Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1930 — Page 4

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Prosperity vs. the Tariff We are impressed by the ease with which the senate and the house conierees are jacking up the tariff rates. There is nobody to stop them at the moment. They might be a million miles from nowhere, so far are they and so immune from the public opinion they are supposed to represent. Here are a number of conservative, and doubtless well-meaning, politicians within their lights, whose chief idea of tariff making is the log-rolling method. They see nothing wrong in grabbing as much as they can for one group of partisan interests and trading with the other fellow who is grabbing for his group. We are not here interested in the political morality or the public eth i '*" of these methods, which have resulted in the bi’ . -uollar Grundy tariff bill. It is not the crudeness of these politicians, but their stupidity, that takes our breath away. The power of congress and the President to wreck the business of this country in seeing how’ high they can make the tariff go is clear. But it Is just'as clear that all the government s horses and all the government’s men will have a m.ghty hard time putting the pieces together again. If all the politicians sat up nights trying to demise a method to destroy prosperity they could not find a surer plan than this tariff. Consider ‘he facts: The country is in a slump. We are not coming out of it as quickly as the administration predicted and as every one hoped last winter. The month of April, which should be a booming spring month, was worse In many states than previous months. It now is admitted by all informed persons that we can not achieve prosperity without using our heads. It also generally is admitted that the thing which paved us from even worse depression was our export trade. That export trade is the fat we have been feeding upon. And now, just at this critical time, along come the hlgh-tarifl racketeers and propose to kill our export trade. They are doing that very thing already. Their Grundy bill is causing other nations to retaliate by closing markets against us. Our industries, geared to mass production, are slowing down because there is no outlet for the surplus. That means less profits less employment. That means suicide for mass production. We can have prosperity, or we can have the Grundy tariff. We can not have both. Who Are These Farmers? Are a million farmers again being used as a blind by the American Cyanamid Company. The house committee cn military affairs has reported out a bill which will allow leasing of Muscle Shoals to one or several private corporations. By so doing the committee has sidetracked for the moment the Norris bill, calling for government operation of this government plant. New American Farm Bureau Federation officials have told President Hoover they favor the new leasing bill. Which seems to make it clear that the new bill is nnother Cyanamid Company bill. For years the Washington representative of the Farm Bureau Federation has worked for acceptance of the Cyanamid Company's bid. And it has been only a few weeks since this representative of the federation admitted to a senate committee that the cost of sending out one batch ol the Farm Bureau Federation’s literature on the subject has been paid by the Cyanamid Company. The American Disease Even in the records of savage tribes it would be hard to match the mob madness which has stained the name of Sherman, Tex. They were not content with the death of their Negro victim; they made holiday with his burned corpse. They were not responsible. They are to be blamed no more than a horde of insane inmates breaking from confinement would be responsible, for this mob, during the hours of terror, became an inhuman, isestial thing. Protecting victims against such mobs is relatively simple, compared with the problem of protecting Wuerica from the mental disease which causes periodic lynchings. Protection of a mob victim depends largely upon the integrity and courage of officials. But protection of the country against mass insanity depends upon conquering the barbaric survivals of ignorance and superstition—a slow process. Because these debauches often take the form of Negro lynchings, it is assumed mistakenly that this is p. racial issue. It is not. Nor is it a sectional issue. The mob insanity breaks out on the Pacific coast, in the north, and in the east, just as in the south. Whether the hysteria destroys a Negro in a backward Texas town, or Sacco and Vanzetti in ‘ cultured" Boston, the mental disease is essentially the same. ■ There is no reason for the rest of the country to be self-righteous toward Texas. The cure of this mental malady is a national problem. An “Astonisher” One of the by-products of the senate debate on Parker is worth repeating. We consider it the finest thing said on the "yellow dog" contract. W r e quote from the speech in opposition made by Senator Hiram Johnson of California: "I read Just a line of the ‘yellow dog' contract, so called, in order that it may be in juxtaposition to some words that I wish to read of a man whom it is unfashionable to quote nowadays here or perhaps in this materialistic age to utilize as an authority upon any subject whatsoever. These are the controlling provisions of the contracts that have been the subject of discussion: “ ’That during his employment said employe will not become a member of any labor union, and will have fio dealings, communication, or interviews with officers, agents or members of any labor union in relation to membership of such employe in any labor union, or in relation to the employment of such employe.’ "Again: ’I agree, during employment under this contract, that I will work on efficiently and diligently, and will not participate in any strike nor unite with employes in concerted action to change hours, wages or working conditions.’ "Words utterly fail me in characterization of contracts such as that. I care not whether they have been enforced by the one court or another; they are void as against public policy. “Socially, they are wicked and destructive of ordinary human relations. Economically they are unsound, as resting upon necessity on the one hand and coercion on the other, and morally they are infamous, denying fundamental rights and disrupting the dearest human associations. “ ’Socialistic,’ says my friend from Ohio (Mr. f

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Fess). are assaults that are made upon the supreme court In this chamber. “ ‘Socialistic,’ re-echoes man after man in relation to what may be said about this applicant or another Socialistic to stand here and denounce a contract such as that. “Socialistic—and exactly the same epithet was hurled in the United States some years ago upon another case of ilke character, the Dred Scott decision, wherein human liberty was at stake; no more Important than this, where industrial freedom is at stake. “Lincoln dared criticise a decision of the supreme court. He said, coining a word, that it was on astonisher,’ and that he ‘went for reversing it.’ “I say to you, paraphrasing what Lincoln said, this decision upon the ‘yellow dog’ contract is an ‘astonisher,’ and I go for reversing it, as Mr. Lincoln said, in any fashion by which I may voice that endeavor to reverse; and here comes an opportunity finally for us, in the senate of the United States, to voice our views upon this inhuman, this cruel, and this wicked contract, that rests upon the necessity of human beings and the hunger of innocent women and innocent children.’’ Profits and Prosperity Are profits the mainspring of industry? Are they the unfailing assurance of prosperity, steady employment and universal well-being? They have been so regarded in respectable economic theory for a century. And reduction of industrial profits is believed to be as disastrous to prosperity as the frosty air to the orchid. The age-old argument against factory legislation and the like has been based upon the theory that such policies would curtail profits, paralyze industry and send employer and employe alike to the poorhouse. One steeped in this ancient doctrine would expect to find that the profits of industry, transportation and finance had fallen off remarkably in 1929. Such must have been the responsibility for the depression which set in late last summer. In “Facts for Workers” for April, the labor bureau completely blows ’-p this assumption. The report shows that 1929 was a record year for economic profits, exceeding those for the banner year, 1928. This contention is based upon the federal income tax returns and on the statistics of the income of 1,258 great corporations, compiled by the accountants, Ernst & Ernst. Profits of the 1,258 representative corporations—industrials, public utilities, railroads and financial institutions—amounted in 1929 to $5,187,518,000. In 1928 they stood at $4,449,906,000. The increase for 1929 was 15.28 per cent. In some large industries the increase of profits in 1929 was remarkable; 70.56 per cent for railroad equipment, 67.9 per cent for iron and steel, 33.24 per cent for machinery and tools, 33.59 per cent for tire and rubber goods, 33.21 per cent for mining and smelting and 32.12 per cent for oil producers and refiners. Profits slightly declined for automobiles, chain stores, meat packers and textiles. These figures speak for themselves. Whatever the causes of the depression and unemployment which have come upon us, decreased profits can not be numbered among them. As the labor bureau writer concludes: “One thing is proved conclusively by this showing —the depression was not caused by any lack of profits to business enterprises. Right up to the verge of the slump, profits in general were at a record level.” A New Air Mail Bill A revised air mail bill is before congress. In this measure the dangerous clause empowering the post-master-general to award air mail contracts without calling for competitive bids has been eliminated. The new bill has much merit. It protects the equities of the twenty-five operators who have pioneered the air mail. It gives the passenger lines a chance at mail contracts. It retains the time-estab-lished principle of competitive bidding for new contracts. It changes the system of pay from a poundage to a mileage basis. The new measure appears to satisfy all the air transport operators, the postoffice department, and those members of congress most familiar with air mail.

REASON By F LANmS CK

THE fact that Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, will fight to ratify the result of the London naval conference proves the wisdom of the President’s appointing senatorial leaders of both parties when he organizes a foreign adventure, whose labors must be ratified by the senate Woodrow Wilson's failure to do this when he made up his Paris party doomed the League of Nations covenant. a a a Everybody is interested in the announcement that the Lindberghs soon are to have an heir. In the course of time as the Lone Eagle shall rise at 2 a. m. and take off with little Amos when he has the colic, the skilled navigator will find it harder to make a successful landing than ever before. a a a A PAINTING, bought by the Detroit art gallery for S4OO proves to be a Titian masterpiece worth $150,000. Nothing improves with age like a picture by a dead artist. a a a Dr. George M. Curtis of the University of Chicago is mistaken in his fears that this may become a nation of dwarfs, for in most of the families we know the kids are taller than the old folks. Children used to wear the clothes of their fathers, but now two apple pickers are handing us down their wardrobes. a a a An ex-soldier has returned to the war department sllO which was overpaid him. but it's not likely that any World war contractors will follow his precedent. a a a Parents in the old days had their troubles, but they didn't know what it means to have a kid come in and ask permission to become an aviator. one MRS. ROBERT L. DODGE, rich New York woman who has been smup,li_g for five years, gets off with a fine of $213,286. If a poor girl in the New York postoffice should take a dollar from a letter, she would be put behind the bars. a a a Nicholas Murray Butler, speaking before the German Reichstag, predicted the formation of a United States of Europe. This is at tas likely as the union of honeysuckle and limburger cheese. a a a Professor Henri Laucier of Paris, noted nerve specialist, learning of Mayor Walker’s indisposition, says that politicians are peculairly subject to nervous breakdowns. The poor fellows should recuperate by taking in washing to support a large family.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Glazed “Archeological Finds” Stirred Up Bitter Battle Among Noted Scientists. story of Glozel—a battle over archeological finds which has involved lawsuits and an international discussion—was told by Professor David Riesman of the University of Pennsylvania at the annual meeting in Philadelphia oi the American Philosophical Society. “Asa study of human credulity and as a commentary on the hotheadedness, or should I say pigheadedness of many men of science, it always will occupy a prominent place in the history of civilization,” Dr. Riesman said. Glozel is a small hamlet about fifteen miles from the famous spa of Vichy, France. The story starts on March 1, 1924. "Emile Fradin,” Dr. Riesman continued, “then a youth of 18 and belonging to an old local family, was working one day in his grandfather’s -field when a cow suddenly slipped into an unsuspected hole. “Fradin went to investigate and found that the hole led into an oval pit containing a variety of remarkable objects—bricks, tablets, vases—which he gathered as soon as possible and showed to the village school mistress, Mile. Picandent. "Eventually the news of the discoveries came to the ears of Dr. Albert Morlet, a surgeon of Vichy and an amateur archeologist. I Thereafter Dr. Morlet and Emile | Fradin together began to excavate at Glozel and brought to light more I and more buried objects, which they ! collected in Grandfather Fradin’s ; house.” a a a THE scientific world was electrified when the claim was made that these finds went back to the stone age and that inscriptions upon them proved the existence of an alphabet older • than any known alphabet. Dr. Riesman, while in France, paid a visit to Glozel and was shown the tablets by Dr. Morlet. I was struck by the clean red color of these tablets,” Dr. Riesman says. “When I spoke of this to Fradin, he explained it by saying that the soil in which the tablets had been found was such that it did not readily fuse with the clay and hence was brushed easily off. “During the whole of our stay, the grandfather stood silent and motionless in a doorway leading to an inner room.” *. The storm which raged over the Glozel finds was severe. “Almost immediately after the first appearance of Morlet’s reports, doubts began to be voiced over the authenticity of Glozel,” he continued. “Soon the pro anti-Glo-zelians became personal and attacked each other with a vituperative vehemence and a destructive sarcasm for which the French language seems to be the ideal medium. “Reputations were shattered, old friendships broken, and, as one of the French dailies remarked, even butcher boys came to blows on the streets of Paris. “In fact Mrs. O’Leary’s cow did no greater damage to Chicago than Fradin’s to the reputation of some French savants. “Before long the leading French prehistorians with only an occasional exception began to deny the authenticity of Glozel and to declare the excavated articles to be forgeries.” a a a Mystery DR. MORLET, Dr. Riesman continued, sued the Journal des Debats and the French Society of Prehistory. A lower court gave him a verdict of 1,000 francs, which a lower court reduced to one franc. Other lawsuits followed. “The first serious doubt as to the authenticity of Glozel was based on the heterogeneity of the articles in Fradin’s museum,” Dr. Riesman said. “How could one explain the presence of so many dissimilar and unrelated objects—the two or three thousand at the time of my visit had now grown to five thousand—in one small field of excavation? No other archeological site offers a parallel. “Aside from the puzzling complexity of the collection, it has been pointed out that the tablets first exhumed bore fewer and less perfect characters than the later one. “Further as soon as someone made a criticism, the objects next exhumed were free from the criticized defect. Eventually, at the International Anthropological Congress at Amsterdam ap international commission was formally appointed to investigate Glozel. “After spending three days at the site the commission issued a unanimous report. This report states unequivocally that the articles are for the most part of recent manufacture and have undoubtedly been planted in the ground by someone whom the commission does not name. “Asa detective tale, the story of Glozel remains unfinished and will remain so until a Sherlock Holmes discovers the person or persons who manufactured the articles and put them into the ground. “What was his motive? How are we to explain his extraordinary industry?”

1— r— t —nr may Wow WeHTKYbu i ( JCnow n t6urm/e?% FIVE QUESTIONS A OiV B ON FAMILIAR PASSAOES K 1. Who was the first woman named in the Bible? 2. Who said, “Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth?” 3. Finish the quotation, “Eat, drink and be merry.” 4. Whose name means “unstable as water?” 5. Whom did Jesus call “an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile"? ANSWERS Answers to Saturday’s Queries 1. God. 2. The mother of John the Baptist Luke 1:5. 3. “The fear of the Lord;” Psalm 111:10. 4. Job; see Job 19:20. 5. He was taken up by a whirlwind; II Kings 2:1, 11.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Costs $7,500 to Raise Child to 18

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journ.?l of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. UNDER the title “The Money Value of Man,” Drs. L. I. Dublin and Alfred J. Lotka discuss from several points of view the significant question of the cost of a human life at various ages. They point out that up to at least 15 years of age most boys and girls represent a debit rather than a credit, so far as their financial relationship to the family is concerned. The cost of being born varies in different communities, but the minimum average maternity cost is about $l5O. The cost may run up

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/""VNE of the best arguments raised against the confirmation of John J. Parker lay in the assertion that even if his unfitness had not been proved before his nomination it certainly was demonstrated after his name had been sent to the senate. The New York Times, which supported the President's choice with a good deal of warmth, said after Judge Parker’s defeat: “He showed himself too anxious, too small -minded. He fairly rained letters and telegrams upon the senate.” But there was one letter w’hich Judge Parker did not write and that missing message was the most important factor in his defeat. Shortly after his nomination the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People sent a courteous inquiry (registered) to John J. Parker of North Carolina, asking whether he had been correctly quoted by a newspaper which reported him as saying: “The participation of the Negro in politics is a source of evil and danger to both races and is not desired by the wise men in either race or by the Republican party of North Carolina.” a a a ' He Was Right JUDGE PARKER made this speech at a time when his Democratic opponent for the governorship was charging that the Republican party of North Carolina was seeking Negro votes. By “participation in politics,” Judge Parker meant that he thought it was a bad thing for the Negro to avail himself of the right to vote. And now Judge Parker has good reason to be even stronger in that opinion than ever, for it was the potentiality of the Negro vote in Republican middle-western states which defeated Hoover’s candidate. In common justice to the activities of Negro organizations in the supreme court fight it is well to keep the record straight. For instance, we find the New York Times saying that the gentleman from North Carolina was defeated because “of his view of the present unfitness of Negroes to hold high office.” That was not the point. Nor does it seem likely that the Memphis Commercial Appeal was striving very valiantly for accuracy when it said that Judge Parker was beaten because he had declined to “fraternize with Negroes.” It is true that he had refused to answer the letter of the National Association, but I doubt if anybody would call a courteous and frank answer sent by mail an act of fraternization. a a a No Friencj IF most southerners agree with John J. Parker that it would be best to keep the Negro out of politics (and I am sure that they do), then certainly the gentleman from North Carolina is not deserving of any gratitude upon the part of his neighbors. He has succeeded in bringing the Negro into American politics with a vengeance. Judge Parker has provided the Negro with his first opportunity, since reconstuction, to make himself a power In the affairs of America. Walter White, acting secretary of the National Association, went to

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to the thousands, depending on the amount of assistance and extra care that may be provided. In some foreign families, midwife services, including nursing, may come as low as SSO, but the additional expenses tend to bring up the total cost. Clothing and shelter in the course of the first eighteen years of life average about $3,500 for each child. The cost of education varies according to the type that is given. The expenditure for health for a family of the middle class is approximately SBO for the year for five people. On this basis, the economists estimate as the total cost of rearing a child up to the age of 18 years al-

Washington and played hard and aggressive politics. He said to weak-kneed Republican senators from the middlewest, “If you vote to confirm Judge Parker I will campaign against you in your own district and I will tell every Negro that if he votes for you he is a traitor to his race.” Whether Walter White actually could have defeated any of the senators against whom he threatened reprisals I am not prepared to say.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—A great deal has recently been said in the various newspapers about the “loan sharks” being arrested, and if this move really was made to eliminate these gouging pests from our community, such action should be highly commended. But, personally, I can not be made to believe there is any sincerity connected with this move. It will be recalled that every time there is an election in view the same “flareup” will be noticed. I do remember that under a former prosecutor of Marion county there was a concientious effort made, but it has always proved unsuccessful In prosecution when the cases were filed in the criminal court. I noticed two of the men who have been arrested recently have been through the same ordeal before, and they never were brought to trial, because the affidavits were quashed at request of their counsel. One of the men recently arrested again is a precinct committeeman of a certain political party, and apparently the usual manipulation will again be used to prevent the proper prosecution and conviction. The writer is one who has fought

iB'TjHC 3 - FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE May 12 ON May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale. an English hospital superintendent, called the “founder cf modern nursing,” was born in the city in Italy from which she got her name. Her childhood was spent in Staffordshire. England, where she took an early interest in the condition of hospitals. As her parents were wealthy, she traveled extensively on the continent and studied at various hospitals. She resolved, on returning, to elevate nursing into a permanent and honorable occupation for women. In 1853 she oecame superintendent of a hospital for governesses in London, but left it a year later at the outbreak of the Crimean war. She set out for the front with thirty-eight nurses where she organized nursing departments. Although she found disease, filth and chaos behind the lines, she succeeded, by her untiring energy and extraordinary ability, in alleviating the suffering of the sick and wounded. The death rate fell from 42 to 22 per 1,000. After the war she received many orders from various governments, and was the first woman upon whom the Order of Merit was conferred. She died in 1910 at the age of 9L

most $7,500. This includes such items as $125, representing the cost of being born; $2,755 for food; $3,333 for clothing and shelter; SSOO to SI,OOO for education; $283 for health; $l3O for recreation; $54 for insurance, and between SSOO and S6OO for other sundry items. If to this is added a charge for interest on the investment and allowance for the mother’s contribution, the sum may reach still more. Hence, it is that the actual cost of the child to the family represents a not inconsiderable sum, even in these modern times, and those who bring children into the world and rear them properly are paying a debt to the community which the childless fail to supply.

(deals and opinions expressed n 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 ol this paper.—The Editor.

Nor am I sufficiently a seer to know whether the effective participation of the Negfo voter in American politics will be good for the nation or good for the Negro. I merely am reporting the undoubted fact that he is in at last and that he has come to a sense of political power through the instrumentality of John J. Parker of North Carolina, who forgot to write a certain little letter. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

these “loan sharks” for a number of years throughout the state, and is very well acquainted with the tactics these gougers use, even to the extent they will pay the employer and office help money to force the employe to pay. We remember about two years ago that there appeared an article from the Better Business Bureau on the same subject, and the writer was called into conference with the manager of the bureau and did furnish the bureau with names of men who had gotten mixed up with these “loan sharks.” I also took several men in person to the prosecutor’s office who were seeking relief, and it seems queer that it should take almost two years to get any action, but it soon will be election time. I wonder if the wives and children who got snared in the “loan sharks' ’’ clutches on account of the husband and father borrowing money think as I do? “There is something rotten in Denmark.” J. E. FLAHERTY. 1030 North Pennsylvania street. Who wrote the musical cemody, “Rose Marie”? Friml, Hammerstein and Harbach.

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MAY 12,1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Henry Ford Preaches New Doctrine of F oily for Harassed Farmers of the Nation. CHRIS CAGLE, former captain of the West Point football team, wants to resign after he gets his diploma, instead of serving four years in the army, as he agreed. He seems to think that the only issue involved is one of expediency, and that it is perfectly proper for him to break a contract with his country because he can make a little more money by so doing. Whatever else may be said of such attitude, it reprsents mighty poor sportsmanship. If Cagle feels that there Is so much opportunity in civil life, that he has made a mistake, and that he should be released from his contract, he ought to beman enough to repay the government of the United States what it has expended for his education. If he did that, however, the opportunity might not look so good. 808 Disgrace to Nation THAT outrage at Sherman, Tex., in which a frenzied mob burned the courthouse to destroy a Negro whose fate already had been sealed by his confession, forms a pathetic commentary on our boasted civilization. The way the rioters abused the body of their helpless victim was of small consequence compared to the way they abused their own intelligence. One could excuse them if they were trying to accomplish something that could not have been accomplished in an orderly manner, but that was not the case. The law had not broken down, there was not the least likelihood that the criminal would escape punishment, and unless constitutional government is all wrong, a legal execution would have done more good than such a wanton exhibition of insane violence as the mob staged. It is to be hoped that the authorities will be able to apprehend and punish those responsible for such an assault on public decency. 808 Ford Has Brainstorm HENRY FORD thinks the farmers ought to go right on producing, even though the consumption of wheat, potatoes, and other staple crops has fallen off. Let them obey the laws of nature, he advises, even if they do have to mortgage the old homestead. It may be all right for manufacturers to curtail now and then, he admits, but the agriculturist should go right on planting and harvesting, regardless of the market. ana It is a wonderful gospel that Mr. Ford preaches, especially for consumers. Every city dweller should be for it. What better guarantee could we have of cheap vegetables, cheap poultry, and cheap dairy products? So, too, what better guarantee could we have of bankruptcy on the farm? Mr. Ford seems to think that finance can be left out of the barnyard, and that farmers can grow crops for which there is no market, without doing themselves, or the country, any harm. a a a Worst of Folly THE folly of such doctrine is obvious, even if we leave out the farmers’ side of it. The drift from farm to city already, has gone too far, as is illustrated vividly by the census returns already in. Yet who supposes it would stop if something is not done to make farming more profitable. People who live in the country have enough disadvantages to put up with, without losing more money. The only way they can avoid losing more money, however, is to apply those principles of business which industry has found successful. The law of supply and demand means as much to farmers as to any one else, and they will suffer the same way and to the same extent if they ignore it. The American farmer faces the alternative of becoming a business man or sinking to the level of a peasant. a a a Drys Reform? DRYS won't fight Roberts,” reads a headline, “preferring a capable wet to an incapable dry.” Let us hope the headline is an accurate expression of their attitude, not only with regard to Roberts, but with regard to every one else. If such ardent drys as Clarenre True Wilson and F. Scott Mcßride have come to a point where they rather would have an able anti than a dumb pro on the supreme bench, the protracted discussion with regard to this issue has not been in vain.