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High Patriotism The “clear and determined” word on veterans’ relief comes at last, not from President Hoover or from political leaders, but from veterans themselves. Historic importance, we think, attache* to the petition presented Thursday to the President and congress, demanding, in the name of a group of veterans headed by Archibald B. Rooseve t, son of Theodore Roosevelt, “reduction in the one great item of the federal budget, where hundreds of millions of dollars can be raved without injustice and without impairing any essential function of the government.” Here is action. Here is honesty. Here Is plain speaking. Here is service of the highest kind coming to the country's aid from Americans whose loyalty Is beyond question. These are veteran.*- who remind the President and Congress that “the outstanding oppression placed on citizens of the nation today is that senes of legislative acts whereby veterans are receiving compensation and benefits costing the people over $400,000,000 for disabilities not, in fact, resulting from their war •ervice” - These are veterans who point out that ‘ the total amount expended by the federal government for veterans of the World war already is about $6,000,000,900. and, if continued at the present rate, without changes in the law, the government will have spent 121.500.000 000 in 1945, a sum equal to the cost of the war itself.” These are veterans who declare that “an immense and growing legalized abuse has been fastened upon the people, which has reached a point beyond toleration and which demands immediate abatement.” "All the Scripps-Howard newspapers have said about the proposed veterans’ bureau, in the recent series of articles by Talcott Powell, and in editorials, Ls borne out fully by this mercilessly frank petition from veterans. The point we have made again and a.-ain—that deserving veterans and their dependents should not have to be stinted so millions may go to the undeserving—comes out clearer and sharper than ever. As he reads this petition a blush of shame must rise to the rhecks of any congressman who has thought of veterans’ relief solely in terms of votes. The finger points at him. And the rourageous step there petitioners have taken not only should kill all further talk of anew bonus, but should, w-e think, galvanize congress into promptly cutting $450,000,000 from the $1,000,000,000 appropriation for veterans—and thus secure at least that much easing of the budget problem. All honor to the veterans in this group who have not forgotten how to use the good old American right of petition in an hour of national need. Their is a Ane initiative-a bold act of leadership -one the country will applaud and remember. Theirs Is high patriotism. Rubbles: Old and New The South Sea Bubble and John Law’s Mississippi Bubble of more than two centuries ago strike us as among those amazing historical episodes which are “stranger than fiction." We read with an air of patronizing pity how in those days men were foolish enough to buy stock In an enterprise the nature of which would be revealed later. We assume that today we are far more hardboiled, much better Informed, and much more discriminating In our purchases. Nevertheless. Dr. Max Winkler’s article on “The Foreign Bond Bubble in the American Mercury makes the old Bubble period seem trivial compared to our own late orgy of swindling gullible investors In foreign securities. John Law would stand aghast at our record of mental credulity and Anancial losses. The South Sea Company was capitalized at only 150,000.000 and the maximum inflation did not go over 1500.000,000. Not all of this was lost. Today no less than $.10,000,000,000 in public bonds are in default of principal, interest, or both. Two-thirds of this represents defaulting on principal. Back interest is accumulating at the rate of $600.000,000 each year. This means interest in arrears of $50,000,000 each month, a sum equal to the total original capitalization of the South Sea Company. The people of the United States hold securities of foreign governments and borrowers to the face value of $18,000,000,000. Actual value of these securities has shrunk to about $8,000,000,000. As Dr. Winkler points out, we thus have paid about $10,000,000,000 for the privilege of being transformed in the last Afteen years from a nation owing $5,000,000,000 abroad to the worlds leading creditor—which is today equivalent to being the world's greatest sucker. This revolution in our Anancial position was one of the most dramatic and tragic-comic episodes in all human history. Dr. Winkler admirably has characterized its implications: "By what means did the underwriter* of foreign Issues convert the American investor, to whom everything beyond the conAnes of his own country was inferior: to whom even today Czecho-Slovakia is the same as Yugo-Slavia; who still confuse* Bucharest with Budapest; who places Carlsbad In Germany; who regards Porto Alegre as a suburb of Berlin: and to whom Santa Catharina is a former empress of Russia, canonized by posterity because of her piety and virtue? “It is this incomprehensible investor who heeded the call when invited to invest’in Albania and Abyssinia: to help Anance coffee plantations in Colombia; cotton growers in Ceara: banks in Iceland; mines in Yugo-Slavia: public utilities in the Canary Islands; power companies in Mallorca; silver mines in Greece; oils in Mesopotamia; railroads in Persia; mortgage banks in Bulgaria; sugar and rubber plantations in the Dutch East Indies; quebracho developments in Paraguay: and babassu nuts m Brazil. “Knowing little or nothing about the place in which he was asked to place his funds, his curiosity was aroused. His eagerness to buy was in direct proportion to the extent, of his ignorance. “It is. indeed, amazing to find that, to date, not a single loan has been sold him on behalf of a nonexistent foreign borrower. In the great days even ■uch bonds could have been easily disposed of.” The gullible investor was lured by clever prospectuses, some formally accurate, but fundamentally grossly dishonest, and other* quite demonstrably and criminally false, such as the assertion that Chile never had defaulted on her loans in ninety-five years. In some cases the losses were far more complete than Li the South Sea Bubble and the Law scheme. Holder* of German mark bonds have nothing to show for their optimism. Those who bought bonds of the Russian loan have a Volsteadian percentage tone-half of one per cent) of their original Investment remaining. In addition, they can look at a beautiful'vase

The Indianapolis Times (A SCKirrt-HOWABD MEWSFAPER) Own-4 and pob!lh*d dally (except iuoday) by Tb# fodtanannlia Tl**a PobHahlag Oo 214-230 W#t Maryland Street. ladianapolia, Ind. Price la Marina County. 2 ceata a copy; claewbcr*. $ eeata—delivered by carrier. 12 cent* a weak. Mail aobecriptfoa ratea la ladiaaa, $3 a year; eotatda es Indiana. Sft ceata a month. BOVD OCRLir. HOI W. HOWARD. EARL D BAKKR Editor Prealdeat Butineaa Manager V #)XB-R I ley 8551 WUPAT. MAT A IW. Member f I nlted Preaa, Serippa-Howard Newapaper Alllanre. Newpapr Enterpriaa Association. .Newapaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulatioaa. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

given by the Russian minister of Anance to the governor of the New York Stock Exchange. The bankers have shifted most of the loss to the mass of investors in the securities which they Aoted. Still further, the bankers have been in part to blame for the defaulting through “the impossibly harsh terms” they imposed on foreign borrowers. On one defaulted Latin American loan, the borrowers actually realized only $190,000 out of a loan of $3,800,000. Dr. Winkler fears that the shorn lambs will learn little or nothing from their unhappy experience. The Jazz Age Passes Econoirurts see a signiAcant change owning over America. Immigration has turned into emigration Birth rates decline. Science is conquering old-age diseases. Dr. Louis L Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company thinks that by 1975 we shall have a static population of 140.000,000, which then will begin to decline. Dr. O. E. Baker, federal farm economist, foresees the population peak in twenty-Ave years. We are. it seems, emerging from the jazz age and becoming a race of middle-aged and old folks. By 1950 the mean length of an American’s life may be the biblical three-score-and-ten. “We shall have to adopt ourselves to a society in which one out of every three people is elderly, if not old,” Dr. Dublin says. Signs multiply to show the change Is upon us. Chicago musicians rebel agaiast crooning of the Vallee variety. Jazz religion is waning, as shown by the plaint of the Rev. Billy Sunday that his congregations are now less “spiritual” than of yore, and the plans the Rev. Aimee makes for leasing her temple in Los Angeles. Golf courses warm with elderly people. Dr. Lillien Martin, 32. drives her own car from San Francisco to New York, lecturing en route on ways for her contemporaries to keep At for the job. Matrons have quit dressing like Aappers. Politics calls to old as well as young. Young Governors like Phil La Follette and Floyd Olson are the exception among gubernatorial gray-heada. The senate lives up to its Latin meaning of “an assembly of o’d men” by an average age among senators of 58.6 y* *a rs. Its leader* are such septuagenarians as Vice-Pres-ident Curtis and Senators Norris. Glare, Walsh, Fess, Smoot, Swanson and others. Our No. 1 diplomat is Ambassador Mellon, 77. While these may not, like Father William, be able to “turn a back somersault right through the door," they do equally astonishing things. ___________—— * Well. well. The senate has found out that the ■ banks have quit lending money. Who’ll volunteer; to tell that august body who won the last world series? The best way to avoid lending money is to pretend to be asleep, a wisecracker says. Another way would be to tell all your friends you used to be a banker. A French newspaper says the German people have 1 lost all control over themselves. What it means is that France has lost control. A Washington newspaper has announced that It will print a list of all senators who employ relatives. It could save a lot of space if it pnnted the ones who don’t. Now they're trying to call wine bricks unronstitu- ' tional—but there seems to be no telling what some, mens constitutions will stand. Most wives dispute the statement that a woman stops hunting for a husband when the engagement is announced. A New York peanut magnate said the elephant was hi* favorite animal. Just for spite, monkeys ought to go on a peanut strike. French socialists are accusing the government of advancing millions to banks and neglecting the common people. News from Washington to Paris must travel fast. A California man cold a strip of land an Inch wide for $55. From what we know of California real estate mei V it's a wonder he didn't try to subdivide it. Somebody found a rock in Connecticut the other da> 277.000.000 years old. Well, they certainly were a long time Anding it.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONE of the saddest things hr life is the fact that the woman with the overdeveloped maternal in- j stinct seldom makes a good mother. This may sound paradoxical, but the facts support it. The harder you work at something the more likelv you will be to make a fizzle of your job, which is true of only one vocation, and that is wifehood. There is a good reason for this, of course, but getting that reason through the head of the proud parent I is a very difficult task. I belong to the pure mother type.” I've heard women boast, or "I'm completely wrapped up in my family." or “I am not interested in anything In the; world but my children,” and so on. Whenever you hear that sort of talk you may be ' sure that sorrow of some kind for somebody wlil be the result. For the children of such * woman, unless they are strong enough to break loose from the apron string, will be hopelessly inadequate to cope with life. The greatest crime such a woman commits is in her attempts to make her children exactly like her. And this is a failing from which we all suffer to a certain degree. • m AND do not make the mistake of thinking that] your great love should exempt you from criticism. It makfs no difference how much you may. love your 'children. It is how ably you free them from the fetters of your affection that will mark you' as a good or a bad mother. Besides that, about two-thirds of that sort of love, --the kind, I mean, that we boast about on Mother's day and that fill* the ballad makers with inspiration: is nothing in the wsrli but pure serflshness. We want our children to stay with us, for instance, not j because we love them, but because we love ourselves too much. And it should be plain that the woman who takes no account of w-orld affairs, of the changing time*, of the progress of civilization, or of the slow and ceaseless alteration in customs, manners and ideas will not be competent to rear citizens for any glorious tomorrow. “■**

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

lattice Today Fail* to Accord With What the Average Person Think* and Understands. NEW YORK. May s.—The Massie case i* just one more of those unnecessary, expensive farces which serve no purpose so well as to breed contempt for the law. If the four defendants deserve a full pardon, they never should have been tried. Had the law functioned effectively to begin with, they never w ould have done anything cajling for a trial. The performance originated in the simple fact that protection and justice were not to be had through appeal to the law. That is precisely where it ended. After all the pomp, prying, and parade, no one is satisAed with the result. You can start with any premise you like, or fall back on any prejudice, and still And it impossible to square the result with common sense, or common decency, as they are understood by average people. That is the great trouble with regularly constituted justice these days. It fails to accord with what the average person thinks and understands. It prefers to be technical and highbrow, denying that there is such a thing as unwritten law. pretending that age-old customs and conceptioas can be set aside by a few resounding phrases. mm* Not Even a Mouse THE mountain labored and did not bring forth even as much as a mouse. Legal balderdash was satisfied with a ten-year sentence, which a scared Governor promptly reduced to one hour. The assault case which opened the drama now* will be forgotten, though it has led to one killing and blasted quite a few' reputations. What, may one ask, was the oratory and the expert testimony all about? Just what have the taxpayers of Hawaii to show for their good money? For that matter, just what have the taxpayers of most any place to show for their good money as a result of nine out of ten cases where statutory bombast clashes with welldefined customs? # a Why Be So Fussy? all the -i- x pretense and hypocrisy, mo6t people will not convict a man for murder committed under certain conditions and are inclined to be even more indulgent toward a woman. Sex relations, whether a* prescribed by law, or custom, have a profound bearing on this attitude. We claim to w’ant the truth regarding sex relations, but why not include homicide as w’ell as birth control? Why be so fussy over a -few old blue laws and so indifferent toward equally absurd ones of a more modem brand. Self-expression, as we call it, runs to killing, as well as free love. If we are going to be guided by what people actually think and do, we have got to take the robust with the romantic. n ft tt The Real Basis WHAT people actually think and do should be the basis of their legal structure, which is just another w-ay of saving that lavy can be no stronger than the sentiment behind it. Sentiment, especially with regard to the right, or wrong of things, is a matter of practice and experience. Though it may change toward some detail over night, it is slow and difficult to alter toward fundamentals. The written law becomes unworkable and unsafe whenever it is too much at variance with the unwritten law. Deny people a chance to express their conceptions of what is just in court, and you only force them to destroy the court s work. That is exactly what has happened in the Massie case. The court tried and convicted Massie and his three associates. Public sentiment smashed it all within the space of hours. How long can court* hope to retain public confidence and respect under conditions like that?

Questions and Answers

When did President Wilson leave the United States to attend the peace conference at Versailles, and when did he return to this country? Dec. 4, 1918. President Wilson sailed for France. He returned for a brief visit to the United States, arriving at Boston. Feb. 4. 1919. and left New York on his second trip to Europe on March 5. 1919. The treaty was signed June 28, 1919. and President Wilson arrived at New York. July 8. 1919. Can the President of the United States he arrested and tried for a crime committed while he is in office? He is immune from arrest and can not be prosecuted while he is in office. He may be impeached, and if convicted on the charges and removed from office, he can then be arrested and prosecuted for any crime which he may have committed. Does the United States coin gold free? Persons having gold in amounts of SIOO worth or more may take it to any United States assay office and receive an equal amount of gold coin in exchange. The mints do not guarantee to return to individuals in coin the identical gold they bring. What birds build a bower or rtwf in a tree to shelter large numbers of the specie*? Communities of social weavers of South Africa construct an um-brella-shaped roof in a tree, beneath which may be 300 bird nomes. An acacia tree, with a straight, smooth stem, that predaceous animals can not climb, is often selected. Bower birds are also characterized by a remarkable habit of constructing bowers or runs, which have nothing to do with nesting, but are apparently built for sport and esthetic satisfaction. Is Justice Brandets of the United States supreme court a Jew? Yes.

Won’t Someone Please Show Him the Oars?

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Child Labor Perils Next Generation

Thi is the fifth of a aerie* of ala articles by Or. Fishbein. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of thr American Medical Association and of Htttii. the Health Matatlnc. IN 1904, the national child labor committee w’as formed. It was found at that time that 7.500 young boys were employed in glass works and that 60 per cent of these boys were working at night every other week. Sixty thousand children under 14 years of age were employed in textile mills in the dusty atmosphere of the carding cotton and spinning rooms. Ten thousand boys under 14 years of age were working in coal mines, some of them underground, others in the breakers where clouds of coal dust were breathed into their lungs. Recent figures indicate that almost 1,000.000 children from 10 to 15 years of age were taken out of labor between 1910 and 1920, but the end of the siuation is not yet in sight. The present economic situation causes employers in some states to seek young people who can be hired at lower wages than are given to adults.

IT SEEMS TO ME

MANY of the generalizations thrown into the wind by the American press about the Massie case seem to me distinctly unfair to Hawaii and its citizens. Thus I find Paul Block writing an editorial in which he says: “Word comes from Honolulu that the most fiendish of all men. those who assault womanhood, those who destroy the purity and sanctity of the home, are to have control of our islands in the Pacific. For that is what the verdict against the For-t**cue-Massie family and their loyal friends means.” The New York Herald Tribune in more temperate language wonders whether the Jury system “can be effectively applied to mixed populations ill-trained in the traditions of such law and order.” Dudley Field Malone believed that justice would be furthered by transferring the case to Governor Rolph’s California. B • B Back to the Facts BUT a little examination will ■ show that none of these suggestions or criticisms will quite stand up in the face of the facts. First of all, Seth W. Richardson, assistant attorney-general, who investigated conditions in the islands after Kahahawai had been killed found no grounds for the charge that general lawlessness prevailed in the territory. v The race issue of which so much has been heard has been raised far more frequently beyond the borders of Honolulu than in the city itself. Indeed, the United Press reports that “the seven white men on the jury voted solidly for the manslaughter verdict, while the two Chinese and three Hawaiians held out for forty-eight hours for acquittal.” This may be no more than a rumor, but in any case it is difficult to pin the responsibility of the Massie verdict upon the influence of men of mixed blood who formed a minority. Both the prosecutor and the presiding judge were Americana. As for Mr. Malone's suggestion that jurisdiction be transferred to California, it would seem not unfitting to ask that the state first clear itself of the shame of the Mooney case before it undertakes to set itself up as the home of impartial justice, B B B The ‘Unwritten Law’ NO one who followed the Massie tragedy from the beginning can fail to feel sympathy for the defendants, but the “unwritten law” is no proper part of the jury system, and some bad precedents have been established in its name. A murder trial was held recently in the state of Pennsylvania in which no question of race arose. A young man killed his sisters admirer, on the ground that he found it necessary to shield her honor. The young woman had not asked for and even objected violently to this protection. Nevertheless, the jury not only acquitted the defendant. but cheered him to the echo when he finished his testimony as to the shooting. I wonder whether the Herald Tribune feels Vfha this 100 per cent

Because of pressure at home, children are found on the streets selling candy and trinkets and many of them are begging. In a recent address. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania quoted cases in which adult workers were discharged and boys and girls put i to work at from $4 to $7 a week. In New' York City, the Butcher Workers’ Union report* that 1.000 boys are employed in butcher shops not only delivering orders, but plucking fowls, preparing meats and doing porter work. There are, of course, hundreds ot ; thousands of children working on farms, many of them hired and kept under conditions of bad hotisj ing, long hours and low pay. In this matter w# are concerned ! npt. so much with the economic situation as with the effects on the health of these children of long hours of work, insufficient sleep and i exposure to cold, heat and, above all. dangerous dust*. If the economic conditions of today force children into occupations j that are hazardous to their health, the country will pay twenty years | from now for the evils that could , have been prevented today. Already the number of institu-

collection of Americans was more faithful to Anglo-Saxon traditions of civilized justice than the mixed jury in Hondlulu. Nobody is going to deny that Lieutenant Massie took the law into his own hands alter terrific provocation. But if the enormity of the original offense is to serve as complete justification for private vengeanv, we might as well give up the fight against lynch law and mob violence. The recent killing of a prisoner in Kansas followed an unspeakable crime, and yet I doubt that public opinion would do well to call it an honor slaying and; accordingly, for the best interests of the community. B B B Letting Down the Bars ONCE the bars are let down so that the individual may mete out private punishment under proper provocation, you are going to get into the terrific muddle of trying to determine in each case just where statute ends and the unwritten law begins. It seems to me much sounder to rule out unwritten law altogether. Indeed, a juror is bound by his oath to support the code and not be swayed by his sympathies. Sometimes this procedure seems to make for harshness, but few will contend after sober thought that it is not the best system in the long run. The jurors in the Massie case were not called upon to pass upon the guilt or innocence of the men charged with the assault ■ pon Mrs. Mas*ie. They could not properly go into that. Clarence Darrow is one of my heroes. To me his eloquence is more persuasive than that of any man alive. Very possibly if I had been a juror he might have swayed me into voting for an acquittal. And yet I hope not, because any such verdict would have been a

M TODAY 4$ Sj- IS THE- SV ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARV

AUSTRALIANS ADVANCE May 6

ON May 6. 1918, Australian troops drove the Germans back near j Morlancourt. between the Ancre and Somme river, in a day of heavy fighting. The advance relieved the pressure on Amiens and wus regarded as an important gain, although it was of a local nature. Canadian troop* In the same sector of the western front made slight, unimportant gains. Americans, brigaded with the British, were shelled heavily by the Germans, but j no attack was made. Countless mustard gas shells were dropped in the American sector. The third Liberty loan drive, for $3,000,000,000. was oversubscribed, it was announced in Washington. Removal of John K. Caldwell, United States consul at Vladivostok, was demanded by the Soviet government. The state department in Washington immediately announced , that he would not be removed. w

tiens for mentally defective and handicapped people is growing out of all proportion to the well population. The employment of hundreds oi thousands of children, placed under conditions which will stunt their growth and thwart their mental development, will mean a still further burden in erection and maintenance of such institutions in the future. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York emphasized in a single sentence the dangers of child employment in industry. He said. “We know that the industrial openings for young people between 14 and 16 are in most cases blind alleys, repetitive shops, demoralizing rather than stimulating to children employed in them.” One of the aims of the Ch.il-d-en’s Charter of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection is concerned particularly with the question of child labor, and says, “For every child—protection against labor that stunts growth, either physical or mental, that limits education, that depriv® children of the right of comradeship and of play.”

Next—Handicapped children.

pv HEYWOOD BROUN

■ complete leap over the evidence in hand. It was almost a plea of “guilty" which the defendants entered. InI sanity was offered in the case of Lieutenant Massie, but the three others stood before the bar of Jusj tice as admitted accessories to the vengeance of a man whose mind had given way under a great strain. Naval officer* of high rank who publicly expressed approval of the defendant's course of action, said in effect they were in favor of an i American officer's losing his head at a time of acute crisis. In all logic I think that is an unreasonable position for an admiral. I am glad that mercy was extended to the four defendants, but it seems to me that it would not have been mercy, but sheer hypocrisy, to pretend that they were in- | nocent of any offer.se against the orderly processes of justice. iCoDvrixht. 1933. bv Th Timcai

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ls township relief is for the needy, why not do it in a strictly honorable way? Start a wholesale grocery store at once in a cheap large room or house, employ only unemployed men to run the store, sell all groceries to the needy at cost. Here are just a few of the unjust prices that the man who worked for two days at hard labor for the township is compelled to pay at the store the township selects for the needy. He pays 30 cents for a peck of potatoes: I pay 15 rents. He pays 18 cents for one dozen eggs; I pay

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Ideal' and opinions expressed in thia eolnmn are those ot one of America’s moat tnterrxtinr writers and are presented without recard to their aereement or disatreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

.MAY 6, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Experiments With Rats May Help in Finding Cure for Stomach Ulcers. MEDICAL science is a step nearer to the cure of ulcer* j of the stomach, as a result of experiment* carried on at the University of Chicago. The experiments shed new light on the cause of gastric and duodenal ulcers and perhaps may point the road to their cure. The series of experiments was performed on rats by Frederick Hoelzel and Esther da Costa, research workers in the department of physiology of the university. The two experimenters found that lack of a normal protein content in the diet would induce gastric ulcers in rats. During the last year, they have controlled the diets of 1,200 rata. Ulcers resulted in 70 per cent of the eases. “This is the first time that ulcers have been produced so consistently by altering the dietary regime of healthy animals.” Dr. A. J. Carlson, chairman of the department, said. “The results are not applicable to human cases as yet, however. Man's stomach is too far different from that of a rat. We hope to be able to press our studies to the point where they will have practical application to man in the near future.” n K m Action of Acid HOELZEL and Miss Da Costa believe that the hydrochloric acid, w hich is normally in the stom- : ach. sets up an irritation in the absence of sufficient protein in the ! diet. They believe that this irritation leads to formation of ulcers. When the diet contains sufficient protein, they believe that a chemical reaction between the protein* and the hydrochloric acid prevents this irritation. i "Some starvation or undemutrition was practically always present when ulcers developed." the workers reported. “Nevertheless, it could be shown that undernutrition itself was not responsible. When an exclusive diet of bran was given, no ulcers developed. "In fact, ulcers produced by starvation or protein restriction would heal with diets of practically nothing but bran. Presumably, the effect of bran in this connection is explained partly by it* acid-binding power and partly by the diluting effect of the bulk. "Rats on diets high In fat, but low in protein, developed ulcers, but not as readily as rat* kept on high carbohydrate diets with a similar j protein content. “Rats on diet* with as much as 90 per cent protein did not develop ulcers, even though some hydrochloric acid was added.” n a a Experiments on Self HOELZEL is a voluntary worker in the physiology department ,of the University of Chicago. He has made himself (he subject of many experiments on diet. During one experiment he fasted for forty-one days, in another experiment he swallowed larginjuantities of metal and other inert substances. He warns sufferers from ulcers against assuming that a diet heavy in proteins will be a good thing for them, in this connection, he points out that as yet no experiments have been made on human beings. As Professor Carlson point out, ; the fact that experiments on rata ! y ie3<l certain results, is no sign that the same conclusions are applicable to human being*. A possible explanation of the effect of protein in preventing ulcers was made by Dr. Carlson with the suggestion that gastric acids act only on mucous tissue which is diseased or weak, and the proteins build up the tissue. General conclusions drawn from the experiments were that diet has a greater bearing on the incidence of ulcers than hitherto had been supposed, and mechanical Irritation and “nervousness” probably have less.

Daily Thought

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.— Hebrews 13:2. When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.—Cervantes. 11. He pays 25 cents for five pounds of flour: I pay 49 cents for twentyfour pounds. I buy ten bar* of laundry soap for 28 cents and he pays 5 cents for one cake. This same store advertise* low cut price on most of these groceries, but the man who has to work at hard labor for two days for the township is not allowed to get this low price. Why? He has to pay the rich man's price. Who gets this profit? MRS. P. R. M.