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THURSDAY. JAN. 19. 1933. CUTTING COSTS News from Kansas City that all city employes have been forced to accept a wage cut of fifty per cent indicates a condition that many cities are rapidly approaching. The wage cut of one-half is forced by the fact that property owners can not pay their taxes. The delinquencies leave the treasury empty. The old method of selling property for taxes does not work for no one will buy. Whether the remedy adopted by Kansas City of cutting costs to fit the purse will be forced elsewhere remains to be seen. That such wage cuts will occur in al : cities seems Incredible, and yet the fact that there can be twelve million of citizens whose wages have been rut one hundred per cent would have seemed incredible four years ago. Os course, the reduction of wages of those who work for the cities only means further reduction of employment for those who have jobs. It means a cutting down of purchasing power and that means more joblessness. The problem of maintaining orderly government W'ill be more pressing as the months come unless something is done to return men to w’ork. Most obviously, any city whose wage payments arc reduced fifty per cent can not long continue to support a government which fitted into the needs when all were employed. There is now a demand for cutting out the frills, but no one can agree on what are frills and what are stern necessities. To some schools may be more important than policemen. Such a theory sends a scare through the classes that wish protection. Just what part of the services now performed by cities or states can be given up without hurt? CEMENT AND PRISONS That Governor McNutt stopped the letting of contracts for cement for the state highways at an increase over the price paid last year is so new an act in the history of that department as to be refreshing. In other years the cement interests have had little trouble in getting whatever contracts they washed. Os course, the stopping of contract letting is only the first step. The second which is to be considered when the present board is replaced by a different set of men will be the manufacture of cement in the prison at Putnamville. This suggestion was made by The Times four years ago. At that time it w'as pointed out that the state owns property containing raw materials from which cement can be made. The prison is troubled by the lack of work for inmates. It engages in the manufacture of articles which come into competition with free labor. By employing prisoners for the manufacture of articles now bought by the state, two purposes can be accomplished. The competition with free labor will be lifted to the extent that such labor is employed. The burden on the taxpayer is lifted by reduced expenditures. If the same policy is followed as to other things bought by the state and the units of state government, a long stride will have been taken toward solving tax problems. Os course, those who have been selling to the state at big profits will wail and protest. But the stand of the Governor will be welcomed by the majority of citizens as sensible and. courageous. SPEAKING OF LAME DUCKS In practical fact, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John N. Garner were elected by an overwhelming popular mandate on Nov. 8 last. Before the Constitution of the United States, they have not even been nominated. Their election on Nov. 8 has no standing before the Constitution. In point of strict constitutional law, we shall not know who has been elected until after Feb. 8. On that day the President of the United States will request the formal vote of the electoral college to be counted and will announce the results to a scarcely breathless country. Tlw Constitution does not recognize parties, nominating conventions, or the direct vote for presidential candidates. So far as our constitutional system is concerned, we vote cn election day in November for presidential electors. These men then meet solemnly in their respective state capitals on the first Wednesday in January and cast their vote for the next President and VicePresident of the United States. This they did on Jan. 4. Constitutionally speaking, they were perfectly free to elect Allred Emanuel Smith. James Cousens, Bronson Cutting. Alonson B. Houghton, or any other eminent and publicly minded American for the post. Their conduct would have been immaculate in constitutional law if they had done so, quite Ignoring Messrs. Hoowr and Roosevelt. The Constitution requires them to use their best Judgment to select the man they deem best fitted of all Americans for the first office of the land. Originally, the man who received the second highest number of votes became Vice-President, and during the administration of John Adams we had a Federalist President and a Democratic-Republican VicePresident tThomas Jefferson). But the embarrassing tie between Jefferson and Burr in 1800 ended that. A constitutional amendment (the twelfth) ordered the electors to vote separately for President and Vice-President. Partisanship prevailed over the Constitution as early as 1796 and the electoral college has been a dead letter ever since. So, while we are getting rid of one ‘dame duck.” the lame duck congress, it is in order to wipe the slate clean of constitutional ghosts and abolish the electoral college. Some will say that it is a nice old Spanish custom which should be allowed to prevail for sentiment’s sake, if no other. It is alleged that it can do no harm. This is not so. The electoral college is an anti-Democratic vestige which can be. and has been, a nuisance. In the first place, it can defeat the popular will by giving us a minority President. It has done so twice since the Civil war. In 1376 Samuel J. Tilden had 4,300,590 popular votes to 4,036,298 for Ruth ?r-

ford B. Hayes. But Hayes had 185 electoral votes to Tilden s 184. when that notly contested election was finally decided. In 1888 Grover Cleveland received 5.538,434 votes to 5,440.551 for Benjamin Harrison. Yet Harrison won in the electoral college rv 233 to 108—apparently the decisive choice of his countrymen. Moreover, the electoral vote gives a quite erroneous impression of party strength or weakness—thus creating unwarranted arrogance and confidence on the part of the winner ar.d of discouragement on the part of the loser. For example, in 1868 Grant only received 3,102,833 votes to 2,703,249 for Horatio Seymour, but he walked away with the electoral vote to the tune of 214-80. In 1830 Garfield received only 4,454,416 votes to 4 444,952 for Hancock, but he received 214 electoral votes to 155 for Hancock. Bryan generally was looked upon as crushed under an avalanche in 1896. But he received a popular vote of 6,454.943 to 7,105,959 for McKinley. Further, it means that the defeated party counts for nothing in any state. However close the election there, the whole electoral vote goes to the victor, just as though he had been unopposed in the election. This leads to an undue concentration upon getting the whole electoral vote of doubtful states instead of going before the whoie country as an electoral unit. Therefore, it is high time to abolish this archaic, undemocratic, and illogical machinery, which, on top of all else, makes our actual election procedure ex-tra-constitutional, if not actually unconstitutional. Now that we have gone hunting for lame ducks, let’s get a brace of them. THE WHITE HOUSE MEETING Announcement that the President and Presi-dent-elect are to confer again on foreign policy is good news. It is bad enough for the lame duck system to deadlock the government on domestic problems. But. it would be suicidal for this to happen in our foreign relations. The world does not wait on us. The drift toward chaos in Europe and war in Latin America and the far east continues at an alarming rate. American interests abroad must be protected. They can not be protected during the next fateful six weeks if the outgoing and incoming administrations fail to co-operate. The kind of co-operation which President Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt happily seem to have achieved since the Stimson-Roosevelt conversations is not unusual. Rather, it has been customary for Presi-dents-elect to keep in close touch with the White House on diplomatic matters. Os course the incentive is even greater in such a world emergency as now confronts the nation. It is not Mr. Hoover, but Mr. Roosevelt, at the wheel for the next four years, who will get the grief if there is tampering with the steering gear now. Some of the advance notices of the White House conference on Friday state that the two men will discuss all major and acute foreign problems except debts. That is contradictory. For better or worse, the debt issue is interwoven with the other major problems—especially with the world economic conference, tariffs, foreign trade, and disarmament. Having already agreed in the earlier Stimson conference on continuance of the far eastern policy, there is not much left for Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt to discuss in the foreign emergency if they are afraid to mention subjects which may lead to debts. There is no reason why they should exclude debts from the conversation. To be sure, they disagreed last month as to the wisdom of an immediate revival by congress of a debt commission. That was not done. It no longer is an issue. The issue now is whether the new administration will wait until March to explore the problem upon which it must negotiate with foreign governments before the summer payments are due; or whether it will use the next six weeks to start the exploratory machinery to work. The latter course—which we believe to be the only sensible one—would require the fullest and frankest debt discussion and co-operation by the President and President-elect. Mary Garden, the opera star, is going to tour a “four-a-day” vaudeville circuit. It’s haid to imagine the temperamental diva waiting in the wings for her turn between the jugglers and a jazz band. The new autos give women protection from purse snatchers and running board jumpers. But all the genius in the industry can’t keep her from, running out of gas in the good old-fashioned way.

Just Plain Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ■

T JUST have read the plea of a woman ■who expresses the truism that it is not nearly so important to give American children education as it is to give them food. “Close up the high schools,” she says, “and divert the money that goes to them for food. A hungry child needs precious little education and the three R’s will be enough for most of the well-fed ones.” This has a goodly sound, but because America is faced neither by a food nor a money famine, it is not sensible. Closing high schools would not feed children, in the first place, and it would put a vast number of people out of work and set education back so far that it would take us decades to recover the lost ground. To save the infants of this generation is not enough by half: we also must consider the sort of world we are making for those who will come in a later age. St ft St npHE facts are that literally hundreds of thousands of children are being fed right now through the medium of the public schools. All the vast forces of humanity and home are mustered solidly behind them, and if we slacken our vigilance here the entire structure of our hardly won civilization may come tumbling about our ears. And I. for one, can not agree that the three R’s constitute sufficient learning to help us in this dilemma. A bit more than reading, writing, and arithmetic now is needed. If we ever wanted education, we want it nownow more than ever before in the history of the nation. Only it can tide us over the difficulties bred of too sudden development, wastefulness, and the evils of national emotionalism. It well may be that one reason we are in our present distressful state is because public education has been close to the bottom of the list of our expenditures. Certainly if we had spent a tenth as much upon public instruction as we have wasted upon national defense that has not defended, we might be a happier and a wiser people. Before we decide to close the high schools, let’s abolish the R. O. T. C. units. Poor as some of the professors may be, they are of vastly more benefit to the children of the land than the Embryo generals.

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Jaws Growing Weaker —M. BY DAVID DIETZ _ j

BIGGER brains and weaker jaws. That seems to be the future in store for mankind, according to Dr. E. A. Hooton, professor of anthropology at Harvard university. Professor Hooton, who is author of a book on the origin of man called "Up From the Ape,” is one of the world’s chief authorities upon the subject of human evolution. Dr. Hooton recently expounded his views in an address to the students of the Harvard dental school. “Human -evolution,” he said, “is largely a matter of brain expansion and jaw reduction. It has reached a stage where we now have bigger and possibly better brains than we can use, and smaller and worse jaws than the health of the individual and the preservation of the species demand. “It is uncertain how far the irregular emotion of the teeth and jaw deformities of modern man have been caused by the loss of vigorous function and the atrophy resulting from the use of softcooked food. “One of the most important tasks of medical science is to experiment and to determine how far heredity and how far environment are at the basis of this degeneration.” st st st ’Job for Dentists Dr. HOOTON told the students that dentists were faced with the opportunity of performing an important service for mankind. “Dental degeneration is undermining the health of modern man” he said, “and the orthodontist who straightens the teeth and stimulates the jaws to proper growth and development, is perhaps the only modern scientist who definitely is combating this adverse evolutionary tendency of the human species.” Plans now are being formulated at the Harvard dental school for establishment of a research department to deal with problems of human evolution. The plans call for enlargement of the school’s facilities and endowment. A number of members of the school’s faculty are working now on problems related to the evolution of the face, jaws, and teeth of man. Prof. L. W. Baker has conducted experiments to demonstrate the influence which the functioning of the powerful muscles of the head have upon the shape of the face. He has shown how loss of teeth in growing animals, by interfering with the functioning of these muscles, affects the growth and shape of the head. He also is conducting experiments to find out how the diet of a pregnant mother influences the bones and teeth of the unborn infant. st st st Effect of Diet Professor Baker is carrying on a series of experiments based upon the work of the great eighteenth century physiologist, John Hunter. Hunter experimented with the feeding of madder, a vegetable substance •with a characteristic yellow color, to pregnant animals.

Great Stress on Heart in Pneumonia

This is the third of five special articles bv Dr. Fishbein on the nature of pneumonia. its treatment and precautions to curb its spread. PNEUMONIA sometimes begins very suddenly with a chill, pain in the chest, vomiting and coughing and difficulty in breathing. In other cases there may be fainting and weakness. In the serious stages of pneumonia, the fever may vary from 104 to 106 degrees. Because of the difficulty in getting the blood through the lung there is great stress on the heart. Furthermore, the obstruction to the circulation causes the patient to develop a blue color, which indicates that the blood passing through the lung is not receiving enough oxygen. Most people know that the usual case of uncomplicated pneumonia

What, Already?

Professor Baker has found that the feeding of this substance to the mother has an effect upon the bones and teeth of the unborn infant. This work bears out the theory, which has been advanced from time to time, that a child’s teeth are influenced by the mother’s nutrition during the time of pregnancy. Other investigations now going on at the Harvard dental school include a study of the so-called deficiency diseases, that is, diseases due to deficiencies in the diet. Professor Percy R. Howe has shown that deficient diets promote dental decay and often lead to deformations of the jaw and skull. Professor Howe also has succeeded in making clear the cause of a disease, previously recognized, but never explaind in the bones of prehistoric man, a sort of honeycombing of the bones of the skull known as “osteoporosis symmetrica.” Dr. G. P. Matthews and Dr. A. Fernald are both carrying on studies of the teeth of Eskimos. The Eskimo is believed to be the only human race in which dental degeneration is not manifest. Questions and Answers Q—Give the maiden name of Mrs. Franklin'D. Roosevelt? A—Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Q —Describe the oldest existing postage stamps and state their value? A—The 1840 issues of Great Britain, including the 1-penny black, which is cataloged at $17.50 uncanceled and $2 canceled, and the 2-pence blue, cataloged at $45 uncanceled and $5 canceled. There are a considerable number of specimens of these stamps in existence. Q —Give the area and population of Haiti? A—Area approximately 10.204 square miles .and population estimated at 2,300,200. Q —State the salary of the Governor of Arkansas? A—s6,ooo. Q —When did Thomas Hood write “The Song of a Shirt?” A—ln 1843. Q—ln which party was William H. (Coin) Harvey the presidential nominee in the last election? A.—He was the nominee of the Liberty party. Q —Who operates the .R. K. O. theaters? A—The Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation.

Daily Thought

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.—St. Matthew 21:22. st St St PRAYER flies where the eagle never flew.—Thomas Guthrie.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine.

lasts from a week to ten days and that it then may clear up by what is called a crisis; or more slowly by what physicians call lysis, or a gradual dissolving of the disease. In those cases that clear up by crisis, the patient suddenly begins to get better, and within a few hours is without high fever. He feels much better, his pulse is better, his breathing is slower, and in every way he is improved. a a a Unfortunately, the majority of cases do not clear up in this manner. One expert reports that only about one-sixth of all the cases seem recovered by crisis. In most stances the recovery is gradual. It is the belief that

Times Readers Voice Views ...

Editor Times—l am submitting a plan to end the present panic and avert all others. I suggest that the American farmer’s bushel be made the standard of exchange instead of the American dollar, having a law passed to the effect that when the American farmer’s bushel declines in price, the interest on loaned money must decline accordingly in percentage to the price per bushel. If a farmer had a loan on his farm amounting to $2,000, bearing 6 per cent annum, the interest would amount to $l2O. With corn at 15c a bushel, it would require 800 bushel to pay this interest, but if corn was 60 cents a bushel it would require only 200 bushel. We must consider these two prices as fluctuating prices. Corn declining from 60 cent to 15 cents is equal to three-quarters drop Under the proposed law, the interest would be required to drop from the standard 6 per cent rate to lVz per cent, which is equal to three-quarters drop along with the fall of corn. Instead of $l2O this same farmer would pay S3O, which is threequarters drop. With corn at 15 cents a bushel, it would require only 200 bushels. Still the farmer’s 15-cent a bushel would have the same purchasing power as the 60-cent a bushel. Loan companies would lose nothing, and the farmers still would be able to pay, increasing the business of financial institutions ten-fold and giving the farmer more time for upkeep of farm and more surplus money for improvements, ‘ increasing the value of his land. Boards of trade would be eliminated and all the costly farm boards. Overproduction would be a lost art. Finance would regulate farm prices according to the interest rate. Farmers, whisper this to your neighbor. So now let’s gc, American farmers in a crusade to end this panic and avert all others. BYRON D. CLOUSER. Colfax, Ind.

It Seems to Me .... by Heywood Broun

YUKIO OZAKI is going home to show the warlike Japanese how a pacifist can die. According to the London Daily Herald, he left England quite certain that assassination awaited him as soon as he reached his native land. Nor can it be said that he spoke without warrant, for his life has been ’thrice attempted and in the present mood of Tokio rancor boils against those who seek to criticise the army and its activities. Ozaki has been honored in the land to which he goes. He was mayor of Tokio and also a cabinet minister. In a letter to his son before he sailed he said, For a public man the best form of death is to fall victim to the cold hand of the assassin.” “Any first-class public man must be prepared,’’ he added.

recovery is due to the fact that the blood of the patient has developed the power to overcome the germ of the disease. In preventing pneumonia, it is well to bear in- mind again that contact with those who are infected is the chief source of its spread. Certainly, a baby should not be taken into a room in which someone is suffering from pneumonia. Mothers must do everything possible to prevent their children from coming in contact with other children who have running noses, coughs, colds, and sore throats. It is especially important to protect children against sharp falls in temperature, which, through centuries of experience, have been associated with the onset of fall and winter colds. NEXT—Care of the pneumonia patient.

M.E. Tracy Says:

HOARDING TO BE BOOMERANG

WE are talking too much about the eleven billion dollars which European governments owe us, and not enough about the more than 200 billion dollars which we owe each other in the form of bonds, mortgages, notes and contracts. Interest on what we owe each other now accounts for approximately one-fourth of our total income. Besides, installments on the principal must be met.

We are not paying the installments in many cases, and we are not paying the interest in some. The result is a acimite * c . ss faith in thc security and a definite restriction of crcdi*. _ disparity has arisen between the value of capital as represented by money and the value of capital as represented by land machinery. raw material, and man power. People in control of money are growing rich by the mere process ? taßdl . ng pat “ ° r think they are, while those who put their trust in real estate, manufacturing, trade, ar.d production, are growing poor. tt tt tt Hoarding to Prove a Boomerang has come to be regarded as a separable commodity, as v, s ° n \ ctldng which can be removed from the country’s economic lile and dealt in for speculative purposes by itself. That is not the function of money. Money was created to facilitate barter and exchange, to serve as an evidence of wealth, to convenience mobilization of industry. Except for the small amount of gold which is back of it, money would be valueless without the confidence which orderly progress under a firmly established government makes possible. xou can not destroy orderly progress, or even interfere with it to any great extent, and maintain the value of money. Hoarding save where gold is concerned, ultimately will prove a boomerang. When it comes to a showdown, real wealth, whether of men or nations, consists of raw material and what can be done with it. of production as based on consumption, of consumption as made possible through mass buying power. n n n Sources of Wealth Arc Withering Ti/TONEY was not intended for people to play with or hide in the ground, it is not a private institution, but a vehicle bv which private enterprise can be assisted and stimulated. Because of its general use and seemingly unshakable value people have come to regard it as all-powerful by itself. Thousands lock upon the inordinate rise of money and the inordinate shrinkage of property and earning power as a’great blessing. pmn'Avm a J e W J° n ,f Low wagcs and low Prices, not to mention unemployment and idle mills, slowly are withering our sources of wealth _ Up A° tmic ’ we llave suffered little, except the distress which goes with throwing a fourth of our able-bodied workers off the payroll and depriving an incalculanie number of their homes. Up to this time we have seen little, except a slow change of ownership at the expense of many and In favor of a few. But all the while our power to produce, buy, and consume is dwindling.

! Every Day Religion

BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

HERE are words written by a woman 76 years old, which we may well frame and hang up in our minds: “I rejoice in my life because the lamp still glows; I seek no thorny ways; I love the small pleasures of life. If doors are too low, I bend; if I can remove a stone from the path, I do so; if it is too heavy, I go round it, and so I find something in every day that pleases me. And the cornerstone, my belief in God, makes my heart glad and my face shining.” They are the words of Frau Goethe, or Frau Aja, as her friends called her, because, like the sister of Charlemagne, she knew how to pour out the rich wine of life. At 17 she was the wife of a sedate, severe lawyer of 38, and she had her share of the griefs and ills which fall to our human lot. Her husband lost his mind, lay an invalid for two years, and she was left a widow for thirteen years —yet her spirit was not broken nor did her spring of joy fail. st st st OF her six children, three died in infancy and she lost her only daughter in mid-life. Soldiers were quartered in her home for months at a time, first French and then German; and she endured bombardment when the city of Frankfurt was shelled—fleeing for her life. Yet, through all the ups and downs of the years, in war and in peace, in illness and in health, her simple faith held, and she came to a bright old age, happy and unbowed, busy to the end in the fine art of making others happy. She loved play and knew how to invent new games. She had a genius for making up stories—now weird, now fantastic, now fairylike—and in narrating them.

Short Journey Home YUKIO OZAKI walks the deck of a steamer and gazes across the sea to that horizon which presently will be smudged with the first dim outline of the island empire. He will watch the magic mountain thrust up its coneshaped head as the rocky coast takes on shape and color. And he will see that Japan which he has love spread before him and find it good. For it is not within the scope of his plan to seek his rendezvous sorrowfully or to make the tryst as any gesture of negation or despair. He merely adds the necessary last page. Yukio Ozaki is 73, and before he left the safety of London’s friendly fog, he said that, in his memoirs, “which I leave in lieu of a gravestone, I have stated the guiding principles of a second reformation of Japan.” The assassin probably will be quite unaware of the fact that in delivering the final stroke he himself is setting the seal of sincerity upon the book. Upon many occasions men of blunted vision have made the same mistake. In the effort to stamp out a messenger they have succeeded in sending his message thundering across the world. And Ozaki well may believe that his own death by violence will prove the crowning argument in his long protest against a warlike Japan. As long ago as 1920 he made a speech in the diet against his nation’s militarism and said: “Only by its overthrow can the good repute of Japan in the world be restored to its former lustre.” a a a Little Men, Big Swords SURELY no man with a dagger is competent to destroy the truth of this assertion. Indeed, it is the men with swords who invariably clinch the argument against which they think they fight. It is curious that the world is so slow to grasp the aggressive quality of the pacifist principle.

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TRACY

This gift she passed on to her oldest son, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a name more highly honored by the German people than any other; a myriad-minded genius. If great men always have great mothers, we know one secret of the greatness of Gothe. If now we read her words again, taking her creed item by item, surely we can not ask for a finer recipe for happiness. No wonder her home was always thronged with youth, because her heart was always young. (Copyright, 1333. United Features Syndicate 1

So They Say

IT is necessary to subordinate science to the moral and social development of man.—Premier Joseph Caillaux of France. tt a tt Technocracy concurs with those leaders who, to quote from their statement, "put their faith in the machine age,” because that is exactly where technocracy's faith lies—in the machine under proper control.— Howard Scott, sponsor and chief exponent of technocracy . tt tt tt A HUNGRY man never is rational toward the life of the community or toward his own life. Therefore, it is the business of government to make those adjustments which guarantee to every man the right to live as a normal human being.—Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana. tt tt THERE is no one of us so poorly equipped but that he can do something well.—John J. Garvey, New York educator.

Most men seem to think of it as mere negation and surrender. Causes built upon the words of non-resident leaders have swept the world. Indeed, the first sign of their decline has been the day when these causes themselves became coercive. Christianity, for instance, was betrayed by those later Peters who took up the sword. Yukio Ozaki. 73 years old and holder of no governmental office, now can, by his steadfastness, move the minds of his countrymen far more than when he sat in power. Human nature sweeps along beyond artificial geographical and political barriers, and there has been no nation which could fail to be moved by the man who says, “This I believe, and this I say, though you slay me.” tt tt a Within Our Instinct EVEN the sects which scoff at pacificism frequently have been moved to employ its tactics. Any good Communist will tell you that Gandhi is a sentimental visionary, whose leadership has impeded real and successful revolution in India. And yet that same good Communist will point with pride to the fact that the hunger marchers in Washington stood their ground and raised no aggressive hand when the police taunted them and tried to lure them into a bloody brawl. Not only is it human nature, but throughout the animal kingdom a check can be put upon the aggressor by those who neither fly nor fight, but stand their ground. Yukio Ozaki was the donor of the cherry trees which line the Potomac driveway, at Washington, and when spring comes ‘round the blossoms may tell the story of a new day for Japan. And it will be the day of the statesman who believed in the preparedness of unconquerable human spirit. iCoDinght. 1833. by Tlie Times)