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The Door Still Open Under the law, any ten citizens may petition the public service commission for a •revision of utility rates. It also makes mandatory an appraisal and an audit. The city administration and the South Side Civic Clubs have forced a confession from the electric and water companies that their charges were extortionate. The concession in money means far less than this fact, for it will be remembered that these companies insisted that they would never surrender a penny of their plunder. The city has obtained what will amount to a reductioVi in the tax rate of 2 cents. The people get 12 cents a month from the electric company. The water company will charge up any losses that come from a reduction of the minimum charge per month to those who use larger amounts than the first 700 feet. These concessions came after the companies had decided that they could not afford to let the public look at their profits or books. The water company has been paying the club dues of its Philadelphia president from the operating expenses, and it escapes, unchided and unrebuked, for this glaring invasion of the theory of regulation. What other expenses have been paid by the people were not disclosed. But it may be inferred that a company which would have the bravado to charge its charities, its social activities, its contributions to tax organizations that are intent upon reducing the salaries of school teachers and policemen, has paid other bills of even more sinister significance from the same operating revenues. The electric company was in even worse position. It had snarled its defiance to the people. It had received from Commissioner Cuthbertson the benediction of its defiance. It had declared that it would make no concession whatever and Cuthbertson had stricken the petition of the city and the south side clubs from the docket as untimely and unjustified when The Times printed the fact that the Cuthbertson figures and those issued by the company for stock selling purposes seemed to bear no resemblance to each other. It was after this disclosure that Cuthbertson arranged the secret compromise by which the city saves on taxes and the people get one-bit a month. But there is no public condemnation of the method by which this company obtains a profit of twice what it conceded in the purchase of coal from its own subsidiary. There is no investigation of the high charges for long-distance management or the huge fees for engineering and financing by which hundreds of thousands of unfair profits are taken each year. There has been no audit of its books. There has been no delving into its anti-social practices. There has been no effort to say what it would cost to reproduce their plants today. What the city and the south side clubs accomplished has been to clear the decks and make exposures. The secret concessions amount to little. But the door is open. Large users of water and of electric power, if they get tired of paying rates that are extortionate and that are endangering industry and business, could group together and demand action. Two members of the commission resent the situation. The conversion of a third is all that is necessary.

The House Tax Bill Passage of the billion-dollar revenue bill by the house should silence the propagandists who still are trying to frighten the country with the cry of an unbalanced budget. The house bill balances the federal operating budget. There never was any real danger that the house would fail to do this. To be sure, the house bill is not yet law. It must go through the senate, then back to the house, and finally through conference. The final law doubtless will be somewhat different. But there is no reason to believe that it will leave an operating deficit, or that it will depart materially from the general principles of traditional American taxation to which the house bill adheres. Two events in the house late Friday, however, indicate that the forces fighting for a general sales tax and against a high income and estate tax are determined to keep the country in a nervous state over revenue uncertainties as long as possible. * Republicans tried to reopen the bitter sales tax battle, despite their decisive defeat of a week ago. Those who attempted to revive this dead issue showed that they do not care how much they rock the boat of public confidence, or how much they jeopardize a balanced budget, if they only can tax the poor man's necessities. Secretary of Treasury Mills played into the hands of the unsuccessful wreckers. At the last minute, he informed the house that the sales tax substitutes would not raise the desired revenue, which might have had the effect of stampeding the house back to the sales tax. / In other words, Mills lowered the estimates on sales tax alternatives which he himself had g\ven the house and which the house had used in its sincere desire to balance the budget. To complete the confusion, Mills added that there was no chance of achieving the federal economies to which the house was pledging itself. Tha administration, in the person of Mills, thus put itaelf at the decisive moment in the position of obstructing an increase in revenues and a cut In exfnditures, the essentials of a balanced budget. In the circumstances, the public is apt to believe

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the Democratic charge that the administration is trying to play politics with the revenue bill —an exceedingly dangerous pastime in this emergency. If the administration tries any more of these tricks when the bill gets to the senate, the same enraged public opinion which routed the original Democratic sales tax leaders probably will be turned on the Republican reactionaries. Net effect of the reactionary obstruction in the house Friday was to reduce the maximum surtax rate from 65 to 40 per cent. This action well may be regretted, but it does not unbalance the budget. And the higher income and surtax rates, which proved most effective and just in wartime, are likely to be restored by the senate. The country will have to pay nuisance taxes and higher income taxes until the voters force congress to legalize and tax beer. Symbolizing the Nuisances Representative Johnson of Oklahoma announces his intention of offering a resolution providing that the new 3-cent stamp bear the picture of Herbert Hoover. We rise to offer a substitute. The likeness of Andrew J. Volstead would be even more symbolic. And while we are at it, why overlook some of the other nuisance taxes we are going to have to pay so that the bootiegger may go free and the racketeer unburdened? Why not a picture of F. Scott Mcßride on every package of gum and of Clarence True Wilson on all the match boxes? “Padlock the Poor house” American liberals, who have said somo unkina things about California’s callous treatment of Mooney and Billings, must doff their hate to the Golden state for its pioneering social code written under former Governor Hiram Johnson and for its loyalty to the Johnson tradition since. None of the modern statutes written by California has been more successful than its old age security law. This law, substituting pensions for the old almshouse method, has operated two years. A survey, based on a questionnaire sent to officials of the state’s fifty-eight counties, reveals that the law saves the taxpayers $259,92 a year for each aged indigent. Since this law was passed, 500 inmates of poorhouses have been able to leave these makeshift shelters and resume natural lives. Approximately 4,100 have escaped entering poorhouses. While the pension averages only $23 a month, the average cost of maintaining patients in almshouses is $44.74 a month. Thus, besides saving many a heartbreak, California is saving money California’s experience is duplicated in New York and other pension states. It could become general if the Dill-Connery bill, granting federal aid for old age pensions, were passed. Since this is in reality an economy measure, the DilLConnery bill should be passed in behalf of both the aged poor • and the nation's taxpayers. Senator Capper, fighting also for a pension law for the District of Columbia, has raised the slogan: “Padlock the poorhouse.” This should become a national demand. The Best Students A survey recently made at Temple university discloses that students from small towns usually carry off scholastic honors at colleges and universities, and that students who are working their way through usually rank higher in their studies than students whose expenses are being paid by their parents. These findings are interesting, but not especially surprising. The youngster from the small town usually has a better chance to learn how to study while in high school, for the simple reason that there are fewer distractions. And the youngster who wants an education badly enough to wait on table or tend furnaces to get it ordinarily can he depended on to do some good, honest work in classroom and study hall. Havana Communists who held up a radio station and forced employes to let one of their number speak for six minutes neglected one point. They didn’t have anybody to hold guns on the listeners. Herr Einstein says: “The curvature of threedimensicnal space may be either negative, positive or zero.’’ So that’s settled. No wonder the rubber industry is staying busy. Just thing of the rising number bf rubber checks. The people can’t say the newspapers aren't giving them plenty of warning. They print storm forecasts, stock market lists and radio programs. No one can say that Ireland hasn't plenty of troubles. but at least it hasn’t a disarmament delegation.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

VERY soon after the Lindbergh baby had been stolen, there appeared in a number of newspapers a picture which showed a row of orphan children kneeling in prayer for the safe return of little Charles. The small son in our house saw this picture. It impressed him very much. With his thoughts groping among the impenetrable mysteries of a grown-up world, where a baby could be stolen from his safe bed and loving parents, he felt confident that God would hear the voices of the orphans. Then he went to Sunday school, where he joined in other prayers asking the same divine favor. Now what is a mother to do when she faces\such a situation? If the Lindbergh baby is brought home, all will be well. The boy’s faith in Heaven will be justified. If the baby is not restored, what kind of reaction will come to innumerable children? With the best intentions in the world, we commit many crimes against the child in the name of religion. Such examples as this, however, should prove that we do not do enough intelligent pondering on whether we are building up or destroying a faith. M M ft GROWN-UPS. after many tribulations, realize that a good many of their prayers never are answered. We comfort ourselves by saying that God knows best. But each time we leave the infant to plead for something he may not receive, we confuse his thinking, sow dark needs of distrust in his nature, and the very sensitive we may plunge into oceans of misery. Read once more “The Story of an African Farm,'’ if you have forgotten the tragic grief that can come to the imaginative trusting child who finds his faith shattered. There is no finer example of the harm good people can do in their attempts to explain the unexplainable. It to me that organized religions should think long before it announces universal prayers for any cause. Failure to obtain the flings desired may be disastrous to the faith of thousands.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

If Americans Put Up Four Dollars by Way of New or Increased Taxes, the Government Ought to Save One. NEW YORK, April 2.—Now that a balanced budget virtually is assured, Secretary of the Treasury Mills discovers that the government can cut expenses by only about onehalf of the amount expected. Instead of saving $243,000,000 through economies, as congress and the public have been led to believe it could, Mills thinks the government would be doing right well if it saved $125,000,000. “If Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mills would co-operate,” retorts Speaker Garner, “we could reduce expenses $250,000,000 without the least trouble.” it tt tt Economy Assumed TO begin at the beginning and state the problem roughly, one billion and a quarter dollars were required to balance the budget. Congress was asked to raise one billion one hundred million by taxation on the assumption that the government would take care of the rest by cutting expenses. During the last few weeks the idea gradually has gained ground that if congress provided one billion through new, or increased taxes, it would have done quite enough, and that the government ought to make up the balance by trimming down expenditures. nun Where’s That Help? C CONGRESS has tried' to reduce > appropriations, as well as impose taxes. It had a right to expect cheerful co-operation on the part of President Hoover and his official family. “Instead of having that co-opera-tion,” says Speaker Garner, “every cabinet member is going over to the senate and yowling that we are ruining their departments.” These same cabinet officers and Mr. Hoover, he declares, could save that $250,000,000 themselves if they wanted to. it tt tt Administration Unfair THE Hoover administration is not playing fair with congress, or the public. It is not doing what it can and should to make the tax bm*den lighter. If congress provides the money, it will go right on spending as usual. The taxpayers have no hope of relief, except through congress, and they can not realize that hope without making themselves heard. The Hoover administration is not exceptional in its appetite for money. By our own demands, we, the people, have taught every branch of government and every party to be extravagant, to believe in a show of service, to gather its henchmen around the pie counter and keep them there. Curtailment of expenses is the last thing a public official, or political leader thinks of in these United States. Economy in government is like the weather. We talk a jout it more than anything else, but do nothing, tt n Government’s Turn IF the people of this country put up four dollars by way of new or increased taxes, the government ought to save one. Even so, the government would be making far less of a contribution to the common good than the average clerk, stenographer, or ditch-digger. If congress heaps another billion dollars on the tax load and the people stand for it, the government ought to show its good faith by saving a quarter of a billion. More than one board of directors has gone further. More than one well paid executive has taken a bigger cut in order to spare those at the foot of the line. And don’t be deceived by all this propaganda that is being put out with regard to the relative weight of taxation here and in other countries. Government taxes may be much higher in some European countries than they are but don’t get too excited over that until you have learned more about local taxes.

Questions and Answers

How many women have paid the death penalty for crime in the United States? Hew many have been electrocuted? Twenty-six in all, 8 in New York, 9 in Pennsylvania, 2 in Vermont, 2 in New Jersey and 1 each in Virginia, Georgia, District of Columbia, Louisiana and Arizona. Four have been electrocuted, 3 in New York, and 1 in Pennsylvania. How many rounds were fought when Jess Willard knocked out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba, in 1915? Twenty-six. Which amendment to the Constitution provides for women suffrage? The nineteenth. How many men and women are enrolled in the colleges of the United States? In the 1.076 colleges and universities in the United States there are 563,244 men students and 256,137 women, a total of 919,381. Can the President of the United States pardon an official who has been impeached? The President's pardoning power is restricted to those who are convicted in the federal courts for offenses against the United States statutes. He has no pardon power in the case of impeachments. Is there a town in the United States named Santa Claus? Yes, in Indiana. Where did Charles Dickens live when he wrote “The Tale of Two Cities?” In the Albion hotel, Broadstairs, England. Do Mexicans belong to the white or the red race? They are largely a mixture of Spanish and Indian ancestry. According to local custom if Spanish blood largely predominates, they are considered as belonging to the white race and if Indian blood predominates, they are classed in the red i race.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times: Visiting an Inhuman Revenge Upon Himself—The “Believe It Or Not” series has cited numerous examples of inhuman self-imposed tortures on the part of the Hindu faquires for religious reasons. The case of Agostya, who held his arm aloft for twenty years until his nails grew through his palm, intro-

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Ridiculous ‘Cures’ Used for Warts

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. NORMAN WALKER, a great British physician, said that, “the ways of warts are mysterious.” Every one knows that groups of warts sometimes vanish following various magical methods and that they appear as mysteriously as they disappear. This fact caused Dr. Karl Zwick to investigate some of the mysterious methods by which warts are “caused to disappear,” to find out whether there was any actual virtue in any of these methods. One method involves applying the cut surface of an apple to the wart at the time when the moon is waning and then burying the apple. Another method suggests that the

IT SEEMS TO ME

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, is very angry. In fact, his feelings have been hurt to such an extent that he thinks it might be a .good idea to try Herbert Hoover all over again. Mr. Patterson of the New York ] Daily News is of the same opinion. | This right-about face was caused j by the defeat of the sales tax. In the case of the owner of the Daily News, no great change in ostensible point of view fairly can be charged. He never has pretended to be any- j thing but a conservative. But Mr. Hearst always has been the friend of the common people on Mondays, Tuesdays, and alternate Thursdays. He is their friend right up to the point that big property interests are threatened. Indeed, he is a rampant radical as long as none of his own goats is touched by a taxation program. It is true that the revolt in the house was not inspired for the most part by any clear-minded economic philosophy. The gentlemen who ! ganged Mr. Garner knew what they I were against without being at all sure what they were for. The strident charge of “socialism” is j very apt to send many of them scurrying back into the ranks again, j a a a The Beginning of Wisdom ; YET even a blind resentment against old measures under which the poor must pay for their j poverty seems to me the beginnings of wisdom. The end requires qven i more courage and steadfastness. For j years the words “confiscation” and “confiscatory” have been enough to terrify every congressman. In a time of emergency, our national legislature deemed it wise to pass a bill by which the individual could be drafted for military purposes. His very life was potentially forfeit to the state. But we didn’t call that “confiscation.” We called it “conscription,” and most of the millions submitted to it tamely enough. Since that day there has been a certain amount of idle and insincere talk by politicians about draft- , ing wealth in the event of another national emergency. That emergency nftw is upon us. It was, indeed, a member of the United States supreme court who pointed out that the conditions which we now face are more' critical 1 than those imposed by the war. And j yet there is violent verbal opposition to any. far-reaching plan to j i use sweeping remedies for relief.

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duces an element of novelty. Agostya’s reason for punishing himself in such a ghastly manner was that “an act of dire consequence had come to the w'orld on account of this hand. It struck someone he loved most and for that reason he punished it that the sin shall cease to exist.” The gaunt, shabby Agostya, whose petrified arms stuck out like a stump from his shoulder, was not

wart be rubbed with a piece of green, uncooked pork until the skin around the wart becomes, red, then burying the pork. Another involves tying a thread about the wart until the thread cuts into the wart, then burying the thread. In this country several Indian methods involve massaging the wart vigorously during lightning, making a plea to the hew moon, applying the blood of a hedgehog, and invoking special gods who are supposed to be associated with warts. Os course, these “magic cures” are ridiculous. Dr. Zwick believes that the spontaneous disappearance of the warts must be due to some chemical change in the body which makes the body an unfavorable soil for the causative virus or organism responsible for the wart.

We could and did feed, clothe and house millions of men to fight the Germans. We refuse to do just that to fight poverty, a more bitter and dangerous foe. a a a The War Wasn't Private DURING the war we would have laughed at anybody who said, “This is all very well, but it must be done by private initiative.” We v/eren’t afraid in those days of pauperizing the young men who became the wards of the state. We even insisted upon presenting overcoats and baked beans to many who were reluctant to accept these gifts from a generous and warlike government. It seems much easier to turn a deaf ear to those who cry out for help. Both voters and congressmen are very slow to grasp facts, even though they lie at your elbows and at mine. Once upon a time a guest in a hotel called for a bellboy and ordered a glass of ice water. Two minutes later he repeated the order, and within a few seconds he summoned him again. “Pardon my curiosity,” said the bellboy, “but why do you want so much ice water?” “Oh, I'm so sorry to trouble you,” replied the guest, “but my bedroom is on fire.” Here in America we still are treating a conflagration with tiny tumblers of relief which we call block-aid. the Salvation Army, and private charity. We can not make up our minds that the traditions and the inhibitions of the past are of little use to us now. Even the streams of salty tears which run down the cheeks of Mr. Hearst in regard to property rights and “Bolsheviks” in congress will not suffice to put out the blaze. u n tt A Very Familiar Fiction WE constantly are warned upon the basis of a familiar fiction which runs that England under the leadership of Socialists attempted an extremely radical economic program which brought the country to the edge of ruin. In this crisis, so the story runs, England turned back to good ohi British conservatism and saved the day. But the precise truth is that the Labor party never commanded a clear majority in parliament and that it compromised and temporized with the situation which it had to face. * The difficulties which over-

a saintly man. The penance was rather a result of too literal an application of the rule of the offending limb, on the part of a superstitious savage. Aluminum Is Heavier Than Sand —The specific gravity of aluminum is 2.56, equal to about 160 pounds per cubic feet. A cubic foot of sand will weigh from 84 to 110 pounds. Monday: With Ripley in Hawaii.

Sometimes warts disappear after irritation with the ultraviolet or with the X-ray, which also may change the chemical reactions in the human body. Various drugs have been applied, which sometimes actually # do destroy the wart and on other occasions change the condition of the blood. The mere fact that warts disappear spontaneously causes some doubt as to the use of any method of treatment, since it never is possible to say w’hether the warts would have disappeared without the treatment. It is known that actual surgical removal of the wart or its destruction by appropriate agents does get rid of the wart every time. Other methods quite frequently fail.

RV HEYWOOD BROUN

whelmed the Labor ministry came out of its reluctance to attempt any basic legislation whatsoever. It never ventured beyond the tumbler stage. And here In America we must make up our minds that property rights ought to take not only a back seat, but a very silent one, until human necessities have been supplied. ICoDvriet. 1932. bv The Times)

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—ls Clarence Darrow is a champion of the poor and unfortunate, I challenge him to champion the cause of all working men in the United States and bring suit against the attorney-general and President to compel them to enforce the anti-trust laws. Theodore Roosevelt was the only M TODAY IS THE- Sty WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY FRENCH MAKE GAINS April 2 ON April 2. 1918, French and British troops operating on the Picardy battlefront made further minor gains and succeeded in stopping continued German attacks, which lacked the force of those which characterized the early days of the offensive. French troops stormed German positions near La Fere and held them throughout the day. Paris newspapers announced that the great German offensive had been stopped and the French celebrated as if a great victory had been won. The Italian steamer Alessandra was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Island of Madeira. American troops, in reserve be- ( hind the British section of the western front, now numbered more than 100,000 men. Those engaged on the front or in reserve on the French section numbered approximately 200.000. Os this force, seven divisions, or pearly 200.000 men. were considered ready for front line duty.

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.APRIL 2. 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DI£TZ

[Sugar in Mortar Adds Greatly to Strength pf Building. SUGAR in your coffee is an old idea, but would you put sugar in the mortar if you were building a brick wall or a bridge? The old Roirans did and modern scientific research just has demonstated that it was a smart idea. Buildings, bridges and other structural work, built with the aid of a little common cane sugar, will be stronger and last longer than present-day buildings. That is the findings of scientists at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of Pittsburgh. The work carried on at the Mellon institute by Dr. Gerard J. Cox and Dr. John Metschl was explained before a meeting of the sugar division of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans. The two scientists reported that the “sweetening” of mortar by the addition of cane sugar increased its tensile strength approximately 60 per cent, thus adding greatly to the life of the structure built with the mortar. They also reported that the addition of sugar to plaster had the same effect. tt tt tt Cost Is Small THE two scientists reported that use of sugar in laying bricks or plastering a wall does not increase materially the cost of the work. The process, they said, is simple. The sugar merely is dissolved in water, which then is mixed with the sand and lime. They said it was necessary to use about five or six pounds of sugar to every 100 pounds of lime. The work at the Mellon institute has been carried out by the “sugar fellowship,” established by the sugar institute. The fellowship has a twofold purpose, to carry on biochemical investigations concerning the place of sugar in the diet and to study possibilities of the use of sugar as a raw material in industry. Drs. Cox and Metschl have been working upon the second phase w the work, namely the industrial use of sugar. They report that a search of available literature shows little use of sugar in industry. A prize offered in 1906 by a syndicate of French refiners and amounting to 100,000 francs for any one developing an industrial use of sugar which would total. 100,000 tons has not been claimed. “Vivien in 1912 reviewed the uses of sugar exhaustively,” they say. “Rolfe has given a summary of Vivien’s paper. Os the uses described by these authors, probably the inclusion of sugar in transparent soaps accounts for the greatest tonnage.” n tt u Some Other Uses “COUGAR has been used as an O ingredient of compounds for removing boiler scale,” the two scientists continue. “More than thirty patents had been issued up until 1912 for the inclusion of sucrose in explosives in amounts from 6 to 40 per cent. “Sugar finds frequent use as a ‘filler,’ appearing in dyes, tanning materials and leather. Printers’ rolls and hectograph pads have been made with glue and sugar. “Sugar frequently is used in pharmaceutical preparations such as in compounding of pills and as saccharates of various metals. “Because of its antiseptic properties in concentrated solution, sucrose has been used in treatment of wounds. “The chemical properties of sucrose have been used in removing calcium hydroxide from hides after they have been dehaired, utilizing the formation of soluble calcium monosaccharate. “Similarly, calcium may be removed from certain calcined minerals. Invert sugar has been used in the silvering of mirrors. “Powell has proposed to treat wood by impregnation with sugar solutions. He claims his process prevents shriftkage and season checking, and protects against the attacks of termites. “Rice advocates the same usage and makes extensive claims for the value of his treated woods.”

Daily Thought

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her running.—Psalms 137:5. Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man—Ausoniusl

President who had courage to fight trusts and monopolies. He said ] that if any one group was allowed |to form combinations powerful j enough to control any one line of business it would kill all small competitors and put thousands out | of employment. When trusts are allowed, they put ; in labor-saving machinery that the small business can not afford and I turn the work out so fast that few men are needed, and then only at part time. They say this makes the products cheaper, but it does not help the poor man. If these trusts were broken there would be thousands of small concerns, each one with its full quota of help to take their place. Thousands of traveling men again would travel from one place to another instead of one man calling at the head office in New York. A country is in bad shape when a boy getting out of school and having courage to go in business for ! himself has no chance, as all forms of business are controlled by Wall street. If prosperity ever is to return we will have to go back to small - Tcerns, to make work for all Why did that Wall Street committee call on the President and ask to ha’’e the anti-trust laws repealed or to have the penalty removed? They knew they were violating the law for their own good. Let the law be enforced and all men have jobs. JOHN HOLLIDAY. , What is the difference between fate and destiny? Fate is defined as “Power predetermining events from eternity; what is destined; appointed lot or ultimate condition; death, destruction.” Destiny is defined as “Power that foreordains the course of event* or lot of a person regarded as del cided by this power.?