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The Highway Mess Governor Leslie learns. He has finally discovered that there was something smelly In his highway department, a fact which citizens generally and the last legislature definitely knew. His outburst against the habits and methods of the salesmen of materials for the construction ol highways is a mere shot at the evils which have long existed in that department. The commission spends over twenty millions of dollars a year, and even in these boom times that is a sum of sufficient size to attract the greedy or the thrifty. The commission has absolute power in selecting the roads to be paved. That accounts for some queer routing. Politicians are able to enhance the values of farms. Hostile villages are marooned. The waste has been enormous. The discovery by the Governor that the commission has flagrantly violated the law, under an inferential indictment that It did so in order to favor one set of salesmen because the Governor links the event and the curse of salesmen in his diatribe, has been known to others, Including newspapers which have printed the fact, for many months. Later it may be discovered that the interpretation of the law by the commission in the past, has cost the people many thousands of dollars. The provision that there shall be three types of road in every advertisement for bids has given the cement interests a monopoly at times. The cost of cement roads per mile is about $5,000 less than asphalt and $12,000 less than brick. The real question is whether the cost of any of the type selected as the best is fair or extortionate. In the end, the people may some day decide to erect their own cement and asphalt plants, or brick plants If they want brick, and cut out the costly salesmanship. Perhaps the Governor may become convinced that the people ought to build their own roads of materials made in state-owned plants. Os. course, that may mean a few more resignations from the commission and perhaps anew election by the people,

Relief Funds The President’s emergency committee for employment apparently realizes now that whatever the community chests and other organizations may do in local campaigns, the suffering of the unemployed this fall and winter will not be relieved adequately without other funds We hope President Hoover, actual head of the committee, has come to the same realization. “If it develops.” said Fred Croxton, acting chairman of the President's committee, “that with local resources organized there are less-favored localities which will require outside aid, a way must be found to relieve human distress in such communities, and this, no doubt, will require assistance from more fortunate localities.” But how will these more fortunate localities give this assistance? How else than through the national pooling of funds? What funds but federal funds? Whatever interpretations were placed upon its actions, the President’s committee must be credited with sincerity In proposing this new effort to meet distress locally. The campaign it proposed $o community chests has been accepted by them, and as soon as surveys of needs are made as many of these chests as possible will engage in concerted drives for funds. At the outset, about a week ago, the committee’s proposal w r as interpreted as a “national” drive for funds, and preliminary statements indicated it might be a means of circumventing probable congressional action to help remaining distress with federal funds. But this campaign is, of course, nothing of the •ort; nor does it appear that its success actually will meet the unemployment relief problem. It is not a national campaign. Croxton has said, and the community chests have corroborated him. It is, simply, co-ordination of local efforts. As far as it goes, the campaign is a good one, and worthy of wide support. But the money raised in it will not be used chiefly for helping the jobless; it will, Instead, be used for the usual variety of work that community chests do. Croxton, again speaking as head of the President’s committee, said: “The .... committee realizes that whatever the trend of business during the remainder of the year, the demand for relief will be unusually heavy next fall and winter. It is evident that there has been no emergency since the war which has demanded the thoughtful help of public-spirited organizations more than that of the present unemployment situation and the problems growing out of it.” Neither the President nor any of his agencies would have made this admission six months ago. Croxton is to be commended for his courage in thus sizing up the problem and stressing its seriousness. So, there is the problem. Now: How to meet it? Through private subscriptions? Yes. Through expenditure of money from local and state treasuries? Yea. Through Red Cross co-operation in gathering and distributing funds? Yes. Through expenditure of federal money? Os course. Os course, because all those other' agencies have been bearing the burden for almost two years. The President’s committee realizes that individuals and local and state governments will be particularly hard pressed this year Alone, they can not meet the emergency. The President up to now has placed his hope for help of the jobless in private initiative alone. This is an untenable position. With his emergency committee for employment, with the Red Cross which he heads, he should move on from that position. Now is the time to start moving. Not So Rugged A strange blight seems to have attacked the “rugged individualism"—or perhaps ragged individualism—of the private shipping business. It seems to have forgotten all about the virtues of the “American plan,” so widely extolled in recent years, which gives the individual free scope, unhampered by the government, to operate and earn as he pleases. Ever since the war it has been the constant aim of rugged individualists to get the government out of the shipping business. The vices of government competition with citizens who otherwise might build up a profitable business in accordance with the best Ideals of the founding fathers have been set forth repeatedly. So the government did get out of business, selling at losses so great, sometimes, as to shock the country, the United States shipping board has divested itself of practically Its entire merchant fleet. Among the last to go were the great vessels of the United States lines, Including the Leviathan and ten others These were sold to private owners and with them

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went a subsidy in the form of mail contracts, and generous provision for construction loans from the government—aids to business which, for some reason, were not regarded as subversive even then by the Individualists. But now operation of the United States lines has become unprofitable and the purchaser wishes to unload them back on the government. Travel to Europe has fallen off. Times are bad. The evil of government in business is forgotten as completely by the shippers as if it never had been thought of. Rugged individualism should make sure that it is rugged in adversity as well as in prosperity. The Present Status of Capitalism The Reds believe capitalism is on its last legs. Indeed, many of them already exultantly have preached its funeral sermon. On the other hand, Professor E. R. A. Seligman, dean of Columbia economists and recently appointed financial adviser to Cuba, declares capitalism is just getting started, after some three centuries of birth pains: “We are just in the first stages of capitalism. All we need in capitalism is a strengthening of the sense of social responsibility. We always will need the genius of private business leaders. The communistic philosophy is wrong. We always must leave to man his individualism and freedom and reward him for his individual efforts. Economically, the Russian project is sound, but it lacks the spiritual unity needed in an enduring civilization.” It is probably a little premature to declare the twentieth century the christening or the funeral of capitalism. That capitalism, old style, is groggy, few detached observers would be likely to deny. What enlightened and socialized capitalism may achieve in the way of salvaging the existing order remains to be seen. It has passed little beyond the phrase mill, as yet. Further, we need not be so sure that the future of society is going to belong to any particular “ism.” i In a scientifically ordered economic society, there j probably will be a place for Individualism, co-opera-tion and Communism. We very likely shall apply each in the manner for which it is best adapted to promote the smooth J running of the whole society. Exclusive devotion to any single socio-economic label is one of the chief obstacles to clear thinking in the field of economic statesmanship. Changing Fashions in Crime Crimes and criminal may be increasing. But that may not mean that men *are any more antisocial in the United States today than they were a generation ago. One major cause of the increase of criminality is the enactment of laws which legislate new crimes into existence. Changes in civilization and social ideals lead us to declare acts criminal which were not so regarded a few' years ago. With this general principle we are familiar. But even the expert student of criminology is likely to be shocked by the actual degree to which w'e make crimes by legislation. At a recent meeting on crime, its causes and cures, called by the social science research council, one of the speakers called attention to the astonishing fact that no less than 76 per cent of all the inhabitants of our greatly overcrow'ded federal prisons and custodial institutions are there because of acts which w r ere not crimes fifteen years ago. Some of these new' crimes are the result of a better social conscience and more intelligent social attitude. Others —probably most —are a product of our new zeal to make men good by law. In any event, this appalling increase of criminality via legislation should lead to a searching examination of the motives and results of this new mania. We can not very well wring our hands in the path of social progress. But it is cause for pause and reflection w'hen our legislative assemblies contribute more to crime-making than our underworld. Rectangular dinner plates are now in vogue, say tableware stylists. Possibly to give the appearance of a square meal.

REASON ■“

FOR several months not one single member of the Vanderbilt family has been in the divorce court and a fear was beginning to grip the republic that this romantic household might be growing soft, but now all such misgivings are happily routed by the word from the west that young Cornelius Vanderbilt and his last lady have started in opposite directions. a a a The retirement of Miss Clara Bow should impress all the highly scented darlings of the screen with the wisdom of watching their step, since they are drawing absurd fortunes for very small ability. Nowhere else on earth is human stock so watered. a a a Somebody in New York City now is filling the mails with pamphlets, intended to reinstate Mayor Jimmie Walker in popular esteem, but up to date we have detected no burning interest in the matter. m tt a HARRY DAUGHERTY, former attorney-general, must have had a grand time at the dedication over at Marion, 0., as he sat in the front row while President Hoover lambasted those who had betrayed the confidence of Harding. a tt tt 1 And what a kick Fall must have got out of it as from the wide open spaces of New Mexico he tuned in with his radio and heard his hide ripped off by Mr. Hoover. By the way, they’re getting ready to examine Fall again and see if his gizzard would be damaged by a trip to Washington to be sentenced to one vear in jail. a a a It would seem from all its delay that the department of justice is loath to part from this Fall case, after having associated with it for so many years. It's true, you know, that you can form an attachment for almost anything after enough water has gone over the dam. a a a WE once had an old friend who had worn a wart on the end of his nose for sixty years or more, but on marrying a gay young second wife he was induced to have it plucked and all the rest of his life he was lonesome for that wart. And this Fall case certainly is a wart on the nose of American justice! a a a It's interesting to note the Hoover statement that during the Alaska trip former President Harding endured the greatest agony of soul, due to the knowledge that he had been double crossed by those he had trusted, but one naturally wonders why Mr. Harding didn’t blow the lid off and hand the whole crowd over to the public prosecutor. m m a t It’s interesting to speculate as to what might have been politically had Harding's life not been ended by the betrayal of his associates. It is entirely probable that neither Mr. Coolidge nor Mr. Hoover would have entered the White House.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Hoover’s Plan Leaves No Time for an International Conference, and That’s One Beauty of It. NEW YORK, June 23.—There Is one bright side to President Hoover’s suggestion. It leaves no | time for an international conference. With July l less than ten days ahead, the boys have to speak right up. That doesn't mean that they have been taken by surprise, however. The problem Mr. Hoover presents has been with them for ten years. If they have failed to give it the proper attention, it is their own fault, and if they don’t know the answer now, the chances are they never will. It was a beautiful dream that we could lick Germany and then let her pay the bill. About a’l we have been doing since 1919 is trying not to wake up | and spoil -it. * c tt Some More Dreaming EVEN now, a good many people seem to think that after a | year of suspended payments we can ! go back and dream it all over again. French statesmen want to know ! who will guarantee that Germany | will resume payments; American ! statesmen hasten to deny that they have cancellation in mind; Russian statesmen poo-pooh the thing as an empty gesture, and only British statesmen have sense enough to indorse it without superfluous | qualification. tt a tt We Keep on Lying FJ. KELLY thinks he knows why . children lie. It is because they are ignorant, he says, lack experience, don’t understand the forces back of it all, and consequently find themselves dwelling in a world of make-believe. Not pausing to argue over the possibility of a simpler explanation for some of the fibbing, why does the habit survive in those of us who are supposed to have grown wise? Certainly, children can not be blamed for some of the tall story telling that went with the war fever or some of the still taller variety by which our most brilliant minds have tried to sustain the resultant j peace struggle. tt tt tt No Sentiment in War “T TNCLE DAN” BEARD of Boy U Scout fame celebrates his 81st birthday not only by placing a wreath on Daniel Boone’s monument, but by lambasting the Reds for calling the Boy Scouts a “military organization.” By way of £ood measure, he tosses in the remark that, “Personally, I consider war as we know it today, a dam fool thing.” “There is no sentiment to it,” he says, “w'hen you mow people dowm scientifically, as there was in the days of Wild Bill Hickok and Billy the Kid.”

It’s a Business Now WAR has become rather busi-ness-like w'hen you come to think of it. There isn’t much sportsmanship or romance in firing a 12-inch gun at an enemy you can’t even see, or turning loose a thousand acres of mustard gas. Not that personal contact makes murder a noble avocation, but that the opportunity for fame and prestige lent it an element of romance, albeit a false and specious one. War, however, is no exception to the general rule in this respect. Life, as arranged by scientific and mechanical progress, is becoming dangerously impersonal. n tt tt Overlook Auto Deaths WE forgive many things in the name of machinery. Having waged a successful campaign against tuberculosis, w r e now are starting a drive against cancer, but the 30,000 killed by automobiles each year appeal to us as of no great consequence. Pretending to be horrified whenever a criminal is hanged or electrocuted, we take the stupendous blood sacrifice offered on the altars of mechanized industry with indifference. tt tt tt Another Legal Joke SPEAKING of capital punishment, the United States circuit court of appeals in Chicago has ruled that it is not an accident. The case grew out of the execution of Harry H. Diamond, who carried a SIO,COO policy with the New York Life Insurance Company which provided for double indemnity in case of accidental death. His father contended that execution answered this requirement, and demanded $20,000. Any street corner crowd could have decided the issue in five minutes, but it took our court system many months. That is one reason why people fail to respect the court system and the law' back of it as they should.

Questions and Answers -

Does a narrative necessarily have a plot? Narrative ,is defined as an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event or transaction, or of a series of events. It may or may not have a plot. History and biography are narratives without plot. Did Senator Robert La Follette Jr. ever serve in the United States house of representatives? No. Prior to his father’s death he was the elder Senator La Follette's secretary, and was elected to the senate to succeed him. Is Zane Grey married? How old is he? What is his address? He is married to Lina Elise Roth and is 56 years old. His address is Altadena, Cal.In how many directions could a person face while standing at the south pole? Only one—north. Define the mathematical term variable? It is a quantity to which an unlimited number of values can be assigned.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Quackery Has Clutch on Germany

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of H.vgeia, the Health Magazine. IT is generally known that American quackery is highly advanced so far as concerns its technical and complicated character. We have more quacks and a greater variety in the field of medicine than any other country in the world, but it should not be thought that we have any kind of • a monopoly in this matter. In a recent issue of Hvgeia, Dr. Otto Neustatter, who is among the leading health educators in Germany, tells about ghosts, gods, astrologers, and miracle men, who afflict the German people. The German folklore of disease and its treatment is as comical as any of the superstitions that prevail in backward sections of the United States. There are people in Germany who

IT SEEMS TO ME by H f™

IN many states the problem of women jurors is a current matter of contention, and some view the prospect with alarm. Even the men who said that perhaps suffrage was a reasonable concession are of the opinion that it is dangerous to leave matters of life and death to the judgment of women. The male community seems to fear that the new jurors would be too lenient. Moreover, the argument has been raised now and again that certain sorts of testimony might be so shocking that it would be monstrous to have women hear it.

While Men Weep OF course, by this time trial by mixed jury has been tested. As far as one can observe, jury psychology is about the same as it was before the reform. If anything, it is a little easier to get convictions now. If I had committed a crime and was about to be tried for it I should prefer, from motives of self-inter-est, to appear before a jury of men. For logic and common sense women are admirable. But for mercy men are better. By some queer misapprehension practically all the generalizations about women precisely reverse the truth. There is, for instance, that curiousdelusion that women are more sentimental than men. It does not seem to be so. When Little Eve dies tor any of her kin) I look around the theater and find at least five sniffling men for every woman who is affected visibly. I am myself one of the most ready weepers. I will guarantee to try a couple of buckets as against one contributed by any young woman who goes to the theater with me. a a a The Hard-Boiled Sex HERE in New York the smart and cynical comedy draws a far greater support from women than the play of lush sentiment. It is sometimes said that ribaldry is a peculiarly masculine quality. I remember that Mary Austin once developed a theory that men could take any witticisms pertaining to sex with a light heart. And she believed that this was an attitude impossible to women. According to her reasoning, sex denotes in the minds of women responsibility and suffering. I believe Mrs. Austin’s premise is incorrect and her logic faulty. The very fact that sex represents, biologically speaking, a threat to the safety of the female would impel her to defend herself from fears by the creation of merriment and mockery. Practically all the jokes in the world are tunes to be whistled while passing a graveyard. It is not without significance that so many quips exist about death, undertakers, and damnation. Most of the qualities popularly ascribed to women represent the wish and desire of the male community. Man likes to think that women are naturally modest and shrinking, because if it were only so this would be a much safer world for him to live in. By dint of great straining through the centuries, men have managed to put over temporarily some of their concepts. Women have been argued into making a sincere effort

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believe that anemia and jaundice can be cured by cooking sheep’s lice into jam; that the way for a mother to have a child without much pain is to open all the doors, windows and boxes, to pull out all the drawers and to untie all the knots around the house. They have their magical cure§ for epilepsy and scrofula. They think that paralysis can be cured by putting the patient to sleep on the straw in a stable where a donkey has slept. Some think that a new-born baby should not lie on its left side, because that will make it left-handed. They also believe that a person will be ill all through his life if someone gets some of his hair and buries it in a cemetery. These are examples of sympathetic magic, based largely on the ideas of similarity or symbolism. Any one can see how a simple mind would arrive at the conclu-

to fulfill the features of the female portrait created by men. Perhaps they have been just a little touched by the simple naivette of the masculine mind in its speculations upon the nature of women. But by now the game is almost up. The emancipated woman is getting tired of the masquerade and is just about ready to refuse to play any more. She is beginning to be herself. And the result, frankly, is a little terrifying. Even the old-fashioned woman must have had a good deal of dis-

People’s Voice

Editor Times —Last February you had an article in the Voice of the / People about 4 per cent for utilities, which suggested that the taxpayers association circulate petitions and get the question on the next ballot “Shall public utilities be limited to 4 per cent return.” The public has no votes in the legislature or service commission. You saw how the last legislature w r as controlled by the utilities and how Insull's representative sat in the Governor's office and had bills signed so they could not be reconsidered. He did not get these results by cigars and meals. Now we have the same group scheming to control public opinion the same as the legislature. They put out stock at a high rate of interest when all other agencies are reducing them. They will see that this stock is spread out as much as possible, so if they have to face a test of lower rates they can raise a cry of cheating the widows and orphans and have hundreds of people to back them up because they have 6 per cent stock. In this way the millions they take away from the public by excess valuations and guarantees would not be heard of. Does any one think the Insull interests need money for improvements? They have more now than they can use. That is • why they want control of all public utilities, so they can get a higher rate of return than any other business would give. It is a shame we don't have one individual society, or one association big enough and fearless enough to work for the common good of all the people by leading a fight against such legalized graft. JOHN HOLLOWAY. Editor Times Upon awarding contracts for public improvements in the city of Marion, Ind., Mayor Jack Edwards made it plain to the contractors that they must employ Marion labor for this work. Mr. State and County Officials, should you use your influence as Mayor Edwards has. in supporting your community or the community in which public work is being done, you would be doing a great deecf for the unemployed, and also the business men of the community in which the work is done. And should you support your business man and laboring man in this crisis, you may rest assured that they in turn will support you in our next election, regardless of politics. A LABORING MAN.

sion that the pains of childbirth can be relieved by untying a lot of knots. No doubt, the idea of healing paralysis by having the person lie on the straw where a donkey had slept is because the person with paralysis seems as incapable as the animal credited with being the most stupid of beasts. One’s beliefs depend on the environment in which he grows, the thoughts and beliefs of those about him, the amount of education, and the ability of the mind itself to reason. The simplest type of reasoning is sympathetic reasoning, which makes people believe that a yellow flower, like a dandelion, will cure jaundice; that a red flower or ruby will help diseases of the blood; that heartshaped flowers will cure diseases of the heart; and that the way to get strength is to use the bones or organs of strong animals.

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

ficulty in keeping her face straight as she played the game of acting out the role assigned to her by male tradition. She took her revenge in subtle ways. The English language is filled with words which have a sardonic clink. Thus the poor, pursued, and captured man has been allowed to speak of his adventures with women as “conquests.” Don Juan was wont to say that such a one had “yielded” to him. And the snicker which rose behind protecting fans was so well modulated and contained that he never* knew the richness of his unconscious jest. (Copyright, 1931. by The Times;

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SECOND SUB ATTACK

ON June 23, 1917, German submarines attacked for the second time transports carrying the first coiltingents of American troops to France. The first attack occurred the previous night. No periscope was visible, but the unmistakable bubble line, clean across the bows, put the certainty of danger beyond question. The submarine was in front instead of in the deadliest position on the flank toward the rear. Like a flash, one of the American destroyers darted between a couple of the transports. As it sped at nearly forty miles an hour across the spot where the submarine was supposed to be hidden, the commander of the destroyer gave orders to fire. A column of smoke and foam rose 100 feet in the air. and in the waterspout that followed it, pieces of wood and steel were clearly distinguished. The attacking submarine obviously had met its doom. None of the transports was damaged.

That Vacation Feeling Have you got it? Feel like shutting up the old roll top desk and heading for the open spaces? Have you dragged out the fishing tackle, bought some paint for the old car, or dug ip your white flannel pants? Vacation time is around the comer. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a packet of seven of its interesting bulletins that you will want. Here are the titles: 1. Auto Camping and Touring. 4. Learning to Swim. 2. Automobile Laws of the States. 5. Lawn Tennis. 3. Travel etiquette. 8. Outdoor Games. 7. First Aid for Vacationists. If you want this packet of seven bulletins fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: Dept. B-2, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of seven bulletins for VACATIONISTS, and inclose herewith 20 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. Code No.)

..TUNE 23,1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

New Discovery Is Significant in Conflict Between Mcch~ avists and Vitalists. 'T'HE work of Dr. Phoebus A. Levene of the Rockefeller institute for medical research of New York well may turn out to be one of the most significant items bearing upon the battle between vitalists and mechanists. The mechanists, whose chief popular champion has been Clarence Darrow, hold that “man is a machine.” Most biologists have been mechanists in their work, whether they were such In their philosophy or not. The point is that the biologist working in his laboratory, must assume that the phenomena which he is studying are all to be explained by the laws of nature, chiefly the laws of physics and chemistry’. If he makes any other assumption there is no rational basis for him to carry on his work. But there are many thinkers who are vitalists. They claim that there is something in life which is above and beyond the ordinary laws of chemistry and physics. They claim that the phenomena of life shows certain tendencies which, for want of a better name, they term “vitalistic.” Dr. Levene's work, for the moment, seems to give added strength to the schools of mechanists. In judging it. one must not be too hasty. He has not proved that “man is a machine.” But Dr. Levene apparently has robbed the vitalists of one of their chief arguments.

Directive Force DR. LEVENE recently was awarded the William Gibbs medal, the highest award in the realm of American chemistry. The medal is named after Gibbs, who was one of the greatest chemists and mathmaticians the world ever produced. Dr. Levene is interested in that borderline science, biochemistry, the science which deals with the phenomena where biology and chemistry meet. Dr. Levene has been attacking the problems of biology from the standpoint of chemistry. He looks upon a living organism as a chemical machine and turns to the laws of chemistry to explain its behavior. One of the great arguments of the vitalists has been the fact that living organisms possessed a certain directive action which caused certain chemical reactions to proceed now in one direction and now in another. But now the chemist has learned to duplicate this directive action in the laboratory. As Dr. Levene says: “By selecting suitable media, the chemist has learned to direct a reaction in a desired sense when two substances may interact in several different way’s. And so one of the most characteristic peculiarities of living matter, the directive force, has been imitated in the laboratory. “It is not important that as yet this phase of our knoweldge is limited. The significant thing is the formulation of the problem. Its solution is a matter of routine, a matter of the ordinary ingenuity of the human mind.”

A New Attack DR. LEVENE, however, is quite willing to admit that this does not constitute any complete victory for mechanism He says: “Granting that the problem of the directive force will be solved, it also may be granted that the entire mystery of like will not be solved by this achievement. Chemistry, however, already is preparing anew attack. A more essential characteristic of living matter than the directive force of individual chemical reactions is the power to co-ordinate all chemical reactions in such way that the organism may function as a whole for the purpose of maintaining its normal equilibrium and for the purpose of growth and reproduction. “This may be regarded as the integrating force of the living organism. The discoveries of the last decade alone furnish proof of the simplicity of the agents acting toward this end. “Think of all the hormones and vitamins! Only those which as yet have not been isolated may be thought of as complex and mysterious. “Those obtained in pure state generally are found to be much simpler in chemical structure than many of the ordinary tissue components and definitely simpler than certain common drugs. “In fact, many cf them are nothing more than degradation products of common tissue constituents.”

Daily Thought

I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.—Acts 20:33. To the covetous man, life is a nightmare—Henry Ward Beecher. * What is a dead stick landing of an airplane? A landing made .without power. The propeller is commonly called “stick,” “prop” or “air screw,” and without power, the stick is dead