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Utility Progress and Plunder One of the basic principles of the regulation of public utilities under the Indiana law is that there is always the right for cities to purchase utility plants. This right was written Into the law. It provide* that whenever a company accepts an indeterminate permit, it waives all protest against public ownership whenever cities choose to exercise this right. This was the final safeguard of public rights. The only reason for inserting this provision was the fear of just what has happened—a commission so controlled by tne utilities that the public would be at the mercy of organized greed. That fear has been realized. Contributions to campaign funds, the exercise of political power, the rewarding of legislators who betrayed the people to the utilities by jobs on the commission, the power to punish in the hands of merged utility interests, has created a condition where the public is taxed to the limit of its power to pay and obtains no redress when it protests. Now it is proposed to take aw’ay from the people the weapon provided in the law’, not through action by the legislature but through a decision of the commission created by the law. It is proposed that rates no longer be fixed for each community, but that the charges for electricity, telephones and utility services be based upon arbitrary districts set up by the commission. The argument for the change is that utilities no longer serve single communities and cities, but vast districts. Power comes from great super-plants. The cities no longer have their own little plants. They have ceased to exist as utility units. In many of the cities which have been taken over in mergers or rather by the unregulated holding companies, the plants have been dismantled and this will shortly be true of all small cities. If this decision is made, and it seems probable that it will be rendered, then hope of public ownership goes unless the people erect small plants to compete with the large systems. This, of course, will be uneconomic. All the progress of science and invention will be capitalized by the utility overlords for the benefit of their holding companies. If we are to have regulations by districts we should have the opportunity for public ownership by districts. Many of the cities are fighting this new’ proposal. They see the same servitude to a utility government that the men who threw the Boston tea party saw in the tea tax. They do not see any relief. Perhaps there is none until some political party or a candidate within a party has the courage to declare his independence of utility influence and pledges anew deal and a square deal. The big job in Indiana in 1922 is to drive the utilities from the statehouse. When Hatred Cools A twelve-year-old story has been told once more within the last few days. It has sounded very different this time. It is the story of six members of the I. W. W., feared once as Communists are now, and sentenced to serve the best part of their lives in the penitentiary after tTie armistice day tragedy at Centralia, Wash., five of the men still are in prison, a sixth is on parole for a few’ months, one is dead, one is free. These men were convicted and sentenced during a time of general prejudice and intolerance, by appeals on the part of prosecuting officers to these qualities and by unprecedented severity on the part of judges. So pronounced was this state of affairs that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, addressing Harvard law alumni in 1930, said: “We well may wonder, in view of the precedents now established, whether constiutional government, as heretofore maintained in this republic, could survive another great war, even victoriously waged.” Twelve years ago many of us were not able to take the sane, wise view’ of things that Chief Justice Hughes took. Blinded by fear and hate, we ignored the danger to cherished rights and liberties which can exist only when they exist for all. Now’, twelve years later, two-thirds of the Centralia jurors regret their verdict and have asked that the Centralia prisoners be released. A committee of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish churchmen report that “the crime was not premeditated and was committed under decidedly extenuating circumstances, in the light of which the sentences seem very severe.” Twelve years later most of us agree, probably, that the treatment accorded these men fell short of justice and that it is time to bring their punishment to an end. Columnist Coolidge’s View On the day when other of the nation's great were commenting upon President- Hoover’s proposal for a war debt moratorium. Calvin Coolidge had this to say in his column: “It is long since we have heard much agitation for a movement back to the land. But now when there is distress in industrial centers, a home on a farm begins to look attractive.” France’s Blunder France has blundered. By attaching a destructive reservation to the Hoover debt holiday plan, she will jeopardize the proposal and isolate herself. Americans are sympathetic with France and understand her difficulties. Especially it is understood that the Paris government, to keep its seat, must play often to the gallery of extreme nationalists inside and outside parliament. Considering the American senate’s record in obstructing international co-opera-tion and killing treaties, we, of all people, should hesitate before taking a holier-than-thou attitude. But however sympathetic we and the world may be with Frances task, that can not alter the fact that she has blundered here. She has resorted to trading and diplomatic maneuvers in violation of the spirit in which the Hoover proposal was made and in which it has been accepted >y the other powers. Unless France were trying to trade, she would not resort to the ancient ruse of in principle” while insisting on a destructive rider. Unless she were bargaining, she would not have aspired her military satellites of the little entente -Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia—to aise obstacles in Washington. Franco Insists that Germany pay to her tfy soalled “unconditional” portion of reparation anuities, amounting to $119,000,000, with the agreement ,iat France will leave the money in the of tematlonal settlements if necessary as collateral for German loan. She further insists on continuance if the Young plan. Os course there is good theoretic justifleatioa for L v* s’

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French collection of that money this year—just as there is perfect logic for American collection of French and other allied debt payments to us. But that has nothing to do with the practical emergency. The emergency is such that Germany in the end will be forced into default and perhaps into revolution unless she is given a moratorium. The choice is whether France—and other creditor nations—prefer to postpone one payment or risk losing all financial claims to Germany and investments 5n Germany. France is no fool. Despite all her objections, she has been willing in the past to scale down German payments when she had to —that was the meaning and purpose of the Dawes plan and later Young plan. And that is the meaning of this new move, which gives breathing space for another revision downward. France eventually will come around to a sensible attitude, but the danger is that she may be too late. The world depression is too headlong and the international political situation too explosive to wait on French temperament and hair splitting. No once asks France to act other than in her own selfish interest. An upset in Europe would cost France more than any other nation, because France virtually is master of Europe now. Whatever else might result from European revolution or war, certainly French hegemony would be destroyed. In this crisis there is one thing France can not afford toSlose. Her most powerful weapon is British and American confidence and co-operation. If she blocks the Hooker holiday plan, she will isolate herself. That would be a perilous posiiton for France. For the Minority WEVD, the Debs Memorial radio station, is seeking a fund of $50,000 as a means for re-establishing itself in the radio field, insuring itself of adequate equipment and an adequate site. The committee in charge plans programs which will give expression to all minority groups. That such groups, as well as the majority groups and the regular political parties, should have a means of expression on the air obviously is in keeping with the best American traditions. It is to be hoped that Norman Thomas and others active in the attempt to maintain this medium of expression will be successful in their efforts to raise the necessary funds. A Hollywood actress has insured her fingers for SIOO,OOO. Which is rather a high price for a couple of stage hands. Traveling is broadening, especially to the young lady who returns from a trip abroad several pounds to the good. Then there was the Minnesota columnist who thought the state’s gag law was directed against his wisecracks. _____ An angler, like a pitcher, gets best results when his hook and sinker are working Even in times like these, the mortician finds business is the buries. Add to your boring facts: there is $480,003,000 worth of gold in the teeth of American citizens. Many a man who couldn’t get a job in an orchestra plays second fiddle at home. Now that wider motion pictures are promised, maybe we’ll get to see all of Joe Brown’s smile. Too little poise is often caused by too much, avoirdupoise. Headline—Conditions Returning" to Normal in Chicago. Cook County Is Almost Eroke Again. It's usually the girl with the most cheek who blushes the least. Auto Junk shops may not be doing such a rattling good business these days, but the turnover is high.

REASON

ROBBERS entered the home of S. Stanwcod Menken of New York City ar.d took $200,000 worth of jewelry. This is the sort of a thing that just naturally breaks your heart when you read about it. a a a The papers of the state continue to cp.rry the protests of people who are outraged by the small sentence given Kirkland who should have been sent to the electric chair. The parole board should see to it that this bird is not shown any clemency, that he serves the last hour of his sentence. b b a In his hot reply to the Vatican, Mussolini declares that the youth of Italy belongs to him. This is the same line of lingo handed out in Berlin by the fellow whose mustache was upside down and who now is an exile in Holland, B B B SPEAKING of Berlin, Germany might have a few more dollars with which to pay her war debts, if she had been willing to confiscate the kaiser’s holdings, but she loved him so dearly she let him keep it —even after he ran away. B B B If the federal government had gone after Capone and other big violators of the Volstead law nine or ten years ago, instead of waiting until now' the dry cause would be in a much more powerful shape. The trouble lias been to find honest officials. B B B President Hoover has just sent a message of congratulation to the king of Sweden on bis birthday, but as a felicitator he is not in it with Coolidge. Every morning when he entered the White House Coolidge asked his secretary: “Whom do we felicitate today?" ess 9 WE are glad to see that the leaders of Indianapolis have taken kindly to the suggestion we made at Anderson several weeks ago that the next national convention of the Republican party should be held at Indianapolis. And now we would elaborate the original suggestion and propose that both the Republicans and Democrats hold their big conventions in our capital city. BBS Indianapolis is nearer the center of population than any other city of size and it has all of the accommodations necessary to handle the multitudes that visit the big political rodeo. Strange to say. Indianapolis never has had such a national convention. BBS It is interesting to note that the prosecutor contemplates placing Kirkland on trial again, and if there’s any chance of throwing the hooks into him, everybody should be for it, but if there’s another trial the people would demand courthouse.

By FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Taxation Can Fail; It Is No Stronger Thun the Sentiment Behind It. NEW YORK, June 25.—Senator Davis of Pennsylvania thinks the federal government should undertake the job of educating us on toe cost of speed. In his opinion, the American public would not tolerate 30,000 deaths a year by automobiles, if it really knew what was going on. Much as one would like to agree with him, the New York Sun probably is right in doubting this. By no stretch of the imagination can ignorance be regarded as responsible. If the American public doesn’t know what Is going on, there is no way of telling it. Newspapers not only have reported accidents and fatalities as they occur, but have published the ugly record on every possible occasion. Added to this, states and cities have resorted to all sorts of devices for visualizing it. Ohio has put up crosses by the roadside wherever people were killed, and Pittsburgh has painted crosses on the streets, only to mention two examples. It is not lack of information that makes us indifferent to the blood sacrifice, but a craze for speed. tt n tt Speed and Money Rule SPEED and money dominate the news, with the w-ar debt wrangle and trans-oceanic flights vying for front page position. Major Doolittle jumps from a plane traveling at the rate of 235 | miles an hour, 300 feet above the ! ground, and lives to tell the tale. Federal sleuths discover that | “Dutch” Schultz, the New York racketeer, banked more than SBOO,000 during the last six months of 1930, but filed no income tax return. British textile mills beat the American record of 6 hours 4 minutes by producing a finished woolen suit in 3 hours 20 minutes after the sheep was sheared. a tt a Chicago Yells for Help MEANWHILE, who will come to Chicago’s rescue with a moratorium? She is $170,000,000 behind in the collection of taxes, has been living largely on anticipation w’arrants for two years, and can not fund the floating debt, unless the state legislature passes an enabling act. Her policemen, firemen and school teachers practically have forgotten what regular pay was like. It’s not only one of the queerest, but one of the most significant, situations that ever arose in this country. It show’s w’hat taxpayers can do by simply balking. Those public officials who think that revenue is just a matter of passing laws ought to study it. a a tt They Won't Pay THE taxing powder is not limitless. Like every other power, it lasts just as long as the majority of people will stand for it, and no longer. In theory, the government, whether national, state or municipal, can collect taxes by merely taking- and selling the property on which they are due. In practice, however, this becomes impossible if, and when a sufficient- I ly large number of taxpayers de- ! fault. Chicago is showing how’ a taxpayers’ strike works. a a tt Soaring Gas Taxes THE Florida senate just has voted for an 8-cent gasoline tax. That is the limit so far, but 2 cents was the limit less than ten 3'ears ago. While it is not certain that the Florida house will concur, or that the Governor would approve, the fact remains that three states already have a 6-cent tax, which represents an increase of 300 per cent over the highest tax in 1921. If the gasoline tax is boosted as rapidly during the next ten years, some states will be collecting 24 cents, and if there is no limit, heaven know’s where they will wind up. tt tt a Taxation Can Fail LIKE other forms of law, taxation is no stronger than the sentiment behind it. We have seen prohibition fail for the simple reason that enough people wouldn’t do what w’as expected of them. Taxation could fail the same way. Asa matter of fact, taxation has failed many times. Some of the worst revolutions in history w’ere brought about by taxpayers. We must net get it into our heads that oppression in the form of taxes is any different, or leads to j any different results, than other j kinds.People are willing to pay taxes j as long as they believe the system ' is fair and the cash honestly used. But let them get it into their heads that one class is being imposed on to help another, or that graft plays too big a part in the show, and there will be another s tors’.

RUSSELL’S SPEECH

ON June 25, 1917, Charles Edward Russell, a member of the American commission to Russia, addressed a full council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ delegates. He outlined the aims of the United States and the reasons which brought the country into the war. Warned in advance that he might expect an unfriendly demonstration | on the part of the extremists among his auditors, Russell received instead loud applause. The declaration of Russell that the United States was fighting only because the democracies of the world were in danger, and that after democracy was safe the people would to social reform, was cheered to the echo. M. Tcheidze, president of the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ delegates, in replying to Russell’s speech, said that the democracy of Russia was built on the same foundation as that of the United States, and that Russia would carry on the war until mutual aims were achieved.

The Efficiency Boys at Work T

Exhaust Gas From Auto Is Dangerous

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Jourial of the American Medical Association and of Kvaeia, the Health Masaxine. MOST of the deaths due to inhalation of exhaust gas from automobiles occur in the winter, when men attempt to work under running cars in closed garages. Cases occur also, however, in other periods of the year, particularly among people who work constantly in the automobile industry. To prevent such deaths and to aid as much as possible those who are exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning, the New York state department of labor has issued a bulletin on the subject with special warnings and advice. Here is a list of “things to do,” for workers exposed to automobile exhaust gas: 1. Keep windows open as much as possible. 2. Do not permit the engine to run and discharge exhaust gas directly into the air of the workroom. Every workroom should have a flexible tube which can be attached to the exhaust pipe, and through which the exhaust gas then may be carried out of doors. 3. Remember that carbon monoxide gas has no smell. You can not, therefore, know if carbon mon-

IT SEEMS TO ME

AS age creeps on and cn, I have begun to worry about the fact that journalists are seldom loved. I mean by those who read their efforts. There is something of endearment in such terms as “veteran actor,” “venerable clergymen,” “aged bard,” but the phrase ‘old newspapermen” has in it a tinge of contempt; The whole implication is of a certain slackness and seediness. The adjective “tiresome” seems to lurk not further away than just around the corner. The requirements for journalists should be somewhat mitigated. Nobody ever held it against Booth that he played Hamlet many times, and when a preacher plucks a sermon out from the barrel in his study the congregation listens with the same attention as to a brand-new discourse. a a a Repetition Billy Sunday has quips which are a regular part of the repertoire, and he has saved many souls with twice-told tales. Even in the universities where notoriously high ethics prevail, it is net unknown for a professor to keep a favorite joke hand year after year and spring ‘it for each succeeding class of freshmen. But let a journalist grow autoplagiaristic and he will find himself assailed by that noxious alliance of folk with long memories and others who save clippings. Is there any justice in this? There is not. In other arts there is no barrier against returning to familiar pastures. Musicians hit keys which they have known before and recreate old rapture among idolators. Certain painters of undoubted fame have toyed with the same theme many times. And surely no one would complain if Rudvard Kipling were to return to his earlier manner. But we—pity us—we must strike out each day or week upon some trail where white men have not set foot before. It seems to me that journalism suffers from a lack of repetitiousness. No mancan espouse more than a limited number of good causes, and these never are won. Surely no man should be condemned if he made it a practice to plead for free speech on alternate Thursdays throughout the year, even if he had to polish up a few well-thumbed points in order to make his case. u n o Scrapbooks I TAKE great interest in books by men who went to war. Each new indictment fills me with the hope that perhaps some breach has been made in the citadel of preparedness. And yet I do not find that every new author has a mine of information never before revealed by any commentator. The world in general holds that reformers are somewhat boresome because they hammer on some favorite theme. But it must be admitted that the children of darkness are a tenacious and courageous army. People with memories and clippings ought to remember that they are in a cast minority. The world as a rule forgets. If I myself can

•DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

oxide gas is in the air by the smell of the room or by the cloudiness of the air. These are produced by burning oil and gasoline. 4. If you suffer from headaches, report this fact at once, so that the conditions of the air may be investigated, and proper ventilation established. 5. If you do not feel well, see a doctor at once. You may be particularly sensitive to carbon monoxide gas, more so than the others. In that case you would better change you occupation. It is not safe for you to be exposed to even very small amounts of the gas. The labor department bulletin recommended these first aid measures: “If you get a headache, or feel faint, nervous or irritable, go out into the fresh air at once and stay there until you feel better. When you go out, go out slowly and when you get out sit down quietly. Do not go for a walk. 'Sou may not have enough oxygen in your blood to permit you to take any additional exercise, or exert yourself in any way. “Any added exertion at such a time is dangerous and may be sufficient to cause you to become unconscious. Wrap up warmly, there-

not remember that I said the same thing once before, how can many others be expected to recall that the thought is making a second appearance? In fact, I am much revived upon occasion by looking down through the files, for at times I am moved to say: “When I wrote that I was in fine form.” Out of an envelope yesterday there fluttered a yellow bit of newsprint dated Sept. 9, 1925. I

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l have been asked to express my opinion concerning the subject of increase in salaries to the public school teachers. My sentiments on this subject are clear and favor the teachers. I firmly believe that the public school teachers work hard and conscientiously in their efforts to accomplish results in their arduous task of training and educating young children, hence, every due consideration should be given to their just demands for better pay. Therefore, parents and the public in general should be in favor of legislation having a purpose to better the teachers’ remuneration. I am speaking from personal experience as to the teachers* ability and conscientious work in training and educating young children properly. For an instance, my daughter who is 12 years of age, attends the 7a grade of public school No. 45, and I must admit that she has made remarkable, rapid progress in her school. Let us be fair to the teachers and let us do our share toward increasing their salaries. FRANK L. MARTINO. 537 Illinois building. Editor Times—l watched your paper for a time when Heywood Broun was devoting his space to a scolding of James Joseph Walker. True to form, on another day, there it was, but how he could have the bad taste to include in it a mention of the Rev. Father Coughlin, I can not see. I was not prepared for such short sightedness as that. Neither will those w r ho promote race suicide be prepared for the future when the Roman Catholic church goes peacefully on doing her duty to the living and the dead. A READER. Was Kerensky a Socialist and how long w r as he head of the Russian government? He was a leader of the Socialist party who was prominent in the March, 1917, revolution which brought about the abdication of the czar. On July 22, 1917, he became premier of the provisional government and was looked upon by the nations of the world as the one man who could save Russia. In November, 1917, the Bolsheviki, headed by Lenin and Trotzky, overthrew Kerensky and established the present Soviet republic of Russia. Is the Guggenheim fund for the promoCion of aviation still in existence? It was terminated in January, 1930. Are Germany and Austria members of the League of Nations? Yes.

fore, and sit down out of doors until you feel better. “Do not hurry around unnecesasrily at your work. The more exercise you take, the more carbon monoxide gas will get into your blood. “If one cf j'our comrades faints, get him out into the fresh air at once. Put blankets under and over him, and surround him with hot water bottles or hot bricks. Keep him warm at all costs or he may develop pneumonia. Persons who become asphyxiated with carbon monoxide gas are peculiarly susceptible to pneumonia. Call up the gas company and ambulance at once. You always must call both of these, because ambulances are not equipped with resuscitation apparatus. In the meantime, the patient should be given artificial respiration, by what is known as the ‘Manual’ or ‘Schaefer’! method. Everyone working in industries where there is a possiblity of exposure to carbon monoxide gas should be familiar with this method of resuscitation. It is very easily carried out. Anyone can learn how to do it. He thus may, by his knowledge, save someone’s life.”

„ v HEYWOOD bY BROUN

found it an excellent essay upon the nature cf beauty, seemingly suggested by the fact that a certain Fay Lamphier had won a contest in Atlantic City. ana Momentum “'T'HE current Miss America,” the shrewd reporter said, “seems to me more dazzling than any of her predecessors. But ‘dazzling’ is not precisely the word I want. "‘By the token of their pictures many ethers were that. Indeed, their beauty was so palpable that it was just a shade forbidding. It fell into that school which might be known as ‘glazed porgon.’ ” A little further down there was something “determined loveliness” and the fact that “a girl may commit herself so violently to a countenance that regression or development is equally impossible.” “How true!” I said. “How neatly put!” and then I saw the signature and went completely scarlet. But this is a false modesty, and I should make no concessions. If by any chance there exists as many as two or three who read the works of Broun for profit or pleasure, why should I not frankly ally myself with that courageous company? Nor should we apologize for our lack of numbers, but rather glory in exclusiveness and call it discernment. Besides, I think it is a fascinating speculation to wonder what a:d become of Miss Lamphier, who won the championship and became Miss America for 1925. What do all the prize-winning beauties do after they have received their silver cups and settled down? ''Copyright. 1331. by The Times)

Daily Thought

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.—Matthew 25:35. A stranger, If just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.—Pythagoras.

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Ideals and opinions expressed !n this column are those of one of America’s most interests? writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial altitude of this oaner.—The Editor. •

.JUNE 23,1931

SCIENCE BY DAMP DIETZ—-

“Laboratory” Will Show Stus- - for What Courses They Have Real Aptitude . A “HUMAN engineering laboratory" is to be operated by Stevens Institute of Technology this summer. It will be a novel experiment in educational methods, an "engineering camp” at which graduates of high schools and preparatory schools can find out wether they really want to be engineers and w’hether they really have any natural aptitude for the profession. Many educators feel that to date the weakest part of our educational system has been the lack of facilities for determining the proper field of study for young people. Every school can tell of the countless number of students who study subjects for which they have no real aptitude. One young man is going to study medicine because he comes from a family of physicians. His father, his grandfather and his greatgrandfather all practiced medicine. Sometimes the young man does well and sometimes he doesn’t. But such a young man is infinitely better off than the young man who wants to study mining engineering because he thinks it might be fun to go adventuring in South America or Africa. n tt Motion Pictures THE Stevens camp, will open Aug. 15. According to President Harvey N. Davis of the institution, its purpose is to discover brilliant students and to weed out misfits. Leaders in science, engineering, architecture and education, including Dr. W. R. Whitney, director of research of the General Electric Company; Dean Dexter S. Kimball of Cornell, John Mills of the Bell Telephone Laboratory, and Professor A. G. Christie of Johns Hopkins will be on the camp faculty. “These men and others of prominence in engineering fields,” President Davis says, “will define as graphically and completely as possible what it means to be an engineer dealing with aeronautics, power, communication, railways, building construction, work along the water front on docks, yards and harbors. “They will give the beys insight into research, machine design, and other possible lines cf engineering work.

“To supplement these lectures there will be motion pictures showing actual engineering work in process. A film, for Instance, will show the construction of the Empire State building, and others will illustrate bridge construction, mining operations, road building and so forth.” n tt a Aptitude Tests THE boys who enter the camp will also have a chance to sample engineering work. President Davis says that three or four hours a day ia ill be devoted to work in surveying. In addition, the boys will be given “aptitude tests” to try and find out how well they are fitted for the profession. These tests have been worked out by Johnson O’Connor of the General Electric Cos. The tests are described as “work samples miniature engineering problems—which require for solution an apttiude for engineering, and instinctive gift for visualizing structure, and do not involve school knowledge or acquired training.” In addition to engineering, work samples have been devised which show likelihood of success in surgery, banking, selling, and executive work. “The results,” the announcement says, ‘a‘re not infallible, but sufficiently accurate to aid materially both in deciding between an engineering and an academic training, and in answering many of the questions which puzzle every man in chocsing a career.” Others who will take part in operating the laboratory are Dr. Adam Leroy Jones, director cf admissions in Columbia university, and Dr. Walter Van Dyke Bingham, director of the Personal Research Federation, established through efforts of the National Research Council and the Engineering Foundation.

Questions and Answers

Can milk be pasteurized easily at home? Heat it in a double boiler and stir constantly until it attains 142 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove from heat and keep the pot covered for one-half an hour. Put the pan of milk in cold water and stir until cool. In which of Shakespeare’s plays does the phrase “a snapper-up of inconsidered trifles” occur? In “Winter’s Tale.” Are Edgar Guest and Will Rogers the same age? Edgar Guest is 49 and Will Rogers is 51. Does the raccoon belong to the cat or to the dog family? It does not belong to either. It is ens cf the procyonidae family. What was the total cost of the Civil war. It is estimated to be about 53,478,220,G00.