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An Ideal About a Law Every step in human progress is born as an ideal. It becomes an ideal. Theft a crusade. Finally a law. This is the story of the Old Age Pension bill, now before Governor Leslie, upon whom all the pressure of those who have neither ideas nor ideals, who lack the courage of the crusader and who possess no talent of states* manship, is being exerted to obtain a veto. Fortunately for the Governor, he does not need the daring spirit of adventurer into new paths to find a real reason for approval and every reason for refusing the timid suggestion of those with pocketbook paralysis that he veto this humane measure. The idea in this country came from Frank E. Hering, outstanding citizen of South Bend, who turned it into an ideal of the Eagles lodge, which at once transformed it into the crusade; finally, after years, a conquering crusade. The idea is quite simple. Nations have always recognized their debt to the soldiers in wars, who, in their declining years, are no longer able to provide for their physical wants. Now it is proposed to recognize the brave soldiers of industry, the men and women who go through life contributing to human comfort and luxury with their labor, and arriving at the sunset, find nothing but the bleak despair of the poorhouse as their reward. . Which is the greater courage, the more sturcy character—the man who finds his hour of glory upon a battle field or the man who plods away his years in the monotonous task of industry? There is no need of comparison. Both serve. While Indiana gave the idea and the ideal to the nation, other states have been more responsive in formulating them into law. Three Republican legislatures within the past year have made such pensions mandatory, and in those states there was no division of partisan sentiment. No really important question is ever settled on a partisan basis. Only yesterday the Governor of Colorado, which has had the proposed Indiana experiment of optional county pensions for eight years, made it a state mandatory law. In signing that measure, at the very hour the Indiana house was approving the principle, Governor Adams said; ‘'Old men and women who have lived fifteen years in Colorado and who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in destitute circumstances, deserve more humane treatment than they now receive. It gives me pleasure to sign this bill and to congratulate the Fraternal Order of Eagles on their splendid work.” It detracts nothing from the credit of that lodge to say that many other organizations, labor unions and social societies, gave their aid and support to the movement. No group can ever monopolize any step in the inevitable progress of humanity from the jungles of barbarism to the lofty goal of the brotherhood of man. All progress has been fought by the timid and the acquisitive. These fear encroachments upon their privileges. The old barons fought the passing of feudalism. Monarchies fought against free government. Slave owners fought against the liberation of human labor from the bonds of involuntary servitude. And in the end, each of these forces found itself richer and happier by yielding to the forces of progress and humanity. If criticism is to be offered to the law as passed, it is that much human misery may still be bound by the red tape and illiberality of the provisions of the bill. The criticism can not be directed to the principle behind the measure for it is merely a translation into practical terms of a commandment given centuries ago that men shall love their brothers as themselves, a translation of that commandment into terms of present day industrial and commercial existence. Personal credit should be given to Senator James NejSl, who has never been discouraged, never dismayed, in the nine y jars that he has fought for the passage of such a bill. His was the vision, his the courage, that held him steadfast when the illusioned enemies of the measure scoffed and swept him aside. Those who prate of dole systems and charity fool no one but themselves. Here is simple justice. Here is sanity. Here is humane treatment for those who refuse to die young. The Muscle Shoals Veto President Hoover has killed the Muscle Shoals compromise, passed by congress. This will delay development of the rich Tennessee valley. And it will delay also the nation’s opportunity to obtain a price yardstick with which to measure lees which the public pays to private power interests for electricity. The chief reason given by Hoover for his veto is his opposition to government ownership and operation. Hk objection is beside the point. The federal government, it happens, already owns Muscle Shoals. And the federal government already is operating Musele Shoals—for the benefit of a private power company. That presumably was one reason Hoover during the campaign made Muscle Shoals an exception to nis general opposition to government ownership and

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operation. Unfortunately, Hoover the President has not acted aa Hoover the candidate spoke. Much of hla veto message Is devoted to figures purporting to show that government' operation of Muscle Shoals would be foredoomed to failure. Indeed, by use of arbitrary figures, he estimates that the annual loss would be something like $2,000,000. But he apparently loses sight of these alleged losses in suggesting that the states of Alabama and Tennessee take over Muscle Shoals. On this matter of losses, it always has seemed strange to us that opponents of public operation never seem to remember thi n.*ny cases of public operation which are succesaiul and efficient in bringing down rates for the esnsumers. And we can not understand why the President and power interests, as sincere believers in the inevitable failure of government operation at Muscle Shoals, are so determined to prevent the experiment. If they are certain it would fail, whs wft m the failure come and stand as a devastating warning and example? Why not, Indeed, since the government already owns the property and can not dispose of it readily? The President drags In politics. "Congress,” he says, “has been thwarted for ten years In finding a solution, by rivalry of private interests and by the determination of certain groups to commit the federal government to government ownership and operation of power.” Isn’t he somewhat confused in his facts? Par from congress being thwarted by “certain groups,” is It not true that congress has settled this matter twice, and that the thwarting has been done by the President—first by the Coolidge veto and now by the Hoover veto? The Hoover veto is deadly effective in killing this project for the moment. But that is not the end of it. Without assuming the role of political prophets, we can remember only that the Coolidge veto made Muscle Shoals a national issue and wonder whether this Hoover veto will not make it even a more dominant political issue in the next election. We hope so. A Food Trust America has relied on competition alone to keep tine price of food down to a reasonable level, and our reliance has cost us dearly. A senate committee reports “an alarming tendency toward monopolistic control of the food of the nation by a small group of powerful corporations and combinations,” and It finds the effect of "monopolistic control” most clearly evident In the prices of bread and milk. The committee suggests no remedy to meet this situation except Investigation by the federal trade commission and the department of Justice to see If anti-trust laws are being violated, and, If no help Is forthcoming there, a passage of “remedial laws.” Presumably the laws the committee has In mind are more stringent anti-trust laws, an attempt, in other words, to enforce artificial competition where none exists. Yet economists are telling us more and more positively that this antiquated method of regulating prices has ceased to be effective. In the power industry, which does not begin to fill the place In human life that is filled by bread and milk, we have abandoned the old Idea -and have tunyxl to public regulation and to government competition, in an effort to keep this thriving monopoly within reasonable bounds. Neither of these methods has achieved marked success, but no one is advocating a return to enforced competition. There is every reason why we should apply these more practical methods of control to the industries which supply food to the people. There is no essential difference between a public utility monopoly and a food-selling monopoly. It is fundamentally important that the people of this country have enough wholesome food to eat and they can not have it unless prices are reasonable. It Is time for congress to shake itself from the ruts of ancient procedure and study the economic situation of today and methods which have some chance of dealing with It effectively. Snappy orange berets are forecast for men’s spring wear. The stylists are assuming, of course, that in the spring a young man’s ftney.

REASON

1%/TAYOR THOMPSON of Chicago certainly plays in IT A luck The division of the Republican forces opposed to him, caused his nomination and now the entrance into the field of Bundesen, as an independent candidate, will divide the Democratic vote and probably elect Big BiU. a a a Big Bill is no shrinking violet. We recall one night when listening to him at a Chicago banquet and his remarks consisted entirely of a review of what he, his father and grandfather had done for the city of Chicago. a a a THE illustrious Mr. Capone has reached a stage of exquisite refinement. The first day he wrvs in court he wore a diamond ring with a blue suit, but changed the ring for a blue one the foUowing day when he put on gray. * * m We hope the house of representatives at Washington is forced to revise its rules, so a majority may at all times do business. As it is now, a committee chairman may kill a bill by refusing to call hi* committee together. It’s all right to limit debate, but it’s absurd for a majority to adopt rules which deliver the whole membership into the hands of three men. a a a One of the farcical elements about the effort being made to redistrict Indiana is the great solicitude to avoid placing two congressmen in the same district, so they would have to fight it out to see who should survive. The object should be to represent the people not save any congressman’s Job. a a a BEFORE he dismissed that state house barber for letting his razor slip, Governor Murray should have paused to reflect that in the last few years some three or four Oklahoma Governors have “slipped.” a a a We hear a lot about reducing taxes in the different legislatures of the country, but none of them will do it. , They never have and they never will. We’ve heard about tax reduction all our life, but we’ve never seen any of it; it’s been Just conversation. * a a a We could cut out one-third of our office holders and never miss them, except on pay day. There are thousands of them that Just alt around; the only time when they're not sitting Is when they’re lying down. But the legislature will not reduce the number of officers; that’s not “poUfcks,” - 'J

BY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Four Democratic Governors Are in Limelight in Race for the 1932 Presidential Nomination. Oklahoma city, otia, March 4.—ln this normally Democratic stronghold people either are Indifferent or antagonistic to the Rakob pow-wow. Asa general proposition, they don’t think it can get anywhere, or amount to anything if it does. What they want to know Is who will be nominated. Incidentally, that Is what every one wants to know, and what will do more than any other single factor to determine the result. The nominee always has counted more than the platform, not to mention pre-platform commitments, such as Mr. Raskob has in mind. If he is any good, he becomes the platform. If he isn’t, no platform can save him. Where you find one Democrat discussing what the party should stand for In 1932, you find 100 discussing the available timber for candidates. To begin with, they dismiss members of congress. The Democratic party hasn’t nominated a member of congress for sixty years, and there Is nothing in the present situation to suggest a departure from this long-standing habit. On the other hand, the Democratic party has shown great fondness for Governors Smith, Cox, Wilson, Cleveland and Tilden. n u tt Four in Limelight THERE are four Democratic Governors in the limelight— Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Albert T. Ritchie of Maryland, Huey P. Long of Louisiana and William H. Murray of Oklahoma. There are three times as many trying to get there, some of whom may succeed before June, 1932. Governor Roosevelt has the inside track and can keep it if he doesn’t go too far trying to sidestep the issue of corrupt politics in New York City. Governor Ritchie sings a good tune with regard to the eighteenth amendment, but it lacks variation. It’s getting as monotonous as the one the old cow died on. Governor Long is locally known as “Hooey,” which gives him something to live down. Governor Murray thinks he’s a second Abraham Lincoln, which gives him even more to live down, If he isn’t impeached before he has time. * * * Another Impeachment? Governor Murray’s chances of being impeached are not at all bad, as he himself admits. Os the six Governors previously elected since Oklahoma became a state, two were impeached and ousted, while impeachment proceedings were Instituted against three more, one of whom was saved by a single vote, from being ousted. Impeachment has grown so common in Oklahoma that no one pays much attention to it, while some people regard it as a real, if not an essential, feather In the gubernatorial cap. Jack Walton, one of the impeached Governors, is running for mayor of Oklahoma City, while Henry Johnston, another, ran for United States senator in the Democratic primary last fall and is expected to do so again two years hence. Sophisticated easterners may laugh at Oklahoma, but before going into actual hysterics, they should look up some of their own court and penitentiary records. mum A National Scandal Different sections of the country may have different methods of handling political corruption, but none is free from it. It has become not only a nationwide scandal, but a nation-wide problem. No doubt, we always have suffered from more or less of it, but today we are suffering from more. Something has happened to blind an amazingly large number of men and women to the desirability of remaining honest in public office. One would like to believe that this is due to inherent defects in their character and that the public merely made a mistake in selecting them, but too many have gone sour in office after leading long and spotless careers in private life for sueh conclusion. Something has gone wrong with the general attitude toward politics. One can sense it not only in the actual corruption exposed, but in the vastly greater amount that is known and tolerated, and above all else, in the loose way people excuse, or even defend it. mu* A Vast Difference THERE has developed a sharp difference between the standards of conduct which we tolerate in politics and those which we demand in every other phase of life. This is particularly true Os our newer states and cities. One finds It hard to reconcile such institutions as the University of Oklahoma with such antics as have taken place in the Oklahoma statehouse. Oklahoma City has a library containing 690,000 volumes, which puts it in the class of such cities as Cleveland, yet Jack Walton may be the next mayor. Throughout the country, people are developing a splendid amount of civic consciousness, until it comes to politics. Maybe, that’s the trouble. Maybe an appetite for improvement has caused them to think more about what they can get out of an administration than the way they get it.

Questions and Answers

What was the maiden,name of Mine. Galli-Curci? Amelita Gain. In what order should silver, aluminum, nickel, copper and platinum be listed In order of their electrical conductivity? Silver, copper, aluminum, platinum and nickel. Who were “The Seven Wise Men of Greece?” Bias, chilo, Cleobulos, Periander, Pittacos, Solon and Thales.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Blood Expectoration Serious Matter

BY DR. MORRIS FIBHBEIN, Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyrela, the Health Macasine. IT is a common belief that the sudden expectoration of blood invariably is a sign of onset of severe tuberculosa. The actual fact of the matter is that there are many conditions which can bring about expectoration of blood, but the symptom always must be considered fairly serious. In the first place, the physician must make sure that the blood copies from the lungs and not from the stomach or mouth. The blood from the lungs is bright red and frothy and is coughed up. The blood from the stomach is usually dark and clotted and is vomited. It is, of course, possible that blood from the lungs may be swallowed and then rejected by the stomach, making the diagnosis more difficult. Blood that comes from the mouth, the throat, the nose, or the sinuses

IT SEEMS TO ME

ABOUT the time that I first was informed the policeman would get me unless I stopped my bawling, a porter rapped upon the berth to say that I’d be carried to the yards if I failed to dress immediately. These terrors are twined in the average mind. I have been arrested once, and it wasn’t bad at all, so that’s out as a menacing catastrophe. But I’ve never been carried to the yards. Who has? Not one of my friends or acquaintances. People have explored darkest Africa and flown over both poles. But what happens in this nameless inferno? B * Horror IMAGINATION can paint a more fearful picture than actuality. And all of us rise an hour and a half before it is necessary in order to avoid the nameless fate. Naturally, I have formed a shadowy conception of these nether regions. I think that if I la* abed and thumbed my nose at the man who knocked upon by berth I presently would find myself in a deep pit four or five miles removed from the station. Prom that point it would be necessary for me to carry all my baggage. Yet this is not enough. At times I’d walk that distance for Just another hour's sleep. There must be other shames and torments. Perhaps the track walkers, the construction men, the freight hands and the engineers gather around the car in which the rebel lingers, and as he emerges each one of them points a Anger of scorn and says, in a rough and rowdy chant: “Sleepy head! Sleepy head!” Os course, I also want to know just what purpoee is served by tumbling passengers into the aisle so long before they need to be corporeally presentable. Yesterday the porter got me up one hour and a half before the Twentieth Century was due. Now, I can dress in less titan that. And it is my belief that most travelers sleep on trains somewhat after the manner of firemen on duty, and each one needs to do no more than slide into one or two available garments. # * # The .Gates BUT this is not all set down in bitterness. While losing sleep, I gained a great deal. That last one hour and thirty minutes served to re-establish old loyalties. Recently heresies have come into my mind. New York being absent, I have been seduced by mountains, deserts and giant cacti. But in summation of all towns within a three-week journey I am convinced no city offers such glorious approaches as those which lead to ottr own magical city. Burely, neither Chicago nor Los Angeles nor Cleveland has any chute so thrilling as the span of ialisades and Hudson by which one slides before he touches home. And other railroads, too—for I must be lhvpartial—offer well-con-

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can usually be found issuing from the spot concerned by a careful examination. Whenever blood seems to come from the lungs, it is important to make a complete physical examination to find whether tuberculosis is responsible. In such cases the examination should include a careful inspection of the naked chest by a competent physician, an examination with the stethoscope, the use of percussion and also the use of the X-ray, for such evidence as it may afford. There are cases of heart disease in which difficulty of circulation of the blood through the lungs may result in coughing up blood from the lungs. Here the study of the chest must include a most careful examination of the functions of the heart. There are, of course, other conditions in which the sputum may contain blood. In pneumonia, the lungs become engorged with blood and the sputum is likely to contain rusty red material.

trived entrances for travelers to Manhattan. Each visitor will find his coming dramatized. There is superb theatricality along the Pennsylvania. This is a wizard’s trick to speed up to a little hill and have it yawn and open. Darkness. A buzzing in your ears and then the roar of the great city itself. Almost it is like being born, if what I read in books is true. MUM Here, Mr, Pullman THE PULLMAN COMPANY recently has begun to advertise itself In a series of well-contrived leaflets. Many of the proud claims are Justly advanced.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—After reading the various bills proposed to regulate the motor truck weight on the highways of Indiana, one is amazed to note how little attention their authors must have paid to modern truck equipment and its mechanical design. In none of the bills the writer has seen any consideration given to the truck with tandem axles, designed to distribute the load, to absorb the shocks and to protect the roads. United States government and army tests have shown that 30,000 pounds carried on a tandem axle truck creates less Impact to the square Inch

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A BLOODLESS VICTORY March 4

ON March 4, 1776, the Americans, under George Washington, occupied Dorchester Heights, now South Boston, in one of the most surprising maneuvers in the Revolutionary war. Throughout the winter of 177578, want of artillery and powder prevented Washington from doing anything more than simply keeping up the siege of Boston. However, when General Knox succeeded in dragging fifty cannons on oxsleds from Ticonderoga to Cambridge, a distance of 200 miles, Washington decided to take the aggressive. He easily i seized Dorchester Heights and placed his cannon into a position overlooking Boston on the south. He then gave General Howe, British commander, his choice of withdrawing his forces from the town or having it battered by the cannon. Howe decided on the former alternative and ordered his men to embark March 17 for Halifax. The following day Washington entered Boston In triumph. The British had left It, never to return. Congress voted Washington a gold medal to commemorate bis bloodless victory.

There are such conditions as abscess of the lung or rupture of a blood vessel in ’ the lungs when blood may appear in the sputum. Cancer, and such conditions, as destroy lung tissue, also may give rise to this symptom. Obviously the diagnosis of the cause is the most important step to be taken in the presence of this observation. The examination must be sc thorough as to establish beyond a doubt the cause of this symptom. Then the treatment is directed not to the symptom primarily, but to the cause. The symptom itself is, however, sufficiently important to demand immediate application of the best medical advice that can be had. Everyone knows that It is Important to get a person who is bleeding promptly at rest in every sense of the word and this will be one of the first steps in connection with bleeding from the lungs, as well as bleeding from any other portion of the body.

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But I always have wondered where the inventor lingers who will find a way to open the windows. This should not be beyond human ingenuity. Even the porter, who’s had a chance to practice, most generally brings to the task a huge jack before he can dislodge the stubborn casement. , And I’d like to have the baggage racks much lower and much wider. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times) Daily Thought For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever befor me.—Psalm 51:3. Self-condemnation is God’s absolution; and pleading guilt, acquittal at his bar.—BartoL

than a truck loaded with only 12,000 pounds, but equipped with only one axle. When we read the weight restriction bills proposed, one clearly can notice that no thought has been given either to the facts established by exhaustive government tests nor to the experiences of the more progressive states in highway construction and engineering, as California and twenty-two other states, which have indorsed legally, and very particularly favor the tandem axle truck, knowing that it is the ideal solution, giving the truck owners a chance to carry pay loads, and yet prevent injury to the roadbed. It is about time that some newspaper induce through a timely editorial the legislature to consider technical facts. The bills that are up now are nothing but a mess of nonsense, over which anybody who compares them with the provisions set down by an up-to-date and scientifically designed weight regula-

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I SCIENCE 1 BY DAVID DIETZ Mexico May Oust Our Iceman With Her Great Supply of Carbon Dioxide Snow. AAEXIOO, long recognised by the avenge American reader as a source of oil, and sometimes a source of revolutions, may take Its place as America’s chief source of refrigerants. Fast trains from Mexico may replace the familiar delivery truck of the ice man. Accordding to a report to the American Chemical Society by Dr. James Welford Martin of New York, Mexico can furnish the United States with an almost limitless supply of carbon dioxide snow, the world's newest refrigerant. He says that a purification process has been worked out by Professor Ralph H. McKee of Columbia university which makes it feasible to use the Mexican supply of carbon dioxide. The supply comes from certain of the Mexican oil fields. “About fifteen years ago an oil company In drilling just south of Tampico, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz on the hacienda of Quebrache, was surprised—and disgusted—to bring in a well of noninflammable gas under high pressure, but containing practically no oil,” Dr. Martin says. “Subsequent wells brought in commercial amounts of oil, but in all the wells large quantities of carbon dioxide had to be blown off continuously to obtain satisfactory oil production. m m m Without Limit A T first, the flow of carbon dlox- ***■ ide gas was regarded as a great nuisance, Dr. Martin continues. But the situation changed with the development of the process for utilizing carbon dioxide snow as a refrigerant. “With a rapidly developing mar-* ket for solid carbon dioxide, both in this country and abroad," he says, “the value of this gas that has been blowing away became apparent, particularly since the total open flow of the present wells was found to be capable of producing more than 900 tons of solid carbon dioxide daily. “Oil production In the Quebrache field diminishes from year to year, as is usual in all oil fields, but the flow of gas appears to be without limit. “The best Indication of the po6-, sible life of the field as to gas production is found in its past history. “The production at Quebrache now is more than fourteen years old, and the rock pressure has not diminished. “In fact, one of the wells ‘blew wild’ from 1918 to 1927, discharging probably 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide a day, yet there was no apparent diminution in flow on this well, or drop in pressure on adjacent, wells.” To New York THE unique combination of high pressure and high quality, coupled with proximity to water transportation, which this source of carbon dioxide offered, led to development of a process for its manufacture and erection of a trial plant according to Dr. Martin. “As work progressed,” he continues, “many changes were made to facilitate the purification of this gas under pressure, with the result that, while no doubt many improvements will continue to be made, nevertheless there has been evolved a thoroughly commercial method of purifying the gas sufficiently to obtain high snow yields and to render the gas free from odors. “After the gas is purified, it Is cooled, liquified and passed through Jets into snow chambers, and from these chambers the snow is removed and put into molds, and there com-* pressed into ice. “In compressing the snow to ice, the problem was to form a block of ice that would be of commercial density and texture when it arrived in New York, and which would be sold some time as much as six weeks subsequent to its manufacture. “The best results were obtained - through compressing the dry snowto a fairly high density.”

tory law can but smile—or, should he weep? Under one of the proposed laws * it actually would be impossible to drive a Ford truck, equipped with a tandem axle, when fully loaded over the highways of the state of Indiana. While the author, no doubt, not knowing what it is all about, vehemently would deny such intend tion. No Judge, proceeding by strictly legal and logical reasoning, could do anything else but ban such Ford truck from the roads. Os course, such is Indiana legislation. We must excuse, A TAXPAYER AND TRUCK OWNER. How many watts in a kilowatt? , One thousand. Doe* the United State* Assay of-. fices buy old gold? Only in amounts of SIOO worth or ’* more.