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The Pity of It If you are a carpenter or a bricklayer, you will have a chance to help build four million new houses within the next twenty years. If you are a utility baron, you may sleep of nights with no thought of public ownership or public operation, but be content with that “rigid regulation” which you now enjoy. If you are jobless, you may be sure that you will never degredate to a “dole” even if you starve to escape it. This is the promise of President Hoover in what was announced to be his appeal to the people for another term of office. Shocking and appalling as may have been the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the populace as he rode through the city streets, more shocking and appalling was the lack of enthusiasm and applause at his message to the Republican editors. He showed courage when he spoke openly of hard times and depression. He was quite correct in declaring that this country is more basically sound than any other. He was really evangelistic when he announced that this country will emerge from the present depression and reach anew level of prosperity. That much is certain. But when the people listened for a plan, they heard a dream. Not one suggestion as to when or how we are to return to prosperity came from the leader of the people. Very true, he painted a real drama—that of human brotherhood and happy people and men at work. He said truly that this country will take care of twenty millions of new citizens within the next twenty years, put them into four millions of new homes and feed them from the products of farms. But just how the six millions of jobless men are to get work before next winter still remains a mystery. There was no plan, only an assurance to the utility interests that the government will not take ownership and operation, an assurance that there will be no unemployment insurance until kind-hearted employers and intelligent labor leaders get together and agree upon it. That is the pity of it all. We listened to a dream, a really great dream. But the President talked of panics, and depressions as if they are to recur until the end of time with no planning for stabilization of employment that will give men the right to work as they now have the right to breathe, and not only the right to work but the right to work at a saving wage. The President talked on building new houses, new public buildings, new factories, new electric projects, and of growing 20 per cent more farm products. He talked of a greater diffusion of wealth, a decrease in poverty and a greater reduction in crime. But instead of disclosing how these things may be accomplished he concluded by predicting optimistically that they will come about ‘if we just keep on giving the American people a chance.” As to how the new factories are to sell their goods when those that exist now are closing, as to how the 20 per cent more farm products can be kept from dragging the farmer’s standard of living still lower, he offers no suggestions. He gave no hint as to the necromancy he expects will bring about greater diffusion of wealth and decrease in poverty, in spite of the fact that America’s way of letting things run themselves, which he trusts so implicitly, has resulted in rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few multi-millionaires in the past few years, while the share of working men has steadily shrunk. With President Hoover’s dream of prosperity we have complete sympathy. It is a dream common to all of us. But a dream *is not a plan. Plan means a method of action. And a method of action that will bring us prosperity is what we desperately need today. The President’s theory has been tried and has failed in this depression. It is time to try something else—prescription, plan, or what you will, but something besides futile hoping for the best. - Another Prodigal Son Now it’s the once-proud timber industry whose spokesmen appeal to the government for aid in “protection against unfair competition,” revision of the anti-trust laws, tax benefits and others favors. Tor the last fifty years or so American lumbermen have been staging a grand party. Forests bought up for a few cents or a few dollars an acre have been slashed with little regard for future needs and much concern for hurry-up profits. Billionaire timber barons have been created to the merry tune of the woodman’s ax laid to the choicest trees. 'Whole forests were ruined by ruthless logging practice, forest fires, erosion and pests. Timber values doubled every decade. "I never lost money in buying timber.” a big lumberman once boasted. “The only times I lost was when I didn’t buy." But tha party’s over. Today only one-eighth of the nation’s virgin timber stands, mostly in the northwest. More than 100,000,000 devastated acres are the price of the party. And the lumbermen, admitting only fifty years of reserve timber, are in the depths of woe. Wilson Compton, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, told the United States timber conservation beard that the lumber men are overproduced, overcapitalized, overtaxed. The stagnates under a load of low priced closed

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mills, Jobless loggers; the future holds increased foreign competition. Since manufacturers are given Indirect subridles, and shipping and aviation are given direct federal subsidies, the lumbermen argue, with logic, that they have an equal right to some kind of a dole. A better method, we believe, is no special dole for any industry. Real conservation and reforestation can and should be worked out co-operatively by private industry and the government. Trees should be treated as crops; forests as public trusts. If private industry gets special favors and aid from the government ,it must accept consequent special regulation by the government and special obligation to the public. Many industries seem unwilling to pay that price. After Capone, What? Out in Chicago the law is closing in on A1 Capone. Naturally there is much rejoicing. We share this popular satisfaction that the law *is at last proving itself stronger than the king of the beer racket. But after Capone and his gang are in prison, then what? Is that an end to Chicago bootlegging and related crime? Even to ask that question sounds foolish, the answer is so well known. Prohibition made Capone. Prohibition will make other Capones when A1 is through—just as it already has made dozens of other Capones in Chicago and other communities. When Capone goes to prison, the law will have put a symptom behind the bars. Eut, as long as prohibition operates, the cause of the Capones will be loose upon the land. Ridiculous? A party of 500 persons has been shipwrecked upon an isolated island, plentifully supplied with the necessities of life. Cast away from the rest of the world and needing a basis of currency, the leaders decide that sea shells shall be used for money, so each family is given an allotment of shells. Presently a fairly well organized society results. In fact, the island civilization mounts to such heights that eventually two or three men have amassed practically all the sea shells. A few men are hired to do the bidding of the landlords, but the great majority of citizens who want to work can find nothing to do. They are no longer allowed to hunt in the forests or fish in the waters for their food, for all these are owned by the sea shell barons. Panic, depression, near-starvation, overcrowding and a host of other social ills result. “Ridiculous,” you will immediately cry. “There would be oound to be a revolution; anew distribution of sea shells; new leaders appointed; anew system devised." It is easy to see morals and logic when a small cross-section of humanity can be isolated under the microscope. It is not so easy to find one’s way about through the mazes of the complicated economic and monetary schemes of the world in which two billion human beings are milling about, trying to find happiness and security. However, it seems crystal clear that too much concentration of wealth, even in this complicated world, is poor economy and bad for the world. Eventually it may be bad for the lucky few who have amassed the money bags. It seems just! as true in consideration of two billion persons as of 500, that there are certain practical purposes for which money and wealth were devised. If too much money in too few places has forced too many players out of the game, the chips will have to be redistributed. For the game must go on. Newfoundland, in need of $8,000,000, can’t find where to borrow it. What’s the matter with the Grand Banks? In England a typewriter has been invented that can be operated under water. Just the thing for stenogs susceptible to sinking spells. Canoes, according to a navigation order, must carry lights at night. Which probably will mean less romance in the light of new regulations.

REASON

THE people of Indianapolis should give thanks for one thing and it is that their legislature has adjourned and gone home, while the legislature of Illinois is still in session with no terminal facilities in sight. nan The cherry crop has managed to get past the frost, but it is up against something just about as bad — the English sparrow. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt says that the young people of America are little different from what they were forty years ago, if there is any difference it is all for the best. Mrs. Roosevelt's husband is a candidate for President. U U U |X>RMER Ambassador Houghton told graduating r class in Pittsburgh that the United States should be ready to join other countries in helping Germany. The United States would better help her own people and let Germany take care of herself. b a a According to the papers Queen Helene is to get $40,000 a year for leaving Rumafiia and keeping away from King Carol. If Helene can clean up this much by giving that bird the air, it will be the greatest bargain since the paleface handed the red brother a basket of beads for Long Island. 8 8 8 The Chicago papers announce in striking headlines that a gangster has been convicted of killing a policeman. Truly a sensation. 8 8 8 G. V. CHICHERIN, who long has been commissary of foreign affairs for Soviet Russia, and had a lot to do with her international devilment, plays the harp. This is his only resemblance to the angels. M 8 M The conferring of honorary degrees by institutions of learning has become one of the outstanding jokes of the country, particularly in the number of two spots who are made “Doctor of Law," but New York university made no mistake when it conferred the degree of “Doctor of Engineering” on Othmar H. Ammann, the designer of the New Yc-k City bridge over the Hudson river. , 8 8 8 Governor Roosevelt told a graduating class the other day that they should know government as it really functions. For the sake of peace and harmony, it’s probably better that they do not enjoy this intimate acquaintance with it. If they really knew it they xaigw blow the lid off.

By FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

A Ten-Year Plan for America Sounds Good, but Why the Ten-Year Limit? By United Pret NEW YORK, June 16.—With the battleship Wyoming towing Sir Hubert Wilkins’ crippled submarine toward Queenstown, the steam yacht Surf, lying in New York harbor after being captured off Montauk Point as a rum runner, with 5,000 cases of liquor on board, ami 440 dead as the result of a marine disaster on the coast of France, the news has a distinct if somewhat unpleasant smell of the sea. Though every one regrets the mishap to the Nautilus, there is consolation in the fact that it occurred when and where it did, instead of in the lonely Arctic, or, worse still, under the Ice pack. This writer is among those who hope that Sir Hubert will take it as a warning and give up the foolhardy idea of attempting to make an under-sea voyage to the pole. u a a Yachting Costly CAPTURE of the steam yacht Surf suggests two things. First, rum runners have been successful enough to buy a better type of craft. Second, the coast guard has improved enough to catch them at it. The Surf is valued at about $300,000 and her cargo at an equal amount, if not more. Those who lost probably will lay it on the stock market. a Greed and Tragedy WHILE cables brought more and more of the sad details regarding the disaster in France, a small group of people gathered at the Lutheran cemetery of Middle Village, Queens county, New York, to hold a memorial service for the 1,031 persons who lost their lives when the excursion steamer General Slocum burned in the East river twenty-seven years ago. Travel by sea has been made much safer, especially on regular lines, but when it comes to holiday cruises, not so good. Here we have greed, trying to make a fortune at one shot, with overcrowding as the result, and the incompetence of officers and crews who don’t work enough to keep their hands in. French authorities say that the St. Philbert was not overloaded. Maybe not, but 450 persons seems quite a crowd for a 100-foot river boat. u a a Travel Slumps TRAVEL to Europe has suffered a sharp decline. Where the government had issued more than 200,000 passports up to June 1, 1930, it has issued less than 160,000 up to the same date this year. Steamship companies not only are cutting rates, but are canceling sailing. The Manchester Guardian calls it an unnatural season, “with Americans and the guide books seldom seen in London,” which sounds like a strained effort to be funny. Possibly, if the trend continues, our English cousins will discover that “the Americans and their guide books” are not such a huge joke. 8 8a Now We Have Gigolos Regardless of what may be happening to tourist trade and hotel business in Europe, both appear to be booming in this country. The latter has reached the point where we need gigolos. At least, that is what Mrs. Erma Hubble says, and, being president of the International Association of Social Executives and Hostesses, she ought to know. “The secret of making people happy,” she declares, “is giving everyone a partner. I believe that my hotel (the Ambassador, Los Angeles) , is the only one in the country to have gigolos. They are professional Spanish dancers and are a great hit.” “The gigolos,” she explains, “are more popular than the amateurs, because they can dance better and you know the girls always like the Spanish type.” Thus we come to another innovation, if not another remedy for unemployment. an a Why Just Ten Years? SPEAKING of unemployment, industrial depression, and other economic ills, the National Civic federation suggests the adoption of a ten-year plan. It sounds good, but why the tenyear limit? a Asa usual proposition, depressions are more than ten years apart. Even if they weren’t, they ought to be. Sound as it may be to fix a definite period for completion of specific projects, it .is not sound to deal with the problem of stabilization in that way. Whether industry can be stabilized is debatable, but it certainly can not be by plans which come to an end. The very basis of stabilization is continuous, uninterrupted operation.

Questions and

Answers

In what part of New York was Mayor Jimmy Walker born? In the section known as Greenwich Village. How many passengers does the Pennsylvania railroad carry annually? In 1930 the number was 99,019,359. What makes paint blister after it has been put on? Usually it is traceable to green lumber, moisture in the surface, impure oil, or to paint being applied too stout. Are there any mineral deposits in New York? Is gold, silver or coal found there? New York has no gold, silver or coal deposits, but is a leading producer of such minerals as gypsum, slate, limestone, clay, cement and abrasives, and contains important resources of iron ore, petroleum, natural gas and other ores and minerals. When did Walter Hines Page serve as American ambassador to Great Britain? Who preceded him? He served from April 21, 1913, to Nov. 20, 1918, and was preceded by WhiUlaw Reid.

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Resuscitation Methods Are Simple

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyceia, the Health Magazine. MOST deaths from drowning occur from May to August, when swimming is popular. The majority of cases of drowning occur in men. Twenty-five per cent of those which occurred in California, in a recent study of the subject by the California state department of health, affected people between the ages of 35 and 54. Relatively few deaths from drowning occur in people between the ages of 20 and 34, presumably because these people are at an age when they swim fairly well and have enough vigor to withstand the rigors of exposure. Approach of the vacation season makes it important to emphasize again the desirability of having everyone associated with swimming or with work around water understand the elements of resuscitation. The procedure is relatively simple. The unconscious person should be

IT SEEMS TO ME

INSTEAD of going to distant Pacific islands for his experience, Darwin might have derived his hypothesis of the survival of the fittest by attending a few Broadway rehearsals. In they come by ones and twos—the girls who want a job in the chorus. And then the director asks them to form a line. There they stand for perhaps as much as a minute. In any case, it is longer than the moment known to prisoners in the dock when they are asked to rise and face the jury newly returned with its verdict. a tt a Under Inspection UP and down the line go the eyes of the director. Occasionally his glance is fixed for an appreciable segment of time, and then his scrutiny roves again. “The girl in the red dress. You, dear, please step forward. And yov in green, dear, and the ones in yeliow.” I believe that some of the overlurid stories about the pitfalls of the playhouses are based upon the erring ear of those who note a word and fail to catch its mood and tempo. I never have heard “dear” mean less than when it is spoken by a dance director. It’s no more than a substitute for “Miss” or “Mrs.” Indeed, I offer to simile collectors, “As perfunctory as a dance director’s ‘dear.’ ” I asked one experienced watcher what was the utility of “dearing” applicants. And he replied: “It’s a convenience. After you’ve said ‘dear’ you can go ahead and save time by skipping ‘if you please’ and ‘may I trouble you?’ ” The front rank girls are set in a spot where ease must be difficult. But, after all, theirs is a more fortunate portion. Temporarily, at least, they have been tapped for the revue. Harshness lies over the heads of those who were not asked to step out of the original rank. For them there is nothing more than a “Thank you very much. That will be all today.” And I suppose there must be hundreds of girls in the theater and on its fringes who have been “thanked” and “nothing mored” a hundred times. And still, with gritted teeth and determination, they come again and again to take the rap of being thus labeled as members of the unwanted. tt n a The Fair and Others FROM the point of view of a tyro it is simple enough to understand why certain ones don’t get the job. But occasionally it seemed to me that people of a personableness were being passed by. Thank heaven, the business of choosing was wholly outside my jurisdiction. And yet I had a curiosity. I asked and got the information: “You mean the girl in the white dress?” “Yes. She was pretty.” “But didn’t you notice she was about four inches shorter than the others in the first line? That makes a difference. Dancers have to be about the same height. It breaks the effect if any are conspicuously shorter or taller.” I suppose, that success in the theater, jua*as in newspaper work*

Still at Sea!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

placed face down, with the head slightly lower than the feet. Fingers should be put in the mouth to free it of any mud or other material that may be in it. One arm and hand of the individual may be put under the head so as to keep his mouth and nose out of sand. The person to perform artificial respiration can kneel over the body, putting one hand on each side of the unconscious person, just below the lower ribs. The movements may be "made in time according to count. At one, the hands are placed on the lower ribs, thumbs and fingers together, wrists about six inches apart; at two, the operator arises on the knees and with the arms straight throws the weight downward and a little forward, and at the same time slightly squeezing the hands toward each other; at three the hands suddenly are removed, which permits an expansion of the chest; at a count of four and five, the operator rests and promptly begins again.

may depend upon such fortuitous things. No successful reporter possessed of an ounce of honesty ever has the right to deny that somewhere along the path he got a good break. And if he went on further and further in his job, he got a lot more. Most industries—ana even the arts—are conducted on the basis of fitting the most convenient cogs into the existing machine. In later days the journalist or the chorus girl may achieve some opportunity where it is possible to shine by being different from the rest. But in the beginning, originality, which gets so much lip service of applause, is not an asset, but an anchor around the neck. I am not certain that this is inevitably and essentially a necessity. For instance, I hardly would rise from an orchestra seat, if I had paid for it, and rush to the box office demanding my money back on the ground that the third girl from the left towered four inches above her associates. Nor w r ould I go out into the night if one of the two dozen stood out conspicuously from the rest as a palpably plain person in a regiment of loveliness. Just for a Change POETS and musicians have learned the trick of disonance, w’hich has not yet been accepted by the experts who select chorus girls. It is my notion that at least a single plain recruit may serve to leaven the plot. The girl on either side will shine with far more splendor. And beyond that I rather think the human eye grows sometimes weary of too much radiance, it is restful to look

ZEPPELIN ATTACK June 16 /'’VN June 16, 1917, at about 2 a. m. two Zeppelins made an attack on the east coast of England. The official report said that one of the airships crossed the Kentish coast and dropped bombs on a coast town, killing two persons, injuring sixteen and wrecking a large number of houses. The second airship attacked a coast town of East Anglia, but did no damage before it was engaged by the Royal Flying corps, brought down in flames and destroyed. Thousands witnessed the end of this Zeppelin. The attack by antiaircraft guns on the dirigible lasted fully an hour, and people ran from their houses, half-dressed, to watch the fight. When the Zeppelin was seen to burst into flames, the spectators cheered tumultuously. It had been winged first by a land gun and then was finished by an airplane, which the Zeppelin fought to the last with her guns. The dirigible dropped into a field of corn, far from any habitation, and was destroyed. All the crew were killed and their bodies badly charred. Some of the men appeared to ha-" * jumped.

The entire procedure takes about five seconds, which will permit of approximately twelve artificial respirations a minute. The movement may be kept up for hours. . At the same times, it is well to keep the drowning person warm, if a blanket is available, and to encourage circulation by rubbing the legs. A physician should be called as soon as possible. Just as soon as the signs of consciousness return, warmth and stimulation are desirable. There Is no necessity for rolling the drowning person over a barrel, hanging him up by the feet, or any other rough treatments that used to be the vogue before modern artificial respiration became established. The two most common criticisms are that the artificial respiration is carried on for too brief a time (it is well to continue even two hours, if there is the slightest possibility of resuscitation) and the application of the movements too rapidly.

HEYWOOD BROUN

upon non-beauties every now and again. There is a certain quality of friendliness in a face which falls a shade below bogey. After all, the purpose of a theater is to enable the spectator to make some identification between himself and a performer on the other side of the footlights. There was yesterday, for a little while, a lone applicant in the center of the stage. She was tall and awkward and shambling. And if it had been my job I would have leaped at the opportunity to get her in the organization. Those of us who suffer from the pandemic inferiority complex >do not fantasy ourselves into the role of regalness. It is easier to strike up a psychic feeling of comradeship with someone situated on the same plane upon which you yourself live. I liked the homely chorus girl the best of all the lot. (Copyright, 1931, by The Times) Who was Narcissus? In Greek mythology he was the son of the Athenian river god, Cephisus, who having rejected the love of Echo, is fabled to have fallen in love with his own reflection in the water. Is the king of Italy or Mussolini at the head of the Italian government? The head of the government is King Vittorio Emanuele 111, but the actual power is wielded by Premier Benito Mussolini, who controls the political machinery in Italy. Is the land area of Soviet Russia larger than the United States? The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia) has a land area of 8,144,228 square miles; the United States has a land area of 3,738,393. How far below street level does the Empire State building in New York extend? About thirty-three feet below street level. Why does Germany always hold her national elections on Sunday? It is so provided in the constitution.

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Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most Interestlnx writers and are presented without regard to their !iST£ e ?u nt -,? r disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naner.—The Editor.

-JUNE 16,1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

“Scientific Humanism” Is Declared to Be the Future Hope of the World. THE future hopes of the world lie in "scientific humanism,’* according to Dr. Edward M. East, distinguished biologist of Harvard university. At a time when many critics would blame the present depression and most of the world’s modern ills upon the machine, an outgrowth of science. Professor East’s views are particularly interesting. Most scientists would not deny that the advance of technical knowledge and the machine have replaced man power to such extent as to be the cause of considerable unemployment. But, on the other hand, they point out that the advance of technical knowledge has created many new industries and so created much employment where none existed before. And in general, scientists feel that the blame for present-day ills does net belong upon the machine, but upon those who have bungled the handling and use of the machine. This is a point which Bertrand Russell has made in the past. The scientist invents the machine, but somebody else administers it. Professor East pins his hope upon the development of an era when science will have something to say about the administration of the machine. , o att Scientific Humanism PROFESSOR EAST sets forth his idea of "Biology and Human Problems,” anew book by twelve scientists, including East. He writes: “As I see it. the possibilities of scientific humanism, which must not be confused with literary humanism, run somewhat as follows: “Under a just and humane government the machine can abolish poverty. Indeed, it can furnish creature comforts amounting to luxury, although with the inculcation of healthy ideals, inordinate demands for luxury may be expected to diminish. “Birth control can lay the Malthusian specter or overpopulation and keep the census figures at figures at somewhere near the optimum for effective effort. “Genetic information, sanely directed, can lessen the proportion of the mentally and physically deficient, and can raise the average intelligence materially. “Medicine and surgery can increase the average expectation of life at birth to 60 to 70 years, and this span can be made relatively free from disease.” Professor East, in brief, looks forward to the day when the human race will make the same use of the findings of biology that it already has made of the discoveries of physics and chemistry. He denies that there are any realms within human experience which can not be improved by the application of the scientific method and of scientific thinking. a a a About Professor Babbitt PROFESSOR EAST is emphatio in his wish that no one confuse Scientific Humanism with the recent movement known as Literary Humanism. He is extremely outspoken in his opinion about what he calls “the rise and fall of the Humanist cult led by Irving Babbitt.” He writes: “The true humanist, as nearly as I can gather from the unintelligible though voluminous definitions of the modern exponent, is not he who bestows new knowledge upon his fellow men, but rather he w r ho believes that progress ended with the decline of the classic Greek tradition. “The announced tenets of humanism are a sense of decorum and a ’will to refrain;’ and each humanist naturally writes a book to explain what these precepts mean. “The resulting volumes achieve harmony only with one point, and this makes the contents far from dull; there is not need for restraint when attacking error. “Out of the modem humanist doctrine there somehow emerges an acute dislike for science. Professor Babbitt says that science is well enough in its place, but demands for the humanist the right to determine its place. “The difficulty with science, according to L. T. More, who has received some training in the older type of physics, is that instead of confining itself to the simple problems of the atom and the molecule, it also is studying human attribute* and emotions. “It does not appear that he requires the closing of all medical schools, but he does urge fetters for all psychologists.” Dr. East summarizes Literary Humanism as “queer and loose-jointed thinking.”

Daily Thought

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.—Job 35:13. Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, w T omen, health and peace, and still is nothing at last—a long way leading nowhere.—Emerson. What is the average height and weight for girls 16 years old? The average height is 61.6 inches and the average weight is lia pounds.