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More Taxes? . President Hoover warns the country that "a small deficit” for the fiscal year ending next June 30 Is likely. The chairman of the senate finance committee estimates that this federal deficit will approximate last year's surplus of $184,000,000? Presumably this means that the 1 per cent tax reduction applying to payments this year will be abolished, and the old levies automatically will become operative through failure of congress to perpetuate the cut. It is unfortunate to have to increase taxes in a time of depression, but the treasury is plainly up against It, and must do this or Issue bonds. Revenues this year will be somewhere between $350,000,000 and $500,000,000 les3 than last year. Expenses will show a marked increase. Coupled with this are demands on congress for increased Aitlays for public works to stimulate business. A huge naval building program is being advocated, and congress must vote funds for previous commitments, such as flood control, Boulder dam, state road aid, public building and farm relief. Some administration leaders are advocating curtailment of public debt retirement, which up to now has proceeded rapidly and in an orderly manner. Surpluses of other years have been applied to the debt, as have payments by foreign governments on their debts. In our Judgment, the rapid debt retirement policy should be continued. The precipitate tax reduction of last autumn, depriving the government of $160,000,000,* coupled with lower payments because of the stock market crash and general business slackening, are the factors which will put the balance on the red side of the ledger. Customs revenues also have been materially lower. The important thing now is to exercise discretion in spending, and if new sources of revenue must be found, to put the burden on the larger rather than the smaller taxpayers. 23,000 Babies If you learned that your government was about to pass a law to doom 25,000 babies, your shocked consciences would cry out in horror. Yet by its failure to re-enact the Sheppard-Towner act last year, congress in effect did Just that. What is the White House conference on child health and protection, which opens today, going to do about this issue? By the spending of only $1,252,000 a year for seven years, the federal government, in co-operation with the states, has' worked a life-saving miracle. In that time the infant mortality rate was cut from 76 deaths per 1,000 live births to 65, and the maternity death rate reduced from 68.2 to 64.7. In the last year of its operation this law is credited with the saving of 25,000 baby lives. Bills were introduced last year to re-enact this • federal aid to mothers” law. which terminated in June, 1929, The effort was swamped by the din of tariff war, pork and patronage traffic, the noisy clamor of special interests. The mothers’ and babies' cry was not heard in the White. House or on Capitol Hill. The National League of Women Voters and labor organizations will demand action from congress m December. What will the White House conference on child health and protection do? A Flyer in Wheat The latest speculation spree of the federal farm board makes us dizzy. Taking the people's money, it has barged into the Chicago wheat pit in a big way, and—for a moment—fixed the price above the world level. , , Asa result, it now has about 100,030.000 bushels of excess wheat stored away and no apparent chance of getting rid of surplus, because there is an even larger surplus glutting the world market abroad. All of this may be fine business on the part of the administration; at least we would not presume to argue the matter with experts who have discovered—or think they have—a device to set aside the law of supply and demand. However, we can not help but be uneasy over the fickleness of the board. We would have more confidence in its policy if it would stop reversing that policy every change of the moon, The administration started out to oppose to the death all and sundry price-fixing panaceas. That was what all tfle shooting was about when the administration killed the farm bloc measures in congress. The administration argued that price-fixing stunts had been tried in many countries and all had failed. It cUed the disastrous examples of British rubber. Cuban sugar and Brazilian coffee. Just abput the time the country had been converted to the fact that any price-fixing control of a world commodity must fail, the farm board took its first flyer in wheat. That turned out to be a very costly operation, the net result being that the board was left with highpriced and unsalable wheat on its hands and that the market price plunged downward to the detriment of the farmers. After that sad experience the farm board appeared to reform and to flop back to the original administration policy. At least, it is said it had no intention of dabbling in the market again. But now it has executed another temperamental reversal, and plunged so deeply in the wheat pit tha; no one knows how it is going to get out. Why this latest plunge? Critics suggest that it is for political purposes on the eve of the congressional session, to prevent revival of the farm bloc’s debenture plan. Whatever the reason, we have a growing suspicion that no good is going to come of the administration's farm relief efforts, either politically or economically, unless it stops floundering and makes up its mind one way or another. Another Crop of Volunteer Censors One might suppose that the American citizen already has plenty of guides to nurse him along in correct thinking. The postofflee, the customs officials, John S. Sumner, the Watch and Ward Society and the Catholic Index try to prevent him from reading improper books. His morals are protected by the Sumnerites, the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals, the Catholic Welfare Council, the movie censorship boards and their lady adjuncts. Our political morals are kept immaculate by the D. A. Ik, the American Military Intelligence Society, the HaUonal Civic Federation, and the like. The radio authorities sift out what we may get over the air, seeing to tt that only the conservative side of controversial material is presented. Bat Ik would seem that this is not enough to Sums'* a right-thinking America. The federal board

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of tax appeals has rushed on the scene to offer us advice as to what are good and bad educational organizations. Mrs, Bertha Weyl of New York City made a gift to the League for Industrial Democracy. She deducted this from her Income tax report. It was denied and she appealed to the board of tax appeals. This board also decided against her. The majority opinion was delivered by Judge C. Rogers Arundel 1. The judge apparently had read but little in the literature of the origins of our country. He denounced the league for criticising existing political and economic Institutions and # This is un-American in a country which was founded* upon political and economic revolution! When congress passed the tax exemption law, according to Judge Arundell, it had in mind safe and sane educational organizations which would be an •'aid to good government.” A trace of the old American spirit appeared in the minority opinion delivered by Judge John M. Stemhagen: "There are few branches of learning which escape controversy. Freedom of thought and difference of opinion are essential to education and progress. . . . Whether the education is controversial, political or immediately or remotely effective is, I think, beside the point.” The case will be carried to the federal circuit court of appeals. We may hope that the tax board will be reversed, not so much because of the League for Industrial Democracy or any particular organization, but because of the desirability of nipping in the bud another effort to crush out intellectual independence in the United States. The board would pass a gift to the Harvard business school, but, no informed person would be likely to contend that the League for Industrial Democracy is any more biased toward collectivism than is the Harvard business school in the direction of capitalistic individualism. With the overwhelming majority of our educational Institutions and organizations avowedly capitalistic, we are in special need of such counterbalancing work as that carried on by the league and the Rand school. Air Accidents The commerce department’s aviation accident report for the first six months of 1930 is the most interesting one since the collection of crash statistics was started. It shows that, although flying over the regularly scheduled air lines of the country is amazingly safe, and becoming safer every day, crashes in other types of flying are increasing alarmingly. The air lines between January and July flew nearly three million miles for every fatal accident, a safety increase of nearly 200 per cent over last year. Yet in miscellaneous flying there was a fatal crash for every 58,427 miles, a decrease over last year’s safety record. The commerce department is gravely worried over tills. The country is full of young pilots just out of the schools, flying without mature judgment and experience, and killing themselves and other people with disheartening regularity. All fliers must pass through the “adolescent” stage of piloting; they must experience the dangerous period. Stricter regulation is vital, despite all ths opposition to it. Perhaps it will be necessary to forbid pilots cariying passengers until they have more experience than the present regulations require. Certainly there is no excuse for allowing private pilots to take their friends aloft, as now is the practice. We can’t keep the private pilots from killing themselves, but surely ws can protect others from going to death with them. We aren’t very keen on foreign problems, but Turkey and Greece always sound pretty good around Thanksgiving time. A New York sports writer has been getting free coal for needy families through his column. Seems to have turned from the baseball diamond to the black diamond. Knute Rockne, Notre Dame coach, is a good actor, they say. Maybe it’s because he studies his lines before every game.

REASON by ™s k

A T this session of congress our statesmen should end the long controversy about Muscle Shoals by having the government operate the institution and manufacture cheap light and power for the people • nd cheap fertilizer for the farmers. MOM The senate has voted in favor of this several times, but the house always turns the proposition down, the house having become the conservative or reactionary branch f* our national government, due largely to the system of rules which makes the speaker a czar. * H M This is directly opposite to the anticipation of those who made the constitution, they thinking that the house, direct from the people, would he a radical body, while the senate would sit, wrapped in serene deliberation, and prevent the radical house from running away with things. man L. INDIANA now faces the proposition of reapportionment for congressional purposes and it does not go down very well to contemplate the loss of two congressmen, particulrly when you recall that the crowded sections that get these congressmen benefit from the presence of unnaturalised aliens who are counted the same as citizens. a a a And upon this count as made by the census, members of the house of representatives are apportioned. For purposes of representation, nobody should be counted but citizens. To do otherwise is to defraud the country. mam This thing should be changed before the next census is taken, to prevent a repetition of the injustice, for the foreign brethren are tc come in unfailing streams, and this means the continued depletion of rural representation until finally the cities will be the whole thing. a a a NO matter what it takes to do it, whether it requires a constitutional amendment or not, the evil should be remedied and the time to do it is in the present session of congress, or the next one, for when the new reapportionment goes into effect the cities will be much stronger in voting strength. mam Then down south it's pretty rough, for while the colored brother doesn’t vote to any considerable extent, he is counted for purposes of representation in the house of representatives and for presidential electors, the same as if he were n full partner in southern government. All in til, our political machieft needs considerable overhauling..

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy _ SAYS:—

It Strains the Imagination to Think That 'We'll Fall Again for the Slush as We Did in the War Days of 1917. SIR JOSIAH STAMP, eminent British economist, attributes the present worldwide depression f to gold. Gold, he explains, has risen in value, while other commodities have gone down by comparison. Nations can not get as much gold for a given commodity or a given amount of labor as they could eight or ten years ago, but must pay their debts with it. This means that the debts increase as gold rises, and that, so far as work or production is concerned, the debts constantly grow greater. Sir Josiah thinks it unfortunate that we Americans should be accumulating such a large gold reserve, but forgives us on the ground that we can’t help it. Prospect for solution of the problem would be hopeless, he says, were it not for the fact that men generally find a way out of their difficulties when it becomes necessary. an a France Is Clever FRANCE has shown more foresight than any other European country in her persistent accumula- ! tion of gold. Not only that, but she has shown more foresight all along the line. While other countries tried to avoid debt through increased taxes, France borrowed, and she borrowed all she could from the outside. While other countries tried to meet their obligations, she squirmed and delayed. The result is that she has a huge surplus of casn with which to meet not only such emergencies as the present depression may involve, but to launch a nation-wide program of improvement. One can not help admiring the perspicuity with which France has planned, contrived and schemed. At the same time, one can not help suspecting that we Americans were taken for a ride when we wrote 60 per cent off what she owed, r * * Maybe We'll Fall Again MAYBE another European war will occur some day, and maybe we will be drawn into it. Maybe we’ll make just such fools of ourselves as we did the last trip —shoveling money out of the window as though it didn't count, mobilizing an army of 4,000,000 men when we needed only two, pretending we had a lot at stake, when we didn’t, and whittling down the debts for countries that borrowed instead of paying their way. Maybe we’ll fall for all the slush over which we went crazy in 1917. and maybe we’ll get so excited as actually to imagine that we once more are "saving the world for democracy,’ ’and participating in a "war to end war.” Maybe, but it strains the imagina- j tion to think so. a u n Costly Experience WHATEVER we have lost by way of busted dreams and blasted hopes, through going off half-cocked as we did, we should have gained something like a liberal education out of the war, and especially out of events which succeeded it. Wooden ships, sold for a song; cantonments virtually given away; a peace treaty so disgusting that we conscientiously couldn’t sign it; a league so interwoven with the scramble for spoils that we conscientiously couldn’t join; a revision of national life and international relations so impractical that there has been continuous revolution and uproar all over the map. and debts so complicated that the best we could do was to write off 50 per cent. * an Lose Our Common Sense IT is to be conceded that we may have accomplished something worthwhile in planting the thought of a peace movement, but we certainly spilled the beans when it came to preserving that hardheaded common sense with which we were credited. Those who are puzzled to know why racketeering has become a chief indoor sport, not only here, but abroad, should study the devious ways by which great governments have evaded their obligations, and then taken advantage of one another since the armistice was signed. Men like Mr. Capone and Mr. Diamond can find ample justification for their moral standards in some of the most exalted places of statecraft.

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GARFIELD’S BIRTH NOV. 19 ON Nov. 19, 1831, James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in a log cabin at Hiram, O. He was left fatherless when 2 years of age and his early schooling frequently was interrupted by period of labor necessary for earning the means of support and education. He finally succeeded in graduation from Williams college with high honors in 1856. He taught Latin and Greek for a period, studying law in* the meantime and was admitted to the bar in 1861. His political career began in 1859, when he was elected as a Republican to the state senate. During the Civil war he rose from colonel to majorgeneral through his heroism in battle. . . In 1880 he was elected to the United States senate and in the same year was elected President of the United States. After holding office a few months, he was shot by an assassin in a Washington railway station. He is buried in Cleveland, where his tomb is marked by a memorial erected in 1890 by public subscription at a cost of about $225,000. Harry A. Garfield, son of the late President, is president of Williams college. What is the highest altitude an aircraft has attained? Lieutenant Apollo Soucek attained an altitude of 48,186 feet.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s "Believe It or Not” which appeared in Tuesday’s Times: Kern, Famous German Architect—The cathedral of St. Basil, outside of the Kremlin in Moscow, is one of the strangest specimens of architecture in existence. It is a veritable “nightmare of stone,” having twenty multicolored and gilded domes, and towers of grotesque shapes and sizes. It was erected at the order of Czar Ivan the Terrible in 1554, to commemorate the capture of

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Food Gives Fuel for Infant’s 'Engine’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hytreia. the Health Magazine. SIR WALTER FLETCHER, eminent head of the British Medical- Research Council, said recently in an address that our knowledge of nutrition gained in the last quarter century represents the most important material for the advancement of mankind that was contributed during that period. Whereas it at first was thought the only value of food was to provide the body fuel to carry on its activities, later developments have revealed the necessity of various constituents of foods for specific purposes. The energy value was measured in calories. Calories represent the ability of the food to supply the body with fuel to carry on the activities of the the lungs, the muscles, and the digestive organs. When food is utilized as fuel, the energy ultimately is given off in the form of heat and the heat units are measured in calories. However, these fuel values represent only the material that the body uses up in carrying on work. They do not include the impor-

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

WHENEVER anybody hints in all charity that some one’s eccentric opinions may be dismissed upon the ground of his immaturity he will be informed that Hannibal crossed the Alps at an early age and that Napoleon was going great guns long before he reached 30. And the younger Pitt will also be mentioned. R. Halford Forster, "Representative in America of Randolph i Churchill,” takes exception to a recent column concerning his chief and misses only one of the traditional prodigies in his rebuttal. But Mr. Forster misunderstood | my objection to the lecture tour of the fire-eating British schoolboy. It does not abash me at all to be informed for the hundredth time that William Pitt entered parliament at the age of 21. That, at least, leaves him two up on Churchill, minor, yet even so I have not the slightest wish to keep this glib youngster out of the hbuse of commons. I merely expressed amazement that he should be seriously received as a visiting lecturer on topics of international moment. Surely no one would maintain that sound grounding in world politics ever was made essential for a legislator in any land. 9 9 9 Mute Milton . IFIND myself not much moved by the qualification of Randolph Churchill, which his representative advances as peculiar. He speaks of the lad as one "who has had the privilege of being with a father who by his actions early in August, 1914, admittedly saved Europe.” The answer to that must be a blunt “Who hasn’t?” The achievements of Winston Churchill, the opinions of Winston Churchill, the remarkable attributes of Winston Churchill and Mr. Churchill’s views on this world and the next hardly can be a secret to any literate ican.Next to Lloyd George he has been the most articulate and prolific of all syndicated features originating in the BrltCtr Isles. For years it has been almost im-

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

Kazan. After its completion, the czar ordered the architect’s eyes put out to prevent the construction of a similar church in any part of the world. Reference: “F” Grance encyclopedic,” Volume 24, Page 399. Count de Sade—Count de Sade (1740-1814) spent almost thirty years of his life behind the bars in prisons and asylums for the insane. When he was confined in the Bastille, he was able to procure writing materials for the first time. During five of his prison

tant purposes of building tissue, taking caxe of body waste, or providing the body with resistance to various forms of disease. Protein is necessary to maintain life and to build and rebuild tissue. Because the child grows so much more rapidly than does the adult, it requires proportionately more protein than does an adult. The chemistry of the proteins is so complicated that its investigation represents a special field in medical science. Proteins apparently are built up out of various combinations of substances called amino acids. Proteins vary in their character from the type that grows in the tissues of the body to much simpler forms. Naturally, a protein which already is close to what the body requires for its growth is a more valuable protein for nutrition than one which has to be acted on and modified chemically in order to reach this higher state. An infant needs a certain amount of protein to grow satisfactorily. The amount needed is about one-fiftieth of an ounce for each pound of the baby’s weight. It is, however, desirable to give a

possible to pick up an American newspaper or magazine without finding something signed and dotted by the British statesman. Nor have I any wish to be captious about his contributions. It is all good, lively stuff. Winston Churchill writes at least two and a half times as well as our Mr. Coolidge, and at times he is very nearly as amusing as Will Rogers. It might be said that in all his narrative one sees life through a Churchill darkly, but, after all, who am I to adopt a censorious attitude toward those who make a maypole of the first person singular and dance around it? It is interesting, of course, to learn that in August, 1914, Winston Churchill “admittedly saved Eudope.” Has Europe heard of it, and shouldn’t that contintent be the first to know? a a a Blunt and Frank THERE is no reason why men or women who come across the sea to give us lecture tours also should bear with them gifts of flattery. I hold it reasonable for them to like neither our women nor the taller buildings. But if there is too much suggestion of the missionary spirit, in my provincial way I bridle. I am distressed if I get the impression that fellow citizens of mine are going to box office windows with things of value which they presently will exchange for beads and bits of colored cloth. Thus the educational motive of young Randolph Churchill hardly is magnified in my eyes when R. Halford Forster, his representative, writes to me, “Ypu will remember, won t you, that for years of the mud and blood in Flanders, until they were convoyed across by the British fleet, there were quite a number hashing silver dollars one against the other whilst we (I happened to do four and a half very undistinguished years of war service) waited." In this I seem to see the deft touch of British rpticence, which shrinks as does the Mexican jumping bean. But I’m all fee British

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years he wrote the incredible number of 450 volumes. These books made his name a byword for criminal immorality. Between 1784 and 1789, he wrote at the rate of about ninety volumes a year. He is described by a contemporary as “one of the handsomest men” of the eighteenth century. Reference: "Bellicoli’s ‘Comte de Sade.’” Thursday: “The Bean That Saved a Life.”

little more protein than this amount to take care of any possible loss. The baby that is liying on its mother's milk receives by way of the milk about one-thirtieth oftttn ounce for each pound of its weight The protein of cow’s milk is not the same as that of the mother’s milk. It is necessary that an infant that is fed artificially receive somewhat more protein than the one that is being fed at the mother’s breast. Such an infant should receive approximately one-twentieth of an ounce for each pound of its weight a day. If the infant will get a quantity of cow’s milk that is equivalent to one-hundredth of its body weight each day, it will receive an adequate amount of protein. If the infant is undernourished, obviously it will have to receive even more, so that it is customary to calculate on the basis of what the infant ought to weigh rather than on what it actually weighs. Thus, a child weighing ten pounds would have to receive one pound of cow’s milk a day to supply it with an adequate amount of protein.

Ideals and opinions expressed Id this column are those of one of America’s most inter* eating writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this oaner.—The Editor.

reticence. For the sake of AngloAmerican relations, I could wish for even more of it. Mr. Forster informs me that I am Incorrect in referring to Randolph Churchill as 19. It seems that he actually is 19%. I further am informed that he “was certainly not told to "wash behind his ears.” All of which leaves me with the possibly parochial notion that there are still things which are better ordered in the United States. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times*

Daily Thought

Watch and pray; that ye enter not into temptation.—Matthew 26:41. Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. —-J. Q. Adams. Has the size rs the brain anything to do with intelligence? No. Some of the greatest thinkers have had small brains.

Countries of Europe The World war and the peace treaties changed the map of Europe—and changed the map of Europe’s colonies, dominions, possessions and mandated territory. Teachers, school boys and girls and grownups, too, will be interested in ouf Washington bureau’s new bulletin, COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AND THEIR COLONIES, now ready. It gives brief facte about all European countries and their possessions in all parte of the world, forms of government, rulers, population, area, etc. Fill out the coupon below and send for It. CLIP COUPON HERE Geography Editor, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin COUNTRIES OF EUROPE and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose uncancelled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name # Street and No * . I- . j. . City State.. ’. I am a reader of The Times. (Code No,)

JNOV. 19, 1930

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Decay of Teeth Is One of the Most Pressing Problems Which Civilization Faces Today, ANEW theory that the decay of teeth is a disease has been advanced by Dr. Charles F. Bodecker, professor of dentistry at Columbta university The new theory holds further that healthy teeth protect themselves against decay without outside aid, by means of mineral salts deposited within them by the blood stream. According to Dr. Bodecker. dental caries, to use the technical term for the decay of teeth, is chiefly the result of impaired resistance of the teeth to acids formed in the mouth. He rejects the commonly accepted belief that the decay of teeth is caused entirely through the attack of exterior agents upon the surface of the teeth and also rejects the idea that the decay of teeth can be controlled or prevented through the sole use of exterior agents. In support of this theory, Dr. Bodecker points out that many persons who give no attention to mouth hygiene have good teeth, while others whose prophylactic efforts are unremitting are wholly unable to retard the progress of disease. Teeth from which the nerves have been removed appear to disintegrate more rapidly, he finds, a condition which would not occur if the cause were wholly an exterior one. man Decay Increasing THE decay of teeth is one of ths most pressing problems facing civilization today. Some authorities sven go so far as to say that Its prevention and cure possesses an importance second only to the prevention and cure of cancer. A grant of $lOl,lOO has been made to the school of dental and oral surgery of Columbia university for a three-year investigation into the subject, according to Dr. Alfred Owre, dean of the school. Dental deterioration is becoming more widespread with each succeeding generation, Dr. Bodecker asserts, and it is the rapid increase of this disease which is arousing health workers in all parts of the world to the necessity for more effective action. 0 "Decay of the teeth is more prevalent than the common cold,” he says. “Most people do not consider ty, a disease, yet it is a disease and bne which not only Interferes with the mastication and therefore the digestion of food, but which, through local infection of teeth may even cause a variety of severe general illnesses. For these reasons, health workers estimate the consequences of finding a means to prevent dental caries second only in importance to that of curing and preventing cancer.” nan Acid of Decay T'v ESCRIBING his new theory of 1/ dental caries, Dr. Bodecker says: "This theory is based on the hypothesis that if the individual is in a normal healthy condition the acid decay is neutralized steadily by mineral salts present in the tooth itself and thus made innoxious; therefore no decay takes place. “These mineral salts are carried in a fluid, the dental lymph, derive'' from the blood, which is known to contain various kinds of such salts. “If the individual, on the other hand, is in an abnormal condition of health, the acid of decay is not neutralized completely, due to an insufficiency of mineral salts in the world, which seems absurd. "But we must remember that health is a matter of degree, in fact of widely varying degrees, between the individual bursting with energy and vitality and the patient lying at death’s door.”

Questions and Answers

Is there such a bred as police dog? The term police dog does not indicate a special breed, but merely describes the purpose to which dogs of various breeds can be trained. Shepherd dogs of Germany, France, Russia and Belgium, together with pure-bred dogs of other breeds, cross-breeds and mongrels have been used as police dogs. The designation Indicates the kind of education and training, and not the blood. Special training has converted numbers of German shepherd dogs into high-class police dogs, for 1 which work they are admirably adapted, because of a splendid conformation and natural inclination for trailing. Please give the verse by Henry Van Dyke beginning “Four things a man must learn to do if he would make his record true.” “Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To lore hi3 fellow man sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heaven securely.” Who were the sire and dam of the race; mare Handy Mandy? Sired by Pennant; dam, Mary Belle.