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That Loan Bank Senator James Eli Watson, desperate as he faces the fact that the people at last understand that his glad hand has held theirs while greedier hands picked their pockets through special privileges, stakes his reelection on the home loan bank bill. With the tremolo stop pulled out, he is telling the voters that he became interested in the measure because of the plight of thousands of citizens who were unable to pay installments to building and loan associations. The inference is that Watson fostered a measure that will provide a moratorium for these citizens until that corner is found behind which prosperity lurks. The other inference is that Watson saved the homes and made it possible for those who do not own homes to immediately find one through credits from the money of the government, which means the people's money. Today The Times prints a letter issued by Hie building and loan company of the town in which the senator claims a residence, but which he seldom visits—the town 'of Rushville. The officers of that association are friends of the senator, one being especially active at all times in his behalf. That letter will jolt the member who may have been in the class which the senator says moved him to compassion and activity. For it is a demand that every payment be made more promptly than in the past. The home town boys declare that there will be more foreclosures and that the measure, instead of bringing relief, will bring more difficulties to those now in debt to the companies. Os course, the bank will not open until October. It will be too late for actual demonstration of the law before November. No one will know exactly how it will work out. All that is known up to date is that officers of some loan companies are quite happy. But at Itushville the shock comes to the borrowers. There is the threat of foreclosures instead of leniency. Perhaps the voter who has been led into the belief that Watson has at last done one thing commendable should study the question. They may find his promises as hollow as his impassioned declaration that he knew that prosperity would come within six weeks of the passage of the Smoot-liawley tariff measure—just another Watson episode. Both can not be right. Past experience suggests that any claim of Watson be tested thoroughly before cashed. The Uruelest Irony About the worst irony would befall a man if. in addition to losing his job, he deliberately were robbed of his vote. Yet a telegram has been sent to President Hoover from Corporation Counsel H. E. Holmes of Lewiston, Me., complaining that the local Republican organization there has invoked an obsolete pauper law to strike from the voting poll the names of some 1,000 jobless citizens. Holmes told the President that this scheme was believed "to constitute the first step in a nation-wide campaign to disfranchise the unemployed.” The depression is likely to disfranchise hundreds of thousands of workless voters. At least ten states have poll tax and other voting qualifications which many unemployed can not meet. In Arkansas. Massachusetts, Florida, with certain exceptions; Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, poll tax receipts are required before voting. In Oregon possession of property is a voting requirement; in Pennsylvania, payment of a state or county tax withm the preceding two years is necessary; in South Carolina the voter must own and pay taxes on at least S3OO worth of property. Besides those limits on the right -to vote, the depression itself has cast adrift a multitude of citizens who will lose their votes by reason of absence. If political machines set about to practice skulduggery in the effort to perpetuate their power, as is Indicated from the Maine protest, the jobless will be encouraged to use some other weapon than'the ballot. The least we can offer our unfortunate unemployed is the right of protest at the polls. Norman's Vacation As usual when the mysterious Montagu Norman slips into this country and is discovered in conference with our own financial bigwigs, there is quick and iweeping official denial that he has any business to transact. The governor of the Bank cf England merely dropped across the Atlantic for a few days' quiet vacation, according to federal reserve officers in New York and government officials in Washington. Our guess is that Norman is here seeking co-opera-tion of the United States in important international financial moves, preparatory to the return of Great Britain to the gold standard and a settlement of the war debts problem. If Norman is not here on such mission, the British government is failing in its obvious duty. And if the American officials did not take advantage of Norman's visit here—on vacation or otherwise—to carry on such financial negotiations, they would be much more stupid than their worst critics believe. Probably it is much more than accident that Norman took a similar brief and busy vacation here before England returned to the standard in 1925. An American credit to the Bank of England resulted. But the present situation is not so simple. Britain needs and demands much more than a loan this time. She thinks that she was driven eff the gold standard partly because of the alleged hoarding policy of the federal reserve, which at critical times drained Britain's gold reserve to the United States. > Whether that be true or not, there is a rather gen-

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eral agreement in London that Britain should not go back to the gold standard unless and until a system of much closer international co-operation can be worked out with the European central banks, but especially with the United States. Even a technical arrangement of that kind, however, would not alone prevent international financial chaos. The main difficulty is the war debt load. The Lausanne reparations settlement hangs in the air, waiting for disposition of the twin problems of debts. Os course American officials are well aware nf this. But they apparently are afraid to do anything about it in a political campaign year. Hence the evasive attitude of Candidate Hoover and Candidate Roosevelt. Fortunately, however, the official statements probably are worse than the facts. Just as the discussions With Montagu Norman are doubtless much more important and hopeful than the official denials would indicate. so also there is good reason to believe that Hoover and the administration are preparing for the eventual debt revision which they publicly disavow. Indeed, there is some ground for hope that Hoover may accept the solution urged so long by the ScrippsHowarri newspapers and now so brilliantly championed by Senator Borah. That solution is: - Debt revision or cancellation only in exchange for arms reduction. This is a straight business proposition. It is to the mutual profit of Americans and Europeans to remove the debt and armament barriers to world trade and prosperity. Christians Not Wanted? Robert Stancke was born of German parents in Russia and for twenty-four years he has lived an honorable life as a laborer-preacher in Louisville. The other day he applied for citizenship papers. Asked if he were willing to bear arms in defense of the United States, he replied that he gladly would ‘‘do acts of mercy in war,” but that his religion forbade his killing men as enemies when he considers all men his brothers. United States Judge Charles L. Dawson expressed regret, but ruled that in view of the supteme court's five-to-four decision in the BlandMaclntosh cases he could not grant him citizenship in the United States of America. Stancke, a man without a country, says he will continue to work "mainly for a citizenship in the heavenly country.” Obviously, he does not refer to the United States. Is it not strange that this could happen in a country headed by a Quaker president; whose leadership brought about adoption by the civilized world of the Kellogg treaty renouncing war; whose Constitution guarantees freedom of conscience? It was not the intention of congress in framing the oath (of allegiance) to impose a religious test,” declared Chief Justice Hughes, in dissenting in the Bland-Maclntosh cases. Since we call ours a Christian nation, we might do a service to consistency by overruling the majority supreme court decision. We can do this if congiess at its next session will pass the GriffinCutting bill. Professor Piccard may have accomplished plenty for science, but if he had a good publicity man he would know better than to land in a twenty-one-letter town. Baseball attendance has dropped to the point "here, in many cases, the office boy is about the only one present at many of his grandmothers' funerals. Natives in Africa have taken up American baseball. That makes us even at last. We took up African golf years and years ago. One of the most peculiar aspects of the present business situatibn is that everybody expects the frozen assets to thaw out as soon as cold weather arrives. Mayor Cermak told a Berlin audience (hat the bandits have been driven out of Chicago. By their chauffeurs, probably. Sinclair Lewis says that the next President of the United States will be a fathead. He evidently believes in judging the future by the past.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TN spite of what appears defeat for the organiza- j tion, it seems to me that the Women's Christian Temperance Union is in a better situation today than it has been since the time of Frances E. Willard. If the ladies do not make the mistake of trailing off after William Upshaw, they may regain some of their prestige. Since they say they conscientiously cannot follow cither of the two major parties, they can get out of politics and become again an actual force for good. For the W. C. T. U. lost influence and friends when it took up the hatchet with Carrie Nation. The time has come when it can return to its ancient and honorable principles and stand forth as a moral rather than a police power. It has been used too long as a cat’s paw for the malodorous Anti-Saloon League. Many silly and even sinister deeds have been committed in its name. Mrs. Boole is a capable leader. If she would reorganize her forces to teach not the evils of whisky, but the evils of intemperance, thousands of women would rejoin her order. Intolerance and bigotry and plain nonsense drove many a member away. a r T"'HE younger generation must be instructed in the dangers of immoderate drinking. All women are agreed on that point. We differ only as to methods and not as to principle. Boys and girls and men and women should become awake to the harm that Intemperance can do them. And, mark you, this never will be taught by laws. And to instill into an individual a fear of alcohol as such is as bad for the character as to instill into nim a fear of a bogey man. What must be taught is self-control. Until we learn tnis lesson, neither liquor nor any other harmful thing can be kept effectively from us. Right now, with prohibition substituted for education. we are training on the one hand a bunch of moral weaklings and cowards, and on the other a horde of hypocrites, outlaws and gin-guzzling fools. Law has failed. Consistent, courageous, persistent educatoin is our only hope to mitigate the liquor evil.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

Those Who Argue That Democracy Is a Failure Musi Look Beyond the United States for Supporting Facts. NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Such political differences as exist in this country are tame by comparison with those which worry and bewilder most other lands. We have no large group of Communists in congress, or any state legislature; no black or brown shirt organization yelling for dictatorship, and no religious bloc. Noisily as we may disagree over questions of policy, we still are a united people when it comes to satisfaction with our forms of government. We have had three Presidents assassinated and one Civil war, it is true, but we never have failed to hold our national elections on schedule, or to abide by the results. In all essentials, this republic remains as it was established. . The body of its Constitution is the same, its congress is the same and its states, though they have increased from thirteen to forty-eight in number, are patterned on the same old model. Those who argue that democracy is a failure must look beyond the United States for supporting facts. tt a tt What If This Happened? WHAT would we think if, on the assembling of congress, some Communist were to arise with the demand not only for President Hoover’s impeachment, but for revolution? That is what happened in the German Reichstag Monday. What would we think if Governor Roosevelt were to decide that the Democratic party had. become too radical and come out with a statement bidding for Republican support? That would be little more startling than what happened in England last fall. What would we think if the army suddenly should decide to take charge and install anew President in the White House? That is what has happened in half the South American republics during the last six years. tt a a Cause of Fear IT is not a bad idea to recall such things now and then. Without doing so, we are apt to get the impression that our troubles and disagreements are as serious as those in some other countries. To be perfectly frank, many people have that impression, have imagined that what was happening abroad well might happen here, actually have looked for a Mussolini or a Lenin to make his appearance among us. Such frame of mind accounts for most of the fear in this country, particularly since the depression beganA lot of otherwise intelligent people have been whispering about the possibility of riots and revolt. Every little strike or disturbance has inspired somebody to cry that the Communists were coming. Even those in authority have fallen for the bunk, as is illustrated by certain official statements regarding the bonus marchers. tt tt tt Keep Their Faith THE most amazing feature of this terrific slump is that millions of Americans could stand what they have without losing faith in their government. It is doubtful if another land on earth could go through the experience without generating a much deeper spirit of resentment. The unswerving loyalty of tho.se who have gone cold and hungry is about the finest tribute that could be paid a government or a flag. We have a right not only to be proud of it, but to accept it as a genuine reassurance of this government’s adaptability to human desires, hopes, and needs. Whatever may be said of it in Russia. Italy, or Germany, democracy has not failed in the United States, where it has been on trial longest, where people have given it a fair chance, and where neither war nor depression has sufficed to shake it. In spite of all the blunders and mistakes, all the misfortunes and calamities, the American people still are standing solidly behind a form of government which their fathers established 145 years ago.

Daily Thoughts

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue hath muttered perverseness.—lsaiah 59:3. Murder may pass unpunished for a time, but tardy justice will overtake the crime.—Dryden. Do United States senators and representatives have snuff boxes on their desks? From the earliest days of congress until recently, a box containing snuff was kept in the lobbies of senate and house. The practice has been abandoned, first in the house and more recently in the senate.

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Train Your Infant to Help Himself

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hxgeia, the Health Magazine. THE Massachusetts department of public health has issued some interesting pamphlets of advice to mothers, which offer exceedingly valuable hints. One of the most practical deals with the training of infants. For convenience this special pamphlet offers hints on day training and on night training and certain diets known as dry suppers to give to infants, so that there will be no special pressure on their organs of elimination at night. The hints for day training follow: 1. Begin to train your baby to use the chamber the first month. 2. Hold him comfortably in your lap on the chamber. Do this at regular times, when he wakes up, when he is ready for his nap and before each feeding.

IT SEEMS TO ME

DR, HARRY ELMER BARNES suggests that radicals would rend Roosevelt because he is the candidate who matches closest to their own ideals. He pictures Fearless Frank as one who sounds a trumpet call far to the left of Herbert Hoover and accordingly is a man to be blasted for his virtues rather than his failings. It is tru‘. that in the severe orthodoxy of revolt your nearest enemy becomes your most despised foe, but this formula does not quite fit the case of Governor Roosevelt. I am willing to admit that he is a man more humane and understanding than the present incumbent of the White House. In both heart and head I think I find a great response to the needs of those whom circumstance has flung upon the industrial doorstep. And yet the disciples of the new world are quite right in fighting Roosevelt with at least a-s much vigor as they bestow upon the frailties of Herbert Hoover. Indeed, in one important respect the Democratic candidate has presented an interpretation of our woes essentially far more conservative than that spread upon the canvas of public consciousness by Herbert Clark Hoover. a a tt He Says, ‘Don't Blame Me’ INEVITABLY, President Hoover has been moved to say that j,he depression and its attendant difficulties were not of his making. He. in conjunction with the Republican party, brought about the boom, but the debacle was a collaboration achieved by deep economic tides and the sad perversity of foreign nations. Much to their regret, all intelligent radicals must agree with President Hoover. In conformity with their theories, it is necessary for them to admit that the rise and the decline of economic prosperity were not yitally conditioned by any individual.

Revolt in the Cornfields

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

3. Change diapers promptly when wet- The baby soon learns to feel uncomfortable in a wet diaper. This helps in his training. 4. As soon as the baby sits up easily of his own accord, use a chair for him in the bathroom, instead of the chamber in your lap. 5. Leave him on the chair not longer than five minutes. Do not let him have toys to play with or amuse him. When the baby can walk successfully, take off the diapers and put him into jersey "panties.” 7. Do not use rubber panties—they injure the skin. When traveling use the large loose rubberized diaper. Have an extra one to place in your lap or on the car or train seat. Many babies keep dry during the day after 12 or 14 months—some, much younger if the training is begun the first month. 1. Do not give any water, milk or

It is the contention of the radical that depressions have occurred under the rule of many Presidents, and that the authority of a Lincoln, a Coolidge, or a Hoover is quite insufficient to affect these deeply actuated tides. And by this curious coincidence, all the disciples of a complete new deal are ready to exclaim: "Hear! Hear!” whenever a Republican spokesman declares that President Hoover of his own free will did not make the depression. He is, without question, the conservative candidate in the oncoming election, but his waiver of personal immunity makes him a less vulnerable target for radical attack than Roosevelt. For in the Columbus address Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to establish the fact of personal guilt. He argued that but for certain unwise decisions of the resident President, we might never have gone down into the Valley of Despond. He cited the Grundy tariff and other administration maneuvers as primarily responsible for the breadlines and the devastating sweep of unemployment. , <r n a Seeking Personal Villaitl IN other words, the Governor of the great state of New York argued that the tragic estate of the present world is largely a matter of bad stage management rather than a faulty manuscript. If Roosevelt is right, there is no necessity whatsoever to change the scheme of things, but merely the suggested improvement of a switch in the cast. The Columbus indictment was a brilliant arraignment of the Republican administration. And it was also a complete denial of the theory that guilt is impersonal. Under pressure, Herbert Hoover was compelled to become an internationalist and to declare that if we slumped we went down the slide with all the world. “Not at all,” says Franklin Roosevelt, "the depression was wholly unnecessary and could have been prevented by adherence to sound Democratic doctrine. Now, obviously, this is a hypothesis which readily can not be accepted by any radical. He likes to think of himself as a realist, and looking down the years he notes that this was not the first panic or probably the last. It is his notion that the periodic nature of booms and of depressions has been established clearly in the economic history of America, and so he is quite ready to agree with Herbert Hoover that there is no such thing as individual inaptitude in these matters. n n m Not Men, but Machine AND, if you ask me, I quite agree with radicals in their contention. After all, as far as fundamentals go, the personality of the President is a matter of only the slightest importance. People are not starving because Herbert Hoover is gruff and unimaginative and insensitive to human misery. They are out of jobs and homes and regular meals only because they live under a system devoted to the preservation of things as they have always been.

other fluid to drink after 5 p. m. See that he drinks water freely during the day. 2. If he complains of thirst at bedtime, give a piece of orange or apple3. Take him up at 10 o'clock every night. Wake him thoroughly and have him care for himself just as he does during the day. 4. Protect the bed well, but do not put on diapers at night after the baby has begun to go without them during the day. 5 Take the baby up just as soon as he wakes. Many children wet the bed a few minutes after waking in the morning. In preparing “dry suppers, milk to drink or on cereals or puddings, and water or cocoa to drink should be omitted. Use milk when possible in cooking foods. Breads and cereals of whole grain are preferable.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are (hose of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without recard to their aereement or disagreement with (he editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

pv lIEYWOOD b 1 BROUN

Franklin D. Roosevelt is, without doubt, kinder, more considerate, and less insulated against human suffering. But he is not the disciple of anew deal. He would merely ask that the cards be cut gently at the top. There is nothing in his program which suggests that they should be shuffled deeply. And so the radical is quite consistent when he exclaims, "A plague on both your houses!” icoovrieht. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l read with much interest your editorial on the defeat of the bill designed to reduce the legal rate of interest on small loans. You are right, that all senators and representatives who voted against the rights of the distressed borrowers should be defeated. The amendment would have saved about $1,300,000 a year to poor people of Indiana in excessive interest rates now charged, most of which money goes to chain loan shark firms, maintaining headquarters in other states. Why not swing the ax directly on this rackeet by court proceedings to test its constitutionality? The supreme court of California recently held the 42 per cent interest law unconstitutional. It is class legislation, which charges one set of borrowers (those with banking facilities) 6 per cent as a maximum, and another, desperate for lack of bankable material, seven times that amount. The loan firms operating on the Russell Sage Foundation uniform small loan plan are fighting with their backs to the wall against reductions which would deprive them of the fat profits which permit them to pay their high officials $50,000 salaries, while their customers are struggling for existence. They fear an appeal to the courts on constitutionality. They would not find it so easy to pull the wool over the eyes of the courts as they have been able to deceive or bamboozle the legislature. JAMES BALLIN. Clark County, Indiana. Editor Times—l just have read the report of the government that the “eviction of the bonus army is indorsed. Action represents 3.800 men. mostly World war veterans.” Now in this connection I wish to make a statement from memory, dating back to April 1869, in Grant's first administration. I had been a soldier in the Civil war and had received an appointment to a clerkship in the third auditors office oi the treasury department. At that time it was stated that 60.000 of the residents of Washington, 120,000, were Negroes, of whom 30,000 were former slaves. The government was providing for them and continued to do so for several years. How does this compare with the treatment of 3,000 World war veterans, set forth in this government's report? For shame! 87-YEAR-OLD VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR.

-AUG. 31, 1032

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Important Part Played in Scientific Research by Mt. Wilson Observatory. ON Mt. Wilson in California stands the world's largest teleI scope, the 100-inch reflector. It is tme of the important instrui ments comprising tha equipment of ! the Mt. Wilson observatory. The observatory itself Is one of r i number of research institutions administered and financed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, ! with headquarters in Washington. The primary task of the institu- ; tion is scientific research. But it j also has played an important role in education. This role recently was discussed by Dr. Frederick H. Seares, assistant director of the Mt. Wilson ob- | servatory, in an address before the i Association of Colleges ~nd Universities of the Pacific southwest. His subject was "Education ancf Research.” "In education, a research*foundation proceeds less consciously than a university," Dr. Seares said. Without students in the technical I sense, it has little concern with instruction. “Its task is rather to procure information, which, rearranged and somewhat diluted, serves among other ends, as a reagent for converting the uninstructed into cultivated human beings. The obligation (o set forth its results is admitted; nevertheless, the ehief business of a research establishment is investigation, and by its success in this undertaking its educational force finally is to be measured. "Important conclusions soon become interwoven with the thought of the time; conclusions, however, must be provided." a tt a Research Units THE observatory is known as a place where the sun. stars and nebulae are studied with tele- | scopes of great power." Dr. Seares ; continued. "It is less known as the Mt. Wilson observatory *of the Car- | negie institution of Washington. "However, it is one of a group ot | research units maintained by the j Carnegie institution. "The educational influence of the > observatory is to be appraised with | this organic relationship in mind, j "In 1902 Mr. Carnegie placed in j the hands of trustees a large sum of money which, with later gifts, appropriations from the Carnegie Corporation and accumulated reserves, yields income for the institution. “The congressional act of incori poration sets forth the purpose! "To i encourage in the broadest and most | liberal manner investigation, research and discovery, and the ap- ! plication of knowledge to the im- | provement of mankind.’ ” j How the Carnegie institution j functions to carry out this pur--1 pose was described by Dr. Seares. "Study of the means of providing | such encouragement has led to a ; method of operation suited to the j needs of today,” he said. "First, minor grants for special ‘research, made to a few experienced investigators connected with other institutions, who rank as research ! associates of the Carnegie institu- | tion; second, major grants to perI manent divisions or departments, I organized within the institution itself and directed by specialists. "The Ml. Wilson observatory/ is J one of these departments, of which at present there are ten.” n tt a Study of Earth WHILE the Carnegie Institution is divided into ten de- | partments, there is tho closest cooperation in research program.* ! among them, as Dr. Seares pointed ; out. “A grouping of departmental j names at once suggests relationships,” he continued. "Place together the geophysical laboratory, J the departments of terrestial magi netism and meridian astrometry, i and the Mt. Wilson observatory. “We thus begin with the eaiuh as a physical body, studying formation : arid alteration of its rocks by modI ern quantitative methods of physics and chemistry and development and | transfer of heat involved in min- , eral reactions and in changes from a liquid state to a solid. Geologic processes, hitherto treated only descriptively, thus are brought into the laboratory, where they yield the exact numerical data so essential for fruitful scientific advance. "Next we study the earth’s electric and magnetic conditions, with emphasis on problems of international concern. "Vessels of the department of terrestial magnetism, notably the ship Carnegie, have cruised the waters of all the oceans from 30 degrees latitude north to 60 degrees south; the aggregate length of the observational trail is more than 400.000 miles. Meanwhile the land has not been neglected. Observers have visited all its parts, gathering data from nearly 6.000 stations. "To obtain records of electric and magnetic changes, permanent stations are maintained in Australia and Peru. , Fs laboratory in Washington, the department underitakes experimental and theoretical investigations required to interpret observations made In the field ”

TODAY 03 /world WARt anniversary

RESISTANCE STIFFENS Aug. 31 ON Aug. 31. 1918, German resistance to the great allied offensive in northern France stiffened enough to hold their gains for the day to a fraction of the sweeping advances accomplished on the two previous days. Nevertheless, important gains continued to be made and Canadian troops stormed Mt. St. Quentin and the British took Marrieres Wood and some of the high ground beyond it. British troops also stormed Kemmel Hill in a desperate battle which had its climax in hand-to-hand fighting. American forces pushed forward in the vicinity of Juvigny, despite increased resistance.