Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1931 — Page 4

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Give a Garden While it is true that there is no shortage of food in this country, it is more true that there is a very great shortage of food in many families in this city. That some unnamed official, with a stinginess of mind seriously proposed to cut down the value of trustee baskets given to . the distressed to a value of 51.75 a week, suggests just how great that shortage may be. The shortage of food exists in homes where is also a shortage of work. Enforced idleness brings poverty and worse. The zest with which every job of so-called “madework” is sought indicates that very many men are as hungry for something to do as they are hungry for something to eat. Raising gardens on vacant lots inside the Mty will accomplish the double purpose of furnishing something tp do and something to eat to those who need just exactly both these things. That is the reason The Times is asking those who hate lots to permit their use this summer. The lots will be improved. The city will be more sightly. The men who raise the gardens will be happier. Their families will be more comfortable. Os course, the plan is the purest makeshift to fit an emergency. It is not the basis of any return to prosperity. It may not even relieve to any great extent the burden now upon the taxpayer. That can only come through an adjustment of our industrial system to the present age of machinery and a distribution of work and the results of work among all workers. But for the summer it may fill a great need. If you have a vacant lot, send in your name.

Controlling the Mind of America Popular opinion often portrays the Caesars, the Popes, and the Czars as enjoying almost complete control over the minds of men in their realms and ages. But it is not an exaggeration to say that no Augustus, no Innocent 111, or no Alexander 111 ever ; possessed the potential power to control and mould the human mind which lies in the hands of two Americans and the groups which stand behind them. They are Will Hays of the Motion Picture Pro- . ducers and Distributers of America and M. H. Aylesworth of the National Broadcasting Company. TJie latter can be analyzed on the basis of two 'articles contributed to the Christian Century by Paul Hutchinson. Let it be said at the outset that this 'is not from a standpoint of “seeing red" or alleging anything sinister. It simply is pointed out from an important series of facts and their implications. There is no doubt that the radio vies with journalism, organized education, and the movies as a leading 'factor in shaping American opinion today. How about the “freedom of the air”? There are ninety air channels over which programs may be broadcast in the country today. But forty of these are cleared—!, e. not being used by apy other station at the time. Twenty-eight of these are controlled by stations on N. B. C. chains. Only two are open to stations not on any chain. This, in spite of the fact that there are 611 licensed broadcasting stations altogether and only seventyfour on N. B. C. chains. The N. B. C. asserts exclusive right to furnish the programs on N. B C. chain stations The N. B. C. enjoys a still further advantage, namely, in the vastly greater power assigned to its stations. The average for each of its seventy-four stations is 10,257 watts, while that for the 490 independents is 566 watts, giving N. B. C. more than twice the power of all independents and fourteen times as many cleared channels. The only significant competition with N. B. C. is the Columbia Broadcasting System, owning thirteen £ cleared stations, and it is alleged that these two great chains are linked through movie, vaudeville, banking interests. Behind N. B. C. stands the Radio Corporation of America, and behind R. C. A. stands General Electric, Westinghouse, and A. T. & T. Behind these stand great bankers, of whom the House of Morgan is dominant. Now there is a great advantage in this concentration of radio power and efficiency. It certainly Insures better programs. But this should not be gained at ’the expense of the freedom of opinion. Thus far there is no adequate guaranty that the latter can and will be secured. The independents are pitifully impotent and inconsequential. The matter is wholly in the hands of N. B. C. and the other chains. Essentially, it comes down to N. B. C. policy. Mr. Aylesworth has stated that he will allow representatives of various sides to controversial questions to have access to N. B. C. programs, but they must be official and representative. In other words, William Green and Matthew Woll may speak for organized labor, but not A. J. Muste * t>r Sidney Hillman. But who solemnly could maintain : that Green or Woll stand for American labor in any general or intelligent sense today? N. B. C. has an advisory council to determine what material and speakers are “representative,” but * Dwight Morrow is by all odds the most liberal member. Where are Newton Baker, Walter Lippmann. Roger Baldwin, John Dewey, Norman Thomas, A. J Muste, Arthur Garfield Hays, John Haynes Holmes, Amos Pinehot and others who might represent a liberal attitude? No one asks for the presence of W. Z. Foster and his like, though there are several reactionaries on the council comparable to him for extreme views. Without any indignation or shrieking whatever, the core of the situation is clear enough. N. B. C. . and R. C. A. most effectively can exclude dissenting ! opinion from the air. But they can not alter the actual facts in the economic, social and political * scheme in the United States. The latter ultimately will control practical action in our country'. We have two alternatives: (1) Full knowledge of facts, free discussion from different angles opinion, constant readjustment, and peace--5 ful settlement; or (2) deceit, denial, sullen resentment and final resort to force and revolution, j The masters of the air hardly are vigorous proJnents of blood and revolt. Hence, the logical conrsion should be obvious. >. ■% *

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The Next Congress Fate of the next congress and of the Hoover administration may be determined by the death of Speaker Long worth. In the last congress, only the house, under Longworth control, prevented the defeat of many administration measures. Administration losses in the election last November consolidated the DemocraticProgressive strength in the senate and threw Republican control of the house in the balance. Longworth’s removal by death may tip the scales in favor of the Democrats. First the Republicans will have difficulty in winning the now vacant Cincinnati district. The Republican majority there was cut from 30,932 in 1928, to 3,507 in 1930, by a weak Democratic candidate. If the Democrats win that seat now, they will tie the Republicans in the house, each having 217 seats. Nominally that would give balance of power to the one Farmer-Laborite, but actually he would share it with the Republican progressive group led by the Wisconsin delegation and La Guardia of New York. This probably would result in election of a Democratic Speaker and chairmen of committees. Os more importance, it probably would produce reform of the house rules, w’hich now are geared for dictatorial control by the Speaker, the majority leader, and the chairman of the rules committee. Liberalization of the rules and DemocraticProgressive control of the house might result in enactment of the most progressive legislative program sidetracked by the old guard last session. Abolition of lame duck sessions of congress, passage of the Norris Muscle Shoals bill over the President’s veto, enactment of legislation curbing antilabor injunctions, providing direct unemployment relief and increasing income taxes of the rich, are some of the possibilities. Strangely enough, many Democratic politicians consider this possible Democratic control of the house a questionable blessing. They want to ride to power in the 1932 presidential election on the Hoover administration’s failure. But if the administration is to be blamed for the ills of the nation, the administration must remain in nominal control of the next congress, these Democratic politicians argue. If the Democrats organize the house next December, they will have to share with the administration some of the responsibility for conditions in the country. Thus in the 1932 campaign the administration would be given a useful alibi. Such considerations would be far-fetched if the Democrats were united and had an aggressive legislative program. They have not. They face both ways on prohibition, tariff, power, unemployment relief and most other issues. If they take over the house, they must unite on a progressive program, or advertise the fact that they have nothing more to offer than has the Republican administration. All of which is very embarrassing for the politicians on the eve of a national election campaign. Tlie net effect is apt to be a more bitter factional fight in both the Democratic and Republican parties between progressives and conservatives.

Beyond the Poor Farm On the theory that this is the land of opportunity in w’hich only the lazy and shiftless fail “to get on,” America has been punishing men and W’omen for the crime of being old and poor. Punitive institutions, called poor farms, have been this country’s answer to the aged who reach the evening of life penniless and friendless. While medical science has been adding years to people’s lives, social science has done little to make the added years a time of peace of security. Nothing in the American psychology has made for more heartaches than this complacent attitude toward the aged. A few states did pass old age pension laws. The bulk of them were satisfied with their poor farms. The federal government, willing to spend billions, directly or indirectly, to aid industry, refused to spend a cent to aid industry’s by-products, the aged poor. This fabulously rich nation was willing to stand with China, the only other civilized nation without some old age pension provision. But apparently light is breaking through. Reports today indicate thal seven states have passed laws since Jan. 1, relating to old age security, thus making fifteen states that have taken official action. Many of these laws, of course, are inadequate. Many of the poorer states will be unable to finance old-age pensions at all. The answer, of course, is federal aid

REASON "KSf

THE papers told of a glorious day, probably the greatest yet won for the welfare of the human race, but as there were no drums, no flags, no marching armies in the winning of it, we do not react with the enthusiasm which marks victorious battles between nations. a a a Too long this world has given its cheers exclusively to the results of conflicts between armed hosts; too long it has ignored the sleepless service of medical science, out there on the firing line, fighting diseases which for centuries have held mankind in bondage and in terror. a a a THIS victory we refer to is the conquering of the great white plague. Where once it was unchallenged master of the palace and the hut, it now has yielded its deadly sword and its armies of germs are the prisoners of science. We all remember when tuberculosis was a worldwide scourge. When it entered the home all hope fled The doors were shut; the windows were locked; the victim was drenched with drugs, worse than useless. And. on schedule time, the victim died. a a a And this is not the worst. Nothing was known of preventive methods One by one. brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers followed that first victim to their doom. Whole families perished. a a a WE recall one family in our neighborhood that fell before this plague. They seemed strong and their faces were ruddy, but we saw them grow weaker, day by day until a few short years bore all of them over the river. a a a Then the medical science challenged the beast. It found the germ and it found the way to conquer it. Asa result, tuberculosis now takes its place among the fallen enemies of the race. a a a We hear of the victories of Waterloo and Yorktown and Appomattox and the Argonne Forest, but there is another, fit to stand beside them, yes, in its ultimate benefits to humanity it stands above them all. It is the victory over tuberculoajflj Warriors move over and make roam for the doctor I

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Now We Know the Truth About Mr . Hoover's Farm Relief Program — lt's a Plot Against Russia! NEW YORK, April 11.—As Cartoonist Llanuza puts it, “in the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to—gosh knows what!” He might have included middleaged men, not to mention women and old people. The news is full cf reminders that we once more have reached the silly season. A great doctor declares that Nicholas Lor.gworth could have been saved had the right kind of serum been available. Why so complicated, Doc? Why not fall back on the simple proposition that he could have been saved had it not been a case of pneumonia? A New York inventor comes out with a gas-squirting pistol, for which he makes some highly optimistic claims. It will not only enable police to capture criminals without doing them permanent injury, but gradually will teach criminals to cast aside their gats by removing the idea that it’s a case of killing or getting killed when tney meet a cop. The nationalist party of Porto Rico offers $200,000 in gold bonds to be redeemed at 4 per cent five years after the island has become a fullfledged republic. While this hardly could be described as a gilt-edged investment, it should appeal to those who like fake stocks of political propaganda.

Tripe for Russia THANKS to an American correspondent of Russia’s great newspaper, Pravda, we now know the plain, unvarnished truth about Mr. Hoover’s farm relief program. It was not designed to help the grain belt, as most of us had supposed, but to provide food for an army with which France planned to invade the Soviet, Talk of boosting prices by buying up the surplus was just a smoke screen. The real object was to accumulate vast supplies of corn, wheat, cotton, and grape concentrates, though the latter are not specifically mentioned, with which to feed the soldiers of capitalism. Mr. Legge was glad to take this chairmanship, not only because of his capitalistic leanings, but because the International Harvester Company, of which he had been the head, lost $40,000,000 in trade through the advent of Communism in Russia. The scheme would have rushed to its bloody conclusion if the great Ramsin trial, recently staged in Moscow, had not exposed the plot, forcing Mr. Hoover to dismiss Legge, and the farm board to announce that it would purchase no more grain. And that’s the kind of tripe with which the people of Russia are being fed in the name of honesty, science, and pure reason, BUB Too Much Imagination SOMETIMES one wonders if the great problem before humanity is not how to direct its surplus imagination. Maybe, the ancients were not unwise in permitting their surplus imagination to expend itself on harmless fairy tales. Maybe we have undertaken an impossible job in attempting to confine it to the serious business of life. Such emanations as “Mother Goose” and “Jack the Giant Killer” may appear woefully ridiculous in the light of what we have learned, but they were harmless, compared to the absurdities which some of our bright minds are putting forth in the name of “honest, intelligent thought.” If we need football as an outlet for the excess energy of youth, who knows but we need the field of extravaganza as an outlet for the excess energy of dreamers. The post-war period, as well as the war itself, has witnessed some of the most glorious lying this old world ever knew. The one big difference is that the lying was trotted forward in the name of truth, while older and simpler ages made no such pretense. Back in those good old days, before science had been enthroned as the chief god, men were content to admit an appetite for myth and fable. We still have the appetite, still demand the product, but because of a belief that we suddenly have become rational and know so much that we cair afford to dispense with the romantic, we want it represented as something else.

Questions and Answers

Does the pelican feed its young with blood from its own breast? Parent pelicans are said to carry water as well as food to their young in their pouches. The nail or hook which terminates the bill is red, and it has been suggested that the ancient fable of the pelican feeding its young with blood from its own breast originated from its habit of pressing the bill upon the breast, when the red tip might be mistaken for blood. What would happen to the earth if the sun suddenly ceased to exist? All life on earth would cease in a very short time; the temperature here would become so cold that all water would freeze solidly and evaporation and precipitation would cease. What is a delta? It is an alluvial deposit formed at the mouth of a river by the fine silt brought down in suspension by the water and deposited when the river's current becomes ineffective. Was Paul, the apostle, small in stature? The name means little, and it is usually supposed that Paul, the apostle, was a small man because the people of Lystra thought he was Mercury Are persons born in the United States of Chinese parentage American citizens? Yes. Who is chief justice of the United States supreme court? Charles Evans Hughes. How high Is the S. S. Leviathan? It is 184 feet from keel to the top af its funnels.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: A Crabapple Is of the Rose Family—The apple is the fruit of

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Wrong Ideas Current on Acidosis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. r T'HE public constantly is being -*■ told again and again that acidosis is a menace to health and life, and that it can be overcome by taking immense amounts of orange juice. A true acid state of the blood never actually occurs in life. Acidosis is, therefore, merely the tendency toward production of such a state that may arise under various diseased conditions, or in connection with certain disturbances of metabolism. Acid always is being developed in the body, but it is excreted through the lungs and the kidneys, being carried to these places by the blood. As long as the production of acid remains within normal limits, as emphasized by Leonard Findlay, and as long as the organs necessary to the removal of the acid are

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ONE or two correspondents have chided me for not writing a column about the death of Knute Rockne. Explanation of that is easy enough. Much has been said and written about Rcckne by men who knew him intimately. I could add nothing. He seemed to me by far the greatest of football coaches. And this, to be sure, identified him as more than a close student of the game. It also meant that he was a superb practical psychologist. All men who knew him have an enthusiasm for Knute Rockne as a person. This is a magnificent tribute. What I have to add will offend many. And yet I can not resist pointing out the lack of proportion in American journalism and American thinking. When a President and an exPresident comes into print to speak of the death of a great college football coach as a national calamity, I am puzzled. I wonder what will be left to the passing of any one who profoundly has affected the educational system of our country. I would not have public sympathy and respect less ready and articulate than it now is. But I must say frankly that it is a curious world in which the teaching of a ganrlooms up larger in the popular imagination than instruction in the principles of life itself. And if the reply comes that on the gridiron young men learn the very essence of citizenship, of patriotism and of co-operation, I must answer that this is putting too heavy a load upon the sport and that i don't believe it. a a a Doctors Disagree IN reply to a letter from Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, who defended birth control, the Rev. Ignatius W. Cox cites testimony from another physician. He quotes Dr. William Gerry Morgan, president of the American Medical Association. Dr. Morgan is not a Catholic. He has expressed regret at the action taken by the Federal Council of Churches. It must be that Dr. Morgan stands high in his profession. But the opening paragraph of his statement seems to indicate that here is a problem which he is not approaching from the calm, dispassionate position of the physician. He has written: “The question of birth control is of vital importance to the future of our country, since it affects directly the survivaljpf the white race and its dominance in world progress.”

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healthy, the person does not suffer any disturbance. However, whenever the amount of acid produced is excessive, or whenever the organs concerned with the removal are diseased, the acid tends to accumulate. The body endeavors to avoid the accumulation of acid by various chemical changes, and the task sometimes becomes more than the body can perform. There are some gastro-intestinal diseases in which acidosis develops both because of increased production and because the alkaline substances are lost through the bow’el. This happens w’hen there is great loss of fluid from vomiting or diarrhea. The cbvious treatment is to replace the loss of fluid and to hinder the production of acid substance by giving water, salts, and glucose. If these can not be taken by mouth, the physician administers them by injection into the tissues or into a vein. Diabetes is the main condition in which acidosis results. In this

I contend that this is less, or more, than strictly scientific. It may be good patriotism and excellent Nordic philosophy, ■ but the attitude has nothing on earth to do with the medical point of view. The doctor, in his pure function, deals with humanity as a whole. He is not instructed to differentiate between white and red, yellow and black. Even in warfare a wounded man should be to him a wounded man, regardless of his affiliation with any army. It may be that researches by the Rockefeller institute in regard to African sleeping sickness will revitalize the energy of hard-pressed native tribes. That, too, may eventually constitute a threat against the eternal survival of white dominance. a a a In Defense of Reno SOME editorial writers have assailed Nevada and the town of Reno by asserting that here in our fair land a divorce mill has been established. Under existing statutes in many

CUBA’S WAR MESSAGE April li-

ON April 11, 1917, Speaker Champ Clark laid before the United States congress, amid applause, a message from Miguel Coyula, speaker of the Cuban house of representative, regarding the Cuban declaration of war against Germany. It read: “The house of representatives of the republic of Cuba, in declaring that a state of war exists between this nation and the Germany empire, resolved, all members rising to their feet and amid the greatest enthusiasm, to address a message of confraternity to that body announcing the pride felt by the people of Cuba in uniting their modest efforts to those of the great nation contending for the triumph of right and respect for the liberty of small nationalities. “The house also resolved to express the special gratification of the Cuban people in uniting their flag side by side to that of the glorious nation which in days of undying memory sacrificed the blood of her sons to help the people of Cuba to conquer their liberty and independence.”

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disease the patient is unable to use sugar, so that fats are incompletely burned in the body and acid substances are produced. These acid substances accumulate, and the body must develop alkaline substances to neutralize them. In connection with the larger flow of urine in diabetes, there is a tendency to wash alkali out of the body. For this reason it is customary in diabetes, with acid conditions, to control the acid condition by the giving of bicarbonate of soda and by supplying glucose. Acidosis also occurs in some diseases of the kidney, but it never is so severe in such conditions as when it is associated with diabetes. There are some physicians who beiieve that mild conditions of acidosis may be responsible for all sorts of symptoms, such as headache, nausea, lack of “pep” and similar vague disturbances. The control of such conditions obviously is much more simple than in the severe acidosis that occurs in the diseases mentioned.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this caper.—The Editor.

states it seems to me that such a mill is very necessary. The only pity is that the needy must carry their grain so far for the grinding. Reno is actuated, I am aware, by mercenary motive. The divorce business is profitable. Easy dissolution of the marriage tie still is largely reserved for the rich. But if there is a fundamental flaw it dies not with Nevada, but with the hypocrisy of other communities. Avery large proportion of people in the United States agree that marriage may reach a point where both the good of the individual and the good of the state are served by severance of the ties. I notice in one editorial that South Dakota changed its easy laws because it was proved that one individual obtained a divorce decree eighteen hours after his application. In that I can see no special scandal. When a marriage has definitely failed, quick relief is the best relief. fCooyright. 1931. bv The Times*

Daily Thought

Be thou faithful unto death.— Revelation 2:10. This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief. —C. H. Spurgeon.

Freshen Up How about that little job of painting around the home that you have been promising to do all winter “when spring comes?” Don’t put it off any longer. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin on PAINTING AROUND THE HOME that gives proper directions and valuable suggestions for simple methods for painting both outside and inside the house and outbuildings. It tells about paint, about preparing wood surfaces for painting, about finishing floors, how to apply wall paint, use of water paints,' staining shingles, painting metal surfaces, removing old paint, how' to care for paint brushes. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Department 122, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin. PAINTING AROUND THE HOME and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs Name Street and No City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.).

APRIL 11, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Skim Milk, Once Waste Product, Now is Valuable in Manufactures. MILK, to the laymen, is something to drink, or the raw material for the manufacture of butter or cheese. To the chemical engineer. It is the raw material for the manufacture of paint, glue, buttons, fountain pens, artificial ivory, artificial coral, artificial torquolse shell, and the coatings for paper. All these products are being manufactured from skim milk which once was thrown away. They represent another triumph of the research chemist, whose motto is the elimination of waste and who spends his time seeking methods of turning waste into by-products. Within recent years there has been a tremendous demand for cream as a result of increased markets for butter and ice cream. With the growth of great creameries in all parts of the United States, billions or tons of skim milk were produced ar.d wasted. It is estimated that 22,500.000,000 pounds of skim milk are available annually in the United States. Most of this still is wasted, but not all. The chemist has found a Vay to use millions of pounds annually and the amount thus used is increasing every year. tt B Cheese and Casein THE chemist begins his magic by the production of casein. Cow s miUt contains about 3.64 per cent fat, 3.02 per cent casein, and 4.88 per cent sugar. The bulk of the milk, about 87 per cent is, of course, water. The production of casein is essentially the manufacture of cheese. When whole milk is allowed to sour, it forms a white solid mass known as the curd. This consists of the casein and the butter fats. The skim milk no longer contains the fats, but the casein still is there. The chemist, therefore, begins by separating the casein from the skim milk. There are three methods used for this. One forms the so-called self-soured or lactic acid casein. In this method, a culture of lactic acid bacteria, the bacteria which cause the milk to sour, is added to the vats containing the skim milk. The action of the bacteria forms lactic acid which precipitates the casein, causing it to form solid curds. These curds then are separated from the' remaining liquid or whey, dried, and broken up into smalli bits, the resulting casein being in granular form, ranging in color from straw to buff. The second method produces the so-called acid caseins. In this method, either dilute sulphuric acid or dilute hydrochloric acid are. added to the skim milk, causing a precipitation of the casein. The third method produces rennet casein. In this method, rennet, an enzyme obtained from the lining of calves stomachs, is used to precipitate the casein.

Industrial Uses PAPER manufacturers have found that casein makes a better birder for the pigments used in coating mixtures than does animal glue. Papers covered with a casein coating take inks better and permit clearer and sharper color printing. Casein glue is made by mixing casein with lime water. The result is a glue which is as strong as animal glues and more resistant to water. At first, difficulty was experienced from the fact that thq glue set too quickly. It was found, however, that the addition of a small amount, of certain other substances, such as sodium fluoride, retarded the setting. During the World war, it was found that casein glue w’as the best for cementing together ply wood for airplane construction. Casein paints, made with a binder of casein and lime water are water resistant. They are also finding considerable use in the printing of wall papers and certain fabrics. Various articles, such as buttons, beads, combs and other articles, now’ are made from casein plastics. These can bo made to resemble ivory, coral, tortoise shell, and the like, and can be colored any desired color. Casein plastic is made by treating casein with formaldehyde or some other hardening agent. Pigments or dyestuffs are added during the manufacturing process.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Parking garage’a business bad, eh! Ox all the ran!;, insane, unjust, and selfish acts this new proposed traffic lav; is certainly the most imperfect bill ever brought before the motoring public. Gentlemen, have you no foresight at ail? Can’t you see what it means if this code is passed? I certainly agree that soma changes are necessary in our present laws for parking, but, gentlemen, think what an outlandish code this proposed one is. ONE OF THE MOTORING PUBLIC.