Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 December 1938 — Page 3

THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2,1938.

“Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought.”

Average hourly wages in the automobile industry today are 92 cents per hour.

Postage on books has been greatly reduced. Now, regardless of distance in the United States books may be sent at a flat postage rate of 1 1-2 cents per pound.

The Government settlement oi 200 families at Matanuska Valley, Alaska, has dwindled to 164 fam ilies.

First Germany, then Poland, and lately Hungary took parts of Chechoslovakia. “It will not be long now.”

There is an oil boom at Santa Claus, Indiana, Who said: “There ain’t no Santa Claus?” Several million new “Jefferson” nickles have been coined recently | and will be released soon.

Mfe Much Safer For Americans and Canadians

New York.—The populations of the United States and Canada not only are healthy, but they are growing even healthier, insurance statistics reveal. A survey for the first nine months of 1938, as compared with 1937, showed the following decreases: Influenza-pneumonia deaths, 34.5 per cent. Automobile fatalities, 16.3 per cent. Tuberculosis deaths, 10.2 per cent. Childbirth and maternity mortality, 10.1 per cent. Deaths from accidents other than automobiles, 7.4 per cent. Homicide rate, 8,5 per cent. Cerebral hemorrhage death rate, 2.4 per cent. Mortality from kidney ailments, 3.6 per cent.

Aluminum has declined in price from $8 per pound in 1886 to the present low price of 20 cents pei pound.

One amusement concession at the New York World's Fair will of fer fair visitors a chance to make parachute jumps.

At age 70, Amos Alonso Stage was dismissed as football coach from the University of Chicago be cause of his age. Recently Coach Staeg, now 76, returned to Chicago with his football squad from the lit tie college of the Pacific and trounced the University of Chicago by a score of 34 to 0.

Seventy-five years ago, Novem her 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Ad dress.

A new apple syrup is being placed on the market. It is made from concentrated apple juice by boiling of the ^ater in vacuum pans.

A lady may get a marriage license in Illinois without either telling her exact age or par hiring herself. But to get an Illinois ear driver’s licence she is required by law to tell the exact date of ha: birth.

Nearly 2.500.000 acres of land in Michigan is now owned by the state. ^ .

Latest health bulletins show that Tularemia, the rabbit disease, is on the increase.

At Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Sadie Hawkins had her artificial leg stolen from her sick bedside. However, a policeman found the leg a few days later at a local pawnshop.

The Department of Agriculture reports that there are only about ene-half as many work horses in this country as forty years agf find that the present number w : 1T he steadily decreased from year to year. Each year in the United States the average rate of patented in vent'nn's is about 160 per million population; in Switzerland 93P patents per million.

In Russia women startMrawins pensions at the age of 55 and the men at the age of 60. The pensions are about half their former wages.

At West Point (U. S. Military Academy) it is against the ru 1 e c and regulations for a cadet to have a mustache, wife, or horse.

“I would rather be a builder Of castles made of air, To be rebuilded every day, And dwell in fancy there With ev’rything to make me g!ad The doors are closed to gloom, And sunlight of tomorrow Shining into everv room. Then ever keep within the walls Of sad things, past or now. For though my castles cannot last They’re cheering anyhow. And so I build and build again, Rebuild from day to day. And some time the Master Builder May let my castles stay.”

“HOT DOGS” PUT TOGETHER San Francisco. — Promoters of the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition are still juggling with the number of “hot dogs” which thev have estimated will be eaten during the fair. This time, thev have stretched the “hot does” out together and have figured they would reach 273 miles.

London.— A man who alle>--edlv trained his five sens as confidence tricksters was- sentenced to six months imprisonment in London on a charge of having been concerned —5*’- 'Si- o--, n j n atfenin+in" to steal 8750 bv a trick from a New Zealand storekeeper.

SITE SURVEYED OF 1736 BATTLE

Washington.—Smithsonian Institution, in cooperation with the National Park Service, is exploring the site of the French-Indian battle at Ackia, Miss., with view to the possible establishment of a national monument. On that battlefield the French under Sieur de Vienville were decisively defeated on May 20, 1736, by the Chickasaw Indians, marking an initial turn in the tide against the French in the early stage of their long struggle with the British for control of the Mississippi Valley. Henry B. Collins, Jr., archaeologist, is now making the local survey of the battle site near the present town of Tupelo, Miss., and will try to delimit the actual ground/ 1 covered by the battle, which was in effect a siege of a palisaded Indian town. Statement by Institute The Smithsonian Institution, discussing the project, said in part: “This three-hour engagement, in which the French colonial troops were handicapped by lack of artillery and the Indians were supposedly directed by English traders, may have had a significant effect, at the time unappreciated, on the long struggle between the two empires for the possession of territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi. “The Chickasaws long had been hostile to the French and friendly to the English. Bienville had planned to crush them in a vise between his own troops, and a French force under General d’Artaguette which was moving southward from the ‘Illinois territory.’ The latter never arrived, and it was later learned, it had been cut to pieces by a Chicasaw ambush. The Indians had taken many prisoners and burned some of them at the stake.

THE GERMAN MENACE

Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.— When President Roosevelt commented on the Nazi brutality and said he “could scarcely believe that such things could occur in twentieth century civilization” he voiced the “deeply shocked public opinion” of his countrymen. The German Government is regarded in Washington as a grave menace to all nations of the civilized world. So far as the United States is concerned our position has become "err complicated and it is to be hoped that there will be no hotheaded, rash movements either on the part of leaders in the Administration, or Congress, or among the majority and minority parties to precipitate a situation like that of 1917. The national . movement that favors a great establishment fer national defense has had an addition pnt on. by the President’s suggestion to the 21 American Republics and Canada that they should participate in preparedness solidarity for the Western Hemisphere. Signs of a German menace closely resemble the days of 191418. Nevertheless, a military plan ’’or the entire Western Hemisphere is a matter that goes beyond the authority of the United States, its Administration head, or even the Congress. Besides it is playing with fire. These are serious days that we are living through. But how swiftly the sands of time run: From November 8 and for a full week thereafter the whole country was in a feverish heat over the results of the election. Seven days later election controversies made way for new discussions about national defense, that expanded over-night, from the Arctic Ocean to Cape Horn.

MIDGET CYCLE MODELED

London.—What is believed to be the world’s smallest motor-bicycle, exact in every detail, is being fashioned by Reginald Crothall, a 22-year-old unemployed electrical engineer of Camberwell. The model is built to a scale of 1 3-4 inches to a foot.

In the United States, it requires about eight years and 85000 to develop one acre of date palms to the point where the grower begins reaping returns. A scientist has estimated that all the clouds on earth rolled into one would weigh 613,800,000 pounds. It is possible to see an eclipsed moon while the sun is visible.

France Fears German Air Mastery Of Africa If Colonies Are Yielded

Paris—The Munich agreement has made the French more accessible to the idea of eventually returning Germany’s former colonies. Official and semi-official statements make it clear that the government is considering the possibility of surrendering mandated territories of Cameroon and Togo as the price for a general settlement with Germany should Adolf Hitler include that demand as part of his price for peace. Premier Edouard Daladier in his speech to the Radical Socialist party annual convention in Marseilles said the French colonial empire is “intangible.” In view of the fact that the mandated territories are not legally part of the empire it must be assumed the premier does not consider them inalienable property of France. Le Temps in an editorial the following day said: “The eventual recognition of the Reich’s colonial vocation is another question that doesn’t only concern 'the beneficiaries of the Treaty of Versailles but all the powers possessing col-

onies.”

Question Squarely Faced It is clear from these statements that official quarters are now facing the question of restoring France’s share of colonial lands taken from Germany after the World war. The principal arguments advanced for 20 years against the return of the mandated territories have been virtually discarded and supplanted by a new theory now advanced by French imperialists that the return of the mandated territories would constitute a costly strategic error in colonial de-

fense.

It is interesting to note that the Munich agreement and Germany’s crushing trade offensive down through the Balkans and into Turkey have brought an end to the time-old French argument that the Reich has no aptitude for colonial administration. The enormous gap revealed between Germany’s ability to organize and France’s inability to solve her own domestic problems apparently has convinced most Frenchmen of the uselessness of insisting the Reich

has no colonial genius.

The Munich agreement also has had the effect of getting the French to ( place the colonial problem in its proper perspective

portance in French trade. Natives Poor Soldiers * Even from a military point of view the two territories can supply little help to France in event of war. The natives are considered poor soldiers, and no effort has been made to draft levies for military service. France’s colonial army is principally composed of Senegalese. The “French colonial empire” is identified in the people’s mind with such territories as Algeria, Morrocco, Tunis, Indo-China, with West and Equatorial Africa occupying a position of secondary importance. Neither in trade, size, population, mineral wealth, military potentialities do the territories of the Cameroons and Toga occupy a position of considerable importance to the French. The “strategic’’ arguments advanced by imperialists against the return of these territories appear to be the fundamental objection behind all claims put forward in the past 20 years. o Life Prisoner Offers Thanks in 6,000 Words Florence, Arix.—William Faltin, who has been in the Arizona state prison longer than any other man, and who may be there for the rest of his life, has written a 6-000-word letter thanking an Arizona woman for a $1 bill, a poppy, ana some verses of Scripture. He did not know her name and probably never will, for the unidentified woman sent her gifts through the governor’s office, “for the convict longest confined in the state prison at Florence.” Faltin, who has been there 26 years serving a life sentence for murder, philosophically wrote: “Life’s length is not measured by the hours and days^ but by that which we have done therein for our country and kind. A useless life is short, if it last a century, but that of Alexander was long as the life of the oak, though he died

at 35.

“We may do much in a few years, and we may do nothing in a lifetime. If we but eat and drink

power politics and not on the f and sleep, and let everything go on

plane of Germany’s colonial aptitudes or economic requirements. Fear For Vulnerability French imperialists who oppose the return of mandated territories today argue that the surrender of the Cameroons, for example, would threaten the territorial unity of French West Africa and Equatorial Africa by giving the Germans control of Lake Chad, which is only 600 miles by air from the southern confines of Italian Libya. Before the World war that stretch of barren waste would have proved an insuperable obstacle, but a modern air force would make the liaison between the Germans and Italians a matter of fact and imperil the isolated military posts which enforce French sovereignity. The same colonial school therefore argues that the Rome-Berlin axis would be automatically prolonged to the Congo, thus obtaining air mastery in the African

skies.

The Cameroons have two seaports, Douala and Kibri, which could be developed into seaplane submarine or small naval bases, while Togoi could provide air bases. Trade Might Be Cut Off The Germans, according to this school of French thought, could threaten maritime trade with West and South Africa, imperil imperial French communications, disrupt control of central Africa through air contact with the Italians in

Libya.

An inventory of the Cameroons and Togo confirm the view that the foregoing objections of a strategic order to a return of these territories are probably the only valid arguments the French possesses against Germany’s colonial demands. In the peace settlement after the World war, France obtained the better and larger part' of the two former colonies, while the British, who received much greater rewards in other parts of the African continent, got small sections. The Cameroons cover 431,320 square kilometers, with the apex touching several shores of Lake Chad. The population of natives is approximately 3,000,000, with 2,400 whites. Togo’s area is 56,000 square kilometers, with a population of 762,000 natives and 2,000 whites. The chief produce of the two territories consists of cocoa beans, palm oil, butternuts and cotton seed. Cameroons Not Productive Cameroons’ total volume of exports and imports is approximately $5,000,000 annually, which is a fairly good index of that territory’s economic importance. It is equipped with some 300 miles of railways and 2,500 miles of roads. No figures are available on French capital investments in the Cameroons and Togo, but the relatively infinitesimal trade with the two territories would indicate that such investments have been rather small. There have been such improvements as docks, wharves, railv/ays and motor roads, but here again such developments have been of minor importance compared with the*-great sums invested in Morocco, Algeria and Indo-China, which Occupy a position of first im-

around us as it pleases, we might as well not have lived at all. “To defend weakness against strength, the friendless against the great, the oppressed against the oppressor.’’ He sent with his letter a gift in return, a serving tray made in

his cell.

INDIANA PLAN VINDICATED In these troublesome and perlous times, the Indiana Plan for selling labor disputes stands out as the pattern for the nation. In Indiana Gov. M. Clifford Townsend established his Labor Divisions for preventing strikes before they start, for bringing -peace before bittorness made it difficult or impossible. Quarrels within the ranks of labor have caused party defeat in other states, notable Pennsylvania and Michigan. In this state, labor stood shoulder to shoulder in the defense of victories won and in the hope of greater gains. A strike, said Governor Townsend, is foolish and senseless. The do is to refuse to work. Every most violent thing that labor can merchant and every farmer, every manufacturer and every professional man, is affected. Its philosophy is as old as Scripture and as young as tomorrows hope. The interests of all business depends upon the earning power of each and every citizen. When even one man stops earning, the buying power of all is concefned. Indiana has come through without serious trouble. For that, the policy of Indiana must be held responsible. The Governor did stop strikes before they started. He did protect the interests of every citizen. He did bring peace by conference instead of bludgeons and bullets. There are still many problems of labor to be settled. There are still differences within its ranks. There are still selfish employers who would follow the abandoned theory that work is a commodity, to be bought and sold in the open market. Both labor and business are looking for a remedy that will work. For such a solution, Indiana offers her labor policies as a pattern. It has worked in Indiana. It will work elsewhere.

ended.

The election is one step forward in the formation into definite liberal and conservative parties. There is room enough in these parties for all citizens. There will never be the illogical grouping of voters into block such as exist in France and at times in England. And it is because of this very definite two-party system that Republican gains are perhaps well for the country, unpalatable as the loss of some outstanding Democrats may be. For, there must always be a party of protest, a party of the minority. After 1936, it appeared that the Republican party had lost its usefulness as even a protest party. Its death was freely predicted. But it showed unexpected virility and now returns. It has gathered together all the Old Guard. It appears as the champion of conservatism, not liberalism, and in this role can perform useful service, if it does not misinterpret its gains to an endorsement of things as they are, and can recognize the fact that a new day demands

changes.

Democracy is safe only as long as the two-party system is saved, Progress may be slower, but surer. o— RICHMOND STATE HOSPITAL PIONEERS WITH SHOCK

TREATMENT

Encouraging and hopeful results in use of the metrazol and insulin “shock” treatments are reported at Richmond State Hospital by Dr. Richard A. Schillinger. The treatment, begun last summer in cooperation with Dr. George C. Stevens, director of the Division of Medical Care, State Department of Public Welfare, has already rehabilitated a number of dementia preacox patients at the hospital and extends unlimited promise to hundreds of mental sufferers in

Indiana today

Both the insulin and metrazol treatments are used exclusively for persons ill with dementia praecox, or schizophrenia, the most common type of mental illness Doctors at the hospital explained that the name “dementia praecox” is misleading in both words, since there is no real dementia or disintegration involved and the disease does not always start in youth. They prefer the term schizophrenia, which im-

plies “split though.” The

phrenic suffers trom an intense desire to escape from the world of reality and to become absorbed in a realm of fancy, where dreams arei realized without effort. He is reluctant to exert any effort, and

Signs Of The Times

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Health of members of the Indiana House of Representatives is going to have a distinct bearing on the laws enacted at the General Assembly opening Jan. 5. Unless the recounts change the set-up, there will be 51 Republican members and 40 Democratic members. Should illness keep two Republican members from the floor, and ail Democrats are present, the latter group will be able to pass or defeat bills. This is possible because it takes a majority of members of the House—51—to pass a bill and not a majority of those voting. In almost every session there is either death or serious illness which alters the political line-up. In the 1937 session of the House for instance, James A. Moody of Fremont, a Republican, died. Two Democrats, William H. Lee of Princeton and Joseph W. Cubby of Terre Haute, missed many roll calls on account of illness. You may see party leaders keeping a close watch on the health of their respective House members. One bad cold might change the complex of their entire legislative program.

You cannot eat your cake and have it, but the Republican party is pledged to a balance-the-budget program and the G.O.P. Congress-men-elect in Indiana are pledged to spending more money. A screwy situation, indeed. It will be interesting to watch how they are going to fulfill both promises. During the recent campaign the Republican candidates for Congress promised the aged men and women of their districts that they ought to get larger pensions and, if they were elected, would see to it that they did. The Republican candidates went so far as to promise to support the Townsend Pension Plans. The question arises as to whether these Republican Congressmen can deliver. The amount

schizo- i of pensions depends on the ability

of government to raise the money. Will Harness, Gillie, Landis, Johnson, Halleck, Grant and Springer advocate higher or new taxes to obtain money for the aged per

sons? If they do, the conservative there is a shifting of the metabolic Republicans, principally the busi-

TO PARTY GOVERNMENT

This is a two-story government and will remain so. This is the unquestioned' result of the election. It will, in all probability, end all talk of independent parties or of split parties. Until protest becomes great enough to replace one of the present parties and capture it, the people will go on voting Democratic and Republican tickets. Two third parties which had ruled in this country disappeared. The Progressives were definitely born in protest against the Republican party and obtained power in Wisconsin. In Minnesota the Farmerlabor pally arose from the same cause. They lingered long after their purpose ‘ and usefulness hud

emphasis in the direction of the conservation of energy as opposed to any kind of activity. There are numerous theories to explain the effects of both the insulin and the metrazol treatments, but there seems to bf induced in the patient a rather violent urge’ of the metabolic accent in the direction of expending energy, and eventually some of these patients return to the point where they are again ready to accept the challenges of life. Whatever the cause of improvement may be, the coming of the new treatment has entirely altered the attitude of mental institutions, too often concerned with little more than a custodial program in the past, and has directed their thinking toward an enlarged medical program. The effects of watching a hurt, baffled or split personality unfold to normal attitudes are said to be so gratifying that the techniques learned at the Richmond hospital will soon be recommended to physicians who care for mental patients in other state institutions. Metrazol shock treatment was originated in Budapest in 1934 and appeared in the United States early in 1938. It was begun at Richmond State Hospital on July, 1938, with 22 patients: 11 men and 11 women. Two of these had suffered mental disorders for less than six months; the remaining 14 had experienced psychoses for more than two years. Each patient received in his veins three injections of metrazol each week until 20 to 30 doses had been given. After each injection of the synthetic compound, which is a heart stimulant in small doses, the patient was seized almost Immedialely with a convulsion which lasl ed approximately one-half minute. This was followed by a deep sleep for some time, after which the patient awakened feeling decidedly more

normal.

At the present time, the two patients disturbed less than six months are recoverd and have been furloughed home. Of the group troubled less than eighteen months two are recovered and have been returned home; two show great improvement and are no longer combative or violent; one shows only slight improvement; and one shows no appreciable improvement. Of the group having psychoses of more than two years’ standing, two are greatly improved and, while not completely recovered, have been sent home on furlough, this despite the fact that one of these patients had been mentally ill for ten years; seven are slightly improved and have been transferred to a quiet ward; five have failed to improve under the treatment. Since the metrazol treatments were begun with the original group 23 new patients have been added for this care. One case was of less than six months in duration; eight were of less than eighteen months; and 14 had been disturbed for more than two years. The case of less than six months duration now shows complete recovery and has been returned home; the case under eighteen monts is at present ready for furlough as being fully recovered; and the others are all showing improvement even before the treatment is com-

plsted.

ness men, are going to become plenty angry. If they don’t, their campaign pledges of higher pensions can never be kept. In either instance, when they come 6 ac ^ home in 1940 to campaign for reelection, they are going to find themselves doing a lot of explain-

ing.

ees for Congress w'ent out to win this last campaign. Their slogan seemed to be: “Stop at nothing that will get votes. Worry what to do after elected.” They tossed all good sense and judgment aside in their mania to win. Maybe it was because he had been beaten twice before that Gerald W. Landis, Linton High school coach, went the limit. Witness his endorsement of the Townsend Plan and the program of the General Welfare Federation of America, Inc., a rival of the Townsend movement. The General Welfare Federation originated in California and advocates the levying of a two per cent gross income tax to be collected, by the federal government which, it is claimed, would produce revenue for payment of pensions of $60 a month minimum. The General Welfare News-Advocate, official publication of the Federation, under date of Nov. 14, announces the names of the Congressman-elect who are pledged to the pension scheme. There is only one name

under Indiana. It’s Landis.

It is our pleasure to salute General Motors for a most constructive step to protect its workers against distress during layoffs. The General Motors Income Security Plan, just announced, is a frontal attack on economic insecurity, backed by the vast resources of this giant industrial organization. The plan guarantees to all hourly-wage employs with five years’ standing that their income during any week in the year shall never fall below 60 per cent normal. The company does this through a loan set-up, but these loans bear no interest and are to be repaid in work, not cash. An employe whpse normal pay is $40 a week can, if out of work, borrow up to 60 per cent, of $24 a week. When he returns to work, he repays by giving the corporation only a half of all his earnings about the 60 per cent, of $24, figure. Thus, when back on the job, if he earns $30 a week, he would repay his loan at the rate of $3 weekly. The American people are not content to remain insecure. If industry objects to government measures for security, it hurts its own case when it comes into the argument with empty hands. General Motors sets an example to all industry by showing that it is prepared to risk a substantial outlay in the name of security and the common good.

The cost of government is forever parade before taxpayers. The good done is many times nevermentioned. If people knew some of the Humanitarian things that the state welfare department is going, they would pay their taxes with less grumbling. For instance, in Lake county services to the blind as provided under the federal social security and state welfare acts have brought restoration of sight to three residents in recent months. Catarectoinies per-1

formed by specialists proved sue- paid—interest not being mention-

cessful in each instance. At- the present time 51 blind persons in Lake county are receiving financial assistance up to a maximum of $30 a month and 38 more are receiving treatment intended to restore sight or prevent total

blindness.

o — HOW TO GROW OLD; SCIENCE WILL SHOW YOU RIGHT.WAY * , * * San Francisco, Dec. 2. — The right and wrong ways of arriving at old age—insofar as science is concerned—will be demonstrated during the 1939 California World’s Fair by prominent medical research authorities. This was revealed in complete plans of the University of California medical exhibit for the Hall of Science on Treasure Island. The display will be made up of 16 units, each depicting some phase of the “March of Life” showing the triumphant course of medical science and the.manner in which it has turned aside plagues, disease, childbirth suffering and accident

mortality.

Dr. Karl F. Meyer, director of the Hooper Foundation for. Medical Research and chairman of the U. C. Medical Exhibit Committee, announced a series of elaborate transparencies will show the history of the individual from the prenatal period of senility, with a general descriptive panel being the informative key to each. Causes of diseases will be shown and accepted treatments described. Simplifying the “right and wrong way of arriving at old age,” the medical exhibit will liken the human body to two plots of land, one exposed to erosion, the other carefully attended through a conservation program. ' o WHAT HAS AMERICA TO FEAR

The events in Europe are of very serious concern, and they are increasingly serious because of events in Mexico that are more dk rect in their effect upon the U. S. Government. There are two reasons for the unusual interest shown by our Government and anxious counsellors like General Pershing, in regard to national defense, and those two reasons are Mexico and Germany. Those two countries are altogether too chummy in their trade relations. Outstanding debaters in Washington’s “Town Hall” discussed the “Betrayal of Munich” a few evenings ago. Almost at the same time the United States’ Department of State was patching up affairs resulting from the betrayal of Mexi-

co City.

Over a period of many years Mexico has been confiscating farm lands owned by American citizens. During the past ten years alone more than 10 million dollars worth of these properties were “expropriated”. For years the United

States has been pleading for the

The Indiana Republican nomin- ' rlgl } ts ^ citizens. Finally Mex-

sort of token, and it promises to pay that amount by May 31, 1939, and another million each year thereafter, until the 10 million is

ed.

The joker in the deck is found in the Mexican note of November 12, stating that the government “reaffirms” that it “has not acted contrary to the rules and principles of international law, of justice and equity.” Having been caught with the goods, and convicted in the eyes of its own intelligent nationals, it “takes pleasure in recognizing that the sentiments of cordial friendship which unite our two countries have in the end prevaled over differences of a technical and juridical order”. Such language interpreted into honest speech of the United States means that Mexico is promising 10 millions as a sort of bail bond, to strengthen its stipulation that these payments “shall not consitute a precedent, in any case nor for any reason.” By that subterfuge Mexico expects to hold possession of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of British, Dutch and United States oil properties. It’s worth 10 million dollars of dubious promises to the Cardenas regime to be able to retain its infinitely larger thefts. If Mexico would—tomorrow—cooperate with other Pan-American Republics in the “Good Neighbor Policy,” which is the cultural program” of the United States, matters would be entirely different, and the fear of becoming involved in a war branching out from any European nation would vanish. The plain fact is that America has reason to fear Mexico because it almost constantly endangers the security of the Western Hemisphere. The rest of Pan-America aims for “peace on earth, good will towards men”. o SOWING RECORD CLAIMED

Melbourne.—A Victorian farmer thinks he may have set up a world sowing record. Working day and night with the aid of powerful headlights, for six days, he sowed 920 acres of wheat in 129 hours. He used a tractor, hauling a combine which sewed the grain, spread the fertilizer and covered the seed automatically.

The blue whale, caught in the Antarctic, measures up to 100 feet in length and is the largest mammal in the world.

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