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Open the Door to Public Ownership No candidate for nomination for the legislature deserves success on either ticket until he pledges himself to opening the door to public ownership of public utilities. The experience of this city in dealing with the water company demonstrates the helplessness of the people under present regulation. The city accepted a com premise in a concession on the amount collected for fire hydrants. That concession was all that seemed possible to obtain. It was immediate relief and justified by that fact. But now it appears that the concession was deceptive on the part of the company and that the total amount to be collected by it from the consumer will be larger than before—and it had been demonstrated that its profits were extortionate. A majority of consumers wll pay more. Some consumers who were being overcharged and victimized will receive a small reduction in their monthly bills. But when the harvest is over, the company will have more money to ship back to Philadelphia or to pay the club dues and charitable gifts of its president under the guise of "operating costs.” This is the largest city in the country which still pays tribute to private owners for the vital necessity of water. The rates are the highest in the nation for a city of this size. Compared to costs in other Indiana cities, they are monstrous. Public ownership is the way of escape from the clutches of those who capitalize their greeds into real dollars and whose grip upon the community is deathlike in its rigidity and deadly to industry by its exactions. , Public ownership, under the rule of the utilities over legislatures in the past, is made difficult. It can and must be made easy. Look carefully at the candidate who asks your vote for the legislature. Look into his connections with the utilities or the influences that are friendly to the utilities. Get him to sign a pledge to vote for the people and put him on record so clearly that to evade or to dodge will brand him forever as a traitor to your interests. This is no year to give your votes to those who appeal on the ground of friendship. Public ownership of water supply must be made easy and a fact.

Courage in Journalism For two days, the editors of Republican newspapers in Indiana had talked of the necessity of courage in journalism, of the demand for leadership of thiught in hours of stress, of the great names of the profession, made great by fidelity to causes that were unpopular except for their advocates. And then they refused to vote on so simple a matter as giving the people a chance to vote on the question of prohibition. They had praise for Hoover and Watson and Robinson and Leslie. But they v/crc silent about the bonus payments at this time. They waved the flag, but there was no word of protest against the rule of the state by the utilities. There was the same silence about vital things as there was silence in 1924 when Stephensonism took control of their party. Parly labels and courage in journalism seem to have lost contact.. Or does it require real courage in these riaye to follow blindly the Hoovers, the Watsons, the Robinsons and the Leslies? Wilbur Wobbles Two recent events add weight to the growing demand for a consistent federal policy on conservation and land utilization. One is the Garfield committee attempt to dole out to western states the last remnant of 180,090,000 acres of the public domain's surface land. The other is Secretary Wilbur’s reversal of the executive order of three years ago, withdrawing oil prospectors’ permits, on this domain. Wilbur is, we believe a sincere conservationist. Yet his conservation policies seem hopelessly to lack logic. He supported the Garfield committee’s unhappy recommendation in the Evans bill to give vast grazing and watershed lands to states that are in no position to protect them. While this move appears to have been blocked in congress, no substitute measure is being pushed looking to federal protection of these lands, now being ruined by overgrazing and erosion. On March 13, 1929, Wilbur suddenly withdrew from prospecting the oil lands of the public domain. Now he reverses this order. That he hedges the order with a proviso that the oil, if discovered, be developed under the "unit plan” made possible by the Walsh bill of last session dees not change the fact that the bars are thrown down at a time when the nation is being almost drowned in oil. What has happened in three years to justify Wilbur’s reversal of policy? Nothing. Instead, there has been the biggest oil development in the last three decades, the east Texas exploitation and an overproduction of oil so disastrous to local oil men that they are demanding remedies like an oil tariff or embargo. • If protection of the nation's potential oil fields from wildcatting was necessary three years ago, why isn’t it so now? The country's rapidly dwindling natural resources can not longer be bandied about safely. The forests, coal, oil, minerals, grazing lands, and watersheds that remain ungrabbed by private exploiters should be conserved and developed with an eye to the public need and future safety. Economy Plans ’ The White House economy conference has crystallized for general consideration a program of government retrenchment, if it has done nothing else, and has proved valuable to that extent. > Some of its proposals will meet with universal approval. Omissions from it will cause rather general disappointment. A few of its provisions can not fail to arouse alarm. The plan to permit department heads to divert fdnds from one specific purpose to another falls within this latter category. To do this is to place in the hands of the executive department dictatorial powers of government. , It would permit a cabinet member who thought prohibition enforcement more important than anything else to take funds from other work and spend them for this purpose. A secretary who considered deportation the most important work of his department could spend for that purpose more than congress had been willing thus should be spent. The chairman of the federal trade commission might, if he saw fit, disregard the protection congress has given the utility and chain store investigation, and use funds for trade practice conferebces. Though the economy committee is willing to give

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away this vital function of the people’s branch of the government, there is little danger that congress as a whole will agree thus to abdicate its powers. If It did, it would be taking a specific step away from democracy and toward Fascism. It is much more reassuring to regard the committee proposals that various government bureaus which spend their time performing definite and valuable service for private business concerns shall collect fees hereafter for those services. This is sound public policy and will result in quick determination as to which of these services should be retained and which discontinued. But nowhere in the economy program, as thus far drawn, is there mention of savings to be effected in the three largest classes of government expnditure where savings would be welcomed most heartily by the people. There Is no word in this program about cutting the $700,000,000 annual expenditure for war and navy departments, though the military branch of government is eating up, every year, between a fifth and a sixth of our governmental budget. Nor has any consideration been given to changing liquor control from a $45,000,000 annual liability to an asset that instantly would end our worry over new taxes. Many members of congress point out that it would not be necessary to consider cutting salaries of federal civilian employes and to jeopardize humanitarian and scientific services of the government if the army and navy could be cut. The same is true of prohibition enforcement. The civilian services, under the White House plan, would be made to suffer to save the military men and the dry agents. * According to the house committee, the President refused even to discuss its plan to save millions by consolidating the war and navy departments. Nor does the White House conference plan include a reduction of subsidies to the steamship and airplane industries, to which we hand about $50,000,000 yearly, in addition to low interest rate loans, and other aids in the form of costly free research work. If congress and the President were able to see these matters as a majority of the voters see them, there would be no agonizing search for little economies here and there, no threat against valuable governmental agencies now facing starvation. A valuable start has been made toward needed economies, but the present program could be, and should be, improved. Nobody Starving? In Philadelphia a little girl fainted in a schoolroom. When she was brought "to” she said: “I’m not sick; I’m only hungry.” When, the teacher told her to go home and eat something, she replied: "How can I? It’s not my turn to eat today?” In New York three elderly men were taken to the hospital in one day, all, according to the papers, "victims of starvation.” In Washington an unidentified man walked into a restaurant, scribbled a note to the manager: "Eastman's work was done. I have no work, which is worse.” Then he swallowed poison tablets. In Chicago a mother testified before the workers’ committee on unemployment: "There is in the neighborhood a public eating place, and sometimes when the hash has been warmed up too many times they can not very well put it on the table. The fit place for it is the garbage can, but it is not yet spoiled and they give it to me.” "It may be, as some state Governors told Senator Bingham, that "nobody is starving” in this land of plenty. Stories like the above, typical of what you may read any day, indicate something else. . They shofild remind congress that the people of the United States should not be allowed to go hungry. Only hoarded money should be used to buy baby bonds, the government tells us. Trying to change us from socks to bonds? It was a sad blow to our ideas of the wild west when Colonel Zack Miller used a shotgun instead of a six-gun to repel the invasion of the 101 ranch. Several of the big hat companies are considering a merger, but it’s a cinch they won’t do it to get rid of the'overhead. And now they're planning a weekly publication dealing with cosmetics. A powder magazine? The Filipinos are becoming more and more insistent in demands for liberty. We hope they have better luck than we have had.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TO the average American the word “Communism” is anathema and Socialism almost as frightful. Yet the American government itself put through one of the most excellent communistic plans ever tried in any land. And with remarkable success. From Washington, the seat of the most complicated capitalistic system in the world. Socialism came forth and worked a miracle. And there was no patriot to cry out against it. This plan was used in distribution of the huge fortune that came several years ago to the Osage Indian tribe. With oil pouring millions of dollars a day into their pockets, these Indians suddenly found themselves literally swamped with wealth. Then Uncle Sam stepped in to look after this matter for his wards. An arrangement was made by which each member of the tribe would benefit- equally from this sudden flood of riches. Because of this the Osages today, although their wealth is diminished greatly, still are comfortably off. More so indeed than many a white man who made millions for himself during the prosperity era. under our ruthless system of “Grab while the grabbing is good.” • * M THE thing was done by the simple application of a little brain matter and because, in that case, we were not afraid to try out what may have hsen Socialism, but certainly also was common sense. All income from the Osage wells was put into a common fund, so that each person, being by tribal rights part owner of tribal land, received his share of oil profits, whether he had a well upon his ground or not. Thus all individuals enjoyed the benefits of those natural resources which God had put into their barren earth—that small parcel of gray ground given to them so grudgingly by the acquisitive white man. It might be difficult to administer all national affairs so sensibly and well, but it seems strange that we can not bring the same intelligence to a plan for a more equitable distribution of wealth over the whole United States. What we have done for the Osages, we should in aome small measure be able to do lor ourselves.

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You Just Can't Trust Crooks. Better by Far Had Colonel Lindbergh Kept That Axiom Strictly in Mind. YORK, April 11.—Fifty thousands dollars gone and no baby. That is the latest chapter in the Lindbergh case. It lends itself to all kinds of speculation. Did the kidnapers, or some go-between get the money? Was the job put up by some smart imposter? Let those who will express dumb sympathy with more bad guesses. The denouement speaks for itself. You just can’t trust crooks. Better by far had Colonel Lindbergh kept that axiom strictly in mind. n m m • Criminal Cussedness nnHE question is not what each -*■ and every one of us might, want to do under similar circumstances. It goes without saying that the normal father would give anything, promise anything, try anything, to get his child back. But such an attitude is not to be trusted. It is too emotional. It takes little account of public interest, or practical possibilities. Human nature operates on both sides of a kidnaping case. The fine gestures of parental instinct are more than offset by criminal cussedness. The crook who steals a child and holds it for ransom will not scruple to take the ransom without returning the child. tt tt tt A Hopeless Game AS in the upper world, nothing succeeds like success in the underworld. Buying criminals off only means putting cash into their pocket, and promises of immunity only makes them feel a little safer. It is a hopeless game, and every citizen who plays it, no matter how great his temptation, only adds to the problem of law and order. Besides, the chance that he will get what he wants is always poor. It is vain to imagine that the challenge of lawlessness in any form can be met with dollars. We Ijave gone too far in that direction, have spent too much in a futile effort to buy protection from our anti-social elements. tt tt a Cash Vs, Courage THERE comes a time when public interest calls for individual sacrifice and the repression of individual desires, when a man must lay aside his own concerns, no matter how important they seem, for the sake of the common good. We know that this is so in war. We ought to realize that it is so in peace. Racketeering is built on the idea that people would rather pay than prosecute. Gang rule rests on the assumption that terrorism will bring the dough. A large part of our trouble with criminals, racketeers and crooked politicians goes back to the simple fact that we put more faith in cash than courage. tt tt k Too Much Compromise WE can never get anywhere with this crime problem by offering rewards for stolen jewels, refusing to testify against gangsters, paying tribute to racketeers, or promising immunity. Sooner or later, the public must take an uncompromising stand. That means you, me and the man across the street. Sooner or later, this idea that any one has a right to take things easier for himself by jeopardizing the interests of others must go by the board. Whether it is a case of petty grafting, or machine bullets, we must take our medicine as individuals for the sake of society. * tt * Sentiment All Wrong THE notion that we can afford to scrap our principles every time we get in a jam, lie on the witness stand because w’e are scared, buy our way out because it seems cheapest or compromise with crooks, is unsound. It indicates a definite loss of civic and social consciousness, a growing disregard for those standards and conceptions which are at the bottom of good government. It is no accident that the United States has become the most lawless civilized nation, that it is gangridden and gang-ruled, that its lawenforcement machine is worm-eaten with graft end corruption. We have the wrong kind of sentiment toward law because we have allowed the wrong kind of sentiment to make law.

Questions and Answers

How long does it take light rays from the sun to reach the earth? Light travels at the rate of about 186,300 miles per second, and takes about eight minutes to cover approximately 93,000,000 miles of distance from sun to earth. Hpw many unemployed are there in the United States? On the basis of a special census taken in a number of industrial cities in January, 1931, the census bureau estimated that there were approximately 6,100,000 totally unemployed. The number at present is more than seven million. TVhat is the average height and weight of girls of 15? Average height, 61.1 inches; average weight, 106 pounds. How did Rhode Island get its name? One authority says that it was named by the early settlers for a small island in Narragansett bay, Roode Eylandt—red island. Another authority claims it was named for the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean sea. How did the abbreviation Xmas for Christmas originate? It was formed by the substitution of the cross, X, symbol of Christ, for the Christ in Christmas. What is the regulation width for the bottoms of the uniform trousers of sailors in the United States Navy? The width varies from 22 Vi to 24 inches, depending on the size of the waist measurement.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Control Easily Taught to Babies

Thi, is the second ot two articles on "Training the Babr” by Dr. Fishbeln. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. TTTHEREAS control of the habits ’ * of the child relative to excretions from the bowel is a relatively simple matter because of the definite time usually required for digestion of food and elimination of the waste products, control of excretions from the bladder may be a much more difficult matter. There are children who grow to quite advanced ages without learning just how this should be done. Experts in psychology are likely to find some mental reason for the failure to learn. Miss Dorothy E. Hall, the mental health supervisor for the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, has given explicit directions to be used

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THE strike at Columbia university ought to be treasured in traditions of the university far above any victory on the river oi the gridiron. It marked one of the very few occasions in American college life where a. group of under graduates had the gumption to behave like reasonable human beings. Even a dean can be made to seem powerless and ridiculous by the mass action of liberal-minded students. And certainly the strikers came, away with all the honors, for the faculty has been placed in the ludicrous position of having none but athletes on its side. For the first time in the history of American education, football players were observed fighting to get into classes. The whole affair may prove so epoch-making that from now on the brawny boys will be ready to die for dear old calculus. u n # Flying Tackle at Trig IF education is to be gained only by a slice oft tackle, it may be that when next the Columbia eleven takes the field the signals will be all but drowned by the clanking of the Phi Beta Kappa keys. For a good many years it has been a standing reproach in the face of the average undergraduate that his interests lay only in touchdowns and dropkicks. He has manifested not the slightest enthusiasm for anything save long cheers and the concerted shout of “Block that kick! ” Living in a world of stress and tumult, the juniors and seniors have displayed just about as much concern over economic and political

Limiting of Armaments Ca nthe disarmament conference of 1932 at Geneva succeed in getting any sort of world agreement to help lift the load of armaments expense under which the nations are staggering? What of such efforts in the past? Who started the movement to have the world disarm? What part has the United States taken in such movements in the past? How do the principal nations compare in their expenditures on armies, navies and air forces? All these and many other questions concerning the history of the movement to obtain international agreements for the limitation of naval, land and air forces are discussed in our Washington Bureau’s new bulletin, LIMITATION OF ARMANMENTS. It will give any one an accurate background for understanding the present effor to accomplish such limitation. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 167, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 132 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE lama reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

in training a small baby ffi control of the bladder. Dress the child in bloomers or pants—not diapers. Put him on nursery chair (or toilet) immediately upon waking in the morning, after naps, after meals, and at regular intervals dining the day, starting every hour, or if necessary, every half-hour. When the child can be kept dry thus, lengthen the periods, taking him every one and one-half hours, then every two hours, repeating to him the word you wish him to use in asking for toilet attention. Never disregard a request for such attention. If the child does wet his clothes, change them at once. Praise him for success, but never punish for failure in control. In training for control of bladder at night, start at one year, when the child goes on three-meal schedule. The child should have his main

problems as any beauty glorified by Ziegfeld. In other lands it is not so. When demonstrations were to be made against public tyranny of one sort or another, it was the students who led and carried on the protests. Elsewhere the young men and the young women have realized that they had a distinct stake in the world in which they lived, and they have made their needs and their desires vocal. It seems to me that a college paper ought to be more than a bulletin in which to print the lime and place of the next meeting of the French society. The Spectator under Reed Harris was livened by its bold challenge to tradition both in campus life and beyond. The issue of free speech has been distinctly raised by the editor’s expulsion. Not all the dean's denials can make it otherwise, for, after all, free speech must mean the right to print that which is annoying and provocative and discourteous. No free speech problem ever arises at long as you print what the other fellow wants to hear. The dean's supporters are rather more frank than the official himself. For instance, I have a letter from “Columbia Undergraduate” which seems to me to state the Issues fairly enough, although he is of the anti-Harris group. * U M From an Undergraduate “'T'O be sure,” WTites UndergradX uate, “commercialized football exists at Columbia as it does at other large universities, but I do not say it ought to be condoned on that ground. “The situation at its worst is a necessary evil. It affects no worth-

meal at noon and an early light supper. Give him plenty of liquids early in the day and none after supper. If the child is thirsty, moisten his lips with a little water given from a teaspoon. He should not sleep in diapers. Take him up at 10 p. m. and waken thoroughly. If the bed already is wet by this time, take him up onehalf hour earlier each night until the bed is found dry. Then take him up regularly at this time. If the bed is wet by morning, waken him and take him up at 6 a. m. While establishing dry habits, it may be necessary to take the child up a second time in the night. If so, notice at what time he wets the bed, and waken him just before. Gradually lengthen the period between the first awakening and the second by taking him up a little later each night.

Ideals and opinion, expressed in this column are those ot one ot America’s most interesting writer, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

while student to any appreciable degree, and the intellectual status 'of the university never will be impaired by the fact that a few husky* fellows are allowed to enter who are not of Phi Beta Kappa intelligence. “If Reed Harris really wanted to rid Columbia of this canker why did he not work up an honest digust against the situation among the student body, instead of rushing into print with the ugly facts like a small boy who loves to repeat the dirty words he has heard in the street? “Commercialized football could be removed at the university if somebody went about it in a sensible fashion. I do not believe in ‘My university right or wrong, but my university.’ “I do believe, however, that a student owes a certain amount of allegiance to his university, even if it is to condone the practice of football as it is played these days. After all is said, one comes to a university for an eduoation— not to try to change the school’s viewpoint on any given matter.” A Little Liberal Spelling “T TNDERGRADUATE” is not geting along too fast with the education of which he speaks, for in identifying me as an old fogy at the conclusion of his letter he spells it “foggy.” This, I will grant, is a minor matter, for I think the important issue lies in the problem of whether a college exists chiefly in brick and mortar and faculties or in the living student body. I think a college ought to be just as a running stream in cleansing itself. If a good tackle gets a living wage, I see no reason why that fact should remain a secret. Accordingly, I must repeat that I’m for Harris and dead against Butch Butler and his football favorites. (Coovriet. 1932. bv The Times) Daily Thought For the love of money is the root of all evil.—l Timothy 4:7. Worldly wait is the devil’s bait. —Robert Burton. When was the canal closed on Market street to the water works? Water‘company officials say you probably refer to the laying of the flume under Washington street, which was done in 1917-18. What was Babe Ruth's last salary with the Yankees? SBO,OOO a year. • Is the Vatican considered a country at this time? Yes. Is the Central library on St. Chur street open on Sunday afternoons? The library is open from 2 until 6 Sunday afternoons, but no books are checked out. Patrons must do their reading in the library. What causes the moon to shine? Reflected light of the sun.

.APRIL 11, 1932 r

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Electric Heater for Hotbedi Will Be Boon for Gardener , TT' LECTRICAL engineers have turned their hands to gardening and developed an electric heater for hotbeds. Engineers at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company have perfected the device after three years of work. They claim that it eliminates worry for the gardener and assures him better results. They say that up to now it was necessary for good results to have expensive equipment. It was also necessary to pay considerable attention to the fertilizer mixture used. And even then, they say, there was no way of controlling the heat or combating changes in weather. The new device consists of a series of heater coils placed in the soil. These coils are controlled by a thermostat, so that a constant temperature is maintained in the hotbeds,- irrespective of what the weather may be like. The experiments during the lasi three years were carried on in Mansfield. 0., under direction of W. C. Stevens of the industrial heating section of the Westinghouse company. tt * m Work Is Saved STEVENS is enthusiastic about possibilities of the electric heaters. He says: "Much time and unpleasant worlf is saved in the spring in getting the hotbeds ready with the new method that has been devised. It is necessary to make the bed only once t season, if these electric hotbeds art used. "Many other advantages are readily noticeable. By using these-heat-ers, plants do not come up In scattered patches, as is the case with thi old-time hotbed. \ Growth Is not retarded or halted Just because thi temperature on the outside Is tert or less. "Such plants as cabbage, tomatoes, eggplant* and peppers can be transplanted at an earlier date with the consequent earlier harvest date, which means more money to the gardener or producer. "By using a thermostat, any desired temperature between 50 and 100 degrees. Fahrenheit, can be obtained. When the heat of the sun has raised the ground temperature, the thermostat automatically shuts off the current. "In this manner there is no danger of root singeing or in any way injuring the plants. "Only the simplest hotbed construction is required when these heaters are used.” * tt * Geraniums Thrive STEVENS cites a number of cases in which the efficiency of the new electrical method was demonstrated. "Geraniums, with the new method, have a good rooting system in eighteen days, while with the old method many of the ‘slips’ rotted and those that did take root required about thirty days’ time,” he says. "Lettuce was found to break ground in three days. "Other examples might be cited where growth has been speeded up, or made larger or healthier by using electricity instead of the fertilizer, “The heater can be used in heating propagating benches, seed germinators and sprouters. It was found that the open coil type of design was more successful in filling the requirements. It has been learned that this type of coil does not consume as much energy as do other types. “The wires also are coiled, so that a slow even temperature may be secured, eliminating dangers of singeing the roots.”

& T ?s9£Y /world war a ANNIVERSARY

BRITISH PUSHED BACK ON April 11, 1918, German advances in the Lys river 'sector forced the British to evacuate Armentieres, but Canadian troop* repelled one assault after another on Messines ridge, in the same region. Merville was taken by a German assault just before night and British forces in that area retired to stronger positions beyond the town. Many of the British divisions in the battle on the Lys sector had been sent there to rest following the great March offensive and were in no condition to engage in a major battle. German divisions attacking them were variously estimated at from 10,000 to 15,000, or from 125,000 to 200,000 men. Fresh Australian divisions were ordered to the danger zone by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanding the British armies! who reported that he belived his forces would be adequate to meet the situation. More cheering news for the .allies came from General Allenby, in command of British forces in Palestine, who reported another victory over Turk troops. In the United States, President Wilson issued a proclamation naming William G, McAdoo director of the principal coastwise shipping lines. People’s Voice Editor Times—l note In Thursday’s Times the first installment of a series of articles by Talcott Powell on the veterans’ relief graft. Let me commend your paper for having the “guts” to print these articles, as it takes not a little courage for a newspaper to print the real facts. These so-called “patriots” by draft are willing to break the government and let the rest of the population slave to support them. If we didn t have so many cowards in Washington, this government would be a government of, by and for all the people, as intended by the framers of the Constitution. These are times that try men’s soul, and “God, give us men,’* as Holland said years ago. A LAWYER.