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Radical Wall Street Until now, Wall Street’s chief efforts to cure the depression have been from the top downward. The Hoover moratorium, the $2,000,000,000 “R. F. C.,” the bank relief bill and other measures to strengthen the nation’s credit Mfeve been its concern. The fight to reconstruct the nation’s buying power has been left largely to labor and to a few independent employers. But light is breaking through the cavernous street of streets. Tomorrow the Magazine of Wall Street will feature an article by Charles Benedict favoring the five-day week and the seven-hour day. Fear, he finds, Is our enemy. But it 1s not fear of the banks; it is fear of becoming jobless, of being in want. At least 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 Americans, he will say, “have lost their means of livelihood.” One of every four employed in 1929 now is living in costly idleness, while millions more struggle with reduced incomes. The total loss in purchasing power "is appalling” and runs into billions. The American Federation of Labor, he will point out, estimates that there is enough work in the country right now to employ every worker for thirty-five hours a week. “The trouble is that work is not equitably spread around,” Benedict will say. “Too many millions either have none of It, or too small a part of it. If every one were permitted to share in it, each would have seven hours of work a day, five days out of the week. “As compared with the accepted standard of eight hours a day, five and one-half days a week, this certainly would constitute no very startling change.” The shorter work week and day, according to this Wall Street voice, is not charity, but enlightened self-interest. “With all employed at a living wage, it would not be difficult to envisage a gradual loosening up in spending, creating the self-accelerating impetus upon which prosperity has come so largely to rest,” the article concludes. Holmes and Cardozo A good many years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes delivered an address to Harvard college students, in which he told them: “No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he never has seen—to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach.” That sentence, somehow, takes on anew significance when the recent change in the supreme court of the United States is considered. Justice Holmes, stepping down, is replaced by Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, a worthy successor in every way, and the careers of these two men prove conclusively that it still is possible for a man to follow this other-worldly, impractical advice which Justice Holmes gave the college men a generation ago and still win a high place in public life. Ordinarily we look on public office as something that has to be bought with more or less base metal. The man who would fill it must compromise with expediency, he must give up the privilege of always saying what he thinks, he must occasionally fail to let his right hand know what his left hand is doing. Politics, we are fond of saying, is a dirty game. Perhaps we are right, in a good many cases. But we aren't always right. These two men, one leaving a high place, the other mounting to it, show us how completely our easy assumption can be wrong. To lay a course by a star which he never has seen —what does that mean, if not that the leader of men must trust to a nobility and a divinity that are not always evident in the workaday world, must be ready to let his fellows deride him as a visionary, must be unceasingly faithful in sticking to the truth as he has seen it? A tough job a man who would rise in public office? Very likely; yet lew men ever retired from the supreme court to the acclaim that greeted Justice Holmes’ retirement, and few men ever ascended to it as widely indorsed as is Justice Cardozo. And these two, throughout their careers, have lived up to that motto unceasingly. The nation is always ready to put men of that kind in high places. The only trouble is that it can find so few of them. Don’t Kill the Business Goose Despite their high tariff stand and opposition to direct federal hunger relief, it still is somewhat surprising to find the Democratic leaders in congress even more reactionary than the Republican administration on the vital matter of tax increases. The administration proposed a selective sales tax chiefly on luxuries and semi-luxuries. That was intelligent. But the Democrats in control of the house, where tax legislation originates, announce that they are going to bring in a general sales tax bill covering virtually everything except staple foods. This is rather late in the day to have to remind the Democratic leaders that a general sales tax is recognized as both unjust and inefficient. It is unjust because it places most of the tax load on the poor. Have the Democratic party managers, in their desire to appear “safe” to campaign contributors, thrown overboard the cardinal Democratic principle that just taxation is measured by ability to pay, that those who have most should pay most? Assuming that considerations of justice are not to weigh in the decisions regarding the nature of the next tax law, the Democrats would do well to reconsider their general sales tax plan on the score of efficiency. We do not refer at the moment to the pyramiding of taxes that occurs under this system, nor to the expensive reorganization of the internal revenue offices necessary to handle the new-type complicated sales tax. All that apparently has escaped notice of the Democratic leaders. But it is difficult to understand how the depression and the dire need for business revival could have been forgotten by these drafters of a tax bill. It Is an undisputed fact that a tax on any commodity slows down the sale of that commodity. Obviously, such sales are slowed down more at a time of general depression. Congress just has authorized and appropriated billions of dollars in one form or another to improve credit and stimulate business activity. To clamp down a general sales tax on business now would be to smother the business revival which might be started by the artificial help just given. We know, of course, that the tax situation is critical, that there will be a four-billion-dollar, twoyear deficit, due to the selfish and short-sighted Republican administration fiscal policy during the prosperous years. And we know that the government can not make up the deficit by borrowing indefinitely, without disastrous results to the federal treasury. Nevertheless, we are convinced that much less barm will come from limited federal bowing to

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meet part of the deficit, than by a tax which will burden business when it is bedridden or convalescent. A wiser course, in our judgment, is to collect every cent practicable by increased income and surtaxes, by increased death duties and gift taxes, by a selectixe luxury sales tax, by cuts in federal expenditures, especially in army and navy, and to borrow the balance against the day of prosperity when a proper income and inheritance tax can wipe out the debt. Dtstiny (By Victor Murdock, in the Wichita Eagle) At the moment, somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, Newton Baker is sitting quietly on the deck of a steamer watching the waves, while Destiny works for him. Evsaything indicates that the Democrats, in national convention assembled, will make Baker their presidential nominee. Their internal politics is working that way. And the figure of the man, Baker, is crystallizing around him an appeal to the Democratic imagination that -no other aspirant can command. That figure in it has some of the democracy of Jefferson, some of the rugged rectitude of Jackson, some of the bluff virility of Cleveland, some of the scholarly grace of Wilson, and an equipment of eloquence surpassing that of any of them. There is no more interesting thing in these United States than this; the force, which in the midst of much rough and futile hewing, shapes, out of hand, a man’s end. Florence Kelley The.death of Mrs. Florence Kelley, one of America’s most distinguished humanitarians, is more than a bereavement at this time. It is a public loss. Now, if ever, the nation needs clear thinkers and fearless doers. Mrs. Kelley was both. Although born to a life of ease, she chose the “way of grief” and devoted her long life to the task of making the world decent for the friendless masses. She helped turn the career of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York into one memorable humane achievement. She pioneered in creation of the United States children’s bureau. She labored in the slums, and opposed American •imperialism. She became the moving spirit in the National Consumers League, through which she sought to force manufacturers to make honest goods and pay honest wages. Mrs. Kelley’s last campaign was to win re-enact-ment of the federal aid maternity and infancy lav/, now before congress as the Jones-Bankhead bill. By no monument could the nation better honor the memory of her devoted life than by this bill made into law for saving lives of mothers and babies. A Tribute to the Jobless One of the most striking features of the present depression has been the relative absence of violence on the part of the unemployed working men. Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, touched on the point in a speech at Williamstown, Mass., the other day, and remarked: “This depression has produced less mass demonstration, I believe, because of the recoil and actual fear of violence among the workers and the fear that such demonstrations would tie them up with the Communist theory of inevitable revolution.” That, apparently, is about the size of it; and there could not be a surer tribute to the solidity and intelligence of the American wage earner. The American worker has not the slightest desire for a revolution. He simply wants a job, and if h$ has to wait a lojig time for it, he can wait without breaking things. From the Japanese answer to the League of Nations proposals, it would seem that the only thing Japan is not willing to do in China is stop fighting. Business is so scarce that if a man falls asleep in a barber’s chair he’s likely to wake up bankrupt. Yet, industrial leaders say business has scraped bottom and now is ready for a rise. Os course it may dig in a little. An insurance executive says the best help for the unemployed is self-help. He would probably throw a drowning man a book on how to learn to swim. Whisky h said to be gaining popularity as a toothache cure. Which shows that dentists aren’t pulling for prohibition. President Hoover has lost twenty-seven pounds since he took office. That’s nothing. We know several men who have lost more than a million since then. Coppery-tasting oysters really contain copper, a scientist has found. Now if someone would just start experimenting with goldfish!

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON i

SOLOMON was not the wisest man in the world about his children. His Proverbs, replete with smooth phrases, and studied for ages for their sagacity, have brought harm to the young of every Christian generation. The godly man of former years, to justify himself for beating his sons, unctuously quoted the line, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” What cruelty, what misery, what injustice has that one sentence, written in our Holy Book, brought to the little ones of earth. In spite of the fact 4hat our children still fall short of perfection, I am of the opinion that if we had put Solomon’s advice into the discard long before we did, man today would be an improvement over what he is. M M M THE idea that might makes right has been cuffed into many a boy of former years by stout and pious fathers, who believed they could pound virtue into their sons. The dissemination of such false theories in the Sunday schools has been responsible for nine-tenths of the misunderstandings between the older and younger generations for centuries. It has piled bitterness upon bitterness, caused brother to hate brother, and sent many a lad forth from his father’s house with wrath in his heart. Solomon, moreover, was in exactly the same position as every other elderly gentlerhan whom the world has known. He did not walk In paths of virtue and righteousness all his days, but, according to the Good Book, which sets down his case in plain words for every youth to read, he spent many year* with idolotrous companions and women of iniquity. 1 He learned his lessons from experience, the teacher from whom each mortal gleans wisdom. The intelligent man of this age is a hundred times wiser than Solomon when he stands before his son, not as an orator or a chastiser, but as a companion and a friend.

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M. E. Tracy " Says:

As Far as Economic Recovery Is Concerned, Low Pay Represents as Much of a Handicap as Hidden Cash. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—According to Chairman Connery of the house rules committee, wages in this country have been cut 40 per cent since 1929, while the federal labor department reports a decline of only 25 per cent in the cos', of living. Such figures indicate too great a disparity between the dinner pail and the pay check. Whatever else happens, the government must not allow this depression to become an excuse for the rich to squeeze the poor. In view of what it has done, and is doing to help big business, the government must see that working people are not mistreated. M M M Hard-Boiled Economy 'T'HERE has been an obvious tendency on the part of certain hardboiled industrial leaders to depress wages as far as possible. Some of them have argued that such a course was necessary to met competition from abroad. Others have argued that it was just because of the general price decline. In many cases,u workers voluntarily have submitted to a reduction. In more, they have been forced to take it. M M M Bankers Share Blame NO one will deny that a certain amount of wage-cutting has been necessary, or that many industrial leaders have done their best to hold it to a minimum. Fear, however, has created something of a stampede. In large measure, wage-cutting, especially when carried to excess, can be traced to the same influences as hoarding. Scared, misguided bankers deserve some of the blame in both instances. An undue restriction of credit on the one hand, and panicky advice on the other, have combined to produce a scramble for safety which has led some to hoard and others to squeeze.

M M M Deflation Menace AS far as economic recovery i* concerned, low pay represents as much of a handicap as hidden cash. The American people can not meet existing obligations, much less engage in the buying which a return of prosperity demands, if their average income is reduced materially. The sag in wage scales and commodity prices must be stopped. As Senator Walcott of Connecticut says, “Our gold-backed dollar has become too valuable, too precious. Our dollar buys too much.” Deflation has become a menace. We can not go much farther in cheapening goods and labor, without a worse disaster than we yet have suffered. * * Practical Remedy THE purpose of credit expansion is not only to create employment, but sustain prices. It rests on the idea that checking accounts can be made to do the trick, instead of a huge issue of paper money. Since 90 per cent of our business is done with checks, the idea is thoroughly practical. It will not bring the desired result, however, if, in the meantime, those who have the power are permitted to crowd wages and prices down. MUM Buying Power Suffers THE country’s buying power must be sustained and restored. That is the most important problem we face right now. We are not going to sell the required number of automobiles, radio sets, electric refrigerators and vacuum cleaners, not to mention necessaries, while millions of people are out of work, or if their incomes are cut in half. Amid such confusion as now reigns, some values are bound to get out of line, but wages should be watched and safeguarded with every possible care. The business structure of this country has been developed on the basis of mass consumption, on the fact that the great majority of people can afford a decent standard of living. Eliminate that fact, and the road is.left wide open for a general collapse.

Questions and Answers

How does the new Empire State building in New York compare in height and area with the Chrysler and Woolworth buildings? The Empire State is 1,248 feet high and occupies a land area of 83,360 square feet; the Chrysler biulding is 1,046 feet high and occupies a land area of 37,555 square feet, and the Woolworth building is 792 feet high and occupies a land area of 29,455 square feet. How much quicksilver is mined in the United States annually, and what is the value? The production for 1929 was 23,862 flasks, produced from sixtythree mines, valued at $2,892,638. A flask is seventy-six pounds. How often is the president ot Germany elected? .Every seven years. What university in Tennessee has the largest enrollment? The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, with 3,556 students in 1930. What is the size and shape of a a standard football? The official football rules state: “The ball shall be made of leather, natural tanned color, Inclosing si rubber bladder. It shall be inflated with a pressure of not less than 12*s pounds n<* more than 13Vi pounds, and shall have the shape of a prolate spheroid—the entire surface to be convex. Is Cleveland, 0., on a river? It is on Lake Erie at the mouth of the CayuHoga river. What is Babe Ruth’s real name? George Herman Ruth.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE . Ingrowing Toenails Need Extreme Care

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyxeia. the Health Magazine. THE feet are among the most abused portions of the human body, and are probably responsible for about as much agony as human beings can sustain. „ Fashion takes no account of foot comfort or foot health. Modern shoes, particularly for women, bring about extraordinary malformations. Hiking crazes cause large numbers of people to undertake long walks with poor equipment. Motor cars keep most people from walking enough to give the feet even adequate exercise. When a foot which has been largely neglected from the point of view of hygiene develops a complication like ingrowing toenails, the owner of that foot is in for an exceedingly painful time. The large toenail is the one usually concerned in the ingrowing

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE third Olympic winter games did not prove a great success, either artistically or financially. And I am not disposed to weep about it. Lake Placid was hardly a happy choice. To be sure, it does possess both snow and ice, but the committee would have done well to pass up the claims of a resort which is notorious for its anti-Semitism. The place also is infested with simplified spellers. It is not impossible that Los Angeles also may suffer from the fact that it is a city under a cloud. I do not refer to those skies which are by tradition always bright and sunny, but to the stigma which the Mooney case has brought to California. Labor groups throughout the world will urge their members to stay away from the games. The suggestion already has been made, and it seems to me well founded. California’s sprinters and hurdlers may be fast, but Governor Rolph is lamentably a laggard in making up his mind. * * * Should Be to the Swift BUT chiefly I would contend that the Olympic games suffer now, and always have, from a blight which is international. I think that amateurism as we know it and enforce it is a holdover from days less democratic. Th& important and interesting part of a hundred-yard dash or a mile run is the effort to discover which man in ail the world can cover the distance with the greatest speed. Nobody could be particularly concerned with what he does in his spare time. As things stand, there is much in our rules governing all sport which tends to restrict competition to young men of means or others who are sly. Few will cler.y that the A. A. U. and the ruling bodies in golf and tennis have been responsible for the growth of a vast amount of hypocrisy. Expense money has become a racket, and stars like Tilden in tennis and Bobby Jones in golf, have been forced out of the ranks in which they belong by rules which seem to me archaic. In some cases, the distinotion drawn between the simon pure and the pro are nice to the point of absurdity. Thus a brillant young golfer may capitalize his success by selling bonds. At least, he could in the days when bonds were bought. But he may not demonstrate or design athletic goods for profit. And the complete reduction to the ridiculous occurred at Lake Placid, when one official undertook to disqualify practically all the American bobsleddders because they had failed to have some punch or stamp imposed upon the necessary papers. This finicky interest in athletic passports seems to me destructive to the spirit of sport. M M ■ * Modes of Merrie England MANY of our most popular games are derived from England and from Scotland, but in i taking golf there was so rea-

procedure. Almost every one thinks himself competent to advise on the handling of ingrown toenails. Therefore, as Dr. Harold Dodd points out, the patient usually has tried all sorts of poultices, antiseptics, and ointments on his toe before coming to the physician. When he finally does come, the nail and the toe will be found red and swollen, wth pus not infrequently exuding from under the nail. Not infrequently the infection is brought about by the practice of clipping the toenails with a sharp scissors that is seldom sterilized before use. Dr. Dodd provides some simple suggestions for treatment. First, stop all attempts at the use of poultices, linaments and soaking of the foot in baths. Apply tincture of iodine daily, but in relatively small amounts, to the infected portions of the nail where it comes in contact with the skin.

son why it should be surrounded by an acceptance of a caste system which never* was our own. An account of a British tournament couched in the style of “Braid, Vardon and Mr. Wethered,” generally will cause an American to snicker. He thinks it a little amusing that the “gentleman” player should have his status so markedly underlined in a newspaper story. In the fine old racing phrase, “All men are equal on and under the turf.” Obviously, all sport had its leadership in the leisure class a century ago. The artisan golfer is a comparatively recent development. But it seems to me a rather important thing that in a companionable world there should be equality of opportunity upon the playing fields. In both Russia and Germany vast strides are being made in athletics for the worker. We should not lag in this effort to democratize sport. And one of the best ways to encourage a wider and more public participation in games is to take practically everything we have In our amateur codes and scrap it once and for all. * n * Open Titles Openly Won GOLF is at least a step ahead of tennis in that the true championship each year is the open tournament where professionals and amateurs meet in competition. An amateur title meSnt not very much if it merely signifies that Mr. Soandso is the best among those individuals who have the money and the spare time to get to the place where the match is held. In the case of the Olympic games, the results will be negative if foreign countries are not allo,wed to provide something more than actual expenses for the competitors who come over. It will be advisable in several cases to subsidize such runners who must stay away from jobs necessary to maintenance of their families. Jim Thorpe was forced to return the trophies which he won in Stockholm and his name was erased from the records because it subsequently was discovered that he had played summer baseball for compensation. But it was not possible to erase the fact that Jim actually had won the pentathlon, and I doubt that even the most ardent

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l happened to see one of your secret ballots. Permit me to express my political views. The Democrats have a very large field to draw from and very fine timber. Both Bryan and Smith ’ost out on account cf .their radical views on religion and the liquor question. Our opponents straddle such issues. Our fight should be on the economic program, with lowering of the tariff and enforcing the Sherman antitrust law, which will bring back the wealth to the great masse?. O. O. RINGO. What is the population of Cubs? 3,961,532. 1$ _

Do not attempt to manicure the nail in anything like the intricate technic used for fingernails. Dr. Dodd suggests the use of a pair of surgical scissors with rounded ends, which will not lacerate the skin or do much damage if the scissors slips. To catch up with, the corners, he suggests cutting a shallow “v” or “u” in the center of the nail. This slows the growth at the side of the nail and takes the pressure off the corners. As dressing for an ingrown nail, it is merely necessary to have a piece of surgically clean gauze, to wear stockings thick enough to afford protection, and shoes loose enough to prevent pressure, but not so loose as to cause rubbing. If this procedure is followed repeatedly the ingrown toenail gradually becomes normal and proper hygiene thereafter will keep it In that condition.

ov HEY WOOD BROUN

follower of track and field events can remember today the name of the athlete who was legislated Into a championship. I am not contending at all that there should not be a spirit of sportsmanship and that contenders ought not to be urged to play fair and without rancor. But I insist tha • the sort of amateurism which our present regulations produce falls far short of this ideal. It is not a thing of the spirit at all, but a mere economic survey into the financial status of the men concerned. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times! M TODAY 4$ y WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY GERMANS TAKE LUTSK February 19 ON Feb. 19, 1918, the Germans continued their new drive into Russia, capturing the towns of Lutsk and Dvinsk. Lenin and Trotsky signed a statement announcing complete surrender of the Soviet government and asking the Imperial German government to name its peace terms. Russian troops were refusing to fight. On this date, British troops in Palestine advanced two miles on a fifteen-mile front, encountering stiff resistance from the Turks. Fighting on the western front was confined to trench raids by both sides, neither having any great advantage. It was announced in official circles that German troops from the Russian front were arriving in force.

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-FEB. 19, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Lizard Which Resembles Dinosaur in Collection Sent From Siam to Washington. A GIGANTIC lizard seven feet long, resembling in appearance the ancient dinosaurs which roamed the earth in the Age of Reptiles, has been added to the collection of the Smithsonian institution in Washington. This great water lizard, known as the "hia,” is one of a number of weird specimens sent to the Smithsonian institution by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, former chief of the United States bureau of fisheries, who now is in the employ of the Kingdom of Siam to develop that nation’s fishery resources. Dr. Smith has sent the Smithsonian institution a collection of strange creatures, many of which look as though they had stepped out of a nightmare. The hia sometimes attains a length of fourteen feet, Dr. Smith reports. The creature has a small head, a long neck and a long heavy tail, and when seen In the jungle acording to Dr. Smith, looks very much like an ancient dinosaur. Scientists, however, agree that although the hia resembles tide dinosaur it is no more closely related to that r lent creature than arc any of the other living reptiles. * * a Tail-Biting Snake A LTHOUGH the hia lives in the fy. jungle! it occasionally invades the city limits of Bankok, Dr. Smith re P° r l _ ts - getting into the canals which run through the large gardens there. It is particularly fond of ducks and chickens. Dr. Smith also reports that the Siamese regard the eggs of the hia as a great delicacy. Another creature sent to the Smithsonian by Dr. Smith is known in Siam as the “ngu kon kob ” which means “tail-biting snake.”’ “Belief is quite general among the Siamese,” Dr. Smith writes, “that it bites with its tail. One version of the popular belief is that it bites with its head when the moon shines and with its tail on dark nights. “One of my assistants assures me that a friend of mine was killed by being bitten with the tail of this snake. It is seen not infrequently on Bangkok roads on rainy nights, coiled tightly with its head concealed in its folds and its tail standing erect.” Another striking animal is the ngu seng atit, or “sunny-ray snake.” It is one of the most beautiful creatures in the reptile kingdom—a sort of living diamond. Even in the preservative it shows the beautiful, glowing iridescence which suggests the name given it by the natives. It is reputed to be very poisonous. The collection contains several specimens of the ngu saiman praindra, sometimes known as the Brahmin curtain-cord snake. It has remarkable leaping ability. “One morning as I got out of bed.” Dr. Smith writes, “a full-sized snake of this species was sunning itself on the sill of a double-door opening on a veranda. “As I approached, it ran behind the door and climbed, to the top, where it sprang to the rail of the veranda. The distance was about seven feet.” M tt tt Pure White Snake SOME of the other queer snakes in the collection are: The white-mouthed chlnchuk—an almost pure-white snake with some sharp, black markings. It is reputed by the Siamese country people to be very poisonous and Dr. Smith astounded them when he told them that he kept one on his bed to catch mosquitoes. This very striking creature, he says, may be an albino form of a quite common variety. < The rat snake—nearly two yards long—which climbs bamboo clusters to catch birds. The peacock snake—a combination of brown, "olden-yellow, black, pink and red. The tail is intensely red. The tip of the tongue sometimes is black. The fish snake—which can be caught by baiting a line with a whole small fish. Ordinarily it is not poisonous, but the Siamese claim that it becomes extremely poisonous when it is about to have young. Among the curiosities in the collection were some “transparent tadpoles.” While light passes through their bodies, they are not perfectly transparent, but of a dusky gray color with traces of a purple iridescence underneath. Another queer specimen is the “chin-knock,” a species of jungle toad recovered from the stomach of a snake.

Daily Thought

In my Father’s house are many mansions.—John 14:2. Dreams can not picture a world so fair.—Mrs. Hemans. What are canapes? Individual appetizers, consisting of combinations of fish, meat or poultry with vegetables, etc., on a foundation of toast or bread fried in deep fat. A canape is eaten with a fork.