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One Way Out While the courts are handling the legal technicalities Involved in a court decision as to whether a law can be created by forgeries, public officials have a very easy way out and one that would permit the printing of all other legislation passed at the last session. There is a unanimous agreement as to the facts in the matter, and they arc very sordid facts. A bill to regulate bus traffic was passed in form by the lawmakers. When it showed up in the office of the Governor it was an entirely different measure, and its terms were such as to please the privileged interests. Someone, as yet undetermined, changed the bill. The Governor signed it very, very promptly and it was lodged in the office of the secretary of state. There seems to be no disagreement as to these facts. The only disagreement is on the legal question of whether a bill signed by the Governor becomes a law. even if it never passed the legislature, as long as ft-contains the signatures of the proper legislative officials. Inasmuch as the facts are plain, why should not the attorney-general and the secretary of state promptly right the wrong that was perpetrated by some unnamed persons and confess judgment? Other laws passed by the legislature are ineffective because of the legal rumpus over this measure. The state loses money. And Who Else? Conviction of Virgil Kirkland on a charge that permits him to escape a death penalty has brought a protest from a number of jurors who said they did not understand. Probably many others wdll declare that he should die for his acts. The life of one Kirkland, short or long, is not so important to the state. The conditions that created a Kirkland are very important. A boy reared under the direction of schools, in the shadow of churches, in a private home, does not become a murderer nor a debauched roue by accident or choice. Environment molds him. Conditions shape his life. The details of the death party in a private home, the fact that young married people, potential fathers and mothers of the next generation, witnessed if they did not plan orgies of a sordid nature, should shock this state into sober thought as to the trend of modern life. Had such scenes been staged in the back room of a saloon in the old days there would have been lynching parties and torch bearers. The bootlegger who sold the poisoned gin for this debauchery is not blamed for the effects of his goods. The moral breakdown since the advent of Volsteadism is appalling. Kirkland is the perfect product. It may be well not to ask too closely as to who should share the blame for this tragic death of a girl. It might lead to those who fanned fanaticism to white heat. It might disclose that society as a whole should march to the prison gates with this youth and confess that it had a hand, with its hypocrisy and its moral disintegration, in the crime for which he was convicted. The Way Out Glenn Frank, president of Wisconsin university, has pertinent things to say on a subject treated in an editorial in this newspaper yesterday. The editorial was entitled “Inflation Then—Depression Now.'' “The supreme battle of this generation is on just now between the deflationists and the consumptionists. The deflationists are those business leaders who think the way out lies in reducing the standards of living. The consumptionists are those who think the way out lies in raising the standards of living. “The deflationists of today are blood brothers of the Inflationists of yesterday, and they are just as bat blind to economic and social realities. “The simple fact is that a machine economy must, along with the making of commodities, see to it that the consuming millions have money with which to buy the products the machine economy creates. And that means higher wages than we yet have paid, shorter hours than we yet have set, and lower prices than we yet have fixed. “Our machine economy today is sinking us in a sea of surplus production that could, if we were ■statesmanlike enough, be used to the advantage of ourselves and of the world. “I decline to concur with the observers who insist we are producing too many goods. There are 120,000,000 of us in this nation, and, as a people, we have far from satisfied the legitimate demands of a healthy and civilized folk. “If and when the leadership of industry assumes as one its major duties increasing the incomes of the millions, it will discover that, as a by-product of this statesmanlike social ministry, it has made greater profits than ever before. “The logic of events at least is proving that the basic policies that will prove best for labor are the policies that will prove best for capital, and vice versa. “In the entire history of business America every general reduction of hours and every general rise in wages, however bitterly fought by business and industrial leadership at the time, has been followed by a fresh accession of business activity and general prosperity. “It is one of the ironies of history that the very things for which labor and liberalism have pleaded through the generations, on the ground of simple social justice—high wages, short hours, low prices—now are seen to be the only things that can, in the interest of the solvency of capitalism, keep our industrial order a going concern. “Here is the great paradox: At,the very moment when a slump in purchasing left industries with excess products, there existed in the country far more than enough purchasing power to absorb all these excess products and call for still greater production. Why, then, did not this purchasing power come into play? “To me, one of the important parts of the answer is sun-clear. The reason that this surplus purchasing power was kept out of active circulation was that it existed, in large part, as a social surplus that was not, from a broad national and even business point of view, properly distributed. “This inactive surplus purchasing power was, in large part, in the hands of a small minority, who, for personal and family consumption, neither needed nor desired to buy more, while the large majority who, for personal and family consumption, both needed and desired to buy more, did not have much, if any, excess purchasing power. “The key to national prosperity is the release of the present inactive social surplus of buyina power. *And a score of America’s outstanding businSs men.

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bankers and industrialists have told me that if a larger share of this social surplus could be routed wisely into the pockets of the consuming millions, who, for personal and family consumption, both need and desire to buy them, the wheels of industry and the marts of trade quickly would begin to hum, economic depression would become a memory throughout the United States, and. in the long run. the minority now owning this surplus buying power actually would be better off as far as total wealth is concerned. “If business and industrial and financial leadership faces fresh problems with fresh minds and becomes really convinced that only prosperous consumers make profitable customers, we can create on this continent a contented and prosperous people, immune to the allurement of reckless radicalisms. “But if business, industrial and financial leadership misses this appointment with destiny, our economic order will smash. Sooner or later the inarticulate millions of America will seekto achieve, through political means, what our economic order has failed to achieve for them through its normal leadership. “Our panicky present is the result of our planless past. It we permit the present to be as planless as the past has been, if we content ourselves with hastily improvised policies to jack up morale, or hastily improvised protests to provide stump-speech copy for the next campaign, we shall find ourselves citizens of a fear-ridden future, in which we shall be dragged at the heels of forces and fears over which we shall be able to exert no more control than we exerted over the forces that brought a bloated market to explosion in the fall of 1929. “This fear-ridden and uncontrolled future need not be. There is genius enough in America to evolve and to execute political and economic policies that will give us a future that will, in point of material well-being and social enrichment, far outstrip the very real, if somewhat spotty, prosperity of the last decade.’’ Tax Collections Success or failure of any special system of taxation depends a great deal upon the manner in which those taxes are collected. * With laxity or favoritism they may open the door to not only loss to the state but the creation of special privileges under which there can be unfair competition between these in similar lines of business. The new store tax, for instance, if improperly administered, can open the door to many evils. The state had some experience in the collection of a gasoline tax. There were scandals. There was loss to the state. Conditions are changed under the administration of Auditor Floyd Williamson, who makes this statement concerning the present collections: From Dec. I to May 19, our field auditors have examined seventy-three companies and in approximately twenty-two of these we found their books correct and all taxes had been paid, the remaining fifty-three netted the state in taxes and penalties $103,219, or an average of approximately $2,500 per company. Our force has worked faithfully and wholeheartedly to enforce this gasoline tax law as the above record reveals. Most of the above amount has been collected and satisfactory arrangement has been made with the different firms in which shortages have been found to make substantial payments in addition to their regular tax each month. In addition to the above much attention has been given by this department in educating the farmers of the state to file proper and legal claims for the refund of gasoline tax and have forced in many instances the return of money that has been refunded by the state on fraudulent claims. Approximately $3,000 has been collected through this means. The department lias formed a friendly co-opera-tive working agreement with each of our border states working together harmoniously in the hope of making the boot-legging of gasoline in Indiana a lost art. While the amount of money collected is important, of more import is the fact unfair advantages between dealers are estopped by vigilant collection of the tax. It would be unfortunate if the new tax scheme reverted to the conditions of the gasoline tax department before the advent of Williamson. Special taxes are always a special invitation to unfairness. To be tolerable at all any tax plan must be rigidly enforced. When Will Shakespeare said, “Sweet are the uses I of adversity,” he couldn't have foreseen, of course, such a thing as a depression.

REASON

ONCE in a while Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, says something that is right and he did it the other day when he said we need adult education in the United States, an a Butler hits the nail on the head when he states that very few of us develop mentally after we leave school and scarcely any of us after we reach the age of 40 years. B B B The fact is that a lot of us regard the school period as punishment rather than opportunity and after graduation those who do not go to college indulge in one long, delicious spree of mental rust. B B B AND all the tendency of the age is against study. We are stepping on the gas these days and the libraries that used to enjoy an intimate contact with the members of the family receive only a passing nod and hardly that. a b b They accumulate dust and crack in the hinges when someone chances to open them to see if he has left his gas receipt in them. We listen to the radio; we dash away twenty miles for supper; we read headlines—if the are big enough, B B B Lincoln was one of the very few who studied all his life, and he did it because he had no schooling. He didn’t go to school one whole term put together. If he had done so he might have joined the indifferent majority. 9 B B LINCOLN’S great impulse to prepare himself for the battle came late in life. It came by accident in a way. It came when he suffered a great humiliation in a law suit at Cincinnati. He was brusquely brushed aside and not permitted to make an argument. B B B He sat in court day after day and listened to the arguments of Edwin M. Stanton, later to be his secretary of war, and many other eminent eastern lawyers. Then when the trial was over he went back to Illinois and buckled down to the hardest work he ever had known. 9 9 9 He told his associates: “These young eastern lawyers, just out of college, are coming to the west with their learnings, and our old ways will not do. “I am going to study, and when they come to Springfield I will be ready for thun.” Aand he was! ™

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Money Loss Due to Prohibition Is Small Compared to the Moral Loss. NEW YORK, May 27.—With Leon Daudet, head of the French royalists, advocating an “academy of wdne," New York bootleggers forming a union, and dry , leaders scoffing at the estimate of ! our drink bill recently made by wet i leaders, prohibition resumes its : wonted place in the news. The boys certainly are doing noble I work to make it an issue in 1932, | but the political setup is against | them. Prohibition is a perfectly good issue, save and except during national campaigns. When the time comes for us to line up as 100 per cent Republicans, or 100 per cent Democrats, we just can’t talk about it. St tt tt The Great Alibi JUST how far prohibition can be held responsible for our numerous social and economic aches still is the great mystery. It certainly takes first rank as an excuse for every official who feels the need of an alibi and every politician who can’t think of a better argument. To hear the chatter, one would imagine that prohibition is the one thing which prevents our law enforcement machine from functioning efficiently. Like “red propaganda,” it has become a magic word. ts ts tt Moral Loss Immense BASING his calculations on what New York could, or would, be getting in taxes had the saloon been let alone, some mathematical sharp | has figured the city’s loss at $38,000,000 because of prohibition. It sounds like figuring the loss on margined stock that was sold in the panic, but let that pass. It must be obvious to any one that prohibition is costing this country a great deal in one way or another. The money loss, however, is small compared to the moral loss. Whether prohibition was symptomatic of a changed attitude, or whether the changed attitude is due to prohibition, we Americans certainly do not regard either law or its violations with the same seriousness as we did twenty-five years ago. This is not theory, but statistics. tt tt New Kinds of Crime ALL the old-fasoihned crimes have shown a tendency to increase, while many new-fashioned ones have appeared to plague and confuse the situation. The nation’s capital, which was supposed to become a “model city” under the present administration, shows a higher murder rate than Chicago for the first four months of 1931. In spite of conditions worse than we yet have known, England has found it possible to tear down three large prisons, while we are forced to spend millions for enlargement of ours. If it’s economy that we want, why look farther than the constantly growing cost of crime and corruption? tt tt tt So This Is Economy SPEAKING of economy, Secretary of Navy Adams just has ordered the use of holystones discontinued. It wears out the deck too fast, he explains, especially on the new 10,-000-ton cruisers, the decks of which are comparatively thin. Taxpayers could ask no better reassurance that their interests are being safeguarded with the utmost care. It only remains for the head of some department to stop window washing, on the ground that it wears out glass. i

a , u A Ringing Answer READY as we may be to let our battle fleet go with decks unpolished, we are not ready to admit aliens, unless they promise “to bear arms.” The supreme court has decided that by another 5 to 4 opinion. The four dissenters were Hughes, Brandeis, Holmes and Stone. Chief Justice Hughes, who wrote the dissenting opinion, said: Among the specific requirements as to beliefs, we find none to the effect that one shall nbt be naturalized if by reasoA of his religious convictions he is opposed to war and is unwilling to bear arms. In view of the questions which repeatedly have been brought to the attention of the congress in relation to such beliefs, and having regard to the action of the congress when its decision was of immediate importance in the raising of armies, the omission of such express statement from the naturalization statute is highly significant. We Can ‘Cuss’ THOUGH the case is closed, we still have the God-given right inherited from our English forbears to “go to the tavern and cuss the court,” and that is what millions of people will do. Law or no law, it is a queer thing that, in this age, w'hen the whole world pretends to be working for peace, the United States of America should be barring people from citizenship because they won’t promise to participate in war. Not only that, but it seems contrary to the principles and ideals on which this republic was founded. We can only be thankful that, though the court was able to override them, such men as Hughes, Brandies, Holmes, and Stone are on the bench. Which would be apt to win in a battle between a lion and a tiger? Probably the tiger, which is larger, braver and more cunning. Tigers are believed to be chiefly responsible for the near extermination of Asiatic lions. Captive and tamed tigers have been kept by the East Indian rulers from the days of antiquity, and a favorite amusement was to pit them in the arena against lions, in which combats they usually were victorious. How many trained nurses and how many practical nurses are there in the United States? According to the latest census there were 149,128 trained nurses in the United States, 151,996 nurses untrained, and 4,773 midwive*.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Dangers Are Hidden in Vibrations

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor). Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FROM time to time various devices for electrical vibration to be used in lieu of exercise have been advertised widely and sold to the public. No doubt, these devices have value for contributing passive motion to muscles that are little used. The average person today has a motor car and does very little walking. None of the vibrating devices will reduce u r eight unless their use is accompanied by strict diet and similar measures. Recently, medical literature has contained reports of several instances in which persons with ulcers of the stomach or of the intestines have vibrated themselves so vigorously as to bring about perforation

IT SEEMS TO ME

MY familiarity with gangsters is not great, and I never had the privilege of knowing Mr. “Legs” Diamond. But on a few occasions I have run into several of his intimates. Pew acconts of the life of the wounded racketeer have taken up the esthetic interests of Mr. Diamond. lam in the position to say that he was excessively fond of music. When he ran a New York speakeasy called the Hotsy-Totsy Club, he maintained a trio, composed of a violin player, a pianist and a singer. This was not done purely out of a love for art. The trio was hired to play for the entertainment of patrons in the place. But the proprietor’s interest was more than a sheeriy professional one. It was his custom to remain after the evening’s trade had abated or ended and incite a command performance. Often he sat until the very early morning hours, suggesting one tune after another. Legs Diamond is, among other things, a sentimental person. And when his brother, who later died, was lying up-state in search of health, Jack would say to the leader of the trio, “Play something that Eddie used to like." tt tt M Sadder Songs THE Diamond family taste ran for the most part to songs dealing with home, mother, and moonlight in the Carolinas. They had no liking for more spirited ditties or any bordering upon the risque. So generous a patron of the arts was Legs Diamond that in these after-hour concerts he would reach into his pocket every now and again and tip the musicians, although they were employed by him. Once on alien territory I ran into

Questions and Answers

How is Sinn Fein pronounced? What does it mean? It is pronounced shin sane. It means “we ourselves.” How many feet on each side is an acre that is square in shape? Approximately 208.7 feet on each side. Has the United States Supreme Court ever passed on the constitutionality of the eighteenth amendment? Yes. It ruled that the amendment was constitutional. What is the average height of American women? About 5 feet 4 inches. Where 'is Benjamin Franklin buried? Christ church burying ground, Philadelphia. What is caviar? The salted roe of sturgeon. What is the displacement of the U. S. S. Saratoga? 33,000 tons. When was Princeton university established? g* la 1746.

Defender of the Fort

of intestinal ulcer with subsequent shock and peritonitis. Certainly any one suffering from irritation of the intestinal tract should avoid the use of such vigorous agitation as is produced by the various vibrating machines. A report now has become available of the case of an elderly man who thought to massage his scalp by the use of one of the vibrating devices. During the course of vibration he suddenly ceased to see and a specialist in ophthalmology made a diagnosis of detachment of the retina, which is likely to lead to permanent blindness. The retina is the tissue at the back of the eye composed largely of nerve cells which conveys the sense of things seen to the brain. Obviously, it is highly undesirable for any one with hardened

part of Legs Diamond’s mob, although, as I remember, we were not introduced formally. The situation had a dramatic quality of which I was unaware at the moment. By some coincidence one of the party at the table where I sat was a federal man from the state of Rhode Island. He was present in New York for the purpose of apprehending Eddie Diamond on some charge. Fifteen or twenty minutes later three men sauntered in. They seemed rather rough customers, and the formation into which they fell suggested their membership in gangland—that is, two went over to the bar and ordered drinks. The third lingered in the doorway, leaning against the wall and facing the entrance to the speakeasy. a a a By Request ONE of the two newcomers at the bar felt a musical urge afte*, the second drink. He turned around and inquired in a loud voice whether anybody objected to his singing. It seemed the tactful thing to do to acquiesce, and we all expressed enthusiasm for are audition. Straightway he went into a high tenor version of “Mother Machree.” It was not too good and yet not bad. The method was perhaps a shade too florid. A rather good natural voice was impaired by the singer’s tendency toward sobs and flourishes. The applause, however, was deafening. And the singer took an encore—that is, he sang “Mother Machree” a second time. With that, the trio left the place and went out into the night. I had observed that the hostess of the establishment seemed a little nervous during the concert. When the three visitors were safely gone, she beckoned to me to indicate that she wanted me to come over into the corner where it was quiet. When we got there she said, “Do you know who that man was?” I said, “The singer?” She said, “No, the fellow with him standing at the bar.” I confessed ignorance. “That,” she said, “was Eddie Diamond, the man your federal friend is after. And he was sitting there not ten feet away with all those photographs in his pocket. I was afraid that he might catch on and make a move, which would have started a shooting. I don’t think I ever want to hear 'Mother Machree" sung again.” a a a Diamond's Cloak THE imperviousness of Legs Diamond to physical attack twice has been demonstrated. And some comment has been made upon the remarkable record of legal successes

Daily Thought

Let your speech fce always with grace, seasoned v. a ta.lt, tkai ye may know how r”* to rr.r~’r every iraji.— Converm lcn : *. - as the : 1 —£ JTUS.

arteries that have lost their elasticity or with tissues that do not have the resiliency of youth to submit himself to such agitation as is brought about by the shaking device. Exercise after middle age must be moderate. Golf and walking are the ideal exercises for persons of advanced years. Modern tennis, hand-ball, and even speedy or long distance swimming may be considered as forbidden to the man beyond 40 years of age. When the tissues are young, elastic, and possess reparative and recuperative properties, they may be submitted to such violence as is associated with football, baseball, modem tennis and similar sports. Those of advanced years must confine their exercise to the more gentle forms.

HEYWOOD BROUN

which he has scored in his numerous court appearances. Yet strangest of all is the fact that this man so often pictured in the newspapers has been able on occasion to move through the busy streets of Manhattan with all the safety of some Arabian Nights character clad in a cloak conferring invisibility. It may be now that Diamond has plunged into a jam from which he can not escape, and it looks as though he had committed an error not uncommon among city dwellers. Here he might have gone on for years with his trade and his musical avocations. But he went back to nature. It seems to have been fatal. (OoDvrieht. 1931. by The Times)

CENSORSHIP RULES May 27

ON May 27, 1917, the committee on public information, of which George Creel was chairman, gave out for publication a set of proposed regulations for the newspapers under the title of “Preliminary Statement to the Press.” The document was described as “regulations for the periodical press of the United States during the war.” The most interesting excerpts are as follows: “The department of state considers it dangerous and of service to the enemy td discuss differences of opinions between the allies and difficulties with neutral countries.” “Speculation about possible peace is another topic which may possess elements of danger, as peace reports may be of enemy origin, put out to weaken the combination against Germany.”

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SCIENCE -BY DA VIP DIETZ—-

Literature of Popular Science Is Enriched by Dr. Morton Mott-Smith’s “This | Mechanical World.” “'T'HIS MECHANICAL WORLD,'* A by Dr. Morton Mott-Smith. fills an important gap in the literature of popular science. (The book just has been published by Appleton’s at $2 in its excellent ‘’New World of Science Series.”) Practically all the recent publications dealing with the science of physics have been devoted to the atom, the electron, the quantum theory, wave mechanics, cr relativity. Such books have, of necessity taken it for granted that the reader had a background of such old-fash-ioned subjects as the mechanics of solids, the mechanics of liquids, the laws of motion, and so on. Now it may be that those readers whose high school days included a course of physics may find those phrases slightly reminiscent. But it is to be doubted if the average layman. kept busy with the problem of earning a living, raising a family, keeping up with the new novels, etc., has had time to acquaint himself with the exact meaning which scientists attach to such terms as “mass,” “inertia.” “acceleration," “density, ’* “specific gravity,” and so on. Yet these elementary considerations of mechanics underlie such theories as the quantum theory and relativity, to say nothing of the fact that they are at the very foundation of all mechanical, chemical and electrical engineering. tt tt tt Density of Cream IN “This Mechanical World” Dr Mott-Smith deals with the elementary consideration of the science of physics. Moreover, he deals with them in a most satisfactory and interesting way. T7ie reader, who may have gained the idea from the technical terms employed of necessity in this review that Dr. Mott-Smith’s book is a sort of text book, is asked to take the reviewer’s word for it that such is not the case. The author mixes interesting bits of history and many examples from every-day life with his scientific facts. The language never is too technical for the layman. In the opening chapter of the book Dr. Mott-Smith gives a most amusing example of the confusion which arises from the different ways in which the scientists and the layman use' certain words. “One day,” he writes, “while the author of these pages was teaching a class in physics, he happened casually to remark that cream rises because it is less dense than milk. “This statement was immediately greeted w’ith looks of pain and surprise. The students seemed to think that their teacher himself was afflicted with a certain density often ascribed to college professors, and which is supposed to incapacitate them from dealing with the common things of life. “But such was not the case. He was merely using the word ‘dense’ in its technical sense. “When the class insisted that cream is denser than milk they really meant that it is thicker, which is one of the common meanings of the word 'dense.* This the scientist would call more ‘viscous ’ ‘When he says that cream is less dense than milk he means that volume for volume it is lighter. That is why it rises. Density for him means one and only one thing namely, the mass (or weight) of a body in proportion to its volume.” xt n u Galileo’s Great Work F) R MOTT-SMITH deals with such topics as density and specific gravity, the nature of gases, the meaning of a vacuum and the way in which pumps operate. An Interesting chapter is devoted 'f , the elementary laws which underhe all machines, the principles ! 6 v, Ver ’ *£ e inclined the wheel, the pulley and the screw His examples range from the use of a hammer in pulling out nails U3 A the o perat i° n of an automobile. Another chapter is devoted to Galileo. Most people think of Galileo as an astronomer, as the man who first turned a telescope upon the heavens, discovering the moun°f * he moon * the mo °ns of Jupiter, the crescent phase of Venus Way thC trUe nature of the Milky But Galileo also was a great phvsmist. In the years after he had bluid ’ he devoted himself to thinking upon the phenomena of a f nd formulated the laws extended by Newton into the three Newtonian laws for motion. Dr. Mott-Smith has an interesting discussion of Galileo’s work in physics and the way in which it has influenced all modern engineering -.J™ Mechanical World” is the fifth book to be published by Appleton’s in the “New World of Science Series.” The other four, all of which have been previously recommended by this writer, are “New Frontiers of Physics,” by Dr. Paul Heyl; “Antarctic Adventure and Research,” by panyi, and “The Green Leaf,”- by Dr. Griffith Taylor; “The Conquest of “Life,” by Dr. Theodore KopDr. D. T. MacDougal.