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>io Strike This Year All the people are intensely interested in the conference now in progress at Terre Haute at which the union coal miners and the coal mine operators are rndeavoring to reach a scale agreement That conference might easily destroy this industry in this state if reason and unselfishness do not dictate the terms under which men may work and coal may be mined. It may be taken for granted that the men of the mines understand that in these days of economic disturbance and depression, some concessions must be made in order that the Indiana fields may compete with those of West Virgipia and Pennsylvania. It is highly important that the number of men employed be increased, rather than decreased, as a rebuilt of the agreement and that the Indiana output be restored and maintained. The coal industry in the state has not flourished In recent years. A variety of causes contributed to ♦ his result. Wise leadership of the men is needed ns never before. Mining of coal under injunctions and in conflict with so-called co-operatives has become intolerable, resulting in loss to the owners of mines and widespread misery and privation to the miners. It is within the realm of probability that an effort will be made to direct the Indiana miners into a situation where a strike might easily result. A strike in Indiana mines this year would be fatal to the Industry and, what is much more important, probably fatal to the miners* organization through which fair and reasonable working conditions are alone possible. Any advice from leadership, local or national, that heads toward a strike should be scrutinized most carefully. A miners’ strike this year is unthinkable. Give Them a Chance A special session of the legislature is imperative if the farmer and smaller home owner is to be saved from bankruptcy through unfair distribution of taxes. So far Governor Leslie has taken the attitude that there will be no session until a majority of the members of the legislature sign agreements in advance that they will write only a tax law which meets with his approval and then adjourn. That attitude is, of course, unjustifiable on any theory that the people make their own laws through n legislative branch of government and that the Governor is elected to execute the laws, not dictate them. Most of th? members of the legislature would like to come back to Indianapolis for another term. Many of them piled up records in the regular session in which the search for some argument or even explanation for their neighbors is exceedingly difficult. They are probably sorry. They would probably do better if given a chance to redeem their records and establish themselves in public confidence. A tax upon the intangible, forms of wealth is inevitable. There must be economies. It may be necessary to shift a large portion of the highway tax to other uses. But it is also imperative, as John White, able member- from this county, points out, to pass some utility legislation that will bring relief to the consumers of electricity, water and gas. The legislature attempted to write one law by forgery, or rather some undisclosed but powerful forces in the legislature did succeed in getting the signature of the Governor to a paper that the courts said was fraud and forgery. It is just possible that if the Governor consents, the legislature will repent of its sins of omission and commission and write some real and needed laws. Give them a chance. It can do no harm. It might do good. What Experts Say It might be assumed that leaders of the house of representatives acted upon expert adrice when they wrote their vicious general sales tax. Search of the record fails, however, to reveal the opinion of one outstanding fiscal expert, inside or outside of government circles, who was whole-heartedly for this basic change in the American tax system. If there are any such experts their number is small. No later than Dec. 14, Ogden Mills, then undersecretary and now secretary of the treasury, said that the treasury department had rejected the general or turnover tax “not only because it bears no relation to ability to pay and is regressive in character, but because of the enormous administrative difficulties and the almost inevitable pyramiding of the tax in the course of successive sales. Again, on March 12, Mills said: “I happen to be one who in the past has not favored a sales tax. I prefer a tax system consisting of a progressive tax on individual incomes with a broad base, a corporation income tax, an estate tax, customs duties and a selective group of excise taxes.’’ Now he merely says the ways and means sales tax plan is ••acceptable:’ Undersecretary of Treasury A. A. Ballantine is quoted ns having denounced the general sales tax as “essentially unjust" and “grossly discriminatory.” E. C. Alvord. treasury specialist, was asked in committee hearings by Representative Crisp whether, as an American citizen, he favored the general sales tax. He replied: “At the present time, no sir.” Dr. Thomas S. Adams of Yale, a committee witness, thought the system in Canada a success, but admitted he had not talked with Canadian farmer, labor or consumer groups. Economists have been almost unanimous in opposing indirect taxes upon the people's needs. For instance: Adam Smith in His “Wealth of Nations’’—Tax on ♦he necessities of life operate exactly in the same manner as a tax on the wages of labor. John Stuart Mill—Exclusion must be made upon all taxes on commodities, necessities of life, or on materials or instruments employed in producing these necessities. Such taxes always are likely to encroach on what should be left untaxed, the income barely sufficient for healthful existence. Professor E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia—The sales tax sins against the cardinal principle of equality of taxation. Dr. William J. Schultz, Financial Economist for ♦he National Industrial Conference Board—The supreme drawback to a federal sales tax would be its social injustice. Dr. John R. Commons, President of the Consumers’ League and Wisconsin University Economist—A sales tax reduces the purchasing power and welfare of the mffilons of low-paid consumers. It is a tax exactly reverse to the better principle of to WDr. John Dewey of Columbia—A sales tax Is gov-

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ernmental blackmail on hunger and small earned incomes. The national iifcustrial conference board report of 1929; United States Chamber of Commerce committee on federal taxation; organizations representing upward of 50,000,000 farmers, union workers, consumers and retailers all oppose the sales tax principle. Even former Secretary of the Treasury Mellon did not propose a sales tax. When approached upon it last September, Senator Reed, after an hour of argument with him, admitted that Mellon “was not so keen for it.” Who, then, advised the Garner-Crisp-Hawley sales tax boosters of the house? Tax Beer Os the many reasons given by the senate subcommittee for its favorable report on the Bingham bill to legalize 4 per cent beer, the economic reasons probably will arouse widest interest. That prohibition has increased consumption of hard liquor, spawned the bootleg industry, multiplied racketeering, corrupted the courts, increased lawlessness and disrespect for the law, and lowered the morals of the nation, are facts fairly well established. But the serious economic consequences of prohibition have not been recognized until now. In times of depression it is the dollar and argument that goes home. When a senate subcommittee finds that legislation of 4 per cent beer would give employment in a relatively short time to from a half million to a million persons, even the most fanatical dry must pause. We are inclined to think this estimate is too high. But even if the estimate is cut in half, the figure remains significant—especially when we recall that prohibition was sold to the country originally on the propaganda plea that it would guarantee permanent and high level employment and prosperity. The most convincing part of the economic argument against prohibition, however, is that which applies to government finances. At the moment the country is suffering from a dangerously large deficit and the necessity of increasing federal revenues. The Democratic and Republican machines in congress are ready to impose a general sales tax —which they admit is vicious in principle—as a necessary evil. This newspaper, and liberals generally, oppose the sales tax and desire to cover as much of the deficit as possible by restoration of war-time surtax and death duty tax. But a beer tax—of 2 cents a pint—would wipe out the necessity of either a sales tax or of war-time income and estate taxes. The senate subcommittee estimates that such beer tax would net the government annually from $347,000,000 to $800,000,000. Now the government pays millions to “enforce” an unenforceable law and is denied the opportunity of taxing the beer which flows so freely. The gain of the bootlegger is the loss of the citizen, who will pay off the federal deficit through sales taxes or income taxes. Prohibition is to blame. Worthless Fortunes The miser is a phenomenon as old as civilization; and from the very beginning he has been a great puzzle. There died in the middle west the other day an aged recluse who lived in a tiny apartment on a mean side street. To all appearances, he was just one notch above actual destitution. But when his effects were examined, after his death, it was found that he owned cash and securities worth upward of SBOO,OOO. Cases of this kind continually are coming to light, of course, and there is nothing especially unusual in this one. But it does make one wonder, anew—- “ Why?” The money did the man no earthly good. It now is being divided among thirty-nine cousins, and it is doubtful if he saved it on their account. It did him no good whatsoever. What can be the motive that makes a man treat his money that way? Candidates for the presidency have at least one thing in common. They make plenty of speeches and seldom say anything. A girl with a dark past is one who used to be a brunet. Since prosperity seems reluctant to return to business, maybe it's up to business to return to prosperity. One of the curiosities of the year in Europe is the American tourist. A headline says, “United States to Oppose New Jap Plan.” Well, turn about’s fair play. Judging by boxoffice figures, Jack Dempsey’s comeback campaign proves one thing. He can take it! We wonder if the peace Japan is talking about wanting from China shouldn't be spelled “piece.”

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTEB FERGUSON

“T CAN'T sleep at night worrying over the Lindbergh X baby,” said a woman to a group of friends. I dare say there is no mother in all the land who has not awakened in the dark and anguished with Ann Lindbergh. It has, I hope, awakened women from their pleasant dreamings of “God’s country.” For the mothers of America must help to bring the nation back to decency and to make it a safe place for all babies. What a challenge that is! What a magnificent job we have before us. if we only will recognize it! And I do not believe that this job can be done merely by passing more harsh laws against kidnaping. We know the futility of laws. They never can remedy the evils from which we now suffer. We must substitute education for edicts, because no law is any good unless it can be enforced and we now have so many that it’s a physical impossibility to do that with any success at all. u tt IT’S futile to ask for good men and women while two-thirds of our children live in frightful holes, victims of poverty, without cleanliness for their bodies or beauty for their eyes. Criminals and half-wits breed like flies because we haven't the courage to look facts in the face. I was shocked to find some time ago that two children, 6 and 8 years old. were locked in a cell in the city jail. Their parents were petty criminals. There was nowhere else for them to go because —and this is the craziest fact of all—the detention home for which municipal money had been spent could take only children convicted of misdemeanors. Think of it! A 6-year-old baby locked in a cell without a toy to amuse himself! That is the sort of thing that makes the tragedy of Charles Lindbergh possible. It is perhaps too late to Reform most men and women. But the children can and must be saved.

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M: E. Tracy Says:

It Is All Wrong to Imagine That Prosperity Can Be | Restored Throughtheßoof. Our Trouble Is on the First Floor. YORK, March 22.—At first thought it seems no more than ; fair to revalue the estates of those who died just before the crash. What looked like an inheritance of $1,000,000 in the early part of | 1929 might easily shrink to $200,000 or $300,000 by the end of 1930. If the heirs were called upon to pay the tax on $1,000,000, they might easily be left with less than noth- ! ing. The provision of the new tax bill which permits revaluation of estates eighteen months after death would seem to be equitable. But let us consider some other cases. nun Woe to Rest of Us! TAKE the small business man. for instance, who was operati ing on a SIO,OOO line of credit in the 1 early part of 1929, and who couldn’t meet his notes after the crash. Take the home owmer who lost ; his job and couldn't meet the local i tax bill. Take a thousand and one of us ordinary folks who found ourselves caught in the backwash of depres- • sion, but who owed debts that had been agreed upon during the boom. Has the government passed any measure for our relief? Has it shown any consideration for the ! losses we have sustained through ; reduced income, or lack of work? n tt tt Saving the Rich THOUSANDS of little people have been ruined in this mad ; scramble to save big business and big fortunes. Thousands of little shops have been closed; thousands of homes | have been sold; thousands of notes have been called; in obedience to the theory that the nation’s future hung on relief for a few gigantic concerns. Whether consciously, or not, our whole campaign of recovery has centered around the idea of saving the rich, regardless of what happened to the poor and middle class. Such an idea does not square with the record of American progress and prosperity. it v tt Trouble's at Bottom LITTLE people make the business of the country. They consume the food, wear out the clothes and pay the rent. It is all wrong to imagine that prosperity can be restored through the roof. Our trouble is on the first floor, if not down in the basement. Big corporations can’t put people back to work .without a market, and the right kind of a market can not be had without the return of buying power. a a a Deceiving Palaver TRUE statesmanship never would have permitted unemployment to creep upon us as it has. or allowed the financial structure to exert such pressure on those least able to bear it. The very first move should have been to protect small independent business, and provide work in every possible line, especially new lines. „ The American Legion and the American Federation of Labor are showing what could have been done two years ago. Nothing has done more to mislead and deceive people than this optimistic palavering at Washington. Millions fell for the bunk that all they had to do was stand and wait for a few big boys to set things right. tt tt tt The Last Gasp THE sales tax represents about the last gasp of an unwise policy. All it amounts to is just another effort to put the burden on those at the foot of the line. If the rich no longer can stand the pressure, which seems to be the argument in favor of this measure, how can the poor, or those in moderate circumstances?

Questions and Answers

Who runs the government printing office at Washington, D. C., and what is his title? George H. Carter, public printer, an appointee of the President, confirmed by the senate. How fast do radio waves travel? At the rate of approximately 186.300 miles per second. , What is the longest football drop kick on record? Sixty-three years, made by M. Payne of Dakota Wesleyan versus Northwest Normal, in 1915. Who was the American ambassador to Great Britain under President W’ilson? When did George Harvey hold the post? During the Wilson administration the ambassadors were Walter Hines Page of New York, 1913-1918, and John W. Davis of West Virginia, 1918-1921. George Harvey, appointed by President Harding, was ambassador 1921-1923. Which states do not have state prohibitnon enforcement acts, and how is the Volstead act enforced in those states? Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New York and Wisconsin have no state prohibition laws. The national prohibition act is enforced in those states by federal officers. Does a son healing the same name as his father continue to use the affix junior after h?s father's death? No. Who said, “Frailty, thy name is woman? Shakespeare in “Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2.” How many public high schools were in the United States in 1928 and how many pupils graduated that year? In the year ending June, 1928, there were 18,116 public high schools reporting to the United States bureau of education, and the number of graduates was 474,736. What is the weight of a bushel of wheat? i About sixty pounds.

Perils Found to Motorists’ Health

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Fishbein on the dancer of driving an automobile. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. /~vNE of the large divisions of the British Medical Association recently assembled to pay special attention to the danger of motoring. Motoring in Britain is. not what it is in this country. Since cars are taxed by horse power, they are not built to go as fast as they do in this country. Furthermore, it is the custom in England to drive on the wrong side of the street, that is, wrong so far as we are concerned. Introduction of new / machines brings new hazards to human life.

IT SEEMS TO ME

SOME of the Governors who replied to Senator Bingham's questions on hunger and unemployment took in a good deal of territory. Vermont’s executive is praised in certain quarters for his Yankee economy of words because he replied, “No people starving.” I am struck less by the economy than by the arrogance of such a report. ■- After all, precise statistics on starvation are not available. “I do not know for certain,” would have been a fair answer in almost every case. But at best I think that the inquiry was couched in terms a little tricky. It is probably true that the millions are not as yet actually falling in the streets from lack of food. However, I believe that even that is happening to some individuals in the more populous centers. Bellevue hospital has known and reported cases of simon pure starvation. Anyhow, I will not agree that the

How much is a Spanish peseta worth in American money? $0.1930. Is a woman with dark hair and eyes and very fair skin, a blond or a brunette? She would be classed as a medium brunette? What proportion of the world’s gold supply is held in the United States? In September the gold supply of the United States totaled $5,015,000.000, almost one-half the total supply of free gold in the world. What is a “swan song?” There is an old fable that swans sing just before they die, and from that the term has taken the meaning of the last appearance or public act of a person before retirement or death.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The motor car has brought hazards so serious that it is beginning to be placed among the leading causes of death. In opening consideration of this subject, Dr. Zachary Cope said that most of the minor mischiefs of motoring were related closely to medicine, and the major mischiefs to surgery. Without doubt, the noise and vibration of motor cars is not a healthful factor in human life. The constant drumming in the human ear means constant stimuli to a sensitive organ. Much attention has been given to the possibility of poisoning from motor exhaust gas both to those in the car and to those on the street. Long exposure to low concentrations of carbon monoxide in motor

richest country in the world has done enough when it manages to keep most, or even all. of the unemployed just above the line of subsistence. tt tt ft Not Good Enough MANY who want to look upon the bright side of things, since that is the more comfortable way, are going to read their own interpretation into the reports from the v-irious Governors. They are going to say that conditions have been much exaggerated simply because the word comes back, “No people starving.” And that is far from a blanket boast with which to cover man’s necessities. “Starvation” itself is a word needing some closer definition. Indeed, the problem of malnutrition, may prove to be even more important than that of starvation in the long run. It is not only possible but probable that we are rearing countless children who will go through all their lives handicapped by the early lack of any decently balanced diet. We should not be satisfied with the fact that through various fur* tive doles body and soul are kept, if not together, at least op speaking terms. If a slightly greater content, of human sympathy had entered into Senator Bingham’s symposium he would not have used the word “starvation” but have inquired, instead, “How many in your state are in want, in misery and suffering the physical and mental agonies of those who can see ahead no more than twenty-four hours?” It would be an audacious Governor indeed who would meet that question with a ruggedly individualistic, “None.” a tt a No Need to Celebrate I AM perfectly ready to grant that something is accomplished in the organization of forces which have been able so far to prevent

exhaust gas produces dizziness, headache, lassitude, and nausea. One British doctor has described the common occurrence in women of what is called “shopping” headache, which Dr. Cope believes probably is due to toxic effects of carbon monoxide derived from poluted air which in sultry summer weather is kept close to the ground. All soris of suggestions have been developed for getting rid of the menace of exhaust gas, varying from a special exhaust pipe that will release the gas high in the air to special devices for adequately ventilating cars and busses. In narrow streets bordered by extremely high buildings, the concentration of monoxide gas at the street level becomes exceedingly great. Next: What causes accidents.

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actual famine. But I do think this is an insufficient goal and nothing to inspire hat tossing and the glow of self-righteousness. Once I tried to write an ironic column. It was my intention to be a sort of amateur Dean Swift, and I proposed a remedy for unemployment. The suggestion ran that all the jobless should be invited to assemble in the sheep meadow in Central Park and that when they were tightly packed shoulder to shoulder the machine guns should be turned on, thus reducing the excess-supply of labor. I did it with too clumsy a hand or too much finesse, for many did not understand that I was trying to be savagely ironical. One old lady wrote in all seriousness that she thought there was much to ije said for my scheme, but that on the whole she felt it was a little too cruel. And the Communists have availed themselves of partial quotations from the column to prove that I am an ally of imperialism and tyranny. But I am ready to say now in all seriousness that there is room to question the utility of a relief program which keeps people barely alive as against the cold logic of a scheme which would permit a Darwinian survival of the fittest. I am'not at all on the side of any so-called scientific indifference to suffering. But it is the logical result of the reasoning of those who oppose direct relief lest it destroy human initiative. 4 tt tt tt Stranded Road INDEED, one of the fairest indictments against our civilization is that it does not maintain itself on one side of the street or the other. We are not callous enough to say, “Let them eat cake,” but I think “Why don’t they appeal to the Red Cross or the Salvation Army?” is a rough equivalent of this same state of mind. We are benevolent enough to want to muddle through out difficulties with little handouts and apple buying, but not one-tenth sufficiently imaginative to buckle down to the problem of attacking the roots of poverty. There used to be an ancient bit of dialog concerning inebriation which ran: Old Lady—Officer, that man is intoxicated. Policeman—Oh, no, ma'am; he just moved a finger. And it seems to me that the present economic and political temper of the country is to accept anything short of wholesale starvation as good enough. I say it isn’t. I say that we are not only brutes, but fools, if it is our intention to stand by old theories of inaction right up to the time that people begin to drop on our doorsteps. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Timesl

Daily Thought

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided. —II Samuel 1:23. a \ A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.—Napoleon.

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 paper.—The Editor.

MARCH 22,1932

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ*

The Duck Family Seem* to Be Losing Its Old-Fash-ioned Domestic Virtues. THOSE critics of modern life who see a breaking down of the home and old-fashioned virtues may be interested to know that some scientists believe that something similar is happening in <the duck familiy. Whether this also is to be blamed upon the machine age remains to be seen. The Smithsonian institution scientists, however, report that Just as women have begun to invade business fields which for centuries have been the traditional fields of men, so the female duck seems to be tiring of her feminine role. Female ducks apparently are lasing interest in their nests and their young and beginning to develop a “bachelor girl” type. Dr. Herbert Friedman, curator of birds at the Smithsonian institution, says that this “revolt of the mother duck against the submergence of the feminine” is a passible explanation of peculiar behavior upon the part, of ducks which has been reported from all parts of the country. It seems that the female duck is beginning to dodge the responsibility of raising a family. In some cases, the female duck soon gets tired of sitting on the eggs and leaves the nest. In some rases, the female pays no attention at all to the eggs after they have been laid. It is reported that, among the tree ducks, the male birds are sitting on the eggs while the female pays no attention to them at all. a u "Bachelor Girls" DR. FRIEDMAN reports, however. that the most alarming sign of all is the increase in the habit of parasitism on the part of ducks. It. is a known fact that ducks of most species occasionally will lay an egg in the nest of some other bird, leaving that mother to hatch and rear a duckling with her own brood. It seems now as though the black-headed duck of the Argentine republic is resorting almast. entirely to this trick, laying her eggs in the nests of swans, coots, and even hawks. The ruddy duck of both North America and Europe is resorting to an almost similar trick. The mothers of this species lay their eggs in each other’s nests, thus attempting to dodge the responsibility of sitting on | the eggs. Females of this species which are ! sitting on eggs, will leave them upon the slightest provocation. It Is also reported that the mothers take no j interest in raising their young or in I building nests. Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. has recorded the observation that many of the female ruddy ducks are mimicking the males,, both in posture and in making a rattling noise with their bills against their cheeks. The females showing this behavior were unmated and Dr. Wetmore thinks that perhaps a “bachelor girl" type of female is beginning to develop among the ruddy ducks. tt tt a Paternal Pride BUT while the mother ducks are neglecting their young, the father ducks seem to be coming to the rescue, Dr. Friedman reports. This is particularly true of the North American ruddy duck. According to observations reported to Dr. Friedman, the male duck seems to have considerable pride in his offspring, staying with the young brood until it is half grown and ‘■behaving in a mast gallant fashion and rushing at real or imaginary intruders with a great show of jealousy.” Cases even have been reported where fathers adopted deserted broods not their own. Dr. Friedman thinks that ducks may survive- this decline in oldfashioned virtues because of the resistent qualities of the duck egg. The duck egg, he says, can be hatched without much attention, and so even though the mother does neglect her eggs, there is a pretty good chance of the egg hatching. The egg hatches if incubated only occasionally, as probably happens when the egg is laid in the nest of another bird. The new habits of ducks probably began to develop when the mother ducks got the habit of laying an occasional egg in the nest of some other bird, according to Dr. Friedman. Once the habit had started, things apparently just went from bad to worse, until today demoralization of the duck family seems to be setting in.

T ?s9£Y WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

BRITISH DRIVEN BACK March 22 ON March 22, 1918, the great German drive against the hardpressed British forces continued with tremendous energy. German officials claimed that more than 16,000 prisoners had been taken and said that one British corps practically had been annihilated. British observers admitted the extreme gravity of the situation, but declared that the British lines on the whole were holding remarkably well. More cheering news came from Palestine, where British troops advanced more than nine miles after sharp fighting with rapidly thinning Turkish forces. American troops stormed German first and second line trenches east of Luneville after a sharp encounter with Germans trapped by the American barrage. Are there more colleges and universities in New York than in Pennsylvania? Patterson’s educational directory lists forty colleges in Pennsylvania and thirty-two in New York. What is the address of Prlmo Camera, the fighter? Care of Andt Neiderrether, publicity building, Broadway and Forty-seventh street. New York.