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Neighbors Again This winter is a fine time to get back to the habit of being neighbors. The word meant something a generation ago. It Stood for the biggest force in Americanism. It stood tor kindness, companionship, human contacts. The spirit of neighborliness can flourish only Where there is an approximate economic level. It almost disappeared when a few people began to get rich and when all wanted to become Wealthy. It can not exist in an atmosphere of selfishness. The age of machinery has destroyed that fine spirit which once held together the families of the farming communities. The cities never really had it. But neighborliness was one of the finest phases of American life while it lasted. It meant co-oper-ation in education. It meant sharing of sorrows and sharing of joys. Unemployment in cities may create an opportunity for the return of this spirit through community centers. The big need this year is amusement and entertainment. Not many will have the money to buy fiin. And fun, real fun, is as essential as food or shelter. With many compelled to live lives of leisure, there will be a necessity of learning how to have fun without money. Most people have reached the stage that has been the dream of all—a life without work. When men become rich enough to live without Work, they hunt for amusement. Most of them had little imagination and had to buy their fun. They paid people to amuse them. Men who are forced into leisure need amusement much more than those who can afford to be idle. The nation can easily become hysterical through unemployment and worry. The one way out is a co-operative effort to find clean amusement without money. Social centers are really chibs. They should be started in every section of the city. In them the old spirit of neighborliness can come back. A leader in every block could start the movement. The Delay in Relief There is an excellent reason why claims of the administration that it has relieved unemployment and improved economic conditions do not impress the country. It is to be found in the records of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The corporation was given a billion and a half dollars last July to loan to cities, states, districts, and private corporations for construction work. This money was expected to put at least a million men to work. Today, three months later, with hundreds of loan applications before the corporation, six have been acted on favorably; $59,584,620 has been loaned; work is in sight for 11,055 men. Three of the six loans were made only this week and the others less than a month ago. Since July the administration has had it in its power to give business a tremendous boost, to bring about a billion and a half dollars’ worth of construction, with attendant improvement of material and supply industries, to call men back into a hundred lines of activity, to Increase buying power. But its record of accomplishment is almost blank. Diligent attempts to be fair can find little in extenuation of the do-nothing policy. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a going concern when the relief bill became law. Its members had known for at least three months that legislation of this sort would be enacted.

While congress and the President disputed over how much mercy money should be distributed, and how much the federal government itself should spend on job-giving construction, the plan for loans for other building never was in doubt. Nor have applications for loans been slow in reaching the corporation. Projects whose engineering and financial details have been worked out for years, waiting only a chance to borrow money, were listed while the relief bill was pending in congress, and local officials in charge of them have not delayed in turning to the government for help. The administration defends its delays by saying it is being careful with public money. Its critics recall that the relief plan, including that for self-liquidat-ing construction loans, was accepted reluctantly by the administration after Democratic leaders had made its enactment a certainty. They charge that the plan isn’t being allowed to work at present for fear Democrats will reap credit for it. But motives in this sort of thing are less important than results. There is no reason why public officials should be more cautious with money given them to relieve a desperate human emergency than ordinary hard-fisted business men are with profitmaking money. What is still in the power of the corporation to do before winter makes suffering more bitter should be done at once, without regard to election politics. The Address to Women The President, in his address to American women Friday, was almost as reckless as he was in the one four year ago. when he talked of abolishing poverty. Indeed, he laid claim to having made long strides in that very direction. “We we have won that safety for them and for you,” he said In describing what his administration has done for homes, farms, savings bank deposits and insurance policies. For the future he pledged protection against new depressions, “security and independence of the family and the home, wider opportunity and equal opportunity for the individual, development of moral and spiritual equality in the nation, strengthening of national Ideals and national character. There is no doubt about the appeal which such aspirations make to American women. And women who devote more time to bridge than to current affairs may accept with faith the President's assertion that his tariff policy has prevented his opponents from placing “the fate of American workers and American farmers in the hapds of foreigners.” Others, however, may regard It with anew skepticism. Those who know only vaguely what the President was talking about when he referred to the Collier bill, the Goldsborough bill, the Gasque bill, the Rainey bill, and others, will accept his characterization of them as threatening to “destroy recovery." Others, knowing the contents of the measures to which he refers, will be inclined to argue. While the Hoover address to women no doubt was intended to be flattering, many of them may not have found it so. It did not assume an audience of thinkers.

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Prison Torture The manner in which young Arthur Maillefert waa strangled to death in a Florida prison camp last June is being revealed in testimony taken at the trial of prison guards charged with the murder. He was, fellow convicts testify, starved for days in solitary confinement, placed naked in a barrel, and then stood up in the “sweat box,” his feet in stocks and his neck held in a chain. Prisoners protested that the chain was too tight. “The chain ain't tight enough,” ex-guard Solomon Higginbotham was quoted as saying. “He still can drink water.” This same guard had told convicts that he “rather would kill Maillefert than cat." A former captain of the camp had been heard to promise to keep the youth in the sweat box “until Christmas—if he ain’t dead.” Were this revolting story an isolated example of prison guard depravity, we might feel satisfied when the offenders are punished as other murderers are. Unfortunately, it is not. Torture of prisoners in this country is all too common. The Wickersham commission reported that eight prisons admit handcuffing men to doors, many still use the strap, one—Rhode Island—employs the straitjacket, others resort to solitary confinement, hosing, semi-starvation and other cruelties. How many died under these barbarities only can be guessed. Tortures are not only morally degrading. They fail to work toward better’discipline. “Instead of cowing one man, they have aroused a hundred to greater hatred and discontent,” the Wickersham commission reported. “It is clear that the more punishment in prison, the more discontent.” A Tribute to Hindenburg Those shouting thousands of Germans who trooped down the streets of Berlin to shout birthday greetings for President Von Hindenburg represented, when you stop to think about it, one of the most encouraging factors in the entire European situation today. v The celebration was an expression of the profound loyalty and respect which the average German feels for the aging warrior, and that sentiment is, perhaps, about as good a bulwark as Europe today possesses against disaster. Germany is being pulled about sorely these days. Revolution is hardly more than a hand's breadth distant. Hitler, the Hohenzollerns, the Communists—all are watching their chance, all have strong public support, all would seize power tomorrow if conditions were just a little bit more favorable. But in all this confusion. Germany has one thing to tie to—its stalwart, incorruptible old president. And it is that very feeling of confidence and love which gives us our best reason for hoping that the final outcome of things in central Europe will not be as bad as It easily might be. All this, of course, is only another way of saying that the intangible things in human affairs usually are the most important. The feeling which a large number of people happen to have for one man is something you can not put into the scales. You can’t measure it, as you can Hitler’s shock troops; you can’t dissect it, as you dissect the group which seeks to restore the Holienzollern dynasty. It simply Is there, more potent than any of these more material things, just as India’s love for Gandhi proved, not so long ago. to be so much more potent than any of the more tangible elements in the Indian equation.

A professor can't know everything, as witness the Duke university pedagogue who genially asked anew student from Philadelphia, named Cornelius McGillicuddy, Jr„ if he might know Connie Mack Jr., who, too, had decided to come to Duke! Huey Long’s boast that “I can sell anything” doesn't appear so incredible in view* of the story that at his marriage ceremony he borrowed $lO from his bride to pay the preacher. A New York editor, became so enraged with a stenographer's errors that he shot and killed himself. But let's not forget that many a stenog, too, has jumped out of the window'. New Yorkers are sure the w’orst of the depression has passed, for taxicab drivers no longer say “Thank you” for a 20 per cent tip. We thought football togs made tough guys tougher, but the Sing Sing prison eleven walloped a bunch of boys from the Bronx with only one little five-yard penalty. Alabama has a law which prohibits the sale of near-beer. Now, there’s a just law! Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson IN prohibition discussions, the dry ladies are too prone to produce theories instead of facts. They ignore all the vast changes that have taken place in this country since the eighteenth amendment was incorporated into the Constitution, and still live, argumentatively, speaking in the nineties. For instance, they talk yet about the old-fashioned husband who staggered home from the corner saloon and beat up his wife. And she always bore it cringingly. What they overlook in this sad story is that no modern woman would stand for such treatment and that the courts would uphold her in any resistance. They forget, too, that the records today are crowded with divorce cases in which drunken husbands are the defendants. But perhaps the most illogical of all their talking points is the one in which they contend that prohibition could be enforced if the government wanted to enforce it. B B B THE facts long since have exploded that pretty theory. For the truth is that the federal government can not enforce the eighteenth amendment. Why? . Because so many decent citizens do not want it enforced, because they do not believe it is a good law. They resent its tyranny. They detest the hypocrisy it breeds. And civilizations always have marched forward on the feet of those who have refused to obey tyrannous laws. There is no denying this. A supine obedience to any and every law soon would convert us into a puny people unworthy of our heritages of liberty. It is as much the duty of a good citizen to strike bad laws from the books as to put good ones there. To waste more money in an effort to cram prohibition down the throats of the American people woqld be the most reckless extravagance. Viewed economically, it has been a hopeless failure. And so far as its moral aspects are concerned, the majority of us are beginning to define this word more carefully. Temperance may be a moral issue, but prohibition by force never can be."

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New York City Is Convicted of Dumbness / Too Stupid to Help Itself. TVJEW YORK, Oct. B.—New York City stands before the nation convicted of dumbness. With depression shrieking economy, with a man in the mayor's chair ready to enforce it, with machine politics battered to a state of confusion, with the stage ail set for action, the people of Niw York still were incapable of freeing themselves from boss rule. I is an epic in the fatty degeneration of public opinion, an extravaganza in pure hickishness. New York, center of banking, art, culture and uncensored shows, is unable to realize her sorry plight, much less do anything about it. Financiers have warned her that she could not expect credit unless the budgets were cut, and a hundred cases have been cited to prove how this could be done without impairing the public service. But the Seabury investigation goes for naught; Governor Roosevelt’s fight for clean government becomes futile; and the ousting of Walker merely makes room for another willing servant of machine politics. nan Sanity Is Lacking NEW YORK, has not lacked advocates of sanii, \ The hopeless condition in which she finds herself can not be charged to the absence of good advice, or honest efforts for reform on the part of an intelligent and courageous few. All that is lacking is a wideawake, energetic interest on the part of the many. Like so many sheep, the bewildered citizens permit themselves to be herded and manhandled, without even so much as asking why, or realizing that they must pay the bill. Renters vote to continue - high rate, just as though it would not come back on them every mon‘h in the year. Th notion that everybody gains if a few are permitted to plunder the public treasury has become an obsession with your average New Yorker. His sole interest in politics is what he, or some friend, can get out of it. He has been taught to regard retrenchment as a sort of heresy. No matter what happens, the organization’s feedbag must be saved.

Rule by One Party THINGS have come to such a pass that there are no longer two parties in New York,, except by appearance. The so-called Republican organizations are not bossed by their own leaders, but by the Democratic overlords. Every election is preceded by deals and trades for a division of patronage • Democratic leaders parceling out certain local jobs to Republicans in exchange for such state or national jobs as Republican leaders can get for Democrats. It was this practice that brought Senator Hofstadter into the limelight. Hofstadter headed the legislative committee which was appointed to investigate New York City affairs, and for which Judge Samuel Seabury acted as chief counsel. HUB Hofstadter Is Duped IN ’the recent patronage deal, Hofstadter permitted himself to be proposed and indorsed by Tammany hall for a seat on the supreme bench; in other words, to accept a job which pays $25,000 a year at the hands of the political machine which he was supposed to have convicted of extravagance and incompetence. The bar association is indignant, as well it might be, and W. Kingsland Macy, chairman of the Republican state committee, has called on Hofstadter to repudiate his nomination for the sake of decent politics. But the average New Yorker takes it all as a good joke. In the same way, the average New Yorker takes a $700,000,000 budget as a good joke, and regards Acting Mayor McKee as a near traitor for attempting to cut it.

Questions and Answers What is a congressman-at-largc and how is he elected? He is a representative in congress who represents a whole state instead of a congressional district. Arizona, Delaware, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming each elect a congressman-at-large because their populations ar e not large enough to be divided into districts. Illinois since 1912 has elected two congress-men-at-large, because the legislature did not create enough districts to care for the number of representatives required under the 1910 census. This year several states have failed to enact legal redistricting laws under the 1920 census and consequently all their congressmen will be electee' at-large. Where is the statue “Christ of the Andes?” “The Christ of the Andes,” by Mateo Alonzo, stands on a high point in the Andes mountains between Argentina and Chile. It bears the inscription (translated) “'Sooner shall ihese mountains crumble into dust, than Argentines and Chileans break the peace to which they have pledged themselves at the feet of Christ the Redeemer.” Who walked across Niagara Falls on a tight rope? Jean Gravelet, who went by the name of Blondin, performed the feat first in the summer of 1859 and later repeated it several times; on one occasion carrying a man on his shoulders. What is the origin and pronunciation of the name Joan? Joan is a Scotch feminine form of the name John, and is pronounced in one syllable to rhyme with bone. Was there an eclipse of the sun in 1765 and 1662? There was a partial eclipse March 21, 1765, and a total eclipse March 20, 1662. Will hot or cold water free*e first under identical conditions of temperature? Cold water.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday's Times: Sixty-four Years as a Commuter .—On Aug. 1, 1932, the hale and hearty Addison Day embarked bn his sixty-fourth successive year as a communter via tl.e Lackawanna railroad between Chatham, N. J.,

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Antitoxin May Aid in Scarlet Fever

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. ORDINARILY, scarlet fever is an acute infectious condition which comes on suddenly, with vomiting, high fever, severe sore throat and a brilliant red spotting or rash over neck, chest and back. There also is likely to be a very intense redness of the inside of the mouth and the tonsils, and an appearance of the tongue like that ol a strawberry. Usually the rash lasts from three to five days. The fever goes on at the same time. Then the fever gradually disappears and the rash fades. From a week to ten days after the disappearance of the rash, the skin begins to peel or, as is said scientifically, to desquamate. Some years ago Drs. George F. and Gladys Henry Dick found the cause of this disease to be a germ of the type known as a streptococcus which produces a poison or toxin. This poison or toxin is found in the material in which the germs are growing. When such germs get into the body, they produce scarlet fever.

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Iwas writing the other day about schools and what cumbers them and what they leave out. In some respects I probably have not kept abreast of the times. Some of my complaints are antiquated. The world does move, and so does the system of education. But a bit more slowly. The most serious charge which ca be leveled is not of my making There must be something wrong with the manner in which we teach the young idea to shoot when such a large number of pupils hate their studies with so palpable a passion. Learning can be good fun. Even in my own indolent way I have enjoyed the contact with ideas upon [ several occasions. In our graduate schools the man who is intent upon getting a grasp of some subject or other is by no means rare. Nor do 1 1 believe that colleges harass their I young men much beyond the point of endurance. But when a lad in high school or the lower grades tells me that he loves his classes and his dear teacher I look at him askance. I think to myself that he is either an unwholesome type or a flagrant little liar. tt tt a So They Tell Me AND this estimate is based upon the fact that any such emotion runs counter to almost all human experience. I knew' a boy of 14 who took to raising bees, and at the end of the year he could discourse at length and with interest upon the habits of the hive. He seemed to get a kick out of picking up all there was to know about these co-operative insects. But the trick lay in the fact that he happened upon bees of his own accord. If anybody had sent him home saying “This is required reading, | and on Thursday we will have an examination upon the life of the bee,” he would have learned it badly or not at all. In all humility I ask whether it might not be possible to arrange | schools in such a way that pupils were not pushed, but merely stumbled across histories, books of geography, and even elementary algebra. At the beginning, I suppose,

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and New York City. He began commuting long before this form of endeavor became part of the daily life of the suburbanite. In those days he was obliged to make his daily trip by stage to the Oranges, where he boarded a mail. 'train for his destination. The veteran commuter is 82 years

In addition to the poison that they produce, and which is found in the material in which they grow, the germs also develop another poison, which gets into the human body or into any living animal when the germs themselves die and disintegrate. It is believed that such secondary symptoms of scarlet fever and such complications as infected glands, infected ears, generalized blood poisoning and similar disturbances are due to the secondary poison. The Picks developed a method of testing the skin of human beings to determine whether they were likely to develop scarlet fever if exposed to it. Moreover, they found that injection of a small amount of the toxin or poison would cause the human being to develop resistance to the disease. Furthermore, they found that the injection of a horse with this poison would cause the horse to develop in its blood an antitoxin which was of value in overcoming scarlet fever. It should be realized, of course, that the antitoxin may be given in

there may have to be a little sweat and suasion. I will agree that two subjects are necessary in the equipment of any man or woman who hopes to reach the status of a reasonable human being. It really is a good idea that we should all be able to read and write. Spelling, put foi ward as a sort of tortnent, makes very little difference. It is just as easy to understand what a bad speller is telling you as to interpret the perfection of a master who never misses. My older brother went far beyond me in college. I mean he was graduated, and he can not spell at all. But when he says that he swarmed down with the rest of the alumni to “uproot the gole poasts,” I know perfectly well what he is talking about. tt tt tt I Was Good Once I AM no marvel, although I was runner-up in an eighth grade spelling bee some little time ago. Since then I seem to have lost my touch. Possibly I keep too much weight on my right foot when trying to spell. ; Whatever the reason, there are many hard words and some simple ones which I invariably slice. But what does it matter? There are a number of superb spellers in the proofroom and the composing room. They see to it that I do not disgrace myself. It is my notion that by the time a lad or a lass can read and spell very little more formal instruction is needed except by the choice of the scholar. The elective system ought to begin at about the age of 10. The lad who can not become excited about the fact that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points ought not to be bothered with this interesting theory. In fact, he should be removed to more congenial climes in order to make room for those runners who want to run. I have a vague impression that some of the higher mathematicians have announced that the axiom is no longer true. Einstein and others have brought curves back into favor. And all this irritates me no end because, whether it is true or false,

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old, and continues to travel five days a week, at which minimal rate he has made the trip 19,500 times, covering a distance of 936,000 miles, which is about four times the mean-distance between the earth and the moon. Monday—“ Where Ships Sail Through a Man’s Legs."

an ordinary case of the disease and overcome the disease itself, but at the same time the patient mqy have the complications mentioned. In instances when the fever is low and the patient not very sick, it does not appear to be desirable or even worth while to inject the antitoxin. However, if the patient is very sick and if there are complications, it is customary to give an injection of the antitoxin; and there already is plenty of evidence to indicate that it is effective. Because scarlet fever is not a widespread disease any more, it apparently is also not worth while to inject every child with a preventive vaccine or to inoculate it with the toxin against scarlet fever. Such method sholud be used only when a child has been exposed definitely to a case of the disease or when there is in a community a severe epidemic of scarlet fever. There seems to be good evidence that the child who is injected will develop a resistance against scarlet fever lasting at a minimum one year, and perhaps much longer. There are no records of any severe accidents or injuries following the use of these preventive methods.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ol 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.

my difficulties in acquiring the hypothesis have borne no later dividends. I can not think of a single tough spot in my existence in which Euclid reacned down to lend a helping hand. n u Revisions of Later Years INDEED, I have spent the greater part of twenty years in gradually removing from my mind concepts w’hich were handed to me as unassailable. Ino longer think that “Silas Marner’’ is a good novel or Longfellow a charter member of the fraternity of inspired poets. Longfellow is a fine case in point. In my day the teacher insisted that he was of magnificent stature. Later, while on my own, I fell in with the rebels who w’ould give the old gentleman nothing at all. And in the last three years, through dint of research, I have come to the conclusion that both camps were in error. He w r as neither genius nor potboiler, but a pretty good poet. They should have told me that in the first place. It would have saved a lot of time. But probrbly the best system would be to tell the scholar nothing and let him decide. For instance, in my visionary school somebody will extend a deck of classics and near classics, as if they were playing cards, and say: “It doesn't make any difference. I’m not trying to force any card upon you. Just take any one at all.” The lad who happened to hit upon Shakespeare out of his owm free will actually might grow up to like him. (Copyright. 1#32. by The Time** Daily Thoughts And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice.—St. John, 16:22. Happiness is neither within us nor without us. it is the union of ourselves with God.—Pasc&l. Did Smith or Hoover carry Alabama In 1928? i • Smith carried the state by about 7,000.

OCT. 8, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Three Hurricanes in a Season Is the Average for the West Indian Area. ' I S HE storm which swept Puerto Rico the last week In September, killing hundreds of people and making thousands homeless, was the fifth* West Indian hurricane of the season, according to the United States weather bureau. Five is a fairly high number of these storms in one season. The average is three. Late summer and early autumn is the usual season for West Indian hurricanes, although they may occur in July. While three or more of these storms may occur in a year, as a rule the average of severely destructive storms is less than one a year. Wind velocities are higher in a tornado than a hurricane. The tornado. however, is an intensely localized storm. Its path may be no wider than a few feet. It rarely exceeds 1,000 feet. On the other hand, the path of a hurricane may be several hundred miles wide. In 1928. the entire island of Puerto Rico felt the effects of r hurricane which swept over it. In the case of last month’s storm, the damage was confined to a smaller area, only the city of San Juan and some villages in the direct path of the storm feeling the damage. n m a Galveston Disaster jY/f os T hurricanes touch some T * portion of the Gulf or Atlantic strnrt rT WaS a hurr icane which stluck Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900 causing the lass of 6.000 lives. The wind caused terrific waves and a flood of water to roll in upon the city from the gulf. During a hurricane which swept 5J e J°* er Mississippi valley on Sept. lan 191 ?’ the wind vel °city reached 130 miles an hour. During last month's hurricane in f 9 ' erto . RlCo ' reached a velocity of l-O miles an hour. Hurricanes originate in the tropics a little north of the equator, under the blazing, nearly vertical rays of the tropical sun. They move northward frequently changing their direction several times. Sometimes they spend all their fury over the ocean.

Earlier this ‘season a severe hurricane headed directly for southern Florida, but turned east when some 200 miles from land and spent itself over the Atlantic. When a hurricane does sweep over the land, it continues northward v?n n a V? r a ' S the St Lawrence \alley. Naturally, however, its fury abates as it passes further and further north. The typhoons which occur in the China sea are storms precisely like the West Indian hurricanes. They differ from them in name only. 19^ S n< ?™ d ' Wind velocit y may reach 120 or 130 miles an hour in a hurricane. No one ever has succeeded in measuring the maximum velocity in a tornado, but from the damage which tornadoes have done, it is estimated at 500 miles an hour. BUB Storms and Quakes TT often has been noted that se L vere windstorms and earthquakes may occur in the same region simultaneously. It may be a fact, though it has not yet been proved, that a severe windstorm, or more exactly, the passage of a cyclone or low pressure area, may set off an earthquake. It is, of course, a known fact, that the earth’s crust is in unstable equilibrium in the locality of an earthquake for some time before the quake takes place. The quake, hich seems like a sudden occurlence, really is only the climax of an invisible drama. The quake occurs when the accumulation of stresses and strains within the earth's surface becomes greater than the rock layers can withstand. We do not realize how much difference in the weight of air sustained over any given region is made by a change in the air pressure. But a drop of two inches in the air pressure means that a load of about 2,000,000 tons is removed from each square mile of land. Within recent years, measurements with delicate apparatus hava tended to show that when there is a low pressure area over one end of Japan and a high pressure area over the other, there is a tendency for the island to be depressed at the end where the high pressure area exists. Os course, the amount of change can be measured only with very delicate instruments. A typhoon or tropical cyclone commenced at Yokohama just before the great Japanese earthquake. It reached Tokio after the quake and aggravated the damage done, by spreading the fires.

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ALLIES IN BIG DRIVE Oct. 8 ON Oct. 8, 1918, American, British and French forces shattered twenty miles of the Hindenburg defense system between Cambrai and St. Quentin, advancing to an average depth of three miles and taking thousands of prisoners. The Americans took Brancourt and Premont, and, in the Verdun region, continued the fight for the remainder of the Argonne forest. Franco-American forces advanced two miles on a seven-mile front east of the Meuse. President Wilson replied to German's request for a peace parley and armistice, asking if his terms were accepted fully and if Chancellor Maximilian spoke for the people. The President also called for evacuation of invaded territory before recognizing a plea for an armistice. Are husbands of American citizens exempt from the immigration quota? Yes, if the marriage took place prior to July i, 1932.