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WEDNESDAY#SEPTEMBER 2, 1936 1 1804 os is the thirty-se¢ond presidential campgign since Thomas Jeflerson ran for reelection. But to us who live through 1836, ~ there is a strangely familiar ring to the story

Which Claude Bowers telis of the campaign of 1804.

J From Bowers’ new Power,” published by Select a few excerpts:

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“Incredible as it seems that the Federalists colild have hoped for the defeat of Jefferson, it must he borne in mind that

fnebriated in their vitu peration. . . “Four stupidity of the Federalist warnings that a Jefferson triumph would mean anarchy, Law and order prevailed everywhere, No longer could the people be persuaded that a Jeffersonian regime would destroy the nation’s credit in tha marts of the world, for never had the bankers of London and Amsterdam felt more secure in their loans. In all the towns, including Boston, could be heard the hammers of the carpenters. . .

“It was not that Jefferson had eomiromised with his principles, or failed to do what formerly he had promised, but that he had con- ~ founded his enemies by showing that their warnings were without warrant in facts. . . . | ” HE Federalists found themselves hard put for arguments. They had the clergy as before; they had the greater portion of the press; and they had no scruples. Jefferson was

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a tool of France, they cried. The Administration |

wore a red cap, they thought. The judiciary had been ruined because the midnight judges had been deprived of their jobs provided by a grateful party at the public cost. The Administration was tyrannical,

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HEALTH AND MARRIAGE 'NDIANA’'S marriage law -not only lacks a needed time lapse requirement between li- | cense application and ceremony; it also has | no adequate health standards for matrimony. Only six states—Delaware, Louisiana, Con-

consin—require actual physical examination. An emphatic example of the effectiveness

Under its famed “blood test” statute, which went into effect last December, both candidates for marriage must undergo blood tests. A license is denied if the results are unfavor-

i able.

Houghton-Mifflin, we | | argument favors high health standards from

they had no con- |

tacts with the average man and that they were | | of children malformed physically and men-

years had convinced the timid of the | Mon i have adopted “prohibitions

for had it not de-

prived many Federalists of jobs. ... And what a |

dreadful man was Jefferson!

‘hot an anti-Christ? .. . And Louisiana! (referring to the purchase of the territory) what an outrageous act, unconstitutional, cowardly, and oh, how costly! Fifteen millions for that waste Jand! Ridiculous! Why, divided among the states in proportion to their congressional representation, what did it mean to New England? " Four dollars a head for every man, woman and child in Massachusetts; $30 for eyery family in Connecticut; and on the interest alone New Hampshire would pay $87 a yg Ruin—it meant ruin! .., . “So ran the course of the campaign; in the midst of a prospering people, the politicians were impressed. The rank and file of”the Federalists surged all too clearly toward the new regime. ,.. . 2 HE result was stunning to the opposition . . . it was a landslide. Jefferson had been vindicated by a majority surpassing the fondest hopes of his warmest friends . . . Ing to make Rufus King (defeated Federalist vice presidential nominee) understand the new order, John Quincy Adams (Federalist) wrote the verdict: ‘The power of the Administration rests upon the support of a much strongler majority of people . . . than the former Administrations ever possessed . . . Whatever

‘the merits or the demerits of the former Ad- |

ministrations may have been, there never was ® system of measures more completely and irwevocably abandoned and rejected by the poplular voice.’ | “And then he added: ‘It (meaning the pre‘Jeffersonian old deal) can and never will be revived . . . and to attempt the restoration : ‘would be as absurd as to undertake the resur{rection of a carcass seven years in its grave.'”

AN UNORGANIZED WAR

ITH alarming regularity, the announce- | ment Is made that Indianapolis has ‘one of the worst automobile fatality records ‘in the state or nation. Month by month the | figures continye to climb. | © The failure. of the trafic safety cam- : paign here can not be blamed on lack of | public interest or information. | In seeking the reason for the failure here, ‘and for the success of safety programs in some other cities, one fact stands out: | waukee, Evanston and other cities with enviable safety records have curbed auto acci- | dents by organizing their communities for | safety. Definite community safety organigations, co-ordinating the safety efforts of officials and unefficial groups, have led the | way. We have said before, we think the saving of lives on Indianapolis streets depends ‘on the forming of such an orgapization. That | need Is still unfilled. And the slaughter goes on,

REALISM |

i HE Resettlement Administration admits that one of its photographers took three separate “shots” of a steer's skull on the South _ Dakota plains, moving the skull about over a space of 10 or 20 feet to get a different view for each exposure. The RA says that was merely careful photography, the sole purpose of which was to get pictures that would typify conditions in the _ dried-up plains country. :

_ The Fargo (N. D) Forum, however, contends that since there was only one skull to begin with and the same skull to end with, the three poses constitute “faking.” The big ctiy newspaper cameramen who pose a bathing beauty with her right leg grossed over her left and then with her left ‘over her right had better not try to peddle

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Had he not in- | vited Tom Paine to the White House? Was he |

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Greenwich, Conn. overnight lost its reputation as one of the country’s best known— perhaps we should say “worst known’ '—Gretna Greens. Its marriage total siunaped. By June 1, 1936, only 1813 marriages had been performed in the entire state, against 3468 in the same period of 1935. Similar experience elsewhere shows the practical reasons why such laws are slow to be adopted. One reason is that local officials whose income partly depends on marriage fees do not { like to see this revenue go to adjoining states with less rigid banns. But the social problem is a kerious one. All

the eugenics standpoint.| Science long has recognized the close relationship between | venereal and other diseases and such mental illnesses as insanity and epilepsy, to the birth

" As a result, 28 states, including Indiana, against marriages between persons afflicted with'some or all of these diseases. Connecticut demonstrated the value of such statutes. For years it has made marriages of criminals and imbeciles a criminal offense, but the law had little effect until actual physical examinations were required. To raise the health standards of matrimony, there must be teeth in the statutes. To make them truly workable, marriage health laws should. be uniform in all states. f

BETTER BOULEVARDS HE Fall Creek boulevard extension; opened this week, gives the community a new recreational asset and marks the completion of part of a general boulevard improvement program being built with ‘WPA labor. The Keystone avenue- -Millersville project includes a scenic drive, two and a half miles long, a levee which forms the base of #the drive, and a 108-acre parkway along which playgrouhds, tennis tourts and other facilities are to be built. Flood gates in the base of the bouleva rd are a protection against high water. Another boulevard and Jevee is being built along Fall Creek from 16th street to 20th street, and another from Millersville to Baker's Bridge. Still other boulevard jobs include Pleasant Run parkway, Meridian street to Bluff road: Pleasant Run parkway, Arlingtori avenue to Kessler boulevard, and East 56th street, Arlington avefiue to Fort Harrison.

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BUT HOW TO DO IT?

OV. LANDON and President Roosevelt apparently see eye to: eye on one general principle of taxation-—that so far as it is possible taxes should be visible, direct and proportioned to ability: to pay. . The view which the Governor expressed so forcibly at Buffalo—that hidden sales and nuisance taxes conceal the cost of government and unfairly burden the poor—has been expressed with equal force by the President in speeches and in messages to Congress. Both of the major tax laws sponsored by the President were designed to raise more revenue by direct taxes based on ability to pay, and thus to lessen. the government!s dependence on consumption taxes. But it is doubtful that either of those hasty measures will have that result.

2 x = > HILE it is very fine to have the two major presidential candidates espouse this equitable theory, the fact remains that the wide gap between espausal and performance is not easily bridged. It would be simple if the tax reform could be achieved merely by repealing the hidden taxes. But that would not suffice, because the government could not spare the nearly two billion dollars a year it obtains from the invisible levies. Substitute revenue has to be found. ; When we search for. substitute revenue based on ability to pay, we collide with the unpleasant reality that it can't be obtained except by taxes that would directly hit the pocket nerve of a lot of voters. Of all taxes of the ability-to-pay variety, the principal one is the income tax. Mr. Roosevelt and the Democrats in Congress have tried to find substitute revenue by raising the income tax rates in the upper brackets. They have found a. little. But not enough. If enough is to be obtained, the rates must also be raised in the middle and lower brackets, and the base must be broadened to bring several million addi-

tional citizens into the income tax class. x

= n {ITER the present law, with its exemption up to $1000 for single persons and up to $2500 for couples, fewer than 2,000,000 persons pay income taxes. Thus about 95 per cent of us| are not touched. But we are touched a plenty by the sales taxes, elimination of which a ‘broadened income base would eventually make possible, : To extend the income tax ‘to as many as 8.000,000 individuals—which would have to be done to obtain a substantial volume of substituté revenue—the exemptions probably would have to be dropped as low as $750 for single persons and $1800 for married couples. These facts are well known to Congress, but both Democrats and Republicans have repeatedly refused to act on them for fear of political ‘effect. Time after time, when tax measures have been before Congress, Senator La TFollette has offered base-broadening amendments. And time after time Democratis and Republican leaders have combined to defeat the amendments. ~ We hope that Gov. Landon continues to voice his visible taxation philosophy and that

- President Roosevelt joing in, thereby stimu-

lating public understanding of and resentment against pocket-picking taxes. But somewhere along the line we should like to see both step out and say what they propose to do about it. Talk will never rid us of hidden taxes. We" can't get rid of them until we provide means for raising the same amount by visible taxes. The best way—in our opinion the only way—is ‘by broadening the income tax base. A candidate who is geady

OUR TOWN

Anton Scherrer

feorars scoop may be too sacred for words but I'll risk it anyway. For two reasons: (1) Because of ‘the possibility that what I have to say may shed some light on the past of some of our prominent citizens which, certainly, comes

within the province of this column,’'and (2) be- |

cause of the fix I would be in if I couldn't use today’s material. I can't afford to be placed. if that position and for that reason I'll handle it as delicately as I know how, for if you must know the truth, today’s column concerns itself mostly with what some of our prominent citizens remember best about their mothers. In Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker’s case, it was Zimmet Kuchlein. Mr. Seidensticker still remembers the way his mother took a quarter of a pound of butter and rubbed it to the smooth consistency of cream. She used to hold it up to the light to see whether it was consistent. After which she added the yolks of five eggs, one-fourth pound of sugar, one-fourth pound of peeled almonds, one teaspoon of cinnamon, the grated rind of a lemon and six ounces of flour. With the precision of a money-order clerk, everything was worked into a dough, rolled thin and baked in tin pans. The cakes were good the minute they came out of the oven. Any number of Indianapolis women tried to do the same thing, says Postmaster Seidensticker, but they didn’t get to first base with it

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» 2 NE of George Kuhn's fondest recollections is the Orange Cake his mother used to make, He capitalizes the words . even when he thinks of them. It took almost all morning to make the cake because it involved three distinct and separate operations, to-wit: (1) The cake itself, (2) the icing which went on top of it and (3) the jelly which went inside. ‘The cake itself entailed the use of one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, six eggs, four cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder (that’s right) and. three-quarters of a cup of milk, The butter and sugar were beaten until light, after which the eggs were beats. You never saw so much beating. After all the beating was. done, everything was mixed with the fleur, baking powder and milk. The last touch was the grated rinds of two oranges which, too, was mixed with what went before. That's the end of the mixing. Then the batch was baked with a layer cake in mind., The layer cakes in the Kuhn menage were three-tier cakes. As for the icing which went on top, Mother Kuhn boiled one cup of orange juice and three cups of pulverized sugar until .she got a syrup. Then she beat the whites of two eggs and stirred everything together. Sounds simple enough but you don’t see anybody trying it today. For the jelly which went inside, Mr. Kuhn remembers his mother boiling one and one-half tablespoons of cornstarch and one cup of milk for five minutes. (There was a clock in the Kuhn kitchen). That done, she added the volks of two eggs, the grated rinds of two oranges and almonds and sugar to taste. The “almonds and sugar to taste” were, of course, the catch in and the secret of the recipe. Nobody but George Kuhn's mother got it just right. i

September 2d IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J

HE first Indiana State Fair was held in 1852, in Military Park at Indianapolis. W. T. Dennis, Richmond, was appointed by the State Board of Agriculture, itself-only two year old, to select and prepare the fairground.

. Besides pedigreed stock, there were exhibite cultivators, subsoilers, root cutters, corn shellers straw cutters, wheat and corn drills, reapersj mowers, threshers, hay pressers, smut machines fan mills, separators, winnowers, regrinders, flour and meal mills, churns, cook and parlor stoves, boring machines, sausage grinders, hand looms, brick machines, washing machines, saw mills, ice cream freezers, rat traps, scales (one of which would weigh 800,000 Ibs. at one time), potato diggers, garden sprinklers, ax handles, carriages of all kinds, printing presses, trucks, fireproof safes, Howe, Wilson and Singer sewing machines, shower baths, broom handles, bacon, tombstones, spinning wheels, hub machines, railroad jacks, sawmill’ dogs, mineral teeth, pearl work, shell lace, daguerreotypes and medicines. More than 20,000 persons attended the fair and the board was highly pleased. Sideshows and menageries entertained the visitors, who agreed the fair was even more fun than a camp meeting.

; , J . A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON IERCINGLY sweet, the melody from the violins soared above the music of the other instruments, which had muted to a vast orches-

tral sigh. Suddenly, the drums roared, the trumpets shrieked, and then there was silence.

.Above us a million stars were spilled across the cloudless sky.

We had reached the intermission of a Starlight Symphony Concert. Slowly the audience came to life, returning tp reality. Each person had been on a far journey, transported to some private realm of dreams by the magic of Schubert’s immortal music. I looked around the great stadium, filled with thousands of hot, tired, despondent people. Probably every one had come through a day of trial, and all were wilted and worn by the unabating heat. Now something vital had been restored within them. There: was a new light in their eyes, and fresh strength seemed to revive them. Then my eyed came back to the orchestra members, some old, some young, some spruce, some shabby. Every face wore a glow at the moment. For had not each of them done his part in interpreting what. the master had tried to express through his harmonies? During the twilight interim, the weariness, the sordidness and tragedy of living had been abated, and were forgotten by those who had produced and those who had heard the music. Hungry hearts had fed upon melodious sustenance. - “This,” I said to myself, “is what governments should give to their people. This is what my government is giving.’ For our Starlight Symphony is partially maintained by WPA funds. A handful of cur money deflected from expenditures for war gives richness, beauty and joy to

those who need it most. .

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@—When was the Flatiron Bullding in New York City completed? A—It was completed for occupancy in the fall of 1902. Q—On what lake is the city of Friedrichshafen, Ge any, located? A— Cqpstance. : Q—Have the age limits for young men enrolled in ‘the Civilian Conservation Corps been changed since the project was started?

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REMEMBERS HE WAS TAXED UNDER G. 0. P.,, TOO By M. G. French, Edwardsport

Those who never listened to Gov. Landon mumble his Buffalo tax speech missed a good chance to size up his probable benefit to the U. S. A. if elected. It seems the G. O. P. is making an effort to sell to the voters an idea that taxes were unknown until Roosevelt went into office. If:I am not fooled they will have plenty of G. O. P. taxes thrust down their throats before the election comes off. : An editorial in the Willie Randolph Hearst paper said “When Wilson retired from office the public’ debt per capita was $139. When Hoover retired, it had been reduced to $12 per capita and now .under Roosevelt it has increased to $300 This seems to imply that to have prosperity, reduce the No doubt the $12 per capita under ‘Hoover was the reason of our great wave of prosperity at that time. Mr. Landon says, “always have a surplus to fall back on if a rainy day hits.” Therefore, Roosevelt is all wet for having a’ deficit. Here in Indiana G. O. P. Candidate Springer says: “If Gov, McNutt has a $10,000,000 surplus in the state treasury, it is a sure sign that taxes are too high and it should not be.” This statement will rise up to plague future G. O. P. Governor aspirants should any incumbent G. O. P. Governor succeed in building up a nice, big reserve. Nobody loves taxes in any form. However, they are fuel to help keep the political fires burning no matter

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association HE recent Olympic Games focused the spotlight of public attention on athletics. For the physician, interest in athletics invariably is associated with the injuries that affect athletes. The coach and the captain want the injured man back on the job as soon as possible. They also want him. capable of turning out his best performance, yet at the same time they do not want him injured permanently in health or physique by unwise participation too soon after his tissues have been damaged. Most coaches have learned that the most efficient results can be secured if an athletic injury is given scientific attention as soon as possible, and if those who do not have the knowledge necessary for treat-

ment avoid doing anything until}

scientific care can be applied. One of the most common athletic injuries is the contusion or bump. This is a bruise of the tissues brought about by contact with another player, a thrown or batted baseball, a hurdle on the track, or simply by a fall. For treagment of such contusions or bumps, a specialist advises first ice and later heat. Sometimes a hot pack is put on the contusion or the bump over night. This hot pack consists of glycerine or some analgesic or pain-relieving medication, and serves to stop the pain. : As soon as possible the tissues should be massaged. Heat may be ‘applied in the form of electric current passing through the tissues. This is known as diathermy. Another common athletic injury, particularly affecti and baseball players, is the sprain. A sprain is not as serious as a broken bone, but it will give a great deal of trouble if not suitably cared for. The joints most frequently concerned are those ‘of ankles, knees, shoulders and fingers.

The first step is to protect the

tissues against damage, and to give them adequate support. For this purpose. adhesive tape is woven about the jojnt in a basket weave.

When a sprain occurs in any |

joint, the joint should be packed promptly in under Then it may be

track athletes |

in ice until the swelling j.

which side is doing the Soke and will be with us until we become tax conscious or repudiate. Evidently Candidate Springer doesn't want a surplus to fall back on. Therefore, McNutt is all Yet for having’ a surplus.

" 8 » WHY WALK AGAINST LIGHT? ASKS WRITER By D. A. Sommer

The red light has flashed. Step back upon the sidewalk and wait. You are safe. Relax. How foolish to walk against the red light! How foolish to put yourself in the middle of an inferno of traffic! A step forward or backward and you may be killed. But with feet upon the sidewalk you can be at ease. You say you are in a hurry—so are ambulances. You are busy—so are hospitals. Did you ever notice how high that building is across the street? How glad you are that you don’t have that man’s dangerous, high-up job of washing windows on the outside. But he is safer than you would be in the middle of the street with the traffic light against you. The green light has now flashed and you may go. You have had 30 seconds of real rest, and may have saved yourself from “accidental” suicide. o 2 ”

SOCIETY OWES YOUTH A JOB, READER ARGUES By H. L. Seeger

The crime problem costs America 15 billion dollars a year. Even then only one-tenth of our criminals are behind prison walls. Training in the home only goes part way in solving the problem. : Crime age has dropped to the 19year level. Can we educate youth to qualify for service in society, and then block youth in finding opportunity for service and .personal expression? Youth demands action.

If youth is frustrated in making

youth rebels against society and finds expression in prohibited ways. Society has faileq youth when it shuts the door of opportunity. Every youth must be provided with opportunity to work at useful service if we expect a return on the tax money spent for the education of youth. If private industry does not provide this opportunity, then the state should make such opportunity for every youth. Youth has as much right to a job as to an education. Failure to provide the job is not

a useful contribution to society then |-

merely the loss of the youthful individual, it is society's loss and society pays dearly for its failure to provide work opportunity in a healthy environment, and at interesting creative labor. Youth rebels with crime at society, because society is ignoring the rights of youth to find useful and interesting opportunity to work. " Why should not the state assume responsibility to create this opportunity to work as well as an education? Failure costs us many billions in crime. Save these billions and save youth by setting up a system that will give every youth his right to contribute to society's well being. Let society meet youth with a sane program, that will give every youth a job now. . " on o

“DEMAGOGUE,” WRITER SAYS OF COUGHLIN By W. Weiland

What does the demagogue Coughlin mean when he speaks of “driving the money changers from the temple?” My dictionary gives the definition of temple as “an edifice for the worship of a diety.” Does that have any connection with government? In case some of his followers do not like the title demagogue, I will give the definition from my dictionary, “A popular and factious orator, especially one who inveighs against constituted authority.” Surely this title is very mild in comparison with the one he applied to the President.

SHORT

BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY There they go—! - Where's the fire? I don't know! Why the ire? Well, my friend, It’s like this, Ere long the end Will be and miss Will I the spark and crackle and smell If I stop here and try you to tell.

" DAILY THOUGHT

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.— James 1:4. .

ATIENCE and time do more than strength or passion.—La Fontaine.

SIDE GLANC

ES By George Clarke

from

Indiana

ERNIE PYLE

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

WIFT CURRENT, Sask. Sept. 2. —The gray, rocky gravel was | thick and loose, and it was hard to | keep a car in the road. The dust

was enormous. It choked you, like forest fire smoke.

The fellow was pushing a peculiar | three-wheeled bicycle contraptionwhen we passed him. His blue flannel shirt was a layer of dust. He looked as if he couldn't push much farther. He spoke as though English were hard for him. His name was Joseph Fontaine. A French-Canadian, born in Montreal. At 17 he enlisted from Montreal in the Canadian army. He served on the Western Front, and with the army of occupation. He was gassed, and acquired the beginnings of arthritis. # He came back and was a driller in the mines, until he had to give it up. because of the arthritis. He was a brakeman on the railroad, and had to quit that, too. He is 39 now, but looks older. For some time he has been on re= lief in Montreal. He draws $3.75 a month pension from the govern=ment. The winters are cold in Montreal, and there isn't much there that Joseph Fontaine can do. So, he does not exactly know why, he decided to go to Vancouver, clear across the continent. 8 2 = : HEN I overtook him pushing his big tricycle on the prairie, he had been on the road three months. Six more weeks and he will be in VancouVer—he hopes. “Wouldn't it have been better to hitch-hike?” I asked. “Well, I expect to stay there, and I wanted to ‘bring all my clothes and things with me,” bicycle, with its trunk attachment, weighs 300 pounds. He had $4.50 when he started.” He made about $20 in Ontario picking blueberries. Over east, when he would get ready to camp for the night, somebody would always come out and invite him in. But -out here it's 10 miles between houses, and there aren't many French people, so he sleeps alongside the road most every night. He collapsed once from the heat, and was carried to a hospital unconscious. Once a truck took him and his bicycle and hauled him 60 miles. Once he pushed 60 miles before he could get a patch for a flat tire.

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E tried working in the grain fields out here, sh8cking oats. But he had never done that before, and he was slow. So all the farmer gave him for a whole morning's work was his lunch. He starts early in the morning, and stops at dark. -His biggest day was 50 miles, and his smallest 25. He doesn't know. what he’llr do when he gets to Vancouver. That's too far away. He can't pedal with the balls of his feet, on accounit of his arthritis. Has to get the pedal up under the arch. Out on these gravel roads he can’t pedal the thing at all, and has to get off and push. He'll be pushing it most -of the way irom here to the coast. : Joseph Fontaine is down in the mouth. He isn’t an educated man. I doubt .that he spends much thought on why things are the way they are. To Joseph Fontaine life is just a long way to Vancouver, and the way {s soft and gravelly and a man

gets lonesome out here on the vast prairies.

Today’s Science

BY SCIENCE SERVICE.

A FEW years ago metal, wood ceramics, rubber, concrete and stone comprised the list of common materials in everyday use. Chemistry has added another class of widely used materials: Plastics. Every day nearly every American

of some sort. .An electric switch, a . button on your clothes, an automobile part, jewelry, or a knife handle; these and a thousand other things are made of materials that have come out of the lahoratory in a few years. Some of the trade names used for plastic are: Bakelite, celluloid, beetleware, cellophane. 2 Gordon M. Kline of the National Bureau of Standards desgribes four principal types of organic plastics. 1. Synthetic resins have been produced having the hardness of - stone, the transparency of glass, the f flexibility of rubber, or the insulat- | ing ability of mica. In combination . | with suitable fillers, they are readily | molded into products characterized by excellent strength, light weight, dimensional stability, and resistance to moisture, moderate heat, sun- | light, and other. deteriorating face

| tors. | 2. Natural resins are more fa- | miliarly known by their common names, such as shellac, rosin, . asphalt, and pitch, than by propri=_ etary names attached by mahufac-" turers to molding compositions pre= pared from them. They are used in industry for the production of the fusible type of molded product.

3. The cellulose derivatives are a

probably the most widely used and best known of any of these materials. To this group belong celluloid and other cellulose nitrate plastics; cellulose acetate commoniy used in the celanese type of rayon and as a substitute for the slightly less expensive nitrated product when none: : flammability is desired; and regen-_ erated cellulose familiar as cello-+

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oughly kneaded into a which is then formed into sheets,

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handles or uses an organic plastic

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