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Job Insurance Unemployment Insurance will be considered In three-fourths of the state legislatures and In congress this winter. Even If employment should begin to improve, these measures would be necessary. Some of the men and women thrown out of work in the last three years never will have Jobs again. Millions of others will wait a long time before returning to the ranks of self-supporting. Even in the best of recent times some three million were without work. So it is gratifying to know that a real effort will be made this winter to deal with the problem, through unemployment Insurance. John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, has announced that unemployment insurance bills will be introduced in at least thirty state legislatures next winter, and in congress. He believes there is a widespread and growing conviction that simple justice demands more orderly, more self-respecting methods of dealing with those who are unemployed through no fault of their own. The first unemployment insurance law has been enacted in Wisconsin; Massachusetts and New York commissions and an interstate commission with other members have indorsed it; the Federal Council of Churches, American Federation of Labor and the League of Women Voters are now backing it. The plan sponsored by Andrew's’ organization differs somewhat from those tried in Europe. “As an American plan,” Andrews explains, “it is built out of two successful American practices; first, the accepted sound business policy of setting up in prosperous times a reserve fund out of which dividends are paid when plants are idle, and, second, workmen's accident compensation legislation, which not only provides scientifically for victims of industrial accidents, but furnishes a stimulus to accident prevention. This plan also will stimulate continuous Interest in stabilization of employment.” We have had other periods of depression and unemployment and have let them pass without doing anything to prevent their recurrence. Surely the bitterness of this experience can be turned to constructive legislation. Bankrupt Statesmen Governments are letting the world situation drift toward a dangerous war crisis. In London and Paris the governments are deserting their treaty obligations to preserve peace. In Washington the administration seems too busy with the election to pay attention to the international situation. Among the most serious problems which these governments are making worse are: Debts, disarmament, the Chaco war and the threat of war in the far east. Though there can be ne return of prosperity and no guarantee of peace until the joint problem of debt and armament reduction is out of the way, Washington refused to proceed with such negotiations and London and Paris are blocking disarmament. Germany threatens to withdraw from the limping disarmament conference because France and Britain —the latter, despite efforts of Henderson and Cecil—will not listen to her just treaty demands for arms equality. This injustice is rekindling the fires of German militarism to match the militarism in Britain and France. The Chaco dispute, over which Bolivia and Paraguay are fighting, has been before the League of Nations council since 1928, but the league is stopped from acting because the United States insists that the situation be handled here by the American neutral nations. American peace action has been sterile. The United States and other neutrals to date have been unwilling to put teeth into their demand that Bolivia and Paraguay keep the peace. Instead, the United States, to its disgrace, has been selling large quantities of arms to the belligerents; Britain is guilty of the same thing. i In the far east, Japan is encouraged to wreck the world's peace machinery by the indifference of the European powers to their treaty responsibilities, by the failure of the United States to force the European powers into the open on the Japanese issue, and our stupid anti-Russian policy. Our government is no worse than the others. While cur government precipitated a tariff war, now blocks a debt settlement and has been weak in handling the Chaco crises, it courageously, if unsuccessfully, has tried to lead the stubborn European governments to uphold the anti-war treaties. But it is not a question of which is most to blame. All the governments, our own included, are failing now to take very obvious steps for preservation of peace. We can not let the present drift continue and then expect peace. The barriers against war, built up so slowly and with such sacrifice, are being destroyed before our eyes. Action is required. Our government immediately should: Recognize Russia. Propose an all-American boycott against either belligerent in the Chaco which refuses a neutral, peaceful settlement. Call upon the signatories of the nine-power treaty to act jointly for preservation of Chinese integrity,* as they are sworn to do by that treaty Offer all nations of the world a reciprocal agreement for joint tariff and debt-armament reduction. The Hoover Paradise About ten years ago Herbert Clark Hoover put flown his basic social, economic and political beliefs in a little book entitled “American Individualism.” It was one of the most reverent and naive eulogies of the doctrine of economic anarchy ever published. It contained the customary Pollyanna optimism. It attributed our temporary prosperity to the cut-throat practices of individualism, though it really has grown up out of the exploitation of inventors and the resources of a great continent. Those who think this a little harsh on the Great Engineer may purchase this book from Doubleday & Doran and satisfy themselves on the issue. Now President Walter Friar Dexter of Whittier college, a Quaker institution, comes forward with a work On “Herbert Hoover and American Individualism." This quotes extensively from Mr. Hoover’s book and adds a thick ring of honey to Dr. Dexter’s own concocting. At times one may have his doubts about the propriety of the muckraking books which recently have ■ ■; ; "

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been compiled at Mr. Hoover’s expense. But when one" goes through a volume like that by Dr. Dexter he can not help recognizing that they have their real value and a very explicit service to render. It seems that It was the founder of Christianity who said: “By their fruits shall ye know them.” So let us turn to the end product of the joint efforts of Herbert Hoover and American individualism—the United States of America in 1932. This description is taken from the Hoover paradise, not from any Communist spellbinder, but from Professor George S. Counts, a learned Columbia university, savant: “Here is a society which manifests the most extraordinary contradictions: A mastery over the forces of nature, surpassing the wildest dreams of antiquity, is accompanied by extreme material insecurity; dire poverty walks hand in hand with the most extravagant living the world ever has known; an abundance of goods of all "kinds is coupled with privation, misery, and even starvation; an excess of production is offered seriously as the underlying cause of severe physical suffering; breakfastless children march to school past bankrupt shops laden with rich food gathered from the ends of the earth; strong men by the million walk the streets in a futile search for employment and with the exhaustion of hope enter the ranks of the damned. “Great captains of industry close factories without warning and discharge workmen by whose labors they have amassed huge fortunes through the years; automatic machinery increasingly displaces men and threatens society with a growing contingent of the permanently unemployed; racketeers and gangsters, with connivance of public officials, fasten themselves on the channels of trade and exact toll at the end of the machine gun; economic parasitism, either with or without the law, Is so prevalent that the tradition of honest labor is showing signs of decay; the wages paid to the workers are too meager to enable- them to buy back the goods they produce; consumption is subordinated to production and a philosophy of deliberate waste is proclaimed widely as the highest economic wisdom. “The science of psychology is employed to fan the flames of desire, so that men may be enslaved by their wants and bound to the wheel of production; a government board advises the cotton growers to plow under every third row of cotton to bolster the market; both ethical and esthetic considerations commonly are overridden by ‘hard-headecl business men,' bent on material gain; federal aid to the unemployed is opposed, on the ground that it would pauperize the masses, w'hen the favored members of society always have lived on a dole; even responsible leaders resort to practices of the witch doctor and vie with one another in predicting the return of prosperity; an ideal of rugged individualism, evolved in a simple pioneering and agrarian order at a time when free land existed in abundance, is used to justify the system which exploits pitilessly and without thought of the morrow the nature and human resources of the nation and of the world. “Ope only can imagine what Jeremiah would say if he could step out of the pages of the Old Testament and cast his eyes over this vast spectacle, so full of tragedy and of menace.” It will be pretty hard to deny the truth of this indictment or the responsibility of Mr. Hoover’s brand of individualism for its existence. Given a few more generations of it, with no considerable revision, and one may quote appropriately a passage from Mr. Hoover, cited by Dr. Dexter: “The things of the spirit alone persist.” Making Martyrs Those who fear the growth of Communism well may view with alarm the tendency to persecute the Communists and especially to deny them freedom to campaign. Nothing helps on a cause like persecution and martyrdom. Candidate Foster has been arrested and manhandled several times during the present campaign. Now in Northampton, Mass., home of the Sage Himself, a Communist campaign meeting was denied the right to assemble in a private hall. One well may remind the mayor of Northampton of' Calvin Coolidge’s sane observation before the American Legion: “Only by the clash of ideas can progress be achieved.” A “statesman” says that the depression will be over when Average Citizen starts to buy. He might simplify that by saying the depression will be over when Average Citizen gets money so he can buy.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“XYTASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND” and its ▼ V companion volume, “More Merry-Go-Round,” have stirred up another rumpus. Yet no less a critic than Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes says of them: “If every college student could have these books placed in his hands as a foundation course in American federal government, interest in the political scene would increase by several hundred per cent.” There are many people, I feel sure, who will disagree with his opinion. Those, for instance, who fondly believe that every great man in history prior to this generation was a completely virtuous person and that everyone elected or appointed to office immediately sheds his frailties and becomes a plaster saint. People, in short, who would make tin gods of human men. * A great deal of our unwisdom in government has come from this custom of conferring halos upon of-fice-holders just as sorrows came to the serfs who conferred the divine right of kings upon their monarchs. Not that I do not believe in giving honor where honor is due. The man who merits it should be given unstinted praise. There have been, there still are, in the United States many upright men and women who have held and are holding public office. m m m BUT so long as men err, governments can not be perfect And more important still, so long as those who are governed are not permitted to criticise those who govern them, we may expect tyrannies. The average citizen must conduct himself well before his neighbors ere he gains their respect. The office-holder, from city councilman to President, should expect no more favors. And the most harmful thing American educators have done in the past was to teach that every act of the United States government, from Bunker Hill to the B. E. F. rout, has been wise, just and righteous. The credulous voter always is nearly the stupid voter. And the majority of people can recognize malicious gossip when they meet it. They are apt to give their sympathy and their votes to any maligned man. But they deserve to have the truth about public officials and about the inside activities at Washington. Only when truth prevails can tile great as well as the common man hope lor justice.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

-Says:-

Have We Reached the Point Where We Can Be a* Kind to a Human Sufferer as the Mayor Was to the St. Charles Snake? NEW YORK, Sept. 17—Like many other folks, I was interested in that snake-spider battle which raged at St. Charles. 111., for twenty-five days, and which might "have lasted a week or two longer had not the mayor interfered. As I understand it, his honor was not disposed to interfere, but took scissors in hand and performed his duty when convinced that there was no other way of preventing a grand commotion and, possibly, law suit. The publicity given this combat seems to have made it an issue with the “cruelty to dumb animals” crowd, and they proceeded to inform the mayor of St. Charles that its continuance would be in violation of the law. What an unfortunate thing it is for garter snakes that the law referred to does not cover the big outdoors? Or, to state the propostion another way, is it not lucky for spiders? tt u tt Happens Every Minute IT was just a little ten-inch garter snake that should have stayed with its mother and that most people would beat to death with a stick, or a stone, without giving the matter a second thought. It was just a little black spider of the masculine gender, but belonging to a species which the female rules with unquestioned finality. The poor little chap was foredoomed to be slain and eaten by his sweetheart at some future date if he survived the vagaries of his struggle for existence. It was just a life and death struggle between two very inferior animals, such as takes place every minute in the day somewhere, and such &s has taken place every minute in the day ever since life began on earth. It was in strict accordance with natural law, and the fate it held in store for the vanquished snake was no different and no harder than the little snake probably was predestined to meet. tt tt tt Why Not Carry Through? BUT human souls, with their unintelligent refinement and confused ideas of cruelty, could not stand the thought of that poor little snake being done to death by the strands of silk around its head. It seemed to them unbearably brutal when translated in the light of human understanding, and unnecessary when considered in the light of man-made law. So they threatened to take legal steps if the mayor failed to perform his duty, and the mayor, with great common sense, yielded to their wishes. The snake goes free, after having been revived with milk, and the spider sees a long and successful effort wasted, without knowing why. You can’t quarrel with such a solution of the problem. It bespeaks a tenderness of heart which the caveman never knew and which we like to imagine as representing progress. But why not carry it to a logical conclusion? tt tt tt Where Courage Stops LET us suppose a case, not of the queer, exceptional sort, but one of thousands. Let us suppose that an old man, or woman, is dying in some home; that he or she is being slowly, relentlessly done to death by some painful, incurable malady, such as cancer, that there is nothing ahead but so many weeks, or months or hopeless suffering. Have we reached the point where we can be as kind to that victim as we can to a snake? Have we the courage to be merciful? We do not dare to interfere with nature, in certain forms of human distress, and rightly so. If we let down the bars, all kinds of crime would follow, and we know it. We are compelled to tolerate the cruelty to keep decent, or maintain the right emotional balance. We could not afford to permit people to say when a case of sickness is incurable. We realize the risk of passing laws which would condone mercy murders. If it is necessary to let nature take her course with men, why not with spiders and snakes, especially under circumstances which give scientists opportunity to learn?

m TODAY $5 <-7- IS THE- SW ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

FRENCH VILLAGES BURNED Sept. 17

ON Sept. 17, 1918, Germans burned French villages along the Moselle as American and French forces advanced. Allied artillery retaliated by shelling the fortress of Metz. American forces in Lorraine advanced on a front of five miles in one of the first offensives in that sector in many months. Their progress was difficult, because of the rough country. Allied troops continued their victorious progress in the offensive against Bulgaria, taking many tow'ns and thousands of prisoners. The flank of the first Bulgarian army was turned and it was forced to begin a retreat into its own territory. In a curt note, the United States rejected the Austrian proposal for a peace conference.

Questions and Answers

Who is Governor of Kentucky, what is bis salary and how long is his term of office? Governor Ruby Laffoon receives a salary of $6,500 a year and his term of office is four years, ending December, 1935. By what name is Constantinople known now? Istanbul. Does the sun rise in the east side and set in the west all over the world? Yes. Is Arlington National cemetery in the District of Columbia? It is in Virginia.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

§The devil is M I ~—.— Ine&ch contest his opponent was knocked FLAT and counted out while It/mg on his back

Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: A Remarkable Wrestling Rec-ord-Jack Reynolds, welterweight wrestling champion for twelve years, recently completed a tour of the southwestern United States,

Eat Sparingly Before Football Play

This is the second of two special articles on football and health. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. TT is not advisable to eat heavily before a football game. Coffee and plenty of sugar are all that are necessary to provide against the loss of energy through muscular work. A full stomach will not empty itself for from three to four hours, and a player who carries a full stomach into a football game is carrying a hazard. An investigation of the luncheons ordered by various coaches for their teams was made by Meanwell of the University of Wisconsin. One coach permitted his men to have only clear, hot consomme and toast. Another successful coach, ordered egg, toast, and weak tea, and limited each man to two pieces of toast. A third permits his men a small

IT SEEMS TO ME

UNLESS all indications fail, Franklin D. Roosevelt will be the next President. Maine may not be the most precise of barometers, but the swing is too sensational to be anything but significant. With Roosevelt practically assured of success, I hope that the old “don’t throw away your vote’’ slogan will lose its force. Mr. Hoover can’t profit by your ballot, and Governor Roosevelt doesn’t need it. So this is an excellent year in which to let your conscience be your guide. To my mind, the really significant phase of the election will be the contest between Norman Thomas and William Z. Foster. Neither the Communist nor the Socialist candidate has a chance to carry a single state. I think that Mr. Thomas will probably poll anew high for his party, but a million votes will be sufficient to do that. Two million votes is a possible figure, but it would be surprising. The Communist total is almost certain to be much less. But these two minority parties will be the major political factors within a decade or sooner. This seems to me inevitable, since it has become the pattern of all the other nations of the world. tt tt Sheep and Goats THE Communist party, of course, will split as it gathers strength into its radical and Fascist elements. Just now it has seized the opportunity to play both sides of the street and on Wednesday *preaches the soldiers’ bonus and on Thursdays the foundation of a classless society. It is a little like offering a ticket of Stalin and Hitler. After all, it is hardly possible to do away with the economic caste system by setting up anew autocracy of veterans as a cornerstone in the proposed edifice. I am a little surprised to find certain bright young men among the literati announcing their intention to support Foster and Ford as a “protest.” In the list I find such useful citizens as Sherwood Anderson and Sydney Howard. Os course, the explanation lies in the fact that these bright young men are rather more impulsive than observant. I think they might be a little embarrassed to explain just what it is against which they wish to protest. If they desire to indicate their opposition to the rule of Mr. Hoover, the Comnyinist ticket is hardly the logical repository for their ballots.

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

ih which he defended his title ten times, in ten different cities, within twelve days. His first bout was at Waco on July 11; Dallas, July 12; July 13, Tyler; July 14, Ft. 'Worth; San Antonio, July 15; Paris, July 18; Muskogee, July 19; Tulsa, July 20; back to Amarillo,

•DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

piece of roast beef and a small baked potato. One of the most interesting observations made by a coach was the desirability of carrying along carboys of the water which the men were accustomed to drinking, rather than permit the men to take water in a strange town different from what they were used to, sometimes heavily chlorinated and sometimes containing minerals which did not agree with the players. The great Napoleon said that the army marched on its stomach. It is equally true that a football team depends on its feet. It is, therefore, necessary to take care promptly of every blister, of every spot of irritation that is likely to become a blister, and certainly of every bruise and infection. Bruises are cantrolled best by the application of heat. Infections demand medical attention. Proper medical attention involves getting rid of the infected matter and applying antiseptics and protection to encourage healing.

Mr. Foster and Mr. Ford are not running against President Hoover. Not one-tenth of 1 per cent of any of the Communist campaign is concerned with either the Republican or the Democratic party. These gentlemen are bending all the energies into an attack on Norman Thomas. tt tt The Anti-Socialistic Party ANYBODY who wishes to rebuke and check the growth of Socialism in America will do well to vote Communist since this is the party dedicated to the extermination of the movement. I had assumed that both Mr. Howard and Mr. Anderson were men devoted to the fight against war. Surely they are not so sufficiently ill informed as to believe that the Communists stand for peace. The pacifists are among the favorite targets of Foster and Ford. The Communists are candid and articulate in their contempt for those who would do away with armed conflict. The slogan to which they commit themselves is merefy “Against imperialistic war,” which means that they have taken over the Wilsonian formula and would like to have one more far-reaching and bloody shambles to press the war which is to end war. And this is really to be the final round. That’s what they say. Again, it may be supposed by some of the parlor pinks that they are espousing a party which is committed to end all racial discrimination. But people who believe this can hardly have taken the trouble to read the Communist platform w*th its demand for “Self-determi-nation for the black belt.” If this means anything at all, it is a pledge to revive the philosophy of Marcus Garvey. It is a sort of sublimated Jim Crowism—an attempt to condescend to the Negro and pat him on the head, with the assurance that he can get along very well in any community in which white competition is stifled or liquidated. It is not a denial of race lines but a promise to intensify them. tt Foster in Peace and War IHAVE no wish to belittle William Z. Foster, or to deny his ability. Everybody admits that he was one of the most energetic and eloquent of all the Liberty bond salesmen during the last war. But I think that this is a year in which the voter has § chance to find his true objective. Conserva-

July 21, and winding up at -Wichita Falls July 22. Reynolds is holder of the National Boxing Association -welterweight championship belts. Monday: A great baseball mystery.

It is better to prevent foot sprains and strains than to treat them. Football makes tremendous demands on ankles and knees, probably more than any other game. Because of this fact, some coaches request every player to wrap the ankles with a figure-of-eight bandage, which is held in place by a piece of tape. Such a bandage supports the arch of the foot and lends aid to the ankle. The chief serious injuries associated with football are dislocation of the collar bone and the shoulder blade, and fractures of the bones of the leg and arm, and particularly of the collar bone. Any player sustaining even a suspicion of such injury should be taken at once to a place where he can have an X-ray picture which will show the extent of the injury. He then should be barred absolutely from all further play or practice until the physician in attendance considers him capable of continuing in the game.

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tives should support Hoover. Liberals belong in the Roosevelt camp, and radicals can further that cause only by -Voting for Norman Thomas. Incidentally, at this late date, one word of praise should be meted out to Governor Roosevelt. I have been amdng those who criticised him for lack of decision. I think there are still many issues'in which he has been vague. But no fair complaint can be brought against him any more for his handling of the Walker'charges. He was not only firm, but extremely skillful, in his entire conduct of the hearing. Many have mentioned the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt is only a fifth cousin of T. R. And this statement always carries the suggestion that he is but a dim carbon copy of the mighty warrior. And yet it should be said that Franklin D. Roosevelt has been by many degrees bolder and more independent in dealing with Mr. Curry than Theodore Roosevelt was in dealing with Mr. Platt. (Copyright. 1932, by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ln his speech of acceptance at the Democratic convention, Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “In my campaign this fall I will not condemn the Republican party, but will criticise its leadership.” It seems very much as though he will not be alone in taking this attitude. Senator Couzens of Michigan has given Governor Roosevelt a good start. No doubt his criticisms of Senator Watson’s leadership voices the sentiment of a great many ol his colleagues, who are reluctant to express themselves so plainly on account of the party harmony, so essential to them in the coming election. A great many of them, by their actions, however, seem to be dissatisfied with the tactics of their own party in the straddling of important issues in their platform. Senator Watson always has been an ardent advocate of a high protective tariff which he so earnestly recommends as being the basis of our international trade. A tariff for revenue is an acceptable solution granted by an overwhelming majority of the American people, but for example, when the duty on wheat is 42 cents a bushel and our farmers are delivering it to the elevator for 30 cents, as they did one ye*/ ago.

K V 0. A JLF 1. Patent Office RIPLEY

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement dr disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

.gfcPT. 17, 1932

SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ

; Depression Has Spurred Chemical Research, in the Belief of Editor . CHEMICAL research has escaped the depression, according to Prof. E. J. Crane of Ohio State university, editor of Chemical Abstracts, one of the official publications of the American Chemical Society. In fact, chemical research is on the increase throughout the world and Professor Crane thinks that the depression is the reason for it. Recently the National Research Council showed that American industry was spending wisely a greater proportion of its income on research than it did in the ra of prosperity. Professor Crane now shows that other countries are doing the same. Professor Crane is in a position to know what the world is doing in the day of research in chemistry. For chemistry Abstracts is really a sort • of international information agency in the field of chemistry. It undertakes to publish brief summaries or ‘‘abstracts” of every article on chemistry published in the scentific journals of the world. A staff of forty-five assistants, working under direction of Proses-r sor Crane, supervises the activities of more than five hundred chemists who read and “abstract” a total of some 2,000 journals published in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, etc. m tt Figures Encouraging - PROFESSOR CRANE and his associates found that they had to work harder to keep up with chemistry during the first half of 1932 than they did during the same period in 1931. “During the first half of 1932, Chemical Abstracts published 31,440 abstracts, representing virtually an equal number of reports on exl perimental investigations which were wholly chemical or had a chemical bearing,” he says. The corresponding figures for the first half of 1931 were 27,529. “Chemical Abstracts possesses definite significance as a measure of chemical research activity,” Prof. Crane continued, “because of the emphasis placed on completeness. “It is reassuring to know that at no time during the depression did science and industry despair.” “The American Chemical Society’s editorial office,” he added, "is having a strenuous time these days in keeping pace with this activity. “There Is no sign of abatement in chemical research on account of economic conditions. Specific research projects here and there no doubt have been curtailed, but a survey of the general situation throughout the world shows that chemical investigations are increasing in number. “The university graduate schools also have been crowded during the last school year, more so than ever before, and muefi published scientific investigational work is done by the hands of graduate students under the direction of their teachers.” tt tt tt No Gap Permitted CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, with nftre than 8,000 pages annually, over 2,000 of which are devoted to author, subject and formula indexes to the abstracts, and with its more than 50,000 abstracts each year, is a permanent as well as complete record of the advance of chemistry. ■ - “Such a record is useful for many years,” Professor Crane says. “The work of today must be well done because of its influence over a long indefinite period into the future. “The American Chemical Society is not permitting a gap or weak link to occur in this record, even though chemical research continues so active at a time when curtailment Is the general tendency all over the world. “Maintenance of this record is a work which can not be allowed to fluctuate with the trend of economic cycles, for it is on the basis of the chemical information thus assembled and made readily available thaft the effective research Is possible and repetition of effort minimized. “In the scientific and industrial age in which we live the great factor for progress is research. “Os all of the research man’s tools, the most essential and most useful is the record of what other scientists have done and are doing. The maintenance of Chemical Abstracts in unimpaired form by the American Chemical Society is a service of first importance to this country.”

Daily Thoughts

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but In the day of adversity consider; God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.—Ecclesiastes, 7:14. Remember to be calm in adversity. —Horace. it seems time for a rerpedy in some other form. Although hundreds of economists of the country insisted that the Hawley-Smoot bill should not be passed, men like Senator Watson, Secretary Mellon and others of the old guard, through their influence and leadership, convinced the senate and President Hoover that it was the only safeguard for workingmen and farmers of the United States. To the contrary, ■wages' have become lower and farm products have declined steadily in price until they are unable to pay taxes. Senator Watson told us soon after this bill was passed, ~B y next October we hardly will know we have been through a depression." I agree with the senator—by the next October we did not know we were through the depression, and now almost one year hence we still are unaware of it. Senator Watson is a brilliant man, and a smooth politician, but I do not believe him to be a true representative of the working man and common people of Indiana. It has I not been an unusual thing to see ; men in the past who have acted as though they were just a little bit ashamed to admit they voted tpr him. So, now that we are dMmding upon that new deal, the cards well and give ougflm a hand that will not Justify Ufls staying in the political pot .