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lief than is embodied in the hated British system of
relief for unemployed.
Yet this 10 per cent public relief system is what
Srawn and others praise as American" as the foun-
dalton Of rugged ndvdualsm as the one safe course
from which We must not depart.
The answer is that the public funds so far used
in unemployment relief have come almost entirely
from municipal treasures and that the object of the
drive against, "the dole" is to place the burden of
relief upon municipal rather than federal or state
taxpayers.
But why should that be? Can it be because fed
eral taxes paid almost entirely by the we-to-do?
They are assessed against income those having small
incomes and large responsibilities are exempt from
payment.
Municipal taxes are assessed on the other hand,
largely against the man and the woman of moderate
means and against those who know actual poverty.
Real estate bears the tax burden in almost all cities
The family with a modest home, mortgaged, must
pay city taxes or lose all the life savings put into that
home.
The poor family unable to afford shelter of its own
must meet the tax burden by paying higher rent The
humbest alley dweller shares the burden of ,1neno
ployment relief when it comes from the municipal
treasury.
All this Of course leaves out of account the prac
ca fact that cities have borne the burden of relief
Tor SO long already that their ability to do so ade-
quately next winter is in grave doubt few days
ago Chicago reported that delinquent taxes now stand
against one-third of all the property in the city
1t narrows down to this: Certain representatives
of great wealth bending every effort to make sure
that relief bills this winter be paid by those who have
little, rather than by those who have much.
This is bad business for it does nothing to in.
crease the amount of money in the hands of conslm-
ers, whose buying power must be restored before
prosperity returns. And it is atrociousy bad morals
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I have been under
the impression that your paper was
for the working people, and also for
the truth, and against low wages.
Were you afraid to make public the
letter that a local furniture COM
pany employe wrote concerning the
low wages they were paying?
You took up the case of low wages
being paid on the East New York
street project. Is one case of low
wages any worse than the other? I
notice large headlines in your paper
of Hoover's speech against cutting
wages, and yet when I wrote and
told of this furniture company
working on government job and
paying the men the magnificent
sum Of % to 81 cents an hour, I
don't see anything being said about
it.
If you don't believe it, send some
one to talk to the men who are
working ten hours for 500, also a
married man who worked five hours
for II cents. They are put on
piecework basis so that their super
intendent can show the big boss the
work can be done cheaply, regard
less Of the showing he can make
when the bills come due.
WIFE OF EMPLOYE.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Diet Secret Of Health in Old AGE

Sir Humphrey Rolleston says
that "a well-occupied mind, a
happy disposition that thinketh no
evil, naturally smiles instead of
frowning on stranger or a new
idea, free from anger, hatred and
jealousy, the vice that gives no
pleasure to any one, and an atti-
tude of charity in it's original and
best sense to all, tend to prolong
life and make it happy, healthy
prelude to crossing the bar"
Thus one may point out that
dignitaries of the church, chief JUS
tees on supreme court benches.
prime ministers, and those of SINH
lar professions whose activities are
prolonged tend to live longer than
others.
Apparently the most important
advice for attaining and prolonging
old age has to do with the diet.
A half-dozen proverbs attest the
manner in which men have accent
ed this fact you dig your grave
with your teeth; Man does not
die, he kills himself" and best of
all the double-edged statement of
the HooSier farmer: pigs would
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live a lot longer if they didn't make
hogs of themselves"
An investigation by one life in
Surance company revealed that
Is per cent of some thousands of
policyholders beyond the age of 40
were more than 20 per cent over
weight.
Persons at this age have usually
stopped taking even the physical
exercise of walking.
Since it is impossible for us to
choose our parents, all that we can
do toward the prolongation of life
is to avoid preventable disease by
the usual sanitary and hygienic
precautions and by having physical
examinations at least once each
year to detect the presence of the
diseases of middle life that come on
insidiously.
Avoid worry since it is of the
greatest Importance in using up the
inherent vitality.
Moderation in all things, a GER
tain amount of mental and physical
exercise, some time in the open air,
and a reasonable amount of happi-
nesS-theSe constitute the prescrip-
ton for a long life and useful one.
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Our Sun a Star

Ell US begin with our own globe.
IL the earth. 1t is one of nine
known planets which belong to the
suns family. From the earth to
the sun is 100000 miles. From
the sun to Pluto, the most distant
Of the known plants, is 1900, 900 900
miles. (That is Plutos average dis
lance from the sun. Its maximum
distance is 4,600,0O0,0 900 mileS.)
Our sun, although specially i'm
portant to us, is just an average
star. The stars appear so very diff
ferent because they are so very far
away.
The nearest star is $4,000 900 900
600 miles away. Many stars are ten
times as far away, 100 times as far
away, 1000 and even 10000 times as
far away.
Our sun is one of the stars which
compose the galaxy of Milky Wav.
There are various estimates as to
the number of stars in the galaxy.
Perhaps the Harvard survey will
give us new figure. At present,
the estimate which is generally ac-
cepted is 4O,OOO,OOO,OOO stars.
An important question involved
is the distribution of these stars in
space. We know that in general
they are distributed in space in a
formation something like that of a
gigantic grindstone or watchcase.
The diameter the long way. that
is, along the bands of the watch, is
about 100000 light years. "a light
year, it will be recalled, is 6.00O.-
OO0,O00,O00 miles.) The diameter the
shorter way, that is, from the front
to the back of the watch, is about
10000 light-years.
These facts explain why we see
the Milky Way as a dense cloud of
stars across the sky.
When we look at the Milky WAY.
we are looking into the depths of
our galaxy. We are looking "aiong
the hands of the watch"
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Clouds of Stars

A MONG the more important
L AproblemS concerning our galaxy
are the questions of the exact shape
of the galaxy and the exact dis
trlbution of the stars within it.
IL has been established that the
stars are not uniformly distributed
within the galaxy, but are concen-
trated into large groups or clouds.
One of these groups, because it
contains our own sun, is known
technically as "the local cloudn
1t now is known that many de-
auctions concerning the galaxy
made in the past were erroneous
because they we're based upon con-
dltions which apply only to the To-
cal cloud.
The local cloud in which our sun
is situated, is not at the center of
the galaxy, but is displaced from
the center by about $4,000 light
years.
In winter, when we look at the
constellation of Orion, we are Look
ing away from the center of the
galaxy.
The great star cloud which the
telescope reveals in the constella-
ton Saggitarius is believed to con-
tain the center of the galaxy.
Our galaxy is not alone in the
great ocean of space. It's nearest
nelghbors are the two Magellanic
Clouds. At greater distances are
the spiral nebulae, sometimes called
island galaxies"
There are at least 1000 900 of
these island galaxies within the
range of the 10O-inch telescope at
Mt. Wilson. 1t is not possible 10
say how many more the new 2O0-
inch telescope will reveal.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Thirty Astronomers With
T en- Photographic Tete-
scopes Are Making a Nelc
Surrey of the UniUerss.
THE Harvard observatory has
4 launched a survey of the uni-
verse in which thirty astronomers,
using ten Photographic telescopes,
will take part. DR.. Harlow Shap-
ley. director Of the observatory, is
the commander-in-chief of this
new campaign upon the stars.
The survey is an extension of
various problems which have occu-
pied the attention of the observ-
atory for the last ten years. DR..
Shapley is well equipped for the
task, since it is largely due to his
work that we realize today the true
size of the universe.
1t was due to his study of the
Magellanic Clouds, those great
clouds of stars in the southern hemi-
sphere of the heavens which look to
the unaided eye like pieces Of the
Milky Way that had broken loose.
he showed that these great ag-
gregationS of stars were many times
farther away than had been sus-
pected previously.
AS DR.. 'Shapley and his assist
ants prepare to survey the universe,
perhaps it will be interesting for us
to take stock briefly of our pres
ent knowledge of it.
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What Is a VaCation2

TN glad now that I didn't take nv
L furlough early. The countryside
is about just beginning to shed it's
conventional green and blossom
forth into gaudier reds, yellows, and
browns. BY the time get there, it
is quite possible that there will be
nothing but brown. But even that
is relief to the eye after months
and miles of monotonous green.
1t is interesting to note the many
individual conceptions of what con-
st1tutes a successful vacation. For
instance, the tired business man
gets his relaxation and thrills out
OF shooting eighteen holes of golf
or sitting for hours at rivers edge
waiting for an elusive nibble.
His stenographer, on the other
hand, considers him an old fogy.
What is heaven to her boss would
be devastating boredom to her. For
a full fifty weeks she has saved and
Scrimped and planned.
And when the time comes for her
fortnight's respite from work and
crowds, she gathers together the
fripperies for which she has denied
herself substantial luncheons and
rusheS off to crowded resort.
where she works harder at having a
good time that she ever worked in
the city.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY Hg gya272

1t should become increasingly
evident that in America politicians
quarrel with names rather than
facts. For instance, leaders of both
the Republican and Democratic
parties have been emphatic in stat
ing that never, never will this glor-
iouS republic establish the dole.
But in the next breath these
same gentlemen give enthusiastic
support to the suggestions of the
American Legion that special
financial favors be granted to war
veterans. Call it adjusted compen-
sation if you care tot remains a
dole.
Nor can it fairly be said that it is
the most scientific and efficient sort
of dole, since those who have no
need are Jumped in with many who
may be in desperate need.
In some respects I am not at all
against the measures which the LIE
glon has managed to jam through
congress from time to time. After
all, no harm is done if the public is
reminded constantly that war is an
experience which must be paid for
not once. but a score of times.
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When Is a Dole?

When men like Silas Strawn, president of the
United States Chamber Of Commerce, and others of
wealth cry out in horror against the DOLE just what
no they mean? The question is appropriate in view
of Strawn's almost hystercal radio statement.
. Opponents Of ''the dole" invariably give the i'm
preston that they opposing any payments to
employed persons from public funds, as opposed to
private charity. But this can not be what they
really have in mind.
Figures collected by the Russell Sage Foundation
show that more than 70 per cent of the money paid
out for unemployment relief has come from public
funds This is far larger percentage of public re-
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Men on Horseback

ON the other hand, I am in de-
~ cided dissent when I read a
speech such as that which General
Harbord made to a Legion conven-
ton in Syracuse a few days ago.
The chairman of the Radio Cor
poration, told the veterans that
they should assume political con-
troll of America.
This seems to me an invitation
for the creation of simon pure Fas-
ciSm. Moreover, General Hartford
glorifled war and stated: There is
still something in war which in the
last analysis means values above
social comforts, above ease and
even above religion. 1t is the mys-
ferrous power that war gives to life
of rising above mere life"
To put it much more bluntly, that
estate above life which General
Hartford eulogizes is death. And in
this worldwide struggle of exis-
tence against destruction I am for
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M. E. Tracy

What Does Hoover Hope to
Gain By Refusing to Cal
an Extra Session of Con-
gress or Is That the
Reason?
NEW YORK. Sept. lin out
l Whining government measures to
balance the British budget, Chan
cellor Snowden declared that one
third of the national income now
goes for taxes.
We think taxes are high in this
country, but they would have to be
more than doubled to reach one
third of our national income.
The basic income tax rate in
England already is 20 per cent and
the government proposes to make it
2215. Ours runs from l to per
cent.
The privilege of operating a me-
dunn priced car costs 5000 or $500
annually in England, while here it
costs only $25 Nor $50.
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Padding TT Ont

We wonder what good desk man in a modern
newspaper office would do to Hall Gaines posthumous
Life of Jesus? 1t is announced that the novelist
left such work in manuscript, edited for the pub
Usher and totaling no less than 100000 words.
Now good-sized book runs to about 100000 words
This means that Gaines biography which has been
contracted for will run to thirty voumes-or to forty
If each is no longer than the usual novel or brief
biography.
great and devout but honest, student of Jesus
Robert Keabe, once was discussing the actual infor-
nation which we possess about the life of Jesus He
pointed out that we do not have enough positive in
formation to write more than three-line obituary
for the newspapers mo one knows enough for the
normal Times obituary of a great man. If regard
were had to what we would CALL in correct speech,
definitely historical facts scarcely three lines could
be filed"
From three lines of facts, the late Mr. Game will
give us a thirty forty-voume work. College pro-
essorS Of philosophy the only ones who need
an editor with copious supply of blue pencils.
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It's All Comparison

L VERIFYING in life is mat
Il ter of comparison. If it
hadn't been for the boom of 1923.
this depression wouldn't seem half
so tough.
AS it is, We Americans are a lot
better off than some other people,
even if the unemployment figures
and stock market quotations do look
discouraging.
There is plenty of work to be
done and plenty of cash with which
to do it, but we can't seem to hit
on the right combination.
An extra session of congress
might help.
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It's Plain FaSCiSnn

TINE major contribution of busi-
Il ness thus far has been a per-
sistent cry against government in
reference and just as persistent adj
vice that we would pull through all
right if we would only stop think
ing and lean on faith.
If there is a lack of faith any
where, it is on the part of GER
tain school of business men with
regard to the legislative branch of
their government.
Call such an attitude what you
please, but itmeans Fascism, and it
represents just as great menace to
American institutions as does the
radicaliSn of which these same
business men pretend to be so
scared.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

DEFORE giving advice to the
- aged as to the conduct of their
lives it may be we'll to recognize
somewhat their economic condi-
lions.
1t is estimated by Dublin, Stats
tician of famous life insurance
company, that one and one-quarter
million persons in the United
States who have reached the age of
IS are in want and are supported
by charity, public and private.
This means that % per cent, or
more than one out of every four,
are dependent.
1t long has been known that re-
tirement not infrequently has has
tened the death of the aged. A sue
cesSful business man, when relieved
of the usual life and caused to re-
sort to idle luxury, tends to degen-
crate rapidly.
Every trifing aiIment begins to
receive his undivided attention. The
mental attitude is important.
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SWEDEN MAKES REPLY

Sept. IL
ON Sept. II, 1917, Admiral Lind
~ man, head of the Swedish for
eign Office, issued the following re-
ply to the charges that Sweden had
violated neutrality:
1T is accurate to say that just
after the World war broke out the
Swedish foreign minister expressed
the opinion that he ought to trans
NIT German telegram concerning
the civil population of Kiao-Chau
(the former German fortress in the
Chinese peninsula of Shantung).
Statements to the same effect
were made to representatives of
both belligerent groups without
there being any question of Sweden
taking over representation of any
power interests.
The telegram mentioned in the
American statement was written in
code and in transmitting it, the
Swedish minister was by that rea-
son unable to recopy it.
Sweden will take measures to
prevent any repetition of the Incl
dent"
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That May Be So, but

XXTHAT does the Hoover admin
w. istration hope to gain by re-
fusing to call an extra session of
congress, or isn't that the reason for
its failure to do SO?
Silas Strawn says that "The
business men of this country are
more capable Of dealing with exist
ing conditions intelligently, wisely
and courageously than are the
politicians who exercise govern
mental functions"
Maybe SO, and maybe that's why
an extra session of congress has
not been called, but the business
men have yet to prove it.
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LOOK at HIS

FEDERAL authorities just have
Il unearthed an alien smuggling
ring in New York. which is said to
have been in operation twelve years
and to have done an annual bust
ness of $15,000,000.
Five or six lawyers are under sur
veillance, as well as steamship in
spectors and officers described as
holding high positions of trust"
Out in Chicago. where gang rule
has come to an end, according to
the Tribune, police officers are
charged with extorting $4,000 from
a kidnapping gang.
The attitude toward gangs and
rackets stands out in sharp contrast
to what it was four or five years
ago. Then they were taken as a
joke, if not blessing. Then they
could get all the credit they needed
and exercise a pull with the au-
thorities without any one protest
ing.
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Not to Whole Extent

THIS country faces problems that,
l. can not be solved without the
help of all three branches of it's
government and which have a def
mite bearing on the present period
Of distress.
Most of us like to think that the
depression is just a business affair,
just temporary interruption of
traffic, just logical reaction to the
boom, in which the whole civilized
world is participating.
To some extent that is true, but
not to the whole extent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-11
Linking Higher-UDS.

TINE philosophy of racketeering
4 has made deep impression
on our economic and political life
the philosophy that it is right and
proper to get all you can by any
means you can.
Gang rule is just a little rawer
than run-of-t mill stuff, but even
gang rule has it's obvious connec-
tions with business and politics.
How else could it obtain the neces-
sary capital, or protection?
1t is well nigh impossible to
catch a gangster these days, without
finding lawyers, brokers and Off
Gals lurking in the background.
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ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-.
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
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Which three books have had the
widest circulation?
The Bible, Shakespeare's plays and
Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress" have
been the most widely published
books.
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the quick every time. I am for the
living against the dead.
I will not support any publicist
who wants to change the planet
into one vast haunted house.
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Daily Thought

How say ye, We are mighty
and strong men for the WARP
jeremiah 1914.
Fools carry their daggers in their
open mouths.-H. w. Shaw.
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member of the New York Stock Exchange
bought $4,000 brick of gold bullion as a souvenir
the other day in Alaska That sounds reasonable con-
sdering of the prices people paid for gold bricks
in Wall Street couple of years ago.
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An Innocent Abroad
MAYOR Walker, at a luncheon
4VA given him in Paris, COM
mented on the crime situation in
New York. This business of
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Restore That Honesty

NTE are not going to get back
wv on this job, until much of this
baneful influence has been removed,
this sinister figure Of extortion
which has made it impossible for
small men to compete with the big
boys, not only in the liquor traffic,
but in lot Of other things.
We are not going to remedy con-
ditions until we restore some of that
commo nhonesty which is peculiarly
essential to the republic and some
of that craftsmanship which is will
ing to play a fair game.
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The new Empress Eugene hats may help to revive
the corset and hustle industries say fashion experts
That ought to pull out of the depression in pretty
good shape, anyway.
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retired cattle has invented reversible
hat for women. 1t remains only for some chorus
girl to think up ocean liner than can travel on
skates.
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Henry Ford wants his employees to have their
own gardens for vegetables. Probably he wants the
boys to know their onions.