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Unfinished Probes Probably no official is greatly alarmed by the jywouncement that there are four investigations of peculiar happenings in different state offices. No matter how peculiar, they understand that thes* probes and investigations are seldom finished under government as at present organized. They realize that the great crimes which overthrow government just as completely as though torn down by a bloody Robespiere go unpunished. For example, the election frauds of Lake county two years ago, when voters were imported by truck loads from Chicago, are almost forgotten. The government caught a few outlaw bootleggers and let it go at that. In the recent Marion county primaries where frauds were quite patent in both parties, no one fears the jails. Were that not enough, it may be remembered that nearly two years ago the legislature ordered an inquiry into the manner in which state armories were erected, under a plan that was denounced in advance by the then attorney-general, Arthur Gilliom, as illegal. Just what happened to that inquiry is a mystery. Such conditions seriously suggest a doubt as to the success of self government or the capacity of the people to rule themselves. We have detoured tar from the days of Washington and Jefferson. When the will of the people can be complacently destroyed by votes in the names of dead men, no official who betrays his trust need be in great fear. Highway Waste Just Why the highway commission finds it necessary to build some eleven miles of highway in order to avoid one or two curves in the oldest road In the state may be perfectly plain to members of the commission. It is not so clear to citizens along the old highway who find themselves on detour. For many months it has been current rumor that certain financial interests, having real estate holdings ♦o be benefited, wanted to change Road 31 so as to pass through their lands and avoid the town of Carmel. That road, between Indianapolis and South Bend, is an important one. It has an unfortunate entrance to tnis city at Broad Ripple and a dangerous curve over railway tracks. That much was recognized under former administrations when Director Williams caused a survey to be made and discovered that this could be evaded by a very short connection near the new blind school. The people of Carmel have held mass meetings. Their demands seem reasonable. They do not wish to be sidetracked. The people pay something more than twenty millions of dollars a year for highways. That is not a reason for wasting funds or for expenditures for the benefit of individuals and private interests. There are still many unpaved roads in the state that have no parallel routes. Possibly the highway commission believes that it should furnish even more open examples of public waste as a reason for legislative investigation. Or. the members may be attempting to demonstrate the necessity of a full time board of engineers rather than the present so-called bipartisan control. The Plot That Failed Senator George W. Norris says the power interests were behind the trickery to nullify his candidacy in the Nebraska primary by running the unknown George W. Norris, grocery clerk of Broken Bow. That charge remains to be proved. But whoever was responsible should be uncovered. Os all the cheap and dirty political plots this, surely, is one of the worst. The fact that it failed accidentally should not make it a closed incident. Nothing but the delay in filing the second Norris name after the legal date interfered with the plot. Even that oversight did not prevent the secretary of state of Nebraska from accepting the second filing, though it was thrown out on that count by the chief justice of the state supreme court. What a tribute to Senator Norris is all this intrigue! Now. after more than a third of a century of fruitless effort to keep him out of congress, some of his enemies admit that he can not be defeated by fair means and so resort to foul. Considering that he has been one of the leaders In virtually every fight of the people against predatory interests during all these years, the present desperation of his enemies perhaps is understandable. Fortunately, however, among Norris' opponents arc many whose personal probity equals his own. These have been shocked by the Broken Bow trickery. They feel that the use of such tactics has made it impossible now for them to join in the fight against Norris' re-election as they would have done normally. Among Norris’ friends, of course, this incident has provoked a stronger determination to elect him and to find and punish those responsible for the plot that failed. Mary senators, not all of whom agree with his progressive doctrines, will drop their own work and go to Nebraska to campaign for him. Probably such support is not particularly needed in the campaign. Doubtless the people of Nebraska of all parties and all classes who have returned him regularly to the senate despite his desire to retire, can be depended upon to repeat their overwhelming mandate this year. The prompt and general public protest against the effort to foul Norris is evidence of his unusual popularity. as well as proof of the American spirit of fair play. . The Way to Stop Communism Headlines in a'djoining columns on page one of a New York newspaper carry these two messages: “Whalen to offer red plot proof in secret session," and—“Swope tells plan to help jobless ” The first event deals with a congressional investigation Into Communism and an ex-police commissioner's alarm over what he describes as Sovietinspired schemes to overthrow the government. The second presents a plan by the president of the General Electric Company for stabilization of employment in a great industry. The appearance simultaneously of the two items Is more than casually significant. For th|y typify

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diametrically opposed states of mind toward economic unrest. One state of mind is to view with futile fear and trembling those manifestations of unrest that occur when times are bad. The other is to recognize that the cure for the unrest is to eliminate the cause. Parties of protest are with us always, in good times and in bad. They may bear one label or another, but there are always groups that would mold things differently. When times are good, such parties of protest— Populist in one generation, Communist in another—shrink to nothingness, and their clamor is drowned by the din of industry. When times are bad, their followings increase, and if bad times are long enough continued, their protests get wide popular support. Men out of work and hungry do not cheer things as they are; instead, they follow leadership that offers change, since any change is for them a change for the better. It Just happens in this country today that the noisiest party of protest is the Communist. According to the most liberal estimate of the most ardent patrioteer, there are not more than 10,000 Communists among America’s population. Whether this particular party of protest grows in number, or fails to grow, is not a matter that will be decided by police commissioners, undercover agents with thrillers about Moscow documents and international intrigue, or by congressional investigating committees holding week-end sessions on Westchester county estates. As all the secret agents during all the centuries of the Russian empire under all the czars failed to stop the protests that arose from an oppressed people, so unchecked and widespread misery in this country eventually would bring violent change, despite all the Whalens and the Hamilton Fishes and National Security Leagues. The solution never will be provided by politicians and police. It will come only by an improvement of economic conditions, through just such industrial leadership as that which is being demonstrated in the effort of one great industry to make better and more secure the lot of workers in that industry. The way, and the only way, to silence protest is to remove the cause of protest.

A Tax Increase! Various persons, and now the President, have discussed federal expenditures and the need for rigid economy if a tax increase is to be avoided. There is a difference in calculations as to the amount to be spent during the current fiscal year. But there should be no confusion about the fundamental fact that government expenditures have increased steadily in recent years and will increase by a sizable amount this year. The totals of the President differ from those of others, but all show more than $200,000,000 inrease over last year. The President presumably charged to last year another $200,000,000 voted by the special session of congress. Otherwise, his figures would have shown a $400,000,000 increase. How much the departments can save in response to the President’s latest economy plea is problematical. Something, to be sure, but not enough to take care of the increases. Equally problematical is the question of revenues. No one can tell with any accuracy how the “slack times” to which the President refers will affect income tax payments. One of two things will happen. The government will have to reduce its outlays materially, or a tax increare to meet a deficit is inevitable. The first quarter hour after birth, says a physician, is the most dangerous period of life. Except that period when you try to beat out a changing traffic light. One fact whi r goes against the grain is that bread prices stay up while wheat prices go down. Probable comment of the Lindberghs as their child sleeps: “Listen to the baby drone.”

REASON By FR “ K

I ■ the Indiana State Bas Association refused Wto indorse the proposal to give the supreme ind appellate courts authority to simplify the rules of procedure and pleading, it adopted the attitude of that Vanderbilt who said: “The public be damned!” . . , It is fortunate, however the issue was raised, for now the people know where to place the blame for the horrible failure of our courts. a a a Thus we blandly have presented the proposition that courts are ot temples of justice, but establishments for the enrichment of the bar, while the constitutional guarantee of speedy justice is but an entry in the jjoke book of the barrister. a a a The rights of men, women and children are nothing; the safety of society from crime is nothing; the fees of those who practice law are everything. The goddess of justice is not the shield of the weak, but a cabaret dancer, dedicated to the joy of • the profession.” a a a FOR centuries lawyers have been a privileged class; in their mysterious realm they have dallied with human rights as witch doctors have trafficked in ignorance and superstittion; they have set up and maintained to the detriment of the race an occult code. a a a In all other lines we have progressed, but the tardy professes of the law are what they were ages ago; while all others have climbed the ladder of improvement, the lawyer still sits in the dim and musty cellar of antiquity, holding sweet communion with the bats of fiction and echnicality. a a a Citizens may suffer because courts are congested with law suits; they may tremble because organized crime shaes its fist at the state, but the Indiana State Bar Association is troubled only by the phantom of an empty purse. a a a THE refusal of this association to take its stand for human welfare is as if the state medical association should refuse to adopt measures to oppose the ravages of cancer and tuberculosis on the ground that the removal of those scourges would reduce the revenues of doctors. a ' a a The Indiana Bar Association does not speak for the high-minded lawyers of this state, for they know that the late Chief Justice Taft spoke the truth when he said: “Our administration of criminal law is a disgrace to civilization!” . And they know also that our administration of civil law is just as bad. a a a However, our supreme and appellate courts can and should proceed to simplify the rules of procedure and pleading; they can do almost all that is needed without legislative action and it is the prayer of a long-suffering public that the vaudeville in our courthouses shall end and the rejjgn of justice begin.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ —

Ancient Myths Differ as to Sex of Sun and Moon; Some Call Them National Heroes. THE notion that the sun, moon, and planets exercise some direct influence upon the specific incidents of the lives of individuals persists in some quarters. These beliefs can be traced all the way back to the early days of civilization when the spn and moon were believed to be real people taking an active and actual part in events upon the earth. Many of these early legends regard the sun and moon as husband and wife or as brother and sister. Many myths identify the sun or moon as national heroes who were deified and transported to the sky after death. The myths differ as to the sex of the sun and the moon, some designating the sun as masculine and the moon as feminine, others stating just the opposite. Australian myths regard the moon as a man and the sun as a woman. The Indians of Peru, however, believed the moon to be a woman who was both sister and wife of the sun. This dual relationship is not un-’ common in mythology. It is encountered frequently in Greek and Roman mythology where, for example, Juno, the queen of the gods, is both sister and wife of Jupiter, king of the gods.

Confusion OLCOTT offers a possible explanation for the confusion in sex of the sun and moon. He writes in his “Sun Lore of All Ages:” “This confusion in the sex, ascribed to the sun and moon by different nations, may have arisen from the fact that day is mild and friendly, hence the sun which rules the day properly would be considered feminine, while the moon, which rules the chill and stern night, appropriately might be regarded as a man. “On the contrary, in equatorial regions, the day is forbidding and burning, while the night is mild and pleasant. Applying these analogies, it appears that the sex of the sun and moon would, by some tribes, be the reverse of those ascribed to them by others, climatic conditions being responsible for the confusion.” In this connection, it is interesting to note that in the German language, the word for sun is regarded as a feminine noun, while the word for moon is masculine. Just the opposite is true of Latin and the Romance languages. An old Persian legend regards the sun and moon as husband and wife and the stars as their children, a progeny more numerous by far than that of the old lady who lived in a shoe. Many peoples, prehaps because of the brilliance of the sun, have regarded themselves as children of the sun. Thus, for example, the Incas of Peru called themselves the “children of the sun.”

Malay THE natives of the Malay peninsula have an interesting myth which seeks to account for the differences between the day and night sky and also the motions of the sun and moon. According to this legend, both sun and moon are regarded as women, while the stars are the children of the moon. The legend tells that the sun once had as many children as the moon. The children of the sun were bright like the sun itself. Fearing that the earth could not stand so much light and heat, the sun and the moon made an agreement to eat their children. The sun carried out her part of the agreement, but the moon only hid her children. When the moon’s children, the stars, came out at night, the sun was very angry and began to pursue the moon. This accounts for the motions of the sun and moon through the heavens, which the Malay natives regarded as a pursuit of the moon by the sun. The stars go out as the sun rises. This, the natives say, is because the sun still is devouring her children. But the moon hides her children during the daytime and brings them out at night. Among the American Indians we find the sun and moon generally regarded as brother and sister. One legend of the Ottawa Indians tells of two Indians who “sprang through a chasm in the sky and found themselves in a pleasant moonlit land.” There they met the moon, who was “an aged woman with white face and pleasing air.” She introduced them to her brother, who was the sun.

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BATTLE OF BULL RUN July 21

ON July 21. 1861. the first Battle of Bull Run, the first important battle of the Civil war, was fought near a small stream of this name in northeast Virginia. Both the federal army, under General McDowell, and the Confederate army, under Generals Beauregard and Johnston, were composed of green troops, poorly drilled and sadly lacking in experience. The battle got under way at 10 a, m., when the Federals opened the attack, driving the Confederates before them until stopped while ascending a slope, by a fighting brigade under T. J. Jackson, who gained the sobriquet Stonewall as the result of this conflict. The Federals gained ground after stubborn attacks until about 3 p. m. when the Confederates launched an attack that drove their foes in confusion from the field. The retreat became a rout and finally the Federals fled in wild disorder to Washington, but were not followed, as the Confederates also were disorganized by the flurry of the victory. About forty thousand men engaged in the fight, the Federals losing 2 800 and the Confederates 2,000.

Acid Excess in Blood May Be Serious

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE blood is the fluid which circulates in the arteries and in the veins, carrying nutrition to the various organs, bringing them the necessary glandular secretions, and carrying away waste products. Any changes that take place in the blood because of disease, or bad diet, or poisoning, promptly manifest themselves by symptoms, provided the changes are marked sufficiently. Fortunately the human body is provided with factors of safety and the blood has remarkable powers of adjustment to minor changes. Under average conditions of activity of the organs of the body and ordinary food intake, the acid waste products of the actions of the body are in excess of those with a basic or alkaline reaction.

IT SEEMS TO ME By ™ D

I’M glad that John MacDonald, missing Mooney witness, has been found. This is not because his identification may lead to the doing of belated justice. A more personal and selfish interest is involved. The real MacDonald having been located, it won’t be necessary to chase after so many spurious /ones. While the man hunt was in progress, I received a number of positive sure-fire tips as to MacDonald’s whereabouts. I can not pretend that I personally followed up each clew. Some I passed along to the paper and then waived responsibility. But, at least, one I followed on my own account. The man in the bar certainly looked like the picture of MacDonald. So did both the waiters, which made it all very confusing. I have always felt that I had it in me to be a first-rate detective, but seeing three MacDonalds put me entirely off my stride. I didn’t know how to begin or, having begun, how to follow it up. Accordingly, I sat at a table close to the bar and shadowed both the waiters and the bartender. I mean that whenever any one of them came close I stared at him fixedly. It was my hope that at least one of the MacDonalds would notice this examination and take me for a police officer. We have all been told that there is such a thing as hypnotism and that it can be lehrned in ten easy lessons. Although neither a practitioner nor a student of the art, I have heard a little about it. It became my effort to put a cold, pene- | trating quality into these glances ! which were shot at the suspects. ts tt ‘What’ll You Have?’ AND this effort was maintained even when the back of any missing witness was turned. You see the scheme was to make somebody break down and tell all. Obviously there would be no point in my making a direct accusation with nothing more on which to proceed than an anonymous telephone trip, and an ancient newspaper picture of John MacDonald. Although shadowed, each one played, the part of innocence and merely said: “What will you have?” and each time I answered, trying to make my words as significant as possible, “Bring me the same.” Once I did try a lead. As the largest of the MacDonalds handed me the tall glass I said, with half a leer, “It seems to me that your face is familiar.” There was no sign of perturbation in his face. He played his part well. Just as well as I did. This was a duel between two master-minds. The quarry was worthy of the hunter. “Maybe you saw me in Tony’s,” he said. “Not in Tony’s,” I hissed through partially clenched teeth. “It could have been in Jake’s,” he ventured, and I saw that the man was not easily to be trapped. Why f Did It IN order to divert suspicion, I drained by glass and called for another cJrink. Under the circum-

“Out Damned Spot”

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Since the alkaline reaction is necessary for proper health the body has mechanisms for taking care of the acid waste products. Whenever the production of acid or the intake of acid-producing substances exceeds the ability of the mechanism to get rid of the excess a condition results that is called acidosis. Usually the trouble arises from inability to handle properly the digestion of proteins and fats from excesses of these substances. Sometimes it is due to disease of the kidneys resulting in improper elimination or to diseases of other organs which are chiefly concerned with digestion. The most obvious symptoms of acidosis are headache, weakness, rapid breathing and a sort of fruity odor to the breath. The most certain tests are made in the laboratory. Examination of the excretions

stances no sin rested upon my conscience. I had come to the place to get evidence. And as the evening wore on I accumulated more and more. By now an even dozen MacDonalds were moving round the place. And they seemed to be wilting under the investigation. At least most of them swayed as they came up to say, “What will it be?” But if they thought to wear me down, and discourage me in the search, they were mistaken. They had not reckoned with the iron fiber of old Sleuth Broun. I met each challenge with the grim and set reply, “I’ll have the same.” This was the paper’s business and on such a mission loyal employes never flinch. Even when things in the narrow room began to grow a little dim and murky I was satisfied for my last words were already framed and waiting. As they bent over me for my last words I would say, “Tell the managing editor that I did it for the five-star final.” nun At last the bartender, who had taken no previous part in the conversation, came out from behind his barricade and indicated that he wished to communicate with me. I brightened, if that were possible, for

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l would like to ask a question of the board of safety through your paper. What right has a sergeant of police to order workingmen off the street as one did on East Washington street? He said it was on orders from the chief. So men who work every day for a living, when they can, daren’t go around poolrooms like the police, who get their baseball tickets for nothing. It would look much better if they would go around in front of a downtown hotel and get some of these sheiks who stand there 365 days out of the year insulting women as they go by. It looks to me as if the chief wants to arrest anybody, he would

Questions and Answers

Are quotation marks placed after or before punctuation marks? After the punctuation marks. How old is the race horse Man O’ War? When did he run his last race? Did he ever run in the Kentucky Derby? He is 13 years old, and ran his last race Oct. 12, 192 U, at Windsor, Ontario, Canada, defeating Sir Barton in a match race of one and onequarter miles. He never ran in the Kentucky Derby. Which state has the greatest developed water power? California has 2,226,529-horse power, the greatest developed water power of any of the states, according to estimates of the United States geological survey as ol Jan. i, 1929.

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and of the blood of the person afflicted reveals the presence of the acid substances, and shows absolutely the alkaline reserve and the acid state of the blood. Acidosis thus is not a disease in itself, but the manifestation of changed conditions in the body brought about by various diseases. First step in the control of the condition is to find out what is causing the acidosis. If the diet is faulty, it may be modified by adding substances which tend to have an alkaline reaction when finally taken up by the blood. In several grades of acidosis large doses of sodium bicarbonate are given by mouth, by injection into the blood and in other ways. If the amount of carbohydrate or sugar intake is insufficient, additional carbohydrate may be given promptly also by all methods that have been mentioned.

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.

it seemed as if the long vigil had come to its logical and successful conclusion. “We’re going to close up now,” he said. But I had still a trump card to play as I walked toward the door with great dignity, I stopped and engaged the hat-check girl in seemingly aimless conversation. “Is there anybody here named MacDonald?” I asked her. “No,” she said, and I went away with the satiifaction of a piece of newspaper investigation well done. Today all reporters want to be book reviewers, dramatic critics and columnists. Only among a few of us old-timers does there still endure the passion to dig for a story and get down to its very heart no matter what the sacrifice or effort. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times)

Daily Thought

And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom. —II Chronicles 9:23. Wisdom consists not so much in seeing as in foreseeing.—Hosea Ballou.

start out in front of the police station to clean up, as a man can’t start in there unless he is approached by some bondsman or “bojack” lawyer. How do you expect these men to get work if they stay at home? Some of them might be able to go to work if it wasn't for some of the firemen or policemen holding two jobs. It would do this city good if our attorney-general would investigate here. TAXPAYER.

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.JULY 21, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Dr. Victor F ruhwald of Vienna Says American Doctors Think Too Much of Money. A DROWNED man dies at Coney Island while life guards and doctors argue over the effectiveness of inhalators, the former preferring the Schaefer method, while the latter argue for the mechanical device. Os course, the man might have died anyway, as is suggested by the fact that both methods eventually were used. On the other hand, he might have lived if either method had been carried out thoroughly. The episode is worth pondering by those who hold that discussion is the basis of progress. Also, It is worth pondering by those who fall for the illusionment that we have made much progress when it comes to going without air or other essentials of life. na , a Blame the Glands A SAN FRANCISCO physician tells the Wickersham board that defective or abnormal glands may be responsible for crime. It sounds like a good way out for every one. If glands are to blame, not only criminals, but legislators, prosecuting attorneys, peace officers, judges, juries and prison wardens have a ready-made alibi. Besides, the door is open for a greater new industry, for another group of experts and specialists, for an added course in medical education, for a different type of hospital to be built at public expense. a a a Too Many Operations Dr. VICTOR FRUHWALD, nose, ear and throat specialist of the University of Vienna, who has been lecturing in this country for two months, says he is disappointed in American medicine. "The medical fraternity seems to be without much conscience,” he says, “and its members all seem to be thinking of how much money they can get out of a patient, rather than how much good they can do.” Declaring that operations are not only too popular with the profession, but with the public. Dr. Fruhwald expresses doubt whether “there is a tonsil left in a man’s body.” Fad, he thinks, as well as the appetite for money, has helped to develop the situation, and a good many people will agree with him. The procession of novel ills with which wc Americans have been afflicted, and the procession of novel remedies proposed, reminds one of nothing so distinctly as the procession of women’s headgear. One style has followed another without rhyme or reason. The civilian population of this country could show such a multitude of slashed abdomens, wounded throats and pierced heads as would put the army of Genghis Khan to shame. a a a ' Has Right Sense of Value WE flatter ourselves that the performance insures health, if not longevity, but a 156-year-old Turk, who never has enjoyed the privilege of having his teeth pulled to cure an infected foot, or his nose ripped open to relieve a cold, come3 to remind us that we have accomplished little that is new or remarkable. Incidentally, this old boy, who was bom two years before our forefathers proclaimed independence, sees little to surprise or shock him in the rattle and bang of western life. Food, women and Allah still appeal to him as the most important things, which shows a fine sense of value, even if some of our moderns would leave Allah out of it.

Little Advance Made THE greatest triumphs of modern medicine consists in the defectives it has saved, the physical unfit it has been able to preserve for a few years, and if defectives have anything to do with our crime problem, it has a lot to answer for. Whether glands, blood, mental deficiency or pure cussedness are tilling our jails and asylums, it all goes back to the fact that we have interfered to some extent with the natural processes of elimination. Meanwhile, modern medicine has done very little to improve the health or lengthen the life of normal human beings, except in the case of those physical accidents which this age oi machinery,'speed and power has multiplied in a stupendous way. Putting aside the vast number of people who are killed or crippled in our factories or on our streets, a cross section of America would reveal about the same percentage of people living in reasonable heaith at different ages, as would a cross section of Italy in the days of Augustus. How many members of congress are there? In the house of representatives, 435, and in the senate, 96. How is a temperature reduced from Fahrenheit to Centigrade? To convert temperature from Fahrenheit to Centigrade, subtract 32, on account of the difference in the zero points, and multiply the remainder by five-ninths.