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The Federal Booze Weeks ago, the fact leaked out from federal circles that a very large amount of confiscated liquor had disappeared from the federal building. There was the suggestion that an Indignant government would at once punish the faithless officials who had permitted this to occur. The weeks pass and the indignation apparently subsides, or at least the government is unable to find boo.lcggers upon its own pay rolls. In the meantime, the prohibition department finds a few vendors of pints and prosecutes them. No one notices any apparent shortage in the liquor market. It is just as easy to buy as it was before the raids are made. The sources of larger supply are apparently undisturbed. The inability of the government to enforce the law, probably because citizens who would join in any crusade against wholesale lawlessness in any other activity are unwilling to assist, is one of the reasons why very many are demanding a congress that will give the states a chance to change the present system. One of the other reasons, very compelling in days of depression, is the fact that with repeal, a liquor tax would enable the country to balance its budgets without, resorting to confiscation of incomes and real property. Citizens who have supported prohibition in the past have come to the conclusion that the government instead of the Capones shall levy the tax on liquor. At the present time it is taxed, but the taxing power is in the hands of gunmen and gangsters, who control its distribution. But all the evils become nothing when compared to the fact that the government is unable to punish its own employes who first confiscate liquor from citizens and then either sell or use that same liquor for their own profit and entertainment. It is not the first time this has happened in dry Indiana. Some years ago about $300,000 worth of liquor disappeared from the federal building most suspiciously. There is still strong reason to believe that much of it was used for political purposes. Now the incident is repeated. The government took the booze. It placed it in the federal building. It is gone. It seems incredible that any other activity would receive any attention from the proper officials until they solve the question of how such a thing can happen. Surely a force that is able to find the makers of home brew who are driven to law violation by their own poverty should be able to catch officials who confiscate liquor under their charge.

The Flower Mission The proposal of the Flower Mission to co-operate with the city government to establish and maintain a hospital for tubercular patients should be accepted and financed. The need of such a hospital increases with conditions that are destined to multiply the number of such cases. Hi these days of limited diets for vast numbers, the prospect of the necessity for continued care of larger numbers is terrifying. There is no question as to the need of such a hospital. The offer of private charity to partially finance such an enterprise is generous. Bad as the problem of balancing local budgets may be, here is an item that should cause consideration. Care for the victims of this disease must be furnished, no matter what the cost.

Pardon Tom Mooney Unofficial opinion from California indicates that when Governor Rolph announces his decision this week it will be against unconditional pardon of Tom Mooney. Rolph is expected to escape the issue of California’s guilt by issuing an order granting Mooney a commutation of sentence, cither to take effect at once or at some later date. Friends of justice in the United States and abroad demand unconditional pardon as the least that California can offer the man it has wronged for fifteen years. Anything less only will add insult to the inhuman injury already done this innocent man. Tom Mooney either is guilty or he is innocent of the murder of ten Californians. If he is guilty, the California law decrees that he should have died on the gallows. If he is innocent, the law decrees pardon. There is no question of partial guilt, or of conspiracy, or of possible guilty knowledge. Mooney was tried as a direct murderer who planted a bomb with his own hands. If new evidence has been found to implicate him as a conspirator, then let him be retried on that evidence. Os course, no such evidence exists. He is as innocent of indirect murder a of direct murder. Let Governor Rolph prove himself a stronger, juster man than his three defeated predecessors. He can do this by granting Mooney an unconditional and Immediate pardon. Hopeful Signs Inflation of one kind or another is the remedy for depression offered by many different groups. Probably very few are opposed to mild Inflation, or what is coming to be called “reflation.” Such opposition as exists is directed, rather, at those forms of extreme inflation most difficult to control—if indeed any inflation can be controlled absolutely. But the country as a whole doubtless will welcome the degree of inflation aimed at by the federal reserve board in its new policy of credit expansion. By the larger purchase of government securities, the federal reserve is liberating bank credit. A similar policy was successful in 1921, 1924, and 1927. Forces set in motion by the Austrian and German financial crisis counteracted a similar attempt by the federal reserve last summer. Now the times are more favorable, if the rise in the bond market last week is any criterion. The experts seem agreed that the federal reserve credit policy is responsible chiefly for this lift in the bond market, first in government and then in industrial bonds. There are other hopeful developments, including: Prospects of a balanced federal budget, through fair tax increases and economy. The rapid swing away from prohibition and prospects that liquor within another year or so may be made to carry its share of the tax burden. Committee agreement on the remodeled Glass banking bill, which is hailed by many who feared the original bill as a deflationary measure as a beneficial reform comparable in importance to the federal reserve reform itself. The heartening decrease in the number of bank due in part to the reconstruction Usance

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corporation and other emergency legislation enacted during the winter, and diminished hoarding. These developments do not obscure, although they temper, the effect of business failures such as the Insull trouble. While the situation does not call for any shrill Pollyannish pronouncements of the just-around-the-corncr kind, the country should note and welcome these signs of improvement. Self-Supporting Government No salaries of public employes are being cut in Austin, Tex. No municipal services are being reduced. The city has a municipal electric power plant which brought so much revenue to the city treasury that this year rates have been reduced. Rate payers will be saved $55,000 next year. Front Royal, Virginia, is another fortunate community. Forty per cent of the taxes paid last year by its citizens will be refunded to them if they pay this year's taxes promptly. Front Royal has a municipal power plant which prospers, although rates were cut 10 per cent last September. At the same time the city was able to cut the sewer tax rate from 75 to 50 cents. Such fortunate situations do not arise for state or federal taxpayers. A state power system or a national power project, such as Muscle Shoals, producing revenue and reducing taxes, is blocked by Americans who call thenr,elves individualists! In times of prosperity, when taxes are grumbled about once a year and forgotten the rest of the time, the fortunate condition of Austin and PJjront Royal would be of only passing interest. In this very different period, when every dollar of government expenditure is a matter of bitter dispute, it is possible that their story will provoke some intelligent revision of thought on the subject of selfsupporting government.

Julia Lathrop Julia Clifford Lathrop follows Florence Kelley into history, reminding us again how much America owes the pioneering women of the passing generation. Miss Lathrop might have lived a carefree existence. Instead, she gave all the adult years of her more than three-score-and-ten to make life endurable for children of the poor, delinquents, mentally and physically handicapped. Although she chose “the way of grief,” she never lost her rare sense of humor. President Taft named her first chief of the children’s bureau, and, thereby, the first woman to hold an important federal post in this country. Fitting monuments to her memory would be reenactment of the infancy-maternity law and ratification of the child labor amendment. No Cause for Surprise Some astonishment has been expressed because an archeologist has discovered evidence of tax dodging some 2,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Professor Waterman of the University of Michigan ascertained that a rich citizen of Seleucia on\he Tigris had not paid any taxes for twenty-five years. In the new perspective of human development, this should cause no surprise. Man has been on our planet for upward of 2,000,000 years. Our race already had passed through 999-1000th of its existence on the globe when this Seleucian plutocrat was ducking his public obligations. Long before we reached the last thousandth part of our development to date, our forefathers had learned the acquisitive spirit and hated to part with their possessions. One of the most important contributions of anthropology and archeology to human intelligence has been its emphasis upon the fact that the whole historic period since, say 5000 B. C., really is modern history. Indeed, physical anthropology has proved that we had attained all our present physical and mental characteristics as homo sapiens at least 25,000 years ago. Hence, it need cause no astonishment to learn that men and women of two or three thousand years ago exhibited behavior similar to that of today. The most challenging aspect of the whole matter is that man is an animal who reached his present state of development back in a simple cave age civilization. With this same equipment he must face the problems imposed by cities, factories, airplanes, radios, subways, and other aspects of our urban, industrial world civilization. That he will be able to measure up to the responsibility is by no means assured. Another proof that things in South America are different: the new president of Peru is only a colonel! Soviet wages have been increased 11 per cent. That gives the -workers enough to buy butter for their bread on alternate Wednesdays. The best sign of returning normalcy in Europe is the fact that Greece and Austria have applied for new loans.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

‘”IY7HAT are you .trying to do?” thunders a male, VV reader, who forthwith gives us a regular lecture on the proper subject material for women columnists. “Do you want to start a sex war?” Well, why not? It seems to me that a lively little war between the sexes would be vastly diverting. And. moreover, it would take our attention from other and mre dangerous battlinga. For these sex conflicts are quite harmless and cause very little bloodshed, and, considering how military minded most of us are, it would help to pass the weather. Think, too, how much less costly the hostilities between the ladies and gentlemen would be than the average armed combat. One would neer only a ready wit, some statistics and the courage to stand by the colors. I am sure we could muster plenty of good soldiers on the feminine front. The attitude of the above-mentioned reader, too, is quite enough to incite us to beat the w r ar drums. He used up three entire pages reciting the general good-for-nothingness of women. tt tt M THIS is an illustration of thet most unpleasan trait that men posses, and one that ought to be knocked out of them. They think it is nothing at all for us to get huffed about when they tell us. over and over and over, how unreasonable and stubborn and worthless we are. They accuse us of cheating them of Eden. The learned insist that we show no evidence of brains and the aggressive always are calling attention to our inferior attainments. We have been for the last two thousand years warned, admonished, advised, accused and threatened. Yet when we venture in our turn and very timidly to point ot a few masculine flaws, we are reprimanded sternly for trying to start a sex war. Well, if we ever do have one, the thing we shall battle most hotly for is the right to criticise the men even as they criticize us. f*

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M: E. Tracy - Says:

In This Depression, Millions Have Found New Work, Started New Enterprises and Begun All Over Again. YOUNGSTOWN. 0., April 18. Whether too much has been said about the victims of this depression requiring help, not enough has been said about those who have found it passible to take care of themselves. There must be millions who have lost their jobs, their homes, or their investments, but still asked no favor. Why don’t we hear more about them, especially about the ways in which they are doing it? Tfiey stand for the one type of character in which we can afford to believe, the one hope of recovery which we can afford to hold. They should be getting more attention than they have received, not only as a matter of common justice, but because of the example they are setting.

Ambition Stifled THE present situation is tormented by nothing so distinctly as a feeling of dependence and helplessness. Organization and machinery have not only filled the popular mind with alarm, but have created lack of faith in individual i effort. Multitudes of young people are starting out in life with the idea I that they can not do much on their own account, that personal ambition | and individual initiative might just ! a< * well be laid aside, that the best j they can expect is to get in on the | ground floor of some big concern j and go up as older employes die off. The depression has been accepted by many as confirming such a viewpoint. The thought that some system must be devised whereby society will look after the individual grows a-pace. It is not such a bad thought for those who would run the system, but what about those who would become its passive instruments? n n tt Down but Not Out THE people who have taken care of themselves during the last three years, who have met misfortune with courage and hard knocks without whimpering, who have worked their way out of tight places by using their wits and hands, who have accepted disaster as a challenge and bet on their own abilities to meet it, deserve our everlasting gratitude. They not only have lightened the common load, but have set a mark which should be of great inspirational value to our young folks. The trouble is that our young folks have been told little about them, or what; they are doing. We have dwelt so exclusive with one side of the picture as to create the impression that everybody who was hurt is helpless and that nobody is doing very much to solve his, or her own peculiar problem.

Millions Self-Reliant WITH all our relief measures, we have not taken care of more than a small percentage of those out of work, or out of business. Since there has been no great increase of sickness, or the death rate, it must be admitted that the vast majority are taking care of themselves. How are they doing it? What is the story of their achievement—the greatest achievement in connection with the depression. Millions of men and women have found something to do without the help of organized charity. Millions have provided food, shelter and clothing for themselves and their dependents without going to a bread line, or soup kitchen, how have they done it? Here’s Inspiration According to generally accepted estimates, we have had from six to eight million unemployed in this country since the beginning of 1930. According to generally accepted tales, that means from eighteen to twenty-five million human beings without regula • income. Allowing that it costs S2OO a year to support a human being, it would have taken from three and one-half to five billion dollars annually to provide food, shelter and clothing for this supposedly helpless element of our population. Our combined charitable efforts have fallen far short of thit amount. Wherefore, it follows that the vast majority have done what was necessary for themselves, have found new work, started new enterprises and begun all over again. This is the brightest chapter in the history of the depression, and not the least dramatic.

Questions and Answers

Where is the official residence of the governor-general of the Philippines? W’ho pays for its upkeep? The Malacanang palace in Manilla is the official residence of the governor-general of the Philippines. The maintenance of the’palace and all its appurtenances and gardens are drawn from the appropriations made by the Philippine legislature. How tall are Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife? Colonel Lindbergh is 6 feet 2 inches tall, Anne Morrow Lindbergh is 5 feet 5 inches tall. What is the address of Louis Ludlow? House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Could women enlist in the United States navy during the World war and can they enlist now? During the World war women were enlisted as yeowomen of the navy, to replace men in clerical positions. Since the war no women have been enlisted. Where is Cocos island ? It is a small island in the Pacific ocean about five hundred miles southwest of Panama.

Daily Thought

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. Proverbs 27:20. Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.—H. W. Shaw.

Neurasthenics Need Patient Help

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. psychasthenics and “nerve” patients of all sorts multiply in these times of stress and turmoil. The word “neurasthenia” has become trite. It represents the person who suffers from inadequacy, but the condition sometimes is due to a weakened physical state which makes it impossible for the person to respond mentally to the strain of his situation. The neurasthenic suffers with pain in the back of the neck sometimes described as a feeling of tightness, aches in the back, and he is likely to feel tired invariably on getting up in the morning and irritable to an extreme at the end of the day. Dr. W. H. Mayer emphasizes the

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A SUGGESTION has been made that painters be allowed to exhibit and sell their canvases in the neighborhood of Washington square, New York. According to advance information, Commissioner Herrick is about to reply that under the city charter no public place shall be used for the purpose of a fair or exhibition. Not being a profound student of the charter, I do not know precisely how binding its provisions in the matter may be, but I think it would be an excellent idea to find some way to get around the prohibition in this case. By this time I assume that nobody needs to be reminded of the distress among New York artists, but in this instance the painters are promising even more than they are likely to receive. A pushcart gallery along the fringes of the park would bring back to Washington square a color and a character which it has lost. tt tt tt 0, Henry’s Bagdad FAMED, in fiction and tradition as the center of New York’s Bohemia, the village has rim down at its spiritual heels. And unlike the common run of current tragedian. Washington square was ruined by the boom and not by the depression. In fact, I rather assume that the square is looking up a little since Wall Street and big business began to suffer the hammer blows of fate. It was being fashionable which made the village sicken almost unto death. Back in the days when times were piping, everybody who could afford it had a studio on the square. And a studio came to mean a large room with a skylight where cocktail parties were held. I do not hold with those who get a sentimental thrill out of the fact that genius may starve in a garret, but it seems to me even more inappropriate that poseurs should gluttonize under the eaves. Things came to such a pass thatthere was no elbow room for any craftsman in our Latin quarter. The place was filled with “artists." As the tides from Park avenue and Fifth started to recede, the painters who had been crowded out began to reassemble in their old haunts. But even yet there is an air of spuriousness about the life of Greenwich Village. When a couvert charge flies in at the window romance beats rapidly through the back door. tt m m Merely a Good Imitation AND I gravely fear that the lads and lassies who gather ’round the teacups at the Purple Python and the other show places are not authentic grisettes and students. If the painters can be induced to come out and sun themselves with their wares, we shall re-establish a legitimately colorful spot in our metropolis. I regret the fact that the group which is promoting the enterprise has made a promise that the art to be displayed shall include neither nudes nor political caricatures. To me no still life is quite so inter- | esting as President Hoover done in i oils, and ladies, I hope, will

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necessity of finding any psychic conflict or physical derangement from which these people suffer if the basic cause of the disturbance is to be eliminated. Moreover, is it necessary to have a record of the constitution of the patient and of his family history to make an accurate estimate of his condition and the reasons for it. Too often the relatives and associates of a person who is neurasthenic or psychasthenic, failing to see any visible abnormality, credit his condition to his imagination, which merely accentuates it. Such people need human understanding. Above all, they must regain the confidence they have lost or they will progress to the point at which they no longer can be held responsible for their actions. The psychiatrists use the term “anxiety state” to describe the condition into which the neurasthenic passes in times of stress.

continue to be a little more appealing than “Study of Eggplant and the Broccoli.” But whatever the pushcart painters choose to show us should be received thankfully. It is our opportunity for an education. I would seriously contend that such an outdoor exhibition would be a greater cultural civic force than the Metropolitan Museum itself. The museum is dedicated chiefly to teaching the lesson that there were giants in those days. The impressionable youth of New York comes away with the idea that a painter is a man with a long beard who has been dead for a couple of hundred years. No muesum can make us feel quite easy and at home with art. A masterpiece inspires reverence rather than warm affection. In modern days pictures are, for the most part, homeless. They are to be found in those asylums which we call museums or in the baronial halls of the very rich, where they are treated like adopted children. There ought to be more fellowship between purchaser and picture.

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—ln answer to the request of Speaker Walter Myers asking for views of members of the house of representatives on the seventeen recommendations of the citizens’ tax relief committee, I wrote the following, which may be of interest to the general citizenry: I have made a careful study of the report of the citizens’ tax relief committee and am impressed with its excellent quality. It is comprehensive and informative in character, is clear and concise in construction, and while I find myself in disagreement with some of it* proposals, these objections in no way invalidate its acceptance as a reasonable basis for a program of action by a special session of the general assembly, though there is no valid reason why the tax question should be the only one to be considered. I dislike to compromise on the Governor’s arbitrary terms, and think he is wholly unwarranted in laying down conditions for calling a special session that makes it difficult for any self-respecting member of the legislature to accept. If he is clear in his conception of the three departments of government, and he is sincere in his statement that he respects the integrity of these divisions, he is offensively at fault when he expresses doubt of the good sense and patriotism of the only branch of government that has authority to act in the emergency at hand and imposes humiliating requirements' as a pledge for calling this body Into session. It is obvious, of course, that a special session should have a limited program, but there are other and related questions that well might enter into the present needs in addition to that of taxation. If the legislature is to measure honestly up to its responsibilities, with fidelity to the publics welfare, it

Sometimes a minor disturbance of the heart or of the stomach and intestines becomes the physical disease on which the mental state of the individual is fixed. The followers of the modern psycology of Sigmund Freud characterize the psychasthenics, who are marked by an exceedinging easily fatigued mind, as sufferers from “compulsion and neurosis.” In these cases numerous doubts, fears and obsessions trouble the mentality of the patient. Here again co-operation and understanding are essential if the patient is to be led out of his distress into confidence and recovery. Os the greatest importance ia the attitude of the family toward the patient, particularly if he is compelled to live at home. In such cases the physician sometimes finds his treatment must be applied to the relatives rather than to the patient.

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

Meet a Landscape AND such a warming-up process could well occur along the sidewalks of Washington square. Prices being low and sales distinctly desirable, no passerby would feel embarrassed to point or even ask, “How much?” Not everything on display will be necessarily a work of sheer genius, but it is true that many of the most famous of the French impressionists began their exhibiting in just such an humble way. In the course of a few years it might be possible to find inexpensive paintings penetrating into the most unlikely places. Not every apartment need depend forever upon a color print of Maxfield Parrish and a tinted photograph of Grandpa Albert. We could learn, perhaps, that painters still walk the earth and be fresh every hour. A living, changing outdoor show might‘furnish vivid testimony of the fact that painters still walk the earth and that art in Manhattan is not a dead language. (Copyrieht. 1932, bv The Times)

should consider the public utility question as now faced by the people of this state. This question is second only to that of taxation, if not of equal importance in some of its aspects, as it rests in the utility’s power to tax through rates in a monopoly market, and the helplessness to which the local communities have been reduced, under present circumstances, to contest rate cases and secure other adjustments. While the citizens committee proposes large and, for the most part, justifiable, reductions in public expenditures, along with many constructive suggestions to promote efficiency in government and for rearranging tax burdens, there are no proposals insuring any direct and marked tax relief for real estate and its improvements, which is now a chief essential to an equitable tax adjustment. 1 Such adjustment could be made that not only would give substantial relief, but would act as an active stimulant to business revival not possible through ordinary taxing methods. In place of some of the proposed readjustments, which actually raises taxes on some forms of property now heavily taxed—notably private passenger automobiles—with doubtful reallocations in other directions, I would propose that in the real estate valuations a 50 per cent reduction be made in the valuation of all improvements on lands and lots for taxation purposes. This would reduce taxes on this class of property in the state approximately $22,000,000. In addition to this substantial relief, it would carry the direct advantage of acting as a positive encouragement to the building industry, relieving it of burdens now seriously hampering its revival. With the tax burden cut in half, new improvements could go forward on a favorable investment basis,

.APRIL 18, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Sir Oliver Lodge Has Played Great Part in Advancement of Science. 'T'HE world of science has been remade since the beginning of the twentieth century. The nineteenth century drew near its end with a feeling upon the pert of scientists that they had erected a unified and rounded structure which would stand for all time. Then, just before the end of the century came the discovery of the X-rays, followed in a few years by the discovery of radium, and science was off to anew start, building a new structure which put aside the simple positive elements of the nineteenth century and replaced them with such elusive elements as the electron, the quantum, relativity, and wave mechanics. The good fortune to participate in the work of both centuries was given to a small group of scientists. One who helped round off the nineteenth century as well as to pioneer in the twentieth is Sir Oliver Lodge. Today, Lodge is past 80. And from that vantage point, he has put down the story of his life in a book called “Past Years.” (It is published by Scribner’s at $3.50.) “Past Years” is at one and the same time the story of a man and the story of a period. For Lodge helped forge twentieth century science and his own story is therefore inseparable from scientific history.

Great Pioneer SIR OLIVER LODGE is known in a general way to the public as a very famous scientist. But it is doubtful if any persons other than his fellow-scientists realize just how important a role he has played. Lodge was one of the great pioneers in the development of radio. He did work upon the wave theory of light prior to the time that Heinrich Hertz proved the existence of Hertzian waves, or radio waves, as we call them today. He continued his experiments afterward, making many inventions which paved the way for Marconi. It was Lodge’s work which made possible the solution of many problems involved in transmission of radio waves. '‘P ast Years,” Lodge writes with that same charming simplicity and clarity which marks his many successful books of popular science. Incidentally, he speaks about ths genesis of some of these books, particularly his “Heroes of Science,” a book which I regard as one of the finest and most delightful books of the sort ever written. Lodge tells about his ancestry, his childhood and his college days, ■weaving together events in his own life and important events of the day as they appeared to his youthful eyes. Then came chapters devoted to scientific work. In the latter part of the book he deals at some length with his investigations in the field as spiritism. The final two chapters are titled ‘‘Scientific Retrospect” and “Apologia Pro Vita Mea.”

Magnificent Figure Every person interested in modern science will find ‘Past Years” a fascinating book, for it illuminates the life of a great scientist, telling the influences that made him what he was and in turn the influence which he exerted upon the world. The world has produced few figures so lovable and so magnificent as Sir Oliver Lodge. It has been my great privilege to meet Sir Oliver on a number of occasions. I recall, particularly, the picture he made at a soiree of the British Association of the Advancement cf Science upon the campus of the University of Liverpool. It was a mild evening in late summer. Tents, their soft white gleaming in the lanterns that hung from trees, protected the refreshment tables loaded with plates of sandwiches and pastries. Somewhere in the distance a band was playing. The crowd was a brilliant one. for full dress, academic robes, and medals are in order at a soiree of the British association. Suddenly I caught sight of a magnificent figure coming across the grass. He was an old man. as his bald head and white beard testified. But he was square-shouldered and erect and looked about six feet tall. The black and white of his full dress accentuated the brilliant red of the Oxford gown which he wore open. Upon his breast were some of the most coveted decorations of the British empire. There was a flurry of whispers as he approached the crowd. It was Sir Oliver Lodge.

M TODAY WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMANS STOPPED —April 18—

ON April 18. 1918, British troops beak attacks by German shock divisions on a twelve-mile front in the Lys sector, where fighting had been terrific for ten days. German official bulletins announced the capture of Passchendaele. Poelcapclle, and Langemarck. Bitter fighting at Meteren resulted in heavy losses for both British and German troops, but failed to change the situation there. Allied observers declared that the British front was believed safe and that the German thrust at the channel ports ha_ failed. Who governs Egypt? It is theoretically an independent sovereign state ruled by King Fuad I. large repairs could be made without fear of tax penalties, and economic revival would be hastened. Other forms of taxation, some oi which are proposed by the citizens’ committee, together with the suggested economies would, in all probability, make up the deficit caused by the proposed exemption on the improvements on real estate. JOHN F. WHITE.