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Signifying Nothing Full of sound and fury, the special session of the legislature turned back the clock to avoid the Constitution and turned back conscience to avoid doing something constructive. Not quite true. The diversion of funds from the highway commission to local units was fine. The same policy in regard to taxation might have helped more. If there is any comment to be made, it is that the big taxpayers and the big tax dodgers fared very well. They succeeded in writing into the law anew theory or rather the old theory that the taxing powers should be as far removed from the people as possible. For that reason the state tax board will have more authority.- The elected officials in cities and counties will be replaced by irresponsible commissions appointed by judges. The people will find it more diffl-. cult to discover the men who fix the levies. More than one hundred and fifty years ago the founders of this republic went to war to maintain the principle that there can be no taxation without representation. Today the endeavor of the privileged classes seems to be to erect a mythical King George who will replace the elected officials, supposed to represent the public. The state tax board, long the refuge of the privileged interests, is given more power. Honest city and county officials will find it more difficult to operate. The power to tax is taken farther from the people. The session can not be classed as a. total failure. But as it emerges from the ether, it will find it difficult to justify its product.

Where Do They Stand? Hoover will make very few campaign speeches. Ditto Roosevelt. Indeed, an Albany dispatch says the Democratic candidate will limit himself to two or three. At the risk of appearing old-fashioned, we prefer candidates ready to stand up and commit themselves on campaign issues. Voters do not take kindly to the office seeker who remains silent on controversial subjects. Several important matters regarding Hoover policy remain to be cleared after the President’s acceptance speech of last week. Among others are foreign debts, Russia, civil liberties and beer. He devoted only five sentences to the problem of trading debt cancellation for trade or disarmament, and managed in that short space to get on both sides of the fence. Russian relations, the key to American foreign trade revival and to peace in the far east, was not mentioned. Civil liberties, which the fathers of the republic considered the basis of free government, but which now are threatened by presidential use of the army against unarmed citizens and by terrorist police tactics against unemployed in many cities, were ignored in the acceptance speech. And the President forgot to mention whether he favors or opposes modification of the Volstead act to legalize and tax beer, pending revision or repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Roosevelt also has a much wider territory of unexplained policies than possibly can be covered in two or three campaign speeches. Though frank in advocating repeal of prohibition and immediate modification of the Volstead law, he is hazy, like Hoover, on foreign debts. His tariff pronouncements to date have been of the if-and-but kind. His words against inflation might mean anything. Economic reform, advertised as his strong point, still floats in lofty generalizations about the forgotten man. Roosevelt admits this. Each time he has spoken he has promised to be more specific in the future. That future never will come if he follows the reported plan of‘making only two or three speeches. Evasion is bad politics for either candidate in a crisis when voters are critical.

Relief Efficiency Relief agencies have another task this fall, one at least secondary to their primary function of raising funds to meet, the winters needs. That is the job of determining that funds raised are competently and efficiently spent, thus spreading relief among the largest number. This duty is seen by J. Herbert Case. President of the National Association of Community Chests and Councils, who, with Newton D. Baker, is planning the campaign to furnish stimulation and leadership for the country-wide welfare and relief mobilization. Writing in the Survey, Case urges adjustment of welfare budgets, reduction of administrative expenses. and, most important, discontinuance or rearrangement of overlapping and duplicating organisations, with consolidation wherever practicable. Force of circumstances undoubtedly caused welfare and relief agencies, both public and private, to readjust themselves to carry the new and heavy burden of mounting multitudes of unemployed during these last three years. But evidently there still is room for more competent management, and particularly is there need for determining that agencies functioning within specified boundaries, such as cities and counties, do pot overlap. Because of the foolish notion that the federal government's $300,000,000 fund will be broadcast over the nation to every petitioner for help, the local public and private welfare and relief agencies will have a difficult task raising sufficient funds this year. But one thing that probably would stimulate giving would be the news that the agencies aiding the unemployed have renovated and improved themselves to insure distribution of help without waste or delay. Agencies that follow the advice of Case will help themselves and the distressed who depend upon them. Our Shirt Movement In the presence of national dangers, men used to dress up in their coats of mail. These days they put on shirts. In Italy, Mussolini set the fashion in Fascist shirts of black. In Germany, Hitler orders shirts of brown upon his Nazis. In Ireland we read of a green shirt •rmy. And even in our own land there is a shirt movement. Most of the European-shirted knights are led by self-appointed little dictators or would-be dictators, who announce that they can run the government better than the people's elected representatives. The Ameritan movement is more subtle. We do not refer to the “khaki shirts” of the bonus army, nor to the “blue shirts” of Father Cox’ jobless band. These profess to be political and democratic, and probably are mere temporary dramatizations

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of misery. We refer to a more powerful trend. It could be named the “hair shirt movement.” The hair shirts of America, like their European kin, are out to kill democracy. They seek to discredit congress at every turn. They call congressmen “demagogs,” pests, trouble-makers. They work to rob congress of power and vest it in the executive or judiciary. While many wear starched fronts, they have no outer uniform. The thing that binds them is a common feeling of irritation over the interferences of popular will, an inherent distrust of the voters. That is their hair shirt. This movement needs watching.

Hooverville In his acceptance speech, President Hoover said: “We have provided methods and assurances that there shall none suffer from hunger and cold among our people.” This is too serious and solemn a subject to make the use of the customary, “Oh, yeah?” fitting or adequate. Rather, we may turn to the facts for rebuttal. At the close of October, 1928, the Republican party ran its now famous campaign advertisement, “A chicken in every pot: Wages, dividends, progress snd prosperity say, 'Vote for Hoover.’” The present hideous irony of this slogan is illustrated admirably by Charles Walker in his article on “Relief and Revolution” in the Forum. He thus describes the living conditions among the homeless and unemployed in the typical “Hooverville” of an American industrial town: “A few weeks ago I visited the incinerator and public dump at Youngstown, O. Back of the garbage house there are at least three acres of waste land, humpy with ash heaps and junk. The area is not on the outskirts, but in the middle of the steel mill district, with furnaces nearby, and the tube mills and factory stacks of Youngstown. “As you approach from the garbage house, certain excrescences compete in vision with the ash humps and junk. They appear more organized than the rest of the place, but one is not sure. When, however, you come close, there is no doubt that the dump is inhabited. “The place is indeed a shanty town, or rather a collection of shanty hamlets, for the separate blotches are not all in one place, but break out at intervals from the dump. Some of them are caves with tin roofs, but all of them blend with the place, for they are constructed out of it. From 150 to 200 men live in these shanties. The place is called by its inhabitants Hooverville. “I went forward and talked to these men; they showed me their houses. These vary greatly irom mere caves covered with a piece of tin, to weatherproof shanties built of packing boxes and equipped with a stolen window frame or an improvised door. “Some have beds and one or two a kitchen stove rescued from the junk neap, though most of the men cook in communal fashion over a fire shielded by bricks in the open. “The inhabitants were not, as one might expect, outcasts or ‘untouchables,’ or even hoboes in the American sense; they were men without jobs. Life is sustained by begging, eating at city soup kitchens, or earning a quarter by polishing an automobile enough to bring home bacon and bread. Eating ‘at home’ is preferred. “The location of the town also has its commissary advantage; men take part of their food from the garbage house. This I entered; the stench of decaying food is appalling. Here I found that there were more women than men—gathering food for their families. In Hooverville there are no women. “This pitiable village would be of little significance if it existed only in Youngstown, but nearly every town in the United States has its shanty town for the unemployed, and the same instinct has named them all ‘Hooverville'.” No sane and fair person would Saddle Hoover with full responsibility for the horrible conditions which one finds in the Hoovervilles of our country. But certainly he can be criticised sharply for delay and evasion in recommending measures which w r ould have made it possible for jobless men to live on as high a plane as domestic animals.

The Chicago Board of Trade is charged with violating a statute ten years old.. What we’d like to know is whether the board just started violating the law or whether the government just found it out. The really remarkable thing about the most beautiful girl in the world is that she can be in so many places at the same time. A minister says that the modern man’s head is not easily turned, but we'll bet the minister hasn’t been downtown on many windy days. In prophetic vein, Europe already has started talking about the war debts as “war costs.”

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

PERHAPS our greatest human error is the desire to pile up fortunes for the benefit of our children. To be sure, some of these gigantic legacies are used to carry on great businesses that have been founded by those who amassed the wealth. These give employment sometimes to hundreds Os thousands of people, and so in a sense are beyond the control of the owner and have become a boon to humanity. But in too many cases the money for which parents spend their lives working becomes the cause of unending grief and sorrow for their families. Bitterness and rancor and hatreds are engendered by reason of this, our chief delusion: That we can fortify our children against the eWI fortunes of life by leaving them a lot of money. The tragedy that has overtaken the Reynolds family is a case in point. No doubt we now shall be regaled with another sensational murder trial, all because of the wealth and prominence of the persons involved. a a a AND the troubles that have beset the numerous "heirs” of the Wende! fortune in New York are seemingly interminable. Ere long this great property will be dissipated in the courts and the Wendel estate and name will be forgotten forever. Life has a way of upsetting our plans. It is tragic to watch the struggles of men and women, the way they drive themselves, the way they plan the future of their children, the way they dream of the endurance of the fortunes they have made. And how often in life do their air castles come tumbling down before their eyes. How many times they are disappointed, and the end of life finds them frustrated and helpless! There are very few really worth while legacies we can leave our children. One is the memory of a happy childhood, another is education, the third is a good name. Few other things endure, and most of them are not worth the efforts gut forth to attain them.

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Pan-Japanism Is Coming to Take the Place of Pan-Ger-manism. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Sadeo Iraki, war minister of Japan, gives a clear, candid outline of the part which he thinks his country should play in world affairs. It is an imperialistic part, excused and justified by all the old-time humanitarian arguments. Asia, according to Mr. Iraki, has been dominated too long and too completely by the white race. Being unable to free herself from such domination, there is nothing for it but a rescue by Japan. If Japan does this, she has a right to expect the reward of virtue. In Mr. Iraki’s opinion, the reward should include Mongolia, as well as Manchuria. Opposition by the United States and Russia is to be taken into account, but not heeded. Nothing, indeed, must be permitted to interfere with Japan's predestined role. It’s the Prussian idea all over again—Pan-Japanism coming to take the place of Pan-Germanism. The former drove Russia into Bolshevism. The latter may drive Russia and the United States into friendship.

History Is Repeating STRANGE history is in the making. It began many years ago, though we could not see it that way at the time. It began, as strange history usually does, with the death flurry of an old order. The violence which we took so seriously, and which we still regard with awe, emanated from the strength of mortal disease. Like Germany under the kaisers, Japan under the shoguns is an anachronism. She does not belong to twentieth century civilization in a political or social sense. Realization of this is driving her to pursue the same policy that brought four-teenth-century conceptions to a bloody end on the western front. Except for military purposes, Japan does not sense the meaning of this industrial age. No more did “kultur.” With all her mechanical backwardness and political confusion, China has a more modern viewpoint. * n u Riding to Fall JAPAN visualizes the great and immediate struggle of the future as between races. Such attitude is and always has been the climax of aristocratic tradition. Like those who ruled Germany, those who rule Japan are beyond seeing that their own position in society and politics is the real issue, that their own people have come to doubt the divinity of their rights and wisdom, that what they take to be war is only revolution. Unless stopped by a popular uprising beforehand, Japan will go imperialistic. Her ruling class has no other choice. It must continue to feed its servitors on plunder, or fall a prey to their hunger.

Japan Will Be Saved THERE are students and leaders in Japan who perceive the handwriting on the wall, who understand that the old order is fighting for its life, and that all this talk of expansion through chivalry is just part of the game. There are statesmen who recognize the popular cry for a better living standard and who believe their country can do better by following the pursuits of peace. There are thinkers and philosophers who apprehend clearly the source of trouble and who have no faith in the hollow strutting of their reactionary rulers. They will save Japan in the end, just as those like the more saving Germany, just as those like them have saved every misguided nation since the dawn of time. Meanwhile, we face the realities close at hand, such as the invasion of Manchuria, such as the foreign policy which is designed to take every possible advantage of a demoralized China, such as the pipe dream that Japan’s prowess and the world's prejudice will make it easy to handle Russia.

Questions and Answers

W’hich metal first was used by man? Probably gold. Free gold was found in the beds of streams and did not have to be extracted from ore. It was used for ornaments before any other metal was discovThe first metal put to practical use was copper, from which knives and other implements were made at least 6,000 years ago. Name the principal parts of speech in English grammar? Noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection. Is “Puerto Rico” the proper way to spell the name’ of the island? That is the spelling which has been adopted legally.

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CANADIANS ATTACK August 16

ON Aug. 16, 1918, French and Canadian troops attacked German positions on an eight-mile front from a point west of Fransart to Lancourt. Their net advance for the day average more than two miles and more than 2,000 prisoners were taken. In the Lys salient, British forces advanced from one to two miles on a •nine-mile front, meeting little opposition. Allied experts learned that Ludendorff had decided to retire to the Hindenburg line, some twenty miles to the rear. General Pershing notified the state department that a complete squadron of eighteen Americanbuilt and manned planes had completed their first trip over the German lines.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Babe Didrikson’s Feats Analyzed

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. MISS MILDRED (BABE) DIDRIKSON of Texas broke the world record for the javelin throw and for the 80-meter hurdles for women. Her exceptional performance recalls the fact that the women's Olympics this year does not include certain events which formerly were a part of the Olympic program for women. Since the last Olympics in Amsterdam, the International Amateur Athletic Federation abolished the 800-meter race and limited each woman to not more than six events. At the Amsterdam meeting five women runners collapsed at the finish line in the 800-meter race. Women are differently constructed from men. The girl has a longer

IT SEEMS TO ME

PRESIDENT HOOVER'S acceptance speech increased my respect for the man and my conviction that his re-election would be a national calamity. At the very beginning he declared, “I desire to speak so simply and so plainly that every man and woman in the United States who may hear or read my words can not misunderstand.” And in this respect, it seems to me, Mr. Hoover almost made good his pledge. Save for the exception of foreign debts, most of our national problems have been treated by the Republican nominee with a minimum of straddling. Os those who intend to vote for him in November, few will have a right to say that they cast their ballots under any misapprehension as to his economic and political philosophy.

Taking Off His Makeup IN 1928 Herbert Clark Hoover was presented to the country as a man in whom the best features of conservatism and liberalism were merged. But if this picture represented in any degree an actual confusion in the mind of the candidate those doubts have by now been cleared up. A term in office has clarified Mr. Hoover’s point of view. He comes before the voter now as an arch and avowed conservative. It is not unreasonable under the American system that one contender in a national election should represent the ideas of those who wish to cling to things as they are. In his speech President Hoover qualifies as an almost flawless exponent of this cause. There is not the slightest suggestion of liberalism in his declarations from beginning to end. But it is a pity that the address leaves so little for the Democrats to get their teeth in. Franklin D. Roosevelt could, if he would, subscribe sincerely to the Hoover program, with no more than a couple of minor exceptions.” Indeed, by a curious twist the President has undertaken to aim

Millions of Them Literally millions of “snapshots” will be taken by the family cameras at the beach, on the auto trip and wherever Americans go to seek recreation and health this summer. Snapshots of the baby—snapshots of cousin Mary—snapshots of the girl—and snapshots of the boy. It’s lots more fun taking pictures if you know something about photography, and still more fun if you develop and print your own. Our Washington bureau has ready for you one of its bulletins on AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY, that contains elementary instructions for beginners, and covers developing, fixing, washing, printing, toning and general instructions on the photographic art. You will find it interesting and instructive. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 193, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and No *. City - State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Cods No.)

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trunk, shorter and less muscular legs, much more fat tissue on the hips and thighs, a smaller heart and smaller lung capacity. Her shoulders are narrow and all her body less muscular. Moreover, the basal metabolism of women is, in general, lower than that of men. Chemical changes go on in their bodies more slowly. Whenever a girl shows the remarkable ability revealed by Miss Didrikson she will be found to have many masculine attributes in her body structure. The structure of the human body places definite limitations on the capacity to perform various feats. As long as men are built the way they are, they will be able to run just so fast. The breaking of a world record requires some special structure of the body. The breaking of numerous records in the current Olympic

his answer not at his Democratic foemen, but at the radical groups of America. He seems almost throughout to be shaking his finger in the direction of Norman Thomas. Unconsciously, Herbert Hoover has given public recognition to the fact that the Republican-Demo-cratic controversy is no more than a sham battle and that sooner or later the real showdown must come between those who would go forward and thpse who would stand still. a a a A Job in Patchwork FOR instance, Mr. Hoover gives a great deal of attention to devices by which America may be pulled out of a slump and restored to some status approximating that which existed before the crash. But he has made no contribution whatever to the even more important problem of establishing a system proof against periodic panics. He states that we were “poisoned oy speculation’ and by “exploitation and abuse of financial power.” It is perhaps a little late in the day to mention the fact that there is no record oi the President's ever having raised a finger to discourage that speculative mood. But it is not impertinent to note the fact that the present tendency to shoot the works is being hailed as the dawn of anew prosperity fashioned by the administration’s wisdom and benevolence. In other words, from the political point of view one man's “poisonous speculation” becomes another's “Republican prosperity.” If stocks behaved in a dizzy fashion in 1928 and 1929 it is not unreasonable to contend that they are doing precisely that today. And the same people who say that a co-operative commonwealth is impossible because “you can’t change numan nature” blandly contend that we now would estamish “sane prosperity” on the ruins of a speculative orgy because the people have learned “the lesson of this experience.” The burnt child may dread

games may be associated with the development of men especially adapted for certain performances. Their muscles contract a little more rapidly and with greater efficiency than muscles have contracted before. It has been found that certain races exhaust the human body completely. No man can run 400 meters at top speed. . Because of the nature of the structure of the body of women, the International Amateur Athletic Federation, after the Amsterdam games, eliminated the 800-meter race, the 200-meter dash, the broad jump and the shot put as unsuitable events for women. The fact that Miss Didrikson holds the world record in the broad jump for women as well as many other records is still further evidence of the manner in which her body is superior to that of the ordinary woman for athletic events.

BY n BROUN D

the fire, but never the burnt speculator. a a a Who Wasted What? INDEED, the official explanation of the boom and the crash is not altogether convincing. We are informed by President Hoover that “in the soil poisoned by speculation grew those ugly weeds of waste.” I wonder what waste he is talking about. Surely we did not consume too much wheat or cotton or oil or copper, because these commodities now exist in such profusion that we are almost smothered by them. Our fate has been that of a starving man pinioned down by an avalanche in a grain elevator. Hoover has gone on the harsh diet of eating his own words. To be sure, he pauses to lay a few limp flowers at the feet of the “noble experiment,” but in actuality he has, by dint of prodigious effort, reached the precise point in 1932 which A1 Smith achieved in 1928. And in this same portion of the speech Herbert Hoover proves that he is no great judge of pace. In speaking of the bad old days before prohibition, the President said: “The eighteenth amendment smashed that regime as by a stroke of lightning.” Now that we know Herbert Hood's conception of the speed of lightning, we may understand better precisely what he means in saying that prosperity is just around the corner.” (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—The press reports Hoover as saying “A cloud of lobbyists hovers over congress.” News reports say “The hails of congress eve- are and always have been veritably infested with lobbyists.” If these are truthful statements, why are they there? Do they represent friends or foes of our government? Do we owe them anything? Are they there to demand that congress does its duty by the people at large? Since these outside intruders always thrust themselves into halls of congress, by what authority are they there? Are they experts whom our legislators require to instruct them how and what to do? If so. who pays them? And who selects them? And what are their peculiar qualifications? By whose authority do they hover as a cloud over congress? And wky are they permitted to clog the whq#ls of legislation? Why are they not driven out? Are they superior to government? If not, why tolerate them? Well, you can each answer all my questions so far. You all know they are the paid representatives of strictly private interests, who seek to influence legislation in favor of various profit-making men and Institutions. You know they are dangerous public enemies. All men know it, all admit it. Yet no effort is made by our administration to drive them out as the bonus boys were driven out. During a war between European nations, this government felt it

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.

-AUG. 16, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ I

Ugliness of Cities Is at Root of Municipal Corruption, Sags Columbia Professor. Municipal politics will improve when cities are hiade more beautiful, according to Professor George J. Cox of the fine arts faculty of Columbia university. Professor Cox believes that the ugliness of American cities is at the root of municipal corruption. The Columbia professor argues that ugliness leads to lack of pride and interest in the city and that this opens the door wide for the forces of graft and corruption. His argument advances an important reason for turning the findings of science, engineering and sociology to the task of beautifying American cities. “There is a very direct and vital relation between art and ethics in that immensely important and vast field, civic art, which covers everything from garbage cans to civic halls, from stoplights and sky signs to schools and colleges.” he says. “I am not prepared to admit that an esthetic person necessarily is an ethical one. but what a speculation the condition of our cities and the state of city politics conjures up!” u n n Monster Buildings PROFESSOR COX speaks directly of New York City, but his remarks apply in many other places. He says: “Here in this city, with its utterly planless piling up of monster buildings, with its endless grids of bleak slums, whether on Park avenue or Eighth avenue, its monotonous iteration of lifeless concrete, stone and steel, or sky signs and screaming advertisements, its eradication of the last vestige of the spring and fall, its rooting up of trees and grass as though they were pests—all this denial of beauty destroys the essential roots of humanity. “When he compare New York’s drab immensity, or any other city’s ugliness, with the still surviving beauty of some old cities in Massachusetts, Ohio or Virginia, what sort of interest in civic ethics can we expect citizens to take—what sort of pride is roused in the breast of an inhabitant of One hundred twenty-fifth street or One hundred twenty-first street, for that matter? “Here, then, in the preservation of natural beauties and the creation of those which art supplies, is a matter touching the heart of our ethics, for the ethics of a community not prepared to make sacrifices for art are already atrophied, almost past praying for, and scarcely worth saving. “Look at our roads, befouled with billboards and a welter of ghastly tin advertisements!”

Art and Engineering PROFESSOR COX points out that he is not decrying progress or trying to make the hands of the clock stand still. “I am not advocating a return to turnpikes, buggies and beaver hats,” he continues, “but I do say that when great roads, magnificently engineered, are driven through this country, art should play its part and do the thing triumphantly with dignity and pride in its own times, and respect for the amenities of the countryside and whatever emblems of an earlier and in many ways more beautiful civilization may yet survive. “Instead, we make slatterns of the native beauty spots. “It is a deplorable and humiliating experience to ride by road to Philadelphia. It could be a decent progress. Happily, our newer parkw'ays often are admirable works of art and engineering.” Professor Cox undoubtedly is quite right in contending that the same thought that goes into the engineering phases of laying a road ought to be given to the problem of keeping that road beautiful. The United States has too many “motor slums” today. Likewise, a great skyscraper rising a few blocks from a squalid slum is obvious testimony that we have done only half the job.

Daily Thoughts

Thus saith the Lord God: woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!—Ezekial 13:3. Life ’s a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray.—Mazzini. should take part. It reached into every neighborhood in our country, and dragged men from their homes to engage in that foreign war. It commandeered the co-operation of all citizens that they make gardens, buy bonds, etc., to help fight a foreign war. And we all joined hands in support of the government. We produced food for our army, and for hungry private citizens in Belgium and Russia. And Herbert Hoover never hesitated to call for more shiploads of food, so long as hunger prevailed over there. But now', Herbert Hoover says he will not tolerate American citizens demanding direct individual help, when hunger, due to unemployment, is threatening them with dire suffering. We unhesitatingly took these soldier boys into that foreign war. We drew upon all citi2ens to lend a hand in support of our army, fed foreigners’ families, and responded to the call of w'hat we are taught is our government. • Now hunger and lack of other human comforts threaten many of our soldiers who lived to return. They ask, because of this crisis of unemployment. that our government anticipate the debt it has agreed will be due them in 1945. They ask this as a favor, knowing that our country actualy suffers from an overplus of all life necessities, but our government says no. These same soldiers can read and the papers tell them that a bank in Chicago, a bankrupt city, calls for $80,000,000 and it at once is sent there. Railroads ask for huge loans with which to make improvements and they are granted. Now this writer submits that it is not easy for the drdinary mind to understand why Europe and our big banks and railroads can be helped so quickly and our soldiers, whose very lives we commandeered, can not be considered. Is war the only time they are worth considering? Let us think a little. A. J. KINNEAR. Martinsville, LncL