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Taken For a Ride Today and tomorrow and next day patrons of the electric light company will be taken for a ride. Not anew experience, of course, but this ride starts at the Circle and ends at anew power plant. In order to build this new and finest plant, securities were sold to the public and anew charge put against the generations which will continue to buy power and use lights. It would be interesting to the patrons, if not to the public service commission, to know just how the proceeds of bonds and preferred stock issues were spent in the construction of this plant. That might have an important bearing on the plea of the people for a readjustment of rates. How much went to the holding company as a commission on the sale of the securities? How much went to the holding company as a commission on the purchases of materials that went into that plant? How much did the holding company charge to the public for engineering fees ? How much more did this plant cost than it should have cost had not the people of \this city been burdened with the holding company system of operating its public utilities ? How much of a cut would have been made had the erection been done under a system of open and competitive bids as is required in public works? These are rather pertinent questions since the cost of that new plant will be the basis of rates paid by every home and by every industry that requires electricity through all the coming years. The people should be glad that they have the use of anew modern plant. They will not be happy if they discover later that they are paying a huge price for that privilege.

To Keep America Out of War Americans want to keep out of the Manchurian war. Americans want to keep out of any world war which may follow the breakdown of the world’s treaties and peace machinery. Americans want peacefirst, last and all the time. But Americans today are not clear as how to preserve peace. Many do not realize that future world peace is threatened by the defiance of treaties in Manchuria. Among Americans who do not understand the grave danger, there are two groups working at cross purposes. One group favors the hands-off policy of President .Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson. The Hoo-ver-Stimson policy consists of wanting peace without being willing to embarrass Japan or to take definite action of any kind either aione or in cooperation with other neutral nations. It is admitted by all that the Hoover-Stimson policy has failed to date—failed to stop the Manchurian war, failed to induce Japan to withdraw, failed to support the general anti-war treaties upon which future world peace so largely depends. Nevertheless, the Hoover-Stimson group boasts that they at least have “kept us out of war,’’ which is the important thing. The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers stand with the opposing group of Americans, who believe that the Hoover-Stimson policy is as dangerous to American peace as it is dishonorable and futile. It is precisely because the Hoover-Stimson policy of inaction now may lead to a future world war which America can not escape, that preservation of the peace treaties is the sole issue. * * * • We are not concerned with the local Manchurian quarrel. We would not support a war to keep Japan out of Manchuria. If China and Japan could go on with their war without crippling the world’s peace machinery the Hoover hands-off policy would be perfect. But—for better or for worse—America is in this mess up to her neck. America can not withdraw and keep hands off without breaking her own treaties, without helping to destroy the very machinery which America set up to keep America out of future wars. The nine-power Pacific treaty, guaranteeing China’s territorial and administrative integrity, is America’s treaty. America has violated the purpose of that treaty by failure to invoke it against Japan, its violator. The Kellogg pact, in which Japan agreed to settle all disputes by peaceful means, is America’s treaty. America has violated the purpose of that treaty by failure to invoke it against Japan, its violator. Hoover has gone further than to violate the purpose of America's own treaties. By so doing, and by permitting Japan to understand that America would keep hands off, he has prevented effective League of Nations action and weakened all the league's peace machinery. America could stop Japan s destruction of the treaties. America could do it independently or in co-operation with the league. Even President Briand of the league council admits that, and appeals to America to act. To fight Japan with troops is not necessary, nor has such a proposal ever been made in any responsible quarter—certainly not by us. Even an economic boycott is not necessary. At least it will not be necessary unless Japan is encouraged, by the Hoover hands-off policy, to go so far that, conquest finally blinds her to the cost of becoming an outlawed nation. • • • All that has been necessary at any time during the last nine weeks has been an honest and courageous public statement by President Hoover to Japan, asserting: That America has no quarrel with legitimate Japanese interests in Manchuria, but America can not continue friendly relations with any nation anywhere which wrecks American peace machinery: that unless Japan immediately restores her right to respect as a treaty nation, by withdrawing her troops, America will break diplomatic relations. No nation can afford to be outlawed by the United States, the strongest nation in the world Os all na-

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tions, Japan today knows that she can afford least to be outlawed by the United States. President Hoover can continue, by his hands-off policy and secret diplomacy, to encourage Japan’s destruction of America’s peace machinery. That way leads toward an eventual world war—a war in which an isolation policy can save us no more than it kept us out of the last World war. Cfr President Hoover can live up to American treaties. By outlawing Japan, if necessary, President Hoover can preserve the peace treaties for our future security regardless of what Japan does in Manchuria. Side Lights on the Depression One of the most serious and one of the least excusable aspects of the impending relief problem of the coming winter is our blank ignorance of the scope of the problem and of the'degree to which our existing agencies are prepared to meet it. This is emphasized at length by Robert L. Duffus in an article on “Relief by Guess’’ in the New Republic: “We do not know the exact number of the unemployed, though Dr. W. P. Mangold, using all available data, arrives at an estimate*’of between 9,130,000 and 10,560,000. “We do not know how many of the unemployed still have access to resources which will tide them over without resort to public or private charity. “We do not know how much it will cost to give public or private relief to those who will suffer without it. j “We do not know whether the existing and proposed means of obtaining this problematical sum actually will suffice to produce it. “Yet without this knowledge, relief work is guesswork. If we guess wrong, we may find ourselves facing a major crisis before spring.” Mr. Hoover has been famous as a fact collector and there is no situation which has existed since he has been in the public eye that more insistently demands the cogent facts. Why has he not gathered them? Mr. Duffus suggests a possible explanation. Such facts would “constitute a statistical description of the depression.” Such a description would be pretty hard on an administration which three years ago held up the rainbow’s end by promising to “abolish poverty.” The Labor Bureau, indefatigable collector of facts relative to our economic situaton, still continues to give us a dolorous picture of present industrial and wage trends. Wage cuts become more numerous and serious, and employment and per capita earnings are on the drop. But there is one “bright spot in the picture”— the growing acceptance of the five-day week as a permanent item in our industrial procedure. A recent survey, covering 4,000,000 workers in 37,587 establishments, showed that 2.4 per cent of employes are on a permanent five-day basis. This does not include any establishments which have temporarily gone on a five-day schedule because of the depression The leaders in this trend are, in the order named, the automobile, radio, textile, dyeing and aircraft industries. This is only a faltering first step, but it probably denotes the path along which American industry must move. * * * It is not usual to find Ben Marsh of the People’s Lobby coming to the aid of American corporations. But in the last issue of his Bulletin he points out a very important objection to the radical proposal that the cost of compulsory unemployment insurance be put on employers exclusively: “A large proportion of employers are in almost as serious straits as the unemployed. In both 1928 and 1929 nearly two-fifths of corporations reporting had no net income, and in each of these years a net deficit of $2,160,000,000. The proportion of employers in the red, of employes affected and the deficits must have been larger in 1930, and will be this year, than in 1928 and 1929.” The government is the only agency which can handle this matter. It must make a substantial contribution to the unemployment insurance fund. Taxation is the only way in which this burden can be equalized. It can take from those who have without wrecking those who have not. Highly prosperous corporations can be made to pay in proportion to their ability. To be sure, along with such thoughts and suggestions. go the technique of industrial planning and reorganization which progressively would reduce the number of industries and corporations which earn nothing. Pennsylvania legionnaires sent a piece of coal as a trophy to California. They didn’t mean anything. South Carolina in 1787 passed a law classing actors as vagrants. Must have foreseen this- depression.

Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WITH increased city distress, there is, all at once, a general hullabaloo for a “Back to the Farm” movement. It at last has filtered into the public consciousness that the man who is able to raise his food is the truly independent person. Nevertheless, there is a good deal of Ignorance connected with our ideas on this subject. And it usually ;s true that the individual who shouts meat about the dignity of the man with the hoe is just about the last fellow who would handle one himself. While a large number of working people would be better off in every way living on a bit of land rather than in a tenement, the fact is that the city dweller who ha. had no previous experience with agriculture would be in a hopeless situation if he Suddenly were compelled to get his living from the soil. For. contrary to general urban opinion, the crops do not burst forth of themselves, nor does bread grow upon the wheat stalk. n tt IT takes ingenuity and a fundamental intelligence as well as vast tenacity of purpose to be a successful farmer. And, even then, outside forces may hinder the most, capable of men. Whereas the citj worker has the economic fluctuations to fear, the farmer has all these—and the whims of the weather besides. Most of us are agreed that more prosperity for the farmer Is necessary for national welfare. How to bring that about remains the problem. One thing is certain: Farm life must be made more attractive for boys and girls If we are to expect them to choose >t as a business. Yet "-e spend our millions directly in the cities. All our efforts to bring comfort and beauty and culture to the young are expended upon the city child. The town schools are equipped with libraries and gymnasiums and music rooms, while those in the country often are repellently ugly and lack everything that might lure youth. A more equal distribution of tax funds for educational purposes must be arranged If we are to succeed In adjusting advantages.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Maybe King Carol Will “Get Wise” After a Few Lickings From Brother Nicky. NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Once again, Prince Nicholas of Rumania makes news for the Sunday papers by whipping his brother. King Carol, not figuratively, but in the good old-fashioned way. They do say that if palace attendants had not been within easy call, his majesty would have taken the count. Without trying to be funny, it might be described as the case of a chicken come home to roost. Prince Nicholas has had the nerve to espouse a lady outside the royal breed, and though King Carol once committed a similar offense, deserting his queen in the bargain, he can’t see the slightest excuse for it, now that he is on the throne. But. every time he attempts to explain this to little brother Nicky, he gets a licking. Maybe he will get the point, by and by. 8 8 8 Not So Interesting Representative john n. GARNER of Texas, who in all probabiliy will be the next Speaker of the house, and John F. Currie, leader of Tammany Hall, have breakfast together. It was a purely social affair, to let them tell it, but something happened to make everybody believe that Representative John J. O’Connor of* New York will get better committee positions. Interesting as that may be, what most people would like to know is whether anything happened to throw light on the Democratic tax program. Time and Trouble IF Japan does not change her mind and China does, the League of Nations will appoint a special commission to study the Manchurian situation. Meanwhile, a barrage is being laid down on our government to obtain its fullest co-operation, and, if possible, its assumption of leadership. Needless to say, this is the action with which the league should have begun proceedings. The fact that it finally was proposed by a Japanese delegate, whether through pressure, or on his own initiative, shows how time and trouble might have been avoided. 8 8 It’s Sizable Job JAPAN wants the commission to study not only Manchuria, but all of China'. A good idea for the sake of information, if nothing.else. What we of the west don’t ** know about China would make a stupendous book. If we are going to run her affairs and determine her fate, we ought to get on speaking terms with some of the difficulties involved. It’s a sizable job, when you come to think of it—one-fourth the human race, with forty centuries of civilized background, demoralized for the moment and looking to us, who have barely emerged from; savagery, for guidance. There is more to the problem than providing a market for autos and radio sets. 8 8 8 What Can He Gain? COMMISSION, or no commission, it ’ooks as though there would b? more fighting if Chiang Kai-Shek has his way. Making every allowance for his patriotism, just what good does he think it will do to lead 500,000 or 1,000,000 Chinese to certain defeat, many of them to certain death? What is there in human nature, or human tradition, that causes intelligent men to justify such foolishness?

Questions and Answers

How many persons are engaged in federal prohibition enforcement and how much money is expended on that service? Approximately 3,275 persons are engaged as agents, investigators and clerks in the prohibition bureau, and annual expenditures amount to between $9,000,000 and $10,000,000. What major league baseball team holds the record for the greatest number of double and triple plays made in any one season? The double play record is 194, made by the Cincinnati Reds in 1928; the triple play record is three, made by the Detroit Tigers in 1911 and the Boston Red Sox in 1924. What do the names Walter and Eugene mean? Walter means “powerful,” and Eugene means “noble or well born.” What relation was the late czar of Russia to the present king of E~giand? Cousin. What is the age limit for stenographers in the classified United States civil service examinations? From 18 to 50 years. Was “What Price Glory” a silent or sound picture? It was a silent photoplay. f What is the singular of data? Datum.

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U. S. STEAMER SUNK November 23 ON Nov. 23, 1917, the American steamer Schuylkill was sunk in the Mediterranean and the American consul of a Mediterranean port was ordered to ascertain whether it was sunk by a German or an Austrian submarine. The British renewed their attack on Fontaine Notre Dame, and the French checked counterattacks in the Juvincourt region. On the Italian front the Italians thwarted the encircling movement against Monte Meletta and recaptured Monte Tomba and Monte Pertica. British forces in Arabia captured & Turkish post at Jabir, fifteen miles north of Aden.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE School Ventilation Is Vital Problem

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of t.he American Medical Association and of Hreeia, the Health Magazine. THROUGHOUT the United States school boards and commissions are concerned with the problem of proper ventilation of schools. The matter is important not only from the health angle, but also as it concerns economics and the ability of the children to work satisfactorily. The fact that bad air may have a bad effect on human health and comfort has been recognized for more than 2,000 years. It was thought at first that the only bad air was that which contained more carbon dioxide than it ought to and less oxygen than outside air. The modern point of view is that the chief purpose of ventilation is to remove the excess of heat given off by the human body so as to maintain an atmosphere that will be comfortable —cool but not too cold.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

SOMETHING seems to be happening to me which may prove a great handicap in the matter of writing columns. I am growing mellow. This isn’t just my own notion. Friends and even casual acquaintances have spoken of it, and largely with an acute distaste. For instance, there was a piece here the other day aboyt dramatic critics. Some of my actor friends mentioned it and said: “I thought you really were going to take a crack at them. You don’t call a pat on the wrist an attack, do you?” And looking over the paragraphs in question, I had to confess that, whatever th 6 original impetus, it had slowed down into a sort of treacle talk. The theater probably did mark the beginning of this new and possibly unfortunate mood. During my days of servitude as a critic, I found no great difficulty in being just as harsh as all the rest. Much that happened on the stage was annoying and not infrequently acutely boring. But now, even in wandering about to some of the shows which have not been praised without marked reservations, I am amazed to find that I am having a good time. n Mellowness of Middle Age I CAN’T help it. None of this is tied to a cheer-up philosophy or a set belief that prosperity is just around the corner and should be tolled in with a smile. Much is amiss in many departments of our existence, both spiritually and materially. The trouble with me is that I am finding it increasingly difficult to become much embittered about particular individuals. In politics it never w r as possible

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—Scanning the evening paper several days ago, I noticed that the president of the W. C. T. U. said that without prohibition the county would be morally corrupt. I would like to tell of a case that I personally know to exist here in Indianapolis, the city of homes. On one of our prominent streets a family lives in surroundings that I wouldn’t ask a dog to live in. The father was put in prison for selling white mule, trying to make a living for the family. Due to the arrest of the father, the mother applied to the trustees of Marion county for aid. Because of his arrest, she was refused aid until she was destitute, and despair drove her to the streets for money. Now she is running a house of ill fame in front of her four children, whose ages are 5,7, 9 and 12. If that is prohibition morals, I would like to know what they would be without prohibition. MASKED MYSTERY. Editor Times— l wonder if P. S. Thomas will drive over one of oui state roads next winter when the snow is drifting? He will be glad to see two meq with a state highway truck battling the snow to make the road safe for traffic. Wont that

There Are None So Blind —

The final report of the New York commission on ventilation indicates that the essential problem of ventilation, except where the air contains poison or dust due to imperfect combustion or industrial processes are concerned, is a physical and not a chemical problem that affects the skin more than it does the lungs. To this, of course, must be added the fact that the air tends to take up odors from the human body when the room is not properly ventilated, and thereby may become so unpleasant as to diminish appetite and even produce nausea. Mechanical experts have invented all sorts of devices to ventilate all sorts of rooms properly and the outcome of all their experiments - was the development of fans for forcing air into rooms. Because scientists and experts in hygiene began to demand thirty cubic feet of air per minute, the state of New York in 1913 appointed a commission to investigate the problem of ventilation.

. for me to work up any fighting fury concerning my immediate opponents. Their political and economic ! philosophy might be, and in fact always was, distinctly abhorrent to me. But in themselves they were pleasant people with charming manners and great affability. Upon even the most meager analysis I could not pin the woes of the world upon them. They had not framed various iniquities which galled us all. To be frank about it, I did not feel that any of the people against whom I ran were important enough to do much in the world for good or ill. And even when the names of the so-called great are considered I have come to believe that their power is far less important than we sometimes think. Single individuals do not really make economic depression. • If one is going to get angry at anybody, he will have to vent his fury upon man in the mass. There is not a single evil thing of which I know which is not the product of joint responsibility. And in virtually every case this responsibility is so widely distributed that, save for the purposes of dramatic appeal, you can not find the original culprit. tt tt tt All Bound to* the Wheel IN this sense I honestly can not go along with such of my radical friends as would point an accusing finger at this financier, this political leader or even some special captain of industry. Not that I would acquit everybody of personal guilt. There are those whose motives and whose deeds seem to me despicable. And yet in each instance I can not but think that they, too, are products of the

make up for a few easy days at 30, 35 and not more than 40 cents an hour, eight hours a day? JUST A HIGHWAY WORKER. Editor Times—l appreciate your fight against the utilities and sincerely hope some benefits to the consumer will be the result of your efforts. One thing galling to me is that the Indianapolis Light and Power Company is permitted by the Indiana public service commission to add a penalty of 10 per cent to bills if not paid exactly on the due date. It is bad enough to be obliged to pay the high rate, especially in these times, but to exact a penalty for failure to pay on the minute due is highway robbery. What other business charges 10 per cent more than the bill when it is not paid with reasonable promptness? And they have the nerve to refer to this as a discount. A TIMES SUBSCRIBER. What is the original source of the quotation, “Tall oaks from little acorns grow”? David Everette’s “Lines Written for a School Declamation.” It is also found in Lewis Dunscomb’s "Translation of De Minimus Maxima.” The idea, however, is much older.

The studies include not only tests made in the laboratory, but also additional tests carried on in schools. The commission now is convinced that auditoriums holding 100 people or more, large offices, workrooms and industrial establishments where excessive heat or moisture or dust or poisonous fumes are produced require fan ventilation. In certain workrooms where outdoor noise or dust or odors may make it inadvisable to keep the windows open, fan ventilation may be required. In most places, however, window ventilation seems to be entirely satisfactory and indeed is to be preferred for school rooms. It is recognized that occupied rooms in schools should have a temperature about 68 degrees Fahrenheit; corridors, gymnasiums and shops should have 65 degrees Fahrenheit; swimming pools and adjacent rooms, 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

Ideals and oninions expressed in/this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to (heir agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naper.—The Editor.

particular environment in which they have lived. History is written somewhat in the manner of a newspaper copy desk. We always are looking for a name around which to build a headline. And I am certain that I came out of high school and college with a fixed notion that all the important happenings, in America at least, had been brought about by Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln and one or two others. But this must be a preposterous conviction. No single man today can alter very materially the tides which move us this way or that. a u u Some One Just as Bad THUS, if no such person as Napoleon Bonaparte ever had been born in Corsica, it is quite likely that when the circumstances and the times were ripe some other imperialist adventurer would have led France along precisely the same path. There would have been a Civil war and an emancipation proclamation even though no Lincoln sat in the White House. There is something of defeatism in letting this belief get set in your mind. Because, as Mr. Burke once* pointed out, you can not indict a nation. Os course, that isn’t quite true. You can, Fifty million Frenchmen may be tragically wrong. But there is something a little ineffective in using all ten fingers when you start to point. Unfortunately, I find himself being rather lax in self-appraisement. Once there was a day when my conscience rode me with whip and spurs. I could blush. I did upon occasion hang my head in shame. And remorse is not unknown to me. Chiefly I accused myself of sloth and indolence. But now, even after the most wasteful day, I am inclined to say: “It could not have been avoided. Even before the Pyramids were built, certain currents had been set in motion which made it inevitable that on Thursday afternoon I would not get up until half-past three.” (CoDvriKht. 1931. by The Timesi

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.NOV. 23, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Another Meteoric Shower, Seeming to Originate in the Constellation of Andromeda, Is Due Tonight. WHILE Mother Nature has been providing some scientific fireworks in the form of a meteoric shower, terrestial scientists have been furnishing their share of pyrotechnics. News has been plentiful this month in the world of science. But before turning to a discussion of It, let us note that there are a couple of more astronomical shows on tap this month. The shower of meteors which has just taken place is known as the Leonides because the shooting stars seem to originate in the constellation of Leo. Another meteoric shower is due tonight. This shower is known as the Andromedes because it seems to originate in the constellation of Andromeda. Meanwhile three of the planets are putting on a little show in the western sky at sunset. If you look toward the western horizon just before Sunset any night between now and Nov: 26. you will notioe that Mercury, Venus and Mars are extremely close together, forming a little triangle. Such an event is known to astronomers as a triple conjunction. Actually, of course, the planets are millions of miles apart. They only appear close together in the iine of sight from the earth. But let us leave astronomical matters now to survey the news of what the scientists have been doing. 8 8 8 Einstein to Return ■pROPESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN, A as usual, continues to be one of the chief sources of scientific news First of all, he just has announced his intentions of returning to California to carry on additional studies at Pasadena with the scientists of the California Institute of Technology and the Mt. Wilson observatory. The latest report is that Professor Einstein will go to California by way of the Panama canal. Apparently, he wishes to spare himself the excitement of another New York reception of welcome. Einstein also held the front page of the newspapers a few days ago when it was reported that h£ and Professor R. A. Milliken, at a meeting in Berlin, had disagreed rather violently over the origin of the cosmic rays. The discussion seems to have waxed warm, but the excitement was scientific and not personal. After the discussion the two made a luncheon date. More scientific news is being made by Professor William De Sitter, Dutch astronomer and authority upon relativity, who now is in this country lecturing at various universities. De Sitter, like Einstein, is a universe maker. It is possible, upon the basis ot the Einstein theory, to postulate several structures for the universe. One of these structures, designed by Einstein himself, is known to science as the “Einstein universe.” Another has been constructed by De Sitter. It now is generally thought that the “De Sitter universe” is closer to the truth than the Einstein universe. De Sitter has also suggested a new theory to account for the origin of the solar system. 8 8 8 Dr, Bergius Honored IMPORTANT scientific new?comes from Stockholm. The Nobel prize in chemistry for 1931 is to be shared by Dr. Frederick Bergius and Professor Karl Bosch of Ludwigshaven. Dr. Bergius is one of the world’s greatest research chemists. His process for the hydrogenation of coal may prove one of the foundation stones of the economic structure of the world of the future. News also comes from Stockholm that the Nobel prize in physics for 1931 will not be awarded. Here is a subject for discussion in the laboratories of the world. My own guess is that a young man who figured in the scientific news of the month will one of these days be the recipient of that Nobel prize in physics. He will, if the promise which lies in his present work materializes. He is Dr. R. j. Van De Graaff of Princeton university who has devised anew way of attaining extremely high voltages. His apparatus is amazingly simple, so simple that every physicist in the world probably is wondering why he never thought of it. Many scientists hail De Graaff’s apparatus as anew way of attacking that alluring problem, the smashing of the atom. A number of interesting items of “ fi . c " ews have been listed briefly in this article. They will be discussed in detail during the next few days.

Daily Thought

Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.—Mark 13:31. Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.—Boston.