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Calling Their Bluff Muscle Shoals is on the congressional legislative scene again. In both houses bills have been drafted; in the senate one has been reported. It is around the Norris senate bill that the new controversy will swing. For yea r 3 farm organizations and others have clamored for utilization of Muscle Shoals in the manufacture of cheap fertilizer. The new Norris bill makes this mandatory. The country has been told by President Hoover that Muscle Shoals should not be operated by the government, but should be leased. Hoover’s Shoals commission urged that preference among lessees be given to an organization of farmers. The Norris bill provides for this, permitting the government to retain only the power facilities. Norris and others have insisted for years that the Shoals power facilities must be made available to states, counties and municipalities as a national yardstick with which to measure private utility costs. The new Norris bill provides for this, and makes arrangements for construction of transmission lines to transport this power. Norris has gone so far in the leasing provisions of his bill that he practically has given carte blanche to those, who want the nitrate plants leased, suggesting that if his leasing provisions are too harsh that they rewrite them. His only conditions are that the lessee must produce fertilizer, and that the lease shall not give the lessee a direct bonus from the federal treasury. The President’s commission has demanded that the government build Cove Creek dam in east Tennessee as an integral part of Muscle Shoals; the Norris bill also provides for that. The Norris bill, in short, calls the bluff of those who have been seeking to turn Muscle Shoals over to the power interests, while hiding behind American agriculture by claiming that the Shoals should be used for the farmers. The Norris bill protects Muscle Shoals for the taxpayers, whose millions paid for its construction. The Camel’s Nose Be not deceived by the general sales tax propaganda that it is only a temporary expedient. Powerful interests are eager to substitute a system of consumer taxes for our traditional tax system. They will work for its extension. At recent ways and means committee hearings, United States treasury experts let it be known that they fear the sales tax as a permanent change. "I have one definite conviction,” testified Dr. Thomas Sewall Adams, fiscal adviser to the treasury. “That is, that it is not worth your while to adopt a Canadian sales tax for a short period of time, because to put it over you ought to have an administrative machine so well built up and so large that you would not be justified in creating it for a temporary tax of two or three years.” “I agree with Dr. Adams,” said E. C. Alvord, a treasury specialist opposed to the general sales tax. “As an emergency measure I think it would be subject to very serious consideration as to whether it would be worth while to interject the entire machinery for a short period of time.” Alvord added that the only way to make the sales tax work as an emergency measure is to give the treasury complete arbitrary power and “vest necessary finality in the administrative officers.” Canada imposed the sales tax as a war measure. After bitter assaults from farmers and workers, who pounded the rate down to 1 per cent, the tax now is up to 6 per cent. France took it as an emergency in 1914 and still has it, in spite of vigorous popular opposition. Since Emperor Augustus began it in the year 9, nations have tried this easy but insidious impost upon the people’s necessities. Great Britain and the United States so far have held out against it. Congress should not be fooled into thinking that this general sales tax plan is merely to “balance the budget in 1933.” The two-year “emergency” sales tax will be, if it passes, the camel’s nose in the American fiscal tent. Once the nose is inside, the camel is apt to follow. The Whipping Post Delaware on Saturday made its contribution to civilization by staging a public whipping in the yard of its Newcastle county workhouse. While seven men convicted of theft stood with hands tied aloft and back bared, Warden J. Elmer Leach, a bitter opponent of whipping, was forced to flog each man with a great cat o’ nine tails. Each man got forty lashes. After this, the men were treated in the hospital and began serving their regular sentences. Delaware at least is open in this brutality. Unlike many wardens ■who beat, torture and break men in the darkness of prison cells, Leach wielded his whip before spectators. Such punishment, of course, brutalizes its victims and makes them more revengeful toward society, without acting as a deterrent to others. In England, not so very long ago, men were hanged in the public quare for pickpocketing. While the crowds watched, other pickpockets went among them, stealing in the very shadow of the gallows. Vienna Tackles Housing Problem It has been sugeested sensibly that the housing problem in the United States offers one constructive way out of the depression. Millions Jive in repulsive tenements or hovels. Why not put some private and public capital into building decent living quarters, tnus furnishing work for unemployed capital and labor, and creating civilized living quarters for American citizens? An indication of what can be done is provided by the experience of Vienna. Her achievements are described by Professor Robert E. Chaddock in the American Journal of Sociology. Vienna had ic work under terrible handicaps. The peace treaty left the city an unnatural metropolis, containing one-third the population with the supporting hinterland shorn away. The great city was left high and dry, compelled to import most of her food and raw materials. She had to compete with the new states which had been favored specially by the treaties. She was crushed by taxation and by financial burdens imposed by the treaty. Standards of living were abominally low. If Vienna could overcome such conditions, any American city should have easy sailing in any plan of municipal housing. Down to 1919. housing conditions in Vienna were a menace to health, decency and efficiency. Threequarters of all domiciles consisted of small flats, of two rooms or less. Overcrowding in limited quarters

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was atrocious. The typical flat was built and equipped as follows: “It provided a kitchen and one other room, constructed in large units by speculative builders. Many rooms had no direct light and air, or opened on a shaft of such limited area as to be entirely inadequate. “The lavatories and running water usually were situated in the common hall and were used by several families on the same floor. Very few dwellings had gas or electricity. The houses, as a rule, covered practically the entire site, providing Inadequate courts and no play space except the streets.” The post-war government of Vienna jumped into this situation with energy and resolution. It reorganized the taxation system In such manner as to make profiteering In rentals no longer possible and to reduce land values. The city bought up about one-third of its entire land area. The new tax system thus gave them funds and land on which to build. Since 1919, Vienna has spent more than $100,000,000 on these municipal apartments, and the program is being continued actively. Compare with the prewar flats a typical fiat in anew Vienna apartment: “It consists of a very small entrance hall, a kitchen, one larger and one smaller room, and a lavatorycovering in all 430 square feet. All have lavatories and running water within the flat. Each flat has electric light, a gas stove for cooking, and a small metal stove burning coke for heating, both furnished by the municipal gas company. “The flats arc arranged in units built around large courts, with gardens, playgrounds, and sometimes wading pools for children in the center. . . . The building must not cover more than one-half the area of the site, and often occupies less. All rooms have direct light and air. ... “In buildings housing 309 families or more, a central steam laundry has been constructed, equipped with the most modern devices. Here housewives may do their own laundry work. Central baths for tenants are provided in the large housing units. . . , Kindergartens to the number of 100 already have been established in these municipal buildings.” These flats rent for 7 shillings a month (about $1.05). There is a slight additional charge for use of the central laundry and baths. The rental is designed to take care of upkeep of apartments. The good results already are apparent. Vienna's working population can live in decent quarters at low cost. Number of householders has increased greatly in spite of shrinkage in the population of the city as a whole. Infant mortality and tuberculosis rate already have been lowered notably. Such ic the challenge of poor old Vienna to the new, prosperous, and powerful cities of the west, with their foul tenements. More Snoopers A bill before congress which deserves little attention and less consideration is that sponsored by Representative Green, which would create a bureau of investigation in the department of labor. Unsatisfied, apparently, even with Secretary of Labor Doak’s remarkable record for finding and deporting aliens, Green wants to create anew bureau “to conduct investigations into violations of the laws of the United States, particularly by aliens who advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States.” The federal government already employs some 4,500 spies, snoopers and undercover men, engaged in the sort of work which Americans once thought reprehensible and dangerous. These men constitute a menace to the liberty of Americans far greater than the menace of aliens. Japan insists that the Shanghai problem is entirely different from the Manchurian. One would judge to be true, just from the fighting. When Ely Culbertson, bridge czar, was about to undergo an operation, he probably said, “Your cut doctor.” A scientist has just perfected what he claims is a perfect stabilizer for ships. If he really wants to be famous, he should start on one for business. Once upon a time there was a disarmament conference delegate who wouldn’t battle for his plan for peace. The Literary Digest poll really should have provided three squares to check. One for the dry, one for the thirsty and one for the wets. Dry rot costs lumbermen millions, says a scientist. But just think how much it costs the United States government. The rich can't stand any more taxes, says congress. Well, that's all right. Os course the poor can. Reading the writing on the wall. “Puddler” Jim Davis turned wet. Which makes him a bigger puddler.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE National Education Association, at its rqpent Washington meeting, adopted the usual resolutions of approval for the Constitution and also urged its teachers to continue to impart respect for the Constitution and all its amendments. I wonder myself just how many teachers have read the Constitution since they left grade schools. It is not very long, and in simplest terms is merely a code of laws similar to those set up in every state and city. The body of the document explains governmental functions and how they should be carried cut. The amendments, all save one, confer a right upon the people or upon a part of the people. Only the eighteenth takes away a right. All the others dispense justice to some portion of the population in need of it. God is not once mentioned in it. It can by no stretch of the imagination be called sacred, if by sacred we mean unchanging and unchangeable. m * u WHAT our teachers ought to do, it seems to me, is to sit down with the children and study this Constitution of ours. Hitherto, we have taken out our enthusiasm for it in rather bad oratory, until, to a good many of us, it has become something of an old woman's fetish. To attempt to make a strait-jacket of the Constitution is almost as bad as teaching youngsters to flout :t. Its true worth lies in the fact that it is, always has been, and, heaven grant, always will be, a flexible dociynent. The American child should be made to understand, first of all, that he is superior to the Constitution, because as a citizen of the republic he can help to change and improve the laws by which he is governed. He never should be led to believe that any legal code can not be altered when necessity arises.

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What Some Politicians Mistake for a Red Revolt Is Nothing but Natural Resentment Against the Unbearable Pressure of Taxation. NEW YORK, March 21.—Bewilderment at Washington is the result of inaction. Instead of doing things, the Hoover administration has been trying to convince itself and every one else that there was no need. Instead of calling congress last spring, as it should have it attempted to blunder ! through alone. The nation comes to the brink of a precipice without warning, much less without a program. One dominating obsession stands forth amid the confusion. The budget must be balanced with cash, no matter how it is wrung from the people. Naturally enough, there is a wild scramble to make the other fellow pay. nun Warning Ignored THE blow could have been softened by rigid economies, though no more rigid than the people have had to accept. The pressure could have been cased by judicious borrowing. The fact that neither course found favor shows woeful lack of foresight. This government did not go into j the red over night. There has been ample time for those in authority t<s acquaint themselves with the true condition of national finances. It required no super-man to realize that the revenue must sink with eight millions out of work. a tt a Billion-Doilar Squeeze UNDER a tax system like that of the federal government, lower revenue means lower earning power on the part of taxpayers. Income taxes are down for just one reason, and that is the shrinkage of incomes. The tariff fails to produce because foreign trade is not what it was. Most every one' admits that free capital and liberal credit are essential to recovery, yet the government proposes to squeeze another billion j dollars in cash out of the people. The government proposes to do this, moreover, while bootleggers gather in an equal amount with which to finance organized viciousness. tt tt tt Sales Tax Curbed THE sales tax was seized upon as an easy way out. Adding 2 Y* per cent to manufactured goods was not difficult to authorize, or figure. Besides, the big boys could pass it on to the ultimate consumer in the i form of a price boost and, perhaps, 1 make a little for themselves while | doing so. The ultimate consumer has nothing but a vote. Usually that doesn’t j count for much because he is a j forgetful, if not a forgiving soul. But he seems to have made him- i self heard this time. At any rate,! quite a few congressmen have sensed the iniquitous thing that was about to be done, and have created what approaches a stam- ' pede in opposition to it. Like all stampedes, it threatens ; chaos for the moment, with the pos- j sibility of some pretty raw substi- j tutes. Already, it has led to the re- | enactment of war-time income tax rates by the house. a a it Taxpayers Revolt Democratic leader rainey j professes to see Communism j in the furore, which is absurd, but j which indicates how strained the situation has become. What some politicians mistake j for a red revolt is nothing but nat- j ural resentment against the unbearable pressure of taxation. All over this country people are being driven out of business and out of their homes by the constantly rising cost of government. Because of the country’s reduced income, taxes have risen automatically by 30 or 40 per cent during the last two years; that is, it requires 30 or 40 per cent more effort on the average man’s part to i pay them. And now government leaders want to increase federal taxes by about 25 per cent. In addition to the rise caused by diminished income, that would mean a jump of one-half, if not more, since 1929. M TODAY #9 "7? IS THE Vs WORLD WAR \ anniversarV GERMAN DRIVE BEGINS March 21 ON March 21, 1918, the great German drive began, with an attack in great force against British positions on a fifty-mile front from Arras to La Fere. Nearly one million men were hurled against the British lines by the Germans, who claimed they had broken through the British lines and had advanced to a depth of more than five miles in places. British divisions opposing the drive were clinging stubbornly to their ground nerth cf Arras, but were forced to fall back in other portions of the front. German losses in killed and wounded for the first day of the great battle were estimated at more than 50,000. All available British reserves were ordered into action, as the gravity of the situation became apparent. The objective of the German drive, it was believed, was the separation of the British and French armies.

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Is the historic Washington elm at Cambridge, Mass., still standing? It died and was taken down in 1923, How many stores are operated by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company? In February, 1931, the company had 15,737.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Several Cures Are Known for Warts

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. AMONG the most common growths on the human skin are warts of all types. Almost everybody has a “cure” for warts and some rather foolish idea of how they originate. Warts sometimes disappear spontaneously, but the disappearance usually is credited to the fact that someone has murmured a potent charm at midnight in a cemetery or buried a string containing as many knots as there are warts. A wart causes little trouble, but it can grow awfully large in the sight of the person who owns it. The only time warts cause trouble is when they are situated in places where pressure makes them painful. There seems to be some evidence that the wart is an infectious condition caused by a filtrable virus,

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H broun D |

SINCLAIR LEWIS is quoted as expressing the opinion that John Dos Passos, more than almost any other American author, is the “father of humanized fiction.” This seems to me a strange judgment, for to me the most striking quality in “1919” is its unreality. Such literary labels as “romanticist” and “realist” are neither definitive nor searching. Sherwood Anderson, for instance, can become romantic over mud flats along a river, and Lewis himself made a research workers' laboratory the scene of one of the most stirring sentimental novels which I know. For my own guidance, I divide writers into just two groups—“the quick” and “the dead.” As far as my emotions go, Dos Passos belongs among the dead. The gift which he undoubtedly possesses went the way of flesh in the great war. That conflict cut in two vital ways across the souls of those who lived through it. Some came out incredibly mellow, while others were also scarred beyond redemption because of bitterness. a The War With a Smile IDO not like the hoopla boys who thought v the whole thing was jolly and heroic and that it might be a good idea to have another go at it after a little pause for rest and bleeding. And yet I am not at all sure that they have done more to make peace perilous than those who never could quite awaken themselves from the nightmare in which they tossed and were tossed. It is customary to class the grim brothers as realists, v/hile the rest are hopessly romantic. I scarcely would deny that "Three Soldiers,” by Dos Passos, contained more truth than anything by Coningsby Dawson. But each of them is in a trench from which he can not crawl to see life whole. The war was a fact—an overwhelming sact —but it was not existence in its entirety. The realist who prides himself cn perfect vision makes the pretense that it did not touch his capacity for clear-headedness. But say to him, “Just try to write a line about anything,” and it will become apparent in three pages that the spell is still upon him. All the characters in his book will behave like soldiers under fire.

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or an organism so small that it can not be seen under the microscope. However, it can not be easily infectious since there are many people who are in contact with warts but i)ever have them. The ordinary wart can be removed by many methods; sometimes merely through softening by the application of corrosive chemicals; sometimes by cutting or sandpapering, and sometimes by the application of an electric current, which kills the blood supply and causes the wart to fall off. This last process is painful, but the pain may be eliminated through use of local anesthetics. The X-ray sometimes is used to cause the disappearance of a wart. Nitric acid, glacial acetic acid, and chromic acid are also used.* There always is the danger, however, that the burning will extend deeper

And war is not truly the intensification of human nature, but its negation. The fundamental basis of human psychology is the will to live. But for this secret spring there would be no such thing as history or prophecy. Under the pressure and the compulsion of war it is trodden down. A sergeant says, “Come on, boys; do you want to live forever?” Now the normal answer to that it, “Why, of course,” but, propelled by the curious pull of mass paranoia, soldiers rise up out of the wheat field and charge forward blindly to certain death. >t tt Done a Score of Times WHENEVER anybody talks of the new world which is to be better, he is told not to be foolish, because “you can’t change human nature.” But the answer to that familiar objection lies in the fact that war has done just that a score of times and that peace might do it once. To me the strangest thing about modern warfare is its lack of passion. Certainly nobody firing a gun at a foe ten miles away can be anything like as fighting mad as an individual having a row with somebody in a speakeasy. Many emotions came to men in trenches, but they came in miniature. Even fear gets to be blunted. After days and weeks and months, it comes to be a dull ache rather than an acute agony. It was, as the communiques said, a war of attrition, whicn meant that death sapped and mined the soul of the individual even before any shell or bullet claimed the soldier. The Dead Hand of War AND so I do not understand just What Sinclair Lewis means in saying that Dos Passos is perhaps the father of humanized fiction. In the novels of Dos Passos, it seems to me that the characters move and speak and are motivated like people in a shell hole, whatever the situation. They drink without joy, and they sin without gusto. There is plenty of lust, but practically no passion. Dos Passos introduces plain, blunt words upon many occasions, but

than the wart and as a result an unsightly scar will be left. One of the most painful types of warts is that which occurs on the sole of the foot. There seems to be plenty of reason for believing that these are infections, since they occur particularly in young people in schools and gymnasium classes who go barefoot around the gymnasium or the swimming pool. Such warts may become so painful as to interfere with walking. Their treatment demands the most careful consideration of a competent physician. The hard skin on the bottom of the foot must be softened, the wart removed, and the damaged tissue protected by proper bandages and aintiseptics during the process of healing. Sometimes electrical methods are used for destroying these warts, but this also demands the most careful help of an expert.

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

their vigor is marred by a certain self-righteousness upon the part of the author. You can almost catch him in the act of saying: “I will be bold. I will not compromise. To hell with burgeous criticism!” The tang is absent because the principle is present. In other words, Dos Passos will set down in a novel phrases which he never would think of writing on a fence. He can deal with adultery in such a way that it sounds like the semi-final round in a chess match between Hobart and Southern Baptist. He is not even passionate in his despair. And so I do not think that Dos Passos is the father of humanized fiction. No, not even the second cousin. (Copyright. 1932, by United Press)

Daily Thought

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed. —Genesis 9:6. Every unpunished murderer takes away something from the security of every man’s life.—Daniel Webster.

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—l have been a reader of your paper for many years in different parts of the United States. Always liked the stand the Scripps-Howard papers take on the labor side, and they always are fighting the public utilities. If unfair rates ever were charged, they are charged by the Insull interests. The rates here are out of the question. Seems as if all the politicians in the state uphold them, too. If the people of Indiana ever expect anything different, they’ve got to put honest men in Washington. READER. Editor Times The Literary Digest prohibition poll is giving the sentiment of the majority of the people who have become disgusted with what Hoover calls the noble experiment and what is called prohibition and with the prohibition agents’ dole. It’s causing a lot of congressmen to scratch their heads and look to see on which side of the fence the pasture is greenest. If Hoover had asked the Literary Digest to get a vote on prohibition, it would not have taken this publication ninety days to get a better report than the Wickersham committee got in years and the people could have understood what they meant. It’s like our depression. It has been a noble experiment. It has helped a certain class of people. The ones who don’t want to work have a good excuse now. But prosperity is coming back. So is Jack Dempsey. You can judge for yourself which will get back first. Our farm board was another of Hoover’s noble experiments, with its head drawing $75,000 a year and the other members big salaries, the farmers can tell you what it did for them, I wonder if the Republican party didn't elect Hoover as a noble ex-

_MARCH 21,1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Millions in the United States Never Have Learned to ! Use Tooth Brush. A CAMPAIGN to educate the nation in the elementary facts of care of the teeth has been announced by the American Dental Association, an organization representing 36,000 dentists. It might seem to the casual reader that tooth paste advertisement and radio programs have made the nation “tooth brush conscious,” but the officers of the association are responsible for the statement that there are between 90.000,000 and 100,000,000 citizens in the United States who have not yet learned the value of the regular use of the I tooth brush. They estimate that there are only about 25,000,000 people in the United 1 States who take as complete care ! of their teeth as modern dental and medical knowledge makes possible. The association is particularly concerned with the proper care of the teeth of children. “Thousands of children grow up in poor physical condition because their teeth have not received proper attention in the formative period.” Dr. Martin Dewey, president of the association, says. “The 6-year-old molars especial- : ly are neglected, because even some • enlightened parents fail to recognize them as permanent teeth.” tt tt B Grandparents Help A SCIENTIFIC wit once said that the wav to have good teeth is to start with your grandparents. This is like the advice for living long. It is a fact that the tendency to long life is hereditary. The same thing also is true to some extent with regard to good teeth. In the case of teeth, however, the subject is open to more control. Good teeth do depend, to a con- | siderable extent, upon the child's ; mother. Deficiencies in the mother’s diet : in the months before the birth of j the child now are believed to be one of the chief reasons for a child j developing poor teeth. This fact is recognized by physii cians, who now see that expectant : mothers are given advice concerning their diet. Many intelligent people, however, who take good care of their teeth, will wonder why cavities appear in them, nevertheless. This is one of the mysteries which the medical world would like to solve. The medical world docs not know the reason for the decay of teeth. The only advice which can be given to people is to pay regular visiis to the dentist’s office so that decay can be noted and remedied before the damage is great. Many scientific laboratories are working to study the cause of decay of teeth. B tt Cause of Decay A NUMBER of theories have been advanced to account for tooth decay, or “dental caries,” to use the scientific term. There are two schools of thought. One blames dental caries upon bacteria. The other holds that it is caused by conditions within the body. In other words, it may be that changes within the body render the | teeth susceptible to the attacks of | bacteria which otherwise they | might be able to resist. A theory advanced a few years ago by Dr. Charles F. Bodecker, professor of dentistry at Columbia university, is that tooth decay results from an impaired resistance of the enamel of the teeth to acids formed in the mouth. Dr. Bodecker believes that in the normal healthy person, certain salts are deposited in the teeth from the blood stream. These salts neutralize the acids present in the mouth and so prevent the decay of the teeth. The salts, Dr. Eodecker believes, are carried in the dental lymph which is derived from the blood. In support of his theory, he points out that mineral salts are present in the blood and that they serve the function of neutralizing acids which are formed in the muscles of the body. Dr. Bodecker points out also that dental caries is more prevalent than the common cold and apparently on the increase. He regards the finding of a means of preventing dental caries as second in importance only to the problem of finding a means of preventing cancer.

' periment with the consideration j that he declare a moratorium on foreign debts at request of the ; people back home. Our high tariff i wall that was built around the | United States is another noble experiment. Jim Watson thought it was one lof the greatest achievements his party ever had done. It was next ito the depression and inside of ninety days prosperity would be knocking the door down to get in. But what did we see—more tramps, tramps, tramps, the boys are tramping. Japan is trying a noble experiment with China. She wants to see how many Chinese she can kill before breakfast without missing a | shot. The United States wants to ! count them. Better, count our jobless. Well, do you want four more I years of noble experiment? If you do just keep your seat in the Hoover toboggan as down the hill we go. E. E. L. Peru, Ind. If The Times reader who signed I his name Down and Almost Out in ; a letter to the editor, will send The ! Times his address, he will receive help. Editor Times—l want to congratj ulate you and jnur staff on the noble stand and fearless attitude you are taking against the great ! evil of the day, the utilities. Push the good work along. At our last Liberty party meeting your paper was mentioned and the whole house was for you. H. WINDHORST. What was the name of the steamship Belgenland during the World war? It was not In service during the war and has always had the same name.