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Arms and Depression Settlement of the foreign debt issue has been retarded by Great Britain's failure to rise to her disarmament opportunity at Geneva. The proposals made by the British foreign secretary, Sir John Simon, were a maze of technicalities and evasions which completely missed the main point of outright arms reduction. It seems that the British government has not awkaened to the fact that the United States considers arms reduction the test of good faith, not only in debt negotiations, but in other major international questions which are prolonging the depression and threatening peace. The reception in London of Simons Geneva speech show that the British public, business interests and the press arc disappointed and fearful of its results on the prospective debt negotiations. That British public pressure can force the Torycontrolled national government to cease its disarmament obstruction appears doubtful. For ten months this so-called disarmament conference has backed and filled without accomplishing anything but fine words, which are belied by its inaction. The American proposal for a definite arms cut of one-third never has received serious consideration from any of the larger nations except Russia. But some kind of compromise seemed possible when the French government earlier this week presented its plan. Great Britain was expected to follow and carry the French plan a step further. Instead, the British have thrown the disarmament conference back into the mire, where it has wallowed for almost a year. The warning given by Norman H. Davis, the American representative, is pertinent. He said: "We must not lose sight of the fact that this conference was called for the express purpose of reducingand placing a limit upon armaments . . . While it can not be said that the Durden and menace of armaments were the primary cause of this depression, it is becoming increasingly evident that they were a contributing cause of conditions which brought on the depression, and that a reduction and limitation of armaments would contribute tremendously to recovery from the depression. In the face of this world emergency of misery, nothing can justify the continued squandering of billions in wealth on an arms race while many millions of people are jobless and hungry. The former enemy countries have been disarmed largely. If the victors and allies will not reduce military expenditures now, what hope is there that they ever will do so? A Uniform Auto Code In 1930, 33,000 Americans were killed and 1,150,000 were injured in motor accidents. Since then the rate of increase in motor casualties has continued its steady course. In the last decade, auto deaths have trebled. In less than every twenty-five minutes, an American gives up his life to an automobile. Os course, the causes lie chiefly on the part of drivers and pedestrians. But laws can help abate this useless slaughter. To be effective, laws should be uniform in the forty-eight states. Unfortunately, they are not. The national conference of state and highway safety, headed by Secretary of Commerce Roy D. Chapin, has drafted a model auto code for adoption by all states. The code calls for uniform regulations of highway intersections, grade crossings and drivers’ permits. In the last feature lies the best hope for improvement, for it would make all states require rigid examinations for would-be auto drivers. Twenty-two states now have little or no such requirement. Need for uniformity in auto traffic regulation is too obvious to require argument. Such code should be adopted without delay by all states. Parasites For a long while we have been hearing stories of home owners and business men who could not borrow money on good security. Banks refused to make loans. We could not understand this, as the banks were supposed to have too much idle money. But we supposed there was some good and sufficient technical reason' beyond our comprehension which made it impossible for the banks to fulfill their plain duty of lending the people's money to the people. Now, however, comes the head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, charging that such banks are “parasites.” Atlee Pomerene—speaking from the detailed information and confidential facts open to the R. F. C.—limits the number of banks which thus are strangling the country to one-tenth. But, he adds, if it were not for the R. F. C., “the entire country would be at their mercy.” His indignation reflects the anger of many citizens who are the victims of these parasitic banks. “This is no time for financial institutions to refuse to loan their money when properly secured,” says Pomerene. “The money in their vaults was earned by the people and belongs to them. It is the very life blood of commerce. • “What right have they to refuse to loan it back to the people who may need it to employ men needing work to keep their wives and children from starvation and freezing?” The banks have no such right. But the parasites will not be moved by mere general indictments from Pomerene. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation or some other responsible federal authority will have to name names. Germany in 1813 and 1932 The struggle for German equality in armament may disrupt the peace of Europe. But the slightest acquaintance with the history of the last 200 years should be sufficient to prove the utter folly of the Versailles arrangement. This reduced the German standing army to 100,000 men and forbade training of reserves. At the same time, the former enemies of Germany have armed more heavily than before 1914. Today, Germany’s former enemies outnumber her in military power by the amazing figure of forty to one. Let us look at an historical parallel which is rather more exact and applicable than such analogies usually prove to be. In the middle of the eighteenth century, Frederick the Great had stood off mo6t of Europe. But after his death the military power of Prussia collapsed. The army went to seed. Asa result, it quickly succumbed to the military genius of Napoleon. Twenty years after the death of the great Frederick, Bonaparte entered Berlin in triumph and cessed his SL. ..... V j\

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contempt for the feelings of the vanquished. As Marriott describes his conduct: “In Berlin Bonaparte behaved like the vulgar conqueror he was. With his own hands he desecrated the tomb of Frederick the Great at Potsdam, and sent off his sword and scarf to the Invalides; he scrawled obsence Insults against Queen Louise on the walls of her own palace; he demolished the obelisk on the battlefield of Rossbach, he carried off to Paris the figure of Victory from the Brandenburg gate, and drove the Prussian guards like cattle down the Unter den Linden—a spectacle for the burghers to mock at.” On top of this, he issued a decree in 1808 which ordered that the Prussian army should be reduced to 42,000 men and kept at this figure. At the same time Napoleon could muster more than half a million trained soldiers. Prussia was humiliated thoroughly. She seemingly was as much under the iron hand of the conqueror as Germany has been since the treaty of Versailles in 1919. But the spirit of revolt and regeneration quickly arose in the face of this humiliation. Stein and Hardenberg carried through administrative and economic reforms which upset the remnants of the old feudal system in Prussia and made it an efficient, modern monarchy. Fichte inspired the populace with his idealism. Father Jahn introduced his campaign for physical betterment and national gymnastic exercises. Most important of all were the military reforms introduced by Scharnhorst and Gneisau. They discarded the old army system which had been discredited completely by Napoleon’s easy victory at Jena in 1806. “Old and incompetent army officers were cashiered; caste restrictions were abolished; a better system of promotion, based partly on merit, was adopted; and improvements were effected in drill, tactics, guns and munitions.” The main historic lesson is to be found, however, in the manner in which the arbitrary limitation of the Prussian army to 42,000 men invited successful evasion. The letter of Napoleon’s decree was obeyed carefully. While the formal army never was larger than 42,000, the personnel changed rapidly. Men were kept in the army long enough to receive a careful training. They then passed into a well-trained body of reserves. In a few years Prussia thus became one great citizen army ready for the first opportunity to throw off the yoke of the conqueror. So, in the end, Napoleon’s restrictions created the most powerful military Prussia known down to this time. At first, it seemed quite impossible to conceive of a successful Prussian war of liberation. But Napoleon was weakened by the fatal Russian invasion, and Prussia joined with his old enemies in the first great successful campaign against the Corsican adventurer. War was declared in March 1813, and in the great three-day battle of Leipzig (Oct. 16-18) the power of Napoleon finally was broken. France was invaded, Napoleon captured and sent to Elba in exile. By'their unfair tactics since 1918, France and her allies have promoted just such a desire for revenge and liberation in the present-day German reich. A few books on modern Ijistory should be put beneath the ncses of their statesmen and diplomats before another European conflagration like that of 1813 breaks out. But the friends of peace should hope that the adjustment will not be along the line of permitting Germany to arm more heavily, civilization will be served only if the other nations disarm to the German level. A Kansas woman won a SI,OOO prize for a short story. There ought to be another prize for the one who discovered a woman who really could tell a short story. In several rural districts the trading of commodities has taken the place of purchases in which money changes hands. Wonder how a man would go about acquiring a toothbrush that way? Professor Einstein now says the earth is 10,000 million years old. You'd think the old thing would know better. Columbia university’s student paper advocates that football players be paid. If that crusade is successful, some paper ought to come out in favor of paying the Chicago teachers. And, figures an English writer, “women probably talk more because men are too polite to interrupt them.” Let’s get rude, boys.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A COLORADO reader takes exception to my remarks on capital punishment. It is inevitable, perhaps, that most of us do not agree about this. But I must register a protest when he insists that hard-boiled methods should prevail because the softer sort would increase crime. That, it seems to me, hardly is possible. Those who advocate the extreme punishment for malefactors are working for a cause that already is lost. If there is one fact that sticks up like a sore thumb when this subject is approached, it is that the hard-boiled methods have failed. “Send all these demons in human form to the electric chair,” says this proponent of the death sentence, “and may the Lord have mercy on their souls, which the judge tells them every one when he pronounces sentence.” Sure. May the Lord have mercy on their souls, since we have had none on their bodies. It's comforting to know that the Lord will be more magnanimous than we are. Personally. I can not understand how any judge can ever muster up the courage to repeat this cruel remark to any condemned man. u an JUSTICE in this country is mainly in the hands of those who are ignorant of its meaning. Men who have made a life study of crime and its causes, and who have investigated the result of prison systems, present plans to us. They tell us that the old ways will not work. But we do not listen. We go right on following the same old procedure and watching it fail, year after year. The lawyers, who always are more concerned with law than with men, devise the punishment for crimes, and in'the majority of cases designate what crime is. They are far more interested in the letter than in the spirit of the law. How can we say that humanitarianism has failed when we have never given it a trial? We do know this, for experience has proved its truth: Good citizens are not created by threats of death, nor crime abated by punishments, and decent morals are not bred in prison cells. So long as social injustices flourish, we may expect crime to keep pace with them.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

Inflation Has Played an Important and Continuous Role in Civilized Progress . NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—The federal government is said to be running behind at the rate of about $5,000 a minute, or $7,200,000 a day. If that is true and keeps up, the federal government will be in worse shape next June than it was last June. ,Federal taxes are higher than | they have been for many years, but : produce far less revenue. That is i because they must be paid in money, and money is harder to get. The man who has money these ; days can buy more wheat, land or ' labor, but the man who has wheav,. | land, or labor must take less money. Lower prices and wages are re- ! fleeted in the rise of money, or vice | versa. That shrivels the volume of ; business, amount of income, capacj ity to buy, and pay debts, all of which are measured in terms of money. The people of this country have about as much of everything else as they had four years ago—buildings, real estate, machinery, automobiles and strength to work. 000 Money Is Lacking W HAT they lack is money. They can’t get as much of it in exchange for anything as they could. They are suffering from excessive deflation. How are they going to pay taxes and debts if this continues? Some of the economies being advocated mean only more deflation, with reduced power to earn and pay all along the line. If the government expenses could be brought down to the general level without increasing unemployment, the result would neutralize itself. But can they? Even if they could, we still would have to meet those debts, represented by notes, bonds and mortgages, and totaling no less than $150,000,000,000, according to one authority. How are we going to handle that load if money keeps on rising, while prices and wages go down? 000 Inflation Aids Progress THERE are those who pretend to be afraid of nothing so much as inflation, or cheaper money. What do higher prices and wages mean, if not that very thing? The trouble is that many of us think of inflation solely in connection with paper money. We fail to realize that it can be, and has been, brought about in other ways. Asa matter of record, inflation has played an important and continuous role in civilized progress. Time was when laborers received only, 1 or 2 cents a day. How did they work up to $4 or $5, except through inflation? Most of the inflation came about through the steady, continuous boosting of prices and wages, with an accompanying demand for more and more currency to meet them. Quite frequently, governments have made the mistake of supposing 1 that more and more currency was the all-important actor, and have demoralized credit by over-issuing paper money. 000 Must Restore Values SUCH mistakes do not prove that reasonable inflation is dangerout, or even avoidable, especially when the obvious weakenss is excessive deflation. Put it either way you please, but we must bring money down, or the value of other things up, not only here in the United States, but throughout the world. The general economic balance is out of tune with the obligations which have been contracted. The only way those obligations can be met is by restoration of the value of goods and labor. It is not only unfair, but impossible, for people to pay off their debts, whether public or private, with dollars that are twice or three times as hard to get as they were when those debts were contracted.

Questions and Answers

What is the difference between theory and truth? Theory is a body of the fundamental principles underlying any science or application of a science; a mental plan or scheme framed to agree with x,he observed facts and designed as a rational explanation of them. Truth is a statement of belief which represents or conforms to reality; a law or principle established by correct reasoning; an established fact; a theory that has been established through experiment and observation, a theory having a high degree of probability. When did the United States congress move from New York to Philadelphia and to Washington, D. C.? It moved to Philadelphia, Dec. 6. 1790, and held sessions there until May 14, 1800. The Capitol at Washington, D. C., first was occupied by congress when it reconvened in October, 1800. W T hen did George II succeed to the British throne, and at what age did he die? He succeeded in 1727 and died in 1760, at the age of 77. What gas is used for smoke screens? Titanium tetrachloride, a liquid which, in contact with air, forms a heavy black gas. What is the origin and meaning of the name Vaclav? It is a Bohemian Christian name of Slavic origin and means “Crown,” of “Glory.” What is the name for the legislative body of Sweden? Riksdag. What is the duty on a radio set in Scotland? Twenty per cent ad valorem for the set, and 33 1-4 per cent for the tubes. WTien was Yellowstone National Park created and how many national parks are there in the United States? Yellowstone National Park was created in 1872 and there now are twenty-two national parks. Are children under 21 years of age created American citizens by the naturalization of their fathers? Yes,

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Sale of New York City Hall for Debt—During the incumbency of Mayor Fernando Wood in 1856, public corruption has reached such pass that a certain Robert

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Smoking Factor in Thrombo Angiitis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THROMBO-ANGIITIS is a disease which manifests itself by certain definite and extremely striking symptoms. The people who suffer with this condition are usually people beyond middle age. They find on walking that they suffer severely with cram os in the legs, and that there is. a failure of the ’ blood to circulate properly in the limbs. It has been commonly thought that the disease affects more particularly Jewish, Chinese and Japanese, but nowadays it has been reported in all races, although rather rarely among the Negroes. In the typical case a man 30 to 40 years of age begins having pains in the soles of his feet or in the calves of his legs on walking. The pains are cramp-like and disappear after rest. Later the pain comes on without

IT SEEMS TO ME

IT is indicated that President Hoover will suggest another moratorium on the war debts of a year at least. It seems to me that this year-by-year period of grace is nothing more than the application of a pain killer. It would be much more sensible for us to sit courageously in the dentist’s chair and have the tooth pulled out. Sooner or later, something drastic must be done about the blamed thing. A year is too short a time to do anybody any appreciable good. It seems extremely unlikely that any vast change in the present economic setup of the world will occur within twelve months. The very fact that heavy, heavy hangs the debt over the heads of us all makes radical change all the less likely. We have not been willing to realize that the debt situation is a burden to us as well as to European nations. The newspapers of Mr. Hearst are fond of using cartoons in which a somewhat smug Europe is asking a long line of unemployed Americans to pay the money that Europe owes. But the most casual examination cf the situation will reveal that those men in the ranks of the unemployed have paid already and are continuing to pay. 0 0 0 Even If They Could EVEN if it were possible for the debtor nations to meet their interest charges in full in gold payment, such a gift hardly would help us. On the surface it would mean a smaller amount of money to be raised by us in taxation. But there would be so much less to tax in the way of incomes that we would derive no benefit. During the campaign we heard frequently enough that the depression was not solely of our own making, but represented a world-wide condition. “I think most of us accepted that fact in a large measure, so why can't we see that any sort of economic recovery must include all the nations of the world? We can’t climb up while others are down and clinging to our heels. A jobless man doesn’t know what hit him. The factors are complex. But surely he wasn't helped by the terrific losses which we have suffered in foreign trade. The purchasing power of Europe has been cut down vastly, and it hardly can be re-established by the insistence that the debtor nations

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W. Lowber recovered a judgment against the city of New York for $196,000 on a false claim. To satisfy this judgment, the New York city hall was sold by public auction. The successful bidder, who paid $50,000 for the hall with all its furnishings and contents,

exertion and may be associated with exposure to cold weather. The foot seems colder and darker on the side that is affected contrasted with the side that is not affected. Usually the person who has this condition will state that he has been a heavy smoker for years. Practically all authorities are agreed that tobacco bears some relationship to the cause of this condition. This does not mean that every person who smokes tobacco is likely to have this disease, because there are some people who smoke tremendous amounts of tobacco and who do not develop these symptoms. The condition may progress so far that it becomes necessary to remove a leg by surgery, because of the inflammation and obstruction to circulation resulting from changes that take place in the blood vessels in this disorder. Formerly the disease was rare, if not completely absent, among women, but nowadays occasional cases are seen in women.

must pay every last nickel which they owe us. * u a tt Sense and Not Politics CONGRESSMEN ought to remember that the election is over. It was politically advantageous to go around saying in a stern and oratorical voice that not so much as one penny would be forgiven. It is hard to stop an orator in midcareer, and apparently few hecklers had the audacity to say, “But if they can’t pay, or even if they won’t pay, what do you purpose to do about it?” I don’t think there is any particular difference in the words “repudiation” and “cancellation,” and we must choose one or the other. No, there is one other alternative. We can make an arrangement which is cancellation’s first cousin, but call it by a more friendly name, “readjustment.” That probably would be the best solution. Nicholas Murray Butler pointed out I in one of his best speeches that our present attitude is much like that of a man who might say: “Jim Smith owes me $5. I know it will cost me $35 to collect it, but I'm going to have the ss.’\ However, we are a little more foolish than the man in Dr. Butler’s example, for we seem intent on spending the $35 in the collection fight, even though we won’t get the $5. Here, by a series of strange circumstances, sit the people of the United States under compulsion of both self-interest and decent charity to wipe out the mess of debts. For once the most practical line of conduct is also the most idealistic. It has been said, “What.shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Most of us agree that such a person has done less than wisely, but it is even more foolish to lose your own soul and the whole world as well. 000 Using a Club for Peace 1 THINK it is an excellent idea for us to use the debt situation as a means to put on pressure to bring about the limitation of armament in European countries. But in doing this we should stick to the facts. It has been said frequently that all these nations easily could meet their indebtedness to us if only they scaled down their armies and their navies. This is less than accurate. The • money made in a straight interest

was Daniel F. Tieman. The buyer was elected mayor the same year, and was reimbursed by the city, which repossessed itself of its property. MONDAY—“A forgotten State.”

Recent investigations reported by Drs. Harkavy, Hebal and Silbert indicate that the people who have this condition may have some special sensitivity to tobacco, of the same type that produces hay fever and asthma, when there is sensitivity to various pollens and foods. They tested a considerable number of patients with extract of tobacco and found 58 out of 68 cases to be especially hypersensitive. The people studied were also sensitive to some othpr substances in most instances. As contrasted with the 58 out of 68 people with thrombo-angiitis, who were sensitive to tobacco, only 10 per cent of 102, who also were heavy smokers of tobacco, showed any sensitivity to the extract. There seems to be now, therefore, definite evidence that a large percentage of people who have throm-bo-angiitis, are hypersensitive or allergic, and that they are especially allergic to tobacco.

DV HEYWOOD BY BROUN

payment to us is, from an economic standpoint, quite a different matter than sums spent largely within the borders of some foreign country. The building of battleships and cruisers in France or England is to some extent a part of public works which gives employment to their own. It is a very vicious form of public works, I will admit. If the threat of war and the burden of war preparations could be lifted from the necks of European nations, there would be a growth in that confidence by which men live and work and trade. But even that happy contingency would not establish funds immediately to meet the pressing needs of their debt to us. The world will be better off when it can forget the rancor of the great war. And in forgetting that it will be an excellent thing also to forget the bitterness of the great debt. . (Copyright, 1932. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times — I WOULD like to take this opportunity to pay tribute, in my humble way, to the late Miss Anna Rahe, teacher. It never was my fortune to be her pupil, bust my husband was and during her first year of principalship. Later, our eldest son spent his years in elementary school under her supervision. She was a noble soul, true to the cause, and loved by all. There was no malice nor prejudice where she was leader. Every one, rich and poor, was given an equal chance. Every one who knew of her long illness only could hope that she would be able again to take her place among her loved ones. Surely scores of lives have been influenced for the right by such a serene, Christian guidance. MRS. MARGARET DODDS. 1737 Terrace avenue. Editor Times—The Times and Mr. Overley of the Better Business Bureau are to be congratulated upon the exposure and wide publicity given in the cases two fortune tellers brought before Judge Cameron last week. Both The Times and the Better Business Bureau are performing a great public service in running this class of people out of the city. The advertisements these people

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Ideals and opinions expressed in this column 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.

.NOV. 10, 1932

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

World of Information Contained in Little Book on Metals and Their Alloys. A SURPRISINGLY large amount A c' information has been concentrated into a surprisingly small * space by A. Frederick Collins in The Metals. Their Alloys. Amalgame and Compounds.” (The book just has been published by D. Appleton & Cos. at $2.) The book, as one might guess/ from the title, is a sort of handbook of the metals. It Is written, however, in simple and non-techni-cal language, and therefore is a handbook for the layman or young student, rather than the engineer or scientist. Now that Christmas is approaching. the book would make an excellent present for a high school student who has a leaning toward chemistry or engineering. As Collins points out in the preface of his book, the machine age, * as present-day civilization is sometimes called, has been made possible by utilization of the metals. Man entered the road to civilization when he learned to make rough tools of flint. He took a big step forward when he acquired the skill of smoothing and polishing these tools. He advanced still more when he learned to use copper. Three thousand years ago he learned to use iron and entered the iron age. Modern chemistry and engineering turned the iron age into the age of steel. tt St tt Age of Alloys 1 BUT though iron is the bulwark of the Machine Age, many other metals play well-nigh indispensable roles in it. But most important of all are the mixtures and compounds known as alloys. Steel itself is an alloy, since it consists of a combination of iron with other metals or non-metals. Ordinary steel consists of iron with a small percentage of carbon added to it, but the newer steels, steel alloys as they sometimes are called, contain various substances in addition, such as nickel, chromium, tungsten, vanadium, and so on. So important are alloys that it has been suggested that a good name for the Machine Age would be the Age of Alloys. The reasonableness of this sugestion becomes obvious if we consider only a few of the alloys. Chrome-vanadium steel is used for shafts and axles of motor cars. It possesses such remarkable tensile strength that it can be bent double when cold without breaking. Tungsten steel is sometimes called high-speed steel. It is used for cutting tools in lathes and retains its temper even when the lathe is run at such high speed thsit it becomes red hot. Duralumin, an alloy of aluminum, copper, magnesium, and manganese, possesses the lightness of aluminum and the hardness of steel. Consequently it is used for the frames of airplanes and airships. And so it goes. It is not possible to understand modern industry and engineering without an understanding of alloys. 000 For Reference COLLINS’ book is an excellent introduction to the subject of the metals. You not only will want to read it, but you will want to keep it handy for reference purposes. Chapter I is a brief introductory chapter. Chapter II deals with the “common metals”—iron, copper, tin, lead, zinc, nickel, tungsten, chromium, mercury, aluminum, cobalt, antimony and bismuth. The chapter is divided up with subheads, increasing the ease and convenience with which the book may be used for reference purposes. These subheads in the case of iron will serve to indicate the plan and scope of the book. They are: “Iron, the Most Useful Metal,” “Origin of Iron,” “Occurrence of Iron,” “Kinds of Iron Ore,” “Kinds of Iron,” “The Physical Properties Iron” and “The Chemical Properties of Iron.” Chapter 111 deals with the “noble metals,” Chapter IV with the alkali metals, Chapter V with the alkaline earth metals, Chapter VI with “the uncommon metals,” Chapter VII with the rare earth metals. Chapter VIII with the radioactive metals and Chapter IX with "the hypothetical metals.” The remaining chapters in order are “The Older Alloys,” “The Newer Alloys,” “How Metals Are Mined,” ‘Extracting Metals From Ores” and “The Uses of Metals.”

Daily Thought

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore, despite not thou the chastening of the Almighty.—Job 5:17. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. —Emerson. have put out stating their ability to delve into the future and control the planets for theiir customers are fraud from start to finish. It would require a second Jesus Christ to do all they claimed to be able to do, such as selling charms, etc., to bring luck. With these people this is a racket. They positively do not come under the heading of religious workers. No religious body would permit such from its commissioned workers as these people would like to make the public believe. Today, as for the last fifteen years, I stand ready and willing to expose this sort of fraud wherever it may be. These two, arrested and convicted, are not the only ones operating in Indianapolis. Many others should have the keys thrown away on them. The public can do much toward ridding the city of these racketeers if it only would co-operate with proper authorities. Our association will be glad to investigate and sign the warrants for the arrest of any who are violating the law, with the co-opera-tion of the public. lam sure this can and should be stamped out for all time to come. We ask only that these so-called readers comply with the state law, found in statutes of 1917, page 66 THE REV. ARTHUR M. BOWM.*President, American Spiritualist Association, Inc.