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Cut Those Rates Whatever stimulus comes to business from the new plan of credits will be lost in this city and state unless industry and business throw off the burden of utility extortions. These utilities handicap every other enterprise in this city by their high rates. The exactions in the state amount to as much as the cost of government. You do not tie a ball and chain to the leg of a half back in a desperate game. Europe found that it could not force every worker to carry a soldier to his job and still exist. No business can afford to carry the burden of unjust charges for essential utilities and then compete with communities that have fair rates. In preparing for whatever prosperity may come, the one big job is to get these rates down to a level of justice. The public service commission has announced that present fair rate of return is 5 per cent and not 7, and that the present basis is out of line. It will require a strong, determined and organized battle by citizens to get these principles translated into the monthly bills. It will require a determined, organized citizenship to combat the political and secret influences which these utilities now control over government. But the job must be done. The concern that controls the cost of electricity controls industry as much as the owner of slaves controlled the cotton industry before the Civil war. Enlist for the fight, and fight now. Reassurance The federal government has stepped in to prevent a national banking crisis. That is the significance of Tuesday night’s White House conference and President Hoover’s announcement of a program of action. Instead of letting matters drift further, the administration has faced the emergency and moved to meet It. The fact alone is one of the most reassuring that has come out of the depression. It should revive hope in the discouraged business community. President Hoover has assumed leadership. The people will not follow him blindly. But they will follow any reasonable line of march. The President’s program is not complete—and, by the nature of the case, It can not be at the moment. But it does attack the problem at the point of immediate emergency. That point is the jam of frozen assets which endangers many banks and blocks the free flow of normal credit for legitimate business. To break that jam, the President proposes the co-operation of unembarrassed banks in making advances on securities of closed banks to free part of the latter’s deposits. This process is g*ing forward and will relieve much distress this winter. Moreover, he has arranged for private mobilization of banking resources to form a $500,000,000 institution to rediscount frozen assets of banks which otherwise might be forced to the wall. Certainly that is an important move in the right direction. If that $500,000,000 fund is inadequate for the purpose, and if private sources fail to produce a sufficient amount, he apparently intends to bring federal funds to the rescue. Though he is not specific, that seems to be the purpose of his statement that he may ask congress to create a federal finance corporation, somewhat similar in character to the war finance corporation. Here again, Hoover is on a sound course. His proposal for broadening the eligibility provisions of the federal reserve act doubtless is necessary to make the assets of banks more liquid. Obviously, however, this is a two-edged weapon. Unless it is used with discretion, it can weaken more than strengthen the fundamental financial structure of the country. The test will be in the detailed provisions of the law. Hoover’s intimation that the congressional banking committees will be allowed sufficient time to consider this matter is fair enough. Since banks in agricultural communities suffered first, and perhaps have suffered most, his proposal that congress increase the capitalization of federal land banks is timely and reasonable. For some reason the President did not make his expected declaration for an extension of the oneyear war debt and reparation holiday to three years. There is little doubt, however, that he will be forced by events to that position—if not to outright cancellation. Unfortunately, the value of such moratorium extension or cancellation will n<jt be great if it is postponed too long. Frankly, we do not believe that the Hoover program as announced Tuesday night is adequate in itself. We believe the remedy must go beyond an improvement in the technical banking situation, important as that is. We believe that the government, among other things, must initiate a national planning systemsuch as proposed from different angles by Mr. Swope of General Electric and by Senator La Follette—to facilitate co-operation of industries as the President now is insisting on the co-operation of banks. And we believe that the government itself must stimulate buying and provide more jobs by public works than now are under way. All of that involves a recognition by the administration that it is the duty of the government to take over leadership in this peace emergency as it assumed power and direction during the war emergency. That the President has taken the first step in that leadership should be an occasion for national satisfaction. The Cost of Living The necessity of increasing the capacity of the people to buy is well understood by those seeking a way out of the depression. But there is danger that loose talk about the fall in the cost of living will multiply wage cuts where such cuts are not essential to a given industry. It is an unpleasant fact that total industrial wages >A

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have declined more rapidly than the price of things the farmer must buy. We quote from Ethelbert Stewart, United States commissioner of labor: “Between December, 1925, and June, 1931, wholesale prices of all commodities fell approximately 35 per cent, and the decline in food prices, both wholesale and retail, was almost as great. “But during the same period the cost of living of the working man’s family—made up of many other items besides food—fell only about 15 per cent, and, still more significant to the working man, the total amount disbursed as wages in manufacturing industry dropped almost 40 per cent. “This decrease of 40 per cent in pay roll does not mean, of course, that individual wage rates were cut in any such proportion. Most of the decline was due to the discharge of employes, to the pro-rating of jobs and to short-time w r ork. But it does mean that the income, and consequently the purchasing rower, of employes in manufacturing industries was less by 40 per cent than it was In 1925. . . . “In terms of wholesale prices, the dollar of 1925 increased in purchasing power to $1.48 in June, 1931, but in terms of total cost of living the dollar’s pur- - chasing power increased only to sl.lß. are thus, in actuality, two distinct ‘dollars’ —the dollar of commerce, or the wholesale dollar, which has increased in value 48 cents during this period, and the dollar of the home—that is, the cost-of-living dollar—which increased in value during the same period to the extent of 18 cents. “Meanwhile, as the number of dollars which the workers, at least those in manufacturing industries, had to spend had shrunk, as noted, by some 40 per cent, the workers attached to manufacturing industries, taken as a whole, had suffered far more from declining pay rolls than they gained from lowered prices on the things they had to buy, their net loss being roughly 30 per cent. “Similar detailed information for other groups of industrial workers is not available, but such as is avalable indicates that the situation of most other groups of workers has been little if any better than in manufacturing.”

The Tree Tax We are learning that many of our troubles might be less acute if our tax systems were overhauled. The timber industry has learned this, and it is reflected in a statement by a United States forest service economist who is making a forest taxation inquiry. He finds reforestation and development of commercial growing of timber is being retarded, pending solution of the lumber tax problem. If the real estate tax levies annually on the value of standing timber from twenty to seventy-five times, what can we expect but a halting of the reforestation movement? If the yield tax plays havoc with the revenues of counties where lumber is grown, how can it be expected that timber production will be encouraged? If there is not some rearrangement of tax systems, how can it be expected that farmers will heed the excellent advice to put part of their land in timber? This is a way, and a very good way, of cutting down production of other crops. But taxes appear to be delaying any general acceptance of this system. They will continue to do so until the timber states scan and revise their tax laws.

The Rev. Mr. Shuler’s Radio dos Angeles, home of the romantic Aimee, also is the field of the Rev. Robert P. Shuler. Mr. Shuler is, however, more than the pastor of Trinity Methodist South. He is a radio reformer. The Rev. Bob is not a pleasant person. He goes in for class, religious, and racial bigotry. His weekly broadcasts over his aerial pulpit KGEF are,* however, potent, because he wades in and assails people and their reputations right and left, high and low. He is credited with having defeated the former Governor and many times he has had Los Angeles by the ear. His KGEF violates not only good grammar, good taste, good will; it violates what many Californians consider fair play. A formal complaint, therefore, has been lodged with the radio commission against renewal of his license. He there is charged with having stirred passions, resorted to sly innuendo, even slander. Examiner Eliis Yost, while admitting many df the charges, recommends renewal. Mr. Shuler is not only a vulgarian and a braggart, but. he seems to have missed the whole spirit of the religion he preaches and become a town gossip and scold. However, it is hoped that the radio commission renews his license. The Shuler radio case is an issue of free speech. Short of actual slander or libel, for which the courts give remedy, even the Shulers must be heard. The federal radio act forbids censorship. Examiner Yost has upheld the l&w and the Constitution by his recommendation. Absolute freedom of speech, especially for those whose ideas we loathe, is a safeguard of democracy.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THAT woman is going to make man over according to her own ideas is the opinion of Norman Lindsay, Australian novelist. He may be right. But for the sake of controversy and columns, I hope that day will be far in the future. When the time comes that all men are what women wish them to be. life and marriage will be very dull affairs. For the first decade now, the real zest of matrimony comes from the primeval feminine urge to make husbands over and the effort that attends it. The bride may have heard that this feat is impossible, but that does not deter her from attempting it. She goes to her job with the fond belief that in her case victory is assured. Once she can rid her husband of certain defects, certain little habits, he may rise to the heights of fame, and in time, she dreams, will appear the ideal person whom she always has seen lurking behind his outward semblance. Moreover, she is perfectly sure that this transformation her heart is set on will be easy. tt a tt THEN comes disillusion. And the second ten years, if she is a sensible woman, will be as zestful as the first, because during that period she will be learning to accept the reality of her husband, adjusting hei personality to fit his ideals. And by that time she has figured it out that she may be wasting energy on reforming him, so she begins to concentrate upon all his pleasant traits, instead of brooding on those she dislikes. Then one day she discovers that he is a pretty grand person after all, and that maybe he wouldn't be half so nice if she had changed him into somebody else. And here, it seems to me, is the hitch in Mr. Lindsay’s theory. If we could make the men over, do you suppose we’d love them so well, now that all our fond dreams of reformation are s|jl with us?

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

That the Short Seller Is Standing in the Way of General Recovery Should Be Obvious to Every One. NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—The New York Stock Exchange has curbed short selling twice within the last few weeks. On each occasion the market reacted quickly and favorably. It takes real obstinacy to regard this as a mere coincidence. What more is needed to show how the investing public feels toward short selling? Why should the investing public buy stocks, with the possibility of a bear raid dragging them down 5 or 10 pionts at any moment, regardless of their honest worth? tt u tt Represents Real Handicap OCOLDING does no good. As long as speculators can sell short, they will. It’s one of the easiest ways to make money at other people’s expense. Depression is the short seller’s clover patch. All he has to do is drift with the tide and help push things a little lower. That he stands in the way of recovery should be obvious to any one. Whatever may be said for short selling in normal times, it certainly represents a real handicap when the big problem is to restore confidence and sustain values. u tt No Idle Warning Democratic congressman ADOLPH SABBATH of Illinois utters no idle warning when he tells President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange that if the latter organization doesn’t do something to check short selling, congress will act. The country at large is aroused over this matter much more thoroughly than some folks realize, and if the federal government is forced to take a hand, it is likely to go much farther. tt tt tt Stabilization Is Needed According to experts, the business slump represents a decline of about 23 per cent. Now just compare that with the decline of some major stocks, the price of cotton, or other values in which speculation plays a dominant part. It makes little odds whether stocks were too high in 1929, or whether they are too low right now. The important point is that there has been unnecessary and undesirable fluctuation in either case. The same thing is true of cotton and wheat. We talk much about the stabilization of employment and wages, but it won’t bring the blessings we expect unless it is accompanied by greater stabilization in the commodity and financial markets.

It Has Enough 'fi ''HERE is enough risk and speculation in legitimate business, without the introduction of systems and methods to enhance them. The weather, climate, and fads leave plenty for private enterprise to worry about and investors to gamble with. Big as United States Steel may be, it has enough on its hands without fighting speculative influences. The cotton and wheat farmers have more than enough. * x\ a Due to the Craze DURING the last decade, we seen values see-saw, without leason. The gains and losses may have offset earn other to a large extent, but diversion of credit has wrought permanent and irremedial injury in many cases. For two or three years preceding the crash of 1929, the liquid cash of this country was mobilized largely around the call market, when it ought to have been abroad in the land, strengthening every sort of activity. We can admit that this was due to a speculative craze which included most everybody and still see the folly of it. a a a Greed Is to Blame AS the late Senator Dwight Morrow said, greed on the one hand and an unfair distribution of income on the other did much to land us where we are. Those who had much w'anted more, and did what they could to perfect the right kind of set-up for getting it. We were advised to be kind to large incomes, on the theory that they would be returned to us in the form’ of increased business, and to let the speculators pile up more capital to finance new and larger enterprises. Small investors were counseled to be content with 4 or 5 per cent in savings banks, building and loan associations, or bonds, while big investors made 15 or 20 per cent with call money, or even more by speculating. aa a ' Ought to Practice THE small investors were given good advice, which those who took it well know, but the big investors made a tragic mistake, not only for themselves, but for the suckers who followed them. Capital does not represent safety, or anything approaching it, when the returns are as large as they were just before the crash. Four or 5 per cent is about all that can be paid for invested capital under reasonable restrictions. That is something w’hich our financial leaders not only ought to preach, but practice. How many persons are unemployed in the world and in the United States? The latest estimate of unemployment throughout the world was published by the International Labor Office of the League of Nations in Geneva last November and contained some statistics, admittedly incomplete, for the twenty principal industrial countries of the yorld, from the latest figures then available. The estimated total for these twenty countries was 11,509,000 persons unemployed. The total for the world is perhaps as many as fifteen million. The total numDer unemployed in the United States in January, 1931, was estimated on the basis of a special census in principal industrial cities to be 6,050,000 persons. ,

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Surgery Solves Acute Gall Trouble

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. A SMALL gallstone lying in the gallbladder seldom causes severe symptoms, although at times inflammation associated with the

The People’s Voice Wandering Minds Cause Death tt a tt tt tt Motorists Don’t Keep Thoughts on Their Work, So Heavy Life Toll Is Result.

Editor Times One hundred twenty-one lives in nine and onehalf months! I wonder if any one ever thinks the same as I do—that most of the accidents are caused, not because the car is out of control, but because the driver is not on the job. By that, I mean that his mind is somewhere else. Take one of the accidents just the other night. In the account given in the newspaper the car was traveling between twenty and twen-ty-five miles an hour. Now, we all know that a car is not out of control at that speed, but the accident happened just the same. Surely, the operator was not on the job. In another issue of The Times an article told about Judge Sheaffer fining a youth SBS and revoking his driver’s license for a year. Good work, judge! Keep it up! I think that a drunken driver is the most dangerous kind of motorist. He not only risks his own neck (which surely he does not consider much), but every one anywhere near him. If every time one of these drivers was caught, he was given a fine such as this youth received and in all cases the driving license revoked, perhaps the others would take heed and not try to get by with mixing liquor and gasoline. Also, I have noticed that on a rainy evening, or any other time, in fact, when there are more cars on the street than usual, there is a cop about every thirty or forty cars. Asa rule, about the only thing they do is get tough and bawl the ears off of some motorist because he does not keep in line or some other minor detail. The other evening I was crossing the street where the traffic was lined solid for a (block and the officer ordered several cars out of the car tracks. I crossed the street and went the same direction that these several cars were going. And here was another officer giving these same drivers the devil for not staying in line. If you want to see something funny, just drop around to Illinois and Market streets some time and watch that officer fighting the few cars that come his way. A MOTORIST. Editor Times —In answer to item under People’s Voice, Sept. 16, as to what becomes of the balance of the difference in value of groceries doled out to poverty-stricken citizens, I would say, ask the overpaid clerks of the organizations that give out the passes to the breadlines, and the basket of groceries. Forty to sixty dollars a week to women to sit in judgment on whether you and your family are deserving of their help. This office and equipment would buy coal and groceries for a hundred families. While large storerooms are vacant, why should the money go to pay the exorbitant rent they do pay? I ask also, is this the land of the free and the home of the brave? Is it then true that because there is not enough employment of the right kind in the world for honorable men, we are put to work on prisoners’ fare to fatten purses already fat, to march in the chain gang to build roads we citizens i pay taxes for? FELLOW CITIZEN. Editor Times—Prohibition! What a fake. It is ruining more homes than any other cause. Investigation would bar all others. Men are like some children—if they are not allowed to have something they will get /it by hook or crook. If they are free to get it, then they don’t care anything about it. As it is, they are taking their weekly earnings, spending them on rotgut, chen go home to kill their wives or beat them and little innocent children to a pulp, then call the county trustee and family welfare to feed and keep a roof over their familfcts' heads, while they,

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presence of the stone may produce pain, vomiting and other serious disturbances. When the stone begins to move out of the gallbladder and through the ducts or tubes that carry the bile from the gallbladder to the intestines, it may become blocked in

the cowards, hide behind their children to keep off the penal farm. Put the breweries back to work. Give them their beer and wines. Put millions back to work, lessen depression, crime and drunks. Save the homes. MRS. T. H. P. Editor Times —What is home without a father? But what good is that father without employment? I am a young healthy, married man with four small children, two of whom I am trying to keep in school. I can drive any make truck or car, also I am a mechanic with a full set of tools. Am willing to drive anywhere and work day and night. If I could only make ten or twelve dollars a week to keep my wife and babies, I gladly would do so. Didn’t someone say they didn’t believe anybody went hungry in Indianapolis last winter?’They certainly are not acquainted with the working class of people or little school children. I know that there were plenty who went to school hungry last year. But my heart aches for them this year, as so many have to accept charity. In my estimation, that is as bad as committing a crime, as a man who has to accept charity as it stands today is blackened all the rest of his life. Show me a real man who would not rather work for almost nothing than to accept charity. TIMES READER. Editor Times *— Governor R. S. Sterling of Texas is right on not approving a cotton holiday bill if passed by the Texas legislature. We do not need such legislation as that to relieve us of this Republican panic. What we do need is: First—The repeal of the HawleySmoot tariff bill, so that the manufacturers that belong in the United States and have gone out on account of the tariff, will come back and put the people in the United States to work instead of the people in other countries where our manufacturers have gone to escape the boycott other countries have put on account of the tarifff. Then, instead of sending money lenders abroad, send some salesmen to sell our goods and open the ports of the foreign countries so we will have a market for what we raise and manufacture in our good old United States and put our own people back to work. Second—Separate church and state. We do not need politicians in the guise of ministers to hypnotize good people of our state and nation and have them, while under the hypnotic influence of such hypocritical politicians, to do the very thing that is a dterrent to them and to the whole country. I say we do not need ministers of that sort. What we do need is ministers for the salvation of the soul and not the dollar. Morality is born in the person and begins at the mother’s knee, and if it is not bom in the child all the statutes you can write will not help them. The childhood shows the man as the morning shows the day. Third—The repeal of the hypocritical prohibition amendment that was passed by the people while under the hypnotic influence of the preacher-politician, and while thousands of real men were out of our country trying to keep our good old United States in accordance with : the fourteenth amendment of our Constitution. Fourth When Jimmie Watson and Arthur R. Robinson present themselves—if they have nerve enough to do so at the next election—for the people to vote for hanging them, officially, anyway. When these four things are done, the Republican-panic will be over and we all will be making livings as well as a few money lenders. -i J - E B-

its passage; then serious symptoms intervene. Long ago Sir William Osier described the symptoms of stone in the gall bile duct as’ including paroxysmal and collicky pains, chills, fever and jaundice, followed by periods of complete freedom from the symptoms. The reason for this intermittent character is the fact that the stone passes through and the symptoms are relieved until another stone comes down. Sometimes the stone may lie in the tube and not obstruct it until an inflammation occurs, when the passing of the bile is stopped. Associated with this, infection may take place. Severe jaundice follows and the patient is seriously sick. Os course, the X-ray sometimes helps in locating stones and methods are now available for visualizing the gallbladder by the use of an injected substance. In any disease of mechanical origin of this character, the treatment is quite obvious. It is necessary to open the abdomen, find the spot at which the stone is blocking the bile passage and then to remove it surgically. At the same time, the surgeon makes sure that all other stones in the tube and in the gallbladder are removed. Indeed, it is common practice to remove the gallbladder completely in such cases, provided that the operative risk is not increased by this work. Thousands of patients have been treated by this method with remarkable success. The mortality is not great from the operation, and in the vast majority of cases, the patients—more than 95 per cent—are relieved permanently of symptoms.

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URUGUAY IN BREAK October 7

ON Oct. 7, 1917, Uruguay officially broke relations with Germany by decree of the president. All the functionaries were ordered to withdraw from German territory. The chamber of deputies voted in favor of the rupture by 74 to 23 The president of Uruguay previously (June 20) had issued an order announcing that “no American country which, in defense of its own right, should find itself in a state of war with nations of other continents will be treated as a belligerent.” President Viera, in his message to parliament, declared that the Uruguayan government had not received any direct offense from Germany, but that it was necessary to espouse the cause of the defenders of justice, democracy, and small nationalities. Uruguay, with other neutrals, had teen a sufferer of Germany’s U-boat warfare, and Uruguay’s international rights otherwise had been disregarded.

We All Make Em Mistakes in the use of the English language are common enough, but a little thought and attention to simple rules and a memorizing of words frequently misused and mispronounced will help any one to the use of good English. We lose caste if careless with our language. Our Washington bureau has ready for you a bulletin on Common Errors in English, which, if read carefully and referred to when in doubt, will improve your English, if you, like most people make careless errors. y ’ Fill out the coupon below and send for this bulletin. It might mean the difference between getting and losing a job. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 150, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin Common Errors in English and inclose herewith 5 cents m coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name St. and No City state I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No)

OCT. 7, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

Under Three New Scientific Concepts, the World and Matter Become So Many “ Humps’ ’ in Space Time. THREE new concepts of twentieth century science have destroyed completely the old com-mon-sense view of the nature of the universe, in the opinion of Gen. Jan C. Smuts, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. These three concepts are: 1. The electron theory. 2. The Einstein theory of relativity. 3. The quantum theory. The electron theory was the first of the three to be established and is most easily grasped by the layman. It states that the atoms of matter are in their turn composed of positive and negative electrons. For this reason, it is sometimes called the theory of the electrical nature of matter. As General Smuts points out its basic effect, from the scientific viewpoint, was to dissolve matter into electrical energy. “Matter itself, the time-honored mother of all,” said General Smuts, “practically disappeared into electrical energy.”

Matter Disappears THE layman found it difficult to accept electrical energy in place of the solid atoms of matter of which he had grown accustomed to thinking. But with the development of relativity, even electrical energy melted into something yet less tangible. This, as General Smuts pointed out, was due to the fact that time was given anew role in the universe by relativity. It was realized that time did not exist by itself but was an integral part of the universe, united with space to form “space-time.” Under this new theory, matter became a part of space-time. The material world, according to this new view, consists merely of the curvatures and unevenness of spacetime. Matter becomes, as it were, so many humps in space-time. “The new concept has made it possible to construe matter, mass and energy as but definite measurable conditions of curvature in the structure of space-time,” says General Smuts. “Assuming that electro-magnetism eventually will follow the fate o£ gravitation, we may say that spacetime then will appear as the scientific concept for the only physical reality in the universe and that matter and energy in all their forma will have disappeared as independent entities and will have become mere configurations of this spacetime.”

Reason Contradicted THE “space-time world” will seem the pinnacle in revolutionary advance to many readers, but the effect of the quantum theory is even more revolutionary. General Smuts says, “The spacetime world, however novel, however shattering to common sense, is not in conflict with reason. Indeed, the space-time world is largely a discovery of the mathematical reason and is an entirely rational world. “It is a world where reason, as itl were, dissolves the refractoriness of the old material substance and smooths it out into forms of spacetime. Science, which began with empirical brute facts, seems to be heading for the reign of pure reason. “But wait a bit; another fun lamental discovery of our age has apparently taken us beyond the bounds of rationality, and is thus even more revolutionary than that of space-time. I refer to the quantum theory, Max Planck’s discovery at the end of the nineteenth century, according to which energy is granular, consisting of discrete grains or quanta. “The world in space-time is a continuum; the quantum action is a negation of continuity. Thus arises the contradiction, not only of common sense, but apparently also of reason itself. “The quantum appears to behave like a particle, but a particle out of space or time. As Sir Arthur Eddington graphically puts it, a quantum of light is large enough to fill the lens of a 100-inch telescope, but it is also small enough to enter an atom. “It may spread like a circular wave through the universe, but when it hits its mark, this cosmic wave instantaneously contracts to a point where it strikes with its full and undivided force. Space-time, therefore, does not seem to exist for the quantum, at least not in its lower multiples.”

Daily Thought

It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.—Proverbs 21:19. Most of their faults women owe to us, whilst we are indebted to them for most of our better qualities.—Charles Lemesle.