Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1932 — Page 4

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And Still They Grow Complaint becomes general that both electric and water bills grow instead of dwindle after the public service commission, under member Cuthbertson, obtained “concessions.” Users of large amounts of water have gone to court to prevent increases without a hearing. Under the compromise, the water company cut its bill to the city and to 25,000 citizens who had been charged for something they did not use. That case will settle the legal right of the commission to grant increases without a hearing by those affected. It will not settle the moral question, already settled. The water company had been caught in the art of extortion and petty trickery. When it charged the club dues of its president to operating expenses, it wrote its own description of its moral outlook. In other walks of life, the law has a name for it. But the electric bill needs explanation. It is a common experience, according to hundreds of complaints, that no matter how much economy is exercised in the use of lights and power, the bills grow higher and higher. Many explanations are given, but no one knows the reason except the company. The people have no protection against any of the various methods that, could be used to bring about this result. The people do not know the voltage that is shot through the meters. Many believe that it has been increased so as to increase the bills. There are no inspectors of meters on the part of the public to find out what happens to them after the members of the amateur baseball team which wears the uniform of the company gets through with them. The electric company promised to cut every bill 12 Vi cents a month. It is not discernible. The negotiations with that company by Cuthbertson were such as to demand anew deal by a different commissioner. The company refused any concession. Cuthbertson had dismissed the petition filed by the city and the South Side Civic Clubs. It was reinstated when The Times called attention to the fact that there was a w'ide discrepancy between the figures quoted by Cuthbertson in his defense of the company and those given to the public in an effort to sell more stock. But no effort was made to drag out the real figures. The company has not reported for last year. All that the people know is that their bills increase, the public service commission is lethargic, the company smiling at its escape. ■ A legislature with courage and no pockets is strongly indicated. How To Save Capitalism Those who would save capitalism well might turn for a minute from theoretical generalizations to practical cases. One of the best is the record of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company in Colorado, as compared to the old line Bourbon operators in Kentucky. In the Kentucky coal fields, where union labor is excluded or outlawed, we have a dismal record of industrial anarchy, class violence, and group hatreds. Economic conditions are such as to drive these mountaineer miners—old colonial stock of fierce individualistic tradition—into Communist sentiments. Turn to Colorado and look at the situation prevailing in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, which has been dealing with the United Mine Workers since 1928. Production per worker has been increased notably. In 1929 the company produced 175.000 more tons of coal than in 1928. Daily production to the man increased three-fourths ton. This company has stood up under the depression far better than its competitors. In 1930 the depression caused a falling off in production in all Colorado fields of 17.5 per cent, followed by a drop of 20.1 in 1931. In the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, the slump amounted to only 13 per cent in 1930 and 10.6 per cent in 1931. Wages have been increased. Average yearly earnings of the miners rase from $1,661 in 1928 to $2,104 in 1929. Average daily wage of the miners was $6.99 in 1928, $7.97 in 1929, and $8 in 1930. While wage reductions have been general during the depression in the Colorado coal fields, the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company has held out resolutely against this tendency. The statements on the point by Merle D. Vincent, executive vice-president of the company, constitute a real example of enlightened capitalism: “Efficient management easily can more effect cost savings by wage increases than by wage cuts. Increased wages and rational and satisfactory working relations will Increase the daily output of coal to the man,.while wage reductions and the resulting injustice and discontent tend to diminish man output and to increase cost. “The effort to cut wages threatens a repetition of the .social and industrial anarchy which periodically has flared up for a generation and more in Colorado, as a result of similar efforts to secure operating profit? at the sole expense of the workers. “Disorganization and instability of the overdeveloped coal Industry can not be corrected by forcing labor to take lower and lower wages, and sidestepping the responsibility for correcting operating and marketing abuses which prevail in the Industry. . . . “Any coal mine which can not operate without reducing Its workers to a starvation wage has no economic reason to operate.” The miners have not been slow to show practical appreciation of such decent behavior on the part of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company. They have **rganized a coal committee designed to co-operate with the Colorado Farmers’ Union in helping to provide a market for the coal of their company. They have served the following notice on the coal operators who reject unionism and slash wages: “We and the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company will mine and put coal in every market at prices which will meet any and every price made by nonunion operators who viciously are taking advantage of widespread unemployment and hunger to crush out the rights of workers to fair wages and decent American living standards, until this conspiracy is broken.” And this has been no idle rhetoric. Retail sale of the coal of this company jumped 82 per cent in 1931. Further, in August, 1931, the miners agreed to loan to the company one-half of their wages during August, September and October to enable the company to carry on its battle against nonunion and wage-cutting competitors. The agreement between the miners and the company well might be taken as the preamble of any scheme of enlightened capitalism and industrial planning. It states that its purpose is: "To substitute reason for violence, confidence for misunderstanding, integrity and good faith for dishonest practices, and union of effort for the chaos of the present economic warfare.”

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Beware of War In the midst of sending more troops toward the Russian border and warships into Russian waters, the Tokio government Monday replied to a ScrippsHoward editorial pointing to Japan's aggressive war preparations against Russia. While making the expected denial that it is the aggressor, the Tokio government, in its statement, admitted that the situation is tense. It also a<imitted that Japan will intervene if there Is a clash between the new Manchurian state and Russia. The joker here, of course, is that the new Manchurian state is a Japanese puppet, in absolute control of Japanese officials and Japanese generals. The Far Eastern situation is exceedingly grave. The danger of a world war resulting from Japanese aggression is greater now than when Japan invaded China. According to published reports, this crisis is responsible for the hasty and unexpected departure of Secretary of State Stimson for Europe to talk with the heads of other governments. Any day there may be a border “incident” between Japanese and Russian troops of the sort that can happen so easily, either by accident or design, when armies are massed along a frontier. Then Japan, according to her own statement, would “intervene.” Moscow charges that Japan is using czarist Russian tools to provoke just such an “incident” as an excuse for intervention. If Japan attacks Russia from the east, Rumania and Poland will be encouraged to attack Russia from the west. That would be a more explosive incentive to world war than the murder of an archduke, which started the last World war. We believe the American government and people are opposed to such a w’ar. But Japan does not know that. Because we treat Russia as an outlaw, Japan apparently thinks America would welcome, or at least not object to, the Japanese conquest of Russia. That is a costly misunderstanding of America’s policy. It is imperative that the United States make clear to Japan and the world that the American Kellogg pact outlawing war protects Russia. The American position can be clarified by re-establishing normal trade and diplomatic relations with Russia. This should be done at once. Air Safety An inter-company memorandum, issued by D. B. Colyer, vice-president of the United Air Lines, to all pilots and fields on the big air system’s routes, just has been made public. It is a three-page sermon on safety in the air; a pertinent set of orders from the boss to his employes. It says, in part: V . “It is essential that passengers be carried safely. “Trips will be started with passengers only when conditions prevailing at the time indicate that passengers can be carried with safety. “Both the pilot and field manager are responsible for safety of passengers. Either can deny passage on any trip when they feel passengers can not be carried safely. “All concerned should bear in mind that delayed, interrupted, or defaulted trips are preferable to completed trips wherein the safety of personnel, equipment or cargo is jeopardized unduly.” That is the way the biggest airline system in America instructs its staff. Some of the others do likewise. All might profit if they copied it. The memorandum also touches on the extreme importance of the pilot. It is interesting in view' of the recent furor raised over the wage cut and lockout of pilots on the now extinct Century Airlines. The United Air Lines memorandum says: “Success or failure of our company rests with the pilots a large part of the time. The pilot’s skill, ability, and judgment largely determine the success of eacfr flight, which practically represents our whole business.” Too Much Murder Dr. Frederick Hoffman, statistical expert, announces that there were 109 homicides for every one million of population last year in the United States. This is double the rate in 1900, and distinguishes our country by breaking all records of history. While the highest rates are in southern cities, the Chicago homicide rate is 141 to the million, New York’s 83. Across the border, fourteen Canadian cities show a rate of only sixteen to the million. In London the rate is eight; in Liverpool, five. War that cheapens life, and prohibition that creates gangsterism, must take much of the blame for this record. Dr. Hoffman would abolish capital punishment to make punishment quicker and surer. Why not also abolish wars and prohibition?

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE menace of the organization to the individual mind never has been shown more clearly than in the recent American Legion incident. Willard Straight post of New York, contrary to orders from the main body, opposes the $2,000,000,000 bonus bill, and says so. Asa consequence, we have this statment from a state legion officer: “The Willard Straight post always has been out of step with the county, the state, and the national organization. Suspension of its charter is being considered by legion officials.” The bonus measure is being discussed thoroughly in all newspapers editorially these days. Whether we bankrupt ourselves by paying it or whether we insult the heroes who defended us by not doing so is not the most important phase of the question. More significant by far is the fact that there is a real threat to personal liberty in this incident and in all organization dictatorship. The ignorance bred of organized thinking is the most frightful disaster that faces these United States. It is the most alarming portent of our future. Our mental subjection to propaganda is an ignoble national characteristic. Mob suggestibility rules the opinion of nine-tenths of our citizenship. There is little truth in us. ana ORGANIZATIONS set about, first of all, to foster herd thinking. A number of dominating individuals place themselves in power and their thought dictates the opinion of the entire body of members. In fact, the whole idea behind most organizations. although it may be well camouflaged by some altruistic cause, is dictatorial, militaristic, and directly opposed to intelligent thinking. Individuals are corralled together; propaganda is pumped into their heads: they are urged not to listen to any word against their “purpose” whatever that may be. Inevitably by this method, their every mental apparatus can become atrophied and they end bv having no convictions at all, save the usual soft, spoon-fed sort that organizations recommend. Can it be possible that we Americans, whose dearest tradition is personal liberty, do not realize that by this mob thinking we are slipping into a slough of ignorance and corruption that may spell our doom as an intelligent people?

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In the Manchurian Controversy Russia Has Talked Less About Idealism Than Some Countries, but Has Done More to Show How It Works. NEW YORK. April 19.—This is a scared, confused world. Nothing proves it more vividly than the way the oriental situation has been allowed to go from bad to worse. There has been a deal of discussion but no determined or practical action. A definite possibility of war between Russia and Japan comes as the logical result. Neither of these nations could interfere aggressively in Chinese affairs without arousing suspicion and resentment on the other’s part. That was the real significance of the first Japanese move in Manchuria. Much more than China’s integrity is at stake, and has been from the beginning. Every intelligent statesman understood this. None had the courage, or foresight, to force the necessary steps. M * Diplomatic Jockeying THE League of Nations met with intentions, but ducked quicker than Pilate when it realized what it was up against. Our government fumed, but more to keep the record straight than anything else. We wanted a good legal case if the opportunity ever came to try it. It is a ten-to-one bet that the opportunity never will come. Our jockeying for a sound legal position was predicted on the assumption that the present set-up would continue, but, like other nations, we dodged the task of seeing that it would. By the time we get around to claiming our rights in a free China, China may not be free, or if free, may be so reduced and impoverished as to be of no such importance as she is today. an a Russia’s Enemies AS to Russia, the rest of the world has left her with but one choice. Whether desiring war, or not, she is compelled to defend herself not only against the possibility of Japanese aggression, but against such revolutionary plots and attempts as that aggression may involve. Many Russian exiles and refugees are living in Manchuria. Hate of the Soviet is their deepest emotion. They hope for nothing so devoutly as an excuse to make trouble for it. They are ready to pool interests with any cause, or country „which can be used, even by inference, to fulfill their desires. The Russian exiles and refugees hailed Japan’s coming to Manchuria as a special dispensation of providence. Just how well they have employed it to stir up trouble, we do not know, but they have done all they could. ana Threat Against Threat ADDED to this feature of the situation, there is a natural conflict of interests between Russia and Japan—a conflict which is made much more acute by the prospect of a Japanese controlled Manchuria. Russia does not want Japan any nearer than she is, or in control of any greater part of Asia. We would feel the same way if in Russia’s place. That explains why Russia is mobilizing a considerable military force along the Siberian border, and why she makes no' bones about letting Japan know' what it is for. a a a The Soviet Example RUSSIA has been pretty decent and pretty square throughout this whole controversy. She could have found plenty of pretexts for entering Manchuria and precipitating strife with Japan had she felt so inclined. The chances are that she dould have made a rather favorable trade with Japan for the division of Manchuria and eastern Mongolia between them had she been willing to participate in the rape of an empire. She could have upset every vestige of order and government within China had revolution and confusion been her one great aim. The fact that Russia has refrained from pursuing either of these three courses ought to create a better impression of her poise and stability among outsiders. She has talked less about idealism than some other countries, but has done more to show how it works. Wouldn't it be a paradox if Russia were to save us from the consequences of our own folly, were to stop Japan, protect China and give us a chance to try that case we have taken such pains to prepare with our clever notes and admonitions?

& T ?s9£ Y ff / WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY GERMANS PLAN NEW DRIVE April 19 ! ON April 19, 1918, British troops beat off several assaults on the strong positions they had taken on Mont Kemmel on the Lys sector. Three fresh German divisions were reported reinforcing the troops w'hich had been on the offensive in this sector for ten days and a further great effort to reach the channel ports was expected. Australian and Canadian divisions which had participated in the great battle of Picardy were moved up to support the hard-pressed English soldiers. Italian troops reached France and prepared to take their places on the western front. The German long-range gun resumed its bombardment of Paris. Losses there were slight.

Daily Thought

For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.— Ruth 1:16. True love is better than glory.— Thackeray.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE— Fewer Women Now Have Backache

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of llvxeta, the Health Magazine. TN a recent discussion of back- -*• ache in women before the British Medical Society, one authority expressed the opinion that there now is less backache in women than there used to be twenty or thirty years ago, because girls now are brought up in a more natural manner. Since girls have been permitted to come out of the seclusion of the home and to participate in outdoor sports, walking and other forms of exercise, they have enjoyed the benefits of fresh air and sunlight and have developed bones and ligaments better able to withstand the stress of life. However, the British authority

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Editor Times—“ Nero fiddled while j Rome burned,” at least, it is said lie did, and while the people of the American republic stand and discuss conditions of the day, there are people who oppose any constructive step to improve conditions. “The records show that there have been during the year just ended 2,290 bank failures, with deposits of $1,759,000,000 —house of representatives report 36.” Railroad bonds w'hich will mature during the year 1932 total $110,782,506. These are items taken from the above quoted house report. “Insurance companies throughout the country are confronted with unprecedented applications for loans by their policyholders. To meet these conditions, the insurance companies are compelled to sell securi- ! ties to take care of such loans and to pay losses.” These losses were caused by unemployment, failure of business and loss to the farmer in having to sell his products on a low market. There is today in the United States a shortage of money in the hands of the people, and, as a result, the people of the nation have become impoverished and business is at a standstill. To protect railroads and insurance companies, congress passed legislation creating a great finance corporation. This did not put out among the people any money, but served only to allay the storm which was gathering, as it was revealed that the New York bankers had advanced to the railroads money and they were to be paid back their loans. At the end of the war there was turned over to the railroads $500,000,000, and now they are compelled to ask for further aid. Besides,

This Man, This Woman Back through the history ol the human race, to its beginnings lost in the ages of antiquity men and women have been choosing their mates and the institution of marriage, differing in different ages and in different countries and among different peoples, has been developing and reaching the forms and customs that exist in the world today The history of marriage is a fascinating study, and throws much light on marital problems of this day and age. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a condensed, but comprehensive, outline ot the History of Marriage from earliest ages to the present time; from primitive promiscuity down to monogamous marriage." You will be interested and informed by it. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 168, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, * 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy ot the bulletin, HISTORY OF MARRIAGE, 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 I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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deprecated excess in physical activities among women because of its tendency to produce the male type of construction and in that way to bring about dangers in childbirth. Persistent pain, particularly low in the back, frequently is due to some disturbance in the position of the organs that are particularly feminine. When these organs are held in condition of strain, that strain is reflected by pain in the back in many instances. A careful examination will reveal the nature of the stress and permit measures for its correction. Whereas 80 per cent of all cases of pain low in the back in women are due to disturbances of this character, the remaining 20 per cent are probably purely mechanical in relationship to the structure of the spine and its ligaments.

$10,000,000,000 was loaned to Europe, and when congress was not in session a moratorium was granted to Germany. Then, too, $280,000,000 was loaned to South America. Now, in the face of such conditions, granting of foreign loans, we see the American pepole standing in line by the millions asking for a crust of bread. The government is opposed to the dole, but we have the dole in every township and city. We have forced labor for provisions, all in the name of charity, the dispensing of government flour, in fact, every means to cow the spirit of the American people is resorted to. It is said there are more than 700,000 ex-service men out of employment. These men hold adjusted service certificates, and today petitions containing millions of names are filed in Washington, It is true the President asked the American Legion, which represents only a small part of the soldiers, not to vote for the payment of the bonus at this time, but other soldier organizations were not asked to cease their demands for the payment of the bonus. The Veterans of Foreign Wars are standing by these unemployed veterans and in the interest of every ex-service man is pressing the battle to the front. The ex-soldirrs of the nation should be thankful there is such an organization like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. There is no question that the greatest crisis which ever faced the American people since the war now is facing them. Give to the American people purchasing power and we will not need to ask for dole. Now, it is in the interest of the prosperity of the American people

Because women are built to undergo childbirth, the structure of the lower part of the spine and of the pelvis is adapted to relaxation, therefore women are more likely to suffer with disorganization of the bones and the ligaments than are men. Moreover, as the woman approaches the end of the period when it is possible for her to give birth, there comes a tendency for greater fixation in the spine and in the pelvis. A competent orthopedic surgeon is able to control the excessive relaxation by the use of light braces and especially built corsets. When such apparatus properly is applied, the woman will find herself promptly relieved of the backache and the generalized pain from which she suffered.

that the government is asked to advance the payment of the "bonus.” It will take the unemployed soldier out of the breadline and make of him a buyer of farm and factory products. It will put into circulation in Marion county $7,730,561.14; in Shelby county, $485,636.08, and the state of Indiana, $59,323,219.87. Does the state need that money, or will it say we would rather have it loaned to Europe. This will be good American money and will be spent for American products. If the bonus is not paid, it means that next winter we will have bigger and better breadlines, a larger budget to balance, more homes empty, and congress will be compelled to vote a dole. WALTER REESE. Shelbyville, Ind. Editor Times—To start with, I take The Times every day and would not take any other newspaper. You are doing a lot to open the eyes of the people, yet it is a shame you can not go to it full force, but I support there are too many that are not ready for it. The thing I want to say is this: I feel there are many homes to be lost, due to inability to pay taxes. If there was a move to give the people at least thirty days or sixty, it would save many a home for the little fellow who never will want to buy or own property again after losing at this age. They are losing their self-respect and the outcome v'll be a sad lot of aged people. When war is called, they want the flower of the land to go out and fight. Will any one explain this to i me? The older one stays back and i waves the flag and the younger ones go forth to be slaughtered like hogs j at a packing house for the glory of ! the broken older ones to read and blow over. It is high time the younger ones take things in hand. There is no work for them and ; their homes are subject to sale, so what will be the outcome if the young ones do not take a hand? 'Die banks close with the poor losing their savings and nothing is done about it. They build great monuments and expect the unemployed to enjoy them, with the glory even of that given to crooks in office. The boy goes to school for years, doing without needed things, and the parents have to face the small voice saying, “there is no work.” Just think of it, in a world of plenty. Now they talk of cuts in salaries of government employes and all the rest of that bunk. Well, that is where it should have started. All I can say is that mothers | who have .been asleep should awake and see to it that our boys are not used for cannon fodder again in a | bloody war. A TIMES SUBSCRIBER. Editor Times—We are reminded constantly, through the medium of the press, ofc the so-called efforts being made by the government to : relieve the unemployment situation lin our country, I am inclined to

-APRIL 19, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIET 2

Inferiority Complex Stressed in Book Above. All Other Motivating Forces in Life. THE art of being a woman never' can consist in being a bad imitation of a man.” So says Dr. Olga Knopf well-known Viennese psychiatrist and pupil of the famous Dr. Alfred Adler. She makes the statement in anew book, “The Art of Being a Woman ” just published by Little, Brown & Cos., at $3. The art, she continues, “can consist only in being equal, independent and co-operative, in understanding human nature and human capacities and in applying th® knowledge first of all to oneself.” Dr. Adler, as is well known, stresses the inferiority complex above all other motivating forces in life. Therefore, we should not be surprised to find his pupil. Dr. Knopf, taking a somewhat similar view. One of the early chapters of the book is titled “Inferiority Feelings” and in summing up the problem which faces women she says: “It is in our power to bring about conditions in which girls no longer will suffer from the feelings of inferiority that hitherto have pursued them; in which they will face the world with undiminished courage and act as responsible, independent., and equal partners with men in solving the problems of life.” • a a a In World War DR.. KNOPF was born in Vienna in 1888 and educated at the University of Vienna. There she took the regular medical course which then just had been recently opened to women. She also studied philosophy and psychology, but found herself out of sympathy with the psychological methods of the day, which put the chief emphasis on measurements and tests. During the World war she was a surgeon in a field hospital in Bulgaria. After the w r ar she returned to Vienna and took up the practice of gynecology. Psychology, however, became her chief interest and she entered the field of psychiatry or medical psychology. In the fall of 1931 she visited New York, delivering a course of lectures at the New School for Social Research. “The Art of Being a Woman” covers a wide range of subjects. While there is a considerable discussion of marriage and related problems, it is not the chief topic of the book. The book is concerned with the adjustment of women to all phases of life. Much emphasis is placed upon the discussion of childhood, in keeping with the feeling of the modern psychiatrist that the behavior of adults is traceable in large measure to the incidents of childhood. Dr. Knopf emphasizes the difference in the environment in which the small girl finds herself and the environment in which the small boy finds himself. It may be the same home, the same school and the same playground, but the difference is summed up in the admonition to the boy to “be a little man” and the admonition in the girl to “be a little lady.” nan Virtues and Vices “T ET us look at the world into JL/ which the baby girl comes.” i writes Dr. Knopf. “Let us see the estimation which is put upon her. “Let us notice, first of all. what' generally are supposed to be ‘masculine’ qualities and ‘feminine’ qualities. “In this w'orld she enters everything active is called masculine, everything passive is called feminine. “The virtues of masculinity are supposed to be courage, firmness, initiative, logical thinking, farsightedness. The virtues of femininity are supposed to be charm, tenderness, patience, intuition, delicacy. “The vices of masculinity are supposed to be roughness, inconsiderateness, lack of fine perception. The vices of feminity are a longer list; women are supposed to be illogical, inconsequential, vain, over-emo-tional, without initiative, given to gossiping, too sensitive to pain, deceitful and cow'ardly. “Even the masculine vices, however, are regarded as springing from the fact that a man is too active and too busy to bother himself with the lesser graces; and, on the whole, when we say masculine w’e mean it as praise; when w T e say feminine w'e mean it as blame. “To call a man a masculine type is a great compliment. To call a woman a feminine type implies a certain degree of criticism. “It- is conceivable that we should call a woman ‘just as good as a man. But. what man w T ould like to be called ‘just as good as a woman’?” Needless to say, Dr. Knopf feels that there is need for anew set of values. She is optimistic, however, and believes that such new values’" are being created at the present time. How many high school pupils in the United States are given military training as a of their school course? According to the latest available figures there were 47,080 pupils in public high schools, and 16,528 pupils in 116 private high schools taking military training. believe the government is permitting something to pass by it unnoticed. Is there any just or logical reason why a man who has been retired from the United States army at a pension considerably above SIOO a month should be allowed to step immediately into a good clerical position in a government post at a salary in excess of SIOO a month? There are many unemployed taxpayers with families, including myself, who could do the same work as efficiently at a lesser salary and be glad to get it. Most of the men who are retired entered the military service with the idea in mind of establishing for : themselves and families an old : * n come. Now that they have done’ • this, why can’t they be satisfied, and give someone else, less fortu-" nate, a chance? If they haven't good fellowship enough to do it themselves, the United States government should see that they do.” E. W. Lawrence, Ind.