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Helning Industry Any factor that will enable local industries to keep men employed should be encouraged, not fought. This is the proper attitude taken by the civic clubs of the city in regard to the question of permitting the manufacturers to purchase and use natural gas. That is the attitude they will take before the public service commission on the question of granting a license for the distribution of that product to the factories. The great and permanent objective is public ownership of the gas system and when that is finally achieved, the natural gas system should be included. It is unfortunate that greedy interests are preventing the public ownership by all the tricks and devices known to big bandits in business. The big gas monopolies, run from New York and Cleveland, own the bonds and stocks of the local gas companies. These :oncerns, operating in many cities, do not dare to permit public ownership in a city of this size. A successful operation would put them on the spot in too many other localities where they are practicing their gentle robberies and less gentle larcenies. The same interests which are fighting public ownership in Indianapolis are fighting the proposal to bring natural gas to the factories. Public ownership advocates and proponents of a natural gas supply for factories have a common enemy, if not a common cause, and their cause may be common. One of the tricks of those who are fighting public ownership is to confuse the sincere advocates of that object and divide them. They are doing that now. Two things are certain. The people demand and may finally achieve public ownership of this utility. The factories need a natural gas supply at once. Both objects can work together and the chances are much better with a group of local factory owners than with a bunch of brokers and financiers from other cities who grow rich by manipulation, intrigue and worse. The local industrialists say that the supply is necessary for t-heir prosperity and that it means continued employment for many citizens. Anything that gives a job in these days must be welcomed and embraced. Another Dry Failure Prohibition in Porto Rico is a failure, and if the people of the island are permitted to vote on the question they will abolish it, according to Felix C' - dova Davila, resident commissioner of the island in congress. The eighteenth amendment does not apply to Porto Rico, but the provisions of the Volstead act have been extended to it. The people in 1917 voted dry. * More liquor is sold in Porto Rico than in any place proportionate to its size, Davila says. It is impossible to check smuggling from nearby wet British territory. The island needs $4,000,000 in taxes which legalized liquor would produce, but which now goes to bootleggers; and the island does not need prohibition because the people are temperate. Congress will be asked to authorize another vote. Porto Rico, which we acquired by conquest, of course occupies a different position that the rest of our territory. We have no moral right to force Porto Rico to remain jdry if it doesn’t want to be dry. We sympathize with the islanders in their desire to make a change, and to rid themselves of the bootlegging evil, with ■which the mother country is all too familiar. But we suspect Senor Davila is reckoning without the dry hosts of this country and their votes in congress. To our dry zealots the right of an alien people, who have come into our "possession” without being consulted, to regulate their own manners and morals, means nothing. They seem obsessed with the idea that they have a God-given duty to tell their brothers how to live. So Porto Rico, we predict, will have to keep prohibition for a little while longer. A Coal Experiment Americans seeking ways to end the chronic chaos In the country’s soft coal industry, with its attendant unemployment and human suffering, will watch with Interest an experiment being made in Great Britain. Conditions there are similar to our own, and various measures have been tried to put the industry on its feet, with little success. Coal is important in the British economic structure, exports providing cargoes for outbound ships which return with the food and raw materials Britain needs. - In recent years there has been a decline in demand, due to competition of fuel oil, better methods of utilizing coal, and other factors. Mines were closed and men thrown out of work, with thousands reduced to the starvation level and existing only on the socalled dole. Labor troubles followed. Measures fostered by the government failed to revive the industry. Last year parliament- passed the “British Coal Mines act,” now being ;4tt into effect. This legislation fixes production quotas, regulates prices, establishes a uniform working day, and creates a coal mines national industrial board. The operators are said to be willing to give the law a fair trial. The United States government at various times In the past has intervened in mine labor troubles in this country, and the situation has been studied by committees of congress and commissions which have made recommendations for legislation, which never were followed. At present Secretaries Doak and Lamont are endeavoring to arrange a conference between coal operators and mine union officials to end current labor difficulties and discuss the situation generally. Because of the attitude of operators, many of whom have refused to confer, little of importance is in prospect as a result of this effort. Whether the government will attempt more drastic measures if the present attempt is fruitless is not known. It seems certain, however, that demoralization o< a basic Industry like coal mining, witjf thou-

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sands of miners idle and in want, can not be permitted to continue indefinitely. The alternative to a solution by private initiative probably would be forced intervention by the government, with nationalization of the mines, or some such scheme as Britain is attempting. The Wrong Time Perhaps the unemployed and the despairing' farmers will be cheered by the announcement that the administration has decided to build a bigger navy. Perhaps the American taxpayers, who are wondering how they can make up the annual federal deficit of a billion dollars, will be pleased by the prospect of a more crushing burden. Perhaps the Europeans, who had supposed that Hoover was working for disarmament, will be encouraged by America’s renewed preparations for war. But we doubt it. In fact we can think of no news which, will have a more depressing effect upon an already discouraged world. It would be a mistake, however, to get panicky over this latest Hoover blunder. Probably it will not materialize. For it is one thing for the administration to plan such folly and another thing to put it over on the American people. Certainly there are times when Americans can be sold the idea of a bigger navy and preparation for war. But that time is not now—unless we miss our guess. At this moment the people are discovering to their horror the cost of the last war. They are discovering that the present world depression—the dislocation of industry, the mad inflation followed by inevitable deflation, the overexpansion of factory production and agriculture, the wiping out of vast stock and land values, the enforced cancellation of debts and investments—are results chiefly of the World war. Maybe in later years we shall forget. Maybe the young generation can be made to swallow the old lie that there is profit in war and peace in armaments. But not now. At least for a year or so, until we get back on our feet, we Americans are not apt to crave another debauch. Grain Gambling A Chicago speculator is credited with having made a million dollars by obtaining a “corner” in corn. Operating in the Chicago Grain Exchange, he bought so extensively for future delivery that he temporarily forced up the price 18 or 20 cents a bushel within two weeks. He had obtained control of such a large part of the prospective supply that those who had sold were forced to pay off at a higher figure. Finally, of course, such transactions—in wheat anct cotton, as w'ell as corn—rest on the possibility of actual delivery of the commodity. In reality, however, they are carried on largely on paper. The speculators, or gamblers, buy and sell grain or cotton that they npver own, and never expect to ow ; n. The man who made a million dollars, and others like him, produce nothing. The prices they are able to establish are without relation to the intrinsic value of the product. Farmers who produce crops and consumers who finally buy them arc the ones who suffer. The profits of the gamblers come out of their pockets, just as the profits of the gamblers in the Wall Street boom came from the little fellows who had been enticed into the market. Farmers complain and small wonder, when the sale value of their crop is fixed by manipulation particularly when short selling takes their profits. The corner In corn is pretty good proof that the existing regulations designed to check such gambling are inadequate, if proof were needed. The federal grain futures act does little more than require* reports to the department of agriculture on transactions, on which tabulations and observations are based; the department has no.control over the volume or nature of trading. Business control committees set up by the exchanges themselves have been ineffective. Gambling has thrived as always In the face of efforts to stop it It is too much to expect the exchanges themselves to eradicate the evil, for it has persisted in the face of popular complaint for many years. Legislation ranging in scope from stricter federal control of exchanges to their complete abolition will be considered in the next congress. The time seems propitious for its passage. That reform will not prevent overproduction nor solve the farm problem, but it will help some. What President Hoover hopes will result from the disarmament conference, as we see it, is that the powers will greet each other with open arms. Botanists are the envy of pedestrians because they riSK no dangers in making a crossing..

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

CERTAIN doctor and his wife who live in New LI. York City decided that they were not happy together and wished to be divorced. According to all standards of good sense, so long as the two of and agreed t 0 se Parate, they should have been at liberty to go before some tribunal and have their marriage dissolved. But no! Not in enlightened and liberty-loving America. Instead, it was necessary that one should bring charges of misconduct against the other. The doctor, who had his business reputation to consider naturally did not wish to have such charges aired in court. The v ife, being just as careful of her personal reputation, did not enjoy the idea of having her name dragged through the mire. Yet one of them must confess to having found the other in a compromising situation, to obey the peculiar demands of the law. tt tt tt A S might have been expected, by the time the Li- details of how to get the divorce had been settled, the two were so angry with each other that accusations of the meanest sort were hurled back and forth. The lawyers found themselves with a good deal of evidence to untangle, the greedy public read with relish the ugly charges and snickered with glee. The pleasant result of all this is that both husband and wife have come out with no reputations at all. Divorce Is bad enough, but the way we are compelled to get them in this country is nothing short of a disgrace. The law’s in some states are positively archaic and belong to feudal days. The idea of having all one's intimate affairs aired before the public is particularly repellent to all sensitive people. And the thought of forcing a man to charges of gross misbehavior, of which he may be innocent, is even more so. We do not publish all the Intimacies of a romance before the wedding; why, then, do we deem it necessary to open to the public all the unpleasantnesses before the divorce? Our probing into personal is not only stupid, but barbarous. ”

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We Americans Are Bound to Play the Game * According to Hoyle, Even If Everybody Loses. By United Prets YORK, AUg. 7.—After eight L n days of spectacular fishing, New York police catch and grill a “witness” in the famous baby-kill-ing case. He claims to have been on; of the gang that was attacked and to have sought safety by hiding behind one of the children in line of fire. The child he selected as a shield was not hurt, and he can’t or won’t identify any of the attackers. Interesting though hi? testimony may be as an example of total depravity, it sounds like a complete washout, save in one respect. He says the row was over dope, not liquor. Racketeering long since has passed the ranges of prohibition. Prohibition taught the boys how to smuggle and furnished them the revenue- with which to organize. Now they’re smuggling everything—dope, machine guns, deported aliens and Chinamen. They’ll get you anything for a price, and they have made lots of friends by doing it. tt tt tt Gang rule has already become a menace. If things don’t change, it will become an even greater one by taking advantage of the fear and confusion incident of depression. The third winter of unemployment will present more of a problem than the establishment of so many breadlines. There comes a time when hunger turns to lawlessness, and we have enough of that already. * i tt tt u Murray in Spotlight WHATEVER you may think of his methods, Governor Murray of Oklahoma is trying to do something. That in itself deserves interest, if not commendation. First, Governor Murray forced the opening of a free bridge between Texas and Oklahoma by using state troops to stop traffic over a toll bridge at the Oklahoma end. Just now he is using state troops to shut ‘down 3,000 oil wells in an effort to raise the price of “crude.” Besides, he has called a nationwide conference on unemployment to meet at Memphis, Aug. 24. His ideas may not be so good, but sometimes a poor idea is better than none at all. a tt u The Rules, Regardless WE Americans choose to be technical rather than sincere. That is our great weakness, whether in law enforcement, or providing work. We’re just bound to play the game according to Hoyle, even if everybody loses. Millions of men tramping the streets; billions of dollars rotting in vaults —how long do you suppose it can go on without a blowupAs to charity with which we propose to gloss over the mess, it will create parasites and professional beggars just as surely as the Volstead act has created hypocrites and crooks. This country faces an emergency just as truly as it did in 1917, and the emergency calls for just as heroic treatment. We didn’t pinch pennies and cut budgets when we started out to fight Germany, and we can’t do it in fighting the unholy alliance of gang rule and depression. Neither did we change our form of government, but we did throw over a lot of precedents temporarily, and we need to do the same thing now. tt a tt Economic Log Jam THIS is no time to shudder in the chimney corner, or try to save nickels for rich men who have more dollars than they know what to do with. This is a time for virility and imagination, even at the risk of mistakes, a time for audacity and dramatic leadership. Instead of firing a few government clerks, the army and navy should be recruited to full strength. Instead of endeavoring to balance the budget by inconsequential economies, the income tax should be doubled, especially in the higher brackets. Instead of trying to reduce the public debt, money should be made available for every'kind of improvement and project. Instead of attempting to softsoap people- with optimistic predictions that have grown threadbare, spokesmen at Washington should be brutally frank. The situation calls for strength, if not ruthlessness. It’s like a log jam that has to be dynamited. What the nation needs, especially from those in charge, is an example that will restore its courage and not confirm its fear. * ,

te wi *aa —< -■* LIBERIA DECLARES WAR Aug. 7 ON Aug. 7, 1917, Liberia, the Negro republic on the west coast of Africa, declared war on Germany. The Germans, deprived by force of arms of their own colonies, found in Liberia their last foothold in West Africa. Here they became very obnoxious and largely ignored the Liberian government. Coincident with the arrival of a British warship to Monrovia, Liberia declared herself in a state of war and expelled the Germans. Liberia later was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles. This day in the World war also commemorates: The beginning of the AustroGerman offensive against the Russo-Rumanian troops near Fokshani under the leadership of Field Marshal von Mackensen. The adoption by the United States senate of the conference reports on the food control and food survey bills. What horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1921 and what one was second? , Behave Yourself, ridden by jockey Thompson, won the race, and Black Servant, ridden by Lawrence Lyke, was second. -

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE — Proteins in Most Natural Foods

Editor’s Note—This Is the ninth of a series of twenty-six timely articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on “Food Truths and Follies.’’ dealing with such much discussed but little known subjeciss as calories, vitamins, minerals, digestion and balanced diet. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. ABOUT one-fourth of the amount of caloric intake of the diet of the average American is in wheat products. In some parts of the world, notably .n the southern portions of Europe and in countries where rye or rice constitutes the staple cereal, the contribution of wheat is smaller. In Great Britain the average person consumes six bushels of wheat per year. Wheat contains water, nitrogenous matter, fat, starch and sugar,

IT SEEMS TO ME

I HAVE found a way to feel -very . close kin to the high gods. The ; notion that I, too, leaned out from | the gold bar of heaven came to me ; suddenly as I sat in the right field ; bleachers of one of the big theaters which provide a combination bill of vaudeville and motion pictures. The process of deification occurred during the vaudeville portion of the program. The stage was several miles away, i I could see perfectly and hear nothing as it was said. Curious little, insect-like people moved about the stage aimlessly. And yet there was every evidence that they took themselves seriously. Still these were not ants, but potentially men and women. They had names—Kerrigan and Vane, the Kaufman Trio, Miss Minstrel Company, or something like that. From w’here I sat they were insects. It seemed to me that it would be no trouble at all to flip the three strong men and the pony ballet into oblivion with one finger. The little finger would be the most suitable. And there were times w’hen I wanted to do it. Only the feeling that I was too new a god to impose a doom restrained me. These performing ants forever were working to entertain. They ran on and off the stage without apparent reason and waved their antennae about furiously. Two of the ants would stand close together as if in conversation, and every now and then one of them would hit the other brutally in the face. tt tt Slapstick Antland IDID not know why, and my sympathies w r ent entirely to the one who was struck. It was difficult not to interfere. I rather think that some of the seemingly extraordinary judgments of the high gods between mortals must be explained on the ground of a somewhat similar imperfect knowledge. It was just as well that I waited before taking blind vengeance on the vaudeville insects, because half an hour or so after the blows were struck by the seemingly aggressive ant the conversation which preceded the violence began to drift back to me. It cS.me to my ears during the turn of the strong men and created a rather uncanny effect. At first I was puzzled, because I had never known strong men to exchange any words at all except the traditional “aleyup.” Almost immediately I realized that .it was merely the tardiness of sound wfeves which caused the

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Editor Times—l am wondering what is. to become of the litrde boy who stole $2 worth of old rusty tools from a blacksmith shop. lam wondering if others do not, as I do, feel that something should be done in his behalf. Is a little child of 13, because of his poverty and poor surroundings, to have no friends in this world? I should like to hear from others, under the voice of the people, their views regarding the matter. It seems to me that when one of a crowd of boys, among whom was the Governor's son, shoots and kills an innocent man with stolen cartridges and no punishment is meted out, that this child’s punishment is unbelievably cruel and harsh. It is heathenish and criminal. I should say the crime of giving a child of that%ge such a sentence is

‘All God's Chillun Got Wings’

cellulose or fiber, and mineral matter. Its chief value for nutrition depends on the starch and sugar content, which make up 69 per cent of the product. About 15 per cent is water, 11 per cent nitrogenous matter, and j per cent each cellulose and mineral matter. For some years there has been much agitation in favor of whole wheat products with a view to economic causes or to the securing of roughage and vitamins, which it has been claimed are lacking in white bread. The researches made in the Food Research Institute of Stanford university conclude that nothing would be gained for the nation’s health or nation’s economy by consumption of wheat as whole wheat bread instead of white bread.

delay of the dialogue in reaching me in my bleacher seat. It seems that one of the ants, whom I shall immediately christen A, told his friend—B for convenience—that he was taking two ladies to dinner and that he would like to have B in the party, but that he, A, did not have sufficient funds to defray any expense which he might incur. B admitted promptly that he himself had nothing. Accordingly, A suggested a scheme for sociability’s sake. He urged B to come, but upon him that when asked as to what he wished to eat or drink he should reply, “I don’t care for anything.” tt tt tt The Wrong Cue IN order to guard against a slipup the friendly ants rehearsed the scene in advance. It ran something like this: A—August! August! B—You’re a little wrong on your months. This is July. A (punching him)—You fool! August is the name of the waiter. The delay which retarded the progress of this poke to our ears impaired its effectiveness a little. The rest w r as more sprightly. A—August, bring some chicken en casserole and combination salad for myself and the two ladies. Oh, I have forgotten my friend. What will you have? , B—Bring me some pig’s knuckles. At this point A hit B for the second time and again called him a fool. A—Why did you say, “Bring me some pig’s knuckles?” B—Why did you ask me so pretty? A—Oh, I’ve forgotten my friend. Won’t you have something? You must join us. B—Sure. Bring me a dish of ham and eggs. Again blows were struck, and again A inquired ferociously as to the cause so the siip-up. A—What made you say, “Bring me a dish of ham and eggs?” B—Well, why did you go and coax me? tt itBoth RigJjt EARLIER in the evening I had observed that other blows were struck, and there must have been further dialog to go with them, but I could not wait for it to arrive. I rather hoped that the jokes would follow me home, but they must have become lost on the way. Perhaps there wasn’t much sense

,far greater than the crime committed by the little fellow. And the Governor, whose son came off so easily, sanctions the unheard of penalty by his refusal to do anything. While the Governor's son may have had nothing to do with the theft of the cartridges, or the killing of this man, was he not associated with those who did kill and steal? We can not gainsay the trite old proverbs, "We are, known by the company we keep” and, ‘‘Birds of a feather flock together.” Had I been in the Governor’s place and my son had escaped so easily, I surely would have shown leniency to tnis poor little friendless waif. But in this state poverty and youth and lack of opportunity seem to have become a cri^re. A FARMER'S WIFE.

According to this report proteins, minerals, vitamins and roughage are adequately available in other foodstuffs, and need not be sought alone in whole wheat bread. Only in such countries as India and China, where the diet is little diversified, are nutritional or economic advantages to be secured by consuming whole grains rather than highly milled grains of wheat. Wheat now ranks as one of the cheapest foods. Per capita consumption appears to be increasing in the world at large, but not in the United States or in Great Britain, Canada and Australia. Potatoes, baked greens, green corn, boiled rice and boiled macaroni contain 20 per cent of carbohydrates. Green peas, artichokes, parsnips and canned lima beans contain 15 per cent of carbohydrates.

RV HEYWOOD BROUN

to this talk, anyway. And maybe the real gods on high Olympus feel the same way about a columnist when his words limp home. (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times.

Questions and Answers

In w’hat part of the heavens is the Southern Cross constellation and how does it point to the South Pole? It is situated near the Arctic circle, and therefore is never visible in northern latitudes. It consists of four bright stars, to which fancy, aided by Christian associations, gives the cruciform shape. The two brilliant stars which mark the summit and foot of the Southern Cross have nearly the same right ascension and the constellation, therefore, is almost vertical when passing the meridian so that these two stars act as pointers to the South Pole. What mythological character was called Dike? It is the name of the Greek goddess of justice. Where was Owen D. Young born? He wae born in Van Hornesville, N. Y. When and by whom was the University of Salamanca, Spain, founded? Founded by Alfonso IX of Leon, in 1230, and resounded by St. Ferdinand of Castile in 1242. Are there many wild lions and tigers in the world? Lions were formerly much more widely distributed than at present. They are found now throughout the continent of Africa, but have been exterminated in the more civilized regions; in Asia their habitat extends south from Mesopotamia and Persia to India, but in India only n few remian in the wild hills near Kurrachee. Tigers are widely distributed throughout Asia, being especially abundant in. India, though absent from Ceylon, and also from* the plateau of Thibet.

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AUG. 7, 1981

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

New Process Enables Canada to Supply Large Part of World’s Demand for Platinum Metals. THE development of anew process for the separation of platinum and related precious metals from ores soon will enable Canada to supply a large part of the world’s demand for the platinum metals. The precious metals, according *o ihe Ottawa correspondent of tho American Chemical Society, are being obtained as by-products from the nickel and copper mines of the International Nickel Company of Canada. These mines are located in the Sudbury area of northern Ontario, an area from which 80 per r*nt of the world's supply of nickel Is obtainel. The International Nickel Company has installed its plant for the refinement of the precious metals, not in Canada, but in Acton, a suburb of London, England. It is understood that the Acton plant has a capacity greater than the present world supply of platinum metals. The so-called platinum metals include palladium, rhodium, ruthenium. iridium and osmium. The Acton plant also will recover a certain amount of gold and silver as a by-product from the Canadian ores. The Acton plant, it is said, will be able lo refine about 300.000 ounces of these precious metals each year. tt tt tt Smelting in Canada MINING and smelting operations of the International Nickel Company are carried on at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario, where a copper refinery also has been built. The company has two nickel refineries in operation—one at Port Colborne, Ontario, and the other at Clydach, about nine miles from Swansea, Wales. The Clydach plant was built ia 1902 by the Mond Nickel Company, which is now a. subsidiary of the International Nickel Company of Canada. “As the platinum metals are produced from ores mined primarily for the nickel-copper content,” American Chemical Society report continues, “mining and smelting costs are largely absorbed in the recovery of these two metals, so that the raw materials for the platinum refinery are obtained at very low charges. Highly efficient processes and operations in the Acton refinery permit low production costs. “In the Acton plant a furnace department and a wet process department have been installed to treat the products from Clydach and Port Colborne, respectively.” tt a a Delicate Process OPERATIONS at the Acton plant require the care that is normally associated.with the performance of chemical analyses or delicate laboratory experiments. It will be seen at once why this is so. In an ordinary manufacturing process, a certain amount of waste is sometimes less expensive than the loss of time or the additional effort wihch would be necessary to prevent the waste. , But the Acton plant is operating to separate gold, platinum and other precious metals from the other chemicdl elements with which they are united. Obviously, there is no desire to throw away precious metals. After the first separation Is carried through, the left-over materials are put through another process to make sure that no precious metals have been lost by accident. The Acton processes are highly complicated. The concentrate, as it is called, from the Clydach plant, i3 first reduced to granular form. This then is treated with hot sulphuric acid to dissolve the silver and part of the palladium. The silver and palladium are subsequently precipitated in the form of chlorides. The “concentrate” from Port Colburne is treated with hot sulphuric acid and then with aqua regia to dissolve the platinum, palladium and gold. These metals then are precipitated in turn from the resulting solution.

Daily Thought

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.—Romans 6:12. Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against him; It takes up arms against God.—Richard Alleine. Is there a biblical quotation to the effect that the judges of the earth shall be taken away a stubble? The verse you refer to no doubt, is Isaiah 40:24, which says “God shall blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.”