Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1939 — Page 13

Hoosier Vagabond

Bax FRANCISCO, Nov. }—Beniamini Bufano is the sculptor who designed the giant statue of St. Bronce of Asissi, which may some day stand atop " the highest of San Francisco's hills ~Bufano’s design for St. Prancis is what caused Westbrook Pegler’s comic outbursts a year ago, and led Peg into designing a better statue himself, with a bung starter and a wad of mud. Well, I've just spent a whole afternoon with Bufano. If he intends you to believe everything he says, and I suppose he does, then his life has been indeed a fantastic one. He was born in Italy, apparently around 1900. The fam- ; : ily came to America when he was ; two years old. Benjamih is one of 15.children. -All of them, and his parents, too, are still living. He was brought up in New York City. He ran away from home when he was 11. But he CG ran back again. He studied the vidin and became 5& quite a musician. And he studied art | Then during the World War he had a weird experience. I had heard about it but didn’t believe it, so I just up and asked him about it. He says it is true.

: Bufano cut off the index finger of his right hand and sent it to President Wilson, as a protest against our entering the war! } ~ “Why did you do that?” I asked him. Well, he said he was very artistic at the time. It seemed to. him that war was destroying all the beauty and sensitiveness in- the world, and he must cry out against it.

| The Young Glabe Trotter

Well, with that behind <him, Bufano started out to see the world. He lived on the Gold Coast of West ~ Africa with the savages, doing sketches and portraits

. to for his meals. \ re lived several months with Gandhi in Indid. He

-himself as a Brahmin and spent a week int ‘

Our Town

AN OPEN LETTER to Mr. Philip Zoercher, chairfan of the State Board of Tax Commissioners: Dear Phil: I was mighty interested in the remark you tossed off in South Bend the other day—the one when you said that women who smoke should pay a poll tax. You got something there, Phil. Something so big, indeed, that I wonder whether even you yourself know what you've started. Phil, do you realize what you've done? You've hit upon a plan of taxing people that’s bound to be popular, a thing everybody thought was impossible until you came along. And the simplicity with which you did it! All you did was to think of taxing one of your pet peeves. Funny nobody ever thought of that before. Of course, the idea of taxing pet peeves isn’t as easy as it sounds. Great ideas, when you start taking them apart, never are as simple as they look. Which is by way of warning you, Phil. To get even with “you, the women might possibly suggest taxing your beard. On the theory that if you have any right to have pet peeves, so have they. And from what I know about women, I wouldn’t put it beyond them to get your two colleagues on the Board to gang up on you. And then where would you be? _Stewing in your own juice, Phil, that's what. a » » Offering Some Suggestions On the other hand, your plan of taxing pet peeves is so full of possibilities that it merits consideration. After all_you must have a lot of other pet peeves besides women who smoke. Well, in that case the trick is to find a couple less vulnerable than the one you proposed. Any of the following will do: Polychromatic plumbing . . . Revolving doors . . Milk gravy . . . Open umbrellas in a crowd . . Closed umbretlas in a crowd ... Chromium . .. Parsley . . . Guest towels . . Spats . . . Those cute little feathers in men’s hats . . . Cellophane « « « The potato peel

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The main sxsigninerit of the Dies Committee was to investigate and expose unAmerican activities—which involves having some idea as to what is American and what is un-American. Thus far the Dies Committee appears to class as. un-American anything which William McKinley failed to approve. It tried to hang a Red label on Senator La Foliette when he investigated industrial espionage. © It made the committee a sounding board for attacks on Frank Murphy when as Governor of Michigan he was trying to settle the explosive sit-down rebellion without bloodshed. It has raked over everyone from Shirley Temple to Mrs. Roosevelt who was in any way identified with political ideas mere alive than n G. Harding. -an opportunity to make distinct in ithe public mind the subversive alien activities, on the one hand; and on the other the native progressivism, tthe yeast in our democracy, the movements to make = pur form of government work more effectively, which _.are as American as the Constitution itself. Bryan, Theodore. Roosevelt, Wilson, Brandeis, Populism, the * Non<Partisan League of the Dakotas, the:La Follettes * Jn "Wisconsin, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal— all have been damned as socialistic, communistic un- . Dies talked about New Dealers being “lapdogs, of Moscow. ol

: # 4 Dangerous: Doctrines’ *

Before the Civil War, when the Government was ng away free land to the railroads, the new RepubParty put through a homestead bill to give public land to farmers. Buchanan vetoed it because he, feared

i My Day a 3 : OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Tuesday. —One of* the _ things I noticed yesterday afternoon in visiting a

Farm Security Administration project in Millington,

“Tenn., was that space was provided in° every barn to store the farm mdchinery. Instead of finding it scattered in the field or yards, where} it gradually deteriorates, these farmers have their machinery under shelter and it makes a great difference in the appear-. ance of the farms. The home economics adviser for this district has worked here some. time, Her name is Mrs. Brooks and you feel that she knows her job and that people have confidence in her. She said that someone asked her one day what she did and her reply was : that she was everything from a missionary. to a ; veterinary! The young man who is ‘the farm adviser, Mr. Jakes, is only 23 years old and

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side a holy temple. never slept in a bed. In Hongkong, he was a beggar on the streets for fhree months, sleeping on the sidewalk. He joined the Chinese revelution in 1920, fought with the

- Chinese, and later was taken in by Sun Yat Sen and

lived with him for months. In China, Bufano was shot in the wrist by one of Sun Yat Sen’s sentries who didn’t recognize him. In Italy, he was in jail for weeks, accused of antifascism. In Paris, he lived for three months on nothing but cabbage. Bufano has been in Rio, has spent days inside the

Hopi kivas in Arizona, knows all the artists at Santa

Fe, N. M,, speaks three languages, belongs to the San Francisco Press Club and gives you: the impression that he won’t be cutting off any more fingers. He was in the East recently, and went up to Connecticut to see Pegler. He says Pegler wasn’t sore about anything. Bufano wasn’t either. So I' guess that’s all right. The controversy over St. Francis is still on, but Bufano expects to start actual work within ‘a few days. : : nl

Plans Peace Statue

‘Bufano’s next great dream is some kind of a gigantic peace statue representing all the Americas. He would like to have it stand in Washington, D. C. Bufano just returned from a visit to Washington. He says, “I never saw so’ many men on horseback in my life.” He meant statues of men on horseback. He says he counted 72. If he ever does his peace statute, it won't be Peace on Horseback. it will, in fact, be a revision of something he has already done. He sculptured a gigantic Peace Lady for the Golden Gate Exposition. But they turned it down because they wanted him to put a bridge on the lady’s nose, and he wouldn't do it. “ The rejected statue now sits, all dusty, in a vast half-outdodrs workshop where Bufano and his WPA men are doing a: couple of dozen sculptures for the Aquatic Park here. Bufano says the statue set him back $3000 out of his own pocket.

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By Anton -Scherrer

-ornament architects use. to decorate their build-

ings . .. Casual clothes . . . Coloratura sopranos on the radio .. . People who lug their cocktails into dinner with them ... . People who use a fork to eat asparagus . . Whipped cream on pumpkin pie . , . The Lone Ranger . . . Vitamins . . . And, of course, if you insist, a poll tax for women who smoke. This doesn’t by any means dispose of my pet peeves. As ‘a matter of fact, I have cataloged only those which permit of a graduated tax. That's something else that ocfurred to me after digesting your South Bend nifty, Phil. This is what I.mean, Phil: Take for example the matter of parsley. If I had my way I'd have a graduated tax covering every phase of parsley used for decorative purposes. I'd be kind of easy on a sprig of parsley placed on a lamb chop, but by the Lord Harry I'd lay a confiscatory surtax on anybody who chops up parsley and sprinkles it all over a baked

fish. Get the idea? 8 # b

Let's Be Hdrd-Boiled About It

The same holds good for milk gravy. I wouldn't be too hard on milk gravy per se. The moment, however, somebody serves milk gravy and calls it “White Sauce” I'd up the tax. When it appears on the table as “Sauce Bechamel,” I'd tax the everlasting daylights out of -it. The income derived from Sauce Bechamel ought to be enough to make Indiana solvent again. As for polychromatic plumbing, I'd ‘pursue the same policy and go kind of easy on people who use bath tubs tinted a plain gray. Maybe, I'd even allow the color known as “Ashes of Roses” to come under the basic rate, but Gosh what wouldn't I do to people who bathe in tubs tinted “T’ang red,” “clair de lune blue,” “ming green” and “Rose du Barry.” Come to think of it, Phil, I don’t believe I would let you handle clair de lune blue bath tubs. I'd take it out of your jurisdiction and let the Department of Justice take care of it. Nor have I forgotten your pet peeve, Phil. In addition to the poll tax you proposed I'd plaster on a surtax to. cover perfumed cigarets. Yours for bigger and better taxes. A. S.

By Raymond Clapper

the bill “would introduce dangerous doctrines of agrarianism and the pernicious social theories which

‘have proved so disastrous in other countries.”

Confiding in his private correspondence, William Howard Taft made some curious judgments upon

- progressive Americans of his time, as we now learn

from the biography by Henry Pringle. While he was in Theodore Roosevelt's Cabinet, Taft said “Mr. Roosevelt’s views were mine before I knew him gt all.” When they were running against each other for President in 1912, Taft described Roosevelt the First as “the mosi dangerous man we have had in this country since ifs origin.” He called Senator Burton K. Wheeler a Secialist, and threw Justice Brandeis into the same basket. 8 =

Struggle Must Go On

From the days when the Supreme Court thought the income tax was socialistic, down to Dies, attempts to improve the functioning of democracy have been branded as radical, dangerous, and most likely of foreigh inspiration. And usually a few years later they have been adopted and enshrined as part of the American tradition. After 10 years a radical proposition usually wins a conservative label. The Dies Committee could have done a good turn to progressive democracy by pulling it clear of the radical-Communist color. Instead it has served to paste more Communist labels on the New Deal. Apparently the job will have to be done by the Adminis~ tragion because it is vital that someone do it. To allow progressive ideas to succumb to a wave of Red hunting and throw the country back into a period of reaction such as followed: the Mitchell Palmer Red hunt after the last war, would be an unnecessary and tragic loss. If ever there was atime when democracy needed to keep moving toward the rainbow, it is now. The ideal never will be achieved. But the siruggle toward it keeps democracy alive and healthy,

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

someone to whom they can talk who will understand their. problems. The houses we visited were spic and span, poor to be sure, for many of these people have had but one harvest on the project. Out of 12

families, ‘however, five who have had’ two years on|

this land, have paid all their indebtedness up to date, and the others are coming along with a good hope of catching up by the end of the second year.

These are not picked families and the life is none |

One family has 11 mouths to feed. another This

too easy. nine, ‘and the smallest family I saw had five.

‘ last family had succeeded in getting linoleum for the

floor of the living room and a sofa and an upholstered chair which the woman had recovered herself Even in the family of 11, they had found time to plant flowers around the house When I left, the woman broke off one of her chrysanthemums and handed it to me, a gesture which showed the spirit of the community. During the World War, the land they are now farming was an aviation field. I could not help thinking that its use today is perhaps more profitable to the nation. I like to see our boys learn to fly, but not for. the purpose of destroying other people’s homes

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By Ernie Pyle

All the time he was in India he

Cost the United

By Charles T. Lucey

Times Special Writer

habilitation.

As originally conceived,

tinkering and some early administrative mistakes made it one of the most eye sharply criticized of postwar veterans’ aid programs. In the pressure of getting a na-tion-wide vocational training system under way as soldiers left the army, many men were virtually dragged into classes with little regard for their capacities. Application of practical vocational advisement principles was lacking and costly errors were made.

- Charges have been made .that the results never justified the tremendous outlay on this rehabilitation program and that the training of disabled men at government expense did not decrease expenditures for other forms of veterans’ compensation and relief. There appears to be some substance to these claims, but the program’s defenders insist that if even 15 per cent of the men were benefitted the Government's attempt was worth while,

They point to records of men with severe handicaps, men totally -blind or with arms or legs or both amputated, who were rehabilitated 50 as to live useful lives afterward, : a ’ f 4 2 tJ

FTER the Government had ‘spent $644, 000,000 on vocational training no attempt was made to ascertain individual suc-' cesses jin employment of each of the thousands of veterans who -were equipped and assisted into gainful occupations. The Veterans’ Administration explains that no funds for this purpose ever were authorized. The records of certain groups studied ' by the administration, however, demonstrate the' good effect of the program in increasing earnings of rehabilitated men over what they had previously.

U.S, CROSS-QUIZZES WITNESS FOR G: M.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 1 (U. P).— Government today was to cross-exhmine A. H. Livermore, Albany, N. Y., Chevrolet dealer who testified yesterday for the defense in the anti-trust trial of the Generai Motors organization. Mr. Livermore was called to the witness stand by defense counsel to refute testimony given earlier by his partner, George Traendley,. as a Government witness. ; “Mr, Livermore related a series of loans ‘ which he said he and Mr. Traendley had secured from Pierre DuPont, a General Motors official, as an aid to their agency, and said

|some of the money never was paid

back. Then he denied testimony by Mr. Traendley that General Motors representatives had told him the agency would have to give half of the finance business to the General Motors Acceptance Corp. or face-ad-ditional competition in Albany,

TIPTON COUNTY CUTS RELIEF BOND ISSUE|

Times Special ( TIPTON, Ind, Nov. 1.—A "reduction of $15,000 in a $55,000 bond issue for relief was made by the Tipton County Commissioners, ‘The reduction was made because several townships refused to to assume as much poor relief debt as|’ was expected. 7

FUNERAL DIRECTORS 16 MEET Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Nov. Yo The eighth district of .the Indiana.

earned .

Veteran Rehabilitation

States

A $644,000 000 Check

Soldiers in government hospitals were started on occupdtional therapy ' soon after the war, and later entered voca-

© tional training.

(Second of a Series)

ASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—One of the biggest checks signed by a worried and wondering Uncle Sam after years of political capitalizing on “doing something for the soldier boys,” was one for $644,000,000 for vocational re-

It was another of the ‘tremendous burdens of a nation supposed -to have won a war.

”

the vocational training pro-

gram was one that sought to meet a responsibility of goyernment that could not be questioned—to attempt to make a productive future possible for the soldier disabled or unable to carry on in his pre-war calling. But legislative

The vhdationsl ‘training undertaking ‘ was terminated in '1928, and a paragraph from the Veterans’ Administration repori of that year comments: “The primary purpose of the rehabilitation program was the retraining of the disabled veterans into productive employment in an occupation in which the disability

. incurred in service would not be a

vocational handicap. The extent to which the readjustment into industry has been effected may be judged by the fact that of the 118,355 completed training . . . approximately 97 per cent were placed in gainful employment.” From the beginning of the work in 1918 to its close, 329,969 applicants were eligible for training, but of this number, only 179,518" actually entered training; 48,773 were discontinued for various reasons and 1999 died. There were 128,747 who satisfactorily completed their courses, and with a total of $645,000,000 spent this means an outlay of about $5000 for each ‘“graduate”—or the cost of a four-year college education in one of the better universities. * =» ‘» RAINING pay at first was set “at $60 a month, then at $80, and officials directing the program thought generous in caring for thousands of men who never had earned that much at their regular work. But veterans’ groups took an opposite view and demanded pay up to $100 a month for men who at the same time, of course, were receiving free placement, free tuition, books and whatever equipment might be undertaking. * Of the thousands who entered training, nearly 55 per cent had only four to eight years of elementary school, nearly 5 per cent had not gone beyond the third grade and more than 1 per cént never had gone to school.” Fewer than one in four had gone to high School and only six in each 100 to

New Church

college. Poor- educational background forced the Government to establish training centers in many

areas to provide academic instruc-

tion before assignments could be given in’ the ‘regular vocational training. The Government found the country’s educational system eager to help in its endeavor. Many schools set up entirely new courses to meet the program’s needs. » » » {

EARLY 40 per cent of those ‘trained were instructed in manufacturing’ and the mechanAdc industries. Agriculture, clerical work and trade got about 13 per -cent_each; professional service, 16 per . cent, and - relatively small groups went into training for many other types of work. Altogether, 400 occupations were represented among those trained. Of all the thousands aided, the Veterans’ Administration was proudest, perhaps, of a group: of 100 blind and partly blind men trained as poultry farmers, an occupation for which ex-soldiers who had lost their sight showed singular adaptation. ; There were some thousands of others who went out as men able to live by theil own exertions— mechanics, electricians, bookkeepers, architectural and mechanical draftsmien; men who otherwise might have lived broken, impoverr ished lives. Sf With no - complete study” ever having been.made of the ultimate effects of the whole program, the Veterans’ Administration is unable today to point definitely to its net worth in reconstituting the lives of the thousands of ex-soldiers it attempted to help. But officials point to fragmentary records to show many were indeed rehabilitated by training which provided not only increased earning power but a postwar spiritual rebirth of some men who paid a. heavy toll in taking up arms for their country. It was, though, a costly undertaking and one that, despite its $645,000,000 outlay, is all but forgotten in Washington today as new billions are poured out in -tremendous burdens which grew out of America’s participation in - the World War.

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NOMPARED with the defaulted war debts, for instance, it was a mere drop in the bucket. ‘Nearly 12 billion dollars was owed us when our foreign debtors, with the single exception of Finland, defaulted their payments in 1934. Today the amount owed us abroad has grown to $13,232,369,000.

Foilera tion

Secretary Is Appointed

The Rev. und J. Baumgartel, pastor of the First - Presbyterian Church, Ebensburg, Pa., ‘has been appointed executive seci retary of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. He will fill the vacancy’ created last spring by the death of Dr. Ernest N. Evans and’ will assume his new duties Dec. 1. The appointment was announced yesterday by Eugene C. Foster, president of the Church Federation. The Rev. Mr. Baumgartel is a nat tive of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of Muskingum ‘College, New Concord, O. He received his theological training in the : Western Theological Seminary at Pittsburgh end later received his M. A. degree in religious education from the University of Pittsburgh. - He has been pastor of the. church at Ebensburg since 1926. During his various pastorates he supervised many home mission projects under the Presbytery. He has been chairman of the Committee of Christian Education in Blairsville Presbytery for ape last six years. .. v. ‘Mr. Baumgartel has been ® oreciient of the Cambria

Gounty Sunday School - Association for the past three years, and is now chairman of the Town and Rural Commission: of the. United Chugches of Cambria County. He represented his: denomination in the United Christian = Adult “Movement, Confererice at Lake Geneva, 'Wis., last summer. He has’ been active. in civic work in his community, being| a past president of the = Kiwanis

Club and having served ‘on play-|

ground and Scouting committees. Mrs. Baumgartel has been . ac-| tive in church, Young People’s and Community p ojects and in musical circles. They have two children, Howard Jr., a student at Yale University, and Betty, a junior at Ebensburg High School. "Members of the ’ Federation's nominating committee who named the Rev. Mr. Baumgartel are Dr. C. A. McPheeters, pastor of the North Methodist Church; Dr. W. A. Shullenbérger, pastor of the Central Christian Church; the Rev. U. S. Clutton, pastor of the Tuxedo Park Baptist Church, and Samuel R, Harrell, a deacon at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church.

PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

ARTS EXHIBIT SET

Times Special Sas 5B HUNTINGTON, Ind. ‘Nev.

‘The fifth annual Sxiusition of

and craft oH Sons in

C. H. KINSELLA OF RICHMOND. IS DEAD

Times Special RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. 1.—Chris-

in’ make

son Davis

Atlanta, Ga.

oldiers still ospitals artificial | limbs for their A comrades. Emer-

EW here

sanding a leg at ' Hospital No. 48,

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This must come from the nation’s taxpayers and like the billions spent for soldiers’ pensions and hospitals, the losses in dislocation of agriculture and industry and waste of natural resour-

+ ces growing out of the war, is a

burden which must be borne for decades. - Repayment of the foreign debt had been counted on to help pay oft the round 25 billion dollars Uncle Sam. borrowed during the war. By 1929 the 25 billion dollars had been whittled to 15 billion, ‘and there it has remained for a decade, piling up interest. (Altogether interest on the Government’s war, borrowings has amounted to about 14 billion dollars, meaning that as of today Uncle Sam’s war borrowings represent a burden of close to 40 billion dollars to the taxpayers.

lifted These are astrbnomical figures, so vast ‘as to be difficult to comprehend in terms of the practical cost to the country, But 40. billion dollars: would build about 75 Panama canals, or a $5000 home for every fourth family in the United States. ~ Even so, the figures on war

- debts, and the vast expenditures

fof pensions apd soldiers’ relief, are. considered by many economists today to be far overshadowed by economic abnormalities now at“tributed to the war. It is difficult to distinguish, often, between economic losses which would have occurred because of the war generally and those resulting directly from United States’ entry into the war, but there is agreement that our entry certainly accentuated these losses. we i 2 sn ROF. JOHN MAURICE CLARK: of Columbia University wrote early in the present depression that greater than costs of tangibles like pensions and war debts, “We are now ..., . in the depths of a major depression which is almost certainly, to some unmeasurable extent, not only a sequel of the war but a result of the chain’ of consequences which trace their origin back to it.” That before the New Deal had even begun to spend its billions seeking recovery! | In thé Annals of the American Academy -of Political and Social Science, Dr. Frank Dickinson, of the University of Illinois, wrote: “The total postwar cost of the World War to our nation in terms . of postwar price recessions and depressions probably excee gs 5 $200,000,000,000.” He presented the figure only as

STATE CONVICT ASKS WRIT IN- U.S, COURT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Nov. 1. (U: P) .—Sloan Burgess, 24, a prisoner at the: Michigan City State Prison, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in U. S. District Court. "He claimed he had been held

since June 16, 1934, and had ‘been sent to prison “without legal counsel

or the knowledge that he could demand a trial by jury.” Burgess was senténced on. a

|charge of kidnaping Frank Woods

‘of Washington, Ind., on May 23; 1934. He said he was threatened with prosecution under the Lindbergh law unless he éntered a Plea of guilty.

NEIGHBORS SHUCK SICK_MAN’S . CORN

Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Nov. 1.—In the ‘cribs on the Glen Murphy farm in Brandwine Township, Shelby County, are 1800 bushels of corn. They are there because rter Strahl, the tenant, has 50 friends, all good corn shuckers. Mr. Strahl was recuperating from an operation and was unable to shuck ‘his 38 acres of corn. Friends did the job for him, even bringing their own lunches so Mrs. Strahl

could do ‘her housework and take care. of her Dugan, :

It will be billions heavier before it is:

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a tentative estimate. He asserted’ at the same time that the decline |

of .per capita production in: the |

postwar period. “js.one of the ma= , " jor costs of the World War to the

American people.” The causes of _ the depression, he said, lay in the decade of the 1920s, but the “ “depth and duration of the depression are the direct results of the upheaval of 1914-18.” te Dr. Willard Thorp, economic adviser to «the Department of Commerce, looks back aver the ‘20 years since the war and says the depression, with many of its causes rooted in the war, would have .come to America years earlier but for a combination of three factors which might never rtcur. | The first was automobile proe duction, probably the greatest spur to industry in history, which

_even' the economic derangement | of war could not stop. The sece | |

ond was house building, which | boomed in the early twenties because such dropped dur the war as men went into" the munitions: induss tries. postwar to

credits extended .

foreign. nations by the United |

States. ® » »

Y these credits the country

ding had been

"The third was tremendous . |

marketed a large export i

surplus despite the fact, the sex= perts point, out, , at we had, be come, a credited.

send out an excess of goods. These credits were a temporary stimulus, and when they stopped a great part of our export trade stopped with them. : A war-born depression in agri-.

culture at the same time ‘was

catching up with the country. Shipbuilding, almost -completely dislocated” by the war, coal min- . ing and somé other industries had been sick for years. And so, numerous ‘economists assert, the

~ United States cannot exclude ‘from

its war costs at least part of the toll of the depression, with its human suffering, tremendous losses

in. production. and income, and - °

vastly expanded public debt, | Wartime * inflation, the - econo

mists say, again has. brought post=. - war deflation. The. spree is over,

but the headache in some in= dustries has lasted ever since. It is .impossible to canvass all the effects of a wa., but the country is learning thea. our costs of entry . into the last one were hardly more than begun’ when pedce came in 1918.

. NEXT--Dislocation ° of Agri’ culture and Wartime Waste of | ‘Natural Resources.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY _ SEEKS ROAD FUNDS

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 1.—The

{1 St. Joseph County Council will meet

Nov. 14 to act on additional appro

department. - asked are $17,725,

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which Slate single. rivals Vifginia as a mother of Presidents? 2—What is humidity?

vided by 25?

the Ural River empty? 5—~Who was recently signed to manage the Pittsburgh baseball club for the next two years? 6—What is the Decalogue?

tion of the word municipal?

8—How many _avoirdupois, pounds ‘are in one short ton?

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Answers 1—Ohio.

in the atmosphere, 3—One. onc! 4—Gaspian Sea. .

7—Mu-nis’-i-pal; 82000.

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ation and nors = | mally would receive rather than '

priations for the County highway 4 Total is Bo

3—What is the quotient of % dis it 4—Into what body of water does % 1

7—What is the correct _pronunciae

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ks closely with the county agent, Mr. Kerr, who ‘also with us. It is grana to find anyone of this 1 -this of a job because it requires enthuse 5 ty and it means a great deal to the

Funeral Directors Association will hold its annual fall banquet. and] of | a | business Meeting Jonignt at thel bout; 60 funeral

We left Memphis last night and have now arrived in Oklahoma. City. We are starting at once, for a e luncheon with my fellow Altrusans, ‘Who are re ble for the lect to i