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Cut Those Rates All other civic organizations should join in the demand of a south side improvement club for a reduction of rates on electric and, if at all possible, telephone rates. While property owners are demanding a reduction of taxes, made burdensome by the reduced earning power of business and property and widespread unemployment, this club charges that the real burden comes from unfair profits by public utilities. Under the rules established by the courts and public service commission, utilities collect on a basis of the cost of reproduction of their plants. That rule was established in order to give these utilities the right to collect on a basis of prewar prices for labor and materials, although their plants were built with low priced labor and materials. Now the deflation has come in reproduction costs but it has not come in the rates. Os course, an alert public service commisison, with a desire to protect the people, would have started its own investigations months ago without waiting for a public demand. But no one expects the commission to be alert. It has no great record for protecting the public interest. Now that the demand has come, sentiment all over this city should be organized to impress the commission with the fairness and the necessity of the demand. Reduction in taxes means little compared with a curbing of the utility larcenies. Perhaps public sentiment may be able to force an investigation of the amounts taken by holding companies under a fiction of service and management. During the last legislature a state senator fought all proposed laws for the control of these fences. He said the commission had ample power to make all inquiries. Now that senator is a member of the commission. He has his chance to demonstrate and perform. If every improvement association and civic organization will join the southsiders, public officials might be impressed with the necessity of choking off public utility robberies during these hard times. Spare the Farmer The railroads are in trouble. Agriculture is in trouble. No one knows exactly what to do for either of them. But one thing that probably should not be done Is suggested by figures laid before the interstate commerce commission this week by the National Grange. The figures were compiled from the interstate commerce commission’s reports. They showed that for the year 1928 farm products comprised 11.17 per cent of the total car load tonnage carried by the Class 1 railroads of the United States and that this tonnage produced 20.30 per cent of the total freight revenue of the railroads that year. The revenue per ton derived by the railroads from carrying farm products amounted to $6.83. Products of mines yielded a revenue of $1.91 per ton; of forests, $3.76 per ton; of agricultural manufactures, $6.02; of other manufactures, $5.18. The total freight bill of agriculture on carload traffic in 1928 was $980,975,036. The requested 15 per cent increase would have taken $147,137,255 more from the farmers. For years agriculture has been carrying a disproportionate share of the country’s freight burden. If somebody has to pay more now to revive prosperity for the railroads, it should be somebody else. Japan Slips Japan has missed an opportunity to use the diplomacy for which she is justly famous. In punishing the American fliers, Pangborn and Herndon, with heavy fines, the Japanese government has created needlessly ill will in the United States. Japan’s mistake was not in what she did, but how she did it—just as the United States blundered in the manner of excluding Japanese immigrants. We do not believe for a moment that these aviators, in violating Japanese laws and military regulations regarding flying over and photographing fortified zones, did so deliberately or maliciously. We do not believe they are American military spies, as widely intimated in Japan. Moreover, we believe that the regulations of Japan and the United States and other countries against peacetime flying over mystery zones are silly survivals of military nonsense. ;; But even granting that the Japanese contention -that her regulations are valid and that the Americans violated them deliberately, a few dim and questionable aerial photographs could not harm Japan as much as the misunderstanding created in America by the punishment of the aviators. If the Japanese authorities simply had destroyed the photographs and accepted expressions of regret from the fliers and American officials for the episode, Japan wold have come out on top. „ As it is, the enemies of peace on both sides of the Pacific will use the incident to spread mutual mistrust. That result is as injurious to Japan as to the United States. Causes of Crime No wonder the Wickersham commission threw up Its hands and refused to make a report on the causes of crime. Most “crimes" are crimes against property. The causes are chiefly economic. To state those causes Is to indict our misnamed Christian civilization and to expose the barbarity and the inefficiency of our - log-eat-dog economic system. Poverty, slums, unemployment, social injustice, are the crimes of our system against the individual—yet we call our victims “criminals." Prohibition and other such unenforceable laws are merely secondary and passing breeders of lawlessness. To expect the timorous and sidestepping Wickeriham commission to tell the truth about the causes jf crime would have been to expect the impossible. . Under the circumstances, perhaps it is well that the - commission majority contented itself with a 200-word (' alibi on why “we find it impossible comprehensively

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to discuss the causes of crime or factors in nonobservance of law." The excuse gtven is that “criminology is remaking, the social sciences are in transition, and the foundations of behavior are in dispute.” One of the eleven commissioners, however, broke away and had his say. And what a blast! Just why the Honorable Henry W. Anderson, Republican machine politician, conservative Virginia and corporation lawyer, should have shot the works on the causes of crime, we don’t profess to know. Anyway, we take off our hat to him. In the hope of stimulating our readers to get hold of this remarkable Anderson document, we quote here the following typical statements: “The American people acquired in its virgin state what is in many respects the most favored and fruitful area of the world’e surface. They have existed as an independent people for only the short period of 150 years, within this time they have destroyed the original occupants of the soil or driven them from their lands with little regard for their rights. “They have converted substantially all this great area, with its immense natural resources, from public into private ownership. “They have created the widest spread between the extremes of wealth and poverty existing in the western world. They have developed degrading slums in the cities, and ignorant underprivileged areas in the rural districts, which stand as menaces to social health and dangers to social order. “They have conquered many of the forces of nature and made them the servants of man, but have so organized and developed their industrial system that it tends to make of man himself a cog in a relentless machine, without the inspiration of personal achievement, or the contentment which springs from social and economic security. “They have created the largest body of laws and the most complex system of government now in existence as restraints and controls upon individual and social conduct, but every stage in their development has been characterized by a large and ever-increasing degree of lawlessness and crime. They have engaged in at least one war in every generation. “No candid investigation (of the causes of crime) can ignore these facts, or the conclusions which they naturally suggest.” Crippling’ Muscle Shoals Tire new Muscle Shoals commissions have been committed to an absurdity. They will, according to one of the members of the presidential commission, concern themselves with “settling” the problem of Muscle Shoals alone, disregarding Cove Creek dam and the remainder of the Tennessee river. This is impossible. It indicates a lack of knowledge, at least on the part of the presidential commission, of the issue. ' It is a fact, of course, that Muscle Shoals was constructed by the government to operate as a unit for the manufacture of nitrates for use in explosives in time of war. But Muscle shoals will be practically useless if the other improvements, such as Cove Creek dam, are not made above it. The essential purposes of Cove Creek dam are two: To provide a reservoir to control flood waters, and to provide Muscle Shoals with a more efficient flow of water, cove Creek dam, the engineering experts have said, will double the primary power output at the shoals. To operate Muscle Shoals without also operating Cove Creek dam would be like operating a four-cylin-der motor with two spark plug wires. President Hoover has appointed a very unfriendly commission to work with the Shoals commissions of Alabama and Tennessee. We believe he was unfair to the plan for government operation of Muscle Shoals, which congress agreed to twice, when he appointed his commission. But even private operation, our engineer-Presi-dent should realize, must take the whole project, including Cove Creek dam, into consideration. A Texas school teacher preferred one of her pupils to her principal and lost her job. The pupil was 19 and athletic. Yes, education is the hope of the world. A1 Smith still is being mentioned for the highest office in the country. He’ll be a 10. more comfortable in that highest building these days. You can lead a horse to water, but you can t make it drink it. Nor anybody else. Even a draftsman, says the office sage, would have a hard time drawing up vacation plans. Some men get the key to the city, others get the gate. Then there’s the boy who was too well bred to stick out his tongue at the doctor’s order.

Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A BACHELOR, writing to his favorite newspaper, says that alimony is responsible for 90 per cent of divorce. This statement made, I doubt not, in all sincerity, is exaggerated slightly. The figure should be much less. It is not to be questioned that something must be done to remedy the evils of the polite extortion that now goes on under the name of alimony. But another thing we must remember is that all women who are granted alimony do not get it. Rich ones often get large sums from rich men, and now and then we ha>e cases of gross injustice when ex-husbands are thrown into jail for failure to pay. But in thousands of other instances, those that we hear much less about, this granting of alimony is merely a gesture. The wife may be entitled to it legally. But actually, she can't collect it. If a husband hies himself to a faroff state, it takes money to run him down and get what is coming. Most of the time it costs more to collect alimony than the alimony is worth. Anybody who has had anything to do with the tedious processes of the law and paid for it realizes full well that it’s better to have $5 in the hand than $5,000 in the courts. a a a THE greatest farce about the whole business of alimony is that the woman who needs and deserves it seldom gets anything, while the femafie racketeer who should have been given nothing in the first place walks off with the pickings. As in all other controversial matters, it is the prominent person who gets alimony publicity. Very little is said in the press of wives who have several children to support and whose husbands have walked off and left them stranded. There is a racket to alimony, just as there seems to be a racket to everything else in this country. But the wife who divorces Mr. Average Man, hoping to exist on his alimony, is going to feel pretty foolish later.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M* E: Tracy SAYS:

We Americans Have More Law and Less Enforcement Than Any Civilized Nation on Earth. One Accounts for the Other. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Democratic Governor Roosevelt of New York calls a special session of the Republican controlled legislature. It was requested by a Republicancontrolled legislative committee now investigating affairs in New York City, where the administration is Democratic. Naturally enough, # brass-collar Democrats are irked. Louis A. Cuvillier, Democratic member of the committee, can’t understand why the Governor should do such a thing, “unless he thinks it will help him get the presidential nomination.” “It won’t help him with his own party in his own state,” says Cuvillier. “I know that. He is going out of his way to hurt his party.” a a u Issue Clear Governor roosevelt could ask no higher tribute. Cuvillier proves exactly what he was up against, the kind of threats to which he has been subjected, the kind of temptation he was forced to resist. The issue was clearly drawn—partisanship versus good government. Governor Roosevelt stands for the latter. The sachems, district captains and ward heelers of Tammany Hall may regard it as a mistake, but the American people will not. nun Japanese Justice PANGBORN and Herndon must pay a fine of $1,025 each—sl,ooo for flying over Japan without a permit, $25 for taking pictures which included forts and guns. They did not intend to do anything wrong, but that is no excuse in Japanese eyes. The Japanese idea seems to be that if you have a law, it should be enforced, and that, if you don’t intend to enforce it, get rid of it.

nun Laws and Crime WE Americans have more law and less enforcement than any civilized nation on earth. One accounts for the other. Our attitude toward both has resolved itself into a parade of excuses—excuses for making law on the one hand, and for ignoring it on the other. Artificial crimes and overcrowded prisons find a natural reflection in mobs of ex-convicts, with which the country is being over-run and from which gangland is being recruited. a a a Mistaken Clemency FOUR young people—two boys and two girls—none of them over 17, were held up in Michigan last Tuesday morning. The motive is supposed to have been robbery, but before the sorry mess was ended, one of the girls had been assaulted twice and all four had been shot, or beaten to death. Os the three men who committed this outrage, two were ex-convicts. One of the ex-convicts had been pardoned on the plea of his sweetheart. It has now been discovered that, whether she knew about the murder, she took his bloody clothes home to wash. a a a No Dillydallying THERE is only one bright spot in this Michigan tragedy. The authorities cleared it up in four days, with the culprits placed behind prison bars for Jife within six hours after they were caught. That’s a record, tut it ought not to be. We waste altogether too much time in handling obvious cases, and we make just as many mistakes as though we went after them in a business-like way, if not more. a a a Law and Necessity Governor sterling of Texas threatens to follow the example of “Alfalfa Bill” Murray and call out the militia to shut off oil production. You can find plenty of lawyers to tell you its unconstitutional, especially for a fee, and maybe it is, but let’s not get too excited about that. Horace Greeley accused Lincoln of violating the Constitution seven times, yet advised people to support him. There comes a time when you can’t be sure whether the Constitution provides a way out and when you can’t wait to be sure. If experience counts, Sterling should know a great deal about oil. That’s where he got his start, and that’s where he made his fortune. He has played every kind of a hand in the game at one time or another. He knows what the little producer is up against and how the big boys work. That ought to be of some advantage at this particular moment.

People’s Voice

Editor Times —I have been reading the case of John Tooley, 13 years of age. There is some principle in the boy, as he could have grabbed his chance of making a getaway. Why don’t your readers come and help this motherless boy, for whom the judge seems to have taken a dislike? If this judge was in this boy's place, he would want all you readers of The Times to help him. That boy is as innocent of wrongdoing as a 2-year-old. Why didn’t Governor Leslie’s son get put away? Because money talks nowadays. If John Tooley’s parents were rich and had a background like Leslie’s son had, the case would have been ignored. A DAILY READER. How many auto race drivers have been killed while trying for the speed record at Daytona Beach, Fla.? Frank Lockhart was killed April 25, 1928, and Lee Bible was killed March 13, 1929. How much larger than the United States is the Dominion of Canada? The area of continental United States is 3,026,789 square miles, and the Dominion of Canada has 3,690,043 square miles. Where is the Island of Yap? It is one of the Caroline islands in the Pacific ocean.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Water Is Paramount Need in Diet

This is the seventeenth of a series of thirty-six timely articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on “Food Truths and Follies,” dealing with such much discussed but little known subjects as calorics, vitamins, minerals, digestion and balanced diet. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. OIXTY-FIVE per cent of the human body is composed of water. Suggestions as to the proper amounts necessary for internal use to keep the body well supplied vary from six to ten glasses a cay. Humorists insist that Americans have all been thirsty for the last ten years. The necessity for water in the body is far more pressing than the necessity for food. A healthy human being can live without food and with decreasing physical efficiency for some forty to sixty days. He can do without water for a much shorter time. Without this cooling and comforting fluid he gets uncomfortable after two or three days, feverish in from four to seven days, and he, usually dies in from eight to twelve days. That is what happens to a man lost at sea or in a desert without fresh water.

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'T'HE fleet, he said, was or should be a fighting organization and should not have too soft a time.” Fred A. Britten, chairman of the house naval affairs committee, is the advocate of the Spartan regime for sailors. The fact has been brought out that Mr. Britten has some personal interest in Montauk property, and a few have been mean enough to suggest that this had something to do with the assignment of the scouting fleet to Fort Pond Bay. n What’s Sauce f or the Goose MR. BRITTEN indignantly has denied these charges and asserted that his holdings in the land development corporation are tiny. He contends that the rendezvous was arranged for the good of the service. Assuming that the congressman has been guilty of nothing more than a slight want of tact, I still feel that his theory of toughening of the sailors and the officers of the fleet falls short of perfection. Just what part is Mr. Britten himself taking in this new regime of rigor? I think his philosophy about the fleet would be more convincing if he himself had been observed jogging up and down the shore of Long Island clad in a rubber shirt and running pants. No such incident has been reported. The men of the navy have complained because Montauk affords no quarters for their families. There is, to be sure, a large and magnificent hotel. But its rates are far beyond the capacity of the men of the service. Mr. Britten also is quoted as saying that he believes in an operating navy and that separations are one of the hardships of a military or naval life. Just how deeply do these hardships bite into Fred Britten’s own life? Is this hard-bitten executive prepared to take on any portion of a monastic existence for himself? It would be more fitting. After all, the representative from Illinois is a close friend of Carl Fisher, who runs the hotel. And I assume that it is not impossible to obtain a room with bath while his subordinates keep close quarters below deck. tt tt n A Cloistered Navy I MAKE the suggestion to Mr. Britten that he set up for himself a pup tent near the water’s edge. Then there will be a greater feeling of fellowship all around. I never have been much moved by the fierce fighting spirit by any in swivel chairs. Asa matter of fact, I am very slightly persuaded to the theory of ‘‘Treat ’em rough!” in any form of endeavor. I doubt that the discipline of the United States navy is ruined by the fact that during the summer an officer has a chance to see his wife for a few weeks and reintroduce himself to his children. During the winter the fleet traditionally is absent in southern waters, and all the men are out of touch with their homes. Discipline never is advanced by

A Modern Noah

So necessary is water to the continuing of the chemistry of the tissues that the blood begins to take it from the tissues of less importance and transport it to those of more importance very promptly when the supply from without begins to fail. When a human being becomes unconscious, a physician or those in attendance must make certain that water is put into his body if he is to live. It may be injected by a stomach tube into the stomach or it may be injected with a needle under the skin or directly into the blood. When a person becomes exceedingly thirsty, his tongue, throat and mouth get dry and burn. Because of the anxiety, he becomes restless; because of the lack of evaporation of water from the surface of the body, he becomes feverish. The sensation of thirst can be lessened somewhat merely by wetting the lips and tongue, hut this is a satisfaction only to the sensation and can not satisfy long. There is one portion of the brain which is particularly interested in seeing that the needs of the body for water are satisfied. Obviously this is important since the water is necessary to the con-

mere petty annoyances and tyrannies. Os course, there could be a rule which would make membership in the army or navy a sort of priesthood. We could forbid marriage to our ensigns and our admirals. Personally I would be opposed to any such regulation. It is an excellent thing for naval and army officers to rear families. Some of the most profound pacifists of my acquaintance are the immediate descendants of men in both branches oi the service. a a a Even Gold Lace Tarnishes A LAD brought up at an army post is generally one who loses in early life all sense of glamour about bugle calls and drum beats. And, again, there is the army or the navy wife. She, too, may easily be rated among those who do not fall for the glory and the glitter of gold lace. And, since we make no prohibition of marriage in either arm of the service, it seems no more than fitting that soldiers and sailors should be treated as human beings and not denied the historic right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A little nearer home somewhat the same problem arises. The men

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DISCLOSE SECRET PACT August 17 ON Aug. 17, 1917, a white book establishing that there existed an agreement between the Athens government and the central powers was distributed to the deputies of the French chamber. Documents were contained in the book relating to the Germano-Bul-garian incursion into eastern Macedonia. These documents showed a letter from Count von Mirbach, German minister, to M. Skouloudis, Greek minister, stating that in view of the allies’ troops movements the Ger-mano-Bulgars were compelled to enter Greek territory to insure *ree transit through Rupel pass. The count declared this was purely military necessity. When M. Skouloudis proteste' to the entente powers it was charged he did this to deceive them and that he misrepresented the facts in a statement to parliament.

Daily Thought

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.—Ecclesiastes 10:18. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is always bright.—Franklin.

ditions of life. Some people drink a great deal more water than do others. Excessive thirst is brought about by excessive loss of water from th e body. Sometimes this loss of water is due to disease which puts a great deal more water through the kidneys in order to relieve the body of concentrated salts that are the products of disease. Sometimes the occupation of the person or the character of his sweat glands is such that he loses a great deal of water by way of the skin. In some instances, much water is lost from the body by the intestinal tract. Following hemorrhage with a considerable loss of blood, a person is usually intensely thirsty because of the amount of fluid that has been taken away in this manner. In a recent review, Professor Carlson points out that the thirst appetite has not yet been properly named. This appetite, he insists, is nevertheless a real factor in life,” as it is apparent that many people imbibe so-called soft drinks without being thirsty or drink one-half of 1 per cent beer without either thirst or hope being present.”

DV HEYWOOD BY BROUN

of the fire department of New York city are agitating for an eight-hour day. That seems to me one of the most reasonable demands in the world. As things stand, the average fireman is called upon for twenty-four hours of continuous service once a week, and his usual stint is around twelve. Moreover, in case of emergency, he is subject to call for unbroken duty. a a a Give Our Heroes a Break IT is true, of course, that not all this time represents the fierce labor of fighting flames and climbing ladders. But leisure subject to sudden interruption is of little use to anybody. Even the fireman who sits around in quarters for ten or eleven hours hardly can be said to have an easy day. In the back of his mind there is always that expectation of the clang which may call him to duty. He lives tensely and drawn fine, like a sprinter toeing the starting line and waiting for the sound of the pistol to send him on his way. Firemen do get married and have homes and children. And under the hours which are prescribed for them, they can be no more than occasional visitors in the family circle. An eight-hour day would cost the taxpayer a little more. But the amount would be infinitesimal. It would put more men to work. Surely the city ought to be among the most generous of employers and show the way to private corporations by taking on more men and cutting down the hours. (Copyright 1931. by The Times)

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Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Kditor.

_AUG. 17, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

“It Is Inconsistent With Physical Sciences Not to Believe in a Mind Behind the Universe” Says Veteran Astronomer. BIRTHDAY remarks of two worldfamous scientists are worth repeating. The two men are Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, one of the greatest of living astronomers, and Sir Oliver Lodge, one of the pioneer investigators of the atom and of radio phenomena. It goes without saying that all scientists will not agree with the remarks of these two men. In fact, many savants will disagree with them violently. First let us hear from Dr. Frost. Dr. Frost has just celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday anniversary. Intense work at the telescope weakened his eyes and many years ago they began to fail. For the last eight years he has been totally blind, but in spite of that handicap has continued his duties as director pf the great Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. “Everything that we learn from the observational point of view in the study of astronomy seems to me to point precisely and always toward a purposeful operation of nature.” he said to several hundred guests who gathered at the observatory in honor of his birthday. “When you accept this it seems to me to be inconsistent with physical sciences not to believe in a Mind behind the universe. I can not imagine the planets getting together and deciding under what law they would operate.” a a tt Purposeful Creation DR. FROST is unwilling to believe that the present operations of the universe is the result of chance “We do not find anywhere In the solar or stellar system the debris that would necessarily accumulate if the universe had been operating at random,” he continued. “In a purposeful creation I find it not at all inconsistent to believe that there must be a mind behind developing the purpose.” Dr. Frost’s remarks recall to me the last time I heard him deliver a lecture. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides made from photos taken by astronomers of the Yerkes observatory. It was almost uncanny to hear this man, totally blind, describing and interpreting recent photos of sun-spots and similar phenomena which he could not see. His system is to have associates explain such photos to him in great detail. From their description he is able to arrive at conclusions based upon his wide experience of past years. His recent remarks recalled a statement which he made at that time. He said that it was probable that astronomers at times learned too much on mathematics as a criterion of possibility. He said that it might prove a most difficult task to write an equation to describe the growth of a potato plant, that, in fact, such an equation would be so complicated as to look impossible. “But potatoes grow just the same,” he added. U U tt Lodge's Views SIR OLIVER LODGE, celebrating his eightieth birthday recently, predicted that the next great development in science would be the discovery of a “new world.” This new world, Lodge Is quoted as saying, will turn out to be a spiritual world which interacts with the known material world, but is not a part of it. Lodge is also quoted as saying that it will be proved that there are intelligences in the universe which are superior to man. Lodge, a great pioneer in the field of physical science, has gradually alienated his scientific colleagues by his excursions into the realm of spiritism. He is convinced that he has carried on conversations with people “on the other side.” The existence of the ether plays a large part in Lodge’s beliefs. He once told me that he thought it likely that * man had a three-fold entity, consisting of his material body, an ether body and a soul or spirit. The ether body, he said, resembled the material body and at death the spirit in the ether body left the material body. Many scientists, of course, will point out that when Lodge enters upon such speculations he has left science behind him. It is probable that Frost’s birthday remarks will occasion more agreement than will Lodge’s. In this connection, it is interesting to recall Sir James Jean's recent remarks that everything in the universe points back to a definite creation at some very remote time. What is the origin of the name Therion? It is of German origin and means dear, beloved or precious.