for himself. And yet it wasn’t time so much as energy through which he came out of the valley of complete tribulation. And, though there was nothing which I was competent to teach him, it is quite possible that I was able to learn by his example. You may tell me, of course, that there is no relationship between human suffering and this sort of animal affliction. I believe that there is. The old distinction about animals not reasoning seems to me a feeble thing. Most people don’t, either. And if I am informed that what I arbitrarily call grief in the life of Captain Flagg is mere ’glandular disturbance, I shall reply that there iamuch of that .same causative chemistry in mankind’s miseries. # u a Makes an Error TO some extent we have gotten off on the wrong foot through customs imposed by civilization. Older traditions are sounder. We are inclined to say, “You must be brave,” or even, “You must be calm.’’ These are poor prescripcions. Primitive people have greater intuitive wisdom. If the home life of a savage is broken by death or any other disaster, he will, according to the rites of his particular tribe, manifest his grief and his unhappy estates in some extremely vigorous way. He literally may put ashes upon his head or join in a rhythmic drum beat, And all forms of funeral marching or dancing are designed to meet the same purpose. Sorrow undoubtedly has its own peculiar chemistry. No one is cured of grief until his metabolism has been altered. That, of course, can be partly brought about by his mental attitude. - There must be sound reasons in the human body for the use of such a system, and it may be an utter mistake society to be done with public mourning and all th%t ij pnraija m thp way flurry

The Hooversham Report

It is doubtful if one in every hundred women ever looks at the label on the package, can or bottle of food to see what ingredients it contains. When such ingredients especially are declared on the label, it is taken for granted that they are probably not as healthful as other ingredients which need not be declared on the label. The result of this action has been to discriminate against corn sugar in favor of beet and cane sugar. Twenty-five years ago com sugar was not refined to its present state. Today it is difficult for any one, but an expert, to tell the difference between cane sugar and corn sugar. Therefore, the government has ruled that it no longer is necessary to indicate on the label of canned goods which of these two sugars is used for sweetening. Corn sugar is cheaper than cane

and the raising of the blood pressure. We have been too Intent upon' handling grief like ladies and gentlemen. tt tt tt No Profit CAPTAIN FLAGG is not the only one to experience blight in romance. I could have told him a great deal about my own experiences, but not to his profit. My way was wrong. I sought solitude and silence.

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—We have a plan by which the country can be put on a sound business base and will give our countless people that are out of work permanent employment. For the government to spend large sums of money on road building is the only relief that has been offered to relieve this country’s wide depression, that has brought awful suffering to so many of our people. It is staggering to think of this present condition, where so many of our good people want to work and no work for them to do. There must be something done. For the government to spend large sums of money on road building will give only temporary relief. So why not use this money for- something that will give permanent relief? Let the government Issue bonds and put a large per cent of our unemployed on the farm. They can earn their own living and won’t have to depond on the manufacturer for it. That is what is wrong with our country today. Too many

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GORDON'S BIRTH January 28. ON Jan. 28, 1833, Charles Gordon, an English soldier, familiarly known as “Chinese Gordon” and “Gordon Pasha,” was bom in Woolwich, the son of an army officer. Graduating from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich at the age of 15, Gordon was commissioned a lieutenant four years later. He served in the Crimean war with distinction, being wounded at Sebastopol. Later, h/e entered the Chinese service and assisted in suppressing the Taiping rebellion, whence his sobriquet of “Chinese Gordon.” In 1874, Gordon took command of the forces to follow Baker’s African explorations, during which time he totally suppressed the slave traffic on the Red sea. Just ten years later he went to the Sudan, in lower Egypt, as an emissary of England, to quiet the 1 insurgent tribes. His memorable journey to Khar- j turn, with one or two 'attendants; and the influence which his presence exercised ova* the tribes of the desert, form one of the- most thrilling episodes infills career. He was killed when a tribe leader -capture4 Khartum.

sugar and a package of canned goods made with com sugar should be cheaper eventually than the same material sweetened with cane sugar. It is the belief of the secretary of the department of agriculture that this Tiffing will cause the use of an increased amount of corn sugar in packaged goods to the extent that anywhere from five to one hundred million bushels of corn will be required for this purpose. Physiologists and authorities in the field of nutrition are convinced that it is just as healthful to eat com sugar as to eat cane sugar. There is no public health problem involved. The one fact of importance is that corn sugar is a little less sweet than cane sugar and that one therefore will have to eat a litfcie more of It to get the same amount of sweetness.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this colnmn are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented witbont regard to their agreement .or disagreement with the editorial- attitude of this paper.—The Editor

The next time I get thrown over—and a thing like that can happen even in your 40s—I am not going to retire to my room and pill down the blinds. Instead I’ll call for tennis shoes, a sweat shirt, half a dozen pocket handkerchiefs and a saxophone. In the beginning I was afraid that Flagg’s whole life had been scarred. For the first couple of nights he had very much the look of one about to write a novel. That will not be necessary now. (Copyright, 1931, by The Times)

people have come to the city and they have to depend on the manufacturer for their living. The plan that we have won’t cost the government any money. It will put the country back on a sound business basis in a very short time. CLAUD AND FLOYD PETERMAN I Daily Thought ] And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament—Daniel 12:3. The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.—Young, Is th ;re a verse in the Bible about man drinking to forget his poverty and misery? The following verse is in Proverbs, 31:7-8; ‘Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those what be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery •no more.”

The White House Do you know the reason we call it the White House? Do you know which President made it “officially’' the White House by haring that name engraved on government stationery? Do you know how the White House came to be built where it is? Do you know howmany rooms it has? How many people have lived in it? How many babies have been bom there? How many persons have died und<*r its roof? How many weddings celebrated there? How many funerals from the White House? How many servants and employes it takes to run it? How much of its upkeep is paid by the government and how much by the President out of his private funds? When gas lights were first put in the White House, and when the first electric lights? When the open fireplaces were replaced by a central heating system? When the executive offices were built on to it? All these and many more interesting facts about the residence of the first citizen of the republic will be found in the new bulletin just prepared bv our Washington bureau on THE WHITE HOUSE. Fill out the coupon ' below and send it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 113, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin THE WHITE HOUSE, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamp* to cover return postage and handling costs: -NAME .. STREET AND NO. ~ OITY STATE ..... I am & reader of TbeljMiaaapoiis Times. (Code No.)

.JAN. 28, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Decided Advance Expected in 19S1 in the Hydrogenation of Petroleum. GREAT developments in the hydrogenation of petroleum are expected in 1931 by the chemical profession. This process promises to be one of the most valuable discoveries of modern scientific research. Petroleum is a mixture of a great many compounds, each one of which is composed of hydrogen and carbon in varying quantities. The heavy, black, and relatively useless tars are rich in carbon and weak in hydrogen. The valuable constituents of petroleum, such as gasoline, are poor in carbon and rich in hydrogen. Hydrogenation is a process by which additional hydrogen is forced under pressure into the petroleum in the presence of substances known as catalysts, which promote chemical reaction. Asa result, the compounds which are low’ in hydrogen absorb more of that substance. Thus the valueless tax's are changed into valuable products, such as gasoline. Reviewing the chemical situation in the last year, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, official publication of the American Chemical society, says: “The hydrogenation of petroleum, long a matter of technical interest, attracted great attention in this country during 1930. The first authoritative discussion of this subject in the United States was presented by Haslam and Russell in the symposium on “Industrial HighPressure Reactions” at the Cincinnati meeting of the American i Chemical society.” tt tt Standard Oil INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEER - ING CHEMISTRY, of which Dr i Harrison E. Howe is editor, goes on to say: . ... “The co-operative research of the German I. G. and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey during the last three years has developed processes of great flexibility, which are confidently expected to revolutionize refining practice. “Hydrogenation seems destined to join nitrogen fixation and rayon manufacture as a world chemical industry which was born in the research laboratory.” Turning to other outstanding features of 1930 in the world of chemistry, the journal says: “World overproduction of various commodities has resulted in efforts to limit output by agreement, but little success has been achieved in many cases, such as rubber, zinc, and tin. “While the Ceylon and Malay areas wish to restrict rubber production, the Dutch East Indies plantation will not join in the scheme. “The international zinc cartel was dissolved at the end of 1929 because it had failed to achieve results. Since the American slab zinc producers account for 45 to 50 per cent of the world output, some efforts have been made to arrange anew cartel, including them, which might have a better chance of success. “The international dyestuffs cartel, comprising German, Swiss, and French producers, is being maintained, and there lias been some discussion of broadening it to include Great Britain and Italy, although this suggestion has not been received kindly in France.” tt a u Helium Monopoly “'T'HE tragic disaster of the R-101 A could, not help but renew discussion of the advantages of helium for lighter-than-air craft, and of the part played by the United States, with its virtual monopoly of helium supplies at the present time,” the journal continues. “It is possible that the export of helium may increase somewhat, since the needs of. ths government are met by the plant of the bureau of mines at Amarillo, Tex.,. “During the year another possible source of helium in the United States was reported when it accidentally was discovered that a natural gas well at a location south of Thatcher, Colo., contained -7 per cent of this precious element. Discovery of helium gases in Africa also was announced. ’ “One of the industrial casualties of 1930 was the manufacture of hand-blown glass In Belgium. The ancient methods could not survive the competition of mechanical processes during the depression of business. “Ford Allison and E. J, Murphy of Alabama Polytechnic institute announced the discovery of element 87. If their evidence proves acceptable, this will be the second element discovered in America, the other being illinium, discovered by B. S. Hopkins afid his coworkers. “Alcohol in its various social or Industrial incarnations probably was the major topic of discussion in the United States during the last year. It still is too early to judge the outcome of the transfer of prohibition enforcement to the department of Justice, but the benefits, if any. certainly are not expected to fall to the share of industry.”