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A Great Speech A1 Smith has done it again. With his speech demanding federal relief for the unemployed and for business revival. Smith has stepped far out in front of most of the political and business leaders of the country. He has taken the relief and reconstruction program of the La Follette-Costigan Progressive minority and put it squarely before the timorous Democratic politicians. And by putting it up to the Democratic political machine in congress, he also has put the Hoover do-nothing policy on the spot. Speaking at the Jackson day dinner in Washington—which traditionally opens the presidential campaign of his party—Smith thrust into a general ballyhoo affair the sober and crusading spirit of a leader determined to bring relief to his suffering country. As he rose to address a meeting crowded with his party opponents, he was expected to dwell chiefly on prohibition. His opponents long had accused him of trying to make prohibition the major issue, to the neglect of economic issues. But his remarks on the folly of prohibition were as brief as they were effective. The same was true of his description of the bankruptcy of Republican administration leadership. He was not there to talk party politics. He was there to talk human misery and the way out. He proceeded to declare this a war-like emergency, in which the federal government must carry the load which has become too heavy for exhausted private and local agencies alone. He appealed for another great Liberty loan —not only to save the 8,000,000 unemployed and their hungry families, but to save the whole business structure which can be revived by this new purchasing power of the masses. We ask all our readers—not as Democrats, or Republicans, or Progressives, but as Americans —to study Smith’s discussion of unemployment and business relief. It is not a cure-all. But it does point the way. Until congress enacts some relief program of this type—now before it in the form of the La Follette bills—there is little chance of breaking the back of the depression. Smith’s statement of the case is based on the facts—facts that have been investigated and vouched for by the long list of charity workers, relief experts, and economists, w r ho have appeared at the La Follette committee hearings. Here are the Smith highlights: “I am in complete sympathy with all constructive and workable plans for international adjustments and expansion of credit, but these can not be worked out in time to solve the immediate problem of unemployment. “With respedt to the third (unemployment relief), the federal government plan is to pass it along <.o the states, their localities, and to private charities. As to this problem, I consider the attitude of the administration to be indefensible, inasmuch as it already has been proved that the states, localities and private charities can not cope with it. Cities and localities have exceeded their debt limit and face constantly decreasing revenues. . . . “I have served on all the (New York) committees so far brought into existence, whether public or private, for the relief of this situation and I am prepared to state definitely that, notwithstanding an appropriation of $10,000,000 by the city of New York, $8,000,000 by the state of New York, and $20,000,000 more by private gift for our citizenship, we are able only to scratch the surface in New York City, and only for a short time at that. “We are a long way from bringing any full measure of relief. I am informed reliably that this condition prevails throughout the United States. The direct, results of this (present) form of relief are two. One is to extend charity to people in their homes, and the other is to provide work of no lasting benefit to the taxpayers whose money is appropriated. It is nothing more or less than a disguised dole. . . . “We absolutely must forget politics and we must regard the United States to be in a state of war. It is a war against unemployment, disease and malnutrition. . . - “I suggest, first, an issue of federal bonds for necessary public improvements, as distinguished from so-called made work. ... I believe they should be offered direct to the American public exactly as the Liberty bonds were offered, through an appeal to their patriotism. . . . (That) will loosen up the hoarded money ... it will restore purchasing power that will be beneficial to business, commerce, and industry all along the line. . . . “Following the bond issue, congress should bestow upon the President plenary power for appointment of a federal administrator of public works and clothe him with the power and authority to cut, slash and dig into the red tape now found throughout the statute laws of the country which retards the progress of public works.” This is the way out.

The Experts Speak Ones again the senate of the United States has interceded in the name of justice and humanity. By forcing into the open the experts' suppressed report to the late Wickersham commission on the trials of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, the senate not only has added to the sum of mounting public opinion demanding justice to this wronged pair, but to the actual evidence of their mistrials. This newspaper had no idea what the Chaffec-Stern-Pollak report contained. Whether it favored pardon or reverse, we felt that it should be mad; public at once. We disagreed with Chairman Wickersham that the fact of a pending pardon appeal made such evidence improper. We felt that this very fact was an argument for release of all available evidence. Now we have the report. “There never was a scientific attempt made by the police or prosecution to discover the perpetrators of the crime,’* he read. “The investigation was turned over to a private detective (the late Martin Swanson, private utilities’ operative), who used his position to cause the arrest of the defendants. The police investigation was reduced to a hunt for evidence to convict the arrested defendants. “There were flagrant violations of the statutory law of California by both police and prosecution. The defendants were arrested and held incommunicado. . . . After the arrest witnesses were brought to the jails to ‘identify* them. . . . Despite the fact that these witnesses never were required to pick the defendants out of a lineup or to demonstrate their accuracy by any other test. “Immediately after the arrests there commenced a deliberate attempt to arouse public prejudice against them, by a series of almost daily interviews given the press by the prosecuting officials. . . . Witnesses were coached. . . . Evidence points to knowledge by the prosecutors that such coaching was being practiced.

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. . . After the trials the disclosures casting doubt on the justice of the conviction were minimized, every attempt was made to defeat liberation of the defendants by misrepresentation and propaganda.” No recommendation for pardon was made, since that was considered improper from a federal body. Buff coulfr there be a-stronger recommendation than the report itself? # Carrying on Brave Old Tradition Several Missouri newspapers recently commented on the fact that two boys living near the town qf Boonville walk six miles to school every day, and do all the chores at home in addition; and it’s all rather interesting, not because boys have to walk so far, but because the fact that chey do is considered worthy of mention in the newspapers. A generation ago there would have been no news in such a story. Walk six miles to school? Thousands and thousands of youngsters in all parts of the United States did it every day throughout the school year, and thought nothing of it. In many rural districts long hikes like that were the rule and not the exception. q Those, of course, the days when the little red schoolhouse was a more familiar institution than it is now. No one had heard of consolidated schools then, nor of busses all the children, carrying them off to school and bringing them home again in the evening. * l The typical country school was a one-room, oneteacher affair, drawing its pupils from a radius of six or eight miles around; and the children trudged back and forth, through deep snow in winter and through rain, dust, mud or wind in spring and autumn. ' And no one ever thought that those children were undergoing hardships; on the contrary, the children were considered extremely lucky to have education available at the price of a little extended footwork. This isolated, one-room school hasn’t vanished yet, of course; but it is in the process of vanishing, and the system that is replacing it is vastly better from all standpoints. Children’s bodies are not taxed now as they used to be. Their minds are given better training once the schoolroom is reached. Life is easier, pleasanter, more carefully planned. Meanwhile, those two Missouri boys who have to walk so far each day might be comforted, if they were aware of it, by the fact that they are carrying on a brave old tradition. What they are doing now, most farm boys had to do a few decades ago. Fewer Farms, More Forests The annual report of Robert B. Stuart, United States forester m the Pacific northwest, contains an idea that is well worth consideration in a land where agriculture has been ailing for so long. For it is Mr. Stuart’s idea that the nation needs fewer farms and more forests, and he says: “More land has been brought under cultivation than can be farmed, if farming is well done, without creating burdensome agricultural surpluses. Public policies now taking shape to reclothe with forest lands on which agriculture no longer can be practiced successfully, and cut-over lands formerly thought to be destined for agricultural use.” In view of the plight of the farmer and the steady dwindling of our timber supply, here is a proposal that deserves a great deal of thought. An expert says rattlesnakes sometimes climb trees, but don’t do it habitually. But after all that’s happened since the Garden of Eden it doesn’t make much difference whether or not that snake had the habit. Jake the Barber” is being extradited to England to face a swindling charge. He hardly could expect to get away with that in these days when England wouldn't even give Gandhi freedom. And, while the United States is said to be the largest producer of sole leather, it’s evident that the depression is making a little record of its own in producing leather souls. Alexander Pantages, the showman, threw a party for the jurors who acquitted him, but four did not attend. Perhaps in planning his entertainment, he should have been more fourward. Now it transpires that monkey glands will not forestall old age. In fact, the only thing they will forestall is the monkey. Estelle Taylor said it w r ould do no good to continue her marital battle with Dempsey. So she took the $40,000. Ford may put out an eight. But it’s just as well to point out here that probably that will not help the depression, for you can’t chew a spark plug.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

MOST of us said farewell to 1931 with no regrets, although we may welcome 1932 with trepidations. For 1931 was not kind to us, we say, the vixen year, with its low levels for stocks and its harvests of wheat and cotton gone begging for a buyer. A bad. blundering, berserk year, fit only for cursing. Yet, in spite of all this, the twelve months have worked a great change in the American soul. For the first time in many decades, we are aware of something deep within the national consciousness that is our heritage, the quality that makes us what we are—Americans, intangibly different from other beings who are English, German, French. And this knowledge has been born, not of our prosperity, but of our adversity. , Nineteen thirty-one took from us the residue of smugness. No longer do we shout, “Behold! See •what great and rich ones we are! Unassailable! Favored of heaven!” ana THE chest thumpings are heard no longer. Jazz is dead. We are ourselves again, a people ready to meet and overcome afflictions. We know at last that we have followed after strange god£, and that the worship of the golden calf will leave us wandering in an endless wilderness. Thus 1931 has been in truth a kindly and benevolent year. With a tremendous swat is has shaken us out of our silken lethargy and made us remember long-forgotten things. That vigilance is the price of well-being, that moderation is the father of all decencies, that bigness is not always excellence. Millions of us have learned to be grateful again for simple blessings, jobs, warming fires, food. There has been rekindled within us a faint desire for tfiose things that always have spelled content for the common man—home, work and time for laughter, love and dreaming. Nineteen thirty-one will go down in history as the American renaissance of common sense.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS: i Coal Never Will Put All the People in Kentucky's Mine District Back to W T ork. Other Resources Must Be Fund. KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Jan. 8 —The coal district of southeastern Kentucky includes all of Bell and Harlan counties as well as a small area at the western tip of Virginia. Roughly speaking, it is a long, narrow strip of land, running from northeast to southwest, containing about one thousand square miles and 100,000 people, and inclosed by two parallel mountain ranges. Between these ranges are spurs, peaks and hogbacks, cut by deep, crooked valleys through which run brooks, creeks rnd rivers. In prehistoric times, this region was the bed of a great lake or marsh, supporting the gigantic jungle lush, -which eventually decayed and was converted into coal by the pressure of earth and rocks which succeeding ages accumulated above it. Then came a long period of rain and flood, with endless volumes of water cutting channels for drainage, not only down through the accumulation of earth, but down through the coal beds themselves, leaving the latter some 300 or 400 feet above the bottom of the valleys as 'they exist today. n n Poor in Prosperity ' fINING operations consist of 1 opening the mountain side when, the coal bed shows up, digging straight in on a level and delivering coal to the valley below in chutes. In these valleys are located the company offices, company stores and company houses, where the miners live for a nominal rent, and through them run the railroads by which the coal is delivered to outside markets Even in prosperous times the average mining camp would strike an outsider, especially if he came from a modern city, as very poor The houses are small, consisting of only two or three rooms, cheaply built, seldom painted and wholly -without those conveniences which have come to be looked upon as necessary in even the poorest dwellings of an ordinary, up-to-date village They are poor, even when compared to the houses where laborers dwell in such towns as Harlan, Pineville or Middlesboro. With onethird of the miners idle and the rest getting only two or three days’ work each week, these camps present an unusually distressing appearance.

Probes, Talk Futile Obviously, such a situation calls for something more substantial than strikes, agitation, or a ruthless exercise of legal authority. It presents problems that are only made more difficult by political crusades and industrial disturbances. Scratching the raw spots does no good. Such investigations as have been made and such stories as have been published will not accomplish their full purpose unless they lead to a program of immediate relief and permanent reconstruction for this district. In order to be effective and helpful, such relief measures as are adopted must be free from a controversial aspect, and must be based on an honest desire do take care of the men, women and children who are in distress, whether they have been blacklisted by a coal company, belong to a union, or have been handed a radical pamphlet. .Tragic Blundering NO program of reconstruction will amount to anything if based on coal. Coal never will put all the people in this district, or anywhere near all, back to work. The all-important question is to find other resources of wealth and other operators for work. While it can not be solved overnight, it will have to be solved before the people of this district can be made self-supporting to a reasonable extent. Deserved as criticism of coal operators and public officials may be, it has done very little to better conditions for the unemployed. The advent of politically minded agitators has done even lefts. It is unfortunate fbr the 20,000 people who must look to charity this winter, that incidents due to a stupid exercise of authority, or to the appearance of enusaders who have little sympathy with the downtrodden except as thejy can make a public show of it for their own benefit, should have overshadowed the real necessity for constructive action in behalf of suffering human beings. These people need bread and heat much more than they need soap-box oratory, or a display of force. ntttt Everything but Relief THERE has been a3together too much spouting on the one hand, and too much (arresting on the other side, too mia:h of a desire to organize somet3iing on the part of outsiders, and too much of a desire to put somebody in jail on the part of locaL authorities. If it were not a tragedy, it would be a farce. Right now there is a strike on, and it includes very few outside of those who already were out of work. There are nine outsiders in jail at Pineville, together with Allan Taub, who came down, to act as their lawyer. There are sixty indictments out for conspiracy to murdar, some of which are based on such thin evidence as wouldn’t stand, up before a cannibal chief in the South Sea islands. There is a trickUe of Communist, or radica’, literature through the district, whidh amounts to nothing, because most of those for whom it is can not read it intelligently. And all this, while thousands of children are going to schiool without proper food or clothing, thousands of women wracking their brains to learn where the next meal is coming from, and thousands of men with nothing to do but stand around with their hands tit empty pockets.

Daily Thought

So foolish was I, and i&norant: I was as a beast before thee.— Psalms 73:22. Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights,—Thore^iu.

Looks Like Mama Has the Better of It

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Low Blood Pressure Brings Weakness

BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN Editor - Journal o i the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, tft e Health Magazine. 'T'HE average blood pressure of men at 20 years of age is 120; at 60 years of age is about 135. In people who are - overweight this pressure is likely to be higher. A variation of five millimeters of mercury above or below these azures may be considered within fiiie average. Variations of more than, five millimeters above or below an? conditions for study. There are many reason why Ijfood pressure may fall below the average. This occurs whenever a person is nauseated, faints, or has a severe hemorrhage. There are, however, other conditions of general weakness in which the blood pressure is low, and in which the physician weeds to concern himself with buiraing the person back into a good condtion.

IT SEEMS TO ME

“TAPS Sneer at Flag in Curt J Apology,” “Stimson Demands Amends by Japanese,” “U. S- Not Ready to Call Beating Incident Closed.” Already I seem to hear the roll of drums and see the lines of marching men. The press of America has begun to juggle sticks of dynamite. “Wilbur J. Carr, assistant secretary of state, who received newspaper correspondents in the absence from the department of Secretary Stimson, referred them to Moore’s Digest of International Law, and that contains prominently the assertion that ‘insults by a foreign government to a consul or encroach- ; ment by it on his rights will justify a demand that, in addition to other redress, the flag of the United States shall be honored with a salute.’ ” Is Memory So Short? DO we have to go through all that again? Distinctly I remember the controversy which | raged between us and Mexico about just such a demand. And when it was all over the dead of both nations lay along the streets of Vera Cruz, and not a single living man can say that any good came of it. The most pacific are less than wise if they maintain that war can not come again. Certain stops exist which can be pressed to rouse the fighting feeling. It seems to me that before this stage is reached we should sit calmly and consider the human and the international values involved. When the bugles blow only those completely insulated can keep a tight rein upon their emo- | tions. Just now scareheads have been | written because Culver B. Chamj berlain, an official representative of j the United States, was struck sevj eral times by a civil interpreter M TODAY .£$ -"7 IS THE- Vs WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY FINLAND'S INDEPENDENCE Jan. 9 ON Jan. 9, 1918, the Russian Soviet government officially recognized the independence of Finland. Finland had proclaimed its independence Dec. 7, 1917, ending a ! union with Russia that had started ! in 1809. , Sweden was the first country to | recognize the new republic. France, ! Norway, Denmark and Germany fol- ! lowed. On Jan. 9 the central executive ■ committee of the Soviets unanimously accepted the recognition of Finland’s independence. The crimson banner with the yellow lion of Finland surrounded by nine white roses became the national flag of this full-fledged, internationally recognized state. / Dire predictions were made for , i the future of Finland as an indei pendant state.

For instance, following influenza people are frequently weak, perspire freely on exertion, and appear weary, depresssed and tired without any apparent cause. When the infection is cleared up and the appetite returns, when the person begins to resume his daily physical activities, the pressure may rise promptly. A similar condition may develop following any long continued infection, and the method of taking care of the condition is obvious. Rest is necessary. If every one who had a severe cold, even without a fever, would stay in bed in the acute stage and if every person who had a fever !'wou!d stay in bed from one to three ’tiays after the temperature became normal, a vast amount of degenerative disease, of low blood pressure, avid of general weakness would be avoided. are certain diseases which attach the glands of internal secre-

and a, group of Japanese soldiers. At thdr> distance it is rather fruitless to go ’.too deeply into the merits of the quarrel. Two ’Versions exist. According to our offVcial reports, the Japanese were rotvdy and arrogant. It' is the notion Os the other side that our young man was provocative in his attitude. , But it does not stem to me that any good can come of inquiry and the exchange of notes. Japan has issued an apology which is less than a kowtow. What of it? is my attitude. Our Mr. Chamberlain suffered no more than few bad minutes and had his' face bruised and cut. There is no healing property in shedding blood for blood. Quite generally it is conceded that the truculent individual who must fight it out whenever his toes are stepped upon is a relic of an age well gone. So should it be with nations. The honor of the United States is a thing which aught to be rooted in our deeds and aspirations and not in any .cuticle. * _ B Less Than Conciliatory VERY probably it is true that the Japanese do not like us and have no disposition to be overeager in salving American pride. Yet it is true that we have done almost nothing to create a wanner feeling of comradeship between the countries. For years we have ridden roughshod over the self-respect of a nascent nation. Whether for good or ill, the states along our Pacific coast objected strenuously to Japanese immigration. It quite possible to achieve exclusion and still permit the Japanese to feel

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Apropos to a state- j ment recently in connection with ' new appointments made by county organizations 'Democrat), the same old cry is heard about fitness and ability of the ones deposed. Since my inception into politics, the first lesson learned was reward (if qualified for service reside red) for one's self, or his friends. Tis true that these that must step out dislike the idea of separating from the political trough, but fit seems they want to pull at the teat as long as possible. All honor to men (Democrats) such as Sexton, Grossart and the Democratic members of the county board of commissioners. They owe their selection partly to the workers appointed, and through their and other Democrats’ service, successfully made their fight to obtain their respective offices. What did the leaders of the Republican county organization do? Especially to the schools? Nat a Democrat was allowed to feed at the trough! Retaliation is right, consistent, and honorable. JAMES O’NEIL. Big Four, city. What is a split infinitive? Are mck expressions / considered good English?

tion which are concerned with keeping the blood pressure normal through maintaining proper elasticity in the blood vessels. Obviously any disease affecting these glands and interfering with their function may bring about low blood pressure. Since the blood pressure is a reflection of the power of the heart to push the blood through the arteries and veins and of the condition of the blood vessels through which the blood passes, any factor that greatly influences these two basic features of the circulation may bring about either a high or low blood pressure. Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, after a surveey of the available knowledge, feels that low blood pressure favors long life, but that it is not likely to be associated with physical vigor. There is a tendency to encounter low blood pressure more frequently than high ones.

RV HEYWOOD BROUN

that they had saved face through a gentlemen’s agreement. But senatorial firebrands would have none of that. They insisted that the barrier should be erected in a mean way and that our racial integrity could be preserved only by the thumbing of the nose. For years the newspapers of William Randolph Heart have done all things possible to make cordiality impossible between the continents. Just now it seems as if Japan has embarked upon an imperialistic adventure in Manchuria. China has become to her what Central America is to us. For foreign rights they have just as scant respect as we have displayed toward Nicaragua. a a o All Nations Know Them AND it would be idle to deny that jingoes exist across the waters, Mr. Hearst, for all his avowed devotion to a complete attitude of isolation and first page patriotism, is an international symbol. His counterpart exists in Britain, in France and in Japan. And it seems to me that these men who argue for a complete provincialism are the very ones who betray their own theory. They do not actually mean what they say, for there ds none so truculent as the avowed advocate of complete isolation. It is from such that we get the demands for salutes and fanatics. The man who cries “All for America and the world well lost!” is the very one who would have our armies and our navies on the scent of insults real and fancied. I am sorry that Culver B. Chamberlain was slapped around by soldiers on a lonely road near Mukden in the early morning. But I do not believe for an instant that such an incident or even a more flagrant one is worth the life of any farm boy in Nebraska. It’s a long way to Mukden. Let s keep the camphor jammed down the mouth of the trumpets and the cotton in the fifes. fCojn’rirht. 1932. by The Times'

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Ideals and uninions expressed m 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 naner.—The Editor.

JAN. 9, 1932-

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ New President of American Chemists Society, Opiimis- \ tic as to Future of Science, Secs Briyht F ntvrc for 1932. WE live in an age of science. Therefore, with the dawn of anew year, it is of interest to see what scientists think of the future. Let us. then, give ear to Dr. L. V. 1 Redman, who Jan. 1 assumed the presidency of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Redman, who is vice-president and director of research of the Bakelite Corporation, has just taken over the reins for an organization which has 19.000 members. For the most part. Dr. Redman is optimistic about 1932. “We have greater wealth than ever before; wealth to endow education and research in the pure science: wealth to finance industrial research and its exploitation.” he says. “Men of finpice, industry and commerce are becoming more and more research-conscious. We have a broadening foundation of knowledge on which to build: an expending. inexhaustible territory to be explored and cultivated. We have a greater number of well-trained workers. “True, we have much to learn about the control of wealth, whether of labor or of commodities. We have not learned to achieve economic stability. But in terms of living, every crest of the wave has been higher and every trough less depressed. “We are reassured by the fart that our present condition is one of maladjustment not poverty; surfeit, not famine.” an* Extend Science LIKE many other men of science. Dr. Redman sees the hope of the future in more science, not less. Unlike the British clergyman who urged science to take a ten-year holiday. Dr. Redman favors greater scientific research. He believes that the scientific method must be extended to many problems which ordinarily are not thought to concern the scientist. But. on the other hand, he cautions the layman against imagining that scientific research is a sort of magic in which results are obtained instantaneously by some sort of hocus-pocus. “The man of business may be getting a dangerously exalted estimate of the possibilities of research,” Dr. Redman says. “He will come to learn its limitations. His interest will grow; the results will compel it. “In the early days of science there ' were those who believed its domain to be narrowly bounded. Few today do not see its horizons receding with every advance. “Years ago we were told that, there wojld soon be an oversupplv of men trained in chemistry. Some fear that such fate is now upon us. But before these days of doubt and uncertainty the schools were not keeping up with the demand for men of good training.” n a a No Overcrowding ALTHOUGH there now is some unemployment among chemists, Dr. Redman does not believe that the scientific field is overcrowded. In fact, he looks for an increase in the demand for scientifically trained experts in the near future. “Today, discouraging as is the immediate outlook for many, the proportion of those w’ho are idle is. to say the least, no higher among chemists than among those in other walks of life,” he says. “We shall again have a scarcity of welltrained men. Science properly taught is as cultural s the humanities. A foundation of training in chemistry and the allied sciences is of value in all walks of life. It is neither necessary nor desirable that all men trained in science practice a scientific calling. “The need is for leaders in finance, and commerce who understand the possibilities and the limitations of modern science. “What with our increasing wealth, the growing appreciation of the value of research, our ever expandr ing knowledge, the increasing nura? ber of men of power and initiative who are devoting their lives to chemistry or its practical application, the future of chemistry and chemists in America never looked brighter.”

Questions and Answers

To what country does Buckhorn Island in the Niagara river belong? It is part of Erie county, New York. Has any President of the United States served more than two terms? No. W’hat are the names of the two sisters of Loretta Young, the film actress, both of whom also appear on the screen? Sally Blane and Polly Ann Young. What was the original cost of J~ P. Morgan’s yacht “Corsair?” About $3,000,000.