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A Prosperity Program After listening to the stuttering and stammering of so many politicians who have nothing definite to offer in the present economic emergency, it is refreshing to read the frank speech which Senator La Follette made In Boston. Whether one agrees with the Progressives or not, their honesty commands respect La Follette, however, ha smore than frankness to offer. He had a program for handling unemployment and restoring prosperity which is one of the best we have seen. It is not only his personal program, but that of the entire progressive group in congress. As that group wil hold balance of power in both house and senate when congress meets next December, the La Follette legislative program has much more than acedemic interest. Here it is: Federal aid to meet the emergency of unemploymen trelief. A shorter work day and a shorter work week Stabilization of Industry. Maintenance of wage levels. Unemployment insurance. Rehabilitation of agriculture. Exercise of the power of taxation through the graduated income and inheritance tax laws to meet the increasing burden and responsibilities of government. Several of the planks in this platform, once considered radical, already are being accepted by business leaders. For Instance, many business men are advocating the shorter work day and week as the quickest and fairest way to take up permanent employment slack, caused by machine and mass production. The necessity for effective farm relief to restore the farmers’ purchasing power is understood by industrialists and workers, who once thought they were untouched by farm distress. The unemployment insurance movement has grown more rapidly during the last year than during all the other years since the war. Federal aid for unemployment relief continues to be blocked by Hoover and the Red Cross, largely because the public is not yet aware of the facts. Now that government figures show the inadequacy of private relief, and that 72 per cent of unemployment family relief distributed in 1930 had to be supplied by public treasuries, there may be a general demand for the federal government to share the burden with the weakened stat and city treasuries. In th matter of maintenance of wage levels, after almost unanimous acceptance of this principle by business early In the depression, there now is a drive by bankers for wage cuts. Though the administration denies that this dangerous development has reached serious proportions, incomplete figures available seem to indicate otherwise. The New York state labor department, which has been consistently more accurate that Washington, announced Friday on the basis a survey that: "Despite public statements that wages are not being lowered, there can be no doubt that the wage levels of women workers in New York City have declined sharply." As this wage cut trend grows, presumably Hoover and the wiser industrialists will oppose it actively, lust as the Progressives are doing. But La Follette and the Progressives can expect no help from the administration or from big business for their fundamental plank of tax reform. This will be the hottest fight in the next congress. There can be no doubt which side the people" interest is on. The workers, the farmers, < . professional classes, the small business men, can not pay more taxes to meet the huge federal deficit and necessary appropriation increases. The rich must pay. Justice requires that the rich pay. Expediency also requires that the rich pay. One of the chief causes of the depression is the unhealthy concentration of wealth, which dries up the consumers’ purchasing power. Prosperity under our mass production system depends on a mass market. To restore the mass market, labor must get a larger share of the wealth it creates. Only two quick ways are open to achieve that necessary redistribution of wealth. One is through shortening the work day or work week without wage cuts The other is through the income and inheritance tax. We agree with Senatord La Follette that in this emergency both reforms are essential.

Man's Most Noble Pursuit in 1930 The father of his country is reputed to have said that agriculture is the most noble pursuit of man. Were he to return in 1931, he would find much to sadden him. This noble profession of tilling the soil has fallen upon unlucky days. The federal council of churches recently has turned in a general assessment of rural life in America for the year 1930. Its conclusions are essentially the following: 1. The industry is inarticulate; it has few informed and respected spokesmen: farm news is little appreciated by the big city dailies; and when it is reported by them, the news often is inaccurate, confused. and contradictory, 3. Farm prices are declining in alarming fashion. In 1930 agricultural production was 13 per cent lower than the average for the previous decade. Yet farm prices were 25 per cent lower than they were for 1929. in spite of curtailed production. 3. Farm wages are at the lowest level since 1918 Moreover, the supply of farm labor runs 58 per cent over the demand, as against 17 per cent over the demand last year. 4. The rural population is declining markedly in proportion to the urban. While a smaller rural population may lessen competition and lower production, thus improving the industry, the decline indicates unhealthy and discouraging conditions in the industry as a whole. 5 Efficient agriculture depends upon the introduction of mass production methods. But this is proceeding slowly, and if successful would mean greatly increased unemployment among agricultural laborers. 6. Medical care, due to the fading away of the country doctor, has become almost a desperate problem In rural areas. It is very difficult to get prompt, attention in emergencies, or to get highly competent medical care at prices which fanners can stand 7. The rural church supplies no competent community leadership, intellectually, socially or economically. 8. Rural eehools have Improved very notably in the last generation, but still lag far behind city echoola. 9 On top of all these generalljylteccuraglng ton-

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ditions came the most serious drought in a genera- 1 tion. The one encouraging item is the marked development of farm co-operatives, now numbering some 1,000.000 members and devoted chiefly to selling activities. The obvious conclusion is that local, state and federal statesmanship of a high order is required if the once Independent and proud American farmer is not going to slide to the level of the European ; peasantry. The Mooney Case Revives The Mooney case will not down. Next month Tom Mooney’s volunteer counsel, Frank P. Walsh of New York, will go again to California and there confer, with the state’s new Governor to urge a pardon hearing. A hearse, labor’s grim feature of Governor Rolph’s inauguration parade—and upon which is placarded: ‘‘California Justice Is Dead"—is on its way eastward, advertising the shame of the Golden state to the cities en route. The Wickersham subcommittee, in its forthcoming report on legal lawlessness, is including the Mooney-Billings trials among many instances of the law’s anarchs'. A play called "Precedent,’’ based on the MooneyBillings trials, is drawing crowds to phe theater of the Pro; incetown players in New York, and soon will be put on the road to tell this amazing story. And now the case is revived by one of America’s old conservative magazines. Harper’s has for its leading article an expose of "Our American Dreyfus Case," by Lillian Symes, a California writer, thoroughly familiar with the facts and background. “That Mooney and Billings are being held in prison long after every shred of evidence against them has collapsed because of politics, prjudice and timidity has been the inescapable conclusion of every one who has made an impartial investigation of their cases,” writes Miss Symes. The Dreyfus case had its belated happy ending after twelve years. After fifteen years nothing short of a violent awakening of the state’s dormant sense of social indignation can save us from the disgrace of having these men die in prison—and from having some future generations shudder at California’s callous indifference and stupidity.’’ It might be remarked that Cal'fornia may be indifferent, but hardly stupid. Soon its super-boosters will realize that this nation-wide barrage is hurting their state more than droughts, earhtquakes, floods or frosts. Governor “Sunny Jim" Rolph, who knows the difference between good and bad publicity, can halt these assaults on the state he leads and loves by freeing these martyrs. “An Effective Poorhouse” On the theory that a President is expected to ■speak the truth, Hoover should not be blamed too harshly for accepting the hospitality of the Virgin islands and then promptly calling them an “effective poorhouse." They are that. But the President can be blamed, and will be blamed, both in the islands and in this country, for telling only half the truth. He should have added: “We made them an effective poorhouse. We bought them without their consent. We then destroyed virtually their only means of livelihood—the rum industry and shipping industry—by forcing prohibition on them without their consent. We then subjected them to naval rule. So, naturally, they now are an effective poorhouse.’’ In the name of justice and in the name of selfgovernment, why doesn’t President Hoover insist that congress remove the prohibition load from their backs and let them make a living again? Before .he \clstead act the Virgin islands used to give us a good rum for our money. The prince of Wales, it is said, never sits out a dance. My, my, but he has lots to learn. A political machine, according to the office sage, seems to run best on banana oil.

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A RECENT article from Washington tells that * President Hoover is the hardest worker who ever sat in the presidential chair and it says he can stop in the midst of dictation to a stenographer, answer a phone call, then resume the dictation where he left it. a a u This presents a quality which is the key to success and we should say the chief reason why some men, apparently no brighter than their fellows, are far more successful, and this quality is the gift of concentration. It is a ticket which entitles one to travel far. a a a '"I"HERE used to be a man of marvelous concentra--I- tion in Washington named Ainsworth R. Spofford, the librarian of congress. He read more books than any other man who ever lived and he remembered them. Once upon a time we saw him reading a book in a Washington street car and such was his concentration he read many times as rapidlv as the average man. ana His ejes seemed to march down the page and as he turned one after another, he seemed to be glancing casually at the contents, but he wasn’t doing any such thing. He got i all, and he salted it down. non ■JIAANY instances have been related, showing his a X memory to have been almost miraculous. For instance, one day there was a hot debate in the house of representatives when Thomas B. Reed was Speaker. ana The representative who was speaking addressed himself to a Question of parliamentary law and he cited a decision of the British house of commons, made over a century’ before. This worried Reed and he called a messenger and sent him, hurrying out of the house, to the congressional library. a a a IN a few* minutes the messenger returned, carrying an old sheep skin volume and Reed opened it to a page which had been marked. He glanced at it and then a broad smile spread over his face, for he was master of the situation. man He said: “The gentleman's citation of the decision in the British house of commons over a century ago would be compelling had the house of commons not reversed that decision the following year,” and then Reed read the last decision. man Reed was hailed as a marvel, but he promptly said: "The credit is not mine. It belongs to SpofTord. He knew of the later decision and jie was able to find it for me without delay.”

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M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Most Startling Aspect of the Depression Is That So Few Saw It Coming. YORK, April 25—A man ; walking along the road doesn’t have to worry about what’s ahead. He has ample time to adjust himself to any change, no mat-! ter how unexpected. Even if he runs smash into an • obstruction while he is looking somewhere else, the collision will not be serious. It is different with a man driving an automobile at sixty or even thirty miles an hour. He must keep j his eyes open. A sharp curve, end of the pavement, or even a nail j may mean ruin That's typical of life. We never needed to look ahead with such fieriness as we do today. The guessing, speculating, and prophesying one hears on every hand rep- j resents more than childish efforts ! to satisfy idle curiosity. Civilization is traveling fast in high-powered vehicles. Its very! safety depends on the ability of those at the wheel to foresee and forestall accidents. ana Mystery Grows THE expansion of horizons has; more than matched the accumulation of human knowledge. Instead of clarifying the firmament, telescopes only have made it more of a mystery. Speaking acquaintance with the atom leaves us no nearer infinity. in spite cf all the hair-splitting and roving through space, the rim of things seems as far away as ever, if not a little farther. This is true not only of the cosmos, even the world, but of those ; problems which surround each individual life. It is harder for the young man. or young woman, to decide on a career, yet an early decision and a plan of carrying it out is more essential to success. Looking ahead has become the all-important thing, not only for responsible leaders, but for everybody. That’s why we have life insurance, why we hear so much about cycles and seasonal demands, and why half the news centers around what is going to happen. nan Caught Off Guard MOST of our present day troubles are rooted in the failure to realize what was just around the ■ corner. Not only the outbreak, but the end, of the World war caught us completely off guard. So did the prosperity which immediately followed, as well as other changes and innovations.

We should have known that consumption in certain lines was steamed up beyond all reason five years ago, tha; our foreign trade was disproportionate to the buying power of an impoverished world, that our urban population was increasing too fast for social and economic health, and that there was little but wind or u r ater back of certain mushroom enterprises. The most startling aspect of the depression in which we find ourselves is that so few saw it coming, and could not believe that it was the genuine article, even after it arrived. Asa matter of record, there probably never was a twenty-year period in all human history when so many big things occurred that so few people foresaw, or understood, as the last twenty years. A review of what has happened since 1911, not only with regard to empires and mass movements, but with regard to activities of common, everyday life, leaves one staggered at the difference between what we poor humans expected and what we got. Still a World of Dreams IT is a popular notion that our inability to look ahead is due to the effect of scientific progress; that we suddenly have come into a new world; and that human nature itself has been uprooted. The cry on every hand is that we must make over our ideas to fit a machine age. Which, I think, is the chief source of difficulty. We are paying too much attention to machines and not enough to men. Notwithstanding all the concrete and steel, this still is a world of dreams and washes. The great convulsions through which it passed may have been a little more severe because of the engines and instruments produced by science, but they originated in forces of a more intangible character. No one can ignore those forces and guess what’s ahead, with any degree of accuracy.

Questions and Answers

What is the definition of eternity? Infinite duration or infinite existence; independent of time; having neither beginning nor end, past nor future. Os what are locomotive wheels made? Chilled iron or steeL When did Villa’s raid on Columbus, N. >l., occur? March 9, 1918. Is it possible for a human body to petrify if preserved as a mummy? Y’es. How many 2-cent stamps are used in the United States |n a year? In the last fiscal year 12,554,686.690 2-cent stamps were used. What is Farina’s, who plays in the "Our Gang” comedies, real name? Allen Clayton Hoskins. What kind es a government has Hungary? Who is the ruling sovereign? Hungary Is a monarchy, with a vacant throne, the functions of the monarch being exercised by a regent. The present regent is Admiral Nicholas von Horthy de Nagvbanya. Who is the author of the saying “A fool and his money soon part?” Tusser in “Good Husbandry,” said “A fool and his money be soon at debate.” George Buchanan, tutor to James VI of Scotland said “A fool and his money are soon parted,” to a courtier, after winning a bet to which could make the coarser verse.

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Expectant Mother Must Watch Diet

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. THE building materials for the prospective child can be had through the body of the mother. Therefore, the mother must provide in her diet the food substances necessary to build the child, and at the same time to maintain her own body in a fair state of health. If the growing child does not secure the nutrition that it needs through the food taken by the mother, it will take these materials from the body of the mother. Thus it is that the women who are undergoing the process of childbirth sometimes are undernourished. For this reason also the old epigram, “For every child a tooth!” If the mother eats properly, she is not likely to have trouble with her teeth nor is she likely herself to become undernourished. The proper diet, contains proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral salts and vitamins. During the period when a woman is expected to undergo childbirth, she needs extra amounts of minerals and vitamins. As has been emphasized repeatedly in these columns, the foods

IT SEEMS TO ME

MARTY M’CUE was quite a lightweight. Even before he I entered politics. And so I was disturbed to learn that he was threatening to call me a liar to my face and that X was supposed to react ; with fury. The circumstances were all wrong. : It was a beautiful Sabbath on the | Connecticut farm, and I just had i completed two landscapes and j caught eight bullheads, i I was at peace with the world | and had begun to think, “Why not drop the subject of corruption for a while and write about spring in the country?” I For instance, I had in mind a 1 column about the first plunge in j Hale lake and the snake which eni ticed me in. Watching him paddle i past the big rocks, I decided that if he could stand the chill water so ; could I, and I jumped in just bei hind him. tt a tt Ladies of Charity BUT then somebody shouted from the house that a newspaper i man from the Herald Tribune wanted to see me. It was my notion that he had come to look over the spring crop of early Brouns. But instead he greeted me with, “Marty McCue called you a malicious liar at the communion breakfast of the Ladies of Charity for saying Tammany takes from the rich to give to the poor.” “And,” he added provocatively, “all the Ladies of Charity applauded wildly. That put me at a disadvantage, for I had missed church and failed to put myself into an adequate spirit of forgiveness and loving kindness. I looked over Mr. McCue’s remarks and said: “I don’t see any point in answering.” “Don’t, be like that,” said the gentleman from the Herald Tribune. And then he added, with subtle flattery: “You’re a newspaper man yourself. You've got to hiake a statement.” Naturally that moved me. I’ve written thousands of pieces for the paper, but this was my first opportunity to “make a statement.” Even after years of experience it is exciting to have your name in the paper. Mine has been' in, but always with that telltale “by” in front of it to indicate that I put it there myself. a a a A Statement However, i was puzzled as to how a statement would begin. "My attention has been called,” I rejected. It seems to me that has been used before. It was additionally difficult to make an answer, because Mr. McCue was charging me with an accusation which was not mine. Apparently he spells out only a few words in any article, and, in addition, he doesn’t retain so very well. Tammany, like other political ma-

Another False Alarm!

containing these substances to best advantage are milk, whole grain cereals, leafy green vegetables, eggs and fruit. If the prospective mother will make certain that her diet contains at least two leafy green vegetables every day and a quart of milk, she will be quite certain of having a sufficient amounf of calcium to build bones and to maintain teeth. It is not necessary that the quart of milk be taken as whole milk. It can be used in combination with cereals, soups, custards, puddings or in the form of buttermilk, cottage cheese or as milk that is powdered or evaporated. The whole grains are especially valuable because of their mineral and vitamin content, and the leafy green vegetables contain salts and most of the vitamins (except vitamin D). To provide adequate amounts of vitamin D, the mother probably should take codliver oil or viostercl. In most places in this country she will not get sufficient sunlight under ordffiary living conditions, and it will be necessary to get the vitamin D through the substances that have been mentioned. If her diet seems to be deficient

chines, both Democratic and Republican, lives because of the favors which it can give to big business. Here, as elsewhere, the clubs of the cops fall on the heads of strikers and never on the heads of strike breakers. You will not hear of anybody in a Park avenue apartment being framed. Some of the largest real estate operators in the city are friendly to the mayor in spite of the talk of building scandals. Things always can be arranged for the big fellows. a st u Job Efficiency MACHINES, both local and national, always are molded for the advaiitage of the well-to-do. The attitude of President Hoover and Mayor Walker toward unemployment is strikingly similar. , Indeed, the President is so passionate about his great god, Efficiency, that he even points with pride when he finds that under his administration an entire community has been turned into an efficient poor house. Marty McCue, Claude Bowers, Annie Matthews and other fervent defenders of the Walker administration. entirely miss the point raised by its most enthusiastic critics. When you mention unemployment

BALFOUR’S DECLARATION April 25 ON April 25, 1917, Arthur J. Balfour, foreign minister and former premier of England, made his first important official declaration at Washington. He had come to this country as head of a British commission to convey his government’s greetings on the occasion of our entrance into the war. In his talk to newspaper correspondents, in which he stated that the entente powers did not seek a formal alliance with the United States, Balfour said in part: “I am told that there are some doubting critics who seem to think that the object of the mission . . . to this country is to inveigle the United States out of its traditional policy, and to entangle it in formal alliances with European powers. I can not imagine any rumor with ! less foundation. Our confidence in the assistance which we are going to get from this community is not based upon such shallow considerations as those which arise out of formal treaties. “No treaty could increase the undoubted confidence with which we look to the United States, which, having come into the war, is going to see the war through.”

in any of the other vitamins because she is unable to take the foods that have been mentioned, the physician may be able to prescribe concentrates of vitamin A and of vitamin B, which are now available. Vitamin C is best had in fresh fruits, particularly citrus fruits. The prospective mother does not need any extra salt. What she gets through usual seasoning of food is probably sufficient. It is important, of course, that the food taken in be digested and assimilated properly. It is not necessary to eat any food that upsets the digestion or that causes a feeling of nausea. The essential substances are to be found in a wide variety of foods and a choice should be made among those that seem to meet the conditions best. Because there is a tendency to putting on weight, due to the lack of exercise, overeating should be avoided. The average woman should not gain more than twenty pounds during the entire period. There is no evidence that smoking in moderation is harmful to the mother or to the child. Excessive use of alcohol or tobacco may be harmful to both.

(deala and opinion* expressed in thi* 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.

they shake their heads in naive but sincere bewilderment. “Jimmy didn’t cause unemployment.” they say. and that seems to them sufficient answer. Not one of them ever has imagined a government with a concern for the friendless and the disinherited. It satifies us if a waif can pass three nights in a month at the municipal lodging house. That was the clearly enunciated rule when I was there last October. And if you came from out of town you could get one night's shelter out of thirty. Some of the months have thirty-one days. “But this doesn’t touch me,” says the average citizen, forgetting that from cocktail through fillet of sole and down to the cream in his coffee he pays a price because racketeeers must live. And if all these things are way beyond the means, he is not missed. They get him on a more important beverage, and he chips in his mite for graft in milk. Why, bless your muddled head, Marty McCue, I never thought * or said that Tammany Hall takes from the rich to give to the poor. (Cooyrisjht. 1931. bv The Times) What was the largest number of troops carried across the Atlantic in any one transport during the World war? 12,107, on the Leviathan. Is it true that the stones called Tiger’s eye and cat’s eyes are really petrified eyes of animals? No. These are gems so named because of the resemblance.

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.APRIL 25, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVII) DIETZ—

A Nation's Mineral. Reserves May Prove More Important Thun Its Agnculture in the Future. THE way in which the Machin# Age is increasing the consumption of mineral supplies is an Important fact in world history. It means that in large part the dominant role which agriculture played in the past may be assumed by mining in the future. A nation’s mineral reserves may prove more important than its agricultural resources. Some interesting facts about the increased demand for minerals are pointed out by Professor C. K. Leith of the University of Wisconsin in “World Minerals and World Politics.’’ (Whittlesey House). He tells: That the world output of pig iron, copper, and mineral fuels has increased a hundred-fold in the last 100 years. That more mineral resources have been mined and consumed in the last 100 years than in all previous history. That the United States has mined and consumed more mineral resources in the last twenty years than in Its previous history. That the world production of certain essential minerals is doubling every ten years. That the gold production of the last twenty years is greater than that of the previous 400 ana Great Pyramids THE building of the Great Pyramid was one of the great feats of antiquity. It took many decades to assemble its huge bulk. Professor Leith tells us that a certain mine in the Lake Superior region yields a bulk of iron ore every two weeks equal in volume to th® Great Pyramid. Minerals now constitute about two-thirds of the railway tonnage of the United States and about a quarter of all ocean-borne traffic, he adds. Professor Leith looks forward to a continued increase, for many years to come at any rate, in the demand for minerals. He sees certain influences, however, which will tend to retard th® demand for raw materials to a certain extent. One is the development of better methods for reclaiming “scrap." Another is the development of new alloys which will result in stronger materials, thus decreasing the amount needed for specific purposes. A third is the development of more efficient methods of working ores, thus decreasing the waste. At present, the tendency is to exploit the regions where the greatest concentrations of ore are to be found. Economies of production for other regions to compete very well with them. Os course, this is the sort of situation which may be changed in the future. Iron ore is a good example of the present situation. Deposits are to be found in almost every nation on the globe. Yet three-fourths of the world's supply is drawn from a few sources, the Lake Superior region and Alabama, northeastern Francs and Luxemburg, and certain districts in England, Sweden and northern Spain.

Steel Production JUST as the production of iron ore is largely restricted to certain favorable regions, so the manufacture of steel similarly is concentrated in regions where coal supplies are available and markets are not too distant. Ninety per cent of the w’orld’s steel-making is concentrated in three regions, Professor Leith says. They are the United States, for the most part the cities along the lower Great Lakes; northeastern England, and the Ruhr, northeastern France, and adjacent territories. Professor Leith holds to the opinion that it never will be possible for any other part of the world to compete with these three region* in the production of steel. He not only believes that no other region has as favorable an environment, but he believes that even if favorable conditions were found, it would be impossible to overcome the start which these three regions already have. How favorable the United States* position is with regard to minerals can be gleaned from these statistics: Eastern Pennsylvania produces 95 per cent of the world's supply of anthracite coal. The United States possesses about one-half of the world’s estimated coal reserves. In the last five years, the United States has produced 69 per cent of the world’s supply of petroleum. The United States produces about 55 per cent of the world’s annua! supply of copper. Daily Thought For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.— Romans 2: 13. And how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven?—Shakespeare.