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One Hundred Suggestions If you lack any Idea of how you can bring back prosperity, write to the committee named by Governor Leslie to relieve distress for unemployed workers in the building industry for a compilation of its 100 suggestions. The theory of the committee is fine. It is to make lobs where none existed before. It rests upon the very sound theory that the one cure for joblessness is work. True, the committee is not yet convinced that society as a whole should furnish the jobs. It depends upon the voluntary response to its suggestions on the part of those who own homes either for occupancy or rent. Near the top of its list of ways in which work can be found for those who lack work is that every one build a recreation room in the basement of their home. Here, surely, is something that will find a wide and ready response and will undoubtedly solve the whole problem of unemployment. True, not many know the pleasure of recreation in a cellar. There are still benighted citizens who prefer to stay on the loftier levels of their houses, and who have never yet discovered the delights that come from gamboling in the subcellars. The modern home should send men to the cellars. Therefore, the way back to prosperity lies in converting the coalroom into a replica of a Turkish, or mayhap a Spanish, type of retreat, where, far from the rest of the family, the head of the house may mingle with congenial souls and forget his own troubles. Real estate men and owners of rental property will unquestionably respond at once. They will be ashamed to take rent from any citizen until they have provided him with such a haven for his weariness. Os course, if you are not yet up to a recreation basement, you can help out by wiring your home for a loud speaker in every room. The state tells you that it is quite possible to have at least a. dozen amplifications of tooth paste advertisements from the same set. There are ninety-eight more suggestions, all just as fine and as sensible and of as wide appeal as these. Truly, the solution has been found. We are on our way out, or is it down, by the recreation basement road to prosperity?

Justice Brandeis Fifteen years ago the man whose birthday anniversary today has brought him rare tributes of love and admiration was waiting for senate approval of his nomination to the United States supreme court. Louis Dembitz Brandeis was criticised as radical, as too intense a partisan, as lacking in judicial temperament. Today he is acclaimed as one of the greatest justices the supreme court has known, as one of its members most learned in the law, and in economics, finance and everyday life as well. Fifteen years ago President Woodrow Wilson, who sent his name to the senate for confirmation, said of Brandeis: “I can not speak too highly of his impartial, impersonal, orderly, and constructive mind, his rare analytical powers, his deep human sympathy, his profound acquaintance with the historical roots pf our institutions, and insight into their spirit, or of the many evidences he has given of being imbued to the very heart with our American ideals of justice and equality of opportunity ... or of his genius in getting persons to unite in common and harmonious action and look with frank and kindly eyes into each other's minds, who before had been heated antagonists. This friend of justice and of men will ornament the high court, of which we are all so justly proud.” A tribute seldom has been justified so overwhelmingly. And in recent years, when there has been less ‘•just pride” of the country in the high court, the presence there and the work of Lcuis Brandeis has strengthened and restored men’s faith in it. Probably a complete estimate of Brandeis’ influence and achievement, on the supreme court never will be possible. Yet it is evident in the thought of his fellow justices and in all who have come in contact -with him. He said once, “Instead of amending the Constitution, I would amend men's economic and social ideals,” and that is what he slowly is accomplishing. Would Repeal End the Depression? It has been asserted frequently and authoritatively that the repeal of the eighteenth amendment or even the legalization of light wines and beer—would go far toward lifting us out of the depression. John Sullivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, has said that modification of the Volstead act would give employment to 1,500,000 persons. Other labor leaders have made approximately similar estimates, in which they have been joined by many conservative bankers, industrialists, and lawyers. Let us look into the facts. They are assembled and analyzed admirably by G. B. Granger in an issue of Editorial Research Reports. In the first place, it must be remembered that repeal or modification would not mean liquor in all forty-eight states. Before the amendment went into force, in only fifteen states could liquor be sold legally. Since that time Nevada and Montana have repealed their state prohibition law's. That would give seventeen states in the booze column. There is no doubt that repeal or thorough-going modification greatly would increase federal revenues. It would net the federal treasury about $1,000,000,000, mainly in liquor taxes. We would save about $40,000,000 in the direct cost of enforcement. The wet states might collect some more through revival oi the legal liquor traffic. So those who hold that public income, federal and state, would be increased notably are quite right. But it appears that none of the other notable economic gains claimed can be substantiated by a calm examination of the facts. Before prohibition, about 285,000 persons were employed in making and selling liquor and in manufacturing barrels, boxes, bottles, labels, etc. Some 169,000 of these were employed as bar-tenders and saloonkeepers. These would not be re-employed after repeal, unless one concedes the legalization of the saloon, which even many wets oppose. Therefore, even if one assumes that liquor consumption would be as great in 1932 as in 1914, there could not be work for more than 150,000 at the very outside. The minimum estimate of those now making a living in the illicit manufacture and sale of liquor is 500 000. Therefore, repeal or modification certainly would increase rather than decrease unemployment. Nor would repeal or modification do much to improve the agricultural situation. It is by no means certain that much more grain would be used than now is consumed in producing bootleg liquor. Further, there has been a great increase in the use of grain tor industrial alcohol—ten million bushels in

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1930 as against less than a million and a half in 1920. Impartial and competent estimates state that repeal or modification certainly would create no increased demand for com or grapes. There would be an increased demand for barley, rye, wheat, and hops, but this would not be sufficient to remove a drop from the bucket of our agricultural overproduction and depression. Even the increased demand for barley would amount to only about 22,000,000 bushels at the outside —some 6.6 per cent of the 1930 crop. On the other hand, repeal and modification might constitute a slight blow to the dairy and grape industries, which have been stimulated by prohibition. We need not try to decide the validity of the dry claims to the effect that prohibition greatly has increased thrift, productivity, and all other economic virtues. Indeed, we may discount all this and still be faced with the fact that legalized liquor would not aid unemployment or agricultural problems greatly. It would increase federal revenue, which might be used for public works and thus stimulate employment possioilities, but there is no assurance that such would be the disposition of the new revenues. It might be that the chief economic benefit of prohibition would be one which can not be measured in terms of dollars, bushels, or gallons—namely, a psychological impulse which we so much need right now. Fallacious as the belief might be, in actual figures, the popular notion that repeal would help us back on our feet can not be ignored as an item in popular psychology. set this certainly would not be enough to perform any decisive function. It would be a pat on the back where we need a hearty push. There are many, and probably sufficient, reasons why the egihteenth amendment should be repealed, but it will not help any to make unsupportable assertions about its contribution to the economic rehabilitation of the United States.

War Profit's Thirteen years ago, when war’s blood and terror had marked us deeply, our whole thought was concerned with finding a means to end war. With the lessons of 1917 and 1918 fresh in our minds, we saw clearly the relation between war and war profits, and accepted the fact that as long as war profits are possible war will occur. The conscripted men who served in the army and navy resented profoundly that some men should be made to die for a dollar a day, or live on, crippled, with even less, while other men reaped a harvest of gold from the ground fertilized with their blood. Today we still talk of taking profits out of war, but listlessly, without conviction. ,A committee of congress recommended, in 1921, while war was still real to us, that it be made treasonable—therefore punishable by death—to profit from w'ar. Now another committee of congress and cabinet members has completed a study of war profits which presents a strikingly different picture. It concerned itself principally with the extent of possible profits—limiting them at 6 or perhaps 7 per cent. It exhibits deep respect for the due compensation clause of the Constitution. Will it take another war to make us feel deeply on this question again? Must we wait till we sit, despairing, in a sea of blood and death, before we will grow angry enough, determined enough, to really end war profits? It is not that the matter is so difficult of solution. The railroads made profits during the war. They did perform our war demands .efficiently. We know how to take profits out of war. We know, and if we care enough we can. The w'ar policies commission should recommend to congress adequate, w'hole-hearted action to take the profits out of w'ar. — > Several corporations are alleged to have made a senator a gift of SIOO,OOO to lobby for a sugar tariff. That was sweet of them. New' Jersey is eliminating forty-one grade crossings. Which means that hard times are coming to Jersey repairmen, doctors and undertakers. Senator Norris proposes giVflig the unemployed highway work, and that will put several thousand more on the road. A Texas college is giving a course In canoeing. Canoe imagine that? At least nowdays your business man can’t be spoofing the missus about working overtime on big orders it the office. Newspapers the country over say Gloria Swanson may be bigamous. But ten million people will be going ;o the movies to see for themselves.

Just Every Day Sense * BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

QNE hears, occasionaly that women are tired of equality and freedom and would like to go back to the days of sheltered domestic life. As is true of other generalities, this statement is an exaggeration. No reasonable being should expect any change In the statur. of the feminine to bring complete happiness to every woman, just as no struggle for liberty ever has brought complete freedom to every man. To consider this question sensibly, we need only ask ourselves one question: Does the twentieth century offer more possibilities for women’s happiness than the eighteenth? There be but one answer to that. The affirmative. Would the world be a better place for girls if the majority of women had to marry at 18 and bear mimerous children, and if they had no opportunity to cultivate individual talents or to realize other ambitions? It should be a foregone conclusion that this is merely a stupid query. 9 9 9 A GOOD many women are miserable these days not because of current bpinion, but for the reason that they are not able to decide what is meant Dj’ happiness or what constitutes content for themselves. Many others, of course, are caught, along with the men. in the grip of an economic disaster which no one seems able to avert. We suffer, too, from a sort of spiritual blindness. The sudden surge into the sunlight of freedom into which we were thrust so precipitately after the war has resulted in a vast confusion which we of this decade have witnessed. With time's softening perspective the woman movement will not look the same. At any rate, I smile when I hear that if we could return to the good old days, we should find happiness there. I can imagine the wails of consternation and protest and hear in fancy the wild scrambling that would take place if such a. thing could be It is easier to deride our freedom than to give it up.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We're Learning Not Only How to Do Things, hut What Is More Important, How to Do Them Decently. NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Those eleven castaways who were rescued, after drifting about for days in an open boat on the Caribbean sea, can thank the airplane. But for the alert pilot who discovered and reported their plight, they probably would have furnished the world with one more unexplained shipping disaster. In this connection, the airplane is doing a lot to make life easier and more interesting outside the field of transportation. Among other things, it is being used to kill mosquitoes, spray crops, detect forest fires, and make maps. KM* A Move for Safety ONE of the greatest air transportation companies has decided to curtail the operating life of its planes by about one-half. Hitherto, it has been proceeding on the assumption that planes and plane engines were good for 4,000 or 5,000 hours. A thorough survey by experts indicates that engines can not be used with “perfect safety” after 2,000 hours, or planes after 2,500 or 3,000. Believing that safety is the most desirable object, the company will scrap both when they have beenin use that long. MUM Learning All the Time WE’RE learning not only how to do things, but, what is vastly more important, how to do them decently. Time was when people thought it smart to get away with anything they could, to send out rotten ships, overload excursion boats, sell shoddy goods, shortweight customers, adulterate food and water milk. Some do It still, but they belong to a rapidly dwindling minority. Business, especially of the substantial sort, has accepted the idea j that honesty is the best policy and ! that service pays. u n * Something Has Happened j SPEAKING cf business, Raymond i Clapper of the United Press, reports Wall street as inclined to believe that the tide really has turned. That is what you might call reassuring, for of all blue places in a blue country during two blue years, Wall street has been the bluest. Something must have happened, though no one seems to know just what, or why. Maybe, it’s the rise in wheat; maybe, Wall street has at last waked up to the fact that farming really counts. * * n And More Taxes BUSINESS will have to improve fast and furiously to pull Uncle Sam out of the hole. Just before closing their convention at White Sulphur Springs the other day, investment bankers predicted a federal deficit of $2,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending next June. * You know what that implies, just as well as I do—more economies on the one hand, and more taxes on the other. * It’s Congress’ Problem WHERE are we going to get more taxes —out of big incomes, out of luxuries, or by some new scheme? It’s a problem for congress, and it has leaders worried mightily. No one wants to see anything done that might prevent, or even retard recovery from the depression, and no one wants to see anything done that might alienate votes. Still, the money must be had, and lots of it. The one consoling thought is that the nation as a whole has an adequate supply and that the people have learned some valuable lessons from their recent experience, j which will find reflection at Washington. * *r -* It Will Do Us Good THERE is nothing like a little adversity and disappointment ■to make people think straight. When this slump is over, all of us are going to find ourselves a little better because of it, a little more careful with our cash and credit, a little more considerate toward those in trouble.

People’s Voice

Editor Times —Having done an humble task, reclining in umbrageous coolness and observing the benefit his hoeing has effected, one is in fine mood for conceiving notions. Solomon warned unceasingly of the folly of pride. Man’s egotism is ever a source of woe, provoking disturbances great and small. He should not take himself so seriously. Under the feet of the gods, he is of no more consequence than the insect he heedlessly destroys. And he is in the ridiculous position of battling these same insects for his food. Philosophers are especially given to vanity. Theirs is a sheltered life, amongst books, pondering abstract theories, delving into mysteries. Every philosopher, professor, columnist, should keep pigs, raise potatoes, cut his winter’s fuel; do some labor to prevent him becoming too exalted. All citizens in the ideal state will share in the menial work necMsary to maintenance of their sdciety. Many think themselves very superior creatures, as though God had turned out a special job in their person, and they become snobbish. Snobbishness is the defense mechanism of the truly inferior. How Brisbane’s writings might be improved had he an acre of potatoes to care for; at least, he would have less time to write. And Calvin Coolidge! (No, the theory does not collapse here, though Calvin has raked hay; remember, he wore a white collar.) Calvin needs more than a potato patch. He should have a hundred-acre farm, heavily mortgaged. If many of our wise men and intellectual bullies had to mix real worry and scriptural sweat with their ideas, how their sympathies might be broadened and their perception improved. PAUL.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Anemia Likely to Follow Infections

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. INFECTION of the human body from any cause, indeed any type of wasting or so-called debilitating disease, is likely to be followed promptly by a deterioration In the quality of the blood. This deterioration takes the form of anemia. It may follow hemqprhage, malnutrition, pregnancy, infestation with hookworm, malaria, Bright’s disease, tuberculosis, cancer, or any one of a number of similar cahses. So much has been learned about anemia since the discovery of the value of liver in pernicious anemia that the person with this type of disorder can now be treated successfully in the vast majority of cases. It is recognized that anemias represent a deficiency in the hemoglobin or the red coloring matter of the blood, a deficiency in

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WHO does Herbert Hoover think he is? I am aware of the fact that the office of President of the United States carries with it certain authority and power. But it never has been customary to throw any protective screen around our executive to safeguard him from verbal attack. Mr. Hoover seems to have leaned farther toward a conception of lese majeste than any other man in the White House. It must be remembered that criticism of the President has been extremely severe from the very beginning of our republic. George Washington, although hailed in his own lifetime as the father of his country, was abused like a stepfather by many people during his second term. Lincoln was assailed with great harshness, even by northern supporters. And few have passed the portals of Washington without hearing their share of criticism. # n President or City Editor? OF course much of it has been unfair. Possibly it may be argued that the dignity of the office should temper the phraseology j of the attacks. But this is not the rule. Woodrow Wilson certainly went through . an ordeal of abuse far more vicious j than anything aimed at Herbert Hoover. If Mr. Hoover kept his history nearer to his fingertips, he might remember that his lot is precisely the same as that of practically every other President. But he seems to forget. Almost alone among our executives, President Hoover has undertaken to discipline certain newspaper correspondents and others who have dared to question his

m today m IS THE- Vs WORLD WAR V ANNIVERSARY

PAINLEVE RESIGNATION November 13 ON Nov. 13, 1917, after sixty days of existence, the Painleve ministry of France was forced to resign, following its defeat in the chamber of deputies. The Socialists refused to support the government. The crisis came in the night diming a debate over the government’s lack of firmness in dealing with the 8010 Pasha scandals. Georges Clemenceau, heading a new government, formed anew cabinet within forty-eight hours, establishing a speed record. In addition to the premiership, Clemenceau took the war portfolio. Stephen Pichon was made foreign secretary. ’ He had held the same portfolio in 1910 and was known as a relentless advocate for the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine. Twenty-four survivors of the D. N. Luckenback, sunk in the Bay of Biscay on Oct. 27, 1917, arrived in an Amercian port with a story of the sinking, in which five of the crew were killed.

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the formation of the red blood cells, or an increased rate of destruction of the red blood cells. It is known that iron is necessary for the development of the product called hemoglobin, that liver contains some factor which is of importance in stimulating the formation of the red blood cells and that the vitamins are frequently of value in aiding such formation. There seems to be no doubt that liver is most effective in the type of anemia called pernicious anemia, when the difficulty probably lies in the formation of the red blood cells in the bone marrow. Many infections cause increased destruction of red blood cells and at the same time interfere with the formation of blood. Obviously therefore It is of the greatest importance to control the infection rather than to stimulate the formation of any blood cells. If the infection is brought under control and the increased destruc-

judgment. In the matter of the Navy League row my sympathy goes entirely to the President. Here, at least, is one dispute in which I find myself on the side of Mr. Hoover. But, then, to me the phrase “congenital pacifist” is a tribute and not an insult. To me the members of the Navy League are at best jingoistic meddlers. And I gravely suspect that this is charitable in regard to some of the motives unleashed by this organization. Certainly in the past it has been possible to prove a direct connection between the manufacturers of armament and at least a few of the super patriots. n a u Let the Public Decide A7”ET there is one point in the -*■ controversy in which I am compelled to concede that the President is entirely wrong. I think it a little silly for him to demand an apology from his accuser, particularly as that apology is to be based upon the findings of a board appointed by the President himself. It would be news indeed if a presidential commission of any sort brought in findings totally at variance with the opinion of its chief. And so I think it would be far more shrewd for Mr. Hoover simply to spread all the available facts in front of the public and let us decide who is right and who is wrong. Asa matter of fact, it is a misconception of the situation to dwarf it into a personal issue between William H. Gardiner and the President. After all, if a greater amount of money is to be spent on naval preparation it will come out of our pockets and from neither Mr. Gardiner nor Mr. Hoover. We should constitute the logical jury. And this same rule ought to hold good in other disputes. Any President of the United States ought to remember that a large part of his function is impersonal. Things said about him do not, in most cases, reflect upon him as an individual but solely upon his official attitudes. Moreover, this crumb of comfort belongs to' every person set upon the high hill of our national lifeeven if a President is good there are a lot of us who will not like him. \ MUM What About Constitution? lAM amazed at the lawlessness which is fomented by various agencies of prohibition enforcement. Much has been said about the anarchistic tendencies of those who imbibe so much as a single cocktail. But this same charge holds good against those on the other side. I do not refer now to the various holes which have been punched in the Constitution in the matter of violations of the bill of rights. I have something more specific in mind. The W. C. T. U. in New Orleans announces that it intends to appoint committees to sit in the local courts “to help raise the standards of law enforcement in prohibition cases.” A member of the organization

tion stopped, the tissue probably will arrange to supply the blood cells rapidly. Investigators in China, Doctors Keefer and Yang, recently studied the various methods for stimulating the formation of blood cells in various types of anemia. They find that recovery from anemia due to chronic loss of blood is accelerated following the giving of liver and iron. If the anemia is very severe, it frequently is desirable to give large injections of blood by transfusion to overcome the anemia emergency. Anemias resulting from malnutrition are controlled frequently by giving well-balanced diets with plenty of vitamins and an increased amount of iron so as to accelerate the formation of hemoglobin. Anemia due to hookworm infestation is helped by iron or liver, but it is desirable to get rid of the hookworm as soon as possible.

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

states that during a period when large groups of drys sat in ;he courts “great improvements were found during the • time we were there.” Now, this seems to me a very frank and flagrant attempt to bulldoze judges and juries and to distort the true processes of law. Surely American jurisprudence has never contemplated the presence of cheering sections in trials of any sort. In fact, the supreme court of the United States once held that even though the formal legal procedure was shipshape in every respect, a new trial ought to be ordered for a defendant when the atmosphere surrounding the trial was wholly inimical to his side. The Frank conviction in Georgia was upheld by a single vote. But later in an Oklahoma case the court reversed itself. I trust that somebody, besides myself, will inform the good ladies of New Orleans that what they purpose to do is wholly antagonistic to the American standard of fair play for the accused. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times!

Questions and Answers

Where was the first newspaper founded in the United States? Public Occurrences, a small quarto sheet, having one page blank, was published in Boston in 1690. It was suppressed by the Governor of Masachusetts for containing “reflexions of a very high nature.” Who is called the ‘father of medicine”? Hippocrates. Where does the water in springs and wells come from? From underground veins of water, probably caused bfc -seepage. What is the range and weight of the projectile used in the United States navy sixteen-inch gun? Is

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Lesson Learned in 1921 Spurs Continuation of Research Despite the Depression. CHEMISTS are weathering the present depression better than they did the depression of 1921, in the opinion of O. H. Killeffer, manager of the employment bureau of the Chemists’ Club of New York. The reason for that, according to Killeffer, Is that American industry learned a lesson during the depression of 1921. That lesson was that it does not pay to let down on scientific research. “Firms which dispensed with their research department ten years ago learned that this was bad business. ’ Killefer said. “Many employers profited by this mistake and now they are less willing to cut chemists from the pay roll. “Companies that kept their research men and hired skilled scientists who were discharged by other organizations came out of the last depression on top. “The others, however, were without the services of men experienced in their particular line of products when business returned to normal. They likewise were a step behind their competitors who had benefited by the research carried on during the period of slack time.” MUM Organize Own Firms ONE almost Is tempted to draw the conclusion from Killeffer * remarks that an occasional depression is a help to. the chemists. “In 1921 some of the chemists who found themselves out of work started in business independently,” he says. “In many instances they were ultimately more successful than their former employers. This is likely to occur again. “There are presidents, plant managers and research workers who have been victims of the depression, and who now are unemployed. Such men are capable and efficient. Some of them will join together and find capital. As soon as business takes a definite turn for the better, you will find these groups branching out for themselves. “They are free from the disadvantages of a large organization which frequently is cumbersome and slow moving. The older firms will meet with strong competition from the new companies which are bound to be bom out of periods of unemployment.” But the depression has its gloomy I side also for chemists. About 150 ; applicants for positions are regis- | tering monthly at the employment bureau of the Chemists’ Club. nun New Ideas Pushed AT the present time, jobs are being found for about 10 per cent of the applicants, Killeffer reports. “The New York bureau receive* requests for chemists from all sections of the country. This is especially true in the case of jobs which can not be readily filled. “Mergers have been the greatest contributors to unemployment among the chemists. “One wealthy individual, without knowledge of chemistry, but with radical scientific theories, has retained several chemists to carry on his private research. “Among those unemployed members of the profession who have taken up experimentation on Ideas of their own is a man residing near New York who formerly made a hobby of photographing bugs and plants through a microscope for the amusement and instruction of his 6-year-old child. “Friends viewing the pictures became interested and offered suggestions. He now is engaged in bringing out a book containing these photographs accompanied by explanations which would be of interest to any child of six years. “Another chemist, finding himself out of work, interested a manufacturer in the possibility of coloring brass and similar metals. The latter now is financing the scientist who is carrying on research at Harvard university.”

Daily Thought

Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.—Lamentations 4:64. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. —George Chapman.

that the largest gun used in the navy? The maximum range of the navy sixteen-inch gun is 30,000 yards. The weight of the projectile is approximately 2,048 pounds. It is the largest naval g in used in the United States. How much have investors lost through building and loan association failures in the last ten years? It is estimated that the loss to investors from 1920 to 1929 inclusive was $5,555,935. In commuting the number of words in a telegram is the name, address and signature included? Not unless words are used that are not necessary In the address or signature.