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Why Not Cut Here? Again comes the Chamber of Commerce with the suggestion that this year there must be very radical cuts in taxes for the city, county and schools. The suggestion is made that the very easy way is to reduce the wages of public employes. The chamber is startled with the prospect of empty treasuries because of lowered valuations of property and the failure and inability of increasing numbers of property owners to pay taxes. The prospect is not pleasant, and the picture is true. There will be so many deJinqucncies that the public funds will soon be exhausted. The increase of 30 per cent in the amount needed to keep workless men from starving is appealing in its implications. Unless some relief is obtained at once, very many thrifty citizens will find the future rather difficult, and there is the possibility that many government activities must be suspended or public employes go without any wage whatever. Os course, it is not to be expected that the Chamber would adopt the obvious remedies which might be applied. The chamber is on record as against any special session of the legislature for remodeling fax laws that would lift the burden from real estate and place it upon the owners of intangible forms of wealth. Its voice in behalf of economy will carry much less weight as long as this attitude is maintained. Cutting wages of school teachers and policemen will not be popular until the people know that this is the final remedy and that it is impossible to raise funds through the taxation of the hundreds of millions that now escape any tax whatever. Right within the power of the chamber is one weapon that would relieve the great mass of citizens from taxes levied by private capital upon the public. If the chamber wishes to reduce government costs and the necessary burdens upon home owners, why not join the fight of Mayor Sullivan for lower rates on electricity and water? In this city one dollar out of every eight raised for city taxes is paid to these two corporations on a rate basis of war prices for labor and materials. A real fight for rate reduction would lower city taxes and at the same time would leave money in the pockets of home owners with which taxes might be paid and delinquencies reduced. Why not make a drive for a special session of the legislature to lift some of the burden, readjust the sources of taxes and then demand that the utilities that are making tax payments impossible for the ordinary citizen be brought into line with modern economic conditions ? The Tax Victory In one of the most dramatic and unexpected political revolts in years, the house of representatives Friday overthrew the combined Democratic and Republican machines in a fight on the tax bill. The rank and file representatives raised the normal income tax rate from 6 to 7 per cent on all incomes over SB,OOO, and jumped the maximum surtax rate from the proposed 40 per cent ancl the present 20 to the war-time figure of 65 per cent. The vote was 153 to 87—almost 2 to 1. Party lines were broken. The administration and the Garner-Raincy-Crisp Democratic dictatorship, vising all their power in a reactionary defense, were unable to prevent higher taxation of the middle and wealthy classes. Their bill puts a sales tax on the poor man's shoes, clothing, and necessities, but touches only lightly the upper bracket incomes. Friday's vote corrects the income tax injustice. The direct fight on the general sales tax is ahead. But opponents of the general sales tax, which would hurt consumers through higher prices and hurt business by slowing down sales, have won half their battle. For the Democratic-Republican machine leaders. in trying to put over the general sales tax, have admitted its injustice, but argued it as a necessary evil. They rlaimed there was no other way to cover the $600,000,000 remaining federal deficit. Now. by increasing the income and surtax rates, the house has provided an estimated $250,000,000 or more. That leaves about $350,000,000 of deficit uncovered. But the house, by applying to estate taxes the same just principle it applied Friday to incomes, can provide double the amount needed—though receipt of the cash would be delayed a year. The joint committee on internal revenue taxation, which is the official counselor of congress on revenue, reports that taxation of estates—after allowing a $50,000 exemption—at the same rates as incomes under the pending bill would produce an additional $714,000,000. The Republican-Democratic machine is not willing to put such a burden on large estates. But the house rank and file, who just have insisted on taxing Itrge earned fortunes, should be able to see the unfairness of allowing large unearned fortunes to escape a commensurate part of the tax burden in this national emergency. If the house is determined to protect great fortunes at the expense of the consumers and the business men dependent upon trade revival, it at least can restrict its sales tax to luxuries and semi-luxuries. Under pressure, the Republican-Democratic machine exempted first fresh foods and then canned foods from the proposed sales tax. Before public opinion gets through with that machine, all other necessities probably will be exempt. If that does not happen in the house, it probably will in the senate. Meanwhile, the Republican-Democratic machine is •wrecking itself In the eves of the country. With the

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Administration and congress making available billions of dollars of credit to save banks, revive business, stop hoarding and prevent panic, Democratic Floor Leader Rainey, in a sales tax broadcast Thursday night, declared the government “bankrupt” and threatened the possibility of “the worst panic in all the history of the world.” This sounds like the talk of men who are out to rule or ruin—or perhaps of men who are too excitable to be trusted with grave government problems. Agitators Ignoring every lesson of history, the Ham Fish group is pushing bills in congress to deport alien radicals, ban radical literature in the mails, and otherwise “stamp out agitators” in the United States. When in history has force ever “stamped out” agitators or cured discontent? Did the busy guillotine of Paris prevent triumph of Robespierre’s ragged hordes or the mines of Siberia stay the downfall of the Romanoffs? Have Inquisitions, martyrdoms, massacres, or pogroms ever stamped out religious heresies? Will the iron heel now stamp out economic opinions? Agitation is a symptom, not a disease. The American revolution would have happened even without the eloquence of Thomas Paine or Samuel Adams or Patrick Henry. Slavery was doomed without the help of agitators Garrison, Sumner, Wendell Phillips, or John Brown. So will agitation continue against the economic wrongs of this era, no matter how often we throw a Eugene Debs or a Tom Mooney into jail, how many radicals’ heads we crack, how many aliens we deport. If the gentlemen behind the Fish committee bills really want to stamp out radicalism in the United States, they should start a deportation drive against the following alien undesirables: Hunger, unemployment, want, domestic insecurity, trade stagnation, low wages, unjust taxes, ruinous tariffs, war-breeding diplomacy, child labor and neglect of the aged; slums, both city and rural; oppressive laws and racketeering, special privilege and pauperism. These arc 'the real agitators—not their desperate human victims. Brainy Children The exceptionally brainy child is better-looking than other children and tends to be a good deal taller, stronger, and heavier. This is the conclusion reached by a survey made at Columbia university recently, where some fifty-six gifted youngsters were painstakingly examined. Doubtless the Columbia experts could produce statistics to buttress their claim. But it is amazingly easy to think of famous men who must have been striking exceptions. There were, for instance, Steinmetz, the crippled dwarf; Lincoln, one of the ugliest men who ever lived; Stonewall Jackson, awkward, clumsy, and almost grotesque; Roosevelt, sickly and puny; Napoleon, far below normal height; Lenin, thin and wizened—but why go on? The list could be a long one. The rule hardly can be an ironclad one. Discrimination The treasury department on March 5 offered bearer certificates in denominations of SSO, SIOO and SSOO at 2 per cent interest. On March 7 it offered bearer certificates of from $5,000 to SIOO,OOO, sevenmonth maturity, at 314 per cent and one-year at 3% per cent. Why this discrimination? From more than 50 per cent to nearly 100 per cent larger return upon the large certificates as compared with the small certificates! To be sure, the small certificates are redeemable before maturity, sixty days after demand, but that is a privilege of small actual value, particularly as it is available only through a federal reserve bank. Both classes of certificates are entirely exempt from normal and surtaxes. If the new 1932 revenue act raises surtaxes to 40 per cent, the rich purchaser of these certificates will be exempt therefrom. The wealthy man who purchases the 3% per cent certificate will in effect be getting a return of 5% per cent. The poor man who invests in the 2 per cent certificate will get only 2 per cent return. If this is not gross discrimination in favor of wealth, perhaps the treasury department can explain just what it is. Tax dodgers, rays a banker, are a menace to good government. Well, how about the tax spenders? Many farmers in the middle west are sowing early oats, a news item says. Their sons have probably been at it all winter. Sugar is the best food for the brain, the doctors have discovered. Let’s donate our surplus to the politicians.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

1 HEARTILY recommend to all parents a slim volume published by Lippincott, called ‘‘Common Sense and the Child.” Its author is an English woman, Ethel Mannin. It Is one of the rare books upon the subject that offers sane advice. However, ,let the mother who reads it brace herself for several shocks, for it is not the usual mixture of obvious facts and psychological gibberish. It tears ruthlessly at some of our preconceived notions on orthodox education and training. In several instances the author, who, by the way, has a child herself, grows a bit fanatical, but whether one agrees with her wholeheartedly does not matter. She preaches a doctrine that is needed in the world—freedom lor the child. With the advent of psychology, child training has grown into a cult in this country. Asa consequence the poor little babies are trained to death. All individuality, all wholesomeness, all outstanding qualities that may denote power, are pounced upon by parents, nurses and teachers, and after an intensive workout under all hands there remains only a sort of washed-out being, a walking encyclopedia, or a standardized robot. * * * **T EAVE the child alone!” shouts Ethel Mannin. -L* To that we all should cry, "Amen.” The average parent needs something startling to shake her out of her smugness. Doesn’t it seem a little bit crazy that we axe all so dead set on having our children exactly like we are, when we so often turn out to be weak, mistaken and miserable? Certainly there is too much fuss about raising children. We work at it too hard. And we give them no freedom at all. Indeed, the major crime of this century is committed by well-intentioned parents who unconsciously force upon the fearlessness and honesty of the child all their ready-made ideals, their old traditions and moral codes and the other hynpcritical shams of civilization. When the mental and moral freedom of the child is thus hampered the march of progress is stopped.

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j The United States Can Not Go on Coddling Vast Family Fortunes Without Menaci ing Her Political and Economic Future. I NEW YORK, March 19.—Thus far the poor have borne the burden of the depression, the men who couldn’t get enough to eat, the children who have suffered from cold, the sick who were unable to afford proper medical care. The rich have been compelled to modify their habits of life, but not to an extent that hurt. It doesn’t matter much if a family has to give up three out of five autos, or discharge six out of ten servants, but it does matter when the funds are too low to keep the fire going, or provide decent meals. nun Load’s Uneven THE time has come to redistribute the load, and to redistribute it in a more substantial way than the soup kitchen, or secondhand clothing distribution. The problem is one for government to solve and taxation is the place to begin. Outside of such savings as can be made through pay cuts and reduced expenses, big incomes and big inheritances must be made to furnish more of the revenue. The man is mentally blind who fails to realize that the concentration of wealth has gone altogether too far in this country and that it represents one of our basic ills. * * * Fortunes a Menace T'HE United States can not go on coddling and conserving these vast family fortunes without creat- 1 ing a serious menace to her political ! and economic future. The theory that it is right to let strong men earn all they can legitimately must not be allowed to include the theory that it is all right to pass vast estates on from generation to generation, without let or hindrance. Wealth accumulated by interest is very different from wealth ac- | cumulated by work. The latter is I a social asset, the former a social liability. Fundamentally, inherited wealth j involves the same risk as inherited power. n n n Balance or Revolt IT is impossible to stabilize conditions in this, or any other country, without maintaining a reasonably fair distribution of wealth. Too great a spread between riches and poverty, between landlord and tenant, between bosses and workers, has caused most of the violent revolutions in history. There are very few great nations but have had to stop every so often and readjust their economic affairs from the bottom up. This could have been avoided had they insisted on maintaining an equitable balance in the economic status of their people, had they made laws and employed the taxing power with such an end in view. x x u Nation of Tenants THOUGH blessed with an abundance of natural resources, and though committed to the idea of equal opportunity for all, this country steadily is becoming a nation of tenants. According to one estimate, no less than 65 per cent of the land now belongs to 2 per cent of the people. A similar proportion holds good in about every line of value. This is largely due to the theories of taxation that have been in vogue until recent years. Even now, old guard Republicans persist in the idea that the way to recovery consists in treating the big boys indulgently so that they will be encouraged to treat little boys likewise. x x Pat the Big Boys! THE present emergency shows where such nonsense leads. For three years, our government has been patting wealth on the back, helping it to conserve its interests, accepting its pledges and advice. For three years, tl*e people have been told that “prosperity was just around the corner,” because of what big business was about to do. The latest and most cynical maneuver includes a two billiondollar corporation for the benefit of wealth and a sales tax on the poor to back it up.

& T ?s9£ Y S ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

FRENCH STORM ENEMY LINES March 19

ON March 19, 1918, a strong French force penetrated the German lines near Rheims, seizing and holding a considerable section of the German trenches. Many prisoners were taken during the action, which at one time involved several thousand troops and hundreds of guns. British raids on their front were successful. They reported heavy concentration of German troops, and allied observers believed that the British were to receive the first of the great German drives planned for the spring. Sir Eric Geddes gave figures on losses from submarines to British shipping during 1917, showing that replacements by allied nations were running 100,000 tons a month behind. Sir Eric also pointed out that lasses from submarines were decreasing, while construction was increasing rapidly. The royal mail steamer Amazon, a British boat, was sunk without warning by a German submarine. The British war office announced that 225 successful flights into German territory had been made by British and French planes since October. Bombs dropped were estimated at forty-eight tons.

Daily Thought

Render therefore to all their does.—Romans 13:7. The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost.—J. G. Holland.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Ringworm Hard Infection to Combat

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ONE of the most common complaints, and one which is becoming exceedingly widespread in this country, is infection of the human skin with an organism called the trichophyton and also the epidermophyton, a vegetable parasite commonly called a ringworm. The word "“tricho” means hair and the word “epidermo” means skin. A similar condition sometimes affects chickens, horses, cows, dogs, rabbits and other domestic animals. The mange of the dog is a disease of this character. The condition was called ringworm because in many instances it appears on the skin as a ring. | However, the appearance is not always -ringlike, and the parasite that causes the eruption is not a worm. Strangely there are many varieties of these parasites and they pick certain parts of the body as their special habitat.

IT SEEMS TO ME

According to a news dispatch in Variety, Will Hays has banished grandeur from Hollywood. I am wondering whether the motion picture industry will be able to survive this new economy. Sin was exiled several seasons ago, but lavish virtue was encouraged by the magnates and their publicity men. Thus, though a star could have but one husband, there was nothing to prevent her from possessing a couple of swimming pools. Indeed, Hays and his associates subscribed to the theory that monogamy and the good life were maintained by permitting a polygamy in the more innocent pleasures. Whenever an artist grew restless and temperamental and began to display a twelve-cylinder look, the management hastened to buy her a new motor. It was felt that young girls could with propriety receive such presents from the stockholders and that in this way they might be dissuaded from accepting rich gifts at the hands of gentlemen and strangers. tt X X Ponies and Domesticity GONE are the days when each baby star had but to cry for the moon to obtain her ration of ermine or chinchilla. Will Hays says, “No.” “Thumbs are down,’’ reports Variety, “on celebs posing amid swank domestic atmosphere, such as polo ponies or other effects that might lend an atmosphere of numerous dollars.” From now on we shall see Greta Garbo on her way to market, while Douglas Fairbanks tills the soil and Mary mends his socks. But the public may not enjoy the sight of its idols in overalls. Even during a period of depression, one feels there must be some place where the sun is shining. I think that most of us delighted in the notion that Hollywood was the heaviest sugar daddy in the world. Vicariously we forgot some portion of our worries in the thought that Ruth Chatterton was doing very well and there never was a run in a Marlene Dietrich stocking.

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The Lid Is Off at Last

One ringworm gets between the toes and is associated with the formation of soft corn; another ringworm is found most frequently in the armpits, and another on the inside of the thighs; some ringworms prefer the scalp and others localize on the hands and feet. The condition called barbers’ itch frequently is due to infection with a parasite of this character, as are also the common conditions called athlete’s foot and similar appellations. It is hard to advise people as to how to be certain to avoid these conditions. They are so widespread that it is practically impossible to make sure that contact with the parasite will not occur. Among common causes of infection of the feet, is walking barefoot over infected rugs, carpets, floors of gymnasiums and locker rooms, runways of swimming pools and other places where a considerable number of people walk barefoot. Practically all of us use our hands for many tasks daily, including the

No other community did so much to discourage hoarding, and in a spiritual sense the movie Montezumas appealed to the imagination of the country, since they were able to prove that there is no happiness in a million'dollars and very often not even a good picture. tt tt X Words of the Poet SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN, the poet, once groaned against his talkie thralldom, saying: “The work is dull and arduous. Many of the men with whom you must deal are gross and annoying idiots. The artist must sell his very soul. And what does he get for it all? A fortune!” I trust that Hollywood will not long retain its garments of repentance. It is my notion that sackcloth and ashes already are a drug upon the market. Indeed, economies may result in expenditures more costly than those known in the freehand days. So it was with the Hollywood hippopotamus. The script distinctly called for a hippopotamus. No double or dummy would suffice, and the nearest available animal was resident upon the Atlantic coast. The dealer suggested that the great beast’s keeper be included in the contract. But that meant S4O a week, and a businesslike management refused. The hippopotamus would have to go to Hollywood unchaperoned, and by fast freight, since the picture was already in production. tt tt a He Was Not Stage Struck HE stood the journey well enough, but when keepers who were strangers sought to pry him from his crate the hippopotamus stood his ground and refused to budge. At least, the best that all the director's men could do was to get him half-way from the car. And at that he was faced in a direction from which he did not screen his best. Carrots and kind words were failures. There was a secret kind of encouraging whinny which only the rejected keeper back in the east could manage.

gentle custom of handshaking, and it is quite impossible to wash the hands following every human contact. Mast of us depend on t.hase who are infected to protect us and other people against their infection. Unfortunately, there are vast numbers of people among us who have no sense of community responsibility and who are quite careless about disseminating infected material from their bodies. In many instances, ringworm may be obliterated by use of tincture of iodine, mercurochrome, sulphur ointments, salicylic acid ointments and solutions and all sorts of antiseptic substances, but there are also many cases in which the infection is so deeply buried and so resistant that such applications hardly cause it to hesitate in its spread. Experts in diseases of the skin control such cases by the use of the X-ray and by special more potent applications which only a physician can use, because of their danger when they are employed improperly.

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The wheels of a great industry slowed down. Expensive actors sat around the lot doing crossword puzzles until such time as the hippopotamus should make up his mind. After a three-day siege, he relented and was borne off in triumph. But then anew difficulty presented itself. He was to be featured in a wpter scene, and the director suddenly grew panicky as to whether hippopotami could swim or merely wade. A test was made at the shallow edge of an artificial lake. The animal actor promptly sought the depths and remained there for five days, coming up only to breathe a little on occasion. They hauled him out with ropes, and in a mean spirit of revenge he immediately developed a high fever. Two days later he died of pneumonia. For the sake of hippopotami, and us as well, I hope that Hollywood won't get too economical. (Copyright. 1932. by The Timest

Views of Times Readers i

Editor Times—The following tribute to Emmett Branch is my own personal view of him. As you will note, it brings his father into view and I feel this puts my little say in a light not touched upon by others. I am in reality raising the question: "Why should common honesty in the discharge of public duty seem to set a man apart from the average legislator or executive officer? My personal acquaintance with Emmett Branch was but casual, hence I feel my estimate of the man is free from personal bias. I came to Martinsville to live some twenty-six years ago, and the father of Mr. Branch died soon after. He long had been engaged here in the flour mill and elevator business. There was a strong tone of regret among all farmers in the less they had sustained by his death. ‘‘He was very valuable to us," they said. “He always paid for our grain all the market justified, and because of his keeping thoroughly informed he often paid us more. He was always ready and willinj to help us to get good seed, and if need be be gave us time in which to pay for it, even though we must ask him to wait until the crop was raised.” Being an entire stranger, I at once became much biased in favor of the name Branch. Later mi, when the late Emmett Branch oecame prominent at our statehouse, I began to read comments of men familiar with our legislature and its usages to the effect that Mr. Branch handled the duties of a presiding officer in a manner which inspired nothing but praise. When the fates made him Governor, grafters soon learned that he had absolutely r > time for them. His simple, plain made him stand out. And I thought, “He is just his father's son, a real man. A man who rather would give than take; the type of man whose every

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

MARCH 19,1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

' Crop ’ Is Grown on Ship’s ‘ Farm’; Barnacles Thrive on Vessel’s Bottom. A BIG ship is also a farm. The i farm part of the ship is its bottom and the crop it grows consists of barnacles. When it is remembered that the bottom of a ship the size of the Leviathan is an area of more than an ! acre, it will be seen that a lot of ; barnacles can be grown on one ship. Barnacles and other marine animals and plants which collect on ship bottoms are a serious problem, because they cost the shipping industry and the world’s navies millions of dollars each year. It is estimated that a ship whose bottom is loaded with barnacles is ! slowed down to 70 per cent of its i normal speed and that in addition j its coal consumption is increased greatly. Barnacles and the othpr growth also make it necessary to put a ship j in drydock every six or eight months i so that these growths can be scraped off. Dr. J. Paul Vissrher. head of the biology department of Western Reserve university, just has set. sail for Naples, where he will spend the j next few months investigating the habits and behavior of the barnacles of the Mediterranean at the marine biological station in Naples. XXX Cousin to Lobster THE barnacle is a sort of cousin to the lobster, but instead of swimming about it remains fixed hi ! one spot like an oyster. ; Dr. Visscher began his investigation of barnacles about ten years ago at the request of the United States bureau of fisheries. He found that there were about eighty marine animals and about thirty marine plants which collected on ships’ bottoms, but that barnacles made up about 50 per cent of the total number of growth present. Consequently, he concentrated I on the study of barnacles. His studies not only disclosed information of great value to the shipping industry, but many new ! facts of great interest to biologists ! concerning the life and habits of ! barnacles. Among other things, he discovered why it is that the barnacle attaches itself to ship bottoms. “The barnacle begins life as a free-swimming larva,” Dr. Visscher said. “When it reaches a certain period of development, it reacts negatively to light. Until this time it has been attracted to the light, but now it tries to get away from the light. That is one reason it attaches itself to a rock or a ship or something of that sort. “The bottom of ships are painted with a dark red iron oxide paint. This is ideal to attract barnacles when they are trying to get away from the light.” XXX New Paints Needed ONCE the little larva is attached to the ship-bottom, it begins to grow, forming in time a large and heavy shell. Dr. Visscher made various experiments, submerging colored tiles in waters where the larvae barnacles were present. He found that the barnacles attached themselves in great numbers to the dark-colored tiles, but dodged the light-colored ones. “If chemists can develop a white or light paint which will not be dissolved by the sea water, it will save the shipping industry millions of dollars,” Dr. Visscher said. Dr. Visscher also showed how navies could evade the barnacles. If it was known at what time of the year the larvae in any particular harbor were ready to settle down, the ships then could keep out of the harbor at that particular time. But, while this rule can be followed by battleships, it does not help commercial shipping very much. During a study of barnacles lasb summer at the Tortugas marine laboratory of the Carnegie institution of Washington, located on Tortugas island, south of Florida, Dr. Visscher made the discovery that the barnacles were repelled by certain smells. It is thought that a paint might be developed which would contain certain chemicals obnoxious to the barnacles. This would repel them and keep them from fixing on the ship bottoms.

impulse was to do the honest thing in his relations with others.” While I do not feel that I have overstated our friend and neighbor's healthy integrity, there comes in my mind this question: “Why should simple, straightforward business honesty, make a man stand out as being unusual among our legislators? Why did his vigorous yet modest way of discharging his duty as he saw it make him different? I must leave the answer to that serious question to my readers. A. J. KINNEAR. Martinsville. Editor Times—l have been reading your paper for several years and notice that you always publish when any factory or company takes on men, but never when they shut down. The Big Pour shops at Beech Grove have shut down for an indefinite length of time, throwing about 1,500 men out of employment. Contrary to their agreement on the 10 per cent wage reduction of Peb. 1; the Shelby street roundhouse also cut its force, effective March 16, approximately 25 per cent, throwing about fifty more out of work. They have made drastic reductions at various other points such as Mattoon. ill., and Belle- - fontaine, O. Thus does not look much like the railroads are living up to their agreement of putting more men back to work. I would like to see this on the ~ front page of your paper, so thafr - the public would know just what goes on between reopenings of the shops at Beech Grove. TIMES READER. Editor Times—l wonder how many people are profiting by Father Charles E. Coughlin’s outspoken talks every Sunday afternoon. Father Coughlin says it matters not to him whether his audi- Z ence be Catholic. Protestant, or Jew, and I think it is to the advantage of all so-called common people to hear him, especially in times like these. PROTESTANT.