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One Sure Way The only way in which industry or business can be given new Impetus and take back to work the men and women now unemployed is through the exercise of purchasing power. Unta there is a market for the articles made in factories, the factories can not open and there can be ho employment. If it were possible for every one to buy on the same Beale of quantity and prices that prevailed in 1928, there would be no depression or unemployment. Unfortunately, that Is not possible. It is not possible for the very reason that in the vicious circle of unemployment very many are unable to make any purchases whatever. But there are many w r ho still have work and wages. There are more thousands with fixed Incomes, and others. It is from this source that business must again start. Today, there is more optimism than has existed in the past two years. More and more do men believe that this country will soon emerge from its difficulties and under a progressive philosophy of government find a solution for its economic distress. That very many people have translated their fears into an unwise thrift is quite understandable. When jobs are scarce, it is natural to be cautious and very many have refrained from making any except the most necessary purchases. That attitude has inevitably increased unemployment and reduced the output of factories and brought prices of everything to distress levels. If every person would buy today something that they did not actually need, that act might be a spark that would start the motor of business again into action. Prices will never be as low as they are today. They will be higher and must be higher when men are restored to work. That is inevitable. The one real act of thrift is to start buying now for in that thrift there will not only be an actual saving of money, but it will open the doors of factories for idle workers, restore men to their normal jobs*and insure the jobs of those now employed. Buy Today might well be the slogan for business recovery.

The New Picture Six years ago, not a Democrat .occupied any office In the statehouse. Nor, for that matter, any real Republican. Six years ago, most of the officials in the various counties and the mayors of every large industrial city were Republicans. Today, not as a result of the nation wide vote of protest against the depression, but by steady gains in each election, every official in the statehouse except one supreme court judge, has been placed there under the Democratic label and the officials and mayors have changed to the same political party. The change came because the, Republican party had betrayed its own following and served false gods. Its leadership went to the shrewd manipulators who had secret bargains with seekers of special privilege. These leaders believed that the great majority of voters woulrf always vote for labels instead of principles and that thtey would always be safe. That was the reason they thought it safe to deal openly and sometimes with a sort of proud servility, with the agents for the utility interests, the sources of state supplies for road building, the constructors of buijdings, all who wanted more than a break. The people have reason to be glad that the new leaders of the state sound a note of responsibility instead of jubilation in their hour of great victory. Chairman R. Earl Peters of the Democratic party suggested that the one thought must not be of power and Jobs, but of redeeming pledges. The next Governor, Paul McNutt, put the same message in even more emphatic terms and voiced a humility in the face of gigantic responsibilities. The task ahead is to avoid the influence of the same selfish interests which wrecked the Republican control. That party lost in the state and in the counties because it forgot the people in its eagerness to serve its seducers. The people have an unerring instinct for finding their way when they see the light. The people finally looked behind the curtains and saw not a real government, but one which had been built upon catering to those who prey upon the public. And when they saw, they acted. The new picture has cleared the way for laws that will truly represent the will and interests of the masses. Good News / One reason the American people are so happy over the election result is that it means the beginning of the end of national prohibition. The one big thing no amount of figure-juggling can obscure is that the country has gone wet with a bang. A wet President and a wet congress elected on a wet platform. Reason for the widespread rejoicing is not —as some of the professional drys would have us believe—because a bunch of drunkards want to get back their liquor. There is no question of increasing the flow of alcohol. There is as much liquor, certainly more hard liquor, consumed today as in pre-prohibition days. Any one who wants it now can get it, and without the added expense of a tax. Obviously, therefore, this sweeping tide of popular revolt against prohibition is driven by something far more iundamental than personal thirst. Indeed, it sweeps along many men and women wets who do -not drink and do not want to drink. The explanation is that Volstead modification and the eighteenth amendment repeal mean to the majority of American citizens a great reform—a moral and social reform, a political reform, an economic reform. A moral reform, because it will remove the incentive for stealth on the one hand and spying on the other, which has been making us a nation either of snoopers or hypocrites. A social reform, because it will protect youth from the present unregulated and spectacular liquor traffic, and because it will remove the bootlegging industry as ft major cause of rackets and crime. A political reform, because it wil restore personal liberty to the individual, restore autonomy and police power to the state, and wipe out a source of corruption of government and courts. More, it will remove a political issue which for a decade artificially has cut across and obscured essential economic issues, dangerously delaying party realignments, election mandates, and governmental action on bread and butter problems. A fiscal and economic reform, because it means more employment and a market for farm products, because the government needs the upward of half a

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billion dollars in annual revenue obtainable by taxing the now tax-free liquor industry. Os course the people are happy—because the election has brought them the prospect of a beer tax in this congresu and a hard liquor tax in the next congress, which will relieve part of their own tax burden. That is good news for all. , """"" ' ' ■ 500,000 Governments Some 300 years ago in England, creation of local governmental units, with sheriffs, bailiffs, marshals, etc., was a forward step in democratic government. Later it became a solidified tradition seldom examined or thought of in this country, to which it was transplanted. Today it not only is an anachronism, but an extravagance. The man who fed and housed and cared for six horses instead of buying a cheaD and efficient six-cylinder car would be ridiculed by his neighbors. The American people are supporting 500,000 different sets of government officials. Total number of men and women on tax-supported pay rolls never has been estimated, but counties alone average fifteen officials apiece, to say nothing of city, town and village governments, and school districts, fire, water, lighting, sewer and sidewalk districts. The resulting pay roll and the cost of duplicated efforts of these officials has become an insupportable burden upon a people which finds it difficult to supply itself with shelter and food and clothing. If there is general and widespread rebellion this winter against old-fashioned cumbersome and costly forms of local government, the result is apt to be a long stride in improvement of the public service. Political scientists have been arguing for years that the system needed revision. Hard times may win their point for them. North Carolina already has turned over its road building and school maintenance almost entirely to the state government. Roads are getting better care and schools'are operating longer and on higher standards than ever before. Other states are cleaning up local governments, still others are merging them. Different parts of the country prefer different methods of handling the problem, but all are discovering, slowly, that it must be dealt with at once. Young Ishmaels As the year’s bitter season sets in, social workers are alarmed over the plight of some 300,000 young homeless Americans, wandering like Ishmaels from city to city, subjected to every degrading influence. Two months ago we called attention to this baffling depression problem. Surveys since then reveal conditions worse. The approach of winter is driving the young- wanderers southward and westward to communities already overburdened with unemployed and hungry. And there they are passed on from one to another city. Dr. A. W. McMillen, field worker for the R. F. C., just has returned from a study of the subject. He found freight trains on the Pacific coast alive with thousands of transients. At Klamath Falls, Ore., he found the "jungles” housing 400 old and new-made tramps. A Georgia survey revealed that of the hordes passing through that state 41 per cent were boys under 16! Difficult as the problem is, it can be met in better ways than at present. Communities can carry on preventive measures to keep their young folk at home. They can assign one agency, like the travelers aid or Y. M. C. A., to provide food and shelter and recreation. They can, if pressed by too great a burden, obtain aid from the government’s relief funds. Here is a problem that calls for instant action. Delay means new and more costly problems of crime, degeneracy, and deterioration. “Youth can not wait for a return of better days,” warns Newton D. Baker. "Courage, morale, and wise guidance are needed today as they seldom have been in the history of our country.” The world’s greatest optimist has been discovered. He is that Nebraskan who set himself up in business recently with a miniature golf course. A doctor advises that cod liver oil, aside from medical values, will bring contentment. After taking cod liver oil, probably the patient is satisfied with anything. \ The United Stated and Great Britain have recognized the current government of Chile. After all the battles Chile has had, it ought to be a pretty hard country to recognize.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NORMAN THOMAS, Socialist candidate for President, was asked in a public forum whether he thought woman's suffrage had been a success. “Perhaps not,” he replied, “but I think the women have just as much right to make mistakes as we have.” Which I consider the only intelligent attitude for any man to hold about women, in' business, in do-mestic,-political or social life. When we realize that the average man usually is convinced that the average woman is far less sensible, capable or wise than himself, it seems a little inconsistent for him to assume that, en masse, we ever could work miracles. It would be fine if the gentlemen could arrive at sane conclusion about us—our place in the world, our influence in politics, the state of our morals. As it is, one-half of them regard us as frivolous, emptyheaded, vain, deceitful, avaricious, concerned only with petty affairs. The other half—if they mean what they saythink of us as so many angels walking about, selfsacrificing, courageous, pure, bent upon making the world a better place. w * * THE truth is that we possess all these qualities. Our virtues include all that is good; our frailties encompass ail that is evil. We are no more fitted by nature to lead, men to some mythical heaven than to delude them to some fabled hell. Not only women, but men, are handicapped tremendously by all these false theories, so tenaciously retained by the masculine mind. One extreme is as bad as the other. Refusing us the right to be human or condemning us forever to the role of temptress she-devil and gateway to perdition is equally bad for both sexes and the work we have to do. No man believes all his pet opinions about women. He only spouts platitudes when he defends either attitude. He repeats that which he has been taught, depending upon which school of ignorance he entered in his youth. Honest, intelligent men know that we are composites of good and evil as they are. *' They will expect no more of us than of themselves.

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M. E. Tracy Says: The Election Proves That the Great Political Machine Set Up in This Country More Than HO Years Ago Still Can Meet a Great Emergency. YORK, Nov. 10.—The America!) people have a right to be proud of this election, not because of the profound change in public opinion which it represents, but b 'cause the change could be brought about with such little commotion. Most observers agree that the depression was largely responsible; that bankrupt enterprises, foreclosed homes, unemployment and poverty altered the prevailing viewpoint; that even the rapid rise of anti-pro-hibition sentiment can be traced to this source. If that is correct, the American people have still greater cause for satisfaction. It proves beyond question that, whatever its defects may be, the political machine set up in this country more than 140 years ago is capable of meeting a great emergency, # u tt Prohibition Is First 'T'HE verdict rendered at the poles Tuesday demands little less than a revolution in some of our major policies. To begin, it calls for repeal of nation-wide prohibition. Os no less consequence are revised plans for relief and recovery. Last, it calls for a different attitude toward foreign affairs and foreign trade. That implies a rather complete k change of front by the American people. The paternalistic idea of government by big business and professional reformers has been repudiated sharply. More liberal policies are in order, not only with regard to domestic problems, but foreign relations. Very little sentiment has developed in favor of changing the form of this government, but there is a great deal in favor of changing some- of its objectives. a tt tt Refuse to Be Bullied TT is gratifying to reflect that the people of this nation can not be frightened into conformity with any scheme or school. The assumption that they lacked the courage to swap horses in midstream, especially if the stream were deep and turbulent, had become an unwholesome tradition. It’s a good thing to get it out of the way. Democracy can not be the genuine article as long as the relief persists that people will refrain from expressing their honest conviction, or exercising their sovereign rights, under certain circumstances. The thought that trouble made an administration safe by creating fear of change was most pernicious in its effect on politics. If this election accomplishes nothing more than to anihilate it, the result will be worth while. But we expect far more than that. The vast majority of us believe that the country has been liberated from several stultifying ideas and that was necessary to open the way for genuine rehabilitation. Few’’ are deceived by the size of the task which the new administration faces. Few look for it to perform miracles, or break the jam over night. - tt tt Face Hard Task THE prevailing conception is that w’e have a hard job; that we need forceful, constructive'guidance at the top and co-operation at the bottom; that these are impossible without cutting a lot of red tape and tearing down some of the artificial barriers which prevent prompt and concerted action. Asa starter, the prevailing conception is that modification of the Volstead act and tax on beer would do much to set things going in the right direction at home, while revision of the tariff in such manner as would let foreign governments know that we are not trying to block trade would do the same abroad. The prevailing conception is that the time has come to square this country’s attitude and actions with the idealism it ha.; been preaching; to grant the kind of liberty we advocate; to tolerate in other people what we expect them to tolerate in us.

m TODAY /world WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

THE KAISER FLEES Nov. 10 ON Nov. 10, 1918, the first and second American armies advanced on a 71-mile front along the Moselle and Meuse rivers. The kaiser and the crown prince fled to Holland as the king of Wurttemberg abdicated. Serbian armies advanced north of the Danube and Save rivers, and entered Serajevo. scene of the assassination which precipitated the World war. Questions and Answers Give the name of the most recently discovered comet and who discovered it. Peltier-Whipple was discovered independently by L. O. Peltier of Delphi, 0., on Aug. 8 and by Dr. F. L. Whipple at Harvard university on Aug. 6. Give the area of Vatican City. 108.7 acres. What is fielder’s choice in baseball? When a fielder, after handling a batted ball, elects to try to retire a base runner instead of the batter, the play is known as a “fielder’s choice.” What is the plural of cheese? Cheeses*

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Germs Enter Body in Various Ways

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. GERMS can get into the body in all sorts of ways, with food and water, by inhaling, through open wounds on the skin, by the bite of an insect as occurs with mosquitoes in malaria and yellow fever, ticks in Texas fever, fleas in plague and tsetse flies in African sleeping sickness. Obviously, when the means by which the germs get into the body are understood, scientific medicine develops methods for keeping them out. When the means are not understood as occurs, for instance, in infantile paralysis, prevention is difficult. Sometimes the germs produce disease by developing a poison

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ONE reason why the end of the campaign cheers me is that not for another year will I have to hear people say, “We have builded.” Until somebody else is running for something, we all can go back to “built.” I suppose one of my chief objections to elections is the extraordinary effect they have upon the English language. If somebody were to offer a gold medal for the best diction on the stump, there would be few contenders of any quality. However, I must admit that Norman Thomas, Franklin Roosevelt, and William Browder, Communist candidate for the United States senate, all have the accents of educated men. Mr. Browder prefers to be called Bill, which is more proletarian. However, the fact that he once was a school teacher still colors his use and choice of words. And in the case of Roosevelt, some may object that Harvard piled on Groton is just a shade too much. But I am dealing with deeper things than accents. I have in mind the curious sea change which occurs in any man as soon as he is nominated. It makes no difference whether he runs with an excellent chance of election or leads a forlorn hope. Whatever his situation, he takes on anew vocabulary. a a tt Don’t Say Such Things IF you were sitting with some friend and conversing, you would be startled to hear him say of anything that he “viewed it with alarm.” And if he “pointed .with pride” you would be certain that this was some form of perverse humor. But all the clinches of campaigning descend upon even wise heads while the fight is on. Whoever heard of a “rostrum” except in an election year? ‘And statements designed for the eye alone are even more stilted if they come from those whose business takes them out upon the

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fvhich is then absorbed by the body and, after absorption, acts on the nerves or the muscles or the blood vessels. Sometimes the germs themselves gradually break up and the products of their disintegration are poisonous. Sometimes clumps of germs float around in the blood and cause death by developing in overwhelming numbers in the blood. On other occasions the germs may attack certain organs of the body and so injure these organs that death ensues. It has been said that the germs like to pick out certain places in which to live under the conditions which suit them best. This happens, for instance, with a germ called the pneumococcus, which settles in the lungs and pro-N

hustings. I have always wished that there might be a smaller chasm between English as it is spoken and the language which we set down upon the printed page. If the tradition of Addison had flowered and persisted, we even might have come to the Chinese state of having two languages with the printed page mysterious to those who only talked. Within the last few years there arose a young and distinguished novelist who began to convince the critics that style might be a matter of plain spinning and not embroidery. I regret to note the backsliding of Mr. Ernest Hemingway.. For the first time he has developed that dread thing called “a manner.” He has begun to treat words like building blocks and rear tall towers to the sky. I am speaking, of course, of “Death in the Afternoon,” which seems to me to mark a crisis in a brilliant career. As far as my perceptions go, it is hard to believe that this is the same young man who wrote “A Farewell to Arms.” To be sure (there goes another phony phrase), the subject matter of this new book may have lured Hemingway into his present tortured style. It is hard, perhaps, to be blunt and plain about a pastime built around all kinds of gimcrack tradition. It is difficult to write of the bull ring without posturing and waving banners. The sport itself is stylicized and lends its aid to metaphors as well as matadors. at: tt Book of Brilliant Color I WOULD not deny' the color of brilliance in this book, for it has qualities of splendor which are startling. But it is an adolescent performance, for all that, because it is an adolescent subject. The killing of bulls hardly is an activity for grown men. And, likewise, it seems a trivial theme for the writer. I am sure that Hemingway begins

duces pneumonia, but which may infect the eye or the.spine also. It occurs wtih the germs of meningitis, which practically always settle on the coverings of the spinal cord, and of the brain, the typhoid germ, which settles in the intestines, the germs of lockjaw and of hydrophobia and of epidemic encephalitis, which attack the nervous system. On the other hand, there are some germs, like those of tuberculosis, which may affect any tissue in the human body, although preferably entering by way of the lungs. There is tuberculosis of bones, of joints, of the eye, and of the nervous system. The organism that causes syphillis actually attacks every organ and tissue in the human body.

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

his apology by stating that he first grew interested in the arena because it seemed to him to symbolize those extremely important facts—life and death. Later he admits that he became a fan and went into the business of watching as one who loved sport for sport’s sake. Much of his defense of Spain’s national pastime concerns a curiously vague psychological cagfe for the killing of the horse. But I think he misses the point in the minds of most of his readers. It isn’t so much that bull fighting is cruel as that it is aimless. e a Facts at First Hand 'T'HERE are laboratories where A the facts of life and death may be studied to better advantage than in a bull ring. It seems to me that the ideal training for any novelist would be four years of medical school and an equal amount of time on a newspaper. He would then, I believe, know quite a bit more about life and death than will be picked up at a bull fight. In fact, I warn the gentleman who wrote “Fifty Grand” that if he doesn’t get over his childish preoccupation one of these days he will be writing something as bad as “Carmen.” I do not agree with that school of critical thought which has declared that the novel must now becpme an economic or political treatise, with love ruled out. After all, if life and death are the prime considerations of the writing man it is difficult to see how he can avoid concerning himself with a corollary. But it would seem to me fitting and healthful if the books of our day should show a far greater amount of social consciousness. There are so many things worth fighting for and against just now that I hate to see bright lads thrusting at bulls or tilting at windmills. (Copyright, 1932, by The Times) Daily Thought And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.—Judges 6:23. It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in fartth. —Jacobi.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Some people are so well taken care of during these hard times that they do not realize the plight of their fellowmen. Mr. Byrd, A? Smith, Archie Roosevelt and a few more of their like become bored for the want of something to occupy their time, so they go barnstorming to have ex-soldiers’ allowances cut or entirely done away with. How proud they must be of this mobile calling, going about trying to create the impression that the ex-soldier is the sole cause ctf high taxes. Who pays them the magnificent doles they receive? Why don’t they tell us where their’s come fm? Do they really think our country is so hard hit that theirs might be cut

NOV. 10, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Radio Used for Long Transoceanic Jumps in World Telephone, Systems. r pECHNICAL difficulties in tfie way of world-wide telephony arise not only from the fact that long distances must be covered, but from the fact that many of these distances consist of seas or undeveloped land. This fact is pointed out by Ban-' croft Gherhardi. vice-' esident and chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Frank B. Jewett, president of the Bell telephone laboratories. ‘•For years prior to establishment of the first intercontinental circuit, commercial service was given on continental telephone networks over comparable distances, for example, in North America up to about six thousand miles.” they say. “The technique of transmission over long continental distances, 4 hcwever, includes as one fundaments element the use of intermedate amplification at frequ it intervals of from forty-five to 240 miles, depending upon the electrical characteristics of the circuit.” This means, it will be observed, that in the line reaching from New’ York to San FTHncisco. there are at intervals amplifying apparatus which step up the diminishing voice currents. Obviously, this is not possible when two continents are linked. All of the existing intercontinental circuits make use of radio for" the long trans-oceanic jumps. The first technical problem to be met, therefore, are the problems of radio telephony. tt tt tt Range of Waves RADIO waves, as all radio fans know. cover a much larger range than those used for ordinary broadcasting. The complete range runs from waves whose length is measured in fractions of a meter to waves more than 20,000 meters long. The frequency of a wave varies indirectly as the length, that is the shortest waves have the highest fre- > quencies and the longest waves tb* lowest frequencies. Only two portions of the radio range or spectrum are suitable for intercontinental telephony, according to Gherardi and Jewett. One, in the long w'ave range, extends from 20,000 meters down to 3,000 meters, or from about 15 kilocycles to about 100 kilocycles. The other, in the short wave range, extends from 50 meters to 13 meters, or from about 6,000 kilocycles to 23,000 kilocycles. “The transmission of these two wave ranges exhibits interesting differences in characteristics,” the two experts say. “For the short wave lengths the transmission is frequently referred to as being in the form of ‘sky weaves.’ This Is for the reason that at intermediate distances the waves practically may disappear near the surface of the ground, but reappear at greater distances. They appear to have been carried around the curvature of the earth’s surface by refraction or reflection from ionized atmospheric layers. “While the action in the longwave range at great distance appears to be also conditioned partly by the ionized layers, the field at the surface of the earth falls off continuously as the distance from the transmitter is increased.” tt u a Very Short Waves GHERARDI and Jewett also say that interesting results are being obtained in the use for communication purposes of very short radio waves having frequencies above 30,000 kilocycles. Such waves have lengths of less than 13 meters. * ‘The work done to date indicates that these frequencies are not sufficiently deflected from their paths by the atmosphere to follow the earth’s curvature,” they say. ‘‘This characteristic appears to prevent the use of these very short radio waves for direct transmission over long distances and limits direct transmission to distances so short that the earth’s curvature is not a large factor. “Where the route is over land, it is possible that such rays may find practical use in forming links in intercontinental circuits, particularly where the topography of the country affords advantageous elevated locations for intermediate repeater points. “Too little now is known of these very short waves to make their discussion other than speculative. , “An important requirement for radio for overseas telephone circuits is the avoidance of overhearing. “A number of these circuits now in operation, including the transAtlantic group, are equipped with privacy arrangements which so modify the frequency disposition of the voice waves as to prevent overhearing of the conversations by pther radio stations not equipped with similar arrangements. “Experimentshave been made with more elaborate arrangements for obtaining an even higher degree of privacy than that now provided.” off if we little $144 beneficiaries not cut off? Let us recall the days when 'Ve were told that we were the backbone of this nation. Were we proud? I’ll say We were, but fifteen years makes a difference. How patriotic we were in using one-half of our meager $1 a day to pay for Liberty bonds, money which was used to help finance a war that we had to fight ourselves! Now that we get little assistance from a government that we would have given our all to protect, men such as these would go about to deprive us of that little. • If Mr. Byrd and some more ot hi* crowd would ask my grocer, baker, druggist and others with whom I spend my sl2 to vote against the payment of this check to me and thousands of others like myself who spend theirs also with their neigh* borhood merchants, I am sure they would be told where to go pretty quick. And perhaps some of my little allowance goes into a tax fund to pay some of these same people theirs. If ex-soldiers would not put up a fight against such rotten tactics as this, then they have changed from the backbone of nation to the back* bone of a jellyfish. Here la more power to the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. THOMAS B. FEAREY. 108 Euclid avenue.