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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1936. THE CREDIT RESERVOIR nnHERE are good dams—Boulder, Grand Coulee, Bonneville, and the system down in the Tennessee Valley—that will turn waste lands into rich and fertile gardens. And there is another dam that we have built in this country, the money dam, which may or may not prove good. Piled up behind the money dam are vast supplies of credit, which may contribute to putting the country again on the road to prosperity or may lead it again to disaster—depending on the way the banks permit this credit to be used. Picture how a good dam like Boulder works. Behind the great structure lies placid Lake Mead. Below in .Imperial Valley are the farmers on the land. As diiTcrent sections of the land require water, the stored up floods are turned into penstocks and run through power houses and then out to the spots where the water is needed. No section receives more or less water than it needs and can use to advantage. This is the way our credit system should work. Instead of alternate floods in one section and droughts in another, credit should feed to the commercial, industrial, and investment fields as it is needed. Under the new legislation of 1935 the Federal Reserve Board now has four instruments with which to control and direct the stream of credit—open-market operations in government bonds, changes in discount rates and reserve requirements, and changes in margin requirements for stock purchases. With these safeguards, the danger of feeding credit into the stock market at so rapid a rate as to cause an unhealthy speculative boom, while depriving commerce and industry of needed supplies, should be minimized. t* u u 'T'HE time has come now to open those penstocks that will let tjie dollars flow to business and industry, while keeping a close watch upon those which 'would diain credit ofT into speculation. While idle bank reserves stagnate there are 11 million idle men and millions of idle machines. Industry now is providing chiefly consumer goods. Consumer goods industries are operating at 93 per cent of their 1929 level, producer goods industries at only 57 per cent. This consumer demand has been fed largely by government public works and relief funds; financed principally by government borrowings from banks, a process which has helped to swell the credit reservoir. So far the public debt resulting from this spending has not affected the public credit, but there is a limit to borrowing, and a limit to artificial credit which can be kept in check. The American Federation of Labor’s monthly survey of business warns that in six years the national debt has almost doubled, rising from 16.7 billions in 1929 to 30.5 billions at the close of 1935. This exceeds by 4 billions the wartime peak of 26.5 billions. New pressure groups from the arid economic valleys below are pounding on Confess door for more and more help from government. Ine government would be relieved of much of this threatening pressure if the banks would open the penstocks of commercial credit where commercial credit is justified. Private finance and business should ponder well the lesson of the dams. Failure to irrigate the industrial valleys may result in anew disaster. POLITICAL BLUNDER speaking, President Roosevelt ranks as among the most skillful of politicians, but he went off form when he ordered Maj. Gen. Hagood “home.” One doesn t have to be a prophet to see the martyr role that will be built up for the general by the Republican orators of 1936; the picture of a man who had served his country at the front in the world’s greatest war removed from his important post because of his criticism of WPA. That what Hagood said classified technically as insubordination is beside the point, insofar as practical politics is* concerned. True, one should have reached the age of discretion by 63, and Hagood is 63. Just shooting off one's mouth about the way one's commander-in-chief is running things “isn’t done” in the Army, punishment under such circumstances being the custom. But for purposes of 1936 speech-making army custom won t count, and what Hagood said about WPA expenditures being “in stage money” has been dramatized by the President’s personal action in oraermg Hagood from his command.

GLORY IS NOT ALL QTUDENTS of military training in schools receivlng Federal co-operation will get a view of the gory as well as the glorious side of war if Congress adopts a bill introduced by Rep. Maury Maverick (D„ Tex.). The Texan, wounded in the World War, would prescribe certain works for reading courses in educational institutions to which U. S. Army officers are assigned. His bill names the following as required reading: “All Quiet on the Western Front,” by Eric Remarque. “The Red Badge of Courage," by Stephen Crane. “Road to War" and “The Martial Spirit,” by Walter Millis. "Three Soldiers." by John Dos Passos. “The First World War,” by Lawrence Stallings. “The Case of Sergeant Grischa," by Arnold Zweig. GOVERNOR RITCHIE A LBERT CABELL RITCHIE hated hypocrisy. He never contended as so many politicians do, that his participation in public life was in response to some higher call of patriotism, or that it entailed personal sacrifice. He said frankly that he preferred public life, that he regarded it as a field of endeavor where a man of his temperament and qualifications could carve out a career personally more satisfying than pursuit of any private profession or business. And he carved out an honorable one. Four t mes the people of Maryland elected him Governor, an honor never accorded to any other man in the free state’s history. And each time he received a larger plurality of votes. Hia unsuccessful bid for a fifth term was the only rebuff in 35 years of Maryland politics. He was a political Überal. He believed in state rights and accepted the component of states responsibilities. He defied President Harding’s demand f ‘' * v ~

that he send troops to settle a Maryland coal strike. Then worked for a -peaceful settlement. But he did not hesitate to use troops against a lynch mob of his own people. He fought national prohibition when many of less fortitude qualified before the then dominant political forces of intolerance and repression. He was an ecomonic conservative. Even the collapse of our economic system in 1933 failed to shake laissez faire views. He looked upon the troubled national scene with eyes accustomed only to penetration of the comparatively simple problems of governing a compact unit whose citizens on the whole enjoyed a solid tradition of independence and security. Os that state and for those citizens, he was a good Governor. THIS BEATS US CALIFORNIA'S presidential offerings recall what Sir Walter Scott said about woman, “in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please.” First comes Mr. Hoover of Palo Alto protesting he isn’t a candidate but giving a perfect imitation of one. Then comes Mr. McGroarty of Tujunga, California’s poet laureate, Townsendite and statesman. First he swears he’s done with politics. Then he says the Townsendites would make a “tragic mistake” if they started a third party. Then he accepts their offer to head a third party as the Townsendites’ presidential candidate. And now comes Gov. Merriam of Long Beach with the master puzzle. Although his friends are pushing him as a G. O. P. presidential favorite son candidate he got up in Presbyterian meetin’ the other day and, according to the United Press, said that President Roosevelt is “a man raised up by Almighty God to meet the country’s present crisis.” “History will show that Providence raised the proper man to meet present emergencies and will demonstrate, I think, that the man who now holds the presidency was just the one to meet the situation,” he is quoted as saying. Have- we now a conservative Republican running on a platform in support of Roosevelt? Maybe it’s the climate.

BOOTLEG COAL GEORGE H. EARLE of Pennsylvania has just refused the request of anthracite coal operators that he send state police to stop some 13,000 men from digging coal on company lands and selling it throughout the East. Gov. Earle said the state would act only on the request of the local officials. But as local sentiment is back of the bootleggers, no such request is anticipated. He said the operators themselves could solve the problem by reopening some of the mines they have closed for efficiency purposes. The Governor’s turndown of the great coal companies makes improbable any official action to prevent the continuance of the bootleg coal businesscrazy, ramshackle structures on a thousand hills, above dangerous hand-dug holes in which men work at the hardest kind of labor; hundreds of trucks carrying the illegitimate product in competition with the regular industry, taking $30,000,000 of annual revemte away from the latter. In Washington, however, hopes of a solution are put forward by Thomas Kennedy, who is Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers. He said a plan of “work equalization” would be presented to the anthracite operators in wage negotiations scheduled to open in New York Feb. 24. It is assumed that the plan would involve an agreement by the operators to open some of the closed mines for the relief of stranded communities.

EASY ANSWERS "D EP - LEMKE of North Dakota admits that, he has the complete answer to the farmers’ economic difficulties in his bill to guarantee cost of production. Now if some city representative will introduce a bill to guarantee the cost of consumption, all our problems will be solved. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson T’M beginning to feel chummy with Eleanor Roosevelt. Our columns are within hailing distance of each other. And recently I was in a stampede of women at the White House and we talked about our sons in Fort Worth. So the First Lady is a person, instead of a name to me. I’ve got four hats and I take them all off to her. One must have special gifts to go through her daily official routine. So far as I could discover she’s the hardest-working person in the Administration—and loves it. Her life must be an ordeal, with flashlights flaring, eyes watching her every move and reporters taking down every word she utters. I’m tired of hearing her called charming. She’s so much more than that. She's gallant. Only a valiant soul could maintain such a gracious attitude toward the thousands of visitors whom she greets each week and keep that greeting so sincere, so truly kind. Everybody is twice as stiff as usual once they find themselves within the presidential residence. And you know how ladies are—always twittering, always curious and always taking tea. We took tea the day I was there. In the diningroom, stately and impressive and a little gloomy, the table glowed with candles. Pink cakes twinkled and frail sandwiches swooned in heaps on silver plates. Mrs. Roosevelt wore orchids. The rest of us had on our best company manners. With the exception of the hostess there was not an unfluttered person in the room and I doubt whether she was calm after having run the gantlet of introductions. I was in a dither, because another appointment was imminent. However, I had been told that any one who wished to keep the respect of Emily Post never left a room while the President’s wife was in it, so I was stuck. Then the tray was fetched and I helped myself to tea. Imagine my surprise and delight when, with the very first sip, I gazed into the depths of a badly cracked cup. I felt at home immediately. FROM THE RECORD 13 EP. BOYLAN (D., N. Y.): Asa farmer from Manhattan (laughter), I wish to say that Manhattan is the oldest borough in the city of New York, and I think we have one small farm, a little truck farm, left. However, my sympathies have always been with the farmer. I have always voted to help him. ... I have listened to the debate, and I was greatly’ impressed with the 41,444 words (laughter) spoken in behalf of the larmers. But I heard very little about the poor consumer. I suppose he is buried under the avalanche of words. *r # * Senator Gerry’ (D., R. I.): The men who say that there is no provocation that will cause them to fight ... do not belong to the race of freemen and violate every American tradition that made this country what it is.

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TN one of the city’s schools’ very best first grade the teacher told her pupils to draw a picture of Adam and Eve being driven out of the Garden of Eden by the Angel. When she collected the pieces of art one of them clearly showed an angel at the wheel of an auto, and Adam and Eve in the rear seat, just about to pass through the gates on to an inviting highway. Looked like a ’35 Chevrolet. a a a THE accommodating young lady who takes checks for nearly all her co-workers in a downtown office to the bank on Saturday mornings and gets them cashed, came back in a rash of peeve last week. She distributed the money without her usual smile. Then she once more donned her coat and started out. “Where you going,” someone asked. “To the bank. I forgot my own check,” she said. It took her a long time to get over it. mam npHE man was telling a fellowemploye that buying lottery tickets is among the more scatterbrain avocations in life. Then he told why. “A distant cousin of mine died. It developed he had no funds and I would have to pay for his burial. I had lost contact with him several years before. “After the services were over and he was decently laid to rest, I went through his personal belongings. In the pocket of a coat I found lottery tickets, purchases oi one week, that, all winners, would have made him one of the really wealthy men in the country. “He had paid $27 for them, while eating a sinker and coffee for breakfast, and 10-cent goulash the two other meals. As far as I know he never won once.” a a a CONTRIBUTED by William Low e Bryan, Indiana University president: The threat of Congressman O’Connor to ’ “kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House” recalls the famous case of Sam Houston and the congressman whom that doughty warrior did in fact kick. Who was Sam Houston? He was a member of Congress at 30. Later he was Governor of Tennessee and probable choice of Andrew Jackson for the presidency of the United States. He resigned the governorship on account of domestic difficulties and joined the Cherokees, west of the Mississippi. There he married Tiana Rogers, splendid half-breed of the family which has given us the Will Rogers of our day. Still later he won Texas from Mexico at the battle of San Jacinto and became Governor, United States Senator and once more Governor of that state. While Houston was of the Cherokees, he came to Washington to represent their interests. A congressman in a speech reflected upon Houston’s integrity which was in fact always above reproach. Houston challenged the congressman to a duel. The congressman declined the challenge on the ground that he could not be called to account for words spoken on the floor of Congress. Houston then met his critic on the street, caned him, knocked him down and kicked him in divers places to his serious injury and humiliation. Houston was arrested and brought before Congress in a trial which occupied four days. Houston’s lawyer was the author of the “Star Spangled Banner” —Francis S. Key. a a a HOWEVER, Houston was his own lawyer. Dressed in splendor in a suit for which President Jackson provided the money, he addressed the Congress and galleries crowded with military, diplomatic and social dignitaries in a speech of dazzling eloquence. There were bombs of eloquence bursting in the air as magnificently as those which Mr. Key had heard at Fort McHenry. At the close of the address Junius Brutus Booth, father of Edwin and John Wilkes, rushed across the room, embraced the orator, and exclaimed: “Houston, take my honors.” Nevertheless, the House found Houston guilty and ordered that he be reprimanded by the Speaker. That gentleman, a friend of Houston’s, began with compliments and ended by saying: “I have been ordered to reprimand you. Accordingly so I do.” The O’Connor-Coughlin incident ends without dramatic fireworks in an apology.

TODAY’S SCIENCE -BY SCIENCE SERVICE -

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Charlie Chaplin and Prof. Einstein ask the world the same question and proceed to give the same answerd. It behooves the world to listen. “Why is it,” asked the author of relativity, speaking before a class of California college students, “that this magnificent technological advancement of which we are all so proud, has brought mankind so little happiness?” And then he answers his own question by saying, "It is because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.” Chaplin, wit rout the aid of words, says the same thing in his new movie, “Modern Times.” It is the same old Chaplin in baggy trousers. But make no mistake about it: he is so appealing and we understand him so well because he symbolizes not a clown but the whole human race. The pathetic figure who stands, at the beginning of the picture, with a wrench in each hand, simultaneously tightening a pair of bolts, as a stream of steel plates goes by upon an endless belt, is a symbol of modern humanity. When he finally goes wild and races through the factory, shutting off valves and pulling open switches, he is expressing the same protest which a British bishop voiced before the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science when he suggested that science ought to take a 10-year holiday.

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(Times realers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) ,a a a DEPRESSION NOT ENDED, WRITER CLAIMS By H. L. Seeser The presumption seems to prevail that we are recovering from the socalled depression. If the hypodermic of relief and Federal credit were removed from the business structure, we would see at once how unsound the socalled recovery of business really is. Recovery based on increased prices, rather than on increased consumption, is fundamentally unsound. There could be no more violent presumption than that American capitalism has provided a free and open market, regulated by the law of supply and demand. Our economic structure has degenerated into a producers’ monopoly, that operates on the basis of the consumer be damned. More than 1000 trade associations and institutes are nothing more nor

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THE first essential in dieting is that you be in good health otherwise before you can afford to reduce. If your doctor gives his approval, you can lose about two pounds a week by taking an arrangement of. food that provides about 1200 or 1400 calories and day. Here is one day’s menu of 1200 calories that includes all your body needs in the way of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral salts and vitamins: Breakfast: One-half orange, two eggs, one thin piece dry toast, coffee sweetened with saccharin, two tablespoons of thin cream, and one small cube of butter. Lunch: Slice of lean meat, two tablespoons peas or string beans, one-half head of lettuce,with a little French dressing. Dinner: Clear boillon, two slices lean meat, spinach or carrots, one-half head lettuce with French dressing, one-half orange, one-fourth of a cup of milk, a slice of thin bread toast, and a small cube of butter. If there is any food on the list thr' you do not like, it is easy to s One-half grapefruit can be substituted for the orange; an egg may be taken instead of the meat; cucumbers, radishes, asparagus, turnips, cabbage, spinach, or watercress may be used as alternate vegetables; or several may be taken at one time to make up a salad. Occasionally, berries or tomato

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less than masquerading monopolies, operating openly in violation of the spirit and purpose of the anti-trust laws. And all of this is going on with the knowledge and consent of executive and judicial branches of the government. How naive one must be to accept the thesis that “basic point” quotations do not prevent the consumer from getting the benefit of local F. O. B. quotations which might be had if no tacit understanding existed among producers. Under those circumstances, it is impossible to have a really open market, regardless of what the construction of our infallible Supreme Court may have been about this in-nocent-looking conspiracy in restraint of trade. Let one or more of the conspirators try to break away from this “price quotation” control, and see how quickly the monopoly monster closes in on the trace jumper. Capitalism can survive only if it is a real open market economy, without any semblance of monopoly. The kind of capitalism operating in this country is not kind. The fact that it is being bolstered

may be substituted for the orange or the grapefruit. tt u HERE is another menu developed by a medical authority. It contains a little over 1000 calories, and if you will eat just these foods and no others and carry on your normal worx, you will lose from two to tw r o and one-half pounds a week. If you do extra work or take more exercise, you will lose more. Breakfast: Two small oranges or one large one; one egg. one slice toasted bread (thin); one small square butter; one glass skim milk; one cup tea or coffee, clear. Luncheon or dinner: One cup consomme; one medium slice roast beef; three heaping tablespoons spinach; one salad containing eight stalks of asparagus on two leaves of lettuce, with vinegar; six heaping tablespoons of sliced peaches; one glass skim milk; one cup clear tea. Supper: Three heaping tablespoons of cottage cheese; three heaping tablespoons of cauliflower, one baked tomato, one-third head lettuce with lemon juice or vinegar, six heaping tablespoons of red raspberries; one glass skim milk; one cup clear tea. “This diet contains,” you may insist, “twice as much food as I usually eat.” But this observation is faulty. The list contains a variety of ingredients, but all are chosen with exact knowledge of what they provide in the way of calories and essential food substaifces.

from time to time that are visible from a long distance. Q —What was the size of the old, large United States paper currency? A—lt was inches. Q—What was the location of the ancient city of Babylon? A—lt was situated on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, just north of the modem town of Hilla in the Kingdom of Iraq. Q—Who bought the obelisk to Central Park, New York, and how much did it cost? A—lt was bought in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt for $102,576. Q —Do Alaska and Hawaii have Representatives in the United States Congress? A—They send delegates to the House of Representatives, who have no vote, but who may'participate in debate and in committee work in the House. The delegates are elected by the citizens of those territories. Q—Name the Governor and the Senators and Representatives from South Dakota. A—Tom Berry is the Governor. Peter Norbeck and William J. Bulow are Senators, and Fred H. Hildebrandt and Theo. B. Werner ere Representatives.

by consumer support from the public treasury does not give it a legitimate standing as real capitalism. Effective competition does not exist. Production is not according to consumers’ needs, but only according to producers’ dictates. The result is just as it must necessarily be, under those conditions. We have widespread unemployment, government loans to bolster a false capital and debt structure and a shortage of consumable goods. This sort of capitalism can be regulated as effectively as the weather. When the end of the rope is reached, in this administration of Federal credit and relief hyodermic, we shall witness a huge collapse of the whole folly, somewhat similar to the collapse of copper prices during the early part of this depression. We see here a regimentation of consumers, forgetting that in the final accounting it is the consumer who gives value to production. The consumer is the goat of our spurious capitalism. We do not want to unscramble the conspiracy of capital and production, but we shall wash up the whole abomination sooner or. later. The consumers eventually will combine to destroy production monopoly, through consumer-owned enterprise in co-operatives, or we will see a collapse of consumer demand great enough to smash the producers regardless of their restraint on production.

DEAR SWEETHEART BY ROSS MULLIN Your face is in my heart, my dear, Your slightest whispers reach my ear My blood flows fast when you are near, My dear. • Your love is all my life, my sweet, Your gentle touch my greatest treat My days are joyous when we meet, My sweet. Your pleasure is my world, my heart, Your mildest glance a piercing dart, My saddest hour is when we part, my heart. , DAILY THOUGHT Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. Deuteronomy 27:24. FIRE and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.—Steele.

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FEB. 25, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

WILMINGTON, N. C., Feb. 25 The other night I was in the * editorial room of The Wilmington Star talking with the boys, when a policeman walked in. He seemed to know everybody, I and came over and started talking, and the managing editor introduced us and said to me: "Maybe here's a story for you. Officer Davis is becoming the best-known policeman in town.” So I said: “All right Davis, what have you ever done that's worth listening to? And make it snappy, I haven't got all night.” Sum, that’s what I said. Only not out loud. So Officer Davis said he was the | traffic specialist in Wilmington. He sees that the school kids get across the street without getting knocked down by autos. I said. “Is that so?” ■ But Officer Davis was talking: st sx a THE corner of 13th and Market is about the busiest crossing in town. There are 2500 children who have to get across there twice a day. I've been there eight years, and not a single grammar school child has been hurt.” One high school boy was hurt, it is true, but I gathered that Officer Davis sort of feels that when high school boys are hit it’s their own fault. "We were figuring up the other night,” he said, “and I figure that in eight years, seven million children have crossed that street without getting hurt. I don't mean seven million different children, but 2500 children twice a day for eight years. “One day I had one of the schoolboy patrolmen count the cars that go past that crossing just before school hour, and he counted 701 cars in an hour. “I’ve been knocked down twice, grabbing children out of the way of autos. And I’ve been brushed and bumped so many times I couldn't count ’em. But I wasn’t hurt any. a a a “T GUESS everybody in the counJL ty knows me. It’s got so in the morning I almost wave my arms off just saying good morning to people in cars. Good morning, good morning, good morning. First one side and then the other. “I’m more interested in thpse children than anything in the world. I love ’em. I love every one < of them. I haven’t any use for a man who doesn't love children. Have you?” Officer Davis glared at me. It was a challenge. Did I love children? And if not, how soon was I going to get started loving ’em? The truth is, children affect me the same as hives. I itch when they’re around. So I just looked at the floor, and said “That’s right,” and Officer Davis went on: “Every Christmas and New Year's and Valentine’s Day I get a whole bushel basket full of cards from school # kids. Nearly every one of them has some kind of a picture of a policeman on it. I love the children, and they love me. “The other day we had a big snowstorm here, six and a half inches, the first snow here in several years. Some of the children had never seen snow before. They made snowballs and threw them at me and knocked my cap off. So I made snowballs and threw back at them. a a a “POME woman saw us, and wrote a letter to the chief about it. She thought it was wonderful to see a cop snowballing with the kids, when up north the cops try to keep kids from throwing snowballs. “Sure I arrest people. Lots of them. I’ve got all the records at home, and I don’t remember offhand just how many, but I think in the last three years I’ve arrested 300 people at that corner.” The managing editor broke in to say that Officer Davis had even arrested the superintendent of schools once. “Yes, sir,” Officer Davis said, “High or low, it’s all the same to me.” aa a . THE policeman who loves children so much has four of his own. They’re all grown now. He has two grandchildren, too. He's 52 now. Officer Davis goes through a little ritual every night. Just before he gets into bed, he gets down on his knees, and shuts his eyes, and asks the Lord to get him through another day without anybody being hurt.