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A Very Thin Skin Really the President ought to do something about that thin skin of his. If he is going to appoint a commlssion-to-force-an-apology every time the Navy League or the pacifists, the wets or the drys, the Boy Scouts or the ladies’ sewing circle finds fault with him, he will not have much time left to administer the government. . The public did not need his latest heresy hunt against the Navy League to learn that the President considers criticism a hair-shirt. He has said more about hair-shirts than all other Presidents combined. Apparently he has not yet discovered that an important part of any public official’s job is to take criticism. Perhaps if he would read a bit of American history he would be reconciled by the discovery that Washington, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Wilson —not to mention lesser men in the White Housestood much more punishment of this kind than he is exposed to. If he will not be reconciled, it is just too bad for Mr. Hoover. Because there is not much he can do about it—except to provoke public impatience. The point is that free speech still is part of the fnudamental law of the land. Our old-fashioned fathers of the republic had the idea that public criticism of a President was a necessary safeguard of democracy. So they did not provide that speech shall be free except as it touches the White House. They thought that the libel and other laws which protect ordinary citizens were adequate protection for the President—indeed they thought of the President as a citizen among citizens, rather than as a dictator who could silence criticism or as a monarch above the judgments of common men. That feeling still is pretty strong among Americans. It is one reason Mr. Hoover is unpopular. The people resent his desire to punish all who disagree with him. The Navy League is typical. Every one knows that Mr. Hoover has overwhelming public support for his policy of joint naval reduction. There is some public criticism, but it is because he is doing so little—asking only a $20,000,000 cut in the $360,000,000 naval budget when the government is spending twice as much as it takes in, and accepting the League of Nation’s one-year naval building holiday with so many reservations as to make it almost worthless. Therefore the Navy League's crude and unfair attacks on him for alleged crippling of the navy are so obviously partisan and absurd that they have won the President public sympathy. All he had to do was to remain silent and let the Navy League propaganda sink itself, or to return its fire shot by shot with the ammunition of facts which would destroy it. Instead, he has almost made a free speech martyr of the head of the Navy League—of whom the country previously had heard little and cared less. By so doing, Mr. Hoover again has advertised the fact that he can not stand the give-and-take necessary to efficient conduct of his office. We wish the President did not have such a genius for doing the right thing in the wrong way. Too Many Governments The United States Chamber of Commerce looks with favor upon the growing public sentiment against archaic and useless local governments which increase the tax burden. It just has received and published recommendations from eleven associations which have been studying the problem. This group urged “public consideration of the overlappings and duplications now existing in local government, and the consolidation of local governments consonant with modern methods of communication and transportation.” "It appears absurd to preserve in the present day such archaic geographical limits for school districts, townships and counties as were suitable for rural communities in an age devoid of improved highways, automobiles and telephones,” says the report. “Similarly it appears equally absurd and costly to permit artificial city and county boundaries to cut into numerous jurisdictions a single homogenous area.” This is a gospel which Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has been preaching in New York state for some time. He recently compiled figures to show that more than half of the thirteen billion dollar tax bill of the country is collected by and spent by units of government below the federal government and the states. New York, for instance, has beneath the state government, sixty-two counties, sixty cities, 932 towns, 525 villages, 9,400 school districts and 2,365 water, lighting, sewer and sidewalk districts. No citizen of the state lives under fewer than four governments, and some live under ten layers. We will sacrifice nothing in the way of valuable local autonomy if we abolish some of these. Stolen Cars Police departments in many cities have decided that the system of recovering stolen automobiles in St. Paul should be put into general use. Under the St. Paul plan, a special detail of two or more policemen to each 50,000 population will work constantly on automobile theft problems. Special files for the work will be maintained. Arrangements will be made for quick information from other cities in the form of interchangeable filing cards, to be mailed within forty-eight hours of a reported theft. Cancellation bulletins will be mailed weekly. Short-wave radio stations used by the police will broadcast missing car information. Municipal garages will be maintained where recovered cars will be brought in and checked as to condition. Two other recommendations made by St. Pauls police chief, however, would be drastic in many citiek. One of these is the prohition of all-night parking. The other would make any person liable to a penalty for leaving his car unlocked, parked on the street It is well to advocate such care, but it is a matter of education rather than of law or ordinance. Better Homes Well, here’s a presidential commission that has real news to tell! A committee of architectural experts working for the President’s conference on home building and home ownership has studied conditions in twenty-one representative cities and come to the conclusion that the American working man can have a better home, more comfortable, better built and better appearing, at the aame, or at even a lower, price than he now W The preliminary announcement of these experts was rather sketchy, but it gave promise of important benefit* from the work of the Hoover commission It does not take an architect, nor a commission, to determine that the design of the average small

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American dwelling is "seriously defective,” but the statement was made by the committee of expert architects and it bespeaks their sincerity. A whole side of our economic and social life as a nation will be improved if the President, through his experts, can point a definite way toward better and cheaper homes. Playing With Fire When the New York Times celebrated its eightieth birthday a short time back, President Hoover sent a very sane letter of congratulation, containing the following: “Democracy can not function except when accompanied by a free and constructive press.” There seems to be much evidence, however, that Hoover did not take this splendid sentiment too much to heart. In a fearless article in the New York Nation, Paul Y. Anderson, justly distinguished Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tells us that "The relations of Herbert Hoover with the newspapermen whose work brings them in immediate contact with the presidential office have reached a stage of unpleasantness without parallel during the present century.” Some hundred Washington correspondents have signed a protest to the National Press Club, asking it to appoint a committee to investigate the alleged misrepresentation and suppression of news by Hoover. This protest asserts that: “Mr. Hoover himself frequently has so refused to answei questions put by newspaper men, and has canceled so many of his semi-week,y meetings with the pi ess, that most of the Washington correspondents have, in despair, almost abandoned the White House as a source for news.” The protest goes on to allege downright falsification in regard to the receipt of Governor Roosevelt’s letter on the power issue; evasion and misrepresentation by the chairman of the federal farm board; "silence, equivocation, and falsification” by the shipping board, and like conduct by “other government departments,” for which Hoover has responsibility. It has been charged, and never effectively denied or disproved, that Robert Allen, efficient correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, was dismissed because Hoover’s spy system alleged that Allen had helped to write the “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” His paper previously had just increased Allen’s salary as a testimonial to his excellent work. An editor of another important daily admitted that he let out a Washington reporter because the White House had criticized him. For further particulars, one may consult Anderson’s informing and specific article. He points out that Hoover has no real grounds for his grouch. The President is treated by the newspaper men in Washington “with a deference accorded to no other official. His virtues are magnified enormously and his mistakes, in the main, are minimized or ignored ... No fat man could ask for a softer feather bed. Yet every rose petal has been a thorn in the delicate skin of Herbert Hoover.” We may leave it to the newspaper men in Washington to fight it out with Hoover, There are enough able men on independent journals to fight their own battle in competent fashion. But there are several obvious deductions which can be made without partisanship. In the first place, Hoover is ungrateful. Os all our public figures in the present century, he is most conspicuously the product of newspaper publicity. Without it, he would probably be continuing his mining promotion or vegetating in Palo Alto. In the second place, he is indiscreet in his present conduct, for he can not bulldoze the whole American i press. If he can not stand the humming of a few “sweet-bees.” he would better not stir up the hornets. There is a little campaign coming on in 1932. Newspaper good will in that contest will not be a matter of 1 indifference to the Great Engineer. In the third place, and most important, Hoover’s conduct, as his own commmunication to The Times admitted, is a serious blow to free institutions. Thomas Jefferson once said that if he had to choose between a government and no newspapers, and a good independent press with no government, he would prefer the latter. To the Debs! Junior League, Junior League, Junior League, Onward ! All in the valley of breath rode the four hundred. Such, with apologies to the late A. Tennyson, describes what Junior League members dared last week when they took their first plunge into national politics and voted overwhelmingly against the eighteenth amendment. The debutantes, in a pool taken by the “Junior League magazine,” made no halting gesture. The vote was 8,021 for modification, only 379 against it. Brave and unselfish was this vote. It was not inspired by common-thirst, for these social buds of ours have heard the nocturnal pop of champagne and Canada Dry 10, these many years. Theirs was to reason why; theirs was to do or die. And they did. And now who will say that there is no youth movement in these United States?

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT’S all very well to call upon the American housewife to exercise her ingenuity and thrift and so resuscitate our expiring prosperity, but so long as we have the politician with us, no good will come of that. It is not the housewife who has wasted substance of America. It is the henchmen of political parties. Our government costs us a great deal more than it is worth. Perhaps at this particular time it would be unwise to retrench, since that would mean letting out many civic, state, and national workers and thus swell the ranks of the unemployed. But did you ever hear of an individual or a nation who cut down expenses when prosperity was enjoyed? Is there any assurance that, once the depression is over and we resume our cockiness, the vicious accumulation of barnacles on the old Ship of State will not continue and even increase? Are we ever going to scrape them off? And what will happen to our ship eventually if we do not? She’ll sink. That’s certain. At any rate, now is a very good time to contemplate dry dock for getting rid of leeches. non WHEN we face cold, hard facts, the money each party spends on elections would feed all the hungry in the land. Even the kindliest critic admits that it took a pretty good number of millions to put Mr. Hoover in the White House in 1928. How much will it take to put-him back in 1932? And how much can the Democrats rake up to run their man? Whatever this may be and however it terminates, it probably will not be worth it to the taxpayers. It should be considered a high crime for either party to spend more than a moderate sum on any election. For when offices are so valuable to any group of men that they will put up million for themselves or their friends to sit there, something is wrong with the system, and the common citizen is likely to be the goaL

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

People Never Will Get Very Far With Courts, Leagues and Pacts Until They ' Really Know Each Other. NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Speaking on the possibility of preventing depressions, Albert H. Wiggin, distinguished banker, says that “what we have learned, the next generation will forget.” That isn’t all of it. The next generation will try new experiments, on the value of which we are unable to give it good advice. Most every one admits that the depression through which we are passing is without precedent, that many of the causes which brought it about are of recent origin, that the reason we didn’t see it coming, or haven’t done more to ameliorate it, lies in the fact that it caught us completely off guard.

Progress and Problems WE excuse ourselves because of the new problems involved, but who imagines that another set will not have developed by the time we understand those we are now up j against, if not before. New problems constitute an inescapable part of progress. We must expect to meet them continuously and eternally, if we go on, must expect to get into tight places, make blunders and suffer the consequences. There is no such thing as stabili ity, save through stagnation. Something can be done to ease | the shock, but it will be a shock just ! the same. Life insurance has done a great deal to take the money sting out of death. When you have said that, however, you have said it all. Death goes right on, and it’s a misfortune, even if the widow and children do get a few dollars. tt tt tt Out of the Grave SPEAKING of death, Lewellyn Hall, of Cleveland had a narrow escape from it, much narrower than one likes to think about. He collapsed while sitting in a rocking chair. His wife could detect no signs of life, so she called a police ambulance. The police could detect no signs of life, so they started for the morgue with the body. Hall being 80 years of age, the incident was not regarded as unusual. On their way to the morgue, the police stopped “at a hospital to get the necessary death certificate. Like all the others who had examined him, the physicians could detect no signs of life in Hall, but some sixth sense inspired them to try a stimulant, and it worked. The man not only regained consciousness, but walked in on the mourning neighbors who had gathered at his house during his brief absence. When Mrs. Hall fainted at the shock, he helped to revive her. Such things happen, in spite of all folks say.

This Small World THE world may be growing smaller, but people are growing more numerous. What is more, we keep better track of what they are doing. That accounts for the seeming increase of queer incidents and human interest stories. You hardly would look for the report of a fatal encounter with a lion on the front page of a New York newspaper, but there it was in Friday’s World-Telegram, straight from Africa, and with ah the details. W. H. Herren. railroad contractor of Aberdeen, Wash., had gone on a hunt for big game, taking some friends and a motion picture camera along. Having wounded a lion, he thought it would be interesting to film the beast before it died, but it turned on him unexpecedly and he was so badly torn in the struggle that he died a couple of days later. non Acquaintance Widens ON the same front page was the story of a boy-eating tiger in Siam—a tiger that wouldn’t take the second bite out of an old man. It all shows what a wonderful new system we have developed, and how hard it is for anything strange, important, or interesting to occur, without immediate and widespread publicity. That, more than anything else, is helping people to know each other, to establish a community of interest and sympathetic under-* standing, which, after all, is the only sound basis of peace. 'Meet the World' PEOPLE never will get very far with courts, leagues, pacts and other formal methods of co-opera-tion, until they really know one another. Personal contact is out of the question. It would take at least 1,000 years to shalje hands with, or say “how do you do” to the adults on earth. Publicity through every possible means is our only hope of developing the right kind of acquaintanceship and understanding. Whatever may be their shortcomings in other respects, the newspaper are performing a wonderful service in this one.

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CAPTURE OF ITALIANS OCT. 31

ON Oct. 31, 1917, an official report from Berlin announced that 120.000 Italians and 1,000 guns had been capered on the Tagliamento Plain. The engagements in which the Italians were captured, were declared in the dispatch to have been “very successful.” Anew Austrian army under General von Krobatin moved southwestward from the Carnic Alps and attacked Gemona. The Germans pushed on southeastward from Udine. On the same day, Germans in Brazil were declared in revolt. The Brazilian army was rrtozilized to handle the situation. Chairman Hurley of the United States shipping board, promised that the United States would ave ready during 1918 ships totaling 6,000,000 tons.

Just an Invitation for Him to Stick Around!

Food, Exercise Chief Weight Factors

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. -pvRS. D. N. DUNLAP and R. M. Muirray Lyon, Scotch physicians, are convinced that most people who get fat do so because they eat too much and take too little exercise. There are, however, many instances in which two' people eat exactly the same diet in the same amounts, one becoming overweight and the other retaining normal weight. The obvious difference in these two cases is the manner in which the body disposes of the food that is taken in. It is well established that the glands of the body, including particularly the pituitary, the thyroid and the sex glands, are related to the question of the disposal of sugars and of fat.

IT SEEMS TO ME

IAM as ardent a wet as you would not care to meet. And yet I hope that prohibition will play a minor role in the political contest of 1932. I say this because the wet and dry controversy has tended to obscure issues much more deeply rooted and important. It is true that the same refusal to face facts which animates many of the Volsteaders has been carried on into attitudes on other public problem - It would be an excellent thing to clean up the enforcement mess in our stride. But the modificationists are now guilty of joining in the national sport of hurling the red herring. Specifically, it seems to me that radical remedies toward the cure of unemployment ha've been impeded by the cry, of those who contend that with a little more beer there will be a great deal more work. Probably it is true that the release of the breweries might give some slight impetus to industry. But it could hardly be more than a pat on the forehead. Only the most optimistic and amateur economists can truly believe that the curtailment of this single activity is at the basis of our economic difficulties. non No Work and No Beer AND so I think that emphasis should be placed on work rather than beer. It is a little silly to talk about a man's right to a beverage during days in which he is shut off from his bread. Accordingly, I would prefer a radical dry as against a conservative wet. Or, to put it in even more precise terms, Norris would be my man, in spite of his dryness, as against the genial, damp, and conservative Ritchie of Maryland. It is a pity that so much of our public thinking gets off on sidetracks and one-sixteenth way measures. There was, for instance, the recent conference between Premier Laval and President Hoover. That it was better than nothing at all I am ready to admit. But that isn’t anything much. The joint statement issued by our President and the French premier had just about as much color as a tepid glass of water. It represented no disposition to embark upon the necessary reconstruction of the world. Now and again people praise Herbert Hoover, because they say he represents the view of those “who would discourage rocking the boat. This seems to me to constitute an altogether false concept of the world in which we set. The boat is rocking. We should not. fool ourselves about that. And, rather than try to hold a leaky craft on even keel, it would be much more sensible to look for a stancher and more sturdy steamer. n n n As Background Made Him ONCE upon a time I used to picture Herbert Clark Hoover as an arch villain. Now I have changed my mind. I don’t think he is an arch anything. After all, a certain touch of genius is essential to the great malevolents of history. Mr. Hoover undoubtedly is far more sincere than his are willing to admit. He is a Victim of his press agents. Sometime the story will be told of

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE'

It is well recognized that among women as they gain maturity, aa they have children, and as they approach the period at the end of middle age, there is a special tendency to change in weight. Men are, in general, more active physically than women. They spend more time in the open air, eat more proteins and less sugars, and are less likely to search for reduction in weight just to look better. The commonest age for the beginning of overweight is between 20 and 40 years of age in women, the average being usually around 30. Among men the onset of overweight is likely to come on somewhat later. One-third of the women who were examined by the Scotch physicians associate their tendency to overweight with childbirth. There are, however, other factors to be taken into account. For instance, the period of childbirth is approximately 30 years of

the extraordinary campaign which built up this small man in the eyes of his fellow citizens. It was probably the greaest propaganda achievement ever carried to success in this country. Take that simple phrase so often associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in his early political days. I refer to “the great engineer.” Modern research has disclosed the fact that Mr. Hoover’s connection with the mining industry was almost wholly that of the promoter rather than the technician. And, after the manner of all pro-

People’s Voice

Editor Times Hamilton Fish lately has been among us in pursuit of his present trade of saving the country from the Reds. As usual, Mr. Fish damned Russia for its unholy defiance of all established institutions. A great opportunity has been missed. Why did no one rise to ask about Mr. Fish’s trip to Russia in 1923? The facts are interesting. Mr. Fish applied for his passport on stationery of Hamilton Fish & Cos., Inc., Exporters and Importers. Mr. Fish was accompanied on his three-weeks’ trip by Sydney Friede, his business associate, and their purpose was to secure a business concession from the Soviet government. Mr. Fish returned in November, 1923, and in a speech to New York Kiwanis Club, declared that Bolshevism was intrenched firmly in Russia and offered great business opportunities. He favored SovietAmerican trade, and on March 24, 1926, he introduced in the house a resolution “evidencing an earnest desire for the development of mutually profitable trade relations.” Not until March 5,. 1930, was Mr. Fish heard again on this subject, and then he arose to ask for a special committee to investigate American Communists. What has happened in the meantime to Hamilton Fish & Cos., importers and exporters and potential Russian concessionaires? Will Mr. Fish rise and take the floor to answer? Apparently not. For this question was put in a meeting of Mr. Fish's own investigating committee, and Mr. Fish hurriedly skipped to another topic. PERRY WYATT. 308 Sanders street.

Daily Thought

Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.—Habakkuk 2:16. Whem half-gods go. the gods arrive.—Emerson. How many factories in the United States build aircraft, and how many employes do they have? In 1929 there were 117 aircraft factories, employing 9,856 workers with annual pay rolls totaling $lB,804,527. What are the dates fr|id places for the Grand Army of he Republic encampment this year? , Des Moines, la.. Sent l.“ to JL6...

age, which is the beginning of the period when most women tend to become fat. Furthermore, it is the tendency of human beings to associate sorrur striking occurrence in their lives with the onset of some physical change. Thus, if a child becomes paralyzed or shows signs of mental weakness, the parents are likely to associate this with an accidental fall from the high chair. Children who have developed infections of the bones or of the heart are usually blamed for having been overactive or for having indulged in some particular strain when the actual cause is perhaps a hidden infection on the tonsils or in the teeth. Os course, following childbirth, tt woman is likely to rest much more than previously, and also to eat much more. This would explain the tendency to overweight at such a time.

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moters, Herbert Hoover came to look only on the bright side of things. When a mine is far away, it is easy to convince yourself of the thickness of the vein and of its enduring quality. And it was characteristic then that prosperity should have been ballyhooed to us as if it were a bonanza which never could be exhausted. Indeed, but for the turn of vast economic tides, Mr. Hoover might have ridden forces over which he had no control to the same political popularity which draped itself around the innocent shoulders of Calvin Coolidge. a a a Leader Is Needed T>UT now, with the ebb, it is necessary for us to find some man with a vision beyond the mere comfort of consoling phrases. The philosophy of the standpatter may be persuasive until the deck begins to burn. But when the conflagration starts, any country needs a leader who has the gumption to turn and to jump. And it really does make a difference in which direction. It has been said again and again that there is no need to worry or complain about the present depression, because we are sure to climb out on the other side. It has been pointed out by partisans of things as they are that this is by no means the first period of hard times known in America.* Indeed, it is easy to establish the cyclical quality of suffering and privation even in the richest country in the world. But I’m blessed if I can understand why this should be an argument for the preservation of the present system in its entirety. A motor which misses once every so often on most of its cylinders isn’t geared right. And the great engineer will be the man who can set it on a basis which will keep it from the necessity of such frequent trips to the repair shop. (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times)

Cheaper in Long Run Yes. it’s cheaper to give your family a proper diet. You’ll keep them happy and healthy and reduce the doctor’s bills if you know something about what the human body needs daily in the way of ™ Washm F ton Bureau has ready for you a bulletin on telling in nontechnical language that every housewife can understand just how to feed her family: The functions of minerals, protein, staren, sugars, fats, cellulose and flavoring. It tells the proper quantities of the various kinds of foods, gives sample meals for a family, suggestions on meal planning, and a week s menus. You will find this bulletin full of the facts you want to know about proper diet. Fill out the coupon below and send for it; — CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 148, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin PROPER DIET, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE . lam a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ot one of America's most interesting writers and are nresented without .regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paner.—The Editor.

OCT. ‘3l, 1931.

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

The Proposed 13-Month Calendar Would Create a “Friday the 13th ” Every Month and a New Year Day With No Other Name. THE subject of calendar reform is a topic of much discussion today among scientists, economists and business men. Recently a questionnaire was circulated among members of the American Astronomical Society as a means of obtaining the opinions of the nations leading astronomers upon the subject. The movement has received considerable impetus from the fact that George Eastman, capitalist and philanthropist, and the head of the Eastman Kodak Company, has become an ardent advocate of calendar simplification. Several schemes for re-forming the calendar have been suggested. The most drastic is the thirteenthmonth calendar, which would provide thirteen months of 28 days with an extra day which would be New Year's day. New Year’s day would belong to no month and would have no designation as a week day. Each year would begin with New Year's day, which would be followed immediately by Sunday, Jan. 1. Other less drastic schemes merely would smooth out some of the irregularities of the present twelvemonth calendar. It has been pointed out jokingly —b|t the joke may have some basis of truth—that a chief objection to the thirteenth-month calendar would arise in many quarers from the fact that every month of its year would contain a Friday, the 13th. And worst of all the thirteenth month would have a Friday, the 13th.

Advantages Cited IT is a fact, however, that there are many psychological aspects to the question of calendar reform. The need for giving these attention is stressed by Professor Howard C. Warren of Princeton university who has been a student of the question for many years. "The popular mind clings to tradition in the fundamentals of life,” says Professor Warren, “as shown in our presistent. cleaving to our bewildering system of weights and measures, and the British adherence to their inconvenient monetary system. It often requires a social cataclysm, like the French revolution, to uproot these traditions. “An added difficulty arises in the case of calendar reform, due to religious doctrines and prejudices. “In Christian, Jewish and Mohammedan countries the seven-day week with its one day of rest, has been recognized from ‘time immemorial,’ and any attempted dislocation of this cycle inevitably meets violent opposition. The real problem, then, is how to overcome this popular inertia and religious protest. "Os the two proposed schemes, the thirteen-month year and the smoothened twelve-month year, each has certain advantages. It is easier to associate day and date in the thirteen-month scheme, since these are the same in every month; the seventh always falls on Saturday, the thirteenth always a Friday. “In the twelve-month calander one has to remember three associations; in the Swiss calendar, for instance, the first of the month is Monday in January, Wednesday in February, Friday in March; Monday again in April, and so on—a very simple and easy reckoning compared with our present calendar where no one but an expert can tell on what day the twelfth of next October falls, or the date of Labor day, or when school or college will open next year.”

Change Difficult PROFESSOR WARREN thinks it will be easier to introduce a reformation of the twelve-month calendar than it will be to hcange over to a thirteen-month one. Two plans have been suggested. One known as the Swiss scheme has thirty days in January, thirty in February and thirty-one in March. This same scheme then is repeated in each of the other three quarters of the year. Another plan, known as the world calendar, reverses the order, making the arrangement 31, 30 and 30. Professor Warren says that for historical reasons, he prefers the Swiss plan. But both the Swiss scheme and the world calendar require, just as docs the thirteen-month calendar, that New Year day stand alone and belong to no week. “Taken on its merits alone, the twelve-month year works much better than the thirteen-month year,” he says. “But even aside from this, it is preferable for psychological reasons. The community at large looks askance at anew month, as it does at a milligram and a kilometer. “On the other hand, a mere arrangement of length in the existing months should meet with comparatively little opposition, when the many advantages of this eveningup are pointed out.” The main difficulty, Professor Warren points out, comes over the idea of having a New Year day which belings to no week because this throws the seven-day cycle of the week out of gear.