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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN CHARLES M. SCHWAB came back fom Europe and expressed regret when he heard that the squatter colony of veterans along the Hudson opposite his Riverside drive home had been ordered to move along. He said that they had been good neighbors. “We visited back and forth,” he explained. “They had been up to my house and very kindly assisted us around the grounds in getting rid of the heavy snows last winter. Mrs. Schwab frequently drove

down to visit them in their homes. And I also called on them many times. When we had a surplus of produce from our farm at Loretto, Pa., we were happy to share it with them. They had looked forward to staying there. I know, until business improved. We shall miss them. They were not bad neighbors at all.” Thus I have no doubt was the sincere expression of a kindly old gentleman who worked himself up from the bottom to the top of the steel industry. He had a neighborly feeling for men living in plain sight of his turrets who just didn't have the good luck to get the breaks. The as-

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sistance which he rendered was quite in the American tradition that the more fortunately situated should help the stragglers in a casual and friendly fashion without any outside compulsion. After all. what are a couple of heads of lettuce and a bushel of potatoes between friends? a a m Some Forgotten Hutu OUT in the long history of Bethlehem Steel I assume that it is entirely passible that there have been other shacks where Charles M. Schwab neevr got around to pay a visit. During the desperate days of the depression I venture to assert that thousands of jobless employes never saw so much as a leaf of the Loretto lettuce.' Does this mean that Mr. Schwab in his own person is some sort of exceptionally tight-fisted villain? In my opinion it means nothing of the sort. He is from all the accounts I ever heard, kindly, genial and reasonable. The hitch is systematic and not individual. The American tradition that we can muddle through hard times by dint of private charity, individual benevolence and voluntary giving has broken down completely. And of course it deserved to break down. When a man asks for bread and receives a stone he has a right to be indignant, but I hold that he should not bo satisfied when he asks for bread and gets bread. It is quite true that in the life we know there do arise situations so desperate that private charity must be called upon in lieu of better devices and more rapid ones. But in the long run charity does desperate things to the donors. It makes smug prigs who go about saying that they would like to give but that they are afraid of pauperizing people. tt tt tt They Catted Her Lady Bountiful IUSED to know, for my sins, a lady who went around on Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving leaving baskets. Each basket contained one raw turkey, two cans baked beans, one jar cranberry jelly, two loaves whole wheat bread, one pound butter, one stick peppermint candy for the children. I suppose this generous woman was one of the ma't objectionable persons I ever have met. She would come back from her rounds on one of the three feast days all pufTed up w-ith righteousness. "I know it is only a little,” she used to say, “but one does the best they can.” Her grammar was even worse than her personality. One day a man at her house took her up on her favorite remark and answered. “You're damn tooting it is only a little. Did you ever stop to figure what any of those people lived on between turkeys? And did you ever stop to ask by w'hat right you go around and get yoursell into a glow of self-satisfaction by distributing a little occasional delicatessen?” a tt tt Mr. Blank's Hat and Coat THE young man was set down as a rude person and never was asked to lunch any more, but I think he was right. I have known people to step and buy an apple on the corner and then walk away as if they had solved the whole unemployment problem. I think that people should make charitable gifts but only on their knees and with ihe deepest apologies. The fact that such things are in any way necessary constitutes an indictment of every one of us. (Copyright, 1934. by The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

''■''HE 200-incb telescope. now under construction A for the California Institute of Technology-, may settle the biggest question in the world, the question of whether or not the universe is expanding. Tins is the opinion of Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, famous astronomer of the Mt. Wilson observatory, whose work with the 100-inch telescope there, the world's largest telescope now in existence, is largely responsible for the expanding universe theory. The theory that the universe is expanding like a gigantic soap bubble into which air is blown was first advanced by the Belgian physicist, the Abbe Georges Lemaitre. upon the basis of the Einstein relativity equation. It found its support in the measurements of the distant spiral nebulae made at Mt. Wilson by Dr. Hubble and Dr. Milton Humason. These measurements disclosed the now famous ‘‘red shifts.” In every case, the spectrum lines of the nebula were displaced toward the red end of the spectrum and the farther away the nebula happened to be, the greater the displacement. Such a shift can be explained at present only to mean that the nebulae are receding from the earth and that the farther away a nebula is. the faster it is running away from us. The nebulae are at immense distances from the earth, the nearest being almost a million light years away. A light year is six trillion miles. Nebulae at a distance of 450 million miles, according to Dr. Hubble, show the incredible speed of 40,000 miles a second. man THESE facts have led to the theory of an expanding universe. The question, however, is whether or not the observed red shift actually is due to motion. This interpretation is based upon the phenomenon which makes the pitch of a locomotive whistle seem to change when the locomotive is in motion. As it approaches, the sound goes up. because the motion crowds the sound waves upon each other, thus raising the frequency. As the locomotive recedes, the pitch drops because fewer sound waves per second now reach the listener. In the same way. motion of a star toward the earth causes its spectrum lines to increase in frequency and shift to the violet. Motion away from the earth decreases the observed frequency and they shift toward the red. From theoretical reasons. Dr. Hubble told me, there is ground for belief that the 200-inch telescope will settle the problem of whether the red shift in the case of the nebulae is due to motion or to some other now unknown reason. u u a SPEAKING before the American Meteorological Society, Dr. J. B. Kincer. head of the climate and crop weather div.sion of the United States weather bureau, told of attempts of the bureau to check up theories that weather recurred in regular cycles upon the basis of which long-range weather forecasts could be made. He said that they investigated claims of various scientists that weather recurred in eleven-year cycles, twenty-three year cycles, and thirty-five-year cycles. He said that the bureau's investigation "showed that none of these stories had any practical value." He showed studies made of the weather over thirty-seven years to see if there was any correlation between them and the weather which occurred in each case twenty-three years previously. *

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INDIANA—AND THE NEW DEAL Indiana's Farley Is One Man Who Makes Up His Own Mind

BY WALKER STONE Time* Staff Writer. WASHINGTON. May I—“We demand.” reads a petition signed by constituents, “that you vote for such-and-such bill.” Hundreds of such petitions come in every mail to the building that houses the offices of congressmen. And the political thing for a congressman to do—the thing that mest congressmen do—is to wTite a letter to each signer, assuring him that the congressman sees eye to eye with the signer on the legislation. But when a petition of that character crosses the desk of Representative James I. Farley, the congressman from Indiana’s Fourth district grunts and shoves the paper aside. “We demand, hell!” barks Farley. “They know as much about that legislation as a hog does about war.” And Farley little cares whether it is a petition from a political clique demanding the appointment of a certain person as postmaster, a petition from a group of persons who want the government to pay off their frozen deposits in closed banks, or a memorial from the Indiana state legislature, demanding demonetization of silver.

Jim Farley is accustomed to making his own decisions. And because he came to congress is, in his opinion, no reason why he should allow' himself to. be kicked around by every faction and group that has an ax to gind. “When the people of a district gives a man a franchise to represent them in congress,” says Farley, “the only way he can justify their confidence is by using his own judgment. There are not a handful of men in any district who follow legislation close enough to have the knowledge that .will justify them in telling a congressman how' he should vote on a particular phase of a particular bill at a particular roll call.” tt tt n FARLEY is nearing the end of the first term of his first public office, with the realization that being a congressman is not as dignified and pleasant experience as he had thought it w T ould be. Farley is a business man, who is finding it is not easy to apply business methods to political endeavor. For tw’enty-odd years he was in the automobile business, starting with the Studebaker Corporation at South Bend, and after eighteen months joining the Auburn Automobile Company of Auburn. Ind., to be promoted from salesman td s’ales manager to vice-president and finally to president. from which position he resigned in 1926, two years after E.

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, May I.—Signs of continued business upturn are everywhere. Department store sales are up. Employment has increased. Factory production keeps upgrade. But underneath these figures are facts which give the brain trust food for thought. They have brought them to the attention, of the President, One is that the relief rolls for April reached 4,700,000 families or the support of seme 19.000,000 people. This is an all-time highhigher even than last March when the depression was at its peak. Second is that grocery store sales, while greater in dollar value are less in unit totals. In other words, the depreciated dollar makes purchases seem larger, though real sales have dropped. The same is true of department store sales, though the grocery index is more significant. People eat before they buy clothes. Third is that while production is 86 per cent of normal, sales are only back to 77 per cent of normal. In other words, factories are producing more than people are buying. 000 000 THIS is what the new deal sought to avoid. A spread between production and consumption power, if continued long, can be disastrous. To avoid this was one of the great objectives of the NRA.

Today, however, this probably is the NRA’s greatest failure. Income taxes and corporation reports all show some people are making more. Grocery sales showother people are eating less. The gap between the rich and the poor apparently increases. The Detroit auto manufacturers, the Wierton Company, the iron and steel moguls exact more or less their ow-n terms from the NR A. Jacob Maged, an immigrant tailor in Jersey City who pressed suits for 35 cents instead of the 40-cent code price, gets thirty days in jail and SIOO fine—later remitted by a friendly judge. All of which leads to this: When the history of NRA finally is told, the “crack down” bombast of General Hugh <Juggernaut) Johnson will make pitiful reading. non PROBABLY the most uncommunicative member of the new deal cabinet, so far as the press is concerned, is Secretary of War Dern. His press conferences during the last eight or ten months could be counted on the fingers of one hand. It isn't because there isn't plenty of news—on the contrary. The silence is due to the recommendations of towering Mrs. Dern, who didn't care much for the w-ay the secretary w-as publicized during the early days. She advises: “The less you talk to newspaper men the better. Then you won't be saying things you're sorry for afterwards.” nun Alice roosevelt longWORTH'S tongue may not always be merciful, but it furnishes Washington w-ith many laughs. Mrs. Hugh Wallace, widow of the former U. S. ambassador to France and daughter of a oncemember of the supreme court, lives near Alice. Recently, she was stricken with a sudden attack of acute indigestion. Alice, who happened to be passing the house, dropped in. With her typical calmness of manner, she diagnosed the trouble, administered a mixed dose of medicines which was a tradition in the Roosevelt family. Mrs. Wallace recovered quickly, Alice went her way. Later, Alice told about the incident at a tea. “I guess I'll have to call on Mrs. Wallace now.” she told her friends. "She's been inviting me ever since I can remember, and there's only one thing that worries me about it." “What's that?” inquired the hostess. “I won't know whether to take her a bunch of flowers or a bottle of indigestion tablets.” n n u FOR months "Little Artie” Robinson, innuendo - hurling senator from Indiana, had been

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L. Cord gained control of the Auburn company. The years he served on the • board of directors of the Auburn company and as a director of banks, Farley thought, fitted him to come to Washington and sit on the board of directors of the national government. But he has found that here a different technique is practiced, that the “directors” sometimes go into meetings—congressional committee sessions—with their minds up, and with their interests limited to some particular phase of proposed legislation, affecting some particular group. tt n a BUT it is committee work that Farley enjoys most, and it is in committee sessions that he has been most effective. He is a member of the banking and currency committee, the committee that handles all measures affecting banking and monetary adjustments, such as the bank-de-posit guarantee law\ federal reserve reform measures, RFC loans and the hundreds of crack-pot paper money bills. Said a colleague on that committee: “Jim Farley always arrives on time, sits and listens to the discussion and then near the end of the meeting tells us what he thinks about the matter. The committee know's him as a man of sound judgment.”

trying to "get” something on the administration. Facing a desperate re-election fight for his senatorial seat, he sought to twist every rumor into a deep-dyed scandal. Finally a story went the rounds of the capital that certain big Democratic politicians were speculating in silver on the basis of inside information on White House policy. Robinson immediately offered a resolution asking the treasury for a list of large silver holders. The resolution was passed, and Robinson sat back in gleeful anticipation. At last Roosevelt was to be smeared. But when the treasury submitted its report, no really important names were on the list, but the list caught Everett Sanders, national Republican chairman, and a number of Wall Street banks, plus Robert M. Harris and Carle C. Conway, two of the leading advocates of the silver bill. The findings, instead of being a blow, were a windfall for the administration. They played directly into the President's hand, greatly strengthened his opposition to the demanded legislation. It was a great break, doubly effective because it came from the hand of “Little Artie” Robinson. NEW TRAINS ADDED TO BIG FOUR RAILROAD Improved Service to New York. Chicago and St. Louis Included. Improved service to New- York, Boston, Chicago and St. Louis, and new trains to the last two, feature the new schedules of the Big Four route, which became effective Sunday. Five trains will run between Chicago and Indianapolis daily, including the new Sycamore, which will leave here at 4:40 p. m. and arrive in Chicago at 8:30. Another new train, the Mound City Special, will leave Indianapolis at 10:50 a. m. daily, arrive at Terre Haute at 12:09 and at St. Louis at 4 p. m. THEODORE DANN DUE TO HEAD I. U. CLUB One Ticket in Field for Election on May 7.* Theodore Dann. Indianapolis attorney. will head the Indiana University Club, according to an announcement yesterday by John F. Lance, president. Election will be held May 7. Only one ticket is in the field. Others nominated are Sherwood Blue, vice-president; Paul E. Tombaugh, secretary, and Leo W. Shumaker, treasurer.

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Farley would enjoy being a congressman if someone else would take over his worries about patronage and the mail of demanding constituents. Farley is a sound-money man. He takes little stock in inflationary proposals. He w'as the only member of the Indiana delegation to vote against the Dies silver bill, and he and Representatives Pettingill and Boehne were three of the nine Democrats of the house who voted against departure from the gold standard. 0 0* BUT there is one black mark in Farley's sound-money record. He voted for cash payment of the veterans’ bonus. His explanation: “I promised in the campaign to vote for the bonus. If we are to have inflation, the bonus will be the best way to inflate.” Farley also voted to override

FIRST DIESEL TRAIN TO BE SHOWN HERE Pennsylvania Will Exhibit ‘Zephyr’ on May 9. The “Zephyr,” America's first Diesel-powered, stream lined, stainless steel train, will be shown in Indianapolis from 10 a. m. to 7:30 p. in. May 9, under auspices of the Pennsylvania railroad. Plans are under way to have the new train attempt to exceed its record run of 107 miles an hour which was made recently near Philadelphia. The attempt will be made on the Pennsylvania between Ft. Wayne and Chicago, where lies one of the fastest stretches of track in the world The entire train w'eighs only 100 tons, little more than a standard sleeping car. Its three cars include the engine and are so articulated that vestibules between cars are eliminated. FOOD PRICE DECREASE FOR CITY DISCLOSED Drop of 0.2 Shown From March 27 to April 10 by U. S. Retail food prices dropped 0.2 per cent from March 27 to April 10 in Indianapolis, according to labor department statistics issued today. The national slump w'as 0.6 per cent. The department reports that the house furnishing goods group rose, nationally, to the highest point reached during the present year, in the last two weeks. Advancing prices in gasoline and bituminous coal more than offset price declines in fuel oil and anthracite and caused the fuel and lighting materials group to move upwards a slight fraction. The metals and products group rose fractionally due to higher prices for nonferrous metals. The chemicals and drugs group also showed a fractional rise.

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President Roosevelt’s veto of the independent offices appropriations bill, a vote w'hich in his case can be credited partially to political expediency, and partially to resentment due to his feeling that he had been misled as to the administration’s attitude. On one type of “chores” for constituents. Farley proved a willing and effective w'orker. After the banking holiday, when the government was allowing banks to reopen under restrictions, Farley worked long hours at the treasury department negotiating with officials for the reopening of banks in his district. During that period, his knowledge of the intricacies of banking proved a valuable assets. Outside of the instances listed above. Farley has supported the administration program. He thinks President Roosevelt is a

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

THE administration has handled the Japanese declarations sincerely and quietly. It has followed the sound rule in diplomacy, which is not to become excited by words and not to be drawn into a discussion of vague generalities about the future. Thus Japan has been able to do some explaining without loss of face and the United States stands on the simple ground of its own rights under the existing treaties. No new issue has been raised between the two countries and none will be unless Japan raises a clear and specific case which lies within the scope of the treaties. No doubt exists, of course, that the Japanese policy is what the spokesman said it was, however undiplomatic may have been his language. Japan intends to be the predominant power in the far east and the arbiter of its destinies. What this is to mean in the future no one can now foresee. * But it is a break with the assumptions of the past.

Until the World war Japan was one among several powers which had staked out spheres of influence in China. At the Washington conference the assumption was adopted that China was gradually to achieve unity, independence and strength by being allowed to w'ork out her own problems without interference from the gTeat powers. China’s freedom from outside interference was declared in the Nine Power treaty. On the basis of this view of China's future, naval limitation was agreed to in the Pacific. In substance the Washington treaty was an arrangement by which no one of the three powers could take aggressive action against another. Japan achieved a defensive superiority in Asiatic waters; the United States a defensive superiority in the eastern Pacific. This limitation of armaments reflected a limitation of political purposes, as all treaties dealing w'ith armaments must if they are to mean anything at all. For no two nations can or will limit their weapons until they have defined their aims. The treaties den ling with China did define the aims of the powers and made possible the limitation of armaments.

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“great fellow.” He believes strongly in the NRA and the AAA. and stoutly defends these economic reforms .against the criticisms of his former associates in big business. Farley has the appearance and manner of a successful business man. He is of medium height, stout build, a genial but reserved Irishman. He is always well dressed, and wears rimless spectacles. Politically and personally, he is w'et. 000 A LTHOUGH an aggressive committee worker, Farley shows little zest for the minor duties of a congressman. He was He was one of the first, and has been the most consistent advocate of amending the R. F. C. law to provide for direct loans to private industry. He started the ball rooling on this proposition at the first meeting of his committee this session. Nothing could have demonstrated more clearly Farley’s amateur standing as a politician than what he did in the case of the postmastership at Ft. Wayne—the best job in his district. Although he knew several days in advance that it was to happen, he permitted the Republican postmaster to resign wuthout first deciding and announcing what Democrat he would recommend for the position. For three nights after the Republican resigned. Farley got no sleep. He had to hold on to the hot end of a long-distance telephone wire, w'hile the different factions of the party in Ft. Wayne poured threats and demands into his ear. Twenty candidates for the job were in the field before Farley brought an end to the controversy by selecting Lew' Ellingham. Ft. Wayne publisher. But it seems that political misstep was not fatal. He is entering the primary without an opponent. And he is not in the least worried about being able to win over the Republican nominee in the fall.

THE NEW Japanese policy—it has been new since September. 1931—renounces the existing limitations of political aims. No one knows the Japanese policy really is, where the Japanese are going and what they intend to do. The Japanese themselves almost certainly do not know. But they say frankly that they will be the judges of what they must do and how far they must go, and that while they respect our rights under the treaties of 1922, they, and not the western powers, are to be the judges of China’s rights. As long as the Japanese policy is in this sense limited in its aims and methods, there do not exist any longer the old foundations for the limitation of naval armaments. That is the consequence of the breakdown of the regime of the treaties. It does not mean that w ? e should intervene in the diplomacy of the Orient. But it mean that there is no basis now for a limitation of armaments. If Japan is to be the sole judge of her own actions in the Orient and the Pacific, the United States is bound to be the judge of its own armaments. As long as Japan insists upon a free hand to expand, no one knows where, it will be impossible to tie the hands of the other naval powers. nan IT would not be candid or in the long run useful to fail to make clear to the Japanese that treaties to limit diplomacy go with treaties to limit armaments. They are inseparable. To try to separate them, as men have tried to do through the long discussions at Geneva, is not only to get no limitation, but to foment suspicion and thus make matters worse. In the long view then w-e are bound to tell the Japanese that a definition of her aims is necessary to the future limitation of armaments. It may well be that the nine power treaty needs to be revised. That is a matter for diplomatic discussion. But some understanding that can limit and bind the purposes of the naval power is necessary before they can again limit and bind armaments. An undefined policy of political expansion, such as the Japanese are now pursuing, can mean only that naval expansion will also become undefined. If, therefore. Japan is to be the stabilizing force in the east that she, no doubt, sincerely believes herself to be, she will have to stabilize her own purposes. i Copyright, 1934) ROAD GRANT IS SOUGHT PWA Money Asked for Project to Salvage Burned Timber. B>t United Pr> n TILLAMOOK. Ore., May I.—The county court will send to Washington, D. C., an application for a $507.400 PWA grant to build a road up the Wilson river to salvage fire damaged timber where 300.000 acres were burned in a huge forest fire last summer.

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fair Enough WBIIMM r I a HE boss pulled a piece of mine out of the paper ■*- the other day in which I undertook to say. in my own dumb, crude way that William Randolph Hearst was the best friend the American newspaper reporter ever had. This made me pretty sore at first and I had a mind to go tearing down to General Johnson yelling, “Hey, what about the freedom of the press?” But then I got to thinking about the payments on the car and decided that it had been just a punk piece. There would have been

considerable precedent for that and I must admit that the experience of having a story pulled or killed on the desk is not a new one for me. I am always getting into trouble that way. One night in Florida a few winters ago I wrote one which contained a rather top-loftv allusion to the type of society leader who sold testimonials for a mattress company which were then published in magazine advertisements. About an hour later a message bounced in from a friend who was sitting on the desk in the home office saying, “Killed your line about mattress testimonials:

look up page 86 current issue of such-and-such’s magazine.” So I sent out for a copy of the magazine and there on page 88 was a beautiful job of color-press containing a photo-portrait of the owner’s wife and her personal testimonial for this mattress. tt tt tt That Was Some One Else HPHAT was a different boss. This boss who pulled J- the story about Mr. Hearst said he hadn't done so because it lauded Mr. Hearst as a friend of ;he American newspaper reporter. He just didn't like it as a job of writing. He beat me to that idea, but I had saved a sprint and pulled up even with him during the argument. We finished in a dead heat in unanimous agreement that better stories had been written. So here I am again thinking that the genu and ladies of the newspaper guild, in w'hich I hold a member's card, ought to poke up some of the oldtimers, or grizzled veterans, of the newspaper business for some reminiscences on wages in this line of work w'hen they undertake to indict Mr. Hearrst’s outfit as an oppressor of the typewriter hands. If anybody is going to draw up a list of Mr. Hearst’s crimes against the journalists, however, the bill ought not to overlook the systematic degradation of the craft W'hich he undertook back in the early nineties when he came into New York and completed in Chicago there in 1900 or so. Mr. Hearst corrupted the precious virtue of poverty w'hich they had been receiving up to then. He destroyed the beautiful back-room Bohemia nism of the newspaper business and lured the reporters, rewrite people, copy hands and all out of their selfrespecting poverty in the direction of the leafy suburb. 000 He Changed Wage HE put into the heads of the newspaper men’s wives an uppity ambition to send their children to college and to live as comforatbly as people of equal rank in other lines of w'ork and amid the same materialism. This was a sordid w r ay of doing. Up to that time the newspaper man, whose mark of identity v/as fringe on his cuffs, had enjoyed a beautiful freedom. He was a sort of artist. A lovable, irresponsible, busted artist whose condition of employment permitted him the privilege of mooching off the town the difference between his wages and the cost of living. He wrote snake ads into his copy in return for an occasional suit of clothes or load of coal or case of beer. He got free railroad mileage and theater tickets w'hich were negotiable at a discount for groceries, drinks, and, possibly the rent. When Hearst went into Chicago he poisoned the craft W'ith covetousness by raising the scale for good journeymen hands from $35 to S7O. This forced the other publishers to raise wages, too. and it was just Fugene Field’s good luck to escape contamination. At his maximum, Mr. Field got SBO a week. In the syndicate business the profits of which Hearst opened up to the writers and artists, he would be worth from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. A lot of them are. Watch Those Raids OLD Charlie Ebbets, the late baseball magnate of Brooklyn, had the right idea about such things. He said big money was bad for ball players because it set them to thinking of the homes they were going to buy and automobiles and all such luxuries. But Mr. Hearst wasn't altogether vicious in this respect. Many a time he w'ould let his executives load up the staff with contented hands and then all of a sudden send old Foster Coates, the raider, round to knock them off. Dreadful spectacles are to be seen outside the Hearst plants every now and again as the raiders walk in and the employes go diving out the windows. Not all of his victims stayed corrupted by w'ealth. but the general level of wages in Hearst towns never did sag to its old level again. He was 71 Sunday and I hope he got a lot of telegrams from the victims of his oppression denouncing him in particular for introducing materialistic ideas into a craft which until his time was free and busted and delightfully menial. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN EAT a sufficient amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, drink about eight glasses of water a day, take a reasonable amount of exercise in the form of walking, bending of the body or some similar form of activity, and, finally, establish a regular time for bowel activity, never permitting anything to interfere with this—and the money you might be spending upon stimulation of your bowels could be applied to some more useful purpose. But even if you have to promote action of the bowels, you needn’t resort to any more costly or more effective remedy than ordinary salt water. By salt is meant not the concentrated Epsom or Glauber’s salts —sodium sulphate or magnesium sulphate—but a sufficient amount of ordinary table salt to make the concentration of the water that is taken about the same as that of the blood, or eighttenths of 1 per cent. When the water is taken in this concentration, it will not be absorbed rapidly and passed out through the kidneys, but will tend to pass through the stomach and the intestines quickly and in that way aid evacuation of the bowels. The amount to be taken is about two cups of water, to each of which one-half teaspoonful of common table salt has been added. The water should be warmed to about the temperature of the body. a a a A GREAT many of the laxatives about which you might be aware are what medical science call3 mechanically acting substances. These include mineral oil or liquid petrolatum: agar-agar, which is a sea weed; psyllium seeds, which were known as a laxative thousands of years ago: flax seeds and bran. Mineral oil acts purely as a lubricant. It mixes with the material in the bowels, greasing and waterproofing the food and to that extent interfering with its digestion. Apparently it does not damage the walls of the bowel. The chief reasons against it are the fact that it sometimes overlubricates, which results in disagreeable leakage of the material. For this reason there has been a tendency to mix the mineral oil with the agar-agar, establishing a bulky jelly, which distends the bowel and stimulates its movements. Both psyllium seeds and flax seeds are covered with a musilaginous substance which swells in th > bowot and which is undigestible.

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