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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935. WATERED MILK A NGRY farmers are dumping into Illinois ditches milk which might save many a Chicago baby from rickets They have been getting 38 cents a quart gross while Chicago distributors have been charging consumers ll cents and up. The farmers are striking for 5 4 cents There are sections in which the farmer gets even less than the protested Chicago price and the consumer pays even more than 11 cents. The milk puzzle is national in scope and the problem is how to give the farmer a fair price and not bleed the consumer for one of the most essential foods. One of the major evils which seems to beset the Industry is similar to one which brought disaster to a number of public utilities in the depression, namely, over-capitalization. In one major milk market, a producer-distribu-tor co-operative, with a capitalization of $150,000, does a larger gross business than a competitor with a capital structure swollen to nearly a million dollars. Obviously much of the latter’s stock is water. To l ' n dividends on this set-up it is necessary to chi*. ' *he producer and the consumer, which is exactly wo. is happening. Attempts of the Federal government to regulate the industry have met a serious obstacle in this condition. How can the problem be solved? Apparently only by the voluntary overhauling of the big distributors. This will not come about without competition from a competitor with a healthy capital structure. And one possibility here is the growth of co-opera-tive producing and distributing systems, farmerowned and farmer-operated. One such organization has been operating successfully for a number of years. The results it has achieved would appear to warrant the extension of these co-operative competitors. With good management, they could force the big distributors to squeeze the water out of their capital structures and so .cstore the industry to a sound marketing basis. A DYING INSTITUTION l MIIS year’s jurisdictional wrangle among the -*• building trades unions, at the A. F. of L. convention, takes on all the unreal and pitiful aspects of a dinosaur’s death struggle. While the builders seemingly persist in doing all they can to make the construction of a home, a factory or an office building as costly and inconvenient, as it is humanly possible to make it, science and industrial genius are quietly at work arranging their elimination. Before many years have passed, prefabrication of houses will make the building trades organization, as we know it today, as extinct as the dodo. Tire workers are not entirely to blame. Their struggle to make a decent living in a highly seasonal. highly uncertain industry has been a desperate one. They can’t be blamed for demanding a high wage rate to carry them through the months of idleness. They can’t be blamed for fighting among themselves for whatever work is available, when it means bre ad and butter for their families. But the result, partly from this, partly from other causes, has been less and less building, less and less work. In a machine age, building has been held to the cramped, inadequate status of a handcraft, making the ownership of a home a luxury which only well-to-do families can afford, and the construction of a home an ordeal calling for more patience and endurance than the average citizen can command. Faciory-built houses, when finally perfected and accepted, will change all this. And when the inevitable casualties of change have been forgotten, building tradesmen, with year-round jobs at homeassembling factories, certainly should find themselves better paid and more secure than ever before—able, even, to afford homes themselves. VOICES FROM THE DEEP DV turning back the pages about 20 years one may find ready to hand a reply to the telegram sent President Roosevelt by the Conference on Port Development of the City of New York. The message urged the President to rescind his neutrality policy toward the Italo-Ethiopian war and protested against his warning Americans not to use the ships of belligerents. The conference believes the President's ban is “premature and ill-advised and is not furthering our neutral position at present time ” There was no such ban on the use of the ships of belligerents during 1915. 1916 and 1917. and here Is a partial record of what befell the American passengers: March 28. 1915, British liner Falaba sunk, one American lost. May 7. 1915. Lusitania, 124 Americans. Aug. 19, 1915, Arabic, tw'o Americans. Nov. 7, 1915, Italian ship Ancona, 11 Americans. Dec. 30, 1915, Persia, two Americans. March 24, 1916. Sussex, torpedoed, but not sunk, several American* killed by the explosion. Dec. 14. 1916, Russian, a British horse transport, 17 American muleteers. Feb. 25. 1917, Laconia, two Americans. More than 150 Americans, by incomplete count, lost their lives on belligerent ships during the war before this country entered. These deaths were an Infuriating and more than any other a decisive factor in bringing us in, and ironically, one of our most persuasive slogans was ‘‘freedom of the seas.” If these torpedoed neutrals could lift their voices above the waves today they could tell a different tale as to the President's warning being "premature.” DOUBLE-BREASTED ECONOMICS IN his recent attack on New Deal waste, Herbert ■*- Hoover was exceedingly critical of the three and one-half billion dollar Federal deficit—all of which, Incidentally, is incurred to relieve the distress of the American people. Three and one-half billions, Mr. Hoover said, was a sum so vast that he could hardly “comprehend” it. But he did know it was enough to "buy me 90.000,000 suits of clothes. At least that is about one suit for every mile between the earth and the sun." • Thumbing through the A’s in an encyclopedia, we

encounter an item headed “American Commission for Relief in Belgium—Herbert Hoover, administrator” —and we read that this organization early in the World War, before America’s entry’ therein—fed and otherwise cared for ten million Belgians and Frenchmen who were in dire want because of the German army's occupation, spending approximately $1,500,000,000. And an item headed "American Relief Administration—Herbert Hoover, administrator"—which right after the war fed even a greater number of starving Russians. Finns, Estonians. Latvians, Rumanians, Yugoslavs, Czechoslavs, Austrians and Hungarians, spending approximately $1,000,000,000. And we check the records of the U. S. government's income and expenditures for the last three year budgeted, while Herbert Hoover was in the White Hou.se, and find that those years showed deficits respectively of $463,000,000 and $2,741,000,000 and $2,607,000,000 Adding what Mr. Hoover spent to relieve distress in Europe to Mr. Hoover's deficits which were incurred with his Administration spending haidly anything to relieve the distress we arrive at the grand totaj oi $3,311,000,000 on this side of the w’ater. Os course that sum is so vast that Mr. Hoover probably can't “comprehend” it—although he did spend it. But he's good at figures, so we suggest that he get out his common denominator—the suit of clothes—and tell us how many blue-serge, doublebreasted models $8,311,000,000 would buy him, and to which star they would reach if spaced through the stratosphere, “one suit for every mile.” And speaking of Hoover: a a a WE NOMINATE MARK jyjARK SULLIVAN, Washington correspondent, Hoover s bosom friend and uncompromising foe of the AAA, just can't understand why the farmers like it. He has finally arrived at this: "Somebody should explain to the Midwestern farmers, patiently and candidly and not truculently, that AAA is impossible.” vVho better than Mark himself for the job? His heart is in it. We nominate him. It may involve some physical discomfort. He probably will have to get accustomed to sloshing around in barnyards, delivering his message while the chores are being finished. Then there will be the hazard of walking behind horses that might kick—and cockleburrs in the back forty, and a momentary tendency toward truculence w’hen he steps into something that looks like third base. And maybe poison ivy on some of the old rail fences he will climb in order to get to his listeners. He'll have to learn how to get along with strange dogs. But after all it won't be any worse than the normal life of a lightning rod salesman. Getting out there won't be so bad and the rough work won't start until he arrives in the heart of the farm belt. He can take a drawing room as far, for example, as Kansas City. Then he may have to go to locals, which are a bit slow and smoky, but will get him there just the same. Valet and room service won't be so good in some of the country hotels, but the zeal of the missionary will have overcome Mark by the time he is actually out among the deluded. So he won’t mind. It may seem that the task is too large for any one man. But it won’t work out that way because there's nothing like a farmer for action when he finally finds out he’s being gypped. It won't be a case of just one Paul Revere calling personally on every farmer in the whole Middle West. As farmer after farmer discovers what’s been happening to him, as Mark patiently and candidly points that out, there will be volunteers, by tens, by twenties, then by the hundreds and the thousands—farmers calling to farmers—the message of evil tidings that has been brought to them. So hop to it, Mark. You go tell ’em their AAA checks are no good.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.

rpOR four years the stout sad-faced man has been taking tickets at the same moving picture theater. I had seen him there so often that I had almost forgotten he was alive. He reaches out his hand, divides the ticket in half with a quick turn of the wrist, gives you your half with a smile, and thrusts the left-over fragment into the tall receptacle before him. Over and over and over he does this. Curious how different people appear when you really look at them, as I began finally to look at him. Many tin es I felt like I'd burst with curiosity about the stout sad-faced man. What did he think as he stood there watching the people pass hour after hour? Why did his face seem to crumble every now and then as if it were about to fold up because something inside him had let down? One day the chance came to find out. We got to talking. It's very easy once you're started. We were alone in the foyer. Inside Laurel and Hardy were frolicking on the screen and the children fairly howled with laughter. The very walls seemed to bulge with the force of their merriment. He told me about himself. He liked taking tickets at the movie, he said, because he could see the children all the time that way and they always seemed eager and happy, as children ought to be. If he didn’t have that he couldn't live. His life had really stopped anyway five years ago when his little boy and girl and their mother went boating with friends and never came back. The boat upset. He had had a pretty good job in an office then. But some way he couldn't stick it after that. Sitting at a desk fiddling with papers seemed so futile. So he just walked out. Then, after a long, dreadful interim he saw two children running into a movie. They reminded him of little Margaret and Harry; he followed them, and there he has been, off and on, ever since. “I'm a lucky man,” he said. “I got this job at once. 'Will you listen to those children? How they love it!” His face was sad no longer, and I knew it was the laughter of his Margaret and Harry he heard from within. Hitler and peace! The very terms are antithetical. He is today the greatest menace to world safety.—Bernard M. Baruch. To economic sanctions we shall answer with our discipline, our spirit of sacrifice, our obedience. To military sanctions we shall answer with militarism. To acts of war we shall answer with acts of war. —Mussolini. If social credit works, nobody else will.—Premier Mitchell Hepburn, Ontario, referring to government experiment in which Albertans are to be paid $25 a month dividend. Despite what happens in continents overseas, the United States of America shall and must remain unentangled and free.—President Roosevelt. We are producing a generation of young people with a 12-year-old understanding of life. Youth takes food, clothing, shelter, education and pocket money for granted.—Dr. W. P. Tolley, president, Allegheny, College. 5

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to do with the curtailment of the potato crop. Indiana never has raised more than 50 per cent of her actual potato needs, buying the remainder from Michigan and Idaho. Under the new order we will be forced to purchase a considerably larger percentage from outside states. This will add not only the process tax, but also freight charges to the price of our potatoes, making the purchase of potatoes by many all but prohibitive. What the poor are going to do, those who have small children to feed, is beyond me. ... Os all the damnable public policies that have marked our national history, the present ones of Mr Wallace and the A. A. A. are the most cold-blooded and inhuman. . . . You ask what I suggest. That which I am about to suggest seemed like a fool's dream when I first heard of it. But after studying it over a period of months I am not only convinced of its feasibility, but that it will accomplish the things it purports. It had its birth in the brain and heart of an ordinary practicing physician, whose daily rounds brought him into contact with the deprivation and actual need of his fellow human beings. Brooding on the condition of humans whom he daily treated, Dr.

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Francis E. Townsend evolved what is now known as the Townsend Old Age Revolving Pension Plan. If you will but substitute the word recovery for the word pension and study the plan from that angle, I am convinced you can come to only one conclusion. And should you, after studying it, adopt it as a national policy, not only would prosperity be returned permanently to our loved country but you, Mr. President, would be immortalized in every home of America, and go down in American history as the great heart of all time. May God bless you and keep you, Mr. President, under the cover of His wings. tt a ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR NOT FOR AMERICA By a Skeptic In reading press dispatches about the Italian-Ethiopian war, we are beginning to see the somewhat shadowy hand of the press agent. The same phenomenon of propai ganda was noticeable in 1914, and before very long we were lending the Allies our money to buy our goods, going to war to protect those investments, and then learning that Europe didn't intend to pay. Now, Geneva is the base for the

tations may be removed from the fish by acid, carefully applied. Curio shops usually paint starfish to resemble their natural colors. Q —How many fatal and nonfatal accidents occur in homes in the United States? A—The estimate of home fatalities in 1934 was 34,500. and 5,000,000 non-fatal injuries, including 150,000 which resulted in permanent disability. Q—ls there a paved road in Death Valley, California? A—Yes, but it is of low standard construction, of a bitum.nous mixture, and does not extend throughout the reservation. Q —What is the value of a Lincoln head penny dated 1922? A—lt is worth only its face value. Q—What is the Sullivan law? A—A New York statute, prohibiting the sale and ownership of firearms except under permits, that is aimed to discourage crime by cutting off the supply of firearms to criminals.

propaganda. Sanctions have been imposed on Italy, in the pious hope that Mussolini will stop his war. We hear a great deal about “enforcing peace” and about the challenge it has presented to the world's collective machinery for averting war. Britain seems to be the guiding spirit in this action ror sanctions, and Britain has the greatest African empire the world has ever seen; obtained in exactly the same way Mussolini is trying to get Ethiopia. There isn't room in Africa for two rival empires, so Downing-st is anxious and British warships are concentrated in the Mediterranean. We shouldn’t take ail this talk too seriously, for at the end there is another war in which American troops and warships would be appreciated. It is up to Americans to refuse to be fooled. The league action is a move to save Britain's African possessions—a job that distinctly is not one for America. Daily Thought Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. —Job 11:12. VANITY is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices—the vices of affectation and common lying.—Adam Smith.

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OCT. 11. 1935

Washington Merrv-Go-Round

By DRF.W TEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Y\7'ASHINGTON. Oct. 14.—When * * a Negro in Clarkesburg. Miss., stole three bales of botton out of a Federal warehouse, one year ago, no one dreamed that it might develop into one of the most trying problems recently presented to the Supreme Court. Although given no publicity, the case—United States vs. Hastings—is due to be argued this week and is calculated by New Deal lawyers to tie the Nine Old Men up in knots. If they find against the United States they cause chaos to the cotton marketing system of the South. If they support the United States, they must virtually reverse their own findings in the Schechter sick chicken case which knocked the props from under the NR A. Nub of the question is: What is interstate commerce? It arose when Fred Hastings, a white man. allegedly induced a Negro to steal three bales of cotton from the Federal warehouse. Action was brought in the Federal courts for a violation of the Federal Warehousing Act. The Negro was sentenced to eight months. Hastings then filed a demurrer on grounds of unconstitutionality, and the District Court sustaineu 11m. a a a HASTINGS’ argument is that cotton in a warehouse is not in interstate commerce. In the famous Schechter case it was argued that chickens sent to New York markets also were not in interstate commerce. In the Schechter case the chickens had arrived. In the Hastings case the cotton had not begun to move. However, lawyers generally agree that warehousing is intimately tied up with the stream of interstate commerce. Under the Federal Warehousing Act, receipts totaling approximately one billion dollars are handled. Most of these are negotiable and are given the same care as Federal currency. Banks lend on them and brokers trade on them. Should the Supreme Court toss the law out, it would | seriously disrupt the trade of the | South, making it difficult to borrow ! on cotton and other staple crops, except at high interest rates. The Federal Warehousing Act was enacted during the days of Woodrow Wilson, has been operating 19 years and has been sustained by the courts in five previous cases. If the Supreme Court knocks it out now, New Dealers claim that the entire South will support the President in hi# “horse-and-buggy” criticism of the court. n a a WPA officials have decided to add a dictionary to their of--1 fiee equipment. It happened this way: In a list of work-relief projects received from Louisiana was an item calling for a "banquet.” Indignant at the idea of calling for public money to be spent on a dinner, they blue-penciled the proposal. But a sharp-eyed engineer, who had worked in the bayou state, j checked them. He sent out for a [dictionary. It said: “Banquet, a [ bank running along the inside of a j parapet, the footway of a bridge ; when raised above the carriage-way, a side-walk.” Further inquiries of the Louisiana WPA director disclosed that he wanted money for a sidewalk, not a meal. a a a AN inconspicuous item in the last War Department appropriation probably will result in one of the most fascinating stories of adventure and romance ever to come out of a prosaic act of Congress. It appropriated $lO 000 to be paid to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famous arctic explorer, in compensation for a book to be written by him of his experiences in the arctic, particularly in the Northwest Passage. Stefansson is the only man who has gone through this hazardous strait, and a detailed account of that area is expected to be of great benefit to the Army in charting future air routes. Military and air strategists consider this vast arctic waste the coming short cut to Europe. But to date, it is about the least known area in the world. President Roosevelt recently wrote to Stefansson, asking him to proceed with the book. 'Copyright. 1935 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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