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The Sudovich Parole Now comes the announcement that Nick * Sudovich, recipient of unusual and exceptional favors from the Governor, is to be deported immediately instead of waiting expiration of his minimum term for killing a rival racketeer in late November, as originally announced. Likewise the warden at Michigan City who recommended that Nick be given a month of liberty to transact “important private business,” says that he is quite sure, after talking to Nick, that Nick did not attend the farewell Capone party at Benton Harbor. True, when Nick got back from his month’s sojourn outside the prison, other inmates of the pen were led to believe that Nick had been one of the chief guests just as he had in his days of liberty been one of the chief lieutenants of Capone, ruling the gang empire in the northland and purveying vice, booze, dope, gambling and other such “necessities” to that part of the state. In fact The Times received a smuggled letter from the prison telling of the gossip to this effect and its source. The prisoners traced it to a boast of Nick himself that he had been able not only to get his liberty but have it extended so that it would include the Capone festivities. Possibly at some time the people may be given some real information as to why Sudovich was released. To date the affair is mysterious and vague. The warden says that he does not quite remember why he recommended the parole or the important business which forced a great state to give Nick his liberty. It might have been more booze, more vice, more murder, as these had been his chief activities. The Governor’s office proclaims that the parole was signed almost as a matter of form after the warden had made his recommendation, and did not question his judgment in the matter. Under these circumstances the trustees of the prison might seem to have a real duty. They name the warden. If they discover that the warden, in his great mercy of heart, is solely responsible for the release of this Capone crook, they should fire him. If they discover that he was told to sign on the dotted line by those with enough political influence to force that action, they might, if they have any self-respect, resign rather than be so humiliated. Releasing gangsters from the pen, especially those with killing records, should not become a habit. It oversteps the boundary line of tolerance. Campaign Issues Those who have complained that there have been no real issues between the two major parties in recent elections will be delighted to learn that we are to have such an issue in the 1932 campaign. We have this on no less authority than that ol Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee. Republicans will want to keep a high tariff and maybe make it higher. Democrats will want lower rates. And there we have an issue. All very simple. Prosperity won’t be an issue, because both parties are in favor of prosperity, says Mr. Lucas. Mr. Lucas is eminently right when he says the tariff will be an issue—even if the Democrats lack the courage to come out boldly for the traditional principles of their party. Our dwindling foreign trade and its effect on domestic prosperity, and the reprisals by other nations assure the prominence of the tariff in the campaign. It may be even a bigger issue than Mr. Lucas suspects. We would not be surprised if there would also be considerable discussion of prosperity, and what was done to meet the problem of getting jobs and food for six or seven million unemployed, Mr. Lucas to the contrary notwithstanding. Prohibition and organized crime, taxation and the concentration of wealth, expenditures for armament, unemployment insurance, 25-cent wheat and 6-cent cotton, speculation in Wall Street and in the grain exchanges, banking practices, international debt cancellation, to mention a few subjects, may also force their way into the campaign in spite of Mr. Lucas and his colleagues. This may be distressing to some of the ambidextrous politicians, but issues sometimes get out of control of the party leaders. A Billion in the Hole The federal government borrows more money to meet its current bills, at the same time announcing that internal revenue receipts declined 20 per cent during the year ended June 30. Collections were 6L millions less than the year before. Thus attention again is directed to the plight ol the treasury, more than a billion dollars in the hole and going deeper. Expenses this year will be as great or greater than last year, despite efforts to economize, and there is small prospect of increased revenues. The government dan, of course, borrow for a long time, for there is plenty of’ idle money in the country seeking investment in government securities. The process can not be continued indefinitely, however. There must be a drastic curtailment in expenditures, difficult at any time and doubly difficult now when there are so many unusual demands on the treasury, and probably higher taxes. Taxes naturally will not be increased just before an election. A business revival which restored the prosperity of 1923 might obviate the necessity oi higher taxes, if the upward swing of spending were checked along with it. Meantime, economy is indicated in spending the government’s dollars where they will do to the most good— for public works to give men employment, for instance, rather than in a huge naval expansion program. *>

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Hoover and Congress By his flat refusal to call congress before the regular December session, the President is making a mistake, we believe. The theoretic case against this policy is clear. Our Constitution provides for special sessions of congress tor precisely such emergencies as now confront us. To prevent congress from meeting at such time is to sacrifice representative government. But there are more practical defects in the Hoover policy. He apparently forgets that many of his own conservative crowd w r ant immediate congressional action on sundry matters. In fact, there are several Hoover bills and resolutions which may be rejected unless he stops thumbing his nose at congress. For instance, the foreign debt moratorium. Here is a matter which legally is entirely in the hands of congress. Instead of calling congress in special session in July, Hoover in effect usurped its power and pledged in advance a future act by congress. That action can be justified only if congress is given adequate time to debate and ratify the Hoover pledge. Such ratification doubtless will be given by congress if Hoover is at all reasonable. But it is not reasonable to try to force congress to dispose of this complicated issue in three or four days—after Hoover took two years to make up his mind. Yet under the Hoover plan of no special session, congress in regular session will be tied up with the difficult task of chamber organization until about Dec. 15, the deadline for moratorium ratification. Hence Hoover is inviting trouble. The same is true with unemployment relief and help for business. Under the Hoover plan congress can not begin to get to this crucial issue until the middle of January or later—until the winter is half over and emergency relief would be to& late. So with the farm relief plan of some of Hoover's own supporters, like Samuel McKelvie, who propose to get rid of the market-wrecking wheat surplus by feeding the unemployed here and the famine victims in China. Congressional action is required. Farm prices need that boost now. Next January or April will be too late for the additional hundreds of thousands of farmers who will go bankrupt in the meantime. These are but three of many problems requiring immediate congressional attention. The congress elected almost a year ago has not been allowed to meet. If Hoover only knew it an early session is to his own interest as weli as to the interest of the country. It is no secret that Hoover is in need of friends. Why, then, should he start out to make an enemy of the new congress? The Hell Hole Strike “What do the headlines mean when they say government officials are anxious to maintain wage scales?’’ the Las Vegas general trades council asks, after studying labor conditions at Boulder dam and finding men working “in this hell hole of heat for a mere pittance, just enough to keep their bodies full and clothes on their backs.’’ The council adds: “If these high-sounding phrases of the government have any meaning, then this Boulder dam situation calls for action. We believe the six companies which secured the Boulder dam contract are taking advantage of the depression and of a mob of broke and hungry men to establish wage scales that are entirely unreasonable.” The question is lying now on the desk .of Secretary of Labor Doak, sent there by the American Federation of Labor, to whom the Las Vegas council turned for help. President Green of the federation forwarded the appeal with a reminder that this is a government project over which the government exercises control. The question calls for an answer that can leave no doubt as to the position of the federal government. Coming as it does immediately after charges that the whole federal public works program has been let to “wage-cutting, nonunion contractors”—and this charge is accompanied by a considerable amount of evidence—it is time for the administration to stop talking generalities and offer proof of its good faith. But Wrigley continues to swap gum for cotton He sticks to his gums. En route to South Dakota to be made an Indian chief, Captain Frank Hawks set anew speed record. Another feather in his cap. Cuba is in revolt. If it's for American “liberty, boy, page Volstead! Plantation owners have been asked to kill a thira of the cotton. Corn would liquidate easier.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

PERHAPS Mr. Hoover is right when he says that the main thing wrong with us is that we have lost our faith in religion. It is quite plain that we have lost our faith in something, and religion is as good as any other name for the intangible quality that has escaped us. For religion embodies something deeper than mere trust ir, a Supreme Being. It also signifies faith in one’s fellow-man. The citizenship of America, that once believed so firmly in the integrity of those set in positions of power, no longer does so. We have departed from the credulities as well as from the customs of our ancestors. We know it is not possible that we now lack men who are worthy of public confidence. On the contrary there are many hundreds of sincere and wellmeaning officials who today serve their state or their nation with the keenest sense of responsibility and the strictest adherence to standards of honor.' * # a BUT somewhere along the years we have lost our belief in those who govern us. Over and over we elect them and hope for a miracle to rekindle the spark in the ashes of our burned-out faith. And over and over we suffer disappointment and disillusion. It may be we expect too much. But when a nation like ours loses confidence in its leaders it has, in a great measure, alio lost its faith in its God. The two always have been linked closely in the public consciousness, and with the breaking down of nations goefc the breaking down of religions. When the rulers of the earth stumbled into the bloody way of war more than sixteen years ago they turned the faces of their peoples against the Most High. Primitives may continue to believe in the goodness of a Divinity while they wade knee deep in the gore of their neighbors. But civilized beings can not survive such inconsistent ethics without spiritual disaster. It would, indeed, be well if we could resurrect our faith in the working principles of our religion. But words alone can not restore to us our lost faith. The leaders have taken it from us. The leaders must give it to us again. &

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

With the Kellogg Pact Outla whig War Nicely Signed, Why Shoidd France and Russia Negotiate a Nonaggression Agreement? NEW YORK, Aug. 20—Charles Ponzi, who made quite a hit in Massachusetts eleven years ago by promising investors 50 per cent profit in forty-five days, who collected $9,000,000 on the strength of it and was sent to prison because he failed to make good, will be due for parole in October. That only means more trouble for Mr. Ponzi, since the immigration officials have a deportation warrant ready to serve on him the moment he gets out. The warrant calls for his banishment to Italy, but the Italian government has indicated that it prefers his room to his company. He can’t go to Canada, because he once served a two-year prison term there. Taken all around, it looks like a tough winter for Mr. Ponzi. tt n tt Missed His (Jhance WALL Street has paid more than Ponzi promised on occasion and mulcted suckers just as gloriously. Ponzi should have bought a seat on the exchange and promised nothing. Gambling with other people’s money is all right if you play the game according to law. It’s about like the recent ruling that beer violates prohibition, while wine pricks do not. Lotteries are not according to law in this country. Some other countries not only allow them, but operate them as government monopolies. Though the Italian government views Ponzi as an undesirable person, it has no scruples about running a lottery from which it derives three times as much revenue as from the state-owned railroads and telephones. a tt London Gets Them THE metropolitan district of London, with a population of 12,090,000, had twenty-one murders last year. Eleven of the murderers were caught and convicted, nine committed suicide, and only one re- j mains unaccounted for by the police. In the metropolitan district of New York, with a population of 8,000.000, there were 421 murders last year, but only 280 arrests were made and less than fifty convictions obtained. The failure of New York police to get that “baby killer” is no mystery. An organization that fails in so many ordinary cases is in no condition to handle extraordinary cases. tt tt a Hoover Hardihood DECLARING that 900,000 persons are out of work in Pennsylvania and that there is little promise of improved conditions this year, Governor Pinchot urges President Hoover to call an extra session of congress. According to reports from Washington, there is little likelihood that President Hoover will do so. i How can this attitude be ex- j plained otherwise than that the i President thinks he can do a better job alone than with congressional j assistance? ’ Maybe, he can, but such a view requires some hardihood under existing conditions. tt tt tt One Englishman, Sir Arthur Thompson, says there are too many people in the world and that something must be done about it. Another Englishman, Bertrand Russel, is ready with a solutionlet the family disappear and let the state regulate birth by sterilizing 95 per cent of the men and 75 per cent of the women. What a world this will be when the theorists and planners get through with it! tt tt tt Looking for Trouble? WITH the Kellogg pact outlawing war nicely signed, sealed and delivered, why should France and Russia be negotiating a non- : aggression agreement? It sounds like the old diplomacy, in spite of all that has been said, or done to boost the new. If they mean what they have solemnly sworn in common with all civilized countries, why should France and Russia be exacting reciprocal promises from each other not to interfere if either gets into trouble? Doesn’t it sound as though one, or the other, or both, were looking for trouble? ts tt tt Same Old Clique IN spite of the Kellogg pact, the league and the world court, it looks very much as though the old clique idea were regaining favor in Europe The diplomats appear to be doing exactly what they were twentyfive years ago, and great military establishments are being held in readiness to back them up. Disappointing as this may be, we can not afford to close our eyes j to it.

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NAVY ORDERS SHIPS Aug. 20. ON Aug. 20, 1917, Secretary cf the Navy Josephus Daniels conferred with representatives of twenty-five ship and engine builders for the purpose of providing the United States with more destroyers than any other power. "Destroyers,” he said, “are the one thing submarines fear.” Secretary of the navy Daniels indicated the navy department would order all the destroyers the builders could produce. The sum of $400,000,000 was mentione as necessary to carry out this program. A four-year building plan was proposed. On this date also General Petain won a victory before Verdun, breaking the enemy line and capturing German defenses on both sides of the Meuse. More that 4,000 prisoners were taken. Who played opposite Joan Crawford in “Montana Moon?’* John Mack Brown.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Haphazard Dieting Injures Health

This is the twentieth of a series of Uiirty-six timely articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on "Food Truths and Follies.” dealing, with such much discussed, but little known subjects as calories, vitamins. minerals, digestion and balanced diet. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. WHAT is known as the antineuritic vitamin is not really a substance to be used for all forms of inflammation of the nerves. The vitamin that prevents scurvy unquestionably has other functions, and vitamin A, which was called the antiophthalmic vitamin, has unquestionably other services for the body. Another attempt to classify vitamins is based on the fact that they are soluble in fats or in water. Hence, vitamins A and D have been known as fat soluble A and D, and vitamin C is known as water soluble C. The substance formerly known as vitamin B has been found in two different vitamins which are now known as vitamin B 1 and vitamin B 2 or vitamin G. The letter F has

IT SEEMS TO ME

I “ \ LREADY work had played so jIV much of a part in his life,” said the novelist, “that he did not really begin to play until he had reached the comparatively advanced age of 42.” This paragraph from a book soon to be published came to me like a blow in the face. For years and years I had been going along buoyed up by the comments of readers who wrote in from time to time to say: “Os course, you are still a young man. You will learn better as you grow older.” o*o 'Some Day’ May Be ‘Today’ AND now I find that I have grown older. I have reached a comparatively advanced age, and the problem of whether I have learned better is present and persistent. It no longer can be put off as something which will work out all right in time. “Some day,” says the young man to himself, “I’m going to sit down and write a novel or the great American drama or an epic poem.” Then some day comes and the young man finds that his joints are stiff and he can’t sit down. However, I am not quite prepared to admit that 42 is the deadline. It seemed old age to me for a long time. When I was reporting baseball the players used to call Roy Hartzell, over on third base, “the old man” because he was all of 29, and veterans of 30 constantly were dropping out because of advancing age and the pressure of recruits of 19 and 20. But then I got on to plays and books and Bernard Shaw was doing all the timely hitting in the pinches and, to mix the metaphor, breaking loose and running the length of the held, putting a straight arm into the faces of all who would tackle him. 0 0* Old Age Must Have Its Fling DE MORGAN started to blaze at the age of 50, and James Huneker was the keenest of all the critics to hail anything in any art which was new and hitherto unclassified. And he, too, wrote his first novel, “Painlted Veils,” long after 50. It was a novel which I did not like very much, but all its faults were those of youth. Some of it actually sophomoric. It was more like the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald than any living author. I felt that it was a first novel by a “promising” man, and 30 and 29 and all those ages seemed to me mere verdant days in the hatchery. I remember a sweet girl reporter going to Major-General Sibert, commander of the First division in its early days in France, and asking, “General, don't you think this is a young man’s war?” Sibert grinned behind his gray mustache and said, “When I was in West Point I used to bear in mind that Napoleon won some of his greatest victories while he was in

become confused, because several different factors have been named F. No doubt, when chemistry has progressed sufficiently in its study of these substances their names will be changed and the single letter designations, which must inevitably result in confusion, will be dropped. Whenever anew discovery is made in medicine its commercial exploitation promptly follows. We are given as a nation to mass interests and to adopting promptly any new method of amusement, any new food product, or any new scientific discovery. Every one can remember the temporary craze for mah jongg, cross-country walking, shaking machines for passive exercise, and ultraviolet rays. Now the furore of interest and exploitation is associated with vitamins. Practically all natural food substances contain vitamins of one type or another, and the average American diet consisting of varying quantities of a variety of food substances takes care, of most of the vitamin needs of the population. There is no reason why most people should drink a quart of orange juice daily; no reason why they

his thirties, but now I find my attention turning more and more to the fact that Hindenburg is 72 and Joffre is 70." B tt tt Forty Love TURNING to “The Art of Lawn Tennis,” by William Tilden 11, I find the comforting information that “William A. Larned won the singles at past 40. Men of 60 are seen daily on the clubs’ courts of England and America enjoying their game as keenly as any boy. It is to this game, in great measure, that they owe the physical fitness which enables them to play at their advanced age.” Yet, after all, this is not quite so comforting. ,1 know one or two of these iron athletes who have out-

People’s Voice

Editor Times —I wish to state a few facts and maybes for your papier. Readers’ views is the front page to me, as it tells the most facts. The other day I was talking to a man, a church goer, a good worker, but radical, as you might say I am. He has a dog, a prized animal that does wonders in his estimation. I asked him if it wouldn’t be more honorable to spend his money on some p>oor orphan without a chance of a good home than the money it costs to kep the dog? His answer was this, “Do you think I want to take some kid in to grow up to be a thief and disgrace me and my family? Now maybe the same can be applied to this depression. The rich politician has a pet he has to feed instead of the poor working man. We’ve got the eighteenth amendment, full jails, high taxes, mortgages, low wages for those employed, plenty of jobless, practically no market for the farmer’s products. It is true w e do not have to have beer or strong drink. Why stop at that? There is tobacco, coffee, tea and soft drinks we can do without also. Just as this man put it, we are lower than a dog, why not take all of our freedom that God gave us, just to see how long we can stand it? F. DRIFFILL. When a ship enters a foreign port what flag does it fly? It flies the flag of the country where it is registered and the flag of the nation whose port it is entering, on separate staffs. What dimensions are the airplane carriers Lexington and Saratoga, and how many planes will each carry? They are 888 feet long. 106 feet beam and carry about 100 airplanes each. What is the average height of men and women in this country? For men it is 5 feet 8 inches, and for women, 5 feet 4 inches. rtf

should take excessive quantities of cod liver oil or cod liver oil tablets; no reason why they should expose themselves to sunlight to the point of burning. Vitamin deficiency in any single case can only be discovered by a careful study of the diet and health of the individual. A haphazard taking of great quantities of vita-min-containing foods with the hope of improving health generally may injure the very health that is trying to be conserved. Most of what we know about the vitamins has been learned from feeding experiments on animals. An animal is fed a diet deficient in certain foods, It develops certain disease conditions. The substance is then supplied and the animal recovers. Diets may be varied in many ways. Today throughout the world there are hundreds of nutrition laboratories in which feeding experiments are carried out on fowls, fish and animals. Indeed, there are many nutrition laboratories in which young men volunteer their services in such feeding experiments for the good that tnay accrue to mankind.

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lived their generation, and they are among the bores of the world. After one of them has captured the third set by dashing to the net and volleying your shot off at a sharp angle he invariably rubs it in by asking you to guess how old you think he is. I always answer, “Ninety-six.” But there is no discouraging him or stopping him before he has gone on to tell you about breaking the ice in the tub for his morning plunge. There is an unearthly air about these men whom God has forgotten. They are like those Prussian soldiers of Frederick who continued to stand after swords and bullets had gone through them and required the sei*vices of someone to go about the field and push them over, so that they might be decently buried. B B tt When I Was a Young Man THERE were men like that in one of the lands which Gulliver visited. They never died, and probably they played a sharp game of tennis, and later in the clubhouse they were accustomed to sit around and say how much better the actors used to be fifty years ago. Everybody hated them and stayed away from their company in droves. No, I set no store of hope on being a 60-year-old prodigy at lawn tennis. I dodder about the court already. I had just as soon be gray and bald and all the rest of it if only I ever can grow young enough to write a bold and slashing novel and be suppressed by Mr. Sumner. (Convrio’ht: IQ3I hv The Timeti

The Occult It has always fascinated mankind. Peering behind the curtain of things hidden has intrigued the inquiring human mind since caveman days. Most of our superstitions and beliefs about things mysterious have arisen as a result of mans effort to pierce the future, tell fortunes and predict events. Our Washington Bureau has a packet of six of its interesting and informative bulletins on these subjects that make interesting reading. Fill out the coupon below and send for them. The titles are: 1. The Meaning of Dreams. 4. Palmistry. 2. Fortune Telling With Playing 5. Meanings Ascribed to Flowers. Cards. 6. Meanings Ascribed to Precioms 3. Astrology—Horoscopes for a Stones. Year. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-4, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of six bulletins on OCCULTISM 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.

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

.AUG. 20. 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

| Uncle Sam Is Putting on Too Much Weight for His Own Good, Says Dr. Taylor, Citing Dangers of Obesity. 'T'HE picture of Uncle Sam as a X lean and lank individual soon will be a complete myth, according to Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor of Stanford university. Uncle Sam. he believes, has been putting on weight at. a scandalous pace. His waistband is expanding and threatens to continue to do so during the next decade. Young girls may enter the dieting craze with so much excess enthuj siasm that health authorities have to issue warnings against the dangers of malnutrition. But, atvtfuing to Dr. *Taylor, the older folks ! who least can stand the burden of overweight, are busily acquiring it. We suffer, according to Dr. Taylor, from “national overweight.” it : is, he believes, a trend of the times. “There are instinctive impulses and physiological tendencies in the direction of overweight, which will prevail unless restrained or coun- ■ teracted,” he says. “We live in economic circum- | stances which permit an easy func- \ tioning of the influences making for overweight. The national income is rising The proportion of the national income required to cover the retail cost of the food supply is relatively small. “Foodstuffs are available in extraordinary variety and profusion, j The per capita food requirement is declining. Economic restraint on I eating is lacking except in the poor- | est classes.” 8 B B A National Menace DR. TAYLOR believes that the national overweight Is a na- \ tional menace. ‘‘lt is commonly believed,” he says, “that overweight, within limits, is an asset in childhood and adolescence. the expression of high nutrition promoting resistance to disease. “After 30, however, and especially after 50, overweight is unquestionably no asset, but a liability. A pronounced degree of overweight which is obesity brings diseases in its train, of which diabetes is the striking illustration. “Is is not generally realized how large a proportion of those with overweight after 50 approach obesity. Medical experience and life insurance analysis of sickness and death make it clear that even moderate overweight imposes a burden on the organs of circulation. “Disesase of the circulation represent the outstanding cause of death after 40. Withou. going ito details, it is accepted that overweight increases the incidence of diseases and raises the death rate. “The expectation of life is increasing. but the span of life is not being extended. The increasing proportion of men and women who pass 50 must give more than casual attention to the trend of body weight. “Bathroom scales are at once a guide and an inspiration.” tt tt tt Eating Too Much AMERICANS are beginning to put on too much weight because they eat too much, in the opinion of Dr. Taylor. “Overeating, relative to need, is the major cause of overweight,” he says. “There are persons who overeat and remain thin; there are also persons who diet and grow fat. But such persons are few in number, the rare exceptions, abnormal, or at least anomalous. After all, human beings are animals and animal husbandry is founded on the demonstrated doctrine that feed makes fat, and fat can not be gotten without feed. “The easiest way of avoiding indigestion in excess of requirements is to use bulky foodstuffs with high caloric content. It is possible to lose weight on a full stomach three times a day; it is possible to gain weight on a diet which does not fill the stomach once a day. “It is in this respect that fruits and vegetables are attractive; they are invaluable for vitamins and mineral elements, but they are also valuable in satisfying hunger and appetite without promoting overweight. “There is an esthetic as well as a physiology of overweight. Overweight consists largely of fat, with its attendant water. Fat has a way of accumulating where it is really not wanted and in regions where it is conspicious. “An artist could distribute thirty or forty pounds or fatty tissues over the frame of a six-foot man with retention of pleasing lines; but nature fails to do so. “What makes obesity less abhorrent to men in this country is in part the fact that raiment is so nondescript that it does noot look much worse on a fat man than on a thin one.” Daily Thoughts They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—Psalms 126:5. Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. —Joseph Roux.