Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 311, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1936 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1936. FALSE ALARM 'IT7ASHINGTON, city hasn’t changed its name to Moscow. Stalin hasn’t moved in as dictator of these United States. Our Democratic form of government hasn’t tumbled about apprehensive ears. Liberty and the profit motive haven’t perished on these shores. And yet Earl Browder, Communist agitator, has spoken his piece, and over a nation-wide hookup, and maybe to millions of listeners—-most of whom wouldn’t have bothered to turn the dials if the professional and amateur viewers-with-alarm hadn’t drummed up wide publicity for the speech by premot ing calamitous consequences. What a build-up! And what a let-down! Much as any other Kansas-born politician would do, Browder tore into Wall Street. It’s always safe to denounce Wall Street and the man-eating shark. Much as Democratic, Republican, Townsendite, free silverite, greenbacker and other spellbinders do daily, Browder solemnly told the people what they already knew—that the biggest problem before America today is putting men to work. Much as Republican orators say daily, he declared that the Democratic New Deal is bankrupt. As emphatic as any Democrat, he said that the Republicans do not have the solution. And as any other political out, he claimed to have all the answers. He called for a united Farmer-Labor Party and gradual extension of government ownership and operation of industry. And he advocated the redistribution of wealth and jobs, promising incomes from $2500 to SIO,OOO a year for all who will work. Just imagine any one who listens to the speeches of Gov. Olson of Minnesota or who used to listen to Huey Long being shocked by that mild imitation. But what if this “subversive doctrine’’ had been suppressed? What if Browder had been treated as a Communist country treats an agitator for democracy? Many of our citizens would still be trembling in their boots instead of enjoying disillusionment. And many other citizens would be calling Browder a martyr, instead of a flop.

THE BLACK CONTROVERSY “'TnHE right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violate, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, suported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.’' That language is pretty clear. It is. the fourth amendment to the Constitution—the “man’s home is his castle” amendment. It expresses a basic right, a very precious right, a right born of centuries of oppression and bloodshed. Its violation can not be justified by any rationization about the ends justifying the means—such for example as the zealots in prohibition days employed in their defense of wire tapping and home raiding without warrants. Circumvention of this Fourth Amendment is of a piece with that short and easy course of torture that police and prosecutors so often try to take in securing convictions. On the well-worn theory that it is better for a hundred guilty to escape than for an innocent man to be punished, the preservation of any of the inherent rights such as the one under discussion now is more vital that any result, however good that might be attained through the violalation. The assertion is now made that the Black Lobby Investigating Committee exceeded its authority under that Fourth Amendment in prosecuting its search for evidence. Tire counter assertion is made by Senator Black that the procedure was regular, that proper subpenas were served, that the committee acted in the manner employed and approved by every congressional investigation since 1792. That the Communication Commission, a part of the executive branch of the government and operating under authority limited against such an act, provided the Black committee with a “blanket” copy of every telegram sent in or out of Washington for a considerable period of time is also alleged. To that Senator Black replies that no telegrams in possession of the committee were supplied by any other branch of the government. And there the controversy now stands. Judgment can not be passed until more evidence is in. A court test of the legality under the Fourth Amendment of the committee’s action is to be made. We are glad of that. For the outcome will reveal whether that basic right has been violated or whether the attack on the Black committee is just another backfire such as was instituted in an attempt to stop the Teapot Dome investigation. STATES VS. SUPREME COURT with current protests against Supreme Court invalidation of acts of Congress, the states are becoming increasingly conscious that the court even more often knocks out state laws. About 75 congressional laws have been held unconstitutional in 150 years, but many times that number of state enactments have been voided. Protests against action on state laws have been directed chiefly against the extent to which the Supreme Court goes, and the basis upon which it acts—not against the fundamental power. The court’s three “liberal” justices have complained in recent dissents that the courts should not take over the legislative function of determining public policy, and instead should rule merely on the constitutionality of the method followed. The late Justice Holmes, in commenting dryly that the Uniced States would not come to an end if “we lost our power” to hold an act of Congress invalid, added that it might come to an end if the power over state legislation were denied. The magazine State Government, organ of the Council of State Governments, today published a compilation of Supreme Court action overturning state supreme courts on the validity of stale laws. It listed 309 such instances, but this only covered a part of the Supreme Court’s ruling on state legislation, since fully as many cases come from tne lower Federal courts. ' The 309 cases showed most of the state laws

knocked out on on? or another of three principal grounds: 1. One hundred and two state acts under the commerce clause, which gives Congress sole power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce. 2. Ninety-two voided under the “due process” and “equal protection” clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted after the Civil War primarily to insure civil rights to the emancipated Negroes. These clauses are frequently used in utility rate cases. 3. Fifty-nine invalidated under the “contract clause,” Article I of the Constitution, providing that “No state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts." In addition, there have been 57 cases under other miscellaneous interpretations. ROPER PLAYS THE FIDDLE PASSAGE of legislation to clean out the shipping industry’s stables and revive the American merchant marine again is threatened. An attempt is being made to shelve a bill of substantial merit introduced by Senator Guffey (D„ Pa.) for one favored by Copeland (D., N. Y.), whose office at the Capitol is the rendezvous of subsidy seekers. It is called a “compromise” and is supposed to compose the wide differences between Postoffice and Commerce Departments on subsidy policies. The Postoffice Department has indicated throughout months of discussions that it was interested solely in a measure providing a sound and efficient merchant marine even if the government were forced to build and operate the necesary tonnage itself. The record fails to disclose that such estimable objectivity w'as ever Roper’s inclination. Impartiality toward hungry industries is not one of the secretary’s weaknesses. So, it is not surprising to find that the bill he favors would pour more millions of the taxpayers’ money into the coffers of an industry which already owes the government more than $100,000,000 of debts that are about as liquid as the war debts. If, as is claimed for this measure, Mr. Roper has persuaded the Postoffice Department to swallow this “compromise” the secretary should devote a moment, to the public interest and disclose the method.

“TODAY, WE SING . . \ LL praise to the American Liberty League for introducing a poetic note, into an otherwise prosaic political campaign, by celebrating the Gen. Hagood incident in the meter of the limerick. “A General there was, named Hagood, Who stated the truth—as he should— But because of the truth, He’s banished, forsooth— So, telling the truth doesn't pay good.” Thus rhymes the Liberty League bard. Not to be outdone, our own staff members turn to their typewriters. Some of them twang a pretty mean lyre: Here is to Sixty Grand Shouse, Who can always buy drinks for the House His A. L. L. backers Are not Georgia crackers; They are paying him plenty to grouse; One Smith, viz; Alfred Emmanuel, Is rehearsing his New Dealers’ pan-u-all; His take-a-walk threat May scare some folks —yet Such trips have become darn near annual. A Southern dirt farmer named Gene Tried to crash the national scene, But his crimson suspenders And Reaction defenders Gave the country a pain in the bean. Vandenberg, once a good editor, Now wastes all his time making metaphor; It’s easy„to see He’s been stung by the bee And is searching for things to take credit for. There s a “Coolidge of Kansas.” O Time! (Can you spare a poor brother a dime?) Turn back in thy flight Remember? Good night! We had one before ’29. O Liberty, virtuous dame, What license is finked with thy name! You hold in your hand Tne fate of this land Could the du Ponts be doing the same? A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson in thj! category of human effort equals the struggle between the housewife of the plains country and the demons who ride the dust storms. During recent disasters when the atmosphere was gray with grit and you couldn’t see across the street for days, many I know gave up the struggle for a while—but only for a while. At the first feeble gleam of sunshine they were up and at it again. Scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, pounding rugs, shaking out bedclothes, washing extra 'china, polishing woodwoik. All this in spite of their certain knowledge that a couple of hours at most would see another film of silt over everything. When man pits his strength against the elements we experience ? thrill of admiration. But there is nothing so spectacular about women’s gum fight with dust. It is a futile, hopeless, neverending battle. Day after day, year in and year out, the housekeepers of the Middle West battle their primeval enemy, charging it over and over with broom and mop. Momentarily the enemy retreats. Then they see the haze begin to appear upon the horizon; it advances as surely as death, and the freshly cleaned houses are inundated once again. The dust creeps into every cranny. It gets into their beds, into their food, into their hair, into their skin. Quite literally, they eat it. And they stilfsmile. They even make jokes about it. Between illnesses, and childbirths and funerals, between each sowing and reaping (if there is one) they fight the hideous, insidious, inexorable dust. Then they die. And it becomes their pall; gently, noiselessly, eternally it sifts down upon their graves. FROM THE RECORD OENATOR VANDENBERG (R., Mich.); It seems to me it is becoming progressively dangerous to use work relief funds for the purpose of committing the government to great undertakings which Congress must ultimately finance without any freedom of action in respect to a decision regarding them. . . This is not representative government under the American system. It is a prodigal paraphrase under which Congress can only rubber stamp a decision originally made by the executive on his own responsibility. a a a Senator Smith (D., S. C.), discussing the Gen. Hagood case: Mr. President, I know 7 that discipline is necessary, but is there a man in this body who believes that such a splendid record should be wrecked and the officer humiliated in the eyes of bis fellow's because he expressed an opinion every one of us knows to be true, because of a casual indiscretion—let us put it that way—in the room of a committee that iiad invited him to come up before it and tell the truth? He would not have told anything else, for he does not come from that breed, thank God, that— j Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

STRAW in the wind: When the League of Women's Voters assembled yesterday afternoon in the smoke-dingy chamber of the House of Representatives the ladies refrained from smoking in the presence of the gentlemen. Ban SENATOR JACOB WEISS, Indianapolis, and Senator William Jenner, youthful Republican and Indiana University orator of note, have chosen up sides agairl. During the last session they were jibing each other all the time. Yesterday the exchange of “pleasantries” ran something like- this: Senator jenner: “I no city slicker. I’m justa country boy from the Orange County hills. Why fella, I’ve never even been to Coney Island.” (The later remark apparently w-as in reference to Senator Weiss’ New York origin.) Senator Weiss: “What dy’e mean —country boy? You’ve got spats on, haven’t you?” He did have, too! b a u A WISE guy just dropped in and said: “What do you think? I just saw a yellow sedan parked at the curb and on the front bumper was a socket and in the socket was a buggy whip. If the owner had been around I’d have asked him what was the idea.” Rollo, that buggy whip is a radio antenna. tt tt tt RUNNING down an, alarming, but false, rumor that the cat has former Gov. Leslie’s tongue, I came on this item about him: The manager of the Claypool Grill, where he eats, says Mr. Leslie knows the place like a book. He knows all the cooks and everything. His favorite dish is oysters. “And he eats them with salt and pepper and vinegar,” he said. “Just like farmers. He was born on a farm, you know.” B tt tt IN a touching address purported to have been delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 21, this year, by Louis Ludlow’, he said in part: “When you scratch an Indiana farmer under the skin, the chances are about 9 to 1 that you will find a poet.” Mr. Ludlow proceeded then to scratch an Indiana farmer “under the skin” and find a poet, complete with three-verse poem. The farmer was unidentified. It’s all in the Congressional Record. tt tt tt THE Columbia University book publicity circular says this rejection slip was received from a firm of Chinese publishers by. a Detroit (Mich.) author: “We read your manuscript with boundless delight. By the sacred ashes of our ancestors we swear that we have never dipped into a book of such overwhelming mastery. If we were to publish this book, it would be impossible in the future to issue any book of a lower standard. As it is unthinkable that within the next 10,000 years we shall find its equal, we are, to our great regret, compelled to return this too divine work and beg you to thousand times to forgive our action.” tt a tt SPEAKING of poetry: “Lines to My Lover in Hell” is, especially interesting when one considers its origin and the circumstances under which it was first recited. G. B. Stern in “The Rueful Mating” satirizes the child prodigy and more particularly the promoters of these prodigies. Eleven-year-old Hal was pictured as New York’s grown-up child prodigy. Her American mother died and she returned to England with her father, who was a sea captain. At the first dinner in the ultraconventional old English home, Hal felt neglected since her maiden aunts, her staid grandparents and even the butler seemed indifferent to her greatness. As Parsons caine in with the dessert, little Hall said she was going to recite a poem which she had written after a dream the night before. “Would you like to hear it? It is called ‘Lines to My Lover in Hell’: “Now you have shaken off this earthly leaven That we shall meet again all preachers tell; But, love, you are not good enough for Heaven, And I, oh love, not bad enough for hell. “Between the two perchance we can discover Gates that disclose a passionhaunted land, Barring out Satan, who was ne’er a lover, Barring out God, who would not understand!”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

NEW YORK, March 7.—Current interest in the motion picture and newspaper serial versions of “The Country Doctor” should serve to focus attention upon the most important medical problem facing the world today, namely, the role of the general practitioner in a changing age. This morning I discussed the problem with the prototype of “The Country Doctor,” Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who brought the Dionne quintuplets into the world. Earlier this week it was my privilege to attend a dinner for Dr. Dafoe, given by Fred Ferguson, president of NEA Service, Inc., at which eminent members of the New York medical farternity paid their whole-hearted respects to this country doctor. Dr. Dafoe is a family physician in the old-fashioned sense of the word. Many of his present patients are the children of those he treated at the beginning of the century. He brought many of them iato the world, tended their childhood ailments, watched them grow up, marry and have children of their own. He knows their histories, their medical records, their psychologies, their ambitions. He is more than doctor to them. He is friend, counselor and adviser. There was a time when every family in America had a trusted friend in the medical profession, the old family physician. Many families still do. But one of the chief worries of medical leaders is the chang- ?****** family physician or general practitioner.

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(Times readers are invited to express tneir views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make tiour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2SO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reauest.) ADDS TO CRITICISM OF GUARDSMEN By C. E. Hunt This is my first letter to your column. Nevertheless, i wish to kill two stones with one bird, so to speak. In line with the sentiments of the Ex-Soldier of Westfield and Ex-Marine James C. Barnett, I, as an ex-sailor, wish to voice the general contempt and very low opinion held by Navy men of the “tin soldier,” “scab-herding” members of the state militia. Regarding your timely series, “What’s Wrong With Our Schools,” the time is rips for a vast improvement of these conditions. I have no children, but I am highly in favor of the pay-as-you-go or similar plan to take care of the kiddies. tt a tt APPROVES BROAD PENSION SYSTEM By Joseph W. Helms It will be conceded by business men and women everywhere that our major problem is unemployment. Woman suffrage, the machine and the advanced living standard have tremendously affected our employment, in fact, greatly unbalanced it. Millions still are without work, and other millions have only parttime employment. - Any social security legislation in Indiana, therefore, that does not materially assist in adjusting employment to modern conditions will not be for the best interests of business, nor the masses. Pensioning those only above 70 will not directly help our unemployment problem.

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN TY7HEN you come to the problem ’ * of low blood pressure, you will find that diet alone won’t cure it. But diet will help greatly in building the health of persons with low blood pressure. Exact cause of this condition is still in doubt. Frequently, it is associated with long-continued infections, such as typhoid. Occasionally, it occurs when the heart becomes weak. It appears also after influenza or severe colds. In many instances low blood pressure is associated with failure of some of the important glands to provide necessary secretions. If there are any such deficiencies, therefore, these should be corrected. A low blood pressure diet is much similar to the kind used in secondary anemia, in which minerals and vitamins are stressed. Here is a typical diet for the day:

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Inclcse a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, iopj 13thst, N. W'., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q —When is Tib’s eve? A—The expression is Irish and means “never.” For example, “He will pay you on Tib’s eve,” which means he will pay you not at all. It is derived from St. Tib or St. Übes, and as there is no such saint there is no St. Tib’s eve. Q —ls Robert Vann, special assistant to the Attorney General a Negro? A—Yes. Q—ls it possible to divide a number by zero? A—Division by zero is not an admissible operation, for there exists no number by such that if it be multiplied by zero, the product will equal a ‘iiumber. Q—What was the date of the eruption of the volcano. Manna.

THAT’LL HOLD HIM

Asa road salesman contacting many township trustees over the state, I have been informed that more than 75 per cent of those on relief or supported by the government on made-work projects are above 40 and under 70 years of age. Workers past 40 are not wanted by business and industry. Wnere there is a surplus, why not remove those not wanted? If our young people are to have a fair chance, the older workers must be removed and given an adequate pension, so that buying power will be widespread and maintained. Such a program is socially and economically sound. tt a a- - TREATMENT OF WPA FOREMEN By Mrs. W. M. Attention, WPA foremen! Are you men, or what? During the bad weather all WPA men were unable to work, but the foremen had to serve 165 hours each month whether they were cold or it was too icy. My husband caught pneumonia and as a result is off .hree days. You are off for good and must be reinstated before you can get any help. Is this fair? One foreman slipped on the ice and was injured and yet they were driven for 165 hours each month. The laws set out by the white collars at 211 S. Meridian-st should be looked into by higher authorities. POINTS TO DANGER OF MINORITY CONTROL By a Borah Republican If it is true that Congress should have the power to regulate the production of agriculture and industry, prices and labor relations; to limit the work time and establish minimum compensation of wage earners; to prohibit child labor; to provide for the relief of the aged, sick and unemployed; to require common

BREAKFAST —Baked apple and cream, oatmeal with cream and sugar, buckwheat cakes with honey, whole-wheat toast, hot chocolate. 10:30 A. M.—Hot or cold milk. LUNCHEON—Kidney bean soup, liver cakes with crisp bacon, macaroni and cheese, melba toast and butter, sliced pineapple, cocoa. 3:30 P. M.—Glass of milk, dish of ice cream, or bar of chocolate. DlNNEß—Consomme with sieved raw liver, broiled chicken, boiled potato balls with chopped parsley, spinach with sliced hard-bqiled egg, lettuce and tomato salad with French dressing, com muffins and butter, ice cream with apricot or other fruit sauce, hot cocoa. BEDTIME Additional warm milk or hot chocolate may be taken. ' People with low blood pressure must have suitable amounts of rest and exercise. Stimulating baths also are of value; in fact, all methods included under physical therapy are known to be helpful in bringing the body tone back to normal.

Loa, in Hawaii, previous to the one that occurred in November, 1935? A—December, 1933. Q—Has Pennsylvania ratified the proposed child labor amendment to •die Constitution? A—Yes; in December, 1933. Q —ls Dalmatia an independent kingdom? What is the area and population? A—Dalmatia was formerly a kingdom and crownland of the AustroHungarian empire, in the northwest of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Adriatic Sea. It comprised 4923 square miles, and was 210 miles long and 35 miles wide. Since 1918, Dalmatia has been a part of Yugoslavia. Latest available population figures for the district are 621,429. Q —Can mildew be removed from leather? A—Make a thick paste of bicarbonate of soda and rub it into the leather.- Let is stend in the sun for a day. This win kill the mildew, but the leather may require painting with anew leather finish.

carriers to adopt pension plans; to regulate the use of our coal, oil, timber and other natural resources; to prevent soil erosion; to regulate munition plants, banks, broadcasting; to regulate intrastate utilities, transportation and communication —why does not the President recommend that Congress submit to the states a series of amendments embodying these specific grants of power? Any suqji amendments desired by the people could be approved in short order. It took only nine months to repeal the Eighteenth amendment, and 11 months to ratify the Norris “lame duck” amendment. No change requiring the Supreme Court to bow to the will of a minority Os the court instead of the majority in declaring acts of Congress unconstitltional can be made except in the way specified in the Constitution itself, and that is by constitutional amendment. But if such a body blow at civil liberties were taken, and the concurrence of eight judges were required to hold a statute invalid, a highly obnoxious statute, such as might deprive the people of rights heretofore considered sacred and fundamental under our bill of rights, could be declared unconstitutional by a Federal district court, a circuit court and seven judges of the Supreme Court, but would nevertheless become the established law of the land on the ruling of only two Supreme Court judges. The final decision could be changed at will by either of these two judges. Such an arrangement would undoubtedly lead to the destruction of our constitutional form of government and the substitution of a parliamentary system. THE CROWN BY M. C. W. The king is gone from mortal eye. His crown is kept and placed on high For one who comes and rightly reigns. The man is gone. The crown remains. DAILY THOUGHT These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.—St. John 16:33. IF the sun of God’s countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.—Bishop Joseph Hall.

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MARCH 7, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana - ERNIE PYLE

OCALA. Fla., March 7—Panama had its Goethals, Brooklyn Bridge its Roebling, and the Florida Canal will have, I supose, its Somervell. He is Lieut. Col. Brehon Burke Somervell of the United StaSfe Army Engineers. His close frieiiJfe call him “Bill.” His title down he*e is merely “district engineer.” But, he is the head of the whole worfcs. This is a grand assignment—big job, nice weather, good people .tp work with. I asked Col. Somerveff if he requested this post. He said no. He explained that once, a long time ago, he and some other office© did so well in school at Fort Leavenworth that they could have their choice of assignments. So he a&efc to be sent to some Southern stat£. They sent him to New York Ciw. He has never asked for an assignment since. tt tt 3 WHEN I pulled into Camp Roosevelt, at 5 p. m. on a Sunday, I found the Colonel in the Administration Building, all alone, working at a desk piled a foot deep with charts and reports. His own desk is neat and clean, and he works at this trash-li°ap desk along the wall. “I’m glad you came. I wanted to quit work anyhow,” he said. His assistants say that is one of his finest traits. He can quit work just like that. He turns out an enormous amount of labor, sometimes 18 hours a day, but when he quits he realty quits, and relaxes like a rag. , Somervell surprised me. I had expected to see an old, hard-bitten engineer veteran, tough as a horsehair lariat and meaner than Pilats. Somervell is tough, all right, I guess, but he doesn’t look it. He wears blue trousers and a light gray pull-over sweater. It would make him sore to say so, but he is a handsome man. He’s only 44 and looks less. His hair is turning sliver, and swings back over his head in a big wave. He’s a fellow you can sit down and talk with. He’s a tremendous reader, and seems to know something about everything. a a - CJOMERVELL has a record behind him. An Arkansan from Little Rock, he graduated from West Point in 1914, sixth in his class. A few months later, when the broke out, he was in Paris as an embassy attache. He saw the war start, and he saw it finish. In between, he was in Mexico in 1919. m He went back to France in IMS with the very first regiment. He was a temporary colonel, only four years out of West Point. He won the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action. . . After the w r ar he went up into Germany with the Army of Occupation. In 1925 he was back in Germany, on a survey of the Rhine for the League of Nations. In 1933 and ’34 he did another stint in Europe, this time making an economic survey for the Turkish government. Between these times he served all up and down the Mississippi River and all over New England, doing regular Army engineering work. a o a- - has never seen the Panama Canal. Or the Suez either. He has, however, been through the Manchester Canal in England, and the Kiel and Capp Cod canals. He has always wanted •to take a trip to Panama, but couldn’t get anybody to stay with the children. He has three girls, 15, 12 and 9. One of them last summer killed-a copperhead snake, skinned it, and made a bandeau out of the skin. What a daughter! Col. Somervell lives in a bungalow here in Camp Roosevelt. The houses are rented to canal employes, without discrimination, the house depending on the size of the employe’s family. Col. Somervell has the biggest family, so he gets the biggest house. . /<•, He likes hds job down here. If he had had his choice of anything in this world he could do, he says, it would be to have charge of building the Florida Canal. His office is a big, pine-paneled room in the rear of the administration building. It has a fireplace, but it hasn’t been lighted much. The windows have separate panels underneath, that can be opened for hot weather.

By George Clark