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Get In Line The proceeds of a baseball game to be played at Perry stadium next Monday will be given to the **made work” commission. In this enterprise, Mr. Perry sets an example of good citizenship that might well be followed by other amusement purveyors. The “made work” plan is the most sensible relief measure devised to assist those who are victims of the present depression. It is the pattern on which relief will come permanently to this and all other cities. Very few of those who have been compelled to accept aid from townsnip trustees or from the welfare societies want charity. Men do want work. They want the right to support their own families. This plan saves self-respect, which is quite as essential as food and shelter. All business might be started back to prosperity if the plan could be amplified, perhaps by government credits to various cities and local units, so that vast sums could be spent at once for improvements. Until such funds are available, the volunteer efforts of citizens who are as wise as they are humane in their estimates must suffice. The committee will need very large sums this winter to keep men at work. A ticket for that ball game may help someone to get by the dark days this winter. Get in line at the box office. Here is one ball game that has in it more than entertainment. It may turn the tide in the right direction by stimulating thought on the real cure for joblessness. It is to be found only in jobs, and jobs must be created at once. The Wage Cuts Every intelligent citizen from President Hoover on down will regret the wage cuts announced in the steel, automobile, copper, rubber and other Industries. All that the President and others have been saying in recent years about the economic advantage of wages high enough to balance consumption with production is as true today as ever. Production overshot itself. Consumption failed to keep pace. Overconcentration of wealth resulted. Had wages, which represent consumption, been higher in the good years, and more of that vast accumulation of capital distributed through spending channels instead of plowed back into excess production, we would not be in our present fix. High wages create prosperity for both capital and labor. But merely to blame these employers for the announced wage cuts will get us nowhere. It is not so simple as that. In time of sickness, a painful and dangerous operation often is necessary. American business is sick. Was this operation necessary? The answer to that question depends on other questions, including the following: Had these corporations exhausted their reserves, or are they protecting stockholders at the expense of labor? During the boom period did they rob their labor reserve fund —assuming they had such, a fund—to pay excessive dividends -or to add to already overexpanded plants? Was the old wage an adequate wage and does the decrease thus merely balance the cost-of-living cut, or was the old wage inadequate, meaning that the decrease creates a starvation wage? Most of these questions, in the case of most of the corporations, involve factors over which neither labor nor the public has complete information. Moreover, they involve factors over which neither labor nor the public has control. Under our American system in times of crisis, capital exercises a dictatorship. There is no provision for the other interested parties—labor and the consuming public—to share in the decisions which make or break the prosperity of the country. Therefore, the fault is not so much with the individual power as with the system which forces him to meet cut-throat competition and to think first of larger immediate dividends rather than of the interests of the industry, of labor, and of the country. When our dog-eat-dog system precipitated the depression, President Hoover and others saw that the only way to check the catastrophe was to maintain employment and wages. Both efforts have failed. Unemployment is widespread and wage cuts are widespread. Employers as a whole are not to blame. The best employer is forced finally, as a matter of sheer business survival, to the level of his most unscrupulous competitor; he is forced to lay off some men and to cut wages of others. Today, there are employers all over the country who have been holding out against layoffs and wage cuts at tremendous cost to themselves and their business. Heroic as have been the efforts of those enlightened business leaders and of the Hoover administration. the last two years have proved that such heroism and good intentions are defeated by the very nature of our chaotic business system itself. We believe there is no cure except through basic reorganization to stabilize whole industries as units. We believe that some such revolution in our business structure, as outlined recently in the imperfect Swope-Young plan, must come; that the system which virtually forces these depressions, wage cuts and unemployment rapidly is destroying itself by its own inefficiency. But we believe that any new system, to be effective, must be a form of industrial democracy in which labor and the public share with capital the responsibility and power to stabilize prosperity. To try to maintain employment, and keep up wages on a national scale during recurring depressions of the present system, is as hopeless as trying to make water run up hill. It can be done, but 4 not long. This is a very disagreeable fact to face. But so are these wage cuts hard to face. The important thing is that we learn our .lesson. Mooney-Billings Boycotts Abstract argument and appeal invoking justice, logic and humanity having failed through four political regimes in California to free Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, lovers of fair play apparently are turning to harsher measures. The Arizona Federation of Labor, with only one dissenting vote in its convention, passed resolutions calling for a boycott of all California's manufactured goods until the men are free. In far-off Sweden, a mass meeting of 2300 people passed resolutions calling upon all Swedish sport clubs to boycott the Olympic games, to be held for the first time on American soil, in. Los Angeles next summer. Ths anU-QaUlornia movement, so tu, ig small.

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but it might well spread and bear down heavily upon California’s pocket-nerve. As an expression of mass opinion, the boycott has proved grimly effective at times. Its weakness, however, is that it makes the innocent suffer for the guilty. The Mooney-Billings outrage can not be laid at the door of California’s 5,000,000 people. But should a Mooney-Billings boycott prove effective these 5,000,000 would suffer. To protect themselves against world-wide protest and its economic consequences, the people of California might declare a boycott of their own. It should be aimed against the blameworthy parties, the week-kneed politicians who take orders from a small group of selfish, anti-labor employers. It is these Governors and judges, and their backers, who are making one of the fairest states in the Union a hateful byword in every land. A Valiant Warrior for Peace David Starr Jordan died last week at the age of 80. Os his career one appropriately might quote the Scriptural passage to the effect that he fought a good fight and kept the faith. He was a scientist of international repute whose scholarly career bridged the three-score years which lie between the Agassiz and that of Einstein and Planck. He was an educational pioneer who built up a great university in the far west, and kept it reasonably free for the expression of honest opinion, in spite of most annoying and inquisitorial interference from relatives of the donor. No British prime minister ever was more harassed by the meddlings of Queen Victoria. It is well known that he sincerely regretted the one great blot upon his educational career, the ousting of the distinguished professor, Edward Ainsworth Ross, for telling the truth relative to the labor policies of Leland Stanford Sr. But it is as an apostle of peace, rather than as scientist or educator, that Dr. Jordan will be best and longest remembered. He fittingly was chosen president of the Carnegie Peace Foundation and director of the World Peace Foundation. When the time of strains and stresses for pacifists came after 1914, Dr. Jordan stuck by his guns, while subsequent heads of these great peace foundations scurried for cover and began howling for the blood of enemies, real or imaginary. He labored valiantly, at grave risk of both health and his very life, to keep as out of the conflict. He suffered great humiliation for his courage and consistency. The patrioteers among the authorities at Cornell university started a move to revoke his two Cornell degrees and strike his name from the list of alumni of that institution. Fortunately, the level heads who remained loyal to the principles of Andrew D. White prevailed, and the great institution at Ithaca was saved from a foolhardy and ungenerous act which would have harmed Cornell more than Dr. Jordan. Once the war was on, Dr. Jordan voluntarily offered his services and asserted that, as long as his country was at war, the only way out was forward. But he did not become an intellectual and moral war casualty. He remained a steadfast pacifist to the end, and in 1924 was awarded the Herman peace prize of $25,000 for the best plan to advance the cause of international understanding and conciliation. Many have believed him far more entitled to the Nobel peace prize than many recipients of the award. No fair-minded person, whether he agrees with Dr. Jordan’s philosophy or not, will deny him a leading place among the American heroes who have led in the battle for world peace. He stands with Elihu Burritt, William Ladd, Charles Sumner, Albert Smiley, Andrew Carnegie, William Jennings Bryan and Edwin D. Mead. No men of war have served their country better. Cancer and Cruisers Cancer takes a great toll of lives in the world each year. It is the worst scourge of the race, because we do not know its cause and can not institute preventive measures. Nor are we very far advanced in curative methods. Many get impatient with the medical profession because of the slow progress made in discovering causes and cures for cancer. But Dr. Francis Carter Wood of the Crocker Institute of Cancer Research just has offered a most definite alibi for the medical profession : k "The scientist well could reply that in the whole world there are no more funds for cancer research each year than the annual interest on the cost of two destroyers.” When one reads this in the light of the billions spent each year for battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and seaplanes throughout the world, he almost may doubt whether the intelligence of the human race is sufficient to warrant efforts to save it from cancer or any other plague.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ITALY, they tell us, is a country of superb masculine strength. The Fascists, moreover, believe that woman’s place is in the maternity ward. Husbands and rulers not only urge, but commmana, an increase in the birth rate. The little boys over there begin their military training at the age of 8, and the little girls, I suppose, are taught that there is no more enviable career for them than maternity. And this, without a doubt, is the supreme stultification of motherhood. Why, in heaven’s name, should the women of any land voluntarily offer the fruit of their bodies as a sacrifice to the marital ideal? Why give life only that death may reap a richer harvest? The Italian women have no voice in their government, They are not permitted to vote. Their sole contribution to Italy’s cause is the creation of a vast army so that ruthlessness may thrive and the stupidity of war may be prolonged. * tt it GENERATION after generation of women have been asked to do this in the high and holy name of patriotism. They have suffered and loved and given up their sons so that glory might crown the brow of a countryman, or that a sovereign might become enriched. And what, may I inquire, have they ever received for this magnanimous service? Less than nothing. Motherhood in every country is rewarded with meaningless words, empty as to sustenance or comfort as desert sands. Do we not owe a duty to our children as well as to our country? Unless we have the assurance that theirs will be a reasonable span of life, and that their existence will be one of fulfilment, then we should not give life at all. To bear sons destined before maturity for slaughter is an ignoble achievement. No man has a right to ask it of women.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

If the Hoover Administration Was Surprised by the Wage Cuts, It Must Have Been Asleep More Soundly Than ■We Thought. NEW YORK, Sept. 24—No one can doubt the sincerity of the Hoover administration’s disappointment at all this wage cutting. The effect on 1932 is too obvious. If the Hoover administration was surprised, however, it must have been asleep more soundly than most of us thought Other people hoped that some miracle woud intervene to save the existing wage scale, but very few of them were fooled. By and large, the country had reconciled itself to the inevitability of wage cuts, if the business slump continued. n n Don't Be Deceived IT'S a terrible thing to reduce the earning of workers by 10 or 15 per cent, but let’s not deceive ourselves as to the real cause, or place the blame where it does not belong. With 6.000,000 out of employment, with some of our greatest industries operating at 75, 60 or even 50 per cent of normal production, with foreign trade down, and foreign competition taking away some of our best markets, it stood to reason that ' wages would be cut if something weren’t done to revive business. The one important question is, wh6 would, and should, have done that something? # # Washington’s Attitude BUSINESS merely is borrowing a page from the government, merely reducing expenses as the best way to meet diminished revenue, and balance its budget. While Washington may not have reduced any government employe’s pay, it has pursued a policy that reduced the number of government employes. Worse still, it has pursued a policy that made it increasingly difficult for American business to recover foreign markets. Dr. Julius Klein is opposed to great expenditures for public works, on the ground, that they would tend to remove capital from private enterprise, That epitomizes Washington’s attitude. It’s Getting Old SINCE the crash of 1929, Washington stubbornly has refused to recognize this depression as a public emergency. First, it argued that there wasn’t any depression, that the country was up against little more than a temporary lull in business, and that everything would be all right in the spring. We have heard that for three springs. n tt Much 'Bigger’ Problems WHEN such a song and dance lost its appeal, Washington turned to the theory that if we really were in trouble, private industry and local government must get us out. Washington, you understand, had bigger problems to solve—disarmament, for instance, though it wouldn't join the League of Nations, and the salvage of Germany, though it denied that reparations had anything to do with what dllied nations owed us. u u a War-Time Suffering THERE were industrial conferences, of course, there was the farm board, and there was the bonus, but when you come to size it all up, what was there by way of honest-to-God effective measures of relief that fitted the situation? Though no exact, or even approximate, figures are available, it is not going too far to say that the American people have suffered as much during the last three years as they did during the war, that they have experienced as great physical distress, and that they have lost as much money. Perhaps not as many of them have died by violence, but considering the increase of suicide, murder, accident and avoidable disease, even that is possible. tt tt a Still Fed the Bunk WHETHER organized industry has borne as much of the burden as it should, it has borne more than it ever did before—passing dividends and cutting salaries before it asked sacrifices of those in the ranks. How any one could imagine that industry would not be compelled to ask sacrifices of those in the ranks, unless something were done to restore, or relieve it, is a mystery for future ages to explain, yet such seems ;o have been the big idea. No matter how low wheat went, or steel production fell off, no matter what the reports on foreign trade showed, or how unemployment increased, we still were fed with the illusionment that wage scales would be maintained, and that those who thought the government should extend a helping hand were glaringly pink, if not red.

Questions and Answers

Does the word money, in its broadest sense, mean only coins or bills that we commonly use? In its broadest sense, money is any material that by agreement serves as a common medium of exchange and measure of value in trade. Specifically it is a standard of value and medium of payment established by law. Who was “The Father of the Constitution?” It is a nickname for President James Madison. What is the significance of the bundle of rods and an ax, on the United States dimes? It is the Roman fasces, an emblem of power, that was carried befor the chief magistrates in ancient Rome, as a symbol of their power over life and limb. What is the derivation and meaning of the name Susette? French from the Hebrew Susan, meaning & ]ily.

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Body Louse Transmits Typhus Fever

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hytreia, the Health Magazine. THE condition called typhus fever was formerly considered to be a -disease largely associated with the tropics, war conditions and prison life. Investigations made by Howard Taylor Hickets, supplemented largely by those of other Americans, revealed the fact that typhus fever is transmitted by the body louse, which explained to a considerable extent its special character. Recent investigations made by Texas physicians indicate that this condition may be transmitted rot only by the body louse but also by the rat flea.

Hoover Is Not the Right Man

tt tt 9 tt tt tt President Has Shown His Inability to Handle Relief Problem, Says Writer.

Editor Times—Discerning persons are becoming painfully aware that Mr. Hoover's abilities are not of the kind and number that will enable him to direct successfully the task he has assumed of relieving the suffering caused by unemployment of millions of men and women now on the verge of starvation. Ail who succeed in great enterprises exhibit a grasp of the situation; the value of time and celerity of action. He showed his inability by slowness in grasping the greatness of the disaster caused by the drought which visited twenty-two states; his unwillingness to accept the advice of men who know; his hostility to the senate at a time when he should have conciliated, the lengths to which he went in defeating its appropriation of $25,000,000 intended to relieve from starvation a million suffering Americans, even dragging the central committee of the Red Cross into declaring at the time the bill was pending in the house that if it passed that organization would not handle the relief. It can not be that the largeness of the sum asked staggered both Mr. Hoover and Mellon, for during the war, and after, Mr. Hoover obtained $140,000,000 to feed starving Belgians, Russians and Germans. Not long since, Mr. Mellon handed back to certain big corporations $160,000,000, said to be “surplus tax,” and this was done so freely and with such trustfulness that no statement of account could be found by the senate committee, nor could any responsibility for the gift be fixed. When questioned, the heads of the various departments exhibited ignorance of the whole transaction. Doubtless Mr. Hoover was a capable engineer and boss of men rendered submissive by oppression; and doubtless, too, he did well overseas; but there he had efficient coadjutors, a limited territory, and was acting in a subordinate capacity and not as boss of the works. Mr. Hoover’s antipathy to the dole seems to carry him far —even into English politics—but as choice between evils, the dole is to be preferred to starvation. He has pledged the people that there shall be no starvation. If his present scheme of relief is attempted both will appear and another red chapter be added to history. JOHN NEWTON.

Editor Times —As you are a man of progressive ideas and want to make this world a better place in which to live, especially during this depression, I submit a plan for your consideration. The basis of all our living primarily comes from the farm. We could start the unemployed in co-oper-ative colonies on some of the best farm land in the country and produce everything for their own consumption, produced by the latest agricultural machinery. Also, there could be factories and mills in connection for manufacturing the raw materials into finished products—plants such as flour mills, slaughter houses, bakeries, canneries, machine shop, laundry, etc. These colonies always could absorb the extra people not employed by private business. We might as well build something permanent for the future. By using this same money that we will use to relieve the unemployed this winter, we could start some modern apartment buildings (built by unemployed) on large farms and there

Regulating the Regulators

•DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

In 1930, two Texas physicians trapped a number of wild rats in and around feed stores in a small town in Texas in which a number of cases of typhus have occurred in recent years. A number of the fleas were secured from these rats and investigated in the laboratories of the Bailey university college of medicine. Some of the fleas were ground up into a solution and injected into guinea pigs, which promptly developed symptoms. It was found that the virus from the rat flea could be transmitted to animals. Immunity tests between the strain of the virus obtained from the rat

The People’s Voice

would be something to show for our efforts, instead of needless suffering and mental anxiety on the part of the needy and relief of the rich from fear of paying a dele. J. S. L. Editor Times —When a parent finds it necessary to ask the school authorities to buy his child’s books, why can’t the school people do it without letting all other pupils know of it. It is an actual handicap to a child to have his poverty advertised. It puts a discouraging blanket of humility and injured pride over him and prevents pleasant relations with his fellows. Why keep up the farce of opening school meetings with prayer and disregard such an important and vital matter as this?. I am writing your paper because you seem to keep your columns open to the poor man as well as the rich. A PARENT. Editor Times—l want to thank the editor of The Indianapolis Times for the five editorial articles published Sept. 19, 1931. They not only expressed the view and the broadmindedness of the editor, but the thought, I will say, of 85 per cent of the citizens of the United States. It ■would pay every American citizen to take these five articles, read them, and study them until they understood the meaning of every word and sentence contained therein. It may take some of us quite a while to get the correct meaning, but it will pay a hundredfold to take the time and energy to master the job, and I am sure you will find in those five articles the very causes of our trouble today, and the answer to the question, why do we get into this kind of trouble?” I remember when I first read Dr. Drummond’s “Natural Law in the Spiritual World,” I did not have much luck, but after I read it over a good many times I began to find out what it was all about. My advice to the readers of The Times and everybody else is, if you have not those five articles, get them, read them, study them until you thoroughly understand them. You will derive real benefit. J. E. BENNETT. 1322 Bradbury street. _ Editor Times —We have heard a great deal of complaining, during the last ten years, about the prevailing “crime wave,” but I wonder whether any of your readers ever had occasion to realize that much of it is due, partly by way of provocation and partly in the way of direct contribution, to the activities of many gentlemen who actually are being paid by taxpayers to suppress crime. What is “crime,” in the first place? An interference or an attempt of interfering with the rights of our fellow beings in the enjoyment of what our state Constitution calle “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,” and punishable not solely at the request of the particular individual affected, but on behalf of society in general. For instance, if I should kidnap a person and then lock him up in some private cellar or barn, I would be liable Jto criminal prosecution. Why? Because although only one single person has been injured, yet if such practice were permitted legally, each and every one of us would be living in constant danger of being kidnaped. I doubt if the meanest despot that

fleas and a strain obtained from a proved case of typhus fever indicated definitely the relationship between the rat flea virus and the typhus fever virus. The rat has already been convicted of being a vector and carrier of plague. There seems to be no doubt that the rat may also be associated with the spread of other diseases. Rats and mice breed rapidly. Permitted to breed without control, they soon overrun premises and would quite certainly overrun the world. They should be stamps out, because their field of usefulness has not yet been demonstrated and to civilized man they are a menace.

ever ruled a low, barbarian people every exercised such privilege, but I do know that it has been practiced on a liberal scale by Indianapolis police officials, notwithstanding that our Constitution gives no single act of men the right to exercise any exclusive privileges. Here’s how it’s done. If you don’t appear attractive enough to some police officer, as you walk down the street, he says you are guilty of “vagrancy,” arrests you and recommends you for a few days’ or a few weeks’ free board and lodging in jail. If you doubt me, consult the police records. If this policy suits you, keep it up, until you become a victim Os it. DAVID HORN. Editor Times—Just a few suggestions to relieve the unemployment situation from a man out of work. If our President is so interested, why doesn’t he suggest repealing the eighteenth amendment? Open the breweries and distilleries. It would give thousands of men and women work. Also, the government would get millions of dollars of revenue instead of paying out that much to crooked prohibition agents, who work hand in hand with the big bootleggers. The President could suggest giving all government employes a sixhour day. The government could take over the railroads as they did during the World war. All this would help solve the unemployment problem. The working class is getting tired of promises and hypocrisy. They want action and work. Something would better be done before it is too late. There is too much vacationing going on for the jobless man to read about. They will stand it so long, but the worm always turns. They aren’t going to sit by and starve while our big executives are living off the fat of the land and spending money lavishly. TIMES READER. Editor Times—l am past 87 and my one eye, my ears, and my mind are yet alive regarding past and present events in the history of our glorious country. The Civil war ended sixty-six years ago. During this time the Democrats have had the presidency four times, two under Cleveland and two under Wilson. Neither had the approval of congress for his policies. Therefore, the President was required to execute Republican policies. And here we are in the midst of troubles affecting the whole world. If we had retained our world leadership that we had under Wilson, the story would be different. What was the balance of power that largely provided these results? Answer: Incidentally, campaign expenditures, as reported by the political parties since 1896 are, according to the Boston Globe: 1896, McKinley $3,500,000, Bryan $675,000; 1900, McKinley $2,500,000, Bryan $425,000; 1904, Roosevelt $1,900,000, Parker $700,000; 1908, Taft $1,655,518, Bryan $900,000; 1912, Wilson $1,130,000, Taft $1,070,000, Roosevelt $670,000; 1916, Wilson $1,958,000, Hughes $3,829,000; 1920, Harding $5,319,729. Cox $1,318,374; 1914, Coolidge $3,063,952. Davis $903,908, La Follette, $221,977. I haven’t the figures for 1928. From these figures it is evident that “big business” chipped in to secure the election of those who approved its methods. The Republican party having hitched its kite to big business now is along with big business in the air, with no definite landing place in sight. SOL M. OMCK.

.SEPT. 24,1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

A 25-Year-Old Journal Is the ‘Clearing House ’ for the World’s Discoveries and Progress in Chemistry. SEVENTY-FIVE diners finished a dinner during the recent convention at Buffalo of the American Chemical Society, with a birthday cake. There were twenty-five candles on the cake. The dinner was in honor of the twenty-fifth birthday of Chemical Abstracts, one of the publications of the American Chemical Society and one of the useful and valuable publications in the world. The seventy-five diners were a few of the scientists who make this publication possible. Special tribute was paid at the dinner to a number of scientists who have served as abstractors or assistant editors since the founding of “Chemical Abstracts.” They are G. E. Barton, Paul Eseher, C. E. Munroe. L. A. Olney, W. H. Ross. A. H. Sabin, F. P. Und''-'-"’ L. E. Warren and F. W. Zerban. Chemical Abstracts is an example of the special kinds of services which have bee” madp necessary by the growth of science. So many publications now deal with chemistry, publishing the results of experiments, new discoveries and so on, that it would be impossible for any one man to read all of them. So Cbpmical Abstracts publishes brief digests or abstracts of the articles app-ring in thesf other magazines. a Aid to Research BY the close of the present year, Chemical Abstracts will have published abstracts of 620,000 articles, according S Professor E. J Crane, its editor. A reserve army of specialists scattered throughout the United States, aids the office force of Chemical Abstracts. Professor Crane or one.of his assistants assigns important papers to members of this reserve for abstracting. „ Forty-five asociate editors pass on the abstracts before they go into the magazine. The publication of Chemical Abstracts is so important to the progress of chemistry because of the nature of modern scientific research. Great discoveries today are seldom sudden. They represent the culmination of years of research. A scientist in France or Italy or Germany makes a small discovery. It has puzzling features which interest other scientists. Soon there will be men in half a dozen countries working on the same problem. It seems as if the problem is at a standstill when, perhaps, an additional discovery is made by an Englishman or an American. It is necessary that some means be provided by which each worker may keep tab on what the other is doing. This hastens the progress, by making it possible for each experimenter to profit by what the other has found. And so.it goes on until suddenly someone makes a discovery of major importance to the world. This last discovery holds t* center of the world stage. But it would not have been possible without all the work which went on r :fore. t a it America Leads THE journals which are fallowed by the staff of Chemical Abstracts are published in all parts of the world. They number 1,500. Professor Crane points out that the United States leads the world in the publication of journals devoted to chemistry, having no less than 404. The British Empire is second with 226. Then comes Germany with 218. France is fourth with 129 while Italy is fifth with eighty. Japan is sixth with fifty-eigh* and Russia is seventh with forty-two. Holland has twenty-nine chemical journals, Austria has twenty, Sweden, twenty; Belgium, nineteen; Norway, fourteen; Switzerland, twelve; Argentine, eleven; China, ten; Denmark, ten; Czecho-Slova-kia, nine; Sn*in, nine; Rumania, eight, and Pcffßnd, seven. The other Rations of the world have a total forty-two chemical publication*. In addition to checking chemical publications, the staff of Chemical Abstracts finds it necessary to keep tab as well on many journals dealing with medicine, agriculture, biology, physics and other subjects. This is because there are many points at which chemistry overlaps these other fields. They find it necessary even to watch journals of astronomy. From one point of view, a star is a great chemical laboratory where reactions occur under conditions of temperature and pressure which can not be realized here on earth. Therefore, the chemist sometimes has to go to the stars for information about the behav’— of chemical elements.

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ANTI-LA FOLLETTE MOVE September 24 ON Sept. 24, 1917, the expulsion of Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin from the United States senate, was demanded in a petition addressed to the United States senate by the Minnesota public safety commission. The commission made this move upon the false basis of the report of a speech La Follette made at St. Paul, He was quoted as saying: “We had no griev-' ances at the hands of Germany.” But what he really said was that we “had grievances.” Formal . charges against La Follette were introduced by Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, but the senate committee which considered them, by a vote of 9 to 2, recommended the adoption of a resolution that the charges be “dismissed for the reason that the speech in question doesn’t justify any action by the senate.” This resolution was adopted by a vote of 50 to 21, with Senator Kellogg, who brought the charges, voting to dismiss them.

Daily Thought

A false witness shall not be on- * punished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish,—Proverbs 19:9. Falsehood and death arc synonymous.—Bancroft