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The Right to Work What is implied in the appeal of President Hoover and other leaders fdr a forty-hour week for labor? Speaking before the Men's Club of Beth-El temple, Rev. J. W. R. Maguire, president? of St. Viator’s college and an economist of note, declares that it is the first official recognition of the right to work. If there be a right on the part of an individual to a job, then somewhere in society there must be a duty to supply a job. In these days of vast unemployment, there will be more and more discussion of this right, if it be a right, and of ways to enforce that right. At the present time, men who want work can not discover who owes them the job. That government, either state or local, .must furnish work when private employers fail suggests that the country is turning toward Socialism, Communism or Fascism. But if there be no obligation on the part of government to supply jobs, then the obligation must be upon industry and there must be very definite changes from the present system. The right to work, if recognized, is also sorrfethlng more than'the job itself. It implies a payment of wages on a basis that will permit the worker to maintain a on high American standards of living. It implies that he will not be paid in baskets of food from charity, official or unofficial. The whole subject will command attention in the next few months. The twelve millions of idle are becoming a burden not only to themselves, but to all industry. Idleness is a luxury which society can not afford. Before the problem is settled, many in high places will be compelled to change their views and their vocabularies. The “share work” movement is one step. It will succeed only if it be done in a manner which permits the highest standards, not the lowest, of living for all.

They Got Him When General Pelham D. Glassford,* police chief In Washington, defied the administration’s ruthless handling of the bonus marchers last summer, people said the powers would get him. They have. Technically, Glassford has resigned. The district commissioners, Hoover appointees, blocked the chief’s effort to break up the “police machine.” Instead of standing by the chief in his reforms, as they promised when they induced him to take the thankless job less than a year ago, they backed the old police clique that forced him out. This is not anew story. It has happened in many American cities —an inefficient police department, public demand for reorganization, appointment of a strong and fearless chief from outside, a brief flurry, ending in' the politicians breaking the reformer. This political racket was described in detail by the Wickersham commission’s report, indicting the American police system. It said: “The general failure of the police system has caused a loss of public confidence in the police of our country. The chief evil, in our opinion, lies in the insecure, short term of service of the chief or executive head of the police force and in his being subject while in office to control by politicians in discharge of his duties.” " Unlike some politicians, doubtless President Hoover and his district commissioners were sincere in choosing a leader of Glassford’s caliber in the beginning. Asa retired young army officer of brilliant record, liberal and forceful and popular, who was not dependent on his job, salary, or political favor, he was the ideal man. If his job had remained that of merely coping with criminals, probably he would have retained official support. That was where he fell. He believed in respecting the law and in observing the constitutional rights of citizens. President Hoover believed in crushing demonstrations with army cavalry, tanks, and tear gas. When public opinion reacted against the ruthless rout of the bonus seekers, Hoover and his officials tried to justify it by describing them as reds and criminals. Glassford had the courage to issue a public statement proving this untrue. Obviously after that it was only a question of time until Glassford would be out. / The result is that Glassford has become more of a popular hero than ever, and the administration has fewer shreds of public confidence. But, unfortunately, that is not all. Many more hunger marchers are likely to converge on Washington this winter. As the Wickersham report said: “The handling of groups whose attitude toward the government may differ radically from the average requires a well-advised technique. Here brawn without brains fails.” Glassford was the brains and he is gone. If Hoover repeats this winter his folly of panicky force, he may prod desperate citizens to return violence for violence. We pray that this shall not be. More Security. Next month, at its Cincinnati convention, the American Federation of Labor will mark its change of view’ on unemployment insurance by adopting a measure which President Green is preparing for the next congress. This, doubtless will provide for federal aid to industry in the creation of Jobless reserves. Labor also will continue to demand a scientific system of employment exchanges to supplant the useless and politically manned Hoover-Doak scheme, substituted for the vetoed Wagner plan. The demand for more security for American workers daily becomes louder. Governor Roosevelt has promised, if elected, to seek to “banish the shadow of the dole” by persuading states to act. The United States Chamber of Commerce has indorsed the idea of work insurance. So have the League of Women Voters, Federal Council of Churches and many other organizations. Into thirty state legislatures job insurance bills will be introduced this winter. From many quarters come demands that government abandon Its do-nothing policy and join with Industry to make life safe for American workers and their families. Our country, apparently, is among the last to abandon its fiction of rugged individualism. In Europe 47,000,000 workers are protected by some form of job insurance. About 39,000,000 of these are under compulsory systems. Arthur Hunter, chief actuary of the New York Life Insurance company, proves that British workers, protected since 1911, have not been made paupers or loafers by the so-called “dole.” American fraternal delegates, returning from the British Trades Vnion Congress, report that the “dole”

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has forestalled violence and conserved British workers’ health and morale during the depression. Our people must be cared for during lean times. To feed them by the hand of charity now costs us upward of a billion dollars a How much better for their respect and the nation’s to care for them from industry’s surplus earnings, set rside as reserves during the fat years! Unemployment insurance and job exchanges will not solve our economic muddle. They will, however, guarantee more security, cause Industry to plan its future, and exorcise from our society the specter of want. These reforms are cheaper, in the long run, than breadlines. • Grundyism at the Golden Gate There is irony in the kickback from California against the Hawley-Smoot tariff, which the Californian poover has been defending so ardently. Were there virtue in this Grundy formula, the Hoover state should know it. For the G. O. P. has built a wall of “protection” against the nations of the Pacific that was designed to make the Golden State more golden than in its own boosters’ wildest dreams. Instead, it has brought poverty. According to the San Francisco News, California’s exports since 1929 have fallen $100,000,000, or more than 50 per cent. The future holds more grief. Nearly 90 per cent of California’s oranges went to Canada in 1930. The new Canadian retaliatory {ariff shuts these out, with a rate of $1.05 a box. Canned and dried fruit, 40 per cent of which is sold abroad, will suffer a similar fate at the borders of Canada, France, and Britain. In a resolution that sounds very much like the Roosevelt proposal, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce recently denounced the Hawley-Smoot tariff and called for reciprocal concessions. “We believe,” said the chamber, “that our hopes for the development of Pacific trade and shipping will not be realized under our present high tariff policy ... it restricts foreign trade and adversely affects prosperity.” Wisdom, Not Wit Word comes from the cold hilis of New Hampshire that the people are about to choose another Mose* to lead them from their affliction into the promised land. For years Senator George Higgins Moses has not restrained his biting wit. Today his very Imart cracks rise to plague him. His 1928 remark about “the menace of Hoover,” his sneers at Harding, at Hubert Work, at Frank Kellogg, at nearly every prominent Republican since Taft, have irked the regulars; his “sons of the wild jackass” epithet has stamped him as a foe of progressives. In fat years the voters welcome the sallies of a court jester. In lean ones like these they demand wisdom instead of wit. Mayor Jimmy Walker found this out. Senator Moses may, too. The American Academy of Speech derides the use of “punkin” for “pumpkin.” It’s just another case where the American Academy of Speech is right—and the rest of the world is wrong. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde milked a cow recently for the first time in twenty years, and we wonder if he noticed any difference in the cows of today and yesterday. An eastern school sent up an expedition 20,000 feet to study the winds, which seems like an unnecessary expense with the campaign speeches being flung around right here on the ground. The National Geographic Society says that if the diamond holdings of the United States were divided equally each family would have between $l5O and S2OO worth of diamonds. And surely, by this time, in the hock shop. t The disarmament conference has announced it fapes the difficulty of “framing an invitation that Germany will accept.” There they go, framing again! The Insull proceedings may reveal the astounding fact that extradition is something the Greeks do not have a word for. A scientist denies that the average man is getting bigger, but it must be admitted he feels bigger, around election time. i Bernard Shaw declares patriotism is a “pernicious, pschopathic form of idiocy.” But probably his words will be wasted on American politicians.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

UNDER auspices of the Republican national committee, the other day, three ex-presidents-general of the D. A. R. stepped to the microphone and recited their pretty speeches of loyalty. In ladylike diction and elegant phraseology, all three repeated the platitudes about national ideals, true Americanism, and governmental righteousness. It was announced that, some satanic force threatens our homes and our children and Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart told us what it was. “While the hydra-headed monster of radicalism,” she said, “has shown its ugly.fangs and tried to strike us. Herbert Hoover has protected us from its deadly sting.” In short, the ladies were in agreement that but for our President the land would be by this time completely in ruins. Poor Mr. Hoover! He has suffered from the extravagant praises of his friends if man ever did. Single-handed, so they told us, he fed the starving Belgians, single-handed he kept millions from death in the Mississippi flood. Single-handed he rescued his people in 1928 from Romanism and ruin, and now, like some St. George battling with the fiery dragon, he is preserving us from radicalism. tt tt m PERSONALLY, I do not think Mr. Hoover’s job can have been a pleasant one for the last four years. Asa man I admire him. tremendously and realize that he was handicapped greatly by having to work with an antagonistic congress. But even so, in my opinion, his enemies, with all their criticism, are kinder to him than his friends of the Republican national committee. And it is peculiarly fitting that the dowagers of the D. A. R. should aid in embarrassing him. since they always do that sort of thing so well, and all stand ready to prevent any sensible discussion of issues to come from their high places. Whenever these protectors of the public welfare explain to the rest of us exactly what they metfn by “true Americanism, national ideals, and governmental righteousness,” they may make good campaigners. Until then, however, their oratory is merely airy persiflage. _ .

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M. E. Tracy 1 Says': / For the Last Thirty Years This Nation Has Been Moving Steadily Toward Rule by a Benevolent Aristocracy. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—1 am moved to testify in this gospel-of-fear meeting, not by way of protest, but as part of the chrus. I. also, am afraid, though not of the same things, or for the same reasons, which appear to daunt some others. I shall not fire the cook, or chloroform the cat, if Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected, but I shall worry a great deal over what is sure to happen if the philosophy represented by old guard Republicans is permitted to go much farther in warping our form of government. The bogey which looms on our political horizon is made of more menacing stuff than a temporary decline of prices and wages. The depression is but a shadow of its substance. For the last thirty years, and especially for the last twelve, this nation has been moving steadily toward rule by a benevolent aristocracy, toward group control of its finances, industries and resources. We have much more to fear from the Mussolini scheme than from red propaganda. Little Humanity Left EXPERTNESS, efficiency, system, and discipline have been woven into our business structure, until there is little of the human element left. As in prison, men become mere numbers, and, according to one distinguished authority, our banks prefer collateral to character. Even charity has become a statistical enterprise. Untrained people are told that they are not qualified to give intelligently. Lazarus and the rich man have no direct contact any more. The crumbs are gathered up and doled out by specialists. The federal government has grown too wise, rational, and sane for straightforward, effective relief in case of personal distress through public calamity. President Hoover has discovered that bread and butter form a good common denominator of human welfare, but finds it necessary to feed strained banks and threatened corporations on a different diet. / * # * Millions Are Ruined npHE government has become an A aloof, isolated institution as far as the great masses are concerned. If they get relief, or attain recovery, it must be through the good offices of their betters. Under the program of succor by proxy, millions have been ruined at the boftom to safeguard thousands at the top, and they have been ruined more completely in a spiritual than in a financial sense. They have been trained to mendicancy by a form of assistance which forces them to beg. Their very souls have been atrophied by exquisite humiliation in the name of charity. That is something which always goes with the creed of moral, political, and economic purveyance by a selected few, but it is opposed diametrically to the original concepts of this republic. tt tt Great Loss Is Spiritual THE spirit we have killed, the ambition we have crushed, the manhood and womanhood we have destroyed by a blundering leadership in this depression represents much more of a loss than we have sustained financially. Nor can the blundering be attributed justly to excitement in the face of an unexpected disaster, for it is inherent to the scheme of politics and economic aspirations promoted by every administration since that of Woodrow Wilson. It is part and parcel of the attitude which advised us that everything was all right in the spring of 1929, which saw nothing dangerous in brokers’ loans, though they amounted to $4,000,000,000 and were strangling legitimate credit, which promised the abolition of poverty just before Wall Street collapsed, which helped Kreuger in his swindling operations by putting an embargo on Russian matches, which was so blind to the size and scope of the depression that the federal government was $2,000,000,000 in the hole before it realized that the budget was out of balance, and which can’t believe that things are so awfully bad, because health statistics show a low death rate.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—President Hoover’s speech in Des Moines, in which he promised higher tariff to the farmer, has raised a question in my mind as to the actual facts regarding the whole tariff issue. For several years the G. O. P. has claimed that the tariff has developed the industry of the country and made this the most powerful industrial nation in the world. Republican leaders (and many Democrats, also) have listened to every plea of the individual tariffgrabbers, and hever have been known to refuse to co-operate in securing protection without regard to the nation’s interest. We started out to protect the infant industry and created an industrial population of such tpagnitude that our very lives depend upon the success of our manufacturers, both in domestic and foreign markets. Now it is proposed as a remedy for all the farmer’s ills. tn the President’s address we find a criticism of the Democratic party’s platform promise to “bargain” with -other nations to secure better markets and scares the poor fanner into believing that he will get a raw deal. Previously, the President has said that what the country needed was a long view of things. Yet we find him gloating over the fact that there were scarcely pny duties on farm roducts before 1920. at a time in which European farmers hardly had recovered from the effects of the World war. Were they needed at that time? And are the present duties of any conceivable benefit now? It seems to me that tariff hardly can be considered except in they? relation to present conditions, and I suspect that the President believes the same thing. Mr. Hoover states that the mani ufacturer would secure all the

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Eyes See Singly, but Images Blend

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FOR a long time any attempt to control crosseyes in children was prevented, because people thought that the cross-eyes were due to fright, a shock, an infectious disease, or some accident to the mother. In a consideration of the subject, Dr. Luther C. Peter points out that most children at birtli are farsighted. Moreover, the eyes of the child at birth are not perfectly co-ordinated or capable of working together. After six or eight weeks the eyes begin to work harmoniously, and by the end of the first year in most children the two eyes travel together. Each eye sees singly, but the images blend. In some forms of squint or cross-eye (scientifically called strabismus) they appear to blend in two images.

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IT is a great pity that in this campaign, as in all others, we are not able to fight out the issue on precisely what one or the other candidate has said. It is the custom to listen to the words of political adversaries and then exclaim: “Oh, that’s very pretty, but of course we didn’t mean it.” And even *more often we are inclined to say: “Well, he did mention ‘black,’ but he really was thinking of ‘brown.’” In my opinion, many men should be defeated upon exactly what they declare, their words being accepted at fully 100 per cent of their face value. I have Herbert Hoover specifically in mind. Some of his speeches have seemed to me utterly honest and candid, and the more frank he becomes, the more I am opposed to him.

Questions and Answers

Has Ireland any extensive forests? The scattered forests in Ireland constitute about 300.000 acres, approximately I*6 per cent of the total area, and lie chiefly in Leinster and Munster provinces. What are the ingredients in glass? Sand, lime and soda, mixed together and melted. Why were the Great Lakes so called? Because of their size. Where did the famous St. Valentine’s day massacre take place? Chicago. benefits of international agreements on the tariff. Well, what of it? The stock argument of the peasant farmer hardly can stand the light of day. The very nature of farm products causes such an enormous shipping bill that competition is barely possible. Also, the condition of the European farmer can not readily be said to be worse than the plight of our own tillers of the soil, and I contend that the farmer will | secure prosperity only when the purchasing power of the great industrial centers is guaranteed. The farmer can profit more by increased industrial trade than by any tariff on farm products except as may be placed to prevent dumping. Even the most rabid of tariff exponents now contend that protection has developed our industry to such extent that many of our duties should be lowered so our inefficiency and skill in mass production shall not go to waste on a limited domestic market. I believe your newspaper would render a public service by publishing more statistical information and explaining the effect of individual items on the general condition of our factories. A little light on these matters might mean a good deal to voters who, in the very nature of things, hardly can grasp a definite solution from the meager and partisan discussions on the subject. Evtn. the President says that he does not agree with many of the provisions of the present law. I wonder if he, too, might be more specific. FRANCIS MEUNIER. 1624 North Alabama street. ; if

Caught in His Own Trap!

The child therefore visions the image with one eye or the other, choosing the one it is going to use. Either eye may turn in, and to most people it seems that both do. In the most common types, there is some power to fuse images, but far-sightedness in one eye interferes with such fusion. If function is not strong, the weak eye tends to turn in, but there is a double image. It is obvious that the correction of this condition by proper glasses is a great help in lessening the effort of function and in aiding development of proper vision. When a child squints or has cross-eyes, the first step is to have the vision tested by a competent specialist, who will examine the eyes under the best possible conditions; namely using proper drops in the eye to enable accurate measurement.

To be sure, in the year 1932, as in the year 25 B. C., there is a disposition to draw red herrings across the trail. Thus, in one recent address Herbert Clark Hoover lashed out furiously against those who said that in his mine promotion days he hired coolie labor at starvation wages. This Mr. Hoover denied, but it is not and should not be one of the major issues of the campaign. After all, the mass of voters are much more interested in what workers get now than what they received twenty-five years ago in the days of the great engineer’s novitiate. tt tt tt Even So, I Don't Like Him AND I am more sincerely against President Hoover’s re-election than ever before, after hearing his eloquent radio address appealing for aid to swell community chests and help the status of the unemployed. I am against that thoroughly sincere message because, it seems to me, entirely wrong-headed. Herbert Clark Hoover persists in the belief that joblessness is a local issue, to be handled by each community through private relief organizations. He sticks to a system which already has been shown to be inadequate. The dole carries with it a certain dignity." No man need be ashamed of receiving a government allowance, because it is an acknowledgment on the part of the executives of the nation that they have blundered and are trying to make atonement for their error. But charity is a depressing thing which inspirits neither the one who gives nor the receiver. tt tt tt Only as a Stopgap UNDER certain emergencies it may be the quickest "way in which relief can be mobilized for those who suffer. I spoke briefly for block-aid last year, but I will not do so again. I think we have had ample time to learn that this is the inconsequential and evasive way of dealing with fundamental problems. The whole business of private contributions and private allowances gets down to a familiar analogy which I have used in many speeches. On one bright and brisk morning you may happen to be walking along a pier jutting out into the

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If glasses are necessary, they will be prescribed, and thus straining of the vision in the weak eye will be prevented. Dr. Peter is convinced that childen will tolerate glasses at the age of 15 months, and in many instances the early use of these glasses is an exceedingly important measure. In some cases, operation may be necessary to help muscles that have become weakened. Proper placement of the muscles tends to bring the eye back into parallelism and to permit proper functioning of the images. There is no reason why any one should feel hopeless about crosseyes. There are so many things that can be done by those who are competent, when parents and teachers are willing to co-operate, that almost every child may look forward hopefully to improvement in this condition.

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

ocean. From the depth of the sea a cry arises of “Help! Help! Help!” * Under those circumstances the average good citizen will toss off his coat and leap to the rescue of the drowning man, and when he has pulled him to the shore the hero will rejoice in his own prowess and self-sacrifice. But remember that was of a Monday morning. On Tuesday the same good citizen is walking along the same pier, and again he hears a cry for help. This time he divests himself of unnecessary garments quite a shade more slowly, and when he reaches the struggler in the water he may, quite possibly, be a bit annoyed to find out that it is precisely the sartie individual whom he rescued on the preceding day. And his unwillingness to plunge off the pier every morning at 8:30 o’clock will grow as soon as he finds that he must rescue precisely the same person every day of the week, including Sundays. it tt tt The Demand of Charity THAT is the obligation presented by private gifts and private relief organizations. The best that they can do is to save the same person over and over again. There is nothing in their charter or imagination which permits them to approach the important problem of cause and effect. In the comparatively short run, it is far more useful to find out why people flounder in deep water than to attempt to pull them out. And this interesting question is not included in the philosophy of Herbert Clark Hoover. His whole disposition seems to go toward a tepid opportunism, rather than a passionate research into first causes. And, to put it in the most practical way possible, people who have given once can not be recruited the second time. They have a feeling that one good gift does not deserve another. I even have known those who went out and bought an apple and felt that thereby they had solved the entire problem of unemployment. Benevolence and good will are not qualities to be despised in any emergency. But they should give place to something far better. I refer to nation-wide governmental organization. (Copyright. 1932. by The Time#)

OCT. 21, 1932

SCIENCE! BY DAVID DIETZ '

Modem. University Is Complex Institution, of Myriad Activities. BY now the colleges and tha universities of the nation have settled down to the serious business of the fall term. New students have been Inducted safely into the student body. Flag rushes, pushball eon testa, and other forms of Jollification, in which freshmen and sophomores make each other’s acquaintance by ripping one another's shirts Into shreds, are out of the way for another year. The modem university Is a dual institution. Side by side with the teaching of students, the work of research is carried on. Since only a few sudents form the habit of reading technical Journals regularly in their undergraduate days, they often are unaware of the complex problems which their professors are working upon in the same laboratories where they worry through the routine experiments of elementary courses. Scientific research also is carried on in America by special institutions endowed for the purpose and by research laboratories attached to large corporations. Examples of the former type are the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Smithsonian Institution. Examples of the latter type are to be found in the laboratories of the General Electric Company, the Eastman Kodak Company, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, and others. But the greatest volume of research work is carried out by the faculty members of colleges and universities. Difficult Problems THE fact that the modem university is both a research institution and a teaching institution has given rise to many difficult problems. The situation has been aggravated still more by the recent demand for university extension work, including downtown college branches, night instruction, extension lectures, radid lectures, and instruction by mail. A few years ago there was complaint that the only road to promotion in a university was through the field of research, that the instructor who wished to give his best efforts and energies to the business of teaching found himself left behind, while promotion came to the man who had published a large volume of research. It also was Inferred that there was a great deal of so-called research work published that might just as well have gone unpublished. Within recent years, there has been a demand for anew type of educator, the sort of man who understood public psychology sufficiently well to administer extension branches of a university. The ancient university was a simple thing compared to its modern offspring. In the beginning, the university consisted of a teacher and his pupils. It was, however, even in those dajfe. a dual institution. For the master attracted students because he had something original to say, and that meant, therefore, that he was engaged in research. But the problem was not complicated by dormitories, football teams, endowment campaigns, real estate holdings, alumni associations, fraternities, or prohibition.

Intellectual Giants DR. ABRAHAM FLEXNER, in establishing his new Institute of Advanced Study, seems in some ways to have returned to the ancient ideals of the university. He has begun by signing Professor Albert Einstein as his professor of mathematics and theoretical physics. Other intellectual giants are to be added to the faculty. Apparently the plan is to give these men time and quiet for researches of their own and to surround them with graduate students of high intellect and serious purpose, students who can profit by association with great masters. It seems to me that 'Dr. Flexner is applying to his new institute a plan not widely different from the one upon which he organised the medical schools of the United States. While secretary of the general education board of the Rockefeller foundation, he persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to put up $50,000,000. He watched this with an equal suf from a number of rich men, and with it rebuilt a number of the nation’s medical schools. All these schools have operated on a program which called for important research programs, faculties of high ability and rigorous standards of students. However, it seems to me tha* K would be a mistake for any one to assume that all the universities of the nation could go over to the sort of program outlined by Dr. Flexner, to the exclusion of their other activities. Success of the extension work of Columbia university, city College of New York, Cleveland College of Western Reserve university and other organizations, is in itself sufficient Justification for this type of work. The graduate student sufficiently well trained to sit at the feet of Einstein should have the opportunity. But in addition, the intelligent young man, earning his living as a salesman or clerk, who is willing to devote an evening a week to finding out what the Einstein theory is about, should not be denied the opportunity. /world WAR \ ANNIVERSARY GERMANS ASK TRUCE October 21 ON Oct. 21, 1918, Germany suggested to President Wilson arrangements for an armistice, announced that her submarines would be restricted and told of government reforms. The allies advanced on a ninetymile front from the Dutch border to the Oise, east of St. Quentin. Germans in northern Belgium were forced back upon Ghent and the Scheldt. In the Balkans, French troop* reached the Danube near Vldin, shelled an enemy monitor, and drove It ashore.