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Worthless Notes Not even the glamorous presence of the daughter of one of the nation’s Idols can prevent an audit by the people of the record of Senator James E. Watson. The people have always kncrtm that Watson speaks for the privileged interests. He has voted for bigger and higher tariffs for “infant industries” on the plea that these would give the working men better wages. Today the workers have no wages and are not impressed by the contrast between their living standards which for many mean the low level of charity and those of nations which are listed as cheap. His claim of paternity of the Home Loan Bank bill Is now challenged by President Hoover, who makes that measure one of the grounds on which he asks re-election. The benefits of that measure are still to be demonstrated. That Senator Watson has been, either as a lobbyist or in office, the agent of big business has long been a matter of common knowledge. In other years, the people have forgiven this with the comment that Watson is a jovial sort of a rogue who means no harm. But the audit this year brings in anew item which the people will not forgive. Senator Watson admits the facts. They are of record. They are no longer laughed away. When the tariff measure was pending, a measure In which Senator Watson as senate leader had an important part, Senator Watson gave his note in return for stock in a sugar company. The value of that stock might be influenced by the size of the tariff. There was no nfoney involved. Senator Watson gave only his promise to pay at some time in the future. If the price of the stock was increased by the Watson vote in the senate, the stock would be passed along to some widow or orphan, and profit would be paid to the senator. There would be gain without investment that is, n investment of money. There would be an investment of senatoria|l interest, and a senatorial vote. The scheme did not exactly work out. The price of the stock on the market did not increase. It went down. But the senator did not lose, as would an ordinary investor in that stock. All that happened was that the senator got back his note and the sugar promoter got back his stock. Senator Watson tried to laugh away the transaction with the statement that the stock was worthless and that his note was worthless. That cynical statement can not be forgotten this year. The essential immorality and fundamental dishonesty of the transaction will not be overlooked by the voters of this state. The hour demands a different moral viewpoint in the United States senate than that shown by Senator Watson. The people need men who do not traffic with beneficiaries of pending legislation on the basis of possible profits. **■ The distinction between this transaction and the actual taking of money for a vote is too slight for the ordinary citizen to catch the difference. Worthless notes suggest that his other promises are probably just as worthless. i- f For a Tariff Cut The petition of leading economists to President Hoover to lower tile tariff can have no effect in reducing rates. The president is not open to reason on this subject. If the tragedy of hundreds of bankrupt businesses and millions of unemployed is not sufficient to move Hoover, certainly the cold facts of experts will not do it. Just as the President ignored the two thousand economists and tariff experts, when they appealed to him to veto the Hawley-Smoot bill, and when they warned him that it would increase the depression, bo now he will ignore them again. Indeed, while this petition was on. its way to the White Housb, the President was making a campaign 6peech at Cleveland actually praising the disastrous Republican tariff. Not long ago, in his farm campaign speech, he said he favored increasing some of the already bloated rates. On this issue he is past redemption, and so is his protectionist party. Though the economists’ petition can not change the administration’s costly policy, it may at least serve as a warning to the Democratic party, which has none too good a record. The Democratic platform pledges a bargaining tariff, and Roosevelt and other Democratic campaigners unreservedly have attacked the Hawley-Smopt law. Nevertheless, Democratic votes helped to pass that law, and neither the Democratic party nor Roosevelt is pledged to a definite tariff cut. We commend this experts’ petition for tariff reduction to the Democrats, who apparently will control the next congress: “American farmers, wage earners, and business men have infinitely more to gain from a reduction than from an increase in the level of tariff rates. “It seems clear to us that recovery from the depression, either In this country or abroad, will be extremely difficult and greatly retarded as long as excessive and arbitrary restrictions are imposed on the commerce of the world, operating as a virtual embargo against the mutually profitable exchange of goodsfrom one country to another.” Unfair Methods Intimidation by employers to force workmen to vote the Republican ticket is one of the oldest and worst political rackets. This unfair practice is being * used again this year. Usually it is worked under cover. The Ford Motor Company is franker. It posts a notice for “the serious consideration of all Ford employes,” which states that “to prevent times from getting worse and to help them to get better, President Hoover must be elected.” The Ford disclaimer that “we do not seek to control any man’s vote” obviously is absurd—there is no purpose in the notice if it is not to control votes. Men in these hard times are afraid of their jobs. The employer has a power almost of life and death. A worker, rather than condemn his family to starvation, will give his vote or almost anything else to hold his Job. Buch a worker has been driven close r to serfdom. Whatever the Intent of Mr. Ford and other such employers may be—whether sincere or not—this intittiidation is as unpatriotic as it -is unfair. , Enough for All The nation Is mobilising in its individual communities to see that the 25,000,000 needy do not lack food, clothing and shelter. This is our most Important immediate national problem. We may become upset by tariffsjsnd world trade, by prohibition and power and partliuh politics, KSkJ * ' * •

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by gold and grain, but what are these if children starve? „ Whether these millions suffer is now up to oui cities and couhties and states. They must determine their needs and meet them. The federal government is helping inadequately—by slowly disbursing $300,000,000 for unemployment relief. The Red Cross is distributing flour, cloth, and clothing. But these do not meet the need. So there has been organized the national welfare and relief mobilization, with Newton D. Baker at its head. He has stated the problem, tersely and truthfully: “We are entering in the United States our third winter of widespread unemployment and constantly Increasing want. Each year, savings accounts are becoming exhausted. The ability of friends and relatives to be helpful and of neighbors to be neighbors is growing less. “Wounds which in the first year were painful, but superficial, are beginning now to eat down to vital places and-to threaten mortal injury to so many people as to threaten the integrity of the national character.” A tremendous task. How to meet it? Baker again: ‘ We have food enough and clothes enough and shelter enough for all our people and there is in the country money enough to supply all the helpful and curative agencies needed to rescue victims of our maladjustment. “The only problem about it all is to make America see herself and feel the call to duty.” Stagg Leaves the Field That part of the country interested in football—which is to say, practically everybody—is beyond doubt truly sorry to learn that Alonzo Stagg i s in his last season as head coach at the University of Chicago. Os all the coaches in the land, Stagg probably is the most deeply admired. And the admiration he has won, it seems to us, is of an exceptionally worthwhile kind. Stagg i s no t famous as a winning coach.- 1 He has turned out some great stars and some great teams, but there are plenty of coaches who have far better winning records. Stagg won popular affection not so much because of what he can do as because of what he is. The acclaim that greets him is simply the public’s way of showing that it knows him to be an exceptionally fine man to have a bunch of boys under his care every fall, whether he teaches them footfall gt pingpong. The boast that football character” comes closer to truth in Stagg’s case than anywhere else. The Electoral College Senator Norris’ promise in Philadelphia to fight to abolish the electoral college, as he has the lame duck session of congress, is good news. Here is one Ameiican college that has only the political bosses in its rooting section. This institution was antiquated 100 years ago, when Andy Jackson urged the popular election of Presidents. The electoral college leaves the nation at the mercy of the big party conventions and the fcarty bosses. It makes the candidacy of an independent almost impossible. Another evil is the unit rule, whereby all the electoral votes of a state are counted for the candidate who wins a bare plurality of that state’s popular vote. It is possible now for a presidential candidate to win a plurality of popular votes, yet lose the election in the electoral college. Jackson in 1824, Tilden in 1876, and Cleveland in 1888 all had popular pluralities, but lost in the electoral college. The present system disfranchises minorities. In 1928 Smith received 15,016,443 popular votes. Os these, 1,640,220 gave him a total of eighty-seven electoral votes; 13,256,223 of his popular votes won him not a single electoral vote. He polled 2,100,000 in New York to Hoover’s 2,200,000, yet Hoover feot all forty-five of New York’s electoral votes. The electoral college should be abolished. Yep, the depression must be good for the health of the country. Medicinal liquor withdrawals dropped 30 per cent in the last year, the government reports. Only a paltry 1,500,000 gallons were withdrawn. President Hoover, in reminiscent mood, recalls the joy of “sliding down hill on one’s tummy.” But the world hasn't found it much fun. President Svinhufvrud of Finland has pardoned 2jJOO persons imprisoned for various liquor offenses. After the celebration a lot of them will be back in again. x

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SWEEPING generalities always are subject to questioning. For this reason, the assertion recently published by house mothers, professors and the president of the University of Missouri regarding drinking on the campus hardly can be credited. It would be believed more easily if it had been qualified somewhat. No one is more ready to champion the cause of the modern boy and girl than I, but when I read that most of the elders in charge of such an institution flatly say that there is absolutely no drinking going on, I wonder if the native Missourian, who is noted for his doubting propensities, can swallow that. Frankly, I do not. Why? Because I know that in any community where thousands of boys and girls are congregated there is sure to be a certain amount of misbehavior, and being a sorority woman myself, I know also some of the discipline difficulties encountered at these student homes. Undoubtedly the campus of the University of Missouri is no more than any other place, but to be told that all the students are perfect stretches one’s credulity. • * # YET here are some of the statements made by house mothers there. “We have seventy girls,” says one, “and I know that not one of them drinks, either here or elsewhere.” ' Another says, “I know all that goes on a'.song these boys. Flaming youth! Bah! Drinking! There is none of it" The president of the school announces that there never has been one case of immoral behavior on the campus. ‘ Now, it would be fine if we all felt so sure of the good behavior of our children. But alas, that hardly can be done, if we use our brains. Youngsters never have been perfect, and they are not perfect today. In a land where the adult population drinks so persistently, it hardly is possible that all the young people could be teetotalers. Every student, of course, does not drink. Probably the majority do not. Nevertheless, a sufficient number do to make this one of our hardest problems. To ignore it is certainly not wise. With boys and girls as they do today, moral tragedy often is injected into the issue.

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M; E. Tracy —Says

How Does President Hoover Expect to Make the Bankrupt Farmer or the Jobless Man Believe His Bread and Butter Formula? NEW YORK, O-t. 19.—Far be it from me to belittle bread and butter. If starving, I would go far for even a small amount. If civilization offered nothing else of interest, I would accept bread and butter as a proper yardstick by which to measure human welfare. But why all the tin cans, ice boxes, orchards and berry patches, if bread and butter represents the great common denominator? Why all the slaughter houses, expert advice on diet, and two-volume menus? Besides, I have heard that the Japanese prefer rice? And what could a railroad engineer do with half ton of bread and butter, even if his weekly wage sufficed to pay for it? # M ft Who’ll Believe It? PRESIDENT HOOVER is long on mathematics, especially when it comes to solving human problems. With his bread and butter formula he has ’ demonstrated not only that we Americans are better off than other people, but that we are better off than we were four years ago. How does he propose to make the unemployed or bankrupt farmers believe it? The farmer sees another side to this bread and butter racket. He can’t buy but half so much with the proceeds of old Mooley and the corn patch as he could once. But neither the farmer, railroad engineer nor Japanese laborer is satisfied with bread and butter. What we call progress has spoiled them for that. If driven to it, all of us ’feould go back to the hut, quern and open fireplace, but we expect civilization to spare us the necessity.

Not Our Gauge HUMANITY has not struggled upward 10,000 yesrs for the sake of being told that the barest necessities of life spell prosperity, or even satisfactory conditions. The fact that we Americans Can afford to buy more bread and meat than some less fortunate people is not so very important. At all events, we never have used our spare cash to prove it. We have useed our spare cash to improve and enlarge the food supply, to provide better 'clothing, to erect finer buildings and to expand the horizons of life. It is for such things that we want spare cash, not to heap up mountains of bread and butter. And we w r ant these things to make life happier for the average individual, who has been taught to look upon them as essential to progress. tt tt tt Comparison Is Absurd IT is absurd to compare wages or living standards which prevail here with those in some other pkrts of the world. What we like, believe in, and regard as necessary for a well-rounded existence is lodged in a background peculiarly our own. We have been trained to expect changes and improvements, to employ our surplus wealth and energy for their promotion, to think of life as dynamic and of human destiny as growth. • We are not content with merely enough to eat and wean It is not our ambition to accumulate great surpluses. We are essentially creative in our conceptions. Our greatest delight comes from the conversion of raw materials and raw ideas into finished, useful products. Work never has appealed to the American mind as a medium of existence, as something which could be swapped for the necessary amount of food, clothing, and shelter. We like and demand work because of the way in which it can be translated into achievement.

Questions and Answers

What kind of (motors has Kaye Don’s speed boat, Miss England III? The type of the motors, developed by the British air ministry, has been kept secret. This type has won for Britain, speed records in the air, and on land and sea. About all that is known is that they have twelve cylinders, were built by the Rolls Royce company, develop 4,400-horse power and weigh only thirteen ounces a horse power. Which states held presidential primaries this year? New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, California, South Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia* New Jersey, Oregon, Alabama, Florida and New York for district delegates only. ■What part of the country is called “down east”? The coast states of New England, especially Maine, which is termed “way down east.”

'M TODAY m v*isth6-- ve r WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

AUSTRIA'S PLEA DENIED Oct. 19 ON Oct. 19,1918, President Wilson R refused Austria's request for peace, stating that the independence of the Czecho-Slovak and Yugoslav nations had been by the United States and that with these nations would rest the decision ' as to any peace terms proposed by ' Austria. Americans penetrated the Kriem- ! hilde line at several points between j the Argonne and the Meuse and forced the Germans to retire to the Freva line. Allied armies reached the Dutch i frontier; Americans and British advanced southeast of Cambrai and the British extended their gains east of DouaL The French reached the Hun ding j line in Champagne and captured St. Germainmont. The Germans began evacuation of Brussels.

Asthenia Calls for Sci entific Study

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, 'the Health Magazine. THE condition asthenia, involving weakness and fatigue, following influenza, has been ascribed to constitutional inadequacy, to disturbance of the thyroid gland, to low blood pressure and to similar departures from the normal state. There are some cases in which it has been found that the adrenal gland does not function adequately, and people who have this failure always are tired and weak. Drs. E. L. Bortz and G. M. Piersol describe a special form of insomnia which affects such people. They go to bed and fall asleep promptly around 9 or 10 o’clock, but they

IT SEEMS TO ME'

CRITICS of books and of plays are fond of saying, “The trouble with the work of this author is that the character which he presents does not develop.” Many of the most interesting modern plays are in revolt against this assumption that the story of a man or woman must be the. story of growth or decay. I don’t believe that is the way people function) When we say of somebody that he has grown enormously in the last few years, we don’t actually mean that he has changed fundamentally, but merely that he has had greater opportunities to strut his stuff. Os course, a painter or a novelist may improve from year to year. It even has happened to newspaper columnists, although much more rarely. But the fact that a man begins to understand his medium a little better does not make him anew personality. Shakespeare was Shakespeare before he became Shakespeare. tt tt tt Play Called ‘Success Story’ I HAVE specifically in mind John Howard Lawson’s play, “Success Story,” which seems to me one of the most moving and interesting of curent dramatic attractions along Broadway. In several of the reviews I gathered'that it was the saga of a young idealist ruined by big business. A young man with aspirations took himself into an advertising agency, and look what happened to him. That hardly is fair to the play or to advertising agencies. Next to a revival meeting, ap advertising agency is the most fertile field in which to *ub elbows with texts about good conduct and experiments noble in motive. The tragedy of the brilliantly conceived Mr. Ginsburg in Lawson’s play is, of course, internal. And all tragedies of any consequence lie there. If an automobile darts around a comer and extinguishes a brilliant and useful citizen that is lam-,

All About the Presidency

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Bringing It Home to Him!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

awaken at 1 or 2 and remain awake the rest of'the night. There are, of course, many diseases in which weakness is a prominent symptom. In Such condition, there may be a lack of red blood cells, failure of certain glands to supply necessary secretions, or similar disturbances. These, however, are not of the same type as the various asthenias, although anemia and low blood pressure may be associated with true asthenia. Obviously, conditions of this type must be attacked not only by development of excellent personal hygiene, and other methods for improving the circulation, but also by a thorough study of the mind of

entable. But it isn’t tragic. I mean in the sense of artistic pattern. The thing has no form. Possibly some genius could make a superb play out of the mere aimlesspess of existence. It would be difficult. We prefer to feel that there was reason and motivation in the final doom. In fact, to venture upon the difficult business of defining art I suppose that it is the human endeavor to find a reasonableness and a design in all the scattered business of life and death. tt tt n Seem About the Same T MYSELF never have known anybody who changed very much even under terrific pressure. The war, for instance, was an experience almost beyond the capacity of endurance, but I know hundreds of people who' came out of the conflict precisely as they were before. I am thinking 6f a friehd of mine who used to write about athletic sports in a highly romantic way. If Yale made a last-minute stab to tie Harvard, only to be repulsed on the four-yard line, my friend was sure to telegraph a story in which this episode in the game would be compared to Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg. Then he went to war, and I thought that when he came out he might realize that no football game

Daily Thought

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.—Revelation 2:10.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.—Matthew Arnold.

the person involved, with an attempt to remove the mental factors encouraging continuance of the lack of vital force. Such patients should have complete and careful scientific study, to discover any specific deficiencies in the functions of their issues, so that these may be bolstered when deficient. Above everything else, however, the condition should not be taken lightly, simply because no certain disease or destruction of tissue or organs is found. A psyasthenic or neurasthenic is an exceedingly unhappy person, and will not recover a normal condition until the underlying disturbances are investigated fully and controlled.

HEYWOOD BROUN

the fifteen decisive battles of the world. He served a year in the Argonne and thereabouts, and when he re* turned he wrote the same football story all over again; only this time the Harvard stand on the four-yard line wasn’t Gettysburg, but the marines at Chateau-Thierry. Nothing had happened to my friend internally. u a a Our Old Friend Lilliom T’M glad that Eva Le Gallienne plans to revive Molnar’s “Lilliom” this year, for there is a play after my own heart. The hero, as you may remember, went through even the fires of purgatory and came out unchanged. Tales of this sort seem to me more reassuring than stories of repentance, remorse and conversion. One likes to find stability in personality. The notion of heaven itself may be a little disturbing, because it is a place where man, according to all accounts, is magnified. By this process he may become finer, but he also becomes different. This seriously comprises the assurance that ip that realm we shall meet again and know all those we loved. Few of us have loved people for their potentialities. It may be that it was not even the virtues of these others which drew us- close. Vices and prejudices were essential

notes in such tunes of temperament as we found endearing. Perhaps we liked Alexander for arrogance, Charles for mendacity, and Louise for downright depravity. How can we know any of them if they are to be : econstructed through redemption? It is conceivable, of course, that in the kingdom of the blessed we' shall find a little waiting group, one of whom wears a tag saying, “I am Alexander” or “This is Charlie” or “Here is Louise.” ' But this is an Alexander who says, Os course, I may be wrong, as I so very often am.” This is not the Alexander whom we knew and liked on earth. If there is to be a friendship, it will have to begin all over again. . The man is a stranger. And Louise—the winged Louise —remarks, “It’s a lovely afternoon for righteousness.” With a sinking heart we travelers will realize that it win continue to be fine weather for good deeds through an eternity. It is a Louise to command admiraton, awe and respect. In other words, Louise has died. fCopyright. IM2. hv Th* n m .. 4

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Apparently both political parties seem to be getting anxious to do some miracle for Mr Common Citizen. We have seen miracles in the last three years. Those of us who thought we were getting on pretty fair, have seen the country drained ditched and damned, food going to waste while people begged, clothing factories closed, while millions were going in rags; lumber mills closed while people were living in driftwood boxes on river banks and on city dumps. Savings banks closed cm our savings, our wages deflated so we were unable "to buy merchandise, pay taxes, interest on loans on our homes. We had our neighbors loaded up on us for the future, bought bonds for poor relief. Our farmers have been relieved of thei*wfarms by mortgage holders, because" we re-

Ideals and opinions expressed in this cMumn 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. 19, 1932

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

One of the Most Important and Colorful Figures in American Education Is Dr. Abraham Flexner. T-VR. ABRAHAM FLEXNER, di- ' rector of the new Institute for Advanced Study, which just has signed Professor Albert Einstein for a life job, is one of the most important and colorful figures in the history of American education. He has, perhaps, impressed himself as much as any other one man upon the trend of American education. The fact that he is not yet satisfied with that product is significant for the future. Dr. Flexner has organized his new institute, which was made passible by a $5,000,000 gift from Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld, because he feels that at this time America needs anew type of educational institution. This is not tfye first time that Dr. Flexner undertook to remake a portion of the nation’s educational framework. That he has started his present venture by* signing the world's greatest and best-known scientist is proof that he has lost none of his old abilities. T!l“ tew yeare aeo secretary of the general education board of the Rockefeller Foundafact *? eXner that we °we the fact that America today possesses a group of medical schools the finest of Europe. It was Flexner who saw the need 1 wenst Ch 80110018 in Africa and W ° rk to see that were endowed, organized and established. * M A Born Teacher F L vS ER WaS born ln Louis- ... , le > one of nine children His ather had taught school in Europe before coming to this country Mone y Was scarce in the Flexner school" uwh 30 the h®* B went S thi ft the mornin e and worked afternoon. As the older boys jo£ Pl th? v S< £° o 1 and took full-time J h y . began to contribute to, th In eC th^ tlon ° f the youn ? er boys. V In l £ ls way Abraham was sent through Johns Hopkins univerStv. He returned to Louisville starting a school for children. He had a magnetic personality, as wen as an enthusiasm and passion for teach mg and soon he was getting^ to coSegeltTS hm. r T. d^ nt . EUot of Harvard asked & , ££."'2SK as” ouVjSS! fr ° m “ ' ar ,Way Then when his school was beeinning to make him rich he talked the matter over with his wife. (He had married Anne Crawford, who K later distinguished herself as a playwright.) a

de , cided to drop the school SSiw^wt 0 Europe to work and Btody \, FJe *ner had ideas about education and particularly American education which he wanted to in°'thi. 0U c t „„„? e ,e,t that fancy ntry was still ln its in- .. Asa result of his trip, he nublished in 1908, a book called “The America confer It was a sharp romJ rank s crlticlsm of the shoring e %°L American institutions. One of the men who read it was Henry Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- . vancement of Teaching. * a asked Flexner to make a similar survey of medical education i n the United States. * n His Medical Survey pLEXNER Visised the 155 medical A schools then in existence in the United States and Canada. He found many of the schools lacking in personnel and equipment. Many of them were overcrowded and had low standards of admission. Asa result of his survey, about half of the schools were forced to close their doors. Two years later he published a . survey titled “Medical Education Europe. In it he pointed out the direction in which medical education should go in America. In 1912 he became assistant secretary of the general education board of the Rockefcl’er Foundation and in 1917 he became secretary. In 1919 he outlined to the board a plan to reorganize medical education in the country by concentrating on 4he development of a fialf-dozen schools that would equal the best of Europe. John D. Rockefeller Jr. approved ,< the plan and asked the cost. Flexner said $50,000,000. Rockefeller’s lawyer told" him that $15,000,000 was available to make a start, Flexner said he preferred to wait until th 6 whole job, could be done. In a few months another $15,000000 was available. He still waited. Soon after, he got the sum he wanted. Flexner’s idea was that the schools should be built 50 per cent with Rockefeller money and 50 per cent with local money. He' chose Rochester, where there was a good university, as one of the towns. He approached the late George Eastman and told him he wanted $10,000,000 from him.. Eastman of-i sered $2,500,000. Flexner refused. In the end he gave in. “You’re wasting your time,” he told Flexner. “You ought to be selling kodaks.” Next—More about Flexner.

lieved the farmer of his produce at one-fourth its value. We stopped public and private improvements so we could enjoy our slum districts, and we let our homes fall into decay for lack of paint, roofs axtd inside decorations. We insist on rugged individualism and ragged people. Our conscience has been drugged to believe that the gold standard ha* magic to supply our human relations, by cutting down every necessity for high standard living. Our politicians have proposed beer to drown our thinking capacity, so we can forget the past and not notice the,future “relief programs " Education, religion and government watch awe stricken, but indifferent, while we are consumed. If the idiotic destruction of human values continues, with it will go all the progress of education, religion and government. The program seems to have the earmarks of a damnable conspiracy to put the people of America into bondage for a few who decree and control. Shall it be all for one crone for all? ONLOOKER.