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MONDAY. FEB 20. 1933

FINANCING TAXES Many citizens will find it difficult to pay their taxes this spring. Many may lose their homes or their farms unless relief is given. Joseph Cain, a deputy treasurer, has brought forward a plan by which they will have another chance. He would authorize the acceptance of notes on which bonds could be sold, the notes to be paid in installments over the next ten years. Many organizations favor the plan. It recognizes the need of money for government. It is based on the belief that there is money seeking investment in safe enterprises. It would solve the problem of delinquencies, if it works. The only obstacle would seem to be the possible inability of officials to sell bonds upon such tax notes. Backers of the plan state that they have assurances that there will be no difficulty in this matter. If that be the situation, the plan should be given a trial. These are unusual times. The state and county and cities must have money for necessary services. The people who have been thrifty in the past now find themselves in trouble and many will lose their savings of a lifetime, as represented !h homes and In farms. Any plan that will solve both problems at once deserves consideration. TIIE REPEAL CONVENTION Now that it is certain that the question of repealing the eighteenth amendment will be put up to conventions whose membership will be elected for the sole purpose of passing on the matter, the question of method of selection of delegates is important. * This convention should have no more power than Ithe electoral college. It will meet to do just one 'thing. Its delegates should have no judgment of their own after the people speak. Since the convention will speak for all of Indiana, the delegates should represent all of Indiana. There must be no chance of misrepresentation through division into districts under which it might be possible for a majority of the popular vote to be overthrown by geographical injustices. The people should vote as a state on all the delegates to that convention. Preferably they should have the chance to vote direct for or against repeal with state officials charged with the duty of recording that decision. There should be no gerrymanders and no jockeying. The majority decision must be translated with little cost and be final. Neither wets nor drys should be permitted to inject smart practices or trickery. Here is one question on which the people must rule. HUNGER RELIEF QUICKLY The long fight for direct federal unemployment relief apparently is almost won in congress. In the senate, which votes today, the issue has ceased to be relief versus no relief. Many who opposed federal aid a year ago now are its champions. Testimony from city officials and social workers all over the country, as to inadequacy of private and local relief funds, has revealed that only federal money can prevent widespread starvation. The senate will choose today between two methods, one proposed by the La Follette-Costigan bill and the other by the Wagner bill, which has been offered as a substitute for the former measure. Both include a $15,000,000 fund for the care of transients, under a much more intelligent and economical civilian plan than the $22,000,000 military camp appropriation now held up in a senate-house conference. Both the La Follette-Costigan and Wagner plans also include the same liberalization of construction loans by “the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to combat unemployment. Important differences exist, however, in the terms of direct hunger relief. Senator Wagner would have the R. F. C. loan to states an additional $300,000,000 for that purpose. The La FolletteCostigan bill would make an outright grant to the states of $500,000,000 through anew federal emergency relief board. On each of the three points of disagreement, it seems to us, the La Follette-Costigan plan is preferable. Direct grants are better than loans; because many, if not most, of the states and municipalities have exhausted their actual borrowing capacity, and justice requires that the national government carry part of the burden of a problem which is national in origin and scope. Tlie job can not be done with $300.0004000, perhaps not even with $500,000,000. The R. F. C.— busy with other duties—has been neither efficient nor sympathetic in administering relief funds during the last year; certainly a specialized and expert board could get more and better results with the relief fund. With the senate expected to pass a hunger relief bill this afternoon, the Democratic house should be prepared to add its approval so the measure can be speeded to the White House. Despite the misgivings of relief advocates, we can not believe th.vt President Hoover will be cruel enough to block relief by withholding his signature MR. YOUNG’S REFORMS No one can quarrel with the utility industry reforms proposed at the Insull hearings by Owen D. Young. He is quite right when he says corporate structures should be simplified so that not more than one holding company is imposed on operating companies, and that operating companies should make no more loans to the holding companies above them. These reforms should be put into effect. But the fact that Mr. Young proposes them should not mislead any one regarding the probability of speedy accomplishment unless the federal government takes a hand in the matter. Every naughty child about to take a spanking would prefer to get off with a promise of future reform. And this does not mean that Mr. Young’s own intentions in the matter are not perfectly sincere. If the new administration is content to hold federal regulation of holding companies in abeyance while attempts are made at self-reform, more .insult tragedies almost certainly will occur. More

homes will be desolated by loss of their savings, while men at the top deplore conditions and promise to do better as soon as business conditions warrant. Holding companies were venerated a few years ago as a necessary means of cheap super-power operation. Greater efficiency was promised, cheaper money for subsidiaries, greater safety in investments. Instead, the federal trade commission, comparing promises with actual practices, has discovered that holding companies are little more than a device for bleeding the rate-paying public of more money. They Join together widely scattered properties instead of building q, unified system of interconnecting power lines. They borrow money at 4 per cent and loan it to their subsidiaries at 6 per cent. They borrow back the money from the subsidiaries and pay only 4 per cent. They issue securities so attenuated—with so little actual relation to the operating companies at the base of the structure—that the slightest drop in annual revenues makes them worthless. Through the device of collecting large fees for alleged services to their subsidiaries, they drain off millions of dollars of money which is not a necessary part of operating costs of operating companies. In many cases, one company is paying a fee greater than the cost of rendering services to an entire utility system. Mr. Young did not propose putting an end to the fee system, nor has any other spokesman for the utility financiers. The investing public and the rate-paying public will be guilty of ridiculous folly if they permit promises of half-way, futiire reforms to divert them from the very real need of government intervention at the present time. OBSCENE CENSORS So long as congress insists on giving customs officials the power of censorship, petty bureaucrats w r ill make fools of themselves and of the country by declaring great works of art obscene. Obscenity is a state of mind. It can be found in the works of Michelangelo or any other place provided it already is in the mind of the snooper. Os course, W'hen the censor belatedly discovers that he has picked on ancient works of art sanctified by centuries ox acceptance at the Vatican, he at once retreats. That explains the sudden reversal of policy of the assistant collector of customs at New York after barring photographs of the famous Sistine chapel frescoes. Whether the original obscenity in the mind of the censor is worse than the fawning attitude toward established institutions is a question. But both attitudes are typical. The danger in our customs censorship is not that the classics of art and literature will be shut out. Public ridicule and pressure from influential interests always get the ban on classics lifted. But current art and literature are not so lucky. The censor w'ho thinks that Michelangelo is smut and Voltaire a bomb thrower can. be depended upon to keep out of the country the contemporary products of advanced foreign artists and thinkers. It does not help to curse the censor. What is a censor for? Until we abolish censorship l/ws, we shall have bad censorship. ‘ Make people smile again,” is one of Bernard Baruch's suggestions for combating the depression. Maybe somebody ought to hitch a horse to an automobile. Michigan's Governor issued a proclamation to prevent banks from opening. In some states the Governors might try proclamations to prevent them from closing. Secretary Wilbur says the government has turned to science to solve the Indian problem. If the scientists can explain how 1,000 acres in Manhattan are worth a pint of whisky, we’ll buy a copy of their report. The senate probably agrees that brevity is. the soul of wit after hearing Huey Long. A New York customs inspector was shocked at a photograph of one of Michelangc-o’s sacred paintings. If that had been a modern painting it might have passed without question—no customs inspector could understand it.

Just Plain Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

■pvOWN upon my poor head comes a deluge of protests that women who insist that keeping a husband means eternal vigilance and a perpetual fight. The funny thing about them is that nearly all admit before they finish that, although the battles have been valiant, they seldom have been won. Heading between the lines, one sees that the harder the struggle has been, the surer it is that friend husband will walk off on the last page. So I come right around to my original contention —the guy w,ho has to be guarded from temptation like an orchid from the wintry blast might as well be thrown out in the first place. Like the orchid, he will fail you sooner or later. Hefice, all the hard fighting will be for nothing. Think of the wasted effort expended by these poor girls and women who have deluded themselves into thinking that one can keep a husband as one holds a poodle on a chain, or that true love must depend upon blandishments, fulsome flatteries, and vulgar allurementsa tt a I'D HATE to think that American manhood had dropped to such new low- levels. I still believe that men are more valuable than their stocks and bonds and a little more dependable. Women take love too seriously. That's the trouble. For years we had nothing sensible to put our minds on. We passed through a period of luxurious leisure in which we had to entertain ourselves hiring gigolos and got nervous prostration playing bridge. We did not all do this, of course—but those who did set the standards for those of s who did not. Gradually we came to put entire * oo much importance on the sex side of marriage. And most of the time we didn’t know exactly what we were talking about. The majority of us don't yet know what true sexual mating means. We confuse it with sentimentality. • And so in too many instances we have cut ourselves off from reality and have not cultivated the true loyalties that can hold men. For the decent virtues we substituted cheap tricks. For the warming, wholesom •, stable qualities that have been our heritage through the ages, we have set up flimsy, trivial, and impermanent lures which can not and never will attract enduring love. May it not be possible that men, even our husbands, sometimes hold us cheaply because we have made ourselves cheap?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

r\ jOu /hang it- i\ / DON'T SEEM N jTO BE AQC£ 1 //>.|lt \V-~- ' qET ANYTHING /

It Seems to Me • . . . by Heywood Broun

ONCE upon a time—perhaps it was in the future rather than in the past—the three heads of government finance of. England and America and France got together and decided that the method of storing gold in some urban sub-cellar was cumbersome and in certain circumstances even dangerous. They decided to take the gold supply of the three nations to a lonely island in the middle of the Pacific. There it was stored under a small guard. Not much protection w r as needed, since only the head men and the guards were informed as to the plan and the location of the island. The island was equipped with a radio receiving set, but it had no means of sending messages. For ten years everything proceeded tranquilly enough. International obligatiotns were satisfied by the simple device of sending a wireless saying. ‘‘Earmark nineteen million of the French gold for the United States,” or vice versa. At the end of ten years the three financial heads decided to look in on the island to see how things were getting along. They just wanted to be on the safe side. A fast cruiser under sealed orders transported them to the spot.. But there was no island. Some disturbance at the bottom of the seas had sucked down the little coral eminence, and with it went the gold supply of three great nations. tt tt u Tale of Lost Island TWO of the financiers were aghast. ‘‘Woe is me!” said one, and the other exclaimed, ‘‘his is the greatest tragedy in the history of civilization!” But the eldest of the trio was not much perturbed. He paid a passing, though rather perfunctory, tribute to the unfortunate guards who had died at their post, but he went on to say, “’The gold that is gone is nothing.” His companions looked at him with incredulity. ‘‘But how is international trade to go on?” they asked. ‘‘Just as before,” he answered. “'We can still send wireless messages and order earmarking. Who will be the wiser?” I will confess that I borrowed the anecdote from Morris L. Ernst, and that I doubt that the incident ever occurred, and yet it is basically a true story. The sanctity of the gold standard is largely a state of mind rather than a state of matter. Os course, the economists have pointed out that the supply of the metal is somewhat limited, and that the rate of new production varies only slightly. Still, there is no sure guarantee that an even greater Klondike might not be discovered suddenly some fine afternoon and vitally change that situation. a tt The Radium Standard 'T'HE supply of radium is even A more limited and unvarying. sfou could base a currency on that or on brass or copper or bushels of wheat. There are arguments against any such basis and quite a good deal to be said in favor of gold, but it is foolish to get in

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE = Outdoor Life Is Not a Cure-All ======================== BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ....

This is the second of two articles by Dr. Fishbem on the eflects of atmospheric conditions on health. nnHE increasing emphasis on the value of an outdoor life is pointed out by authorities in concluding f heir consideration of the effects of atmospheric conditions on health. There seems to be no question that under favorable weather conditions living out of doors is more healthful than living indoors. Children who live under tents, as in summer camps under good conditions, usually gain in weight and improve in health and growth. Even the best mechanical systems of air conditioning do not equal the qualities of outdoor air on an ideal day. On the other hand, mechanical systems and air conditioners must be of yalue in crowded places, • . ..

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the frame of mind of certain statesmen who speak as if the gold standard were something like the Ark of the Covenant. President Hoover during the last campaign said with bated breath in the course of a speech that at one time we were within two weeks of going off the gold standard. And he said it as one might explain that we had missed,collision with a comet by a space of sixteen inches. There were some stalwarts in this country who seemed surprised that Englishmen did not immediately begin to paint themselves blue and return to Druid rites the instant that Great Britain went off the gold standard, but, as a matter of fact, there is no wellauthenticated report that any such thing has happened. The trouble with American psychology in the matter is that it has been influenced vastly by the campaign of 1896, which occurred when so many of us were in our formative and impressionable years. a tt n Gold and Silver Bugs IWAS not old enough to vote then, but the echoes of the fight came to my ears. Mark Hanna was shrewd enough to

Every Day Religion ========= BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

A YOUNG minister writes: ‘‘ls -UA God our Father? The vast universe makes it easy to say ‘God,’ but so hard to say ‘Our Father’. The moment I come out of my snug little self and look upon the world about me, the word Father freezes on my lips.” Such is the conflict between the warm faiths of the heart and the cold facis of life; but it is wisest to believe the best and obey it. When William Black, the novelist, was about to sail from New York to England, a man rushed on board with a basket of flowers in his hand. He explained to Black how on his last voyage his little girl had died and had to be buried at sea. He asked the novelist if he would be so kind as to take the flowers and scatter them upon the waves when he passed over a certain latitude. Os course Black promised to do so, and very early one morning, when it still was dark, he stood on deck under the stars and dropped the fadded flowers upon the vast and wandering grave of a little girl. That was fatherhood, tender and tenacious, reaching out after a little one through the darkness and the distance. tt tt tt THE first child of James Martineau died in infancy and was buried in the French cemetery in Dublin. Years passed and the mother died, leaving the father to walk alone. At the age of 87, the father was again in Dublin, a guest of the university, and one day the lonely old man stole away to stand once more beside the grave of his baby boy. No one else recalled that the

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyreia, the Health Magazine. factories, workrooms, motion picture houses and similar places. Frequently such systems constitute the only means by which a sufficient amount of good, pure air can be had. In guarding against cold, most people overheat the rooms in which they work and, even worse, create an atmosphere so dry as to bring about serious changes in the mucous membrane of the nose and throat. a a a THE open air treatment of pneumonia and of tuberculosis has led some people into the belief that outdoor air is a cure for all sorts of diseases. In some parts of the country children ar& heavily clothed and exposed to wtreme cold, with the belie! that me breathing 0! the

turn an economic issue into a moral one. I was convinced firmly that the half dollar which my father had would be changed overnight mto a quarter and that my own rime would become a nickel if Bryan were elected. Men who wore the emblem of a little silver bug upon their coat lapels seemed to me no better than pickpockets. And there are still men thinking and talking along the same lines. It may be highly inexpedient to go off the gold standard, but if occasion arises we can do so without sin. Strangely enough, some of the most ardent supporters of gold and nothing but gold are doing their best to make its maintenance impossible. If we succeeded in collecting every last penny of the war debts, we would have just about all the gold in the world. We then would be the only country on that standard, and our supply of the metal would be useful only for gilding picture frames, making anklets for chorus girls, and cases for watches. Personally, I’m not going to grow passionate in favor of the gold standard until somebody devises a way in which it can be eaten. (CoDvrieht. 1933. bv The Times)

little one ever had lived, but the father did not forget. Just so, said Jesus, if we, being imperfect, know such unforgetting love, how much more will “your Father in heaven” remember. Such love is here in the human heart; it must be in the heart of life itself, despite its appalling tragedies. If the highest is false, nothing else is true. Such is the profound basis of our holiest faith. Otherwise, as one has put it, what we value most is at the mercy of what we value least, and chaos is the crown of cosmos—but that way madness lies. (CojjyriKht. 1933. United Features Syndicate. Inc.)

So They Say

The man who will serve you against his convictions will serve you falsely in the end.—David S. Barry, former Senate sergeant-at-arms, discharged for saying some members of congress are oribe takers. The most confounded surplus we have is of mossbacked philosophers who say you can’t do anything.—Louis J. Taber, head "of the National Grange. Men may stake their lives for money bu there are no ideal forces behind the League ot Nations to kindle the sacred flame of enthusiasm.—General Hans von Seeckt, former commander-in-chief of the Republican army.

cold, outdoor air is beneficial to their health. There is evidence that such exposure actually is beneficial, and two British investigators found that the efficiency of children attending unheated, open-air schools was about one-half that of children in ordinary heated schools. From the scientific point of view, it is extremely difficult to separate the effects of other factors, such as good nutrition, rest, proper medical care and attention from the effects of climate and exposure. Moreover, few, if any, children remain with exactly the same temperature conditions over a period of twenty-four hours, changing constantly from school to home to outdoors and to other places. For this reason the question is one of the most difficult that scientific medicine is t%ing to answer.

M. E. Tracy Says:

EFFICIENCY HEATS US DOWN

ACCORDING to Dr. Francis M Pottcngcr, retiring president of the American College of Physicians, long life has become a curse rather than a blessing to many people. Though privileged to continue their mortal existence, they find themselves cast aside by industry. The same science which has helped them in a medical way has hurt them in an economic way. and, like many of their younger comrades, they find themselves victimized by the craze for efficiency.

The idea that anything we can do is worth doing and that doing it quickly always is desirable has come to be a world-wide obsession. \ve have abandoned all thought of philosophy to become better mechanics. whether in the operating room or the bakery. Life well nigh has lost its meaning, save as it can be translated by seme kind of a machine. We are ready not only to employ, but to preserve, the soulless creatures of scionce, regardless of uhat thev cost in life, hope or happiness. tt a tt U e H ant Everything New , Big, Complicated HPHE fact that joy-riding taxes a toll of from 25 to 30 thousand h'es each year does not appeal to us as of great importance. Neither does the fact that we have developed an economic and social structure winch deprives millions of people of their right to think and live like normal human beings. Because it is new, big, complicated and fascinating, we assume that it must be in line with the basic principles of progress. We assume that a life of 100 years is bound to be better than one of 75 just as we assume that a fifty-story building is bound to be better than one of forty. We assume that people are bound to become more intelligent if they can tra\el at the rate of forty-five miles an hour instead of five even though the slower pace enables them to see more. Material standards not only have taken the place of moral conceptions, but belief in quantity has been substituted for belief in quality. During the last century, civilization has changed its base from one of ideals to one of numbers. The present theory is’ that we can prove the worth of anything by counting noses, dollars, or some other kind of units. a tt u Value of Life Itself Is Measured \ TOWN is regarded as backward if it fails to grow in population a 1 A. business as in the decline if it fails to show an increased volume each year, a career as unsuccessful if its fails to produce a bigger and bigger money return. The value of life itself has come to be rated in the same stark teims. W e pay so much in case of death, so much for the lass of an eye, and so much for an accident resulting in paralysis We even have tried to reduce the advantage of'a college education to terms of money, and to measure art by the number of dollars a given painting, song, play or exhibition will bring. To sum it all up. our prevailing thought is to get as much at possible out of life, not through menial or spiritual growth, but by piling up goid, brick or machinery for other people to look at. B , . Th ® ?‘ e^ ult , 1S , ai \ unintelligent craze for imitation and a startling Jf r c * °f. development. We are doing a wonderful job in production of commonplace comforts and conveniences, but it vS most SSS!s effeCt 1S a tendency to be satis fied with commonplace per-

grTvvrv We Pioneer Again BY DAVID DIETZ

AS a nation we have enbarked on anew period of pioneering. So says Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior in President Hoover’s cabinet. It is in the fields of science and education that the pioneer work must be done today, he believes. “Our nation’s frontier was dissolved in the Pacific and reappeared in the laboratory and on the school playground,” he says. The United States Department of Interior has been working to do its part in this new pioneering, which he says, “means the wisest use of what we have, instead of the conquest of new lands, new timber, and new minerals.” “Our people are in the process of adapting themselves to a continent,” he adds. Commenting upon the importance of scientific work by the government at this time, Dr. Wilbur points out that science guides much of the work of his department. “To an increasing degree, science definitely has become associated with developmnt and functions of government,” he says. “This is the age of democracy and science.” tt tt a Need, for Research “r-pHIS is the day of the exJL pert,” Dr. Wilbur continues. “The man who knows must be recognized and used. “In the fields of science, the experts can be trained and developed, but such experts require opportunty for long years of study and they need constant exposure to those who are devoting their lives to research. In fact, our progress in our modern evilization is going to depend upon the experimental method rather than upon catchwords, or the persistent broadcasting of untried ideas. “So close today is the link between science and its laboratories and the government that we can measure the progress of a civilization by its economic capacity to support laboratories and by the quality of the intellects brought in to them.” Dr. Wilbur points out that prior to the depression there had been a fortunate tendency to increase the amount of fundamental research in government laboratories. This is research devoted not toward the solution of some specific engineering problem, but toward the discovery of underlying scientific truths. He points out that in the long run it is this type of research, which by discovering new facts, leads in the end to the greatest application. He urges that researches of this sort be continued. “It is important for the modern democracy to set up its relationships to science from the standpoint of the budget in such way that funds will not be tagged for specific purposes,”, he says. “Funds should be made available for securing the best brains possible, and for the facilities that they require to pursue the unknown.” tt tt tt Science and Government WHILE a great amount of scientific research is carried on by universities and large industrial concerns, Dr. Wilbur does not believe that this can take the place of governmental research. “Science and government are related so closely that government itself must ma’ 2 liberal grants for investigation and research,” he says. "In the new world’s civilization, which now is a world-wide structure, interlocked economically and with all kinds of inter-rela-tions and intercommunications, there is anew conception.of world citizenship developed. “Truth discovered by the citizen of any country readily can become the property of all. A democracy which is not seeking for new tritth and new facts no longer can con--17-' . ' ... V: ’■ • * •}

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sider itself safe in this world of harsh reality, where facts determine the issue. These facts, applied either to industry or to national defense, determine not only progress, but safety. Our civilization is being made over right before our eyes, under the stimulation of the forces set loose by discovery, research, and invention. Our viewpoints rapidly are changing. Old assumptions, theories and dogmas rapidly are being pushed out of our minds. “In this period of mental ferment, shams have been exposed, the taboos of centuries released, and much has been brought up for ' discussion which was considered settled by our forefathers.” ext —Scientific work of the Department of the Interior.

Daily Thought

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.— Proverbs 20:5. An honest man’s the noblest work of God.—Pope. Questions and Answers Q—Have the salaries of United States senators and representatives been reduced under the economy act? A—Yes, from SIO,OOO to $9,000. Q —How tall is Morton Downey? How much does he weigh? A He is 5 feet 9Vi inches and weighs 168 pounds. Q —How many dogs are there in the United States? A—Estimated from reliable sources place the number at 8,000,000. Q—Are coastitutional amendments submitted to the President for approval? A—No; they go direct from congress to the states for ratification. Q —How large is the membership of the Roman Catholic church in the United States? A—18,601,003. Q—Which country in the world is populated most densely? A—lndia. Q —Did the Democrats have a majority in both houses of congress when the United States declared war on Germany? A—Yes. Q —Are soldiers and sailors allowed to vote? A—ln some states they can and in others they can not. Q—How much frontage has the port of New York? A—lt has 771 miles of direct water frontage and 346.5 miles of developed frontage, measured around piers and the heads of ships. Total frontage measured around piers and along the shore line is 994.8 miles. Q—Name the architect who designed the Washington monument in the District of Columbia? A—Robert Mills. Q —Was Robert Fulton’s “Clarmont” the first steamboat? A—James Rumsey Invented a steamboat twenty years before Fulton launched the Clermont.” Q—Name the national legal . holidays prescribed by congress? A—Congress has no constitutional power to prescribe legal holidays outside of the District of Columbia and the federal territories.