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Immunity for Dodgers p The first act of the special session of the legislature strongly suggests that the gentlemen who hjave dodged their taxes for years know exactly what they want and will get it. In a measure to tax so-called “intangibles” it is definitely proposed to give immunity to the citizen who has successfully hidden his wealth from the assessor. The excuse for the immunity is so naive as to be suspicious. Its proponents say that the tax dodgers will not list their securities if they are placed on a level with real estate. Therefore, it is proposed to bribe them into honesty by fixing the tax valuation at onefourth of their real value. say the men who are behind the scheme, the dishonest citizen will become honest. They argue that those who steal dollars will not steal quarters. But the real purpose of the measure is revealed in the provision that all back taxes Vdll be forgiven and no penalties will be attached for former perjuries and evasions. The effect of this bill would be to rob the state of any possible revenue from the tax dodger. Those who hide their fortunes from local assessors are not so successful in hiding them from Uncle Sam. The time of payment comes with death. And any alert tax official could easily go into the records at such a time and collect for the past years. Instead of immunity, a broadened power for assessors and stiflfer penalties for evasions would bring the secreted wealth to the tax rolls and relieve the owner of farms and real estate. The federal government makes tax dodging on incomes a hazardous adventure. The state could do the same thing with the owners of intangibles. Tax evaders are not popular in these days when the builders of the state, those who put their money into farms, factories, buildings, real property of all kinds, find themselves carrying the burden for those who trust to securities hidden in safety boxes. One little law confiscating all intangibles not listed for fixation would do the trick. But that will not happen. The men who have dodged cin sleep again. Their emergency will be met first. 14 |l Dr. Wilbur’s Big Idea Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of interior, has new plan for getting us happily through the depression. He has issued a statement urging American citizens “to make use of their enforced leisure time in visiting the national parks.’’ He urged that in these “tryinjg times” it is wise to conserve one’s health “at all costs,” and added, '‘Certainly a vacation in the mountains, particularly in the national parks, is an investment in health that can not fail to make the nation richer.” The secretary had, himself, just returned from set trip, at government expense, through Acadia national park in Maine and just was preparing to leave for the west, with stops at Glacier and Mt. Rainier national parks. He closed his statement with a. particularly warm invitation to attend the Olympic games in his. home state of California, stopping en route at one or more national parks. Dr. Wilbur did not suggest what people with enforced leisure—the unemployed, that is to sayshould use for money. “Georgia Cyclone” The faithful flocks of leaderless drys need look no longer for their shepherd. Hoover may keep silent and Borah coy, but William David Upshaw of Atlanta is willing. He accepts the nomination for the presidency tendered him on the second ballot by the Prohibition party at Indianapolis, and will run with a man named Regan of Rockville, 111. Whatever is said of Upshaw it will not be that he weasels. Lean and loquacious, this dauntless dry has fought the demon rum for the bulk of his 66 years. He led local option fights in Georgia, blotting up saloon after saloon. Once tft fell and injured his spine. While lying In bed for seven years, he served his cause by writing a book. Then from his wheel chair he lectured. He spent four terms in congress, where his speeches swept through the halls like an arid desert wind, and where he lashed fellow Democrats for voting dry and drinking wet. In 1928 he deserted his party's candidate, Smith, for Hoover, whom he now opposes. He is the author of a book called “Earnest Willie” and another called “Clarion Calls From Capitol Hill.” His face is scarred with bitter lines, his mouth severe, his eye piercing. He is called “the Georgia Cyclone.” We confess we do not warm to this presidential nominee and shall not vote for him. But at least we know just where he stands. And that is something. The Auction Block In a downtown public park in Los Angeles Thursday, Colonel Louis Byrens, a social worker, auctioned to the highest bidders the services of a dozen jobless men and women. One after another of the “willing slaves” mounted an improvised auction block and heard their services sold at prices ranging from 25 to 59 cents an hour. Vivian Roberts, “strong, healthy, plenty of character and brains.” was “knocked down” to a candidate for the state assembly, who employed her as his secretary. Others were not so lucky, and many were led away without having been bid for at all. A shocking scene in this land of the free! Even more shocking is the realization that these Americans who humiliated themselves to get bread have not obtained security in return for the labor of their bands and brains. Unlike the slaves of old, they will be used for b while and then cast adrift again. In the name of Lincoln's humanity and the science of our own day, can not we evolve a plan that will make such a scene impossible?

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Lausanne . . . and Geneva At last eyes are beginning to open. Europe seems on the point of wiping the reparations and war debts slate clean. Germany, whom the allies were going to make pay for the whole war, or at least $60,000,000,000 or so on account, is to be let off on her mere promise to pay about three quarters of one billion. Maybe not even that. If this is so, then one of the most monumentally stupid follies growing out of the World war soon will be remedied, and one of the most potent causes of world unrest and depression will have been eliminated at long last. Apparently, part of the bargain depends upon decisions at Washington. The United States settled the $12,000,000,000 war debts due from the allies on a basis of capacity to pay, and the allies insist this capacity depends upon how much they collect from Germany. This doubtless is true, as far as it goes. But it is likewise true that capacity to pay depends upon other factors as well—upon economies in government, for instance. Certainly, if the allies can afford to spend billions annually getting ready for anew war, they ought not to complain when asked to pay a mere tenth as much on money borrowed to finance the last one. Such, at any rate, is the American contention. American opinion seems opposed definitely to cancellation of the war debts if the payments forgiven are to be used by Europe to finance anew Armageddon. The agreement at Lausanne is a real step forward. We trust it is the forerunner of others to come. The treaty of Versailles can stand a lot of revision if the world wants to get back on the road to peace and prosperity. Anew war debt between the allies and America now has become imminent, as well as inevitable. There is reason to believe this country will accept its share of the necessary sacrifices when the time comes —and with good grace—provided its sacrifices release constructive, not destructive, forces. In other words, the American people look to Geneva as well as to Lausanne. They expect the arms conference as well as the reparations and war debts parley to perform. A Needed Step On June 2 the senate quietly passed senate joint resolution 169, by Senator McNary. The house also should pass this simple resolution. Briefly, this resolution sketches a plan of federal and state government co-operation whereby unemployed persons suited to making their living from the land could be allowed use of suitable unoccupied farm lands and buildings. The resolution realizes the dangers inherent in any such scheme undertaken without competent direction and co-operation. It is aimed to avoid, so far as practicable, any increase in production of agricultural products where there now is a surfeit on the market. Care must be taken that the sick, discouraged, and penniless are not simply transferred from urban areas to rural communities with no good result, to place an additional burden upon the farm families of this community. The “back to the land” movement, moreover, must be controlled and not deliberately exploited by those who might wish to gain some personal selfish advantage from its momentum. Nevertheless, there undoubtedly are some families starving in the cities who Could, upon small farms, grow almost everything they would need to eat. Every one of our forty-eight states is the unwilling, embarrassed possessor of too many abandoned farms. Certain southern states, where the rigors of climate' would not enter into the relief picture, definitely have indicated their desire to have some of their vacated farm lands and buildings taken up by unemployed families. Careful, co-operative work is needed. Senate joint resolution 169 points the way. A G. O. P. leader says that most drys will return to the fold as soon as they understand the party’s resubmission plank. If we have to wait that long, we night as well call the election off right now. New Zealand has anew tax on bachelors. Thequestion there now becomes whether it is easier to dodge taxes or rolling pins. Maybe it had no real significance, but the price of hogs went up just as soon as the “pork” measures showed signs of passing. A college president says that modern girls are far more clever than their mothers were. In fact, some are so clever that they are able to keep their wedding plans a secret so long that when the boy finds them out, it is too late. % Even the depression hasn’t been able to change some things, a fashion note says that pockets in pants will be the usual size this winter.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

'T'HE Republicans offered us evasions and the J- Democrats gaie us eloquence. For simon pure, unadulterated oratory there never has been anything to equal the 1932 Democratic convention. And how mistaken we were to feel downcast because there is no one to lead us out of the wilderness of depression into the promised land of prosperity. The Democratic party is running over with them. There is a Moses in every precinct. It was an orgy of oration. Hundreds of heaving bosoms were relieved of suppressed speeches, and whether they win in November or not, the Democrats have had a grand time. They are as naive in their delight in '’addressing the chair” as an infant with a lollypop. Occasionally, amid the rhetoric, there bobbed up the faint outline of a logical suggestion, but it soon was submerged, stunned, broken and drowned and lost in a gush of language. tt n IT the unemployed could eat all the words spoken in their behalf in Chicago, this would be a swell winter. \ As usual, Thomas Jefferson was the favorite son. That man always runs best in any Democratic gathering. And if a speaker has exhausted his vocabulary describing the virtues of his candidate, he doesn’t stop talking. He is just warming up. For that is the signal for him to launch forth on Jefferson. The Sage of Monticello always is good for half a nhour speaking time, and he is sure-fire applause stuff. During his lifetime he served his country well. Dead, like Lincoln, he has become a peg upon which patriots hang their adjectives. After this I don’t want to hear any more jokes about women talking. Any one of these men who made a nomination speech can outtalk any ten women I ever listened to. And say les.^ ;\ l • \ . ’ ■ ■ ..W

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M; E: Tracy Says:

The Hoover Administration Simply Can't Stand Anything Direct and Straightforward. NEW YORK, July 9.—To begin at the beginning of this relief row, who conceived the idea of a corporation financed by the government to lend money? In other words, who put Uncle Sam into the banking business? It was a makeshift of course, a perfectly attempt to sidestep direct assistance in a direct, straightforward way. The Hoover administration simply can’t stand anything direct and straightforward, which explains a large part of the trouble we are in. What the Hoover administration thinks of first Is a smoke screen, or a straddle, with a commission, a bureau, or at least a board of directors in control. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was born of the Hoover administration’s chronic repugnance to doing anything in a simple, open manner. In the Hoover mind, this contraption was a clever substitute for bond issues. So, the United States government was maneuvered into the banking business, but with the notion that big boys would do all the borrowing, and that the blessing thus conferred on them gradually would spread among us common folks. ft u tt What Is a Bank? AND now we come to a great stew and pother over the ! question of whether President Hoover’s government bank should lend directly to individuals and private corporations, or whether it should reserve its credit for certain so-called public and quasi-public institutions. The rumpus hinges on a distinction, rather than a difference. If banks are not private institutions, what are they? Asa matter of common sense, the Reconstruction Finance corporation was designed to put out public money for the benefit of private enterprise. President Hoover’s conception is that the money should be distributed at the top and allowed to trickle down through, provided no one stops it on the way. u tt tt It's Hoover’s Fault IF President Hoover was right in establishing a banking institution financed out of the public treasury for private benefit, then Speaker Garner is right in demanding direct loans to individuals and private corporationsAll Speaker Garner has done is carry the shoddy scheme to its logical conclusion. No such enterprise should have been foisted on the American people, and no such enterprise would have been foisted on them, but for President Hoover’s unyielding opposition to direct and effective methods. Had the federal government made available large amounts of money for public works and loans to states and cities, as provided by the Smith, or La Follette plan, we would be much farther on our way to recovery. As it is, we all must stand and wait while President Hoover browbeats congress into the notion that a bank is not a bank, and that when he promoted one with taxpayers’ money, it was not his idea to let common people get past the front door. u tt a Another Noble Experiment IT’S just one more noble experiment in paternalism. It has not brought relief, and it will not bring relief. Until something is done to translate credit into work, we shall be right where we have been for the last two years. This idea that you can fix the foundation by decorating the roof is all wrong. Industry will not expand, and the banks will not loan it money with which to expand, until there is a better market in sight. Recovery rests on the simple proposition of restoring mass buying power to a level that approaches normalcy.

JJ* T ?s9£ Y W f WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

BALKAN VICTORY July 9

ON July 9, 1918, Franco-Italian troops taking part in the Balkan campaign gained an important victory when they took Fieri and captured the heights between Levani and the monastery of Pohani. From this advantageous point, French and Italian soldiers had full command of the territory for miles around Fieri, and were well sheltered from counter-attacks. Dr. Richard von Kuhlmann, German foreign minister, resigned from the cabinet after pressure, outgrowing from a speech he made on settlement of war by diplomatic negotiations,. was brought to bear. Admiral von Hintze was named to succeed him.

Questions and Answers

When is the best time to transplant lilac bushes? Should they be pruned? Lilac bushes should be pruned after flowering. They flourish best in a rich and moderately moist soil, but will grow in almost any kind. They can be transplanted any time between late fall and spring. What is the rest of the verse that begins “Christians worship God on Sunday?” “Christians worship God on Sunday; Grecian zealots hallow Monday; Tuesdav Persians spend In prayer; Assyrians Wednesday revere; Egyptians. Thursday; Friday, Turks; On Saturday.no Hebrew works.” Does the song “Cornin’ Thru the Rye” refer to a field of grain? It refers to a custom of lovers taking a toll of kisses as they passed each other on the stepping stones of the Rye river* a shallow stream in England. How many Negroes reside in Mississippi? The 1930 census enumerated 1,009,718. When did the Roman empire fall? The historical date of its fall in the west is 476 A. D.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation, of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Building Moved by Eighteen Men—On Oct. 14, 1930, officials of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and about 300 onlookers witnessed the start in the moving and turning of a 22,000,000-pound eight-story building in Indianapolis—a most unusual procedure for a structure of that size. It was moved a distance of fifty-two feet in one direction, and then

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Rheumatic Diseases Many and Varied

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal o( the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WHAT are called rheumatic diseases include many conditions due to different causes and with slightly different manifestations. f There is rheumatoid arthritis, which begins usually with a fever and affects many small joints with inflammation. There is osteoarthritis, which usually begins in one large joint and affects other large joints slowly. There is gout, and there are all sorts of changes in the joints of a chronic character, due to slow processes of infection. In addition, there are many infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, which may affect the joints, and there are diseases of the blood, which cause hemorrhage into the joints followed by inflammation. The rheumatic disorders are not found high in the causes of death except insofar as they are associated with heart disease, but the;/ are

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE fishing in early November isn’t much good, and so this columnist would vote -for Franklin D. Roosevelt if he had to make a choice between the Republican and Democratic parties. But no citizen is restricted to any such harsh and hairline decision. There never was a prettier year in which to throw away your vote. And tossing a ballot out of bounds always has been one of the most effective ways in which the individual can use this weapon. You are much more likely to hit somebody in the eye if you follow this practice. If it really were true that a vote for anybody expect the winner is wasted, then millions of partisans of the major parties would find themselves in the same boat with supporters of the minority tickets. In the judgment of this neutral observer, Governor Roosevelt has the election almost cinched. Accordingly, under the strict interpretation of the ancient rules, a Hoover vote will be meaningless. And, of course, this neutral observer may be wrong. In which case a ballot for Roosevelt would have to be classed with the things which do not matter. u tt it Risks for Bandwagon I AM trying to point out that even in following the fortunes of either favorite son the voter runs the risk of finding himself with the disinherited minority. But there are much better reasons for not supporting either of the major tckets. Asa matter of fact, it is sheer fiction to contend that the showing of a losing candidate is of no weight and value in American politics. A victory for Roosevelt would be a far less startling and important rebuke to the policies of Herbert Hoover than a showing of three million votes for Norman Thomas. Under a transfer of power to the Democratic party, I think we might expect to find life going on pretty much the same as usual. Upon the surface there may seem to be a few issues in which the line is drawn more sharply than usual between the major parties. But this is more apparent than real. Even in the case of prohibition, the commendable frankness of the

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given a 90-degree turn so it faced another street. All this w r as accomplished without interrupting the phone, elevator, heat, water or electric services, and the actual moving was done by only eighteen men. Those men operated the huge ratchet screw jacks working against the I-beams, rolling the building over a specially constructed platform of steel rails. The building was situated permanently in its new location in about six weeks.

found very near the top as a cause of disability due to disease. Rheumatic diseases, as a rule, are not killing diseases, but disabling diseases. In England it was found that 16 per cent of the total amount of illness among industrial workers was due to rheumatic disease of one form or another. The rheumatic diseases are more inclined to affect the elderly than the young. Much thought has been given to the prevention of these disorders. No doubt, they are not due to a single causation, but rather to many causes. Thus, two people living under exactly the same circumstances will vary in that one will be incapacitated early by the disease and the other never may develop it. Some forms of the disease appear early in life, particularly what Is known as rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis, whereas gout and osteoarthritis, which affect the large joints, are more likely to be seen late in life.

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Democratic platform and the Democratic candidate does not mean that immediate action is to be taken in furthering repeal. Already the Southern drys have shown their intention to sabotage relief. In the election of 1928 it was not the folk who threw their vote away, but the supporters of the winner who later had cause for regret. And so it may well be in 1932. Asa rule, candidates lose in American elections because they are from four to eight years in advance of popular trends. Even those who really must hop a bandwagon for their souls’ sake ought to insure themselves the satisfaction of taking the car ahead and support a minority ticket. # a Well, Practically Neutral THIS columnist isn’t running for anything this year, and nobody has promised him a place in the cabinet or an ambassadorship. Accordingly, he can and will speak freely and without any excessive amount of partisanship. It is even possible that It Seems to Me may change around a little as the campaign develops and the candidates declare themselves. At the moment the preference table runs as follows: Norman Thomas 721 Franklin Roosevelt 209686 William Z. Foster 209682 Herbert Hoover 010 You may observe that with scrupulous fairness Norman Thomas and the platform of his party are not rated as wholly perfect, although well in the lead of the other contenders in the matter of merit at the moment. The race between Foster and Roosevelt is so close just now that it was necessary to carry it out to six figures to determine the margin of advantage. Normally Communism ought to rank as the secondary protest party, but under its present leadership it has espoused so much of reactionary and right wing opportunism that it can do no more than hold its place as ’the third of the Fascist parties. * a a Among the War Mongers AS things stand now, the Communists are second only to William Randolph Hearst in their

VE V Registered O. s U X Patent Office RIPLEY

Defeated and Elected at the Same Time—When Jack Lawler ran for election as a member of the board of freeholders of San Francisco in 1930, the returns in the office of the registerer of voters showed that on the unofficial count he was defeated, the vote being 30,308, but the official count elected him by a vote of 30,260 forty-eight less than the count on which he tentatively was defeated. Monday: “The Greatest Wastrel of the Nineteenth Century.”

There is no doubt that a failure of proper activity of the intestinal tract with the accumulation of much waste material badly influences arthritic disease. The kind of person who always is uncomfortable in cold weather and whose glandular action is not normal is likely to be also susceptible to rheumatic attacks. Hence, the person of what is called the rheumatic constitution, or diathesis, should, if possible, seek a warm, dry climate and should avoid circumstances likely to be followed by attacks of rheumatic pain. The pain of this disease is best relieved by application of heat. There are many ways in which heat can be applied to the body, including hot baths, hot water bottles, electric heat, the heat from lights, the heat from mud packs, warm wet dressings and similar measures. The physician always can select the one best suited to the particular patient. Much can be done in avoiding attacks by establishing a good hygienic routine.

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

activities designed to bring about a war between Japan and the United States. It is the followers of Mr. Foster who merrily have thrown rocks through the windows of legations and embassies and urged severance of diplomatic relations. This rather takes the edge off their professions of opposition to “imperialist” wars. Again it is the Communists who have tried to sell the Negro anew form of segregation under the highfalutin’ name of “self-determination for the black belt.” And the strangest dido of all is their recent blast against the child labor plank of the Pennsylvania Socialists, who would allow no one of 17 or less to be enlisted in the factory forces. Moreover, Mr. Foster’s desire to make ex-servicemen a specially favored group among the army of the unemployed hardly smacks of a radical approach to fundamental problems. But in the days to come, the Communists may quit catch-penny schemes and return to their own party principles, which would lift them a little in the race, Mr. Hoover is trailing,' but this column has no intention of denying him a hearing. He, too, may be able to rise above his party’s platform (Copyright, 1932. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—There appeared a letter in The Times Wednesday signed by a Charles Myers, complaining because he was not continued as a relief case by the Colored Y. M. C. A. stating that he was sleeping in Military park. This same Myers was, according to his own statement at the time, released from Marion county jaii Dec. 26, after having been held since Dec. 1,1931, on a charge of vagrancy and attempted criminal attack. He was sent to the Y. M. C. A. by the Volunteers of America and was giving lodging and meals until May 16, 1932, without any charge whatsoever to himself—a period of 144 days. He was given clothing and from time to time was sent to do job work, being allowed to retain the pay received for his own needs. On May 16, 1932, he left the Y.

JULY 9, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

I Scion of Famous Scientific Family Will Be New Director of Yerkes Observatory. DR. OTTO STRUVE, Who just has assumed the directorship of the famous Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago, is the fifth of a notable family of astronomers to hold such post. Dr. Struve is a young man. He will celebrate his 35th birthday in August. He succeeds Professor Edwin B. Frost, who retired on July 1 at the age of 65. Dr. Frost joined the Yerkes observatory in 1898. He then was the world’s chief expert in the use of the spectroscope. In 1920 his eyes began to fail him and for the last few years he has carried on his executive duties in suite of his blindness. A few years ago, I heard him lecture, using lantern slides which had been made since his blindness. They were pictures which he never had seen except through the eyes of his colleagues. Young Struve belongs to the fourth generation of astronomers in his family. The family, while of German origin, won its scientific distinction in Russia, and, as Dr. Frost said, “gave Russia its highest achievement and distinction in science.” o n His Great Grandfather IT was just 117 years ago that Friedrich George Wilhelm Struve, great-grandfather of Otto Struve, was appointed “observer for the telescope” at the University of Dorpat. Friedrich then was 20 years old. Friedrich’s son, bom at Dorpat, was named Otto Wilhelm Struve. He became his father’s assistant at the age of 18. In 1839, Friedrich was appointed director of the great Pulkova observatory near St. Petersburg. He took his son along as his assistant. The two carried on their work there for fifty years, Otto succeeding his father as director in 1862. Otto had two sons, both of whom were born at Pulkova and both of whom became directors of observatories. They were Ludwig, father of the present Otto, and Karl Hermann. Karl carried on work successively at observatories in Strasbourg, Paris, Dorpat and then back to Pulkova. In 1895 he became director of the observatory at Koenigsberg in East Prussia. In 1905 he was made director of the University of Berlin’s observatory, where he supervised erection of the present buildings at Neu Babelsberg, on the outskirts of Berlin. He has a son, George, who is a member of the staff at Neu Babelsberg. Ludwig, the other son of Otto Wilhelm Struve, served at Pulkova from 1880 to 1886 and then at Dorpat. In 1894, he was appointed director of the observatory at the Uni-> versity of Kharkov in the Ukraine. As already stated, Ludwig is the father of the new director of the Yerkes observatory. tt it Served in War Dr. OTTO STRUVE was educated at the University of Kharkov, receiving his diploma in 1919. That same year he became a junior instructor in the observatory headed by his father. In 1917 he joined the Imperial Russian army and served as a lieutenant on the Turkish front. After the disruption of the imperial forces he became a member of the armies of the White Russians under Generals Denikin and Wrangel. When these were overthrown, he went to Gallipoli in 1920 and from there to Constantinople. Dr. Struve lived in Constantinople until a letter to Dr. Fro6t from the Struves in Berlin asked Dr. Frost to try to find him a position in America. Dr. Frost brought him to the Yerkes observatory. Meanwhile. Dr. Struve’s father, who had fled from Kharkov in 1919 during the revolution, found a post at the University of Simferopol, which he held until his death the following year. , Dr. Struve joined the Yerkes observatory in 1921 as a graduate stu- . dent assistant. He collaborated with Dr. Frost on a number of studies. In 1923 he received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. Subsequently, as a Guggenheim fellow, he carried on studies with Professor A. S. Eddington in London. He also carried on studies at Harvard observatory and at Mt. Wilson observatory. In 1925 he married Miss Mary Lanning of Detroit. In 1927 he was granted American citizenship.

Daily Thoughts

A 'good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and lov- - ing favor rather than silver and gold.—Proverbs 22:1. A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. Henry Ward Beecher. M. C. A., saying that he had found a place to stay with some friends, * and later returned and stated that he was hired by a wealthy family and was going to Montreal. During the period of Nov. 1, 1931, to June 1, 1932, the Y. M. C. A. fur- 7 nished 11,544 free meals to home-' less resident and transient men, and—furnished 9,481 free lodgings. Clothing and supplies were given 253 men; medical care was given in 1,286 cases, and 946 different men • were served during the period. It is obvious that complaint.would ! be made by some of these men, • especially those who are not attempting to find 'employment, but are bent upon forcing someone . completely to supply their wants as well as needs. Hundreds of others : are appreciative and have been placed 'upon a basis of self support J again. The quarters occupied by these • men was remodeled at a cost of . 6600 and is open for public inspection at any time. Clean linens • are supplied daily; reading facilities. • automatic ventilation, games, a i piano, and the complete use of the ’ building facilities have been given the men at all times. This has been made possible by co-operation of the ' Community Fund and the work is ; supervised under its auspices. J. E. DE FRANTZ, Executive Secretary.