Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1935 — Page 7

MARCH 2, 1935

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN HTHE educators of America have had thnr day -*■ ar.d ar 1 * rr: rr.ing hom' with their shields. But the? ar* 1 a* Ira * nn *‘lbo , a upon this part of their equipment. The superintendents of Arr.ert-r.-n r-rhools Arr.-i; > without actually ha tiffin? any garlands round the r.'Tk of William Randolph Hearst. but they did not have ?he courage to condemn his attack upon American education. It was what you might call a bad draw.

Possibly the most disappointing thing m the whole convention at Alla:. 01 was the nambypamby resolution which the committee brought in upon the question of academic freedom In effect the decision was that the school superintendents favored academic freedom but that they had not the slightest intention of doing anything about it. The excuse was that the* convention did not care to commit itself into an espousal of Moscow doctrines. Indeed one of th- committee men went to the length of confessing that the superintendents had gravely con-

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A’ ed ’:;e pr. ibiiitv of avmff nothing at all about freedom on the ground that it might be Os rour e. it is Interesting to note that the . influence is rather irrelevant. I:.. u point is whether American educators are go be k to the American dream as exp r .and ; Thomas Jcffrr on in the Declaration of I left Atlantic C.'\ wph an increased respect for I> l Ri. h of Teachers Collr-cr. He is by no ,f means a radical and yet he had Mood cr b*. m mbers of his faculty who are b a b Drawn hy Desperate Mm \ T a dinner of alumni of Teachers College -* vt'edn* day nigh' lie outlined his position and tn:?’ America had always been divided between •jo of liberty and equality. He suggested ?i • r>< la rat ion of Independence was a docud for equality. The Constitur>t took that back and set America's steps in the wav of liberty. Dtau Ru . .1 contended that these are two warprmcip • For instance, he intimated that if • ■*• An,.n 1 nine is to have a bath tub it must aKo acvpt the fact that *he Federal government has the right to tell each citizen at just which hour he must use it. In line sos deep distress people naturally lean tow.ml equality. When things r.re better they talk of liberty. H might have added that the declaration was drawn by desperate men each of whom was m r o: hanging >f the revolutonary cause were jo • Naturally JelTcr oi. ar.i the rest did not split hair ibout personal liberty. They were more confact that they were all in the same boat And so they framed a document dedicated to equality. After the war had been won the voice of pro|erty. privilege and Alexander Hamilton was h. ard and a Constitution was drawn up to protect .•gainst the threat of the disU . . f.imiliar radical trick to set somebody up in i public qua re to read the Declaration of Indepe; ..a. fiurinc tunes of trnnoil. The reader gen- • , _i; arrt ted because some cop thinks he is m . m : tii ukase from Lenin rather than the word of Tin in;t> .Jeflerson. The policeman should not be b inert t>f uise the declaration is actually one of the most radical documents ever written. P ,b'.- .If fTei'On had his fingers crossed when he composed it. When he set down the theory that • alt in. ii are treated free and equal.” it is probable that he did not have such suppressed groups as Nccro or w. men in mind. But there are the words. And r • m to me that words may be even more powerful than the person who penned them. ana Thin tan Went to Jail COONFR or later America will catch up with the doctrine that all men arc created free and equal. Obvtoush our schools and our newspapers and our clergymen ;iiid radio broadcasters are not yet ready to support the words of Jefferson, no matter how often they may call upon his name in vain. It is a little ironical to contemplate the fact that within the next 12 months in America various teachers here and there will bo obliterated by snipers for statements far more nuld than those indulged in bv our forefathers Whenever any teacher gets a little of! the reservation he immediately is attacked as one serving the cause of modem Russia. This is a curious form of self-abasement and snobbishness Even the isolationists seem to forget that w. had some fairly competent revolutionists of our ow n b< tore Lenin and Stalin were born. It is prebabh true that the Russian leaders went farther in aCMial complishment than our native American Reds, but Ralph Waldo Emerson, in spite of his rets : rt’iiny held to notions which would make the h.sir ot th<- av. i school suDermtendent rise like the fretiul porcupine. The “eon want to tail and expressed surprise that R Iph failed to follow him. Edward Bellamy preached doctrines which his son. a newspaper editor. would reject as much too hot to handle, and Thomas Paine remained “a filthy little atheist” down to the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. And so the declaration will remain upon the walls of Amerii an schools even after its advocates have horn .timed out as dangerous Reds. And it will suffice :n its simple eloquence to raise up anew generation of defenders. Copvr.eht. 1935*

Your Health —R\ I>K MORRIS FISHBKIX-

I \ST y r 36.00>t persons were killed and nearly . j 1.000.000 injured as a result of 882.000 personal i ;rv co’li.'ions on streets and highways; 16.000 of • hose killed were pedestrians Again we think of that old statement that there re two kinds ot persons—the quick and the dead Also it in necessary to point out that 3.16 per cent of driver- in motor accidents were drunk The drunken driver is a menace to himself and ;o even one anywhere near him Moreover. 4 4 per err rs the pedes*nans in accidents were drunk. The combination of too much alcohol and the motor car is a dangerous one. a a a \\T HILE we look w-.tn considerable concern on v\ the death and injury of adults in these cases, he number of accidents and serious injuries to children arouses pity and anger. Nearly 1500 children under the age of 4 were mum lutomobOe accident during the ve •: Beside- 3SOO children between the age of 5 and 14 met death and 143.000 were injured. Mary of the deaths and accident- resulted from poor mechanical condition of motor cars. Tito bin days for damage are Saturday and Sunday. The accidcrt rate on Sunday is 18 pier cent in excess of the everyday rate. a a a \GAIN the figure- show- that are likely to dnve as -efely or more safely than do men. The accident record of drivers under IS years of age was the worsi of any age classification. The fatal accident record was fio per cent greater than for the general average. Between 18 and 24 th accid'n* rate was 27 per cent greater than the average. These figures are important as thev indicate quite clearly the significant factors in automobile accidents. Thirty years ago motor accidents were so far dr,w n or. the list of causes of death that they were hardly given consideration. Today they have moved up to tenth place. There are just as many deaths now from motor car accidents as from diabetes.

The LOVE LETTERS of NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER .SIXTEEN Supreme Disaster EVEN in the darkest hours of the campaign. Napoleon never failed to write to Marie Louise. Indeed, there could be no better evidence of his fortitude of spirit than the letters written at the time of the crossing of Beresina. The Beresina. its banks deep-set with marshes, lay before the retreating army, the farther bank was held by Admiral Tchitchagoff. Its flank was threatened by Wittgenstein, who was marching down from the north along the left bank of the river. Behind it was Koutousof. The army was hemmed in, caught in a trap, and its sole way of escape led over the one bridge spanning the Beresina at Borisow. The Dombrowski division which held the bridge was dislodged by the Russian Admiral, and fell back on Ouinot on Nov. 21 Oudinot sent a dispatch from Bohr to inform the Emperor of this disaster. No news could have been more tragic, more discouraging. Who could guess from a reading of Napoleons letter to the Empress that, on that very day, at Bohr, he had given orders for the burning of the Eagles, lest they should be left as trophies for the enemy! Mon amie—l have had no letters from you for many days, but tomorrow or the day after I shall receive them all at once, the road having been cut. The weather is cold. Vou must have been very anxious at not hearing from me for several days. My health is very good. Kiss the little king for me and never doubt the sentiments of vour faithful husband. NAP. Bohr. November 24th (1812). The King of Naples, the Viceroy, the Prince de Neufchatel. the marshal and my household are all in good health. A charge of Oudinots troops led by Marbots Chasseurs put the French in possesion of Borisow once rgain, but could not prevent the Rusian grenadiers, covered by the batteries at the bridge-head, from burning down the bridge. Happily, the Emperor was now informed by two cavalry generals. Colbert and Corbineau. that there was a ford two leagues away, at Studienka. The cavalry crossed the ford. Naval pontoneers and sappers built two open trestle-bridges at this spec on Nov. 26; one of them served for the artillery, the othev for the infantry. These bridges were the salvation of the army. On that day and the next, the army marched past under the Emperor's eyes. bub \ND. as though the imminence of supreme disaster had left his mind untroubled by the least qualm of anxiety. Napoleon wrote to Marie Louise: Rorisoe. November 27th. (1812) Ma bonne amie—You will nave been many days without receiving any letters from me; I am

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

WASHINGTON. March 2Probaoly the most important job tackled by the President during his Hyde Park rest was an inventory of the whys and wherefores of his trouble with the Senate. Mr. Roosevelt and his inner council finally have become profoundly disturbed over the situation. And well they may be.

More than one President has come to grief through warring with an irate Senate. At stake is not only Mr. Rooseveit’s work-re-lief program, but his social security measures, plus the banking and holding corporation bills. The President went to a good deal of trouble before leaving Washington to get some frank and realistic information as to the causes for his Senatorial troubles. And the consensus of views he took away with him to mull over were: 1 That he is urgently in need of more reliable and comprehensive information of what is going on in Congress. He is now dependent practically entirely on the Democratic floor leaders, who at heart are none too friendly to his legislative program. 2 That something must be done about Huey Long. He has Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison. titular floor leaders, very much on the defensive and no one else has dared tackle him. Asa result. Huey has a free hand in warring on White House legislation 3. That the President must not hesitate to fight openly and vigor - ouslv for his measures. Unless he does so. the Senate will wrest control of Congress from him and the chances are he will never regain it. Mr. Roosevelt was reported to be stTongly impressed by these suggestions. To at least one of his plain-spoken conferees he indicated that it was the first time he had received such advice. What he has decided to do now remains to be seen. a o o HUEY LONG has Administration master minds almost talking to themselves in the Senate regarding his resolution to investigate Big Jim Farley. They don't know which way to turn. They have the votes in the Postoffice Committee —to which his resolution is referred —to bring out an adverse report. But if this is done. Huey would raise the hue and cry that the Administration feared to face a probe. Furthermore, there is serious doubt whether the committee could make its negative vote stick in the Senate. Republicans and Progressives would vote as a bloc for an investigation and there are enough regular Democrats, such as Massachusetts' David I Walsh, privately peeved at Farley, to make it a close count. The alternative to suppressing the probe—allowing it to proceed —seems too disastrous for the Admmistrationites to ponder. Huey has amply demonstrated that in such a proceeding he is practically Irrepressible. He would use the hearings as a sounding

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Trudging dav after day over league after league of Russian snows, on the retreat from Moscow, many died in ranks from cold and exhaustion. Others too weary to hold the marching pace fell behind. Some perished alone, falling beside the bleak roadside to rise no more Many were shot down bv bands of roving Cossacks who. like the vultures wheeling ever lower, appeared out of nowhere. The long trail was littered with the miserable jetsam of a great retreat. Episodes such as George Weiss, in the painting reproduced above, depicts, were innumerable.

afraid you must have been very anxious. The Due de Sassano. at least, will have brought you some news. 1 am nearing the time when I shall receive all your letters. My health is very good, the cold is very great. Adieu mon amie, you know how deeply I love you. Give the Queen of Naples, the Vice-Reine, the Princess de Neufchatel, news of their husbands, who are in good health. Tout a toi. NAP On the night of the 27th the emperor slept in a humble hut at Zaniwski. The next morning a two-fold attack was launched against the army; by Wittgenstein against Marshal Victor on the left bank, by Tchitchagoff against Oudinot, Ney and Dombrowski on the right bank. Napoleon remained with the Guard, which was massed at Brilowa in reserve, defending the two bridgeheads. The Russian admiral was defeated; Wittgenstein continued his attack till the following day. Os the tumult of this batile we do not catch the faintest echo in the letter sent to Marie Louise from the little town of Zembin (Sembin) in the center of a swamp crossed by the Vilna road: Ma bonne amie. I know that 15 couriers are awaiting me at a distance of three days’ march. I shall thus find 15 of your letters there. I am much worried at thinking of the sorrow’ it will give you to be so many days without hearing from me. hut I know that in an extraordinary occasion T must rely on your courage and

board to launch a terrific tirade at the entire Administration. Farley would just be an incident to the Kingfish. tt o o PAT M'CARRAN of Nevada interrupted Senator Carter Glass during the debate on the work-relief bill the other day, and during the course of his remarks referred to the peppery Virginian as “the learned Senator.” “I wish I were ‘learned.’ ” shot back Mr. Glass. "And I might be induced to believe I was ‘learned’ had not the Senator from Nevada made it a habit of speaking of some other Senators as ’learned’ whom I know are not ‘learned.’ ” 808 TWO things stood out clear cut the President’s message to Congress urging another two-year lease of life for the NRA. 1. Despite Mr. Roosevelt's assertion that the NRA has rendered useful service and its abandonment is “unthinkable." he was not willing to say that it had graduated from the experimental stage. 2. Politically. Mr. Roosevelt considers the NRA issue so dynamiteloaded that he does not want to go into the 1936 campaign saddled with sole responsibility for its record during the next two years. This explains the vagueness and ambiguity of his message—in which the only definite recommendation was the suggestion that the NRA be continued for another two years. Aside from this, Mr. Roosevelt dumped the whole problem in the lap of Congress. This fact is realized fully on Capitol Hill. The result is going to be a fierce struggle, particularly in the Senate. where a large bloc is fully convinced that the Blue Eagle should be killed and will leave no stone unturned to bring that about. Outside of Congress, it is not generally known that no legislation is necessary to kill the NRA. All that is necessary to accomplish this is to prevent action until June 16. when the existing act automatically expires. NRA foes are thoroughly aware of the powerful position this gives them in the fight. If they can stave off a vote until the tag end of the session, a filibuster might kill the NRA by default. s 3 a CHECK up another aspirant for 1936. New York's hulking, socialite Representative Ham Fish has been smitten with presidentitis and is quietly grooming himself to enter the Republican race at the right moment. Ham has secured the services of a publicity man and passes up no chance to be quoted.

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strength of character. Mv health is perfect, the weather very bad and very cold. Adieu, ma douce amie. two kisses to the Little King from me. You know’ all the tenderness of the sentiments of your husband. NAP. Zembin. November 28th (1812). The King of Naples, the Viceroy, the Prince de Neufchatel are in good health give news of them to their wives—as well as the Grand Marshal, who is writing, and all my aides-de-camp. Also give news of her son to Madame Montesquiou. B B B THE Beresina had been crossed —but at what a cost! The Partouneaux Division had been sacrificed at Borisow to cover the retreat. The bridges were cut behind Marshal Victor's army corps, the last to cross the river. The motley crowd of followers was thus cut off: disbanded soldiers, stragglers, thousands of men of every arm, in tattered uniforms with hardly human faces and hollow cheeks, the miserable jetsam of a great retreat. Captivity awaited them. But what hint of this tragic scene is to be found in the Emperors letter sent from Illia (Ilia ja > ? Mon amie—The 20 couriers who are missing will, I hope, reach me tomorrow, when I shall have news of you, which T very much long to receive. I have w’ritten to you by express messengers. The weather is very cold, my healbh is good. Be rheerful and contented. Your wishes will be granted sooner than you think. Give two kisses to my son and never doubt the loving sentiments of your faithful husband. NAP. Illis, December 9th (1912). Mon amie—l am sending you Montesquiou who will give you news of the army. He will tell you how’ well lam and above all how murh I love you. Adio. mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. Near Molodebehno, Dec. 2 (1812). Ma bonne amie—Yesterday T sent you Anatole Montesquiou who will give you news of this country. I thought you would be very glad to see someone to whom you can talk of what interests you. Now’ the regular courier will leave in an hour's time. I will answer 20 of your letters, for I am expecting 20 couriers in an hour’s time. Adio, mio bene. Your NAP. Molodetschno, December 3 (1812). The ’ news of this country"—too terrible to bear writing—was nevertheless recorded on the same day, and at the same place, Molodetschno (Mlodzieczno), in the Bulletins de la Grande Armee. This is the most tragic of all the records of the Russian campaign. The thermometer had fallen many degrees below zero, the horses had died by thousands. With cavalry inadequate to cover the army or act as scouts at a greater range than a quarter of a

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league, unable to join battle for lack of artillery, the army plodded on and on. Their heads were bowed, all gaiety had left them; they were continually harassed by Cossacks who ’would have been incapable of pressing an attack home against a company of skirmishers. Not a few were taken prisoner by these Cossack bands. a a a SO urgent was the danger that a "sacred squadron.” consisting of four companies with Grouchy in command, had been formed, mounted on the last surviving horses; its captains were generals, its non-commissioned officers. colonels. It was the Emperor's bodyguard, his ultimate defense. Meanwhile the author of the "Soirees de Saint-Petersburg,” who personally witnessed the Russian triumph, was drawing philosophical conclusions from these events. "There is something miraculous about what is happening today,” thus Joseph de Maistre wrote to the Barbonne de Pont. "Nopolcon entered Russia with 400.000 men and 1000 guns at least. Men and cannon, all have vanished away. At the present moment there are 150.000 prisoners. A gigantic monument is being planned to be erected at Moscow. It will be wrought in ‘captive bronze,’ as ancient inscriptions put it. "I commend to your admiration this man who never convened a Council of War, who boasted, what is more, that he never took any men's advice, and on this occasion had the notion of convening three Councils of War—merely in order to contradict them. That. Madame, was his ruin, but our salvation.” Mon amie—l have just received your letter of the 24th. I am much distressed at all the anxiety you are going through and which will last another fortnight at least, my health, however, has never been better. You will have seen in the Army Orders that things have (not?) gone as well as I would

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

WASHINGTON. March 2.—A League of Nations invitation to join in declaring Paraguay an "outlaw'’ state and subjecting her to sanctions, expected here shortly, will almost certainly be turned down. The United States policy of neutrality in the war between Paraguay and Bolivia, the writer learned today on high authority, will hardly be altered as a result of the League branding Paraguay as an aggressor.

An embargo has been placed on the shipment of arms from this country to either republic. To lift, this embargo from one and not the other—as the league has done in favor of Bolivia would be a violation of neutrality, which th;s government wishes to avoid. Coming on the heels of dispatches announcing Argentina's

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have wished, vet affairs are not going badly just now; the weather is hitterly cold. In a few days’ time I shall make up my mind about your journey for tlie purpose of meeting,again soon. Live in hope and do not worry. Adio, mio bene. Tout a toi. N. December Bth (Smorgony, 1812) BUB “ \ FFAIRS are not going badly jfV. just now.” What is to be understood thereby? On that day. Dec. 5. at headquarters at Smorgony iSmorghonie) the emperor assembled the chief leaders of the Army in view of an important communication: the King of Naples, Murat, was to take over, with the rank of Lieutenant General, the supreme command of the Army, of the ghost of an army. As for himself, the emperor would vanish in the course of the night. Incognito, under the name of Due de Vicence, so that no one might be tempted to hold the unsuccessful warrior as hostage, he traveled by way of Wilna. Warsaw. Dresden, Leipzig and Mayence; he was on his way to Paris, where a post-chaise landed him on Dec. 18. "I had gone to fight men in arms, not angry Nature,” he observed in his exile at St. Helena. "I defeated their armies. But I was unable to conquer fire, frost, numbness and death. Fate was stronger than I!” In Paris he joined his doux amour, his bene, his bonne Louise, who. it must be stated plainly, had lived in anguish from one end of the campaign to the other. "A single day without a letter suffices to drive me to despair.” she wrote to her friend, Victtoire de Poutet, whom she told of her joy after Napoleon came back: "I am sure you will share the happiness it has given me to have him back after an absence of seven months.” Monday—Uprising in Germany. (Copyright, 1935. in France by Bibliothcque Natlonale; in all other countries by T’nited Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited All rights reserved.)

categorical opposition to coercive measures by the league against Paraguay, this helps still further to place the league in a difficult spot. a a a PARAGUAY having defied the league's ultimatum to cease fighting Bolivia, and having resigned from that organization instead. the league committee on the Chaco war will meet Monday week to consider the next step. No matter what the league now does, it will spell trouble. Having declared Paraguay the aggressor and raised its embargo to permit the shipment of arms to Bolivia, it is bound by the covenant to invoke sanctions against the alleged "outlaw.’’ Yet effective sanctions are impossible without the co-operation of Paraguay's neighbors, and already Argentina takes pretty much the same attitude as the United States. Reports from European capitals are that some of the league’s principal members feel that its prestige, already weakened by the blowr Nippon dealt it in Manchuria, will be seriously impaired unless an example is made of Paraguay. a a a COME of the smaller powers, on the other hand, contend that by so doing the league would demonstrate that it has one law for the strong and another for the weak. That, they warn, will be the result if it now' cracks dow-n on Paraguay after refusing to do so on Japan. The league, therefore, now stands between the devil and the deep sea. If it proceeds, as its covenant directs, against Paraguay. it will almost inevitably run counter to some of the strongest South American republics, and. in addition, be accused of acting only against small countries. If it backs dowm it will be accused of weakness. The United States will likely be sounded out between now and the time the Chaco committee meets on March 11 to formulate league policy. jilt

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEOLER IT has been a long time since Mr. Roosevelt pulled a rabbit out of the hat and the unhappy suspicion begins to dawn that he has run out of rabbits. That would be very bad because the act still has a considerable time to run and the customers might become bored and start walking out or uttering disparaging remarks. For that, matter, a number of the customers have actually been edging up the aisles lately, not. running, to be sure, but certainly on the move toward the nearest exit and remarks

are beginning to be heard of a character quite shocking by comparison with the hallelujah shouting that greeted the President when he first came to town. As long as it lasted, the Roosevelt act. including the family and the sunny smile, as well as the mystifying feats of the New Deal, was a fascinating entertainment which held the citizens enthralled and, except when they broke into cheers, silent. There were Sisty and Buzzie and the dog that took a bite out of Mrs. Senator Carraway, and the Roosevelt boys with their high-spirited independence

and mischief. Mrs. Roosevelt went around snapping precedents “like breaking sticks.” as the country phrase goes, and tnere was the novelty of the ladies' press corps and the press conferences for the girls only. Thera were the writings of the writing Roosevelts, the President himself, his mother. Madam President and their daughter. Anna. BBS Scooted Around the Country THERE were the broadcasts, the ship models, the innovation of the ladies' gridiron dinner, if you dared call it that, which took up an evening in innocent merriment, charades, riddles and games while the President, himself, went down to the Willard Hotel to spill salt and crack a hardshell banquet roll with the white ties of the fourth estate. There was Mrs. Roosevelt's little blue car in which she scooted around the country, as unassuming as any lady by the name of Mrs. Jones that you ever saw in your ljfo. Ana you mustn’t forget repeal. Repeal night was a great night in the early days of the New Deal although the deciding vote caught the purveyors flat-footed and compelled the citizens to seek out their old speakeasies where they were told that no liquor was to be had. The speakeasies turned down their old customers that night because they hadn't yet received their licenses and it was against the law to sell anything until they did receive them. Now Gen. Johnson is gone and, feeling mighty sore about it all, has written his memoirs of the NR A which give the impression of an obituary for the NRA. Mr. Roosevelt may go on the air for occasional further fireside chats and these no doubt will do some good in the way of reviving the faith and interest of the citizens, but the truth is that they are becoming restless, like children who have played with a mechanical frog until the spring has busted. Now and again you may poke it up and it will give another feeble hop but it is out of fix and anyway it is time for something new. Any one who has ever seen a child grow, tired of a fascinating toy and pucker up its face and begin to yell for an ice cream cone will recognize the symptoms. It does seem too bad that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Farley guessed as they did in the case of Huey Long, because Huey would be a great help inside the Administration and he is becoming day by day a greater nuisance outside. B B B Huey Was Slightly Plastered PROBABLY somebody knows exactly what started the row. but it is popularly supposed to have begun one night just before coronation day when Huey, slightly plastered as was more or less usual with him in those days, went horning through a crowd in the corridor outside Mr. Roosevelt's quarters at the Mayflower hotel and hammered on Mr. Roosevelt’s door with his walking cane. They let him in. but he came out quite soon looking as though he had received a competent bawling out for banging on the door and showing up in that condition. This poisoned Huey and his resentment became more and. more open until, to put him in his place, they took his jobs away from him. A Senator without any jobs to give away ordinarily would be ruined, but Huey was more resourceful, so he turned teetotal and religious and went about taking over the state of Louisiana for himself. In this way he has made his own jobs for his own people and has left Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Farley, who are supposed to be politicians, in the position of sponsors for some low-grade gang politicians in Louisiana who are just as bad as Huey says they are. Now Huey has them on the defensive and even the man Bilbo who was elected Senator from Mississippi as a counter irritant to Huey seems afraid to tangle with him. They have always thought that the man Eilbo was one man who could fight Huey his own way, and they still look to him to do so, but the man Bilbo is taking a long time getting his mad up. He might even jump the fence and throw in with Huey and that, my friends, would be something for American history. If Mr. Roosevelt could only reach into that hat and pull out one more rabbit. (Copyright, 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Tnc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

INCREASING importance of molybdenum in industry is one of the most interesting features of the changing world picture. According to Arthur D. Little. Inc., chemists of Cambridge. Mass., molybdenum may soon surpass tungsten in importance. This will come as a surprise to many persons to who molybdenum is an unfamiliar and awkward name faintly remembered from high school chemistry days as one of the chemical elements. Molybdenum is a metal, resembling tungsten in many ways, but pos.ses.sing only half its weight. At the present time, tungsten, which is used for the filament of electric light bulbs, in steel alloys, and elsewhere, is about twice as important industrially. But the experts of the Little organization report that new uses are being found for molybdenum with such rapidity that this situation soon may be reversed. This is of particular significance to America because this country produces about four-fifths of the world’s supply of molybdenum. The remainder comes from Norway and Canada with the Norwegian production under the control of British capital, according to the best available reports. Most of the tungsten supply of the world comes from China and Burma, the United States producing only 4 per cent. a a a PRODUCTION of molybdenum in America in 1933 was 40 per cent higher than any previous figure. The production in 1934 was 70 per cent higher than that in 1933. Molybdenum is finding its greatest use in the manufacture of iron and steel alloys. There are a few steels which use the metal as the chief alloying ingredient but, in most cases, it is added in only very small quantities. The important thing, however, is that these small amounts, sometimes amounting to as little as one-quarter of 1 per cent, have tremendous effects upon the nature and behavior of the resulting alloy. It is claimed that molybdenum is particularly effective in providing a steel which will have a finegrained micro-structure after heat treatment, combined with increased ductility and tensile strength. a a a RECENTLY, the molybdenum became a competitor of tungsten in the field of high-speed cut-ting-tool steels. This field now provides the chief market for tungsten. The standard steel in this field is known as the 18-4-1 because it is a steel alloy containing 18 parts tungsten, four parts chromium and one part vanaddium. It is reported that anew alloy containing some tungsten, but molybdenum as well, will duplicate the performance of the 18-4-1 alloy. The new alloy, known as 8-2-4-1 contains eight parts of tungsten, two of molybdenum, four of chromium and one of vanadium.

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