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Just How Stupid? When the committees from the city hall and the civic groups who are demanding relief from the water and electric companies, meet to discuss rate reductions, the people will have a chance to see just how stupid the arrogant utility agents can be. Any attempt to defeat substantial reduction in rates will be stupid Refusal to give any reductions still more stupid. And an attitude of delay and final retreat 10 the safe protection of courts and the public servxe commission would be even more asinine. The uillty owners have apparently reached the state of mind where they believe that the people have no . ights and that the only limty to charges is the ability to pay. They have, as yet, learned none of the lessons of the panic. They still charge on a basis of war-time prices of labor and commodities. The reports filed by these companies with the public service commission should have warned that body of their outrages, even under high valuations on their plants. The evidence of excessive profits is in those reports and should demand instant action, without waiting for any long and costly appraisal of the plants. In the one item alone of the coal costs that go into the manufacture of electricity, there is room tor real reduction. The coal is purchased through he holding company which owns the common stock of the light company. The fee charged for buying that coal is unconscionable. The sqme thing runs hrough other items in its operation. The water company shows excessive profits on the face of its return. Will these concerns continue to stupidly loot the people in days of depression? Or must they be spanked? Congress Can Help Prevented by an archaic law and an unwilling President from meeting until thirteen months after its election, the new congress convenes today. It finds the nation at the lowest point of economic depression in a century and the world's peace more seriously threatened than at any time since the great war. The people look to congress for help. Administration and business leaders, who promised to bring help it spared congressional interference, have been disredited by their failure. Business, left alone, has lilcd to cure Itself. The Hoover program has not Peeked the mounting misfortunes of all classes. Perhaps the public judgment of this failure of our tsiness leaders and our President is too harsh. They ,e blamed for factors beyond their control. They iuld not work miracles. But they might have done much more to mitigate lie depression. In this emergency there might have been a self-imposed moratorium on cut-throat business methods; strong banks might have saved failing banks; healthy railroads might have helped weak railroads; strong industries might have spared their hated smaller competitors rather than pull all industry down together; and employers jointly might have recognized and enforced the right of labor to employment as a first charge upon capital reserves. In this emergency the President might have given the full measure of governmental co-operation to ich business leadership, supplemented by effective ederal relief to banks and business failing through no iult of their own and to workers without work hrough no fault of their own. That leadership has been lacking. By default, the isk of leadership falls upon congress. There are limits to what congress can do. There is .10 cure for the suicidal cycle of speculation orgy followed by depression, short of basic reorganization ot our economic system.” So long as we gear our system to overconcentrate wealth there will be millions of workers and farmers without the money to buy the products of their labor. Congress alone can not change that system. But congress can temper its terrors. A congress which refused in a crisis to give such relief as is within its power would betray its duties and rights as the representative body in this democracy. Among the relief measures which congress' can lake, some are clear: Congress can give funds to local relief agencies unable to feed and clothe and warm all of the unrmployed and their families. Congress can provide needed public works for citizens who have a right to a job. Congress can correct the banking and credit system to discourage speculative use of the people’s savings and to protect the banks from failure. Congress can permit the organization of whole industries to stabilize business, under intelligent planning and with adequate governmental regulation, to safeguard the public interest from monopoly control. Congress can reduce the high tariff which has helped to kill our foreign trade. The Real Issue in France A disgraceful scene took place In Paris the other night. Thirty nations had gathered for a preliminary disarmament conference. The great Trocadero auditorium was rented for an impressive final meeting at which fifteen distinguished speakers from various lands were to present the case for disarmament. Senator William E. Borah also was to address the atherlng through an international radio hookup. But the whole admirably-conceived affair was orought to an ignominious end through a riot precipitated by Nationalistic hoodlums, who howled down the translation of Borah’s address and the speeches of the men on the platform. Among the latter were Viscount Robert Cecil and former Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton. They sang over and over again the stanza from ‘‘La Marseillaise,” which runs “Let their vile blood run in the furrows of our fields.” It is probable that nobody felt worse over this lamentable episode than eminent Frenchmen like former Premier Hernot and Senator de Jouvenal, who who were among those hooted and screamed down. These men are gentlemen and they believe sincerel\ in disarmament. Yet the sober fact remains that they were onl\ reaping the whirlwind which has grown up out of the wind of evasion and denial which they themselves have helped to sow during the last seventeen years. Even Herriot and De Jouvenal have been unwilling to admit the obvious facts about responsibility for the World war. They participate in the chorus, which proclaims complete French innocence and absolute German diabolism—the gospel of official France and the French preas, in spite of the splendid work of individual French writers on the crisis of 1914. Here we have the kernel of the whole matter. As long aa It la solemnly and universally maintained

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that France was attacked wantonly without provocation back in 1914, the “Camelots du Roi,” and other French patriots and militarists have all the logic on their side. So long as this myth of the German terror across the Rhine remains official French doctrine, supported by the French press, the contention follows Inevitably that France must be protected either by a great army or by impressive alliances. It also is logical to go on maintaining that the United States is trying to collect money which France spent in protecting our shores from the Hunnish hosts. There is, then, little to be hoped for unless some success is made in educating the French public regarding the facts of 1914. As long as the people believe that France was uniquely innocent in 1914 and Germany wholly guilty, then revenge, Versailles, reparations, great armaments, and super-patriotism flow inevitably therefrom with impregnable logic. Use the Nine-Power Treaty! Japan again openly threatens to attack Chinchow. That is in violation of Japan’s specific pledge to Secretary of State Stimson. It is in violation of the American treaties, especially the nine-power treaty. Japan's latest threat follows eleven weeks of treaty violation—treaties to which the United States is a party. American and other|neutral military observers report, officially that this attack is not being provoked by the Chinese -army at Chinchow, which is making no aggressive preparation against the Japanese. At Paris the League of Nations council is powerless to preserve peace because the United States, despite her promise, withholds effective co-operation. Only action by the United States can save the peace treaties. President Aristide Briand of the league council says so. So the world knows it is true. Millions of American citizens are waiting for the state department to act. Under the nine-power treaty the duty of the state department is clear. That treaty was signed with China by the United States, Japan and six other powers. Therein they promised to “respect the sovereignty, the independence and the territorial and administrative integrity of China”—all of which has been continuously violated by Japan since Sept. 18. The United States also agreed with the other powers that "whenever a situation arises which in the opinion of any of them involves the application of the stipulations of the present treaty, and renders desirable discussion of such application, there shall be full and frank communication between the contracting powers concerned.” For eleven weeks the Hoover administration has failed to Invoke that prescribed discussion by the t reaty powers, or to take any other public action definitely citing Japan as a treaty violator. Instead of preserving the treaty, the Hoover administration seems on its record to be trying to protect the Japanese civilian cabinet—a cabinet which has proved unable to control the Japanese army and unable to commit the emperor who is the sovereign Japanese government. This Hoover-Stimson policy is as irregular and 1 dangerous as it is ineffective for peace. Whether the Tokio cabinet falls, or remains as a screen for the \ war office which dictates with consent of both emperor and constitution, is ai} internal Japanese issue in which neither the United States nor any other j foreign government has any international right to interfere. The sole interest of the United States is in its treaty rights and treaty responsibilities. Open allegiance to those treaty obligations should be the sole policy of the state department in this crisis. We appeal to President Hoover and Secretary Stimson to live up to the treaty which they have no right, legal or moral, to ignore. That is the treaty under which America, with complete trust in Japan’s good faith, sacrificed American rights to fortify the Philippines and to build up our navy because Japan promised to respect and protect Chinese integrity. We appeal to Secretary Stimson to confer at once with the nine-power diplomatic representatives in Washington regarding what can be done, and to exchange information, to pool judgments, and to facilitate openly the discussions prescribed by the treaty for its application. Manchuria means little. The world's peace machinery means much. To take sides as a partisan in a Japanese-Chinese quarrel is not America’s business. But to stand by her own peace treaties is America’s pledged duty. A judge in Maryland has decided it is illegal for friend wife to go through her husband's pockets while he sleeps. In most places the purpose of pockets has been forgotten. It's a bit difficult to analyze the Chinese-Japanese trouble, but we figure it has something to do with a laundry bill.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS WALTER FERGUSON

“All/'HAT do you think of capital punishment?” ▼ V asks a gentleman who believes we need more of it. I am afraid I do not think at all on the subject. I only feel about it. And that, according to the men at least, is emotional, irrational, and will lead to no good end. Yet all the deep pondering upon the question seems not to have lessened crime, it goes merrily on through the years, we fry human beings in the electric chair, and other human beings, knowing that, still plan all sorts of evil deeds, although the same fate confronts them. Advocates of capital punishment say that fear of death is the only preventive of murder. Perhaps it might be if our courts functioned as surely and swiftly as they should. If the man who struck down a fellow creature today knew that he would repay with his own life next month, he might think twice before yielding to the desire to kill. # • a OR even belated vengeance might stay his hand, if all our trials led the way to justice and all our witnesses told the truth. Yet the judges today admit that there never has been so much perjury in all the history of the American courts as that from which we now suffer. Dare we trust the life of any being to creatures so low they will lie under oath on the stand? As long as society as a whole is so lacking in the essentials of common justice in its deals with the individual, I shall take my stand against capital punishment. Being a woman, and therefore queer, I am permitted this idealism. Certainly our code of morals has evolved some trange posturings. For instance, we hunt down and electrocute the individual who kills another in a mad rage, while we train our boys at target practice so that they may become proficient in the killing of many men against whom they hold no grudge or harbor no anger. A government that wages offensive warefare never should demand the death penalty foi murder.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Forty Persons Have Lost Their Lives in Football Games This Fall; What Is There in it to Justify This Sacrifice? VJEW YORK, Dec 7.—Lowell R Bayles. flying at the rate of five miles a minute, meets sudden and spectacular death when his plane crashes to the ground. He was trying to beat the speed record made in France seven years ago. Had he succeeded, what would have been his reward? A brief whirl with fame and, perhaps, a little easy money. Bayles was 31. Under ordinary’ j circumstance, he should have lived ito be 70. Was the thing he sought worth so much? Is It Worth It - FORTY persons have lost their lives in connection with football this year; half of them were "h ldren. Many more have been injured or crippled. What is there in the game to justify such sacrifice? We must not raise our boys and girls to be cowards, of course, but we should teach them that life is too valuable to be swapped for vanity. There are occasions when It is right to sacrifice one's life, or risk I sacrificing it, but they represent something more serious than entertainment. a a a * But for War—Sure EVER since the dawn of consciousness men have been trained to believe that death on the battlefield was glorious, regardless of what the battle was about, or on which side they fought. Some are beginning to doubt it, though not so many as the noisy, idealistic chatter suggests. It still is possible to raise money for war when it can’t be raised for anything else, or for the payment of war debts. nun The French Contend— THE parley on war debts opens at Basle. It is supposed to formulate anew reparations program, but there is more than reparations to be considered. Thus far, Germany has made reparation payments largely with borrowed money which means that she has contracted more debt. The French contend that this debt should be regarded as a second lien and that English, American and Dutch bankers, who have made loans to Germany, should not expect to get their money until the reparations account has been squared. ana Try and Keep ’Em Split WE probably shall hear quite a bit about this reparationswar debt matter now that congress is in session. Theoretically, what the allies owe us may have nothing to do with what Germany owed them, and what Germany has borrowed since the war may have nothing to do with the financial penalties imposed on her because of it, but isn’t it going to be rather difficult keep these various phases of the common economic distress separate? ana It's a Rotten Way WHILE European countries hint that they would like to have their debts to us revised downward, we hint that we would like to have them revise their armies and navies downward. Thus debt and disarmament become associated in what seems to be a hopeless snarl. No one has come right out in the open, stating the proposition in so many words, but there appears to be a pretty good understanding that we would cut debts if European countries cut armaments. It sounds all right, but It’s a rotten way to promote peace. n n tt Proposition Joo Big IF it is right, or necessary to cut debts, we ought to cut them, without an horsetrading. If it is not, we should insist on the existing plan of settlement. As for disarmament, what good can possibly result from buying, or brow-beating European countries into it if they are not honestly sold on the idea? World peace is too big a proposition to be put over with such deals. Unless, or until It has found genuine lodgment in the hearts of people, there won’t be anything real, or dependable about it.

Questions and Answers

Where and how do Eskimo’s bury their dead? When an Eskimo lies his relatives cut a hole in the back of the Igloo and take the body out that way, sealing the aperture afterward, so that death will not come back to the home. They bury the body in a cave or rocky place, leaving their mittens, with which they handled the body, at the grave. They obliterate their footsteps so that death can not follow them. Later they take gifts of food and garments to the grave, again obliterating their footsteps. In making these journeys they go by circuitous routes, crossing a river or other body of water, if possible, so that death can not follow their trail. Do violins made by Stainer command as high a price as those made by Stradivarius? When did Stainer make violins? Jacobus Stainer, a German violin maker, was born at Absam, Tyrol, in 1621. At an early age he began to make violins and subsequently studied at Cremona, Italy, under the best makers of his time. Stainer violins are rare and command high prices, but do not rank with the Stradivarius instruments. When a pitcher strikes out a batter who reaches first base as the result of the catcher dropping the ball, does the p£tche> receive credit for the strikeout? Yes. The catcher is charged with an error. Does the present king of Siam have more than one wife? He is a monogamist and his wife is Rambai Bami.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ‘Catching’ Diseases Take Heavy Toll

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hrceia. the Health Magazine. WITH the development of our knowledge of the germ cause of disease by Pasteur around 18®0, scientific medicine began a systematic attack on disease which gradually raised the life expectancy of human beings from approximately 35 years at birth to 55 years. The control of the common contagious diseases represents one of the first steps in the advance of scientific medicine. Communicable diseases are responsible for at least 15 per cent of all deaths. From 50 to 75 per cent of crippled children owe their condition to infantile paralysis and tuberculosis. Blindness, damaged hearts and kidneys, and other conditions of a chronic character follow infections as serious complications. Is attacking the acute infections

IT SEEMS TO ME by ™oo

THE Communists always jump up and down in rage when anybody asserts that there is a striking psychological similarity between Stalinism and Fascism. But the Mooney case does bring this out in great clarity. For instance, we find the New York Evening Post saying editorially “We do not blame the crowd around the courthouse which shouted, ‘Down with Walker!’ and accused him of trying ‘to steal Mooney from the workers’.” In other words, a conservative paper testifies that it is in accord with the point of view of American leftwingers. To both the Post and the Daily Worker, Tom Mooney is not a man, but a symbol. The Communists would have him remain in jail as a rebuke to capitalism, and the Post would have him kept there as a warning to radicals. It seems to me, therefore, a little impudent of the Post to criticise Mayor Walker for introducing an emotional element into the hearing. The mayor remarked at one point in his address that the crime itself had so shocked the community that it had “no patience with facts.” At the moment I can not see that either paper is concerned with facts. Each side demands a human sacrifice. an u A Good Job Done Well IT seems to me that Mayor Walker did a good job and justified his presence in California. At one point he said, “What difference does it make, if you please, from what state a man comes if he comes with righteousness in his heart and justice as his end?” I would go even further than that and say that as far as I am concerned the motives of the mayor in this adventure are not of prime importance. It has been said, of course, that Jimmy Walker craved the limelight and that he hoped to increase his political prestige and his popularity with organized labor by espousing the cause of Mooney. These theories are sheer surmise. From the point of view of realistic ! political observers with whom I have talked it seems difficult to identify this crusade with the mayor’s potential political ambitions. Obviously the Mooney case never is likely to figure largely in a municipal election here. Nor is there any very definite benefit which could be conferred upon Walker if he planned to campaign as a candidate for the United States senate from the state of New York next year. a a a Perhaps a Sincere Urge IN my own opinion the California trip represents an honest urge, touched no doubt with some sentimental stirring in the heart of a man who is a little disposed toward the romantic. After all, James J. Walker was a song writer before he j became a city executive. Yet the most important thing to remember is that Mooney and not Mayor W’alker is on trial before a court of one. It seems to me almost the ultimate height of injustice to favor keeping Mooney in jail simply because you don't happen to like the mayor of New York. Nor is there any fairness in the accusation that Walker’s trip has made it mofl difficult for Mooney and that his chance of pardon would

Doesn’t Seem to Scare ’Em!

conditions, preventive medicine attempts first of all to diagnose such conditions early by the use of diagnostic laboratories, public health nursing, and suitable health departments. The recognition and reporting of communicable diseases are absolutely necessary steps toward control. The only person capable of diagnosing a communicable disease in its early stages is a well-trained physician or a nurse who has had special training in the public health field. Even she, however, will only be able to make a possible diagnosis which must be confirmed by the physician. Once a disease Is recognized, the isolation of the case and the guarding of all of those who have been ir contact are the most effective measures to prevent rapid spread. A woman whose child had only recently recovered from measles, and, in fact, had not yet been dis-

be much greater if the mayor never had stepped in. It is well to remember that Governor Rolph is the fourth chief executive of California to consider an appeal on behalf of Mooney. His three predecessors failed to take action, and there was nothing in the current agitation likely to force the hand of Governor Rolph. It is good politics in California to ignore the Mooney case as much as possible. Accordingly, Mayor Walker must get the credit of making any sidestepping impossible from now on. It is true that few new facts were brought out in the plea delivered by the mayor or the legal presentation of the case by Frank P. Walsh. But the facts already on record are amply sufficient to prove the flimsy nature of the case against Mooney. The trouble is that they haven’t been accentuated in the public mind. Here, close at hand, is a firstpage presentation. By now most Americans have heard of the Mooney case, and yet I find that until today the average newspaper reader has been vastly unfamiliar with the facts. tt tt tt A Laboratory Test I HAPPENED to be sitting around the other afternoon with a group of ten or twelve gentlemen who play contract bridge for half a cent a point. That, I think, will identify them as average. The Mooney case came into the discussion, and I was amazed to learn that not one in the crowd had heard of the part played by the perjured testimony of Oxman and MacDonald. It came to them as news that the trial judge and all the living jurors have now asserted a belief in the innocence of Tcm Mooney. To this list there has just been

JJ* T ?s9£ Y WORLD WAR ANNIVERSARY

PASS WAR DECLARATION December 7 ON Dec. 7, 1917, the resolution calling for * declaration of war on Austria-Hungary was passed by President Wilson. Measures to prosecute the war against Austria-Hungary were started at cnce. The Austrians took Monte Sisemol, but failed to break through the Italian line south of Gallio. British forces occupied Hebron in Asia Minor. Finland proclaimed her independence. Sunday, Dec. t>, was the anniversary of the sinking of the U. S. S. Jacob Jones, a destroyer, by a German U-boat. Sixty-nine offcasts and men were reported lost. The Jacob Jones was on patrol duty. She was the first regular man o'war of the United States navy destroyed by the Germans. And on this same date (Dec. 6, 1917) twenty-fiv> German airplanes raided London, killing seven persons and injuring twenty-oije. Two Ger-; man planes were captured.

charged by the physician, sent the child to a Christmas party. Fourteen other children attending the party developed measles. Another woman whose child had developed a severe cold with sore throat, vomit and fever, sent the child to a dance because she grieved over its disappointment. Many other children developed scarlet fever which her child had in an early stage. Modern public health authorities put up signs on places where communicable disease exists. These signs are a warning to other people not to enter the home and should be a warning to the people in the home not to go out; but not infrequently such a warning is violated. Finally, the health authorities must control th carrier of disease who while himself not infected carries the germs o. the disease about on his person.

Ideals and opinion* expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most intereating writers and are oresented without recard to fheit • , dl **reement with (he editorial attitude of this paper —The Editor

added the name of Fickert, who prosecuted the case. But what startled me even more was the assertion on the part of most members of the little group- “ Well, you say he was a radical labor agitator. *Probably jail is the best place for him.” is no judging the issue now. if California keeps Mooney in jail it will say, with distinct finality, that any stick will do to beat a radical. And if the Communists insist that Mooney must remain as a martyr it will indicate their faith in a completely doctrinaire view of government and mankind. Somewhere between the extreme left and right there must be those who still have not despaired of fact and justice administered according to its light. ICoDvriKht. 1931. by The Tlmesi

People’s Voice

Editor Times—There has been quite a lot of talk in the newspapers of the President’s plan for the floating of a government loan for financing a small home loan. If the truth was told about this plan, it would be known that this plan is one to help the bankers of the country escape the tremendous losses in real estate if things continue to go as they'- are. Such loans won’t end the depression. The real cause of the depression lies in the fact that production has been greater than buying power. Industry has not returned to the worker enough of its earnings to enable him to consume its products The only way that the wheels of industry can be started again is by increased buying power. If our President had the welfare of the common people at heart, he would declare this a time for national emergency action. If he ordered all industry to open up under full force, with a substantial increase in wages to all workers, or be seized and operated by the government, this depression would be over in less than a month’s time. But, my dear editor, the President is interested only in big business. He wants tc make sure that big business does not lose anything.

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DEC. 7, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

New Institute Is Organized by Physicists to Serve as Clearing House for National Societies. THE American Institute of Physics is the newest member of the nation's learned organizations. Three veteran societies and one very new one combined their forces to bring into existence the yet newer institute. The veterans were the American Physical Society, the American Optical Society and the Acoustical Society of America. The newcomer was the American Society of Rheology. Don't look in the dictionary for the meaning of ‘Theology.” You won’t find it. The word is a brand new one, coined specially by some scientific gentlemen to give the society a name. If you recall that the Greek word "rheos” means "stream.” it may give you a clew. The American Society of Rheology is composed of engineers and scientists who are interested In the study of “plastic flow.” This includes a wide variety of subjects, ranging from the behavior of metals under high pressure or at high temperature to the behavior of substances which are ordinarily plastic. It, is the sort, of subject which does not make any gr£at appeal to the layman, but i'hich is becoming more and more important in industry. an u Institute Formed THE four societies named have co-operated in the organization of the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Henry A. Barton, formerly of Cornell university, is director of the new institute. The institute is to serve as a sort of clearing house in the world of physics. In some ways, its funci tions will resemble those of the Engineering Foundation which fills a somewhat similar position for the nation's engineering societies. The new institute will direct the I publication of the journals of the ; various societies concerned. These ' are seven in number. The layman \ would not find them easy or interI esting reading. They run to complicated equations, long fomulae, graphs and tables. But they are the nervous system of the world of physics, ac- ■ quainting research workers with the latest findings in their field. The journals are “The Physical Review,” “Reviews of Modem Physics.” “Physics,” “The Journal of the Optical Society.” “Review of Sicentific Instruments,” “The Journal of the Acoustical Society” and “The Journal of Rheology.” The institute plans also to devote attention to acquainting the general public with the science of physics, its new advance and their importance. In this connection Dr. Barton points out that the public today has a much better understanding of chemistry than it has of physics. Yet the foundation of mechanical and electrical engineering, of such marvels as the talking movie and the radio, lies in the science of physics. tt tt tt Physics Wide Subject DR. R. A. MILLIKAN, famous physicist, who verified the existence of the cosmic rays and was the first to isolate the electron, likes to tell a story about physicists. : During the war, Dr. Millikan was stationed in Washington as head of an important department of the national research council. One day, a high army officer walked into Millikan’s office with a telegram from France from Gen, Pershing. It requested that 100 physicists be sent at once to staff headquarters in France. “Millikan,” said the officer, “what is a physicist?” The range of activity of the physicist is as wide as that of the chemist. So many physicists today are interested in the study of the structure of the atom, that it sometimes is taken for granted that atomic physics constitutes the whole of the. science. But that is not the case. * Many physicists are interested inthe study of sound waves, or hydraulic problems, or high potential " electrical currents, or aviation problems, to name just a few. The problems dealt with in the average text book of physics include - the mechanics of solids, the meof liquids, sound, heat, light,magnetism, electricity, the structure • of the atom, and the nature of electricity. It will be seen therefore, that physics is the foundation of all engineering.

Daily Thought

They drank wine, and praised ;* the gods of gold, and of silver, or brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.—Daniel 5:4. Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknowm land. —Seneca. He certainly typifies the greed that brought this depression on. It seems as if the leaders of the country will in their ignorance and greed force the hungry millions to open revolt before they do anything to remedy the situation.