Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1935 — Page 13
It Seems to Me HEYWOD BROUN’ SOMEWHKRE IN GEORGIA. .Tan, 10— One rs th* drawback* to Florida vacations is the dreary aspect of th* Joumrv to and from. In spite of Its many attractions, both equine and human. I would hardly contend that the peninsula was one of natures wonder work*. Yet Florida is a Garden of Eden in comparison to much of the coastal plain which the wanderer must cross in his pilgrimage. And the lapses of nature are hardly improved bv the partisanship of
man. Along the tracks are cluttered huts of a defeatist nature. A few stilts in the mud mark the far reach of human imagination. To be sure, there is a right s.de of the tracks and a wrong, and they differ hv about the thickness of a fingernail. To the right the visitor may observe the cabins of the proud Caucasians and on the left, the houses of the Negroes. Neither row is architecturally magnificent, and yet the rusty rails in the social scheme constitute a gap as wide as the Grand Canyon. Nordic supremacy rests upon a right of wav. And all day lone the
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Hzhter brothers sit and glare upon thp Ethiopians, savine. "you be lon z to a race which is inferior.” It is easy enough to understand the disabilities of a people who sweat and groan under the yoke of Egypt, but I do not think sufficient attention has been paid to the burdens of maintaining superiority. In a social sense, the tribulations of those who would keep up with the procession have not gone unregarded by the commentators. a a a Thru're Xot Anointed BUT it seems to me that there has been insufficient attention paid to the struggles of the poor white and the medium white to maintain his pride of ego. You can’t plant cotton and you can't plant/'raters if your chief function is to maintain ■uperionty. These dissonances in the human family hardly help those who are put, upon and. likewise, they are not conducive to alertness upon the part of those folk who consider themselves as ethnologically a chosen people. It is my notion that throughout the course of history all nations and races have suffered from the moment they came to the belief that they were, in some special sense, anointed. Superiority ought to be a state of artinn and not a state of mind. I have no quarrel with any man who calls to my attention the fact that he is superior to his fellow if only he will arise from his armchair and go out and prove it. But the constant reiteration of a sentiment is no evidence at all of its validity. Ver\ often I ha'& been told that, residents of the North should keep discreetly silent on the race problem because they do not understand the intricacies of the situation. I have my doubts about this argument, but. if I may waive my right to cros - examination it is still fair for me to inquire, "all right, and what about the Southern white man?” Within the last ten years thpre h*s been a stirring and commotion, and once again the old dominions have put forth some few sons who could write or versify or assume positions of political leadership And even so. the South has not yet lived down its handicap, which is the curse of charm. Whenever the Democratic party is in power Washington is filled with young men who can tell you awfully funny stories about, uncle Rastus and the old blind mule. They are the lions at every cocktail party, for no one would want to meet young men of more engaging type. mum Time to Forget rm 'HEY ran talk and sing a little, and I'm told that A they dance divinely. 1 t hardly one of all the lot j, worth a curse as a fat .r in any exacting job. I do not. know- whether the war or the climate should be blamed, but, I will risk any kind of criticism in asserting t-hat the under side of the Mason and Dixon line breeds for speed and not for stamina. I know at least two dozen six-furlong southerners, hut when it. comes to a fellow who ran go the route you must make your pick from the colder communities. For dinner, breakfast, or late supper, give me a southerner every’ time. but. over a month r iundays I would sooner string along with a man m Maine, or even one of the Massachusetts codBeing superior has sapped the vitality of the folk down this way. T]hr racial problem has hern so much in their rrind that they have forgotten all Thp l depression may have been a silver cloud as far as th° South is concerned. It ha? taught certain leaders ‘hat the chief problem of all Americans is economic. I can think of a hundred criticisms which mar justly he broueht, against, Huey Long, and. even so. he represents a very healthy symptom. He stands as one of a handful who have begun to think a. little beyond the borders of white supremacy. A man may hr white and still most distressingly poor. The South has begun to realize that The time has conu *o quit, looking across the railroad tracks. Even in Georgia it will be no mistake for the Nordics to forget ne cold comfort of supremacy and to lift their eyes unto the hills. (Copvnght. ions*
Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ—
r' STA3LISHMENT of thp first alkali plant in the t/ south 'instituted one of the outstanding de\elements in Indus* rial chemistry during accordmc to Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of Industrial and Encineering Chemistry.” The new plant, built by the Southern Attalicorp. at Corpus Christ! Tex. represents a $7,000,000 in vestment. It swung into full production on Nov. 1 with a capacity of SOO tons a day. The products include soda ash, caustic soda, modified sodas and caustic ash. . . . _ Dr. Howe believes that the new plant has an nuate supplies of raw materials, unusual transportation advantages, and a favorable location for tne distribution of alkali to the important consuming industries of the Middle West and the Southwest Tlie year 1934 saw several chemicals step from the class of laboratory rarities to commercial successes with dealings In carload lots. Among them were acetamide, dyphenvl oxide, boron carbide and sodium oxide. Acetamide is being used as a solvent. Diphenil oxide is being used as the high-temperature heat transfer agent in bifiuid boilers. It is used to absorb and transfer to high-pressure steam the heat available in boiler furnaces at high temperature. Boron carbide, which possesses a hardness approaching the diamond, is used as an abrasive. Sodium oxide is a useful alkali, weighing 22 per cent less than its equivalent of caustic soda. a a a 4 NOTHER important development in industrial A chemistrv', according to Dr Howe, has been the invention of a transparent wrapping material prepared from rubber He states that it is naturally moisure-proof. is easily sealed by slight heat and pressure, and has sufficient elasticity to permit its being stretched to a reasonable degree over sharp comers and edges without puncturing. One sheet runs 25.030 square inches to the pound. man ADVANCES in the petroleum industry during the last year included the development of nex extraction processes for the manufacture of superior lubricants. Propane is one of the favorite regents used in these processes. Dr. Howe says. Attempts to disperse fog bv spraying the air with falnum chloride solutions gave promise of success. It may be the process can be used successfully at airplane landing fields. The glass industry took large strides forward with the pouring of the 200-inch mirror for the new giant telescope. The Coming Glass Works poured one disk early in the year and then, beciu.se of uncertainty as to its quality poured a second one in December. It is now believed that both ch ■is are suitable for astronomical use.
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THE PROBLEMS OF CONGRESS
Bonus Defeat Threatens Roosevelt; Compromise May Avert Setback
Thi* i lh* lat of a ierte of four storie* hr Rodney Dutfbor. NEA Serrire and Tim Washington rorroapondent, in which he tells what mar he expected of Congress in the comint session. ana BY RODNEY DITCHER (Copyright, 1935. NEA Service. Inc.r WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—Congress will be radical on the bonus, inflation, banking legislation, electric power, and possibly taxes. It may be radical also on the munitions industry, which needs regulating. and it will not hesitate to hold up America's end in any naval race with Japan. President Roosevelt probably will command the situation in respect to all those issues except the bonus, where he certainly will be compelled to accept a compromise and may be defeated entirely. Although the President said he doesn't want the bonus paid off until the budget balances, suggested that veterans were better off in the depression than most other groups, and asked them to hold their demands while the Government took care of all the needy, the American Legion has demanded full payment of the adjusted compensation certificates, which do not mature until 1945, at a cost of the Treasury of $2,200,000,000. Rep. Wright Patman fTex.), perennial agitator for bonus payment and inflation, says 300 representatives and 70 senators are pledged for the bonus. There are. in any event, many members who made bonus promises in the campaign. Some also are pledged to cancellation of interest on loans to veterans on certificates which would cost about $300,000,000 more. The air is now full of compromise alternatives to full payment, since it's so likely that a presidential veto can be overriden if Roosevelt doesn't offer Democratic members !
The plan most favored by the Administration would make an imediate cash settlement with “veterans in need,” which would be equivalent to cashing in an insurance policy 10 years ahead of time—although there are proposals to pay more than the actual 1935 cash value. n n n p EPUBLICAN House Leader Bert Snell says this would be like paying off all certificate holders, as 80 or 90 per cent of veterans in his district are in need. Senator Pat Harrison has suggested that bonus payments be confined to veterans now on relief. Senator Steiwer (Ore.) thinks bous payments should be spread over the next, few’ years. Still another plan would throw the date of the certificates back to 1918 instead of 1925 and mature them in 1935. It's argued that this would cost only about $1,200,000,000, as 80 per cent of veterans have borrowed thp permitted 50 per cent on face value of their certificates. Patman and othPr inflationists want to pay off the certificates by a currency issue. But Roosevelt has set himself firmly against that, passing the -word to Congress that it must raise taxes to cover any bonus expenditure.
—The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen -
WASHINGTON. Jan. in.— The unprecedented action of Homer Cummings in appearing personally before the Supreme Court to argue the gold rase is symbolic. Apparently the attorney general has awakened to the fact that you can't win law’ suite without lawyers. Cummings himself, is an excellent lawyer, but his Justice Department is bogged down with the most lamentable conglomeration of
political chair-warmers that ever spit tobacco juice on a ci jssroads stove. For that reason Cummings’ appearance before the Supreme Court is regarded with greet hope by some of his Cabinet colleagues. They hope that this may mark the beginning of new things in the Justice Department,. It has been no secret that this department is regarded by many as the weakest link in the New Deal. With some of the most historic legislation in the nation's history coming before the Supreme Court, various New Deal departments have complained bitterly at the way Homer Cummings’ lawyers were handling their cases. * * a '“OHIS criticism does not apply to Homer Cummings personally. The attorney general is one of the most popular members of the Cabinet. He is a hard worker, has a delicious sense of humor, stands well w ; th the President and is in step with the libe A sentiment of the New Deal. Illustrative of that liberal sen’ment is an incident experienced by Harold M. Stephens, ablest assistant attorney general. Stephens needed some good aids, brought in Henry White Edgerton. who was dismissed from the Cornell Law School because he was a conscientious objector during the war—though later taken bark with apologies. Stephens suggested to SolicitorGen. Biggs that Edgerton be hired. He explained his pacifist leanings, said he had voted for Norman Thomas in 1932. Biggs almost frothed, vetoed the idea. Stephens then went to Homer Cummings, explained Edgerton's background. “Is he a good lawyer?" Cummings asked. Stephens assured him Edgerton was. “Then put him on." a a a CUMMINGS has r . 'mque record for this tv of fairminded liberalism. ! it coupled with it he has three laults which have k?pt the Justice Department out of ,t?p with the basic aims of New De 1. First, i:c I*cks a .ense of smell. Second, he is too amiable. Third, he .s too political. It is understandable why a Government department has a few deserving Democrats plant°d around the landscape, but it is another big thing to let them be loaded in up to the gunnels. This is nhat Homer let his friend Jim do to him. Homer is not only an easy-going giverinneito Jirr. Farley, he is something of a politician in his own behalf. If a Democrat bears the “B. C."’ (Before Chicago) label he is. m the eyes of Homer Cummings, qualified to enter the golden ga es no matter what.
/^O v GRESSMEN aren't anxious to boost taxes. That and the fact there'll be tbout 50 .senators who voted "no” on thp bonus in the 73d Congress, lends hope to the compromise effort. No drastic inflationary measure is expected to become law’ this year. Father Coughlin and Senator Thomas are claiming that all progress toward recovery is traceable to Roosevelt's limited use of inflationary powers granted by Congress. Further devaluation of the dollar is sure to be an issue, and even such a. conservative as Senator Bulkley (O.) says such action may be necessary to raise the price level. Silverites will again be clamoring for remonetization at $1.29 an ounce. The United States Conference of Mayors has suggested direct non-interest loans to cities, the Government taking bonds for the loans and issuing currency thereon. But Roosevelt is not now contemplating any of those things and. barring unforeseen developments, can be confident that his vetoes of inflation bills w’ould be sustained. He is empowered to devaluate the dollar another nine cents, but holds that power in reserve for trading purposes—to be used if remaining gold standard
PROBABLY one reason Homer gets cussed out by his Cabinet colleagues is because he lacks a sense of smell. His nostrils do not dilate. When he passes by a hidden pile of political swill he is more inclined to pass it by than clean it up. Partly this is because Homer is too amiable. He likes every one and they, for the most part, like him. He not only likes them, but he is soft-hearted about them. Firing a man to Homer is like pulling a molar—and much more painful. Compare the briefs filed in the days of Harry Daugherty's alleged Justice Department scandals and the days of the New Deal. According to many lawyers, the briefs written under Daugherty were better. In other words. Daugherty, despite the allegations lodged aginst him. had the sense to hire good men. (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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“I thought our modern school had gotten away from this sort of thing.”
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10,1935
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countries go off gold or perhaps in an international stabilization agreement. Credit inflation, rather than currency inflation, wall be an Administration policy as far ahead as any one can foresee. n n .* r T'-HE progressives would like to ■*- strike a few’ blows for redistribution of wealth by levying higher income, inheritance and gift taxes. But the Administration isn’t anxious for any new taxes and probably can head them off. The boys on the House Ways and Means Committee are again talking blithely of “plugging loopholes” in the tax law to bring in more revenue. Some of them estimate, for instance, that about $3,000,000 more spent for internal revenue agents would bring in about $75,000,000 more taxes. The excise taxes, which lobbyists call “nuisance” taxes, bring in $425,000,000 a year and will be kept for another year, though
COUNCIL TO RECEIVE DETROIT GAS MOTION Investigation Would Judge Future Effect of Receivership Suit. The Indianapolis City Council today was expecting to receive a resolution adopted last night by the Detroit City Council calling on the Councils of Indianapolis, St. Louis. Cincinnati, and Toledo to investigate the effect on their future natural gas supply of a receivership settlement suit instituted at Wilmington, Del., by the MissouriKansas Pipe Line Cos. John W. Smith. Detroit Councilman, charged the Columbia Gas and Electric Cos., with having thwarted the attempts of Frank E. Parish. Missouri-Kansas Cos. president, to bring natural gas to the various communities. P.-T. A. WILL MEET AT WARREN CENTRAL Musical Program and Address to Follow Business Session. A musical program arranged by Paul Hamilton and an address will follow the business meeting of the Warren Central High School Par-ent-Teacher Association at 7:45 Wednesday night. The P.-T. A. of Wayne Township School 13 will observe Dad's Night at 7:30 the same night. The P.-T. A. Albert Walsman School will meet at 2 next Friday afternoon.
there will probably be a fight on the gasoline tax, w’hich now’ nets $150,000,000. There has been plenty of agitation, carefully sponsored by the liquor interests, for a cut in the $2 a gallon liquor tax. There doesn't seem to be any preponderant strength behind the-pro-posal, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be some power there. Legislation, perhaps of drastic character, which will tend to make the Federal Reserve system more of a central banking system is certain. Under Gov. Marriner Eccles, the Reserve Board will be given more centralized power over the 12 reserve banks and relax the rules to determine eligible paper offered for loans. Thus the Administration would have wider power to regulate credit and force down interest rates. a it a ONLY Roosevelt stands in the way of passage of even more radical banking legislation by Congress. Senators Cutting of New Mexico and Lafollette of Wis-
I COVER THE WORLD nan ana By William Philip Simms
' I WASHINGTON. Jan. 10— Entry into the World Court, now up for VV action, is cnly a part of a far-reaching Administration effort to keep the. United States out of war. Meeting yesterday for the first time this session, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee promptly reported out the resolution of adherence and claimed today it would be passed within 30 days. Other moves toward co-operation with the rest of the world to safeguard peace are expected to follow. Without going beyond America’s Constitutional and traditional stand against entanglements, leaders here are seeking means to help re-
store world confidence, without wiiich they feel the common recovery will proceed at a snail’s pace, if at all. European peace moves, now' under way, are being watched closely here because of a realization that the advance must be along a wide front to achieve such a feeling of world security that arms reduction and limitation may succeed as the President hop>es. Into the general plan of world co-operation, the President’s proposed legislation “to take the profits out of war” closely dovetails. Likewise, a project to restate this country's neutrality laws and its doctrine of freedom of the seas. tt tt tt WHEN the “take-the-profits-out-of-war” legislation comes up. it is expected the w-hole problem of contraband may be sifted. A study of World War profits, in the hands of senators, reveals that from 1914 to 1916 American exports to Europe of articles listed as contraband increased by nearly $3,000,000,000. This meant a big boom in America's foreign trade with direct benefits to the American people as a whole. But, it is Dointcd out, America's insistence on her right to such trade brought her into the war which was largely responsible for the national debt increasing from a little more than one billion dollars in 1914 to more than 34 billions in 1936. The benefits of such trade, it is observed, were therefore worse than illusory. a a a “T TNDER modern conditions," U said Charles Warren, Assistant United States Attorney General from 1914 to 1918, “there is no reason why the United States Government should run the risk of becoming involved in a war simply to preserve and protect such excessive profits. “Would it not be a proper piolicy for our Government to say tc ? belligerent, at the outset of a war: If you regard an article as contraband, the United States will also regard it as contraband, but will impose a pre-war quota on your import trade with our citizens in .that article. “And would it not be a proper policy for our Government to say to our citizens in such a case: The United States will allow you to trade in that article to the same extent you normally did before the war. but further trade in it is not allowed. “Your Government is not going to run the risk of becoming involved in a war simply that you, some of its citizens, may have an opportunity to indulge in an unusual trade and to make excessive
consin have been the chief central bank proponents. It's likely Roosevelt will be given the power to appoint the 12 reserve bank governors. but big bankers may sue for peace and avert the worst. There's also strong pressure for anew or reinforced system which will provide easy credit to small industries. Little has been heard of it yet, but the National Power Council has been working out a legislative program with regard to electric power which will be sponsored by the Administration and will embitter the beleaguered “power trust.” The one issue on which Roosevelt hasn't ever zigzagged is that of lower electricity rates. The St. Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada may be ratified this session, despite opposition from sectional interests and powerful lobbies. There won’t be any new laws to take the profits out of war or regulate the munitions industry if the Senate Munitions Committee can help it. That committee wants to investigate for many more months and make its report to the next session of this Congress. Roosevelt, however, has indicated a desire for earlier action by his appointment of the War Profits Committee, dominated by B. M. Baruch. Gen. Johnson, and the War Department. nan Meanwhile, about the time the committee is delving into profits and secret tactics of the shipbuilding companies. Congress will be asked to vote further large profits to those companies for the anticipated naval race with Japan. Unless by some miracle the negotiations for a renewal of the old 5-5-3 Washington Treaty come to life again, the Administration is expected to act for the building of 78 additional men-of-war which the Navy says are necesary if it is to come up to treaty strentgh. That means one aircraft carrier, two light cruisers, 51 destroyers and 24 submarines. After that, the real naval race, in which we have threatened to build five ships to Japan’s three, no matter how many she builds, presumably will begin. But there's some hope here that building up our Navy to treaty strength will have the effect of discouraging the bellicose Japanese before the treaty expires. THE END.
profits by reason of the existence of war.” There is reason to believe Dr. Warren’s views may form the basis of legislation. CITY GUARD OFFICERS ORDERED TO GEORGIA Local Men to Serve as Students in Reserve Infantry Course. Capt. Floyd R. Bryan, 746 N Grant-st, and Lieut. Charles F. Heagy, 60 S. Mount-st, both reserve officers, have been ordered by the War Department to report to Ft. Benning, Ga., Feb. 23 for duty as students in a reserve course at the Infantry School. Lieut. John W. McPheeters, 5750 E. lOth-st, has been ordered to Ft. Sill, Okla. Capt. Napoleon Boudreau reported here this w'eek for duty with the Indiana military area as coast artillery instructor to succeed Maj. William G. Patterson, retired. SOCIETY TO PRESENT METALLURGY J-ECTURES Course of Eight Addresses to Be Given at Library. A course of eight lectures on “Fundamentals of Ferrous Metallurgy" will be presented by the American Society for Metals, Indianapolis chapter, beginning at 7 tomorrow night and continuing for consecutive Friday nights at Cropsey Auditorium in the Central Library. Dr. Arthur E. Focke, lof research metallurgist, will present the lectures which have been prepared by Dr. A. Alan Bates, metallurgy professor. Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, O. OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION WILL SPONSOR DANCE Reserve Group to Hold Event at Ft. Harrison Club. Maj. Geo’ge S. Burket, field artillery instiuctor attached to the Indiana rAiiitary area, will relate his experience as an executive ; n the central records office of the American Expeditionary Force at the Reserve Officers’ Association luncheon tomorrow at the Board of Trade. The association will sponsor a dance Saturday. Jan. 19. at the Ft. Benjamin Harrison Officers' Club. CAR LINE IS EXTENDED New Services on West lOth-st Route Begins Today, Service on the extension of the W. lOth-st trackless trolley line of Indianapolis Railways. Inc., from Tibbs-av to Olin-av, began at 5:12 this morning. Cars will rim at 25minute intervals.
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Entered an Second-Class Matter at Postoffiee. Indianapolis. Ind.
Fair Enough ISB WK PUB WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 10.—The Washington newspaper corps is the biggest in the county, if not in the world, outside New York and is nowadays e/ijoying more prestige than ever before although the work calls for very little old-style meditation and statesmanship and consists largely of hustle. The Roosevelt family undoubtedly have had much
to do with the professional and social rise of the Journalists. Thev have entertained many of them at the White House, and in various ways, conceded the profession an importance which was not acknowledged in the past. If a man is good enough to blow tea with the President or sit down at table and bare a fang at a lump of steak in the White House there is a natural presumption that he might be all right. He and the little woman thus presently find themselves among those present at routine ordeals in other houses and an intimate acquaintance develops between the journalists and
other big numbers in the Government who, in other Administrations, always sprayed their throats after breathing the same air with a reporter. BUB Running Out of Loudou n PROBABLY, this change is the more apparent coming so soon after thp Hoover Administration. The Hoover Administration took a defensive attitude and maintained it to the end with the result that in the last months of Mr. Hoover's term he could not attract to his press conferences enough reporters to make a quartettp. They knew he wouldn’t have anything to say, anyway. His secretariat were jumpy and suspicious, too, and altogether the Hoover Administration had an unkind opinion of the press, which made it mutual. Straightaway newspaper reporting continues to be the principal job of the Washington journalist and very few' canes are. worn if only because a man hustling around a big town must travel as light as possible. However, there has been a remarkable outbreak of columnists dating back to the merry-go-round books which aroused a pouplar appetite for intimate and low’down information not generally carried on th** routine wires. The Washington column is like the common cold Just now in the respect that almost everybody has one. or expects to get one. However, it stands to reason that with so many columnists professing to give the lowdow'n and no two giving the same low'dow’n there can't always be enough lowdown to go around. Consequently, considerable matter which is being dispensed as exclusive inside information is no more exclusive than the batting averages of the National League and no more interesting, either. There is also a monetary rash of confidential news service intended for gullible business executives in cities removed from the mysteries of the New Deal, selling at the best price the traffic will stand from S2O a year up. o a a The Bogs Handle It nr'HIS material is supposed to be very deep and -I- unavailable to the ordinary newspaper reporters, but it is hard to see how the newspaper hands, tearing around the Capital as they do and knowing somebody in every important office in town, can miss so much news. So the probability is that the confidential letters consist largely of routine news told in a confidential whisper, conjecture or common for-tune-telling. However, a man has got to live and there simply aren't enough payroll jobs to go around, even with the Government absorbing ex-journalists as contact or publicity men. The administration has formed a rather sizeable off-the-street club for newspaper men who were shaken out of their jobs in the course of the long panic and uses them for the combined purpose of making news available to the papers and, incidentally, getting out the Administration’s side of the story first. It is not admitted, of course, that the public relations man of the Government department is expected to give the administration any the best of it, but nobody ever heard a press agent knock his own show. The personal acquaintance and the knowledge of issues and measures possessed by a first-class. Washington journalist are amazing to a tourist gawking at the confusion, and the ethical propriety of the whole corps is something to shame the rest of the newspaper business in its treatment of the Lindbergh trial. The rate of pay, however, with an average w’ell below $75. seems much too demure for the character, ability and diligence required in the job and your correspondent trusts that a corps who are required to write W’ith understanding, speed and clarity about eight-billion dollar budgets will receive substantial benefits from this suggestion right away. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Svndicate. Inc.)
Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
YOU can go without food and water for days, if necessary, yet you wouldn't last 10 minutes longer if you were deprived of air. And still, we seem to be paying less attention to the air we breathe than to our food and water. Good air is hard to get indoors at this time of year. A modern house must provide suitable means for taking care of the quality of the air that persons who live in it may breathe. Most modern types of houses have immovable windows, so that there is no leakage around them. The outside sleeping porch is obsolete. The modern ventilating system provides for removal of contamination, such as dusts and pollens, from the air. Most air is not only ventilated, but also cooled or warmed as needed, and moisture is decreased or increased. a a a IT was tnought at first that only the chemical constituents of air were mportant. More recently it is found that its physical qualities are equally important, and that the dusts and pollens may be primarily responsible for all sorts of sensitivities from which many persons suffer. Development of the fresh air treatment for tuberculosis led to the idea that any fresh, cold outdoor air was right. Apparently much of our belief in outdoor fresh air v.a based on the will to believe. The story is told of a man who could not sleep at night because the air seemed stagnant. He got up and tried to open a window, but had no luck with it, so he finally picked up his shoe and broke the glass. Then he went to bed and dept comfortably. The next morning when he looked around, he found that he had broken the glass door *n his bookcase. r b a THE old method of treating persons with pneumonia or tuberculosis by putting them outdoors and covering them with blankets, to inhale the air at a freezing temperature, has long since been discarded. The coverings are heavy and such air does not do as much good as clean fresh air suitably warmed and properly moistened. Premature babies have taught us many lessons as to proper care of ventilation. For them the temperature of the air must be kept warm, sometimes as high as 75 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The air is moistened suitably, sometimes enriched with oxygen, and is constantly circulated. Q—Have the Philippine Islands gained their independence? A—They are still a possession of the United States, but under the provisions of the McDuffieTydings act. passed in the last session of Congress, they will achieve full independence in 1945, after a transition period of ten year*.
Westbrook Fegler