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Henry Ford Says Kill It “It will stultify business and Industry and Increase unemployment.” “W am you prevent your customers from purchasing your ioods, you are absolutely throwing men out of work.” “I say that this tariff reduces the number of American job 6.” "People can not keep on buying from us unless we buy from them, and unless international trade can go on our business will stagnate here at home.*’ "It is just a final effort on the part of a small group to have one last dig into the pockets of the masses.” "Congress ought to have the courage to dispose of the bill without submitting it to the President.” “Should congress pass the measure, I do not for one moment doubt that the President will veto it the minute it lands on his desk.” That Is Henry Ford speaking. One may quarrel with Henry Ford’s views about peace. One may disagree with his views on prohibition. But one scarcely can dispute Henry Ford’s opinions on the subject of business, or industry, or employment. He is one of the world’s greatest business men. One of the world’s greatest industrialists. One of the world’s greatest employers. If there is one man in America entitled to be heard on questions affecting business, industry and employment it is Henry Ford. And he says to congress, kill this tariff bill. Kill It for the sake of American business. Kill it for the sake of American industry. Kill it, above all, for the sake of American workers. Henry Ford’s knowledge of politics may not equal his knowledge of business. He believes President Hoover will veto the tariff bill if congress passes it. Perhaps he is right, but the President has failed thus far to give any indication that he will do this wise and necessary thing. In any case, the responsibility rests primarily with congress. If the President should sign this bill he will sign a bill that congress has written. If he should make this mistake he will not lessen in any degree the responsibility of congress. Tariff-making 1s the function of congress, not of the President. As the situation stands at this moment, however, there is little to be gained by discussing who shall take the blame. There will be plenty of blame for all when business is compelled to retrench farther, when part-time operation falls to the lot of more and more factories, when the line of the unemployed outside the gates grows longer and longer. Congress may be able to throw some of the blame on President Hoover. But congress can, if it will, take all the glory to itself. The glory will go to congress if congress has the courage to destroy this Frankenstein of its own making. Since good business and good politics dictate the bill’s death, it shouldn’t require much courage to kill it. Help Porto Rico In the midst of talk of a billion-dollar naval program and a billion-dollar tariff, congress ought to be able to squeeze out the three-million-dollar Porto Rican appropriation requested by Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Two millions are needed for road work and another million for farm loans. Roosevelt’s depressing report on conditions in the island just has been buttressed by publication of the survey by the Brookings institution, "Pcrto Rico and Its Problems.” The situation is revealed by his brilliant and exhaustive study as bad beyond the power of description. Basically, it is a population problem. The island has twice as many inhabitants as it can support, and the numbers grow because of a rising birth rate and a falling death rate. Emigration solutions have been ineffective. Health conditions are terrible, with wholev sale hookworm, malaria and tuberculosis. Starvation is widespread, undernourishment is general. The average annual income "scarcely exceeds $150.” Heroic efforts are being made by the insular government and people of Porto Rico. Through revision of the educational system, extension of health service, reclaiming land for peons by providing homesteads, and establishment of small industries for surplus labor in the town, Porto Rico is trying to lift its own weight. We can not evade our part of the responsibility. More than thirty years ago we took over the island. Porto Ricans are American citizens. Conditions there are a disgrace to ns. We should cut Porto Rico adrift as an independent country, or we should help lift that dependency above the status of starvation and peonage. Our Problems Interlock The complicated network of modern life has made all our puzzles harder to solve than they use to be. One reason probably is that every problem we try to tackle gets all tied up with other problems, so that we can't solve one without being obliged to find solutions for several others that we didn't think about when we started out. There is, for instance, the matter of farm relief. Dig under the surface of it and you find yourself presently bumping up against the problems of industry'. The other day the Michigan Real Estate Association met to consider ways of relieving agricultural distress. George Friday, chairman of the association's agricultural committee, thereupon made this proposal: “The only solution to the rural problem today is to move a third of the farmers into the cities. The remaining two-thirds then will till all the land and each farmer will be able to make a living. The gross Income of the farmer today is an average of less than $2,000 a year. This is far from enough. The average income of the remainder of the population is above $4,000 a year. “Gradually we are driving the fanners into the cities. Their farms are being foreclosed and their numbers are decreasing annually. But this is not fast enough. If, by educational methods, we can convince many who now are failing to sell out while they still have something left, the problem will be solved within a few years.” Mr. Friday’s solution at least escapes the pitfalls that wait for those who urge a general scaling down in the size of crops. But it brings us slap up against anew, seemingly unrelated problem—the problem of industrial unemployment in the cities. Suppose that a third of our farmers could be ipoved into the cities. This very possibly would solve the farm problem; but would it not, in turn, merely intensify the urban problem? At present we are in an industrial depression which has some 3,000,000 men out of work. This depression, of course, will pass, and unemployment will diminish. But even in good times we have a growing specter

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of "technological unemployment,” men who caa not find work because machines have replaced them. Will we gain anything by solving the,farm problem in such way that it increases the number of job hunters in the cities at the very moment when industry is providing a diminishing number of jobs? Our problems all seem to tie in together this way. Touch one and you have to touch them all. The nation as a whole is going to have to do a good deal of intensive thinking during the next decade if it is to prosper as it ought. The Passion for Publicity Little Paulina Longworth, by maternal edict, did not ride in the Washington horse show. The reason given by Mrs. Longworth for her decision was that she feared too much publicity might spoil her daughter. And the chances are that it would. It is spoiling and has spoiled many wiser heads than those on a small girl’s shoulders. One of the greatest menaces to our progress in this country is the national passion for publicity. The average citizen is highly susceptible to ; this disease. And our politics gets into such a messy state, mainly because the normal man is so eaten up with egotism that the minute he begins to get a little notice it goes to his head and he thinks his opinions are infallible. Many a high-class statesman has gone to the senate only to degenerate into a howling dervish, drunk with his own importance, broadcasting his views, making lengthy and entirely unnecessary speeches. And the modern mother, bitten by the same bug, is rearing children who will, it can be feared, be even more avid for notice than their parents. Somebody warned us about the inferiority complex and so we go, helter skelter, creating beastly little show-offs out of our lovely babies. It will be a miracle if many of them come off reasonably humble humans. Few are the individuals who can stand success. If they do, they must have excellent minds and be of fine moral caliber. Pondering upon that, perhaps it’s just as well that so many of us remain obscure citizens, free to live our lives without too much notice and the clanging of cymbals. Because when one has been privileged to witness what fools mortal men can become and with what loud nothings they attempt to keep the public ear, one is ready to thank God for quiet humble ways in which to walk, and for the peace of homely sincerity. Careless Driving Fatal automobile accidents during 1929 showed a 10 per cent increase over the figure for the year before. Nor is this the worst of it. The national safety council, after studying the situation, reports that the increase was chiefly due to careless driving on the part of the average motorist. We like to blame motor accidents on trucks, or on traffic congestion, or on willful pedestrians who dart out into the street without looking; but evidently all of these alibis are deserting us. Asa nation, we seem to be growing more careless on the highways—and this at a time when every year’s traffic toll calls to us in louder and louder tones to exercise the greatest possible care lest our automobiles become a curse instead of a blessing to us* A chemist declares that eighty-seven different things can be made from coal. There's a fortune for some ingenious fellow who can make decent fuel out of it. A man arrested for stealing cigars in Chicago said that he did it for his starving children. He must have overestimated the amount of cabbage the cigars contain. The Harvard Club bridge team twice defeated the players from Yale. And probably because they had better training in tackling the dummy. 7— Dwight Morrow was chosen the most outstanding graduate of Amherst college in a senior class vote. Serves Cal right for declining to run for the senate. Os course you have heard of the refined panhandler who asked a passerby for 15 cents to buy a chocolate malted. While most poets aspire to become a laureate, a good many people will feel they deserve the lariat. “Flappers,” says a writer, "are all motion and no emotion.” To say nothing of commotion. India nursery rhyme: Goosey, goosey, Gandhi, whither do you wander?

REASON

THE appointment of Roberts to the supreme bench was not opposed by the senate liberals, but this does not mean that Roberts is a liberal. In fact, he is a corporation lawyer and u, director in great corporations. 0 0 The mere fact that Roberts accepted government employment and won the oil lease cases causes some to visualize him as a stalwart defender of the rights of the people against corporate wrongs, but sucn optimism is not justified. 0 0 0 IN the oil lease cases Mr. Roberts was not appearing as an outraged citizen; he was appearing as a retained attorney and he went through and did a splendid job of it. but if Sinclair or Doheny had retained him first, h? doubtless would have sat on the other side of the table and now would be an utter stranger to our affections. 000 The fact that a lawyer appears for somebody and argues until his veins stand out like fishworms doesn’t mean anything, except that the voluble brother is earning his salary, and so far as the economic views of the opposing counsel in the oil lease cases are concerned, Martin Littleton, who represented Sinclair, may be more of a liberal thar Roberts, who represented Uncle Sam. 000 THE liberals in the senate opposed the confirmation of Hughes for chief justice because for the last few years he had been employed by great corporations and the public regarded him as*a "corporation man,” but it is just barely possible that Hughes may tum out to be a member of the human race. 000 Had the order of his retainers been reversed, Hughes like Roberts, might have basked in the sunlight of public favor, for once upon a time Hughes appeared for some union miners and won their case. Had this employment immediately preceded the appointment of Hughes for the chief justiceship, his confirmation might have been a band wagon affair. 000 You have to hard it to Hoover, for in Roberts it looks as if he gave the senate liberals an ultra conservative under conditions which compelled them to take {him and appear to like him.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Venus Shines Brilliantly in Evening Sky as II Moves on Eastward Way. VENUS, sister-planet of the earth and the brightest starlike object in the heavens, is in many ways a planet of mystery. If you are not acquainted with the planet, now is an excellent time to know it. It can be seen each evening in the hours after sunset glowing brilliantly in the western sky. It is fifty times as bright as a first magnitude star, being exceeded in brightness by no object in the night sky except the moon! If you look for Venus each night and compare its position with that of surroundings stars, you will note that Venus is moving to the east. Each night it is a little higher in the sky and sets a little later. Viewed through a telescope these nights, Venus appears like a half moon. As the month proceeds, it will become more and more crescent shape. But due to the shift in the position of Venus, the crescent will grow larger and so the planet will shine with greater and greater brilliance in the sky. Galileo was the first to discover that Venus went through phases like the moon. It was one of many discoveries which he made in 1610, when he turned his little telescope upon the heavens for the first time in the history of the world. But scientific discoveries were unpopular in Galileo’s day and so he hid his discovery in an anagram or word puzzle. tt tt tt Clouds THE fact that Venus goes through phases like the moon is not what makes it a planet of mystery. The phases are quickly and simply explained. The planets shine by reflected sunlight just as does our own moon. We see our moon go through phases because we do not always see all of the illuminated face of the moon. When we see all of it, it is full moon. When we see half, it is first quarter or last quarter, depending upon which way we see it, etc. The telescope reveals that both Mercury and Venus go through phases. Both these planets are closer to the sun than we are and consequently as they go around the sun, we do not always see the entire illuminated side. The mystery of Venus lies in its appearance. For no human eye ever has seen the surface of the planet. In the telescope, Venus appears a flat, shining white. No surface markings are distinguishable. The appearance and the way in which sunlight is reflected from the planet is just what would be expected if the planet were surrounded with a dense heavy blanket of clouds. Most astronomers, therefore, have accepted that conclusion. They feel that we never have seen the surface of the planet, only the outer surface of the cloud blanket, around it. Occasionally a small dark spot is seen upon the planet. It will disappear after a brief time. Astronomers think that this is due to the fact that the clouds may be a bit low at the time and so a mountain peak is able to poke its top through the cloud blanket. u n Life A QUESTION which arises at once is whether there is life upon the planet Venus. While public discussion has centered around Mars, many astronomers, as for example, Doctors Seth B. Nicholson and Edison Pettit of the Mt. Wilson observatory, think conditions for life might be better on Venus than on Mars. The diameter of Venus is only slightly less than that of the earth, approximately 7,700 miles. Venus is closer to the sun than is the earth. Its average distance from the sun is 67,170,000 miles, while that of the earth is 93,000,000 miles. Observations with the spectroscope to detect the presence of oxygen and water vapor are somewhat disappointing. Dr. Charles E. St. John of Mt. Wilson observatory does not find evidence for them. He points out, however, that his observations are of necessity confined to the portion of the atmosphere above the cloud layers. There could be any amount of oxygen and water vapor below the cloud layer. There is also some question as to the rate at which Venus rotates upon its axis. This would have an important bearing upon the possibility of life. If the planet always kept one face toward the sun, life would not be possible. This would mean one face would be excessively hot and the other excessively cold. Nicholson and Pettit, however, do not think that this is the case. It is impossible to determine the exact period of rotation because of the impossibility of seeing surface markings upon the planet.

<H6w Wel/Voybu o'Cnow’)&urT}ible? I FIVE QUESTIONS A DAY* ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. What figures of speech did Jesus use in referring to the combination of old and new? 2. How was the fruitfulness of Canaan described? 3. Complete the verse, “Weeping may endure for a night, but . . .” 4. What Hebrew king was familiar with botany and zoology? 5. What famous verse did Jesus say to the man who came to him at night? Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. The harsh laboring conditions of the Israelites, enslaved in Egypt; Exodus 5:6-14. 2. A strict and patriotic Jewish sect, now a symbol for self-right-eousness. 3. A leper; Luke 5:12. 4. “For they shall see God.” Matthem 5:8. 5. Jeremiah 13:23. Were special medals issued to American soldiers who served in the army of occupation in Germany. The adjutant-general’s office, war department, says that no special medal or ribbon was issued to the soldiers who served in Germany,

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— DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Aluminum Ware Safe for Cooking

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN the great trade war between the manufacturers of cooking utensils made from various types of metal all sorts of arguments have been used to secure the public favor. Years ago it was suggested that eating from enamelware cooking utensils might be dangerous because of the possibility of chips getting into the food and producing irritations. For this there was little, if any, scientific evidence and the hazard is so small as to be negligible. The introduction of aluminum cooking utensils wa.j followed by the argument that the aluminum got into the food and acted as a poison and that it could even be the cause of cancer.

IT SEEMS TO ME By ™ N OD

WHAT might well have been one of the most interesting athletic contests of all time just has fizzled out to the regret of the entire community. Cleveland was the scene of the challenge and the crawl. It all began with a radio address by D. S. Humphrey, proprietor of a big amusement park. Humph) ey extolled the advantages of popcorn as a diet. By a curious coincidence it so happens that he sells popcorn at his park. But not content with this constructive criticism, Humphrey went on into negations. He spoke bitterly of beer. Popcorn, he pointed out, warms the heart, while beer steals away the brain. Among the members of the invisible audience on that particular night was Robert McLaughlin, playwright, whose works have been seen from time to time along Broadway. it it a Challenge to Fight BRIGHT and early the next day • he challenged the popcorn king to public combat. This was to be the nature of the conflict. Every time Humphrey ate one 5-cent bag of popcorn, McLaughlin agreed to drink one pint of beer. This was to continue until one or the other threw in a towel, resigned or fell to the floor. It should have been an epic battle, It is easy to envisage the rival cheering sections with every beer boy upon his feet shouting defiance across the turf at the popcorn undergraduates. And as the thing becomes tense one can almost hear the long drawn shout arise of “Hold, ’em, Yale!” Moral Victory JUST how the contest would have culminated must remain a mystery. McLaughlin won a moral victory, but he was denied the privilge of worsting his adversary in actual

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Why is the choice of a judge of the United States supreme court limited to attorneys who have achieved distinction by serving some big corporation? There is nothing in the Constitution that restricts the choice to attorneys of any kind. Citizens of other callings enact laws, serve on juries, and in that capacity are made judges of the law and the evidence. There are men serving as the heads of law departments of our universities who an; better qualified for the supreme bench than some who have occupied it. Take Orrin G. Judd of the Harvard Law Review, learned not only in the Constitution and laws 6t our country, but of other nations as well, who regards principle less than the letter, and is not hampered by precedent and who may regard vested rights as of far less value than human rights. This noble experiment should be tried once, anyhow. JOHN N. TAYLOR, M. D. CrawfordsvUle, Ind,

A Bolt Out of the Blue

For this there is absolutely no evidence and the statement was wholly unwarranted. When it was found that such a campaign failed to secure public favor, the statement was then made that the cooking in aluminum cooking utensils produced dangerous combinations and that it devitalized the food and lowered its vitamins. Modern industry when accused is likely to procure research to answer definitely the question. Hence* research has been carried on in the Mellon institute to find out if boiling of milk in aluminum cooking utensils would have this effect. The study apparently was made with relationship to vitamin C, the anti-scurvy vitamin. Milk unfortunately is not a good source of vitamin C, even under the best of conditions.

combat. Humphrey refused to accept the challenge. The playwright is still in his late 30’s or early 40’s, of robust statue and deep sincerity. Possibly the same is true of Humphrey, but he has chosen for himself the more difficult medium. One bottle of® beer more or less leads to another and this is by no means true of popcorn. I have never known a popcorn addict of mature years. After the age of 10 or 11 most of us are quite capable of taking popcorn or letting it alone. Indeed, though beer itself hardly

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* AMERICAN RED CROSS May 21 ON May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross was formed under the leadership of Clara Barton, who acted as its first president. The American Red Cross Society, like those of other nations, was organized largely through the activities of Jean Henri Dunant, a Swiss. An eyewitness of the battle of Solferino, Dunant published a book in which he vividly described the horrors of the battlefield caused by the inability of the regular surgical corps to care properly for the wounded. The book was widely read and the resulting agitation led to an international conference at Geneva in 1863 when delegates from sixteen countries signed what is known as the Geneva convention, which provided for neutrality of those engaged officially in relieving the wounded. In 1905 the American Red Cross was chartered by an act of congress. There are now more than 3,000 local chapters, with national headquarters at Washington, D. C. Work of the organization is not confined to wartime, but includes the relief of suffering caused by great calamities such as epidemics, storms, earthquakes and fires.

Questions and Answers

Does the President of the United States receive the highest salary of anybody in the United States? The President’s salary of $75,000 Is higher than that of any other government official, but many private corporations pay their officials higher salaries. What is the nearest town to the Boulder Dam site? Las Vegas, Nev. * How much revenue did the United States government receive from distilled spirits and fermented Liquors in 1918 and 1919? In 1919 the revenue from that source was $483,050,854.47 and in 1918 it was $443,839,544.98. Is raw silk now on the free list? Yea, • - —— 1

For this reason the diet of an infant regularly is supplemented with orange juice or some other fresh fruit or vegetable juice to aid the vitamin C deficiency. In the Mellon institute experiments, milk was boiled lightly for five minutes in aluminum and in glass containers. In each instance some destruction of vitamin C followed the boiling, but no more destruction occurred in metallic utensils than in the glass utensils. Os course, it has already been shown that the destruction of vitamin Q depends on oxidation, which occurs when food substances are boiled in an open vessel. Oxidation is favored particularly by the presence of copper, but there has been no evidence that the presence of aluminum had such an effect.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those of Jne of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attltode ol this paper.—The Editor.

meets the bill, the stronger alcoholic stimulants fulfill a function in time of crisis in a manner quite beyond any of the substitutes suggested by the drys. Consider these circumstances for instance and see whether they sound in any way credible: A man staggers up to a long wooden bar and says in broken accents, “Last night my wife ran away with my best friend, today my house burned down, half an hour ago my store went bankrupt and the doctors says that I must be operated on for appendicitis at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning—for heaven’s sake give me a 10-cent bag of popcorn in a hurry.” tt n tt A Personal Padlock IN Springfield, Mo., a court padlocked the hip pocket of Rollin A. Brown and now he has been held in contempt on the charge that he broke through the governmental seals. In the case of the first instance the learned judge held that the prisoner conducted an itinerant bootlegging business and since he had no central storehouse the padlock should be placed upon his person to cut off his half-pint trade. Something of reason gleams through this decision, but quite obviously it falls short of the complete logical goal. ”n the case of petty and personal offenders the law should seek more effective and compelling methods of punishment. Brown, despite his hip lock, might on occasion be the recipient of the bounty of a scofflaw friend. Would not it have been better and safer all around to padlock the mouth of the offender and make him dry by harsh compulsion? _ (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

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MAY 21, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

If the Administration Wants the Naval Treaty Passed It Would Better Call Off the Experts „ Who Are ‘Gumming the Works.’ WHILE running for the presidency fifty-two years ago Winfield Scott Hancock described the tariff as a mass of local issues. Those four Democrats who deserted the coalition and lined up with the protectionists to save the Smoot-Hawley bill furnish convincing evidence that he was right. Two of them are from Florida, where a duty on fruit and vegetables is popular; one is from Louisiana, where a duty on sugar is desired, and one is from Washington, where the free importation of Canadian lumber has developed into a bogey. Meanwhile, the Smoot-Hawley bill has not been passed, but merely sent back to conference, with such a close lineup in the senate that it yet may be beaten. tt a Experts 'Gum Works’ IF the Hoover administration wants the naval treaty passed, it would better call off the experts. They are doing little but gum up the works with a lot of technical chatter. Worse than that, they are creating an impression that the treaty was. not an honest effort to limit construction, but a horse trade between England and the United States, with parity as our objective. Parity, we now are informed, though agreed to in principle by the British, will cost us one billion dollars and take six years. Such figures make it difficult to persuade the man in the street that much has been accomplished toward limitation. tt a The Young plan is inaugurated with a huge bonfire, in which $37,000,000,000 worth of German bonds are consumed. Germany now owes the allies only $9,000,000,000. When the war ended, some people thought that she could be made to pay the whole bill, estimated at about $120,000,000,000. It all goes to show how stupid people can be when they are mad, and what preposterous results they expect from victory. After ten years of wrangling, the world just is beginning to realize that everybody lost in this war, and that as a general proposition, each nation must pay its way out. Riddle Still Is Riddle THOUGH Sir Joseph Duveen, world famous art expert, has paid Mrs. Andre Hahn "a substantial sum,” in settlement of the suit she brought against him, the riddle of "La Belle Ferroniere” remains unsolved. There seems to be no doubt that Leonardo da Vinci painted "La Belle Ferroniere,” but whether it was the one owned by Mrs. Hahn, or the one that hangs in the Louvre is another and more difficult problem. Some years ago, Sir Joseph Duveen said that Mrs. Hahn’s painting was a copy and because of his great reputation as an art expert, that interfered with its pending sale to a museum. Naturally enough, Mrs. Hahn sued him for damages to the tune of $500,000. The case was tried last year, and Sir Joseph discovered that explaining art in court and while under cross-examination was very different from explaining it to enthusiastic students or gullible millionaires. He also discovered that art experts are as prone to disagree as doctors, and that no one csn tell what an American jury will do. All of which, though very interesting, leaves an anxious humanity still in the dark as to which picture Da Vinci painted, if either. So this Is Art IN this connection, it is interesting to recall that Millet’s grandson recently was haled before a French court for palming off 3,000 or 4,000 spurious pictures by forging his grandfather’s autograph. Scarcely a day passed but what some art expert rises to disprove the conclusions of some other art expert. Meanwhile, a good pitcure Is a good picture, no matter whose name is on it, or how long ago it was painted. The point is, of course, that too many people who buy pictures are not nearly so Interested in their quality as their pedigree. Still, we call it art.

Daily Thought

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.—l Peter 4:8, tt tt u Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.— Lowell.