Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1934 — Page 13

HSeemioMs hewoJd bum QT. PAUL, Minn., June 7. I am a sartorial bust in St. Paul. This fact has been brought home poignantly to me by the daily newspaper of the University of Minnesota. John Eddy and I went there to make speeches about the newspaper guild and the collegiate columnist of the school of journalism set down his impressions of me as follows: “Quite distinctly, when he arose, there was a gasp from his audience of newspaper readers whose mental photos of New York columnists portray dap-

per little men with pin-stripe cravats and reedy canes. Mr. Broun bulged in many places. The collar of his soft white shirt curled up over his bronze neck, revealing the neckband of his red and black necktie, the loose ends of which were not at all even. A scuffed belt supported the brown trousers w T hich slouched in a nest of wrinkles over his shoe tops. There were not tongues in his tan shoes and one black sock was distinctly punctured.” Evidently they teach accuracy to the embryo reporters in Minnesota. I’m afraid that the details set down by the

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young observer are correct. He must have been exceedingly perceptive. I hadn’t even noticed the hole in the sock myself. I’m sure about the bronze neck and the necktie was not red and black. Still in detail the young man should rank 98. I don’t know whether he was equally accurate in the rest of the pen sketch which ran: tt tt tt Difference in Dress “T>UT scarcely a glance left the man’s face when he 13 talked. The long deep jowls gave him the air of an aristocrat. His eyes are like those of Tita Schipa and his black hair curls in damp ringlets from the top of his broad forehead in helter skelter fashion to the back of his neck. It is the hair of a Metternich.” Still I don’t see how anybody’s hair can be expected to look like much when he has been presiding over a convention all day in a temperature just a shade less than 100. Moreover, the standards set by St. Paul in the matter of attire took me by surprise. I thought that Minnesota was the home of lumber men, dirt farmers and radical politicians. But Floyd B. Olsen, the Farmer-Labor Governor of the state, addressed the guild convention this morning and knocked my eye out. I was sitting there with my coat off and my collar open when there strode up the platform, a big red-headed man who dresses like Herbert Bayard Swope and looks like John F. Hylan. I am no reporter of minute facts like the young man from the school of journalism. I think it was a gray suit and I know the trousers were pressed to a razor’s edge. But I too looked upon the face of the speaker and was eager for his words. If anybody wants to make a bet in a winter book on a presidential possibility for the year 1940 don’t overlook Floyd B. Olsen. Nineteen thirty-six is much too soon for him to gain a national reputation and in any event the Farmer-Labor groups here are almost certain to support Roosevelt. tt tt tt President Holds Popularity IN spite of the fearful drought and the recent acute labor troubles in Minneapolis the President seems to be holding his popularity with almost no decline. Out here they look for Mr. Roosevelt to go further left within the next few months. They haven’t a doubt of it. “Where else can he go?” Is the form of the inquiry. There is bitterness about the impending crop failure. Farmers are sore now that wheat has gone above a dollar. Naturally that high price doesn’t go to the farmer. He has no wheat to sell and the carry-over is not in his hands. He will make something on the corn which he holds. But neither lack of rain nor lack of cash is translated into resentment against the administration. In Minnesota faith still rides high that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the riatural and solitary friend of the underdog. No other name comes into the mind of the folk hereabouts. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

IS the United States growing hotter? This is meant to be a purely scientific question, referring only to the subject of meteorology and not to politics, economics, sociology, night clubs, radio broadcasts or bathing suits. According to World Weather Records, a compilation of temperature, pressure and precepitation records just issued by the Smithsonian Institution, every situation in the United States for which records were obtainable showed a higher average temperature for the decade from 1921 to 1930 than it did in its previous history. World Weather Records is edited by H. Helm Clayton. Some of the comparative figures which he gives are as follows: Chicago—Mean temperature for decade, 19211930; 50.7 degrees. Mean for fifty years: 50.2, Cincinnati—Mean for decade, 56.1. Mean for fifty years, 55.4. Denver—Mean for decade, 50.2. Mean for fifty years, 49.9. El Paso—Mean for decade, 63.8. Mean for fortyfour years, 63.2. Nashville—Mean for decade, 59.6. Mean for fifty years, 59.3. New York—Mean for decade, 52.2. Mean for 100 years, 51.8. Phoenix, Ariz.—Mean for decade, 70.3. Mean for fifty years. 69.2. San Diego. Cal.—Mean for decade, 61.5. Mean for eighty years. 60.6. San Fancisco—Mean for decade, 56.3. Mean for seventy-five years, 55. Washington, D. C.—Mean for decade, 55.9. Mean for 100 years, 54.9. tt tt tt EUROPE appears also to have been slightly warmer during the decade, according to Mr. Clayton, but the increase in temperature there is not so large or so consistent. Some European stations show a slight decrease in temperature for the decade. Mr. Clayton points out that care must be taken not to misinterpret the American figures. They do not mean that at any particular station where the observations were made it was continuously warmer during the decade than in the past. At some of them, there were undoubtedly cold spells which set new records for low temperatures. They mean that when all the weather for the decade is averaged together—the springs, summers, winters and autumns of ten years—they give a higher average figure than the average for the life-time of the station. The figures constitute what the scientists call “cumulative means.” They would seem to indicate some sort of long-period cycle in the weather of the United States. This is a subject which is not yet completely understood and about which scientists disagree on many points. One has to be extremely careful about coming to conclusions about the weather and its relation to other phenomena in the universe. For example, during the present pronounced drought in the midwest, an extremely large spot appeared on the sun. At once many persons began to wonder whether the two were connected. But at the same time that the sun spot appeared, there were two severe cloudbursts in Palestine, each resulting in a large number of fatalities. Undoubtedly, there were persons in Palestine who wondered whether there was some connection between the sun spot and the cloudbursts. a u tt OBVIOUSLY, the sun is the primary source of the earth’s weather since we are dependent upon the sun for our supply of heat. Were the sun to give out, the temperature would become so low within a few days that all plant and animal life would be frozen. Before many days the oceans would be frozen solid, and soon after the atmosphere itself would freeze, forming first a layer of liquid air upon the surface of the earth and finally a layer of solid air.

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Depression Leaves Its Mark on the Army Air Corps

BY GEORBE DAWS Times Special Writer IF the United States, the greatest manufacturing country in the world, should be suddenly attacked, its factories could not produce sufficient fighting airplanes to meet the anticipated need until five months to a year had elapsed. Ability of a nation to produce military equipment in an emergency is admitted to be of equal and possibly greater importance than the actual defenses ready to repel attack. However, once the factories of the United States got into action they probably could produce equipment faster than any other nation. That American planes and engines are equal or superior to those of other world powers is shown by the fact that the United States leads in exports. Bdth the longest and the swiftest air lines in Europe use American products. France now is negotiating for the right to manufacture an American commercial plane, and, it is reported, probably will pay 2,500,000 francs for the license. The foregoing facts concerning potential aircraft production, hitherto not generally known to the public, were obtained during the Scripps-Howard survey of the nation’s aviation problem. This study also disclosed that the air corps is five years behind its schedule, is deficient in fighting planes, personnel and training and could not properly defend against an attacking air force. tt tt tt ARMY engineers at Wright field, Dayton, 0., declare they have designs for fighting planes which, if built now, would make the United States absolutely supreme in military aviation. High speed of some of the faster types could be stepped up fifty miles an hour within two years, the minimum required to design, engineer, test and put planes into production, they assert. Wright field, headquarters of the material division of the air corps, probably is the busiest place from an aeronautical standpoint in the United States. Here are checked and tested all of the air corps equipment and many navy and commercial developments. But the field is not busy now compared to former days. About fifteen planes were undergoing development when the writer visited there recently, compared to seventy in 1931. Only three military experimental types were started during the year, compared to eighteen two years ago. The finance officer disbursed $17,712,413.78 in the 1933 fiscal year, a drop of almost $12,000.000 from 1932. Technicians at Wright field are charged not only with passing on

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

"^^ r ASHINGTON, June 7.—Henry Wallace, shy secretary of agricul"J finally has unveiled the portrait featuring the nude lady and dedicated to American agriculture. Tlle mural > with the lady reclining in the very center, is the first thing to attract the eye as one comes up the stairs to Henry’s office. Some people have said Henry was not a good politician. But they are wrong. Lest visiting farmers disapprove of Henry’s morals or think he has been wantonly spending the taxpayers’ money on portraits of nude women, he has made it all too clear that he is not responsible. Below the portrait he has tacked a little brass plate which reads: ‘APPROVED— 1932 “Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury “Henry M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture.” tt tt tt tt tt t D OOSEVELT’S restriction on the sale of arms to those incurable xv belligerents, Paraguay and Bolivia, may be rather futile. Bolivia already has ordered six giant bombing planes from the Martin factory in Baltimore, one million rounds of ammunition from Remington and several transport planes from the Curtis company in Buffalo.

And, according to technicalities of the law. a “sale” is consummated when a cash payment is made and the materials are laid aside ready for construction. Since Roosevelt can only prevent the “sale” of arms, not the shipment, it looks as if Bolivia would get this consignment despite the speedy action of congress. tt tt tt THE Roosevelt administration will go down in history as a great spender of money. According to its- present budget a total of ten billion will be spent during the new deal’s first twenty-four months. But consider the record of the nineteen months from April 1917, to November, 1918. In that period we poured into the war a total of 32 billions and shell, troops and transport; $9,400,000,000 written on the cuff for the allies. And every penny went for the twin purposes of death and destruction. Now that we are spending less than one-third this amount for feeding unemployed, for developing our forests, for building roads, for new public buildings, for a great water power project, there are screams and yells all over the country. * tt tt tt IN case you didn’t know it: The White House has its own greenhouses, from which come fresh flowers daily for the living quarters and the office desks of each secretary . . . The long, rectangular flower bed in front of the north fountain is one of horticulture's, perfect examples of the value of scientific planting . . . Ages ago, a First Lady gave orders that the bed be established, and that it be so arranged that some kind of flower be green or blooming all summer . . . The groundkeeper of that day probably spent many a sleepless night before he figured out the formula, but he did a great job . . . It has held ever since . . . First, around the extreme outer edge, he planted jonquils, interspersing the bed itself with enough to give the impression from the street of a solid

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all army aviation material but also with keeping in close touch with potential sources of supply. Their work is authorized by the national defense act of 1920 and is based on the general mobilization plan, which provides roughly for the mobilization of 1,000,000 men for defense of the nation. Incidentally, no proposal is based upon attack; all are predicated solely upon defense. at THE mobilization plan is the result of the experience of the World war and the military knowledge gained since then. It schedules the number •of planes needed for immediate defense upon outbreak of war and estimates as nearly as possible the need from month to month. Allowances are made for planes lost in combat, in ferrying them to the scene of action, and for those that would be under repair or overhaul. Experts have surveyed the existing airplane, engine and equipment factories, estimating their maximum production. They included plants susceptible of conversion, such as automobile body factories. • Franklin Motors, which builds air-cooled automobile engines, could quickly produce .air-cooled airplane power plants. The vast facilities of General Motors could be turned to the manufacture of liquid-cooled engines. tt tt tt THERE is a wide gap on the charts between the line that represents the anticipated need and the line that shows the potential production. In the case of bombardment

mass . . . Then, for the time when these were gone, he put an edging (just inside the jonquils) of pure white phlox ... By the time the jonquils are gone, these are high enough to hide the ratty jonquil tops and take possession of the bed . . .'They are in full bloom through most of June and early July . . . Meanwhile, heavilypruned hydrangeas have been growing on the interior of the rectangle ... By the time the phlox are ready to be cut down, the hydrangeas are able to stand on their own, a veritable sea of white pancakes . . . And, speaking of the White House greenhouses, if perchance you are ever lucky enough to get a flower from them, take it to your nearest nurseryman and have him graft it to some living stock so it may be planted in your yard . . . You’ve no idea how much prestige it adds to have a growing rose bush that came from the White House .. . The nurseryman's charge will be trivial, if it is anything at all . . . Incidentally those greenhouses have their own White (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature House mint. Syndicate, Inc.) 1,000 GIVEN WORK BY EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Indiana Relief Group Secures Jobs in Private Industry. More than 1,000 persons were placed in positions in private industry by the Indiana state employment service and natidhal re-em-ployment service during the four weeks ending May 25, according to a report of the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief. During the same period of time, the report shows that 4,003 persons were placed on PWA pay rolls in Indiana. The greatest number of placements were made in and around Gary, Hammond and East Chicago, where 291 men and seven-ty-four women were placed. Indianapolis was second, with 149 men and 115 women placed.

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and observation planes the supply would not meet the need until five months had passed, according to a survey only a few months old. About fifteen days later, or five and a half months from the outbreak of hostilities, the supply of pursuits would meet the demand. From eleven months to a year would be required in the case of attacks and transports. There would be an adequate supply of training planes because they are of simpler construction, lacking in the technical intricacies of the swifter, stronger fighting ships. Commercial aviation actually is “the backbone of the military structure.” Some commercial planes, while not as strong as the military ships, could immediately be converted for transport, cargo, bombing and observation work. Commercial pilots would become fighting pilots quicker than men who had to learn the fundamentals of flight. But most important, because pilots can be trained quicker than good military planes can be built, would be the factories, ready at almost an instant’s notice to begin turning out fighting planes. These factories have trained workmen, equipment and knowledge of and contact with sources of supply. tt tt tt THE depression almost eliminated the sport and private flying market in the United States and cut sharply the number of factories. The nation is dotted with airports, once active but now either abandoned or equipped with a few second-hand planes. Production of airplanes totaled 6,100 in 1929, compared to only about 1,300 last year.

MERCATORS TO CONVENE HERE 350 to Attend International Parley; City Man Is President. Approximately 350 men and women, 250 of them delegates, will visit Indianapolis Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for the annual international convention of the Mercator Club, which numbers among its officers two city men. The two are attorney Godfrey D. Yeager, president, and the Rev. Allen K. Trout, Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran church pastor, secretary. Other officers are Victor C. Voss, Pittsburgh, Pa., vice-presi-dent, and John C. Martin, Columbus, 0., treasurer. Wrecked Freighter Docks Bit United Preaa PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, June 7. —The freighter Mariposa, which broadcast an S. O. S. when it grounded and stove in its bow off Port Arthur, docked today under its ow'n power after being pulled off a reef by three coast guard cutters.

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The government directly purchased more than half the total production except during the brief boom period. This chart, prepared by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, shows the division in the last four years: Year. Commercial. Military. Total. 1930 $23,909,902 $35,297,487 $59,198,380 1931 15,231,261 31.921,079 47.152.340 1932 7.875.001 24.161,680 22.036.681 1933 13.626,464 19.559.112 33.485.576 The government actually was an even larger customer than these figures show because of the air mail and the use of planes by Coast Guard, Public Health Service, Customs Service, Department of Comerce and many other divisions. The world today is aiding the United States maintain its potential production strength, and if it were not for the other nations the situation would be considerably worse. For example, one-third of the 1933 business of the important Curtiss-Wright group v/as for export. The following table shows how exports climbed steadily during the years of the depression: 1926 $1,038,929 1927 3,237,003 1928 3,664.723 1929 9 202.385 1930 8.806,396 1931 4,809,440 1932 7,663,070 1933 9.227.821 This year probably will make a new record. Foreign nations are concentrating on aviation and American dollars are cheaper. tt a tt A CHECK of the records of TV the Curtiss-Wright Company shows its products in use today on the following lines: Avio Lines Italians S. A.

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

That part of labor policy under the new deal which has to do with collective bargaining is the cause of much confusion. By recalling how it began and what has happened in the last year it is possible, I think, to obtain some light on the problem which confronts labor, management and the government itself. The starting point is the national industry recovery act which congress passed a year ago. This act contains the famous Section 7-A, ■which provides “that employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.” As understood by most labor leaders this law is supposed to mean that the federal government must compel industrial managers to bargain collectively with the freely chosen representatives of labor. This is cleariy a misunderstanding of the law. Section 7-A is only one section of a law which deals with the organization of industry under codes, and what it originally meant was that if an industry was permitted to organize and to escape the anti-trust laws, then it had to agree to bar-

gain collectively with labor. That this must have been the original intent may be seen by asking one’s, self two questions: Is. there anything in the law which compels an employer who is not under a code to bargain collectively? The answer is no. Could congress compel an employer to bargain collectively by sheer statutory fiat? Again the answer is no.

By George Clark

Czechoslovak Aviation Company, Deutsche Russiche Luftverkehrs, K. L. M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines), Polskie Linji Lotnicze of Poland, Spanish Airways, Swiss Air, Turkish Airways, China National Aviation Corporation and the Nippon-Koku-Yuso-Kaisha (Japan Air Transport). The K. L. M., with 9,000 miles of route extending from Amsterdam to Java, is the world’s longest air line, and the Swiss Air is the swiftest line in Europe. Anthony H. H. Fokker, the Dutch designer, now is doing a thriving business selling the license for European manufacture of the new Douglas transport, the air liner in which Captain Eddie Rickenbacker recently crossed the country in about thirteen hours. Mr. Fokker alsc is handling the license rights for the Americanbuilt, ten-passenger, two-pilot transport plane that has a top speed of around 220 miles an hour. It is classed as a commercial plane, yet in an emergency could be converted to military use. tt tt tt FRANCE, over the strident protests of her domestic designers, is seeking the manufacturing rights for this plane, and the price is reported to be 2,250,000 francs. The prize market has been and still is China. One American company sold about $1,000,000 of fighting planes there. Some persons simerely patriotic regard the exportation of military planes as a means of arming a possible later enemy. They feel American fighting planes should be kept in America. But the military experts are more tolerant, and with good reason. They have one hard and fast rule: No strictly military plane may be exported without the approval of the government, and that is granted only if there is available here a model later than the one going abroad. Thus all military aircraft exports are obsolete to some degree, even though slight. Military experts do not disapprove of exports. They want American factories to be busy, to expand, to have trained workmen and productive facilities. They remember vividly what occured in 1917, when the United States sought to build airplanes largely of hope, enthusiasm and inexperience. The navy quietly has been making the most of the dollars available during depression years in adding to its aircraft strength. An account of some of the navy’s experiences, accomplishments and plans for the future will be published tomorrow..

TN other words, Section 7-A does not make it compulsory to bargain with labor collectively. It makes it compulsory to bargain with labor collectively only for those industries which enjoy the privileges of being under a code. No other interpretation of Section 7-A makes sense. For how can the government compel an employer to bargain collectively? It can, of course, protect the civil rights of working men, the right of assemblage, free speech and so on, as against intimidation, but in the last analysis the government has no power to coirq>el private individuals to bargain if one or the other of them does not want to bargain. What the national industrial recovery act started to’ do was not to compel collective bargaining, but to induce it, to make it worth while for management to bargrain and disadvantageous not to. tt BUT when the act was put into effect the NRA decided to put all industry under codes as rapidly as possible. The result was a mass of codes, some of them really sought by Industry, some taken under pressure of mass psychology, almost all of them put together in a great hurry. So great was the hurry that the meaning of Section 7-A was not made clear or machinery established for making it effective. This has been the primary source of confusion. The trouble has arisen because in the administration of the act there has been a radical departure from its original principles and original intent. The act was far more wisely conceived than has been its execution. tt tt tt THOUGH it is important to realize this, there isjio such moaning over mistakes of the past. It has been clear ever since the automobile agreement that the NRA is making a sincere effort to reach a workable solution. Everything that tends to restore the original intent of the act by making industry desire national industry recovery act. renders it easier to obtain compliance with, the requirement for collective bargaining. {Copyright, 1934)

Second Section

Eutered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.

fair Enough^ WEM WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—lt was just a year ago that James Farley, who learned about people through practical experience as one of them, decided that it would not harm the morals of the citizens to let them know facts of life which had been withheld from them by his predecessor in the postoffice department, Walter Brown. Reminded one day that the postoffice had been censoring the news of the Irish lottery on the English Derby, forbidding publication of the names of

the winners, including Americans, and the extent of their luck, Mr. Farley said that under his administration the newspapers could go ahead and print the news. This may not have been entirely a favor to American journalism because, during the years when they were forbidden to circulate this information they were relieved of a difficult and expensive job of news coverage. It did seem that the issue of the freedom of the press involved in the law which Mr. Brown so kindly invoked was just as clear as anything in the code which ivas to cause such

excited protest and rile Mr. Roosevelt’s temper later on. But in this instance, the Fourth Estate seemed to enjoy its chains. If it had been legal and in the public interest to print the news of the bootleg liquor market and picture stories of rum row it was a peculiar discrimination to forbid lottery stories on the mere ground that lotteries were illegal in this country. Moreover, the same government which made this fine distinction looked without disfavor on the publication of the results and gambling odds on horse races and offered no objection to the daily Wall Street stock tables. tt tt tt Farley’s Well Pleased NOW, after a year’s trial, Mr. Farley seems well pleased with his decision and not at all alarmed over the moral consequences to the people. They had bought large numbers of lottery tickets even during Mr. Brown’s time and these tickets, like the alcoholic beverages which were bought in those days, were smuggled goods. If the citizens are buying more lottery tickets now, still contrary to the customs laws, that hardly can make the ease any worse. After the first few hundred thousand violations, the law, itself, begins to look questionable and further violations might be interpreted as an expression of the pupular will. It may be a policy of the new deal to humor the citizens in the enjoyment of their little vices in the hope that they will be diverted from their woes. Certainly, what with repeal, the waiver of the lottery censorship and the new laws in various states permitting open gambling on the horse races, life is much more free if not more easy than a year ago, and if one kind of regimentation has been imposed on the populace under Mr. Roosevelt’s administration, another, and to the individual, more bothersome kind has been abolished. it tt tt Fists and Cocktails Even in Arkansas, without troubling to obtain legal sanction in the form of a repeal, the governor and the local authorities decided that the horses may be allowed to run and the citizens to gamble their funds on their judgment. And in Washington, where for many years prize-fighting and aiding and abetting were legally akin to housebreaking and larceny, the law has now been amended so that pugilists now may assault one another with lefts and rights to the face and body as openly as the waitress serves the Martinis at cocktail hour in the dairy lunch. She could have been shot for that in the days of regimentation. The prize-fight law is Mr. Farley’s of course, and, though the local prize-fight commission hardly can hope to equal the hilarity of his long reign of prizefight commissioner during the gorgeous and goofy era in New York, the members can always call on him for suggestions if they feel in the need of nonsense. “I think,” Mr. Farley said, reviewing the relaxation of the laws covering personal behavior during thp last year, “that the people were getting very tired of regimentation.” (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health ~BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THERE seems to be an idea that any one who suffers from nervous exhaustion or nervous breakdown will be benefited by a sea voyage. Such voyages do have the advantage of taking persons away from their usual surroundings. But certain precautions must be taken. If depression is a prominent symptoms, the intervals between ports should be short. Fersons who are melancholic become more and more depressed by the sight of nothing but water lor several days. Persons who have been ill and get seasick easily should not take a voyage for convalesence. tt tt tt A PERSON who has had a nervous breakdown never should travel alone. After all, the choice of a vacation is a relatively simpla matter if you are reasonable, but it does demand a good deal of foresight. A good vacation is me during which you enjoy yourself thoroughly, in which you are rested when you return, and in which your mind selects anew groove. A good vacation is one without undue expocure to the sun, the rain, or the cold, or bad weather generally, particularly if you suffer from coughs or colds, hayfever or asthma. tt t/ A GOOD vacation is one in which the persons who surround you are so congenial that you never lose your temper. A good vacation is one in which your health is benefited, as determined by its effect on your digestion, your blood pressure, your circulation, and your nervous system. A good vacation is one taken in a place where there is pure water, pure milk, and a good food supply. A good vacation is one in which the muscles are exercised, but not to the point of exhaustion,, or danger of the tissue beyond repair. A good vacation is one in which you think of your business, but do not worry about it. A man who thinks so little of his business that he can forget it completely while on a vacation is not in the right business.

From the Record

BORN IN DAYS OF ADVERSITY THE Constitution is not a fair-weather state paper, intended only for days of sunshine and calm. It came into being during the days of adversity and distress, of panic and storm, of darkness and despair, a period not at all unlike that in which we are living today. Yet there are those who would contend that that same Constitution is an absolute barrier to a fulfillment of the people’s needs and desires, that congress is a “nugatory body” and does not possess “sufficent powers to order and direct the affairs of the nation, “that we must look exclusively to the bankrupt state governments to restore commerce, industry and agriculture in these United States, and that the Constitution forbids the federal government to do so.—Representative Martin F. Smith (Dem, Wash.).

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