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Set the Example Governor Leslie has the opportunity to set the pattern for reduction in government by taking prompt action to reduce costs under his control. President Hoover reduced his own wage by 20 per cent before he cut the low-waged federal employes a fourth that amount. It may be too much to suggest that the Governor might reduce the very generous appropriation made for the maintenance of the Governor's mansion and the very huge sum placed at his disposal as an emergency fund out of which many bills are paid for purposes which a legislature would hesitate to approve. But it is not too much to ask that he order his commissions to cut the costs by at least as much as they are attempting to blackmail from workers for political purposes. When the highway commission openly demanded that employes pay 5 per cent of their annual earnings to political parties, the members indicted themselves as unfit for their jobs. That very action indicates an attitude of mind toward public service that should at once demand thsir dismissal. If the employes can afford to pay 5 per cent commissions to hold their jobs, they can afford to work for 5 per cent less than they are getting and the money should go back to the taxpayer, not into the pockets of politicians. The same demand is now being made on every department in the state under the gubernatorial control. It should be resisted. Placing public jobs either on the auction block or under fear should be stopped. It is this very practice that makes public service costly and wasteful. The Governor needs no special authority of law. He can force reductions this week. He can cut the costs of every state institution. He can cut the cost' of every commission. He can cut the cost of maintenance of institutions. The Governor has his chance. If he acts, the legislature could not refuse to follow the example in such matters as it has under its control.

Tragedy There can be no victor in the clash between bonus rioters and the government at Washington. All are losers. The veterans fought Thursday against the police of General Glassford, whom they recognize as a friend and protector. The police and soldiers fought against veterans with whose plight they sympathize. Basically, the blame rests with vote-seeking politicians, who, in tlie beginning, encouraged the men to come to Washington on a mission those politicians knew was doomed to failure. The veterans blundered Thursday when they refused the plea of their own leaders to move from the condemned government buildings to private quarters. Then a policeman lost his head and shot a veteran. The veteran killed was unarmed, as were the others. There was some provocation. The men had been pelting the police, including Glassford, with bricks. . But that did. not justify a violation of the Glassford policy to handle the emergency without firing. Finally, the government made the serious mistake of calling out federal troops. That has made a dangerous situation more dangerous. In justice to the government, it must be said that the war department instructed the troops to “use all humanity consistent with the execution of his order.’’ But the troops m many cases were ruthless in riding down and slashing the street crowds as well as the veterans. If President Hoover personally will receive their leaders and reason with them, we believe the men yet can be persuaded it is to their own interest and the interest of their country that they disband peacefully. The country has a real sympathy for these men. And it recognizes their right to agitate peacefully for a method of relief with which we and most citizens can not agree. But nothing can be gained and much can be lost if the veterans insist on remaining in Washington, where they can not be cared for, jeopardizing their health and the health of the community and endangering the peace. This can be made clear to the remainder of the bonus army only if government officials will deal with this patiently as a tragic human problem, avoiding the red tape and legal technicalities and hardboiled tactics which so easily can lead to more bloodshed.

Watch This Money The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is beginning to make loans to states under the unemployment relief act. Great care is necessary to prevent partisan use of these funds. Perhaps these loans can not meet the full need of a distressed nation which has relied proudly, but too long, on private charity. But the $300,000,000 distributed among needy states and cities can, if properly used, help alleviate the summer s suffering and place relief agencies in a better position to meet the increasing problems of the winter. Charges have been made that local yelief funds are being used in some states and cities for partisan purposes. It is unthinkable that this can be the fate of these federal funds. Indeed, this can not occur if the Reconstruction Finance Corporation exercises proper care in granting loans. Caution can rule the corporation, and adequate investigation be made, without needlessly prolonging the hunger of the helpless unemployed. * Senator Robert Wagner of New York, co-author of the relief act, says that the finance corporation has sufficient powers under the law to assure just expenditure of the hunger fund in accord with the purposes of congress in voting the money. This heavy responsibility rests with the corporation. The Ancient Libel Human nature just has been cleared by scientists of an ancient slander, that fighting is instinctive and war, therefore, is unpreventable. Professor John M. Fletcher of Tulane university put this question to members of the American Psychological Association, meeting in New York: "Do you, as a psychologist, hold that there are present in human nature ineradicable, instinctive factors that make war between nations inevitable?" By a vote of 346 to 10, these scientists, whose realm is the study of human beheelor, enswered no. "No.’* replied Dr. H. M. Johnson oi American university. “what damned fool does?'* K "War is social degeneration, comparably to in-

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dividual insanity,” explained Dr. P. Hughes of Lehigh university. "The abolition of duels in Anglo-Saxon society is a striking and suggestive fact worth remembering,” commented Dr. Adolph Meyer of Johns Hopkins hospital. ‘ Individuals engineer war and all other large scale operations of society,” declared Professor H. A. Toops of Ohio State university. "We may have a pugnacious instinct, but it can be controlled, as experience amply shows,” added Professor S. J. Holmes of the University of California. "The social problem of war is like the individual problem of crime,” commented Professor Edwin Boring of Harvard. “Instinctive factors make contest, but not war, inevitable,’ said Dr. Elmer Culler of the University of Illinois. Os course killing is not natural to human beings. A civilization that punishes private murder as its worst crime reasonably can not consider the mass murder called war instinctive or inevitable. Sentiment Changing Russia, flushed with the success of the five-year plan, prepares to launch, on Jan. 1, a second, which will treble the financial outlay of the first, bringing the total expenditure to $75,000,000,000. Enormous purchases will be made in foreign countries. How will depression-hit America figure in this? We figured well in the middle of the first fiveyear plan.. In 1930-1931, the United Press reports, Russia bought more than three-quarters of our total exports of farm machinery, and in 1931 was our largest buyer of industrial machinery. But our Russian trade now has taken a tremendous slump, because we withhold a commercial treaty. Germany, Italy, England in our stead are supplying them. They see that Russia is going ahead regardless; they see that the Soviet will have even greater orders to distribute; they see, as Peter Bogdanov, head of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, said, that Russia “has continued to meet all payments as they fall due.” The most capitalistic and the most radical interests in the United States now enthusiastically want immediate Russian recognition. With 11,000,000 Americans hungry for food and hungry for work, this country generally is realizing that it is not merely unintelligent, but cruel, to delay restoration of Russian trade. Economy Desperate American taxpayers wiil hail with joy the creation of the National Economy League, organized to educate and arouse public opinion behind real economies in government. They will be reassured that this new body means business by noting in its advisory council such national leaders as Alfred E. Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Elihu Root, Newton Baker, General Pershing and Admiral Byrd. As its first task, the N. E. L. proposes to eliminate $540,000,000 in yearly payments to veterans for ncnservice disabilities. This is one of the big leaks at Washington. Plugging it will save funds for the care of veterans injured in service. This is a big job. It require* courage. Obviously the economy crusaders can not stop there. If they are effective they will help public officials to fight off other special interest lobbies; they will help to stop the pouring out of federal subsidies to other favorite groups. Also, remembering that past and future wars now eat up $2,800,000,000 of federal taxes, they can force actual military and naval economics—where the President and congress failed last month. If these two budget “untouchables” were slashed 50 per cent they still would be enjoying support far out of proportion to that given productive and humanitarian services. It is gratifying that the United States Chamber of Commerce decided this week to carry the economy fight into states, counties and cities. There also is pay dirt. Asa matter of fact, while the federal government in 1930 cost $4,200,000,000. state and local governments cost $9,800,000,600. And while federal government costs between 1925 and 1930 were increasing 35 per cent, state government costs were rising 43 per cent. Yremendous savings can be made by consolidating counties and other units, by scientific budgeting, by eliminating graft and extravagance, by adopting city manager systems and by other measures. It the new economy drive is pressed with vigor and intelligence it will save a situation fast becoming intolerable in this country.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Feerguson

B ABIES do have some rights, according to Dr. Lois Meek, who insists that infants cry when they are oored. Well, they have plenty of things to bore them. I should say, the most tiresome of which is the grown-up. Most adults are embarrassed tremendously around a baby. The women twitter; the men grimace and paw the air and behave a good deal like monkeys escaped from the zoo. Sometimes we chuck them under the chin. Now and then we tweak their cheeks or ears. We gurgle and giggle and gulp at them. We wave our arms and trv to attract their attention by all sorts of ridiculous antics, taking it for granted that they are interesed in what we do. Asa matter of fact, they are not. Babies are the most natural and unselfconscious of beings. They possess overwhelming dignity and complete candor. Their eyes look at one with serene and steadfast honesty and a sort of deep questioning. They never are critical. They only wonder. a a * IS it strange then, that the adult, who generally is a bundle of pretenses and continuously preoccupied w’ith seif, so often should be abashed before a baby, or that any child should lift up his voice in a wail when he watches the approach of what must to him seem some strange, uncouth Brobdingnagian? It would be interesting if we could know exactly what children think of us. I fancy we might get a shock if we could read their thoughts, however inchoate. One need only watch a child who has been for several hours in the company of his elders when another of his age appears to realize how bored he actually is with adult society. ' 4 For he immediately is animated. His face glows as if a flame had been lighted within it. He welcomes with all his being one of his own kind, and the two retire at once into that secret inner world of little children to which men and women may never go again. *

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Any Normal High School Kid Could Have Seen the Absurdity of the Idea of Promoting a Revoluf’on by Starting Runs on Banks. NEW YORK, July 29.—1 t must have been a weak intellect that conceived the idea of promoting revolution through a rumor factory to start runs on banks. Any normal high school kid would have seen the catch in it. Any right-minded person would have been dismayed by the cruelty iof it. Outside of putting Prussic acid in the peach ice cream to be I served tots at a Sunday school pic- ! nic, you can’t think of a more wapton crime. The program was to spread feai by manufacturing lies. The theory was that this fear would lead depositors to wreck banks. The conclusion was that, when a sufficient number of banks had been wrecked, people would perceive the desirability of overthrowing the capitalistic system. What one finds it hardest to fathom is the pure cussedness back of it all. the willingness to ruin untold numbers of innocent people for the sake of an experiment. nan Too Dirty for Thought THE chances are that those who worked out the plan never would have consid ed doing such a thing to immediate friends and associates. The chances are that if the scheme had promised to hurt only a few people, especially people whom they knew, they would have dismissed it as too dirty for a second thought. But the great unknown public appeals to them as legitimate prey, though they always pretend to be working in its behalf. Your extreme radical seems unable to visualize the great unknown public as composed of human beings like himself, no matter how he claims to love it. Nothing counts with him but the big idea. Much of our so-called radicalism is mere egotism, badly mixed and half baked. , u tt Just Diseased Mentality THE great plot didn’t get anywhere, as those who hatched it should have foreseen. Any yarn, whether true or false, big enough to wreck banks in a wholesale way, was bound to be traced to its source. Furthermore, it was bound to be traced before it had time to cause much trouble. That is not guesswork. That is exactly what happened, and what would happen again under similar circumstances. By no stretch of the imagination can this Michigan plot to wreck banks be regarded as a serious threat to our economic structure, or as indicating the presence of a formidable revolutionary element. All it amounts to is another outcrop of diseased mentality. tt tt tt New Forms of insanity WE are not thinking enough about diseased mentality, especially as evidenced by the wildeyed, illogical ideas which have come to play such a part in our search for improvement. Intelligent discontent is a sign of mental health, but unintelligent discontent is not, and we seem to be getting an overdose of the latter. It finds expression not only in an increase of the ordinary forms of insanity, but in disorders of the mind which appear to be new; in types of crime we never had before and in normal conceptions which, though suggested and advocated many times in the past, have been put aside as too absurd or outrageous for serious -consideration. The motives for murder, suicide, blackmail, and embezzlement have become amazingly childish. Plans for economic recovary and moral reform often are tinctured with the same weakness. In spite of all we have done for education, all the emphasis we lay on the necessity of study and training for comparatively unimportant tasks, the assumption seems to be gaining ground that no study, or experience, is required to solve our biggest problems and that the conceit of ignorance is sufficient to cope with anything.

T ?s9£ Y W / WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

AMERICANS STORM SERGY July 29 ON July 29. 1918, American troops in the Marne sector continued their victorious drive across the. Ourcq river, storming Sergy, Romcheres and Seringes-et-Nestle. The little village of Sergy changed hands several times, but finally was held by the onrushing Americans. French forces also reported new victories for the day. Cugny and Grand Rozy were taken by storm and the German retreat continued. Australian troops in Picardy resumed the offensive on a two-mile front and advanced more than 500 yards. An announcement from Russia stated that the Don Cossacks had signed a treaty with the Cossacks of the Astrakhan districts, promising mutual assistance in the annexation of territory which they regarded as essential to their wellbeing. In the election of 1912 how many states did Woodrow Wilson carry? How many electoral votes did he and the other candidates receive? Wilson carried all but eight states and had 435 electoral votes against 88 for Roosevelt, Progressive, and 8 for Taft, Republican. Name the Norse God of war? As or Os. Who is president of the General Motors corporation? What is his adiress? Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 1775 Broadway, New York City. Where is the Yser Canal? In the northwest section of Belgium. What is a second magnitude star? Magnitude is the term for the measure of the relative brilliance of stars, and a second magnitude star is one of the second brightest. 4

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Multiple Sclerosis Baffles Doctors

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Fishbein on the nervous disease known as multiple sclerosis. The second will be printed Saturday. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hveeia. the Health Magazine. ONE of the most extraordinary diseases that attack the nervous system of mankind is a condition called multiple sclerosis, in wich there occur areas of degeneration in the central nervous system, as a result of which the patients develop tremors, slow speech, twitching of the eyes, and difficulty in motion, due to excessive tone or activity in the muscles because of lack of nerve control. The condition first was recognized as a definite disease around 1840, but although almost 100 years have passed, the cause has not been discovered and only lately is there beginning to be any hope whatever of a useful treatment.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—l see in The Times an article attacking police because they “hide” in alleys or other concealment to discover and arrest “speeders.” I consider the attack as unwarranted. If the “speed” law is wrong, the attack should be upon the law and not the officer who enforces it. There should be no arrest of the driver who only slightly and unwittingly violates the law, while attacking the officer who arrests the driver who is speeding because he thinks no officer is in sight. I really consider the spirit of the attack in The Times the basis for the present “crime wave.” If there is any justification in the “speed” law, the violator should be arrested without fear or favor, and the fear of the law should be such that it will cause obedience by the one who does not obey from conscience. If the law is wrong, the Yice is not in the officer who enforces it, but in the law itself. If the discovery of offenses is wrong in the officer, it applies to the law which you may support as well as the law which you condemn. The officer is sworn to enforce the laws. He is given no discretion to decide which are "good” and which are “bad” laws. If it is violative of right to fail to disclose his presence for the purpose of arresting the “speeder.” it likewise is violative of the "right” of the “chicken thief” to fail to disclose his presence. We choose our legislators. Within their discretion is placed the law which will govern us. We may not agree with their judgment, but neither individual nor enforcement officer has a right to select laws for violation. The citizen has a right to agitate for a repeal of the objectionable law, but no right of any attack upon officers for enforcement, which must be through fear of discovery and punishment. For the person of law-abiding disposition, who will do nothing worse in the absence of the police than in their presence, police officers are not needed. They are needed mostly for apprehension of those who seek to violate because they can do it with impunity.

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It is not likely that heredity plays any part in the cause of the disease. It does not seem to strike girls more than boys or vice versa. The disease rarely beginsc before the 15th year of life or after the 40th year of life. All sorts of possible contributing causes have been mentioned in the way of infection, metallic emotional disturbances, ‘ poverty, bad hygiene and similar causes, but not one of these had been certainly incriminated. On several occasions, organisms believed to be the specific cause have been isolated, but at present there exists no confirmation for any of these claims. An “intention tremor” which is one of the specific signs of the disease is signified by an absence of any tremor when a limb is at rest, but the appearance of an irregular

If the officer is untruthful, and testifies to a speed beyond that being driven, the evil is not in the fact that his presence was unknown, but from the low moral character of the officer. If w r e wish to recover from the “crime wave,” let us get to the point w r here the “law as it is” shall be supported for enforcement, whatever our efforts to change that law. If we attack the enforcing officer, let the attack be upon some justifiable ground that the officer, himself, and not the arrested person, was violating the law. Let it not be by attack on a conscientious officer.' RICHARD L. EWBANK. 933 State Life building. Editor Times —I read so many letters on prohibition. A lot of folks think that legalized beer will bring prosperity, but I can't see it that way. If people want beer, and it seems as though most everybody does, of course they should have it. Those who want it get it, anyway, but what I want to bring is this. Something is wrong with the entire world and what is it? Simply this. We are living in the machine age. Every industry under the sun is putting a “quicker method” machine in operation and laying off more workers continually. I say it is not prohibition alone that has caused this crisis, but over-production. We see in Canada and other nations as well, where beer and whisky flew, that they, too, are faced with unemployment. If the breweries open tomorrow, they too, will put into operation the new type machinery that will take the place of the men who once worked in those places. The crisis never will be solved as long as the workers produce so much more than they can buy back. In the last few years we know that commodities produced and not sold are piled in warehouses. When the warehouses become full, naturally they no longer keep men employed, making something they know they can’t sell, then comes the layoff. We wonder why they do not sell to the foreign nations. Some blame

tremor just as soon as any attempt is made to move the arm or leg, and an intensification of the tremor if the motion is continued. A second sign of this disease is the side to side twitching of the eyes, brought on by a tremor of the muscles of the eyes, and a third sign is a slow enunciation of words with a tendency to hesitate in the beginning of words or syllables. This gives to the speech a peculiar staccato type. The sick person has no difficulty in finding words, as occurs in some other disorders, but he has difficulty In enunciating his words. There are, of course, other diseases of the nervous system which resemble multiple sclerosis, one group of authorities having listed twenty different disturbances that resemble it.

the tariff, but I realize that the foreign nations are in the same shape we are. They also are looking for foreign markets, to get rid of their overproduction. The hours could be divided and everybody get a decent living if everything was run for the benefit of the people, from the White House down to the dog catcher. Just try to get the ones at the head of this nation to see this. They tell you no, we want it all, and give the laboring class of people nothing. Too many people accept this basket business in good faith. Wake up, workers, and refuse to be fooled any longer. MRS. DAILEY. Editor Times—Recently I dropped in a public park and saw about two hundred people sitting around and playing. About half of them were between the ages of 18 and 20. I cast my eyes over the park and saw but three men doing the work necessary to keep the park, and they -were old men, tired and worn out, pushing lawn mowers. The ones not working seemed to be better kept than the three doing the work. THINKER. Editor Times—The Indianapolis Power and Light Company only was acting true to form in its opposition to the proposed radio station of the Thirty-First Street Baptist church, and I want to voice my appreciation cf the publicity given by The Times. While I am not a member of. the Thirty-first street church, I heartily approve of previous broadcasts and believe great good will be accomplished through granting of this station. I am quite convinced that we have more than enough jazz on the air and that more religious and educational programs, such as we may expect over WJRD, would be a welcome relief to many people. I believe that the Rev. Mr. Coers, with his faith, vision, courage and perserverance, is bound to win. R. E. LAMKINS.

Editor Times—Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for the Governor, whose veto prevented Indiana from having an old age pension law, to visit the Marion county poor house and see the conditions described recently in The Times by Charles Schlotz, superintendent of the institution? The Governor doubtless would see some things which would not make him at all proud of that personal appearance veto early in 1931. Statement of the superintendent bears out in every respect the contention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, long a champion of decent care of the aged. He asserts that the sick and well, the crippled and the whole, the insane and the sane, are herded, without regard tb fitness or even the standards of common decency. This is not a criticism of the superintendent. Doubtless he is doing the best it is possible to do under the circumstances. But the duty of the 1933 Indiana general assembly is clear. In the name of humanity, it should enact an old age pension law. 108 South Capitol avenue. J. PIERCE CUMMINGS.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

One by One the Fundamental • Laws on Which the Ninetcenth Century Structure of Physics tf’as Founded Arc Being Discarded. THE tangle in which modern theoretical physics finds itself, grows worse day by day. Side by side with such revolutionary accomplishments as the disintegration of the atom, earned out bv experimenters in England and Germany, conies an increasing difficulty to explain what the fundamental mechanism of the atom is. One by one. the fundamental laws on which the structure of nineteenth century physics was founded, are being thrown overboard. Now it is beginning to look as though the radical pronouncements of the first three decades of the twentieth century are not sufficiently radical to weather the present decade. It became evident at the beginning of the present century that the behavior of the atom did not follow the accepted laws of mechanics. so-called “classical mechanics.” Asa result, the Bohr theory of the atom was built up, a theory which assumed that the electrons, which formed the atoms of matter) could revolve only in certain orbits and only absorb or release energy in definite amounts, the socalled quanta of energy. This overthrow of classical mechanics led to an even greater revolution, the overthrow of the law of the conservation of matter. a a a Einstein Helped IT is interesting to notice in passing that both these early revolutions were fostered by Professor Albert Einstein, best known to the public as the formulator of the theory of relativity. In 1905 he published four important papers, one of which was hi* first papier on relativity. The others included one in which he developed the mathematics of the quantum theory of energy, and one on the possibility of matter being transformed into energy. It was this latter paper which overthrew the law- of the conservation of matter. Previously, it had been assumed that the amount of matter in the universe was constant. This, in fact, is what was meant by the law of the conservation of matter. It held that the total amount of matter in the universe neither could be-increased nor decreased. It was possible to change the form of matter by chemical means, but it was not believed possible to create or destroy matter. In so far as mans ordinary efforts are concerned, the law of the conservation of matter is still true. It is true, for example, in all ordinary chemical experiments. But astronomers are convinced that the energy of the sun and stars is due to destruction of matter, to annihilation of electrons and their transformation into energy. Likewise, it has been suggested that spent radiation might in some way be transformed back into matter. Dr. R. A. Millikan has suggested that the cosmic rays are proof of such a process somewhere in the universe. Recent findings of Compton and his associates, however, make it extremely difficult at this time to give any satisfactory theory of the origin of cosmic rays.

Bottled Energy BUT while this view of the interchange of matter and energy at first is extremely disconcerting, it is one to which we can adjust ourselves. It is possible to think of matter as “bottled energy.” All we need do then is to place matter under a more general law, namely, the law of the conservation of energy. This law is summed up admirably by Sir James Jeans in a sentence which I have quoted for readers on other occasions. Jeans writes: “All the life of th universe may be regarded as manifestations of energy masquerading in various forms, and all the changes in the universe as energy running about from one of these fornis to the other, but always without altering its total amount.” Note, that while this phrase takes us into a sea which is stormy and unchartered, according to classical laws of physics, it provides us with an anchor in the last phrase, “but always without altering its total amount.” And now comes the bombshell! No less an authority than Lord Rutherford, director of the Cavendish laboratory of the University of Cambridge, the man who made the first analysis of the rays of radium, the.man who formulated modern ideas about the nucleus of the atom, the teacher of Bohr and numerous other present-day physicists, suggests that we may have to overthrow the law of the conservation of energy. Rutherford is led to this viewpoint as a result of recent experiments in various laboratories. These experiments are extremely difficult to explain if we insist on hanging on to the law of the conservation of energy. We will discuss these experiments Saturday.

Daily Thought | Follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts.—Corinthians 14:1. Charity is the scope of all God * commands.—Chrysostom.

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