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The Heavier Taxes While very desperate demands are being made by the representatives of large property owners for a drastic reduction of taxation, it remained for John T. White, member of the legislature, to point to the heavier burden property fixed by private enterprises. Houses and buildings are of little use without the facilities of water, gas and electricity. The taxpayers are asking that the wages of policemen, firemen, every public employe be reduced to the level of the men who are forced to live on a “made work’’ basis. They demand that the teacher be forced to accept huge cuts in wages and that the schools be closed for two or three months in order to save money. They may be correct in their claim that there is ho money for’ taxes and that the property owners will be unable to pay at all. Yet the fact remains that one of the reasons Why they have no money to pay taxes or decent wages to public employes is that the private owners of public utilities are collecting on inflated tions and the huge charges made by holding companies for doubtful if not fictitious services. The collapse of Insull, once the divinity of this state, and its real ruler, has shown the methods of high finance when applied to the utility field. Thousands of citizens lost their money in his holding company bubbles. The public was forced to pay extortionate rates in order to inflate his balloons but they could not pay enough. Every dollar taken by a utility above a decent return is, in effect, taken from the public treasury. If decent rates prevailed, there would be money for rentals. The water and electric rates in this city are fixed to some extent, not by the amount of money invested in plants, but by the charges made against operation for engineering, financing and the purchase of supplies. This is especially true of the electric company. In turn, the rates have a definite effect upon industry. Money paid for power above a decent rate means less wages and fewer jobs. Perhaps the protesting property owners, generally to be found lined up with the utilities, may be compelled to turn their attention to the real taxing power that is becoming so burdensome. A drive for lower utility rates would do more than cutting wages of policemen. That plan has its dangers in unsettled times. Gandhi and MacDonald Great Britain could face a hostile fleet easier than she can cope with Gandhi on hunger strike. Gandhian methods work in the Orient. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men have not been able to stop the movement in India. Every time the British masters strike down a passive resister, a moral victory is won by India, in the view of the Nationalists. • Gandhi’s power over India can not be exaggerated. He is more than a saint to them; he also is followed as a political genius, whose tactics can not be wrong. The British, who have been outplayed by this frail old man so often, attest his shrewdness. To most of the world it is strange that Gandhi should choose an obscure section of a phantom constitution as the test upon which to stake, his movement and his life. Even some of the British think it is nonsense. But, on the basis of his record, it is reasonable to suppose tffat Gandhi knows what he is doing. Nominally, his hunger strike is against the British plan of a separate electorate for the depressed classes. Actually, of course, he' is aiming at the divisions of castes and religions which rend and weaken India, divisions encouraged by the British rulers. By raising this particular issue to the height of a holy crusade, Gandhi not only is undermining British power, but also indirectly striking at the chief weakness of his own people. One reason the British are afraid of this hunger strike is that precisely the same passive weapon was used by Irish leaders, and successfully, Perhap the most difficilt thing to understand in the complicated Indian situation today is the role of Prime Minister MacDonald, the former Gandhian who also was imprisoned by a British government for his pacifist views. Yet it is the MacDonald in London that has increased the reign of terror in India, and It is against the decree of his old friend MacDonald that the mahatma now prepares to lay down his life. Lame Duck Rule The coming session of congress apparently will furnish any evidence that may be needed as to the evil of legislation by lame duck representatives. This session, probably the last in which defeated congressmen will have authority to shape policies, pass laws, and spend public money, promises to contain a higher percentage of lame ducks than any in recent years, and to offer a most deplorable example of what this may mean to a democracy. Though the country is in the midst of a financial crisis, and the people clearly are dissatisfied with what has been done to relieve it, repudiated officials will carry on through what may be the most crucial Winter in our history. They may even have an opportunity to cast decisive votes in the business of the winter, for already between sixty-five and seventy members of the house have been rejected by the voters—almost a sixth of the entire membership—and the November elections undoubtedly will swell the roster. Five of the ninetysix senators have become lame ducks this early in the contest. The people want anew deal on prohibition, but the same old crowd will be holding the cards next winter. They want new action taken in regard to tariffs, foreign debts, government relief at home, and a host of other things. Democracy can be only a joke while thirteen'or fourteen months must elapse between orders from the people and execution by their agents. If there were any doubt about ratification of the Norris lame duck amendment, this travesty upon popular government ought to resolve It. A Good Investment The lives of some individuals have been broken beyond repair by the eoonomic disaster of the last few years. The lives of others may be turned into pleasanter and more healthful paths if city slums are replaced with modern apartments as part of constructive relief .work. Most of us know too well to need repetition the evils that result when human beings are forced to live crowded into dark, airleas rooms lacking decent sanitary arrangements. Health is ruined, children’s

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growth is stunted, morality is often undermined; the human spirit is degraded. Careful engineering studies have disclosed that it may be good business as well as good humanity to replace the dreadful slum districts with fireproof apartment houses, simple in design but modem in every respect, having cross ventilation in all apartments and adequate sunlight. New York's state board of housing has plan# for wiping out twenty blocks of dirty, hazardous dwellings, and obtaining a mbdest but adequate return on the investment, with rents held down to the basis of $6 to sl2 a room. The government’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation will search hard and long before finding any better use than this for the money it has been directed to loan for construction of self-liquidating projects. Obviously, if the government's money can be loaned in such a way as to increase employment and, at the same time, better the conditions of living, this is better than loans for simply increasing the country’s productive machinery. Indeed, this point of view should be given greater weight in shaping loan policies than financial technicalities. The relief act adequately has safeguarded public funds so they can not be loaned recklessly or without prospect of eventual return, and it has at the same time made specific mention of slum-clearing projects as deserving consideration. The R. F. C. will be blocking the plain intent of congress if it interprets the loan law harshly in respect to such projects, and thus condemns great numbers to continue living in darkness and danger. Judge Not; That Ye Be Not Judged Whether the petty criminals scattered about through the bonus army numbered 1,069, as AttorneyGeneral Mitchell states, or twelve, as General Glassford, superintendent of police in Washington, contends, is not a matter of supreme importance. Even if there were 1,069 or more, this number is surprisingly small considering the economic encouragement to the commission of petty crime in the last three years. The number of those who have failed to allow starvation or cold to force them to steal bread or clothing is amazing. But even more to the point is the desirability of rebuking those who would raise the hand of scorn and contempt against members of the bonus army on the ground of delinquency. The public is reasonably familiar with the personnel of the great magnates Mr. Hoover has called to Washington to offer him aid and counsel since 1929, and with their activities in American society. It seems that it was not too good taste or discretion on the part of Mr. Hoover to concentrate with specific vehemence upon the anti-social character of the bonus army. After all, is it so much worse to have been run in for having caught a ride on a freight train than to have wrecked a whole railroad system? Is it more disastrous to society to have stolen a bottle of milk than to have conducted banking in such fashion that more than a fifth of our banks have failed and impoverished millions of widows and orphans? Is it more vicious to have conducted a lottery than to have backed up Wall Street gambling with hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to the public? Is it more reprehensible to have smashed a jaw in a drunken brawl than to have smashed the country’s Credit? Is it more deplorable to have deceived a few gullible poisons with respect to the quality of some petty commodity costing less than a dollar than to have deceived the whole country as to the state of our business and financial conditions, thus causing millions to lose money in ill-advised investments? A few reflections like these might chasten Mr. Hoover and his associates. 'They' well might recall the admonition of Jesus that only he who*is without sin is qualified to cast the first stone. Our criminal code is no adequate or exact measure of the anti-social character of an act. , > Dirt sufficient to fill a train of railroad cars 1,400 miles long was dug from New York’s new subway system, which ought to be enough to, supply both political parties ip the coming election. A feminine columnist advocates that married men wear rings on their thumbs—just as if they hadn’t been wearing ’em in their noses all the time. We’re strong for the five-day week, bilt, of course, the plan shouldn’t apply to those two weeks when we get our vacation. The motor car is blamed for a great many accidents. But how about the drivers? Don’t worry if you haven’t got the price of a haircut. ‘Write a poem.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

npHE casual divorce will, I trust, never become X general. There are noteworthy cases where husband and wife agree—largely, I imagine, for the benefit of the newspapers and gaping public—to go separate ways and say their farewells without rancor even with gaiety. They have, so they tell us, no grief to suppress And that I refuse to swallow. For the friendly severance of the marriage tie is as unreasonable as platonic love and as impossible for normal people to accomplish. Only the emasculate male and the utterly dissolute female ever could arrive honestly at such an unemotional finale. There are certain instincts that civilizations never will be able to overcome, certain tendencies that educations do not Suppress. Love and the possessiveness it creates is one of them. • u m ViyHEN we become & completely ladylike people, ▼ ▼ too polite to raise our voices in a spirited argument, too cultured to become agitated over important issues, too sophisticated to indulge in emotion, we may marry without love aind divorce without regret. Until then, we probably shall remain frail, peruddled, and quite human in our reactions to the failure of marriage. For, in spite of the sophistries we use to justify it, divorce is failure. It means that we have not succeeded in what is perhaps the supreme effort in relationship, the ultimate test of living. There may* be nothing disgraceful to us in this failure, but assuredly it is not a thing for which we should feel proud. And our manhood and womanhood can not ba measured by the nonchalance with which we accept it, but by the struggle we put up to avert it. Only those who know not the meaning of love and loyalty ever can accept the fact of divorce with equanimity

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

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! “Impassable Gulfs of TemI peramentaVDifferences Still Separate Many of Humanity’s Races, Creeds and Conceptions New YORK, Sept. 21.—1 t is with mixed emotions that one reads | about this latest move of the mahatma, M. K. Gandhi. With millions starving, what can he hope to gain by going without food? , In principle, his widely advertised fast is just a threat to commit suicide, unless the British government bows to his will. Asa practical proposition, he hopes it will arouse sufficient sympathy to bring about the desired change. It is idle for us of the western world to attempt to understand the workings of Tiis mind. We are strangers to the training and tradition which form their background, They belong to an age which we look upon as obsolete. • But let us not forget that they are in tune with India, or with a large section of it, at least. Humanity has not reached a point where it can be described as homogeneous. Impossible gulfs of temperamental differences still separate many of its races, creeds and conceptions. Knowing that poisonous snakes kill 25,000 people in India each year, we find it impossible to conceive why Hindus refuse to harm, much less exterminate, them. Knowing that auto§ kill even more in this country, Hindus find it equally hard to conceive why we tolerate them. It is all a matter of viewpoint. We believe in the power of human ingenuity to improve conditions. The Hindu believes in prayer, devotion and self-denial. Each system has its merits, and the chances are that each would profit by borrowing from the other. _ Fast Unto Death GANDHI knows his people and their problems. He is qjpsessed with the idea that certain reforms are necessary. He has devoted the best part of his life to their establishment. His chief weapon has been passive resistance through self-sacri-fice. He has preached and practiced it for the last twenty years. This fast which Is supposed to result in “victory or death,” comes as a logical climax to his career. Win, lose or draw, it will make him immortal among his followers and their descendants. What Gandhi does not know is occidental psychology. With a few exceptions, he has made no deep, or lasting, impression on the western world. ' England accepts him as just one more difficulty in managing- India, even for India’s own good. America accepts him as just another weird and interesting fact in the march of events, Scholars find something worth studying in his doctrines and methods. Average people regard them as fundamentally opposed to the philosophy of western civilization. nun Setting Back the Clock GANDHI has succeeded in stirring up considerable mass emotion in his own land and among those whose background makes them susceptible to his methods of appeal. Whether they know what it is all about, or have a very clear idea of what would happen if the reforms he advocates were put into practice, is another story. Gandhi has been far less successful in his negotiations with British officials, not because they lack sympathy with all his suggestions, but because most of his suggestions appeal to them as negative, rather than constructive. In their judgment, the main purpose of his efforts is to set the clock back, to undo, rather than do; to teach that the past is better than the present, and that men must turn primitive if they would succeed in their search for happiness. Western thinkers admit that we may be putting too much faith in machinery, but they do not admit that machinery is to blame. They contend that men can be decent in the employment of speed and power, and that the problem does not rest on destruction, but education.

Questions and Answers

Who was the first Roman emperor and founder of the Roman empire? Gaius Octavious Augustus. Who was Ulysses? One of the Greek heroes in the Trojan war and principal character in Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey.” . \ Who are the United States senators from New Jersey? Hamilton F. Kean and W. Warfen Barbour. How old must horses, be. before they can qualify as race horses? Two years old. What is the largest railroad center in the world? Chicago.

T ?s^ Y ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

SUBMARINE’S TOLL September 21

ON Sept. 21, 1918, the United States shipping board gave out the information that German submarines, during the period from August, 1914, to September, 1918, had taken toll of 7,157.088 tons of shipping in excess of the tonnage turned out in that period by the allied and neutral nations. The rout of the Hindenburg line commenced, with British troops breaking through the line east of Epehy atgl Hargicourt. A vigorous protest against the, Bolshevist reign of terror was issued by the American government. The United States also asked all neutral and allied governments to follow suit.

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Thyroid Activity Important to Health

This is the second of a series of five special articles by Dr. Fishbein on the part the glands play In the human body. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor*Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. all the glands of internal secretion in the human body, more has been learned about the. thyroid and its functions than of any other. The thyroid glands lie in the throat, one portion on each side of the windpipe. The giving 6f small amounts of the active principle of the thyroid gland raises the activity of the chemical interchanges in the body and for that reason it is much used for encouraging reduction of weight. In underactivity of the thyroid gland, practically all the excretions and secretions of the body are diminished. There is slow breathing and heart rate, a lack of perspiration and even lessened action of the kidneys and the bowels. The temperature of the body is lowered on account of lessened

IT SEEMS TO ME

SHERWOOD ANDERSON is sick of love. At least, he has grown weary of its literary interpretations. “I have a hunch,” he is quoted as exclaiming, ‘‘that affairs of the heart aren’t so very interesting to read about any more. “I’ve been trying to get into the feeling of the factories, to find the attitude of the workers toward the machines.” This, to be sure, is • not a brand new idea, even among the literati of this country. Eugene O’Neill once wrote a play about a young man and a dynamo who were that way about each other. The play was not a success, but perhaps that was simply because O’Neill was aherfd of his times. In the years to come, we may have a modernized version of Romeo and Juliet, in which it turns out that he is a washing machine and she an electric refrigerator. And in the days to come it will be a romantic sight to watch the stage door johnnies hanging around the entrance to the Ford plant and waiting for the tractors to come out. tt tt tt Love Among the Autos I AM no Casanova, though I would like it fine and yet I remain dubious as to whether mass production and the five-year plan have ended for all time man’s preoccupation with lyric werse and the romantic novel. It seems to me that when you’ve known a single four-door sedan of any make,. you’ve seen them all. Or possibly the practice of issuing each spring the models of 1934, 1935 and 1936 is an attempt to rouse once more the passion of the fickle. Even among the ' most machinecrazed proletariat I doubt that Mr. Anderson’s query, “How is little Orlika today?” ever will be answered, ‘Oh, she’s walking out with a Buick.”

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

chemical activity and the blood pressure falls. Both body and mind'tend to be sluggish with an absence of thyroid secretion. Such people become easily tired, both mentally and physically. Fortunately, the condition can be overcome by suppplying the lack of thyroid secretion either through the giving of thyroid material or of the active principle of this gland, which has been isolated. There are, of course, various degrees of breakdown, so that the physician is concerned not only with the complete absence of thyroid secretion, which brings about the type of dwarfism and idiocy seen in cretinism and myxedema; but also lessened degrees with a tendency to accumulation of weight, lack oi perspiration, falling of the hair and similar symptoms. Overactivity of the thyroid gland, however, brings about just the opposite condition. The cells of the body change rapidly and all the activities speed up, including activities of the other glands. Therefore, there is a tendency to a

HEYWOOD BY BROUN

In fact, I gravely suspect that the loom is seldom a light of love to the weaver and that no vacuum cleaner is a hero to its valet. u I Was One of a Crowd OF course, I can not speak from deep experience. Anybody who couples my name with that of a certain young steam shovel is being unfair to both of us. I just happened to be passing by. The shovel curtsied, and I waved. That’s all there was to it. For several years I have lived in the same apartment with a portable typewriting machine, but I can’t say that the close association has ripened yet into real affection. Frankly, she bores me. And if I don’t bore her, why, then, she’s less than human. Sometimes I have wished that the typewriter machine could talk back, but upon mature consideration I always have decided that things had better remain as are. It would be disconcerting to have the machine squeak suddenly in the middle of a sentence: “Well, are you good and terrible today? You don’t mean to say that you get paid for writing this stuff!” tt u * A Nice Contralto Tone BUT, though my typewriter can not speak, I have known it on occasion to chirp—a sort of “cheep, cheep’’ sound. And on a few red letter days the old girl has sung. The tune is called “The Croon of the Keys,” and as far as I can make out it runs:— “Rolling down the ribbon — , Got to make a livin’. One more sentence to cross.” I might explain that the word “living” is pronounced “libin* ” in a sort of poor imitation of deep southern dialect. By a supreme es-

higher blood pressure; more rapid pulse and breathing rate; rapid growth in the length of the legs, arms and fingers; and, in fact, a general appearance of elongation. Moderate rise in the temperature, an increased appetite and similar symptoms are associated. Dr. Walter Timme, in considering these cases, says: “’Both mind and body are everlastingly busy. “And not only with present problems, but anticipatory of tomorrow’s as well. The patient knows no rest or relaxation.” In such patients the skin is constantly moist and quick to react with flushing. The moisture of the skin results sometimes in chilling, due to rapid evaporation, sbmetimes in much dirt and grime on the hands, because moist hands collect dirt rapidly. There are, of course, various types of disease that may affect the thyroid gland r including especially goiters. NEXT: Your parathyroid glands . . . how they may cause you to tire easily and lose weight if they do not function properly.

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

fort it can be made to sound almost like a rhyme for “ribbon.” With Both Fists Flying I THINK that Mr. Anderson will find his richest material not in man’s love for the machine, or vice versa, but in the hatreds which certainly do occur. With my own bare hands I frequently have battered the life out of a keyboard. And I’ve know keyboards to sulk and to quit in high disdain of the menial messages assigned to them. Sometimes a single key will sulk and go on strike. This can be “Q,” which receives such a small amount of attention, or one of the more favored letters, which suddenly decided to play the game of hard to get. I don’t know - what the trouble is with "I.” That key has been extremely coy for a week. I don’t think it will be able to make out any adequate case against me on the grounds of desertion and neglect. In a sense, Sherwood Anderson derives not from the modern Russian school, but from that old imperialist, Rudyard Kipling. There was, for instance, “The Ship That Found. Herself,” and Mr. Kipling always was making locomotives go into sprightly gossip. Why, in a Kipling book every engine could talk as well as any leopard. Possibly there is something in the theory that the mechanized objects which we think of as inanimate do possess ardors of which we never will dream. After all, you do see a great many Austins left in front of doorsteps.

(Copyright. 1932. by 'The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times —An Englishman told me a few days ago that there are 61,500 miles of railroads in England equipped with electricity, by loan from the English government of a little more than three and a half billion * dollars, and that the rate for electricity is one-fourth of a cent ta consumers, and no one suffers for the want of electricity at a low rate. Now our government is building, or President Hoover wants to build, government buildings and we are, overbuilt and overtaxed and nothing tq do. It would be much better if our government would take a true interest in our welfare and put it in the proper shape, as has Ontario, Canada. The rate for consumer* there is 1.10 cents and in Manitoba 1.75 cents, and 1,500 of our plants have gone to Canada. Not one-tenth of our water power is harnessed, and that is not fair, for this is the birthplace of electricity. It is used as a knife to cut our throats, as we should have the cheap rate here, and there is the groundwork of our trouble. President Hoover said our banks have trouble, and I know that they have, as 2,350 failed. If we have cheap electricity, then we have cheap power and our factories will run, as for instance, they can give the factories power free and sell to the small consumer, and that is probably what they are doing. At this place we pay 9.87 cents,

JSEPT. 21,1932

SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ

I Steel Balls and Steel Springs Give Interesting Information on Molecules in Scientific Tests. TJ EC ENT experiments with models AN. 0 f atoms at the Johns Hopkins university may point the way to developments of the highest importance in the field of atomic physics. B? use of steel balls to represent atoms and steel springs to represent the attractive forces between atoms, the Johns Hopkins scientists have succeeded in making models of molecules which behave as molecules are known to do. It is believed that with these models it will be possible to study many problems of molecular structure which so far have defied physicists who have attempted to attack them mathematically. In making their models the scientists have followed the example of engineers who study the problems involved in the building of suspenbridges, gigantic dams, skyscraper towers, and the like, with the aid of models. The study of molecular behavior had been rendered difficult lately by the fact that the mathematics involved were so complex. In fact, it looked as though some problems could only be studied in an approximate fashion because of the excessive number of terms In the mathematical equations. The use of models, however, is likely to speed up the work. n a u X-Ray Studies PHYSICISTS came to the conclusion many decades ago that the molecules of matter were made up of atoms. While all facts of chemistry pointed to this conclusion, direct experimental evidence was lacking. The problem of just how atoms were joined together i n the atom could not be attacked until the end of the nineteenth century, when the X-ray was discovered. During the early decades of the present century, the German scientist, Laue, and the British scientists, Sir William Bragg and his son, developed methods for tracing molecular structure with X-rays. Laue caused a beam of X-rays to be sent through a crystal ta a photographic plate. The plate, when developed, showed a pattern of light and dark spots. He showed that this was due to the deflection of the X-rays from the atoms in the crystal. Then Bragg developed a method in which a beam of X-rays was reflected from a face of a crystal. They showed that the reflection took place from the individual atoms and that their locations could be plotted from the angles of reflection. All these studies led to the belief thaft each .molecule is a minute mechanism made up of atoms spaced about a ten-millionth of an inch apart and bound together by electrical forces which seemed to be applied at certain definite points. As Sir William Bragg phrased it, the molecule had a definite structure like that of a bridge girder, the atoms corresponding to the beams and the attractive forces to the rivets, The important point he made was that the molecule had a definite shape and size. # n * Structure Explained THE Johns Hopkins models, which were made with the assistance of the General Motors laboratory, support the Bragg picture of the molecule. The way in which the models were built was explained recently by Dr. Donald H. Andrews of Johns Hopkins university. “Co-operating with C. F. Kettering, president and general manager of General Motors Research Corporation, Detroit, and L. W. Shutts, assistant head of the power plant section of General Motors research laboratories, the chemists at Johns Hopkins designed a spring which, relatively speaking, had the same elastic properties as the chemical bond found under normal conditions between such combinations of atoms as hydro-oxygen, hydro-gen-carbon, or carbon-carbon,” he said. ‘‘These springs were used to join steel balls which represented the nuclei of the atoms, their weights being proportional to the atomic weights of the elements which they represented. “A model of water, for example, would consist of a ball representing oxygen and of relative mass 16, from which there extended at right angles to each other two springs, at the ends of which were attached balls of mass 1, representing the two hydrogen atoms.”

Daily Thoughts

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.— Ecclesiastes 9:10. Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.—Beaconsfield. which is thirty-six times as much as in England, and that is not fair. We do not get anywhere except that we are taxed heavily and our industries are closed. Let our government take over the General Electric and build as it has the railroads and highways. If President Hoover can not think of anything better than raising more taxes and putting it into fane-’ buildings, he would better hold the money and pay the bonus or some other way to get it into general circulation W. F. S. Cambridge City. Editor Times —In the Sept. 9 issue of The Times, Page 9, you have an article, “Com Borer Spreading,” under which occurs the following paragraph: “In 1929, com borers totaling 419 were taken from one acre plot on a farm in Steuben county, and 1,860 in 1932 from the same acre.” Although Steuben county has established a reputation for the corn borer, I believe there is a home county farmer who can eclipse the above record easily unless he uses the hand-plated system. On Wednesday, Sept .7, I purchased six dozen ears of com at the south side market. Every ear except two was infected with the corn borer, most of which were fatter and healthier looking than those exhibited at the state fait. R. A. EUDALY.