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Beating the Bullrushes Large attendance at political gatherings of both parties so far in advance of any primary, convention or election indicates that the people are thinking in terms of government. Candidates for office are building their fences, casting about for friends, pulling wires more or less openly. Unfortunately the people who are so eagerly looking for relief hear but little of the problems they would like to have solved. They hear much of parties, little of policies. Strange as it may be, it is not considered “good politics” to be positive about anything. It is just because candidates for office have refrained from tackling the real problems of government that the present deplorable situation of agricultural depression and industrial stagnation exists. The jobless worker and the bankrupt farmer are beating the bullrushes for a Moses. They will recognize him when he begins to talk about the oppression of the utilities and their greeds and grafts and pillages. They will recognize him when he begins to demand jobs for the workless as a means of protecting the institution of free government and of democracy itself. They will recognize him when he dares to discuss a problem that strikes near home and is not at least three thousand miles away. What a travesty that Senator Watson proposes to ride back to office on antagonism to a world court when people are being fed by charity at home. Nor is Watson alone in his tactics. The state is listening for a real message from a man with backbone enough to invite hostility of the powerful and brave enough to challenge the causes of misery and want. Clearing the Calendar Through the routine of tenure of office, Judge Clarence Martin is now the chief justice of the supreme court. This event may be important and of special significance to those who believe that the constitutional guarantee of speedy justice for all citizens is something more than a phrase in a book. Judge Martin has shown exceptional courage in his attitude on this matter and in the past the other judges have been more than uncomfortable when he read the record of cases decided during the year for the enlightenment of the legal profession. There are still cases upon that docket in which long delay has aroused suspicion that political expediency rather than the difficulty of the legal question is involved was the cause of delay. One of ihese cases is that of D. C. Stephenson, who has spent many years in the penitentiary, while his appeal to the highest court remained upon the docket. What happens to Stephenson may or may not be of importance. But the state of Indiana can not afford to rest under the suspicion that its courts refuse to dec id? any case. Now that Judge Martin is at the helm, perhap not only this case but others, both civil and criminal, which have been pending, will receive attention. Inflation Then—Depression Now Let's go into retrospect about this wage business. Drop back fourteen years. Then things were moving the other way. Fourteen years takes us to 1917. From the start to the finish of 1917, the cost of living rose 27 per cent. Did wages rise in proportion? They did not. Then in 1918 another 25 per cent was added. In 1919, still another 25, and 18 more in 1920—a total in four years of 95 per cent. Wages finally did climb during that period, but they lagged way behind prices. They always were well down the ladder. For a year and a half now, things have been moving in the opposite direction. Today there is much talk about deflating wages in ratio to the deflation of living costs. If those now promoting that deflation idea had been as energetic back in 1917 to 1920 in promoting a raise that would have kept step with the cost of living, there would be some merit of consistency in their argument—although we can not agree with the mere cost of living theory as the be-all and end-all of the workingman's opportunity. We think he is entitled to what it costs to exist plus a liberal margin for things beyond food, heat, light, and shelter. But, anyway, we could grant consistency to the cost-of-living advocate if he had demonstrated the same concern in behalf of upward wages when costs were rising as he does today about decreased wages when costs are falling. Asa matter of fact, labor today—that part of it which still is employed at no reduced scale—merely is petting a “break'’ that constitutes a belated offset to the break he didn't get in the years of the big boom. And we all are entitled to our breaks in this lifesaid breaks being, generally speaking, few enough. Getting wages up was a long, hard job. It’s not so difficult to fall as to climb. Gravity takes care of that. If, therefore, labor should cave in after a year and a half of depression—a depression, by the way, for which industrial management is responsible as distinct from the rank and file of workingmen—and say, “All right, we’ll deflate along with dividends.” it would be the same long, hard, lagging row to hoe when things started back up. "That's the reason why labor today is justified in resisting the tendency to deflate pay during a season of depression, which after all, bad as it has been, is only one and one-half years old. The memory of the four-year rise still is too vivid. And labor that still is employed feels it's entitled to its “break.” Legislation Could Help President Hoover said he will not call a special session of ngress because we can not "legislate” ourselves out of the depression. When the President said that, he apparently forgot about the tariff law and the prohibition law. If the President had the courage to call congress into emergency session and ask it tc modify the tariff and repeal the prohibition law, he would hejp restore preipcritj. The country is opposed lo the high tariff

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and to prohibition. With presidential leadership, congress probably ould be induced to act on that popular opposition. Tariff modification would revive our export trade, so largely destroyed by the Hawley-Smoot bill and foreign reprisals. Hoover himself is authority for the statement Liat American prosperity depends upon disposing of 10 per cent of our industrial production in export markets. Tariff modification also would increase customs receipts, now reduced. Repeal of prohibition—besides removing a chief source of crime and lawlessness—would provide jobs' and give an outlet for some of the farmers’ grain surplus. Repeal of prohibition also would help the government to wipe out its present annual deficit of approximately one billion dollars. According to the latest figures of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, the annual turnover of the liquor industry now is $2,848,000,000. The profits go to finance crime and corrupt officials. Except for income tax from a few large bootleggers, the government collects no tax from this huge industry. instead, the government pays out an increasing sum for the impossible task of enforcing an unenforceable law. If the government would repeal the prohibition law and tax the present tax-free liquor, that revenue, added to the enforcement saving, probably would more than cancel the annual billion-dollar deficit. Prohibition repeal would help balance the budget, reduce taxes, and remove a major cause of national crime and hypocrisy. And it would carry out the majority recommendations of the President’s own Wickersham commission. Think it over, Mr. President! A Dangerous Decision lhe people of the United States have lost much more than the fellowship of two worthy persons by the United States supreme court’s decision barring Professor Douglas C. Macintosh of Yale divinity school and Marie Averill Bland, war nurse, from citizenship. The extent of the loss will not be apparent at once. But it is already apparent that five members of the court, over the protest of the other four, have given a decision which opens the way for executive usurpation of legislative power, and which, in effect, imposes a religious test as a qualification for citizenship. Dr. Macintosh and Miss Bland refused to promise unqualifiedly to bear arms for this country in time of war. Their religion forbade. They have been barred from citizenship not by a requirement of the naturalization law, but by an interpretation written in by the department of labor, and sustained by the courts —in spite of the warning from Chief Justice Hughes that this is dangerous ground. ‘•Departmental zeal may not be allowed to outrun the authority conferred by statute,” said Hughes in his dissent, with which Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone concurred. "That the general words (of the law) have not been regarded as implying a promise to bear arms notwithstanding religious conscientious scruples, or as requiring one to promise to put temporal power above what is sincerely believed to be one's duty to God, is apparent, I think, from a consideration of their histories ... it was not the intention of congress in framing the oath to impose a religious test.” The reason and justice of these words did not impress the majority of the court. Their decision may affect far more than naturalization law's if it is applied widely. “There's one born every minute,” as Barnum's classic saying goes. And maybe that's what all this fuss about birth control is about. You don t have to go to Hollywood for screen tests, as anyone who has tried to adjust one on his window will testify. Those alien gangsters ordered deported by Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak probably feel his middle name worst. Wreckless barbers have made more clean-cut young men than tailors. Then there's the undesirable citizen who, told to leave tow r n, turned on his radio to get distance. It is no surprise to read that George Bernard Shaw is writing songs. He has put on airs before. The slump has hit Ohio hard. Look what has happened to the Cincinnati and Cleveland teams!

REASON BY 1 R LiS?DI 1 S K

WE see by the papers that the radio chains are picking out beauties to dazzle the public when television shall take their countenances into millions of homes. There's no question but it is now up to us to have our face lifted. n tt n You may think you’re up against worry with your children in this lightning age, but think of the frame of mind of the parents of these two young ladies who are planning to fly the Atlantic alone! M tt ft Another page in the sizzling epic of flaming youth was written the other day when this kid of 70 out west ended his days because a wee young thing of 60 spurned his velvet advances. n tt tt ry'WO crime experts insist that policemen should X not carry guns. These experts are unquestionably right. The police should carry tennis racquets and serve marshmallows to outlaws. man The most impressive thing about the recent chain store tax decision isj,hat Justices Hughes, Roberts, Stone, Holmes and Brandeis stood together. If they stay together, we shall see a vital change in our economic future. mam Five famous fox hounds have been imported to participate in Virginia fox hunts. . They are much handsomer and doubtless have a lot more sense than these English writers who have come here to lecture and get our money, then gone back home and make fun of us. No first-class dog would think of doing that. a a a HERE S a picture showing four men standing on the head of George Washington in this great bas relief, carved in the Black Hills, but they are nothing alongside the number of fellows Washington had on his mind during the revolution. a a a Six bandits broke in upon a poker game at Louisville and got away with 512.000. - The time has come when our bandits regard nothing whatever as sacred.

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Our Greatest Handicap Today Is That Prosperity Has Made Us Soft. YORK. May 21.—James A. Farrell, hea.d of United States Steel, whom no one will accuse of being an optimist at any rate not the kind who paints pretty pictures to fool other people, believes that we have seen the worst of this depression. But he is careful to qualify this belief. “We possess within ourselves the power to lead in w'orld trade recovery,” he says. “This power, to be effective, must be directed to the solution of our domestic situation. If w r e would aid the w’orld, our efforts must begin at home.” That is just a polite way of reminding us to quit expecting other people to restore prosperity in these United States, and accept the job as chiefly our own. n a * Made Soft by Prosperity ADMITTEDLY, the slump in trade is world wide. This country, however, is not only a part of the world, but a very important part. The idea that the world could or ought to get back on its feet without material assistance from us is absurd. To all practical intents and purposes, we are the only solvent nation. By comparison, our credit, cash reserves, and resources are stupendous. Our greatest handicap is the fact that prosperity has made us soft. u u Russia Is Hard THE real reason we fear Russia is due to the hardness which we see back of her efforts —a hardness which characterized America in the time of Washington and Jackson. Russia blinks at nothing to get things done. Though supposed to be governed by mass thinking, she holds every individual responsible for his task. The mechanic w'ho smashes a machine, whether through carelessness or intent, goes to jail. The engineer who w'recks a train is imprisoned. The soap box orator who interferes with the efficiency of a plan is fired. Here in America, where individualism is supposed to reign supreme, and personal responsibility is supposed to be the bulwark of our social institutions, we expect insurance companies and efficiency systems to protect and safeguard us. When they fail, our first thought is to rig up some sort of substitute by which we can make a corporation or the crowd take care of our blunders, laziness, or incompetence. n n Run to Wisecracks THOUGH supporting colleges and universities, we pride ourselves on the fact that the average advertisement and scenario must be written down to the 12-year-old mind. Though spending nearly two billion annually on education, we run largely to slogans and wisecracks. Though publishing nearly half the newspapers on earth, we have come to a point where comic strips and cartoons are the most widely read features. Though possessed of the greatest library system ever conceived, our book publishers are starving* # Is It a Lie? Assistant secretary of WAR DAVISON charges the reds with trying to discredit the air show by spreading the report that it cost $3,000,000. Whatever else may be said of this latest accusation, the reds must have an effective publicity bureau, since about every newspaper from Maine to California has quoted that figure. But Mr. Davison says that it is “a contemptible lie.” The air maneuvers, he explains, form a part of the regular annual army exercises, and “are not costing an additional nickel.” Not pausing to argue the question, though there is obviously a catch in it somewhere, are our officials at a loss for words, or ideas, that they appear unable to think of anything but “red” whenever criticism arises? it H H Just Yell ‘Red’ ONE wonders how our forefathers got along without “reds.” With what magic word did they alibi themselves or squelch opposition? Think of the vast amount of letter writing George Washington and Thomas Jefferson might have avoided if they only could have yelled “red” at those who found fault or disagreed with them. This is certainly a labor-saving age. About all statesmen have to do. however, is sit quietly down and holler "red” every so often. Just another example of those short cut methods in which we delight. What's the use to bother with discussion or even thinking, when you can clinch the point with one little word? Why waste time reasoning things out, when you can appeal to prejudice? If they only knew it, our politicians and professional patriots owe the "reds” an everlasting debt of gratitude. When and by what majorities did Kentucky vote for state-wide prohibition? The amendment to the state constitution of Kentucky providing for state-wide prohibition was submitted to a vote of the people at the November election, 1919, and was adopted by a majority of 10,717. "Why is New Orleans called “The Crescent City?” Because it is located in the cres- ' cent made by a bend in the Missis- ! sippi river at that place. Have there been any popes, who were not Italians? Pope Sylvester II was a Spaniard, though he was born in southern France. Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspear) was English and Adrian VI (Adrian Dedel) was a Dutchman. There were several Frenchmen. All have been Italians since 1591. What salary does the Governor of Ohio receive? SIO,OOO a year.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Choice of House Important to Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hrzela. the Health Magazine. THE national committee on utilization of wood just has made available through the United States department of commerce a pamphlet on “How to Judge a House.” From the point of view of health there are many factors concerned in judging a house that ordinarily are given little thought by the person who is purchasing a home or building one. . Too often the decision is made on the color of the paint, the size of the guest room, or the disposition of the neighbors, Far more important from the point of view of livability is the plumbing, the exposure to the atmosphere and the sun, the quality of the furnace and the ventilation. The gutter and down spouts are concerned greatly with the preven-

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npHE time just about has come for A me to leap in and support the market. Almost any morning now I purpose to stride into the broker’s office and exclaim in a loud, firm tone, “Buy me ten shares of Gold Dust at 301s!” Some wise trader once remarked that when the bull market became a first-page story it was expedient for speculators to get out. And probably the reverse is also true.

Questions and Answers

What is electrolysis? The chemical decomposition of a conducting surface caused by the flow of current through it. What proportion of homes in the United States are owned by the occupants and what proportion are rented? According to the latest census there were 20,255,555 homes in the United States of which 10,697,897 were rented and the balance owned. How many Communists votes were cast in the United Slates in the last presidential election? About 48,770. What depth did William Beebe reach off tfte Bermuda islands in June, 1930? In a steel ball with fused quartz windows he sank to a depth of 1,426 feet off Nonesuch Island, Bermuda. Who is the youngest college president in the United States? The youngest president of a large university is Robert M. Hutchins, University of Chicago. He was 32 years old in January, 1931. W T ho is the patron saint of Scotland? St. Andrew'.. From what is the name Gilbratar derived? The rock of Gibraltar was called Calpe by the Greeks, and was one of the pillars of Hercules. Later it was the landing place of the Saracen leader Tarik, and was called by him Gabel-al-Tarik, “Hill of Tarik” from which Gilbraltar was derived. W T hen did President Wilson ask congress to declare war against Ger- ' many? April 2, 1917. What was John Marshall? An American jurist, chief justic of the United States supreme court, 1801-1834. What is the population of the largest city in the world? London has an estimated populaWhat is the catalogue value of a United States 10-cent piece dated 1841? From 10 to 25 cents. Where did the expression "A cat may look at a king” originate? It is the title of a pamphlet published in London in 1652. . Why do woodpeckers peck? They are in search of food and with their powerful chisel-like beaks they clip off loose bark or dig into the decayed wood in which the eggs or larvae insects have been hidden. do little harm to trees and destroy noxious woodborers.

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tion of dampness, because wrong construction or deterioration will mean that rain wall pour into the house and down the sides rather than being conveyed to the ground or to the sewer. If the house has no cellar, some provision must be made for adequate ventilation underneath the house. The steps within and without the house should provide for sufficient gradual sloping to make unlikely the possibility of accident. The living room ought to get plenty of sunlight, but the windows need not be so light that the light will be glaring. The study and playroom for the children also should have plenty of light and good ventilation. The refrigeration, if by ice, must provide for having the ice put in from the outside and at the same time not demand too many steps from the kitchen to the icebox by the person responsible for the cooking.

Debacles in headlines generally indicate the preliminary rumblings of a better day. My rule is not precisely like that. I go by what the barber tells me. If he knows a stock which surely will rise 50 points within a week, then I begin to assume that the market has been overbought. Just now the barber is giving no tips of that kind. On the contrary, he whispers in my ear the names of banks which will close their doors before Saturday. Couldn’t Cut With Knife of so much gloom some good must come. Not even the most left wing radicals paint as gloomy a future for America and the world in general as do my Wall Street friends when the blinds are down. Not only is every stock upon the list going down to zero, as I understand it, but presently all quotations will be preceded by minus signs. And so it is more than possible that the spring of the financial world is about to begin. It will not burst upon us, but here and there a green shoot may be seen. And I hope this is true, even though I speak as a radical. If it were so that hard times sharpened, the wits of sufferers and opened their minds to new ideas, there would be some silver lining in periods of distress. It just doesn’t seem to work that way. When men are miserable they take out their energy in moaning and have very little time for thought. We learn nothing during disasters. Anew start can be made much better from somewhat higher levels. It is something like the case of survivors in a lifeboat trying to keep afloat in heavy seas. When they are in the trough there is for them no horizon. It is a waste of time to talk of blue skies to men who can see only green water. Accordingly, if the pinch grows less, there may be a chance to preach the gospel of “Do you want to go through the same sort of times again?” Dissatisfaction is not much use unless there is a chance to point and channel it. When people are sore at the -whole world every remedy which anybody suggests seems to them no more than another piece of quackery. In the long run mankind lives by slogans. This is just as true of these who follow Marx as those who bow down in awe to Mellon. Since the old slogans have gone overboard, there is little hospitality for new ones, even though they voice an entirely different point of view. tt an To Expedite New World NOT, then, for the sake of the old order, but in hopes of the acceleration of the new, I intend to plunge on Gold Dust. And if the poker game is not too punishing, I might also get me ten shares of Hudson and Manhattan. One old notion of Wall Street ought to be dead by now. In stocks, at least, anew democracy arises. Before the crash we had a sort of feudal system in which the blue chips lorded it over all the others. When anything sold up a3 high as 200, ii immediately became worthy in the eyes of investors. It

Chimneys also should be inspected for fire hazard before purchasing a house already built and standing for some time. A house with light plaster or light paper will require less artificial light than a house decorated in dark colors. ✓ Clothes closets must be sufficiently insect proof to permit control of moths. The modern home demands hot water at any time, proper drainage for carrying off household waste, water sealed traps against sewer gas, laundry tubs that are water tight, and many other refinements of plumbing. In its pamphlet on the subject, the department of commerce provides a check list so that a person inspecting a house before purchase carefully can indicate the necessary improvements and refinements and thus have some conception as to what the house will require to make it safe, healthful, and economical.

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took on the sanctity of something which was depression-proof. And there was talk of reserves and surplus and melons soon to come. Anything which cost less than $lO or S2O was arbitrarily among the cats and dogs. Even the naive folk who believed the ready promises associated with enterprises in oil and copper were not conspicuously more foolish than those who put their trust in basic issues. A man who bought something at VA and watched it decline to 75 cents is no worse off than those who thought that United States Steel was a certain bargain anywhere in the neighborhood of 200. When and if the turn comes, the disinherited among the stocks may have their chance at last. All issues seem of a mind to make the new start from scratch. (Copyrieht. 193!. by The Times)

ARRIVAL OF SURGEONS May 26 ON May 26, 1917, the first sanitary squadron of the American expeditionary corps arrived in Paris from London on its way to the front. It received a tremendous ovation. The squadron was composed of 150 physicians, surgeons and 75 nurses, who marched through the streets with the American flag flying and drums and fifes playing. They proceeded to a British camp in the suburbs of Paris, which had been placed at their disposal. On this day a German airplane raid was made on the southeast coast of England. Seventy persons were killed and 174 injured. The raid took place at 6 in the evening, while most of the victims were doing their supper shopping.

Banking in the U. S. What is a national bank? What is a state bank? What is a trust company? What is a private bank? What is a savings bank? What is a clearing house association? What is a federal reserve bank? What Is a farm loan bank? Why do banks fail? How are banks inspected? What safeguards your money in the bank? What has the federal reserve system done to making banking safer and better in the United States? Can you answer all these? If not, and you are interested in banks and banking—ar.d everybody is, of course—you will want to read our Washington bureau's latest bulletin, BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES. It will give you a condensed but clear description of the various kinds of banking institutions, their methods and purposes. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 127, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, for return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The&ndi&napolis Times. (Code No.)

Ideal* and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting: writers and are presented without rezard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editrr.

-MAY 26, 1961

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

New Uses for the *'Electric Eye ” Are Being Found Every Day. THE electric eye which science has given the world not only will do many of the things which the human eye can do, but It will do some of them better. It has an additional advantage over the human eye in that it never sleeps. The electric eye wil replace a human observer or operator in any circumstance where the function of the human is to perform a certain definite act or series of acta in response to the appearance, change, or disappearance of a light or color. It will count the number of people entering a theater, store, or subway. It will count the number of people going down a street. It will operate a traffic signal. It will turn on a lighthouse when the sun sets or when a fog develops. It will sort cigars according to tin shades of the wrappers. It will ring a fire alarm. Those are just a few of the things which it will do. New uses for the electric eye ar* being found every day. It is perhap* best known to the public as the central device of the television apparatus. Its technical name, of course, is the photo-electric cell. , nun Looks Like Radio Tube THE photo-electric cell looks something like a large radio amplifying tube. It is a glass bulb with a thin metallic coating on the interior of the glass. There is a small electrode, or ’ plate,” at the center of the bulb. The coating on the bulb usually is potassium or sodium. The bulb is not completely coated, a small round “window” being left free of the film. The principle on which the photo-electric cell works is somewhat similar to that of the radio vacuum tube. Many metals are sensitive to light, electrons being expelled from their surface when light falls upon them. This phenomenon is known as the photoelectric effect. When a light shines into the window of the photo-electric cell, it causes electrons to be expelled from the metallic coating on the inside of the glass. These electrons strike the plate at the center of the cell, forming an electric bridge between the coating and the plate, thus permitting an electric current to flow through the cell. In other words, the photo-electric cell is an electric switch which can be closed by means of a ray of light. But it is also something more than a switch. For just as a telephone transmitter is sensitive to slight fluctuations in sound waves, so the photo-electric cell is sensitive to fluctuations in light waves. It is a “telephoto transmitter.” The telephone transmitter causes the electric current which flow3 through it to fluctuate in step with the fluctuations of the sound waves striking it. The photo-electric cell will cause the current flowing through it to fluctuate in step with the fluctuations in the light waves striking it. n n n Many Wonders MANY ingenious devices are now constructed with the aid of the photo-electric cell. Each device gives promise of the new machine age which electrical engineers are helping to usher in, which machines do the work with only casual human supervision to see that they are in order. In cigar factories, for example, cigars are made to pass along a belt. A light Is reflected from the cigars into the photo-electric cell. The amount of light reflected depends upon the shade of the cigar. Consequently the mechanism can be adjusted so that all cigars darker than a certain shade are allowed to remain on the belt from which they fall into a certain box at the end of the belt. Cigars lighter than this critical shade, however, throw enough light into the photo-electric cell to bring it into operation. When a current flows through the photo-electric cell, it closes a relay switch which in turn operates an “electric finger,” a little arm actuated by an electro-magnet. This “electric finger” pushes the lighter cigar off the belt and it falls into another box. If desired, a series of cells all adjusted to different light values can be arranged along a long belt. In this way, the cigars can be sorted into five or six, or any desired number of shades. Many lighthouses now have photo-electric cells upon their summits. These are so adjusted that when the sun rises, it turns off the light and when the sun sets, it turns the light on. Heavy clouds or fog also cause the light to go on.

Daily Thought

Seek the Lord and ye shall live. „ —Amos 5:6. Repentance is second innocence. ' -De Bonald.