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The Forty-hour Week The shorter work week is now adopted by the national Chamber of Commerce as the one method of distributing work among the available workers. It is the first recognition of the inalienable right of men to earn ttyelr own living. It is more than that. It is a recognition by business that unemployment is unprofitable for business and that labor is no longer a commodity. Surveys show that through the creation of power machinery the needs of our population as far as food, clothing and shelter, the lowest standard of sustenance is Involved, can be supplied by about 30 per cent of the workers of the country. That means that 70 per cent must be occupied in tasks that contribute to higher standards of living or be unemployed. Eventually, it would mean that 30 per cent would be compelled to carry the hundred per cent if life is reduced to these simple terms and standards. With the introduction of a forty-hour week in business and industry, not so simple according to our present industrial processes and involving more than mere edict to put into operation, there must be the added protection that the income of the worker must be placed upon an annual standard of earning power instead of upon an hourly basis. To merely establish the forty-hour week upon an hourly wage scale would only reduce the living and educational standards of the nation to low levels. The forty-hour week is an approach to the demand of labor for leisure. Too many now have complete leisure and do not like it. Leisure is only leisure when freed from worry and Want. Perhaps the overproduction from which so many believe is responsible for depression can be converted into a more luxurious life. The Insull Rakeoff Now it develops that when the great Insull organization, which once ruled and still has influence in this state, prepared to sell worthless stock to the public, It gave its favorites a rakeoff in advance. Listed among the favorites were a number of men In Indiana, chiefly those who manipulated politics and legislatures in behalf of the great octopus. Before the public was permitted to buy stock in its holding companies, the insiders were sold stock at less than half the price charged to the public. It must be remembered by the hundreds who bought these now worthless securities in this state that they were approved by the securities commission of the state and that, in turn, these officials, in the old days, were under either fear of or obligation to Insull. High in the list of those in Indiana who received the rakeoff was the chief lobbyist for all the corporations in the state, the man who could appear quietly in the city and change the minds of lawmakers over night. It will be remembered that the decision of the state senate upon the impeachment of Judge Dearth, the Mussolini of Muncie, who had been impeached by the house of representatives, followed a visit from this master lobbyist after a week-end adjournment had been taken when his conviction seemed to be certain. Every dollar that these favorites got out of the advance sale was taken from some man or woman who had saved. Today they pay with penury and loss. Perhaps the next session of the legislature will find no financial reasons for refusing to regulate all holding companies. The Insull collapse is educational. Russia Is Our Friend Reading the headlines, one gathers that the wicked Bolsheviks are wrecking Hoover's peace policy in the far east, and that the European powers are siding with us for peace and disarmament. The facts are the opposite. Russia intends to recognize the Japanese puppet - State in Manchuria, it is said. But France, according to inspired reports from Paris, will help us uphold the nine-power treaty protecting China, and will refuse recognition to the Japanese puppet state. The only accurate way to judge a government's promises is by its record. The record shows that powerful French interests, including a subsidized Paris press, have supported Japanese aggression from the beginning. The record shows that both the London and Paris governments have acted to save Japan from League of Nations discipline demanded by the small European states. The record shows that France and Britain refused to join the United States last winter in the Stimson declaration upholding the peace treaties against Japan, and that they have continued their refusal during the last nine months, despite state department pressure. There are good reasons to believe that Japan, after waiting twelve months, would not have proceeded to set up her puppet state without some assurance of noninterference by the European powers. Japan does not need formal recognition of her conquest by the powers: all she needs is their tacit approval and hand-off policy. That policy, of course, means the destruction of the nine-power treaty, guaranteeing the independence of China and of the Kellogg pact outlawing war. No amount of inspiredreports from Paris will change the lineup. As long as France plays Japan's game of blocking League of Nations* action, and as long as France refuses to cite Japan as a violator of. the nine-power and Kellogg treaties, the world will know that her aid to the Japanese militarists continues. The same applies equally to the British government. whose Tory members never have ceased regretting that the nine-power and other Washington treaties took the place of the old Anglo-Japanese military alliance and whose loyalty is definitely with the Tories of Japan. Only from the British Labor party and rank-and-file British opinion, not represented in the London goverment, can America expect any sympathy for the Stimson doctrine of outlawing the fruits of conquest. Russia alone has stood with the United States •gainst conquest and war in the far east. For us it required only diplomatic courage. For the Russian# it paean# inviting military invasion by Japan. Moscow took this great risk for an entire year in the vain hope that the United States might co-operate for peace. At any time during the last year, American recognition of Russia probably would have stopped Japa-

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nese aggression. But the Hoover administration refused. A# this newspaper repeatedly has pointed out, Russia, outlawed by the United States, is being forced in self-defense to make an agreement with militarist Japan. Russia can not afford a war; she must prevent a war with Japan at any cost short of actual invasion. Moreover, Russia can not ignore the government of Manchuria: it is her next door neighbor, holding her trade outlets, and sharing management of the Russian-owned Chinese Eastern railway. Thus, she had to do business with and recognize the Japanese puppet, Chang Tso-Lin, as now she must do business with the new Japanese puppet. But this situation would not exist today if Washington had been willing to co-operate with Moscow for peace. If any one doubts that Russia wants peace and disarmament, let him read the current reports from Geneva in which the Soviet foreign minister alone defended the Hoover disarmament plan, in the face of the hostile maneuvering of Britain and France and the silence of the American representative. There still may be time for intelligent co-operation between the United States and Russia to stabilize peace in the far eas* and to salvage the disarmament conference. But the time is very short. Help the Debtors Senator Borah is deeply and properly concerned about the enormous burden of debt on farmers. He shares the concern long felt by farmers themselves and agricultural economists, who have seen th e farm mortgage debt piling up for years. Borah, like these experts, is worried now because farm prices have dropped to new levels, and land values have shrunk amazingly. Figures of the United States bureau of agricultural economics show that 25 per cent of the mortgaged farms in 1931 were mortgaged up to 25 per cent of their value; 37.3 per cent were mortgaged for between 25 and 50 per cent of their value; and 5 per cent were mortgaged for more than 100 per cent of their value. If there is any doubt of the immensity of this burden, United States census figures resolve it by showing that nearly 42 per cent of all owner-farms were reported mortgaged in 1930. And yet, if cotton were to reach a 20-cent level again, if wheat were to go up to sl, and if livestock and hog prices were normal, the farm debt problem would be very much less acute. For, as David L. Wickens, United States expert on agricultural finance, has pointed out in his study of farm mortgage credit, “no problem in farm mortgage finance is more serious than that of changes in price level.” Borah, apparently, would leave it chiefly to the voluntary action of creditors to help reduce the farm debt and interest. Failing this, there is congress to turn to. Should it vote a subsidy or grant a moratorium through the federal land banks, which hold approximately 12 per cent of the farm mortgages? These proposals have been discussed and rejected, although congress has just given the land banks a large amount of fresh capital to halt foreclosures. It is charged that this is not being done in many cases. If it is true that the land banks are not doing their utmost to halt foreclosures, and help farmers, who are required to pay old debts contracted when their products were high with proceeds from products that are now extremely cheap, then they are not furnishing farm creditors generally with an example that congress evidently intended. There is another federal agency that thus far has declined to set another important example. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is charging 7 per cent interest for livestock and agricultural loans. This is far too high when compared with the smaller rates the same corporation charges railroads and banks. College and the Pay Check One of the reasons commonly given in advising a young man to go to college is that a college training will help him to succeed, later on, in a business career. But, Dr. John Wilcox of the faculty of Detroit City college greeted freshmen at that institution this fall with the assertion that that is the poorest of all reasons for getting collegiate training. “If I had a brainy boy and wanted him to make money, I'd refuse to educate him,” he said. “A good education should teach him not to sacrifice his life to money making. I can't make money. I don’t want to badly enough. Why do you think I can teach you to make it?” Here is a note that ought to be sounded a bit oftener by our educators. After you are graduated from college, you may land in a well-paid job and you may not; but the success or failure of your college training does not in the least depend on the salary you are getting ten years later.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE American parent, in my opinion, improves every year. To be sure, there still is to be found in print a great many references to our imperfections. And they are many. But never before have we been so conscious of our responsibilities. We have lost most of the complacency that characterized old-fashioned men and women. Indeed, our greatest error at present is that we take our job too seriously. Certainly we are better parents than citizens. And in this fact lurks danger for the children. We have grown so absorbed in problems of child development, so eager to disseminate the truth about sex. so anxious to give the youngsters a clean, sane outlook upon life, that we neglect another task quite as important. We have failed to make the world a decent place for boys and girls to enter after they have outgrown their families. In this land of homes looms a government that teems with evils. A child reared in a normal, happy home is'better equipped for life than one denied this privilege. All of us are ready to acknowledge this fact. B B BUT what about turning the children out into a market place that is alive with tricksters, into a country where no document is considered valid without a bevy of lawyers to scrutinize it, into a world where not even a nation's word is to be relied upon? After the usual history course, and having been steeped in its pleasant superstitions of the greatness of world heroes, what must a boy's reactions be when he goes into politics and finds out how things are done there? We are pretty good parents these days. But that is not enough. We must try to make America and the world t safe, decent place for our children, else we shall have failed in our highest duty to the younger generation. The standards of the home must become the standards of the nation.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

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‘Barring Action by the Outside World, It 18 Only a Question of Time When Manchuria Becomes an Integral Part of the Japanese Empire” NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—One year ago Manchuria was recognized as a Chinese province, even by Japan. It is now an independent state, with the name of Manchukuo. Theoretically, the change was brought about by a popular uprising. In reality, it was forced by Japanese Intervention. Japan has wanted Manchuria for a long time. She could not take it openly without violating treaties and outraging public opinon in other lands. What she could do, and what she did do, was to create a situation which enabled a few of her subsidized tools to set up an independent government under the protection of Japanese bayonets. Manchuria, or Manchukuo, has no independence worthy of the name. If left to itself, the state would break down and resume Its position as a Chinese province over night. All that sustains it is Japanese money and Japanese guns. In spirit, the conquest is as brazen and complete as though the Japanese flag were flying over Mukden. Barring action by the outside world, it only is a question of time when Manchuria becomes an integral part of the Japanese empire. Whether that represents a problem for us Americans to worry about is debatable, but it certainly represents a method of acquiring territory which we loudly have condemned. What Good Is Done? OUR government has said it would not recognize territorial changes brought about by force in violation of existing agreements. Its refusal to recognize Manchukuo is consistent with such a declaration. What good, however, can a mere refusal accomplish? On the other hand, what trade difficulties and commercial advantages is it not likely to create? According to current reports, the foreign minister of Manchukuo had decided that those nations which fail to recognize his government within a specified time will be regarded as without treaty rights. That means, of course, that their citizens and property interests would be without official protection. We can turn our backs on Manchurian trade, but how long will the people stand for the cost of such a posture, especially if the depression continues? / * * Situation Is Grave • THERE is an even graver angle to the Manchurian situation than the loss of trade non-recogni-tion may involve. Soviet Russia, though supposed to be very hot and bothered by it, has decided to recognize th newlycreated state, while France, though supposed to be pro-Japanese, has decided to string along with us. We assume that Japan made Russia sufficient attractive concessions, or promises to bring her around. ' The Japanese assume that we did the same thing with France. Their papers are hinting that we employed war debts to produce the desired result. They are even suggesting th'at Senator Reed obtained French support by promising debt revision, ard that he likely is to obtain that of England. In other words, the Japanese are telling each other, and every one else, that the United States is buying up non-recognition of Manchukuo. The ugliness of such a charge is not mitigated by its falseness. Neither is the unfortunate realignment of nations which has taken place to be regarded as unimportant. A rapprochement of Russia and Japan is about the least desirable thing that could happen in the far east, yet that seems to be the outstanding result of all the maneuvering. If the United States and Europe have accomplished anything of consequence, except to bring these two nations together, what is it?

Questions and Answers

What is the size and cruising speed, under water, of the largest submarine, and what is the greatest depth ever attained by a United States submarine? The largest is the Le Surcoeuf, which belongs to France. It is 426 feet long and has a displacement of 3,256 tons on the surface and 4,304 tons submerged. The cruising speed of a submarine, when submerged, is under ten knots an hour. The greatest depth attained by a United States submarine, the Nautilus, was 336 feet. How many thirty-third degree Masons are there in the United States? There are two kinds of thirtythird degree Masons—actual and honorary. The nuraher of actual thirty-third degree Masons in the United States ' is about seventy. There are about 4.000 honorary thirty-third degree Masons in the United States. What is the difference in weight between one gallon of milk, one gallon of water and one gallon of cream? One gallon of water weights 8.32 pounds; one gallon of milk, 8.6 pounds; one gallon of cream, containing 20 per cent fat,. 8.4 pounds, and one gallon of cream, containing 40 per cent fat, 8.3 pounds. How high is the Eiffel Tower in Paris? 984 feet. How miny bones in the human body? Two hundred fourteen. What is the capital of Oklahoma? Oklahoma City.

Daily Thoughts

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck. —Psalms 75:5. Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.—Bion,

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Pituitary Glands Have Varied Functions

This is the fifth and last article in £ series by Dr. Pishbein 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. THE pituitary gland contains three parts which have apparently diverse functions. Medical science only is beginning to learn much of what it should know concerning the activities of this gland. It is found inside the skull near the forepart of the brain. In general, the anterior portion of the gland is supposed to control the growth of connective tissues in the body and to control, somewhat, the activity of the sex glands. The posterior portion of the gland is credited with properties stimulating metabolism, or the chemical changes that go on the body, and also with maintaining blood pressure to some extent through secre-

IT SEEMS TO ME

ONE of the minor casualties in the present campaign so far has escaped the attention of the usually acute political reporters. The nominee of an interesting and vociferous party practically has retired from the race. His name still appears upon the ballot and will be duly honored by Sherwood Anderson, Sydney Howard and the left wing group of the editorial board of the New Republic. But for all that, William Z. Foster has gone to join McGinty, Pericles and James J. Walker. His withdrawal came close upon the heels of a shower tendered him by a group of Hollywood pinks to whom Communism is such a delightful novelty. But, of course, that may have been a mere coincidence. As in the case of Mr. Walker, illness was given as a reason for the candidate’s decision to reserve a room and bath in Elba. The official announcement of a week or more ago stated that the Communist leader had overtaxed his heart on account of strenuous campaigning and that the rest of his speaking dates would be taken over by Bill Dunne, editor of the Daily Worker. tt tt B The Rest Is Silence BY a second queer coincidence, Mr. Dunne happens to be Mr. Foster’s bitterest foe within a movement. And from the day that Foster was ordered off the stump, the name of the lost leader scarcely has been mentioned in any of the current Communist publications. His health does not seem to be critical enough to warrant bulletins or even the most casual passing comment. And yet not a line of encouragement, aid, advice or even the most fragmentary pep talk comes from his pen. James Ford, the vice-presidential candidate, is not being featured much of late, either, but that hardly could be called a retirement, since he never did get very far out. There is perhaps something of logical retribution in the fate of Foster. He has passed out of the picture much as he entered it. Three of four years ago the Communists of the United States held a pow-wow to select a head man. A gentleman named Lovestone was

What’s Your Aim? What sort of career do you figure on carving for yourself? What’s your natural bent of mind? What kind of work do you think you can best do? What are your capabilities? To what end are you directing your education? Have you chosen a career? These questions are important now as never before, ome professions and occupations are crowded to the limit; some offer better opportunities; technological changes, improvements in machinery, new inventions, changing fashions, all these things have a bearing upon one’s life work. We are entering anew era in the professions, in business, in the trades and occupations. Our Washington bureau has ready for you anew bulletin on CHOOSING A CAREER. It discusses the requirements, possibilities, etc., in all the principal trades, professions and vocations; it gives a complete bibliography on vocations. It is a valuable pamphlet to study in making up one’s mind as to future training. • Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 200, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin Choosing a Career, and enclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled U. S. postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: Name 0 Street and Number City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times (Code No.)

What a Pal!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tion of a principle that affects the blood vessels. It also has the power of increasing the motility of the intestines and of stimulating the actions of various secreting glands. The posterior part of the pituitary gland can stimulate the contractions of the female organs of birth so that it is used in aiding childbirth. Because of its stimulating qualities to the nervous system, it also is used in control of surgical shock. The intermediate portion of the gland presumably is related to the action*of the kidneys and to the disposal of fluid from the body. All this knowledge, however, does not indicate that all functions of this extraordinary gland are fully understood. When it is borne in mind that the entire gland is just a tiny bit of tissue, the immense potency of its secretions in relationship to proper growth and health is astounding.

chosen by a vote of approximately ten to one. The gathering was about to adjourn when a belated telegram arrived with the direction that William Z. Foster should be appointed as the people’s choice. And at the bottom of the message was the Russian equivalent for “positively.” The dutiful delegates promptly reassembled and reversed themselves. When a Communist is kicked out he can either go into a sobbing seclusion like Scott Nearing, who is allowed to come around on musical evening, or he can start a deviation. Mr. Lovestone started a deviation. The Communist cause in America is a pickle factory and has produced far more than fifty-seven varieties. 808 Field Already Crowded IT remains to be seen whether William Z. Foster will go in for the violin or violent recriminations. The business of starting your own sect within the movement grows increasingly difficult because of the fierce cut-throat competition. I know of one particular Communist sect which contains just two members, and, since one lives in Croton-on-Hudson and the other in Sheridan-Square-on-Subway this particular party is in grave danger of dwindling. The Communist party in this country has thown away a great opportunity on account of its preoccupation with heresy hunting. The economic situation in the last three years has furnished fertile soil, and official America has manifested nothing less than sheer genius in trying to help the cause along. But in spite of the best efforts of Fish, in spite of Herbert Hoover’s publicity* 1 blast about a phantom Red army, in spite of laws as cruel as they are silly, Communism has languished. Some attribute this to the everlasting patience of the American people who are supposed to grin and bear in silence whatever happens to them. That is palpably a false conception. The farmers’ strike and the B.

It must be remembered, moreover, that the gland not only produces definite actions of the type that have been mentioned, but that it is intimately related to all other gland actions in the body. Failure of the function of this gland may result in increase in weight, lowered body temperature, sluggish mentality, lack of and even actual changes in the sex development of the body. Overactivity of the gland may result in rapid growth of the long bones, leading to giantism. It may bring about increased sudden development of certain organs and a low tolerance for sugar, so that sugar is excreted in the body secretions. From the various portions of this gland, extracts have been developed which are used widely in medicine in relationship not only to treatment of various diseases, but also for diagnosis.

HEYWOOD 151 BROUN

E. F. testify that even the conservatives have a point beyond which they may not be pressed by circumstances and proclamation. But the Communists had nothing to do with the first manifestation of restlessness and no more than one fingernail in the other. B B B This Side of the Volga IF I may give a little kindly advice to the Communists, I should suggest that they ought to organize themselves into a political and economic body concerned, at least in part, with problems which are peculiar and pressing in the United States. The party fails in its boast of being internationally minded if it allows every Russian debate to be mirrored here, whether pertinent or not. The faithful in the ranks do not constitute a party at all, but merely a group of Stalin’s stooges. Irony has entered too deeply into the for Communist comfort. The leaders proclaim that their appeal is aimed at the “working masses.” They cast their nets, and what is the haul? A reformed advertising man, a California scenario writer, Theodore Dreiser and three New Republic editors assorted sizes. In all honor to the sportsmanship of the Communists, I think it should be stated that they threw one back. And on a clear day you can see Corliss Lamont, who was begotten for the proletariat out of the House of Morgan by Columbia university. (Copyright. 1932. by The Time*)

Beople’s Voice

Editor Times—l have been a reader of the views of the people for quite some time. I carefully have studied the views of the National Economy committee on Veterans’ expenditures and the sentiment of the gold brickers (ex-service men). They are gold brickers as far as I am able to learn, for only about 12 per cent of the veterans belong to ex-service organizations, and these organizations in a fraternal way, fought their battles for pensions, compensation, free hospitalization, and other beneficial measures. They do not think enough of these organizations to support them, let alone take into consideration the amount of money being drained from the government treasury for their special benefit. This so-called non-service connected pension law for World war veterans is the most ridiculous, most extravagant piece of legislation ever slapped upon the taxpayers of this country. lam quite sure that the National Economy committee, composed of an intelligent, patriotic and conservative group of American citizens, will be successful in eliminating this law that formed an open sewer where we are pouring out hard-earned tax money. v I have talked to a number of influential citizens who are determined in their efforts to see that this measure S repealed at the next session of congress, and that the compensated veterans are called in and re-examined, with a view of reducing the amount they receive, and cutting off - those entirely who are gold brickers. This same thing should apply to Spanish War veterans. Why should we pay some of those old gold brickers a dole? If you want to take care of old age, it would be just as fair to pay every man above 50 years. I have talked to several of these gold brickers, or windbags, and they say you can’t taka it away from

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.

.SEPT. 24, 1932

SCIENCE

•BY DAVID DIETZ-

American Worker Is Branded as Most Poorly Paid in the World. NEW views on many subjects have become the fashion since the depression. Nevertheless, it mav surprise many readers to hear the American worker referred to as “the poorest paid in the world.” That, however, is the opinion of a group of independent industrial engineers who call themselves "Technocracy.” They are making what they call an "energy survey of North America,” in co-operation with the industrial engineering department of Columbia university and the architects’ emergency committee of New York. The Chinese coolie, so the engineers say, is rewarded richly for what he produces in comparison with the American worker. A second bombshell hurled by the engineers is a denial of the theory that economic forces move in cycles. ’’ln ancient Rome,” says their report, ‘a man was wealthy if he owned 3,000 slaves. Assuming each slave to be healthy, strong and willing, this meant that the Roman capitalist controlled 300 installed horsepower during eight hours of each day. The American of today, operating a large farm, controls at least 500 installed horsepower, what with his lighting plant, his tractor, his auto, his water pump, and other farm machinery.”

B B * Five Thousand Slaves THIS means that the American farmer has at his disposal the equivalent of 5,000 slaves, the report continues. “But his machinery is at his disposal twenty-four hours a day, and the number of slaves he owns therefore is tripled,” the report goes on. “It took 100,000 men twenty years to build one of the Great Pyramids. “Recently a handful of American laborers, working on the Mesabi range, moved a greater tonnage of ore in three weeks. “These scattered comparisons give some idea of the tremendous gap between our present industrial system and any that heretofore has existed. • “For the first time in history the human being has become insignificant as an energy producing unit. For, while there is one billion installed horse power in the United States today, only 9,000,000 men are required to direct this tremendous force. “In other words, 9,000,000 men, representing 900,000-horse power, can do the work ten billion men, representing the one billion installed horse power, could have done under any previous industrial system. “The standard of living in any civilization depends on the amount of energy per capita applied to the raw material used by that system. “The amount of energy per capita exerted in America today is sev-enty-seven times greater than it was a century ago.” BUB Today's Crisis “TN 1837, when 90 per cent of the x banks in the United States failed, life went on without great changes in the population’s mode of living, because a large proportion of the people lived on the land and were self-sufficient,” the report continues. “Few depended on the successful operation of the industrial system. The fluctuation of the per capita energy output was only about 5 per cent. “In today’s economic crisis the situation is shockingly different. Today the welfare of the entire population depends on the industrial system. “Even farmers living on the soil are no longer self-sufficient, owing to the intense specialization which has developed in modern agriculture. “And the production of energy per capita, the barometer of our standard of living, has gone down more than 30 per cent during the present crisis. “America has built up a highly integrated social industrial complex, upon the successful operation of which American life is dependent. And this without realizing it. “If America is to continue to operate this system, she must break entirely with the past. “All social, political and economic theories of the present must be thrown away. They are not even good points of departure for the formation of the rules for the new game.”

& T ?s9£ Y / WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

ST. QUENTIN GAIN Sept. 24

ON Sept. 24, 1918, British and French troops massed on adjacent fronts and started an intensive drive west of St. Quentin. After a heavy artillery exchange, the allied troops managed to push forward seven miles along the entire front. Anew government was organized at Ufa at a conference attended by many members of the PanRu'sian Constituent Assembly, and presided over by the Socialist Revolutionary leader Avskentieff. The conference was organized by President Malinoff of the national Czech council. The new government vested controlling power in the constituent assembly. them. I served my country in a civilian capacity, that was just as important in winning the war as those in the military service. It would be just as fair to pension men like myself, but I am too patriotic to think of such a thing. I am sending Talcott Powell a letter congratulating him upon his exposure of these treasury leaches. If these men call themselves the saviors of our country, they should be patriotic enough to render a service to our country now by seeking to cancel the balance of the bonus certiflates, thereby saving the taxpayers about 52,000,000,000. This cancellation I most heartily indorse. Now they are trying to organize a political organization of veterans to protect these gold brickers. There is no reason why we better class of thinking patriotic citizens can not organize ourselves against them. Think this over, you better class of citizens.