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It Seems to Me HtfflW BROUN IT has been mv custom for several years to print around this time a Christmas story of my own called, "A Shepherd.” Since I'll not be here for Christmas week I think I might as well do my reprinting a little early and include, of course, to every reader, the season's greetings. Here is the story: The host of Heaven and the angel of the Lord had filled the sky with radiance. Now the glory of God was cone and the shepherds and the sheep stood under dim starlight. The men were shaken by the wonders they had seen and heard and, like the animals. they huddled close. “Let us now ." said the eldest of the shepherds, ‘‘go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.” The city of David lay beyond a far, high hill, upon the crest of which there danced a star. The men made haste to be away, but as they broke out of the circle there was one called Amos who remained. He dug his crook into the turf and clung

to it. “Come,” cried the eldest of the shepherds, but Amos shook his head. They marveled, and one called out, It is true. It was an angel. You heard the tidings, a Savior is born!” “I heard,” said Amos. “I will abide.” 000 7 Will Abide ’ epHE eldest walked back from the A road to the little knoll on which Amos stood. “You do not understand me,” the old man told him. "We have a sign

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from God. An angel commanded us. We go to worship the Savior, who is even now born in Bethlehem. God lias made His will manifest.” ‘‘lt is not in my heart,” replied Arnos. And now the eldest of the shepherds was angry. “With your own eyes,” he cried out, “you have seen the host of Heaven in these dark hills. And you heard, for it was like the thunder when ‘Glory to God in the Highest’ came ringing to us out of the night.” And again Amos said. “It is not in my heart.” Another shepherd then broke in. “Because the hills still stand and the sky has not fallen, it is not enough for Amos. He must have something louder than the voice of God.” Amos held more tightly to his crook and answered, “I have need of a whisper.” They laughed at him and said, “What should this voice sav in your ear?” He was silent and they passed about him and shouted mockingly, “Tell us now’. What says the God of Amos, the little shepherd of a hundred sheep?” Meekness fell away from him. He took his hands from off the crook and raised them high. “I, too, am a god,” said Amos in a loud, strange voice, “and to my hundred sheep I am a savior.” And when the din of the angry shepherds about him slackened. Amos pointed to his hundred. “See my flock,” he said. “See the fright of them. The fear of the bright angel and of the voices is still upon them. God is busy in Bethlehem. He has no time for a hundred sheep. They are my sheep. I will abide.” a a a There Came a Whisper THIS the others did not take so much amiss, for they saw that there was a terror in all the flocks and they, too. knew the ways of sheep. And before the shepherds departed on the road to Bethlehem toward the bright star, each talked to Amos and told him what he should do for the care of the several flocks. And yet one or two turned back a moment to taunt Amos, before they reached the dip in the road which led to the city of David. It was said. “We shall see new glories at the throne of God, and you, Amos, you will see sheep.” Amos paid no heed, for he thought to himself, “One shepherd the less will not matter at the throne of God.” Nor did he have time to be troubled that he was not to see the child who was come to save the world. There was much to be done among the flocks and Amos walked between the sheep and made under his tongue a clucking noise, which was a way he had. and to his hundred and to the others it was a sound more fine and friendly than the voice of the bright angel. Presently the animals ceased to tremble and they began to graze as the sun came up over the hill where the star had been. “For sheep.” said Amos to himself, “the angels shine too much. A shepherd is better.” With the morning the others came up the road from Beriilehem. and they told Amos of the manger and of the Wise Men who had mingled there with shepherds. And they described to him the gifts: Gold, frankincense and myrrh. And when they were done they said, “And did you see wonders here in the fields with the sheep?” Amos told them, “Now my hundred are one hundred and one,” and he showed them a lamb which had been born just before the dawn. “Was there for this a great voice out of heaven?” asked the eldest of the shepherds. Amos shook his head and smiled, and there was upon his face that which seemed to the shepherds a wonder even in a night of wonders. “To my heart,” he said, “there came a whisper.” tCopyright, 1934)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—-

IF any one tells you he ran cure cancer, shun him as a charlatan and a swindler. There is no scientific evidence to show that any serum, drug, or combination of drugs will cure cancer. Today we still say that the great hope m cancer is early diagnosis and surgical treatment, carefully associated with judicious use of radium and the X-ray. Nevertheless, various drugs have been injected, caustic pastes have been applied and similar methods, avoiding the use of the knife, have been widely exploited by cancer cure promoters and swindlers for many years. When the American Association for the Control of Cancer tried some years ago to obtain applicants lor a prize, which is to be given to the one who first develops a cure for cancer, 2500 persons applied. But not one of the cures offered was worth the paper G n which the description of the technic was printed. a a a THERE is. after all, a simple way to find out whether a product offered as a cure for cancer is worth while. We know today the average duration of life of the person with a cancer when the cancer is not treated, and we know also the average duration of life followinc the application of surgery, or use of radium and the X-ray. We know enough to be certain that treatment of any considerable number of persons with any special cure for cancer should show within a period of five \ears whether the product is worth while. The American Medical Association has assembled, in a pamphlet called “Cancer Cures and Treatments." the records of some 35 cancer charlatans who have offered their methods to the American people since 1000 and who attained sufficient notoriety to bring them prominence in the public press or to cause a considerable number of inquiries to be sent to the headquarters office. * MSB These cancer cures include, for the most part, cancer pastes which are caustic and which take off as much living, healthy tissue as cancerous tissue. In many instances the paste itself is largely responsible for an untimely end. In other instances, the method involves the use of injections, either of innocuous mixtures of water and inert salts, or of non-specific protein preparations which bring about a severe reaction in the body of the patient and cause him to think that has been accomplished. Introduction of radium gave rise to a half-dozen radium quackeries said to be in some instances radium-impregnated fluids which were to be taken internally. It nas now been established that radium solutions taken internally, if they contain enough radium, will harm the human body, and, if they do not contain radium, are the purest quackery. The development of electrical devices has brought about various heat machines and machines said to give an electrical discharge, which are ajg> quackeries.

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THE MURDER OF BABY LINDBERGH

Bruno Hauptmann Found to Be Escaped Convict From Germany

Following i the tenth of the Sidney B. Whipple series on the Lindbergh crime. Today's dispatch relates the discovery of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's criminal record in Germany and his illegal entrance into the t'nited States, BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE t'nited Press Staff Correspondent (Copvmht. 1934. bv United Press) WHEN the soldiers of the village of Kamenz marched to war in August, 1914. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was 14, and too young to wear the German field gray. Two years later, how’ever, when the Fatherland was calling youths to the colors, he joined a machine-gun company and fought unscathed through the war. He went back to Kamenz, when the war was over and he was 19, to become the town's "bad boy.” Something seemed to have shattered his morale and, with a youngster named Fritz Petzold, he appeared to be embarking on a campaign of terrorism. From March,. 1919, until June, 1923, when he disappeared over the Atlantic horizon, his life consisted of a series of clashes with provincial police. On the night of March 15-16, 1919, Hauptmann and Petzold broke the window’ of a living room in the home of a good burgher in the town of Bernbruch, jimmied their w’ay into the house and stole 300 marks and a silver watch. The offense was the more striking because the victim who bemoaned the loss of his silver timepiece was none other than the Herr Burgomeister Schierach. On the following night, the same pair burglarized the home of Eddar Scheumann, a leather tanner in Kamenz, stealing 200 marks, a quantity of postage stamps, and another watch and chain. A third robbery at Rackelitz, in which they used a crow bar to gain

entrance to a house which was robbed of 400 marks and a third watch and chain, was traced to their hands. Hauptmann’s fourth escapade of the month w’as to hold up two women w’ho were pushing baby carriages filled with food on the road between Wiesa and Nebelschutz. Petzold, on that occasion, waggled a revolver at the women —Hauptmann’s revolver it was afterward shown—and took from them a quantity of foodstuffs and several food cards such as were being issued to German families at that time. 000 II THEN the women refused to * stop, the police related, Hauptmann urged Petzold to “shoot, and waste no more time.” “We’re radicals,” the ex-soldiers shouted at the two females, “and we’re ready to shoot.” The frightened women ran away from their baby-less babycarriages, and the two youths divided their booty in the woods. The police lost no time in tracing down the pair, and they were arrested on March 26, 1919, in Kamenz. While they were being transferred to' a safer jail at Bautzen, in the following month, Hauptmann escaped from the prison van. only to be caught again by the Kamenz police.

—T ll DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. —Andrew W. Mellon appears headed for another star performance before the Washington footlights. Not that the multi-millionaire Pittsburgher is seeking, or will relish, the prospective role. Far from it. But he may have to "do his stuff” in order to save himself several million dollars that the Treasury Department is seeking to collect from him in back taxes and penalties for alleged tax dodging. The case, now pending before the Board of Tax Appeals, will come to trial within a few weeks. It will be an open proceeding, and, if the Government’s plans are successful, the one-time all-powerful head of the Treasury

will be placed in the witness dock and subjected to questioning and cross-examination. An interesting side-light on the trial is the fact that 14 of the 16 members of the Tax Appeals Board are Republican appointees, a number of them obtaining their jobs while “Uncle Andy” ruled the Treasury and dominated all appointments pertaining to revenue and taxes. a tt rt ONE of s he age-old traditions of politics is never to say "no” to any request. Louis McHenry Howe, the President's super-political adviser, has learned, however, that the rule works two ways. It’s equally unwise to say “no” to any offer. When the time arrived for the White House staff to return to its renovated executive offices, Harold Ickes’ PWA art outfit asked Howe whether he wouldn't like to have some PWA relief paintings for his new sanctum. Without investigating the matter too carefully, Howe reviewed in his mind what he had seen of Government art in the past. The outstanding examples were a series of steel engravings of past Presidents struck off by the Bureau of Engraving. The plates were engraved by the Governments’ expert designers as practice for engraving postage stamps to fill tlie empty days before Postmaster Jim Farley began his periodic spasms of new stamp issues. Howe shuddered at the thought and rejected the offer. But when the rest of the executive offices got to the stage of interior decorating. Howe found to his amazement that they had beautiful oil portraits, landscapes, water-color street scenes, pastel industrial pictures. “Where.” he grumbled, “did all this come from? Why haven't I got some for my offices?” And, to his dismay, he learned that these were selections from PWA Art Relief, which he had turned down. With a rush he put in a call for some for himself, but. alas! it was too late. The best he could do was to beg a few ship prints from the President's private collection. ana A CONGRESSIONAL investigation which may be almost as spectacular as the munitions or banking inquiries is now being hatched in the Agriculture Department. It goes into the basic economic question of marketing agricultural commodities, particularly fresh fruits and vegetables. Agricultural experts believe they can reveal a dramatic story of price manipulation and pries gouging of interest to every housewife, to every farmer. It is the story' of the middleman. For more than a year some of Henry Wallace’s advisers have been working on this problem. A bare hint of it was given during Rex Tugweli'.i inquisition bej^re

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On July 3, 1919, Hauptmann was convicted by the first district court at Bautzen on three charges of grand larceny, one charge of petty larceny, and as a receiver of stolen goods. He was sentenced to two years six months and one week in jail. In a subsequent court case at Bautzen, dealing with the h : ~hway robbery, he was sentenc' ”>n additional two years x months, making a tot? e years and one week. 000 TTE began serving the sentence in the Bautzen jail, but was paroled in March, 1923. Within a month after his release anew series of petty depredations in Kamenz pointed in his direction. He was arrested on June 7, of that year, charged with having stolen valuable leather belting from a pottery, a saw mill and a machine shop. No disposition of these cases ever was obtained. Before he could be brought to trial he had escaped, in leisurely fashion, while exercising in the jail yard. The harassed authorities never saw him again. Hauptmann made his way to a Hamburg pier and stowed away on a liner bound for America. Discovered before he was able to land, he was taken back again. But he “promised” the liner’s

the Senate Agricultural Committee. "What do you think of our marketing and distributing system?” asked Senator Frazier of North Dakota. “That is a very important question,” replied the cautious Prof. Tugwell, “and we have not sufficient information.” Tugwell’s more forthright colleagues, however, have been busy getting the information and have the promise of Rep. Lindsay Warren of North Carolina to push a congressional investigation. If it goes through, it may be more important than the question of acreage control. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

IRVINGTON SCOUTS WIN ADVANCEMENT TITLE Troop 9 Noses Out Troop 91 in City Contest. Having won the city-wide 1934 advancement contest, Irvington Methodist Episcopal Church Boy Scout Troop 9 today was in possession of a large gilded shield and an autographed baseball awarded by the council honor committee at a meeting last night. The victorious unit, under Scoutmaster Howard Wilcox, accumulated 465 points, defeating Troop 91 by only 30 points. Awards were made by Scout Executive F. O. Belzer upon completion of the 12-month tabulations. FLETCHER BANK CASE GETS VENUE CHANGE Hamilton Court to Decide if Creditor May See Books. Hamilton County Circuit Court will decide whether or not Horace Winings. a ci >ditor of the defunct Fletcher Amei can Bank, is entitled to see the ben ks of the bank. Superior Judge Joseph A. Williams announced today. Judge Williams granted a change of venue on the request of attorneys for former directors of the defunct bank. The attorneys requested the change of venue after Judge Williams last week stated that in his opinion the books should be thrown open to Mr. Winings and other creditors. POLICE GROUP ELECTS John Volderauer Named Trustee of Retirement Club. The Indianapolis Police Department Retirement Club elected to its board of trustees Patrolman John Volderauer today. He succeeds Detective Sergeant Arthur Fields. The retirement club is a voluntary organization of 507 members of the department. It is not connected with the Police Pension Fund.

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Beltless and tieless —both articles of apparel taken from him to prevent an attempt at suicide—Brunei Hauptmann is pictured here as he faced the Morrisonia Court in Bronx County, New York, for arraignment on an extortion charge resulting from his possession of the Lindbergh ransom money.

skipper that he would stow away again at the earliest opportunity. A second attempt to reach America ended before his trip actually began. When officers discovered his hiding place, he leaped overboard, swam to the pilings of the dock, and clung there for eight hours before he was hauled ashore. PERSISTENCE had its reward, however, on his third attempt. He stole a landing card, reached the United States safely, and went ashore to work, for a time, in a New Jersey dye plant. Hauptmann made friends in the German-speaking colony of New York, and a few years after his arrival met, wooed, and married Anna Schoeffler, waitress in a Bronx bakery. He appeared to W’ork steadily at his carpenter's trade until the depression came. From March, 1932, until his arrest he had not been employed for more than a few days at a time.

AUTO INJURY FATAL TO FORMER BUILDER Augustus McGrath Struck Boarding Trolley. Augustus McGrath, of 919 Shelbyst, died last night at City Hospital, where he was taken after being struck by an automobile at Virginia and Woodlawn-avs Wednesday. His skull was fractured, his ribs crushed and his left leg broken in the acci-

dent. Mr. McGrath was 66. Mr. McGrath, the 128th person to die as a result of a traffic accident in Marion

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County this year, was said to have stepped from the sidewalk to board a street car when he was struck by an automobile driven by Harry Zavela, 52, of 1720 E. Troy-av. Mr. Zavela was not held. Mr. McGrath was employed at the Riverside Park nursery and he formerly had been a contractor. He was a native of Kentucky, but had lived in Indianapolis the last 20 years. He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Anna McGrath; three daughters, Mrs. Anna Shane and Mrs. Arch Johnson, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Margaret Jolly, Kansas City; a son, John McGrath, Indianapolis; three sisters, Miss Katherine McGrath. Chicago; Miss Mary McGrath. Griffin, Ga., and Mrs. Nora Hamilton. Frankfort, Ky.; a brother, Nicholas McGrath, Chicago, and six grandchildren.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Maybe you’re just one of those people who never learned W to relax.”

Hauptmann told his friends he didn't need to work. He had found a system of beating the stock market, he said, enabling him to live comfortably. But he never gave any details of his “system” and was regarded as extremely close-mouthed about his personal affairs. Over a seidel of beer at Hans Bavarian Garden he would talk about his war experience, but never about his business. In the summer after the kidnaping he participated gayly in what the Germans call “ein bummel,” and was the life of the party at all fresco picnics on Hunters Island. 000 IN the autumn, Hauptmann donned sportsman’s garb and went to the Maine woods for hunting. In the following spring, he toured the South with his wife, spending some three months in Plorida. Then, in the summer, he sent Anna Hauptmann to Germany for a vacation.

I COVER THE WORLD tt tt tt tt tt tt By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Sweeping changes in Uncle Sam's national defense and foreign policies will be speeded up as a result of the scrapping of the naval limitation treaties by Japan. High officers of the Administration fear that when Emperor Hirohito sat down with his privy council yesterday and gave final approval to the act of abrogation, he upset the world balance so completely that only

with great difficulty can it be readjusted. Pending such readjustment the international situation being what it is—the world will be skating on thin ice. Legislation along two lines will be-introduced soon after Congress meets. First will come resolutions calculated to keep this country out of war and to co-operate in conserving world peace. Second, measures will be offered to bolster the national defense. Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Committee resolutely opposes a building race, but just as categorically warns that this country will adhere to the spirit of the 5-5-3 ratio just denounced. 000 MR. VINSON apparently has behind him not only a large majority of Congress, but the Administration as well. His thesis is simple: A navy second to none, adequately supplied with aircraft, and maintenance of the ratio set up by the Washington agreement. As soon as Congress meets, he told the writer, he likewise intends to introduce a resolution looking toward construction of a Nicaraguan canal, from the Caribbean to the Pacific. He will ask for a commision to study the

The real purpose back of Anna Hauptmann’s trip to Germany, however, was to attempt to wipe the slate clean with the police. Her husband wanted to go back to Germany to live. He* couldn’t so long as the threat of jail hung over him. Mrs. Hauptmann failed to achieve her objective, but Hauptmann’s aged mother, a few months later, succeeded in having all charges against her son quashed, by invoking the statute of limitation. Hauptmann was therefore free to return to Germany, and actually intended to take ship in the late fall of this year. He told friends he was tired of America, and that he was continually quarreling with his landlady over Nazism. “I'm going to get away from all this,” he said. Before he got away, however, he was seized by the police. Tomorrow—Extradition.

project with a view to an early start. It is estimated the canal would cost $722,000,000. The building of it would take care of a large number of unemployed. Mr. Vinson said, many of them in this country manufacturing tools, machinery and materials. But for the Panama Canal the United States would now face the virtual necessity of maintaining two huge fleets—one to balance the European warships in the Atlantic, and another to offset that of Japan in the Pacific. Yet a landslide, or the destruction of a lock at Panama might bottle up the present fleet in one ocean or the other for a fatal length of time. a a a 'T'HE Nicaraguan canal, it is said, would put Uncle Sam's eggs in two baskets, instead of one, and would pay for itself commercially. Strengthening of the defensive triangle in the Pacific, whose points are Panama, the Aleutian Islands and Hawaii, is also under consideration. On the foreign policy side, the State Department is studying legislation designed not merely for the maintenance of our neutrality, but to avoid as many dangers as possible growing out of that neutrality. Lloyd George's “War Memoirs” is quoted in this regard. “The country' which is determined at all costs to remain neutral,” he said, “must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up w'ith repeated irritations and infringements by the belligerents on both sides.” And, once the difficulties become too great, it is left with the choice of treating the infringement as an act of war. Here, it is said, is the foundation of America's present position. She intends to formulate peace policies giving war a wide berth, but to be sufficiently strong to discourage those who might be tempted to disregard even the curtailed rights which she retains.

*Y’ WILL HOLD BOYS’ CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Party Will Include Story, Play and Carol Singing. Y. M. C. A. boys’ groups will be entertained with a Christmas party at 7 tonight in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. The program includes a Christmas story by Clive McQuire; a play presented by R. C. Alford and Junior Y. M. C. A. members, and Christmas carols sung by the group. The, party is in charge of V. D. Parker, R. C. Alford and I. N. Logan, boys’ work secretaries. Sawmill Injuries Fatal. Hu I nitnl I’rrnn GREENCASTLE. Ind., Dec. 21Injuries suffered when he was caught in machinery at his sawmill near New Maysville were fatal to Fred Kendall, 30. Mr. Kendalls right arm was severed i'nd the .other broken, k

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Fair Enough WESIBM HER SENATOR GERAI.D P. NY'E'S committee has done a very fine work in exposing the profits which the munitions manufacturers derive from the war business. Let it be hoped, however, that the young statesman from North Dakota will not go off on a wrong slant about this time and strive for foolish extremes. Senator Nve runs the risk now of creating honest resentment in the mines of many substantial patriots who will b° with hirn heart and soul as long as he confines his purpose to the soulless and heartless corporations which manufacture shells, guns, bayonets, tanks and explosives. These are sinister objects. The horse is not. The horse may be used to haul artillery where automobiles can not go. but the horse is

man’s best friend even if his price to the Government, in time of war, may be four times as high as his value as a junk wagon chunk on the streets of New York. It is not the horse dealer's fault if war comes and. if the truth were known, he often says to himself, “This hurts me more than it hurts you,” as he hustles down to the broker's office with a Government check for a thousand head to invest the money in a war baby stock. Senator Nye has been quoted as saying that, in time of war. in order to eliminate the profit motive entire-

ly, he would impose a confiscatory tax on all incomes above $15,000. The obvious implication is that other industries and individuals besides munitions and the du Fonts sometimes cut themselves a slice of profit when war is on due to the fact that the war is on. tt tt tt Classifications Are Different HE might have had a notion that thp automobile industry, the tire industry, the boot, shoe and leather industries, the cattle business, the people who raise cotton and wool and manufacture cloth and uniforms, the foundries which stamp out so innocent a product as brass buttons and even the telegraph and cable companies derive a profit out of war. It is possible that Senator Nye even has a thought that the newspapers, which abhor war with great piety, stand to make a profit out of war by telling people how it goes on the western front. He might even be thinking of the war experts whose services would be in great demand, what with syndicated articles, the radio, the lecture platform and all, to cover and interpret events and inspire the people, at earnings far above their peacetime figures, but due, as God is their witness, to no wish of their own. War experts deplore war as criminal lawyers deplore murder, but duty is duty, so what would you? Even out in the Senator’s own North Dakota there are wheat growers whose profits, in case of war, by ungovernable coincidence might soar to high levels. It would be a very false move, indeed, to lump together wheat profits, wrung from the soil by the sweat of the honest farmer’s orow, with the profits collected from shells and poison gas intended for the gruesome purpose of destroying human life. Wheat is not grown to destroy human life. Wheat is virtuous. God loves wheat. It sustains life in the soldiers, barring accidents, so that they may defend their flag and their country and God's own side of the argument until the cause of justice and humanity is vindicated. It would be a hell of a note to classify the wheat farmer, the war-deploring publisher, the war correspondent at SIOO,OOO a year or more, the horsebreeder and trader, the automobile manufacturer, the humble shepherd and the cotton planter, with the du Ponts of De'aware and the small arms people of Connecticut who manufacture weapons, explosives and gas for the destruction of human life. tt tt tt We'd Hardly Expect This WHEAT is not to be considered as a munition of war, unless it comes down to a point at which the armies stand off. like convention delegates around a banquet room, and try to brain one another with the standard, non-edible, hard-shell throwing biscuit. Nobody ever heard of a war in which one army tried to run over another with motor trucks or bang them over the heads with rolled-up Sunday supplements. There never was a successful war in which one army backed up a lot of expensive Missouri mules and kicked the enemy back to Berlin in two counts. If he knows where to stop, Senator Nye will have accomplished a fine summer's work with his investigation of the munitions industry and the profits of war. He provided much enjoyable newspaper copy about graft among the purchasing agents of .South American war departments, not much different from the familiar American type of graft, it is true, but interesting anyway, like the Tammany graft copy. He has shown that the munitions people and the steel and copper companies profit enormously from war, and in one case, that young salesman, peddling weapons in South America, considered himself to be in a “hell of a business,” waiting around and hoping for war to happen. There is a sensitive moral point involved. The munitions business is frankly a war business and never to be condemned adequately in times of peace. The other lines which are here considered are not war industries and take their profits with a patriotic devotion and a humane reluctance which should establish a saving distinction. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIET/

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S Science Advisory Board presented a report of its first year’s work to him. The board was appointed by the President on July 31, 1933. During the Civil War, President Lincoln brought the National Academy of Sciences into existence as a group of the nation’s leading scientists to act as advisers to the Government. The academy has continued since as America’s most important scientific organization. Election to it is the highest honor that can come to an American scientist. The World War brought the need for a more intense organization of the nation’s problems and so President Wilson brought into existence the National Research Council as a subsidiary of the academy. The council has continued to function since the war, performing important peace-time functions in the realm of scientific research. a a a THE Weather Bureau is now making use of the radio and the airplane in its new methods of forecasting. These are based upon the so-called "air mass analysis.” In past years, weather forecasting was done almost entirely from surface observations. In air mass analysis, the movement of large bodies of air is charted, making better forecasts possible. It requires high altitude observations. These are made daily by United States Army and Navy fliers from 20 stations. The observations are relayed over the teletype system of the United States Department of Commerce to all principal weather bureau forecasting stations. ana OTHER subcommittees of the SAB are now studying the Bureau of Chemi'try and Soils, the Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Mines, the Geographical Survey and the Soil Erosion Service. The work on soil erosion is regarded as particularly important. H. H. Bennett, director of the soil erasion service - of the United States Department of the Interior, recently called the attention of the nation to the fact that America must either fight the worlds gieatest baitle against unrestrained erosion or else resign itself to becoming the world’?, outstanding example of sub-soil farming with all its attendant evils of poverty, * ,

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