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THURSDAY, MARCH 12. 1938. ONLY ONE THING CERTAIN "D EADERS must find it pleasant to get some understandable news from the tangled old world. King Edward is thinking about getting married and would appreciate a raise. There’s something, whether employer or employe, you can understand. One member of parliament did rise to inquire whether the King had given any guaranty that he was going to marry, but that is a question we can answer with reasonable confidence. With all the annoyance he has suffered from groundless rumors on the subject, it is hardly likely that the King would mention the matter unless he meant business. Nope, the King will get hitched, you can bank on that, even though he may not know at the moment who the lucky girl is to be. We wish it were possible to forecast as surely *ome of the other possibilities in the European picture. Will a way be found to prevent France and Germany from achieving their mutual ruin and possibly dragging their neighbors down into the wreckage? Will it be possible to prevent Italy from using the present continental crisis to make good its seizures in Africa? Will the newly threatening collision between Germany and Russia, with its probable repercussion on Russia’s Far Eastern front, be avoided’ And more important to Americans, if war is let loose across the water, can we keep out of it? Frequently it Is said we can not. Considerable tightening of our neutrality laws, our principal protection against involvement, is possible. One more question: Have we the good judgment to effect this tightening now, or shall we continue to trust to luck?

TO MAKE IT A BLESSING JOHN and Mack Rust, inventors of a mechanical cotton-picker, announced a magnificent decision in an interview with the Scripps-Howard newspapers yesterday. They declared their intention to forgo the large profits which such an invention might produce, in order that it might be “a blessing and not a curse to mankind,” They appealed to the world to help them work out a plan whereby use of the machine would raise rather than lower labor standards. They proposed to limit their own salaries and to donate their profits as stockholders to improving the condition of cotton workers. * U tt 'T'HE announcement is all the more striking be- •*- cause no labor-saving machine has been awaited with more fear than this cotton-picker—the fear that it would make a bad situation worse. The sharecropper system has been a blight on the South. Its defenders can say no more for it than that is “the best system under the circumstances.” The fact is the South’s major industry has been a primitive manual industry trying to compete with a world geared to the efficiency of labor-saving machinery. This has been true because, when harvest comes, the only known method to pick the cotton has been to send millions into the fields to perform the slow, back-breaking toil of plucking 10 to 16 million bales of cotton from the bolls. Regardless of technical progress in other agriculture, the cotton plantation has been obliged to maintain a vast reservoir of human labor to have on hand at picking time. Small wonder, then, that the living standards of these workers have dropped lower and lower. The South’s obvious need to industrialize its cotton production has been recognized, buc every one has trembled at the thought. They know the way of the machine. They have dreaded the wholesale unemployment, misery, degradation among those 2,000,000 Southern families that must follow the introduction of a machine to “do the work of 100 men.” a a a jr the machine finally has arrived, w T hat providence that its future lies in the hands of two men who reckon the success of their invention in human instead of monetary terms! Their appeal for assistance should be aswered. The human mind that can devise a machine should be capable of mastering it in the public interest. It is appalling to hear that this machine, in full operation, will throw 75 per cent of the labor in the sharecropper sections out of employment, if used without regard to consequences. Much of this labor consists of children who ought to be m school, women who should be in the home, and of men who work too long for too little. If the country rallies to the support of the Rust brothers' proposal, however, the South, instead of finding its farmer-laborers starving, may take its rightful place in the economic sun. The children can go to school and the women to their homes; the men can work shorter hours, providing employment for more people. And they will get more than they ever have had for their work. They will become a market for the world. They will stimulate new business and industry in the South, releasing it from the yoke of a single crop and creating new sources of employment. SENATE’S POWERS; PEOPLE’S RIGHTS J EG ALLY, the Senate was not a party to the proceeding before the District of Columbia Supreme Court yesterday. Legally, the Senate may consider it is not bound by Justice Wheat’s injunction restraining Western Union from turning over to the Senate Lobby Committee the telegraphic correspondence of Silas Strawn’s law firm. Legally, the Senate may assert its authority to compel production of the files which the court has Union not to produce, and may in case of default cite Western Union officials before the bar of the Senate for contempt. In such event, Western Union officials might sue for a writ of habeas corpus, and bring the whole affair to a stand-off between thr eenate and the courts. Which would get nobody anywhere. Before the Senate does anything so rash, it might well take stock of its position by calling its own committee before the bar of the Senate and taking a good look at that subpena, which Justice Wheat said “goes way beyond any legitimate use of a subpena ... and would effect a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.’* The Senate has something real at stake—the

power to investigate, and public confidence in its investigations. That power does not transcend the rights of the people guaranteed In the Fourth Amendment, and any abuse of It will quickly bring this and all Senate investigations into public disfavor. The Senate, therefore, can not afford to rest on the Judgment of Senator Black that the Lobby Committee has done nothing improper. Senator Black is a special prosecutor in this case, possessed with an understandable zeal to run down lobbyists who have corrupted the right of petition and hampered Congress in its legislative functions. But W'hen the Senate’s prestige and the people’s rights are in balance, zeal is no substitute for judgment. It is time for the Senate to examine not only the legality but also the wisdom of the committee’s course. After all, other Senate investigations have succeeded without being accused of breaching the Constitution. OHIO POLLUTION 'T'HE task of forestalling the drainage of millions of tons of dangerous acid into the streams of the Ohio River basin has been intrusted to the WPA administrators of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Approval by Controller General McCarl of a $1,404,286 item for sealing abandoned coal mines in Pennsylvania rounds out the program. Approval of $329,156 for the same work in Ohio, $390,030 for Kentucky, and $361,385 for West Virginia had previously been given. Work in some localities has been under way for a month. Shutting off the flow of some 3,000,000 tons of sulphuric acid a year from abandoned coal mines is considered ore of WPA’s most important projects. A number of mines were sealed under CWA and many others under FERA. Coming in dribbles and rivulets from thousands of coal mines which honeycomb the Appalachians, this acid strips the creeks of all fish life; makes them unfit for drinking or stock watering: plays havoc with plumbing, water works and industrial plants: cripples government dams, boats and dredges with corrosion. It causes damage estimated at $10,000,000 a year. Effects of the acid have been felt by several million taxpayers. * n T TEALTH officials, the Bureau of Mines, and Army 1 engineers have worried i long time over the problem. They have seen the damage mount yearly and they haven’t until recently been able to help it. Army engineers made a study of the situation in 1914-15 and again in 1925. They found that while some pollution came from sewage and industrial waste, by far the greatest damage was being done by the acid drainage from coal mines. About 70 per cent of this drainage, they said, was from abandoned mines. They recommended state legislation looking to the sealing of abandoned mines and the treatment of drainage from active mines. The recommendation never was acted upon. Acid is created in mines by the action of air on iron pyrites, present in large quantities in the ore materials of nearly all bitumffious mines. The iron sulphate thus formed is taken up in solution by water seeping in from the surface and is then converted into sulphuric acid. The quantity of this water is so great that in most active mines pumps have to be kept going. In abandoned mines, this water with its burden of acid accumulates until it overflows at the mine entrance. Fishing is a lost art in hundreds of these mountain streams, for neither aquatic nor vegetable life survives the acid. Over a period of a year, the 40,000 to 50,000 abandoned workings throughout the four-state area were estimated to be dumping close to 3,000,000 tons, all of which found its way eventually into the Ohio. n n u TENDERS at government locks along these riven, have found the metal parts of their gates wearing out in half the time they normally should. Steamboat skippers have found the life of their plates and boilers cut from 15 to 7% years. Railroads and industrial plants spend $1,000,000 a year replacing corroded equipment. Public water works have to buy almost twice as much soda ash and other purifiers as are needed for the waters of other localities. Replacement of metal culverts bulks disproportionately in the budgets of highway departments in the four states. Thousands of mines have been so long abandoned that they appear on no map. Many of them are in remote hollows and hillsides. The sealing operation is relatively simple. All of thb states except Kentucky resumed minesealing work under FERA. WPA will carry the work much farther.

BREAD OF THE HUMBLE A METHODIST pastor, his wife and three children, on Long Island, are observing the Lenten season by living on a food budget of $8.55 a week—the sum fixed by local relief agencies for a subsistence diet for a family of five. At the end of the twelfth day, the minister announced that he and his family are hungry practically all of the time. “Really, we’re not getting half enough to eat,” echoed his wife, who has faithfully prepared all meals according to the diet recommendations of the county relief administration. If it weren’t for destroying the farmers’ domestic market and thereby making our economic troubles even worse, it might be a good idea for all of us not now on relief to emulate this pastor’s family by experimenting for a while with relief standards of living. We confess we are not attracted by thoughts of a Sunday dinner of corned beef sandwiches and tea. But we highly recommend the menu as good spiritual fodder for those citizens who protest against taxes and borrowing for relief purposes. FROM THE RECORD Rep. Snell. (R., N. Y.): Let me make this statement: lam opposed to the government in business. That is my philosophy. I would like to know just how far the gentleman would have the government go in erecting buildings or in any other line of endeavor in competition with private business? Rep. Boylan (D., N. Y.): Yes, I will answer that. It should go far enough to take the poverty-stricken people of the great urban centers out of the direct desolation in which they live in order to give them proper and adequate and decent shelter in order to make them better citizens of this republic. (Applause.) aa a- - Borah (R., Idaho): I was coming to the Capitol this morning, and I met one of the policemen whom I happen to know, and asked him about this matter, and inquired why he did not arrest members of Congress if they violated the law. His reply was, “We can not arrest them; they are protected.” Senator Barkley (D., Ky.): I know they can be arrested, because I have been arrested. (Laughter). Senator Borah: Well, I am sorry they got the wrong man. . . . The member of Congress. . . . has no other privilege and no other immunity than that of the ordinary citizen.

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the sly, the head of a Federal agency in the city told me this tale about $1.07. His assistant turned in an expense account that was that much more than it should have been, through error. Washington wrote back. He wrote Washington. Washington wrote back. And that went on for nine months. He says he can’t just remember how it was solved. tt n u QOME family in the city is all upset over what grandpap did the other day, a doctor at City Hospital told me. Maybe grandpap is upset, too, because, mooning around looking for something to do -about his rheumatism, he ran spang into a bottl? of eye drops. The eye drops had been sent on prescription from the clinic at City Hospital for one of the children of the family. Grandpap, apparently figuring that if he tried enough things he would find something that would help, drank them. His condition remains approximately the same. nan 'T'HERE ought to be a medal or something for the motorman on the Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, via Peru, interurban, who spends his night tooting at rabbits and saving their lives. For some reason, rabbits like to perch on the rails. Whqn they see the car coming they are fascinated by the light and freeze. This motorman, rather than run over them, gives a sharp toot and that gets them going out of danger. Last night, in spite of his best efforts, he nearly ran over a small wire-haired terrier who was on the tracks and got wildly hysterical. There was nothing for the motorman to do. He was going too fast. But just as the car neared the doge it threw a fit or something and catapulted out of the tracks to safety. The motorman slowed up lor a while after that. n u a JACK WALSH brought in a copy of The Rebel, a newspaper published Aug. 9, 1882, in Chattanooga, Tenn., suh! The first thing you see is an ad which says: “For sale or exchange, a Negro woman, good cook, ironer, and washer, for a boy. Apply at office.” It also points out in an editorial that the North can’t possibly win the war, the way things are going, and every one should be of good cheer. But the terms for the paper contain this cautious note: “No subscription received for a period of longer than one month.” a tt THE news reels sent photographers from Chicago to take pictures of the first contestants in the American Bowling Congress. Instead of waiting for the first official leave, the camera reporters arranged for a preview the afternoon before formal ceremonies. For enough film to occupy a few seconds on the screen, these men were in Indianapolis two full days, getting things ready. a a A FRIEND tells me that a traffic coo at 16th and Meridiansts called him down in this fashion the other afternoon for not sticking out his hand on a left turn: “Now I know it isn’t too much trouble for you to stick out your hand when making a left turn. And I know you know it’s the thing to do. So I suppose you were too tired. “Well, I’m not going to do anything about it. But remember next time that the motorist in back of you is entitled to know what your intentions are and the law provides that you must let him know. Just remember that.” Well, it was so new for a policeman to be reasonable that my friends the motorist hasn’t broken a law since then. He found a polite policeman!

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

WHEN George Bernard Shaw called Prof. Einstein a uni-verse-maker, he summed up in a phrase the reason for the great popularity of the famous scientist. From the days of the caveman, mankind has been trying to solve the puzzle of the universe. The early mythologies marked man’s first attempt to understand his en-

vironment. To ancient man, the universe was a disconcerting place, full of caprice. And so, to explain the phenomena that went on around him, he peopled the heavens with the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, and filled the hills and trees and streams with giants, nymphs and spirits. It was another universe-maker who wrote the story of Genesis, trying to account for the origin of the cosmos. More precisely, it was two universe-makers, for as every student of Biblical literature knows, there are two stories of creation in Genesis. The first one starts with the majestic opening sentence of Genesis and runs to Chapter 11, Verse 4, where the second account begins. It is the first account which tells of the creation of the world in six days, but it is the second which has Eve being created from a rib of Adam. OTHER OPINION On Reciprocal Tariffs [Secretary of State Hull] It is time for the people of this country to take a stand. We can abandon now our new method of tariff readjustment downward and go back to the old log-rolling method which saddled us with the Hawley-Smoot Act, with resultant stagnation of international trade and lengthening breadlines, or we can give the new three-year act and the new tariff agreements a fair trial for the full period contemplated. On the basis of the results thus far achieved, I have no doubt that such a trial will convince many of the most skeptical doubting-Thom- i ases.

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(Time s readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reliijious controversies excluded. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 tvords or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt LAUDS LUDLOW FOR HIS PEACE FIGHT By Max Kinney I have just finished reading the public document titled, “To Amend the Constitution With Respect to the Declaration of War,” and I can not resist the impulse to publicly salute Rep. Ludlow for the courage it must take to propose the noblest piece of legislation since the writing of the Constitution. No “servant of the money-chang-ers” ever would dream of sponsoring a measure that recognizes that a peace-loving, Christian people must actually exercise their sovereignty over their government, visible or invisible. Here must be a true Christian, this gentleman from Indiana, for here is a manifestation of love in its most exalted sense. Everywhere is discontent with our so-called misrepresentatives, who are alleged to be the puppets of manipulators ceaselessly machinating another maker ,of oppressive millionaires. Say the spokesmen for the bewildered masses: “They holler ‘We’ll keep you out of war,’ but it’s only a smoke screen; huge appropriations and officer training activities foreshadow something more than adequate defense.” If this be true in the least degree, then all the more reason why we should whole-heartedly support the war referendum resolution. Until an awakened people realize it is in their power to frustrate the Dealers in Death, would to God that it could be sky-written in letters of fire a mile high this tragic truth: “They sell us glory, but they deliver only a grave for all our hopes.”

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN TTTHEN we come to diet for dia- * * betics, the problem is to provide the necessary substances for health and growth, and yet not to overtax the weakened ability of the body to take care of sugars. You might compare the condition in diabetes, in which the pancreas is weak, to the condition in indigestion, when the stomach is weak. A stomach that does not do well occasionally may be supplied with food of such quality and quantity as can be readily digested. Under these circumstances, it gets along all right. Gradually, it becomes able to digest larger and larger amounts of food, but really never gets to be a first-class stomach. If, how r ever, it is constantly overburdened with food, it becomes unable to handle even small amounts of easily digestible kinds. In diabetes, the same kind of care must be taken of the weakened pancreas. The sugar in the diet must be controlled. Os course, the patient can be given insulin, which helps to take the place of the ma-

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ASSAILS “BANKERS’ INFLATION” By A. J. McKinnon Your editorial in Feb. 27 Times on the biography of Senator Lemke was fine, yet at the same time I wish to call your attention that we know just why you wrote that biography. It stands out plain in your article; to get this fool word “inflation” before the people. You used this word five times in your short article. By the way, I expect you have on your desk, the same as I have, Messrs. Lemke’s, O’Connor’s and Boland’s discussion before the House on Feb. 18 in which Mr. Lemke says those who brand this bill inflation are stating a half truth. The fact of the matter is this is the only sledge the opposition has in their cry against this bill. It seems to me, Mr. Editor, if you can not be a protector of the farmer, you ought to keep silent; to step out to protect the banker with his cry of “inflation” so he can cop off these farms by foreclosure is pitiful. If you desire to talk on “inflation,” Mr. Editor, why not take up a real talk on the subject, “The Banker’s Inflation.” Why not let the people know what is going on in this country in the way of inflation. An interesting writeup would be that of inflation by banker and government of the $5 bill to a SIOOO bill to the banker at the cost of printing, 9-10 of 1 per cent to have and use from 5 to 20 years. Inflation is the most profitable business in this country today, Mr. Editor. You can put it in your pipe and smoke it all day without refilling and have enough left over to keep on going all next day. It’s a sure 10-to-l shot. PERHAPS IT IS* THE MILLENNIUM By V. H. P. Asa Republican, I am ashemed of the sieve-like logic of Gov. Landon. Our new office-seeker really should remove his false-face and join the opposition. A'few more \

terials that the pancreas does not supply; but even with insulin, it is necessary to watch the diet. tt tt tt THE person who has diabetes should keep the body weight a little under the general average for age, sex and weight. Overweight must be avoided. At the same time, he should always feel satisfied, because it is known that the use of a low sugar diet for long periods frequently causes such people to become dissatisfied and discouraged. Therefore, the diet must be sufficiently liberal to eliminate hunger. It is hardly possible for any person with diabetes to calculate his diet for himself. When the doctor calculates the diet, he determines first the number of calories that the patient must have for his age, weight, and the amount of work that he does. Then he determines the ability of the person to take care of sugar. Following that, the physician may decide how much he wants to supplement this weakness by insulin, and how much of it is to be controlled through diet.

Q —What is the source of the saying, “All roads lead to Rome”? A—lt was a popular proverb during the Middle Ages, when many pilgrims journeyed to Rome. It is found in writings of all European nations, but the original source is unknown. The first use in English literature was by Chaucer, in the prologue to “Astrolobe,” about 1380 A. D. In ancient Japanese literature there is a similar proverb, “All roads lead to the Mikado’s palace.” Q —What is snow? A—Small crystals of ice formed in the air by condensation of the watery vapor at temperatures below freezing. Q —ls the college paper, “The Arkansas Traveler,” still being published? A—Yes; at Fayetteville, Ark.

speeches like his last one and even the “Old Guard” Republicans will be wondering what the difference is between our two major parties. From the quality of his Nebraska address I gather that the Governor started eating brain food rather late in life. His destructive criticism—what there was of it—was so obviously undocumentad propaganda for vote catching and his specific constructive criticism was so much in harmony with present governmental activities that I wonder at his hopes for the President’s office. How ignorant and gullible the public—even Republicans—must be to swallow such cure-all. Alf should go to A1 to learn rabble-rousing oratory. As an example of pussy-footing, beating around the bush and of talking much but saying little, Gov. Landon’s speech was near perfect. In all seriousness, is Alf too good to associate with the political speakers who were the joy of his forefathers, dating clear back to the youth of the Constitution? Where were all of the virile two-fisted, bar-rel-chested accusations and challenges? Not once did he roar “Look what those—down there in Washington are doing!” We must be approaching the much-looked-for milennium!

KNOWLEDGE BY POLLY LOIS NORTON Sit on the fence, bright bird, and preen. I, too, have spied That first stout shoot of early green That snow defied To spring through gaunt old winter’s line To herald spring, Bringing the word of warm sunshine, Peace’s golden wing. DAILY THOUGHT And whosoever will not receive you, when yet get out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. —St. Luke ix, 5. LIKE many other virtues, hospitality is practiced, in its perfection, by the poor. If the rich did their share, how the woes of this world would be lightened!—Mrs. C. M. Kirkland.

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MARCH 12,1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

PANAMA CITY. Fla., March 12 - Hardy Nurmsen is a young man with muscles like rocks, and whitish flaxen hair that stands straight up for three inches. He has lost two hats, so he never wears one any more. Hardy and I were traveling in oposite directions, and our paths just happened to cross here, so we sat down on the back porch of the Yacht Club, out on St. Andrews Bay, and talked for a couple of hours. Hardy is on a 6500-mile trip—in a canoe! He has covered 4300 miles. It had always been my impression that people who travel 6500 miles in canoes were queer in the head. I was wrong. Hardy is as sane as any of the rest of us, only perhaps a little braver. He is an Esthonian. has been in this country since 1929. is naturalized now. is 28 years old, welleducated, speaks good English, lost his father in the war, is not married, is happy by nature, likes to be out-of-doo- i, but hopes to wind up in a law o ,ce, and is taking this canoe trip a a vacation. tt tt a HE b tar ted from New York last July 4. He went up the Hudson, through the Erie Canal, followed the Great Lakes to Chicago, the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and now here he is in Panama City, Fla. He’ll go around Florida and up the coast and back to New York by July, he hopes. Hardy worked six years in New York as a painter and decorator, and got his whole family over from Esthonia—four brothers and sisters, and his mother. Then he said ho was going to take a vacation. So he built a canoe in his backyard in the Bronx. It is the Eskimo type—wooden framework covered with canvas, and “doped” like an airplane wing. It is 15 feet long and 2 ’.2 feet wide. It is covered at the ends, and has a little cockpit in the center to sit in. It took three months to build, and cost S2OO, including equipment. Hardy had never built a boat before. He didn’t know whether it would float or not. It floated. a tt o WHEN Hardy arrived in America. he had just $lB. When he started rowing away from New York last July he had just $lB, It wasn’t the same $lB, however. Hardy rowed up the Hudson and through the Erie Canal. He got into the floods, and dead cattle kept floating past him. It almost made him sick. And mosquitoes nearly ate him up. Finally he got to Lake Erie—big water. Almost too big. He got into a storm, and his canoe turned over, two miles from shore. Hardy hung around it for an hour. He dived under and got the sail and mast off. He tried to pull the canoe, but it was too heavy. Finally he lit out for shore. The wind was against him, and it took him three hours. A week later the boat drifted ashore. A farmer found it, nine miles down the coast. Hardy had to rebuild one whole side of it. He would have called the whole thing off and gone back home, except there were stories in the Buffalo papers about him, and he thought, “If I quit now they’ll think I’m yellow.” Finally he got into the Mississippi. On Christmas Eve he rowed past a dredge boat, below St. Louis. The captain was a Swede. He thought Hardy was a Swede too (he does look it) so he invited him aboard. He had a fine Christmas, even stayed the next day. u. HARDY doesn’t paddle his cantfe. He rows it, with two oars. His biggest day’s rowing was 73 miles, in 16 hours, coming down the Mississippi with the current, and rowing hard. His biggest day’s sailing (he used sail a lot on the Great Lakes) was 78 miles. He doesn’t travel steadily. He is held up a lot by wind and rough water. And then he has to stop and work once in a while. He worked for a farmer in Michigan for 20 days. He has a week’s job here, painting oil tanks. At night he works on his log books, by the light of a lantern. He is keeping two logs, one in English, one in Esthonian. He thinks Americans are mighty honest. He always leaves his canoe on the bank, unguarded, with the cockpit full of boots and compasses and ail kinds of gear. He even leaves it lying out on piers in the cities. And not one thing has been stolen.

By George Clark