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A $10,000,000 Racket All the politicians of both parties, from President Hoover down, who are crying federal economy, have been put to the teat by a simple bill introduced in congress. The Maas bill proposes to save $10,000,000 a year by the easy device of abolishing the office of postmaster in all first-class and most second-class pos’ofllces of the country. The post master racket is a form of governmental waste and luxury which the country and the taxpayers can not afford. Each party should pay for Us party workers, instead of grabbing a postmastership and a governmental salary while they do virtually no work for the government. About one-third of the 48,500 postmasters are political appointees of the President, many of them living on doles through the spoils system. Describing the first-class and many of the second-class postoffices. Representative Maas is accurate in stating: "The actual work In these offices is done by the assistant postmaster or the superintendent of mails, who is an actual civil service employe. The administration of these postofflees goes on regardless of who happens to be holding the office of postmaster. • The technical knowledge for the actual administration of these postoffices is not possessed by the postmaster, who is appointed merely as a political award. “The main function apparently expected of the postmasters Is to defend the party and to work for re-election of the President who appointed them." This racket of course was not invented by the Republicans; the Democrats play the same same when they arc in power. We use the term “racket” advisedly, meaning a system by which the people are made to pay for something they do not get. The only strange thing about the Maas bill is that it stops with the upper-class postmasters. It should go on tip and include some of the cabinet and atib-rabinct officers who draw government pay for running a party machine and making party speeches. There is the case of Assistant Postmaster-General Glover, who runs about the country lining up postnwrrs to campaign for Hoover, on threat of being fired. Postmaster-General Brown, like most of his predecessors, spends much, if not most, of his time as a party manager. Ihe secretary of war and an assistant secretary of the navy find time for party speeches and party work. We have nothing against these gentlemen, either as individuals or as politicians. But we object to the system by which federal funds are used to subsidize their party work, instead of being used to balance the federal budget, or to pay federal debts, or to feed the unemployed. We would not interfere with their work. Let the postmaster-general and the secretary of war. for instance. go on with their heavy party work, and let their assistants go on doing their government jobs for them. Merely dock the postmaster-general and secretary of war for the time they take off from government work- and all other federal executives who are not kept busy on government business. To talk about government economies and at the same time wink at such rackets is ridiculous. The Tariff Raiders The vital task of balancing the federal budget is threatened by the tariff lobby. They say they will hold up the tax bill all summer unless they are allowed to attach their tariff riders. The anti-tariff forces reply that if oil, coal, lumber, and copper tariffs are jammed into the tax bill, they will fight to put 500 other tariff items of their own into the bill. We happen to oppose a higher tariff, as destructive of business —so proved by the Hawley-Smoot monstrosity, which has destroyed foreign trade, started a world trade war, and prolonged the depression. But that us not the issue here. Whether higher tariffs are godd or bad. they have no place in a tax bill. Most of them are virtual embargoes, which will raise little or no revenue. If one such tariff is accepted in the tax bill, the way will be open for all the degrading log-rolling which characterizes a tariff bill. That means unscrupulous trading. It means months of delay. The Democratic leaders in the senate are trying to save the tax bill by fighting off the tariff raiders. The Republican leaders, as usual, are on the tariff side—rule or ruin. Here is a chance for the President, the bankers, the business men. and all and sundry who have been pleading for prompt passage of an adequate tax bill to balance the budget, to help rescue the bill from the tariff raid. Wilbur Bedtime Story Tut. tut. folks! Quit pitying the children of the unemployed. Have done with carping about lowered living standards, hunger and all that sort of tosh. Give, instead, a rousing Stanford cheer for adversity, led by jolly old veil-leader Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior. The depression is, in fact, a boon to children. Dr. Wilbur told the Conference of Social Work in Philadelphia the other night. Many children now have 'better and more suitable food than in past good times.” Childrens problems are being met “in new and satisfactory ways.” “Low prices favor the efforts to blot out slums.” With prosperity, many parents unload their responsibilities for their children on to others,” he said. “With adversity, the home takes its more normal place. The trouble, it seems, isn’t hunger. It’s the hives. “My diagnosis is that our present civilization is broken out with the hives.” he said. "Hives are as transitory as they are annoying, if proper living is had and appropriate remedies taken. National emergencies force realities upon us.” But not upon Wilbur. Singing in the Bathtub That men like to sing while bathing long has been recognized as one of the harmless but puzzling idiosyncrasies of modern life. Now, at last, comes Dr. Vern O. Knud sen. professor of physics on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California, to explain that this happens largely because the ordinary bathroom is so beautifully resonant. The bathroom is small, and it is usually lined with glazed tile, he explains. Consequently, it makes an ideal sounding board for the human voice, lifted in song. The man who has no illusions whatever about his vocal gift* may, therefore, be pardoned If he warbles loudly while standing in the shower. The very laws of physics are on his side. Can ha bt blamed for taking advantage of them?

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Political Pensions Ifrtm The New Terk Herald-Trlbenet Mindful of the sordid and disgraceful history of the Civil war pension laws, the United States was careful when it entered the World war to provide in advance for just and generous indemnification of those really disabled, and true dependents of those killed in the nation's service. The purpose was a double one; first, to make certain that what the nation owed to the men called upon for genuine sacrifice should not be frittered away, as had happened after the Civil war, upon frauds, pension grabbers and political dolesmen; second, to prevent a repetition of the scandals which for a generation had debased our government, done an incalculable injury to the country, and supplied one of the darkest chapters in our political history. With enlightened legislation enacted in advance, it was supposed both the nation and the veterans with just claims upon it would be protected from the shameless political treasury raiding which had done so much injury to both after the Civil war. The expectation has not been borne out. Today, even more rapidly than after the Civil war, the politicians have driven one breach after another through the war relief legislation, until what ought to be a system for the equitable recompense of thce disabled in service, or for the support of those dependent upon men who sacrificed their lives, is becoming a system for political doles to people with no real claim upon the government at all. It is becoming a system for the gratuitous support of a special class at the charge of the remainder of the country. Thus, the house passed almost without dissent a bill granting a pension to any indigent wldcw of any veteran with ninety days' or more service. The veteran's service may have been spent in a training camp or a swivel chair; the widow may have married him years after the war was over; the death may have resulted from causes having nothing whatever to do with war service, yet if the widow is in poverty, the United States would have to support her. among all the other unfortunate widows with exactly as much claim upon the public treasury. The bill would add $20,000,000 a year immediately to the $1,000,000,000 already going to “veterans’” relief. Within five years the load would be climbing, and there is no means of calculating to what peaks of expenditure this one bill would bring us twentyfive or thirty years hence—peaks which would be piled on top of the other peaks already being raised by the natural operation of existing law. The bill represents a gross departure from the equitable theory of pensions as indemnification to those who actually stood the loss and suffering of war. Yet the house passes It by 316 to 16—and at a moment when the strain upon the federal finances has reached the proportions of a national crisis! The thing must stop, for the simple reason that the nation can not stand a continuance of tills disastrous process. More than that, the jungle of existing pension legislation ought to be attacked. The tangled growths which already have distorted the whole purpose of the arrangement ought to be lopped off. For at present men who were shattered by enemy shellfire are no better cared for (and oftn cared for rather worse) than the political soldier whose nearest approach to a hero's death was when he fell off a street car in Salt Lake City. In justice to the men who actually fought and suffered, the whole structure of veterans’ law should be returned to something like the original and just basis upon which the men who made the sacrifice were to receive the support. In the welter of political pension doles, they have become the “forgotten men.” A Pittsburgh professor has isolated vitamin C. which can't be seen with the microscope. It certainnly would ’be tough on him if he mislaid it. The English bridegroom who halted his wedding breakfast to make his last will and testament was merely bearing out the saying that an Englishman is prepared for anything. If the United States does decide to join the world eourt. French writers will be saying that the purpose of such a move was to sue for payment of the war debts. We suggest as the most heroic figure of the month the Chicago woman who told the judge she didn’t want sny alimony when he was granting her divorce. Siam is experiencing a severe economic crisis, cable reports say. If it gets any worse, the royal family may have to do with one white elephant. Federal officers still sre hunting for that SIOO,OOO Gaston Means received from Mrs. McLean. Probably want to collect income tax on it.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE ashes of Robert Ingersoll have been removed to Arlington. To bestow this honor, however it was necessary to prove that Mr. Ingersoll had rendered gun service to his country. Os all the strangleholds that the military element now has upon us. this seems to me one of the worst; that burial in our most famous cemetery should depend upon whether a citizen had rattled a saber or manipulated a machine gun. Yet it was only by reason of a slight military technicality that we placed the body of the beloved Chief Justice Taft there. And even Williams Jennings Bryan, who proclaimed himself as a follower of the 'Prince of Peace." sleeps with our martial dead because of one belligerent gesture made during the Spanish-American war. There are many great men in our land whose memory should be kept green in some national shrine, as England honors her illustrious sons who lie in Westminster Abbey. Arlington is the logical place for them. Yet we keep our loveliest and best-known spot as a resting place for warriors only. * * NO one would desire to take away from the glory of those who have died to preserve our national entity or to safeguard our security. There have been many flne. brave gentlemen who have followed the profession of arms or who. at the call of country, have shouldered a gun to fight for the cause they believed to be nght. But gre there not those who also have served America in other ways? No nation can progress by war alone. Ours has not done so. Many men have worked heroically for amity and for humanity and given freely of their time, their intelligence and their spiirt that this might be a gracious land and a home for those who love peace. There are many kinds of soldiers besides those who go to battle—soldiers of science, of medicine, of art, who seek not only to give aid. but to bring new vision to their countrymen. And these, too. deserve to rest after death in some special hallowed place. Why not open Arlington to all America's great, and thus build there a shrine dedicated to the victories of peace as well as victories of war?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

The Democratic Party Will Hare to Give Up Expediency and Opportunism to Regain the Place It Once Held in This Country. NEW’ YORK, May 20—’’Cut. or quit.” says Mayor Walker, just like that. Then, to avoid all possibility of misunderstanding, he adds. 'l'm not appealing to you; I'm telling you.” Department heads of the greatest city- should have trembled at such stinging words. Innocent customers from the sticks may think they did. but not those who have lived close to the seven-year itch of wisecracking. “If they want a show, he puts it on,” says tjie admiring henchman, “and If they want economy, he gives it to ’em.” Fast on his feet, you have to admit, but, as he once declared, only the servant of Tammany Hail. No doubt, the department heads already have drifted around to see John F. Curry and get the correct interpretation of Mayor Walker's cryptic remarks. nan Puzzle for Roosevelt UP in Albany, a much perplexed Governor probably is wonderI ing on just what charges such a nimble-witted individual as James J. Walker could be ousted and just 1 how southern and western delegates I can be rallied to the cause of “clean politics” if he isn't. Indeed, Mr. Roosevelt, what are you going to do when Judge Seabury reports? The Sherwood box has been found quite empty and certain trading records strangely are mi'sing. Who started this investigation, anyway? nun No Reason to Worry IT’S a queer adventure, this political mixup in New York. It completely should offset what the Republicans lost because of Teapot Dome. Even if it does not. Governor Roosevelt has little occasion to worry. The chances are that he couldn't get Tammany's support until he had convinced the leaders he didn’t need it. and. after all, what the south and west want to convince them of a New York Democrat's fitness is Tammany opposition. Had Tammany swung to Wilson. Champ Clark would have been nominated in 1912. About all Roosevelt needs is to keep Tammany supporting someone else until the die has been cast. a a a Not So High Minded POLITICS, especially in the Democratic party, is not the highminded clear-thinking business one would like to believe. If it were, i Alfred E. Smith’s nomination would have been a foregone conclusion this year. If a President should be given the second term for the sake of continuity in government, party leaders should be given a second nomination for the sake of coherent policy. The Democratic party will have to give up expediency and opportunism to regain the place it once held in this country, to be what it was in the days of Jefferson and Jackson. a a a Smith Is the Man THOUGH new at the game, and though fighting against the overwhelming influence of boom times, Alfred E. Smith made one of the finest and most courageous campaigns In the nation's history four years ago, polling the largest vote by many millions ever cast for a Democratic candidate. What is more, that campaign v.as pitched on issues which, though of vital importance, remain unsettled. The trouble with the Democratic party is that it has ceased io be a fighting organization. It is sidestepping the issues raised by fcmith, just as it sidestepped those raised by Wilson. It has not missed an opportunity to welch in the last thirty-six years, and I who say it, was raised a Democrat and still believe in the Democratic principles as they were laid down by the party's founders. I say also that Alfred E. Smith comes nearer combining the philosophy of a Jefferson with the courage of a Jackson than any other Democratic leader today. * ; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY NEW DRAFT BILL May 20 ON May 20, 1918, anew selective draft bill was signed by President Wilson. The bill was designed to bring 744.865 additional men by June 15. The bill provided that all young men who had reached the age of 21 since June 5, 1917, should register for draft. France was highly successful on a two-mile front near Mont Kemmel. Massing a strong army, troops advanced on the German lines and took 400 prisoners before the Germans retreated. Vengeance was the motive for this fierce French attack. Early in the morning and late the previous night German planes had massed four squadrons over French and British lines, and over a British hospital, and hundreds were killed and wounded.

Questions and Answers

To whom should application be made for appointment as a notary pablic? To the governor of the state.' After an alien declares his intention to become an American citizen, how long Is he required to wait to apply for his final papers? Pive years at least, and not more than seven years. What government official receives the highest salary? The President of the Unis— i States, who receives $75,000 a year. What Is the nationality and meaning of the name Sheehan? It is an Irish family name meaning "peaceful.'

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Teeth of Many Children Neglected

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of Ihe American Medical Association, and of flrrtia. the Health Magazine. To find out how many children in this country suffer with decayed teeth, officers of the United States public health service arranged for examination of mouths of children in four states by a personnel especially trained in dentistry. The states included in the examination were Georgia, .Illinois, Missouri and Maryland. Twelve thousand four hundred thirty-five children were examined by the dental officials. The children who suffer with decaying temporary teeth are mostly in the group from 7 to 8 years old; those who are having difficulty because of remaining roots are in the group around 8 years of age.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times —To the critics of the recent compromises between the Indianapolis Water Company and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company and the committee as originated in the central committee of South Side Civic clubs, this statement is made. “If you had been drafted to represent and defend the many consumers of these respondent public utilities, what would you have done?” As the chief representative of the I civic clubs, I tried to get money by appointing a finance committee and setting it to work. One public-spirit-ed firm gave $25. That was all we ever got. We had no expert engineers. accountants or rate sta- ; tisticians. We had offers by some, but they asked for money. One accountant made a detailed analysis and the city paid the contracted price of $300! first, because it could use the data to equal ad- ; vantage as we Civic Club representatives and second (assumed) the mayor knew and his council knew i that we couldn’t rally enough publicspirited citizens together to accumulate S3OO. I recently have passed through art experience which teaches me and I believe it teaches the public, that “public spirit” has hit a depression. Our professional engineers, rate experts and expert accountants placed their price, of dollars and cents, to relieve or attempt to relieve a suffering, depressed, city of public utility patrons. I am no lawyer, expert accountant, rate expert or engineer, but I was drafted to use common sense and •‘public spirit.” I had no money, but was studying the legal profession and conducting a business of commercial adjustments. I was compelled to drop It ail and give my time to the recent rate protest. On the evening of the last day j of the hearing. I. with a few others, j was told to go direct to the presid- ' ing commissioner’s office, and avoid ; newspaper reporters. In that office, j a proposal was made, subject to our • acceptance. After some discussion as to its merits, a suggestion, not by the commissioner or utility representatives. was made to the effect i that the petitioner's committee be * consulted. The commissioner objected, on the theory that general satisfaction could not be had. and he continued j to say that he was inclined to write an order, and further, he said he had been ridiculed by the public and press so if anybody was to be the goat in this issue, he would assume all the responsibility. My question is, how does he assume that responsibility, playing golf down at Martinsville? We ’ were faced with the problem of taking the proposal or fighting to the supreme court. To the critics of my vote, I want you to tell me how we can fight a case to the United States supreme court without money and public support? What would you have done? During the hearings, there were not exceeding fifteen spectators from the consumers of public utility sendee. I even had members of Aiv original committee that did not stand by. I had offers of assistance from some that I know would be- : tray their trusts. This was not to •have been a one-man fight. It should have been every man's fight, and I know we would have won. I am absolutely opposed to any person, persons, corporation or corporations attempting to restore to these utilities, their former rates by having the court set aside the present ruling. I am convinced i that whoever encourages this move,

It is found that children 6 years of age have the highest percentage of temporary teeth with cavities. So few children had the cavities of their temporary teeth properly i attended to and suitably filled that the number was negligible. Whereas the care of the temporary teeth is necessary if the permanent teeth are to be spaced properly and suitably developed, the temporary teeth ; dice lost, there still remains the possibility of good care for the permanent teeth. Unfortunately, however, there were vast numbers of children 14 to 15 years of age whose permanent teeth nearly were destroyed by decay. Actually, 90 per cent of all children of all ages had one or more teeth decayed, missing or filled. ; It should be borne in mind that

will go no farther than the “upset.” I know it was not right to have any increase in rates. It was uncalled for, but would you who criticise deprive 20,000 people of a saving in the act of satisfying a public utility by allowing the former rate, and satisfy another 20,000, probably more, who would not give even a widow's mite, to fight these powerful utility firms? I solemnly swear that this fight is not over, and that it shall be continued in the general assembly of 1933. On many occasions, the commission instructed us to get certain evidence to substantiate our allegations. and we had no way under the sun to get it. Only the commission could get the necessary data. On the other hand, the reports of the public service commission will show that we, as taxpayers, have paid on an average, for the last ten years, the annual sum of $179,840.61 for strict public utility regulation. Do we get it? I say no and a thousand times. No! WALTER C. KATHERMEL. Editor Times—Why can not Mr Cottrell feel fully assured that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will achieve the purposes of the act?! Since he claims knowledge of the amount already distributed in Indiana by this agency, he should know also that several millions have been loaned to railroads and that a considerable portion of at least one loan has served the purpose of the act with striking precision and to the absolute satisfac- j tion of Mr. Hoover, who approved the loan to the Missouri Pacific! against official opinion to the con- 1 trary. It however, must have been but a singularly dull day In the affairs of the House of Morgan and associates when only the paltry sum of five millions could be credited to the Missouri Pacific account. How much more ideal would It be for those so faithfully served by the Reconstruction act if its applications could be made, as Mr. Cottrell supposes, “without publicity." His plea for patience In awaiting miraculous service from the corporation suggests more than we had expected. The miracle of public tolerance toward the act is quite enough for one season. “The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is a sort of assets realization company!" Precisely what sort? Whose assets? By what magic of realization? Os all the impalpable constructions of reason! Just what can the Insignificant sum of $370,000,000 accomplish In the liquidation of sound assets to the betterment “of the great mass of American people?” What might two billions of dollars. If It ever should be obtained by the corporation. accomplish as an inflating force beneficial to the mass of people while the government. In balancing its budget, would neutralize the effect of that force? This in a nation with a wealth reduced $160,000,000,000 in two years, in a nation with income reduced thirty-six billions in the same period. In a nation bankrupt, if you please. Hopeless absqrdity; Not long ago we witnessed the raising of agriculture to her feet, and all who waited to see the result; saw fter conclusive collapse, which prompts the conclusion that the most imperfect knowledge of many: is in the subject of chemistry: They do not get a distinction between smelling sal sand embalming fluid. They have been ao blinded by

the examinations made by the school inspectors merely are casual examinations, and not at all to be compared with the type of examination that can be made by a private dentist, with special instruments, such as mirror and explorer, to aid in detecting cavities. For this reason parents should see to it that every child has its teeth examined at least once every six months from the age of 2 years onward, to make sure that decay will be detected at the earliest possible moment and properly controlled by cleaning and filling. Money spent in this way during the early years of life will represent a vast saving over the funds that wiil have to be spent later for artificial dentures that would not be required otherwise.

cruel misrepresentation that they mistake solemn obsequies for resurrection festivals. Truly, as Mr. Cottrell suggests, there is virtue in waiting on a generous Providence, but it is wretchedly unkind for a public adviser to fail in calling attention to the fact that those who have the means to go ahead are acting independently of the forbearance of a God. C. MAC LEMORE. Editor Times—What would we do without The Times? We have been subscribers since it first was called the Sun and have no fault to' find with it so far. We always can tell it to The Times and get it out of our systems. What I want to say Li this. The time to investigate a public official is while he is in office. In April, 1931, the trustee of Center township. Marion county, bought two electric irons, paying the light company $7.50 for them. Now everybody knows that there is no laundry work done in the trustee's otflee, so what became of them and why were they bought? Also we want to know why our amount of food has been cut to the starvation limit? We never get any salt. We are expected to cook without it, to make fires without matches. We are tired of going hungry. Another thing. How' about those free garden seeds? My husband made three trips, walking about thirty miles in all. trying to get some seed. Finally he got this answer, “When we have some seed we will notify you.” Everything the Red Cross does is wrong. They put out that free flour, twenty-four pounds a month, and took three articles off of our grocery list. God knows we were getting little enough at first. V. 8.

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MAY 20, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Campaigns Save. Teeth of Thousands of Children and Improve Their School Work. BETTER care of the teeth of children is a major need of the United States, according to a survey just completed by the American Dental Association. The survey, under direction of Dr. Alfred Walker, indicated that much remains to be done in realizing an ideal condition in this field. “Prevalence of decayed teeth and the accompannng handicaps to children is today appalling.” Dr. Walker say*. “Estimates of the percentage of children needing dental attention range from 75 to 98 per cent. But these facts completely are overshadowed by proofs found of benefits accruing to children and taxpayers from thorough dental hygiene. | “The survey included statistics from Boston. New York. Chicago. Atlanta. Cambridge. Mass.; Athens. Ga.; Toronto, Bridgeport, Conn.; Cleveland, Eau Claire. Mich.; White Plains. N. Y.; Lake Forest. 111., and Shamokin, Pa., all places where intensive research has been going on for some time.” mam Bad Teeth Costly THE survey revealed that in some localities estimates of the number of children needing dental work ran as high as 98 per cent. Chicago authorities, estimating that many children failed in school because of bad teeth, which resulted in poor health, estimated that for this reason dental defect* among school children cost the taxpayers about $750,000 annually. This was. estimated to bp the sum | needed to educate "repealers” who had failed to pa*s because of poor health due to teeth, j “Ninety-six per cent of the children examined in Chicago had dei fective teeth. 92 per cent in Cleve- ' land, and 98 pe r cent in White Plains, N. Y.” Dr. Walker saya. "Dr. Luther H. Gulick of New York City reported that of 40.000 1 children examined, those with two !or more bad teeth averaged five ! months behind their proper grade. In Shamokin. Pa., more than a I third of the children did not own a toothbrush, and only 155 out of 3,230 had clean teeth. "Outstanding examples of how dental health education aids the school child to progress also were j found, however. One of the best I was in Atlanta, where a steady j campaign has brought amazing results. The campaign, under the direction of Superintendent of Schools Willis A. Sutton, began in 1924. In one school where dental instruction and care were installed, 1.200 school days were saved in a year's time. At the end of five years, every child in all the public schools of Atlanta was 100 per cent dentally perfect.” a a a Benefits Reaped 1 “BEFORE the system was inxJ stalled, 32 per cent of the [ children in the Atlanta schools failed to pass their grades,” Dr. Walker continues. “In a year the percentage was down to 8. Before the campaign, attendance averaged 83 per cent; afterward, it was up to 97. “After the program, coupled with a general health campaign, had run for six years, the average percentage of repeaters was reduced by half. • “Similar results came from dental health programs in other cities. Athens, Ga., roported 100 per cent good teeth after a three years’ campaign. Toronto, Canada, in ten year* reduced cavities in children's mouths from an average of seven to an average of two. “Five years after a dental health program was begun in Bridgeport. Conn., repeaters were reduced 65 per cent. Cavities in the mouths of children in Lake Forest. Hi., were reducetT by one-third in ten years. “Approximately 23 per cent of the Lake Forest school children had unclean teeth in 1920. while in 1930 the percentage was down to 1.5. “There Is only one answer to these facts. Dental health la Invaluable to the progress of our children. Not only are they handicapped by bad teeth today, but they will be even more handicapped in years to come, when serious complications are bound to arise unless precautions are taken. “Preventive dentistry, like preventive medicine, is a saving In the long run. The sooner this is realized, the better off we all will be.”

Daily Thought

For he shall deliver the needy when he erieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.—Psalms 72:12. Mirth is God's medicine.—Henry Ward Beecher.