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MONDAY, MAY, 23, 1938

HITLER: MADMAN OR SANE , N July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary presented Serbia with an ultimatum of a nature unparalleled up to that time in modern history. She demanded nothing less than the right to meddle in and directly supervise the domestic affairs of her little neighbor. Today, history seems about to repeat. Only this time Germany, having absorbed what was left of Austria, is playing the bully while Czechoslovakia appears in the role of Serbia. Europe, therefore, is back where it was in July, 1914. Like Serbia nearly a quarter of a century ago, Czechoslovakia today seems disposed to yield on every point save where yielding would destroy her sovereignty. And Hitler if he is wise, will be satisfied with that as more than his due. If he is mad, however, he may send his troops crashing across the frontier where, reports state, some 400,000 welltrained Czechs are waiting in fortified positions of defense. And a new war, most likely a general European war, will be on. Unlike Austria, Czechoslovakia will fight. And France, and perhaps the Soviet Union and Britain, will march with her. Today the German Fuehrer holds the peace of Europe in his hand more completely than Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Francis Joseph held it in their hands on that fateful July day 24 years ago. If he repeats their blunder, Europe will know it has to deal with one of the most dangerous madmen in history.

INVENTORY TIME—FOR THE NEW DEAL HE net of last week's two bitter primaries was comfort for a party which has worn the sackcloth of failure and eaten the ashes of defeat, hangover of hatred among the Democrats provides the Republicans with the first hope they have had since impotence overtook them with the coming of the New Deal. Pennsylvania's successful Democratic candidate for the United States Senate finds his victory chilled by the fact that he is but a few short leaps ahead of a grand jury. So many ugly charges are in the aftermath as to cause coyness even in John L. Lewis, now noncommittal as to whether in Pennsylvania he will support the New Deal in November, or go back to the Republican old love which held him in the Hoover days. In Oregon the winner, Mr. Hess, in his first statement rather plaintively expresses the wish that his party, now as full of scars as a chopping block, will “go down the line in November.” The significant fact politically is that the new hope for the Republicans arises altogether by family warfare in the opposition, not from any constructive accomplishment within the G. O. P. itself. We hate to think of what such a Republican old guard leadership as that now controlling Pennsylvania would do, if put once more in power, to what Mr. Roosevelt has accomplished. So we think this a time for the Administration to take inventory, to consider the dangers of divide and rule in politics, and to devise ways to guard against further spread of civil strife within the party.

PLAY BALL

ROM Huntington, W. Va., comes a story of a young baseball player haled before Police Judge J. J. N. Quinlan, charged with taking a punch at the umpire. “Tell me about it, son,” said the Judge. “I was at bat, your honor,” said the ball player. “The pitch was wide. A strike was called. The argument followed.” “Case dismissed,” said the judge. “It is the inalienable right of a baseball player to get mad and have a fight with

the umpire.” » » » J ” »

Chief Justice Hughes made a fine speech in Washington the other cay in which he paid tribute to the spirit of “the just judge.” Here, it seems to us, is a case of a jurist who tempered justice with that combination of realism and humor that Here is a judge who, in a lightning-flash

spells wisdom.

decision from the bench, revealed knowledge and under- |

standing of, sympathy for, and faith in, the more, folkways and manners of the American people. Indeed, in holding unassailable the ball player's one recourse to the arbitrary rule that the umpire has the last word, this judge, we venture to say, demonstrated to the country a comprehensive grasp of what jurists are pleased to call “the great body of the law.”

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT A NEW technique in statecraft is gradually emerging in Washington. It's the absent treatment. Last year Vice President Garner got so hot under the collar about the court-packing plan that he turned in his gavel and skipped off to Uvalde to hibernate while Congress wrestled with its problems. Now another unreconstructed Democrat, Senator Carter Glass, has decided Congress is doing so many things he doesn’t like that he'll just pack up and go home to Lynchburg. We can appreciate the impulses which actuated both of these venerable and lovable statesmen. But we wish they'd let us in on the secret of how to get paid for doing nothing.

A MOUTHFUL “NTATIONAL responsibility for the national economy was not assumed until 1933, and our Government must improve its methods, its personnel, its understanding of

business problems; must cut its red tape; must find admin- |

istrators rather than world-savers; must make its regulations at once simple, certain and flexible.” A New Dealer said that, and it is a mouthful. A. A. Berle Jr., Assistant Secretary of State, got to the real root of much trouble in his speech to the convention of Supply und Machinery Associ gions at Pittsburgh.

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By Westbrook Pegler

II Duce Gets Recommendations on How to Aid the Black Shirts When They're at Full Speed in Reverse.

EW YORK, May 23.-—-Confidential memorandum from the general officer commanding Il Duce Mussolini's invincible legions in Spain— Duce! As commanding officer of the irresistible hordes who have been enforcing your inflexible will in Spain I have the honor to submit recommendations based on the practical lessons of the glorious events at

Guadalajara. First, I earnestly recommend that, in the interests of economy and efficiency, your invincible legions henceforth be armed with wooden or papier= mache rifles, tin pea-shooters or some other weapon of purely nominal type and of the cheapest materials and construction. The piece at present issued to your valiant Black Shirts is an expensive and dangerous incumbrance. It is too costly to be thrown away in vast numbers when your heroes start advancing to the rear with the utmost rapidity and too heavy to permit the development of maximum speed. ( ® Ww =» ECOND, T urge, oh Duce, that our general stafl begin experimenting with roads made of cork or some springly composition used in the construction of indoor running tracks. Runners performing on this type of track can save one-tenth of a second in every hundred yards, True, our contemptible enemies will try to retreat on our heels, but they will be running in hobnailed field shoes of clumsy type, whereas, I recommend that the servants of your irresistible determination be equipped with featherweight track shoes. Moreover, oh Duce, I propose that our engineers prepare a variety of misleading highway signs, or markers, to be posted at intersections along the line of our dashing charge to the rear. These signs, or markers, should read, “Il Duce's irresistible hosts went this way 10 minutes ago; weather clear, track fast”, “No use pursuing Il Duce's unconquerables this way, they turned sharp left,” and “Pedestrian traffic forbidden.” Third, I recommend the organization of a flypaper company as a unit of each regiment to unroll sheets of sticky paper on the highways, after our in-

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~ OURTH, oh Duce, I call attention to the fect that our comrades in the Rome-Berlin axis are | now sitting right on top of us and that they are | exceedingly tough mugs, who have sworn to anschluss all their minorities and therefore probably will steal back the 250000 captive Heinies in our Tyrol one of | these days. When this happens your invincible ranks | will not only need all their speed but should be provided with adequate springboard facilities at Brin- | disi, on the Adriatic, and at points on the Ionian Sea. | With proper facilities and adequate training they should be able to dive clear over into Albania or Greece or half-way to Libia in one graceful leap. And finally, oh Duce, I urgently propose that you use your influence to compel the civilized nations of | the world to use silent guns and shells, as the present | equipment makes a terribly loud noise—"“Bang! Bang! Bang!” all the time—and makes vour invincible legions so nervous that they are not able to do full Justice to your inflexible will.

Business By John T. Flynn

With Pennsylvania Primary Over, 1940 Battle Begins to Take Shape.

EW YORK, May 23. — What has happened in Pennsylvania is the result of the impact of poli- | tics, business and economics. There is a very profound economic problem in | Pennsylvania. It grows out of coal, There is a vast | population which depends on coal for a living. It | has never—save at intervals—gotten much of a living |

| out of coal, particularly soft coal.

The workers in coal have been organized for | years, but in industrial unions using industrial and | economic pressures to better their condition. Five years ago they decided to go into politics. They went in on the Democratic side. There is no doubt that for a while they did pretty well out of that bargain. Wages were raised and work was more plentiful because of the increased buying power created by public spending. John L. Lewis is criticized as a man with a personal ambition—to be President. It is not of course | a disreputable ambition. There is no reason why a labor leader should not be President any more than that a labor leader should not be premier of England, as has happened. But the whole United Miners movement cannot be dismissed merely because John

On the whole the political record of the mine |

workers’ leaders in Pennsylvania is somewhat better

than some of the gentiemen with whom they teamed | up. Those gentlemen represent the political side of the alliance. Contracts for Government work and huge corporation work have been one of the fat oysters of Pennsylvania. There have always been four or five big contractor firms which have flourished in this way. Oddly, when the New Deal cohorts got under way in Pennsylvania. these same contractors turned up in positions of power in the Democratic organization.

An Unholy Alliance

Then there were the politicians. The whole army | was marched under flaming banners proclaiming | great social aims. But behind the banners were |

| great groups of politicians and businessmen looking

out for what they could get. It was an unholy alliance from the beginning and

was destined to break up at the first real test. But |

| out of the situation comes one of the most serious |

questions now confronting the public. What will | labor do? Will this crisis mark the beginning of its | with the Democrats? Will other states now | attempt to follow suit and cast out the C. I. O. from | its political life? Tt is not to be supposed that or-| ganized labor will just quit as a political force. will | It mean that the C. I. O. will be driven to being a | political unit seeking, not power, but the balance of | power? From this point on the battle of 1940 begins to take definite shape.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

BRIGHT New York miss has started a business called “1001 Services, Inc.” which promises to be a big success. She is a sort of glorified Odd Job Gal, willing to turn her hand or brain to anything

the customer may desire. She takes dogs for strolls, teaches children to ride their bikes, shops for timid ladies, provides a fourth at bridge, makes theater reservations, or reads to your sick friends. If you're hunting for something new under the sun, the last mite fills the bill, One ‘wonders a little about the feelings of the hospital-imprisoned friend when a stranger appears, announcing herself as a substitute for old chum Mrs. Busy Bee, who is unable to do the kind service herself and has hired somebody to read aloud to the dear invalid. You know exactly how it is. One day you pick up your paper and see news of the serious illness of someone you once loved very much. “I must be sure to go around and inquire about her,” vou admonish yourself. Next day's paper carries a notice of the death. For a brief moment sadness and remorse overwhelm you; but having an important committee meeting you rush to the telephone and order expensive flowers, promising yourself to show up at the funeral. You don't. “One thing is certain,” you say to yourself: “I'll take time off next week to visit the family.” But time whizzes by, and next comes a card of thanks for your sympathy and flowers. Into the wastebasket it goes, a sigh for its dirge. Too bad! You honestly meant to do the decent thing that once. Only vou didn’t. High-greared life held you back. Again conscience takes the count and a friend has slipped away forever, Perhaps “1001 Services, Inc.” will soon

vv mourners for funerals,

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"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Heathen Chinee! —By Talburt

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MONDAY, MAY 28, 1938

The Hoosier Forum

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

PROPHECY MAY COME TRUE, READER THINKS

By 1. O'R. Not long ago, the clangor of shells reached Shanghai and” the dead | filled the gutters. Not long ago, the old walls of Peiping were split with modern artillery. Not long ago over Nanking's rooftops, planes brought tons of sudden death, first gift of | the new imperialism for its in- | habitants. And last week ancient Suchow was flattened by the tide of war, Now, the United Press reports a story of retaliation-——an almost in- | credible story. Chinese bombers roared thousands of miles across the Yellow Sea, and for the first time in history bombed Japan. But the planes brought no high explosives, only pamphlets saying: | “The people of China have no quarrel with the people of Japan... .” Can this gesture fail to give a small pause to those who have heen hypnotized by the sound of drums and marching feet, and in that | small pause cannot those words, | spoken so prophetically 2000 years ago, be heard— “The meek earth.”

shall inherit the

» n ”n THINKS F. D. R. TOOK WISE STAND ON PHOSPHORUS By T. E. The message on the phosphate | situation, which President Roose- | velt announced he was planning 10 | weeks ago, has now reached Con- | gress. And the country, although it may not have awaited this mes- | sage with bated breath, can find interest and importance in what the President says. Phosphorus, without which plants can't grow or human beings live, is constantly being removed from the soil. It must be replaced. The | source of new phosphorus is phos=- | phate rock. Our country’s known supply of this rock is 7,200,000.0600 | tons—42 per cent of the world’s | total. Nine per cent of our supply | is in Florida and Tennessee, most | of the rest in far Western states | and much of it on

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Government | land. | Mr. Roosevelt was wise in recom- | mending that Congress name a | committee to study the subject and report next session. For, necessary as it is to conserve the phosphate supply, and desirable as Government control of phos- | phorus may prove to be, this is not | more urgent problems. At the present rate of use, and with present methods of production, our known supply of phosphate rock would last for 2000 years or more, The rate of use should be increased, and production methods should |

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improved, to avoid present waste. But this, certainly, is one matter on | which we can afford to move slowly | enough to be certain we're right be- | fore we go too far. It is not impossible, however, that

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| historians of one or two thousand

years hence may record the phos-

| phate message as one of the most

important, state papers of our times that Franklin D. Roosevelt may be remembered then, not as the originator of the New Deal, but as the President who made the first move to save phosphorus for future

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Ww Ww LAUDS VANNUYS FOR STAND ON NOMINATING METHODS

'By a Progressive

Three cheers for Senator VanNuys, who announced his opposition to the convention system of electing Senators and Governors and advo-

| cated subjecting such candidacies to | the primaries. The Pennsylvania primaries]

showed conclusively that voters at large are eminently capable of selecting their own leaders. If we could abolish the ancient and outmoded convention system, it would not only give us a more direct voice

{ in such matters in consonance with

our democratic ideals, but would also do away with most of the crooked, shameful and cheap politidealing among delegates and political bosses which is now prac-

ticed. » ” ”

| SAYS COURT DELAYS

ARE EXPENSIVE By B. C, With Uncle Sam laying out quite a piece of change for a Tennessee Valley investigation this summer, news comes that constitutionality of the whole Tennessee Valley Authority may be reviewed by the U. S. Supreme Court next fall. Yes, that's right: Next fall. The decision last winter merely upheld the right of TVA to sell power generated at Wilson Dam; this new

PEACEFUL SLUMBER

By ROBERT O. LEVELL

I enjoy the peac>ful slumber, When night time is here for me; For it's then I am contented, For the while my mind is free.

DAILY THOUGHT

And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeved my voice in all that I commanded you.--Joshua 22:2.

BEDIENCE to truth known is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.—Aeschylus.

case would cover the whole business, This means that while the investigation may give TVA a clean bill, the possibility remains that the high court will kick the props out from under the entire works. All of which seems to argue against the present expensive delays in the American system of judicial review. The TVA litigation has been kicking around in the { lower courts for years. The theory | that time is needed to gain proper perspective still holds. But most taxpayers are likely to think that | the perspective comes pretty dear,

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ou ” n TRIBUTE 1S PAID MRS. ESHBACH | By Friends Mrs. Estella E. Eshbach, who recently passed away, was endowed by nature with a superior mind which she cultivated assiduously throughout her whole life. She was | capable of unusual understanding [and human sympathies. A gentle[woman in every sense, gracious and (kind, she was faithful to all the tasks assigned to her, and inspired [other women to forget their timor- | ous fears and to do and dare, | She was devoted to club work in | Indiana and had held many offices lin both the state and local Federa- | tion of Club, which felt the touch [of her guiding hand and appreciat|ed her wise council, Serving in many responsible positions in the Woman's Department | Club of Indianapolis of which she was a life member, her judgment was always honored and respected. She was very active in the radium fund campaign of the Seventh District Federation of Clubs in 1936 by which $8000 worth of radum was | purchased for use at the City Hos- | pital. Mrs, Eshbach was imbued with {the idea that the wealth ‘of a city | is to a large degree governed by Foe health conditions, and the opportunities it offers for normal wholesome life, with physical and economic security. To that end she gave both her mental and physical strength for a period of more than 20 years to the Public Health Nursing Association of our City, serving at all times without remuneration. She was an expert accountant and served many years as treasurer of the organization. Her records always received most favorable comment, from both the bank auditing the books and the budget committee of tne Community Fund. Her never-failing interest in the organization was a constant growth of service to the community. It was her desire there be no funeral or flowers but that her many friends who wished to pay tribute to her memory give their donations, be they ever so small, to the Public Health Nursing Association, which administers what is known as a Memorial Fund by using the interest on $100 each to pay for the services of a nurse for a day in its activities.

UNE STORY OF MEREDITY.., THE MIMS |

DICK. I'M JUST CRAZY TO TAKE IT!

A SCIENTIST ME SINTER TO

YOUR, OPINION

THE notion that “love” and [ “instinct” will enable young people to pick out the right mates gets & jolt when we find that one |

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riage out of six ends in divorce. This means that others out of the six are at least unhappy. Young people should be taught what to

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

look for in a mate in high school. The family tree should be carefully inspected to see what sort of fruit it had borne in the past. » n ” DWIGHT MOODY had that rarest thing in the world—not | altogether learning or knowledge but wisdom. It is found only in men’s heads and there are very few such heads. I think every sincere person will answer this question just as Moody answered it. Our troubles are nearly all “with ourselves and not with other selves. If we can only make ourself behave there won't be mutch trouble in getting other selves to behave, too. » ” ” THE unit of measure of the loudness of sounds is called a “decibel.” Normal hearing persons can hear another's voice best when it is 38 decibels above the “thresh- | old"—~the point where they | barely hear any sound. Dr. Noble | Kelley, of Iowa University, has | found that hard-of-hearing persons | hear best when the other person's voice is only 20 to 23 decibels above the hearing “threshold.” Thus, we [usually talk too loud to such persons. Normal-hearing people have greatest difficulty hearing consonants, but hard-of-hearing people hear vowels and consonants équally well,

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Gen. Johnson Says—

It's Foolish to Suppose Farley,

_On His Own Steam, Stuck His Head Into the Pennsylvania Steel Trap.

ASHINGTON, May 23.--It is silly to suppose that Jim Farley, on his own steam, was saj enough to stick his head into the Pennsylvania stee trap at the last minute and take the risk of supporting one C. I. O. candidate, Tom Kennedy, and opposing the other on some theory of pleasing both the Democratic organization and the C. I. O, Neither would Mr. Farley earlier have backed into the New York situation so awkwardly, if left to him« self. Jim knows his politics too well. But he is no longer taking steps on his own motion, he takes them when Tommy Corcoran commands. Tommy is smart but he lacks political experience and he has another purpose. He never picked an outside chance two years before a national convention and guided him to two overwhelming elections, as Mr, Farley did. But as an architect of the third New Deal, Mr. Corcoran insists on saying who shall represent it in Congress. ® ww w R. FARLEY'S job and inclination are to try to build his party to its greatest strength in the various states and Congressional districts, Therefore, he never tries to dictate candidates to the local organ« izations, who may split the party, In Mr. Corcoran’s strategy, this is merely incidental to a fiercer purpose to get Congressmen who will vote as Mr. Corcoran savs they must vote, and to punish all those who do not, In the first test of Mr, Corcoran’s where there was a real contest, it didn't work. If the State of Pennsylvania is lost to the Democrats, they can thank Mr, Corcoran for it-—almost exclusively, In the State of Iowa, the Corcoran black bean has been handed to Senator Gillette who was elected for two years in 1936, He voted against the Court Bill, Mr. Corcoran says he must go and has pushed Rep, Wearin into the race against him. Mr, Farley would never have invited such a split, Agricultural Towa, a traditionally Republican state, is temporarily Democratic with its tongue in its cheek and only by virtue of Mr. Wallace's gentle rain of checks. Mr, Corcoran may here turn in another Pennsylvania, ® ww = HERE could possibly be such a thing as an ine ternal explosion. Mr. Farley is a good soldier but he is also a pure-blooded Irishman and there is a limit to the length to which that breed can be booted. Tt is conceivable that instead of allowing himself to be forced by unofficial advisers to say what he does not think and do what he does not approve, he might say: “This is my show and while I am here I will run it.” Just at this stage of the game it is doubtful whether they would dare to jettison Jim. To do so would surely cause a split in the so-called party on the eve of an election, Of course, they would get him later--say a month or two after the elections. Jim would find himself with so many stilettos of third New Deal apostate Re« publicans and other insiders sticking out of his sturdy shoulders that he would look like a pin-cushion When, and if he goes, it will be with a record of useful, faithful and able party service which has few parallels. Not only did he put Mr. Roosevelt where ha is. but he has taken more raps for his king than a whipped boy.

The Liberal View

By Harry Elmer Barnes

policy in a state

Recent Policies of Great Britain Seen as Futile in Checking Hitler.

NY YORK, May dismissal of Ethiopia's claims

Nations gives special timeliness to the article by Lionel

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Gelber on “How to Stop Hitler” in the Living Age,

He is a realistic English publicist who fully recognizes the futility and danger involved in the recent

foreign policy of Britain. Mr. Gelber makes it clear that the successive Tory surrenders to Hitler and his expansionist program constitute an alarming menace to the traditional policies and interests of Britain in Europe. If Hitler is allowed to continue along his present lines, noth= ing less than the complete destruction of the European balance of power can result. In the first place, Germany must get control of central and southeastern Europe before she will be in a position to dare risk a test of arms with Russia, In other words, German power must be extended sufficiently to menace western Europe very seriously before there is any chance of her moving against Russia. Then, if there does not happen to be a Russo-German war, France and England can only cringe before Germany, which utterly dominates the European continent outside of Russia. In the second place, Soviet Russia may be too slick to act as Britain's sucker by taking on Germany in a war to render the world safe for the British Empire. If so, Germany could go ahead and gobble up central and southeastern Europe without ever coming to blows with Russia.

Russo-German Agreement Possible

Moreover, it is not impossible that Russia may come to an understanding with. Hitler, in spite of all the bluster of Hitler's anti-Communistic propaganda, There are powerful elements in Germany who favor a Russo-German agreement, In either case, the results would be fatal to western Europe and to British foreign policy. The balance of power in Europe would be gone forthwith, « It is the conclusion of Mr. Gelber that the only sane foreign policy for Britain is to stand firmly with France and Russia against further German aggression in Czechoslovakia and southeastern Europe, Along with this procedure she should make minor concessions to Mussolini's prestige, particularly by conceding him clear title to Ethiopia. This would be a small and unimportant, price to pay for the first step in seriously weakening the Rome-Berlin axis. Now that Mussolini has to worry about the Brenner Pasa he is not likely to wish to place all his eggs in the Nazi basket. Only by following such a program, Mr, Gelber believes, ‘can Britain build a dam strong enough to halt the flood of German conquest,”

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

OWADAYS we recognize that many diseases are definitely associated with industries, some of which have developed rapidly--in fact, so rapidly that there has hardly been time to recognize the nature of the hazards. In an industry like the citrus industry, for instance, the work begins with the planting of the seeds for root stocks, and proceeds to the point where the fruit is ‘removed, packed and ultimately reaches the consumer. Since the skin is the portion of the body most, often in contact with extraordinary substances, most of the disturbances of the body in the citrus ine dustry are related to the skin of the worker, In the preparation of the orange for the market it has to be washed, dried and packed. Sometimes oranges are precolored by the use of ethylene gas. Oranges and grapefruits are also dyed to give a yellow color, because consumers are inclined to think that the more yellow the orange, the more ripe and ready for eating. These methods applied to oranges are all in the interest of a better product. In the industry it is possible for the worker to protect himself against the insecticides and chemicals by wearing suitable gloves and by washing the hands thoroughly after working with the chemicals. These chemicals in the case of the orange do not constitute a hazard to the user, Another step in the citrus industry is to wax the fruit. This keeps it from drying out. The consumer need not worry about the waxing of the peel or about any of the other hazards to the skin that have been mentioned. In the preparation of oranges for the table, it is necessary to make oertain that the hands are not un duly irrighted by the secretions from the peel,