Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1934 — Page 13

It Jeemslo Me JOE WILLIAMS BATTING /" HEYWOOD BROUN WASHINGTON, April 10.—It was scarcely worth the time. I mean my formal appearance before the senate finance committee investigating the great Louisiana mystery. Actually th<>re is no great Louisiana mystery’. Senator Huev Long apparently does not control as manv lobs as he used to in hts home state, and he Is kicking up considerable dust about it. Whatever mystery there is about the matter is why the dust should be fetched all the way up to

Washington and why it should be allowed to settle on the shoulders of so many people w r ho not only are ignorant of the entire affair but totally disinterested. By way of Illustrating what can happen to a man in these United States who is going around minding his own business and trying to do the best he can in his own circle, may I recite these drab facts: An elderly gentleman by the name of Moore has been nominated for the position of collector of internal revenue in Louisiana. The nomination is made by political forces not altogether in sympathy with Senator Long.

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The Intimation is made plain that the nomination nas been dictated by forces of a sinister nature. A gentleman by the name of Sullivan is presented as the political boss of Louisiana. An effort is made to show that he is a member of a “vicious gambling tribe.” The point obviously is. then, that if this man Moore is sponsored by a member of a “vicious gambling tribe" he is not qualified to serve as a representative of the federal government. To establish this point a great number of witnesses are summoned from many parts of the country, all at the expense of the government. a it a Finance Committee Decides TO the government the issue is of such gravity that the powerful finance committee of the senate is elected or. by customary procedure, sits in to determine with marked solemnity the right and the wrongs of the disputants. Meanwhile such tremendously important pieces of legislation as the La Follette bill to increa.se taxation so that some fixed and sane method of absorbing the added recovery appropriations of the government may be taken care of are left hanging in midair. For the moment nothing is quite so important as the question of that elderly gentleman's fitness to become a government worker in a job that any employment bureau probably could fill in ten minutes. Your correspondent spent only a few moments on the stand. It seems that Senator Long wished to know from him as a sports expert whether the news service carried racing results for the information as news or for the purpose of encouraging gambling. My wide, beaming Irish smile carried me through this awful ordeal. From several other angles the day's developments were something less than scalp lifting. Senator Long had left his belligerency parked in his hotel. Where the day before he had been a bristling, snarling. snapping crusader, today he was all sweetness and sunshine. I mentioned to my friend. Harry Costello, the local journalist, that, the senator in his emotions reminded of Jack Sharkey, the fighter. “Have you no charity in your soul?” reprimanded Mr. Costeilo. “It seems to mp you have been picking on Sharkey long enough. ’ One of the witnesses yesterday was the chief of police of New Orleans. He was questioned on the existence of what is known as poolroom gambling and what action, if any. the law took to eliminate it. The gentleman displayed a naivete that was refreshing In effect he explained that “when the proper orders" came the poolrooms were .shut down. Senator Long then made an attempt to prove that in such circumstances the “proper orders" always came from the city hall. tt * a Where Have You Been? ANOTHER witness went into minute detail as to the operation of poolrooms. This seemed to be of great interest to some of our distinguished statesmen. To every word they lent an earnest and attentive ear. Some of them were members of the same committee which heard Morgan and Whitney describe the machinations of the Stock Exchanges and the bond business. ’ . This intensity of interest was impressive, ana only a sneering observer would be so blasphemoua as to suggest that this interest was any reaction other than its possible application to the matter immediately under discussion. And yet I distinctly heard one of the galleryites say: “Why, those birds know all about that stuff. If you don't, where have they been all their lives?" This seemed to be substantiated in part by one of the senators who interrupted the police chief to ask whether or not. it was the truth that the business of eliminating poolrooms in important American cities was not one of the most discouraging assignments of the law. The police chief replied in practically so many words that he wouldn't know about that, thus establishing himself in the record as a member of the “in good standing.” Judging by the history of such things, the only time any police chief knows about poolrooms is when the “proper orders" arrive. Not until he collided with a gentleman with a very long and ornate nose in the lobby of the Mayflower did your correspondent feel at home. It was Jimmy Durante, the film comic. “What are you doing here?" “Everybody." “I'm anew dealer at heart, but that seems to be the theme song around here." (Copyright. 1934. by The Times!

Your Health -BY BR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—-

W THEN you do not get sufficient sleep, your work W the next day is bound to suffer. Almost everybody has observed this fact on himself, but like all beliefs of mankind, this one has recently been subjected to scientific study. Pome physiologists at the University of Chicago experimented with six men. who on different occasions went without sleep for sixty hours. During these waking hours, the students were tested as to thfir ability to stand upright with their eyes closed, their reactions to sound and light, and their mental ability in a simple test. In addition, the investigators tested the men who went without sleep as to their ability to hold their hands steady, the accuracy of their vision, and the response of their skins to the sense of touch and of pain. • a a a IT was found, first of all. that it was much harder to keep awake and much more difficult to pass tests successfully in the hours between 3 and 6 o'clock in the morning, which are the usual hours of best sleep, than it is to keep awake or pass tests successfully later during the day. When we are short of sleep, we are likely to be much more irritable than when we have had sufficient sleep. Indeed, as the length of time without sleep continues, we may seem to be semiconscious. Some of the men stared out into space and actually resembled persons who had a little too much alcohol and were about to pass out. On going to bed after a long period of sleeplessness, the men fell asleep almost immediately and slept for as long as eleven to twelve hours, instead of the usual eight to nine hours of sleep. a a a THE hands of the men without sleep were found to be much more unsteady than those who had rested sufficiently. This observation is exceedingly important for men who work in inoustnes where accurate movements of the hands are necessary - , as for example, jewelers, machinists and chemists. These tests, however, should be particularly important to those who drive motor cars. A man who drive* an automobile must be able to respond quickly to unusual situations, his hand must be steady, and he must be constantly aware of what is going on.

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WHEN POLITICS WAS IN FLOWER

The Old Fifteenth — Fists, Blackjacks, and Irish Confetti

" BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer TWIRLING their night sticks and jutting their jaws out pugnaciously, city policemen strolled hard-eyed about the Fifteenth ward polls. When a known Republican came up to vote, he was given a rough jostle and elbowed out of line. These were the exciting days before woman suffrage when voting was a serious man’s business. If need be a few skulls were broken in the interest of a particular candidate who could hire some plug-uglies or pull a string on the police force. Politics was a “catch as catch” game, with winner take all and the loser slinking home to nurse his bruises.

The Fifteenth ward was an unruly ward, overcrowded with an ignorant foreign-born population. Magnificent street brawls broke out on election days. Employers warned their employes hoMf to vote and no maybes. Politicians strutted up and down before the poils threatening and cajoling voters. These activities were a form of release for the robust, rough-hewn quality of a growing city. Election day was a drunken riot, a special American day of license. The sky was the limit. Povertystricken laborers bet their week's wages on a candidate “and fought to the last ditch to secure his election. Truth and integrity were unknown qualities as orators soared into flowery rhetoric. Torches flamed in night street parades. In this particular election the Democrats were in power and meant to retain their hold. They wanted a share in the spoils system after a period of Republican domination. So Democratic politicians had seen to it that policemen be on the lookout to arrest any Republicans who felt in the mood for scrapping. At that time challenging the voters was a familiar practice and one which more often than not led to war. The Democrats had decided upon challenging Republican voters and throwing them out before any right could be established. The police were there to arrest any objecting voter. The Democrats had slipped some money to some community bullies to walk around with scowling faces and jab their fists at Republicans. Understand these were not just Democrat tactics. In this election they had just gotten the jump on the Republicans. a tt tt THE ward was fairly evpnly divided with a slight edge for the Republicans. But as each Republican went up to vote, he ran square into a loitering bunch of “tough mugs," who shoved him

TODAY and TOMORROW tt tt B tt tt tt By Walter Lippmann

IT is no mere coincidence that the opposition to certain aspects of the new deal has grown stronger as recovery has got under way. At no time since the depression began have the evidences of improvement been so unmistakable or the prospects for the future so good. Yet there is more complaint than at any time since the President was inaugurated. It is a paradox, which is well worth trying to understand, that the prestige of the new deal should be declining while prosperity is rising.

The first thing to note, it seems to me, is that the measures which were criticised most severely last spring and last autumn, namely the monetary policy as a whole, no longer are under serious attack. The best proof of this lies in the fact that the most spectacular indictment brought against the administration the Wirt charges—has been launched by the Committee for the Nation, the same organization which conducted the propaganda for abandoning the gold standard and for devaluing the dollar. This same organization, which brought Father Coughlin to New York to defend the President's gold policy against Al Smith and the "sound money” men, is bringing Dr. Wirt to Washington to prove that the President is in the hands of Communists. Three months ago the Committee for the Nation was regarded in conservative quarters as a group of dangerous heretics. Now. in some quarters, they are regarded as the shock troops of orthodoxy. It is obvious that the monetary policy of the administration is working so well that men novt take it for granted. The attack is directed against a wholly different sector of the Roosevelt program, against that part of it most particularly which involves the public control of private enterprise. It is the agricultural adjustment administration and NR A, the securities act and the stock exchange bill which have drawn the fire of opposition. There is no formidable attack on the baloney dollar, on the great expenditures for relief, for public works administration and civil works administration. an a THESE things have worked and are generally approved even by those who have theoretical misgivings about them, or are critical of aspects of their administration. But the measures which tend to restrict, control, contract, regiment private enterprise are the ones which are challenged. In other words, the country has accepted the policies which stimulate enterprise and it is increasingly distrustful of those which restrict it. The more effective the stimulants show themselves to be. the more the controls are disliked. There is no great mystery about this. Whatever may have been the theories of those new : dealers who drew up the projects of control, it is plain as a pikestaff. and always has been, that congress, the producers of the country and public opinion at largp approved these controls for one fundamental reason. There was a general belief that there was overproduction of practically everything and that the only way to cure this trouble was to limit the excessive supply until it equaled the reduced demand. That is obviously the basic principle of agricultural adjustment administration. It was no less /dearly the underlying reason why industry desired the NRA; by

aside. The foreigners were a diffident class, somewhat bewildered by the violent methods of their new country which spoke so loudly of liberty. As an alien who wished to vote the Republican ticket came near to the polls, one of his friends, walking away with his jat jammed on his head or his clothes flecked with mud, would say, ‘“Don’t go near there, Tony. You’ll be safer off at home.” One group of Republicans, not so timid as thpir brothers, rushed the polls shouting excitedly. Foreign curses burned the air as the police rushed in with flying night sticks. It was a bloody battle royal, with the police having a decided edge. Irish Democrats joined in the melee with joyous whoops. When the whir of fists and nightsticks died away, the police were sternly holding several bedraggled and torn Republican voters. The Republican politicians had arranged, beforehand that if such a scrap should occur that bail would be provided for the loyal members. However, the Democrats had a smarter plan than that. The police were ordered to hold the pugilistic voters at the polls and not bring them dowm to the station until after the voting had closed. it tt u THE Republican leader w’as a bluff man, whom w’e will call Bill. Bill looked frantically a the scarred remains at what had once been Republican voters. He must have felt like Napoleon viewing the ruins of his crack troops at Waterloo. But like other great warriors. Bill had a plan which he could use in case everything went wrong. There was a boy named Ray. who was a scrapper, a wild fighting man. Bill had gotten Ray out of jail several times when Ray had broken a little too joyfully into a fistic fray. Bill hastily made his way into

suspending the anti-trust laws business men believed that they could limit production and do away with ‘‘cutthroat compatition.” It was the animating idea which seemed to justify the severity of the securities act. It w r as not inspired simply by the need to prevent fraud and other abuses. The sponsors of that act frankly believed that there had been an overinvestment of capital and that it was desirable to put the brakes on future investment. ff ft ft TWELVE months ago this belief that the depression was due to overproduction was the general belief throughout the nation. Nobody could sell his product at a decent price and so everybody felt that there was too much product. It was that belief. shared by congress and by most of the administration, which brought them to‘the controls, the planning and the regimentation. There may be some new dealers who believed in a ‘‘planned economy’ for its own sake, as a more rational organization of economic life. But that is not why congress enacted and the country approved measures to plan and control agriculture and industry. When they went in for planning. what did they plan for? They planned for less wheat, for less cotton, less hogs, less oil, less new machinery in industry, less hours of w’ork. Our planning has been, and is solely, planning to prevent surpluses. Insofar as the President and his advisers fail to recogaize the significance of the revival of enterprise. which they have done so much to bring about, insofar as they attempt to perpetuate in a period of recovery resrictive measures which were the palliatives of the period of panic depression, they wdll be losing touch with the realities, and their leadership will become increasingly impaired. Unless they can see that there has been a change of phase in the cycle of affairs, they wdll find themselves losing prestige as the country gains prosperity. Copvrijjht. 1934 bab’Tgir l! skTdna p e and Youth, 18. Hunted After Disappearance of Child, 2. Bj/ United Prrts CHICAGO. April 10.—Alamed neighbors and police trooped through the alleys and byways of the Shakespeare avenue district today in a search for a 24-year-old girl, believed kidnaped. The child disappeared Sunday from m front of her grandmother s home. The baby, Dorette Zeitlow, golden-haired and precocious, toddled away with an older boy who promised her candy and a nickel, according to her older sister and brother. Lois, 12, and Kenneth, 4. Police sought a youth about 18 as the result of their questioning the sister and brother ,

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town and found Ray serenely driving a truck and whistling to himself the airs of songs he had picked up in poolrooms. Ray was brawny, he was immense. A belligerent gleam lurked in his eye, “Ray, Ray," called Bill puffing, “I want you to come up to the Fifteenth ward and take care of some boys for me.” Ray climbed down from his cab and said, “That's the foreign ward, isn’t it?” When Bill nodded assent, Ray smacked his lips with relish. “You bet, I'll go up,’’ he said. “But you have to give me a quart of whisky first, I’ll have to get warmed up.” Those plans attended to. Bill contacted another man whose sole duty was to keep Ray from fighting. Ray was to be more moral

WOMAN HIT BY CAR, HURLED 100 FEET Victim Is Hurt Seriously; Driver Held. A woman who gave the name of Dorothy Clark was injured seriously last night when she was struck by an automobile and hurled more than 100 feet in crossing College avenue near Fortieth street. Suffering a possible skull fracture and internal injuries, she was unable to give police or city hospital attaches her age, address or other information. The driver of the automobile. Gail Conaughton, 31, of 3171 North Illinois street, No. 3, was arrested on charges of drunkenness, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and assault and battery with an automobile. DR. HARRY MAYER IS NAMED DENTAL HEAD City Society Elects New President, Other Officers. Dr. Harry G. Mayer will succeed Dr. G. D. Timmons as president of the Indianapolis Dental Society as the result of an election last night in the Washington. Others elected were Dr. A. C. Harvey, vice-presi-dent, Dr. H. C. PercivaJ, secretary, and Dr. Walter Beyer, treasurer. . Dean Ralph R. Byrnes of Atlanta Southern Dental college was the principal speaker.

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“For years I sat home waiting for you to succeed, and now you go to nothing but stag dinners,”

protection than anything else. Then Bill went the rounds of the voters’ homes and lured them out from the safety of their kitchens back to the polls. One comrade had been skulking under the bed. When Bill got back to the polls, there was Ray swinging wildly through the crowd with his alterego desperately holding onto his coat and shouting, “Don’t get into a jupe, Ray.” tt tt tt RAY had gotten warmed up on the whisky. In fact he was heated. The sad plight of the Republican voters had touched his tender nature. At the first sign of intimidation of Republicans, Ray waded in with blood in his eye. He smashed and he

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Peafrson avd Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, April 10.—So many rough breaks have hit the new deal while Roosevelt was away on his fishing trip that some of his counsellors are ready to urge abandonment of his plan to cruise through the Panama Canal to the Pacific coast this summer. Other advisers think the nonchalant manner with which the President received word of his veto on veterans’ compensation enhanced his prestige. In either case there is going to be a serious overhauling of policy before the Puerto Rico-Panama-Pactific trip is taken. And the deciding factor regarding the cruise is going to be how the catastrophic situation in the NRA is working out. The blue eagle is on the verge of even greater turmoil, and the President will have to move fast if he is going to save it. tt tt a a tt THE heart of Wall Street's frantic opposition to the Fletcher-Ray-burn bill is to be found in none of the verbal or written propaganda against the measure. It 4s to be found in three innocent-appearing lines tucked inconspicuously in the middle of the bill.

These lines would give the federal trade commission authority to prescribe the rules for the election of stock exchange officials. As the institution now operates, it is a self-perpetuating oligarchy. The popular belief that stock exchange members are lords of all they survey is a myth—as far as having a voice in the affairs of the exchange is concerned. The three little lines in the Fletcher-Rayburn bill would dispell this myth. They would open the way for free and fair election of exchange officials under government regulation. The re-

By George Clark

slugged while his alter-ego retired feebly into a safe comer. The police stood it as long as they could. They were Irish and the sight of fists was a form of intoxication to them. They threw down their night sticks and entered the brawl, which had reached gigantic proportions. Ray was unheedful. The sight of brass buttons meant little or nothing to him. He hammered and pounded at the city’s law officers. The after effect was just as Bill had schemed. Republican voters marched unmolested to the voting booth. The police returned to their beats, muttering words about the pride of Erin. Ray was in jail, blissfully happy, proudly counting each cut and bruise.

suit of such a sw-eeping change is a foregone conclusion. Richard Whitney, and his clique of Morgan-dominated insiders, unquestionably would be ousted. Widely unpopular among the rank and file of exchange members, the only reason they are holding office is because of the autocratic rules which enable their self-per-petuation. Also, these three little lines explain w'hy Whitney is so talkative about resigning in the event the bill passes. • tt h a AFTER the compromise was finally reached in the automobile dispute, some of the American Federation of Labor delegates gathered at their headquarters and staged an impromptu gridiron club show. The chief scene was supposed to be laid in General Johnson’s office. A burly, red-faced Laborite impersonated the general. Seating himself behind a table, ha scowled ferociously. “All right, you guys.” he barked, 1 “let’s have it!” A labor delegate rose and began a piteous plea that his wife and children were starving, while the cruel boss, lolling in luxury, was firing men for joining the union. “General, general,” he asked tearfully, “what do you say to conditions such as these?” “Nuts!” was the raucous rejoinder. Four or five delegates sprang to their feet, began shouting at the same time. Another demanded silence. “Just a minute, just a minute.” he yelled. “How can the general think?” “Aw, he don't need to think,” was the reply. "What he needs is sleep.”

CATTLE TAX PUT OFF TEMPORARILY BY AAA Inposition of Levy in Formative Stage, Exchange Advised. No processing tax will be imposed immediately on cattle, according to a telegram received last night by Jack Oldham, secretary of the Indianapolis Live Stock Exchange, from Harry Petrie, chief of the cattle and sheep section of the AAA. Mr. Petrie explained in the w - ire that the cattle program of the AAA still is in a formative stage, and no tax of this nature will be imposed until open meetings are held in each section it the country

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Entered a* Second-Ctsaa Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis

Fdir Enough* WBTMKMEII SHELI KEY BANKS. Fla.. April 10.—This essay 13 being composed aboard a called the lella, which is stuck on a bar among the Florida Keys and it may yet be filed from a yellow railroad station called Islamoraaa on the line to Key West. 16 might be just as well to wrap it around a rock and throw it somewhere because it isn't likely to amount* to much. Our skipper, a Florida cracker, called Pmdy. Is much embarrassed at the moment as he wasn't watching his traffic signals when

he ran agrouna. The government has a lot of red pile markers along the channels whittled to a sharp point on the up end so that the gulls and pelicans can't roost on them. Prudy was casting eyes at some floating cocoanuts marking a linp of lobster pots and thinking of how very unscrupulous it would be to raid any of those pots for lunch with the owner still in sight when he missed the channel and the propellor began to kick up a wake of Case Au La it. The next moment the lella stopped and that is how things are at the present writing. tt tt t*

He's a Cracker I WAS going to say that our captain, who just now is sitting on the fish box in the stem reproaching himself in terms which are not suitable for publication in a wholesome family newspaper, was a Florida conch but he says that is not what he is. He says he is a cracker and explains that the conchs. pronounced conks, are those who live in the snake and crocodile bogs and along the canals of the Monroe county, which is the county where the keys are, including Kevwest. The conch is a kind of snail found in these parts and the citizens are so called for the same reason that Arkansans are called razorbacks if they are. I do not know why crackers are called crackers and| neither does Captain Prudy but I do know why the laughing seagulls are called what the Captain just called them as he looked up from his brooding on the fish box. The captain's professional embarrassment was painful enough without the coarse derision of the laughing gulls and he said he was somewhat more than half a mind to fetch out his pistol and go in for serious resentment. Mr. Earl Allvme, a news reel man, then remarked. brushing a cigaret ash from his nude hide, that if he couldn't aim a gun any better than he aimed the lella at the channel, the gulls w’ere safe. Some Blue Boobies and Frigate Birds ar- flying around too. but their sense of humor is tempered by a refined tact. They have indulged in no personal cracks at our captain. I do not know’ what a Blue Booby or a Frigate Bird is but they are which. I thought I would just toss in casually for sophistication. I also will try to find occasion to mention Mullet. Ballyhoo, Grouper, and Sting Ray but I may not get around to it. tt tt a Talked About Everything WE came out yesterday in two boats. The Miss Sadie and the lella, with tw’o speed boat tenders, both caii°d Prigg, to fish for Tarpon. I am not sure why, but whose business is it what I do on my day off. So we spent the day out toiling around among the Keys on the side toward the gulf of Mexico and hearing about the conchs and hurricanes, sharks, barracuda and the rum runners’ trad? which flourished in these waters before repeal. We didn’t catch any Tarpon but saw some shark rather intimately and a Sting Ray about the size of a bath mat, whiio tiled up the water at one point. They do insist, however, that fish have been caught in this water and I will say sincerely I hope so because mast of the wild life around here is the omeriest I ever heard of, being equipped with fangs, stingers, horns, sworos, saws or big teeth and quick tempers and no discriminations. There is a conch with a mossy beard ashore at Islamorada who has lived along these Keys, boy and man, for rising eighty years, w’hich means that he has lived through some of the mast terrific storms that ever blew out of the Caribbean, including a blow in 1909 w’hen the railroad was raking the muck together to make the right of way down to the long trestle that covers the last leg of the journey to Key West. The railroad laborers were quartered In house boats in the shallow waters, most of them white men because the Negroes were no success against the mosquitoes and the house boats were blown to sea and smashed up, all but a few. I forget how many hundred they told me were lost in the storm but I think it was three, although they said furthermore that nobody ever could tell because nobody knew how many people were camping in the boats or farming and fishing along the Keys in the first place. Some of the boats outroad the storm and were picked up. with survivors aboard, way down toward South America. (Copyright, 1934. by United Features Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science —i "BY DAVID DIETZ—

most big cities of America and Europe ii* hf * nps a P all of smoke, shortening the lives of Li 6 E.i n j bitants ’ dama &ing property, and creating blighted areas. So say K. B. Meller, head of the air pollution investigation of the Mellon Institute cf Industrial Research of Pittsburgh, and L. B. Sisson, industrial fellow of the institute, who has been co-operating in investigation. "A rp cord defiance of the law of gravitation has accompanied the development of cities,” the investigators say. “For centuries men have been tossing into the air the soot, tar, ash, cinders and other waste products of the combustion of fuel in the apparent belief that w hat w - ent up w*ould not come dow - n. or at least would not come down on their own heads and possessions. History probably offers no comparable instance of persistence in the pursuit of a conspicuously false disposal process, damaging alike to health and property.” The investigators are urging that the United States government, in its program for slum clearance and the rehabilitation of blighted areas, give careful thought to the relation between smoke and slums. / a a a MR. MELLER and Mr. Sisson believe that no rehabilitation scheme can succeed unless the smoke problem is taken into consideration and something done about it. “Concentrated smoke deposits do more than impose a barrier to the effective and economical regeneration of blighted areas,” they say. tt tt tt A MOVEMENT to do something about the smoke nuisance has been started in St. Louis, the two scientists say. •‘The new mayor there, supported by business and civic organizations, including the Citizens* Smoke Abatement League, is personally heading a movement for purer air,” they say. “His fact-find-ing committee has just submitted recommendations for anew and much more drastic ordinance.” Mr. Meller and Mr. Sisson urge that governmental and other authorities adopt a definite policy in the matter. Asa minimum, they recommend the following requirements: “That where a loan is made for the repair or alteration of fuel-burning equipment, the borrower shall satisfy the lender that the repaired or altered furnace, using the same fuel as formerly, shall be capable of comparatively smokeless operation or that smokeless fuel, gas, coke, or anthracite shall be used. “That where a loan Is made for new heating equipment, tha lender shall require that this equipment meet the standards of smokeless operation*”

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