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The Old Scarecrow Speaking for the Insult utilities interests, one of the officials of one of the various companies of that organization told the students at De Pauw that* public ownership of utilities would mean a great increase In laxcs. It is queer that an organization which has so much money and, theoretically, so many brains can not discover anew ccarecrow to frighten the public. For years the threat has been made that municipal ownership of a light or water company woul# mean that its management would get into “politics” ancl become a costly burden upon the ordinary citizen. To tell college boys who are bright such old fables Is rather an insult to their intelligence, and this would be especially true at De Pauw, where liberal thought is encouraged and most of the students are taking things apart to find out what makes them tick. Tha thought of the utilities, and especially the Insull utilities, saving the people irom bankruptcy by paying their taxes is pure humor. Asa matter cf fact, it is because the utilities take so much from the consumer that very many citizens are unable to pay their taxes. It is because the pyramid of holding company finance rests on an apex and is now swaying in unfavorable winds that a desperate drive is being mode to thwart any effort of the people to obtain justice. The comparison of the records of cities with their own electric plants and those which pay tribute to Insull will not frighten taxpayers. The city of Washington, for instance, has a very low' tax rate because of the earnings of its electric plant. The same is true of Anderson and Frankfort and other benighted centers who do not fear “politics” —except the kind of utility politics which corrupt legislatures, names Governors and public service commissioners, becomes the government by the use of contributions to political parties. Compare the utility influence in politics with that of the water plant at South Bend or in any other enlightened community. The political influence of the water department Is, at its limit, confined to a very few job holders. Utility politics stretches all the way from corruption at the ballot boxes to corruption in judicial chambers. To look upon utilities as tax saviors is to look upon the bandit who has stolen your pocketbook and gives you car fare home as a philanthropist and a benefactor.

Hanging Ruth Judd We need not be sentimental about the spring hanging of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, the 27-year-old preacher’s daughter of Phoenix, Ariz. But we can be sensible. While it seems more unchivalrous, it is no more brutal to hang a woman than a man. Mrs. Judd obviously is insane, or abnormal, but so have been most male murderers who have been hanged and electrocuted. And Ruth Judd is not the first woman to be hanged. It is not only the inhumanity of this coming performance that shocks our sympathies; it is the hypocrisy and stupidity that shocks our reason. Arizona does not advance the doctrine of revenge, and demands this woman's life for the two that she took. It argues that she must be killed as an example and a deterrent to other murder-minded citizens. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, the states have executed some 13,000 men. They have executed only twenty-seven women. The records in twelve states, between 1912 and 1919, show that for some 20,000 homicides there were only 336 executions. Thus, every killer had fifty-nine chances to one of escaping execution. The chances of a murderess escaping appear to be about 500 to 1. Murder is a crime of passion. Were execution a swift and certain retribution for every murder, it is doubtful if gallows or the chair would deter. Since it is neither, the deterrent effect is almost nil. The eight states that have abolished capital punishment are not necessarily more humane. They are more intelligent. Their juries will convict more readily. Hence with them punishment is more certain to follow crime. Asa matter of fact, in capital punishment states, the murder death rate is 57 per 1,000.000 of population, as compared with 42 per 1.000,000 in noncapital punishment states. So the hanging of an abnormal woman in Arizona will be a worse than useless gesture. Par from making life in the United States more secure, it only will help to cheapen life.

The Wilkerson Issue v Senator William E. Borah and his committee have done well in refusing to be stampeded into confirmation of Judge James H. Wilkerson as judge of the seventh circuit court of appeals. There is an apparent effort by the judge’s backers to sweep him into office on the wave of popular outrage over the Lindbergh kidnaping. President Frank Loesch of the Chicago crime commission and Colonel Isham of the "Secret Six” just have issued appeals, declaring that the senate's failure to confirm Wilkerson would be taken as a “vote for the triumph of the gangsters.” With due recognition of Judge Wilkerson's conduct In Chicago’s recent “cleanup,” we submit that the issue in Washington is bigger than one of that city's gangsterism. It took some courage to send A1 Capone, Terfy Druggan, Frankie Lake and other “public enemies” to federal prison. It takes much more courage to be fair and just, under opposing pressure from powerful corporations, to lawfully striking American citizens. So woefully has Judge Wilkerson failed to display this kind of courage that he has forfeited his rights to promotion to the second highest bench of the land. In 1922, Wilkerson, a Harding appointee of only two months, was selected by Attorney-General Harry Daugherty to issue against striking rail shopmen one of the most drastic and sweeping injunctions ever issued from the bench, an injunction forbidding communication between union officials and strikers, payment of strike benefits, peaceful picketing, a score of legal activities. In 1924 Wilkerson issued another savage injunction against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He laid down the doctrine that “the right to work is not an absolute right.” In 1928 Wilkerson issued an injunction against the Chicago musicians’ union, virtually placing the members under involuntary servitude by forbidding them to leave their employment without consent of their employers, whether they held contracts or not. As stated by Donald Richberg, railmen’s counsel, Wilkerson, “in his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions, has not followed the law as laid down by the supreme court, but has attempted to write new has violated existing laws and has as-

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sume and to exercise pow r er never conferred upon his court.” As 3tated by Labor, the railmen’s organ, “Wilkerson has been mixed up with Cook county and Illinois politics since 1902, always has been a machine politician, close to the Insull power interests, and has been bitterly antagonistic to organized labor. Wilkerson was so satisfactory to the Insull and other interests that the ‘machine’ recommended him to the federal bench.” Wilkerson is too notorious as an injunction judge to deserve federal promotion. The Joker There are, of course, some government activities which might be done away with. Yet, strangely enough it is the bureaus which regulate business in the interest of the consumer that are under heaviest attack—the interstate commerce commission, which regulates railroads; the federal trade commission, which works to prevent monopolies and unfair trade practices; the children’s bureau, which fights child labor; the women’s bureau, which demands decent working conditions for women. These are the targets of politicians, who are talking most pitifully about the condition of the taxpayer and leading him to believe that his troubles will be over if he can reduce his bill for these starved bureaus. They do not tell him that his bill for subsistence probably will go far higher than his tax bill ever has gone if he throws away the federal safeguards for the consumers. The Lot Next Door City lots generally are too narrow. They have not increased in size in proportion to the spreading out of the residence area through use of the automobile. Even suburban lots too often have followed the restricted dimensions of lots in the city proper, making the suburbs not much more desirable than close-in property. Present real estate prices offer many home-owners opportunity to remedy this. In many cases there is a vacant lot next door which can be acquired cheaply. Buy the lot next door if you can. It will make possible a garden that will make your home much more pleasant.

The Real Problem An atomerg, in case you don’t know, is the smallest possible particle of energy—the ultimate building block of which everything in the universe, from a great mountain to a flickering candle flame, is made. It is described in the new theory of matter put forward recently by Dr. E. K. Plyler of the University of North Carolina, and it is so incredibly small that if you wanted to write down its size you would have to put down a decimal point, follow it with forty-seven ciphers and then add the figure 7. All of this, while it is simply incomprehensible to those of us who don’t happen to be physicists or mathematicians, represents an important new scientific advance, and demonstrates anew what a marvelously active and intelligent thing the human brain can be; but it also serves to show the curiously uneven way in which our knowledge advances. We can trace the kinship between matter and energy down to a point unbelievably remote, and can dissect the structure of all created things with a precision that almost transcends thought; and yet on such practical matters as finding a way in which all human beings always can have enough to eat and enough to wear and a warm place to sleep, we sometimes seem as incompetent as a group of school children. Again we can give a fairly accurate account of how the universe is put together—which, everything considered, is quite an achievement—but we know no more why, or when, or what it is all about, than did the buffalo-hunting Indians of our western plains two centuries ago. We make magnificent triumphs in our laboratories and send thought questing restlessly beyond the most remote frontiers; but we have not solved the simple problem of getting along with one another in peace and harmony, and we have to spend a crushing proportion of all our wealth on weapons with which to kill one another when our quarrels get too acrid. If, some day, we can learn to apply the same intelligence that now goes to scientific research and speculation to the homelier problems of everyday life, we might be able to make this an exceedingly pleasant and livable world.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTEB FERGUSON

ENTIRELY too much has been said, I think, about woman's influence over man. If we except, as we must, the mother’s power to make the son, this idea has no foundation in fact. Indeed, the reverse is true. Man’s influence over woman far exceeds that of woman over man. Before we had the feminine freedom we now enjoy, the entire life, behavior, and thought of our sex was dictated by men. The old-fashioned housewife, for instance, believed implicitly that the double standard was right, not because logic or common sense told her so, but because men said it was. She lived in a man's world and its morality was a man’s morality. Today’s woman is but slightly better off in this respect. It is true that she is told constantly that her behavior sets the pace for the age. This is largely bunk, however. a a a I HAVE known during my life several very fine young women who were turned into liquor addicts by bibulous husbands. And I never have known one liquor addict who was reformed by his wife. They do reform occasionally, I am aware, but only because the individual realizes his danger, because somewhere in his nature he has been endowed with will power and intelligence and a desire to be as decent as he can. This comes probably from his mother, for all men are shaped long before they come under the influence of any other woman. The mother alone can fashion a personality and she can do it only during the infancy of the child. It therefore is wrong to try to make girls believe that by any effort they can turn all young men they know into noble beings, or that by misbehaving they can become the ruination of the boys. a m a IT would be unwise to assert that all human beings do not have a certain slight influence over their fellows. But certainly women possess no undue power in this line. The idea is, of course, only a very delightful delusion. It lends a pleasing sense of worth. It gives us a sensation of importance. It justifies us in our feeling of superiority, because we do generally feel morally superior to men—but it is first, last, and all the time si sentimental haL’ucination. A

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

I There Is No Reason Why Public Officials Should Not Bear Their Just Share of Salary Reduction. NEW YORK, March 18.—Regardless of its bearing on the sales tax, or any other measure now before congress, a cut - in federal salaries would be no more than fair. Wages are down, incomes are down, prices are down. There is no reason why public officials should not bear their just share of the burden. When asked to take a 10 per cent cut the railroad men were told that it would not prove such a hardship because of the way living expenses had been reduced. Living expenses have been reduced just as much for congress-; men and bureau chiefs as for conductors and brakemen. * n * Incomes Slump THOUGH rates are higher, it is estimated that the income tax will produce 20 per cent less than it did last year. That means an even greater decline in income. Last year the income was 25 per cent below what it was -the year before. Putting two and two together, it seems fair to say that the American people are earning only about, three-fifths as much as they did in 1929. Just before he left office. President Coolidge estimated the nation’s total income at about $90.000,000.000 a year. If he was right, the nation’s income is about $54,000,000,000 now. * n n Time to Cut Costs FEDERAL, state and local taxes run from eight to ten billion dollars a year, and they haven’t gone down any during the last three years. With an income of $90,000,000,000 in 1929, about 10 per cent of what the American people earned went for taxes. With the income down by two-fifths, taxes now account for more than 15 per cent. Asa matter of even-handed fairness, the time has arrived to cut costs. Industry has had to take a cut, trade has had to take a cut and agriculture has had to take a cut. There are very few people in this country getting what they were three years ago, whether in dividends, profit, rent, or wages. When you get down among the workers, you find that the cut is even more drastic. One out of eight is idle, two out of eight are wording only part time and the other five are glad to take what they can get. n * n Tax Boost Unfair IT is not right for congress to hurl a 25 per cent increase of taxes at the American people under such conditions. It is not right for congress to think of any increase at all, until it has done what it could to bring government expenses into line with the taxpayers’ pocketbook. The discharge of a few clerks can npt, and will not satisfy the purpose. There are poor men enough on our streets already. The economizing must be genuine to mean anything, and must be made by those who best can afford it. Private business has found it impossible to make the ndfcessary economies without pay cuts. How can government hope to do otherwise? Byrns Points Way Representative byrns of Tennessee has suggested a graduated cut in federal salaries, beginning with a low percentage for those of $3,000 or $4,000, and rising to 20 per cent for congressmen. Congressmen get SIO,OOO a year, with quite a few allowances. If they took a 20 per cent cut, it would be no more than the majority of SIO,OOO men in private life have ; taken. A 20 per cent cut means less to the man getting SIO,OOO than any cut at all means to the man getting $2,000, and a cut in public pay is no worse than a cut in private pay. We have overworked the notion that it was all right to keep up government pay rolls and government expenses because “prosperity was just around the corner,” and because it would be a shame to set private business the wrong kind of example. The time has come to play fair.

If T ?s9£ Y Af ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMANS SEIZE PROPERTY March 18 ON March 18, 1918, the German government announced confiscation of all American property in Germany in reprisal for seizure of German property in the United States. Belgian troops repulsed heavy German raids in the region of Dixmude. The British advance in Palestine was continued, several additional towns being captured. Fighting between Armenian and Turkish troops was reported from Armenia. Artillery bombardments from German guns on the western front became general. This was taken as an effort to screen the movement of German troops for a major offensive expected to begin with a week.

Questions and

Answers

What is a lunar month? It extends from new moon to new moon. How many automobile garages and service stations has the United States? Approximately 50,000 storage garages, 100,000 repair shops and service stations and about 78,000 retail supply stores and departments. How old is Charlie Chaplin? Forty-two. Is Hetty Green, the American woman financier, still living? She died in 1916.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Rapid Spread of Trench Mouth Shown

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Mcdicar Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THERE is a well-defined impression among doctors and dentists that the condition known during the war as trench mouth, a form of infection of the mouth and gums, is increasing definitely in this country. To check this contention, Dr. I. Disraeli conducted a survey among public health officials, dental schools and individual dentists as to frequency of the condition as seen in their practices. Between 80 and 90 per cent of the persons questioned were convinced that the disease is definitely on the increase. It is, of course, impossible to be certain that this opinion is correct, since the condition is not generally

IT SEEMS T'o ME BY H BROUN D

“'T'HE clerk refrained from calling his name and he did not vote, although he always is free to, if he wishes." The sentence is culled from a Washington news dispatch regarding the fine, forthright attitude of John Nance Garner, Speaker of the house, in regard to the test on prohibition repeal. John Nance Garner—there he stands like the Rock of Gibraltar, and just as silent. Other candidates for the presidency have gone into the convention animated by some descriptive phrase like “the happy warrior’’ or “the great engineer.” It seems only fitting that Speaker Garner should also be presented to the republic attired in some descriptive and appealing blurb. He does not happen to be my favorite candidate, but I am sufficiently nonpartisan to do what I can to put the gentleman from Texas on an equal footing with his fellows. How about some such slogan as “Vote for John Nance Garner, the fighting clam?” # ts ft Takes a Good Picture IT has been said of Speaker Garner that he is the darling of his colleagues and of the Washington correspondents. It is no state secret that President Hoover is not precisely a “good fellow” in his social contacts. But in all fairness it should be noted that the White House has not been a center or hilarity within these many years. White House dinners are dreary, and the fiction of the command

Daily Thought

The hoary head is a crown of glory.—Proverbs 16:31. Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. — Richter.

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Not a Chance!

reportable to health authorities in ■the same way that measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and similar infectious diseases are reportable. It happens that the state of New York has made the condition reportable since 1922. Even though all the cases probably are not reported to the health authorities, such statistics as are available indicate that Vincent’s angina or trench mouth has increased tenfold from 1922 through 1930. In Illinois the disease was made reportable in 1930, but the ruling is not strictly enforced and few dentists or physicians realize that the disease is reportable. There is a well-defined impression that this disease is spread by eating and drinking in restaurants and in other places where a considerable clientele is served, and where precautions in the washing

performance has been necessary in order to assure a quorum. But Mr. Garner loves the newspaper boys and they love him. According to his reputation, he always is ready to give a frank and fair answer to all and any who come to him seeking data for a Monday morning’s story. Os late this facility for being articulate has grown a little dimmer. Many of Mr. Garner’s frank answers seem to have fallen into the general form of “Please don't ask me that.” Congress doth make cowards of us all, and John Nance Garner has not escaped the blight of those who live with one ear pinned close to the ground. A politician is a gentleman who tries to find out which way public opinion is going to jump and after mature and nervous deliberation guesses wrong. u * u Seeking Foolproof System BEING an old hand at the game, Garner has endeavored to find a foolproof system. It is his notion that by announcing no decision whatsoever he can not possibly be wrong. It remains to be seen whether a man can be right under this same system. His hat is in the ring and his clothes are on the hickory limb. But John Nance Garner won’t go near the water. His caution is even more profound. He won’t go near beer and light wines. At the moment I can not remember the leader who was hailed as “the greatest neutral since Pontius Pilate,” but quite evidently Speaker Garner is prepared to give him a run for his title. The psychology of the ardent drys has always puzzled me. It long has been evident that they bear no malice against those who drink wet and vote dry. Such candidates frequently have received hearty support from the Anti-Saloon League. That association is bent only upon interfering with the private rights of the public. It would not think of snooping into the personal

of dishes are not exceedingly strict. It is of course well known that the disease may be spread by direct contact such as occur in kissing. Control of Vincent’s angina demands the utmost precaution on the part of the public generally and on the part of those who have the disease to make certain that they do not spread it. It demands special care in the handling of dishes, glasses, towels and every other material that may come in contact with the infected individual. In this disease, small patches, gray and ulcerating, appear around the teeth and gums, on the cheeks and even in the throat. Some time ago it was shown that the disease is controllable through the use of an inexpensive substance called sodium perborate as a mouth wash.

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 attitude of •this raper.—The Editor.

habits of a congressman. It is not his breath, but words upon the floor of the house, which interest the Board of Public Morals. But I wonder what attitude the league is going to take toward a gentleman like Garner whose cellar is designed not for wines, but for cyclones. Are the drys content with a candidate who keeps mum whenever a test vote threatens? n u No Opinion Is Good Opinion IT is m,y notion that these rulers of America will be satisfied with such a performance. The old aggressiveness is gone from their campaign. “When you've got it won, keep it won” is the prevailing prohibition policy. There was never a qualm in their ranks when frightened judges riddle the bill of rights for the sake of Volsteadism, and they are just as ready to let the democratic scheme of majority rule go by the boards to save the amendment. The drys have no desire to learn what the people think. Already they have an inkling, and they would much prefer not to have the subject come up. The public be damned! Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die, with Bishop Cannon to the right of them and Clarence True Wilson on the left. And so I have no doubt that Speaker Garner will be enshrined among the heroes of the noble experiment. He said not a word or even raised an eyebrow. This is the part of a faithful servant. All hail the fighting clam! (Coovrieht. 10. bv The Times.'.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—When, some time ago, the American Legion launched its cleanup and repair campaign to bring together “idle men and idle dollars,” it was hailed hopefully as a "realistic program.” But now, in the light of the pitifully meager results, it appears distinctly Utopian. If it has, indeed, accomplished anything, except cn paper, where are the men it has put back to work? Since the campaign was inaugurated employment has declined even farther than the low level on which it previously stood. And so the results of this campaign, in spite of all the publicity, are obviously nil. In fact, the campaign was doomed from the beginning, as any survey of similar campaigns launched within the last two years readily would have shown. These campaigns invariably prove the occasion of a lot of frantic activity, and they get a warming salvo of publicity, but in the end they are distinguished chiefly by a deplorable lack of results. The reason should be obvious. This is an individualistic society, and no amount of ballyhoo will persuade a rugged American individualist to part with his dollar when it becomes increasingly uncertain

.MARCH 18, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Fuel and Food Directly from Sunlight Is Aim of Science , SCIENCE is a step nearer to the goal of abolishing coal mines, j oil wells, and farms. It Is a step ! nearer to the day when man will be free of the soil, getting his fuel and [ food directly from sunlight. The world of science now knows the essential nature of the chlorophyll molecule. Chlorophyll is the green coloring matter in the cells of plants, the stuff that makes the ileaves green. Today, our food and fuel both come from the sun, but by an indirect route. All green plants carry on a process known as photosynthesis. The plant absorbs carbon dioxide from the air through “pores" or openings in the leaves. It absorbs water from the soil through its roots. Then with the energy of sunlight, it combines the water and carbon dioxide into sugars and starches. However, this manufacturing process, known as photosynthesis, is possible only when the leaves contain chlorophyll. Our food consists of animals and plants. Animals, in their turn, eat plants. Therefore, the process of photosynthesis, the method by which the plant manufactures the substance of its own tissues, is the fundamental process which keeps us all alive. It also accounts for our fuel, for our fuel consists of wood, the substance of living plants, of coal, which consists of fossilized plants, or of petroleum, the remains of ancient plant or animal life. n n n Food Factories FOR many years scientists have given thought to the idea of duplicating the process of photosynthesis. If it could be done, then sunlight could be used directly to turn the carbon dioxide of the air into fuel and food. Great factories would take the place of farms. Perhaps the deserts, now waste places, would become most valuable because they get the most sunlight. But photosynthesis is possible only when chlorophyll is present. The action of chlorophyll is that of a catalytic agent. That is, its presence permits a chemical reaction to occur at a temperature and pressure at which it otherwise could not take place. Therefore the problem of understanding photosynthesis meant, in large part, the understanding of the action of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll, however, is an exceedingly complex substance, so complex, in fact, that for many years it has resisted chemical analysis. Today, however, chemists believe that they understand its essential nature. Two formulas for it have been advanced, one by Professor Hans Fischer, famous chemist of Munich, the other by Professor James Bryant Conant, chairman of the division of chemistry of Harvard university. Professor Conant just has been awarded the William H. Nichols medal of the American Chemical Society for his work of chlorophyll. * n Chemical Analysis IT might occur to any young student of science that photosynthesis might be carried out by means of an extract of chlorophyll made from a green plant. But that has been tried without avail. Apparently, chlorophyll functions only in the plant cell while the cell is alive. The work on chlorophyll, both here and abroad, has shown that there really are two chlorophylls, temporarily named Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B. In addition, there are two yellow pigments. All seem necessary to photosynthesis. Researches have shown further that the basis of each of the four pigments is a compound known as porphyrin. The structure of this compound was determined by Dr. Fischer in Munich. Professor Conant has shown that the green Chlorophyll A series are based on combinations of porphyrin plus two hydrogen atoms, while the B series has one *xygen atom in place of the two hydrogen atoms. Professor Conant, who was bom in 1893, is regarded as one of the nation’s most brilliant younger chemists. He received his" Ph. D. degree from Harvard in 1916 and during the World war became a major in the research division the chemical warfare service. He has been on the Harvard faculty since the close of the war. The Nichols medal, established in 1903. is one of the most distinguished awards of the American Chemical Society.

where his next dollar will come from. Repairs, like any other investment in a profit-taking society, are made only when they give hope of returning a dividend. Dividends nov: hardly exist, and future dividenclno longer will serve as an argument, for to the average American individualist the future has become so hazy and nebulous that he no longer takes any stock in it. Therefore, he clings to his dollar and no amount of philanthropic solicitation, backed by powerful slogans, will part him from it. “Idle men and idle dollars” is, consequently, an idle cause. EUGENE STANTON. Editor Times—Pertaining to the Lindbergh case, of course all the woxid is in sympathy with the parents of the child. But while the aristocracy or “big shots” of the whole world are making such a fuss about it, and taking it so to heart, f wonder why they do not, sometimes, have a feeling of compassion for the world of babies, to conceive some system of more adequate relief, and realize, by virtue of the luxuries and environment afforded their own child or children, the feeling in the hearts of millions of parents who are separating, losing their homes, children going to orphanages because of unemployment or lack of funds. Perhaps if these same “big shots,” from the President down to the shoe store manager, would open their hearts, create employment and spend money, the kidnapers would have to conceive some other racket. UNEMPLOYED FATHER OF SIX. What proportion of the population of Spain is Roman Catholic? About 18.605,000 out of a total population of 23,000,000 are Roman Catholics.