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True to Form Public utilities will continue to rule the state and ruin the citizen just as many of them have in the past. The appointments by Governor Leslie to the public service commisison insure that result. The new member of the commission brings with him an unbroken, almost brazen, record of service to private greed while a member of the legislature. Labeling himself a member of the Democratic party, he became the official spokesman in the legislature halls for the worst elements of the Republican party. He made himself valuable to the utility interests by his pleadings for all the laws the utilities desired and his savage attacks upon any remedial suggestions. His servitude to the Governor was so marked that it required no prophet to understand that he would be rewarded. The new member can be expected to link himself to the group which has for its motto the slogan that Insull can do no wrong and that the people were made to furnish funds for the profiteers. The people in cities fortunate enough to own their own utilities should be on guard against persistent efforts of private interests to not only sabotage the municipal plants, but to finally capture and control them. The genius of the Governor for selecting those who are anti-social in their outlook has' again been demonstrated. His administration is piling up a record for disregard of common rights that has never been equaled. Even the official acts of Jackson of statute of limitation fame were admirable in contrast with those of the present regime. Some day Indiana may have a Governor who will think of the people and the common good. Indiana needs such a Governor. It has wandered in the wilderness of private greeds, and rank subversion of popular rights so long that it needs a change, not of parties, but of moral viewpoint. An Inherited Mess State department policy regarding marine intervention in Nicaragua is difficult to understand. There seems to be no one clear-cut policy, but several contradictory policies. If so, President Hoover and Secretary Stimson are not entirely to blame. They inherited a mess. To get out with a minimum of damage is not easy. Having landed anew batch of marines on the gulf coast one day, Washington suddenly ordered them back aboard ship the next day. At the same time the state department inspired stories that there was a change in policy. We were said to be done with the Coolidge-Hughes-Kellogg policy of intervening in Nicaragua at the slightest provocation; hereafter United States forces were to be used only in extreme emergencies. American property owners would have to take their chances on local protection in Nicaragua as in other countries, it was said. That story created a splendid impression, coming on the heels of the Pan-American day celebrations in Washington and in the southern republics. But the next day the Nicaraguan dispatches brought the news that a second group of marine aviators—those who have remained in Nicaragua since the 1926 Intervention—were bombing the insurrectionists on the gulf coast. This was confirmed by the state department announcement that the new policy of the day before did not prevent marine participation in the Nicaraguan civil war—or wiping out of bandits, as this is called. Years of experience in repeated military intervention in Nicaragua demonstrates that: 1. Civil strife in Nicaragua is chronic. 2. United States intervention never has succeeded in protecting American lives and property, but further has endangered Americans and embittered the rest of Latin America. Halfway measures do more harm than good. Either we should take over that country and run it. or get out. There are several good reasons why we should not take over that country: We have not been much of a success in running colonies elsewhere, the Nicaraguans are independent and want to remain so, and the people of the United States are not interested in any more imperialistic adventures in the Caribbean. We can and should get out. Apparently that is the Hoover-Stimson policy—in a slow and indirect way. The sooner that policy can be made fully es- , fective, the better. Are Women Dry? When drys w r ant to discount the rapid gains of the movement for prohibition repeal, they usually fall back on what they call the woman vote. Whatever the men may think about it, the women of the country never will stand for return of legal liquor—so the argument runs. It does not pay to be dogmatic in political prophesy, though perhaps more women than men do retain faith in the dry experiment, despite the failure of enforcement and the increase in crime. But we can not take much stock in all this talk about the woman vote. After fairly careful observation ,aC American elections, we are inclined to doubt that there is any such thing as a woman s vote, in the national sense Women do not vote as women. They divide on issues Just as men do. For that matter, the same is true of the other alleged bloc voters in this country about which the. hopes and fears of propagandists and politicians cluster. Never yet has any one delivered the farm vote, the labor vote, the foreign-born vote, the Negro vote, any more than the woman vote. The conventions which have been meeting in Washington this week demonstrate conclusively that women voters are divided on prohibition. The women’s wet convention was just as lusty and militant as the women’s dry convention. On* difference between them, however, impressed political observers as significant. That was the matter of age. Among the 1,200 delegates to the antiprohibition convention were white-haired grand-

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mothers who had started out as prohibitionists, but who now are crusading for repeal to save their grandchildren from the bootlegger and the racketeer. But these older women were not typical. It was ir the dry convention that old and middle age predominated. The wet convention was notably a young women’s meeting. This, we believe, Is the answer to the worn prophesy that women will block prohibition repeal. In so far as there is a national woman’s vote, it is the ballot of the young woman that will count In the future. And, If these two national conventions are any indication, among the younger women the trend is toward repeal. * “Buy An Apple, Mister” In the name of efficiency, apple vendors are being put off the busy street corners of New York and other cities. They slow down sidewalk traffic, block the entrances of banks and other important buildings, it is said. So some business men have complained to the police. How typical of a certain kind of efficiency this Is! Our American economic system is not efficient enough to prevent unemployment. That wholesale economic waste can get by us, but when it is a question of stopping the minute waste of time of people who must walk around an occasional jobless peddler, we are very prompt with a solution. With the whole side of the house out, we rush to patch a tiny leak in the roof. What are the unemployed to do? First we deny them the inalienable right to work. Then some of us say the only reason they can not get jobs is because they are lazy. When a few of them sell apples on the corner rather than beg or starve, we then are tempted to kick them out. Perhaps our real motive in wanting to get rid of the apple sellers has nothing to do with efficiency. Perhaps it is subsonscious shame. These ragged men are silent accusers. We don’t like to be reminded that our system has made them victims of unemployment and hunger. But isn’t it the least we can do to let some of them sell apples until we can give all of them jobs?' “Buy an apple, mister!” Brother Joseph We take it for granted that someone, somewhere, is performing the sad and terrible tasks of the world. Then comes word that Brother Joseph of Molokai’s leper colony is dead, and with it suddenly comes comprehension of the sacrifice and splendor of such a life as his. The quality that makes men willing to give a whole life to service is a quality few men possess. Psychologists may discuss it in terms of withdrawal from the world. But without the nobility of such life, the world would have been a more dreadful place for the exiled sufferers out in the Pacific. Brother Joseph Molokai forty-five years ago. He never left maeft they took him to a hospital in Honolulu to die. He dressed the wounds of the suffering and buried the dead. He studied leprosy and ways to cure it. He brought methods of sanitation to the island. He taught the lepers and ministered to their spiritual needs. Brother Joseph was not a gloomy martyr. He found happiness on Molokai, and his buoyant spirit made his ministrations rich and grateful to those ‘ about him. They talked of him as a “saint.” He was. The director of the New York noise abatement committee says that that city will be noiseless ten years hence. It is known to be taking to the speakeasy idea. > A fortune awaits the first Alaskan, points out the office sage, who makes the first blubber tire. Some businesses lately are like submarines. After a period of clear sailing, they sub-merge. Simile: As happy to get back to New York as Mayor James J. Walker. The New York Stock Exchange is to erect a $lO,000,000 annex. It will be known, undoubtedly, as the house that jack built.

REASON

DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY was the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, the greatest tragedy in cur national history, and the greatest misfortune in the history of the south, for it subjected Dixie to an ordeal she would have escaped had Lincoln lived. a a a On that day Lincoln held his last cabinet meeting and it was a session marked by the greatest optimism, for Lee had surrendered and word was expected every hour from Sherman, announcing the surrender of Joseph E. Johnson. a a a General Grant attended the cabinet meeting and Lincoln assured him that good news would soon come from Sherman, because the night before he had had a dream which had always preceded an event of great Importance. a a a AT this statement, the cabinet turned in some surprise and Lincoln said that he had seen a singular vessel, sailing with great rapidity toward a dark and indefinite shore. Then he added that he had had the same dream before Antietam, Gettysburg and Vicksburg. a a a All his life, Lincoln had carried a vein of mysticism, a strange companion for his hard common sense and his powers of cold and unrelenting analysis, and it was this mysticism which aided so many things in plunging him into the deepest melancholy. a a a But if this dream, as Lincoln really believed, foretold some event of surpassing importance, it was not of victory, but of tragedy, for that night he was to fall before the gun of Booth, the half-crazed, halfdrunken actor, .who imagined himself the avenger of the south. a a a AT this last cabinet meeting Lincoln said he hoped much could be done to get the states, lately be rebellion, in successful operation before congress assembled again. He wanted to have the family circle complete again without any strife or punishment. a a a He said: “No one need take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them.” H** exclaimed: “Enough lives have been sacrificed and we must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union.” a a a He did not wish the self-government of the southern states interfered with and. had he lived, he would have had a battle with the radicals who demanded the punishment of the south, but he would have won, where his successor, Johnson, failed. I

Y FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

i The Record of Auto Fatalities Has Become an Alibi for Indifference and Accident of Every Kind. V-EW YORK, April 17.—Another New York gangster takes the long rap. It’s the same old story—two dapper youths, three bullets in the back, stolen car, guns left rbehind, no clews. He was known as “Joe the Boss.” It is said that not a stick of macaroni could be sold in New York without his getting a rakeoff. Also it is said that A1 Capone warned him to pull in his horns, or take the consequences. The police department is reported as expecting an outbreak of gang killings because of Joe’s demise. One forecast places the number of deaths likely to occur at 100, but no one seems to be disturbed by it tt tt tt Autos Take Heavy Toll WITH autos causing an average of four deaths each day, why should New York worry about a gang killing now and then? Not only in New York, but throughout the country, the record of au s o fatalities has become an alibi for Indifference toward death and accident of every kind. Some auto manufacturers are afraid It may become an alibi for hesitant customers, and they are right. Last year 32,500 people were killed as the result of accidents or collision involving autos, and 960,000 were injured. In many cases perfectly capable drivers were among the victims. Such a situation hardly makes serious-minded people enthusiastic about owning or operating cars. nun U, S, in Used Car Trade SPEAKING of autos, prohibition has forced Uncle Sam into the used car business. Every so often federal dry agents find it necessary to dispose of the trucks and autos which have been confiscated. Twenty were auctioned off in New York Wednesday. A Nash sedan, 1929 model, brought $310; a Brockway truck, year unknown, $225; a huge Mack ice cream truck, SB7, and three Cadillacs of 1922 or so, $32, $45 and $75 respectively. Dry agents say that on the average they are getting about the same prices as are used car dealers. * u a Crime Market Bearish THE price of about everything seems to be dropping. According to six ex-convicts just landed at Trinidad from Devil’s island, the French penal colony, the assistance of native chiefs, including charts and guides, now can be had for $5. That sounds mighty cheap, until you recall that the French government offers only 50 cents for the capture of a convict on land and $2 at sea. Still there are bulls in the criminal market. Douglass Thorpe, head of a Westchester (N. Y.) concrete plant, just has posted a sign announcing his willingness to pay SI,OOO for a dead thief, but nothing for a live one. Ideas on Law Mixed BY AND LARGE, civilization appears rather confused in estimating the value of lives as compared to that of property. Soviet Russia abolishes the death penalty for such crimes as murder, rape or arson, but shoots people for causing accidents or trying to stir up revolution. In this country, a majority of tne states retain the death penalty for certain crimes of treason or violence, but accept accidents as a matter of hard luck. Equally illogical, it is a popular notion among us that, while the right of society to inflict capital punishment is questionable, the right of the individual to kill in self-defense is indisputable. No one can review the laws we pass, especially in comparison to those we refuse or fail to enforce, without realizing that something is the matter with our moral code as officially expressed. Either we are making a lot of rules and regulations in which we do not believe, or we are neglecting to make a lot in which we do believe. Prohibition is but one example of the gulf existing between our constitutional and conversational idea of what is right.

Questions and Answers

What town is nearest to the site of the proposed Hoover Dam? Las Vegas, Nev. W’hat is the world record for walking one mile? Six minutes twenty-five and eight tenths seconds. What is the smallest republic in the world? The republic of, San Marino, having an area of thirty-eight square miles. How many, daily newspapers are published in Baltimore, Md.? Four: The Post, the News and Morning and Evening Sun. Is the book ‘‘Trader Horn” flc.tion? It is classified at the library of congress as a book of description and travel. Is a girl usher called an “usherette?” That is a colloquial term, not sanctioned in literary English. How many stores has the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company? More than 15,000. What is the average annual catch of codfish and salmon in the United States, including-Alaska? For codfish approximately 115,000,000 pounds and for salmon approximately 524,000.000 pound;,. Were the “Ladies From Hell” and the “Battalion of Death,” woman regiments in the World war? Are Constance Bennett and Myrna Loy the same age, height and weight? Both are 25 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall. Constance Bennett weighs 108 Vi pounds and Myrna Loy weighs 120 pounds.

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Hearing Affected by ■ Otosclerosis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyceia, the Health Magazine. UNQUESTIONABLY the disease called otosclerosis has affected the human being for many years. In this condition, the small bones involved in hearing become locked by changes which take place in the tissues so that the person affected can not hear well, except over the telephone or with a hearing device. The reason he hears well under the latter circumstance is the fact that in this condition the conduction of sound through the bone is improved, while conduction by air is lost. Various theories have been offered, as is pointed out by Dr. C. S. Nash, to account for the development of this condition, but not one of these theories has been established as the primary factor.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—My solution for solving the problem of elevating and stabilizing wheat prices so farmers throughout the nation may put their farms on a paying basis and thus benefit the entire nation, as well as each farmer, himself, is as follows: Have the government retain what wheat it already has bought until it has bought, enough more to create a supply equal to a fair one year’s crop. Then offer to sell it back to the farmers to be paid for immediately after the wheat marketing time in 1932 has passed. Sell it to the farmers at prevailing market prices under agreement with farmers that they will not plant for a 1932 crop, and to use the wheat for the 1932 crop that is in storage for them, which the government had sold to them. Thus in this manner one whole year’s crop will be absorbed and without the overproduction which so long has been in process of accumulation. It seems to me that it is a folly for farmers to go on and plant for a 1932 crop when there is sufficient quantity already in existence and should be used for the 1932 crop. It seems that the main problem is to utilize without waste the huge stores of wheat now on hand and at same time create a greater stability and general prosperity. The lands which under present overproduction system could be utilized in growing other than wheat crops for 1932. Transforming what is now a wasteful and haphazard system into a sound economic one would be the result if the above solution was placed in force. How many agree with me? In event the reader agrees, why not clip this article and pin it to your letter to your congressman urging the consideration of this solution? T. T. OVERSHINER. 16 South State avenue. Editor Times—ln your editorial, “The Raskob Program,” you say, “We believe in home rule for the states, that dry states shall have the right to be dry and wet states to be wet.” Why not be honest for once, and say, “We believe that wet states should have the right to be wet and to make all the other states wet.” That you gladly would give over all the good that has come with prohibition and surrender every decent principal involved has been evident for years. You were a wet years ago, when admittedly the prohibition law was “a noble experiment,” when all that the law needed was public sentiment behind it; you dared to openly encourage its violation and to advocate its overthrow. Under the guise of % public benefactor, you consistently have given comfort and aid to law violators, always siding with the accused and by insidious propaganda building an alibi for the criminal, seemingly before the thing might have occurred to him. You should take great pride in your ability to develop the worst side of human nature; to undo good faster than any one else can develop it. To you and to other editors in our land more than to anything else can be attributed the failure of the prohibition law. The wet press, by its never-ending propaganda against the law, has made it practically impossible to enforce the law. If these editors had been honorable men of noble purpose and determined to use their influence for good, the things they

What’s the Big Rush?

-DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The only theory in which all observers concur is the conviction that the heredity or constitution of the person involved has some bearing, since there is a tendency for such conditions to occur in families. However, it is not only the tendency of the condition to occur that is responsible, but also the development of an infection, an intoxication from the gastro-intestinal tract, the lack of some important food substance, some disorder of the glands of internal secretion, some modification of the circulation, or some other factor which must be the inciting factor associated with the hereditary cause. Associated with the difficulty of hearing, there takes place not infrequently some nervous development, due to the strain on the nervous system, and also occasional ringing in the head, whistling in

now feature as unthinkable would not exist. Instead, they have kept well ahead of public sentiment against the prohibition law, using every device known to their craft to deceive even the most intelligent and a constant repetition of false statements, deceptive insinuations, reflective comments, suppression of facts, and flagrant featuring of wet propaganda has discouraged hosts who really are opposed to liquor. Every editor and owner of a wet newspaper should view with pride the tendency of our country to lapse again into a liquor-owned, liquorcontrolled, liquor-besmirched nation, for to him and his clan Is the credit due. OMER S. WHITEMAN. Editor Times—ln The Times, issue of March 17, David Dietz, referring to “Universe Makers,” said: “It was another universe maker who wrote the story of Genesis, trying to account for the origin of the cosmos.” More precisely, it was two universe makers, for, continues Mr. Dietz, “as every student of Biblical literature knows, there are two stories of creation in Genesis." I am not unmindful of the fact that the surest way for one to expose one’s own ignorance is to reject, criticise, and ridicule a given hypothesis unless one has a more plausible theory to Introduce. And I take the utmost pleasure in informing Mr. Dietz and all others, whether scientist or religionist, who hold to the same opinion, that such is not true. The first and second chapter of Genesis are inseparable. The truth and relative importance of each is aggrandized and made authentic by the other. And, either, without the other would be Incomplete, meaningless. However, it is true that our present day exponents of theology, owing to a lack of power of spiritual discernment, endeavor to dissociate the one from the other, that they may place their own self-conceived, and therefore erroneous, construction upon the Genesis account of the creation.

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BHEIMS OFFENSIVE April II

ON April 17, 1917, the French launched anew offensive which was regarded as the beginning of the most important advance they had made since the war began. For more than thirty months the historic city of Rheims had been a target for German guns, and the beautiful city of Soissons had been likewise in serious peril The blow struck on this day was on the eleven-mile stretch east of Rheims, and on the front between Rheims and Soissons. The French troops proved irresistible in their advance. In the fighting, bitter along the whole front from Flanders to Alsace, it was estimated that 4,000,000 men were engaged, 2,500,000 allies and 1,500,000 Germans. It was reported that in the battles of April 14, 15, 16 and 17, more than 3,500 Germans had been captured by British and French together, and that German casualties succeeded 150,000.

the ears, dizziness, and nausea, which make the condition even more serious than if it were confined to the disorders of hearing alone. Fortunately, hearing devices have been developed which are of great aid to people with this type of deafness. The American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing can supply to those interested a list of acceptable hearing devices. ✓ To aid study of this disease with a view to improving the condition for thd future, attempts are being made to get people with this type of deafness to will their ears to science, so that after death the ears may be available for study by experts in various centers of research who are giving special attention to this problem.

Thus they have caused great confussion of thought among the public. There is but a single narrative of the particulars of the creation recorded in the Genesis. And I challenge any man to disprove this assertion. Read the Bible more carefully and prayerfully. JOHN B. DICKERY, 2430 North Dearborn street. Editor Times—Should the people build roads and let the trucks and busses tear them up? In one of your editorials, you appear to think so. There surely should be some limit to the size and capacity of trucks and busses. If they are not limited, it will be impossible to build roads fast enough to take care of the traffic. There will be hundreds of truck and buss companies which wifi operate thousands of trucks and busses on our highways and be a great menace to our automobile traffic. Main roads will have to be twice or three times as wide as now and very much stronger. It is unfair to the majority of the people who are traveling by auto to allow large truck companies to usurp our roads. They already have taken a part of the freight traffic from our railroads and have put some of the interurbans out of business and if allowed to operate large fleets of trucks of large size and capacity they will cripple our railroads and put many of them out of business. This is not giving the railroads a square deal. They built and maintain their own roadbed and pay a large amount of taxes on them. If trucks are limited in size and capacity so they will be safe for traffic and nondestructive to our highways I believe they will be unable to compete with the railroads in cheapness of rates. I believe it will be more economical to limit trucks now than to allow them to ruin our roads and put the railroads out of business. The individual trucker with a limited capacity truck is all right, but we should watch the big truck lines and right now is the time to begin thinking and talking about it, before our roads are ruined. A. E. G., Sheridan, Ind.

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.APRIL' 17, im

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Unusually Shaky Earth Has Been Revealed in 1931 , With Thirty-Five Quakes in Three Months. AS photographs and accounts at the horrors of the earthquake at Managua continue to arrive in this country, people realize that the earth Is not as solid a foundation underfoot as they usually think tt to be, ' Two questions arise in tne minds of many people. One Is the poaaibillty of an increased number of earthquakes, with one hitting the city in which they live. The other is the possibility of some world-wide cataclysm, tha coming of the end of the world. So far 1931 has revealed an unusually shaky earth. Thirty-five earthquakes have been recorded In three months. Five of them. In northwestern Argentina, Oaxaca, Mexico, New Zealand. Chill and Managua, Nicaragua, did much damage to life and property. The seismographs, as the instruments for recording tremors of the earth are called, reveal the fact that the earth constantly is trembling somewhere. There are certain localities where the seismograph averages a disturbance a day. These, however, axe so slight for the meet part as to go unnoticed except for the seismographlc records. While scientists do not yet know enough about earthquakes to predict them, studies have revealed that earthquakes are most likely to happen in certain regions of the earth’s surface. This is proved by the record of past quakes. The Pacific Rim THE rim of the Pacific ocean is a great seismic region. The Pacific is surrounded by high mountains rising close to the shore line. These mountains are young from the geological point of view. They are some of the most recent to have come into existence and they represent regions where the earth’s crust is still weak and unstable. * Another seismic region sweeps across the southern edge of Asia and Europe. Whether earthquakes go in cycles, increasing in Intensity and frequency in certain periods Is not yet settled completely. Such possibility was suggested a few years ago, strangely enough by an astronomer and not a geologist, and as a result of a study of the moon. The suggestion was made by Professor E. W. Brown of Yale university, the world’s chief authority upon the subject of the moon’s motions. Professor Brown suggested certain periodic irregularities in the moon’s motion were to be explained by changes in the rate of rotation of the earth. Such changes, he continued, might be the result in changes in the earth’s diameter. If such sudden expansions or contractions of the earth took place, It is reasonable to suppose that they might be periods of increased seismic activity. It is a well-known fact that the earth’s surface undergoes changes At the present time, for example, the seacoast of Scandinavia is rising slowly. It is probable, however, that-such changes as the building of mountains take place over periods of a million years or more and that earthquakes of much greater violence than those previously experienced are improbable. a u a Russian Meteorite THE possibility of any large-seal* cataclysm seems extremely remote. Certainly, there is not a high enough probability to Justify any one worrying about It. The greatest possibility of dam-* age seems to lurk not within ths earth, but within the sky. Go outdoors on a clear night and watch the heavens in any direction for five or ten minutes. You will be rewarded by the sight of a "shooting star.” The little streak of fire you see is not a star at all, but a meteor, a tiny bit of matter, perhaps no larger than a grain of sand. It enters the earth’s atmosphere from outer space and is consumed by ths heat of friction. Occasionally a larger meteor enters the earth’s atmosphere and a piece of it escapes destruction and falls to earth, it then Is called a meteorite. On July 30, 1908, the largest meteorite of which the world knows, struck the earth. Fortunately It landed in the wilds of northern Siberia, 500 miles north of the Trans-Siberian railway. It apparently exploded, or consisted of a great assembly’ of smaller meteorites, because it made over 200 depressions, some of them more than seventy-five feet In diameter. Russian scientists who investigated found the ground around the depressions for fifteen miles in all directions seared and charred as if the vegetation had been burned off with gigantic blow torches.

Daily Thought

They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. Daniel 12:3. Wisdom—a man’s best friend.— Gladstone.