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New War “Profits” Very soon, members of the cabinet and congress Will report on what they find may be done to promote peace by removing profit from war, but their report will not mention the fact that Japan is buying great stocks of cotton in the United States and shipping them across the Pacific. Something like four million bales of cotton have been purchased by Japan within the last few months, a decided increase over normal buying. Germany bought similar quantities of cotton in this country in the early part of 1914. Cotton is one of the basic ingredients of high explosives. Already southern farmers are storing half the cotton ginned in expectation of higher prices. Other industries soon may find themselves busy on the strength of oriental orders, unless Japan is satisfied'to stop the war, now that she has created puppet governments to rule Manchuria for her. All of which means what? Better times for a little, perhaps, but at what price! No war profiteering here—just legitimate business whih will help our suffering unemployed? But every thinking man knows that, if Japan can smash the peace machinery today, Europe can do so next. That would mean another World war. Food for the unemployed/ today—shrapnel tomorrow. A prosperous nation for a little while—and then possibilities we dare not face. It is not enough to study and control the relation of private profit of war after war has begun. Unless we are hypocrites we must, when we say we want peace, begin to study the relation between profit and war when other nations offer to buy from us the sinews of war. Instead of calling its task complete, the war policies commission should start its work again, and this time, start at the beginning. Admit the Mistake A sure sign of bigness is willingness to admit a mistake. Yet such willingness is one of the rarest of human traits. It is inconceivable that President Hoover now regards the Hawley-Smoot tariff as anything else than a mistake. Evidence of that fact has mounted constantly since the bill was signed. Reprisals from abroad, “flight” of American industry and American capital to foreign lands, decreased exports, increased depression—those have been the result. As one critic sums it up, “the Hawley-Smoot tariff has substituted the hostility of foreign countries for previous friendship; has resulted in retaliatory action and markets closed to our commerce in all parts of the land; has driven huge sums of capital into foreign fields where, within foreign tariff walls, American capitalists escape the retaliatory and other tariff barriers and employ foreign labor in place of pre-viously-paid American labor.” No one in this nation is in a better position to see and to realize the blighting results than is President Hoover. His experience alone as secretary of commerce equipped him to sense in detail the fundamental weaknesses of the thing which he, in a time of great political pressure, signed, and which constitutes the great mistake of the Hoover administration. That mistake can be remedied and remedied quickly. A repeal of the Hawley-Smoot bill would be inevitable if recommended by the President to congress. That would throw the tariff back to where it was before the bill was enacted. And the weight that America has been carrying since the bill was signed would be removed from the heavily burdened shoulders of the American people. Will President Hoover have the bigness that is necessary to admit a mistake? It Belongs to the People From any angle it is considered, the report of the Hoover Muscle Shoals commission is only the opinion of nine men, appointed by the President and the Governors of Tennessee and Alabama. It contained no more than was expected. It was a blueprint of President Hoover’s known ideas of what should be done with this great power plant. It favored lease of the shoals to some private corporation. Indeed, it hardly could have favored anything else since one member of the commission admitted they went to the White House “for orders.” BUt only congress can dispose of Muscle Shoals. Twice before it has insisted on the federal government operating the power plants there. Twice congress was thwarted, once by President Coolldge and once by President Hoover. This will not deter congress from acting again, and in favor again, we believe, of government operation. President Hoover was given an excellent opportunity to lease the fertilizer manufacturing plants at Muscle Shoals under the bill the last congress passed. But he vetoed it. Now, however, his commission makes a suggestion very similar. If congress* plan was wrong, why is his commission’s plan in this regard right? Under the bill Hoover vetoed, the people who paid for Muscle Shoals would have been able to purchase some of the surplus power manufactured there. Under the Hoover commission plan, the chances of the people getting any of this power are nil. Congress, we believe, will accord the Hoover report but casual consideration, and will insist, once again, that Muscle Shoals, belonging to the people and the government, must be retained for them. Free Speech in Colleges The Committee of the American Association of University Professors has investigated and reported on the case of Professor Herbert A. Miller, distinguished sociologist of Ohio State university, summarily dismissed last spring. His discharge was announced as being on the ground of a speech sympathetic with Indian independence at Bombay. There is no doubt that Dr. Miller made the speech. It may have had something to do with his dismissal. It has been charged that the British diplomatic agencies and secret service got the ear of the trustees and administration. But it also was well established that the main reason for his discharge was his opposition to compulsory military training for male students of the university. The investigating committee looked into the stand of the trustees as it related to freedom of speech for professors. The best they could obtain was a statement that: “Members of the faculty have enjoyed and now enjoy, wide latitude in expressing their opinions In the classroom.” Tlie oommlttee rightly comments that: “No faculty would consider this an adequate recognition . of freedom of speech.” In the first place, the trustees and administration M&erve the right to pass on just what confutes

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“wide latitude” of opinion. It would be far safer to be “wide” on matters of literary criticism or classical scholarship than on subjects pertaining to contemporary economic controversies. Yet it is precisely in the latter field that we most need courageous and forthright statements by such experts as college professors are held to be. Quarrels over Shakespeare or Aeschylus are not likely to be of any considerable aid In "salvaging civilization.” Certainly, nothing less than “complete latitude”— within the limits of the laws governing obscenity, profanity, insanity and feeeble-mindedness—must be guaranteed at all times to college professors in the classroom. Otherwise, they can not function as emancipated Intellects and decisive leaders of student opinion. The question of expression of professorial opinion outside the classroom brings out another defect in the attitude of the trustees. There is here no assurance whatever that a professor may not be snapped up and summarily dismissed for unconventional articles or lectures on public utilities, Russia, India reparations, Manchuria, the British elections, Mr. Hoover and the like. Miller’s speech on India was given during leave of absence. The sensible procedure in regard to the extramural expressions of professors would seem to be about as follows: (1) When a professor speaks or writes for the non-college audience, he should be under no limitations beyond legal penalties and considerations of elementary good taste—and we should avoid identifying the latter with mere conventionality; (2) the professor never should speak in the name of the institution unless officially requested to do so. The investigating committee closes with a ringing challenge to the university administration: “Until the president and board definitely can assure the faculty that all university procedures and policies, including decisions of the board itself, are legitimate topics for orderly discussion and criticism by the faculty, it is idle to assert that freedom of speech prevails at Ohio State university.” When Youngsters Drive One of the most disturbing traffic accidents of the season is that recently recorded in Kansas City, where an auto driven by a 14-year-old boy knocked down and killed a pedestrian at a street intersection. No youngster of 14, of course, or of an age anywhere near 14, should ever be permitted to drive an automobile on any public street. In this case, to be sure, the lad is said to have been driving without his parents’ consent; but that fact only adds to the weight of the object lesson. Parents must not only keep their children out of the driver’s seat. They must see to it, very rigidly, that the ruling is obeyed. When a child of that age does drive, and gets involved in an accident, the major part of the responsibility rests on his father and mother. Keeping child-drivers off the streets is primarily their job, not the police department’s. Baker’s Anti-War Plan Newton D. Baker’s speech at Boston urging passage by congress of the Capper resolution calls attention to one of the simplest and most promising anti-war measures yet proposed. The Capper resolution would bind the United States not to be a market for finances, industrial goods, farm products or munitions for any nation which went to war in violation of a previous agreement to arbitrate international troubles. Its advantages are obvious. Many nations would be reluctant to enter a war if they knew that American markets and banking houses would be closed to them. Furthermore, if a war did get started there would be much less chance for the United States to get involved through commercial and financial ties with one of the combatants. Mr. Baker believes that adoption of such a policy by the United States would prevent large-scale wars. People in Somerset, England, use a rose to pay tenure. If the pec. in America use anything to pay tenure lucky. An English woman is heading a movement for ‘ perfection of man.” Sounds like a Swiss movement. It’s all right to take time off from business to keep in the pink if you don’t get into the red. In these days of “abysmal ignorance’’ about the only one who can air his views with impunity is the aviator. Drinkers, says a headline, pay one-fifth of Britain’s taxes. Well, over there it’s “Ale, ale, the gang’s all here.” Bald men are stampeding a Chicago doctor who has discovered how to grow hair. Evidently all hairminded.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DAY after day the pioneers pass. One of the last to go was Colonel Zach Mulhall, long a spectacular figure in the Middle West. He lived to a ripe age and had seen many dynasties come and go. He had witnessed the ardor kindled by multitudes of reforms die again, consumed by thenown violence. Up and down the world he traveled through eightythree years, cattle puncher, circus rider, Wild West showman, country gentleman, military leader, in his fine high boots and his tall hat. He loved rearing steeds, the trampling of herds, and the smell of sawdust in the circus ring. But with all the claptrap that filled many of his days, with the fanfare of trumpets that attended his comings and his goings, and with all the notice he attained from presidents and kings, Zach Mulhall lived with one wife all of his life. * 9 * HE was a great showman. He also was a good husband. And, by all odds, the most beautiful side of his many-sided character was his affection for the woman whom he married in 1876, so long ago that to most of us it seems unbelievably remote. ' After she died some months past, he suddenly became an old man, bowed down by a profound despair. Since that day life had for him no more a reason for enduring. And so he, too, died, one of the grand old men of the West, whose name is surrounded by many legends, who helped to build an empire and to fashion the civilization that today is most typically American. Nobody save those who lived in her immediate vicinity knew very much about Mrs. Mulhall. But it seems to me that her husband, by losing all interest in and relinquishing life after she went out of it, has written for her a fine obituary. True husband and wife they were, and rarely lovely in an age when marriage lias ceased to be sacred or enduring.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

It Takes 2,000 Cops to Make a Mile Safe for a Man Who Has Come to Advtee Us About Arms Reduction. NEW YORK Nov. 20.—Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, here to talk peace and disarmament, pays a brief visit to New York, riding from the battery to city hall and back again between solid lines of policemen, who stand with their backs toward him in order that they may keep a sharper watch on the sidewalk crowds. It forms a curious stage setting for this messenger of good will, and one need not be a cynic to discover an element of irony in it. Admittedly some strutting was called for in Signor Grandi’s honor, but would city officials have gone quite so far, unless they sensed the possibility of untoward events. Two thousand cops to make a mile safe and that, too, for a man who has come to advise with us about scrapping navies and disbanding armies. n n n Bomb ‘Plot’ Fizzles TT7HILE Grandi was being in- ’ ▼ sured safe conduct for two hours by 10 per cent of New York’s police force, fifty detectives and a couple of armored cars patrolled the financial district where the great house of Morgan stands. Someone had received a tip, it seems, that another bomb plot was in the hatching, and the last frightful experience suggested that no chances be taken. Again nothing of a serious nature occurred, but everybody believes it might have, and everybody is glad to know that the police were not to be caught off guard. nun Tammany Testifies WHILE Morgan and Grandi thus were being shielded, Judge George W. Olvany, former leader of Tammany Hall, carefully was explaining to the Seabury probers that while his firm might have collected some large fees for appearing before the board of standards, it was quite legitimate business, and while he might have given advice to certain New York officials, they were perfectly free to take it, or leave it. The word has gone out that Judge Olvany has made $2,000,000 during the last few years. The Seabury probers would like to know just how and why. Even if they find out, they won’t have much more on Olvany than they already have on Horse Doctor Doyle who made a similar amount by practicing before the board of standards, though he was not a lawyer, much less a judge, or the leader of Tammany hall. n n n Two-Party Viewpoint THIS is a tough year for probing local Democratic organizations. People are interested in national affairs, where fault-finding runs the other way. The Tammany boys owe a lot to the crowd in power at Washington, though no one expects them to admit it. Blunders committed by officials at the national capital have done a lot to make people indifferent, or forgiving toward those committed by Democratic officials in New York City and some other places. As long as we have a two-party system in this country, we are going to be guided by a two-party viewpoint and we are going to let the bigger issues determine it. n n n Wets May Deadlock THE people are mobilizing for a presidential election, and it looks as though they were in a mood to forget, or ignore a lot of things for the sake of partisan advantage. In spite of all the loud talk, it looks as though they might even forget, or ignore prohibition not only because of a greater interest in economic problems, but because each party is curiously deadlocked. One hears more wet talk from the Democratic side, but when it comes to counting noses, the Democratic party appears to contain the larger percentage of drys. Conversely, one hears more dry talk on the Republican, though the party appears to contain a larger percentage of wets. Since each party is out to get every vote in sight, or suspected of being in sight, the chances are thafl both will put on a show of phenomenal straddling. Certainly, neither party will go out of its way to offend any large and recognizable bloc of voters.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Recently I filed an application with a well-known employment bureau in Indianapolis and it seemed to me when I entered its offices that it was more like a detention ward than a place to help one find employment. The formality which the girl at the information desk shows a person who is willing to pay for his or her position, if procured by the agency, is more than depressing. After a few high-saluting gestures which are unnecessary and mean nothing, especially when coming from someone no better than yourself, except that she is luckier in having a job, she gives you a book put out by this agency for a price and tells you to wait for a personal interview with the head of said firm. Along with this book is a leaflet which explains its contents and also a clause which reads. “If the applicant shows the willingness to buy and read the book, the agency will use more.efforts in procuring the position you are applying for.” After waiting for an hour, you get your “personal” interview with the head of the agency, and he also gives you this impression, and even goes so far as to ask you whether you couldn’t dig up the pries. Upon your response in the negative, you get a cool, “Well, we might find you something, but it will take some time. We’ll let you know.” I want to say here that this book is graft in its highest form and the sooner the public gets wise to the fact, the better off they will be. How can a fellow with a wife and a kid get a job if these bureaus are going to use these fraudulent practices so openly. Please publish this in your “Voice of the People.” so some other poor devils like myself can profit by it. B. O. B.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

All items in Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Illness Causes Much School Absence

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. DURING two full years the average time lost on account of sickness by children in a typical American community was 7.4 school days. The average time lest caused by other than sickness was 5.62 days. Investigations made by the United States public health service indicate that younger children lose more time on account of sickness than do older ones, and that girls are sick slightly more often than boys. However, in the latter case the difference is slight. The common cold stands far ahead of any other cause among sicknesses that produce absence

IT SEEMS TO ME

NATURE, according to Dr. Merriam, undertook years ago to develop the perfect fighter. And nature, as usual, got its wish. This killer of the dark ages w r as the saber-toothed tiger. And. according to the doctor’s speech before the National Academy of Science, the prehistoric heavyweight champion was quite a menace to all other jungle beasts. He was not much bigger than the tiger which • we know or at least have heard of. But he carried teeth a foot long, and they had serrated borders. Nothing alive could stand against him. There were, to be sure, larger animals roaming about, but they possessed neither the speed, the truculence nor the armament of Tom the Terrible. And so it might be supposed that here in the year 1931 the sabertoothed tiger would bestride the world. In all logic we ought to have one presiding at city hall, another in the White house and an entire senate chamber full of long-toothed legislators. nun There Must Bea Catch in it AT least, that is the logic which many have derived from the Darwinian hypothesis. And I even have heard it applied to the everyday life of us all. We are told upon occasions such as patriotic holidays that this is a world in which only the strong and the well prepared may survive. Gentlemen who call themselves realists as well as patriots are fond of reminding us that man is removed by only a few thousand centuries from the jungle and that civilization is a thin veneer under which seethe the primitive emotions

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SMASH HINDENBURG LINE Nov. 21

ON Nov.. 21, 1917, LieutenantGeneral Julian Bng, commanding British forces, smashed the Hindenburg line on a thirty-mile front from Arras to St. Quentin to a depth of one to five miles. The foremost British lines reached to within four miles west of Cambrai, which was a railway center of German communication. Thirteen villages and more than nine thousand prisoners were taken by the British. This was one of the greatest British efforts of the war. It culminated four days of assault with all possible zeal. Meantime, British forces in Palestine advanced five miles northwest of Jerusalem. The house of commons adopted an amendment to the electoral bill disfranchising conscientious objectors to w&F.

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Friday’s Times were self-explana-tory.

from school. Headache and digestive disorders are second and third, respectively. However, the total number of days lost from school, •if taken as a standard, indicates that influenza and grip predominate, and sore throat, measles and mumps are more serious as causes of absence. It is interesting to realize that head lice are important causes of trouble during the age levels from 6 to 13, and disappear almost to zero after 13 years of age, whereas the rate for boils is practicality zero in the younger ages and increases steadily in the higher ages. Accidents as a cause of absence from school are much greater, indeed almost twice as great,

of hate and ambition, We must watch our neighbor, keep our gunpowder dry and build more bombing planes. There is a flaw in this reasoning. Ask any of the preparedness people to produce for you the saber-toothed tiger and every one will flunk on the assignment. The fiercest of the fighting animals, the champion of them all, has gone down into the dust of oblivion. tt tt tt More Teeth Than Brains NOR was he routed from the earth because some other animal came along with three-foot teeth and a machine gun attached to his spine. Tom the Terrible never lost a single encounter in which the issue depended merely on physical prowess. But his superb array of weapons and his beautifully co-ordinated muscular system were motivated by a limited brain capacity. To make room for the roots of the teeth it was necessary to flatten the skull a little. And so he went the way of all flesh. He lived by tusks and perished by them. Similar species which he could have licked with one paw tied behind his back have survived even down to the present.—l see, for instance, that the puma, which could have been no njore than a Pekingese in the eyes of Terrible Tom, has managed to perpetuate himself. I don't happen to know any pumas personally, and they are not by reputation the most pacific of animals. But, at least, their I. Q’s rank them above the saber-toothed tiger. And so their persistence must be attributed to taking thought rather than cutting the jugular veins of all their neighbors. tt tt tt I Take Hearsay Evidence A S a matter of fact, I have no u. A. first-hand familiarity with the beasts of the jungle, and my curiosity is not so great that I would establish contacts beyond those which can be made in our motion picture theaters. It seems to me an excellent thing that the average tripper to Africa now takes with him a motion picture camera instead of a rifle. I have grown more than a little tired of seeing the Sunday newspaper pictures of Mrs. Martin Johnson perched upon some trophy of the chase. One Is almost led to believe that the young lady becomes “cushionconscious” save at such times as she sits upon the head of a dead lion. Yet, though I am not much inspired by the sight of dead animals, I do not get an altogether pleasant thrill from meeting the wilder kind face to face. A few afternoons ago I went to a tea party, and right beside the bar there lay a tiger cub. Yes, it was a tiger cub. Several other people at the party saw him just as plainly as I did. There was a disposition on the part of the ladies to pat his head and lift him up on top of the table. Not, I may add, the table where I

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Monday—“ The Girl Who Roller Skates on Her Hands.”

among boys as among girls. Most of these accidents are reported to the school teacher as sore hand or sore foot. The reason why boys have more accidents than do girls is because they engage in baseball and footfall, and also frequently play in the streets. More illness occurs during the winter months than during the summer. The worst month is February, with a gradual decline during May, but the May rate is still higher than the sickness rate of September. It is only by determining facts such as these that children can be guarded properly against the type of sickness that affects the school child. *

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sat. Somehow or other the wine of our country and the animals of Asia make a singularly poor mixture. nn N n Meeting an Anthropoid ONCE I attended another festival at which a young monkey was allowed to roam about and leap upon the lap or laps of visitors. From this vantage point he dipped one hand into my cocktail to test it. And after that I can not say that the concoction tasted quite the same. I seemed a little restive while he chattered on my knee. And the young lady who owned him tried to reassure me by remarking that he wouldn’t bite if I sat perfectly still. It was not a hint to inspire composure. I said hastily that I would much prefer not to be bitten. I remarked that the king of Greece, according to the headlines, had died from just such a catastrophe. “But,” she answered, “the king of Greece wouldn’t have been poisoned by that monkey bite under ordinary circumstances. He happened to be a drinking man.” And after that, naturally, all my fears evaporated. (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times!

Daily Thought

But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.—Luke 5:38. • It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.—Hosea Ballou. What does the expression, “To come from the Styx” mean? “To return from the dead.” The Styx in Greek mythology is the river that guards Hades or the abode of the dead.

The Movies If you are interested in the movies—as most people are—then you will enjoy reading and keeping for reference, a packet of five bulletins on the subject that our Washington bureau has ready for you. They are: 1- Directory of Motion Picure Stars 2. Popular Men of the Screen 3. Popular Women of the Screen 4. Picture and Radio Stars 5. The History of Motion Pictures If you want this packet of five bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Department B-15, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of five bulletins on MOTION PICTURES and inclose herewith 15 cents in coin or loose uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and Number City state I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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

.NOV. 21, 1931

SCIENCE BY* DAVID DIETZ

Read “The Care and Feeding of Adults” if You Worry Too Much About Your Health. THE Nation is running a series of articles by various authors entitled “If I were Dictator.” At the moment, if I were dictator, I am inclined to think that I would require every citizen to read the first chapter of Logan Clendening s new book. “The Care and Feeding of Adults." (The book is published by Knopf at $2.50.) The title of the book is somewhat facetious. So is the style in which Dr. Clendening writes. Both are well adapted to his purpose, which is to encourage people to approach the matter of their health with a touch of humor. Great strides have been made in health matters in the last few decades. Campaigns of education have done much for public health. Many contagious diseases, once rampant, almost have disappeared. But there is another side to the picture. Too many people have be- • come too self-conscious about their health. They chase health so hard that they forget to enjoy it. They “ ruin their digestions by too much . care instead of by too little care. And that is why I urge people to read at least the first chapter of Dr. Clendening’s book. It is a fine ’ antidote for too much worry. n n n Adults Think LET us quote a few sentences from Dr. Clendening: “Adults, „ according to them, are able to think for themselves. It is, in this respect, so they patiently explain to„„ me. that they differ from children. “They learn all about their bodies by reading a book on the balanced diet and a book on your nerves and a book on blood pressure and a book on intestinal sewerage, and a pamphlet from the life extension institute and several from their lifeinsurance companies, and they are all ready to arrange their futures so that the wheels will grind with . the least possibility of friction. “And that is one of the reasons they are more trouble to keep ... healthy than children. “It is not without chagrin, indeed, that the members of my profession find how easy it is for mere laymen to learn all about the nature and treatment of various • diseases. “We remember the time we spent in medical college. A year dissect- ■ ing, just to become acquainted with how the human body is formed. Long hours at the microscope looking at sections of healthy, then diseased organs. “Interminable period of observation on experiments in the physiological laboratory, learning about blood pressure, and nerves and muscles, and gaseous exchanges. “Then examining patients and * listening to heart-murmurs and weighing children and delivering mothers in tenements and observing the effects of medicines and ealeu- ■ lating diets and timidly assisting at surgical operations. “It all seems such a waste of tim© - when you meet one of these hygienists who has read Clendening’s book on the Human Body and knows all about the subject.” n n u Don’t Worry HEALTH, according to Dr. Clen- “ dening, “falls upon the just and the unjust, like mercy, with about an equal distinction.” As regards rules for health, h says, “The first, I think, fc* to accept the philosophy I jy*t hjnjE divulged. Don’t burden /narseiji'ittt too many duties co%)ctL6w with your health, nor too nTjgCfoes of hygiene. “The idea has been t Bfecast in our day by all sorts o ■hpiicists that adults are very deliol®" Really they are surprisingly toufchT’ “About the only things yoi A do to them safely is to let them go' for any considerable period of time without fresh food, and to put germs under the skin or in any of the absorptive cavities of the body. “They have acquired their immunity from many of the infer-, tious diseases. You can take an adult into places which would be reeking with danger to a child. “You can hurl them under autos, and drop them from moderately high buildings with far more impunity that you could a phonograph or a kitchen clock. Bones heal up, clocks do not.” Dr. Clendening’s advice to the individual is to “get a doctor of your own,” a family physician who suits you and understands you and can deal with you as an individual. Consult him when you think you need advice or when you have a pain or an ache. The rest of the time quit worrying about your health. Eat what you like, says Dr. Clendening. “If you do not like exercise,” ho says, “its neglect will not seriously' harm you. Reducing your weight will not save your life and is a dam hard job anyway. Finally, you do not need to hang round a doctor or a hospital all th time to keep your health.” How large Is the Rock Island dam on the Columbia river? What is its water capacity? It is 3,500 feet long and has a maximum height of 120 feet. Tlx o’ capacity of its initial installation will be about 80,000-horse power.