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Call the Legislature "With the startling figures as to the cost of government presented by the special tax committee, it Is difficult to see how Governor Leslie can refrain from immediately calling the legislature into session to save the farmer and home owner from inevitable confiscation of their property. His demand that the lawmakers agree in advance on a definite law and that a majority sign on the dotted line is. of course, as absurd as it is abhorrent to our whole theory of government. The legislature is the part of government which makes laws. We have not yet arrived to the point where Governors may become dictators. His veto power was never intended to be used as a weapon of compulsion upon lawmakers whose offices are of equal dignity, A Governor free from entangling alliances with the privileged classes would only ask whether there was a real emergency and then call the legislators to remedy the existing evils according to their judgment. There can be no question about the emergency when governmental costs arc running an even race w ith the earning capacity of farms and small business. There can be no question of an emergency when so large a portion of the sources of income in this state escape taxation and the whole burden is laid upon property. Unquestionably a special session of the legislature could lift some of the burden and permit the farmer and the worker to catch their breath between rounds of continual knockouts from privileged interests. There must be anew tax law that will redistribute burdens and give real estate some relief. There must be changes in the laws that will reduce the total cost of government and of living, where the cost of living is increased by laws giving the power to tax to private interests. One of the burdens, amounting to many hundreds of thousands of dollars in the aggregate, is found in the number of legal notices that are now printed in newspapers. The cost of notices, which are of doubtful value at the best, is enormous. That part of the burden was created by the power of the press for the benefit of the press rather than for the people or to serve any practical use. The utility rates in this state, under present control. are a form of private taxation. The members of the legislature are approaching a primary. They want to come back. They will be more likely to serve the public interest now than they were when they met in the regular session and relied on forgetfulness of the people to save their hides and hide their sins and crimes. The report of the special committee on taxation reveals the necessity for relief. It is suggestive ol remedies. The Governor should call that special session at once with the statement that he will sign any measure that promises relief to the people. Toward German Chaos Second-day reactions to the German elections are not so optimistic. After the first flush of relief over Hitler’s defeat, the sober fact remains that he and his Fascists almost doubled their 1930 vote. Considering the near mythical awe in which the aged Von Hindenburg is held by the German people, and the appeal to fear of civil war made in his behalf, the 49.6 per cent of the voters supporting the government is ?, very small margin of safety for the republic. Without the prestige of Von Hindenburg’s name, which they had followed for so many years in war and in peace, apparently additional millions of Germans would have swung to the Fascist right or the Communist left. So long as the Fascists can continue to double their strength every eighteen months, it is only a question of time—and a very short time, at that—before the Fascists can take over the government either peacefully or by force. After all, Mussolini overthrew the Italian government with only half a million Fascists. If the two and a half million Nationalists who voted for Duesterborg on Sunday are added to Hitler's group—as they will be added on the day of counter-revolution—the Fascist total becomes almost fourteen million. To those who see history in terms of months, there is great hope in the anticipated election of Von Hindenburg in the run-off election for the presidency next month. But the precarious and temporary nature of that “victory” is to be measured by the fact that a majority of the votes cast Sunday were in favor of revolution—either a Fascist counter-revolu-tion or a Communist revolution. Germany escapes revolution today only by holding an unsteady balance between Fascists and Communists. This election merely confirms what all intelligent observers have known for several years—that a capitalist democracy can not be maintained long in Germany without a basic change in the international political and economic situation. Unless France and the powers give up their reparations pound of flesh and scale down tariff and trade barriers to permit revival of German business and employment, the starving German people in the end will rebel. The Von Hindenburg government has not been able to stop the German drift toward economic chaos and misery in the past. It will not be able to stop that drift, in the future. The unjust and unworkable Versailles treaty pushes Europe toward revolution and war. We believe the situation in Germany and Europe will go from bad to worse until the ruthless Versailles settlement is supplanted by a live-and-let-live peace. Still Trying A recent dispatch from Washington points out that although airplanes are being brought nearer to perfection each year, men still are trying to invent devices that will enable them to strap on wings and fly away under their own power by flapping their arms. This return to the earliest principles of attempted flight looks odd, in view of the great advances that have been made in aeronautics; but, really, it probably represents a form of aviation that would interest the average man, if it could be perfected, infinitely more than any other. To be able to fly up in the air like a bird, just for the fun of it, without depending on a motor—that comes closest to those old, wistful dreams of flying. If such a scheme ever is made practical, it ought to be enormously popular. At Last! Twelve years of American humiliation came to an end in the house of representatives Monday. The humiliation of prohibition remains—for a little while, i But the great humiliation of represen tattles ol a

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democratic country being deprived of a vote on this basic issue was wiped out when the house was forced to vote on the Beck-Linthicum resolution. The nation is opposed to prohibition. There are dry sections—dry in name, though not in fact. But the country as a whole is about two to one against prohibition. That is demonstrated by numerous straw votes, and by the indirect vote on this question registered in congressional elections. The iniquity of the prohibition system, with its curse of crime and invasion of personal liberties and economic losses, has been bad enough. But the political conspiracy preventing a popular referendum has been worse. That political conspiracy, perpetuated by the professional dry organizations and aided by Republican and Democratic politicians, has placed prohibition above and beyond the operations of representative government. The American people were good enough to govern themselves on everything—except liquor laws. Having once been the victims of a fanatical propaganda and political squeeze play which fastened prohibition on the nation, Americans never were to be allowed to escape from the great blunder. It was to be kept out of politics ever after. Instead of an experiment, capable of change, it was to be the one and only inviolate part of our law and Constitution which no popular referendum ever should be permitted to profane. Under this conspiracy, all direct votes on prohibition modification or repeal were prevented in congress, and scores of congressmen and senators were returned to Washington year after year because they could make wet voters believe they were wet and dry voters believe they were dry, without ever being brought to book. Even a President, in the person of Herbert Hoover, was elected posing as a dry to drys and a wet to wets. The members of the house of representatives Monday were put on record by the Beck-Linthicum vote. The sheep have been separated from the goats. Hereafter congressmen will be of two kinds—one kind who refuse to let the people vote on this question, and another kind who recognize the right of American citizens to vote on any question. The majority wet sentiment of the country was not represented in a house majority Monday because many of those representatives were sent to congress by voters who could not know how the straddlers would flop. In the next election the voters will know. In the next election prohibition will be an issue. Let the drys get all the consolation they can out of their 227 to 187 victory. Only twenty-one votes changed would have reversed the majority. If the popular revolt against prohibition continues at its present speed, one more election may be enough to create in congress the two-thirds vote necessary to submit t# the people an amendment allowing dry states to be dry and wet states to be wet. That will be self-government. A statistician has found that congress spends SB4O a week for printing speeches that never are delivered. But think how much worse it would be if they were delivered. Woman Conquers Fox After Hour’s Battle,, says a headline. And some women have to fight for weeks for one! Wilson was re-elected in 1916 on the slogan, “He kept us out of war,” but it’s a cinch Hoover’s slogan in November won’t be “He kept us out of work.” It won’t be long before members of the League of Nations committee at Shanghai are reporting that there has been a difference of opinion between the Japanese and Chinese. If the league commission hurries, it should reach Manchuria before all the war damage has been repaired. Higher cotton prices are certain to come, a market expert says. If the staple keeps going up, the farmers will get as much for it as it costs to raise it. Trotski was once a movie star, and if Stalin stayt in power in Russia, he may have to try a comeback Elsie Janis says there should be a bread line for pets in New York. Could she mean unemployed chorus girls? California judge says alimony is the beginning of woman’s trouble, but we have a hard time convincing the divorcees of that. The old saying that time is money was never more true. If you haven’t the money, you buy on time.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE problem of getting along together is the hardest with which men and women have to cope. The other day we discussed here the unconscious cruelty with which we often treat old people. A correspondent now speaks up on the other side. His letter says: "My father-in-law lives with us. He is several generations removed from modern views of life. I have very different ideas about bringing up children. I am not orthodox. He is. "My wife, while she agrees with me, is loath to disregard her father’s wishes, which undoubtedly are sincere. y Yet, being a parent myself, I feel that I should be permitted to exercise that right over the rearing of my children.” Ever since we got away from tribal habits, we have had this particular kind of unhappiness to grapple with. It is a perennial visitor in some form or other. . n n IF we agree that we should treat older relatives with consideration and kindness, we also are able to realize that they should not be permitted to ruin the fife of the younger generations. This is carrying respect to extravagant and even dangerous lengths. A good many old people are spoiled, just as children can be. They have spent life in positions of authority, directing the movements of a household or a family or a business. Naturally, it is no easy thing for them to assume a secondary place in the home of a child. But when families are obliged to live together, the elders should be made to understand at once that this is exactly their position—not inferior, but secondary so far as dominance is concerned. One can be kind, but one also should be firm on this point. It is an excellent idea to have a family conference occasionally, when parents, grandparents and children can talk over their problems frankly. Most family troubles come, not so much because any individual member is mean, but because o£"general misunderstandings.

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Technical Truth Has Become a Smoke Screen for Plain, Ordinary Lying in Our System of Justice. New YORK, March 15.—People gathered in the streets of Paris to cheer for Hindenburg Sunday night. No doubt, some of the cheering was due to selfishness. France had much at stake in the German election. -Even so, it was a most remarkable tribute. History contains few examples of such genuine respect for a former foe. The great war pontains none. Hindenburg has come to be trusted not only by his “own people, but by the rest of Europe. The reason is not hard to discover. He knows no rule but that of unswerving devotion to duty. Asa soldier of the kaiser, he did what he could. As commander-in-chief of a defeated army, he led a masterly retreat and saved his country from demoralization when the kaiser ran away. As president of the German reich, he kept his oath. B B tt Collateral Vs. Character OLD Pope said that an honest man “is the noblest work of God.” The world's greatest need is restoration of faith in that idea. Civilization has. put too much of a premium on cleverness and success, particularly as they can be measured in terms of money. Some of our bankers pretend to believe that collateral means everything, while character means nothing. If that were true, A1 Capone would be as good as any other man who could put up $1,000,000 worth of securities. It is not true, as some of our great financiers are learning. There is nothing back of collateral but character. ft tt n ‘Smart Dishonesty’ GIVEN the right kind of men, and anything can be saved, or reproduced. Given the wrong kind and no institution or enterprise on earth is big enough to survive. In this particular instance, nothing stood between Germany ana disaster, except Hindenburg and those sensible people who followed his lead. There cames a time, and it comes more frequently than most of us suspect, when every man-made institution must look to the same thing, when there is no way out, save through common honesty and hard work. We have come to such a time in these United States. Ninety per cent of our trouble can be traced to the abandonment of old-fash-ioned virtues for a lot of new-fan-gled inventions. We have chosen to be smart, rather than straight. n tt tt Lying Camouflaged TECHNICAL truth has become a smokescreen for plain, ordinary lying, in our system of justice, but we can only sec the funny side of it. The fact that a vast majority of our divorce cases rest on perjured testimony is accepted as just something more to laugh at. When a cop directs us to a speakeasy, we take it as a huge joke. When some grafter is exposed, we are ready to- bet that the rest of the crowd is just as bad, or would be if it had a chance. We have a wonderful sense of humor, especially regarding activities that pay 15, or 20 per cent. tt tt tt New 'Double Standard’ THE man who won’t drive by a red light when the traffic officer isn’t looking, or sell short, or see the laughable side of graft, generally is considered dumb. The man who thinks that political corruption as made possible by the liquor trade should be held responsible for political corruption in other respects is considered even dumber. The notion prevails that people can be openly dishonest in one respect and strictly honest in all others, that laws generally can be ignored, and then rigidly be enforced if occasion requires, that no one is supposed to mean what he says, or say what he means, except under certain conditions, that it is quite all right for legislators to patronize bootleggers and vote dry, or help frame a law with a hole in it for the benefit of his friends, or go to the underworld for help when he thinks it can do a better job than the police.

M TODAY 4$ IS THE- Vs ; WORLD WAR V ANNIVERSARY

ANNOUNCE OFFENSIVE March 15

ON March 15, 1918, Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff of the German army announced that a smashing offensive against the western front would follow within a week unless the allies showed themselves ready to negotiate a peace treaty. They proposed to use troops taken from the Russian and Balkan fronts for the operations, which were expected to be on the greatest scale known in all history. General Semanoff led a movement of White Russians in Siberia to redeem the country from the Bolsheviki. Japanese and Soviet troops clashed in Amur province in Siberia, the Japanese losing 150 killed. The state council of Courtland, formerly in Russia, offered the ducal crown to the kaiser.

Daily Thought

There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary be at rest.—Job 3:17. An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise. —James Ellis. Can persdns of Chinese extraction vote in the United Sttaes? Those who were born in the United States are American citizens' and can vote if otherwise qualified under state election laws. When was the United States patent office established? It was established by an act of congress in 1836.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Illness No Ban to Active Mentality

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hrgcia, the Health Magazine. 'T'HERE is a general impression that the child with some chronic disease is likely to be less intelligent than the one who seems wholly normal from a physical point of view. Actually this direct correlation between physical health and mental ability can not be sustained. Intelligence tests currently used are planned to show not only the ability to learn, but also the ability to reason. A special investigator for the medical research council of Great Britain determined to make a study of the relationship of disease to intelligence by examining children before they were ill, during their illness, during their convalescence and after recovery, and comparing these

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THERE used to be a theory that nobody but newspaper men were interested in the inside workings of the craft in which they are confined. Plays about reporters were few and for the most part failures. Then “Front Page.” “Gentlemen of the Press” and “Five Star Final” broke the spell. Since that time the sob sister and her brother workers have been more or less the favorite folk of the screen. They compete with gangsters and aviators for a place under j the Kleigs. And yet it does not seem to me I that anybody has yet written a first-class novel around a daily paper. “Young Man of Manhattan,” for instance, seems to me amusing, but well below the line of true dir# tinction. Journalism has not as yet i engaged the attention of very many of our leading authors. In England, on the other hand, it is almost a compulsory subject. Almost all the well-known men have had a try at it. Only a few days ago I happened to glance through one of the earlier works of Philip Gibbs. He called his trip into Fleet street fiction “The Street of Adventure,” and it is a yarn of middling merit. But what struck me most was the vast i difference in the physical detail of i newsgathering here and abroad. Imagine my surprise when I read the description of the hero’s first visit to the city room of his paper. a a a In the London Manner “TT was,” wrote Sir Philip, “a large A room, with a number of desks divided by glass partitions and with a large table in the center. At the far end of the room was a fire burning brightly in the grate, and in front of it were two men and a girl—the men in swing chairs, with their legs stretched out; the girl on the floor in the billows of a black silk skirt, arranging chestnuts on the first bar of the grate.” Nothing like that every happened in our city room. I can not picture any young lady of the staff as a chestnut roaster. We haven't even got a grate, although there may have been days in mid-July when it would have been possible to fry eggs upon the skylight. Still

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I Don’t Hear a Single Sound

results with examinations of their healthy brothers and sisters. The investigation revealed the fact that some diseases seem to bring about a lowering of intelligence and . a tendency to misbehavior, whereas others seem even to sharpen the intelligence. Investigations were also made of the relationship of physique and stature to intelligence. Altogether, 1,077 children in a hospital in Glasgow were examined and their records compared with those of their brothers and sisters. Children suffering from rheumatism, pneumonia, or kidney disorders, which do not seem to have any relationship to the brain were found to be just as intelligent as their brothers and sisters, who were healthful. Only in cases where the disease affected the glands of internal secretion of the brain was there any appreciable departure from normal intelligence.

I can’t remember that any ever tried. Still less is my memory stirred to local reminiscence by the description of doings in the office of the London Star just before press time, when “silence reigned in the room except for the scratching of pens. ’ Probably there are not more than half a dozen pens in all the newspaper offices of New York today, and four of them are on the Evening Past. tt tt tt The Way We Work 'T'HE difference in spirit between here and London seems less great. Philip Gibbs talks a great deal about the terrific strain of newspaper work and of how a brutal editor will drive a finely tempered reporter until he has the best of his brains and then toss him aside like a withered violet. I have asked friends frequently since I read the book as to whether in their opinion I am beginning to have a corsage look. They say, “No,” but, after all, you can’t expect frankness from a kind friend. However, the book says that the life is even worse for women. “We women wear out sooner!” exclaims the heroine. “Five years in Fleet street withers any girl. Then she gets crow's feet ’round her eyes and becomes snappy and fretful or a fierce creature struggling in an unequal combat with men. I am just reaching that stage.” That does not seem to me to fit our own dear homeland. I have known a great many newspaper women, and many of them have been in the game for more than five years. For the most part they remind me of motion picture stars, only more intelligent. Os course, I known some who were snappy anc fretful, but, after all, there was no available proof that newspaper work did it. a a a Sorrows of a Columnist BUT it is the columnist in the Gibbs novel who suffers worst of all from the ceaseless grind. He was “a young anemic-looking man, with fair, wavy hair, going a little gray, ai-d a pale, haggard, clean-

The interesting fact was observed that the intelligence seemed to be improved during the acute stage of any illness, probably due to the stimulation association with fever and increased chemical activity in the body. Children of higher intelligence had in general begun to walk and to talk earlier than those of lesser intelligence. Another interesting observation was the correlation between height and intelligence, in that children of higher intelligence seemed to be slightly taller than the others. It must be remembered, however, that this study was made in Great Britain, and that a similar study made among races which are inclined to shortness of stature might yield a different result. One questions whether it would be found that the taller Japanese are any smarter than the short ones.

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shaven face, seated, with his elbows on the desk, a novel opened before him and six other novels in a pile at his elbow. He was smoking a cigaret, and the third finger of his left hand was deeply stained with nicotine.” I would like to find something personal in-that portrait, but, save for just a touch of iron grayness around the left temple, it doesn’t fit me at all. I never have been able to wear myself clean-shaven or particularly haggard. Although a butterfly, the wheel has not broken me as yet. And if I am ever called to the stand and put under oath, I would be compelled to testify that of all the easy jobs in the world, column conducting is the second softest. It lags behind nothing but the ministry. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

Questions and Answers

Could a boy who was given the same name as an uncle be called junior and the uncle senior? Junior is generally used to designate a son from a father of precisely the same name and sometimes any younger male from a male relative of the same name. In case of uncle and nephew it Is more the custom to apply the suffix second to the nephew. Second and third are also used to designate the descendants in the second and third generation from their elders having the same name. How did the Christian or church flag originate? It originated in the legend about Constantine the Great whose standard at the Battle of Milvian Bridge (A. D. 312) against Maxentius, bore the Christian cross which he adopted because it appeared to him in a vision over the setting sun, with the in-cription above it: "By this sign, conquer," while he was praying to the sungod. Adopting that emblem for his banner he led his troops to victory under it. What is the height and weight of Jack Dempsey? Six feet one-half inch tall; weight 196 pounds. What country is called Suisse? That is the French name for Switzerland Are aliens in America who refuse to become naturalized citizens subject to deportation on that account? No There is no law compelling aliens to become citizens. How can a tobacco pipe be cleaned? Cut one-half inch from the end of an ordinary cork and fit it tightly into the bowl of the pipe. Cut a hole in the cork large enough to admit a stream of water and hold it under the tap. allowing the water to flow gently through the pipe until it is clean. This should improve the odor and may help the taste. Where can applications be filed for admission to the United States army nurse corps school of nursing? The school is no longer :n operation. Applicants for the arnty nurse corps must have had a high school

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitnde of this paper.—The Editor.

MARCH 15, 1032

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Eye Injuries Cost Nation $50,000,000 Annually, Statistics Shou\ EYE injuries still are an expensive hazard of American industry. according to the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Every yea/ more than 2.000 workers lose the sight of one or both eyes, according to the society. In addition, there are about 300,000 minor eye injuries a year. The expense in time lost, compensation payments and medical bills is about $50,000,000, the society says. These facts were brought out in a symposium on "The Eye—lts Relation to Safety," held in New York under auspices of the society. "There re considerable ground for the belief that each year more persons are robbed permanently of their sight by occupational hazards than by any other single cause of blindness,” declared Lewis H. earns. managing director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, who presided. Discussing the economic loss involved, Dr. Louis Schwartz, senior surgeon of the United States public health service, said: "It is conservative and fair to estimate that of the 3.000,000 accidents incapacitating the worker for one day or more which occur in the United States each year, at least 10 per cent are eye cases.” tt tt a Goggles Advocated A MANDATORY rule requiring every employe in an idustrial shop to wear goggles while at work was advocated by Harry Guilbert. director of safety for the Pullman Company, Chicago. Guilbert, who is on the executive committee of the National Safety Council, enjoys the distinction of not having a single loss in the last six years among the thousands oi men daily engaged in dangerous work in the Pullman shops at Chicago and in other places. "Unless they are compelled to be careful on penalty of dismissal, ’ Guilbert said, "workmen see their comrades blinded and even killed by avoidable accident* and then expose themselves to the same danger shortly thereafter. “In my experience as safety di- ! rector of the Pullman Company, 1 | have employed every possible method to induce men to protect ! their sight. “Rules and regulations were promulgated and posted everywhere, with no apparent results. However, j the president's mandatory rule that every employe, irrespective of his occupation, must wear goggles while | on duty, and visitors while passing | through the plant must do likewise, ! brought order out of chaos and a | record unsurpassed—six years with- ! out an eye loss.” a a a SPEAKING on defective vision as a cause of accidents. Dr. Lr ; Grand H. Hardy, chief of the eye ; service at the Fifth Avenue hospital. urged periodic medical examinations in industry as a means of lessening the accident incidence due to defective vision. “Defective illumination is a comI mon and expensive cause of defective eyesight and accidents,” said !‘Dr. Hardy. “The major defects of ! illumination may be recognized easily and in most cases eradica- ! tion is usually not only practically | possible, but economically profitable as well. j “The best available statistics indicate that about 40 per cent of our : industrial workers have defective vision, due to ocular defects. This j number probably if being increased by unhygienic lighting conditions. “Moreover, the effect of poor illumination is to augment the ocular deficiencies already present Refractive errors cause potentially dangerous situations by producing fatigue, reducing physical efficiency, and failing to give adequate warning of danger while there is yet time to avoid it. “Muscle imbalances lower the worker's resistance to fatigue and disturb quick and accurate spatial perceptions, which are essential to safe behavior among moving objects.”

education, and must be graduates of an accredited school of nursing. The superintendent of the army nurse corps, war department, Washington, p. C., will furnish application blanks and detailed information. What is the national anthem of Canada? ‘‘The Maple Leaf Forever." What was the coldest temperature recorded in Indianapolis from Sept. 1, 1931, to March 1, 1932? The lowest temperature was recorded during January, w'hen It was 12 above zero. On what days did Nov. 29, 1907, and March 26, 1904 fall? They were on Friday and Saturday, respectively. How long before a wedding should the invitations be mailed? Two to three weeks. What is the origin of the quotation, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread?” It is from Pope's Essay on Criticism, part 3. How much did John L. Sullivan weigh at the peak of life career as a prizefighter? About 196 pounds. Where is Duke university located? Durham, N. C. Is the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary mentioned in the Bible, or is there any other record or tradition? No. According to Roman Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary was the daughter of St. Joachim and his wife, Saint Anna. Can music teachers becoms members of the American Federation of Musicians? Membership is limited to performers on musical instruments of any kind who render musical services for pay. If a music teacher came within this clasification, he would be accepted in the federation. What does it vost to fire a shot from the largest guns of the United States Navy? Approximately 51.400. In the language of flowers, what significance has the vioiet? Innocence.