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The Best Censorship Rabbi Nathan Krass already has established himself as a vigorous exponent of urbane and progressive religion ar.d as an aggressive social liberal. His reputation will not suffer on account of a lecture which he gave before the New York meeting to provide an emergency fund for unemployed actors. He here set forth a stimulatingly sensible conception of censorship. He suggested that tne only sane censorship is that exercised indirectly by the patrons of plays. I always have been opposed to federal, state, or municipal censorship, or any kind of censorship that needs the policeman's club. It is a tragi-comedy if 'art has to be supported by brass buttons and a blue coat. I think the public ought to censor plays by its presence or its absence. "I don't think the public is interested in salacious plays or plays on sex problems. People go to that kind of play because they are ashamed to tell the>r friends that they are not interested in sex problems. They fear that if they do not disparage the ‘plays of the ages’ they will not be considered as belonging to the intelligentsia. “I have found from experience that people like to see good plays. I do not mean goody-goody plays. I am as much opposed to them as I am to plays that depend for their support on a profusion of filth and a vocabulary that travesties the beauty, luxuriance, charm and power of the English language." Some might wish that the rabbi had discriminated . omewhat more closely between sex plays and sala<iou* plays, and that distinction probably was implicit In his full address. But his enlightenment on the censorship issue is a refreshing breeze in the sultry fog of recent clerical and lay demands for more of the blackjack and club In the playhouse. IIJ we don't like certain types of plays and language, we can protect our virtue and integrity by staying away. Innocents of tender age may be kept immaculate through parcptal control or laws placing an age limit on attendance. Before any action is taken, wc at least should demand that, some person specifically testify that he or she has undergone serious moral harm as the result of the play accused. Further, it is not unlikely that some who howl for ironclad censorship would profit morally by the most salacious play which ever has marched up to the footlights in Manhattan. Dewey’s Third Party There was danger that Professor John Dewey, despite his good intentions, might muddy the political situation with his proposal for Senator Norris to withdraw from the Republican party to lead a third party as presidential candidate in 1932. Norris’ reply, by its clarity and good sense, has put the matter straight. He turned down the proposal. Dewey’s approach is theoretical; Norris’ is practical. Bolh men have virtually the same progressive political ideals, and both on the basis of experience have lost faith in the Republican and Democratic parties as now controlled by big business for big business. Dewey concludes that it. is time to start anew party. Norris replies that such solution is not practicable until the Constitution has been amended to abolish the electoral college and permit direct voting for presidential candidates. We are not prepared to sav with Norris that there is no hope of a real party realignment, based on popular Issues, until the distant future, whin the Constitution is amended, as he desires We are not even pr: oared to say that abolishing the electoral college would have the result he predicts It sounds logical But the political evolution and birth of new parties in this country have not always been logical. So the political future is largely unpredictable. But we do agree with Norris that the present is not the proper time for progressive senators to launch or even to consider a. third party movement. The job of the progressives in congress today is the same as that 0? the conservatives—their job is to forget partisan problems of 1932 and concentrate on the present national emergency problems of unemployment and depression. And that, is what the progressives in congress are doing, for the most part,.

A New Peril for Reds The lot of the Red In the United States today is not unlike that of a Jew in the realm of the Christian tyrant of the middle ages. We won't let him in the country if we know about it. When here, we may smash in his head if he tries to do what the Salvation Army does daily on the street corner. We ship him off to the hoosegow, under Red flag laws, criminal syndicalism laws, and framed prosecution. Then we may run him up the gangplank and send him back to the gallows of a Fascist dictator in Europe. This should be enough to protect our 120,000,000 inhabitants from 20.000 members of the tlyrd international. but anew peril to the radical has arisen on the horizon. It long has been held by many hundred per cent publicists that radicalism is a sure proof of feeble-mindedness. It now is being contended that radicalism is good and sufficient proof of insanity and justification for bundling the agitator ofT to the madhouse. In New Jersey last summer marital difficulties arose between Benedict Bruno and his spouse. The latter complained to the authorities that her mainstay was insane. Asked for proof, she stated that he was an anarchist, criticised Mussolini and opposed the pope. This convinced the custodians of the law and Benedict was dragged to the Essex County Hospital for the Insane. Here he was diagnosed as suffering from paranoid-dementia-praecox. Three psychiatrists hired by his counsel or the American civil liberties union have pronounced Bruno sane, but he remains in the asylum. Anti-Fascists and anti-papists well may take warning. The good news seems to have spread to the other coast. The press just reports the arrest of a Communist, Mike Kulikoff, in Portland, Ore., on the charges of insanity. It is reported in the same dispatch that the examining psychiatrist contended that confession of Communist leanings was in itself sufficient proof of insanity. Kulikoff still is in custody. Red Cross Relief Joe Robinson, Democratic leader in the United States senate, has joined Senator La Follette and others in favor of federal appropriations for direct relief to the unemployed this winter in communities unable to cope with local needs. Asa result of his observation in the middle west this weejc, Robinson issued the following statement from Little Rock: "My information, obtained from various sources, is that, in spite of the efforts of the Red Cross and fether similar agencies, present arrangements for relief in extreme cases are inadequate, and I believe

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the voluntary funds available for Red Cross work must be supplemented by appropriations from federal and state treasuries.’’ It should be noted that there is a difference between the proposals now being made for restricted and temporary federal relief and the political systems of the European type, commonly called doles. A dole system for unemnloyment relief is bad. It sets up a continuing system hard to get rid of. It becomes a political trough. It works automatically. It enervates the population. It encourages industry to shift the unemployment problem to the government. But these objections do not apply to a temporary restricted federal fund for emergency relief through the Red Cross. There should not be even such temporary federal aid if it can be avoided. That is, if communities and private agencies can meet the need this winter. Congress and the President's emergency committee should get the facts at once. If only federal aid can prevent starvation in the most depressed districts, then it should lie provided quickly through a restricted and noncontinuing appropriation to the Red Cross.

Saving the Children Although the traffic fatality figures almost invariably are extremely discouraging, there is one single ray of light to be derived from them. It develops that the various safety campaigns put on in schools throughout the country are beginning to have effect. Fewer children are being killed by automobiles now than were killed ten years ago. This represents a real achievement, when you consider that the population has grown considerably in that time, that there are many more autos on the streets and that the total casualty list has considerably increased. The child today is safer from the traffic menace than he was a decade ago, and the people who have given their time to these safety campaigns can be proud. A 1,000 Per Cent American Tlic perfect patrioteer has been found. He i3 Dr A. D. Houghton of Los Angeles. Until recently he was famous only as president of the American Cactus Society. The other day he rose in his wrath and denounced Dr. Albert Einstein as “an undesirable alien,” because the great scientist declared ..hat if 2 per cent of a country’s fighting force refused to bear arms in time of war there would be no more w r ars. • , Los Angeles’ cactus king framed resolutions for his legion post, demanding that Einstein be denorted. The post unanimously tabled the resolutions. Di Houghton, in high dudgeon, tdrned in his legion button. We had thought that Los Angeles, home of the Better America Federation, could stand patrioteering at any strength Apparently Dr, Houghton's 1,000 proof is too strong even there.

Employers who cut wages don't realize apparently that all work and no pay makes Jack exceedingly scarce. A nc-w motor horn has been invented which makes a sound like a chord on a harp. "For heaven’s sake,” as the pedestrian might say, Mussolini, someone notes, never has visited Monte Carlo. Thus spoiling the chance of many a colnist to wisecrack on “Duce’s wild " When Flo Ziedfeld cautioned his beauties not to overindulge in sports was he referring, perchance, to stage-door "johnnies”? Said the opera director to the star he has just fired: “ Better ones than you have been given the aria” > t v A traveler just back from Greenland says there is no unemployment problems among the Eskimos. It seems they are doing a whale of a business "The past," says Carl Sandburg, the poet, “is a bucket, of ashes." Yes, the scene has sifted. Then there’s the boy who thought his mother yas to try her hand at arithmetic when she told him he ■was driving her to distraction.

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WE are glad to read that the government has pensioned Old Nick, the 34-year-old horse that has spent his life working for the department of agriculture. Instead of being shot, like a traitor, he is to be retired like a patriot. tt tt tt And this reminds us of the most shameful act of our so-called civilization. Out west they are shooting thousands of wild horses because the gas buggy has taken away their jobs. Rather ungrateful treatment of the noble animal that pulled the hufhan race out of the mud of centuries. a a When he read of the loud bloviation of our statesmen, we are reminded that Thomas Jefferson once wrote these words: “I served with General Washington in the legislature of Virginia and with Dr. Franklin in congress, and I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point which was to decide the question." a a THERE'S a lot of truth in Bernard Shaw's recent statement that Americans like to be ridiculed. At least this has been Shaw's experience, for many of our people regard each fresh blast from this preeminent advertiser as proof of his greatness and their own utter unworthiness. a tt Did you ever notice how ever fellow who is tried for poisoning his wife proceeds to prove that the deceased was a high roller participating in every known vice and several previously unknown? Chicago is happier than she has been for a long time, since the gangsters who long concentrated their activities within her borders now are bringing St. Louis, Detroit, New York and other cities to the front page. It’s not remorse on the part of the gangsters, but the genuine law enforcement Chicago has been‘practicing for the last few weeks. a a WE glory in the spunk of Queen Helen who refuses to go back to King Carcl of Rumania, wty> gave her the air a year or so ago. But there are many empty-headed heiresses In this country who would jump at the chance of landing this bird. m m m While Fresident Hoover has his troubles with congress. he should thank his lucky stars that he does not have to appoint anew every time he is voted down, as does his executive ’brother, the president of France.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Depression Seems Less, Acute in West and South, Probably Because More j People Live on Farms in] Those Sections. TTOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 29.—Not the least interesting phase of , this depression is the variety of yardsticks by which people are attempting to measure it. “Watch steel,” says one, “and j don’t bet on anything until the tide ! turns in that stock.” “Watch foreign trade,” says an- j other, “and don’t imagine you have ! come to the end until it improves.” Still others prefer to be guided by the number and extent of bank failures, the building record, the price of cotton, or clearing house reports. Perhaps the choicest theory was advanced by a Houstonian, who pointed out that the city had only six debutantes this year, where seventeen made their appearance in 1929, which should please Senator Norris, no matter what it implies. tt tt tt Facts Hard to Get THERE just doesn’t seem to be any way of getting at the facts, much less the causes, which is one of our most serious drawbacks. In spite of all the surveys, you can’t find any two authorities who will agree on the number of unemployed in this country, or the best method of helping them. We are obliged to fall back on guesswork, not only with regard to the country as a whole, bui with regard to each locality. Generally speaking, things appear to be easier the farther one travels south or west. My own idea is that this is be- j cause a larger percentage of the peo- ] pie in those sections either live on farms or in partially self-sustaining homes, and are consequently in a better position to take care of themselves. u tt tt The Land Holds Its Own Notwithstanding the slump in price of cotton, grain and cattle, the land appears to be holding up very well. The Houston Farm Land bank, second largest in the system, reports a surprisingly small amount of delinquency in payments—something like $300,000 out of an annual collection of $lO,OOO.OOC. Since its establishment thirteen years ago, this bank has made a total of 65,000 loans, aggregating more than $200,000,000. Os those, about 20 per cent were paid before maturity, while only 700 have led to foreclosure. Foreclosure proceedings have resulted in almost as much profit as loss, so that the bank has had to write off very little. Meanwhile, the farmers of this region have been saved some $6,000,000 annually through the difference between what they pay the land bank for loans and what they would have had to pay private concerns. The land bank makes no direct loans to farmers, but operates through local associations, of which there are 348 in the Houston area. Loans are limited to 50 per cent of the value of the land and 20 per' cent of the value of assured itflprovements. They run from twenty to thirty-four years, and call for payments of 6 or 7 per cent annually, which takes care' of both interest and principal,

Capital Too ‘Easy’ THE land bank, intermediate farm loan bank, and building and loan association represent a form of credit which ought to receive more attention than it has in the past. Capital, as we call it, should be tied up more securely with the land. The idea of leaving it around where it easly can be picked up for speculation, promotion, and exploitation is not so good, especially where the savings of widows and orphans are concerned. If this depression proves one thing more than another, it is the danger of diverting a large amount of capital from the channels of legitimate trade to those of gambling. If more capital were tied up with the land, such performance would not be so easy. * a * Need More Land Owners WHETHER we have enough houses in this country, we have not enough homes, particularly of a kind that enables the occupants to do much for themselves in case of bad weather. The fact that more than half the people have become tenants is not reassuring. Anything like a well-balanced distribution of wealth seems impossible without a financial system which 'recognizes the land, and which suctions around the idea of making the largest possible number of people owners of land, whether in the form of a city lot, a suburban home site, or a farm. .

Questions and Answers

Can an alien be deported from the United States after a specified number of years residence for failing to take out citizenship papers? Immigrants are not compelled to become American citizens no matter how long they live in the United States, and they can not be deported for failure to do so. Do Sturgeon spawn in fresh or salt water? On what do they feed? Most of the species are migratory and ascend streams to spawn, but some live permanently in fresh waters. They spawn in the spring and summer and are prolific, a large female producing from two to three million eggs, constituting from a fifth to a third of its entire weight. They feed on small animals and plants. How can evaporated milk be whipped? Place the can in a pan of cold water, enough to cover the can, and let boil for five minutes, from the time it begins to boil. Cool and place in a pan of ice and salt, three parts of ice to one of salt, and whip until stiff. What are the French names for the white and yolk of an egg? White of an egg, “blanc d’oeuf;” yolk, “jaune d'oeuf.”

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Dyes May Cause Skin Irritations

This is one of a series of articles by Dr. Fishbcin on skin diseases Induced bv externa! causes, particularly industrial chemicals. BY DR. MOR ”IS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of t-s American Medical Association and cf Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN recent years special attention has been given to irritation of the skin resulting from products that have been dyed with a synthetic dye called paraphenylenediaminc. This substance Is employed almost universally for dyeing hair and furs. In these industries it commonly is called ursal. If a person is especially sensitive to this dye, hi% skin will develop an eruption when a 10 per cent solution of the dye is put on it. In determining whether the irritation of the skin is the result of the

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a Christmas morning, once upon a time, I went to the office of the newspaper where I worked- To me there is something infinitely mournful in the sight of a scantily staffed city room. Just two men were typing away at stories of small moment. Locally, we were without murders, judicial, scandals or three-alarm fires. The whole world seemed to be waiting. The telegraph instruments were silent. Suddenly, one began to talk, but there was nobody to set down what it said. • Its shrill staccato insistence sounded momentous. But telegraph instruments are like that. Their tone is just as excited about a baby parade in Asbury Park as about an earthquake in Madrid. Every distant whisper which comes to it must be rattled out at top voice and at once. Words are the intrument's very blood stream, and, for all a telegraph key knows, one word is just as glorious as any other. tt a tt From a Little Town AND so the restless instrument shrieked and cried and commanded listeners. I went as close as I could and tried to help, but this was to me a strange tongue. At first it seemed as if the instrument were trying to say, with clicking tumult, that some great one—a king, perhaps—was dead or dying. Or maybe it was a war and each dash and dot for some contending soldier moving forward under heavy fire. And, again, it might be that a volcano had stirred. Or tidal waves had swept the coast. Surely some great force was astir in the world, and. like most men and reporters, I thought of might wholly in terms of destruction and disaster. There was something almost aweinspiring In the insistence of the telegraph instrument. And now I did realize that this was, in fact, no long-running narrative, but one announcement repeated over and over again. a u An Old Story AND suddenly I wondered why I had made the glib assumption that only catastrophes were Important and epoch making and destruction the only manifestation of might. I could begin so catch the solor of the clamor. These dots and dashes were seeking to convey net anguish but triumph. That was not to be doubted. And in a flash I realized what the machine was saying. It was nothing more than “A child is bom.” And, of course, nobody paid any attention to that. It is an old story. o m The Noble Prize WILLIAM MTEE, the novelist, has his own ideas about the Nobel prize, and he writes: "All of you seemed to miss a very genuine criticism of the Swedish pundits when you failed to see that in giving the Nobel prize to a writer of long novels they merely were running true to form. Why the winner and every writer you commentators put forward as a pcesib’e substitute have

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dye, ’the physician pays particular attention to location of the eruption. The irritation, when due to hair dye, usually begins with itching, redness and puffiness of the upper eyelids, the sides of the forehead, and the back of the neck. When the irritation is due to the dye in the fur collar or cuffs, it is likely to appear first under the chin, on the front of the neck, in a triangular area over the chest and on the wrists. Hair dressers and furriers who use the dye on other people and on furs and who themselves are sensitive to it, develop the eruption first on the back of the hands, front of the wrists, the forearms, eyelids, nose, and other parts of the face. The irritation of the skin from these dyes usually is due to an oxi-

to be a writer of long novels? It isn’t the Nobel prize for long novels, is it? ft tt tt The Pundits “"OECAUSE there you have anO other fiction that the man in the street shares with the pundits. It is that the writer of a long narrative novel is somehow in a higher class than the man who writes, say, short stories. “I don’t think so, and I am going to prove (to my own complete satisfaction) that the Nobel judges and the whole American nation have forgotten the man who represents most accurately American literature and who owes less than any other eminent writer of our times to Europe, who is absolutely original, who has humor and character drawing and a marvelous gift for depicting that character not in long passages, but in single, short, sharp dialog stretches, so that the moment onfe- of his characters opens his mouth you recognize him or her. “He is a man who appeals to the artist in words as a supreme master of his medium, and he is wealthy, because, like Dickens, he appeals to the man in the street, who roars at his lifelike dialog and his almost incredible knowledge of the common people and their illiterate speech. a tt a Name Him! “TIE has satire and sometimes a 11 bitter, lashing innuendo. He is entirely and splendidly American and so far ahead of his competitors that they simply don’t count. “But he has committed the un-

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ANDREW JOHNSON’S BIRTH —Dec. 29

ON Dec. 29, 1808, Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States, was born in a crude shack at Raliegh, N. C. When 4 years of age his father died. So poor was he that at 10 he was obliged to seek work. At 14 he was apprenticed to a tailor and he learned the alphabet from a fellowworkman. Johnson never went to school a day in his life. When 18, he moved to Greenville, Term., where he worked as tailor. A year later he married Eliza McCardell, who taught him to read and write. Johnson’s enthusiasm for selfeducation led him to organize a debating society. Then, beginning a political career, he became successively mayor, state legislator, congressman, Governor of Tennessee and United States senator from Tennessee. He was Lincoln’s running mate in 1864, and succeeded to the presidency on Lincoln’s assassination. In 1867 Johnson suspended Stanton, secretary of war, who was reinstated by the senate the following year. An attempt to gain possession of the war department during this quarrel led, in 1868, to Johnson's impeachment, but of one vote the two-thirdsß vote necessary to convict was lacking.

dation product known as quinone. When this substance is moistened with water and applied to the skin, it has a strong irritating effect. It has been found that a solution of sodium hyposulphite will neutralize the action of the quinone and relieve the itching that results from such irritation. Since almost all furs sold at moderate prices have been dyed with various chemical substances, it is ,safe to suspect almost any of them in the presence of eruptions of the character that have been mentioned. Dyes also are used for hat bands, artificial flowers, lipstick, rouge and similar materials, and may be responsible for irritations of the skin when these substances come in contact with it.

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

pardonable crime of not writing long novels full of padding, and so you all forgot him. “He has committed the other unpardonable crime of writing in the American tongue and manner, which is utterly untranslatable; in fact, an Englishman is at a loss to know what he is talking about, so that the Swedish gents are unaware of his existence. “I refer, of course, to Mr. Ring Lardner. “You Americans sometimes make me extremely tired!” (Copyright, 1930. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—The Times always has fought for the under dog. Now please give the mothers a chance who bear sons to make future history. The very foundation of a state, nation, or home is threatened when a mother declines to sacrifice for the building of her children’s character. Women sigh, saying, “housework is so monotonous.” That is far from the truth. It varies more than any office or factory work, if you care to be a homemaker instead of a machine. What is more delightful than planning good meals? The appreciation on the family faces speaks louder than words. If the meal is ever so cheap, cooked correctly and served neatly, it satisfies. There is the radio school, always instructing, advising and teaching. Good books help to cultivate personality. We have free classes in cooking, sewing and art. These things make life worth living. There is church and social work, the most important things in human existence. And last, but not least, are the children. Did you ever prize a rose bush? Watch patiently the opening of its buds into beautiful blooming roses? Still, you. play no important part in that plant’s life. When a baby grows from a bundle of sweet smells into a thinking, active child, you can form body and mind to your liking. Mold their lives into characters of real men

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DEC. 29, 1689

SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Trend of Population in the United States Is Steadily Toward Cities. THE population of the United States doubled itself between 1860 and 1890. and then almost but not quite repeated the performance between 1890 and 1920. In 1920 the population was three and a half times what it was in 1860 Any attempt to understand what has been happening in the United States since the Civil war can not succeed unless this important fact is kept in mind. Professor Louis Bernard Schmidt, who has been studring what he calls the “agricultural revolution" in the United States, has collected figures upon the subject. He says: “The population of the United States, excluding the non-contigu-ous possessions, numbered 31.443,321 in 1860 and 62.947,714 In 1890. By 1920 it passed the 100,000.000 mark, reaching the number of 105.710.620. “Immigration supplied 28.749.245. Os this number 10,373,628 arrived in the period of 1860 to 1890, and 18,373.617 in the period of 1890 to 1920.” B tt tt Liberal Policy THE great abundance of good land and the liberal policy of the federal government in proriding free homesteads for the settler attracted great numbers of immigrants from the Atlantic seaboard states int<> the fanning states of the west. Professor Schmidt says. . “Hither came also large groups of European immigrants experienced in old world methods of farming, which they adapted to the requirements of anew frontier environment.” he continues. “They were as a rule industrious and thrifty, becoming a substantial part of the farming population and loyal American citizens. “An agricultural empire was founded in the Mississippi valley. Meanwhile, the Pacific coast states were settled and added to this great imperial domain. “The population has until recently continued to be predominately rural. According to the United States census of 1880, the rural population (including towns and villages with less than 2,500 inhabitants) numbered 35,383,345, or 70.5 per cent of the entire population. “This was a number greater than the total population of the United States in 1860. In 1910 the rural population numbered 49,348,883, which was 53.7 per cent of the entire population.”

The New Picture THE 1920 census, however, showed that the picture was beginning to change. Professor Schmidt says: “The United States census of 1920 is the first to show that the majority of the American peopple now live in towns and cities; 48.1 per cent being classified as rural, while 51.9 are classified as urban—the latter excluding towns and villages of less than 2,500 inhabitants, which are . classified as rural. “In 1910, 33.2 per cent of all per- <i sons engaged in gainful occupations ' were engaged in. farming—a greater l proportion than was engaged in any other occupation. “In 1920 the proportion of persons over 10 years of age thus employed declined to 26.3 per cent, while the proportion of persons engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries was increased to 30.8 per cent. "This is a fact of fundamental significance in marking the emergence of the United States into an agrarian-industrial state. “These figures show that there has been a rapid increase in the rural population since 1790 and in the urban population since about 1830: but that while the rural pop-s ulation has been increasing, the) urban population has been growing ; at a more rapid rate. “That is to say, the rural population has entered upon a period of rapid relative decline, which is another way of saying that the population of the United States is becoming urbanized.”

Daily Thought

The princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, the Lord is righteous. —II Chronicles 12:6. Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation ana bond of all virtue. —Chrysostom. When was the Library of Congress at Washington, D. C., established? It was established in 1800 and was destroyed in 1814 by the British when they burned the Capitol. Later it was replenished by purchase of the library of Thomas Jefferson, but was again destroyed by fire in 1851*. and women. Is this monotony? Never! An inspiration? Ever! Many working mothers gladly would stay home if their men folks could find work, but others, through pure selfishness, deny them a Godgiven right. If you are against married women working, please send your name ana address to CARROLL COLLINS 7500 Rawls avenue. If any one cares to write me filthy letters on this subject, as before, please be sport enough to sign your name and address. Thanks to the world’s best newspaper.