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WHILE BANKS FAIL . The banking crisis in Michigan and elsewhere throws a lurid light on the failure of the house of representatives to pass the Glass bank reform bill. That bill never was a cure-all. Many of its best features had to be whittled away by compromise to speed passage through the senate. But what remains is an irreducible minimum. It would give immediate relief to victims of bank crashes and liberate funds now held under the wreckage. It would permit the federal reserve board to remove bankers who can not be trusted. It would in part correct basic abuses by separating banks and their security affiliates, by stopping bank speculation with credit reserves, and by bringing bank holding companies under control. It would allow a restricted experiment in branch and centralized banking, which is exceedingly important at a time -when thousands of small isolated banks have collapsed under the strain. The strategy of the house leaders at first was to smother this bill in committee. Now it is reported that they are cooking up an alleged trade—-they will accept the Glass bill if Glass and the senate will accept Garner's guarantee of bank deposits plan. Such a trade, of course, is impossible. Even if there were no large opposition to guarantee of deposits—as there is and should be—passage of such sweeping legislation in the last fortnight of a Jammed and filibuster-ridden session is a suggestion that can not be taken seriously. The really ominous aspect of the house refusal to co-operate in the Glass banking reform is in the fact that Democratic leaders are responsible. It is not a case of Republican-Democratic conflict blocking action, or of familiar lame duck obstruction. The obstructionists are the Democratic leaders who now control the house and who will control the house in the coming special session of congress. There is no use to talk about the great things which the new Democratic congress will do for the country, if the Democratic party managers fail now. If they will not accept the bill of their own banking expert, which passed the senate by the tremendous vote of 54 to 9, after taking up virtually an entire session of debate, they can not be trusted to produce constructive results in the new congress. 1861 AND 1933 It has been contended that when Abraham Lincoln took the office of President in 1861 he was faced with the most serious difficulties which confronted one of our chief executives at inauguration. It is a fairly sound opinion, however, that Lincoln took hold of a rather simple situation compared to that which Mr. Roosevelt faces. Our economic situation was mast favorable in 1861. We were on the brink of the most rapid population growth in our history. We had recovered from the brief panic of 1857. It was the eve of railroad expansion, and of the introduction of machinery into the woolen industry, boot and shoe making, the manufacture of iron and steel goods and the like. Factories were spreading rapidly. We just were being hit by the full impact of the industrial revolution. Farming still was our basic industry, and it was relatively prosperous. Much of the best land still remained to be taken up. The political setup was simple in 1861. Our primarily rural economy presented few complicated problems. Democratic political institutions were relatively adequate to deal with them, though representative government failed to prevent us from falling into the supreme folly of the Civil war. At the worst, the secession of large and wellintegrated section was all that confronted Lincoln. Few careful historical students of the period now believe that it would have been a calamity if the south had been permitted to withdraw peacefully. There were no serious threats to peace in our foreign relations. Our tariff rates were very low. Slavery, in spite of abolitionist ballyhoo, was no great menace. There were fewer than 4,000,000 slaves. They had a very high economic value, and this alone was enough to insure relatively humane treatment. The south ultimately would have freed the slaves in any event. In 1933 we are confronted with a major crisis. Population growth has slowed down, threatening our future home market. Moreover, a larger population would mean only more unemployed, with further installation of automatic machinery. We have reached industrial maturity, and no striking new Industries appear on the horizon. We are overbuilt in productive plants already, but many look forward to the return of boom years to sink still more capital in unneeded plants. Automatic machinery is rendering obsolete relatively new factories and throwing millions into unemployment and want. Our once proud and relatively prosperous farmers find themselves confronted with the prospect of peasant servility. A senseless and outworn tariff policy has depressed our foreign trade, and has made it difficult to collect the obligations owed by our foreign debtors. In the political field, it is now apparent that the old anarchic democracy no longer i3 adequate to requirements of an overgrown and ovcrcentralized state. The complicated problems which face us in our complex urban world civilization stagger experts, to say nothing of ignorant politicians? Our annual budget is double the total Civil war debt. Tire ill-fated "noble experiment’’ helped further to paralyze and clog our administrative machine and legal system. One can not approve of the loose epithet of “wage slavery.” applied recklessly by Marxians, but there is no denying that our laboring classes in the United States today are in a fa worse condition, materially speaking, than were the Negro slaves in 1861. Some 14,295,000 are unemployed and face possible starvation, with no self-interested slave holders to feed them. It is an understatement to sav that there is more physical suffering among the unemployed in New York City today than among ail the slaves in the entire south in 1861. We have a far larger national debt per capita than in 1861. There were no pension payments in 1861. War debts Join with the tariff in jeopardizing our already fading world trade. International relations present no cheerful spectacle. Europe may buret into war any day, and we

may be drawn into a war ovef the far east more deadly and expensive than the Civil war. Such are the staggering issues which will face Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the afternoon of March 4. 1933. IVe only can wish him well and get what encouagement may be secured from the fact that he is far better equipped by experience and far better advised than was Abraham Lincoln. OUTLAW IT NOW The people look to the new congress to erase the ignoble experiment. But they need not wait until then to rid their country of one df its most intolerable by-products. This is wire-tapping snoopery. Before the senate is the juslice department appropriation bill. The house attached a rider forbidding the courts to use evidence obtained from tapping telephone wires. By a bare majority of one, the United States supreme court has made this action necessary. In his majority opinion in the Seattle wire-tapping case, the late Chief Justice Taft suggested that congress could “protect the secrecy of telephone messages by making them, when intercepted, inadmissible in evidence of federal courts.’’ The four minority justices, Holmes, Butler, Stone and Brandeis, denounced wire tapping. The latter warned that “terrible retribution” awaits a government that turns criminal to catch criminals. As pointed out by Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union, wire tapping is not a wet issue. The practice invades the right of men to the privacy of their homes, It violates the spirit of the fourth amendment against unlawful searches and seizures. The tapping of telephone wires is the modern version of the home-breaking practiced in colonial days by King George's agents. These helped set off the spark of revolution. "As means of espionage,” declared Justice Brandeis, “writs of assistance and general warrants are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared with wire tapping.” If the senate is wiser than George the Third, it will agree. BLIND IN ONE EYE Union labor leaders have been doing so much straight thinking on domestic issues recently that it Is a bit surprising to encounter such muggymindedness and insultarity as have marked some of their recent utterances on foreign policies. Organized labor wants early restoration of industry and trade. Yet in direct negation of this ideal, President Green of the American Federation of labor has come out in opposition, to Russian recognition. On the same day 800 college professors, representing 263 colleges in forty-five states, urged Soviet recognition upon President-Elect Roosevelt. Trade experts say that our non-recognition policy has destroyed a good 90 per cent of our oncethriving export trade with Russia, that we have tossed some $100,000,000 of annual Russian business to Germany, Italy and England. Mr. Green may have been proving himself a conservative to offset his recent militant declarations. He proved himself also a poor economist. Similarly, Messrs. Matthew Woll and Michael Flynn of the federation have added their voices to the appeal of fanatical protectionists crying for higher tariffs. In view r of our own low w r ages and commodities, our idle factories and long breadlines, their fear of foreign cheap labor has an element of grim humor. Far from being flooded, our imports in 1923 were at their lowest level in twenty-seven years. As to the plan for compensating duties, now broached in the Crowther bill, it should be recalled that the United States tariff commission last spring reported “relatively little difference” in the value of imports from gold standard countries and those which had abandoned it. The commission's chairman, Mr. O’Brien, opposes compensating duties, on the ground that it would hurt our best customer, Britain, and would hurt our international relations that, ‘‘already are bad enough.” Messrs. Woll and Flynn, it will be recalled, helped to hawk the trade-killing Grundy tariff In 1930 as a method of restoring prosperity. Doubtless they will find trade resistance to tariff goldbricks stronger today. Some 12,000,000 American families directly are suffering from unemployment. There are about 30,000.000 jobless wage earners in this and other industrial countries. American labor leaders should be demanding restoration of world commerce and prosperity, rather than more trade barriers to deepen the depression. For many a married man, international diplomacy pales into insignificance beside the strategy displayed by the young Indianian who took his bride on a 4,500-mile “hitch-hike honeymoon.”

Just Plain Sense = BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =

AFTER a comprehensive view of the modern scene, would you say offhand that the oldfashioned parent had raised a majority of splendid, upright and honorable children? Yet that, in effect, is what we mean when we harp upon •he necessity for getting back to old ways, old habits, old thinking. Stop and consider. All the great leaders in politics, in education, in business who have reached the age of 50 were brought up in the old regime. That is, they were taught, presumably, the moral precepts of a former age. Have those lessons led to good or bad results? Out of the old-fashioned home, where the sternly honest father ladled out the old-fashioned ethics and where the old-fashioned mother obeyed her oldfashioned husband, came all those men and women who later gaily spread the propaganda that set us at each who built up the deadly greedy and rapacious business system we now enjoy and who taught the coldly selfish international point of view which today endangers the world. a it a IAM not contending that these people were not good. Indeed, according to their lights, they were a thousand timfes better than we are. But I do not see how we can deny that the net result of all their pious training was bad indeed. The churches, we read, have a continually increasing attendance. Heaven grant, then, that they give to these questing people some kind of religion that is more warm and helpful and living than was dealt out to our fathers. It seems to me that going to church will not help us unless we put some simple Christian ethics into our daily lives, unless we are willing to use what we learn at church in our dealings with one another. Not just with our neighbors and friends" —but with our business associates, our foreign competitors, our enemies. To stand up for Jesus—as the evangelist pleads—is no good unless you can, at the same time, stand up for the black man and his rights, for the Chinaman, the South Sea islander, and even the naughty Japanese,.

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Just Another Fugitive From a Chain Gang!

It Seems to Me - - - • by Heywood Broun

IWANT to return to the somewhat contentious point of civic economy. In the beginning, at any rate, there was enormous enthusiasm for any sort of budget slash, regardless of the spot where the knife went in. It seems to me that the time has come for sober second thought on just what sort of economy we want. Certain economies cost far more than tlje community can afford. First of all, I would mention the very serious damage done to public hospitals in New’ York under the policy of retrenchment. Dr. Greeff pointed with pride the other day to the fact that he had dismissed 700 employes w r ho were not American citizens, and he added that in the interests of economy these workers would not be replaced. Our hospital commissioner endeavored to prove his patriotiim and his parsimony at the same time. But what is the result? Bellevue is badly so undermanned that patients must wait fov agonizing hours for the most simple and necessary attention. * a a a A DOCTOR on che staff of that hospital told me within a week that it piactically was impossible to get blood transfusions because the city did not supply the money to pay for them. "The best we can do,” he told me, "is to find some patient with high blood pressure and convince him that he might spare a little blood.” "I thought that old theory of blood-letting had been abandoned years ago,” I remonstrated. “Well,” he said cautiously, “it doesn’t do them any harm,” There has been trouble in the obstetrical departments of several hospitals, including Bellevue, because of overcrowding. Gross infections have developed. This is precisely what I am talking about. Even from a material standpoint economy may prove costly. It takes longer lor patients to get well in a poorly equipped hospital than in one which is adequately supplied with funds, personnel and equipment. We can not afford to support aldermanic sergeants-at-arms in luxury and allow sick people to get sicker. If through overcrowding hospitals become places where infections are developed rather than checked, the policy of cutting appropriations will certainly prove an expensive oneT a a a Hitting at Schools 1 Next in importance is the crippling of the schools and particularly the decrease in opportunities for vocational and night study. Surely tlje schools should be the last place to feel the heavy and clumsy hand of so-called economy. A third spot where economy has run wild with disastrous results is the miblic library system of the City of New r York. Now, more than ever, it is necesary to provide the opportunity for reading for the very many men and women who are without jobs. Nor should the libraries be peculiarly restricted in the purchase of fiction at present.

- - DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Child Needs Good Nap Until He Is 4 •■■■- i_. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN - — :

This is the first of two articles by Dr. Fishbein on sleep for children. SLEEP, as a factor in development of the child, is given special consideration in a recent survey of the growth and development of the child, made under auspices of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Even though numerous physiologists throughout the world have studied the phenomena of sleep, it has not been possible to determine satisfactorily just why we go to sleep, why we remain asleep, or why we awaken. There are numerous theories, however, all of w’hich have a fair amount of reason behind them. Most of these theories are basedon the idea that fatigue gradually in the body, due to action of tb nerves and muscles, and that * a result chemical changes occur which lead to the development of sleep.

According to figures supplied me, books, which are the life blood of a library, face a cut this year of 77 per cent, which may be increased to 80 per cent because some of the other appropriations are inadequate and there may have to be a transfer from the book fund. Certainly it should be unthinkable to reduce library staffs any further. Elimination of employes w’ould mean the closing of branch libraries, whose reading rooms are crowded. Nor should salaries be touched. The average salary of a library employe in New York City is $1,636, Naturally, reading has increased enormously in all our large cities, and the need is for greater facilities rather than a paring off of resources which are essential. In particular, libraries deserve every encouragement just now’, since the average reader is tackling serious books more avidly than ever before. Sheer necessity has forced a great many people into a consideration of the world in w’hich

Every Day Religion ===== BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON -■■■■

Kierkegaard, the great thinker of Denmark, divided men into two sorts, the drivers and the drifters. In his famous book, "Either-Or,” he tells us that he w’anted to run after every man in the street and ask him the question: Are you alert or inert? A master or a slave? A creator or r, creature? A lifter or a leaner? Many men, he said, would not know what he meant. They do not live at all, they merely exist. Either a man must choose his part in life, or the hidden forces of the unconscious will choose it for him. Either he will live to understand life or to endure it. His worth to himself, his value to his fellow men, depends on what his choice is. Most men w’alk the path In which their feet are set, creatures of custom, fashion, convention, and fad. They do what others do, sa’y what others say. Their minds are putty, shaped by the form of the slogans and catch-words, as if parrots. a a a EITHER a man is a helper or a hanger-on, a leader or a camp follower. If he is not to be merely a bit of luggage, he must make up his mind as to the role he will play and play It—lift his load, pull his w’eight, and earn his keep. To reach port he sdmetimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it—but he must sail and not drift. The great day in life is when a man accepts himself and sets about to make his life an expression of his own ideals—the truths which he has “counted on his pulse” and which are true for him. Nothing can equal the importance of the hour in which a man definitely accepts himself as a part of the eternal whole, takes his place, and finds his duty in it.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvireia, the Health Maearine. During sleep the rever-e process goes on and when fvtigue is overcome the body wakens. However, it must be pointed out that the hours of waking and of sleeping usually are rhythmical and associated in periodicity with the movements of the planet on which we live. a a a THERE usually is a drop in the blood pressure during sleep. The sleep becomes more intense during the first hour and then gradually lessens. Young children tend to sleep more quietly than do older children, but there are also differences in the sexes, the time of the year and other factors. In one series of scientific investigations it was found that there was a slight tendency to sleep less *

they live and how it got this way. A decade ago they read “Graustark” and didn't care. St tt ft Backs for Burdens IT seems to me that as yet we are wholly on the wrong foot in regard to economy, both civic and __ national. It is, of course, highly desirable that swollen budgets should be massaged back into reasonable slimness again, but I w’ould not put a scalpel into the hands of inexperienced financial surgeons. I don’t think the body politic is strong enough to live through such drastic remedies. Instead of talking about broadening the base of taxation, we might as well face the fact which other nations already have accepted with only a minimum amount of grumbling. When any government wants to raise money, it must seek out first of all the people who have it. The weight must fall both by justice and necessity upon the boys in the higher brackets. (Copyright. 1933. bv The Times)

In other days, they called it conversion; in the jargon of today it is adjustment to life. . No matter the name; the birthday of a man is when he comes to himself, accepts himself, and makes his life count as a thing unique, original, vital. It is not how long we live that matters, but how much w r e live, how’ much meaning w’e put into life as we catch it on the fly. (Copyright, 1933, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

So They Say

A leading New York clergyman recently said there were 74,000,000 persons in this country who were without religion. That is quite a respectable proportion of our total population, and hence deserves great consideration. Rupert Hughes, novelist. Even though we do not serve cocktails, all of our old friends are glad to see us.—Russell Firestone, former sportsman, son of the Akron tire magnate, now a follower of the Oxford group, English youth spiritual movement. My advice to Roosevelt Is to rely on young men and to stay away from us old dodo birds—Colonel E. M. House, former adviser to President Wilson. We (Republicans) always can depend upon a landslide in the upper income brackets; an overwhelming victory in the Social Register: a safe majority in “Who's Who”; a fair chance in the telephone book; but we begin to be devastated when we get into the city directory; and that is bad.—William Allen White, editor Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.

at night among children who had taken a long nap during the but at the same time that children who took no nap at all or who took only a nap for a few minutes had a definite reduction in the total number of hours of sleep in the twenty-four hours of sleep in say, sleeping at night does not compensate for the loss of the nap during the day. Up to 4 years of age. a nap taken in the daytime rarely interferes with sleep at night. However, after 4 years of age, children as a rule should not be allowed to sleep more than one and a half hours during the day, because this will tend to interfere with going to sleep at night. The authorities believe that children up to the seventh or eighth year should sleep twelve hours daily and at the sixteenth year, nine hours. NEXT—Helping to form good sleeping habits.

M. E. Tracy Says:

}VA R DEBT relief is illusion

/CAREFULLY built up propaganda has led V- many Americans to believe that they will gn something of tangible benefit in exchange p cancellation or reduction of war debts. , a ' ICiers - politicians, and idealists have combined to promote the illusionment. ■ them are sincere, but others are . a .. b - v obviously selfish purposes. In essen-uh-Vh 15 much like lhe clever campaign bv men we were maneuvered into the war. Not that we should or could have kept out of the UQ T* Hi if thA4 1 *

Geimanv uiw made a tragiC blunder in assuming that the defeat of than tho r and mean much more to us or to lhe world in general than the elimination of a particular war machine. the war nrr,n!i, C !fn ( . to stop German imperialism. Outside of that, rpvr.i’i‘-^-oH USed , llttle ' The delusion that human nature would be navpH ii,/'!:; e f VI ex P ur S a ted, and anew order established merely pa\ed the way for tragic disappointment. a a a It Merely Might Help the Bankers T ET us not make a similar blunder with respect to these war debts. ... , t “ at a red dction or even cancellation is unavoidable, let tinn f thl * g fo £, what 11 is— a perfectly cold-blodded transacZ k ". ° relleve European governments and make international bankers a littie more secure at the expense of American taxpayers. These European governments and these international bankers will not give American taxpayers anything of value in return. They merely hope that an adjustment of war debts will clear the atmosphere all of which means that American taxpayers are asked to make another contribution to the common good, on the theory that it may help. When you get right down to brass tacks, the reduction or cancellation of war debts should be thought of not as a matter of choice on our part, but as a matter of necessity. European governments have told us that they can not pay, and whether they can or not, we have no way to make them. International bankers who have loaned these governments billions of dollars, and who find themselves in a precarious position, want the inter-governmental debt reduced or wiped out to improve their chances of collecting. The rest of the propaganda is bunk. a a a Domestic Debts Are the Real Burden WE are not going to get trade concessions, a return to the gold standard, abandonment of tariffs in exchange for a debt settlement, because we have played the game which all that represents just as hard as any other nation if, indeed, we did not originate itWhile the commercial entanglements which thwart international trade may have been intensified by pressure of war debts, they stand for a philosophy that antedates the war and is entirely separable from war debts. They have been employed to provide revenue in cases of stringency since time immemorial. In this particular case, domestic debts represent a far greater pressure than war debts, and they will continue to represent that pressure, regardless of what is done to ease war debts. The taxes and tariffs which every government has thought it necessary to apply are not due to what the government owes or has paid outsiders, but to financial stress within its own borders. This is true of our own situation. The United States owes no one in the world and yet it Is laboring under a tax load and behind a tariff wall without precedent.

Stars’ Distance Found — BY DAVID DIETZ -

ONE of the greatest triumphs of modern science has been the success of astronomers In measuring the distances to the stars. The ancients had no notion of the true distances to the stars, for to the unaided eye the stars appear as though all were stuck upon the inside of an inverted bowl, all equally distant from the earth. IJ was not until 1839 that astronomers succeeded in measuring the exact d ; stance to a star. Most of our knowledge about stellar distances has been accumulated since the start of the twentieth century. Probably no subject is a greater mystery to the average layman than how the distance to a star can be measured. Dr. Robert G. Aitken, director of the great Lick observatory in California, says that the most frequent questions asked by visitors to the observatory are, “How far away is that star and how do you know?” Measuring the distance to a star is a very simple matter as far as the underlying principle is concerned. In practice, however, it is an extremely difficult task, requiring the highest of astronomical skill. n tt a How Surveyor Works An analogy will make the method clear. Let us suppose that a surveyor on one bank of a river wishes to know the exact distance to a tree on the other side. He will proceed as follow's: First, he will measure off a base line on his side of the river. Then he will set up his surveying instrument at one end of the line and sight at the tree, measuring the angle between it and the base line. Then he will do the same thing from the other end of the line. t He now has a triangle of which his line in the base and the tree the *pex. He knows the length of the base line and the tw'o angles which he has measured. It is then a simple matter to calculate, by trigonometry, the distance to the apex of the triangle, which is the tree. We can apply this same method to finding the distance to the sun. At the same instant, an astronomer in New York and one in San Francisco point their telescopes at the sun, noting the angle at which their telescopes are inclined. They now have a triangle like the surveyor had. The distance from New' York to San Francisco is their base line. The telescope readings give the two angles. All they need do now' is calculate the distance to the apex of their triangle, which is the distance to the sun. It would seem at first that the distances of stars might be obtained in the same way. But the stars are so far away that the base line from New York to San Francisco is far too short. However, once we know the distance to the sun, which, of course, is the radius of the earth’s orbit, we can make use of that. tt tt tt .4 Huge Base Line CONSEQUENTLY, we can pursue the following method. We can point our telescope at the star in January and again in June. We then have a great triangle whose base line is the diameter of the earth’s orbit, a distance of 186.000.000 miles. Actually, a modification of this method is used. Two photographs of the star and its neighboring stars are taken six months apart. Due to the change in angle at which the star is seen, it will appear to have shifted its position slightly with reference to the other stars in general. This shift or parallax, as it is known technically, then is determined from careful measurements of the two photographic plates and the angles and then the distance calculated from it. The parallax is so very small, however, that the method can be

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applied with success only to the nearer stars. In the cases of the most distant stars, it is too small to measure with the most delicate instruments. At the present time, six American and one English observatories are co-operating in a program of measuring stellar distance by the parallax method. Recently, results of the work to date were assembled into a catalog by Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director of the Yale university observatory. It gives the distances of 1,870 stars.

Daily Thought

Anew heart also will I give you, and anew spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh.— Ezekiel 36:26. COMPASSION, the fairest associate of the heart.—Paine. Questions and Answers Q.—When was Grant’s tomb on Riverside drive in New York city dedicated? A.—April 27, 1897. Q.—How many bases on balls did Babe Ruth draw in 1927? A.—One hundred thirty-eighl Q—What political party had tt majority in congress when the United States declared war on Germany? A—Democratic. Q—Where in the Bible Is the verse that states that ‘‘one day is with the Lord as a thousand years?” A—Second Peter 3:B—'“But beloved, be not ignorant of one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” A similar verse is Psalms 90:. —“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Q —Give the date of Mardi Gras in 1932? A—Feb. 9. Q—When did P. T. Barnum start his circus? A—ln 1871. Q—ls there a magazine called “QST"? A—lt is a radio magazine published by the American Radio Relay league of West Hartford, Conn. Q—When a gentleman is walking with two ladies, should he walk between them? A—He should take the outside of the sidewalk, the same as when he is walking with one lady. Q —Give the Jewish population of the world? A—lt is estimated at 15,630,000. Q —Who won the 100-meter free style swimming race for men in the 1932 Olympics and give his time? A—Yasuji-Miyazaki of Japan won in 58.2 seconds. In the semifinals, a day earlier, he established anew Olympic record of 56.2 seconds. Q —Name the man who attempted to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912. A—John Schrank. Q —How many daily, weekly and semi-weekly newspapers are published in the United States? A—Dailies, 2.241; semi-weeklies, 371, and weeklies, 10,702. Q —What is the value of a Lincoln penny dated 1929? A—lt is worth only its face value.