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The Added Touch When the city of Indianapolis and the civic orlanizations under the lead of the south side community clubs asked for a reduction of rates on electricity and water, the prompt reply of utilities and the public service commission was that it would take nonths, perhaps years, to appraise the properties, ind that it would be a costly process. Were that commission even the slightest bit curious, it might, without appraisal, order these utilities to refrain from the “added/ touch” they make upon the public through their holding company charges. Os course, the utilities protected this method of getting revenue beyond a fair return on any basis of /aluation through the killing, on the last night of the cgislature, of a measure designed to prevent this .'orm of extortion. Early in the session, Senator Denninger introduced a measure which sought to prevent the utility companies from competing unfairly with business concerns dealing in utility appliances. He sought, in his bill, to put such transactions on the same basis with private business. But he did more. He provided that no utility should purchase its supplies from any concern in which the company, its officers or directors had a controlling interest. That would have prevented juggling with the purchase of coal by the electric company or the purchase of materials for the water company. The bill did not affect the telephone company. Strangely enough, the bill passed the senate. It had opposition. Some of those opposed have since been rewarded, directly or indirectly, with jobs connected with utilities. When the measure went to the lower house, a committee controlled by Democrats sought to kill it. One Democrat, Jacob Weiss of this city, stood bravely with a member from La Porte and rescued it from a committee death. Then it was assassinated in the closing hours of the session after Weiss had fought against controlling powers to pass the measure. Utilities are bipartisan and nonpolitical. They understand the futility of partisanship. The death of the Denninger bill would have made it criminal to resort to some of their practices. The utilities were successful in preventing this form of relief. The people pay the bills for these forms of manipulation and business practices. They pay,i in the end, for the kind of lobbying that killed this measure. That added touch is the final straw. Can it last? Mayor Walker’s Errand Stirred by appeals from Tom Mooney and his aged mother, Mayor James J. Walker of New York has decided to go to California and appeal personally to his old friend, Governor Rolph, for pardon for Mooney and release for Warren Billings, the two labor leaders serving life sentences upon perjured evidence. We wish Mayor Walker success in his errand. The mayor has entered good company. We do not refer to the Scripps-Howard newspapers, which have been appealing steadily for fifteen years for justice to those wronged labor men. We refer rather to the mounting list of other aroused Americans who have made this cause theirs through the years. For instance: President Wilson’s Mediation Commission—The feeling of disquietude aroused by this case must be heeded, for, if unchecked, it impairs the faith that our democracy protects the lowliest, even .the unworthy, against false accusations. Judge Franklin Griffin (Mooney trial judge)— The Mooney case is one of the dirtiest jobs ever put over. I resent the fact that my court was used for such a contemptible piece of work. There is no evidence against Mooney; there is not a serious suggestion that any exists. William V. Mac Nevin (foreman of the Mooney jury)—There is no evidence to sustain Mooney’s conviction and imprisonment. ‘ All the living jurymen have asked for Mooney’s pardon.) Duncan Matheson (ex-captain of detectives who worked up the cases against Mooney and Billings)— To Mooney: “I am convinced that your rights were violated.” The Rev. John A. Ryan (director, department of social action, national Catholic welfare conference)— Tom Mooney should have been pardoned long ago. Rabbi Stephen A. Wise—Always believed Mooney Innocent. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes (to Mooney)—l rank your case with the Dreyfus case as one of the legal horrors and iniquities of modern times. Alvin B. Powell (crippled victim of Preparedness day bomb)—They grabbed the wrong man. Dr. Albert Einstein—A miscarriage of justice undoubtedly appears in the present case. Senator Edwin P, Costigan—The known facts in the Mooney-Billings cases are such that the custodians of civilization indict themselves if they fail to use their influence to correct an indefensible record. Senator George W. Norris—How can California continue to hold these men in prison? It is one of the puzzles of the decade that they have not long ago been released. Clarence Darrow—An unspeakable outrage. Matthew' Brady (present San Francisco county district attorney)—The only reason for keeping them (Mooney and Billings) in jail is that they are undesirable citizens. Henry T. Hunt (former mayor of Cincinnati) —California owes Mooney and Billings far more than a free and unconditional pardon. William H. Langdon (associate justice of the California supreme court)—l do know there has been a failure of proof (of Billings’ guilt) of such an extent that there is now not even the semblance of a case against him. Many more of these pardon crusaders will travel in ffririt with Mayor Walker, and wish his mission success. What About It, Mr. Hoover? Mr. Stimson? On Oct. 11 Secretary of State Stimson urged the League of Nations “to exert all pressure and authority within its competence” in the Manchurian situation. “In its part,” the Stimson note said,” the American government, acting independently through its diplomatic representatives, will endeavor to reinforce what the league does and will make it clear that it has a keen interest in the matter is not oblivious to the obligations which the disputants have assumed to their fellow signatories in the pact of Paris, as w’ell as in the nine-power pact, should a time arise when it would seem to be advisable to bring forward those obligations.” A month and eight days later Aristide Briand, the league’s leader and spokesman, declares: “Intervention by the United States, independently

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or in collaboration with the league, would clarify and strengthen the position taken by the nations and insure a rapid and peaceful solution.” Since that original Stimson declaration much has happened. Japan has swept through Manchuria and has obliterated the last vestige of Chinese control, setting up in every Manchurian capital a puppet government dominated completely by Japanese military force. During that time dispatches from Japan have told of Japan's sense of reassurance about America’s course in the matter, and dispatches from Washington have inferred strongly that our government, while indicating one thing to the league, has been indicating another thing to Japan. Briand now puts the responsibility up to the United States to do what Stimson said would be done if necessary. The responsibility of the United States is direct. The (American) nine-power treaty and the (American) Kellogg pact have been violated by Japan. In the Kellogg pact, Japan agreed with China, the United States and the other nations of the world that: "The settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.” We repeat Stimson’s pledge: “The American government will endeavor to reinforce what the league does . . . and it is not obvious to the obligations . . . should a time arise when it would seem to be advisable to bring forward those obligations.” That time has arrived. Briand has called for help. The next move is ours. If we fail to move we will have demonstrated before the world that those words of Oct. 11 were words and nothing more; that the nine-power and Kellogg treaties for us are meaningless; that the United States has run away from its treaty responsibility, that she is unwilling to do her part in the greatest crisis of war and peace since 1914. Other governments are trying to act. But it is impossible for them to act effectively without the United States, the most powerful nation in the world. What about it, Mr. Stimson? What about it, Mr. Hoover—you, who are Mr. Stimson's superior? Will this' nation go down in history as the one which, when faced with the opportunity to preserve the peace machinery of the world, turned coward and failed? The Nation’s Disgrace One of the things for which we shall not give thanks on Nov. 26 will be the fact, just revealed by Courtney Dinwiddie, secretary of the national child labor committee, that there are today in competition with some 8,000,000 jobless adults 3,326,152 gainfully employed children between the ages of 7 and 17. Forget if you can the child victims of what the President calls “the measure of passing adversity which has come upon us,” the 25,000 children to be fed on 5 cent meals by the charity of kindly Quakers j working in the desolated coal regions of West Virginia and Kentucky, the thousands of little Oliver Twists who will not dare to pass their bowls for more during the coming winter. Contemplate briefly instead this ironic picture revealed by the depression—nearly three and a half million American children working while their el'ders roam the streets. If we can not wipe away the stigma of child labor, get these children out of the jobs that belong to adults, and send them to school, where they belong, we should give up all pretense of being an intelligent nation. Scientists say when a camel loses its footing in a stream it turns on its side and makes no effort to keep from drowning. But as someone has already said, who wants to be a camel? But, if that’s the zase, Volstead’s camel will have to watch its step in the 1932 political torrent. While King Carol’s brother was eloping, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was opening anew trans-Atlantic telephone service with Rumania. He probably urged disarmament. An Englishman who was thought to have shouted something nasty at the prince of Wales was given a mental test. This should be a warning to mem- i bers of the Navy League and the Democratic party. | Young Bob La Follette urges an “economic brake." We’ve already been broke a long time. Being in the pink is dangerous if we can believe toothpaste ads. And it iooks like C. V. Leavitt, Hoover’s brother-in-law, was left holding the sack.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

FROM another corner comes a bitter criticism of the American mother. This time Lincoln Steffens objects to our softening influence. “Bah,” he ejaculates, according to the interviewer, ‘mothers do not wish to understand their children. They wish to romanticize them. They wallow in their own emotions, fondling, shielding, coddling them. “Can one expect men and women to be sane and happy when they have grown up on a diet of pop, spooned to them at some woman's knee?” Admitting some truth in the charge, it is comparatively easy to talk back to Mr. Steffens about this. For practically all the mushiness connected with motherhood has been sponsored and kept alive by men. They have insisted upon endowing us with a million pretty attributes that we naturally do not possess. And when it comes to romantic gushings, they are even worse than we are, for they are steeped in the very lees of sentimentalism. a o a HAVE we forgotten the male orator who still shouts himself hoarse about self-sacrificing motherhood, or the evangelist who attracts strong men to the convert’s corner with his tremolo about their absent mammas' 5 All our old ballads and pretty pale novels have harped upon the idea that, to be noble and fine, women must be soft and mushy and never by any chance exhibit any common sense where their children are concerned. We need not discount the natural and sometimes doting love of mothers. This is in part a purely physical thing. But without stretching the truth too mush, we would assert that all the silly notions built up on this subject have been created by the men who love being babied, whether they are young or old. For every Lincoln Steffens one today can find 10,000 men who believe that unless women react in the same old sentimental way, they are unnatural creatures and a menace to the race. So for the sake of getting something done about it. lets address all our advice on this subject to the stronger sex.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS: .

■ The Critical Nature of Recent Events in Manchuria Suggests That This Is No Time to Get Cocky, or HotHeaded. NEW YORK. Nov. 20.—Japan warns Russia to keep out of j the line of fire, lest “complications” ; arise; Chang Kai-Shek talks about I “rushing to the front” with a Chinese army of 2,000,000, and M. Briand says that we could stop it all by intervening. No doubt, we could. We not only have the power, but are in a peculiarly advantageous position to exert it. Being Japan’s biggest customer, I w'e could clamp on a boycott that | would hurt. If that failed, we could ! throw an expeditionary force into j Asia with the same ease and prodigality that we threw it into Europe. There are those who think Japan would yield to boycott, or even a severance of diplomatic relations, but they can’t guarantee it. Under such circumstances, it is the part of wisdom to put the worst possible construction on intervention and not commit ourselves, until we have counted the cost and made up our minds to see it through. tt tt No Time to Get Cocky THE issue admittedly is serious. If sidestepped, it easily might throw the entire peace movement into confusion and spoil the good work already done. On the other hand, statesmen should remember that it is peace for which they are working, and that there is generally more than one way of meeting a difficult situation. The critical, nature of recent events suggests that this is no time ; to get cocky, or hot-headed. By allowing themselves to be ! carried away with enthusiasm, I peacemakers can, and often have, precipitated a worse brawl than they started out to stop. tt tt tt A Volcanic Situation THERE are indications that Japan is on the verge of becoming another Prussia, that the Fascist, or military, party is about to take control of the government, and that her course will become more and more imperialistic. Hot words at this precise moment might serve to help the movement along, while a calmer tone might do just as much to discourage it. We are dealing with a volcanic situation, not alone in Manchuria, but several other places. Two years of depression have served no purpose so distinctly as to make people irritable and nervous. In our efforts to main peace through orderly adjustment of controversies, we are challenged not only by the trouble that has broken out in Manchuria, but by the obvious necessity of taking all possible care not to make it worse. * u A Lack of 'Courtesy’ IT is to be conceded that Japan selected what appeared to be most favorable circumstances for her thrust—a world gripped by depression, a western Europe hope- ; lessly bewildered by debt, a China 1 made helpless by discord, a Russia trying to put anew political scheme in operation and a United States deeply perplexed by its own problems. It is to be conceded, also, that Japan has displayed lack of courtesy to put the mildest construction on it, in her failure to clarify what she has in mind by those “demands,” and in bluntly asserting that she “makes no concessions.” But its very faultiness becomes the soundest reason for not emulating her conduct, not copying her bumptious attitude, not meeting bluff with bluff. ft tt tt Went 'at It’ Wrong IN the light of what has happened. it looks as though everybody went at this problem in too much of a “take it, or leave it,” spirit, that the element of pride, or stubbornness was completely underestimated, while the force of a mere order, or request, was just as badly overestimated. It goes without saying that the civilized world can not afford to let Japan back it into a corner on the Kellogg pact, but neither can it afford to let her provoke it into making foolish, or tragic blunders.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—On Friday, Oct. 9, the international labor defense sent a delegation to the mayor in regard to the numerous arrests during the last few months. This delegation was sent to Mayor Sullivan because he is Indianapolis’ chief executive, and such officers as the police chief, etc., are accountable. There is little sense in fooling around with underlings, w T ho like to continually refer any complaint to orders, or imagined orders, supposed to have been given by those higher up. We were received very graciously, and both the mayor and the visiting delegates spoke out plainly as Mayor Sullivan suggested we should. His plain speaking lent him great eloquence when he said that the police must protect Indianapolis citizens from Chicago bandits who are pouring into Indianapolis lately. It is because, of these bandits that the police are so strict, Mayor Sullivan said. The mayor also said that we have free speech (though he must acknowledge there have been numerous arrests at street corner meetings) and that workers don’t know what their rights really are under the Constitution. Only lawyers know what workers’ rights of free speech are. the mayor told us. Are we lawyers? No. Then we have no business talking about the right to assemble and talk, and we don’t speak of the right things, anyway. We are free to speak only certain things, and should use an auditorium or hall, such as Tomlinson hall. He would limit the right of free speech to those who have the coin to rent a hall, and that agree with his charity gangs, soup houses, and other rotten climaxes of the wholesale hoggishness of capitalism. Have we a right to want laws to protect the producer of wealth or to put out crooks from social and | economic leadership? Shouldn't each i forward-looking citizen seek more freedom, and a more abundant life? Any change to benefit the majority must be one for workers’ benefit, i for they are the majority. ETHAN WALLER.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Bad Teeth Handicap School Pupils

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WE take it for granted that children able to go to school are, in general, healthful and sound. Investigations made by the United States public health service over a period of ten years, in almost a dozen communities, indicate that perfection practically never is seen, and that most school children suffer from preventable and curable defects. The most, common defect among school children throughout the United States is the presence of one or more decayed teeth. Nearly twothirds of all of the children exam-

IT SEEMS TO ME

TN all the time that I have known the theater, there never has been anything better than an armed truce between its people and the dramatic critics. Just now the breach is wider and the feeling more intense than ever before. The actors’ complaint runs something like this: “Here we are in the middle of a depression, and the season isn’t much good. Couldn’t the critics just pull their punches for a while, and help things get started along Broadway?” And, to be more specific, this is the tale of a man who recently came to New York in a show which lasted two weeks: “They were crazy about .us in Pittsburgh and in Baltimore—both the reviewers and the audiences. Naturally, we felt sure w’e had a hit, and all of us had debts to pay and overcoats to get out of hock. We were practically living on sardines, just waiting to get back to New York and be set for a run. And then the critics came on the first night and hopped all over us so hard there wasn’t a chance.” tt tt tt Perhaps They Don’t Feel It NOW, of course, there is a fundamental fallacy in the argument of the actor. From the standpoint of ethics, the critic has no right to pull his punches save in regard to certain veterans. But, more than that, it really wouldn’t do any good to take a Pollyanna attitude toward current plays. The truest thing ever said about the theater was uttered by a character in one of Jimmy Forbes’ plays, “The Showshop.” In that comedy the old trouper remarked, “It’s always a bum season for bum plays.” And not even the most eloquent of dramatic critics could breathe life into a moribund offering, even if he chose to cast himself as press agent. Moreover, it is fair to add that some of the theatergoers have been living on sardines or there-

M TODAY WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

SINKING OF CHAUNCEY November 20

ON Nov. 20, 1917, the U. S. S. Chauncey, a torpedo boat destroyer, sank, drowning twenty-one men following a collision with the transport Rose. Lieutenant-Commander Walter E. Reno, who was in command, and his two junior officers, Lieutenant Charles F. Wedderburn and Ensign Harry G. Skinner Jr. and eighteen enlisted men were lost. The Chauncey was one of the old type of destroyers, completed in 1902. It displaced 420 tons. Its complement included ninetyone officers and men, and for several years before the war it had engaged only in coast defense service. Premier Lloyd-George of England, speaking before the American war mission and the British war cabinet, said that the collapse of Russia and the reverses in Italy “make it even more imperative than before that the United States send as many troops as possible across the Atlantic as early as possible.’*

A Tough Nut to Crack!

ined had one or more teeth that showed active decay. Nearly one-third of all of the children were unable to read the normal line of vision on the eyesight chart, although most of them were able to read the next line, which is an indication that the defect is minor In character. tt St tt MORE than 30 per cent of the children had defective tonsils, which means either that they were enlarged or infected. One-fourth of the children tvere reported as having enlarged glands in the neck. Ten per cent were reported as having enlarged thyroid gland or simple goiter; about 6 per cent had adenoids, and about 10 per cent breathed through the mouth instead of through the nose.

abouts; I mean materially as well as spiritually. It isn’t fair to attempt to toll into the theater some man or woman with a hard-earned dollar to be spent for the only evening of recreation in a month. Still less is there soundness in the old managerial complaint that, instead of dramatic critics, newspapers ought to send reporters to the first night. There really is not much to report. The newspaper representative conceivably could mention the fact of first-night enthusiasm. But it would serve no purpose if he made a statistical chart to indicate the number of laughs, the precise volume of applause and the cubic content of the assembled tear tribute. These things are meaningless. I have watched plays which went with a vast whoop at the opening performances and faltered within a week. An audience may laugh heartily at a play and still go away not liking it. I was told that on a certain first night out of town with a new comedy David Belasco stood in the wings and muttered to himself, “Oh, dear! Oh, dear!’’ n tt They Laughed Too Much AND an assistant tried to console the producer by saying: “Why, Mr. Belasco. what’s the matter? The people out there are just laughing their heads off.” “That’s the trouble,” replied Belasco. “They’re laughing too much. This play won’t get anywhere. They’re not paying any attention to the story. It's not going ahead. They are just intent on individual lines.” And so the critic who undertakes the role of prophet upon the basis of audience reaction rather than his own is likely to make numerous mistakes. It is not only his duty, but his only useful function, to describe as accurately as he can just what he himself felt. By and by he comes to be a definite sort of signport. Naturally, he has prejudices and whims. But these should be recognized by his readers within a season or so. In the case of certain critics, their function may be an inverse one. I have known shrewd theatergoers to waste very little money by adopting the simple process of saying: “I see Heywood Broun liked the new play at the George M. Cohan theater last night. Now I know that there's one show I don’t care to see.” tt tt tt A Lot ofiDead Weight YET there is one sense in which I am wholly on the actors’ side. The theater, even at its very best, is an emotional exercise. And with very few exceptions, this enterprise into the feelings is put on at the beginning for a group of men singularly deficient in that sort of sensitivity. I mean that of all the critics I have known well, not more than two or three like the theater; at least, if they liked it in the beginning, the taste was hammered out of them in a few seasons. There is also the fact that the critic lives under a grave temptation to betray himself. A wisecrack serves to make him noticed, but in most cases it is apt to misrepresent his actual thought. Some have complained because the taste for Shakespeare and drama of the better sort languishes.

More than 1 per cent of school children have a defective color sense. The prevalence of inability to judge colors is about eight times as frequent among boys as among girls. Hookworm infestation is a frequent observation in children in southern schools; malaria was also fairly frequent. Hardness o f hearing affects a tremendous number of young children. There are also such disturbances as cross-eye and similar ophthalmic disorders. The child in school has a difficult time keeping abreast of its work. It has every right to the help that modern medicine can give it *to make its opportunity equal to that of other children.

DV HEYWOOD BROUN

This, if true, can not be laid at the critic's door. He is for the most part intellectualized beyond the health of the current theater. I mean he is much more apt to give mental approval rather than emotional. If it’s Sheridan or Shakespeare it must be good. And we get a mass of dramatic criticism which comes rather from the reader’s point of view than the spectator’s. In my day it was the custom for a critic to refrain from applause. He did not want to make himself conspicuous. But I do not feel that the relationship between reviewers and the theater will be altogether sound until I find the entire corps assembled around some stage door to take a horse or so out of the shafts of a waiting carriage. (Copyright, 1931. bv The Times*

Questions and Answers

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Ideal* and opinion* expressed in this column are those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

.NOV. 20, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Air-Conditioning Devices Are Being Perfected to Make Homes as Cool as the “Movie Palaces” in Summer. RAPID strides are being made in the development of air-condi-tioning machines designed to keep homes cool in summer, according to the Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little. Inc. Now that cold weather is here, householders as a matter of course turn on the gas or order tier coal. Cold weather is something to overcome, not something to endure. But hot weather, except to movie palaces and a few museums, still is to be endured. According to Little, it would be possible at the present moment to equip any home with a suitable air-conditioning machine. The only difficulty would be the cost of operation. This is estimated to be about $lB6 a month, a figure that puts the service beyond the reach of the average householder. It is thought, however, that improvements in design and the invention of new devices soon will reduce the cost. The most satisfactory air conditioning devices today are those in which the air is cooled and washed by passing it through a spray of cold water. tt tt M Dry Air Feels Cool LITTLE points out, however, that merely cooling the air is not enough. Frequently, the high moisture content of the air makes it uncomfortable. “A particularly promising development,” says the bulletin, “is that which makes summer air feel cooler by actually leaving it fairly warm, but by removing most of its moisture. The well-established relationships between humidity and a feeling of bodily warmth are recognized widely. “The public, however, has learned to dislike the clammy moisture of theaters which, in hot weather, are merely refrigerated.” Methods are being worked out by means of which air, after cooled through water sprays, is passed through materials, such as silica gel, which absorbs much of the moisture. It long has been the opinion of this writer that the problem of air conditioning deserves the attention of the nation’s leading physiologists and medical men.. Merely to run down the temperature is not sufficient. Physiological standards and not merely the thermometer should be the criterion in air conditioning. Another important factor which deserves attention is the relation between the indoor temperature and the outdoor temperature. It seems likely that it is a mistake to maintain too much of a differential between the two. Ifc only accentuates the discomfort outdoors when the indoor temperature has been reduced too low. Perhaps the wisest scheme would be some sort of a sliding scale by which the indoor temperature was kept, a certain number of degrees below the outdoor one. tt n Mechanized Homes IT would seem therefore that an “air conditioner” soon will join the other mechanical contrivances which the machine age has introduced into our homes. It is interesting to speculate upon the changes which have come over the problems of house building since colonial days. Once upon a time, a house was chiefly four walls, floor and roof. An open fireplace sufficed for heating and cooking. Candles or oil lamps furnished light. Today, a house hides a network of pipes and wires within its walls. There are wires to carry the electricity for lighting the house and operating numerous devices, from vacuum cleaners to cigar lighters. There are telephone wires. There are special conections for the radio set. Heating is from a centrally located furnace with its own maze of connecting radiators. Running water replaces the old-fashioned pump. And in all probability, the air conditioner will not be the last of the machines. Television is only around the corner. Perhaps the television machine will arrive first. Some authorities predict it it will be here in two years. Recently a machine for making talking movies at home has been put on the market. And so, a distant summer evening may see the family in the “air conditioned” living room, trying to decide whether to see and hear Rudy Vallee on the radio-television or whether to turn on the home talkie and see and hear Junior, age 5, recite Mother Goose rhymes.

Daily Thought

Why was no. this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?—John 12:5. There can be no Christianity where there is no charity.—Colton. Should an engagement ring he returned when the engagement is broken? Yes.