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Just a Hand Out Caught with the goods, the electric monopoly has tossed a crumb to the public in the way of a small concession on rates. The saving in taxes and by the consumer amounts to little, less than half of what it is estimated the company takes each year in excessive charges for coal which it buys from its own subsidiary. Os course, the new rates mean something and are a confession that the company and the public service commission were imposing on the public, when, less than a month ago, the petition of the city was dismissed without a hearing on the statement that no reduction was possible. The appeal for anew hearing on the petition came after The Times had exposed the fact that there was a grave discrepancy between the figures given to the public by public service commissioner Cuthbertson and those published by the company when it offered stock to the public. That should have caused some resentment or some curiosity on the part of Cuthbertson. Rut instead there was a hasty and secret revision of rates and no effort to bring to light any inquiry as to which figures were correct. The petition for new rates came after The Times suggested that under any theory of justice, the theory of reproduction valuation hould be applied in times of deflated prices for labor and materials as it was in days of inflation. The city administration and the South Side Civic Clubs made the demand. The company said nothing could be done. Instead of public hearings, such as are contemplated by law. instead of official audits and appraisals, there have been secret negotiations carefully cloistered by Cuthbertson so that no fact has reached the public. Now the people are given a reduction of 12 cents a month on their lighting bills and the city saves 1 cent on its tax levy. The tax for power, important to industry and a direct influence upon unemployment, remains the same. The tax for all the electric appliances remains the same. The company can continue with its trickery in its coal purchases. Its unconscionable contract with Insull for juice at high cost remains in force. The huge tax for engineeringfees and management are charged to operation. The losses in competitive business are still made good by the people. Not one of the practices, in violation of the spirit and perhaps the letter of the public utility law, is to be abandoned. Aside from the small saving and concession, all that has been demonstrated is the power of this utility to control government, to laugh at law, to regard the people as serfs in their feudal barony. In comparison with the rates in Kansas City, Kan. a municipally owned plant, the rates here are extortionate to a degree. Os course, other citizens can again ask for relief. A group of power and commercial users can file anew petition. And the next legislature will find the subject most interesting. The people had asked for justice. They get a hand out, such as might be given as a tip to a taxi driver or a nickel to the apple salesman on the corner. Rut there should be no belief that anything like justice has been done. The Coal Situation Tlw people of Indiana have a very direct interest in the failure of mine operators and mine unions to agree on a working basis. The facts are sinister and suspicious. They suggest at least unwise leadership on the part of the union. They suggest that no regard has been given to the real interests of the worker and less to the public interest involved. The failure in Indiana is, by necessity, followed by a similar failure to agree in the Illinois field, and this results today in 35,000 idle men. The coal industry is basic in this country. It is also in a desperate situation. Its problem is complicated by competition between the fields of West Virginia and Kentucky and the Illinois and Indiana output for the Chicago market. Tha situation demanded a facing of facts that would permit the Indiana and Illinois fields to operate. The scale of wages, won in years of inflation, had become impossible. There was a need of readjustment, if the operators were to remain in business and the men at work. Back of the situation is the struggle of years for control of the union, in which the international officers have dashed with the Illinois unions. Control of the union, rather than the interests of the miners, seems to have been the dominating and controlling factor In negotiations which have now resulted in widespread idleness. This state has a very direct interest. If the Indiana fields are idle, much wealth will be lost. More than that, there will be need for more charity funds. There will be misery and want and hunger. Public opinion, led by officials of this state, should force a recognition of facts and a settlement of the controversy that will keep men at work and not place their families in bread lines. The public, representing a real desire to prevent suffering by human beings and loss to all involved, should demand to see not only the machinery that has led to idleness, but exactly what forces were behind and directing the dacisions that led to this unfortunate outcome.

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Let a Wet Nation Speak Action of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in demanding that the United States Chamber of Commerce take “a fearless and courageous’’ stand on prohibition is evidence that business men are beginning tq realize, at last, that the prohibition law has become an economic menace. Annual meeting of the United States chamber comes in May in San Francisco. Directors of the San Francisco chamber point out that the body has been on record since June 3, 1919, when a resolution was passed declaring prohibition w-as adopted as a war measure and quoting President Wilson as saying the need for prohibition had passed. Now they demand that the question be faced at the national convention in May. They say: "We believe that the problem created by the eighteenth amendment best can be solved by our recognized industrial and business leaders, whose deliberations and decisions would not be influenced by political expediency or religious prejudice.” Economic pressure—belief on the part, of business leaders that abolition of the saloon and liquor traffic would help business—contributed much toward establishment of prohibition. Great sums of money were donated by business concerns to the Anti-Saloon League treasury. But prohibition didn’t work out the way those business leaders thought it would. In recent years, therefore, the Anti-Saloon League treasury has been shrinking. Prohibition repeal will come as an ecomonic measure. Prohibition long has been recognized as a moiTff blight. It has proved itself to be the greatest instrument of political corruption ever devised in the United States. Many men and women who honestly supported it, believing that it would promote better morals, have turned from it—because it has failed. It no longer is an experiment. Even the churches, which approved it in good faith, have suffered from it. For, when politicians began to move into pulpits, congregations began to move out of pews. Prohibition will not be abolished on purely moral grounds. It will be abolished not only because it has proved itself to be immoral, but because the American people are beginning to realize that they no longer can afford prohibition. Congress meets and attempts to pare budgets. It feels that it must cut the allowance for the children's bureau, which saves the lives of thousands of babies every year, but it must make the usual allowance of millions for a gesture toward enforcing a law that never has been enforced and never can be enforced. It hears proposals to cut the salaries of poorly paid Washington clerks. It must trim the money badly needed by the interstate commerce commission. But it must maintain a costly rum-chasing fleet, which usually is outwitted and never is effective. Meanwhile, the department of justice is busy Tuning down A1 Capones—not because the Capones have Volated the prohibition law, but because they have failed to split the loot with the tax collector. And thus, year by year, millions are squandered by a government which is saved from the hands of a receiver only because it is a government and not a private institution. To balance the budget millions must be raised by nuisance taxes, while the vast and illicit business of liquor goes tax free. Now business people are beginning to say: ‘‘The time has come when we must look after ourselves. We are tired of being bled. Prohibition is among the luxuries that we can not afford.” And so prohibition is to go, because it is economically, as well as morally, unsound. More drys will be swept from their seats in congress and in state legislatures this fall than in any previous election since the eighteenth amendment was adopted. Action of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is merely one of the many signs reflecting what is in the public’s mind. A man in Washington who refuses to eat. hoping to attract the attention of congress, is certainly an optimist. Os course, he may succeed, but the rest of us have failed. About the only thing one can prophesy safely about the 1952 presidential campaign is that Muscle Shoals will be one of the issues. A fashion authority decrees return of the walking stick. Let’s all wait and see if walking comes back, too. A scientist has an invention which will detect bad milk over the telephone. Now if he can perfect another one for stocks he will be a real hero. Trust Jimmy Walker to be different. He went to Hot Springs to rest. Most mayors rest in their offices. Apparently, the only thing the Japanese and Chinese can agree on at Shanghai is to keep on arguing.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IDO not pretend to be wise enough to pass upon the question of capital punishment. There are those who contend that the murderer should pay with his life for the life he has taken. They are, I am sure, sincere in this conviction. And it may be, too, that those who think this is not an intelligent manner in which to deal with the crime question are mere idealists. Even so, I am with them in their folly. I do not believe in the ancient law which says "an eye for an eye.” Then again, it seems as if the proponents of capital punishment, if they are working merely for the good of society, as they say, could be a little less cruel in their methods. It may be very well to condemn the murderer to death. He is a menace to his fellows,” it is said, "let’s get rid of him.” So far so gpod. But how do they go about ridding the republic of a harmful and unwanted citizen? Do they put him to death as mercifully as they w'ould a mad dog, for instance? Are they willing to shoot or chloroform him unexpectedly? Not so. They set the day for his killing. They tell him how and when he is to die. HUH THEN they lock him in a lonely cell and leave him to face alone the hour, the moment of his execution. They subject him to far more mental torture than satan visits upon his favorite damned. They invariably take from him all means of suicide. They watch carefully lest some pitying friend bring him a potent poison. He hears the hum of the electric current that awaits him. or the hammer blows that make his gallows. He has no time for remorse; he is eaten by fear. Out of this stark misery and raw terror we make for ourselves a sort of legal Roman holiday. ■ Can there still be in this country a humane being who honestly believes that this sort of thing belongs in a civilization?

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Some of Ovr Political Leaders Are Going to Be Surprised at the Speed and Effectiveness of Anti-Prohibition Sentiment. NEW YORK, April I.—With more than three million, seven hundred thousand votes counted, the Literary Digest poll indicates that the country is wet by about three to one. Considering the accuracy of previous Literary Digest polls, this should be making some impression on the minds of political leaders. Maybe it is, but there are no signs of such an effect in Washington. Congress is as stubbornly dry as it was six months, or six years ago. Congress won’t even consider a tax on 2.75 per cent beer, though such a tax could be authorized by simply amending the Volstead act and without reference to the eighteenth amendment. m m a Resentment Grows THE slump in business and revenue has roused ordinary people to the cost of prohibition. The nuisance taxes which congress now is adopting will do more to rouse them. By next June, when the national conventions meet, we should have a well articulated popular sentiment on this question. One could ask no better illustration of the advantages of democratic government. Except as public opinion may force a change, heaven only knows how long we might be compelled to pursue the “noble experiment.” * tt tt Straddling Difficult NO doubt, both parties would be glad to straddle the prohibition issue again, but their ability to do so is growing more and more doubtful. They are going to be subjected, to real pressure this time. The taxes ordinary people must pay because bootleggers pay none, will serve to increase the pressure. Folks are beginning to realize that about all prohibition has done is finance racketeering, instead of the government. By the time they have bought a few 3-cent stamps, paid for the right to sell stock end see a movie, or contributed their share of balancing the federal budget in other numerous ways, they are going to be sure of their ground. tt tt tt Stampede Forming KEYNOTERS, platform writers and candidates might just as well get set for the stampede that is forming. If Nicholas Murray Butler 'makes the same speech at’ the forthcoming Republican convention that he made at Kansas City four years ago, he will have the crowd with him. The forthcoming Democratic convention will not be satisfied with any such ambiguous prohibition plank as was put over at Houston through a compromise. tt tt tt Blind Leaders SOME of our political leaders are going to be surprised at the speed and effectiveness of antiprohibition sentiment. That is because they have failed to keep track of it. Many of them will think of it as largely noise, in spite of all the polls and expressions. If they only would circulate among their neighbors and acquaintances and take note of the opinions that have actually changed during the last few years, and especially since the stock market crash, they would soon learn what is going on. We are witnessing one of the most i remarkable alterations in public opinion that ever occurred in this country. Nor should any one be deceived by the seeming rapidity with which it is taking place. It has been forming for a decade, and has gathered strength from the verv forces that have attempted to stifle it. It is like a dammed river ready to burst. The things being done at Washington right now are adding to its power.

M TODAY ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMANS MASS FOR ATTACK April 1

ON April 1, 1918, German troops. stopped in the great drive, were reported massing on the western side of the salient formed in the allied lines for t blow at Amiens and the Channel ports. French and British troops, weary from ten days of terrific combat, took advantage of the slight lull in operations to fortify and improve their positions. German attacks on Grivesnes were repulsed by the French. Several new French divisions were within the battle zone and much of the strain on allied positions had been relieved. British troops in Palestine continued their offensive and announced the capture of villages near Aleppo. Turkish resistance was reported weakening. The liner Celtic was torpedoed off the Irish coast, but was able to make port. Paris was bombarded by the longrange German gun. Casualties were not announced.

Daily Thought

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.—Ecclesiastes 5:12. Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the moat wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.—Tupper. How many terms has Senator Reed Smoot of Utah served in the United States Senate? He is serving his fifth term, which will expire March 3, 1933. How did General Pershing get the nickname of “Black Jack?” It is said to have originated between 1895 and 1899, when he was tactical instructor at West Point and also an officer of the Tenth cavalry, a Negro regiment. The cadets applied the nicknames “Black Jack” and "Nigger Jack.”

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE person in full possession of all his faculties may have a difficult time finding work now, but those handicapped by weakness in sight, hearing, by absence of limbs or fingers, by a disease of the heart, or by some similar disturbance have a much more serious problem, even in good times. When 20 per cent of all workers are unemployed, a much larger percentage of handicapped workers is likely to be unemployed. It has been estimated that there are in the United States at least 1,000,000 workers who have handicaps. The handicapped worker has to have highly specialized work. There are many occupations that a onearmed man can do satisfactorily, but there are many others that only a

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1 THINK that any information about Miss Lupe Velez and myself will come most gracefully from this quarter. And telling all is really the part of discretion and good taste, since others might distort the situation. The first time I saw Lupe Velez she did not notice me at all. That also was true of the second time, which was the occasion of our formal introduction. The first time was more romantic. The speakeasy was almost deserted and Miss Velez was in the corner having shrimps. She also was accompanied by a dark-haired man in a. blue suit. At first I was not sure of her identity, but I overheard several references to Hollywood and the people of Hollywood. Miss Velez seems to have a fluent command of English. I began with staring, and when that proved ineffective, I tried a little leering. It was the first leering I had done in more than three months, and I couldn’t seem to get my back and shoulders into it. Lupe went on sedately with her shrimps. They were served with some sort of mustard sauce, which made it more difficult all around. tt it tt Our First Parting PRESENTLY Miss Velez and the man in the blue suit went out, and I more or less reconciled myself to the thought that everything was over between us. It was one of those episodes in which one feels that if it were less fragile it might be less beautiful. “Another brandy,” I said to Pierre wearily, “and I’ll be around next Monday, or maybe Tuesday, to pay the check.” I remembered, with some bitterness, that a magazine editor had suggested that I write an autobiographical article to be entitled “Halfway to Ninety.” A magazine editor, I might add. wholly deficient in multiplication. Outside it had begun to rain. I thought of middle age, next Thursday’s column and Herbert Hoover and went home, sighing heavily. Imagine my surprise only two nights later to find myself in another speakeasy, with just one table between me and Miss Velez. And

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man with two arms can do successfully. For example, the motor car is a highly complicated machine. A blind man can not run one because he can not see. A deaf man may drive, but may have great trouble in crowded traffic or when traveling at high speed. A man with one leg off may be able to drive a motor car satisfactorily, but a man with an arm off might have considerable difficulty. Social service today has developed as specialists persons capable of placing workers in positions for which they are fitted. Much more is to be gained by placing the person immediately In such a job than in trying him in a half dozen jobs with the idea that he may be trained to do one of them satisfactorily. It has been estimated that the largest manufacturer of motor cars

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this time she was accompanied by a man I knew. Moreover, since I had not seen him for a month, it would be a simple matter to stroll over nonchalantly and to greet him warmly. tt it tt Those Baseball Writers! IT would have been simple, but for the fact that the place was infested with baseball writers. Here it was Easter and spring, and, for all I knew, out in the country the little flowers were beginning to peep up out of the damp earth. And I was surrounded by sports reporters. “On such a night as this,” I thought, but before any moonlit image could come definitely into my mind the man on my right derailed the vision by exclaiming, “Yes, but the whole point is, will his legs hold out?” Somewhere in the world mandolins were playing and senoritas stood on balconies with a rose or a couple of roses between their lips. And I was being asked to express some opinion about the feet and ankles of George Herman Ruth! I will not deny that this is an important subject, worthy of the best consideration of any serious thinker under certain circumstances. But I was not in a mood to care about the legs of Babe Ruth. I could not even grow passionate about the problem of the deal between Brooklyn and the Reds. Even the hopes of Hornsby seemed trivial, and I arose to go to the table of the man who seemed to be a very good friend of Miss Lupe Velez. But with me went a baseball writer. Lupe acknowledged the introduction by lowering her left eyebrow one-eighth of an inch. She was engaged busily in performing a parlor trick which utilizes two broken matches. Maybe it can be done with toothpicks, but, at any rate, it is called “Hello, Hollywood.” n n And Bert Lahr Was Good “T WAS fascinated by your mar- .. velous performance in Florenz Ziegfeld’s unsophisticated revue enitled ‘Hot-Cha,’ ” I began, but Miss Velez did not seem to be particularly concerned with what I thought

in the United States employed at one time 9,000 handicapped people. These people were not employed on the basis that their employment was a charity. They were employed because they could do their jobs satisfactorily, and could earn the money that was paid to them. Only proper placement in the position enabled them to hold the jobs against the natural competition that came from other persons equipped with all their physical forces. It is a mistake to attempt to find for handicapped persons new or strange occupations. More than 80 per cent of them can be placed ip jobs in ordinary industries for which their handicap does not disqualify them. Sometimes a little extra training may be necessary, but that can be had in special schools or even in apprenticeships to the occupations which they ultimately plan to fill.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented withont retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

of the little charade in which she now is appearing at the Ziegfeld theater. She still was intent upon the broken matches or toothpicks. I cleared my throat to describe in a great deal more detail about just what her dancing, her singing and her general stage deportment have meant to me. I might even have been so bold as to confess that I had leered at her in a restaurant. I was curious to know whether she had noticed it. But the baseball writer had been silent now for the better part of one and one-half seconds, and so he plucked my sleeve and said, “The: first time I saw Tris Speaker he was playing with the Memphis Chicks, and, do you know, ’way back in those days his hair was just as white as yours is now?” The toothpick test having turned out satisfactorily, Miss Velez rose and said it had been a pleasure to meet Meester Howard Brown. For the second time within our acquaintance she went into the night. Somewhere in Chihuahua—oh, let’s make itSSonora red rose drooped, and the baseball writer said, “They didn’t have those dinky short fences in those days, and old Tris could certainly go and get 'em.” Well, maybe he could. Maybe a lot of us could, but that was more than twenty years ago. (Coovrist. 1932, bv The Times)

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—Let every one who desires this terrible, depression lifted lend a helping hand. This world depression did not happen without a cause. It was caused by the people, and it is up to the people when it is lifted. We have got to go after this depression just like the doctor would go after a serious ailment. He not only goes after the ache, but he goes after the cause of the ache. The cause of this depression is that man is out of adjustment with his Creator. The world is full of everything but love. Lust, fear, jealousy, hatred, malice and selfishness are our masters. Man was created to glorify God; we glorify Our Maker by doing Hiss will, and the will of the Father is that we love each other, and not the things of this world. He made the earth and He wants us to enjoy it; and to so live here that we shall be fit subjects for His haven of rest. As the train is made to run on a track, God has a track and a program mapped out for man. Th only way we can make progress is to stay on the track and follow the program, that none err or perish. He sent His only begotten Son, and He dwelt amongst us for thirty-three years. He lived a model life before the world. Let Him reign in your hearts and in your homes, and business. God's program is that we serve Him with all our hearts, be truthful and multiply. Earn our living by the sweat of our brow, be obedient. love our neighbor as our self, keep the Sabbath day holy. The acid test is love your enemy. Let us cease trying to go around God, and follow Him, following the precepts of man. The human family is confused and we are divided religiously and otherwise, and the soul that died

APRIL 1, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Motion Pictures Will Be Made of Great Expedition Seeking Remains of Ancient Civilization. IN the near east, where, according to legend, sultans and wise men once flew upon magic carpets and winged wooden horses, Charles Breasted, son of Dr. James Henry Breasted, the distinguished orientalist, is making a 3,000-mile journey in a tri-motored plane. Charles Breasted is the executive secretary of the oriental institute of the University of Chicago. His father is director of the institute. Breasted is making the flight to take motion pictures of the twelve expeditions which the institute now has in the field. He is accompanied by Professor Prentice Duell of the institutes staff, and Reed Haythorne, motion picture cameraman. They plan to take aerial views as well as “close-ups’’ of the work of the expeditions. Their pictures will be added to pictures of the institute’s new building on the Chicago campus. The completed film, which is to tell the entire story of the oriental institute and its work, will be one of the most ambitious educational movies ever attempted. * * * Ancient Palaces BREASTED and his companions took off from Cairo, flying across the peninsula of Sinai in southern Palestine. Next they flew via Geza In tht north Arabian desert, to Bagdad. From Bagdad they flew to Persepolis. The oriental institute in conducting excavations at the palaces of Persepolis, the most magnificent ruin of the ancient world. Here, on a high plateau in the Persian mountains, was the capital of the great Persian emperors, Darius and Xerxes. Dr. Ernest E. Herzfeld, foremost authority in Persian archeology, is in charge of the excavations. Headquarters of the staff occupies a site which once was a portion of the harem of Darius palace. Other expeditions from the oriental institute which will be shown in the film include those at Tell Asmar and Khafaji, northeast of Bagdad. Dr. Henri Frankfort is in charge of the work at Tell Asmar. where a large palace dating back to the Sumerian age has been uncovered. At Khafaji, copper statues of about 300 B. C. recently have been uncovered. Breasted and his associates will also fly up the Tigris river to Khorsabad, opposite ancient Nineveh. Dr. Edward Chiera is directing the work at Khorsabad. * nMagnificent Triumph THE Oriental institute, built upon the campus of the University of Chicago at a cost of $1,500,000, represents a magnificent triumph for Professor James H. Breasted. For forty years Dr. Breasted has been devoting his time to the recovery for modern civilization of the story of man’s rise from prehistoric savagery. Almost single-handed he organized the greatest concerted effort ever made for unearthing of lost chapters in history of the ancient world. The Oriental institute has five exhibition halls devoted to Egyptian Assyrian. Assyro-Babylonian, Per-sian-Moslem. and Hittite-Palestin-ian civilizations. The institute is carrying on research work in these five fields. The institute was made possible by the generosity of John D. Rockefeller Jr., coupled with gifts from the general education board, the international education board, Julius Rosenwald. Theodore W. Robinson. Robert P. Lamont, Henry J. Patton, and others. Dr. Breasted’s interest in ancient, civilizations developed when he was a student at the Chicago Theological seminary. It came about through his study of the Hebrew language. He determined to learn more about the ancient Hebrews than was to be found in available literature. His first trip to Egypt was also his honeymoon. That was in 1894. His entire equipment consisted of a donkey and a camera. Today the expeditions working under his general direction include some of the finest-equipped in history.

to save can’t see Him for our denominations lism. And, believe it or not, if we persist in doing as we are doing, winking at crime and have no respect for the law. nor love for each other, then may the Lord have mercy on us, for the fury and wrath of God are right at our door. And the calamities, the like of which the world never has seen before. will be upon us. Come, let us be plain, everyday Christians and go over the top, following the cause of Christ. Let every one who knows - how to pray, pray three times a \ day, morning, noon and night, until we And favor with God; then keep on praying and back it up with deeds and examples, that the world may see our good works and glorify our Father which art in heaven. CECIL F. JONES. 4708 East Thirtieth street. Editor Times—l am a reader of The Times and also an ex-service man. I read the reader’s voice every night, and recently I saw the letter of the ex-service man who said he was tired of eating soup and had lost his home. I don't see how any one can pay for his home when all he can get is a basket and no money, but there are lots of ex-service men in the same fix. Cheer up, buddy, remember the old saying, "Every dog has his day” and maybe we will have ours. JACK WILLIAMS. Were there any women in the United States house of representa- | tives when the resolution declaring war on Germany was pawed in 1917? Jeanette Rankin of Monta i was the only woman in congress at tha time. What is the meaning of the natna Louise? Pugnacious.