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Both Are Right Both the Chamber of Commerce and the school board happen to be right, although they are quarreling somewhat bitterly over the size of the bill for operating the schools next year. The chamber is right when it says that there is an economic emergency that makes it important to curtail drains upon the public purse. The board is much more right when it says that there must be no curtailment of adult schools, free kindergartens or the night schools. In periods of enforced idleness and enforced labor for many mothers of young children the adult school and the kindergartens are more important. To reduce the work of the schools at this time would be a confession of moral as well as financial bankruptcy. If the chamber desires to reduce the drains on the people’s purses, and it is quite correct in saying that in these critical days it is necessary to economize, it might begin with a realization that the taxes by private monopolies are as much a drain as are the direct taxes of governmental units. The cost of water, telephone service, electric light, gas and transportation are just as surely a tax as are those levied by the city, county or .school board. They are the necessities of city life and their price is a matter of regulation by government. A drive for a fair rate on these utilities during periods of stress and distress would relieve the property owner and the worker much more directly than any small reduction in tax rates. After the war these utilities established the legal principle that they were entitled to collect rates based upon the cost of reproduction of their plants. That meant that they could value their copper and steel at inflated prices of war times. They did just that thing. They have been collecting on the war, and are still collecting on the war, although they did not fight the war. The same thing is true of labor costs in their computations of reproduction value. They collect tribute on what it would cost to hire men during days of high prices, not on what was actually paid to the workers who stretched the wires or dug the trenches. If the principle of reproduction cost is right in days of inflation it is right in days of deflation. The chamber calls attention to the fact that prices of commodities have fallen and all wages reduced as a reason for cutting teachers’ salaries. These facts are even more important in fixing utility rates. If the chamber were half as vigorous in a demand for a thorough purging of utility companies of their excess valuations and their holding company larcenies as it is in trying to cut teachers’ wages, the emergency might be relieved. Perhaps if the chamber has any reason for inactivity in this direction, other civic bodies may find the effort worth while.

Give Hini a Chance A citizen of Nappanee offers to give a home to the boy who was sentenced to eight years in prison for being trifle slow in obeying an order of banishment from Princeton, Ind. Every social and humane reason suggests that the proper authorities give the boy this chance. If half the judge has said is true, and that is probably a fair estimate, then every social force of Princeton ‘ as failed. First the broken family failed. Then the schools failed, an orphanage failed and the very place he is now confined failed. Certainly this judge failed when he vent Russian and ordered exile. The explanation of the judge leaves much to be desired. He now says that he intended to order the father of the boy to take him to some other county. But he could hardly have expected a family to move between afternoon and supper time and it was because the boy was found in Princeton a few hours after the unusoal court proceeding that he was resentenced to eight years in prison. There is a division of opinion between the judge and the state authorities on the boy’s mentality and his "badness.” These state authorities say that he Is neither a mental deficient nor really bad. He seems to be a victim of bad environment. Possibly living In a community that elects judges who believe they have the power of banishment and exile may have contributed to the unfortunate result. One thing is certain. Long years of prison life mean a wrecked life. The boy ought to have a chance. Why not let this kind-hearted citizen of Nappanee ay his hand where all the others have failed. In Alabama One Negro killed, five wounded and some fifty wrested on various charges are the results to date of efforts of a sheriff, armed officers and posses to break up Negro meetings in the neighborhood of Camp Hill. Ala. The ever-ready cry of Communism promptly is raised. Communist agitators are charged with seeking to organize the Neg Toes. This is expected to do Its usual work of scaring the public into forgetfulness of wrongs and injustices that may be involved. Immediately back of these Alabama troubles is, of course, the recent death sentence imposed upon eight young Negroes convicted of assaulting two white girls. The trial took place in a community where prejudice admittedly was very strong. Protests again* the sentences have been nation-wide. An appeal to the Alabama supreme court is pending. But the circumstances under which these eight Negroes were condemned to death are not the only thing behind Negro unrest in Alabama. There appear to he deep-seated economic grievances. It Is charged

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that planters hold in a state of practical peonage the Negro tenant farmers, to whom they advance credit and supplies. Interest rates as high as 72 per cent, fake bookkeeping and false grading of crops are said to keep Negro “share croppers’’ In never-ending bondage to the same masters, and there Ls little redress for the black man in the courts. Here is a rich soil for Communism. Denouncing Communist agents does not change conditions that fairly beckon Communist propagandists to come in and take a hand. Nor can we expect all Negroes to stand firm against communistic tempters. We wish we could go all the way with william Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, when he says: “It must have been the aim of the Communist agitators deliberately to muddle the matter and stir up trouble. It is a desperate and vain effort to win the so-called ‘Negro proletariat’ to the Communist party. They misunderstood the situation and the psychology of the American Negro and of the south. “I am not here opposing Communism as an economic philosophy. I am opposing it as a means of defending those eight Negro boys in the south. It would be the best means in the world for hanging them or getting them mobbed. ’’ Os course, it was the aim of the Communist agitators to stir up trouble. And they are likely to meet with seme success wherever human beings are conscious of wrongs that the government persistently ignores. It would be too much to expect these Alabama Negroes, one and all, to turn a deaf ear to the blandishments of Communism. Study these Alabama troubles. Find out what the Negro meetings are for before turning sheriffs and posses loose on them. If grounds for protest are legitimate, those grounds become no less legitimate, the obligation of government to find a remedy becomes no less imperative, merely because protest becomes disorderly. Above all, break away from the theory that in these United States even wrong becomes right when Communism points a finger at it and speaks to those who suffer by it. Jobs for the Disabled Entirely aside from the humanitarian standpoint there will be a distinct financial gain for the federal government and taxpayers—ls the campaign of the veterans’ administration and service organizations to place disabled veterans in paying jobs is successful. Some 300,000 veterans are receiving compensation for war injuries. These men were in good health when they entered service, as Director Hines points out, and many never have been able to get satisfactory jobs since. The situation obliges them to seek maximum government help. “In the present era of machine production there are many jobs which these disabled men can do as well as any one, and they have a right to a job, a right to live, and we owe them a chance to make good,” says Hines. “Work is the surest way of a man retaining his self-respect.” Some 35,000 of the disabled veterans are in hospials, and among these are many whose restoration would be hastened if they were given work. Otherwise they may return for permanent treatment. The employment status of veterans drawing compensation is being determined through questionnaires. Where they are unemployed, the information will be i turned over to the department of labor, which will | endeavor to find suitable work. Director Hines has asked employers to help these men for whom the war has not ended. He should get it in the fullest degree. The Deficit—Again The fiscal year scarcely has begun, but the treasury already is worrying about how large a deficit will be incurred for 1931-32. The year began with the government $903,000,000 in the hole, and there was some gratification that the amount did not exceed a billion, as had been feared. It took only two weeks of the new year, however, for the billion mark to be passed. Expenditures exceeded receipts by $140,000,000, bringing the total deficit to $1,043,000,000. The treasury estimated last December that this year’s operations would leave a surplus of $31,000,000. j But this hope has been officially abandoned. Books ! will not balance, even if the expected business lm- j provement materializes and the demand for economy j results in reduced expenditures. The problem is to curtail expenditures and eventually—but not just before an election—to find new sources of revenue. Anew chewing gum introduced in Chicago has a I gin flavor. But most chewers, it is said, put on a wry j face.

REASON s* KENESAW IVLi/VOWiN M. LANDIS

HAVING been rudely awakened from the slumbers of a quiet summer vacation and forced to arduous labors by an automobile collision, we are beginning to wonder how long it has to go. a a This is the kind of weather when one hardly has the energy to look at a newspaper, and to ha\e to delve into them for column material is very depressing. When our immediate ancestor returns from the w T ars, and may it be soon, we are going to spend the rest of our life swimming and drinking lemonade. a a a THE Wickersham commission reports that the Mooney-Billings case, hanging fire in California for fourteen years, is "shocking to one’s sense of justice.” This is over a decade since President Wilson's special commission reported the same thing in stronger language. a a a The witnesses who were responsible for the conviction of these men are admitted perjurers, and yet by the rules of the California courts nothing can be done about it. All of which must have given these men who are still languishing in jail a few bitter reflections on the land of the free and the home of the brave. a a a IT used to be popular superstition that the law was some supernatural divining rod of justice, and that after its mysterious rites had been administered by some licensed votary, it automatically was effected. But such a delightful romantic attitude is only possible to those who have had no contact with it. a a a The people of Russia just have beaten twenty tax collectors to death. This does net mean that they are any less moral than we are; it merely proves that they have more executive ability. a a a j Some scientists have sent to Chicago some water thousands of years old. It will be perfectly safe there.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The French Idea on “Political Guarantees” Is Becoming Monotonous. SECRETARY STIMSON is “hopeful.” Men in his position usually are, until things go completely to smash. Meanwhile, the news from London is not so good. Six of the seven powers conferring appear to be fairly well agreed on what Germany needs and how to provide it. France, however, has fallen back on her chronic demand for “political guarantees.” Sometimes it looks as though nothing could be suggested by way of international relief, without France making her acceptance conditional on “political guarantees.” tt a a France Is ‘Generous’ WHAT France wants is a promise from everybody not to wage war on her in the first place, and to help her out, if war occurs, in the second. Given that, she is satisfied with a moratorium which costs her nothing and will let bankers provide Germany with the required credit. Frankly, the French attitude is getting monotonous. Just as frankly, other countries can pull Germany out of the mud if they must. The very fact that such course has been hinted at should be enough to warn France. tt tt tt He’s Prize Optimist ACCORDING to reports from Canton, President Chian KaiShek is ready to give up his job if the various factions will quit fighting and pool their interests for a war with Japan. If true, Chiang Kai-Shek is the world’s prize optimist. Where does he suppose China would land in a war with Japan, especially in her present condition? It would either be a massacre or a footrace. a tt a Pass Buck to Women Governor william h. (Alfalfa Bill) MURRAY of Oklahoma has a much better idea of how t-o settle an irritating dispute. He would let the women attend to it. But, perhaps, you haven’t read about the threatened bridge war between Oklahoma and Texas. II not, hasten to correct the oversight by all means. It’s a grand illustration of how state rights and federal rights, public business and private business, toll bridges and free bridges, can get all mixed up. Governor Sterling of Texas says the free bridges over the Red river can not be opened, though completed, not only because of an agreement with toll bridge companies. but because the latter have obtained a federal injunction to that effect. Governor Murray of Oklahoma says the free bridges shall be opened, regardless of agreements or injunctions. Governor Sterling has posted Texas Rangers to stop traffic at the Texas end of the free bridges, and Governor Murray has ordered traffic blocked at the Oklahoma end of the toll bridges. Having produced this stalemate, Governor Murray suggests that the women come to the rescue of both commonwealths, his theory being that, no matter what the women did, chivalrous peace officers would let them go ahead. tt tt tt Politics Hurts Here MAYBE that's a way out for the legislative investigation of New York City, which appears to have been balked by a stubborn exhouse doctor, who was made a couple of millions during the last eight years by getting permits from the board of standards, and won’t tell if, or with whom, he split some of the cash. This ex-horse doctor, or veterinarian, if you prefer, is a Democrat, of course, while the legislative committee, though containing Democrats, is ruled by a Republican majority. As might be expected, with 1932 so close at hand, and Democratic chances so bright, the issue has become political, rather than legal, with Democratic committeemen backing Dr. Doyle in his refusal to answer questions. That is one big defect in party investigations and party responsibility. tt a a More Politics DOWN in Tennessee, the state’s attorney-general having failed to file an indictment against Colonel Luke Lea on charges of conspiracy, after being ordered to do so by Judge Charles Gilbert, and having appealed to a justice of the supreme court,, from whom he got no satisfaction, Judge Gilbert is preparing to name a, district attorney-general to do the job. This is but one more queer episode in the curious chain of events brought about by the Lea-Caldwell crash last fall, which carried down several large corporations and scores of banks, not only in Tennessee, but in other southern states, 1 and in which politics, parading in the name of law, has played a major role.

Questions and Answers

Who gave the Japanese cherry trees to the city of Washington? The mayor of Tokio in 1911 sent to Washington nearly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees of twenty-seven varieties. They were found to be infested with disease when they arrived, and were destroyed. The second consignment of more than 2.000 came in the early spring of 1912, and on March 23 of that year Mrs. Taft, wife of the President, planted the first tree and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the second. What is the real name of "Death Valley Scotty,” and what is his address? His name is Walter Scott and he lives at Ryan, Cal. Are persons other than citizens of the United States allowed to serve on juries? No. In what year was the act passed that prohibited the immigration of Chinese and Japanese to the United States? Chinese and Japanese exclusion was incorporated in the immigration act of 1921,

DAILY HEALTH SERVICEHeart Tests Are Vital in Middle Age

Why men break down from heart failure after 50 is explained by Dr. Morris Fishbein in a series of five articles on "The Failing Heart of Middle Life." of which this is the second. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. MANY physicians look askance at the modern tendency to over-indulge in strenuous exercise after middle age. Records are available of numerous men who have fallen dead on golf courses or at home after a strenuous afternoon at golf. Dr. David Riesman says that men who want to take up golf in middle life should not do so without "a thor-

IT SEEMS TO ME

A YOUNG man was delivering a speech from an automobile just outside the George M. Cohan theater the other afternoon. I joined the group to find out the nature of the message. Anybody who has ever done street-corner meetings will always be interested in what the other fellow has to say. It scon was evident that this was not a political, but a religious, discussion. It seems to me an excellent thing that religion should be talked to street corner groups. The spirit of such casualness appeals to me more than set rituals of any church. It is a return to the original modes of most religions—certainly of the Christian religion. That should get out into the open and bid for the attention of the passerby. tt a tt Nose Tweaking THE young man who carried on the talk was pleasant-faced and a good talker. And yet before he was done I had an enormously strong impulse to walk over to the machine from which he spoke and tweak his nose. But I remembered that the last time I created a disturbance at a street meeting I came away with a black eye. The provocation was of the same sort as it had been on a similar occasion. I resented an ignorant judgment passed publicly on a man I knew. / The young Christian in the car undertook to read extracts frpm the last letter of Ralph Barton and to hold Ralph Barton up before the crowd as a typical Broadway waster, whose suicide was the inevitable result of idleness and dissipation. Now, I don’t pretend to know the causes which led Barton to kill himself. I doubt that he did. The letter which he left was, after all, only an effort to grope for explanations. It might almost be a generalization covering a good many cases

PLEA TO TROOPS July 23 * ON July 23, 1917, the executive council of the all-Russia workingmen’s and soldiers’ and peasants’ organzations issued a proclamation to the Russian troops, urging them to "save the fatherland." The proclamation read in paxt: "Fellow soldiers: One of our armies has wavered, its regiments have fled before the enemy. Who is responsible for this humiliation? The responsibility rests with those who have spread discord in the army and shaken its discipline.'With those who at a time of danger, disobeyed the military commands and wasted time in fruitless discussions and disputes. * "Enough of words. The time has come to act without hesitation. We have acknowledged the provisional government. With the government lies the salvation of the revolution. We have acknowledged its unlimited authority and unlimited power. Its commands must be law. "Fellow soldiers: You are being watched by those who work for Russia and by the whole world. The ruin of the Russian revolution spells ruin for all. Summon up all your manhood, your perseverance and sense of discipline and save the fatherland.”-'

The Hitch Hiker

ough physical examination which ought to be repeated after they have played a little. I have seen men between 50 and 60 years of age whose hearts stepped up tremendously in the rate and intensity of the beat after they had played ten holes of gol? on a hot day. The forms of heart disease that are concerned are not always those affecting the arteries that supply the heart with blood. Sometimes the condition is angina pectoris, sometimes a breakdown of the heart tissues. Dr. Riesman feels that the heredity of the individual and his constitution may be important factors in determining the form of heart

that no man who knows why he wants to commit suicide will ever go through with it. a a tt Uninformed * I GRANT a lack of universality in that. But there is probably much in the Freudian notion that selfdestruction is one way in which man tries to kill not so much himself as some other person. It is traditional in China that the doorstep of an enemy is the most appropriate place upon which to stab yourself. However, I was not concerned with the defense or condemnation of suicide. It is a personal matter. What riled me was the smug assumption that Ralph Barton must of necessity be a frivolous and timewasting person because he dealt with Broadway shows and performers in his caricatures. The young man in the car probably was ignorant of the fact that Barton also wrote one of the most biting satirical histories of America. If his career came to a psychic and emotional jam, that misfortune

People’s Voice

Editor Times—When this earth was created, the Creator had such wonderful foresight to know that all his souls here on earth would need water, especially here in Indianapolis, and I don’t think it was his intention that a gentleman from Philadelphia would come here and gobble up this creation and then sell it back to the people in gallon lots. I have wondered often who made it possible for this Philadelphia gentleman also to lay watermains in our streets and charge us for them at a rate of something like 16 cents a lineal foot and also charge the city a great many dollars for each and every water plug put in for fire protection. And it must be remembered that these water mains and fire plugs are put in only where there are sufficient users to guarantee the water company more than a fair return on its investment. Do the citizens of Indianapolis really understand how this water company really does charge them, and how much, for every drop of water used, that it was God’s intention we should have? I am under the impression that if our citizens w T ould give this matter consideration and find out what we were buying what already belongs to us, they would, every one, be in favor of sending the gentleman back to Philadelphia and telling him to stay there where he belongs. I believe w-e could find someone here in Indianapolis who could run our water supply that God gave us without any dictation from outside help. Every one would be better off if he would go to the Columbia Club and pack up his $20,000 noisg maker and also take some of its membership with him who were responsible for laws being passed that enabled the city of Indianapolis water supply to be in the hands of someone or a few men who don’t even pay their full quota of taxes and take millions of dollars from our community. If this man really did want to do something, why did he not put 520,000 in a fund to supply water to those out of employment, and to those who are sick and disabled, especially the poor children who in several instances have had their water supply shut off by the water company on account of our citizens not being able to pay their water bills. How much longer are we citizens going to be compelled to pay for something that God has given us? FRANCIS GOOTEE. ' 816 Chadwick street.

disease from which the individual will suffer. Many insurance companies emphasize particularly the seriousness of overweight after middle age. Dr. Riesman believes that overweight people can be divided into two classes—those who are excessively fat, with a soft type of fat on one hand, and on the other hand, those who are overweight and solid, whose fat is firm, and who are not far above the ideal weight. T*!he former type is likely to be quiet and lazy, and therefore is not likely to suffer from heart disease; the latter type is the active individual seen on the golf courses and most likely to succumb to heart disease.

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hardly could be traced to an eagerness for Broadway pastimers. Barton was, among other things, touched with some share of Puritanism, and he set along the edges of the primrose path pictures, making fun of pedestrians who used that thoroughfare. a a o In All Fairness JV/fOREOVER, he was a prodigious worker, taking great pains and time with his drawing. And he left a definite contribution—not for all time, I suppose—but his work does deserve some niche in the annals of this particular age. The fact that he killed himself doesn’t mean that he failed. T..at could have been the merest sort of psychic accident. He didn’t kill his work with that same bullet. That was why I wanted to tweak the nose of the smug, self-satisfied mediocre little man in the auto. I wanted to tweak his nose and say at the same time, "Speak softly when you mention the names of your betters.” It is a common fault with all young crusaders both religious and political, that they take too much for granted. They do not stop to consider the whys and wherefores of human behavior. They are positive that the doctrine they preach is an allembracing panacea for our ills. But the problem is not quite so simple. This last decade has produced a race of strongly individualistic people. We are not satisfied any more to just work, eat, sleep and occasionally play. a a a Give and Take THE trouble is that we still cling subconsciously to the theory that every minute of our waking day should be spent in self-better-ment. An evening of sheer frivolity leaves us conscience stricken. Or it may be that we are only afraid of having to pay the piper. This notion was brought homo to me very emphatically the other day. A young man of my acquaintance came up to me and said: "You know, Mr. Broun, I somehow dread the thought of this day’s ending. I laughed so much this afternoon that I'm sure I’ll cry before the day is over.” fCoDvrieht. 1931. bv The Times)

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JULY 23, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

When ‘Hunchback Flies’ Step Into the Spider's Parlor They Go to Eat—Not to Be Eaten. PROVERBS about the spider and the fly are many. Undoubtedly most readers, back in primary school days, shed a tear or two for the poor little fly who was invited to step into the spider’s parlor. They may be surprised, therefore, to knovt that there is one kind cf fly which far from falling a victim to spiders, makes a habit of dining upon them. Austin H. Clark, the distinguished biologist of the Smithsonian Institution, swho has made a study of queer animals, fish and insects, tells about them. “Strange as it may seem,” says Dr. Clark, “there is a whole group of flies all the members of which feed entirely ofl*spiders. They are very queer looking flies. Their head is very small and seems to consist almost entirely of a pair of eyes. Their backs are so strongly arched that they seem to be deformed—little hunchbacked flies. “A number of these spider-eating flies are very beautifully colored and brilliantly metallic. There are not so very many different kinds of these curious flies, and most of them are rare.” Among other curious flies described by Dr. Clark is the so-called stalk-eyed flies. These have the eyes each on the end of a long stalk projecting sideways from the head. Staik-EyecT IN some of the stalk-eyed flies tha distance from eye to eye is as great as the distance across tha wings, or twice the body length. Dr, Clark states. “Stalk-eyed flies are common in the tropics in damp grass lands and in shady woods,” he say. “Safely concealed on the under surface of a grass blade with their little eyes projecting out on either side, thanks to the long stalks, they can see you perfectly without your being able to see them. “You see them first when they fly away. “One kind of stalk-eyed fly is common in our eastern states, but. in this the stalks are very short and give little indication of the bizarre appearance of some of its oriental relatives.” Dr. Clark says that the so-called human bot-fly of the American tropics is the most ingenious of flies. “The maggots live beneath the skin, forming local sores,” he says. “But the flies themselves never come near man. If the flies never come near man, how is it that their maggots find their way to the human body? “The female bot-fly captures a female mosquito and lays some eggs on the under side of the mosquito’s body. Later, when the mosquito is engaged in sucking blood from a sleeping person, a little bot-fly maggot emerges from an egg, drops to the skin of the mosquito’s victim, and when the mosquito it through feeding enters the body through the opening made by the mosquito’s beak.” tt tt a House Flies THE common house-fly Ls just one of a number of flies which frequent houses in summer, Dr. Clark points out. “From time to time during the summer you are annoyed by a sharp bite, and on looking at the bitten spot you see the culprit, which seems to be an ordinary house-fly,” he says. “But it is not a house-fly. If you. watch a house-fly lapping up its food or water you will see that its mouth parts are soft and expanded at the end and are adapted for imbibing liquids. “The mouth parts of this biting fly form a sharp beak which is adapted to piercing the skin or animals and sucking blood. It almost Invariably bites through clothing and seems to specialize on socks and stockings. Animals it bites mostly on the lower portion of the legs. “The biting house-fly is really very different from tne house-fly. It is somewhat stouter, and is usually slightly larger. When at rest it carriers its wings at a greater angle. Its slender, but efficient beak, of which the tip is visible, serves to distinguish it at once. “Many different kinds of flies frequent out-houses besides the common house-fly. One of the commonest of these is the lesser housefly which is smaller than the housefly and has a more pointed body. “This fly has a curious habit of flying in an angular course beneath a chandelier in the center of a room. “Then there is the stable-fly which is almost exactly like the house-fly. Another common fly in houses, especially in cool, damp cel. lars, is the large and hairy bluebottle.”

Daily Thought

But if ye bit and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.—Galatians 5:15. The avaricious man is kind to ro person, but he is most unkind to himself.—John Kryle.