Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 February 1936 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29. 1935. THE SPECIAL SESSION OV. M'NUTT's call for a special session of the Legislature starting next Thursday has paved the way for a long step forward in Indiana's history. Social security, the specific issue before the Legislature, is one of the most vital problems facing America today. An adequate problem of social insurance and old-age pensions is necessary for Indiana. The preliminary dispute over the terms of the program is a healthy sign. It shows that Indiana's Legislators are thinking seriously about the issue; that they are not prepared to rubber stamp the firsc measure drafted and introduced. Citizens will watch with deep interest the deliberations of this special session. WINDBLOWN TAXES 'T'HANKS to this being an election year, our lan- ■* guage is being enricned with some fancy terminology descriptive of the usually drab subject of taxation—windfall taxes, reimbursement taxes and replacement taxes. The only exception is "brand new taxes." used in reference to the $120,000,000 additional which will have to be raised each year up to 1945 to make up the difference between whac it will cost the government to pay the Veterans bonus now and what it would have cost had payment been postponed until the original 1945 maturity date. Congressmen who led the fight for immediate payment argued that the bonus was a debt and it made little difference to the taxpayer whether it was paid in 1936 or 1945. As taxpayers dig down into their pockets for $120,000,000 a year for the next nine years, they may reflect that sometimes a fine distinction is also a big difference. Windfall taxes are levies which will be enacted to recapture from the processors which we consumers paid when we bought food and clothing, but which the processors caused to be impounded by the courts and returned to them when the Supreme Court declared the AAA uncoi stitutional. Reimbursement tai.es cover both windfall taxes and other temporary’ levies which will be imposed to put into the Treasury the half billion dollars which it counted on getting from AAA taxes, but didn’t get, and which it is spending on the farm program for the current fiscal year. And replacement taxes are the levies that will take the biace of the AAA taxes in raising a half billion dollars a year to finance the permanent farm program for next year and the next and the next We regard all of these taxes as necessary. But best of all we like the windfall taxes. The description is as apt as it is colorful. Some of the processors doubtless were unable to get from consumers all of the processing taxes. But we are not talking about what they didn’t get. We are talking about what we as consumers paid and the government hasn’t got yet. That is what the windfall taxes are all about, and whence they derive their happy nomenclature. The Supreme Court's Hoosac decision was a windfall in the laps of a great many processors. We can get a pretty good idea of how much of a windfall it was by reading figures dug up by Secretary Wallace to prove that the impounded consumer-paid taxes returned to cotton, wheat and hog processors as a group amounted to three and one-half times the average net profits of those processors in the prosperity years of 1927, '2B and '29. That’s like collecting fire insurance on a house which didn't burn down. And we hope Congress drafts an air ight windfall tax that will bring justice out of ore of the greatest taxation injustices of all time.

CHEAPER TRAVEL TI7HEN a business man finds himself consistently losing money to his competitors he either lowers his prices or if he can’t do that he goes out of business. The railroads of the United States can’t, go out of business. This is why the Interstate Commerce Commission. over protest of several large Eastern lines, yesterday issued orders reducing standard coach passenger fares from 3.6 cents to 2 cents a mile. We believe the railroads themselves will come to look upon this order as good business. Since 1923 they have been suffering severe losses in passenger traffic and revenue. Among all the industries the railroads are slowest in emerging from the red now. There are certain things the railroads can do to meet the challenge of the airplane, the bus and the passenger auto. They can co-operate with the government in effecting large-scale economies, such as consolidating terminals, as ordered in 11 cities by Co-ordinator Eastman. They can make other savings without adding men to the unemployment rolls. Chiefly they can get more of their share of the tremendously expanded “travel market.” They can do this by making rail travel pleasanter, faster and cheaper. Many rail lines have improved their services tremendously. They have air-conditioned their coaches, smoothed their roadbeds and speeded up their trains. But that has not been enough to change the anomaly of crack trains carrying a handful of passengers, while the highways were black with autos full of potential rail travelers. The new fares may turn the trick. Western and Southern railroads have had emergency 2-cent fares in effect for some time. All of these have increased business, and all have urged the commission to make the reduced fares permanent. Attorneys for some of the Eastern railroads are talking about appealing the ICC order to the Supreme Court. Those who manage the lines might well ponder the wisdom of this course. After all, there is only an infinitesimal difference in the cost of running an empty train and one full of passengers. But there's a considerable difference in revenue. INVIOLATE NEWS SOURCES /CONGRESS is being asked to guarantee to newspaper men the right to hold confidential any communication they receive, and the source. Rep. Edward W. Curley (D.. N. Y.) is sponsoring a measure forbidding Federal courts to hold in contempt any editor, reporter, correspondent, Journalist or publisher who refuses to reveal confidential communications or their origin. Martin Mooney’s M-day sentence for shielding the source of information obtained by him "during

a New York expose has reused a serious question as to freedom of the press. In passihg on that case the New York courts held that no law confirmed the traditional right of a newspaper man to hold information confidential. Rep. Curley believes it is as important for newspapers to have this right as it is for doctors, lawyers and religious advisers, and that any abridgement violates the constitutional guarantee of a free press. Law enforcement officers will be deprived of valuable assistance often provided by the press if newspapers are ur.sble v to ferret out the sort of facts that are obtainable only when secrecy can be pledged to their source. Maryland, Alabama and New Jersey already have passed laws protecting news sources in their state court*. NONSENSE QENATOR VANDENBERG of Michigan is one of our favorite Republican presidential possibilities. He is personally likeable and politically courageous. Usually he talks common sense, and in Senate debate he is generally calm, cool and effective. Yet what a disappointment he Is when—as in one of his recent addresses—he arises before an audience and a microphone and runs such a partisan temperature that: He hysterically describes the New Deal as a dictatorship, and orates, "We can not fail to restore the republic. We shall again be citizens instead of subjects. States will be states again instead of provinces in pawn”; He views the reciprocal trade program as something about to “deliver this nation to an alien invasion which is deadlier at the Custom House than at the immigration port.” He discusses the unemployment problem as an invention of the Roosevelt Administration, and indicates that the problem would solve itself if the New Deal would only let business out from under the "oxygen tent.” The Senator, we believe, will strengtheh himself if he will modify the born orator technique which he employs before a large audience, and if he will study up on the power that lies in understatement.

BELL-HOP LEGISLATION recent incidents throw light on the curious business of lawmaking. * After having permitted his name for some months to adorn the military disaffection bill, Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland withdraws, when he reads in the papers that Secretary of War Dern is “not especially interested in the legislation.” "Neither am I, who originally introduced the measure,” says Senator Tydings. bowing himself out. Then Rep. O’Connor of New York, attacked by Father Coughlin for being the author of a claims bill, counters with: "Everybody seemed to think it should be passed to correct an injustice to some poor fellow I never even had talked to. I introduced it as a matter of form and have forgotten just how it came to me. I never knew just what it was about, but it had been approved by the State Department and seemed all right.” Third, that measure which went through the State Senate of Rhode Island with such gusto, to pay a SIOO bonus to Evael O. W. Tnesba —a striking demonstration of the willingness of legislators to do something for ex-soldiers even though the ex-soldier in this case happened to be a figment of a practical joker’s imagination, the name spelled "backward connoting that •well-known military term, “absent without leave.” Our schoolday Idea of a lawmaker was one who, imbued with the urge for reform, personally wrote the proposed statutes after vast study and con-templation-then introducing and ardently espousing them. But such items as these, appearing from time to time through the years, have been disillusioning, and so we have grown cynical enough not to be shocked at these evidences of rubberstamp statesmanship. But since 1 our budget is out of joint and economy long overdue, why wouldn't it be pertinent to leave all the work to the more fleet-footed pages and save the pay of those older and less agile members of Congress who elect to operate as messenger-boys?

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson A LTHOUGH it falls into the category of the wish-fulfillment novel, Clarissa Fairchild Cushman’s book “The Bright Hill” deals with a problem that has occupied mothers from time immemorial. How far are we justified in protecting our children from paternal punishment? The heroine of the novel was justified, as it turned out. Plenty of women I have known were not justified, and in consequence ruined the lives of sons and daughters. I believe, however, there never lived a true mother who did not think her children better than the father. And in these days, when men devote so little time to the study of infant temperaments, the mothers generally are right, in that belief. We are used to acting as buffers in family conflicts and our leanings are definitely maternal. The spirit is usually willing but the flesh is very weak when it comes to punishing our little ones. Men say we are too soft with them, too easily coaxed into forgiveness. A sizable rebellion actually is going on in certain quarters against the present predominantly feminine influence in homes and schools. Boys especially, they tell us. must have more masculine instructors and stiffer discipline in order to build theri characters to meet old-time standards. Well, in many ways old-time standards were not so hot. Women who are wont to look behind the deed for the motive, and who therefore find themselves in disrepute as disciplinarians, have a right to question those standards. .. Let’s not fall for complaints too easily, at least until the men admit the wisdom of psychological methods in child training—and those methods, as everybody knows, mean that study of the child mind is the first requisite of the good instructor. If men wish to return to their old ways of demanding obedience without rhyme or reason, the women may be excused for resisting their arguments. FROM THE RECORD ■p EP. MAVERICK (D.. Tex.): Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Rep. Zioncheck (D., Wash.): Mr. Speaker, I Object. The Speaker: To what? Rep. Zioncheck: Whatever the gentleman wants, ) object. The Speaker: The gentleman from Texas has not stated his request. Rep. Maverick: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for three minutes. Rep. Zioncheck: Mr. Speaker. I object. Rep. Maverick: Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to address the House for two minutes. Rep. Zioncheck: Mr. Speaker, I object. Rep. Maverick: Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for one minute. The Speaker: Is there objection .. . T *“ no oWKUon - :X ,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

WHEN Indianapolis troops to the polls, a lot of old world philosophy will be back of some of the votes. Registered here as voters are natives of Holland. Honduras, Hungary, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Labrador, Latvia, Liberia. Lithuania, Luxembourg, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Palestine, Persia, Siam and many other foreign countries. W. P. Flanay, superintendent of registration, says 242,566 are qualified to vote, representing about 90 per cent of those of voting age. He also says that every state in the Union has contributed a native son to the voting lists. tt tt tt POINTS of view:— A salesman of durable goods was talking: "Business is better than it has been for years. In 1932 our company, which normally employs 7500, had 600 on the pay roll. Now we are back up to 4000. “How am I going to vote? Well, not for Roosevelt. I’ll probably vote for Borah. He’s kind of old, but, oh, well. I can't see Roosevelt. I’ve got children coming up and I don’t want them to have to pay those taxes. My company is in the East. And do you know what the president, who’s been a Republican all his life, actually thinks? He thinks Roosevelt won’t even be nominated. "I think we could have come out of this depression without all the spending. What do you think, you’ve been through more than this one depression?” He directed his question to a man 70 years old who has not been any too successful during the depression but who has a job. "Yes,” the older man said, "we’ve had other depressions. But we never had one like this that I can remember. I’ve been a Republican all my life, except that I voted for Roosevelt. I’ll vote for him again. tt u n FOR one single thing, if for nothing else, I think he deserves our vote. That's for closing those banks. That was the greatest and most courageous thing he ever did.” The younger salesman interrupted. "Now . that,” he said, "was the greatest piece of politics ever managed. You’ll find out during this campaign the inside dope on that. Jim Farley, the master politician, engineered it. It 11 come out, all right.” A taxi driver, who had been a moderately successful salesman before the depression, said he didn’t believe things are much better than they were. "I don’t know,” he said, “I think they’re about the same. But as far as voting is concerned, a man would be foolish not to vote for Roosevelt. He’s the only one who knows what he’s doing.” tt tt tt THE durable goods salesman continued : "Take my business. What has Roosevelt done for us. Why, he called some of the leaders in the machinery field to Washington to ask what the government could do. My boss was one of them. "They told him what he could do Instead of hiring a lot of men to stand around with shovels in their hands on WPA roads, ne could have really helped us. "We told him to have his Army and Navy bases retooled. We asked him to have his battleships brought up to date. We wanted him to spend a lot of that easy money making the government’s machinery modern. "But he didn’t. Instead he hires men to shovel as day laborers.” The old-timer shook his head. “Anyway,” he said, "111 vote for Roosevelt. Business is better.” Every one was pretty serious about it. tt tt tt ABUS driver plying between South Bend and Elkhart picked a conversation because he obviously had to talk to someone. "Funny thing,” he said, “I been carrying a little old man—see him crossing that street, he just got off —well, I guess I been carrying him every day close to a year. “He gets on about four miles from South Bend, and gets off at Elkhart. He takes the bus back an hour later, usually with bundles. “Like I say, I been carrying him for a year and never noticed anything but .that he was an old man carrying a cane. But today he had no change and I had to break a dollar for him. When he got the change he felt each piece of it as he put it back in his pocket. I saw it through the rear vision mirror. "And I swear, he gets around so well that I bet you couldn't tell either that he’s as. blind as a stone. That old man certainly knows how to handle himself.”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE voice of your favorite movie actress will soon sound more beautiful than ever as it emerges from the loudspeaker behind the screen of your neighborhood theater. No longer will she lisp in the clinches and hiss at the climaxes. Anew scheme, perfected by RCA Photophone engineers, completely eliminates these blemishes of reproduction which have marred the screen voices of many stars and even kept certain stars of the old silent movies from entering the talkies at all. The trick is turned by using inrisible ultra-violet light instead of ordinary white light to record the voices of the performers. As most readers know, the voices, mcidental music, etc., are recorded along the edge of the film upon the so-called sound track. Microphones pick up the sounds and convert them into electric currents which go through appropriate amplifiers and finally operate a fluctuating light. Lenses focus the beam of this light upon the sound track where it is recorded at the same time that the pictures are recorded. In the movie theater, a small lamp shines through the pattern on the sound track and activates a photoelectric cell which in its turn operates the necessary amplifiers and the loudspeaker.

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in thfse columns, religious controversies excluded. Mahe your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must he, signed, but names will he withheld on reouest.) tt a tt VOLTAIRE WOULD PERMIT YOU TO SAY IT, THOUGH By H, H., Clarks Hill Even Voltaire would disapprove of what I say so you fellows can’t be blamed for not printing it, but you can read it and maybe it will be a lesson to you. Asa regular redder of The Times and an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, I think the partial writers who edit The Times editorial page argue against themselves. They say the du Ponts, Sloan, Raskob, E. T. Weir and others have been helped by the New (mis)Deal and yet they and A1 Smith are against it. Doesn’t it show patriotism on their part to expose Roosevelt’s Administration if that Administration has- been helping them personally, as you say? The Indians had a name for a person like “Rosey.” They said, "The gentleman speaks with two tongues.” Roosevelt should stand or fall on his acts, because actions speak louder than his words. He said prior to election, "Reduce the cost of government, balance the budget.” He DID??? NOT! tt tt tt CLAPPER’S ARTICLE DRAWS ATTACK By Jack Dolan, Shelbyyille In your Feb, 22 issue Raymond Clapper seemed very nervous at the thought of Townsendites asking the candidates to pledge their support to the Townsend plan, and would like to construe it as intimidation.

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN YI7HEN your doctor tells you to * ’ take a high vitamin diet, you should select the foods that are richest in the vitamins and add them to your regular diet. Under these circumstances, remember that vitamin A is found most frequently in halibut liver oil, cod liver oil, butter and eggs. Vita- j min D is most freely available ini yeast or malt extracts and in the germ of the various grains. Vitamin C is most profuse in j orange or tomato juice and in the j leafy green vegetables. D is had : most easily in cod liver oil, but is now also avgfilable in vitamin D milks and similar preparations. So far as is known, any good diet provides plenty of vitamin B, particularly a diet with plenty of muscle meat &nd fat, egg yolk, and milk. The second significant factor of vitamin B is present in eggs, milk, and yeast. Thus the addition of cod liver oil and yeast to any of the diets already mentioned will usually cover most of the requirements for vitamins. ’

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or Information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau. 1013 13thst, N. W'.. Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q —Name the postoffices in continental United States that are farthest North, West, East and South. A—Penasse, Minn., North; Capetown, Cal., West; Eastport, Me., East, and Key West, Fla., South. Q—What salaries do the president, the secretary and the vice presidents of the American Federation of Labor receive? A—President, $12,000, secretary', SIO,OOO. The vice presidents serve without salary. Q —" Who are the Democratic and Republican floor leaders in the United States Senate and House of Representatives? A—William B. Bankhead. Democrat, and Bertrand H. Snell, Republican in the House. Key Pittman, Democrat. and Charles L. McNary, Republican in the Senate.

THE GHOST WRITER!

Would Mr. Clapper attempt to say pledges are anew thing in politics? Pledges are as old as politics itself. When a corporation spends a million dollars to elect one man is that man pledged? As long as a corporation pledged its man everything was jake. Now that the people have caught up, it calls for an investigation. The Townsend philosophy is sound; the people want it. What could be more sensible than vote for a man who is pledged to support it? Who should a congressman represent if not the majority who elect him? An investigation can only reveal one fact—tile banker will not get any interest on the money—and that is where the rub comes. The government creates money, gives a pensioner S2OO. He spends it in one month. Each dollar makes 50 transactions with a 2 per cent tax. Each time it will replenish itself and get back to the pensioner for the next month. Its purchasing power will create employment in industry for one man who can produce enough in a 30-hour week to keep himself and dependents and the pensioner in comfort, thereby creating perpetual prosperity. Compare this with what we now have; curtailing food while millions are starving in a country capable of producing five times its need. Isn’t it strange we hear so much ballyhoo every four years about what the politicians want to do for a poor distressed people? When the people undertake to do something for themselves it is a terrible crime and should be investigated. tt tt u SEES TOWNSEND PLAN AS SOLUTION TO TROUBLE By G. IV. McVicker, Columbus It is said, and I think truthfully, that the bonus payment will greatly

IT is always well to remember that persons who are dieting for any cause are in danger of developing vitamin deficiencies, and that .they should guard against such deficiencies by a liberal supply of the substances here mentioned. For many persons who are generally low in health, for those who have developed weakness because of malnutrition or starvation, high vitamin menus are recommended. Following is a specimen high vitamin diet: BREAKFAST Orange juice (chilled); oatmeal with cream and sugar and a tablespoonful of cereal germ; two soft-boiled eggs; buttered toast; glass of milk. LUNCHEON—Shredded pineapple (chilled); creamed salmon; baked potato and butter; buttered green peas; jellied vegetable salad with mayonnaise dressing; bread and butter; fresh ripe fruit; glass of milk. DINNER—MeIon cup; watermelon, cantaloupe Ind honeydew mellon; roast beef; baked potato with butter; stewed tomatoes; buttered spinach; fresh vegetable salad with French dressing; bran muffins with butter; ice cream with fresh fruit sauce; glass of milk.

Q —What is a gnu? A—An African antelope with horns and a stiff erect mane, sometimes called the “horned horse.” The head is somewhat like that of a buffalo, and the long legs resemble tho.:e of a deer. The flesh is juicy, palatable and nourishing. Q—What is the national anthem of Great Britain? A—“ God Save the King.” Q —What nation has the longest single name? A—Czechoslovakia, It has 14 letters. Q —What are quadratics? A—ln mathematics, the are equations which contain the square of the unknown, but no higher power. Q—How many aliens were deported annually by the United States between 1930 and 1934? A—1930. 16.631; 1931. 18,142; 1932. 19.126; 1933, 19,865; 1934. 8879. Q —ls coffee produced commercially in the United States? A—No. There are \a few plants in Florida and CaUfc%i&.

improve business conditions in this country along mid-summer. There are only a few adult men and women in this- country who do not know that the circulation of this bonus money is going to be a great help to these 11 or 12 million people out of work and funds, and these boys and girls in these CCC camps and on the dole. We all know if these bonus boys soak this money away in bank vaults, tin cans and their socks, it will be of no benefit whatever to those on the verge of starvation. The strangest part of this whole matter is that one of our leading politicians, a candidate for our highest office, President of the United States, recommends that the veterans withhold from circulation a great portion of this money. How can any sane man do this in the face of all the millions of people who are starving, out of work, in CCC camps, and on the dole? I am wondering if his viewpoint would change if one of his sons, his wife or mother were situated like one of many in this country. What we want and need in the presidential chair and in Congress are humanitarian, fearless men who can and will place the welfare of these helpless millions above their own selfishness and greed for political power. It will not be very long now until we will be voting for new congressmen. Let us see to it that we cast our votes for men who are intelligent enough and have the vision to think out some plan that will work. This Dr. Townsend plan Is practical and will work perfectly for the good of all mankind. No politician or congressman has offered anything that will work half as well. Read it, study it, learn it. Remember forced circulation of money is the key to this plan, and it will give you continued prosperity. MEASURE BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY How can you measure the length of a dream? So long in sleep does it always seem, Hours or days as you follow it through; Yet know it passed in a second or two. Well, then what about this thing we call life, With either its joy or its long, hard strife? Shall we wake on some morn the eons span And find life dream drawfed in a greater plan?

SIDE GLANCES

“Now, don’t let the house get too cold. I think our wood Will last, if we have an early spring."

FEB. 29, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNTE PYI.E

JACKSONVILLE Fla.. Feb. 23. All down the coast, all the way from Norfolk to the Florida line, you are driving through a swamp. There are, I would be willing to bet, at least six billion snakes in these swamps. They are asleep right now, thank Heaven. Now and then the road picks out a solid stretch and runs along with fields and trees and dry land on either side, but that is the exception. Mostly the road is built up on a grade and on both sides are dark* forests, filled with an ominous thick underbrush, standing in foul, silent water. Once in a while the forests disappear and there is a tall, brown sword-like grass, stretching level and far like a prairie wheat field. But you know that underneath it is water, and it makes you shudder. non THE towns look like small towns most anywhere. But in the country the shacks are old. Ninety per cent of the country population along the coastal road must be colored. In the Carolinas the shacks are mostly of clapboard, never painted. Some of them have two stories, with only one room on each flooor, and they're taller than they are wide. They invariably lean. I never saw so many Leaning Towers of Poverty anywhere. On a Sunday afternoon you r eet droves of Negroes, walking along the highway, going home from church. They are dressed up and they look happy. The Negro country churches are always big. barnlike affairs, unpainted, with huge unceurtained windows. They sit on pillars of brick and you can see under them. They seem lonesome and cold, in drab contrast to the heat and Emotion of Negro worship that goes on inside them. One little old colored w’oman was walking along the road, with a dozen big sticks of firewoood balanced on her head. A string was tied around the wood. She stopped and turned clear around, but the load of wood never even teetered. tt tt A FEW years ago, the road In Georgia was lined with turpentine camps. You w’ould see hun--dreds of trees with wide notches cut in them, and little cans hang-* ing on the side, to catch the sap. Now, there are only three or four such place.-. The turpentine business is or the bum. When you cross into Georgia, a big black and yellow sign tells you that if you’re a vagrant, and are caught, you'll do time on Georgia's chain gangs. You see colored men in bunches, all in black-and-gray stripes, working on the roads. Hard-looking characters, in sheepskin coats, with rifles under their arms, stand looking at them. North Florida is the same as Georgia. You wouldn’t know the difference, except for the elaborate arch across the highway out in the wilderness there, saying "Florida.” tt tt n EVEN Jacksonville. 30 miles below the line, isn’t what we picture Florida to be. It has some palm trees, and a lot of hotels, but otherwise it’s like other cities. You don’t get thq Hollywood Spanish effect, or the droves of idle, bath-ing-suited money spenders, that you get farther south. Everybody here thinks and talks about the Florida Canal. In one of the taprooms, painted on the mirror back of the bar, is a big sign saying, "Try our Roosevelt Canal Special—a pick-me-up—ls cents.” More people are coming to Florida this year, they say, than any year since 1929, The newspapers run big stories about how trains from the north are running in six sections, getting people out of the cold. A story in one paper had a head saying “It’s a Long, Long Way to California.” The story told about a family in Wisconsin who started to California, got snowbound within a few miles of hme, and had been stuck right there for a week. Since they didn’t even get out of Wisconsin, it seems to me they’d have been snowbound even if they had been starting for Florida, but of course the Florida papers don’t see it that way. DAILY THOUGHT He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.—l John 5:12. IF we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness.—H. G. J. Adam.

By George Clark