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ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter - for The Times goes where ke pleases, when he pleases, in search for odd stories about this and that,

prosperity depends upon the prosperity of the | farmer, which in tun “depends upon maintenance of his exclusive right to the American

WO years ago, Archaeologist Glenn A. Black and party started for Dearborn County to dig up an Indian mound on Guy L. Nowlin's farm. Last week, the Indiana Historical Bureau published the result of their findings. (Indiana History Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 7.) ee It's a 150-page illustrated brochure jamwho holds corn futures, -but certainly it | packed with Toes and artifacts. An artifact, I wouldn't help the farmer whose crop is burned | don't mind telling you, is “a product of human | workmanship, especially one of the simpler

in the field, and who has no corn to sell. If i, a S72 i that farmer is a } rodicer. 35 most | products of primitive art as distinguished from any ¥l is also a hog producer, as | I looked it up in the glossary

i : { @ natural object.” corn farmers are, or a raiser of other.live- | at the end of Prof. Black’s book. stock or poultry,

a higher price would mean Among the artifacts found were anvils, beads, instead that he would have to pay more for | 8 copper bracelet, drills, flake knives, flint his feed. American farmers as a whole send | blades and an elliptical cherl .blank, whatever Very ititle Goss to th Telit in. The | 1hat may be. Among the facts established was v ry ii'e co € market in grain. € | the rerharkable memory of Judge Louis B. Eugreat American corn crop goes to the market | bank of Indianapolis. on hoof. Over the last five years, an average Judge Eubank gets in today's column for of better than 80 per cent of all th two reasons: (1) Because of the circumstance consaried Tn this country - all that he was born in the home built by his 5 : y was consumed On | oregt-grandfather a little over a mile norththe farm. & In the 1934 drougeL. thousands of farniers

west of the mound, and .(2) because of a letter heswrote when hie heard what Prof. Black would have gone bankrupt if it had not been possible to arrange ¥uty-free importation of

was up to. > Canadian hay. selecting 4

COMMON PROBLEMS

‘HE need of co-operative action by groups | F

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market.” : “Put farm tariffs up,” amount to an embarg "A higher price might help the spedutator

he sald, “even if they EGINA, Sask, Sept. 1.—I am not going to be a Northwest Mounted policeman. . . This morning I thought I was. In a prolonged moment of despair I decided to join up and go all alone into the cold North and never write to anybody again. So I went out to the Northwest Mounted barracks here, saluted and said: “Sir, I'm ready to get my man. Preferably one I'll have to track for two years aross the snow.” The upshot of it was that I'm not going to be a [Northwest Mounted police~ man. | : : In the first place, I wouldn't be allowed | to marry for: six years. That would -be too late. In six years I'll be completely bald. ° Also, I'd have to sign up for a five-year hitch. And what if I changed my mind at the end of a week, and wanted to go back to. newspapering? Also, I'd have to go to school here hool is a “This mound was a favorite playground for for six months, 20d the Yon the schoo® children, as it was surmounted in my: #7 5: 3 £a3 re HiT OL) el ge £3 gy EE A. ; {Teguiar academy; {ike Angapolise | childhood by a large, spreading oak tree, was ga: Eb ; Beier gg ‘bed bf Joey | 22 . | covered i & Hk of bine grass, Bh Jas : : i : 3 HE Royal Northwest Mounted / | grown up with underbrush and briars in a thick- ; Int w » } et-like mat that made threading one's way police ik What ‘they used 3

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l= OE SEPTEMBER, . 1, 1936 “A WAY TO CUT

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far has been centered around whether the gross income tax s houl Id be continued or supplanted by other t The issue is an imPortant one, and should be thoroughly aired. But too little attention has been paid to | specific measures the nominees might propose . to cut taxes. Three months ago both major parties in Indiana adopted platforms containing pledges of support of the merit system of state employes. The pledges were widely acClaimed has spoils system is one of

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2 = ”n ISTEN: “Beginning in the fall of 1870 I attended school each year until 1881 at the brick schoolhouse only a hundred yards or so

from your mound, and afterward taught school { there in the winter of 1886-87.

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because de Payers that the most expt ve ment. : The In < has

pression taught tax-

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states on their commen problems is

gaining wider recognition. Indiana has been

among the leaders in the movement for uni-

diana League of Women Voiers now a public personnel management | iding for a merit

“of 1 drafted

= possible in Michigan.

re Indiana legislative candidates willing to { Are Indian E in | breaking toil. | ton pickers will disappear from the fields of

hill pros policy- -making state jobs. Simgar but less complete measures Legis based partly for the State Public Welfare and Unemployment Compensation Insurance departments.

slat ures

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STUDY of personnel administration

posed new Indiana law.

Whether a merit sy for. all and county emergency workers is.to be’extended to all state departments. A bipartisan Civil Service Study Commission has gan merit system permanent and inclusive,

state

i A million-dollar saving each year for Mich- | Sa : = g : | Deal critics, becomes a keynote of the future

fgan is predicted if the bill is adopted. Almost

A commission of would operate the system. Those now holding state jobs would have to quelity in open tests to hold them. : The “estimate of a $1,000, 000 annual saving was based on definite figures. , The number of state employes went up after each new administration went into office. One year, the number rose from 12,000 to 20,000. - Political assessments on spoils-appointed employes—a system not unknown to Indiana—amounted to 1 and 2 per cent of their salaries each year, or a cost of at least $150,000 to taxpayers. It was estimated $500,000 a year is lost through dismissal of experienced workers and the training of new ones.

ments varying from $960 to $2800.

These are some of the savings

“pay they will vote for

similar savings ; i Indrana?|. ? | :

Are the candidates for- Governor willing to |

start now and lead the fight to put all non- | = | fields in the wake of the combine.

policy-making state under the merit

system?

jobs

“REMEMBER THE KANE?” LITTLE spatk sputtered ' off the coast of

distant Spain—a spark that might have | | marily

ignited the fires {of another American war,

If any one of| the six bombs, dropped from | a Spanish plane into the waters around the | “1. S. Destroyer Kane, had hit the mark and

Killed American! sailors and officers aboard,

we might ndw be repeating what happened 38 | years ago when ithe Maine was sunk in Ha~ {

| vana harbor—remember the Maine?

There seems to be no doubt that the at- | * tempted bombardment of the Kane was due

to mistaken identity. It is not| known whether the bomber was a rebel or a loyalist. . The “Kane incident” which happen in a war zone. The only sure wa to Keep from genie involved is to stay ve from the fight. Which brings us to ask what the destroyer y and other American naval vessels are doing off the Spanish. coast, and _ how much longer they should remain there? When Spaniards) started shooting each other on July 20, official United States. representatives in Spain told Americans to clear out of the country. On Aug. 3, Secretary of State Huil issued an official warning that our government could - no longer be

States Coast: Guard cutter,

co-operating European powers. Day after day,

United States emissaries in Spain repeated the

warning, each time with more emphasis. ; In the last month, an estimated 1000 Amer- _ cans’ have heeded and have been evacuated. - An estimated 500 remain. ‘Now, instead of

‘in Spanish waters. for home, and two destroyers have taken its place)

and enlisted nen.

“The! proportion is all wrong: 126,000,000

_ either loyalist or rebel Spaniards;

they are supposed to defend—over there to await the convenience of 500 American citizens ho, for reasons of their own, tarry in the

_ danger zone.

‘ A month of warning and waiting for them to make up their minds should be enough.

MAYBE THIS’LL HELP ) [(RECTIONS for finding the nearest doctor

system of filling non- |

have been rejected by previous | Cine & | Governors of Southern st 5 states t con g success this time are | ox fergnas

on the setting up of merit systems |

resources” The 1937 Michigan Legislature must decide |

'stem for prison guards and | relief |

|“ better

rafied a bil 2k Michi- | : drafted ‘a bill to make the Michi | entire region.

| more epochal

Absence of pay roll classifi- | cations costs thousands of dollars—salaries of

clerks doing identical work in different depart- | men

is one of those-things |

i pledged

responsible | for the safety of those who refused to avail | themselves of the facilities for evacuation. The | facilities at that time consisted of a United | a battleship and a cruiser, plus several other naval vessels of |

| to name the party's { feel ‘three, there are four American vessels of war | (The battleship has left |

Manning those four vessels, which stand | opponents. ' ready to serve when, as and if the 500 Amer- |

| dcans decide to depart, are some 846 officers | cove Administration Leader Senator Pat Har1

| rison a 2-to-1 victory over an opponent who : . Americans at home, who want no trouble with | 846 men | “In uniform thousands of miles from the shores |

form laws and interstate agreements,

Gov. Futtrell of Arkansas recently invited

- of tenants, landowners, educators, social work -

ers and others in an effort to bring the evils of increased farm tenancy. The’ New England Regional Planning Com-

to a halt

mn mission has submitted to the National Re-

‘Michigan was used in drafting the pro- |

sources Committee a program to “develop and conserve the natural, industrial and human of New England and its 8,000,000 people. Plans include legislation by the states involved for development of recreational facilities; conservation of forests and wildlife; land use; development: of interstate water resources, and a traffic survey of the

Thus “planning,” condemned by some New

. Iin a Republican stronghold, all the 14,000 state employes would be covered. | P g

four members—with pro. | vision against control by any political party—

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REVOLUTION IN COTTON

yy us politicians squabble in an election campaign over how fo solve human

| problems which science has dumped into soci-

ety’s lap, science Marches on to create new ones. »

» Today's newspapers carry no domestic news than the story of the Rust brothers’ mechanical picker moving across a cotton field in Mississippi, - its dampened spindles plucking lint from bolls which heretofore have yielded the white harvest only to

| human fingers. It now seems to be only a matter of time |

until the 10 machines the Rust brothers have built will become hundreds of machines, moving’ down ‘cotton rows where for generations women and children have stooped and

found | crawled, dragging heavy sacks behind. If that

cemes to pass, it will mean ‘the emancipation of some 3,000,000 human beings: from backIt will mean that transient cot-

the South just as the horde of peripatetic harvest hands disappeared from the wheat It will mean that the South’s sharecropper problem will become another type of problem. Once perfected, the mechanical picker will

| complete what Eli Whitney's gin started—the

mechanization of the cotton . industry. ‘The economy of the Southland rests prion the hand labor of the estimated three million underpaid and underprivileged men, women and children who minister to this king of crops. Machines will revolutionize that economy. What will happen to human beings the machines displace? In the first place these human beings have nothing to lose except bondage to a system

-which has kept them in abject poverty, What

they have to gain depends upon how organ-

| ized society copes with this new social prob-

lem. To do nothing would be to leave them to a more rapid starvation. To do the minimum would be to give them a life of hopeless idleness on: the relief rolls. But to do somethiflg consistent "with good citizenship would be to provide them with a means of self-sup-

-port and self-improvement.

John and Mack Rust, owners of the mechanical picker, do not see in their invention merely an opportunity for riches. They have themselves to plow .the profits of their enterprise back into co-operative endeavors for the self-bett€rment of displaced sharecroppers and farm laborers. The responsibility they feel should be felt none the less keenly by all of us.

DEMOCRATS ARE SATISFIED ERTAIN critics of the Adminisiration insist that the Roosevelt New Deal is alien, if not antagonistic, to the historic traditions of the Democratic Party, But somehow the active Democrats who go to the primaries nominees don't seem to that way. . In South Carolina, where Democratic roots reach back to John C. Callioun, the voters gave the pro-New Deal Senator Byrnes a 7-to-1 majority over two Snu-Administration Mississippi,

Jefferson Davis’ home state,

called him “a Roosevelt rubber stamp.” In- Arkansas, two wesks earlier, Senate Majortiy Leader Robinson won by better than 2 to 1 over a field of critics. In Oklahoma, anti-New Deal Sehtor Gore ran a poor fourth in a race in which the two leading candidates outdid each ether in praising the New Deal. Similarly in Illinois, Alabama, South Dakota, West Virginia, Montana, Texas, Kentucky, California and Tennessee (Andrew Jackson's home state) New Deal candidates have been triumphant. From these demonstrations; it ‘woud apthe Democrats

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through it, on the paths tramped down by grazing animals, a- real adventure with plenty of thrills.

“And even when half-grown we found among the thick foliage of the brush and the long grass and tall weeds a fine place to play ‘hide and seek’

| with many opportunities to ‘sneak’ out when the

‘catcher’ was absent from his ‘base’ or had his back turned, and to ‘get home safe.’

“Originally, it consisted of two quite distinct structures as if one mound were built against the side of another previously constructed. So that there was a ‘saddle back’ low place between the higher points at either end, and a sort of ridge upon either side seemed to mask the place where they joined. The highest point on the western end was several feet higher than the top of that part east of the big tree.

" “About 1874 or 1875 somebody dug into the top of the western end of the mound and for some years a hole remained there out of which half-grown boys could not see over the sides when standing at the bottom. “Rumors said the first diggers found some charcoal and a small trinket of bright colored metal. But while it was understood that a nephew of the widow who owned the farm was implicated, the digging had been done :at night and nobody (at least not I) knew just who did dig the hole or what became of anything they found (if anything there was).”

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HE amazing part about Judge Eubank’s letter is that every statement made as to the

°| structural features and late excavations was fully

borne out by Prof. Black's excavation of the: mound. Shows what a little boy can do if he has his eyes open.

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September 1st IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J.

Y Indiana's Constitution, passed in 1818, fines for penal offenses and money paid for exemption from militia service by people conscientiously opposed to war, commonly called “conscience; money,” was to be used for county seminaries.” Funds were kept by a trustee until they reached $400, when a board of trustees was elected to erect. a seminary building. Marion County’s seminary was opened Sept. 1, 1834, on the southwest corner of University Square. Trustees, elected in 1832, were Samuel Merrill, John S. Hall and William Gladden. First principal of the school was Ebenezer Dumont. The seminary, which admitted only boys, was the principal school in central Indiana for several years. The building was provided: by the county, but pupils had to pay tuition. From 1853 to 1859 the old seminary was used by the free school system as a high school. It was torn down in 1860.

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

APA DIONNE wants the quins to go into a convent when they grow up because that’s a safe place for girls, he says. He has put into words the often unexpressed desire of the average parent, the desire to protect his children from the hazards of normal existence. . This is a natural impulse. Men and women resist time's touch for their children almost as stoutly as they resist it for themselves. Of all the many fights in man’s existence, this is one of the hardest—the fight to keep our youngsters from becoming adult. Happily, youth is blessed with ‘the adventurous spirit. Otherwise, many young people would be put, if not into ‘actual convents, at least into some sunny nook of life where they could watch but never take part in the perennial battles for bread and for justice which always seem to be raging in our world. Yet what is there to mortal life but the struggles it involves? When they are over, life is over. Nothing: is left but quiescence and death. And the person who has spent his span without enduring the ordinary ups and downs has had a poor existence. Many women go into convents nowadays, but they do not seek security there. We like to believe they are moved by nobler aims. They

{ wish to help others, to teaeh children, to nurse | the sick and comfort the sorrowing.

Papa Dionne hopes that his girls may escape the temptations of modern life, thus echoing the wish that abides in every parent's heart. But would it not be wiser to for us to teach the young to overcome rather than to flee temptation?

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Q—To whom is the quotation “Know thyself” attributed? A—To Socrates by Plato in “Dialogues.” It is one of the fundamental teachings of that great philosopher. Q—What is the address of Dick Hoover, press representative of the Civic Theater? A—Care of Civic Theater, 19th and Alabama-. sts, Indianapolis, Ind. Q—Who was the producer of “Follow the Fleet” and what is his address? A—Pandro S. Berman, care R-K-O Studios, Hollywood, Cal. Q—-When will thé next population census of the United States be taken? A—1940.

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be ‘withheld on request.) " ”n ”n DISAGREES WITH JOHNSON ON TRUST QUESTION By Warren A. Benedict Jr. 7 * In your August 25 “issue, Gen. Johnson declares the anti-trust laws are outdated by 1936 economics— and thereby in further displaying his muddled and contradictory economic reasoning shows how unfit ne was to head NRA. Both parties take highly commendable views in their platforms regarding the regulating of monopolies. However, for 12 long years monopolies plundered this country in.brazen disregard of the Sh an anti-trust laws, while friendly Administrations looked on and winked, so we doubt the sincerity of the Republican platform. Judging by Roosevelt's actions, we see some hope of honest enforcement of our laws regarding monopolies. Monopoly means a ganging up on the little business man by unfair practices, and then a gouging of the public by controlling prices; it means a concentration of power in Wall Street, with the Morgans and Mellons dictating prices and policies of business from coast to coast, and it ‘means an end of opportunity for the energetic man to get in business for himself. It means a concentration of wealth and power. that, left unchecked would finally bring widespread: poverty and unemployment, and eventually revolution and Com-

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association

Rice advancements in knowledge of radio and increased use of the telephone have put emphasis on the value of electrical aids in hearing.

adequately tested such devices, they began to be advertised and pro-

moted in various ways, so that many people. bought instruments which did not perform satisfactorily in any case. Others bought devices not at all suited to their particular cases and, as a result, were disappointed. New studies of various types of hearing aids have been made in scientific laboratories and today the uses and limitations of such devices are beginning to be understood more definitely. Before any specialist in diseases of the ear or any student of hearing can advise a person satisfactorily regarding the device suitable to his particular case, it is necessary to have a definite understanding of the nature of the hearing defect.

the nerves concerned in hearing have keen destroyed by disease. In such event no hearing device can

Two types of hearing devices may be considered — non-electrical and electrical. One aid to defective hearing is use of the old ear trumpet. People who have difficulty in hearing know that they can hear better if the voices of those who speak are raised, and if some suitable method is developed for concentrating the sound waves in the region of the ear.The electrical hearing devices which have begun to attract more and more people include an amplifying apparatus which now is so small that all the materials concerned may be placed in a small handbag or pocketbook. 2 a = Specialists in diseases of the ear know that there are some forms of deafness in which an electrical aid may be of little assistance, and in which it may in the long run interfere with hearing. There are cases of damage to the nerve concerned in hearing, due not only to disease

but to old age.

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There are certain cases in which

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munism. It is distinctly un-Ameri-can, has no place in our national life, and is not upheld by economists. Any one who subscribes to the good general's outlook could well review Ida T. Tarbell's celebrated history of Standard Oil. What we need and probably will get during Roosevelt's next term is a vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws and prevention of unfair practices by business, whether big or little. And that, contrary to the voluble general, does not mean “cut-throat methods, exploitation, economic anarchy and depression.”

2 an DICTATOR CHARGE ‘BUNK, - WRITER DECLARES By Charles C, Bender, Bloomington

Of all the silly bunk being ground out by the Roosevelt haters, the silliest is the charge that he is a dictator, or that his policies are leading to dictatorship. Mark Sullivan and his kind pretend to believe that the re-election of Roosevelt means communism, fascism, Naziism, or some kind of mongrelism, with a Stalin, a Mussolini, or a Hitler as dictator, hoping they may influence enough gullible voters to make the effort worth while. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow, Wilson, both striving for better conditions, were aggressive Presidents, thus bringing down upon themselves the charge that they were assuming dictatorial power. Whenever a Theodore Roosevelt, a Woodrow Wilson, a Bob La Follette Sr., a George Norris, or a Franklin I. Roosevelt emerges as a defender of the people, as sure as day follows night, such crusaders will have haters in abundance. _ Congress, especially the lower branch, is an unwieldy body whose members frequently escape responsibility for their actions. An intelligent, aggressive President, with public opinion behind him, has the power to drag the individual member from under cover and force him to obey the will of his constituency. Such a President is Franklin D. ‘Roosevelt, and if that is being a dictator, let us hope all our future Presidents may be dictators. Some

of our best laws have been bludg-

eoned through Congress in this manner. We are becoming well acquainted with the name of Alfred Mossman Landon, but despite the opportuni-

ties to reveal himself, the man Lan-#

don remains very much a stranger.

However, since we do know that his sponsors are anxious to return to the good old lamb-shearing days of 1929, we reasonably may judge him by the company he keeps, and conclude that Mr. Landon will “rubber stamp” the views of these big industrialists and moneyed men—if vy any chance he should be elected. z n " >

QUESTIONS CRITICISM OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT By Frank R. Hale, Shelbyville It is all right to be opposed to the election of Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Landon or any “one else, but it is not

right, to make bold assertions on subjects of which the writer can know absolutely nothing himself.

I have read Joseph Rilus Eastman.

Jr.'s [letter in Wednesday's Times. It certainly shows an extremely curious conception ot Christianity on Ls part of the writer. ere does he get his knowledge of t he inner workings of the Riissian gi Rs and the fact that President Roosevelt is working for communism. I can qualify in part, having been an active worker in a Presbyterian Church for 46 years, as a critic of his views. He says he never heard of the Presidént asking advice or help of any one outside of his own Administration. Very strange. How well does he know Mr. Roosevelt? Well enough to make assertions that follow? If the President asks God's help in his tremendous task, will that fact be communicated to Mr. Eastman? In his speech on March 4, 1932, I distinctly heard (over the radio) him ask God to help him and those associated with him in the work before them. Should Governor Landon be elected he will do the same. Questioning motives of others, without proof is not Christianity.

BROWN COUNTY BY VIRGINIA POTTER Oh, what is fairer than the skies— The trees and flowers’ bounty,

What is more plentiful than hills And roads of old Brown County?

Oh, what is clearer than a view, Of the valleys far below— And fall when bittersweet appears, And stays gay—after snow?

Oh, what is peaceful solitude? A sleepy little town— A place to rest and think a bit, Down in the Hills of Brown!

S${DF GLANCES By George Clarke

: over Canada now, .the old romantic and isolated Far

“in the service.

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be. There are 2500 of thgm strung all” Only. 250 are in

North division. : The rest are in little towns, on boats, and in autoinobiles all the way from Vancouver to Nova Scotia. They're as much northeast now as they are northwest. They trail smug=glers, and chase liquor boats, and parade at expositions. They do all the provincial (or state) policing in Canada, except for three provinces, And only about one in 10 is mounted nowadays. The Mountie today is a cross bes tween a G-man and a state cop. Three thousand applicants are on the waiting list. A couple of hundred are taken each year. The service in the Far North is still what it used to be. The men go up there for two years, and they're the whole law up there. Except for the radio, they're completely away from everything. Incidentally, they say that phrase about ‘the Northwest Mounted al= ways gets its man” was coined in the States and never has been used They say they lose *their man as often as any other law=enforcing agency. : 2. 2 oH ORE Mounties leave the serv1 ice than stay in it. That's simply because, through their contacts, and with the reputation their service gives them, they find better opportunities outside. Many Mounties have gone out and written up their experiences, and eventually turned into newspaper men. And quite a few newspaper men have become Mounties. - There's an interesting thing about - that. Ordinary rough and ready re- © porters make good Mounties. But the thinkers, the “journalists,” hardly ever turn out. been too-cloistered, and get an in- | feriority complex when they get out in the world, and aren't - able i handle the public. On the administration building lawn here at the Northwest Mount= ed school is a new monument with the names of the Mounties who {| have been killed in the 62 years the | service has existed. There are fewer | than 60 names—only one man a year killed in all that time. .About half of them were slain. The rest died in freakish accidents. ,

Today’s Science

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

QPURRED by preliminary surveys indicating that the infestation .* of Dutch elm disease is less this year than in 1935, Federal scientists are continuing their efforts to bring about the eradication of this dread affliction of elm trees. And their efforts will be backed by the new emergency WPA fund of $1, 125,000 recently made available, ‘Almost all of the near 4000 Dutch elm “scouts” now in the field searching for trees having the disease, or being trained for such work, will be employed in the critical’ battle zone—the area within a 50-

‘i mile radius of New York City.

.But there are other regions now under suspicion besides the known disease center around the New York metropolitan area in the East. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi are also on the suspected list. The watchfulness in these states arises because the elm logs hy which the tree disease originally was introduced into the United States came in through one of their seaports; or were used in veneer fac- / tories within the states; or because the logs traveled through them. New York City, Boston, Balti- | more, Norfolk, and New Orleans, were the ports of entry for ‘the diseased logs. From them the logs | went by ell 3 into or through the suspected sta 3 The only ates. tical treatment for | Dutch elm disease now known, De= partment of Agriculture experts Te= port, is the drastic one of oe] discovery and removal of source of infection. Chop aay infected tree despite its size and beauty is the rule in the fight.

DAILY THOUGHT Woe unto him that buildeth “his

and giveth him not for his —Jeremiah 22:13.

LE a s of society to prosper nthe

| highest degree, while the

in distress, try whether one of his face can smile while

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