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At it’s Told Citizen Will H. Hays, back home again in Indiana, brings a revelation to his neighbors. James Eli Watson, says citizen Hays, is no mere •enator. He i* an institution. The dictionaries tell us that, an institution is anything "forming a characteristic or persistent feature of the nation's life and habit.” Institutions are not to be discussed lightly or fondled with profane hands. They command respect, even reverence. Unfortunately, in every age, there have been those among the vulgar mob who have questioned the messages of the prophets. It is to be expected that from somewhere among the sycamores along the Wabash will oome a voice asking for a bill of particulars and even those so brazen as to ask, not whether Watson is an institution, because that now is established, but what kind of institution he is. They may ask whether he is to be listed with the pyramids or should come within the category of the Greek gods, the worship of Baal, the Cumean sybils who whispered their messages to superstitious Roman emperors in caves over whose entrance is written “abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Does the Institution mean that it is a characteris'ic. and persistent feature of our national life and habits for senators to trade worthless notes for sugar stock at a time when they are fixing tariffs on that ingredient of the morning coffee? Does the Institution mean that it is characteristic of statesmen to play to the prejudices of the prohibitionists in dry sectors and whisper to the bootleg provinces of South Bend, Gary and Ft. Wayne that Volstradism is the curse of the land? Just where does the Institution stand on the matter of unemployment, in times when hundreds of thousands in the state are jobless? On one matter there will be no questions. In a long record in congress, the Institution never has failed to boost a tariff or to grant a special privilege when within its power; never in those years has it failed the vested interests of wealth. To tear down any institution is a serious matter. On the banks of the Nile, Isis once was worshipped. She, too. was an institution. History records no voice which warned the people of a. threat to her permanency and Isis is forgotten. But on the banks of the Wabash, who shall say? At least, the people know. Open the Schools If proof were needed that the night schools must open, with volunteer teachers if necessary, it is found in the records of the federal court. Because many schools have been abandoned foi the sake of economy, the percentage of aliens asking for citizenship able to pass the necessary examinations dwindles. That means citizenship suffers. If that be true among the people from other lands seeking homes here, it is true of the American born. They far outnumber the others in patronage of these schools. The night schools are a defense against bad citizenship They must be opened and maintained. The school get busy.

Insull Fugitives The thousands of investors who last in the billiondollar Insull failure must have wondered many times in the last few months why Samuel and Martin Insull left the country as soon as word began to trickle through to the public about the condition of their affairs. Now indictments have been returned, charging the two men with embezzlement and larceny. Neither has offered to return to the United States voluntarily. to answer the charges, and many of those whose savings have been dissipated construe this as a confession of guilt. Other rich Americans have fled the country when their affairs came under public scrutiny. Certain >1 men hid themselves for years to escape process servers, but they did not escape an unfriendly verdict from the people of their homeland, based as much upon the fact that they were fugitives as upon the evidence against them. But quite apart from the attitude of wronged investors, it is important that Samuel and Martin Insull be Drought back to the United States and put on trial on the charges against them. These men have been two of the most powerful and wealthy citizens of their generation, and American justice, if it is to retain the respect of its people, must demonstrate again and again that there is no shade of difference between Its treatment of prominent men and men of no renown. It may be true that the Insull brothers have been stripped of their fortunes and their influence; but in the eyes of the citizen to whom every dollar means toil and self-denial there still is an eon of difference between himself and a man with sufficient money to live in comfort in Paris. It may be true that the Insulls will build no more political machines, but their dynasty has not yet become a thing of the past. As long as a shadow of old Insull power falls across the horizon, as long as there is a suspicion that other men of wealth may have been involved in the crash, it is necessary that scrupulously fair efforts to examine the guilt or innocence of the accused be made. The people who have lost through the Insulls will gain nothing from punishment of two elderly failures. But they, and the rest of us, will lose something more precious than money unless we can retain confidence in the even-handed justice of our courts. t The Old Folks In spite of the many other tugs these days upon heart and purse strings, the old age pension movement is gaining. The latest state to take this step is New Jersey. Under its mandatory pension act. the state and counties furnish a maximum of S3O a month to aged poor past 70. More than 5.000 New’ Jersey old folks have seen the spector of the poor house vanish and are being supported in dignified, if meager, fashion. This is the eighteenth state to abandon cruel and costly almshouses in favor of pensions. Nearly 90,000 aged now receive pensions, as compared with 40.000 a year ago. Vigorous campaigns are on in Ohio and Missouri, and agitation continues in Pennsylvania. North Carolina, Nebraska, and other states. These facts are encouraging, for they reveal not only a public concern for the wretchedness of hapless old folk, but an awakened intelligence in facing the problem of their support. Pensions are cheaper than poorhouses. The big fight for justice to the aged liefi ahead. There are 6,000,000 Americans past 65, a pird of

The Indianapolis Times (A ICRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) OwnM nn<l published <l*!ly (except Sunday by The Indianapolis Time* PoblUbtnjr Cos.. 214-220 Went Maryland Street. Indian.* puli*, Ind. Price in Marion County 2 centa a copy; elaewher*. 3 c>nt*—dwlisered by carrier. 12 cent* a week. Mail subscription rate* in Indiana. $3 a year; outaide of Indiana. 65 centa a month. BO fit tiURLET. ROV W. HOWARD, EARL D. BAKER Editor President Business Manager PHONE—Riley SRI THURSDAY. OCT, g. I9M. ~ Member of United Preae, Scrlppa-Howard Newspaper Alliance. Newspaper Enterprise Association. Newspaper li.formation Service and Audit Bureau of Circulation*. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.”

whom normally face the bitter choice between hunger and a humiliating trip “over the hill.'’ This winter, forty-three legislatures will meet. Congress will have before it the Dill-Connery bill for federal aid for pensions. The Democratic party, union labor, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and other bodies are committed to the pension system. Meanwhile, the Association for Old Age Security, whose pioneer efforts now are bearing fruit, is greatly in need of funds to carry on in state and national capitals. Generous citizens can find here an opportunity for public service certain to bring quick and substantial dividends in human happiness. The Alsace-Lorraine of the East It pretty generally is agreed that the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine by Germany in 1871 was a great political blunder. Even Bismarck had his doubts about the wisdom of the act. If France had not been provided with this ground for revenge there is little probability that the French militarists and patriots could ha.ve developed war sentiment, allied themselves with Russia, and ultimately humiliated Germany. German misery and degradation today are in part the penalty paid for this act of short-sighted arrogance and greed on the part of her leaders in 1870-71. It is true that Alsace and Lorraine once were parts of Germany and had been stolen from her by the French Bourbons. Yet whatever Germany's historical and sentimental claims to Alsace and Lorraine, the “lost provinces” were not worth the price Germany has paid. But the men who made the peace treaties in 1919 were as lacking in sense as Von Moltke and Emperor William in 1371, They have created a much worse Alsace-Lorraine to the east of Germany, in the corridor that separates East Prussia from the icst of Germany. It produces a situation comparable to driving a Canadian wedge into the United States, cutting off New England from the rest of the Union. It avails little to protest that this territory once belonged to Poland. So did Alsace-Lorraine belong to Germany, but it was supreme folly to reclaim it. Germany has renounced any intention of getting back Alsace-Lorraine, but she never will become reconciled to the dismemberment of East Prussia and the infinite inconveniences and abuses which the existence of the corridor presents. The well-known American publicist and editor, Paul Maerker Brandon, recently visited the corridor, and in an article in the New York American gives us a graphic picture of what it means to live in or along the corridor. The blow to German pride involved in the awarding of the corridor to Poland would have made the cession unwise. But this might have been lived down had it not been for the increoible stupidities which have crept into the administration of travel across the boundaries. Communication has been destroyed or insanely restricted. The magnificent Munsterwalde bridge across the Vistula river, costing $2,000,000, and a great artery of railroad and other traffic, was more than demolished by the Poles. The peace treaties guarantee the inhabitants of East Prussia at this point “free access to the fullest extent” to the Vistula river. Yet this access at Kurzenbrack, for a population of some 2,300,000 persons, is a right of way thirteen feet wide. Worse yet. only those possessing a formal visaed pas signed by a Polish consul can traverse this thir-teen-foot path. Travelers are subjected to countless annoyances. They are disturbed four times by German and Polish officials in crossing the corridor. This is especially troublesome during the night. The Polish officials seal the windows of all cais while crossing the corridor, a journey which takes two hours on a fast train. Border regulations are particularly exacting, imbecilic and infuriating. Children often have to travel miles to go to school, because the new boundary has cut them off from the old school building a block away. Some of the results are almost unbelievable: Less annoying, but fundamentally far more serious, are the effects of the corridor on economic life: "Towns lost their rural customers, farmers their most accessible distribution centers. Economic entities, developed in the course of centuries, were destroyed, to the disadvantage of both countries.” It would have paid Germany to cede back Alsace and Lorraine before 1914. It might be just as farsighted for Poland to surrender or modify the corridor. she can live well without it. She may not be able to survive because of it.

Just Every Day Sense By Mr*. Walter Ferguson

THE mast important job for a young man is the selection of a wife. How important that is he will not realize, perhaps, until life is almost done. But when men are old and their work is over, they know at last that a good wife is the chief of all their blessings. It make? no difference then whether one has had power, or wealth, or fame, but it will matter greatly if one has missed the real riches of existence—love, faith, concerted endeavor, and dreams for two. There is no experience so wonderful as the experience of intelligent marriage, in which a man and woman work, struggle, hope, and sorrow together. One of the most alarming symptoms of our present order lies in the fact that so many individuals these days refuse to stick when the bad times come. They are all for marrying if the skies are blue and comforts plentiful. But too often, when clouds appear and troubles arrive, they run out on the job. • nan THIS is the reason a great many moderns do not know what marr.age really is. They have only the flimsiest capacity for appreciating or understanding it, since they are not good sports and duty is for them a word without meaning. For assuredly it is not sportsmanlike to abandon a man when he is down. In no other case do we admire or applaud the person who betrays a trust or runs away from a difficult task. It is only in the married relationship that we condone cowardice, selfishness, and infidelity. ’ One must live one’s own life"—this is a favorite modern phrase. And to what a sorry pass it has brought muititudes of people! There is no such thing as living one’s own life. No matter where we are. or what we are doing, we must consider other people. In society, in business, in industry, it is impossible for us to ignore the rights of others. Why, then, should we be so determined to fight this fact in wedlock? One’s behavior in marriage is an acid test of character, and the individual who is not a good sport there will not to measure up to any very noble standards in dther endeavors.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

Hoover Is for Victory; Roosevelt Is for Good Government. NEW YORK. Oct. 6. Tuesday evening was momentous in this campaign. President Hoover made his long-awaited speech at Des Moines, while New York Democrats brought their state convention to a close at Albany. The President pictured himself as having saved the world from chaos. Governor Roosevelt and former Governor Al Smith proved their willingness and ability to save New York city from Curryism. While the Republican standard bearer paid his party glowing lip tribute, these two Democratic leaders used the pruning knife on theirs. The contrast is too clear for misunderstanding. Hoover is for victory; Roosevelt for good government. non Memory Kills Effect NOTHING is more difficult than to explain failure by claiming success, but that is the task cut out for President Hoover. He met it courageously at Des Moines. His speech was a masterly apology. No one could listen to it without a feeling of sympathy. The very tremor of his voice bespoke deep emotion. The man palpably was sincere, and one would like to dismiss his effort with that thought. But memory is a stubborn thing, and memory reminds us that time was when the President did not regard this depression as such a threatening disaster, when he visualized prosperity as "right around the corner,” and he viewed the problem of relief and recovery as not grave enough to warrant calling congress. As he intimated, other people may not have sensed the dire perils with which not only this nation, but the whole civilized world, were beset, but some were alarmed sufficiently to advise effective measures long before the President decided that anything more than a conference was needed.

Tardy in Action PRESIDENT HOOVER has made some very wise recommendations during the last eighteen months, but each and every one of them could, and should, have been made earlier. No single factor has done more to aggravate and prolong this depression than the inactivity which prevailed at Washington during 1930 and the first half of 1931. When forced to act, President Hoover did well, but he had to be forced, had to see five or sjx million Americans out of work, England off the gold standard, and Europe broke before he realized what had happened, or what was necessary. And after all that has happened, he still thinks of the unconscionable Smoot-Hawley tariff as the main prop of our living standard. nun Action Vs, Apology IF President Hoover had been Governor of New York, would he have had the foresight, or the courage to tackle Tammany, as bossed by Curry and served by Walker? J' Franklin D. Roosevelt had been President of the United States, would he have waited eighteen months before doing anything worth while to meet and overcome the depression. Read the President’s speech, and then read what occurred at Albany on the same evening. In one instance you can get an apology because of action, or lack of action, which needs it. In the other, you get action which needs no apology. There is virtue in an honest explanation of why certain things had to be done, or why they have not succeeded any better, but there is more virtue in doing things which require no explanation.

Questions and Answers

What does jimson weed look like? It is a common weed in fields and waste places in the United States except in the north and west. It is ill-smelling, and poisonous, and has stout many-branched leafy stems from two to five feet high. The leaves are large, smooth, thin and slightly toothed from three to eight inches long. The flowers, which bloom from May to September, are white, funnel shaped, about three inches long, and have a pronounced odor. The prickly seed pods, which follow' are about the size of a horse chestnut. When ripe, these pods burst open, scattering numerous poisonous black kidney shaped seeds. How many innings did Alexander pitch in the final game of the 1926 world series between the New York Americans and the St. Louis Nationals? What was the score? How many hits did he allow? He entered the game in the seventh inning to relieve Jess Haines when there were two outs, and Combs. Meusel and Gehrig were on base, with Lazzeri at bat. Alexander struck out Lazzeri and pitched shutout ball for the remaining two innings. St. Louis winning the game, 3 to 2. How many wives did Alexander I of Russia have? Two. His first wife was Maximilienna Wilhelmine Marie, daughter of the Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse, who died in 1880. A few weeks later he married secretly Princess Dolgoruki.

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GERMANY ASKS ARMISTICE Oct. 6

ON Oct. 6, 1918. the German chancellor. Prince Maximilian of Baden, addressed a note to President Wilson proposing a peace parley on the President's principles, and asking for an armistice. West of the Meuse, Americans clashed with the best German troops, the Yanks declaring the fighting was the bloodiest in their experience. Germans fired the Bruges docks and withdrew stores from Ghent. In Asia Minor, the British occupied Zahieh and Rayak.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Watch Child With Physical Defects

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyxeia, the Health Magazine. THE child who is physically handicapped has to try much harder to accomplish any task than does a normal child. Therefore, there always is danger that such a child will be overfatigued, and it must be guarded carefully against this possibility. So many children have grades of illness of a mild character, sufficient to constitute a serious handicap, but, at the same time, hardly Oi sufficient severity oo incapacitate the child completely. Children with tuberculosis, >vith asthma, or with hay fever, and those convalescing from influenza, from pneumonia, or similar conditions have so much difficulty in breathing and in accommodating the activity of the lungs to the demands made on them that they

IT SEEMS TO ME BY lI BROUN D

RALPH EASLEY is on the rampage. If you don’t happen to know, Mr. Easley is chairman of the executive committee of the National Civic Federation. Mr. Easley is a gentleman who sees books in the brooks and red in everything. This time it is the colleges and the universities which have aroused his rancor. He has gone to the length of writing a letter to Secretary Doak about it, and Doak is the last man in the world, bar one, who needs to have red called to his attention. It is pleasant conceit to imagine Messrs. Easley and Doak walking along a country road and coming suddenly in full view of a flaming sunset. It would be funny, but probably fatal. Ralph Easley states that it is “a well-known fact” that in many of our universities a number of professors are “atheists, pacifists, Socialists, or Communists.” This may be a consummation devoutly to be wished, but it is hardly a wellknown fact, and even if it were Mr. Easley should draw satisfaction from the amount of bickering there certainly will be among faculty members of such widely varying views. But he derives no satisfaction. Indeed. he suggests that “parents would do well to ascertain the identity of those professors whose teachings are so dangerous and see to it that they . are ousted from their posts of high trust.” nan Keep Eye on Professor THIS suggests endless possibilities of spying, prying, and snooping. Still, I can see certain satisfactions for the undergraduate. I lived before my time and unfortunately had no chance to get square with those teachers who failed to appreciate my talent and devotion. If this were some twentyfive years ago I certainly would have written: “Dear Dean—My attention has just been called to the fact that I got E in comparative literature 32 and F in elementary French. But before putting me on probation, will you please inquire into the political

Some You Never Heard of Do you know how many political parties are running candidates for President and Vice-President this election? Unless you are particularly well-informed andhave followed the news closely, there are probably parties in this campaign you never heard of. Can you name the Socialist Party candidates; those of the Communist Party; and can yon name the candidates of the Socialist-Labor Party, the Farmer-Labor Party, the Liberty Party, the Prohibition Party?* Our Washington Bureau has ready a bulletin on THIRD I ARTY CANDIDATES, that gives interesting facts about the lives and careers of all these men on all these party tickets—men running for office when they know they have no chance of election. Do you want to know who they are and all about them? Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept.l99. Washington Bureau. The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin on THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES, and enclose herewith five cents in coin, or uncancelled, U. S. postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs. NAMJT STREET <fc NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times > (Code No.)

should be given special consideration in play and in school. The child with a mild defect of the heart may be able to carry on its work about as well as other children and certainly should not be classified as a crippled child, but at the same time it is working under a severe handicap. Its vitality is likely to be exhausted sooner than is that of the normal child. It is compelled to put forth more energy to accomplish a given result. The more fatigue, the more the possibility of strain on the heart muscle, leading to further damage. It must be recognized that the child who has sustained an infection of the heart leading to illness is likely to have repeated infections, which come on sometimes without warning and which invariably leave increased disability. The child who suffers from any

and economic views of Professor Makepiece and Monsieur Emil. I have reason to believe that one of them is a dirty Bolshevik and the other an atheist—yours for a sound mind in a sound body.” In certain institutions of learning, the lines of solid Republicanism and rugged individualism are holding fast. Only a few days ago it became necessary for no less than five firststring football players at Yale to face an examination to remove scholastic disabilities. Failure would have meant keeping them out of the big game with Bates. Fortunately, none but Americans were placed on guard that night, and all five athletes came through with flying colors for God, for country and for Yale. “Fortunate” is the right word, because by their participation the little Eli team managed to hold the big Bates bruisers to a scoreless tie and win a moral victory. nun As for-Instance OF course, Mr. Easley is not altogether specific in detailing just what is a dangerous doctrine. As I understand it, no member of a faculty is to be allowed even to correct the grammar of a freshman theme until he first has reaffirmed his faith in the Creator. Douglas MacArthur and Herbert Clark Hoover. “They shall not parse!” is the ringing cry. And as for having any atheist instruct the young in the intricacies of irregular French verbs, Easley’s mind reels even more than usual. It may wabble a little at having irregular French verbs taught at all. If such facte of language must be faced, the knowledge should be broken gently to the growing lad under good fundamental auspices. If Ralph Easley were the only person who took Ralph Easley seriously, the whole subject could be dismissed in fewer paragraphs than these. And better ones. But unfortunately, this attack on academic freedom is not altogether a joke. The Republican voters of Wisconsin just have chosen a candidate for the United States senate who

disturbance of its blood also may have to have special attention in school. There is first the group that has hemophalia, an hereditary disease with a tendency to bleed; and, second, the group that has hemorrhagic purpura, which bruises easily and bleeds seriously following any wound. The child in either one of these classes may be affected seriously by an injury so slight that it hardly disturbs in any way a normal child. Another disease likely to give great concern to the child in school is beginning goiter or hyperthyroidism. Slight enlargement of the thyroid gland is not a disability, except so far as concerns its appearance. However, hyperthyroidism is associated with rapid pulse, with nervousness and weakness, and such a child ought to have special consideration in any group.

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

made his entire campaign on the ground that the amiable liberalism of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin constituted a threat against the safety of the republic. I do not intend to sneer in saying "amiable liberalism,” for President Frank stood manfully to his guns against misrepresentation and plain downright folly. tt n u Dangerous Radicalism A PROMINENT preacher in Atlantic City brought embattled Baptists to their feet only a few days ago by calling for reorganization of a state university because the president had permitted the undergraduates to hold dances. I very much fear that one of the consequences of the depression is going to be a decline in even elementary toleration. The witch burners are ready to ride, and soon they will be pounding on the doors of our schools and colleges seeking some Scopes whom they may devour. I don’t think there are many radicals in our faculties. I think the very best way to answer any such challenge as that hurled by Easley is to see that some are put into every institution of learning in the country. Every man who goes to college should at least have a chance of hearing both sides. (Copyright. 1932, by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—The coming presidential election transcends in importance all considerations of partisanship and party regularity. The fast four years have shown the people of this nation that when the Republican leaders claimed they were the sole custodians of all national prosperity, they deliberately were falsifying and perpetrating a fraud upon the American people. We are passing through a business depression which for length and severity possibly is without parallel in American history. I voted for Mr. Hoover in 1928 and have voted the Republicaan ballot for more than fifty years, a record of which I am by no means proud at this time. I am a believer in the civil service system, and when Mr. Hoover was elected I was under the impression that he would sustain it, as the correct basis of employment in the public service, as this is his sworn duty. He has the power (as I am informed reliably) by able lawyers of scope and resource, who know the foundations, framework, and anatomy of constitutonal law, and are familiar with the great streams, currents, and tides of authority, to punish and adjudicate the transgression. and grant legitimate redress for the contingent wrong under the merit system, a power he always has had. In regard to his action, intention of the Constitution is known to be indisputable. Yet appeals for exercise of such prerogative in the most meritorious instances were met by an executive indifference that was appalling. I do not claim that the Republican party was the direct cause oi our present calamity. But it plainly is traceable to incompetent government somewhere. We are suffering from a msar-

OCT. 6, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

World’s Supply of Sulphur May Re Exhausted in A ’ext Fifteen Years. TJOSSIBILITIES of the world's * supply of sulphur giving out centers attention upon the present supply, its utilization, and efforts being made to find substitutes for it. Yesterday in this department, I pointed out that sulphuric acid is so essential to the manufacture of steel, gasoline, rubber and manv other products that this era well might be called the Age of Sulphuric Acid. I also quoted the opinion of A. M. Taylor, consulting chemical engineer of New York, that there is danger of the world's supply of sulphur giving out in so short a time as fifteen years. The world's resources of sulphur are estimated at from 56.000.000 to 121,000.000 metric tons. The United States has the largest reserve, estimated at 40.000.000 tons. Our annual consumption, however, is 2,525.000 tons. So that if this rate keeps up or increases, the sulphur won't last many years. Os the sulphur produced in the United States. 86 per cent of the total comes from the deposits of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Cos., the Freeport Sulphur Cos., and the Duval Sulphur Cos., according to Taylor. All three are located in Texas.

Texas Deposits QULPHUR also has been produced in the past from deposits in Nevada, California and Utah, but according to Taylor, no sulphur was produced in these states in 1929 or 1930, the last years for which statistics are available. Sulphur usually is found in the form of free sulphur, though mixed, of course, with some impurities. The sulphur is furnished to industries in the form of a powder, known technically as “flowers of sulphur" or in the form of fused yellow sticks, known technically as "brimstone.” Sulphur also occurs both in the United States and in other countries in the form of an iron compound known as pyrites. "The shipment of sulphur direct to the consumer amounted in 1928 to 1,396,000 tons, in 1929 to 1,555.000 tons and in 1930 to 1,465.000 tons,” Taylor says. "Sulphur used in various industries in 1929 has been estimated as follows: Heavy chemicals, 560,000 tons; fertilizer and insecticides. 415,000; pulp and paper, 265.000; explosives, 67.000; dye and coal tars, 47.0000; rubber, 43,000; electrochemical. 23.000; paints and varnishes, 5.000, and miscellaneous. 136,000. "For use in eleven different major industries, 8 338.000 tons of sulphuric acid, corresponding to an equivalent in sulphur of 1.335,000 tons, were produced in 1929.'’

Other Acids TAYLOR points out that chemistry has at hand sufficient knowledge to cut down the consumption of sulphur when scarcity and consequent price increases will make it necessary. Os the Sulphuric acid produced, 40 per cent is consumed in the fertilizer industry, 20 per cent in oil refining. 10 per cent in chemical manufacture, and 10 per cent in the iron and steel industry. Development of the hydrogenation process of petroleum refining Is seen as a threat to the use of the sulphur in that industry. "Sulphuric acid may be the cheapest reagent for this work,” he says, "but other methods of refining already have been developed which not only give the oil the desired characteristics, but yield side products of value. The hydrogenation process requires little sulphuric acid, but has the added advantage of eliminating the sulphur in the oil as hydrogen sulphide, which easily can be reclaimed. “Sulphuric acid not only is unnecessary for production of hydrochloric and nitric acids, but either of these may replace it in the decomposition of phosphate rock in the fertilizer industry.”

Daily Thoughts

Remember not thy Creator in the days of thv youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.—Ecclesiastes 12:1. Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.—Milton. rangement and paralysis of the economic machinery. No government can promote prosperity by taxing people to death. Excessive taxation inevitably results in limitation of production and consumption, by closing of mills and factories, and discharge of labor. While government can not be expected to produce wealth, it should not waste taxes wTung from the people. For every dollar of taxation, somebody has endured the agony of labor. The* Hoover administration transferred from the shoulders of European people to the backs of our own Americans eleven billion dollars which should have been invested at home. We learned bv a silly experiment that a wall high enough to keep out the products of foreign countries kept in the products of our own. What we need is more horse sense in government, which Governor Roosevelt represents, against incompetence, greed, waste and political evasion of constitutional duty, and he should be elected. The people today demand reform in the administration of the government and the application of business principles to public affairs. In the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all alike, there should be no pretext touching the protection of all citizens in their rights or security without the surrender of honest political or religious opinion. There probably never was a more complete abandonment of common horse sense in such a time of dire depression and distress in any administration. CHARLES G. KEISER. 612 Hamilton avenue.