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City Bonds Sonic concern is being shown over the fact that the city is rapidly reaching the limit of bonded indebtedness. The debt at present ia little more than eighteen ndliions of dollar No one lias suggested that the projects for •which the bonds lur e been issued were not necessary. The city is compelled to build hos pitals, buildings and other conveniences. Every city has done the same. Growth demands much Each year the debt grows and after fifteen or twenty years, more bonds are issued to refinance those wlijeh arc outstanding. Each year the taxpayer finds himself faced by a big interest debt. The situation is. sueh that citizens who hope to escape may be interested in the suggestion of Henry Ford as to a means of financing all projects of ritir- and states and the government where bonds are issued. He proposes to put (he projects on a cash instead of a credit basis by using the power of the government rn coin money. Instead of selling bonds and paying interest at the rate of b per cent a year, the cities would issue the bonds, deposit them with the government, receive the face value in cash. Each year, instead of paying interest at ■> per cent the cities would rai-e the same 5 per cent now paid for the use of money, return it to the government, where it would be destroyed. At tlm end of twenty years, the money would he destroyed and the bond retired, fully paid. It may disturb a great many people who find the project interesting to know that Ford, the financial genius and industrial wizard, merely borrows this idea from General Jacob Coxey of tit famous army of the unemployed. For more than thirty years Coxey has had a bid for this purpose before congress. At the last session, it had the support of an even half of the banking committee of the house. These statesmen find nothing unsound about it. It is very certain that the huge burden of interest on public projects exacts a great toll from industry and business and this city seems to be near the point where something must be done. The city can not. stop building, it apparently can not stop borrowing. If it could stop paying interest and pay the principal on some of its debts, it might be in an easier position. Organizations of citizens who are interested in civic grow til and finance might write to either void at Detroit, or, much better, to General Coxey at -Massillion, U., and find out about the plan. It mignt work, it may be ruinous. Gut so is interest. Or course those who invest in tax exempt bonds to escape income taxes wiii find the plan pure anarchy. Labor's Share The test oi prosperity is its distribution. Is enough oX tne saving lrom production elikiency and mass output passed on to the consumer i Ana does labor get Us snare ot the profits'.’ The oid-iashioned employer operated on a public-be-damned and labor-be-uamned polity. He didnt ass these questions, and he didn't care. Tnat attitude has changed. Modern employers atm at small sales profit and a large turnover. They make it their business to have contented and adequately paid workers. This cnange is due partly to higher ethical standards oi employers, partly to the more fortunate economic position ot Hie united fatales, permitting a more generous business altitude, and partly to the increased Bargaining power ol organized labor. But tne change is due chiefly to the basic discovery that exploited workers are poor producers, thwt industrial suite is waste, and that sustained prosperity depenus on a liigii degree ot capital-laboi cooperation. The new system is supplanting the old because it works better tor both parties; it is economically sound. Each extension of labor's growing share in profits, however, must measure up to that economic jaidstick. At any point, labor as well as capital can disturb the process. This is especially applicable to the latest demand of the labor vanguard—the five-day week. The hveday week has been made economically sound in the Ford automobile plants. It is being extended experimentally to the building trades in New York City and elsewhere. Clothing workers are on the way to attaining it. Several other trades aie pressing lor it. In some trades, however, labor is delay ing the five-day week by failure to realize- that it involves co-operation, that it necessitates give as well as take. Some trades in the past have been able to bludgeon employers into unfair agreements as to working conditions, or nave insisted on jokers, such as the lake labor bonus. The employer has paid for work he d*a not receive, and now is humanly cool to the five-day week proposal. Obviously, the wise labor leaders today will try to take advantage of the general conditions and psychological attitude favorable to the five-day week bv renouncing the little jokers and injustices from which labor may have profited temporarily, but which now block the fuller co-operation necessary to the five-day week advance. . The quickest way for a union dealing with modern employers to get the five-day week is to create a working relationship in which the five-day week will be economically sound. Labor cannot profit in full measure from the economic machine if it locks the brakes % means of wasteful and uneconomic conditions. \

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Some Expert Testimony The extent to which prohibition has Increased crime and lawlessness has been the subject of much argument between wets and drys. It is interesting and important, therefore, to get ■he frank opinion of men like Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Customs Commissioner r. W. Camp, who should know if anybody does. Publication by the state department of the results f negotiations with Canada seeking to persuade the Dominion to forbid the exportation of liquor to the United States makes this possible. Camp said at a conference in Ottawa that underover men reported the condition along the border ■as bad beyond expression” and that there is “a gathering of all the elements that are undesirable” at the Detroit frontier. Not only is smuggling and hi-jacking taking place, but racketeering and banditry,” said the department’s account of Camp's remarks. “A6 this banditry becomes more confident, it endeavors to place a toll, not only on illegitimate industry, but more or less on legitimate industry - .” / Camp also told of corruption in the border patrol, since it had been necessary “to bring new- people into a piace where the temptation was unusually strong,” and of the many dismissals, but added that the temptation was so great that the problem always would be a difficult one. Doran pointed out that the criminal element whose operations in Chicago Heights have resulted in thirty murders in the last eighteen months has direct contact with the border cities. The criminal has secured revenues from these operations which have enabled him to extend his cope of criminal activity until we reached a point, nine months ago, where conditions were almost intolerable,” Doran said. “Operations” referred to the production of ilicit liquor. Americans at the conference confessed further that they could not stop the flow of liquor'from Canada under existing conditions, and that despite all their efforts the volume coming in had been increasing steadily. Thus we have frank admission that the connection between the liquor traffic and other criminal activities is immediate and direct, and that prohibition has been in fact responsible for the growth of other lawlessness besides bootlegging. To Equalize Conditions The Constitution had to be amended to permit the voters to elect United States senators, instead of having senatorships auctioned off to the highest bidder. It has to be amended to permit the taxing of the incomes of the rich, the United States supreme court having blocked such taxation with one of its five to four decisions. There now is a supreme court decision which blocks federal legislation dealing with women and child labor. There also is a constitutional amendment for such grant of power to the federal government pending action by the states. Such an amendment can be acted on by a state at any time. The state legislature may have voted it down at another session, but states may change their minds on such amendments. When three-fourths of the states have ratified the proposed amendment, it becomes part of the Constitution. It may occur sometime to persons in the textile and similar industries that federal regulation would result in uniformity of labor conditions in different parts of the country and that there would be less throat-cutting competition and more peaceful labor conditions than exist now. Chicago gunmen are said to have established a proving ground for machine guns on an island in Rock river. They are said to be enthusiastic over the system which beats proving in court all to pieces.

——David Dietz on Science —— Latin Names Helpful No. 359 THERE are ten types of clouds in the official classification agreed upon by the International Meteorological committee. Five have been described so far in this series. Perhaps, by now', the average reader feels that the names of the clouds are hopelessly confusing and

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the French would prefer French names, the Germans would prefer German names, and so oh. Latin names are necessary, for science is international in its scope. If we keep in mind the fact that cloud names indicate their appearance and keep in mind also the Latin meaning of the name there will be no great difficulty in remembering the cloud classifications. We must also keep in mind that clouds of different types occur at different heights. We can. therefore, divide the clouds as upper clouds, intermediate clouds, and lower cloudsThe upper clouds include the first two in our classification. the cirrus and the cirro-stratus. ••Cirrus” is Latin for “curl.” It will be remembered that the cirrus clouds, which are the highest of all, resemble curls or whisps of tufts. ‘Stratus" is Latin for “spread out ” Our word “stratum” comes from the same Latin word. Therefore a cirro-stratus cloud is a cirrus cloud which has been “spread out.” It will be remembered that the cirro-stratus cloud was a very thin sheet of cloud occurring at high altitude. The next three clouds constitute the intermediate clouds. They are the cirro-cumulus, alto-cumulus and alto-stratus. “Cumulus” is the Latin word for “heap.” The cirro-cumulus clouds, it will be remembered, consisted of small rounded masses, the so-called “mackerel sky.” They are- therefore, clouds of a cirrus type which have been bunched into heaps. "Alto” comes from the Latin word meaning “high.” It is prefixed to the next two types of clouds to distinguish them from similar clouds, which, as we shall see. occ'ur at lower levels. “Alto-cumulus” are obviously rounded masses of cloud, while alto-stratus is a sheet-like layer. They differ from cirro-cumulus and cirro-stratus in that they are heavier and at lower levels.

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Nation Is Running Too Much to Figures; New York Is Striking Example of Overlooking the Human Side. THANK the Lord somebody is waking up to the fact that there is a lot of junk in what we call education. Dr. OShea, superintendent of New York schools, has ordered grammar eliminated below the seventh grade, and now comes the teachers’ college of Columbia university, declaring that children are getting 85 per cent more arithmetic than they need. Whether that is true, children are getting so much arithmetic that they can’t use any of it very well. The time spent in cube root and unheard-of fractions serves no purpose so distinctly as to spoil any natural talent that may have existed for doing simple sums quickly and accurately. Fifty years ago our boys and girls used to get a comparatively short but intensive course in mental arithmetic, and what they learned stood them in far better stead than the intricate, useless, wasted work they are compelled to do these days. one Everything in Figures' ONE effect of this overdose of mathematics has been to create the impression that everything runs to figures. About ail we do now is count noses, stories of skyscrapers, miles of streets and dollars In the bank. When the Merchants’ Association wants to prove how big New York is, it collects a straggering array of computations, as though that told the story—so many babies born an hour, so many buildings erected a day, so many quarts of milk consumed, so many conventions entertained, so many theater seats, so many hospital beds. One can get everything out of it except the human side of the picture. n n tt Policemen on Parade AMONG other things, it takes 15.000 policemen to run New Y’ork, one to every 400 inhabitants. Five thousand of them paraded Saturday afternoon, a mighty aggregation, to demonstrate the majesty of the law. One would look for poise as well as power, in such an aggregation, not to say a sense of humor. The Stalwart 5,000 passed the headquarters of the communists, where a forty-foot red banner, sporting the slogan, “down with Walker’s police brutality” was displayed. Such a banner did not mean much even to the communists. Indifference, or a laugh would have killed its effect. ' tt tt tt No Sense of Humor BUT we take such things very seriously in the metropolis. A district organizer of the communists was arrested and the banner torn down, which fed the “martyr complex” that is communism’s chief stock in trade. Men protested, women wept, and children cat-called. There was a grand rumpus all around. Twenty-six were taken into custody, nine of them children and many of the rest women. When booked at the police station, they were subjected to the verbal fire of a wise-cracking lieutenant. tt tt o Not All Figures TNDEED, New York Is a big city, A big in the amount of brick, stone and steel which men have piled up, but bigger still in the variety of its interests, hopes, faiths and attitudes. It is more than so many human beings, so many taxicabs, so many skyscrapers, so many electric lights or pounds of spaghetti. It is a mass of humanity thrown together for many reasons, milling and stewing over the age-old problem of trying to get all of its feet' in the same trough without too much hurt. tt tt tt Biggest Ever Built THERE is an Irish city in New York larger than Dublin, a Jewish city larger than Jerusalem, an Italian city larger than Rome. Besides these, there is a poor city, a rich city, a middle class city and a snob city. Being the biggest thing ever built by man. New' York requires the biggest sense of responsibility. Those w T ho deal only in figures never can appreciate this as the biggest fact, It is impossible to make New York what New York ought to be without a sympathy for the differences and shortcomings of people which fits its size. The problem of operating a skyscraper is far different from operating two or three hundred bungalow's with an equal amount of floor space, and the problem of operating New York City is far different from operating tw'o or three hundred small towns. There is the aggregate to be considered. as well aS the ingredients.

despairs of ever keeping five types in mind, much less ten. Let us review the five and see if we can not fix the differences between them. First a word about the cloud names. Like much scientific terminology, they are Latin. It is true that w'e might prefer English names. But

BRITAIN desires not merely a partial limitation of certain classes of warships, but a reduction applied, throughout the whole field of naval construction. —Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary. tt n tt 0 Mahan has warned that “Good men in poor ships always have beaten poor men in good ships.” It’s the man that counts—the combination of unconquerable spirit with high technical skill.—Charles Frances Adams, secretary of the navy. B tt tt I would go to Timbuctoo for the jov of fighting a brewer.—Lady Astor, M. P. tt B B Every vice was once a virtue and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.—Dr. Will Durant.

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Owe no man anything but to love one another: for he that Joveth another hath fulfilled the law. —Romans 13:8. tt tt B LOVE is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link w'hich binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.—Petrarch. Os what is brass an alloy?. Was it used generally by the ancients? Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc in various proportions. The alloy was known to the Romans though bronze, the alloy of copper and tin, w’as more commonly used

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HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS—No. io Diseases Blamed on ‘Night Air’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hypeia, the Health Magazine. WITFREVER there is ignorance there is superstition. Our knowledge of malaria is the product of recent scientific investigation. Long before such knowledge developed, man thought that epidemics were due -to pestilential conditions of the air. Indeed, it was believed that swamps and lowlands generated noxious vapors which spread to neighboring communities and soiled the air. The very word “malaria” means bad air. After great wars there were unburied men and animals lying about and it was supposed that these generated gas through decay and decomposition. Hence these localities were shunned especially as unfit. It was thought that the fietid animals and the spirit of the dead polluted the air and that the spirits were abroad, particularly at night. For this reason, the fear of breath-

IT SEEMS TO ME By H B ™ D

T SUPPOSE everybody w r ants to know' how I am getting along with my stocks and bonds and my weight. Actually. I don’t suppose any such thing. Nobody cares. That is, with one exception, and a columnist must always deal with those things which are closest to his heart. If it were to be done ail over again, I w’ould be bullish on my weight and be Irish on my stocks. United States Steel reduces a great deal faster than I can. But then, it is a gigantic corporation. With infinite pains and rubber shirt I manage to take off a point and half, and then the evening papers come in and report that Steel has dropped four or five without half trying. I console myself by thinking that, after all, the money I have in Steel

Daily Thought

The talkies are spoiling the oldest art in the world—the art of pantomime.—Charlie Chaplin. B B B “The final adoption of a Gibson proposal for unlimited armies for those countries having compulsory military service w’ould be a comedy on disarmament and would hang a war cloud over Europe.”—Representative Britten. Illinois. tt B B “A day of leisure spent quietly at home would now have for many people all the charm of novelty.”— Bishop of Swansea. Wales. tt tt tt Smuggling is a universal instinct. Instead of contributing money to help the wets defeat prohibition in Wisconsin, Raskob would better give his money toward wiping out the campaign deficit he helped create.

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ing night air became well nign universal. Os course, the facts are that night air is just about as good as day air so far as any effects on the human body are concerned and that it is only the unintelligent who sleep with closed windows sealed away from enough oxygen and cool air to carry on satisfactory respiration. For such conditions as tuberculosis tire modern physician suggests sleeping in the open air. However, associated with sleeping in the open air there are miner menaces against wheih mankind must protect himself, particularly in countries w'here there are infectious diseases carried by insects. The ancient Romans suspected that insects could carry diseases, and as early as 1807 John Crawford of Baltimore attempted to prove that malaria was transmitted by insects. It remained, however, for Manson of India to formulate the scientific conception of infections in malaria by the mosquito and for the famous British physician, Ronald Ross, to

is an investment. Because of my foresight and dogged courage in hanging on despite declines, some grandson of mine will be able to buy bootleg champagne for Ziegfeld's show girls. tt a b Here's to Grandpop THE very least young Broun and his friends can do in 1960 will be to drink a toast to the memory of the pioneer w’ho made it possible for them to squander a fortune. The handsome lad with curly hair and eyes too close together will tell the others, perhaps, of how Grandad Heywood stinted himself back ! in 1929, and through clenched teeth j said, “Buy five more shares of Steel” j whenever the ticker indicated that j the market Was going again him. The wolves of Wall street tried to make the old man quit, but they didn’t know his fighting spirit. He clung to Steel as if it hadj been a silver dime. Money went to ; 14 per cent, and then 15, and still j he said. “Buy, buy, buy.” And all about him traders stood and wondered. It seemed as if this tall, gaunt man were himself the product of some furnace. wondered what he used for money "Little did they know that his hope for a comfortable old age had gone into the pot, and that he'd cut his meals to three a day. He couldn’t afford to racket around with j Ziegfeld girls like his grandson. He only knew people like the Marxes. tt B B Generally Mourned TO be sure the tide turned toward the end, but Old Broun w'as then beyond all materialistic pleasure. Steel was his religion. When they came and told him that it had at last gone above 200. a wild light came into his eyes, and he i said, “Buy me fifteen shares at the j market.” They knew his mind was wandering, and then he sighed, smiled that queer, crooked smile of his, and died. But I doubt very much wheth- j er my roistering grandson will tell this story. It would be out of place in a gay cabaret. The girls wouldn’t understand. And so, instead of waiting to have him drink my health, I’ll drink his, though not in any vintage quarts. “Here’s to you, young Heywood Brouns of 1960, and here’s hoping that in your day they’ll use a better quality of cider and less bicarbonate." All the foregoing is slightly exaggerated. I have done very well in Wall Street, for at the end of ; ten days I figure that I have lost 1 His hair turned snow-white the day the rights broke under 5, but the soul of the man wt > tempered iron. Naturally, the *?tner traders

demonstrate #that the mosquito transmits the disease. His work was still further elaborated by the famous Italians, Grass! and Bastianellli. These men proved definitely that a certain genus of mosquito, the anopheles, is not only the insect that carries malaria, but the only method by which the disease is transmitted from man to man. Hence the person who sleeps in the open air in malarial districts must protect himself from the mosquito if he will escape the disease. Fortunately for civilized man it has beeen shown that the mosquito tends to breed in marshes and in swamps, and the propagation of this insect in the south has been prevented by drainage of the areas in which the mosquitoes existed. Today malaria is an infrequent condition in the temperate zone, but the ignorant still fear the night air, close the windows tightly and believe that thereby they are protecting themselves against malaria.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

looked at him in amazement. They exactly $112.23. which I contend is an excellent showing for a beginner. That amounts to a deficit of less than $5,000 a year, and from that I can deduct the $l4O which I hope to get in dividends. tt tt a One Egg, One Basket I’VE changed my whole system. In the beginning I owned small portions of some eight or nine companies, but now’ I’ve concentrated. This has enabled me to consolidate a holding of twenty shares of U. S. Steel and thirty of United Corporation of Delaware. I wouldn’t even think now of fooling with lowpriced stocks like Mother Lode Coalition Mines, which served to hold my interest a month or so ago. And I lied a little about my weight, too; it isn’t true that it is going up. The last quotation recorded on Heywood on the hoof was 216 offered and nothing at all bid. Right now a very interesting contest is on between Steel and Broun common to see which of them will be the first to reach 200. And as for my grandson, his chances for that champagne supper are fairly dim. Any time I can see my way clear in making, say $165. I’ll not decline to take a profit. In such circumstances it would seem wiser to give the party myself right now. In 1960 there may not be any U. S. Steel. Asa matter of fact, there might not even be any champagne. Nor, as far as that goes, any grandson. 'Copyright. 1929. by The Timersi

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REASON By Frederick Directors of the Sinclair OH Company Do Not Help Law and Order When They ReElect Sinclair to Their Board. ’T'HIS poison gas casualty in Cleveland Is one of the most horrible things in our history, vet it is only a mild suggestion of what would occur, should squadrons of air bombers drop their deadly gases upon American cities. Multiply Cleveland's 126 suffocated dead by one thousand and you will approximate the number of men, women and children who would perish from a midnight foray from the sky and it would be conducted from ships, hundreds of miles at sea. sending bombing planes, controlled by radio. • Do not paint the Devil any more in red attire with horns and tail; paint him as a serene, dignified gentleman in a laboratory, bending over his experiments. tt a a If congress really wishes to give the farmer a subsidy for what he. exports, why doesn’t it do so directly. instead of suggesting this round-about debenture proposition? The debenture would cost Uncle Sam just as much as a direct subsidy, for the importer would buy it, and use It to pay his import duty, but the importer would not buy if. unless he could buy it at a discount, thereby benefiting the importer, rather than the former. B tt B The directors of the Sinclair Oil Company do not help the cause of law' and order when they re-elect Sinclair a member of the board, even while he serves his sentence in the District of Columbia jail. The "Anarchists” appear to have moved to Wall street. tt B B Former secretary of war. DAVIS may regard the gov-ernor-generalship of the Philippines as a demotion and decline it when he recalls that Mr. Taft resigned the governor-generalship to become secretary of war in the Roosevelt administration. s tt a Chinese newspapers charge the English with smuggling opium into the yellow republic, which is hardly a sensation, as they have been doing it for several centuries, so you see it is perfectly natural for them to smuggle booze into the United States. Asa smuggler, John Bull is the heavyweight champion of the world. tt B B The former Constance Coolidge. Boston heiress, divorced her French count, and made no provision whatever for the poor fellow’s maintenance, which is one of the most cruel things of the season. tt B B Alice Longworth’s sitting with Mrs. Gann in the senate gallery was just like the pugilistic handshake at the beginning of the first round. tt B tt EVEN if Anne Nichols, author of “Abie's Irish Rose,” lost her suit against the motion picture people, she has several millions of dollars wffiich Abie made her on the speaking stage. She put that play on herself, you know’, after all the wise producers had turned it down. B B B Our customs collectors say that 75 per cent of Americans, returning from abroad, are smugglers and we suppose the other 25 per cent didn’t have enough money to buy anything on the other side.

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DEATH OF COLUMBUS May 20 TODAY - is the anniversary’ of the death of Christopher Columbus in Valladolid, Spain. History has treated the memory of this great discoverer more kindly than the men of his own time treated him. Asa result, the important dates of his life are fixed more definitely than those in the lives of many more recent historical characters. He died, in poverty and obscurity, on May 20, 1506. A few’ months before he had made a futile trip to Segovia to plead with the king for some recognition of his rights in the lands he had discovered. He pleaded in the name of his son. Columbus’ body was placed in the Carthusian monastery at Seville, but in 1542 it was removed, with that of his son, Diego, to be interred at San Domingo. When that island was ceded to France in 1795, a transfer was again made, to the cathedral of Havana. Then, when Spain lost Cuba in 1898, the bones of the father and son were taken back to their homeland and placed in the cathedral of Seville.

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