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Act Now, Governor Governor Leslie has spoken. He said little. He should now act. The plain truth is that the Governor needs no new laws in order to cut the cost of state government. He has the authority and the power to reduce the costs of every state institution and enterprise, except in the case of a few salaries of elected officials. He has control of every board in the state. He can demand today, if he wishes, an arbitrary cut in wages and salaries at state institutions. This would w'ork no hardship as the major portion of such employes receive their food and shelter as well as wages. They are protected. Certainly he can recapture the 5 per cent of the annual wages of employes of the stav highway department that was taken under what amounted to political blackmail. When the highway commission authorized a demand that every employe pay 5 per cent of his or her wage to a collector to be used for political purposes, it really took the money from the taxpayers. The threat, of course, was a loss of jobs. That commission, by implication, said that the employes are receiving 5 per cent too much and that they could afford to pay. That may not be true. But it is the edict of the commission for which Leslie is fighting. That money should be restored to the state. A word from Leslie would do the trick. He could demand that the collector recover the money from the campaign managers, if they have received it. In every other department, including the vast numbers of employes of commissions, the same hint would be sufficient. If there is any sincerity in the attitude of Leslie about lower government costs, he can set the example today. Certainly he can stop the political blackmail that is being perpetrated on every department of state government by emissaries of the political party to which he belongs. Any state employe asked to contribute to politics should publicly announce that hi* contribution would be paid to either the general fund or a special fund for the unemployed. Reducing cost of government involves little complication. The Governor can act. But will he act? Coolidge—Historian and Economist In Collier's magazine, ex-President Calvin Coolidge turns historian and economist and gives us a discourse on the evolution of property, the merit basis of property in the United States, and the dangers of taxing the rich. Just why deep respect should be accorded to the economic opinions of a man who never had one decent course in political economy in his college career and never has studied thoroughly economic and financial problems is not really apparent. But let us waive this point and plunge directly into Mr. Coolidge's essay. Mr. Coolidge waves the flag in the first paragraph. The notion of property rights is an American contribution. The critical view of property is a miserable alien conception. Mr. Coolidge seems hardly to have heard of the rise of European capitalism in the centuries preceding and paralleling the very discovery of America. He seems not to know that the Fuggers, Speyers, and Rothschilds preceded our Morgans and Rockefellers. Nor does he make it clear that our early American doctrines of property rights and the duty of the government to protect them were derived chiefly from John Locke and the British Whig apologists of the middle class. Neither does he mention early American Communism in Virginia or Massachusetts. Next, Mr. Coolidge contends that property abroad is the privilege of the few, while in America it is the right of the many. It certainly can not be contended, he says, that property rights in the United States are “too exclusive.” Further, “the people know that property in the United States generally represents service and merit.” All vestiges of privilege have been abolished. Not many people find fault with property “rights” in the United States. The main issue is actual property holdings and the distribution of wealth in practice. It would be more difficult for Mr. Coolidge to prove that these are not too exclusive. If he were to bite into the fact that fewer than 16.000 persons have one-eighteenth of the total income of the whole 120,000,000 inhabitants of the United States, or that more than 98 per cent of the income-receiving population receives less than $5,000 a year, he would have tough sledding. Moreover, his contention that wealth represents “service and merit” would get some pretty hard bumps if applied to the 540 Americans who received incomes of more than $1,000,000 in 1929, to the facts of absentee ownership, or the status and methods of holding companies in our industries. * The abolition of privilege in the United States has consisted chiefly in the abolition of antique titles. It was not the title, however, but wealth and position which gave power even under feudalism. It would be folly to contend that wealth does not give comparable power in America today, or that it is not an inherited privilege as yet modified only slightly by Inheritance and estate taxes. Mr. Coolidge gives us a touching picture of the benevolence of American industrial and financial policy: “Arrogance is gone. A spirit of service toward the public and toward employes has come.” He cites as proof the growth of welfare and relief agencies supported by industry. He fails to note the fact that our inefficient methods of industrial control turn out unemployed and disabled employes rather more rapidly than all relief agencies combined can well provide for them. Nor does he say anything about the holding company, the most striking aspect of our recent economic development, and one from which of service is almost wholly absent. A case can be made out for property and capitalism

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in contemporary America, but Coolidge is not the man to submit it. If the American people should acquire a sense of humor, his defense would be more devastating to property interests than any attack by Bill Foster. Toward Russian Trade The state department is showing a more liberal attitude toward Russian recognition, according to the United Press. This news tends to give more meaning to the unofficial conversation, which Colonel Pope of New York, builder of chemical plants for the Soviet, recently had with Russian officials in Moscow, following a visit to the state department in Washington. From the superficial evidence, it looks as if the Hoover administration, responding to a growth of favoring opinion, is feeling its way toward an unofficial representation. Soviet officials were reported as favoring this. A commercial commissioner would be better than nothing. But Russian recognition is inevitable, and the United States would do better to dispatch a fullfledged diplomat at once. In a statement also reported by the United Press, House Majority Leader Henry T. Rainey, who has traveled 10.000 miles in Russia, remarked that for the next twenty-five years Russia would be the world s biggest and best market and that while the United States continues to delay its bid for a share in this market, the German government is digging in. Germany, Rainey points out, is advancing trade credit to Russia by guaranteeing payment of the bills of German manufacturers up to 80 per cent. The manufacturers borrow from the Reichs bank on these guarantees. Timorous and stubborn waiting is robbing America of the benefits of this new market, with its possibilities of vast growth. To delay recognition longer is to condemn to continuing hunger and pauperization idle thousands who now could be busy producing for the Russian trade.

A Good Investment Many useful public projects will be built with money provided in the federal relief act. Some of them will be more magnificent, but none will be more worth building than the modern, low-rent apartments with which New York is going to replace slum tenements. Hundreds of dark, unclean death traps will be torn away. Cheap apartments having light, ventilation and adequate sanitation will replace them. The change will save thousands of baby lives, and make better citizens. New York’s state board of housing has worked on the problem of slum elimination for years, and as a result it has plans prepared for $100,000,000 worth of work along these lines. It will apply to the federal government at once for $50,000,000 and will start building as soon as the money is available. New York is the only state ready to borrow money now for slum elimination, but it is not the only one in need of it. Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio are planning to create state housing boards like New Yorks. Other states, if they are wise, will fall into line quickly. Small towns as well as great cities have their slums, menacing the health of whole communities. The present opportunity permanently to improve the housing condition of citizens, while providing emergency jobs for them, with low interest rate money loaned by the federal government, is too good a one to neglect. There is no better investment for a community.

Misleading The Anti-Saloon League sniffs at the Texas primary vote on prohibition and says claims that the state has gone wet are “misleading.” The referendum is described as a “nenbinding or straw ballot character.” It wasn’t, of course; for more than a quarter million Texans voted in favor of resubmission of the eighteenth amendment. But even if it had been only a straw vote, the Anti-Salooners might heed an old saying: “Take a straw and throw*' it up into the air—you may see by that which way the wind is.” It may sound a little odd, but Clara Bow is trying to build herself up in the movies by taking off a little more weight. From the campaign speeches it already is apparent that the nation certainly is going to be saved from something awful in November.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Feerguson

I AM not one who believes that the repeal of the eighteenth amendment is a minor issue. The prohibition law is fundamentally wrong, because it presumes to substitute law for morality. It is, in its essence. as vicious and as futile as any of the old blue laws of Puritan New England. But in our concern over this it seems to me that we should not fail to remember that there are other important problems before us. To bury our heads in beer mugs is quite as senseless as to bury them in the sand. This procedure merely uts out a vision of other matters that fast are assuming the looming proportions of disaster. So, when the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform says that it will throw its united support to any candidate who will stand squarely for repeal, regardless of anything else, it has arrived at the same arid ground occupied for so long by the ladies of the W. C. T. U. And this position, though defended gallantly by the women, is not worth the holding. mum ONE of the most frightful conditions growing out of the prohibition amendment is the fact that during the last decade, in hundreds of localities, respectable women have ranged themselves alongside rogues and rascals who had memorized the code of the dry crusaders. .Other issues have been neglected or ignored wilfully. State treasuries have been looted and human rights flouted. All manner of evils have been tolerated, all sorts of sins condoned, all kinds of pussyfooting praised, in the sacred name of enforcement. Are we to see now these same mistakes repeated in the name of repeal? It is true that something grotesque and terrible came into being in America with the eighteenth amendment. Hypocrisy was enthroned; duplicity reigned; graft sat in the high places, and religion put on its hair shirt again and, as in ancient Salem, was without kindness, charity or light. Even so. it is unthinkable that the women who have rallied for repeal will permit themselves to fall into the same error that caused the defeat of their opponents. To exchange one intolerance for another is to get nowhere.

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No Two Persons Have Done So Much to Keep the Fires of Tolerance Burning as Have Jim and “Ma” Ferguson. NEW YORK, July 28.—It’s back to normalcy for Texas, with the Klan, Hoovercrats and AntiSaloon League nicely shelved. Whether Ma Ferguson, or Mr. Sterling is elected, Texas will go for Roosevelt, and would have gone for Smith. Also, Texas will be found favoring repeal of the eighteenth amendment when the time comes to count noses. The strange series of spasms brought to an end by last Saturday’s primary should be regarded as a war hangover. Two cantonments and three aviation fields played a conspicuous part, especially after the government decided to draw dry rings around them, and after Jim Ferguson had been impeached as Governor because of his alleged subserviency to the brewing interests. Such incidents in the heat of patriotism gave pulpiteer politics a stranglehold on the popular fancy. Prohibition was pictured as essential to beat the kaiser. The banning of vodka in Russia became the text for many a sermon and many a stump speech. Thousands fcf honest, if susceptible, souls, not only in Texas, but throughout the country, were led to believe that if we didn't suppress the liquor traffic, we would get licked. mam Then Came the Klan BY the time the armistice was signed, the stage had been set for just such an eruption as the KuKlux Klan. Public sentiment had come to be dominated by the idea of saving people. Having saved civilization by statute, it was but a natural step to consider saving the white, Nordic, native-born portion of it by secret order. Returning Negro soldiers furnished the immediate excuse, but Jews and Catholics were taken on for good measure. If politicians hadn’t seen the advantage of hooking up with a disguised fraternity, the performance would have been short-lived, but that was too much to expect of human nature. The Ku-Klux Klan quickly graduated into a political machine, and, though beaten to a pulp several years before Alfred E. Smith became the Democratic presidential nominee, there was enough of it left in 1928 to work up a prejudice against him.

• He Stood for Soviet THE Fergusons have been identified consistently with the antiprohibition, anti-klan, anti-Hoover crowd. The fact that they can hold such a large fqllowing, in spite of Jim’s impeachment and Ma’s defeat for a second term, suggests something more than personal strength. James E. Ferguson is the only impeached Governor in the United States who came back. The fact that he came back by running and electing hs wife to the office from which he was ousted does not*detract from the feat. For the sixteen years since he was impeached he has commanded the largest personal following of any individual in Texas, and it has stufk with him through thick and thin. Shrewd politician that he is, such a thing would have been impossible had he not stood for something in the minds of his followers. That something obviously was opposition to the political attitude which found expression in the dry farce, the klan farce, and the bolt to Hoover. m m m True to Principles THOUGH it might be better for Texas if Mrs. Ferguson were not elected, the state owes her and her two-fisted husband a great dejt. No two people have done so much to ,keep of tolerance burning through this season of silliness and bigotry. The present vindicates their persistent fight against the so-called powers of righteousness and reform and against that stupid frame of mind which seeks virtue through depression. The flaws that can be picked with their conduct of political affairs are of less importance than the service they have rendered by staying with certain fundamental convictions. They have not welched to gain favor with any crowd, or climbed aboard any one’s bandwagon for the sake of votes.

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GERMANS IN RETREAT July 28

ON July 28, 1918, American and French troops pushed German forces back nearly five miles in the Marne salient in a day of bitter fighting. Americans crossed the Ourcq in many places, despite stubborn resistance by German troops. French and American troops entered Fere-en-Tardenois after the day’s advance and reached the outskirts of Ville-en-Tardenois. Thousands of prisoners and vast quantities of equipment and ammunition were lost by the hastily retreating Germans. Allied military observers hailed the victory on the Marne as the most decisive conflict on the western front since the first battle of the Marne in 1914. In what direction does the Panama caanl flow? It runs due south from its entrance in Limon Bay, through the Gatun Lake, a distance of 11 V miles, and turns sharply toward the east, following a course generally southeast to the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific side. Its terminus near Panama is about 22’i miles east of its terminus near Colon. What form of government has Peru? Republic. Are artificial legs made of cork? They usually are made of wood, and tiie name “cork leg” is derived from the inventor. Dr. Cork.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Watch Your Fingernail Injuries

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyxeia, the Health Magazine. AROUND the finger nails are areas infected because the skin frequently is damaged by inexpert manicuring and by the tearing off of hangnails. The point at which the finger nail comes irf contact with the skin is a sensitive point, easily harmed. The nail rests upon the nail bed and is in contact with it, so that tearing or pressure of the nail away from the bed leaves points at which infection may enter. Sometimes infection is caused by splinters driven underneath the nail, but more frequently merely by tearing the nail away from its bed. Once an infection has begun, it may spread beneath the nail, producing severe pain, swelling, and inflammation.

Times Readers Voice Their Views-

Editor Times—l am a regular subscriber to The Times and like it for the news I get, although I do not always agree with the editor. I have read much, pro and con, in The Times and other papers of the opinions of all kinds of people in all walks of life to bring this country back to normal, jobs and prosperity. I believe that most people think there is an Almighty God. Now if they do, they have to believe in the Bible, and the words in it, if obeyed, will suffice for any one living today. Now my solution for good times would be for every man, woman, and child to get down on their knees and confess and repent of their sins and pray fervently that they will live with His help, according to the word of the Lord. If that solution would be followed right now, this minute, I would stake my life that there would be a transformation and good times the next day. .All we need is faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and the will to do it and stick to it, and it is in the reach of any one. E. C. S. Editor Times—ln these trying times, one hears and reads much about economy in government. The Indiana legislature has convened purposely to reduce expenses in government, so that taxes in general might be lowered. It is hoped that some substantial reduction in taxes will result, but I am afraid that many of the relief bills will be drawn so loosely that there will be many court fights to have the bills declared unconstitutional. Furthermore, it appears that most of the clamor is on the subject of wage reductions, a penny-wise and pound-foolish stand to take. Our extravagance in government is not caused by the high salaries paid employes, for I do not know of any state employe, from Governor down, who Is overpaid; but I do know that we have too many employes, useless ones, among the political-appointive group. It is this surplus of employes that should be dispensed with, ob-

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There is constant throbbing, due to the pressure of the blood in the swollen area, and quite frequently pus pours out beneath the nail. Infections of the finger nails are not, as a rule, serious, but they may endanger life, due to spreading of the infection into the hand and into the blood generally. One of the chief purposes of early treatment, therefore is to prevent spread of the infection. Unless a collection of pus or infected matter is visible beneath the nail, the physician will not cut into the tissues. Under such circumstances, he is more likely to treat the condition by the application of heat. For the purpose he will use wet packs of hot water or hot saturated boric acid solution, or he may recommend soaking the finger in hot

serving the common sense rule of giving preference to those having ability and senority over those less competent and of fewer years of service. Another suggestion: Why not scan the records prior to the World war and see what commissions, bureaus, boards, etc. we had then, compared with the present set-up, and then, by legislation, dispense with all such extra frills as have come into existence since 1916. If we managed to get along and prosper prior to 1916 without a highway commission, public service commission, workmen’s compensation board, and the like, surely we should be able to get along without them now. What the taxpayer wants is real relief from burdensome taxation and not merely a cut in wages of employes, which amounts to practically nothing. Os course, no doubt, a reduction in wages will have to be made to pacify the Chamber of Commerce and other cranks, so give every one earning more than $1,200 a year a 10 per cent cut. There are, however, some outlandish compensation propositions that need changing. For instance, our prosecuting attorney must spend many years and a great outlay of money in education to qualify to hold that office, and he receives less compensation than does thfe treasurer, sheriff or auditor, any of which positions could be heid by any one of ordinary education and a few months' training in the fundamentals of bookkeeping, A CITIZEN. Editor Times Resentment of veterans in general against the failure of congress to enact legislation granting immediate cash payment of adjusted service certificates is due to take form in a protest at the polls this November. The ballot is the only weapon left for the veteran in his fight against unfair opposition. He is unable to understand why representatives and senators find it possible to cast their votes in 'favor of appropriations for the banking

water for considerable periods of time. Just as soon as pus forms in any considerable amount, it is necessary to open the area and thus to permit the pus to escape. The physician usually will cut the finger in such form as to save the nail bed. It is harmful to remove the entire nail plate while the pus formation is limited. Therefore, the physician usually will bore through the nail at the point where the pus appears, or by means of a small sharp-point-ed scissors cut away merely that portion of the nail over the infection. After the pus is removed, the hot fomentations, hot baths and antiseptic solutions are continued until the infection clears up completely. Then the finger nail will grow again and the recovery will be complete.

and railroad interests and vote huge bond issues for pork barrel legislation, but still ignore this plea in behalf of ex-service men. The lir“ of every senator and representath who voted against the bonus bill has been placed in the hands of every member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. This list of names was published in the July issue of Foreign Service, the official publication of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and every man whose name appears there is destined to learn of this veterans’ spirit of resentment when ' the ballots are counted next November. We are urging every veteran, regardless of whether he Is a member of the V. F. W., to mobilize the members of his family and his friends in a march on the polls on Nov. 4. Congress was able to ignore the pleas of those who marched on Washington, but this latest march will be one that those who voted against the cash payment will remember for some time to come. ARTHUR EASTERDAY. Editor Times—l noted with great interest your editorial In the July 14 issue under the heading, “Owen Young Leadership,” which is the most truthful, straightforward article I ever have seen in regard to the manipulations of the electrical monopoly. You certainly are to be congratulated in your freedom of expression, because it generally is understood that the electrical monopoly has subsidized the press of the country. I have been in this trade for the last twenty-eight years, and have seen just such things happen as you describe, and have, of course, seen why they have been able to pay such dividends. When thev applaud such men as Young in the press for being such an outstanding, patriotic American citizen, and then criticise Al Capone, it makes jne laugh. The General Electric Company, with its Owen Young leadership, and its allies, the Amercian Telephone and Telegraph Company, Graybar Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and its holding company, the Electric Bond and Share Company, which controls all the electric utilities from the Atlantic seaboard down through the south and out to the Pacific coast, has browbeat competitors, bought them out, controlled the patent office in Washington, where electrical patents were concerned, and have become the greatest menace industrially of this age. The only solution for this ugly situation is to break up these interstate combines of utility interests by' state ownership of water, gas and electric utilities, which rightfully have no competition on .account of the nature of the utility. If this were done, the revenues at present rates would net the taxpayers, after interest charges, etc., enough money to carry on government without any tax on real estate or personal property. Thanks for your editorial. Let us have more of them. R. H. BURNS. What weight is prescribed for the discus in the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union? Not less than four pounds, and the circumference around the outer edge must not be less than Bft inches. i

JULY 28, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Prim, a Child's Toy, Is Basis of Importayit Scientific Research and Discoveries. A CHILD'S toy is the basis of one of the most important scientific laboratories in the world. It is the new spectroscopic laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Out of the child's toy grew the spectroscope, the champion detective of the universe. Every laboratory and scientific institution employs the spectroscope and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to further the usefulness of this important instrument, has erected an entire laboratory designed specially to facilitate its use. The toy of which we speak is the prism. Probably every reader, -.t some time during his youth, possessed a little glass prism, which, held up to the sunlight, split the light of the sun into a tiny rainbow. A similar glass prism is the basis of the spectroscope, one of the most useful tools possessed by the scientist. Astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine have all benefited by its use. In fact, the technique of its use constitutes a branch of science all by itself and the experts who practice it are known by the rather formidable name of spectroscopists.

The Master Key THE spectroscope has been callpr! the "master key of science,” by Professor Henry Norris Russell, dean of American astronomers. It consists of one or more prisma equipped with suitable lenses or small telescopes to facilitate the formation of the “rainbow” or spectrum as the scientist calls it. An important part of the spectroscope is a screen, which admits the light through a narrow slit. Its is the use of this slit which results in formation of a clean-cut sharp spectrum. The spectroscope really owes its beginnings to the experiments the great Sir Isaac Newton carried on with the prism more than 200 years ago. But it was not until the nineteenth century that two German scientists, Kirchoff and Bunsen, hit upon the idea of letting the light into the prism through a narrow sharp slit. When this was done, the spectrum or rainbow of the sun was found to be crossed by a series of fine black lines. Moreover, it was found that chemical elements when heated to luminescence gave spectra which were combinations of isolated bright lines. Finally, it was observed that these bright lines corresponded to the dark lines in the spectrum of the sun. The same thing was found to be true of the spectra of the stars. The great French philosopher, Auguste Comte, once remarked. “There are some things of which the human race must foreygr remain in ignorance; for example, the chemical composition of the heavenly bodies.” But once the principle of the spectroscope was understood, it was a simple matter to do just what Comte thought never would be done. All that was necessary was to compare the spectra of the sun and stars with the spectra of the various chemical elements.

Secret of Atoms NOT only did the spectroscope reveal the secrets of the stars, but It also revealed the secret of the atom. Spectroscopists soon attacked the riddle of why each chemical element gave the peculiar combination of lines which it did. Mathematical analysis was applied easily to the spectrum of hydrogen, the lightest and simplest of all chemical elements. But once the hydrogen atom was understood fairly well, the same process could be applied to a certain extent to the other chemical elements. In time, spectroscopic methods used not only with visible light, but with ultra-violet light and X-rays as well. It was the w r ork of Moseley, the brilliant young British physicist who was killed in the World w’ar, which led to the understanding of the way in which atoms w r ere put together out of electrons. Moseley w r orked with the X-ray spectograph. Another development of the spectroscope came at the hands of Dr. George Ellery Hale, now the honorary director of the Mt. Wilson observatory. He developed the spectroheliograph, an apparatus which take s a photograph in a single wave length of light. The light of the sun first Is spread out into a spectrum and then, by means so a second slit, one band of light is picked out of the spectrum for the picture. The result is a picture showing the distribution of hydrogen, or calcium, or some other element in the atmosphere of the sun, depending upon what wave length of light is chosen.

Daily Thought

Man that is in honor and understandeth not is like the beasts that perish.—Psalms 49:20. Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.—Emerson.

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