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sented here before the meeting of
the optical Society Of America by
zarmair zakarian, of the city.
Zakarian conducted his studies on
the color choices OF flies under ac-
tual working conditions as they &C.
cur in cleaning establishments,
because flies constitute a major
problem in the cleaning and dyeing
industry by their i'll habit of leav-
ing specks on delicately tinted ia
brics.
In general, the experimenter said,
flies prefer white, cream and other
light colored garments
The American deer has no gall
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AGAINST BEER (16)

AGAINST BEER Q6)
DEMOCRATS 90
Ballard Lochard
Brandon Perkins
Brewster Rupert
Cunningham Swihart
German
REPUBLICANS Cd
Brown ShulI
CARROT TOrmOhIen
Schiller Trent
Sherwood
ABSENT OR NOT VOTING IA
DEMOCRATS "a
Albright Miller
Druley Raber
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Senate and House Vote
on Bone Dry Act Repeal
FOR REPEAL (S4)

Vote of the Indiana senate on the
Wright bone-dry law repeal bill on
Friday afternoon was as follows:
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Phone--RTley 1851
WEDNESDAY, FEB. IS. 1893.
A S22,OOO,OOO EVASION

After riding through almost an entire session
without discussing direct relief for the hungry
the senate has capped its evasion by giving the
Of transient youth TO the army
To the army appropriation bill $22,0O0,00O was
added for citizens military training camps to &C
commodate $4,000 Of the estimated 100000 boys
roaming the country without jobs.
AS a method of increasing the army appropria-
ton at a time Of needed economy, this method is
very effective. But for solving a serious social
problem it would be difficult to find a method.
Social workers and government experts are
agreed and so stated during the recent hearings
on the Cutting bill, that these transient youths
should not be isolated in large concentration camps
far from home.
General Pelham D. Gassford who has been
travelling among these homeless boys to study con-
ditions recommended to the committee that civilian
camps should not include more than $50 boys and
preferably 500. Grace Abbott, chief of the United
States childrens bureau, pointed out that large
federal camps would attract many who otherwise
would stay at home" thus increasing rather than
decreasing the problem
Social workers emphasized that these proposed
large military camps would create the serious
difficulties which surrounded the army environments
during the war.
Just because our army is efficient as an army,
# is not equipped to be a school and home and
place of employment for young boys made tramps
by the depression Instead of pauperizing the boys
by inviting them to remain in army camp for
one year, as the senate proposes, they should be
handled in small units by trained workers, intent
on getting them back to their homes and to work
as possible
This half-baked legislation Is a sample OF what
happens when congress ignores explosive situa-
ton for many months, and then suddenly pulls
cure-all out of its hat as a gesture between APP
preparation bills.
1t is high time that this evasion Of the vast relief
program be stopped First and immediate job OF
congress is to provide quick relief through local
agencies for the millions who are hungry and cold
The La Toilette Costigan and Wagner bills cover
ing the many-sded relief needs are ready for action
But nothing is done.
Senator La Toilette just has warned the senate
that it must begin night sessions and that rather
than permit adjournment of congress without action
he will force the issue.
Senator La Toilette is too patient. He should
force the issue today-every day more people go
hungry every night more people go cold
vote should be forced now in which every
member of congress is made to declare himself Tor
feeding or for starving the unemployed.
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plus over and above their practical desires for
sumption, and who consequently are under the con-
slant incentive to invest large sums in unneeded
additional productive plant and will expend the in
from such taxation for services honestly rem
dered by those who otherwise would have no jobs,
and for goods honestly produced for which there
otherwise would be demand, then government
expense will be positive factor toward business
stability, and increase in expense will be posi-
tive means of promoting recovery"
Here we have a clear alternative: We can fol-
low those who have brought to ruin or those who
earnestly and intelligenty seek to build social
order which will justify continuance of human
life on our planet.
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IMPROVING COUNTRY LIFE

Theodore Roosevelt thought the improvement of
country life vital national need and appointed a
commission to study the problem.
Franklin D. Roosevelt also is interested in the
improvement of country life With a speed and
dehnteness that would do credit to the reputation
of the first President Roosevelt as man of action,
todays Roosevelt has done more than appoint a
commission.
Even before taking Office he announced con-
crete plan which has one of its principal objects
the improvement of country Hfe-the great scheme
for utilization of Muscle Shoals and other natural
resources of the Tennessee valley.
Mr.. Roosevelt thinks cheap government cleo
trcity distributed widely rural areas will bring
cheer comfort, and prosperity to country life, now
too often hopeless and drab
1t should decentralze industry, enabling indus
trial workers to live farms and furnishing pros
porous farm community to sell food to industrial
workers and absorb the products of industry.
T. RS commission, which reported in 1909 point
ed the need of soil conservation and reforestation
F. DIS plan provides for it.
T. RS commission was concerned with the short
age Of labor on the farm. F. DIS plan would re-
lieve unemployment.
THE strengthening Of country life is the strength
ening of whole nation" said Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt is acting integentIy on that
principle.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

.TOHN WESLEY wrote: 81 shall
y pass through this world but
once; any good thing that can
do, or any kindness that I can
show, let me not defer it or neg
lect it, for I shall not pass this
way again"
Wesley lived long life, a great
life, a self-spending life, leaving
in his will a few books, some silver
spoons, and a little money to pay
four poor men for carrying his
frail body to the grave.
Yet he wrought wonders, and
his ceaseless, tireless ministry
saved England from suffering a
French Revolution. No matter
where one goes. in England, one
learns that Wesley preached there,
at one time or another, in his be-
nign laborS for the good of men.
He knew tina twhat men need is
not more money, but more faith,
more virtue, more love, and he
spent his days in telling men to
love God and serve their fellow
men.
Wesley knew that time is short
If we do not use the swift and
awful gift of life, we lose it. For
him the certainty of death was
the conservation of life, the
strength of life, the spur to action,
as it must be to us.
What we do must be done quick
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It Seems to Me j.. by Haywood Broun

1T is announced that an appeal
- will be made to the public to
contribute 100000 to save the
Metropolitan Opera Company.
Soon, I suppose, we will hear the
plaintive appeal, Brother can you
spare a diva?"
And my answer to that would
be, 81 think I might manage to
scrape along"
Certainly it would be a pity to
have opera disappear from the
life of New York, and, more than
that, from the life Of the nation.
But I see no particular reason
why the public should be called
upon to support an institution
which is archaic in many of it's
fundamental phases.
The present organization has
done and continues to do much
excellent work, but consideration
for the public has never been one
of its major concerns. The opera
as it stands is of the vintage of
the gay '90s in both its residence
and its social aspects. The golden
horseshoe is a dim reminder of
the days when there was a Ward
McAllister and four hundred.
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Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IF the American woman ever believed that the
American man was capable of dealing with ma
tional emergencies efficiently, sensiby and inteli-
gently, surely by now she has learned her mistake
For the most striking thing about the state OF
national and world affairs is the complete break.
down of what used to term "hard-headed bust
ness sense"
Men, you know always have smiled benignly at
feminine idealism. They have called us sentiment
talists and assured that the larger issues never
could be met with idealistic methods.
Perhaps they are right. But the present, think,
proves conclusively that their practical" theories
will not work any better Indeed, nothing ever has
Topped with such resounding and devastating re-
verberations as that famed masculine competitive
system
We may not save the world through idealism
alone but we never shall be able to preserve our
selves without it.
GAZE if you please upon the modern scene.
- What scurryings of fear, what a panic of be-
wilderment! What death of intelligence what
an utter lack of humanitariansm is displayed by
the men who have proclaimed themselves our
leadersi
While the nation staggers toward ruin what do
they do? Mostly they talk-about tariffs, about ma
tionalism, about They speak the same jargons
that were used by kings in the dark ages, jargons
that now are useless and without meaning.
Are they concerned very much about human be-
ings? Do they know that schools are closing all
the United States, that multtudes of boys are
becoming tramps and that there is no work for the
people? No. With their heads made hard by their
doctrines of practically they do not comprehend
that none Of the old things will work.
1t is a new idealism that We must have. COM
plete economic structure must be built. And to
do that we shall have to develop fresh vision. And
If world is to be saved, unselfshness-the kind
of unsefshneSs that mothers know-win have to be
used. The methods Of business, men and politicians
will longer Selfshne.s, greediness hatreds
all have failed.
Idealism sincerity generosity, loving kindness
all have failed
IdealiSm, sincerity, generosity, loving kindness,
the Christian virtues, untred. Why not see
what they can do2
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Premature Child Can Be Saved

A MATURE baby is one that is
IN born at the end of period
from 270 to 300 days, and which
weighs more than five pounds. A
premature baby is one born in a
smaller period of time and not
fully developed.
A child which is born too soon is
usually small and puny weighing
anywhere from two to five pounds.
Such children usually are weak,
feeble and difficult. to keep alive.
However, competent medical at
tention now is able to take child
born prematurely and, by keeping
it under proper conditions, cause
it to grow and develop in such
manner that it is thereafter quite
Up to child born under normal
conditions.
One of the chief difficulties in
bringing a premature child to sue
cessful growth is the regulation of
its temperature. The premature
child has an irregular tempera-
ture because of the failure Of
regulation of heat by its own
body,
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SCIENCE
Technocracy Folds Up
BY DAVID DIETz

movement, namely, the fact that
the people in authority in the
present economic system are on
the lookout for help.
They realize that the economic
machinery is not functioning as
we'll as it should. They would
welcome advice.
That is why it may be that only
the first phase of Technocracy has
collapsed. Columbia university,
according to its own announce
ment, is continuing a study of the
fundamental problem in its school
of engineering. No doubt, other
institutions have been stimulated
to similar study.
Many readers will find the final
chapter of Raymond's book the
most interesting. 1t is titled, 1.-THE
Plain Man Looks at Technocracy."
I think Raymond speaks truly
when he says that the average
man in America is not going to
give up the processes of demo-
cratic government for the rule of
some sort of soviet of engineers.
But Raymond says that there
is a general feeling throughout the
country that our financial leaders
have been racketeering."
He adds, THE people of this
country have, through their gov
ernmental agencies, ample means
to control the functioning of the
industrial system.
One of their most powerful
weapons is the right to tax-which
is the right to conf1scate. The
public's weapon of last resort is a
capital levy. 1t yet may be
welded"
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1--WE are here today and tomor-
row gone. We have all the time
there is-just one moment, and it
is gone before we know it. If
we are to do any good we must do
it now or never.
MACH day is little life; each
Il night a little death. There
never will be another day like to-
day. Other days there may be,
but they will be different, and
each will have its duty and joy.
It is this once-ness of life that
is the secret sorrow at the heart
of every joy, which yet heightens
the joy. Every joy gets its glow
from the fact that it comes but
once. Unless we see it, seize it,
and use it, we miss it utterly.
Why is each day so important?
Because it does not come back. A
fire breaks out of eternity and
burns up time. 1t is this back
ground Of death that gives life its
depth, its urgency, its precious
ness.
Its f1eetingness is both its pa
thos and its glory. 1t is too short
for hate; it is only long enough to
love. If you have any good deed
to do, any kind word to speak, in
the name of God do it now-do
not waitl
Copyright. 1893. United Features
SVndicatal
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Parade for Idle Rich

A ND then there is a mad
- scurrying to carry out one
investiture and rush in the next.
In spite of these handicaps most
of the shows have been hand
somely mounted.
Sometimes the hand of Urban
seems to rest a little too heavily
upon the sets, but by and large
they are at least more modern
than the musty corridors and
lounges.
Moreover, most Of the perform
anceS are much smoother than
might be expected in such cramped
quarters. But with all the motion
picture houses going into chateauX,
it seems a pity that 100000, or So
for that matter, should be con-
tributed to maintain the shabby
genteel atmosphere Of the Met.
In the last two seasons the opera
has become more than parade
ground for the idle rich. The OPP
portunity to hear the voices broad
cast has been eagerly received by
millions of listeners. They have a
distinct stake in saving grand
opera in America. But they can
not be expected to bleed and die
for the Met.
1t may be argued that these in
visible listeners should have no
voice in the fate of the institution,
since they have merely had the
performances dropped in their
laps and have paid nothing. I
think they have spiritual rights,
and I will agree that they should
also be allowed a chance to de-
velop material ones as well,
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"ECHNOCRACY is itself proof
i of one of its own claims;
namely. the acceleration of activ-
itv in the modern world. Despite
the tremendous haste with Wnlch
hook publishers hurried to ling
volumes about Technocracy upon
the market, they hardly we're able
to keep pace with the collapse Oh
the original movement.
No sooner had six books made
their appearance upon the shelves
of the booksellers from COLUMBIA
university announced that it had
parted company with Howard
Scott, until that time recognized
as the chief of the technocrats.
SCOTS departure from Columbia
however, does not seem to nave
ended public interest in the subject
of Technocracy, for booksellers in
MANY parts of the nation report
that the books on the subject are
among their best sellers.
The New Yorker magazine, a
smart commentator upon the
affairs of the day, says that the
technocratic boom lasted just thlr-
tv-one days. 1t dates its rise to
Importance with the publication
of an article in the January issue
of Harper's magazine written by a
prepayment of the neW order
which hailed Technocracy as the
Gloom of the price system"
1t dates its collapse with an ar.
ticle in the February issue OF
Scribner's magazine written by an
opponent of Technocracy, winch
termed the subject ''bunk.
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COMMON SENSE IN TAXATION

This is the season of income taxes. Those OF
us fortunate enough to have the opportunity to pay
them are likely to be filled with sentiments OF an
noyance rather than of gratitude.
It will not pay however, to leu our personal in
dignation overwhem our social vision Otherwise
we may have to pay more in some later year or be
deprived entirely of the highly exclusive privilege OF
paying taxes.
One pertinently may remind the plutocrat who
frantcaly is demanding the reduction OF taxes that
no one has to pay them in Russia.
1t is for such consideration that we may call at
tention to an unusually statesmanlike article on
Can Taxes Be Lowered?' in the Virginia Quar-
terlv Review, by Henry Pratt Fairchild and Will
liam L. Num-.
AS the corner stone of their doctrine, they lay
down the following sensible propostions THE test
of expenditure by government is not its volume
but it's results. The justihability of government
expenditures and the wisdom of government econ
omy, are to be judged not at all by the magnitude
of the funds involved but by the sources from which
they come AMI the ends to which they 60"
From this standpoint, the authors examine the
present tax system and the contentious of the tax
reductionists
What are the sources of our economic malady?
They are not difficult to discern They are Cd
Too little purchasing power in the hands of the
masses due to inequalities in distribution of the
social income-i. e. too low wages and too much
unemployment and too great liquidation of Ameri-
can agriculture; 90 cast excess of productive plant
and the tendency to divert even of the social
income into creating additional unnecessary equip
ment: 90 the rape of sound industry by specula-
tive finance and a. the lack of balance between the
production of goods and of services for human con-
sumption-too many goods and too few services.
How does the program Of the tax reductionists
line up with respect to these weaknesses in Ameri-
can societyP 1t simply adds fuel to the already
sumng flame. 1t proposes to make the poor-al-
ready inadequate consumers-pay more than their
share of the social burden through indirect taxes
sales taxes, and the like.
1t proposes to protect the rich, far possible,
from further burdens, that they can have more
money to put into unnecessary productive plant
thus freezing up more funds.
Finally the tax reductionists attack first Of all
those services which the best proof of civilized
existence. Their practical offensive involves the
abolition Of school gardens and teacher training
schools; elimination of medical inspection school,
rooms; eliminating adult education classes voca-
tional guidance work summer schools and fire pre-
vention departments; cutting into appropriations of
museums, libraries hospitals, homes for the aged
and handicapped. :"
Moreover, the money saved is left in the hands
OF those who already have ruined U.S.
Professors Fairchild and Mum close with broad
statement of the principles Of sound taxation:
IF the government will use ITS taxing. power to
reduce the incomes OF these who have large sur
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development when it is safe to
turn it over to its parents.
Wherever there are available
stations for the care of premature
babies it is possible to save large
majority of those who are born.
Out Of 1,041 infants admitted
to one station for premature ba-
bies, 500 lived and we're trans
ferred to their homes.
If all Of those who died in the
first twenty-four hours after birth
are excluded, it is found that 30
per cent are saved.
If a child is born prematlrely
without any physical defects, if
its parents are healtfuI and if it
has been able to take an ample
amount of mothers milk, it is
likely to survive.
1t is found that from the sec
ond or third year on, these pre-
mature infants gradually CO tch up
with normally born infants and
that any differences have disap-
peared by the time the child is
IL or II years old
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS F1sHBE1N
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

The competent expert in the
care Of premature babies ar
ranges, through use of incubators
of one type or another, to supply
it with sufficient warmth of a
regular character and with suffi-
cient humidity to keep it safely
until its own regulating system
develops.
OBVIOUSLY, child below par
- because of insufficient devel-
opment is easily subject to infec-
ton and must be guarded care
fully against contact with those
who are likely to transmit infec-
ton to it.
It must be understood that a
child born prematurely demands
the most careful attention, pref
erably in an institution, until it
has reacned the stage of physical
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Mr.. TAILOR SMqqests

Deems Taylor made what seems
to me an excellent suggestion.
He said in a recent talk that the
opera readily could be maintained
if every radio fan who tuned in
agreed to pay an admission fee of
a penny for each performance.
Mr.. Taylor made the conserva-
tive estimate that there might well
be between four and five million
listeners and that if as many as
one million paid their pennies a
sum Of $4,000 would be realized,
which would just about cover the
cost of each performance.
don't want to seem greedy, but
I think the fee might well be
stepped up to a nickel. have
heard operas worth at least that.
If it is true that America has
a genius for organization, there
should be no great trouble in
working out plan by which opera
might be nationally controlled and
financed through some such radio
fee. Indeed, instead of talking
about bandoning opera this
would be an excellent time to
found two houses.
We should have, in addition to
the major house, an opera comique,
which would serve as a sort
of proving ground for young COM
poSerS and singers.
There is ample precedent in
other countries already to prove
that Wagner and Verdi really can
go on even without any friendly
pat on the head from Mrs. Fish
back and Mr.. Montmorency.
(Copyright 1888 by The Times)
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So They Say

We take up art because it gives
us chance TO show off.-Lorado
Taft, famous sculptor.
A man should be able to leave
home for his days work, whether
it is to his Office or factory, with
the same zest and joy with which
he starts on a camping or fish
ing trip.-Dr Goodwin Watson of
Columbia university.
The success Of censor or a
dictator automatically is precluded
by the prodigious self-esteem
which enables him to permit his
elevation to such a post.-Stefan
Asch, essayist.
A grinder without a monkey Is a
lost man.-Nick D'Egidio, organ
grinder, whose trio of trained
monkeys persisted in rooming
house fire after accusing occu-
pants.
From my experience 2.75 beer
doesn't taste like much. However,
there re a lot of people who
don't know the difference between
ginger pop and dynamite.-Izzy
Einstein, former "ace" prohibition
agent.