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Meeting a Major Issue BY ROBERT P. BCRIPPS The Pittsburgh Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, has rnnounced its support of Senator James J. Davis cx-secretary of labor, in the Republican senatorial primary in Pennsylvania. In the past the Pittsburgh Press and other Scripps-Howard newspapers have opposed the brand of conservative and stand-pat party politics with which Davis has been identified in his state and at Washington. In this instance Senator Davis has declared himself as favoring modification of the Volstead act and repeal of the eighteenth amendment. His opponent, the colorful General Smcdley D. Butler of marine corps and Philadelphia police department fame, is a well-known 100 per cent prohibitionist, and is supported chiefly by a no less prominent prohibitionist, Governor Gifford Pinchot. As senator, Davis voted for, and Pinchot and his friends advocated, direct federal relief for the unemployed. On this matter the two condidacies are pitched, apparently, on even ground. The Pittsburgh Press expresses no overweening enthusiasm for the mental stature or political courage of Candidate Davis. At the same time, its editors have reason to distrust the attitude toward civil liberties of Candidate Butler, which, from speeches he has made in the past, embraces the military and autocratic rather than the American and democratic ideal. From the above it is obvious that, to the editors of the Pittsburgh Press, the outstanding question involved in the present contest is that of prohibition. This is the issue that is thought paramount. Wherever other elements of character and public policy permit, this Is the stand that other ScrippsHoward newspapers may be expected to take. And with good, and sufficient, and well-consid-ered reason! The problem of amending, if not repealing, oppressive federal prohibition laws has passed out of the realm of academic debate, and into the sphere of quite possible political action. In the recent wet-dry lest vote in the house of representatives, twenty-one reversed votes would have meant a prohibition defeat. This possibility, which becomes almost immediate by reason of the elections this fall, tinges our whole political horizon. Every representative and senator to be elected this year undoubtedly will have the opportunity and the duty, during his term of office, to cast a vote on prohibition that really will count. Heretofore, this situation has not seemed to exist, ’’’oday it dictates only one passible honest course—to meet the Issue and to meet it squarely. The Scripps-Howard newspapers favor immediate modification of the Volstead act, repeal of the eighteenth amendment and return of the liquor problem to the states for the following reasons: Present statutory definitions of the alcoholic content of “intoxicating” beverages have no scientific basis in fact, while suppression of beer and wines creates a market limited to much more harmful spirituous drinks. Any federal sumptuary legislation is at variance with the whole spirit of the Constitution, which is that of the widest passible degree of home rule. Proved ineffective in practice, federal attempts to enforce the prohibition laws ihfringe police powers of states. While liquor, some of it poisonous, flows freely everywhere, the federal government foregoes vast sums of revenue from its taxation, and is put to enormous futile expense, the whole making up a large part of the present burden of taxpayers. So federal prohibition goes to the very heart of the present economic crisis. It is the profits of bootlegging and liquor smuggling that are the “sinews of war” for the major “rackets” that actually threaten our civilization today, from kidnaping and banditry to ballot box stuffing and police corruption. The Scripps-Howard newspapers believe that federal prohibition properly will be a major issue in every congressional election this year, and in the presidential election this November, for these reasons: So long as this question, cutting deeply into the hearts of the people, cuts crosswise through each of our great political parties, as well as through progressive and liberal groups in congress, the development of no sane.and logical economic program by any party or group is possible. Until the question of federal prohibition is settled, other progress, the routing of criminals, the clearing out of political corruption, waits throughout the country. That the question is far from settled as it now stands, in spite of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law, is demonstrated by the expressed dissatisfaction of millions of people, as well as by the continued and “from bad to worse” drinking habits of the entire country. The Scripps-Howard newspapers have supported the legislative activities and extolled the characters of outstanding statesmen like, for instance, Senators Norris, Costigan, and Walsh of Montana, whose political fights always have been fights in the interests of the common man and of public decency, but who are known as drys. Certainly we will support no spineless or simple “organization” office seekers against men of this character in any case where an editorial opinion is demanded. Nevertheless, other things being equal, or nearly equal, as in the Pennsylvania case, it will be the policy of these newspapers to point out, with respect to each of this year's congressional and senatorial candidates, that his vote in the near future on prohibition probably will be the most important vote he ever will cast in the new congress. The Water Barons Despite the fact that Public Service Commissioner Cuthbertson protected the water company from exposure of the extortionate character of their rates as compared with charges in other cities, the public did get a squint on some of the practices of the water barons at the Tuesday hearing. The people found out that one of the operating costs of the company is a membership in a political club for a man who lives in Philadelphia. They discovered that contributions to an organization whose chief function is a demand for reduction of wages of school teachers and policemen are charged as an operating expense of distributing water. The people found that every “good fellow" gesture of the company in the way of memberships in civic bodies or charitable groups comes directly from the people’s pockets and does not reduce the profits of the owners by a single penny. Os course, the bookkeeping methods for hiding the gigantic profits are entirely beyond the original in-

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tention of the public utility law and unjustified under any theory of regulation. It is not difficult to be a “good fellow” with other people’s money. That is the reason this company and other utilities can send their handshakers into public groups to mingle with the crowds and lead them. They can participate in various activities and become prominent. The bill is charged directly to the public. Just how a membership in a political club for Clarence Geist of Philadelphia can contribute to the delivery of water to citizens of Indianapolis may be understandable to Cuthbertson and to other utilityminded officials. The people may require an explanation. Mayor Sullivan and his legal staff gathered a large amount of evidence concerning rates charged for water in other cities. That information showed that the rates in this city are high. The mayor believes them to be more than Just “high.” They are unfair and unjust. But the city has not been permitted to present this evidence of extortion and greed. Technical objections prevented this public disclasure. The water company did not dare let its customers know the truth, if the truth could be suppressed. But enough has been disclosed to demonstrate that the people are entitled to relief. If it is impossible to obtain it by regulation, the people may decide to bufld anew plant. A concern that charges political contributions to its operating costs deserves little consideration.

City and State Taxes Throughout America there is a movement for reduction of city and state taxes. Insofar as it seeks to eliminate waste, it is sound. Activities which are useless or not worth the price should be eliminated. In useful activities, able officials can, if they try, often accomplish the same purpose with expenditure of less money. But if this movement seeks under the guise of “economy” to eliminate those progressive things which have made life easier and brighter for the workingman, it will not have the support of those fair-minded elements without which it can not succeed ultimately. The workingman and those interested in his betterment- know that public schools, parks, libraries, hospitals, and health work mean more to him than they do to wealthy taxpayers who can obtain similar service from private agencies. When these services are supplied by public agencies, and paid for out of taxation, the workingman gets more than he pays for in taxes, whether he pays taxes directly through home ownership or indirectly through rent. Public school education for the average family actually is worth more in dollars and cents than the entire tax bill which the average home-owner pays. He gets all the other local government services free of charge. The difference between actual cost and value is paid for by the big taxpayers, as it should be. Thus community service paid for by taxation is one means of bringing about a fairer distribution of wealth, something which most thinking people believe is needed imperatively in America. Those sincere in their desire for governmental “economy” will attack governmental waste, but will not attempt to eliminate those things which have raised the standard of living of the workingman.

Judges and Politics Ihe petition by 100 leading lawyers asking Judge Harry Chamberlin of the circuit court again to become a candidate for the bench was more than a merited compliment to an excellent public servant. It demonstrated completely the necessity of changing the system under which judges are chosen so that partisan politics will play no part in the search for justice. Judge Chamberlin has not been a politician since he went upon the bench. He has been a judge for nil the people and his decisions have been free from any suspicion of partisan bias. Now he is compelled to go into party primaries and a partisan election if the people are to have the advantage of his services. Under a nonpartisan selection of judges, or in any election of judges in which partisan nominations were barred, there would be no danger of losing Judge Chamberlin. He probably would be unopposed. Only those who have been disappointed at the smallness of fees allowed in receivership cases would be disgruntled—or those who hoped to use crooked methods in elections and were checked by injunctions. One of the necessary changes in our political system Is the taking of courts out of politics. The sooner that comes, the less chance there will be of losing the Chamberlins from the bench.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DO you remember the mother in the old fairy tale? She sat at her window, sewing, and looked out at the snow. Then she wished that she might have a daughter with white skin, black hair, and cheeks as red as roses, the most beautiful girl in all the world. Every mother has the same secret desire. Stripped of pretense, I imagine we would all be foolish enough to demand, if we could, superlative physical beauty for our girl children. So perhaps ii is rather fortunate that there are no good fairies standing around ready to grant our wishes. It may be trite, but nevertheless I believe it to be true, that more girls have suffered from, than have profited by, rare loveliness of face and form. If beauty always were innocent and uncalculating, like that of the fairy tale child, the story might be different. But in these knowing days, a girl especially dowered with perfections is subjected to undue attention and therefore is the victim of more than ordinary temptation. Nine times out of ten she spoils her life before she is old enough to know better. a a a SO if mothers were vise, we would wish for our girls perfect health, first, and only ordinary good looks. All the happiest and most of the worth-while women have been equipped thus for living. The tragedy queens of history, the sirens, the powers behind the thrones’* were accounted beautiful. And they almost invariably suffered dire disappointment and often met tremendous downfalls. They were the stormy petrels of femininity. Though they sometimes may have altered the course of nations, they did not in any case sustain stability of a world. The girl with ordinary good looks has a better rhance for a successful career, > a better chance for getting a good husband, a better chance for living a normal, satisfying life, and a better chance to enjoy a contented old age than any beauty. I think one of the most harmful things that has developed in our era of exhibitionalism is the emphaRis that we have placed upon physteal attractiveness. We have crushed truth to earth cold creams.

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M: E. Tracy Says:

We Are Beginning to Understand That New Work Must Be Found for Millions of Men and Billions of Capital. NEW YORK, March 23.—This country faces a greater readjustment than most people realize. More than anything else, the crash of 1929 revealed a situation that could not, and should not be restored. Had it been the genuine article, it would not have collapsed. While the depression justly can be attributed to worldwide conditions, it should be remembered that this country played a major part in bringing about those conditions. Since 1914, the United States has been recognized as the world's financial and industrial leader. We can not deny a large share of responsibility for what happened. n tt a Wealth Dissipated MUCH that happened was due to mistaken policies right here at home, to overproduction in certain basic lines, to overconfidence in the security of our position, to an unreasonable inflation of values, to an unwise dissipation of our surplus wealth. Major industries were overbuilt, capital was watered and stocks were boomed. People were crowded into our cities and given jobs, with little concern as to whether the setup would be permanent. Apartments and hotels literally were thrown together for their accommodaiton. Everybody was going to live in a rented room, or flat and get a pay, check each Saturday night. Taxes mounted and rents rose. It was a beautiful system, and no one wanted to believe it could go wrong.

Inflation Not All THERE was more wrong with the system than inflation. It took no account of those changes which occur as the result of invention, or mere caprice. It was not prepared for what oil did to coal, or electric refrigerators did to the ice man. At the rate farms were being abandoned, it looked as though every article of food would go up in price, but the reducing craze more than offset th? reduction of acreage. Closed cars and steam-heated houses played havoc with the textile trade. Safety razors wrought a revolution in the barber trade. Movies put the legitimate theater out of commission. Talkies lost the local orchestra player his job. And so one might go on ad infinitum. a u Prosperous Ease; Then— THERE came a time when our economic structure was held up by a few gigantic enterprises which couldn’t stop, or retrench, even if those in control had wanted to. Sheer momentum drove them forward, with their stocks mounting and their reputation and impregnability taking deeper root in the public mind. At last, it seemed as if we had found a way to be prosperous withuot doing much, except watch the ticker, or listen for the whistle. Nor were we tightwads with our good fortune. If the rest of the world needed a little cash, all we asked was a note, or a bond.

New Work Needed THE decade succeeding the armistice witnessed such an orgy of contentment and optimism in these United States as has few parallels in human history. Whatever we may have thought about the eighteenth amendment, or League of Nations, we were obsessed with the idea that nothing bad could happen to us in a financial way. We marked progress by counting the stories of each new skyscraper, or noting how each census showed an increase of population in the old home town. There was little planning, except for something bigger in the same old rut. New devices were demanded, but with no thought of their effect on the business of producing old ones. It was taken for granted that every city and every enterprise would keep right on growing larger. When the crash came, we consoled ourselves with the idea that the problem of recovery included no more than getting the old job back and getting the old stock up where it was. We are just beginning to understand that new work must be found for millions of men and billions of capital. ’

M TODAY eS < / '■ IS THE- vs ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

FURTHER GERMAN SUCCESSES March 23

ON March 23. 1918, the great German offensive in Picardy continued, the attackers driving the British back more than five miles on a twenty-five-mile front. German bulletins on the battle said that their troops were on schedule in the drive and had taken more than 25.000 prisoners. The Fifth British army, under General Gough, was in full retreat and was almost demoralized, the German reports said. The group in question was composed of 200,000 veteran troops. Admitting that the fate of the war hung in the balance, French divisions were rushed hastily into the breach made between the British and French lines and succeeded in for the time, the German assaults. In this phase of the action, 30,000 French troops were opposed by nearly 150,000 Germans. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in command of the British forces in France, asked for further French and American reinforcements immediately, in view of prospects for still further attacks from Tiew German divisions, reported to have been moved into the salient created by the offensive of the three previous days. What is the speed of the fastest United States battleship? The U. S. S. Florida has a speed of 22.8 knots per hour. What is a pedometer? An instrument that measures the distance traveled by recording the | number of steps taken by the person carrying it.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Fatigue Causes Many Auto Crashes

Thin is the second of two articles by Dr, Fishbeln on automobile accidents. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health Magazine. TN the last year for which figures -*■ are available, 6,000 people lost their lives and 150,000 were injured in England as the result of motor accidents. Our own figures are worse. They indicated that 32,500 were killed and 962,325 injured in 835,250 automobile accidents in 1930. All sorts of analyses have been made as to the causes of motor accidents. They are beginning to be taken for granted. Newspapers conduct serious campaigns without much effect, and then decide that motor accidents are hardly news. Studies have been made of records, but it is hard to understand why, in the city of Chicago, during

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—The lower middle class, composed of small merchants and professional people, maintains in the present crisis a very amusing position. Thoroughly frightened by the rapid shrinkage of their investments and of their incomes, yet fighting desperately to maintain their respectable front, they clutch frantically at every offering of the current quacks of “economic medicine.” Every panacea, no matter how preposterously utopian, is taken eagerly to their bosoms. In consequence, we see them zealously embracing anti-hoarding campaigns, job-finding campaigns, and the multitude of other campaigns initiated by their overlords, the big financial and industrial capitalists, in a vain attempt to stem the tide of rapid disintegration. Blinded, in their fright, by the need of some hope and assurance, they fail to see the futile inadequacy of all these campaigns. The anti-hoarding campaign, to begin with, is a fake from start to finish. The mass of the people, it is obvious, can not be hoarding, for they already have been milked dry. And such hoarding as the middle class itself has done it undoubtedly will continue to do, for while its hopes are very general, its fears are very precise and specific —fears, that is, for whatever cash remaining. The bulk of the money, however, remains in the hands of the banks and big corporations. Read the corporation reports today, if you will, and always note the boast of a “strong, liquid position.” Our capitalist rulers, therefore, in initiating the anti-hoarding campaign, merely were starting a sham battle against a practice of which only they were conspicuously guilty. And this capitalist hoarding will go on, for our big banks and corporations still must maintain a "strong liquid position.” Furthermore, the purpose of this campaign was announced as that of

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recent months, by far the most frequent and the most serious accidents occurred on two of the city’s boulevards so wide as to allow both motorists and pedestrians ample opportunity for maneuvers. The case of running modem motor cars deceives drivers. The car steps up its pace without an adequate realization by the driver that increased speed has developed. Unquestionably, fatigue plays a part in many serious- accidents in which drivers fall asleep at the wheel, or become so fatigued that their judgment as to distance and pace is perverted. Some tests should be made to establish the outside limit of the capacity of drivers to stay at the wheel and some limitation should be placed on the number of continuous hours of driving permitted. Coroners’ figures in Great Britain show that 15 per cent of fatal accidents were primarily due to excessive speed.

providing the funds and credits necessary for starting up the wheels of industry again. But now it appears that our big industrialists are our most conspicuous hoarders. They therefore have all the funds and credits needed for starting up the gigantic machines they control. But they will not use them, because the output of these machines would have no markets, and the industrialists would have no profits. To speak of the anti-hoarding campaign is to speak of the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. WILLIAM AYERS. Box 242 C, R. R. 14. Editor Times—United action for employment is wanning throughout the nation, proving that the consolidated forces of all America can achieve any task for common good. Our organization is throwing its full strength into this campaign in the belief that one million jobs can be found in America for one million workers now unemployed. Nationally, the American Federation of Labor has indorsed the united action campaign and is a part of it. But the campaign .is not labor's campaign or the legion’s campaign, or the campaign of any particular organization. We are not seeking jobs only for union men, or only for legion members, but for all who are unemployed. My particular message to the people of this community is, “Do not leave this work to be done by the labor organization alone, or by the advertising men alone, or by ahy group or organization alone.” It is the task of every man and woman in this city and in the nation. It is a task calling for united action, with all organizations and all men and women working together. Great strength of the campaign lies in the fact that it is the campaign of a united America —it is everybody’s campaign against unemployment. At last we have gone about meeting this issue as we would go about winning a war. A

Invariably in fatal accidents there are people who will testify that cars were going much slower than they actually were going. Statistics for one year in Great Britain show that more deaths were caused by cars going less than ten miles an hour than by the cars going at a much faster pace. /But it is hard to credit such statistics. The head of the Safety First Association in Great Britain is authority for the statement that onethird of the casualties occurring in London were due to children running across roads and 10 per cent to children playing in the roads. We seem indeed to have come to the time in relationship to motor accidents when they are looked upon in a fatalistic manner and when no one is taking the problem with sufficient seriousness. If this point of view is permitted to persist, the number of deaths, accidents, and injuries must inevitably increase.

war would not be the war of any single group. It would be the concern of the nation, with all playing a proper part. That is the basis upon which this great campaign against employment now is being waged. A million employers are being asked to add one or more to their pay rolls. One will act because a million others are doing the same thing at the same time for the common good. The steady flow of reports showing jobs found, which means wage earners going back to work and to the earning of wages, proves that the campaign is sound, and that it is marching on to victory. Organized labor can join in such a campaign as this because it is sound in principle, because we are concerned in every movement that is genuinely helpful to workers, organized and unorganized, but principally because this campaign is succeeding. It is the hope of organized labor that every member will join with all other forces, with all the other factors and with all the other men and women of this city in the united action campaign for employment. The national goal is a million jobs for workers now unemployed. I know our city can find jobs for its own unemployed by united action.

EMIL SALSBURY, Secretary Indianapolis Central Labor Union. Editor Times—A vast army of restaurant workers, drug and grocery store clerks is putting in from ten to twelve hours a day, six and seven days a week. Long distance truck drivers are working for thirty-six and even as long as forty-five hours at a stretch. During this time they are loading, unloading or driving. This is dangerous, not only to themselves, but to any one whom they meet. These long hours prove to my mind that there is plenty of work for the laboring class if the profit-mad employers were not making every one in their employ do from 50 to 100 per cent more than is fair to expect of one person. The depression has not killed or even hurt most business. There are many firms growing, but for the most part they are making two men do work that would require three men under more fair labor laws. Before the Civil war, this country was blessed with the Scots system of banking, the same system now in use in Canada. I think a little general education in banking systems would do the public good and be well within the ability of the press to provide. I believe that if the public understood the two systems it would understand the present situation better. Not only that, but they would in all probability clamor for a return to the Scots system, instead of the present one, which gives so much power to the big banker. There is no reason why this country can not be as nearly free from bankruptcy as is Canada. P. D. Q. Editor Times—Your good paper always is first to lake up the matters pertaining to welfare of the people of Indianapolis and Indiana. I am in the insurance buA less,

.MARCH 23, 1032

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Scientists Still Are in Conflict on Structure of the Universe. \ DEMONSTRATION of the jl\. unity of the universe has been, from one point of view, the chief triumph of modern science. It has been shown that our bodies and the distant stars are made of the same stuff. The laws that control the falling of a stone also control the motions of a double star. As the late Dr. E. E. Slosson said. “Science means simplification. It substitutes a single rule for million miscellaneous observations." To the savage. Nature was sud of caprice. The modern scientist finds that the behavior of Nature is predictable in many instances. The chemist has reduced the stuff of the physical universe to ninetytwo chemical elements. The physicist has reduced these further by showing that the atoms of the chemical elements merely represent different combinations of two elementary particles, the positive and negative electron. “It is strange, us Sir William Bragg has said, “tnat the immense variety of nature can be resolved into a series of numbers.” But modern heoretical physics goes even further and regards both the positive and negative electrons as manifestations of energy, “bottled energy,” as it is sometimes called. All the life of the universe.” says Sir James Jeans, “may be regarded as manifestations of energy masquerading in various and all the changes in the universe as energy running about from one of these forms to the other, but always without altering its total amount.” n n n 'Mysterious Universe BUT while scientists agree upon the essential unity of the universe, there still are conflicting opinions about details of the structure of the universe. A number of eminent scientists have undertaken to give pictures of the physical universe. One of them, written in language which is understandable to the average laymen, is given in Sir James Jeans’ excellent book, “The Mysterious Universe.” This book, which enjoyed wide j,circulation at the time of its pubI lication, has been reissued by the l Macmillan Company in a dollar | edition. Personally, we like the dollar edi- | tion better than the original edition, | since it is printed in a better type i face. It also is worthy of note that, | the new edition has been revised ! an <3 otherwise brought up to date ! fr. v Jeans, so that it contains many 1 pages of new material not in the original edition. The book is divided into five chapters. Four deal with the universe from the viewpoint of the scientist. The fifth represents an excursion into philosophy. It is this last chapter, perhaps, which has stirred up the most comment. Among those who have attacked it is Bertrand Russell, who takes both Sir Arthur Eddington and Jeans to task for their recent excursions into philosophy. The older mechanistic concept of the universe pictured God as the engineer of creation. Jeans’ view has been summed up as expressing the opinion that “God is a mathematician.” The point is that Jeans pictures a universe which is fundamentally mathematical rather than mechanical.

Space Is Large THE first conclusion reached in any modern survey of the universe is that space is so very large and the earth is so very small. Our earth is one planet circling around a sun which is one of some 40.000.000,000 suns or stars in the galaxy. Our galaxy, or Milky Way, Is essentially a structure like the other galaxies in space. These galaxies are best known by the name of spiral nebulae. The total number of spirals or galaxies in the universe, according to the calculations of Dr. Willem de Sitter, are about 80,000.000,000. In other words, there are twice as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in our own Milky Way. A second conclusion, pointed out by Jeans, is that the physical universe seems so hostile to life. Outer |pace, with a temperature probably only four degrees above absolute zero, is far too cold for life as we know it. Absolute zero is 459 degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit thermometer. Most of the objects in the universe are far too hot for life as we know it. The surface temperature of stars ranges from 2,000 to 15,000 degrees Fahrenheit. ‘lnto such a universe.” says Jeans, “we have stumbled, if not by mistake, at least as the result of what may properly be described as an accident.” With such a stage setting for the drama of life, It is no wonder that philosophers disagree over the riddle of the universe.

Daily Thought

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.—Ecclesiastes 11:1. A poor man serv’d by thee, shall make you rich.—Mrs. Browning. which enables me to come in contact with both wealthy and poor people of our city. I find in a great many homes that both husbands and wives are working. Would it not be much better for concerns which know of cases of this kind to employ people if they are capable—and surely there are plenty of good, honest, and faithful among the many unemployed at fill the places of married women, who do not particularly need to work? I was surprised to learn from one of my clients of a musician working in a local vaudeville theater seven days a week, and his wife employed at one of our large department stores. This musician boasts of the good salary that he and his wife earn. The musicians’ union should compel him to divide his work. No concern should employ a married woman when her husband is working, or a married man if his wife is working. INSURANCE AGENT.