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Exported Jobs (From the Akron Tlmen-I’re**) We have at hand the 1930 Canadian Trade Index, recently released by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association. It shows that Canada has seventy industries whose export trade is in excess of a half million each. And of these, thirty-eight have an export trade in excess of $5,000,000 each. Included in the thirty ranking e>sxrt industries of Canada are automobiles, rubber tires, rubber footwear, and machinery—all four dependent upon factories which have emigrated from the United States. The automobile industry now ranks sixth among Canada’s exporters. In 1929 it shipped abroad 103,000 vehicles, having a total value in excess of $43,000,000. The exporting companies were Chrysler of Canada, Dodge Brothers, Ltd., Durant Motors of Canada, Ford Motor Company of Canada, General Motors of Canada, McLaughlin Motor Car Company, Oakland Motor Car Company of Canada, Studebaker Corporation of Canada and. Willys-Overland, Ltd. Ail of these, excepting only McLaughlin, are companies of American parentage. Since the report was issued, Nash, Reo, and Graham-Paige have gone into the Canadian held for export purposes. And in Canada for domestic purposes are Cadillac and Chevrolet. Tariffs and tariff differentials took these concerns over the border, not only to build cars in Canada for Canadians, to equip them with Canadian-built tires, and to supply Canadian labor, but to enter world trade from Canada’s vantage point. In the Canadian tire business are Canadian Goodrich, Dominion Rubber, Dunlop, Firestone of Canada, Goodyear of Canada, Gutta Percha and Rubber Ltd., Hannon Tire, Perfection and Seiberling. All except Hannon and Perfection are in the export trade. All except these two, Gutta Percha and Dunlop, are transplanted from the United States. In 1929, they built for export 3,291,904 tires, and enjoyed a dollar volume from their export market of $19,190,000. Tariffs and the possibility of empire free trade took them to Canada. Canada’s rubber shoe export business in 1929 totaled $8,589,000. Canada’s foreign trade is principally with other British empire divisions. That’s where 72 per cent of her exported automobiles go. The empire takes also. 88 per cent of her exported rubber footwear and 44 per cent of her tires. That once was our business. Canada now is “cutting in on’’ the United States trade with Latin America. In 1929, Canada sent some 16,000 automobiles to Latin America; some 500,000 tires and some $2,500,000 worth of rubber shoes. Now that’s a lot of statistics. But if you’re going to draw any conclusions at all, you’ll see that Canada’s export trade transplanted from the United States is in itself an item capable of relieving thousands of unemployed. And were you to include as well production of Canada’s domestic goods, this exportation of jobs instead of products represents the difference between present employment conditions in the rubber industry at large and relatively adequate employment. Reversing Roles It is customary for many persons to look for heat and emotion in the reactions of practical men, especially service men and legionnaires. It is equally usual to expect calm and measured judgment from scholars and publicists. Whether such cut-and-dried predictions are just or not may be debated. But certainly we have just had a striking illustration of a reversal of such roles. The Lexington post, American Legion, New York City, gave a dinner at the Astor hotel to former soldiers of the central powers who now are American citizens or being naturalized. At this dinner resolutions were passed, sharply condemning the post-war treaties and calling for a reconstruction of Europe in harmony with truth and justice.. No more statesmanlike pronouncement has been expressed by anybody anyw’here since Nov. 11, 1918. Geneva well might be deluged with reprints. In the press for the same day it was announced that the Pulitzer prize for the best book on American history for the year had been awarded to Professor Bernadotte E. Schmitt for his “Coming of the War.” This book is regarded as the most reprehensible effort yet made to saddle Germany with responsibility for the World war and to perpetuate war-time myths and hatreds. ” Almost every expert who has read Schmitt’s book vigorously has condemned its basic contentions— Swain, Langer, Fay, Lutz, Moon, Cochran, Montgelas, et al. Certainly, the Pulitzer judges could not have been entirely ignorant of the trend of expert appraisal of the book. The conclusion seems inescapable that they were guided by emotion rather than by dispassionate'consideration of the facts. Professor M. H. Cochran’s forthcoming book is devoted solely to the utter demolition of Schmitt's treatise. Goodbv Latin The plaint of the classicist, fighting now with his back to the wail, will be heard only feebly against the chorus of cheers at the abolition of “dead languages” as compulsory subjects for A. B. candidates at Yale. Yale follows Princeton in taking this step away from the cultural in education, and toward the strictly utilitarian, although in deference to the old regime a course in classical civilization is provided as the alternative to Latin and Greek. The great advantage of the change, it seems to u s, lies in the granting cf a wider choice of subjects to the undergraduate. Latin, when studied because there's no way out of it, probably makes little imprint on the average student’s mental background. And that holds good for the modern languages, too. How many alumni can use their college French or ?panish today? For most cf us, it soon grows as hazy as College Latin. That does net prove, by any means, that the grinding with irregular verbs was a total loss; it left its contribution in a firmer understanding of cur own toncue. and in a mind improved by vigorous exercise. l aw Makers Abroad Apparently it is considered clever to sneer at the foreign trips which an increasing number of congressmen are taking each summer. For seme reason, which we do not understand, these legislators seem to be expected to twiddle their thumbs in their own back yards when not busy in Washington. Upward of a half-hundred members of the seventysecond congress are off to Europe, to China and Manila, to the Caribbean, to Alaska and other lands. Whether they are on special committee assignments, on missions of their own choosing, or merely seeing

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the world with their families aboard army transports at $1.50 a day, their country should wish them well. They will see and study other civilizations and to that extent they will become world-minded. When they return to Capitol Hill they will be less apt to wave the jingo flag of the isolationists, scoff at efforts at internationalism, take the short-sighted view of provincials. They may understand that safety does not lie in the biggest navy in the world, nor economic security in higher tariff walls, embargoes, deportations. Let’s not call them junketeers or “innocents abroad.” Let’s wish that every member of congress would study world problems with which his country essentially is concerned. Let’s go farther and wish that his constituents were able to do the same. Another Budget Battle President Hoover is receiving deserved cheers for his plan to cut army expenditures. Military costs have been going up since the war and are much too high, as the President himself has said on more than one occasion. A cut is needed to prove the sincerity of our constant lip service to arms reduction. Moreover, we are facing a billion dollar annual deficit next month, .and perhaps a larger one next year. Something in the w r ay of economy must be done quickly. But that is easier said than done. Coolidge was one of the best cutters in our history, and the army beat him. When Hoover took office, he announced what he would do. But two years have gone by and the army has not lost a trench yet. Clearly the President and commander in chief will have to be long on courage if he is going to win this battle of the budget. He has not only the generals to fight, but the politicians waiting for a flank attack. When he starts to close some of those expensive and unnecessary army posts, he is gding to hear a howl from the pork-barrelers that will make the Republican campaign committee turn white. Doubtless the President knows that, and is prepared. We hope so. Only One Answer With the appeal of the thirty-three prominent authors for liberation of Tom Mooney we are in complete sympathy. There can be no answer to their indictment of California justice, except the pardon which has been delayed fourteen years. In their telegram to Governor Rolph the issue is stated squarely: “All the facts in the case as brought out in the supreme court hearings convince us that Mooney and Billings were convicted on perjured testimony and are, as Trial Judge Griffin states, innocent of the crimes with which they were charged. “We are at a loss to understand why California still imprisons men of whose innocence such clear proof has been brought out. The issue is a concern not only to Californians, but to those eager for the cause of justice throughout the country.” We are proud to print the names of the signers of this pardon appeal: Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Mary Austin, Harry Elmer Barnes, Stephen Vincent Benet, Konrad Berkovici, Heywood Broun, Howard Brubaker, Elmer Davis, Walter Prichard Eaton, George Allan England, John Erskine, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Lewis Gannett, John Palmer Gavit, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst, Inez Haynes Irwin, H. L. Mencken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Albert Bigelow Paine, Cornelia Stratton Parker, Elmer Rice, Felix Reisenberg, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vincent Starrett, Mary Heaton Vorse, Joshua Wanhope, Robinson Jeffers, Will Irwin, William Allen White. In Spain they are calling the fellows who clean up after the toreadors “bull-collectors.” Folks fond of wise-cracks take lots of pun-ishment. If the Franco-Italian naval discord ever is patched up truce would be stranger than fiction. They call him “Legs” Diamond, but the fellow seems to be on his back most of the time.

REASON

EX-SECRETARY FALL is going to ask President Hoover for a pardon, which is the most monumental impudence of modern times, and the President should turn this petition down—and without delay. 000 Fall has been found guilty of accepting a bribe to lease oil lands of the United States and he should sweat for It. To let him get away after all these years of litigation would bring upon Our already discredited system of law enforcement an added odium it hardly can bear. tt tt tt The supreme court of the United States, the most conservative body in this world, set aside the oil leases which Fall had made, declaring that those leases were shot through with fraud and corruption. When the supreme court uses such strong language you may rest assured that there is ground for it. x a tt WELL, how about the attitude of ex-Socretary Fall, who now asks a presidential pardon? Has he confessed his sin and thrown himself upon the mercy of the court, as those invoking mercy are supposed to do? Not as anybody has heard up to date. 0 0 0 On the contrary, Fall has fought this criminal charge for seven long years. He has invoked every technicality, every artifice, every device,, every delay, every single feature of courthouse horse play. 000 When every other scheme failed. Fall went into a court with medical experts and convinced the judge hat he was suffering from hob-nailed liver, ossification of the gizzard, mortification of the epiglottis, gallstones or something else. 0 0o IT has been the most notorious case of razzle dazzle In our criminal annals and no other nation in the world would have endured it. This has been the attitude of this defendant toward the country which honored him far beyond his deserts, the country before which he now stands convicted of having betrayed for money. 000 Even now there is no humility in him. The same waaen defiance marks his attitude. He makes no confession; he admits no wrong. He still is the snow-white angel who did business •vith Doheny and Sinclair. 000 For his crime he has been given only one year, the same term given the poor man who steals a chicken. Fall’s crime is the great :r because he knew better. He was a United States s r.ator and then a cabinet officer and he should pay the ptaaity.

FREDERICK LANDIS

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Speed Has Come to the Dining Table as Well as to the Street. TT takes the same kind of mechanical knowledge and expertness to pick a lock that it takes to make one. Also, and contrary to what some people believe, a chance to think things over behind the bars occasionally turns one from the wrong road to the right one. Harold Marks, ex-cracksman, serving a long term at San Quentin, Cal., just has invented a lock which authorities describe as “thiefproof.” The lock unites the key and combination principles, with words instead of numbers controlling s he latter. The key can not be Inserted until the right words show up. 000 Another Bedtime Chapter Dry CZAR WOODCOCK’S “special council” of ten college professors, who will immolate themselves on the altar of public service by conducting a “scholarly research” into the sociological effects of prohibition, without pay, does not appear to have stirred up any great degree of enthusiasm. Dr. Charles Grey Shaw of New York university thinks the council will be worth about what it is supposed to cost —nothing. Charles H. Curran, whose wet views make him a prejudiced witness, regards it as just one more chapter in the “bedtime story known as national prohibition." 0 0 0 Prohibition Ruins Cooks Alexander a. gastuad, famous chef, who will come back to take charge of the new Wal-dorf-Astoria kitchens next fall, says that prohibition has ruined the ambitions of all good chefs in this country. Their hardest job, in his opinion, is planning meals that can be washed down with water, which is something, he says, “no civilized man yet ever enjoyed. But lack of alcoholic flavor is not the only complaint which M. Gastuad has to register regarding our gastronomic customs. “A New Yorker can eat a whole banquet in exactly thirty minutes,” he declares, over which Europeans would spend a delightful two hours. 0 0 0 Food Bolting Fatal SPEED has come to the table as well as to the street. We save a lot of time that we don’t know what to do with, in both cases. Our loss in an artistic sense, though very important, probably counts for less than the unnecessary suffering we endure. A good many Americans die each year from no more mysterious cause than bolting their food. Mr. Woodcock’s special council could do worse than give that suffering some attention. 000 Take Apple Pie Straight WHATEVER else may be said of our culinary shortcomings, good old apple pie still reigns supreme, if the results of a cooking contest staged in New York this week can be trusted. Object of this contest was to determine whether the kind grandma used to make, or the more modern concoction, adulterated with eggs, nuts, cornstarch or other foreign substances, was preferable. Exponents of the mid-Victorian product won hands down. There wasn’t even a dissenting vote. If you’re abreast of the times, you’ll take your apple pie straight from now on.

St St it They Touch Everyone SUCH things as prohibition and applie pie may seem inconsequential compared with the riots in Spain, the massing of Chinese troops, or the announcement that Aristide Briand will run for the presidency of France, but the chances are that they touch the average man’s life in a much more forceful way. As old philosophers reasoned, and as science proves, we are largely the result of what we eat and drink. Not only our institutions for defectives, but our prisons as well, are full of people whose only fault was lack of the right kind of nourishment. Many of the industrial and financial difficulties under which we labor go back to a faulty system of producing and distributing food. As though the problem of production and distribution were not Enough, we constantly aggravate it by writing our prejudices into law and our patriotism into tariff. 0 0 Control Changes WHERE control of the land used to be the all-important question, it now is control of commodities —wheat, gold, oil and so on. Russia would not be regarded as a threat by any one but for her | possible ability to smash prices and i demoralize markets through state- : controlled labor. We are not half as scared of what she may do to politics as what she may do to bread. Civilization slowly is changing from a geographical to an industrial basis, with control of those raw materials which are necessary to keep it going as the true source of power. That is why we got so excited about Teapot Dome five years ago, and why the news that our navy will purchase large quantities of oil from a foreign company is given prominent space. Are there any government projects at Pt. Barrow, Alaska? The United States government has a reindeer station at Pt. Bar- ! row, Alaska, for the purpose of assisting in the maintenance of the natives. It has also established a radio station there. Point Barrow is important as the “stepping off” point for all of the scientific expeditions to that part of the Arctic. Does an American citizen have to have a passport to go to Colombia and Ecuador in Sooth America? Does he have to be vaccinated? Passports are required of American citizens to go to Colombia and Ecuador. Applicants for vises for Ecuador are required to present to the visaing officers a vaccination certificate showing that the appliI cants have been vaccinated or revaccinated against smallpox.

Nose Is Difficult Organ to ‘Revamp’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvtreia, the Health Magazine. THE nose is one of the most difficult organs of the human countenance, particularly as concerns its relationship to beauty. It is the most conspicuous feature, and any exaggeration in its size or any loss of its contour not only makes it a target for unnecessary attention, but makes its possessor the subject of a psychologic complex which leads to unhappiness. In molding the human body, nature plays strange tricks with the nose, not infrequently placing an aquiline organ of classical proportions on a piquant face, or putting a tiny, uptilted proboscis on a countenance of tremendous proportions. A nose of any shape or size may function perfectly for smelling and breathing, but still fail to give satisfaction to its possessor. Hence, surgeons who specialize in art work on the human face devote their attention largely to the possibilities of reconstruction of the nose. In a recent address before the Institute of Medicine of Chicago,

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE newspapers of New York have been having a good deal of fun with Reno, Nev., recently. Not all the comment is humorous. Occasionally an editorial writer flashes into severe disapprobation of the ways of Reno. In the Post, for instance, I find: “Nevada permits divorce on all sorts of /pretexts. It is not necessary to be opposed to divorce in order to conclude that Nevada is making it altogether too easy. “Marriage is a social contract, even if one does not regard it as a religious sacrament. It is as old as human society. Its customs have differed at different periods, and they still differ among different races. Soviet Russia has returned to the customs of uncivilized tribes by making it almost as easy for a husband to discard his wife as to abandon an old coat.” Well, let’s see. It is quite true that the legal code in New York in regard to divorce differs very much from that which prevails in Reno. In New York divorce is granted for only two causes—either infidelity or a disappearance lasting for seven years. This so-called Enoch Arden divorce comes infrequently into the courts. Indeed, it is in some cases not so much a divorce as a legal assumption that the missing person is dead. 000 Before Throwing Rocks BEFORE we throw any more rocks at Reno, it might be a good idea to look over the way in which our practically one-cause divorce law works. Chiefly, the complaint against Nevada lies in the charge that there is an underlying fraud in the easy residential requirement. On the other hand, no person at all familiar with our own practices would care to contend that the adultery divorce has encouraged frankness and truth. Here, too, divorce may be obtained on any pretext if only the appearance of infidelity is presented. Avery high percentage of all decrees granted in the Empire State represents mere trickery on the part of the litigants. Nor do I hold those who seek relief to be at fault. We live under a law which doesn’t represent the true consensus of the public And inevitably we have bootleg divorce, just as we have bootleg gin. 000 Maintaining Fiction JUDGES go through the fiction of trying to dismiss all cases in which they have reason to suspect that the plaintiff and defendant are conducting a friendly action. I can’t quite see that this state is more civilized because it demands that husbafad and wife must come

Stewing in His Own Juice

-DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

an expert in cosmetic surgery emphasized the fact that much depends on the particular point of view in the determination as to whether an operation is to be done. If the patient has a psychologic fixation on his nose, he is not likely to be satisfied with any result that may be achieved. For this reason, experts are cautious about attempting to correct slight defects, preferring to exercise their abilities on serious losses due to either accident or disease, or to serious deformities of such certainly inartistic contours as to make the relief clearly apparent. The mere fact, therefore, that the person is dissatisfied with his nose is not considered to be a sufficient indication for an operation. The presence of a noticeable hump or depression is, however, a condition which may be relieved with some satisfaction. It should be understood that any operation is a fairly serious performance. The nose is composed of skin, tissue elements, and cartilage. It is possible to transplant pieces of bone or cartilage to take care of serious depressions, but the pro-

into court in hot anger rather than with a reasonable spirit of concurrence. An acquaintance of mine and his wife decided to get a divorce a few years ago. There was no bitterness between them. But both were of a mind to break the tie. The usual nonsense of apparent cause was complied with. However, the suit was such a friendly one that even the judge caught an inkling of this quality and asked the plaintiff, in a stem voice, “Is this action collusive?” The plaintiff, as it happened, was beautiful but dumb. The word had no place in her limited vocabulary. And so she nodded eagerly and answered, “Oh, yes, judge. It’s collusive, all right.” And so he threw it out, and they had to go through the mockery of pretended infidelity all over again. U tt tt Open Gambling AGAIN, the local moralists have lifted their hands in horror at the fact that gambling is legalized in Reno. Here we have a law against it. But how does that work? You or I may go to a New York race track tomorrow afternoon and place a bet on every race._ It will net be necessary to be personally acquainted with a bookmaker. The individual intent on gambling need only arrive a little early and poke about in the dark spaces under the grand stand. There he may find a bookmaker’s runner and to him intrust an envelop containing cash. Against that deposit he may place his wagers. Os course, odds will not be dis-

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ceaure is technical and must be done under the best operative conditions. Humped noses may be too long or too short and have a drooping tip. The removal of a hump requires the use of a saw, chisel or file. Like the carpenter who cut out too much door, the remover of bones has to be exceedingly careful not to cut too much at any single operation. It is much easier to cut out more than to put back too much that has been cut away. In restoring tissue, it sometimes becomes necessary to transplant pieces of tissue from the forehead or the cheeks to make up defects in the nose. Enough has been said to indicate the complicated character of such operative procedures, but it must be emphasized that they require not only the best of surgery, but a special type of surgery. This fact has drawn into the field innumerable quacks who promise far more than they can perform or indeed that anyone can perform—this indicates primarily the mark of the surgical quack.

HEYWOOD BROUN

played. The bookmaker simply will recite them out of one corner of his mouth to the little group which surrounds him. And this is legal, for the courts have decided that it is not a crime to make a friendly personal wager. Because of the preliminary deposit of cash, the bookmaker becomes the little friend of all the world. And so we sit and pride ourselves upon our righteousness and look askance at Reno because it does publicly those very things which here are permitted only to those who are willing to whisper behind a protecting hand. fConvrisht. 1931. by The Times) When and by whom was the first piano made in this country? What is the oldest piano firm now in this country? The first pianos made in this country were made by Babcock Brothers in Boston in 1810. The first pianos made in New York were made by Robert Stoddard of London in 1820. In 1821 Dubois joined him. The firm soon became known as the Bacon Piano Company of New York. The Babcocks later worked for the Chlckering & Sons Company, which began w r ork in 1823. It is now the oldest piano company in this country. When does afternoon end and evening begin? The dictionary defines afternoon as that part of the day between neon and sunset, and evening as the close of the day and the beginning of night; in a strict sense, from sunset until dark.

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 paper.—The Editor.

_MAY 13,1931

SCIENCE -BY DAMP PIETZ

Childbirth Mortality Figures Show Shocking Conditions in the United States. .... A SUGGESTION made by Dr. Howard W. Haggard, associate professor of physiology at Yale university, deserves emphatic repetition. Speaking over the radio about Mother’s day. Dr. Haggard suggested that for every sum of money spent on flowers on Mother's day, an equal amount be given to a maternity hospital or other maternity organization. Dr. Haggard made his suggestion in view of the fact that the United States has a higher death rate for childbirth than any of the twenty other countries from which statistics are available. The giving of flowers, as Dr. Haggard phrased it, “to those who have survived childbirth” is. in his opinion, “a hypocritical gesture” in view of the nation's “reckless indifference” to the mortality figures. Beyond a doubt, flowers are given with all sincerity on Mother’s day. But beyond a doubt, Dr. Haggard is absolutely right in criticising the nation for its lack of action in the face of the appalling mortality figures. 0 Figures Shock 'T'HOSE persons who take it for A granted that the United States leads the w r orld in health matters will be shocked at the figures which Dr. Haggard quotes. Childbirth mortality figures for the nations of the world range from 2.6 per 1,000 to 6.6 per 1.000. The lowest figure on the list is shared by Denmark and Italy. The United States stands at the bottom of the list. “These figures for our country, translated into actual deaths,” Dr. Haggard says, “mean that each year in the United States 16,000 mothers die, leaving behind them their newborn babies. “As compared with Denmark and Italy, 10,000 of these mothers die unnecessarily. The means exist to prevent these deaths, but the fact that the deaths continue year in and year out signifies that the means are not made available to the mothers who need them.” A word should be said at this point to prevent any unnecessary apprehension. The maternity hospitals in the United States are as fine as any in the United States. America’s medical men are quite as competent as those of any other nation to meet the situation. The point is that adequate attention, such as cur medical men can supply, is not available to a larsa enough group of women. “In our country we have physicians specializing in obstetrics who are as skilled as any to be found elsewhere in the world,” Dr. Haggard says. a 0 0 Deaths Unnecessary TO prove his contention of the value of adequate care, Dr. Haggard cites the fact that the Masternity Center Association supplies complete education and medical care to mothers requesting it in one area of New York City. The maternity death rate among women receiving this free service is 2.2 per thousand. In other words, this association achieves a lower death rate than that of any nation. Dr. Haggard broadcasts frequent radio talks under the general title of “Devils, Drugs and Doctors.” That is the title of a book he wrote a year ago or so. Readers may recall that I recommended the book at the time of its publication. The book tells the slow growth of medical knowledge. It tells how superstitions slowly gave way to observation and experimentation. It tells of the terrible conditions which existed in cities a few hundred years ago, when hospitals were centers of infection and every city periodically was swept by epidemics and plagues. As one reads the account, he wonders how the human race ever managed to survive at all. We are proud today of our tremendous advances in medicine and Hospital technique. We have every reason to be proud. But such figures as Dr. Haggard quotes concerning the maternity death rate, makes it apparent that the battle Is not yet won. Thera still is work to do.

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PROTEST AT ODESSA May 13 ON May 13, 1917, a Jewish demonstration took place at uaessa, Russia, where some thousands gathered In front of the Rumanian consulate to protest against recent ill-treatment of Jews in Rumania. One of the delegates elected by the crowd presented to M. Grecianu, -he consul-general, a written protest against the reported acts of violence. The consul-general telegraphed tne protest to Jassy and communicated to the delegates a telegram from Jassy stating that the whole Jewish question was to be dealt with in the current session of the Rumanian parliament. Just two days prior to the protest at Odessa a deputation of Rumanian Jews called on King Ferdinand and presented him with a note begging him to take the native Jews under his protection. Accompanying the note was an appeal which the native Jews had distributed to Jassy on May 6.

Daily Thought

And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.—l Samuel 1:21. The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows; they are polluted offerings. more abhorred than spotted livers in the sacrifice.—Shakespeare. When did the income tax amendment to the Constitution go into effect? Did all the states ratify it? The sixteenth amendment giving congress the power to levy an income tax was proposed by the sixty-first congress, July 12, 1909, and ratified by the legislatures of all states except Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Ishnd. Utah and Virgniia. It went into effect Feb. 25, 1913.