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Well, Why Not? Every citizen will be interested in the effort to bring here the national convention of the Republican party. This city is equipped to entertain such a gathering. It would offer an opportunity to exhibit to the nation the resources of Indiana. It would advertise the progressive rehabilitation of the Republican party in the state through a series of defeats at the polls. It would herald a growing opportunity for the followers of Lincoln and Roosevelt to regain control of the party itself. True, the preseht indications are that the convention may be a ratification meeting and without dramatic interest. But even that picture may change before the convention. The show may be worthwhile. Let It be hoped that a similar invitation will be extended to the donkey that goes to the elephant. That convention has promise. It will probably be filled with fireworks and that most important phase of drama—suspense. It is possible, of course, that both parties might accept invitations. They may desire to have an American atmosphere in which to operate. They may desire to tent upon contested territory. They would find that in Indiana. The Way of the World Entrance of Clarence Darrow, noted defender of the underdog, into the case of D. C. Stephenson, will attract public interest and perhaps it may center attention upon the group of politicians who rose to power when this one-time czar ruled Indiana. The people know part of that sordid story. They know that candidates for congress sold their patronage for favor. They know that governors obtained fancy prices for spavined horses and that mayors of cities took orders. They know that the laws of the state were rewritten by this dictator and that legislative committees were named at his suggestion. They remember the sycophantic fawning of the great upon the man who is now under a life sentence. Hiey know that through his influence men went to high places, even the United States senate. They remember the sighs of relief from these same beneficiaries when Stephenson was lodged behind a cell and official power was used to prevent a confession of his political crimes and a revelation of his political triumphs and alliances. There were whispers of promises of a pardon that never came, of influence that would be used for him but if used at all, was used against him. It is written that those who live by the sw’ord shall die by the sword and so it happened that those who used Stephenson and were used by Stephenson deserted him in his dark hours. Gone were the Coffins and the Robinsons. Gone were the puppets of mayors. Gone were the pliable congressmen. No wonder that Darrow came. He was the outstanding foe of the Klan hate. He had stood rigidly for toleranae. But when you hear the yelping of an underdog, especially a deserted dog, somewhere in the offing is Darrow. How Miners Live in West Virginia Years ago the soft coal miners in West Virginia were reasonably well organized. But in the struggles of the last fifteen years against coal companies and deputy sheriffs at the beck and call of the employers, the union organization has been broken. The results on the lives of the workers are thus described by Tom Tippett, a highly capable and reliable student of labor conditions: “The miners live in isolated company villages far up in the mountains. A small, unpainted shack on stilts, unceiled, with broken steps and leaky roof, is a common type of home. These houses are jammed like boxes next to each other, separated by narrow bare yards and untidy fences. Privies stand close to the houses and often above the out-door wells from which all water must be carried. “The miners must trade at the company store where prices usually range ft'om 20 to 66 per cent higher than in the outside towns.! The wages of many run about $2 and $3 a day and work is far from steady. On pay day many workers receive, literally, no money whatever, their payments for rent, food, doctor, explosives for mining, etc., having used up all their earnings and being subtracted from their pay. Avery large proportion of the men are in debt to the company month after month. They hardly ever see real money, what they usually get being scrip or company money, which must be discounted perhaps one-fourth if they wish to buy outside the company domain. “When the union was strong, the men worked only eight hours a day. Now they often are forced to stay in the mine for ten, eleven, twelve hours without extra pay. After work they go back to their little homes literally “coal-black” from head to foot with the dust. “Since the men are in debt to the company, it is very difficult for them to leave. Boys inherit their fathers’ debts. Some villages can be approached only up the railroad track owned by the company. The miners their wives and children are practically locked up in these isolated, bleak, bare villages. Company guerds are always on hand to keep the miners in the camps, and strangers out, and the miners remember how hundreds of their fellows have been tortured and shot down in the past by these private gunmen But they are determined to fight nonetheless for better lives for themselves and their families.” A desperate effort is now being made to reorganize the West Virginia coal fields and regain for the workers 'some part of their former decent standards. Those who Join the union are ruthlessly discharged by the coal companies and are compelled to live under conditions such as the following: “There is the home of a 30-year-old striker, whom I will call Walter Robinson. He went inside. Some coals were burning in a grate, and around it huddled Mrs. Robinson and three small children. All of them were without shoes, all only half clothed. On the bed in the same room was a tiny baby, 3 months old. Still another child died this year. From where I stood I could easily see through the house whose walls were single planks separated by wide cracks. It was just as easy to see sky through the roof. Nothing that is called furniture was in the place nor any Dther thing commonly associated in our minds with the word home. All the Robinsons were hungry and have been underfed for months. ■Robinson is not a shiftless fellow. He gathered up his pay envelopes which he proudly has kept for a long period. Ten years ago, when there was a union here, he could earn S7O or SBO for two weeks' work. But that is all gone now. His home is a perfect mirror of his wages. Time was when he had furniture and clothes and food and a feeling of security with a strong organization back of him. The ur </>n was destroyed and with it his home and his self-respect. Now he lives on much lower standards than the mine mules. £ “The Robinson home is typical of all the stranded

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families, and by and large is not far below the standards of the men at work in the mines. I have been in hundreds of such homes here.” It is hardly an exaggeration to say that we need to check on our claim to being civilized when men are forced below the level of brutes in order to realize a right which has been recognized as just by reputable economic opinion for a century. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” revealed no such abyss of human suffering among Negro slave cotton hands as emerges from Tom Tippett’s reports of 1931 relative to white workers in the soft coal industry of West Virginia. “I Can Not Lie” Recently the greatest living scientist, after a visit to California, wrote Governor Rolph beseeching pardon for Mooney and Billings on the plea that he believed them "completely innocent.” “I myself am of the decided opinion,” wrote Dr. Albert Einstein, “which I must express, for I can not lie, that a miscarriage of Justice undoubtedly appears In the present case.” Contrast this honesty of a scientist with the sophistries of the Wickersham commission. This commission named a subcommittee to study “the lawlessness of the law” in the United States. Judge Kenyon, chairman of this subcommittee, named four men as experts to write a report. These men delved deeply. One of their experts brought back from California the details of the nation’s outstanding example of legal anarchy, the Mooney-Billings trials under which two innocent victims today are serving their fifteenth year in state prison. The scandal was described in a 600-page document and presented as part of the experts’ report to the Wickersham commission. Instead of rewarding the experts’ diligence and honesty, Chairman Wickersham is said to have stormed in anger. No special case, he contended, should have been mentioned. The majority sided with him, although two of the experts, Carl Stern and Walter Poliak, came from New York to plead that their findings be turned over to the President as part of the report. As in the case of prohibition, expert opinion was shelved, politics won over science, opportunism overrode the truth. The Mooney-Billings pardon cause probably will not suffer from this exhibition. But the reputation of President Hoover’s commission has suffered again and immensely. The Farmer Is Hot Harvesting wheat under a broiling sun is a pretty hot job at any time, and this year it’s a hotter job than ever. Each time a farmer sells a bushel of wheat at his country elevator at 35 or 40 cents he is 10 or. 15 cents out of pocket and his temperature mounts. Naturally the protest from the farmers is loud, and it promises to be long. The decision of the federal farm Board to continue limited selling from its wheat board .to millers and foreign governments will add fuel. For, says the farmer, this grain competes with the new crop, depresses prices and unsettles the market. It would have been a simple thing, he argues, for the board to have locked up its grain. President Hoover, moved by pressure from the west, in effect suggested this, but the board complied only in part. It is true the board told the farmers they should reduce their acreage, but recalling this will'not pay mortgages at the bank. Kansas farmers, who are gathering 200,000,000 bushels of grain, and others did not take kindly to Chairman Legge’s reduction admonitions in the first place, and the “we told you so” attitude now only fans their wrath. The threat of political revolt in the west has become an old story. The much-heralded “farmer uprising” in 1928 fizzled, as did others before it. Conditions since then have grown worse, however. Help was promised, but prices have gone steadily lower and lower. The farmers are just about at the end of their tether, if dispatches are to be credited, and are ready to do something drastic about It. As in Populist days, it is likely the farmers will start raising less grain and more hell. The London man who announces that he will push a perambulator around the world feels, apparently, that there is a crying need for the feat. Add similes: As busy as an absent-minded professor on his vacation.

REASON ** Ta™'

THE Oklahoma deputy sheriff who shot those two Mexican students was acquitted at Ardmore, as was expected. Possibly he thought the sudents were bandits, possibly he thought his life was in danger. 000 But he did not have on a uniform and all officers who seek to make arrests these days should have some sure designation to distinguish them from hold-up men. There is not a motorist in his right mind who would stop, night or day, when commanded to do so by a man in plain clothes. a st In the early days of motoring, all cars stopped to assist a brother on wheels when he was in distress, but now the driver who knows his onions and his bandits will not stop for anything but a washout or pick up anybody but a grandfather who has been duly certified. A GENTLEMAN out in lowa who weighs more than 400 pounds was overcome by the heat and it required the services of six policemen to take him to a hospital, proving once more that large bodies move slowly. 000 These recent ocean flights remove some of the gloss from Lindbergh's accomplishment, but come to think of it, it was Lindbergh’s refusal to sell out when he reached Paris that caused the world to go wtl(f about him. 000 The mayor of Berlin proposes that President Hoover be given the Nobel peace prize for proposing the mpratorium. We hope the mayor is Just as enthusiastic one year from now, when the payments are to be resumed. 0 0 0 WE would suggest to those who spend so much time, saving this country from Communism that Uncle Sam’s real enemies are nearer home. This thought is suggested by reading that the grand jury of Pittsburgh asks that the mayor of that city be indicted for irregularities in public contracts. One grafter in public office is a greater enemy of America than all the reds ever hatched. 000 Senator Arthur Robinson made a speech in Manila and said this country' had no intention of keeping the Philippine islands indefinitely. So far as we are concerned personally, the Philippines may have their independence tomorrow morning before breakfast. 000 They are nothing but an exasperation In time of peace and a standing menace in time of war. Think of having to cross the some day to protect islands which we wished we ddd not havel

THE INDIAN A POOS TIMES *

M: E: Tracy SAYS:

Parisian Patrioteers Have Shown Us How Not to Solve a Big Problem in a Simple Way. NEW YORK, July 2.—A dramatic ten days, thanks to the weather, airplanes and France. Eight hundred people have died from the heat in this country alone, while the world has shrunk by more than 50 per cent in the time required to go around It, and Parisian patrioteers have shown us how not to solve a big problem in a simple way. Win, lose or draw, France has made a mistake. Her emotions may be understandable". But her reasoning is not. • * * Jailing Debtors Futile It’s all right to yell that a contract’s a contract,” but what are you going to do when one of the parties to it goes broke? We used to put poor debtors in jail on the theory that if we couldn’t get the money we were entitled to such satisfaction as went with seeing them suffer, but even those whom they owed finally got wise to the senselessness of it. Modern business not only gives the debtor every chance, but when his situation becomes hopeless, lets him go through bankruptcy and wipe the slate clean. Every one is better off, creditors included. B tt u Nation Gan Go Broke NATIONS are not much different from individuals when it comes to finance. They are just a little bigger. Nations can be foolishly extravagant, get behind with their bills and go broke. They can make a big play and lose it all, or stand in their own light by crowding those who owe them too hard. In view of what has happened since 1914, there should be no need of pointing out that nations can’t always get what they want when they want it, tt .4* * France Forgets Rescue IF France is wise, she will profit by the failure of kaiserism’s arrogance, and not make the blunder of imitating it. Also, she will admit that she escaped disaster, not through her own prowess, but through the timely assistance of fifteen or twenty countries. If 1914 proved .‘that no nation could win battles alone, 1931 proves that no nation can maintain prosperity alone. The one outstanding effect of modern progress is to lift human activities and interest beyond the control of individual governments. u a * Statecraft Lagging TRADE, . travel and interchange of every description have become world-wide affairs. Statesmanship can not evade the challenge which this involves. The performance of Post and Gatty stands out in sharp contrast to the wind jamming, at Paris. Statecraft is at least 100 years behind science and industry. It has hardly reached a. point.. .where it can visualize the needs of the grocery business, much less that of aviation. Asa matter of fact, statecraft is doing quite as much to block the paths of natural development as to open them. tt b m Ally of Progress THERE is one aspect of Russian Communism and Italian Fascism which outsiders would do well to study. Both recognize the necessity of adapting statecraft to modern life, of employing It to help people get the benefits of modern commerce, science and industry. That must become a word-wide attitude, regardless of the particular form of government under which people live, or the particular political belief they hold. Mechanical power has altered completely the problems of trade and finance. tt tt tt New Vision Needed Ttys ANKIND stands on the threshIV hold of anew era, an era which promises to bring the resources of the entire world to the home and workshop of the humblest of us, but only if statecraft opens the way. Statecraft can not open the way by clinging to traditional prejudices, or even traditional habits. <The politician, as well as the trader, must recognize how definitely horizons have expanded and increased his persi>ective to fit them. u tt tt Trade Confusing WE talk about international banking as though it were a calamity, when it is only a logical by-product of the times. While professing alarm at certain aspects of international trade, we are all in favor of the goods It delivers, especially if we can’t get them at home. The general struggle to prevent imports on the one hand and boost exports on the other has become so confused as to be doing more harm than good. Such problems need to be clarified, but that is impossible without giving every one interested a chance to be heard, or without paying some heed to majority opinions.

Questions and Answers

How old is Babe Rath, the baseball player? He was born Feb. 7, 1894. Is there anything that can be pat on the hands while playing tennis to keep the racket from slipping? Magnesium carbonate rubbed in the palms will give ' you a better grip. What is the name of the song written by Phil Plant and dedicated to his former wife, Constance Bennett? “My Yesterdays With You.” What is the mean elevation above sea level of the city of New Orleans? Approximately 5 feet. Is Aostralia an island or a continent? It is an island entirely surrounded by water, but its great si* warrants it being called a continent. It frequently is referred to as the “island continent.”

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* DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ; Lukewarm Baths Will Reduce Fever

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hyreia, the Health Magazine. WHENEVER any one has a fever, his metabolism is increased, Formerly all fevers were believed to be harmful and the first attempt of the physician was to get rid of the fever as soon as possible. It now is recognized that fever may be a reaction of the body against disease, and physicians are not so anxious to get the fever lowered. During a fever there is an increased production of heat. However, the amount of heat produced is no greater than that .experienced during moderate exercise. The reason for a rise in body temperature is primarily interference with elimination of heat. A

IT SEEMS TO ME

A CERTAIN novelist wants to ask a certain question. “Do you believe,” he inquires, “that personal attacks, false or true, should be included in articles which purport to be reviews of an author’s book? “Do you believe that a critic should confine himself to an opinion of the literary values and the importance and originality of a book without intruding his emotional reactions toward the author as a man in daily life?” m m a Reviewer’s License Fortunately these are not questions which can be answered with a simple “Yes” or “No.” There is also need of definition. Although the novelist proceeds to cite his own particular grievance against a reviewer, his question is couched in more general terms. The subject is debatable. I believe I am against this particular writer. For instance, let us assume that anew war novel comes out. I may happen to have information, personal or otherwise, that the author is a pronounced pacifist and that his book was written with the desire to arouse sentiment against war. I think it is my privilege to note this fact in my review. It is not necessary that I should confine myself wholly to palpable and printed evidence. After all, the critic’s function is to explain and interpret the thing he criticises. Something of the author himself remains upon the page even after he hs completed his jdb and the book is bound arid sold. I do not see how it is possible to draw a sharp line between the individual and his performance. mam No Privacy TO be sure, there are certain facts about an author which I would not care to drag into -a review, even though I might be perfectly sure-cf my ground. -But even here I must setup the rather feeble excuse of a partial devotion to good taste. • It would embarrass me to say in reviewing a novel, “The author happens to be a notorious drunkard.” Yet an argument can be made for even such an intimate revelation of an artist’s private life. Surely such a fact, if true, is not irrelevant. If the book concerned modern American life, its tone and its emotion might very well be colored by the creator’s violent revolt against Volsteadism both in theory and in practice. Some years ago there was great commotion because a literary critic indicted a love story by remarking that the author was a spinster. I hasten to add that it was not my review which brought this severe accusation. I think I would have hesitated to go into the delicate problems of an author’s sex experience or lack of it. .. mam A Target AND yet I can not maintain that the critic was wholly beyond the domain of legitimate reviewing. The book possibly could have been influenced vastly by the author’s lack of sophistication. As it happens, I would not think of contending that no one can write about Du Bprry unless she has been Pu Barry, I myself intend some

rise in temperature, therefore, means that the heat production is increased and the amount eliminated is interfered with. When the temperature reaches a certain high level and stays there, physicians understand that a balance has been reached between heat production and heat elimination. In fevers the heat regulating mechanism is adjusted to a higher level. In other words, the thermostat that controls heat is set at a higher point. When the temperature reaches its maximum, the regulator begins to work, giving the blood increased circulation through the skin and this throws off enough heat to maintain the body at a fairly constant level of temperature. One of the best known methods for reducing fevers is the use of baths with lukewarm water, which

time to write a story based on the life of Casanova. When it is published I freely shall grant any critic to mention the fact that I have had no share in such interesting romances as brightened the life of the hero. But any man who writes for publication must accept the fact that he has made himself by his own act, fair game for friend and foe. Once upon a time it might have been sufficient to say that the critic should confine himself wholly to the matter set before him within cloth covers and leave the author and his life and habits quite alone. It becomes increasingly difficult to maintain such a position. I happen to belong to the school which firmly believes that every novel is autobiographical. Even though the writer takes the characters of his story to an unknown city, still he travels with them. He is writing himself down on paper. How, then, Is it possible to leave him out of any comprehensive report upon his poem or play or story? Since he has not left himself out of the story, why should the critic leave him out of the review? nun Fame? I ADMIT that there are places where, in all humanity and mercy, the line of revelation must be drawn, but it is nonsense to say that the personality of the author

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Much has been said pro and con regarding the depression, unemployment, etc. Every one knows what the conflict of 1917 and 1918 was caused by —money—the almighty dollar. More money was invested in France and England than in other countries, therefore we had to battle Germany. Those days it was patriotic to quit your job and leave your loved ones to make the world safe for democracy, only to return and find jobs filled by others and taken by modem machinery. Some returned only to lose their minds thinking of the horrors they took part in. Capital is having its day now, but I wonder how it would talk should we be plunged into another conflict such as we were iri ’l7 and 'lB. You can imagine the old slogan would be revived. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country, be patriotic, pull them out of the hole and protect their financial interests, so they can forget you and put you in an asylum if you act a little "goofy” on account of your experience in war. No doubt I already am classed as a Red and Socialist, but far from it. They don’t like my creed and I don’t like theirs. What I mean is that patriotism can be practiced as well in the industrial field as on the battlefield. Don’t think I want something for nothing. All I am asking for is a chance for me and my kind to earn a living. I don’t think the world owes any one a living, but it. owes us a chance to ear%& living.

help to eliminate the heat from the surface of the body. Investigators have found that fqr each degree of centigrade rise in" the body temperature there is a 13 per cent increase in heat production. An increase of three degrees of centigrade in temperature means an increase in metabolism from 30 to 60 per cent. This also may explain the great loss of weight associated with long-continued high fevers. There is a toxic destruction of body tissue; indeed, the destruction of proteins during fever is more excessive than that secured by starvation. One German investigator estimater that a loss of 500 grams of muscle during pneumonia occurs not infrequently. The reserves of or sugar are, however, burned first.

•rv HEYWOOD BROUN

is none of the reader’s or the critic’s business.

Everybody will concede that the public has a right to know that the author of “All Quiet on the Western Front’’ is a German who served in the army during the Great war. Such facts help us to understand and appreciate his point of view. It may be equally useful for us to know in the case of a novel concerning marriage whether it was written by an ex-husband, one about to give hostages to fortune, or one still holding the franchise. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

ARRIVAL OF SUPPLIES July 2 ON July 2, 1917, the last units of the first American expedition, comprising vessels loaded with supplies and horses, reached France. Their coming, one week after the first troops landed, was greeted almost as warmly as the arrival of troops themselves, because it meant success of the undertaking. Rear Admiral Gleaves, from the bridge of his flagship, watched the successful conclusion of his plans and wuth characteristic modesty insisted upon giving most credit for the crossing to navigation officers of his command. All units of the contingent had to keep a daily rendezvous with accompanying warships. Thanks to his navigation officers and despite overcast skies, which made astronomical observations impossible, each rendezvous, the admiral said, had been minutely and accurately kept by each unit. This exactness on the part of the navigation officers was responsible in no small degree for the brilliant success of the entire undertaking.

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.JULY 2, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Noted Educator Denies Any Reason for Clash of Science and Religion. * | ’'HERE is no reason for a conflict between science and religion. So says Sir J. Arthur Thomson, professor emeritus of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. Thomson is well known to American readers as the author of a number of books on evolution and natural science. He is one of twelve British authorities who contribute to a symposium published under the title of ‘Science and Religion" by Scribners. Thomson states his thesis as follow’s: “if science is descriptive formulation and if religion, on its intellectual side, is a transcendental or mystical interpretation, there should not be any radical antithesis between them. Such a sorry cry as The Bible of Darwin’ illustrates the false antithesis, sounding like ‘Food or Fresh Air;’ the plain answer in both cases being ‘more of Both.’ ” It seems to me that here Thomson touches upon one of the chief reasons for the battles which rage between scientists and religionists. Too often, the scientist is hasty in his Judgment of religion. And too often, the religionist is hasty in his judgment of science. Moreover, science realizes that it is far from its full development, and it seeems likely that there is yet room for much development in the field of religious experience. a a tt More of Both SCIENCE and religion, says Thomson, are to be ranked among the greatest achievements of man. He describes them as “science, which makes the world translucent, and religion, which hitches our wagon to a star.” And, he continues, “it seems in some measure wasteful that two of man’s greatest achievements should so often be pitted against each other. “Would it not be better to spend the time and energy in gaining more science and more religion, for none of us has too much of either? “Suppose it be allowed that religion, like science, is a natural and necessary activity of the evolving spirit of map; that both religion and science in pure form are inherently noble; that both, apart from perversions, make for the enrichment of life; then it seems a pity that they so often should be opposed as antithetic. “Our first point is that, as regards essentials, the conflict between science and religion is very largely a false antithesis. “It is due to a failure to understand the different aims and methods and ideas of the two great activties. This raises the questions; What is science, and what is religion?” Science, says Thomson, is “a system of critical knowledge, giving empirical descriptions of things and changes, expressed in the simplest and tersest terms; it is based on experiment and observation, and verifiable by all normally constituted minds who can use the methods.” Science, says Thomson, opens the way for religion. “Science,” he says, “in dissolving minor mysteries, leaves the wonder of the world confessed. When the half-gods go, the God may arrive.” * ✓ About Labels I HAVE quoted at length from Thomson’s contribution to the symposium, because in many ways it seems to indicate the spirit w’hich lies beneath the entire project. It seem to me that too much is being made in the world today of the distinctions between the labels, “science” and “religion.” After all! there is only one universe. We, and all our experiences, are part of that universe. Labels and distinctions are all of our own making. Science once upon a time was far more divided by labels and distinctions than it is today. The gap between physics and chemistry has been closed by physical chemistry. Astrophysics has united astronomy and physics, biochemistry has united biology and chemistry. The physioloigst and the psychologist are beginning to realize that frequently they are both talking about the same things, differing from each other only in the uses of their individual technical vocabularies. Sociologists today are making use of the findings of science. In countless other ways which might be ennumerated, gaps are being closed. We speak of the “art of medicine" as well as the “science of medicine." Perhaps, there is reason to be optimistic. The world is beginning to see that every proper human activity leads to the enrichment of life.

Daily Thought

And if any naan obey not ont word by this epistle, note that man, that he may be ashamed.— II Thessalonians 3:14. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.—Emerson.