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TUESDAY. FEB. 14, 1933

THEY NEVER LEARN Apparently the bankers of the state, as represented by the arrogant lobby which is back of their revised code belong to the class which never learns. If thoy could catch even a glimmer of the new day. they world call off their spokesmen who are demanding that every obstacle be thrown in the way of effective operation of the credit unions. They would discover that the assumption of official powers and control of law makers will And resentment among the people, when disclosed. The credit union movement is small in this state. There are but ninety units. The combined assets amount to about one million *. illars. But that one million has been most useful in encouraging thrift, in meeting the needs of its membership for small loans, in finding an escape from the 42-percenters who are so lovingly protected in the bankers program. The plan of the credit union is so simple that It terrifies the financial mind. It provides that employes in the same factory or Store, or in the same lodge or farm bureau, may pool their funds and loan to each other in small amounts. In eighteen months, the local firemen have been rescued from the loan sharks. In twenty farm bureaus, the system of co-operative loans has saved many from dire disaster. In one store in this city, the employes have fund, of over $200,000 and it has proved to be the greatest incentive to thrift yet devised. In other states, wise bankers encourage these unions because, in the end, they are the depositories of funds not in use. In Indiana, the master minds fight them, not openly, but threateningly. The proposed code would prevent these unions from receiving deposits, placed there by members to meet special needs and emergencies. The banks want to make the fqrmation of new unions as costly as possible. They want to discourage this co-operative movement. The record of the Credit Union speaks for itself. In all the distress, not one union has failed. The banks have not been so fortunate. They have saved their members by thousands. They have encouraged thrift, not hoarding. They have inspired confidence, not fear. The bankers should learn. If they can not learn, the legislature should refuse to grant them the merit ol infallibility. CHAIN STORE TAXES The proposal to tax chain stores out of existence is as foolish as it will be futile. Under a bill which has passed the lower house, the owners of large numbers of stores will pay a heavy, conceivably an impossible tax. There is no suggestion that the law makers want to raise revenue. What they hope to gain is the elimination of the chain store. Wiser owners of stores have found a much better way to meet competition than through discriminatory and punitive taxation. They have found that through co-operative buying they can meet the chains on their own ground. If the chains are dangerous at all, it is because they sell goods to the public at lower prices. That means a lower cost of living to the majority. Other stores are compelled to pattern after the chains in mass production and no handicap of law can prevent this economic development. The proposed law is unwise from many viewpoints. The first is that at its best, it can only raise the cost of living and not assist the individual owner in competition. It might, conceivably, force some of the big chajns to reduce their number of units, adding still further to tax burdens and unemployment. Co-operative associations of the independent grocer, druggist and oil man form a much better defense. HANDS OFF CUBA Whether the announced Cuban revolution will occur as soon as the exiled patriots in Miami and Mexico predict is an open question, but that the days of the Machado government are numbered seems highly probable. So long as Machado retained the friendship of Washington and chose his victims only among the labor and professional classes, he was able to postpone his defeat by the drastic process of killing off revolutionary leaders as rapidly as they arose. But now that'he also has turned many of the conservative politicians and business men against him, his support is pretty well reduced to a class of mercenaries. The paradox of the situation is that American support has prolonged the life of the Machado dictatorship beyond the time when it naturally would have suffocated in its own blood. We who retained a protectorate over Cuba for the avowed purpose of guaranteeing her civil liberties and democratic institutions have permitted that protectorate to rob the Cuban people of their inalienable righjt to revolution. The Cuban people would have risen in mass and overthrown the dictator long ago had it not been for the known friendship of the United States government for the Machado regime and the consequent fear that American military intervention would be used against the revolutionists. Os course the state department will not admit that it has befriended Machado directly. But the record speaks for itself. Fortunately, the Hoover administration and Ambassador Guggenheim soon will be out of oflice. The exploited and terrorized Cubans are wondering whether tne Rooseveltian “new deal" will extend to them. It is not necessary—not even desirable at this time —that the United States government intervene with arms under its treaty authority to restore Cuban liberties. The Cubans can take care of that themselves* It will be sufficient for the new Washington administration to withhold diplomatic recognition and other support from the treaty-breaking Machado terror. That will cool the ardor of Machado’s Wall Street friends. The Cuban people can get rid of their dictator. but they can not at the same time fight the United States.

REPEAL IN 1933? Prohibition repeal, some day, has been deferred for at least two years by failure of the lame duck congress to submit the question to the states for action. The Blaine amendment, with its police power provisions, apparently has been stopped by Speaker Garner's stand for outright repeal. “The plain fact is that the fight is far from won,’’ says Jouett Shouse. president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Mr. Shouse is a bit too conservative. The fight was won in November, as far as the 125,000,000 people of the country are concerned. I£ yet has to be won in the case of certain timid politicians and die-hard drys. It can be won, and quickly and fairly, if the Democratic leadership in the White House and congress acts in March to carry out its party platform. A forthright repeal amendment, promptly submitted then, would come up in many states in time for ratification this year. If the convention system of ratification, pledged by both parties, is used, the sitting legislatures in most states would act promptly to provide for elections. Special sessions would be called by many of the new crop of Democratic Governors to meet the situation. The sentiment against prohibition still is gaining. The house has banned wire-tapping by federal dry agents, and the senate may follow. Funds for the useless prohibition unit have been slashed. The case against prohibition becomes stronger. A cable from Helsingfors reports that Finland’s liquor control law that replaced absolute prohibition, even with new revisions facilitating drinking and reduced prices of liquor, brought a reduction in drunkenness in 1932. The people of the United States realize that prohibition was another of the destructive and foolish outgrowths of the war. But active, forceful leadership is necessary to translate the victory into legislation. We hope and believe it will come this year. M’DONALD AND HOOVER The first break in the war debts deadlock seems to have come with the British statement that they are willing to include related economic questions in the American debt negotiations. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s important announcement in the house of commons represents a reversal of policy from the recent “no swapping” speech of Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain. This is encouraging. It indicates a return to the realism which usually characterizes British diplomacy, but which has been lamentably lacking during the last month. Any one with the least knowledge of American conditions and public opinion knows that the Roosevelt government can not n a debt reduction agreement without receiving disarmament, or other concessions in return. Apparently, Ambassador Lindsay, on his hurried visit to London, following his conversations with the President-elect, has made that clear to 'Chamberlain and the tory element in the British government. Much harm already has been done by the Chamberlain speecnes. They have given the cue to isolationist senators here to revive the no-negotiations propaganda. It is to be hoped that the harm caused by that false start will be eliminated by the new British policy to enter the negotiations in an open-minded and conciliatory spirit, as indicated by Prime Minister MacDonald. The importance not only of a debt settlement, but of linking that settlement with other issues that now retard world economic recovery, was set forth ably Monday night by President Hoover in his Lincoln day address. He said: “These debts are but a segment of the problem • • • We should have assurances of co-operations that positively will result in monetary stability and restoration of world prosperity. If we are asked for sacrifices because of incapacity to pay, we should have tangible compensations in restoration of our proportion of their agricultural and other imports. The world should have relief from the sore burden of armaments. “If they are unwilling to*meet us in these fields, this nation, whether you or I like it or not, will be driven by our internal forces more and more to its own self-containment and isolation, as harmful to the world and as little satisfactory to us as this course may be.” After all. aren't we a little hard on counterfeiters? Legislators pass bad bills and get away with it. If President Hoover's name is bandied around rather roughly after he leaves office, it will be his own fault. He has autographed medicine balls for his cabinet members.

Just Plain Sense == BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

r T'HE helplessness of men before women's tears ■*- is proverbial. Few if any of them have the hardihood to withstand these freshets of weeping. No nutter how right they may feel themselves in any disagreement, they become pliant, yielding, emotionally lost when the sobbing begins. The first little girl learned this millions of moons ago. Hence the cry-baby type is universal and a regular plague upon the face of the earth. “Sitting down with trouble as ore sits down with knitting,” as Ellen Glasgow puts it, has become a major feminine failing and self-pity has been developed into a fine art. It often seems to me that of all the miseries women inflict upon their men. this is the crudest. . this everlasting wailing and sniffling. And there is no gallantry in the habit. Many a wife who loses a point in an argument, or who can't persuade her husband to do what she wishes, or who is refused anew fur coat, can turn on the spigot and heaven help the male in a case like that. There are only two courses for him—to flee or to give in. a a a npHERE are women, too, who use grief to get their own way. Unconsciously, they employ some heaven-sent tribulation to further their own small ends. The moment a family difficulty arises, when husband, child, or relative stages some slight rebellion. they fly to their secret refuge—their sorrow—and with word or gesture recall past tribulation and then dissolve into tears. This leaves the offender baffled and hushed, without any retort, completely vanquished. He only can make as dignified a retreat as possible. „ Yet we knew, or should know, that life requires of us a certain amount of stoicism. Emotional storms, crying, should be private affairs and not public exhibitions. They belong, in truth, to a decadent generation and signify an infantile state of mind. Our grandmothers who helped to build America seldom wept. They did not have the time. They were too busy doing. The larger events of existence are not altered or conquered by any crying that we may do. And in the home this tyranny of tears is a form of torture that women should be ashamed to use.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES

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It Seems to Me .... by Heywood Broun

MR. and Mrs. Hugo Connor of Brooklyn, found a baby girl on a doorstep. They wanted to adopt the child. The city welfare department refused because the Connors are Jewish and the baby, although only 2 weeks old, is an ardent Catholic. And how did the child come by her religious convictions? The faith of foundlings in New York is determined by a wheel of chance. Unless there is evidence as to the religious affiliations of the parents, waifs are rotated between Catholicism and Protestantism. And, of course, there seldom is any hint as to the background of children left on doorsteps. The Jewish community is not a party to the lottery, because it holds that it does not care to have children brought up according to its tenets unless there is good reason to believe that they were of Jewish origin. The present system has prevailed for years. I don't know just when it was founded or by what device the original first choice was set. And that, of course, was important, since it has served to determine the religion of thousands ever since. tt tt tt Official Gambling CATHOLIC, Protestant, Catholic, Protestant—so it has gone on. What could be fairer? After all, it is an even money bet. And yet it seems strange that a game for such high stakes should not only be sanctioned, but officially conducted, by a city which frowns on all forms of public gambling. A waif found early of a Thursday morning would be a Catholic if it so happened that a little Protestant had been picked up late Wednesday night. And on any day teeming with desertions it might well be that inclusion in one faith or the other merely was by the margin of minutes. A nurse at Bellevue who described the workings of the process to me admitted that there was the possibility of error. “Os course, you could make a pretty good guess,” she said of one of last week's foundlings, “that he was Jewish, but it was the turn for a Protestant, and so that’s what he is and will be from now on.” tt a tt “Life's Little Ironies” ILIKE to speculate on life's ironies. I seem to see the infant, so quaintly converted, grown to man's estate and sitting in at a meeting of the membership committee of his club or klavern. The names before the committee are those of Heywood Moses and Thomas Aloysius Broun. And, 10, this lad who became a kleagle by virtue of being found just eighteen minutes ana 'hv seconds before another waif was picked up in a Remsen street doorway starts a speech which begins. “I hate bigotry.” As chairman of the admission group he wishes to point out that many of his best friends are Jewish and that he has nothing against the individual Catholic.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Diet Modified by Civilization BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN = ■- : i

PRIMITIVE man lived, like the animals, largely on fruits, seeds and roots, occasionally varying his diet by finding honey or eggs or by catching fish and small animals. At first, no doubt, all food was eaten raw. Later, man learned how to cook foed to make it more palatable and digestible. When it was found that some foods tasted better than others or seemed to be more useful in the diet, intelligent men began to cultivate these foods and to eliminate from the soil in which they grew plants which were not useful. In the same way men bred animals and birds to secure meat, milk and eggs. In his consideration of the way in which civilization has modified the diet of mankind. Dr. R, H. A. Plimmer brings out some interesting facts regarding these changes, particularly in recent years.

Still the club is and always has been devoted to the preservation of militant 100 per cent Nordic Protestantism, and so he thinks that, all things considered, it would be best to ask the sponsors of Heywood Moses and Thomas Aloysius Broun to withdraw their names. I think this roulette wheel of the welfare department easily might be made a little more interesting. For instance, why not some chance for the long-shot players? One baby in every hundred might be assigned to Buddhism, and it would not be too much to ask that one in a thousand should be allowed to grow up a freethinker. I think the sects which are excluded very well might raise the cry, “No baptism without representation!” As things stand now, it appears to be legally impossible for any freethinker or atheist to adopt a child from any city institution, and surely few can contend that instruction in dogmatic religion always is essential to the welfare of every child.

Every Day Religion T BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

RICHARD KING has a saucy little essay on a class of folk whom he calls “Butters,” and that means most of us. They are “people who never utter a favorable opinion without butting a ‘but’ into the middle of it; people who, as it were, give you a bunch of flowers with one hand and throw a bucket of cabbage-water over you with the other.” All of us know them, and lucky are we if we are not one of tne ilk. Alas, nothing is perfect to such people. If they praise anything or anybody, it is with reservations; if they are enthusiastic, it is cautious and qualified. There always is a fly in the ointment, always a discord in the music, always a defect, a drawback, or a flaw to find. The minister is an able and excellent preacher, “but” he is no visitor. The younger generation are a fine set of youngsters, “but” they do not do this or that. And so on. and so on, until one begins to feel, as Emerson said, that there is a crack in everything that God has made. When Matthew Arnold died, Stevenson wrote: “Foor Matt. He was a good man. He's gone to heaven, but he won’t like it.” He was a good man, if somewhat financially fastidious, and Robert Louis was afraid he would find some fault with heaven, either with its decorations or with its music, and be unhappy. tt tt a OF some of the troubles of his day, Carlyle said: “Every man I meet with mourns over this state of matters; no one thinks it remediable.” Carlyle thought it was remediable and said so. Whereupon his friends

Editor Journal of the Ameriran Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. 'T'HE custom of eating green salads was introduced into England by one of the wives of Henry VIII, who imported a gardener from Holland to develop the greens used on the table. It commonly is believed that Sir Walter Raleigh brought potatoes in,to England from America, but several hundred years passed before it was considered that they were suitable for human beings. Oranges apparently appeared about the sixteenth century, but it required California and Florida really to put Granges at a reasonable price into the ordinary diet. Sugar, until the end of the eighteenth century, was such a rarity that it was kept tmder lock and ke^

The Flipping of a Coin TEN or twelve years ago I wrote against the system which prevailed then. Asa result, the system still prevails. I remember that I received quite a few angry letters in which I was accused of jesting about sacred things. But I am not jesting. And if the issue of irreverence enters in, I think it lies against those Christian denominations which are willing to enter into an allotment of faith by a method which is little better than the flipping of a coin. Asa matter of fact, it may be that the stakes are not as high as they seem. When the foundlings come home at last, seemingly huge winners because chance has made them Protestants, or the other way around (you see, I, too, must preserve a balance), it may ttfrn out that somebody vdll tell them it didn’t really matter. These chips of dogma, demoninaticn and creed may, from the eternal point of view, be things of little consequence. The accounts will be torn up. There will be nothing to settle. It was just a game and not a gamble for immortality. (Coovrieht. 1933, bv The Times)

said, “All true, but.” “No,” thundered Carlyle, “all true, and!” If today we substitute the little word “and,” a word of confidence and faith, for the despondent and chilling word “but,” it will go lar to produce a more hopeful and effective attitude of mind toward the troubles which beset us. It is easy to fall into a hypercritical, captious, fault-finding attitude of mind, but it makes for friction and futility. How different it was with St. Paul: “A great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.” He did not write “but” there are many adversaries—he was a man of faith, a fighter, not a “butter,” much less a quitter. (Copyright. 1333, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.i

So They Say

Try to imagine what the dog must be thinking about.—Morgan Dennis, etcher of degs, on the making of good portraits. Civilization? “Chis e 1 i z a t i o n” would be a better term. I'd like to get back to the tundra.—Father Bernard Hubbard, Jesuit priest of Santa Clara university, Alaska explorer. It's laughable to blame prohibition for our present state. Why, if we had open saloons, we'd be in the blood of revolution at this moment.—Mrs. F. I Johnson, head of the Women’s National Political Action.

PERHAPS most remarkable of all the changes brought about by civilization is the change in cereal foods. Before 1870, cereals w'ere pounded by hand or coarsely ground between stones for the removal of the bran. Gradually, modern machine milling enabled the removal of all the bran and germ from grains, so that those who want to eat whole grain in these modern times will find it packaged separately and, in most instances, sold as a sort of health food, rather than as a part of the current diet of man. Development of modern systems of transportation also is partly responsible for changes in the nature of foodstuffs. White cereals and sugar can be transported long distances without deterioration, as can also fruits that are bottled, canned or dried. On the other hand, it is exceedingly difficult to transport whole grain or fruits or meats without preservatives, t /

M.E. Tracy Says:

BANKS GETTING UNFAIR DEAL

THE United States government has provided some rather stupendous credit facilities during the last year or so. creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, liberalizing the federal reserve system, establishing the home bank, authorizing increased capital for the farm loan bank, and so on. Though designed to function through banks and other lending institutions, these credit facilities were intended to relieve conditions down

where people live, to give business a breathing spell, to supply industry with cash, to stimulate trade and reduce unemployment. Asa general proposition, they have failed to accomplish the desired purpose, chiefly because they have not been used as widely or in such ways as were expected. It is common to hear bankers blamed for this unsatisfactory result. especially small town bankers, who, for one reason or another, are doing their utmost to keep assets liquid and enough cash on hand to meet any kina of emergency. * tt a Bankers Given Unfair Treatment I DON T think that is quite fair. Bankers are seriously handicapped by regulation on the one hand and by a badly scared public on the other. They are exposed to the whiplash of examiners and the undermining effect of rumor. The only way most of them can extend credit is bv borrowing. If they borrow from the R. F. C . the fact is published, and they are more than likely to find themselves the victims of a whispering campaign. Asa matter of common sense, the bank that gets a loan from the R. F. C. to extend credit really is performing a public service. But—and this is the devilish part of it—that bank runs the risk of being talked about as in bad shape. It seems to b? taken for granted that no bank would borrow unless it had to, though the government has done everything possible to indure it to borrow, and though the extension is out of the question if it fails to borrow. The whiplashing and whispering have reached a point where banks actually consider an unreasonable amount of idle money as essential to their safety, actually curtail their financial operations and take a chance with reduced profits rather than expose themselves to the effect of backstairs gossip. tt tt a Mob Psychology Hurts Financing A PERVERSE mob psychology is responsible for this state of affairs. First, we yell for the government to provide credit facilities so that the banks can borrow and extend us the necessary credit. Then we demand publication of every loan, to prevent skullduggery. Then, when the loan is published, we “wonder” whether the bank is about to go broke and whether we ought to take our dollar and a half out and put it with some tightwad. How are you going to get anything like an honest, courageous expansion of credit with a setup like that? How are you going to get banks to make full use bf the government’s credit facilities if you raise your eyebrows every time they borrow? The effectiveness of the government’s relief program depends on borrowing. That is why credit facilities were provided. That is the only way they can be translated into work and trade.

= -SCIENCE- - - ‘Find’ Made in Alloys — ■ BY DAVID DIETZ

THREE metals, iron, tungsten, and cobalt, arc combined to make “Alloy 548.” hailed by Metal Progress, journal of the American Society for Steel Treating, as the outstanding development in mctalcutting tools since discovery of tungsten carbide in 1928. The new alloy, developed by W. P. Sykes at the Cleveland wire works of the General Electric Company, can be made with varying composition and treatment, so that in reality Alloy 548 is a whole family of substances. It functions best as a carbonfree alloy, according to Dr. Zay Jeffries, consulting metallurgist of the General Electric Company. Its hardness is not inherent as cast, but is developed by heat treatment. Dr. Jeffries says that it can be melted, cast, forged, or rolled, then machined and heat treated for use. Its traverse strength is considerably higher than cemented tungsten carbide. The material has qualities midway between high speed steel and cemented tungsten carbide. Dr. Jeffries believes that intelligent tests and trials will develop a wide field of usefulness for the material. He says that it will find its own place in the metal-cutting field and not displace the other materials now in use. The alloy is one part cheap and two parts expensive. The iron is cheap. Tungstein and cobalt are • expensive. In each case, it will be necessary to find the particular combination which will be most economical for the desired performance. a a a Story of New Alloy SYKES tells how the new alloy was developed during the course of experiments at the Cleveland wire works of the G. E. Company. “We first came upon the unusual hardening characteristics of these alloys while investigating the effect produced by substituting cobalt for some of *the iron in the carbon-free alloys of iron and tungsten with which we were more familiar,” he says. The alloy of the three metals combines some of the hardening properties of both the iron-tung-sten and the iron-cobalt systems, he says. “In other words,” he continues, “we may trace the inherited characteristics back to the parents. In fact, one of the most vital factors in the hardening powers of the new alloy is derived from the transformation in iron itself, so that we might say that this characteristic was contributed by a grandparent.” Pure iron can be hardened to a certain extent by heating it to a temperature above 1.650 degrees, Fahrenheit, and then “quenching” it or cooling it very quickly. The temperature of 1.650 degrees is a critical temperature, and as the iron passes it, a rearrangement of the crystal structure of the iron takes place, the crystals changing from those known as gamma iron to those known as alpha iron. If the queching is done, very rapidly, as for example in cold mercury, the crystals of alpha iron have no time to grow to large size. The result Is an iron of small grain and consequently greater hardness than the ordinary largegrained iron. nun Manufacturiny Process THE addition of tungsten destroys this “critical temperature” of the iron. But the tungsten contributes to a greater hardness in the iron. This results first frnm the fact that the tungsten itself is harder than the iron and second from the fact that in general the addition of a second metal produces greater hardness. The iron-tungsten alloy can be

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brought to considerable hardness ~ by heating. Sykes says. This causes the tungsten to be precipitated or scattered throughout the iron in grains so fine that they can hardly be seen with a microscope. The addition cf cobalt, however, restores the “critical temperature.” Therefore, the hardness of Alloy 548 can be ascribed to both the fine scattering of the tungsten and to the fact that the iron is finegrained. Sykes says that the allov averages 50 per cent iron. 25 per cent tungsten, and 25 per cent cobalt. It is made by melting the three metals together in an electric furnace. The alloy when first manufactured does not possess its fina# hardness. In this condition, it can be made into tools. The tools ! th(, n are subjected to a heat treatment. being first heated to about 120 degrees Centigrade, then cooled in air. heated again to about 600 degrees and again air cooled This precipitates the tungsten and results in the final hardness. Questions and Answers Q—Name four of the brightest stars in the heavens Alpha Canis Majoris (Sirius); w Alpha Argus (Canopus); Alpha Centauri, and Alpha Aurigae iCapella). Q—State the color and design of the flag of Illinois? A ~~ A white ground bearing the American eagle. Q —Give the money value of wholesale, retail, and direct-to-consumer trade in the United States? A—ln 1929 it amounted to approximately $123,000,000,000. Q—To what country does Armenia belong? A—lt has been a constituent republic of Russia since 1918. Q When was the cornerstone i of the amphitheater in Arlington national cemetery laid, and when was the building dedicated? A—The cornerstone was laid Oct. 13, 1915, and dedication was May 15, 1920. Q —Where is the city of Portmadoc? A—lt is a small seaport in County Carnarvon, Wales, at the northeast extremity of Cardigan (Tremadoci bay. Q —What is the seating capacity of the new Madison Square Garden in New York city? A—Approximately 20.000 for boxing matches and 17,000 for hockey matches. Q—Give the population of the world ? Approximately two billion. Q —Name the little girl who played with Laurel and Hardy in their recent picture, “Pack Up Your Troubles?” A—Jacquie Lyn. Q —Name the five largest daily newspapers published in the British Isles? A—Daily Mail, Dailv Express, News-Chronicle, Daily Herald, and the Evening News, all published in London. Q —Give the population of Shanghai, China? A—2.674,447.

Daily Thought

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he * hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.—Ecclesiastes 5:4. HEAVEN trims our lamps while We sleep.—A. Bronson Alcott.