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Armistice or War? This anniversary of the World war armistice is critical. There is more danger of another World war than at any time since the guns were silenced in 1918. If the world’s peace machinery does not stop the Japanese war in Manchuria, that machinery will be Junked in time. That is a hard fact to face. Nevertheless it is a fact. If Japan can defy the treaties today, France or Great Britain or Italy or the United States can defy the treaties tomorrow. That—and that alone—is the world issue in Manchuria. Whether China or Japan is to blame, or both are to blame, for the underlying Manchurian conflict is a local issue. But Japan’s choice of military methods to settle the dispute is a world issue, because Japan’s military aggression is in direct and complete violation of her treaty pledge under the League of Nations covenant, the nine-power Pacific treaty and the Kellogg anti-war pact. We are not among those hopeful souls who expected the League of Nations to make over the world within a decade, or expected the Kellogg pact to lead to complete and immediate disarmament. But, like most of the world, we have dared believe that the peace machinery was strong enough to slow down war forces and check a world crisis pending recourse to peaceful settlement of disputes. We still believe in this peace machinery. We deny that it has broken down. But it has been ignored, especially by the United States government. The treaties have not been given a chance to operate. The state department has given no more than lip-service to the Kellogg pact, and lit-, tie of that. The state department has deliberately evaded the nine-power Pacific treaty. The best of treaties will not work by themselves. The best peace machinery conceivable must depend upon governments willing to operate it. Some governments today are trying. The nations on the league council have acted during these difficult two months with courage and fairness, tempered by patience. But they have about reached the breaking point. All of their peaceful overtures have been defiantly rejected by Japan. The league soon must decide whether to declare Japan an outlaw and treat her as such. But the league can not take effective action of any kind so long as the United States seems to side with Japan against international intervention for peace. As the most powerful nation in the world, the United States is wrecking the world’s peace machinery by its obstructionist tactics. Does the Hoover administration realize what it is doing? Common Sense in Vocational Education If there is any one defect in our educational system which is obvious and extensive beyond all others, it is the waste of time on so-called cultural subjects by a considerable proportion of pupils in our public schools. * Bright pupils, whose parents are too poor to them in school even as long as the high school course, are handicapped by the fact that they are not fitted to do any special kind of worK. They go out to pick up inferior types of jobs at low wages. Long hours and low pay prevents them from ever obtaining that vocational training which might have made skilled workers out of them. Mentally backward or deficient children simply waste their time and that of their teachers when attempting to master cultural subjects beyond the very rudiments of reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic and geography. Whether their parents are opulent or not, these pupils are a monkey-wrench in the educational machinery, even though they may be kept in school until 20. When they leave, they are unable to fill any responsible position demanding specialized skill. They become easy victims of temptation to vice, crime, and racketeering. Hence, we may note with distinct interest the assertion of the famous pedagog, Dr. David Snedden of Teachers college, Columbia university, that vocational education before the age of 17 is silly. Before a conference on vocational education at the Vanderbilt hotel in New York he said: “It is absurd to try to .each boys from 14 to 16 a vocation; they don’t even understand what a vocation means.” If we could assume that all students in our public schools were bright children with ample money to stay in school until 20. one might agree with Dr. Snedden. But, facing facts as they are, it would seem that this frequently progressive and fearless educator got off to a bad start this time. Bright children doubtless would profit first by pursuing cultural subjects and then receiving vocational education after the age of 17, provided they could stay on long enough to obtain such practical education. Many can not do so. How much better, then, would it be if at the age of 17 they could go out into the world well-trained as youthful carpenters, cabinet-makers, plumbers, mechanics, typewriters, secretaries, bookkeepers, cashiers, and the like. At present, their smattering of Milton, Caesar, the binomial theorem, Shakespeare and the hortatory subjunctive in no way enables them to rise above equally bright illiterates when they have to start supporting themselves. Dull children, especially those overly deficient in intelligence, can make little progress with cultural subjects, no matter how long they remain in the school system. Dr. Snedden says that these children Bhould get Jobs and then come back for vocational guidance after 17. This suggestion is hardly practicable or logical. In the first place, it is a proposal of doubtful judgment to suggest that mentally dull children between, say 10 and 17, should be put at hard work. We are past the period of child labor in sociological, if not pedagogical, theory. 1 ~n the second place, where would they find enough

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Jobs? Children of this class make up ‘from a third to a half of the school population. There is no great problem in finding the right vocation for these backward children. They can excel only at some manual trade. Vocational guidance here is not any delicate decision between the profession of the poet and the physician. Nor is it too early to interest such a child in the manual arts at 10 or 11. It can be done even earlier. By the time they are 17, they will have mastered some type of trade and be able to step cut and engage in something beyond drudgery, crime, racketeering, and prostitution. For the minority of bright students who can stay indefinitely in school, we may agree with Dr. Snedden that their vocational training well may be postponed until they are 17. Further, his contention that vocational guidance should be given only by experts is sound sense. The Pinchot Plan One thing stands out clearly in the unemployment relief problem. Where the desire to prevent starvation exists strongly there can be found enough ways of doing it. Pennsylvania has been facing what seemed to be an impossible situation. Her Constitution forbids the legislature to make appropriations to provide food and shelter, or to give such appropriations to a state agency, a county or city, or a welfare agency. It takes at least two years to amend the Constitution, Yet Pennsylvania, making six checks of the number of its unemployed found the total to be 900,000 persons, fourth of all its wage earners, which, it estimates, means two and a half million persons needing help. Only twenty-three of its communities have chests, and these cover only about 50 per cent of the population. Only half the amount raised for community chests will go to unemployment relief. Facing this situation, Governor Gifford Pinchot has called the legislature into special session and has proposed an extensive program of public works, to be paid for by cigaret, gasoline and billboard taxation. He has proposed further that direct relief be provided for those who can not work on highways or dams or public buildings, in the following novel manner: He suggests creation of a state commission on unemployment relief to receive contributions and supervise their expenditure for relief of distress. The money thus contributed Pinchot proposes to repay with interest at 4 per cent out of the proceeds of prosperity bonds, making the action constitutional by an amendment which must be approved by this legislature, by the next regular session, and by vote of the people in 1933. Pinchot points out in his message to the special session that the wealthy men of Pennsylvania are able amply to supply the money for this relief, and he urges that they do so “because the more fortunate in this world’s goods ought to take the same share in the adversity of the nation that they have taken in its prosperity.” But even more persuasive in his suggestion that enlightened self-interest demands such action, that no government can expect respect and defense from persons it allows to lack for work and food. ' The Parking Plan Presumably ordinances for the control of traffic are designed for public safety and convenience. Whenever such regulations interfere with the convenience of the public and the prosperity of the community, they should be changed. Apparently the present ordinance is unsatisfactory or merchants in the business district would not spend their time in protest. The merchants state that the restrictions are such aa to reduce their business. That means that those who wish to buy or who might buy, were it not for the regulations, are prevented from doing the things they wish to do. It is inconceiveable that regulations can not be made which will eliminate congestion and still permit access to established places of business. The French athletes say they’ll be slowed down without their wines at the Olympic games in Los Angeles. But if they drink the stuff here they’ll stop. Southern California U. co-eds say 5 per cent of a man’s appeal is his ability to understand clearly the word “no.” Anyway, that leaves 95 per cent for maybe. The Four Marx Brothers were at one time concert players known as the Four Nightingales. Since that time they’ve made their Marx. A movie actress recently planted fig trees in her back yard. Maybe she’s planing to use the leaves.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

I HEARD a very fine man answer his telephone the other night. It was evident from the conversation that he was being urged to attend some kind of a poker or bridge party for men only. I knew he had planned to spend the evening at home with anew book, because even then his wife was dressing to go out with me to a lecture. But did he say so? No, indeed. His Adam's apple functioned in the age-old way and he used her for his alibi. "Sorry. Bill,'’ he said and his voice dripped regret, "but my wife says I’ve got to stay in tonight. She’s been reading the riot act to me lately.” It was easy to imagine the reaction at the other end of the wire. Undoubtedly BUI would straightway think and perhaps say, "Gee, Tom’s wife must a regular hell cat. The poor guy can’t call his soul his own. She won’t even let him have a friendly little game with the boys.” Thus Tom’s wife gets a reputation she does not deserve at all. * tt n MOST feminine shortcomings have been cultivated in the public mind in much the same fashion. They ar*> fairy tales that men have created, to use as excuses for their own faults. By accusing us, they have found they can buUd up more credit for themselves. Take, for example, woman’s supposed talkativeness.It is almost a certainty that the men starter this nasty tale because they themselves like to orate so well that when a feminine interruption to their monologs come they are convinced we are garrulous. We are supposed to be physical cowards and to run from tne sight of a mouse. This gives them a tremendous sense of personal courage without any expenditure of prow r ess. And the story of our vanity over dress diverts attention from their vainglory over more intimate characteristics. They are canny creatures, these Bills and Toms, and their cleverness and most finished performance is the use of the feminine alibi.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Are All Ready to Specie late on War and It's a Terrible Way to Celebrate Armistice Day. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—While prophet Gandhi struggles for the freedom and uplift of India, proving his honesty of purpose by eating, dressing and living like the humblest of his followers, Sir Osman Ali Khan, nizam of Hyderabad, marries off two sons—one to a j daughter and one to a niece of the ! former high priest of Islam, prov- | ing his fatherly affection, as well as his opulence, by giving each of the brides-to-be $200,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in gems. The nizam of Hyderabad not only rules one of the greatest native states in India, but is reputed to be the richest man on earth. His gold alone has been estimated as worth more than $500,000,000, not to mention the incalculable horde of jewels coming down to him from the gorgeous mogul court. tt tt tt All of It Futile AS to the former high priest of Islam, Mustapha Kemal, now president of the Turkish republic, ran him out of office and out of town some seven years ago, since which time he has been compelled to “subsist on the bounty of the faithful,” the nizam of Hyderabad being one of said faithful and coming across with a pension of $1,500 a month. Mustapha Kemal should not have done what he did to this exalted person but for the turmoil and change incident to war. Thus through one of the sidelights on a grand wedding, we get around to the agony out of which Armistice day was born. Also, we get around to certain incidents which suggest that much of the agony was futile, if not unnecessary. • * * u Still Shell-Shocked hope and prophesy accord--LTJLing to their experience, according to what they have been used to, according to those conditions which appeal to them as oeing more or less permanent. Just before the great war broke out, you couldn’t make any one believe that a great war was possible, because the world had dwelt in comparative peace for a generation. Right now you can’t make anv one believe that war isn’t likely to follow the slightest provocation because this generation still suffers from fright and shell-shock. tt tt And Worse Sti'il TALK about peace: We haven’t settled down to a belief in its possibility as yet, much less to a frame of mind where we can work intelligently for its preservation. Let someone touch off a firecracker, and we are ready to shriek with frenzy. At the same time, we remain indifferent to the great ammunition dumps that are piling up around us on every hand. Worse still, we associate prosperity with conflict, especially here in America, because of the boom times we enjoyed from 1914 to 1917 and a long time afterward.

tt a tt It's Terrible Thing YOU see silver going up, and you don’t need to be told why. The boys who are supposed to know believe that China and Japan will need silver if they get to fighting; that they must have it, in fact, and that now is the time to buy. Japan and China have needed silver right along, and for a much worthier purpose than the Manchurian rumpus suggests, but somehow nobody seemed to give a whoop. We’re all ready to speculate on war, ready to bet, ready to act, ready to prove our faith. It’s a rather terrible way to celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of peace, but it reveals the human side of the problem. So does the difficulty we experience in raising a few millions for the unemployed as contrasted to the ease and speed with which we raised billions for war. Statesmen can’t do it all. They must have the right kind of moral support, and they can’t get it unless you and I contribute our quota of straight thinking.

T ?s9£ Y S ■ /world war \ ANNIVERSARY

FINLAND AT WAR Nov. 11 ON Nov. 11, 1917, a state of war was declared in Finland. The provisional soldiers’ committee appointed a commissary of Finland in place of Governor-General Nekrasoff. The diet voted to elect a, state directorate with supreme power. On this date also the United States secret service agents said they discovered $39,496,742 worth of food hidden in storage warehouses in New York not indicated in- warehouse reports. On the Italian .front, Teutons took Belluno and the Vidor bridgehead and won ground in the Sette Comuni and the Sugana valley. The Italians retook positions on Gallio and Monte Serragh.

Questions and Answers

Is there a novel called "Glimpses of the Moon”? Who is the author? It is the title of a novel by Edith Wharton. How many independent countries are there in the world? Sixty - four, including grand duchies and principalities. How much did the Graf Zeppelin cost? About one million dollars. Do stars deteriorate constantly and give off star dust that covers the decks of ships at sea? No. Why was the name of Constantinople changed to Istambul? Istambul has always been the Turkish name for that- city.

Quick Treatment Halts Hydrophobia

This Is the last of three articles explaining; in an interesting: and informative manner what preventive medicine is and what it is accomplishing:. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygei<, the Health Magazine. / THE veneral diseases are giving great concern to authorities in preventive medicine, because apparently there are only two methods by which they may be brought under control: 1. Prompt treatment of all those who are infected so that they may not infect others, and 2. Education concerning the danger of veneral diseases so that those who are well may not expose themselves. The prevention of food poisoning is largely a matter of proper inspection of food as sold and thorough cooking, since thorough cooking of foods will destroy the botu-

Times Voice Their Views

Editor Times —Congressman Hamilton Fish, who some time since took upon himself the task of extirpating Communism, lately has announced to the public that he will offer in the next congress a bill providing for milling of the vast stores of wheat now held by the federal government and distribution of the flour among the hungry destitute of the country. One wonders why he did not offer his bill in the last congress. It was known that there were between six and seven millions of workers out of employment and it was predicted freely that with the coming of winter many of these would be destitute. - A senator had proposed this measure to his colleagues on behalf of the drought sufferers. Why did not Mr. Fish seize upon the proposal and bring it before the house? Was it because of Mr. Hoover’s known hostility to anything savoring of dole that restrained him, and does he now think he can afford to cross the antipathies of his chief in furthering his own interests? Some time back an organization in which dirt farmers form a large majority passed unanimously a resolution calling for such milling and distributing, also demanding that it be done without delay, since grain kept in store above two years in our climate becomes infected by weevil and other vermin and so is rendered unfit for use as food and also highly dangerous to health. The recent refusal of German millers to grind certain wheat on this account confirms the statement. The two years of storage nearly have expired; the" wheat is under federal control and if Mr. Hoover can get rid of his obsession long enough, he can order the work done without waiting upon an act of congress. JOHN NEWTON. Editor Times—l have just a few words to say in reference to the Community Fund. Personally, I think it is a very good thing, but it has served as a good shield for a lot of our business concerns. What I mean by that, is just this: They find it much cheaper to operate with less help, and when the time comes along for donations, the few employes they have and their contribution, makes a nice showing for the organization. In other words, they find it lots better to make a donation once a year than to employ those people the year round. Why? Because the small amount they have to contribute doen’t hurt them a bit, compared to the salaries if they were paying them out to Workers. If they would only stop to think, those same people would spend a great portion of their salaries with them and with other concerns who, in turn, would in all probability make purchases such as they were unable to make before. Now one more thing, and I think every one who reads this will agree with me to a certain extent. Hundreds of representatives called at factories, stores, and every kind of a place conceivable that they could make contact with employes, telling them what a wonderful deed they could do, by contributing to this great fund. True enough they would be doing a mighty fine thing. But, they are not even assured of their jobs for the coming winter. I know personally that last year a woman working in a factory was asked to give. She did. In one week’s time she was out of % job the rest of the

Closer and Closer

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

linus toxin and also the germs of botulism. For hydrophobia there is a Pasteur treatment, which involves the injection into the person infected of a vaccine made of material from the dried spinal cords of infected rabbits. But preventive medicine does not stop with this attempt to immunize the individual. It is concerned also with the proper control of stray dogs which are bitten by rabid animals and which then bite human beings and convey the disease to them. Some attempt has been made to prevent the spread of hydrophobia by vaccinating animals against the disease. Unfortunately, the immunity is not long and the method has not been considered as yet a suitable method for routine use. This, however, should not interfere with the prompt administration

winter. This year they were asked for $2, but not one of them has any assurance of a job. It stands to reason those workers are not making big wages and they couldn’t have enough saved up to live on the rest of the winter. Take every employe of those concerns afid guarantee him steady work and you couldn’t find a one who would not gladly donate from $2 to $5, but you can’t blame a man for hesitating when he knows down deep in his heart if he is thrown out of a job, he will need every dollar he has to live on and may have to ask for charity himself. I haven’t worked at a factory job for the past year, but I gave to the Community Fund to help someone who might be worse off than I. Many a man is asking for help who would be tickled to death to have a good job, and many who are too proud, never have asked for anything, but they can’t go on forever. A READER. Editor Times—To Margarita T. Diddle, who had an article in your paper recently: I just wish to call her attention to the remarks she made about the wharves in New York, and coffee shops now located where old saleons used to be. My husband and I was, perhaps, in these same coffee shops, a few months ago, and my husband called my attention to several of the places we visited, and we found a speakeasy in the rear, where they served beer and whisky in coffee cups, and we didn’t have to present a card or sneak in the back way if we wanted to be served. She spoke of the days before prohibition, when a crowd of drunken men would be hanging around the front door, she would have seen just as many drunken men and women. Not only that, but boys and girls drunk, too, going in and out. I hardly can believe that any one does not know that these conditions exist. At the large hotels where we stopped, every time we rang for a bellboy he never would fail to ask us if we wanted some liquor. I also wish to call attention to the old saloon days, when children did have some protection and there were no home breweries. I was a young girl then, and would give parties, and invite a crowd of boys and girls to my home. We would enjoy the evening by making candy and pulling taffy and playing games. We don’t have that kind of parties now among our young folks. It has all been changed since prohibition. Nowadays the girls will say to the boy friend, “Where can we get a drink? Give me a cigaret. Can’t you go home and get some home brew. Surely your father makes it.” Mrs. Diddle speaks of conditions being better since prohibition, despite this depression I just want to ask her if she ever has read anything about the bootleggers and the gangsters, which we never heard of before prohibition? MRS. R. BROWN. Editor Times —lt is plain to be seen that the workers of the nation are using their brains as never before. It seems as though the rich think there are too many of us poor devils nere. With modem machinery, they don’t need so many of us. They think the best way out is to starve us. Take the man who works on the charity chain gang. XJtjey give him

of Pasteur treatment to any human being who might have been bitten by a dog even suspected of rabies. It is known that flies spread disease. Hence preventive medicine is concerned with the control of flies, insects and similar parasites. Preventive medicine also is concerned with the question of narcotic addiction and the production of diseases by the use of drugs of various types. Attempts to control such conditions are made through legal control of the drugs which may cause harm. Authorities in the field of preventive medicine urge periodic physical examination for detecting disease in its early stages and thereby makes it possible to bring the disease under control. Many diseases are associated with occupation. Hence employers are told about the possible dangers which may exist in the industry and means are provided for prevention of disease.

what they want him to have. They think he hasn’t intelligence enough to handle his money. Then his children go to school, where they are taught to eat certain things which contain certain vitamins for health, and the children are forbidden the privilege of having this kind of food, all because their father happens to be a poor man and is forced to work for a basket of groceries, and they eat what is in the basket, regardless of whether there is milk to put on their oats. They know that children, undernourished, suffer sooner or later from some ailment, and don’t make healthy and bright students. There are the warehouses running over with foodstuffs and clothing that can’t be sold. The only way to unload them is to furnishthe workers with the money to buy and it is necessary to furnish work first. It is necessary to cut hours and raise pay to give everybody a job. However, we won’t hold our breath until they do that. They have told us that is impossible. It is all right for us to live scantily but the manufacturer must live in a large, well-furnished house, have his maid, chauffeur, and everything that heart can wish for, which he buys with the money he makes off our labor. When they have the best part of a man’s life, and he gets to the place where he can’t produce as much as he did, then they can’t use him any longer . Why let such people do our thinking? We have men in overalls who can walk around those fellows a thousand times. The big fellcv s realize, by this time, that they can’t solve this unemployment problem. Then who is going to do it? It is a fact that the brains of the nation come from the working man’s home. The manufacturer doesn’t rim his own business. He hires a working man to run it for him. It seems to me that the workers will realize, in the near future, that the rich can furnish them with nothing but charity. It is high time we workers organize and lcose ourselves from this terrible bondage, and run this government of the people, by the people, and for the people. MRS. DAILEY.

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.NOV. 11, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Elihu Thompson, Dean of General Electric Scientists, Is Last Living Electrical Pioneer. OF the four great electrical pioneers whose inventive genius j launched the General Electric Comi pany, the world's largest electrical : company, only one remains alive to- , day. He is Elihu Thomson. There were two alive until death took Thomas A. Edison. The other two who comprised the quartet were James J. Wood of Ft. Wayne, Ind., who died in 1928, and Charles f! Brush of Cleveland, who died in 1929. Elihu Thomson, now the dean of the General Electric scientists, still is actively engaged in research, heading an important laboratory at West Lynn, Mass. Although Edison Is remembered chiefly for the invention of the Incandescent light, the great electrical development of the nation had its beginnings in the arc light. Thomson remembers the announcement of the incandescent light from Edison’s laboratory and tells how he and other pioneers in the field were unwilling to believe that the new light would supplant the arc lamp. a * Arc System Spreads THE early pioneers of electricity had to invent every detail of the electrical industry. It was not enough merely to invent an arc light or an incandescent light. All the things which we regard as commonplace details had to be developed—switches, distribution lines, insulators, fuses and so on, as well as such larger items as adequate dynamos for the generation of the electricity. , „?™ sh Patented his arc lamp in 18/8. In 1880 he organized the Brush Electric Company, one of the four which was later merged into the General Electric Company, The first use of arc lamps for street lighting was on the Public square in Cleveland. In 1879, twelve lamps of 2,000-candle power each were installed on high ornamental poles. The Public square was crowded with citizens the night the lamps were turned on for the first time. Wood organized the Ft. Wavne Electric Corporation and devised a system of arc lighting which was west many places in middle Thomson organized his company to introduce the use of arc lamps in New Britain, Conn. When, in 1880, Edison announced the invention of the incandescent lamp, Thomson made a trip to Menlo Park to talk to Edison and see his new light. At first Thomson was not impressed with the new Edison lamp It seemed very inefficient beside the ? l c , and Thomson confesses that it took him three or four years to realize the true importance of Edison s invention. tt tt tt $50,000,000 Lost 'T'HE General Electric Company -1- was organized in 1892. It was a merger of Edison’s, Brush’s and Wood s companies with that of Thomson’s, which was known as the Thomson-Houston Company. Thomson at that time was interested particularly in the development of the alternating current and the transmission of current over long distances—the same subjects which later interested Charles P Steinmetz. Edison’s lamp and Thomson’s idea to make use of alternating current accounted for the great growth of the electrical industry in this country. When the General Electric Company was formed both Edison and Thomson were offered positions upon the board of directors. Thomson declined at once, preferring to remain at the head of a research laboratory. Edison accepted a position upon the board and served until 1901 when he retired from the General Electric organization. But Edison’s interest was never in the affairs of business. His interest always was in his own laboratory, where he restlessly turned from one invention to another. Brush, until his death, lived in Cleveland. His interest gradually changed from applied science to theoretical science and at the time of his death he was working upon experiments which he hoped would disprove the Einstein theory. Among Brush’s other early inventions was a storage battery. One day he said to me, “I lost $50,000,000 by inventing the storage battery too soon. My fundamental patents expired before the world had found any use for the storage battery.” But, like Edison, Brush died a millionaire.

Daily Thought

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever Is deceived thereby is not wise.— Proverbs 20:1. Drunkenness is nothing else than a voluntary madness.—Seneca. Is it necessary to get a permit to have a tree cut on Indianapolis property? Where should one appply for such permit? Yes. Apply to the park board.