Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 14 July 1939 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939.

FREE LIBRARIES SERVE 65 PCI. . JF AMERICANS Added Facilities Since 1934 Extended to * 3 Million

San Francisco — Statistics presented to the annual convention here of the National Association of State Libraries placed at SO,the number of people in the United States who have public library service now. This represents 65.7 per cent of the total population and shows an increase of 3,000,000 since 1934, according to the report.

In 1934 the number of persons having access to public libraries was 77,644,948, or only 63.3 per cent of the total population. Another compilation showed that out of the 3,000 odd counties in the United States, there are still 897 without a public library within their boundaries, as compared with 1,000 in 1934. Only 40 cities of more than 10,000 population were found to lack public libraries, which the association interpreted as indicating that library extension is largely a rural problem at present. Texas in Forefront Pennsylvania and Texas were found to be the two states, highest '• in number of citizens without free book privileges. The total of more than 3,000,000 in each of the two states, were the figures released by the association. A sunnier side of the picture, however, was presented in Dela- . ware, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts and Vermont, where everyone enjoys some form of public library service. In New Hampshire and Rhode Island the number of persons without library service is less than 1 per cent of the population. Ohio and California showed the highest per capita expenditures for libraries, 89 cents. Mississippi ranked lowest with 3 cents per capita, while 17 states are spending more than 50 cents per capita for free library service. $6,000,000 Spent Yearly At present, expenditures for free public libraries throughout t^ n United States totals $6,000,00f\ ur a per capita expenditure of 5 cjnts. From the libraries ...ailable, more than 403,000,000 books were borrowed in 1938—a 10 per cent decrease compared with the depression figure of 1934, when everyone was borrowing books instead of buying them. ALL iSTROUBLE IN MELON PATCH

Turlock, Cal.—Oscar Knutsen is willing to wager that his 50-acre per melon to grow than any other in the country. The trouble goes back to jackrabbits which invaded the 50 acres. When it got to be a question of jackrabbjts or melons, lie decided to act. Barton Beaver offered to help him out, and Knutsen gladly accepted. Anned with Knutsen’s gun, . Beaver went out one night to shoot a few rabbits. The gun jammed. Knutsen had the gun repaired. That was Item 1 on the tough side of the ledger. Rabbits Scamper Merrily Beaver went out again to shoot jackrabbits, driving a Knutsen truck. The battery went dead and the rabbits scampered merrily through the melon patch. Knutsen had to have the battery charged (Item 2). Beaver took the truck out again one evening and mired it down. Knutsen had to have it towed out. Then the rancher ran into the problem of aphis. The accepted practice is to scatter ladybugs through the melon field and let the insects destroy the aphis. So Knutsen sent Beaver and a farmhand to Sonora, where ladybugs may be gathered by the shovelful while they still are dormant. The pair returned without any ladybugs but with an expense account. Knutsen had to go to Sonora himself after the ladybugs. Accident is Climax The climax came when Beaver, Knutsen and Merle Bowersox went out after rabbits again a few days later. They were sitting astride the headlamps of Knutsen’s car, and Beaver was at the wheel. They spied a packrabbit. Beaver stepped on the brakes, the car stopped, but Knutsen and Bowersox didn’t. Bowersox guffered a serious gash in the leg as he was thrown from the car. The wound required six stitches. The bill for the surgery and a new pair of trousers went to Knutsen.

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/CHERRIES TASTE every bit as vy good as they look. wh«n you use Alice Blake’s recipe for jelly. With eleven other short boil favorites, it’s included in “Jelly Shelf Classics”— and the booklet’s free to our readers. For your copy, write Alice at the National Jelly Making Institute, Dept. N, 444 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. Blackberry marmalade is another favorite in the booklet. While you’re waiting for the “Classics,” try these directions for delicious: RIPE SOUR CHERRY JELLY (Makes about 7 medium glasses) 3 cupc juice 4 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin To prepare juice, stem (fo not pit) and crush about 2 1 / & pounds

Traffic must stop before entering preferential highways or i streets, designated as such by the State Highway Commission in the case of state highways or by local authorities in the case of city streets and county roads, T. A. Dicus, chairman of the Commission, reported today in discussing tl new Indiana traffic code which becomes effective July 1. The new code provides that the S’cite Highway Commission desigiate through or preferential highways and erect “STOP” signs at the entrances to such routes. These signs are erected facing the road or street from which all traffic must stop before entering upon or crossing the preferential route. Authority to designate through or preferential streets and roads, other than state highways, is given to city and county officials. Previous laws made state high- , ways preferential routes over all intersecting roads and streets but since traffic conditions change and in some instances the convenient and safe movement of traffic requires that traffic on intersecting ALABAMA VOTES ON MSIG LAWS Montgomery. Ala.—Alabama citizens go to the polls on July 11 to vote upon five constitutional amendments that alter several branches of the state government. Most important are the amendments to take politics out of pardons and paroles and to provide for biennial instead of quadrennial legislative sessions. Three others would eliminate grand jury action in felony cases where the defendant pleaded guilty; allow optional use of voting machines by cities and counties, and provide for investment of trust funds in government securities. The five proposed amendments are those remaining from more than a dozen that w r ent before a special legislative session last spring. Under the law, the legislature must pass the proposed amendments by two-thirds majorities before they can be submitted to a popular vote. The legislature refused to permit a vote on two of the state’s political eyesores—cumulative poll taxes and legislative reapportionment. Gov. Frank M. Dixon had aptproved both those amendments, along with others designed to modernize the state’s governmental structure. Under the cumulative poll tax system, Alabama’s electorate remains the most exclusive in the nation. To vote, white persons must have paid poll taxes at the rate of $1.50 a year since they reached maturity. Legislative reappointment long has been a political issue, with industrial North Alabama arrayed against the large land owners of the so-called “black belt.” Political prognosticators expect the five proposed amendments to pass with little difficulty.

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fully ripe cherries. Add V2 cup water, bring to a boil, and simmer, covered, 10 minutes. If a stronger cherry flavor is desired, add a few crushed cherry pits during simmering. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. (If there is a slight shortage of juice, add small amount of water to pulp in jelly cloth and squeeze again.) Measure sugar into dry dish ami set aside until needed. Measure juice into a 3- to 4-quart saucepan. Place over hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard Z z minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once.

streets and roads be given the preference, the State Highway Commission has revised its regulations. A new resolution, establishing preference at every intersection on a state highway, has been prepared. Approximately twenty percent of all accidents on the state highway system occur at intersections and a large part of these are due to the failure of motorists to observe the “STOP” signs. Obedience to these signs will prevent many serious accidents. In some cases present “STOP” signs on roads or streets intersecting state highways will be moved to comply with the new law which provides that the sign be placed as near as practical to the property line of the highway at which the stop is to be made. The letters “S,” “T,” “O” and “P” are to be at least six inches in heighth, the standard size now used on official state highway “STOP” signs. ■ ; O Goat’s Milk and Honey Is Used In Making Candy

Between, the Wall Street district and. the Hudson River, lies “Little Arabia”, listed on the New York City maps as Washington Street. There’s a thrill in just strolling along this thoroughfare . . . noting the odd hieroglyphics on the signs, the Turkish hookahs displayed in the shop windows, and occasionally on warm summer days, catching a whiff of Near East cooking. But if you’ve time to spend an interesting hour or two, stop in at number 53, the home of Nicholas Abaid and Sons, Syrian candy makers. Perhaps Mr. Aoaid will let you sample his various products. They’re delicious, and new to occidental palates. The ingredients are nearly all imoprted from his native Damascus, and are as odd as the Syrian methods of candy making. For nearly two thousand years the Abaids have been confectioners, and some of the methods and recipes used in this little shop have been handed down from father to son with almost no change. “Baklawa” is an example. A filling of pistachio nuts is encased in forty layers of crust . . . the whole thing only about an inch thick. The paper-thin dough is not rolled, but tossed around, much as you would shake out a bed sheet. The technique takes years to learn. Syria is a land of hot suns and no ice boxes. Early in their existence,* the natives learned to combat this by preparing fooH which would keep without refrigeration. Mr. Abaid showed me something that looked like a roll of tanned calfskin. With his permission I tore off a strip and tasted it. It was apricot pulp, ground up and dried in the sun, and shipped here ia six-pound rolls. It tasted Iresh and Mr. Abaid assured me it would keep for twenty years. Most of his candies, he said, would still be good to eat when twenty years old, but will only remain fresh for a mere twelve months. The one that most, alluringly tickled my palate (and nostrils) was “Syrian Delight”, made with honey, pistachio nuts and attar of roses. The only milk used in these delectabel tidbits is goat’s milk, which is also imported—all the way from Staten Island, New York’s Forgotten Borough. -o WOODEN NICKELS GOOD.

Cleveland, O.—Wooden nickles are okay in suburban Lakewood. Five thousand “nickels” are being distributed for the city’s SemiCentennial celebration, and merchants will give five cents in trade for them.

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Ice Break-Up Signal for Gold Rush Over Isolated Canadian Northwest

Grande Brairie, Alta.—Isolation at Yellowknife, booming mining center on the shores of Great Slave Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories, is most pronounced during the period of the spring breakup than at any time during the long, severe winter. Ski-equipped planes which all winter serve as the only link con necting Yellowknife with the outside world, are grounded during the break-up from three to five weeks while the treacherous ice crumbles and moves seaward. This spring, however, as prospectors from every walk of life resigned themselves to more than a month’s inactivity and prepared to enter bets in the break-up sweepstake, a veteran Northland’ pilot pulled a surprise flight that shattered precedent. Flight Amazed Old Timers Pilot Stan McMillan hopped off from Edmonton May 12 in a plane equipped with pontoons, and flew to Yellowknife, landing on Long Lake, two miles from town. Aidtimers were amazed. Their annual sweepstake had barely begun to show promise when McMillan set his ship down. How were they to know that 1939 was to witness the earliest break-up flight in the history of the North? 'A few days later McMillan pushed on to Goldfields, establishing another all-time record in the annals of Northern flying. The Northland was officially opened. Let the rush come. The record-shattering flight wasn’t the only event old-timers marvelled at. Late April, the first tractor train to reach Yellowknife over the new winter road from Peace River—end of steel and 700 miles southwest—arrived. Announcement that a govern ment-controlled liquor store — to serve more than 1,000,000 miles of territory between Hudson Bay and the Rock Mountains—would be opened also tended to prove to any doubters that civilization was moving in. Thus the (newest and richest gold Siscovery in Canada is the

first which owes not only its existence but its future, to the airplane. Supplies reach here by boat during the summer and now will come more cheaply by tractor train in the winter. But such slow mediums of transportation will not be for the modern prospector in the future. Prospectors, trappers and members of government survey parties this spring made their way in by plane. All arrivals here are required to register at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks, which also serves as the claim recording office. With the aid of a survey map, newly-arrived prospectors spot an unclaimed, promising section, lo cate the lake nearest it, and charters a plane to fly him there. At a given date, perhaps a month or two later, the pilot is instructed to return for the prospector. Precious Metal in Rocks Armed with a hand drill, he attacks the rocky, pre-Cambrian terrain. There are no gold-bearing sands as in the Yukon and Klondike. The yellow metal must be hammered out of the rock which holds it before an assay can be made. A total of 18 claims can be filed by one prospector. But unless he can interest a rich mining company in his strike —providing of course that he made one — development is slow and tedious. Diamond drills and costly materials are required to extract the gold from the cold rocks of the sub-Arctic. Additional cost is in volved in the fact that to hold claims, they must be developed within one year. In the summer of 1938 a few venturesome prospectors trickled into Yellowknife. Three log cabins and a few tents comprised the camp in March. By October it was a roaring boom town. Its poly-glot population was drawn from clerks and students, farmers who had seeded their crops and by harvesttime were due to return, speculators, laborers, and thos*e who follow the mining camps. Youths Start Trip Early this year two youths, al-

ready known in Chicago International Grain Shows for their winnings, started out for Yellowknife 330 miles from Grande Prairies. That was on May 22, 1939. They followed the course of the mighty Peace River, one of the most kindly in the world. For 600 miles it is navigable without portage. Farm Peace River to the chutes at Fort Vermilion it flows along one of the potentially richest agricultural greas on the entire North American continent. But the men in the jouncing river craft gave the fertile lands never a thought. They couldn’t s4e the yellow gold in the fields of wheat. At the chutes, a straight drop of 15 feet over a rocky ledge, they lowered their boat into an - eddy below. The river then flows on through a natural park where herds of buffalo and deer graze under governmenf protection. How Camp Rises Where the Peace joins the Atha basca, the Slave River is born. It is chock-full of jutting rocks and whirl pools and fights its way through rocky formations. This is mineral-bearing country. Seven days of fair weather brought the pair to Slave River. Two weeks more of cruising the shore of Lesser Slave Lake where the ice had -just moved out and the days had lengthened to almost continual daylight brought them to Yellowknife Bay on June 18. The first boats had crossed it two days previously. The rush went on from there. Logs were fitted together and became hotels. Stores and houses went up so rapidly that some ware even hauled in on scows. When the logs arrived, there was a mad rush for them. Day by day the rush for claims increased. There were 44, 000 claims recorded last summer. Rumors of new strikes brought new stampedes. The town would empty itself as gold-seekere rushed to the scene of the latest strike, then would slowly re-fill again as disappointed persons filtered back. Yellowknife — and the Northwest Territories—will expand.

PLAN TO BUILD SIX MORE DAMS To Date WPA Workers Have Built 409 Dams In State Indianapolis, Ind. July 7.—State WPA officials have directed State Conservation Department engineers to draw up final plans for the construction of six dams which wiir add nearly 3,000 acres of lake area to Indiana’s increasingly popular vacation-land. Thousands of Indianians and visitors to the Hoosier State Vill enjoy swimming, fishing, boating and other acquatic sports as result of the dams to be built by WPA workers at North Liberty in St. Joseph county; Hobart, Lake county; Crawfordsviile, Montgomery county; Frankfort, Clinton county; Farmersburg, Sullivan county; and Jasper, Dubois county. The proposed dam sites have been approved by state and National WPA officials and army engineers. Largest among the new lakes will be that at North Liberty where the impounded waters of Potato Creek will spread out over an area of 850 acres. The proposed Jasper lake on a tributary of the Patoka river is. ’designed to furnisTT an abundant supply of fresh drinking water for residents of the city. The new lake at Crawfordsviile will be 250 acres in area; Farmersburg, 250 acres; Frankfort, 85 acres, and Hobart, 45 acres. Since the start of the work-relief program in 1936, WPA workers have built 409 dams in Indiana. At the present time 88 dams are under construction and draftsmen are drawing up plans of 59 other proposed dam sites. The WPA’s water conservation program in Indiana is sponsored by the State Department of Conservation which sends out engineers to survey proposed dam sites throughout the state. All designs of new dams must be approved by Army engineers before construction work is started. In many cases private landowners join in the Department of Conservation as a co-sponsor in proposing dams to be built on their property. When a dam is built on private property, however, the landowner furnishes equipment and materials with the understanding that the resulting lake will be open to the public for fishing, boating, swimming, and other recreational activities. Such proposed lakes must be at least five acres in area. PRETTY GIRL, 23, RECEIVES PAPERS AS SEA CAPTAIN Alma, N. B.—There is a lot of talk about “Captain Kool” wherever sailors gather in the Maritime Provinces. Captain Kool is Molly Kool, daughter of Capt. Paul Kool, and she has confounded the seamen by becoming a full-fledged sea captain. Blonde, 23, and pretty, Molly is believed to be the second woman in the world to qualify for her papers as a master in coastal waters. She plans to take over command of her father’s schooner, and let him take a rest. o Paris has a new hair style inspired by the Louis XV period.

Prize Contests Won by Ohioan Total $50,000 Springfield, O.—A $3 prize in a newspaper contest won as an 11-year-old boy is the basis of a modern “success story” by Frank G. Davis of Springfield. In the 35 years since that first prize, he has won $50,000 in 1,500 contests. In the Isat eight years, Davis said, he earned between $2,500 and $5,000, including eight automobiles — for doing nothing more strenuous than thinking up slogans, working out crossword puzzles, predicting football scores or drawing cartoons. Davis now spenas five hours a day at his work, the rest of the time doing free-lance writing and cartooning. So far this year he has come through with 71 prizes, which is considerably better than his 35-year average of one every 10 days. He doesn’t keep account of his expenses, but estimates that expenditures for stamps, stationery and ink amount to “between $12 and $15 a month.” The cost of soap wrappers, box tops and the like don’t amount to much because he doesn’t enter many of this type of contests—“They’re too big; judges can’t give entries proper consideration,” he says. Davis believes newspaper,, magazine and small contests offer the best bet for the average person, and that slogans “are the easiest to write and bring the greatest returns.” However, he has one important word of advice for all contestants’ “Stay out of anything outside the range of your knowledge . . . when you write a contest entry, make sure you know what you’re talking about.” ■ o—* Wind is Topic Of Tall Tales In Dust Bowl Lamar, Colo.—Southern Colorado farmers, embittered by years or attempting to raise crops in this section of the dust bowl, nevertheless evidence humor as they explain improvised tests for measuring the velocity of the wind and intensity of the storms. “I always depend on the goatskin method,” one gnarled man of the soil said. “We wet a goat-skin inside the house in the morning arid hang it over the keyhole, if the four of us can’t hold it there, it’s too darn windy to try to work in the fields.” His test, however, was disputed by several neighbors, supporters of the “log chain” test. “We just hang a heavy log chain from the egves of our ranch house,” one of them explained. “If it stands sti’aight out horizontally, we know we’d better stay inside.” A Lamar pastor, too, has his dust bowl standards. He said only one thing should prevent his flock from attending church. “Stick your hand out,” he directed. “Cup it for a few seconds, then bring it down to your side. If you can see where your hand was you’re excused for staying ! home.” O r-J— , , ,, I The government of Colombia will | build a chain of recreation hotels.

SABOTAGING THE NEW DEAL —i Every Effort Is Being Made to Halt increase in Business Week after week business has grown in Indiana. The latest report from a national business survey shows that the state is within 4 per cent of normal—and normal means the prosperity that existed before the great crash. Except that business and banking are on a sound basis today as against the Wall street mushroom, built upon gambling in artificial prices of stocks, which were skyrocketed to the loss of many billions of dollars and left the investors who had lured by its false hopes of profits to invest their dollars. This steady growth of business, the steady decrease in unemployment, can be attributed to New Deal policies. The Works Progress Administration contributed much, for it furnished a back stop to the labor market and furnished the same basis of security for small business. It was the two millions of workers and their six millions of dependents, who spent each month the money earned in building roads and schools, in repairing streets and sewers, in the sewing rooms of the projects that provided clothes for those on relief, who, as they spent, assured business of a purchasing power. Those who are determined to destroy the New Deal are alramed at the prospect and are now using what in any other phase of society or in business would be called sabotage. They are attempting to destroy its influence by compelling the workers to take a two month’s vacation—to save money. Just what will happen when this is effected can be easily predicted. They will hunt, of course, for new jolis, just as they have been ready to take new jobs when offered that furnished any sort of security and would not compel them to wait long months before being restored to the payrolls, if their names were once off tire list. But -yvhen they stop, little business will feel the shock. Just as soon as this number of workers no longer has the money to buy food or pay rent, it will be little business, more than the workers, who will feel the results. The policy of spending has been vindicated by the steady inprease of business, particularly in Indiana. The policy of suddenly reducing these expenditures can have but a single result. The nation had an unfortunate experience in 1937 when it stopped spending. It wants no more sabotage from within. —o— DELAWARE TO RESTORE HISTORIC ROYAL PAPER

Wilmington, Del.-^-A plan to restore the Duke of York papers, the only copy of which now rests in the Delaware State Archives at Dover, has been revealed. Copied froru the original rpanuscrupt at Albany, N, Y., in 1797, the papers were believed to be among the few which pertain to the colonies before 1686. The original papers were destroyed by fire a few years after the copy was made. The grant to Delaware is included in the papers.

COOLER-OFFS For Thirsty Days rpOMATO juice, chill and tart, is Xone of the most refreshing of all drinks in hot weather. Maybe because it is thirst quenching or perhaps because it is full of vitamin C. But be all that as it may, tomato juice cools and stimulates and puts new life and sparkle into souls limp from a summer’s day heat. Tomato Juice with Cucumber 1 can (14 ozs.) tomato juice cucumber (chopped) % teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice Select a cucumber about 7 inches long. Cut in half, then peel and chop the cucumber finely. Add the chopped cucumber to the tomato juice and let it stand in refrigerator for at le«Ast one hour. Then strain, forcing as much of the cucumber juice through tha sieve as possible. Add the salt and fresh lime juice and serve chilled. Tomato Juice with Celery 1 can (14'ozs.) tomato juice % teaspoon salt 1 cup celery 1 tablespoon lemon juice .Grind the celery in the food chopper; then add to the .iciato juice and salt. Let chill ih tie refrigerator for at least one hour Strain, then ntld the lemon juice and serve

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Tomato Juice with L.ime 1 can (14 ozs.) tomato Juice Vi teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice Add the salt and fresh lime juice to the tontato iuU’e. Chill and serve. PASTOR OFFERS FEATSOF MAGIC Middleboro, Mass. — For two weeks, more than 20.0 children here attended Sunday school every day—and had a jolly time. Their joy was inspired by the unique teaching methods of their instructor, the Rev. Gerald E. Bonney, who realizes the keen delight children find in exhibitions of magic and ventriloquism. Thus, his teachings are not in the form of sermons, but rather in the manner of entertainment. For example, the Rev. Bonney resorts to magic in telling the story of the loaves and fishes. He asks a small boy to bring his hat to the platform. The clergyman then drops five pennies in the hat, in view of his entire audience. When the lad returns to his seat, he counts the pennies again and finds 10 of them. Thus, says the Rev. Bonney, the miracle “becomes real” in the children’s imagination. | The big moment comes when the evangelist places his dummy, Jerry, onto his lap and goes into a ventriloquism act. Jerry asks pertinent questions about religion, and the ventriloquist answers them. He says that the use of Jerry is not the result of the Charlie McCarthy-Edgar Bergen act, but has been a regular part of his services for six years. ' Combining religion with entertainment has proved successful, he says, pointing out that he has taught more than 700 children in one session and seldom has fewer than 100. His method of handling such large groups of children is to “keep them well in hand at all times. I don’t let them take much part. If I ever allowed them to start asking questions, they’d soon get out of hand and I would be through.”

BASE OF LIVING HELD LOWERED BY ARMS RACE

Report of (Geneva I.L.O Warns of Further Deprivation

Geneeva, July 14.—The menace of the present "armed peace”- in Europe is stressed in the first annual report presented by John G. Winant as director of the International Labor Office. Deploring expenditure or armaments at the present rate of acceleration, he stated: ‘A point may come when defense expenditure will cause actual starvation in the lower income groups. Before this happens it may be hoped that some general international settlement will intervene. “War not only affords no solution to the human wants with which peoples are confronted, but it is the very negation of everything they seek. The existing conditions of ‘near-war’, though not so terrible in immediate destruction, produces results which are not wholly dissimilar in a slower though no less certain way. Various Aspects Discussed “The present state of armed peace means the speeding of production, a concentration of productive energies of non-productive activities ,the diversion of groups of the population to military service, the .decrease in public budgets and the necessity of having recourse to loans to meet military expenditures, the inflationary effects of such fiscal policies, an inevitable tendency toward a rise in the cost of living and the hardship which that necessarily entails on the masses of the population.” Winant pointed out that as these manifestations are prolonged they become steadily aggravated and the waste they involve is not far different from that which would be produced by war itself. Named to Post Last Year Winant, an American who became director of the I. L. O. last year, urged governments to begin now a study of the problems of the readjustment to peace-time economy, including the reemployment of workers who may be left idle by the eventual slackening of arms production. Aanlyzing the effects of rearmament, he emphasized that it tended to reduce the standard of living of the workers by reducing, their consuming power. “In Germany,” he wrote, “Consumption has been kept down by rigid control of wages, by limiting dividend payments, by increasing taxation and by restrictions on the supply of commodities. “Rationing has been widely applied and to some extent serves to spread the sacrifice of consumption over the consuming public. “In Japan, also, consumption has been restricted by taxatidn, by rationing and by an active thrift campaign, “The heavy taxation in France, both on wages and articles of general consumption, has imposed considerable sacrifices on the poorer

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“In Great Britain, the increase in supertax, estate duties and motor taxes bears mainly on the rich and middle classes, while the $55,000,000 to be collected on an increase in sugar and tobgcco duties bears largely on the poor.” -o Because Papuan natives regard trees as protected by evil spirits, proposed construction of a road through a forest region of the country has been abandoned.

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