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FR.IDAY. JAN. 6. 1933.

CALVIN COOLIDGE Calvin Coolidge, the individual, symbolized restraint. Yet within his administration occurred America s most lavish era. It is one of history's strangest contrasts that this silent, frugal New Englander should have been President during the years that saw Wall Street at its wildest; that saw the hectic expansion of the cities; markets booming, debentures piling upon debentures, stocks towering day by day ahd month by month, roads and bridges and buildings spawning, easy money—-a glowing, colorful landscape that the then distant cloud of hard times on the farm could not dim. America had its fling. And America knows now that if some of those traits which characterized Calvin Coolidge personally, as distinct from the Coolidge administration, had been applied in the years when the fling was on, we would not be where we are today. Those personal traits of temperance and caution and restraint and thrift contributed greatly to the amazing popularity of Calvin Coolidge, the man. * * * As to Calvin Coolidge’s place in the history of American politics: Only an unusual man could have held his party together after the disorganization of the Harding administration. Only a political leader of extraordinary skill could have returned his party to power as he did. Historians will credit him with political courage. Time and again he vetoed legislation favored by veterans, farmers, or other large blocs of voters, against the advice of timorous associates. Even those who disagreed with his conservative philosophy admired the sincerity and frankness of his loyalty to it. He believed that the welfare of the nation rested with the Republican party and the interests it represented. So to the party he gave his life’s labor and devotion. ' It was his good fortune to retire from public life and party leadership before national prosperity collapsed and the Republican party went down to defeat. His closing years were happy and peaceful. He rested in the respect of the nation. TIIE FINAL MESSAGE The final message of Governor Leslie to the sL*e legislature is typical of an administration that is happily almost finished. * He reported that he was leaving Indiana with a clean slate and more than seventeen millions of dollars in the treasury. Immediately other state officials challenged the declaration with the information that instead of a balanced budget, the present fiscal year for which Leslie is responsible will see a deficit in state funds of nearly three millions. That there should be a controversy over so simple a matter as the state of the public treasury is in keeping with the entire conduct of the whole administration in which, on most matters, the people have been in darkness as to the real condition of public affairs. That he pointed to the cleaning of the statehouse at a suspiciously high figure as an accomplishment, that he praised the conduct of state institutions as nonpartisan when they have been purely political, that he forgot the apathy toward problems of unemployment and even his own veto of the old age pension bill, is all in character. The new administration inherits problems created by inaction or unwise decisions, not fat bank rolls.

FUN WITHOUT MONEY* If you find time hanging heavy on your hands tonight, look up one of the eleven Leisure Hour clubs which will give programs in as many parts of the city. Within four months, the movement to furnish fun without money in Indianapolis has grown to a great social force in which thousands are finding not only an entertainment, but a more neighborly spirit. Each week many thousands attend these gatherings and discover that it is not necessary to spend money in order to find some occupation for hours that would otherwise be monotonous. The Indianapolis movement is attracting national attention and there is every reason to believe that next year other cities will organize along the local pattern. In these days when more and more men and women are talking of shorter weeks and shorter work days the question of what will be done with leisure time is not the least important factor. Boiled down, it is a school of co-operation, which may furnish the answer to other problems as well. THAT IS NOT REPEAL The so-called prohibition repeat resolution submitted by the senate subcommittee Thursday is not an outright repeal measure. Its effect is merely revision. It would substitute for the eighteenth amendment another amendment prohibiting liquor shipments into dry states and giving congress power to prohibit saloons. Two or three years ago, perhaps such a halfway measure might have passed. But not after the American electorate has declared— as it did last November—for outright repeal. Os course dry states should be protected from liquor imports from wet states, as they were protected before prohibition. But there is already such a law. which automatically will be in effect upon outright repeal of the eighteenth amendment. There is no excuse for putting such a provision in the Constitution Nor should the Constitunon outlaw saloons. That is clearly a matter for the Individual states to determine according to the will of the people of those states. Chief purpose of the entire prohibition repeal movement is to return tp the states the power which properly belongs to them. Not content with drafting another prohibition amendment under the cloan of repeal, the senate subcommittee turned its whole resolution into a bitter jest by specifying that ratification shail be by

state legislatures, rather than by special state conventions, as proposed by both Democratic and Republican platforms. One hundred thirty-four senators ir thirteen rural dry states could block national ratification under the legislature method. This proposed senate resolution represents the last stand of the dry minority and has no relation to the present situation. It can not be passed unless both Democrats and Republicans repudiate their campaign pledges, which is improbable. Since the lame duck house, by a narrow margin, failed to pass the Democratic outright repeal resolution. it has been clear that repeal legislation must be put over until the recently elected congress takes office. Revision resolutions omy obscure the issue. Meanwhile, the only remaining real prohibition fight in the lame duck congress is over senate acceptance of the beer tax bill already passed by the housfe. And the issue there is not so much prohibition as revenue—a major and vital issue of saving overburdened taxpayers and helping to balance the federal budget.

TIIE WAY OUT OF TAX CHAOS At last comes the opportunity to create order out of the tax chaos. In Washington, on Feb. 3, representatives of state legislatures will meet for a conference on taxation. President-Elect Roosevelt has indorsed the proposal as a ' splendid'’ one, and has urged that all states be represented. “In the past,” Mr. Roosevelt wrote, “the federal government has passed revenue legislation with too little consideration for state taxing systems and, on the other hand, the states have legislated with little reference to the federal revenue plan and with almost no consideration for the tax programs of other states.” These words make It clear that the tax conference is of first importance, and also, that, if it is to be appreciably successful, it must include the federal government. This newspaper in the past has advocated a national tax conference, precedent to any general revisions of either state or national revenue systems. It believes that Mr. Roosevelt in this connection has precisely the right idea; and that those sponsoring the national conference here are on the right course. If the federal government, through congress, takes a hand, the opportunity at last will be presented for readjustment of all taxes and co-ordination of them. Only by that means, we believe, can national, state, county, and municipal tax burdens be readjusted and lightened. It is a truism that until the tax load is lightened, prosperity still will lurk around that corner. COOLIE RATIONS Quartermaster-General De Witt of the United States army reports from studies made by government experts that it now is possible to feed a man on 7 cents a day. A group of eastern “clergymen, educators, dietitians, and philanthropists” is reported as busy evolving a standard meal costing 8 cents. A well-meaning lowa woman’s relief organization reports its success in feeding families of the unemployed largely from the wastage of its city markets. These good American brains would be put to better use figuring how our people can earn something better than 8-cent meals in this land of plenty. China's low standards come from too many people and too little food. Ours will come, if at all, from stupidity. Senator Dill’s proposal that a group of “average men” be selected to drink several kegs of 3.2 brewery beer to test its intoxicating effects kindled in many a patriotic Americana sudden burning desire to be of service to his country. The suspicion grows that Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker’s forthcoming book will be rather disappointing. For it’s doubtful if Jimmy can be as clever or naive as when testifying under oath. The opossum is eighty million years old, has had almost no brain development, and doesn’t seem to mind. Man is between one and two million years old, is mighty proud of his cranium and still draws to an inside straight.

-Just Plain Sense ■■■ BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

T HAVE been reading Mr. Van Loon’s Geography (and what would I not have given for such a textbook in my youth?) To attempt to enumerate its good points in a limited space is impossible. The most striking fact you gather, however, as you stroll over the earth after its author, is the comparative well-being of the people who live in small countries and the despair of those who dwell in large and powerful ones. If, for instance, you called Denmark home, you probably would not be rich, but, then, neither would you be poor. For this little land is the wealthiest per capita in all Europe. There is no illiteracy, and its homes can boast ZBore books than those of any other nation on the globe. There are no farm mortgages, for the farmers own a few' acres each and. not being imbued with the idea that they should grab everything in sight, they all get along comfortably without going into debt. There is no standing army, no navy, and only a corps of state police to keep order. In short, this government regulates its affairs so that the greatest per cent of happiness may be enjoyed by the greatest number of its people. a a tt GAIN, if you lived in Switzerland or Sweden or Norway or Iceland or Finland or Holland, you might not have so many chances to get a fortune, but you would, on the other hand, not run the risks of standing in a breadline, as you do in the United States; or of living on a dole as they do in England; or of being kicked about in the name of the government, as they are in Russia, or of being blown into bits by enemy bombs, provided you are a citizen of any country that aspires to world power and dreams of empire. And that, if you ask me, is something. Perhaps through the long, slow' process we call evolution, the words of the Lord Jesus will come true. It may be that on some far-off day the meek shall inherit the earth and the humble be exalted. After the ambitions have destroyed themselves utterly, those who love peace may rule the world. But—l can almost hear your shout—how about Belgium? Well, Belgium, I think, can be said to be, even now, as fortunate as proud Germany, that not so long ago strode ruthlessly through her fertile fields, Marching to meet disaster..

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What a Family to Be Bom Into!

Dwarf Stars ‘Worn Out’

THE most recently discovered stars and the stars of most startling characteristics are the ones, strange as it may seem, about which science knows the most. The stars referred to are the so-called tvhite dwarfs, composed of material so heavy that it has been calculated that a spoonful would weigh a ton. This fact was revealed before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its recent convention here, by Dr. Henry Norris Russell, famous astronomer of Princeton university, and newly elected president of the association, in an address upon “The Constitution of the Stars.” Dr. Russell told how scientists, by combining their observations of stars with laboratory study of atoms were attempting to construct a satisfactory theory of the life history of a star. Dr. Russell said that observations divided stars into three classifications. First of all, there was the so-called main sequence. This contains the great majority of stars. At one end are large, hot, white stars. At the other end small, cool, red stars. The second class are the red giants. The third are the white dwarfs, previously referred to. Our own sun is in the main sequence just a little below the middle point. The stars in the main sequence, Dr. Russell said, ranged in size from stars five times greater in diameter than the sun and a thousand times as bright to stars about one-fourth the diameter of the sun and only a four-hun-dredth as bright. The red giants, he said, ranged in diameter from ten to 100,000,000 miles and were from 100 to 2,000 times as bright as the sun. The w'hite dwe rfs are very small, having diameters of 50,000 miles or less. The diameter of our own sun is 864,100 miles. tt n tt Biggest Star Problem THE biggest problem connected with stars. Dr. Ru.ssell said, was the mystery of where their energy came from. The dwarfs are the star about

So They Say

The government is controlled by organized minorities.—Representative Henry T. Rainey (Dem., 111.). Are we going to lend money to a former enemy, while refusing to pay the United States, who was alongside us in the war?—Louis Marin, French deputy, opposing League of Nations loan to Austria. We can junk one-half of it (football under 1932 rules) and still have more left than is sufficient for a colege game.— —Gilmour Dobie. head football coach, Cornell University.

====== DAILY HEALTH SERVICE - Whooping Cough Takes Heavy Toll ■■ -■■■. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

This is the first of three articles by Dr. Fishbein on the dangers and treatment of whooping cough and precautions to prevent its spread. AT least 400 years ago, diseases were described which resemble what is called whooping cough today. This condition is one of the most difficult with which health officials and physicians have to deal. A few cases appearing in any group ofchildren spread rapidly to include all who have not had the disease previously. Whooping cough causes more deaths than do most of the other infectious diseases of childhood. It is fatal chiefly to the very ycung, and the immediate cause of death nearly always is some secondary infection. In older children whooping cough quite frequently is fol-

which we now know the most, because they are old, worn-out stars, decrepit members of the universe which have reached senility. Professor Milnes of Oxford, Dr, Russell said, had calculated what a star ought to be likj which completely had given out and his calculations show it would be just a little smaller than the white dwarfs. Two sources of energy for stars have been suggested. One is the building of heavier chemical elements out of hydrogen, the other the annihilation of electons and their transformation into energy. Dr. Russell thinks that the former process might go on in stars, but not the latter. “The probaole life history of a star presents the most difficult problem of all,” Dr. Russell said. “If the greatest available supply of energy is the synthesis of other elements from hydrogen, a star’s mass will change very little during its whole life. Beginning, we may imagine, with large radius and low density, it at first will have to draw on its gravitational energy and contract until it gets hot enough inside to start the process of synthesis. “It then will approach a steady state, in which it will remain, with very little change in size or other observable properties, until the active material is nearly exhausted. “Then it again will begin to contract and to grow hotter inside, pausing again, perhaps, if some new energy liberating process is turned on at the high temperature. “Finally, after all available sources are exhausted, it will contract until degeneracy sets in at the center. If its mass is small, it will be successively a white dwarf, a yellow dwarf, and a black dwarf, finally extinguished. “The relative lengths of time which a star will spend in different stages depends upon the amount of transformable matter available to keep it going.” a a a A Tivic Scale for Stars DR. RUSSELL said that there was great difficulty in the way of working out a satisfactory time scale for the star's. He said that one line of calculation led to an age for the stars which was less than that which geologists gave to the earth. This is an obviously unsatisfactory result. He said that perhaps we would have to turn to theories of the expanding universe for a solution. If, as Lemaitre, Tolman and other authorities on the expanding universe believe, a period of expansion may have started some 10,000,000,000 years ago, this may have affected stellar evolution. In that case, Dr. Russell said, “the stars may be indeed all of the same actual age, and may, with few exceptions, still be almost fresh from the mint.’’ Dr. Russell said that the white dwarfs show “apparently definite signs of senility,” but that this might be because they had aged faster than the other stars, due, perhaps, to their constitution.

Editor Journal of the American Medicall Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magaiine. lowed by pneumonia or tuberculosis, and is especially menacing from the point of view of these complications. A germ has been found in connection with the diseases by two Belgian investigators, Bordet and Gengou, out apparently this is not the exclusive cause of the disease, and other factors must also be present. o a m THE chief epidemics of this disease occur in winter. Whooping cough is transmitted, of course, by the material coughed out from the lungs, and it has been shown that the explosive cough which occurs in this condition can throw droplets of infected saliva for six feet or farther.

Times Readers Voice Views ... Editor Times —I noticed in the Jan. 2 Times the answer to the question, “What is a Doberman Pinscher? You state the Doberman is derived from the Manchester Terrier. People will take from this that the Manchester is the only breed from which the Doberman is derived. Quoting from Will Judy’s Dog Encyclopedia, considered “it” in dogs, ‘‘The Doberman really is a terrier, and, although a number of breeds were used to evolve him, the Rottweiler and the black and tan shepherd give the chief characteristics.” You state the colors are only black and tan. This is a mistake. The Doberman Pinscher standard printed in the American Kennel Club Book of Standards allow black, brotvn, or blue, with rust red, sharply defined markings. MARGUERITE VANCE. Editor Times—Whoever stole that fine drove of ducks on Sixtieth street never will gain anything. The owner had deprived himself of almost everything since being out of work and intended to sell the ducks to help an afflicted son, and also to alleviate the suffering of a wisdom tooth, besides other things that would take the place of Christmas gifts. I suppose they tried the chicken house, too. If it had not been locked, our only means of food would have been gone. If some of these lazy thieves would work instead of taking what some other person has toiled so hard to get, they would be better off. THE OWNER OF THE DUCKS.

Daily Thought

God is a Spirit: and they that worship hint must worship him in spirit and in truth.—St. John 4:24. a a a WORDS without thoughts never to heaven go.— Shakespeare.

It Seems to Me .... by Heywood Broun

“T SHOULD think,” said the young man with the long hair, “that you would like to get away from it all.” I agreed mildly that it would be very nice and started to move up the room to the table where I had left my friends and my drink. The wedding guest at the southeast corner of the bar held me fast. “I see you around these places at night,” he said with great emotion. “I see you every night, always surrounded by sycophants.” “That was no sycophant,” I said severely as I tried to reach my table. “That was my wife.” “And a girl named Myrtle something and a man from Yale who’s in the wholesale lumber business,” I added trying to be as precise as possible.

Far too frequently parents permit children to begin playing with other children just as soon as they are without fever. Yet these children, if they continue to cough, may be active in spreading the disease to children who have not had it. Moreover, there is evidence that whooping cought is infectious in its earliest stages, so that children who are put to bed and kept isolated until after they have been coughing for some time also may spread the disease actively. It is the duty of parents not only to their own children, but also to others, to put a coughing child to bed as soon as possible. Moreover, they ought to keep the child in bed until a physician says that it is safe for the child to be up and around. Next: Checking the spread of whooping cough.

M. E. Tracy Says: +•——- ——-—>♦ LET VS BE BOLDER THIS YEAR

THREE years of technical smash, with Radio City as about the biggest single achievement; three years of high-pressure charity much of it made possible by called loans and foreclosed mortgages; three years of gold hoarding, with every long-term debt doubled through reduced prices and wages; three years of economizing, with unemployment increased every time a worker was discharged and income shriveled every time a pay roll was cut.

Let's have something different in 1933, something bold, something constructive. Cut and dried plans won’t do when the great need is for inspiration. Our real task is to change the emotional attitude. It was not intelligence that sent stocks to an unreasonable height, or made the people think they could establish prosperity on a permanent basis through speculation. It was a belief, a hope, a mistaken sense of value. It was not intelligence that supplanted enthusiasm with fear when the crash came and caused a disastrous restriction of credit which still casts its baneful shadow over this country. nun No Intelligent Analysis Made WHY are our mortgage companies failing to make better use of the home loan bank? Why are our banks failing to make better use of the federal reserve system? Do you think for one moment that they have figured the thing through and convinced themselves that it would be unwise to do so? Do you think any one of our so-called best minds has made, or can make, an intelligent analysis of the existing situation? Certainly not. The last three years have revealed nothing more vividly than that we are all in the dark, with fear as our predominating emolion. We are not afraid of what we know. Men never are. The mess we are in was entirely unexpected, which means that we had followed false guides. But we can not hope to get out of it by sitting down in the mud and wringing our hands. At present, the big idea is to ease things bv doing less. That merely is making fear an excuse soy inaction and it will get us nowhere. tt a Energies Can Not Be Held in Check WE must move for our own self-protection, if for no better reason. The pent-up energies of a country like this can not be held In check without danger. It is folly to suppose that 130.000,000 people are going to stand around and wait while experts quarrel futilely over what ought to be done. Ultimately, they will do something, even if it is not so wise. Ultimately, they will seek relief in movement, no matter whom or what they have to thrust aside. Colonel E. M. House is not making idle talk when he suggests that we are approaching a condition favorable to dictatorship. The time has come for those in places of responsibility to show courage, to take such risks as may be necessary to make this nation coherently active. If they do not, somebody else will. The recent election was a clear sign of deep dissatisfaction and feverish impatience. The people were not out just to make a change. They were out to go somewhere.

Every Day Religion ■ by DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON ———

TN an English town the other day, -*■ the men of a debating society took a vote on the question: Are the married men in the stories of Dickens better characters than the single men? The vote stood five to one in favor of the married men. It well may be so; but one would like to know how many men in the society were married, and how many single. Everyone who voted was himself either married or single, and there you are! Once in a Texas town the question came up: Shall the cows be allowed to run at large or not? Those who had cows were in favor of it; those who did not have cows were against it There they were, and the town was well nigh turned upside down about it. The late Lord Asquith told me how he made a speech in a Scottish town, in which a man asked him, impatiently: “Mr. Asquith, are we going to get a pier for our boats?” u a ALL of us do the same thing, in one degree or another. We seldom decide an issue by the facts, much less by the truth, but by our petty interests, or wishes, or desires. If we have said a thing is so, pride makes us stick to ib through thick and thin, whatever the facts may be. Some married men are better than some single men, and it is equally so the other way. No matter; the question is settled on quite other grounds, each voting according to his inclination or whim. Let any one raise the is-sue of Prohibition in any group, and hear it discussed for five minutes. Facts have nothing to do with it.

*4 Few Blunt Facts “T SAY they’re sycophants,” said A the cross young man. “And you swagger and you preen yourself, and they pretend to hang on every word and laugh at your feeblest jests—and all because they know you write a newspaper column. I don’t have to fawn. I can stand here and tell you that it’s a very bad column. Your sycophants won’t tell you that. ‘‘A sycophant never forgets,” I suggested, trying to lighten the mood of the conversation, and get my right elbow free in case I eventually had to take a poke at him. But at this point he began to cry and exclaim, “A newspaper columnist is a man w r ho knows the price of everything and the value of nothing!” That had a familiar ring. I felt sure I’d heard it before, and so I came right back with, “A good man is the best friend and, therefore, soonest to be longer to be retained and, indeed, never to be parted with unless he ceases to be that for which he was chosen.” That’s a little thing out of “A Discourse on the Nature, Measures and Offices of Friendship,” by Jeremy Taylor. Very frequently it is not recognized by people in speakeasies. After that we had 1 a brandy all around, and I told the story of my life. And I put the emphasis on just one phase of it. I’m getting more than a little tired of having cross young men in speakeasies come up and begin by saying, ‘‘You think you’re pretty hot,” or words to that effect. an b Golden Complex Victim NO man whose life has been just about ruined on account of an overweening sense of inferiority is going to be any too well pleased when accused of possessing a flagrant and a swaggering conceit. When anybody knows, as I think I know, that he plight

JAN. 6, 1933

-'-'J**- ■ . TRA(Y

Each quotes facts and figures to fit his ideas or wishes. Few issues, if men are deeply stix-red, ever are dealt with on their merits. It is so in religion; we make a god of our opinions, or feelings, or fears, and worship it. Here lies the great worth of science—it seeks to know the facts as they are, not as wc think they ought to be, or wish them to be. (Copvrieht. 1933. United Features Syndicate I Questions and Answers Q —What is the difference between denatured alcohol and wood alcohol? A—Grain, or ethyl, alcohol forms the basis of all fermented liquor, and can be produced from grain, potatoes, or any vegetable matter that contains starch or sugar. Wood or methyl alcohol is derived from the destructive distillation of wood. When a small percentage of the latter is mixed with the former, it is rendered non-potable, in other words, denatured. Other substances may also be employed as denaturants. Q —Name the first man who sailed around the world? A—Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigater. Q—Give the plural of mother-in-law? A—Mothers-in-law. Q—What is the line that James Russell Lowell wrote about Edgar Allan Poe, in which he used the expression, “two-fifths of him is fudge”? A—lt is in “A Fable for Critics,”’ and reads “Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.”

actually have amounted to something with application and hard work along the lines of his favorite profession he is not going to like it too much to have his bread and butter occupation scornfully dangled in his face. I possess a secret knowrn to not a single individual in the world but myself. Worst of all, it’s never going to be known. Posterity is not going to be any more sensitive to the fact than men and women who walk the world today. In fact, posterity in all probability won't even get a chance to use its much overrated judgment. The matter just won’t come up. 808 Don't Tread on Colors IT does not annoy me particularly when young men in night clubs speak contemptuously of my newspaper column. I smile tolerantly enough when anybody says that my brief nosegay of novels are all fifth rate. And I continue to smile when my painting is dismissed as the mere freakish occupation of a week-end idler. But by now it has become a nasty smile, and any smart waiter would do well to remove all but the small butter knives. It seems to me that painting is the one talent which I possess in anything more than a mere chemical trace. I’ll take my secret down to the grave with me and find not a kind wwd on the way. ‘‘Sycophants!” said the cross young man in his mistaken estimate of Miss X, the girl called Myrtle something, and the young man who left Yale for the wholesale lumber business. I wish I knew where I could get some sycophants. I’d order a dozen delivered to my door every day for a month. Nobody has said a really very kind word to ma about anything I’ve done in half a year. “And so I think I’ll advertise: —‘‘Wanted at once—a sycophant. No previous experience required.” tCoDvrigbt. 1933. by The Timesi ‘