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A Special Session A special session of the legislature at this time may be deplored by those who have no faith in laws or the wisdom of the pople to rule themselves, but the necessity for action to a critical tax emergency has been plainly pointed out by John Moorman, trustee of the state prison. He declares that not more than 60 per cent of the taxes can be collected this fall. He is probably conservative in that estimate. It may be less. His proposal to shift the burden from property to luxuries should be considered. A shift to income, defeated at the regular session, would be better. Those with large incomes are not always the ones 'who indulge in the most luxuries. The cold fact that unemployment is on the increase makes it even more necessary that the state do something at once in the Way of providing jobs. If property owners are no longer able to pay taxes to run the government it is only because men are out of work and unable to pay rents or buy the products of farms. The primary cause of all trouble is due to the fact that thousands of men and women who desire work are unable to find work. That brings a break down of industry and commerce. The crisis is shown by the rather desperate suggestions made by business leaders to relieve business. For these interests, it seems most apparent that the cost of government must be reduced and they translate this into terms of business by proposals to cut wages of public employes, especially the teachers. This is the method of private business which has not solved its own difficulties by any such procedure. Wage cutting adds momentum to the unemployment. The wageearner whose income is reduced is unable to buy and that means that next week or next month other workers will be unable to find employment. The time has come when government alone can start the wheels of industry. It can be done only by giving work. It can come only by inflation instead of further deflationg. A special session of the legislature at this time to provide more work of a public character, something that can use workers and not machines, should be called at once. A special sesison could do something to prevent such startling episodes as the proposal of the state fair to trade a ticket to the fair for a bushel of wheat. Moorman, far from an alarmist and not even pink in his social thinking, has sounded the warring. It should be heeded. Suffrage After Eleven Years The eleventh anniversary of suffrage for women finds only a few old fogies still refusing to accept enfranchisement of all- citizens as the matter of simple right it is. But it finds many, who always have believed that women should vote, disappointed in the last eleven years’ results. It was, of course, sentimental foolishness to expect that women immediately would prove themselves a great purifying forqe in American politics. For one thing they did not know how. It would have been a difficult task for an electorate of enfranchised sexaphims if they had had to conform to the electoral systems invented and firmly established by generations of men voters and seemingly designed to keep control in the hands of ward bosses, party cliques, favored business interests, and campaign contributors. For another thing, women are just as gullible as men. They believe campaign promises, campaign libels, campaign propaganda, just as men do. Yet there are certain things women might have been expected to do which they have not done. Many tasks are waiting to be done by legislation in woman’s principal vocation—rearing of new citizens physically, mentally and morally fit. Hundreds of thousands of children continue to work in mills and sweat shops because not enough voters are interested in pressing for ratification of the child labor amendment. The pure food laws generally are unobserved, their great champion, Dr. Harvey Wiley, charged just before his death. The Sheppard-Towner maternity act has been allowed to lapse. The oountry retains its relatively high rate of illiteracy. To organize and make apparent united support of these measures and others like them requires no particular degree of political skill. It demands nothing more than intelligence and interest in one’s immediate concerns as a member of a community. Surely intelligent self interest is not too much to expect of women voters. And certainly not enough of it is being displayed. Legion Wisdom "I am satisfied that the veterans never will forget that their welfare is wrapped up inseparably with the welfare of the country,” says Ralph T. O'Neil, national commander of the American Legion, in discussing suggestions for payment of soldier bonus certificates in full by the next congress. “If it develops that such further liberalizing legislation with- reference to the adjusted service certificates will be detrimental to the country’s welfare, I have confidence that the American Legion, with that knowledge, will not ask for such emergency legislation.” This is sensible talk. Veterans are not a group apart. They suffer or prosper with the rest of us, and should not demand favors simply because they may be able to get them on the eve of an election through their political Influence. The payment of the bonus in full would require three billions or more, which would have to be obtained through taxes or a bond issue. This money would do the most good if spent for public works Siva men jobs, or used lor direct relief where need

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1* greatest. Unemployment and hunger this winter will not be confined to veterans. The legion itself is making efforts to relieve the unemployment situation, O’Neil points out, and if successful, the need for any further bonus liberalization will have passed. Reducing interest rates on present bonus loans from 4’/i per cent is a different question. Legion spokesmen present a convincing argument that the government is able to borrow money for much less than this, and therefore is taking a profit from needy veterans. The British Compromise As an emergency government to balance the budget and stabilize British credit, the new coalition cabinet will inspire the confidence of British commercial interests and international bankers. The London Daily Herald, semi-official organ of the fallen Labor government, charges that “a startling and apparently successful attempt by United States bankers to dictate the internal policy of Great Britain is responsible for the new government and its policy of cutting unemployment insurance benefits.* We do not know whether that is true. But that Wall Street and Washington are unfriendly to the British unemployment insurance system, and to the extension of American credits indirectly aiding that system, is no secret. The new government by reducing unemployment insurance, health, educational and other social service payments doubtless will be able to solve the immediate financial problems. But by so doing it may intensify the spirit of unrest and revolt of the British workers, of which the bitter opposition statement by the Independent Labor party is quick evidence. If the new government, as suggested, expects to find economic salvation through a tariff, it may be disillusioned by looking across the Atlantic to our own suffering country whose depression has been prolonged by the Hoover high tariff. Although the exclusive purpose of the new government is announced to be the solution of the budget problem, after which there is to be a general election on party lines, two other immediate issues will be influenced for better or worse by the coalition. It will conduct the critical negotiations on India, and it will throw Britain’s weight for or against postp.onement of the February disarmament conference. Failure to include in the cabinet Viscount Irwin, the late viceroy of India, who has Gandhi’s respect, and substitution of the other Tory, Sir Samuel Hoare, as secretary of state for India, is not particularly encouraging to friends of an Indian settlement. Appointment of Sir Austen Chamberlain, a Tory of the bigger navy and mildly anti-American group, as first lord of the admiralty, is not promising for the disarmament conference. MacDonald as premier and Snowden as chancellor of the exchequer, the Labor leaders of the coalition, apparently will be able to work those conservatives on balancing the budget, but foreign and colonial policies may cause trouble, In the interest of closer Anglo-American friendship and of international good will and disarmament, we hope there will be no departure from the MacDonald peace policy by the coalition cabinet or by the Tory government which is expected to succeed it. The government did $18,000,000 worth of business In candles last year, according to a statistic. Maybe it’s because so many people are burning them at both ends. The Germans have named their 1931 wine vintage after Hoover. On the assumption, perhaps, that it has a kick, though it may look mild. A French railroad is experimenting with rubber wheels. It can’t be that they are intent on making travel more tiring? Since Russell Boardman and John Polando put Istanbul on the air map it ought to be easydor Kemal Pasha to talk Turkey to the world. An automobile was driven by rockets in Berlin recently. This is probably more desirable than the usual run of back-seat explosions. This is the time of year graduates decide not to allow their college education interfere with their chances of getting a job. You’ve got to know how to pull the strings, says the office sage, to run a puppet show. In times of a depression, says the office sage, misery loves companies. Cartoonists, at any rate, have the presence to represent Old Man World with lines across his face.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

I HAVE been requested by three Denver women to comment on an anonymous article recently appearing in Harper’s magazine called “Old Age Intestate.” * If I remember correctly, the author advocated institutional life for the old. She argued that such a step would make for harmony in the family and that if we could depart from the sentimental idea that it is a child's duty to bear with the eccentricities or even the bad temper of an elder, everybody, including the parent, would be happier. Only the conventional opinion now extant against this idea causes old people to shrink from it, she contended. It was an excellently put and sensible treatise. But it never would move me to put my mother into an old ladles’ home. There are many subjects about which we can theorize. But practicing our theories is quite another thing. ii A STEP farther in this argument would lead to a conclusion quite as logical. Because babies bother parents and disrupt the harmony between them, let’s put all the children into an institution. How we would howl that down! I am of the decided opinion that parents who live with their children should not be permitted to exercise too much authority. But I can not believe that we would profit in happiness if we ever reached the state of mind where we could dump our fathers and mothers out of the house. Harmony purchased at such price would not be worth much. No, people do not love any the less because they have grown old During their last years they need more than ever that warm intimacy of family life, that sense of belonging to somebody. Mr. Aesop has written a very excellent little fable on this subject. In the heyday of life we find it easy to regulate the lives of others. But I have no doubt that to the babies and the elders many of these sensible suggestions sound foolish.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

If Tammany Had Ordered It, the Gangsters Would Have Been Cleaned Up Long Before This. NEW YORK, Aug. 26 —Of all explanations being offered for : the crisis in British politics, radical | laborites seem to prefer the one ! which lays it on us. | It fits in with their scheme of • things to imagine that the federal reserve bank of New York made credit contingent on the British government’s pledge to economize, especially in the field of doles, unemployment insurance and other social services. It also fits in with their scheme of things to imagine that this was done, not in the interest of sound finance, but to strike a blow at Socialism. We Can’t Foot Bill THE federal reserve bank of New York has not denied or I admitted the charge, but one can i assume that it did insist on a balanced budget and still find its action commendable. This idea of Uncle Sam shovelling out money to governments which persist in having a deficit and in pursuing a policy that prom- ; ises no change is getting irksome not only to financiers, but to some of the rest of us. If radical laborites in England want to continue the dole an,d can get away with it, that’s their privilege, but they must not expect America to foot the bill. tt tt tt He Was Betrayed IT’S going pretty far to jeopardize the welfare of a nation for the sake of persisting in a political theory which has been tried and found wanting. That was the issue, and on it, MacDonald “crossed the Rubicon.” Radical laborites say he betrayed them, but it is not difficult to argue that they betrayed him, that they took an unreasonable position for the sake of mere dogma. u u u Too Much Politics Tammany hall is adopting about the same attitude toward Governor Roosevelt, demanding that he be an orthodox party man, regardless of cost or consequences. Tammany leader John F. Curry stated the creed clearly the other day when, in testifying before the legislative committee as to whether he had any interest in helping horse doctor Doyle, he said he was interested in helping all good Democrats. That’s the chief source of trouble in New York City—a political organization, instead of a municipal government. Something in Return IF Tammany hall had ordered it, the gangsters would have been cleaned up long ere this, just as they would have been cleaned up in Chicago if the Thompson crowd had given the word. Municipal governments can get along with taxes, but political organizations need something else. They need cash, and lots of it, to run the clubs, keep the district workers in line, and get the boys out of trouble. They can’t get that cash without giving something in return, something which promises at least $5 for every $1 contributed. tt a u Going Pretty Far WHILE Governor Roosevelt calls the New York legislature to put teeth in a badly needed investigation, Governor Long calls the Louisiana legislature to prohibit the planting of cotton in 1 1932. 1 That’s what you might call a real radical experiment. It not only assaults personal habits, like the Volstead act, but gets right down where people live. If a state can prohibit the planting of cotton, what can’t it prohibit? a tt a About Our Civilization HAVING prophesied the death of civilization, and having built a 130-foot monolith in which to preserve the record of his prophecy for future generations, “Coin” Harvey now wants to save civilization. He has summoned a convention to foregather with him at his Ozark retreat and to adopt a platform which he already has prepared. Sounds ambitious, but Mr. Harvey never has lacked for ambition. You remember him, of course, the man who made such a persistent and persuasive fight for free silver thirty-five years ago. tt a m The Race Goes First THE death of civilization—a monstrous thought and one which we never would entertain if we didn’t constantly think of civilization as a tribal, racial, or national affair. Such phrases as Greek civilization, Egyptian civiilzation, or American civilization, have played havoc with our sense of value. True civilization is universal. Art, culture, science, idealism, | creature comforts—what have such things to do with imaginary lines, or custom houses? Electric lights are just as good in China as in New York, and so is dentistry. Civilization can not die, unless the race dies.

Daily Thought

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.—Proverbs 8:11. Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.—Juvenal. Will sleeping in the moonlight cause a person to go insane? That old superstition has no scientific basis. Who was Robert Moffat? A scotch Congregationalist missionary to Africa and father-in-law of David Livingston, an African missionary and explorer. How did the Chicago Cubs finish in the National League baseball race of 1930?

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Many Foods Contain Vitamin B

This is the twenty-fifth 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 calories, vitamins, minerals, digestion and balanced diet. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. VITAMIN B is found in many substances. Ordinary meats are poor in vitamin B, while heart, liver and kidney contain it in somewhat larger amounts. The amounts they contain are about proportional to what is found in milk, eggs and W'hole cereals. The average-sized hen’s egg is equivalent in vitamin B to about one-sixth of a quart of cow’s milk. In other words, the amount of

IT SEEMS TO ME

LORD STRATHSPEY is conducting a campaign in the London newspapers against the jokes about the Scotch. His lordship contends that there is ho truth in the statement that the Scotch are very careful with their money. He is annoyed because some joke founded on this conception is to be found in every music hall. Indeed, he mentions the old chestnut of purses and mothballs which are trotted out with unfailing regularity and never fail to raise a laugh among Englishmen.” ft u tt Strong Shall Inherit Jokes IT would seem if the difference between the British drama and our own is not so very great. But I hope that Lord Strathspey does not continue his campaign in favor of the Scotch, or, at any rate, I trust he will not win. There is only a limited amount of merriment in the world, and that part of it which is innocent might as well be preserved. The Scotch are a sturdy race and well can afford to be blasted for the amusement of other people. Indeed, these jests about the thrift of the man from the north are now so ancient that all the barbs must be worn away. I doubt that any one in Edinburgh actually blushes red when he hears of the Scotch child who killed his parents so he could go to the orphans’ picnic. Such incidents are not truly within the experience of those who live beyond the Tweed, and fantastic accusations seldom offer pain to the recipient. And What About the Irish? IT would be an excellent thing if the fallacies and misapprehensions of the world were swept away. But I would not have this housecleaning go into all the jokes and myths and legends. Particularly I would not include the jokes. From a brief experience with musical comedy I have come to learn that there exist in the world at the present time no more than ten or twelve sketches and a like number of wheezes upon which these episodes are built. So it must be remembered that if all Scotch jokes are banished, the witticisms concerning Jews will have to stand double service. It seems to me better by far that another people should assume part of the burden. Moreover, consider the benefit which may come to a Highlander if his voice rings clear in any inn with the jcyous shout of “This round is on me!” He will obtain twice the acclaim for generosity accorded to any other man, particularly if no Jewish ventriloquist has been secretly murdered. On the whole, I believe that individuals or nations who figure much in jokes can soothe themselves with the reflection that fear and envy lie behind most creations of this sort. We seldom wage anecdotes around dwindling or feeble races. Since the American Indian began to disappear, he has dropped almost entirely out of the field of whimsy. ft M They Should Feel Flattered A JOKE or a myth is something which one pulls around himself like a blanker, for warmth and comfort when the wind is high. If all of us could take graveyards quite calmly we would not whistle as we pass by. And the Scotchman may preen

The Modern Version

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vitamin B in a quart of milk is about the same as could be found in six or seven eggs. Human milk is perhaps a little richer than cow’s milk. The whole grains of cereals are fairly rich in vitamin B, but most of the vitamin is found in the germ. The use of highly milled products in preference to whole grain decreases the vitamin B content of the diet. This raises the question of whole wheat versus white flour, which will be discussed more extensively in relationship to other subjects. It is sufficient to say here that the diet of civilized man is sufficiently varied t-o include enough vitamins from other sources than cereals so that he need not be concerned about this from the vita-

himself on the fact that it is his power and not his thrift which brings him so frequently into the wheezes of vaudeville. In addition to jokes, there are a few fallacious smiles which I would preserve against the captiousness of science. For instance, I was much disturbed a year or so ago to read a paper by a famous naturalist in which he set forth with great indignation his discovery that the ostrich does not hide his head in the sand when he fears pursuit. If that truth were known generally it would increase the toil and labor of every essayist and editorial writer. Without the friendly lie about the ostrich how on earth can one do a piece on censorship? It might even be impossible to compose a paragraph on prohibition. And so if it is true that the ostrich doesn’t follow this habit it would be a kindly deed for him to acquire it upon the instant. Facts and Fables AGAIN, it is possible that the bee is less than always busy, the fox far slower witted than popular be'ief demands, and even the beaver may prove a less consistent workman than the phrase in which he figures. But in a certain sense saying things makes them true. I suspect that the Scotch, for instance, what-

People’s Voice

Editor Times —One hundred six auto deaths! That is the horrible figure the people of Marion county have permitted auto fatalities to reach through carelessness and recklessness in driving automobiles on the streets of Indianapolis and its environs. Part of the blame for this staggering loss of lives might be laid to the police department. However, since it is every auto driver's responsibility to insure the safety of pedestrians, his passengers and the passengers of other autos, the blame rests on every auto driver who takes an extra risk or slights a precaution. The only possible blame on police or deputy sheriffs is that they might permit an auto-killer to escape. Part of the blame must fall on the courts when they set free one of these potential murderers. . If a tornado should strike Indianapolis and take 106 lives, the city, county, state, and nation would be shocked. If a fire, explosion, sinking of a ship, cr any other major disaster claimed as many men, women, and children, the officialdom of any municipality would start investigations to find the cause and perhaps the guilty person or persons. But Indianapolis and Marion county still sit at the wheel of a huge death car, still roaming the streets, unmindful of the mounting toll. Sure and speedy justice of the Michigan type might help. Another power that would reduce this appalling toll is held by the state courts. It is revocation of a driver’s license for motor law violations. A few murderous drivers, seated in their homes instead of behind wheels, might set the example. C.

min point of view. When the diet becomes greatly restricted he may have to give it careful consideration. Sherman feels that the intake of vitamins in much more abundant quantity than is absolutely necessary is often advantageous. He argues, therefore, that the. use of whole grain in preference to highly milled products should be encouraged, except in cases in which there is reason to fear that the roughage of whole grains unduly will irritate the intestinal tract. Beans, peas and fats in general provide fairly good amounts of vitamin B. Potato has it. Oranges and lemons, grapefruit juice and fresh prune juice have about as much vitamin B as milk.

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ever their natural predilections, are now somewhat under the influence of the saga which surrounds them. Thus when a Glaswegian is hailed by some needy acquaintance who wants to borrow $lO he Well may reach for the wallet in his pocket and then desist. It isn’t that he hates to squander the money upon such a problematical investment. Kindness of heart is the true factor which inspires his refusal. The Scotchman doesn’t want to spoil the joke. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

HONOR PAID WASHINGTON August 26 ON Aug. 26, 1917, Viscount Kikujiro lishi, leading the imperial Japanese mission, visited Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon, delivered a brief tribute in flawless English, and placed a wreath upon the tomb from the Japanese people. He said: “Washington was an American, but America, great as she is, powerful as she is, certain as she is of her splendid destiny, can lay no exclusive claim to this immortal name. “Washington now is a citizen of the world; today he belongs to all mankind. . . . “Japan is proud to place herself beside her noble allies in this high resolve, and here, in the presence of these deathless ashes, she affirms her devotion to the cause and the principles for which they wage battle, fully determined to do her whole part in securing for the world the blessings of liberty, justice, and lasting peace.”

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AUG. 26, 1931

SCIENCEBY DAVID DIETZ

Mysteries of Parathyroids, Thymus and Pineal Glands

in Human Body Wait to Be Solved. Tt4TYSTERIES within the human •*•*■*■ body challenge the medical man and the biochemist. Among these mysteries are a number of the ductless glands, tiny organs which pour secretions known as hormones into the blood stream. Let us have a look at some of these mysteries. Concealed within them, perhaps, is the modern counterpart of the ancient “philsopher’s stone.” The ancient alchemist sought a stone which would turn base metals into gold and Insure the possessor perpetual youth. The modern research specialist seeks knowledge which will bring good health, control over disease and longer life. Researches upon the ductless glands, going on in laboratories all over the world, may some day yield this modern “philosopher’s stone." Among the ductless glands which are receiving the attention of many scientists are parathyroids. “Para” is the Greek word for “near." These glands get their names from the fact that they are situated near the thyroid. The thyroid itself, located In the neck, is a small organ, weighing less than an ounce, and consisting of two lobes attached to the sides of the lower portion of the larnyx. The thyroid is the regulator of the human engine. It pours a minute amount of iodine into the blood stream. This thyroxin controls the rate of oxidation in the body, the rate at which energy is developed and used by the bodytt m Tiny, but Important THE parathyroids consist of four tiny glands, all four weighing a little less than two grains as a rule, (a grain is a little less than fourhundredths of an ounce). Two of the parathyroids are attached to each lobe of the thyroid, one on the side and one on the middle surface of each lobe. These tiny glands are necessary to life. Their complete removal is followed by death within a few days from a condition known as tetany. This condition is characterized by painful spasmodic contractions of the limbs, a great decrease ii) the calcium content of the blood, and changes in the action of the heart and lungs, and changes in body temperature. It is now known that the secretion from the parathyroids controls the calcium content of the blood stream. The calcium salts in the blood play an important role In many bodily processes. Calcium is necessary for the proper development of the skeleton. The calcium salts play an important role in the maintenance of muscular tone and particularly in the beating of the heart. They also have much to do with blood clotting. Another important gland about which little is known as yet is the thymus, a small gland located in the upper-chest region. The removal of this gland from young dogs results in a softening of the bones not unlike rickets. No one, however, yet has succeeded in isolating the secretion or hormone of the thymus. Pineal Is Mystery THE thymus gland is most active during the early year of life. It reaches its maximum when a child Is about 2 and it has been thought it completely disappears about the thirteenth year. However, recent investigation has shown that the persistence of the thymus is much more common than has been previously supposed. At one time it was supposed that persistence of the thymus was confined to feeble-minded individuals. This, however, has been disproved. Another small gland about which little is known is the pineal gland. This is situated in the brain end is about the size of a pea in man. While the existence of this gland has been known for several hundred years, its function is still a mystery. The philosophic Descartes once hazarded the opinion that it might be the seat of the soul. While it is supposed that the pineal gland secretes a hormone, this hormone never has been isolated. There are a few cases on record where destruction of this gland by a tumor in the case of children led to abnormally early sexual maturity. Students of this gland think that after the second year of life it takes over functions which "" i then were performed by the thymus gland. But since so little is known about either gland, this is a difficult question to discuss. The problems presented by these glands require work in many fields for their solution. The chemist, the physiologist, the pathologist and the surgeon, all must contribute to the unraveling of these mysteries.