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Now for the Platforms The primaries having named candidates for minor offices, the next step In the political approach to the election mill be the writing of party platforms and the naming of candidate* for Governor and senator. The platforms this year will be more important than the candidates. It may be taken for granted that the nominee for Governor and senator, whoever they may be, can be counted upon to carry out with more or les<- enthusiasm the promises made to the people. The primary vote suggests that no party will be foolish enough to again bid for the support of the Anti-Saloon League and the professional drys by pledging allegiance to the present misnamed prohibition. The people very generally swatted those who capitulated to the influences that have so long ruled the state. The former dry* become moist and the moist became outspoken in their advocacy for repeal. Indiana will send many congressmen, Instead of one, to the next national body pledged to the resubmission of the eighteenth amendment. Most encouraging is the fact that one candidate on this platform is a successful business woman who had courage to take a stand for repeal. The state platforms will take a positive stand on the regulation of utilities. It i* probable that both parties will promise changes. The appeal in the fall will depend upon the definiteness with which these promises are made. A pledge for an easy legal road to public ownership would undoubtedly receive wide support. In the meantime, wise politicians will probably estimate how far they can parody the planks of the Liberty party and steal what thunder is being raised by Ward Hiner, who has the merit of being very definite. Shorten the Ballot The length of the ballot, not the primary system, was indicted by the Incidents of the primary election. Taken on the whole, the primary results were more satisfactory than would have been obtained in conventions dominated by political machines. The interests of the people as a whole will be safpr In the hands of those selected by popular ballot in the primary than they would have been under those who made secret pledges to seekers of special privileges. This result has been obtained despite the confusing difficulties that came with the long and absurd ballot. Had the ballot been limited to one or two major offices and to one legislator to '-ach community, the people would have an even better chance for representation in government. The elimination of the Governor and the senator from the primary ballot played into the hands of the politicians. These offices have a dramatic aide. Tradition makes them the center of attention. Missing from the ballot, many citizens found nothing of interest to draw them to the polls. Important though the job may be. a ballot for a precinct committeeship does have something of the aspect of a war between ants. The abolition of useless offices, the combination of government units, the making of offices of a secretarial or bookkeeping character appointive instead of elective, should interest the next legislature.

Roosevelt Slows Down The Democratic presidential nomination will not so to Franklin Roosevelt by default. He will have to demonstrate that he is a stronger candidate than he has shown to date, or a dark horse nominee will be chosen by the Chicago convention. That is the meaning of the unexpected defeat of the New York Governor in the California primaries. Virtually all the politicians—including most of the Roosevelt supporters, in their confidential conversatjons_agree that Rooeevelt will have hard fighting from now on. Roosevelt's recent reverses are not so surprising as they may appear on the surface. For months he was sweeping everything before him because no outstanding candidate was opposing him. Much of his support was tentative. Then A1 Smith became active and took Massachusetts. That was an omen. But It was not a determining factor nationally. Massachusetts was known as a Smith stronghold, and his victory there had been discounted largely in advance. More significant was the result in Pennsylvania, where Smith cut heavily into the anticipated Roosevelt majority. But the California result is far more important. It was the first real test on neutral ground. And it definitely gave to the combined anti-Roosevelt and native son forces more than one-third of total convention votes necessary to stop Roosevelt—if the convention wishes to stop him when it meets. Os course, the Gamer victory in California does not mean that he will be the nominee, any more than the Smith victory in Massachusetts meant that Smith would be the nominee. Smith nomination would revive internal strife, which most party leaders want to avoid. Oarner's failure to measure uP to his job as party ;hief in the house of representatives probably has •linunatcd him from serious national consideration. Anyway. Garner is a dry or a straddler, and a majority of the nation is wet-just as the combined Roosevelt-Smith wei vote was larger than his dry California vote. The final convention test is apt to be between Roosevelt and some candidate not now active. Under ordinary conditions, that probably would result in the convention managers handpicking a man of the Warding type. But, with the present marked public pressure lor a great leader to bring the nation out of the worst depression in our history, the Democratic; managers are not likely to be foolish enough to throw the election to Hoover by running a second-rater against him. It ia precisely that standard of leadership, in our Judgment, which Roosevelt will have to achieve to get the nomination. He sets himself uP as an outs unding leader. He looks well. Hia speeches sound well. But in recent months as Governor of New York he has nek lived up to his professions and his promises. His evasive record in the face of New York City political corruption can not be laughed off. If he lacks the ability and the courage to deal with Tammany he can not be trusted with the fate of a nation in a time of crisis. Roosevelt is getting closer to the jumping off place. He will have to choose between Tammany and the United States. £

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On Second Thought Action of the senate Judiciary committee in sending back to its subcommittee the nomination of Judge James H. Wilkerson gives that subcommittee opportunity to reconsider its unfortunate three-to-two verdict favoring him. Wilkerson does not rate promotion. Wilkerson s attitude toward labor has been biased, unprejudicial and malevolent. In 1922 he handed down against striking rsil shopmen an Injunction as harsh and sweeping as ever issued from federal bench. Two years later he enjoined electrical workers, declaring from his bench that ‘‘the right to work is not an absolute right.’’ Then in 1928 he ruled that the Chicago Musicians Union members might not leave their places of employment without consent of their bosses. Wilkerson’s record aligns him with those Judges who are making the law a byword through allowing receivership abuses. In the Chicago, Milwaukee * St. Paul receivership, he appointed two receivers selected by Kuhn, Loeb Ar Cos. and National City Company, and for the third his own former law partner. These he awarded salaries as high as that of the President of the United States and then granted bonuses of *IOO.OOO each. Total fees granted by him in this receivership exceeded $2,100,000. Denying a bondholders’ committee the right to intervene in opposing reorganization plans, he allowed the reorganization managers, whose operations were partly responsible for the railroad's plight, some $9,000,000 for “compensation,'’ and also flaunted the safeguards which the interstate commerce commission attempted to place about the money. Wilkerson's political record reveals him as an appointee of the Harry M. Daugherty-Warren Harding regime, and, as stated by Labor, as a machine politician of COok county since 1920, “close to the Insull interests.” Two years ago this month the senate rejected Jud?e John J. Parker the supreme court because of his injunction record. It is not likely that the same senate now will promote Wilkerson. the Chicago judge whose record brands him equally unfit.

Tariff Lo^-Rollin^ Tariff log-rolling, R t the expense of the treasury emergency, and in the face of world-wide tariff protest. won in the senate finance committee Wednesday. This important group Os men, on whose shoulders rests the burden of levying more than a billion dollars in new Uxes, approved the oil tariff, the coal tariff, the copper tariff and the lumber tariff. Neither the committee nor the senate need try to fool themselves that these are taxes to raise revenue. They are nothing but protective tariffs, that have no places m a tax bill, and which only vote-trading and log rolling finally have written into the measure. Twice before, the committee voted against these tariffs, the last time striking out three of them after haring voted them in. That was courageous, particularly in view of the immense pressure being exerted on senators by the copper, oil, lumber and coal interests. The country realizes, if a majority of the senate finance committee does not, that high tariffs have killed our export trade, increased unemployment, and precipitated a tariff war which is prolonging the world depression. The senate, led by the courageous minority of the senate finance committee that voted against these tariffs, should strike them out of the tax bill when it comes to the floor. Japan has sent another division of troops to Manchuria for the “defense of lives and property.’’ They seem determined to fight a defensive war for the conquest of the entire territory. If Russia and Japan really come to blows, the Japs may find that the Shanghai affair was just an exhibition game. An Italian inventor just has perfected what he claims to be a foolproof airplane. We ought to let him have a try at inventing anew form of government. Evanston, HI., has found out that its citizens call policemen “cops. - ’ ‘ bulla’’ and "flat-feet,’’ But that’s nothing to what the policemen call the citizens. Mt, Vesuvius still may be the world s best known volcano, but Manchuria is looming as a dangerous opponent. The trouble with the stock market was not so much that all the water was squeezed out as it was that the little fellow was squeezed out at the same time.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

AS a plea for defense in murder cases, the “unwritten law” seems to b losing prestige. And it's high time. This thing of men going about armed with guns to protect what they call “the sanctity dt the home.” has been going on long enough. I believe that the home should be r place of decency and even sanctity, but the belief that we can keep it so by shooting intruders is ridiculous. I am aware that the authorities tell us that crimes of passion can not ever be wholly abolished. We al- j ways shall have unreasonable and Jealous people with ; us, and may expect them to run amuck now and j then. But even this is no reason why we should give the married population special murder privileges when they decide to go berserk. We are ready to concede. I believe, that the individual who is jealous enough to kill is insane. In that case we need no other excuse to give him mental treatment. m m m THIS particular legal loophole, called “the unwritten law,** was originated on the theory that, women had no will power and were so weak and wobbly morally that they succumbed to the blandishments of the first designing male who happened along. So, good husbands kept them guarded with firearms. much as we might guard the chicken coop against petty marauders. And there was a time when it was considered conune il ffcut for the lady of the house to take a shot at any encroaching dame who made eyes at her husband. A good many fair women have escaped punishment and landed a vaudeville contract besides with that old alibi. The whole thing grew out of our childish conception of she marriage relationship, and the inference that you can regulate the behavior of human beings like you can that of animals, by sheer force. We made of marriage a sort of penal institution, where the individual who tried to escape might expect to be murdered. Surely we ought to know better now. You can’t keep love at home merely by cajqpcing a shotgun, no matter what the court* may decif > about it.

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M: E. Tracy Says:

To Be of Benefit, Money Must Mean Something H 'hen It Moves. NEW YORK, May s.—Thert is A gTeat difference between the extension of credit to provide work and the cheapening of money through inflation. The bond isue proposed by Senator La Foliette and the cash bonus scheme are as far apart as the poles. When the government borrows money with which to finance designated public improvement, there is definite assurance that the money will be translated into productive labor. When the government dishes out money in the form of greenbacks, there is no such assurance. Depressed currency never was. and never will be. a cure for unemployment, and unemployment is the great problem in this country today.

Work Is Big Need CONGRESS might have authororized a large bond issue and still balanced the budget, but there is small hope of accomplishing that end through inflation. There Is less hope of economic recovery as long as seven or eight million people are out of work. We have heard much about the things money can do when put into circulation. Interesting records have been made of the journeyings of marked bills. The impression has been created that if a sufficient amount of currency could be set in motion, most of our difficulties would disappear. mu m Must Mean Something MONEY is a measure of value. Its power depends largely on the kind of value it measures. Just passing money around means little more than passing so many quart or peck containers. To be of benefit, money must mean something when it moves, must be translated into labor, or commodities which are desirable, if not necessary. Business, trade and the accumulation of wealth depend on exchange which, in turn, depends on production. Purpose of money is to facilitate exchange, but to do that it must stand for goods, services, or ideas, for things which people need and want.

Tragedy on Tragedy THE notion that we are producing too much is absurd, except in a few restricted lines. We are making more noise over the radio than we ever did and talking more over the telephone, quite a few of our skyscrapers are empty, and many of our factories are running on part time, but that doesn't mean that we are producing more than we ought, or more than we could consume profitably. It is a tragedy, for instance, that so many toilers in New York City should be compelled to ride to and from work on their feet. It is much more of a tragedy that millions of people throughout this country should be housed so poorly. The worst tragedy of all is to be found in the neglected appearance of the land from Maine to California. mmm Nature Still Predominant THE theory prevails, and higher education is somewhat to blame lor it, that we can prosper without work, that electricity and a few other agencies of mechanical production have made it possible for us to congregate in cities, live at hotels, sell bonds, gamble with stocks, and get everlastingly rich. Some of us can, but not all. The basic cources of life still demand attention, and they are not to be measured by our actual meat and drink requirements. The basic sources of life are definitely related to that kind of phys cal and mental discipline which goes with systematic, purposeful work, to an understanding of natural law which is hard to acquire without closer contact with natural processes than most of us enjoy.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—While The Times so heroically is cleaning up the mess of general injustice from which the United States is suffering, why not pound home a few coffin nails, now and then, on lobbying? If the millionaires continue their, nefarious business of raising hell with war. for their own selfish greed, they certainly can’t blame the soldiers for using the same channel, to further their ends, which was created by bankers, utilities, insurance companies and capitalism in general. When we come right down to brass tacks, the eountry is suffering from filth and confusion caused by greed. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. Look up the statistics of last year's additional life insurance taken out, then read between the lines. When the time arrives that multi- : millionaires will become eligible to Insurance money by suicide, then we can expect a wholesale self-murder' of this class by their favorite method of shooting. With every thought of optimism. I’ll say we have not yet reached the climax, in which the whole world will become involved. When we come Into a full realization some months hence, we’ll have to resort to some of our ancient history for comparison. GRANT HEEBNER. Editor Times—No man can be elected President of the United Btates who advocates state rights on the wet and dry issue. William Jennnings Bryan said; “Moral questions do not end at boundary lines.” Abraham Lincoln said: “A nation can not endure half slave and half free.” For instance. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois were wet and Indiana dry. Indiana would be one thousand times worse off than any of the three wet states. But under the policy of Al Smith of government ownershop and control of liquor at actual cost, and. as he says, “the same not to be drunk on the premises where bought, not to be sold or given away where persons are congregated.” Under such policy, any dry state would be protected In its , dry state rights. CHARLES HOWARD.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Children Need Regular Health Tests

This I* the fourth of series of tlx Article* be Dr. Fishbein. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the America* Medical Association and of Hegel*, the Health Magazine. IN one of the leading private schools of Chicago. 432 children attended. All these children were considered by their parents healthy, and actually what we mean when we say “well.” We think of a sick child as one with a fever, nausea, fatigue and weakness. Sometimes it has a cough and an eruption on the skin. A sick child does not want to play. We think of a well child as one who Is active, alert, and with a good humor. The well child wants to play, is interested in its daily life and has a good appetite. However, careful examination of children in school indicates that there are all degrees of illness, from the child just above the point of being sick to the one with superhealth. Os the 432 children examined, 27 per cent, or 117, were found to be in a state of poor nutrition, indicated by pallor, flabbiness, underweight or overweight, and a general lack of desire to work and play.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

OF the various remedies suggested to float the ship of state off Its current sandbar, a certain number are contentious. A few may furnish adequate material for give and take debate among intelligent economists, but I have yet to hear a single sensible argument against our recognition of Soviet Russia. This is a problem in which selfinterest and a decent regard for international welfare go hand in hand. Practically, all the reasons which I have heard cited against recognition are extraneous and wholly irrelevant. The chief opposition comes from those who say that they deplore the political and economic philosophy of modern Russia. But the answer to that is. "Well, what of it?” No citizen of the United States could approve of the various governmental setups which America acknowledges as belonging to the family of nations to which we bow as we pass by. Included in that list are monarchies, republics, military dictatorships, primitive despotisms and oligarchies. Nobody can approve of such diverse experiments in toto. He must approve of some and reject the others. m m m Why Not Say 'Hello?’ It is, of course, a fallacy to assume that recognition has anything to do with moral approval. If that were so, the state department would be obliged to hang Its head in shame. Maybe it would be a good idea for it to hang its head, anyhow. Recognition means no more than the guess of diplomatic America that here is a government likely to endure sufficiently long for us to say, ‘ Hello.’’ And even under that liberal rule we have blundered upon occasion. At times we have extended a greeting to some South American faction, only to And that

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And He's Trying to Reduce

Fifteen per cent, or 65 of these children, had defects of the eyes which had not been given proper attention. In 160 of the 432 children, or 37 per cent, the tonsils and the throat were found to be the subject of chronic infection sufficiently severe to demand prompt consultation of the family doctor. Because Chicago is in the goiter area, fifty-six of these children, or 13 per cent, were found to have beginning enlargements of the thyroid gland. Eighty-six children, or 20 per cent, were found with defects of hearing, sufficiently serious to interfere with their full appreciation of what teachers were saying. Nine children, or 2 per cent, were found to have abnormal conditions of the heart, demanding special rules regarding exercise. Finally, 272 of these children, or 63 per cent, were found with dental decay or other defects of the mouth or teeth that should have had good dental care. Bear in mind that these were children In a private school, which means that their parents had sufficient funds to give them proper medical attention and proper dental care as soon as the situation

it wasn’t home by the time our felicitations arrived. Toward Central and South America we occasionally, and unfortunately, have confused recognition with a certificate of character. Woodrow Wilson, for instance, would not recognize Huerta because he did not approve of the methods which he had employed to come into power. That curious obstinacy of Mr. Wilson's worked out badly both for us and for Mexico and cost an expenditure of lives which was fruitless and needless. m m m It Is Their Business IN regard to Europe, Africa and Asia we have never pretended to any guardianship save in the case of China, Beyond our own colonial possessions, we have made slight inquiry as to whether the residents were enthusiastic about their rulers or not. Naturally in our own possessions that particular problem never enters our heads. We have recognized the strong man in power and the weak, the king for a day and the imbedded dynasty. As far as Russia goes, the stability of the present regime is established far beyond that of 99 per cent of the governments which we acknowledge. I was at a party a few nights ago at which the host undertook to poll the guests on the question of whether Soviet Russia was a success. A deadlock resulted, but upon a little Inquiry I found that those who voted “Not a success” merely meant that they would rather live in New York than in Moscow. And that seems to be the system under which President Hoover and Secretary Stimson have functioned. A personal distate has been elevated into an administrational policy. But u-hether we like it or not. Soviet Russia is there and seems likely to continue for a good many years to come. There is no point

was brought to the attention of the parents. In addition to the physical defects that have been mentioned. 82 of these children, or 19 per cent, were reported by their mothers to have nervous or emotional disturbances, all the way from nail biting and thumb sucking to displays of irritability, excitability sleeplessness and crying without cause. Ninety-five children were reported to have frequent headaches, 56 intermittent wetting of the bed and 91 had to have drugs regularly to control constipation. The record reads like the listing of the inhabitants of a hospital or dispensary, yet all these children were presumed to be well children and actively engaged each day in their school work. Such a record as this indicates the importance of having each child examined at least once each year to determine the state of its health. Such examination will provide the parents with a list of preventable diseases and curable conditions. The parents owe it to the child to give it the same opportunity that the mast healthful children have in the competition for a place in life. Next—Child labor.

Ideals and opinions esprrssed In this column arc those of on* of America's most luterestinr writers and are presented witboat retard to their arreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

in pretending that this is a wraith and that we can stick our Anger through it if we choose. Nor is there any point in pretending that any large element in that distant land is going to be converted to our way of thinking simply because we have withheld official approval. mam For Our Own Good IN plain truth, it would not profit us to bring about the destruction of the Soviets, even if that were within our power. The result would be chaos, and the world has just about all that commodity which it can stand at the moment. Ironically enough, radical Russia has become a necessary factor In any sort of rational teamwork among nations of the world. In a world of flux and change, it has become one of the few fixed points. Local Communists are fond of saying that Wall Street is plotting the overthrow of “the workers’ homeland.” I am not an admirer of the intelligence displayed by big business within recent years, but I doubt that it is as silly as all that. Russia is one of the few customer nations left for our products. Our hoity-toity attitude has cost us millions in potential exports, but some of the biggest American concerns have been shrewd enough to push their wares into Russia in spit* of governmental discouragement. It has been argued that recognition of the Soviets would bring Communist propaganda into our borders. But what have we got now? By building up trade with Russia, it would be. possible to put men to work. And that, as far as I can see. is the only effective and eloquent answer to anybody's propaganda. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Time*)

Questions and Answers

Where is radio station CMK, and by whom is it operated? It is located in the Hotel Plaza, Havana. Cuba, and is operated by the National Radio Company. Where is Leopoldville? It is a trading station in the Congo Free State. West Africa, on the left bank of the Congo, at the entrance to Stanley Pool. How many Negroes in the United State* are between the ages of 15 and 19? • • In 1930 there were 1.250,538. What is the name for young swans? Cygnets. What was George Ariiso’ first motion picture? “The Devil.” a silent picture, released In January. 1921. Are any members of the Jesse James gang living? No. Are alien residents in the United State required to become naturalised after a certain period of residence? No. ?

-MAY 5, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Balloon Wizard Hopes to Attain Height of 65,000 Feet on Next Trip. PROFESSOR AUGUBT PICCARD, who startled the world in May, 1931, with his famous balloon flight into the stratosphere. 50.000 feet above the earth'a surface. is supervising plans for another flight next month. It is announced that because of a promise which the heroic professor maae to his wife, he will not make the flight himself this time. Instead, Max Cosyn, a young electrical engineer of Brussels, Belgium, and an experienced balloon pilot whose name has not yet been made public, will be In the' balloon. This time it is hoped that a height of 65,000 feet, about twelve miles, will be attained. This second flight is to be financed by the Belgian Fund for t Scientific Research. Professor Piccard already is making plans for a third flight, which he wants to take place over the north pole, the balloon starting from the region of Hudson Bay. It is announced that to raise funds for this flight, Professor Piccard will come to America to make a lecture tour of the country. In addition to lecturing, he hopes to interest wealthy Americans in financing the third venture.

Airplane Flights SUCH flights as the one which Piccard has already made and the two which he proposes are the sort of events whose importance is likely to increase with the passing of years. Today we are impressed chiefly with the courage and assurance of the man who calmly stepped into an aluminum sphere tied to a gigantic balloon and sailed up to the region where the temperature is more than 100 degrees below zero.. The future may show that Professor Piccard has inaugurated a new day in forms of travel and in methods of scientific research. He thinks himself that the day is not far distant when specially built airplanes will travel In the stratosphere at tremendous rates of speed. The prediction that airplanes would one day travel at tremendous speeds in the stratosphere first was made more than a decade ago. Among those who believed and predicted that it would one day be done w’as Glenn L. Martin, pioneer flier and airplane builder, (I printed an interview with Martin in which he made the prediction some eight or nine years ago.) Such predictions do not sound quite so rash and imaginary today in the face of Piccard's exploit.

Temperature Control IN so far as travel is concerned. the most significant thing about Piccard's flight is the fact that while he entered a region of the atmosphere where the temperature is more than 100 degrees below zero, the interior of his aluminum gondola was uncomfortably hot, having a temperature of about 100 above zero. Piccard had anticipated that the interior of the gondola would be warm. He had said that the metal shell of the gondola would absorb enough radiation from the sun to stay warm despite the extreme cold of the outer atmosphere. He had painted hair the gondola black, so that either a shiny surface or a dark surface could be turned toward the sun. The dark surface would, of course, absorb a greater amount of solar radiation. Many aeronautical experts were of the opinion that Piccard and his assistant would freeze to death. It now is certain that there is no danger of this happening in a properly constructed balloon or airplane. Therefore, what man thought to be the most difficult obstacle in the way of flights at extreme altitudes, la shown to be a non-existent obstacle. Scientists who are thinking of rocket flights also found much good news In Piccard’s exploit. It means that passenger* in rockets would not have to worry about the temperature of the upper atmosphere. Piccard’s balloon rose with tremendous speed. It did not, of course, rise with the speed of a rocket. Nevertheless, It shows that it is possible for passengers to withstand a considerable speed without discomfort.

q ‘ WORLD WAR\ ANNIVERSARY

ALLIES MAKE GAIN May 5

ON May 5, 1918, Franc? and British troops, on the Loere front., advanced nearly half a mile on a front a mile in width during a day of intense fighting. The advance constituted the principal allied gain since the German drive began in March and the news was hailed In Paris and London with cheers. Allied commanders, however, still regarded the situation on the western front as grave. They estimated that the German reserve included seventy first-class divisions, or nearly 750,000 men. This reserve still gave the Germans the balance of power on the front and enabled them to start a new major offensive whenever and wherever they choee. Only four American divisions, the First, Second, Twenty-sixth and Forty-second, were regarded as fit for duty on active sectors of the front, but others were being trained rapidly and it was estimated that ten divisions, each equal to two German divisions, would be ready by June 1.

Daily Thought

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend In one point, be is guilty of all.—Jamee. 2:10. Knowledge is the hill which Jew may hope tc* climb; duty is the path that all may tread—Lewis Morris,