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Bolivar and Today Simon Boiivar has been dead long enough for even such conservative souls as Cah in Coolidgc to praise him as a patriot. He was a revolutionary spirit who died 100 years ago today after leading a successful rebellion against the rule of Spain in South America. Had he failed, he would have been forgotten along with the thousands of others who have since led revolts against the governments which succeeded those he established. He succeeded, and the fact that he, a rich man, threw his fortune and talents on the side of the oppressed and the poor gives him a place among immortals of history. He helped to give more freedom to men and women, more of education, more of food and better living conditions. He supplanted autocracy with free government. It is because of the Bolivars that it is now possible to make great changes for the benefit of masses by ballots instead of bullets. He should be remembered because his courage helped to bring about the republics undei which it is no longer necessary for men to kill in order to get justice and equality. There is still room for progress, if not for revolution. There are still oppressions to be overcome and destroyed, and they can be destroyed if the people will follow principles at the ballot boxes as courageously as they followed the Bolivars on battlefields. There is still child labor. Mine owners still operate in West Virginia with their own coinage and a slave system. There is still unemployment on one side and swollen fortunes on the other. There is still the old contrast between underprivileged masses and overprivileged masters. Pay tribute to Bolivar, the brave. Then decide' to use the weapons which the great urge of a hundred years ago for self government gave to republics. They are useless weapons unless used. Why the Mystery? Congress is deadlocked over unemployment relief legislation because it lacks facts as to the extent of unemployment, Assuming the best intentions in the world on the part, ,of all concerned-the President and the various factions in congress—it is impossible to take intelligent relief action without those course, if the administration had not blocked the Wagner bills last year, more adequate statistics and reports now would be available, but that mistake is past, and there is no use lamenting it at this late day. Under the circumstances the President, in presenting his .relief plan to congress, has had to reJy upon hurried surveys and approximations made y John Barton Payne of the Red Cross and Colonel Arthur Woods, head of the Hoover emergency committcG On the basis of this data-probably the best available —the President says his program is adequate to meet the need. The senate disagrees with the President's judgment, as witness the senate raising one agricultural relief figure from $30,000,000 to $60,000,000. . This action was taken on advice of the agriculture department, not by the progressive-Demo-cratic group which the President charges with playing politics, but by the Republican senators who are the President's main supporters. It is clear, therefore, that there exists an honest difference of opinion as to the facts of the s tuation That being the case, it is most surprising that the senate has not called in Payne and Woods to get such of the facts as their organizations have been able 10 WlvTall the devious maneuvering? In all conscience there are few enough facts about the emergency available; those facts should be made public Bt ™s" s not a private issue between the White House and the senate. It is a public issue. There is public suffering. Public money is being appropriated Woods especially should be given opportunity y the senate at once to tell all he knows. Whether hto facts support the President or the opposition is relatively unimportant. That the public have those facts, and that congress have those facts in appropriating all this money, is highly important. Woods and Payne should be asked to appear before the congressional committees today. Better Proof Needed It seemed reasonable to hope, when congress created anew federal power commission, that an era of aole and effective administration of the power act was to begin. But now that President Homers appointees to the commission have passed to revie before the senate interstate commerce committee, that hope has dwindled away. The examination of the five was dispiriting. The committee practically stopped asking questions, after quizzing two nominees, and let the other three drift out of the committee room with their knowledge of power problems and their attitude toward pending issues, if any. undisclosed. It is little wonder that the committee was discouraged. If President Hoover chooses to appoint men distinguished only by lack of experience in power matters, by lack of conviction on the efforts of companies to destroy the poyer act, there is an inexhaustible supply of these from which we may draw, no matter how often the senate rejects his choices. If the President wishes to name men who are openly antagonistic toward any government operation, without naming representatives of the other side of the controversy also, there is, likewise, a plentiful supply from which he may choose. Nevertheless, it seems to us the senate's duty to reject three of these nominees unless they can offer proof of their fitness for office not yet brought forward. After all, senate rejection of Judge Parker for the supreme court resulted In appointment of a better man. Opposition to Hoover's first choice for the St If V

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power commission, General Edgar Jadwin, was#successful. The present nominees about whom there is most doubt are George Otis Smith, Marcel Garsaud and Frank R. McNinch. Smith has been in the government service during his entire adult life; his whole record speaks of amenability to superiors. His curious opinions on power, expressed before the committee, showed an amazing agreement with those of Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, his superior now, and one of the outgoing power commissioners. Garsaud comes from New Orleans, highly indorsed by prominent power company executives, and indebted to them for pr.st Jobs. He is accused of letting them charge the dock board too much for electricity while he was its manager. McNinch comes from the North Carolina community long dominated by Duke power interests, and while he claims independence of them, many ot the contributors to his anti-Smith insurgency were utility men. He is opposed for party irregularity, a quality which may be a distinct virtue; but failure to support Smith, on the wet issue, is no indication of economic independence. If McNinch is not technically a Republican, as he claims he is not, neither is he a minority member in the sense congress intended him to be. and his appointment violates the spirit if not the letter of the law. Since the President has been urging him for two years to accept office, probably his power views do not differ greatly from those of the President's other friend, Secretary Wilbur, but the committee did not ascertain his views. The committee failed, also, to ask two other nominees, Ralph B. Williamson and Claude R. Draper, to state their views on pending issues. Ail five of these men should let the senate and the country understand their position on power clearly before they are confirmed. For Smith, Garsaud and McNinch this is particularly urgent, since the facts so far brought out do not justify their confirmation. Time to Cure Any investigation of the causes of distress during this period of unemployment would be incomplete without a survey of the part played by those who loan money on wages and chattels. Even though the great Russel Sage foundation says that 42 per cent a year is a fair rate of interest for such loans, that burden has brought very many of those who now live on donations from society to the bread line. Such a rate would bankrupt any business except bootlegging. That rate does bankrupt homes and individuals and continues to do it under protection of the law. The incoming legislature might take some action. The people through groups in factories, stores anrl churches can eliminate the evil by the formation of credit unions in which the group becomes banker to its members. These unions are increasing under the sponsorship of the public-spirited Edward Filene of Boston. There is something wicked in the thought of charging interest not on the value of money, but according to the distress and misfortune of the borrower. If money is worth only 6 per cent when loaned to the merchant and manufacturer, it ought not to be worth more when loaned to the man whose only capital is character and a job. There are 2,371 tons of books in Harvard libraries, a college catalogue announces. And many smaller schools will want to know, no doubt, how Harvard got that weigh. According to our lisping girl friend, the King of Siam, who has asked for talkies without song, believes apparently that some movies are better than they theme. Even the electrician, says Witty William, finds it hard sometimes to re-fuse. Some prizefighters may be light on their feet, but most of them seem to be light on their fight. The only time some men show will power, Cynical Sadie observes, is when it comes time to bequeath their estates.

REASON

IT’S refreshing to find that Einstein is not out after the cash and is. in fact, bewildered to learn that other gentlemen pursue the elusive mazuma. It's refreshing because Einstein is the first European. wandering in this neck of the woods, who has not come to acquire the coin. u e a The most illustrious of them come to lecture or to borrow, even the celebrated flitting across the republic of Queen Marie having been but the elaborate prelude to an attempted touch. That was the first time a whole country put on stiff shirts and claw hammer coats to receive one who wanted a loan. nun MISS AUGUSTA JOHNSON of Red Oak. lowa, for thirty-four years a domestic in the family of Thomas D. Murphy, the calendar manufacturer, has been given $15,000 by the terms of his will. One who can hold down that job satisfactorily for thirty-four years is worth all her employer has at the finish. tt v tt Dr. C. B. Baldwin Sawyer of Cleveland is something of a bozo in medical and scientific circles, but at his own fireside he was but an innocent bystander and now he asks for a divorce, claiming that his beloved threw coffee at him. Grounds for divorce. a a a Frank B. Kellogg is right in saying that another war would scrap western civilization. The last one did all but that. We hope Kellogg really sees a promise of peace, for when you tuck the kids in at night, you hate to wonder what country they’ll be fighting in fifteen years hence. a a WE have a hunch it will take more bloviation than the last time to get the people into a flag-waving, stranger-hating state. And if the profiteers come with spoons in hand, to lift the cream off the crock, a lot of fellows will hide their kids in cranberry marshes. We know of one who will. a a Dr. Crile, the celebrated surgeon of Cleveland, thinks he may have manufactured life out of some odds and ends he put into ft tube. But from the description of his result, it’s a very unsatisfactory organism and it will be fully a million years before it could drive a car. a tt Even if man finally should create life, thatwouldn't throw one single ray of of light on the question of his origin or his finish. The great riddle still would sit there, grinning like a Cheshire cat.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Truck Is the Answer to the Great Falling Off in Railway Earnings. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 17. -■-* A greater percentage of the cotton crop is being moved hy trucks than ever before. So is a greater percentage of most other crops. That helps to explain why railroad earnings have fallen off by such wide margin. With less hauling to do, the railroads need less steel for repairing tracks, and with a diminished revenue, they have less cash to spend for it. By the same token, they can get along with fewer ties and freight cars. Growth of the trucking business finds a definite reflection in the reduced output of blast furnace, coal mine and lumber mill, not to mention many other establishments. For the first time in thirty years, one can find people who, without owning any stock, or holding any job, actually feel sorry for the railroads. These people suddenly have waked up to the fact that the same change which hurts the railroad business is hurting their T)wn. But what can anybody do about it? It St It Pinches in New Place THE first impulse is to set the clock back by doing something or other to curb the trucking business and give the railroads a better break. That usually is the first impulse of people who find themselves up against a change which pinches their pocketbpoks. It was the first impulse of horse-breeders and livery stable keepers when the auto made its appearance, the first impulse of sailing ship owners when the steamboat arrived, the first impulse of granite producers when concrete threatened their trade. Some think we can put the railroads back on their feet by undoing many of the things which we thought so necessary only a few years ago. by lightening up on regulation, letting them consolidate, etc. Some others think we could do even more to help them by subjecting trucks to higher taxes and more rigid rules. tt St tt The Truck Does It THE problem is not as simple as it seems. No matter how much or how little they may hurt the railroad business, trucks are here to stay. Eeople like the door-to-door delivery, without transfer, which trucks make possible. It not only represents a reduction of cost for transporting goods within certain limits, but a great convenience. Furthermore, this problem is typical of many others. Because of tradition, we cling to the idea that politics can cure most of our ills, but we have passed from the hands of the politician to those of the engineer, the scientist, the inventor. Also, because of tradition, we cling to the idea that the bigger an institution or enterprise becomes, the more permanent it is bound to be. Most of our big institutions were brought into being by human in- ' genuity, which means that they are : absolutely amenable to its power. We made little progress in attempting to control the railroads by law, but look at what the little truck has accomplished. a a tt Get on the Bandwagon WE constantly are picturing the future as dominated by gigantic organizations which will go on forever. We tell our boys that they have sounded the death knell for small, independent business, and that the wisest thing to do is to make a contact with one or another of them and stay with it. One hears such advice not only in the average home, but in the average school and college. The pressure on youth is to climb aboard some bandwagon. The pressure on business is to merge and consolidate. At the same time, we demand innovations and improvements all along the line, and the more revolutionary they are, the better we seem to like them. In other words, we want the institutional world to remain static, while the human world goes on developing. a tt It's All Inconsistent THE inconsistency of such an attitude not only is obvious, but basic. How can we make big business safe as an investment and at the same time invite such radical changes as would involve its detruction? Either we must call a halt to the merging craze, or prohibit invention; of a revolutionary character. St )cks that never go down, masses of workmen that never change their trade, institutions that can stand the strain only of internal improvements, and a business setup that promises to shake the nation every time some genius stumbles on anew idea simply does not square with the driving power of unhampered intellectual freedom and mechanical progress which has made this age what It is.

Questions and Answers

Which are the six oldest colleges in the United States in order of their founding? Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., 1636; William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1693; Yale university, New Haven, Conn, 1701; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1740; Princeton university, Princeton, N. J., 1746, and Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va., 1749. What was the value of dimes minted in 1894 and how many were coined at the San Francisco mint? The total value of all dimes issued was $205,099.60 and only twenty-four i were coined et San Francisco. Who is the author of the expression “Time and tide wait for no man?” , It is an old English proverb of unknown origin. It is found in a i collection of proverbs of about 1670. Are the so-called “deadmen’' in crabs harmful to eat? 1 No.

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Heatstroke Is Possible in Winter

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Mazarine. nipHE average person is disturbed about sunstroke only in the summer, but scientific evidence shows that heatstroke, which resembles sunstroke in many ways, may occur at any period of the year, provided conditions are correct. The conditions are those which occur in industries in which exposure to heat goes on even in the absence of sunlight. In the case of the white man who takes up a position in tropical regions, the body temperature is regulated by constant sweating. Because of the water lost through perspiration, there is a lessened action of the kidneys. Miners, stokers on coal-burning

IT SEEMS TO ME

IFIND my mind goes back to j Gabriel. Naturally, everybody feels badly ' when a good actor dies, and Wesley ] Hill was such a special kind of good j actor. He had been on the stage ■ for forty years, but I never saw him until “The Green Pastures” was; produced. Asa matter of fact, most of his early career was with medicine shows and traveling “Uncle Tom” tropes. I believe he had only a few previous Broadway appearances. Os all the angels in the play Gabriel was the darkest. In fact, it would be pretty hard to be much darker than Wesley Hill. Nobody will be able to come along in the patronizing way of the Nordic to say, ‘Oh, yes, he was quite good, but that was on account of his white blood.” I don’t think I ever saw any actor enjoy a role so much. He moved around the stage of the Mansfield like a child in a pageant. He was terribly glad to be playing Gabriel. That’s why he was such a good Gabriel. After all, one ::.pects angels to be joyous. tt tt tt Walking All Over TO me heaven seems a much more attractive place ever since I saw “The Green Pastures” and Wesley Hill. Very few writers have been able to present an acceptable abode for the blessed. Any fool can do a hell. The trouble with heaven in literature is that the fabricator practically always leaves humor out of it. There's too much jasper and not enough jokes. But here at last was a twinkling angel. The spheres rolled in their courses, and so did his eyes. It must have been difficult for him of an evening to take off his wings of gold and his green robe and go home to Harlem. For a little space in a theater every night he stood as a symbol of power. After all, he carried, slung around his neck, the trumpet, and he only need to blow a few notes upon it J to send the world crashing and 1 blazing into empty space. tt tt a Playing the Part 1 ! T has been remarked that after an actor plays Lincoln or Na- | poleon for a while he begins to act like the character. He carries deI lusions of grandeur with him even ! into the Lambs Club. But Wesley i Hill never was an angel except in the best sense of the word. I met him at a Harlem fish fry given in honor of the author, the producer, and of Richard Harrison, who plays the Lord. The Lord and Gabriel were great friends, both on and off. Gabriel, as I know him. was a j person of infinite jest. He could

Daily Thought 1

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.—Psalm 1:2. Godliness is practical religion— Dewey. *

The Dog in the Manger

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

steamships and cooks may develop all symptoms of sunstroke in the absence of sunlight, and workers under a hot sun may develop heat cramps and other symptoms of heatstroke that are known to occur in the trade groups that have been mentioned. Experiments made on animals seem tojshow that its effect of the heat primarily is responsible rather than that of the sun. When the temperature of the whole body is raised to the heatstroke level, the symptoms occur which commonly are called sunstroke, heatstroke, heat exhaustion, solarism, insolation, or hyperpyrexia due to heat. In the presence of extensive sweating, the salts in the blood become concentrated, but the symptoms of heat exhaustion may occur even in the absence of sweating, and depletion of salt.

make the daily transition from heaven to Harlem without loss of dignity or kindliness. In his role there was that gorgeous combination of a humor approaching even the farcical and an ability to turn it off, to hold up his hand, as it were, to say, “Not funny any more.” tt tt tt Meeting the Test 'T'O him and to Harrison fell the greatest and the most dangerous moment in "The Green Pastures.” I have said several times that Marc Connelly put the play to the test in almost the first few minutes of the second scene. The fish fry is funny and meant to be, although even before the entrance of the Lord I have always been a little annoyed at such patrons as put their heads back and

I Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—Nearly every night I read in your paper where the poor and needy are asking for help. How long is this going to last? Does not the so-called Indianapolis Community Fund read these articles? Where is all the money going to that is contributed to these numerous charity organizations? From one year until the next, we hear that same cry. “Help the poor and needy through the Indianapolis Community Fund. Every day, in various publications, we read about one or two organizations which actually are doing some good for humanity. lam one of the many contributors. Not because I want to be, but just to keep from being termed a tightwad. If any one can show me any good the Community Fund is doing, I never will regret my donation. But until that time, this is the last year I am going to give. I sincerely hope that somq of their workers read this, and if the shoe fits, wear it. Let all churches takeycare of the upkeep of their Boy Scout movements. Let their members contribute to this cause. Let the members of each so-called social organization take care of the poor and needy in their vicinity. How many men and women contributed to the Community Fund, then one week later were out of work? A great many employes of different firms were forced to donate. Where they demand a certain per cent of each individual’s income, and call it charity, it is mighty poor doing. An article in your paper reveals that a certain family in Indianapolis, consisting of a mother and four sons, is destitute. The mother works in a laundry and has to wash her children's clothes each night so they may attend school the next day. These four boys have worn the same clothes until they are threadbare. Also, in the same article several sympathizing business firms throughout the city are donating outfits of clothing to children for Christmas. Where is the Community Fund?

In one of the institutions in which heatstroke cases were common, special arrangements were made for taking care of the condition. In the hospital an especially cooled ward was established in which the air was kept dry with a temperature of about 65 degrees. Heastroke cases and all cases of fever were kept in cool rooms, where they Wbre given treatment until complete recovery had occurred. The human body has powers of adjustment to changing conditions, and if the patient is supported during the time of weakness and exhaustion his blood and his tissues gradually will return to normal. If, on the other hand, the person is not removed from the conditions that bring about the disturbance, and if the aid that medicine can render in supporting the patient is not provided, heatstroke or heat exhaustion may lead to death.

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.

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howled as if they were viewing sheer extravaganza. It wasn’t as funny as all that. After all, it is a humorous heaven and not a clownish one. And then comes the moment when nobody must laugh if the audience is going to prove worthy of its chance to collaborate in a great play. It is a startling line which was committed to the Angel Gabriel. In fact, it is to me almost the finest single line in modern drama—- “ Gangway for the Lord God Jehovah!” It may be that the audience fails upon occasion. I never have seen it do so. Always there came a great silence, and, better than that, a rigidity. It was as if Gabriel actually had put his lips to the trumpet. We were all called to Judgment. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

Where is that several hundred thousand dollars’ contribution? How about these starving mothers and children without clothing? If we, the public, didn’t donate, they couldn’t have banquets in our expensive hotels, and a first-class headquarters in one of our up-to-date public buildings. I do not believe in organized charity, when it comes to demanding so much from each one. I believe in the Wheeler Mission and the Salvation Army, and that is as far as it goes. I hope the Community Fund workers wake up some day, and find themselves before they are lost in the woods. They have been dreaming long enough. A TIMES READER. Editor Times—ls it not amazing the way the county infirmary has improved since the last of October? About that time it was brought vividly to light how much the inmates were suffering, the dilapidated condition of the buildings, and most of all how the Democratic candidates, if elected, were pledging immediate relief. Now, one month after election, the infirmary is in splendid condition, good food is being Served, and the councilmen find no necessity for improvement. Do the councilmen realize, I wonder, what a splendid opportunity to help the unemployed they have turned down? This building project would have given work to many jin the city and county who need it and the charity organizations would have had many less for whom to provide this winter. Os course, the public duly appreciates the concern of the councilmen over the increased tax rate the appropriation might cause. However, if the unemployment situation does not improve, a good many people won’t be 'able to pay on the basis of the present tax rate. It is not at all sirange that wellmeaning citizens do not bother to vote. When the Democrtic party made such an issue of the condition of the infirmary and published large advertisements telling of the ' dreadful state of affairs existing

.DEC. 17, 1930

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ —-

Mandatory Wearing of Goggles JPre vents Hundreds of Eye Accidents. THE marvelous strides which have been made in preventing accidents which resulted in loss of sight were outlined recently in an address by Lewis H. Carris, managing director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. at a meeting of the New York State Industrial Safety Congress. Carris told how the following question was addressed to 100 leading safety engineers and others interested in industrial eye protection: “What have you experienced or observed in the last year that is new, important, and effective in protection of eyes of industrial workers?” The answers indicated that considerable progress has been made during the year in the saving of sight, Carris said. “The thing that stands out most prominently in the replies is the success of the mandatory rule concerning wearing of goggles on specified forms of work as a means of reducing accidental injury of the eves,” he said. “You have all heard on numerous occasions of the splendid record of the Pullman company where the mandatory goggle rule has become almost a religion and where there is now a record of five years without the loss of an eyr ” u a tt Electric Sign TO the list of companies which report excellent results with the mandatory rule on goggles may be added the following companies, according to Orris: Tlie Doehler Die Casting Company of Batavia. N. Y.: the Phelps Dodge Corporation at Bisbee, Ariz.; the Victor American Fuel Company of Denver. Celo.; the Chapman Valve Manufacturing Company of Indian Orchard, Mass., and tli.e Dominion Forge and Stamping Company of Walkerville, Ontario. “What seems to be an excellent idea for reminding workmen to wear their goggles is reported by Thomas R. Donoghue, safety engineer, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company of Creighton, Pa.,” Carris said. “Donoghue says that: ‘The failure to wea? goggles frequently is due to such interest in the job at hand that the workman forgets to reach for a pair of goggles hanging nearby. ‘As a reminder, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company has installed illuminated electric signs directly connected to the motor circuit. When the switch is snapped on to start the motor of the emery wheel, the electric sign reading. ‘Wear Your Goggles,' is flashed in the face of the operator.” tt tt tt Moving Pictures OTHER devices—not commonly known as means of reducing eye accidents—reported as successful in the answers to Carris’ inquiry include: The reduction of air pressure in blowing operations for cleaning purposes; the use of castor oil for first aid in case of caustic burns of the eyes, and the attachment of a small card with the reminder, “Wear Your Goggles” to such tools as cold chisels, air drills, riveting hammers, concrete busters, j sedges, etc. M. E. Hood, personnel manager of the Viscose Company, Marcus Hook, Pa., wrote that he is a “firm believer in the application of moving pictures as an explanation for the use of all sorts of guards and protecting method against accidents.” In this connection it may be of interest to remark that the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, in co-operation with a university, is sponsoring a two-reel motion picture dealing with various aspects of conservation of vision. This motion picture is to be completed in the near future. There is a scene in it which deals with the result—a serious eye injury—caused by the fact that a particular workman neglected to use a pair of goggles while engaged at u dangerous task in a steel plant.

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FIRST AIRPLANE FLIGHT December 17. ON Dec. 17, 1903, the first successful airplane flight took place at Kitty Hawk, N. C., when On-ille Wright, an American in- * ventor, piloted the first powerdriven heavier-than-air machine. The machine, with pilot aboard, made four sustained free flights. The longest of these had a duration of fifty-nine seconds and a speed of thirty-nine miles an hour. On-ille and his brother Wilbur were interested in aviation as bicycle mechanics in Dayton, O. They found in their experiments that existing scientific data of aeronautics was almost all guesswork and began to make investigations of their own. The flight at Kitty Hawk was the result of their joint efforts. After this, their further experiments led to the development of an airplane which established anew record on Sept. 12, 1908, by remaining In the air one hour and fifteen minutes. Following tests at Ft. Myer, Va., the United States government accepted the Wright machine. Many honors were bestowed on the two brothers during the numerous demonstrations they made in Europe during 1908 and 1909. The original Kitty Hawk mac*iine is now exhibited In the scitnce museum at South Kensington, Ldpdon. there and the candidates’ inten'lon to remedy the matter, could not the public expect them to do more than furnish a few additional fire extinguishers? A DEMOCRATIC VOTER. Editor Times “Zero weather hiker faints as he nears Y. W. cafeteria. Taken to Wheeler City Mission, fed, and given a bed.” That was the story in city papers recently. Why should the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. get $51,000 or more ! from the Community Fund as charitable institutions and turn away a man who is hungry and cold? Why should he be sent from one of them to the Wheeler mission for something to eat and a place to sleep? Why should not the Y. W. C. A. feed him at its cafeteria and the Y. M. C. A, give him a bed for the night? A TIMES READER.