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U Seems io Me HEVWOOP MiflUN “TTE talked and acted in tne real Harvard tradition of calm disdain for any conceivable criticism, and of personal superiority toward unpleasant possibilities. It was observable that he did not intend to do or say anything while here to bring any discredit upon his alma mater, and that he was confident that all Harvard men, whether they agreed with his political views or not, would take the same attitude. That is exactly the point of view that has been expressed by every Harvard man with, whom this reporter has discussed the question in the last few days.” The quotation is from the report of a staff corre-

spondent of the New York Times upon Dr. Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl’s good will visit to Cambridge, Mass. I find a rather excessive amount of the grand manner on the part of the visiting piano player and too ready an acceptance of it on the part of tne reporter. a tt tt Districts Still Missing IT does not seem to me that the young gentleman of the Times has talked to the right Harvard men. For instance, I am not disposed to accept this “Putzy” as the soul

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of cultured superiority when I read in the same article. ‘‘Concerning tile Jewish problem in Germany, he predicted that it would be restored to normal soon,’ but limited himself to that assertion. Again I am informed that “Hanfy was in. jovial good humor.” It may be that my meager supply of German bars me from a complete understanding of the comic capers of Adolf Hitler's stooge. But I am not amused. I am not impressed. In fact, I hope that the picture of Harvard indifference set forth by the New York journalist is less than accurate. “The predominant Harvard feeling is that there should be no prejudice against any group, racial or otherwise, and no compromise on the traditional Harvard spirit of freedom of expression for all schools of thought.” Well, there is one school of thought which holds that Hitler and Hanfstaengl have debased human relationships and set up one of the most cruel and savage tyrannies known to modern civilization. I trust that the Harvard spirit of freedom of expression will not deny that group an opportunity of being heard during Putzy's visit to this country. nun Being Indulgent to Hanfy BUT nothing must mar Dr. Hanfstaengl’s reunion with his old classmates. Nothing should disturb his “calm disdain for any conceivable criticism.” He has said that everything will be normal very soon. Why cry over spilled blood and the agony of millions in concentration camps and the torture of Thaelmann in his dungeon? It would be gauche, I assume, not to extend the right hand of fellowship to the gentleman from Germany. "Pleased to meet you, Putzy. How does the stoning go? And the beatings? And what books have been burned? And does the lash sing as it swings through the air upon the backs of victims who defy the might and majesty of Herr Hitler? Perhaps you boys have been just a shade too rough at times, but we won’t argue about that. Let no difference of opinion mar this happy occasion as her sons join in the jubilee of fair Harvard.” That's a lie. It isn’t the Harvard tradition. It is not the tradition of Eliot and Frankfurter and Holmes. The great names of Harvard do not belong to men who remained neutral in the face of monstrous evil and injustice. For the sake of Harvard its sons must speak out loud and clear against the man who tries to hide red-handed shame beneath the banner of crimson good fellowship. It is a difference of opinion, and it is wider than the college yard and deeper than the bones of Cotton Mather. .(Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN“

WHEN your doctor puts you on a diet, he fits the food you need to you just as your taiior does anew suit of clothes. But even if you don’t go on a diet, there are some general facts that apply, exactly as clothing in general applies. In the first place, it is known that certain foods are much more indigestible than others. Persons who complain of indigestion usually find that the trouble is due to cabbage, apples, tomatoes, milk, chocolate, lettuce, coffee, strawberries, eggs, meat, cucumbers, fats, radishes, cheese, cauliflower, peppers, prunes, oranges and salmon. This would seem to include practically all the foods that you can eat, but the interesting fact is that some of these foods may be just right for some persons, but invariably give trouble to others. tt u tt ONE interesting fact that recently has been established about disease is the necessity for balancing the diet even of a sick man whose selection of foods has to be restricted. In other words, even if a diet has to be selected for a certain illness, the doctor must be sure that the patient is getting all the necessary substances, including minerals, vitamins, and necessary salts. Well made pie crusts and pastry are not necessarily indigestible. However, certain persons may react to certain foods because of a special susceptibility and for these persons foods fried in such fats are sure to be indigestible. tt tt tt IT is a common belief that red meats are bad for some people. Actually, however, red meat is no worse than white meat. Meat has been a food of man for thousands of years, and it is usually well digested. It now is recognized that the activity of the bowel can be legulated quite well through suitable diet. Persons with excessive looseness of the bowel should have diets with a small amount of residue, so that the lower end of the bowel will have little work to do. In such diet, meat, rice, sugar, toast, boiled eggs, butter, cream, gelatin and rich broths are especially useful. On the other hand patients whose bowels are not sufficiently active can take a diet with a little more cellulose or residue, including figs, whole wheat bread, raw fruits, green vegetables, salads, celery, nuts and prunes. If, however, the digestion is not good, it may be necessary to add a certain amount of indigestible oil or bulky substance to the diet to aid action.

Questions and Answers

Q —What is muckraking? A—The term originated with President Theodore Roosevelt and was applied by him to the activities of sensational journalists who exposed graft, malfeasance and dishonesty among government officials. Having whetted the public taste for scandal, they resorted to exaggeration, misrepresentation and even slander. Q —ln what year was the amphitheater at Arlington national cemetery dedicated and what did it cost? A—lt was dedicated in 1920 and cost $825,343.38. Q —ls there an NR A code for lawyers? A—They are classified as professionals and do not come under the NIRA. They were permitted to sign the President’s re-employment agreement and abide by its provisions if they wished. Q —Where is Stanford university? A—Stanford University Postoffice, Cal. Q —Where are the twelve federal reserve banks? A—Boston, New York. Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas and San Francisco. Q —Has a third of this century passed? A—A third of a century is thirty-three years and four months, and for the twentieth century, it was completed April 30, 1934. *

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GREAT BRITAIN WALKS IN FEAR

Peace Pacts Must Be Revised, English Statesman Warns

This is the second of a series of five stories giving the British viewpoint on the crisis that confronts Europe, with the Geneva arms parley a failure, Germany 'rearming, and the threat of anew conflict rising. tt tt tt BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Ipc.r LONDON, June 21.—Revision of the so-called peace treaties and teeth in the peace pacts, Lord Arthur Ponsonby told me in his chambers at the house of peers, are imperative to prevent anew world smashup. Japan, he said, could have been stopped in her tracks in Manchuria had moral or economic sanctions been applied, and disarmament would not have failed had Great Britain and some of the other powers gone about it more vigorously. As it is, the world today faces an extremely grave situation, both in Europe and the Far East. Unless it acts promptly to check events already in motion in both theaters, we may expect a crash. ■ ' Lord Ponsonby was undersecretary of state for foreign affairs in Premier MacDonald’s first labor cabinet, and he was chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in the second. He is now an active member of the house of lords. “We Simply must not allow the armaments race to go on,” he said. “We’ve got to make another try and from the opposite direction. We must try to get at the causes of war and, by remedying them, achieve disarmament.

“This, of course, means treaty revision. I am aware of that. But as the treaties are bound to be revised anyway, sooner or later, in one way or another, the sooner we begin, the better. “I am not advocating another world conference, however. Such conferences seldom get anywhere. Delegates play too much to the galleries. Perhaps we might approach the causes of war through a commission of the league.” tt tt tt “ A NYWAY,” he cautioned, “nations should be asked to state quite frankly what they want. Let them put it down on paper. If they want more territory, let them say so frankly. Let’s try to

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ■

WASHINGTON, June 21.—The seventy-third congress will go down as unprecedented in peace-time history for the powers which it gave to one man. These are recorded on black and white for all to read and weigh. But what is not written, and what may be more important to the future story of the New Deal is the fact that willingness to extend those powers now has ceased. This week there passes from the hand of Franklin Roosevelt an appreciable element of his personal dominance over the legislative branch of the government. When the seventy-fourth congress convenes next January he will face an entirely new personal situation on Capitol Hill. Not only will there be fewer Democrats in the house, and more militancy from Republicans, but there is still another—perhaps more important factor. The old timers, the men who really run the legislative machinery, have taken. Roosevelt's measure. They have found his Achilles’ heel. Keen judges of men, after two years’ experience with the President, they have discovered that if they resist long and hard enough the President will give ground. a a a „ DURING the last two months there were repeated demonstrations of this fact. The President strongly favored placing administration of the new stock market act in the hands of the federal trade commission. The house, following his leadership, rejected overwhelmingly a proposal for an independent commission. But when the waspish Senator Carter Glass insisted on the latter and threatened uprOar and battle to get it, the President withdrew his demand and accepted the Virginian’s plan.

The withdrawal of the appointment of Dr. Willard L. Thorp as director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, after he had filled the post for nine months with admitted competence, was another compromise not lost upon congress. Had Thorp’s name been forced to the senate floor, confirmation would have been overwhelming. But Roosevelt chose npt to fight, and Thorp went down the chute. Repeatedly this year the President has declared publicly for old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. Carefully worked out measures on both of these projects have been pending in committees of the house and senate. If they had been forced to consideration, the legislation would have been passed. But Democratic floor leaders, secretly hostile to both reforms, urgently anxious to avoid a showdown because they would not have dared vote in opposition, demurred. They insisted that the session would be prolonged unduly, so Roosevelt let the bills go over “until next session.” Then there is the story of the ill-fated Wagner labor disputes bill. Brought out early this year it could have been law by May 1, had the President so demanded. That its enactment would have had a profound deterent on labor unrest i£ a legitimate assumption. But here again the secret interference of Tory floor leaders intervened. And again the President, confronted with the alternatives of an uncertain victory and a compromise, chose the latter. a a a THE century and a half history of congress shows conclusively that the legislative branch will bow to decisive executive leadership But it must be asserted with a firm hand. Herbert Hoover learned this, but—to his sorrow—too late. Franklin' Roosevelt’s record in last year’s session shows what can be done by a President who knows what he wants and insists on getting it. The urgency of the great economic crisis powerfully implemented the President’s effectiveness, but the vigor and firmness with which he moved also played a controlling role. There was a fundamental difference between the session of 1934 and that of 1933—0ne that was quickly grasped by the “boys.” Last year the White House initiated and controlled the legislative program. This year the traditional haphazard legislative system was reverted to. The significance of this looser leadership was not lost on the floor leaders. a a a FAR from friendly to many of the New Deal’s ideals, they sensed the loosening of White House pressure, immediately began to reassert control. The lines were allowed to slacken on legislative procedure. Debate once more became aimless and meandering. Weeks were consumed with needless palaver.

find out what makes them dissatisfied. “Maybe this approach to disarmament would not succeed any better than the other. But it would gain time. It would give the world time to ‘cool off.’ “At any rate, one thing is certain : The peoples of the world do not want war. Os that I am convinced. None of them want it —not even the Germans. Some of their hot-headed leaders might want it, but the people do not. “Certainly the people of Great Britain do not want it. There would be hundreds of thousands of war-resisters in this country if war were declared. There would

All this played into the leaders’ hands. Major reform measures piled up. When the President began insisting they had a answer all ready: “Tt will take too long. Better let it go over until next session.” And they had their way—despite the fact that the session is the shortest regular one in recent years. Franklin Roosevelt is a far more agile and able politician than his predecessor. He is quick to grasp a point, quick to act on it. It is not unlikely that the next session, with the tightening of party lines, and the intensifying of partisan conflict, he will again take an aggressive offensive m his relations with congress. It will take steadfast courage and iron determination. The halcyon days of 1933 are gone forever. Henceforth he will have to fight, and fight hard, every step of the way. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) STEALING OF DANGER LANTERNS IS ASSAILED Lives of Citizens Endangered, Boettcher Tells Police. Theft of red danger lanterns, placed to guard tom-up streets, is proving a dangerous pastime that must be curbed immediately, members of the board of works declared today. The board requested the police department to be on the look out for persons stealing the lanterns and vandals who have been destroying them. “The lives of citizens are endangered when these warning signals are removed,” Walter Boettcher, board president, said. NEW WALLACE BOOK RECEIVED AT LIBRARY Farm Secretary’s “America Must Choose” Put on Shelves. Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, discusses the advanta ,es of nationalism in “America Must Choose,” a book received today at the business branch library. Books dealing with money and banking recently placed on the shelves of the library are “Dollars,” by Edie; “Managed Money in Sweden,” by jellstrom, and “Artist Among the Bankers,” by Dyson. 0. E. S. SERVICE SET Past Matrons to Present “Cross and Crown” Tomorrow. A group of past matrons of the Order of the Eastern Star will present the “Cross and Crown” services at 8 tomorrow night in the Masonic temple. North and Illinois streets, before Golden Rule chapter, No. 413. Mrs. Mona Thomas will direct, with Mrs. Ruth Tooley as soloist

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY. JUNE 21,1934

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Lord Arthur Ponsonby . . . sees world catastrophe if peace pacts are not revised.

be revolution. How could you fight a war with hundreds of thousands of men and women sitting in jails.” a a a LORD PONSONBY vigorously criticises Foreign Minister Sir John Simon’s handling not only of the disarmament efforts at Ge-

$5,088,963 FOR ROADSORDERED Relief From Indiana Bond Moratorium Seen in Allotment. By Times Special WASHINGTON, June 21.—Some relief from the road bond moratorium law in Indiana was seen today in the announcement of an allotment of $5,088,963 of federal funds for road building in the state with the provision that “not less than 25 per cent of the apportionment must be applied to secondary or feeder roads.” Announcement of apportionments totalling $200,000,000 was made by Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell of the agriculture department. The appropriation was authorized by. the Hayden-Cartwright act, signed Monday by president Roosevelt. The act provides funds for highway construction as part of the recovery program. Local communities in Indiana have been unable to procure funds for this purpose due to the moratorium law on local road bond issues. Under the federal allotment, the money is to be spent on federal highways and extensions, including city streets, but the 25 per cent earmarked for secondary and feeder roads will “include farm-to-market roads, rural free delivery roads and public school bus roads.” These are the ones barred from improvement by the act of the special session of the legislature in 1932, known as the road bond moratorium law. CITY MASONS AID IN CONFERRING OF DEGREE Felix Broyles Given Master’s Work at Pittsboro. Thirty-five members of the Indianapolis North Park lodge, F. & A. M., No. 646, visited Pittsboro Tuesday night and assisted Pittsboro lodge officers in conferring the Master Mason’s degree upon Felix Broyles. Those from Indianapolis assisting in the work were A. W. Schrand, J. F. Stout, H. E. Albertson, J. H. Arnold, W. C. Tuttle, W. C. Laycock, C. *A. Specker, R. L. Caplinger, P. E. Hammil, W. S. Batman. Basil Slaughter, E. E. Hindman, E. D. Landes and John Waters.

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

WHAT with the blanket of censorship that lies ovfer practically all of Europe east of the Rhine, what with the absolute control of propaganda, what with the revival of secret diplomacy in its most virulent form, any interpretation of current events is bound to be largely guess work. It may be doubted even whether-any of the foreign officers has a reliable picture of what is going on all over Europe or is able to distinguish between the apparent and the real forces. There is a state of high tension and extremely unstable equilibrium which might produce any one of a half dozen combinations.

it we attempt at this distance to make some sort*of tentative estimate of the position, we find Germany at the center of the crisis. A year of Nazi diplomacy has produced very different results from those which Herr Hitler promised his followers when he was climbing to power. a a a THE first sensational evidence of this was in the agreement which he made with Holland, undpr which for ten years he renounced the ambition to recover the Polish corridor. No statesmen of the German republic dared to make such a concession. Herr Hitler made it and then turned his energies toward the absorption of Austria. There he encountered Mus;olini, who took a stand, backed by the threat of armed force, against the union with Austria. Thus the Nazi program was checked all along the eastern frontier. In the west there is nothing to be recovered except the Saar, and the fate of the Saar will not be decided until next winter. Thus Nazi Germany finds herself confined within the frontiers laid down in the Treaty of Versailles. In the meantime she has begun to rearm. But she is as far as she ever was, and possibly farther, from obtaining a legalization of her rearmament. This means that she is continually liable to penalties by France for breach of the treaties. At the same time the German rearmament has strengthened French determination to maintain a military superiority; the French liberals and Socialists no longer oppose, even if they do not openly approve, the strengthening of the French forces. The German rearmament, accompanied as it is by the mili-* tarist propaganda within Germany, has brought together Russia with France and the Little Entente in an understanding which has all the earmarks of a military and diplomatic alliance. Hitler already has had to post-

By George Clark

Tokio and, if that failed, to apply other moral and economic sanctions, in his opinion Japan would not have persisted in her Manchurian adventure. Today, partly at least as a result of Britain’s weak stand, Lord Ponsonby said, Japan apparently has turned her eyes away from Russia—where, for a time, they rested until American recognition scared her off—to concentrate once more on China. a tt a “TT7E should have taken a VV firmer stand upon Japan’s announcement of a Monroe Doctrine for China,” he observed. “The British reply gave Japan to understand that no very great concern was felt in this country over her pretentions.” Suddenly the grave look on Lord Ponsonby’s face changed to a smile. “Anyhow.” he chuckled, “we ought to do our best for peace. We in this building here (the house of parliament) and around Whitehall (where most of the government departments are located) would be in the front line trenches in the next war. We might be the ones they aimed at first.” Those who make the wars, or let them come, was his conclusion, at last are on the spot themselves. Lord Ponsonby made it plain that he was speaking for himself and not for his party. Next—Renewal of Anglo-Jap-anese alliance might split British empire.

pone expansion at the expense of Poland, and Austria. While nobody can stop him from rearming, the increasing military power of Germany is counterbalanced by the strengthening of the French alliances and the French armaments. a a a OUTSIDE of this immediate balance of forces stand Italy and Great Britain. Both are primarily concerned to prevent the situation from exploding. What they would like to arrange is some kind of compromise in which Germany renounces territorial ambitions and France agrees to legalize some German rearmament. But the compromise is difficult to arrange because Fi ance, Russia and the Little Entente are not ready to believe that Nazi Germany is willing to make peace by accepting the territorial settlement at Versailles. Unless they believe that, regardless of any formula that may be adopted, they will seek to maintain an overwhelming military superiority. The one country which is in a position to promote some sort of compromise is Great Britain. But the price is a heavy one. It amounts to guaranteeing continental Europe against Nazi territorial expansion. There is little reason to think that Great Britain will accept such an entanglement. a a a THE Nazi doctrine that Germany by sheer force of will could extricate herself from the political and economic consequences of her defeat has not thus far produced any results. Politically, Germany is not only more isolated than she was under Stresemann and Bruening, but, as in the case of Poland and Austria, she has to turn away from objectives which they never renounced. Economically, the Nazis are discovering that of all great nations Germany perhaps is the least fitted by her industrial position to live in isolation. The liberal philosophy of which the Nazis are so scornful is at least in its international aspects essential to Germany’s well-being. Neither markets ncr credits, both of which Germany must have, can be obtained by force. When Dr. Schacht, in announcing the moratorium, pleaded for “a spirit of compromise, patience and good will,” he spoke for the true German interest. But he was not speaking in the spirit of the Nazi philosophy. a a a BEYOND this all is obscure and uncertain. Any prediction would depend upon a guess as to which one of several courses Germany will take next, and on this there is no material even for a plausible guess until one can see more clearly which of the many contending forces within Germany comes to the top. (Copyright, 1934) DORMITORY HEAD NAMED Valparaiso Woman Selected for New Purdue Hall By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21. Appointment of Miss Helen B. Schleman, Valparaiso, as director of the new women’s residence hall at Purdue university was announced today by President E. C. Elliott. Miss Schleman received a master’s degree in science at Purdue this month. Samples Taken From Car Samples of spices from (he Orient and tea, coffee and peanut butter, valued at S2O, were stolen from the parked automobile of J. Y. Russell, Y. M. C. A., parked behind the Y. Mr. Russell reported today.

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fair Enough* HKMEt NEW YORK, N. Y., June 21.—Harvard, there sha stands, an intellect which bleeds logic when struck or stoned and doesn’t give a damn for th® opinions of mankind which never are unanimous or even coherent and always reversible without notice. When Dr. Ernest Hanfstaengl, the aid to Adolf Hitler, returned for his class reunion, Harvard received him as one of her sons, without examining his political beliefs or the record of his government, deeming his class membership to be the only credential worth considering.

Harvard was like that a few years ago when the panic broke and other institutions of learning, less confident of their opinions and more sensitive to the blustering winds of popular emotion, rushed to offer their football teams for games to raise money for charity. Harvard held that charity was not the solution of the panic. Even if it were, Harvard, as a private institution, reserved the right to decide for herself what contribution she would make, if any, and, finally decided that charity, given under the coercion of the news-

papers would be a worse discredit to Harvard than mere unpopularity. Harvard is tough. tt ft ft Educator Crawls A T the same time, the president of another university actually was pleading and crawling in an interview with a sport editor whose charitable purpose was mixed with a personal ambition to bull through his proposal and demonstrate his own power and that of his newspaper. / The journalist said afterward that the great educator s cowardice had made him pity and despise the man who first had refused his consent, but surrendered his principle and his point in the face of an unscrupulous threat. He would have had no cause to pity and despise Old Man Lowell of Harvard that year. Old Man Lowell said Harvard wouldn’t play and any one. who had threatened hi© would have been shelled out of his office with a volley of inkwells and paper-weights. + l rr ? y - and navy g av e up their cherished grudge that season and received great credit for playing a game which raised $500,000. But in the great, generous spirit of the occasion, it would have been amiss to say that the military academy yielded only under orders and not in the true spirit of charity. It is hard to imagine Old Man Lowell in a military job, but if he hac. been running West Point once he had made up his mind against the armynavy game, they would have had to court-martial him. Developments lu.ve shown that the old man had a broad view of the panic and that charity was not the remedy. You don’t cure smallpox with salve and those faded old billboards of the first years of the depression, advising the citizens that giving didn't hurt like suffering are the only remaining reminders that people once were naive enough to hope that they could solve the trouble by dropping a dollarbill on the drum. Remember Henry Ford“ Nazi persecutions in Germany will end soon A and Harvard could not hasten the end by refusing to receive an old grad at his class reunion. On the contrary, in receiving him as an alumnus. Harvard fetches the German colleges a subtle rebuke for their own discriminations and when the row is over Harvard will have been consistent and right. Perhaps the Harvards are remembering the case of Henry lord who once was objected to on grounds very similar to those on which Hitler’s man, Hanfstaengl, would have been barred from the sentimental ceremonies and nonsense of his class at school Mr. Ford ran an evil campaign for some suddenly, in his capricious way, he decided that he had made a mistake. However he did not have the candor to admit that he had been aU wrong nor the courage to apologize. Mr. Ford just happened to discover, all at once that his Dearborn Independent had been carrying on anti-Semitic propaganda, without his approval or knowledge, and ordered it to stop forthwith. He did not fail to add that he had the greatest respect for Jewish contributions to literature, science and art. Nobody challenged him to name one such contribution which might have been embarrassing to Mr. Ford in view of the quality of his learning as revea ed on the witness stand in his libel suit His explanation was accepted wholly, the incident was closed and people who never had bought or ridden in his cars now withdrew their objections. Hi(^ at ten years a S°- Ten years from now, Hiller and his persecutions will belong to a crazy past and the Harvards will have the satisfaction of knowing that they refused under great provocation to persecute a persecutor back. The Harvards are an offensive lot. They always are right and superior, and the worst of it is that they are right and superior. (CoDvrißht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE use of masks and goggles in industrial plants, a simple and relatively inexpensive precaution, has saved thousands of eyes and millions of dollars. The story is told in “Eyes Saved in Industry,” a report issued jointly by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness and the National Safety Council. The report contains statistics kept for a period of two years in 583 plants employing a total of 500,000 men. The report shows that the use of headmasks and goggles saved 10,000 eyes during that period. The saving in money is estimated at $46,000,000. The plants surveyed include metal producing and fabricating companies, chemical concerns, mines, railways, foundries, rubber companies, automotive plants and the like. “In this study, the first of its kind ever made,” says Lewis H. Carris, managing director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, “it was, assumed that an object which hit a goggle lens with such force as to pierce or shatter the lens would most certainly have so damaged the eye, if the goggles had not been worn, as to cause complete or nearly complete loss of vision. 8 8 8 * MR. CARRIS points out that recent developments in manufacturing processes make the protection of workers’ eyes more important than ever before. “The increase in the use of destructive chemicals in industry during recent years,” he says, “is reflected in the data from miscellaneous manu!?cturing plants which recorded the spattering of both lenses with molten metal or injurious chei!*icals in the case of one employe out of every hundred in the industry within a year. “In practically all these instances the glass len* was so badly damaged by chemicals or molten metal that it had to be replaced. Often even the frartte of the goggles or the entire headmask had to be discarded.” 8 8 8 THERE is still much work to be done in the field of protecting sight, Mr. Carris says. “The eye hazards of industry have come to be one of the most serious causes of blindness in America,” he says. “Therf is, in fact, considerable ground for the belief that each year more persons are permanently robbed of their sight by occupational hazards than by any other major cause of blindness. “This is due largely to the fact that innumerable persons, employers and employes alike, still do not realize, or do not believe, that it is possible, to prevent accidental eye injuries in the particular occupations in which they are engaged. “It is due also to the failure on the part of employers or employes and communities at large to appreciate the tremendous financial loss resulting blinding of men and women in industry.”

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