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MONDAY. Feb. 13, 1933. WHAT’S BEHIND THIS? , What is the mysterious influence that is about *to destroy the felderal trade commission? Born during the first years of the Wilson administration, and acclaimed as one of the real accomplishments of Wilson’s time, the trade commission * has repaid its cost to the American people over and over again. * To mention only two instances, there was the commission’s action in the famous ‘ Pittsburgh plus" case, which is said to have saved the farmers of the country $30,000,000 each year since it went into effect, to say nothing of the saving to every oth .r user of steel materials. And the revelations concerning the power industry which probably will form the basis of Roosevelt’s new deal in a matter that means hundreds of - millions of dollars to the people. Yet "for some hidden reason this commission—the only one in the federal government primarily concerned with the interests of consumers—is about to be destroyed. It is difficult to draw the basis of the present hostility into the open, but it seems to have grown out of certain practices initiated by Commissioner Humphrey, practices previously avoided by the commission, and practices that readily can be terminated by the commission. Two new members, to be named by Roosevelt, can take care of that. Economy, of course, is the pretense under which the commission is being destroyed. The whole cost of the federal trade commission for the current year is $1,44(5.500. For the coming year, congress proposes to allow not more than $780,000. To make clear that economy is only a pretense, there is the action to date on a couple of other items. The R. O. T. C. is to receive $3,840,000. Without entering into any argument concerning the propriety of this college activity, nobody can contend that its value is anything more than problematical. That is to say, if we should have a war it is to be assumed the military training given these boys will have been worth the expense. * It's just one of those things you can’t know about. However —$3,840,000 for that. Less than 6 per cent decrease over this year's cost. The prohibition unit. There's scarcely any need to start an argument concerning prohibition. It’s on its way out. It has been a costly and futile experiment. But for the coming year congress appears ready to appropriate $8,440,000 for the prohibition unit’s part—and its' merely a part—of the cost of prohibition This is a reduction of only 17 per cent. There you haverit Seventeen per cent cut in a service that can not be useful to the people. Six per cent cut in a sendee that may some day prove it is useful. Fifty per cent in an inexpensive service that has been useful to the people since the day it was organized—useful in terms of hundreds of millions of dollars. So, we ask again, what is the mysterious influence that seems about to destroy this service? THE OLSON CHARGES No time should be lost by the senate committee on banking and currency in finding out. all the facts behind the resignation of David A. Olson as one of the committee’s investigators in the stock market probe. Serious charges have been made by Mr. Olson against Chairman Peter Norbeck of the senate committee. He alleges procrastination, an apparent effort ‘‘for a whitewash of Wall Street,” and a lack of good faith on the part of the chairman. If Mr. Olson is responsible, that fact should be made known. Coming on top of the recent Barry episode, the senate should clear itself and its committees from suspicion that it is not functioning fearlessly and in the public interest. Chairman Norbeck should not rest with the acceptance of Mr. Olson's resignation. He should demand, and, in his capacity as chairman of the committee under fire, initiate a complete airing of the controversy. The committee has its hand on the economic pulse of the nation. It is dealing with interests of stupendous size and power. The investigation of the stock market is but one phase of its duty. It obtained full authority from congress to probe the subject of tax evasions. In that field Mr. Olson was employed. Was he actually hampered in his Investigations, or is he merely a disgruntled employe and a maker of reckless charges? NO PLACE FOR PATRONAGE Among the office seekers hounding the Presi-dent-elect and his patronage dispensers none is more insistent than the campaign contributor who thinks he has paid for an ambassadorship. It is an old racket. And too often he gets away with it. That did not matter much so long as we were a one-horse country. The chief job of most of our diplomats was to dress for court functions and to glad-hand an occasional American taking the grand tour. But since the war that has changed. We have become the dominant nation in world affairs. Our diplomats help determine peace or war, prosperity or beggary. Their success depends upon knowledge and skill—in international politics, finance, economies. Training and experience count. Foreseeing this. Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt began the slow- process of building up a professional service. As this body of career diplomats matured, later Presidents gradually promoted the best of these men from secretarial positions to head our missions abroad as ministers and ambassadors. Although the prize jobs at London, Paris and Berlin always have been saved for political appointees, today thirty-one of the fifty-six foreign posts are held by professionals. This is one of the fine achievements of the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover administrations. To President Hoover especially goes the credit for realizing that only highly trained technicians can serve our country adequately in Latin America and .the far cast. For example, the services of such men as Amabassador Clark in Mexico, Ambassador Grew in Japan and Minister Johnson in China—all *

of them former undersecretaries or assistant secretaries of state in Washington—are incalculable. In Europe, Ambassadors Gibson, Garrett and others are key men. The country sympathizes with Mr. Roosevelt as he faces hungry Democrats who have not had a grab at the patronage pot for so long. But there are plenty of political plums for him to distribute at home. Not one campaign angel, not one party hack should be sent abroad this year. Not while the world staggers, half-blind, between peace and war. The best diplomats available can be none too good for the job today. INDUSTRY WAKES UP In coming out for a system of unemployment reserves, the national industrial conference board, speaking for a big group of American manufacturers, makes this important announcement: ‘Tt is recognized that industry has a responsibility in relation to unemployment, which involves an obligation to assist its stable and permanent workers to protect themselves against the vicissitudes of employment in normal times.” Guarded as this statement appears, a decade ago such policy would have been denounced as paternalism. But the conference board, is alarmed over the powerful movement for state compulsory unemployment insurance. It insists that employers be ‘'permitted to set up private plans of unemployment reserves, subject to a minimum of bureaucratic supervision and control.” In view of the history of this and past depressions, are the employers’ demands for a more or less free hand justified? With ample time to learn the awful effects of industrial unpreparedness, employers generally have done nothing. Only about 150 companies have set up voluntary jobless reserves. In Europe 20,000,000 workers are under shelter of compulsory unemployment insurance laws. Here fewer than 150,000 workers are being protected under voluntary, trade union or worker-management cooperative plans. Unemployment insurance now is being considered in twenty-six state legislatures. It should be compulsory and universal among the states. That is the only protection, not merely for labor, but also for intelligent employers who can not easily set up a voluntary system because of competition pressure from unenlightened or unscrupulous employers. TIIE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA When you drink a toast to your friend's long life, be sure to add “ —and a *merrv one.” For many aged in our land the added years bring anything but merriment. Dr. Fl-ancis Pottinger of California, in his Montreal speech as retiring president of the American College of Physicians, described the American doctor’s dilemma. Doctors, he said, have been adding years to men’s lives, only to find that the added years are insecure and unhappy. The Hoover committee on social trends found that between 1900 and 1929 the average age at death in registration states increased from 47.88 to 56.81 for men, and from 50.7 to 60.36 for women. But, while medical science was adding a decade to life's expectancy, in thirty years social science was permitting more than 1,000,000 people past 65 to complete their lives in wretched county poorhouses. ‘‘The fact,” said Dr. Pottinger, “that the number of people above 65 has increased so markedly in recent years requires that our economic system make adequate provisions for workers'during Iheir productive period and in their declining years. Otherwise, public health measures become a mockery and work an injury rather than a blessing.” One of America’s immediate jobs is to establish universal old age pension systems. Congress may spare bootleggers from the peril of wire tapping, but let’s hope no obstacle is put in the way of nice long penitentiary sentences for those playful souls u r ho call up and bubble: “You can’t guess who this is!” Farmers,’ collusion on forced mortgage sales may have far-reaching effect on the drama. Imagine the villain’s chagrin when the long-lost son bursts in just in the nick of time, dramatically bids $1.98 and burns up the mortgage on the old home place. Farmers are having a tough time, but there are fewer line-fence shootings. No one sems to care if 3-cent hogs run all over a field of 25-cent corn.

Just Plain Sense = -■ BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

are now in so much confusion.” writes a mother, “that it seems quite hopeless to try to plan the future for one's children.” It is, I think, hopeless. And how can w'e be sure that it is best that we should so plan? One of the tragic mistakes made by adults is this effort on our part to fashion our children's world after some plan of our own. We fail to consider that after we are dead our boys and girls will have to wrestle with problems of which we can have no conception. How can we guess what the world will be like the day after tomorrow? Will all these things which now r seem so valuable and precious b* worthless to those who come after us? it may be. We know this: Many of the most sacred causes that our parents and grandparents battled for have become-trivial ard meaningless for this generation. To read the pious essays of Jonathan Edwards and the Mathers is to understand that human thought has changed and widened beyond even their deepest understanding. tt O tt TV/TOREOVER, the last twenty years has taught A us that the future is beyond our knowledge and beyond any really intelligent control by us. The kindest, wisest thing we can do is to permit our children to regulate their ow n lives, to create their own worlds. It is. in short, the only course open to the modern parent. And it is futile for us to dash ourselves against this wall of hard and solid fact. It is somehow sad that when God put into the human heart parental pride and love, He did not at the same time give us faith. We seem in each age beset by overwhelming fears—fears of what our children will do when we are no longer here to give them counsel. The greatest gift we can bestow upon the generation that follows after us, or so it seems to me, is to teach them to stand upon their own feet. To guide, to caution, to hope—this is the best any of us can do. And the parent who realizes her inability to do more, and who restrains herself from too much loving meddling with the fate and future of her children is the finest, the dearest, and the wisest mother of us all. .

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It Seems to Me . . . . by Heywood Broun

THE turn of events in Nicaragua seems to me to be a tangible piece of evidence to prove the futility of force. , I am aware that starting out with the same set of facts several editorial commentators have arrived at wholly different conclusions. It is argued that the end of rebellion in a much-distressed small state w r as brought about only by the intervention of our marines and that whatever sacrifices were made are now crowned with glory and justification because of a happy ending. But this flies in the face of the apparent facts. When Sandino undertook to carry on a civil war in Nicaragua, he announced that he fought not against his countrymen, but against foreign occupation. Indeed, on several occasions he expressed a willingness to treat with the rival faction as soon as the American forces were withdrawn. And -when the United States marines departed from those shores, Sacasa and Sandino did manage to get together in surprisingly short order. Why Any Dead? WE left our dead and cpme home. The numbers killed were trivial if you think in terms of the adventure of the great \var. And yet it is pertinent to ask why even one should have been sacrificed in this far-off quarrel in which, as far as I can see, we had no stake whatsoever. Even the cynical argument that it w r as necessary for us to protect our financial interests does not bite too deeply, for they were inconsequential. I’m afraid we shed blood in defense of a doctrine which has grown pernicious. Indeed, it has been twisted out of its original conception. President Monroe was thinking in terms of territorial grabs by European nations, and that has grown into the notion that we must act as roundsmen throughout Central and South America. The plain fact is that in as*ming this function we are pleasing nobody. Certainly, in spite of epidemic disorder, nobody in South America wants our interference. We are in no position to judge the merits of the various quarrels, and our intervention generally will be hated cordially by both sides. It is true that Sacasa and his pc tisans welcomed us in the beginning, but by now he must realize that all the time there was a better way. Ceriainly we were a good deal less .nan accurate in our official communiques. It was customary during the occupation to :efer to Sandino always as a bandit and as a man with no patriotic purpose. Our emissaries insisted that he w r as bent upon nothing but the hope of plunder, and it was urged against him that he and his followers lived off the land. tt tt tt It Has Been Done IN saying that, of course, we overlooked the fact that so did many of our Revolutionary

— DAILY HEALTH SERVICE - Medical Aid Needed in Sinus Cases

THE sinuses are cavities in the bones of the head which connect wirh the inside of the nose by means of small openings. The sinus in the cheek bone is called the antrum, the one above the eye the frontal sinus, and deeper behind the nose is the ethmoid sinus. Obviously, infectious germs in the nose may gain access to the sinuses through the openings and infect the membranes which line the walls. The moment the opening of the sinus into the nose becomes blocked, the patient develops headache and pain. The absorption of infectious material leads to a rise in temperature or fever. Whereas the ordinary cold tends to clear up in three to five days, infection within the sinuses causes the cold to continue for weeks and weeks. Eventually the condition may

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heroes in sections where the battle against the British took on the aspects of guerilla warfare. At least a dozen times word went out that Sandino was dead. Even more often it was reported that he had fled to Honduras, Mexico, or Eiirope. And yet it now comes out that he maintained himself all the time in his jungle fastnesses. Against a band of irregulars not numbered or well equipped, we sent what is probably the finest body of fighting men in the world today. The terrain favored Sandino, but we hunted him with airplanes and raked his villages with weapons of which he was bereft. In all fairness it must be admitted that he showed great skill and courage in managing to keep a force in being. It is possible that government in Nicaragua under the auspices of marine supervision might come closer to our ideals of democracy than a free-for-all regime. But, as it happened, Sandino didn’t think so. His decision should have carried more weight than that of our President, congress or state department. After all, we are in no position

Every Day Religion

A LOVELY story of the middle ages tells of a famous clown who entered a church and found it empty. Moved by a religious impulse, he w r anted to make an offering in honor of the Mother of Jesus. He had no gold to give, no gems, only the tricks of his trade; they were all he knew. So, approaching the altar, he began to do his tricks in praise of the Mother of Jesus. He did them reverently, using his finest art. A priest, entering the church, was horrified to find a clown doing his tricks before the -altar! They were about to throw him out of the church, but the Mother of Jesus rebuked the priests and blessed the clown—he had given his best. What makes an act religious, if it be not its motive and the spirit in which it is done? Any •;ct, not actually evil, if done as for the will of God, may be a sacrament. George Herbert was right: “Who sweeps a room as for Thy will makes that and the action fine.” MANY kinds of life must be lived, and no one kind has a right to call itself alone religious. Handel wrote the Messiah because what a man should do comes out of w T hat he is. A man of science need not lay dow r n his implements of research to be religious—unless he hears a far, clear call to do so. Science has its saints, too, and their service and sacrifice often are sublime, putting pious folk to shame. “All service ranks the same with God,” said Browning: and it is literally true. It is better to be

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

E.?>ir.,-1 n f th„ American Medical Association and of Hvseia, the ...a.tii .tiaxazine. become chronic and develop anew, following each period of lowered resistance. a a LOWERED resistance is. of course, associated with exposure, fatigue, malnutrition, or any other hygienic error which tends to affect adversely the normal condition of the body. It is quite impossible for the average person to tell for himself whether he has developed infection of the sinuses. The physician makes his diagnosis by cleaning the nose, shrinking the membranes through the application of adrenalin or ephedrine, and then studying the openings from the sinuses into the nose, to see whether infectous material is coming out. It also is possible for a physician to wash out the sinuses and to find infectious material in the washings t£at collect in the basin.

to oppose the theory of “Nicaragua for Nicaraguans.” During our own very sizable Civil war, we bitterly resented even the notion of interference by outsiders. o a a So Much for Nothing IDO not see that intervention by our marines had anything at all to do with the final peaceful settlement between the warring factions. It seems to me that Sandino told the truth all along when he said that he would compromise as soon as the invaders left the shore of his native land. And as for us—well, I must say that at the best we were misinformed. Naturally, I have no means of knowing w'hether the present amity is permanent, or merely a phase of quietude in a Central American state much given to revolution. But if the fires flare again I hope that we will have the good sense to stand aloof. We left our dead—young men from Kankakee, St. Louis, and Sauk Centre. And for what purpose? Only Gcd and the state department know. Such things should not be ever again. (Copyright. 1933. by The Times)

BY Dk. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

a good butcher than a poor bishop. A golden little book called “The Practice of the Presence of God” w r as written by a dish w'asher in a monastery kitchen, who had learned to firicl God in the midst of pots and pans, where we need to find Him. If we do our stuff, whatever it may be, honestly and with our best stroke, interpreting our job in terms of God and our duty to Him, we are living a religious life. It is not the job, but the spirit in which w'e do it, w-hich makes it sacred or secular. Our business, if w’e think of it in the right way, is our best contribution to the kingdom of God. What we call “divine service” is seeking our job in its true meaning. (Copyright. 1933. United Features Syndicate)

So They Say

One great trouble in Europe is that each nation is so busy being patriotic that it has not time to get the other’s point of view.— Count Serge Fleury, French foreign office. I’m too good a swimmer; I couldn’t stay dowrn. Harold Wachtel. jobless New York salesman, after trying unsuccessfully to drow’n himself. Unless the Democratic party recognizes that new economic conditions exist in the world today and that we must take a somewhat different, attitude on the tariff, we are headed for difficulties.—United States Senator Thomas J. Walsh (Dem., Mont.).

IN a recent survey of this subject, Dr. Louis Kleinfeld emphasizes the usual good advice to keep the body above par as the best method of preventing infection of the sinuses. He advises avoidance of contact with persons suffering from colds, and the building of resistance through high vitamin diets, use of nutritious foods, and sufficient sleep. When possible, rooms should be kept at a mild even temperature, with sufficient humidity. Persons with chronic sinus infection should avoid swimming pools. A competent physician can aid a person to overcome rapidly an acute infection of the sinuses. If, how'ever, the condition becomes chronic, it may be desirable for the patient to seek a warm, dry, sunny climate, but even here he will need the attention of a physician capable of aiding the evacuation of pus from the sinuses and of getting nose and throat into proper condition.

M.E. Tracy Says: 4m ■■—•— + THE HOUSE SCORXS PAY CUT

ASKED to reduce the salaries of congressmen from SIO,OOO to $7,500 a year, the house of representatives replied with a thunderous no." It was little less than a spontaneous outburst of patriotic sentiment. This was one time the boys knew exactly what to do. Those who led the negative side to victory had a simple task. There was no need of convincing any one. That explains why the arguments offered were calculated to inspire, rather than persuade.

One opined that the saving involved was so small as to be of no account. Another thought the country would regard such a cut as “grandstanding." Another asserted that congressmen couldn't live on any less than they were getting and that poor men would be barred if the pay ware lowered. Another clinched things by stating that it cost him 75 cents to get a hair cut and a shave. a o a Nothing Less Than a Billion ON the whole, it was a most enlightening discussion, especially with regard to the congressional mind. Bankrupt business men. busted farmers, and the unemployed should enjoy reacting it. So should 'other folks, the most of whom have had to take more than a 28 per cent cut in pay or income. While the house was staging this masterful performance, the senate was hauling Mr. Barry over the coals for intimating that only a few of its members took money ror their votes. Mr. Barry was wrong, of course. Congressmen never take money for their votes except when it comes to fixing their salaries. Doubtless they would refrain from doing it then if they weren't afraid of looking small. The congressional mind, you understand, aspires to nothing so much as bigness and breadth. A $2,500 cut for the 531 members of house and senate would amount only to $1,327,500 and that’s just chicken feed in times like these. No one should expect congress to concern itself with anything less than a billion, unless it is something like a 3-cent stamp for people to buy. Ten thousand a year is not too much for a congressman. Neither is sio a ciay too much for a bricklayer or one dollar a bushel too much for wheat. a a a Need Co-Operation Instead of Greed THE point is that we have a stupendous deficit to overcome and that intelligent co-opcration should be substituted for childish greed. The psychological effect of an economy measure often is more important than the money it saves. The American people want to know if those in authority are willing to split the pot. not because what they give up would solve the problem of recovery, but to show the right kind of spirit. Leadership does not consist of telling others what to do, but in setting the right kind of example. We have talked a great deal about the necessity of restoring confidence. A good place to begin is by showing willingness to tote fair. Thus far the strategy of meeting this depression has rested largely on the idea of rigging schemes to put the burden on somebody else. The alternative is honest, intelligent co-operation, which, above all else, means a distribution of the burden according to ability to carry it.

New Alloy Developed BY DAVID DIETZ

T>HE development of anew alloy, hailed as an outstanding event in the evolution of metalcutting tools, will be announced in the forthcoming issue of "Metal Progress,” journey of the American Society for Steel Treating. The new alloy, known as “Alloy 543,” was discovered by W. P. Sykes, of the Cleveland wire works of the General Electric Company. The allow was described at a meeting of the society at which Mr. Sykes and Dr. Zay Jeffries, consulting metallurgist of the G. E. Cos. spoke. "industry now makes use of more than 5,000 alloys. (An alloy is a mixture of metals.) But the progress of industry continually demands new ones. "Alloy 548" is regarded as the most important announcement in the metal-cutting field since development of tungsten carbide in 1928. Metal-cutting tools are of fundamental importance in the -world of industry. Each time anew or better steel is developed, there arises the problem of finding an adequate material for cutting tools so that the new steel may lie machined—turned on lathes, drilled, etc. The problem is not unlike that of the world’s navies; first they hunt qn armor plate that projectiles won’t pierce; then they get busy developing a shell that will penetrate the new plate. “Alloy 548" is the latest metalcutting alloy. Its predecessors have steel, high speed steel, stellite, and cemented tungsten carbides. a tt a A Place for Each DR. JEFFRIES points out an interesting fact concerning the history of metal-cutting tools, namely, that no one has crowded out the others. Each, as it has been developed, has found its own important place in the industrial world. “The point can best be elaborated by comparing high speed steel with high carbon tool steel,” Dr. Jeffries says. “‘The latter is the foundation material of the art. “Instead of long since succumbing, there was more of it made in 1929 than in 1900. before high speed steeel was commercialized. “Upon its introduction, high speed steel was found to be a more expensive material; furthermore, in certain work it would not perform as well as the old tools, or maybe just a little better. “Consequently, carbon steel maintained much of its old ground. What high speed steel really did was to make its own place by generating anew art, the art of rapid turning and cutting, and a whole new industry of machine tool builders grew up to supply the demand of this art.” The next discovery was stellhe. Some authorities thought that stellite would crowd out the other older materials. But it did not. Since development of the original stellite, many improvements have been made in it and in high speed steel as well. First vanadium was added to high speed steel. Then cobalt was added. Recently, improved high speed steels have beeen made by increasing the content of both vana- ’ dium and carbon. Asa result, both stellite and high speed steels have found its most efficient territories. a a o Tungsten Carbides NEXT came the development of the cemented tungsten carbides. including such materials as “Carboloy,” “Firthite’ and “Widia” These materials could cut glass, electric carbons and even stellite. Dr. Jeffries thinks, however, that the proper use of these new materials was hampered by too much emphasis on stunts. “Fortunately, however,” Dr. Jes-

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fries says, “a considerable number of men started studying the new cutting material, finding where it was best fitted, where most economical, and applying it there. “In numbers of places the material in cutting “uncuttable” substances and such operations would be sadly handicapped, if not impossible, without ii. “But the total number of carbide tools absorbed for such duty is only a small proportion of the total sold today. Most of it is used in cutting*soft gray cast iron and in the manufacture of drawing dies." Impoi tant improvements have been made recently in tungsten cai bide tools. Some varieties use a cobalt binder. Others are mixtures of tungsten carbide and tantalum carbide. Now comes “Alloy 548.” It really is a whole family of alloys of iron, tungsten and cobalt Laboratory tests show that the new alloy has qualities midway between high speed steel and cemented tungsten carbide, a field where many tool experts say a gap now exists. Next—More about Alloy 548. Questions and Answers Q What is Cheddar cheese? A—Any double thick chee.se The grades commonly recognized are: “Full cream,” made from whoie milk; “skims,” made from skimmed or partly skimmed milk, and “filled,” in which foreign fat is substituted for the natural fat of the milk. Q—Give the family name of the royal house of Great Britain? A—Windsor. Q —Where is Sebastopol? A—lt is the southern seaport of Russia, on the Black sea. Q —Who invented the tuning fork? A—John Shore, in 171}. Q—Who wrote the “Call of the West?” A—C. F. J. Galloway, in 1916. Q—How many hospitals are there in the United States and what is their bed capacity? A—There are 6,665 hospitals, having 907,133 beds. Q —When was Charles Evans Hughes elected. Governor of New York? A—1906. Q —Can the President lend money from the United States treasury to a foreign country? A—No. Q —What is the official abbreviation of Pennsylvania? A—Pa. Q —What is isinglass? A—lt is made from a whitish, tough, semi - transparent substance, consisting of almost pure gelatin, prepared from the viscera, chiefly the air bladder, of certain fish, such as sturgeon and cod. Mica, a mineral substance, sometimes is called isinglass because of its superficial resemblance to some kinds of gelatin.

Daily Thought

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored.—Proverbs 27:18. tt a a THERE is no moment without some duty.—Cicero.