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Catch the Crooks Judge Chamberlin has saved the state from government by fraud and forgery. That was the real meaning of a legal battle to keep off the statute books a provision that would have taken away from Indianapolis and other cities the right to control bus lines and give the power to the public service commission. The practical damage of such a law, great as it might have been, was small as contrasted with the possible effect of making it possible for law to be written for the people by crooks, passed by fraud and sealed with corruption. The judge found that the evidence of undisputed facts was that the document signed by, the Governor had never been passed by the state senate. The matter must not stop with the court decision against this fraudulent and spurious bit of attempted domination of the people. The crooks who perpetrated the frauds, every official who participated in it, every one who showed any apathy in uncovering the frauds must be put in the penitentiary or driven out of public life forever. The prospective beneficiaries of the fraud are easily identified. The railways and suburban lines are in competition with busses. They own some of the busses. In many cities, notably Muncie and Indianapolis, there are mayors who still believe that the people have rights. Dale over in Muncie and Sullivan of Indianapolis protested against the invasion of their rights. These established utilities felt much safer with a utility-owned public service commission than under these mayors. But that does not locate the public officials who lent themselves to this act of treason—for it is treason as well as fraud. Any one who robs the people of their rights to rule themselves destroys the government itself. Any one who helps to write a law by fraud or corruption deserves the fate of a traitor during times of war. He is much more dangerous and vicious. The judge found the facts clear. There were only a few legislators or clerks who could have participated. An alert prosecutor, by a proces of elimination, should easily locate all possibilities. The penitentiary and not legislative halls need their presence. In the meantime, while prosecutors are hunting for the crooks, the public will await a statement from Governor Leslie as to why lie signed this particular document so hastily that it could not be returned to the legislative chambers and why it was sent, with signature attached, to the attorney-general for approval instead of following the usual course of having such approval given in advance of signing. The law has proved strong enough to protect the people against legislation by fraud. Is it strong enough to punish the traitors?

The Peace Caravan Peace has its parades, its drama,, its victories, as well as war. Four months ago an auto caravan of women set out from Los Angeles to test the extent of enthusiasm in this country for total and universal disarmament. Today they arrive in Washington with impressive proof of this enthusiasm to lay before the President. The women drove 10,000 miles, visiting 125 cities in twenty-five states. Governors and mayors greeted them, signed the petition they bore, and arranged for them to hold public meetings. The journey ends with 125.000 signatures on the petition. Washington will not be indifferent to those 125,000 signatures. It will realize—because it is used to keeping an eye on popular sentiment—that if 125,000 persons in half the states of the Union voluntarily signed a petition for total and universal disarmament, an overwhelming number of persons in the entire country must want disarmament, or at least a real reduction of armaments. A desperate world is in the proper mood to listen to such pleas today. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, organizers of the disarmament caravan, seeks an idealisitc end, but, as a matter of fact, the course they propose is also a practical way out of the world’s economic difficulties. With women urging peace because it is right, and men turning to it because it pays, surely a decisive weapon against war can be forged at the coming Geneva conference. Mooney Pardon Sunday Tomorrow is Mooney Pardon Sunday. Dramatizing our current American judicial scandal, meetings will be held all over the land. On historic Boston Commons, where blood once was spilled for American freedom, Harvard professors and others ’dll plead for freedom for Mooney and Billings, imprisoned on perjured testimony. In San Francisco, scene of the mass murder of 1916 and its inglorious aftermath, more than 10,000 people are expected to gather in the civic auditorium to listen to Frank P. Walsh. Lincoln Steffens. Fremont Older and others tell the sordid story of these cases. Former District Attorney Charles M. Fickert has been challenged to give his side of it over the air. Caravans from all over the state will come, union bands will play, resolutions will be passed and sent to Governor Rolph. In New York a great mass meeting will be held in Union square. Meetings will be held in Chicago, Detroit. Minneapolis and other cities, where resolutions will be passed and boycotts against California will be urged. Doubtless our readers become a bit bored by our ‘ Ancient Mariner tale" of the crucifixion of justice by the genteel mob of California’s ‘best citizens." It can not be helped. Remember old Senator Cato, who for years never left the senate chamber without having repeated his famous warning: “Carthage must be destroyed." It was. \

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Are You Owned? Are you willing to be owned and ruled and robbed by a group cf utility adventurers who have capitalized your necessities for their own profit? That is the simple question to be answered before you give any support to the very necessary crusade to obtain just rates for water and lights. Very many citizens are afraid of the gigantic power of these organizations for larceny. Very many are afraid of reprisals. They know how ruthless greed can be. They know how far reaching is the organization for plunder. The facts are very plain. The holding company for the electric light company, by the one expedient of buying coal from its own mines at from 50 to 70 cents a ton above market prices, robs the people of this city of several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The water boy for Indianapolis, Clarence Geist, took out $1,225,000 in dividends last year on an alleged investment of five millions. He takes 44 cents out of every dollar as tribute and he contributes nothing but the ownership of the common stock. But these concerns have their agents who control politicians and political parties. They control legislatures. The public service commission makes no gesture in the direction of justice. It remains for a determined and organized citizenship to fight for its own rights. Only those who still have faith in America and its traditions of justice will participate. The slaves and the mercenaries will not join. What class are you in? Why Not Now? President Hoover's program to stabilize the banks has won deserved support. Virtually unanimous acsord has been expressed by the press, by political leaders of both parties, by bankers and business organizations. Private bankers have hastened formation of the $500,000,000 pool to help banks with frozen assets. Where do we go from here? Most of the Hoover program remains suspended in air, because congressional action is required. And congress is not in session. It was precisely for just such emergency that the fathers of the republic in their wisdom provided for special sessions of congress upon call of the President. Congress should be called now. If the emergency is as serious as the President describes it, nothing can be gained, and much may be lost, by waiting for the regular session. Congress does not meet until December. When it does meet, many weeks probably will be consumed by necessary organization matters and-con-sideration of the war-debt moratorium before members can turn to the banking bills. Thus the delay may extend to several months. If the Hoover proposal for a federal finance corporation is to help meet the erne: gency, congress must act before winter bank failures begin. If there is to be any tinkering with the federal reserve law, congressional study of this very delicate matter can not begin too soon. If country banks are to be helped by congress incieasing the capitalization of the federal land banks, as Mr. Hoover requests, that aid is needed immediately. And if the President is depending on congress to extend the war debt moratorium, as he intimates, every week of delay after ;he Hoover-Laval conference will contribute to European chaos. There are a great many other reasons why congress should be in emergency session today, but the cause for a special session can be proved solely on the basis of the Hoover bank stabilization plan. After all, we still have a legislative branch of government and a representative form of government. But the congress elected almost a yar ago has not yet been allowed to meet. It is time. High seas made Mayor Walker sick on his trip back. A wave of public indignation might have the same effect. Dorothy thinks that no college eleven can be regarded properly as a football machine unless it has a locomotive yell. London bridges, it seems, are not the only English institutions falling down. Major Doolittle, in bowing to Lowell Bayles’ speedy Gee-Bee, might have felt inclined to dub it the Heeby Gee Bee. Only the stock of a razor company failed to drop after the London crash. Steel preferred, you might say. Managers of the newly organized football team at Sing Sing are said to be considering offering Legs Diamond an athletic scholarship.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

of veterans,” writes Correspondent J-Tl Herbert Corey, "would find relief in another war. The wife would get the monthly pay, there would be a pension to look forward to, as well as insurance adjustments, and there would be one more good time with the old gang.” Well, perhaps Mr. Corey is right. But if millions of our veterans feel that way about it, they have exactly the same sort of intelligence that would actuate a small boy to set fire to the school house and burn up teacher and pupils so that he might gain respite from his lessons. Mr. Corey assumes, in this article at least, that the next war will be exactly like the last, and that belligerent Americans would merely embark, shouting, for foreign shores while our business men stayed home and raked in the money. He forgets presumably that democracy already has been saved once. He speaks of our prosperity during those days, but evidently fails entirely to consider the state of the Belgian refugee and the French peasant, who, at the same time, were placed in a somewhat less enticing situation. i a e WOULDN'T it be fine, and quite worthy of reckless materialism, to have another nice bloody war, but to have it, of course, on the other side of the world, so that we might reap the benefits of prosperity while other nations had homes swept away, civilians slaughtered and starved, and fields made barren? But suppose that this time the enemies came over here and dropped bombs on our great skyscrapers, riddled our beautiful churches with cannon balls, gassed our children, ruined our crops, and laid waste our lovely land. That would be quite another side of the picture for the veterans to consider, would it not, and no such lovely picnic for us, as a good many people seem to consider the last conflict. To talk of war bringing back prosperity is like discussing the wisdom of destroying a fine incomeproducing property to get the insurance monej.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Are Opportunists, Every Last One of Us, and We Have to Be. Opportunism is the Price of Pj'ogress. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.— With 3,100 wells open, after having been closed since Aug. 4, Oklahoma oil experiment comes to an end. Governor Murray did not succeed in boosting the price of crude oil to $1 a barrel, as he promised, but he more than doubled it. When he ordered the wells to shut down, crude was selling at 20 cents. Now' it is selling at from 46 to 70 cents. tt tt tt Startling Precedent MEANWHILE, a far-reaching precedent has been set, though it is symptomatic, rather than original. Employment of the national guard to close the valves between privately owned wells and privately owned pipelines is startling. So, too, is the idea of telling a farmer how much cotton he can plant. But it really is nothing new. Ever since this republic was founded, some people have yelled for government interference every time an emergency arose particularly if it happened to touch their pocketbooks. n tt tt Interference or Help? THE curious part of it is that people can be opposed so utterly to government interference in principal and still clamor for it when they can’t see any other way to get what they want. You just can’t help marveling at the ease with which they reconcile obviously inconsistent views. Conservatives, horrified at the thought of Muscle Shoals being operated by the government, see no reason why a state should not shut down oil wells, or prescribe what farmers shall raise. Liberals forever crying out against regulation and rostraint, frequently demand reforms, the very essence of which is increased bureaucracy and supervision. tt tt tt Opportunists, All WE are opportunists, every last one of us, and we have to be. I opportunism is the price of progress. The only way we could create stationary laws and permanent policies would be through the abso- | lute prohibition of discovery, invention and improvement. We won’t do that. We want change not only for the kick we | get out of it, but because of an in- ! stinctive realization that it represents our destiny. That being so, why not admit that one change leads to another, that law is a follw-up and that public policy is, and always has been, determined by socialization of private achievement? tt tt tt 'Wildcats’ and Chaos AUTOS take the place of horses, half the crops are turned into traffic officers, crime takes advantage of the situation, and a whole new deal becomes necessary. Electricity takes the place of kerosene lamp and steam engine, a corporation must be organized and a central plant constructed, with a public service commission to see that the corporation does not abuse its privileges. Oil is discovered to be a much more convenient and cheaper fuel than wood or coal. It is under the ground and the ground belongs to everybody. Everybody turns wildcatter, if he or she can raise the stake. The market is flooded by this haphazard, unintelligent method and something has to be done. tt tt tt Glorious Stubbornness LIFE constantly is confronting us with new problems. We couldn’t meet them without being opportunists. The only trouble is that we won’t admit it. Something in the past has caused us to believe that it is glorious not to change our minds, especially in politics. We always are ready to exalt the “straight party” man, the one who never split his ticket, or joined a bolt. We profess to feel the same way about party principles, though no one seems to know what they are tt tt tt Too Sacred to Change A PRINCIPLE is sqmething which never fails to produce the same result under the same | condition. Just apply that to politics, and see where you get. The problem is, and always has been, to develop governments that will serve men best, not men who will serve governments best. As the needs of men change, it follows, as a matter of course, that governments must change. Our forefathers conceded that much when they wrote a Constitution that could be amended. Thomas Jefferson thought that it not only ought to be amended, but rewritten for each generation, yet many of us think that one of the amendments is too sacred to be altered. ,

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FOODSTUFF EDICT October 10 ON Oct. 10, 1917, President Wilson enacted the most sweeping measure of food regulation in a proclamation setting forth the terms under which the Food Administration, after Nov. 1, 1917, would control the manufacture, storage, importation, and distribution of practically all essential foodstuffs. The proclamation provided that a license, issued under the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the business of licensee, must be secured on or before Nov. 1 by individuals and corporations with certain exceptions. The proclamation concluded with a warning that any violation of the regulations would be subjected to the penalties provided for in the food control act. Does ice have any other content except water? Ice is water solidified and pure ice is 100 per cent water. Did Evangeline Booth found the Salvation Army?

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DAILY HEALTH. SERVICE Autumn Halts Infantile Paralysis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyecia, the Health Magazine. THE eastern border of the United States has been undergoing one of the most severe attacks of infantile paralysis that it has suffered for many years. With the coming of cold weather, the condition will clear up. That has been the history of epidemics of infantile paralysis almost since the beginning of our knowledge of this disease. In the first week in September there still were more than 400 cases in Connecticut as contrasted with normal conditions of around nineteen, and there still were more than 600 cases in New York as contrasted with normal conditions of around twenty. Infantile paralysis usually begins to appear in June, increases during July and August, diminishes in October and disappears by November. About a year ago, California and the middle west suffered severely, but the attack in the eastern states

IT SEEMS TO ME

IN spite of the fact that some of the problems which confront Gandhi are peculiar to his nation, he stands just now as one of the most important men in the world and one whose leadership and example are pertinent to America. At the moment it is not necessary to discuss his economic philosophy. But the method which he has employed does have a close bearing upon our own affairs. We are living in a tumultuous world, and during this turmult many have despaired of democracy. This is an age in which the short cut seems to many nations not only expedient, but inevitable. And in carving out fast change, force and violence generally are indicated. Still I think that a certain amount of definition is required in regard to force. There is a popular fallacy which thinks that it is radical *to club a man on the head and somewhat namby-pamby to argue with him. Yet I must dissent. I have heard of knocking people into unconsciousness. I have never heard of clubbing any one to consciousness. tt tt tt Articulateness of an Idea AND what we need most of all now is a keener perception and a greater sensitivity. It has been held that intellectual conversion takes so leng a time that it can not meets the needs of a crisis. It seems to me that Gandhi has disproved this. Functioning in a country with

People’s Voice

Editor Times Along with your safety compaign, LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE A LIFE, I* observed a commendable act Saturday afternoon while walking on East Washington street near Willard park. Some future full backs and quarter backs were abusing a pigskin when it bounced into the street in front of a Haeckl’s Express, Inc., truck. The driver saw the ball and a boy coming to retrieve. The driver applied all his brakes and stopped his truck. He waited until both boy and ball again were safe on the sidewalk. Then, with a smile, the truck driver went on his way. If we had more drivers like this one, alert and thoughtful, we would have a different story to tell about the number of traffic deaths in Indianapolis. A BACKER. Editor Times—Will you please find out for some Indiana and Notre Dame fans why we have to depend on out-of-state help to hear cur own Indiana colleges play football? Saturday, most people couldn’t get the game at all, and I think it a dirty shame when our city station WFBM was broadcasting the Northwestern game with Notre Dame playing at Bloomington, and WKBF was silent. What was the matter with them? I’ll thank you a plenty if you will give them a good "razzing,” so it won’t happen again. A TIMjES READER AND INDIANA BOOSTER.

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is more severe than it was in the portions mentioned. In New York City during the present epidemic, more.than 70 per cent of the cases have ocurred in children under 5 years of age. Few cases have occurred in children over 15 years of age, which is an indication of the way in which the general public has been immunized against this disease from some sort of exposure. When the blood of most human beings is examined, it is found that they have in the blood some substance which is opposed to infantile paralysis. Thus the idea has arisen among scientific observers that the substance which causes this disease spreads to many people causing little or no disturbance, but that in a small percentage it gets into the spinal cord and attacks the tissues of the spinal cord, affecting the special nerves that control muscular action. For this reason the disease is called anterior, which means the

methods of communication slower than our own, he has been able to excite and arouse and bring together millions through the power of an idea. If this fellowship can be created in India there is no reason why the same thing could not be accomplished in the United States. With all due enthusiasm—and even reverence—for the personality of Gandhi, I think that the thing which he has done goes even deeper than the individuality of this great leader. He has loosed a notion around which even divergent factiors can cohere. It is not necessary for us to wait for the inspired genius. Any solid and persuasive man can bring about a change in our way of thinking by going back to ancient rules. It is by no means sentimental. It is entirely realistic to maintain that men can be argued out of a selfish point of view and brought together for their own good and for the salvation of the world. In fact, a single word may sum up an entire program. I am a little timid about using the word “love.” I prefer to say “co-operation.” Sir Tom Goes Without Cup MUCH that is excessively sentimental already has been written about the death of Sir Thomas Lipton. It is strange logic to maintain that this pleasant gentleman was in any sense a great figure in the world. Yet he deserves much attention because, from my point of view, he led a singularly successful life. I am not referring to the fact that he was a prosperous tea merchant. Many have done as well or better in business and still failed. But Sir Thomas showed almost a touch of genius in cultivating an engrossing hobby. To me yacht racing is among the dullest of the sports. It may be fine to sail a boat, but it is a poor exhibition for the spectator. And Thomas Lipton was himself one of those who stood on the sidelines. The better part of his life was spent in the pursuit of a tuppenny trophy. One might argue that it is silly to expend so much energy in attempting to capture a trivial title. But I prefer to stress the point of the full and complete release which may come to the individual through loosing his energy in even a minor pastime. The collecting of stamps, coins, autographs, golf trophies all of these things are extremely small in the cosmic scheme. But to each man there should be allowed some relaxation into the trivial. It is stupid, perhaps, to waste the force of personality in chasing butterflies. But there is something more stupid than this. I think it is even worse to refrain from doing

Daily Thought

For with God nothing shall be impossible—Luke 1:37. The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, and happy by his happiness—Addi£oo,

front; poliomyelitis, which refers to the nerve tissue that is attacked. It has been quite well established that the infection is spread from one person to another by the excretions and secretions of the human body. The living material which causes this disease may survive outside the body for a considerable amount of time. All that we can do to prevent the spread of this disease is to keep children fairly well isolated during the period when it is prevalent. It has been shown that children in institutions who carefully prevented from coming into contact with outside children or people during an epidemic are not likely to develop the disease. During the summer months if children are kept at summer camps constantly and no visitors allowed, they are not likely to be attacked by infantile paralysis. The coming of visitors from various places to visit the children in the camp may bring the disease among them.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ot one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without retard to their ..? r disagreement with the editorial attitude nt this naoer.—The Editor.

a silly thing if that particular thing happens to be precisely what you want to do. My own connection with the various cup races was of a slight sort. I never met Sir Thomas. But I spent some weary and rather boring afternoons as a reporter assigned to watch the tall-masted boats in their dull maneuvers. It was a fine sight, of course, to see a cup yacht crowded with canvas and heeling over into the breeze. But for me this was no more than a five-minute spectacle. tt tt tt Heaven for 'Hobby Men’ AS one unversed in the intricacies of yacht racing, I never could tell whether the defender or the challenger was leading. And on certain occasions the boat which crossed the finish line became the possessor of second place after the time allowance had been computed. This form of mathematical checkup Jook most of the joy out of these contests. To the average man the horse, the man, or the boat which finishes first must seem the winner, and the veto of fractions and figures is always a denting influence. But, as I have said, as long as Lipton liked it he was wise to carry cn his course with passionate intensity. There remains always in my mind some conviction of survival. And soon—or even now—Sir Thomas may well gain one of two rewards. The thing he sought is possibly his for the asking in a disembodied community. Or—and this seems to me more likely—he has come to realize that it really didn’t matter very much, after all. And in either theory he can find that peace and contentment which we all desire. (Conyrieht, 1931. bv The Times)

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OCT. 10, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

“Science Is Perhaps the Revelation of God to Our Age /* Declares E mine nt Briton. YOUNG instructors in philosophy like to tell a story to illustrate the breech between mind and matter. It is the story of a wit who began an address upon the subject as follows: “What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.” Student sometimes feel that those few sentences sum up about all that is known upon the subject. But the latest views of science are closing up the gap between mind and matter and the old story soon will possess only historical significance. Modern science which now regards time as an ingredient of the physical universe and regards the physical universe as so many humps and curves in space-time, finds it easier than it was formerly to see a*relation between matter and mind. The transition from matter to mind is made along the new theories of biology, theories which regard the living organisms as something more than the mere sum of its constituent parts. The new biology goes beyond the mechanistic view which still holds the attention of Clarence Darrow. Man is considerably more than a machine, according to the new view. Life, according to the new biology, is a specific principle of organization. The individual, in this new view, is a dynamic, organic whole. n u tt Mind, Creative Agent IN this new scientific view in which so much emphasis is placed upon organization, mind finds its place as an organizing agent. “Mind is admittedly an active, conative, organizing principle.” says General Jan C. Smuts, president of the British Assoc ation for the Advancement of Sc.ence, “It is forever busy constructing new patterns of things, thoughts or principles out of ther material of its experience. “Mind, even more than life,.is a principle of whole-making. It differentiates, discriminates and selects from its vague experience, and fashions and correlates the resulting features into more or less stable, enduring wholes. “Beginning as mere blind tropisms, reflexes and conditioned reflexes, mind in organic nature has advanced step by step in its creative march until in man it has become nature’s supreme organ of understanding, endeavor and control —not merely a subjective human organ, but nature's own power of selfillumination and self-mastery—-‘the eyes with which the universe beholds itself and knows itself divine.’ ” General Smuts rejects the mechanistic view of the functioning of the mind. “The free creativeness of mind is possible, because, as we have seen, the world consists ultimately, not of material stuff, but of patterns, of organization, the evolution of which involves no absolute creation of an alien world of material from nothing. “The purely structural character of reality thus helps to render possible and intelligible the free creativeness of life and mind, and acounts for the unlimited wealth of fresh patterns which mind freely creates on the basis of the existing physical patterns. tt tt tt Science Is Elevated MIND reaches its highest creative work in the creation of values, says General Smuts. "Great as is the physical universe which confronts us as a given fact,” he says, “no less great is our reading and evaluation of it in the world of values, as seen in language, literature, culture, civilization, society and the state, law, architecture, art, science, morals and religion. “Without this revelation of inner meaning and significance the external physical universe would be but an immense empty shell or crumpled, surface. “The brute fact here receives its meaning, and anew world arises which gives to nature whatever significance it has. “As against the physical configurations of nature we see here the ideal patterns of wholes freely cre- | ated by the human spirit as a home and an environment for itself.” General Smuts ranks science with art and religion among these human values. “In its selfless pursuit of truth, in its vision of order and beauty,” he says, “it partakes of the quality of both. More and more it is beginning to make a profound esthetic and religious appeal to thinking people. “Indeed it may be said fairly that science is perhaps the clearest revelation of God to our age. “Science at last is coming into its own as one of the supreme goods of the human race.” What was the maiden name of Mrs. Walter Ferguson, the columnist? Lucia Loomis.