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MONDAY, MARCH 2 1936. S.MA RT CAMPA IG NIN G npHE political wisdom of restraint is demonstrated as Gov. Alf Landon edges forward in his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. Other candidates have blown hot and cold as their shrill cries about dictatorship, the wreck of democracy and the shackling of our liberties have captured the front page for a day and passed from the public mind the next. It is no accident that Landon's political potentialities have loomed steadily larger. For he has kept his head. An exaftiple is his treatment of the relief problem in his speech at Lincoln, Neb. Whereas other Republican orators have talked as if the depression was the invention of the Democrats and the extending of Federal relief a New Deal innovation which automatically pauperized what had been a rugged and self-sufficient segment of our population. The Kansas Governor doesn’t insult the intelligence of the electorate. "Federal financial aid was obviously necessary in our recent emergency," he admits. tt n ts npHEN Jae attacks the policy where it is weakest — in the execution. Here are excerpts: "The WPA program has slammed the door to employment on public works to every one except permanent relief clients. Asa result, those who might otherwise have become self-sustaining have been forced back on relief in order to obtain temporary employment." "Idealists may have been at the front door preaching social justice, but party henchmen have been at the back door handing out jobs.” "Let us, as Republicans, make it clear to the needy everywhere that the changes we pledge will bring order out of chaos by purging the Federal relief administration of partisanship, of waste and incompetence In short, what we propose Is to make relief both honest and effective.” On agriculture lie doesn’t just go along with the Supreme Court because “Save the Constitution" happens to be the popular Republican campaign technique this year. Though one of the main reasons given by the couri for throwing out AAA was that farming is a strictly local affair, Landon says: “Among all the problems that are pressing for consideration today, if there is one that is truly national, it is the distress of agriculture.” a a * IN most of the Republican oratory there has been that back-to-thc-old-order appeal as the answer to our present experimentations. But not from Landon. "We can not go back to the days before the depression. We must go forward, facing our new problems.” And then some common sense on Federal finance: "If we are overburdened by debt, we can not go forward. In a word, we must persevere until we have balanced our budget. After all, however, liberal we are. whatever progressive instinct tempts us and inspires us. common sense and sound policy tell us that we can only be as liberal as we can afford to be and pay our debts and live in decent selfrespect. . . . "If the money is spent, we must get it somehow, some way. If we spend what we do not have, today, we must pay the bill tomorrow'. Every time we put off present obligations we mortgage future rewards and future opportunities." Th 're are many things about the Landon candidacy we do not like—for instance the ambiguity with which he talks of the> need of greater farm purchasing power, without venturing a detailed program to achieve it. But even that is an admission that he hasn’t all the answers—a confession most campaign hopefuls haven't mustered the modesty to express. Anyway ambiguity apparently is smarter politics than stridency. Nor do we like the odor of many reactionary and selfish persons who have attached themselves to the Landon candidacy. But at least they have been shrewd enough to pick a politician who has the capacity to distinguish himself by not “running in herd.” BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE "AN interesting rivalry has sprung up among cities to get some of this Federal money for themselves. It has become a matter of civic pride. They demand it now' as a right. When they don’t get it thejre mad. The mayor, local officials, local civic organizations go into action, send delegations to Washington, put the heat on their congressmen. "Then these same business men. gathering in their Chambers of Commerce, make speeches and pass hot resolutions demanding an end to all this government spending, demand that the budget be balanced, that taxes be reduced."—Dispatch from Thomas L. Stokes, political writer.

FANTASIA /CHRONOLOGY: Japanese Fascist-Militarist factions revwhelmingly defeated at polls, indicating Nippon is turning toward liberalism at home and peace abroad. Young army officers engineer coup. Reported that they assassinate Premier Akada, Finance Minister Takahashi and other cabinet members, “to remove corrupt influences." They occupy Premier's residence and several government buildings. Admiral Saito in Washington describes uprising as “misdirected patriotism.” Home Min!' er Fumio Goto appointed acting premier. Loyal troops surround rebels: handbills and telephonic communication from airplanes advise rebels to surrender. Announced that rebel officers will surrender or commit hara kiri at dawn, but they oversleep at hotel and eat a good breakfast first. Premier Okada turns up alive, is re-established as Premier. Revealed that the man actually shot down and left to lie several hours in Premier's garden actually was Okada’s brother-in-law. Col. Matsuo. Capt. Ando, rebel leader, to save face, shoots himself in the head. Most rebels surrender, but some other officers also reported to have taken the “gentleman's way out,” by disembowelling themselves with the ceremonial sword “for a showa restoration." Suggestion advanced that some remaining members of Okada cabinft may also commit hara kiri. to save face and atone for the Emperor’s annoyance For oriental melodrama our Hollywood scenarists

can’t improve on that plot. Newspaper correspondents in Tokio who report lact and rumor from behind a mysterious curtain of censorship are providing us with a mystery story more fantastic than would come from the combined imagination of all those who have invented thrillers, from Conan Doyle to Van Dine. PLUGGING A LEAK? SECRETARY ROPER doesn't like news to ‘'leak" out of the Commerce Department. He therefore has dismissed Commander H. McCoy Jones and Frederick L Adams of the Bureau of Navigation ar/d Steamboat Inspection on charges of insubordination. Several weeks ago the Board of Supervising Inspectors of the Bureau met in Washington. They passed a resolution which said in substance that they no longer could be responsible for the safety of the lives of passengers and crews on American ships. They complained of lack of funds and personnel in the bureau. No announcement was made of the resolution by the department. But shortly copies of it appeared anonymously in several newspaper offices. The resolution was published and immediately there was the devil to pay in the Commerce Department. Treasury agents were summoned to investigate. The agents even went to Mr. Adams’ home to question him. And according to Secretary Roper’s explanation, refusal of Mr. Jones and Mr. Adams to answer questions about the “premature" release of the resolution was what constituted insubordination. It also appears from Secretary Roper’s explanation that much material pertinent to the public int.eiest is quieth filed away where none but the elect may see it This W'ould indicate a policy based upon the presumption that what the public doesn’t know won’t hurt Secretary Roper. It appears that among the things thus filed away w'ould have been the supervisors’ resolution had it not been released without the imprimatur of Secretary Roper. Surely it w'as a matter of great public importance that should have been promptly released from official sources. The effect of its circulation w'as a public service, and for that two government employes have lost their jobs. HANDS OFF THE SCHOOLS! PRESIDENT ROBERT GORDON SPROUL of the University of California is asked by a county district attorney to dismiss tw 0 well-known professors because they attended a left-wing labor mass meeting. Massachusetts, the home of Horace Mann, ousts Commissioner of Education Payson Smith after a distinguished service of two decades and under circumstances that give the affair an odor of political persecution. Liberals in Congress are fighting to repeal “the little red rider” to the District of Columbia appropriation bill, requiring teachers to swear every month they have not taught or advocated Communism. Teachers’ loyalty oaths, class-room spies, inquisitions, intimidations and patrioteering forays into the college class rooms and schools of the United States havo became so widespread that the organized school admin stratois in their St. Louis meeting pass ringing resolutions in defense of free teaching. This sudden and wide attack calls for just as militant a counter-attack. Who are these organizations who appoint themselves censors over the schools? Who finances them? What is their purpose? To what extent are they abetted by faithless members of the teaching profession and used by job-chasing politicians? They are enemies of education and, therefore, enemies of liberty. We commend to the teaching profession suggestions recently made by the historian Charles A. Beard that a national body be organized to defend the right of scientific inquiry, particulary “in communities beset by w-itch-burners and fanatics.” Never before did we need more zealously to guard the right of free thought and teaching. As we struggle to shape our own institutions into forms more adequate to the people’s security, we need above all the aid of knowledge. And knowledge wafped by pressure and propaganda is not knowledge, but error.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson "npHE chief feature of military training in schools, colleges and camps is the building up of character and uncompromising truthfulness.” This sentence is taken from a retired Army officer’s speech. There can be no doubt he is sincere, just as many civilians are sincere in their disagreement. Uncompromising truthfulness is not to be found in any kind of military training in any country on earth. Its basic fundamentals, are composed of untruth; the fabrications of war profiteers; the false propaganda about other nations; the glorification of those instincts which are most shameful in men: the urge to hate, to destroy and to take what belongs to another. No matter how many fine names we apply to these characteristics, the truth compels us t recognize them for what they are. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell died the other day. He contributed notable service to his country in the World War and was decorated for extraordinary heroism. But he happened to be a man who spoke the truth as he sav it. For that, he was cc’rt-mar-tialed and kicked out of a department of government to which he had brought honor, but which could not bear to hear itself criticised. When Gen. Mitchell spoke of the “incompetency and criminal negligence” of certain national defense policies, he was dishonorably discharged. Whether he was right or wrong does not enter into our question. There is only one point to consider. He was not allowed to say what he believed was true. Does the Army permit men to tell the truth wi._n it does not coincide with the opinion of its leaders? Does the boy who becomes involved in a military system ever have a chance to speak the truth? The facts disprove it. Life in Germany, Italy and Russia disproves it. FROM THE RECORD REP. KELLER (D., 111.): Mr. Chairman. I ask the gentleman to grant me five minutes more. Rep. Rich <R., Pa.): Give him some time, so that he can answer the question, because he has not said anything yet. a a a Rep. Tinkham <E'... Mass ): It is clear that from the very beginning of the war. Mr. Page (United State Ambassador Walter Hines Page) was the agent of the British Foreign Office and was working in the interest of Great Britain . . . There is ample evidence that the British Foreign Office dominates the, foreign policy of the present Administration. a a a Rep. Lehlbach (R., N. J.): This reign of terror af which Hagood (Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood) is only one example, will be increasing all over this country from now until November. The New Deal has a bad case of jitters.

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Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

"\[OW you're tryin’ to get up a writin’ about these pictures. I don’t know anything about art. And besides, these artists would say that Frank was talking about something he didn’t know about and they’d kid me.” We were standing in the galleries that contain this year's edition of The Indiana Show at the John Herron Institute, but we were there before it opened. It was guarded by a big policeman and Frank liohman, cabinet maker and building superintendent, was fixing the base on a piece of statuary. Frank has been at the museum for five years and has seen five annual shows come and go, besides a good many others. He has received the pictures for the annual show each year—as many as 600 of them a show —and he’s seen five different juries make their selections. He’s also been down in the storage room when artists call lor pictures rejected by the juries, and he’s had to give them back to the disappointed artists. St tt tt SOMETIMES.” he says, “they come in kind of mad and want to start talking about why the pictures were not accepted. But I make a joke of it. “I say something like this, ‘My, an artist of your reputation and can’t get a picture by for an annual show,’ and that usually brings them around. If you start getting serious with them then you're headed for an argument. “Like I say, I don’t know anything about art, but the young fellow who painted this picture here of the three fishermen cleaning fish, he asked me the other day: “Frank, can you find a mistake in that picture?” “I asked him why he didn’t get an artist to look at it, and he said he wanted the opinion of the public. “So I said I could. I asked him why the man who was standing up straight was looking so far off. Seemed to me he wasn't interested in what the other two were doing. “Well, sir, he looked at me and admitted I had him. But I told him that on the other hand the man might be thinking and sometimes people looked sort of far away when they were thinking.” tt ss tt “T> EALLY. I’m sorry that picture JV didn’t take first prize,” said Frank. “But you can't tell what judges will do. I’ve seen pictures come in here that were prizes m other shows, and get turned down. Os course, the judges don’t know the pictures have w r on prizes before when they turn them down. “But you can never tell. This year, for instance, they threw out most of the light water colors. Said they wanted contrast in colors. Next year they may want snow scenes. “But I’ve seen judges turn down pictures of artists who are practically good. The general public, and some of the artists don’t know how much work there is to putting on a show, and how careful we have to be. "You have to be careful to mark each picture accepted or rejected, or when the artist calls for it and sees no mark, he’ll think the picture wasn’t even sent up for judging.” tt tt B AS for me,” mused Frank, "I like natural looking pictures. An artist can take a pi ire that isn’t natural looking and > in it all sorts of technical tl .gs that make it a good picture. “But I like them natural looking. That’s just the way I am. You may be some other way. That’s why, as a general rule, I don’t like water colors. You have to stand too far away from them. “But if you're looking for a writin’, you better see one of the officials, because I don’t know anything about art, and when those artists come back for their pictures, if they see me talking about something I don't know about they’ll start kiddin’ me, and it’s hard enough to give back those pictures , . ss a tt FROM an 1885 edition of the Jeffersonville Evening News: “Master Walter Alonzo Dorsey is one of the brightest little fellows in town. He is 6 and manly, polite . . . and is a good declaimer and prides himself in this regard. He has memorized a speech . . . which he intends to recite at school next Thursday. . . . There is no reason otherwise than to think that his speech will be well received.” Is Master Dorsey in the house? How did you do, kid? l TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ LIFE, says Dr. George W. Crile. world-famous surgeon of Cleveland, is a radio-electric process. He sets forth his theory in detail in his newest book, "The Phenomena of Life,” published today. Since the time of Aristotle biologists have attempted to answer the question, what is life? Few definitions have done anything tut juggle with words. For example, "life is the process of living.” The question interested Dr. Crile from the day he became an interne in a Cleveland hospital in 1837. That very day, a young medical student was brought into the hospital, his legs crushed in a street car accident. The young interne watched him through the night as he slowly died from shock. Then and there Dr. Crile determined to study what had brought death to the young student. And so, during the ensuing years, while world-wide fame was coming to him as a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Crile continued his laboratory investigations into the nature of life. In the surgical amphitheater Dr. Crile made many important contributions. He performed the first direct transfusion of blood, a technique in use today everywhere in the world. He developed and improved many surgical techniques, notably that for the surgical treatment of goiter. In the laboratory he studied the effect of shock on animals, investigated the effect of electric currents on the ameba, constructed an artificial or "autosynthetic cell,” examined the ductless glands of wild animals shot in Africa. He tells the whole story in "The Phenomena of Life.’'

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<Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relipious controversies excluded. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit thepi to 250 words or less. Your letter must he signed, but names will he withheld on reouest.) FOLLOW YOUR CITY TOLD By S. Fredericks Something has been said about forcing private property owners to remove snow from sidewalks. If you will take a walk down to fire headquarters, you will see snow and ice on New York and Alabama - sts that has been there since the first snow. I went past there the other morning when there was nothing but ice from the corner down past the garage. I came past there quite recently and every bit of it was still there, with a beautiful coat of snow on the ice. I would suggest that a policeman be sent down there to tell the boys about it. Please don’t send the police to any private property owner until the city takes care of her own, is my plea. lower-priced” HOMES ARE URGED. Bv H. L. Seeger Low-priced homes to meet the average workers’ pay envelope of $22.50 per week would have to be built for S2OOO including the ground. Prices of materials have not come down to meet this “potential” market for new homes. So we find this group living in the blighted areas, in homes that are relics of the era of cheap material. The building industry operates on the basis of small production, big overhead and get it while the get-

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN SOMETIMES you hear of a number of people becoming ill after having attended a banquet, or otherwise having eater >f the kind of food. In eases, it is usually found that ..aod contained some poisonoiia substance, or certain germs responsible for the infection. There are cases on record in which metallic poisons were involved. In most instances, the poison concerned came from certain groups of germs usually found as food contaminants. If, however, only one or two persons who partook of a certain food develop abdominal symptoms or break out with a rash, the trouble is with these persons and not with the food. On examination, the victims are likely to be found sensitive to the proteins in the food. Sensitivity to food substances shows itself by such symptoms as vomiting and nausea after eating the food, sometimes with excessive action of the bowels. In many instances there are rashes on the skin, and occasionally the eruption of wheals or blisters.

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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 —What was the origin of the nickname Gotham for New' York? A—lt was first given in “Salmagundi.” a humorous work of Washington Irving. William Irving, and James Kirke Paulding, because the inhabitants “were such wiseacres.’ 5 Originally the name referred to a village in England, of uncertain identity, whose inhabitants were proverbial for their follies, as testified by a well-known nursery rhyme and by “The Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham,” compiled about 156 b. , —Who is the official representative of Ethiopia in the United States? A—The Ethiopian Consul General, 73 Water-st, New' York City. Q —What salaries do the British prime minister and secretary of

ting is good. It takes practically all of the worker’s average income to pay the grocer, butcher, baker and clothing man for keeping body and soul together. The insurance companies get what savings, if any, this group has, and they put it out on mortgages to finance higher-priced homes. People live in these blighted areas because of necessity, not from choice. We can either raise their pay to the required amount to buy new modern homes, or we must bring the price down to their, income. Lending them money to pay for something they can not pay for out of earnings is like selling Europe our exports for lOU’s that are uncollectable, b a tt SEES INDICATIONS OF “SOMETHING WRONG” By Norris I. Swift There are several different kinds of greed and selfishness, all of which blind the victim’s mind to the condition of others. Every one w’ants to get ahead of the other person in the race of life. Asa result, only the strong and wiser ones are at the front. These wise ones are nearly all so blinded with greed that they can not see the fate that lies ahead for them in the future. There are only 11.000,000 people unemployed, but there are many more millions who are working for nearly nothing and most of these people can afford a newspaper and radio. These salesmen, small business men, doctors, and others, not to mention the unemployed, come home at night to get rest from their day’s labor. They try to get their worried

SINCE these studies have been made, it has been found that 10 to 15 per cent of all people respond to the eating of certain food substances with constitutional reactions. The foods concerned may be such w'holesome articles of diet as milk, eggs and cereals, or such appetizing luxuries as strawberries and shellfish. A baby sensitive to egg will become severely sick after eating an ; amount of egg too small to be 1 weighed on a chemical scale. A I person sensitive to honey will get so I ill after eating honey that he will be unable to go about his daily work. He need not eat the honey as such, but may even get it as a flavoring for cake or some confection. Some people are so sensitive to eggs that they become ill by getting 1 the trace of egg contained in chick|en meat. On the other hand, the : same person may eat rooster meat I with impunity. A man 50 years old who had asthma was so sensitive to fish and fish glue that he developed an atI tack every time he licked a postage stamp. Truly, in such cases, one l man’s meat is another man’s poison.

state for foreign affairs receive? Are members of the British parliament paid? A—The prime minister and the secretary of state for foreign affairs receive an annual salary of SSOOO pounds, approximately $25,000. Members of the House of Lords are not paid; but members of the House of Commons receive 400 pounds annuallj, about S2OOO and traveling facilities over the railways. Q —What was the name <i the only woman in the cast of “Barbary Coast,” and when did she enter motion pictures? A—Miriam Hopkins, the only woman listed, entered pictures in 1930. Q —What is the population of Montreal, Canada? A—The 1931 Census enumerated 818,577. Q —What was the total amount subscribed to the World War Liberty Loans? A—Total subscriptions were $24.072.111.400, but the amount of bonds issued was $21,433,924,700.

minds off their troubles and debts by reading the paper. They read the comments of such men as Smith, Ford, Hoover and the egobloated J. P. Morgan, who says, “When you destroy the leisure class you destroy civilization.” He no doubt feels it is fair and square that the workers of the world, including the doctors and men of profession, should be destroyed and that God (if he believes in one, other than gold) made this world for him and his kind to enjoy alone, while the ones who have made his happiness possible, but whose work is no longer needed by these parasites, can now lie down and die. After reading a little of this stuff in the paper, a real American citizen’s blood will begin to boil and he will reach for the dial of his radio, still seeking diversion from his weary mind, and—bellowing with a great bass voice and nothing more, is a defender of the Constitution. But he is not defending anything, but making people wish someone, somewhere, cculd say or do something to make these poor unfortunate money-blinded men understand before it is too late. So he turns the dial and we listen to a great comedian whose jokes are so poor that he has to laugh at them himself. We wonder, when we read that he gets $5500 for a half-hour of nit-wit comedy, and men who really do work can’t get 55 cents for a full hour. One of his jokes which contained more truth than comedy was, “The poor man worries about his sick twins, while the rich man worries about his twin six.” We like to hear him and others, but with $5500 for 30 minutes in a land where people who are able and want to work for a normal living and can’t make 55 cents a week, something is radically wrong: but the workers are not the radicals. They are not doing half the complaining the real radicals are. LIGHT BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY If all the world were one vast night With two stars only for a light, I’d shun the lanterns in the skies And choose, instead, your twinkling eyes. I’d let them guide me on my way; Thus all my night would turn to day. ’Twould be a choice superbly wise, For therein all my brightness lies.

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Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

OCALA. Fla., March 2.—So much has been said and written about whether or not the Florida Canal should be built at all, that many people have overlooked the droll fact that it’s already being built. For two days I’ve been here on the scene, up to my ankles in sand and up to my cars in amazement. This is the biggest piece of construction in America today. It’s the biggest excavation job in all history. It's twice as big as the Panama Canal. If all the dirt and rock that is to come out of this ditch were stacked in the shape of a pyramid, its base a mile square, it would make a pile 4250 feet high! They've been working steadily here since September. They’re at work today over a stretch of nearly 20 miles—actually digging. tt tt a THEY' have 6600 men on the job. They’re moving 100.000 cubic yards of sand every 24 hours. The work goes on night and day, never stopping. They're using mules, and men With shovels, and hundreds of tractors and Diesel scrapers that dig up 20 tons in one bite, and steam shovels with 175-foot aluminum booms, and airplanes, and Boats. They have cleared the timber off thousands of acres and they’ve built 15 little cities out in the wilderness for the workers to live in. Already they’re building bridges over where] the canal some day will be—they! hope. If President Roosevelt or Congress fails to renew the canal appropriation, they'll work until the money runs out on July 1. and then leave a gash across the center of Florida that will be the Grand Canyon of the South. 4 a tt THERE are a thousand fascinat-J ing big and little details about! this immense job, and I intend toy tell every one of them I can re-l member. To get the canal picture, you first must get it in your head just how the canal runs. As you probably, know, it is to connect the Atlantic] Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico, so] ships won’t have to go around the 9 southern tip of Florida. Florida, in its narrowest part, is about 100 miles wide. That’s about three-fourths of the way up from the tip, and that's where the canal is to be. But the route doesn’t run straight across. It wanders around for a total length of 195 miles. That’s to take advantage of rivers, where there’s already water, and of river valleys, where they won’t >have to dig so deeply. ' First, we go west on St. Johns River, from the ocean to Jacksonville. This is 28 miles. They don't have to do a thing to this. It’3 already deep enough for ocean vessels. j Next, we go south, still on the St. Johns River, and follow it 52, miles to Palatka. We’ll have to dol a lot of dredging here. This whole’ stretch is only 13 feet deep. We ll have to make it 30. tt ss a NOW we turn southwest, and we go southwest for 95 miles, clear across the peninsula. This is the real canal. All this will have to be cut out. All this will be a big, artificial ditch. It will follow river valleys, but it won’t be right in the rivers. When we get up in the center of the state, we’ll have to cut right across high land. There isn't any peak herM that you can see with your nakoa| eye. but it’s about 100 feet above sea level. As we get toward the west coast, we pick up another river valley, and follow it down to the gulf. But it’s very shallow, and we’ll have to dig deep. We ll even have to dig under water (with hydraulic dredges) for 20 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. That’s because the Gulf along the Florida Coast is shallow. We’ll have to build a breakwater 20 miles out into the Gulf to protect the south side of this channel. Nature has already provided one, in the form of a long shoal, on the north side. They started at the hardest part, right in the middle, where it’s highest and today the digging covers a stretch of nearly 20 miles. DAILY THOUGHT As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me; the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.— Psalms 18:44. NO principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.— Henry Giles.

By George Clark