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Regulate or Regulated? Petitions by the city of Indianapolis and a group of Citizens for a reduction of electric and water rates Will demonstrate to the people, not only of this city, fcut of all other utility-ridden communities, whether they can regulate these public services. The arrogant and brazen attitude of the utility Representatives suggests that they believe that they have successfully turned an agency designed to protect the public into a fortress for their own greeds. They attempt to frighten, using the members of the public service commission as their spokesmen, with the threat that any inquiry will take months and cost the people vast sums of money. If that be true, then regulation is impossible under present conditions and some other method of shoving this huge burden off the backs of industry must be found. Electric rates are important not only because of their tax upon the cost of living, but because of the Important place that power now takes in industry. •> Every factory, large or small, depends upon its use .The rates can mean the difference between bankruptcy and solvency to many concerns. * Every extortionate dollar taken by the power interests from industry means so much less for wages to employes and may - mean a reduction of number of employes. , In this city, at the present time, many industries plight employ more men were they not called upon to pay fanciful figures for their power through various hidden devices in rates and schedules. In order to hide the earning, the holding company is turned into what corresponds to what the police would call a fence. The public service commission, if it had the freedom and courage to act, could discover these tricks easily. They could ask why coal costs the power company at least 50 cents a ton more than is paid for that essential by other industries. They might inquire why a charge is made for an “excise tax’* when no such tax is levied by either State or government. They might ask Water Baron Geist what service he renders from his Philadelphia retreat to make water run down hill that entitles him to vast sums lor management and engineering. The question is now state wide. Will the people control the utilities or will the utilities continue to control the people. *

Another Indiana Author One of the most illuminating books on Russia yet published is the first offering of Ray Long, former Indianapolis newspaper man, who climbed to the heights as an editor of newspapers and magazines, and now essays the field of authorship, A record of his personal experience at the thirteenth anniversary of the revolution, the book, “An Editor Looks at Russia,” gives a dispassionate survey of conditions in that country. Every chapter is a comparison w'ith conditions in this country. It brings no statistical records, but a keen survey of human life as it exists in the land of the Soviets. It pictures the inconveniences, the lack of comforts according to American standards, but emphasizes that a nation, through despotic methods, has Sold millions of hopeless humans to the dotrine of hope. Working for a bread ticket is abhorrent to our national thought. So also, remarks Mr. Long, is the standing in a bread line for food. To those who find the Russian experiment interesting, be he worker or financier or the great “middle class,” will welcome this contribution. Those who find enjoyment in interesting reporting will be unable to lay it aside until the last word is read. * - Not Enough Economy Taxpayers will be pleased to learn from President Hoover that $350,000,000 has been cut from the budget estimates submitted by the departments for operation of the federal government during the fiscal year which begins July 1 next. The figure in itself means little, however, for departments habitually ask for a great deal more than they expect to get. The important thing is that the amount the President will recommend to congress will be $280,000,000 below the appropriations for the current year. This is a sizable saving, even though it still would leave a budget of $4,320,000,000. The $280,000,000 figure, of course, is merely the executive recommendation. Congress may increase or decrease it. And appropriations‘for this year may be increased by the incoming congress. Ordinarily they are, through deficiency bills, which provide sums above regular appropriations. Commendable efforts to enforce economy, however, should not be permitted to obscure the true condition of the treasury. In fact, it is doubtful if the present situation would have been permitted to develop as far as it has except for the practice of the President and the treasury of issuing statements designed to lull concern over mounting deficits and expenditures. Simply stated, the government is spending just about twice as much as it is collecting. It already has incurred a deficit of nearly $700,000,000 since the beginning of the fiscal year. This deficit at the end of the year probably will amount to $2,000,000,000 and more. Meantime, the treasury is paying its current bills with borrowed money. Last year, the government wound up its business $900,000,000 in the hole. So the saving the President predicts is only a fraction of the sum needed to make the government’s books balance. It is well to keep this fact in mind. Senatorial Salaries Senator Arthur Capper says he would be willing to accept a reduction in his senatorial salary, in these hard times. Not maay senators and congressmen would agree to follow suit. There is one measure which probably won’t see the light of day in either house or senate. But since the senator from Kansas has brought the matter up, congressmen may like to think about it, just so they’ll understand how wage cuts may have affected men who make carpets, clothes and automobiles, rather than laws. An Economic Council It remained for labor, speaking the last word at the senates hearings on creation of a national economic council, to point out the obvious danger of drifting. Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, charged that industry and finance have failed to furnish us with leadership In our desperate economic situation. His charge was particularly impressive, coming as it did after some of

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the most Intelligent and important men in the business and financial world had appeared before the same senate committee that heard Hillman. For the most part these men were wandering distractedly and hopelessly in the maze of problems that surround them. All realized the impossibility of any one corporation or any one business solving its problems alone. Most of them realized that all industry, banded together, cou;d not control the economic situation, because it could not control the credit structure, taxation, foreign policy, tariffs. The remedies they suggested, all of them tentative, turned out, under scrutiny, to .be no remedies at all. Hillman warned that with no leadership, no fixed responsibility, we are in danger of being hurled into a dictatorship, a hungry people will permit things to drift just so long. Then they will turn to any leader. So Hillman urged that the government assume the responsibility that no one else should assume, and definitely and diligently plan for economic stability. If the executive branch of the government will not take the leadership, congress can. It can create a national economic council and see to it that outstanding, able men are placed upon it. The council will have to grope its way out of the maze. How much it can do, how it can do it, remains to be discovered. That is why only the most capable men in the country can be of any service on such a oody. But the task is not an impossible one. George Soule, economist and writer, charted an intelligent course which the council might follow in his testimony before the committee. Things never are done until a start is made. We must choose between facing our problem courageously and trying with all the strength in us to solve it in i.ime, or sitting like children or cowards, crying and waiting for luck to save us. Senator Caraway The nation will miss Senator “Thad” H. Caraway of Arkansas, who died in what should have been his prime, at 60, last week. Caraway was hard-bitten, even bitter at times. But always he was a fighter for the underdog. This was understandable, for he himself was an underdog a good part of his life. Son of a poor doctor in a poverty-stricken, preju-dice-iidden section of the south, he went to work as a farm hand at the age of 7. Up from there, to section hand, book and patent medicine vendor, student, country teacher, lawyer, prosecuting attorney, congressman and senator, he toiled and struggled inch by inch. Little wonder that when he lashed the privileged and their lobbyists—Newberry, Daugherty, Fall, Sinclair, Doheny and the rest—he made them wince under the punishing sting of his words. Yet he was candid, generous and friendly. “Everything comes to him who waits—and fights,” was his motto. And while he found it easier to fight than to wait., great respect and honor had come to him before his death.

Drier and Drier “The number of intoxicated drivers has been increasing steadily,” for the last six years. According to J. R. Crosley, vice-president of the New York Automobile Club, this number, as shown by auto license suspensions and revocations for driving while intoxicated, increased in New York state from 2,433 in 1926 to 5,667 last year. Drunken drivers, he said, had contributed “in no small measure” to the total of 3,090 motor deaths in the state last year and the 1,163 deaths in New York City. In the last six years it was necessary to revoke or suspend 21,519 drivers’ licenses because of drunkenness on the part of the driver. Clothiers are howling that automobiles have made motorists careless about their clothes. But there are still times when a man must change attire. lowa is having a cattle war. Which recalls that Chicago had an experience with Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. And that was no bull. Den Moyle, who tried a non-stop hop over the Pacific, has started his thirty-day sentence in Los Angeles’ jail. He’s still one hop ahead of the sheriff. An Indian agent says Indians on reservations run to the superintendent every time they have a squabble with the wife. Os course, that’s too often. Mayor Cermak is boosting Chicago for the capital of the Democratic party. With Monsieur Capone in durance vile, something just had to be done. Police fired a load of lead into the wrong man. Sort of misled. Dempsey is making a glorious comeback. Yes ($232,000 for fourteen appearances) plenty grand. Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON THE chief thing wrong with the world is that men have made Napoleon Bonaparte their hero. And an unworthy hero is worse for a nation than none at all. The male loves power, although he is not always able to define it in intelligent terms. Therefore, men always have admired the person who had qualities of leadership, regardless of whither his footsteps might take them So since that day when the Little Corporal urged on the ragged hosts of France to new, brief victories, men of every nation have joined to laud his name and to emulate his deeds. The strange, sad thing is that they seem to have forgotten his dark trail to St. Helena, or that his empire, built out of the bones of his worshippers, stood for but a few troublous years. For it is only Napoleon whom they see. Beneath his feet writhe millions of his countrymen, prematurely slain that his name might survive. Behind him lie desolation and ruin. At his side stalk the twin ogres of ambition and greed. The ghosts of emptybellied men and emaciated children flaunt his banners and cry his name. These they do not see. a a - a AND because we have been blind to them, the Arch de Triomphe in Paris stands, a lasting monument to a warrior who left France, his country, hated by all the world. Men living today still are reaping the bitter harvest cf that hatred. Living, Napoleon laid Europe waste; dead, nis shadow darkens the earth He personifies war. His emblem is the sword. So long as we gfre hero worship to his kind we shall have strife between nations. Now there has joined him, to sleep in the lap of time, an American hero, a man cf peace, who conferred only benefits upon humankind. The fate of the world hangs upon which of the two it will choose to follow—Edison, the builder, or Bonaparte, the destroyer.

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Japan's Every Act Indicates She Is Much More Concerned About Offending Russia Than Any Other Nation. NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—History repeats itself, with the Japanese driving the Chinese from position to position at will and only halting as they approach the “sphere of Russian influence.” The Japanese have thumbed their noses at the League of Nations and answered our complaints w’ith flattering observations as to Mr. Stimson's fairness. When it comes to 1 Russia, however, they are more cautious. Russia represents the keystone of this particular peace arch, as both Japan and China well know. a a a Japan Sees Logic USSIA celebrates the fourteenth ; A '- anniversary of Communism with a great military demonstration, in which no pains were spared to show how thoroughly her army has been drilled and mechanized. There ertn be little doubt that the performance was staged for Japan's enlightenment. Wasted effort! Ja- ■ pan has given convincing proof that | she is well aware of Russia’s J strength and interest. Her every act indicates that she is much more concerned about offending Russia than any other nation. Nor is she at all illogical in this. Other nations are immobilized by divided sentiment. ana It Means Nothing Aristide briand, president of the League of Nations, may write scorching notes in behalf of peace, but what cause has Japan to worry as long as a majority of French newspapers take her side? Secretary Stimson may offer M. Briand moral support, but what does it mean as long as this government refuses to join the League of Nations. Officially, the civilized world may be committed to the Kellogg pact, but what is the unofficial attitude, even toward war itself? a a a Talked in Private SILVER has gone up by 15 per cent or so, ■which means a great increase in the buying power of China, India and other oriental countries, with prospects for a better grain and manufacturing market. Quite a few persons lay this to the imminence of war, and think the market would be still better if war were to break out. They do not admit it publicly, but they talk it privately. The prosperity we enjoyed as a result of the European war set a bad precedent and developed a bad tradition. a a a More and More Horrible MEANWHILE, the Swiss are holding a conference to study ways and means of protecting the civilian population in case of war, particularly against poison gas, thirty-eight varieties of which are said to have been perfected. Semi-barbaric war is little worse than it ever was, but the civilized brand grows more horrible with every passing hour. Science has taken complete possession of the art, with engines and instrumentalities that would make a caveman feel squeamish. a a a A Good Experiment IF Russia and Japan were to lock horns, we might get an idea of how far and fast improvements have gone in the field of murder since the western front subsided, but it wouldn’t do us much good, because of the profit we probably would make out of it. There is nothing like money to salve the human conscience, whether from an individual or a collective standpoint. Somehow, we can always find it possible to justify whatever pays. ana There’s No Cheering IN this connection, the depression has contributed much to prevent the world from taking a stronger stand with regard to Manchuria. Too many are afraid of the cost of an effectual move for peace, while many more suspect that war might boom trade. Occasionally, you hear the boycott suggested, but do you hear any great amount of cheering for it?

M TODAY Mi >p IS THE- Vs WORLD WAR \ ANM y ERSARY

ACTION IN JERUSALEM November 9 ON Nov. 9, 1917, General Allenby, advancing against the Turks before Jerusalem, captured a large number of prisoners and a trans-' port. General Allenby was commanding the British expedition. Mounted troops reached the south bank of the Wadi Hesu, eleven miles north of the old Turkish front. The Turkish railhead at Beit Hannun was captured and the whole Turkish army retreated toward the north. More than forty guns were taken. German troops landed on the island of Aland in the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia, between Sweden and Finland. An American ship was torpedoed off the Canary islands and another ship was torpedoed off the Algerian coast, according to a report given out by the United States hydrographic office.

Daily Thought

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.—John 4:14. # n FAITH Is the subtle chain that binds us to the Infinite.—Mrs. E. Oakes Smith.

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—DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Preventive Medicine of Vast Value

Preventive medicine has made tremendous progress in the last several decades, and is becoming a big factor in human relations. This is the first of three interesting articles explaining what preventive medicine is, and what it is doing. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. PREVENTIVE medicine includes all measures used by public health officers, by physicians, and by the public for the prevention of disease. For instance, the feeding of codliver oil and calcium and the exposure to sunlight of infants in order to prevent rickets is preventive medicine. The use of exercise to bring about correct gosture so that the spinal growth shall be straight is preventive medicine. The use of proper shoes so as to avoid the development of flat feet, bunions, corns and hammer-toes is preventive medicine.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—ln these days of wholesale thievery by our utilities, it is pleasant to remember that those whose duty it is to hear the various complaints about the service and overcharges are generally courteous when they tell you “no” and “kiss you out.” That is, all but the gas company. They reserve the right to be sarcastic, for they are going to give their business to the city (?) just as soon as they get it in shape to turn it over. But if you think there is any recourse, or a monetary readjustment from any of them, just you try to get one, or even courteous satisfaction. It w’ill be unlike anything you have ever received! They try to make you feel anything but honest. We were out .of the city recently for two weeks. When we returned, we were just in time to see a meter reader. As usual, his face was a new one. (It seems the labor turnover is extremely high among meter readers). Probably when they show honest tendencies, they get the gate. This man stumbled in and stumbled out. In a few days, we received our bill. It was nearly doubled what we had been paying. Our monthly bill does not vary, generally, more than 10 cents a month. I took a whole year's receipts and went to the gas office to get a readjustment. The old fellow who is supposed to be versed in such things immediately gave me a splendid talk on the cost of the meters used. Told me how they were mechanically perfect. How it was practically impossible to get an incorrect reading from them, but he failed to tell me about the mentality of the meter reader. He did tell me, however, that my

It Gets There Ever stop to think what would happen if there was no postal service? Ever realize how enormous a business it is to carry all the mail? Know anything about the history of mail carrying that began away back in the Roman empire? How did the postal service come to be a function of government? Who was the first postmaster-general? When were adhesive stamps first used? Where are our postage stamps printed? What is meant by the “Pony Express?” What are the rates on first, second, third and fourth-class mail matter? What are the rates to various foreign countries? What is the history of the Universal Postal Union? What should one do if mail matter gets lost? How does one collect the insured matter? What articles should be registered and what insured? What do you know about the air mail service? Hew can you get a copy ot all the postal rules and regulations? How much have the postal deficits been year after year? Can you give all the rules for addressing and mailing a letter properly? If you can answer all these questions you w T on’t be interested; but if you want to know the answers to these and many others, you should fill out the coupon below and send for our Washington new bulletin—THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 154, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bullet. THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 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 I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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The recommendation for rest to overcome fatigue, a diet including all of the necessary vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and mineral salts, and the drinking of sufficient amounts of water each day is a part of preventive medicine. There is hardly a, phase of human life in which the knowledge of preventive medicine may not be applied. The health department sees to it that the public has a good water supply. It prevents the sale of infected food; arranges for proper disposal of sewage; pours oil on the water in which mosquitoes breed; checks the pasteurization of milk; advises mothers in the care of the child, and in many other ways encourages the practice of preventive medicine. Most of our present technic of preventive medicine has grown up in relationship to the knowledge that diseases are caused by germs. Hence preventive medicine as-

only way out was to pay the bill, then, if I wanted it, he would have a man come out and check the meter. But get a readjustment on the bill? Sorry, etc., etc. Satisfaction? Yessir! Take it or leave it! They know you can not help yourself; that you must have what they have to offer, so they treat you just any old way they see fit, and charge you whatever you will stand. If you leave, you just come back, and they know this, so just what can be done about it? I would favor a department in our city government similar to our weights and measures degartment. where we could call and get a disinterested party to come out and check up on our measuring equipment whenever we deemed it necessary. I believe this would be as important as our other “measures.” Past experiences don’t show that these utilities are honest in other ways, either. So it behooves those who have to pay these enormous annual utility bills to have a little peace of mind at least. Perhaps we wouldn’t feel so bad to take it on the chin, if we felt we were getting a run for our money, in other ways. Nothing would have pleased me better than to have seen that new gas company come into town. Competition would have been one of the finest awakeners our bloated, fossil-like “Citizens” Gas Company could have had. We would have, at least, been given the benefit of intelligent, courteous treatment, probably. When we had two electric companies, charges were lower, service better, competition keen. You could get quick action. Now, those days are gone forever. The water company used to have a flat rate, and it made money. Now, it has put in

sumes control of all epidemics in order to prevent those who are not infected from catching diseases from those who are. It sees to it that the person with a severe infectious disease is isolated. It provides contagious disease hospitals for the care of people with contagious diseases. It keeps the person under restraint during the period known as the incubation period of the disease, a time when the person is especially infectious to others without himself showing the disease. It keeps him under restraint during the actual presence of the disease and finally it does not dismiss the person until the body is free from the germs that spread disease. This is particularly important because of the presence of carriers of disease who are themselves well, but who carry the germs of the disease in their throats or in their intestinal tract and spread them to other people.

! meters. The rates are higher—and I so it goes. Maybe this feeble push may help in your house cleaning of the utilities. But don’t forget to look-in on the gas company. They are due for a house cleaning. If they only clean out some of the old fogies and put some smiling, intelligent looking faces in their stead, it will have been a long and wonderful stride in the right direction. CONSUMER. Editor Times—ln a recent edition of The Times, I read an article under Views of Times Readers signed “An Observer.” I differ with him regarding our burlesque shows. I, too, have been to them and feel as he does that they are not altogether elevating, but until the younger generation and some of the older are educated and christianized to loath that form of entertainment there is a distinctive need for the burlesque show. To force the burlesque shows to close would be just to drive them into the residential sections of town and put cn private and even worse shows that they now are doing, just as the saloons were taken from the corner and put into homes all over the square. When the speakeasies started, inferior booze was given the public and not only adults, but children, were permitted in them. When the resorts were forced to the residential section, less sanitation was used, therefore, it is only reasonable to believe that discontinuing the burlesque shows would make things worse. Why not try education and let the shows die a quiet death? H. L. KELSO. How many of the United States World War dead have been brought back to the United States? About 40,000. Docs the United States treasury issue proof coins now? No. How many unemployed persons are there in the United States? It is estimated roughly that there are between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 at the present time.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Huge Telescope With 200Inch Reflector Will Open Vast Vistas to Astronomers. A SECTION of the universe thirty times as large as that now within range of man, will come into j his view when the 200-inch tele- | scope is completed. That is the opinion of Dr. George Ellery Hale, ; chairman of the observatory council which has charg* of the dei sign and erection of the new tele--1 scope. Dr. Hale is honorary director ol I the Mt. Wilson observatory, which , possesses the largest telescope now i in existence, the 100-inch reflec- | tor. The new’ telescope which is being financed by the International 1 education board, a Rockefeller philanthropy. will become the property of the California Institute of Technology. The observatory council, however, is composed of members of both the California Institute of Technology and the Mt. Wilson observatory, and, as Dr. Hale points | out, the new telescope will sup- ; plant the 100-inch telescope. Both the 100-inch and the proposed 200-inch telescope are of the type known as reflectors. These ! employ large concave mirrors instead | of lenses to gather the light of the i stars. The size of the telescope is the diameter of the mirror. While the 200-inch is double the diameter of the 100-inch. Dr. Hale i believes that it will be ten times as powerful, penetrating three times as far into space and thus opening up | a sphere of space for investigation about thirty times the volume of the amount of space available to j the 100-ineh telescope. a a a Specialized Tasks THE layman thinks of all observatories as being pretty much alike; an observatory is a place with a telescope through which astronomers may gaze at the heavens. Astronomy today, however, is much more complicated than that. I once had a famous astronomer tell me that he had not looked through a telescope in more than a year. During that year he had been studying photographic plates under a microscope. These plates had been taken by other astronomers with the aid of a telescope. There are a great variety of tasks facing the astronomer today. There is, for example, the study of variable stars, stars whose brilliance fluctuates. There is the study of double stars, stars which appear as one to the unaided eye but as two in the telescope. There is the study of the distribution of stars in space. I Many other items could be listed. Now, in general, each of these j tasks is best carried on with special equipment designed particularly for it. Consequently, an entire observatory frequently is built with one of these specialized jobs in mind. The entire equipment of such an observatory may consist of one specially designed telescope and the auxiliary apparatus to go with it. A spectacular example of specialization is to be found in the Dominion Astrophysical observatory of Canada, located at Victoria, B. C. This observatory has a seventy-two-inch reflector, the second largest telescope in the world. This observatory has devoted nearly all of its efforts to photographing and studying the spectra I of stars. I The spectrum of a star is the lit- | tie rainbow band of colors obtained by passing its light through a prism or spectroscope. The spectrum is the key to the star’s temperature. density, and many other characteristics. In eleven years this observatory has photographed the spectra of ! 17,800 stars. Built 'On Order’ | ' K ''HE Mt. Wilson observatory was i JL built by the Carnegie Instituj tion of Washington. Because it had j the powerful Carnegie resources be- | hind it, it was able to pursue anew plan. In general, observatories have certain equipment and then have to stick to the kind of work which that equipment makes possible. Dr. Hale’s idea was to make the Mt. Wilson observatory more flexible. His idea was to select problems for study and then build the apparatus which the problems required. Accordingly, at the same time that the observatory was started upon the top of Mt. Wilson, a machine shop and a laboratory were built in Pasadena, a few miles away from the mountain. Today the observatory has the 100-inch telescope, the sixty-inch telescope, two great tower telescopes for studying the sun, a large interferometer for measuring star diameters and marry smaller pieces of apparatus. When anew problem needs attention. the necessary apparatus is built in the machine shop in Pasadena. The same plan is being followed with the 200-inch telescope. An astrophysical laboratory is now nearing completion upon the campus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. A machine shop already is completed. The 200-inch telescope will go on some mountain top in all probability not far from either Pasadena or Mt. Wilson. Thus close co-oper-ation will be assured between the two observatories and the two laboratories in Pasadena.