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Who Rules You? The people of this city believed that they had elected a mayor and a city council to administer their affairs. After misrule under the old gang machine and a brief respite during the receivership under Mayor Slack after a crisis of moral bankruptcy, the citizen thought he had solved his problems. Mayor Sullivan went into office with the confidence of the people. That confidence has increased. He has been cautious, conservative, careful and constructive. Now it develops that the forces that flourished under the Duvalls are more powerful than the elected heads of the city government and that their final bulwark is the state board of tax commissioners, who assert the right to tell the people of this city not only how much they can spend each year but how they shall spend it. This commission should receive the attention of the next legislature and certainly of the next candidates for Governor. A promise to either abolish the board or to banish its membership would be welcomed. Just what interests are being served by this commission and by those organizations in whose names protests against the mayor’s tax budget is being made is shown in the demand that the city chop off a. comparatively small sum needed to fight the battle for public ownership of the gas company. The utilities do not like public ownership. In that battle the city is pitted against high finance and the whole brood of utilities. Successful operation of the gas plant might lead to a municipal water supply, a municipal electric system. That would cut out the opportunity to gain millions by extortion for these necessities. It is proposed to tie the hands of the city as it battles with these financial giants. At the best, the city is a David fighting a Goliath. The commission proposed to steal his sling shot. The objectors would steal the stone in his hand. The tragedy of it is that the commission may have the legal right to carry out this immoral purpose and thus help the utility magnates defeat what has been a battle of years. When this phase of the situation is understood, the other objections can be dismissed as unworthy of consideration. Any group that proposes such treason to this city at this time is not worthy of any consideration. For it is treason to all the years to come. It is treason to growth and safety and justice. The battle for public ownership has only begun. It will be bitter despite the victory in the first skirmish. There will be appeals to courts until the last semblance of technical plea has been exhausted. There is no question as to the moral rights of the city. The people own the plant. They do not yet have what they own. Incidentally any organization that does not repudiate such a demand on the part of its representatives is destined to forfeit any claim to public confidence. The people of this city should rise in indignation against this attack on Mayor Sullivan. lie is fighting the fight for the people. He should have and will have public support.

Calling the Bluff Few political movements ever have won the varied support which now is being thrown behind the campaign for senate ratification of the world court protocol. The roster of sixty national organizations joining in this campaign very nearly blankets all the public opinion bodies in the country. The group, as announced Wednesday by the executive committee of the national world court committee, includes the following: Federal Council of Churches, American Federation of Labor, National League of Women Voters, General Federation of Women s Clubs, World Alliance of International Friendship. American Association of University Women, American Federation of Teachers, Central Conference of American Rabbis, League of Nations Association, Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. Leading the campaign are such jurists, educators and diplomats as Newton D. Baker, Everett Colby, John W. Davis. Nicholas Murray Butler. Major-Gen-eral John F. O'Ryan, Dr. James T. Shotwell and former Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton. The protocol for American adherence to the world court was drafted by Elihu Root and negotiated by the Hoover administration. It is backed not only by the eminent leaders and representative organizations listed above, but also by a large majority of the newspapers of the country and by most of the senate. Hitherto/ partisan political maneuvers by a small minority have bluffed the administration and prevented ratification. We are glad that the national world court committee intends to call that bluff. Hoover Sticks to Gold President Hoover has spoken out promptly and wisely against the latest drive of silver-producing states for bimetallism, we have enough worries already without stumbling and chasing after the silver mirage. That the temporary departure of Great Britain and rome other European countries from the gold standard has complicated international finance and trade no one will deny. Nor will any informed person deny that foreign inflation. If carried far enough, may drive the United States to some form of inflation in selfprotection. But that is a far cry from bimetallism. Great Britain is expected to return to the gold

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standard —either by devaluation of the pound or at the old rate. Germany already has established anew currency’on gold, and is not apt to flirt with a worthless mark disaster again. France very successfully has devaluated the franc on a gold basis. Any American decision now would be premature. But if the United States, to meet competition with Britain and other foreign countries, is forced to permit a limited and controlled inflation, that can be done by the government bond route, without dangerous tampering with our gold standard. The President and Mooney The National Bureau of Education, an unofficial body, has asked President Hoover to intercede in the Tom Mooney case in his own state to prevent an American repetition of the years of fumult engendered in France by the Dreyfua case. The Wickersham commission’s outraged comment upon the California law’s inadequacy, the President is told, gives an opening for federal intervention. When, during the war, Mooney-Billings perjury revelations were creating unrest among our allies, President Wilson acted quickly and courageously. His appeal to former Governor Stephens resulted in saving Tom Mooney from death on the gallows. Today the situation Is no better. Labor unrest is growing all over the world. A constant irritant is this California scandal. Recently, threats of bpycott and protests have come from the workers of Arizona, of Sweden, of Australia. Mass meetings are being arranged in New York, California and elsewhere. Repeated reference is made to Mooney and Billings as “class war victims.” This is no time to allow a judicial crime to stir further resentment and class feeling, especially when stubborn officialdom alone stands in the way of re* moving the cause. Wives Wfio Work When all men and women who have sufficient income to live without working generously turn their jobs over to the unemployed and retire to a life of golf, or bridge, or whatnot, it will be time to consider seriously the suggestion of Representative Harold Knutson (Rep., Minn.) that married women with able-bodied husbands be discharged from government service and all other positions. This suggestion has been advanced frequently during the course of the depression and as frequently rejected by sensible employers. If all the married women workers who are without dependents were discharged today, the move would not solve unemployment. Even if an unemployed person could be found capable to fill every position thus left vacant, hundreds of thousands still would remain without jobs. To do as Knutson suggests would be to attempt to cure an evil with an even greater evil. To end suddenly the careers of workers who have spent years building them, and probably could not build them over again, to transform these successful workers suddenly into the status of dependents, would be drastic and unjustified. It w r ould be to single them out deliberately as a future dole-receiving class. Unemployment’s problems can be solved only by giving every one, man and woman, an opportunity to work, not by transferring the bitter cup of idleness from one hand to another. A Los Angeles pastor says New York city needs a man like Mussolini. Expect II Duce to demand an immediate apology. / Gelatin is a mass of holes, says a scientist. That would be some consolation if they could get the holes to match your tie. A1 Smith refuses to admit his hat is not in the 1932 presidential ring. It’s brown, but not out, as it were. When a Californian feels a quake, it’s an incident, but when an Ohioan feels one, he says he’s had great luck with his last batch. t A headline says a man “fled from death in pajamas.” You don’t catch death wearing a nightshirt. * The United States will stand pat on its Russian policy. No skis so us this winter. An optimist in these times is one who hopes to marry for money. Rudy Vallee is appearing in a naughty Broadway show. They’ll spoil him yet. * A Connecticut hospital has installed a golf course for its mental cases. Making them all bogeymen. Prohibition notwithstanding, the St. Lawrence still is the most desirable waterway. A professor said jail was torture. Now, there’s a deduction.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

AMONG the Valiants of 1931, let us not forget to include the 18.000 Chicago school teachers who, though they have not been paid since April, were all on hand for the beginning of the fall semester. I doubt whether so many unpaid workers could be mustered in any other calling. It demonstrates, at least, that the teaching profession understands its responsibilities and is unwilling to shirk them. Chicago is preparing for a world’s fair in 1933. It might be a good idea to exhibit some of these teachers as specimens from the dry era. Their flat purses would make a splendid foil when contrasted with the vast, unbelievable sums that have been expended in Cook county on illicit liquor. And no doubt a city that has paid Mr. Capone so well will get around to paying its teachers one of these days. 000 OF course, we do not know, we can but wonder, whether other public servants of Chicago have lived for so long on scrip. Do the alermen and the police force and other political henchmen stay at their posts so faithfully and for so small a reward? It stretches the imagination, but let us cogitate upon how many of our congressmen, how many of our state legislators, would show up for work with no prospect of salaries. No item of news has shown us what a low state we have fallen as has this one. No other ever could call our attention more forcibly to the evils that threaten our government. To a parent, to a school teacher, to any one wh'> has the welfare of children at heart, the outlook -‘s discouraging. For these Chicago pupils will march out of their classrooms by the hundreds of thousands into a world whose adults have so lost their sense of honor that the municipal government of the second city ot the land makes its racketeers rich and leaves its school teachers in penury.

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We Do Things in Politics We Wouldn't Do With Anything Else, and Demagogj gery Is Responsible for Most of the Laws. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—A terrific wind storm over short selling, just as though it would, or could, settle the question. Some say it’s the worst possible menace to business, while others call it indispensable. It reminds one of two proofreaders arguing how to spell a word ! for half an hour with a dictionary right between them. Stop short selling for six months, or a year, and we all shall know more about the part it really plays. Up to this time, we have seen only one side of the picture. Common sense suggests that a look at the other side is necessary before we can come to an intelligent decision. n a m It Isn’t Being Done conceive of doing anything like that. It isn’t according to custom, or rules of the game. The basic idea of politics is that you mustn’t change an*old law, or adopt anew one, until you are ready to make it permanent. That's why we have so much arguing and so little experimenting. In other lines, we experiment first and argue afterward, but when it comes to law, or regulation, we proceed on the theory that it is possible to arrive at sound conclusions through talk. * * Now See the Mess IT’S a curious thing that we can not perceive the wisdom of adopting temporary measures just to see how they work. If we had put prohibition on a purely experimental basis, agreeing to try it for five, te’n or even fifteen years, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are. Ccmldn’t think of anything so simple, or sensible, but we had to have it in the Constitution, or not at all. u tt u Jefferson Had Idea THE illusionment of permanency is a tragic factor in our political attitude. How can we expect to make progress with inflexible laws? What is statecraft but the expression of life as developed and altered by education? Thomas Jefferson said that the Constitution ought to be re-written each twenty years or so, because no generation had a right to impose its will on the next. n We Make Mistakes WE are forced to make the law flexible, whether we like it or not. That is illustrated every time congress, or a state legislature meets. Instead of recognizing this as a primary factor, however, we proceed on the theory that we can keep all the old stuff. The result is a mountainous accumulation of statutes and regulations, many of which are in conflict. More often than not, we find that we have made mistakes, but instead of trying to prevent, or diminish, this through a system of trial and error, we go right on piling up official regulations on a permanent basis. tt tt tt It's Just in Politics FORTY years ago, the American people were in a great stew over crust-busting, as they called it. We have the Sherman act and Clayton act to show for it. everybody would like to see them materially I altered for one reason or another, ; yet the big idea is to do nothing, | until we are ready to commit our- ! selves permanently. That is something we would not think of doing with anew type of dynamo, or anew auto model. We’d try the thing out to see how it worked. If it didn’t work, after a fair trial, we’d scrap it. If it did, we’d consider putting it on the market. tt a tt Just a Smoke Screen THE people would approve many more experiments if they were assured of not being committed so definitely as the present methods of law-making imply. Lacking such assurance, they have fallen back on argument, which gives the best debaters, though not the best thinkers, a great advantage. Oratory and demagoggery are re- ; sponsible for most of the laws in this country. Catch phrases have formed a smoke screen to conceal the purpose as well as the result in many instances. Worst of all, this habit has prevented the development of anything like a scientific frame of mind toward law and law-making. Though demanding laboratory methods in every other important field, we are content to legislate on 1 a primitive, semi-barbaric basis. The idea of experimenting with a | particular regulation for a given i length of time still is beyond our | conception and, of course, we have failed to devise any adequate method of determining results.

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REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK October 2 ON Oct. 2, 1917, the English repulsed a mass attack between Polygon wood and Menin road in Flanders, causing great losses to the Germans. Ready for the attack, the English mowed down the Germans wth rifle and machine gun fire. A correspondent wrote: ‘ There was one officer who spent all his time sniping from a little patch of ground that hajl once been a garden. He lay behind’the heaped ruin and used his field glasses to watch the slopes of rising ground on his left where human ants were crawling. “Every now and then he fired and picked off an ant, until his score reached fifty.”

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE — Posture Affects Blood Circulation

This is the fourth of a series of four articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein, health authority, on the importance of good posture to health. With the coming of the indoor season this short series is particularly fitting at this time. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT long has been known that the gradual change of the position of man from that of a four-footed animal to one that walks on two feet brought about significant changes in the activities of the tissues within the body. Dr. R. L. Waterffeld has shown that definite changes take place in the amount of fluid circulating in the blood with a change in posture. Formerly, it had been shown that if an individual remained stationary in the erect posture the total amount of blood volume gradually diminished for about half an hour, when it reached a constant level approximately 12 per cent less than when the individual lies down. In the erect posture there is a diminution in the amount of water and of other substances in the circulation. It has been thought that this was due to filtering of these substances through the blood vessel walls, be-

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—l am wondering whether any of our public-spirited leaders, of various walks, ever seriously have considered the feasibility of sponsoring a movement for the purpose of aiding and qualifying the masses for the task of voluntarily and independently organizing into groups to start and conduct industrial enterprises of their own—along profit-sharing lines. The universal change in our industrial activities—from the handicraft to the machine-mode of production —has hypnotized the majority of us into the belief that he who lacks sufficient capital to start a business has but one available recourse open—in order to eat. And that is the policy of being absolutely dependent on owners of industrial establishments for a “job,” in the same sense as a horse is dependent on its owner for hay and oats. Now, as an unbiased student of economic problems (attached to no political mess of any kind) I dare maintain that our only escape from the prevailing ills lies in teaching the masses to so adapt themselves (psychologically, mentally, physically, morally, etc.) to the prevailing system of mass production that all of us (irrespective of present class distinctions) might derive the greatest possible good. No power can stop one man from starting, owning and controlling a factory. But (get this) a thousand billion gods could not enable him to run and operate that factory absolutely alone without hiring others. When one man is owner and the rest more hirelings, no power (legal, moral or physical) could or should stop him firm refusing to pay, if he so chooses, more than $1 as wages for every $lO or S2O worth of work produced in his factory, depending on how good a business man he is. No power can stop him from refusing to hire men over 45, or persisting in hiring married women. This means, according to official United States statistics, it takes nearly $200,000,000,000 to purchase at retail all the wealth produced in this country annually, while labor only gets, approxi- ; mately, about $10,000,000,000 as i wages for producing the wealth. Suppose, cn the other hand, that fhypothetically speaking), each and | every economic establishment in this | country, mines, factories, mills, stores, railroads, etc., was owned j and controlled in common by those ! therein actively employed and jointj ly received the full value of the 1 wealth or service rendered, how would it suit you? DAVID HORN. 1013 South Mridian street. Editor Times—Among many comments made for lowering of taxes is the proposal for reduction of the pay of city employes. It is said that $90,000 can be saved in this way. <- Having Worked for the city several years in previous administrations, I can say that civil city employes’ pay is not large and only compares evenly with that of private corpora-

cause of the increased pressure on them when the individual stands erect. Dr. Waterfield found that these observations were correct, and that not only is the fluid matter of the blood less when the individual is erect for any length of time, but that also the blood cells become 4 per cent less. Os particular interest is the effect of standing erect upon the legs. Special studies were made as to this point. The amount of fluid was tested

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tions. If a desire to lower taxes is really desired, why not look into the expenditure of money for poor relief ? A few weeks ago I cklled on a tenant who was back in his rent several months to see if he had any prospect of work or any chance to pay some rent to be applied to the November taxes. He is living on the township and, of course, there was no chance to receive cash. During the conversation, his wife remarked about the township groceries. She said that she could take less money and buy more groceries if she were given the cash. I asked to see the bills. I saw with only a glance that she was right and a detailed examination of the bills showed that the bills were 10 to 11 per cent too high. The following week, when his groceries were delivered, I was there and made a note of the amounts, the weights and the quality. On this bill I found that by comparison with the prices which are paid at almost any north side grocery the township had paid 40 cents too much. The total of the bill was $3.29 and the grocery man had a total of $3.30. Among the groceries was one pound of frankfurters which was two ounces short according to my scales. Everything else weighed correctly. Here is a detailed list of his bill with the prices and the same prices at other stores, together with the excess profit: 5 loaves bread $ .25 1 lb. crackers 16 1 lb. frankfurters 15 .13 .02 2 lbs. bacon 30 .28 .02 1 box rolled oats 10 .08 .02 1 lb. oleo 15 6 eKKS , .15 .14 .01 2 lbs. suear . .14 .11 .03 1 peck potatoes 35 .25 .10 1 elass jellv 10 1 box 7 oz. macaroni 10 1 lb. 2 oz. onions 05 1 can tomatoes 10 .09 .01 1 can salmon 15 1 lb. prunes 13 1 lb. lard 13 .08 .05 1 lb. coSee 25 .19 .06 1 box matches 05 1 can milk cond 10 .07 .03 1 bar wool soap 08 2 lbs. beans 15 3 bars laundry soap 15 .10 .05 Total bill 53?29 .40 For this basket of groceries worth $2.39, the township must pay $3.30, or a profit of 12 per cent above the normal profit that most grocers are satisfied with. Os the eleven items with too much on them, only one was compared with a chain store price. There are one or two other items which could be lowered, but were not, because I did not know what the quality of the food was. 1 am not expecting the poor of the community to eat food of a poorer quality, but since these are the prices which I pay, then why should not this man eat the same kind of food that I do? Either this man is not getting enough food for his family or the township is paying too much. He works two days a week for this amount and the food is supposed to last him a week. He has a wife and three children to feed. Os course it is impossible to give them the cash to buy their food, but it is true, as the mans wife said,

not only in the individual lying on his back for 40 minutes, but also in the same individual after standing erect for various lengths of time. It was found that contraction or relaxation of the muscles results in emptying and filling the veins of the legs and that this is associated with shrinkage and swelling When the person stands erect, the increased pressure in the legs causes fluid to pass through the walls of the capillaries or small blood vessels into lymph spaces. The amount of swelling that can take place is limited. When the lymph spaces have been filled there is a tendency for the back pressure to cause the blood to pass back into the vessels. Thus an individual with fat, flabby legs will tend to have more swelling after standing a long time than one with thin and tightly knit ankles and calves. A person in good athletic training will tend to have less swelling than one who is in poor general condition. Swelling of the legs is greatest in people who are tall, in poor general condition, and with fat, flabby legs, and least in those who are short, in good training, and with tightly knit ankles and calves.

that she could take less money and buy more. I am not criticising the expenditure of public money through the retail grocers, because the expenditures of taxes is to a certain extent a local business, but there is nc reason for certain men making an excess profit of 12 per cent because it is public money. If Marion county proposes to spend $1,000,000 in poor relief during the coming winter, and it is all spent in this manner, it will cause the useless spending of $120,000. That is more than enough to avoid a cut in public employes’ pay and would not mean less to eat for our poor, either. N. C. THOMPSON. 6140 Central avenue. Editor Times —Usually you are correct, but in The Times recently, under the caption of “How much is a stone weight?” the information given is at fault. A stone (avoirdupois) is always 14 jounds. The English ton is 2,240 pounds, having 29 hundredweights of 112 pounds each. There are eight stones to the hundredweight and two stones to the quarter, 28 pounds. The stone is used every day in reporting weights. All sporting columns give the weights of the jockeyes in stones and pounds, thus a jockey weighing 96 pounds would be reported at 6 stone 12 pounds. W. B. H.

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.OCT. 2, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Parks, Deep in Africa's Interior, Preserve Jungle Beasts for Scientific Study. npHERE are, no doubt, many peopie, inspired perhaps by recent movies, who think of Africa as a vast, dark, howling wilderness where one at any moment is likely to be confronted by a lion, an elephant, or a band of natives on the war- | path. But the facts in the case seem to be that the wild phase of African life is fast drawing to a close. The natives rapidly are attaining the viewpoints of civilization and the wild animal life threatens to disappear. Many authorities upon wild life believe that the day may come when the only lions or elephants to be seen will be stuffed specimens in museums. The Belgian government acted to stave off that day by establishing a great national game preserve in the Belgian Congo. It is known as the Parc National Albert. This consisted of 500,000 acres. Just recently plans were made for two new- game preserves, one of 1,000,000 acres to be known as the Parc Leopold, and another of 500.000 acres to be known as the Parc Ruw’enzorl. One of the chief purposes of these national parks is to preserve African wild life for the purposes of scientific study. • m Americans Co-Operating AMERICAN scientists are co-op-erating with those of Belgium in the study of African wild life. An American committee for scientific research in the Parc National Albert has been formed. Its secretary is Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley. “The significance of the Belgian park idea,” she says, “lies not only in the fact that it led to the creation of the first parks in Africa, but also to the first parks in the world to be established for purely scien- ! tific purposes. “This complete sanctuary for wild life in Africa, the Parc National Albert, was established by royal decree of Albert, King of the Belgians, in 1925. “Here in the Kivu district of the Belgian Congo, near the geographic center of the great continent, are found many interesting animals, among them the mountain gorilla, today of increasing importance, not only to scientists, but also to lay students of the wilds. “On the cool wooded slopes of the extinct volcanoes and ranging side by side with the gorilla and at peace with him are herds of elephant and buffalo; here, too, are leopards which | sometimes menace the gorilla's young. “In the lower lands—the sandy plains and swampy lands bordering one of Kivu’s great lakes, Lake Edward, are herds of antelope such as frequent the wild plains and rolling uplands of British East Africa. tt tt tt Forest Colorful MRS. AKELEY calls particular attention to the gorilla forest in the Parc National Albert. “Os all the highly diversified regions which represent all the zones of climate of the earth and which are r ow included in the Parc National Albert,” she says, “the gorilla s wilderness home is by all means the most impressive. “The landscape is startlingly beautiful. Giant forest monarchs crowd upon each other, their gnarled and long moss-and-fern-hung branches touching and intertwining, their massive trunks, draped in long flowering banners of gray-beard moss of pale green vines, starred with golden flowers. Here and there, in crannies of bark or in the moss, brilliantly colored orchids flourish. “Round about is an almost impenetrable undergrowth brightened by blossoms of many hues. The leafage of the forest, the masses of glistening leaves that top the great trees, gleam in the fitful sunlight in many changing shades of creamy yellow, aquamarine and emerald. ! Never elsewhere have I seen the foliage of a forest or so many variant shades of green. “The gorilla forest occurs at an altitude of 9,000 to 12,000 feet above sea-level. Once in a long while, from a vantage point on some volcanic rampart, you can see a wide and impressive view. One such was on the slope of Karisimbi, a mile from our camp, where in 1926 I spent six weeks studying the habitat of the mountain gorilla.”

Daily Thought

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. Psalms 78:69. Everywhere, through all ages of the Christian world, no church ever perceived the Word of God to be against it.—Hooker.