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THUR3DAY, MARCH 19. 1936.

ACTS OF GOD AND MEN 'p'LOODS, more devastating than in years, are spreading death, havoc and terror throughout Eastern America. Johnstown, Pa., has suffered a flood that recalls the disaster of 1889 which choked out 2200 lives. Pittsburgh's rich business district lies paralyzed under the mad water of the Monongahela and Allegheny. Washington expected today the usually placid Potomac to inundate its low-lying sections. In New England, New York, Ohio and the Virginias rampant rivers claimed their toll of dead and dollars counted by the million. Here is another major disaster. The Federal government, sorely pressed as it is by depression demands, must help. Congress will, doubtless, vote emergency funds for the relief of sufferers, the control of epidemic diseases and the repair of damage. But we would be stupid, indeed, if we let it go at that, if, like the Chinese, we suffered floods like these to rise and recede without asking ourselves: Are we to blame and what can we do about them? We know now the bitter lesson of China. Floods are “acts of God.” But their destructiveness is largely the work of men. The deforestation of hillsides and the poor husbanding of soil, as experts now agree, are the major factors contributing to these periodical disasters. Sheet and gully erosion already have destroyed 100 million acres of former farmlands. When the thaws and heavy rains of spring come they find no surface growth to hold them back; the eroded soil has filled reservoirs and river bottoms; the floods spread at will over cities and towns. Recently Dr. Frank B. Howe of Cornell made a report of his experiments on the effects of floods in New York State. He found that 650,000 gallons of rain fell on one acre in 1931. On an acre planted to corn 134,000 gallons ran off at once; on an acre planted to a good meadow crop only 7000 gallons ran off. From the corn land 20 per cent of the water ran away; on the meadow only 1 per cent. “Clearly,” he reported, “an important flood control measure is the covering wherever possible of bare and nearly bare land." Herein lies the significance of the Administration's new AAA policy, |ts reforestation and soil erosion programs, its passion for soil conservation. These Eastern floods are twins to the dust storms of the West. They should help make the East more sympathetic toward the belated steps now being taken in Washington looking to reforestation and better land-use planning. THE GREAT BETRAYAL the 22 million young Americans out of school between the ages of 16 and 24, three millions are Jobless through no fault of their own. Many more are engaged in part-time jobs so meager and meaningless as to cause demoralization almost as vicious as unemployment. What of this generation of youngsters, its hopes and dreams, its powers for good, its menace? Last summer Miss Maxine Davis, an able journalist, set out to study young America in cities, towns, villages and farms from coast to coast. What she found should mightily concern those who rule this republic, for upon the sanity, faith and idealism of its youth depends the very survival of democratic institutions in the new world. Miss Davis found them singularly patient. “We never found revolt,” she WTites in her book, “The Lost Generation.” “We found nothing but a meek acceptance of the fate meted out to them, and a blind belief in a benign future based on nothing but wishful thinking.” Communism, never Americanized, has left them all but untouched. Fascism is equally alien and lacks an inspiring leader. The New Deal, with its transient camps, CCC and Youth Administration, as made sincere efforts at relief, but these have not begun to meet the problem. Youth, Miss Davis found, wants opportunity. If our democracy fails to provide these millions of young people with honorable work, unscrupulous demagogues will find them ripe for beguilement. In view of the success of Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler, America can not be complacent. Revolutions in those thrte countries never could have been won without the yeast of betrayed and restless youth. Miss Davis poses what is perhaps the most serious problem today in America. UP TO BUSINESS! PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, asking Congress for $1,500,000,000 more to carry the relief load through another fiscal year, offers a persuasive brief for a policy that is becoming more and more irksome to taxpayers. The new program includes also $1,000,000.000 left over from prior appropriations, and $600,000,000 of budgeted funds for CCC and certain public works projects—a total of $3,100,000,000 for the fiscal year 1937. True, this bill is $400,000,000 less than that for the current year. We are now spending 000 of Federal funds. But the burden is not getting lighter. Some five million more people are at work on private jobs than in the depths of 1933, but the unemployed and their needy families seem to be with us in undiminished numbers. There still are some 20,000,000 dependents to be reckoned with. How can the Federal government care for these 20,000,000 people next year with $400,000,000 less of Federal money? Well, it could “liquidate” large numbers of the needy, as the Hoover Administration did in effect when it ignored their cries for help. That method was rejected by the people in 1932, and is unthinkable now. Or it could drop work-relief in favor of the dole, an alternative the American people tried once and discarded because of its demoralizing effect. Or it could reduce the per man allotment on work-relief. This now is around $65 a month for each family breadwinner, including materials and management. To reduce this would push relief families below the hunger line. Or It could turn more of the employable* back to the states and localities. This, as President Roose-

velt points out, would only shift the tax burden to real estate owners and discourage localities now emerging from delinquency and near-bankruptcy. These states and local governments now are caring for 1,500,000 unemployables and are spending 58 per cent more than they did for relief in 1932. Or—and this is the crux of the President s mes-sage-private industry can step in and help the government. Even lacking the NRA for self-regulation and planning, industries can plow more of their new profits back into jobs and pay rolls. They can shorten hours and employ more workers. As the '.Resident points out, the anti-trust laws do not stop employers from banding together to increase production and employment. That is the very opposite of restraint of trade. “It is the task of industry,” says President Roosevelt, “to make further efforts toward increased output and employment; and I urge industry to accept this responsibility. I present this problem and this opportunity definitely to the managers of private business; and I offer in aid of its solution the co-operation of all the appropriate departments and agencies of the Federal government. “My appeal is to the thinking men who are assured of their daily bread. However we may divide, along the lines of economic or political faith, all right-minded Americans have a common stake in extending production, in increasing employment, and in getting away from the burdens of relief. “Those who believe that government may be compelled to assume greater responsibilities in the operation of our industrial system can make no valid objection to a renewed effort on the part of private enterprise to insure a livelihood to all willing workers. Those, on the who believe in complete freedom of private control without any government participation should earnestly undertake to demonstrate their effectiveness by increasing employment." IF-AND-WHEN INCOME ONE thing to keep in mind about the Administration tax program is that the maximum yield expected would be only enough to replace revenue lost by the AAA decision and pay off over the next nine years the cost of cashing the veteians’ bonus certificates this year. In other words, its fiscal purpose is merely to restore that balance which the President claimed for the ordinary Federal budget when he submitted it to Congress in January. It is not designed to raise any money whatever to pay for relief. Which means that the government next year will have to borrow about three billion dollars—a sizeable addit on to the public debt. The Administration’s fiscal theory is that higher tax rates are not necessary, that the existing tax structure will produce six or seven billions when business returns to the 1927-28 volume, which would be more than enough to balance the complete Federal budget, because with business back to that level relief costs would be much smaller. It’s a comforting thought, because nobody wants to pay higher taxes, and indeed the current spurt in income tax collections is encouraging. But it seems hardly prudent to base a national fiscal policy upon an if-and-when hypothesis, especially ;n view of the fact that relief costs have not declined in the last year, despite a remarkable recovery in business. Far saner, we believe, is the suggestion of Senator La Follette that we begin paying part of our relief bill in cash. And much more straightforward is the Senator's insistence that the government go after additional revenue on a strict ability-to-pay basis, broadening the income tax base to bring more people into the class of conscious taxpayers, and graduating the rates upward from the bottom to the top. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson IN a list of good resolutions for club women, by Ethel B. Booth, is this item: “I will refrain from criticism.” To my notion that is not a sensible resolution. At present such restraint is the club woman’s chief vice, and is responsible for much of the futility in the work of organizations which numerically are powerful enough to speed social progress. I lany of us shy at the word “criticism.” It signifies, we feel, mischief-making of some sort. Rather than appear impolite, we maintain a lady-like silence, even though our best judgment urges us to speak out in meeting. When enough members do this, clubs amount to nothing. ( They become the tools of small factions who often run them into serious trouble or into obscurity. Any member who pays annual dues into an organization has the right to speak her mind about its policies. To criticise these policies is her duty and must certainly be her privilege. This does not mean, of course, that she shall be always contrary or fight against the majority, or make herself a nuisance. She should, however, feel a personal responsibility for the mistakes made by any organization to which she belongs. Most of us are a little too smug about our clubs. Sometimes we carry our loyalty to ricidulous extremes. Refraining from criticism is one of those extremes. Vitality is dying in a good many of them because the membership is not interested enough to do anything but vote “aye” on all questions. Yet with clubs, as with individuals, improvement comes from within. Self-criticism is the first sign of growth. The club that considers itself perfect is already on the way to oblivion. FROM THE RECORD QENATOR ROBINSON (D„ Ark.): I desire to return now to these “boondoggling” projects which have been made the target of ridicule by the humorists employed by the Republican National Committee and its corporate affiliate, the du Pont Liberty League. Some of th m are so witty and clever they must have been written personally by Mr. Jouett Shouse, the $50.000-a-year front man of the Liberty Leagi.e, who spends his time tolling the President and Congress how to run the country. I predict he will win the title of the “great American humorist” on the basis of these witty reports about the poor fellows on relief projects. tt tt tt Tj EP. PIERCE iD., Ore.): After he (William Jennings Bry .n) had made his second for the presidency he and his wife were visiting in England. They were invited out to a great house for a week-end. When it came time to go into the banquet he was given as his dinner companion a lady of high rank who had been reared in wealth in New York. During the long, pleasant dinner she was an interesting companion. Toward the close of the banquet she turned to Bryan and said, “Col. Bryan, I can't understand my New York friends. They have every means of knowing all about you. I have studied you for three hours this evening. I think you are a wonderful man and would make a great President. Why are my New York friends so deadly afraid of you?” He replied, “My dear duchess, your friends in New York need me much more than r need them. All I have said to your friends in flew York is ‘Quit stealing l’ Those who come after me will say, ‘Put it backl’ That will hurt your fried* in New York,***

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Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

CONRAD RUCKELSHAUS, 1249 Golden Hill, local polo enthusiast who just has returned from a polo-playing vacation.in Miami Beach, Fla., told Sam Tyndall that he was not surprised when he learned of the accident last Saturday in Florida that resulted in the death of the Georgian Prince, Serge Mdivani. Mr. Ruckelshaus said that he rode with Mdivani’s team, the Georgians, only last week. “I rode his ponies,” he said, “in one game and I noticed the unusually small stirrup he used. He couldn’t have possibly taken his foot out in case of a spill. I'asked him what he expected to do in case of a fall. He didn’t seem to be worried much, but I wouldn’t have ridden another of his ponies for a million dollars. “I am convinced Serge would not have been kicked had he been thrown clear of his mount. I believe the small stirrups were responsible.” tt tt a WHEN Mrs. Kay Thompson was returning from a cruise to the West Indies she met a young Spanish research student who told her this story: He was returning from somewhere aboard ship and had 16 mice with him in a cage. He was going to use them in an experiment. The day he got aboard ship they got loose by accident. He spent the rest of the voyage catching them. “And I only managed,” she says he said, “to catch 32 of the 16.” tt tt tt TWO little girls, about 7 or 8 years old, were playing house in the court that serves for a front yard in Irvington. One, Mary Baker, called the other up for an imaginary phone conversation. Deliberately, as a tired housewife taking an afternoon siesta from her duties, she said: “Can you come over?” “No,” the other drawled, “I guess not.” There was a silence. The first one, quickening the tempo a bit, added this inducement: “I wish you could. I’m having a birthday party.” The other pondered a minute and then said: “Well, my baby has a cold and I can’t take her around other children, else they might get it.” The would-be hostess snapped back: “Okay. My child has scarlet fever.” tt tt tt I HAVE just learned to my everlasting satisfaction that another of the old chestnuts has been cracked. It comes on good authority that the other day in Muncie a new kid came to work in a machine shop. Well, of course, the first one who got to him when the boss wasn’t looking sent him out for a lefthar.ded monkey wrench. The kid left, a trusting expression on bis face. Every one in the shop snickered and snickered and wondered how long he would stay. They didn’t snicker long, for two reasons: He came back soon, and he came back with a LEFT-HANDED monkey wrench. It so happened that he knew where there was a puttering old machinist who had spent his leisure time rethreading the screw to make it work backward. So there!* n tt tt TWO WPA workers at a library branch were talking to a couple of librarians the other day and it came out in the conversation that they attended WPA classes. “Oh, do you?” one of the librarians inquired. “What are you taking?” “German,” one of the others replied. Her companion looked at her sharply. “It is not,” she corrected. “It’s business administration.”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVI" DIETZ

ONE of the most promising fields of science is that of the psychology of the pre-school child. Many authorities feel that discoveries may reasonably be expected in this field which will prove as important to the future welfare of mankind as some of the great medical discoveries of the past. Investigators in the field realize that their work will eventually have a three-fold influence upon child health, upon mental hygiene and upon education. One of the earliest-known child studies was made in 1781 by Tiedemann who kept careful observations of his infant child. But the scientific study of children did not begin until the latter part of the Nineteenth century when Preypr in Germany and Shinn in this country encouraged a large group of parents to keep accurate records of their children. Another great pioneer in this field was G. Stanley Hall. Three great leaders in the twentieth century study of infant psychology have been Alfred Binet, author of the famous intelligence tests; Dr. Edward L. Thorndyke. great psychologist and educator, and Dr. John B. Watson, founder of the school of behaviorism. As Dr. Lois Hayden Meek points out, it is now recognized that the first six years of life are the years of greatest change and development in the life of an individual. OTHER OPINION On Gov. Talmadge [Benjamin Stolberg, in The National] His demagogy' is primitive, not cynical. It is a straight appeal to political sadism and economic brutality. Gene Talmadge is incapable of fooling people with a Share Our Wealth scheme. He could no more think up a crackbrained EPIC or Townsend or technocratic plan than could Caliban. He thinks not in plans, but in bigotries. He hates the New Deal not critically but blindly. . . The very thought of the Brain Trust makes him apoplectic. His ideal statesman is a dirt fanner, striding toward dictatorship with “grist in his gizzard” and manure squashing in his shoes.

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

(Times readers c:e invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2 5 0 words or less. Your letter must be sianed. but names will be withheld on reauest.t tt tt p APPROVES PLAN TO END U. S. UNEMPLOYMENT By Pat Hogan The plan of H. L. S. to force the jobless back into industry as outlined in the Hoosier Forum, March 10, is the best solution that has been conceived in the United States in the last four years. This plan would not only wipe out unemployment; it would abolish the dole; it would bring back prosperity; it would bring the American people into their just right of a decent, comfortable living; put industry on a profitable basis; take care of the farmer; the mortgage-laden home owner. In a word, it would abolish the whole relief problem with its costly and complex agencies and return the confidence of the American people. When “purchasing power” is mentioned, industrialists do not seem to understand the importance of its meaning as applied to their own business. Here is an illustration: I am the man in the street. I am employed—about half the time—by a company manufacturing auto parts. For four years I have hardly made ends meet. When I work I save every cent possible, and when laid off usually have to go in debt to the grocer and the landlord. I need new furpiture, new jugs, a kitchen range. I would enjoy a radio. I have a daughter whom I should like to send to college, for a musical education. I would like to get her a piano and clothe her as every young woman likes to be clothed. I have a good, dependable car, but have had no license for two years. I should enjoy getting the old bus out on Sunday and driving my family out to the state parks, visit relatives in the country.

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ANY one suffering from disease of the heart ought to know that he should go easy on food, because of the extra stress that excess food puts upon tissues and organs of the body. Certainly, the total number of calories taken should not be more than 2000 daily. The average diet for a person with heart disease contains about 50 grams of protein, and ordinarily not more than 1M pints ox fluid a day, besides, of course, the fluid contained in the food that is eaten. The fluids taken should consist largely of milk and milk preparations, either cereal coffee or decaffeined coffee instead of the usual drink, unless the person has been a constant drinker of coffee and is not stimulated by the amount taken. Bread usually should be toasted Cereals may be eaten, and cooked fruits. Meat may be taken once a day, but in a small amount. Desserts

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Inclose a S-cent stamp for reply rfaen addressing any question es fact or information to Tbe Indianapolia Times Washington Service Burtan, 1018 18thst, N\ W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q—What kind of a flower is the Christmas Rose? A—lt is a European herb having white or purplish flowers, like single roses, produced in winter. Q —Who was Gaetano Argento? A —An Italian jurist, bom at Cosenza in 1662. He was appointed to a high judicial office in 1709. In 1714 the Emperor Charles VI raised him to the dignity of president of the royal council, and gave him the title of Duke. He was author of several legal works, and died in 1730. Q—ln what motion pictures have the four Maigg brothers appeared together? < T

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The old chariot may need a tire, a little overhauling. I have not had anew suit of clothes for five years and that goes for my wife, too. We barely manage to keep the children in school looking respectable, and get by with the plainest and cheapest of food. Gen. Johnson mentioned the housing problem as too expensive for people with an income less than S2OOO a year. Where then is my hope on an income of less than $700? Now if I were assured of steady work for a-year at least, I would go after the furniture, rugs, etc., tomorrow, or in other words contract for about S6OO worth of goods that other men make—or would like to make if their factories would employ them. Multiply me by 10 million and you will need a lot of labor to produce goods for our demands. When we all get .to work we will eat more than the farmers of this nation can produce. Then, too, when we become possessed of these desired goods, our taxes will increase the state revenue —not to mention the millions of dollars in sales taxes and the like while, we are acquiring the goods. But if we are employed regularly with definite guarantee of so much a week or month, we never notice or care a whit about taxes. It is when we get to the point where it is a struggle to keep soul and body together and the body respectably covered and decent shelter over it that we think there is something radically wrong in a great nation where 3 per cent of the people can live in luxury. If H. L. S.’s plan is given honest analysis, it will readily be observed that it will actually cost the government less to subsidize industry as the plan suggests, than the present method of relief which leaves millions unemployed and other millions of the man-in-the-street on a half-starved, half-baked existence which should be a shocking shame to the political leaders of this nation. It is indeed high time for our

should be limited to those without nuts, and preferably a fairly easily digestible substance, such as fruit puddings, gelatins, milk and cereal puddings. tt tt ANY vegetables may be used, except those that are strongly flavored, or that tend to develop collections of air or gas in the bowels. This includes vegetables like beans, onions, peppers, radishes, turnips, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower and cucumbers. An excellent sample menu is the following: BREAKFAST Fruit, cereal, cream, sugar, toast, butter, milk. DINNER—Meat or meat substitute, potato or potato substitute, vegetable or salad, bread, butter, dessert, milk. SUPPER —Cream soup, potato or potato substitute, vegetable or salad, bread, butter, fruit, cake or cookies, milk.

A—“ The Cocoanuts,” “Animal Crackers,” “Monkey Business,” “Horsefeathers,” and “Duck Soup.” In their latest production, “A Night at the Opera,” Zeppo did not appear, having retired from the team. Q—What is the airline distance between New York and Boston? A—One hundred eighty-eight miles. Q —lnto hew many Army Corps Areas is the United States divided? A—Nine. Q--When was commercial canning of foodstuff introduced in the United States? A —ln 1819, by Ezra Daggett and his nephew, Thomas Kensett, who canned salmon, oysters and lobsters in New York City. They were originally known as preservers. They began to use cans in 1825, but the real development of the canning industry did not start until after the Civil War. w • • . '

1 politicians to consider their responsibilities rather than their aspirations and chances. This plan is the final analysis—the only hope of the nation. lam sending a copy of it to our Senators in Washington. tt tt tt WORLD HEARS HITLER—NOT GERMANY, WRITER SAYS By T. V. M. It is well established that a dictatorship retains power while it succeeds in silencing its opposition. Hitlerized Germany today, on the eve of a nation-wide election to determine the people’s confidence in the administration and select a new Reichstag, has warned all Jews that arrest and prosecution will follow if efforts are made to use the franchise. Thus the world witnesses the spectacle of a unique kind of “election”; a one-sided, persecutory rubberstamp affair. Not even the small voice of a minority must be raised. What this means in the final analysis is that the world no longer hears the German people—it hears only Hitler. One must remember that in any evaluation of future events in troubled Europe. MONOTONY BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM Night is blue against my window pane; Snow lies white upon my lawn; Stars are gold above the silent plain. I wait for dawn. Day is gold against my window pane, On my lawn a glowing light Stretches glistening across the plain. I wait for night. Night again is blue against my pane. White snow lies upon my lawn. Above sharp cold, gold stars shine again. I wait for dawn. DAILY THOUGHT But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me—St. Luke 1.9:27. MAKE no enemies. He is insignificant indeed who can do thee no harm.—Colton.

SIDE GLANCES

“I always hate to ride do*n on the same elevator with the big boss. I neve.: know what to talk to him. abaatJ 1

-MARCH 19,1935

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

NEW ORLEANS, March 19.—We must begin this story with two threads, and draw them together later on. The first thread is the Vieux Carre of New Orleans. The second is James J. A. Fortier. m m Vieux Carre means “old square.” As used today it means “old quarter,” the whole area of about a dozen blocks that comprised the original New Orleans laid out by Bienville in 1720. It is one of America's most historic and romantic spots. And although the new New Orleans has grown up sprawlingly around, the Vieux Carre is remarkably free from change. In the Vieux Carre are hundreds of historic houses. The streets are narrow, balconies overhang them, "iron lace” is everywhere • tt tt u Francois fortier came to New Orleans in 1720, the year Bienville laid out the city. He was the King’s “armorer” and he undoubtedly had a hand in shaping the Vieux Carre. Francois’ arrival in 1720 made the Fortiers the cream of the Creoles. They have upheld the tradition right down to today. The second generation became merchants, and very rich. The fourth generation put their money into sugar plantations, and became even richer. They were always a power in New Orleans. James Fortier, the seventh and present generation, was born just at the edge of the Vieux Carre. His blood was almost pure French. He was brought up in the strict Creole tradition. His father was a historian, author of many volumes, head of the Romance language department at Tulane. u YOUNG JAMES was reared in the atmosphere of research and the classroom. He was sent to museums abroad. He became a scholarly Frenchman. •He studied for the law, was a state representative at 25, went from law into finance, from there Into banking. He was a respectable business man. He made money. But when the 1929 crash came, it caught him right between the eyes. He went back to the law, and not too successfully. He was in his early 40’s, with a family. Now, many of the Creole families (and this seems immensely strange to me) were strong for Huey Long. James Fortier was one of them. tt tt tt ONE day Huey stomped into Fortier’s law office and shouted: “Jimmy, I want you to go up there and run that museum.” By the museum he meant the Cabjldo, the historic hall on Jackson Square. “Why, there’s nothing to do up there,” Fortier said. “I’ve got to have activity. I’ve got to have something energetic, especially at this time. I’d go crazy up there.” “Naw, there’s plenty to do. And you know all about history. I want you to go up there and run that place.” It was an order, and Huey simply walked oUt and left It there. tt a tt So the threads have come together. The 200-year-old Vieux Carre, badly in need of preserving, and the seventh generation of the Creole Fortiers, whose span of life had run through the Vieux Carre like a life artery. tt tt I SAT across the desk from James Fortier in the Cabildo, and listened to him talk. He does have a tremendous energy. He knows New Orleans'as few men do, and he has a great love for it. He has the authority and the money (from WPA and the state) to preserve the part around Jackson Square—the Cabildo, the old jail cells, the Pontalba Apartments, the square itself. And he can gather, and is gathering, a remarkable collection of Louisiana historical pieces. Already, in 16 months, he has transformed the Cabildo from a musty old warehouse into one of the finest museums in the South. James Fortier often is down at the Cabildo at 4 in the morning. His whole life has become the preserving of New Orleans. But he is still young. When he has done all he can do with the Vieux Carre, what then? “I don’t know,” he says. “Maybe I’ll feel the urge to make money again. I couldn’t just sit here and become a museum curator. But there’s so much to do. It may take a long time.”

By George Clark