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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1938. RELIEF AND TAXES THE relief problem is as great as it was a year ago. In some spots it is improved, and in some it is worse. Here's how it breaks down: Some 12 to 14 million people are better off than they were a year ago, by reason of the work-relief wages paid to three and one-half million breadwinners on WPA and other Federal projects. Some six to eight million people are worse ofl. They are of families living on doles paid by state and local governments, generally lower and less certain than the displaced Federal doles. Most of the WPA and other work-relief projects have been worth while, and accelerated government spending has primed private industry, enabling it to pump up increased profits and dividends and increased production of goods. Several hundred thousand heads of families formerly on relief have gone bark to private employment. But as they have gone (iff relief doles and relief jobs, others have taken their places. That explains why there has been no pot improvement in the year*. Included are babies unborn a year ago, and whole families which a year ago lived on savings that have since been exhausted. So wc still have today approximately 20 million people dependent for a livelihood on money collected from taxpayers and borrowed against the taxpayers’ cSredit. These are the highlights of the national relief survey conducted by the Scripps-Howard Newspapers in 24 cities, and reported by Robert S. Brown. The picture is disillusioning to those of us who have been hoping against our better judgment that the relief problem would prove a temporary one. tt tt tt NE city after another told the same story: The relief burden is as great, greater or almost as great in all the 24 cities as it was a year ago. What are we going to do about it? In view of the record, it would seem foolhardy to continue harboring the delusion that we shall wake up one bright morning soon to find the problem magically solved by some abracadabra of business revival. Business has been getting better, but it has to get a whole lot better—better even than in 1929. for business up to the 1929 volume, industrial experts tell us, would still leave some five million unemployed. We think it, will get better—better even than 1929 eventually—but we have no reason to believe that eventuality will come soon. So the handling of this relief problem for the next few years would seem to call for drastic fiscal action. Instead of spreading more and more red ink on the Federal ledgers each year, we should start making the deficit smaller, moving toward a balance of Income and outgo. That means economy on government activities not essential. It also means more taxation. As business recovery depends primarily upon a Steady increase of purchasing power, additional taxes, we believe, should be such as will do the least damage to purchasing power. Sales taxes come almost altogether from purchasing power. Taxes based on ability to pay, such as taxes on incomes and inheritances, for the most part skim off that which would go not into purchasing power but into savings. Taxes of this type have the additional virtue of being visible and painful. By broadening the base and graduating rates upward, we can raise substantial revenues and multiply the number flf tax-conscious citizens. The more revenue we raise now, the less we’ll have to borrow Bad raise later. And more tax-conscious citizens means more self-appointed of government spending. THE THREE FARM AMENDMENTS important differences between the House and Senate versions of the half-billion-dollar soil conservation farm bill are to be ironed out by conferees representing those two bodies. First in importance is the so-called consumers' Amendment, rejected by the Senate and approved by the House. It directs the Secretary of Agriculture to plan production so as to maintain at all times an adequate supply of food and fibers for domestic uses, and fixes the 10-year average of the 1920s as the minimum yardstick. Since a primary economic purpose of the farm program is establishment and maintenance of economic equality between agricultural and non-agricultural groups, there seems to be no just reason why this principle of balance should not be written into the law as a definite policy. Second is the House amendment requiring landlords to shaie with cropper tenants the conditional soil conservation payments received from the government. If this amendment is eliminated the Secretary of Agriculture will have no option but to bow to the contention of landlords that they alone Are to be the beneficiaries. Although administrative difficulties will be great in any plan bringing sharecroppers into the program, no other farm group is more in need of government protection and succor. Thud is the La Follette amendment, accepted by the Senate and rejected by the House, authorizing the secretary to allocate funds to farm co-operatives to buy and sell commodities for market stabilization purposes. This is all too reminiscent of the old Hoover Farm Board's tarm-rellef-by-speculation fkilure. MAYBE SPRING WILL COME! ON every hand are signs of the break-up of a hard winter. In New York a rooster, that had been buried n a burlap sack under the snow for five weeks, is reported to have crowed lustily. In Washington state a sea lion was found peacefully sleeping in a snowy wheatfield, confident that the floods would come .and carry him to the ocean. A Jersey farmer came upon two flirtatious bucks and 22 does gamboling in an abandoned farmyard. Eastern rivers, icebound for weeks, are overflowing their banks. Frozen Crater pipes are bursting. Snowdrifts are vanishing and leaving mountains of mud. Johnnie's nose has running. If you listen carefully in the early morning you can hear the tentative song of a ..Cardinal. I* That roving glance in the good wife’s eye signifies

ideas of housecleaning. Your own mind wanders through thoughts of income tax returns, BVD's, lower coal bills, the rusty golf sticks and bock beer. Soon, you hope, the wet and dirty ground underfoot will sprout snowdrops, crocuses, narcissi, daffodils. hyacinths and tulips, and warm sunshine will burst the pussy willow and forsythia buds. From California comes word that poppies and lupins and almond blossoms are out and that Mr. Hoover is buying common stocks in behalf of Stanford University. Maybe those rumors that there wouldn’t be any spring this year are just a lot of Republican propaganda. BORAH AND GANNETT T7RAn!: E. GANNETTS entrance into the Ohio * presidential primary as the running mate of Senator Borah should prove a boon to tne Idahoan's candidacy. We say this not because we believe the New York publisher has great popular strength. But Mr. Gannett is a solid citizen of recognized qualifications, and his taking a place beside Mr. Borah in the driver’s seat should force Rep. Ham Fish to repair to the rumble—whence, let it be hoped for the Senator's sake, will emanate a smaller volume of bad advice on how to steer the campaign. Ham Fish’s self-cast role as the most vocal of Borah spokesmen has given to the Senator’s campaign a quality somewhat less crisp than that crate of lettuce which Mr. Fish once found when he raided a Baltimore warehouse in search of Communist documents. It has caused many persons, who might otherwise be more enthusiastic for Mr. Borah, to hold back lest they wake up and find themselves particeps criminis to a movement deigned to land a red-baiter-turned-liberal in the Vice President's chair. We are cheered by this indication that Mr. Borah is to be relieved of an undeserved handicap, because we look upon one phase of Mr. Borah s candidacy with special favor. That is his resurrection of the primary system as an instrument of democratic government. By campaigning in several important states on real issues, the Senator is doing his utmost to make it impossible for the old guard bosses to control the Cleveland convention with handpicked delegates. Mr. Borah is demanding that the rank and file of Republican voters decide what is to go into the Republican platform and who are to be the Republican standard bearers. The party bosses much prefer to trade out such matters in a hotel room, but we hope the Senator gets the jump on them by forcing prior decisions at the ballot boxes. 90 GRAND WALTER CUMMINGS thinks he is worth the $75,000 he received as head of the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Cos., and also the $15,000 he gets for his spare time job as trustee of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. He says so himself, in a statement issued in Chicago. Perhaps he is right. But it is, we believe, a very proper subject for investigation by the Senate, which has been started by Senator Couzens. Mr. Cummings apparently got both jobs through the influence of Jesse Jones, head of the Reconstruction Finance CorpMr. Jones having the lever in the first instance through the $50,000,000 which the Illinois bank owes the RFC, and in the second through the RFC's financial support of the bankrupt railroad. And, incidentally, Mr. Cummings’ other spare job, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, probably was no hindrance to his appointments—which, incidentally, brings his pay for supervising this segment of the taxpayers’ money to nine times what Mr. Jones gets for handling all of the billions of the RFC. and to more than the President of the United States gets for supervising all of the government’s operations. MUNCHAUSEN ' OVER in Bodenwerder, Germany, history's biggest liar is being honored in celebration of the 216th anniversary of his birth. His name was Carl Frederlch Hieronymus, known to literature as Baron Munchausen. The Baron was proudly, honestly and magnificently mendacious. So peerless a liar was he that all competitors in all the world seemed like amateurs beside him. But another German has just entered one that would have made the Baron look to his laurels. ‘‘l must proudly state,” said Herr Adolf Hitler at the funeral services of the assassinated Nazi leader Gustloff, “that our movement has never murdered and never attacked any one.” A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson THE pastor of Manhattan’s famous Broadway Tabernacle. Dr. Allen Knight Chalmers, is flying around the country jacking up the courage of churchmen on war resistance. His beliefs are outlined in a nutshell: “I can’t conceive it to be the business of the church to preach the gospel to the individual while it ignores society as a whole.” Here is the kind of man who is denounced by all the forces of demagoguery; by the weak-kneed Babbitts who are scared of Reds; by the old-men-afraid-of boys, and by the diamond-studded ladies of patriotic societies. In short, he is denounced by the combined power of reaction and billions. If the church does not consider society as a whole what's to become of society? If war continues, what’s to become of society? It will undoubtedly get to such a state that it will need no church and tolerate no diamond-studded ladles. The will to outlaw war is the only way to stop it. Since the folly of 1914 we have done one tremendous thing. We have discovered the cause of war. Never before in man’s history has there been such a digging into facts, such a reaching back into first motives or such determination to get at the origins of international conflict. Our job now is to find a cure for war. A harder task truly but one which is made easier now that w" know what incites to it. We shall never find that cure if we listen only to those whose subconscious will drives us toward war. And the policy of the war makers is always the same, “Let’s get ready for a bigger one.” Hots they love to quote the saying of Washington, which they have made famous: “In time of peace, prepare for war.” But do you ever hear them utter words of bis which are equally as wise: “Beware the impostures of patriotism?" FROM THE RECORD OENATOR NORBECK (R..5.D.): I presume that if we had no Supreme Court at all. we would get along all right. England does; Canada does; Australia and New Zealand the same. In no other Eng-lish-speaking country are the courts empowered to nullify laws except in ours. . . . Maybe Justice Holmes was right; no one cherished the Constitution more, but he was frank in his expressions. He said: “It is an expjeriment, like all things human."

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'T'HE other morning police shot a car thief after a long chase. They put buckshot in his legs, and captured him. Two companions got away under fire. It was a pretty good night’s work, but Next morning the people who live near the scene counted nine bullet holes in the front wall of their frame house. Five of the bullets had penetrated to the front room. Two of them had gone across the front room through a bedroom wall and across the bedroom. One of them was in a woman’s shoe, parked at the bed where he lay sleeping through the fignt. They were all police bullets because the fugitives didn’t return the fire. tt tt tt ONE music critic made this note in his review of Mu Phi Epsilon’s concert: in Caleb Mills Hall Friday night: “Their share of the evening included a Siciiiana first transcribed by Respighi from an older work by Ignote.” The program said the number was - arranged by Respighi from a work (Ignote-Fine del Seculo XVI). The word “Ignote” means unknown. and the sense of the program was that Respighi arranged it from the work of an unknown composer, not a work by Mr. Unknown. ONCE upon a time last century, John L. Sullivan came to town in a theatrical company. He dropped into the Denison Hotel for a dram and met Frank Heidrick, who served him the dram and then came out from behind the bar. The two of them stood toe to toe and slugged. They hooted and bowled in glee at meeting each other and once more going it. They had been sparring partners, and this was a reunion. John L. got thoroughly tired, after several rounds of this boisterous greeting, and went on up to bed. He first turned on the gas in the grate and, it being a low pressure time, had to open the valve to the limit. tt n tt WHILE he slept the gas pressure came up. Its flames licked out and got the curtains and before long there was a sturdy little fire. John L. slept. Three firemen crawled up a ladder and carried him down. Well, the whole wing of the hotel was destroyed. The only other Indiana adventure John L. had of any importance, I hear, was in Terre Haute. He swore off drinking there, the pledge that was heard around the sports world. Afterward he went out lecturing against liquor. tt tt tt THEY say a former Indianapolis banker, after unfortunate and quite complete financial reverses, stopped an acquaintance on the street once and said: “I say. You’ve been a poor devil all your life. Maybe you know where a fellow can get an overcoat repaired.” u tt u THERE’S something less than poetry in the heart of Frank C. Schmelz for Mother Nature. The last hurricane in Florida scrambled property of his to the tune of $3200. White River, ordinarily peaceful, went over its banks the other day and spoiled Jungle Inn, Schmelz’ place, to the extent of SIOOO or more. When it was wettest out his way (Ravenswood) someone stole the Schmelz rubber boots. t tt tt tt ED BARCE, Assistant Attorney General, is trying to figure this one out: He has in his possession a petitions for a writ of coram nobis that the petitioner, a Kentucky hillbilly, who was so unfortunate as to have shot a man fatally, prepared himself without aid of attorney, lie says. He prepared it in prison, where he has been sentenced for life. It’s a really nice job, Mr. Barce says, with citations of legal precedents and all the “wherases” and ' “herin-be-fores” in their right places. tt tt a EDITORIAL correspondence: “I am writeing to 7116 Times to see if you will please help my baby sister and me find our little pet dog. She is a little fox terrier. She’s all white, two brown ears, long tail, six toes on hind feet. Her name is Cricket. She's one’s year old. She dissipeared Feb. 8, 1936, and we miss her so much. Will you please held us. “PATTY ANN JEFFERS, “FRANCIS JEFFERS.” The address is 1526 Shelton-st, people.

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TODAY’S Si BY DAVID

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY announces the award of the Chandler medal, one of the coveted prizes of the world of science, to Prof. William Francis Giauque of the University of California. Prof. Giauque made the discovery that there were three kinds of oxygen, thus paving the way for the discovery by Prof. Urey of “heavy water” and double-weight hydrogen. This in turn was followed by the discovery of tripleweight hydrogen by the scientists in Lord Rutherford’s laboratory at Cambridge, England. It had previously been known that many of the heavy chemical elements consisted of more than one kind of atom. These atoms, which are alike in everything but weight, are known as isotopes. However, it was not supposed that the lighter elements consisted of isotopes. Prof. Giauque’s discovery stimulated study of the lighter elements in laboratories all over the world, resulting in the discovery of a number of new isotopes, including the famous ones of hydrogen. Since each molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen, a little arithmetic will show you that with the aid of three kinds of hydrogen and three kinds of oxygen, it is possible to have 18 different kinds of molecules of water. -•it'.' r. 4 ■ 1 .

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The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say, but 1 will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

ITimet realen are Invited to ex ores* their views in these columns, relinious controversies excluded. Hake uaur letters short, so alt can have a chance. Limit, them to £SO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt SUGGESTS NEW INQUIRY FOR CONGRESS Bj John G. Vetter, McCordsville Asa taxpayer I would like to see the moneys that we as taxpayers pay used for some good purpose. To begin with, I would like to know just what is accomplished when Congress keeps appropriating money to investigate clubs, political organizations, etc? I would suggest that Congress, if it must spend money, investigate ways and means to recover the mcney obtained under false pretense by the manufacturers of our staples. Surely if an enactment is declared illegal and the government can not collect taxes on it, it must also be illegal for the processor and should be returned to its source. If this country can’t provide a lawyer who is patriotic and smart enough to recover this money, I sure don’t see any cause or sense in what is called higher education. tt tt tt AMERICA NEEDS CHRIST, HE BELIEVES By O. K. Tamplin What America needs today is Christ in every home. Our nation was-founded on Christianity. America has forgotten God. Our churches, schools, colleges, universities, business and government have forgotten God and have failed to recognize Him, praise Him and honor Him as they should. From my contact with people I know they are hungering after the old-fashioned gospel as it was preached from the pulpits of our churches in former days. The people of this nation are hungry to hear again the old-fashioned spiritual hymns of Jesus and His love in the forgiveness of sins. People are tired of hearing noth-

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN SO PERSISTENT is the craze for slender figures, that women throughout the country indulge in all sorts of dangerous methods to reduce weight. Every few months brings some new fad or technic with which a great many women immediately experiment, until science shows the harm that these methods cause, and their fallacy. During 1935 women everywhere were trying dinitrophenol, until eventually cases began to appear in which the use of this drug had caused cataracts of the eye. There now are a great many women who have paid for their vanity by losing their sight. Previously women had used preparations containing thyroid which were dangerous to life and health. Many had developed symptoms of hyperthyroidism, which involves a rapid heart, irritability of the nervous system, and other systematic upsets of a serious character. Still others had used patent medicines containing drugs without efficiency, and had spent their money without any result except damage to health.

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ing but sermons tainted with modernism, atheism, evolution and this so-called preaching of a social gospel. Modernism, atheism, evolution, Darwinism and the like are the first steps towards communism. America has sown the seed for communism by permitting the things just mentioned above to be preached from our pulpits and to be taught in our high schools, colleges and universities. All nations that have forgotten God have crumbled and fallen by the wayside. If our nation is to be spared our people must return to God and to the practical application of the Christian princiles as laid down in the Holy Bible. tt tt CLEAN CAPITOL WALKS, HE PLEADS By Charles Ware With police warning about cleaning snow and ice from in front of stores and homes, how come they don’t visit on Capitol-av and give our Governor notice about the snow and ice in front of the StatehouseThis is from a man who has slipped and fallen two times this winter. tt tt tt WALLACE PRAISED FOR LOCAL SPEECH By Hiram Lackey The beauty and charm of Daniel Webster's oratory shall never die. Ke loved to picture our glorious American Union of tomorrow. He thrilled our grandfathers with his dreams of our prosperity and happiness as he lifted them up to the sublime heights of patriotism and reverence. Webster found joy in wondering what America would be a hundred years hence. For this purpose he studied history. He taught its lessons to the end that we might enjoy the blessing of liberty and justice. In all of his labors he had ever in mind his famous phrase, “Our Children.” I have just left the presence of Secretary Wallace. It is good to

'T'ODAY women in various parts A of the country are flocking to milk farms to try the newest fad. On these farms they subsist for varying periods on milk, orange juice, and soup; the milk sometimes being taken in the form of acidophilius milk, lactic acid milk, or the klabber known among the Bulgarians as yogurt. Such a diet is exceedingly dangerous, because it brings about weight reduction far too rapidly, and be-* cause it does not provide a sufficient amount of mineral salts, especially iron, to sustain the blood in a normal healthful condition. You may see today women who are haggard and sallow wandering about in a weakened condition, but still rather proud of the fact that they have taken off. in a short period of time, anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds. You may see the same women a month later with 10 to 15 pounds restored on those parts of the body on which they would rather have the weight absent, and nothing to show for their experiment but disappointment and some loss of health.

Q—How old is Herbert Hoover? A—Sixty-one. Q —Please explain uses of lay and lie. A—To lay is transitive only (put to rest) and the principal parts are lay, laid. laid. It is causative and means to cause to lie or to place. "He lays the book on the table.” "He laid the book on the table.” "He was laid in his’grave.” To lie is intransitive and never has an object. It means to rest, to remain extended in a prone position. “He lies down.” “He lay down.” “He has lain down.” Q —Who invented sandpaper? * A—lt was patented by Isaac Fischer Jr. of Springfield, Vt., June 14, 1834. His invention was covered by four patents, all issued on the cn mn eia to

be reminded that we still have men in high places who feel responsible to our children of generations to come. How deeply the men of tomorrow will be indebted to Secretary Wallace for his efforts to conserve our soil fertility and othtr natural resources. And what i magnificent saving it would have been to us if our government officials of Webster’s day had mingled enough foresight with their patriotism to have saved our virgin forest and soil from the rape of the individualists. Secretary Wallace made no efforts to carry us away with oratory. With his fingers on the pulse of his critics, he made every effort to use good taste and to be conservative. He reminded us of Lincoln by his power to give us something about which to think after we left the sound of his voice. tt tt tt URGES FOUNDING OF LABOR PARTY By Subscriber Judging from speeches of presidential candidates of the two old parties, prospects for labor are not promising. For example, the “Unhappy Warricr” spoke of the fellow whose income is between SIOO and SSOO a month as the "backbone” of the nation. We wonder if the professional gambler, racketeer and swindler who has that income is counted as “backbone” while the wage worker whose income is far less isn’t counted as backbone. The two old parties are out to preserve a failing profit system at the expense of labor and they differ only on how to accomplish it. These politicians promote sham battles with the hope that they can keep the ranks of labor split. The wise move for labor is to unite into a labor party to promote the cause of a co-operative commonwealth with a classless society and economic justice and democracy for all. WONDER BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK We walked slowly through the winter dusk, And the snow crunched coldly under our feet, And the air was still with deepening purple twilight. I looked above us at the cold golden sunser,, And marvelled that the words of you Whom I love could be so cruel, so cruel!

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FEB. 28. 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

SAVANNAH. Ga.. Feb. 28 —All the way down the coast people kept telling me I must see Dr. Herty in Savannah. It was always something rather vague, such as that Dr. Herty was the new hope of the South, or that he was doing wonderful things in a laboratory, jr that he was making paper out of wood, or something like that. I knew paper was made out of wood, but I went to see Dr. Herty anyhow. That's what he's doing all right, making paper out of wood. But it's Georgia wood, instead of Canadian wood. That's something new. a tt tt HIS laboratory is a big old warehouse on Savannah's waterfront. You have a hard time finding a door, then you wander past furnaces and grinders and acid tanks clear to the back of the place, and there in one corner is Dr. Herty’s little office. It doesn't even have a window. Despite its looks, you feel you have just stepped into a milliondollar office on Park-av. Dr. Charles H. Herty gives it that touch. He is a tall, slim, immaculately dressed, silver-haired man. He is a chemist by profession, a financier by necessity, an Irishman in a fight. He is a native Georgian. He taught chemistry at Georgia State University for 11 years. Then at North Carolina for 11 years. Then he was a big gun in the chemical world in New York for 18 years. That makes, let's see. 40 years. Then he came back to Georgia four years ago. He doesn't look that old. tt tt tt SOME years ago Dr. H<#rty gob interested in finding /out why you couldn't make white, newsprint out of southern pine. Most of the big American paper companies had moved their plants to Canada. Twothirds of our newsprint is now made in Canada and Sweden. They hadn't used southern pine because it was supposed to have so much resin it wouldn't make paper that was white enough. So Dr. Herty came down from New York and started grinding up wood and testing it. He found less rer.n than in Canadian spruce pine. He really got interested then. He persuaded the state of Georgia to vote $20,000 a year for his experiments; he got Savannah to give him a free building and free power; he got the big equipment companies to sell him machinery at ridiculously low prices. He set up his laboratory on a five-year basis. That was four years ago. Today there are 20 men, all experts, on. the staff. The Chemical Foundation has come in with $150,000 worth of help. There is nearly a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of machinery in the building. The thing is purely a laboratory. | It is not a commercial concern. It i has only one thing to market. That is the idea that southern pine is good for making white paper. It I charges nothing for the idea. tt a tt D' R. HERTY says they have absolutely proved Georgia pine as good for making white paper as Canadian wood. He has all kinds of samples to prove it. The raw pulp, and the paper product itself, have been tested in real mills all over Canada, and in our own mills, and by our rayon plants. It's O. K., they all say. The next thing is to get the big paper plants down here. That isn't as easy as it sounds. It costs about $4,000,000 to build a paper plant. Business men don't let go of $4,000,000 overnight, even on a good things But Dr. Herty says it won’t be long.) Paper can be made down here for J about $27 a ton, Dr. Herty says,; whereas it costs about $47 elsewhere. Labor is cheap here. Wood is cheap. Mixing materials are nearby. There are 100,000,000 acres of pine forest in the South. Our annual paper needs can be supplied with 12.000,000 acres. Growing conditions are so good here that new wood can' be raised as fast as the old is cut. A pine tree grows big enough to use in 10 years. The thing that interests me about" these experiments is that they seema very big hope of keeping thei Southland from going to the wall. ; DAILY THOUGHT Confess your faults one to an-' other, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.—James 5:16. HEAVEN is never deaf but whenman’s heart is dumb—Quarles..

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