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The President Comes A visit from the President of the United States is always an event. Today the coming of President Hoover is more than that. It is an occasion. To the glory of our citizenship be it said that our people have the highest regard and respect for the presidency. It is the greatest office on earth because it derives its power from the greatest of all forces —from human beings who select their own leader. Having selected that leader our people are ever ready to pay honor and tribute to the office and the man. Today the unfurled flags of welcome are more than a mere gesture. They are an invitation as well. These flags and welcoming throngs are an expression of hope that today may make history for this land and that before he leaves this city, there may be given to the country a very definite message of policy and plan by which some of the present unfortunate economic conditions may be dispelled. In selecting Indianapolis as the platform from which to make an important announcement that will put new hope in the hearts of men and point a path for the future, the President does well. For this city is the most American of all our centers, more perfectly representative of the traditions, the aspirations, the hopes of the whole land. Its people come largely from the strain of the pioneer, have longest held to the ideals upon which this land is founded. The people today are looking for leadership and for a real message. They are looking for a way. They are seeking light. They want definite plans and a definite program that will solve problems that are more than perplexing. For that reason, this city is glad to welcome the President, to give to him a generous ana eager hearing, to listen with open minds to his word of hope and counsel and direction. And in honoring the President, the city honors itself.

Our Five-Year Plan Remember before the depression how we boasted that our economic system was the most efficient and perfect in the world? Remember how we used to sneer at the poor fool Bolsheviks who could destroy, but lacked the brains to plan a system that would produce, providing steady jobs and a living for its people? Remember how Herbert Hoover settled the whole question ten years ago by predicting the imminent collapse of the inefficient Communist system and the permanent prosperity of the American system? VRemember that when the world depression came .ssia started to go up and we started to go down, ntil today Russia is giving jobs to Americans who can not find work at home? These embarrassing memories produce conflicting attitudes in Americans. One group denies the fact which it lacks courage to face. Another group concludes that Communism has gone over the top and that capitalism is done for. We are inclined to think that such a response oversimplifies the facts. The facts are that pure Communism and pure capitalism do not exist. Russian Communism in practice largely is modified by capitalist forms and methods. And European capitalism—even American capitalism, to some degree—is being modified rapidly by socialistic forms and methods. That system which is most efficient in a social sense Is apt to survive. Whether it will be a communized capitalism or a capitalized Communism eventually may turn out to be only a difference of words. Anyway, the future will take care of that, regardless of our preferences. Meanwhile, there is a very real and a very practical issue. It, has been stated many times by us and by others. It just has been restated with vigor by Nicholas Murray Butler in a Paris address on the crisis in capitalist countries: “Let me call your attention to the fact that the characteristic feature of the experiment in Russia, to my mind, is not that it is Communistic, but that it is being carried on according to a plan in the face of planless opposition. I 'A man with a plan, However much we may dislike it, has a vast advantage over a group sauntering down the road, complaining of the economic weather and wondering when the rain is going to stop.” When are the Hoover administration and the National Chamber of Commerce going to get a fiveyear plan to stabilize production and employment at a high level in America? Don't they know that a planless system can not long compete with a planned system?

Hoover, Relief Director President Hoover is to be congratulated on his reported plan to link the Red Cross and the National Association of Community Chests and Councils in a country-wide system of unemployment relief for next winter. Apparently, he has moved forward from his untenable. position of last winter, when he refused to let the National Red Cross of which he is president, aid the jobless. The report of the President’s personal conversion to nationally planned relief is based on the fact that Chairman Croxton of the Hoover emergency committee on unemployment and Secretary Lamont, head of the cabinet unemployment committee, have presented such a program to the National Association of Community Chests and Councils now in convention at Minneapolis. Although Red Cross participation has not been determined finally, it is admitted officially that such negotiations are in progress. About t 90,000,000 would be raised in a joint national campaign this fall, and* later distributed as unemployment relief by the community chest organisations in their 376 cities and by the Red Cross in most other communities. Fortunately, the administration has ceased its misleading propaganda- regarding the immediate return of high prosperity and the adequacy of present filial measures.. chAirma. n

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Minneapolis conference on Saturday what has been clear to most of the country for several months: “The President’s committee realizes that the demand for relief will be unusually heavy next fall and winter. Information has reached us that the relief needs during the spring and summer are urgent in certain localities.” Now that need is recognized officially, there should be no further disagreement about the method! of meeting the emergency. Stabilization of industry,! unemployment insurance, advance planning of public works, may and should take care of future emergencies, but we have waited so long to carry out basic reforms that charity is the only recourse for millions this year. No one will dispute this. Whether private charity will be sufficient, as the President hoped last winter, and still hopes, remains to be seen. Private charity last winter and spring failed completely. Official figures show that private charity furnished only 25 per cent of the funds distributed, and that municipal and state treasuries supplied the remaining three-quarters. Wealthy individuals can give the planned $90,000,000 if they will, if they refuse, the only alternative will be a federal appropriation. For many of the city and state treasuries are so near bankruptcy that they can not carry the unemployment relief burden again next winter. If the federal government is forced to feed the people it will have to get the money by a special tax on the rich—no money can come out of the regular federal budget, which already shows a billion-dollar currency deficit. The unemployed can be fed if those who have bread will give them crumbs. If those crumbs are not given by the rich willingly, the crumbs possibly will be taken by tax collectors. When the seriousness of the relief emergency is understood by the wealthy, the reported Hoover plan to raise an adequate private fund should succeed. Out of Darkness A blind youth undergoes an operation. He sees. The story gets on the front pages. And then, suddenly, we realize how precious sight is. For sixteen years and more there has been organized national effort to save sight. But in the rush of things the work of the National Society for the Prevention of. Blindness sometimes is ignored or forgotten. Nevertheless, it goes calmly on, doing what it can to help all men see. The society just has made its sixteenth annual report, and hence this is an apt time to congratulate it on its work. What it means and what it does need not seem far removed from the average man who can see. The society realizes, more than ever, the annual report says, that it can function completely only when it is working closely with all agencies interested in any aspect of sight saving—medical, educational, social welfare and industrial. Almost every person finds a place in one of these groups and thus all can help to save sight.

Immediate Attention Since large bodies move slowly, a month has intervened between the announcement of the original intention and the actual application by the railroads for that 15 per cent freight rate increase. The carriers claim, among other things, that since they are the nation’s largest single customer for coal, steel and iron, oil and timber, the greatly enlarged revenue which a freight rate increase would mean—s4oo,ooo,ooo a year—will stimulate buying of materials, employment of labor and generally tend toward breaking the evil charm that is now on business. In view of the importance of that particular claim as it relates to the general depression, it is highly to the interest of the country that the merit or demerit of it be determined as speedily as possible, and that the interstate commerce commission therefore give the railway rate subject immediate attention. When an engagement goes on. the rocks the disappointed suitor begins to look for the stone. “Mark my words,” as the student, said in handing his essay to the English prof. Well, anyway, the movie business is fundamentally “sound.”

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MUSSOLINI has relaxed his control of the limelight to the degree that he now permits his brother to utter a semi-official statement now and then, which is a whale of a concession for Mussolini. tt tt a In a recent communication the brother said: “By repudiation of excesses in an atmosphere of sincerity the sun of concord will shine again.” All of which is a large dish of applesauce. tt a a President Hoover has lost fifteen pounds sipcj; he was inaugurated, some of it being due to tfei playing of medicine ball and some of it being due to the opposition of Senator Borah. tt tt a THE PRINCF OF WALES is going to try to visit his ranch in Alberta this fall. No matter how good the help may be. no one could run a ranch like the prince. Such practical live stock men are very rare. a tt tt Germany and Great Britain are getting ready to come arm in arm to Uncle Sam and ask him to throw off some more war debts. There's been a lot of argument as to who won the war, but every day it’s becoming more apparent that the United States lost it. a tt tt A farmer’s wife over at Berne, Ind., has to play the piano every afternoon to stop the bellowing of a bull which demands the concert. The lady is said to be growing weary of it and we wish to inform her that there’s a fallow in our end of town who has an inexhaustible player piano and it will be all right with us if she negotiates with him to move to Berne and take up the burden with the bull. But we doubt whether the bull would stand for it. a tt tt ACCORDING to a report issued by the American Railway Association, 1,276 people were injured in the country last year, as a result of driving into trains. ' . By this time it should be apparent to the most enthusiastic motorist that the train can’t be knocked off the rails. Mrs. Edmund Burke Ball of Muncie furnished the Indiana money for a shrine which incloses the log hut in which Lincoln's parents were married 125 years ago. a a a This is the kind of a shrine the state of Indiana should erect down at Lincoln City in memory of Lincoln’s mother, instead of the ejfcborate thing of towarraad-turrets which ia conteo^ated,

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

With Regard to Law , Religion and Economics, We Are 90 Per Cent the Creatures of Habit. NEW YORK, June 15.—According to Commissioner Woodcock, major violations of the federal dry law bring an average sentence of little more than three days in New York and little less than three years in Kansas. Though the law is national ur.d supposed to operate the same way in all parts of the country, local option seems to have considerable effect on its enforcement. We have learned how to make laws without the aid of custom, but we have not learned how to make them stick. People who persist in the theory that nothing counts but written law, and that unwritten practices should not be taken into account, ignore an obviously basic principle. 9 0 0 Creatures of Habit WITH regard to law, religion and economics, we are 90 per cent the creatures of habit. This is not an unmixed evil. Individual efficiency depends upon going through a ertain set of motions over and over again until they become automatic. The same thing is true of mass efficiency. In theory, the individual can adopt anew trade, or society anew system over night. In practice, both must serve an apprenticeship to make it work.

Jump at Conclusions PEOPLE argue that prohibition is a failure because we have not been able to do much with it in eleven years. So, too, they argue that Russian Communism is a success because of what it has accomplished since 1917. No matter what you believe with regard to prohibition or Russian Communism, such an attitude is silly. It bespeaks a shallow, impulsive, irrational way of jumping at conclusions, and a profound ignorance of history. Ideas and movements of a real revolutionary character are not only slow of birth, but slower still of development. Christianity was 300 years gaining control of the Roman Empire and 500 years more in gaining control of Europe. English liberty, as we call it, though supposed to have come into being with the Great Charter, can not be regarded as having established itself on anything like a firm foundation until the end of the seventeenth century. We Move Slowly THE advantages of the metric system are too obvious for debate, yet the English-speaking world still is unconvinced, though France demonstrated them more than 140 years ago. We have been talking about calendar reform for half a century. There is every reason why It should be adopted except the inconvenience incident to such change. It may be another half-century before we can persuade ourselves that the task is worth undertaking, and another half-cehtury after that before we are convinced that it was not a mistake. Still, some people are disappointed because • the peace movement, League of Nations, world court and Kellogg pact are not functioning smoothly.

A! Knows It's Coming COMING down to smaller things, some people are disappointed because the City of Chicago, the state of Illinois, or the federal government has not been able to smash the Capone gang sooner. This gang Iras been a public scandal, if not a “public enemy,” for the last five years. Its very nature, however, proves that it was the product not only of brains, but of popular sentiment. The problem of its destruction involves more than the simple matter of working up a few cases, obtaining a few indictments, making a few arrests, and getting a few convictions. The net draws closer around Capone and his crowd. It’s a big net, designed to catch big fish, which explains the slowness with which it has been set. Many mistake the slowness as good ground for doubting the outcome, but A1 Capone knows better. He is not deceived. The very shrewdness which enabled him to organize and play the game makes it impossible to miscalculate the end. , That is why his attorneys have hinted that they might offer several million dollars in settlement of income tax suits involving only about $200,000. tt tt a An Effective Trap THE income tax has turned out to be a powerful weapon not only for discovering crookedness, but for punishing crooks. That is not the least of its virtues. Modern crime revolves largely around finance, and its detection is largely a matter of financial knowledge. Finding out what people get helps the government to determine whether they get it honestly. The Capones and their like would have far less to worry about if it were not for the income tax. ..Which President of the United States was impeached? Andrew Johnson was impeached in the house of representatives but the senate lacked one vote in getting the necessary two-thirds majority to convict him. How can I remove chewing gum from jlinoleum? Freeze the gum with ice and scrape it off, being careful not to damage the surface of the linoleum. If any particles remain they may be removed by the application of chloroform. What is the record attendance at a college football game in this country? Approximately 120,000. How many secretaries of state served under President Wilson? Three—William Jennings .Bryan, Robert Lansing and Baihbridge Colby. ‘ * What is the value of a United States 10-cent piece dated 1829? It is catalogued at 10 to 20 cents.

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Operations Relieve Cataracts on Eyes

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyceia, the Health Magazine. AGAIN and again people have been told that the human eye is like a camera. It has a lens; it has a shutter, which is the iris; the pupil is the hole in the shutter through which the light enters, and at the back of the eye is retina, or sensitized plate On which the image is cast. The lens of the eye is a crystal, clear tissue, like a magnifying glass. Obviously anything that causes the lens to become cloudy prevents the passing of the light carrying the image through the pupil and back to the retina. When the lens becomes cloudy or opaque, the condition is called cataract. A cataract is not a. growth or tumor. Such growth or tumors may occur in the eye, but they constitute an entirely different condition. A cataract of the lens is like a frosted glass through which one wishes to see. . Most cases of cataract occur in

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times —Well,, now that we have something the city officials have been wanting for a long time, the Circle and surrounding streets looking like a graveyard, what in the heck are we going to do with it? Before I moved to this city, I was under the impression that it was a progressive city, but afterward I was convinced that I was all wrong. In my seven years, of experience, I find that the most essential thing is a beautiful city, a city that looks thriving, and all this now has been done without the aid of manufacturers and working people. Now, to make matters worse, our city council and a few garage owners have made it impossible for the few people fortunate enough to have a little money to spend to get close enough to the downtown district to spend it. One hour parking after 9 o’clock! If you find a place to park in the outdistrict, it takes from 35 to 40 minutes going to and from your car, provided you are a good athlete; then you have around 20-to'2s minutes in which to make a purchase, regardless of what you are buying. It couldn’t be much, or much profit to our local business man. Imagine towing a man’s car away and making him pay $2 just because he left his car long enough to take his father up to a doctor. If you ask me, I. think it’s pretty rotten when a man buys a car, pays for a license, gets a driving license fanother nice piece of graft), and pays his taxes, then has to tie a bicycle

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FIRST LIBERTY LOAN June 15

ON June 15, 1917, subscriptions to the first Liberty loan were closed with a large, oversubscription. The secretary of the treasury had been authorized, under the act of April 24, 1917, to issue bonds to the extent of $5,000,090,000. A war loan organization was created to care -for the first issue scheduled for $2,000,000,000. Twelve federal reserve banks were used as central agencies in the twelve districts. Each bank was allotted a quota of the loan. Liberty Loan committees were formed and the treasury made use of every available means of publicity. The first dean was offered to the public on May 14. How well the loan went over is'seen in the fact that subscriptions totaling $3,035,226,850 had been received by June 15. . • . . Three other loans besides the final Victory Loan were floated by the United States during the World war. ; • .. . ■. The American people aubscribed a total of $24,072,257,550. in the five campaigns. The fourth loan was the largest, bringing in some seven thousand million dollars. One out of every five persons, men, woman- and- children, : subscribed to tbit. loan. ■ - - - • fi.i

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people between 50 and 60 years of age, but the condition may occur in younger people under various circumstances. There axe children born with cataracts; workmen may have pieces of flying steel or glass pass into the eye and rupture the lens, which results ir cataract. Children get their eyes injured in play and cataracts may follow. For years it has been known to physic, ans that loss of vision due to cataract can be helped by surgical operations which are relatively simple, indeed which have now developed to such competent form that they are quite safe in the vast majority of instances. The operation is done under a local anesthetic in older people. It is carried out under strictly clean conditions; the procedure is practically painless, and the great majority of those operated on get back useful vision. It must be realized at the same time that there is no treatment of cataract by the dropping of various substances into the eye, by injections under the skin, or by any

on the side of his car to ride in after finding a parking space. I think the sooner the public wakes up and starts an argument against some of this graft, the sooner we will get out from under some of the things we have had to tolerate in the past. TIMES READER. Editor Times—l am surprised that the business places downtown don’t protest the parking situation here, as it certainly must lose them a lot of business. Women are not going to walk several squares after parking their cars. It looks as though people are being forced to pay to park, and get jammed-up fenders in the bargain. The impounding of cars is an outrage, as we pay enough now for tax. Do they expect the tax and then not let us have any privileges at all? LADY MOTORIST. Editor Times—Have been reading your paper a number of years. Read the editorial page every day. You

Questions and Answers

Relatively how many prisoners in the United States are under 21 years of age? The last report of the United States census bureau says: “The ratio of prisoners per 100,000 of the general population is highest for the male prisoners 20 years of age and next for those 19 years of age. The ratio is also strikingly high for those 18 years old and for the group 21 to 24 years. In the case of female prisoners the ratio to population is highest for those 19 years of age and slightly smaller for these 20 years old and decreases rapidly for each successive age group.” Is there a tribe of Indians called Uchi? . That is the name of a tribe of North Americrn Indians, forming a distinct linguistic stock. They dwelt formerly in Georgia and South Carolina, along the middle Savannah river. In 1799 they were found in the Creek country with four towns and 8,000 souls. They now number about 650 and live with the Creeks on the Arkansas river in Oklahoma. What is meant by the expression, “The Curse of the Hapsburgs?” It refers to the fact that with the exception of Joseph 11, the Crown Prince Rudolph, and Johann Orth, all members of the ruling house came to mysterious and unhappy ends. Several members of the family displayed marked traces of insanity, and during the last century of their rule they were proverbial for their scandals and eccentricities Who is Percy Grainger? An Australian composer cf music. Who is at the head of the Soviet republic? The council of people’s commissars, of which Molotoff is president. The real power, however, lies with Josef Stalin, secretary-general of the political bureau of the Communist party. How long wa* Uutry YIU the

similar method which has been proved to be a safe and suitable method of treating the disturbance. After a cataract is removed, the person wears what are known as cataract glasses. These glasses are made so that they help to focus the image properly on the retina. The person who has been unable to see for some time because of the development of a cataract, who has been unable to play golf or to get about and who then recovers his sight by the simple operation that any competent specialist in diseases of the eye can perform, is one of the most thankful of all people for the benefits of modern medical science. In a recent discussion of the subject in Hygeia, Dr. Louis LYehrfeld urges the widest dissemination of the knowledge that people who have lost their sight by cataract can be helped by this technic. . No doubt, there are thousands of afflicted aged people who are helpless because they never learned that vision can be restored after cataracts have formed.

seem to be fair to everybody and haxe exposed several things. Youi* motto is “Give light and the people w’ill find their own way.” Will you give light on the subject of treatment the county trustees are giving the unemployed. They are compelled to work according to the size of the family, and they are charged 7 cents for bread which has a standard value of 5 cents, eggs at 30 cents, potatoes at 35 cents a peck. Everything else is at war prices and tax. Is there a better business bureau in Indianapolis? This is an oppression, not a depression. Is there any wonder that reds are in the country? No work, nothing to eat, no money for house rent, baby crying for milk, trustees’ beans for the little ones, stomach trouble, skin infection. How long, oh, how long, will the working men out of work, called poor charges, be walked on. Not a Red, but a charge. Yours for more light. A DEMOCRAT.

king of England? Who were his parents and how old was he when he died? How many wives did he have? He was king from 1509 to 1547. He was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and was born at Greenwich June 28, 1491. He died Jan. 28, 1547. He married six times. Is bigamy or plural marriage prohibited in all the states? Yes. What is the Recardian theory of rent? The theory characterizes rent as that part of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord fer the use of indestructible powers of the soil. Cicardo pointed out that the theory was not original with him, but had been already stated by Malthiis.

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JUNE 15,’1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Biology's Aspirations for tho Future Are Told in New Book. TWELVE of America’s leading biologists joined forces to write “Biology in Human Affairs.” The book is edited by Professor Edward M. East, the distinguished biologist of Harvard university. (Whittlesey House has just published the book at $3.50.) The book should be read by all laymen interested in attempting to picture the future, for here are outlined tlie frontiers where the future is being shaped. Some phases of biology are very old and some phases are very new. Aristotle, living in ancient Greece, was the greatest biologist of his day. But in compiling his writings he drew upon the writers who, to him, were “ancients.” Certain types of applied biology are almost as old as mankind. The caveman, in all probability, developed a rude surgery to treat the wounds received in battle or in the chase. The beginnings of agriculture are lost in the mist that hide the prehistoric eras. Other branches of biology are extremely young. The germ theory of disease is not yet a century qld. Many phases of public health wot* and of psychology are twentieth century products. In all probability, most laymen have only a hazy notion of the hopes and aspirations which the biologist has for the future.

Great Thinker EDWARD M. EAST is not only a great biologist. He is one of the foremost thinkers of our day. Many readers will recall his forceful and popular study of the population problem titled “Mankind at the Crossroads.’’ A sample of his grasp upon the trend of worldly affairs can be glimpsed in the opening paragraph of the preface which he has written for the book. “The emotional and intellectual unrest of our day too often is treated as a novel and disquieting phenomenon indicating the imminent collapse of the whole social structure,” he writes. “The situation exists, it is true; yet it is hardly a cause for alarm, except as it stimulates the quacking of so many anserine saviors. All peoples, in all ages, have been in similar states of flux, for the simple reason that there have always been new ideas demanding attention, and where there are new ideas, there are reactions against them. “Asa means of retarding the entry of unusual notions, the human cranium is a well-nigh perfect mechanism.” “Were we more analytically inclined,” Professor East continues, “we should see in such manifestations merely an evidence of progress. “The old order passes, and we are reluctant to have it go; our agitation, therefore, marks at once our feeble adaptability and the deg* of mental adjustment, imposed by the occasion. It may be true that man now confronts a greater change in attitude of mind than any he has faced before, since he is asked to abandon his most primitive, and therefore his ’dearest"'supefStitlonS’;'' but then,' he is better prepared through steady practice.” tt a a Twelve Chapters THE book is divided into twelve chapters. East himself writes the first one which gives the book its name, “Biology and Human Problems.” The second, titled “The Prospects of the Social Sciences,” is written by Frank. H. Hankins, professor of sociology at Smith college. Professor Joseph Jastrow, the eminent psychologist, formerly of the University of Wisconsin and now at the new school for social research, contributes the third chapter, which is titled “The Renaissance of Psychology.” Other chapters on psychology are contributed by Walter V. Bingham, director of the Personnel Research. Federation of New York, and Lewis M. Terman, professor of psychology at Stanford university. Medical subjects are discussed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, the brilliant editor of the Journal of the Aiheriican Medical Association; Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general, and Dr. Arthur M. Stimson, assistant surgeon general, United States public health service, and Dr. Eli K. Marshall, professor of physiology at Johns Hopkins university. Professor Howard M. Parshley of Smith college writes on “Zoology and Human Welfare.” Donald F. Jones, editor of “Genetics," contributes a chapter on “Efforts to Increase the Food Resources.” Professor E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins, one of the pioneers in the field of vitamins, writes on “Diet and Nutrition.” Though written for the layman, the book is not “written down.” It is a dignified summary of what biologists are doing and trying to do.

Daily Thought

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much _ trembling.—l Corinthoans 2:3. But the concessions of the weak are the concessisons of fear.— Burke.