Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1932 — Page 4

PAGE 4

SCRIPPS - HOWARD

They March in Memory Onor more the nation pays Its tribute of memory to the men who established, by bitter war, the integrity of this nation. Only a few of the survivors of that conflict remain to march again in memory, to recall to the present day that there was a time in this land when men of like birth, similar thought*. 'June ideals, same principles and same aspirations Mlled each other. Today, the youth of the land can not, even In hnagmation recreate that time and era. They can not believe that their grandfathers of the north fought the grandfathers of the southern lads with whom they chum In college or of the wives they found south of the Mason and Dixon line. Oblivion has blotted out the bitterness. Great changes have washed away the rancor. The war between the states becomes an almost preposterous Incident of our history. And yet, these men who journey today to cemeteries to place a wreath and a flag upon the tombstones of their comrades of other days, knew the tremendous cost to themselves of that forgotten conflict. They remember the wounds upon the battlefields, the sickness In the camps, the days of hunger, the nights of discomfort, the scars they carry. They know now that It Vas all so unnecessary. They know that had sanity and not passion, tolerance and not greed, wisdom and sot demagogery, guided the actions of the national congress then, every problem could have been settled peacefully and with much less dislocation in the national and Individual life. They know this to ba true because the years have ahown that the men of the south and the men of the north had then and still have reverence for liberty as represented by the flag. They have watched, in the Spanish war, their aons march with the sons of the men they fought. They have seen their grandsons march with the grandsons of their enemies to the. fields of France. They have seen good will replace hatred and friendship supplant enmity. These men who remain have lived long enough lo know that change Is the law of life, for they have seen many changes. The guns they fired are replaced by mechanisms that put forth multiplied death, not the end of r single antagonist. They have seen the airplane replace the. horse. They have aeen the entire system of living change and change again as science and invention bring new comforts Rnd new luxuries. They have seen vast changes come Into our social organization, with some leader of vision leading to anew day against the protest of the conservative who has ever fought change, just as the conservatives fought In their youth against the suggestion that it was por*ble to end the institution of human slavery. They know by their long years of observation that every change has come through the Inspiration of men who dare to face facts and apply the necessary solution for each new problem as It appears. They know, too, how deeply imbedded in the human heart is the love of liberty which survives all other passions, and they tell us. If we listen, that whatever changes may be made in the near fture, this love of liberty will direct and dominate our national thought. Whatever else may go. whatever change may come, they have the faith that the bulwarks of liberty for which they fought will be kept intact, the firm foundation of all progress. Other Budgets As the long and bitter battle of the budget nears It* close in Washington, it is timely to remind the people of the United States that the federal budget is not the only one that needs balancing. There arc the budgets of forty-eight states, of 3.072 counties, and of 3,165 towns and cities. Bad management In these depresses bond markets, oppresses taxpayers, and threatens needed services as much as, if not more than, bad management in Washington. And the boom years have invited waste, graft, and political high living. All the forty-eight states are “in the red.’’ The average states owes 650,000,000. Six of them—Arkansas, California, Illinois, Massaschusetts, New York and North Carolina—have gross debts that run into nine figures. The total debt of the states in 1930 was $2,444,000,000—a pretty penny. Cities, too, are suffering their mornings after. The fiscal headaches of Chicago. New York, Philadelphia, and other big cities Indicate the general condition. Some states and cities realize their duties. But only nine states have been thrifty enough to have decreased their debt* since the war—Arizona. Connecticut. Florida. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Massachusetts has eut her debt in half. Virginia’s Governor Byrd, in two years, has converted a treasury deficit of $1,358,000 into a surplus of $2,596,000. Oeorgia s youthful Governor Russell has reduced 1,02 departments to 17, effecting savings. Maine's Governor Gardiner reduced 45 agencies into one and made sweeping economic reforms. North Carolina's Governor O. Max Gardner lifted $12,000,000 from the general property owners’ tax burden, ousted hundreds of useless county and district officials, virtually revolutionised Old Norths government- Colorado's business leaders are overhauling state finances. A few cities like Socialist Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and the city manager municipalities also have ahown that graft, waste, and extravagance can be eliminated without firing useful men or curtailing social s-Kvices. Other cities have found the operation of profitmaking utilities reduces taxes and big borrowings. If Uncle Sam is to loan his credit to states and cities for relief and public works, the recipients should do their share. What Price Humanity? Human kindness sometimes triumphs over the law. Last week, in a little Maryland village, a widow’s household goods were put up at sheriff's sale because she could not pay her rent. Her neighbors gathered about, a large crowd of them. But when the auctioneer put up one thing after another for sale, beds, stove, chairs, pictures, an ancient automobile, no one said a word. For each article the widow bid 5 cents, except once when she bid 2 cents. Not a bid was raised by any of those who looked on. In the end. the family furniture was reassembled at a total cost of $1.12. A community Jury had, in effect* sat In judgment on the owner of the house and found him guilty of inhumanity in attempting to take from a needy family the pom remnants left to it. The verdict evidently was unanimous, and who •an say It was not fair?

The Indianapolis Times (A SCRIPPS-HOWRD NEWSPAPER) Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by the Indianapolis Times Publishing Co. 214-220 West Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Price in Marion County, 2 cents a copy: elsewhere, 3 cents—delivered by carrier. 12 cents a week. Mail subscription rates in Indiana. $3 a year; outside of Indiana 65 cents a month. BOYD GURLEY ROY W. HOWARD EARL D. BAKER Editor President Business Manager PHONE—RIley 5551 MONDAY, MAY 30, 1932 Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association. Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

Thunder on the Left Last week the Socialist party met in Milwaukee. Following their custom, the Socialists nominated for president that scholarly Princeton man and exPradbytertan minister, Norman Thomas. They declared for repeal of the eighteenth amendment tnd government •wnership of the liquor business, only sfter a fight between the wets snd drys. They demanded recognition of Russia, ten billions of federal relief, old age pensions, health and maternity insurance, socialization of mines, forests, power, oil, utilities and transportation. The most revolutionary thing delegate Heywood Broun found In the Socialist city of Milwaukee was a policeman paying 20 cents for his own mug of beer. Saturday and Sunday 1,200 Qommunistx held their party convention in Chicago. They announced a goal of 1.000.000 Communist votes this fall for their candidates, William Z. Foster of New York and James F*rd, an Alabama NcgTO labor leader, and a platfeiwn slogan of “jobs, bread and peace.” Communist keynoter Earl Browder declared that “millions are starving because there is too much of everything,” denounced the Socialists as “capitalism’s third party,” flayed Hoover much after the manner of Pat Harrison. Thus does the red menace mountain bring forth its mouse of fearsomeness. One doubt* If even Matt Woll can get a shudder out of the platforms and purposes of either of this country’s left wing parties. Paul Loves Jimmy Not all the good is departed from this sordid world. Still do the finest emotions live In the great human hesrt. Still must rampant greed and selfishness on occasion pause to contemplate some splendid demonstration of man’s love for man. Sunken In chaos though mankind may be, there still are Instances where In the winter of our deep distress is made glorious summer by some son of York. All Is not. lost. Paul Block loves Mayor Jimmy Walker $246,000 worth. We can’t help but agree with that New York professor who said that higher mathematics is a waste of time. With business like it is, It’s almost useless to teach figures higher than SSO. Scientists report they have found the ruins of the Tower of Babel In Mesopotamia. What we can’t figure out Is why they went so far from home, when Washington, D. C., Is so much much convenient. Microbes start fires in haystacks, according to United States department of agriculture. Next they'll be blaming the microbe for starting the depression. All indications for the cotton market are now favorable, sayt a market report. Yes, everything's favorable but the price. The rest of the world may be suffering from a depression, but China Is certainly back to normal. Another revolution has broken out In south China. Congressman Rainey says the President just has made his first speech in his campaign for re-election. We always thought he made it March 4, 1929. The government can not be dictated to by organized minorities, the President says. And, if you ask me, by organized majorities, either. We nominate as the real heroes of the year! the Chinese resident* of Washington who turned' their backs every time they passed the Japanese cherry trees. Anti-Rooaevelt men claim to have enough votes to deadlock the Democratic convention. That's great news for Chicago hotel men. Incomes must be brought back if we are to end ths depression, a New York financier says. And, asks the working man, how about wages? I Ths collection of SBOO as a present to a retiring warden at Joliet sounds as if the convicts there hadn’t heard about the depression yet. So far, the only thing that. France. England, Germany and Italy have agreed on at the disarmament conference la that the United States should pay for the World war.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

“VTOUR arguments ‘against military training are 1 puerile,” writes Mr. A. of San Diego. -Look at | Belgium’s neglect of her army before 1914. Look at 1 China today. These nations invited aggression. Before such facts, how can you preach pacifism?” I admit that it is easy to find arguments on both sides of this question. We can twist occurrences to suit our purposes. But looking at Belgium only strengthens my belief that a large army never would have prevented the German invasion. That was the result of the kaiser s possessing a huge fighting machine. And how useless to point to Japan and China to prove the wisdom of militarism. since the latter scarcely is injured and Japan has accomplished nothing at all so far by her belligerent gesture. Moreover, I can’t believe that a great army rushed into Europe by America in 1915 would have stopped that fracas. It probably would have dragged on to its bitter end. since there was no sense in its origin and men foolish enough to start senseless tragedies always are stubborn enough to hang on to folly as long as they can. m m m INTREPID fight'ng men have little to do with wars these days. It is money that fights them. They, are not struggles between brave soldiers, but endurance contests between national treasuries. This correspondent talks, too, about how terrible it is to save our dollars by economising on defense now and thus risk the lives of men later on. That I moves me not at all. Who ever thinks of men when nations go to war? They are of less value than the shells that kill them Who considered men during those black days in England and Oermany—the two proponents of heavy preparedness—when the newspaper death lists daily included thousands of names? The pacific believes that it will be as easy to train individuals to despise war as they formerly have been trained to believe in it. If militarism functioned only for the defense of country, all would be well. But its purpose is far less than that. Its program fosters the idea that a nation's power lies in the length of its guns, and that our greatest i glory 7 comes through war.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

Americans Prefer to Laugh nt Laws, Even When They Arc Making Them. HOW seriously do you take politics? If seriously, is it as a partisan, or as a citizen? When you hear that some new law or regulation is being proposed, do you* think of it as for you, or for the other fellow? When you see a law violated, do you regard it as any concern of yours, or merely as a job for the police? When you vote for a candidte. Is It because of his general qualifications or because he stands right on some pet Issue? When some public official goes crooked, do you think of it a* an individual offense, or as a party matter? Are you one of these willing to wink at crime for the party's sake. Do you believe that a certain amount of "honest graft” is necessary? Are you content with the philosophy that your own crowd is excusable for most anything, oecause the other crowd would be as bad. if not worse under similar conditions? mum Taught to Uphold Laws IN Russia children are taught not only to obey, but * uphold the laws. The idea has become so popular that if a person spits on the sidewalk, ten or a dozen youngsters will gather around him, tell him that it is against the law. that it is contrary to the public health, that it may interfere with the five-year plan. Children used to feel that way about laws and regulations in this country. They don't any more, because their elders have failed to set the right kind of example. Americans prefer to laugh at the law, even when making It, to think and talk of it as the business of someone else. 9 9 9 Conception Is Reversed IN the old days politics was visualized as something by which to make government better. That conception has been reversed. Now we think of government as something by which to make politics better. Instead of the party serving the country, too many people want the country to serve the party. The public pay roll has become a feed trough for political organization. and when It proves inadequate, the leaders wink at “honest graft.” Such an attitude has grown common with regard to local government, where partisanship retain* control of patronage. It is taken for granted that those “In with the organization” will be given an advantage, whether as contractors, special policemen, or speakeasy keepers. * m m Public in Stupid Role IF gang rule and racketeering are due to machine politics, as they obviously are. the political machine is due to a stupid, complacent attitude on the part of the public. Ninety per cent es our difficulties in law-making and law enforcement can be traced to popular Indifferences on the one hand, or popular prejudice on the other. We no longer are thinking about government in terms of common honesty, or common sense. We are thinking of it as a game, in which the winner takes all. The administration of justice has come to be looked upon as just another form of entertainment. When j a trial opens most of us pay very little attention to the question of right and wTong. What we watch Is the drama, and what we wait for is to see who wins. If a thief or a murderer escapes, we blame the authorities, just as though w f e had no Interest in the matter. If a bad law is enacted, our first thought is to ignore it, while our last is to repeal It. We are not going to make real progress until we find a substitute for this futile frame of mind.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ln a recent issue of your paper Myron Stanley comes to bat with a lot of unkind remarks about the local street car service. Evidently Stanley is a railroad man and seems to feel that street cars should have the same equipment and the same regulation as railroad train*. Just why a light, low-speed street car. running from street to street, should be placed in the same category as a heavy, high-speed railroad train traveling from town to town, is not very clear. In spite of the fact that the street car service is not government regulated. on a basis of the number of people handled, street cars are a whole lot safer than railroad trains. If Stanley can't ride a train any better than he can a street car I don't see how he holds his job—if he's got one. Stanley is rather peeved, because he had to wait 15 minutes on a car. On account of the depression and a consequent loss of patronage, all transportation companies have been forced to curtail their service, the railroads worst of all. although Stanley neglected to mention this. The street car company would be glad to furnish more and better cars as well as new track, provided it could obtain enough revenue to do so. Perhaps Stanley is enough of a genius to figure out how to do it. No doubt the railroads would be glad to get this same information for their own use. Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Stanley, tell the world how to do it! As for being the laughing stock of the world, the world is too busy trying to make all ends meet to laugh at another unfortunate trying his best to do the same thing. OPERATOR FRANCIS ARNOLD. Row much has the population of the United States increased in the last thirty years? The census population of 1900 was 75.994.575. and that of 1930 was 122,775.046. an increase of 46,780,471. How much did the yacht*, Enterprise and Shamrock V cost? The approximate cost of the Enterprise was $150,000 and of the Shamrock V, $90,000. How many electoral votes are required to elect a President? A majority of the total number of 531, or 266.

Midday Meal for Child Is Problem

This is the first of two articles bv Dr Flshbeln on mtddav meal* for voune children. The second will appear Tuesday. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBETN Editor Journal of tho American Medical Association, and of Hvrela. tho Health Macaxino. WITH the gradually Increasing intensity of modern life, mothers are tending more and more to place small children In nurseries and in nursery schools, not only for a few hours of Instruction In the morning, but also for the mid-day luncheon and for the afternoon. The Importance of properly selected food Is recognized generally. Therefore, it is well that the United States department of agriculture has made available a bulletin by Mary E. Sweeny and Charlotte Chatfleld on proper mid-day meals. There have been many studies as to what is the proper amount of food for children at various ages. The amount of food It may want are governed by it* appetite, its food habits, by the manner In which the

IT SEEMS TO ME

Milwaukee. May 30.— i am in position to report that the city of Milwaukee is not dry. But it Is wet under the most curious and pleasant conditions which exist in any American city which I have visited. Henry Mencken is fond of referring to Maryland as the “free state.” I would not challenge that claim. But if the United States has a free city, I nominate Milwaukee for the honor. Quite regretfullly I must admit that this Is a community in which the Volstead law works beautifully. As in other cities of the nation, liquor is plentiful, cheap and easily accessible. But the rest of the urban communities have reached this desirable situation only through the payment of a heavy price. In striving to protect our personal liberties, we have contributed to the building up of racketeering, of gangsters and of crime. Milwaukee has little crime and no gangs or racketeers at all. This is the universal testimony of the press and public, to which an inquiring newspaper reporter lends his own supporting testimony. I saw something here -which almost made my eyes pop out with astonishment. I know that it sounds like one of the seven wonders of the world, but I have the testimony of two fellow New Yorkers to back my statement. m m m It Happened in Speakeasy AT a reasonably early hour in the city of Milwaukee, all three of us were standing at the bar of a local speakeasy discussing politics, but otherwise minding our own business. We were drinking beer. I add this fact to indicate that our testimony is entirely competent. Into this aforesaid speakeasy, or bar, there strolled a Milwaukee policeman in uniform. He said to the bartender. “Oscar, please give me a glass of beer.” Now, 1i so happened that the bar-

Your Child's Diet Training the child in correct habits of eating; seeing that it gets the proper proportions of various kinds of foods; and guarding against malnutrition, which may effect all the child’s future life, is an important problem for mothers. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin on FOOD FOR THE CHILD, that tells how to form proper habits of eating, and explains diets that prevent malnutrition. Fill out the coupon below and send for it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept., 175. Washington Bureau. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. 1322 New York Avenue, Washington. D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin FOOD FOR CHILDREN and enclose herewith five cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled, U. S. postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME ST. & NO CITY .....STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times (Code No.)

Pouring It Down the Sewer!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

food is prepa - ed, and the way in which It is eaten. Careful preparation and attractive service aid the appetite. Food that is burned, under-cooked, lumpy, or too hot, may destroy appetite and develop prejudices that can be overcome only with months of reeducation. Children who are too tired from play or from Insufficient sleep will show lack of interest in food. Following any emotional upset, the appetite is disturbed. It is not advisable under such conditions to urge the child to eat a full meal. Every one knows that children may be educated to eat more foods and that they will imitate their elders. Children who are finicky eaters at home may eat everything set before them when visiting a friend or eating at the nursery school. The child may be able to get away with tantrums or tears at home, whereas in the nursery school

tender’s name was Oscar, and he duly drew and delivered the beer, which the officer drank In plain view of the three visitors from New York. So far everything w-as regular enough. It w’as just like my own home town, except' that In New York bartenders are called Tcny and not Oscar. But at this precise point the extraordinary incident occurred. The policeman drew from his pocket 25 cents, which he tendered to Oscar, who gave him back a nickel, and the guardian of the law left tho establishment and went about his business. Naturally I was flabbergasted and appealed to the proprietor for information. “I’m a stranger here,” I told him, “and please tell me about your quaint native customs in dealing with cops. “That policeman who just left paid for his drink. Have you got a grudge against him? In New York it is the prevalent rule that the policeman gets from $5 to $lO a week from each speakeasy and such alcoholic beverages as he requires.” m m m Not Bright in New York AND now It was the turn of the publican to express surprise. “If you don't mind my saying so,” he answered, “your saloon keepers in New York are not quite bright. Why should I pay the policeman $5 a week or 5 cents? “We have no state enforcement law in Wisconsin, and Oscar has no more business with Volstead violations than you have. And why should I give him drinks free? He is a nice fellow and one of our best customers, and so, of course, I charge him, like everybody else. ♦ “On Christmas and Thanksgiving and New Year's the house buys one drink free for all our regular patrons. That’* the only break that he gets, and It’s the only one that he expects.”

there Is no coaxing, threatening, or encouragement of emotional outbursts. The child who has become accustomed to raising a disturbance about its food develops various ingenious devices for avoiding or delaying eating. Little children have difficulty in handling food that Is prepared improperly. Eating utensils must be small and the food must be easy to pick up. A lettuce leaf that can be picked up with the fingers or a finely chopped lettuce sandwich is much easier to eat than lettuce cut up into a salad that has to be eaten with a fork. To aid development of the teeth and jaws, food for the child should be such as to demand some chewing, but tough foods are not advisable. Next—What to prepare for the young child’s noon meal

BY HEYWOOD BROUN

It seem* to me that this state of affairs must sound fantastic to every New Yorker, as it did to me, and the new dispensation goes beyond the abolition of free beer for men in city uniform. Os course, the police force of Milwaukee is not perfect. Only last week a horrid scandal came up which shocked the town. An officer recovered a car which had been stolen, and when he returned the missing vehicle the owner made him a present of $5. 9 9 9 Police Scandal THIS fact came out, and the citizens seethed with indignation. The culprit was degraded, pilloried, and rebuked. The idea of a policeman taking money for anything done In the ordinary performance of hia duty was brand new in Milwaukee. Nothing like it had been heard of in ten or twelve years. It was not my privilege to aee a great deal of the town In which the Socialist convention has finished its deliberations. Many have said that it isn't really socialistic at all. That is possible. I won’t argue the point now. All I can say is that to a man from Jimmy Walker's bailiwick the police situation is downright revolutionary. iConrrlsht. I**3. hr Th# Times!

Questions and Answers

Who appoints the tax commission, and what does it cost the state of Indiana The Governor appoints the tax commission and the total appropriation for 1931 was 176.900, which includes salaries and all other expenses. Who is chairman of the state tax commission and what is hi* salary? James E. Showalter of Wabash,! Ind., and his salary is $4,500. What was the largest number of | Americans carried at one time on a transport during the World war? On one trip the Leviathan carried more than 12,000 troops. WTien was the mint at DabJonega. discontinued? In 1861. How many independent countries are there in South America? Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, a total of ten. The British. Dutch and French Guianas are also In South America. What is anise? A North African plant of the parsley family. How long Is a cable’s length? One-tenth of a sea mile, about 100 fathoms, or 600 feet. Does the Constitution bar Roman Catholics from becoming Presided? no. ; i

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America's mOsy interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

MAY 30, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Greatest Public Health Achievement in 1931 Was Further Reduction in Tuberculosis Mortality. DEATHS from six diseases, and two types of accidental death reached lower figures during the last year than at any time before. These facts are pointed out in a statistical study by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos. The study shows that, despite the depression and the influenza epidemic of the first quarter of 1931, the death rate of insured wageearners was within 1 per cent of the lowest on record. The six diseases which showed lower death rates during 1931 were tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, pneumonia, diarrheal complaints and puerperal conditions. The two types of accidental deaths which decreased were railroad accidents and accidental bums. At the same time, the death rate for typhoid fever and from machinery accidents equaled the minimum previously established. “The greatest single public health achievement In 1931 was a further reduction in the mortality from tuberculosis." the company's bulletin says. "This is the very last of the diseases from which we would expect, under prevailing economic conditions, a reduction In the death rate. “And yet the drop In 1931 of 5.7 per cent was greater than the avi erage year-to-year decline during the latest decade. The actual death rate was 76.7 per 100.000, which is 65.9 per cent lower than that for 1911 and 44.4 per cent below that for 1920.” a * * Childhood Gains THE 1931 death rate* for all four of the principal communicable diseases of childhood were low in 1931, and those for diphtheria and whooping cough reached new minimal figures. ’ the bulletin continues. “For diphtheria, there w’as a drop * of 24.6 per cent in one year and of 50 per cent in two years. The decline, as compared with 1911, is more than 84 per cent. "This scourge of childhood already has become a minor item in the mortality record. "Nevertheless, even s death rate | of four to 100.000 is inexcusable for a disease from which we know how to protect our children. Diphtheria can be stamped out altogether and j this will come to pass when every ! American child is immunized against it. The new low’ point in the whoop- | ing cough mortality rate was 1.7 to 100.000. “Four causes of death —cancer, diseases of the heart, diabetes and automobile accidents registered higher rates In 1931 than ever bei fore. The increase of 7.4 per cent in the death rate from cancer was foremost among the unfavorable developments in 1931. “We have learned to expect a small year-to-year increase in the mortality from malignant tumors, but in no year has so decided an upturn been experienced as in 1931. It is impossible, at this time, to assign any reason for It. | “The cancer death rate In 1931 ■ was nearly 26 per cent higher than ! that for 1911, and it Is estimated , that 3,049 more industrial policyholders died of this disease last year than would have died If the 1911 death rate had prevailed.” • * * Auto Situation THE automobile, however, continues to be a major health . menace, according to the bulletin. "The situation with respect to fatal automobile accidents contini ued to be discouraging.” the bulI letin says. “The death rate inf creased more than 5 per cent among j insured wage earners in 1931, and 'there has been a rise of almost 900 per cent in twenty years. “While no data are available at this writing whereby the automobile fatalities In the United States can be estimated accurately for last year, It Is thought that not less than 34,000 persons lost their lives In motor vehicle accidents In the United States during 1931. “There are few, if any, life conservation problems which today are of greater Importance. “The most extensive epidemic of * poliomyelitis since 1916 was experienced In 1931, and was responsible for a death rate of 2.6 per 100,000 among industrial policyholders. “Fortunately, the poliomyelitis which prevailed in 1931 was not accompanied by anything like as high a case-fatality rate a* that which prevailed in the 1916 invasion, when the mortality rate among the industrial policyholders w 8 at the high figure of 12.2 per 100.000. ••Buch reports as are available also Indicate a lower Incidence of crippling* In 1931.”

TODAY IS THE WORLD WAR ANNIVERSARY

SOISSONS FALLS May 30 ON May 30, 1918. the German offensive reached a new height offensive reached anew height in a big push, which forced the allied rear guards back to Vesilly and which entailed the capture of Fere-en-Tardenois. This brought heavy fighting up to the outskirts of Rhelms. The road from Soissons to Compeigne was well guarded, but German troops finally won through to the former town on the road Sois-sons-Hartennes. Allied troops were comparatively slow in backing up the line, but in the three previous days they extended the line of defense from 35 to 60 miles.

Daily Thought

Rejoice. O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servant*, and will ~Z render vengeance to his adversaries. and will be merciful onto his land, and to his people.— ~ Deuteronomy 32:43. O’er the trackless past somewhere - lie the lost days of our tropic youth. .1 —Bret Harte.