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£ Punishing Prisoners. When Indiana next elects a Governor, the people would do well to get from candidates very definite promises in regard to the control of prisons and the treatment of prisoners. True, in the last election the people thought they had some hope ahead when Leslie, the candidate, promised to “clean up the statehouse.” They did not understand that he meant merely to hand out a contract for $64,000 to wash its surfaces, a figure which it is alleged in court is at least $30,000 higher than offers from local firms to do the job. That gesture is his one interpretation made of his campaign pledge. The viciousness of the present parole and pardon system is brought to light by the Wickersham comment on the conduct of the meetings of the boards of trustees, especially of the Michigan City penitentiary. * The caustic vivisection of the prisoners before a select audience of admiring women who may enjoy, as did the Roman matrons, the battle between gladiators and lions, is not calculated to salvage what may be left of character or sweetness of mind in those who undergo the ordeal. There should be a general pardon board for all prisons, composed of citizens with some semblance of heart and a trace, at least, of understanding of human nature. The giving of parole and pardon power to trustees of the prison was a political movement by Governor Jackson designed to prevent the old pal of the politicians from talking until the of limitations ran against their common crimes. The scheme worked. Stephenson was silenced until his revelations could not indict or prosecute. And every other prisoner in every institution becomes the victim of the system created in self defense by a guilty political machine. Os course, some drastic changes in the membership of the board might bring results. But there are probably reasons why no such changes will be made. The people must wait for an election. In the meantime the monthly performance of ghastly vaudeville will be repeated for the sadistic satisfaction of those who enjoy human cruelty.

Wnnted —A Joseph. When Joseph set about gathering stores of grain for Pharaoh against the seven famine years which God had revealed were coming after seven years of plenty, he must have imposed hardships on the ruler’s subjects. For even in the fertile valley of the Nile raising and garnering grain was a laborious undertaking. The Egyptians prepared the soil with crude plows, cut the grain with sickles, and beat out the kernels with flails. It was all hand work, and backbreaking. The fear of famine was constant, and it was necessary for all but a few of the people to live on the land. Men learned how to make farming easier, though not much easier, through the centuries, but it has been only within the last hundred years that the face began to free itself from the soil. A hundred years ago nine out of every ten Americans lived on farms—and still used sickle and flail. The surplus they produced for city dwellers was small. Then a young Virginian, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Invented the mechanical rqaper in 1831, and anew era began. The first machine was crude, but it did the work of twenty men with sickles. It released armies of men from the soil for work in factories. The way was opened for industrialization. The binder and thresher followed the reaper and improvements were made in cultivation of all crops, including cotton, corn and potatoes. Engines and tractors replaced draft animals. Today’s ten-foot “combine.” or Harvester machine, pulled by tractor, delivers the grain in the field ready for the bin and does the work of 137 men with sickles and flails. Two men can operate it. But it brought its problems as well. It brought a surplus of farm produce with which nobody knows what to do. It brought also a surplus of goods, crowded cities and factories, and unemployment. It began an elaborate system of farm financing. Absentee farming and tenancy, and mass farming developed and have tended to wipe out the old independent farmer-owner and operated unit, which was largely self-sustaining. Some fear the direction is toward creation of a hired peasantry. A little group of serious thinkers will consider these and other problems at the Institute for Rural Affairs of the Virginia Polytechnic institute, now meeting. One day has been set aside to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of McCormick's invention, which had its first successful demonstration nearby. It is not to be expected that any of them want to go back to the days of the sickle and flail. That ■would be pure pessimism. The world nevertheless is groping for the answer to the problem symbolized by two men in a field with their ten-foot “combine,’’ the problem of hunger and idleness among millions when the nation has more food and goods than it can use. No solution is in sight, but, if it is found, the thing that is now a problem becomes a blessing for all time. Joseph met Pharaoh's problem perhaps by taking over grain, and finally herds, lands and money, and all ate—especially Pharaoh—and he even sold grain to surrounding hungry peoples less provident, wise and blessed by nature. We need a modem Joseph to evolve some sort of system and regulation for our lean and fat years. How It Works Out It doesn’t take an economic genius to find the flaw in the argument of Dr. Willford I. King, New York university professor, who says that the poor benefit more from concentration of wealth in the hands of a few than they would from more nearly equal distribution of wealth. Dr. King argues that when new millions come into the hands of one man, this man at once reinvests them, creating more work for the men His theory might have been convincing a few years ago, vbea it was a matter of theory only, but since then

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we have had a chance to see how the matter works out. As individual incomes of a few men reached the highest point they ever have reached during 1929, these men did not reinvest their money in new enterprises and create more work. The-reason was that the products they were making in the enterprises they already had couldn’t be sold. And the reason for that was that they themselves had almost all the money, and the people they were depending on as customers had none. Unless Dr. King is ready to guarantee that his millionaires will keep on investing theirmillions and running their factories on a charitable basis, his whole argument tumbles down at this point. We have the conditions he postulates and it hasn’t worked as he expected. What is more, it never could. It’s hardly necessary to discuss the rest of Dr. King’s thesis in behalf of the very rich. He’ll find few in America to agree with him that for concentrated wealth to make a few men “self-appointed rulers of the people,” is a beneficent scheme. He’ll find many to challenge his statement that the people derive great benefit from estates of the wealthy, maintained as parks for the people. Such an estate does not come to mind at present. On the other hand the great parks—Central park, Lincoln park, Rock Creek, Golden Gate, and a dozen others—have been made and are maintained by taxes taken from all the people. If Dr. King thinks those who argue for distribution of wealth expect every man in the country to be given an equal number of dollars and cents and told to live happily ever after he is guilty of careless thinking. As he says, aggregations of wealth are necessary for development of business under the capitalistic system. The point—which even business is coming to realize—is that these aggregations must stop before they glow too large. The biggest eater can’t gorge himself too much without distress. Even an inner tube can’t expand too far without exploding.

Due for Junk Pile One benefit may grow out of the depression. Hard times may teach us to take a close look at our system of government and rid ourselves of many obsolete features of It, and at the same time of unnecessary taxes. We have accepted without question for almost 300 years the utility of county, town, village, school district and other forms of local government, although these forms were devised before steamboats, railroads, automobiles, highways, telephones and telegraphs had any part in daily life. We have accepted this antiquated structure to oui grief. All of us live under at least four governments as a result, some of us under ten. Os the twelve or thirteen billion dollars paid annually as taxes in this country, 54 per cent is paid for support of local government—that is, government of less jurisdiction than the state. These looal governments are feeling the pinch of hard times more than any others because most of their revenue is derived from real estate. And now that every dollar counts with the taxpayer he is beginning to turn an appraising and skeptical eye on such persons as tne county health officer, the sheriff, constable and town marshal, and the village school board members. Road building has become an affair of state concern; catching criminals, with their facilities for rapid departure from the scene of crime,'can be done effectively only by the state; public health problems have no respect for county boundaries; the problems of education are better solved by trained men the state can afford to employ than by local citizens with little time and few facilities. A number of states already are recognizing these facts. North Carolina and New Jersey have had commissions studying the structure of local government. Officials of other states have brought it to public attention. It may be that not all the old system should be abandoned, we may find we want some of the necessary duties of government performed locally. But there is no point in clinging to old forms when they have outlived their usefulness, and it is an irksome and costly business besides. “ 1 Good whisky is said to be an excellent cure for snake bite, but who wants to be bothered with a snake around the house? An *‘egg festival” was held at Chehalis, Wash., the other day. Other cities put chickens on parade and call it a pageant.

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r T~'HEODORE DREISER, who in addition to slapX ping Sinclair Lewis, sometimes writes books, has hfd anew experience. He sold the film rights of his best known work, “An American Tragedy,” to the Paramount Publix Company, which immediately proceeded to remodel the story according to the very best literary tradition extant in Hollywood. a a a When the story finally emerged from the Hollywood literary barber shop, it was in such shape that Dreiser couldn t recognize it and he now is asking for an injunction to prevent theaters from showing it. a a a The film company admits that it isn’t the same story, but anew version of their own required because the original would have offended a great part of the movie audience of the country, a a a REGARDLESS of the merits or demerits of “An American Tragedy,” and the peculiar part about Dreiser’s work is that both are great, it does seem a little strange that a film company should be permitted to murder a story, and then advertise the corpse all over America as the genuine article. a a a The answer is that when a film company buys a story that has any pretensions to being above the common run, it buys not the story, but its magic name, for the box office is the box office. Before long we will have a film presentation of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” with suitable love interest and perhaps old John Bunyan's name flickering in the electric lights. a a a IT is reported that half a million men are under arms in China, all ready for anew civil war. What puzzles us is that newspapers are able to call it anew war. It seems like the same old dog fight we have been reading about ever since we learned to spell. a a a Th rebel Cantonese government says that Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nationalist government, wants to make war upon Japan, giving his excuse the killing of ninety-nine Chinese by mtfos in Japanese ruled Korea. Which seems pretty bloodthirsty until you recall that the whole western wj?rld went murdering because of the killing of one man-

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Lacking a Nation Over Which to Weep, We Console Ourselves by Spotlighting a Horse Doctor. NEW YORK, July 29.—1f no news is good news, we ought to be in fine shape. The output certainly has declined since the boys foregathered in London to save Germany. Chile has changed presidents twice during the last few days and fighting has broken out all over the map in China, not to mention the bright remarks with which G. B. S. has been regaling Russia. Interesting as such happenings may be, they seem too remote for real pleasurable worry. Still, fate is kind and man is adaptable, especially when it comes to reading matter. Lacking a nation over which to weep, we find it easy to console ourselves by spotlighting a horse doctor. At all events, that is the way New York meets the emergency. Legal Persiflage FAR be it from this writer to begrudge Horse Doctor Doyle his brief whirl with publicity. He may deserve it and the public may get as much out of it as all the four and eight-column heads would indicate. They’ve got him in jail anyway, after a week’s dramatic struggle. How long he will stay there is another question. First, an appellate judge granted him a stay of sentence; then the full appellate court said he wasn’t entitled to it. Now the court of appeals is going to decide whether all the I’s have been dotted properly and all the T’s properly crossed. * ana Hurrah for Alger IF you don’t live too far west of the Hudson, you know all about Horse Doctor Doyle. If you do, you’re probably more interested in grasshoppers, but let that pass. He started life as a friend of dumb animals in the fire department. He was so good at it that he eventually became head of the fire prevention bureau. There are those who will insinuate that a political drag had something to do with this highly favorable turn, but, being good disciples of Horatio Alger, we must attribute it to merit. ana Glanders and Millions EIGHT or nine years ago, Horse Doctor Doyle discovered that he could make more money by getting permits from the board of standards than by treating glanders, so he let the dumb animals and preventable fires take care of themselves. The fact that he made $2,000,000 shows that it was a great discovery. The fact ijhat he had to split some of that $2,000,000 with other people shows that he was not the only one wise to it. nan Fanned by Politics NEW YORK is not overly impressed by what Horse Doctor Doyle made, nor would it be concerned vastly as to who got the split if an investigation were not In progress —an investigation which may have some bearing not only on the immediate future of city politics, but on the 1932 national election. The investigation is being conducted by a legislative committee in which Republicans predominate, while the city government of New York with which Doyle has been associated, is Democratic. When asked by the legislative committee to name those with whom he divided his earnings as special pleader for garage permits, filling station permits, and so on, Doyle refused, on the ground that ihe might incriminate himself. a a a 'Silence Is Golden’ UNABLE to tempt him with offers of immunity, the committee haled Doyle into court, where he was sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt. He’s there now, waiting to see what the court of appeals will decide next Friday. Optimists believe that the court of appeals will affirm the sentence and that, facing the possibility of having it repeated just as often as he refuses to “come clean,” Doyle will give the desired information. If, however, that information is as important as some people think, he might earn good money by keeping his mouth shut—such good money, indeed as would make his sojourn in jail highly profitable. a a a To the Highest Bidder THE Doyle case is interesting, not only because of the law and politics involved, but because of the way it typifies the modern viewpoint. Apart from that small and everdwindling minority which clings to the old-fashioned conception of honor, service and idealism, we buy things, all kinds of things, with the highest bidder usually bringing home the bacon. Cash, cold and unemotional, has come to play a mighty role in every phase of life. How else can you explain the racket, the corruption, the breakdown of law enforcement?

Questions and Answers

On a regulation baseball diamond what is the distance from the home plate to the front of the pitcher’s plate? Sixcy feet, six inches. How is the name Eloise pronounced and what does it mean? The name is pronounced “a (as in ate) 10-weez.” It is a (French) girl’s name and means fair defender. What is the pay of privates in the American Army, Navy and Marine Corps when they first enlist? It is s2l a month. How old was Bram Stoker when he died? What are the titles of some of his books? Bram Stoker was bom in 1847 and died in 1912. His books were: "The Man From Sthorox’s” “The Famous Imposters,” “The Gates of Life,” “The Mystery of the Sea,” “The Jewel of Seven Stars," “Crooked Sands,” “The Lady of the Shroud,” “The Lair of White Worm,” “Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving'’ and “The Snake’s Fas*.”

But There's Still a Big Job to Be Done!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Many Foods Banned by Religious Law

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Tp very religious belief has associated with its rituals various rules regarding diet and food. The Orthodox Jewish religion forbids the eating of pork or meat of any of the animals with cloven hoofs. It forbids the use of shell-fish. It has fast days and it forbids the mixing of meat and milk at any single meal. Indeed, so extreme are the ways in which these rules are carried out, that it is forbidden even to use the same dishes for meats that have been used for milk and vice-versa. The Catholic church has its days on which meat is forbidden. It has long periods in which adherents voluntarily deprive themselves of various foods, and it also has its fast days. The Hindu will not eat the meat

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DR. W. C. BAGLEY of Columbia has found anew reason for the rising tendency toward criminality among the youth of our country. It is .the good doctor’s contention that we have too many young women teachers in our elementary schools, with the deplorable result of almost complete feminization. “Women teachers, together with the inadequate training of the teaching personnel,” says Dr. Bagley, “are possible reasons why American education has failed to turn the crime wave downward.” nan Just an Easy Job WITH one statement I agree heartily. And that is that we fail adequately to train our future teachers. I would go even farther and advocate that only women and men specially fitted by temperament and Intelligence be allowed to enter the teaching profession. There are any number of young people in the profession who chose it merely because it is considered “nice” work, the hours are short, and it’s a lifetime job. Those are far from good reasons for choosing one’s life work. To show a lack of imagination which in itself should be sufficient to bar the prospective applicant There are any number of civil service jobs that entail no such terrific responsibility offering similar

LANSING’S SPEECH July 29 ON July 29, 1917, Robert Lansing, secretary of state, gave an important address on America’s war aims at the officers’ training camp at Sacket Harbor, N. Y. “Let us understand once for all,” Secretary Lansing said, "that this is no war to establish an abstract principle of right. It is a war in which the future of the United States is at-stake. “If any one among you has the idea that we are fighting each others’ battles and not our own, the sooner he gets away from that idea the better it will be for him, the better it will be for all of us. “The American nation arrayed itself with' the other great democracies of the earth against the genus of evil which broods over the destinies of central Europe. No thought of material gain and no thought of material loss impelled this action. . . . “If enthusiasm and ardor can make success stare, then we, Americans, have no cause for anxiety, no reason to doubt the outcome of the conflict. “But enthusiasm and ardor are not all; they must be founded on a profound conviction of the righteousness of your *£ause and on an implicit faith tfcat the God of Battles will s' ,<-ngthen the arm 8f him who fights for the right,”

of the sacred cow. The Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians, and many strange beliefs are inclined also to diets without flesh. After all, our actual knowledge of foods and their relationship to health is comparatively recent. It is less than fifty years since any actual scientific knowledge had been brought to bear on the chemistry of foods, their digestion, and utilization in the body. It is less than twenty-five years since the elements known as vitamins began to be studied in their relationship to health and growth. It is but a few years indeed since the actual importance of such mineral substances as copper, iron, iodine, manganese, and even calcium and phosphorus began to be understood fully. “The various people of the world live on diets that vary greatly in their composition. The Eskimo eats the entrails of animals. He considers as a special

advantages and, as a rule, more pay than a teacher gets, A person who intends to devote his or her life to the education and upbringing of the young necessarily must be fired with a crusading spirit. It is for the most part a thankless, wearying career. I will admit that there are a number of young teachers who do nothing more than mete out the required daily lessons to their pupils and mark examination papers. But that is not teaching. Any high school graduate could do that. However, I can’t see any logic in Dr. Bagley’s statement that women teachers are a contributing cause of crime. It seems to me the reverse might well be true. We always have had women teaching the elementary grades in our public schools. With few exceptions, they have been able to demand as much respect from their charges as men. True, our psychology in the matter of child training has changed considerably since the war. We no longer hold to the theory of “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” n a a a Pampered Pets AS a matter of fact, Trn quite sure that if Dr. Bagley could interview each and every gangster or murderer in our rrisons he would find that more than 75 per cent are the children of parents who were far from lenient. The majority of them have had very little or no schooling. They were thrust out into the world at a tender age and forced to make their way without supervision. It seems to me that the fault rests with our social system rather than with our teachers. Home environments and training are much more important in shaping a child’s destiny than his school life. Os course, it is very often possible for a wise and kindly teacher to rescue a child who is headed on the downward path and set him right. That is, if the victim is taken in hand before he has ventured to far into the labyrinth. But for the most part children receive their lasting impressions before they even enter school. It is the very early years that count. A child brought up in the slums of a big city with the sordid aftermath of poverty constantly before him is handicapped from the very start. He is hemmed in and suffocated by countless dark tenements, the noisesome streets and bickering families. In his small world one street is exactly like another. He doesn’t know of anything different or better. An so almost immediately there is set up in his subconscious mind a futilitarian attitude. I doubt that the replacing of all our women teachers with men would solve anything. It isn’t discipline that children need so much as understanding. a a Raise the AnteJ IF parents are toe lazy to listen to and guide their children it is not fair to expect strangers to do it. I know that teachers are paid for that purpose. But it is a well-

luxury the contents of the stomachs of animals killed in the hunt. He even eats bird droppings. People in tropical regions eat tropical foods that are rarely available in temperate climates. Labrador and Newfoundland natives eat meals that are in no sense of the word balanced and which are, in /act, limited to a few simple food substances. Most of the food supplies are obtained in exchange for the season’s catch of fish. A barrel of white flour for each adult annually, molasses, salt pork, salt beef, oleomargarine, a few beans and peas, a good supply of cod-fish and tea constitute the diet of the majority of the people. There was a time when the vast majority of Americans were limited in their diets to meat, potatoes, coffee, soup, white bread and an occasional vegetable. Today the American families of even the poor group use diets that are much more varied.

Ideals and opinions expressed m this column are those of one of America’s most inter* eating writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naper.—-The Editor.

known fact that they are deplorably underpaid. They need only teach what is in the school books, and that is not the most important thing. Children’s minds run in strange and devious channels. It is when they are at the groping stage that they need someone patient enough and intelligent enough to tell them what they want to know and set them on the proper path that leads to a happy and wholesome manhood and womanhood. And for that job we need highly trained specialists. We can’t hope to get them until we raise the standards of our teachers’ wages sufficienUy to warrant their giving their lives to this important work. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times) People’s Voice Editor Times—l am a daily reader of The Indianapolis Times and am very much interested in the case of John Tooley, 13. One of the boys who answered the questions they gave John Tooley for an intelligence test is'a son of mine. He’s named John. He is supposed to be a pretty smart boy, and gets good grades, but, according to this judge, I suppose he is feebleminded and should be put away. He did not do as well as John Tooley on the test. I wondered if the judge could have answered those questions himself at the age of thirteen. The last two questions I would not know the meanings unless I looked them up in a dictionary. I just boil with rage when I think of a poor boy being put away for such a minor deed, when killers get praised for their deeds and told to lie low. Won't that child have a smoldering hatred for the man who banished him from his home, however humble it was? Won’t that child hatch up some scheme to get even when he does get out, and

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JULY 29, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

AU Space Is Filled With an Extremely Thin Cloud, According to a New Theory. THERE is no such thing as empty space! This Is the startling conclusion to be drawn from a series of brilliant researches by astronomers in three nations—the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. For centuries, astronomers have pictured the universe as a great ocean of empty space, in which floated the stars and other astronomical objects. According to the new theory, all space is filled with a cloud. It is an extremely thin cloud, however, having a density lower than that of the so-called vacuum which exists in a radio vacuum tube. But no matter how thin the cloud is, it nevertheless means that conditions in the universe are radically different from what astronomers heretofore have thought them to be. The theoretical groundwork of the new view of the universe was laid by Professor A. S. Eddington, famous astronomer of Cambridge, England. The first observational work to verify the theory was done by Dr. Otto Struve of the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago. Dr. Struve is the great-grandson of Wilhelm Struve, one of the founders of modern astronomy. Recent work at the Dominion Astrophysical observatory in Canada by Doctors J. S. Plaskett and J. A. Pearce confirms Dr. Struve’s findings. nun Universal 'T'HE spectroscope, the great inter--1 stellar detective, has revealed the existence of the universal cloud. The spectroscope is a series of prisms attached to a telescope for turning the light of a star into a little rainbow, or spectrum, as it is called technically. Laboratory experiments show that each chemical element produces a certain type of spectrum. However, if the light which is to be analyzed with a spectroscope first is forced to shine through a vapor or gas, perculiarities are introduced into the spectrum which depend upon the vapor. Dr. Struve has found minute peculiarities in the spectra of stars which would indicate that their light is coming to us through an extremely thin cloud of calcium vapor Doctors Plaskett and Pearce find evidence not only for calcium, but for sodium vapor as well. They believe, however, that the universal cloud contains minute traces of all the chemical elements. There are theoretical reasons why it would be much easier to find evidences of calcium and sodium than of any of the other chemical elements. The presence of this universal cloud in space has an important bearing upon theories of both the origin of the universe and the eventual condition of it. ana Forever A STRONOMERS have known for . a lotl & time that our own sun continuously is hurling great masses of gases out into space. Photos of the sun, made with proper devices, show great tongues of white-hot gaseous material rising from the edge of the sun. These flaming tongues, known technically as the solar prominences, sometimes reach a height of 80,000 miles. Frequently one of them will break away entirely from the sun and go hurtling out into space. It is reasonable to assume that the stars are throwing out similar gaseous tongues. These tongues may be the origin of the universal cloud. It may be, therefore, that with the passage of time, the sun and the stars will grow smaller and smaller, while the universal cloud grows thicker and thicker. Perhaps in a trillion times a trillion times a trillion years there will be no more stars, but only the universal cloud. Such a gloomy view of the destiny of the universe is offset, however, by the consideration of gravity. Due to its gravitational pull, a star continuously would draw part of the great cloud into itself, just as our own earth draws falling objects to its surface. The cloud, therefore, might provide the means of replenishing the stars, making up for the material hurled out in the prominences, and thus insuring that the stars and our own sun will shine forever

Daily Thought

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.—Psalms 34:16. We can not do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.— Desmahis. then be marked as a criminal for the remainder of his life? What a spoiled life! Oh! if only grown-ups, when seeing punishment, would put themselves in the place of children and their surroundings, would they have been half as good? I do hope some more mothers will help get John free. JUST A MOTHER.