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Keep This in Mind In all our consideration of this whole subject of veterans’ relief, let us bear this in mind: That the amount of money that any government can provide necessarily is limited; and that therefore every dollar which is paid to a veteran who is not in need is a dollar denied to the veteran who is in need. ' The Manufacturers and Beer The manufacturers of the state demand the repeal of the Wright bone dry law and a modification of the Volstead act that will permit the sale of beer. That should startle some of the politicians who are still under the hallucination that the Anti-Saloon League and professional dry leaders are more powerful than public sentiment. The attitude of the manufacturers comes from a realization that the bootlegger has become the only prosperous business man in these days of depression and that legitimate business is being taxed to the verge of bankruptcy while the law breaker escapes with millions. A few years ago these same men would not have dared to take this stand. They had been silenced by the fallacious argument that prohibition gave them more production from their workers and that these sober wage earners were saving money. No one ever pretended that prohibition would or could interfere with the drinking habits of the rich. The professional dry claimed that prohibition had not only created, but perpetually insured prosperity. The people were told that the loss of revenue to the government was immaterial and inconsequential when compared to the very material benefits to the public. The manufacturers know better now. They know that the bootlegger thrives, that gangdom rules in many cities, that the burden of taxation for law enforcement under conditions' created by prohibition is too heavy to bear. Therefore these men of Indiana demand that beer be made and sold legitimately as a path to temperance and, most important, a means of raising revenues lor government. State and local gov rnments have lost, so it is estimated, at least ten billions of dollars of revenue that would have been collected under the laws tha.t were repealed by prohibition and the Volstead act. The problem of a balanced budget would not exist had that money been available for taxes. The worst indictment is, of course, against the conditions created by prohibition. Crime has increased Youth has been debauched. The bootlegger has become the most important member of society. Gangsters control government. It has failed to cure a single evil it was supposed to correct. Indiana should send to congress men who will reflect the sentiments of the state. When the. manufacturers. whose members individually were large contributors to dry crusades, take a stand for beer, politicians should get wise. The Water Fiasco One easy way to remedy the situation created by the "compromise'’ in the demands of the people for lower water rates is to file anew petition demanding real action and see that some member of the commission other than member Cuthbertson give it consideration. The "concession’’ to the city in the matter of bills for fire hydrants and the reduction of minimum charges has been more than offset by increases for a vast majority of consumers. The water cbmpany. it is now believed, got an increase instead of a reduction. It will carry away more money from Indianapolis. It is not compelled to stop its egg-sucking habit of paying club dues for its Philadelphia president out of the operating expenses of the company. The situation is unbelievable and incredible. That any’community would permit itself to pay tribute to the greed of any private concern for the use of such a fundamental need as water shows a stupidity that would amaze the most primitive and most credulous of barbarians. That any community will permit an increased cost for the use of water under present economic conditions is even more preposterous. The company has admitted that its minimum charge was far too high. It has admitted that it pillaged public funds with extortionate charges. It should be easy to prove that it is also pillaging private pocketbooks. Public-minded consumers should go into court to prevent any increase for any citizen. Others might file anew demand for reductions. Unless this is done, there will be no relief until after January, when anew Governor, no matter who he may be. will be compelled co take an entirely different attitude toward these utility outrages. Evading the Issue One would imagine, in listening to many of our public spellbinders, that we have been brought into our present sad state of economic depression through the influence of Patagonia. New Zealand, Ceylon, Abyssinia, or Russia. We hear dolorous acoounts of our desperate straits, coupled with proud reference to the absolute perfection of American economic; political, and legal Institutions. A typical example is Governor Ritchie of Maryland. In one of his radio addresses the other day, he admitted the illogical and deplorable condition in which we now’ find ourselves. We starve in the midst of plenty: "When the history of these times is written, one of the least understandable phenomena will be this amazing phase of our economic system under which millions of people, living in the richest country in the world, with agricultural produce and industrial commodities greatly in excess of any possible demand, are faced with extreme poverty.” These depressions are not inevitable, he says. They are the product of laissez faire and competitive economic and political doctrines: “It is said that business depressions are inevitable, that they come to us in cycles. It may be so, but at any rate I believe that depressions are incident to the application of the doctrine of laissez faire and that the time has come to plan for stabilization of industry, and to insist upon maintenance of order in our economic system.'’ These are cogent, statesmanlike, and accurate observations. But Governor Ritchie then proceeds to back-track by telling us that in any effort to deal with the situation we must not disturb the spirit of American institutions which have proved so perfect in their operation. He makes it clear that he means by the spirit of American institutions the purely competitive order nnd laissez faire in economics, the doctrine of "hands

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off” in politics, and judicial resistance of progressive reform measures. Let us examine this highly characteristic attitude in the light of the most elementary logic and knowledge of American history. In the first place, if we starve in the face of excess agricultural and manufactured products, whose fault is it? Certainly not that of China, Turkey, or Morocco. It is due very specifically to the inefficient and illogical American socio-economic system of 1932. We can not pass the buck to anybody else. We need not assume for the moment that any other system would work better, but certainly' our defects today are American weaknesses. In the second place, just what justification has Governor Ritchie in speaking so confidently and eulogistically concerning the complete success of American institutions? It woul& seem rather too early to dogmatize on that point. Success is judged logically by ultimate results. We do not call a bank successful if it fails disastrously after a few decades of illusory prosperity. We do not call a man successful if he ends up in the poorhouse after several years of ostentatious squandering of funds. We well may hope that American institutions will prove successful, but now is the time for searching self-examination and courageous readjustment. It is no time for smug complacency and retrospective boasting. Finally, what kind of logic is it to demand that we leave untouched the admitted cause of our troubles? What would we say of a commissioner of public health who, in the midst of a typhoid epidemic, insisted that the admittedly polluted water supply should not be cleaned up? Governor Ritchie says that we are in a bad w’ay, that unlimited competition is the chief cause of our economic sickness, that this laissez faire is the core of the American spirit and system, and that we must save ourselves. But we must not interfere with the spirit of American institutions. It is high time to recognize that American institutions are of the present and future as well as of the past. They will be better in the future just in proportion as we recognize and repudiate mistakes of the past. No Seats for Sale In 193 C a senate committee headed by Bill Nye’s nephew, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, performed a gallant service by exposing the fabulous prices paid for seats in the nation's upper house. It investigated eighteen state campaigns. It found that to fill one-third of the senate's seats at least $5,500,000 had been spent that year, a sum fifteen times greater than the annual senatorial salaries involved. . It. lound that amounts expended ranged from $63,000 to more than $2,000,000, that $400,000 was spent in a vain effort to elect a woman to the senate, that $.00,000 was invested by the Vare machine in Pennsylvania. The committee probably saved one of the country's most valuable servants, Senator Norris, from defeat by unearthing the shabby plot of G. O. P. bosses against him in Nebraska. It revealed to an amazed country the extremes to which political bigotry had led Bishop Cannon. The 1932 elections are upon us. and there is no watchful Nye committee. Times are harder and the political bosses poorer; but combinations of capital are *bigger. They have learned things about the Washington government, things about subsidies, loans, handouts and tax evasions. While seats on the stock exchange are down, seats in the United States senate are not. Considering some of the tremendous issues ahead, a seat in the closely divided senate well might be worth millions. ! A resolution introduced by Senator Dickinson of lowa to create another such senate committee on elec-; tion expenditures lies in committee. If this is to be , passed and financed, the senate should insist on no further delay. The $150,000 the Nye committee cost was a wellspent pittance when viewed in relation to the results. The senate should insure its own integrity by creating another committee to watch the nation’s polls. "No senate seats for sale” should be posted where all may read. A visiting Frenchman says that prohibition has put , romance in liquor over here. Maybe that's what gives: is that foreign flavor. - j Fashion note: Woman's shoes are.to be more pointed. Husbands who play bridge are considering ; a violent protest. A prisoner shot his way out of the jail at South ! Bend, lnd. He must have been broke. A member says congress never will cancel the war debts. Maybe not, but what about Europe?

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTEB FERGUSON

TWO headlines appear side by side in the evening newspaper. “Starvation, Poverty, Found Throughout the United States in Extensive Survey,” reads one. “Mellon Family Fortune Totals $7,000,000,000,” says the other. The primitive man in his jungle would find it no harder to reconcile these statements than does the average American citizen in whose country and under whose laws they are emblazoned forth in juxtaposition for all to read. But wait! This is not all. The same paper announces completion of plans for anew building in Washington to house the department of agriculture. It will cost $12,000,000 and will boast the largest floor space in the world, with the possible exception of the Tuilleries in France. It will be erected supposedly for the benefit of agriculture in a nation where the agriculturist himself is starving to death. xxx IT is not hard to conclude that there is something wrong in America. Something terribly, ominously wrong. Daily we hear flimsy, foolish, futile explanations and equally futile plans for bringing back prosperity. People, good, honest, sincere folk, go from house to house canvassing the cities for odd jobs for the unemployed. Instructions are shouted to women. Panaceas are broadcast over the radios. Endless pieces such as this are printed in the newspapers. The heart of the ordinary’ man is torn with apprehension for what may come. Yet we all stand helpless before a congress that, in the face of these appalling omens, still plays its silly political games and harangues the virtues of its ineffectual parties. The gorged Republicans make childish gestures of distrust at the lean Democrats. Neither party can forget its own label on their ludicrously similar principles. Both cling to their petty programs in the face of disaster.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

Says:

Opponents of the New Tax Bill Want Some Method Whereby Those at the Top Painlessly Can Extract Cash From Those at the Bottom. NEW YORK, April B.—First, Secretary of the Treasury Mills | says that the new tax bill fails to | balance the budget. Then he says I that sections calculated to provde ! about $200,000,000 ought to be cut out of it. That w’ould leave the government in the hole, but Secretary Mills has no substitute. Most of those attacking the new tax bill have no substitute. When driven into a comer, they usually offer the sales tax. The sales tax continues to be the bug under the chip. Its proponents have not given up hope. They still believe that congress can be teased into adopting It by fault-finding i and filibustering. ' x x a Profit on Tax? THE sales tax has obvious advantages for business and industry. In the first place, it can be passed on to the consumer, without his realizing it. In the second place, prices can be boosted more than is necessary. Not only the tax itself, but a whole lot more can be covered up in the retail, cost of articles. There is no way of tracing it, except by the employment of expert accountants. Even if there were, what could the consumer do about it? When you pay an extra cent for a postage stamp, or 6 cents on a dollar theater ticket, you know exactly how much the government is getting, but when the manufacturer pays 2!4 per cent, you don't know how much he, the wholesaler and the retailer, may have soaked you for good measure.

XXX Bar to Gouging THE sales tax is like the tariff. The revenue it actually produces is only part of the story. It could, and would be increased as It went down the line. It would furnish producers and distributors an excellent alibi for price-boosting. Specified taxes can not be used so easily for such a purpose. You can’t hide much under 2-cent stamps on checks, or 50-cent stamps for thousand-dollar mortgages. Any man would rather have a tax that he could cover up and pass on than one he himself must pay in the open. That is human nature. That is why indirect taxes are so popular, especially with the big boys. XXX Cards on the Table THE issue is not one of "socking the rich,” but of laying the ! cards on the table, of letting people know what the cost of government really is and who pays. v That is the great virtue of the new tax bill, recently passed by the house and now before the senate. It drags this business of balancing the budget right out in the open. It lets people know what they are actually up against. When they are told that they could avoid a large part of it by levying a tax on beer, they are not going to be so indifferent to the cost of bootlegging. xxx 'Too Undesirable’ THE new tax bill is not a semiSocialistic measure, as its opponents have charged. It is merely a plain, understandable measure for producing so much revenue. The fact that/rit is plain and understandable, accounts for most of the opposition. What the opposition wants is some method whereby those at the top painlessly can extract the required cash from those at the bottom. They haven’t given up the idea because it was beaten in the house. They are out to do all they can in the senate, and they are being assisted by the treasury department. There are, perhaps, some minor changes which could be made in the tax bill, without injury, or injustice, but that is not what the opposition has in mind. The opposition is working for the sole purpose of tearing the bill to pieces, bit by bit, until congress is driven to accept the sales tax by weariness and lack of time.

Questions and Answers

Were the areas of France and Germany increased or decreased during the World war? The prewar area of France was 207,054 square miles and the present area, including Corsica, 3,367, and Alsace-Lorraine, 5,605, is 212,659 square miles. The prewar area of Germany was 208,780 square miles, and the present area, excluding the Saar district, 738, is 180,985 square miles. What is a thoroughbred horse? A thoroughbred horse is defined as having two qualifications; first, it must have an ancestry from noted stock, and, second, its pedigree must be recorded in the stud book for several generations—five for America and seven in England. What is the best method of preserving valuable paper documents? A good method is to paste the sheet between two sheets of strong, thin transparent material such as silk or Japanese tissue. This treatment adds strength to the paper and also delays the chemical changes. How long is the road running from Southern California to Canada? Pacific avenue, running from Los Angeles, Cal., to Vancouver, British Columbia, mostly paved with concrete, is 1,476 miles long. It probably is the longest stretch of paved highway in the world. What is Eddie Cantor’s real name? Izzy Iskowitch.

Daily Thought

pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful. passing the love of women.—ll Samuel 1:26. Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything.—Jeremy Taylor.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE New Facts Found on Skin Diseases

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SOME years age, when mah-jongg was a popular form of amusement, cases were reported by physicians of eruptions on the skin, which became known finally as lacquer dermatitis. It finally was determined that some ingredient of the lacquer placed on the mah-jongg boxes, and sometimes on the tiles, in Japan was the source which aroused these reactions in people especially sensitive to the lacquer. Recently a group of workers in a cabinet-making plant, employing about 100 men, began to break out with eruptibns on their hands, their forearms, and in some cases also on the entire face and neck. Indeed, a few of the men developed such swelling about the face that the eyes were swollen shut. It was found that all the cases occurred while the men were working on an order which called for the use of Brazilian walnut.

IT SEEMS TO ME

T THINK that this column has A- been too niggardly of late in granting space to views and comments of contributors. I have been acting as if owned this place apd writing practically every line myself. Such Spartan fortitude should not go on unchecked. I very well might, wear myself into a decline or, at the very least, contrast delusions of grandeur. Accordingly I present forthwith the strange case of Mr. Z., who writes : “Volumes have been written about how to overcome an inferiority complex. What of the person who is actually inferior soically? Should he go about squeezing his way in where he is not wanted? I think not. “I speak from experience. I am a bore. There is not one person in the world who voluntarily would come to me at this moment for a five-minute chat. I have tried the different approved methods of becoming interesting without success. “I think a bore should be ‘old the truth. Let him spend his time getting pleasure from his hobbies and his business, without inflicting himself on people who don’t want him. “To attempt to develop a social personality where it is mentally impossible only will hurt the victim by completely destroying the last shreds of his already deflated ego and make him unfit for business and what pleasure he gets from personal hobbles.” xxx Accepting a Challenge THIS seems to me to constitute a challenge. I’ll not sit idle and let anybody get away with the boast that he possesses a greater inferiority complex than my own. As one bore to another, I think we ought to hold a dual meet. If Mr. Z. (who signed his note otherwise) will let me have his name and number, I’ll gladly swap five minutes with him any afternoon. And yet I fear that no true championship is at stake. Although I sincerely can plead guilty to having been boring on occasion, both in conversation and the printed

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The Lone Fisherman

Out of 100 men in the plant, eleven developed the symptoms. These men were those who came in contact with the sawdust and those who sandpapered the wood. An inquiry revealed the fact that there were some who did not break out with eruptions on the skin, but who did develop sneezing and running noses while working in the room where the wood was being used. A few of the men recovered while they continued work, but some men were unable to do so. The importer from whom the wood was purchased furnished a list of firms to whom the wood had been sold. According to Dr. Louis Schwartz of the United States Public Health Service, letters were written to all these firms, and it was found that workers in nine of the ten firms who had purchased the wood had developed similar reactions. A special study was made in order to find out the nature of this sensi-

word, I realize that in all probability I fall short of being a truly prize-winning bore. Do I hear cries of “No! No! No!”? In spite of the interruption I must repeat that I am of less than championship caliber. And the s?*ie thing is true of Mr. Z. No man who has even an inkling that he can be tiresome is capable of ever becoming the kingpin in his class. A really inspired bore does not even suspect his own process in this line. Even his best friends won’t tell him. They simply steal away, and he is not a man to take a hint. Either you have it or you have not. Mr. Z. does not belong to that exalted group. Indeed, he can not ever make it. I will wager any modest sum that I can convince him of this in five minutes. “I’d hardly care to risk fifteen for fear that he might exclaim; “You’re right, my lad. I refuse the nomination and retire in your favor. You’ve won it.” xxx A Cheer for the Drys AND here is W. A. R., who rebukes me for disloyalty to serious drinkers. He thinks that we should‘line up solidly behind the Anti-Saloon league and all the forces wich would preserve things as they are. “I view with alarm,” he writes, “the growing tendency of the people to look with favor upon the effort to or modify the national prohibition act. The adoption of a liquor dispensing system such as in effect in Canada, where liquor can be obtained only at certain times and at certain places, would cause much dissatisfaction among our more serious imbibers. “Under our more liberal procedure, a great variety of fairly good liquor (improving all the time) can bg had at almost any hour and within a literal stone’s throw of any place where civilized man has settled. “I oppose vigorously the advocates of ‘light wines and beer only,’ on the ground that it is impossible to concoct a satisfactory Tom Collins

tivity. Samples of the wood, of the sawdust, and of the veneer, and also of the leaves of the tree, were subjected to careful investigation. In the study a piece of gauze about a half inch square was moistened with water and its surface completely covered with sawdust, this this was placed on a piece of rubber sheeting, which, in turn, was placed on a piece of filtrate. This then was applied to the skin of the back and kept in place by being covered with adhesive plaster. In each case involving a worker who had developed an eruption there was a positive reaction under the patch. The incident is only one of the many ways in which modern industry is beginning to find out about sensitivity with its significance for workers. The scientfic term for such sensitivity is allergy. It is the same condition that causes hay fever, asthma, food poisoning and many other symptoms.

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or whisky sour using ‘light wines and beer’ as a base. “By all means let us continue with prohibition. Under its rule we never have and never shall be in danger of having our social drinking habits curtailed.” x X U And Also Dr, Butler I WOULD like to add a postscript to yesterday's column about Columbia and Reed Harris. I neglected to mention the name of Nicholas Murray Butler. And, of course, the ultimate authority rests with him. Dr. Butler preaches many an eloquently liberal sermon. And when the last fine phrase is done, he claps his high hat upon his head and becomes upon the instant a Republican and a professor. tCopvrigt. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ln recent years at least a quarter of the proceeds from Community Chest drives has gone to the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., and similar organizations that contribute nothing to the relief of distress. The plea always is that these institutions are concerned with the vital task of "building character.” Just what do they mean by building character, and what does "character” avail a man with an empty stomach? Will "character” keep a man from getting pellagra, ward off consumption, or thwart an attack of pneumonia? Will it even keep a man warm or dry? Listening to the pious drivel of “character-builders” fighting for a place at the public trough one would think so, but the medical profession has a different view of the subject. Indeed, the "character-builders” themselves know better. Nevertheless, the battle for “character” goes on, because it is essentially a battle to instill into the minds of the people the idea that genteel folks die without a protest. It is a battle to browbeat and cow the worker into dumb acquiescence in his lot, to take out of him the spirit of manly resistance and reduce him, in short, to the condition of a slave or serf. “Character-building” is nothing but social insurance for the exploiting classes. And the joke of it is that the exploited masses pay most of the premiums. It is from their pay that the 100 per cent contributions of the big industrialists are deducted. In this ironic comedy of the Community Chest, the workers bear the cost of their own enslavement. PERRY WYATT. 308 Sanders Street. Editor Times—l have been reading the voice of the people in your paper and it seems that everybody is complaining about this and that. They seem to want to lay all the blame on this Governor or that congressman, when really the masses are to blame. About all the public .officials

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.

.‘APRIL 8, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Study of Chlorophyll, Green Pigment in Plants, Interesting to Scientists. \ LL green plants contain a green pigment known as chlorophyll. It is this pigment which makes possible photosynthesis, the process by which plants absorb the carbon dioxide of the air and manufacture sugars and starches from it. The blood stream contains a red pigment known as hemoglobin which plays an important part in the chemistry of animal life. For many years scientists have been fascinated with the idea that there might be a relation between the two and for many years experiments have been conducted to determine their nature and their possible relationship. These experiments were discussed recently by Prof. James Bryant Conant of Harvard university, who was awarded the William H. Nichols medal of the American Chemical society for his work in analyzing the chemical structure of chlorophyll. "The widespread distribution of the green coloring material and its obvious connection to life, early drew chemists to the investigation of the nature of the pigment,” he said. " "The most difficult part of the problem was to learn how to remove the chlorophyll from the plant without changing it.” tt Too Drastic THE early attempts used much too drastic methods and yielded very impure products, Professor Conant said. “For example, Berzelius, in 1839, used strong acids and alkalies with no success,” he continued. “Verdeil in 1851 obtained a very impure product-containing iron. He concluded that chlorophyll and hemoglobin (the red coloring material of blood) were related, since both contained iron. “Hemoglobin really does, but we now know that pure chlorophyll does not. His facts were wrong, but ‘his idea that the green and red pigments were related turned out to be correct. “This hypothesis of a connection between these two compounds has fascinated investigators since his day and the exact degree of relationship has been deduced incorrectly a number of times. “Hoppe-Seyler in 1879 was the first to bring real evidence to show fl relation. He isolated a crude chlorophyll (it contained I per cent of phosphorus, an element really not, present in chlorophyll). From this chlorophyll, bv Hie drastic action of alkalies, he. obtained a bluish substance which with acids yielded a beautiful red compound with a very striking absorption spectrum. This spectrum was very similar io that of a compound he had obtained shortly before from hemoglobin by splitting off the protein and treating the real pigment—hemi—with strong acids. xxx Red Compounds ‘'T' HESE red compounds he x. called porphyrins the one Ir ° m P la nts phylloporphyrin, the other from blood hematoporpliyrin,” Professor Conant went on. “They were close relatives, but not identical substances, and both were obtained by drastic reactions. ™ Nencki showed further that both hemin (from blood) and a crude chlorophyll yielded a volatile mixture of bases known as pyrols. “The exact composition of this mixture was shown by Willstaetter a few years later, but Nencki was the first to show pyrol nuclei were involved in the structure of both the coloring matter of leaves a-d of blood. From this point on, progress on tne nature of the blood pigment *-a., rapid. By oxidation and reduction T® 5 T ble t 0 obtai n fragments which led him in 1910 to propose a formula for the porphyrins which recent work by Hans Fischer has shown to be essentially correct rhZL kn °? ledge of the exact chemistry of chlorophyll is largely 1906-14 Wlllstaetter ' s lab °rs from * e Proved that there were two chlorophylls chlorophyll A and chlorophyll E-al.™ present m all plants. Contrary to the older idea that there are a great variety of chlorophylls ’ he showed that these two green pigments were the only ones present in nature. Together with them always occur two yellow pigments, carotin and xanthophyll.”

m today & WORLD WAR \ ANN'viRSAR^

BOMBARDMENT BEGINS April 8 /''VN April 8, 1918, German guns a !?? avy bombardment of France 15081 tions in northern con £ entrat ion was so heavy that British staff members were unable to determine where the expected new offensive was to strike. German shock troops also delivered a heavy blow to the French at Verneuii and took the village after sharp fighting which lasted far into the night. American troops in the Toul sector repulsed a strong German raid. French aviators located and bombed the long range German gun which had teen shelling Paris. They claimed to have silenced it. Germany sent an ultimatum to Russia demanding withdrawal of the Russian fleet from Finnish waters by midnight, April 12. 8010 Pasha, condemned to death for treason in France, made statements incriminating others and was granted a reprieve until April 17. . Has John or Lionel Barrymore an artificial leg? No. ; i promised was that they would uphold the law. They didn’t say anything about the dole or any other form of yharity. Now the dub thinks they ought'to feed him, and it just doesn’t happen that way. He has tried both old parties. Why not try socialism? g. R.