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Half the Answer Senator James Watson announces that he will sponsor a law before the next congress providing for a five-day week on all federal construction. That, of course, is only half the answer. The five-day week in industry may be necessary very soon if work is to be distributed so as to give employment to all workers. It may be necessary to go to a four-day week if our man power and machinery can produce all in that period that human imagination and appetite demand. But the senator will hopelessly fail in giving any real relief by a five-day week unless he provides some system of giving a real wage to those who work. Under the present system of competitive contracts on public works, an arbitrary fiveday week would mean that the workers would receive a starvation wage. The contracts awarded recently by the government in Indiana show no regard for wages paid to workers. The contractors expect to profit by low wages. Beyond asserting that they will maintain “prevailing local rates,” the contractors give no promise whatever of helping communities in which buildings are being erected. Unfortunately for many in each of such communities the prevailing rate is nothing at all. Instead of an hourly or a daily wage on federal work, there should be a provision for at least a weekly if not a monthly rate with some safeguard for employment for a definite period of time. The five-day week on an hourly basis of wages would help no one at all. It might produce a dead level of slavery and starvation. But as long as contractors for the government look upon labor as a competitive commodity, no such humane provision as a five-day week can be effective. Three years ago Senator Watson would have balked at any such suggestion as limiting the work week as a socialistic and bolshevistic contraption that would destroy our sacred institutions, especially the sacred institution of huge profits for the political patriots who get contracts. That he suggests a five-day week shows progress. Perhaps the next few months may convince him that the nation must no longer devote its entire attention to the protection of property rights and profits, but take some thought of salvaging human values. By November 25th Apparently the two men upon whom Hoover depends most to block federal unemployment relief this winter still are unsold on the President’s obstructionist policy. Unlike Judge Payne of the National Red Cross, they have refused so far to rubber-stamp the White House fallacy that federal aid under any condition is unnecessary and a sin. These key men are Chairman Gifford of the President’s latest unemployment committee and Chairman Burns of the National Association of Communty Chests and Councils. Gifford is keeping an open mind on the subject of federal relief. Reporters have tried to get him to say that he supports the Hoover policy, but he refuses. He says we shall cross that bridge when we come to it. First we shall do our best to get local and state agencies to meet the emergency, and if that fails then we shall face the questlbn of federal appropriations, is the way Gifford puts it. Obviously, that is a much more intelligent and humane attitude than the dogmatism of the White House. Burns, as head of the organization in charge of private relief agencies in virtually all cities of 25,000 population and over in the entire country, probably is in the most advantageous position to determine the adequacy or inadequacy of local relief when the time comes. Burns, like Gifford, has made clear that he retains an open mind on the subject of federal relief. Gifford and Burns Wednesday fixed Oct. 19 to Nov. 25 as the period for estimating relief needs throughout the country. At that time, also, the federal government, unless it deliberately evades its responsibility as it did last year, will have reliable statistics upon which to base its estimates of the winter unemployment. By Nov. 25, therefore, the facts will be available. Congress, under our representative form of government, is the only responsible body which can decide finally the question of the need of federal aid—on the basis of local relief agency receipts, unemployment statistics and its own inquiry among mayors and Governors. If the President will call congress into an early fall session it can organize, ratify the debt moratorium, then take up the unemployment question on Nov. 25 and still have time to act before winter sets in. But, if the President persists in his refusal to call an early session, he thereby will force congress either to delay unemployment consideration until midwinter, when it is too late, or to rush through halfbaked legislation. Such administration tactics would be as unfair to congress and the country as they are unworthy of the President. Time Is Money—And Life Just as the much-criticised federal farm board wafaon the point of achieving a degree of popularity by the sale of 15,000,000 bushels of its surplus wheat to China, a hitch has occurred somewhere. The explanation is a mystery, according to officials. For several weeks the Chinese government has been trying to buy the wheat for its starving famine victims. Finally, last week the farm board agreed to tha sale on liberal credit terms. The anticipated result was to perform a great humanitarian service for China, and at the same time get rid of some of that white elephiht surplus

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which is sitting on the grain market and eating the American farmer out of house and bam. That result is too good to sacrifice. The farm board should bestir itself and find out what the hitch Is and how the deal can be completed quickly. Every day lost means more Chinese dead of starvation and more American farmers forced to bankruptcy by wheat selling below production costs. Too Much Gold America’s gold supply has set anew record. We now have Just under $5,000,000,000, nearly half the world’s total. The gain in a week was nearly half a billion. Possession of this hoard is not the blessing that might be expected, however. We have so much gold that other nations find it difficult to buy from us. or to pay us what they owe us. They can not pay with goods, because we have surpluses of goods ourselves and have barred many of their products through a prohibitive tariff. They can not buy with gold, because they can not spare It. Already reserves in many countries are so low that their monetary systems are endangered. America, of course, still can extend credit, but here again is a vicious circle. Interest on earlier credits is paid with credit, and so on ad infinitum. So now that we have all this gold there is nothing that we can do with it. We are richer than any nation ever has been, but we have six millions out of work, many of them hungry. How to redistribute gold is one of the chief problems of the world depression. Consistency, Thou Art Myth (From the El Paso Herald-Post) When El Paso’s Ministerial Alliance last protested against a midnight bridge between El Paso and Juarez, the treasury department, which controls ports of entry, replied that customs gates couldn’t be used to regulate matters of morals. Now the treasury department orders eight international ports on the lower Rio Grande closed at 9 o’clock instead of 12 because the Mexican government is renewing gambling concessions on the Mexican side of the border— And, as a result of the action, Uncle Sam, who permits a gambling concession in Wall Street, whose play, at Its peak, runs into billions of dollars a das —a game which supports branch brokerage “concessions” in every big town in the country and which, in the fall of 1929, played the spectacular role in precipitating our present panic—is placed in the attitude of telling Mexico it must not permit a few cheap gambling dens on the border. If such order is to be issued, of course, it’s better for El Paso for it to come direct from Washington than for it to be made a subject of local wrangling; it’s all the better for us, if we can shift the fuss to one of our neighbor towns which has been profiting upon El Paso’s bridge quarrels. - But the treasury department’s growing list of inconsistencies thus becomes just a little more intricately puzzling. Its latest bridge closing order is all the more puzzling when we remember that this same department, whose duties for more than ten years included enforcement of prohibition, never lodged a protest against Mexico’s open saloons—whose play to parched throats on the American side has been the chief excuse for the existence of many of those border Mexican towns. Mexican border saloons, Incidentally, attract five times as many American dollars as do Mexican gambling resorts. And there happens to be an American law against open saloons, while ordinary gambling resorts at home so far haven’t fallen within Uncle Sam’s police control. Whoever coined that word "scot-free” must have been thinking of two other fellows. Some good has come out of prohibition. Didn’t those coast guards—trained in chasing rum runners —sink that ship after the army bombers muffed the job? Those wheat growers probably will be- willing to give the country back to the Indians on Thanksgiving day. The Carnegie Foundation says college seniors know little more than freshmen. Probably they’ve hit the saturation point. A boy bandit gained twenty pounds in seven weeks in Sing Sing. And may be enough technique to avoid returning. Film actresses with foreign accents are getting the big play now. Marking open season on anew assortment of "Oo la la’s.” What has become of the brass-rail magician who used to make free lunch disappear? One consoling thing about talking to yourself is that nobody’s going to talk back.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A WOMAN, who in spite of depression is able amply to live according to usual standards, let three faithful servants go and replaced them by those to whom she pays a third less wages. This way lies revolution for America. Never before in our history has there been greater necessity for prosperous citizens to face facts. Never has there been such need for us to study history, prayerfully. For as men and women reacted to poverty and injustice in the past, even so will they react tomorrow Come what may, we must keep up the wages of our workers. And if the American woman fails her country in this she indeed may count herself its betrayer. The housewife who sees only herself and her family must plead for anew vision. We can not afford—nay, we do not dare—to save too much of our incomes now, small though they be. If we want to exist, if we want our children to inherit thi# land that has been made for them, we must realize that only by intelligent co-operation, even by some personal self-sacrifice, can this be done. u u n INCREASINGLY there comes the disquieting news that women are hiring other women for only room and board. And this, my friends, is serfdom. Get enough people in any land into a state of serfdom and you have all the materials for a nice, large revolutioh, for by this means have all revolutions been made. There is no need for us to be alarmed over what others do in the industrial crises. Neither Reds nor agitators can harm us. But our own avarice can. Germany, France and England together can not ruin us. But we can destroy ourselves. If we do not call upon dauntless courage and sacrifice that we long have admired in our ancestors, if we do not strive to see America as an entity—all standing or falling together—then we shall have wrought our own downfall.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

For Every Vote Governor Roosevelt Loses Because of His Split With Tammany Hall He Will Gain Ten , NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Tammany is supposed to be a great Democratic organization, Governor Roosevelt Is supposed to have an inside track on the Democratic presidential nomination next year, and the Democratic party is supposed to have an excellent chance of winning the election. Under such circumstances, you would expect to see Tammany and Governor Roosevelt pulling together, but they are not. Tammany doesn’t like the investigation now going on in New York. More particularly, it doesn’t like the way Governor Roosevelt is backing that investigation. m Looks Like an Affront TAMMANY takes the whole thing as an affront. It can’t see why a Democratic Governor should aid and abet a Republican-controlled legislature in probing a Democratic administration. Having made that blunder, Tammany can’t see why he shouldn’t offset it by giving the Democrats a whack at Republican administrations in up-state cities. Because he won’t, or hasn’t up to this time, Tammany is against him, even to the extent of throwing dirt on his candidacy for the presidential nomination. n v m Here’s Tammany’s Creed IN order to understand the New York situation, you must keep in mind that Tammany is ready and always has been ready, to throw any man down who stands in the way of its feed-trough. Tammany is loyal to the Democratic party Just as long as the party lets it run New York City in its own way, and no longer. As to good government, it doesn’t admit the existence of any such animal. nun It’s in His Favor TILDEN, Cleveland, Wilson— Tammany was against them all to begin with. Governor Roosevelt really has distinguished himself by earning Tammany’s antagonism at this stage of the game. Those outside the Tammany organization will take it as a pretty sure sign that he is straight. For every vote he loses because of Tammany’s opposition, he will gain ten. n u .* Crime and Politics , RIGHTLY or wrongly, people are associating crime and the racket with machine politics. Rightly or wrongly, they believe there is a definite connection between gang rule and such outfits as Tammany in New York, or the Thompson crowd in Chicago. Rightly or wrongly, they are inclined to support the man who earns the enmity of such outfits, especially if he dees so by fathering investigations for the sake of better government. tt tt tt The Public Knows THOUGH rather bewildered as to how the problem should be handled, the people of this country are not ignorant or unaware of how crime has increased, particularly in the field of blackmail, robbery and racketeering. The headlines which one sees every day are creating a profound and bitter impression. The mobsters who feel themselves safe because they have operated with a free hand so long, are making a tragic mistake. If this situation can’t be met with “due process of law,” it can be met in other ways. U n The Ice Is Thin • T'HE vast majority of Americans still are decent. That is one reason for gang rule. But for the disposition to avoid trouble which prevails throughout this country, the mobsters would have been run out long ago. They probably do not realize it, but they owe a great deal to that trait which some call patience and others call apathy. But let them have no illusions. The ice on which they skate is getting thin. So are the nerves. tt tt tt Cleanup is Due THE stage in America is being set for a cleanup. Just as an orgy of extravagance led to depression, an orgy of crime is leading to reaction. There is nothing like hard times to make people realize what things really cost, or what they can best do without. Nine out of every ten persons who heard that Madison Square meeting over the radio last Monday night—and there were millions—were in full accord with it.

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August 27

ON Aug. 27, 1917, President Wilson, through Secretary of State Robert Lansing, answered the peace proposal of Pope Benedict, indirectly addressing the German people to the effect that no peace was possible with their present “irresponsible” goyemment. “We can not take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure unless explicitly suported by such conclusive evidence of the wiil and purpose of the German people themselves. *We must await some new evidence of the purpose of the great peoples of the Central Powers. “God grant it may be soon and in a way to restore the confidence of all peoples everywhere in the faith of nations and the possibility of a covenant of peace.” President Wilson’s message was acclaimed in France, England, Italy and America, and derided in Germany. How much did the site of the new Empire State building in New York cost? $16,000,000.

Now That We Can Patent New Plants

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE— Not All of Yeast’s Fame Is Earned

This is the twenty-sixth of a series of thirty-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 Hygela. the Health Magazine. THE second vitamin B again must be considered one of the most important discoveries that ever has been made for the good of mankind. To trace the steps in its discovery would indicate the tremendous number of small experiments necessary to lead to some single fundamental fact.

IT SEEMS TO ME

HERE’S a man asking me a question which I’ve been wishing right along would come up some time. He wants to know about my books. Somehow or other he’s discovered one of my secrets and ferreted out the fact that I’ve written novels. I can talk about my books with perfect propriety, because every one of them is out of print and you can’t buy one—even assuming that you want to. But Mr. S. S. says he found a copy of “The Boy Grew- Older” in a dust bin. He not only read it, but he says he liked it. I’m with him in that same minority. I always thought it was a swell book, even though it was my first novel. Mr. S. wants to know, “Are you the father Peter in that book or the son Pat or the mother?” That gives me a lead to talk about novels in general. Os course, I was one of the characters in the book. I was four or five. But I think that this is what happens in everybody’s book. The author can’t keep himself out. In a sense every piece of fiction is a sbrt of autobiography. tt tt Not Literally True I DON’T mean in the exact events. For instance, in my book the mother left her child a few weeks after he was born, and the father had to bring him up. That didn’t really happen to my son. He had a mother and a grandfather and a couple of grandmothers and a nurse and any number of aunts to bring him up. I didn’t really have anything to do with it. And in addition he did a lot of bringing himself up on his own account. But, of course, the book was written around my dream—my imaginative picture of what I would have done if given the sole responsibility for a young child. That was probably founded on the fact that sometimes I did have to take him out on the nurse’s day off—take him out all by myself and wheel him through the park. A nuisance and a pleasure.

I remember I did work up a game. I used to take the carriage to the top of a steep hill and let it go. The child liked that. And I’d run along behind and catch hold again before the runaway go-cart could hit a tree or a bench or anything. I never tipped it up but twice. And even then the occupant sustained nothing more than minor bruises and contusions. But it was things like that which went into the book. Just as they should go in. Nobody can write convincingly of anything unless it is part of his emotional experience. I don’t mean that he must live through the incident literally. Once I was interviewing a prominent actress—this was quite a while ago —I was younger and much more dogmatic about things. I undertook to tell her that I didn’t think any actress should play a mother unless she had been a mother or a broken-hearted heroine without having a broken heart—or Maybe remembering back a couple of weeks when she did have One. * * m Actress Grows Haughty AND the great actress grew very haughty while I was explaining this theory. She drew herself up and gave me a hard look. “I hope, Mr. Broun,” she said, „that your theory is all nonsense. I think it is. You may be interested to Know that in my new star-

Vitamin G or B 2 is found in yeast, milk, lean meat and green leaves. It is found in dried peas, soy beans, eggs and in many vegetables. This vitamin is particularly important in relationship to the prevention of pellagra, a condition not particularly common where a widely varied diet is eaten, but likely to result where the diet is made up largely of molasses, meat, white flour and coffee. Not only is the condition of pellagra in man developed by this source of vitamin B, but its absence is associated also with a condition called black tongue in dogs and a skin condition like pellagra in rats. The demonstration by Goldberger and his associates that pellagra

ring vehicle, which opens next week, I’m playing the part of a courtesan.” I didn’t think that her performance ruined my theory absolutely. After watching her play I felt sure that she was a good woman—and a bad actress. It was easy to see she never had been an adventuress either on the stage or off. By now I have given up my theory about both writing and acting. You don’t have to live the precise life of the character which you are playing or writing about. Bqt you ought to have an understanding. Some experience close enough to give you insight. For instance, it wouldn’t be .necessary for a man to have gone through the war to write a war novel. But the writer must know what fear is. He could take his own fear of cows or police dogs or high places or something else and translate that into the hero’s fear of enemy guns. Fear is pretty much alike, wheth-

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ln The Times recently “A Democrat” expressed the opinions of many Democrats and maybe a few Republicans. Most Republicans are hardboiled and stand by the party if it takes the skin off. Well, they are being skinned along with the Democrats and enjoy the process of skinning about as well as the Democrats do. This applies to state administration, as well as national. President Hoover seems to be more concerned about the welfare of foreign nations than he is about his own. He advised a moratorium for the relief of Germany and other foreign debtors, but suggests none for the hard-pressed debtors of his own country. We now have hard times, a panic. It’s the third one hatched by the Republican party, beginning with the “Cleveland panic.” This was the direct result of the mal-admin-istration of President Ben Harrison that made it necessary for President Cleveland to borrow money to “make the mare go.” Then another panic under Roosevelt and now another under Hoover. Politics is the science of government, but it seems that the Republican politicians have not advanced beyond the political primer. The events of the past should be lessons for the future, but the Smoot-Haw-ley-Grundy tariff proves their absolute ignorance of cause and effect. Governor Leslie spent SIO,OOO of money earned by the taxpayers to fix up the house the state furnishes him in which to live. He approves the expenditure of $64,000 for cleaning the statehouse, the job being given to a Cincinnati firm, though a local responsible firm would have done the work for half the money if given a chance to bid. _ The underdog seems to be the taxpayer, state and national, and he is getting restless under the burden of responsibility for the extra :are required by the “higher-ups” whose services often are not commensurate with their salaries. A public official should give faithful service as well as a workman in a shop. S. M. CLICK. What is the length of the Panama canal? It is 40.27 statute miles from shore line to shore line, and about fifty statute mixes from deep water in the Atlantic to deep water in the Pacific.

could be prevented by yeast is resulting in the stamping out of this condition. Unfortunately the impetus given to the use of yeast as a panacea has resulted in a wide exploitation of this substance. Yeast may be considered essentially a vitamin B concentrate with slightly laxative effects. It will not cure pimples. It will not make a beauty out of a homely individual. It will not relieve cases of constipation and all of the disorders of digestion. It will do just about what could be expected from a combination of vitamin B 1 and B 2 as has been described in these articles.

. DV HEYWOOD BY BROUN

er it happens to be a fear of bullets or barking dogs. I speak as something of an authority on fear. In my time I’ve trembled in the presence of everything from microphones to hostile submarines. And better men than I have gone clammy in radio stations. I think it was Frank Knight who was telling me about Levine. Most of us have forgotten Levine. He flew across the ocean with Clarence Chamberlin, but he never got to be a popular hero. And yet I think he was an amazingly brave man. But chiefly I’m thinking of a flight which Levine did make all on his own. I think it ranks among the most sensational aerial achievements of all time. Levine was in Paris trying to get a pilot to fly him back to New York on the dangerous western passage which so few have accomplished. There was some sort of legal commotion between Levine and somebody else —a business mixup. So Levine got into the plane one afternoon and flew across the channel to England.

, u tt The Most Perilous Flight TTIS hop across the narrow channel under the circumstances was almost the equivalent of a flight by Lindbergh over the Pacific from New York to Tokio. By some miracle Levine found the British landing field at Croyden, outside of London. He circled around and then attempted to land. But he didn’t know the technique. He hit the ground, all right, but his plane was going much too fast and he bounced up again—thirty or fifty feet in the air. Another circle and another bounce. They got the field hospital out to pick up Levine when he landed. Such an achievement seems to me to represent reckless daring, and yet this same man was afraid to stand up before a microphone. Frank Knight told me about it. Arrangements were made for Levine to relate his experience over a national hookup. To make it easier for him the whole thing was written out in the form of an interview. Frank introduced him and then turned. There was no Levine. He couldn’t stand the ordeal. He had run home. (CoDyrieht. 1931. bv The Times)

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Ideals and opinion* expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without regard to their .>.? r . disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

_ r AUG. 2(7, 1981

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

A Gland the Size of a Hazel Nut, at the Base of the Brain, Determines Whether a Man Is Nortnal in size, a Giant or a Dwarf. A TINY gland no larger than a hazel nut determines whether a man is normal in size, a giant or a dwarf. Recent studies have shown that size is determined by whether or not the pituitary body, a ductless gland located at the base of the brain, is functioning normally or not. This tiny gland is a complicated structure, recent studies have shown, and it is probable that it plays an Important role in a number of important bodily functions. The pituitary body is classed among the ductless glands. These are organs which manufacture secretions known as hormones which are poured directly into the blood stream. The hormones play an important role in controlling the functions of the body. Thus, for example, thyroxin, the hormones secreted by the thyroid gland, control* the rate at which energy is released anu used within the body. The pituitary body presents a complicated problem because it manufactures more than one hormone. It secrets two, and possibly three, hormones. The pituitary body has a double origin in the embryo. The anterior or forward part of the gland rises from the roof of the mouth while the posterior or rear part develops on the floor of the brain. As the embryo develops, the two parts fuse together. a Causes Gigantism IN its final form the pituitary body is attached by a little stalk to the base of the brain. The anterior portion is divided into three distinct parts, known as the anterior lobe, the intermediate lobe and the “pars tuberalis,” a thin layer which surrounds the stalk. The posterior portion is known as the posterior lobe. Recent studies have shown that it is the anterior lobe which controls the size ~f the individual. If this lobe secretes too much of its hormone, the result is gigantism. An overgrowth of the bones of the hands, feet and face accompanies this type of gigantism. In recent experiments, young rats given extracts of anterior lobe of the pituitary body, grew to double their normal size. The anterior lobe of the pituitary also seems to have some effect on sexual processes. Rats and mice which were given extracts of this lobe became sterile. The posterior lobe presents a number of problems as yet unsolved. The extract of the posterior lobe, however, has marked effects which have made it useful in medicine. It causes contractions of the smooth muscle tissues and a marked increase in blood pressure. Recent work has led medical authorities to believe that there are several active substances present in the extract and that the substance which causes the contractions is not the same one that affects the blood pressure. Keep in Balance ONE of the most interesting fields calling for investigation today is the relation between the various ductless glands. It is apparent to workers in the field that the normal functioning of the body represents a balance in which the various hormones from the different glands all play a role. Undoubtedly, the glands have certain influences upon each other. Recent experiments showed that when the thyroid gland was removed from tadpoles, they failed to develop into frogs but remained as tadpoles. Dr. B. M. Allen of the University of California has found that the same effect is obtained by removing the pituitary body. It would seem, therefore, that both the pituitary and the thyroid play an important role in the normal development and growth of the individual. One of the most interesting recent discoveries is that the breeding habits of the frog can be changed by means of implants of the anterior lobe of the pituitary. The ordinary leopard frog normally breeds only once a year, namely in April. It has been found In the laboratory of Professor F. M. Guyer at the University of Wisconsin that this frog can be made to breed in either the fall or winter by the us® of implants of the anterior lobe.

Daily Thought

The way of the just is uprightness; thou, most upright, doest weigh the path of the just.— Isaiah 26:7. There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.—Addison. Is the degree PhG. the same as PhC.? PhG. stands for graduate of pharmacy and is the minimum degree conferred upon students of pharmacy by accredited schools. PhC. stands for pharmaceutical chemist which requires post graduate and more advanced study in pharmacy and chemistry.