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Deflated Schools. Thoughtful citizens will ponder over the warning and appeal made in this city by Dr. Wilbur, cabinet member and educator. His warning is that the school system is threatened by the hysteria that is now a definite part of the depression. His appeal is that parents must save civilization by protecting the educational part of our national life. That the warning is timely is proved by the history of budget making in this city when serious suggestion was made by some large taxpayers that the uchool year be reduced to a few months. The deflation, as a matter of fact, has begun in Ihis city and in every other city. It is especially true In rural districts. In Indianapolis it takes on the form of the abolition of night schools and adult vocational schools. Both of these institutions gave hope to large numbers of young men and women who found it difficult to meet conditions in times of prosperity and used theses, institutions as a means of advancement and of culture. The deflation became more visible when the threat was made to close branch libraries. At no other time in all the history of public libraries have they been used so widely and so intelligently as in the past two years. The branches have been crowded. The people have had time, enforced leisure if it can be called that, and increasing numbers have used that leisure to acquaint themselves with the history of other nations, the philosophy of past thinkers, the suggestions of modern leaders. Any deflation of living standards that makes education of any person or any child more difficult will bring a terrible tax from the future. 1 Dr. Wilbur points out that civilization depends upon education, not of the few, but of all. In a self-governing nation, it is fundamental. Free institutions can not endure when a majority are condemned to ignorance. The higher the general level of education, the greater is public security. It may be necessary for the educators to change the methods. The time may come when volunteer teachers and co-operative schools may become necessary unless tax systems are changed. But in every age, the educator has been the pioneer and the leader. The protest against deflated schools runs deeper than objetion to reduced salaries. The cause is worth sacrifice.

Economy and Talk. Candidate Roosevelt Is having fun showing up the Hoover administration in this economy matter. For all the Republicans’ talk about saving, they have gone on piling up government expenses. Elect me and the problem will be solved, says Roosevelt. Vie have heard that before. It is the stock pledge of every party and every presidential candidate in every campaign. Therefore the public, disillusioned by long experience, is not apt to believe the Roosevelt economy pledge unless he specifies where and how he will cut. That he has failed to do. When Roosevelt repeats that he will reduce the federal budget 25 per cent, he leaves room for only two inferences. Either he is talking through his hat, or he has decided to cut drastically the military services and veteran payments. There is no other way in which he can make the billion-dollar saving promised. As Representative Will Wood of the house appropriations committee just has pointed out, the public debt charges (which can not be touched) and the veteran and military expenditures total $2,700,000,000. That leaves only $1,300,000,000 from which to makf the $1,000,000,000 Roosevelt cut—which would be impossible, even if he abolished most of the government departments and functions altogether. There are many places for small savings, and some for medium economies—such as the $60,000,000 ship and aid subsidies and the $50,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. But the only large cuts possible are in the $1,000,000,000 that goes to veterans and $700,000,000 of the army and navy. The reason Hoover is open to Roosevelt’s ridicule for failure to economize is not because Hoover is a spendthrift or lacking in the same good intentions which move Roosevelt. The reason is that Hoover and his party could not or would not defeat the veterans’ lobby and the army-navy lobby. If anything, the record of the Republicans is better than that of the Democrats in trying to hold down veteran and army-navy expenses. Until Roosevelt and his party make definite pledges to cut these two major outlays, they can not expect their Vague promises of a 25 per cent saving to be taken seriously. Vague talk about economy is the cheapest commodity in this campaign and in every other. Too Civilized. Sometimes it seems that the more civilized we get, the more stupid we become. Take, for example, a primitive people, the Lifuans of the Loyalty islands, whom Havelock Ellis describes in his ‘'Dance of Life.” They had a unique plan of warfare. “As soon as half a dozen fighters were put out of action on one side,” Ellis writes, “the chief of that side would give the command to cease fighting and the war was over. An indemnity then was paid by the conquerors to the vanquished ... It was felt to be the conquered rather than the conqueror who needed consolation, and it also seemed desirable to ahow that no feeling of animosity was left behind.” How simple that seems, and how logical. Asa matter of fact, our own “civilized” warfare has the same inevitable outcome in one respect. The victors pay. When war is waged, someone must foot the bill. If the conquered can’t, the conquerors must. How well we should know that by now! But the price we pay for our solution is something else. Whereas the primitive people got o£ with a few damaged braves, we leave behind us millions of slain and crippled and ahead of us increased International hatreds. Stunted Children. A little more than a fourth of all 10 to 15-year-old boys in the United States were at work fpr wages in 1900. The 1930 census figures show only 6.4 per cent of the boys between these ages gainfully employed. This is one instance in which decline of employment is a thing to cheer instead of deplore. Os course, part of the decline is due to the fact that there were fewer jobs of all kinds in 1930. Yet

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the drop in child labor continued steadily from 1900, and in 1930 the percentage for boys was 11.3. For girls it is still lower. Os these between 10 and 15 years, 10.2 per cent were at work in 1900 and 2.9 per cent in 1930. For older children, the percentages rise rapidly. Forty-one per cent of the total number of boys 16 and 17 years old were working for wages in 1930 and 22 per cent of the girls. The average for all children, 10 to 17 years, in 1930 showed 14.9 per cent of the boys at work and 7.7 per cent of the girls. We will not know just how far we have progressed toward taking our children from sweatshops, factories, mines and fields, where their development is stunted and their future endangered, until another census is taken in normal times, when employment is plentiful. Yet even if public opinion slowly is winning the fight against economic enslavement of children, the need for constitutional protection against this evil is as great as ever. Until it exists, and children in one state are protected as much as in another, the “equality” with which Americans theoretically are born will be only theory. Nor will the children be safe from the stress of emergency periods. Enactment of the constitutional ban against child labor may hasten our realization that the only way to preserve American home life is to pay family heads sufficient wages for them to live decently and keep their children in a healthy environment. Our Double Standard. In Buffalo, thirty-eight men and women, alleged to be aliens, have been held in the county jail from two weeks to six months, awaiting trial by Secretary Doak’s men for violations of the immigration law. Their names were kept secret. They were arrested without warrants. Their “trials” will be without juries and mer£ hearings before the immigration inspectors who arrested them. These men act as prosecutors, judges, and juries. Few of the victims have benefit of counse*. Their only appeal may be to a board in Washington, named by Doak. In Chicago, Doak’s men just have raided unemployment and Communist meetings, arresting fifty persons without warrants. One Nels Kjar, a radical organizer who denounced Hoover’s labor policies during the Republican convention, has been held since June. Doak’s department recently ruled that aliens here as students may not work their way through schools or colleges. These are examples of our treatment of the foreigners in our midst. Our own Constitution guarantees us protection from warrantless arrests, from juryless trials, from persecution for holding political opinions. _ Unless we are Indians, each of the 120,000,000 of us either is an immigrant or the descendant of one. Why do we have one set of legal morals for newcomers, another for the rest of us? In the name of the aliens who built our republic, we should make our immigration laws American. Taste. One of the finest things done in this campaign is Roosevelt’s refusal to be photographed at Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield, which the candidate visited as inconspicuously as possible. It is a little thing—but the kind that reveals a man’s character. The common practice of profiteering politicians trading upon the flag and great names exhibits the low state of our political life. The fellow who claims he carried the “Mooney suitcase” to San Francisco’s preparedness parade in 1916 explains he didn’t tell police because his parents would have scolded him for watching a parade on the Sabbath! Which, if true, would make it all right with Mooney and Billings, after sixteen years in prison. Somehow, there seems to be something wrong with the recent dispatch that announced ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was taking a short vacation at a Dutch coast resort. You will know that prosperity has returned when city governments again begin paying librarians and school teachers.

We haven’t seen any market quotations showing the effect of Gandhi’s hunger strike on the goat milk market. The election will help the unemployment situation anyway, for those who are elected. Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson APROPOS of the discussion about wives as school teachers is a splendidly lucid article by Walter A. Terpenning in the current Forum. The author raises a point that generally is overlooked. He contends that the academic policy of closing schoolhouse doors to married women is having an unwholesome effect upon children, because it subtly suggests to them that the married state for women “is undignified or unclean and otherwise undesirable for those who engage in such noble forms of service as school teaching.” “If boys and girls,” he declares, “are to be educated to respect marriage and parenthood and regular sex relations, as well as to emulate the high standards of fairness and rational living, let their educators preach and practice such respects and ideals.” There’s sound sense in that. The Entire program against married women in professions—which is as silly and unjust a s Ku Klux Klanism—tends to destroy marriage and its sanctities. And I can not believe that the American people wish to do that. a a a MR. TERPENNING, who is a parent as well as a teacher —men are accorded that privilege in America —points out, too, that to put all wives out of the educational system ‘would nullify the huge investments of money for thousands of women and he believes this is as piratical as the confiscation of any other property. Why not? The person who has educated herself and spent money learning to teach, and who, it may be, has succeeded in this difficult art finds herself now in a dire situation. Either she must renounce the thing that every normal woman wants and is entitled to—married life —or she must fling away as worthless the time, money, and efforts she put into her years of training for this job. „ The whole thing is too absurd for words. Schools are run. or should be run, for benefit of the children and not for helping industrial programs. It would be exactly as sensible to fixe all married men as to put out all married women. Another interesting charge made by Mr. Terpenning is that this movement to oust wives from school teaching began long before the present depression .set in.

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M. E. Tracy —Says We Need MoreVoetry in Our Politics, More of the Idealism Such as Woodrow Wilson Exemplified. NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—50 far, this has not been a particularly thrilling or inspiring cam/paign. The major pronouncements have run to figures, rather than to feeling. We have heard much more about money than about men. Capital has been discussed as though it consisted solely of cash and securities, and labor as though it included only those engaged in mass production. The blah-blah gives small hint that the American people like music and romance, or have a sense of humor. One never would guess that there is anything like singing in the background; that the children like comic strips, or that no political spellbinder could hold an audience like “Amos and Andy.” Call it frivolous, if you like, but the American people still are sane enough to realize that life holds something besides the hard-boiled philosophy of an adding machine. There still is a deep hunger in this country fdr those things which can not be bought, but which are essential to even a reasonable degree of happiness, and there is a deep regret that they are not permitted to play a bigger part.

Need More Poetry WE need more poetry in our politics, more of the idealism such as a man like Woodrow Wilson exemplified. We want to believe that human progress can rise above bread and butter as a common denominator, that the joys and sorrows of mortal existence can be expressed in more vivid terms than a doubleentry bookkeeping system permits. We want the privilege of dreaming in the moonlight, even if there is a power monopoly, and of holding hands, even though the telephone makes it possible to talk smush across the ocean. We want politics to show some signs that it is aware of those hopes, fears, emotions and aspirations which have endured throughout the ages, and from which we can not escape, even if we could. tt n u , What Is the Purpose? WHAT is the purpose of all this calculating, promoting, exploiting and mechanizing, except to make people stronger, healthier and happier, not as unconscious agents of some mass obsession, but as thinking individuals; not as physical specimens, but as spiritual beings. What is the use of all this striving and struggling to accumulate more wealth, build taller buildings and assemble bigger machines, if the benefit is beyond personal enjoyment? To what end are we creating and perfecting a great nation, if not to expand horizons for plain men and women?

We have invented contraptions that can count money and foot up bills, but not that can produce a ‘'recessional,” or paint a “Rembrandt.”

We have not only lost freedom, but the desire to talk about it. That is why we long for self-expression, which is just another name for freedom, though many seem unable to realize it. U 8 8 Freedom Goes Deeper FREEDOM goes vastly deeper than the right to think and talk politically. Its true basis is the right to be what one wants to be. \ That right demands opportunity, above all other things—opportunity to make an independent start in lifg, to dream without unnatural inhibitions, and to work for realization of the dream. We can not be subordinated td system, group control, or sweeping regulation on every hand without losing such opportunity and the freedom which goes with it. We need more resistance to the loss of liberty, whether as brought about by burdensome government or the oppressive weight of economic organization. We need a return of that conception which visualized mere people as the most important creatures on earth.

People’s Voice Editor Times—l have read in your paper several communications from people who think the National Economy League will do many great things to help reduce the burden that the taxpayers are carrying. They state that this league is composed of patriotic, intelligent and conservative people. I being an enlisted veteran, and a member of the American Legion, and not drawing any compensation, want to tell yoq frankly that if the government would give me a pension of $5,000 and up to $21,000 a year, as it has given some of the leaders of the National Economy League, I surely would be intelligent enough not to complain about some one getting $144 a year, whc really needs it. Call that patriotic, intelligent, and conservative if you have that much nerve, but a hog without bristles is much better. ‘ This Economy League sounds a bit like another debt moratorium which slim-slammed the taxpayers of this nation out of only $245,000,000, so Wall Street bankers might receive the money that they had loaned these foreign countries. That was another patriotic, intelligent, and conservative slim-slam. AH this ballyhoo from the Economy League started when the veteran organizations bolted the Republican party. SEBERT WRIGHT. Seymour, Ind. How does Norman Thomas get the money to travel around the country in his campaign for President? From contributions of individuals, just like the Republicans and Democrats. The Socialist campaign fund is much smaller than that of either of the other major parties. Where is Little America? It is the site of the main base established by Admiral Byrd for his south polar explorations and is located near the Bay of Whales on Ross sea, about eight hundred miles from the south pole.

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7 —DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Most Milk Now Is Pasteurized

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. r>ECAUSE it was found that the heating of milk in the process called pasteurization made is safer as a food, most of the milk used in the United States today is pasteurized. In fact, competent authorities assert that 87% per cent'of all milk now used has undergone the heating process which destroys germs. Following discovery of the vitamins, those who advocated the taking of raw milk have contended that the heating affected adversely the healthfulness of the milk and its capacity to aid growth. Much of the argument was based on certain studies carried on at Ohio State university and also at the British National Institute for Research in Dairying, which indicated that white rats fed on

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LOU GEHRIG must be rated as smart baseball player. And I am not referring to anything he did in the last world series or during the regular season. He displayed his acumen after the final out had been called and gloves and bats laid away. Mr. Gehrig was asked whether it was true that he was going to take the stump for Franklin Roosevelt, and he replied simply that he had no intention of taking the stump for anybody. He said that he was a ball player, pure and simple, and did not want to get mixed upjn a racket of which he was wholly ignorant. I think that there might well be a sort of gentlemen’s agreement be tween Republicans and Democrats to let the athletes, articulate or otherwise, stay at home. Surely even Mr. Hoover, who may need votes very badly, hardly can welcome those which come to him because 'Albie Booth is good in a broken field or because Red Cagle can sling a mean forward pass. a a a Special Case*of Tunney POSSIBLY some exception would have to’ be ruled in favor of Gene Tunney. Already he has been made an honorary colonel by the new Governor of Maine, on the ground that, he swung many votes in the surprising upset which occurred in that state. This was not a brand new honor for Mr. Tunney, who already is an honorary major in Connecticut. It merely gives him the opportunity of bossing himself around when he goes to Bangor. And then, of course, Gene Tunney is an honorary deputy sheriff in the region which lies around Hale lake. Accordingly, he comes to the stump with many qualifications not connected with the prowess which he once displayed in the ring. I suppose a case could be made out for the colonel-major-sheriff on the ground that anybody qualified to lecture on Shakespeare before the students of professor William Lyon Phelps becomes automatically good enough to speak at a street comer rally in the Bronx. aa a ■ First Flight in Chicago r’ has not been my privilege to hear or even read any of the prepared addresses of the heavyweight economist, but I did sit in upon what I think was his first campaign appearance. It was in conjunction with the vaudeville show which Eddie Dowling ran for the delegates while they were waiting for the resolutions committee to determine the exact proportion of moisture in the air. I remember that when called to the microphone Mr. Tunney said, “I

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heated milk did not grow as well as white rats fed on raw milk. Then Dr. Leslie C. Frank and associated investigators in the United States Public Health Service determined to make a careful study of this point, checking effects of raw milk and of heated milk on children. They point out, incidentally, that very few American children live exclusively on milk, except for a few weeks. They are given supplementary foods soon after weaning. Indeed, even during nursing nowadays, they may be provided with orange juice and cod liver oil. A study was .carried on in some forty American cities and involved examinations of almost 4,000 children. Children who had received raw milk for more than half their lives were compared with those who had received heated milk for more than half their lives. It was found that the children

pity the nominee of this convention.” Undoubtedly it w&s his intention to express sympathy for any man burdened with the heavy load of campaign tasks, but it seemed less than the most felicitous phrasing for a Democratic gathering. And from that point the major went on in terms at least as tactless. When the sheriff returned to his seat in the working press section the gentleman who was handling his syndicated writing looked at him sourly. “Gene,” he said, “never get up again to make a speedh without having it prepared.” “No,” the newspaper executive added, “I have an even better rule than that for you, Gene. Never get up to make a speech at all.” But no one w'ho has been with the marines will ever quit as easily as that after one reverse. Demosthenes, who was not a marine, but a Greek orator, walked along the beach with pebbles in his mouth. I don’t remember now just how this rocky road to success served to improve the delivery of Demosthenes, but evidently he did conquer his early inabilities. And so it was with Tunney. Upon that lonely shore he walked, and what he used as material for teeth gritting I can not say. All we know is that he went to Maine and won it. nun For Country and for Yale NO such clear claim can be established for either Albie Booth or Christian Cagie. The Democrats

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who had received heated milk showed a slightly greater average weight than those who had taken the raw milk and that they were one-tenth inch shorter. A study also was made to find out whether the children who had taken the heated milk suffered any less with diseases commonly associated with infected milk than did those who took raw milk. It was found that those children who had received raw milk predominantly suffered more with diphtheria, scarlet fever, intestinal disturbances, and rickets than those who had received heated milk. Asa result, the authorities conclude that the growth-promoting capacity of heated milk, in addition to the supplementary diet that the average American child of from 10 months to 6 years rcrularly receives, is not measurably less than the growth-promoting capacity of raw milk plus the supplementary diet.

ideals and opinion* expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

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of New Haven thought that they had the Yale-Hoovtr quarter back in a tough spot when they unearthed the fact that last year he had not registered. But Mr. Booth met the challenge with great candor and replied that last year he had been so intent upon Yale football that his mind had no room for other concerns which seemed at the moment less important.

Yet, though the answer was frank, I feel that it betrays the fundamental weakness in sending oratorathletes out to enlighten the public upon problems of national concern. Each, I fear, is too much bound up in his own specialty to give counsel of general utility. When industry stands blocked, with fourth down coming up, and about forty or fifty yards to go % it will not do to turn to one whose only quick suggestion would be to pass or punt or try a dropkick. And if anybody asked Babe Ruth about the depression he might quite conceivably reply: “What do you mean ‘depression?’ Didn’t I get $75,000 and make more than forty home runs?” (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times) Who administered the oath as President to Calvin Coolidge when he succeeded President Harding? The oath was administered by his father in his home in Plymouth, Vt. Later he took the oath again in Washington before Justice A. A. Hoehling of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.

OCT. 22, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Scientist* Wage Tie Battle Over Origin of Cosmic Rays. THE present battle over the nature of cosmic rays may be regarded as part of a war which has been going on in the world of science for mere than a decade. It is the war of the wave versus the particle. Leaders of opposing forces in the cosmic ray battle are Dr. Robert A. Millikan and Dr. Arthur H. Compton, both Nobel prize winners and both scientists who started their careers at the University of Chicago in the laboratory of the late Dr. A. A. Michelson, the first American to win the Nobel prize in physics. Compton still is a professor at Chicago; Millikan is chairman of the executive committee of California Institute of Technology. Millikan, who first confirmed existence of the cosmic believes that they are waves coming into the earth's atmosphere from outer space. Compton, who just has returned from a 50.000-mile journey to observe cosmic days from the vantage points of five continents, believes that they are electrified particles. He comes to this conclusion from observations which appear to indicate that the rays are deflected by the earth’s magnetic field. Compton has also played a role in the larger battle of the w r ave versus the particle. In fact, he was awarded the Nobel prize for his w r ork in it. n u

Nature of Light THERE are two conflicting theories as to the nature of light—both visible light and such invisible forms as the X-ray. One theory is the wave theory. It says that light is composed of waves. The other theory is the quantum theory. It says that light is composed of minute particles, little bullets of energy as it were, known as quanta or photons. Sir Isaac Newton in his day had given his support to a forerunner of the quantum theory, a theory which supposed light to be composed of particles and wTiich was known as the corpuscular theory. The experiments of Young at the beginning of the nineteenth century established the wave theory of light upon a firm foundation. Indeed, many of the experiments performed by Young, as, for example, the one to spiow the interference of two beams of light to form an interference pattern, can not be explained satisfactorily to this day on any other theory but the wave theory. Nineteenth century physicists imagined that the wave theory was established for all time. But the twentieth century saw the corpuscular theory come back to life as the quantum theory. It began with the experiments of Max Planck, who showed that the rate at which heat and light is radiated from a body can not be explained satisfactorily on the wave theory, but only by assuming that the energy is given off in little packages or bullets. This led Einstein to publish his famous paper in 1905, a paper that deserves to be as famous as his first relativity paper, also published in the same year, in which he suggested that physicists boldly accept the idea that energy and light exist in the form of particles and not waves.

a a a Nobel Prize IN 1927 the Nobel prize was divided between Dr. Compton and Dr. C. T. R. Wilson of England for experiments which apparently proved the quantum theory of light. Compton showed that when Xrays were reflected from crystals, the reflected beam possessed a lower frequency of vibration; in other words, lost energy. This could not happen, according to the wave theory. But it can be explained by assuming that quanta or particles of light lost energy by collisions with the atoms of the crystal. Wilson showed that when very feeble beams of X-rays were passed through a gas in an alpha ray track machine, a machine which makes the-tracks of small electrified particles visible, tracks were obtained which could be explained only as collisions between quanta and the atoms of the gas. The contradiction between these experiments and the wave theory led one scientific Wit to say that physicists were reduced to the necessity of using the wave theory on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the quantum theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Compton himself has compared the battle between the theories to' a football game. The score, he says, is 0 to 0, and the ball is in the middle of the field. Many attempts have been made by physicists to reconcile the two theories. Within the last few years, mathematical physicists have developed the theory of wave mechanics which seeks to make a wave phenomenon of the atom itself. It remains to be seen if the study of cosmic rays will help to clarify the general situation regarding waves and particles.

M TODAY f/T IS THE- ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

VALENCIENNES REACHED Oct. 22 ON Oct. 22, 1918, British troops entered the suburbs of Valenciennes. German Austrian deputies in the Austrian parliament issued a declaration announcing the creation of the German Austrian state. The central executive committee elected by the national council of Slovenes. Croat ians, and Serbians took political control of these nationalities. Daily Thought) Now th>s I say, brethren, that flesh and bibod can not inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth „ corruption inherit incorruption.— I Corinthians 15:50. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.—Johnson.