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One More Victory Another victory for the cause of popular government was won when Judge Chamberlin set aside the interfering order of the state tax board and told the school board that it had the right to obey the law. The state tax board Is being widely touted in other states as the best way to reduce taxes. At home it is becoming better known as the means by which selfgovernment is destroyed and the people led into dictatorship. Even if the membership of that board did not have a political background of the tax-dodging group, it would be bad in principle. But when it is common knowledge that the backers of the members are those whose chief purpose is to escape taxation it becomes impossible and -unbearable. In the case of the school budget, prepared by men who were drafted for the Jobs after years of political misrule of the schools, the question was whether the board would obey the law that demands debts be paid. The state tax board, trying to please the corporation group, declared that during days of depression the bonded debts could be postponed and no provision made for payment. The local school board followed the state law and the state board tried to interfere, as brazen an act of lawlessness and arrogance as might be imagined. Now Judge Chamberlin says that the law is plain, that the school board attempted to force public servants to disregard it. Following the decision of Judge John W. Kern in the case of the city tax levy, the decision of Judge Chamberlin takes on added significance. The tax board now is exposed as lawless where before it merely was reflective of the desires of the tax dodgers. Perhaps by the time another administration is elected public opinion will demand changes. Certainly the cities will demand home rule. And citizens, if they must have such a board, will ask for one with more consideration for public needs and less servility to corporations which support the tax dodging outfits that spread propaganda in favor of wage cuts for public employes. The Clock’s Evidence Probably the strongest item in Tom Mooney’s proof of his innocence of the bombing of the parade in San Francisco on July 22, 1916, is the evidence of the clock in the pictures taken of Mooney, his wife, and his friends at the time of the explosion Authentic pictures showed Mooney and Mrs. Mooney on the roof of a building nearly two miles from the scene of the explosion. These pictures showed them at this spot ten minutes before the explosion, as well as fifty minutes thereafter. But a skeptical writer, F. W. Hoey, holds that this really is proof of Mooney’s guilt. Mooney had arranged to have these pictures taken in advance, so that he might have them to prove his innocence in case he w f as arrested. In short, the pictures were a part of the explosion plot. Mr. Hoey says: “I have followed many strong arguments in favor of a pardon for Mooney. But Mooney was too careful in preparing his alibi in having his picture taken far away from the explosion in front of a clock. I would have convicted him on that alone if I had been a juror. “How could there have been someone there with a camera at that time and place and bt sure to get the face of a clock so a3 to show where Mooney was? Most people in California believe Mooney justly convicted.” Ini*much as many others may share the views of Hoay, it is worth while to poiitf. out the facts about the clock evidence. In the first place, it is not at all strange that the pictures should have been taken. The parade was an important event in San Francisco life, and this was the age of amateur “kodaking.” There is not the slightest evidence that the persons who took the pictures had any personal Interest in Mooney and his whereabouts. It simply so happened that Mooney and his wife fell into the field of vision of the camera lens in some of the pictures. Most of the pictures showing that Mooney was on top of the Eilers Building at the time of the explosion were taken by Wade Hamilton, an employe of the Eilers Music Company whose store was located in the building. He took six snapshots, four from the roof and two from the street. Hamilton does not appear to have been conscious of the existence of the clock in his pictures when he took them. Without enlargement of liis picture, the clock Itself was hardly distinguishable. The time registered by the clock could not be made out at all until after honest and competent enlargements of the pictures had been made by court approval. As further proof that the pictures were not taken at Mooney’s order, or by Mooney’s friends, or to aid Mooney, the fact may be cited that Hamilton did not turn the pictures over to the defense. Rather he turned them over to the prosecution about a week after the explosion. During the Billings trial the defense learned of the pictures and tried vainly to get possession of them. Finaily, through a court order they obtained them during the Mooney trial and had reliable enlargements made. The prosecution made no serious effort to discredit the pictures, according to the hypothesis suggested by Hoey, because the facts about them were too obviously contrary to any such theory. The enlargements at the Mooney trial actually threw the prosecution into consternation. John McDonald had testified at the Billings trial that he saw Mooney and Billings at the scene of the explosion only fifteen minutes before the pictures showed Mooney on top of the Eilers building, about two miles away. In the Mooney trial, McDonald changed his testimony to give Mooney ten or fifteen additional minutes to get from Steuart and Market streets to 721 Market street, where the pictures were taken. But the prosecution was afraid to rest content with this flimsy refutation of the impregnable cloc.: evidence. So they introduced “Honest Cattleman” Oxman to swear that he saw Mooney and Billings at the scene of the explosion in time to allow Mooney to motor back hurriedly to have his picture taken. Oxman had remarkable powers ol vision, being at Woodland, Cal., ninety miles from the explosion at that moment. The Hunger March Fifteen hundred ragged citizens dragged themselves up Capitol Hill in Washington. Many had come across the continent—walking, jolting along in trucks, any way to get there. Old men, mothers leading tired children, girls with no silk stockings, lean youths from closed mines and factories; foreign born, Negroes, white native sons from the hill towns, city fellows with coats that may

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have been warm and stylish once, and many with no overcoats. All marching together. In the sace 1 of many was more of grimness than bitterness. Faces of suffering, beyond the reach of ridicule from curious crowds along the streets. Faces of men and women, some of whom had been beaten by police, ready to be clubbed again if necessary, stolidly pushing on up Capitol Hill. But there was little jeering here from the sidelines; the onlookers were uncomfortable, many seemed ashamed. The police, unlike the strong-arm squads in some cities along the march, were friendly. Behind their guns, the police had orders to help the marchers. Os course, none of the 1,500 unemployed, who had come so far to present their petition for relief, saw the President or the Vice-President or the Speaker of the house. These officials were too busy. When the marchers’ committee were refused entrance to the houses of congress, they came away peaceably. It was the same at the White House. They came empty handed. They left empty handed. And that, apparently, ends the famous hunger March of 1931. But is it ended? What of the remaining 8,000,000 jobless, who would not march with the little remnant under Communist leaders? The answer does not rest with the Communist leaders—who proved their ability to organize peaceful demonstration. The answer rests with the political and business leaders of this rich country whose job it is to create conditions in which every citizen may have the right o and to live as a free and self-respecting American.

George Otis Smith George Otis Smith, completing one year in office as chairman of the federal power commission, has received the consent of one court to continue there. The senate will carry on, through the higher courts, its attempt to have him removed. Though the heat of the battle waged over Smith last January has died away, the issues involved still challenge attention, and would even if Smith had exhibited unusual fitness for his position during the last twelve months. The senate, responsible for confirmation of presidential appointments, tried to learn from Mr. Smith, before passing judgment on him, his views concerning two men who had incurred the enmity of higherups by fighting for enforcement of the water power law. Smith withheld such views. They day after his appointment was confirmed he and two other members of the new commission summarily dismissed these two men, Charles A. Russell and William V. King. Whether this action was pre-arranged, or was ordered later by the White House, the senate was denied essential information, without which it could not pei form properly its duties of confirmation. If it had known what Smith intended to do, or what the President intended he should do, it would not have confirmed him. It took the first opportunity to rescind that confirmation, and is so deeply in earnest in the matter that it is fighting it through the courts. Missionaries Needed Last Friday night a mob of citizens of Salisbury, Md„ broke into a hospital, seized a young Negro lying in a cot, dragged him three blocks, hanged him to a tree and burned his body. The victim was said to have confessed to the fatal shooting of his former employer after a dispute over wages. He had tried to kill himself and also had been shot by his ex-employer’s son. His head and j face were so bandaged that he did not see his executioners. Down into Kentucky recently went Novelist Theodore Dreiser to investigate and preach against conditions among striking coal miners in Harlan county. Out to California, more recently, journeyed Mayor James J. Walker of New York to plead with Governor Rolph to wipe out the stain of fifteen years of injustice to Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. Deeply resentful, of course, were local guardians of culture over what they considered these impudent intrusions by outsiders. Yet, apparently, they were necessary. Will it be necessary, one wonders, for another missionary to go into the Maryland free state to remind its people that this is America and the twentieth century and at this place and time civilized men do not act like savages? Headline: slump Hits Fur Coat Sales. That’s goin? to be an awful disappointment to the rabbit waiting to be promoted to Hudson seals. How would you like to be a congressman and have ! to find something to tax?

Just Every Day Sense BF MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

“AM I to draw these drastic conclusions?’’ begins -cY a letter than contains many details about the discontent confronting types of wives who must stay at home, all of whom the writer believes regret their single state. “What about these poor things?” she ends. “I really feel sorry for them.” When it comes to that, one can but feel sorry for the human race. A good many married women are bored, unspeakably, by a humdrum existence. Sometimes, too, their husbands are stodgily satisfied to mark time, mentally. Doubtless these wives may crave a nice, surreptitious love affair, as the letter writer says. At least they long for excitement. But excitement may come to one in many guises. Nor need it always wear the masculine form. n a HAVING observed women for a good many years, however. I can not agree that all these weary women would be content unmarried. With few exceptions. each probably would do her level best to land another husband if she lacked one. Women are bored, in whatever situations they may be placed, because they permit their minds and their hands to be idle. They have built up for themselves a false notion of what makes contentment. They imagine that fine dresses and parties, with moving picture heroes hanging about, constitute the highest form of happiness. The only way for any one to escape boredom is to become intensely interested in something outside of self. Our grandmothers accomplished it because they were vastly concerned in the large home tasks that were theirs. Labor-saving devices are friends only to the discriminating woman. The others who need work for their fingers/have been harmed by them. The world seethes with fascinating things. They are within the reach of the home woman as they are within reach of’any one who desires them. Pictures, books, music, birds, beasts, men, the sea, the earth and the air. The wife who believes she can find perennial happiness in love affairs is, at least after a certain age, something of a nitwit. I

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy - SAYS:

Discussion Is the World’s Social and Political Laboratory, and There Is No Greater Waste Than in Any Other Laboratory. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—lt has been a long time since the country was so glad to see congress assemble. It now can let off steam through its chosen representatives, which is something it has longed to do these many months. There comes a time when people want nothing so much as a chance to talk about their ills. It may not get them anywhere, but it relieves the mental strain. Regardless of how effectively this depression may have been handled by White House conferences and volunteer committees, the spice of open debate and official criticism was lacking. a a a It Sure Helps NO doubt the hunger marchers feel a great deal better now that they have sung their hymns and chanted their demands where congress could hear. You don’t have to tell an old newspaper man how satisfying it is to get some foolish idea off his chest by putting it down on paper, and then throw the paper into the waste basket. That’s true of life all along the line, whether you use a typewriter, or a soapbox, and that’s what brought Democratic government into being. a a a Same Old Story WE don’t want to shut up and wait while better men solve our problems, even though it might be wiser. We want to feel that we are taking part in the performance. It sustains our faith, even if it does mess up the plot now and then. Every one knows there will be a lot of wasted time and talk at Washington, followed by more wasted time and talk throughout the country, that hundreds of bills will be introduced never to be heard of afterward, that hundreds of speeches will be made that might just as well have gone undelivered, that newspapers will be filled with items and comments not worth a second thought, but who would have it otherwise? a a a Too Little Contact Discussion is the worlds social and political laboratory. It represents no greater waste than any other laboratory. If you doubt this, go to the government patent office some day and see for yourself just how many bright ideas never amounted to anything. One of the worst phases of this depression is the way in which natural expression has been muffled. Far better for us and for all the world, had congress been called into session one year ago. There has been altogether too much expertness back stagehand too little plain, understandable contact with the audience.

* a a Comes the Warning THIS affliction is not peculiar to America. It has characterized world politics ever since four men undertook to remake the map of Europe and assess war damages. Once more, a committee of experts meets to study and solve the reparations problem, just as though the thing hadn’t been tried half a dozen times. From way off in South Africa comes the voice of Jan Christian Smuts, a man of deep sincerity and common sense, warning us of the peril. “If Germany defaults on her debts,” he says, “England will follow' sooner or later, and the fact had better be faced in time.” “There is no use.” he asserts, ‘‘continuing this illusion of international debt and reparation payments w'hich has upset international finance and poisoned international relations.” a a a We’re on Trial ENGLAND has been driven from free trade to protection and Germany is about to decree price and wage cuts, with a Fascist regime in prospect. The very life of international commerce is at stake, which means the prosperity of every nation. Yet we talk glibly of dawning peace, as though it could be superimposed on such a sham.

Questions and Answers

Are the United States army and navy medical schools open to enlisted men for the study of medicine? They are graduate schools open only to medical officers in the army and navy, who must be graduates of a medical school before they are commissioned. Are over-weight and under-weight separate words or hyphenated? They are words. On what day did Good Friday come in 1908? April 17. What newspaper has the largest paid circulation in the world? The London (England) Daily Mail ha? a net paid daily average of 1,845,087. What is the record time for circling the bases in a baseball game? The record is 13 2-5 seconds, made by Evar Swanson of the Cincinnati Reds, Sept. 15, 1929, at Cincinnati. What is a natural bom citizen of the United States? Natural born means one who is bom actually within the confines of the United States, and therefore is a citizen by birth. Are Porto Ricans and Filipinos citizens of the United States? Porton Ricans are, and Filipinos are not.

Daily Thought 1

Give none offense,' neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.—l Corinthians 10:32. Tolerance if the only real test of civilization.—Arthur Helps,

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Take Precautions to Avoid Infection

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Masazine. FEW people realize that the most serious type of infection today is respiratory infection or that affecting the nose, throat and lungs. Broncho-pneumonia is responsible for twice as many deaths as any other single cause, and lobar pneumonia, tuberculosis and influenza follow' closely after. During the years 1926-1929, inclusive, 43,998 children under 20 years of age died of broncho-pneumonia. Thirty-five per cent of the deaths were in children under 1 year. After the respiratory diseases come diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, typhoid, scarlet fever, dysentery, meningitis and infantile paralysis. Fortunately, scientific medicine has developed means for attacking and controlling to a considerable extent all of these conditions. The methods involve procedures

IT SEEMS TO ME

IN spite of the vast publicity given to the Mooney case in the last few days Governor Rolph of California does not seem to get the idea. He is quoted in a newspaper story as saying in regard to his three months’ period of cogitation, ‘There is no hurry about the matter.” The Governor is wrong. There is an imperative need for haste. Indeed, it seemed to me that something vital was lest when Governor Rolph listened to the exposition made before him and then reserved decision. An immediate pardon for Mooney would have carried with it some sense of passion for justice, which dwindles as every day passes. There seems to be a feeling upon the part of the authorities that they are called upon to do a favor for the imprisoned man. Although it has not been said officially, many rumors are current that pressure has been brought upon the labor leaders to get him to agree not to “capitalize” a pardon. And in this instance “capitalize” is used to include radical activities. Now, frankly, it is none of California’s business just what Mooney chooses to say when he gets out. In all logic there is no particular reason why he should come forth to preach sweetness and light and the integrity of American courts. Since he went in radically minded, it is no more than reasonable to suppose that he will come out in the same mood. After all, what has the community done to change his point of view? tt tt n Step Lively, Please BUT I would have this text, “There is no hurry,” taken to heart by us in regard to many things beyond the precise facts of the Mooney and Billings case. It constitutes what seems to me one of the greatest heresies of our political and social thinking. It is easy to draw from almost anybody the agreement that mankind has' within its capacity the power to shape and make a better world. Men of wholly conservative tendency will play with the vision of the abolition of poverty. Herbert Hoover once indulged in such a dream. And, then, there are men of liberal and even radical mood who want a structural revolution and yet sit by and talk as if this were something not to be set in motion until the days of our grandchildren or our great grandchildren. * I have H. G. Wells in mind a little bit. Most of the plans and theories of the great English publicist seem to me sound and well conceived. But in one or two conversations with him I have gone away with the impression that he was talking only of tomorrow. To be specific, he could find no good in the League of Nations, although he was fervent for the super-state which should do away with local prejudice and passion. But it was his notion that this was something to come in time, something to be built upon a foundation

W’hich are fairly simple and W'hich should be familiar to every person capable of reading and understanding. After an infectious disease it is customary to clean the premises thoroughly. Cleaning involves removal by washing and scrubbing with hot water, soap and washing soda, of all materials which have been in contact with the patient and in which bacteria may find favorable conditions for living and multiplying. a a a A NY person or animal known to have been sufficiently near to an infected person or animal to have been exposed to the transfer of infectious material is called a contact. Disinfection includes the removal of all dangerous germs by chemical and physical means, and disinfecting is the use of measures for destroying all insects and parasites.

which he regarded as more equitable. a a a After the Deluge AND, again, in the matter of world peace, there are some, such as Bertrand Russell, another visionary of high hopes, who thinks of Utopia as something to come only after one more ghastly war. Mankind can be motivated by hope for the future. Millions live saying of some condition under which they writhe, “My son will never know these same difficulties.” The man who goes into life handicapped by lack of adequate education often will make terrific sacrifices so that his children may have the benefits denied to himself. Perhaps in progeny there is a projection of the ego. But, after all, the most powerful impulse in humankind is self-interest. This can be a mighty force for universal welfare just as soon as it is possible for us to catch the conception that enlightened egoism must include the general welfare of the human family. And so there is a weakening and destructive impulse in all thinking which includes only those days of the far away. We never can be assured of the future just so long as we are willing to let the present slide. To put it in plain terms, within your experience and my own it must be evident that nothing much will come of a good resolution if I say, “On New Year’s Day I intend to give up smoking.” The change will be of interest and carry conviction only if my swear-

m today m IS THE- w WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

JERUSALEM CAPTURED December 8 ON Dec. 8, 1917, Jerusalem surrendered to General Allenby and the British forces. Jerusalem’s capture was the seventh fall of the Holy City before besiegers since its stormy history began more than 3,000 years ago. Welsh and home country troops advanced from the direction of Bethlehem, drove back the enemy and, passing Jerusalem on the east, established themselves on the Jeru-salem-Jericho road. At the same time London infantry and dismounted yeomanry attacked the strong enemy positions west and northwest of Jerusalem and placed themselves astride the Jerusalem-Shechem road. Isolated, the Holy City surrendered to General Allenby. British, French and Mohammedans safeguarded the holy places. General Allenby had begun his offensive in Palestine with the capture of Jerusalem as his objective with the taking of the city of Beersheba on Oct. 31, 19X7.

A person who has not had the disease and who is likely to catch it on exposure is called a susceptible person. It has now been well established that certain fundamental measures of hygiene are helpful in avoiding infection. These measures include: Keeping the body clean by sufficiently frequent soap and water baths. Washing hands in soap and water after voiding bowels or bladder and always before eating. Keeping hands and unclean articles, or articles which have been used for toilet purposes by others, away from the mouth, nose, eyes and ears. Avoiding the use of common or unclean eating, drinking or toilet articles of any kind, such as towels, handkerchiefs, hair brushes, drinking cups, pipes and so forth. Avmding close exposure of persons to spray from the nose and mouth, as in coughing, sneezing, laughing or talking.

DV HEYWOOD BROUN

off dates from this immediate instant. Asa matter of fact, I have no intention of giving up smoking, but this will serve as an example. a a a No Harm in Starting NO realistically minded person, no matter how radical, thinks that every desirable change can be made overnight. But there is no time limit upon a beginning. If weintend to abolish poverty and to wipe out the vast inequalities which exist in our world, 9 o’clock this morning is not a second too soon to get going. Mooney has been in jail for fifteen years now. And every addition hour constitutes an affront to all decent feeling of fairness. And in the same way those things of the world which we acknowledge to be wrong become increasingly evil up to the very second that the cry arises, “Forward march i” and we get going. (CoDvrißht. 1931. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Your paper generally advocates lowering of taxes, etc. Note that last week the state printing board let a contract for two years’ supply of printing and supplies. Bids were submitted by several concerns. Class 2 was given to an out-of-town concern for S6OO higher than lowest bidder, bids made on a 10 per cent basis. This class in two years amounts to about $17,000, which means the state will have to pay several thousand dollars more for this one class. The contract for printing court reports also was given to higher bidder. I do not see any reason for this. Lowest bidders had done work in previous years and were reliable concerns. I understand two members of the

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Ideal* and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most in terestine writers and are presented without resard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

-DEC. 8, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Nontechnical Books on Science Offer Solution to tha Problem of Gifts for Men . A RRIVAL of December brings I thoughts of Christmas and the j all-important question of Christmas ! gifts. Books always have ranked high as suitable and acceptable gifts. With so many school students and adults interested in various phases of science, books on science should prove both quick and an ideal solution to the gift problem in many cases. During the next few days, this writer will take on the duties of an assistant to Santa Claus and give some suggestions about recent books of science, their contents and style, and their appropriateness as gifts for various types of readers. Let us begin with the field of astronomy. The stars have had an 1 appeal for mankind which is older than written history. Almost at the dawn of civilization, we find as-tronomer-priests studying the configuration of the heavens. At Christmas time, one's thoughts are likely to turn to the stars. Perhaps it is because the stars seem so bright upon a clear winter night. Perhaps it is because of the legend of the star which is part of the Christmas story. So this is a good time to remember an enthusiastic amateur astronomer with a book upon the subject. And it is an equally good time to introduce- a novice to the glories and the splendors of the skies. nun Surveying the Heavens 'T'HE beginners will want a book which furnishes a survey of the heavens in simple and nontechnical terms. Two such books come to mind at, once. They are “The Stars in Their Courses,” by Sir James Jeans, and 'The Pageant of the Stars,” by William J. Luyten. Jeans is well known to the world of science and to the world at large. In the scientific world, he ranks as one of the great students of theoretical astronomy. He has made valuable contributions to the studies of the evolution of stars, the nature of the universe, and so on. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and the holder of many honors and degrees. To the world, atlarge, he is known as a scientist who possesses the gift of making himself understood to the layman. “The Stars in Their Courses,” published by the MacMillan Company, grew out of a series of lectures which Jeans gave over the radio for the British Broadcasting Company. The lectures were expanded to about twice their original length for the book. The book possesses three features which recommend it particularly. First, it is authoritative. As one might expect, Jeans discusses the latest developments in astronomy with the insight which might be expected from him. # *Second, it is written in simple and charming English. Jeans not only writes in a non-technical style but in an interesting and picturesque one. Third, it is beautifully illustrated. a a a Chief Glories THE illustrations in “The Stars in Their Courses” deserves special mention. One of the chief glories of modern astronomy is the triumph it has scored in the making of marvelous photographs of the heavens. The Jeans book contains a generous portion of the finest astronomical photographs—the mountains and craters of the moori, great tongue of flame leaping up from the edge of the sun, star fields intertwined with lacelike nebulosity, and finally the great spiral nebulae. The text of Luyten’s “The Pageant of the Stars” is a little more detailed than that of Jeans. The book is a larger one and contains more pages. Luyten is assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard university. Doubleday, Doran A; Cos. are the publishers of his book. “The Pageant of the Stars” covers all the ground that a textbook of astronomy would, except that it, does it in nontechnical fashion. The book is well illustrated. Another excellent book for the layman is “Man and the Stars.” by Harlan True Stetson. Professor Stetson is director of the Jerkins observatory of Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware. O. His book is published by Whittlesey House. Stetson departs from the general method of surveying the main outlines of modern astronomical theory. He devotes much of his book to a recital of the history of astronomy. He also deals at great length with certain speculative as-pe'-'-s of astronomv. His book will introduce the reader to the insniring stories of Copernicus. Tvcho. Kenler, Newton and Herschel. It will give him the historical perspective and inspire him with the aims and aspirations of astronomy. printing board are Democrats, this Governor and other members Republican. I understand the Lafayette concern is Republican. Ttie contract as given is about an equaj share to. both factions. However, taxpayers’ interests should be considered. TIMES READER. ’.