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Two Debt Policies President Hoover’s war debt policy as set forth Wednesday represents a high type of statesmanship. It is a call for action while the house is on Are. President-Elect Roosevelt’s reply is a too clever attempt at party maneuvering, unworthy of the man and of the hope which the electorate has reposed in him. Its net effect would be to postpone action while the house is on fire. Mr. Hoover can and will ask congress for action. But Mr. Roosevelt can block action, because he controls the session of. congress which meets in ten days. While on casual reading the evasive Roosevelt statement might seem to open the way to negotiations and to differ from the President only on what Roosevelt calls a matter “of secondary importance’’ and method, in fact it would prevent immediate negotiation, which is the chief issue. Mr. Hoover proposes revival by congress of a commission to hear the debtors' pleas and to consider those pleas in relation to the world economic and disarmament negotiations. Mr. Roosevelt, without committing himself to anything definite, falls back on the subterfuge that contact between debtor and creditor best can be maintained through existing diplomatic channels—which leaves the whole problem in its present state of disastrous deadlock. The diplomatic intercourse, which Mr. Roosevelt suggests, already has taken place and has been exhausted because congress, in its resolution a year ago, slammed the door on any negotiations or change of policy. That method has been exhausted because Mr. Hoover > as a defeated candidate, cfan not speak authoritatively for the American people and the debtor governments know he can not. That method has been exhausted because Mr. Hoover has nc control over the congress which must pass on any agreement negotiated by him. If the successor of Woodrow Wilson, under whom he served, can not remember what the senate did to a foreign agreement negotiated by a President accused of ignoring the senate, Franklin D. Roosevelt at least should recall that only congress can make or remake a debt agreement. And congress now is controlled by the Democratic party, of which Mr. Roosevelt is the leader. Theirs is the responsibility. Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor his party can run away from it. Mr. Roosevelt tried to run away in his statement Wednesday night and failed. Mr. Roosevelt’s official pronouncement says in ambiguous words what he was reported to have said more directly in private to his Democratic party leaders: “The debt problem is not our baby.” But it will remain on their doorstep just the same. Like the depression, of which it is a part, the debt problem will continue to exist to the detriment of the nation and of the world until they do something about it. That is why we doubt that Mr. Roosevelt can continue to let the demagogs of his party dictate his policy. Mr. Roosevelt, as the party leader, will have to do something about the debts, whether he likes it or not. Whether he will come to this position soon or late, we do not know, but that eventually he will follow the general lines of the Hoover policy we are confident. His hands will be forced by the facts, just as Mr. Hoover's unwilling hands finally were forced by the facts. This Hoover policy should not be confused by the public with its caricatures drawn by its enemies. It does not propose complete cancellation or even unconditional reduction, but is an attempt to get something for the United States worth more than defaulted paper. Asa business proposition in the interest of the American taxpayer, it avoids forcing default if through bargaining it can gain foreign trade advantages or arms reduction which would cut taxes and help restore American prosperity. It does not commit us to anything in advance except opportunity to find the facts and to negotiate. Meanwhile, It proposes that, if any debtor can show that its December debt payments would undermine foreign exchanges or otherwise injure American foreign markets or economic interests, America will attempt to adjust those payments to minimize such a further depression shock. That is a realistic and constructive policy. It should prevail, unless Democratic partisan leaders wreck it and thereby prolong the world depression in Which we are suffering. A Sensible Move The federal government is preparing to exercise far stricter supervision over projected trans-Atlantic flights than it has exercised in the past; and any one W'ho can remember the long series of ill-advised ventures which came to grief in mid-ocean is bound to applaud the move as a sensible one. There still will be plenty of room for all flights Whi£h have a genuine concern with the advancement of aviation as their main object. The work of charting the air lanes and linking ocean-separated continents together will go on as rapidly as before. No one need fear that the progress of the real air pioneer Is going to be handicapped. But the publicity-seekers, the half baked thrill-, seekers, the stunters—these will have to do their flying over dry land hereafter. And the chances are (that the public won't mind a bit, A Day of Thanks This day was first set aside to render gratitude to H Divine Providence for having preserved the lives of those who landed, impoverished but courageous, on the New England coast. They were grateful for enough corn to last them through a winter, corn which would be parched and ground in mortars and then turned into food. They were grateful for log cabins. The forests supplied the fuel. They were grateful, most of all, for renewed hope In their effort to find some measure of liberty. There are many millions today who must look Urnost as far to find any reason for gratitude. There are many millions out of work, assured only of sufficient food and shelter through governmental or charitable agencies. They can be understood if they should wonder why there should be any fear of hunger in a land where grains are so plentiful that those who raise them burn them because they can not be sold. There is cause for gratitude in the fact that many other millions, still blessed with sufficient goods to cere for themselves, are now thinking for the first time of exactly the same anomaly and are determined that the condition shall not last nor be repeated. There is cause for thanksgiving today, it comes

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from the hope of a new' and a better day. It springs from the ever broadening sentiment for a world of real liberty, in which some of the artificial barriers to comfort will be set aside and men once again will find it possible to be brotherly. Perhaps there may even come a restitution of the social basis of the little group of brave men and women who came to conquer a wilderness. They came as equals. There was no haggling over the distribution of their supplies of food. All lived on the same basis of comfort. The ministrations were personal but immediate. Selfishness had no place in that first service. Since then, a great complex civilization has supplanted hardship with comfort, has made life no longer the simple matter of taking food from the ground and clothes from the hides of animals. Today the world obtains its food, its clothing and its shelter from machines. During the past year, the lesson taught is that selfishness does not pay, is too costly in spiritual and even material values. For that, at least, be grateful. The Case for the Doctors Whether the American people get good medical care depends, in the last analysis, on whether they have sufficient good sense to demand it. That seems to be the point of the latest report made by the committee on the Costs of Medical Care. This report points out that the pation is suffering from a shortage of competent doctors, dentists, and hospital facilities; but it adds that it would be unwise to increase the supply until the public knows enough to insist on first-rate attention and is willing to pay for it, as that simply would increase unemployment among medical practitioners. The problem, then, seems to depend on the patients themselves. Medical science can not, in the long run, serve them any better than they want to be served. They can not get the best until they insist on it. Obscene Censorship That sprightly magazine, The New Yorker, not long ago recounted an anecdote which reveals the stupidities of customs censorship about as well as anything could. There was published in this country a few months since a book of more or less ribald cartoons and sketches. The book was funny and mildly improper, but no one tried to suppress it, and to this day it can be sold openly at any store or news stand. After American poblication, a London firm bought English publishing rights and printed the book in England. Its humor was a bit broad for that land, however, and half a dozen or so of the grosser sketches were omitted. Then a copy of the English edition was sent to an American—and was held up by the customs authorities, who declared the book obscene and could not be shipped into this country! It’s rather doubtful if Gene Tunney will engage in another campaign, it’s hard to keep present-day politics on a high literary plane. The Christmas season always makes a boy wish he were big like his dad—so he could get up closer to the counter where they show the mechanical toys. Well, the change in postmasters next spring may have one salutary effect. They may put new pens on the desks. If that coal bill worries you, reflect on your Uncle Sam. He’s running into-debt $5,000 a minute! Who said there was no difference between the major parties? a wag points out that the Democrats are taking the oath of office while the Republicans are emitting it. A1 Capone’s losing weight in federal prison at Atlanta, say dispatches. But Chicago wasn’t such a healthy spot for him, either. Now Helene Madison, the swimming champ, has signed with the movies. One-piece suits never bothered her sense of modesty, but what will happen to it when they hand her a movie-style evening gown! Now is the time for all good men to spend their Christmas savings. A still on every farm might not solve the agricultural problem, but it ought to put two speakeasies in every garage. They say an ocean liner’s cabin the safest spot in the world and a Pullman berth comes next. So if you stay at home—it’s at your own risk.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IV/f RS - FR ANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT will set anew iTf for President’s wives. While she is First Lady she will also be a magazine editor. According to her announcement, she intends to wHu UP rx her pres s lt v teachin S job when she enters the White House with her husband, but being under contract, will continue her publishing work. S w to me ’ an excellent and even momentous decision. To oendemn any intelligent woman, least of all one who possesses the abilities of ’ TL the inanities 0 f an existence that comprises an endless round of receptions, dinners in n vain° nS ’ &nd teaS ’ * S 10 take the name of libert >’ a who talk a great deal about freedom. s.et we impose a thousand shackles of foolish convention upon Presidents and their wives. I imagine that by far the major part of the duties of the latter are only not monotonous, but a deadly bore. Only a woman who had a passion for parties could endure many years of Washington official life without rebelling or expiring under the burden. tt a might suppose, with all the hullabaloo we V; that we permitted the fortunate (?) First Lady to set her own fashions. But to believe this is to jump at conclusions. The truth is that these already are set for her, and if she deviates in the slightest degree from established custom she will be subjected to criticisms, to say nothing of the havoc she could cause in thus setting off political bombshells. A rut is marked for her feet and we not only expect, but demand, that she stay in it. If women are to be emancipated citizens, they first should free themselves from the chains of social convention. The iron-clad rules of official Washington society have been worshiped so long that they now are fetich—a succession of totem poles before which strong men and fair women bow and kneel. And few of them can stand analysis by any rule of common sense or intelligence. Mrs. Roosevelt, to be sure, will be spared one dilemma. She will not have to decide the proper seat for Mrs. Gann.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

If Birth Control Could Be Practical in a High-Minded Way, It Might Do 'Some Good. NEW YORK, Nov. 24—Few will disagree with Henry Fairfield ! Osborn’s proposition that birth seI lection is much more desirable than birth control. Each, however, ob- ! viously is dependent on the other, while both involve a sense of personal responsibility and a conception of social duty which, unless permitted to develop through the slow processes of education, are likely to do more harm than good. Most people are wnlling to acknowledge that life would be easier with fewer children and happier with better children. They are not sure that it would be healthier. There is a defeatist element in the rationalism wihch defies nature, a ! motive or group of motives which spells the difference between knowledge and wisdom. We have made I vastly more progress in learning | how to do things than in learning whether they are the best things to do. tt tt tt It Doesn’t Work BY all the laws of logic, poor people should perceive the wisdom of small families, while wellcircumstanced people gladly should assume the task of reproduction. It just doesn’t work out that way. Asa general proposition, the poorest people on earth are the most prolific breeders, while the rich and well educated run to childlessness. Nor is such a paradoxical state of affairs peculiar to this age. Ever since human consciousness expressed itself in anything like social or political organization, the upper crust has been constantly rotting away through birth control and allied practices. By the same token, savages, barbarians and under-dogs have been breaking up through by virtue of numbers. Save for a few novel devices and tricks, there is nothing modern about birth control. It is as old as prostitution, or the social inconvenience of children in swanky homes. Ignorance does not account for what has happened in the past, or other lands. tt a Own Folly Fatal NO more does enlightenment account for what is happening among us right now. Whether doctors are permitted to teU young married people how to prevent having babies in a scientific way, we shall get more birth control than we want, and we shall get it for precisely the same reason that brought it into vogue among the Romans 2,000 years ago, and that has made it fashionable in France during the last century. When people become too intelligent, prosperous, or pleasure-loving to do their full part in the struggle for existence, nature simply allows them to kill themselves off through their own folly. If birth control could be extended throughout all classes, if it could be practiced in a high-minded way, if it could be visualized as a means of improving social conditions and not carried to unnecessary extremes for the sake of mere physical pleasure, it might do some good. As things now stand, however, and in spite of all the highbrow advocacy, it is conceived and attempted mainly as a matter of convenience. tt tt a Need Education in Duty TF we had the proper respect for A birth selection, birth control would take care of itself. If we realized what it meant to bring weak, defective children into the world! we wouldn’t need any one to tell us how many we ought to have or how careful we should be in marriage. The trouble is that few human beings believe they will make poor fathers or mothers. In nine of ten cases, nothing deeper than sex appeal leads to a wedding and nothing deeper than a desire to jazz around is back of the birth control complex. The crying heed is not for education in contraceptives, but for education as to the responsibilities which go with children. If the duties of parenthood could be presented to young people in their true light, if they could be made to understand that the prisons and asylums are filled by just such a careless attitude toward life as they themselves maintain, half the problem would be solved

Questions and Answers

Which school won the Indianapolis school city football championship in 1931? Manual high school was the city series champion in 1931. Cathedral high school was recognized as all city champion. Who appoints the state forester? The director of the department of conservation. What is the derivation of the name earth for our planet? The modern English word comes down through the Anglo-Saxon, and back from the Germanic tongues, from which Anglo-Saxon was derived, to the Teutonic word “ertha” which, in Latin is “hertha,” the name of the goddess of the earth. To what church did Woodrow Wilson belong? Presbyterian. For how long was Alonzo B. Cornell Governor of New York? He was elected in 1880 and served until January, 1883. What does “Auf wiedersehen” mean? It is a German phrase meaning “Till we meet again.” Is the maxim. “Cleanliness is next to godliness?” in the Bible. No.

Daily Thought

And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.—St Mark 2:27. Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.—Longfellow.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Retarded Swallowing May Be Serious

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT is rarely that paralysis attacks just the muscles of that tongue, the palate, and the throat. Far more frequently such a paralysis is a part of a paralytic condition affecting other portions of the body. The physician determines the extent of the paralysis by studying the actions not only of the muscles of the tongue, the palate, and the throat, but also of the muscular system generally. There are certain conditions in which swallowing is extremely difficult, if not imposible, which do not represent actual changes in the nerves and muscles, but which probably are due to mental stimuli. There was a time when it was customary to treat such patients by passing increasingly larger probes or sounds down the throat.

IT SEEMS TO ME

ONE industry which was languishing -revived mightily last Saturday night. There has been very little going on in the matter of matinee idoling in New York City of late. Matinees themselves have seemed at the point of death, let alone matinee idols. And suddenly there stepped upon the stage a young Czech whoso name is Francis Lederer. To these old ears there came a sound which long has been denied them. It is compounded out of “oh” and “ah” and of soprano quality. Even during the years of the depression we have had exciting plays, and several misses who sang or danced or were merely dramatic caused at least a modicum of skipping pulses and dancing in the street. But not since the days when Jack Barrymore was very young have I noticed in any playhouse that same strange poignancy of incense and gunpowder which filled the theater as young Mr. Lederer approached a love scene. tt tt tt Nice for Mr, Lederer IT will be, of course, an excellent thing for the Czech player, in whose pockets I assume there rest already contracts calling him to share the fair rewards of Hollywood. But it will also be an excellent thing for the theater, which would do well, I think, to turn back time and seek to capture onoe again those strange enchantments which prevailed before we all became sophisticated. “Autumn Crocus,” which served as a springboard for the Czech slayer, need not concern us for the moment. It is most dreadfully and fascinatingly old-fashioned. I had not assumed that ever again would I look upon a love scene played on top of an Alp, with a pink and white snow mountain planted just

Every Day Religion BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

DO the souls of people shine in and through their faces? Sometimes, yes; more often, no. What, then, it reasonably may be asked, are faces for? One might reply, in. the saying of a French cynic about words, that they conceal our thought withal. Or that they are for the amusement of others, as in the limerick which President Wilson was fond of quoting about himself: “My face I don’t mind it, for I am behind it —it’s the people in front get the jar.” If, seriously, we turn to ..Shakespeare, one of the profoundest students of man, we find him saying much the same thing. King Duncan, in Macbeth, is a kindly, trustful, courteous, guileless man—but he is no fool. One of the proofs that he is not lies in his frank avowal of a mistake in regard to Thane of Cawdor. When the news is brought that Thane has turned traitor, Duncan says, “There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” The irony of it is that he is at that moment repeating the mistake; he sees in the faces of Macbeth and his wife only hospitality and loyalty —when they are plotting his death. a a a IT is entirely true; some faces may be mirrors, but most face* are masks. Phrenology may know us by the shape of our heads, and

Thanksgiving

It now is realized that spasms of the muscles may be due to the actual changes in the tissues, but that they also are due in some instances to mental stimuli. People who suffer with difficulties in swallowing are likely to do without nessary foods Asa result, they lose weight, become anemic and weak. Naturally they are without appetite, and what physicians call "a vicious circle” develops. This means that the patient breaks down because unable to partake of satisfactory nourishment, because of conditions such as lack of appetite or weakness brought about by the breakdown. The introduction of any sound, or stretching instrument, into the throat requires the most delicate technic and never should be undertaken by any one. except a physician especially competent in such a procedure.

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six inches back of the heroine’s left ear. And, though I was entertained, I would suggest that if we return to the Victorian sunset we might at least take our own scenery with us. But I like to see the flash of promise that once again it may be possible to take horses out from the shafts. Indeed, I’d put the critics in. The steady flow of the intellect and improving thoughts is not to be damned to please the nostalgie urge of a middle-aged columnist who once drank champagne from the slipper of Jenny Lind, or maybe it was some other girl. But couldn’t we, for a month or a day or a season, forget about the drama and get back to the theater? tt tt tt Sounds Like Joy Thought AND while we are engaged in the business of turning back the hands, I am surprised at the primness of Mark Sullivan. He cries out in solemn accents and‘warns America that it well may proceed too rapidly in the matter of prohibition reform. “What we are headed for now is deplorable,” he writes. “The place we will land if we go along the present course is simply back where we were in 1919, the year before national prohibition came.” And all I can say to that is, “Wouldn’t that be just dandy?” Personally I have fought the good fight all through the dark ages, and I have managed to find sanctuary, not forgetting lemon peel and a touch of vermouth. By taking thought and moving from one end of the town to another it still i- possible to keep away from the dull solace of sleep up to about 5 o’clock. After that it is difficult. And so I would like very much to see once more a Jack’s for which

palmistry by the lines in our hands, but we have no art, much less a science, of face-reading. Yet ninety-nine out of every one hundred of us are persuaded that we can tell the character of a man from his face. We have to make rough and ready estimates of people, to get on in the business at all, and we think we know the knack of it. Others are equally sure, by sad experience, that what people appear to be is the one thing they quite certainly are not. Plato, on the other side, is against us when he says, “Soul is form, and doth the body make;” but we are unconvinced. We still dare to declare that the something whose manifestation causes us to know and love our fellows is invisible, intangible, and does not always use the face as its index. The elusive thing in our friends, which we love, is revealed by some medium more authentic, because more spiritual, than even “the sorrows of a changing face.” Some of the most unattractive faces have been masks for the loveliest spirits; but Maude Royden. my old colleague at the City Temple in London, used to say: “Up to 50 we are not responsible for our faces; after that we are.” But why fix a date? (Copyright. 1931. United Feature Syndicate. las.)

In those cases in which there can be shown to be some mental reason for failure to swallow satisfactorily, the condition should be treated from a psychological point of view. An attempt must be made to determine the underlying disturbance in which case satisfactory explanation of understanding of the situation may bring about a cure. On the other hand when inability to swallow is due to some actual change in the tissues, bringing about narrow constriction or spasm of the muscles involved, treatment is directed to relief by dilating the constriction or by the use of preparations which act as sedatives, through the nervous system, and thereby prevent spasms of the muscles involved. These conditions demand the utmost care and skill for diagnosis and treatment.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those oi 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.

there was no key or closing time whatsoever. Perhaps I will be asked about my social conscience. It does not trouble me at all in whooping it up for gayer days and longer nights. Mr. Sullivan himself, when not engaged in writing political articles, has written a history of our own times in which he has paid fervent and even sentimental tribute to the city which was. tt tt u Social Conscience Says ’Ye NOR is there any evidence whatsoever that the troubles of our day can be attributed to any lack of productive energy. Under the curious economic system in which we live, one may say in almost any decade, “Be thrifty, my boy, and help to bring on the next panic.” If we suffer from our surpluses I need not blush to be one of a devoted crew endeavoring to think that back in 1919 American life was Utopian. That year, as well as ours, knew its hungry men and women. But the piling up of pretense and hypocrisy hardly has helped to make us any more clearheaded in facing pressing problems. If an officially dry America hasn’t sense enough to realize the need of drastic debt revision, then let’s have another drink all around and see if we can’t approach the problem with something more of essential good will. The old-fashioned saloon may have had its bad points, but I’ve heard shrewder political and economic arguments there than are known today in the columns of Mark Sullivan or on the floor of the United States senate. (Copyright, 1932. by The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l have been a subscriber to your paper for sixteen years, and I think it is mighty fine of you to give a space for the people’s views. When every one is burdened down with worry in these depressing times, I think we ought to seize every opportunity to cheer and help our fellow-men. I was sorry to see in this free column where some people have been misguided and allowed themselves to quarrel with each other, taking your time and your space just to strike back at someone. I would like to say a few words about little children. They are the men and women of tomorrow. What little time that I have for recreation I spend with the neglected children of my neighborhood, I have lived in this neighborhood for sixteen years, and the children always have been my friends. I have one child of my own, just a boy 21 years old, and I always have grieved because he had no brothers and sisters like I had. My father was a minister and has passed on to his reward some time ago, but his and my mother’s training has been my salvation and the signposts in the training of my own boy. In the Sixth Chapter of Ephesians are instructions for both children and parents. If these were carried out, both would be happier, and we would be laying a foundation for a better generation. Children make better friends than grown folk. They don’t pretend to

JNOV. 24, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Colloid Chemistry Expected to Play Great Part in Industry, Agriculture and Medicine. METHODS of isolating vitamins, identifying germs, preparing anew type of fuel, and preventing explosions, all recent advances in colloid chemistry, arc described by Dr. Harry N. Holmes of Oberlin college, famous authority on colloids. in a report to the American Chemical Society. Chemists expect colloid chemistry to assume greater and greater importance in the future in the fields of industry, agriculture, and medicine. Colloid chemistry is one of the newest fields of investigation and consequently one in which there is more to be discovered than is known. The colloid is a solution in which one substance remains suspended in the form of particles or droplets in the other. Isolation of Vitamin A from halibut liver oil has been accomplished by use of porous aluminum oxide, Dr. Holmes explains. When the oil is shaken up with a special form of porous aluminum oxide, he says, the tiny ports so small that the microscope will not reveal them, absorb the vitamin from the oil. The oxide then is removed from the oil and treated with chemicals which dissolve out the vitamin. M tt To Identify Bacteria FROM his experiments with the vitamin. Professor Ho'mes is convinced that colloidal chemistry may hold the key to a great advance in medical science by which similar methods could be used to separate and classify bacterial strains from the blood. “Bacteria are of coarsely colloidal size and must act like colloidal suspensions in the blood,’ he says. “It would, be a long step in advance if separations of different bacterial strains and distinctions between them were made possible. “Diagnosis of certain diseases thus might be aided somewhat. Bacteria absorbed on ultra-porous silica or alumina or carbon might be desorbed or washed off the solid surfaces by using wash water of the proper degree of acidity or alkalinity or by displacement w’ith some more surface active substance dispersed in the wash water. “There must be differences in the adsorbability of bacterial strains as shown by differences in staining by dyes, the well-known property that has made microscopic study of bacteria an art. “Furthermore, some bacteria, notably those of tuberculosis, have a waxy coating while others do not. Thus it is conceivable that a given porous solid might attract a waxy colloid particle while not attracting another of a very different surface nature.” tt tt tt Colloidal Fuel PROFESSOR HOLMES says that the methods of collodial chemistry have many applications in science and industry, particularly in the fuel and paint industries, and in eliminating fire and explosion hazards in factories and mines where there is the danger of dust explosions. “Collodial fuel, announced during the great war by Lindon W. Bates and S. E. Shepard, came into it 6 own several weeks ago, when the Cunard liner Scythia successfully demonstrated its suitability as a substitute for fuel oil or coal,’ he continued. “In reality, this fuel is a fluid mixture or finely ground coal with ordinary fuel oil, the proportions being equal. “To keep the solid part from settling, a small amount of dispersing agent, such as a soap or sulfite wood pulp waste or a suitable coal tar derivative is added. “Then the fluid paste can be sprayed into intimate contact with every little particle of coal, resulting in perfect combustion of the cheapest coals. “Dust explosions in coal mines, starch factories and plants producing combustible dust as waste have, in some years, caused a loss of millions of dollars and scores of lives. “The United States bureau of mines is teaching industry the hazards of the dust of cocoa, fertilizer, aluminum, zinc, sugar and many apparently harmless materials.’ Is Ben Turpin, the cross-eyed comedian, living? He recently appeared in the photoplay “Million Dollar Legs,” and is to be featured in a forthcoming Fanchon & Marco stage presentation. like you and deceive you at the same time. They are quick to forgive and forget. If you ask them what kind of man or woman is Mr. or Mrs. So and So, they can tell you much better than a grownup. I had a big swing erected in my back yard, and the neglected children come here to swing. The only thing that is required of them is to see them in clean clothes; but sometimes the poor little things don’t even have any buttons on their clothes, and I have to get safety pins and pin their little waists and shirts. I have had picnics here for the children many times. I don’t know their last names, but they all call me by my given name, which makes me feel like I am one of them and gives me a closer feeling to them. I have had children call to me on streets many blocks from my home (call me by my first name and I could not recall where I had seen them) and ask when we were going to have another party. If this generation of mothers and fathers only would realize what a mistake they are making in neglecting their children and letong them run on the streets, there would be fewer crimes committed in the future. The home training is what counts in our lives. We should bring our children up In the way we would have them go. We were poor when I was a child, but the strictest attention was given to our rearing. We thank God for our home environment which gave us faith in God; and when the depression has almost got us down, we can lift our heads and know that our redemption draweth nigh, for God has promised us food and raiment. He said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." St. Matthew, 3-33. NETTIE COOK, 1231 Shepard street.