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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939

WHERE IS OUR DELEGATION?

; HERE can be little doubt that the city manager resolups tion is being deliberately stalled in the Senate so that “2 it will be killed in the coming legislative jam. 3% No other conclusion is possible from the tactics being “% uysed. The House has passed it, but the Senate, which "received it two weeks ago, is booting it around in committee again in a iashion that can leave no doubt as to the intent of its enemies. . ’ Where has our Indianapolis Senate delegation been while this has been going on? What has Senator White, president pro tem., been doing to get action on a proposal . that Indianapolis wants? And Senator Weiss, who is chair- © man of the committee holding the bill? And Senators Hen- * dricks, Portteus and Sexton? \ Speak out, gentlemen!

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DANGEROUS PRACTICE

HE indictment of a former convict yesterday in connection with the Romig slaying on Jan. 17 brings to light and-dangetous practice the Indianapolis Police

it mofe impressive, the dharge is “mental vagrancy.” pound the police station, they say just plain “vag.”

: It could include thé ordinary citizen as easily as a mur“der suspect or a pickpocket. And that is the dangerous part. If a citizen sassed a policeman, it would be just as easy for “the officer to hold him on a “vagrancy” count as it was to "hold the Romig suspect for nine days. There was the case 2 not so long ago of a woman held seven months on a non- * “existent “mental vagrancy” charge. The Legislature ought to change this slip-shod system. And quickly. If a man is a suspected murderer or crook or ‘footpad, then the police should be able to use a proper and appropriate charge against him—not one that may wipe ..# civil liberties off the books.

"A CENTURY OF RUBBER

T wds of the discoveries of Columbus but, as its name indicates, a long, long time went by before anyone sus- *~ pected that it might be used for any purpose except to rub * out lead-pencil marks. Just 100 years ago, Charles Goodyear, experimenting in the bare kitchen of his home at Woburn, Mass., hit by accident on the process that has “ made rubber one of man’s most useful servants. |. Now in Akron, greatest center of the modern rubber industry, they are celebrating the centennial of vulcanization. And a nation which goes about its work and play

= today on 120,000,000 rubber tires has good reason to join:

in the celebration. : Like many another inventor, Mr. Goodyear didn’t real"ize that he was doing something revolutionary when he *" began his attempts to convert soft rubber into a wearresisting substance. When he dropped one of his com- = pounds on the hot kitchen stove, one day, he expected it to “! “ melt or burn. Instead, it merely charred and became tough, _! * but retained its flexibility even when exposed to the cold .. of a New England winter. : And even months later, when he had worked out defi- . ‘nite chemical and heat formulas and developed a product for commercial use, the poverty-stricken inventor could not : 3 have foreseen what was to come of all his patient efforts. Ll loday, great plantations in the:-iropics of the whole world produce more than a million tons of raw rubber each year. In America alone the industry employs more than a © million people. Without vulcanized rubber the vast devel- _ opment of the automobile industry would have been imi" possible. Its uses are! so many and so varied that civilization itself may almost be said to be dependent on rubber.

BAIL “GUIDANCE” FOR YOUTH : .: PERHAPS we're all wrong about it, but we can’t help 10 feeling that some fine people, inspired by the best possible motives, are doing a mighty doubtful service to the © young folks of America. . We're thinking specifically of a speech made by Dr. *" Charles Hubbard Judd of the National Youth Administra- + tion at a Washington meeting under auspices of the Alli- ~ =: ance for the Guidance of Rural Youth. It seems to us typical of a good many NYA utterances. Dr. Judd states the undeniable truth that society should be concerned for the welfare of rural youth. He goes on to a “realistic” appraisal of ryral youth’s difficulties in getting guidance in the selection of occupations, and mL urges that young people who plan to leave the country * should be told “how much of a struggle they will encounter” © in the cities. : We didn’t hear Dr. Judd deliver his speech. We read _-it in a “release” sent to the newspapers by the NYA. And we find ourselves wondering what impression it will leave with rural youths who happen to read it. : The impression we think it is likely to leave is that ~ country boys and girls are terribly handicapped; that their own efforts probably won’t save them from being “unadjusted, unhappy and unfortunate,” and that the best hope # for them is to look to the Government as an agency of ~ public service which should assist them “at every point.” ; - . As we've said, we may be mistaken. Maybe it’s kinder and better to get away from the old commencement ad-.-dress style of oratory which encouraged youth to believe . itself “ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.” Young 4 people who are told that the world is not their oyster may _ be saved some bitter disappointments. If they don’t try to ¢limb, they can’t fall far. But, somehow, we still feel that there have been times when youth’s opportunities were just about as hard to find *as they are now. And we think it may have been just as well that, in those times, there were no NYA speakers to e youth feel even more discouraged itdid.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Official Fascist mentator Has Softest Job in * Journalism, but

NTEW YORK, Feb. 21.—The softest job in all jouralism is that of Virginio Gayda, the official commentator of the Journal of Italy in Rome, who enjoys

American professional editorial writer because Musso= lini has made a public figure and lowercase dignitary of a hack who otherwise might never have risen above the mass of crummy moochers, typical of Italian journalism. | They are, as a tribe, the most contemptible menials of the whole breed of Fascist parasites who live by the nod, for Italian journalism, when free, was opinionated and daring, and most of those who took service with the Duce sold their manhood for job security, pensions and other bribes. § Mussolini himself, who has taken the measure of their character in fiat money of his own issue, naturally loathes them. He has a right to his contempt, for when he was a journalist himself, he fought authority, sneered in the face of poverty and risk and couldn't be bought. He knows their price, and he knows that, having sold out to him, they would sell out again to Balbo or any other promising rival. » t 4 2 3

E has the same opinion of those nominal AmerH icans who publish Italian papers here in which Americanism is sold out to fascism for pats on the back from a hand that any time may hold a knife. He has far greater respect for men who were beaten to death by his gangs than for party journalists who joined him for money that he created by telling the printer to turn the crank. :

less and impersonal, and, though he may take ar-

ments which he has written for hire, and disown compliments to them. He still may refuse to dine with the boss. Gayda, however, not only writes to orders but accepts the paltry celebrity in which it is necessary to invest him for reasons of diplomatic evasion. He writes with no special skill or other distinction, but with effrontery and efficient obedience to instructions from the boss or Ciano, and is thrown into prominence in- Italy and abroad only because it is desired to present the informal insults of the Fascist Government in the guise of independent observations by an individual. = ° : » EF ”

HE Nazis have nothing quite like him, and the Russians, who did have a Gayda, found it necessary to liquidate theirs last year, whether by shooting or rustication to Siberia one does not know. | Our own New Deal has several stout’ kiver-to-kiver men, but they are not Gayda’s, being New Dealers by conviction and financially independent of the regime, although their copy, at times, bears a resemblance to Gayda’s in furious devotion to propositions which they themselves prove wrong by every argument offered to prove them right. ‘ In reading Gayda's copy it is advisable to ignore the man’s name and regard it as the policy of the Pascis vernment toward this country. He is inifig, belNcose, and, just now, through him, Mussois ting to separate the American people , as Woodrow Wilson tried to distinguish between - the German people and the Kaiser. It may be preliminary to an attempt to free us.

Business By John T. Flynn

Several Things Yet Unrevealed in

EW YORK, Feb. 21.—There has been so mucn flowing out of Washington about the incident of the President’s action in aiding a French mission to buy warplanes in the United States that some of the rea: meaning of the episode has been lost. ‘First of all, the question arose as to how far ihe French would be permitted to buy planes which contained new secret American military features. The second question was how far French orders would he permitted to get in the way of orders for ‘American planes if Congress should authorize g large building program. > The President took the position that haste in American production was of the first importance. 'Notwithstanding this, the President, over the protests of the Chief of Staff of the Army, gave the French a goahead order through the Treasury. At this point another feature enters the picture. Senaturs—or some of them on the Military Affairs Committee—believed that the President had been advised by some of his intimates to rush American orders for war planes with the full drive of the Army and Governinent behind it so as to be in a position to release these planes to France in the event war breaks out this spring or summer.

Suspicion Further Aroused

About that time the President sent to the House leaders a request for an immediate appropriation for building American planes. This added to the suspicion of the Senators. They had not been told of the secret “30-ahead” given the French Commission to inspect American military plane secréts or to rush orders. Nor did they know of the overruling of the Army chiefs. They took the position that it is one thing for private munitions makers to negotiate with France and sell to her; it is quite a different thing for the American President to do this. It is out of this collection of facts that the anger of the Senators was steamed up when the President called his famous secret conclave with the Senate Military Affairs Committee. . Now part of this story has been confirmed—namely, Secretary Morgenthau has testified that the President had gone over the Army heads and intervened to deal with the French through the Treasury Department. Two other matters remain to be confirmed. Did the President say “our frontier is in Eastern France”? Did he plan to push orders for American planes to be released to the French Army later? What else did he say at the secret meeting which so aroused the fears of the Senators? :

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs, Walter Ferguson

FY mail is the thermometer used by a columnist to test the temperature of g part of the reading public. Judging from mine, the war fever is growing.

But I'm happy to report that my correspondents are aghinst it—and hotly so. Quotations from two sources—both feminine—ars typical: “Will American women allow their country to be dragged into another war? Can’t we get together and do something to halt this mounting stupidity?” oS ’ : : And again: “It terrifies me to see how the ‘war-is-inevitable’ idea is growing. Will thosé who oppose it

become as timorous as they did before the last tidal wave?” !

That’s what they're saying—these mothers, They aren’t taking calmly to the notion that- Uncle Sam must save European democracy a second time, nor do they kelieve that the preservation of the American ideal depends on the sacrifice of the lives of their sons. + Can we do anything to prevent it? We could, I think, but won't. A sit-down strike by the ladiss at the first sign of mobilization could put a damper on the belligerency. : It may hurt your imagination to stretch it so far, but fancy the result if, when men were called to the colors, the women all decided to get back to the kitchen—where we are now told to head for by so many gentlemen. The masculine attitude at this point is strangely inconsistent. When the Dove of Peace coos throughout the land, men assume woman'’s place to be the home; but just let war get going and they yell their heads off for us to lend a hand at such

munitions making. ‘Then, when the fighting is over, they are off

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Even Duce Holds Him in Contempt.

The professional American editorial writer is self- | tistic pride in his wordage, may still detest the senti- |

Dispute Over. Sale of ‘Warplanes.

odd occupations as truck driving, van loading and

the rank and emoluments of first interpretator and} “| commentator in the Fascist press, but doesn't have to | do a lick of work at his job beyond whipping into'pop- | = which are handed to him by |. . - -| the boss. pt Sarat nk . Gayda’s job is better than: that of the anonymous

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—7Voliaire.

LIFT RESTRICTIONS ON CAPITAL, IS PLEA By H. L. Seeger y

Let’s find out why capitalism is in the doldrums. - The President’s message urging taxation of income from State and Federal bonds and State and Federal salaries, is not only a moral recognition of duties of citizens to share government cost, but provides incentive to invest profits in productive business.

. There is no “social security” for capital in a contracting economy. Decline of “capital investment” is the forerunner of disaster in a capitalistic economy. Nature demands expansion on a continuous basis as the price of survival, and this. applies to every form ° of economic production. There is no safety in investment in bonds - or mortgages if a decline of production sets in. This has not been recougnized in our statutory law, which prescribes the investment of funds of insurance corporations, banks and trust companies, savings banks, administrators, and other fiduciary organizations or agents. This fallacy has placed our whole national financial structure on a “debt obligations” basis... We are attempting to operate capitalism on an upside-down basis. Therein lies our major cause of depression, and the greatest obstacle to recovery. We have attempted to create “social security” for investment, through the imposition of restrictions as to what form of investment the bulk of our capital resources shall take. In attempting this through forced investment in debt evidences, we have crippled our economy in the necessary expansion of capital in direct ownership evidences, such as titles to real and personal property of a productive nature. There can

/be no safety in “public bond obligations” or private bond and mort-

gage obligations, unless a vastly greater proportion of our capital investment is turned into direct own.ership of property, Government is directly responsible for our present debacle in the operation of the capitalist economy. In fixing the forced investment of

in the form of ‘debt evidences, gov-

motive economy of capitalism. If we do not recognize this fallacy and

vestment we shall be faced with real recovery until we comply with state capitalism. There can be no natural law imposed on a capitalistic economy. : # » ” CITES FIGURES SHOWING VALUE OF VACCINATION By Mrs. G. L 8S, I wish to inform C, F. T. smallpox virus has never been used for vaccination. Next, prevention—guoting Cecil’s Medicine textbook, last edition, Page 46, we find . . . “that in the recent Detroit epidemic-the 10 per cent of cases which proved fatal

funds of our financial institutions:

ernment has strangled the profit|

open these funds to more direct in-

(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.)

were almost entirely among unprotected individuals. In the Philadelphia Municipal -Hospital of 4156

‘cases of smallpox there were 1906

deaths (42 per cent), while of 3043 cases of varioloid (smallpox modified by vaccination) there were 31 deaths (1.1 per cent).” Notice this is about 1-40th as many deaths among those vaccinated as among those unprotected.

Years ago complications were occasionally seen but they are rare today if not entirely absent with the modern treatment of refinement and technique. It is opinions of this type that prevent the complete eradication of certain diseases. Our entire family was vaccinated at the outbreak of this epidemic. laa a WELL, YOU CANT BLAME THE CHILDREN: By Old Timer ‘An odd little thing happened the other ‘day which, meaning nothing in itself, has a big thought behind it. A schoolteacher in Chicago showed a stalk of wheat to 206 seventh and eighth-grade pupils. Fifty-four named it correctly; 109 hadn’t the faintest idea what it was; 27 said oats; eight said rye; five allowed it might be barley; one said corn, ‘one bearded wheat, and the last one, an eighth-grade Boy Scout, thought it was a corncob.. "A whole generation of rural Americans would never have made that last mistake. : In fact, most récent population

estimates fix the farm population

of the country at 31,800,900 in 1935. That is a large number of people,

WAITING _ By MAUD WADDELL Death: stands waiting by the door, Dark his shadow streaks the floor

Near the couch of one most dear— One I love and smile to cheer.

How. loud each still minute falls! How soon Death’s cold shadow calls! : etm ————

- DAILY THOUGHT And Jehoahaz slept with his fa-

| thers; and they. buried him in

Samaria: And Joash, his son, reigned in his stead.—II Kings 13:9. .-.

E who reflects attentively upon

|but since the population of the

"|dent has had "a "log-cabin ‘back- | ground. Who will be the first Presi-

‘the is denouncing certain organiza-

‘| plan. Yet if someore I like support-

whole country is now estimated: at around 130,000,000, it is easy to see (how the man ‘of the soil has been thrust back from a majority to a minority position. Gen The traditional American Presi-

dent born in a glistening clinic and reared on the 14th floor of a bigcity apartment house? Tae = 28 = PEOPLE WILL WORK IF . GIVEN CHANCE, I5 CLAIM By Observer : : : = : : 22 ‘Every once in a while there is an impressive demonstration of the fact that most people still want to work if there is a ghost of a chance of getting a decent job. ; New York saw such a demonstration the other day. Twelve city jobs as laboratory helpers at $960 a year were open. : Four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine. women jammed the ‘288th Field Artillery Armory to apply. Some waited as long as 30 hours for a chance to get their names down on: the applications. It] took 90 ‘police to handle the long files of anxious applicants. Even at midnight of the day before applications were to be made, 230 women were on hand, hoping for priority. It is certainly true that there are some people who won't work, and who will do anything to avoid it. That has always been true. It is perhaps even true that there are more such people today than ever before, because of the depressing effects of eight years of hard times. But it is almost certainly not true that the average American has reached that stage. People who will wait 30 hours merely to apply for a chance at a $960-a-year job still are all right, oh ® 8 8 GIVES DEFINITION OF A LIBERAL By C. B. Some see a kind of inconsistency in a man’s claiming to be liberal and tolerant, while at the same time

tions (the Ku-Klux Klan, for example). for doing the very same thing. And indeed his position is somewhat hard to define... Nct all Klansmen were bigots, nor. were all who opposed them liberals. The difference is one of attitude. TLe liberal opposes organizations with words; but his opposition never extends to individuals, nor does he use, or seek to use, any sort of oercion. Perhaps I can best explain it by stating my own position. . Whenever an organized minority tries to bluff the majority, I alwys take up the cudgel. On this ground I opposed the Klan and late! r the Townsend

ed either or both, i would not affect in the slightest degree my feel-

the duties of a king, trembles at the sight of a crown.—Levis.

ing and attitude to vard him. That is why I can call niyself, a liberal.

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are so close they give a wonderful

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

™ IN THE BAT) Be 8 TY NK NO ONE CAN HEAR THEM?

proofed which would not only pre-

vent the rest of the. family—and neighbors—from he

- these hor-

noises is music.

*, |inferior, it is not for quite the same

| sonality test now being developed by

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n of irrevelant

; ® =. S IT IS CHIEFLY because: no = man—that is, no real twolegged man—likes to be outdone by a woman. Of course his ignorance makes him feel inferior with any one, but in the presence of a highly intellectual man he is likely to accept his ignorance and try to learn lall he can from the man, but not to feel inferior resentfully. If he feels

reason. In one case the factor: of sex-dominance and superiority enters, and in the othe: it does not. sv X CERTAINLY, if we stick to the definition that personality is

the extent to which we interest and influerce other people. In the per-

100 psychologists of the Psychological Corporation of America, the personalities of many high school seniors were no better than those of eighth grade pupils who had had five years less education. Indeed actually Aeteriorated in personality with more mental improvement.

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some of the high school seniors had]

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Johnson

+ Farmers of Kansas City Area Join Cotton-Growing Brethren of the ‘South in Protests Against AAA. YZ ANSAS CITY, Mo. Feb. 21.—There are a few

AN ‘mealie worms in the nation’s bread-basket. In the great agricultural empire of which Kansas City is

| the center, I hear the same rumblings against ‘AAA

that I reported a few months ago from the Southe eastern cotton and tobacco country. My native state of Kansas has gone Republican—in sentiment at least. ¢ After three bad corn crops, it wanted to turn to wheat. When it came to fry it, the AAA said ray, nay, nay. Since Kansas hadn't been raising so much ‘Wheat, the quotas were small and are growing smaller, Fangs was condemned to corn. : |, rarm prices are too low to live on except for live stock and there il ny Iver oy least i dor low. prices on other h Even the high meat prices don’t look eh Because corn for feed is cheap, farmers are going in for hogs in such a big way that next year’s piggeries will Jo turing wii pork. A glut in cattle for the ason arther away, but i [he rea y, but it is pretty apt to 2 ” ”

HE erommal Sranary” doesn’t work with live Ss . Once cattle and hogs are f you can’t keep on feeding RE Bl Bnd Anished, Another circumstance is the extent to which agrie culture has gone mechanical. Frank Langham, who used to be in the farm implement business with me still manages that same business for this territory. In discussing the line of implements, I could hardly rece ognize it. The horse-drawn part of it is reduced to almost nothing. Nearly all the tools are tractor tools, That means that one man can take care of the same land that it took two or three to till 10 years ago. “Technological” unemployment already has arrived

| in agriculture. While that makes lower costs of pro

duction, it contributes nothing to contentment in these great open spaces. : Apparently (but not actually) contradicting that is the farmers’ complaint that WPA has outbid agricule ture for such jobs as there are and they can’t get “hired men” at prices they can afford to pay. Thirty to 40 dollars: a month with food and lodging is more than $60 on a WPA job in town. But apparently the “help” doesn’t believe it. I was told there has been more than a 10 per cent shift in population from farms to towns in Kansas during the depression. “WPA here we come!” : 2 8 2

] pose are just a few of the reasons for ‘rumblings

against AAA and the Fourth New Deal. But that doesn’t mean for a moment that the farm states don’t want their “benefits from AAA.” They have tasted Subsidy and they will never give it up. The Republicans may take back Kansas, but not if they propose to let agriculture drift. The complaints I heard here, as in the South, about AAA were “unjust, complicated, litical and it doesn’t work.” Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star gave me a chance to meet ‘as representative a cross-section of Middle Western economic life as could be gotten to=gether and everyone I talked to had the same idea that this column has proposed since its beginning—a straight farm subsidy based on a frank and direct tax on the consumer. Call it a “processing” tax if you must, but the: truth is that it is a plain sales tax on food and clothing—the necessities of life,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

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Angling for the Angler's Vote: Is It Fun or a Grim Necessity?

EW YORK, Feb. 21.—I think Grover Cleveland was completely on the level in his fly casting, but I suspect that both Roosevelts and the other Chief Magistrates of our time have gone a long way. in faking an enthusiasm for shark and sailfish. - Distinctly do I doubt the passion of Calvin Coolidge. When he caught g trout I think it was strictly for the newsreels. And I say this in defense of the man from Massa~chusetts. If he honestly enjoyed the task of snaring and devouring fish from icy streams it would have been a kind of cannibalism. : To me any man who monkeys around with rod and reel descends immediately a number of rungs in the ladder of civilization, Fishing is not an adult occupation. I speak freely and without shame, for, though I have often fished, I never caught anything. And that phase of the sport can be justified. It is excellent for anybody to sit comfortably in the sun and ruminate. And if there are no bites or strikes, one may come home at night possessed of a brand new philoscphy. But all bets are off as soon as there is - something tangible upon the hook. : : But that is the precise point where angling and politics come together in a useful fusion as far as the statesman is concerned. The general public may hate every policy of a President, from reorganization to reliet, but the minute he puts a worm or half a clam over the side of the boat he suddenly becomes one with all the people. In a duel between a fish and even the most unpopular President the mind can conjure up the voters are with the sportsman. Human emotion goes to the angler rather than the angle worm.

A Rendezvous With Nye

. "To this I take a sharp dissent. Even great men, I believe, minify -themselves in association with mine nows and other meager lure. History is against me. When a man in the White House faces a Congressional revolt -he can always dull the edge of the attack by putting on hip boots and casting artificial decoys in shallow waters. -Why Congressmen should be for the fisherman rather than the fish amazes me. There is an old anecdote about an actor who strayed from the path of rectitude and at 6 o'clock in the morning was wandering aimlessly along West St. By chance he gazed into a barrel of frozen shad,

‘gleaming up with dead, luster eyes, and suddenly he

spoke to his companion and said, “That reminds me. I've got to play a matinee today.” And so if Franklin Roosevelt tugs and tugs and finally lands a huge horse mackerel I should think that he would immediately be assailed by the horrid . thought, “I now remember I have a rendezvous with Gerald P. Nye and the rest of the Senators.” And if he finds that shrimp are not provocative in luring the quarry out of the Caribbean I suggest that he might try a cut-up Congressman as a lure for sharks and suckers, 5

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

F the numerous members of the family of green vegetables, water cress is among the most ane cient. It was used by the ancient Persians as well as by the Greeks and Romans. The famous historian Xenophon advised Persians to feed water cress'to their children if they wished to improve bodily growth. Among British writers in the 16th century, water cress was recommended as a remedy against scurvy, We know today that scurvy is caused by deficiency of vitamin C in the diet, and we know also that the leafy green vegetables are an excellent source of this vitamin. 9 : as ‘ Water cress is a plant which grows usually where there are fresh brooks with gravel bottoms. It bee longs to the family of vegetables which includes cabbage, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, mustard, : turnips and radishes, aia 3 We know today that the chief value of this vegetable lies in its content of four of the well-known vitamins. It is even a richer source of vitamin B and G than are lettuce, cabbage and spinach, and it is also a rich source of vitamins A andC. = Like other leafy green vegetables, water cres also a useful product because of its content of portant minerals. It contains, weight by we times the quantity of iron ordinarily found in celery, head lettuce, and even a greater } ‘than is found in that most widely re 8 this mineral; namely, spinach. ! # . ~ Now water cress is not a vegetable out of people would make a full ‘meal, ‘or even a large eedingly useful in

vocal eruptions: but. also: pre-

Many people study so much to improve their a they neglect

of one; it is, however, excee tol as a component in salads

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