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FRIDAY, MARCH 27. 193#. RED LIGHT AND GRAY DEATH r I ■'HE House Rules Committee is the omnipotent traffic cop of the lower branch of Congress. When it switches on the green light, proposed legislation reaches the floor. When the committee keeps up a red signal, the legislative functions of 435 Representatives are held in abeyance by the 14 committeemen, or rather by the 10 Democratic members—and for practical purposes, by the chairman, John J. O’Connor of New York. For three weeks, now, Mr. O'Connor has had the red light against a simple but highly important resolution giving the House Labor Committee power to subpena unwilling witnesses to complete its investigation of the silicosis tragedy at Gauley Bridge, W. Va., and to determine the danger of this occupational disease elsewhere. After listening to two weeks of testimony in January and February, a subcommittee reported: “The whole driving of the (Gauley Bridge) tunnel was begun, continued and completed with grave and inhuman disregard of all consideration for the health, lives and future of the employes. “Many workmen became infected with silicosis. Many died of the disease and many not yet dead are doomed to die . . . as a result of their employment and negligence of the employing contractor.” These statements, if untrue or exaggerated, should be denied formally and under oath by the contractor. But pfficers of the contracting firm have refused to appear voluntarily. The subcommittee made other statements of even more importance than those relating to the single instance which dramatized the silicosis menace. It said: “Your subcommittee further finds that the disease of silicosis is prevalent in many states where mine and tunnel operations are now, or-have been in the past, in progress. The subcommittee is of the opinion that the investigation thus far has but laid the groundwork and opened the subject for further investigation; that silicosis is one of the greatest menaces among occupational diseases and that state laws governing prevention and compensation are totally inadequate.” We suggest that Mr. O’Connor and his colleagues read the subcommittee’s partial report before deciding to keep the red light longer against a full public knowledge of the “gray death.” PROFIT TAX IS OLD IDEA EVERY time ail apparently new idea is introduced into New Deal philosophy-*-and they have tumbled over each other in the last few years— Washington begins to look for the author. So it is now with President Roosevelt’s proposed tax on undistributed corporation earnings. And as in many other cases, the idea is found to be an old one. As far back as 1917, when the war-time tax bill was being framed, legislators struggled over a tax on undistributed dividends. It was proposed to the Senate Finance Committee by %the late Senator Andricus A. Jones (D., N. M.), who must be given large credit for promoting a plan which is now revived nearly 20 years later. The persistent New Mexican kept at it until, in 1924, the Senate adopted one of the numerous variations of his plan, but it was thrown out in conference between House and Senate. Perhaps most influential in reviving the tax now is Robert H. Jackson, formerly counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau and now Assistant Attorney General in charge of tax cases. At least he has been its most effective public champion and has best expressed the fundamental philosophy underlying it. Rich men, heads of great corporate enterprises, became aware of Mr. Jackson a year ago when he championed before Congress a “share-the-wealth” tax plan, only to have it toned down and emasculated by the legislators. (It did, however, have the cflect of pricking the “share-the-wealth” balloon which the late Senator Huey Long was floating at the time). Inquiring about Mr. Jackson, they discovered he was a comparatively young and prosperous lawyer from Jamestown, N. Y., who had been drafted into the New Deal and who tried his wings first in a court battle with Andrew W. Mellon. In delving into the Mellon income tax case, he learned something of the ways that rich men, with the aid of able lawyers, can get around their taxes, which is one reason for the proposed tax on undistributed dividends. The first proposal of the late Senator Jones back in 1917 called for a 15 per cent tax, in addition to regular corporation income taxes, on undivided earnings exceeding 20 per cent of total net income. This was approved by the committee but was so modified later, when the bill was recommitted, that it proved ineffective. He tried variations on his proposal, one of which in 1921 was almost identical with that now suggested by President Roosevelt, until in 1924 he won the victory in the Senate which was later nullified in conference. That was the nearest it came to enactment. The 1924 proposal was for graduated surtaxes on undistributed profits, and it received the votes of 21 Senators still in office today. Four who are still in the Senate voted against it, and four others here now did not vote. Senator Jones claimed no credit for the 1924 plan, which was almost like the present Adminisration proposal. He revealed that the idea was suggested by the National Association of Credit Men, which, in a comprehensive report on the whole subject of Federal taxation, recommended elimination of the excess profits and capital stock taxes, as proposed now, and substitution of a corporation undistributed earnings tax at graduated rates with dividends subjected to normal taxes in the hands of the individual. MARCH MADNESS lyj" ARCH’S winds have slain Old Man Winter, but •*■*■*■ what a fantastic riot of tomfoolery they’ve blown up all over this funny old planet! . Mussolini, mad as any March hare, abolishes his Chamber of Deputies, and the chamber applauds the news. Hitler's Von Ribbentrop delivers a "conciliatory” reply to the Locarno powers, at the same time rejecting everything in the- four-power agreement.

Germany prepares for an "election” on Sunday with a one-way ballot, proving, says Der Fuehrer, that he’s for democracy. , Over here nature and politics stage burlesque shows. Floods inundate Eastern valleys, dust storms darken Midwestern skies and move East, whu* snows fall on California’s hilltops. Alf Landon, imitating Von Moltke, who could keep silent in seven languages, conducts a noiseless campaign. Knox goes to the other extreme and Hoover, taking the middle road, whispers. OARP’s spark plug, the able Mr. Clements, resigns in a quarrel with Dr. Townsend, leaving the lusty organization dangling like a ripe plum for some politician to grab, while the old folks wonder what it’s all about. President Roosevelt and Senator Byrd name super-brain trusters to piece together the Washington jigsaw puzzle and taxpayers bet that both together won’t make one bureaucrat grow where twogrow now. Liberal Senator Black’;* Lobby Committee spreads its dragnet for private telegrams, arous-: ing consternation among friends of Civil Liberty. A House committee seriously holds hearings on a bill to fingerprint all aliens and deport all alien radicals from a land once known as an asylum of liberty. A railroad crossing tender named Pratt is struck by spring’s allurements, and spats, cane and ooutonniere as he flags trains in Framingham Center, Miss. A whale goes berserk off New Foundland and tosses an aged fisherman from his boat into the water, only to see the fisherman emerge, as pleased as Jonah, wearing his eyeglasses. A Washington scientist named Walton (no relation to Izaak), studies angleworms to learn they’re color blind. And just at the opening of a season when, of all times, a fishing worm has the right to see red! For ourselves, we envy that party of nine nudists that have just landed in Cuba in search of Utopia. Or are we getting a touch of early spring fever, too? / YOU’RE TELLING THEM “ A FTER all,” says G. O. P. Chairman Henry P. ■Tx- Fletcher in his latest handout on the new tax plan, “the American business system is not merely a profit system under which greedy corporations extort large profits from helpless consumers, but it is in fact a profit-and-loss system under which American employers as a whole have contributed out of capital as well as earnings more than the New Dealers could possibly have spent in the past four years had they been given complete blank check under which to operate.” Some businesses might object to being called greedy by so ardent a champion as Mr. Fletcher. But all of them will agree that the profit system as it operated under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover had its ups and downs. For instance, American corporations’ profits of nearly nine billions in 1929 turned into five and one-half billions in losses in 1933. A drop of 14Vi billions! A profit and loss system? And how! WAR 1; PEACE 0 Federal judge mortimer byers of New York has held that the presidential embargo (long since dissolved) on arms shipments to Bolivia and Paraguay during the bloody Chaco war in 1934 was unconstitutional. The war (now also a matter of history), after virtually bankrupting both nations in men and resources, was of course entirely constitutional. . A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson A MODERN disease which should be given the attention of medical men is telephonitis. Sufferers from the ailment look sans and speak with intelligence, but the instrument seems to exert a malign influence over them. Once near it, they can’t resist calling somebody up. Even that might not be so bad; it’s when they begin to regard their telephones as educational mediums instead of conveniences that they develop really pestiferous traits. Many of them think nothing of giving you a half hour’s lecture over the wires. An important part of every child’s instruction for citizenship will be neglected until we teach him or her the art of concise telephone conversationgirl children especially. However, it’s a mistake to think the housewife is the only culprit. There exists an even greater nuisance in the telephone salesman, who can, and generally does, make your life a misery. If there were only one of him, you could endure it. but when we consider that hundreds, even tk ousands inhabit our cities and towns, and that lately a few large and reputable stores countenance this method of getting rid of their wares, you see w-hat an unpleasant fix the telephone answerer is in. And it’s the busy woman who suffer most from this form of intrusion. The idle ones have servants to take the calls and ward off invaders. Now I don’t know exactly what’s to be done about all this. I only know it’s one of the problems of civilization that needs attention. A little more consideration must be given to the fellow on the receiving end of the wire —so why not an educational campaign by the telephone company itself? Some moral suasion ought to be used on those individuals who believe that stealing another’s purse is a high crime, but that stealing his time is merely a gesture of friendliness. So long as this form of petty larceny is done through the telephone, shouldn't that make the company—as our lawyer friends say—an accessory before the fact? HEARD IN CONGRESS ■p EP. MARC ANTONIO (R., N. Y.): The Republican Party is a great party. The Republican Party is big enough to hold gentleman like Ogden Mills and Vito Maicantonio within its folds. (Applause and laughter.) HUM Senator Bone (D., Wash.): “Rural electrification” as practiced by the Power Trust is a misnomer; it is rural electrocution of the farmer's pocketbook. nun Senator Hastings (R., Del.): Mr. President, a moment ago I stepped out of the Senate chamber to talk to a newspaper man, and while I was out the Senate passed a bill involving $97,000,000. I suppose I should feel fortunate that it was not $970,000,000 . . . Ninety-seven million dollars is such a smill matter in these days that I should not like to take up the time of the Senate to discuss it. ( nan Senator Connally (D„ Tex.): Does the Senator mean to say if a man were seriously injured the Senator would rather let him die than have a Republican doctor? Senator Holt (D„ W. Va.): From the past record of the Senator from Texas, I believe he would. (Laughter.) B B B Senator Frazier (R., N. D.) : Mr. President, will it bother the Senator if I ask him a question therg? Senator Copeland (D., N. Y.): Not at all. Nothing that the Senator does bothers me. It is always a joy to yield to him. * A ■

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Squaring the Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR WHEN I first glanced at the name of that pottery I j thougnt it was Rockwood. But it isn’t. It’s Rockwood, and there's a display of the pottery down at Charley Mayers this week. Rookwood pottery is pretty exclusive, like a Lily Dasche hat. If you get a piece of it you can be pretty sure that there isn’t another exactly like it anywhere. For the modeling it; done by hand none of this modernistic technological art where ihe whole thing is done by machinery. And the vases are still turned on the old-time potter’s wheel. After the potter gets through does it, the initials of the decorator goes to work. And just to show who does it, the initials of the decorator are put on the bottom. The date the piece was made is there, too, right under the Rookwood trademark. That trademark was started with one flame at the side, and another flame was Added each year. Then, in 1900, they got clear around the circle and since they didn’t want to quit business they started putting Roman numerals on the bottom of the flame. So you can tell just when any piece was made, and by whom. B B B LOTS of famous people have been through the pottery, and in the display this week there’s a vase that Queen Elisabeth of Belgium signed when she went through the plant at Cincinnati. It’s on the base, and it sayc.. in her own handwriting, “Elisabeth,” with a line extending from the bottom part of the capital E clear below her name. And right below that is “22 October 1919.” No periods or commas. Then, below the queen's name is the name of the decorator. We couldn’t read it very clearly and had to look it up in the Rookwood booklet. The decorator was John D. Wareham, and after we read his name it was easier to decipher the name below the queen’s. The queen put her name on a big sort of mottled blue vase. Later, though, it was dropped or jarred very hard, for a piece was broken off at the top. But they put it back together, and you’d never notice it unless you looked real close. Albert Louis Zoller, who is a partner in.the Mayer firm, has his own piece on display, too. It’s brown, and you can tell it’s his for he scratched his initials on the side, near the base. He put “A. L. Z. 5-31-99.” a tt a ANTON SCHERRER said the other day that the Rookwood people probably have their eyes on modern trends. They do, for there are a lot of modernistic pieces in the exhibit. One of them is a white dancer, which was made by a young designer, Louise Abel. The Rookwood people sent her to Europe to study art, and think she’s pretty good. We do, too. You can tell her work by the capital A in a circle. That’s how she signs it. The Rookwood folk also have had their eyes on the past. One of the colors they use is “Rouge Flambe,” which we were told means “Red Flame.” For a long time, only the Chinese knew how to get that color on pottery. But the Rookwood decorators fooled around with colors and dyes and finally they found out how to do it. Oh, yes. Down in Cincinnati folks are pretty proud of the pottery, and have prizes for parties designed especially for them. The Rookwood people are glad to do it, and the winners are glad to get them. One man down there a while back had 150 vases and ash trays made. He had a big party, and gave the vases to the women, and the ash trays to the men. Every one agreed the presents were nice, and those that weren’t at the party wished they had been. (Contributed by Seymour Francis, of The Times staff). a a a A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy had a birthday rec£htly and his father gave him a silver dollar and an old alarm clock. Naturally, he liked the alarm clock best. The family thought that was fine, until today. At midnight last night it went off in the kitchen, farthest spot in the' house from the bedroom. Papa padded out and turned it off.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ MATHEMATICS is one of the foundations of life. The more complex life grows, the more mathematics must be employed. A farmer can get along with simple arithmetic, but the designer of an electric motor or a Diesel engine or a suspension bridge needs mathematics of a very high order. Faw taskmasters are more rigorous than mathematics. To get a working knowledge of the subject is a long and arduous job. The reader who remembers his struggles with high school algebra and geometry may be amazed to know that professional mathematicians classify trigonometry, analytical geometry and calculus along with arithmetic, algebra and geometry, as branches of “elementary mathematics.” When you have finished these elementary branches, you may then proceed to vector analysis and the theory of tensors. By that time, you will be ready to tackle the mathematics of Einstein's theory of relativity. It has been observed that our schools teach too much mathematics from one point of view and not enough from another. The average individual is given more training in' the manipulation of mathematics than he ever applies after leaving school. But as a rule he is left short in an understanding of the underlying nature and aims of mathematics. An attempt to remedy this last defect has been made by Mrs. May me I. Logsdon, associated professor oi mathematics at the University of Chicago. She has written “A Mathematician Explains.” All those who would like to know what the mathematician is driving at. who would l>ke to follow the developments of modern science will find this book the om they have been seeking.

I SEE A WAR - --- COMING A BIG /"\ EUROPEAN WAR? po you SEE ANYTHING OF A N . . - ' CERTAIN* ITALIAN Cl I DICTATOR DOiMG \ SOMETH IMG TO J ' ® 1936, NEA,

The Hoosier Forum 1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, rcliriious controversies excluded,-Make vou” letters short, so all can hare a .chance. Limit them to ShO words or less. Your letter *mist he sinned, but names will be withheld on rcaucst.) a a a CHANGES HIS MIND ON TAX PROPOSAL By Ed Harrison, R. R. 16 I paid very little attention to President Roosevelt’s new tax law until today when I learned that the United States Chamber of Commerce was opposed to the law. Well! After all, it must be a good law. a a a BARRETT HANGING HERE BRINGS PROTEST By Eiixab’th Montfort In regards to the Barrett execution, I, too, think it an outrage that such a thing should be permitted in our city. In the first place, I do not believe in capital punishment and two wrongs do not make a right, but if it has to be, it should be dene at the Federal prison. Why cast such a shadow over our city? I for one most heartily disapprove of having such a blot on our city and wish something could be done about it. a a a THINKS MANY WOULDN’T WORK IF THEY COULD By J. B. P. President Roosevelt wants to know when industry is going to absorb more of these relief workers. That’s a laugh. Fully half of the yaps that are on this work relief never worked when they had jobs. More were cheap ‘leggers, petty thieves and worse, and they don’t want work and wouldn’t take work If they could get it. These gentry are expert whiners and what they want is

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THE standard American diet of many years ago was bread, meat, sugar and potatoes. Such a diet is by no means efficient, since it fails many of the essentials about which I have written so much in this series of articles. Although bread has been called the staff of life, it is far from being an ideal for food. Indeed, some bread is a poor food except when eaten in conjunction with other foods. Very few people subsist on bread alone. White bread contains too few or too poor proteins. Whole grain bread contains roughage and more vitamins than white bread, but still is short of being a complete food. Addition of milk to bread serves to raise the latter’s content of calcium and of important vitamins. Remember that bread means different things in different places. There are the scones of Scotland, the long loaf of France, the twist of Poland, and the American bread, untouched by human hands.

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Inclose > 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolii Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, X. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, uor can extended research be undertaken. Q—Are passports required qf American citizens frr travel to Canada? A—No. Q—How old is Buck Jones; is he married, and has he any children? A—He is 46, is married, and has a daughter. Q—Who played the role of Mrs. Copperfield in the motion picture, "David Copperfield?” A—Elizabeth Allan. Q—When was the process of making beer discovered? A—Historically, tfeer is of great antiquity; it was manufactured by the Egyptians about 1200 B. C. and afterward by the Greeks, Romans, ancient Gauis. Among the ancient writers who mention beer are

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what they’ve got—a nice soft bit of charity. ’ If Roosevelt would handle the unemployed like he handled the bankers, he could clear this thing up in less than six months. URGES SUPPORT FOR LUDLOW AMENDMENT By L. Stafford In behalf of our young men I wish that every one could see the wisdom of helping Rep. Ludlow get his amendment through. This would give every one the right to vote whether the nation will enter any foreign wars and would take the profit out of war. It isn’t probable that enough people would want war to get us into one, unless we were besieged. Rep. Ludlow has filed at the clerk's desk in the House of Representatives Discharge Petition No. 28, to discharge the committee so this resolution may be voted on in the House. Won’t you take just the few moments needed for writing a letter to your Representative in Congress, urging him to sign Discharge Petition No. 28? Two hundred and eighteen signatures are needed before it can become effective. So won't you write now to your Representative. We must not leave one stone unturned in our effort to avert war. a a a OFFERS NEW SOLUTION TO PROBLEM By L. A. M. Here’s a plan whereby intrepid youth will be given a chance, and us old-timers Who ought to be retired on pension will be put to work where our wisdom and experience can do the most good. This whole idea is based on the major premise that what this country needs most of all is a return to sound money,

MODERN American bread is made by machine. It has an established composition. It* is a sensible food. It is rich in carbohydrates and proteins. It provides mineral salts, fats and some vitamins. The Committee on Foods of the American Medical Association has approved the following statement on bread: “1. Bread is our oustanding source of the largest single need in the balanced diet —food energy. “2. Bread is a most economical source of food energy—there is almost no waste in white bread, as it is 96 per cent digested. “3. Bread often is incorrectly called a ‘fattening food.’ The fact that bread is high in food energy does not mean that it in itself will produce overweight. Control of weight depends solely on the food energy content of the diet as a whole, not on any specific food in the diet. Bread can be eaten even by those who are reducing under their physician’s instructions. “4. Bread is a completely wholesome food.”

Herodotus, Tacitus, Pliny and Xenophon. Q—What is Babe Ruth’s New York address? A—345 W. 88th-st. Q —Would the fact that a resident of the United States is receiving a pension from the British government prevent him from becoming a naturalized American citizen? A—No. Q—What is the address of the Author’s League of America, Inc.? A—9 E. 38th-st, New York. Q—ls cancer mentioned in the Bible? A—No. Q —When and from what place did Coxey’s Army start its march on Washington? A—Massillon, 0., March 10, 1894. Q —What is the poisonous element in the exhaust gases of an automobile? A—Carbon monoxide. ' • . . Y 'V-

sound business conditions, and particularly a stable government which will keep its hand off private business. As the political picture stands today, we might elect a seemd Calvin Coolidge to the presidency and he would still be helpless with a Congress of well-seasoned politicians. So the brilliant idea is this—and you don’t have to amend the Constitution to do it cither!—Elect to public service only men who have been at the head of successful businesses for at least 10 years. This would give us a government of practical hard-headed business men who know a phoney nickel when they see it. With them it would be hard to put ovre any legislation they hadn’t read and studied and then debated thoroughly in public. No, it wouldn’t mean a “reactionary” or ultra-conservative government, either, because any man who has been at the head of a successful business must have progressive ideas in order to stay there. The only trouble is that when a man gets to be 60 or 70 he may lack the physical agility to put his progressive ideas into execution. RAIN BY POLLY' LOIS NORTON The rain is like a million molten drops That weight m.v heart in aching case of lead So that the beat is there, yet rhythm stops Outside the casing, leaving songs hung high in space, the words unsaid. It is warm rain. My body knows it’s spring! It shakes with gladness, turns heart ward to scold; It pulses with the notes, desires to sing— Leap up. My feet run on to spring songs, but my heart keeps winter's cold. DAILY THOUGHT So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. Job v, 16. AN avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.—Thucydides.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“That’s Lhe first charge account Bill ever let me have. He’ll get a kick out of it, when I tell him about the fun I had today.”

_ MARCH 27, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE FYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he jileeses, when he pleeses. in search of odd stories about this amT that. HUNTSVILLE. Tex., March 27. Sam Houston gave me his best chair, but he stood all the time we were talking. His voice was soft and low. He said he felt honored that I had come to see him. There Is a gentleness of character in Sam Houston that soothes like soft music, it would be to anybody's advantage to spend a day with him, or a week —listening to him talk, assimilating some of his calm philosophy. The Sam Houston I am talking about is a Negro. He was named for the great liberator of Texas. His father was Gen. Sam Houston’s slave —his closest slave, his bodyguard, his personal servant. Slaves took on their masters’ names. Joshua Houston was this slave’s name. Gen. Houston died here in Huntsville in 1863. Eight years later little Sam Houston, son of Joshua, was born. He is 65 now. a a a I CAME to Huntsville because so much of Gen. Sam Houston's career was spent here. The local editor told me where to find Houston’s grave, and the house he lived in for many years, and the old “Steamboat House” where he died. He told me also that no Houston descendants are left around here. And that the last three men who knew Houston died a year or so ago. He said the only man in Huntsville with any of the Houston lore about him was Sam Houston, principal of the Negro school. a a a SAM HOUSTON, the Negro, is a medium-sized man with short white hair. He is as neat as a pm, You would take him to be not past 40, but he has been teaching school here for 40 years. After Gen. Houston died, his slave Josh set up in Huntsville as a blacksmith. He was thrifty, and had money to educate his children. His son Sam was sent off to Atlanta to school, and then to Washington to Howard University. After that he got a clerical job with the government in Washington. In 1895 (he was 24 then) he came back to Huntsville on a visit. He didn t intend to stay. “I was looked upon as being important because I had been living in ‘the President’s city,’ ” Sam Houston says. “People wanted me to stay here and teach school. “But I wanted to go back. I had got used to living in big cities. There was prestige in working for the government. And my job was nice. “But I got to thinking along this line —‘They don’t really need you in Washington. Anybody could do your work. You’re just one of thousands. Maybe they do need you here.’ ” a a a SO he thought like that, and he took the job as teacher. He got S3O a month. The log school was so bad he wouldn’t use it, so he hired a church, paid for it out of his salary, and taught school in it. • That was 40 years ago. Today the Negro school in Huntsville is a large, modern place, with 600 students. It is named “The Sam Houston School." It is not named for the general, but to honor its Negro principal. Sam Houston doesn’t remember a great deal of Gen. Houston from his father. He wasn’t so conscious ot the Houston heritage when he was a boy. For one thing, Houston wasn’t thought so much of then. People didn’t know how great he was to become in time. But Sam Houston is conscious of his heritage now. He says that the “family slaves,” who were .closest to thier masters, acquired from the white family a learning and a breadth that made them the leaders of their race. His father acquired that from the Houston family, and it helped make Sam Houston, the Negro, what he is today. a a a SAM HOUSTON, though he remembers little, has learned much of Gen. Houston and of Texas. He is an authority on Texas history, and the life of Houston, too. While I was talking with him at the school, the wife of the town’s leading banker dropped in to congratulate him on his speech at the Houston birthday ceremonies here a few days before.