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A Start or Finish? Will the probe ordered by the public service commission of the holding company for telephones formerly owned by the Goodrph interests be the or the finish of interest by that body in such organizations? The commission has for the first time in three years exercised its legal right to institute inquiries on its own initiative and without petition. It charges that there were excessive prices paid to a holding company for such services as it rendered to the individual companies. Unfortunately in the headlines of the first article of The Times, the use of the word “fraud” was made. That word is not in the formal charges. The basis of inquiry is tha size of tha bills of the holding company. Possibly the commission may find that the lack of any specific law to investigate holding companies may stop the inquiry. The last legislature yielded to the pleas of a highly organized utility lobby and defeated all such proposed legislation. The utilities said then that there was no necessity for such a law and that the commission could find out all that is necessary for public projection in the books of the individual con> panies. If that be true, the inquiry now ordered should be followed by others. The public is entitled to protection from all excessive costs for utilities. One of the inquiries which should be made is into the comparative costs of telephone service under independents and the gigantic monopoly. Is it true that this particular company served farmers for $1.25 a month while the big monopoly got $2 in adjoining counties? Is it true that this independent served city subscribers at $2.50 a month and its big competitor got as high as $5.50 for similar service? If this comparison be correct and the charge is true that the cost of holding company for the little fellow is excessive, how usurious are the charges of the big concern ? Not only telephone holding companies but other utilities might come within the scope of inquiry. The practices of electric companies in charging up high costs through the holding company device needs investigation. Will -he commission dare to go through ? Or is this gesture a fake and political ? Does the commission, having started, dare to quit before it goes into the whole question? Or was it merely after former Governor Goodrich ?

The Sooner the Better If Pennsylvania, with 10,000 miners on strike, escapes further violence and disorder in the tense weeks certain to follow, it probably will be because of Governor Pinchot’s wise decision to abolish the private coal and iron police. Existence of this private constabulary, selected and salaried by industry, bpt invested with authority from the state, inevitably has made trouble in labor disputes. It hardly was to be expected that a coal and iron policeman would be more zealous about the welfare of the state and the civil rights of all its citizens than he was about worsting the enemies of his employer. And the coal and iron police behaved in past labor disputes as one might expect. Governor Pinchot promised, when he was a candidate for office, to remodel the coal and iron police system so that the state would select its personnel, while the industrialists whose large properties were to be protected would continue to pay its salaries. The legislature refused to approve this plan, and so Pinchot has turned to a better one. Property threatened by violence will be protected now by a state police commissioner, paid by the commonwealth. There is at least a chance that such force will be as careful of the life and rights of Pennsylvania citizens as of fences and factories. At worst, if the new force is lawless, like the coal and iron police, the state will be responsible. The New Public Domain Upward of 100,000,000 acres of former virgin forest and farm land in the United States have come limping back into public ownership in the last few years as the result of tax delinquencies, due to deforestation, poor farm practices and agricultural depression. Here is anew public domain, already more than one-half as large as the great federal public domain of ths west, bringing with it new burdens to counties and states and causing apprehension to statesmen md conservationists. Far more alarming than the immediate losses in taxable property are the losses in spiritual values following the impoverishment of whole countrysides, rhe dispossession of thousands of once-happy farmer folk, the abandonment of rural schools, the steady trek of country people from the land they loved to overcrowded cities. Toward this rather tragic situation the states generally are apathetic. An exception is New York, where Governor Roosevelt has begun an intelligent program to put the idle lands to work and halt the processs of making more acres idle. New York’s “ten-year plan” now is well under way. It contemplates, first, a survey of every acre of farm land in the state, to determine its best economic utility; next, the planting to forests of idle and submarginal “farms,” and, finally, creation of a new class of New Yorkers who are neither rural nor urban, 3Ut both. This is to be brought about by encouraging small factories to locate in the country to give winter work to farmers’ families and country life to factory workers. The forestation program starts this fall with a $20,000,000 bond issue to replant 1,000,000 acres by 1944. Governor Roosevelt says the costs of the program, to be borne partly by the counties, will be rammed in savings from road, school and futility

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service and in values added by changing profitless farms into profitable forests. New York’s example should be an Inspiration to other states to tackle their own problems of land utilization before neglect, erosion, and other demoralizing factors make it too late. It should spur also the federal government, whose national reforestation “program” calls for spending less than $5,000,000 by 1944, or one-fourth that of the Empire state. Federal leadership in this vital American movement has been strangely lacking. Patronage Judges The latest Wickershan report laments the patronage evil in appointments of federal district attorneys. How about the worse menace of patronage dictation in the making of federal judges? A handy example is that of San Francisco’s federal judge. Harold Louderback, nominated by Senator Sam Shortrldge and appointed by Coolidge over vigorous protests from Senator Hiram Johnson and other progressives. As Superior Judge Louderback was in the habit of naming his own bailiff to fat receiverships in bankruptcy cases. When elevated to a life position on the federal bench he transferred his favors to those who had helped elevate him, it is charged. He named Senator Shortridge’s son to a receivership in a defunct insurance firm. The state insurance commissioner,' E. Forrest Mitchell, objected, on the ground that if the receivership were administered by his office the company’s creditors would be saved a large sum. Judge Louderback fought back and issued an injunction to keep young Shortridge on the job. The United States circuit court not only ruled against Louderback, but called his conduct “improper.” The United States supreme court upheld the lower court. The Louderback example is said to be all too typical in many districts of the way receiverships are doled out In reward for political favors. This calls for a thorough study by those anxious to elevate the standards of the federal bench. Presidents should be sedulous in examining the fitness of the judges they appoint—a duty Hoover neglected in the cases of Parker, Watson and Hopkins. Senators who seek to use the courts as pay-off stations in settling political debts should be dealt with by the voters.

On the Other Foot The unfortunate killing of two Mexican students by an Oklahoma deputy sheriff throws into lurid contrast the American attitude toward such events when a foreigner in this country is the victim and when an American abroad is the victim. When a foreigner is the victim, we refuse to get excited—even though he is a relative to the president. But when an American is the victim in, say, Nicaragua or Haiti or Mexico, there is immediate talk of intervention or war to avenge the wrong. Recently a Latin-American diplomat in his legation in Washington was almost killed by American liquor thieves. That event was considered so unimportant that most Americans probably do* not even know it occurred. How different would have been the tale if a United States legation in Central America had been robbed and the United States minister brutally assaulted! The same applies to Mexico. It is a lawless country, needing the pacification of its northern neighbor, according to the argument which our interventionists drag out at every provocation. And the proof cited of the lawlessness of Mexico and its unfitness to govern itself is precisely the isolated cases in which Americans have been killed In Mexico. All of that is, of course, absurd. And this Oklahoma experience and the recent Washington episode should open the eyes of many who hitherto have not seen that absurdity. The truth is that neither the people as a whole nor the government is in any way responsible for these unfortunate tilings that happen in the best of countries. Therefore, they should not be allowed to cast the slightest shadow or the friendly relations of the two countries involved. The reason a San Francisco school installed a miniature golf course is to teach children how to count. If the tots take missed putts to heart, they’ll probably learn how to swear first.

REASON "ST

NOW that the supreme court has refused to review the case of ex-Secretary Fall, a lot of politicians are hoping to have the trial court suspend the sentenAs and if this is done they should drape the courthouse in mourning and put a monkey in the place of the Goddess of Justice. a tt a Just because this convicted ex-cabinet officer has fought this case for eight long years these politicians would reward his defiance with mercy. To hand him his liberty would plunre our already discredited criminal procedure into j&epest obloquy. a a a Had Fall come into court eight or nine years ago and entered a plea of guilty and taken his medicine, there might have been some justification for taking off his stripes after a term of years, but for the impudent defendant who has played horse in every court for eight years there should be no delay in the administration of the sentence. a a a FALL gets one year for taking a bribe to divert the oil lands belonging to the nation he had taken an oath to serve, this being just about one-half the sentence usually given a chicken thief, when, if there were any justice in it, he would serve the rest of his days behind the bars. a a a There is a certain thrill about some forms of stealing, but there is none whatever about the stealing of the politician who is honored by his fellow men and then enters public office to dishonor it. Such a wretch is just about the lowest form of animal life. a a a MANY years ago we used to join our neighborhood comrades and climb into the haymow and read the life of Jesse James and we still recall the strange fascination exerted by his audacity in holding up single-handed the midnight express and going through the express car’s golden contents. a a a But there’s no fascination whatever about the crook who gets a public office, then sinks to the snaky level of taking money from a sneak who wishes to make a crooked contract to rob the country which protects his life and property. a a a After reading the lives of Captain Kidd, Frank and Jesse James, the Dalton gang and others who took their lives in their hands to rob, we feel a distinct disgust on reading of Fall’s connection with the oil cases. Yes, the ex-secretary suffers frh a comparison •yen with Capone.

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It Would Be Possible to Educate a Child in All the Fundamentals With Newspapers. New YORK, June 10.—Foreign trade continues to slump. The volume in April was nearly $45,000,000 less than that in March. Worse still, it was only about two-thirds that of April one year ago. How much a part foreign trade plays In our prosperity continues to be a matter of dispute, especially among politicians, but It looks as though we would get some convincing proofs before long. There are people who think that a. country can live by itself, and they are not all in America. Elevating the tariff has become the fashion. Whether we started it, we no longer can claim first place. What some other governments are doing makes the SmootHawley bill look like 30 cents. a a a Tough on Publishers IF Premier Bennet of Canada authorizes the tariff on perodicals recently enacted, some American publishers are going to discover what “protection” means when worked the other way. That tariff provides a duty of 15 cents a pound on periodicals. It has been calculated by some sharp that the Saturday Evening Post, which sells for 5 cents in this country, would have to. bring 50 cents in Canada. Premier Bennett can reduce, or eliminate the tariff on such magazines as are found to be of religious, educational or scientific value. Publishers who have built up a large Canadian circulation are hopeful that their output will pass muster on one or another of the three heads. a a a Newspapers Improve SPEAKING of the publication business, the New York Trust Company calls attention to the fact that United States newspapers have a daily circulation of 40,000,000, which represents an increase of 36 per cent during the last ten years. Contrary to what some people think, newspapers have improved in quality as well as quantity. Merely as a suggestion of how well newspapers are doing their job, it would be possible to educate a child in all the fundamentals without using anything else. The trouble with newspapers is that people don’t read them with any degree of thoroughness. Incidentally, that’s the trouble with books. Whether we are suffering from an overdose of printed matter, or whether we are finding it easier to get information in other ways, we are making very poor use of the reading material at hand. This w’as illustrated vividly by an episode which occurred in Boston Monday night, when an automobile occupied by two young men arrested for driving while drunk, was found to contain several bundles of prohibition pamphlets.

The Virtues of Alcohol SPEAKING of prohibition, the twelfth congress of the “International League” of its adversaries is about to open in Paris, with fourteen countries represented, and with savants from about one-quarter of the globe extolling the virtues of alcohol from a nutritive, economic and ethical standpoint. As might be expected, Germans will elucidate the beneficent effects of beer, while Frenchmen will do as much for wine. Though no advocate has been named to defend the American cocktail, its virtues undoubtedly will find ample demonstration in use, sincp it has become a worldwide institution, in spite of beer, wine or the eighteenth amendment, as is testified by no less an authority than Signor Bacardi, who continues to distill the rum that has made his family famous for four centuries. What We Like Counts SIGNOR BACARDI, now on a visit to New York, is not so disturbed over prohibition as by the advent of electric drink mixers. Whether wet or dry, he thinks a country has gone to the dogs when it empldys such contraptions. Os more serious importance, he says that, in spite of prohibition and hard times, his business continues good. Cuban sugar mills may shut down, the plantations may grow up in weeds, and thousands of people be without work, but the Bacardi factory at Santiago goes right on turning out its usual 25,000 gallons a day. x That is typical of human nature. Business which depends on appetite, entertainment and fashion always was, and always will be, the last to feel the pinch of hard times. It isn’t what we need, but what we like, that counts for most. The great problem of education is to teach people what they should like.

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Why is it colder at high altitudes than on the surface of the earth? Because the earth is heated by the sun’s rays which penetrate our bejt of atmosphere and strike the earth, just as they do the glass roof of a hothouse. The atmosphere acts as a blanket to retain the heat generated by the rays of the sun striking the earth’s surface. The air is much thicker and heavier near the earth’s surface than at high altitudes; consequently, at high altitudes where the air is thinner, tjie heat is quickly dissipated into space and it is much colder. Near the earth’s surface the air blanket keeps the heat longer. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? All life on the globe today is presumed to be derived from singlecelled animalculae. It is evident, therefore, that all life is derived from cells or eggs. The birds, among other forms, go back to earlier or simpler forms. In this sense, therefore, the egg came first. What are the chief agricultural products of Egypt? Cotton, wheat and com. By what name is Constantinople in Turkey now known? Istanbul.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Modern Medical Education Is Costly

This is the last of two articles by Dr. Fishbcin on the cost of hospital and medical care. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hysreia, the Health Magazine. THE progress of scientific medicine is, no doubt, chiefly responsible for the increase in the cost of medical education, the increase in the cost of medical care, the rise of specialization, and the tremendous development of hospitals. Modern medical education requires at least eight years of a young man’s life at an annual expense of $1,200 a year. Modem scientific diagnosis in a difficult case demands the use of a tremendous amount of scientific apparatus and the application of the highest medical talent. In the hospital, such apparatus is made generally available; in the hospital, also, the services of many physicians in various specialties are easily accessible to the patient. Hosiptals have increased from approximately 1,000 in 1900 to 5,000 in 1910, and to 6,719 in 1930. There are today almost 1,000,000 beds available in hospitals, and at least two-thirds of all of the physicians

IT SEEMS TO ME by he blSuT

OUR mayors continue to mess about on the plains of France. The latest exploit reported in the news concerns a trip to Vimy Ridge. According to the cable dispatch, “The mayors started exploration of the trenches. When an effort was made to hurry them away to keep up with their schedule, some of them became angry and hid in the dugouts, delaying departure of the party.” This sounds like a game with distinct possibilities. Let any one of the mayors or, if I have my way, make it Mr. Porter of Los Angeles, creep down into a dugout and hide. There he can sit as long as he pleases. No one should be much moved to shout down at him in merry tones, “Peek-a-boo! I see you!” Indeed, it is difficult to see most of these mayors at all even in strong sunlight. And certain variations could be introduced —particularly in the case of Mayor Porter. Let him on the next trip find himself the deepest hole available, clamber down and then pull the hole in after him. a a a Strange Resolution SPEAKING of prohibition and its enforcement, the headline writers are having a holiday over the fact that a son of Senator Fess was arrested and fined $lO for disorderly conduct. To me the case Is more than a little mysterious; not, you understand, because the son of a famous dry embarked upon a larky expedition. That has been heard of before in newspaper annals. But the circumstances of the arrest are puzzling. According to the story told by policeman Richard Broderick, he found young Fess creating a disturbance outside the door of a night resort in East Fifty-second street. So intent was the reseller on gaining admission, that he asked the policeman to help him crash the gate. The resort, according to the papers, is known as “The Surf Club.” I can not identify it among any cf the cards in my possession. It must be a place of distinctly unusual charm, or why should young Fess make such a direct drive upon hospitality? 0 0 8 There Are Others SURELY,* no man of enterprise is likely to perish of thirst in Fifty-second street at 1 a. m. If one door were closed against Mr. Fess, he had an easy alternative. He could have turned to the left or to the right. Indeed, in the midtown section where the brawl occurred it would be possible to ring practically any bell at random and ask, “Is this Tony’s?” And if the person on the inside replied with a negative, then Fess could have said, “Oh, well, I meant to say Joe's,” and walked right in. One element of the case will be deal with a little unfairly by editorial and coMimnar commentators. The relationship between, the revel-*

Something to Think About!

licensed to practice in the United States are associated with the hospitals in some manner. Os the 98,491 physicians now associated with hospitals, 45,000, or almost 50 per cent, are specialists, contrasted with some 15 per cent of specialists in 1905. Another factor has been the development of technical assistants in medical care, including dietitians, physical therapy technicians, X-ray technicians, nurses, orderlies and social service workers, so that today, in addition to the 155,000 physicians licensed to practice medicine in the United States, there are at least 2,000,000 additional workers who devote practically all their time to the care of the sick. Since labor cost is one of the highest costs in any service, these facts must be considered in connection with the cost of medical care. The development of university practice, group practice, medical centers, contract practice, industrial practice and similar changes in the nature cf medical practice, has been the response to an attempt to decrease the cost of medical care by lowering the cost of the overhead through better distributio i. In every scheme that has been

ler and one of the chief spokesmen of the Noble Experiment will arouse harsh criticism. This is less than just. The young man who fell into the toils of the law is 35. The chairman of the Republican national committee hardly can be supposed to exercise the same authority over his son which he wields in whipping insurgent congressmen into line. a * Serious Confession EACH generation of Fesses and others must make its own decision. I have no intention of pointing the finger of scorn at this leader in the Anti-Saloon League movement. Any such gesture might return to plague me. For instance, here and now I take the opportunity to confess that I am the father of a bone-dry son. I can’t be blamed for that. It is his own decision. It will be remembered that in the Heflin incident there was a lot of severe comment. Indeed, the episode brought forth one of the few wholly dignified and sane statements which Senator Heflin made. Surely there is no justice in assuming that a dry must be a hypo-

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AN ABDICATION ORDER June 10

ON June 10, 1917, French and British troops, entering Thessaly, occupied Volo and Larissa. On the following day a French force seized the isthmus of Corinth. On June 11, Charles Jonnart, formerly French governor of Algeria, and at this time named high commissioner of Greece, arrived in Athens and demanded of the royalist premier, M. Zaimis, the immediate abdication of King Constantine and the renunciation of the crown prince’s right of succession. The king was not in a position to fight: There was only one thing to do. And so, on June 12, 1917, Constantine adbicated the throne of Greece and on the next day he sailed away with his Hohenzollera wife from Hellas under escort of two French destroyers. Under Jonnart’s supervision, Alexander, Constantine’s second son, duly was proclaimed king, several notoriously pro-German Greek leaders were expelled from the country, and an accord was reached between the partisans of Venizelos and those of Zaimis. Daily Thought The counsels of the wicked are deceit,—Proverbs 12:5. We are our own aptest deceiver. —Qoethe.

developed, the chief fault is the lessening of personal relationship between the physician and the patient. It is human nature for the worker to feel his responsibility to the source of his income. It is safer for the patient if the physician feels that he is responsible primarily to the patient. Any plan that lessens the responsibility of the trained physician to the patient or that denies him the reward of individual effort of superior ability is detrimental to the welfare of the patient. It must be remembered in this connection that medical education in this country has been improved constantly, and that the medical profession of the next generation will be in general of a much higher grade than that of the present. It must be remembered also that research has shown that 90 per cent of the diseases affecting human beings can be diagnosed and treated by a general practitioner with the amount of equipment he can carry in a handbag. It is only the remaining 10 per cent of difficult and serious diseases that requires hospitalization and the co-ordinated services of numerous specialists.

Ideals and opinion* expressed in this column are those of ore 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.

crite if he happens to have a son who is not wholly non-alcoholic. In these matters it must be each one for himself. The complaint lies in the fact that there are so many others, not Fesses in any sense of the word, who find the Noble Experiment too heavy a burden upon their habits. So let us not attempt to make capital out of a trivial thing. If the Republican national chairman is to be converted to a damper point of view, it need not be done by assailing him with any incident so close to home. <Copyright. 1931. by The Times > What radio call letters are used in the United States? The call letters assigned to the United States by the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union, Berne, Switzerland, are all the three and four-letter combinations, beginning vith the letter “N,” all beginning with the letter “W” and all combinations from “KDA" to “KZZ" inclusive. Combinations beginning vith the letter “N” are reserved for the United States government stations, and most of them are assigned to the United States navy. The combinations from “WUA” to “WVZ” and from “WXA” to “WZZ" are reserved for stations of the United States army. Is there any specific rule in the game of lawn tennis making the underhand service or strokes illegal? No Who is the American minister to Liberia? Charles E. Mitchell. What is Clarence Darrow’s address? 77 West Washington street, Chicago.

Canning and Preserving From now on, throughout the summer, when fresh fruits and vegetables are plentiful, Mrs. Frugal Housewife will do her canning and preserving. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a packet of four of its comprehensive bulletins. They are: 1. Home Canning 3. jams and Conserves 2. Putting Up Catsups and Relishes 4. Jelly Making at Home 9 If you want this packet of bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. — CLIP COUPON HERE Department B-l, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of f<sur bulletins on canning, preserving and jelly making and inclose herewith 15 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name ; Street and No. f State. .. I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

JUNE 10,1931

SCIENCE BY DAMP DIETZ

Some Weather Proverbs Are to Be Trusted; Others Are Baseless. T>ROVERBS about the weather * can be divided into two classes —■those that are trustworthy and those that are not. The trick is to know which proverb to trust. Weather can often be forecast a short time ahead from the observation of clouds. This is natural, since the height, extent, and shape of clouds depends upon the temperature, the humidity, and the air currents. Asa result many weather proverbs have grown up which are based upon observation of the clouds These are fairly accurate and usually to be trusted. One of these states: “The higher the clouds, the finer the weather." It is a fact that when thin cirrus clouds are observed and these clouds do not appear to be growing any thicker, that fair weather can be expected for the next twenty-four hours. On the other hand, when the cirrus clouds grow thicker and develop into heavier types of clouds, rain may be expected within twenty-four hours. The cirrus clouds are the tirv wisps of cloud which frequently are seen very high in the sky. One form of cirrus cloud is known popularly as “mare's tails." When cirrus clouds begin to thicken, they develop into small rounded masses of clouds known as cirrocumulus clouds. A sky filled with these cloud£ is popularly known as a “mackerel sky."

The Mackerel Sk; AN old weather proverb recognizes the fact that a mackerel sky may bring rain. It says: “Mackerel scales and mares’ tail* Make lofty ships carry low sails.” The fact that large cumulus clouds, great puffy billowy clouds, precede a thunderstorm are'noted in a proverb which goes “In the morning mountains, In the evening fountains.” A fair day usually follows if a tog clears up early in the morning. But if the fog hangs on, rain will usually follow. This is implied in the proverb which says: “Mists dispersing on the plain Scatter away the clouds and rain; But when they hang on the mountain tops They’ll soon descend in copious drops.” Another weather proverb which is pretty accurate goes as follows: Evening red and morning gray, Help the traveler on his way; Evening and morning red, Bring down rain upon his head.** a u tt Color of the Sky 'T'HE significance of the color of sunrise or sunset comes from the following facts: When the sun reddens the western sky at setting, it means that there are no clouds for a long distance in the west. Since stormy weather usually sets in from the west, this indicates clear weather. The early mist of the next morning is due to the condensation of water vapor as the result of the cooling which follows a clear night, Consequently it is also a good sign. However, the opposite signs indicate clouds to the west and clea* weather to the east, This means that rainy weather probably is moving in from the west. One class of weather proverbs to beware of are those which attempt to connect weather with the moon. A good proverb to remember in this connection, says: “The moon and the weather May change together. But change in the moon Won’t change the weather. This proverb is quite correct. The moon goes through its phases regularly month after month. Weather continuously is changing from fair to stormy and back to fair. It is obvious that there will be coincidences. But such ideas as the one that, the full moon drives the clouds out of she sky have been shown to have no basis whatsoever in fact. Who conducts the radio feature. “Tony’s Scrap Book?” Anthony Wons conducts the C. B. S. feature which 1s broadcast over a network of stations each morning at 8:30. He was born at Menash, Wis., in 1891 and is married. His early life was filled with bitter experiences, but he rose above his environment and succeeded. He read a great deal and collected verses here and there to steady him along the road to his ideals. During his stay in a hospital, after the World war, these clippings comforted and inspired him. This scrap book he now reads in his broadcast. How many times has Good Friday fallen on March 31 since 1899? IVhen will it fail again on that date? It has not fahe., on March 31 since 1899, and it will fall on that date in 1961 and again in 1972. Has the “Star-Spangled Banner” been officially declared the national anthem? Yes, by act of the last congress. What is the estimated amount of reserve iron In the world? Roughly upward of 150,000.000,000 tons, about 75 per cent of which Is in the United States.