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Hoover's Reply President Hoover replied to his critics Tuesday right. It was his first campaign effort. It was a fighting speech. As such, it stimulated hope in the breasts of his followers. But his defense aroused more sympathy than conviction. He was trying the difficult task of defending a record of failure. He and his party took credit for prosperity. Now they are given credit for the crash. It may be just or unjust—and we believe Mr. Hoover, with all his faults, is blamed for too much—but there is an element of retribution about the public's attitude toward the administration. Some of his defense rang true. His leadership did help to keep us on the gold standard. He did fight the boms. He did assist in fending off fiat money. He did help to stop the financial panic, check bank failures, and open frozen credit channels. He deserves praise for that. But that is not enough. 1 And it is the tragedy of Mr. Hoover that he can not see that it is not enough. He still wants to pour in relief from the top, expecting it all to trickle down to the bottom —from the banker down to the breadline. Three years of that method have failed to bring Industrial or agricultural revival. Mr. Hoover has exhausted his resources. All he can do now is to ask people to have hope and pray. He talks of more tariffs for the farmers, but he should know, as they know from terrible experience with the present Hoover rates, that the high tariff is not a cure, but a curse. He talks of more credit, but he should know, as they know', that what the farmer and home owner and business man and worker needs is not help to get further into debt, but help to get out of debt. He talks of opposing cancellation of foreign debts, but he should know, as they know, that these debts are not being paid now and will not be paid in the near future —if ever. About the only new thing he offered Tuesday night was to destroy the Hoover farm stabilization machinery, which has failed. When the President attacked the Democratic party on the basis of its weak record in the last congress, he was more effective. On that record, there is basis for the President's hot rebuke of the Democratic party's legislative leadership. The country well might hear more of the same. The Des Moines speech will have served a useful purpose if it puts the Democratic campaigners on the defensive long enough to make them take stock of their own party’s manifest shortcomings as demonstrated in the last session of congress. The Democratic spokesmen have the feeling of victory now; it is time they were brought to consider the gravity of the responsibility they are seeking to take upon themselves. The plight of the President who traveled into the,midwest to defend his record and defy his critics should furnish them with sufficient warning that it is a hollow prize for which they are reaching if they are not prepared to meet the problems unde* which the country nearly is so prostrated. Roosevelt and Smith The reconciliation between Smith and Roosevelt had to come. They have been friends for a long time. Smith helped to ir ike Roosevelt. It is fitting that he now help Roosevelt toward the presidency. For he can help—not so much by his slashing attacks on the administration, such as his convention speech Tuesday night. Other lesser men can do that almost as well, because the Republican record of failure speaks for itself. But Smith, we hope, can add a definiteness to the Roosevelt campaign which too often has been lacking in Roosevelt himself. Smith can not be other than forthright. He always has been that way. The wisdom of A1 Smith and the courage of A1 Smith should be of the greatest service to Franklin Roosevelt. Watch These Candidates No voter should permit his interest in candidates for president, senator or governor obscure the fact that the candidates for the legislature will make the laws under which the people of this state must live. In this country most of the candidates have made their records. They have voted on such matters as regulation of holding companies for utilities, upon the curbing of loan sharksi upon the rights of labor to protection in industry. While taxation now holds the attention of the citizens, largely because taxes are so difficult to pay, the fact remains that the ordinary family is taxed more for the services of utilities than is paid for government. The right of cities to own and operate these utilities must be made easier. The small loan problem is still to be settled. In the special and the regular sessions, proposals to reduce the burden upon those who can find no other source of credit were defeated through the manipulation of a lobby that had nothing to its credit for either ethics or decency. When the candidate for the legislature asks your vote, find out what he proposes to do about these matters. Ask him how he stands on an income tax as a means of raising revenue to relieve property and raise the necessary funds to maintain schools, policemen, firemen and the other servants of organized Party tickets alone do not count. Look at the records, and even when the records are good, ask, for new pledges in your own interest. A Popular Amendment Alabama’s ratification of the lame duck amendment to the Constitution brings one-third of the states into line behind this vital proposal for strengthening representative government. The celerity with which legislatures are approving this amendment in the first year of its submission Is the best possible evidence that the reform long has been needed, and wisely conceived. . No state has rejected the proposal or refused to act on it, in spite of the fact that most legislative sessions this year have been emergency ones, called to meet other urgent problems. Representative government has been criticised more harshly this year than ever before in this country. It has been called bungling, inefficient, liable to manipulation, incapable of acting rapidly enough in a crisis. The lame duck amendment is an answer to many of these charges. * It puts elected officials into power two months after the people have voted, instead of thirteen months afterward. It guarantees that defeated representatives shall not be able to legislate with an eye, in some cases, to future jobs, rather than to public duty. It gives congress the right to remain in session

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when it sees fit to do so. instead of being arbitrarily adjourned on March 4 every other year, writh public business left undone or attended to hastily. If the amendment becomes effective next October, as there is every reason to hope it will, representative governmnt will have anew opportunity to demonstrate whether it is all the American people have hoped. Lest It Be Again The death of Sir Gilbert Parker, the famous British novelist, brings to mind once more the extremely effective character of British propaganda in the United States during the World war. Sir Gilbert was in charge of British publicity in the United States for some two years and a half. How well he succeeded already is a part of the indelible historical record. Rarely has a propagandist so clearly summarized his methods and activities. In “Harper's Magazine” for March, 1918, he very candidly revealed how he and England had set us straight on the issue of the war, Probably the explanation for this extraordinary frankness lies in the fact that the World war still was actively raging and most Americans considered it a favor to have been converted to entering the war on the side of Britain. British enlightenment, it then was believed, saved us from making an irreparable mistake and moral blunder: “Practically since the day war broke out between England and the Central powers, I became responsible for American publicity. I need hardly say that the scope of my department was very extensive and its activities widely ranged. Among the activities was a weekly report to the British cabinet on the state of American opinion, and constant touch with the permanent correspondents of American newspapers in England. “I also arranged frequently for important publication men in England to act for us by interviews in American newspapers; and among these distinguished people were Lloyd George (the present prime minister); Viscount Grey. Balfour; Bonar Law. the archbishop of Canterbury, and fully a hundred others. “Among other things, we supplied 360 newspapers In the smaller cities of the United States with an English newspaper, which weekly review and comment of the affairs of the war. We established connection with the man in the street through cinema pictures of the army and navy, as well as through interviews, articles, pamphlets, etc., and by letters in reply to individual American critics, which were printed in the chief newspaper of the state in which they lived, and were copied in newspapers of other and neighboring states. “We advised and stimulated many people to write articles; we utilized the friendly services and assistance of confidential friends; we had reports from Important Americans constantly, and established association, by personal correspondence with influential and eminent people of every profession in the United States, beginning with university and college presidents, professors and scientific men and running through all the ranges of the population. “We asked our friends and correspondents to arrange for speeches, debates and lectures by American citizens, but we did not encourage Britishers to go to America and preach the doctrine of entrance into the war. “Besides an immense private correspondence with individuals, we had our documents and literature sent to great numbers of public libraries, Y. M. C. A. societies, universities, colleges, historical societies, clubs and newspapers. “Also, it should be remembered that the Society of Pilgrims, whose work for international unity can not be overestimated, has played a part in promoting understanding between the two peoples. “It also should be remembered that it was the Pilgrims’ society which took charge of James M. Beck when he visited England in 1916, and gave him so good a chance to do great work for the cause of unity between the two nations.” t x In the light of the fact that historians since have proved that we had fully as much reason for fighting Britain in 1917 as for declaring war on Germany, and that we should have fought both or neither, it is apparent that Americans would have done well to have preserved some independence of thought and action from 1914-1917. “ This is the great lesson of the propaganda episode for the future. Let us do our own thinking and be nobody’s sucker in the next world war, no matter whether it is Great Britain or Germany or France that has our ear at such a time.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE National Association of Working Women, organized recently m Indianapolis, was begun primarily to resist the movement to drive married women from industry. Its members have sensed what a good many others of our sex have overlooked, namely, that once the married women is ousted, the next step undoubtedly will be the ousting of all women. This may sound an exaggeration, but to be convinced of its truth one needs only remember many such campaigns were fostered by propagandists and existed under the guise of humanitarianism. It is foolish, indeed, to believe that a concerted action against women has been or will be directed entirely at wives. For already thousands of single women have been let out of jobs or demoted to help men. The present period, we all know, is a difficult one. Readjustments are going on. Changes inevitably will occur, and in times like this women, as well as men, must expect to suffer. But because we are facing so many problems is one reason why w r e must continue to think straight and keep our mental balance. It will have behooved us nothing if, after the depression, we should find that we had worked more harm than good by our temporary remedies. nun WE successfully have repudiated many unjust movements in this country. There is no need to believe that we shall not do so in this instance. America has survived the killing of -harmless old women as witches, the desperate struggles for representative government by she common people, human slavery, wars, innumerable blue laws and the activities of the Know Nothings and their spawn, the Ku-Klux Klan. We are emerging slowly from the mistake of prohibition. It is inconceivable that we should, after all these weary years of struggle, deliberately set about to impose legal restrictions against the right of any citizen to hold a job. Even the thought of such gross injustice should raise the gorge of every liberty-loving American. The moralists, as usual, are ready to risk the sanctity of marriage for a cheap economic ruse that has its inception at the very fountainhead of tyranny.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

History Contains Few Examples of a Nation Sacrificing Readership So Quickly or Uselessly as Has the United States Since 1919. NEW YORK. Oct. s.—The campaign rtill is dumb regarding | foreign problems. Neither presi- ! dential candidate seems particularly ! interested in this * all-important field. This is strange, considering the responsibilities a President faces in it and the power he can exercise. One can only guess why Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt are so coy when it comes to war debts, Russia, and the Manchurian crises. If the depression is of world-wide origin and if recovery depends on worldwide remedies, such subjects are worthy of discussion in connection with remedial plans. Farm relief obviously is impossible, unless we cease to produce a surplus, or find a market for it. Industry can not hope to get back on its feet as long as foreign trade remains at its present low level. Thousands of American laborers are out of work because this country is not getting its rightful share of Russian purchases. The idea that this nation can be revitalized by its people living off one another is preposterous. Foreign relations and foreign trade played a big part in producing hard times, which means that they must be made to play an equally big part in restoring good times. The tariff, of course, is a keystone in the arch of our gradual isolation. It must be reused downward to set the right fashion, if for no other Reason. The tariff, however, is but one phase of a policy which has set us apart from the rest of the world and made our country a common target for all forms of envy and retaliation. tt n m Useless Sacrifice Made TTISTORY contains few examples °f a nation sacrificing leadership so quickly or uselessly as has the United States since 1919. The miserable performance goes back to partisan politics. Republican leaders made up their minds to ruin Wilson arid rejected a great program of world stabilization to accomplish it. It was a trageay of the first magnitude, yet not one of those leaders comprehended as much. TTZ were out to win a campaign, and that was sufficient to blind of a monumental blunder. When this government refused to sit down at the council table with e Hi?? Ve T ments ’ ifc be & an to draught from which all humanity is suffering today. The present depression was born stupid, mistaken policy for ardi ng stood and which has characterized the two succeeding administrations. How Does Roosevelt Stand’ PRESIDENT HOOVER can be ex- •*- cused from discussing foreign affairs, because his record speaks or itself. This is not the case with Governor Roosevelt, who comes before the country as champion of a new order. It is absurd to suppose that Governor Roosevelt looks upon foreign affairs as unimportant in any program of recovery. It is equally absurd to suppose that he hopes to do anything of constructive value without taking them into account. Such being the case, his comparative silence is little less than amazing. Not only the people of this country, but people throughout the world, would like to know what he has in mind regarding those problems which plague the international horizon. Would he continue to refuse a conference with Russia? Would he go on proposing one moratorium after another on European debts? Would he be content to make academic suggestions with regard to Manchuria? Governor Roosevelt has made some very impressive statements on the tariff and silver, but that is scarcely enough.

- WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY GERMANS IN RETREAT Oct. 5

ON Oct. 5, 1918, the Germans hurriedly evacuated Lille and began a movement to abandon the Belgian coast region. They retreated on a wide front north of Rheim’s and in Champagne. The British crossed the Scheldt canal on the eight-mile front between Crevecoeur and Le Catelet, and entered Lens. Three hundred lives were lost when the Japanese liner Hirano Maru was sunk off the Irish coast. Austria-Hungary appealed to President Wilson to conclude an armistice immediately and start negotiations for peace. Russia abrogated the treaty of peace with Turkey.

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Growing Girl Needs Plenty of Food

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE growing girl, like the growing boy, needs much food and, indeed, special types of food for adequate growth and health. In a recent survey of the subject, Miss Wait and Dr. Lydia J. Roberts point out that many of the studies previously made have been concerned with sick girls and underweight girls, rather than those who might be considered normal and well nourished. Figures have varied greatly. Thus, certain English observers found that girls from 10 to 17 years of age require as much as 2,756 to 3,310 calories a day. Fifty-two girls were subjected to

IT SEEMS TO ME

“X7"ES,” writes John Erskine, “it X would be a pity if youth knew of Cataline and Cicero, but hadn’t heard of Walker and Seabury. But wouldn’t it be a pity, too, if youth were well grounded in Walker and didn’t know that he had appeared before? “I’ve always felt that the past and the present should be taught together, neither separately—and not for the sake of the past or present, but for a glimpse at the recurring things of life.” I think that Mr. Erskine is right, and, moreover, James J. Walker will agree with him. After all, Walker did identify himself with Pericles. n n tt Speaking of Professors SPEAKING of professors, I am moved to lament that Charles Townsend Copeland has, after many years, left the Harvard yard. The room in Hollis will not know again the like of the little man from Maine. He would be justfiied in trying to deny the accusation, but the fact remains that here is one of many former pupils whose literary moods and whose manner were set years ago by tne most vivid personality known in American universities ol our day. Nor was it a matter of mass production for Jack Reed, and I sat under the same instruction and turned out differently. The elms of Cambridge fell under a blight before the depression, and good Harvard men said the old place would not look the same. But in that room where nobody came much before 9 or stayed much after 11 there was greater growth and foliage than could be found in a forest of elms. For me he answered the question: “Can any good thing come out ofNew England?” But I doubt that it will ever happen again. And when he left the ancient edifice. built out of the profits of a Puritan lottery, Copey wrote to one of his pupils to explain that he

Daily Thoughts

And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me is not worthy of me.—St, Matthew 10:38. The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief. —Demosthenes.

‘You Can’t Have Both!’

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

special study with a view to determine actual needs. All of these girls were in school or playing outdoors, and they varied greatly in growth and in weight. It was found that they ranged from 1,765 calories to 2,925 calories a day. For only two individuals was the average as high as 2,900 calories daily.. There is no question that girls from 8 to 17 require increased food because of the demand on them for energy, not only energy to supply the amount used up in their daily activities, but also to take care of growth. This is proved particularly by the fact that the daily intake increases with age, but as trie girl grows toward maturity it tends to decrease. The human body requires food to take acre of certain definite

wanted to be a little nearer an elevator. And he added his new telephone number— X-1588 saying: “You can remember that by its being one numeral after the year of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.” The School of a Dream "ITTHEN I was speaking the other " ’ day of the school of which some of us might dream, I forgot to add the important point that, whatever its plan or schedule, it can not fulfill any bright vision unless it contains within its walls one great teacher. That is a harsh stipulation. I have known one. There may be others, but Copey was alone from 1906 until 1910, and from the other colleges of the coast hinterland I have heard no having on the part of graduates. I can not even name most of those to whose lectures I listened with inattention some quarter of a century ago. I did nothing to distinguish myself, but now we're quits. I can’t remember them. a Gin and Socialism ■ IT is not my intention to make this a unified column, for there should be leave upon occasions to wander. By some curious association of ideas, which I hope Pro-

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—Residing in our “no mean city” for 72 years, I have, at the age of 76, been arrested or had meetings broken up that many times during the last four years. Slept some ten nights in the city prison, bailed out by friends and relatives about twenty times, detained perhaps twenty times on the first floor of police station until too late to speak on the corner of Market and Illinois streets, taken home about twenty times, taken for a walk for several blocks and released, several times taken to the front of the police station and taken home, twice on one Sunday. Once while passing out books, for which I had a license .to sell, I was arrested and placed in the dungeon for eight hours and this outrage was not entered on the police record. I have been slugged, slapped, and manhandled by our police, called the vilest of names, sentenced to the penal farm for thirty days for not promising to stay off the streets, appealed and discharged in circuit court. Police have tried to keep me off of a certain corner, whether I spoke or not. Quite recently four different arrests for profanity, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, and breaking up of a religious meeting were continued from day to day until I was tried for all four. Hardly possible to be released on all four charges, more so when supported by false evidence. Fined S4O in all, spent five hours in county jail until released by relatives on appeal bond. And all this in “the land of the free and the home of the unemployed.” CHARLES H. KRAUSE SR. Editor Times—l have been a reader of your paper for years, and like it, and I note quite a few things written by patrons worth while. I would like to have someone advise me how to proceed to get a lower rate on gas. If one fails to pay on the dot, the price is $1.05, while it at one time was 55 cents and quite a while at 60 cents. Labor is about as low now as when the 60-cent rate was on, and I presume at least 15 per cent less help is being used now than then. Why

needs. It requires protein to build tissue; .carbonhydrates and fat for energy. It requires vitamins for their specific properties in prevention of certain diseases, and also for establishing a healthful state in which there is increased resistance to disease. It requires mineral salts to take care of the loss of such substances in the body chemistry, and also to build bone, teeth and blood. It has been well established that the best method to get such materials into the body is in a wellselected diet, rather than by the taking of capsules of the various substances needed. The absorption, when taken in the form of food, not only is more pleasurable, but also more efficient.

RV HEYWOOD BROUN

fessor Copeland will overlook, I am reminded of alcoholic liquors. The Communists do not like me, and it is their custom in public print and private street corner meeting to assail the Socialist party upon the grounds that I drink gin. The pertinence of this escapes me. If it were true that I had been corrupted in my youth by Norman Thomas I could understand the drive. The facts are otherwise. Long before my conversion I drank gin. Socialism has not added a cubit to my ration. Gin quite possibly is bad for me or any other young man, but I can not understand why the party—l mean the political one—should be held responsible. Even though I were a follower of Foster. I probably should solace myself with vodka. a a a Overstaying Welcome RECENTLY President Herbert - Hoover sent a note of congratulation to a gentleman who had been employed for seventy-one years in the same department store. He said that he should be proud. I don’t think so. To me that suggests inertia rather than fidelity. It is true that I have myself spent twenty-five years in newspaper work. But not in the same place. I am -proud to say that I have been fired several times. And I still have hopes. (Copyright, 1932. by The Times)

hasn't Indianapolis taken over the plant, anyway? This is a great old world. Railroad rates just about where they were at the peak of the war, with 100,000 fewer employed and a 10 per cent cut in wages. The railroads crying for business, while the big boys of the I. C. C. sit behind their mahogany desks and let them go broke by permitting the truck industry to take what they call the short haul tonnage. It has developed into zones, and there are little or no short hauls. If the commission would permit the rates to be reduced to pre-war rates, and ask the employes to accept pre-war wages, they could and would get some place and put thousands of men back to work. That would put the trucks out of business and throw it to the railroads and everybody would be happy. except the truck men. Railroad rates have reached the producer and he is bucking the carriers as an individual (which becomes collective) by having his feed hauled from as far as St. Louis and his stock from Chicago to Indianapolis territory. Multiple hundreds are doing the same way. The little fellow is not as dumb as some may think, and he has a way of getting his stuff moved at a reasonable rate, but not by a railroad. I know that 90 per cent of all hay moving across the country is going by truck. This town in 1913 and 1914 was using twenty-five cars of hay a day; now ? there isn’t a car a year; it is all moved by truck. Same thing to all army cantonments in all quarters. Why? Because the railroad rates are prohibitive. So much for that. In 1918 the Indiana Bell Telephone book was about l l * inches thick; now it is and the next issue, if rates stay where they are, it will be \ to J 2. Many fewer employes since the manual phones were put in, wages reduced and rates same as war time. Multiplied thousands of phones have been taken out and still going. Single line house phones should be $2.50 two-party line, or $2, then 75 to 85 per cent of the removals would

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.

OCT. 5, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Exhaustion of Sulphur Supply Is Menace Facing Industries of World. TN the research laboratories of big industrial companies as well as universities, in the United States, in Germany, in Japan, in practically every country of the world, scientists and engineers are asking themselves a question. It is: How can we get along without sulphur? These men foresee a day when the world's supply of sulphur will give out. From time to time, there is considerable discussion of what the world will do when its supplies of petroleum give out. Various laboraj tories are at work on substitutes for I petroleum. The most promising is the process | for the hydrogenation of coal, by which gasoline is manufactured from coal by addition of hydrogen at high temperature and pressure. The world's supply of coal, ac- ; cording to the best estimates, will last a couple of thousand years yet. The sulphur problem, however, is ; a much more important one, although few laymen, in all probability. realize the importance of sulphur in the modern industrial world. It would be entirely proper to refer to the present age as the Age of Sulphur Acid, for the manufacture of sulphuric acid is so inportant that its statistics are an index of the trend of industry. tt tt e Use in Industry Commercial sulphuric acid is made by diluting concentrated ! sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, as | it is more often called, with water. Oil of vitriol is a thick, colorless, oily liquid, much heavier than water, a liquid which chars paper and cloth like fire, which hisses like something alive when it touches water, which is capable of dissolving away human flesh. Without this powerful oily liquid, mankind soon would .find itself without steel, gasoline, lubricating oil. electric storage batteries, galvanized iron, white paper, leather, celluloid, dyestuffs, and a great array of synthetic products, drugs and the like. Sulphuric acid is required in the making of dynamite. Without dynamite most, mining operations would come to a halt and the world soon would find itself without an adequate supply of metals. All the other products mentioned require sulphuric acid In their manufacture. In 1925 the total production of sulphuric acid in the world was 14,580,000 tons, of which the United States produced 6.300.000 tons. According to a report made to the American Chemical Society by A M. Taylor, consulting chemical engineer of New York, there is no danger of the world’s supply of sulphur giving out during the present generation. But nevertheless, so he savs every major industry now dependent upon the use of sulphuric acid is experimenting to find methods y which it can get along without the acid. In many cases, the laboratories have succeeded in developing the new processes. tt tt u World Supply TTyHETHER industries will VL switch over to these alternate methods depends upon comparative operating costs. ° f ™ urse w ’hen the day arrives that the world begins to run out of sulphur there will be no choice in the matter. Th? world s sulphur resources have been estimated at from 56000,000 to 121.000.000 metric tons so there is little immediate danger of any scarcity,” Taylor says. The largest reserves are in Italy and the United States, conservatively estimated at 25.000.000 and 40000,000 tons, respectively. Chile is reported to have 5,500 000 tons averaging 70 to 90 per centSpain 500,000 to 1,750,000 tons averaging 15 to 30 per cent; and Japan several million tons of 50 per cent ore. "The producing deposits of Italy and Texas have the advantage of the lowest cost of production. If the estimate of 40.000,000 metric be ’ n ? the available resources of the U iited States is correct, then the supply will be exhausted in fifteen years, if our consumption and exportation continues at the pre- ’ sent rate of 2,525,000 tons yearly. “Even if our reserves were sufficient for fifty years, conservation of sulphur should receive our serious consideration if we are to continue to use it as- a raw material in our basic industries.”

Questions and

Answers

Please state the relative weights and sizes of Newfoundland and St. Bernard dogs? Mature Newfoundland dogs weigh 140 to 150 pounds and bitches weigh 110 to 120 pounds. Average males measure 28 inches at the shoulder and females 26 inches. St. Bernard dogs measure 27' i inches and bitches 25 H inches and the former weigh 170 to 210 pounds and the latter 160 to 190 pounds. Please state the total number of naturalized citizens in the United I States and the proportion of males and females? The census of 1930 enumerated 7.859,193 naturalized citizens, of whom 4.332,288 were males and 3,526,905 females. Was the area of Germany prior to the World war greater than that of Texas? Texas contains 265.896 square miles, and Germany before the war had 208,730. What kind of powder ia used for taking finger prints? Chemist powder, composed of mercury and chalk. Aluminum dust also may be used. If the finger prints are on a light surface, graphite or charcoal should be used. be reinstated. Business would be picking up. Western Union and Postal rates are the same as when Uncle Sam took them over, with an added tax now to help balance the budget. I wonder what an efficiency expert would do to increase income if he had the opportunity. O. D. KENDRICK, Board of Trade.