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Watson to Rescue Some of the influences which have always been his strong supporters may be peeved but the people generally -*lll applaud the vigorous statement ot Senator James Watson on the question of wage cutting by the steel trust. There w sound economics and sound patriotism behind his declaration that wage cutting will increase depression and unemployment. While the industrialists promised the President months ago that they would not resort to this practice, the truth is that wages, through either direct reductions or evasions of various kinds have been cut and that he average annual incomes of large groups of workers have been reduced. Last fall Senator Watson sounded a note of warning when r.t openly suggested a five-day week for industry. The country is coming to understand very rapidly that there is but one cure for unemployment and that is work. The inevitable consequence of widespread ana continued unemployment is the soup house, the bread line, the heavy tax for charity and discontent that becomes either explosive or expressive. The senator might go one step forward and declare that what the country needs is not deflation but inflation and that increased wages, a fair division of labor, a .ecure annual income for every family is essential not only to prosperity but to civilization itself. It is not often that The Times has an opportunity to praise Senator Watson. We disagree often. But his stand on the wage question now is not onl> sound, but brave and courageous because of the grip which big business has always held upon the machinery of his party. There is one question and one only before this country and that is the matter of employment and wages for workers. The slogan raised by the Fraternal Order of Eagles a year ago when it declared that it is the inalienable right of every American to work and to work at a saving wage now becomes a national platform. Unless that right is made available, no one can predict immediate history in this country. Senator Watson catches the seriousness of the situation when he declares against wage cutting in a basic industry. Perhaps when congress convenes, the senator may be found urging the passage of a bill introduced in that body by Congressman Ludlow of this city and Senator Blaine of Wisconsin in providing for a commission with the same powers to deal with labor as is given to the interstate commerce commission to deal with transportation. No American starves to death, nor will. Every American demands the right to earn his food. Indiana Indicted The manner in which the parole system of this state is administered comes in for strong indictment oy the Wickersham committee, so strong that officials will find it difficult not to change their habits and customs. The whole system of placing the parole power in the hands of trustees of the various penal institutions is fundamentally wrong. The trustees, in theory, have charge of the business affairs of the institutions. It is their duty to see that there is no waste of public funds and that there Is proper discipline, food and housing. It is very human for them to make records for themselves in the matter of production of prison goods. There is a human temptation to prolong the sentences af the efficient. The contractors for prison labor have not been without political influence. That can be changed by the legislature. The old pardon board was abolished under Governor Jackson. There was a broad suspicion at the time that Jackson desired as few official contacts with D. C. Stephenson as possible. He trusted his trustees to keep the lid on Stephenson’s revelations until after the statute of limitations had run against political crimes involving the high and mighty. They did a good job in this respect. But the trustees can refrain from making parole meetings a Roman holiday for invited guests. It can refrain from forcing pitiable creatures to undergo the ardeal of revealing their souls before an unsympathetic audience, especially of women. No person who ever sat through one of these meetings at which, so says the Wickersham report, anew chance is given or denied with a scant two minutes of consideration, could help but be Impressed with the essential brutality of the performance, Conditions In the larger prisons have become unspeakable. Most of them are overcrowded. The state does a good Job of brutalizing those who are received for reformation. .. The one hope is in the parole power, if the purpose of salvaging human values is to be accomplished. The present system of turning this task over to trustees who turn their meetings into a vaudeville show and operate on a mass production schedule destroys that chance. Perhaps Governor Leslie, now that his attention is officially called to the matter, will correct it as far as possible until the legislature gets its chance. The Last Stronghold Mr. Hoover has said much about "rugged individualism” as the core of the American economic and social system, but it actually persists in only one Important field of American industry, namely, retail distribution. Banking, manufacturing, mining and ransportation already have been caught up in the network of combinations and mergers. Detailed information about the status of retail selling in the United States has been provided for the first time by the census of 1930. The statistical facts cover the year 1929. Retail selling is our greatest industry. Total retail sales for 1929 amounted to $60,000,000,000, no less than two-thirds of the total estimated national income for that year. Yet the units stlU remain surprisingly small. There are between and eight and fifteen stores to the thousand of the population. The average annual sales from $19,287 in South Carolina to $39,715 in Michigan. The editor of Pacts for Workers estimates that it requires an average annual sale of $50,000 to provide for an adequate living inoome and to give assurance of financial stability to the owner. This means that there is a very high mortality among retail merchants. "A tremendous number of retailers enter business only to fall in a short time. The number of small 6tore is maintained, in spite of failures, by the new crop which Is always coming into the business.” Quoting Facta for workers: Retailing is about the last stronghold of independent business man It furnishes about the

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last trhance of the enterprising citizen to set himself up as a self-contained unit, an opportunity of growing to a big business. But this stronghold rapidly is crumbling before the onslaught of big business in retailing. "The tendency here, as elsewhere, is for the majority of persons to become employes, or at least agents, working for the large business aggregation.” The retail store is the last citadel of individualism in regard to its labor policy as well. Though it is the greatest American industry, there is hardly a vestige of labor organization therein. The employes are helpless and at the mercy of the social attitude of the Individual employer. In many cases wages are notoriously low and hours long. But great breaches are being made in the walls of this last fortress of the old Individualistic system.! Chain stores now constitute about one unit out of every ten in the retail business. They do an even greater part of the retail selling. In 485 representative stores, scattered over the country, the chain units did some 17 per cent of the business. Common Sense in France Now and then a French writer expresses sentiments which radiate a truly liberal point of view. Such an expression has just come from Gustave Herve, editor of La Victoire. In an article on "France and Germany” he sizes up the present situation with a degree of common sense which French diplomats would do well to emulate. He says: "Does Germany accept the peace of Versailles? No. "Would Germany, even in her nationalist elements, accept a peace based on a revision of the treaty of Versailles with a modification of certain clauses which she considers inexcusable, humiliating or unjust? Yes. “What are the modifications urged by her? They are these: The right to arm herself like any other independent nation, the end of the 'tribute’ of reparations, the restitution of the Kamerun, Togoland and the Saar, and her union with Austria and her 7,000,000 Germans by virtue of her natural right to complete her national entity, and a rectification of her eastern frontier. "What of these modifications can we and ought we to accept? All, with the exception of that which concerns the rectification of the German frontier touching Poland. In this case the decision depends alone on Poland, who should be advised energetically, if she does not wish to again be dismembered as she was in the eighteenth century, to surrender the socalled ‘Polish’ corridor, which foolishly cuts Germany into two fragments, on condition that Germany formally renounces claim to any other territory arrogated to Poland. "If Germany solemnly accepts peace on these bases, shall we feel obliged to believe that she wishes peace? Yes. "What will remain to us of our victory? Alsace- ! Lorraine, the surrection of Poland, the consolidation of our African empire, the immortal glory of the Marne and of Verdun. What will happen if we do not quickly revise the I treaty of Versailles? First, the increase of unemployment and a crisis in business throughout the entire world, then the inevitable war of revenge which will crown a Bolshevist European revolution. "What will happen if we revise in time? The revival of confidence and credit (the recovery of business), a Franco-German reconciliation, security for Poland, the rapid collapse of Bolshevism at Moscow, the possibility of being able to speak without laughing of the ‘United States of Europe.’ Can France disarm? With the present attitude of German mentality, one would be made to talk about disarmament.” Political Prohibition The federal courts have frowned upon the use of the federal government for purely political purposes. They decide that the czaristic methods of Old Russia have no place in this country and turn free five city policemen on the ground that they had been entrapped by an undercover man furnished by At-torney-General Ogden. The indictment of the police in advance of the last election was of course a part of a political conspiracy to which a part of the federal government lent itself. No raids were made in the county where conditions under the then Sheriff Winkler, a candidate for re-election, were as open as in the city. The amazing feature of the situation was that it was necessary to entrap the policemen. Now that the police are free, the police board has a fine opportunity to set a standard for service by refusing to reinstate them. The city deserves men who can not be “entrapped” by government bootleggers and. are above the temptations of taking money or favors for overlooking law violations. The federal courts have justified the faith of the people. The five policemen should not be punished. But there is no reason to believe that the city longer needs their services.

REASON

HERE is an account of the organization of two new political groups, each with a pet idea to advance. Most people regard societies the playthings of meddlers with no other occupation, and they usually are right, but this in no way affects their capacity for stirring up devilment. Laymen may laugh, but politicians quake in their boots. * a tt In the old days our statesmen used to put their feet on the table and lean back with philosophical deliberation to discuss national and international issues. Os course this was a luxury to be enjoyed only after the election was over, the votes in, and suitably counted. Ns a a OW this has been changed. Our statesmen no longer have the time even to play poker. They must spend the hours of the day and night in resisting the advance of the organization in support of this, or against that. a a a They always end up by surrendering. After a strenuous day your hero may find himself engaged to half a hundred different projects about which he cares nothing and understands less. George Bernard shaw just has visited the shrine of Lenin in the Red Square in Moscow. This visit of Shaw’s must have made him reflect upon the incredible things life hold at her beck and call. a * a Long years ago, when Shaw was the leading light in London’s literary circles and darling of her 5 o’clock teas, Lenin, the future father of the Russian revolution, was hiding away in the slums of the east end, buying bread and butter now and then, with a few pennies which he sometimes earned as an obscure London correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune. And the very conservative Herald Tribune also might have a few sentiments oe this score*

BV KENESAW M. LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES'

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Grasshoppers and the Attitude of Mind They Symbolize Some Day Will Come to Roost on Your Own Table. NEW YORK, July 28—Grasshoppers! You’ve been reading about them, of course—headlines, at least. Just one more calamity to prove that farming is all wrong. “Glad I’m not in that mess,” says the commuter as he unfolds his morning paper and learns what a tough time the boys out in Nebraska are having to save their 50cent wheat. “Right,” says his seat companion, “the little old town's good enough for me, with the little old pay check coming in regular and the little old boss doing all the worrying.” 0 0 0 'Vittles and Drink’ NOW and then you’ll hear some pessimist wondering where we’re going to get "vittles and drink,” if all the farmers go broke, but he promptly is squelched. The great majority have small patience with that kind of glooming. According to the vast majority, we still have too many farmers. “Look at wheat,” they will argue, “or corn, cotton and cattle, and look at the misery of those who are foolish enough to stay on the land, fighting bugs, blight and weather.” And then they’ll quote facts to prove it. 000 Wheat and Bread TOO much grain, too much meat, too much truck, if prices that the producer gets mean anything. Still, millions of people can’t get enough to eat, while prices that the consumer must pay seem strangely out of line with what the producer must take. An lowa farmer goes into one place of business and sells his wheat for less than 1 cent a pound. Then he goes into another—right next door, perhaps—and buys bread at 8 cents a pound. 00 Pee-Wee Passes INSTEAD of burning the grasshoppers, some farmers are packing them in boxes and selling them to fishermen for bait. Your optimistic moralist should be able to see a fine example of thrift and ingenuity in that, just as fine as he saw in miniature golf last summer. Remember the cheerful words coming out of Washington with regard to miniature golf and the wonders it was working for the restoration of prosperity—an investment of $125,000,000, work for 10,000 men and so on? Where are all the pee-wee courses now, or the pee-wee fad which was responsible for them? 000 Farming Fundamental SOME things count for a great deal no matter how hard they seem to do, or how little they seem to bring. Others are not worth a second thought, though they seem easy and result in large returns for the moment. There are people who look upon a nation of tree-sitters as just as safe and solid as a nation of farmers. Obviously, they have their right to such an opinion. Neither is such an opinion tremendously different from that which visualizes a nation’s credit system as separable from the land. 000 The Stock Gamble THE average American is proud in the thought that this country has abandoned agriculture for industry. He would come nearer hitting the mark if he went one step farther and admitted that it rapidly was abandoning industry for speculation. The financial psychology of these United States is no longer dominated by mine, mill, and factory, but by the stock market. Where one investor studies the statements put out by various firms, of corporations, a thousand are content to be guided by daily quotations on their stocks and securities. The man who goes to a baseball game • and bets on whether the batter “does, or does not” gambles almost as intelligently. Pests Will 'Come Home’ GRASSHOPPERS! They’re not half so interesting to read about as the Starr Faithful case, the murder of Henrietta Schmerler, the Seabury investigation, or the seven-day crossing of the Atlantic by J. P. Morgan in his 3,000-ton yacht which he implies was merely for fun and not connected in any way with the European situation. Grasshoppers and the attitude of mind which they not only symbolize, but are helping to create, will one day come to roost on your own table, no matter where you live. So will the boll weevils, Japanese beetles, corn borers and innumerable other pests about which you hear every once in a while.

Questions and Answers

To what vegetable family do peanuts belong? It Is a legume like peas, beans, etc., differing only in that it possesses the character of blooming above ground and maturing its fruits, or pod, beneath the surface. Is there any state or federal law compelling married women to wear a wedding ring? No. What does “Cimarron” mean? It is a Spanish w’ord meaning wild or unruly. How should a woman toastmaster be addressed? She should be addresses as “Madam Toastmaster.” What does the name Orva mean? It is derived from the Teutonic and means rich. Are there any women in the United States senate? No. \ How should a horseshoe be hung over a door to bring good luck? It is supposed’ that hanging It with, the points up keeps the luck from falling out. Who is the American ambassador to Germany? Frederick, M. Sacks tt.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Electric Shock Varies With Contacts

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Ilrceia, the Health Magazine. IT lias now been quite definitely established that death may result even frorh 110 volts, provided it is passed through the body at certain points and under certain circumstances. If the body is in contact with a moist surface and if the current passes through portions of the body where there are vital tissues, death is more likely to result than wien it passes into the body under other circumstances. In a recent consideration of the subject, Drs. O. R. Langworthy and W. B. Kouwenhoven emphasized the fact that, the location of the contacts determines to a large extent the pathway of the current through the body.

IT SEEMS TO ME

IAM beginning to understand why some of us actors hate some of those dramatic critics. In all logic, a critic lias a right to say whatever he pleases. Not only is it his right, but also his bounden duty; to record accurately his impressions of the entertaimnent set before him. His function is to review the play and not the audience. And yet some people engaged In the honest performance of a duty are often less than likable. You : ay hate a man even though there is no rational background for your dislike. Indeed, it is easier to hate people when the rational reason is dimmed or absent. For instance, there is one young man on a rival newspaper who will do well to pick his dark alleys carefully from now on. He saw his duty, and he did it. But I see my venom, and I’ll release it if opportunity ever offers. The story next day will be, in effect, in its headlines: ' “DRAMATIC CRITIC VICTIM OF BRUTAL MURDER!” 000 Script of the Show? AND the news note will relate that the defunct third-assist-ant reviewer was stabbed no less than forty-two times with a sharp stiletto and ohterwise mangled by repeated blows wiht a dull blunt instrument. In the second paragraph will come the information: “The .assailant, when arraigned before Judge Corrigan, gave his name as Heywood Broun and said that he was an actor.” It is a curious thing the way the mind of a monologist reacts to' notices. When they are good, the

BRITISH WAR SUMMARY July 28

ON July 28, 1917, Major-General Frederick B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the British war office, issued a summary of the results of three years of war. He said, in part: “The first year of the war, broadly speaking, was an attempt by Germany to put into effect elaborate plans which .her military strategists had been preparing over the space of many long years. The first phase was a concentrated attack on France and Belgium. ... The attack on France was checked,- first on the Marne, later on the Yser and at Ypres. ... "In the autumn of 1915 Germany definitely abandoned her old prewar strategic scheme and started in on anew plan . • . namely, an effort to upbuild ‘Mittel Europa’ as a great block composed of four socalled central powers which would command the road to the east. “The end of 1916 found the situation between the two groups of contetsants about equally balanced, but with the scales leaning slightly in favor of the entente. “During the v hole third year of the war Germany and her allies attempted ijQthing on land. The; everywhere have been cm the defensive.’* *

, Well, It’s Something

For example, if the contacts are made with one arm or leg on the same side, it seems hardly possible that a great amount of current will pass through the head. The brain is easily injured by electricity, and in legal executions it is customary to put one electrode on the skull so that the electricity will pass through the brain. In an analysis of 479 cases, an industrial surgeon found that the current in the vast majority passed through the body by the hands or arms and then was grounded. Occasionally cuwrent enters into the legs of men working on telegraph wires. In an endeavor to determine absolutely the facts in these cases, the investigators mentioned undertook to study the effect of electric shock on rats in Johns Hopkins

critic suddenly adds a cubit to his stature in the mind of the performer. I read something the other day which immediately inspired me with the feeling: “Isn’t Mr. X a swell fellow? And how beautifully he writes! That’s pure Addisonian prose. And how shrewd and quick is his judgment about all things theatrical. I’ve always liked him.” And, on the other hand, certain paragraphers have loosed from my subconscious the thought: “Why, what would that little pie-faced runt know about anything? He never was much good. “It’s a shame that his paper employs a person so ill equipped for the grave and exciting task of evaluating a summer revue.” From now on one branch of journalism is closed to me completely. Never can I, under any circumstances whatsoever, assume the job of dramatic critic or even indulge myself in casual comment about a show. I v/on’t be a reliable signpost. Remorse assails me for any mean things I may have said in the past. All actors are paragons and all plays perfection itself, or very close to it. Surely it would become a little tiresome to the reader if the commentator offered him nothing more day after day and night after night than “The production at the Gimlet theater last night was a howling success. Everything was simply swell.” n u G. B. S. on Parade t AM sorry that George Bernard Shaw has gone to Russia, and even more sorry that he should be accompanied by Lady Astor. During the next few weeks front pages will contain short stories built upon the repartee indulged in by the great lady and the great dramatist. We will get, by virtue of the cables, the perfectly ripping remark made by Nancy to George and the manner in which he topped it in his reply. And in every case these jokes, when reduced to cold and black type, seem feeble stuff. As one who worshipped ardently at the shrine of Shaw for twenty years, I could wish that the maestro would deny himself to all interviewees. It comes as a distinct shock that the man who wrote “St. Joan” can at times give out utterances which sound perilously like the opening paragraph of a Calvin Coolidge column. Still it may be that the fault does not lie entirely with Mr. Shaw. A joke which passes through the hands of an inquiring reporter and then a telegraph operator can become sadly mangled in its journey to the front page. mam May Be Humidity ONCE upon a time in Cincinnati I was interviewed. During the process it seemed to me that sparks flew from my lips. The next day I read the story in puzzled bewilderment. The reporter had muffed a lot, or maybe I was wrong from the beginning. At any rate, one of us was awful. Here in America, Chauncey Depew for many years carried the role of front >paga jester sor the papers. And very little which was attributed

university and applied the electrode at various parts of the body. It was found that a continuous circuit produces more danger than alternating current. It was found that no rat subjected to a continuous circuit survived permanently. Their death was due largely to the burning and destruction in the place where the current entered. Death from electric shock is largely due to failure of the breathing apparatus. Such deaths were not so frequent when the current passed through the hind legs and did not pass through the brain, and still many died from failure of the breathing apparatus.

When the current does not pass directly through the chest or the upper portion of the spinal cord, the respiratory apparatus is, in men, not so likely to be affected.

RV HEYWOOD 15 Y BROUN

to him sounded funny in the printing. But it may well be that on certain occasions he wasn’t even playing. When a public man achieves a reputation for humor he must watch his step. Even such a simple query as, “Do you think it’s going to rain?” is supposed to be a cue to him for some gag line. T^ nd - if he re P Ues a simply as. I don’t know,” some Boswell in the background is sure to scream with laughter and exclaim: "Oh, what a wit is Mr X'” (Copyright. 1931. by United Prssa)

People’s Voice

Editor Times-Washington township s new fire station is to be located at 5545 North Illinois street. This is only about one and onefourth miles from the one already located in Broad Ripple. Is this fair to taxpayers already burdened to the breaking point by high taxes and assessments? The present administration received many votes on the strength of their promise of economy. Such economy as was practiced in the cleaning of the statehouse may be blamed on the Republicans, but who is to blame when an engine house (supposed to serve the northwest section) is located in a high priced district composed entirely of firepro* buildings and extensive ground? which is already adequately served’ when a cheaper site is available in the thickly populated district one mile southwest, composed of frame dwellings? Why not even consider the site offered adjoining Butler’s fieldhouse? There, a fire-station would serve a two-fold purpose, inasmuch as the police powers thus afforded would help to curb the rowdyism and rottenness which occurs almost nightly along the sheltering walls of this noble institution. Tuesday’s meeting of the board of zoning appeals showed very plainly how little attention id paid to the mere taxpayer. He only foots the bills while Butler college’s vast grounds are nontaxable. When will Indianapolis awaken as

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-JULY 28, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAMP DIETZ

Different Nations See Man, Woman, Frog, Hare and Cat as Moon DweUers. AN old adage says that marriages are made In heaven, but according to Chinese tradition, they are made in the moon. The Chinese "old man in the moon,” known as “Yue-lao,” is the celestial match-maker. According to tradition, he ties together future mates with invisible silken cords. It Is interesting to note that the old Chinese legend supposed a man in the moon. Our own traditions about a man in the moon can be traced far back into the middle ages. It may be that both legends had a common origin somewhere in the earliest days of civilization. While, as already noted, European and Chinese legends refer to a man in the moon, traditions of the South Sea islands and of the American Indians refer to a woman in the moon. * The Eskimos also interpret the spots on the moon's surface as forming the face of a woman. In Asia, the spots on the moon are thought to form the outline of a hare. If the moon is observed between first quarter and full moon, the spots do present a pattern which, with a little Imagination, can be transformed into the figure of a hare. In this connection, it is of Interest to note that the Sanskirt name for the moon is “Sasanka” which means '“having the marks of a hare.” 000 Hare THERE is an old Buddhist legend connected with the “hare in the moon." According to this story, the god, Sakkria, assumed the form of a human being and came to earth to beg alms. Various animals, the monkey, the fox, and so on, gave him fruit and fish and other gifts. When he came to the hare, that poor animal said that he owned nothing but the grass. He agreed, however, to give the god his own flesh and consented to jump into a fire which the god kindled. But as he jumped, the god transported him to heaven where he now is to be seen in the moon. A slightly different legend Is found in Ceylon. According to this one, Buddha once became lost in a forest. A hare undertook to guide him out of the forest. Buddha thanked the hare, but said that he could not reward him, since he was poor and hungry himself. “If you are hungry," the hare is supposed to have replied, "build a fire and roast me.” Buddha to test the animal’s' sincerity, proceeded to kindle a fire. The hare jumped into it. But Buddha snatched him out and placed him in the moon, where he still fs to be seen. There is an old Chinese representation of the moon as a beautiful woman with a rabbit lying at her feet, showing beyond doubt, that the Indian legend at some time must have made its way into China. 000 Frog According to a number of legends among the American Indians, the figure to be seen on the moon is that of a frog or toad. In Australia, there is a native legend which pictures a cat in the moon. To summarize, the spots on the moon are represented variously, as a man, a woman, a hare, a frog, and a cat. No doubt, there are still other legends picturing still other creatures. Two things stand out as particularly interesting. One is that the habit of picturing some creature in the spots of the moon has been a universal tendency of mankind. We find such legends throughout the world, in ancient China and India, in Europe of the Middle Ages, among the native tribes of Africa, Australia and South Sea Islands, among the American Indians and the Eskimos. The second point of interest is the similarity between many of the legends. A legend in India will resemble one in China, for example. In many cases, this may be a coincidence. But in others, it undoubtedly points to a common origin of legends in some remote day, perhaps before the beginning of history. While lunar legends apoeal to us. because of their fanciful nature they are material for serious study for the anthropologist who seeks to understand the beginnings of many of man’s ideas.

Daily Thought

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers cf fifties, and rulers of tens —Exodus 18:25. Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty Maclaren. to who really rules our fair city, and how J Remove the politics from Butler and we, too, may have a real university. VERA VAKE. 4915 Cornelius avenue.