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And This Is Not Socialism If one-half of the great Incomes of 1028 had been distributed as wages, instead of being ploughed back into making more things than the existing wages could buy, we probably would not have had the socalled over-production which brought on the 1929-30 collapse. Large wealth, accumulating as it does in the hands of comparatively few, has to be ploughed back, to find an outlet. Those few can spend personally, as consumers, only a limited part of their total income. Accordingly, there is a piling-up process, with the inevitable toppling-over, which we now are witnessing. If a larger part of the wealth that gravitated to the few, and by the few was reinvested in enlarging industry, had been circulated to the many, consumption then would have tended to keep pace with production, since the capacity of the many to consume, unlike that of the few, is not limited. As long as an inordinate portion of the total wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of those who can’t spend it as consumers, and can find an outlet only in multiplying production, we will have overexpansion, followed by collapse, followed by painful and slow convalescence—and then the whole cycle over again. To break up that cycle is capitalism’s big Job, if capitalism is to survive. Not from the humanitarian point of view only, but from the point of view of the wealthy as well as the poor and the moderate, the way out must be through attaining a balance, by increasing the portion of the total wealth that goes into the spending channel of wages. What Is a University Nicholas Murray Butler has precipiconsiderable controversy by his challenging stat*nv?nt that there are not more than eight real universities in the United States. This charge is certainly impregnable from the standpoint of educational logic and practice. But it is not so holeproof when viewed in the perspective of the historical origins of universities and the term “university.” President Butler speaks without much enthusiasm concerning the establishment of colleges of horseshoeing, and holds these up in sharp and contemptuous contrast with the great traditional universities devoted to the humanities. But it so happens that the atmosphere of the blacksmith shop was far closer to the origins of our universities than the austerity of Dr. Butler’s magnificent and impressive academic sanctuary. There was nothing high-hat about the terminology, methods or pretensions of the early universities. In the twelfth century, Abelard, by his "Sic et Non,” made it impossible henceforth to uphold tho Catholic faith purely by an appeal to those great authorities whose views Abelard had proved to be so contradictory. These apparent discrepancies had to be reasoned away by logic. Teachers of logic were demanded, but they must be trained. To train them, schools were necessary. To have schools, one must have some.kind of organization to guarantee fulfillment of requirements and place the accepted brand on the graduates. The only well-known secular organization in the medieval period was the guild (collegium) or corporation (universitas). These guilds or corporations had been employed for the organization and discipline of medieval industry and commerce. They were founded on doctrines of Roman law. Therefore, when the universities were founded, they took over the common guild form of organization which pervaded industrial life. So the atmosphere of horseshoeing, weaving, spinning, shoemaking, metal working and the like actually provided the very basis of the genesis of our colleges and universities. The bachelor of arts was none other than the youth who had passed through his apprenticeship in the guild of scholars. The degree meant nothing more. It pronounced him a journeyman scholar, ready to go ahead and become a master of logic by further studies, just as a Journeyman blacksmith ultimately might become a master blacksmith. The same methods were introduced into the institutions which gave instruction in law and medicine. At first there was no distinction between college and university, since collegium and Universitas had approximately the same legal and conventional meaning. In time the university became distinctive. In England and the United States the term university has been used chiefly to describe the legal organization and government of a collection of colleges—of liberal arts, medicine, engineering, fine arts, swine husbandry and the like. In Germany and* many other European countries the university meant the graduate school, undergraduate work being carried on in the gymnasium, or lycee. More rarely, as in the case of the so-called University of the State of New York, the term university has been restricted to the mere legal right to* grant degrees and to license degree-granting institutions. Dr. Butler was right, then, if he meant that there are not more than eight institutions in the United States which conduct themselves as an ideal university should. Indeed, looking at the problem from this point of view, I should say that Dr. Butler was rather expansive and optimistic. Some have said that there is not one left since Hall retired from Clark. But historically and traditionally, a college of horseshoeing at Muskogee, Okla., has as much right to call itself a university as Dr. Butler’s great Acropolis on Momingside Heights. Quality of instruction rather than differentiation of mere names is, after all, the best guaranty of true academic distinction and of recognition of merit. The Veteran’s Interest Beneath all the heated argument for and against immediate cash payment by the government of veterans’ bonus certificates, there is one very simple issue. It is the same issue which confronts every man some time in life: Shall I sacrifice my life insurance or keep it? The wise man decides, I shall keep the Insurance. And, in our judgment, the veterans in their own interest should hold on to their insurance instead of cashing it. The whole purpose of the adjusted service certificates, as propounded by the veterans themselves when the system was set up, was to provide for the veterans m their old age. The principle was exactly the same as the principle of life insurance. That being the original purpose, it automatically would be defeated by cashing the policies now. If there were reason on<c for a plan by which the veterans would be assisted in their old age, that reason is Just as sound now as it ever was. Dissipation now of the fund by which that necessity was to be met would not alter the necessity.

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Tom Paine’s Birthday January 29 is the birthday of a great American patriot, Thomas Paine. Few, if any, were more influential than Tom Paine in helping to win our independence and to establish the liberal tradition in America. He came here in 1774 with introductions from Franklin, who had become interested in his attacks on the British customs system. When the revolution broke out, he at once became one of the leading propagandists for the colonies. His "Common Sense,” written in 1776, was the best brief statement ever compiled of the colonial cause and the argument for revolution and separation. Kls "Crisis,” written during the winter of 1776-7, did much to reassure the country at the time of the darkest depression. Paine not only wrote well for revolution; he also fought bravely. His services were recognized and rewarded. Pennsylvania gave him $2,500, congress $3,000 and New York a tract of land. Returning to England, Paine again toqk up the revolutionary cause by attacking Burke’s opposition to the French revolution. His "Rights of Man,” the most forceful statement of the Whig revolutionary philosophy which his age produced, effectively answered Burke. But he was not content merely to write in behalf of French liberalism. He went to France and barely escaped with his life. While there he wrote his “Age of Reason,” the best popular summary we have of deism and religious rationalism. The charge that Paine was an atheist is without foundation. He believed in a God who was a gentleman. Paine later returned to America and died in his adopted land at New Rochelle, N. Y., in 1809. If American liberalism, political and religious, were to pick a patron saint, it would be difficult to choose between Tom Jefferson and Tom Paine. / Two Million Horses Two million wild horses stampeding daily to.the sea—New York state is trying to flr.d a way to tame ’em and break them to the traces. The St. Lawrence water power development commission has given the New York legislature a report, showing one way. The commission persuasively shows that by building a dam and power house on dry land and changing the course of the St. Lawrence river, 2,000,000 horse power (a million to New York state., a million to Canada) can be generated at $lO per horse power a year as compared to $25 if steam produced. Thw crucial question remains: How distribute this state-produced power? The commission proposed distribution by contract through the transmission lines of private companies. With excessive faith, we fear, the majority members of the commission expect that the companies will offer a fair and equitable contract. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt wisely insists that the state be armed with a bargaining club in the form of authority to build its own transmission lines if the private companies fail to accept fair terms. Pending the legislature’s action, the solution of one of the nation’s most mast and most interesting power problems hangs in the balance. And the 2,000,000 horses continue their mad, futile stampede to the sea while the housewives of the state wait for the blessing of lower electricity rates. Unknown Statistics Secretary of ljjbor William N. Doak made his first official speech before the National Federation of Women’s Clubs in Boston. "Let us turn our attention for a moment to worldwide conditions,” he said, in approaching the problem of unemployment. He then told his audience that there are more than 2,000,000 people out of work in Great Britain; 3,000,000 in Germany; 500,000 in Italy, and 150,000 in Austria. But he did not say how many are unemployed in the United States. A rather strange omission, all things considered. Sculpturing, a news item says, is being taken up at a Wisconsin reformatory. Which is as good a way as any to make model prisoners. Twelve players of the Pittsburgh Pirates have had their tonsils removed. It’s a pity that big leaguers should be involved in minor operations! Barbers in a Minnesota town are takftig oats in payment for haircuts. Swapping shocks, as it were. Newspaper osculations have jumped in Russia. But, of course, that’s where newspapers really are Red. A quarry .worker, wisecracks the office sage, is the most passive worker on earth, because he takes everything for granite.

REASON

THERE was an item in the puper the other day which referred to action which impresses one as being rather untimely. It was the purchase of a royal palace in Rome for one million doUars, the building to be used by our ambassador to Italy. M M M It seemed untimely to buy a royal palace for an ambassador, spending $1,000,000 therefor, when so many people in the United States are clamoring and clamoring in vain for relief from their country’s treasury. M M M The purchase of this palace, so soon after the one in Berlin, presents a definite acknowledgement of the fact that the diplomatic service of the United States is a field for the rich alone, those in modest circumstances being thrust therefrom, regardless of their qualities. M M M OUR government consents to this snobbish proposition possibly with regret, but it consents to it nevertheless and hereafter foreign diplomacy is only for those who can splurge to the degree necessary to maintain the palace formerly owned by the king of Italy. • MM It's a mistaken notion that an American ambassador would not be 100 per cent useful to his country, without the financial ability to blow as much cash as the ambassadors of other countries. The importance of the social end of it is exaggerated greatly. M M M IN fact, the importance of the ambassadorial office is exaggerated greatly, for since the coming of the cable and the radio telephone, the foreign representative has become but a glorified bellhop. Decisions formerly made by ambassadors now are made by governments in their home offices and the ambassador merely passes the decision on. M M M The greatest foreign representatives this country ever had were poor men and none of them would fit into the extravagant picture we have drawn for our ambassadors. Monroe, Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin would go broke in a week at the pace now followed by the international spenders. But if they were alive they could stand in homespun and command respect over and above any other ambassadors! in the world.

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THE ETOIAWAHOUS 'TIMES'

M. E. Tracy —SAYS:

The Difference Between the Way the Plain People and the Politicians Draw Their Conclusions Is Amazing . OAKERSFIELD, Cal., Jan. 29. chances good for a duty on oil, in spite o 1 all we have said about the Grundy bill; such a row between the senate and Red Cross as threatens to raise cain with relief work, in spite of the obvious need; a prohibition report which satisfies no ore, in spite of all the trouble and cost, and more than fifty bills already prepared to change the bonus program, in spite of the fact that it was supposed to have been fixed. Are we trying to meet an emergency as sensible men and women should, or settling dowr to the good old game of politics because of 1932 and quite regardless oi 1931? The President and congress not only are at loggerheads, but each is wasting a great deal of time trying to prove the other responsible, while five million hungry people wait for work, and while the whole country is too worried over other things to give a whoop. v u a Plain People Are Wise I HAVE read the Wickersham report, the various messages and statements coming from the White House, the testimony of John Barton Payne, Senator Robinson’? bitter attack on the administration, as well as other items of current news with regard to affairs at Washington, and then I have gone out and talked with sonw? of the plain people about them—the boys and girls who are not supposed to know r . You’d be surprised to discover how well plumbers, farmers and taxicab drivers understand the set-up, how easily they pentrate the sophisticated verbosity, and put their fingers on the vital spot. And take it from me, they are not impressed. One of the most amazing and, as I think, one of the most serious aspect'- of our political structure is the difference between the way the plain people and the leaders form their conclusions. Down below, you find that same elemental honesty and innate shrewdness, which brought this nation into being at the outset and which have preserved it thus far. Up above, you find cleverness, plausibility and, above all else, an overwhelming interest in the conventionalized game of politics. Down below, there survives the feeling that this government was created to be of some service to all the people. Up above, that feeling appears to be giving place to one which visualies the government as a happy roost for those who can get there and stay there. a a a Taxpayers Interested . SENATOR COUZENS was right in tasking Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Mills if he thought the government or the veterans knew best what the latter needed, but he was wrong in leaving out the taxpayers. It all goes back to the taxpayers, and that includes everybody. The government has nothing except what it collects, and whenever it, gives something to one class of people, it does no more than pass the bill to everybody. The question of what should be done about the bonus is not to be, solved by the simple thought of how much we owe the soldiers, but the vastly more complicated problem of what or how much we can stand. In adjusting the reparations problem and settling foreign debts, we have had much to say about people’s ability to pay, not only in the total amount, but with regard to time. If that’s a rule for Germany, France, or Italy, it is equally good for us. Rich as the United States may be, she is not an inexhaustible treasure house, as the farmer realizes when he tries to market hir- wheat, or the plumber learns when' he fills out his income tax return. a a a Why the Quarreling? WHILE the plain people of this country are very much interested in prohibition, the bonus, power, and all other matters of general policy, the thing that worries them most is business—business not only as reflected by the soup kitchen and unemployment, but as'revealed by diminished trade and profit in many lines. What they expect of their government is not only such makeshift measures as are necessary for immediate relief, but the formulation of such policies as promise permanent rehabilitation. The plain people have no illusionment as to the size of the job. They admit that we are up against very serious conditions, and that it will take some hard thinking to meet them successfully. For that precise reason, they find it difficult to understand why there should be so much petty quarreling.

Questions and Answers

Do all meteors that are seen in the sky fall upon the earth? Very rarely do meteors reach the earth’s surface; ustfally they are entirely consumed by friction with the atmosphere. What role did Ken Murray play in "Leathernecking?” The role of Frank. On what days did Yom Kippur fall in 1907 and 1912? In 1907 it was Sept. 18. and in 1912 it fell on Saturday, Sept. 21. What does Wachusett mean? It is an Indian name meaning “near the little mountain.” How many pupils are in the public, elementary and high schools of the United States? In 1927-28 there were 21,268,417 pupils in public elementary schools, including kindergartens, and 3,911,279 in public high schools. What is a farm bloc in congress? A group of senators and representatives from the states in which the people are chiefly engaged in agriculture, who are particularly interested in securing legislation to aid that industry.

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Cancer Research Gives Rise to Hope

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. FOR many years all sorts of agencies have been investigating cancer. From time to time startling discoveries are recorded, but unfortunately most of those dealing with the treatment of cancer, except so far as concerns its early complete removal, have failed to be of permanent value. In a recent consideration of the cancer problem, Dr. Clarence C. Little emphasizes the fact the present intensified research probably should yield even greater advances within the next few decades. He points out that there are at least four great fields of work in which new agencies are necessary. These have to do with the methods of classifying and distinguishing various types of cancer. Every one should realize that cancerous growths are not all the

IT SEEMS TO ME

I PICKED up a fairly recent “Who’s Who in America” yesterday to get some vital statistics about Babe Ruth and found, to my surprise, that he was not in the book. Even as George Herman Ruth there is no mention of him. The nearest name I could find was:— “Roth, Filibert, forestry expert; b. Wurtternberg, Germany, April 20, 1858; s. Paul Raphael and Amalie (Voltz) R., early edn. in Wurttemberg ” There is in my heart not an fetom of malice against Prof. Roth (since September, 1903, he has been “Prof, forestry, U. Mich.”), and yet I question the justice of this admission to a list of national celebrities while Ruth stands without. _ I know, of course, that Prof. Roth is the author of “Forest Conditions in Wisconsin” and of “The Uses of Wood,” bu I wonder whether he has been able to describe in words uses of wood more sensational and vital than those which Ruth has shown in deeds. Hereby I challenge the editor of “Who’s Who in America” to debate the affirmative side of the question: Resolved, That Prof. Roth’s volume called ‘'Timber Physics” has exerted a more profound influence in the life of America than Babe Ruth’s, home run record. u Theory of Practice THE question is, of course, merely a continuance as to the relative importance of the theorist and the practitioner. Should history prefer to honor the man who first developed the hypothesis that the world was round or the other who went out and circumnavigated it? What do we owe to Ben Franklin and what to the lightning? Shall we celebrate Newton or the apple? Personally, my sympathies go out to the performer rather than the fellow in the study or the laboratory. Many scientists staked their reputations on the fact that the world was round before Magellan set sail in the Victoria. He did not lack written assurances that there was no truth in the old tale of a flat earth, with dragons and monsters lurking just beyond the edges. n n u But If Wrong? BUT suppose, in spite of all this, Magellan had gone on sailing, sailing until his ship did topple over into the void dragons and big snakes. The professors would have been abashed. Undoubtedly they would have tried to laugh the misfortune off, and they might even have been good enough sports to say, “That’s a fine joke on us.” But at worst they could lose nothing but their reputations, which can be made over again. Magellan would not live to profit by his experience. Being one of those foreigners, he had no sense of humor, and if the dragons bit him as he fell it is ten to one he could not even manage to smile. By this time I have rather traveled away from Roth’s “Timber physics” and Ruth’s home run record, but I hope that you get what I mean. Without knowing the exact nature of “Timber Physics,” I assume that the professor dismisses the most

Sticking to the Wreck!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

same. They vary according to the tissues involved and according to the nature of their growth. All methods of treatment must be subjected to close analysis, with a view to improvement, if possible. It also is important to decrease the amount of cancer by educating people as to the value of early diagnosis, early treatment, and particularly the avoidance of causes of needless repeated irritations to the tissues. The final and probably the greatest problem of all is to determine the exact cause of cancer. It is interesting to know that in the attempt to find the cause, practically every method of attack already has been tried. It has been studied as a possible infectious disease, it has been studied from the point of view of inheritance, and from the point of view of chemistry and physics, and by every other method.

efficient manner in which to bring about the greatest possible impact between any wooden substance and a given objects. But, mind you, he merely discusses it. If the professor chances to be wrong—even if he is wrong three times—nobody in the classroom is likely to poke a sudden finger high in the air and shout, “You’re out!” a a a Good Behavior THE professor re'nains at bat during good behavior. He is not subject to any such sudden vicissitudes as Ruth. Moreover, timber physics is to Mr. Ruth a matter of cool calm deliberation. No adversary seeks to fool him with speed or spitballs. "Hit it out!” never rings in his

MONITOR’S LAUNCHING January 29 ON Jan. 29, 1862, the Monitor, first successful iron-clad vessel in the history of the United States navy, was launched at Greenspoint, L. I. Ridiculed at first as impractical, because of its odd pillbox shape, the Monitor proved its worth a few months later when it met the strong Confederate craft Merrimac and forced it to retreat in a disabled condition. Two months after this victory the Monitor, with other Federal vessels made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Richmond., The famous ship ended its career on Dec. 31, 1862, when it floundered in a storm off Hatteras and sank with four officers and fourteen men.

Daily Thought

My brethren have dealt decietfully as a i rock, and as a stream of brooks they pass away.—Job 6:15. Trust not in him that seems a saint.—Fuller. How many planets are there? The number depends upon the definition of the word. As usually defined, planet refers only to themajor dependent bodies of the solar system, of which formerly eight were known, including the earth, and to which have been added in 1930 the new planet Pluto, making nine. There are innumerable small bodies known as planetoids, which have the same characteristics as the large planets, except in size. Does it ever rain on the Sahara desert? The winds of the Sahara Desert are very dry, and in consequence there is little or no precipitation, except in the highland region of the central massif, where there is a fall of a few inches per annum, and also along the coastal fringes. Was George Washington a full general? He was of the Continental armies.

It already is well known that heredity must play some part in the causation of cancer. From the point of view of the control of cancer, heredity seems to offer but little, since human beings have not lent themselves readily to practical applications of eugenics. Cancer statistics have been of the greatest value in attempting to understand the disease, although unfortunately the wrong interpretation of statistics by persons committed to unestablished notions frequently has served to divert attention to unfavorable channels. It has seemed to Doctor Little that one of the most important steps to be taken in the study of cancer is the establishment of suitable facilities for diagnosis and for treatment by all of the well-estab-lished methods in great centers, so that human material may be studied in an attempt to learn more about cause and control of this disorder.

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ears. And, after all, Just what difference does it make if Mr. Roth errs in his timber physics? It merely means that a certain number of students leave Michigan knowing a little less than they should—and nobody expects anything else from students. On the other hand, a miscalculation by Ruth in the uses of wood affects much more important matters. A strikeout on his part may bring about complete tragedy and the direst misfortune. There have been occasions, and we fear that there will still be occasions, when Ruth's bat will be the only thing by which New York can possibly regain the American League pennant. In times like these who cares about ‘/Forest Conditions in Wisconsin”? a a a Ruth as a Cosmic Force /DOMING to the final summing up for our side of the question in debate, I shall try to lift the whole affair above any mere Ruth versus Roth issue. It will be my endeavor to show that not only has Babe Ruth been a profound interest and influence in America, but that, on the whole, he has been a power for progress. Ruth has helped to make life a little more gallant. He has set before us an example of a man who tries each minute for all or nothing. When he is not knocking home runs, he generally is striking out, and isn’t there more glory in fanning in an effort to put the ball over the fence than' in prolonging a little life by playing safe? (Copyright, 1931, by The Times)

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

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

World Never Before Has Sebn Social, Industrial and Economic Conditions Change as Rapidly as Today. THE world is changing today faster than at any other time in its history. That is the opinion of Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, director of research and development of the Eastman Kodak Company. Social, economic and industrial conditions are changing at a rate such as the world never has experienced before, Dr. Mees believes. The reason for this, he adds, is the twentieth century progress of science. Dr. Mees believes it is likely that present world conditions are unstable, that the world now is going through a period of readjustment, after which it will again settle down to a long period of stability. ' "Within our own lifetimes we have seen changes in method and technique which will affect the economic and social organization of society to as great an extent perhaps as the whole of the changes made from the Neolithic period to the beginning of the twentieth century,” Dr. Mees says. "At present the proportion of human effort devoted to acquisition of new scientific knowledge is Increasing each year, but it still is only an infinitesimal part of a very small part of the amount of energy which might be expended upon the development of science if that generally were thought to be worth while. a * ReseaYch Pays Dk. mees marshals figures to show the march and scientific research and its influence upon the life of the world. "It recently has been estimated, for instance, that the industrial research laboratories in the United States are spending a sum of the order of $100,000,000 a year upon scientific research,” he says. "It is certain that the universities are not spending as much; but if ■we include all available agencies, we migh reach a total expenditure of $200,000,000 a year on development of scientific knowledge and its direct applications. "It is estimated that during the last ten years the developments due to scientific research have increased the wealth of every family in the United States by more than 25 per cent of their income, while the cost, of research has been less than $lO per family per annum. "It therefore clearly would not be impossible to increase our expenditure on research if it were necessary or desirable to do so. “A more immediate limitation to the development of science probably lies in the availability of men suitable for carrying on the work. But although the number of such men certainly is limited, and it would be difficult to increase the number very rapidly or to an extent comparable with the rate at which expenditure could be increased, there still are a very large number of men and women suitable for scientific work who for some reason or other are not engaged in it, so that the Increase in the production of scientific knowledge is not likely to come to an end in the near future, either for lack of funds or for lack of workers.” a a a Change Is Due THE progress of science always runs ahead of the application of science to life, Dr. Mees points out. He believes, hbwever, that this lag is less today than ever before. “The much greater production of scientific knowledge at the present time, however, means that the application of science to industry' and still more its effects on our economic and social life will continue to increase, even if the amount of scientific discovery does not increase in the near future and there is every probability that that also will continue to increase,” he says. "No system which is changing at an increasing rate, and especially no system in which the product of the reaction increases the rate of change, can. be stable. "It is probably by analogy, although it is not certain, that our present social system is in a completely unstable stage and that, after a period of violent change, it will settle into anew and stable phase which will endure until some new cause provokes another period of change. “This is what has happened m history before. After the great changes of the twelfth century B. C., the eastern world stabilized for a long period. “After the fall of the Roman empire, the world settled into the stagnation of the middle ages. After the changes of the fifteenth century, anew and comparatively stable system was developed throughout Europe, to be destroyed in its turn by the industrial revolution and the growth of modem science.”