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Natural Gas The proposal of producers of natural gas in the south to furnish this fuel to large industrial users in the city is one which affects not only tho.se industries, but the entire city. If it be feasible to furnish this gas at a low rate for industries, it may also be feasible to furnish it to domestic consumers. The gas, of course, would come into direct competition with other forms of fuel. It would be in competition, to some extent, with the local gas plant which the city hopes to own in the near future. But in all such competition, the old law of the survival of the best and the cheapest will determine the outcome, and if natural gas be the right fuel and available at a lower cost than other forms, then this city will adopt it. The vendors of natural gas do not propose to become a public utility, offering their products to all the people. That prevents any regulation of rates or service. There is left a certain control at the present time through the fact that the company must obtain a permit to lay its pipes under and across public streets. It can not operate without this. The industries that are apparently desirous of getting the gas can not have it until such a permit is had. This city has the machinery for publicly owned distribution of gas in the utility “board. The sale of gas in this city is to be a publicly owned monopoly. It might seem that a very proper course would be for a contract between the city utility board and the gas producers, wherein the retails profits, and there will be retail profits, should go to the city. Before any permit is granted the advisability of putting this utility board into actual business, no matter what the supreme courts may say about the right to own the gas plant, should be studied. Once in business and functioning profitably for the public good, expansion, even if the courts deny the substantial justice of the city’s claim to the gas plant, might be the easy solution to escape from private privilege. Why not public ownership of something now? A New Monroe Doctrine President Hoover should not let the reactionaries bluff him out of his new Latin-American policy. He is on the right track. He is receiving splendid support from this country. He is being cheered throughout Latin-America. For the first time in a long while, Uncle Sam ia becoming popular among the southern neighbors. That is good for our souls. It also is good for our pocketbooks in these days of anti-Yankee trade boycotts and banners. Os course some of the conservatives here are howling. But surely the President expected that, and discounted it in advance. He must have known that those whose only idea of diplomacy is a battleship and a big stick would be horrified by the announcement that United States marines no longer would be used in the Nicaraguan civil war. He must have known that American companies in Central America, accustomed to using American troops as a private police force, would object to a change in policy. Criticism from such partisan sources need not worry the President, as long as it is purely selfish. So far as we can see, there is only one point made by the critics which merits Hoover’s consideration. That is their feeling that the new policy does not sufficiently clarify this government’s future action. It is bad enough, from their self-interested point of view, to be told that American troops no longer will protect American property and lives in the Nicaraguan interior, that they must depend on Nicaraguan forces hereafter. But it is even worse not to know definitely what this policy involves in the way of marine protection on the coast and future intervention. Doubtless the state department’s vagueness here ia Intentional. Hoover apparently is feeling his way. It does not pay to go too fast in kicking over a foreign policy of twenty-five years’ standing. But the President should realize that it is dangerous to let too long a time elapse between announcement of the destructive feature of his policy and announcement of the accompanying constructive aspects of that policy. All he has done so far is to say what this government will not do in Central America. Soon he must take the next step and say what this government will do. If the United States is to give up its self-appointed and unwise role of police-judge-and-jury of the Caribbean, who is to take over that role? That is an inevitable and legitimate question, which is at the bottom of much of the otherwise irresponsible criticism of the HooveT policy. Everyone knows that crises in Central America are chronic. There is continuing need for protection of international rights and interests, as distinct from outside interference in the domestic affairs of those unstable countries. Who is to provide that protection? The answer has been given repeatedly by LatinAmerican statesmen and by the best thinkers in our own country. The answer is that all the American republics, acting in concert, should reform the protective function which the United States hitherto had seized for itself. The one-sided paternalism of the distorted Monroe Doctrine should be replaced with a Pan-American doctrine of joint responsibility. If there is any judging or policing to be done, any intervention, it is the proper task of a Pan-American organization. If United States troops are to be used, it should be with the consent and co-operation of the western family of nations. Otherwise we shall be blamed, as we always have been blamed, for imperialism. We are not fit to be the judge of Nicaragua, Haiti, Honduras or the others. No nation is fit to be the master of another. We have no God-given right and no man-made right to rule the Caribbean as we have been doing. If we persist, we shall be defeated in the end, just as , \

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every other imperialistic power in the past has been destroyed by those who combine against her in selfprotection. The road to better Pan-American relations—diplomatic and commercial—is substitution of a Hoover doctrine for the misused Monroe Doctrine, or joint responsibility instead of Yankee dictatorship. A Three-Legged Stool A. J. Muste comments in the Labor Age upon what he alleges is the illegicality of voting the Democratic ticket as a way out of the economic chaos created by the reactionism and futility of Rpublicanism. He says of the Democratic party: “The Democratic party is a hopeless instrument. We used to describe it by saying that it had two legs: The southern leg being dry, Protestant, native American, anti-Irish, anti-Jewish, anti-Negro, mill-owning, conservative; the northern leg being wet, Catholic, foreign, Irish, Jewish, pro-Negro, mill-working and inclined to be progressive. “Now we have noted that the Democratic party has developed a third leg, that of the Smith-Raskob faction. This leg may be said to be the east of north —it is very wet, very Catholic, very social reformist (superficially), and seeking on all important issues such as the tariff, its attitude toward big corporations and the banks, to prove itself much safer for the big industrialists and financiers than the G. O. P.” Mr. Muste has much logic on his side, unless the Democratic party makes some real effort to combine Jeffersonian civil liberties with Bryanistic social idealism. But he will hardly gain converts to his cause by representing the Smith-Raskob wing as more reactionary on large economic issues than the Lucas-Hoover-Fess combine. Compared to the lush G. O. P. policies, Smith and Raskob are close to insurrectionary. Where the Money Comes From All winter and spring the country has been divided on the question of unemployment relief. Everyone admits that the 6,000,000 jobless and their families could not be left to starve. Regardless of future panaceas, everyone agreed there u r as a serious emergency relief problem which had to be met immediately. Met how? That is what caused the argument. One group, led by President Hoover, said the emergency should be met by private charity alone. Hoover even went to the extreme of saying that use of public funds would be in effect a “dole” and “injure the spiritual responses of the American people.” So he made the Red Cross reject in advance a proposed appropriation already passed by the senate. The other group said that the emergency should be met by private funds if possible, but that when private funds were inadequate, they should be supplemented by public funds—first by city and state funds, and later, if necessary, by federal funds. It now appears that much of the argument was unnecessary; it presupposed we had a choice between two methods, whereas in fact one method already had been tried, failed, and been discarded throughout the country, Hoover’s private-charity-alone method collapsed completely in practice more than a year ago. Official government figures just issued by the labor department show that in seventy-five representative cities a major portion of emergency family relief distributed in 1930 came from public treasuries—to be exact, 72 per cent. When private funds were exhausted and no more could be raised, the local officials had the choice of letting the people riot and starve or of giving them what Hoover calls public doles. Now many of the city and state treasuries which carried that burden during the last year are at the end of their resources. These facts raise certain immediate questions: Will the President continue to rely on private charity alone for unemployment relief, when his own government figures prove that would mean acute distress for millions? Will the President still strangle at federal relief, now that he knows he has been swallowing state and municipal relief for more than a year? Will the national Red Cross, which is giving not one cent to unemployment relief, now admit that the emergency is national and begin to help? And if Hoover as head of the Red Cross fails, as others have failed, to raise sufficient private funds, will Hoover and the Red Cross continue to block federal emergency appropriations? There are several million needy families, and several thousand helpless local relief agencies waiting for the President’s answer.

REASON

government has set out to help our merchant j marine by asking American tourists to travel on Ame r ic an ships when going to foreign countries and this appeal should not fall on indifferent ears. St tt 8 We have the greatest foreign commerce and the greatest number of foreign tourists, but the great majority of the commerce and the tourists take passage on foreign ships, which is a very poor way to salute the na§^ a a a Vl7'E should have the greatest merchant marine in ▼ ▼ the world and we would have it, if our people were as ship conscious as are the people of other 'ands particularly Great Britain. Not only would this give employment to Americans, n would give us a great naval auxiliary in time of war and world prestige all the time. a a a Permit us to suggest that you do not go to see the rest of the world until you have sen the United States, and then when you have seen all Uncle Sam has to offer and prepare to cross the ocean, travel on a ship which flies the Stars and Stripes, i a a a A RICH gentleman recently provided in his will for the erection of a Lincoln statue in Wabash, Ind. We do not know the artist who will do the work, but for the sake of Wabash, we hope it is Lorado Taft and that he will employ the design he used in his Lincoln at Urbana, 111. a a a That is the most challenging statue of Lincoln in the world. The rest of them are meditative, but this Urbana statue presents Lincoln, standing erect with head thrown back and hands outstretched. It is Lincoln, the orator. a a a WHEN you gaze upon the Urbana statue you think of the Lincoln who made the speech at Bloomington, 111. That was the speech on the Kansas question which enthralled his hearers and so hypnotized the newspaper men that they forgot to take it down. And so it is known in history as “The Lost Speech.” a a a We think of Lincoln, the humanitarian, to the exclusion of Lincoln, the orator, the debator. the fighter, arid we lose sight of the elements which made it possible for him to become the benefactor of a world. You do not know Lincoln unless you know Bow he dramatized himself and won his way. i

BY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Taking Care of Those Who Do Not Fit Is Part of the Price We Pay for Efficiency . NEW YORK, April 24—Given airplanes that would travel 175 miles an hour and stay up six hours, it was only a question of time when some aviator flew from London to Rome between meals. Captain Hawks is entitled to such glory as belongs to the man who hangs up anew record. Otherwise, his feat should be regarded as only the natural result of mechanical progress. It is possible that his record will be beaten by some lucky pilot with a plane now in existence. That means less, however, than the certainty that it will be beaten by some still luckier pilot with a plane of the future. Speed, whether in the air, or on land, has ceased to be a matter of personal skill. The records of five, ten or twenty years hence are being made in the laboratories and workshops right now. *■ a a Here Is Progress AN autogyro lands in the back yard of the White House, coming to a dead stop within ten yards from where it first touched the sod, and then takes off with a run cf less than 300 feet. Such performance means more to aviation than anew speed record. Aviation is not handicapped by a lack of speed half as much as by the difficulties of landing and taking off. The large size airports now required means that they can not be located within convenient distance of our larger cities, and that much of the time saved in flying must be wasted in taxicabs. a a a Industry Bars Unfit HELEN KELLER, most remarkable deaf and blind human being who ever lived, calls on President Hoover with a delegation from the World Conference on Work for the Blind, recently held in New York. In this age of movies, traffic lights and highly specialized work, blindness has become more of a handicap than ever. Notwithstanding all that has been done to educate and train them, those deprived of sight are in a peculiarly difficult position. The same thing is true of all defectives. Organized industry wants none but sound, vigorous people. Its carefully timed machines leave little room for the lame, the old, or the sightless. Taking care of those who do not fit is a part of the price we must pay for efficiency. a a a Ruled by Mosquitoes SPEAKING of blindness, Dr. Miguel Bustamente, Mexican delegate to the Pan-American con- j ference of health directors, now at session in Washington, describes a most peculiar form which exists in the mountains of Oaxaca. • The streams of those mountains breed a mosquito-like insect, the bites of which make daylight not only painful, but well nigh unendurable. Dr. Bustamente tells of one village where this malady prevails to such extent that its entire population is obliged to stay indoors through the day, and where the work is done during the morning and evening twilight. “It’s a weird sensation,” he says, “to see these folks, creeping from their huts to hunt their foodberries, corn, a few fruits—but the Mexican government is working on the problem. The light yet may be brought to Til tepee.” a a a Caveman Hangover WITH many such problems waiting to be solved, and with education our only hope, why do we 1 go on creating*defectives? The World war more than doubled the number of our blind, yet we persists in trying to make ourselves believe that it was a glorious thing. Realizing that constructive reform can be brought about only by intelligent study, millions of people still think of it in terms of physical force. In spite of all the suffering with which the world now is afflicted, discontent, revolution and bloodshed are being propagated in a dozen different places. In spite of all that has been done to improve conditions from a mechanical standpoint, humanity still is afflicted with the caveman hangover, and its greatest problem is to get rid of the idea that it can accomplish anything worth while by killing or maiming people.

Questions and Answers

What is the meaning of the state names Ohio, California, Arizona and Texas? Ohio (Indian) means fine or good; California (Spanish) a hot furnace; Arizona (Indian) few springs, and Texas (Indian) friends of allies. What was the Tweed Ring? A corrupt combination which, between the years 1365 and 1871, dominated the politics of New York and enriched its members from the public treasury. It was led by “Boss” Tweed. Who is the author of the saying, “Put your trust in God but keep your powder dry?” Oliver Cromwell on a certain occasion when his troops were about to cross a river to attack the enemy concluded his address with the words: “Put your trust in God, but mind to keep your powder dry.” What Is the present address of Mme. Ernestine Schnmann-Heink? 800 Orange avenue, Coronado, Cal. What is the national anthem of France? “The Marseillaise.” What are the nicknames for Robert, Alfred, John and Paul? The nickname for Robert, Bob, Rob or Bert; for Alfred, A1 or Fred; John, Jack. Paul has no nickname. For whom was the first perambulator built? It was built in 1780 for the baby daughter of the fifth duke of Devonshire.

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Pre-Natal Care of Vital Importance

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyseia, the Health Magazine. WITH the advance in medical science and the gradual understanding of the importance of beginning care of the prospective mother well in advance of the time when the child is to be bom, routines have been established so that it is possible for any intelligent woman to undergo childbirth with less difficulty and with less danger to her health than ever before. Just as soon as a woman knows she is going to have a child, she should consult her family doctor and arrange for her care until after the child is bom. A careful physical examination made early will permit the proper care of the teeth, the control of infections, the establishment of knowledge as to what a normal blood pressure and a study of the heart and lungs which is absolutely necessary for safety.

IT SEEMS TO ME

YALE university seems to be coming of age. The alumni weekly is out with an editorial against Tap day, which calls “the barbarous and juvenile exhibition of bad taste and worse manners.” It will be an excellent thing if the whispered injunction, “Go to your room,” no longer sounds among New Haven elms. And it will be an even bettef thing if the senior secret societies go along with the ceremony. Yale is not, of course, the only educational institution which fosters a Rotarian spirit among its undergraduates. The whole fraternity system seems to me a sort of feeding school for development of the clan of joiners. It is reasonable enough the youngsters in college should get together for comradeship. This is not by any means the sole factor in the fraternity system. I doubt that it is the most important phase in the motivation of huddling together. College fraternities exist chiefly because of the thrill which some enjoy in being admitted to a place from which others are excluded. a a a Aren’t We All? NATURALLY, it would be unfair to identify this spirit solely with college life. It functions in the chibs of business men and in various fraternal organizations. Something of the same spirit animates the speakeasy system. The man who can get through the locked door prides himself on the fact that others who do not know the ropes or the headwaiter must stand outside. But at New Haven the senior secret societies went far beyond other colleges in maintaining mystery and exclusiveness. Once upon a time it was the custom for a Yale man to leave the room if anybody chanced to be so indiscreet as to ask him whether he belonged to Skull and Bones or Scroll and Key. These organizations are maintained in great tomb-like structures. And there used to be a legend that even the plumbers and the carpenters who had penetrated into the

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—“ Where is the idea?” This is the last sentence in your editorial of a few days ago under the heading, “The One Way.” There is in every truth but one way in which unemployment in this country may be ended, and this is for our manufacturers to put the prices of their products down to an export basis, so that a large part of their products may be sold in other lands. If, when in 1920, the European farmers came back into normal production, our fanners had let onehalf their acres remain idle, had discharged millions of farm workers, so that they might keep up the prices of their products to the world level plus the tariff, would they have caused an unemployment problem? i In 1929, when European manufacturers came back into normal production, our manufacturers chose to let one-half their factories remain idle, and discharged millions *

■DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

No doubt a doctor will advise the" prospective mother as to the frequency with which she should visit him and as to the necessity of careful examinations of the secretions and the excretions. He also will advise her of the necessity of visiting a dentist at least once every month to protect her teeth from decay. It is important to watch particularly the action of the kidneys, because the first signs of danger from poisons sometimes associated with childbirth, reveal themselves in the excretion of the kidneys. The mother should determine very early whether she expects to have the child in the hospital or at home. If the child is to be born at heme, it will be necessary to provide certain equipment which is of the greatest importance in the prevention of infection and in the proper care of the mother during the childbearing process. If she is to have the child in a

inner fastnesses either were initiated into the order or done away with. One of the most diverting notions ever included in a Hasty Pudding show at Harvard was built around the sensitivity of secret society men at Yale. A character in the show mentioned the dream name of Skull and Bones, whereupon three tramps in the first row ostentatiously arose and left the theater. My own fraternity experience at college is limited to membership in Delta Upsilon, which is non-secret. That removes a little of my present objection to college caste. And yet even the club system which prevails at Cambridge and in Princeton does serve to set up artificial barriers in a community where democracy ought to be feasible. However, I did not go through life untouched by the temptation and glamor of association with manufactured mystery. At the age of 12 I was a member of a group known to its initiates as “The Silent Nine.” Our pin, worn jauntily upon the coat lapel, was a padlock and a pair crossbones. a a a Mysteries to a Few OF course, we could not make our proceedings quite as secret as we wished, since it was necessary to hold the meetings in rotation at the houses of the various members. You could not quite enlist the various parents into playing hosts without letting them in on some details of the ritual. For instance, it was necessary for me to ask my mother whether we could use the second best bathroom for the afternoon and evenings. This was the cell in which the neophyte awaited the grave trials ahead of him. Later we improved the practice by getting a large packing case and placing it in the cellar as a container for the current youth who was about to be admitted to “The Silent Nine.” Indeed, all the more Important work went on below the basement. We had a sliding seat upon a long board. And on this blindfolded novice

of men so they might keep the prices of their products up to the world price plus the tariff. Yes, there is but one way. Just as the farmers have had to accept the world price for their products to keep all their lands busy, so our manufacturers will have to accept world prices for their products to keep all their factories busy. H. M. CHADWICK. Morristown, Ind. Is voting at a primary the same as voting at a final election? The purpose of a primary election is to select candidates for the several parties. To vote at a primary one must declare his party and vote only for the candidates of that party. At the final election one may split a ticket and vote for any candidate desired. The purpose of a primary is to select candidates; the purpose of a final election is to elect men to office. The two are quite different things.

hospital—more and more babies are being born in hospitals—it will be necessary to arrange for suitable accommodations well in advance and to determine whether one is going to have a private nurse or to make use of the regular nursing service cf the institution. Far too often misunderstandings arise as to the cost of child birth because people do not arrange far enough in advance for the facilities that have been mentioned. It is quite possible for the prospective mother to have an estimation well in advance as to the cost of the room, the nursing service and even the physician’s fee. If, however, these arrangements are left to the last moment and a clear understanding is not had, the expenses may be beyond what the people expect to pay. The physician who is familiar with the patient’s circumstances will be able to give good advice as to the kind of accommodations the hospital will make available.

HEYWOOD BY BROUN

was propelled toward the bottom of the cellar. After that we picked him up and carried him to the second step. Still blindfolded, he was called upon to leap over some imaginary obstruction. When the floor came up to check his giant effort we regarded the ensuing tumble as very comical. Os course, not all the rites were in any such farcical spirit. The ritual was filled with rolling phrases and vows of great solemnity. I remember the language seemed to me most impressive. In fact, I wrote it myself. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times).

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FIGHTING AT MONCHY April 24

ON April 24, 1917, the British and Germans engaged in a terrific struggle in the village of Monchy, east of Arras. The British, by their attacks and counter-attacks, won and held important ground. The German loss was enormous. / Philip Gibbs, war correspondent, vividly describes the scene of battle. He saw the town a heap of broken walls and skeleton bams. “At 10 o’clock yesterday morning,” he reported, “strong bodies of Rhinelanders left the cover of Bois Vert and, in spite of heavy losses from British machine-gun fire and field batteries, succeeded in driving back part of the British foremost line. “Four thousand Germans of a fresh division gathered in the Bois du Sart fori a further attempt to break the line, but they were seen by the British flying officers, and the British batteries filled the wood with gas shells, so that great slaughter was done there. “This body of men literally was shelled to death, and it was a human hell in that wood under the blue sky.”

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Ideals and opinioas expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without reaard to their arr cement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

/APRIL 24, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

New Handbook Shows Vast Knowledge Accumulated by Scientific Researches . npWENTEETH century magic la based upon exact knowledge. Skyscrapers, airplanes, new alloys, and synthetic products are all the products of facts. Man's mastery over nature extends to the limit of the facts at his command. Where his facts give out. he meets defeat, a defeat which the great army of research workers hope some day to turn into additional victories. How extensive and exact man’s knowledge of nature has become is attested by a book which just has arrived at my desk. It is the fifteenth edition of the “Handbook of Chemistry and Physics,” edited by Charles D. Hodgman and Norbert A. Lange of the faculty of Case School of Applied Science. (It is published by the Chemical Rubber Publishing Company, Cleveland, at $5). The book consists of 1,426 pages, of fine print, all devoted to the tabulation of facts. The book is an invaluable aid to chemists and engineers, research workers in general, and college students. To the layman it is an awe-in-spiring testimonial of the progress of science. For its tablets of fine print represent the accumulation of thousands upon thousands ors careful researches carried on in all parts of the world. a a a Interesting Comparison IT is interesting to turn the pages of this “handbook” and compare them with the state of knowledge which once existed in the world. After a few pages at the start of the book of “emergency” information, antidotes for poisons, control of chemical fires, etc., information which quite properly belongs in the most accessible place, the authors devote 160 pages to mathematical formulae and tables. There are the important formulae used in algebra, mensuration, calculus, and analytical geometry. These are followed by four-place and five-place • logarithms of the trigonometric functions, the natural trigonometric functions, exponentials, hyperbolic functions, reciprocals, powers, roots, etc., and interest tables. The mathematical tables are followed by 650 pages of general chemical tables. How the old alchemist with his vague talk about elements and their properties would stare at these tables! Here are tables of atomic weights, a description of the chemical elements, tables of the formulae, molecular weight, specific gravity, melting point, etc., of the most important inorganic and organic compounds, similar information concerning vegetable and animal oils, fats and waxes, also similar information concerning minerals and alloys. a a a Other Tables ABOUT half of the “handbook” is occupied by the mathematical and general chemical tables just discussed. The rest'of the book is divided into the following sections-. Properties of Matter, Heat, Hygrometric and Barometric Tables, Sound, Electricity and Magnetism, Light, Miscellaneous Tables, Laboratory Arts and Recipes, Photographic Formulae, Measures and Units, Wire Tables, and Problems, There is an excellent index. An examination of any one of these sections serves to illustrate how much exact knowledge an engineer must employ today. Let us, for an example, turn to the section cn light. We find 161 pages of tables, among them the following: Photometric Standards, Standard Candles, Standard Wave Lengths, Index of Refraction, Reflection of Light by Glass in Air. Pigments and Dyes, and others. The layman is likely to have one of two reactions to such information. One is that.science is eliminating the poetry of life. This is a wrong attitude. Exact knowledge may destroy a certain type of imaginative activity. But it pr-.3 the way for finer flights of the imagination. The layman who can see that these scientific tables are in themselves a kind of poetry, has the right reaction. For in these tables are the cities and the industries of the present and the promise of new wonders for the future.

Daily Thought

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.—Psalm 106: 10. Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.—Cowper. What were the Venezuela affairs? The blockading of Venezuelan ports in December, 1902, by Great. Britain, Germany and Italy, for the purpose of enforcing their claims against the government of Venezuela. One outstanding result of the “affairs” was the pronouncement of the “Drago doctrine” that in the collection of public debts there should be no commitment to armed force except as a last resort.