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Paying the Doctor The best modern medical care is worth all that you pay for it, we are told by Medical Director A. J. McLaughlin of the United States Public Health Bervice. But he adds, "Provided you can afford the cost.” ffhe trouble is that many can not, even though the cost of medical care may not have increased out of proportion to the cost of other services, as Dr. McLaughlin says. - Perhaps there have been "a lot of loose talk and inaccurate statements” on the subject. The fact remains that there also has been widespread complaint in recent years about the high cost of being ill and that medical associations and other groups Lave undertaken studies to see what can be done ••bout it. The person of limited means finds the cost of the best modern medical care prohibitive. Extensive laboratory studies, surgical attention, and the employment of a retinue of specialists are beyond his reach. The cost of hospital care remains a burden to most persons, despite assistance to hospitals from ■tax funds, anti private benefactions. For the poor of the cities there are free clinics. The well-to-do can afford the best. The masses have their choice of neglect, employment of quacks, or the lise of nostrums. It has been estimated that 20 per cent of the population pays 50 per cent of the nation's annual doctor bill, which averages S2O per capita. And that more than twenty times as much is spent for treatment as for prevention. The medical profession is not to blame. Doctors, like the rest of us, have had their expenses increased 1n recent years. Medical care is quite different now than it was a few years ago, because of scientific advancements. • Diagnosis and treatment are more complex and costly. Scientific apparatus and laboratory examinations have replaced the simple observations —and guesswork—of the general practitioner of a generation ago. The country doctor has given way to the city specialist. Tue transition fortunately has been accompanied T)y expansion of public health agencies, interested primarily in preventive measures and public education. And the medical profession, w’hile abhorring "state medicine,” is advocating establishment of clinical centers where these are not now available, at which public funds would pay for treatment of the indigent. Persons of limited means would pay reduced rates, ■and the well-to-do full rates. Perhaps this is the solution, as Dr. McLaughlin Suggests. Old Men of England To view the British crisis as a clash of political personalities is a temptation. The characters involved are so vivid and dramatic. But it is a basic economic crisis, not a struggle of men for office and power. Nevertheless, when that is said, the personal tragedies remain—pathetic by-products of the greater national emergency. It is the end of Ramsay MacDonald. When he stepped up as chief of the new national coalition government, he stepped down and out as the unchallenged leader of the Labor party, which he helped to create. This man, who started as a poor lad in an obscure Village, may come at last to the house of lords. But that will give him only the trappings of political death. MacDonald the brilliant journalist, MacDonald the popular orator, will be buried under an unsought title—a specimen to be viewed by tourists who eee the house of lords and rush on to the mummy poom of the British museum. And all this because MacDonald had the courage to be true to himself—when his party had grown beyond him in radicalism. It was the same courage V'hich made him a martyr to his pacifism during the World war. But then he was more extreme than hio party; now his party is more extreme than he. So this time he can not come back. Snowden of the drawn face, the crippled legs and canes, also is stepping up into the coalition government only to step out of his place as Labor party leader, second only to MacDonald. The young clerk tyho became one of the empire’s greatest chancellors ©f the exchequer soon will limp into retirement with •nothing but his bitterness to warm him. ~ Henderson—"good and stupid old Uncle Arthur”— |>y refusing to cut the "dole” and enter the coalition government, inherited the full power of Labor party leadership which for a generation he had shared with Henderson and Snowden. * So Uncle Arthur again has fooled all the prophets. Z Just as this small town lay preacher surprised all by his achievements as foreign minister, now the ’•‘slow and stupid” pietist captures the British Labor movement from the more dramatic MacDonald and brainier Snowden. Leaders of the other parties, now uneasily perched for a moment in the coalition, seem little less pathetic than MacDonald and Snowden. Stanley Baldwin’s Tory party is divided behind his unimaginative back. He Is a steel magnate who lacks the confidence of big 'business; he is a country gentleman watching his landed neighbors go die-hard as he cautiously keeps the middle of the road. Lloyd George blesses the coalition from his sick bed, leader of the Liberal party in name only. He 'holds the party money bags, while ancient friends of the departed Asquith plot to control a party which is all officers and no privates. These are all old men, whether leaders of Labor, Liberals or Tories. These are all weary men. Britain's crisis is too much for them. They foresaw that which they could not prevent. Today they have no ;jiew plans. Perhaps they know too much—at least Tthey lack daring. I We have the feeling that the same conditions Which have produced Britain's crisis soon will begin to produce new leaders. That is as it should be. When Is a Dole? When men like Silas Strawn, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and others of cry out in horror against "the dole,” just what Jdo they mean? The question is appropriate in view jot Strawn's almost hysterical radio statement. Opponents of "the dole” invariably give the impression that they are opposing any payments to unemployed persons from public funds, as opposed to private charity. But this can not be what they .really have in mind. . Figures collected by the Russell Sage Foundation ihow that more than 70 per cent of the money paid ©ut for unemployment relief has come from public funds. This is a far larger percentage of public re-

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lief than is embodied in the hated British system of relief for unemployed. Yet this 70 per cent pubiic relief system is what Strawn and others praise as "American,” as the foundation of rugged individualism, as the one safe course from which we must not depart. The answer is that the public funds so far used in unemployment relief have come almost entirely from municipal treasuries, and that the object’ of the drive against “the dole” is to place the burden of relief upon municipal rather than federal or state taxpayers. But why should that be? Can it be because federal taxes are paid almost entirely by the well-to-do? They are assessed against Income; those having small incomes and large responsibilities are exempt from payment. Municipal taxes are assessed, on the other hand, largely against the man and the woman of moderate means and against those who know actual poverty. Real estate bears the tax burden in almost all cities. The family with a modest home, mortgaged, must pay city taxes or lose all the life savings put into that home. The poor family, unable to afford shelter of its own, must meet the tax burden by paying higher rent. The humblest alley dweller shares the burden of unemployment relief when it comes from the municipal treasury. All this, of course, leaves out of account the practical fact that cities have borne the burden of relief for so long already that their ability to do so adequately next winter is in grave doubt. A few days ago Chicago reported that delinquent taxes now stand against one-third of all the property in the city. It narrows down to this: Certain representatives of great wealth are bending every effort to make sure that relief bills this winter be paid by those who have little, rather than by those who have much. This is a bad business, for it does nothing to increase the amount of money in the hands of consumers, whose buying power must be restored before prosperity returns. And it is atrociously bad morals. Padding It Out We wonder what a good desk man in a modern newspaper office would do to Hall Caine’s posthumous "Life of Jesus”? It is announced that the novelist left such a work in manuscript, edited for the publisher and totaling no less than 3,000,000 words. Now a good-sized book runs to about 100,000 words. This means that Caine’s biography, which has been contracted for, will run to thirty volumes—or to forty, if each is no longer than the usual novel or brief biography. A great and devout, but honest, student of Jesus, Robert Keable, once was discussing the actual information which we possess about the life of Jesus. He pointed out that we do not have enough positive information to write more than a three-line obituary for the newspapers: “No one knows enough for the normal Times obituary of a great man. If regard were had to what we would call, in correct speech, definitely historical facts, scarcely three lines could be filled.” From three lines of facts, the late Mr. Caine will give us a thirty or forty-volume work. College professors of philosophy are not the only ones who need an editor with a copious supply of blue pencils. A member of the New York Stock Exchange bought a $25,000 brick of gold bullion as a souvenir the other day in Alaska. That sounds reasonable, considering some of the prices people paid for gold bricks in Wall Street a couple of years ago. The new Empress Eugenie hats may help to revive the corset and bustle industries, say fashion experts. That ought to pull us out of the depression in pretty good shape, anyway. A retired cattle man has invented a reversible hat for women. It remains only for some chorus girl to think up an ocean liner than can travel on skates. Henry Ford wants his employes to have their own gardens for vegetables. Probably he wants the boys to know their onions. One good thing about rock bottom is that there is no farther down to go. When Mayor Walker of New York goes on vacations, Joseph McKee becomes acting mayor. It might be said that Mr. Walker Is something of an acting mayor, too. Mother’s new wasp waistline is quite the thing, but father is the guy who got stung for it. An exchange, in an editorial, condemns the employment of unmarried women. A girl should have a husband to support.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT is not at all astonishing to learn from recent investigations that divorced people get along better in their second matrimonial venture than in their first. It would be astonishing if this were not true. By the time you have scrapped along with one man, dropped him and taken on another, you have acquired some sense about marriage, if ever you are going to do so. And one of the important facts you will have learned is that getting along with anybody depends a good deal on how you behave. Nine times out of ten the remarried individual could ciave managed just as well with Mr. First Husband, if she had known as much as she found out after she jets Mr. Second. To be sure, there are couples who are destined to disaster. In such cases where husband and wife have animosity for each other, there is no sense in insisting that they remain tied together for life. But the majority of our divorces are obtained because no real effort is made to patch up differences. # a a WHEN you contemplate the unreasonable behavior of the average mortal in his other relationships, when you observe that he always wants all the advantages and believes that perpetual concessions should oe made to him, you must stand awed and overcome by the fact that a few marriages do stick. Other adjustments, those in social life, in politics, in business and industry, are possible only because all individuals concerned see the wisdom of playing fair with the other fellow. If we only could learn to play a little bit fairer in marriage, more than half of our difficulties would vanish. And to preserve one's marriage, to nurse it through the dangerous first years, to try at least to make it go, is an ambition worthy of individuals who deem, themselves intelligent enough to rear children. So long as we tolerate our present divorce conditions I do not believe we are fit to be parenta.

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What Does Hoover Hope to Gain by Refusing to Call an Extra Session of Congress— or Is That the Reason? NEW YORK. Sept. 11.—In outlining government to balance the British budget, Chancellor Snowden declared that one•third of the national income now goes for taxes. We think taxes are high in this country, but they would have to be more than doubled to reach onethird of our national income. The basic income tax rate in England already is 20 per cent and | the government proposes to make it I 2214. Ours runs from 1 to 6 per ! cent. The privilege of operating a me-dium-priced car costs S2OO or S3OO annually in England, while here it costs only $25 s or S3O. 0 u n It’s All Comparison EVERYTHING in life is a matter of comparison. If it hadn’t been for the boom of 1928, this depression wouldn’t seem half so tough. As it is, we Americans are a lot better off than some other people, even if the unemployment figures and stock market quotations do look discouraging. There is plenty of work to be done and plenty of cash with which to do it, but we can’t seem to hit on the right combination. An extra session of congress might help. 0 st u That May Be So, but — WHAT does the Hoover administration hope to gain by refusing to call an extra session of congress, or isn’t that the reason for its failure to do so? Silas Strawn says that "The business, men of this country are more capable of dealing with existing conditions intelligently, wisely and courageously than are the politicians who exercise governmental functions.” Maybe so, and maybe that’s why an extra session of congress has not been called, but the business ! men have yet to prove it. 0 0 0 It’s Plain Fascism THE major contribution of business thus far has been a persistent cry against government interference and just as persistent advice that we would pull through all right if we would only stop thinking and lean on faith. If there is a lack of faith anywhere, it is on the part of a certain school of business men with regard to the legislative branch of their government. Call such an -attitude what you please, but it means Fascism, and it represents just as great menace to American institutions as does the radicalism of which these same business men pretend to be so scared. 0 0 # Not to Whole Extent THIS country faces problems that can not be solved without the help of all three branches of its government and which have a definite bearing on the present period of distress. Most of us like to think that the depression is just a business affair, just a temporary interruption of traffic, just a logical reaction to the boom, in which the whole civilized world is participating. To some extent that is true, but not to the whole extent. 000 Linking Higher-Ups. THE philosophy of racketeering has made a deep impression on our economic and political life—the philosophy that it is right and proper to get all you can by any means you can. Gang rule is just a little rawer than run-of-the-mill stuff, but even gang rule has its obvious connections with business and politics. How else could it obtain the necessary capital, or protection? It is well nigh ' impossible to catch a gangster these days, wi' nout finding lawyers, brokers and officials lurking in the background. 000 Look at This * FEDERAL authorities just have unearthed an alien smuggling ring in New York, which is said to have been in operation twelve years and to have done an annual business of $15,000,000. Five or six lawyers are under surveillance, as well as steamship inspectors and officers described as holding “high positions of trust.” Out in Chicago, where gang rule has come to an end, according to the Tribune, police officers are charged with extorting $50,000 from a kidnaping gang. The attitude toward gangs and rackets stands out in sharp contrast to what it was four or five years ago. Then they were taken as a joke, if not a blessing. Then they could get all the credit they needed and exercise a pull with the authorities without any one protesting. 000 'Restore That Honesty’ WE are not going to get back on this job, until much of this baneful influence has been removed, this sinister figure of, extortion which has made it impossible for small men to compete with the big boys, not only in the liquor traffic, j but in a lot of other things. i We are not going to remedy con- 1 ditions until we restore some of that | commo nhonesty which is peculiarly j essential to the republic and some j of that sportsmanship which is will- ! ing to .play a fair game. What is the average life span of a fly? No definite statement can be made about the life span of a fly, as too many factors enter into the problem. Some live for only a day, and many are killed by the weather. In longevity experiments one record or seventy days and another of ninety-one days was obtained. Entomologists have guessed from ; ten to fifteen days as the average ; life span. Which is the correct abbreviation of bachelor of arts, A. B. or B. A.? Both are corrrect. Is there any premium on a Stone Mountain.. Memorial., half-dollar dated 1925? No.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Diet Secret of Health in Old Age

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. BEFORE giving advice to the aged as to the conduct of their lives it may be well to recognize somewhat their economic conditions. It is estimated by Dublin, statistician of a famous life insurance company, that one and one-quarter million persons in the United States who have reached the age of 65 are in want and are supported by charity, public and private. This means that 28 per cent, or more than one out of every four, are dependent. It long has been known that retirement not infrequently has hastened the death of the aged. A successful business man, when relieved of the usual life and caused to resort to idle luxury, tends to degenerate rapidly. Every trifling ailment begins to receive his undivided attention. The mental attitude is important.

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It should become increasingly evident that in America politicians quarrel with names rattier than facts. For instance, leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been emphatic in stating that never, never will this glorious republic establish the dole. But in the next breath these same gentlemen give enthusiastic support to the suggestions of the American Legion that special financial favors be granted to war veterans. Call it adjusted compensation if you care to—it remains a dole. Nor can it fairly be said that it is the most scientific and efficient sort of dole, since those who have no need are lumped in with many who may be in desperate need. In some respects I am not at all against the measures which the Legion has managed to jam through congress from time to time. After all, no harm is done if the public is reminded constantly that war is an experience which must be paid for not once, but a score of times. 000 Men on Horseback ON the other hand, I am in decided dissent when I read a speech such as that which General Harbord made to a Legion convention in Syracuse a few days ago. The chairman of the Radio Corporation, told the veterans that they should assume political control of America. This seems to me an invitation for the creation of simon pure Fascism. Morover, General Harbord glorified war and stated: "There is still romething in war which in the last analysis means values above social comforts, above ease and even above religion. It is the mysterious power that war gives to life of rising above mere life.” To put it much more bluntly, that estate above life which General Harbord eulogizes is death. And in this world-wide struggle of existence against destruction I am for

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SWEDEN MAKES REPLY Sept. 11

ON Sept. 11, 1917, Admiral Lindman, head of the Swedish for- ; eign office, issued the following reply to the charges that Sweden had violated neutrality: “It is accurate to say that just after the World war broke out the Swedish foreign minister expressed the opinion that he ought to transmit a German telegram concerning j the civil population of Kiao-Chau (the former German fortress in the Chinese peninsula of Shantung). “Statements to the same effect were made to representatives of both belligerent groups without there being any question of Sweden taking over representation of any power interests. “The telegram mentioned in the American statement was written in j code and in transmitting it, the Swedish minister was by that reason unable to recopy it. “Sweden will take measures to prevent any repetition of the inci- i denU” 1

Sir Humphrey Rolleston says that "a well-occupied mind, a happy disposition that thinketh no evil, naturally smiles instead of frowning on a stranger or anew idea, free from anger, hatred and jealousy, the vice that gives no pleasure to any one, and an attitude of charity in its original and best sense to all, tend to prolong life and make it a happy, healthy prelude to crossing the bar.” Thus one may point out that dignitaries of the church, chief justices on supreme court benches, prime ministers, and those of similar professions whose activities are prolonged tend to live longer than others. Apparently the most important advice for attaining and prolonging old age has to do with the diet. A half-dozen proverbs attest the manner in which men have accepted this fact. "You dig your grave with your teeth”; "Man does not die, he kills himself,” and best of all the double-edged statement of the Hoosier farmer: "Pigs would

the quick every time, I am for the living against the dead. I will not support any publicist who wants to change the planet into one vast haunted house. 000 What Is a Vacation? I’M glad now that I didn’t take my furlough early. The countryside is about just beginning to shed its conventional green and blossom forth into gaudier reds, yellows, and browns. By the time I get there, it is quite possible that there will be nothing but brown. But even that is a relief to the eye a'ter months and miles of monotonous green. It is interesting to note the many individual conceptions of what constitutes a successful vacation. For instance, the tired business man gets his relaxation and thrills out of shooting eighteen holes of golf or sitting for hours at a river’s edge waiting for an elusive nibble. His stenographer, on the other hand, considers him an old fogy. What is heaven to her boss would be devastating boredom to her. For a full fifty weeks she has saved and scrimped and planned. And when the time comes for her fortnight’s respite from work and crowds, she gathers together the fripperies for which she has denied herself substantial luncheons and rushes off to a crowded resort, where she works harder at having a good time that she ever worked in the city. 000 An Innocent Abroad MAYOR Walker, at a luncheon given him in Paris, commented on the crime situation in New York. “This business of

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l have been under the impression that your paper was for the working people, and also for the truth, and against low wages. Were you afraid to make public the letter that a local furniture company employe wrote concerning the low wages they were paying? You took up the case of low wages being paid on the East New York street project. Is one case of lowwages any worse than the other? I notice large headlines in your paper of Hoover’s speech against cutting wages, and yet when I w-rote and told of this furniture company working on a government job and paying the men the magnificent sum of 22 to 27 cents an hour, I don’t see anything being said about it. If you don’t believe it, send someone to talk to the men who are working ten hours for $2.09, also a married man who worked five hours for 11 cents. They are put on a piecework basis so that their superintendent can show the big boss the work can be done cheaply, regardless of the showing he can make when the bills come due. WIFE OF EMPLOYE. Which three books have had the widest circulation? The Bible, Shakespeare's plays and Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress” have been the most widely published books.

live a lot longer if they didn’t make hogs of themselves/’ An investigation by one life insurance company revealed that 13 per cent of some thousands of policyholders beyond the age of 40 were more than 20 per cent overweight. Persons at this age have usually stopped taking even the physical exercise of walking. Since it is impossible for us to choose our parents, all that we can do toward the prolongation of life is to avoid preventable disease by the usual sanitary and hygienic precautions and by having physical examinations at least once each year to detect the presence of the diseases of middle life that come on insidiously. Avoid worry since it is of the greatest importance in using up the inherent vitality. Moderation in all things, a certain amount of mental and physical exercise, some time in the open air, and a reasonable amount of happiness—these constitute the prescription for a long life and a useful one.

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crime,” cried Mr. Walker, “is gnawing at my heart!” Poor Jimmy; It seems a shame that every time he takes a sabbatical leave things are happening in the old home town. There should be a law making it a misdemeanor to start investigations or round up gangsters while any government official is taking a holiday. It must be ruinous to Mr. Walker’s digestion to have these things brought to his attention while he is sipping beer and other health-giv-ing beverages in Carlsbad and Budapest-. After all, our mayor should not be disturbed by anything as sordid as crime and corruption. He is an esthete. I believe it is a good thing for our mayors, governors and president to travel abroad and establish friendly relations with other countries. But in times of stress it seems to me their place is at the helm of the ship. > n n & Captain, Save Our Ship! captain worthy of his name will desert a sinking vessel. It is the tradition of the sea that the captain remains until every one else has been saved. And even then, very often, he refuses to save himself. Os course, such a regime seems to me a little drastic. But certainly the men whom we elect to handle our affairs and guide us safely through times of stress should at least remain at their posts when the storm breaks. If captain deserts what hope is there for the crew and the passengers, whose very lives are in his hands? (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times)

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.SEPT. 11,1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Thirty Astronomers With Ten Photographic T elescopes Are Making a New Survey of the Universe. nnHE Harvard observatory has launched a survey of the universe in which thirty astronomers, using ten photographic telescopes, will take part. Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory, is the commander-in-chief of this new campaign upon the stars. The survey is an extension of various problems which have occupied the attention of the observatory for the last ten years. Dr. Shapley is well equipped for the* task, since it is largely due to his work that we realize today the true size of the universe. Jt was due to his study of the Magellanic Clouds, those great clouds of stars in the southern hemisphere of the heavens which look to the unaided eye like pieces of the Milky Way that had broken loose. He showed that these great aggregations of stars were many times farther away than had been suspected previously. As Dr. *Shapley and his assistants prepare to survey the universe, perhaps it will be interesting for us to take stock briefly of our present knowledge of It.' 000 Our Sun a Star LET us begin with our own globe, ■ the earth. It is one of nine known planets which belong to the sun’s family. From the earth to the sun is 93,000,000 miles. From the sun to Pluto,'the most distant of the known plants, is 3,700,000,000 miles. (That is Pluto’s average distance from the sun. Its maximum distance is 4,600,000.000 miles.) Our sun, although specially important to us, is just an average star. The stars appear so very different because they are so very far away. The nearest star is 25,000,000,000000 miles away. Many stars are ten times as far away, 100 times as far away, 1,000 and even 10,000 times as far away. Our sun is one of the stars which compose the galaxy of Milky Way. There are various estimates as to the number of stars in the galaxy. Perhaps the Harvard survey will give us anew figure. At present, the estimate which is generally accepted is 40,000,000,000 stars. An important question involved is the distribution of these stars in space. We know that in general they are distributed in space in a formation something like that of a gigantic grindstone or watchcase. The diameter the long way, that is, along the bands of the watch, is about 300.000 light years. (A lightyear, it will be recalled, is 6,000,000,000,000 miles.) The diameter the shorter way, that is, from the front to the -back of the watch, is about 20,000 light-years. These facts explain why we see the Milky Way as a dense cloud of stars across the sky. When we look at the Milky Way, we are looking into the depths of our galaxy. We are looking “along the hands of the watch.” 0 0 0 Clouds of Stars AMONG the more important problems concerning our galaxy are the questions of the exact shape of the galaxy and the exact distribution of the stars within it. It has been established that the stars are not uniformly distributed within the galaxy, but are concentrated into large groups or clouds. One of these groups, because it contains our own sun, is known technically as "the local cloud,” It now is known that many deductions concerning the galaxy made in the past; were erroneous because they were based upon conditions -which apply only to the local cloud. The local cloud in which our sun is situated, is not at the center of the galaxy, but is displaced from the center by about 25,000 lightyears. In winter, when we look at the constellation of Orion, we are looking away from the center of the galaxy. The great star cloud which the telescope reveals in the constellation Saggitarius Is believed to contain the center of the galaxy. Our galaxy is not alone in the great ocean of space. Its nearest neighbors are the two Magellanic Clouds. At greater distances are the spiral nebulae, sometimes called "island galaxies.” There are at least 1,000,000 of these island galaxies within the the 10C * inc h telescope at Mt. Wilson. It is not possible to say how many more the new 200mch telescope will reveal.

Daily Thought

How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war”— Jeremiah 48:14. Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.—H. W. Shaw.