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THURSDAY, BEPTEMBER 3, 19386.

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

“GOING TO THE DOGS” EGARDLESS of political argument about

recovery, it would take an extremely

bearish pessimist to fail to recognize the steady upward surge of business in Indiana |

and Indianapolis. The figures for the first eight months of 1936, compared with the same period last year, tell the story in Indianapolis: This year, 229 building permits for homes, costing $1,628,035;

. This year, 900 deed transfers; last year, 728.

An increase of 4280 in the number of elec-

tric light customers. About 4600 more telephones

= not solved unemployment,

An increase of 1400 water users.

This year, 43,670,744 Indianapolis Railway Co. passengers; last year, 39,520,351.

This year,

_ Marion County; last year, 11,154.

State gasoline tax receipts are up $1,445,947.

~ Indiana farm income will be higher this year,

. despite the drought, = Relief rolls are down. . more moving pictures,

because of better prices. Hoosiers are seeing “eating out” more at

i restaurants and doing other things that indi- ~ cate they have more spending money.

Even those in Indiana who give the New

" Deal no credit for recovery can hardly be-

~ lieve the cry that “Roosevelt is ruining busi-"

~~ ness” or that “the country is going to the = dogs. 23 i:

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CANDIDATE MEETS CANDIDATE

ODAY Candidate Landon and Candidate ‘Roosevelt sit down in Des Moines to discuss what to do to make the great plains happier and more prosperous country. Others will be there, but these lesser Governors and Senators will do most of the listen-would-be-President and the would-continue-to-be-President do most of the talking. Now if it were just a case of Citizen Landon and Citizen Roosevelt meeting—and having at their beck and call a staff of experts who know all that is known about climates and soils, etc. —they doubtless could decide in short order

_ whatiprogram should be undertaken for th:

reconstruction of the great plains. It wouldn't take them lghg to agree on how to go about building reservoirs, planting trees, regrassing

~ land that should never have been plowed, mov-

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ing families to land which can be made to yield a livelihood, and otherwise meeting the threat ‘of ‘a desertSon the march. And, in view of the limited tax resources, deciding how fast the program should be prosecuted. But Candidate Landon and Candidate Roosevelt will, unavoidably, be thinking about many things other than drought and -erosion

‘and rainfall and underground water tables.

They meet not in an atmosphere of consultation, but one of drama, and their conversation is almost certain to be tinged by considerations of who will get credit for what and how to stora up reservoirs of political capital and drain off lakes of November votes.

This being true, there is but one foregone conclusion to this conference—and that is that there will be two sides to the story of what happened behind closed doors.

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THE GREAT PLAINS

NHE spirit that settled the Great Plains, President Roosevelt finds, will ke it settled. ‘Talking with the drought-stricken farmers in North Dakota he discovered that they have their “chins up.” They will not migrate in great numbers to suffer new heartbreaks in overcrowded cities and states. They will stay "The land their fathers and grandfathers staked out and put to the plow

~ has failed them this year, as it has in many a

year in the past. Buf it need not fail them

~ always,

To make it permanently habitable, however, requires the help of in#elligent government.

President Roosevelt's Great Plains Drought |

Committee has outlined this three-point relief program: Immediate cash relief through loans and jobs; assistance to carry the farmers through next winter and plant new crops in the

. “spring; the combined resources of Federal, state = and local agencies to reduce the future drought

hazards through a long-range plan of ‘“cooperating with nature, instead of bucking it.”

The Tast proposal is the most important and mest difficult. It means widespread land zoning, the permanent abandonment of certain regions, soil erosion control, dam-building, re-

+ planting of trees and grass, credit adjustments,

- once bore lush prairie grass. - hazard and planless exploitation of our basic

possibly crop insurance—in short a planned agriculture, The rugged individualism that conquered the plains must give way to rugged co-operation to save them. The drought has brought hardship, ruin, discouragement and private and public debt. But it has preached a great lesson to the United States. Just as we may find “books in

. rurning brooks, sermons in stones,” so we may

learn from the parched reaches and ‘dust storms of the West. The lesson is as plain as the gaunt gulleys and seared stretches that It is that hap-

resource, the land, should never have been permitted and can not longer be. “We endanger our democracy,” reports the " at's committee, “if we allow the Great

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last year, 81 permits total- |

in the city, ; 12,500 more in the state, than a year ago. A steady month-by-month increase in em- | ployment and pay rolls, although this has |

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AYOR KERN and Chief Morrissey acted intelligently in inviting Lieut. Prank M. Kreml, nationally’ known accident prevention

expert of Purdue University, to survey the In- |

dianapolis traffic problem in an effort to

Sort eH owar] Hews | reduce the hign automobile death rate.

Most of the cities that have cut their accident tolls have done so by employing experts to analyze trafic hazards and work out a safety program... Lieut. Krem!l has done this job with distinct suctess” in Evanston, II, Louisville and some other cities. There is reason to think he could repeat it here.

“INDIANA JOURNEY”

NDIANA is the sum of its” parts, Yet how they differ!” Frederick Simpich thus sums up—in a 65page illustrated article in the September National Geographic Magazine—the dramatically varied panorama of city and country life, of modern industry and historic shrines, that he found on a 6500-mile tour of Indiana. “From atop a high building,” he writes, “you see glittering Indianapolis spread over the prairie. Nebuchadnezzar, who viewed Babylon from his flat-roofed palace, would enjoy the picture here, with its temples, shrines, monuments and tree-lined avenues. . . .” The author tells of hustling factory towns and Sleepy Hollows of rural counties, of the five-block World War Memorial in Indianapolis and “country folk who insisted that marriage on Saturday brought bad luck”; swanky resorts and free parks; some Ohio River towns “where the ante-bellum spirit survives” and Indianapolis “with all its 840 factories and its literary leadership.” Mr. Simpich has written a colorful story of Indiana—science and scenéry, farm, factory and mining towns, education and reaction, histery and literature,

BACK TO NRA? F== some time we have suspected that a lot of business men, big and little, are no

; | longer happy over th = 15,186 new cars registered in | Pp) e Supreme Court's crack

down on NRA. Comes now the Chamber of Commerce of the United States with al set of principles that has a distinct note of regret. One relates to “rules of fair competition.” “Each industry,” it says, “should be permitted to formulate and put into effect rules. of fair competition which receive governmental approval. A governmental agency, named by the President, should have only the power of approval or veto of such rules, without power of modification or imposition bit: with power to indicate conditions of approval.” Another plank asks modification of the anti-trust laws to “permit agreements increasing the possibilities of keeping production related to consumption.” But “Federal control of production in private enterprise is indefensible and against public interest.” Now, it will be recalled that this program was much desired by certain business interests long before NRA. And, with three exceptions, it was practically what business got under NRA. The exceptions were: Maximum hoyrs and minimum wages for labor, Section 7-A, giving workers the right; ito bargain collectively with their employers, and. consumer representation. The anti-trust fawe’ were suspended. And industry wrote practically all of the 500 codes adopted in “that hectic time between June, 1933, and May, 1935. The government objected to some of the codes and changed a few, but it imposed no government-made code upon any industry. Outside of the labor provisions and the few gestures made in behalf of the consumers, NRA was industry’s own party. If the United States Chamber wants NRA back strictly on its own!terms it is crying for the moon. No government would risk such danger of uncontrolled monopoly. What puzzles us is that so many of the Chamber's big business leaders who want another NRA are eulpgizing the Supreme Court that took the old one away ‘and attacking the New Deal that gave it to them.

ROOSEVELT AND THE RICH

O. P. Broadcaster William Hard gleefuliy announces a list of 40 wealthy men who are supporters and contributing to the campaign for/ President Roosevelt's re-election. Among them are some of the nation’s leading bankers, shipping meh, railroaders,” auto manufacturers and retailers. : While sneeringly referring to these rich men as “economic royalists,” “money changers” and members of “well-stocked clubs,” Mr. Hard does an unwitting service to his United States, For he dispels the dangerous fiction, so shrilly proclaimed by some Republicans, that the present campaign is a class war with Gov. Landon defending the! capitalist system and the New Dealers attacking it. : Would R. C..Leftingwell and 8S. Parker Gilbert of the House of Morgan support Roosevelt if they thought he was an enemy of the present order? Would Shipmasters Adolph Garni, Basil Harris, Kletus Keating and P. A. S. Franklin contribute to the downfall of the profit system? Would Railroaders Arthur Curtis James, William XK. Vanderbilt and F. I.

Prince align themselves with a radical cause?

Or auto-builders Walter Chrysler aud Victor Bendix? Or Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co.? Or Cyrus McCormick? Or Vincent Astor? ! : : Not a few business men are convinced ‘that the real enemies of capitalism are thoss who blindly demand that government take hands off and let things drift. What power but that of government, these thoughtful business men are asking, can, prevent another drunken get-rich-quick orgy that led to the woes of 1929 and after? , How can capitalism itseit survive, they wonder, if the masses—their chief market— are paupecrizecs Are not many of the:e

- New Deal measures for the security of the

people and tha conservation of their resources also measures of insurance against social chaos in which ali would suffer? . Listen to tne words of a Roosevelt supporter who also is the hsbion’s biggest branch banker: “We must preserve our present system of government,” said A. P. Giannini of California. “The day of concentrated wealth in a few hands is past. The people will no longer stand for a rule that makes the poor podrer and the rich richer. We must realize that the rank and file is entitled to more than it has receivea or there will be an uprising. We don’t want to go through the experiences of Spain and France.” Enlightened capitalism may survive indefinitely under liberal government, but they are blind to the ‘wamings of past and current his-

OUR TOWN

Anton Scherrer

OHN DINE, on one occasion, panned $8.50 worth of gold in five hours in Brown County. it’s the record. Another time he made $2.70 out of a half gallon of dirt. he was more than satisfied to get from 40 to 60 cents worth of gold out of a cubic yard of Brown County soil. The stories of Brown County gold are nearly as old as the hills themselves. As early as 1850, the newspapers began spilling the secret and

"with it came. stories, too, of the finding of dia-

monds, rubies, opals and garnets. In 1889 the rumor still persisted, for that was the year the Brown County Gold Mining Co. was organized, with Charles Lauer as president and E. T. Short as secretary. Both were Indianapolis men. The members of the company, however, were mostly farmers of Brown and Morgan Counties who were willing to share their secret b with anybody who had the price. The company was organized with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The par value of a share was $5. It was offered at 3 cents a share. Even at that price it was no inducement. The last Brown County prospectors to get into the papers were Merritt Garden, a professional panner from California, and his brother from Chicago. In 1930 they struck up a friendship with John Dine, the champion panner of Salt Creek, and, apparently, made a go of it. = zn o HE best and jolliest account of early prospecting -in ‘Brown County, however, is the one George S. Cottman wrote last year for the Indiana Historical Magazine. (Vol. XXXI, No.1.) Mr. Cottman started from Indianapolis in 1882, or thereabouts, to see for himself what all the hullabaloo was about. He entered Brown County on foot by way of Morgantown and soon was headed in the direction of Bear Creek, because that was known as the ‘gold region” at the time. He brought up at Richards’ Postoffice, which he believes was where Trevlac now stands. Richards’ Postoffice took its name from Johnny Richards, who had lived there since 1830, and it was from Johnny himself that Mr, Cottman learned that “for more than a generation men had been prospecting up and down the creek with their pans washing for gold. An expert could count on making ordinary wages at the business,” : One of Johnny's stories was to the effect that soon after accounts of gold in Brown County began to. spread (presumably in 1850) “a group from Indianapolis leased of Richards a stretch of Bear Creek and constructed a long flume of picked oak timber for gold washing. Just as they completed it, however, one of the typical hill freshets came along and carried the whole structure away.” Johnny Richards never saw or heard of the gold syndicate after that. .

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R. COTTMAN also remembers a goldsmith at Georgetown who manufactured frames for spectacles, thus furnishing a market for Brown County gold. And he remembers Dr. A. J. Ralphy of Belleville, a country practitioner. “On the side,” says Mr. Cottman, “he was a naturalist, taxidermist, collecter and all-round scientist. His office looked like an aviary with its hundred or more Brown County birds, all of his own mounting. He also had a cabinet of insects indigenous to the region, and quite a surprising collection of precious stones—small, but genuine, such as opals, garnets, rubies and one diamond. All of them had been gathered from the creek beds of the county.” Maybe the newspapers were right, after all. Maybe there was something to the tall tales they told back in the fifties.

September 3d IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J.

N Sept: 3, 1812, occurred the famous Pigeon Roost massacre, Pigeon Roost settlement was a little community located in what now is the northern part of Scott County. . A band of Indians, encouraged by the British throughout the War of 1812 to attack American settlers and troops, surrounded the village and first killed two hunters found on. the outskirts.

The Indians then attacked’ the. unprofected

settlement and killed, within an hour, another

man, five women and 16 children. Savage cruelty

marked the murders. One man, William Collins, more than 60 years old, successfully defended his cabin against the savages. The Clark County militia was called out immediately and proceeded to the settlement. Next, day two militia companies followed the Indians’ trail until dark and then gave up the chase. The Indians, numbering about a dozen, never were caught. It was incidents such as this that aroused the wrath of Indiana pioneers to the point of demanding, and finally getting, wholesale expulsion of the Indians from the state.

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

LET my boy have the car,” said a sobbing woman, “but I didn’t know he had a gun.” | Her son was one of a group of five boys and two girls brought before a municipal judge charged with shooting out street lights as a midnight diversion. { Probably none of the parents knew that guns were in their children’s hands, but they must have known that guns were in their houses. Such weapons are usually brought into homes by the adults. | The tragic phase of this and many other similar cases is that all these young people were brought up in “good homes.” ' They have been surrounded by the amenities of a well behaved and fairly moral social group. What is wrong with them? This question. These youngsters seem to be ridden by a desperate ruthlessness. Property rights mean little to them. Theoretically, the parents or the schools must be to blame for their downfall, but in reality both are helpless in our highly geared society. In the first place, not one of these children has had to contrive his own amusements. From infancy, diversions have been planned for them, all toys have been provided and most of their amusements are purchasable recreations. More than this, they have been raised without any responsibilities. No one of them has ever earned a penny, which is not their fault. They are living a wholly artificial life. So long as their parents are able to support them, they can’t have jobs because that would be taking bread out of hungry mouths. So they are bursting with a desire to do something on their own. They want space, freedom, excitement and adventure. Poor kids! They belong in an ill-fated generation.

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Q—Is it correct to refer to a citizen of Canada as a British subject?

A—Canadians are British subjects who are citizens of the Dominion of Canada.

is the

Ordinarily, however

RECOVERY

Fr | . | The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded: Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters. must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) bo ® 2. 8 ANTI-NEW DEALER OUTLINES HIS PLAN. By M. R. Kuehn Readers who ‘take writers to task” might be manly enough to come out into the open and sign their names to rejoinders. Such an Indian threw a dull hatchet at me from behind a tree in The Times of last Friday. He can't figure out how I can. be a 101 per cent Woodrow Wilson Dem-

ocrat while refusing to put the!

goose grease on Mr. Roosevelt's boots—that is, his riding boots. He wants to know, would like to know what I would do, if it were in my power, to change things that Mr. Roosevelt has done. Well, here's the answer. To begin with, I'd have every law, executive order, ruling and what not made since. Mr. Roosevelt arrived repealed for at least 30 days. If the solar system refused to explode, I'd leave them repealed. That goes for the insurance of bank deposits. Surely, we weren't all idiots before Mr. Roosevelt sneaked in by the grace of William Randolph Hearst.

Next, I'd put every one, ladies

“included, who talks in his sleep’ about the virtues of Mr. Roosevelt,

‘under observation for at least seven days. All other inhabitants of the land I'd put under the lie detector to answer one questi n: “Who caused your depression?” If :the answer were “Herbert over,” the liar would be put under the guillotine right after breakfast. If the answer were “William' Randolph

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association ?

ITH the beginning of a new school year, parents may be concerned with the way in which the schools or colleges to which they delegate their children’s care are taking over that responsibility. One of the most important problems relates to diet. The commonest faults in the feeding of children in institutions or in college dining halls’ are concerned with the nature of the food, its quantity, and the time allowed for eating. Most dietitians have learned to select diets with suitable quantities of vitamins and mineral salts. Yet in some places even these factors are overlooked. In ‘many places the problems of overeating are more serious than the problem of underfeeding. Far too frequently the demands of the modern curriculum are sush that enough time is not allowed for meals. Sometimes classes begin so early in the morning that boys and girls who like to sleep late fail to eat a suitable breakfast. In many schools the chapel exer-

cises are exceedingly early in the

morning. As a result, students fail to eat a satisfactory breakfast. In many institutions . students complain of the lack of variety in the food: in others, the table service is left to students who are earning their way through college, but who do not have adequate training in that capacity, with the result that students do not receive the food intended for them. *Other complaints involve Jack of

proper supervision of meals, bad.

cooking, and an insufficient amount of free time after meals. To guard against deficiencies in the diet, those responsible in the schools should provide as great a variety as possible. Diets for growing boys and girls should always lean heavily on milk, cheese, butter,

iresh vegetables and fruits, and less |

heavily on meats, cereals, and similar products. Small children may be provided at home, before leavi

Q—How do the leading world: powers rank tials

in: aviation?

A—According to the 1936 Aircraft Year Book the world powers rank in aviation as follows:

British Empire, France, Russia, Italy; United

States, Japan and Germany.

ea is the gross lift of new dirigible, Von Hi

consisting of brown bread or ny ;

wheat with butter, some raw vegetables, such as lettuce, carrots, tomaioes, aiid a sultablo use of chesse

for school, |

Hearst” I'd send him to the blackboard and let him write, “I am the biggest liar in town,” 89 times during the supper hour. If he replied, “I don’t know,” I'd hand him a $20

bill and tell him to get a haircut, a

shave, a shoeshine and suggest he get a job, any kind of a job, before sundown. If he should surprise me and say, “I was the cause of my own depression,” I'd declare a nation-wide celebration of. a new kind of armistice day, ring the church bells, the school bells and honk all the auto horns. What next? Why naturally nothing less than to have every legislator sent to a first-class sanitarium for a 49-day fast until every drop of the New Deal nicotine had been steamed out .through bulging pores. I'd surround Washington with an army, declare martial law, call in a reputable accounting agency, order a new set of lie detectors and begin tracing the moneys bilked from Christians living outside the city walls. Neither Jim Farley nor Joe Guffey would be exempted from this ruling. I once went 66 miles out of my way to see and hear President Wilson, but if Mr. Roosevelt will cease forever trying to put on the mantle of the Great War President It will be all right with: me. #. 8 ” THINKS LANDON SHOULD UNPOKE OWN PIGS BY Jun B." Hatley, Cutler “ Mr. Landon informed the public that he- favors unpoking the pig— ‘but up to now he has kept his own and G. O. P. pigs in the poke. ‘He has said that he will make the social security law workable, and support it by a direct tax widely distributed. What does that mean? Would Mr. Landon please unpoke his pig? How does he intend to adjust tariff to promote more international trade and at the same time give more protection against imports? How would he substitute reciprocal treaties which actually stimulated our foreign commerce? And make his promise good to balance the bud-

get without increasing taxes? What

does he mean by saying that he would take the economics out of the hides of the political exploiters? If he should lop off all the Democrat pay rollers and substitute Re= publicans that would not balance the budget. Will he economize on the Army, Navy, Veterans’ compensation, public works and regular government service? What about rural electrification, private mortgage interest rates, slum clearance? What are his views on neutrality? Mr. Landon has spoken of hidden

taxes, but he did not unpoke this pig either by telling the public that his. party was the daddy of ninetenths of the hidden taxes.

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WEST COAST IS WATCHING DROUGHT, SAYS READER By Mrs. A. N. M.

We get letters from friends on the West Coast who are watching our drought situation. They are also watching the what seems unavoidable waste of surplus fruits and vegetables in the coast country. They wonder also why there can not be a plan of conservation whereby the surplus could be canned to fill the needs of the people in’ the central stafes where there are no fruits and no surplus vegetables for canning, and where many are going to suffer lack of food this winter: : # =u 8 PROTESTS NARROWING OF MICHIGAN ROAD By Clyde P. Miller

A number of residents along and near Road 29 have been disappointed to learn that this road, between 38th-st and Kessler-blvd, when resurfaced, is to be narrowed instead of widened. We have always understood that the road was to be widened to at least three lanes. . A letter of protest to J. D. Adams, state highway director, has brought the astonishing reply that he con(Turn to Page 19)

100 PER CENT WRONG BY JAMES D. ROTH

A poet revels in impressions, And tries to record them with ex- © pressions. But his vocabulary fails Quite miserably on nature tales,

Just as the rainbow can’t be painted;

For there's no artist that's -acquainted With the colors that produce This awe-inspiring heavenly truce.

And while he paints the sunset’s glow : Its likeness will not. stop .the. show. And so we try so hard, but fail, To copy nature, ’tis of no avail.

DAILY THOUGHT And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.—Proverbs 19:2.

FJISELY and nd slow;—they stumsble that run fast. —Shakespeare,

COMMON ERRORS

Never say, “He seldom or ever went to the theater”; leave out “or ever.”

SIDE GLANGES By George Clarke

Vagabond :

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Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE~This roving reportief for The Times goes wheres ke , when he pleases, in search for stories about this and that.

(onus, Alta. Sept. 3.— Th drought runs from the Dakota on up into Canada. The dry belt seems to slope in northwesterly direction. In C you hit it farther west than in States. They are cutting grain, g grain, for 400 miles west of Winni peg. Beyond that, you ses th cutting stubby grain with mowi machines, and raking it up for fi And after that—nothing but endl { prairie, full of gophers. FE tadian farmers do not seem cohvinced that the land must be put back into pasture. They feel that farming i$ all right, and that good seasons will come again. . But the newspapers and the gove ernment feel the same as we do in the States about our dry bowl—that grazing land wasn't meant for farming, and that it will have to go back to grass. A one- -time homesteader in Tomp= kins, Sask., said: “If people had taken care of their money, we'd ‘be all right now. Fortunes have been made out of this land in the last 20 years, But they didn't save their money." . = zn ”n MAN in Regina asked me to write something about the bleak little shacks that pass for farmhouses on the Canadian prai= ries. “It burns me up,” he said. “The people who came to homestead this land weren't home builders. They were miners. They mined the land for all it was worth for 20 years, and didn’t give a. thing back to the land, and now they're all out in Victoria or southern California playing golf. My informer was a city man, and I doubt that his figures are accur= ate. I suspect that if you could really check, the number of “farm miners” now playing golf would be pretty small, and the number still living in prairie shacks because they can’t afford decent houses would be . pretty large. Canada is doing about the same for its drought victims as we are. It is shipping in feed for basis herds, and is planning work projects for the farmers, and it is laying long-time plans for putting some of

{ the land back into grazing. It also

has plans for irrigation and small water-conserving dams, just as we have. Canada does have one thing on us. It has a frontier yet, new land to be opened, new places for its people to 50. : ¥ 8 = N the last two years there has been a considerable movement northward, up around Prince Albert in Saskatchewan, and to the Peaca River valley in northern Manitoba. They say the soil up there is won derful, and the growing season is all right even though it is so far north, and droughts up there are unknown, The tragedies of Canada’s wheat belt have been as great as our own, - ‘I heard of one family that homesteaded years ago, acquired more land, grew rich. Once they turned down $250,000 for their holdings. Today they couldn't give the land | away. The province of Manitoba, How scourged by drought, has been one of the hardest hit in Canada through the depression. Qut of their fremzy have come such panaceas as - mier Alberhardt and his new “ges locity dollar” scrip. I thought I might write some si 8 about the Aberhardt scrip situa on But I can't make head nor tail o People talk about it everywhere, b

nobody seems to understand it. a ! i 1

Today’ S Science |

~BY. SCIENCE SERVICE HEN an entomologist 1 En an ant hill and writes Tt edly and interestingly about 'v happens in that insect co that; admittedly, is science. = when social workings of a na the world are viewed with a ¢ selesune mind, the cry is key to

: “That's not science.” a : Physicists, chemists and et have been reluctant to admitnomics, political theory and price tice, history and sociology into, § category of “science.” But an creasing. volume of .scientific has warned that those who give command of natural forces have obligation to see that research is to socially safe uses. £ An eminent British science, Sir Richard Gregory, editor of Nature, is the la . urge that “it is the duty of men of science to assist in promoting n 2. worthy uses of the new powers th are continually Er ot in the hax of the community.” ¢ world seems likely, er ce “a place of dust and ashes.” “The impacts of science with 1

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ji | ciety are now so numerous tk

scientific studies in the realm of £0~ cial biology are even more necess

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the physical sciences,” Sir R

1 : “Tt~is an ironical comment 1 1 civilization that the so

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: reaction to the gifts of plenty max

possible by the progress of s knowledge is not a corres increase of human welfare, distress and unemployment and - the prostitution of scientific effort: to purposes of destruction. “Our distributive and system remains on the basis pre-scientific age, wholly on justed to the needs of a char world, and unable to bear the bi dens placed upon it oy the pro of new and almost increc

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