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An Experiment Some time this afternoon the people of Indianapolis will get an accurate estimate of Clarence Geist, a resident of Philadelphia, who thinks that it is only through his dollars that the citizens of Indianapolis are permitted to live. He owns the water system of Indianapolis. Os •ourse, no individual should own such a necessity of life, but it happens that in the past the people have been stupid enough to permit private ownership to oontinue. Indianapolis is the largest city in the United States to tolerate this condition. Some weeks ago The Times called attention to the fact that Mr. Geist, who confines hia activities in this City to taking dividends and occasionally donating a recording phonograph to political clubs and calling it a pipe organ, was taking large sums away from the people for water. The facts on that point are quite plain. According to the reports which he has caused to be filed with the public service commission, he collected $2,700,000 from the people last year, paid off the interest on his bonds, paid for all the operating expenses and then put into his own pocket as dividends the rather sizable sum Os $1,225,000, All that he ever claimed to invest in this city was $4,000,000. Asa matter'of fact, it is doubtful if he Invested this amount in real money. That was the •um he was authorized to pay to former owners for their equity. So while every other business was showing a decrease in earning power—all except some other Utilities —Geist was getting richer and richer. Owners Os rental property often pay more to Geist than they Oollect from their tenants. To every home and every industry his charges are more than burdensome. They have become impossible. The South Side Civic Club and Mayor Sullivan have demanded a reduction in these rates. They proceeded in the legal way of demanding justice from the public service commission. That body, through one of its members, suggested that its mechanics are slow and costly and that perhaps the better way is a friendly conference between the clubs, the city and the representatives for Mr. Geist. This Is an experiment in utility regulation, and It may open the way to settlement of a problem that effects all other utilities. That is up to Mr. Geist. ' Under present conditions a refusal to reduce rates Very substantially means that he has no sympathy With his customers, no heart for distress, no regard for the future of the city. It means that the utility heart is a hard heart. It means that the utility mind is a stupid mind. Watch tomorrow’s papers for the outcome of this Conference. It will suggest to you what must be done. Perhaps it will prove that after all, The Times has been mistaken and that Mr. Geist and his fellow Utility barons are really philanthropists who are ready to share in distress as they had leoninely shared in prosperity. Or it may suggest that the time has come for a determined fight for justice.

No More Sucker Role for U. S. It is right and wise for the United States to do •verything possible to avert a serious war in the far •nst. But there is one thing we should avoid. That Is to allow Uncle Sam once more to be cast for the lucker role in world politics. There seems to be some danger that this may be the case. Japan, at times, has appeared to be more •nraged with us than with the league. We no longer pan permit the United States to pull others’ chestnuts from the Are, with grave loss to ourselves and no gratitude from those whom we serve. We have had one truly colossal example of Uncle Bam as the world’s sucker, and this experience should last us for a couple of centuries. This excursion set us back some $100,000,000,000 in the ultimate direct oosts of our entry into the World war; led to indirect monetary costs which hardly can be estimated, the present depression being in part due to the international confusion caused by the World war; and relulted in an incalculable cost in the loss to the morale Os the country in the post-war letdown. Scholars no longer are under, any illusions as to What the World war was about. It was fought to oreate the Great Serbia, to obtain the Straits for Russia, to recover Alsace-Lorraine for France, and to get Khe German trade, navy and colonies for Britain—all reasonable enough aspirations, perhaps, but no logical basis for the expenditure of American blood and treasure. There are many who would say indignantly that we fought to protect the sacred rights of Americans. Once more, scholars tell us that if such had been the Base we had better reasons for fighting Britain in 1917 than for tattling Germany. Germany once agreed to negotiate according to American proposals relative to the rights of neutrals, but England refused to consider such a move. Yet we went into the war, with the American public believing that we were fighting for high and noble ideals. We saved the day for the allies. What game out of it for us? Wilson’s ideals, embodied in part in the armistice terms, were repudiated in the post-war treaties. These would have been far worse had not Wilson ruined his health and disposition in fighting off for months the greedy and immoral demands of his former allies. The decade which followed the peace treaties has borne the fruits which might have been expected—a Continuance of secret diplomacy, the perpetuation of the reign of force and heavy armaments, and the prolongation of injustice, suspicion and oppression among nations. There is little peace or contentment in the world thirteen years after the armistice. We have received little or no gratitude for our great chestnut-pulling expedition. We are far more popular with our former enemies than with most of our former allies. Our former enemies now may have an ax to grind, but the fact remains that they like us better than our former companions in arms. Nor has our post-war generosity won us anything except curses and further financial involvements. We cancelled the debts of our continental allies to the tune of 64.8 per cent of the original principal. We cancelled all debts, including those of Great Britain, to an average of 51.2 per cent. And all this in spite of the fact that it had been proven amply that we had been deceived grossly as to the motives of the entente in fighting the war. We settled the huge amount due us for British ravages on our neutral trade from 1914 to 1917 for what was literally a song. since the war, we have tried to put Europe on its feet by huge loans which have impaired our own financial machinery. Yet poor old Uncle Sam earned for all this only the epithet of Uncle Shylock. The League of Nations is ineffective today, primarily because our allies did not keep the faith with and create an international system based on^nnlty

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and amity. Yet we are asked to come in and join the league in work which It could do itself if its members had not deceived us from 1914 to 1920. Moreover, we would have been in the league if our war ideals had been embodied in the post-war settlements. We ought to be able to learn something from all this. In our age international co-operation is essential. We can not stand aside and lick our wounds, however deep and unmerited. But our co-operation should be highly enlightened and well considered. We should act with our eyes open and alive to the consequences. The I. C. C. Report Even before the interstate commerce commission’s annual report was made public, committees of congress were shaping definite programs toward investigation of the financial plight of the railroads. These are very important and very necessary steps, for the country and its legislators must have the facts on what is to blame for the carriers’ embarrassing condition. We have the word of Joe Eastman, perhaps the ablest member of the I. C. C., that some of the recent unfortunate occurrences in the railroad world might have been avoided had the carriers accepted the L C. C.’s plan to pool revenues from freight increases. Congress should determine why the railroads dillydallied so long about accepting the commission’s $125,000,000 rate increase offer. It was characteristic of the commission to make a determined effort to help the railroads by suggesting a congressional investigation to determine if direct or indirect governmental subsidies were being given to carriers on inland waterways, trucks and buses, and air mail lines. It also is characteristic of the honesty of the L C. C. to make no recommendation along these lines until the facts about alleged subsidies are known. If, as the railroads have declared so often, these other carriers are benefiting at their expense, then, the commission hints, regulation of those competitors may be necessary. Any reasonable person would agree with that. Heretofore, the I. C. C.’s recommendations to congress concerning regulatory legislation have been heard politely but action delayed. In the face of this, it behooves the new chairman of the house interstate and foreign commerce committee to speed through the commission’s recommendations. Certainly, no group knows better than the I. C. C. what amendatory legislation is needed to strengthen the railroads and to further progressive regulation in the public Interest.

A Mandate With more than three-fourths of all newspapers of the country editorializing in favor of old age pensions the popular mandate upon congress and the states appears fairly clear. A nation-wide survey by the American Association for Old Age Security reveals little opposition from newspapers. Os, 1,345 papers lining up on the question, 1,033, or 77 per cent, urged pension laws. Only 312 papers opposed them. In forty-three states and the District of Columbia heavy majorities supported pensions such as seventeen states have passed. In every state, except Indiana and four others, impressive majority editorial opinion favored the new way. C. Dill of Washington again will press for his measure for federal aid for old age pensions. If public opinion means anything in the United States, this will pass and be signed. The poorhouse must be relegated to history.

The Public Dialed Out Somewhere in New York, star chamber sessions are in progress which may determine the future of communication by radio. Representatives of the United States department of justice are conferring with representatives of the companies in control of the patents vital to development of radio, which they heretofore have used for their exclusive benefit. Presumably, they are attempting to reach an agreement under which the government shall halt prosecution of the radio industry under the anti-trust laws. There is every Indication that an agreement will be announced soon. Meanwhile, the negotiations are surrounded with utmost secrecy, although if there was ever a subject on which the country should be informed fully, this is it. The disposition of radio patents will determine to a great extent development of new apparatus and new industries, the price of equipment in each home, as well, perhaps, as the future of anti-trust legislation. The government has both law and equity on its side of the argument, and the people affected have a right to know that it is not sacrificing their interests in the matter.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

WAR rages in the Far East. Every day brings us news of fresh conflicts, fresh blood spilled, fresh defeats and fresh victories, despite rumor after rumor of truce. Wo may sit afar off and contemplate the scene. It is to be hoped that we will do so. Because whether Japan is justified in snatching more territory for her ever overflowing hordes, or whether China is justified in resisting these inroads, one fact emerges with sharp decisivlness: The men who incited this war are not doing the fighting. In Tokio, in Peiping, in Moscow, sit those who are ordering others out to die. They remain safe from the guns and secure from the suffering. It follow’s inevitably, too, that the soldiers will reap none, or practically none, of the benefits of their sacrifices. Tnis always has been true of war-making. It will be true as long as war survives. Those who stay at home and receive the golden rewards that follow for a short time after battles are always those who are most urgent for strife. tt it tt IT is now being said generally that this Manchurian struggle may bring better prices for American crops and commodities. We fatten, as it were, upon the blood of the innocent puppets of Japan and Chinese powers. A repulsive thought, it should be, but is it? Do wc desire a prosperity that depends upon war anywhere for its being? Whatever the answer to that may be, it is not wise for us to view this little flame in Manchuria with the same smugness that we regarded a similar one In Europe in 1914. After the wwld conflagration it started, we should realize that the apparently insignificant incidents in far-away places may have sinister meanings for us. Tne assassination of a Serbian archduke was so trivial for notice when it happened, but it marked the beginning of a slaughter unprecedented in history. Let us not, therefore, be too unconcerned over the Manchurian situation. For we no longer can withdraw from the fate of foreign peoples. Nations are linked today by unbreakable ties. |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Foreign Bonds Problem Is Only a Phase of the Larger Lunacy, and We Shoidd Be Worrying About the Big Thing and Not a Probe. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—What bankers may have made by selling foreign bonds is of less importance than what other people stand to lose through buying them. Still more important is the question of whether anything can be done to prevent, or reduce, the loss. Now that the crash has come, all of us realize that lots of things were bought at too high a price and that those who sold them, especially on commission, jnade some very easy money. But why assume that the crash is over and that there is no more difficult job ahead than to find out who got the gravy?

A Larger Lunacy THESE foreign bonds are but a phase of the larger lunacy. Asa matter of fact, they haven’t shrunk any moie than some of our own supposedly gilt-edged securities. Whether they represent skullduggery in high finance, they certainly bespeak a shaky economic situation. That situation is what we should be worrying about. If several great governments are on the very edge of bankruptcy, we ought to be preparing for it. If not, most of these bonds will come back. tt tt tt Facing a New Crisis EVIDENTLY, we are up against a problem which includes something bigger than brokerage fees. If the world has reached a point where seventeen billions in public, or quasi-public securities are worth but little more than half their face value and where their redemption is doubtful, we face a worse crisis than we yet have been through. A congressional inquiry as to the (solvency of certain governments, and a general economic conference would seem nearer to fitting the emergency than personal probes. tt tt a It’s Far Too Big IN spite of this collapse of foreign bonds, one hears foreign debts discussed just as though their revision, or collection, were a matter which could be decided by a vote in congress. Also, one hears the Hoover moratorium discussed as though the President of the United States could be held responsible for it, and as though it could be ignored, without placing this government in an embarrassing position. In both instances, we are dealing with a problem which we might help to solve, but which is far too big and complicated for us to control.

Hopelessly Interlocked SOME of the same people who claim that we were drawn into this depression by world conditions, and in spite of all we could do, argue that we can get out of it through independent action. That, of course, is nonsense. If we were unable to maintain prosperity by ourselves, how can we hope tc restore it by ourselves? Not an event has occurred since 1914 but shows how hopelessly civilization has become interlocked, how impossible it is for any nation to find peace or prosperity within its own frontiers.^ tt tt tt Politics Fit No Longer PREMIER BENNETT of Canada is right in declaring that the British empire has passed as a political entity, but that a great economic union is being forged as a substitute. The trouble is that politics no longer fits economics. Trade, exchange, the inter-dependence of values, all have outrun the capacities of government. Men talk about disarmament as though it were the one great international problem, when it is but a preliminary step to that “reign of law” which Wilson visualized as the one and only thing that could justify the World war. The world needs a common currency as much as it needs anything —some medium of exchange that will help reduce these speculative epidemics to a minimum and that will open the way to straightforward, honest transactions.

Questions and Answers

Was the Statue of Liberty in New York made in this country or in France? What was the date of its unveiling? The statue was cast in France. The head was completed for the Paris ejgjosition in 1878, and th# forearm was sent to America for exhibition at the Centennial exposition, Philadelphia, in 1876. On Oct. 24, 1881, the anniversary of the Battel of Yorktown, all the pieces of the framework and base were put in place at Paris. Levi P. Morton, the American ambassador, driving the first rivet. The statue was finished in 1883. On July 4, 1884, M. de Lesseps, president of the French committee, officially presented the statue to Ambassador Morton; on Aug. 5, 1884, the corner stone of the pedestal was laid on Bedloe’s island and later in June, 1885, the French vessel, Isere, landed the statue at New York. The work of putting the parts together was begun in May, 1886, and the statue was unveiled Oct. 28, 1886. Can the salary of the President of the United States be increased during his term of office? The Constitution provides that the President, who is serving at the time an increase in the presidency salary is passed by congress may not benefit therefrom during the term he is then serving. How many Negroes are employed by the federal government and what is the total amount of their yearly pay? At the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1928, there were 51,882 Negro employes of the United States government whose total pay amounted to $64,483,133.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE German Measles Highly Contagious

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. AMONG the other conditions to which the name German is attached, after German pancakes and hamburger steak, is that variety of eruption of the skin which resembles measles, but which is not measles and which is far less serious than measles. German measles is a mild disease which begins with symptoms affecting the nose and throat, lasting two or three days. Following this mild manifestation there comes enlargement of the glands behind the ears and at the back of the head, and with this a very red eruption, spreading over the face and gradually thinning out over the rest of the body. The eruption usually starts and fades within a period of forty-eight to seventy-two hours.

IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE b= D

THE contract tournament between Lenz and Culbertson convinces me that the expert is one of the most destructive factors in our civilization. This is peculiarly true when he assumes leadership in any sort of pastime. I have no doubt that the early days of football provided far more fun for the players than the later years, in which elaborate and highly paid coaching was introduced. And so it is with contract. To me this is the finest and the most exciting of all card games. I will go further to say the most engrossing form of gamble yet devised by man. But perhaps this isn't quite fair. When one embarks upon poker he must press the stakes to the point where the element of “distress money” enters in. There is no sort of skill in a friendly game. If the winnings and losses are minor, poker lacks true intensity. A 5-cent bluff carries with it no power or persuasion. But contract is different. I have played it for a twentieth of a cent a point and for nothing at all. And, no matter what the stake, I have been consumed with an eagerness to win. It is a game stimulating to the ego of the successful.

He Also Had a High Huff ONCE I saw a gentleman of many millions go to bed in a towering dudgeon because he had lost $3.50 at contract. It wasn’t the money, I assume, so much as the principle of the thing. Right here lies my issue with the expert, and I do not care which school he favors. He has come in with his systems of bidding and reduced a gallant gambling enterprise to the intellectual level of chess. It is not my intention to offend those who find recreation and inspiration in one of the oldest pastimes. But the spirit of chess never w T as that of dice and cards. The element of luck is excluded rigorously. Most of us live largely by a series of fortunate accidents. Campaigns and careers have hung upon things largely fortuitous. The gambling instinct belongs among the primitive emotions, since man from the beginning has recognized Chance as one of the goddesses. The beauty of contract lies in the fact that it can appeal both to the reckless and the mathematical mind. As I see it, the experts want to reduce accidental triumphs and chart the progress of the game. All bidding systems are designed to furnish as much information as possible. And once a player is aware of the location of the cards, there is not much point in going on. The thing which ought to be a race has become a parade. tt tt a Bidding in the Dark Accordingly, i wish it were possible to bar away from the public consciousness all truck with problems and formulae. These are not things by which the proper gambler lives. Just what sort of

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It is believed that this disease is spread from one person to another through secretions from the mouth and nose, probably by direct contact of a healthy person with a patient or with articles freshly soiled with discharges from the nose or throat of the patient. The period of incubation of the disease is from fourteen to twentyone days. Usually it will be found that the person affected has been in contact with a case of the disease two or three weeks previously. While the -disease is not serious, it is one of the most highly communicable of all affecting mankind. The disease, when it begins in a school or a home, spreads rapidly to almost every one available. Because of its transient character and the relative mildness of the symptoms, it is likely that many cases of German measles never are reported, and indeed that the cases

rule would turn the trick I am not shrewd enough to say. But this I know: It would be better by far if limitations were set upon informative bidding. The first lead ought to be an adventure, a thrust in the dark, rather than an obligatory maneuver dictated by faith in a passionate creed. Poker is, unfortunately, a cruel game. It has within its potentialities the notion of acute punishment. It is said that no noise is quite as pleasant as the wail of a loser. But the adage was coined by a winner. , u a u Cleaner and Sweeter World IF it were not for the experts, contract might drive poker completely off the map, and we should all live in a warmer and more pleasant world. But the new dispensation seems to provide that contract shall be made difficult and become a game for which no one is eligible until he has completed the required reading and devoted himself largely to laboratory work. I would have it once more a game in W’hich anybody can join and everybody can help and hang around. Certainly there is no suggestion that the big tournament itself provides entertainment for the participants. They are sacrificing themselves for the sake of the kibitzers. I have read of the rigid attention of all concerned—the stiff-backed chairs and the absence of any conversation beyond “One spade!” Three clubs!’” and “Double!” a tt tt Now Is Better Than Never MOST of all I am impressed fc the fact that the contestar are lagging far behind their sche

M TODAY >/<• IS THE- Vs WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY °UW&.

ATTACK ON YPRES December 14

ON Dec. 14, 1917, the Germans attacked on the Yyres front and carried 300 yards of British trenches near Polygon wood. On the Italian front the AustroGerman forces reached Col Caprile from the soles of Col della Berietta, at the head of the San Lorenzo valley. The enemy announced that in the last five days of operations between the Brenta and the Piave that 3,000 prisoners had been captured. A. Bergos Grorocio, a Mexican, was arrested in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and brought to New York City on a charge of being an enemy alien. He was questioned and his explanation effected his release. Mrs. K. McCormick, in an address before the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association in New York, declared that German propaganda was seeking to defeat the American food pledge .-campaign.

are much more frequent than is commonly believed. While German measles is likely to attack children much more often than adults, it is more frequent in adults than ordinary measles. The condition appears more commonly in the winter and in the spring and is much more frequent in city than in country areas. Obviously' the prevention of this condition involves avoidance of contact with any of those who happen to have it. The treatment is unimportant, because most of the cases get well with just ordinary liygience care. However, it never is safe to hazard a guess that a condition is German measles and to overlook the necessity for medical attention, because quite frequently the condition is confused with scarlet fever, a most serious oversight in any instance in which it happens.

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

ule. Ely Culbertson seems to be the chief offender. It develops that he is a slow player. And so I care nothing about his skill. The chief crime in contract is not the familiar reproach of trumping your partner’s ace, but of dawdling over a bid or a finesse. Better by far to throw away a few tricks than to sit in a brown study about something which ought to be by every right a pleasant pastime. Give me, then, no experts, I beg of you, but people who play with celerity and who can smile when everything goes dead wrong. (CoDvriKht. 1931, by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—After listening to A1 Smith and Nicholas Murray Butler, I am inclined to believe there are two men in this country really sincere in attempting to solve this unemployment question. But on the other hand, why couldn’t men like Henry Ford, Rockefeller, Schwab, Morgan, Goldman, Pierce and others like these, who have incomes of a million or more a year, do something to protect the people who built up their incomes. Mr. Ford says, “The depression is good for the people and they are making more money.” A man with a billion dollars says such things. I could say that, too, Mr. Ford, if I had a billion dollars to back up that statement. * Charles Schwab, “We, the people of the United States, must do something to protect the workers and unemployed of our country.” Since Jan. 5, 1930, the United States Steel Company has worked about two months and in that time they have taken a cut in salary. More power, Charley. Maybe by the end of the year you will tie the high record of Mr. Gifford, who holds the record for firing people during the depression. Rockefeller doesn’t make any statement, but transfers his entire estate

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_DEC. 14, 1931

SCIENCE _ BY DAVID DIETZ

Tumors Still Mystify Medical Science; Knife and, Radiotion Termed Crude, but Effective, Control Measures. TUMORS, to use the term which medical men employ to describe all abnormal growths, including cancer, constitute one of the four great groups of ills which cause mankind to seek medical aid. This is pointed out by Dr. Elliott C. Cutler, professor of surgery at Western Reserve University Medical school, and head of the surgical department at Lakeside hospital, Cleveland. “Almost all of the ills for which people go to physicians,’’ he says, “may be grouped as follows: “1. Malformations or deviations , from normal structure, present at birth. “2. The results of injury. “3. The results of infection. “4. Tumors. “There are certain other disorders,” he continues, “which do not fall into any of these classes, but most of the diseases which cause people to consult physicians may be grouped as either a congenial malformation, the result of injury, Jhe result of infection or turn or.” tt u tt Mystery Unsolved TUMORS have occupied the attention of the medical profession for centuries, Dr. Cutler says, Within recent years, immense sums have been spent upon investigations of the cause of tumors. And yet the subject still is one of many mysteries. "As yet we seem to have little positive knowledge which can give us hope that a complete understanding of the nature of tumors is in sight,” Dr. Cutler says. “We know a great deal concerning the question of what part injury may play in producing tumor, what part inheritance may play, and what part laws of cell growth may play. There also are protracted studies to show that infection is not the cause of tumor. “A tumor is the result of a single cell starting to grow and never stopping this growth. Moreover, the tissues of a tumor do not perform any function and merely utilize a great part of the body for their growth, which is to continue until death of the body or removal of the growing cells stops further production. "All people interested in life have an interest in tumors. People who study animals know that animals have tumors. The botanists know that trees and plants have tumors, and it may be that the final know-ledge which will allow us to combat properly the growing tumor will come from some one quite outside of the field of medicine.”

Variety of Types THE problem of understanding tumors, according to Dr. Cutler, is the problem of understanding * growth. When we know why people’s bodies stop growing when they have reached certain sizes we will be on the road to conquering cancer. “Once the time comes when we will known how the body checks growth,” he says, “we then probably will have discovered the principles which can be applied to the cells of a tumor and can stop the tumor’ growth without, I hope, resorting to the present crude forms of destruction of the tumor by the knife or by the use of radiation, either radium or X-ray. For the present we must be content, if we are to save people, to destroy the tumor entirely, and we must do this until we know enough about a single cell to be able to stop its growth, just as the body stops growing after reaching a certain age. “There are many kinds of tumors. Seme of them we call benign or simple tumors, and this is the type that grows only locally in a single spot and never spreads throughout the body. “If completely removed benign tumors will not recur. Such tumors require medical care only because they may grow to such enormous size as to press upon important structures. “Other tumors we call malignant tumors, and the cancers which the public fear so much are largely in this group ”

Daily Thought

A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.—Matthew 13:57. To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal is not slavery; often it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.—Ruskin. to his son while he is living, so when he dies he won’t have to pay the government back any of the money taken from the public in several of his big oil deals. Perhaps Doheny could tell us something that would interest the readers of newspapers of the country. Well, more power to the big shots if they want a Russia here in the United States. They will get it soon enough unless they act and not beg the fellow who is working two or three days a week to give and help. THE MASKED MYSTERY.