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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-07-21

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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-07-21

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
WHISTLE OR BELL?

Callous as the national conscience seems to have
grown toward child labor the statement issued by
group of prominent Americans for the National
Child Labor committee will shock many
More than 100000 children from 7 to- II years
of age are out of school, and more than 100000
boys and girls of this age are employed gainfully
while from 100000 to 100000 adults are in des-
perate need of work." says this statement
Among the signers are Dr. Mary Wooley, Senator
Capper, William Green William Allen White, minis
ters, social workers. educators and Others
The statement signals national movement to
raise the compulsory school age and to divert this
great stream of working children from mills and
factories to schools
To keep the public schools open, they also call
the nation to Save the education system from the
AK of misguided economy. Universal education, we
hear now is Threatened as it has not been in a
generation"
Instead of curtailing essential functions, the
system must be enlarged to accommodate new re-
cruits thrown out of industry by machines They de-
mand
l. The removal from industry of children below
Is years of age.
2. higher age for school leaving, better or.
gained attendance service, and, where needful the
provisions of scholarships and relief to replace the
chld's earnings.
3. Promotion of effective vocational and guidance
school programs.
4. Maintenance of educational standards and
vigorous defense of schools against unwarranted and
injudcious cuts in funds"
Here is big and courageous program. It will
be difficult to realize in full But confronting the
nation is the choice between exploitation educa-
ton of its YOUTH whether it proposes to send its
boys and girls to work by the mill whistle or the
school bell.
If it proposes to remain democratic nation, it
it will choose the school bell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
Family Present

4 RTHUR occupied a seat upon
"A the chapel platform, f1anked
on one side by his mother and
his old college ''prexy," President
Charles F. Wishart.
On the other side sat his father,
DR.. Elias Compton, who is pro-
fessor Of philosophy at Wooster,
and his brother, DR.. Karl T.
Compton, who then was a pro-
fessor of physics at Princeton.
Karl since has become the presi-
dent Of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
The audience in the chapel in
cluded not only students of Woo
ster, but many people Of the town
who had known Arthur as a boy.
Dr. Arthur Compton still looks
young today. He has an athletic
build. A close-cropped mustache
helps to make him look like a
successful young business man.
AS in the case OF Millikan, you
would be inclined to associate him
with the business world rather
than the academic world if you
saw him without knowing who he
was.
The discovery for which DR..
Compton was awarded the Nobel
prize is known in the literature
Of science as the Compton effect.
It is interesting to compare his
work with that which won MI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
PERJURY ON THE HIGHER PLANES

There have been plenty of stories about the mis-
cry of the masses-those the breadline, the down
and out and the dispossessed farmers. The needi-
est cases are rather fully and quite justly pubcized
But there is another group of sufferers who have
been given little attention, except in few personal
stories of their fate since 1929 refer to those who
formerly were fairly well-to-do-the upper white
collar arstocracy. Their plight is well described by
Bishop John Paul Jones IN article on Middle
Glass Misery" in the Survey Graphic" He thus
summarizes the nature and sufferings of this class:
"They are the executives technical experts, eff
cheney men, promoters lawyers, advertisers, mana
gers and the like. Economic chaos soon sweeps them
to the border-ne and before long pushes them over
THE kind of readjustment they called upon
to make is heroic They undergo months of torture
before they darken the door of a relief agency
Viewed even from the most hopeful angle, the plight
of the formerly well-todo unemployed is tragic be-
yond description.
Vast multitudes of them have lost financial Sc
curity forever In bewderment and bitterness, they
will seek a sign of hope, and no sign will be given.
Some will give up and end it all, but great majority
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
STRANGE ECONOMY

The proposal Of President Hooyer's chief Of staff,
General Macarthur to increase the size Of the army
by one-third browns out the administrations talk
Of economy. Doubtless the general and the Presi-
dent know there is no chance whatever of inducing
congress TO borrow more money and increase the
federal deficit for any such militaristic splurge
Presumably the proposal is put forward merely
for trading purposes-by asking for more, they APP
parently expect to counter the demands for reduc-
ton and thus retain the present appropriation.
Such army strategy is not apt TO work. Public
demand for economy is so insistent that congress
can not safely disregard it. Major economies can
be achieved only in the major appropriations OF
the three large items in the federal budget all
fer war, past and future.
One, that for fixed debt charges (25 per cent of
the totaD, can not be touched. That leaves two
veteran relief (23 per cent Of the totaD and
tional defense q7 per cent?.
All regular legislative and administrative civil
functions OF the government combined cost less
than the army and the navy. Even if most of the
civil functions of the federal government were abol
ished outright, the saving would not be sufficient
to balance the budget without army navy reduction
And yet President Hoover, in a campaign speech,
declared against army-nayy budget cuts Roosevelt
and the Democrats have not yet committed them
selves definitely, although Chairman Vinson of the
house naval committee, after seeing the President
elect this week. indicated they would not favor cut
ting more than $1OOOOO,00O from the navy.
If this Democratic plan stands it will, of course,
be impossible for Roosevelt to make the rs per cent
cut in federal expenditures pledged by him and his
party platform.
Veteran cuts by elimination of nonservice con-
nected disability benefits opposed by Hoover, could
not save much more than $40OCO0,000. But assum-
ing that this veteran saving is made and that all
possible further economies are made in the civil
government a cut in the army and the navy Of
$500 100000 as proposed by Senator Borah and
Others still would be required
All the Republican and Democratic talk OF
large-scale economy is bunk unless drastic army
navy cuts provided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

viii go on living some kind of broken and frustrated
lives"
The middle class sufferers who have been broken
by the depression comprises men of education and
culture who have received salaries of from $4,000 to
$4,000 year. Those who have been receiving high
salaries should of course have saved enough to have
tided them over for years, but many ventured IN
wisely into the market during the dull" period and
have had their savings of years swept away.
One former active vice-president of one of the
greatest textile companies in the country was dis
missed as result of an economy reorganization To-
day he is fat with his investments lost and no pros
pect of rernunerative employment.
Another case is the former manager of a large
novelty manufacturing company who received high
salary, lived in a mansion the Hudson and sent
his children to expensive private schools He has
been out of work for two years and his wife now
tries desperately to support the family by baking for
neghbors. In another case the wife of former real
estate magnae is producing the only income for the
family by going out through The city doing ordinary
housework. And so on. I have mentioned these as
only few cases, rather better off than most, for
these families still eating without having become
recipients of public private relief
The developments and stages in the economic de-
cline TO psychic and material misery are fairly uni
form and quite characteristic The husband loses his
JOB He sets out in the nearhopeess quest for work
The children are put in public schools. The
maids and other servants are dropped. The wife
begins to do her own work The reserves are used up
Sickness may wipe them out more quickly.
The husband borrows on his life insurance, if
there is anything left after he has used this source
OF income to meet margin calls on stock investments
The property is mortgaged it has not been already
for market plunges
In due time the home is surrendered and the fam
lily moves into modest quarters. The wife then be-
gins to take in work. the son sells papers, and the
daughter goes out to stay with neghbors' children
These devices often prove inadequate and outside
relief ultimately becomes necessary This is the hard
est blow of all. The unfortunates must appear be-
fore persons they may formerly have snubbed to
get the mere necessities of life.
And at best the relief given is VIGOROUSLY made
quate even for much lowered standard of living
The situation is bad enough when everybody is SEN
siole and makes the best of bad set of crcum-
stances. is nolerabe if false pride and hystera
are allowed to enter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
PROFESSOR ARTHU

nROtESSOR ARTHUR ii.
Il COMPTON, very much in the
public eye at present, because of
his recent world tour to study
cosmic rays, was the third Amer
lean scientist to receive the No
bel prize in physics
The first American was the late
Professor Albert A. Nicholson of
the University of Chicago, in 1907.
The second was DR.. Robert A.
Millikan in 1908. The third was
Compton in 1927.
Both Millikan and Compton car
ried on the work which won them
the award in Michelson's labora-
tory in Chicago.
Like other Nobel prize winners,
Compton travelled to Stockholm to
attend the ceremony at which the
prize was presented to him.
But we believe that he re-
ceived a bigger thrill from the
celebration held in the little chap
Ell of Wooster college, in Wooster,
O., before he sailed. That was
five years ago, on Nov. %, 1927.
1t was then not many years
since that Arthur Compton had
marched into that same chapel as
a member of the graduating class
of Wooster college to receive his
sheepskin. And here he was, at
the age of IS, back in the town
where he had been born and ed
ucated, world-famous and &C
claimed.
Purpose of the assembly was to
award him the degree of Doctor
of Science. But it really was a
family party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
Diphtheria Germs Easily Spread

This is the second of a series of six
srticies nv DR.. Fishbein on the preyen-
ton and treatment 'of diphtheria.
THERE are various ways IN
L which diphtheria may be
spread from an infected person to
a well one. The germs have been
found on the bedclothing, on
handkerchiefs, candy, shoes, hair,
pencils and drinking cups used by
infected children.
They are, of course, found in
any discharges coming from the
nose or throat of children who
have the disease, or " are re-
covering from it.
There are, moreover, healthtul
carriers of diphtheria who, al
though they have recovered from
the disease, still carry the germs
about and distribute them to peo-
pie who have not had the disease.
It is not safe for any one to
gamble on the possibility that
child infected with this disease
does not really have diphtheria,
but simply some mild throat in
lection.
Most Of the serious results can
be avoided if the child is seen
early in the course Of the disease
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
WE SHOULD QUIT NEGATIVE
COURSE IN DEPRESSION, FIGHT
M. E. Tracy Says:

belief that no institution on
earth is very safe. That belief
already has become too preva-
lent.
AS a matter of record, nothing
essential has broken down, espe-
cially here in America. We have
more people than we had at the
end Of the war, or even four years
ago. They are just as anxious for
the good things Of life, just as am
bilious, just as willing to work.
Our supply of raw materials is
unimpaired and our industrial
machinery stands ready to func-
ton.
The trouble is that we have
thought too much about relief
through curtailment.
How can we hope to increase
consumption by that means and
how can we hope to make room for
greater production if we do not?
Prosperity always has and al
ways will depend on increased
consumption. Leave that out OF
the picture, and what is there
left?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
Every Day Religion
. BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

practicable world; but if we do
nothing else-if we keep our eyes
fixed on our feet-we may get
along without mishap, but we
miss the best part of the show.
In talk about books the other
day, the President put it in a pic
turesque manner: "a great ma
ton can not go along just watch
ing its feet" Maybe that is what
is the matter with us in America,
and why we are in such a mess,
along with the rest of mankind.
Busy watching our step, seeking
safety first, we do not see the
amazing changes taking place
around about us, which have
made everything uncertain and
unsafe; and now we are fright
ened, not to say paralyzed, with
panic about it.
Our need is for perspective, to
see the passing event against a
long background, the better to in
terpret it. Else, we may not see
where we are going, or why, and
it may not be important whether
we get there safely or not.
DOWNRIGHT 1892 United Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

with the major problem. We may
prefer more fruit and less wheat,
but all of us want, and should
have, enough to eat.
Essential as the bare necessities
Of life may be, true progress re-
quireS much in addition. Luxury,
recreation, culture and entertain
ment are not so unimportant as
many seem to think. Their eco
nomic value is enormous, while
their intellectual effect is bound
up with human destiny.
The songs we sing, the books we
read, and the pastimes we enjoy
go far toward determining what
kind of people we will become.
The work they make, the capital
they require, and the energy they
create go far toward determining
the degree of prosperity we can
expect.
We need to think more about
new lines of endeavor, new out
lets for our surplus strength and
cash, and we need to think about
them especially as they affect mass
welfare, mass happiness, and mass
enlightenment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
Questions and
Answers

What was the strength of the
United States navy in 1914 COM
pared to its present strength?
In 1914 the United States had Is
modern battleships, 10 armored
cruisers, % older battleships "a
cruisers, 81 gunboats, 8 monitors. SO
destroyers, q torpedo boats and So
submarines. The present strength is
ID battleShips, 3 aircraft carriers, 8
large cruisers, 10 small cruisers, II
destroyers and IS submarines.
Does the United States treasury
exchange gold coin for gold buIIions?
Gold bullion may be exchanged
for gold or silver coin or United
States paper currency at any of the
United States assay Offices, located
in New York City; Boise, Idaho;
Helena, Mont; Seattle, Wash; Salt
Lake City, Utah; New Orleans, La. ,
and Carson City, New.
How many Negroes are there in
the United States?
The 1880 census enumerated H.
891, 143.
Does a blue flame radiate more
heat than yellow one?
A blue flame is hotter than a
yellow flame, but the yellow faE.e
radiates the most heat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
PRETTY Soft. for Satan

HE devil always gets his these Repentance and
the devotion to the life always
speaker get credit the
the strangehold which had
hardly can be said to glow brightly purple patches
along the primrose path
And the little boy sitting pew hardly can be blamed
ne makes resolve to live the Sweeney so that he too NAV
come TO stand before congregation
1t Is uneoarreled appeal Indeed here way ife
seems IN which have his cake
joy of then There no ted
a
But Just the same think thai somebody
men ana tell them that in this day responsibilities
somewhat more important than putting
parishoners. 80.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

OF course, a man must watch
~ his step as he walks about
the world. Otherwise, he may
stub his toe, stumble and fall to
his hurt, or get knocked down by
some one else. One is apt to be-
come automatic and absent-mind-
ed and step off the curb in front
of a car.
Or, what is equally likely, he
may bump his head against a
star. and be stunne7 by it. For
we live in an encha ed universe,
and almost anything may hap
pen.
My writing pulpit, if one may
believe our men of science, is more
fantastic than Alice in Won
derland," and more incredible. On
the surface it seems solid and
weIl-behaved, but that is an illu-
sion. Things are seldom, if ever,
what they seem.
In fact, the atoms and electronS
in my table jump about in the
iazziest kind of way, giving a con-
tinuous acrobatic performance, so
they tell me. By all means, let
us watch our step in such an I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
The Saga of Mr.. Sweeney

QUOTE from the testimony Sweeney reported the
daily press saying other things 1T long
parties"
have suspicion that point reporters began
to blush things monolog the enter
tanment OF the congregation There is believe that
sweeney put the
happened while looming to house parties and dance
halls gripped in his passion the OF pleasure.
And Ike all public performers example likely
warm up to his work as he couple of
AmenS appreciation
TO drink, said Mr.
Now imagine the upon younger and more
lmpreonabe members dacsns
may be safe from harm They realize that
them to emulate Mr. Sweeney They
But somewhere that boy of 10 or IL His
bulge the orator of the evening with Barley
corn the laughter and the lights
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
System Is Wrong

THE whole world is faced with
Il the necessity of doing more,
not less. That would be true even
if there had been no war.
Civilization has made few peo-
pie very rich and large per-
centage fairly comfortable, but it
has failed to provide millions with
the most commonplace advan-
tages. The majority of those mil
lions can not be. classed as defec-
tive or INDECENT. The system un-
der which we work and live SIM
ply has failed to reach them.
The manifest injustice can not
be corrected by producing less,
whether on the farm, or in the
factory. Certain commodities and
products may be going out of
vogue, but that has little to do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

Cases are known in which germs
capable of causing diphtheria
have been carried in. the Threats
of children who have recovered
from the disease for as long as ten
months.
In more than 10 per cent Of all
cases, a few Of the germs can be
found in the throat two weeks
after all signs Of the disease
seem to have disappeared from
the throat, and in per cent
Of the cases the germs still are
found in the throat four weeks
after the child is apparently well
1t is the duty of the physician
in charge Of the patient to pro-
nounce it well, and he will not
wish to do this as long as the
germs still are in the throat.
Sometimes when the germs per-
sist for longer than three or four
weeks it is necessary to use active
antiseptics in the throat, and in a
few instances the germs have per-
sisted until the tonsils Of the child
have been removed.
NEXT: Importance of early
diagnosis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The
IN pound rises on reports that
England will pay her December
war debt installment. The rea-
son is not obscure. Confidence in
England's ability and intentions
has been restored. Those who re-
garded her position as shaky are
answered.
The world needs more such an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

and if proper treatment is given
Immediately.
If child complains of sickness,
and particularly Of sore throat
of the type mentioned. physician
should examine it promptly.
A physician should 1. be sum-
moned Immediately if the child
complains Of swelling Of the neck
or of any croupy condition with
hoarSeness.
Early attention is particularly
important in small children, be-
cause IS per cent Of the deaths
from the disease usually occur in
the first five years of life.
Children are much more likely
to catch 'diphtheira than are
grown people
Moreover, the disease is likely to
get a better start in a child, be-
fore it is properly diagnosed and
treated, than in the case Of a
grown-up person.
The child should not be released
to play with other children until
il has been pronounced free from
the germs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

SWerS. '1IlSIS LIDO
been altogether
too niue talk
about what could
not be done. The
pleading of pow
erty, to get out
of this or that
obligation, h a S
accomplished lit
tie but to blind
people with fear.
1t is time that
leaders of men
began to stress
thos e t hin 6 S
which can and
zl.oHII L0 IAToo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01


that, after a hard day in the Office, a husband
should enjoy above all things, staying up most of
the night at lively party.
The minute John comes home he is told to
hop into some fresh clothes, and the gay round
begins Too much liquor is served at all these shin
digs If hostesses did not provide plenty of gn the
probabilities are that the men would all fall to
snoring before dessert AS it IS they dine and dance
like automatons or wax maudlin with WEAKNESS and
waSsail.
NEEN in times like these need privacy and plenty
AVA Of sleep OF the former. many American hus-
bands get none. OF the latter, too little. After
strenuous day at work when all his faculties must be
alert, a man comes home to the often inconsequen-
tal chatter of his wife, who is bored slightly by the
monotony of domestic routine. to the shouting of
his children, or the screeching of neighbours radio
From dawn to dark he has not a moment to com
mune with his heart, to coddle himself. to sit
quietly with his pipe and book.
The bread winner in every home should have at
least an hour of each day TO alone This period of
peace will grid him about with strong armor and
send him forth renewed spirit and invigorated in
heart.
Remember: Better a dry morsel ard quietness
herewith than house fun Of sacrifices with
strife"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01
Just Plain Sense
BIZ MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

OOOD but socially minded women almost as
~ devastating to the man power of the country as
war or bad whisky or runaway automobiles. They
contrive to kill off good husband because they do
not use their brains for thinking
The men wear haggard look these days-and
business worries constitute only about half of their
cares.
The other half is brought on by the t1otting about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-01

they are obliged to do after bust
ness hours by wives who gener-
ally are IN a fret to keep up their
bridge games and who want to
dance as often as they did before
prosperity disappeared around the
corner.
Most of this, to be sure, is caused
by Ignorance. knowing little about
the high nervous pressure which
must be endured in the downtown