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MONDAY MARCH 13. 1933

VETERAN AND VETERANS Having lost its fight in the house, the veterans' lobby is trying to kill the President's economy measure In the senate. Fortunately, there is very little chance that the senate will obey this lobby. For one reason, most of the senators understand the emergency. Also, the senate is responsive to public opinion—and it is clear to all that public opinion is overwhelmingly behind the President on this issue. Senators understand that the lobby is inspiring letters and telegrams not representative of the country. The power of public opinion was revealed in the house, when many Democrats who voted against the President's bill in the secret party caucus turned around and voted for it when put under the public spotlight of an open house vote. An unfortunate aspect of this fight is that it puts all the veterans of the country in the seeming position of holding up the government in a time of crisis. Such is not the case. Many veterans—how many, it is impossible to say —are opposed to special class privileges; and many more resent the obstructive tactics of the lobby at this particular time. This is true not only of the veteran organizations formed for the specific purpose of opposing the cash b6nus and of demanding cuts in present veteran appropriations. It is true also of members of the rank and file, whose voice is not heard in Washington. It would be true of a great many more veterans if their lobbyists had not whipped them up to unreasonable demands. Despite all explanations to the contrary, there still is a general misconception of this economy measure. There is no intention on the part of the President, or of congress, or of that great body of public opinion demanding veterans’ cuts, to reduce the care and benefits received by veterans injured in line of duty in the war. The fight is over non-service-connected disabilities. By lopping off benefits for that general typo, it is estimated that the federal government can save more than $400,000,000 a year. If the lobbyists would spend some of their time explaining to the veterans the disaster in store for the country—including the veterans —if the government continues to run up its $5,000,000,000 operating deficit, we can not believe that the veterans would remain insensitive to the economy requirement. If the lobbyists would explain to the veterans that even after the proposed cut they would be getting about $600,000,000 from the federal treasury everv year, certain veterans would get over the unjust feeling that they are victims of a stingy and mean government. The best friends of the veterans are those public officials who are trying to save the credos ihe federal government, so that it never will have to default on the care of men actually injured in service. HUNGER RELIEF There is little doubt that President Roosevelt will include a plea for new federal relief funds when he announces his program for helping the jobless. Senators Costigan, La Follette and Wagner, urging that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s fast-diminishing relief fund be replenished by $500,000,000 at once, have found the President sympathetic. Another ally is the growing desperation of states and communities, many of whose relief problems have been made more acute by the recent bank holidays. The R. F. C. has loaned all but $70,000,000 of its $300,000,000 relief loan funds. At the normal rate of depletion, the fund will be exhausted before June. At the rate as accelerated by the bank crisis, it may be gone by April. Some states, like Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and southern and coal mine communities, are in worse shape than others. Unless they get help from Washington many localities may have to slam the doors in the faces of their needy, as Philadelphia has done four times. The new funds should be made available as grants, not loans. And. to get the maximum of relief out of every dollar, they should be administered in consultation with an expert board at Washington. Inefficient local administration is second only to delay in causing useless human suffering. At least 4,000.000 American families are receiving relief. Many families are getting as low as $6 a month. Unless the government acts quickly, starvation will spread. “Testimony before the manufactures committee,” said Senator La Follette recently, "should convince any open-minded person that the situation is too dangerous to be trifled with.” Advance information indicates that President Roosevelt will ask for a modest sum for starting work relief camps for reforestation and reclamation projects. This sounds like a splendid beginning of what America must undertake in a large way to start employmen and revive purchasing power. Emergency hunger relief is a separate problem. This never should have been left on the new administration's door sill. But here it is. The present congress seems certain to display the same celerity in passing hunger relief as it did in granting bank relief. VALUE OF ADVERTISING Henry C. Lytton. veteran Chicago merchant, remarks that 1933 is of all years a year in which business men should make full use of advertising. Forty-six years ago Lytton launched his business. He had, as he points out, just $12,000 capital, but he did not hesitate to spend between $3,500 and $4,000 of it on newspaper advertising before he even opened his doors. His business recently was valued at approximately $7,000,000. Asa testimonial to the work that a wise advertising program can do for a business, his experience speaks volumes. Skimping on the advertising appropriation can be false economy of the most expensive kind.

SENATOR HOWELL The death of Senator Robert B Howell of Nebraska, like that of Senator Thomas J. Walsh, is a national bereavement. Senator Howell was, in his gentle way, no less dogged in opposmg crookedness and privilege. His reputation in Nebraska was founded on his passion for public ownership of utilities. Standing today as monuments to his memory are successful municipal plants ir. that state. In congress he voted generally like his colleague, Senator Norris, who loved and trusted him. He helped to win the Muscle Shoals fight. He was against big navy, copper tariff, veterans’ bonus and extravagance in government. He was for higher income taxes, labor reforms, relief grants, and. above all, farm relief. Like Marcus Cato, who used to warn the Roman senate each date that "Carthage must be destroyed,” this senator last year always ended his daily tenminute speech with the imperative: “Mr. President, agriculture lpiust be rescued.” Through three administrations, Senator Howell watched all efforts to rescue agriculture turn to futility. Perhaps, as Cato’s persistence finally won. Senator Howell's patient tenacity still may bear fruit. MOB ATROCITY The atrocities of Herr Hitler's German Nazis are not the world's only shameful demonstrations of mob madness. Here in the United States, too frequently, men let themselves be led in wolfish packs by co\vards. Ir. Long Beach, Cal., a mob of alleged Klansmen recently raided the home of one David Milder, who earlier had held a meeting of the International Labor Defense. The mob planted a fiery cross in his yard and beat up Mr. Milder, his family and his guest with fists and garden hose. Now a jury has convicted fifteen of the raiders, who face sentences of ten years and fines of $5,000 each. It has been said that a hundred wise men make one fool, a hundred sheep a wolf. Nothing is so dangerous as men turned into mobs. If the officers of law act courageously, as they did in California, against mob leaders, they can keep America clean of this scourge. WITHDRAWING LAND* Dispatches from Washington indicate that the much taiked-of farm allotment plan is going to be permitted to die a painless death. In its place, according to current reports, the administration will offer a plan by which the government would retire marginal farm land from cultivation through a process of renting, in each state, such farm lands as are not needed to produce a crop sufficient to meet domestic needs. The efficacy of such a plan, of course, would depend largely on the details of its presentation and on the way in which it was handled. But in the main it can be said that the scheme seems to offer more hope of genuine, economicaily-sound farm relief than anything thus far offered. Wisely handled, such a plan could gear crop production to actual needs, thereby putting farm prices up where they belong; and at the same time it could be made to tie in very neatly with reforestation and flood control schemes. FIGHTING DISEASE The value of work done by public health authorities is strikingly shown in a report recently issued by New York state's health commissioner, showing that during the last five years that state has had 100,000 fewer cases of typhoid fever, and 10,000 fewer deaths from the disease, than it would have had if the 1906 typhoid rates had prevailed. Credit for the improvement goes chiefly to better public health work, especially as it relates to w r ater supplies. A higher tribute to the efficacy of public health work would be hard to find. When you consider that most other states could duplicate New York’s record on the proportional basis, and that the fight against many other diseases is proceeding with equal success, you get a graphic picture of the valuable work the various public health services are doing. A cable reports that a Solomon island native "just has paid SI,BOO for a wife on the installment plan, and will be the rest of his life paying for her. Well, well. Things are pretty much the same this world over, aren’t they? It’s said the best way to banish trouble's is to talk them over with, someone. But the folks coming back from the income tax collector don’t seem to be in such a cheerful frame of mind. The future may be full of opportunity for youth, but just now the youngsters can’t get near the jigsaw puzzle for the grownups crowded around. In the spring a young man’s fancy—don't you think so?

Just Plain Sense —— BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

“Hp WENT Y-FIVE years ago,” says a correspondent, “the American husbawd, wife, and children constituted the finest home on earth. Today women have secured equality and anew freedom. And the husband and father is a spiritual bum, the wife the head of the house both spiritually and economically.” I disagree entirely with this statement. I think the American wife, the American woman, longs to admire, to encourage, and to promote the welfare of the men of her household. Nowhere will you find a finer loyalty than the American woman is giving these days to the American man. To be sure, she no longer keeps meekly silent while he talks. She thinks, speaks, and often acts for herself, sometimes against his wishes. She is a free creature, but does this make her any less admirable as a wife and a mother or even as a citizen? a a a IT seems to me that it should and does enhapee her value in the eyes of men who want women * —not slaves—for their mates. There is nothing particularly flattering in possessing the obedience of creatures too dumb, too cowed to have an opinion. But there is something worth while for a man to gain the trust, the respect, the love of a woman who asks something better of life than mediocrity. Some readers accuse me of promoting sex antagonism. I admit the charge. I do. I shall continue to promote sex antagonism, for only through such spurrings will men and women ever give the best of their efforts to hung. She is no friend of man—the woman who cajoles and flatters and lies. She is his worst enemy, because she encourages him to smugness, which always is death to growth and progress. The American woman does expect a great deal more of men than she ever has done before. And for this let me give thanks. For, because we expect much, man will accomplish mueju

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It Seems to Me • • . - by Heywood Broun

NEW YORK, March 13.—Somebody is crazy, and I’m not going to plead guilty. I’m locking askance to the people on the other side. The argument ranges around a recent column in which I said that people who rushed to the banks to draw out gold or currency in excessively large wads were guilty of anti-social conduct. In answer, I have received a number of letters accusing me of defending the bankers and truckling to the “interests.” Naturally, I don’t think the present system is well devised. Who does? But, after all, an ultimate solution and a present emergency may present somewhat different aspects. Before the holiday began, I said that there is no sure ground this side of having the government of the United States own and operate banks, savings banks, and life insurance companies. I still believe that. It seems unlikely that we will get anything as radical as that from the present congress. But I hope that we will get increased federal supervision and a guarantee of at least a portion of all bank deposits by the government itself. n u Strange Bedfellows UP to a certain point the radical and the partisan of big business find themselves rather strangely and uncomfortably in agreement. From the middle west the cry arises that the big bankers are to blame for our present crisis. But, in spite of distinctly shady practices by many financial leaders, I still feel that banking in America.is not big enough. The economics and potential stabilities of large-scale organization are so obviour that it is useless to try to force some return to the neighborhood bank. In any time of pressure, small banks are weak banks. In spite of the dislocation caused by large-scale production and organization I see no hope of a less-harassed world through the process of unscrambling existing combinations. As far as banking goes, I think it is logical for us to put all our eggs into one basket. In all human activities that must be the goal of those who believe that complete co-operation is the salvation for existing economic difficulties. Os course, tlie question of who is going to hold the basket is a vital one. but even this side of purest collectivism I rather would deal with trusts and monopolies than scattered aggregations of capital and management. I venture to say that those practices in our large financial institutions which have been condemned universally as unsound and unethical readily could be duplicated and triplicated in the small banks of the nation. I do not think that integrity and good judgment are to be obtained by the simple process of scaling down the unit. For the moment

■ DAILY HEALTH SERVICE —-■ Mechanism of Eye Is Complicated ■ - BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

This is the first of several interesting articles by Dr. Fishbein on diseases of the eye. THE eyes are used constantly almost from the moment of birth to the time of death, except for the hours spent in sleeping. Good sight is necessary to enjoyable existence, and the handicap of blindness one of the most serious that can affect a human being. Although the human eye is one of the finest instruments of which mankind has any knowledge, even a normal eye has certain defects. The visual field of a human being is not nearly as great as that of many other species of living organisms. A bird or a fly has a much wider range of vision than does the human being. The mechanism of vision is complicated and difficult to understand. except by those who have some knowledge of the construction of the eye. The chief factors involved in seeing are the optic nerve and the center in the brain for vision;

The March Lion

I rather would string along with Carter Glass than with Huey Long. 0 0 0. Hitting Wrong Crowd IHAVE heard some of the hoarders justify their mad scramble to lay aside nest eggs on the ground that they were punishing the various leaders who have been less than scrupulous in han-i dlmg the public funds. I do not think the argument is conceived in sincerity, and it has even less support in logic. The plain fact of the matter is that the people who have suffered most during the holiday are those who had no money in the banks at all. The man or woman who rushed to his or her particular institution and came away with currency or gold to be put in a vault was not hurting the bankers neaily as much as he was hurting the people dependent on small cash pay rolls. The so-called tragedies of the well-to-do are for the most part mere inconveniences. Somebody writes and says with great scorn that it is well enough for me to talk about not grabbing for funds because I still can manage to scrape through by getting credit or having small checks cashed at some speakeasy. That’s perfectly true, but it does

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

A MEMBER of my congregation in Cincinnati writes: "My father and mother did what they could for me, but it was little. If I could have remained at school another two or three years, gone to the university, had influence with this one or that, things would have been different. "I was condemned from youth to a business I did not like; I was set in a groove I never have been able to get out of.” Anyway, do not brood about it; brooding is like rain, it washes the blue out of the sky. Besides, it may give you dyspepsia or despair. Many a man has been caught in a coil of circumstance, but that is no reason why he should be held by it, much less crushed. An old adage says, “Life well begun is half done,” but it is not true; one cause of failure is the lack of hard knocks at the outset. Often a young man begins by taking the first opening offered him, because he wants to "stay near home.” A rolling stone gathers no moss, to be sure, but a fixed stone gathers nothing else. A little more courage, a little more of the exploring spirit, and a good beginning in anew place might have been obtained. To follow the obvious line of least resistance may land us in a groove, and a groove easily becomes a grave.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. the retina, which is the portion of the eye that acts to convey things seen through the optic nerve; the lsns, which is the focusing tissue; the muscles, which control the lens; the iris, which makes the pupil and which controls the amount of light entering the eye, and, of course, the associated fluid material necessary to the proper working of the mechanism. The eye is one of the most adaptable of organs. The distinctness of vision varies with different parts of the retina. For example, as one goes from a bright light into darkness, the vision is. at first, very bad, but after some minutes improves rapidly. The retina has the power to adapt itself to correspond with variations in the intensity of illumination. The various parts of the retina vary in this manner. Because of the nature of the constructipn of the eye, there are

not seem to me to constitute an argument why I or anybody else in reasonably fair circumstances should be the first at the window shouting, “I want mine!” Even above the stratum of the unemployed there are millions of people who live precariously on Saturday’s cash salary until the next Saturday. And even that is an effort. And if a pay day is passed or delayed, their distress is actual. o n tt Hoarder and Grabber THE hoarder and grabber have hurt these people most of all. I do not expect to meet any banker standing on a street corner and moaning piteously, ‘‘Brother, can you cash a check?” Naturally, I will be glad to be able to cash checks again, but I certainly have not presented myself as an advocate of either selfish banking or selfish hoarding. In fact, I feel quite set up about the extent of my radicalism, because only the other day I was called a "demagog” by the Daily Worker. And the Communist organ called me this because in a speech in Harlem I suggested that certain prejudices had economic roots and could be abolished only by an economic revolution rather than by those who were content to say, “There ought to be a law.” (CoDvricht. 1933. by The Times)

ONE can get too much kind, unhelpful help from others; our best aid is our own. In nine-ty-nine cases out of a hundred the reason for our unhappiness—as of our failures—is in ourselvees, and we can not "pass the buck” to any one else. For every man who deplores opportunities that did not come his way, there are five who regret opportunities wasted. Apparentently we can not see, until it is too late, what passes before our eyes. If a man is caught in a business, or a job, which he does not like, and has to earn his living in it, there are two ways of escape. By altering his mental attitude toward his business, he can make it either a discipline or a sacrament. Or, failing that, he can do his job and find other ways of expressing his personality, in a sideline, a hobby, a good cause, or some kind of study which gives him an outlet for rest and joy. All service ranks the same with God, said Browning, and it is better to be a good butcher than a bad bishop. But it is weakness to whine, and fatal to fall into a rut, which deepens every year, till its sides become the unscalable walls of a prison. Snap out of that rut! (CoDvrieht. 1933, bv United Features Syndicate. Inc.)

several visual disturbances which do not represent actual defects, but are the result of the construction. As one looks up at the blue sky or as one looks suddenly at a white ceiling, one notices a number of minute specks that move in front of the eye. These specks are the blood corpuscles moving in the smallest blood vessels of the retina. As will be shown later, such specks constantly seen may be signs of changes in the fluid material of the eye. If the heart beat is increased by exercise, the corpuscles will move faster and the specks, which represent the corpuscles, move faster. Bright lights seen at night, as for example street lamps, may appear to be surrounded by areas of color or colored rings, blue inside and red on the outside. These are due to the tissue of the lens and of the cornea, which is the membrane over the eye. These tissues are ordinarily not seen. Next: The effect of a blow on the eye.

M. E. Tracy Says:

WE'LL PAY IX THE EXD

WE seem to have arrived at a point where towns, cities, and states no longer feel able to provide funds necessary for relief, much less funds for added employment. The result is a general demand for retrenchment and a general disposition to seek help from the federal government. While the federal government's credit appears adequate for present needs, it is not inexhaustible. Neither are we going to lessen the burden by raising funds through federal, instead of local taxation.

In the enj}, every dollar that we borrow now will have to be paid by the people in this country at some future date. We can borrow our way out of some of the difficulties by turning first to this agency, and then to that. Such a method, however, merely shifts the load, and there will come a time when even that can not be done. In its final analysis, the problem calls for putting a normal percentage of people back to work, for rehabilitation of buying power and re-establishment of industry. Measures which do not have this end in view should be regarded as temporary and as w’orth adopting simplv to prevent actual distress. 0 0 0 0 0 0 We Must Guard Against Stampede FURTHER than that, we should keep in mind the political and social effect of such measures, especially as they tend toward centralization of bureaucracy The federal government can not be made responsible for remedying local conditions without acquiring added power, while local government can not evade those responsibilities without losing power Discouraging as the situation may be, we must not allow It to stampede us into mistaken policies for the sake of expediency, unless indeed we are prepared to say that the form of government under which we live has become obsolete and that revolutionary change ought to be made in it. It is curious, if not paradoxical, that some of those who are shouting loudest for sound money, the gold standard, and other monetary safeguards, seemed quite content with schemes of temporary relief which, if carried too far. easily might upset some of the basic principals on which this republic was established. So-called conservatives are advocating methods of relief and credit extension ■which, if they fail to work, threaten little less than chaos. a a a a a a We've Gambled on Prosperity Return IT should be perfectly clear that we can not suspend debt for any great length of time, or reduce the amount of interest to any great extent, without weakening our whole economic structure. It should, also, be clear that, with all its tremendous resources, the federal government can not be expected to shoulder this burden without such an increase of taxation as would undermine its sources of revenue and wipe out the already too small amount of capital available for private enterprises. Up to this time, we have proceeded on the assumption that the reduction of prices and wages brought about by depression was temporary and soon would be eliminated by the return of prosperity. We have not only borrowed, but legislated, with that happy end in view, telling ourselves that everybody would pay up just as soon as the depression was over and that we well could afford to extend notes or reduce interest.

r -—SCIENCE--*-"-~ rT;r -" " Danes Great in Science _ —BY DAVID DIETZ ■i.l-lj-"-il. .

THE Danish government has approved the expenditures of 50,000 kroner to prepare an exhibit for America, portraying the contributions of Denmark to scientific progress. The exhibit will be displayed at the Chicago World Fair and afterward will be housed permanently in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. One needs only to call the role of Danish scientists to realize how great a contribution little Denmark has made to the advancement of science. It begins with Tycho Brahe, one of the founders of modern astronomy, and continues down to the present, where we find such distinguished names as that of Dr. Neils Bohr, promulgator of the Bohr theory of the atom. The exhibit will include models of Tycho’s observatory, "Uraniborg,” and the instruments which he used in it. Tycho, who lived from 146 to 1601, was one of the most interesting figures that ever stalked across the record of astronomy. He was a Danish nobleman who married a peasant girl, turned astronomer, and became the favorite of kings. A man of fiery temper, he made many enemies and lost the tip of his nose in a duel, wearing a nose of metal thereafter. The king of Times Readers Voice Views ... Editor Times—l certainly am glad to hear Taxpayer’s views about the Shortridge cafeteria. It is true that the students are not allowed to eat elsewhere, although they can get a greater variety, and cheaper. We live only two blocks from Shortridge, and wanted our child to lunch at home, partly to watch her diet, and because I thought a walk in the fresh air would be more beneficial than staying in the building. I had to write and ask some teacher’s permission for my child to come.to her own home to eat her lunch, and the girl then was issued a pass which she must carry with her, for if students are caught eating somewhere else they may be expelled. I think we parents should have some say about our own children and not have to mind the teachers like the pupils do. This buying new books almost every week is something else that I think is an imposition on parents. Although I bought several dollars’ worth of books at the beginning of the semester, I still have to buy anew book almost every week, and last year was required to buy a book just three days before school was out. I doubt if it ever was looked into. I thought it perfectly ridiculous, but bought it to keep my child from being embarrassed. The enormous graduation expense is a bugbear to many seniors this year. I have heard several students say that if they are graduated it will be on borrowed money. Formal dresses and accessories, photographs, invitations, a dozen roses to carry! If the cost of the latter were a dollar a dozen, for a class of 500 that would be SSOO for one evening for flowers. Wouldn’t that feed a great many hungry folk? Mothers and fathers, let’s see what can ae done about this. All we need is a leader. DISGUSTED MOTHER.

Daily Thought

Put apvay from thee a frowned mouth and perverse lips put far from thee.—Proverbs 4:24. DEGREES of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy.—Norris.

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Denmark built him his observatory on the island of Hven. He always donned his court robes when he entered the observatory, explaining that when he studied the stars, he stood in the court of the King of Kings. a a a Speed of Light IT was in 1543 that Copernicus announced his theory that the planets revolved around the sun. Tycho, by many years of observations of the planets with an accuracy greater than any up to his time, collected the data needed to clinch the theory The data was analyzed after his death by Johann Kepler, who had been his assistant. From it, Kepler formulated the laws of planetary motion. Other great Danish scientists include Ole Romer, who in 1676 made the first determination of the speed of light. He estimated it at 192,000 miles a second, slightly higher than the accepted figure of today of 186,000 miles a second. Another great name is that of Hans Christian Oersted, who ranks with Michael Faraday as one of the founders of the electrical era. Oersted was the discoverer of electromagnetism. The electromagnet is the starting point of every electric generator and motor, to say nothing of such simpler devices as doorbells and buzzers. a a a First Electromagnet REPLICAS of the first electromagnet made by Oersted will form part of the exhibit being sent to this country by Denmark. The exhibit also will include some of the work of Dr. Neils Bohr. Dr. Bohr, who was a student of Lord Rutherford’s at the Cavendish- laboratory of the University of Cambridge, formulated the socalled Bohr theory of the atom, according to which the electrons revolved around the nucleus of the atom in orbits just as the planets revolve around the. sun. Recent work upon atomic theory has necessitated many revisions in the original theory, but the theory pointed out the direction in which research was necessary. The exhibit will also include the work of Waldemar Poulsen, one of the pioneers in the developments of the radio, telegraph and telephone. Questions and Answers Q—Where is the tallest building in the world? A—The Empire State building in New York City, with altitude of 1,250 feet. Q—What do the letters “D. F.” stand for in relation to Mexico? A—“Distrito Federal,” translated “Federal District.” Q —When was Alexander Ramsay Governor of Minnesota? * A—From 1349 to 1853. Q —How much does it cost to fire a shot from a 16-inch naval gun in target practice? A—Approximately SSOO. Q —State the area of Texas in acres and square miles. A—lt contains 170.173.440 acres and 265.896 square miles. Q—Give the population of the world. A—lt is estimated at two billion. Q —Do fish feel the chill of very cola water? A—Most fish and reptiles have body temperatures that differ little from that of the water or air in which they live. Q —Does Scotland yard employ detectives? What is the address? A—Women detectives are employed. The address is New Scotland Yard, London, England.