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The Oxnam Incident The celerity with which pastors of his own faith, alumni of De Pauw and citizens generally resented the attack upon Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, the president of that university, is one of the inspiring incidents of 'ocal history. That attitude suggests that it is no longr possible for professional patriots and agents of privileged interests to wave the red flag of sovietism to destroy those whose contribution to the times is an open mind and a courageous facing of facts. It is because these professional patrioteers fear minds that are open and rely upon prejudice to further their private and professional aims that such men as Oxnam are dangerous to them. If this government is ever destroyed it will not be through the teachings of the Oxnams, but through the acts of such men as those who resent him. Asa sequel to the attack, might well be a concerted drive in tw r o directions. The first of these is to discover how far the utility barons of this state were responsible for supplanting forgery for legislation in the passing of a bill by the last legislature through which the shackles of privilege were tightened just a little more upon the people. Here was a real destruction of government, real treason. The second might be a long-delayed report on just what happened in the building of state armories, an investigation of which was ordered by the legislature of more than two years ago. These were built in defiance of law. There was a huge profit. These topics are of much importance.

More Commissions Now that Hoover has created another commission, there probably will be a revival of the wise-cracking on that subject. Like most wise cracks, this overworked one is funny because it is an exaggerated half truth. Not all the politicians combined can ruin the commission method of government administration. Government daily becomes more complicated. And the more complicated it grows, the more need there is for commissions of experts to handle technical problems which are beyond the province of the old-time political appointee. No one now would think of scrapping an independent governmental agency like the interstate commerce commission. Even an agency so notoriously misused for partisan purposes by a succession of Presidents as the tariff commission has proved itself indispensable. Perhaps the chief reason for current ridicule of the commission idea is the Wickersham organization. Certainly popular cynicism in that case partly is justified. The Wickersham report recommendations on prohibition were dishonest, and contradicted the body of the ..report. Nevertheless, the body of the report itself, the data gathered by the experts, and the individual reports of the commissioners, were on the whole remarkably well done. The point is, of course, that any type of governmental machinery can be misused. The Wickersham commission was not misused in the matter of prohibition. In a field in which national party politics is not involved so directly as in prohibition, for example the study of crime statistics, the Wickersham commission has done more in two years to put the government on the right track than the department of justice has done in two decades. Public attention is focused again on the commission idea because on Monday Chairman Woods of the Hoover emergency committee for employment announced his resignation and the President announced that he had created anew commission on federal personnel administration. Many persons are saying that the emergency committee for employment failed. It did not. Hoover failed to permit it to function fully. But the committee, both in the data it collected and the ideas it provided, did a good job. That the administration suppressed much of its data and rejected many of its expert ideas, was not the fault of the committee nor the commission method. So with the new commission on federal personnel administration, no one can deny the need for such commission, after the long failure of existing agencies and departments to solve the personnel problem. But whether Hoover will get the best out of this particular •ommission remains to be seen.

Porto Rico Wants to Know When the Caribbeanjpot stops boiling in other quar;ers and the administration has time to think of something besides Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti and Cuba, it should remember that Porto Rico has a grievance. That grievance just has been stated in San Juan ay Dr. Jose Padin, commissioner of education, a man of high esteem on the island and in this country. Some Porto Ricans have been demanding independence. During the Coolidge administration the .sland legislature sent, through Lindbergh, to Washington its famous give-us-liberty-or-give-us-death memorial. Probably a majority of Porto Ricans would be satisfied with a dominion or free state status. Others want only right to elect their own governor. Few are satisfied with the status quo. But Dr. Padin was voicing the virtually unanimous demand when he asked that a decision be made one way or the other. Porto Rico can not begin to solve its problems—whether political, economic or educational—until it knows the kind of a country it is going to be in the future, the kind of government it is going to have. "For what are we preparing Porto Rico?’’ Dr. Padin asked. "Inasmuch as congress has the right and the power to say the last word, I submit that it should be at the earliest opportunity to make a declaration of the ultimate political status of the island and on the requirements that the people of Porto Rico must fulfill before they are accorded recognition. "Having defined the objective, congress should give Porto Rico ample freedom of action to work out a program and reach the goal by its own effort.” • That is a fair demand.

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The Bland-Maclntosh Cases The legal intercession of Quakers and of Episcopalian bishops in behalf of Miss Marie Bland and Professor Douglas Macintosh, whose pacifist cases ire before the United States supreme court, is another evidence of liberal ferment within the churches. These cases are tests, marking how far we have progressed since war days. Miss Bland, an Episcopalian war nurse, was refused naturalization because she declined to swear to bear arms, on the ground that war “is not according to the ethics of Christ.” Processor Macintosh, Baptist teacher of theology 1 at Yale, is not an absolute pacifist. In reply to the question as to whether he would take up arms in defense of America, he replied candidly that first he svould “want to be free to judge the necessity.” Both of the Canadians are intelligent, high-minded Christians. The very fact that they applied the yardsticks of their reason and conscience to a question usually perfunctorily asked and answered should in itself recommend them as American citizens. As Macintosh’s counsel, John W. Davis, said: “We want more people in this country who will stand out against the crowd.” The government had to go out of its way in challenging these two. Miss Bland could not, if she wanted to, bear arms. Macintosh could be exempted under the draft act as a religious conscientious objector. So it is an issue of free thought, a right guaranteed by the Constitution. “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachments than any ather it is the principle of free thought,” wrote Justice Holmes in the minority Schwimmer opinion. “Not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought we hate. “I think that we should adhere to that principle with regard to admission into, as well as life within, this country.” City and Country The farm board announces it will stop attempting to peg the price of wheat—which everybody knew must end some time—and it crashes on to the front page and stays there a day or two. Politicians get excited. The census bureau announces that 6,050,000 persons are wholly without work—which independent economists had discovered earlier —and it gets on the front page, but stays there a shorter time. Politicians get excited, but not so much so. Maybe that is because most of our political leaders come from agricultural states. But, whatever the reason, it has been evident for a long tim,e that when the farmer is in distress, it is time for the federal government to do something. But when the unemployed city dweller is in distress, it’s time for him to do something for himself, or get his former, or prospective, employers or his neighbors to help him. We spend $800,000,000 to “aid” farmers and appropriate $590,000 to set up the new United States employment stabilization board and broaden the work of the United States employment service. But we could spend twice times a half a billion dollars to give relief to farmers and accomplish almost nothing if the city folk stayed jobless and had no money to buy what the farmer raises. If cops are the rum runners they’re suspected of being, how about making that old expression read: “All policemen have big fleets”? A book on contract bridge sold 64,000 copies the first three months. They say it got a big “play.” Tlie boy who flunked penmanship at school now does a neat turn at skywriting. “I’ll make the grade,” said the professor boastfully as he gave the student his mark. Most movie comics imagine they abound in histrionic ability merely because they feel funny. A wealthy Pennsylvanian has given $1,000,000 to help promote good will between this country and Germany. In the interest of Hans across the sea. Dorothy calls necking “a petty” offense.

REASON b ra ™i CK

MISS RUTH NICHOLS of Rye, N. Y., is a very unusual young woman, for already she is a flier apart from all others of her sex. She holds the world's speed and altitude records for women. pan But this Is not enough and she now plans to walk up to Fate and snap her manicured fingers under his very nose by flying from Newfoundland to Paris —and all alone, ala Lindbergh. a a a We hate to see her do it, for such a trip is utterly useless, except for the ticker tape which it may bring to her lap when she rides up Broadway, should she succeed in making the audacious hop. PUP ALL there is to learn of a practical nature from such a flight has been learned from the experiences of those who have negotiated the great leap. In fact ocean flying has become about as pa.'se as channel swimming. And it would be a shame to lose a girl like Ruth. p p p If she simply must have adventure, let her toss ac-r bonnet into the political arena and go after the various forms of repulsive animal life that now clutters up New York politics. There she could find thrills aplenty. p p p One is not surprised to hear Mr. Wickersham say that lawless public officers are largely to blame for the horrible state-of law enforcement and the cynical regard for constitutional authority which covers the land. a tt n IF you will just take an automobile ride out of any county seat with one who is familiar with the place he will point out to you scores of places, known of all men to be the establishments of bootleggers. And why do they go untouched? Go ask the officers, supposed to handle such things. p p p But this isn’t the worst of it by a long shot, for rlear up to the top of the criminal calendar there’s the same rotten condition, murder having become a mere social indiscretion in the United States, the guilty having bouquets thrown at them all along the line by even-body from the lowly juror to the august supreme judge. m m p It’s not a healthy sign, ladies and gentlemen. Older nations than ours have gone to the boneyard oecause they did not do the work they were created to do. We have lost our faith in courts and we have almost l:vt our capacity for righteous indignation. Beyond that lies the end. 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Country Is Getting Tired of the Waitß a c k et e er s Have Abused Their Privileges. NEW YORK, April 29.—This king of Siam, about whom we used to recite all the ribald poetry, is not such a queer or benighted chap. He not only shows up well beside the allegedly civilized members of his craft, but has ideas regarding its obligatibns and responsibilities which some of them could follow with profit. In explaining the plan to grant his people suffrage, he says: “We adapt, not adopt, from the west.” That is a happy thought, not only for kings, but reformers. Nothing does so much to hold back progress as the notion we must upset the whole apple-cart every time anew toy. or anew theory appears. nun No Crime to Talk OHIO’S anti-red law has been declared unconstitutional. The judge who did it was not only an aviator in the World war, but was shot down behind the German lines. Men who have been up against the real thing are not afraid of talk, which seems to have been the issue in this case. Two federal agents, disguised as workmen, reported that a fellow mechanic had told them how he had left rivets out of certain beams and connections in the great airship being built at Akron, for the purpose of wrecking it. He was arrested under the syndicalism law adopted by Ohio inY9l9. In declaring the law unconstitutional, Judge Wanamaker says, in so many words, that people have a right to talk and that mere talking doesn’t constitute a crime. 000 England Is Game CHAN CELLOR SNOWDEN’S plan of balancing the budget of the British government is simple and direct. First, he proposes to levy anew land tax amounting to 2 cents on each $5 valuation; second, to increase the gasoline tax from 8 cents to 12 cents a gallon; third, to withdraw $100,000,000 now held in New York as an exchange reserve; and fourth, to advance the date of income tax collection so that $50,000,000 will be added to this year's revenue.

Hard as times may be in this country, you don’t have to look far to find that they are just as bad, if not worse, somewhere else. Englishmen already pay higher taxes on land, incomes, inheritances, and gasoline than we do. The fact that the house of commons cheered Snowden’s proposals ought to make some of us ashamed of the way we are whining. Cermak Shows the Way TAXATION brings to mind the inaugural address of Chicago’s new mayor, Anton J. Cermak. He says that that city’s problem is to reduce taxes on the one hand, and crime on the other. He already has demonstrated how the former can be accomplished by firing 3,000 city employes without any apparent injury to the public service. It only remains for him to get rid of an equal number of-gang-sters. a a Tough on Racketeers SPEAKING of gangsters, “Killer” Fred Burke just has pleaded guilty to- murder in Michigan and given a life sentence. Jack (Legs) Diamond has been shot again; Governor Roosevelt of New York has ordered the attorney-general to take charge of affairs in Greene county, where the Diamond gang has been making life miserable for the inhabitants, and where a vigilance committee is being organized to help him out. If the racketeers keep on, they will. force similar harsh action in other places. They have been having an easy time, with bootlegging as an excuse, but the country is getting tired of the way they have abused the privilege. Difficult as it may be to say anything good of the depression, you have to admit that it has done a lot to put graft, racketeering and political corruption in their true light. There is nothing like a slump in business to remind people how much things cost and whether they are quite necessary. As long as mest of us were getting ours, we could afford to take a tolerant attitude toward highbinders, blackmailers and parasites which the racket created, but we can’t now, and they should be warned.

People’s Voice

Editor Times —May I ask a question? I hear so many people say charity. Please tell me where charity comes in. A man has to work for what he gets, and, not only that, but he must pay three or four prices for everything. He will work three days for a supposed-to-be $5 basket of groceries. He must pay anywhere from 5 to 20 cents more than the regular prices. For example, potatoes in such a basket are 40 cents a peck, when they are 19 cents at any store. Why can’t the trustees give that man the full amount in cash and let him buy his groceries? No man wants charity. He wants work. Give the men of Indianapolis a chance. ROOTER. How does June 30 happen to be the end of the fiscal year of the United States government? The act of congress of Aug. 26, 1842 fixed June 30 as the end of the fiscal year. The principal reason for fixing this date was that the secretary of the treasury is required by law to report on the condition of the treasury when congress assembles. 'His only alternative when congress assembled early in December was to render an incomplete report for the current calendar year, or to submit a report almost a year old. June 30 was fixed as a date which would give him time to prepare a complete report for congress. Is the dry dock at San Francisco large enough for the largest vessel now afloat to dock in? Yes. The dock at Hunter’s Point, San Francisco, is one of the largest in the United States. It is 1,000 feet long and 110 feet wide.

The Shoe Is Beginning to Pinch!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Humidity Effect on Hay Fever Shown

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN 1929, Miss Marjorie Hopkins of department of medicine in the New York Postgraduate Medical school and hospital made a study of the possible effect of daily fluctuations in humidity and temperatures on the degree of symptoms in 103 patients with hay fever due too/sensitazation to the pollens of ragweed. A similar statement now has been prepared covering conditions in 1930 and a chart has been worked out indicating the relations aip between the symptoms, the pollens and the humidity. It is found that the humidity curve is proportional to the symptom curve and the pollen curve.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

THE papers carried a story the other day about a young man from France who tried to get himself smuggled into this country while hiding in a packing case. And a day or two later I read of an “undesirable alien” who jumped from a moving train and swam across an icy river in the effort to remain here and escape deportation. I don’t know just what this particular alien had done to render himself undesirable. Nor am I in a position to state that the young man in the packing case necessarily would be an excellent citizen of this nation. But in general I feel a sympathy for all those who go to desperate lengths in the endeavor to join us here. At least, they possess something of the pioneer spirit. Undoubtedly it is not practical to say that any stowaway of sufficient ingenuity should be admitted regardless of the law. Nevertheless, it is distinctly complimentary when anybody risks suffocation or life and limb to gain entrance to this land. The very fervency of the wish would seem to take some of these volunteers quite a distance on the road to Americanization. tt tt tt If They Queried? BUT putting the whole matter on a broader basis, I think that we have become a little snobbish in our attitude toward the immigrant. We act as if the risks involved were wholly ours. We want to know whether or not the newcomer is likely, by any chance, to become a public charge. We look intently at his political views and his moral philosophy. It seems to me that it might be no more than fair to allow the immigrant a few counter-questions. In many cases his knowledge of us and our institutions is largely hearsay. Suppose he raised his voice at Ellis island and said: “Now, I’ve told you all you want to know about me. But how about you? In our small village in Austria I read in a book that this was the land of equal opportunity. I read the life of Abraham Lincoln. “And the author said that the ex-

Questions and Answers

Where was Maureen O’Sullivan educated? How old is she? She was born May 17, 1911, and was educated in Dublin and London convents, and at a finishing school in Paris. She studied piano and voice culture in Paris and engaged in amateur theatricals whenever she had an opportunity. What were the gate receipts for the two Dempsey-Tunney fights, and how much did each receive? For the first fight the receipts were approximately $2,000,000, and Dempsey received about $850,000 and Tunney ,$200,000. For the second fight approximately $2,800,000 was taken in, and Tunney received $1,000,000 and Dempsey $450,000. Do any stars really fall to the earth? Stars do not fall; so-called shooting stars or falling stars are in reality meteorites, small masses of matter which are attracted from outside space into the gravitation field of thjaearth and fall toward the earth. -Their rapid fall through

Usually when the humidity curve is down, the symptom curve and the pollen curve are up and vice versa. Whenever the rain falls, the amount of pollens in the air is less and the symptoms also are less. The charts indicate that an increased amount of pollens in the air frequently precedes by twentyfour hours an elevation in the curve, indicating the severity of the symptoms. On days when there was a high humidity from rain and a low temperature, there were less pollens in the air and therefore less symptoms. On days when there was a low humidity, no rainfall and a relatively high temperature, the pollens were profuse in the air and all the patients suffered much more severely.

ample set by your great President still was preserved in the performances and policies of the Republican party. Is that true? “Tell me. I want to know. Am I coming to a land where liberty always is maintained and upheld in every circumstance?” I think any such question might give the immigration inspector pause. It is quite true that not every alien who knocks at our door is good enough for our purposes. However, I can conceive of a reverse situation. It may well be in certain cases that some man or woman from a far land has made terrific sacrifices to come here in search of something which we do not possess in full purity. It is well to remember that the national achievements to which we point with pride are by no means the sole and exclusive creation of those born within our borders. The instruments of government by which we live were from the very beginning enormously affected by foreign thought. tt tt tt The Melting Pot IT amazes me that now we suddenly should take the attitude that all knowledge and all vision are ours and that we have nothing further to learn. Since this was not so in the past, why should we assume that all at once we have become wholly selfcontained, both intellectually and spiritually? There are practical and plausible arguments for cutting down the tide of immigration at a time when millions here are unemployed. But even these regulations we should accept regretfully as temporary expedients, which we hope to discard in the near future. It was not a slight thing that America stood for a century in the imagination of the world as a haven for the oppressed and all those suffering under the weight of tyranny. It will not be a good thing if from now on we turn a cold shoulder upon the rebels of our own day. It was a healthy thing for us to welcome stalwart and independent thinking men and women from afar. It still is vital to our growth and

the earth’s atmosphere causes them to become red hot by friction and most of them are consumed before reaching the earth’s surface. A few fall to the surface as masses of blackened stone or metal. How much of the motion picture film taken by the Byrd expedition to the south pole was used in the feature entitled, “W’ith Byrd at the South Pole?” Where was it edited for exhibition? Thirty miles of film were photographed by the Byrd expedition and about two miles or more than 11,000 feet were selected for exhibition. All of the scenes were made on the expedition. Titling and editing was done at the Paramount studios. Is there a book in the Bible called “The History of Susanna?” % The history of Susanna is an apocryphal addition to the Book of Daniel and is not contained in the King James Version of the Bible. Many old Bibles go contain the Apocrypha, however:

These experiments prove not only the direct relationship between sensitization to pollens and the symptoms of hay fever, but offer also some practical advice to sufferers from this disease. Obviously the person who suffers with hay fever should try, so far as possible, to stay indoors and to prevent the inhalation of pollens on days that are dry and hot. On the other hand, the individual can be much more comfortable outdoors on days when there is plenty of rainfall and a high humidity. Os course, the best possible advice is for the person with sensitivity to ragweed to get away from the district where ragweed is profuse at the time when he suffers most -with his hay fever. He also may try the effects of desensitization.

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

progress to receive new and rich blood into our veins. This land of ours is still a living thing. We haven’t yet become a sort of Union Club dedicated to providing comfortable chairs for old gentlemen whose record of achievement has been completed. If there is any truth in the saying that there’s always room at the top, can’t we be confident enough of our potentialities to shove over a little and make room for any stranger who comes to us inspired by a tradition and a vision which we set and must not quit? -(Copyright. 1931, by The Times)

TRIBUTE OF ALLIES April 29 ON April 29, 1917, the British and French high commissions, sent by their respective governments to honor our entrance into the war, visited the tomb of Washington at Mt. Vernon. It was one of the most imposing and significant episodes during the sojourn of the delegates. The two former premiers of France and Great Britain, Viviani and Balfour, standing before the tomb of the first President, spoke with deep emotion of the common, fight for freedom in which all three were engaged. General Joffre, marshal of France, laid on the marble sarcophagus a bronze palm wound with the French tricolor. A card attached to a huge wreath of lilies placed beside the French palm bore the following words in Balfour’s handwriting: “Dedicated by the British mission to the immortal memory of George Washington, soldier, statesman, patriot, who would have rejoiced to see the country of which he was by birth a citizen and the country his genius called into existence, fighting side by side to save mankind from a military despotism.”

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APRIL 29, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Oldest Scientific Society in America Holds Its Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. LEADING scientists from all parts of the United States—astronomers, geologists, biologists, and others—gathered In Philadelphia last week for the annual meeting of America’s oldest scientific society. The organization is the American Philosophical Society. The meeting was its 204th one. for the society, which was founded by Benjamin Franklin, is older than the American republic. In 1727, Franklin, who just had come of age, organized his friends into a society which he called the Junto. At first the membership was limited to twelve. But later he felt that, to uso his own terms, “virtuosi or ingenious men residing in the several colonies* ought to be invited to meetings at Philadelphia. On May 14. 1743, he wrote a letter to these men in which he said: “The first drudgery of settling new colonies, which confines the people to mere necessities, now is pretty well over and there are many in every province in circumstances that set them at ease and afford leisure to cultivate the finer arts and improve the common stock of knowledge.” From this letter grew the American Philosophical Society into which the Junto was merged. Early members included George Washington, Jefferson. Hamilton, Lafayette and Taller and. 0 0 0 Independence Square SINCE 1789, the American Philosophical Society has been meeting in its own quarters, a building adjoining Independence hall in Independence Square, Philadelphia. Here in a room whose walls are decorated with priceless relics, paintings and busts of patriots, statesmen and pioneer scientists, and medals and scientific instruments which belonged to America’s first scientists, the annual meeting of the society is held. The meetings are impressive. The room by itself is impressive. But when the leaders of present-day science in America gather in it, the sight is doubly impressive. The meetings are a tribute to the far-sighted genius of Franklin, who distinguished himself in the field of science as well as in the realms of statesmanship and diplomacy. But despite the appeal of the old meeting room, the society is now engaged in a campaign to raise $2,250,000 for the erection and endowment of anew home. The old building is not adequate to house the society’s library and historical collections. There are not sufficient rooms for offices and meetings. The new building is to stand on the parkway, within the site of the Museum of Art and the free library, adding another structure to a great civic center.

The Changing World A FEATURE of this year’s meeting was a symposium on “The Changing World.” In keeping with a policy adopted by the society a few years ago, an inquiry Is being made to chart the development of science and its effect upon life. The symposium was divided into three sections. The first dealt with “Tendencies in the Natural Sciences.” Speakers and their subjects were: Frank Schlesinger, director of the Yale university observatory, “The Astronomer’s Goal.” Arthur H. Compton, professor of physics, University of Chicago, “The Assault on Atoms and Molecules.” William Morton Wheeler, professor of entomology, Harvard university, “Hopes in the Biological Sciences.” Lee K. Frankel, second vice-presi-dent, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, “Lengthening the Span of Life.” Willis R. Whitney, director, research laboratory, General Electric Company, “Technology and Material Progress.” The second section of the symposium dealt with “Tendencies in the Field of the Social Sciences.”' Speakers included Professor Emesti M. Patterson of the University of Pennsylvania, Waldemar Kaempffert of the New York Times, Arthur Woods, chairman of the Hoover emergency committee for employment, and Congressman James M. Beck. The third section was a round table discussion, led by Professor Edwin G. Conklin of Princeton university.

Daily Thought

In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.—lsaiah 63:9. Pity makes the world soft for the weak and noble for the strong Edwin Arnold. How many German balloons and Zeppelins were shot down daring the World war? The number officially confirmed Is seventy-three, but it is possible that there were a few more destroyed that were not confirmed officially.