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No Action Yet Despite the fact that Governor Leslie verbally spanked the state Republican chairman in public and joined with Democratic Chairman Peters in the suggestion that the reapportionment of congressional districts be settled, if possible in advance of the legislaturej no action has been taken. The offer of Chairman Peters was most constructive for expediting the affairs of the lawmakers. Politics has always entered in the carving of the state into political divisions. Petty minds always believe that they can get an advantage by fixing the limits in a manner that will insure piore members of the national body. It is a matter over which the lawmakers can easily quarrel. Peters proposed, and the Governor approved, that this matter be threshed out in advance. It is possible that Rogers was the wiser politically, for if the legislature gets into a bitter quarrel over this matter it will have no time for other things. The Democrats have pledged a certain program of legislation, which, if carried out, might be embarrassing to the Republican administration. The old age pension plan, fostered by the Lagles and a part of the Democratic platform, has been denounced by the Governor in his speeches. The income tax was turned down by the .Republican convention and adopted by the Democrats. That might be a subject on which certain members would be embarrassed. The people want this tax. It will relieve the overburdened home owner and farmer. Let it be hoped that the Governor will follow his public warning to Chairman Rogers with a private plea for action. He might act on his own initiative, if he is sincere. Licking Our Chops Outside Show-Window The American economic philosophy has been “every man for himself, and the devil take the hindermost.” This seemed to work well for a century of pioneering development, but now the devil seems to be getting the leaders as well as the stragglers in the economic procession. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” So says Stuart Chase in an illuminating article on “Overproduction: the Enemy of Prosperity,” in Harpers Magazine. Overproduction stares us in the face from the oldest to the newest.American industries—from the growing of turnips to the manufacture of the latest eightcylinder cars,. The agricultural surplus is ruining the farmer and bewildering the farm board. The automobile plants of the country in 1929 could turn out 3,000,000 new cars, yet only 6,295,000 were bought in the whole world. But 500.000 Americans bought new cars for the first time in 1929. We can make 900.000,000 pairs of shoes In the country each year, while but 300,000,000 are bought. Oil production runs 58 per cent ahead of consumption today. We can produce 750,000,000 tons of coal in the United States, but we can market only 500,000,000. Our woolen mills can manufacture $1,750,000,000 worth of material, but can find a market for but $656,000,000 worth. Our machine-tool factories have been running on a 65 per cent basis for a decade. And so on. What is the way out? We ntay turn with special interest to Chase’s proposals, for they represent thewords of a man of wisdom, information, and candor. They are not the political “boloney” of an adminis-, t ration spokesman on prosperity. Chase makes it clear that, in the first place, the problem is as much one of underconsumption as of overproduction. Some industries, like automobiles, shoes, and woolens, are equipped to produce more than we sensibly could purchase, whatever the size and distribution of the national income. But, by and large, we could give the overproduction octopus a body blow if the consumer had a sufficient income to meet his real needs. Today, the average consumer is not paid wages which enable him to live with decency. Half of his already squeezed dollar goes to pay advertising and other selling costs, much of which are devoted to inducing him to buy goods he does not need, new styles and the like. If we paid real living wages and at the same time limited the purchases of the masses to those things which they vitally need and could be sold without the present frenzied advertising, most of our factories could be set humming. But all this requires industrial planning on a national scale. "In my judgment, the only filial way out lies through planned production. We have got to scrap a large fraction of laissez faire. and deliberately orient productive capacity to consumption needs. There unquestionably is much to be said for a deliberate, nation-wide fostering of high wage policy, and a better distribution of income.” Chase concludes that any President who achieves this reform "will go echoing down the aisles of history as one of those who served his country as greatly as did Washington or Lincoln.” We shall go Chase one better. If any great social engineer in the White House scientifically solves our national production and consumption problems without involving us in revolution and Communism, his achievement will malje the Father of His Country and the Great Emancipator seem petty pikers by comparison. Stand by the Children About the only important development so far at the 'White House conference on child health and protection is a rather underhand attempt by certain higher-ups to destroy the federal children's bureau. Fortunately the rank and file of the conference dele?ates, backed by national organizations of women, labor and social workers, have shown that they will carry the issue from the conference into congress, rather than permit any crippling of the children’s bureau. The fact that the Hoover administration is lending itself to the semi-secret attempt to destroy the effectiveness of the children's bureau is especially disheartening. The plan is to transfer the 4nost im-

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portant work of the bureau, its health activities, to the public health service. This joker was put into the bills for revival of the Sheppartl-Towner maternity and child care appropriations, during the last session of congress. Now the plan Is supported by the sturgeon general and Secretary of the Interior Wilbur—which is one more of many black marks opposite the record of that officer. The child conference committee went so far in its printed report as to suppress* the minority report of Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau, objecting to the plan to destroy the bureau; when this came out, the delegates rallied to Miss Abbott and twelve national women’s organizations protested against any weakening of the bureau. “Any move to limit the field of usefulness of the children's bureau would stir a hornet's nest among the women of the country,” the spokesman of the women’s organizations warned the conference officials. “There is no other subject on which they feel so keenly; even on the subject of world peace there is i,ome division among them. But not on the children’s bureau.” The Scripps-Howard newspapers share the high opinion which the national organizations of women, social workers and labor hold for the children’s bureau and its chief, Grace Abbott. If there is a more efficient, more fearless and more useful federal bureau, we never heard of it. And we know of a lot which could profit by following its example. We can think of no reason for the bureaucratic hospitality of Miss Abbott’s work, except her habit of going to the bottom of problems and telling the truth about conditions, regardless of partisan political consequences. No wonder they are trying to block her promotion as secretary of labor. Here are some of the things she told this conference: “Hundreds of thousands of American parents are unable to piovide for their own children without assistance. “An investigation by the federal trade commission in 1926 showed that 37 per cent of the 24,000,000 families in the United tSates own only 10 per cent of the wealth, while 13 per cent of the people own 90 per cent. “Using as a measuring rod the estimate of $1,600 to SI,BOO as the amount necessary to provide a minimum of health and decency for a family of five, we find that a large part of the population of the United States does not live in health, and decency. “Asa result of our lack of foresight, we are in the midst of confusion. We must resort to temporary expedients and the children of the unemployed will pay for it.” She proposed making unemployment a legal reason for a pension or other aid to families of the unemployed. We wish there might be one person—of either sexin the cabinet as fearless and efficient as Grace Abbott. Probably she hasn’t a chance of such promotion. But unless we are mistaken, she has too much public support to permit the proposed dismemberment of the children’s bureau. By quitting golf to enter the talkies for $250,000, Bobby Jones may be said to have gone- from the putting green to the long green. The Maryland penitentiary has opened a school of journalism. There’s a place where the reporters can say a lot in one sentence. A famous opera singer who was jeered in Vienna recently was cheered to the echo In London. This may be another instance of the slowness of the English to grasp a joke.' - Young Stribling, heavyweight fighter, is rehearsing in a Shakespearean play. As in the ring, his duty will be to avoid getting the hook. “The Grand Canyon” said the witty tourist, “is all that it is cracked up to be.” Wife of a prominent New York playwright lost a SIO,OOO bracelet. This will give her husband, of course, opportunity to create a scene. Will that poem of Rudyard Kipling, satirizing his country, be criticised for its re-verse English? The estate of the late Caruso still realizes about $1;0,000 a year from his phonograph records, says a news item. Now posterity will concede he had a golden voice.

REASON

HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY has placed its plants on a five-day week basis and it's only a question of time until most of the other industries do likewise. Then it’s going to be hard on the women, of the country, having their Georges around the house for forty-eight hours at a stretch. a a a ‘The British now claim to have the swiftest and most deadly pursuit and bombing planes in the world, John Bull taking care to arrange to have his place in the sky while agreeing to limitation of sea power. Mr. Bull knows where the next war will be fought. a a a Instead of spending hundreds of millions as contemplated on new cruisers, this government should put every cent of it in airplanes, except sufficient appropriations for submarines, swift destroyers and airplane carriers. 411 other warships are rubbish. a a a PEOPLE are criticising Vice President Curtis for authorizing the placing of a dry spy in the senate office building, but we are for the V. P. in this respect. • If the senators who vote to punish everybody else for taking a drink are themselves boozing they should be exposed. a a Mr, Coolidge's article of Nov. 16 had so much spirit and friendliness in it that one strongly suspects it was written exclusively by his ghost writer. Mr. Ccolidge personally always is under perfect ontrol. a a a Mr. William Baird White of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers predicts that as a result of the horrible noises of the period people will go insane and music will die. We don’t know about the people, but the last music we heard over the radio seemed to be in terrible agony. a a a DR. EDWARD LYMAN CORNELL of Northwestern university advises young lawyers to choose good secretaries and then marry them. The doctor fails to take note of the fact that no young lawyer needs a secretary. He needs a meal ticket. We are glad to see that the Army and Navy have reached a sufficiently friendly frame of mind to make a football game possible. We are not so much interested in the football game but it would be well to have the two branches of the national defense on speaking terms, if we should have another war. f

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M. E. Tracy ! SAYS: There Are Millions Who Could Tell Something of Racketeering If They Would, but Actually Are Afraid to Speak. THE essence of the racketeering situation in this country is corruption, rather than crime. The law could not have broken down as it obviously has, and law enforcement could not have failed without rot In the inside. Giving the Capones and the Diamonds their just due, it simply defies common sense to suppose that they could have accomplished what they have without the indifference or connivance of those in authority. If the American public were compelled to deal only with normal thugs, thieves, bootleggers, hijackers, and blackmailers, the problem would be much easier to solve than it is. 9 What complicates it, what bewilders people and makes them afraid, is the hideous fact that they do not know on whom they can depend. Confession of Collapse Attorney-general Mitchell announces that the federal government is mobilizing its forces to fight the racket, especially in Chicago. The district attorney of New York calls in a committee of forty citizens not only to aid and assist in a drive against racketeering, but to help formulate a program. The Chicago Chamber of Commerce has provided a war chest of $5,000,000, to be administered by the “Secret Six.” How is one to interpret such activity, save as an open confession that the usual methods of meeting crime have collapsed? nun Rule by Fear BACK of all the corruption looms the shadow of fear. The effective way in which gangland has been able to punish those who offended it represents too sharp a contrast to what the law has been able to accomplish in that direction for ordinary human nature to misunderstand. There are millions who could tell something if they would, but who actually are afraid to speak. No matter how it can be explained or excused, the situation amounts to neither more nor less than a conspiracy of silence. n # a Hope Seems Vain Nationally, we have come to exactly such a crisis as forced many a frontier town to form its vigilance committee and take a short cut to restoration of order. We are not admitting as much. We’re trying to cover the thing up by taking prosecutors or police chiefs into the conference. But when all is said and done, that is what it amounts to. The hope right now is that by invoking the prohibition law, the anti-narcotics law, the white slave act, or the income tax, we may be able to put enough sali on certain gangsters’ tails to frighten the rest. Like most such hopes, however, it probably will flatten out. In the end we are going to treat them as murderers when they murder, kidnapers when they kidnap, grafters when they graft, or we’re not going to get anywhere.

IT SEEMS TO ME

FICTION is fond of the story of the little girl in the chorus who suddenly is called upon to assume the role of the star just thirty seconds before the performance is scheduled to begin. And, according to fiction, the little girl invaluably scores a triumph and has her name put up in electric lights the next night. The incident has its counterpart in real life. Last-minute substitutions are not unusual in the theater, and on very many occasions the recruit d6es surprisingly well, Nervousness and excitement are not at all bad things to animate a player. I know of one instance in which a young actress came into a role for which she had the scantiest preparation and went through the entire performance without muffing a line. It was miraculous. The nextnight she was prompted ten or fifteen times. The miracle had worn off. nun Sudden Limelight BUT I want to call attention to what seems to me an even more astounding performance. First of all, you must permit me to change the sex of the performer and the medium of the performance. I have in mind the broadcast of

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GEORGE ELIOT’S BIRTH Nov. 22 O’ N Nov. 22, 1819, Mary Ann Evans, who. under the pseu- | donym of George Eliot generally is j recognized as the foremost of En- | gish women novelists, was born at i Arbury, in Warwickshire, England, a dafughter. Though she received a fine cultural education at Arbury, it was not until the family removed to Coventry that George, then 21, grew intellectually. She began her literary career by translating a Life of Jesus from the German, and in 1851 became an editor of the Westminster Review-. At about this time she made ths' acquaintance of George Henry Lewis, with whom she subsequently lived as a wife, though unmarried. It was he who discovered her talent for fictional work and who encouraged her to write novels. Beginning in 1859 with Adam Bede, she wrote with increasing success “The Mill on the Floss,’’ "Silas Mamer,” “Romola,” “Middlemarch’’ and others. Most of the characters in her novels are said to be taken from her own family and neighbors in Arbury,,

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Milk Sugar Has Few Advantages

8Y DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyaeia, the Health Magazine. MANY forms of* sugar are used in the feeding of infants, including milk sugar, cane sugar maltose, dextrose and starch. Milk sugar, which is the sugar that occurs naturally in mother’s milk, in the milk of the cow and in that of the goat, has few advantages over other sugars. Milk sugar is not as sweet as cane sugar, which may be an advantage, since the infant does not become used to sweetness.

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the Yale-Princeton football game by Arthur P. McNulty. The notification of the job impending must have been brief, for Graham McNamee announced the lightweight fight on the evening before the game. His throat was in bad shape then, but with a one-round knockout he didn’t have to do a great deal of an* nouncing. some time between midnight and morning America’s most famous tonsils grew worse. McNamee was out of the lineup. If you belong to that great army which takes its football largely through the air you will appreciate the momentousness of this event. To us radio fans the absence of Booth would be a trivial thing compared to the loss of a favorite broadcaster. Indeed, this particular listener: was aghast when an unfamiliar voice announced, just before the j whistle blew in Palmer stadium, that j Graham McNamee would not be; present and that he, the unknown j one, was about to tackle this job. The anonymity of the announcer | was far more profound than usual. It is my Remembrance that not once j during the game did the speaker reveal himself by name. He must have been nervous, and i so was I. Taking a theatrical role j at on© minute’s notice is child’s play compared to subbing in a football broadcast. After all, your theatrical understudy has lines and business assigned to him. Even if he forgets j there will be somebody in the wings I to prompt him. The broadcasts* stands alone before the millions and i I his Maker. Upon his back and shoulders rests the whole performance. The little girl in the chorus with whom we started at least has the consolation of occasional supporting applause from a sympathetic audience. Even if she cracks on the high note of the star’s aria, her great aunt in Syracuse and her- second ; cousin in Richmond will not be | sitting in on her discomfiture. But | a radio failure is almost an interi national calamity. a a a Pat on Back IF during the game it had been possible for me to reach across ; the ether and pat the unknown ani nouncer on the back I would have 1 done so. j Only at this late date have I ] learned that his name is Arthur P. McNaulty and that he is not a radio ; regular, but a young lawyer. Possibly for the sake of the story it might be better to say struggling young lawyer. It had been his privilege to assist McNamee once or twice in between-the-halves comment; but I am informed this was his first assignment as a play-by-play announcer for a big game. Os course, there would be no story j if young Mr. McNaulty had not 1

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

More than other sugars, the milk sugar tends to produce acidity in the excretions and with the possibility of irritation of the skin. In most babies, milk sugar seems to be more laxative than other sugars. Cane sugar, which is the ordinary sugar used on the table by the rest of the family, has the same value in nutrition as does milk sugar. It is somewhat more quickly digested, but it is not as laxative and may be fed with safety in larger amounts, particularly to infants that have digestive disturbances. It is, as has been mentioned, somewhat sweeter than the milk sugar.

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scored a glorious and a peculiarly individual success. I never heard a broadcast like It. Whether by artifice or natural inheritance, McNalty throughout the afternoon played the role of the average spectator. He pretended to .no more than a working knowledge of the game. He made a great many mistakes, and at times he grew very confused. But when he was puzzled-as to just what had occurred he said precisely that. Neither have I heard a franker presentation of the psychology of an eager spectator who may not know much about football, but knows what he likes. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

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Many of the infant foods contain maltose and dextrin, because of special qualities which these sugars are believed to possess. Dextrin is not fermented by most of the bacteria found in the intestines, but it is converted to maltose by the ferments that are normally present in the intestines. In infants that havq diarrhea, it is customary to use dextrin, because it is not likely to lead to fermentation. Dextrose can be given in larger amounts than other sugars and is, therefore, widely used in infant feeding. Mixtures of maltose and dextrin vary from 30 per cent maltose and 70 per cent dextrin to 60 per cent maltose and 40 per cent dextrin. Maltose is converted quickly in the intestines into the sugar known as dextrose or glucose, in which form it is absorbed rapidly: in fact, dextrose is the most quickly absorbed of all sugars. Because of its quick absorption and the fact that fairly large amounts may be added to the food of the infant without the danger of fermentation, mixtures of maltose, dextrose and dextrin are commonly used in infant foods. There are, of course, many other forms of sugar that can be supplied to infants to provide them with energy. All of the fruits contain sugars, chiefly dextrose, but this does not possess any special advantage over other forms of sugar. Whenever an excessive amount of sugar is fed to an infant, fermentation with the formation of gas, takes place and the Infant is likely to develop diarrhea.

.NOV. 22, 1930

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Gas Masks Prove of Great Value in Peace Time. Especially m Industrial Plants,

'T'HE gas mask, pictured in the popular mind only as one of ! the adjuncts of modem warfare, is becoming a familiar peace-time sight. It Is finding an important place in the chemical Industry, where it is doing valiant service to protect workers from hazards of certain manufacturing processes. Use of the gas mask In Industry is described In a report prepared for the American Chemical Society by Dr. G. L. Turner of Pittsburgh. In addition to the Introduction of gas masks, manufacturing plants have adopted another leaf from the book of war experiences. Indicators which sound alarms upon the accidental release or leakage of dangerous gases arc being installed in many plants. The use of masks, indicators and special resuscitation apparatus is surrounding chemical workers with safeguards unknown a few years ago. Dr. Turner reports. Workers are protected against practically all known poisonous gases, even the deadly carbon monoxide, he says. (turn Special Hazards r T~'HE manufacture and handling i of chemicals, Dr. Turner says, presents many special hazards, in addition to tire ordinary ones of manufacturing processes. “A few years ago, in many branches of the chemical industry, gas masks rarely were used in daily work,” he says. “Today there are gas masks available providing respiratory protection against practically all known poisonous gases. “Resistance to breathing has been reduced to the point where, if it is necessary to wear masks continuously in certain operations, no discomfort is experienced. Mouthpiece and noseclips have been eliminated. “Rubber facepieces with extremely long life, and readily cleaned, are obtainable. Modern facepieces fit all types and sizes of face, so that in emergencies they may be applied quickly and safely by any person. “The heart of the gas mask is the canister, which purifies the air reaching the lungs of the wearer. Canisters in modern gas masks protect against specific gases, cither singly or in combination.” n n n Carbon Monoxide “PROTECTION against carbon JL monoxide alone or in combination with other gases has until recently been unimportant in the cherqjcal industry,” he continues. “But with the development of synthetic processes employing carbon monoxide, the need for such masks has arisen. "For this purpose a special catalyst has been provided, which, when placed in the canister in combination with certain other absorbent, renders protection against practically all emergency conditions. “For use in operations where men must enter confined spaces where high concentrations of gas exist, and where there may be a deficiency of oxygen, hose masks are available. “The simplest form consists of a suitable body harness, a facepiece equipped with exhalation valves, and a twenty-five-foot length of hose through which the worker may draw fresh air from an area outside the gaseous zone. “In atmospheres which may be low In oxygen, or where large quantities of lethal gas exist and the use of a hose mask is not practicable, there are oxygen self-contained breathing apparatus. “This is valuable in times of emergency, particularly when in case of fire it Is necessary to enter buildings heavily charged with gas. “It requires familiarity by the wearer and seldom is worn except in times of emergency and when surrounding conditions are extremely dangerous.”

Daily Thought

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.—Proverbs 13:12. Hope is the poor man’s bread.— Thales.