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THURS IY JAN. 12. 1933. A NOTABLE VISITOR Today this city is being visited by Edward A. Filene. builder of one of the largest department stores in this country. Founders of other such stores would be welcomed by merchants who respect success. But it is not because of his remarkable success as a merchant that makes his visit notable. Very early in the history of his store, he established rigid principles of dealing with his employes which shocked those who inclined to the theory that labor is a commodity. He actually insisted on treating those who worked in his store as human beings. He discovered that it not only paid rich rewards in satisfaction but even richer rewards in dollars and many of the customs of enlightened merchants can be traced to his experiments in human justice. But it is as the founder of Credit Unions that he has earned and receives distinction all over the land. He believed that the problem of small loans in emergencies could be solved by groups who would lend their own money to themselves and evade the sor times extortionate interest rates charged by private enterprises. The Credit Union idea had been tried in some European countries with success. It w r as Mr. Filene who introduced it to this country and started the nation-wide movement. The idea is simple. Those who work in the same store, the same factory, or are joined by some common bond such as a church, a farm bureau, even as parents of children attending the same school, put their savings into a common fund. The funds are under the control of officers elected by themselves. When loans are made, they are passed upon by these same officers, who can know both the necessity and the safety. No Credit Union has ever failed. Each branch becomes a mutual credit organization wtih funds always under the control of those who own them and have saved them. In this city, there are many such branches. In some of the larger stores, the assets now reach far into six figures. In eighteen months, the plan has taken the fire department away from the hockshop. The farm bureaus of the state have successful branches in many counties. Today Mr. Filene spends his own funds and his time in explaining the plan to those who may wish to take advantage of its simple way to solve a social problem. Men who devote themselves to unselfish projects are all too rare to be overlooked. They alone leave an impress upon their times and the future.

RELIEF FOR DEBTORS The quicker the better Avill be the country's reaction to Mr. Hoover's appeal to congress for emergency relief legislation for corporate and individual debtors. Debt relief ranks with unemployment relief as the national issue of greatest urgency. For better or for worse, the country has gone through a long and drastic process of deflation which has hit all classes—all except that part of the creditor class which has not suffered default. The value of the dollar has gone up like a skyrocket; it will buy more labor, goods, more every-thing—-except debts. Debts incurred in prosperity's little dollars now must be paid in the depression's big dollars. It can't be done. Creditors who are short-sighted can force their business debtors to the wall, and mortgage holders can foreclose. But such wholesale bankruptcies and foreclosures literally would ruin the country. Every intelligent citizen will recognize the stark truth of the President's warning; “The process of forced liquidation through foreclosure and bankruptcy sale of the assets of individual and corporate debtors, who through no fault of their own arc unable in the present emergency to provide for payment of their debts in ordinary course as they mature, is utterly destructive of the interests of debtors and creditors alike.” Fortunately, committees of congress have been studying this subject in detail since the report submitted by the President last spring on reform of the bankruptcy law. Rather than risk further delay with the general bankruptcy measure, senate and house subcommittees have been meeting for several weeks with Solicitor-General Thacher perfecting emergency legislation. This should allow' debtors, through agreement with a reasonable number of their creditors and the court, to effect quick reorganization on an economic basis, without the delay or stigma or destruction of values risked in formal bankruptcy proceedings. This, of course, would include railroad reorganization under interstate commerce commission approval. as proposed by the President. Apparently, protection of individual mortgage victims is the most difficult part of the problem to solve, because of certain constitutional restrictions. While a legal method for actual reduction of the burden of most other debtors seems in sight, the mortgaged man may get no more than a delay in payments by agreement. It, is to be hoped that some way yet can be found bv the solicitor-general and the congressional experts for extending to the mortgage victim equal relief with other debtors. That is basic, not only to solution of the farm problem, but also of the general depression. AX ARMS EMBARGO In granting the President power to embargo arms shipments when necessary to preserve international peace, the senate foreign relations committee would go beyond Mr. Hoover's request. He asked in his special message—in event of anticipated failure of senate ratification of the Geneva arms traffic treaty of 1925—f0r embargo authority only in cases of joint action with all other principal exporting nations. The resolution reported unanimously by the senate committee would not Diace that restriction upon the President, but would allow him discretion to act alone if other nations declined to co-operate. At least that is the interpretation by committee | members of the somewhat vague proViSion-f"After

securing the co-operation of such governments as the President deems necessary.” This point, as we stated Wednesday, is very important. Unrestricted embargo power by the President, as desired by Secretary of State Stimson, but overruled by Mr. Hoover, lOilowing protest from the munitions makers, can be effective. Restricted embargo power, subject to the veto of any foreign government, would be a futile gesture. American munition interests persist in aiding foreign wars, in violation of America's official treaty and peace policies. Unless this scandal can be stopped by the embargo method from endangering world peace and American foreign relations, the government will have to take over the armament business. Doubtless the senate will pass promptly the resolution of the united committee, clarifying the grant of unrestricted embargo pow-er if any question is raised as to its meaning. TIIE ELECTRIC DOLLAR New York's state power authority has set out to do a job having a dollar and cents value to every home in the country using electricity. It has organized an institute of public engineering to probe one of the most elusive mysteries of modem industry—the cost of distributing electric power. The electric industry admits it has no figures on this subject, no professional group ever has tried to compile them, and no cost standards ever have been established. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, member of the power authority, who has been studying the subject for years, believes that the charge of distribution is about twice what it should be, constituting a levy upon electrical consumers of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000 a year more than Is justified. New' York's power authority is faced with the task of determining a fair price for power from the St. Law r rence delivered to city and country homes, and it is taking its task more seriously than similar bodies. If it finds that distribution costs should be lower, as Cooke suspects, the people of New York will be saved millions of dollars. But in addition a foundation will be laid for accurately measuring the costs of distribution in other parts of the country, and a whole new phase of regulation may begin. President-Elect Roosevelt, Governor Lehman of New York and Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania all have agreed to co-operate with the new/ institute. It would be hard to think of any work better calculated to bring about effective regulation. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES (An Editorial in the Philadelphia Record) Advice to senate wets on the matter of repeal: ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES. The Blaine repeal resolution, favorably reported by a 10-to-4 vote of the senate is substitute for the kind of repeal w r ets everywhere have been fighting for. As such, it should be turned down. This resolution repeals the eighteenth amendment. But it provides for continued federal control over distribution of liquor and specifies ratification of the repealer by state legislatures, not by state conventions. This is not even as good as the Republican platform plank on prohibition. For the Republican plank, timid and complicated as it was, declared for ratification by state conventions, not legislatures. The Blaine measure certainly does not represent the victorious, outright repeal Democratic plank. Repeal must return liquor control unreservedly back to the states. National control having failed, where is the point in setting up a hybrid creature, half-federal, half-state? Let the states solve the liquor problem as they think best, unhampered by rigid federal decrees. Further, no repeal amendment should be passed in congress unless it specifies ratification by state conventions, members of w’hich are to be elected solely on their promise to vote “Yes’” or “No” for unqualified repeal. Don't throw repeal into the arena of state politics. Let the people decide by electing delegates to a convention on the liquor issue alone. Accept no substitutes for real repeal. England and America sometimes are closer to each other by sixty-three feet because of the moon's influence. And a bottle of it sometimes will make old enemies get down and cry together.

Just Plain Sense —— BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -

A NEW book, “Yunini's Story of the Trail of Tears,” by Ada Loomis Barry, comes from the press of Fudge & Cos., London. For me it has a special interest, like the strain of some old and once-loved melody. So today I shall not be Mrs Ferguson, but Lucia Loomis, talking about the author, my little sister. The subject matter of 'his book used to be discussed in our family circle—when family circles shaped opinions. Father, mother and four girls. And always it was midde-sized Ada who was most moved by its tragedy. Sometimes we laughed together at her indignation. The average person, I am aware, is not always touched by the tale, because he may have had no occasion to see. study or think about the Indian as an individual. To him there is no difference between the civilized tribes and the plain nomads. They were all painted warriors, savage, unlettered, crude. an n TIUT, you see. when we were little, we lived in a lost towm of a now vanished state—the Indian territory. We knew the loyalty, the fineness, the candor, the humor and culture, the high appreciation of truth and honor and beauty of the educated and civilized red people. They were our neighbors. Many of them we loved, and love stiff. I can see us yet: A row of girls munching apples. grouped about the knees of the handsome halfbreed Cherokee woman who sewed interminably upon bright-colored carpet rags, ana talked of the stories her grandmother had told Stories rare, vivid and sod, of that bitter trail down which many thousands of weary red feet had walked. Stories of a homeland lost forever, and of Cherokees. Choctaws and Chickasaws leaving beloved thresholds at the prod of United States bayonets. Grant Foreman, eminent historian of the southwest, has treated the topic in detail In his book. “Indian Removal.” Yunini tells the same story in narrative form that may make it more real to those who do not enjoy history. The same facts are there, and thev are correct—the facts that Little Sister has been meditating and studying since she was a wee thing in funny pinafores. Love makes it impossible for me to pass judgment upon it. I only know one thing: It is the sort of book that had to be written. t

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It Seems to Me . • . . by Heywood Broun

A MONG the most dramatic stories in the Bible is the tale of Naaman, and I remember it well because Copeland read it aloud in college and lingered over the cadenced prose of the extraordinary first paragraph. “Now, Naaman, captain of the host of the King of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria; he also was a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.” And perhaps you remember that there was a captive maid from Israel in the household of Naaman and that she said. “Would God my Lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for He would recover him of his leprosy.” nun At Door of Elisha AND Naaman went with his horses and his chariots and stood before the door of Elisha. But the prophet paid no great heed to the cavalcade and merely Times Readers Voice Views ... Editor Times—Now while cur good superintendent of public instruction is making some cuts in office, etc., I should like to voice my opinion of some places where some worth while cuts could be made and the people never missed. I am not in favor of any teacher ever having her pay cut, in fact, I think that our teachers are our most needed asset and we should not lower the standard of the persons who educate our children, but our school city does employ several special people that we well could do without. For instance, the social service investigator, who knows nothing about children, in fact, one who takes small offenses of children and goes about with her investigating work and her insufferable prophecies regarding the ultimate end to which these children are headed. These women usually do not understand the traits of chil-di-en at all and are actually unfit for these positions, and then, too, most mothers are raising good future citizens; they are not reaching the mothers who actually are raising the bdys who are thieving and killing today. I would venture to say that these boys’ mothers never have been visited by one of these investigators, but it is usually mothers who have raised several boys and whose boys are grown and have become good, honest citizens. ONE WHO KNOWS. Daily Thought Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches.— Jeremiah 9:23. tt tt tt THE more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.—Lavater.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE .-.r - ---- Spread of Mumps Often Serious

This is the second of two articles hr Dr. Fishbein on mumps. BEYOND the stiffness of the jaw and the pain on opening the mouth, associated with swelling of the glands, the person with mumps usually has little trouble. There are. however, cases in which the mumps seem to spread, particularly to the glands of sex When this occurs, it is a serious complication. There are instances in whicn the ability of the human being to have children has been irreparaably damaged by this secondary complication. Incidentally, the complication is more likely to occur in grown people than in children. With the complication of this character.

sent out word by a messenger that the captain of the Syrian host should go and wash in Jordan seven times. And Naaman was wroth, for he had expected some miracle of more majesty and pomp. He turned and went away in a rage. But his servants said: “If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? How much rather, then, when he saith to rhee W'ash and be clean?” Naaman went down to Jordan water and dipped himself seven times in the stream, and “his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child.” a a a A Sermon for Our Times IF I were a preacher, I would write a sermon for today out of the story of the mighty man of valor, for it seems to me that we of the world are kinsmen of Naaman. We admit our woe and the tribulation of our times, but we will have naught to do with those remedies which are simple and lie close at hand. Rather than go down into Jordan. many would have us wade again in bloody rivers, and few will follow any creed of necessary, change until it has been given some high-sounding name and trapped with terminology and pitfalls for the heretics. Like the sick Syrian, we ask for a prophet whose legerdemain will darken the face of the sun and set the planets prancing in their courses. I have done many evil things in my life and may do more, but, thank heaven, I never gave anybody cause to call me a “scientific Socialist.” Or a scientific anything else, for that matter. I said not long ago, and I still believe it to be true, that no radical party in America ever will come into power until it presents its platform in 200 words. And if it uses 100, its chances will be doubled.

Every Day Religion ■ " by DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON _____

T ET me show you a picture. It is a darkened room in a hushed house, where hardly a word is spoken above a whisper. In one corner is an old whitehaired woman sitting in a low chair, her face half hidden by her hand. Her other hand is on the shoulder of a young woman, little more than a girl, sitting at her feet, all crumpled up. There is a fire in the grate, but it scarcely knows whether to burn or not. Yet, when the firs does flicker up, fitfully, it lights up the white hair of the old woman and the pale faee of the girl. The young woman had been married only a few months, then death suddenly took her husband away. It is the day after the funeral, a dull, dreary time when life is at its hardest. Suddenly the girl turns almost ferociously to a friend, standing behind her, looking down upon the two. “Where is God?” she demands. “I’ve prayed to Him. I've asked Him to come and be near me in my sorrow. Where is He? Away somewhere above the sky, or something! Why doesn't he come near me and make ms know that He is near? You preached once

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. there may be fever that is fairly high. There is not much that can be done about mumps, except to make certain that the person is absolutely quiet, and that there is no secondary complication in the form of pus infection. When this occurs either in the glands in front of the 1 ear or in the sex glands, only the most judicious and careful attention of a competent physician can be of much service. Fortunately, such secondary infection is rare. n a tt IN the majority of cases the condition gels well without any complication!, Usually it is mild.

Emphasis has been placed by many economists and politicians upon the complex nature of the difficulties which now face the world. “I see no hope,” said a British leader, “unless we can achieve international co-opera-tion.” Well, why not go out and try to achieve it? It should be a simple matter for the peoples of the world to meet in conference. We could if we w’ould join hands upon the shore of Jordan. I am less impressed with the variation among the views of men than with the multitude of things which we hold in common. Very few are now alive who even profess to find our economic sysstem good. It ought to be easy to find millions intent upon discarding it. During the national campaign W’hich closed a few months ago I received several letters from people W’ho said, in effect: “I don’t like this world in which I live. I w'ant to change it. But what can I possibly do about it?” tt tt O Too Few Took Advice I USED to advise them to vote for Norman Thomas. Many of them never had thought of that. Most of them soon forgot it. They seemed to feel that this was too simple a thing. And in these days I get letters from radicals who assail me as either foolishly sentimental or consciously crooked because I still believe that man can change the world entire through the ballot. Like Naaman of old, this seems to them too small a thing. They rather w-ould have something more fancy, like a Civil war. But we will not now or ever become of clean flesh again through the might of any Syrian chariots or horsemen of the plain. The way out is the easy, the quick, and the direct way of seeking the living waters of mutual understanding. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Times)

about ‘The Everlasting Arms.’ Where are they?”

tt tt tt SHE burst into a storm of tears. her slight figure shaken by sobs. No word was said for a moment, for tears are a release of pent-up pain and sorrow'—it is the dry-eyed grief that is most to be feared, for that way madness may lie. Then, very gently, the friend standing behind the chair drew his finger tips lightly down the arm of the old woman, which held the girl in close caress, and said: “The Everlasting Arms? They are here. They are around you even now. These arms are the human arms of God. How else could He come neaf you to comfort and succor? Where is He, you say? Be still, I beg you. What if this friend happened to be God?” Thus with gentle, healing hands, anointed of God. in deeds of loving kindness is wrought the creed of creeds, more profound than philosophic thought, as deep as infancy and old age. stronger than love and death. O, my soul, remember and obey! (Copyright. 1933 United Features Syndicate. Inc.)

In the army of 1918 there were only sevent : -two deaths among more than 48,000 cases. In recent articles, the usual treatment of infectious diseases has been described. The same treatment ordinarily is used by good physicians in cases of mumps. Attention of the physician is necessary, so that he very carefully may detect possible complications at the earliest possible moment, to prevent spread or extension, or to prevent increase in severity. People who have had mumps ought to be kept under observation for at lease three weeks, to make sure that the condition is healed fully and that no further complications are lik&y.

M..E. Tracy Says: +• ► IS OUR GOLD IDEA WROSG?

SPEAKING loosely, the economic structure of 'this country rests on a framework of Indebtedness, consisting of bonds, mortgages, notes and contracts. In other words, the earning power of the people, whether as individuals or as stockholder corporations, has been borrowed against for five, ten or fifteen years. Obviously, that earning power can not be reduced for any great length of time without threatening the entire structure. In 1929. the annual income of the country -was estimated at

about ninety billion dollars. Right now, it is estimated at not more than half that amount. Even superficial thinkers must realize that such a sad condition can not continue much longer, without risk of the gravest eventualities. They must realize, also, that, except as they offer temporary relief, measures of economy and charity drives only make it worse. In the end, we must find some way to restore the nation's earning power, not only must get the people back to work, but at a wage and price level which will insure an average income approximating that preceding the depression. a a a Rise of Gold Is Striking Feature IF it were true that the existing situation were brought about by irremedial defects in our economic system, or by circumstances over wliich we had no control, the outlook would be hopeless, but that hardly is admissible. The thought that we have run up against the law of supplv and demand represents a type of philosophy utterly irreconcilable with the past. It is far more logical to assume that, arbitrary forces have interfered with that law’ and that we really are tuffering because it can not function normally or naturally. Os all the phenomena that have occurred in connection with this spectacular slump in business, the rise of gold probablv is the most spectacular. Virtually everything else has gone down. Wheat, beef, cotton, potatoes. and other staples bring no such price as they did four years ago, nor can the average worker get anywhere nearly as much for his services. Meanwhile, our debts are payable either in gold or in money, the value of which is determined by gold. The result is that all long-term debts have doubled and that the people are finding it harder and harder to maintain existing obligations, much less to obtain the necessary capital for new business. nan Other Nations Seem to Find Wag INFLATION, of course, offers a solution, but we have tried to avoid it because of the excesses and confusion to which it often leads. We have tried to make ourselves believe that inflation generally was a matter of choice and that no country could be compelled to accept it, least of all our own. We rather have been inclined to look on inflation as indicating weakness or stupidity. Boosting gold has oecome a sort of fetish with us. Until recently we have been rather proud of the fact that forty nations were obliged to abandon the gold standard while Uncle Sam stood pat. But, strange as it may seem, the people in those nations are going to work, and we are finding it more and more difficult to compete with them in foreign markets. Some of our conservative leaders are beginning to wonder whether boosting gold and maintaining the value of the dollar, regardless, really is such a bright idea, and whether a reasonable amount of inflation would not serve to rectify what is becoming a dangerous state of affairs. Also, they are beginning to wonder whether the credit situation in this country is not the result of more or less deliberate manipulation.

I=l SCIENCE— New Moon ‘Feat’ Found —" BY DAVID DIETZ

ENGLAND and America are closer to each other by six-ty-fchree set at some times of the day than others. It all depends upon where the moon is in the heavens. ing the convention of the AmerThis startling fact, revealed durican Association for the Advancement of Science in Atlantic City by Dr. Harlan T. Stetson and A. L. Loomis, is only one of a number of interesting connections between terrestial avents and celestial activity which Dr. Stetson has pointed out. It has been known for several centuries that the moon is the cause of the tidesin the oceans. It also has been surmised during the last few decades that the moon has some tidal effect upon the lane as well as the sea. But it is doubtful if anyone ever suspected as much distorion in the earth’s crust as much occur if this latest finding of Stetson and Locomis is substaniated. The old astrologers studied what they thought was the influence of the stars on mankind. Dr. Stetson, in studying the effect of the sun and moon on the earth, has founded anew astrology. However, he doesn’t care for that name particularly and perfers to call it “cosmic physics.” Some years ago, in collaboration with Dr. Greeleaf W. Pickard, the radio engineer, he made a study of the effect of sun spots on radio transmission. tt tt tt Radio Ceiling HE found that sun spots shot out electrons which affected the “radio ceiling,” the so-called. Heaviside layer or layer of electrified air from which radio waves are reflected. Asa result, radio reception gets worse as sun spots increase and better as they decrease. Since sun spots go in an eleven-year cycle, this made it possible to predict radio conditions for several years in advance. Next Dr. Stetson found that reception from various radio stations in different parts of the country varied through the night as the moon moved across the heavens. Accordingly, he was able to work out a relationship between radio conditions and the position of the moon. He also showed that the ups and downs of the business cycle for the last seventy-five years, as computed by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, famous statistician, matched the ups and downs of the sun spot cycles for the same period. He has declined, howveer, to attempt any explanation of this strange coincidence. In his present experiments. Dr. Stetson, director of the Perkins Astronomical observatory of Ohio Wesleyan university, has collaborated with Loomis, a successful business man of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., who turned to science a sa hobby. Loomis, because of his interest in science, has constructed one of the finest private scientific laboratories in the world. He has been interested par ticularly in clocks and the study of time and it was this study which led to the results just announced by him and Dr. Stetson. iIBB Time Signals THE principle government observatories of the world make accurate time determinations from the stars nightly. Official clocks are kept by these determinations and time signals then are broadcast by radio daily. Stetson and Loomis made use of extremely delicate recording apparatus to compare time signals

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I from different nations, concentrating on the signals from the United States naval observatory and the Greenwich observatory of England. Now there is a difference in time between Washington and Greenwich dlue to their difference in longitude. But this difference always should be the same. The two experimenters found that the difference as given by the radio signals varied, sometims by as much as a tenth second. It is incredible to think that trained astronomers, using the best appartus in the world .could ■ make errors as large as that. So the two studied variations and found that they kept step with the motion of the moon across the heavens. If the moon distorted the earth's crust, then it would change slightly the longitude of the observatories, causing the astronomers to get slightly different time determinations. On the basis that this actually was happening, the two calculated the amount of distortion necessary to cause the observed variation in the time. They found that it amounted to a change of sixty-three meet in the distance betwen America and England. j So They Say AT least I have the attitude of a prince—I have lived courageously and have, I think, put up the stock of princes.—Harry F. Gerguson, adventurer, self-styled “Prince Michael Romanoff.” T WOULD rather gaze at an ape all day than have to look upon the face of the average female movie star during my breakfast. —Dr. Max Kunitz. Berlin Psychiatrist. TT is becoming increasingly true -1- that the efforts of relief fancies do not go much beyond the objective of seeing that “nobody shall starve.”—H. L. Lurie, social research expert of New York, before Senate committee. A STRANGE revival since the -cl- war of a stubborn and swashbuckling nationalism is today making virtually impossible the operation of an effective econnomic system either within the nations or between the nations. —Dr. Glenn Frank, president. University of Wisconsin. HERE’S a couple of Reds. They’re cooking up a meetmg to talk technocracy.—John Shannon, Chicago patrolman, appearing at police station with two men arrested passing handbills for technocracy meeting. Questions and Answers Q—How much is a United States half-cent, dated 1832 worth? A—They are catalogued at 5 to 10 cents. Q —Can a man in the United States army retire after twenty years of service? A—Men in the army must retire after thirty years’ service, but no retirement is provided for shorter periods of service In the navy a man may retire on what is known as “graded retirement” after sixteen or twenty years’ service. Q —Who played the leading male role in the silent motion picture “Seven Keys to Baidpate?” A—Douglas McLean. Q —What was the date of the Johnstown flood? A—May 31, 1889.